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?wapis and
? It is estimated that the overflows in the
lower Mississippi valley will decrease the cotton
acreage of that section 20 per cent. On
all the submerged lands planting will be delayed
six weeks.
? A prominent citizen of Salt Lake asserts
that Brigham Young is still alive, and that
his pretended death was a trick to imi>ose upon
the" faithful, it being the intention to raise
Brigham when the anticipated crisis arrives
among the brethren.
? A banquet in a steam boiler was recently
given by a German manufacturer in the Duchy
of Baden, to celebrate the completion of one
of the largest steam boilers in the world. Inside
the boiler a table was arranged for thirty
guests, while racks for the cookery and wines
were placed along the sides.
? The record in the Flipper court-martial
with Judge Advocate-General Swaim's report,
has been submitted to the Secretary of War.
(Jeneral Swaim is understood to recommend a
mitigation of the sentence of dismissal. The
nnae now pops to the President, and the eener
al impression is that the sentence will be mitigated
to some lighter punishment.
? The widow of Daniel Webster until her
death a few days ago, received the interest on
a fund of $60,000, created as an annuity by
public spirited citizens of Boston after the
death of her husband in 1852. The principal
is now to be paid back to as many of the original
donors as are living, and the heirs of
those who are dead.
. ? It is understood that the sub-committee of
the House committee on ways and means have
virtually agreed upon a bill reducing the internal
revenue tax on whisky and tobacco
and removing the tax entirely on a number of
articles embraced in schedule "A." The total
amount of reduction in internal revenue
to be effected by the bill is estimated at about
870,000,000.
? According to the statistics furnished by
the Census Bureau, the pine forests of the
lake region are fast disappearing, and the reserve
in Maine, Pennsylvania and the Southern
States is being drawn upon. Speculators are
taking advantage of the opportunity and investing
heavily in timber tracts. Cultivation
of trees, if properly encouraged, will supply
the coming deficiency in the lumber supply,
but not in time to prevent the scarcity and
certain advance in prices.
? An official report in detail of pork packing
in Cincinnati far the past Winter and Summer,
shows a decrease in the number of hogs packed
during the past winter, as compared with
the previous year, of 137,557, while the decrease
in the aggregate gross weight was 38,322,648
lbs. The decrease in the aggregate
yield of lard was 6,415,575 lbs. Of other products
the statement shows a decrease of barrels
of pork of 11,918; of cut meats, green
weight, 17,192,089 lbs.
? The business failures throughout the country
for the seven days ending last Friday are
reported by Dun's Mercantile Agency at 143
against 128 the week previous. The Eastern
States had 20, Western 41, Middle 21, Southern
44, Pacific 10, and New York City 7. The
most significant failure in New York City is
that of Wm. Rumee & Co., an old and respectable
house in the leather trade. The stoppage
of V. E. J. Magnin, Guedin & Co., importers
of watches, has long been expected.
? Hereafter United States notes, silver certificates
and fractional notes, equaling or exceeding
three-fifths of their original proportions,
are redeemable at their, full face
value. Fragments of United States notes,
, silver certificates and fractional notes, each
* constituting clearly one-half, but less than
three-fifths, are redeemable atone-half the full
face value. Fragments of less than a half are
redeemable only when accompanied by an affidavit
stating that the missing portion has
been totally destroyed.
? A story comes from New York that by
reason of the recent flurry in securities of
various kinds in which Gen. Grant had heavy
investments, he has lost to a large extent,
and that his heavy losses and the uncertainty
11 * 1 1 - 1 - ? -L - J ?J l~T
oi rne iuiure, iea xiim i?> ueeums juuugi?<iuun
property to Mrs. Grant, a week or more ago.
"Whether this is a pitable story started for the
purpose of raising another charity fund of
some kind for the great national beggar is not
definitely known ; but certain it is, nothing
that Gen. Grant has invested in lately has been
very successful, and his name has ceased to be
of much importance to big enterprises.
? Of the ?111,400,000 invested in Virginia
railroads, only 813,149,000 invested in five
roads, yield any dividend. Only tjro out of
fourteen railroads in North Carolina pay dividends.
Those which pay represent 88,205,000;
those which do not, 815,542,000. In Missouri,
8215,0555,160 have been invested in
twenty-nine railroads, exclusive of the St.
Louis bridge, and a dividend is only paid on
one of them, costing $34,412,000. Out of
8258,300,000 invested in thirty railroads in
California, only one road, the Central Pacific
pays. This, with its Los Augeles branch,
represents 8148,078,000, leaving $110,282,000
yielding nothing to the shareholders.
? The sentence of Sergeant Mason who fired
at Guiteau, has been approved by Gen. Hancock.
The sentence is to be dishonorably discharged,
with loss of all pay and allowances,
and to be confined in the peuitentiary at hard
labor, for eight years. A pet ition to President
. Arthur for the pardon of Mason is circulating
in Ohio. It has already received the
signatures of a large number of prominent
business men. The grounds presented for the
exercise of Executive clemency are the excitement
under which the shooting was done and
the claim that punishment enough has been
suffered to meet the demands of military discipline.
? The Star Route rcgues were required to
give bail on last Friday. Ex-Assistant Postmaster
General Brady"gave bonds in the sum
of $20,000 on the indictments pending against
him for complicity in the Star Route steal.
Ex-Senator Dorsey gave bonds in $10,000 in
the same cases. His brother John W. Dorsey,
was not present, but his counsel stated that
he was on his way here from New Mexico to
answer, when bail in similar amount \Vill be
rennired. Dorsev's clerk. Berdell. did not
appear. He will be called upon to give ?5,000
bail when produced in court. John R. Miner
was made to furnish security in $5,000 at present,
but certified checks for that amount were
accepted until real estate security can t>e furnished.
Samuel Abell gave bail in $5,000.
? According to the tables of the last census,
the product of gold in North Carolina during
the census year, was $118,753; of Georgia,
$81,029; of South Carolina, $12,040; of New
Hampshire, $10,999; of Virginia, ?9,321; of
Tennessee, 1,998; and of Alabama, $1,301.
