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Scraps and Jads. ? ? ? It is during these days of business that a clergyman, on selecting a chapter of the Bible to read in church, first looks at the eud of the ljiaft Terse to wake sure that no patent medicine advertisement is hitched on. ? The construction of a railroad from the main line of the Air-Line Koad to the Ore Bank near King's Mountain, and the operating qf the bank, is causing scarcity of farm labor iifthat' section. ? Thomas DeJarnette, the young mau who murdered his sister two years ago, in Danville, Va., and was recently discharged from the Insane Asylum, at Raleigh, N. C., has enlisted in the United States army, and will be sent to the frontier. ? It is reported that the physicians who attended President Garfield have all accepted the reduced amounts allowed them for services, although some of them asserted that they would not accept less than the original exhorbitant demands. ? Petitions are pouring into the Massachusetts Legislature from all parts of the State, signed by Woman's Suffragists, requesting a law allowing women to vote in municipal elections in accordance with the recommendation in Governor Butler's message. ? The Rutland (Vermont) Herald took a V*or*/1 fV.n A+linr rlav in lanfnririflr flip Snilt.il fin A1UUU VUV VUUV& VlttJ AAA IVVVUt *?*?? vwv -wv m va. . its lawlessness, but was effectually sat on by the Boston Post, which soberly informed the pious Vermont organ that no Southern State of equal population could show a record as black and monstrous as that of Vermont. ? On December 28, a bag containing over 82,000 in gold was forwarded by express from Savannah to Knoxville and was lost on the way. Superintendent Clayton, of the Southern Express Company, has just returned to Atlanta, having recovered the bag of money, which it is alleged had been stolen by an express messenger, and hidden in a tunnel. ? The office-seekers are giving Governor Cleveland, of New York, no little trouble. There are more applicants than offices?many more?and whenever the Governor makes an appointment he disappoints a score or two who felt, each oue of them, that he was entitled to the place. The disappointed then set a howl that the new Governor is a failure, and the howling throng is increasing right ^ along. The business failures of the seven days ending last Friday, as reported to R. G. Dun & Co's Mercantile Agency number 262?an increase of 38 as compared with last week. Their geographical distribution is as follows : Eastern States 28, Western 77, Southern 60, Midland 42, Pacific 24, Canada 11, New York city 20; total 262. A large increase in failures in every section of the country is apparent, especially at the West and South. ? On Wednesday morning of last week, a large hotel in Milwaukie, Wis., was burned. Many of the guests perished in the flames and ? " a ... r otners were suiea Dy jumping irum iuo uyyc? .stories, covering the side walks with their lifeless bodies. The eighty-six employees lodged in the sixth story, and most of them were burned. There were over a hundred guests in the hotel at the breaking out of the fire. ? The record of losses by fire during the year 1882 is a frightful one. According to the summary made on Tuesday by the New York Bulletin, it appears that by one hundred and fifty-two fires last year property of the estimated aggregate value of $-'34,250,000 was annihilated. By the smaller fires of the year in additional wastage of at ieast $56,000,000 was caused?making the year's ash-heap cost the United States and Canada ?90,250,000. ? A very strongly worded remonstrance has been presented to Congress against the passage of any bankrupt act. It is signed by some twelve hundred firms and individuals doing business in New York, many of whom are among the largest and most respected mercantile houses. It alleges that no bankrupt act is necessary to secure the discharge of an honest but unfortunate debtor, while those which have been passed have been a temptation to fraud. ? Ex-Gov. Hendricks has written a letter on the political situation in which, after insisting the Democrats must reap the fruits of the recent victories, he very plainly expresses his disapprobation of civil cervice reform legislation as proposed in the Pendleton bill. He thinks that "frauds will become more secure and reform more difficult when the office-hol."j : . V\tr low J? qtwI UHJg t'l<Uy5 15 UJtiUC pciiiiaiicub wj iivn, unu says he "will have ftiith" in the appointment "of examiners after the manner of the school system" when he sees its fruits. ? Thirty-five years ago, at Cranberry Forge, George W. Dugger drew a set of wagon tires weighing 850 pounds. The wagon for which these tires were made was an eight horse. Its hind wheels were seven and a half feet high, and the tire for them eleven and a half feet long. This wagon was used for hauling goods from Baltimore, Md., to Washington County, East Tennessee. The same mine that furnished the ore that made the tire that ironed the wagon that hauled the goods from Baltimore, has caused to be built a railroad wortli one million dollars. ? A New York letter says: A well-known dry goods bouse goes out of business January 1, having, after two years of trial, found the jobbing trade unremunerative. The fact is a few large firms are gradually absorbing all the business, and no moderate house can live and compete with the peculiar methods and the gigantic capital of the great concerns. It is so in the boot and shoe and grocery trades; a few houses do all the business, and the small-sized firms, of which there were so many ten years ago, are gradually passing out of existence. Centralization in business seems to be the tendency of the times. ? Of the twenty-six new or re-elected Senators whose term begins on the 4th of March next, ten have already been chosen. These are Morgan, of Alabama; Beck, Kentucky; Lamar, Mississppi; Anthony, Rhode Island and Butler, South Carolina, have been re-elected. Randall L. Gibson has been chosen to succeed Kellogg, of Louisiana; Jas. F. Wilson to succeed McDill, of Iowa ; JaftiesN. Dolph tosucnaa/l fcr-nvar nf Dr?orr?ii 1? iflfllphpl'Orpr to K11P VVVU UiVTVi) Vi V4V^V*? ^ ceed Johnson, of Virginia, and ex-Governor Colquitt to succeed Barrow, now serving the fragment of Hill's term from Georgia. Mr. Frye has received the Republican caucus nomination in Maine. Mr. Windom in Minnesota, Gov. M. Cullum in Illinois, and Senator Ransom ?he Democratic caucus nomination in North Carolina. ? The Nashville American thus discourseth upon "the hope of the new SouthThe South is a new field. "We have found that we can manufacture as well as our neighbors. We have found that, in our cotton, if we only manufacture it ourselves, there is an immense wealth ; that we not only have the cotton but other immense resources. We have iron and coal, we have valuable timber, we have great advantages in water power; indeed we have found that immense resources and that the road to wealth