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Jtoaps and .fads.
? Five children clinging to the body of a j
tid ing mother shot by a brutal father because i
she would not give him her earnings to buy
rum, is a picture from Chicago life.
?ThreeIndians, "DeadShot," "Dandy Jim," !
and "Skilly," convicted in the civil courts of
murder, were hanged at Fort Grant, Friday.
They stepped upon the scaffold laughing, shook
hands with all on the platform and said they
were going to meet their friends.
? In the "Black Hole" of Chicago there are
500 drinking saloons and 3,000 abandoned women.
According to the picture drawn by the
Inter-Ocean the "Black Hole" is the wickedest
and most depraved den of vice now known
within the whole range of the world's civilization.
? The Supreme Court of the State of Indiana,
lias decided that a dog is not property, and
cannot be stolen. Judge Worden in making
this ruling, added : "Dogs are taxed, not because
of their value, but as a police regulation,
and to discourage the propagation of the species."
Mississippi is to have her first national bank
of Cnlnmliiie Out. of fhpO OOP national banks
in the United States, Mississippi has never yet
had one. That State also wants railroads.
The Legislature has passed a law exempting
all that may be constructed from taxation for
a period of twenty years, and grants charters
to all that want them.
? The common belief even among eminent
medical men is that typhoid fever arises from
bad drainage and the escape of "sewer gas."
According to professor Tyndall this belief is
wholly erroneous. The disease, he holds, is as
much the result of the introduction of specific
germ into the human system as the growth of
a crop of wheat is the result of sowing wheat
under given conditions.
? The veteran claimant, Mrs. Myra Clarke
Gaines, has just won another victory. The
House committee on private claims has decided
that she is entitled to a confirmation of title
of 38,447 acres of land in the State of Florida.
The claim is based upon grants of land
made by the Spanish intendant-general of
Florida in 1803 to Thomas Urquhart and John
Lynch, and parts of which were afterwards
conveyed to Daniel Clarke, Mrs. Gaiues' father.
? With the advent of railroads and telegraphs
Mexico is progressing in the scale of civilization
and modern conveniences. Within the
past week a branch of the Federal loan and
banking office has been established in Oaxaca
much to the graification of the citizens. Governor
Diaz has granted a concession for lighting
the streets of Oaxaca. He has also appointed
a committee to inspect the public
school system.
? In his eulogy of Garfield, Blaine extolled
rather highly the military career of the late
President for which he is sharply criticised by
many of the Republican journals. His reference
to Chicamauga has aroused the old soldiers,
who deny that the Federal army suffered
defeat there. The Cincinnati Gazette's
military editor declares that "there was no
reason why Gen. Garfield should be promoted
for that affair and Gen. Itosencrans relieved
of his command for the same."
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firmation of Conkling as Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court. Four of the dozen came
from Republicans. Mr. Sherman was paired,
or he would have voted against confirmation.
Both the South Carolina Senators opposed confirmation
and they were in company with
Bayard, Beck, Johnston, Jones, Pugh, George
and Camden. Mr. Vest, another opponent of
confirmation, was paired, and Messrs. Saulsbury.
Vance, and Slater, were also prevented
by pairs from voting in the negative. Mr.
Call, of Florida, and Mr. Groome, of Maryland,
are said to have been present and to have
refrained from voting.
? A new York letter says : Merchants having
business connections with the Southwest
continue to complain of the difficulty in collecting
their debts, and almost every letter from
their correspondents si>eaks of the scarcity of
money and the dullness of trade. The situation,
discouraging enough before, has been aggravated
by the frequency of commercial susl>ensions,
and by losses and embarrassments
entailed by the recent disastrous freshets.
The South Atlantic States have been more
fortunate, and from that quarter not only is
there no complaint of backward trade, but
people are promptly paying their indebtedness."
? A Washington dispatch of Saturday says
the judge advocate-general has concluded the
consideration of the procedings of the courtmartial
in the case of Lieut. Flipper, and will
submit his rei>ort to the secretary of war in a
day or two. It is known that the sentence of
the Court was that Flipjier be dismissed. It
is understood that Judge-Advocate-General
Swaim, in his review of the case, recommends,
in view of certain mitigating circumstances
attending the offence, that a less serious punishment
be imposed. The eeneral impression
is that the President and" secretary of war
take the same view of the case and will mitigate
the sentence.
? Andrew Jackson's birthday, the 16th instant,
will be celebrated at Chicago by a grand
banquet to be given by the Iroquois Club at
the Palmer House. Many distinguished Democrats
have been invited to be present. Senator
Lamar, Col. W. T. Vilas of Wisconsin,
W. C. P. Breckenridge of Kentucky, ex-Govemor
Palmer, Thomas A. Hendricks Gen.
Black, Frank Hurd of Ohio, Senator Pendleton,
ex-Senator Thurman, Jere Black and
Henry Watterson have accepted invitations.
Frank Hurd will speak on free trade. Letters
to be read have been received from ex-Governor
Seymour, Samuel J. Tilden and Senator
Bayard. The occasion will be of considerable
political significance.
? The grand jury of the criminal court of
Washington have indicted Samuel G. Cabell,
John X. Minnix and Charles H. Dickson, for
conspiracy to defraud the Government of the
Lrnited States by means of fraudulent bids for
3.190 post routes located in North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi,
and corruptly combining to obtain
contracts for sale by means of bogus sureties?
Cabell being the principal, and Minnix and
Dickson bondsmen. They further indict Minnix
and Dickson for perjury in falsely swearing
that each owned two hundred and fifty
acres of unimproved coal land in Morgan
county, Ky., valued at $100,000.
? The Washington Star says: "There is
considerable speculation as to the findings of
the court martial in the case of Sergeant John
A. Mason, of Battery B, Second Artillery,
charged with shooting at Guiteau, which concluded
its labors at the "Washington Barracks
on Thursday. There is an impression that the
Court has acquitted the prisoner, on the
ground that Mason had not actually entered
on duty at the time, nor did he fire at Guiteau,
for at the time, admitting that Guiteau
was at the window, lie could not be seen from
the point whence Mason fired. It is generally
believed that even if the prisoner has not been
acquitted the punishment is not severe, and
that at most he will not be confined long. lie
will probably be discharged from the army,
with the loss of pay and emoluments."
