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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.
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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
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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.