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fctapsi and ?fattis. ? In Vicksburg, Miss., last Friday^ the jury in the case of Johu Ryan for the murder of .Tessse McAfee last summer, rendered a verdict of not guilty. The verdict surprised , everybody and was generally denounced by the , community. Judge Cowan was very out- ( spoken in his deunciation. I ? On Thursday, ten thousand persons assembled in the Exposition Building in Mil- : waukee to witness the funeral services over the bodies of victims of the Newhall House disaster, and during the services a gas pipe bursted, causing a stampede which came very near resulting in another terrible calamity. ? Among the other "reforms" recently agitated was the DroDOsition to abolish the whip ping-post in Delaware, but the Legislature stood to the rack, and declined to gratify those who urged the measure. So that we* may regard the whiping-post as one of the most firmly planted muniments of Delaware civilization. , ? Not far from Athens, Ga., is a couple, the wife being under the impression that she had married the brother of her husband. It seems that she wrote to a relative inquiring ? into the character of her affianced, and he, ( thinking she referred to the brother, recom- j mended him very highly. A few days after- \ wards they were married, and it was not until she visited her husband's house that the m;s- ( take was discovered. A suit for divorce was < the consequence. ' ? The business failures of the seven days , ended last Friday, as reported to It. G. Dun i & Co.'s Mercantile Agency, number 277 as t compared with 274 last week. The Southern t States bad 73; the Western 70; the Middle States 54; the New England States 25; the ' Pacific States and Territories 12; Canada 33, , and New York City 0. The only failure in , New York City of importance is that of M. Armstrong & Sons, leather dealers, who have < assigned with liabilities of about ?400,000. ' ? At the meeting of the Maine Temperance f Society, in Augusta, last Friday, Gen. Neal j Dow was elected President, B. C. Tarsey, of Winthrop, Secretary, and Elisha Perkins of Augusta, Treasurer. Resolutions were presented representing that drunkenness was on the increase in several parts of the State, and 1 asking the Legislature to pass a prohibitory amendment bill. Minority resolutions to the j effect that a Prohibition party was necessary j in Maine were also presented. ? The Southern District, including Virginia, will make in 1S83, of coke iron, 598,000 tons ; 1 charcoal iron, 200,000 net tons ; total, 70S,000 1 net tons. This iron at an average of $18 per : ton at the furnaces, will bring into the States i of Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Virgin- j ia $14,304,000. The capacity of one coke fur- ( nace in Alabama in 1878 was 23,000 net tons. Tlio naiMi/Mfv of thfc total r*.oke nhi.nt of the State this year is 210,000 net tons, or a gain 1 of more than 900 per ceiit. in four years. 1 ? In the process of refining cotton seed oil, the residue of the crude oil is distilled, and, with care, produces a hard grease or stearine, which commands, when of good color, nearly the price of tallow. This by-product is used j for making artificial butter. Even the tarry . residue is useful as a paint ingredient. Cot- j ton-seed oil is now largely mixed with olive oil. Its presence may be recognized by treat- j ing oil with nitric acid; on shaking it, a t coffee, brown color will be seen if cotton- . seed oil is present. ? The New Orleans Picayune, in an editorial < on the large cotton crop of 18S2 says: "When ; it is considered that the present crop was i raised at enormous cost for food products of 1 every description for man and beast, there can . be put little profit in it for the South. Corn i meal at 87 per'barrel and bacon at twenty 1 cents per pound, do not leave much out of a i cotton crop sold at nine cents at the nearest i depot. The season's experience will doutless convince many more planters to remove their com cribs nearer home." ? The section of the Revised Statutes which j was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme . Court of the United States last week, is the ' section of an Act passed in 1871, which attempted to give the United States jurisdiction I o'rer crimes properly punishable by the States. { The remaining cases referred to as form- i ing portions of what are known as the Civ- ] il rights cases are all brought under the civ- il rights bill proper, passed in 1875. They are cases involving the infringement of the 1 rights of" colored people to equality with the 1 whtes as citizens. I ? All accounts from Washington agree in 1 affirming that the lobby which represents the ( leading interest in the pending tariff bill dis- ( cussion, exceeds any scene at the Capital for , xnany years. The whisky lobby, the railroad J lobby, the navy lobby, and other lobbies that ( have been offensively active since the meet- t ing of Congress, are thrown in the shade by < this powerful and rich combination. The cry j is echoed along the corridors from the Senate < to the House of Representatives that the "business of the country" demands the paternal care of Congress. It is probable tliat the re- 1 suit of the discussion in Congress on the ] subject will be a bill concocted by commis- 1 sioners of conference, consisting of two Re- , publicans, and two Democrats on the part of . the Senate and two Republicans and one Democrat on the part of the House. 