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?hf f atfeville (?nqwm. VV-? *.? Csvi9* . ' r. *- i d 1 i";**"1 m\ ? / ~ YORKVILLE, S. C.: / THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 28, 1882 / THE RESULT. We publish to-day a tabulated statement ol the primary election last Monday. The logical conclusion of the vote fully sustains the l>o8ition of the Enquirer on the proposed Constitutional amendmeut question and clearly proves that so far as a majority of the Dem ocratic voters of York county are concerned, the amendment is not desired. This is shown by the ballots cast for Messrs. Wilson, Riddle, Massey, Chambers and Hood, who were under stood to be opposed to the amendment, notably all except Mr. Massey, and he clearly commits himself, after having carefully considered . the question, against a division of York county. As an analysis of the returns shows, the nomination of John C. Witherspoon, Esq., is due entirely to adventitious circumstances. His selection by no means implies an endorsement by the people of his views on the question of the amendment ; nor does the vote In received give him any cause for exultation, He runs far behind the lowest of the success ful candidates, and inay attribute his electior to a division of votes between Messrs. Hoot1 and Chambers, the bulk of which, with Mr Hood out of the field, would have been casl for Mr. Chambers. But with the election ol Mr. Witherspoorf the eastern side of the coun ty will have representation in the persons o himself and Mr. Massey, while the northern southern, western and central portions cai possibly be looked after in the House by Col Wilson and Mr. Riddle. We certainly havi no regrets that the eastern side of the count] has representation. We supported Mr. Mas sey, as we did in the primary election tw< years ago, and as we voted for him prior t< that time when before the i>eople as the nomi nee of a convention, and we hear cheerful tes tiraony to his ability as a representative no of the east, but of the county at large, if w< may be permitted to coin the expression. The selections for County CommissionersDrs. Allison and Glenn, and Mr. Riggins?an all good men, as are the gentlemen selecte< for the other county officers. In the choic< made, the Democratic voters have express** their preference. The ticket is before th< county. We shall cheerfully support it in its entirety, erasing from it not a name, and sucl we conceive to be the duty of every Democrat ic voter. But we also wish it to be under stood that in thus plighting our troth, we ir no measure modify a single word in the articl* which follows, or in a notice elsewhere Of th* meeting last Saturday. Strictly according to promise made at divers times and sundry places, Capt. John C. Witherspoon promptly appeared at Yorkville last Saturday and hurled at the Enquirer and its editor the bottled thunder which he had kept hermetically sealed for the occasion, and which as it was discharged from the depths of his intellectual mind, broke forth in strange eruptions as though an earthquake smacked its mumbling lips over some thick-peopled city. Wonderful as it may seem, among the many surprises which have marked the late primary canvass as an era of surprising developments, while he rose to the importance of the occa sion and proved bimself equal to the emergency, we still live, and are enablod to-day to gratify bur expectant readers by spreading before them his burning eloquence, brilliant with explosive coruscations of heterogeneous thoughts, which,"scattering like a shower of shooting stars, ended in the'greasy sunshiue of his own illuminating opacity. Our printing his remarks at the Court House last Saturday maj prove to him another surprise in this "strange, eventful history but our reply to what lit then said cannot well be made unless accompanied by at least the substance of his sophistical harangue. He sets out generally by expressing "surprise" at the course of the Enquirer towards him in this canvass. That is to say, denying to us the distinguished honor of leading tin people in this political Israel, he alone must be vested with ?ul the pomp apd circumstance of generalissimo, and besides playing the rdlt of political bantam to the people of the county, also reserve to himself the right of assailing us j> ii L - ,,r llUlil Ule stump at uia picaouic, ucpiiviiig uc the poor privilege of even a.word in reply. What more surprising phase of egotism than his surprise that we should suffer his attacks m upon us to go unanswered ! His self-compla' cency amounts to the sublime when he takes upon himself to act as our censor and abuse and villify us from the stump at every joint discussion save one in the county, and expect us to bow our devoted head because it was he who spoke. We answered him within circumscribed limits during the progress of the canvji8s, and as he said last Saturday, it greatly excited his surprise to think that we should do so rash a thing. We are at a loss to conceive at what'point his wonder will cease, and suppose he will look upon the notice we here take ^ of him as a marvelous piece of impertinence. / So having prepared his obtuse mind for the surprise in store for him, we shall pass on, briefly noticing the i>oints made in his last attack. ^ He said that on the day of the joint discussion at Hickory Grove, a paper was being circulated for signatures, pledging the signers not to vote for any candidate from the eastern side of the county, and to vote against Rock Hill. We innocently attended that meeting, not then dreaming that this immaculate political potentate would impute to us sinister motives, and we did not see or hear of any such jiaper on that day, and since the assertion was made, we have enquired of persons who were there, and whose reputation for veracity will stand a favorable comparison with that of Capt John C. Witherspoon, and they all say no such paper was circulated to their knowledge. But to the amusement of all who may remember the facts, he says it was a cloudy day, so much so that in attempting to reach Hickory Grove, he could not keep the points of the compass, and he arrived on the ground late. The truth is, the sun never shone brighter on a fair May morning than on "this August day, and he arrived at the place of the speaking at least an hour before Col. Wilson and Major Hart, whose presence later, it would seem, contributed to the obfuscation ,_^__^nder which he confesses to have labored. He next complains of something having been omitted by our reporter from Maj. Hart's speech. At Rock Hill, cur