is in the workshop, the factory, the foundry, the iron and coal beds. This is a new discovery and it is making us a new South. To-day the new South has more promise?a better outlook?than any other l>ortion of the United States. What we need is live men in business affairs and wise men in motirKT 1?U'S ? There is a good opportunity to prevent the piling-up of more silver dollars in the Federal treasury. The people do not want them, and the compulsory coinage increases the danger to the currency from the presence of a vast hoard of over-valued silver. A bill is before the House of ltepresentatives which proposes to change the Silver law, so that j there shall be coined only so many dollars as j are demanded for actual circulation, until: such time as the bullion value of the silver i and gold coins of the United States shall be , the same, or until the leading commercial j nations shall agree to use silver coins on an j equal footing with gold. This ought to satis-1 fy the Bi-metalists, as it will give the public j as many "dollars of the daddies" as they want, I while it does not, in terms, abandon the ex- j pectation that England and Germany will join the United States in calling 90 cents a : dollar. ? The sugar crop of Louisiana has exceeded very largely any crop since the war. Two and a half to three hogsheads per acre has been an average on many large estates of six or eight hundred acres of cane each. Some of the best cane has yielded as much as 4 to 44 hogsheads, of 1,000 pounds, though most planters putin 1,200 to 1,400 pounds to save hogsheads, cooperage and freight, &c. On the ten "Burnside Estates," now the property of Mr. Oliver Beirne, of Virginia, (as settled by the recent decision of the court) the total crop will be nearly seven million Jice hundred thousand jfounds, say 7,500 hogsheads, and the crop on one place ("Riverton") was lost by the overflow. But for this the crop would probably have reached 8,500,000 pounds. Molasses 1*2,to 14,000 barrels. The sugar if put in barrels (as is done now by many planters) and placed in a straight line, end to end, would reach over 11^ miles, and the molasses over 0 miles more. ?0*itviMe inquirer. YORK VILLE. S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, JAN. 18, 1883 THE PROPOSED POSTAL TELEGRAPH. The postal telegraph bill introduced in the House of Representatives by Mr. Anderson, of Kansas, is one of the most important measures proposed during the present session. The bill proposes the construction of a telegraph line from Portland, Maine, toTopeka, Kansas, with branches to all other points it may be deemed desirable to reach. Ollices are to be established only in carrier postollices until the Postmaster General considers it feasible to introduce them in the smaller ollices. Messages are to be carried at a uniform rate of twentyfive cents for ten words, until the Postmaster General recommends a reduction. And the bill provides for issuing J?3,000,000 in thirtyyear bonds to cover the cost, and for reserving $300,000 of the receipts as a fund to redeem the bonds. It is a modest measure. Its author evidently does not propose to commit the prmntrv to H. ciffant.ifi and costlv scheme until VUW""J w O"O* ? ? perfectly sure of its practicability. It is a serious question whether a telegraph system can be established which will be remunerative in the face of the powerful competition it would have to contend against. But the introduction of the bill will compel attention to the measure and force its discussion in the country as well as in Congress. "We have no hope that the present Republican Congress will give the country a postal telegraph. But we shall be disappointed if the next House of Representatives, in which the Democrats have an overwhelming majority, does not pass a postal telegraph bill which the Senate will indorse and the President will be forced to sign. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. In the House 011 the 10th, resolutions of sympathy for France, 011 account of Gambetta's death, were adopted. The agricultural and Indian appropriation bills were discussed. The Senate discussed the tariff bill. In the House 011 the 11th, the shipping bill was the only measure discussed. This is a bill for the protection and encouragement of American commerce. I11 the Senate, Butler presented the remonstrance of the business men of Charleston, S. C., against the high duty now levied on materials for making tin and sheet iron ware. The bill for the relief Gen. Fitz-John Porter, reinstating him in the army, was passed. The bill provides that he shall receive 110 pay or allowance prior to his reinstatement in the army. The tariff bill was then discussed until adjournment. In the House on the 12th, the shipping bill was passed. In the Senate, Ingalls introduced a bill for determining the existence ana aiso the termination of the inability of the President of .the United States to discharge the powers and duties of his office. After passing a number of local bills, the Senate went into executive session, and at 5.30 adjourned. In the House on the 13th, the pension appropriation bill was passed. The amount appropriated is $85,000,000. Several bills for tensions, back-bounty, &c., were passed. Also, the fortifications bill, appropriating ?325,000. In the Senate, Ingalls introduced a bill to provide for the appointment of a commission to consider the subject of railroad transportation. It provides that the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint seven commissioners from civil life, whose duty it shall be to consider and investigate the subject of railroad transportation in its relations to the agricultural, commercial and industrial interests of the United States. The commissioners are to inquire generally into the conditions affecting commerce among the States, grounds of complaints existing against railroad corporations resulting from unjust discrimination, exorbitant or unequal rates, insufficient facilities for traffic or unlawful combinations, and in what manner existing evils can be remedied by legislation, and to report their recommendations and the result of their inquiry to Congress not latei*than the first Monday in December, 1883. The second section provides for the compensation of the commissioners at S10 per day and reasonable expenses, and authorizes them to visit such portions of the country as they may deem advisable in the performance of their duties. In the House on th? loth, a bill was introduced to repeal the civil service law of 1820, and also to repeal section 38510 of the Revised Statutes giving the President authority to appoint and remove postmasters. The Mexican and Indian wars pension bill was made the special order for February 15. In the Senate, Butler introduced a bill making an appropriation of $500,000 for continuing the work on the Jetties ru...1..rp|1?1 mil WQQ ,11a. 111 v^iiaiicatuii ii.u uui. xnv uunu vui uiiu V4IM cussed, after which an executive session was held and the Senate