1 ? The New York Cfraphic has been figuring up the places foreigners occupy in the councils of the nation. .The Irish born members 1 of the next House of Representatives are *20 | in number, while the German born are 7, al- ( though the German born population of the United States considerably exceeds the Irish ! born. Of the 20 Irish members 4 are from Missouri: New .Tersev and Pennsylvania have ! 3 each; New York and Indiaua 2 each, and ; Masssaceusetts, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nevada and California 1 each. Out of the 20 only 3 are Republicans. The 7 Germans are credited 1 each to New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, and 2 each to Michigan and Wisconsin. Two of the 7 are Republicans. The only State the majority of whose delegation of the next House is foreign born is New Jersey. ? The Government paper of the State of Chiapas, Mexico, published in its issue of the 15th long articles on the cholera, which has scourged the southern portion of the State, and which has not yet disappeared. The General Government is implored to render assistance, as the number of victims is immense, and misery and want reign supreme wherever the epidemic has raged fiercely. Sanitary cordons were established round Tierra Caliente, the hot region where this sporadic outbreak of cholera raged with the fiercest intensity. The cold and temperate regions were not affected. Whole families died in a single night. On some of the plantations there are only three or four people left alive. Many bodies have been devoured by dogs, because those who were stricken were at once abandoned. The town i of Tuxtla had eight thousand inhabitants, six ] 1 J J 1 3 Af il./v ihr... iiuuureu ui wuuiu are utrau. wi me sia uiuusand people of Tonala upward of one thousand . are dead. The town of Chiapas suffered most severely, twenty to thirty persons dying daily. ? The caucus of Democratic United States Senators, held on Friday, that agreed to favor the passage of any bill which has for its object the reduction of the tariff, did an eminently wise and prudent thing, says the Philadelphia Jiecord. Equally wise was its determination to require a thorough investigation of all, amendments which appear to be in the interest of monopolies. This is the true attitude of statesmanship in seeking after the best attainable good. It is patent to the country j that the Republican Congress is determined to 1 give the people the smallest dose of tax reduction it can possibly administer. The smallest! dose is better than nothing at all. It is the i l?olicy of the Democrats, as it is the interest of tax-payers, to take what they can get now j and to trust to the future for further relief, i To obstruct all tariff changes because the ma-1 jority in Congress is not willing to do what | the interest of the country requires would be a piece of partisan management falling little short of imbecility. ? The Augusta Chronicle publishes statistics ' from the office of the Agricultural Commis-, missioner showing the marvelous agricultural' growth of Georgia and contrasting the pro-; ducts of 1870 with those of 1882. The State shows over 200 per cent, increase in" corn, : 000 per cent, in oats, 200 i>er cent, in wheat, j 75 per cent, in rye, 800 per cent, in cane and j sorghum, 400 per cent, in sweet potatoes and a similar increase in the yield of other farm and garden products. In 1870 Georgia raised 473,934 bales o? cotton; in 1880 the State | raised 814,441 bales, showing an increase of nearly 100 per cent, in ten years, and ranging as j the second cotton producing State. In 1882 the cotton production grew to 925,443 bales, the ' increase being accomplished with a diminished acreage. The crop of 1880 was raised on 2,t?17?l.'58 acres, while that of 1882 was raised . m 2,355,425 acres. Horses have increased 20 L>er cent., mules 51 per cent., milk cows 36 ;>er cent., other cattle 32 per cent., sheep 26 ?er cent, and swine 49 per cent. In 1870 jreorgia had 70,000 farms, in 1880 she had v 139,000. The estimated value of the farm c jroduction of 1870 was $80,000,000. It 1880 it 1 svas swelled to $125,000,000. v ?hc fJcrlniHe (frmjuiw. *s YORKVILLE. S. C. s lv rHURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 1, 1883 * - (i How to Order the Enquirer. -Write the ) tame of the subscriber very plainly, give nost- -s >fliee, eountv and State, in full, and send th< t imount of the subscription by draft or post)ttiee money order, or enclose the money in a ^ registered letter. C Postage.?The KNqnitKit is delivered free >f postage to all subscribers residing in York ' ounty, who receive the paper at post-ollieo>- ' vithin the county; and to all other subscribers s nO pOSUlfie IS |KI1U l>V nil' I'lll'IIMin. w,i. , scribcrs, 110 mutter whore tliev receive the paper, ire not liable for postage, it being prepaid at j he post-olliee hero, without additional eharge to . he subscriber. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "ad- v Iress-labcl" shows the time to which the sub- t icription is paid. If subscribers do not wish c ;heir papers discontinued, the date mu.it be kept Ji n advance. .f Cash.?It must bo distinctly understood that . >ur terms for subscriptions, advertising and job,vork, are cash in iwlvahce. 1 ,fi?f Mr. J. L. Simmons is our authorized agent <' or receiving subscriptions and advertisements t n the town of Chester. s THE RAILROAD COMMISSION. C We publish entire, this week, the Act of the last Legislature creating a Railroad Comtnis- c iion for the State of South Carolina. The du- v ties of this Commission will be to guard the il interests of the people against the encroach- i meats of those corporations as regards carry- J ing and passenger traffic ; and as each line of road may be regarded as a monopoly so far as f relates to the section through which it passes, t the creating of this commission was urged by I its advocates as a necessity for the protection )f the people. It is one of the most important * A.cts of the last session ; but it is yet too early j :o speak of its probable results. Regarding t the work of the Commission, the Columbia t Register of Thursday says : 1 The Commissioners were present at their of- ' lice in the State House yesterday. The morn- ' ing was spent in attention to matters of a c purely local character, and the Hoard will for some time meet daily and dispose of such bus- 1 iness as requires their immediate attention, while preparing for the heavy work of arrang- c ing the freight rates, which will be aimed to 1 strike the line of equity between the people v ind the railroads. v It is 110 part of the purpose of Commission- ^ T-i-- ?-1 nr..11 t, 3rs J6U?r HliU ? iUKtl IU l'caiuc in v^uiuuium, is lias been stated. The duties of the Com- 1 mission will for a few months require tlieiu frequent meeting, but after the work of the Board has been fully systematized, monthly meetings of a day or two will sutlice for the full discharge of the duties, and the location of one of the members here will answer every demand of the business. THE FRENCH TjlJESlIOX.. Prince Jerome is still in prison. At one nine since his manifesto a crisis in the French iflfairs was thought to have been reached ; but [ die threatened storm has blown away for the c present. Jerome's manifesto arraigned the V jovernment ou all those measures concerning j. ivhich the staunchest friends of the republic j lave admitted that it had failed to satisfy the French people. They had been extravagant4 X with the public money until they had reached 1 i point beyond which M. Leon Say had told t diem it was impossible to go further.' They !j lad undertaken the expedition of Tunis with>ut counting either the cost or the consepiences. They had lost the joint control in a Egypt by failing to support England in her t ;asy conquest over the insurgent Arabi. Even 1 dieir educational schemes have been carried j. )ut with a harshness that brought upon the v jovernment and its agents the charge of per- j sedition. f It is undeniable that his sympathisers are I lumbered by the thousands, and that Western ? France is almost a unit for the restoration of ^ die Bonapartes. This fact, with the admitted (] weakness and vascillation of the ministry led i :o the belief that civil war was inevitable. It v may only be delayed for a few months or t ft-eeks. * The ministers have had a consultation with she comjnittee of the Chamber of Deputies on v :he bills against the Pretenders, and in reply t lo various questions they promised to consider 1 my decision the committee might come to. ? After the departure of the ministers the committee adopted a proposition excluding from j French Territory, Algeria and the colonies all t members of families having reigned in France, a iepriving them of their political rights as pitizens, declaring them ineligible to any office 11 md preventing them from belonging to the inny. The resolution of the committee fur- t fcher provides that transgressors of the pro- i posed law shall be amenable to the correctional tribunals and are liable to from one to five years imprisonment, after which they shall be again expelled. The discussion re- v vealed wide divergencies between the views 1 pf the ministry and the committee. M.Proust ^ inquired whether the ministry would use per- * missive