reporter understood him to complain that the omission was a compilation of figures which at the time it was not deemed prudent to publish, for obvious reasons ; but last Saturday, he was understood to complain that the alleged eliminated sentence wa'j an adjuration by Maj. Hart to the people before him not to vote for any one from Eastern York. If this is what hie selfplumed generalissimo really meant, while Maj. Hart is fully competent to answer for himself, we are prepared to say that we heard no such ?j^cpression fall from his lips. Tie next says, there was a thought with some that the adoption of the Amendment would lead to a division of the county, and charged theExQrrRKK with being father to the thought! How wonderfully penetrating the subtlety of this giant intellect! A thought (lid really exist with some that the adoption of the Amendment would lead to a division of the county, and the Enquirer was father to the thought! Did the Enquirer address the ; memorial emanating from this county last | year to the si>eoial joint commission that met ! in Greenville, having as a part of its duty the consideration of recommending a Constitutional amendment for reducing the area of counties ? Is that the thought of which . the Enquirer is the father ? We did print that memorial or address; but does Sir Oracle of Rock Hill know where it originated ? And again, last summer, when a gentlenirflj, ! all the way from Gaffney City came here, apparently with the view of immediately taking ^ possession of the western part of the county and attaching it to a corner of Spartanburg, [ was the Enquirer father to that thought V J Ask the people along Broad River how the thought was'impressed upon them. The innocency of the Captain's guileless heart pre sents a touching example of verdancy, lieally, he seems to think that the question of ' cutting York county up into shoe-string baili1 wicks, never occurred to anyone until Unit memorable day at Hickory Grove, when, though the sun shone brightly to all others there, to his eyes the atmosphere was nebulous and hazy, while his mental vision was overwhelmed with doubt, uncertainty and surprise. ^ But right here, and we had almost lost sight of it, he charges that in the new county movement we see looming up before us the prospective loss of patronage by the establishment of a press at the new Court House. Well, there is and has for several years been a press at our sister town, and while we commend the I enterprise of those who conduct it?and we think they maintain it without any lavish pat' ronage from Capt. John C. Witherspoon?we are glad to know that the press of that town and the Exquiuer have always been on the " most amicable terms ; and though we dislike to break unpleasant tidings abruptly,, yet we ' cannot let the occasion pass without whisper1 ing to the HeraWs ear that it has been said " that somebody said that they had heard some one else say, that Capt. John C. Witherspooy. * said that when they got a Court House at Rock Hill they intended to start a new paper. Now 5 we have broken the news to our neighbor as, gently as we could, but not with the view of discouraging our brother of the press ; nor, * we may be permitted to add, in a very envious frame of mind ourself as regards tins prospective enterprise. * ^ But the Sage of Santnc says he is satisfied that the people of the west would oppose any j interference with the county boundaries. We a are glad that he acquired some knowledge j while in that section, despite the minor drawa backs of clouded vision, the bother of keeping " the points of the compass and the "surprise" 1 which attended his first appearance before a western auditory. The truly disinterested motives that would prompt him in resisting a ( severance of the western part of the county , are refreshing in these days of political degen' eracy and challenge the admiration of a grateful people. ^ He says that we once told Dr. Sam Kell? j mistaking the Doctor for his brother?that we . supported A. S. Wallace for Congress, but , .had to do so on the sly, and that it was not i until after we had said this to Dr. Kell that we discovered the mistake. To this we have i only to say that the statement, no difference by i whom originally made?whether a fiction of . Capt. Witherspoon's brain, or told to the Cap( tain by Dr. Kell?is absolutely and unqualifiedly false. . m The Captain next complains that none of r his speeches "have been quoted in the EnquiJIER in his own language-." This is a very disingenious method of conveying a false impression to his hearers. No attempt has been made to quote his speeches in his own lanf/naye, but there has never been any intention on the part of the Enquirer to misrepresent him in any particular. He says his Hickory Grove r speech was not properly quoted, and if it had ! been, he would not have pursued the course, . he did towards the Enquirer. His speech at r Hickory Grove was made on Thursday. The issue of the Exquikek containing it was . printed on the following Wednesday, six days . after he spoke at Hickory Grove ; yet 011 the . following day after the Hickory Grove meet ing? jrrmay, septernDer ist, lie went couwrius . Fork, and at the meeting there on that day j opened his batteries on the Enquirer ; the" j next meeting was at Clover on Tuesday, Sep5 tember 4th, where again lie attacked the Ex; quirkr in tlie same manner as at other places , subsequently. The Enquirer containing a > report of his Hickory Grove speech was printed the next day after he spoke at Clover. It j was pointed subsequent to two of his speeches, f "SSsailing the paper, and yet he was impelled to pursue the course he did on account of the mant ner in which his speech was printed the next i day after hissecondassailingspeech! Ilowdoes . the veracious Captain account for this remarkj able gift of penetration V At Clark's Fork, i as we are informed, he made his first attack ; upon us before the copy of his speech was evon in Hie nrinfer's lianrl hie coermrl affrsielr at Clover before it was issued from the press ; and yet but for the nature of that report, he would have said nothing about the Enquirer during the canvass ! A remarkable prescii ence, surely ! Or .a very defective memory, to i say the least. # ?,r Our friend still labors under the depression ; caused by the absence of "a line of editorial encouragement," as he now qualifies it, in the , Enquirer during the stormy days of 1S70. We can only construe this ommission on our" part as a failure to make an editorial appeal to him to come forth from his seclusion and""Titise