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f traps and Jafts. '
? By a fire in New Orleans, last Thursday 1
night, the Customhouse was damaged to the ,
extent of $00,000. The iron cornice is practi- i
cally destroyed and the window frames are (
burned out for nearly half the length of the
Customhouse street front. The granite col-;
umns at the entrance and the pilasters have
their outlines damaged to such an extent as to !
make substitution necessary. The heat was;
very great, and water thrown on the hot gran-!
ite caused it to crack and flake off.
? The Augusta Chronicle a nil Constitutional- !
ist of Sunday defines its position on the subject
of gratuitous and indiscriminate advertising
of candidates in the following terse j
manner: "We are in receipt of two commu- j
nications, recommending prominent citizens
for Congress. We recognize the fitness of the j
gentleman whom "Cax" and "Young Man" j
nominate and will take pleasure in publishing
the communications at the rate of twenty
five cents per line. The Chronicle and Consti- i
tutionalist will publish no articles recommend- i
ing men for office unless paid for."
? Orlando Jackson has brought suit in the j
Supreme Court of New York against the
Louisiana Lottery Company, alleging that he !
had expended within the past four years
*MX> in the purchase of lottery tickets, and in
which the plaintiff sues to recover $ 178,000, or I
double the amount invested, under the provis- j
ion of the statute against lotteries. A motion j
was made a-few days ago to set aside the sum- j
inons and complaint, on the ground of irregularity,
and to-day a decision was given denying
the motion upon the plaintiff amending !
the summons.
? The excitement caused by the assassination
of Lord Cavendish is by no means subsiding.
Throughout all Ireland, and from branches of
the Land League in America, come fiercest denunciations
of this stupid, cowardly act. The
assassins have not yet been discovered, although
largo rewards have beeu offered for
them. The last official act of Lord Cavendish
was an order releasing almost all the Irish
susi>ects from jail. It was an ancestor of
Lord Cavendish who slew the famous English
rebel, Wat Tyler, and and thus won his knightship
hundreds of years ago.
? A new machine has been invented which
will manufacture ice from water in twenty
minutes at little expense. In the older process
great pressure was required to liquify the gasses
used. The new method employs a solution
of ammonia in glycerine. The latter absorbs
several hundred times its volume without
pressure. By passing into a vacuum the ammonia
is set free and produces intense cold.
Reversing the process, the ammonia is easily
reabsorbed. The day is not distant when every
small town can manufacture its own ice at
a minimum cost.
? In the argument on the Guiteau bill of exceptions,
at the opening proceedings, Mr. Reed
desired to call attention to one authority on a
point that it is the duty of Courts to sustain
technicalities when they appear in law. He
then quoted Lord Mansfield's observations upon
the subject, pending a decision of a case
where popular clamor demanded contrary decision.
Judge Cartter?"You mean to say he
held that the mob should not try the case ?"
Col. Reed?"Precisely, your honor." Judge
Cartter?"Well, that is sound law, Ave accept
it."
? A New York letter in the Cincinnati Commercial
says: "Meeting a business acquaintance
of Gen. Grant on my return to New
York, I asked him if Grant's financial condition
was improving. "I think not," he replied.
"I think Grant and all his sons have
been losers by their speculations. From
what I hear, I doubt if Buck Grant (otherwise
Ulysses, Jr.) now possesses any other
money than what her father gave his wife.
For a time things were booming with him,
but Grant and his sons and all their associates
were terribly hurt in Louisville and Nashville
Railroad stock."
? The May report of the agricultural bureau,
issued at Washington hist Friday, contains
the following : Cotton reports shoiv 81
]>er cent, of the proposed area planted on the
Qornincf ftK nor f?pnf\ in average
years. Planting is more advanced than usual,
from Virginia to Florida, and more backward
in all other States, esi>eeially in Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee. In consequence
of the overflow the proportion planted
in Mississippi is 75 per cent, instead of 85
in an average year, 71 in Louisiana instead of
89, 78 in Arkansas instead of 83, and 77 in
Tennessee instead of 1)0 per cent. The deficiency
on the 1st of May approximates half a
million acres, with planting in progress.
? A dispatch of Saturday from Jacksonport,
Arkansas, says that the water in White River
stands thirty-one feet and eight inches above
low water mark. There is not a foot of dry
ground in town except Jefferson street. The
whole country for miles around is one sea of
water, and the damage to the crops is heavy.
A Batesville, Ark., special says the rain commenced
at 8 o'clock Monday evening and
poured in torrents twenty-four hours without
cessation, swelling the rivers and creeks,
sweeping everything before it. Mills, houses,
bridges and fencing, all were hurled from
their foundations and washed out, utterly
obliterating the entire crops on bottom lands.
It is est mated that the loss is half a million
dollars. j
? On last Friday, while the engineer and
conductor of a train on the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas Railroad were in the telegraph office
at Oswego, Kansas, for orders their engine
and caboose started off without them
bound north. A train bearing several hundred
persons, members of the Missouri Press
Association with their families and friends on
an excursion to Galveston, was on the road.
The engineer of the latter train saw the wild
train in time to stop his own and leap from
the engine. The wild train was going over
forty miles an hour. Both engines were totally
wrecked. A postal clerk on the passenger
train is the only person injured, and he not
seriously. The passengers all escaped unharmed,
and after the track was cleared and a
new engine procured proceeded on their journey.
? The Washington correspondent of the
Xeus and Courier tells the following story of
a hat: "An orthodox "Ilampton hat" of the
'7(5 style lias been gallivanting around Ohio,
in a lively way, and this is how it happened to
get there. The Hon. John McSweeny, of
Worcester, Ohio, a prominent Democratic
politician?the man who nominated Thurman
for President at the Cincinnati Convention?
recenty employed in defending the Star Route
people, went one day last week into the Senate
chamber to see a Senatorial friend, leaving
his soft hat in the cloak room. On his exit he
carried off another soft hat which was in a day
or two discovered to be Senator Hampton's.
As the Senator who was then out of the city,
attempts to effect an exchange were futile,
so Mr. McSweeny went off to Ohio with his
historic hat, afterwards sending it, (so I learn
from a Republican source) to its owner, with
a note exnressincr the wish that he could as
readily exchange^ heads with the Senator as
head gear.
? Mrs. Scoville the sister of Guiteau having
taken the lecture stand, with the view as was
supposed of aiding her brother, there were rumors
that the step would lead to the separation
of her and her husband ; but from the following
it would seem that they have had a pleasant
and friendly meeting in Chicago, and af-!
ter some private talk, Mrs. Scoville gave up j
her room and they went to lunch together, j
Mrs. Scoville, when interviewed after her j
talk with her husband, said that she had i
dreaded it very much on account of the j
temper shown by him. He had been writing j
iier very threatening and abusive letters. !