The product of the southern gold belt was of
course small in comparison with that of the
Rocky mountains or Pacific States ; but it is
I>ossible that the returns from our scattered
mines aud mills are neither full nor accurate.
The present production is certainly largely in
excess of the figures of the census bureau.
The leading silver State is Colorado, which
gave us 10 millions against Nevada's 12 millions,
Utah comes next, and Arizona, Montana
and California. The product of Georgia was
$322, of North Carolina $140, and of South
Carolina $50.
? A Washington letter to the New York
Sun claims that Blaine hopes to lead a revolt
against Arthur in Congress, and adds: uMr.
Blaine's conviction that he is destined to reach
the Presidency next time is genuine. His
confidence is entire. He has convinced himself
that his plans are sufficient. All he asks
of his friends is to be prepared to act. He
will show them the grounds of his confidence
in due time. All he asks of them for the present
is to believe. His buoyancy is great. He
hardly consults ordinary prudence, and is impatient
for active work in the field. His contempt
for opposition he can scarcely conceal.
He counts confidently on a general break-up
of parties and on his ability to marshal the
fragments under his banner. It is the great
work of his life. His whole energies are de
voieu 10 it. ins ciuei ouject <it picacm, ia iu
sow discord."
? The Indianapolis Sentinel publishes statistics
to show that corn and not cotton is king.
In 1870 there were produced in the country
1.547,901,700 bushels of corn, valued at $580,480,217
; 448,570,030 bushels of wheat, valued
8407,030,142; and 2,307,540,000 pounds of cotton,
valued at $232,240,087. The Sentinel says
any other year in the decade would show the
same result?corn would still head the list.
The increased production of corn from 1870
to 1880 indicates its great value. The production
for 1870 was 700,044,519 bushels, while in
1880 it amounted to 1,754,861,535 bushels, a
gain in ten years of 993,017,016 bushels?more
than 100 per cent, of the product of 1881.
There was exported 92,648,137 bushels, valued
at ?51,972,809, while the exports of wheat
amounted lo ?107,698,485, and the exports of
cotton to $247,094,740. During the year 1881
about 250,000,000 bushels of corn were consumed
in the manufacture of whisky, upon
which the Government collected over sixtyseven
million dollars revenue, and since 1803,
corn in the way of spirits, lias given the government
revenue to the amount of more than
eight hundred million dollars.
She fforfeviUe $tu)mw.
YORK VILLE. S. C.:
THURSDAY MORNING, MAR. 16, 1882.
AH SIN TS. SAMBO.
The discussion in the United States Senat<
of the Chinese Treaty bill has had the effect
of bringing to the surface much of the real
feeling of the Republican leaders towards the
negro, which, heretofore kept concealed, could
not be withheld in making their arguments
against the admission of Chinese immigrants
to our shores?the opposition of these hypocritical
humanitarians being intensified by the
fact that the Chinee seeks a home among them
allee samee as the negro who comfortably lives
in the South. And it is there the two-edged
sword cuts. It is to be regretted that the
colored people cannot be correctly informed
of the true feeling of the Northern Republicans
towards them, and made to understand
that they are respected by that party only as
they cast ther votes in Southern States to perpetuate
in "Washington the party of ring rule
and plunder. In the course of his sj>eech on
Monday, in favor of excluding the Chinese
from America, Mr. Jones, Republican Senator
from Nevada, enlarging upon the consideration
that the intelligent and creative genius
of the country in overcoming obstacles, not
its material resources, consuiures us weaiui,
said that the low wages of the Cliinese, while
benefitting individual employees, would ultimately
impoverish the country by removing
the stimulant to create labor saving machinery
and like inventions. Mr. Jones spoke of what
he called the dearth of intellectual activity in
the South, in every department but one, that
of politics. This was because of the presence
of a servile race there. The absence of Southem
names in the Patent Office is an illustration.
"We would not welcome the Africans
here. Their presence was not a blessing to
us, but an impediment in our way. The relations
of white and colored races of the South
were now nearer adjustment than they were
years ago. He would prophesy that the African
race would never be permitted to dominate
any State of the South. The experiment
to that end had been a dismal failure, and a
failure, not because we have not tried to make
it succeed, but 13cause the laws away above
human laws haw placed one race superior to
and far above the other. The votes of the
ighorant class might preponderate, but intellect,
not numbers, is the superior force in this
world. We clothed the African in Union
blue, and the belief that he was one day to be
free was a candle light in his soul, but it is
one thing to aspire to be free and another
thing to have the intelligence and sterling
qualities of character that can maintain a
free Government. Mr. Jones here expressed
his belief that if left alone to maintain thcGovernment,
the negro would gradually retrogade
and go back to the methods of his
ancestors. "This," he added, "may be heresy,
but I believe it to be the truth. If, when
the first ship load of African slaves came to
this country, the belief hud spread that tney
would be the cause of political agitation, civil
war, and the future had been foreseen, would
they have been allowed to laud V IIow much
of this country would now be worth preserving
if the North had been covered by Africans as
is South Carolina to-day ? In view of their
non-assimilate characteristics, the wisest policy
would have been to exclude them at the outset.
So we say of the Chinese to-day," he exclaimed,
"and for a greater reason, because
their skill makes them more formidable competitors
than the negroes. Subtle and adept
in manipulation, the Chinaman can be put into
almost any kind of factory. His race is as
obnoxious to us and as impossible for us to assimilate
as the negro race. His race has out
lived all others, because it ishomogenious and
for that reason alone. It has imposed its religious
peculiarities upon its conquerers and
still lived. If immigration is not checked
now, when it is within manageable limits, it
will be too late to check it. What do we find
in the condition of Africans to induce us to
admit another race in our midst V It is because
the Pacific coast favors our civilization,
not that of another race, that they discourage
the coming of these people. They believe in
the homogenity of our race, and that upon this
depends the progress of our institutions and
everything on which are built our hopes."
In the same debate, Senator Teller, Republican,
of Colorado, said:
No man in this country ever discussed the
question of the rights of the human race with
as much intelligence as Abraham Lincoln did,
and yet he declared over and over again in
that "memorable debate between Stephen A.
Douglas and himself in 1858, which attracted
the attention of the whole world, that the negro
was an inferior race to the white man.