his mighty voice in behalf of his Prostrate State^ While we have shown what this paper performed in that canvass, <we have also shown thatCapt. J. C. Witherspoon spoke at but one meeting of any consequence in the county. This was on the occasion of a "barbecue" at Pride's Old Mill, and as the burden of his speech then was that it was' "not a question of principle, but one of bread and meat," the inference now is that he was at-* tracted more by prospective mutton than a desire to rally the people under the banner of Reform. With wonderful acuteness, the Captain asks if the Enquirer would have pushed forward the "Practical and Pertinent Ques;. tion" if it had been asked under circumstances where it was known that a majority of ! the people favored the amendment ? lie can ! find the answer to this where he found the I question^-in the Enquikeu of last week. We | would ask the doughty Captain, Had the Ex; qitirku recognized him as the generalissimo of the canvass, would he have winged his thoughts on poisoned shaft and hurled them ' at us with all the invective of impassioned oratory, in "words of learned length and thundering sound ?" We will let him answer the question, for he ic an honorable man. Am\ ; again, had we championed the cause of John"" C. Witherspoon in this canvass, could he have failed to find "lines of encouragement". : in our columns during this momentous crisis in the history of York county ? He may answer, for he is an honorable man." Or, if we had placed a laurel wreath upon his lofty brow, crowning him as "generalissimo" in this contest, would he have acknowledged our leadership in this "political Israel V" Let him answer, for he is an honorable man. Or, had we been passive on a question, the discussion of which he wished to evade, would he have brought up the groundless charge that we desired to array one side of the county against the other ? He may answer for himself ; for "sure, he is an honorable man. Or. suppose we had not incautiously presented ourself at one or two of the joint discussions, j our presence being distasteful to his serene highness, would he have charged us with being I actuated by sinister motives ? Let him answer the question, for he is an honorable man. Or, again, had we not published the short com| munication which so stirred his bile and overwhelmed him with emotions of unutterable surprise at Hickory Grove, even hiding the | sun from his eyes, would the noble nature of his compassionate heart have permitted him 1 to produce his favorite .Tack-m-the-box, the Ku-klux image, anddisplay it with juggling incantation ? lie may answer the question, for ^'lliMtus is an honorable man." j He complains that we have attempted to burlesque him. Never were we further from , entertaining such a thought or desire. Burlesque or ridicule is not our vein. We have : only attempted to answer, in a plain, unvar; nished way, his unprovoked attacks upon ourself, directed in well rounded periods of ornate oratory from every stump save one in this canvass, we nave nevermougntor muuigmg | in ridicule or burlesque. If the innocent ; headings to our former articles gave offence, ' we promise to atone for the sin by omitting a headline of any description to this one. And in his lame condition, to which-he himself I refers, our sympathy towards him is as sincere ; as any man's, and our admiration of his record j as a gallant soldier in the cause of his State is ^juwtfassed by Ao one; but while our physij cal ^condition *is no better than his own, we j claim that his latne condition gives no immuj nity for making unprovoked attacks upon us. j And when he publicly makes them from the J stump, he may expect us to reply from our 1 forum, if we see projier to do so. His fortuiti ous nomination in the primary election, and i the supj>ort which we shall accord him as one ! of the Democratic nominees, present no bar! rier to our right of repelling, in our own way, j his inane attacks. P* STATU ! ?The Itichland county Convention of the I Greenback or Labor Reform party met in Columbia on Tuesday. J ? The Dem ocratic nominating convention of I Orangeburg county, which met last Friday, I wis composed of two hundred and forty-nine ; delegates. j ? The Democratic campaign meeting at T^jumter was the first failure of the canvass. | Only a small crowd was present, the effect of I the prevailing stock law disaffection and dis' satisfaction with the results of the primaries j being distinctly visible. 7 ? Democratic rule saved the people in State I taxes, in four years, $2,91)1,000, which is equal i to tkirty-tm dollars for each one of the nine i ty thousand Democratic voters. Shall the ! Democracy be repudiated because they have | reduced the expenses of the government V. | ?Remember that during four years of I Radical rule, ending 1874-75, the people of j South Carolina paid SO,874,000 in State taxes, | while in four years of Democratic rule the ' people have paid only ?6,973,000. The saving to the people in four years was $2,901,000 in State taxes. Is not this worth having and i "keeping? ? The Democracy of Barnwell county are not afraid to discuss questions within the party lines. The Anti-Stock law men will make the fight for repeal within the party in a manly and sensible way. For a man to go over to the Greenback-Radicals because lie is opposed to the No-fence law is as wise as to buru down his house because the furniture of one room is not to his liking. The Greenbackers of Lexington county held ^meeting in Lexington last Friday. J. Hendrix McLane and Dr. Durham, the antipoll tax preacher, delivered their harangues. There were ten white Greenbackers, about forty colored Republicans and two hundred Democrats present. McLane and Durham refused to divide time, but after they got through, Col. John R. Abney, of Columbia, and Gen. Y. J. I'ope, of Newberry, made stirring Democratic addresses and turned the batteries against the Greenbackers. ? The Hon. James 13. Campbell, of Charles11 ton, is the nominee of both the Greenbackers and the Republicans for member of Congress from the Charleston district. No sign has been made by Mr. Campbell, and we have no idea that he desired the nomination. But he has'it and is not likely to resign it, in terms. The News and Courier says the object ol t lie ureeu backers ana Republicans is 10 inane Campbell a wedge wjtli which to rive the Charleston Democracy asunder, and this must lie prevented at any cost. No candidate of the Greenbaekers and Republicans, whatever his intentions, can remain the friend of the white l>eople of the State. GENERAL POLITICAL NOTES The Democrats of Massachusetts have nominated Ren Butler for Governor. ? Mr. Blaine's anti-Mahone views are to be put in pamphlet form for circulation in Virginia. ? The Boston Post thinks that with a proper amount of work the State of New Hampshire may be carried by the Democrats. ? Mayor Cleveland of Buffalo, has been nominated by the Democrats for Governor of New York. Mr. Cleveland is young, able, and has a clean record. The New York Tribune admits that he will lie hard to defeat. ? The thirty thousand colored voters in Ohio are said to be apathetic, because they do all Jiifl-A-nfinnr mid frftf none of the offices. The n*- - Ohio Republicans practice white supremacy at home. They denounce it at the South. ? Under the caption of "A Duplex Fraud," the News ami Courier publishes a lengthy account showing how E. W. M. Mackey fraudulently obtained $.'l,r?