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jFfraps ami ?xrts. j ? The notorious train robber and outlaw, i Jesse James, was shot and killed in St. Joseph, j Mo., on the 4th instant. He was shot by a j former confederate, who, it is staled, was j promised immunity by the Governor. ? Western dispatches report a series of tornadoes on Friday, at different points, from Kansas to Michigan, attended by some remarkable evidences of the power of the wind. Houses were demolished in many places in Kansas, Iowa, Illinois and Michigan, and lives were lost in all those States. Several small towns were destroyed, and in Kansas the water was sucked from the wells by the wind. ? Says the Philadelphia Times: Senator Sherman will hardly be able to find the suggestion of a duel in Hampton's silent stare, and consequently he will be deprived of the pleasure of declining to light; but he must certainly realize that the weather in South Carolina will not be a subject of cheerful conversation until his connection with the campaign slander is explained away. ? The failures for the seven days ending last Friday, as reported to R. G. Dunn & Co.'s mercantile agency, number 127, as follows: Eastern States, i8; Southern, 39; Middle, 29; Western, 35; Pacific, 8, and New York oitv. 7. This is about the same as last week, so far as numbers are concerned. The failures in New York city were insignificant, no representative houses in any line 01 business having failed. ? A New Orleans dispatch of Saturday says: The river is falling, and is now ^ of an inch below the flood of 1874, and 9 inches below the highest point this season. The water has fallen 15 inches in the Tensas, one foot in Black river, and 15 inches at Yiadalia, though the rown is still under water ffom one to four feet. The waters of Lafourche and the Upper Tensas are falling slowly. Rations have been shipped to all points, tilling applications for 15 days. ? A young man named Walter Iiountree, a student in the University, at Athens, Ga., was shot on the 4th instant, in a street en* counter with some negroes, and died the next day. The affair created great excitement, and at one time fears were entertained of a serious collision between whites and blacks; J but better counsels prevailed and the two negroes who did the shooting were committed to jail, where they will await the proper course of the law. ? Cornelius Vanderbilt, who committed sui-1 cide in New York, on the night of the 2nd instant, was a wild, dissipated fellow, but he had good streaks in him. Years ago^ he borrowed from Horace Greeley large sums of money, which his father refused to pay. He might have escaped payment under the statute of limitations, but when he came in possession of the money left him by his father, he paid the daughters of Mr. Greeley every cent, amounting to 871,000. His act of self-destruction is attributed to mental abberation, IX 1 * ---i*?: nrougw on oy years 01 suueiiiig nvm ci>hcj>uv ; fits. ? Says the Philadelphia Record : Tlie fortitude of the Southern i>eople iri misfortune must command the admiration of the world. Accounts from all sections of the inundated j regions agree that the people, white and black, I seem cheerful, notwithstanding the terrible ordeal through which they are passing. They look forward to better times in the future. One of the most significant features in connection with the wide-spread ruin that has overtaken both planter and laborer is the kindly assistance that plant ere who tan command the means are giving to the colored laborers, and the inducements they are holding out to them to return to the plantations and go to work. ?.The charters of four hunred national banks will expire by the 1st of next March. In connection with this fact the Philadelphia Record reads the following lecture to Democratic Congressmen: "The Democrats in Congress who vote against the extension of the charters of the national banks will be called to rigorous account. Until a substitute for the national tanking system can be devised which shall give equal security to the notehloder and flexibility to the volume of paper currency, the present system must stand. It is the best we have ever had. The party that undertakes to deprive the country of its advantages will have to encounter the solid opposition of every business interest that has an honest stake in the public welfare. ? Coup's circus, which wintered at Augusta, Ga., gave its first performance last Saturday preparatory to taking the road for a western tour. On Saturday morning, as the circus was about to start out for the street parade, Mr Tfcmipl lipf.ts. the lion tamer, prepared to enter the cage containing the two performing lions. lie had just put on his jacket and started to enter the cage when he suddenly fell back on the ground. Some of the men standing about went up to him at once and found he was unconscious. A physician was summoned, but nothing could bt done. Betts died in a few minutes. He came from New York city and had been in the business for a number of years, lie was unmarried. He had been in bad health for some time. The cause of his death was heart disease. ? Newspai>er readers are familiar with the story of Kate Sothern, who killed Narcissa Co wart, her rival in the affections of her husband, in Pickens county, Ga.,_some five years ago. She was pursued and captured in the mountains of North Carolina, taken back to Georgia and tried, convicted and sentenced to be hanged. In response to petitions from every State in the Union the Governor commuted her sentence to ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary, and last week lie granted her a full pardon. Under the penitentiary lease system in Georgia, she has been for some time hired as a domestic in the family of a citizen of Atlanta. It is understood that she and her husband will not returr to Pickens county, but will make their home elsewhere. Thus ends one of the most noted cases ever in the courts of Georgia ; one that created perhaps'more interest and excitement than was ever known in the State. ? The Ohio Legislature has passed an act in reference to the license tax on liquor sellers, which goes into eifect on the first of May, and provides that all dealers in intoxicating liquors not located in a village or city, or within a mile thereof, shall pay a license of $100 ; when in a village of less than 2,000 population or within a mile of it the fee is Slot) ; when in a city of less than 10,000 population or within a mile of it, $200 ; within a city of 10,O00 inhabitants or more, or with'n two miles of it, $250 ; and when within a city of the first class, like Cleveland or Cincinnati, or within two miles thereof, $50O. Wholesale and re- j tail dealers. Dig and little, wine Mid Deer saloons, ;is well as whisky saloons, are comprehended within the terms of the ac;, and taxed alike, without reference to the amount of business done. The law is intended to wipe out the small groggeries. It is thoughi that this act will have no little influence in coining elections, and that the Republican party, which had a majority in