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Scraps and .facts. !
? Gen. Grant's son-in-law, Algernon Sarto-I
ris, is to swim a friendly nice on the Thames I
in June with another man?stakes ?1.000. !
He is now in practice at a New York swim- j
ining school.
? The New York Assembly has passed Senator
Kiernan's bill doing away with the usury
law on call loans above live thousand dollars.
It allows parties to make contracts at
whatever rates they choose on such loans.
? Mrs. Mason, wife of Sergeant Mason, '
called on the President last "Wednesday to intercede
for her husband. He assured her that
the petitions in his behalf would shortly be |
laid before Congress. The impression at Wash- j
ington is that his sentence will be mitigated, j
The subscriptions for Mrs. Mason's benefit ,
amount to over $3,000.
? On Monday last Judge Matthews, of the j
United States Supreme Court, convened the i
United States Circuit Court for the Eastern j
District of Tennessee, at Kuoxville, in special
session to try the case of the State of Tennessee
vs. George L. Lark ins, for murder. About
ten years ago Larkins was deputy United
States marshal, and killed his cousin. The
case attracts much attention as a test case.
? John Menemon, a farmer, living twelve
miles west of Muscatine, Iowa, aged 65, was
shot and killed by his fifteen year-old daughter
last Saturday. The father and daughler were
quarreling, when the girl's brother aged 18,
handed her a revolver with which she shot her
father through the breast. It is supposed the
children desired to get i>ossession of their father's
property. The mother is in an insane asylum.
? Stephen G. Effer, aged 25, convicted of
wife murder in Burke county, was hanged at
Marion, North Carolina last Friday. lie
made a confession admitting that he strangled
his wife when asleep in bed and broke her neck,
lie rode with the sheriff guarded by sixty
armed men to the gallows, one-half of a mile |
from town, followed by an immense crowd.
After prayers he made an harangue an hour
long, and expressed his willingness to die.
His neck was broken.
--The New York Cotton Exchange was notified
last Friday by the National Cotton Exchange
of New Orleans that henceforth the
monthly crop reports are to be discontinued.
It is alleged that these reports, prepared by
local exchanges throughout the South upon
information from planters and traders, have
Ijeen found to be unreliable. They advanced
local interests instead of indicating the real
condition of the crop, thus enabling specula
tors to influence the market.
? An attempt was made at 3 o'clock last
Saturday morning to blow open the safe of the
National bank of Hopkinton, at Hope Valley,
R. I. Powder had been blown in the safe
door, and the explosion blew off the outer
fastening and destroyed the lock, but the entrance
to the safe could not be made. The
thieves escaped in a solen carriage leaving a
line lot of burglar's tools. They were traced
only a few miles through the country. This
is the fourth attempt that has been made to
rob this bank within the past eight or ten
years.
? An explosion of sulphur occurred in the
Bucks Ridge collier)-, near Shamokin, Pa.,
last Saturday, causing the immediate death of
two men and fatally wounding two others, one
of whom has since died. It seems that one of
the men had entered the face of the workings
with a naked lamp, while the other man remained
behind the battery. An unexpected
body of sulphur was met, which ignited from
the lamp, causing a terrific explosion and
hurling the men with great force against the
gangway timbers. About two hundred tons
of top coal was dislodged, which fell on two
men, burning them severely.
? About a month ago, at Athens, Ga., a
university student named Walter Rountree,
who, with some fellow students while in an
altercation with some negroes on the street,
was shot and killed. Two negroes?Echols
and Johnson?were arrested for the murder
and committed to jail, and only by the utmost
vigilance of the officials was their being
lynched prevented. But when the trial came
on, it was proved conclusively that the shot
ifc. which killed young Rountree while the negroes
Echols and Johnson were attacking him,
wns fiw?i hv Wnnntrpp's brother in Rountree's
(defence. The State, therefore, dropped the
charge of murder and prosecuted Echols and
.Johnson for felonious assault. They were coni
victed and sentenced to the penitentiary for
the term of ten years each, the fullest term
I prescribed by law.
? Last Saturday morning, about 7 o'clock,
f .John Bobey, a machinist, was sitting in the
window of the top story of a house on College
St., in Charlotte, N. C., when he lost his balance
and tumbled out. The window was on the
rear side of the house and to the ground was
a fall of seventy feet. Bol>ey struck on the
platform which rims along the first story of
the house and crashed through it to the ground,
entirely demolishing a section of the platform
about six feet long. He was picked up and
laid out In a room, dead, to all appearances,
but when the physician arrived and made an
examination, he pronounced the man to be
living. A severe concussion of the brain and
several fractures about the skull, was the extent
of his injuries. In the course of an hour
or two the man could talk, and showed some
signs of improvement. The doctor thinks the
man will get well.
? The five per cent, land bill passed by the
Senate last week provides that lands entered
by military scrip or bounty land warrants in
the States of California, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana,
Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Oregon,
Nevada and Colorado, including Virginia
" military and United States military land warrants
located in Ohio, shall be construed to
come within the provisions of the law for the
payment to the States of 5 i>er centum of the
proceeds of public lands disposed of within
their borders. The lands are to be estimated
at the rate of $1.25 i>er acre and payments
to l>e made in cash. It is also provided that
money remaining on the books of the treasury
to the credit of any of the public lands States,
under the Act of ISM, which distributed the
t reasury surplus, shall not be charged as an
offset against any part of the amount coming
to the States under the bill. The bill prohibits
States from paying any part of the money
received by them to agents or attorneys for
services in procuring the passage of the Act,
or in connection with the claims of the States,
unless such payments are authorized by State
laws passed after the date of the Act.
?The Chinese of California are a shrewder
people than they are accredited with being.
The company that supplies San Francisco
with water having put the cost of furnishing
water at a price that the Chinamen considered
exorbitant, the latter have undertaken to igtinro
tVio ( nmnanv anH snnnlv water for ttiem
selves. The total cost put upon the water
supplied by the company to the inhabitants of ;
Chinatown has been $4,000 per month. Of this ,
gross sum the Chinese wash-houses paid $2,000 j
per month, the rates being $45 per month for |
each wash-house. Finding it impossible to !
get a reduction on this rate, the Chinamen j
have gone to work and dug artesian wells in j
their district, and have obtained abundance |
of clear, soft water at a depth of from 120 to j
200 feet, and at a cost to those who require it!
of one-half the rate charged by the water com- j
pany. They have thus made themselves in- j
dependent of the latter. They now proi>ose j
to enter the field of comi>etition. The Chinese I
Six companies have formed a syndicate to j
supply the citizens generally with water from ;
artesian wells. That it is possible for them j
to do it and at lower prices than are charged ;
by the San Francisco Water Company seems
to be conceded.