? Gov. Hoyt, of Wyoming Territory, in his
message to the Legislature, has this to say of
the peculiar feature of that Territory, woman
suffrage : "Elsewhere, objectors persist in
calling this honorable statute of ours an "experiment."
We know that it is not?that under
it we have better laws, better officers, better
morals, and a higher social condition in
general, than could otherwise exist?that not
one of the predicted evils, such as loss of native
delicacy and disturbance of home relations,
has followed in its train?that the great
body of our women, and the best of them, have
accepted the elective franchise as a precious
boon, and exercise it as a patriotic duty?in a
word, that after twelve years of happy experience
woman suffrage is so thoroughly rooted
and established in the minds and hearts of
this people that among them all, no voice is
ever uplifted in protest against or in question
of it."
? Mrs. Scoville, Guiteau's sister, wrote a
remonstrance to the United States Senate
against Koscoe Conkling's confirmation as Associate
Justice of the Supreme bench. She
excoriates Koscoe, and asks, "IIow dare they |
give such preferment to the man who, of all.
others, should be punished with the execration 1
of his countrymen and of the world, for the I
sorrow and humiliation we have suffered ! I
Can they beiieve that the conviction of poor
crazy Guiteau, "lynched" by process of law, ;
will so cover up their own nefarious record
that the blinded nation and the world will no ;
more see their iniquity ? Must we consent to ;
bow submissively to my Lord Conkliug when :
he shall assume the judicial ermine of thei
highest court in the land, the court of last re- j
sort '* If such tilings are to lie. where are our1
boasted liberties ?" She describes at length
the political agitation preceding the assassina- j
tion of Garfield, and closes as follows : "I'
protest in the name of outraged public opinion
that this man shall not be allowed the honor
and profit of great political preferment, while
odium is heaped upon the victim of a political
craze. I protest against the appointment
of this imperious demagogue, who, above all
others, was the chief cause of the degrading
partizan strife which culminated in the deatli
which the nation mourns. I protest in the
name of that justice which should be meted
equally to all, that this man shall not be
elevated to that high position, which may enable
him to pass final judgment upon the fate
of my poor insane brother."
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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Confederate bonds were in demand in
Charleston last Thursday at $2 per $1,000.
? A few Confederate bonds were sold in
Columbia last Saturday at $4.75 per thousand.
? A small number of colored emigrants left
Greenville and Spartanburg counties last week
for Arkansas.
? An attempt to inaugurate and Independent
movement at Sumter, last Monday, resulted
in failure.
? Dr. Foster, of Georgetown, has over a
thousand tea plants growing. Some of them
are six feet high and over ten feet in circumference.
They stand the climate admirably.
? L. II. Frank, a young man from Florence,
in this State, was killed on Monday night of
last week by a railroad accident near Grand
Bay, between Mobile and New Orleans.
? A Greenville dispatch to the News and Coiir
ricr says that on Friday night, Special Deputy
Collector G. H. Kirkland, with two assistants,
succeeded in capturing near Greer's Station,
in Greenville county, Jim Hood, a young but
noted blockade runner. They captured also
his horse, buggy and twenty gallons of blockade
whisky. The horse is the celebrated trotter
Zeb Vance. Hood is in jail.
? The Gaffney City Carolinian Of the 2nd
instant says the Cherokee Falls Manufacturing
Company, on Broad ltiver, have gone to
work most vigorously, producing yarn of a
superior quality. The editor was shown the
first turn-out of a No 20, pronounced by experts
the very best, and learns their engagements
are heavy to start with. The prospects
are more than flattering.
? Near AVilliston, in Barnwell county, on
the 26th ultimo, one A. J. Scott was killed by
one Eddie Boylston, both white young men
just in the prime of life. Scott leaves a j
young wife to mourn his loss, and Boylston I
who has left for parts unknown, also leaves
behind him a wife whom he lias lately married.
Boylston cut the throat of Scott?severing the
jugular vein?with a pocket knife. It appears
that the difficulty was brought about by Scott's !
refusing to let Boylston have a mule to use.
? Seven men, all colored turpentine hands,
working near Society Hill were camping after
their day's work in a turpentine forest on the
night of the 28th of February. A thunder
storm came up with terrific lightning, and
the tree under which they had their tent was
struck. Three of the seven were killed instantly,
viz.: John Smootherman, Ben Campbell
and Sandy Purvis, Jim Luke. Daniel
Brown, Renta Graham and one other, name
unknown, were badly hurt. None are expected
to live.
? Says the Greenville News: From all sections
of the Piedmont country there are the
mnst pnpniirjimnfr rpnnvts of the small frrain
I crops. The acreage sown was unusually large,
and from present appearances the yield will be
the best for many years. In Pickens, Spartanburg
Oconee, Union, Anderson and every part
of Greenville county the farmers speak enthusiastically
of the grain prospect, that for fall
oats being paticularly good. The only complaint
is from one point in Pickens, where
some washing of exi>osed lands from heavy
rains is reported.
? A few days ago, about eighteen miles
above Dovesville, in Darlington county, a Mr.
Edwards moved away part of his plantation
fence. lie received a note the day after notifying
him of what he had done and requesting
him to stop it or else put up with the consequences.
Edwards then asserted that he
would move all of his fences, and was at work
in doing so, and following the night a mob
visited his place and fired about one hundred
balls at and through his house. It is reported
that Edwards has left the place and moved olf.
This occurred in a section known as the Pan
Hollows, in the northwestern part of the
county, where they are all .small farmers and
very illiterate. There is, however, no honest
opposition to the stock law in Darlington, the
largest stock and land owners being heartily
in accord with the law.
