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Jfaapjs audi <facts. |j ? When the Emperor of China travels in ] public, it is said that one hundred men, dress- ( ed just like him, travel with him, so that his | identity can not be discovered. ? The census shows that there are only 50,000 idiots in the United States ; but twice that number are reported by Blaine to be ap- ( plicants for office at Washington. ? A Maine man of wealth left his estate so j conditioued that his heirs will lose six months ! of income for every breach of a total absti- j nence pledge. ? The Kentucky Board of Agriculture re- ' ports that there has been no such shortage in | crops in that State since 1854. Not more I + lw?*-v k?ir nn AtvA*o/?A aU mKout U.'11 1 )\A ! Liiau uaii au avciagt jj>?iu ui itu&mw nut w harvested. ? There is an immense grape vine at Cajon, Cal. which has enveloped two sturdy oak trees with its branches. It is bearing five tons of grapes, and the weight has crushed to the ground one of the trees. ? The Rev. George W. Williams, a member of the Ohio Legislature, is a negro. A year ago he was suing a Columbus hotel for refusing to board him on account of his color. Now a Columbus hotel keeper is suiog Williams for failing to pay a board bill. ? Ireland, in spite of all her troubles, will have, if the reports are true, an excellent harvest this year. An unusually large area of the island is under cultivation, and the outlook has not been so favorable for good crops since 1872. ? Senator Lamar, of Mississippi, is still suffering from illness aod has been forbidden by his physicians from participating in the approaching canvass in that State. He will be a candidate for reelection to the United States Senate, by the Legislature to be chosen in November. ? David Carroll, a wealthy Maryland cotton manufacturer, who died recently, left in his will a provision that 8100,000 should be set apart to defray any expenses that might be incurred in defendiug the will against possible litigation. He gave as his reason that he had "often beheld with disgust the efforts of childreu to break their parents' wills." ? People with abundance of leisure are already beeinniu? to estimate the nrobable aer gregate of the physician's charges in the President's case. One gentleman brings the bill atS70,800, allowing 8100 a day to each of the four attending physicians, and 832,000 aud $22,000 to Drs. Agnew and Hamilton, respectively, for consultations, visits, operations, &c. ? Elections occur this fall in New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Mississippi. The only State officer elected in Pennsylvania is Treasurer. In New York a full State ticket i3 elected except Governor and Lieutenant Governor, together with members of the Legislature and four Congressmen. Full State tickets aud legislators are to be elected in Virginia, Mississippi aud Ohio. ? Virginia, which paid no attention to cottou culture until recently, is now turning to it on a considerable scale, and with pronounced success. Cotton plantations now exist in all of the Southern counties of the State, and thousands of bales were produced last year. It has been found that the cultivation of tobacco has been growing unprofitable, besides exhausting the soil, and this is likely to make cotton-growing general throughout the State. ? The weather was so warm in Dover, New Hampshire, on Friday last, that two tin pans lying in the sun at the residence of Mr. Henry Goulding, concentrated the sun's rays to such an extent as to set fire to the house. When discovered, the clapboards were in a blaze, and in a few moments the fire would have been beyond control. A hole in the wall of the house several inches in diameter was burned. ? The New York anti-adulteration law goes into effect September 1, and arrangements are being made to see that its provisions are carried out. The law is very broad and makes the sale of oleomargarine for butter, of glucose for sugar, chicory for coffee, etc., an offense punishable by fine and imprisonment. It is only necessary to go before a magistrate and enter a complaint, and the person guilty of adulterating food is at once brought to trial. I ? Veunor's forecast for the latter part of August is as follows: "Eighteenth, hail storms and frosts probably in some portions; 19th and 20th, heat and storms; 21st, sultry and showery ; 22d, sultry aud windy; 23d and 24th, heat and wind; 25th and 26th, heavy storms on the lakes, on the St. Lawrence, aud around New York ; 27th, 29th, cooler weather, with rains and frosts in the Northern section; 30th and 31st, fair and pleasant weather, with cool evenings and nights, with indications of returning heat. ? Neal Dow complains that the churches are not in earnest in the cause of total abstinence, and to their indifference he attributes the slow progress made in the work of exterminating the liquor traffic. "Whenever," he says, "a popular vote comes directly upon 'the question of license or prohibition to grogshops, a large number of church members are found upon the side of license. In many of our States there is an annual vote in the cities and towns upon the question of 'license' or 'no license,' and wherever and whenever the 'license' ticket wins, it is by the helping vote of chprch members." ? The Hour, a weekly paper published in New York, makes the positive announcement that the Hon. Samuel J. Tilden is in the field as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in 1884. The Hour says that "with the shrewdness* and foresight for which he is remarkable, he has carefully surveyed the field and has reached the conclusion that the time has come for the redress of the great wrong which he believes was done to himself, to his party and to the country, by the reversal of the popular verdict and the inauguration of a fraudulent President in 1876." ? Col. Corbiu, master of ceremonies at the Yorktown Centennial, has issued a circular regarding the arrangements for the celebration which is to take place October 18, 19, 20 and 21. Present advices promise a military representation from every State in the