powers if granted. The only answer c tie elicited was that they would examine the ^ matter. M. Falieres, the minister of the in- r terior, declared that no danger existed threat- I +1.Q ^Arrnj t.rmililpsnmn dpsirps t existed, but they had no chance of realization. ) No conspiracy, he thought, considering the 1 general feeling of the nation, could become formidable. The rumor which had gained [ currency that the charge against Prince Jerome t tiad been dismissed had been contradicted, t It is reported that M. llenoit, the magistrate i intrusted with the investigation of Prince Je- l" rome's case, lias notified the government that, ? in his opinion, there exists no basis for the |, charge against the Prince. In the meanwhile (] it is affrmed that President IJrevy has re- c fused to sign the decree of expulsion on the r ground that a special law on the subject must tirst be voted Since Monday Prince Jerome ? lias been unable to take his usual exercise in ^ the Conciergerie, owing to an affection of the f heart from which he is sutTering. e The appearance in Paris of Eugenie about the time of the posting of Jerome's manifesto is not supposed to have any political signili- k cance. She was there ostensibly to consult an (| occulist, and quietly departed for England; though while in Paris her presence was a s topic almost as exciting as the arrest a few P days previous to her arrival and the imprisonment of Jerome. J ?- - s I'KOGKESS IN SOUTH UAKOI.IXA.?SUltlS- g tics just published show that South Carolina li now has twenty-seven nourishing cotton mills, a with 4,120 looms and 180,721 spindles, ami f that the business yields an average net profit :>f twelve per cent. In 1880 there were in C the State eighteen mills, with 1,9.'>3 looms and n Jo,0:i8 spindles. These figures show an extra- li prdinary progress in this important industry, t md the fact that nine new mills were charter- p 2d at the recent session of the Legislature in- ( licates a striking growth of the business in v die future. In undertaking to manufacture r its great staple, instead of sending it to Eng- t iish and New England mills, the South has | ( 2iitered a field of industrial activity which t promises to prove a most important source of t prosperity. Nearness of its mills to its cot- o ion fields is an advantage which in time must t :ell strongly in favor of the South in the com- ii ret it ion with its distant conii?etitors.?X. V. h lltnd'l. a THE WILKESBARRE DISASTER. Last week an area of about one hundred ; ,cres, of the town of Wilkesbarre, Pennsyl-1 ania, caved in, the ground sinking, in aany places several feet below the surface, j ?he residents in the vicinity of the disaster vere startled from their rest by a roar resembing the thundering shock of an earthquake ,nd the rocking and trembling of the houses, ihock speedily followed shock and the crash f falling ceilings and the noise of rending rood were heard above the screams of the romen and children. A correspondent who isited the town last Friday gives the followng graphic account of the terrible shock : Eye witnesses describe the scene at the ime of the fall as being almost beyond decryption. The streets affected are densely eopled, and when the lirst crash came nearly very one was buried in repose. Within wo minutes, however, from the moment vhen the shock was experienced all was a cene of the wildest excitement. The utter gnorance of the people as to the nature of the lisaster added immeasurably to their alarm, riieir houses were falling on them and the olid ground trembled and rocked as if from he throes of an earthquake. Mothers sprang from their couches, and, eizing their children, fled to the streets, their - - ? ~i 1 ...:?i * n,? Dims LWJMJSrU .WIIIUM niuiuilt lutnuij; HI nil >iercing cold. Many of the woman fainted. Cven the stout hearts of the miners were tricken with terror at the uncertainty of rhat was to follow. The streets presented a scene of alarm. Iere could be seen the burly form of some lardy worker of coal endeavoring to calm the rife and children who, terrified almost out of heir senses, clung to him with agonizing l ies. Further on was a woman holding the lands of her children and bearing in her arms t helpless infant, hurrying along, fearful that he houses would fall and bury them in the uins. Some were busily engaged in saving uticles of value which they dragged out of he houses and piled in the middle of the treets under the belief that the danger was lot yet over and that in a few minutes their iwellings would be levelled with the ground. Others were endeavoring to obtain a light md ascertain the nature of the calamity, while ithers again, regardless of their own danger, vere helping to convey the women and chilIren from the tottering houses and place them n a position of safety. So accustomed are liese laborers in the mines to disasters of this cind that when the nature of the calamity vas thoroughly