He repeated it again and again, and notably
at Columbus in 1859, that the negro was and
must ever remain the inferior of the white
race. Now, because he thus asserted, did he
deny to the negro any rights that a man ought
to exercise ? He said : "Because he is my inferior
in intellectual and mental development,
and because he has a color to his face not as
good as mine, it is no reason why I should deny
to him any of the rights that were given
by the Almighty." It was, however, a fact
that the man was lower in the scale of hnman
rWpinmiipnt- and hp nneht not to be denrived
V.W O .
of anything that would enable him to rise.
That was Abraham Lincoln's position upon
this question.
Thus it seems that even Mr. Lincoln did not
have a very exalted opinion of the colored
race ; and while the Republican Senators give
utterance to sound doctrine when speaking on
measures involving their own welfare, unfortunately
when a similar question is transferred
to the South, and Republican votes are to be
secured, they lose sight of their theories altogether.
GEN. GARFIELD'S ILLNESS.
A Washington letter says the minority of
the committee on expenses incident to Gen.
Garfield's illness will oppose the extravagant
allowance to the physicians made by the majority.
They will not recommend any specific
amount, but will oppose anything like $25,000
for Dr. Bliss, and i thers in proportion. It appears
that the co oiuittee has had a stormy
time over the consiv eration. At the last meeting
Blackburn denounced the doctors and declared
that it would be a burlesque and an insult
to the intelligence of the country to pay a !
man $25,000 for treating a pus cavity for two |
irinnt-lia uu <? criiriclmt. wniiml 1111 <1 llftVPr diseov- I
ering his mistake until the dissecting knife revealed
it after the victim was dead. The
friends of the high allowances, it is said, have
been trying to arrange for the passage of their j
bill through the House the same day with a |
rush and without reference, trusting to senti- j
ment to aid the accomplishment of this end. j
The minority, however, will insist that the
bill take its place on the calendar and submit i
to the light of examination and discussion. I
It is not believed that it will be reached till
next session, and many are in favor of that
course, thinking that then time will have cooled
the passions of all concerned and that it ,
will be possible to have it impartially considered.
Said one of the committee : "If the
people of this country could see the bills
brought in for allowance general disgust would
l>e the result. I would as soon think of asking
Congress to pay me for nursing my wife
through an illness as to put in such bills as
some of these if I were in the place of certain
persons I could name."
FARMING IN THE STATE.
? A Ridge Spring correspondent of the
News and Courier says there is an unusual
area in Edgefield county planted in wheat and
oats, and the prospect for abundant yield is
orx.-wl Vavmoid <1 l-p nrpl 1 prill 1v milkilKT A fair
ij?vu. * o~- ./ o -
start in preparing for corn and cotton. Commercial
fertilizers are freely taken, though not
so abundantly as last year. There seems to be
no appreciative diminution of supply of labor,
notwithstanding the draft made upon our laboring
classes of population by the exodus of
last winter. Certainly that draft will not seriously
affect the production of our county,
even in the present year. Our people have removed
many lane fences and have fenced their
pastures. Many valuable portions of abandoned
fields are being prepared for a crop, and
with favorable seiisons the yield this year may
be unusually large.
? The Anderson Intelligencer of the Oth says:
"There will probably be a larger area of land
in cultivation in this county this year than ever
before. While the crop of small grain, particularly
of oats, is largely in excess of former
years, the acreage in cotton, from present indications,
will be almost as large as last year,
and in corn somewhat larger." The guano
dealers of Anderson are cutting down the
prices of fertilizers?competition?and the
farmers who have not yet purchased are rejoicing.
? The Chester Reporter says : Farmers from
various sections of the county report the condition
of the small grain crop as most promising.
Not much said about "that fly" now.
Some fear that the forward crop may be damaged
by the April frosts.
? Says the Lancaster Ledger : A few days of
beautiful weather put the farmers to ploughing
last week. Great quantities of old field
pines have been cleared from the ground, and
our farmers, we hope, may be impressed with
the necessity of planting all their low land in
corn.
?It is a remarkable fact, says the Williamsburg
Herald, that over #8,000 changed hands
last week in Kingstree for the purchase of
mules and horses?the most of it being ready
cash and not advanced by factors.
? In Spartanburg county there have been
registered this year 1,000 agricultural liens,
representing in round numbers #75,000.
STATE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN.
The Columbia correspondent of the Augusta
Chronicle and Constitutionalist brings his
political horoscope on the field in this State
with the following results :
Some of our State paj>ers said that the political
campaign opened when the Legislature
adjourned, but it is not improbable that a little,
just a little, electioneering was done previous
to that time, and soon the pot will be
boiling and bubbling.
The most prominent gentlemen so far mentioned
for Gubernatorial honors, with the exception
of Governor Hagood, are ComptroyerGeneral
Bratton and Lieutenant-Governor
Kennedy. Both will make good races, as
they have many warm personal friends and
old war comredes, who will "spread" themselves
for their respective candidates. It is
[ said that General Bratton has never sought
j ofiice, but lias worthily won honors that have
been conferred upon him unasked, and would
make a safe Executive. Gen. Kennedy is a
genial friend, a fine orator, a capital stump
speaker, and possesses a personal magnetism
that would draw friends to him and win advocates
for his cause. Perhaps no man in the
State would make a more i>opular or efficient
Executive.
There is a strong disposition in some portions
of the State to renominate Governor
Hagood. It has been generally understood
that if Governor Hagood consulted his personal
wishes that he would retire from political
life at the end of his term, but he could not
refuse the nomination if lie believed that his
people desired him re-elected. lie has made
an admirable Executive, and is much stronger
to day, with the people, than when he was
nominated, in 1880, although he was unanimously
nominated at that time.
The second place on the ticket?Lieutenant
Governor?will doubtless be filled by Hon. J.
C. Sheppard who isayoung man of commanding
abilities, and has rendered his State good service.
.
For Congress at Large the following are
understood to be in the race: Major T. G.
Baker, of Charleston; Col. J. N. Lipscomb,
of Newberry; E. B. Murray, cf Anderson ; J.