Union. More than 10,000 troops have already signified their intention of being present, and it is believed the militia to take part in the celebration will exceed 20,000. Many States will send full regiments. The Governors of most of the States will also attend, accompanied by their staffs. For the reception It >, >] vtDArtAM / ? r? ttt L\?.f r\ P Vt 1 rt rt* n VtM I 1 /I t rt n. aim piujjci cuiijiuil ui liic lauci a uuuuiug is to be erected. ? The New York Herald, Conkling organ, is apparently doing its best to allay public auxiety about Arthur's course if he becomes President. It prints interviews with Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, Judge Hilton and Depew, all avowing their confidence in Arthur and absence of any fears about his financial or ! general policy. The Herald is supposed to : speak by authority when it says: "He will make no change in the administration ; will make no removals from office at large except for cause; will attempt no change in the 1 policy or in the personnel of the present administration ; for to do or attempt to do auy ' of these things, would be to invite ruin upon his own head. We believe that he will quietly take up the reins as they fall from General Garfield's hands." ? Secretary of War Lincoln, according to < an interview in the New York Tribune, does s not think the army will make much of a dis- j ] play at the coming Yorktown celebration. I He says most of the ?20,000 appropriated by ' . Congress will have to be devoted to the en- 1 tertainraeut of the expected visitors from I abroad, and that all it will be possible for | him to do, will be the concentration of the few troops stationed at New York, Baltimore, , Washington and Fortress Monroe, in all not more than 1,000 regulars. It is the intention to bring Company F of the Third Artillery 1 from California, because it is an exact counn :erpart of a company that took part in the >riginal celebration. This is about all that :he department can possibly do, besides sending down the twelve hundred tents. Of :ourse the department will aid to the utmost my volunteer organizations that may attend, but it cannot do much because of the lack of money. fjofMIc Ghtquim. YORKV liLE, S. 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Cash.?It must be distinctly understood thai our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance. THE PRESIDE NT'S CONDITION. Although the attending surgeons' "official bulletins" would seem to be intended to con vey the impression that the White House sufferer is doing well, and getting along as well as could be expected, correspondents and reporters for the press convey, by their letters and dispatches, altogether different ideas. The Washington correspondent of the Nexus and Courier telegraphed that Monday night, the President had vomited, and that no more use could be made of his stomach at present. While the greatest Uneasiness prevailed in Washington over this fact, the same correspondent informs us that the doctors explain that the vomiting i? not from gastric disturbance, but from constant accumulation of phlegm in the throat. The phlegm arises from theglandular swelling in the neck. But "it makes very little difference, so far as' the patient is concerned, whether he is debarred from food by reason of phlegm or gastric disturbance. The fact remains that he cannot take any more food iu the natural way until the cause is removed. It is said that the Presi dent is constantly choking and has the hacking cough which characterizes the last stages of consumption. The glandular inflammation has stiffened the muscles of the neck to such a degree that the patient caunot open his mouth more than half an inch, and has something like lockjaw. He coughs continually and complains of the phlegm choking him. . He cannot talk above a whisper. The parotid gland swelling defies the combined efforts of the doctors. These are the cold facts which must be borne in mind by the country in summing up the case." The above gloomy prospect is supplemented by the following from the same correspondent, at 10 o'clock, P. M., Monday : "The general anxiety to night is more apparent than last night, when the symptoms in the President's case were much worse. The correspondent adds: "The showing of the evening bulletin was sufficient to raise renewed alarm in the public mind, an alarm which was scarcely justi fied by the contents of the bulletin itself. The tone of the doctors was really cheerful. There were the figures, however, which shownA a KlnrVior nulco nnrt temnprfttnrfi than USUftl. and the omission of all mention of the parotid gland had an evil ldbk. "It was just what everybody wanted to know about," was the general remark as people turned away from the bulletins. "It is the vital point," said one. "The question is, has the gland suppurated ?" said another. Thus went speculation and anxious inquiry from mouth to mouth. "From interviews with the physicians published in the afternoon papers, the public had been led to believe that a crisis was apprehended by the surgeons with regard to the probable suppuration of the parotid inflammation. It was admitted by them this afternoon that the condition of the patient's stomach being fair, the principal cause of uneasiness lay with the inflammatory symptoms in the neck. If they could not succeed in getting this anticipated suppuration postponed until the patient could be rebuilt somewhat from the stomach, the operation which would have to be performed might be successful and attended with no evil results. If suppuration should occur now, while the patient is still excessively weak with his last relapse, it was feared that he might possibly die with exhaustion. "All this the public of Washington had been brought to understand before the issuance of the evening bulletin, and had looked forward to that official report with much anxiety. When it appeared with no word on the subject, the disappointment was great. The rumors soon gained circulation that the gland had been operated upon, or had increased to such an extent as to justify an operation, but