? A London letter says: One pretty good
thing that is about to be performed by this
body (Parliament) is the passage of a package]*>st
act, which I feel like recommending to
the American authorities for their consideration.
It provides that all parcels not exceeding
seven pounds' weight may be sent to any
part of the United Kingdom for one shilling,
or twenty-five cents each. The postoflice will
try to establish at the same time an international
postal system, and it is certainly to be
hoped the United States may be induced to
come into the arrangement. In England the
I>ostoffice runs the telegraph system as well as
the savings banks, in addition to its normal
business. And one who has never been there
caq have a very limited idea of the promptness
with which all these matters are disposed
of. You may post a letter in London, directed
to any other portion of this great city, and be
l>erfectly sure that it will be delivered inside
two hours. You may mail a letter for America
eight hours after the steamer that is to
bear it has left Livenxjol. A special train
bears it to Queenstown, and there it is put j
aboard the next noon. You may send a telegram
of twenty words to any" part of the
United Kingdom for twenty-five cents and a
letter for two cents. And you may deposit
your savings in any iKistofilce station with
the full knowledge that the (Government is
responsible for their safe-keeping. All these !
arrangements insure the transaction of the |
business involved at the very lowest cost.
fjotlmllc inquirer.!
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AN EXTRA SESSION.
The Governor lias issued his proclamation
convening the General Assembly of South
Carolina in extra session, on the 27th of June,
for the purpose of redisricting the State. This
action on the part of the Chief Executive, it
strikes us, will meet the hearty approval of the
people. That the State should be redistricted
according to its Congressional apportionment,
before the next election, is a fact generally
conceded ; and, as it seems to be a matter ot
necessity, the sooner the extra session is called
the better it will be. But let the session be
short. It need not occupy more than six
days. No other legislation should be forced
upon it. Nor, with the experience of the
past, do we think the present body should
attempt anything out of the line for which
they have been specially called together. The
present General Assembly, taken as a whole,
have already fully and practically demonstrated
their wisdom, without, in extra session,
going outside the line of duty for which the
special session is called.
THE PIEDMONT FACTORY.
The stockholders of the Piedmont manufacturing
Company of Greenville held their annual
meeting in that town on the 10th instant.
From the report of IT. P. Hammett, President
of the Company, a copy of which has been
placed in our hands, we learn that the operations
for the year ending March 31, show the
total gross profits to be $119,709.05, total expenditures,
$23,7*29.90 fotal net profits for the
year $9G,069.15. The factory has paid semiannual
dividends of five per cent, on the total
capital of $500,000, or over 19 per cent, profit
despite the fact that the mills lost six weeks
time in putting in new water wheels and mak
ing necessary changes. The mill as at present
arranged has 22,490 spindles and 504 looms,
with room to add 704 spindles and 24 looms.
There are 129 tenant houses containing 740
rooms, 118 having been added during the year.
A number of cottages, houses, outbuildings,
stables and sheds have been constructed. A
new brick warehouse, with a capacity of 3,000
bales is now being built. Since the first of
September 8,000 bales have been purchased of
wagons. The total cost of the pro^rty has
been about 8700,000, of which the stockholders
only paid 8500,000, the balance being paid by
$200,000 of the earnings. The stock is actually
worth 1.40 on the books without any con[
sideration for future prospects. The mill,
with 22.496 spindles, has cost the stockholders
but $22.22? per spindle.
A school is conducted for the benefit of the
mill operatives, and of its success the President
says :
"The school for the year has been very successfully
managed by Mr. A. E. Miller and his
sister. The scholars have made satisfactory
progress. The total number of scholars who
attended during the year was 180?average attendance
80. The circulating library has, also,
I think, done much good. It has been
much sought for by the employes and pretty
generally read ; and I recommend the continuance
of your annual appropriations for the
school library, and the minister's fund."
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THE MALLET TRIAL.
The prosecution in the trial of the Malleys
at New Haven, Conn., for the alleged murder
of Jennie Cramer, have closed their testimony.
It is wholly of a circumstantial character.'
The State has established a presumption that
the girl died of poison, has established her seduction
by the Malleys, and very strongly her
association with them and the Douglass woman
up to 10 o'clock of the night of the murder.
The number of witnesses to their presence
at the dying horses together at that hour
puts that fact beyond a doubt, although the
accused have stoutly denied it. One witness
also is found who saw a man and woman on
the end of the pier after the party left the flying
horses?the pier from the end of which the
tide would carry the young woman's body to
the point where it wAs found in the morning.
From that moment all is blank so far ; that
was the last seen of Jennie Cramer alive by
any one whose lips have yet confessed the
truth. The prosecution leaves the jurors to
infer guilt from the presence of the accused at
the scene of the murder, from their probable
motives to murder, and from their inability
to show what became of Jennie Cramer after
she was last seen alive in their company. For
two days before her death she had been substantially
out of the reach of her guardians
and in their care and custody. These presumptions,
it is true, are open to rebuttal.
But all the precedents of the criminal law give
them great importance. A case curiously resembling
this was trying at the date of our
last mail advices from London, before Sir
Ilenry Hawkins. Two men, Baker and another,
committed a burglary. After "cracking"
a house Baker returned to his home
alone and his companion never returned at
all. This excited thesuspicion of shady "pals"
of both parties, and the body of the missing
burglar was eventually discovered near the
spot where the two were last seen together,
with marks of recent violence upon it. Baker
and his confederate had always been friends
and when hist seen together they were on the
most familiar terms. Baker had no apparent
motive for killing his confederate. But the j
Crown lawyers claimed that inasmuch as Baker
had been engaged (just as the Mallevs ap- j
parently were) in a criminal enterprise, and ;
that inasmuch as the dead burglar had been ,
last seen in the company of Baker (just as j
Jennie Cramer was last seen in the company i
of the two Malleysand Blanche Douglass,) Baker
must be field accountable for the murder
in the absence of any satisfactory explanation.