the Legislature by which it was passed, will suffer by it. ? An occasional word about Guiteau is still in order. Ilere is the latest, taken from the Washington correspondence of the Philadelphia Times: "I want you to understand, Scoville," said Guiteau, ''that I don't want my sentence commuted to sentence for life. If Arthur can't give me a free, full pardon, I don't want any favors from liim. I don't want any more interference in this matter. When I want a pardon, L shall sand word to the President, and at the the same time present him with a copy of the new edition of my book; that will fix it." He then asked if anything definite had l?een learned regarding the intentions of Gen. Butler or Messrs. Merrick and Cook. When told that it was doubtful if either coidd attend to his case, he said mat it tiki not matter mucu, ana mat ne | would sooner attend to his own affairs. Then j in a generous spirit lie called Mr. Scoville aside, andj placing one hundred and twentyfive dollars in his hand, said : "Here is part of the money that I received from the sale of my old clothes. You have been pretty kind to j me after all, and I guess you need some j money." ? Discussion of the subject of the spring trade j by the newspapers of the great centres of finance and trade indicate that the volume of spring 1 business has been and continues :o be large, : and that merchants, as a rule have good rea- i son to be well satisfied with the season. The " comparatively mild winter caused the season j to oi>en early, and although the floods in the i Mississippi Valley have operated as a check i upon all movements in that section, it is about! the only i>ortion of the country from which I come any discouraging reports. The inunda- j tions are now rapidly subsiding, and there i will be ample time for planters to put in seed ' for a full yield of cotton. Indeed, the Memphis Avalanche recently pointed out that in several years of the heaviest floods the crop was very large, a fact partly due to the fertilizing of the bottom land by the deposits of the overflow, and a similar result is exacted this year. Should it occur, it will be comparatively easy for the people to obtain advances on the crop, and as prices for cotton promise to advance, the harm that the floods have inflicted will be quickly repaired. ? The General Conference of the World of the Church of Latter Lay Saints and polygamous Mormons began at Independence, Mo., on the 6th instant, and will continue for ten days. Over five thousand delegates are present from all over the United States and Canaj i r T? 1. CUl aim several num raiyimiu. jliic iiwmwn and Phrophet, Joseph L. Smith, Jj\, son of Joseph L. Smith, Sr., translator of the Book of Mormon, presided over the meeting. The Conference is expected to be one of unusual interest and importance. A Salt Lake dispatch of the 3rd says that President Taylor and some of the apostles, who had their i>olygamous wives living in one house with them, have scattered them out, fearing arrest under section 3 of the Edmunds bill, which makes cohabitation with more than one woman a misdemeanor. Taylor turned out all his wives, saying if he could not have them all he would not have any of them. This was probably to prevent disaffection among them at partial treatment; but so long as they live in his houses or in houses provided by him, it is not apparent how he has helped himself much. The third section of the bill is just beginning to be understood, and it promises to trouble the polyganiists much more than disfranchisement. ?Thc fjiOtfcviUe tSjnquuxr. YORK VI LEE. S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING. APRIL 13,1882 Uow lo Older the Enquirer.?Write the nami of the subscriber very plainly, give post-office, county and State, in full, and send the amount 01 the subscription by draft or post office nione.i order, or euclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The Enquirkk is delivered free o postago to all subscribers residing in York conn tv, who receive the paper at post-offices withii the countv; and to all other subscribers the post age is paid by the publisher. Our subscribers, n< matter whero they receive the paper, are not liabh for postage, it being prepaid ai the post-office here, without additional charge to the subscriber. Watch the'Figures.?The date on the "address label" shows the ' 'me to which the subscription is paid. If subscrib rs do not wish their papers discontinued, the dn e must be kept in advance. Cash.?It musi, be distinctly understood thai our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance. REDISTKUCTIXG THE STATE. j The absorbing question now before the people, and which lias engaged much newspaper discussion during the last few days, is, I Shall there be an extra session of the Legislature for the purpose of redisricting the State V A meeting of the State Executive Committee has been called to deliberate, on the subject, and after a full and earnest consideration they ! adopted a resolution to the effect that an extra session of the Legislature should be held for the purpose indicated. This resolution, though not communicated to the Governor in a formal manner, and which is entitled to no other consideration than the mere action ol a political advisory board, was not reached nri+i,.-,,if mafnvp flplUwratinn. and we are fullv persuaded that the committee, acting with the lights before them, arrived at a proper conclusion. In our opinion there are many reasons why the State should be redistricted before the next election, and we think the executive committee have acted wisely by promptly meeting and discussing the subject. "We know there are men ready to urge the objection of expense, which an extra session would undoutedly entail; but the few thousand dollars thus spent might constitute but a small burden in comparison with evils that a redistricting of the State would prevent. With the field open for two Congressmen at large there is danger of mobilizing the Republican vote, which otherwise would probably remain disaffected; and whether Republicans were elected or not, the excitement and derangement to labor which such a canvass would most assuredly cause, would, in dollars and cents, more than outweigh the cost to the planting community alone of an extra session: while it will not be denied that with proper organization, and the Federal patronage and encouragement that such a contest would enlist for the Republican side, the election of two Republican Congressmen from this State might be an assured fact. And what is of no less importannce to consider, is the possibility that with a Republican Congress to decide cases of contest or election, only those two Republican Congressmen at large might be admitted, on the presumption that if tire State at large elected Republicans, so should each and every Congressional district. Other reasons could be given, why, in the end, an extra session would be an economical measure ; but these are deemed sufficient. The exnense of an extra session would be a light matter in comparison with the evils to follow even a