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Jfcftaps anil J[a(tsi. ? Mr. George Dexter, an olil resident of Albany, who is now in his 84th year, is the sole survivor of the fifty passengers on the first trip of Fulton's steamboat?the Clemiont?from Albany to New York. He was only eight years old, and was in company with his father. ? Wendell Philips once satirized our love of money by saying that if an American saw a silver half dollar on the other side of the everlasting pit he woidd jump for it and run the risk of falling in. Beecher supplemented it by saying that the Yankees were "The pickpockets of creation." ? The endurance of the delegates to an Illinois Congressional Convention, who held out for opposing candidates through 1,304 ballots, is praised by the umcago Times in view ui the fact that "their labors. were prosecuted amid the wild, weird accompaniment of the newly organized brass band of the town." ? Metalic burial cases will lie sent to Russia to receive the remains of Commander DeLong and his unfortunate companions. The frozen bodies will be wrapped in felt and packed in cork-dust in the caskets, which will lie permanently sealed. Tiie caskets will be wrapped in felt and packed in cork-clust, in boxes which will also be covered with felt. ?"Will S. Delaine, who was siezed by a mob in Polk county, Iowa, some weeks since and hung to a tree until he made a confession that lie aided in the murder of the mayor of Polk City, has brought suit against the members of the mob for $25,000. Delaine was acquitted of the charges made in accordance with his confession. . ? The Southern Railway and Steamship Freight Commission, which was in session in New York last week, adjourned on Saturday, without, however, preparing a schedule of rates. The tendency of the discussion was in favor of higher rates. It was decided that the carrying rate on cotton was at present much too low and a higher rate was agreed upon. ? There is trouble among the Knights of Honor in New York State, where they number 13,000, some of the lodges declaring for a Hivioirm nf nnwprs hetween the Supreme and (Jrand Lodges, or in other words for States' rights. Permission lias been refused for the sending out of circulars advocating these views to other lodges by the Grand Dictator, and the subordinate lodges interested are protesting vigorously. ? The right of a woman past the age of twenty-one years to marry whom she pleases has just been vindicated in Missouri. The ? father of Laura Robbs, aged twenty-seven years, attempted to hold her to continued service in the paternal home by locking her up in a room when she had made a verbal contract to become the wife of George W. Bishop. A writ of habeas corjjiis unlocked the door, and the marriage took place in spite of the father's objections. Ex Gen. Sullivan had at one time 20,000 acres of corn planted on his big farm in Illinois, and employed 600 laborers. In 1870 he was worth, it was computed, over 83,000,000. He died insolvent, and a few days ago the final payment of the last 80 acres of the once princely estate was made by a Swede, one of the colony of Swedes and Germans that General Sullivan brought over to work on his place on shares. The imjKirtations would no sooner get their employer repaid than they would leave him and set up for themselves. ? There is not much Republican simplicity in the freaks of President Arthur. A new flag has been designed, which is to lie used whenever the President is taking a jaunt on a United States vessel. It bears the "American coat-of-arms," whatever that may l?e, and is not the "Stars and stripes." The people's flag is not good enough for the accidental President. Then, instead of paying $7 out of his own pocket to go to New York by rail, he will go in a Government steamer at a cost of $600 to the people. ? An agreement has been reached between the United States government and that of Mexico by which the hostile Indians may be pursued within certain limits across the boundary of either country. This is a sensible agreement, and is an evidence of the better understanding now existing between the two Republics:- There was no one profited by the mutual jealousy with which the artificial boundary line was regarded except the savage Indians, who were enabled by means of it to rob and murder on both sides and go unpunished. ?Mayor John T. Ilarrold obtained a verdict against a New York elevated railway company for 830,000 for damage to two of his ribs by being struck by a switching train. The company apjiealed thecasefrom one Court x XI ?ii.: l.v..,f lO HIIULIier, itIWiIVS yelling uratcn, uui ucmjing the payment by new appeals, until the plaintiff's lawyers have run up a bill of 000and attached the judgment to obtain their costs. The Major will wonder what advantage he is to gain by having his ribs smashed if the lawyers are to get all the money. Such proceedings are liable to create a prejudice against lawyers among unreasonable people. ? A trial of considerable interest has just ljeen concluded in the Criminal Court of Detroit, Michigan. A colored man and a white woman have been married for some time and lived together as man and wife. Both are eutirely respectable, worthy people. They were complained of under the statute for lewd i and lascivious cohabitation. An old State law makes all marriages between white and colored i>eople unlawful. Under the charge of the Court the jury convicted. The case will probably be taken to the Supreme Court. The case affects probably a hundred or more married couples in Detroit. ? Official reports of the reconnoisance in Arabi's front on Saturday have been received. The British lost four killed, including Lieut. Vyse, and twenty wounded. The loss of Arabi's force was estimated to be large, but no figures were furnished. AVhen the withdrawal of its advancing column began, the advance of the Asiatics was checked by the English artillery, which fully covered the receding lines. The criticism that the advance was a bloody sacrifice without adequate returns, seems to have escai>ed the editorial eye of Admiral Seymour, whose chief function now is to revise the cablegrams from Alexandria. ? A Galveston, Texas, dispatch of Fridaysays there seems to be a panic over yellow fever at Matamoris. Forty deatlis .are rei?orted to have occurred on the 9th. There were twenty new cases at Brownsville on Friday, all Mexicans. In regard to extending government aid to the affected districts in the United States, Secretary Folger has decided that the SI00,000 appropriated by Congress for use in suppressing threatened or actual epidemic of yellow fever shall be expended under the direction of the Marine Hospital service. No action other than that of local customs officers and surgeons of the service will be taken, ex cept upon the request or the Governor ot a State. ?With much show of of truth the New York HemUl remarks: Congress has adjourned, but according to dispatches from Washington the government printing office is still putting in type and in due time will publish hundreds of speeches of ambitious Congressmen which were never delivered. They will all go into the Congressional Record and they will be sent to the constituents of their authors as specimens of their eloquence and oratory. The whole thing is a fraud, a swindle and an outrage on the taxpayers who have to foot the bills. The Congressional Record as it stands now is a Congressional lie. It is a ltecord, not of what members said, but of what they would have their constituents believe they sail. Why impose upon the people in this way V ? An exchange has taken the trouble to examine carefully the figures of the late census to ascertain how the 50,155,788 souls in the United States are distributed, and how the various States and sections compare with each other in density population. It is shown by these figures that this whole number of people are distributed over 2,IKK),170 square miles of land snrface, exclusive of water and of sundry unorganized portions, including Indian Territory therein, and consist of 0,945.5)10 families, occupying 8,955,812 dwellings. This is 8.43 persons and 3.02 dwellings to the square mile; it is also 5.04 persons to a family. 