L. Orr, of Greenville; Wm. Elliot, of Beaufort
; George Johnstone, of Newberry ; James
Callison, of Edgefield; A. T. Smythe, of
Charleston ; Harry Hammond, of Aiken ; W.
II. Perry, of Greenville; Col. Blue, of Marion;
J. J. Hemphill, of Chester. A few others are
waiting to get the consent of their "friends"
before they allow their names to be used. It it
needless to say this consent will be obtained
if their friends happen to be in the nominating
conventions.
#
THE INUNDATED SECTION.
A dispatch of last Friday from Bayou Sayra,
La., says that on that day there was a fearful
mass of water escaping from the river at
that point. The gap was about 1,000 feet
wide.
A New Orleans dispatch of the same day
says: The New Orleans, Chicago and St.
Louis Railroad is again submerged and is impassable
in the neighborhood of Water Valley,
Miss. The overflow has assumed alarming
proportions, inundating all that section of the
country. The trains are linable to proceed
further north than Coffeeville station, this
side of Water Valley. Capt. Richard Sinott,
arrived from Red River, reports 250 families
below Alexandria living on rafts and in a deplorable
condition. He thinks the State
should send them rations at once, or that some
private provision should be made to relieve
their great misery. The levees along the New
Orleans city front are inspected daily, well
guarded, weak points strengthened and every
precaution taken to prevent a crevasse. The
same precautions are taken all along the line
from Baton Rouge to the Gulf.
On Saturday, in reply to a request from
Gov. McEnery, the Secretary of War ordered
100,000 rations to be delivered to the Commissioner
at New Orleans for sufferers by the
floods.
The situation 011 Sunday is given in the following
dispatches :
A special from Helena, Ark., says : The
river has fallen an inch, but the overflow in
the city has risen an inch. Careful watch is
being kept 011 the levee, and every effort is being
put forth to make assurance doubly sure.
The relief committee have their hands full and
are doing good work. Rations for 900 persons
were issued yesterday. These do not include
applicants who are supplied by the marshal as
special commissioner. Many colored persons
are coming from the lower districts, and, from
the outlook now, labor will be scarce 011 plantations
when the time for making crops conies.
Intelligence from Clarendon, fifty miles from
here, gives a gloomy picture of the situation
there. Little or 110 business is being done 1
there and the water in some places is six feet (
deep in the streets. The board of health announced
yesterday that starving cattle had
been killed and sold in the market, and passed 1
resolutions calling 011 the city authorities to '
prohibit such sales as being dangerous to the
health of the city. j
At New Orleans the river showed the high- ,
est record of the season, being at 0 P. M., only
six inches below the high water mark of
1874.
Capt. J. M. Lee, the army officer appointed
by the secretary of war to ascertain the condi- <
tion of affairs on the Mississippi, says : From
a point twenty miles below Memphis, where
the first break on the levee occurred, the entire
country is one vast sea of water. The people
all through this submerged region are utterly
destitute, and in a starving condition.
Their stock has been drowned and they are
living in gin-houses, stable-lofts and the upper
stories of cabins. Hundreds are subsisting on
parched com. Many have been temporarily
relieved by the distribution of Government rations,
but others could not be reached and
their suffering is very great. The levee along
the river front is broken at forty different
places between Memphis and Arkansas City.
At some points the river is fifty miles wide.
All published reiwrts have fallen far short of
giviug an idea of the damage that has been
done or the destitution prevailing. His first
estimate to the secretary of war that $360,000
would be required to feed 18,000 needy in the
State of Mississippi will, he says, fall short, as
the destitute probably will be double the number
first estimated.
Careful estimates place the number of people
rendered destitute by the inundation, at not
ICDO U1JCIU TU,VVV.
It is thought the damage and suffering
caused by the overflow will be followed by
some recompense. The Vicksburg Herald
says:
"The situation of the people of the valley
is bad enough without having it exaggerated.
The great sensations that have been printed
and pictured have done great harm. Where
crevasses have occurred, the land or the greater
portion of it is, for the time being, lost.
There are very many persons of the Valley uninjured
as yet. We have no doubt that fair
crops will be raised almost in all portions of
the Valley. While the people in many places
are inconvenienced and losing some of their
livestock, they are.not fit such a dreadful
plight as has been described, as there are two
months before cotton time is past and the
water is almost sure to subside in time to
raise a crop."
The Marksville, La., lleview also takes the
same consideration of the subject. It says :
"But what of these overflows that carry so
much dread with them ? Do they not enrich
the land, and are not heavier crops made ui>on
them? We incline to the opinion that in
point of fact the inundations are beneficial."
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? In a population of about 1,000, Darlington
has fifteen bar-rooms, and no temperance organization.
? The grand jury of Marlboro have presented
two persons for retailing liquor in that
county.
? On Monday last, as we learn from the
Newberry Herald, work was commenced on
the Greenwood and Laurens Railroad, at the
Laurens end.
? The representative of the Federal government,
appointed to aid District Attorney
Melton in the political prosecutions in this
State, is now investigating alleged violations
of the election laws in Sumter county. Several
arrests have been made.
? The case of the County Commissioners vs.
the Cheraw and Chester railroad has been
decided by the Supreme Court. It is decided
that preferred stock is entitled to vote. The
decision is, therefore, in favor of the County
Commissioners, and sustains the decision of
the Court below.
? Burnings of barns, fences and dwellings
still continue in Edgefield, and have become
so frequent that the people are organizing
vigilance committees. It is not so stated
directly, but seems to be intimated that the
intense feeling caused by the stock law has
something to do with the matter.
? The grand jury of Union county, in their
presentment, say: "We regret out inability
to make a congratulatory report of the moral
condition of the county, and appeal to our
better citizens to assist us as a body to suppress
the nefarious and demoralizing influences
of the vices of gaming, lewdness and miscegeneration."
? Mr. W. McB. Sloan lias been appointed
clerk by Adujutant-General Manigault to assist
in making up the rolls of Confederate
troops from this State. A great deal of valuable
information has been received by the
adjutant-general from different parts of the
State, and the work of enrolment is making
good progress.