? Mr. Dallas Sanders, an attorney of Philadelphia,
visited Winnsboro last week for the
purpose of making inquiries as to the merits
of the political prosecutions begun at that
place last year. Mr. Sanders has been been appointed
special counsel by United States Attorney-General
Brewster for the puri>ose of
visiting South Carolina, looking into the political
cases, and assisting District Attorney
Melton in such as they may decide to bring to
trial. Mr. Sanders made a thorough investigation
before leaving Winnsboro, and said
he would soon communicate the result of his
visit. The Xems says: He is a pleasant
gentleman, and appears to be desirous of simply
getting at the truth. The Government, he
says, does not desire to inaugurate useless and
vexatious proceedings nor to incur unnecessary
expense. There are about twenty-five
cases in Fairfield, and each has already cost
the Government about thirty dollars in costs
and fees to commissioners and under strappers.
MERE-MENTION.
Ten Nihilist prisoners, including one woman,
have been sentenced to death at St.
Petersburg, on various charges. Eleven others
will be sent into penal servitude. The
seat of government of Louisiana has been
transferred from New Orleans to the new Capitol
building at Baton ltouge. Cincinnati
slaughtered 384,878 hogs the past win- j
ter, being 137,547 less than the winter be-;
fore. Valley Mills, a little town in Texas, :
was almost swept away by a cyclone on the j
night of the 27th ultimo. West Virginia !
makes 21 per cent, of all the nails in the Uni-'
ted States. There are 1,738 Indians in j
Mississippi. All rail communication is
now open between New Orleans and San '
Francisco. The first through car from the
latter to the former city made the trip in
fourteen and a half days. The freight rate
was SI.42 per hundred pounds. The widow
of Daniel Webster, the American statesman,
died at New Rochelle, N. II., on Sunday
night of last week. She was Webster's second
wife. ? The total visible cotton supply for
the world, last Saturday was 3,112,121 of which
2,417,909 were American, against 2,978,350
and 2,521,19S, respectively last year. The
emigration to Mexico is at present chiefly
Italian. The Louisville Courier-Journal
says that Grant's income before he was put on
the retired list was about $40,000 a year. It
is estimated that the total length of submarine
telegraph cables in the world is 62,100 miles,
having a money value of about $200,000.
Samuel J. Tilden's income from his mining
interests in Michigan is said to have been
$250,000 last year. Hon. John W. Bookwaiter,
late Democratic candidate for Governor
of Ohio, has purchased the old Scofield
rolling mill at Atlanta, Ga., and will convert
it into a large manufacturing establishment.
Gen. Z. C. Deas, a railroad broker,
died in New York suddenly last Monday
of apoplexy, aged 03. lie was a native of
Camden, S. C. Conkling has written a
letter to the President declining the Associate
Justiceship of the United States Supreme
Court.
shooting at Victoria.
As Queen Victoria was entering her carriage
last Thursday evening a man in the Wind,
sor station yard deliberatly fired a pistol at
her. The man was immediately seized by
several policemen and taken to Windsor i>olice
station. No one was hurt. The man
gave his name as Roderick MacLean. The
Queen drove off to the Castle immediately
after she was fired at. The miscreant was followed
to the station by a large crowd of people
from whom he was rescued with difficulty.
The Queen arrived at Windsor about 5.20 P.
M. Since Tuesday she had been in London.
A later London dispatch gives the following
particulars of the occurrence:
There was a large crowd of spectators awaiting
the Queen's arrival at Windsor. The
Queen walked across the platform of the railway
station to her carriage, which was waiting
to take her to the Castle. John Brown,
the Queen's footman, had already ascended to
his seat behind the carriage, when a man
standing at the entrance to the station yard
among a number of si>ectators i>ointed a pistol
at the carriage and fired. To judge from
the report the pistol was not heavily loaded.
The Queen, who was probably not aware
what had hapj>ened, was immediately driven
to the Castle, but before she passed the man
had been seized by the superintendent of the
borough police who was standing near by.
He was violently seized by the crowd, and was
only rescued from them when three or four
policemen came to the suj>erintendent's assistance.
The pistol was captured by one of
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me cruwu. jyuiejjean was tivKeii nitu iiiyu
street and thence conveyed to the police station
in a cab.
On Friday morning MacLean was taken
before the Windsor magistrates on the charge
of shooting at the Queen with intent to murder.
The prisoner was remanded for a week.
Formal evidence was taken concerning the
prisoner's arrest and the finding of the bullet.
MacLean closely cross-examined several witnesses.
lie did not seem to be impressed with
the seriousness of his position.
Two letters written by the prisoner were
read. In the first, which was written before
the shooting, he said he was compelled to commit
the crime against the "bloated aristocracy
because of the insufficiency of relief offered
him." In the second letter, written after
his arrest, he said that his only object was to
cause public alarm and get his pecuniary
grievances redressed ; that he did not mean
to hurt the Queen, but only fired at the wheels
of her carriage.
It transpires that MacLean was discharged
from an insane asylum last September.
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POLITICAL POINTS.
? An indejiendent Democratic ticket has
been put in the field for Kentucky.
? The Washington Post, which is recognized
as the organ of Mr. Blaine, states that President
Garfield intended to appoint Mr. Conkling
to the Supreme Bench.
? Mr. Evins, Representative m congress, nas
been selected to represent South Carolina on
the Democratic Congressional campaign committee.
/
? A prominent gentleman from Colleton
county informs the Columbia Register that the
dissatisfaction over the passage of the 3tock
law has pretty well died out, and that it will
be impossible for any Independent to secure a
following there.
? The temperance question is very prominent
in the approaching city elections in Iowa.
The prohibitionists are favoring the issue, and
in several instances are making a straight
fight with tickets of their own, independent
of all parties.
? Gov. Roberts, of Texas, has issued a call
for a special session of the legislature to assemble
April Oth, for the purpose of re-aportioning
the State into congressional districts and also
into senatorial and legislative districts, and to
provide for the replacing of the State capitol
recently destroyed by fire.
? The State Republican Executive committee
of Tennessee, and a number of prominent
Republicans met in Nashville Friday night.