this could not be confirmed at the White House." The dispatch closes: "With the exception of an improved condition of the stomach, the President closes the day a trifle worse, if any tjjing, than yesterday." To the above, which may be regarded as authentic, we can oniy append our latest intelligence in the form of an "official bulletin," dated Tuesday, 8.30 A. M.: "The President slept the greater part of last night, but was awake at frequent intervals. He has taken, since last evening, a larger quantity of liquid food by the mouth than at the corresponding hours of any day during the past week. The use of nutritive enemata is continued at longer intervals. The parotid swelling is unchanged. Pulse, 100; respiration, 18 ; temperature, 98 3-10." SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The cotton factory at Rock Hill, as soon as the additional force can be secured, will be running both day and night. ? The Baptists of Due West* and vicinity are taking steps toward the erection of a house af worship in that town. ? Religious work is active in Edgefield. Twenty persons have recently been baptized at Calhoun's, eight at Rocky Creek, fifteen at Glood Hope and seven at Antioch. ? A writer in the Keowee Courier says the common rag weed, carefully cured and fed, sprinkled with strong salt water, makes a nourishing and much relished food for stock. ? Considerable iuterest is being manifested in Abbeville's approaching municipal election. So far, there are only nine tickets in the field. ? A movement is on foot in Winnsboro, which has for its object the prohibition of the storing of the savory guano within the incorporate limits of the town. ? Batesville cotton factory, in Greenville county, which was destroyed by fire a few months ago, has been rebuilt and will be in running order again by the first of September. ? A few days ago the . Coosawhatchie Swamp, in Hampton county, was reported to be drying up so rapidly that quantities of fish were being devoured by buzzards. ? About thirty negroes left Anderson county, on Monday of last week, to work on the extension of the North-eastern Railroad in Georgia, between Lula and Clarksville. ? The late C. C. Bowen's widow, who is a daughter of ex-Governor Franklin J. Moses, was married to Postmaster William N. Taft, of Charleston, on the 3d instant. ? Mr. J. W. Stribbling was digging a well I on his place near Glenn Springs, Spartanburg county, last week, and found a piece of pine log and several hickory nuts embedded in the clay eighteen feet beneath the surface of the earth. ? Mr. VV. P. Calhoun, of Fair Play, Oconee county, writes to the Agricultural Department, that many persons in bis county are building carp ponds, and that the only thing lacking to make them happy is the carp. Some of them have received a few of these fish from Georgia. ? W. J. Kelly, charged with resisting, shooting at and wounding the United States Revenue Officer Gary, was found guilty, Friday, in the United States Court at Greenville, and recommended to the mercy of the Court. His trial lasted several days and the jury was out with his case for thirty hours. ? A company has been formed in Charleston, of which Colonel John S. Fairly is President, for the establishment of a cotton seed oil mill. All the stock has been taken, the buildings will be erected at once, and it is expected that the mill will be operation early in November. ? Mr. E. F. Stokes, counsel for the Greenville incendiaries sentenced to be hanged on September 9, has filed the necessary papers for an appeal with the clerk of the Supreme Court. This would operate to stay the execution, but Mr. Stokes will probably obtain an order restraining the sheriff from executing the sentence of the Court from one of the Justices. The Supreme Court will not meet until November, and even if the new trial asked for is not granted, the prisoners will have to be re-sentenced. They will, therefore, it is thought, not be hanged before December at the earliest. ? In the forenoon'of Saturday last, at Blackstocks, a negro named Charles Nicholson was instantly killed while attempting to board a northward bound construction train on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad. He had been standing on the passenger platform and endeavored to stop the train by waving his coat as a signal to stop or slacken the speed. No notice was apparently taken of his signal, as the train did not carry passengers. He then attempted to board the car next to the last one attached to the train, by grasping the hand-rail on the platform, but was knocked down, and fell under the wheels of the last car. The body was horribly man gled ; the legs and arms broken, his right ear cut off, and gashes about the head and face. ? The Wetea says that the official roll of the pupils of the Normal Institute, now in session in Greenville, shows the number in attendance from the different counties of the State, as follows : Abbeville, 18 ; Anderson, 9 ; Aiken, 2 ; Barnwell, 10 ; Beaufort, 1; Colleton, 1 ; Chester, 8; Charleston, 11; Chesterfield, 1; Darlington, 4; Edgefield, 3; Fairfield, 5; Greenville, 109; Hampton, 1 ; Horry, 2; Kershaw, 2; Laurens, 10 ; ..Lexington, 9 ; Marion, 6 ; Newberry, 15; Oconee, 1 ; Orangeburg, 6; Pickens, 3; Richland, 18; Spartanburg, 11; Sumter,. 13; Union, 13; York, 4; Williamsburg, 1; from other States, 5. Total 302. Of the '33 counties in the State, those not represented are, Clarendon, Geoi jetown, Lancaster and Marlboro. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Haywood, Transylvania, Clay and Yancey counties, are the only ones in the State that gave majorities for prohibition. ? On the 5th instant, William Brooks, of Cleveland county, after failing in an attempt Jo kill his wife, went and hanged himself. ? C. M. Cresswell, of Mebaneville, a student at the Eastman College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., was drowned last Friday while crossing the Hudson in a row-boat. ? At a meeting of the directors of the Wes"?"* ? i* tv *i 1 1 11 _ a_ 0 .1!