adjourned. SOUTH CAKOUNA NEWS. ? The colored teachers of Greenville have organized a county teachers' association. ? In two years more the last of the heavy school indebtedness of Kershaw county will have been liquidated. ? The parents of a Newberry negro boy recently gave him two hundred lashes for striking a white boy with a brick. ? The Texas fever still rages. On Tuesday of last week tifty colored emigrants left Newberry for that State. ? The Georgetown and Kingstree Telegraph Company has declared a dividend of 0 per cent., and is in a very properouscondition. ? The Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons will meet this year at Greenville, on February 12th. ? Fifteen new students have been admitted into the South Carolina College since the Christinas holidays. ? Governor Thompson has appointed Mr. John T. Seibles.as Master of Richland county, vice the late N. 1>. Barnwell. ? The Governor has offered a reward of $.100 lor the apprehension, wnn prooi reconvict, ui the perpetrators of the Dave Roberts lynching in Abbeville county. ? In the upper part of Greenville county, on Friday, a man named Quinn severely stabbed O. F. Ilightower. It is thought that Ilightower will not recover. ? A meeting of corporators of the Florence Manufacturing Company will be held in that town on the *21st instant for the purpose of organizing. ? The Pee-I)ee Building and Loan Association of Florence has been organized under the charter granted at the recent session of the Legislature. ? The Chester Bulletin learns that Mr. Sam Burdell, of Lewis Turn Out, is recovering from the gunshot wound which he recently received by accident. ? William Shay, a foreign born citizen of Abbeville county, returning from Abbeville to his home near Greenwood, on Wednesday night, in a state of intoxication, lay down by| | the roadside and was found the next morning frozen to death. ? A dead-beat, going under the name of "Fred Cooper, Orange, California," has been doing the good people of Chester, and other towns are warned by the Bulletin to be on the lookout for him. ? Col. A. Coward, the Superintendent of Education, was in Charleston last week, visiting the public schools of the city, with a view to put himself fully en rapport with their demands upon him. He returned to his office in Columbia on Monday. ? The Rev. David Derrick, one of the oldest and best known ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died at his residence in Columbia last Friday, in the 83d year of his age. lie had retired from the active ministry. ? The Herald publishes the following as the successful ticket in the municipal election for Rock Hill on Monday of last week : lntendant?J. R. Allen; Wardens?W. C. Hutchinson, J. W. Fewell, T. C. Beckham, R. J. Hagins. ? Judge T. J. Mackey and family have left /-il L J! lir u! + Iia? will emesiei iw n iismuguui IYHCIC mtj henceforth make their residence. Judge Mackey will return to attend the Spring and Fall terms of the Circuit Court for Chester county. ? The Chester municipal election resulted in the choice of J. L. Chambers for intendant by a vote of 226 against 85 for D. Hemphill. The wardens elected were J. R. Simrill, I. Heyman, I. Mel). Hood, Jr., and John Mclver. ? Five prisoners, all colored, escaped from the Marion jail on Monday night by tiling the grating of the room in which they were confined and letting themselves down to the ground with the hangman's rope. They have not been recaptured yet. ? Clarendon, according to tax returns, had only $2,500 in moneys, bank bills, etc., at the last return ! People don't like to own lip to having money. Poor Hamilton county returned only $131! Clarendon and Hampton return less than other counties in the State. ? "Work on the Georgetown and Lane's Railroad is progressing rapidly. A sub-contract for grading ten miles of the Lane's end has been awarded to Mr. W. K. Hardin, who graded fifteen miles of the Central Road. Work has been begun on the Georgetown end. ? I^ewis Bowers, near Greenville, one night went to learn the cause of a noise in tire chicken iiniwp jiml w:ls bitten bv some snecies of wild animal. Last week, while attempting to drink some water, he was taken with spasms, and died shortly after with every symptom of hydrophobia. ? Absalom McAbee, aged 80, was found dead near Spartanburg the other day. When found he was lying with his head in a shallow branch, but it is supposed that he fell dead while crossing the branch. His dog went to his house several times, whined to attract attention and then returned to watch over his dead master. ? Capt. Thomas Comer, who was selected by a large majority of the Democratic voters of Union county, last summer, in the primary election, for appointment by the Governor for treasurer, was ineligible to that office, owing to the fact that he is registrar for Union county. Governor Thompson thereupon appointed Mr John II. Gallman. This selection gives satisfaction. ? Chester Reporter 11th : The annual meetof the stockholders of the National Bank of Chester was held on the 0th. Mr. Joseph F. Wallace, of York, was elected to fill the vacancy on the board of directors caused by the resignation of C. C. Macoy, Esq. Mr. Joseph Wylie was elected vice-president, instead of Hon. James Hemphill, who declined a re-election. All the other former officers were reelected. ? Col. E. M. Boykin, the Superintendent of Immigration, has just settled twelve families, among them thirty adults, in Kershaw county. The immigrants are Hungarians, who arrived in Columbia the early part of last week. Colonel Boykin's term as Superintendent of Immigration will expire on the 15th of April, and he believes that by that time there will be 500 of these Hungarian laborers in* Kershaw county alone. ? The Hampton Guardian, of Thursday, referring to the recent robbery of the safe of Mr. Lawton, the county treasurer, says: "We Dave oeen mrormea dy Mr. i^awtou uihl his loss in the aggregate amounts to about $5,000. He also told us that he and his bondsmen would contest the matter in the Courts, and would not refund the amount lost unless compelled to do so, as they do not believe they are responsible for the robbery. Three able lawyers will be employed, and a vigorous fight mnybe expected." ? The Railroad Commissioners appointed under the recent Act, viz.: Hon. M. L. Bonham, Hon. Tlios. B. Jeter and T. Legare Walker, Esq., met in Columbia last Thursday morning and proceeded to the office of the Secretary of State, where the oath of office was administered to each by Chief Clerk M. C. Robertson. The Commissioners then returned to the office and organized for business, with Governor Bonham as Chairman of the Board. On the following day the Commission met and elected as their clerk Mr. M. T. Bartlett, for .many years connected with the Greenville and Columbia Railroad as freight agent at Columbia, and at present filling the same position at Chester in the service of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad. The Commission has