5.00 , persons to a dwelling, 37.01 acres to each per- , son, and 180.02 acres to a family. These fig- ; ures show that, on an average-, each family has more than one-fourth of a square mile to turn i around in and 196 acres of land ; also that each . person can swing his arms in 30 acres. ? Hostile Indians are on the war path in the i far West, and threaten to give the settlers < trouble. The Tucson, Arizona, Star publishes < an interview with Judge Wood, who has just arrived from the San Pedro Valley, and brings < news that a noted Indian chief, Eskiminizen, < is making preparations for war. lie has assembled forty of fifty wariors, renegades from San Carlos, all heavily armed, and who act in a threatening manner. The settlers are much alarmed, but have guarded against surprise. Eskiminizen, has for several years been at peace with the whites, but he was at one time one of the most intractible Indians in the country. Advices from Hermasillo, Sonora, under date of the 8th instant, say that parties just arrived from the Ures report Apache depredations in that section as most fearful. Over 200 warriors are in the Mazatlan Mountains near Ures and make daily raids on the valleys in small bodies, burning crops and houses and murdering the inhabitants. During the past twelve days forty-five persons have been murdered within a radius of twenty-live miles of Ures. The Apaches are from the San Carlos Agency, and are armed with Winchester rities and use cartriges stamped United States. The country is terrorized, business paralyzed and settlers are lleeing from their ranches to Ures. All available Mexican troops are being concentrated to operate against tfie Indians. iltc ffovfcviUc (&uquircr. YOKKVILLE. S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING. AUG. 17, 1882. How to Order the Enquirer.?WritethenaiiH of the subscriber very plainly, give post-ofliee, county and State, in full, and "send the amount 01 the subscription by draft or post of lice mone> order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The Enquirku is delivered free 01 postage to all subscribers residing in York county, who receive the paper at post-ollices withii the county; and to all other subscribers the postage is paid by the publisher. Our subscribers, nc matter where they receive the paper, are not liabh for postage, it being prepaid at the post-office here without additional charge to the subscriber. Wntch the Figures.?The date oti the "address label" shows the time to which thesubseription if paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kept in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood thn: our terms for subscription, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance. REPUBLICANS ORGANIZING. There was a meeting of the Republican State Executive Committee in Columbia last Friday. According to the report furnished the Xeics and Courier by its Columbia cor respondent, the members of the Committee were all present except two. The political situation in South Carolina was fully and earnestly discussed, but the conclusion reached and the temper which characterized the deliberations of the committee cannot be ascertained. A resolution was adopted ordering a State Convention of the party to b< held in Columbia on September 12, and providing that the basis of representation in this Convention shall be one delegate for every 8,000 inhabitants and one delegate for every additional fraction of 4,000. The basis of representation in the Congressional Conventions of the party will be one delegate for every 5,000 inhabitants and one delegate for every additional fraction of 2,500. This will make the number of delegates to the State Convention about the same as the representation in the conventions of former years. The representation in the Congressional Conventions will be somewhat increased by the ac tion of the committee. The delegates to the conventions of the party will be selected by conventions which will be held in the different counties at the call of the couuty chairmen. Among those in the meeting was Congressman E. W. il. Mackey, who remarked to the correspondent that "Thompson is to beaten," and intimated that the Republicans would make a lively fight in the approaching canvass. While it is not known that any definite line of policy has been agreed upon, there is an evident determination on the part of the Republicans to attack the Democrats at every weak point. It is probable that they will run a candidate for Congress in all the districts and trust to a partisan majority at Washington to carry them through. - ? CONGRESS ADJOURNED AT LAST. Both houses of Congress have adjourned sine die, after a session of eight months and three days, having accomplished little or noth ing of what the country most expected at its hands?a reduction of the burden of taxation under which the people unnecessarily labor. The problem which the taxpayers proposed last December to the Forty-seventh Congress was this: Given a surplus revenue of St-K), 000,000, how to get rid of it by a wise scaling down of the income derived from internal and tariff taxes V Both houses, however, practically confessed their inability to solve the problem when they handed it over to a tariff commission, but meanwhile adopted the easy plan of getting rid of the embarrassing riches of the Treasury by spending them with shameless extravagance. The session did next to nothing in the way of general legislation. II passed a number of bills of a special character, which are commendable in their purpose, but too often faulty, crude and unstatesmanlike in their details. It will probably be remembered, however, as the academic sessions, the issues presented to it for discussion by the managers being general, and it became possible for the first time in many years to invoke principles. This was found not unprofitable. The idea of the reformers of the civil service got a hearing, correct notions jus to the changes proi>er to make in our tariff and tax laws were sprejul abroad, and the evils of partisan administration were exploited in an atmosphere compjiratively free from passion. Only when the contested election cases came up in the House, and the proposition to remove the political disabilities of Confederate oflicers was mooted in the Senate, was the partisan war-whoop heard in its uhl vigor. It was an extravagant