^ i tern JNortli uaroiina Jttanroau, neiu at qhjisbury last week, the president was directed to complete the alteration of the road so as to run by Newton as soon as practicable. ? Says the Gastonia Gazette of last Saturday : "Mr. J. Rankin Falls hitched one of his fine mules near the hotel, on Tuesday, among some stumps and snags, when it laid down upon a snag which pierced the bowels some thirteen or fourteen inches, resulting in the death of the mule several hours afterwards." ? The Charlotte Observer says: "It may not be known generally, but it is a fact, that President Garfield is, and has been for several years, a North Carolina real estate owner. He is largely interested in the Beaver Dam placer gold mine in Montgomery county, which has been and still is being operated actively and successfully. ? Two thousand hands are at work on the remaining link, twenty-seven miles, which joins the Western North Carolina Railroad to the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad at Paint Rock, thus making a through route through the mountains from Salisbury to the West. This link must be completed by November 1st, or the present owners forfeit the road and all they have ! done on it. ? Mr. Larkin ,V. Gaston, a well known school teacher of Gaston county, says the Gazette, "met with an accident on Friday, the 5th, which ended his life on Thursday the 11?K T> Booms ftint snme children were nlav iug arouDd his residence near Lowell, when one of them accidentally ran against his stomach and broke a cord, which ended his life as above stated. Mr. Gaston was previously afflicted, we are informed." ? Says the Greensboro State : "Maj. J. B. j Yate,p, of the N. C. Va. Midland, has changed j his base and is now General Manager of the I N. C. Midland, of which W. J. Best is President. Maj. Yates is now in charge of the Atlantic & N. C. from Goldsboro to Morehead City, this being called a division of the j Midland. It is proposed to extend the line ' from Goldsboro to Salisbury and to a point on the Virginia Midland South of Statesville. This will give the Baltimore <fc Ohio R. R. a system which will make it tolerably interesting for the Clyde syndicate. The more the merrier. Maj. Yates will get all there is out of his line and develop the country through which he passes. He is a live man with ex perience, ability and the energy of a Bteara f engine. The day is not far distant when the 1 Cape Fear & Y. V. R. R., the N. C. Midland * and the Virginia Midland united, will give j North Carolina the relief she needs." ( ? The cotton mill campaign iu North Caro- { lina is thus summed up by the Wilmington J Star:"A company of capitalists have pur- ( chased a site on the Yadkin river, near Idol's J Ferry, on or near the N. C. Midland Railroad f (that is to be) and will begiu soon to erect a 1 cotton factory. The new machinery for the j Charlotte mill has arrived. Concord is ^ having a large factory erected. A new ( mill is in course of erection in Randolph i county, or has just been completed. Swep- ' son is rebuilding his burnt factory. The j Holts are enlarging their already extensive ] mill nt Hhw river. In Alamance countv the / factories are running on full time and have i more orders than they cau fill. At Company 5 Shop9, a cotton mill is being built by Mr. J Peter Holt. In Randolph county, the Ran- | dleman Mill has 8,500 spindles and 500 > looms. The same company, being so much encouraged with what they have done already, . have purchased another site and will erect a , factory with 10,000 spindles. ( MERE-MENTION. 1 A genuine Yankee is selling exemptions 1 from draft for the next war to the negroes of J Coosa county, Alabama. The Sunday law is worked so practically in Waxahachie, 1 Texas, that they indicted an undertaker who sold a coffin on Sunday, and he is to be tried 1 for the offense. The Georgia Senate has 1 defeated the bill "to regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors in the State." A machine operated by four clerks, which telegraphs twelve hundred words per minute, is to be a feature of the electrical exhibition at Paris. A dispatch from the Rosebud Agency states that Spotted Tail was killed for seducing another Indian's 3quaw, and they say that this was his one hundred and fiftieth offense. An Atlanta man is organizing a Mutual Relief Association, which will pay each of its members 82,000 upon their marrying. It is a general assessment affair. Charles Stewart, a negro, killed his wife with a hatchet at Bay St. Louis, Miss., and was taken from jail and lynched. His father in-law prayed for him and then helped to hang him. Dr. Bliss seems to entertain the idea that the President can be cured if a copious flow of bulletins can be maintained. The famous battle-field farm of Chancellorsville will be sold at auction next week. Cadet Whitaker's ears have cost the government about twenty times as much as an entire negro used to cost before the war. According to the August estimates of the Agricultural Department, there is a serious decrease in the Indian corn crop. The Department estimates that the yield will fall 372,720,000 bushels below that of 1880 which would give a crop of 1,164,780,000 bushels, against 1,537,500,000 last year. Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois have each more coal than England. There has been a remarkably small amount of sickness in the Southern At lautic cities this summer, and generally the heat has been less oppressive than in the Northern cities. The cotton crop of Mississippi is double what it was in 1860, though no more laud is cultivated than then. The increase is attributable to the dividing up of the plantations, and the better system of cultivation. Guiteau recently tried to escape from his cell by overpowering one of the guards. Whereupon the Richmond State reminds Guiteau that his safest place is in jail just now. Memphis cooks have tried cotton seed oil as a substitute for lard in making biscuits and crusts, with success. It is expected that there will be thirty-thousand troops at the Yorktown centennial celebration. One thousand and twenty-eight emigrants arrived at Castle Garden, New York, on Tuesday of last week. There are four hundred men in New Tork worth $3,000,000 each, and over 500,000 men who are not worth a picayune. The crop prospects in India are gloomy, a drought having prevailed there. A famine is feared. The number of opium eaters in the United States is estimated at a quarter of a million, the majority of whom are women. A Georgia negro, who is represented as a "staunch Democrat," has just paid $32,000 for a farnj in Oglethorpe county. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Wheat and Corn Crops. The following reports with regard to the condition of the wheat and corn crops, up i to the 1st of August, were issued by the Department of Agriculture at Washington, on the 16th instant: "Returns of August 1 give the condition of i spring wheat as eighty-one against eighty- i eight last year, and eighty-one in 1879 at the ] same time. Compared with the crop of last < year, there is reported a heavy decrease in the States of Iowa and Illinois, a slight decrease in Minnesota, Nebraska and California, while in Wisconsin and all the New England States , there is an increase. Reports from Dakota ( indicate a fair crop with a large increase in acreage. "The general average condition of corn on August 1st is 77, a very considerable decline ] since last month, when it stood at 90. In < August, 1880, the condition was 98, which, however, was exceptionally high. The At- ^ lantic Coast 6tates make a showing somewhat better than the general average, except J in South Carolina, where excessive drought j j has cut the figures to 41. Louisiana and ! Texas are next lowest of the Coast States j j from the same cause, reporting 67 and 46 re- } spectively. Tennessee is the lowest ofinte- y rior States, its average falling to 64. In the j great corn-growing region the highest reports < are 95 in Wisconsin and 92 in Nebraska, and | the lowest is 74 in Kansas."" The Midland X. C. Railroad. ( rni J ? -1 ? J ; ine proposed raiiruttu, -.u . Goldsboro and Salisbury by a line running 1 south of the N. C. Central, and which is de- * signed to be a continuation of the Western N. fl C. Railroad from Asheville to Salisbury, is one s of the most importaut roads now projected t in North Carolina. The line is under control jj of Mr. Best, who has gone about the work ' with a quietness and apparent determination, ^ leading to the expectation that he is in earn- g est and will accomplish what he promises, j 11 viz.: a completion of the entire line within , eighteen months. Of his engineering corps Col. Gardner will be recognized as the en- j v gineer of the Chester aud Lenoir road, and t Mr. Latta as our young townsman who as-1 f sisted iu that survey. The last Pittsboro Re j cord gives the following as the progress of the ^ survey: 8 Messrs. Cain and Guion arrived here on a last Tuesday, and, together with Messrs. o Gardner and Latta, went on to Newbern, t< where they will consult with Maj. Yates, the e chief engineer of the Midland company, and t! inish up the estimates preparatory to a pernanent location of the route. They expect o return here next week. From Mr. Cain ve learoed that the highest poiut on the ine surveyed by him was just this side )f Asheboro, being an elevation of 880 'eet. At Asheboro the elevation is 860 feet, ust twice the elevation at this place, and 125 'eet higher than the highest point on the line >n Hickory Mountain run by Col. Garduer. \t the Uwharrie River (between Asheboro ind Salisbury) there is a very great descent, ind^some difficulty was experienced in obainiDg a suitable line. The elevation at ,hat point was 200 feet less than at tbe loint where the North Carolina road crossis the Yadkin River, aud yet the Uwhar ie empties into the Yadkiu. Mr. Cain's ine crosses Deep River nearly a mile above Uedar Falls, and runs with the river nearly x) Columbia factory, thence direct to Marey's mill. From Asheboro to Cedar Falls ^a distance of about five miles) the country s exceedingly rugged and hilly, but notwithstanding this a very good line was run. At 10 point on the eutire line from Goldsboro to Salisbury does the grade exceed seventy feet to the mile. Die Wheat SnnDly and its Price. The New York Financial Chronicle jays, a speculation in wheat, looking to an idvance in prices, has been prosecuted with considerable vigor, especially at the West, though finding some support in this market, and apparently having an important effect upon values in Loudon. This is%certainly to be deplored. It adds to the risk and burdens of commission merchants and bankers? the parties who "haudle" the crop. It hinders the regular operations of millers, by giving an uncertain basis-of values on which to make contracts for their products. It delays the movement of the crop when the facilities for moving it are at their best?giviug light stocks at the seaboard at the close of inland navigation. These circumstances make a speculation for higher prices at the opening of a season quite unfortunate, to say the least. Whatever may be the range of values later in the crop year, it would appear that Great Britain, while contemplating her own improved crop prospects, has given too little heed to keeping up her stocks and too little allowance for a possible decrease in the American yield this year, and that consequently she has exposed herself to a speculation on her present needs which may force prices up higher, and as we have pointed out in the opening paragraph, disarrange the whole season's business. The price now is about 25 cents a bushel higher thau one year ago, and much above the average of August in recent seasons, and this fact ought to suggest prudence to speculators for a rise. Steam vs. Water Power, Mr. D. W. Oates, of the Charlotte Cotton Mills, furnishes to the Observer his experience with steam as a motive power for cotton machinery, and institutes a comparison between steam and water power as follows: "I can give you our actual production as compared with that of one of the most successful water mills in the South?that of the Messrs. Holt of Alamance. I give the figures of this mill particularly, because