transacted no business of public importance. WHISKY IN BOND. There are now 90,000,000 gallons of whisky in bond in the different government storehouses of the country. But what is the meaning of whisky being in bond V This question was uronounded to the Cincinnati Commercial the other day and that paper explains as follows : Attached to every distillery is a warehouse of which the government, through a United States storekeeper, takes exclusive charge. On every door is a patent "government lock," and the storekeeper keeps the keys. At the end of the warehouse nearest, the distillery proper, is partitioned olt the "cistern room," that contains tanks, into which the whisky runs direct from the still. From these tanks it is drawn off into barrels in the presence of the storekeeper and the United States gauger. The barrels so filled are rolled into the other portion of the warehouse, and a "warehouse stamp," bearing the date of the distillation, is affixed to each. The whisky thus barreled can, under the revenue laws, remain in this warehouse under government lock and key for three years, Then the whisky is said to be "in bond." At the expiration of three years the tax of (.)0 cents per gallon must be paid on the original quantity of whisky in the barrels, as shown by the gauge when it was barreled, less two and a half gallons perannuin allowed for evaporation and shrinkage. Then a tax-paid stamp is put on each barrel, and the brand, with the name of the distiller, the number of the district, and the date of the payment of the tax, is burned in the head. Now the distiller, for the first time, can do as he pleases with his whisky, and it is said to be "taken out of bond." Who Smokes all the Cm a us and Cioakettes V?Few people have any idea of the extent of the cigar and tobacco trade of this country. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1881, there were manufactured in the United States, as per report of Commissioner Raum, of the Internal Revenue Department : Cigars, 3,307,<>42,245 ; cigarettes, 534,182,905. There were 395,215 dealers in cigars. Since then the trade has largely increased. New York City alone manufactured from January 1, 1882, to January 1, 1883, 807,751,000 cigars, 354,02(5,000 cigarettes and 5,805,72(5 pounds manufactured tobacco, an increase of over 48,000,000 cigars in one year. I NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Heavy rains during the past two weeks have been general throughout the State, and great damage to bridges and fences is reported. ? At Higli Point the recent snow fell to the depth of twenty-one inches, and at Danville, Va., nearly on the North Carolina line, it was twenty-five inches deep. ? Capt. V. Q. Johnson has resigned the superintency of the Carolina Central Railroad, a position which he filled most acceptably for a number of years. ? The North Carolina House of Representatives has adopted a resolution instructing the Congressmen from that State to vote for Federal aid to State educational purposes. The vote stood 98 to 1). ? In 1879, North Carolina raised 28,019,839 bushels of corn, 20,977,000 in 1880, and 34,260,700. in 1882. The wheat nroduct for the same years was J}, 397,387,395 bushels, 4,579,000 bushels, 5,494,800 bushels. ? On Saturday last, says the Greensboro rutriot, the Sergeant Manufacturing Company of that town, shipped to Mcintosh, Ga., the most powerful turbine water wheel ever built in the South, With 20 feet head, it gives 175-horse power. Its weight is two tons. ? Senator Ransom has been re-nominated, by acclamation,-by the Democratic caucus of the Legislature, to be his own successor. Col. Wm. Johnson, of Charlotte, was nominated in Republican caucus. The election took place on Tuesday. , ? The President of the Western Xorth Carolina Railroad is endeavoring to make arrangements with connecting roads for the transportation of coal from the east Tennessee mines to Wilmington, X. C., direct, delivering it there at S5.50 per ton. ? The stockholders of the Traders' National Rank of Charlotte have decided that the bank should go into voluntary liquidation. The bank advertises that it is ready to meet the demands of depositors and creditors, and a certificate of that fact has been prepared to forward to the comptroller of the currency at Washington. ? The Gastonia Gazette records the destruction, by an incendiary-fire, last week, of the Chapel church belonging to-the Lutheran denomination, near that town. It was a large brick structure and the best in Gaston county. Preaching had been held in the church, and on Monday the house was burned. The circumstances clearly indicate the fact that it was the work of an incendiary. A newly mailo WIiIpi- w.ts fnnnrl. in the woods near bv and it was seen where it had been dragged to and from the church. The roof had been saturated with kerosine oil. The church was located 011 the Air-Line railroad, two miles from Gastonia. SOUTH CAROLINA COTTON MILLS. The State Department of Agriculture has just completed a tabular statement containing statistical information concerning the cotton mills of South Carolina. The total number of mills enumerated is twenty-six, counting theGranitevilleand Vaucluse Factories, which are under, one management, as one mill. The names, locations and class of product of the mills are as follows : The Reedy River Manufacturing Company on Reedy River* Greenville county, manufactures 4-4 and 7-8 sheetings and drills. Fork Shoals, on the North Fork of the Reedy River, Greenville county, manufactures No. 8 yarns. This mill has been running only two months. Pelzer Mills, in Anderson county, on Saluda River. The enlargement of this mill will prevent operations until February, 1883. Pendleton Factory, on the 23 Mile Creek, Anderson county, manufactures yarns. The Belle Monte Cotton Manufacturing Company, Sumter county, manufactures Nos. 12 to 22 warps. Orange Mills, Orangeburg, manufactures carpet warps, G to 14. Red Bank Factory, Lexington county, on Red Bank Creek, manufactures No. 20 warps. Cedar Shoals, on Fishing Creek, Chester county? manufactures carpet warps. Fishing Creek Manufacturing Company, on Fishing Creek, Chester county, manufactures warps and twists. Has only been running four months. Rock Ilill Factory, York county, manufactures No. 20 warps and 1G to 30 yarns. Clierokee Falls Manufacturing Company, on Broad River, in Y ork county, manufactures No. 20 warps. Has been running only seyen months. Clifton Manufacturing Company, on the Pacolet River, Spartanburg county, manufactures standard sheeting and drills and No. 8 to 14 yarns. Has been running seven months. Glendale Cotton Factory, on the Pacolet River, Spartanburg county, manufactures standard sheetings, shirtings and drills. Valley Falls Factory, on Lawson's Fork, Spartanburg county, manufactures No. 8 to 10 warps. ~ a At, fl.O IlfAuf fAflr Af f llA I X ilJgei V AilC 1' (IV/l-UlJj Vili l/lic ucoi iUi rv yjL unv Paeolet River, Spartanburg county, manufactures shirtings and No. G to 13 yarns. Crawfordville Factory, on the Tiger River, Spartanburg county, manufactures 7-8 shirtings and No. 8, 9 and 10 yarns. Batesville Factory, on Rocky Creek, Greenville county, manufactures No. 12 yarns. This mill was recently burned and rebuilt. Pelham Manufacturing Company, Greenville county, manufacturesNo. 