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Scraps aud ji ? Governor-fleet Cleveland, with character- [; istic. good taste, declines to visit New York:< city, lie says lie has no business calling him j i there, and he declines to go for the purpose of ! \ being lionized. i ? A grizzly bear, recently killed on Wood j< River, Idaho, weighed fourteen hundred < pounds and had claws measuring seven inch- < es in leugth. The skin was simply immense j < and was shipped to San Francisco. . ? Ex-Governor Hen ricks, of Indiana, is so i < far m oved from his recent attack as to be j I considered entirely out of danger. "Senile j gangrene" in one foot was the trouble with him. It killed his father and a brother. ? The Selma (Ala.,) I'irnes says : "The sickest men in these parts are those who went j strongly into marriage insurance companies. There is no way of getting at the exact figures, but it is estimated that 815,000 has l>een squandered in them by Selma people." ? A Covington (Ky.,) man, whose child died [ with croup, has sued I)r. J. J. Dulaney, who j promised to call and attend him but failed to j do so, for 810,000 damages. The plaintiff al- i leges that the child's death was due to the doetor's neglect. ? Brave Bear, the Sioux Indian who was |' convicted 01 tne Killing or james .lomison, a white man, was hanged at Yankton, Dakota, last Friday. There was very little excitement ] at his execution, which was private. He left , a request to his relatives not to avenge his . death and to omit the usual mourning. ? ? One druggist of Kingston, Ontario, last 1 year sold enough opium to regular opium eat- ( ers to kill 14,500 ordinary men. The use of ( the drug is not increasing in that city, it is said, but its victims are numerous, are in the i upper classes of society, and in nine cases out ! of ten are ladies. ? M. Saint Paul has offered the French , Academy the sum of twenty-five thousand francs to found a prize for the discovery of a < cure for diphtheria. The competition is open > to the world, and is not even confined to the ' medical profession. Here is a chance for some ' American physician. , ? Louisiana crops of sugar, rice and cotton are enormous. Some of the sugar plantations are yielding three hogsheads of sugar and six barrels of molasses to the acre. This is remarkable. The planters are in high glee. Net incomes of from $50,000 to $500,000 are talked of. They have little time or attention for politics. ? The superstitious blacks of Hayti are much worked up over the presence in the sky of the great comet, many believing that Nature is about to call time on things terrestrial. The api?earance of the comet last year was followed by smallpox, which took off 00,000 Haytiens, and that circumstance has the effect now of causing great alarm among the ignorant people. ? The case of Chas. F. Kring, who is under death sentence for a murder which he is said to have committed nine years ago in St. Louis, is to be carried up to the Supreme Court of the United States. He has been already tried four times, and this appeal is based on the grounds that the law regulating trials in St. Louis is unconstitutional because '4 %*.v4- ollotif > /.lio n nrn mitlin 111 f hilt" Jl UUCD IJ Hi (1JIWH l\ VIHUIgr' VI IVII11V lit city. ? The Memphis Appeal insists that the manufacturing industries of the South do not need protection. The raw cotton is so cheap and so near to our hands that we can spin and < weave it at a profit in competition with Great Britain without one cent's protection, and iron is so abundant, and so cheap, and of such ex- 1 tra good quality, that we can manufacture it from $3 to $ "> per ton less than even the Pittsburg manufacturers. ? William Macavoy, the Greenback Labor l>oliticiau of Erie, Pa., has been driven mad by the result of the elections. lie was con- ' liued in jail 011 Monday, and being possessed of almost superhuman strength, he began tear- . ing down the bars of his cell, twisting them like twigs. Foaming at the mouth, he cursed Weaver and Pattison for defeating Armstrong, the Labor candidate for Governor, and when the warden with a body of prisoners went to secure him. he held them at bay with a bar of 1 iron for a long time. There..Ls. bntlittleAiope of his recovery. ? A safe in O'Brien's store, at Hot Springs, Arkansas, was drilled by burglars 011 Sunday night of last week, for the purpose of blowing it open with powder. It happened that a number of dynamite cartridges were stored in the safe, and when the powder was ignited an explosion ensued, which was made more violent than the burglars contemplated. The building was wrecked and the money in the safe ($800) was reduced to useless frangments. A man named Burns, a tramp, from Chicago, who is bruised about the shoulders has been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the attempted burglary. ? In the official inquiry now being conducted regarding the Jeanette expedition. Engineer Melville's testimony tends to exhibit Capt. DeLong as something of a petty tvrant. DisfV, ??irw mAl'O TirOOC^ I i:ipnnc 10 a uuu^ aitu. iigtw iuuiv m.cv.asary than in a i>erilous strait like that of the crew of the Jeanette, but the conduct toward .lerome Collins, Mr. Xewcomb and Lieut. Danenhower described by Melville is rather that of a nagging martinet than of a dignified commander. The testimony makes it necessary to recall Danenhower, whose well-meant reticence was in vain. It is a painful thing to j rake up the weaknesses of human nature in | such a stress, but the truth is called for. ? A Washington dispatch to the New York J Sun says : A startling report about the money collected by the Hubbell committee is confl-1 dentially circulated, which, like all confiden- j tial reports, is likely to gain publicity. It is ! that it has been ascertained that of the vast sum collected by far the larger part has never found its way out of the pockets of those to whom it was given to be used in the campaign, and that of large sums given to certain persons to specially affect doubtful districts, no trace can be found, the inference being almost conclusive that it was pocketed. In some instances this inference is supported by circum- j stances which leave scarcely any doubt on the | subject. ? If William Penn had been permitted to read the descriptions of the celebration in his honor, he must have been astonished beyond the power of expression. One of the minor facts certain to bewilder him is the consumption of lager beer during the bi-centennial i festivities. The books of the internal revenue j ottice showed that during the week 28,588 bar- i rels, or 15,000,000 glasses, of beer were delivered and presumably consumed in Philadelphia ; an allowance of ten glasses each to every man, woman and child, including the strangers within her gates. The quantity delivered during the corresponding week in 1881 was 18,420 barrels, so that the recent celebration is directly responsible for the consumption of nearly 10,000 barrels of beer. ? The Baltimore Journal of Commerce calls i attention to the fact that the sale of government lands in the Southern States is assuming large proportions. C)f the 8,650,219 