The caucus continued until after midnight
It was resolved to call a gubernatorial convention
to meet on April 27th, and favor calling
a constitutional convention for August next
The Republicans will adhere to the Hawkins
platform, which is to settle the Stqte debt on
the best compromise to which the bondholders
will submit.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
In the Senate on the 1st. Mr. Vest introduced
a bill to prohibit the issue of bank notes
or currency by National banks that may be
organized or reorganized after the first of July,
1S82. The resolution in regard to the
Chili correspondence was adopted.
In the House a number of bills were introduced,
and the Indian appropriation bill
passed.
In the Senate on the 2nd, the Chinese bill
was discussed. Mr. Butler of South Carolina,
presented a petition from leading men of
Charleston asking a modification of the treaty
with the Ilawaiin Islands. The Senate confirmed
the nomination of Conkling to the Supreme
bench, and Sargent to be Minister to
Berlin.
In the House, the consular and diplomatic
appropriation bill was discussed.
I u the Senate on the 3rd, Mr. Butler presented,
read at length and explained a memorial
from the bench, bar, executive officers,
commercial boards, professors of colleges, journalists
and others, numbering in all twelve
hundred citizens of South Carolina, for national
aid for the education of the youth
of that State, and in supjiort of his bill on
that subject he said the State had the frame
work of as good a free school system as
any in the Union, but the great difficulty in
the way of realizing all that was desired from
that system was the want of money, arid it
would be a great hardship to tax the people
for school purposes more than they were now
taxed. lie denied that assessments for taxation
in South Carolina were less than were !
warranted by the value of property, and briefly
advocated the necessity of the desired legislation.
Referred. After a brief executive session
the Seriate adjourned until Monday.
The House was occupied, during the greater
part of the day with bills on the private
calendar.
The House, on the 4th, discussed the consular
appropriation bill, and the Eads ship railway
project.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
John R. London, Rock Hill, S. C.?Grain Threshers,<fec.
S. A. McElwee?Poultry Wanted.
J. M. Jackson, Chairman?York County BondsCounty
Fences for Sale at Auction.
Dr. J. B. Patrick?Dental Notice.
H. F. Adickes?Dress Goods, Dress Goods?Shoes,
Shoes, Shoes.
Hunter, Oates & Co.?We Have Just Received.
Withers Adickes?Received This Week.
T. M. Dobson?School Books?Millinery, Millinery.
J. M. Adams?Fire, Fire, Fire?New GoodsCash
Buyers?Garden Seeds?Writing Paper?Wooden
Ware?Tobacco, Snuff and
Cigars.
Dobson A Parish?Notice.
Sam M. Grist?Do not neglect.
C. E. Spencer?Attorney at Law.
COTTON SHIPMENTS.
The shipments of cotton from this place for
the week ending last Monday were 57 bales,
making a total of 5,400 bales for the season.
FERTILIZER RECEIPTS.
The receipts of fertilizers consigned to deal- j
ers in Yorkville were 60 tons for the week j
ending Monday, making a total of 1,101 tons .
received to date.
S V LKK.DAY.
The only property sold on Monday last, j
sales-day for March, was the interest of J. M. 1
Harvey in a tract of land in King's Mountain
township, levied on by virtue of writs of fieri
facias. Bought by T. W. Clawson, for $75.
Dr. PATRICK.
Attention is directed to the card of Dr. Patrick,
surgeon dentist, who is now in town and
will remain for two weeks. Dr. Patrick
stands high in his profession, and with all the
facilities and appliances in the dental art, he
is well prepared to give the utmost satisfaction
to his patrons.
CHURCH NOTICES.
Methodist Episcopal?Rev. It. P. Pranks,
Pastor. Services in the Church at Yorkville,
next Sunday, at 11 A. M., and 7 P. M.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R.
Lathan, Pastor. The pastor will fill his regular
appointment at Tirzah next Sunday.
Presbyterian?Rev. T. It. English, Pastor.
Services at 11 A. M., and 7 P. M.
Episcopal?Church of the Good ShepherdRev.
R. P. Johnson, Rector. Owing to the
illness of the rector, no services will be held in
this Church next Sunday.
COUNTY BONDS. ,
On the 2nd instant, pursuant to the advertisement
of the County Commissioners, thirteen
of the bonds of York county in aid of the
Chester and Lenoir Railroad were presented for
retirement. No other bonds being presented by
the holders, in compliance with the Act of the
Legislature, thirty-four bonds of those in the
hands of holders were drawn for retirement.
The numbers of the bonds so drawn are published
in our advertising columns, with notice
to present them for redemption, and notice
is also given that interest on the said bonds so
drawn will stop on the 23rd instant. There
are now $78,100 of these bonds outstanding.
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GRAND AND PETIT JURGRS.
On Tuesday last, under the supervision of
r /~t i?n -F^I
jury ^uiiiLuissiuiici u. \j. uuc a.Allowing
grand and petit jurors were drawn, the
grand jurors to serve for the year commencing
with next term, and the petit jurors for the
term of the Circuit Court to convene on the
fourth Monday of the present month, at which
his Honor Judge Cothran will preside:
GRAND JUItORS.
Dennis Morgan, colored, Broad River.
M. L. Ross, Cherokee.
John A. Byers, Broad River.
James A. Stewart, Bethel.
Wm. White, Cherokee.
G. S. Cobb, : i Broad River.
W. S. Wilkerson, 1 Broad River.
Jordan Meacham, colored,.^ Cherokee.
John L. Starr, Bethesda.
R. A. Steele, Bethesda.
S. W. Jackson, Ebenezer.
J. M. Robinson, King's Mountain.
James M. Bigger, Bethel.
Ben. Galloway, colored, ? King's Mountain.
Anthony Clinton, colored, Bethel.
B. J. Gold Cherokee.
James A. Watson, Bethel.
J. B. Neely, Ebenezer.
PETIT JURORS.
S, D. Stowe, yl Bethel.
Lewis Hoyl, colored,.. N. Bethesda.