it works the same spindle as we do?Sawyer's high speed spindles. "We are now running 6,240 high speed Sawyer spindles 12 hours every day, except Saturday, when we run onl/ 9 hours. This is an average of lli hours a day?one hour and a half per day more than the Northern mills, while our operatives cost us no more than theirs. This gives us 14 per cent, advantage of them per week in time, and we have no reason to doubt that the advantage is equally great in production. Our production is 12,300 pounds of No. 20 warp " ? i Jl. cotton per week, or 6u ounces per spiuuie. We have had no experience with spinning by water power, but our friends who have and who are operating similar machinery on the same kind of yam, give their production at 28 ounces per spindle. I refer to the Messrs. Holt, as I have said, and every body knows the success with which they have met in cotton manufacturing. This is a difference of a little over 11 per cent., and is equivalent to 1,35.0 pounds per week with our number of spindles. In other words, this 1,350 pounds represents an absolute cash gain of 840 per week on 6,240 spindles when worked by steam. This gain is, we think, enough to cover the excess of the expenses of steam ; hut besides that one of our biggest advantages over the water mills is our location in the city. In the first place, by being right in the inside of a live cotton market, with our experience in handling the staple, we are able to take advantage of the fluctuations of the market in buying. The many other advantages of being in town it is unnecessary to state. But again, I suppose half the water mills in this section of the State have not nearly made full time this summer from the failure of the water. We are not subject to serious interruption in our work from any cause whatever." "When you consider all these things, then you think that steam is even better than water ?" "No, we are not prepared to say that, as we know nothing of water mills by experience. But we are entirely well satisfied that 3teara crtton mills will pay handsomely in the South ; aud furthermore, we do not regret that we have made the experiment in Charlotte. You can say to your readers that the Charlotte Steam Cotton Mill is a success." THE LIEN LAW. As a foember of the General Assembly, we have on several occasions voted against the repeal of the lien law, and now see no reason why the system should be changed. It is certainly a misfortune, in a material point Df view, for a man to give a lien, but it is ao greater misfortune than to buy on credit. The lien law is nothing more or less than a short and cheap method of giving credit to the man of small means. If it should be re* aealed, the system of mortgages upon the crops would be substituted, aud instead of costing afteen cents, would cost several dollars, to be aaid by the man obtaining the credit, and ;hen, if it should become necessary to enforce lie mortgage, the co3t of foreclosure would be ;ery much greater than the costs for enforcug the lien, as at present provided. The supreme Court of this State has decided in he case of Moore vs. Byrura, that at Com* non Law a man has the right to mortgage a :rop, even before it is planted, and where it s to be grown upon the lands of auother; so hat by abolishing the lien law this course tould be resorted to, which, from necessity, vould be more expensive and more injurious is a system. The lien law has grown up ince the war, but so has the homestead, and he one is the almost necessary acc.ompaniaent of the other. If it were not for the loraestead law, there would not be so much lecessity for the lien law, for all that a man ias would be liable for his debts, and would ;ive him a basis of credit. As it is now, no nan has any credit upon his property, unless ie owns more than one thousand dollars porth of renl estate, aud five hundred dollars porth of personal property, so that to those pl.r own less thau this amount of property, he lien is a convenient and cheap mode of cndering whatever capital one has, whether t is a small amount of land or a little person* 1 property, or only his labor, available as a asis of temporary credit to enable him to upport himself and family more in accord* nee with his tastes and wishes than he could therwise do. To take the lien law away is, 3 a considerable extent, to deprive the poor* r class of our country of credit, and render bem more dependent.-i4nderscm Intelligencer. : LOCAL AFFAIRS, j NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. John M. Jackson, A. F. Lindsay and J. B. Allison, County Commissioners?Township Election. J. A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation?W. M. Matthews, Applicant?A. J. Matthews, deceased. Sarah J. Ashe, Executrix?Valuable Land for Sale. . John K. Riley, Chairman of Faculty, Walhalla,S. 0.?Adger College. Jos. F. Wallace, Clerk?Notice to the Creditors of I Mrs. E. H. McCounell, deceased, and John B. McConnell, deceased, to present their claims. Allen B. Crosby, Administrator?Choses in Action. Latta Brothers?Bacging and Ties?Red Rust Proof Oats?XXX Flour? New Orleans i Molasses?Hardware?Soaps?Forest King ' Cigar?Tobacco?Oat Meal?In Additiou to the Above. Dobson and Parish?Groceries. J. M. Adams?Look Out. T. M. Dobson?News Column for the New York House?Important Information at the Emporium of Fashion. Hunter, Oates <fc Co.?Important Information to All Clark Brothers?Bagging and Ties. John C. Kuykendal?Locals. Herndon Brothers?Rubber Belting?BaconLard?Bagging and Ties?Leather. Withers Adickes?Dried Apples, Etc. Dr. John May, Agent?The Corner Drug Store. Latimer A Hemphill?New Goods, New Goods. W. P. GodS, Plaintiffs' Attorney?Notice to Defendants. J. A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation?Jos. F. Wallace, Applicant?Jos. N. Ardrey, deceased. J. A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation?L. D. Chikla, Applicant?Richard A. Springs, deceased. SEND US THE NEWS. Wo respectfully request our friends in every section of the county, to send us a statement of any local news that may transpire in their respective localities, such as accidents, llres, marriages, deaths, and also the condition of the crops, tho state of the weather, Ac. Such communications should be restricted to giving an outline of the facts, and will be written out in the office for publication. Such articles should always be accompanied by the proper name of the writer, not, however, for publication, but as evidence of good faith. If our friends throughout the county would give this matter their attention, they would confer upon us a favor, while it would render the Enquirer more interesting to the readers generally throughout the county. PROHIBITION PETITIONS. We have received from Rev. Samuel Lander, a number of headings of petitious to the Legislature for a prohibitory liquor law, and can supply persons in this locality who may wish to circulate petitions for signatures. 