In the London case, as in the New Haven j
case, suspicious actions incompatible with in-;
nocence 011 the part of the accused have been i
put in evidence. Probably the counsel for the
defence at New Haven will now proceed with i
the testimony of their clients to show what
became of the unfortunate Jennie after she !
and the Malleys and Miss Douglass appeared i
together in the Savin grove. '
THE ASSESSMENT OF PROPERTY.
The Comptroller-General has issued a circular
to county auditors instructing them as to
their duties in the assessment of property,
under Act of the Assembly approved February
9th, 18*2. By this act the poll tax applies
only to persons between the ages of 21 and
50 years. Taxes are made the. unquestionable
first lien. All property returned delinquent
will be first offered for lease, and three intelligent
and discreet freeholders in each township
of a county are to be appointed a township
board of assessors to assess the value >
of such property and report to the auditor,
putting their valuation at the usual letting
price on the usual terms of similar lands in
their township at sales for partition under
order of court. If dissatisfied with their assessment
the owners have the right to appeal
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10 rne county uuam ui cquaii/.iinwn. nine
has been 110 change in the method of assessing
personal proi>erty.
The ]>ortions of the circular which affect the
tax-payer, are embraced in the following paragraphs
:
"Reassessment of real property is required
to be made in 1882 and every fourth year
thereafter at the same time that the assessment
of personal projterty is made.
"Section 1X1 provides that the poll tax applies
only to all male citizens between the
ages of twenty-one and fifty years.
"Sections 155 and 15<5 make taxes the unquestionable
first lien.
"Section 2(57 alters the old law, by requiring
all property returned delinquent to be first
offered for lease, and in the following Sections
the word letting is substituted for selling.
"Before the time of assessment auditors
shall appoint three intelligent and discreet
freeholders in each township of his county;
and if there are no townships established, then
in each tax district?said tax districts to be
laid off by the auditor.
"The persons so api>ointed meet at some
convenient place within their respective counties,
lake constitutional oath of ollice, elect
a chairman and then become a township board
of assessors. Before this board the auditor lays
a description of each piece of real estate within
its township or tax district; they without
delay assess its value and assert its value to
the auditor. They shall put their valuations
at the usual selling price on the usual terms
of similar lands in their township at sales for
partition under order of Court, and if there is
no selling price then at what is honestly beIipvpiI
crtnlrl hp nhtnined fit, such ,'1 sale.
"Any person dissatisfied with the assessment
of said Board may appeal to the county board
of Equalization.
"The Chairmen of the township boards of
Equalization shall together constitute the
county boards of equalization for their counties.
The members of the township boards
receive no pay, but shall be exempt from road
and jury duty. The pay of county boards remains
unchanged, and its duties are those
now established by law (see abstract of tax
laws). The auditor lays before it the assessments
made by the several township boards,
and it proceeds to equalize the same, so that
each tract be entered at its true value in
money, as above defined. The organization
duties of the special board for the city of
| Charleston remain unchanged, and the Auditor
lays before it the assessments for tax districts
within its jurisdiction.
"The law and mode of assessments of perI
sonal property remain unchanged."
In the Assembly on the 22ud, a report of the
i eommitteeon foreign correspondence was read.
It antagonizes fraternal overtures on the old
i line. A vigorous attack is being made on it
by the friends of fraternity and the debate will
I last several days.
GUITEATJ'S LAST HOI'E GONE.
The announcement that the decision of the
Court in banc upon the exceptions in the Guiteau
case would be read last Monday morning,
attracted an unusually large gathering at the
Circuit Court room in Washington. At 10.15
o'clock the Judges filed into Court and took
their places ujkjii the bench. Soon after the
formal opening of the Court Justice James
said : "I am instructed by the Court to announce
its decision in the case of the United
-States vs. Charles J. Guiieau upon exceptions
to the judgment of the Criminal Court." He
then read from manuscript the decision of the
Court. At its conclusion Judge James said
that, although the Court was unanimous in
the views set forth, there were some questions
which it was desirable to discuss more fully
than could well be done in the opinion he had
just read, and Justice Hagner had consented
to discuss these questions in a separate opinion.
Justice Ilagner then read his opinion
and Chief Justice Cartter made the following
announcement : "The opinions which have
here been uttered are the unanimous opinions
of the Court : That a new trial is denied and
the judgment below affirmed in this case."
The court then adjourned.
Guiteau has issued the following "card" to
the American people:
A tell the American people and its officials,
from the executive down to the court in banc,
who are reviewing my case, that I tell the
truth "and lie not," when I say I am God's
man in the matter of President Garfield's removal,
and that if a hair of my head is harmed
the Almighty will make the officials that do
it pay well for it. If I was outside I would
lecture under the auspices of some bureau, on
religious subjects. One of my subjects would
l>e "Paul, the Apostle, and kindred topics."
If my time has come to leave this world I am
willing, but I want the officials that murder
me on the gallows to understand the issue.
If they murder me they will incur the wrath
of Almighty God, and it will be a long time
before be lets up on them and this nation.
The devils that crucified the despised Galilean
thought they were doing God's service, but that
did not release them from reliability. They
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mighty by that act and lie got even with
them at the destruction of Jerusalem, and He
will get even with this nation and with the
officials if I am murdered on the gallows. I
want an unconditional pardon or nothing, and
T want the Executive so to understand it. I
have set forth my views fully on this in my
book, "The Truth and the Removal." If the
honorable jurists representing the Washington
Court in banc decide this case according
to the law there is only one decision they can
make, and that is that they have no jurisdiction.
If they decide contrary to the law
the matter will rest with President Arthur
and they will have incurred the wrath of
Almighty God.
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.
The State Democratic Executive Committee
met in Columbia at 10 o'clock last Friday
morning, and finally adjourned at 12 o'clock,
after transacting the business for which it had
been called together. Speaking of its deliberations,
the Columbia correspondent of the
News and Courier says :
The meeting of the committee was one of
the fullest and best that has ever been held,
and in all its deliberations the utmost harmony
and good feeling prevailed. The political
situation in South Carolina was thoroughly
discussed and such steps have been taken for
the conduct of the approaching campaign as
will almost inevitably lead to a grand and
sweeping Democratic triumph. Notwithstanding
the gloomy forebodings as to the operations
of the registration law in the different
sections of the State, the reports which
have been received by various members of the
committee are of a decidedly encouraging nature.