R. M. Allison, Broad River.
Richmond Crawford, colored, Bethesda.
Toon/I A tthfnrrT r.nlnrfid Broad River.
S. J. Kimbrell, Fort Mill.
Andrew Jackson, King's Mountain.
D. R. S. Blake, Bethesda.
Benjamin Byers, colored, Broad River.
J. M. Cherry, Catawba.
John J. Hunter, York^
Thaddeus Long, colored, Cherokee.
John Ilammell, York.
I). J. Glenn, Sen., Bethel.
B. D. Boyd, Fort Mill.
Sampson Garrett, colored, Cherokee.
J. J. Williams, Catawba.
A. J. Walker, Catawba.
Thomas Ilolley, colored, Bethesda.
W. M. Kennedy, York.
D. A. Gordon, York.
D. F. Barnett, Ebenezer.
R. W. Whitesides, Broad River.
F. B. Thomasson, Catawba.
C. T. Crook, Fort Mill.
Taylor Massey, Catawba.
J. W. Good, Bullock's Creek.
II. M. Lineberger, Catawba.
Charles Moore, colored, Fort Mill.
Robert II. Harris, Fort Mill.
Allen Bratton, colored, Bethesda.
James II. Williamson, Bethesda.
Henry Adams, colored, Bethel.
J oseph Black, Cherokee.
P. R. Currence, Bethel.
supervisor of registration.
Governor Hagood has appointed as Supervisor
of Registration for York county, Col. Wm.
H. McCorkle, who, we feel sure, will prove a
faithful and impartial ollicer, and endeavor to
discharge his duties with justice to all parties.
A more acceptable appointment, perhaps,
could not have been made.
As assistant supervisors of election, the
Governor lias appointed for York county, Geo.
W. S. Hart, Esq. and Dr. Jno. C. Kuykendal.
In this connection the following letter from
Mr. Hart to the Governor is published :
Yoiikville, S. C., March 6th, 1882.
Hon. Johnson Hagood, Governor &c:
Dear Sir: I am in receipt of notification from
Hon. R. M. Sims', Secretary, of my appointment
as "Assistant Supervisor of Elections"
for York county. lie also enclosed blank
oaths, and states that my subscription thereto
in due form, and return thereof fo him, will be
an indication of my acceptance of the office.
As the incumbent (as I am informed?for I
have not seen the Act) receives no remunera
tion, as well as for other reasons, I do not feel
at liberty to decline to perform duties that
some citizen must perform. I therefore enclose
the oaths duly subscribed, to your Excellency,,
with this request, growing out of my
great desire to keep out of i>olitical life: That
your Excellency will revoke the appointment,
and appoint some other person to the position.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Geo. W. S. IIaiit.
ATTEMPTED INCENDIARISM.
On Friday night last, between 8 and 0
o'clock, Mr. David L. Black, living 2 miles
east of town, by the merest accident discovered
that his barn was on fire. Abound colored
girl named Annie Briant, aged about fourteen
years, was the perpetrator of the act. Twenty
dollars in cash had been taken from Mr.
Black's pocket on Thursday night, and though
he had not charged the theft to the girl, it
seems that she thought he would do so, and
on Friday night, about the time above indicated,
when he went to her sleeping apartment
and called her, for the purpose of interrogating
her about the stolen money, she failed to answer.
Repeating the call several times and
receiving no answer, he chanced to turn his
eye to a window facing the barn, when he saw
n.i.rmu itiouinrr ffnm if TToufoninor fn fho snnr.
IKUIICO iOOUIll^ A.1VSJU XV* lAUUVUUiiig ww vnv
lie met the girl, emerging from the barn door.
"While he was busily engaged in subduing the
flames, which fortunately lie succeeded in doing,
she escajied and went to the house of
Bob Ward, colored, who concealed her. She
was found there and arrested, on the charge
of arson, and Bob was also arrested as accessory
after the fact. The girl confessed to the
deed, and also that she stole the money, and
gave $10 to Lem Gardner, colored, and $10 to
Jack McKendrick, colored. They too, have
been arrested, charged with receiving stolen
property, knowing the same to have been
stolen, and all the parties are in jail.
THE LATTER DAY SAINTS.
A saint, according to the general acceptation
of the word, is not met with every day in
these degenerate times. The "Latter Day
Saints" is the only brand now permanently
' on the market, and by this designation is understood
those of recent introduction. They
cannot be reckoned altogether as good as
formerly?in the days of Matthew, Mark, Luke
and John, to say nothing of the abstemious
and celibate Paul, for instance?quaint, queer
and querulous though these forerunners of a
true Christian gospel may have been. Yet a
saint, no matter what his origin, may be considered
a rara avis?a bird worth looking for?
and when a message was conveyed to us last
Saturday that on the following day two verita
ble saints, though of "Latter Lay" persuasion,
would hold forth at a certain place in
which some mystery was involved, but that
we would be guided to the locality if we desired,
we determined, Sunday though it was,
to gratify a curiosity, harmless, if not laudable.
Our conception of the toutcnscmble, the
general make up, of a saint, had been formed
from a study of pictures of the Italian school,
though we confess in our boyish days to a mysterious
reverence of the grotesque figures
which the old Flemish masters palmed off upon
an unsuspecting public. We had beheld in the
llesh the dignitaries of many branches of the
church militant?the red-mitred cardinal,
the portly, highly-fed bishop, the surpliced
priest, the sedate clergyman in black cloth
and white cravat; but the sandaled saint,
in the ample folds of a sky-blue mantle, with
staff in hand, existed only in our imagination
as conjured from the old pictures.
Hence it was with great anticipations that
we started, accompanied by a young friend
no less expectant than ourself, to behold and
hear a sure-enough saint?no counterfeit presentment?but
one, perhaps two, duly commissioned
to spread the gospel, not according
to the antiquated, old fogy notions which have
i been handed down from the days of Moses,
but according to the more modern style as
revealed to Joseph Smith and exemplified by
Brigham Young in these latter days.