8. C. MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. We have received a copy of the Transactions of the South Carolina Medical Association, at the 31st annual session held iu Newberry, from the 19th to the 21st of April last. The next annual meeting of the Association will be held in Spartanburg on the fourth Tuesday in April, 1882. THE CONCERT. The concert last Frrday night, in aid of a fund for repairing the Episcopal church, was quite a success. The program tie?a lengthy one?included a number of difficult vocal and instrumental selections, all of which were rendered in a degree of perfection highly commendable to the performers and satisfactory to the large and critical audience. RAIN. A very good rain fell here last Thursday night, which was the heaviest rain we have had since the 27th of April. From what we learn, the raiu was general in the county, though lighter in some sections than others. While too late to be of much benefit to either corn or cotton, it afforded in various localities a suitable season for the sowing of turnips. CROPS IN THE COUNTY. In answer to our circular sent out last week, making inquiry as to the condition of the crops of York county, we have already received a large number of replies, which, with those yet to be received, we will publish in full next week, preferring that the reports from all sec.! - f X1 ..X ?1 ^ In uuus lu lue (juuuiv Bimii appear lugctucr iu one issue. FIRE IN THE COUNTRY. We learn that on Tuesday night of last week, the house of Mr. J. L. Parker, in Broad River township, was destroyed by fire. When the fire originated, the family were all absent from home, attending church at Zion, in the neighborhood. With the exception of a small quantity of bedding, noue of the contents of the house were saved. The fire is supposed to have been accidental. ADGER COLLEGE. Attention is directed to the advertisement of the above school, located at Walhalla. Among the members of the faculty is Mr. W. S. Moore, a native of York county, and a graduate of Davidson College.^ Besides graduating with honor, he is specially adapted for l.l l /? . 1 1 ./ iL. tne duties 01 a teacner, ana as one 01 me corps of instructors will contribute to the already fine reputation the school has earned in the past. THE FIRST BALE. The first bale of the present season brought I to this market, was sold on Saturday evening last by Mr. S. A. McElwee to Capt. J. R. Gardner, agent for J. M. Ivy & Co. The bale weighed 508 pounds and classed as strict middling. The price paid was 14 cents. The bale was shipped to J. I. Middleton & Co., Baltimore. Mr. McElwee informs us that of the cotton that made up this bale, he weighed 460 pounds in the seed, which yield ed 148 pounds of lint. THE JENKINS* MEMORIAL. The Charleston News and Courier of Friday says: "The column to be erected to the memory of Gen. Micah Jenkins has been ordered, and will be completed at an early day. The Association of Citadel Graduates, with the Carolina Military Institute, the King's Mountain Military School at Yorkville, the Charleston military companies, and other comrades and friends, have contributed sufficient to defray the cost of the memorial column. The only additional expense will be for prop erly enclosing the lot at Maguolia, where Gen. Jeokins is buried, and where the memorial column will be erected." DEATH OF A FORMER CITIZEN. Mr. Joseph A Baker, who for a number of years previous to 1855 was a resident of Yorkville, died in Iredell county, N. C., on the 2d instant. He will be kindly remembered by the few of bis acquaintances in this community who survive him. From an obituary notice in the Statesville Landmark, we copy the following tribute to bis memory : "At the residence of T. M. C. Davidson, Esq., August 2nd, Mr. Jos. A. Baker, aged fifty-nine years and some months. He possessed an excellent mind and sound judgmeut. With a fine sense of honor and an unflinching determination in the discharge of duty, he had many of the elements of a most noble character. He was a tender husband and father, a kind neighbor, a good son and brother. He had been a gallant soldier in company D, 42nd regiment N. C. troops. He leaves a wife aud little son and very many friends to mourn his loss. He ever manifested the greatest respect for religion, and we hope his prayers were heard and that he rests in Heaven." GIVE THE POST OFFICE. 1 We have beeu requested by the mail agent on the Chester and Lenoir Rfcilroad, to call the attention of those corresponding with persons at All Healing Springs and Cleveland Mineral Springs,that there are no postoffices by these names, and that letters bearing the superscription of either place cannot be promptly delivered, but by orders of the department are forwarded to the headquarters of his division?Atlauta. The post-office of All Healing Springs is King's Mountain, N. C., and that of Cleveland Springs is Shelby, N. C. Add the post-office when writing to persons at either of these springs, and there can be no excuse for delay in the transmission of your letters. CHURCH NOTICES. Services will be held in the churches next Sunday as follows: Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. 1 . T oil,an Pootnp RopoIoim u/ill ho in thin uabiinii) a. aovvit v/vi ? ivw ? ? * ?