? Says the last Spartanburg Spartan: The
exodus exhorter is abroad in the land. He
was 011 the streets on salesday. Exaggerated
reports have gone out as to the number of
colored people who have left this county. You
can hear all reports, from 100 to 400. About
two weeks ago about fifty left, and last week
about twenty-five. All told, seventy-five have
left the depot at this place. This information
is from the agent at the Air-Line depot.
? Carter Ross alias Tobe Lee, who was tried
and convicted of grand larceny?stealing a
horse?at the April term of the Court of Sessions
for Chester county in 1S77, and was
sentenced by Judge Mackey to seven years in
the Penitentiary, was pardoned by Governor
Ilagood last Monday. The pardon was granted
upon the petition of numerous prominent
citizens, the statement of the solicitor and the
petition of the directors of the Penitentiary,
setting forth their belief that the prosecution
was a malicious one, and that Carter Ross was
entirely innocent of the offence charged.
? The Carolina Spartan relates the follow
iug amusing incident: "One of our citizens
aims to beat the world in raising Irish potatoes
this year. He wished to plant a peck
and gave a colored brother full instructions
as to how he should scatter cotton seed in the
drill with a sprinkling of acid phosphate.
When the citizen returned home in the evening
he was much surprised to find that his
gardner had put a sack of acid, 200 pounds, on
one peck of potatoes. Heavy manuring, that.
It looks as if some guano dealer was at the
bottom of it."
? The Citadel Academy at Charleston, which
since the war, has served as barracks for Federal
troops, was formally re-occupied by the
State authorities on "Wednesday of last week.
Tn honor of the event, a salute of twenty-one
guns was fired by the LaFayette Artillery on
Citadel Green, and a banquet was given in the
evening at which many distinguished citizens
were present. The limited appropriation allowed
by the State will not provide a full faculty,
and only the lower branches, will be
taught at the reopening of the academy, on
October first.
? The Greenville News says that within the
week ending last Friday about 140 colored people
have left that section for points West and
South. It has been developed upon investigation
that labor bureaus are in active operation
in Texas and Louisiana, which have been organized
for the purpose of meeting the large
demand made by sugar and cotton planters in
those States for laborers. These bureaus appoint
agents who are regularly paid for the purpose
of securing hands, and who travel from
point to point in the South gathering parties
of colored people whose expenses they pay to
the locations to which they desire them to go.
? Says the Columbia Regisier' of Sunday :
Colonel Butler is in receipt of letters from
Professor Baird, of the United States Fish
Commission, of date 8th March, which an
nounce that the applications for German carp
are beyond the ability of the department to
fill, and that 110 further distribution of them
can be made this season. The number of these
fish issued to South Carolina has been 4,600, all
of which have been distributed over the State,
excepting the small number retained for
breeding poroses in the ponds here. These
are all in fine condition and will spawn in
June, and from this hatching the fish will be
ready for distribution in October, when Colonel
Butler hopes to be able to fully supply the
demand for them.
? The Abbeville Banner makes the following
creditable statement about a colored farmer
in that county: William Mattison, a colored
farmer living near Ilonea Path was at
v.
Abbeville Court House last Monday to buy
the Maddox Mill property. lie ran it to $5,500,
and tlie best of it is, lie had the money and
property to make good his bid. This man ]
was emancipated without a dollar in his pocket,
and by industry, good judgment and economy \
is now well off in this world's goods. His i
money he made at farming, while hundreds of ]
farmers in this county have' in that time
squandered their farms and gone in debt. (
Mattison never buys on a credit, but general- 1
ly has money enough to help his less thrifty ?j
neighbors. Let no man say that farming will
not pay in this country. When we hear a 1
man say he can't make a living on a good farm, ]
we think there is fault somewhere. ]
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? The telegraph office at Concord has been
placed in charge of Miss Mary Ormand, of i
Fort Mill, S. C. i
? A citizen of Haywood county recently sold y
one hundred walnut trees to a northern company
for $4,000. i
? Gov. Jarvis says the Legislature of that f
State will be convened April 20th, for the pnr- ]
pose of redistricting.
? The survey of the narrow gauge railroad
from V.Tatauga Gap to Cranberry Forge, on j
the Imboden line, has been completed and the f
corps of engineers has been dismissed. t
? Owing to the fact that "the present edi- f
tors and owners of the Lincoln Progress differ
so widely in business and other matters,"
the publication of that paper is suspended for (
the present. ^
? Two brick stores at Goldsboro were de- ^
stroyed by fire early Friday morning. They f
were occupied by "VV. S. P. Royal, A. Kent
and J. M. Dodson. The origin of the fire is unknown.
The buildings are insured for $4,000.
The loss on stock is heavy.
? The first load of new steel rails for the
Smithfield extension of the Midland Railway
has arrived at Goldsboro, and the work of j
putting down the ties and preparation for
placing the rails has been commenced near ^
that city. ^
? The stockholders of the Midland Railroad,
at Alexandria, Va., last, weex, oruerea am to
be given Col. J. Turner Morehead, President
of the North Carolina Division, for the pur- 1
pose of pushing the Road on from Danville to j
Charlotte. j
? A man named "William Brown has been ar- "
rested for attempting burn the Orange Cotton '
Factory, Orange county. He had some dif- )
Acuity with the proprietor and set Are to the ,
lint room, but the Aames were extinguished
before much damage was done. Brown was
lodged in jail.
? A Raleigh dispatch of Sunday says that
on the previous day, at Third Creek, N. C.,
fully one hundred whites and negroes were
engaged in a riot. A negro attacked a white 1
man, and when the latter defended himself, 1
more negroes took part, when more whites <
came to the aid of the man attacked. Troops (
went to the scene and arrested many of the
rioters and placed them in jail.
? At a meeting of the directors of the Caro- '
lina Central Railroad, held at Wilmington on
the 8th, Col. John M. Robinson, President of 1
the Bay Line, Seaboard and Roanoke, Raleigh j
and Gaston and Raleigh and Augusta Air '
Line Companies was elected President to All
the vacancy caused by the death of Capt. D.
Murchison, and Mr. Livingston Munns, of
Boston, was elected director in his stead. 1
? Says the Statesville Landmark: The two
factories at the Catawba river in which Dr.