acres sold in 1879 there were 481,174, or 5.0 per cent, of I the whole, located in Arkansas, Louisiana, j .Mississippi, Alabama aud Florida, the only Southern States in which the government still owns lands. In 1880 the total sales amounted to 9,160,918 acres, 990,815 acres, or 10.9 per cent., being in the South. The total sales in 1KS1 reached lu,<os?,itfi acres, 01 wnicn 1,01/,- j 136, or 14.1 per cent., were in the States named. ; In the year ended June 30, 1882, the total sales ! were 15,609,849 acres, and the sales in South- j ern States had increased to 2,355.704 acres, or 15 per cent., of the whole. In three years the sales in the South have increased five fold. J'art of these purchases are doubtless speculative, but another and a large part are due to the large How Southward of i>eople migrating from the North in recent years. ? A Washington dispatch of Saturday says : The electrical storm of Friday seems to have I extended all over the United States and Eu-: rope. No reports have been received beyond : the Continent of Europe. Communication be-j: tween London and the Continent was much ! delayed, and at times wholly interrupted, j Around New York it ceased between 3 and j ] 4 o'clock in the afternoon, but has again been j 1 - ?^i'elt to-night. It was felt as early as 4 o'clock j ] ^^ymorning west of Omaha. At Chicago, at j 1 sus|*Shmfo-day, communication was wholly j 1 I nion Tel*^me switch board in the Western j 1 ,several timesTaTtwtiiee there was set on lire 1 telegraphic matters/^S^mage was done to i of the same date says : TfifesYork dispatch ; heavy auroral storm is reporte?N??ce of a j < the entire country, and has resulte<Hir*fcout 1 a complete interruption to telegraph commuTtfJj cation, which it is impossible to maintain more than a few seconds uninterrupted. The storm )s said to lie the fiercest known for a long time ; rhe reports from New England indicate that i heavy snow storm set in at an early hour , :his morning, and the earth is already covered with snow to tlie depth of several inches. | Experienced telegraphers say it is the worst dorm of the kind that has occurred for many rears. The few wires that are working are continually liable to disturbance, and it is almost impossible to send or receive a long message continuously. The storm extends throughout the United States and Eastern Provinces >f Canada. It isespecially severe in its effects >u cable transmissions. I ?hc ?<n*hriUc t?n<|uirrt. YORKVILLE. S. C.: rHURSDAY MORNING. NOV. 23, 1882 . I How to Order (lie Enquirer.?Write the name of tho subscriber very plainly, give nostvtiiee, county and State, in full, ami sen a the uuount of tiie subscription by draft or postvtfice money order, <>r enclose the money in a registered letter. l'osfnge.?The K.\'tjrii:KU is delivered free -){ postage to all subscribers residing in York ounty, who receive the paper at post-offices within the county; and to all other subscribers the postage is paid hv the publisher. Our subscribers, no matter where they receive the paper, ire not liable for postage, it being prepaid at the post-office here, without additional charge to the subscriber. Watch flic Figure*.?'The date t*n the "address-label'' shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date. tiutM he kept i'?? advance. ChkIi.?It must bo distinctly understood that r>ur terms for subscriptions, advertisintrawljobwork, are cash in advance. Mr. J. L. Simmons is our authorized agent for receiving subscriptions and advertisements in the town of Chester. THE FORTY-EIGHTH CONOR ESS. The Washington Pout gives a list of the members-elect of the Forty-eighth House of Representatives, as corrected by the latest returns. .According to this list, the House will consist of 195 Democrats, elected as such, and 128 Republicans, including Maekey, of South Carolina ; Ochiltree, of Texas; Chalmers, of Mississippi ; Brumm, of Pennsylvania, and the West Virginia Readjustees. Weller, of Iowa, was elected as a Creenback-Deniocrat, and Lyman, of Massachusetts, as an Independent Civil-Service Reform Republican, thus leaving the Administration Republicans in a minority of 09. The control of the Senate, after March 4, is still in some doubt, but the chances are in favor of the Republicans. Roth sides can count on .'30 Senators each, if we give Illinois to the Republicans. Colorado and Nebraska are still undetermined. It is reported that, in the new Colorado Legislature, there will be a tie on joint ballot. In the new Nebraska Legislature, the balance of power is in the hamls of the Anti-Monopolists and Independents. If Colorado and Nebraska both elect Republicans. and Mahoneand Riddleberger continue to work for the Republicans, the Republican majority in the Senate will be 4. If Colorado should elect a Democrat and Nebraska a Republican, the Republican and Readjuster majority will be 2. If both Colorado and Nebraska should elect Democrats, which is very unlikely, the Senate would be a tie. If Colorado and Nebraska should elect Democrats and Mahone and Riddleberger strike for higher wages, and vote against the Republicans, the Democrats would have a majority of 4. These are the conditions of the problem, but the likelihood is that the Republicans will have the control of the Senate for the next two years. WOMAN SUFFRAGE IX NEBRASKA. The woman suffrage amendment to the State Constitution of Nebraska, which was voted cn at the late election, suffered an inglorious defeat. A letter from that State to the Chicago Inter-Orcan says the result is a surprise both to the friends of the measure and those who were indifferent. The majority against it will not fall below 20,000 and may reach 35,000. Several causes conspired to this result. The colored voters and nearly all foreigners voted against it. All who were interested in the manufacture and sale of intoxicants opposed it because they had been assured the women's votes would be for prohibition and against the liquor vendor. A large number of more intelligent voters said "No"' because their wives, mothers and sweethearts asked them to do so. Not a few were convinced that the ballot in the hands of women would undermine the social fabric and lower women rather than elevate men. Unquestionably, some suffragists did resort to well-known political schemes to secure success. The ladies appeared in force at the polls, and every voter was opiK>rtuned to vote for suffrage. It is now admitted had they remained away more votes would have been cast for them. Men became disgusted to find women (sometimes good and bad together) "electioneering."' One of the most amusing things in Lincoln was the appearance at the various polling places of a colored woman, who soon drew a large crowd about her, and then harangued her hearers with a sj>eech, eloquent in its way, against women suffrage. She created no little merriment and injured the cause in a measure. The defeat is so overwhelming that there can L/\ oiinfltai? onlmiicoinn ?if on Ut* Iiu |'U9?