Among other things, he wrote her that if she |
did not stop lecturing and working in behalf ,
of her brother he ''would make it so hot for I
the three Guiteaus that the two who were not I
hung would wish they were." She told Mr.
Scoville that his attempts at coercion must
cease, that she projwsed to rent a home for j
herself and lecture to save her brother. She :
said: "If he does not cease his interference I j
will give certain facts to the newspapers and
John Guiteau will tell what he knows about i
Mr. Scoville. For the sake of my children I
withhold the worst for the present." She declared
that Mr. Scoville was more reasonable
than she expected and hoped there would be
no more trouble.
? After consultation with many oflicers of
distinction it has been determined to have a
series of reunions at Gettysburg, to establish
exactly the positions of the troops engaged in
the battle. The moving spirit is Mr. Batchelder,
who has studied the subject for years and
lias been commissioned by Congress to compile
an account of the battle. The reunions will
t?e by localities, and when these have been examined
and the facts established a general review
of the whole field will be made. The
first meeting will be of veterans who fought at
and near the "Pejach Orchard," "Wheatfield,"
"Devil's Den" and "Round Top," on July 2,
1863, who are invited to report in person at
the Eagle Hotel, Gettysburg, at 8 P. M., June
7, for organization. Congressman Aiken, who
was Colonel of the Seventh South Carolina
Volunteers, has taken a deep interest in the
movement, and will attend the reunion in
June. Gen. Kershaw hoped'to go, but is prevented
from doing so by his engagements on
Circuit. Major C. Rutledge Ilolmes, who was
assistant adjutant general of the division, has
been urged to attend, and it is liojted that he
will find this practicable. Such reunions as
are proposed cannot fail to have a good effect.
They will enable something approaching to
absolute agreement to be reached concerning
the battle wliich was the turning point of the
war, and surely the gathering together of the
old soldiers of the North and South, on a field
made glorious by their valor and hallowed by
the blood of so many brave Americans, will
strengthen good feeling and help to teach all
of us so to live and act that the war shall beat
end in our hearts as in our homes.
fJothuiUe (&nquittr.
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THURSDAY MORNING. MAY 18, 1882
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CAYTVU rinni.VYA NEWS.
OVi/ 1 J? Vrt ? !/?. i'*?
? There a*e three hundred and ten persons
in Sumter county who were disqualified to
register on account of criminal conviction. *
? The farmers and gardeners of Columbia
and vicinity are rejoicing in the fine seasons
with which that locality has been favored.
? lVm. Aiken registered at Blackstock's,
Chester county, the other day, giving his age
as 118 years.
? The State Democratic Executive Committee
is called by the chairman, Gen. Izlar, to
meet in Columbia, at 8 o'clock P. M., to-day.
? Mr. B. W. Timmerman, who lives in the
Pleasant Lane section of Edgefield county,
has found on his farm a nugget of gold, which
he says is worth about S300.
? The Hon. James Hemphill, of Chester, is
the oldest living member of the bar of the
Sixth Circuit. He opened his law office in
Chester on the 29th of November, 183(5.
? Mrs. M. L. Shell, aged 40 and living at
Liberty Hill, Newberry county, deserted her
husband and ran away with a stranger named
F. F. McGill, a few days ago.
? It is reported that Clyburn, who escaped
from the Camden jail some time ago, has
reached Dakota and is going still further
West.
? The last prisoner in the Sumter jail was
released on Monday last. The doors of the
institution are now thrown open and improvements
are making for the comfort and security
of future inmates.
? On Wednesday, the 3rd inst., a colored
man named Wilson was run over and killed
l)V 51 train Oil llie OUIUH v_/<uuima ivnunuj iit?j
Aiken. Wilson had gone to sleep on the
track.
? White frost was visible in many places in
the vicinity of Greenville hist Monday morning,
and considerable snow is reported to have
fallen Sunday night in the mountains about
the North Carolina line.
? The following crop report comes from Ai>
gusta, Ga., under date of Sunday : The weather
is unfavorable for cotton. The thermometer
stands at GO degrees. The yield of wheat
and oats in South Carolina and Georgia will
be larger than in any ye<-r since the war.
? Judge Melton has continued all the election
cases recently before the U. S. District
Court in Charleston to the November term,
and Judge Bond of his own motion ordered
a new trial in the only case, where there was
a conviction. The record therefore stands?
G cases mistrials, 1 acquittal, and 1 mistrial
by order of court.
? Among the items of appropriation for im!
provement of rivers and harbors just passed
by Congress are the following for South Caroj
lina : Charleston harbor, (including Sullivsin's
Island,) 8300,000 ; Great Pee Dee River, 8G,000
; Wappoo Cut, 810,000 ; Wateree River
810,000; Edisto River, 88,000 ; Georgetown
harbor, 87,000 ; Saltkehatchie River, 85,000.
? Wm. M. Dart, President of the South Carolina
Teachers' Association, has issued an address-on
behalf of the Association, extending
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a coruiai HlVllillilUIl IU LUC tmuicu icatiici^ ui
the State to attend the State Colored ^Normal
School in Columbia, next July. He pledges a
comfortable home to severy colored teacher
who attends, and urges all the teachers to
avail themselves of this opportunity to acquire
knowledge in their professions.
? The Rev. J. B. Middleton preached the
funeral sermon of Adams, Bates and Burton,
the Greenville incendiaries recently hanged.
He took for his text the words, "The Lord
reigneth, let the people tremble,v and rather
depreciated the execution of the incendiaries,
impressing his hearers with the idea that it
was unjust, and expressing the conviction
that the unfortunate men had gone to heaven.
He also cited a number of instances of the
fate of rulers who had passed unjust sentences,
all of them being severely punished therefor.
? At its meeting last Thursday night, the
University Board requested a full meeting of
the Faculty, including the newly elected professors,
to be held upon the call of President
Miles at some time prior to the August meeting
of the board, for the purpose of preparing
a plan for studies to be reported to the board
at the August meeting. No charge is made
for tuition at the University except an annual
fee of ten dollars. It is estimated that, with
economy, a student can attend the South Carolina
University for a year without incurring
more than $280 expense, including the cost
of going to and returning from the institution. I
? At the meeting of the trustees of the State
University, in Columbia, on Wednesday of last
week, the following faculty was elected : Rev.