If the Democratic authorities in each
of the counties will do their duty and stir the
people to a proper appreciation of the great
importance of registration it is believed that
the Democratic majorities will be larger than
ever at the next election.
The most important matter of public interest
decided by the committee was the passage
of a resolution directing the chairman to issue
a call for the meeting of the State Convention,
to nominate State officers, in Columbia on the !
lirst day of August. In accordance with these
instructions Gen. Jas. F. Izlar has issued the
following call :
Rooms of the State Democratic 1
Executive CoiniiTTEE, I ,
Columma, S. C., May 19, 1882. ) i
A Convention of the Democratic party of
South Carolina will assemble at Columbia on 1
Tuesday, the 1st of August at 12 o'clock M.,
in the hall of the House of Representatives, to ;
nominate candidates for State officers and to i
transact such other business as the Convention <
may deem pro]>er. Each county is entitled by j
the Constitution of the party to as many dele-!
gates as it has representatives in both branches
of the General Assembly.
The county chairmen of the several counties''
in the State will take such steps as are necessary
to carry out this call, and for the election
of delegates to this Convention. By order of !
the committee. j
.Tamks I<\ I/.lar, Chairman.
John F. Thomas, Jr., Secretary.
M0RM0N18M IN YORK.
what THK missionaries THEMSELVES SAY. j
We copy the following from the Southern 1
Utonian of May 13, published at Beaver City, ;
Utah. The writer is one of the "elders"
whose meet ing our reporter visited on the oth j
of last March. The letter is dated Clark's
Fork, York Co., S. C., March 2*2 :
Editor Utonian:?Thinking that a few
items from this section of the missionary field
might be of some interest to your many readers,
i gladly embrace the opportunity of sending
a few. Since I wrote you last, the Lord
has blessed and prospered our labors in a most
remarkable manner; resulting in not only
bringing many honest-hearted to a knowledge i
of the truth, but in elimination of many preju- J
dices from the minds of the i>eople in general, i
We have of course a great many evil minded j
opposers who seek in every possible way to j
injure us, as for instance: they gave us warning
to leave this locality on or before the 1st
day of March, under certain dire consequences
if we refused. So far from intimidating or
injuring us, the threat seemed to really accelerate
our laljors; for three days after the expiration
of the specified time for us to leave,
we held a general meeting for the organization
of a branch, and then found that we
could count no less than fifteen members, a
result that, I need hardly say, filled our hearts
with joy and thankfulness to the great Giver
of all good. On the 11th of March we held
another meeting in the same place, but before
opening had the pleasure of adding another
four to the church by baptism, confirming
them subsequently in the meeting, where we
also blessed eleven children. That enjoyable
period seemed to arouse a more extensive
spirit of sincere investigation among the people
than ever before, and the result was that
in a few days, ten more persons had signified
their determination to serve the Lord, by
being baptized ; increasing the membership of
the branch to 2o, with good prospects for a
still further increase.
The second night after the arrival of Elder
Burton and myself in this place, I had a peculiar
dream which aided materially in shaping
our future course. I dreamed that we had
I traveled a great distance on toot, and nad
j applied at a number of places on the road for a
house to preach in. but without success; that
we had arrived at a place where we would
baptize a great many people and organize a
i branch of the Church ; a dream that, curious
to say, has been literally fulfilled.
When we left North Carolina we traveled
| about 05 miles in a south-west direction, then
[ about the same distance to the east, and I
must say that it seemed quite a task to get
any kind of a place to hold meeting in, the
use of church buildings or school houses being
invariably refused, leaving us no alternative
but to hold forth in dwelling houses, or out
I doors, when the weather is favorable. Those
| that are opposed to us, think that they are
injuring us severely by denying us the use of
their houses, but thus far it seems to have
had a contrary effect, for it excites sympathy
with and advertises the Work of God more
thoroughly than by any other method.
On the 31st ult. I had the pleasure of meeting
Brother Wm. Bakes from Beaver, who, in
j company with Elder Carpenter had been sent
! to labor in this neighborhood, and 'twas truly
a happy meeting. .
Ever praying for the well-doing of the Saints
everywhere, I beg leave to remain your brother
in the Covenant. Jno. M. Easton.
south Carolina news.
? Capt. S. B. Lumpkin has been confirmed
postmaster for Chester, vice T. M. Graham.
? The Republican supervisor of registration
at High Hill, Marion county, charges every
negro who registers five cents for his services.
? Major John Sanders, an esteemed citizen
of Carmel Ilill, Chester county, died 011 the
10th instant, in the 74tli year of his age.
? L. Jj. Guftin is mentionea as a possiDie nepublican
candidate for Congress in the Fourth
District.
? In Pickens county the total registration,
not counting Pickens township, was on Saturday
last 862, about one-third the vote of the
county.
? Continued cool weather, and especially the
cool nights of the present month, are reported
to have done considerable damage to the cotton
plant throughout the State.
? Capt. A. P. West, of Leesville, Lexington
county, drew off his pond a few days since
and caught German carp weighing as high as
seven pounds from spawn placed in it one
year ago.
?Mr. W. A. Geiger, of Lexington, was
bitten on the hand by a rattlesnake last week.
Relief was found by the free use of whisky
and the hand being inserted into the body of
a fowl killed immediately for the pui*pose.
? <">i? Saturday last theGovernor issued anroc
lamation vacating the office of Probate Judge
of Edgefield county, on account of the incumbent,
L. P. Covar, refusing to give a new
bond?his old bondsmen having withdrawn.
? The Edgefield candidates are coming out.
The Chronicle published eighteen cards last
week. For the Legislature, three; judge of
probate, two; clerk of court, seven; county
commissioners, four; county, treasurer, two.
? Farmers in some sections of Chester county
complain that the young cotton plant is being
destroyed by worms or insects. The late cool
weather also had a perceptibly bad effect upon
it. Wheat and oats are still very flattering.
? Daniel Davis, colored, died in jail at
Greenville on Tuesday last, from an abscess
in the side. Davis was a United States prisoner,
having been committed on the charge of
retailing liquor without a license.
? Mr. William Glaze, for many years a wellknown
jeweler in Columbia, has failed. His
indebtedness amounts to about S11,000. Half
of this amount is secured by mortgages which
were foreclosed last Thursday, and his store
was shut up.