>IU1 111 > v?l (IIIUUH I ounmi.ioiVM. ??v ?4?? early date. A PATRIOTIC CARD. Hon. Giles J. Patterson, Senator elect from Chester county, publishes the following card, after the election, the sentiments of which have the ring of the true metal. The course marked out by Senator Patterson is worthy of the emulat ion of all the Legislative representatives of the people: It is said we should never suppress a good impulse. Whether the impulse to which I yield in writing this, be a good one or not, you must decide. 13ut I would do a violence, to my own feelings if I refrained from acknowledging in some public manner, as I do now and here, my profound sense of gratitude to you for your generous expression of confidence in me, repeated over and over during the year, in two county conventions, at one primary election, and twice at the State polls. If I can now prove myself worthy of your trust by an unswerving fidelity to the obligations of the ollice in which you place me, and by doing something to promote the true interest of our county and state, my gratification will be boundless. Tort/uitd lnrf itncifiAit nf SifQff* Scntiinr I feel I become as much the servant of the whole people of the county, as I would be of a suitor at law, when I take his retaining fee. The proper discharge of its duties demand a higher motive than a desire to reward personal friends or punish personal enemies. My ambition is to represent the whole people, not by a slavish obedience to the dictates of any person or coterie of persons, but by gathering, formulating and expressing on the tloor of the Senate the conservative voice of the virtuous intelligence of the county. I can not do this, however, unless all, friends and foes alike, feel free to approach me on all subjects of 1 public interest in the sphere of a Senator's iluty. I invite you all then, without reference to the past, to demand my attention within , this limit, and I assure you of a polite reception and a listening ear. I enter upon this new field of action with i admitted inexperience and with no exalted 1 opinion as to my ability to meet its requirements beyond a sincere desire to serve you, md hence I besjteak in advance your charia^dgconstruction of my course, and such aid youroffifc? expression, by word or letter, of, terest canreTt*^1 current toPics ol" public in-j fhi.ks J. Patkksov. i SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. i ? Gen. Fitzhugh Lee delivered a lecture in Charleston last Thursday night, his theme being the "Battle of Chancellorsville." ? Fanny Cochran, a frail and notorious wo-1 man of Charleston, was shot and fatally wounded in front of her house on Beresford street, j last Monday evening, by JO. Ilyman. Ilyman ! was arrested and locked up in the guardhouse. ; ?The Union Tluies says that several farm-' I ers in that county have decided to adopt the j intensive system of farming. They were fasI cinated by the results of the experiments 011 l the Furman farm in Georgia, recently so | much written about. | ? The managers of election at Witherspoon j precinct, Sumter county, were taken before | U. S. Commissioner F. F. Teicher 011 the 15th instant, charged with intimidating and interfering with the Radical Supervisors. There was not a scintilla of evidence to support the charges and the case was dismissed. ? At Limestone Springs, one mile from Gaff- i I ney, Spartanburg county, one lirm operates! ! three kilns and manufactures 30,000 barrels | of lime annually, giving support to several hundred people. About 8,000 hoop poles and r,0,000 staves are required monthly for the barrelling of the lime. ? The town of Spartanburg has voted a town subscription in aid of the Spartanburg and Rutherford (X. ('.) Railroad. Only nineteen votes were cast in opposition to the measure. This secures the early building of a road which unlocks some of the best j counties of Western North Carolina, whose trade Hows to our State as naturally as the waters of their and our Eroad River. ? Mr. All>ert Miller, of Edgefield, accidentally shot himself at the Columbia depot oil Thursday, his pistol dropping from his pocket, and was badly "wounded. Mrs. John Wise and her daughter, of t he same county, were with him, and while they sat in a carrige waiting for liirn the horse ran away breaking an arm of each lady?Mrs. Wise's so badly as to necessitate amputation. * ? The case of Mrs. Elizalieth Jenkinsagainst the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad closed on the lltli inst. The plaintiff claimed $-20,000 damages for the killing of her son, Mr. Ren E. Jenkins, while he was employed as a freight conductor on the road. His death was caused by an accident which occurred during the latter part of last year. The jury rendered a verdict in favor of the plain tiff for .?2,5UO. ? There is a slight flavor of sarcasm in the following sentence from the Barnwell correspondence of the News and Courier: The amendments relating to the time of holding elections and disqualification of voters have been carried heavily : that relating to counties, petitioned for by Democrats, recommended by a Democratic Legislature, endorsed and urged by the Democratic executive committee, has been beaten by Democrats. ? Concerning the Hampton county safe robbery, Mr. "VV. C. Chapman, an Augusta Ga.) lock expert, who was employed to examine the safe of the treasurer, reports as follows : *T assert positively that there was no force whatever (either by tools or explosive compounds) used in opening the safe, and you may rest fully assured that the robbers had everything necessary for getting into the safe, viz.: combination of the outside lock and key to the inside door." ? Major Langdon C. Haskell, a brother of Fudge A. C. Haskell and Col. John C. Haskell, of Columbia, died at his residence near Pine Bluff, Arkansas, on tire 14th instant. Major Haskell early entered the Confederate service, and when Gen. McGowan was assigned to the command of a brigade, served upon his staff until promoted to the olHce of inspector-general on the staff of Major-Gen. It. H. Anderson. He served with distinguished gallantry through the war, and was noted for his fearless courage and unwavering devotion to duty. ? A Greenville dispatch to the Xcirs and Courier says: Another ineffectual attempt was made last night to lynch Riley Anderson, colored, charged wish murder. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday his case was continued to the next term. This gave ..,rt^ (n (lia nnnnln frnm Hio llpifrhhnrhnnrl UUiUJa^t. IV UIV J'VV|av V..X, ..w.