Dr. E. L. Patton, of Due West, professor of
ancient languages; E. S. Jonyes, of the Univer- j
sity of Tennessee, professor of modern lan- j
guages; John M. McBride,of the University of I
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rennessee, proiessur ui iignuuniuc , n. jicum
Davis, of Fairfield, professor of history, political
economy and constitutional law ; Kev. W.
J. Alexander, of Darlington, S. C., professor of
mental and moral philosophy and evidences of
Christianity and chaplain. The board resolved
to change the tutorship of modern languages to
a professorship, and added the professorships of
applied mathematics and physics to the present I
chair of mathematics. The board then ad-:
journed until the second Monday in August, |
when the curriculum of the new chairs will be
arranged. Every member of the board was
present. Dr. Patton and Mr. Davis are graduates
of this institution. i
THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.
THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION.
The Southern Baptist Convention met in
the Baptist Church at Greenville, S. C., at
10 o'clock A. M., on Wednesday of last week,
10th instant, in its twenty-seventh annual
session, and was called to order by the Rev.
J. H. Mell, D. D., Chancellor of the University
of Georgia, the Rev. Lansing Burrows, of
Kentucky, acting as secretary. After the devotional
exercises the roll was made up, showing
262 delegates in attendance as follows:
Maryland, 4; Virginia. 25; North Carolina,
32 ; Georgia, 30; Alabama, 13; Florida, 2 ;
Misssissippi, 2, Louisiana, 1; Texas 13 ; Kentucky.
24 ; Tennessee and Arkansas, 4 ; Missou
rl, 5; and South Carolina 88. The names of
the South Carolina delegates were as follows:
J. S. Jordan, II. C. Smart, C. A. C. Waller,
B. F. Miller, R. N. Pratt, J. A. Chambliss,
D. D., J. C. McKewn, W. J. Snider, E. II.
Cnttino, II. M. Barton, A. J. Bristow, J. A.
Jackson, W. E. Thomas, W. B. Allen, J. D.
Mahon, J. II. Edwards, L. C. Ilinton, N. N.
Burton, A. J. S. Thomas, J. K. Fant, G. W.
Bussey, A. McA. Pittman, W. B. Shaw, T.
P. Shaw, I). W. Cuttino, T. P. Smith, L.
Cuthhert, ? Fairfield, E. L. Sisk, G. II. Carter,
J. C. Furman, D. D., T. J. Earle, Berry
League, J. K. Mendenhall, T. W. Reid, G.
F. Townes, C. II. Jiulson, J. S. Croxton, G.
W. Gardner, J. M. Hough, T. M. Galphin,
D. D., J. A. W. Thomas, T. P. Lide, II. W.
Battle, I). W. Iliott, G. M. Rogers, J. R.
Leavell, J. I). Pitts, L. Broaddus, W. B. Elkins,
M. L. Ball, C. C. Brown, D. L. DeSaussure,
II. W. Malionev, R. W. Hurts, J. S.
Murray, T. P. Bell, W.IL King, I. W. Wingo,
W. B. Carson, A. B. Woodruff, W. P. Smith,
L. C. Ezell, W. L. Brown, J. T. Burdine,
C. P. Barrett, F. C. Jeter, I. G. McKissick,
A. M. Noble, W. II. Strickland, T. A. Reid,
H. McGee, John Stout, B. W. Edwards. S. M.
Richardson, R. W. Lide, W. J. Alexander, T.
II. Burruss, M. R. Sanders, A. L. Evans, A.
M. Sampayrac, J. (J. Adams, J. T. Price, Elijah
Watson, R. B. Watson, C. Burkhalter,
W. C. Lindsay, A. C. Stepp.
The Rev. Dr. Mell was re-elected president
without opposition. Elections were then held
for vice-president and secretaries. While the
ballots were being counted an hour was devoted
by the Convention to devotional exercises.
In response to a call from those in the
assembly who had taken part in the organization
of the first Southern Baptist Convention
in 1845, seven men rose?Drs. Mell, Burrows,
Sydnor, Mcintosh, Carswell, and Messrs.
T. P. Smith and II. W. Mahone. The election
of the other ollicers of the Convention
was then announced as follows: Vice-presidents,
Joshua Levering, Maryland; Hon. Jos.
E. Brown, Georgia; J. T. Furman, D. D.,
South Carolina, and II. K. Elyson, Virginia;
secretaries, Rev. Lansing Burrows, Kentucky,
and Rev. 0. F. Gregory, North Carolina.
An address was then delivered by the Rev.
W. II. Strickland, pastor of the Greenville
Baptist Church, welcoming the members of
the Convention to Greenville on behalf of the
entire community. This address was responded
to on behalf of the Convention by Rev. I)r.
C. C. Chaplin, of Texas.
At the afternoon session Dr. Mcintosh, corresponding
secretary of the Home Mission
board, submitted the thirty-seventh annual
report, showing the operations in the home
missionary fields during the past year. The
work has made encourageing progress in every
department. The board recommend that 86,500
be raised by the churches to pay off the
debt resting on the mission in New Orleans in
1875. When the present secretary went into
office the board was burdened by an indebtedness
of $17,000. These debts have been cancelled,
the salaries of the missionaries have
been paid, and the balance, $6,342, is in the
treasury for future work. The board received
during the year $38,370 in addition to the
funds expended by the State boards, aggregating
?05,903, making total contributions to
the home missionary work by Southern Baptist
Churches $94,273. No reports have been
received from Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina,
Texas, Arkansas, and other bodies,
which would increase the total contributions
to one hundred thousand dollars. During the
year forty-one persons were employed in the
home mission field.
Rev. Dr. Tupper, the corresponding secretary,
submitted the reports of the board of foreign
missions. The prospects in the whole
field are favorable. The Church has sixty-one
missionaries and native assistants and thirtyfour
mission stations in the foreign field. The
property of the Convention in foreign lands
is valued at ?60,000. The financial exhibit is
one of the most encourageing ever made by
the board, and contributions have been greater
than last year by nearly ?5,000. The annual
receipts were $49,041, and the expenditures
$45,762, leaving ?3,279 in the hands of the
board.
The reports were referred to the appropriate
committees.
The second day's proceedings were opened
at 9 o'clock Thursday morning with prayer by
the Rev. H. H. D. Stratton, of Georgia.
The president announced the appointment
of the various committees.
A. D. Cohen, of North Carolina, introduced
a resolution looking to missionary operation
among the Jews in this and other countries
and the appointment of proper persons for the
prosecution of this special work. The resolution
was referred to a special committee of
five of the committee on the extension of foreign
missionary work.