A long and circuitous ride over a rough
road finally took us to the goal of our journey?not,
after all, a secluded or very obscure
At 1. i-~ ?1,?4- ,i: AT.^,,14
place, uiougii uy uui' ruuie oumewuuu uuu^uit
to reach?ail unoccupied house, formerly used
as a residence by Rev. T. J. Taylor, near Enon
Church, and situated a little off the Rutherford
road, about nine miles west of Yorkville. Here
we found assembled in one apartment of the
house, and partly filling the passage, a congregation
of about fifty persons, including a few
women and girls, all white, who were listening
to the words of wisdom as they fell from
the lips of "VV. C. Burton?a live saint!
| Our heart beat quickly as we approached the
portals of this improvised Mormon temple,
and as we caught the rapid enunciations of
the speaker?the exercises had already commenced?we
began to entertain fears that the
modern or Latter Day Saint is not equal to the
ideal saint of even the Flemish school of art;
while if he is symbolical of the saints of the
Scriptures, this one came in most questionable
shape, to say the least. To our deep chagrin,
we found the saint not in the emblematic vestments
of apostlesliip, but to the contrary beheld
a young man of trampish appearance, guileless
even of suavity?a characteristic indispensable
to itinerant saints?not over well dressed
in ordinary citizen's clothes, a sack coat in
lieu of a mantle; brogans, in place of the typical
sandal; pantaloons of the modem pattern ;
a nobby hat; sandy goatee and scanty side
whiskers to match, instead of the flowing
beard ; staff modeled after the shillelah, and
within easy reach a?carpet-bag 1 Such was
the saint in reality as he stood in one corner
of the room, vehemently declaiming what was
evidently a memorized harangue, putting all
laws of elocution at defiance, and holding grammar
to scorn. Our disappointment was equal
tc Sancho Panza's when he first beheld the
maid of Toboso, and as our heart sank
within us we thought of poor Baxter, wondering
what he would say of this saint, and
how quickly he would put him to rest.
As we have said, we heard only a portion of
his harangue, for it cannot be dignified with
the word sermon, or even address; but we
learned that the exercises were opened with
singing two songs by the "saints," after
which, without the formality of the mockery
of prayer, or without taking a text, St. Burton
began his remarks.
The only points we heard from this speaker
were that the gospel is restored in this day,
citing the 24th chapter of Matthew ; that the
Scriptures were written by inspired men, citing
the 3rd chapter of Romans, 19th verse ;
that the Christian must exercise faith; believe
the gospel as revealed to the apostles of
old, as it has been revealed in recent times,
and as it will be revealed hereafter; and that
sins can be remitted only by baptism and the
laying on of hands, while in a state of probation,
for the reception of the Holy Ghost.
During this delivery some commotion was
caused by the barking of dogs on the outside,
and it was feared that a dog fight would be
precipitated and break the meeting up ; but
the alarm was created only by a timid rabbit
seeking refuge under the house from pursuing
hounds, who in turn were pursued by a small
boy, utterly heedless of the day or the occasion.
As soon as quiet was restored, the
small boy consenting to leash his dogs until
"meeting was out," St. J. M. Easton took
the lloor. St. Easton?we prefer the old
style, as St. Paul was content without initial
letters before his name?proved not a bit more
plausible in his general get up than St. Bur- ,
ton. In fact, he was almost a counterpart of
that canonized disciple of Brigham Young,
though as an expounder of his creed he was
even more deficient, his enunciation being
more rapid and faulty. He spoke somewhat '
in the style of an injured man, and as he made j
known his grievances as the representative of ,
a persecuted sect, he threw out bits of Mor-' i
4
mon gospel more rapidly than they could have (
been digested by the most penitent seeker j
after Mormon consolation?one affected by the |
desire for half a dozen wives, or even a spirit j
made humble and contrite by being already
thus provided.
lie commenced by saying that he fully endorsed
all that had lieen said by "elder" Burton
; that his words were gospel truth, which
he would warrant to keep in any climate. He !
took for his text the Bible?the principles of the !
gospel?and unlike preachers of other denominations,
did not read a verse or two as a text,
preach a few words applicable to it, and then
branch off in a begging appeal for money !
money ! The whole Bible was his platform,
and he asked for no contributions.
He then spoke of the persecutions to which
the Church of the Latter Day Saints has been
subjected since the revelation of the Book of
Mormon. He then gave what he termed a Bible
explanation of this persecution, which was
instigated by the Evil One, the history of all
mankind ffoinc tn nrnvp that. t.hp. most rifflit
eous peoples endured the most bitter persecutions.
As it was the Evil Spirit that impelled
Cain to slay his righteous brother Abel, so it
is the same Evil One that prevails over all othdenominations
to persecute the Church of the
Latter Lay Saints, the only true church. In
this connection lie said the Mormon church
sustains the same relations to all other denominations
as did Abel to his wicked brother
Cain. It always had been and ever will be the
desire of the people to persecute the righteous;
hence the persecution of the Latter Day Saints.
A broad smile lit up the assemblage when he
capped the climax by saying that the ancient
philosophers Socrates and De Soto lamented
this characteristic of the human race.
As to the creed of the Church of the Latter
Day Saints, he said they believe all that God
has revealed; that what he has revealed
through the Bible is not the whole of his revelations
; he has made revelations since that day,!
and will make many more; but it is a conceded
fact that John stands preeminent as the great
revelator. To sustain his theory of latter day
revelations he quoted disconnected passages
from the apostles and prophets, clinching his
argument with the words of Solomon : "When
the people have no vision they shall perish."
The principles of his church were plain enough
to any who wished to believe.
Looking with admiration upon himself he
said the ministry must be called of God. On
this point the. people are not sufficiently careful.
They are very particular as regards all
their temporal affairs as to whether government
officers from President down are properly
elected ; but they seem to think that any body
can rise up and preach the gospel. With the
implication that he and his coadjutor had
been properly called, and that they were the
only two ministering angels in this vale of
tears, he warned his hearers that the Scriptures
are very particular as to man being called to
discharge the functions of a minister of the
gospel. When a man takes upon himself the
preaching of the gospel without being called
of God, he is usurping authority. In this regard
the heavenly Father is very particular, he
being allwise and intelligent. He chose twelve
apostles and sent them forth, and is equally
particular now as when the twelve were chosen.