&,.Vw...wV? of the murder, and about dark Sheriff Gilreath received an inkling of an attempt to lynch. Deeming the report creditable lie determined to baffle the lynchers. Judge Cothran ordered the prisoner removed to another county, and about 8 o'clock the sheriff sent him off in a carriage in charge of two deputies. At that time the sheriff found six or eight men watching the jail. By midnight quite a number had gathered in the vicinity of the jail, but being assured by the watchers that the prisoner had been removed they departed without attempting violent measures. This is the second time Sheriff Gilreath has moved Anderson away. The lynchers were mostly negroes. GENERAL POLITICAL NOTES, I ? The vote of New Hampshire is 10,000 less this year than ft was in 1880. I ? The Republicans will have twelve majorii ty on joint ballot in the Illinois Legislature. ? Senator John Sherman is expressing the opinion to Washington people that the Republican party will be solid again by 1884. ? Only two Republican Governors among I the firteen elected ! Hale in New Hampshire and Dames in Nebraska. ? Complete official return- ?ve a majority of 847 for Bennett, Democratic Congressman at large from North Carolina. , ? The vote of Pennsylvania at the recent i election was 100,000 greater than last year, yet : it was a very quiet campaign and election. ; ? Fewer elections would give the people j much greater satisfaction. We are no sooner l delivered from one excitement than another ' one begins. [ ? The New York H'or/d predicts as a result of the Democratic triumph "a shrinkage of ?40,000,000. or even more, in the appropriations by Congress." ? There will be a large number of contested cases in the next Congress, reported as many i as fifty, though this is probably an over esti; mate. ! ? The Democratic majority in the next j Congress will bo somewhere between sixty and I seventy-five, many of the members elect being ' new members who never were in Congress i before. ?The indications are that when Congress : meets in December the Republicans will institute certain reform measures with the hope of regaining some of the ground they have lost. ? The Philadelphia ItfcorrJ says: "it would be alike stupid and fatal to raise a sectional , issue in the Democratic party over me r>peaaj ersliip of the next House of Representatives, j The ne\vspa|?ers that are going into that business ought t?> be promptly muzzled." ? The Republican defeat in Kansas leads the Atchison Champion to conclude "that it is not safe, even with a political majority of i ">0,000, to attempt to carry all the 'isms' the ! long-haired men and short-haired women outj side of the lunatic asylums may present." ? On Wednesday of last week Pope Harrow was elected L*. S. Senator from Georgia to fill the unexpired term of the late B. H. Hill. Kx-Governor Colquitt was elected, on the first ballot, for the full term, commencing March 4th. | ? The woman suffrage amendment, which the Legislature of Oregon passed, will be submitted to the vote of the people at the next general election, which will not occur until June, 1884. The women must, therefore, exercise their proverbial patience. ? Rhode Island Republicans, who insist upon universal negro suffrage, refused, at the last election, to enfranclii.se thousands of white men who happened to be too i>oor to own land in the State that is too small to go round. A Hen Butler will arise there some day, and demand justice of the Scribes and Pharisees. ? The Boston I'nst would like to see John ; G. Carlisle Speaker, Samuel J. Randall, Chairman of the Committee on"Appropriations, and | William R. Morrison Chairman of the Com{ mittee 011 Ways and Means. That would be a team of which the Democratic party and the country might lie proud. ? The trouble in the Democratic camp will com*1 when a repeal of the internal revenue law is bruited. There are Southern as well as Northern men who insist on retaining the tax upon whisky and tobacco, while others : demand that the whole concern, with its army I of spies, informers and electioneerers, shall be J disbanded. j ? The clerks of the several departments who went home to vote are returning to Washington in large nutnliers. Kach one has an [ explanation for the defeat of the republican party. A prominent official of the Interior department, who votes in Pennsylvania, says he has 13 male relations who have heretofore voted the Republican ticket, but at the last election they voted the Democratic ticket. He says they changed their votes because he was compelled to contribute to the campaign J fund and deprive his aged mother and sisters ! of their usal monthly installment of his salary. "ONE C()PXTItV?.?XE DESTINY." From the N ork (times. , The whole country-will necessarily he interj ested in the view taken by the leaders of public opinion in the South as to the recent elections. One of the most ''telling" of the arguments put forward by "Mr. day A. Hubbell, the viceroy of the Republican managers in the late canvass, when lie undertook to justify the enforcement of voluntary contributions, was that they were absolutely required to enable the Republican partv to save the country from the greedy polluting grasp of the Southern Confederates. A similar exhortation was launched by Mr. John F. Smyth on the eve of tue elections in this State. That close student of the currents of public opinion informed the voters of New York in effect, that the defeat of Mr. Cleveland was necessary, if they did not want to see the fruits of war turn to ashes upon their lips, and the Government of the country pass under the control of the rebels. Neither one nor the other of these prophets was listened to. The voters had their own ideas of the dangers of Southern domination, and a good many of them, if they really believed that the choice lay between the success of Ilubbell and Srnvth and the return of the South to power, deliberately chose the latter as the least of the two evils, hut most of them understood that there was no such choice, and that, these eminent statesmen were simply trying to frighten them into aiding in the retention of the unscrpulous band whom Smyth and Ilubbell represented. It is, nevertheless, gratifying to find the Charleston News and Courier, one of the strongest Southern newspapers, declaring that the South has no interest in the result of the elections different from the rest of the country, and recognizing that the Democratic party, "to profit by the revolution, must place themselves in the front of that revolution, and give those who helped them achieve it the results which that revolution was intended to accomplish." These results the News and Courier defines with a precision and candor that leaves nothing to l>e desired: "The Democracy," it says, "must banish from their councils any politicians who would on any pretext tamper with the linaces of the country, or who, directly or indirectly, would degrade the currency. They must support to the utmost such a scheme of civil service reform as that which is proposed by Senator Pendleton, and which finds favor with so many Republicans. They must show themselves to be steadfast opponentsof commercial monopolies as well as political monopolies." If the voters who, having before been Republicans, joined the Democratic ranks in the contest last week had formulated the results which they hoped to bring about by their action, the language we have quoted would very fairly have answered their purpose. It was for failing to do precisely what the Newt and Courier requires of its party that these voters left, for the time being, the Republican ranks. If the South responds, in any reasonable degree, to the views expressed by this leading Southern journal, the day has gone by forever in which "a solid South" can have any terrors for the best portion of the Republican party of the. North. The latter will be only too glad to see the South, from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, as