A resolution by Joshua Levering, of Maryland,
was adopted providing for a committee
from each State represented in the Convention
to consider the present condition of the Board
of Home Missions and to recommend such
measures as may be deemed necessary for the
enlargement of the work.
The Rev. G. A. Nunally, of Georgia introduced
a resolution providing for the appointment
of a committee to confer with other
Baptists with the sole purpose of combining
and co-operating for the production of a new
translation of the Bible and giving to the
nations of the earth, in their respective languages,
the pure Word of God. The resolution
declares that this action is not intended
to interfere with nor commit this body in its
sympathy or support to the missionary or
publication work of any other Baptist organization
now in existence. The resolution was
adopted.
The president read a cable dispatch, received
from Rev. M. C. Yates, Missionary in
China, as follows:
"Mell :
Psalm, 46.
Yates."
By request Dr. Tupper read the Psalm beginning
"God is our refuge and strength."
Quite a protracted running debate ensued
on a question raised as to whether the expense
of answering the telegram?some $30 or
$40?should be met by the Foreign Mission
Board or by a collection in the convention.
>r.. Pnmlino citflcl H,a
A>JL1. JJ(lIiC), U1 nuiiu vuivuiiU) uvvvivu uiv
question by moving to lay the motion on the
table, stating that North Carolina would assume
the expense.
In answer to Mr. Yates' dispatch the president
telegraphed, "Psalm 103."
The Rev. J. M. Gregorie, D. D., of Illinois
agent of the American Baptist Home Missionary
Society, who has been traveling in the
South for some weeks inspecting the condition
of the schools for freednien under the auspices
of this society, made an address giving an
encourageing account of his observations, and
referring at length and with eloquence to the
struggle through which Christianity is now
passing. The schools for freedmen established
| by the American Baptist society were all prospering,
and many young colored men are being
trained for the active duties of the ministry.
The afternoon session was consumed in
hearing the reports of the vice-presidents of
the board on home and foreign missions. The
reports show an increased interest in missionary
operations in nearly all the Southern
States.
At night a mass meeting in the interest of
missionary work in New Orleans was held,
and the required amount, ?5,0(J0, was raised
for that purpose.
On Friday the Convention was opened with
prayer by the Rev. IV. Elkins, of South Carolina.
The report of the committee on foreign
missions recommending renewed diligence in
this field was adopted. The usual devotional
exercises were conducted at half-past 11 o'clock>
with II. K. Ellyson, of Richmond in the chair.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, was present,
and at the special invitation of the Convention
made an address urging the great impor
tance of missionary work ana especially 111
China, and referring to the present as essentially
the missionary age, with all the discoveries
of science, the commercial intercourse of
nations, and facilities for speedy travel and
transportation contributing to the great opportunities
of the Church in spreading the
Gosjiel.
The report of the committee on the mission
to the Chinese in California, recommending
an increased appropriation to the work, was
adopted.
The afternoon session of the Conventior
was consumed in hearing the reports of the
various committees. The Committee on Eu
ropean Missions recommended increased ap
propriations. The Committee on the Ilonu
Missions Board recommended the removal o1
the Board from Marion, Ala., to Atlanta, Ga.
and the report was made the special ordei
for to-morrow morning. The night sessior
was devoted to the subject of foreign missions
In the proceedings of Saturday a resolutior
to remove the board of home missions fron
Marion, Ala., to Atlanta, Ga., created a long
and animated discussion. Dr. Winkler, o:
Alabama, made a strong speech for retaining
the present location.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, Dr. Hatcher, ol
Richmond, and others favored the removal
and the resolution was finally passed by a votf
of 222 ayes to 18 nays
At the afternoon session a resolution grave
ly disapproving of the action of t he Americai
Bible .Society in refusing to aid in the publica
non ana circulation 01 ur. .miusuh ? jouhucsi
version of the Bible was introduced by Dr
James P. Boyce. In speaking upon the reso
lution Dr. Burrows, of Virginia, denouncec
the action of the Bible Society as an insult t<
Baptists all over the country, and said that tin
society had offended Scholarship, Christianity
and Catholicity. The resolution was adopted
A resolution was adopted declining to eiite;
into any consideration of the conditions ant
purposes of the Bible Society.
At the final session of the Convention 01
Saturday night a number of committee report:
were read and adopted. The committee 01
conclusion of the board of foreign mission:
made a report opposing special missionary
work among the Jews,, they having been si
scattered as to coifre^rmder the influence o
all other missionaries.
New boards of home and foreign mission
were appointed, the boards having the righ
to elect their own presidents and secretaries.
The report of the committee as to the peti
tion of Presbyterians to memorialize Congres
on the subject of the Sunday law was recommit
ted, and was afterwards amended so as to
recommend efforts for general legislative en
actment by Christians in their capacity a
citizens.
"NVaco, Texas, was chosen as the place o
the next meeting of the Convention in May
1883, and Dr. .John "A. Broaddus, of Louis
ville, Ky., was appointed to preach the n'ex
Convention sermon, with I)r. Strickland, o
Knoxvjlle Term., as alternate.
The Convention finally adjourned at 1
o'clock. Dr. Sydnor, of Virginia, making th
concluding prayer, and the Convention join
ing in singing "Blest be the Tie that Binds.'
The various city churches were filled 01
Sunday by leading Baptist ministers, Di
Broadus preaching at the Baptist Church t
an immense congregation.
T11E METHODIST CONFERENCE.
In the General Methodist Conference no^
in session at Nashville Tenn., during the pre
ceedings on the 9th, the committee rej>orted
resolution to authorize the College of Bishop
to organize an annual Conference in China an
Central Mexico during the nextquadrennium
The Committee on Episcopacy presented
written tribute to the memory of the deceasei
Bishops Wightman and Doggett, and also rt
commended the granting of the request c
Bishop Paine to be retired from future activ
1 service, accompanied with an eulogy of hi
character and past service.
1 The committee on revisals recommend tha
the discipline be amended so that no applicn
tion for sui>ernumerary relation be granted b
an annual Conference except on the recon
mendation of the Conference relations com
mittee to be appointed by the Conference
consisting of not less than seven members
and said committee, in making up their dt
> cision, shall not take into consideration any
thing else than the personal liability of the aj
i plicant; provided that, in case the committe
report adversely, the Conference may by
vote of not less than three-fourths of the mem
' bers present grant the said application.
\ Tlinv olan von/ymmtnuloH a rPQi\1nHnn fnr
JUJIVJ ? ?? .vwu,.U^>.vU .. ..