partial re-establishment of Republican rule and domination huonr State. All classes and parties within our borders are now at peace, and infinitely better would it be that these amicable relations be not disturbed by an exciting State political canvass. The session, called for this purpose alone, need not necessarily be lengthy, as the work could be done inside of two weeks, and it might prevent a condition of affairs that would entail misery upon our people for years. DIVERSIFIED CROl'S. The New York Times, commenting upon the fact that Southern newspapers insisting upon a departure from the all cotton policy are entirely right, is equally satisfied that the advice, repeated from year to year, will not be heeded. The Times says: The facts set forth against the "all-cotton" plan are indisputable and convincing. They gain in volume every day as the results of actual experience are gathered and classified. It is not only proved that the individual farmer who puts his trust solely in the delusive staple can hope for no deliverance from the state of servitude in which he is kept by the ruinous credit system, but that the South as a whole cannot afford to go on paying $160,000,000 a year for Northern hay, grain, bacon and flour. No doubt this truth has been suggested in a general way hundreds of times to those in this city who have seen baled hay from New England loading upon steamers bound for Savannah and Galveston. Yet the mass or souruern rarmers, ior rue reason we have pointed out, are slow to learn this lesson, reform is making less headway probably than its zealous advocates imagine. Accidents interrupt its progress. The Hooding of the cotton lands in the Mississippi Valley, for instance has had the eifect of greatly increasing the estimated acreage to be planted to cotton in Alabama and the Atlantic States. The farmers are unable to resist the prospect of high prices. The realization of the dream of a generally diversified farming in the South will doubtless be a pleasure reserved for future generations. Any sudden reformation, as the Times suggests, is hardly probable, but the progress already made in the South is gratifying, and the improvement in the agricultural system of our people increases year by year. It is a fact that more small grain has been planted this year than ever before in the South ; and though it may be the result of the severe lesson of last Summer's drought, yet the lesson will not be without its beneficial effects hereafter. FRANKLIN J. MOSES. j The case of Franklin J. Moses, ex-Govemoj of South Carolina, indicted for obtaining mon I ey by false pretences, was on Recorder Smythe'i ! calendar in the General Sessions Court, Nev | York city, last Friday. When counsel for tlx accused asked for the adjournment of the case Assistant District Attorney Fellows saic S that he would willingly consent. "I don'i I think, your Honor," said Col. Fellows, "thai ! I could try this case impartially. As I am on< ! of the victims of misplaced confidence, undei i the circumstances I think the case should b< transferred to another part of the Court.' Papers were then sent before Judge Cowing and the case was set down for trial on to-mor row, 14th, instant. The recent exploits and arrest of Moses re call to the Baltimore Sun one of his opera tions in Washington, from the effects of whiel the authorities of South Carolina are nov striving to be released : In 1809, Moses went to Washington as ad I jutant general 01 r>ouui uaroima, wan requisi tion from It. K. Scott, the then carpet-baj J Governor, for the quota of arms due the Stati under the act of 1808. The accrued amoun due the State at that'time was 88,798. Thi was too small an amount for a margin of pick ings and stealings satisfactory to the entliusi astic nature of Moses. He went to Presiden Grant and Secretary of War Rawlings am drew a fearful picture of the perils environin] the carpet-bag State government, and the im portance of arming the militia to preserv peace and secure order and tranquility at th next election. There was no militia at th time beyond a few disorganized negro compa nies scattered throughout the State. Yet 01 such representations President Grant and th Secretary of War permitted Moses to dra\ 10,000 Springfield muskets, with a full set o infantry accoutrements, valued at $124,000, o more than the quota of the State for thirt years to come. The action of President Gran and of the Secretary of War was as clear a vi olation of the law as was ever committed Moses and Scott distributed a few hundred o these arms to the negroes and disposed of th balance and put the money in their pockets Probably between them and their coadjutor a cool 8100,000 was divided from this opera tion. A bill is now pending in the House c Representatives, with a favorable report fror the committee on military affairs,.to reliev the State of South Carolina from this debt ur justly put upon her. Unless the bill passes i will be twenty years more before South Care lina can receive any arms from the genera government under the act of 1808. ACTS OFTIIKTLGISLATURE. A number of Acts of the last Legislator will be found on the fourth page of issut which, with those heretofore published in th Enquirer embrace all of the Acts of genei al or special importance passed at the las session, except the Registration Act, and th general Railroad law. We will publish th registration law next week. The genen Railroad law, entitled "An Act to provide general railroad law for the management an regulation of railroads in this State, and fc the appointment of a railroad commissbnei and to prescribe his powers and duties," ai proved February 9, 1882, is very lengthy, cor taming 138 sections. We copy such section as are of general interest: Sec. 74. Every conductor, baggage mastei engineer, brakeman, or other servant of an railroad corporation employed on a passenge train, or at stations for passengers, shall wea on his hat or cap a badge which shall indicat his office, and the initial letters of the style c the corporation by which he is employed. N conductor or collector without such badg shall have any authority to meddle or interfer with any passenger, his baggage, or property And it is the duty of said railroad corporatio to see that such badges as aforesaid are worn Sec. 75. Every railroad company in thi State shall cause all its trains of cars for pa; sengers to entirely stop upon each arrival at station, advertised by such company as a st? tion for receiving passengers upon such trains tor a time sufficient to receive and let off pas sengers. Sec. 84. That whenever any passenger trai on any railroad in this State shall be moretha one-half of one hour behind its schedule timt it shall be the duty of said railroad compan to keep posted at ever}' telegraph station alon its line the time such train is behind its schec tile, and shall change such bulletin every hal hour until such train arrives ; stating therei: the time which such train is behind and th hour at which it is expected to arrive: Prow (Ud, That such bulletins shall not be require to be