solid as adamant for these principles. In this connection we may add that the protest of the News and Courier against the manner in which Federal patronage has been used in the South, and its conclusion that a similar abuse in the North had much to do with the iAn will lm hoovtile ntnwAVfi/l lrucnt' lCYUiumuj, yi 111 incuuij C%1'1'| v * v\i in this section. We need not remind our readers that the perverson of the Federal patronage in the South lias been long regarded by us as one of the chief obstacles to political progress in that section, and particularly to tiie creation of a Republican party there with which the Republicans of the North could cooperate. We hailed the avowal of civil serI vice reform principles by President Grant as ! one of the most hopeful signs of the future ot ' the South. When he abandoned the struggle ! and Mr. Hayes had come to the Presidential office, we urged throughout his term, that no ! "conciliation15 was worth talking of which J did not include, what the latter at one time ' promised, a "reform" thorough, radical and I "complete" of the civil service. We pressed ! the same view with the utmost earnestness { upon the administration of Mr. Garfield, and even when there was small hope of its receiving j attention, upon that of President Arthur. We i are by no means confident that the Demoracy j will be equal to the duty now laid upon it, j and so clearly defined by the Xtms ami Courier, i but if it should be, it would be doing a hun! died fold more for the South than its best i lovers of the South ever dreamed of, and its ! service to the whole country would not be less. i Ben Butler.?Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, \ Governor of Massachusetts, representative of ; the Democracy in politics as opposed to aris: tocracy, may well create a sensation. Senator j Hoar, the sleek, well fed Puritan, avowed his determination to emigrate in case Butler ever sat in the chair of Winthropor Andrew. President Eliot, of Harvard College, publicly declared that rather than confer the customary and traditional Gubernatorial honor of LL. I), upon such a man as Butler he would resign his position. It remains to be seen whether Iloar will seek M.ahone's bailwick for consolation, or Eliot swallow his wrathful words. Hitherto the close corporation of the Mas[ sachusetts commonwealth has, by disfranchis| ing the poor by thousands, maintained a sort of vice-regal state. The "upper classes" have always claimed the right to rule that part of Xew England, while sending foreign substi| tutes to make negroes the equal of their white J masters. By birth or connection hitherto, a | Governor of Massachusetts has been supposed I to be a noble, and while Butler was elected to : Congress and made use of otherwise, the chair j of Winthrop was barred against his ambition. | We understand, tuo, that one of the great i functions of Harvard is to recognize the dignity of "Ilis Excellency," and to confer upon him, with great pomp and honor, the degree of ' Doctor of Laws." Every man who has been elected Governor bears thenceforth in Latin a commission as Doctor of Laws. It is against the confering of that title upon a man of the people, elected by the people, that aristocratic Eliot, who believes in negro equal it} ? inSouth Carolina?protests and threatens. We shall soon see whether Gov. Butler will force him to swallow the leek or whether, breaking through an ancient barrier, he will prefer to be the nrst 01 r,xecuuves in scorn ii v?un <um nuuuw bauble. Having conquered the pride and hypocrisy of Massachusetts, Governor Butler should attempt to emancipate the white people who, in one unfriendly way or another, are deprived of suffrage, while every black man in the South is permitted to possess that right. "We do not set up Gen. B. F. Butler as a perfect man or politician, nor do we utterly condemn him. He made a manly fight on a righteous issue and if he succeeds in battering down the cant anil sham of respectable fraud and force, he will have a new title to respect greater than any conferred by a Harvard parchment or heraldic tom-foolery. We regard Gen. Butler as a necessary ''slice of the day of judgment" where it has long been required.?Aitguxta Chronicle. ; Id OCAL AFFAZRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. J. R. Cook?Administrator's Sale. J. A. McLean, P. J., V, ?Citation. Serjeant ManufueturingCo., Hrccnshoro, N. Karrar Turhine Water Wheel?'Tropic Cooking Stoves, Ac. J. M. Adams?A Tinner Wanted?Headquarters. Heriulon Brothers?Hnano Against Cotton?Cotton and Money. .I.J. Smith A Co.?Winter Hoods?Fertilizers? Another Bang. Richmond and Danville Railroad?Change of Schedule, F. Hanpertiold?New Hoods. T. M. ftohson?Just Listen to the Mocking Bird? This Car for the Bon-Ton Store. 1 J. It. Lindsay A Co.??.">0.00 Reward. _ It. I). H'raham, Attorney, Charlotte, N. C.?Fine River Lands for Sale or for Lease, j Franklin, Davis A* Co.?Fruit Trees. AURORAL DISPLAY. j On Friday night many of our citizens wit| nessed a magnificent auroral display, the finest that has l>een seen since 1801. THE LEGISLATURE. The Legislature of South Carolina will asj semble in Columbia next Tuesday. We shall keep our readers fully posted of the proceedI ings. HOT SUPPER. j The ladies of the Presbyterian Church will i have a hot supper at Allison's Hall, 011 next i Fridsy evening, from 7 until 10 o'clock, the I nrnoeeds to he used for renairintr thenarsonaffO. TilK COOL SNAP. | Our exchanges anil the telegraph report cold | weather in the North and North-west. The cool wave struck this latitude on Monday, and on Monday night a slight sprinkle of snow fell here. ffl. E. CONFERENCE. The South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal (colored) Church will convene in Yorkvilleon the 10th of next January, instead of the 17th, as we were informed last week. _ THE NEW COUNTY AMENDMENT. The Columbia correspondent of the Xewx a,ul Courier says that the clerk of the canvassers estimates that the constitutional amendment relating to new counties has been defeated by between ten and twelve thousand majority. We shall publish a tabulated statement of the vote by counties as soon as the board of canvassers promulgate it. TIIK STATE FA I It. The State Fair, which closed last Friday, is represented to have been the most successful of any that lias been held since the war. The attendance of visitors was larger and the display of articles for exhibition more varied and extensive than ever before. From the duWished premium lis1", it appears that dies ter county took more premiums than any other county. We notice that hut few premiums were taken by exhibitors from York. THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION. Govenor Hagootl lias appointed Thursday the 30th instant, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer. In his proclamation the Governor says: "The year now passing away has been replete with the blessings of peace and prosperity. Industry in all its branches has reaped a rich reward and the soil has teemed with abundant harvests. We have lieen preserved from malignant disease and have experienced no public calamity." ATTEMPTED MURDER. Bradley Castles, colored, was committed to jail last Tuesday, charged with assault and battery and attempting to kill, Charles Lowry, colored. The difficulty occurred on the plantation of Mr. (.'