' commissioner to prepare a graded system c
standard catechism.
The committee on education, in referenc
to the educational waj$g.of the negro pope
lation, urge the improvement of every oppoi
! tunity offered to preach to their congreg?
tions. The report says : "Our people in th
s South have cheerfully borne their share i:
i providing for legislation for the education?
i wants of the colored race and have endeavore
to promote common school education amon
' them." The committee recommended the ai
pointment of a commissioner of education t
i aid the Colored Methodist Episcopal Chure
in America, to solicit contribution.0 for a
educational fund for the benefit of the Col
i ored Methodist Church, and the creation of
board of trustees for the custody of this func
Dr. A. A. ltedford, former book agent of th
Methodist Publishing House, began the read
ing of a voluminous communication in repl
, to the report of the book committee, which h
regarded as reflecting upon his integrity i
the management of the affairs of the Publish
ing House. Pending the reading of which th
i Conference took a recess.
On the 10th, the Sunday-school committee'
report was presented. It makes a very favoi
able showing. The committee on itineranc
recommend non-concurrency in the memorifl
from the Kentucky Conference asking th
appointment of Evangelists.
The case of G. W. Whitman, elder of th
South Carolina Conference, deposed from th
ministry on the ground of immorality, wa
remanded for new trial, because of the in
consistency in the decision in deposing him i:
the church.
The committee on revivals recommend nor
concfirrence in the petition to strike from th
church rolls those who habitually neglec
public worship. They also recommend nor
concurrence in the proposition to legalize th
appointment of women as Sunday-school su
perintendents.
The committee on fraternal correspondenc
report that they had replied to the letter o
the Sabbath committee of the Southern Pres
byterian Church, promising to co-operate ii
the effort to protect by proper legal measures
the sanctity of the Christian Sabbath am
will join in an earnest appeal to the Congres
to discontinue and prohibit the transportatioi
of mail matter on Sunday. After.some dis
cussion the letter was laid on the table fo
the present.
Dr. J. B. McFerrin, book agent, and Jas
Whitworth, of the book committee, replied t<
the complaint of Dr. Bedford that injustie
had been done him by the book committee'
report, and insisting that thefactsand record
justified their report.
On the 11th, in the case of Samuel Cupples
a lay delegate from the St. Louis Conference
charged with a violation of the rules in per
mitting dancing in his house since his elec
tion, the committee reported that the lav
against dancing had been fully vindicated b;
his pastor and church.
Dr. Shipp, from the committee on fraterna
relations, submitted the following, which wai
adopted unanimously:
Resolved, That this General Conferenc(
has heard with great satisfaction the Christiar
salutation of the Methodist Church of Canada
through their fraternal messenger, Rev. How
ard Sprague, A. M., and of the Methodis!
Episcopal Church through Henry Bascon
liidgeway, D. D., and heartily reciprocal
their expressions of love to the Methodisl
Episcopal Church South, praying that the Di
vine spirit may render effective their joinl
effort with ours in spreading scriptural holi
ness throughout the earth.
The report of the committee on Episcopacy,
recommending the election of six Bishops,
produced some discussion on a motion to limil
the number to three, and pending the discussion
the Conference adjourned.
On the 12th. tlifc nrineinal Dart of the da\
; was spent in the consideration of the reports
I from the committees on the question of electing
six additional Bishops. No action taken.
The committee on Temperance submitted
a report which was adopted touching the uses
! of tobacco. The committee say: While re!
cognizing the fact that much evil grows out ol
I the intemperate use of tobacco, yet we would
I recommend no special legislation on the sub1
ject.
A paper was referred asking that this General
Conference take such action as will pre;
vent the use of fermented wines in the Sacrament
of the Lord's Supper. The report was
I in favor of non-concurrence, but the commit;
tee would, at the same time, recommend to the
; people everywhere to be careful to procure the
purest wines for this holy Sacrament.
On the 13th, the Conference was engaged
! most of the day in the discussion of the question
of the number of Bishops to be elected.
I No conclusion was reached.
I I)r. Kelly, of Nashville, urged the need of
\. Bishops in the "Western country and Mexico.
i In the first direction he said there was a crisis
coming up in Methodism ; that field belonged
i to Methodism, and the question for them to
i consider was whether they would take their
own or relinquish the field to others.
The committee on temperance submitted
5 rules to be placed in the Book of Discipline.
E j The report says: "Let the preachers and mem,
j hers observe the general rules which forbid
r; drunkenness or the drinking of spirituous
i | liquors unless in cases of necessity. In cases
, j of drunkenness let the discipline be adminis11
tered as in cases of immorality; let ourpreaohl
I ers and members abstain from the manufacr
ture or sale of intoxicating liquors to be used
E as beverages, and if any shall engage in such
; manufacture of sale, in sucli case let the discipline
be administered as in case of impru
E dent or improper conduct.
, In the session of the Conference on Mon>
day, a letter from Bishop Wood of the African
Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, extending
- fraternal greeting, was read; also one from the
1 General Conference of the Colored Methodist
- Church recently held in Washington. A mi3
nority report was submitted from the commit.
tee on temperance declaring that further legis
lation on the subject would be unwise and un1
necessary. The question of the election of
) Bishops was considered and the Conference
3 agreed, by a vote of BIO to 106, toelectfive new
f Bishops, and their election was made the spe.
cial order for 10 o'clock Tuesday. A memor
rial was presented, asking definite action as to
1 an annual collection for the American Bible
Society.
s THE DIOCESAN CONVENTION.
l The Episcopal Convention of South Caroli3
na convened in Spartanburg on the 10th iny
stant, Bishop Howe presiding. About fifty
3 delegates, lay and clerical, were in attendance,
f The first day's proceedings were devoted to
arranging the order of services and meetings
s of the Convention, after which there were
t religious services, the Rev. H. 0 Judd preaching
the opening sermon from the text Ephesi
ans iv, 3d, 4th and oth verses, "Endeavoring
s to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of
- peace * * * ()ne Lord, one faith, one
o baptism." At the close of the sermon the
- Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was celebras
ted.