(HJfroni the National Treasury, and that he still has fraudulent claims before Congress. ? In Mecklenburg county, X. C., the Democratic Legislative ticket is as follows : Syd B. Alexander for the Senate, ami W. II. Bailey, j J. S. Myers and Dr. T. T. Sandifer for the House. All are farmers except Mr. Bailey. Mr. J. S. Myers is a son of Col. Wm. R. Myers, who is the Republican candidate for the Senate in the same county. ? There has been almost a revolution in the political situation in the North in the last week. All the signs point to the election of the Democratic Ticket in New York and Pennsylvania, to be followed by the election of a Democratic President in IKS-l. The revolt against _Jav Gouldisui, Bossisiu, and Radical corruption and centralization in general is spreading fast, and after the 4th of March, 1SSB, the House of Representatves will be Democratic. There is a slim prospect of loaves and fishes in going over to the Greenback-Radicals at this juncture. ? The New York Democrats have at last harmonized, representatives of each of the three city factions?Irving Ilall, Tammany and the County Democracy?having been admitted to ! the State Convention, representation being in proportion to strength. On the fourth ballot Grover Cleveland, a young man and reform 'Mayor of Buffalo, was nominated amid great enthusiasm for governor. There was much confusion and excitement at one time, but j the harmony seems to have been i>erfect, and I the party is united, enthusiastic and confi-1 dent. On Motion of John Kelly a very strong j anti-monopoly plank was inserted in the plat- j form. Politics and Religion.?The Southern | Christian Advocate says: '"Rev. E.J.White,! a Presbyterian preacher in Chester, in this' State, has gone into |?olit:ics, and with just ' such results as usually follow a man who com- j promises with the high demands of his sacred profession. An anonymous letter signed with the initials of his name, reflects most discredit- j ably on him as a Christian minister and gen-! tleman. 'We are sorry to publish the above, j simply because we are sorry it is true." 13 5p5? p |sjgsSElSg" ' ? J ifcs sJ S? 5?? <5-r? zo I? s?B 2 ^ s^.- t. ,? i f B & jr = ?*sr-^H: r? : ?" : 2? 22. s. 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It was a canvass in which one of the " Legislative candidates assumed the ludicrous 8] position that it was not incumbent upon a ti man asking the suffrages of his fellow citizens a to define his views upon vital questions affect- n ing their interests, taking the absurd ground J? that these questions would more properly come c' up after the nomination; and yet when thecandi- e dates were called upon in arespectful communi- c cation, through the public press, to define tl their views on at least one important question, c this self-same candidate, yielding to the finer ,v impulses of his exalted notion of propriety, as- n sailed the editor of the paper for admit- v ting the communication to his columns, charg- v ing him with being actuated by sordid mo- 1 tives; by a desire to array one half of the ? county against the other; to deprive the East- J eru skle of the county of representation in j, the Legislature; and a 110 less flagrant offence t< than either of the above, of an effort to dis- tl rupt the Democratic party of the county; d while to all these charges he assumed to him- ? self the prerogative of arraigning the editor ^ for all his supposed sins, both of commission- ^ and omission, for a i>eriod of a dozen years. s< Such of the charges uttered on the hustings ti by this political oracle, since the first day of *1 the canvass at Hickory Grove, that we care ^ to reply to at present, are sufficiently answer- p] ed in another flace. These remarks are sug- 01 gested only by the following report of Satur- pi dav's meeting, furnished by a representative P? of "the Yorkville paper," and which we publisli not only to give Capt. John C. Wither- [j spoon free opportunity for ventilating his ^ anger, but also to let him understand once ai and for all that his caviling disturbs our se- tc renity 110 more than would the melodious w notes which in its tuneful course the wind draws forth: " ^ The meeting was called to order at about q half past one o'clock by (x. W. S. Hart, Pre- p< cinct Chairman, who, on doing so, stated that C( he had been requested to read the following n, paper, addressed to the candidates for the n< House of Representatives, and signed "Land- h, holders and Tenants "Are you in favor of enacting a law giving ]e to landholders and farmers a prior or prefer- e red claim for all advances made to their ten- ri unt.*, laborers or croppers, necessary to enable st them to work out and gather their crops V" p< After "springing" this much-italicised and somewhat abstruse question ui>on the candi- tl dates, the Chairman then read the following jz note from Hon. B. II. Massey: ej McCoxXE LLLSVILLE, Sept. 19, 1882. Capt. It. II. Glenn, County Chairman, I ti York Co. : Dear Sir : I will be compelled to j 0f be in Columbia on Friday next", (the day of 1tl; the meeting at Y?rkvillo) consequently cannot j ip attend the meeting. The only issue before us 11( is a division of the county. I have carefully w considered the question, and I think it would 0j be unwise to attempt to divide our county, and se I oppose a division. Yours respectfully, cc 13. H. Massey. su Please read this to the meeting. The Chairman then introduced as the first re speaker J. C. Chambers, Esq., who at some Y length gave his views upon public questions nt and measures, and discussed the evils of over- E legislation, with which he said our country is ed already cursed. On the question read by the Tl Chairman, at the