? There was a snow storm in the eastern
portion of Kershaw county on Saturday of
last week. High up in the air the snow flakes
were very thick, but they melted before reaching
the ground. No damage reported more
than chilling the atmosphere.
? Jjtike Johnson, colored, who broke into
Mr. David Hikard's potato bank, in Newberry,
on last January, and stole two hundred and I
forty dollars in gold that was concealed there,
was captured in Edgefield county last week,
and was brought to Newberry, Friday.
? The Lancaster Review learns that up to
the loth instant the supervisor in that county
had "issued certificates of registration to
about four hundred white men and between
seven and eight hundred negroes. Commentj
on such a significant circumstance is unneees-;
sary."
? In Richland county the decrease in the acre- J
age of the cotton crop from last year is 10 per j
cent. The crop is ten days later,' the cold nights i
having rendered replanting necessary in some j
places. The stand is 15 ]>er cent, worse than
last year. Twenty per cent, less of fertilizers
were used than last year.
? The next meeting of the Democratic executive
committee will be held during the extra
session of the Legislature, upon the call1 ?
of the chairman, when the work of the cam-11
paign will be planned and when the members !
of the committee can have the counsels of j ]
leading men from the different sections of the j 1
State. It is the general opinion that the n
campaign will be conducted with great zeal,! i
and that the active work will begin not later ! ]
than the 1st of September. | j
? John Evins, colored, was killed by his 1
brother, Torn Evins, near Spartanburg,* last
week. The brothers were living on the same . 1
farm. Their children got to quarreling, and l
then the two brothers took it up. Tuesday <
evening, when they m^t in the horse-lot at ]
feeding time, they engaged in a fist tight. 11
They were separated and John left, when 1
Tom followed in a threatening manner. On i
his near approach John picked up a garden 1
paling and struck him across the head, near <
the temple, from which blow he died Wednes- j
day evening. I <
THE SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIANS. !
The General Asssinbly of the Southern
Presbyterian Church met in Atlanta, Ga., on
Thursday last, and organized for the session
by electing the Rev. R. IT. Smoot, of Austin,
Texas, moderator. The opening sermon was
preached by the Rev. It. P. Farris, of St.
Louis, the retiring moderator.
There are delegates in attendance from the
synods of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia. Kentucky,
Memphis, Mississippi, Missouri, Nashvill,
North Carolina, South Georgia and Florida,
Texas and Virginia. . j
The following are the delegates from the
Synod of South Carolina: T. R. English, J.
L. Harris, J. L. Girardeau, W. G. Vardell,
Thomas H. Law, II. C. Dubose, L. S. Mc-,
Laurin, Robert Bradley, John McSween, E. j
P. Davis and J. R. Cunningham.
The branch of the Presbyterian Church !
which this Assembly represents was separated ,
from its sisters of the North by the war. In
full sympathy with what had been known as !
the "Old School Presbyterianism," which had ;
sternly eschewed all political or sectional ques- j
tions up to the war, when that organization i
so far violated its conservative tradition as!
?-? VilH am A a1 I irn>?n ti/ino 111 inn tlio moltnra i
IU IMbUTi UCllVCKIIIV^O UJ/VII tltv IliuubViiJ {
about which the country was divided, there
was seemingly no alternative for the Southern
church but separation and independent existence.
Every consideration of principle and
self-respect demanded that they should withdraw
from a relation in which they were regarded
as sinful and criminal.
In 1801 the ministers and elders of the variour
Presbyteries in the then Cofederate States,
organized at Augusta, (la., "The General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the
Confederate States of America," with a constituency
of 811 ministers and licentiates, and
75,677 communicants. Of this Assembly the
Rev. Er. B. M. Palmer, of New Orleans, but
a native of South Carolina, was moderator.
Since then the General Assembly has met annually
as follows: In 1802, at Montgomery,
Ala, I)r. J. L. Kirkpatrick, moderator; in
1863, at Columbia, S. C., Dr. J. A Lyon, moderator
; in 1864, at Charlotte, N. C., Dr. J. S.
Wilson, moderator; in 18G5, at Macon, Ga.,
Dr. George Howe moderator; in 1866, at
Memphis, Dr. A. II. Kerr, moderator; in 1807,
at Nashville, Dr. J. V. Moore, moderator; in
1868, at Baltimore, Dr. J. N. Waddell, moderator
; in 1869, at Mobile, Dr. Stuart Robinson,
moderator; in 1870, at Louisville, Dr. 11.
L. Dabney, moderator; in 1871, at Huntsville,
Ala., Dr. W. PI timer, moderator; in 187*2, at
Richmond, Dr. T. It. Welch, moderator; in
1873, at Little Rock, Dr. II. Smith, moderator
; in 1874, at Columbus, Dr. J. L. Girardeau,
moderator ; in 1875, at St. Louis, Dr.
M. D. Hoge, moderator; in 1876, at Savannah,
Dr B. M. Smith, moderator, in 1877 at
New Orleans, Dr. C. A. Stillman, moderator;
in 1878, at Knoxville, Dr. Thomas E. Peck,
moderator, in 1879, at Louisville, Dr. Joseph
R. Wilson, moderator ; in 1880, at Charleston,
S. C., Dr. Thomas A. Hoyt, Moderator; in
-?noi Oi T? IJ "IT1......in
IDOl, Hl> OlitUllllHJ, > it., JtCV. ituut. x. J'an id,
D. D., moderator.
Since its organization in 18431 the Southern
Presbyterian church has greatly increased in
membership and influence, amid all adverse
circumstances. Its 811 ministers are now
2,051; its 72,000 communicants, now 121,000.
During the session of the Assembly on the
10th, Dr. Smoot, the moderator, presiding,
Dr. Gregory, a fraternal delegate of the Dutch
Reformed Church, was received. The annual
reports on mission work were encouraging.
The subject of fraternal relations was introduced
and referred to the committee of foreign
correspondence, of which the Rev. Win.
Brown is chairman. Upwards of thirty overtures
were presented to the Assembly.
On the 20th, telegrams of Christian greeting
were received from the Cumberland Presbyterian
Assembly, and from tbe Northern
Presbyterian Assembly, and cordial responses
were sent. The Assembly decided not to take
action opposing the Revised New Testament,
at present. The next year's meeting of the
Assembly will be held at Lexington, Kentucky.