Congress, but, unlike some of its predecessors, had the merit of refusing to set the country by the ears with bitter sectional controversies. The lobbyist flourished as never before for some six or eight years past, but he plied his vocation in peace paths. President Arthur's policy of conciliation was adopted, as, indeed, was necessary to secure to the dominant party the votes of Senator Davis, (General Mahone and others, but whether adopted from policy or principle it is now too late to change it. The bloody shirt, so long disused, cannot be well brought out again, and the country is a gainer. The Forty-seventh Congress in this its first session may be said to have done something in this negative way to further the fraternization of the sections, not to mention the generous appropriations for the improvement of the low Mississippi, which cannot fail to exert an influence in the same direction.?Baltimore Sun. Building up tiik South.?Dr. George j Marsbend, corresponding secretary of the American Bankers' Association, which will I shortly meet in New York city, said recently, j xi . _r i : ill uiu course 01 an interview : From the South the delegates report that a great improvement has been growing up during the last year. The crops of corn and cotton promise well. Railroad building is attracting capital and enriching sections of the ! country which have long been impoverished ; and undeveloped. Old animosities are disap- ' pearing before the new era of economic reno-! vation, which is just beginning. They also | report a displacement of cotton culture in cer- < tains sections in favor of cattle raising and the growth of cereals and food products. Rich : alluvial tracts heretofore valueless are being drained and planted with cotton, and large < amounts of capital are finding their way into this new avenue of lucrative investment. ; Other reports point to the condition of the lie- < gro population, which is sharing the general j improvement, though it is very unevenly dis-1 tributed. The great wants of the South for diversified industrial development and for ju- ] dicious emigration from Europe and from the : Northern and Western States will form the ] chief topic of discussion on the last day of the i convention. j THE STATE DEMOCRACY. full text of tiik constitution as amend- j ed, august 2, 1882. The Constitution of the Democratic party j of South Carolina as amended by the late j Convention is as follows: Article I. There shall be one or more j Democratic Clubs organized in each election precinct, each of which Clubs shall have a distinct title, "The Democratic Club," and shall elect a President, one or more VicePresidents, a Recording and a Corresponding Secretary and a Treasurer, and shall have the following Working Committees, of not less than three members each, viz. : A Committee on Registration, an Executive Committees as to each Club may seem expedient. Art. 11. The meetings of the Clubs should be frequent after the opening of the canvass, and some member of the Club or invited shaker deliver an address at each meeting if practicable. Art III. The President shall have power to call an extra meeting of the Club, and members of the Club shall constitute a quorum for tbp transaction of business. Aiit. IV. The Clubs in each county sluill lx4 held together and opiate under the control of County Executive Committee, which shall consist of one member from each Club, to be nominated by the respective Clubs and elected by the County Convention and such otl.er members as the Convention may add. The Executive Committee, when elected, shall appoint its own ollicers and lill all vacancies which may arise when the Convention is not in session. The tenure of otlice of the Executive Committee shall be until the next general campaign unless sooner removed or suspended by County Convention. The present County Executive Committees shall continue in office until the first meeting of the County Conventions under this organization. Art. V. County Democratic Conventions shall be composed of delegates elected by the several Local Clubs?one delegate for every Club, and an additional delegate for every twenty-five (25) enrolled members?with the right to each County Convention to enlarge or diminish the representation according to circumstances. This Convention shall be called together by the Chairman of the Executive Committee, under such rules as each county may adopt, and when assembled shall be called to order by the Chairman of the Executive Committee, and proceed to elect from among its members a President, one or more VicePresidents, a Secretary and Treasurer. The Convention shall proceed to business, and when.the same is transacted it shall adjourn sine die. Art. VI. The mode and manner of nominatintr candidates for county offices or for the State, Judicial and Congressional Conventions shall be regulated in each county by the respective County Conventions. Art. VII. The State Convention shall he composed of delegates from each county in the numerical proportion to which that coun ty is entitled in both branches of the General Assembly. Art. VTH. The officers shall be a President, one Vice-President from each Congressional District, two Secretaries and a Treasurer. Art. IX. The State Executive Committee shall be composed of three from each Congressional District. The delegates from the counties comprising the Congressional District to nominate the candidates from that district, and the Convention shall then proceed to an election. The member representing South Carolina on the National Democratic Coininitte shall be ex officio a member of the State Democratic Committee. Art. x. The Executive uommiuee snan elect its own Chairman and other officers, and shall meet at the call of the Chairman or any five members at such times and places as he may appoint. Art. XI. The Executive Committee shall have power, by the vote of a majority of the whole Committee, to call a Convention of the Democratic party of the State at such time and place as it may designate; and is charged with the execution and direction of the policy of the party in the State, subject only to this Constitution, the principles declared in the platform, and such instructions, by resolutions or otherwise, as the State Convention may from time to time adopt; and shall continue in office for two years from the time of election, or until the assembling of the next State Convention for the nomination of a State ticket, unless superseded by the action of the State Convention. And if any vacancy on the State ticket be occasioned by death, removal, or other cause, the Committee shall have power to till the vacancy : Provided this shall not apply to the oflice of Governor when there shall be sufficient time to call a State Convention. Art. XII. When the State Democratic Convention assembles, it shall be called to orler by the Chairman of the State Executive Committee, shall elect a temporary President, and shall proceed immediately to the election of permanent officers and the transaction of business. The Convention, when it has concluded its business, shall adjourn sine (lie. And when a Convention is called by the Executive uommittee, sucli Convention shall be composed of newly elected delegates. Akt. XIII. Representation in Judicial