*? ? ? ? church at 10} A. M., next Saturday, and at the Sunday service the sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be administered, on which occasion the pastor will be assisted by Rev. C. B. Betts. Sunday-school at 9 o'clock, A. M. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. Marion Dargan, Pastor. Services at Philadelphia Church in the forenoon, the sermon to be suited to the Women's Missionary Society. Evening service in the church at Yorkville. Church of the Good Shepherd?Episcopal? Rev. R. P. Johnson, Rector. Services at the usual hours, morning and evening. CAUGHT 8TEALING* On Thursday of last week, a colored woman named Mary Barnhill, who lives near * Clover, was detected in-the act of stealing several articles in T. M. Dobson's dry goods store. She bad filled two bags with goods taken from the counter, amounting to $7.55 at regular prices, before the proprietor of the store stepped forward and told her he had witnessed the whole transaction, though he was in another part of the store at the time. Denial was useless, and at a hearing the next morning before Trial Justice Lewis, on the charge of petit larceny, she was given the " ^ ^ o aP 01 fl An/) /infifa aiLCiuaiuc yji pnj iu^ a uuo ui t>iv auu uuoboy or going to jail for twenty days. The fine ; was paid. ALMOST A FIRE. Between 11 and 12 o'clock last Friday night, a small wooden building belonging to the estate of H. F. Adickes, deceased, and between his late residence and corner brick store, was discovered to be on fire. The house was used by James Gadberry, colored, as a tin shop. In one corner was piled a quantity of rags, in which the fire is supposed to have originated?probably from spontaneous combustion, as there seem to be no circumstances sustaining the supposition that it was of incendiary origin. The Hook and Ladder.company was prompt in answering the alarm, and by the exertions of the members who hastened to the scene, aided by several citizens, the fiames were subdued, and what might have proved a serious fire averted. CHESTER FAIR. We have received from the secretary, the Premium List of the third annual fair of the >? ? Chester Agricultural, Horticultural and Mechanical Association, to be held at Chester, commencing on Tuesday, the 4th of October next and continuing four days. The annual oration before the Association will be deliv-? ered by tlon. U. a. ijonng, 01 Massacnusetts, United States Commissioner of Agriculture, on Wednesday, the 5th of October. This Agricultural Association is composed of the Counties of Lancaster, York, Fairfield and Chester, the directors for York county being Messrs. Joseph H.'rndon and John S. Brat* ton. In bis announcement, the President congratulates the Association on thfe success that has attended the previous fairs, and assures the public that arrangements for ' a third successful fair will be complete. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enqnirer. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. Clover, S. C., August 20.?The rapid growth of our little town is a gratifying fact to record. There are now six stores here in active business, and two more are in the course of erection. In point of size, convenience and tasteful arrangement, one of these * *" last named would do credit to any up country town. The frame of a large Presbyterian church has been raised, with the prospect of the edifice being completed early in October. A church of this denomination has been organized here with a membership of eightyfour. We have also a first-class school in successful operation. In this connection I may note a spelling match that came off here yesterday?the citizens against the pupils of the school. The citizens did not come off victorious ; but they propose to spell the school against an equal number of spellers to be found in aDy of the upper counties of South Carolina. We have also another source of enjoyment, viz. : the cornet band, taught by Prof. McMillau. It is not only composed of young men of high tone and moral character, but in addition to their other accomplishments, they know how to "tootand in the present condition of affairs we are disposed to reverse the declaration of Gen. D. H. Hill during" the late war, and say, "tooters before shooters." X. Clover, S. C., August 20.?Notwithstanding the depressing effects of the dry weather and consequent short crops, Clover is stilL booming. Improvements are going on all the time. During the present year, several C beautiful residences and store-rooms have been erected. A silver cornet band has been recently organized here, and under the instruction of Prof. J. D. McMillan, of Columbia, they are progressing rapidly. Our academy is flourishing. J. A. Wilson, with efficient assistants, is doing good service, * and we hope he will receive the support and encouragement he deserves. A few days ago the pupils of the academy challenged the citizens of Clover to a spelling contest. The matter was settled last Thursday evening, resulting in a total defeat of the citizens. At the spring meeting of Bethel Presbytery, a committee was appointed to organize a church at this place, and on the 28th of July, the time appointed, the organization was effected with a membership of ninety-four. The meeting continued until the Sunday s. night followiug, with an addition of nine more members. We have preaching regularly nncs n month. hv Rev. W. G. White, of Yorkville. Services are now held in the academy, but we are soon to have a large and co*mmodious church. The frame of the building is now up, and it will soon be com* pleted. Vox. Bullock's Creek, August 19.?A picnic came offin this neighborhood on the 12th in stant, which (notwithstanding the hofrweather) seemed to be an enjoyable affair to the young folks, and the older people too. A religious meeting has just closed at Bullock's Creek Church, which continued for five days and nights under the ministration of Rev. \V. W. Ratchford. During the meeting the congregations wertf large and attentive. Christians seemed to be revived, and twelve were added to the church on profession of faith. ~ *