. K. Williams, near Brattonsville, on Monday night. It is charged that Castles went to Cowry's house and fired at I.owry through a crack of the house while Lowry was lying in bed. Lowry is said to be dangerously wounded. We could not learn the origin of the difficulty. CHURCH NOTICES. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. Lathan, Pastor. The pastor will fill his regular appointment at Tirzah next Sunday. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. R. P. Franks, Pastor. Services in the church at Yorkville, morning and evening. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. Services at the usual hours, morning and evening. Episcopal?Rev. Augustine Prentiss. Seri?f ill*, liminl hours, morninerand even in sr. HOMICIDE. On Sunday last. Lewis Pettis killed Sandy Workman?both colored?011 the plantation of Mr. S. Ij. Milling, near Ebenezer, in this county. The fatal blow was made with an axe, striking the victim on the right breast, the gash running diagonally across to the left breast, and penetrating the heart an inch. The wounded man ran about twenty yards and fell dead. A woman was the cause of the . difficulty. An inquest was held by Trial Justice Fewcll acting as Coroner, and on , Monday Pettis was arrested and committed to jail. THE CHARLESTON MUSIC FESTIVAL. The grand Music Festival which is to be held in Charleston. November 27-21), will open ; on the first named day, next Monday, with a . public dress rehearsal at 8 P. M. On Tuesday evening at the same hour the first grand concert will he given, and on Wednesday evening the Festival will close with the second concert. The singers are busy practicing for the Festival, and its prospects are very promising. It | will offer great attraction to the Charleston visitors during the progress of the Industrial Exhibition. A very handsome programme has iMiKlloLarl />f u'ltinli Kl (lAT) fvnnins nvn to UCLII 1'UUllOiKU. \/* nilivta lv,vvv v? be distributed in North and South Carolina ' and Cieorgia, which is at once an advertisement of the city and of the Festival. Of the prospects of this enterprise and its probable success, the News and Courier says: It is gratifying to observe the great interest taken in the Charleston Music Festival by the public press outside of the city. There is serious talk of a special train to be started from Augusta 011 the first day of the Festival. Atlanta will send a large quota; the same is said of Wilmington, X. C? Savannah and Columbia. The manager, Mr. Doepp, says that in addition to the offers received from Clara Louise Kellogg and Emma Thursby he also received a proposition from Miss Minnie Hank to be introduced to the Charleston public, but as the programme has already been issued the offer was declined. ULMIORS OF THE ELECTION. One voter came to the polls, and, seeing six boxes spread out before him, looked for some time at the boxes and at the stack of tickets in his hand. Finally he said, "Well, de Lord pint me to dis box," and slapped the whole into one box. I After having voted, one met another making his way to the polls, stopped him and said: "Let me give you some exvice, brudder. No use for you to stau round and look at de boxes. Jes trow your ticket in de first one. I)e more you stan and 'sider de more you git tangle up. "Clare to de Lord dese buckra is de debble. Jes you let dem alone. If dey 'aint got a 'trivance for saliwate de nigger, den I'se a clean gone fool." Manager to waiting voter?"What box do you want?" Voter?"'Publican box. Wote 'Publican ebery time." Some of the colored denizens of the Seneca vicinity endeavored to vote last Tuesday upon | presenting tax receipts and guano notes in ; lieu of registration certificates. They were allowed to jkiss by on the other side. We find the above in a State exchange without credit. Similar scenes were witnessed at ; every polling place in the State. In this county the colored voters were not so readily confused, as in the State election they voted only in two boxes, and had their tickets so arranged as to know the projier boxes; though in several instances they deposited their reg' istration certificates with one of the ballots. I i i and many of them threw their certificates away | after voting. But the "eight box system'' j ! was not confusing to the colored citizen alone, i (several white voters lost their ballots at this I precinct?among them a physician, two law! vers, and the story goes that even a candidate J deposited one of his ballots in the wrong box. TAX COLLECTIONS. 1 The County Treasurer's 1 woks were closed | on the 10th instant, after which date the penj alty attaches to all unpaid taxes. The total j assessment for the fiscal year 1881 was 801,j .177.81, as follows: j For State purposes, S'ja.OUO.tU a For county purposes, 14,918.47 I For railroad purposes 11,934.77 7 For school purposes 9,945.04 8 ! Polls 5,158.00 0 i SO.-. -.77 XI n On which the following collections were ! made : T;i\<'s. l'cii.illv. Total. I stale .S2S.0H4.afi ft S4i?i..is'4 *2s.5rcuor 4 j Coiiulv 14,57!'. hi 0 2U5.nl 0 14.S44.17 ! | Railroad ll.'fis.iia j) 2ll.s?l U.SSO.Kl 0 School ti.7iH.iw n i7<;..i75 n,wtr?.:w) r? l'oll, 4,:504.n0 <l 1011.1112 4,404.10 2 Total HM,355.02 A Hi,17.1.42 2 *04,528.4a 0 This shows the closest collection that has been made for several years and speaks well for the promptness of our people. CIIA RI.OTTE 11 or k ij. The Charlotte Observer of Friday gives the following account of the presentation of a silver service to the Charlotte Hotel, a popular house kept by Capt. T. A. McXinch, formerly a citizen of Chester, and well known to many of our people : A large party gathered in the Sanders and i Blackwood hall, yesterday afternoon, to witness the presentation of the beautiful silver service to the Charlotte hotel, the service being voted to that house as the most popular hotel in Charlotte, at the late fireman's fair. Mayor DeWolfe presented the service to Capt. F. A. McNinch, proprietor of the Charlotte hotel, in a neat and appropriate little speech, and Capt. McXinch, on receiving it expressed his thanks in a most happy manner. The set is a very handsome one and was donated to the fair by Mr. John T. Butler. From the fhn t'Atinfi' 1a f liu 1'Jtf Ilia flMOtulc Hint lll^llt Ul tlir; H'HIljj IV. Vlicm^v, "it ?. ?.n>i.? of the Charlotte hotel interested themselves earnestly in behalf of their favorite and kept their houses in the lead all the time. The following was the ballot : Charlotte Hotel 077 Central Hotel -OS liuibrd House 270 A majority of 15)0 for the Charlotte over both the other hotels. Capt. McXinch last evening presented the set to his little daughter Netta, in appreciation of the deep interest she had taken in the fireman's monument and the earnest efforts she had made in aiding to raise funds for the same. Governok-elkct Thompson".?Hugh S. Thompson, the new Governor of South Carolina, is a nephew of Waddy Thompson, one of the