A delegate from the Reformed Dutch
Church was heard to-day and the Moderator |
responded.
THE METHODISTS IX COUNCIL.
At the meeting of the General Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in
Nashville, Tenn., on the 16th, the committee
on revisal submitted a report recommending
that a chapter be inserted in the discipline to
prohibit engaging in promiscuous dancing,
either in private or at public exhibitions, or
visiting the opera or circus.
The election of five additional bishops was
taken up and Alpheus W. "Wilson, of the Baltimore
conference, for the past four years missionary
secretary of the church, with headquarters
at Nashville, was elected on the first
ballot.
At the .afternoon session the following additional
bishops were elected : Dr. C. Granberry,
professor in Vanderbilt University, but a delegate
from the Virginia Conference : Dr. Attr"?o
nf fioni'trin Tipv R. K FTar
UUO U. naj V* UVJU J Vi ^iu } ??v T J.?? ? ??
grove, of Tennessee, and Dr. Linus Parker, of
New Orleans.
During the session of the Conference on the
17th, only routine business was transacted.
The college of bishops was authorized to appoint
fraternal .delegates to the General Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to
meet in Philadelphia in May, 1884, and also
to the General Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church of Canada, to meet in Kingston
in September next. The committee on
temperance submitted a report, which was
laid over for further action, sympathizing with
the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in
their work.
Atticus G. Haygood, president of Emory
College, Georgia, tendered his resignation as
bishop elect.
The Conference authorized the appointment
of a commission of education in aid of the
colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America.
On the 18th, the Conference decided not to
elect a bishop in the place of Dr. A. G. Haywood,
elected on Monday and who declined to
be ordained.
The committee on revisal presented a report
recommending a change in the name of the
church to Episcopal Methodist Church.
The Rev. Amos Kendall, of the Mississippi
Conference, who had been expelled, was remanded
for another trial.
A. II Sutherland, of Texas, presented a
resolution, which was laid over for consideration,
declaring that it is contrary to the principles
and policy of the Americ. n Bible Society
to teacli the peculiar doctrines of any
church, and claiming that they teach Calvinism
by the publication of the Spanish version
of the Bible with notes and comments.
The Conference adopted the plan for church J
extension.
Drs. Lewis Parker, of New Orleans, R. K. !
Hargrove of Nashville, ,L C. Granberry of j
Nashville, and A. W. Wilson of Baltimore, j
were ordained bishops of the Southern Meth- i
odist Church in the presence of one thousand !
?-.r./\i,i?> ot xffTv'unrlrpp Chnmh this afternoon.
On the 19th, the Rev. A. T. Hunt, secretary
of the American Bible Society, was before the
Conference and made a statement of the good
work being accomplished by the society.
A resolution was presented commending the j
work of the young Mens' Christian Associa
tion.
A resolution was also adopted to visit Mrs. :
ex-President Polk to-morrow.
Bonk Agent MeFerrin gave notice that he
would shortly publish in the Christian Advocate
the reply of the Rev. A. S. Bedford, former
lx>ok agent, to the charges of the book
committee, together with the forthcoming report
of the committee on publishing interests.
The session of the 22nd was devoted entirely
to routine work?the election of sundry officers,
appointment of committees, etc.
THE MECKLENBURG CELEBRATION. j
The celebration of the 107th anniversary of
the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence,
in Charlotte, last Saturday, is represented as
one of the greatest events in the history of
that town, equaling the centennial celebration
of 1875. There were people from the
neighboring counties, and from the near sections
of the Sta.te, and many representatives i
from all the Southern and many of the Northern
States. The crowd was estimated at not :
less than 20,000, and some estimated it at even
ii higher number. - !'
At an early hour in the morning the proces- i
non was formed on Trade street, the firemen i
tieing drawn up along the east side, and the i
military in line opposite the fireman. The 1
3olumn was formed by 11 o'clock, when the j
procession paraded through the streets and
then proceeded to the Carolina Military Insti- i
tute grounds, where the stand for the speak- :
inghad been erected, halting in Independence :
Square to pass in grand review before Govern-,
3r Jarvis and staff. i
The procession moved in the following or- 1
ler : Charlotte Bycicle Club : Statesville Cor-'
net Band ; Continental Brigade ; Gen. M. P.
Taylor and staff; Cadets of the Carolina
Military Institute; Cadets of the King's
Mountain (N. C.) Military Institute; Hornets?
Nest Riflemen, Capt. E. P. Young;
Salisburry Rifles, Capt. Theodore Parker;
Jenkins Rifles, Yorkville, S. C., Capt. .T. R.
Lindsay; Butler Guards, Greenville, S. C'.,
Capt. A. E. McBee; Polk Rilles, Capt. J. A.
Younts; Iredell Blues, Capt. A. D. Coles ;i
Catawba Rifles, Rock Ilill, S. C., Capt. Allen
Jones; Southern Stars, Capt. Mike Hoke;
Mecklenburg Rifles, Capt. W. J. McLaughlin.
Besides the firemen of Charlotte there were
companies from Greenville, S. C.; Spartanburg,
S. C.; Augusta Ga.; Danville, Ya.; and
Columbia, S. C. Then came carriages containing
the orator of the day, distinguished
citizens and invited guests followed by an immense
crowd of people on foot, in carriages,
hacks, buggies and every conceivable sort of
vehicle.
Arriving at the grounds the military and
firemen opened ranks through which the orator
of the day and invited guests in carriages
passed on to the stand.
The meeting was called to order by Dr. Joe
Graham, after which ltev. X. F. Woods of-1
fered prayer. Senator Ransom then read the
Mecklenburg Declaration, introducing it by
an eloquent and patriotic allusion to the
Declaration itself and to the men who made
it, and referring in eugolistic terms to the
representatives from other States who were
present. After reading the Declaration,
Senator Ransom continued his remarks on
subjects connected with the first Declaration
of Independence made on the American Continent,
and speaking of the difficulty of proving
the Mecklenburg Declaration at this late
day, he said: "Great truths do not always
depend upon human testimony. They are
like God's light; they live forever. They are
eternal and stand without question. We stand
to-day in the blaze and light of a hundred and
seven years of civilization and a hundred
years from now unborn generations will come
to kneel at the shrine and pay homage to the
altars of liberty erected in Mecklenburg county
in 1775?this Bethlehem of the New Continent.