opening of the meeting, he A said the law as it now stands settles the mat- th ter, and until he should be better informed sa upon the subject, lie was willing to leave it ta where it now is. Merchants are a good and ti; useful class of citizens, and he would do noth- C( ing calculated to injure them in the conduct wi of their business, and would oppose any legis- K< lation that would work to the injury of any til one class as in favor of another. E: Mr. George Riddle was next introduced, of who briefly announced himself as a candidate M in obedience to the call of a number of his ex fellow-citizens; but declined making any ex- m; tended remarks. * of Mr. Win. Wliyte was next introduced. He II; spoke substantially as at other places in the ly canvass; and in reply to the interrogatory 11 which had been read by the chairman of the Y< meeting, he said that not being a lawyer, nor th familiar with the law, he would like to look be j into the matter before committing himself kn upon it. th Col. W. 13. Wilson was next introduced, be lie spoke at some length, first remarking that he at the proper point he would answer the inter- ty rogatory read by the Chairman at the opening ca; Al LI.. ~ i\a s\r\ck nrKi/ih 1 111*1 01 tilt! Illbl'l/lliy, <13 YVCIl iviau no uiiu nuivii uuu r been propounded through the public press, dri esteeming it not only a duty but a privilege tin for candidates for high public trusts to cheer- en fully define their positions on any question of Y< public importance that their constituency wc might demand. He then pictured South Car- of olina in the days of Radical rule, contrast- E? ing that dark period with the prosperity that ] has attended our State since Democratic su-1 ter premacy. lie adverted to the hostility of fen the Federal government towards the South, tin and especially towards our own State, the an< efforts making to elect Republican Congress- ele men from South Carolina, and warned his Ili hearers against over confidence in Democratic apj strength, which he feared would produce a she spirit of supineness that would result in Dem- ] ocratic defeat. The perils now environing pie South Carolina are as great as they were jn hoi 1S7(>, and our condition now involves not poli- oik tics alone, but the fate of every man, woman wh and child in South Carolina. lie said that the doi Democratic party is our only hope of refuge i sen and safety, and urged not only vigilance, but for unity in the Democratic ranks. He argued am i ! bi ; cn n > iff B !1 W I ar 9 i 11" ? ! L t ! iin K |? ^ o_ i ^ .I.1 n. w lison, or. 1 v ! pi i I to . L. ltiddle. I? ^ M di a q W is I. Massey. ,!? k $ w : m j H w J. Witherspoon. j* ^ y Chambers. 2 ^ P in 5 m o ktl '-w"?te- H wk Hood. ' % J at ==f- 4 *! d, r. Rigging. j M U n !g H o w p. ies R. Allison. !p ^ (J ^ 1* Clenn. H J* ^1 M h 1 S H H g tc 1. Jackson, jg H *1 Q gi F. Lindsay. % r Hj. cc y. H a W. Jones. k X* a w P ? Q :l 3ns Gallagher. . *jl. 511 H- ,n: >ph A. McLean. , s X 'In ?1 .c, x Jl' H P. Gage. ~; tlz w a I IK sI B l'orter Good. j :, I rsi B. Williams. id! ^ iC p< D. McKnight. \ ill Vote. j ti ai - et gainst the proposed amendment lor reducing in lie area of counties; and to the interrogatory st hat had been read at the opening of the hi leeting by the Chairman, said the measure se rouldbea wise one. it would tend to im- v: rove the agriculture of the State : would en- cl ourage the working man, and would have 8. he effect to induce the merchant to extend. J redit. He then closed 1?ittr*7m"'argument se bowing that wlAjJ^rrffirennicy is essential for 51 he contj^tterTprosperity of the State. JJapfTjohn C. Withersi>oon was next intro- A uced. He spoke at some length of the mis- s< ule and corruption in South Carolina prior to gi he overthrow of the Republican party in A 876, and closed this branch of his subject by tl rging ujion his hearers the importance of H nity in the Democratic ranks. No question ti hould be introduced in this canvass calcula- T ed to divide the Democratic ranks. This was tl primary canvass, intended to give the De- at locracy of the county an opportunity to ex- tl ress their wishes as to candidates coming beore them for nomination, and all questions^ ct alculated to distract the party should be id liminated from the canvass. This was the p losing day of the canvass, and he could say st hat during its progress his relations with the w andidates had been pleasant, but the York- b< ille paper had endeavored to burlesque him, fi t which he was greatly surprised. He had yt ever had an unkind word with the editor, and rt ras surprised at the course of the pajier to- B ,Tards him. He had no unkind words for Mr. si ngold. He thought, however, the course the<>m aper had pursued in this canvass was calcu- n< ited to divide the people. At Hickory Grove, cl n the opening of the canvass, a paper was go-1 di lg around for signatures pledging the signers O 3 vote for no man from the eastern side of m he county, and to go against Rock Hill. The te ay of the speaking at Hickory Grove was at londy and as he had never traveled the road tli ) that place, he was bothered to keep the ve oints of the compass, and he arrived late% or Liter the speaking nad commenced, uoi. vvn- m in gave his views on the Amendment queson, and Senator Hart was put up to speak at le close of the meeting. A part of that speech D as omitted in the Enquirer's report?a ol urtion in which Senator Hart said to the peo- oj le to vote for no man from the eastern side lx E the county. How unfortunate does this th lace the people of Eastern York. I told the to ?ople at Hickory Grove tliat as a State ques- th on aud for the good of the party I favored ni ; but I say let every body vote on the quesA of on as he pleases. The east is in favor of thgi .inendment and the west is opposed to it, co id therefore the speaker thought it unwise vo > agitate the question. There was a thought ex ith some that the adoption of the Amend- as lent would lead to a division of the county, fri id he charged the Yorkville Enquirer with at dug father to the thought. It was the Ex- of (jirer that got the question up?not the m; ;ople of the county He is afraid of a new is lunty. He fears that by the formation of a pi 3w county he will lose patronage, and that a th jw paper will spring up at the new court- an inse. po He objected to the Enquirer presuming to re ad the people in this political Israel. The oc nquirer had heretofore been silent on po- en tical questions, and now he objected to its do epping forward as the generalissimo of the I)< ;ople 011 this one. He denied attempting