famous men of the old regime, a man with a fine head and trim moustache. After the war he found himself stripped, as many of the aristocracy were, and went to Columbia and set up a private school. Ilis income for the first year was about S4D0, and was eked out. as he subsequently discovered, by the sale of the family plate. Family plate, in fact, proved quite a resource during the early years of transition from war to peace, when the women of the aristocracy at Columbia showed their sense of the value of economy and thrift, by appointing a committee of themselves to get good prices from the Jewish dealers who (locked into the South. Mr. Thompson continued teaching till he wasmadesuperintendentof instruction under the Hampton government, when he found the State school fund a good deal depleted by the carjiet-haggers. Ilis first care was to restore that, and in the meantime he devo ted himself to the school interests all over the State. The result was that he became very popular with black and white, and was nominated in the Democratic convention this year by a spontaneous movement of the mountain region of the State, and to the no slight astonishment of the bosses. Northerners who have met him regard him as one of the most promising men in the South. It is certainly a hopeful sign for a man to secure political advancement in the South by devotion to the common schools.?SpriiKilirld Hepublirfrn. iHKKK-MENTION. There was a heavy snow storm in New England last Friday. Recently compiled statistics place the death rate from the administration of chloroform at one per thousand. The production of iron in the civilized world is 19,500,000 tons per annum. The proposed amendments to the Constitution of Virginia abolishing the capitation tax were adopted by the people at the late election by a large majority. Two large snow plows, over eighty feet in length, are being built at Sprague, Washington Territory, for use in the mountain passes on the Northern Pacific railroad. There is not a vessel at Mobile for cotton and none on the way. It is said that the city is losing her cotton trade, which is gravitating to New Orleans. It costs New Yotk city almost $7,000,000 per year to run her churches. It costs money to be good. Michigan claims to have gained 50,000 new settlers in her northern counties this year. The dome of the Washington Capitol is being painted and ' ?. - . ..r ?i.!il 1 ... ti win tune ni wen whs ui wime hmu, j. v> cutji Mexicans are reported to have l>een killed by Indians near Carlitas, Mexico, a few days ago. " Troops are in pursuit of the Indians. ?Snow fell at El Paso, Texas, on Saturday, to the depth of an inch. Robert Pratt and Frank Moore, both negroes, have been sentenced at , Goldsboro', N. C., the first to death, and the latter to life imprisonment for the murder of O'Neill, white. Richmond and Danvillk Mattkiis.?As mentioned in the Observer of last Tuesday morning, the directors of the Richmond and Danville Railroad, decided that it would be inexpedient to declare a dividend for the past quarter, but the interest on the income debenture bonds, due April 1, 18*3, was ordered to be paid. The company paid interest then due on these bonds last month. Col. A. S. Euford, President of the company, says that "after a consultation lasting several hours we determined that it was for our best interests to pass the dividend for the last quarter. The road is doing more business and earning more money than ever before in its history. The net earnings in October were sufficient to pay the quarterly dividend, but we wish to put ourselves on the firmest financial standing, and therefore will use the surplus in paying off the floating debt and making such additions to our property as will enable us to handle the immense business offering on our roads. We I are in first-class condition as to steel rails and station accomodations, but have immediate I use for at least one thousand more freight cars .""?Charlotte Uhscmr. Railkoad Ixtellioexck.?'The fast train, ; on Southern roads will soon be in operation, and mail, express and passenger transit will I be 011 the greased lightning plan. The sehedi ules for the trains and mails are now being J made and will soon be in operation. There is j j a general anxiety to have the fast trains, and j so much talk on the subject has caused a sus-1 ; picion that they will be long delayed, but look j J out! 1 Tt is about settled that the running of the; passenger trains on the Air Line is to be re- j sumed the later part of this week and their resumption settles, it is thought by mail men, the question of whether the North and Sooth mails will eo to the Atlantic Coast Line or the Kennesaw' Route or be carried by the Richmond and Danville. The R. & D. will! keep it and we will again have two daily I trains to Atlanta.?Charlotte Journal, Sunday, j Home Aoaix from South America.? Mr. C. J. Key and wife, who reside near Rock , Hill and who left just one year ago to visit their children who are living in the central part of South America, yesterday arrived back home. Mr. Key stopped for a day at the Charlotte Hotel in tin's city, and is one of the happiest men to get hack imaginable. He says that the South American country is simply a horrible one and though his children say that they are pleased with it, he knows that they ' are not, and does not see how they can live j there. He says lie would not stay in that; country if every acre of land it contains were I given him. The trip for himself and wife cost j him ?1,000. He is OH years old and will re- j open his old mercantile business near Rock li ill and spend the balance of his days in peace ! on the old sod.?ChuHoftr Ohwrrr. I BAYARD OX THE ELECTION. Senator Bayard, of Delaware, was recently interviewed on the political situation. He is naturally pleased at the extraordinary Demoi cratic majority in his State, and says that I there will be no opposition made by the party I to tlie re-election of Senator Saulsbury. The Senator commented upon the result in New Castle county as somewhat surprising to him, in that the figures show that the full Republican vote was cast for Dick Harrington's ticket, whereas it had been hoped that the large ! element of high respectability of the Republij can party in New Castle county would repu| diate the shameless attempts to make Har| rington the political boss of the State. On ! election day in Delaware Senator Bayard stood I at the polls in his ward all daylong, and worki ed as hard as the most enthusiastic ward poli| tician. In regard to the national aspect of 1 Tuesday's election, the Delaware Senator said ; that he did not doubt that the effect will be to i break up the Republican party in the United States ; in fact, that the election clearly shows that the Republican party is in the same position now as the Whig party was in 1854, when it went to pieces, with the difference that there is now 110 such great question involved in American politics as that which gave life to the party which took the place of the routed Whigs. kk[ am, however, particularly pleased," continued the Senator, kkto see how signal has " been the failure of the