12 yarns. Cedar Ilill Factory, on the South Tiger River, Spartanburg, manufactures 7-8 shirtings and 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 yarns. Huguenot Mills, Greenville county, on the Reedy River, manufactures plaids and buys yarns. This mill has been running only two months. Piedmont Mills, on Saluda River, in Greenville county, manufactures standard sheetings and shirtings and No. 8 to 12 yarns. Langley Manufacturing Company, on Horse Creek, in Aiken county, manufactures standard shirtings, sheetings and drills. Graniteville and Vaucluse Mills, on Horse Creek, Aiken county, manufactures standard shirtings, sheetings and drills. Saluda Mills, on the Saluda River, in Lexing:on county, manufactures yarns. C'amperdown Mills, on Reedy River, in Greenville City, manufactures hosiery and double yarns, dyed and bleached. Charleston Manufacturing Company, in the City of Charleston, manufactures G to 12 yarns, and will soon commence manufacturing standard sheetings, shirtings and drills. This mill has recently 'commenced operations. Of the mills above enumerated, not including Pendleton, the proprietor of which refused to give any information whatever, twenty are run by water power and steam, and four by steam alone. The estimated horse-power required to j propel the machinery of all of them is 7,420. 1 4 1 rt/\ 10/1 TO 1 I l^oonis employed, i,i:u j apmuica, igv, i-x. i The total capital invested is ?4,547,000 ; mini-1 bur of hands employed, 4,202 ; wages paid per annum, $728,900. Xo. pounds cotton consumed per annum, 29,040,209 ; total value of cotton and other mill supplies, $1,710,1151. Products?43,5137,804 yards cloth ; 8,032,975, ; pounds yarn ; value, $13,047,032. The Agricultural Department found great j ditticuliy in getting at the percentage of net ! prolit, and only in a few instances was this j information given. In the cases where it is , mentioned the net profit ranges from 10 to 20 i per cent. The percentage of waste ranges 1 from 10 down to 5 per cent., the average being about twelve per cent. Under the head of spindles we have included 500 mule spindles used at the Fingerville Factory, 10,810 mule spindles used by the Graniteville and Vaucluse Factories, and 4,010 mule spindles used by the Camperdown Mills. All the other spindles used are frame spindles. The totals given above are not absolutely complete, as there are necessarily some omissions in the cases of those mills which have j been running less than a year. Then, again, j the Pendleton Factory is omitted entirely for J the reason that the proprietors refused to give infnvmufinii Tron vpnrs aim this factory was running 1,000 spindles and was producing J annually 205,416 pounds of bunch yarns and chain warps from No. 4 to No. 12. The waste was 0.0 per cent. The annual consumption was 285,204 pounds of cotton. Sixty opera- j tives were employed, the annual amount of wages being paid $0,0(X). The horse-power used was 03. The capital employed was $25,- j 000, and the annual net profit was about 20 per cen;. The Pelzer mill, which will be running in I the course of a few weeks now, will pay out ' annually about $100,000 in wages, will con-' sume about 8,000,000 pounds of cotton, will expend about 820,000 annually in mill supplies, and will produce annually about 8,000,000 yards of clotb and 650,000 pounds of yarn. The Charleston mill, before the present year is out, will be running20,000spindles and will pay out annually in wages about 8100,000, will consume about 8,000,000 pounds of cotton, will expend about $20,000 in mill supplies, and will produce annually about 8,000,000 yards of cloth and 650,000 pounds of yarn. ' The Pacolet mill will also be running during the present year and will have a capital of 8200,ooor~""" ~? There must be added also the annual production of the Cherokee Falls Mill, the Huguenot Mills and the Fork Shoals Mill, which have only been running a few months, and the production of the Saluda Mills in Lexington county, which is omitted. ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE. FRATfl>S AND PER,JURIES. An Act to Amend Section 2022, Part II, Title VII, Chapter LXXIII, of the General Statutes of this State, Relating to the "Prevention of Frauds and Perjuries," so as to Require Condi?: 1 pa,vnn,il Dn.nai.. tv to ho Recorded. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same. That Section *2022, Part II, Title VII, Chapter LXXI1I, of the General Statutes of this State, relating to the "Prevention of Frauds and Perjuries," be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows : "Section 2202. Every agreement between vendor and vendee, bailor and bailee, of personal property, whereby the vendor and bailor shall reserve to himself any interest in the same, shall be null and void as to subsequent creditors or purchasers for valuable consideration without notice, unless the same be reduced to writing and be recorded in the manner now provided by law for the recording of mortgages : Provided, That nothing herein contained shall apply to livery stable keepers, inn keepers, or any other persons letting or hiring property for a tempoi ary uses." JiEXEFIVIAliY IKS ASK I'ATIENTS. An Act to Regulate the Admission of Beneficiary Patients in the State Lunatic Asylum. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same. Section 1. That the Superintendent and Regents of the State Lunatic Asylum shall not receive into said institution any beneficiary patient unless the order consigning such person to the Asylum is accompanied by a Report from the County Commissioners of the County from which such person is sent certifying that they have carefully investigated the circumcfunnna timl nAiwlitinn nf iiarann Ilia nr her family, parent or guardian, and that such person is a proper subject for l>eneficiary care and to what extent. Sec. 2. That the Report shall also be certified by the County Auditor and Treasurer of such county, showing the property and condition of such patient ; and the Superintendent and Board of Regents shall have the right to reject any and all applicants for beneficiary care if in their judgment the financial condition of such person, his or her family, pareut or guardian, does not warrant the same. Sec. 3. That the Sheriffs of the respective counties shall, 011 the order of the Court, take temporary control of all such violent or dangerous lunatics as may be consigned to their care during the period necessary for the foregoing investigation and reports ; and they shall be entitled to such fees therefor as are fixed by law for dieting prisoners. Sec. 4. That the Superintendent of the Asylum shall within sixty days from the adjournment of this Legislature send to the Hoard of County Commissioners of each county the names of all inmates from the respective counties ; and thereupon the Boards of County Commissioners and Auditors and Treasurers of the respective counties shall within sixty days thereafter make the investigation, reports and certificates as to each of said inmates as is directed in Sections 1 and 2 of this Act; and upon the filing of said Reports and certificates in the office of the Superintendent, the Superintendent and. Regents shall have the right, and it is their duty, todeal with such inmates in the same way as is provided in Section 2 as to applicants for beneficiary care. ? db ? Tiie Land Loan Association.?The Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier writes as follows, regarding the above institution incorporated at the last session of the Legislature : Col. John It. Abney is still in daily receipt of numerous letters making inquiries as to the Southern Land Association, and has received a number of personal applications for the loan of money. 