The Convention met at 10 o'clock on Thursf
day morning. Nineteen new members answer',
ed to the roll call.
i- Bishop Howe read his annual address, which
t was heard with marked attention. After exf
nrocoinrr n]u<iuiu*o ut mepHinv Hip Convention
*- f)
at the foot of the mountains and in one of
2 South Carolina's most thriving cities, he
e gives the following statistics: Ordination to
i- the priesthood 2, consecration of churches 2,
" persons confirmed 343, 1 of the clergy transit
fered and 5 received into the diocese. Two
of the clergy have died, Kev. J. O'Bear and
o Rev. R. P. Johnson. St. Jude's Church,
Walterboro', was consecreted in January last,
the Diocease contributing $1,316.90 for its
erection. He urged upon the Convention the
v necessity of systematic and organized effort
i- in behalf of the diocesan missions, and of
a each parish reporting what may be expected
s from it for the ensuing year,
d The visit of the Bishops of West Texas and
i. Louisiana were referred to, and much pleasa
ure expressed that they had accomplished
d so much for the theological department of the
i- University of the South. Mention was also
?f made of the good work carried on at the Iloly
e Communion Church Institute in Charleston,
s Received for diocesan purposes during the
past year $2,015.91.
,t The death of the Bishop of Pittsburg was
i- reported, and a high tribute paid to his Chrisy
tian character and eminent ability.
i- The revised version of the New Testament
t- was commended, but no clergyman has a right
i, to use it in the public worshhip of the church,
; except by vote of the General Convention,
i- Its proper place is to be found in the closet
and in the study and at a family prayers. It
)- has done much to establish the faith of some
e who feared the result of modern Greek scholara
ship when brought to bear on the newly dist
covered manuscript. Time will test the merits
of the work, it will probably net supplant
a the old version in the churches, but it will
d' prove a valuable auxiliary to the preacher in
expounding the word of God.
e The standing committee was elected,
i- The trustees of the University of the South
- read their report. Resolutions endorsing tlys
i- institution, and also similar resolutions in
e reference to the Holy Communion Church
n Institute, were adopted,
il Rev. J. I). McCollough was elected secretad
17, and Mr. F. A Mitchell treasurer,
g The various standing committees were then
>- appointed and reports were heard.
0 Divine service was held, Rev. W. J. Alger
h preaching from I Cor. iii: 10?;'A wise inas
n ter-builder."
1- The'Covention concluded its labors on Frii,
day. After meeting at 10 o'clock A. M.,
i. prayer was said and the rites of confirmation
e administered to two young ladies. Dr. Porl
ter introduced a resolution in regard to the
y Lenten offering for building churches and
e parsonages, which was adopted,
n A resolution urging parishes to pay the exi
penses of delegates to the Convention was
e passed ; also one of thanks to the rector and
congregation of the Church of the Advent and
s to the citizens of this place.
St. Philip's Church, Charleston was selected
y as the place for the session of the Convention
[1 in 1883.
e Dr. Porter gave notice of an amendment to
Article third of the Constitution,
e The board of trustees of the Advancement
e Society made a special sport in reference to
s the education of thelogical students,
i- Dr. Porter introduced a series of resolutions,
n in regard to the religious instruction of the
colored j>eople which, after some discussion,
i- were adopted.
e The Convention then finally adjourned,
t This evening was devoted to religious services
i- in the interest of the Advancement Society,
e
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
e ? The survey of the "Winston and Fayettef
ville Railroad has been completed to High
Point.
a ? Four United States prisoners in jail at
^ Asheville for terms from three to six years,
g made their escape last Friday night,
a ?The store of Dr. S. "Woodward, in "Wilson
i- county, was struck by lightning on Saturday
r last and three colored men killed by the elec
trie nuia.
j ? It is said that the Virginia Midland Raile
road will soon be pushed on from Danville to
s Statesville, giving the Richmond .and Danville
3 combination two routes to Charlotte.
? Basil C. Manley, mayor of Raleigh and
' brigadier-general of the first brigade North
I Carolina State Guard, died last Monday, aged
- 43 years. He served with distinction in the (
f Confederate army as an officer of artillery.
V ? The name of Hon. D. F. Caldwell, of'
j Greensboro, is proposed for Congressman at
3 large from North Carolina. Mr. Caldwell is
one of the purest and most devoted of North
) Carolina's public men, and would make a
1 faithful and zealous representative if elected
1 to that position.
j! ? The Asheville Citizen says : "In constructs
, ing the railroad down the French Broad river
3 many valuable deposits of minerals were dist
covered. One cut opened a splendid mica de
posit on lands of Mr. Albert Ramsey, some six
J miles below town, and in the locality indications
of superior corundum were found."
( ? The motion for the appointment of a Re,
ceiver for the Carolina Central Railway came
> up at Goldsboro, last Friday, before Judge
I mimnr Therp. was a stroncr arrav of counsel
r on l>oth sides. For want of time the hearing
, of the motion was continued until Tuesday,
. July lltli next, in Chambers, before Judge A.
A. McKoy, at Clinton, or such other place as
L he may elect.
1 ? Three negro burglars were killed in Wilkes
! county last week wtfile attempting to rob a
[ smoke-house. They had made an opening in
. a smoke-house by prizing up the logs, and being
discovered one was shot dead, while the
other two, in attempting to escape, knocked
out the prize, which caused the opening they
had made to close just as they were about half
! way out, crushing both to death,
i ? Says the Gastonia Gazette of last Friday :
> A party of revenue officers consisting of F. C.
Ferguson, P. W. Jenkins, George McLaughlin,
and "Mack" Morris, made a raid on Indian :
creek in the upper part of Gaston county re- j
cently and captured sixteen stands containing j
' about sixteen hundred gallons of beer and (the !
still and fixtures. The still was owned by
Jefferson Iluffstetler and operated by Simpson
George and Caleb Ramsey. The parties all
fled.
? A Raleigh dispatch says that Senators Don
Cameron and Mahone have decided to invest
in real estate and water i>ower in North Carolina,
for the purpose of erecting works for the
building of railroad cars of every description
and for spinning cotton. It is stated that the
property of the RoanokeXavigation Company,
vofiru ntrn built ,*i rnnal from Wfildon to
Gaston, is to bo sold very soon by order of the
Supreme Court to the highest bidder. It was
sold a few weeks ago, and the sale was set
aside and a resale ordered. It is understood
that Senators Cameron and Mahone have decided
to buy that property, aud thot extensive
car works will be immediately put up and a
large cotton factory be also erected at Weldon.
The canal will be cleaned out and a dam
thrown across the river at Giiston high enough
to turn the whole river into the canal. Water
privileges from Weldon to Gaston will be purchasable,
so that the canal may be lined with
mills aud factories.