posted at any station until one-half hou before the regular schedule time at which sue train is to arrive at the station at which sue bulletin is required to be kept. Sec. 104. Whoever, without right, loiters o remains within any station house of a railroa' corporation, or upon the platform or ground adjacent to such station, after being requeste to leave the same by any railroad officer, shal forfeit a sum not less than two nor more thai twenty dollars. Sec. 105. Conductors of railroad trains, am station or depot agents, are hereby declared t i>e conservators of the peace, and they, am each of them, shall have the same power t make arrests that constables now have, excep that the conductors shall only have such powe on noara tneir respective trains, aim me agem at their respective places of business; and tli said coiuluctois and agents may cause any pei son or persons so arrested by them to be dt tained and delivered to the proper authoritie for trial as soon as practicable. Sec. 100. Whoever fraudulently evades o attempts to evade the payment of any toll o fare lawfully established by a railroad corpora tion, either by giving a false answer to the col lector of the toll or fare, or by traveling beyom the point to which he has paid the same, or b; leaving the train without having paid the to] or fare established for the distance traveled, o otherwise, shall forfeit a sum of not less thai live nor more than twenty dollars. Whoeve does not upon demand first pay such toll o fare shall not be entitled to be transported fo any distance. Sec. 107. Whoever wilfully and maliciousl; injures, in any way, any railroad or anythiuj appertaining thereto, or any materials or im plements for the construction or use thereof or aids or abets in such trespass, shall forfei to the use of the corporation for each offence treble the amount of damage proved to hav been sustained thereby, to be recovered in ai action of tort in the name of the corporation and may further be punished by fine not ex ceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisonmen not exceeding one year. Sec. 108. Whoever commits any of the act mentioned in the preceding Section [Sectioi 107], in such manner as thereby to en dan ge life, shall be punished as provided in said Sec tion, or by imprisonment in the penitentiar; not exceeding twenty years. THE REGISTITATION LAWS. A letter was addressed to the Secretary o State, the Hon. R. M. Sims, a few days ago,b; Mr. Fred. Horsey, Siqiervisor of Registratioi for Charleston county containing a number o questions relative to the construction of tlx Registration Act. In reply to these the Sec retary of State says that he is uot sure that i is his duty to interpret the law, but his opin ion is given for what it is worth. The ques tions and the replies are as follows : i 1. Is there an Act designating the pollinj I precincts ? A. There is, emphatically. Se< I Act of 1881-2, No. 084, page 1,048, 17th vol j Statutes. 2. Where there are two polls in a registratioi j precinct, ;ias has been the practice in Wardi | 0, 4 and 0 in the City of Charleston," are tin wards to be divided and separate registratioi i lists made and kept for each poll V See Elec ! tion laws, Sections 10 and 17. A. Separati I books are to be kept for each polling precinct ! The adoption of townships, parishes and ward! | for registration purposes is simply for the con I venience of the supervisor. See Section 10 lines 5 and 0, Election laws. I 3. Is the duplicate copy of registration list: j to be kept by the sujiervisor as a pernianen i record and leave his custody under no consid | eration ? See Election laws. Section 7. A j I think so ; it is to be regarded as a book o j original entry on file with the supervisor. (' 4. When there is a newspaper published ii j a county, should the remote precincts be post I ed with notice of time of registration V Se< i Election laws, Section 15. A. Yes. * * * # # I fi. Are Federal supervisors of election to b< ! allowed free access to the registration books t< i scrutinize them, or to attest them by their sig ! natures, as is provided in the United States r Revised Statutes, 1878, Sections 2,016 and 2,019 V A. Access to them and to examine them, I think so. * 7. ITow are the necessary expenses of execuf ting the Registration laws, such as: adYertisi ing, stationery, rent of places in which to hold the registration at precincts, traveling expenj ses of supervisor in visiting remote precincts, . rebinding or repairing books when defaced and worn, to be met ? To whom are the bills k to be rendered for payment ? A. The county 3 commissioners, I think, r 8. Cafl advertisement be made before 1st ? May, so that registration can be commenced at that date ? A. I think so, certainly. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. " ? They are catching some fine shad out of the Catawba River, near the Cheraw and TCailrnaH foiTU V11LOW1 Avi4 j? " ? A new post office, to be known as Bascom1 ville, has been established recently in Chester f county, on the Cheraw and Chester Railroad, and Lucius Ilouze appointed postmaster. ? We hear, says the Lexington Dispatch, ~ that many farmers in the Fork, who were I opposed to the Stock law, now say, since they t have completed their pasture fences, that s they think it will prove a beneficial law. ? A good many of the farmers in Anderson ? county are preparing to harvest their small j grain by machinery this year. About twei: 5 reapers have been sold in the past ten days i- by agents at Anderson Courthouse, fc ? The Waxhaws was visited on Tuesday of ^ last week by one of the heaviest rains that has fallen in that section in years. In other n parts of Lancaster county hail is said to have e covered the ground to'atlepth of two inches v on the same evening. f ? The adage, "Go to law for a calf and lose 1 the cow," was verified in the trial of a case in the Circuit Court of Greenville last week. [. The jury awarded the plaintiff, on the third 1. trial, $'.>.80; but the cost for which he is liaf ble amounts to $350. e ? At a meeting of the stockholders of the ' South Carolina Railroad Company, held in Charleston on Wednesday of last week, Hen 17 ,f P. Talmadge was elelected President; Perry n R. Pyne, Vice-President, and John B. Peck, e General Manager, lne net earnings 01 me l" road for the last two months is #121,787.10., * ?Win..Dodson, Pleasant-Adam, Richard j Bates and Joe Burton, convicted twice of being the incendiaries who burned the Greenville opera house, and refused a third trial by the Supreme Court, were sentenced last week e by Judge Aldrich to be hanged on the 28th ill's stant. 