A. M. Powell, of Catawba, owned an interest, '<
were sold under decree of court on the 6th. '
The Powell &. Shuford factory, about 1,000
spindles, was bought by Mr. J. U. Long, of
Catawba, for ?2,850. Persons who had ex- <
pected to bid on this factory did not arrive in
time and it sold low. The factory of the 1
Catawba Manufacturing company was bought
by Mr. E. C. Graham, of Asheville, for $14,- ^
100. 1
? Miss Sallie M. Moore, living a few miles 1
from Charlotte, started to church about 11
o'clock last Sunday, and was followed by a
negro boy named Ben Withers, aged only (
about 15. A short distance from the house <
the boy struck the woman over the head with ,
a large stick, which felled her to the ground. ]
He subsequently cut her throat and left her |
for dead. Pursuit was made almost immedi- ]
ately, and he was arrested and placed in jail. ,
No cause has been assigned for the deed. The ,
woman may recover.
? A correspondent informs the Greenville
News that a most horrible murder was com- (
mitted near Tryon City, just over the North
Carolina line, and on the Asheville and Spar- ]
tanburg Railroad, last week. It seems that .
Jane Jackson had been receiving considerable 1
attention from the sweetheart of Delia Mills,
and the latter becoming jealous, went, accompanied
by her brother, to the house of her
rival, called her out, and brutally murdered *
her with rocks and sticks. The brother, Dan
Mills, has been arrested, and we understand (
that Sheriff Hampton is in close pursuit of *
the woman. The parties are all negroes.
MERE-MENTION. j
The total visible supply of cotton for the
world tost Saturday was 3,059,470 bales, of .
which 2,330,296 were American, against 3,008,152
and 2,535,078 respectively, last year. Re- '
ceipts of cotton at all interior towns for the !
week were 28,442 ; receipts from plantations,
31,048 ; crop in sight, 4,890,138.- - The Imperial
commission of German scientists who (
will come to America to observe the transit of '
Venus, on the 0th of December next, will establish
posts of observation in Charleston, S.
C., and in Hartford, Conn. There was a
heavy snowfall in Wisconsin Saturday, block- i
ading railroad trains. A medical college J
for women has just been incorporated in Baltimore.
The late Governor Blue Jeans 1
Williams, of Indiana, is to have a granite <
monument twenty-eight feet nine inches high, 1
to cost $2,000. The Illinois State board
of agriculture reports the acreage of wheat {
sown at 2,070,000 acres, being 275,Q00 less than <
last year. The condition is 3 per cent, above
the average. Several of the New England i
print mills have shut down work, in order to <
curtail production. Ben Butler has a claim t
to a large tract of land in the mountains of ?
Virorinia. and attempted to have it surveyed |
last week, but the squatters 011 it ran the sur- c
veyors off by force of arms. The Southern
States had 10,500,000 acres planted in cot- ?
ton last year. The charge is made, aud 1
documentary evidence produced to substantiate
it, that Garfield, as chief of Gen. Itosecran's
staff, acted with great perfidy towards c
his chief, his machinations resulting in the re- t
moval of Rosecrans from his command. A (
majority of the Nihilists recently tried and c
condemned to death, intend to present peti- j;
tions to the Czar for mercy. The Vicks- 3
burg Herald says the condition of the Missis- a
sippi Valley is bad, but not so bad as has been s
described. A negro prisoner set fire to the p
jail of Prince George county, Va., last Friday a
night. The alarm was given by a fellow colore# 0
prisoner, and the fire was was extinguished g
before any harm resulted. The grand jury p
of Bucks county, Pa., have declared "the jail D
unfit for a gentleman to live in." The k
latest advices represent that fresh breaks are t
occurring daily in the Mississippi levees, IS
and the sufferings of the people are on the increase.
The situation about Helena, Arkansas, e
is said to be deplorable. The Associate d
Justiceship of the U. S. Supreme Court, de- 0
clined by Conkling, was next tendered by the e
President to Senator Edmunds, and he, too, t:
publishes a letter, declining. Guiteau h
ceases to attract public attention. Corkhill t
says he will surely hang. u
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LOCAL AFFAIRS, j;
- NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
jowry and Walker?Agricultural Implements 11
and Labor-Saving Machinery. ,
r. C. Kuvkendal?York Drug Store Paragraphs. !
Vithers Adickes? Received this Week.
l\ S. Jefferys?Prices Reduced.
1. F. Adickes?Just Received,
l^tta Brothers?Family Groceries and Plantation
Supplies. i
lolcock, Miller <fe Co.?Acid Phosphate?Steam
Engines,
f. M. Adams?New Goods, Ac.
r. M. Pobson?Dohson in Northern MarketsMillinery.
iV. C. Latimer?Gone North.
Dohson <fc Parish?A Fair Trial.
-ferndon Brothers?Genuine Kainit?$'2,000.
rt.'H. Glenn, S. Y. C.?SherifPs Sale.
I. Lathan?Cemetery Association.
COTTON SHIPMENTS.
The cotton shipments f com this place for the
veek ending Monday last, were 196 bales,
naking a total tor tue season or o,?yo naies.
ISSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBYTERY.
The First Presbytery of the Associate Re'ormed
Presbyterian Church, will meet at
Sharon, 9 miles south-west of Yorkvil'e, on
Monday, the 3rd of April next.
FERTILIZERS.
The demand for fertilizers continues steady,
;lie farmers hauling them away about as fast
is the dealers receive them. The receipts for
he week ending Monday were8otons, making
i total of 1,186 to date.
GONE NORTH.
Mr. John J. Hunter, of the firm of Hunter,
Dates & Co.Mr. T. M. Dobson and Mr. TV.
j. Latimer, dry goods merchants, are now in
he northern markets making spring purchases
'or their respective houses.
STATE vs. THORNBURG.
In this case, appealed from York county by
he defendant, who was convicted at June
;erm of the Circuit Court, Judge Aldrich pre;iding,
of retailing spirituous liquors contra y
to the laws of thisState, the Supreme Court
las rendered a decision, sustaining the verdict
)f the court below. The opinion is by Justice
VfcGowan. In our next issue we will publish
he full text of the opinion.