and Congressional Conventions shall be on the same basis as in State Conventions. A majority of delegates shall be present at a Convention to constitute a quorum for nominating a candidate either for Congress or Solicitor. The delegation of each county in a Congressional or Judicial Convention shall have power to (ill any vacancy in the delegation. And whenever any county is or shall be subdivided among two or more Congressional Districts the delegates to the Conventions of the several Congressional Districts snail ne elected by the County Democratic Convention, and apportioned among the respective Congressional subdivisions of the county in proportion to population. In every Convention to nominate a candidate for Congress or for the otlice of Solicitor a majority of the votes shall be necessary to a choice, and the votes shall be taken rira voce and recorded, unless there be but one candidate, in which event the vote may be taken by < acclamation. As soon as a Congressional or , Judicial Convention has nominated the party candidate for Congress or Solicitor, it shall adjourn sine <lie, and whenever a candidate to fill an unexpired term of either office has to be 1 nominated, it shall be done by a new Conven- i tion of delegates fresh from the people. The Executive Committee of each Congressional District or Judicial Circuit shall consist of the several County Chairmen of the respective [ counties and parts of counties composing such 1 District or Circuit, which Committee shall elect its own Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer, who shall continue in office for two years < in a District and for four years in a Circuit. | respectively, or until their successors shall have been elected. It shall require the con- ] sent of a majority of the whole executive Committee in any District or Circuit to call a Xom- 1 iuating Convention. 1 The Executive Committee of each District or Circuit shall be specially charged in its dis- j urcuuu, t'XCttpt as ueieni i>iuviutiu, auu auujcut to the State platform, as well as under the su- 1 pervision of the State Executive Committee, 1 with the conduct of every election for Con- i gressional Representatives or Solicitors in such District or Circuit, and said Committee shall meet at the call of the Chairman or of any , three members at such times and places as he ' or they may appoint. Each Congressional Convention shall meet 1 within its Congressional District, and each < Judicial Convention shall meet within its Cir- ] cuit. A nr. XIV. The Constitution shall not go : into force until the State campaign of 1878. DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM?18S2. The Democratic party of South Carolina, in < State Convention assembled reaffirming the , principles and declarations of the State plat- ] forms of 1870 and 1878, and their continued , devotion to the principles of the National ' Democractic party, and pledging to that party 1 their earnest co-operation and support, de- 1 clare the following principles as formulating ( the policy of the South Carolina Democ- i racy in State and Federal affairs, and invite f the aid and support of all good citizens in i carrying them into effect: i 1. Wise and just legislation, the impartial t administration of equal laws, economy with ? efficiency in every department of the State ( government. ( 2. Popular education is the bulwark of free t institutions. Liberal appropriations for the f public schools for the whole people. j 3. The systematic efforts of the Republican c party to obstruct reform and destroy good f government in South Carolina by turning to t partisan purposes the appointing power of the i Federal government is a standing menace to j the i>eople of this State and a growing danger I to good citizens in every part, of the Union, j The Federal offices in this State are made political infirmaries and training schools for the defeat of honest government in South ! Carolina. 4. Honest home rule. The Democracy of South Carolina, representing the taxpayers of ! the State and a majority of the whole people, I invite and have the right to expect the sympathy and support of their fellow countrymen in their strenuous efforts, to preserve an intelligent and eqnal administration of the government. 5. The practice of packing juries in political cases in the United States Court in this State is a criminal violation of the inalienable right of every citizen to a fair trial by a jury of his peers. <?. The extension of the franchise, as a political result of the late war, has enlarged enormously the number of present and prospective voters requiring education in the public schools. The burden was increased, while the ability of the State to bear it was diminished. The Federal government, by liberal appropriations from the Treasury, on the basis of illiteracy, ahAn1/l 41*/* C!>MifViAt>n ytntoo fn onro tVio ninnuu iicij/ mc uwutiici u 'ucuvg v\r vutu mv evil of non-intelligent suffrage. A national danger calls for national action and national aid. 7. Civil service reform, appointments to minor otlices under tests that will indicate the qualifications of the applicant, promotion by merit, a fixed tenure of office, and 110 removals, except for cause. 8. Blackmailing public servants, under the guise of political assessments, converts the public treasury, to the extent of the contributions called for, into a campaign fund for the advancement of a political party, thus taxing the whole people foLp&rtisan purposes. 9. The . present protective tariff robs the many for the benefit of the few. The duties 011 imports should be decreased, and-an early repeal of the duty on cotton ties, on the machinery used in the manufacture of cotton and wool, and on tools and agricultural implements, will stimulate manufactures and be a welcome relief to the farmer and laborer. 10. It is most desirable that the internal revenue taxation be abolished, so soon as this can be accomplished without rendering permanent the existing protective system. Rigid economy in the conduct of the government will hasten the day when the tariff shall be as moderate as in the early days of the Republic and the army of office holders employed under the internal revenue laws be disbanded. 11. The public credit?national and Statemust be religiously maintained. 12. In the conduct of affairs in this State the Democracy have l>een actuated by but one desire, and that is to promote the greatest good of the State. Only within the Democratic party and by party action can defective legislation be remedied without imperiling the safety and well-being of the State. Democratic unity is public safety and private security. 13. In the State, justice and equality for all, to insure harmony and good will between the races ; in the Union, no sectionalism in policy or feeling. An indissoluble Union of indestructible States. One flag, one country, one destiny. MERE* MENTION. From one railroad station in Bibb county, Ga., ?10,000 worth of water melons have been shipi>ed this year. Alaska remains with no Territorial government and with really no civil government at all. The two bills providing for the government failed of passage, and chaos must reign in the big Territory until the next session of Congress. Mr. Kelly, of Pennsylvania, chairman of the House connnitte on Ways and Means, thinks that the revenue this year will amount to ?400,000,000, and that there will be a surplus of $100,000,000. It is calculated that the splendid grain crops of the South will save this sec tion $100,000,000 hitherto diverted Northward. The Independent Congressional aspirants in the State of Georgia claim to be Democrats. There is drouth in New England and farmers are alternately grumbling and praying for rain." ? Five cars of new corn, well mature#And in good condition, shipped from Waco, Texas, was sold in St. Louis last Saturday. 