6 ? Gen. Manigault is making good progress - with the enrollment of the Confederate troops, >t but finds great difliculty in getting together e from the widely scattered and almost forgote ten records a complete roll of many of the d commands. A more difficult and stu]>endous a task has rarely been undertaken, d ?The Chester Bulletin says the machinery r is all in position at Fishing Creek Factory, r> and everything will be in readiness to put in y motion by the first of May. Two sections of the cards have been ground, and operations lS might begin now, but the race below the turbine wheel is being blasted out, that everything r: may be in proi>er trim. y ? In the U. S. Court at Charleston on the j, 4th, the trial of Hugh P. Kane, and others, e revenue officers, for the murder of Amos Ladd ?f the moonshiner, was concluded. After furo tlier testimony and argument the case was e given to the jury by Judge Bond in a brief ,e charge, and in thirty minutes a verdict of acquittal was brought in. ? The Edgefield Advertiser indulges the fol;s lowing felicitation : In the light of present 5- circumstances, it is astonishing to think that a Edgefield has achieved all her splendid politi~ cal victories entirely and indisputably within ,1 the law. Those splendid victories that have electrified and led tlie State ! Not a citizen of n Edgefield has ever been prosecuted in the Uni11 ted States Courts ! ? In the case of Dr. J. L. Westmoreland vs. g the Columbia and Greenville Railroad Com|. pany, for damage sustained in consequence of If an accident on the road on the lltli of January, n in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, heard .e last week in Greenville Court of Common j Pleas, the jury, after fourteen hours deliberar tion, returned a verdict last Saturday, for the h plaintiff for six thousand and two hundred h dollars. ? The Abbeville Medium, of the 6th, has the following: "It is said that Cyrus Wimbush g has gone to Charleston as a juror of the d United States Court. There must be some II jnistake, for it was published that J. C. Wimn bush was drawn as a juror, and not C. W. Wimbush. If we are not misinformed J. C. died when a convict. We wouldn't exactly ,] care to trust "Cyrus" if we were charged with a 0 political offence. t ? All the bar-keepers of Columbia have been r indicted for an alleged violation of the license s law of the State, contained in the Act of Dep cember 24th, 1S80, which requires that a license to retail intoxicating liquors must be taken out s from the county in addition to that granted by the city or town authorities. One of the r defendants was tried as a test case and having 1 been convicted, has appealed to the Supreme [. Court from the ruling of Judge Wallace. The d other seventeen have since employed Judge y Mackey, who will defend them at the June 1 term of the court, to which all the cases have r been continued. J. ? Speaking of the operations of the fence r law in Edgefield county, the Advertiser says: j- We learn from the Saluda side, especially Iluiett and Coleman townships, that the new Y order of things with reference to the stock = law gives well nigh universal satisfaction. " The few who opposed it at the start have gone ? into it with manly grace and it is now confi, dently predicted that the stock law question e Will lie no iactor in jiunuca wij.uevtji 111 me 1 fall election. Gentlemen on each side of this ' question have been heard to say recently that t they would vote for good men of the opposite side as freely as their own. s ? A singular marriage took place in the 1 Greenville jail on "Wednesday of last week. 1 One of the negro convicts under sentence of " death for burning the opera house, had for some time begged permission from the Sheriff to marry the woman he loved, which woman had also been convicted of larceny, and was f then in jail waiting for transportation to the i penitentiary to serve a term of two years. 1 The jail authorities finally granted the request f of the dusky lovers, and the marriage ceree mony was performed to the apparent delight - of both. They seemed oblivious of the fact t that death was in a little while to claim the - new-made husband, and the penitentiary the - bride of an hour. ? A Spartanburg dispatch of last Friday to r the Augusta Chronicle gives the following con2 cerning the Laurens and Spartanburg Rail' road: A meeting of the Board of Directors of j the Greenwood, Laurens and Spartanburg s Railroad was held yesterday. Fifty thousand 2 dollars of the bonds issued by the counties of 1 Spartanburg and Laurens were taken by a " syndicate of capitalists formed here. A dele5 gation composed of Hon. F. A. Connor, Col. j A. M. Aiken and Capt W. Z. McGhee appeared - before the board in behalf of Cokesbury, asking , that the road be run by their town, and offer* ? oP AffAon flmncmwl rlnllnra lllg U BIIU3UJ Ul Iiliuuu viivuuuiiu uvAAiniu * to secure the road. A large force is now grading the road in Laurens, and arrangements have been made to commence work also in f Spartanburg and at Greenwood at an early . day. ) . ? * - ? In the statement prepared by the Post 3 Office Department shows that for the quarter ending December 31,1881, there remains a surplus of earnings over expenditures of 8078,421, 3 being the first time since the close of the war ) in 1805 when the balance was on that side of - the account. I LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Samuel M. Fewell?Executor's Notice. Colcook, Miller cfr Co ? The Guano Season. W. H. McCorkle, Supervisor of RegistrationRegistration of Voters. T. M. Dobson?Now York House ?Emporium of Fashion. M. Strnuss?My Prices Tell. J. J. Smith ft Co.?Closing Out. Withers Adickes?Received this Week. SEND IIS TI1E NEWS. We respectfully request our friends in every section of the county, to send us a statement of any local news that may transpire in their re spective localities, such as accidents, tires, marriages, deaths, and also the condition ol thecrops, the state of the weather, Ac. Such communications should be restricted to giving an outline of the facts, aud will be written out in the olliee for publication. Such articles should always be accompanied by tho proper name of the writer, not, however, for publication, but as evidence of good aith. If our friends throughout the county, would give this matter their attention, they would coufer upon us a favor, while it would render the Enquikkk more interesting to the readers gener| ally throughout the county. adjudoed'a lunatic. Ellen McConnell, colored, having been adjudged a lunatic by a medical board consisting of I)rs. Lindsay and Jackson, was conveyed to , the lunatic asylum yesterday. railroad shipments. The shipments of cotton from the depot in this place for the week ending last Monday were 22 bales, making a total of 6,083 to date. There were no receipts of fertilizers for the same period. The receipts of fertilizers, so far, this season, aggregate 1,140 tons, for which there is only moderate demand. york county's treasurer. The following deserved compliment to the treasurer of York county appeared in the Columbia Register of Saturday: II. A. D. Neely, treasurer of York county, made settlement with the comptroller-general's office yesterday, and the officers of that department express themselves in very complimentarv terms as to the excellent manner in which his books unci papers are kept, and the exact correctness of his account. STRICKEN WITH PARALYSIS. "We regret to learn that ('apt. II. P. Jones, a son of Col. Cad. Jones, of Rock Hill, in this county, was