A NEW ENTERPRISE.
\rpQqrq T,nwrv St Walker have ODened a
ivareroom in the Bratton building, opposite
;he Court House, for the sale of agricultural
raplements and farming machinery of all kinds.
The farmers of York county are progressive,
ind the general introduction by them of laborlaving
machinery, is only a question of time.
The introduction of improved machinery will
:ollow a perception of the advantages claimed
:'or it. Read Messrs. Lowry & Walker's advertisement
and give their line of machinery
ind implements an inspection.
ESCAPED CONVICT CAPTURED.
Amzi Darwin, colored, who, at January
ierm 1876, was sentenced to the penitentiary
irom this county for the term of two years, on
conviction of burglary and larceny, and who
escaped from the penitentiary in the month of
May folio: ing his conviction, was captured at
Iron Station, N. C., on Wednesday of last
sveek, and on Friday passed down the C. & L.
Railroad, in charge of an officer, en route for
Columbia, where he was returned for confinement.
He has been casting his vote for severil
years as a citizen of North Carolina, under
die name of Amzi Dervine.
CHURCH NOTICES.
Baptist?Rev. W. L. Brown, Supply. Services
next Sunday at 3.30 P. M.
Methodist Episcopal?Rev. R. P. Franks,
Pastor. Services at King's Mountain Chapel
it 11 A. M. In the church at Yorkville at
J P. M.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R.
[fathan, Pastor. Services at 101 A. M. Sunlay-school
at 9.
Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor.
Services at 11 A. M., and 7 P. M.
Episcopal?Church of the Good Shepherd?
Rev. R. P. Johnson, Rector. The rector will
se unable to officiate in the Church of Our Saviour
next Sunday.
ROYAL ARCH MASONS.
Mackey Chapter No. 15, Royal Arqh Masons,
>f Yorkville, which has not been working for
several years, was reorganized last Thursday
light, under a dispensation from the Grand
Royal Chapter of South Carolina, by the elec;ion
of the following officers for the ensuing
Masonic year: Dr. J. R. Bratton, M. E. II. P.;
Jos. F. Wallace, E. K.; W. H. McCorkle, E.
S. : J. L. Clark, C. of II.; J. Ed. Jefferys,
P. S.; R. II. Glenn, R. A. C. Grand Master
Third Veil?J. B. Allison; Grand Master Secnul
Veil?Ed. Thomas ; Grand Muster' First
Veil?J. S. Lewis. Treasurer?John R. Walace
; Secretary?.John R. Gardner ; Sentinel?
\. Cody. The installation of the officers will
;ake place in Masonic Hall this evening.
EYESIGHT RESTORED. '
An unusual case of the restoration of eyelight
is reported to us by Dr. II. G. Jackson,
;he subject being one of his patients, Mr. Anlerson
Latham, (58 years of age, and living
seven miles south of town. About thirty
rears ago Mr. Latham lost entirely the sight
>f his right eye, the result of an accident, and
t remaint*d sightless until within the past
lew days, during which he has been subject to
medical treatment for dropsy of the chest. After
the treatment was commenced his diseased
iiye began to assume its hormal condition and
now its power of vision is fully restored,
i t is not claimed that the medical treatment
nas had any special influence over the disjased
organ, though the case presents points
if interest to the medical profession, to say
;he least.
LOCAL DOTS.
? The small grain crop is reported fine in all
sections of the county. And what is?equally
'ratifying, a large area has been sown.
? By an oversight in taking a copy of the
letit jurors drawn for the next term of the
Circuit Court, the name of Mr. S. S. Smith, of
Bethel township, was omitted.
? Monday was a windy, blustery and disagreeable
day. The wind calmed at night, and
>n Tuesday morning there were frost and ice.
? Col. W. II. McCorkle has received his coinnission
as Supervisor of Registration for York
:ounty. Registration of voters will commence
;he 1st of May, of which due notice will be
jiven.
? Mr. Lawson Howell, of Bethany, in this
:ounty, has been appointed a notary public.
? Hon. J. H. Evins, Representative in Con- ,
jress from this district, has our thanks for a (
lumber of public documents. (
THE TOZE*R ENGINE.
Attention is directed to the advertisement
if the Tozer Engine, on the fourth page of 1
his issue, manufactured by Tozer & Dial,
Columbia. The foundry and machine works i
?f this firm is an establishment in which the ]
>tate may take pride, as it is the most exten- i
ive and has the best equipment of appliances i
md machinery of any similar establishment <
outh of Richmond. The establishment em- <
iloys regularly from sixty to seventy hands, <
,nd though engines are usually kept ahead of 1
>rders, yet if an order is received for an en- ?
;ine ranging in size from six to eighteen horse 1
lower that may not be on hand, it can be fur- 1
lislied in from three to six days. They make ]
loilers as well as engines, completing the en- <
ire engine under the practical supervision of <
Ir. Tozer.
As an evidence of the jiopularity of the Tozer 1
ngine in the western part of the State, in An- 1
erson county alone, there are fifty-four in i
peration, and wherever introduced it gives i
at ire satisfaction. Besides portable engines,-] 1
hey also manfacture stationary engines and a 1
trge variety of other machinery adapted to i
he needs of our people. A superior qualifi- ]
ation of their work is that it is first class 1
throughout. Within the past five months the
Tozer engine has taken premiums over a large
number 'of competing engines at the State fair
Columbia, the Atlanta exposition, and at the
exhibition of the South Carolina Agricultural
Society in Charleston.
For the past ten years we have been using a
Tozer engine for driving our presses, and it
gives the same satisfaction now as when first
put in oj>eration
BLACK'S STATION ITEMS.
From our Black's Station correspondent, we
learn that the Cherokee Falls cotton mill is
now in successful operation with nearly 3,000
spindles running on No. 20 warp, for which ,
there is a demand. The first shipment of*
warp from this mill was made last week.
There is some talk of a cotton seed oil mill
at Black's Station.
John II. Allison, who lived in Cleveland
county, N. C., while returning home from
Gaffney city last Saturday with a load of
guano, accidently fell.from liis wagon and
was killed.
A singular phenomenon has recently been
discovered in all the wells at Black's Station.