'The great iron strike has lasted two months and the strikers have lost about $1,000,000 in wages in the Pittsburg district alone. About twenty establishments whose workmen went into the strike have resumed operations. Mr. W. M. Wadley, the president of the Georgia Central Railroad, dropped dead ;.n he streets of Saratoga last Thursday. He was 78 years old. Col. Victor C. Barringer, the Judge for the United States of the International court at Alexandria, Egypt, had his house and all it contained burned by the mob. His loss is $10,000. He was in Venice at the time his house was destroyed. A German official newspaper states that Germany will neither aid nor hinder England in Egypt. The County Insane Asylum in Lancaster, Pa., was destroyed by fire last Sunday. Loss $70,000. The inmates, 114 in numlier, were all saved after great exertions. Twelve business houses were destroyed by fire at Grant City, Missouri, last Saturday night. Governor Colquitt has appointed the fflst instant as a day < of thanksgiving in Georgia. The Camplied boys, a band of desperadoes, of Caldwell county, Kentucky, were killed by a mob last Saturday night. A fire saved the lives of three men at Taylorsville, 111., who were , about to be lynched on Saturday. Most of the crowd went to see a fire and the prisoners were taken back to the jail. Gov. Crittendon, of Missouri, has pardoned Wm. II. ' Heath who was sentenced about three years ago to ten years in the penitentiary for embez- < zling some $40,000 of public money while he was city auditor of St. Louis. Statisticians of Texas say the corn crop this year will amount to 14,000,000 bushels. This is six times greater than ever before, 'In the election of President in 1884, there will be 411 J electoral votes. Prepare your ground well ] and sow plenty of turnips. The pension | bureau has grown to be such a colossal insti- i tution that it requires an addition of 800 < clerks. The curious fact is recorded that a Democratic Legislature first enacted Prohi- ] bilion in Maine and in Vermont, and that a j Democratic Supreme Court, Judge Taney pre- i siding, declared su?fr'legislation constitu- ] tional. Boston and Philadelphia have ^ passed laws prohibiting the sale of toy-pistols. Their use on and about the Fourth of July ( killed by lockjaw or mutilated 200 American ; boys. Besides ojiening many graves, eyes j were blinded, fingers amputated and hands * lamed for life. ? Harvesting in the West isal- j ready well advanced, and everything points to prosperity and abundance. But will the poor \ man's loaf be any cheajier for it V ... ; The Match Monopoly.?Notice was is- 1 ?ued Wednesday to every wholesale dealer in Philadelphia of the advance in the price of matches from 25 cents to ?1.50 i>er gross, according to kind. This will necessitate a proportionate rise on the part of the dealers and jobbers in the trade. In consequence of the inaction of Congress, the public have been placed at the mercy of a company which can put the price up as high as it pleases. About if teen years ago the first effort at combination )f match maufacturers was made by the Swift fc Courtney and Beecher Company. The final esult was a great stock company, comprising ibout twenty manufactories and said to repesent a capital of $5,000,000. The sulphur matches, which originally were sold by the combination at ?1.80, are now sold for ?2.80, md parlor matches rose from $2 to $2.50. The ttamp tax was imposed about twenty years tgo, which drove out of the market all small manufacturers. At first the government sold .lie stamps at one cent each, ten per cent, off, md compelled the match men to have their >wn plates engraved, which was the condition 1 >n which the ten per cent, was taken off. The i ;en per cent, was not directly taken off at i irst, but they were given ten per cent, more j [tamps, which was equivalent to an allowance | if but nine per cent. The combination has j or some time been carrying on a suit with he government to recover the additional one >er cent. v I SlJgllt UL'^RX Hi <v 1U I* Ui.)invu.)i>i Av<?t*u. ?... XI the northern and eastern divisions of that c state there has been an excess of rain, causing o ;oo vigorous growth of stalk, delaying the ruiting and sometimes causing the shedding h )f bolls. In the entire cotton belt there is re- n jorted an excess of moisture, injurious in pro- \\ jortion to the retentiveness of the soil. This fi jause accounts for the comparative low condi- c lion in North Carolina, where it is now deem- t< :d too late for recuperation. p Rust begins to appear in districts where the ? ains have been in excess, but without damage is yet. Caterpillars have made their appearmce in all the States of the Gulf coast, and ai .hough no injury has resulted many apprehen- f( lions of future loss are expressed^ The boll j t( vorm is also mentioned in several States. A ! g< arge number of returns are highly favorable, j li >rophesying a crop as large as the land can | tl >roduce, or better than for many years. j u The wheat returns of August relate to the j hi pring variety. Its condition is higher than j 13 or several years, It was 88 in 1880 and 81 in te .879 and 1881. It is now 97 against 100 last tl nonth. It is somewhat late, but was nearly ! s^ eady for harvest at the date of the returns, j aj There are some indications of rust and blight i bi n parts of Minnesota. In Northern Iowa the a< irop is held to be the best since 1879. Returns j w rom Dakota and Nebraska are extremely fa-! y< rorable. The general averages of the princi-! tr >al States are as follows : "Wisconsin 99, Min-1 ai lesota 98, Iowa 93, Dakota 90, Nebraska 103,: B Colorado 90. It is quite probable that the b< iroduct of winter wheat and spring wheat d< rithout loss by sprouting will slightly exceed ni LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. J. A McLean, Judge of Probate?Citatation-A. * Springs Withers, Applicant?I)r. J. H. Withers, deceased. f H. A. D. Neely, County Treasurer?Tax Notice. 1 R. H. Glenn, County 'Chairman?Joint Demo t cratic Meetings. % j J. M. Adams?New Goods. T. M. Dobson?I am going to the famous New s York House. M. Strauss? Great Reduction. C. E. Spencer, Intendant?Street Tax. 5 PICNIC POSTPONED. ( We are requested by the committee of ar- ] rangements to state that the joint picnic of 1 the Forest Hill and the Point Academy So- < cieties has been postponed until the 31st instant, on which day it will take place, near ( the residence of Mr. M. A. Bigger. A gen- i eral invitation is extended to the families in t the Clay Ilill and the Bethel communities. CITADEL ACADEMY. Superintendent of Education II. S. Thomp- i son has appointed Col. A. Coward as chair- man of the board of York to 'examine appli- ( cants from this county for beneficiary cadet- ' ships in the Citadel Academy. The examina- , tion of applicants will be held at the county- ] seats of the various counties on the 29th in- i tant. 1 TO THRESIIEKMEN. j The threshing season being now about over, we should esteem it as a favor if all the < thresher men in the county would inform us ' as to the number of bushels of grain threshed ' by them since last harvest?giving wheat and oats separately. We wish to aggregate the re- j ports by which to ascertain the total amount of small grain produced in the county. j CHURCH NOTICES. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. i Lathan, Pastor. Services at 101 A. M. Sun- 1 day-school at 9. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. , Services at the usual hours, morning and even- ] ing. Episcopal?Rev. A. Prentiss. Services in 1 the Church of Our Saviour, at Rock Hill, ( next Sunday. . J THE COUNTY CANVASS. The County Chairmau gives notice in an- ' other column of appointments made by him and tiie Secretary, by virtue of such power vested in them by by the Executive Committee, of appointments of public meetings in i this county, at which the candidates before 1 the primary will have the opportunity of ad- 1 dressing the i>eople. As will be seen, the canvass will open at Hickory Grove on Thursday, ; 31st instant. "THE PIRATES." , Do not forget the entertainment to be given < by the Philharmonic Society at College Hall 1 to-morrow night. "The Pirates" is one of ; the best compositions of Gilbert and Sullivan, and has proven immensely popular wherever ! produced. It will be presented to-morrow i night by the best musical talent of the town, ; and cannot fail to please. The object, too, is 1 a deserving one, and the gentleman having charge of the financial department will at ' once apply the proceeds as designed. By re- . ference to the announcement, it will be seen 1 that the scale of prices has been reduced. DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMEN. The following is a complete list of the Democratic Chairmen for York county : County Chairman, R. IL Glenn. : PRECINCT CHAIRMEN. Bethany?L. L. Smith, Chairman, ex officio; ' A. C. Jackson, First Vice-Chairman ; James 5 L. McGill, Second Vice-Chairman.' Bethel?J. C. Patrick, Chairman, ex officio; ! W. E. Campbell, First Vice-Chairman; S. S. J Smith, Second Vice-Chairman. Black's?Ira Hardin, Chairman, ex officio; C. M. Green, First Vice-Chairman; Joseph Black, Second Vice-Chairman. Blairsville?John L. Rainey, Chairman, ex c officio; Allen B. Crosby, First Vice-Chairman ; f R. T. Riggins, Second Vice-Chair man. 1 Buffalo?W. D. Camp, Chairman, ex officio; { J. B. Mintz, First Vice-Chairman ; R. E. For- J ter, Second Vice-Chairman. Bullock's Creek?John D. Hamilton, Chair- J man, ex officio ; W. 0. (ruy First Vice-Chair- 5 man ; J. M. Sims, Second Vice-Chairman. Clark's Fork?W. Meek Faulkner, Chair- 1 man, ex officio; W. S. Plexico, First Vice- 1 Chairman; It. J. Love, Second Vice-Chair- 1 man. ( Clay Ilill?D. A. A. Watson, Chairman, ex ) officio ; J. C. II. Duff, First Vice-Chairman ; J J. A. M. L. Stewart, Second Vice-Chairman. 5 Clover? W. Beatty Smith, Chairman, ex officio; Dr. A. P. Campbell, First Vice-Chairman : Andrew Jackson, Second Vice-Chairman. ( Coatcs' Tavern.?David T. Lessley, Chair- c man, ex officio; W. C. Abemathy, First Vice- ] Chairman; T. M. Allen Second Vice-Chair- 1 man. 1 Fort Mill?Brevard D. Springs, Chairman, * ex officio; J. W. Ardrey, First Vice-Chairman ; 1 Dr. J. E. >Iassey, Second Vice-Cliairman. Hickory Urore?.J. u. unamuers, unairiuaii, ex officio; R. G. Whitesides, First Vice-Chairman ; J. D. Jones, Second Vice-Chairman. McConnellsville?Dr. W. G. Campbell, Chairman, ex officio; W. 13. Love, First Vice-Chairman ; A. W. Gladden, Second Vice-Chairman. McEhree's Mill?W. S. Adams, Chairman, ex officio? James A. Erwin, First Vice-Chairman ; John J. Dunlap, Second Vice-Chairman. Rock Hill?W. 13. Wilson, Jr., Chairman, ex officio ; Col. Cad. Jones, First Vice-Chairman ; John R. Allen, Second Vice-Chairman. Yorkville?G. W. S. Hart, Chairman, exofficio; Charles E. Spencer, First Vice-Chairman ; Wm. J. Stephenson, Second Vice-Chairman. CROP PROSPECTS. The August crop returns of the Department of Agriculture, the work of about six thousand correspondents, give estimates covering the entire producing area of over one thousand five hundred principal agricultural counties of the United States upon the condition of most of the crops now growing. The condition of cotton has improved. During the past month the general average has advanced from 92 to 94. This is higher by J points than in August, 1879, and lower by 8 than the August average of 1880. It is also 2 points lower than at this date in 1875 and 1 lower than 1878, but is higher than in live other fears since 1872. The average condition of ( jach State is as follows : Virginia 84, North Carolina 84, South Carolina 98, Georgia, 94, Florida 87, Alabama 99, Mississippi 91, Louisana 93, Texas 100, Arkansas 90, Tennessee ?0. Only North Carolina, Florida and Louisiana show a decline. Virginia has gained 4, Jeorgia 2, Alabama 0, Mississippi 4, Texas 3, Arkansas 0, Tennessee 8. South Carolina has die same average .as in July. There is no injury from drought except in * Ahi u Cotif rliof l'inf C in TaVOQ Tn ?? >00,000,000 buslwls, but extravagant estimates vhich assume 15 to 20 per cent, more are wild tssumptions, needlessly tending to reduce the mice of wheat in the hands of farmers. The condition of the corn crop is represent(d 83 as against 77 last year. At this date in ifiSl the effect of drought was seen in a reducion of 13 points in the general condition doing .July, followed by a greater deterioration n August. At the present time circumitances are favorable for further improvement n most of the States. The averages of the km them States are nearly all above 100. The airplus producing States average as follows: )hio 77, Michigan 78, Indiana 78, Illinois 50, owa, 70, Missouri 01, Kansas 100, Nebraska VI vr?... 7s2 in Vfo uco. I O. 1>C>V UI^KUKI KUI^ro L1UI1I 1(1 Hi iUUiMUihusetts to 96 in Connecticut, New York 85, Pennsylvania 90, New .Jersey 93. The general averages of the condition of >ther crops are as follows : Oats 102, spring ye 100, barley 95, buckwheat 97, potatoes lol, obacco, 87. CHOPS IX THE STATE. The July report of the condition of thecrops n South Carolina has been issued by the State Agricultural Department. The estimates givm are based upon 155 replies, covering every lounty in the State. One hundred and thirty-three corresponlents report the weather for the month of July favorable and twenty-two that it has been mfavorable. Three correspondents in Darington county report that the rains have l>een (o frequent and heavy as to cause some slight lamage to crops, and five correspondents in Anderson, Chester, Laurens and Spartanburg counties report that a drought prevailed for (bout three weeks, somewhat reducing the condition of all crops. The condition of cotton is below an average, >wing almost entirely to the cool Spring, which injured the "stand," and from the effects of which it has not recovered. The greatest injury was sustained by the Northern counties. The plant for the past month has been grow mg finely and