Only those who are bom of God can preach.
The latter day saints were called in the same
manner as were the seventy elders of Israel.
An undivided belief in revelation is necessary
to enable the people to see that an elder
(preacher) in the church has been properly
called.
The way to judge a preacher, according to
his standard, is that a true son of God will
never tell you that revelation has ceased ; he
will never tell you that the laying on of hands
is not important for the remission of sins ; he
will never tell you that there will be no future
revelations, and that the Scriptures do not
teach that there will be future revelations.
The words covering these points were uttered
with rapid speech and gesticulation, and
after breathing a while, the speaker resumed
in a solemn and reassuring tone with the comforting
words that the Scriptures have been at
length restored through the iustrumentality
of Joseph Smith ; and while unbelievers say
that the name of Mr. Smith does not occur in
the Bible, he would triumphantly ask, can
they show us in the Bible the name of Martin
Luthur or John Wesley ?
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HO Uitu VAVUOVU lliUikJUIX UVU1 UVVUiJtiU^ IJIU
hearers further with the consoling words that
the gospel has been restored, and while he
lives it shall be preached in its purity as revealed
and to be revealed.
Having thus unfolded his phylactery he and
his paid struck up, "We'll sing the songs of
Zion," which they sang to a rattling air as the
signal for dispersion.
Such is a fair summary of the stuff this fellow
uttered, which was blasphemy rather than
a travesty on the worship of God. Uncouth,
illiterate, and bearing no .more semblance to
ministers of Christ than tramping vagabonds,
it may be asked if these fellows have a following.
We are informed that in the section
where they held forth last Sunday there are
some converts to their pretended faith ; but it
is due to say that most if not all those who
were present on this occasion were there
merely through curiosity.
The men claim to have been sent direct from
Utah to this section, and their time is occupied
in tramping about, distributing tracts, of
which they have an abundant supply, bearing
the imprint of a Salt Lake City publishing
house, and they pretend to "preach" only on
Sundays, when they can obtain a house for the
purpose. We are told by those who have heard
them on different occasions, that they have
never publicly alluded to the polygamy feature
of their church.
It is not our province to combat any religious
sect or denomination, but we have felt it
to be our duty to lay before the public a fair
exposition of what we might see and hear at
one of the meetings of these "benighted missionaries."
and while the above correct synop
sis of one of their "sermons" carries its own
comments, we have only a word of warning
for the people among whom these tramping
propagandists are laboring, and that is, that
the purpose of converting sinners and saving
souls is not their object. They are laboring
here just as they have been for several years
in portions of North Carolina and Georgia, to
induce emigration to Utah, the emigrants to
be converts to their church to be sure. A conflict
between the Mormons and the United
States Government is inevitable. It will come
sooner or later, and in their blind zeal the
Mormon leaders are filling Utah with men of
their faith from all parts of the world, de-1
hiding them with fair promises, and expect-:
ing, when the conflict comes, to have men for
the emergency.
We counsel no violence towards these men, !
as has been suggested by some newspapers, im- J
posters and charlatans though they be; butj
our advice to all is to discountenance them
wherever they may go. Any promises they
may make will prove as false as the so-called
religion they profess to teach.
? 1 .
ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE.
An Act to perpetuate Testimony in relation to
Deeds, Releases, Records, other papers and documents,
lost or destroyed.
Section 1. J3e it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly
and by the authority of the same : That
the plaintiff or plaintiffs or any of them in any
judgment or decree the record whereof has
been destroyed or abstracted or lost, or his or
their personal representatives, or other person
or i>ersons claiming under or through them or
any or either of them, or any person whatever
having an interest in the preservation of the
evidence of such judgment or decree, may upon
notice of not less than twenty-one days, '
V
served as summons in actions as now served
pursuant to law, upon the defendant or defendants
therein, or those upon whom his, her,
or their liability has devolved, or others interested
to oppose the application, make application
to the Court in which such judgment or
decree was rendered for leave to substitute a
new record ; and if, upon hearing the evidence
on eacli side, the Court is satisfied of the existence
and loss of such record, an order for
leave to substitute shall be made, conforming
as nearly as possible in all respects to the lost,
abstracted, or destroyed record, and if it be
for the payment of money the balance due
thereon, and date of lien, if any, shall be made
to apjiear thereon, and such substituted record
shall be good and valid in law to all intents '
and purposes.
Sec. 2. That any person interested in the
preservation of the contents of any deed, release,
private writing usually put on record,
or document alleged to have been lost or destroyed,
or defective in the record thereof,
and desiring to preserve the evidence thereof
1U1 all j puipi/OC, in a jr ujr auuiiiiuuo aiivi winplaint,
as now provided by the Code of Procedure,
institute action in the Court of Common
Pleas to perpetuate testimony as to the
existence and true- contents of the same, in
which complaint the defects, if any, complained
of in the record shall be substantially
set forth, and to said action all parties interested,
or known or supposed to claim an interest
in the property to which such testimony
may relate shall be made parties defendants,
and served by summons as now provided by
law in civil actions.
Sec. 3. That the Court or Judge at chambers
having jurisdiction of the subject matter
may hear, determine and grant all orders as
will best subserve the purposes of the complaint
and the preservation of the testimony
sought without delay.
Sec. 4. Thie evidence so taken shall be preserved,
and the parties may l,ave the same recorded
in the office to which me same may relate.
Sec. o. The evidence so taken, perpetuated
and recorded shall be received in all Courts,
subject to the same rules as to the competency
and credulity as any other evidence, except as
hereinbefore provided.
Sec. 0. Nothing herein contained ghall prevent
any one from establishing, on the trial of
any cause, any lost paper, according to the
rules of evidence now existing.