stricken with paralysis at Salisbury, X. C., a few days ago. Capt. Jones was employed as a conductor on the Western X. C. Railroad at the time the affliction came upon him. His father brought him to his home at Rock Hill as soon as he was informed of his illness, and he lias since been taken to Philadelphia for medical treatment. EASTER ELECTION. At the Easter election of the Church of the Good Shepherd on Monday afternoon last, A. Coward and W. B. Wilson, Sen., were elected wardens; H. F. Adickes, T. W. Clawson, G. W. S. Hart, J. C. Kuykendal, J. Ernest Lowry, Robert B. Lowry and A. S. Withers, vestrymen; and II. F. Adickes, T. W. Clawson, G. W. S. Hart and W. B. Wilson, Sen., delegates to the Diocesan Convention, which meets in Spartanburg, on Wednesday, the 10th of May next. ROLL.A RYAN. This inimitable character actor, supported by Prof. Ryan and Mr. Reynolds, gave an entertainment in this place last Friday night to a crowded house. Rolla's fame as an elocutionist of high order and a character delineator, is coextensive with the country, and on this occasion he fully sustained his reputation. His rendition of "Gripp Scott, the Moonshiner," a character of his own creation, is mirth provoking in the extreme, while in other skethes of the same style he is the equal of any character actor on the bodrds. THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH. The Rev. R. P. Johnson, rector of the Episcopal Church, returned last Saturday afternoon from a short visit to Augusta, Ga. He is somewhat improved in health ; but though yet feeble, he conducted morning service in his church last Sunday, preaching an instructive and impressive sermon suited to the grand event which Easter Sunday commemorates. According to a l>eautiful and time-honored custom, the church was handsomely decorated witn evergreen ana Drignt nowers, typiuiu ui the season of joy, and serving to emphasize the gladsome thought that "He is risen." CHURCH NOTICES. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. R. P. Franks, Pastor. Services at King's Mountain Chapel next Saturday and Sunday. At the close of the 11 o'clock service on Sunday the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be administered. Preaching in the Church at Yorkville at the usual hour on Sunday evening. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. Latlian, Pastor. Services at 101 A. M. Sunday-school at 91. Baptist?Rev. TV. L. Brown, Pastor. Services at Union Church at 11 A. M., and at Yorkville in the afternoon at 3.30. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. Services at 11 A. M., and 7.15 P. M. Episcopal?Church of the Good Shepherd? Rev. R. P. Johnson, Rector. If his health permits, the rector will officiate in the Church of Our Saviour, at Rock Hill, next Sunday. NEW BUILDINGS "CONTEMPLATED. Messrs. Happerfield & Grist have resumed operations at their brick yard on the eastern edge of town, having contracted to furnished the bricks for building two houses?one to be built by Mr. C. G. Parish, on Main street, on the lot adjoiuing the Bank and on which the beef market now stands; and the other to be built by Messrs. Hunter, Oates & Co. oti the corner of Mr. Hunter's lot on West Liberty street, adjoining the courthouse grounds. Mr. Parish's house will be 80 feet in length by 30 feet wide, and two stories, the lirst floor to be fitted up for a store room, and the second floor for a residence. Messrs. Hunter, Oates & Go's house will be 1110 by 34 feet, one story, with abasement, and will be fitted up in the best style for a dry goods store. Work on these buildings will be commenced as soon as the materials can be put 011 the ground, and they will be completed by the first of next January. PENITENTIARY RECRUITS. On Friday last the Sheriff of York county forwarded to the penitentiary, under the escort of deputies, the following prisoners, sentenced at the late term of the Court of Sessions : Charles P. Jackson, grand larceny; sentenced for two years. Leni Garner and Jack McKenclrick, alias Jack McKinney, receiving stolen goods ; each for six months. Annie Brian, arson; sentenced for life. Robert Ward, accessory to the crime of arson after the fact; sentenced for nine months. John Woodruff, alias John Woodson, carrying concealed weapons; sentenced for three months. Walter Anderson, John Starr and Thomas Anderson, burglary and larceny ; the two first omo/1 onufannn/1 fnr o fnvtn rtf vnova cnnli numtu JV^II KVUUVU 1V1 (? VI UTO JUIIU VUVII) and the latter for two years. Walter Nelson, larceny of grain from the field ; sentenced for one year. Of the above prisoners all are colored except Charles P. Jackson. THE RAILROAD'COMMISSIONEK. According to the General Railroad law now of force in this State, the entire expense of the j railroad commissioner, including all salaries ] and excuses of every kind, shall be borne by j the slveral corporations owning or operating i railroads within this State, according to their | gross income proportioned to the number of i miles in this State, to be apportioned by the comptroller general. Capt. "Winthrop Wil| liams,.of the comptroller's oifice, has just prej pared an assessment upon each one of the j railroads of its just share of such expenses in i proportion to its gross income for the year i ending June 30. 1S81, and forwarded the eircu | lars to the county auditors and treasurers in-: j structing them as to their duties. The total : assessment of the railroad companies for the j support of the railroad commissioner amounts | to ?3,800, and the gross income of the railI roads during the past year was ?.1,708.21. The I I gro&s income of the roads from the nnml)er of ; | miles in this State amounted to ?1,843,121. I The income of the Chester and Lenoir Railroad I ! amounted to $27,114, and the assessment on it j for the pay of the Railroad Commissioner is ?21.30. . CIRCUIT COURT. The Court of Common Pleas adjourned at 1 P. M. last Saturday, having been occupied since and including Tuesday. A considerable amount of business in regular course was end1 ooooa tiroro liAUvrl Til CU, <tILU l/I IL CC llllgtucu vaoco TTV.1V/ I1UM1U* II* the most important of these the Judge reserved his opinion. This is the case of Nichols vs. Briggs. This case involves points of interest to the public, several of which have never before been in the Courts of this State, and when Judge Cothran's decision is rendered, we will publish it for general information. The next term of the Court for this county will convene on the fourth Monday of June, and Judge Wallace will preside. RAIN AND WIND STORM. On Sunday last some portions of the county were visited with a severe storm of wind, rain and hail. The course of the clouds seemed to extend from the neighborhood of Sharon Church, about nine miles south-west of town, to Bethany, about the same distance northwest of town. In the neighborhood of the latter place there was heavy rain with high wind. In the Sharon neighborhood, on Mr. .John Byers' place, a negro woman was killed by a tree being blown down upon her while she was attempting to go from her own house