fruiting well, some apprenen3ion is felt on account of continued rains, but no damage of any consequence is yet reported from this cause. Four correspondents in Darlington, Colleton and Hampton counties note the appearance of the worm, but in very small numbers, and they have not yet injured the plant, liust is reported by four correspondents in Anderson, Spartanburg, Newberry und Hampton counties, and nine correspondents in Darlington, Fairfield, Berkeley, Charleston, Clarendon, Colleton and Williamsburg counties report that the plant is shedding leaves and fruit, but no uneasiness is felt from either rust or shedding unless the rains during August are excessive. The plant is generally small throughout the State, but well fruited. The condition is reported in Northern Carolina at 88, middle Carolina at 90 and lower Carolina at 99?an average for the State of 94, against 72 for the same time last year. The seasons have been remarkably fine for corn. In addition to favorable seasons better land was devoted to this crop, cultivation has been far better and a larger percentage of the crop fertilized than formerly. All of these causes have made the crop an unusually fine one, and the present indications are that considerably above an average crop will be harvested. Early corn is made beyond all contingencies, and the seasons have been very favorable for the late planting. Much of the oat stubble was planted in corn and peas, and the prospects for full crops of both are very encouraging. One correspondent in Colleton county reports that a farmer in his vicinity harvested forty bushels of oats per acre and will realize in equal quantity of corn and peas. The condition is reported in Northern Carolina at 109, middle Carolina 105, and lower Carolina 111?an average for the State of 105 igainst 55 for the same period last year. The report concludes : The agricultural outlook has not for many fears been so encouraging. Tlie wheat crop ivas fully up to an average. The yield of oats ivas unprecedented. A full cotton crop will ilmost certainly be realized. With the early jorn crop assured beyond all doubt and the ate crop very promising, the indications are ;h it our farmers will have ''corn to sell and ceep." Peas will be fully up to an average if ;hey do not surpass it. The rice crop bids 'air to be better than usual. Sorghum, sugar ;ane, potatoes, turnips and all the smallerjrops will yield bountifully. The farmers be*an the new year almost dispirited from the nisfortunes caused by the unprecedented lrought of last year, but with the indomitable jourage and energy which have ever charac;erized the people of the State they commenced -heir operations for the year. They have purmed their avocation with a pluck and perseverance worthy of their noble calling, and, ,vith the favorable seasons which have pre ,'ailed during the year, they have overcome ainost insurmountable difficulties and at the dose of the year they can look back upon their vork with pride and satisfaction and will enoy the fruits of their labors which they have 10 justly won. THE SEW COUNTY BUSINESS. We ask attention to a well considered artide to Ire found in another column of the Press mil Banner, which is taken from the Youkfille Exquikek. While it is possible that t would have been better to have laid out the lifferent counties originally in smaller areas ban they are at present, it is now certain that 10 advantage to the people is to be gained by :utting off corners of the well-established lines o make new counties for the accommodation if the little towns that may have' been built in the lines. Gaffney City, a pump station in he woods 011 the Air Line Railroad, is no urtlier from the Court House at Spartanburg iow than it was years ago, and if the few per1011s who have recently bought land tliereajouts, or who now want to fill the ollices of he proposed new county, can persuade the icople to consent to the organization of a :ounty government to be supported at their xpense, the land within two miles of that dace may be slightly enhanced in value and a ew thriftless office-seekers may thereby be irovided with fat ollices. The few persons vho have settled at Gaffney knew perfectly veil the distance it was to the Court House, . inn if thpv w:inf-pd to nractice law. or to make i business of attending court as bangers on, or uryinen, or chronic witnesses, they should lave settled at Spartanburg. It is not a libral request for them to ask the people to es- 1 ablish a new county for their especial benefit. Ve say their especial benefit, because a Court louse at Gaffney cannot be of advantage to ,ny portion of the proposed new county, exept those who live in the immediate neighborlood, while the taxes on the people of the new ' ounty will be enormous for many years, the ax on the old counties will necessarily be in- i reased for all time to come. Are the tax layers of York and Spartanburg ready to do so oolish a thing as to entail an increased taxaion upon themselves and their children, while estroying the time-honored land-marks of 1 lorious old counties, with such proud histo- < ies V As practical common sense should gov- ( rn us in all business transactions, we suggest hat it would be cheaper for the people of York j ml Spartanburg counties to authorize the !ounty Commissioners to furnish the office- ' unters with profitable employment, and to f ay to t he property owners the little advantage < hey might hope to gain by taxing the farms 3 enormously to support a new government, ( i the destruction of the symmetry of the old . ounties. This would be for the cheaper plan f settling the matter. 1 We trust that the Executive Committee may t ave the fairness to allow the opponents of ew counties a fair chance to express their c rishes. Heretofore it has been the rule to j lrnish only such tickets as the Executive , ommittee wanted voted. Let those who wish 1 ) vote "No" have an equal chance, so far as t rinted tickets areconcerned.?Abbeville Press e nil Banner, Aiujust 9. q After Tex Years.?David Hall, who was [ rested at Floyd Court House, Virginia, a c ;w days ago, l'or stealing a saddle, turns out ) be the murderer of Charles Bowyer of Mont- ' amery county, Virginia, who was killed in t S72. Hall is the son of a wealthy citizen of ^ lat county, and the murder was committed . nder the following circumstances : There * ad been a protracted litigation between the ' owyers and Hall's father, by which the lat- o sr managed to recover the entire property of t le former. After the suit Thomas Hall f vore out a warrant for assault and battery <] jainst the Bowyers. They were arrested and rought to Childress's store, and the trial was ljourned to a place near by called Auburn, to v hicli point all parties started. When Bow- p ?rs came within sight of the cabin where the v ial was to take place, Dave Hall appeared, j id, after some words, raised his gun to shoot, owyer begged piteously for his life?he not iing armed?but without avail ; he was shot )wn like a dog, his dead body remaining where v ordered until the following morning. h SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? South Carolina's first new hale was produced near G'ampbellton, on the Port Royal Railroad, and consigned to a Charleston house last Thursday. ? A young