1 asked him to-day when the Association would go into operation. lie replied that he could not tell yet whether it would go into operation at all, the Legislature allowing 10 per cent., interest to be charged by the association in its charter, but refusing to give the company authority to charge interest at such rate for any number of years. "On the contrary," said Col. Abney, "the Legislature put a warning in the charter that such rate of interest should be charged only so long as the general law upon usury permitted that rate. Capital is very timid, as you know, and il.. A T r LMB UUipUlclLUid UJL LUC ouutnuii ajrtiiu Association did not like that provision in the charter. Notwithstanding this, however, Col. Palmer has gone to London to attempt to organize the company. It will take a good deal of money to start the business, and it would not pay the Association to go to the expense for only a year or two. Col. Palmer'3 difficulty, therefore, will be to convince the capitalists that the Legislature is not likely to reduce the rate of interest as soon iis the money is brought here. A telegram has been sent by him announcing his safe arrival in England, but I have had no letter from him yet. It may be, however, that Col. Rion, of Winnsboro', who will be the leading attorney for the Association, has heard from him. If Col. Palmer succeeds in his undertaking, as he hoped to do when he left Columbia, he will be able to return by March, and the company will be organized and ready for business about the 1st of April." Of course the prospectus of the company will be given to the public in due time and what the Association does will not be doqe in the dark. The indications are that all the money the Association wants to risk in this State will find ready takers. Death of Clark Mills.?Clark Mills, the sculptor, died in Washington City last Friday. Mr. Mills was born in Onondaga county, New York, December, 1, 1815. lie lost his parents in childhood and learned the trade of plasterer, which he carried on for nine years in Charleston. He early displayed talent as a sculptor. In 1840 he made a marble bust of Calhoun, which was bought by the City Council, and which still stands in the Council Chamber. In 1848 he began his famous equestrian statue of Jackson, which is so balanced hiit. if. stands on the hind feet of the horse without other support. He was two years in completing the task, and then lie had to learn the practical business of casting, there being 110 establishment in this country large enough and no one competent for the task. In October, 1852, he succeeded in producing a perfect cast, and the statue was set up in Washington on January S, 1858, the 38th anniversary of the battle of Xew Orleans. It was finished at a loss to Mills of $7,000, but Congress rewarded him by an appropriation of $20,000. lie also made the colossal equestrian statue of Washington for which he received ?50,000, and in 1803 he finished the colossal statue of Liberty which crowns the dome of the Capitol at Washington. Tiie Oldest Railroad.?Captain A. P. Rrown, of the State department of agriculture, showed me, this morning, an old scrap book, in which he wrote more than thirty-five years ago, the following conclusions, which were reached after a long discussion, as to the oldest railroad in the world: "1. That the South Carolina Railroad, from Charleston to Hamburg, was the first road that was commenced in this country, with a view of using steam instead of animal power. "2. That the first locomotive engine ever built in this country, was built for and used on this road. ( "3. That it was the first road that carried ( the United States mail. "4. That wlir.n completed and ready for use, which was on toe 2d of October, 1833, it was the longest road in the world. We traveled upon this road '.n 1830, five miles, in a car ' rigged with sails and propelled by wind at the rate of five or six miles ]>er hour."?News ami ('mirier. ' LOCAL AFFAIES, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. H., K. Adickes?We Are Offering. S.S. Ross?Mortgage Sale. Look Out for J. M. Adams. J. C. Kuykeudal?Two Important Paragraphs. J. R. Lindsay A Co.?Special. Hunter A Oates?Unparalleled Bargains. T. M. Dohson?Great Reduction in Prices?Down Thev Go. J. A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation?W. : I). Kosborough, Applicant?Mrs. M. G. Hemphill, deceased. W? C. Latimer?Dry Goods. J. B. Allison, Clerk"?York County Bonds. T. S. Jeti'ervs, Agent?Fertilizers* Wilcox, < Jihbes A Co.?Save Money. m i i>u*d a'riTinN ulira uu a i a i ivn? On Friday night last a mule was stolen from the stable of Hezekiah Griffin, who lives near Black's Station. A dog, supposed to have rabies, was killed on the streets last Monday. TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR. By a typographical error, the sale by W. II. Carroll, administrator of Faithy Houser, deceased, was printed in hist week's issue of the Enquirer to take place on the 20th of January, instead of the 20th, which is the correct date. RETIREMENT OF BONDS. By notice of the County Commissioners published in another column, it will be seen that on Monday last they retired ?1,500 of county bonds. The numbers drawn for retirement are published in the Commissioners' official notice. There are now ?71,300 of the bonds outstanding. _ THE GASTONIA GAZETTE. Mr. G. W. Chalk, proprietor of the Gastonia Gazette, paid us a call last Saturday. We are pleased to learn from him that his paper is in a nourishing condition. With the beginning of the year it was enlarged, and he proposes soon to issue it in an out-;and-out new dress of type. JUDGE OF PROBATE'S OFFICE. Col. J. A. McLean, elected to the office of Probate Judge of York county, at the last election, having declined to qualify, it devolves upon the Governor to appoint his successor for the current term. There are two applicants for the office?J. Beatty Williams, Esq., and G. W. S. Hart, Esq. AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY. Rev. C. II. Wiley, D. D., Agent of the American Bible Society, will hold a meeting in the Presbyterian Church, at 7 o^lock P. M., next Sunday, in the interest of the Bible Society. Members of all the congregations in town are earnestly invited to be present on the occasion. AN INDUSTRIOUS NEGRO. From time to time we see items in our exchanges detailing what has been accomplished on the farm by industrious colored men in different parts of the State, and for the emulation of others, we publish the following, as the result of the labors of James Youngblood, colored, who, last year, with one horse, raised on the lands of C. M. Parrott, six miles north of town, 15 bales cotton, averaging 402 pounds to the bale; 200 bushels corn, 43} bushels wheat, 14 bushels oats, 40 bushels sweet potatoes and 5 wagon loads of water melons. CHURCH NOTICES. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. R. P. Franks, Pastor. The pastor will preach at King's Mountain Chapel in the forenoon. In consequence of a meeting of the Bible Society in the Presbyterian Church, at night, there will be no night service in the Methodist churah at Yorkville. The pastor will be with the Sunday-school in the afternoon. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. Latlian, Pastor. Services at 10} A. M. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. Services at 10} A. M. HO ill E> RAISED l'ORK. Farmers this winter have been more fortunate than in any recent previous year, in 1.. I J ~ 1... securing a supply ui nome-umue uacun, wiuuu is due mainly, we suppose, to the heavy grain crop raised last year. This is another argument in favor of raising small grain more extensively than ever. Farmers can make their own meat cheaper than they can buy it, while its production on their own farms would be a source of economy in other respects. We are glad to know that attention is being diverted in this direction, not only in the effort to raise swine, but by improving the breed. We some time ago noted the purchase by Mr. S. A. McElwee of some Berkshire pigs from a noted stock raiser in Tennessee. These pigs, when received, six weeks ago, averaged GO pounds. Last Monday, on which day they were twelve weeks old, the lightest one weighed 95 pounds. "VOT ASSIGNED." A jovial traveling salesman visits Yorkville occasionally, who besides the standard and indispensable article he represents, is also noted as being a fine musician, and specially fond of pratlcal joking. Further descrip lion wouiu ue unnecesattijr tu acuuic mo iucutification. He arrived here last Thursday morning, and on the same train that bore him to Yorkville was a goodly number of preachers and laymen, mostly all colored, who had come to attend the Conference of the Northern Methodist Episcopal Church. As usual on the arrival of such visitors, there was a good deal of bustle around the depot, the colored arrivals being active in their inquiries as to which houses they had been "assigned." Our commercial friend soon caught the word, and on parting with an acquaintance who expressed the hope that they would see each other again, replied that probably they would, though he did not as yet know where he had been "assigned." This was heard by one of the colored brethren present, who at once rushed up to the drummer, and in the politest manner asked him if he was a minister or a layman, his name, and where he was from, offering, at the same time, to provide him with a good place to stop. The traveler tells it himself. lie says his first impulse was to get mad, but on reflection he admitted that he opened the way for the mistake, and that the colored man only displayed true politeness. The best of the joke is that anybody should mistake for a preacher one who glides his fingers on the violin strings as nimbly as does our Atlanta friend. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE. The South Carolina Conference of the Northern Methodist Episcopal Church convened in Yorkville, at 10 o'clock A. M., on Wednesday of last week, Bishop Merrill, of Pennsylvania, presiding, and Kev. j. a. xuiauieion, secretary. The reports of the presiding elders show a steady growth of membership, increased efficiency of the ministry, and the general condition of the church to be highly satisfactory. This branch of the Methodist Church, as our readers know, was anti-slavery during the agitation of this question previous to the war, and on this ground the largest religious denomination in America divided?the one adhering to anti-slavery principles and the other recognizing the peculiar institution of! their section, with which a large proj>ortion of the membership was identified. It was but; natural that the emancipated people of the South should go with that branch of the church which advocated their freedom, and i hence the large membership in the Southern j States, composed almost entirely of the colored element. As showing the strength of the 1 Church in the Union, the following figures, taken from the Methodist Year Book for 1883, j will prove of interest: Such is the extent, and such the organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church i (Xorth,) that its present standing can only be represented by a long array of figures. It \ lias 91) Annual Conferences, 11 bishops, 1*2,"?52 1 itinerant ministers, 12,106 local preachers, 1,551,952 lay members in full connection, and 172,468 on probation, (total, 1,724,420.) Its churches number 17,965, its Sunday Schools 50.894, with 222,863 Sunday School ollicers j and teachers, and 1,608,836 scholars. The value of the church buildings is placed at 866,405,508, and the value of its 6,150 parsonages at 89,020,034. More than two thousand adults and children are baptized each week in its churches, the number of infants slightly preponderating. On an average, each week sees four Sunday Schools organized and five church edifices dedicated. The contributions of the whole denomination for a year, for all branches of church work, are set down at $17,064,010?an average of about $1.00 per member. MERE-MENTION. M. T. Polk, the defaulting State Treasurer of Tennessee, was captured in Mexico, and has been returned to the authorities in Nashville. In Cincinnati, last Friday morning, John B. Hoffman secreted himself behind a door and fired upon his son, as he was passing out of the house, killing hiin instantly. Five years ago Hoffman killed another son. The Czar has signed a decree dissolving all secret societies in Itussia. Bird^s-eye maple, which sells for $160 per 1,000 feet in England, is used for tirewood in Western North Carolina. TheHouse Elections Committee, last Thursday, by a vote of 7 to (5, gave leave to the contestant in the case of Lee against Richardson, from South Carolina, to withdraw his papers, and the case was dismissed without prejudice. The silver spike was driven last Saturday on the Mexican Pacific Railway Extension, connecting it with the Southern Pacific and giving a direct line