to na ;t up a cheap mode of electioneering, and tic lought it would be a cheap way by antagoning the county paper, provided it was a prop- of jjaDBU by TTn ~f nf3? nn fha nnnnf.v miPQ. I St( iiu l/IIUW UKtllUll'vU v/iL un vuv VX'UM uj \|uvu on, and said he was satisfied that the people ! the west would oppose any interference with th ie county boundaries. He would not be wilug for the people of the west to go to Gaff- f*1 ;y's, and if from selfish motives they should is ant a courthouse at Rock Hill, they would ve >pose taking off a part of the Broad River stl ction for a new county with'Gaffney's as the th' lurthouse. Then he went back to the main ibject of his discourse by recurring to the t'11 ditor of the'enquirer. He said : Another 11 o ason why I object to this course of the Ca orkville Enquirer. i have said that i had i18 sver seen a line of encouragement in the- i'1 nquirer, and you cannot show me a line of ^ itorial encouragement in that paper in 187(5. liat is why I did not want his leadership. f',f nd among other reasons I could mention is I)e is, nor need I conceal names: Dr. Sam Kell Ij(; ys that the Editor of the Enquirer mis-J king him for his brother, told him confiden- j w* illy that he had supported A. S. Wallace for ! ku ingress, but had to do so or.' he sly, and it w' is not until after he had said this to Dr. 0C1 ell that he discovered his mistake. But, conmed the impiissioned orator, the Yorkville *') kquirer is too well known to the citizens Go York county to need any further notice. ^ y language was not given at Hickory Grove, ^ cept on the lien law. The Enquirer gavff y language on that, but not a single sjieech j* mine has been quoted in my own language, i ad my speech at Hickory Grove been proper-' jn quoted I should not have pursued the course ; I ' lave towards the Enquirer. Would the | .. orkville Enquirer have pushed forward ! L is practical and pertinent question if it had j j ' en.asked under circumstances where it was>0f' iowii that a majority of the people favored,,, e Amendment? I have been charged with"! ing bellicose and reckless, as though I had j * en drunk. Many of the citizens of the coun-; j' I had never seen, -and yet the Enquirer | rried his spleen so far as to create the im-! ^ jssion that I,,in my lame condition,. am a ! unken, desperate man. He then referred to 1 ? 3 days of Merrill, when men were being tak- j tjj, from their firesides and imprisoned in j ' irkville jail. That was ?. time, if ever, that uld prompt a man to come out for the relief ^ ^ his fellow-citizens ; but the Editor of the rniTfm?t> n'no clnmh "**"?????'? tie then put in a few words on what he ?j,0 nied the county project, and expressed his ]aM ir that if nominations were all made from ; ; west it would kill the ardor of the east, j 1 J alluded to the power of the east in all Tin ctions ; but repeated what he said at Rock Rai 11 last Saturday, that if all the offices were the iropriated by the west, still the east would , An >w her manhood by supporting the ticket. ! latt 3e said it would not do to divide our peo- j Tin 011 local issues, and as to having a court- is s ise at Rock Hill, he never expected to see sub 3 there. We have people in that section and 0 would object to it. Mr. Massey says he tloa i't want one, and I suppose he reflects the roa< timents of the people of Fort Mill. Lands- ty a d and Indian Land have not yet consented, the 1 in the Legislature he would vote against a twe 11 to force the. people of other counties to ime to our area against their will. The peo- j e to be affepted are the proper ones to decide , e question. I Ie opposed al! local legislation, j id had he been in the last Legislature would * ive opposed the general fence law. i j lie then defined his views on the question j ad by the Chairman of the meeting, evinc-1 q g neither emotion nor surprise at the interroitory, nor did he even insinuate that the , t nquiueii sprung it upon the candidates. J e said he had not before seen the question. f lien as a kind of postscript to all that he had evi'ously said, and as a substitute forhis ens- \ inary postscript, denying that he was a can- < date in the interest of the anti-prohibition-; ts, he said that reports of meetings only go make up a newspaper, the same as news, ! hichgoes in as money to the proprietor, hut11 liich never comes out. j (1 After short addresses from Messrs. (fage c id Good, candidates for Probate .Judge, the t eeting adjourned to the tune of''Babies on ie Block." v In his observation of the new comet taken ; the Naval Observatory at .'5 p. m. on Tues- * ly, Prof. Frisby determined its position in 1 ght ascension 11 hours, 10 minutes, .'50 sec- [ ids ; declination north no degrees 8 minutes r id ik) seconds. Prof. Frisby also observed , liefore sunrise and again at six o'clock next orning. It was a very prominent object. c sing about a half hour before the sun, and a > the southward of it about ten or twelve de ees. The tail of about one degree in length jus very plainly visible. The nucleus is very mdensed and stellar in character, and hav- t ig wings which curve outward and down- j ard, the whole presenting the appearance of j bird in llight. The nucleus is surrounded by 1 i envelope of light of much less intensity. ; The comet was very plainly seen with the v aked eye after sunrise. When Prof. Frisby c ade the second observation of the position, e >out 0 A. M.. it was verv easily followed ith a telescope. Two more observations of isition wefce made by Professors Skinner, oss and Flih.t during the forenoon, thus fur- f ishing a knowledge of the direction and the j ite of its applicant motion. These observa- ( oris enabled the astronomers to estimate its wition with an accuracy unattainable by ( ;her methods. From these data the comet ? as observed with the transit circle on the c lerictian by Professor Winlock, thus giving ,] le position with an accuracy unattainable by ( ly other metiiods. An obsevation of a com- r ; in broad daylight with a meridian instruient is unique. This is perhaps the third in- 1 ance in more than a hundred years of its i iving been done. Wells' comet was thus ob- 1 irved a few months since at the Dudley obseritory. The position from the transit cire observation is right ascension llh. 14m. 04s., declination south 0 deg, 34m. 28.5. 