girl named Watson, aged eleven years, fell from the bridge over Coronaca, in Abbeville county, one day last week when the creek was swollen and was drowned. ? The Carolina Sun says that since 18M thirty-one murder cases have been tried in Chesterfield county and no one has been hanged. ? The Trustees of the State University at their meeting on Wednesday night unanimnnoltr olnnto/1 Prof Tumna IT Popll'fllo nrP<4? igwiioij v/i\<v/twi i. iui? uuxx x'?v.? ident of the South Carolina College. ? The grain shipments from Greenwood to date amount to 05,000 bushels, netting a cash return of over $25,000. The bulk of the grain was shipped over the Augusta and Knoxville Railroad. s ? The Spartanburg post-office has been raised to a second class, and the postmaster's salary is $2,000 a year, with fuel, light, &c., furnish- ^ elected superintendent of the track. Matthew ed by the department. ?Nearly four thousand liens have been filed in Spartanburg county, averaging about $00 each, since the 1st of January. This indebtedness foots up nearly a quarter of a million of dollars, or nearly six thousand bales of cotton. ? Cadet Whitaker lectured in the colored Methodist Church, Columbia, last Monday night on "The Color Line at West Point." He says he is endeavoring by this means to raise money with which to complete his education. ? A colored man named Daniel Blakely was lynched near Lancaster Court House on the 8th instant for attempt at rape. He confessed the crime. On the same day another colored man was lodged in Lancaster jail, charged with a similar offence?his victim being a mulatto girl. mi- ~ A tvV?.MU T7.. .7 7) . ? .Liie -iiuueviiie j rtsa u/ui, x>u/i/urr sajs . "The corn crop will be enormous in this section, unless cut off by some unexpected calamity. We learn that in Anderson it is thought that corn will not command more than forty cents, while it is said that it will not be worth more than from fifty to seventy-five cents in Abbeville." ? Says the Edgefield Advertiser : Methodism flourishes more and more in this Edgdefield county. We have taken deep root and are growing and bearing fruit to the glory of the great Husbandman. Within a space of less than thirty miles from Trenton to Gilbert Hollow, extending not more than ten miles on either side of the railroad, there have been ereced twelve handsome and substantial Methodist churches since the war. ? On Monday last the South Carolina Railway Company discontinued the night express between Charleston and Columbia, and substituted for it a fast mail train which leaves Charleston at 4 P. M. daily, and arrives at Columbia at 1) P. M. A fast mail train leaves Columbia at 8 A. M., and arrives at Charleston at 1 P. M. The regular mail train that leaves Charleston at 7 A. M. and returns the same day, will be continued. ? Aiken county is threatened with a drought. They have had but one raid of any consequence since the 4th of July. Cotton is completely parched, dropping all but the natural fruit, and cracking that open prematurely. Our cotton crop will be less this than last year, although the yield was not more than two-thirds of a crop then. The corn crop was matured before the dry weather set in and is fine. ? A meeting of the new board of directors ~ of the Cheraw and Chester Railroad was held in Chester on the 8th instant. A resolution was adopted combining the offices of secretary and treasurer and the Chester agency, with a salary of ?800. Mr. J. B. Lathan was elected to the office. Mr. W. D. Ingram was White, Esq., was elected a director in place of Capt. W. T. D. Cousar, who declined to rtA.ntA T4 ia w??A*\AAAA TV* n 1?A ?-? nvAO?Jin/? /*A? acivc. it la [^lupuscu tu iimivc a ^10001115 wunecting with the Chester and Lenoir Road, so that trains may run through from Lincolnton to Lancaster if desired. ? Says the Union Times of Friday : Last - week we announced the death of Mr. James Barnette, which occurred the Friday before, and it is our sad province this week to state that two of his sisters, Miss Mary, aged 21, and Miss Josey, aged 16 years, have since been laid beside him in the silent grave, while another sister, Miss Louisa, is very sick and not expected to live, all from typhoid fever. Miss Mary died on Thursday last, the 3rd, and Miss Josey on Tuesday, the 8th. Thus in ten days lw?r? /I4-V* ?*?<-*?^/\/l t-k ?*?iJ/\n?in Vtsw-vtsv on/1 folron LIOO UCUI/ll VI311CU a WUIUU O IIVIUC auu tuacn from her three of her brightest jewels. ? Says the Anderson Intelliyencer: On the 5th of April last ten small carp about the size of a man's little finger were put into Mr. Jere. Brown's fish pond, ten miles south of Auderson. On the 1st of August, four months afterwards, the pond was drained and the fish examined. They had all, except one, grown immensely. The three largest weighed eight pounds each, and were about the size of shad. The increase in four months in flesh has been about one thousand per cent, in the largest fish. One of the ten, which had been injured before it was putin the pond, had not grown at all. This experience is similar to that of other gentlemen engaged in carp culture, and demonstrates the fact that the carp ponds can be made the source of a great deal of pleasure and no little profit in this country. ^ STATE POLITICAL ITEMS. ? Julius T. Edwards, a colored Democrat, is a candidate for county commissioner for Sumter county. ? In the Edgefield campaign there are Timmermans and Zimmermans in the field, and the voters are warned to be careful how they make their T's and Z's. ? Judge Mackey will open his canvass as independent candidate for Congress by adiressing the independent voters of Chester 30unty at Kossville next Saturday. ? lion. Samuel Dibble, who was ousted from !iis seat in Congress, was renominated by acclamation by the Democracy of the First Congressional district, at Orangeburg, last Thurs- w lay. ? All doubt heretofore existing as to Gen. Papers accepting the nomination for Superin:endent of Education is now removed, he laving, after a conference with the State Executive Committee, consented to accept. ? Col. James F. Izlar, of Orangeburg, was ihosen Chairman of the Democratic State Executive Committee?a good selection not 011y for the party, but a proper compliment to he recipient. Colonel Izlar has always workid hard for the party, and has shown all the [ualities needed to make him a safe and sucessful leader in the coming contest. He will ontinue to make a most excellent officer. ? Says the Abbeville Press and Banner: 'We believe it is whispered around that the lew counties are a necessity, in order to enaile the up-country to control the Senate. If he up-country tries .any such games it is quite ikely that some of the pump-minders at some if the various water tanks along the lines of he railroads in the low-country may get up a ew court houses for their own special benefit. ?he low-country people are not fools, neither re they wanting in enterprise. As soon as re begin to distribute new court houses to aplicants as they may appear, the low-country vill get her share of both Senators and Court louses. The people who are compelled to ome to court are badly treated because the aw does not allow them pay. We say pay witnesses and jurors an amount sufficient at east to pay all the expenses of the trip." m