Sec. 7. That the cost of such proceedings
as shall be had under the provisions of this
Act shall be in the discretion of the presiding
Judge.
Approved the 9th day of February, A. D.
1882.
A REPUBLICAN CONFERENCE.
A conference composed of representative
members of the Republican party from nearly
every county in the State was held in Parker's
hall, Columbia, last Thursday. The following
is the representation that was present:
Aiken, E. M. Brayton, G. H. Holland, B. P.
Chatfield ; Barnwell, S. H. Blocker; Beaufort,
T. E. Miller; Charleston. J. J. Wright, William
Crum, Wm. N. Taft, W. H. Thompson,
E. G. Hoffman, J. F. Ensor, Aaron Logan,
R. M. Wallace 5 Chester, C. C. Macoy, Allison
Walker; Chesterfield, II. L. Shrewsbury; Clarendon,
Syfax Milton; Colleton, W. E. Myers,
Wm. Thomas, E. J. Johnson ; Darlington, J.
S. Smith, John Islar; Fairfield, J. Byrd, J. P.
Laken, B. Johnson; Georgetown, W. J. Moultrie,
Geo. Herriott; Greenville, D. R. Speers,
C. C. Scott: Hamnton. E. A. Brabham : Horrv.
G. Singleton; Kershaw, J. H. Johnson. E.
H. Dibble, C. C. I.?evy; Lancaster, T. A. Clinton;
Lexington, Simeon Corley; Marion, W.
A. Hayne, W. H. Collier; Newberry, H. Kennedy,
R. W. Bo< ne, B. B. Boozer; Oconee,
E. F. Blodgett; Orangeburg, E. A. Webster;
Kichland, S. W. Melton, E. C. Carr, A. W.
Curtis, E. M. Stober, C. J. Stolbrand, C. Barnum.
E. W. Pinckney, H. Logan, A. Lee,
Lewis Prior, W. M. Fine, Sumter, Samuel
Lee; Union J. S. Mobley; Williamsburg, Wm.
Scott, C. Whitehead; York, J. L. Watson,
A. S. Wallace.
The counties of Abbeville, Anderson, Edgefield,
Laurens, Marlboro, Pickens and Spartanburg
were not represented.
The conference met at 12 o'clock, and in
the absence of E. W. M. Mackey, T. E. Miller,
colored, State Senator from Beaufort, occupied
tho chair. The conference was held
with closed doors, and every precaution was
taken to prevent any one from entering the
hall who could not produce credentials to the
effect that he was a member of the Republican
party in good standing.
In opening the proceedings Miller made a
speech setting forth the motives which had induced
the State Executive Committee to call
the conference together, and impressed upon
the members the great importance of calm and.
unimpassioned consideration of the subjects
which would come up for action. He also expressed
the hope that a spirit of harmony and
true purpose of serving the party would characterize
all the proceedings.
Miller was then elected permanent chairman,
and Major Harry Noah acted as secretary.
After the enrollment of delegates the conference
undertook the discussion of various
matters which concern the welfare of the party,
and dwelled at length on the evils of Democratic
legislation and the disadvantages under which
the party would be placed by the enforcement
of the Registration and Election laws recently
passed by the General Assembly. Innumerable
resolutions were introduced, and each
elicited a long and earnest discussion. These
resolutions breathed the same spirit of hostility
to the Democracy, and cited at length the
oft repeated complaints of Republican stump
orators. A committee was finally appointed to
incorporate these resolutions in a general indictment
against the dominant party, and after
laboring in great agony until 3 o'clock the
conference took a recess until 5.
Upon reassembling the committee presented
a paper detailing at length the grievances and
wrongs under which the Republicans of the
State are supposed to suffer, declaring that
the whole purpose and intention of the legislation
by the Democrats had been to preserve
the supremacy of that party without any
just consideration of the rights and privileges
of the Republican voters of the State, setting
forth the relative numerical strength of the
two parties, that the Republicans were largely
in the majority in the State, that the Registration
laws would virtually disfranchise twothirds
of the Republican voters, causing great
hardship to the masses generally, and calling
upon Congress for protection and relief.
The resolutions excited a long and heated
discussion. Judge Melton, Shrewsbury and
Chatfield spoke in opposition to the resolutions,
Judge Melvon speaking for nearly an
hour and eliciting much applause by his remarks.
It was finally agreed to leave the
whole matter in the hands of the Federal
election officers, and to ask the Government to
make suitable provisions to obtain legal registration
under the Federal Election law of all
the voters in the State. The State executive
committee was instructed to draw a memorial
to Congress setting forth the condition of
things and asking for the necessary relief.
The conference was in session until 11
o'clock at night and just before adjournment
removed the seal of secrecy so as to allow a
statement of the action had, which was made
to the correspondent of the News and Courier
by Judge Melton as follows: "The only action
taken was to pass a resolution instructing the
Republican executive committee to take such
action, as might be best advised, to the Republican
supervisors appointed under the law of
the United States to supervise the registration
of the voters prescribed by the State law."
In his letter on the following day, commenting
upon the conference, the same correspondent
says :
"There was little in the final action of the
conference to encourage the Republican party
to hope for a victory at'the next election ; although
it is believed that a foundation has
been laid for future operations to defeat which
all the wisdom and ingenuity and the closest
unity of the Democratic party will be required.
It is evident that the Republicans have determined
to adopt the policy so strongly urged by
Elliott in the Republican Convention two N
years ago, and that while they do not propose
to make any straightout fight for the State offices,
they intend to attack the Democracy
along the whole line, and by making breaches
at every weak and unprotected point finally
secure the overthrow of the dominant party.
From the present outlook there will be no
regular Republican nominations for the State
offices at the next election, but any strong Independent,
Greenback or People's ticket which
may be put into the field in opposition to the
regular Democratic nominees will be solidly
supported by the Republican voters of the
State. According to the logic of the Republicans
the success of any ticket which is not endorsed
by the Democratic State Convention
will be a quasi-Republican victory, and the
choice of such a ticket at the next election
would open the way for a more Radical tri%