to the house of a neighbor. Some damage was done to fences ; but so far as we can learn, the growing crops of small grain were injured but slightly, if at all. STATE POLITICS. .? The Itock Ilill Herald is reliably informed that Col. R. M. Sims will not be a candidate for Secretary of State this year. The same paper says that the friends of Hon. B. H. Massey, of York, will press his name for the nomination. ? Chester Exporter: "So far as we could see, I AAI^I/1 lontm ^MAnn f Ito ui nu i<ti eta >vc uuniu icai.ii iiuui vikiicxo, mic Radical meeting that was to have been held in pursuance to the call of the chairman of the county executive committee, did not hold. So it is not determined yet, we suppose, what leading citizens of this county shall be persecuted for example sake. The selection of the victims being understood to be the object of the meeting. ? Col. Samuel Wallingford, of Indiana, the apostle of Greenbackism in Abbeville county, delivered a speech at Ninety-Six in that county, on Saturday last, in support of his peculiar theory on this subject. The Abbeville Press and Banner says: The crowd, from actual count, numbered twenty-three white men, five boys and four negroes. The conclusion arrived at by the reporter of the Press and Banner, after hearing the speech, is that "NinetySix can be put down as solid for Democratic Government, Home Rule and white supremacy." ? The official returns of the municipal election on the 4th show an overwhelming victory for the Democrats. The total vote polled was 1,536, of which number Col. John T. Rhett received 1,006 and Mr. John Agnew 482, giving Col. Rhett a clear majority for mayor of 584. Col. Rhett is an able lawyer and a patriotic citizen. He has for years been identified with the public institutions and progress of Columbia, and his elevation to the Mayoralty is a fitting compliment for his devotion and service to the city in the past, and guarantees good government, together with a wise and prudent administration of the city affairs, for the next two years. ? Gov. Perry has written a letter to the Greenville Mountaineer, advocating a new Constitution for South Carolina. Hesays: "Honor and self-respect, as well as patriotism and wisdom, require that we should discard and t rample in the dust this badge of negro-capetbag-scalawag rule." To which the Macon Teleijraph remarks: Governor Perry is a very brave and intelligent gentleman, but we bid him beware. Georgia tried that experiment to her great damage. She has been degraded, disgraced and thrown back an hundred years by a constitutional convention, which made a Constitution that can neither be explained nor understood. If Gov. Perry only knew how many idiots and sans culottes a few mischievous demagogues can get into a constitutional convention, he would be quite willing to live the balance of his life without any fundamental law. congressional* summary. In the Senate on the 6th, Mr. Cameron, of "Wisconsin, presented and read a memorial ' from the Good Templars of Wisconsin protesting against Logan's bill apportioning money from the liquor traffic as an educational fund. An immediate appropriation of $50,000 to provide for the deficiency in the subsistence of the Cheyenne and Arrapahoe Indians was voted. Pills were passed directing copies of the official letter books of the executive department of North Carolina to be furnished to said State. Farley introduced another Chinese bill, identical with the vetoed bill, except that the term of suspension is fixed at fifteen years. Also, authorizing a public building at Key West and appropriating $100,O'JO therefor. The Senate bill to fix the day of meeting of the Electors of President, and Vice President, and to provide for and regulate the counting of votes for President and the decision of questions arising thereon, came up as unfinished business, and Mr. Pugh addressed the Senate in favor thereof. After an executive session, the Senate adjourned until Monday. In the House, a bill was passed appropriating $20,000 for the purchase and distribution of seeds to the sufferers from the overflow of the Mississippi river and its tributaries. Two bills were introduced and referred, regulating Chinese immigration?one fixing the suspension at fifteen, and the other at sixteeu years, The tariff question was considered in committee of the whole. In the House on the 7th, Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana, presented a memorial of the mayor and several commercial bodies of New Orleans praying for Congressional action on the Mississippi levee bill. Referred. A resolution was adopted authorizing the committee on expenditures to enquire what, if any abuses exist or have existed in the adjudication of claims in the quartermaster, commissary general and third auditor's offices and report their finding, together with such recommendations as it deeems proper for the settlement of such claims. Mr. Haskell, of Kansas, spoke on the tariff commission bill, and at 4.30 P. M., the House took a recess until 7.30 P. M., the evening session being for the consideration of pension bills. The House, on the 8th, in accordance with the special order, went into committee of the whole for the purpose of debate only on the nnmmiaoinn hill A ffcpr SOP.CCheS bv Messrs. Mukfrow and Brewer, the death of Representative Allen, of Missouri, was announced, and at 1.15 P. M., in respect to the memory of the deceased, the House adjourned. In the Senate on the 10th, Mr. Bayard, from the judiciary committee, reported a bill amending the anti-polygamy law, and fixing the salaries of the election commissioners, under the law, at S5,000 per aimum, in accordance with the recent recommendation of the President. Passed. The Senate bill authorizing the Secretary of War to adjust and settle accounts for arms between the State of South Carolina and the United States, was passed. Bills were introduced and referred for the relief of several different tribes of Indians. In the House, Mr. Thompson, of Iowa, submitted the majority report of the committee on elections in the contested election case of Mackey vs. O'Conner, from the Second Congressional District of South Carolina, accompanied by a resolution declaring the contestant Mackey entitled to the seat. Ordered to be printed and laid over for future action. Un| der the call of States, a large number of bills were introduced. / NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Ex-Governor Ilolden lias been stricken with paralysis and is in a critical condition. J ? The railroad connecting the North Caro- \ lina Central with Chapel Ilill is to be extended to Bynum's cotton mill in Chatham county. ? There are signs of a coalition between the discordant wings of the Republican party in North Carolina. ? The papers report that the small grain crop throughout North Carolina was never more promising. ? Two extensive veins of steel making ore have been discovered recently on the property of the Cranberry Iron Company, in Mitchell county. ? Rev. ])r. Talniage, of Brooklyn, N. Y., will preach the sermon at Trinity College commencement