The water is infested with a small black insect,
i.~?ii?
imiuiy visjuics w tue liaiteu ejrc, uui wmuu
the microscope reveals to have a trumpetshaped
body, with legs like a grass-hopper's.
After a bucket of water has been drawn and
let stand awhile, thousands of these animalcules
rise to the surface, covering it with a
black scum. Our correspondent naively says
it is not known whether or not these larvae exert
a deleterious effect upon the water.
PRISONERS IN JAIL.
The following prisoners are now confined in
the York county jail awaiting trial, for the
offences named, at the next term of the Court
of .Sessions, which convenes on Monday, 27th
instant :
Jack Helms, white?attempted rape and
carrying concealed deadly weapons. Walter
Nelson, colored?stealing corn not severed
from the field. Joseph Murray, coloredgrand
larceny. Newton Douglas, coloredassault
with intent to rape. Thomas Anderson,
colored?burglary. Walter Anderson,
colored, burglary. John Starr, colored, burglary.
Mack Smith, colored?burglary. J. S.
Knight, white?assault and battery with intent
to kill. Solomon King, colored?accessory to
felony. John Woodruff alias Woodson, colored?house
breaking. Anna Briant, coloredarson.
Bob Ward, colored?accessory to! arson
after the act. Jack McKinney and Lem
Gardner, both colored?reoeiving stolen goods.
John Morrow and Phebe Ann White, both
colored?adultery. Besides the above there is
also one murder trial?the case of J. H. Sutton
charged with the murder of N. T. Gibson
at Fort Mill, on the 9th of last November.
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PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
In the Senate on the 7th, Mr. Beck, of Ken
tucuy, or tne nuance committee, reported iavorably
with the amendment to his bill to punish
unlawful certification of checks by officers
of national banks. A resolution was passed,
authorizing the Secretary of War, in his discretion,
to use hospital tents now possessed by
th^ war department, to furnish temporary
shelter to the distressed people driven from
their homes by the Mississippi overflow. Mr.
Dawes, of Massachusetts, spoke against the
Chinese treaty bill.
In the House, Mr. King of Lousiana, offered
a resolution directing the committee on appropriations
to consider what measures of relief
should be extended to the sufferers bV the
present floods of the Mississippi river and its
tributaries, and report by bill or otherwise as
speedily as pbssible. Referred. The bill authorizing
an appropriation by Congress to aid
in celebrating at New Orleans, on the 9th of April,
the two hundredth anniversary of the
mouth of the Mississippi, by La Salle, was
laid on the table. The Senate bill appropriating
#20,000 for a statue of Chief Justice John
Marshall was passed. The agricultural appropriation
bill, appropriating $396,880, was passed.
Mr. Aiken, of South Carolina, after an
effort for an appropriation for the encouragement
of tea culture in this country, branched
off to a general discussion of the question of
tariff, advocating a revision of customs duty,
and especially a reduction of duty upon iron.
Mr. Aiken was followed by several other members
who spoke on the tariff question until the
hour of adjournment.
In the Senate on the 8th, a bill was reported
contributing $25,000 for continuing the improvements
of the Memphis harbor. The bill
for a commission on the alcoholic liquor traffic
came up on the calendar, the question being
on Mr. Bayard's motion to commit to the finance
committee. 'Che motion was rejected
by a party vote, w (th the exception of Mr.
Cameron, of Wisconsin, who voted with the
Democrats. The Chinese treaty bill was discussed
at length, but without action.
In the House a number of committees reported
on bills, after which the bill authorizing
the purchase of the property known as the
Freedman's Savings Bank in Washington, and
appropriating $250,000 therefor, was passed,
after some debate. The anti-polygamy bill
was reached, but pending a decision of the
chair as to which committee it should be referred,
the House adjourned.
In the Senate on the 9th, the bill for a commission
on the subject of alcoholic liquor traffic
was taken up again and further debated.
The pending amendment, directing that not
more than three of five members of the commission
shall be of the same political party was
agreed to. Mr. Bayard, of Delaware, moved
that not more than three of them shall be prohibitionists,
which was agreed to. Pending further
debate on this bill, the morning hour expired,
and the Chinese bill was taken up. The
title of the bill was amended so as to read:
"An act to execute certain treaty stipulations
relating to the Chinese." Thte bill was passed
by a vote of 29 to 15. The text of the bill, as
passed, is printed in another column.
In the House, a bill providing for cancellation
of stamps on tobacco transported by rail
was discussed. The agricultural appropriation
bill was also considered. Amendments to this
bill were adopted appropriating 825,000 for experiments
in the manufacture of sugar from
sorghum, and 810,000 for experiments in the
manufacture of sugar from beets. Other
amendments were adopted and the bill was
passed.
In the Senate on the 10th, Mr. Brown, of
Georgia, presented a memorial from merchants,
bankers and other prominent citizens
of Atlanta, for an adequate appropriation for
the improvement of the harbor of Savannah,
lie subsequently introduced a bill appropriating
$.150,000 for that purpose. A resolution
was passed directing the secretary of war to
use steamers and other vessels belonging to or
now employed by the government on the Mississippi
or its tributaries in the transportation
and distribution of supplies to sufferers in the
overflowed district. The billfora commission
on the alcoholic liquor traffic, which again
came up on the calendar, was discussed upon
the pending amendment offered by Mr. Bayud
(noted above) and the amendment was lost
oy a party vote?ayes, 24 ; nays, 25. The bill
was then reported to the Senatefrom the committee
of the whole, and Mr. Jones, of Florila,
argued against the power of Congress, unler
the constitution, to regulate or interfere
with the liquor traffic. Mr. Sherman replied
"loot tlin Vkill nnt tY^nnAon ar?v intflrffirpn^rt
UUV Vlli UIU nut ^/JLUJ^UOU UI1J ?MW* ?v> V...Wwith
the license or sale in the States, but
nerely instituted an inquiry as to the best
node of dealing with the evils growing out of
:he traffic. He thought it a sufficient answer
;o the objection to say that the information
was neuled to enable Congress to deal with the
District of Columbia and the Territories, aud
;o regulate the revenue. Mr. Maxev corrobo