from San Francisco to New Orleans. A colored physician in Atlanta, Ga., Las an annual income of ?2,000 from his practice. Ex-Senator Lot M. Morrill, of Maine, died on Wednesday of last week. The State debt of Massachusetts is $32,511,(380, Including those already elected, fifteen United States Senators are to be chosen this month. The recent snow storm was the heaviest in Virginia since 1S57. An earthquake is rei>orted to have occurred on Friday morning, the shock of which was plainly felt in Southern Illinois, extending to Kentucky. The postage stamps sold at the New York postoflice during the year justclosed, weighed ninetons. Rev. Hugh Miller Thompson, of New Orleans, has been elected Assistant Bishop of the diocese of Mississippi. Smallpox is epidemic in Atlanta, Ga., and in several places in Kentucky and Virginia. The Secretary of the Treasury has authorized the coinage of a new five cent nickel piece, which will comply with the existing law more nearly than the five cent nickel now in use. It is a trifle larger and thinner than the existing coin. On the 10th instant, the Circuit Court of Chicago granted Mrs. George Scoville a bill of divorce from her husband. During a performance last Saturday at a circus in Bedischeff, in Russian Poland, a fire broke out in the building, and before the spectators cetild escai>e the whole structure was in a blaze. Three hundred persons perished in the flames. :The rianters' notei, in ?t. iajuis, one or rne largest in the city, took fire Sunday morning, and before the fiaraes could be subdued four persons lost their lives. The building was damaged $10,000. Two hundred houses in Gran, Hungary, are submerged to the roof. Great inundations in many parts of Germany were prevented only by frost. There ap- i pears to be no foundation for the report that ^ the Princess Louise will spend the winter in Charleston. She will probably pass through the city on the way to Bermuda, where she proposes to avoid the rigor of a Canada climate. Dr. Mudd, of Maryland, who was Wilkes Booth's physician, is dead. There is a talk in Washington of an extra session of Congress. Old John Robinson, the famous showman, is dying at his home in Cincinnati. 4 4 1 Hampton's Magnetism.?A Washington correspondent says: "Senator Hampton was among the callers at the White House yesterday. Gen. Gordon says there is a striking resemblance between the late Leon Gambetta and Gen. Hampton. From this I conclude that Gordon must owe Hampton a grudge of some kind. I "never saw Gambetta, but if written descriptions and photographs are * ^ guides, I should .say that Hampton had the 1 advantage of the two. An artist here, who ( deserves to rank above the majority of American artists, Wm. Carl Browne, tells me that when Hampton first came to the Senate, quite a crowd saw him get out of the carriage at the hotel. It seems that they heard Hampton > was expected that day. The average Wash ingtonian had, of course, heard a great deal of him, and a number of them determined to ^ get an early look at him. Browne says as he stepped down on the pavement and stood erect before them there was a spontaneous cheer from the outskirts of the crowd. As there are few men whose personal appearance can provoke such an exhibition, I think I *? am correct in guessing that Gen. Gordoi*raust be near sighted?or jealous." Tiie Cotton Factory.?During the year * just closed the Rock Hill Cotton Factory consumed 707,915 pounds (or more than 1,745 bales, weighing each 440 pounds,) of cotton, and shipped 590,4*25 pounds of yarn. The average price paid for cotton during the year was ?10.07 per hundred, and the average waste of the cotton used from the crop of 1881 was 2*2j per cent., while the cotton used from the present crop only shows an average waste of from 13 to 15 i>er cent. Short cotton forms the principal part of the waste, but sand, weeds, &c., are included. The average number of hands employed during the year was 100, and the number of spindles in operation is 7,904. Some time during the present year the company contemplate putting in '2,000 twister spindles, and it is not unlikely that other additions of machinery will be made.? Herald llf/j. ? ? Death of Mrs. McJunkin.?This estimable lady, wife of Mr. C. M. McJunkin, of the Palmetto Yeoman, died at half-past 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. She had been a great sufferer rrom cancer tor many inontns, iroin which she was relieved temporarily by a surgical operation, about a year ago, but the insidious disease returned, to triumph at last, in the death of its victim. She was a consistent member of the Methodist Church, and an ac- ; tive worker in many of the benevolent organizations of our city, and her loss will be greatly felt by them, and the poor and unfortunate, who were the objects of her kind ministrations. We tender our sincere condolence to her bereaved. husband, in the terrible loss which he has experienced.?Columbia Reyisler, Sunday. Suit Against a Railroad.?Mr. J. G. Holmes, of Charleston, has brought suit against the Carolina Central Railroad (running from Wilmington to Shelby,) for damages occurring from being ejected from a car on that road. The circumstances are about thus?Mr. Holmes bought a first-class ticket on the Carolina Central and claimed that the coach in which he was directed was not a first-class car and that the smoke and discomfort of the coach made him ill. So he went back to the sleeping car, and, claiming a right to be there on the ticket bought for a first-class car, was ejected from the sleeping car upon his refu! sAl to pay extra fare. This is the case as we j can gather from Mr. Holmes' friends.?CluirJ lotte Journal. I -financial anb Commercial. YORK VII.L10, January 17.?Cotton 7j to !>. CHARLESTON, January 1.7.?Cotton quiet; middling, !)]. LIVERPOOL, January 15.?Cotton easv ; Uplands .78il. NEW YOHIC, January 15.?Cotton quiet; uplands, 103-10. Futures closed dull, with sales of 40,000 bales, as follows : January 10.01 to 10.02; February 10.00 ; March 10.10 to li).20; April 10.33 to 10.34; May 10.47; June 10.01; July 10.74 to z 10.7.1; August 10.8.1 to 10.X0. Comparative Cotton Statement. New York, January 12.?The following is the comparative cotton statement for the week ending January 12: 1883. 1882. Receipts at all ports for the week, 172,202 104,024 Total receipts to this date 3,830,003 3,347,8.11 Exports for week 104,003 1 .'14,312 Total exports to date 2,424,344 1.740,475 Stock at all F.S. ports 030,087 1,143,025 Stock at all interior towns 188,111 205,WiO Stock at Liverpool....; 000,000 572,000 American for <?roat Britain 425,000 2:15,000 The Cotton Supply. The total visible supply of cotton for the world last Saturday was 3,200,0o0 bales, of which 2,508,150 bales was American,against 3,0*08,758 bales and / 2,010,008 bales respectively last year. The re- J ceipts of cotton at all interior towns are 80,420 J bales. The receipts from plantations 171,083 /' H|| bales. The crop in sight, 4,708,080 bales. / Hp J '*mm