Nothing can dim its lustre. It will
shine on and from generation to generation
it will be the guiding star of nations in the
years which are to come."
After music, the orator of the day, Hon.
Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware, was introduced,
and he delivered a masterly and eloquent
address of near two hours' duration,
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nis tneme ueing political nuerty, which concluded
the ceremonies of the day, at the
stand.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
YORKVILLE NOTES AND IMPRESSIONS.
Kinard's, S. C., May 19.?This letter will
treat more directly of the individualites of
Yorkville, as I saw and learned of them on
my late visit, and in this way, I trust, may be
invested with more interest to your readers.
I learned that the organization of Methodism
in your town occurred about the year 18*23
or 1824. Rev. William Gaza way, a local
preacher, first held a Methodist meeting at
Yorkville, in the Courthouse building. Eight
persons, of whom two still survive, (Mr. James
Jefferys and wife, now in their serene and
mellow Christian evening of life, quietly
awaiting t he summons of the Master to depart
and be forever with Him in the heavenly
world of light and glory,) constituted the original
organization, and were taken into the
Lincolnton circuit about the time mentioned
above. Upon the movement of Col. Thomas
Williams, Dr. F^-nund Jennings and others,
a Methodist churcii was built in 1826, and dedicated
by Rev. William Gazaway. In this
church, in the year 1829, Mr. James Jefferys
organized the first Sunday-school, after consultation
with the members and his neighbors
anct friends. Some enquired about the rate of
tuition. One said he would not send his chil
? t- - /it
dren unless mere was some cnarge, as ne
Jefferys,) was not a wealthy man and hence
not able to teach without compensation.
Capt. Blair said to Mr. Jefferys : "I was very
sorry to hear that you had started to teacli a
school on the Sabbath, as I consider it a desecration
of the day. I had esteemed you much
and did not suppose you would engage in such
i work as that." He was invited to visit the
school ; did so, and was soon numbered among
its patrons and supporters. "What lias the
Sunday-scoool not done since that day ! Could
the roll of Christian names and deeds, transferred
to Heaven, and still widening and extending
on earth, which have resulted from
that school, be unfolded to the sight of that
father in Israel, how would his brow be encircled
witli a coronet brighter than that which
sets upon the proudest worldly hero of earth ;
and then it is to glisten on forever, as a star
in the eternal firmament. What an encouragement
to founders of Sunday-schools and
Sunday-school workers generally !
On preaching days, previous to the building
of the Methodist church, the worshipers could
be seen wending their way to the Courthouse,
bearing their chairs, as the courtroom as then
constituted provided chairs only for the judge
and jurors. Such a sitting of the court now
would be considered a novelty.
Before I leave the Methodist Church, I will
be pardoned for alluding to the bright auspices
under which, under God's blessing, it is now
moving forward in the hands of Rev. R. P.
Franks, who, with his devoted wife and
daughter, have already won so deeply their
way into the affections of the church and community.
And to the interesting well-organized
Sunday-school under the superintendency
of F. A. Gilbert, Esq. ; soul-inspiring music
of the children, led by the accomplished organist,
Miss Annie Smith, and sustained by such
correctly trained voices as those of Mr. W. C.
Owen and others, and to the delightful hour I
was permitted to pass in this charming circle,
calling up so many hallowed and hallowing
memories.
The Independent Presbyterians, (under the
leadership of Rev. "William C. Davis, whose
remains sleep sweetly on a spot near the present
Methodist Church,) erected a house of
worship about-the year 1830. These subsequently
returned to the communion of the
Presbyterians, and the present commodious
structure, with its city-like architecture, and
stable congregation and membership, was the
result. This church is now under the pastorate
of that devoted young minister of Christ.
Rev. Thomas R. English, whose honored and
sainted fatlms-itjwis my privilege and blessing
to number/for many years, ambng. the most_
intimate, beloved and influential of my SumfeF
friends?a man of learning, and noble, catholic
spirit, who reached out his arms moved by !
the inspiration of Christian love, toth?Mlowy
ers of Christ of every denomination>r'Thfcre
clusters about no man's memory whose remains
sleep in the soil of grand old Sumter, a
halo of brighter light as it is reflected from
the Cross of Christ and embodies in its fpcal
elements the heroic traits of the patriot Christian
gentleman. We have stood and wept at
his grave, over which his numerous friends
erected a suitable monument, as we felt that
one of our purest and best earthly friends, not
bound to us by consanguinous ties, had gone
to his heavenly reward. It was our privilege
to have grateful Christian communion with
the son who moves on the line of the noble
sire, us we passed an evening full of heartfelt
pleasure, at his comfortable parsonage home.
Well learned in theology, and moved by spiritual
elevation to the building up of the Master's
Kingdom in the world, on the true foundation,
he is a young man of promise, and the
mantle of the father falls upon a worthy scion.
The Associate Reformed Presbyterian and
the Episcopalian churches, we learned, were
built near the same time, and about the year
1853. These, under their successive pastorates,
have been well sustained, keeping pace
with the growth of the population of the town,
both having neat and comfortable houses of
worship. The membership of the latter are
still laying the wreath and cross of immortelles
upon the new-made grave of their beloved
rector ; the former is under the pastorate of
that ripe Christian scholar and genial and
warm-hearted Christian gentleman, Rev. Robert
Lathan, whose "Reading for the Sabbath"
constitutes so valuable a column in the Enquirer,
and whose school commissionership,
by common consent, has done so much for the
great cause of education in York county, and |
whose acquaintance as the cherished friend of
my beloved son, late of the Yorkville Methodist
pastorate, it was my privilege to make during
my visit. ... !
Some allusions to your institutions of learning,
business community, &c., I must reserve
for my next and ISSt letter.
A. A. frllbert. i
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Dr. J B. Patrick?Dental Notice.
T. M. Dob^on?Bon-Ton Millinery Store.
J. M. Adams?New Goods?Fruit Jars?Sheet
fron Well Buckets?Beeswax and Tallow.
Thos. W. Campbell, Administrator?Application
for Discharge.
K. Happertield?New and Fresh Goods.
Withers Adickes?Grain Cradles.
T. S. Jefl'erya?Agricultural Machinery.
H. F. Adickes?Just Opened.
Ilerndon Bros.?Chairjpion Reaper.
inspection'of troops.