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
In the Senate on the 8th, the President pro
tern.'submitted the resolutions of the Illinois
Legislature, declaring it to be the duty of the
government to demand the speedy trial and
unconditional release of American citizens
imprisoned in Ireland. Referred to the committee
on foreign relations. Several bills
were introduced, among them one by Mr. Butler
prescribing the manner of instituting criminal
proceedings in United States Courts. It
provides that all criminal cases in United
States Courts except revenue cases and cases
of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction shall
be instituted and prosecuted by the indictment
or presentment of a grand jury duly drawn
and regularly empanneled according to law.
Referred to the judiciary committee. The
court of appeals bill came up as the regular order,
but without final action the Senate went
into executive session and afterwards adjourned.
In the House several bills were introduced
under the call of States, when the bill to enlarge
the duties of the Department of Agriculture
was taken up. During the discussion
of this bill, Mr. Aiken, of South Carolina,
supported the proposition of elevating to the
dignity ef an executive department the Bu
reau of Agriculture, which represented the
great farming interests, on which rested the
welfare of the government. After other speeches,
further discussion of the bill was postponed,
and the House adjourned.
In the Senate on the 9th, the House tarifl
commission bill was passed by yeas, 35 ; nays,
10, Mr. Hampton voting with the Republicans
in its favor. The regular order, the bill creating
intermediate appellate Courts as a measure
of relief for the Supreme Court, was taken
up. Several bills offered from the Democratic
side were voted down, and the bill finally
went over. After an executive session the
Senate adjourned.
The proceedings of the House were confined
to considering the bill for enlarging the powers
and duties of the Agricultural Department.
The proceedings of the Senate on the 10th
were unimportant, considerable time being
used up in a struggle for precedence for bills.
The bill for intermediate apellate Courts was
then proceeded with, and pending debate the
Senate adjourned.
In the House, the bill for enlarging the powers
and duties of the Agricultural Department
was taken up, and finally passed in its original
form. It provides that the Department ol
Agriculture shall be an Executive Department,
under the supervision and control of the
Secretary of Agriculture, who shall be an experienced
and practical agriculturist, and establishes
the following bureaus of that Department
: of agricultural products, of animal
industry, of the lands, and of statistics. Tlu
District of Columbia appropriations bill was
passed.
In the Senate on the 11th, the chair announced
his signature to the tariff commissior
bill. The pending bill for intermediate appel
late Courts was discussed, and the conference
report on the Indian appropriation bill was
submitted, concurred in, and the bill passed.
In the House, Slierwin, of Illinois, from the
committee on education and labor, reported f
bill to aid in the support of common schools,
Ordered to be printed and recommitted. II
provides that for the next five years there
shall be annually appropriated the sum of
?10,000.000 to aid in the support of free com
moii schools, which amount shall be known as
the common school fund, and which shall Ix
apportioned to the several States and Territories
according to the number of their illiterate
populations over ten years of age. An amount
not to exceed tive per cent, of the sura apportioned
may be used for the education of teachers
in public schools. The Geneva award bill
was discussed, but went over without action.
The Speaker laid before the House a communication
from the Secretary of War in reference
to the expenditures of the Signal Service,
the communication stating that previous reports
of expenditures of this department were
erroneous. Mr. Tillman, of South Carolina,
introduced a bill providing for a coaling dock
and naval store house at Port Royal, S. C.
Adjourned.
In the Senate on the 12th, debate on the appellate
Court bill was closed and the bill was
passed by a vote of yeas, 32 ; nays, 10. After
a long contention for the precedence of business,
the tive per cent, land bill was taken up
and laid over on the orders as unfinished busi1
ness. The Senate then adjourned until Monday.
In the House, the conference reports on the
fortifications and agricultural appropriation
bills were agreed to.
The Senate was not in session on the 13th.
The Senate select committee on woman suffrage
met, however, and agreed to recommend
to the Senate for adoption Senator Lapham's
joint resolution, proposing the following
amendment to the Constitution :
"Article XVI, Section 1. The right of citizens
of the United States to vote shall not be
denied or abridged by the United States or by
any State on account of sex.
"Sec. 2. Congress shall have power, by appropriate
legislation, to enforce the provisions
of this article.1'
The vote was : Ayes?Lapham, Blair and
Jackson?3. Nays George and Fair?2, Absent?Anthony
and Ferry.
In the House, Mr. Robinson, of Massachusetts,
reserving all points of order therein,
j Mr. Dingley, of Maine, asked leave to report
! from the committee on banking and currency
a bill to suspend the issue of silver certificates
and to limit the coinage of silver dollars to the
roninromonto nf nooTtlo \fr WnlmAn nf
Indiana, objected. Mr. Crapo, of Massachusetts,
then called up for consideration the bill
to enable National banking associations to extend
their corporate existence. After the
reading of the bill and the presentation of various
proposed amendments for printing in the
Record, Mr. Crapo, of Massachusetts, took
the door in explanation of the provisions of
the bill and the presentation of the reasons
which demanded action on the part of Congress.
After discussion, the matterwent over.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
NOTES FROM BLACK'S STATION.
Black's Station, S. C., May 15.?We are
now having some very cool weather for this
season of the year, though so far as has been
observed the growing crops have not been materially
injured thereby. The crop prospect
continues cheering.
Dr. D. S. Ramseur has leased to northern
parties an asbestos mine near this place, and
the mining of this mineral will commence here
in a few weeks.
Telegrams per cable are being received at
this place from England negotiating for the
purchase of gold mining property in the vicinity.
The committee appointed by the town council
of Gaffney City for the purpose of forming
a new county from portions of York, Spartanburg
and Union will meet in connection with
that business to-day at Gaffney's. J. A. Deal,
Esq., of this place is one of the committee
from this section.
?._ m;i t? /1..I ? J J? 4-V.rt *vn/-.nln
All". Xlllllilll II. UtUUtTS iiuiucnacu lug j/gu|/ig
here last Friday night upon the subject of immigration
and inducing capitalists from other
sections to locate amongst us.
The Rev. John A. Tillinghast an Episcopal
minister from Charleston, is here on a visit to
relatives. Ego.
? The farmers of Arkansas are suffering
from a series of disasters. Their crops are
being eaten up by a worm resembling the
.army worm, the trees are loosing their foliage
from the ravages of caterpillars, and their
live stock is perishing from gnat i>oisoning.
LOCAX. AFFAIRS.
new advertisements.
J. R. Gardner, A Kent?Close Up!
F. Happerfield, Treasurer?Annual Report.
W. Holmes Hardin, President?Annual Railroad
MeetiriK.
W. W. Onffney, Administrator?Application for
Discharge.
Herndon Brothers?Reapers! Reapers!!?Our
Stock.
M. Strauss-It is So!
T. M. Dohson?Bon-Ton Millinery Store Still
Rooming.