on the 7th of June, and deliver the commencement address on the following day. ? Currituck county, last year produced 500,000 bushels of corn. The best lands in that county yield 18 and 20 bushels to the acre. The same county sells $500,OGu worth of wild fowls annually. ? Dr. Canedo, who was negotiating for the purchase of the State's interest in the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad, and was to have paid, on the 1st instant, $100,000 towards the purchase, has asked for an extension of thirty days. ? The sensational telegram that Sheriff Estiss, of Stokes county, had been shot while robbing his own safe, proves to be a cruel and senseless hoax, perpetrated as an April fool story. The dispatch was sent from Danville, Virginia. ? Col. Wm. Johnston, of Charlotte, is reported as having made declaration recently that while he is not a candidate for any office within the gift of the people, he still proposes to canvass the State in the interest of the Liberal party. ? A man by the name of Beck, at work in one of the shafts of the Hoover Hill Gold mine in Randoph county, was taken suddenly ill and requested to be drawn out in a bucket. When he was near the top of the shaft he lost his balance and falling a distance of 200 feet was crushed into jelly. ? The Goldsboro Messenger says that the work of track laying on Best's Midland N. C. Railroad is progressing. The iron put down is of the best quality of steel rails. The Midland construction trains are now crossing the track of the Wilmingtonnnd Weldon Road and follow up the work which is now on the other side of the river. ? The Gastonia Gazette details the particulars by which a gang of robbers which has for some time been infesting Gaston county, was broken up, bytheancstof seven of the number, through the shrewd management of Chief of Police J. B. Ring, of Spartanburg, who went to Gastcnia for the purpose of playing detective. The thieves are all colored, and to South Carolina's humiliation, the majority of those arrested hail from this state. ? The Republican State executive committee has been called to meet in Raleigh on Tuesday next. A Raleigh dispatch says the committee will issue a call for a convention to meet early in July. A candidate for Supreme Court Judge, and for Congressman-atlarge, will be nominated. It has been determined to make a vigorous and systematic fight to carry a majority of the popular vote and to elect a majority of the Legislature. Immediate steps will be taken to establish a Republican newspaper at the capital of the State. ? At the convention of colored men assembled at Goldsboro, composed of delegates from all the heavy negro counties of the State, resolutions were adopted to the effect, "That while we do not favor the abandonment of any of the principles of the Republican party, and while we endorse the Administration, we hail with pleasure the unmistakable evidences of a liberal movement in North Carolina, and we will support such liberal movement, and will join hands with liberal men, who have heretofore acted with the Democratic party and who are willing to bury the dead past in an earnest effort to build up the State and guarantee to all equal rights and privileges." MERE~MENTION. Senator Hampton refuses to speak to John Sherman and treats him with the most marked contempt. Corn planting in Southern Kentucky is three weeks earlier this year than usual. The ueonle of the Pacific slope are indignant at the Presidential veto of the Chinese bill. In some localities the President was burned in effigy The Banker's Magazine estimates that the cotton crop of 1831 was sold through* speculative purchases one hundred and seventy-two times, wheat crop ten times, and corn four times. Municipal elections throughout the West last week show Democratic gains. Cincinnati elected a Democratic ticket for the first time in several years. There are bills before Congress asking for the erection of one hundred and twenty-five public buildings, at a cost of $17,000,000. The visible supply of cotton for the world, as reported in New York last Saturday was {is follows: Receipts at all interior towns, 20,330 bales; receipts from plantations, 27,22(J; crop in sight, 5,090,099. The total visible supply of cotton- for the world is 2,929,469, of which 2,071,525 is American, against 3,051,670and 2,479,870. Congressman Allen, of Missouri, who has been ill at the Arlington Hotel in Washington for several weeks, died at 3 o'clock last Friday morning. Texas used to feed her pecans to the hogs. Nowshe sells thecrop for $2,000,000. The nut is good for torpid livers. Three attaches of the Atlanta, Ga., post office have been arrested recently, all charg^ with stealing valuable letters. The President has nominated Senator Teller, of Colorado, for Secretary of the Interior in place of Kirkwood, and W. E. Chandler, as Secretary of the Navy, in place of Hunt, who will go to Russia as minister. This completes the Arthur cabinet by the displacement of all the Garfield appointments save Lincoln, Secretary of War, who will remain. Five men boarded a train on the Santa Fe Railroad in Texas, last Saturday, and robbed the passengers. Louisville, by action of its city council, endorsed by a popular vote, has determined to issue SI,000,(XX)?o per cent, coupon bonds?to be given to the State on condition that the seat of government is permanently located in that city." - In the Criminal Court of Washington, last Monday, Judge Wylie refused the motion to quash the Star Route indictments, holding that the jurisdiction of his Court is complete, and that the cases of conspiracy are sufficiently clearly defined to warrant the indictment. CHERAW AJiD CHESTER RAILROAD. Of the Cheraw and Chester Railroad difficulties the Lancaster Review of the 5th instant says : The Railroad meeting did not come off here on the evening of the *28th ultimo as expected. Our County Commissioners refused to go into the meeting, and as there was not a majority of the stock without the Lancaster county stock, there could be 110 stock-holders' meeting. We understand that one of the County Commissioners desired to hold the meeting and that two were opposed to it. We hear that a meeting will be held at Richburg, on half-way ground, so to speak, on the 15th of this month. We confess that we don't see the difference oeiweeil IIOHllIlg WIC IUCCUIIS nac VII oabiuuivj and holding it there on the 15th. Tlie last Chester Bulletin has the following, which may or may not have any relation to the foregoing : It is said that Mr. Talcott, superintendent of the Richmond and Danville Railroad, has ordered that freights of the Cheraw and Chester Railroad no longer be stored in the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad depot, as has heretofore been the case. It is also said the narrow-gauge track, laid around the west side of the ChaHotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad platform, is to be taken up. Is it so, and is it a straw showing that the Richmond and Danville Company think their hold on the Cheraw and Chester Railroad has to be given up ?