The inspection of troops by Adjutant-General
Manigault will take place at 5 o'cloc k this
(Wednesday) afternoon, on the grounds of the
King's Mountain Military School.
COTTON shipments.
The shipments of cotton from the depot in
Yorkville, for the week ending last Monday,
were 05 bales, making a total, since the 1st of
^ - -x r*??x 1 a r* fvf* 4
last oepieuiuer, in <,uu*.
cotton sale.
On Saturday last, Messrs. Clark Brothers, of
this place, sold 103 bales of cotton to Messrs.
Miller Bros., of Spartanburg. Price not furnished
for publication.
church'notices.
Methodist Episcopal?Rev. It. P. Franks,
Pastor. Services in the Church at Yorkville,
at the usual hours, morning and evening.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?lie v. R.
Lathan, Pastor. The pastor will fill his. reguar
appointment at Tirzah next Sunday.
tax collections.
County Treasurer Neely gives us the follow- .
ing statement as the total collections of the
May installment of State and county taxes,
at the close of business last Tuesday:
For State purposes, ....$l,6')8 12 8
Ordinary county purposes, 1,072 62 1
Railroad purposes, 8)8 21 7
School purposes 718 50 0 *
Poll tax, 117 00 0
Total, $4,401 01 6
editorial changes. f
The last issue of the Spartanburg Herald
announces that Col. T. Stobo Farrow has sold
the Herald to Messrs. Daniel & Cavfc, who
will hereafter conduct its publication, Mr. .
Cavis as the editor.
C'ol. Farrow has become owner of a half interest.
in the Gaffney Carolinian, of which paper
he assumes editorial charge. Already is .
it thundering in advocacy of increased ra ilroad
facilities for the thriving town of Ga.ffney,
and the formation, from portions of Spartanburg,
Union and York, of a new county with
Gaffney as the metropolis. We publish in another
column the proceedings of a public meet
ing recently held at Gaffney on this subject.
PROGRESS OF 'REGISTRATION.
The supervisor of registration for York county
has issued certificates of registration up to
and including last Monday as follows :
Whites. Colored.
Rock Hill 229 428
Coates' Tavern, .. f}4 J67
VlcKlweo's Mill, 59 89
Fort Mill, 220 211
Clay Hill 77 N 118
Bethel 180 92
Clover, 114 07
Bethany 85 18
Clark's Fork, 32 17
Black's Station 170 51
Buffalo 36 7
Hickory Grove, 155 96
Blairsville, :. 71 129
Totals 1,442 1,480
J/ ajority for colored, 38.
The voters of Yorkville precinct are reminded
that the supervisor's books will be open in
Yorkville for three days only, viz. : ne?:t Saturday,
Monday and Tuesday.
THE CROP*PROSPECT.
The most cheering reports concerning the
small grain crops continue to be received from
all sections of the county. Thus far no se,rious
calamity has befallen the whqat. There
is more or less complaint of rust, which, however,
has only affected the blade, and we also
hear of a species of fly, which is quite numerous
in some localities, but close observation
fails to detect that it is working any mischief.
It is an insect never before observed in our
wheat fields. It develops on the head of the
wheat, first as a wingless, hemipterous insect,
.changing at the period of three or four days to
a small fly. Harvesting of the oat crop has
already commenced, and the yield of both
these cereals promises to be unprecedented in
this section since 1846, when, as we fear was
too much the case last fall, the farmers were
driven by necessity to plant full grain crops.
The outlook for cotton is not encouraging.
The cool weather prevailing throughout this
month, has had a deleterious effect on the
young plant, notably on gray and sandy soils,
necessitating much replanting.
CUM GRANO salis.
The Rock Hill Herald of the 18th instant
makes the following cautious statement:
The total shipments of cotton from Yorkville
for the season are said to amount to 6,436 bales.
We don't know who could have "said" such
a thing in the presence of the luminary which
so benignantly sheds the illuminating rays of
its incandescent light upon Rock Hill; but by
reference to our own files we find, as taken
from the books of the agent at this place, that
the shipments of cotton from Yorkville since
the 1st of September hist, to Monday, 8th instant,
were precisely 6,436 bales, so that the
Herald's informant was not so very much mistaken
after all. We also find from the agent's
books that the shipments for the following
week aggregated 6,969 bales, and as may be
seen in another paragraph in this paper, the
shipments from Yorkville only from the 1st
of September, 1881, to last Monday, amount
to 7,004 bales, and no "hearsay" testimony in
the case. And what is more : Yorkville is
entitled to the full credit of being the original
shipping point of this cotton. It was all sold
in the Yorkville market, not having been
shipped to this point by a connecting railroad
and then re-shipped to the credit of the Yorkville
depot.
j 20TH OF MAY CELEBRATION.
We condense from the Charlotte Observer's
graphic description an account of the 20th of
May celebration at the birth-place of American
Liberty on Saturday last. Yorkville was
represented on the occasion by a detachment
of 20 men of the Jenkins Rifles, and they
speak in glowing terms of the handsome manner
in which they were entertained, by the citi
zen soldiery or unarioue. xne jeniuns runes
were the invited guests of the Hornets' Nest
Riflemen. In point of number the Jenkins
Rifles compared favorably with the ranks of
other visiting companies, none of which were ' '
full, and their uniform elicited the praise of ,
all. Gov. Jarvis pronounced it the handsomest
uniform in the line of troops, and was
equally complimentary of the company's deportment
and military bearing.
The Jenkins Rifles pardonably congratulate
themselves on these encomiums from the
Governor, Captain-General and Commanderin-Chief
of their sister State, whose praise,
like Sir Herbert's, is praise indeed. %
The company felt also highly complimented
by having among their number and as "one
of 'em," Mr. Frank P. Swazey, a veteran of
the Twenty-third New York Regiment. Mr.
Swazey arrived here on the eve of their departure,
and their preparations so aroused his
military ardor that he donned a uniform and
accompanied them on the trip, making not
only an agreeable companion, but showing
himself to be thoroughly drilled in the school
of the soldier.
A NEW COUNTY MOVEMENT.
(From the Gaflhev City Carolinian, May IS.)
Another meeting of the citizens of Gaffney ?
City and vicinity was held in Wood's Hall,
last Monday, in the interest of the New County
movement.
Mr. W. Waddy Thomson, chairman of the '
committee of arrangements, called the meeting