1 he daily motion of the comet is in right as- \ srftiqn minus <>m., (is., in declination minus t ) mrluid 45s. Prof. Boss, of the Duley Observatory, at Ibany, X. 1"., who is now in Washington, ( tys that lie believes this is a return of the s reat comet discovered by Dr. Gould in South 1 merica on the 5th of February, 1880, and j lat it is also identical with the comet of 1843. { [e thinks that the orbit will be fouund ellipcal with a period of less than three years. j lie orbit of the comet carries it so close to ' le sun that it must lie impeded by the solar l :mosphere, and probably liefore' tlie end of \ ie century it will fall into the sun. c Further calculations of the orbit of the nnet tend to confirm the theory that it is lentical with the comet of 1843 and 1880. 1 rof. Boss suggests that it may have made t weral revolutions between these two periods r itliout being seen. If, however, there lias jen a sudden reduction of the periodic time om thirty-seven to a little more than two >ars and a naif, it follows also mat tne next ( iduction may be proportionately great. Prof, j oss says: " The comet may crash into the . m next year. What the results of that crash ay be is a problem yet to be solved. It must ^ )w be conceded that a comet has a solid nueus. The nucleus of the Wells comet was j stinctly seen in an observation at the Dudley j bservatory, on June lltli, last, and was esti- j ated to be not less than 400 miles in diame- <; r. The nucleus of the present comet is prob- ( )ly much greater, and when we remember ? lat this comet will rush into the sun with a ? ilocity of four hundred miles per second, no le can venture an adequate or accurate esti- j ate of the possible consequences. I l The South Carolina Democracy in \ anger.?The Republican policy in South Car- I ina, for the present campaign, is now devel- ' >ed. It is shrewdly conceived and will be 1 ildly carried out. For the first time since J eir overthrow in 1870, the party leaders turn 1 the best account the political subserviency of e negro and the unwillingness of the white * an to submit, for long together, to any sort 7 political constraint. ' ' 2 There are probably twenty thousand more ^ lored voters in South Carolina than white j( iters. The difference in the vote does not , ceed this, although large numbers of whites " well as of colored people have abstained & urn registering and consequently cannot vote the approaching election. In two-thirds the counties, we judge, there is* a colored ajority. On the color line, which happily fc not as broad and sharp as formerly, the Re- ri tblicans can command a powerful vote, and e whole of this vote, organized by race, color id deep-dyed prejudice, they offer to any op>nents of the Democracy who will consent to 1' ceive it. They expect to find among Dem- o ratic malcontents, whether styled Indepeiul- tl ts or Green backers, the qualities which they i not possess themselves. To divide the , jmocracy they can afford to surrender nomi- ' iiy tne ]K)iiucai omces uncu rue next eiec- >n. r< This is the explanation of the endorsement o the Greenback candidates for State offices the Republican Convention, and of the *adfast refusal to nominate any straightout ipublican candidates for Congress, except in 0 e Black District, where the Democrats will a ike no nominations. In themselves, the tl eenbackers count for little or nothing. It p their endorsement by the Republican Con- ^ ntion which gives them importance and ength, while concealing from the Democracy 11 e magnitude of the danger. When Repub- s< ans are pitted squarely against Democrats t( ere is no doubt of the result. But there are rt Republicans in the field, as such, in South a] .rolina this year, and the Democrats behave though they expected to have a walk-over November. The plain truth is that it will ^ he hard work until the polls close on election y to prevent the political miscegenationists so >rn electing three or four Congressmen, and, pi rhaps, a majority of the members of the tf gislature. The Democratic candidates for State offices 11 be elected, we think, beyond a doubt, ni t there is no certainty that the Democracy tl 11 accomplish much more than this. Dem- tl iatic supremacy will not be maintained, if ^ -! magnitude of the opposition be underrated the blissful fashion of the times.?News and Sil win. n" k< & A queer sort of lawsuit is going on in a al chigan town, the plaintiff being a gentle- t in who combines in himself the two profesns of clergyman and physician. The de- f? idant is a man who was sick, and under the i" .intiff's care. The difference between these m o men is in regard to pay for the plaintiff's bj Sessional visits. While defendant was sick 9t intiff visited him both for the purpose of , ding his diseases and for the administering spiritual counsel. In these visits there was ;reat mixing of godly advice wjth medical ti< scription. Sometimes the minister-doctor p;i re pills and other remedies, and sometimes 0f only prayed and talked. The defendant j s greatly astonished on recovering and ng presented with the professional man's Dr I, to find that the religious visits were f?;| irged for, all the same as the medical ones. B; s idea was in accordance with that of most wi >ple, that the minister who makes calls for ( purpose of giving religions counsel does ree of exi>ense to the persons called upon, e Michigan case is still on; and its pross will be watched with much interest by A; >se whose physicians are also clergymen, ta tvoi'o in' cArM-il fripudsi ?iie Cue ii aw an*i> On ester Railroad.? tin b directors of the C'heraw and Chester ca ilroad have entered into an agreement with tin directors of the Charlotte, Columbia and ^1( gusta Railroad to lease the former to the r ;er road for the term of ninety-nine years. i terms of this agreement, which of course rel ubject to approval by the stockholders, is an stantially that the Charlotte, Columbia wl 1 Augusta Railroad Co. are to pay the s.)( ting debt of the Cheraw and Chester Rail- ! ' :1, to pay 14 jier cent, interest on the conn-! 