J. M. Adams?A Revolution In the Tin Business
nr. the Yorkville Tin Factory?House Furnishing
G.khIs?Lamps, Lamps, Lamps?
T. S. Jeft'eryH, Agent?Close Up.
John Bratton, Comptroller-General?Insurance
License to T. S. Jefferys.
VV. C. Latin ier-The Fashionable Millinery Store.
COTTON SHIPMENTS.
The shipments of cotton from the depot for
the week ending last Monday were 533 bales,
making a total to date of 0,909.
TAX COLLECTIONS.
County Treasurer Neely gives us the following
statement as the total collections of the
May installment of State and county taxes,
at the close of business last Saturday:
For State purposes, 81,204 69 4
Ordinary county purposes, 760 87 1)
Railroad purposes, 608 81 6
School purposes, 607 25 2
Poll tax, 85 00 J
Total, $3,166 64 3
THE TOWN COUNCIL.
The new town council was organized last
Friday, by electing F. Happerfield as treasurer
and Geo. W. S. Hart as clerk. The existing
ordinance as to license for the sale of beef,
veal or pork, and the resolution as to a regular
monthly meeting of the council at 4 P. M., on
the second Monday of each month, were extended
for one year. The salary for policeman
1 for the ensuing month was fixed at $32.
Some of the citizens having been discussing
[ of late the propriety of dispensing with a regular
policeman, the members of the council
agreed to take the matter under consideration
until the next meeting, to be held on the 12th
of June, when the question will probably be
decided.
I CHURCH NOTICES.
Presbyterian?Rev.*T. R. English, Pastor.
; Services will be cor.lucted in this chnrch next
; Sunday, morning and evening, by Rev. B. A.
. Webb, in the absence of the pastor, who is attending
the General Assembly, which con
venes to-day at Columbus, Ga.
Methodist Episcopal?Rev. R. P. Franks,
rasior. services ac Ji.ing s .Mountain uuapei
^ in the forenoon; in the Church at Yorkville,
in the evening.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R.
' Latban, Pastor. In the absence of the pas!
tor, who will preach at Chester next Sunday,
I Rev. C. E. McDonald will conduct the ser.
vice in the above church at 10$ A. M. Sunday-school
at 9 A. M.
i Baptist?Rev. W. L. Brown, Pastor. Services
at Union Church at 11 A. M., and at
Yorkville in the afternoon at 4 o'clock.
! THE COTTON SALE.
We were led into error in our statement of
; the cotton sale here last week by quoting the
prices obtained at k'from 8$ to 12 cents."
Since the appearance of our paragraph last
week, we are reliably informed that no cotton
was sold in the exchange room under 11.30,
and the statement is further made that none
was sold on that day under 11. We were
careful to endeavor to obtain the facts, and
our information as to the sales at 8$ cents
j came through a third person, who was told by
a buyer that he had bought at the figure named.
" Of course, we are only glad that such favora'
ble prices were obtained all round, and we feel
> a pardonable pride in the fact that the planters
3 within the radius of but a few miles around
Yorkville, are in so prosperous a condition as
} to put 559 bales of cotton on the market on the
1 same day at this season of the year. And
" what is even more to boast of, not less than
Ij 1
> 700 bales could have been sold on that day had
: all been offered that was promised at the in
ception of the scheme.
! PROGRESS OF REGISTRATION.
From Col. McCorkle, Supervisor of Regis'
tration for York county, we obtain the follow;
ing as the result of registration to and including
last Saturday:
I Whites. Colored.
Rock Hill, 229 428
Coates' Tavern, 64 157
mcej wee's aim, 59 sy
Fort Mill, : 220 211
Clay Hill,.-. 77 118
. Bethel 130 92
i Clover, 114 67
Bethany 85 18
Totals 1,048 1,180
Majority for colored, 132.
It is regretted that an opposition, whether
well founded or not, exists among a few white
voters to the registration law. We cannot but
believe, however, that when the apathetic
white voters of the county fully realize the
condition of affairs, they will take a better
view of the matter and register their names,
rather than permit the county, or may be the
State, to fall into the clutches of the Republican
party, to reenact the scenes of the Scott,
the Moses and the Chamberlain administrations
of corruption and robbery. And yet
such will be tli? inevitable result if the white
voters fail to register. This is a question well
worth pondering. With all that has been said
on the subject, if the white voters, through a
mistaken notion of prejudice, fail to do their
duty, the blame will rest upon themselves.
Remember, that if you fail to register you cannot
vote at the next election.
THE PICNIC.
The railroad excursion to Gastonia, N C.,
and picnic last Friday, was a success in every
particular, and a most enjoyable occasion to
every one who had the good fortune to be of
the party. The day was pleasant and under
I the skillful guidance of Mr. T. P. Beard, the
train, laden with light and joyous hearts of
"gallant beaux and maidens fair" made rapid
time to the point of destination, alfording a
delightful ride through a fine section of country
dotted with fertile farms smiling in the
promise of plenteous crops.
Arriving at Gastonia, the excursionists were
; met by a similar party from Lincolnton, the
I Gastonia Cornet Band enliVeningthe greetings
j of the representatives of the sister States with
j inspiring strains of music. After the exchange
i of civilities and the forming of acquaintances,
i many of which, if we may judge by the language
of eyes which "spoke words of love and
i answered back again," may ripen into more
! than a passing acquaintance, the pleasureseekers
started on' their rounds of enjoyment,
each passing the time according to his or her
desire. Those who enjoyed the mazes of the
dance repaired to the hall provided for the occasion,
where to the lively notes of Dick Latta's
violin the festive dancers passed the day,
j only yielding for dinner, which was served in
picnic style, and of which there was an abunj
dance; though many availed themselves of the
opportunity to partake of an excellent dinner
j spread upon the bounteous tables of Mr. Falls'
hotel. Until late in the afternoon the day was
pleasantly spent, and will long be remembered
as one of the most enjoyable picnics ever yet
given on the railroad. The committee of ar;
rangements, consisting of Messrs. C. G. Parish,
L. Geo. Grist, T. H. Glenn, H. H. Beard,
' and Wm. M. Allison, were indefatigable in
ministering to the pleasures and comforts of
i all, and to their promptness and efficiency is
due the suecess of the day and the enjoyment
of the occasion.
1 The attaches of the Enquirer who accompanied
the excursionists, cannot let the opportunity
pass without making acknowledgment
to Mr. G. W. Chalk, of the Gazette, for numer
ous courtesies extended during their pleasant
I visit.