Stalwart plan to overthrow the ascendency of the decent government in the South by assisting to power a set of political adventurers, whose success could not have been less dreaded than the return to power of the carjiet-bag government of the Reconstruction days. The prostitution of high ollicial power to place the people of the South under, if j?ossible, more cruel political task makers than they were cursed with in the high tide of the rule of the Mosesses and Bullocks has failed of its purpose. What Mahone has made of Virginia, it was planned that others should make of other Southern States. All good men must rejoice that such a plan of Iiepuhlicanizing the South could not succeed." One tiiisg which the Senator expressed himself as quite sure of was that the election everywhere is a tremendous rebuke of the Administration and its open repudiation of Civil-service reform ; and that it brings to the front more prominently than anything else the resistless demand for a complete reform of the Civil Service. He did not expect to see this in the National Administration while Arthur's term lasts, but in the different States at once there would be a radical and salutary change in the administration of the public service, and the next National Administration, in view of Tuesday's result, must inevitably be an Administration the first purpose of which will be to establish a system of Civil Sendee Reform, based upon the highest demands of efficiency and character. The current of popular demand to which the Democratic party lias already wisely yielded? for the best and purest men are at the head of affairs?the Senator thinks, will not be opposed by the party hereafter. No men can and no men should be allowed to press themselves to the front who in character are not above suspicion, and whose records not beyond reproach. Canvassing the Returns.?The State board of canvassers, consisting of the secretary of State, comptroller-general, attorneygeneral, State treasurer, adjutant-general, chairman of the committee 011 privileges ami elections of the House of Representatives, met last Friday in the office of the secretary of State?all members being present?and organized by the election of Col. R. M. Sims as chairman and Mr. M. C. Robertson as clerk. At a meeting of the hoard Saturday morning the canvass of the returns from the different counties was proceeded with. The returns from eleven counties were canvassed. No irregularities in the elections have been so far ?: reported or discovered. Under a provision of the recent Election law, according to the opinion of the attorney-general, the sheriffs and clerks of the court iu the State hold over until the election of 1884, except the clerk of court iu Berkeley and the sheriffs in Kershaw, Hampton and Berkley counties. At the recent election in several of the counties elections were held for these officers contrary to the opinion of the attorney-general. The hoard has appointed Friday, (to-morrow) at 12 o'clock, for the hearing of the argument upon this point, and for the purpose of determining whether certificates of election shall be issued to such parties as were elected on the 7th, the parties themselves being notified to appear in person or by counsel.?Coresjion-* <h nee yews and Courier. The Associate Reformed Presbytery. . The first Presbytery of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church will meet at Chester on Friday, November 22nd, for the purpose of ordaining and installing Mason W. Pressley as Pastor of the church at Chester. Rev. J. F. Chalmers of Winsboro, will preach the ordination sermon, ltev. J. E. Pressley, D. D., of N. C., will lead in the ordaining prayer, Rev. W. B. Pressley, of N. C., will address the people and Rev. E. E. Boyce, of King's Mountain, will address the Pastor. ThePresbyterial meeting will be followed by the celebration of the Lord's supper. Rev. W. B. Pressley and Dr. J. E. Pressley will couduct these services.?Chester Bulletin. The New County Amendment Vote.? The new County question in South Carolina * was one of very general interest throughout the State, but the slowness with which the returns come in prevents us from giving definite information on that point. But from the present lights l>efore us it seems if the bosses have been defeated in their efforts to have the matter carried. The bosses failed to disj tribute the tickets necessary to a fair expressi ion at the ballot-box, but it seems that the : people in many instances prepared their tick! etssoas to express their own wishes, regardless j of the presumptious dictation of the Executive j Committee.?Abbeville Press and Banner. ! ? The boys in a ceitain section of St. Louis, readers of dime literature and sensational papers, have recently become accustomed to give living tableaux of the most noted events pictured in their favorite papers. They recently attempted a representation of the lynching of j these men, and in doing this three of the ' younger children were strung up with nooses to the rafters of a shed. One of the boys looking on became alarmed, and his screams attracting the father of two of the pendant boys to the scene, they were cut down barely in time to save their lives. i ^financial anb Commercial. YORKYILLE, November 22.?Cotton from | 9.75 to 9.H0. ! Cll Alt LESTON, November 20.?Cotton firm, j hut nominal ; middling, loa. LIVERPOOL, November 20.?Cotton quiet; uplands 0 3-hid. * NEW YORK. November 20.?Cotton quiet aid firm ; uplands. 102. Futures elosed barely steady ! with sales of 180,000 I tales, as follows : November j 10.37 to 1".58 ; December 10.42 to 10.43 ; January ! 10.40 to 10.47 ; February 10.30 to 10.37 ; March 10.00 10.H7; April 10.77 to 10.78; May 10.88 to 10.80; | June lO.RSto 10.99; July ll.108 to 11.09; August 11.17 to 11.18. Comparative ('otton Statement. New York, November 17?The following is the comparative cotton statement for the week ending November 10: 1882, 1*81. Receipts at all ports fort how eek, 250 845 2ls,o?il Total receipts to this date 1,928,993 1,707,188 Exports for week 101,525 115,770 Total exports to this date 1,049,550 851,050 Stock at all U. S. ports tilts,579 820,037 Stock at all interior towns 125,097 100,510 Stock at Liverpool 4S4.000 4*0,000 American for Croat Britain 210,000 173,000 Liverpool Cotton Market. w Last week's circular of the Liverpool Cotton * JSroKI'r S Association says ; vonwii luin iFtrvn III , increased demand, and quotations are generally ' maintained. American has been in fair demand, without material change, except in prices for higher grades, which are generally 1-ltkl. lower. In sea island there was a moderate business, at rather easier prices. Floridas were neglected. Futures, aftersevcr.il unimportant fluctuations, closed dull, hut at l.t>4d at 2.?>4d. advance on week. ~ OBITUARY. Pikd?Near (trove, Lamar countv, Texas, on theisth instant, JOHN MILTON tf ALL, infant son of J. .1. L. and It. J. Gill, aged a months and 4 days. At Pleasant Valley, Dallas countv, Texas, on the 7th instant, of congestive chill, fKRCIB MiN KIL, youngest son of Augustus and Cynthia Mc.Callum, formerly of York county, S. C., aged 2years months and 10 days.