1 md private stock in the road, and to build ?'bridge over the Catawba river within te.r Ive months. we LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Withers Adickes?To Arrive thin Week. I. Strauss?Just What the People Expect, ohu R. Ashe?I am a Candidate?Cooking OilBagging and Ties. '. M. Dohson?The Bon-Ton Millinery Store?T. M. Dohson's First Gun. iuutor it Mures? ff You Wish to Buy. . M. Adams?At'enlion Housekeepers?Hardware Cheap - Wooden Ware?Wanted. Ierndon Bros.?W?.tt Plows?Rubber BeltingTobaccos?Wheat?Our Stock?New Goods. VT. C. Latimer?Millinery ! Millinery!! !. E Spencer, Intendant?Town Notice. FINE CORN. Mr. 1L M. Whitesides, of Meek's P. O., in his county, lias left at our office several ears if fine corn grown on his land on Bullock's reek. It is a hybrid of the "gourd-seed'1 and 'Western seven-ear," and shows a large and veil-developed grain. SMALL GRAIN. In reporting the amount of grain threshed >y them the past summer, Messrs. Glenn & Vhi taker inform us that they threshed 1,274^ lushels wheat, 4,6T>1$ bushels oats, Gj bushels ye and 3 bushels barley, or a total of 5,9354 mshels of small grain, grown within the inorporate limits of the town, on ground usuilly devoted to cotton. K. X. MILITARY SCHOOL. We acknowledge the receipt of an invitation o the 102nd anniversary of the battle of King's fountain, and the 27th anniversary of King's fountain Military School, to be held in York'ille, on. the (5th of next month. The oration rill be delivered by J. Stanyarne Wilson, Esq., if Spartanburg, and an address will lie delivred by Gen. E. M. Law. J(Jf)UE MACKEY'8 WITHDRAWAL. Just as we feared, when we inserted on the irst page of this issue the report of a recent nterview with Judge Mackey, that he would lo something to spoil it before the appearance >f the paper, so sure enough, he has went and jone and done it by withdrawing from the :anvass a second time. On last Thursday the fudge sent to W. W. Russell, chairman of the Greenback Executive Committee, a letter fornally renouncing his candidacy; but the Cheser correspondent of the Netcs and Courier vaited two days in making the announcement, est the fickle Judge should reconsider. POLITICAL DISTURBAiVCE. A serious disturbance occurred in Winnsioro last Monday, the occasion being the aplearance in that town of the State canvassers in the Greenback ticket for the purpose of adIressing their adherents. A number of I)emicrats rode into the town, and by wilddemonitrations prevented the speakers from being leard. No person was seriously hurt. It s said that those actually implicated in the listurbance were drunk. Such occurrences ire to be deplored as reflecting upon the intel igence of the Democracy and giving our peo)lo an unenviable reputation abroad. McLane s advertised to speak here to-day. If he :omes, and desires to speak, let him have the ipportunity undisturbed. Free speech is the >ulwark of our liberty. The Democratic pary can withstand all the assaults that he may nake. THE WHEAT AND OAT CROPS. The following rei>orts have been furnished is as to the amount of small grain threshed 11 York county the past season. We would >e obliged to other threshers for reports of heir operations, so that all may be aggregated : Wheat. Oat*. H. Dover, 4,575 2.500 j. N. Culp, 4,180 8,tWO Tall A Brian 4,000 3,000 r. P. Robinson A Co., 5,130 6,745 I. L. Milling 3,1)12 5,101 J. L. & J. O. Moore, 5.747 8,070 I. L. Davidson 2,090 4,018 iIcGill A Jenkins, 7,000 3,000 ohn E. Lowry 4,710 4.300 ?al d w el 1 A S m i t h .1,0444 375 5. F. Blake., 3,000 16,645 {. R. Love A Co 3,000 3,300 iiddle A Riddle . 2.011 1,207 V.A.Barron 6,004 7,773 kelson A Wilson 4,012 15,8*274 '. M. A R. W. Whitesides 1,400 750 Jlenn A Whitaker 2,037i 7,3011 larnbright A Cn 4,700 3,600 telsnn A Company 3,"667 14,944 In addition to the above, Messi6. Riddle & tiddle threshed 33 bushels of rye; Mr. Blake 5 bushels rye and 70 bushels barley; Messrs. 7elson & Wilson 10 bushels barley and 18;} ushels rye; Glenn & Whitaker, 3 bushels bar^y and 20$ bushels rye; Messrs. Hambright 5 Co., 200 bushels rye ; and Messrs. Nelson i Co., 40 bushels rye and 10 bushels barley. RAILROAD LEASED. A special meeting of the stockholders of lie Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Itaiload was held at Gastonia last Friday to onsider propositions for a lease of the road 3 the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta tail road Company. There were 3,2*22 shares f stock represented in person and by proxy, lie total number of shares issued to that date einnr 3 3004. entitled to a vote of 1,373. Af ~""0 "7'"' Z 7 ? , 3r a full interchange of opinion, it was flecied, by a stock vote of 011} to 191 to lease the aad, and the instruments have been executed, n the following terms : The C. C. & A. Company agreee to pay dijct to the Stockholders of theC& L R. R. Co., r to their treasurer or agent, a sum equal to an nnual dividend of one and one half per cent, of le capital stock of the said company, the aymentsto be made semi-annually in advance, 'lie lessees agree to assume and pay by reewal or otherwise the mortgage bonds of the lid C. & L. R. R.*Co. Also, to pay the invest on the mortgage bonds outstanding, igularly, as the coupons mature. To assume ad pay the floating indebtedness of said ompany, including all valid obligations of ny and every character whatsoever, and all tate, county and municipal taxes. The les:es further agree to complete the road and nt the same in operation to the town of New>n, on or before the first day of July next; id to complete the road from Hickory to Leoir within eighteen months from the date of le ratification of the lease, and to complete le link between Newton and Hickory, either Y constructing a new road, or by laying a lird rail on the Western X. C. Roadbed, if lid party should desire and so arrange ; to iep rolling stock,Roadbed, See., in good order id repair, and to operate said road with daily tiins for tiie convenience of the public ; to irfeit all the proi>erty, rights and privileges, eluding additions, renewals and improveents to said property leased, in caseof failure r the said lessees to perform the foregoing ipulations, or any of them, and to pay such images, if any, as may result therefrom. The other conditions of the lease are obligajiis of the C. & L. R. R. Company on their irt to carry out in good faith the conditions the lease, and agree that the lessees may iden the gauge of the road and substitute oad gauge stock to correspond with a broad uge. The lease runs for ninety-nine years. Y the conditions of the lease, York county 11 receive an annual dividend of 81,500, pay le semi-annually in advance. Superintendent of Education.?Col. ibury Coward, principal of the King's Mounin Military School, was selected bytheDemratic Executive Committee of the State as e nominee foi; State Superintendent of Edution. In this the committee did well, and ey will not hear a word of grumbling from e people on account of this appointment, lonel Coward, coming from the school room, nesents the teachers of tlie State. He is earnest, careful, indefatigable worker in iatever he undertakes, lie is a first rate jaker ; that is he expresses the idea in him th clearness and force, without any parade words or sophomoric declamation. The ichers of the State will give him a warm lcome to his oflice.?Carolina Spartan.