understood some degree of piiet was restored. Xo effort was made, howiver, to resume the usual preparations for ireakfast or the regular labors of the day. All were too much alarmed. The light ol lie rising sun saw the streets still thronged vith a frightened crowd, many of them still lalf dressed and too fearful to enter their Iwellings until assured by a closer examinaion that all immediate danger was over. The uost conflicting reports were current in the ocality and were speedily spread over the city. .11 a short time the roads leading to the scene if the disaster were crowded with throngs of he curious desiring to make an actual inspecion of the destruction caused. . Although there have been many similar ac:idents in this locality, this is the largest and uost disastrous of them all. It has revived 'arious rumors of the insecurity of the city vliich were at one time so rife, but have ately died out. It is well known that almost he whole of Wilkesbarre is undermined by he workings of the colliers, but it is alleged liar ior uie most p?iru uie seams aieau a yicat listance below the surface, and that, knowng the fearful consequences of a cave in on lie densely peopled city, sufficient support has >eeen left to disarm the slightest suspicion of langer. Many miners state that previous to the bandonment of the workings where the disaser occurred "pillar robbing" had been carried in to a dangerous extent, the operators trustng to the 300 feet of rock above them to sell re the stability of the surface. For the lenefit of those unacquainted with the technoligy of mining, "pillar robbing" is the term riven to the taking away of coal from pillars ueviously left to support the roof. This is requently done by the unscrupulous operators ?efore abandoning any portion of their mines. The officials of the Delaware and Hudson Jompany are vel-y reticent about the matter. Chey will say nothing whatever except that he accident was occasioned by the rotting of he props left in the abandoned workings. This statement, however, is now generally disredited. The best authorities agree that it is [uite possible that further falls will take place, ilthough in all probability not for some little ime, or unless the fire has had time to work ts way further into the workings. Everything in and around the cave is quiet o-day. The greater nuinberof the people who racated their homes yesterday re-entered their lilapidated buildings this morning. About ifty miners kept watch last night, it having ?een arranged that in case the ground showed vidences of sinking the fire alarm bell would te sounded. While a political caucus was ?eing held in Sernhelt's Ilall, in the disturbed listrict, last evening, some one said the buildng was giving way, and a general stampede iras the result. Men are at work to-day filling he cracks and holes in the streets. The schools vill not open until the directors are satisfied hat everything is safe. An exploring party entered the mine to-day vith safety lamps, to make an investigation as 0 the other parts of the coal catacombs, teal estate in the ward has received a black ye. Thus far 110 gas has made its appearance hrough the cracks. The property owners are .bout entering suits against the Delaware and 1 udson Company for damages. The legislaure will also be appealed to to pass a law .gainst the excessive robbing of pillars. It is impossible to determine the exact mount of damage done, but the lowest estinate places it at $.'50,000, though others delare that twice that sum will not cover the otal cost of repairing and rebuilding all the ?roperty damaged. THE 0PEL1KA1)ISTUR8ANCE. Mention was made in these columns three reeks ago of serious disturbances in Opelika, Uabama, growing out of dissatisfaction with he last municpal election for that town. The legislature interfered and passed an Act speially applicable to the situation, vacating he city charter, which it was thought would estore harmony; but from the following dislatches from Montgomery, it would seem hat on Wednesday of last week the trouble ras renewed, requiring vigorous measures for ts suppression: On Wednesday evening the marshal apminted by the commissioners, who constitute he municipal authorities of Opelika, attemped to arrest a man who was violating the own law. The arrest was resisted, and ex.layor Dunbar and his followers went to his escue. The marshal summoned a posse of itizens, and the deputy sheritf was ordered 0 support the marshal with what other help ie could summon. An attempt to arrest the {fenders was futile from the want of snttiient force and arms. The number of the ioters is not known exactly because some of 5- . 1 ..H i: rm I neill are 111 il uuuuiiig. iiic men mc cuiiigu | vith shotguns and pistols and entrenched in heir houses of business. The president of lie commissioners telegraphed here: "We lave not sutlicient men and arms to overpow-1 r the rioters. The attempt to do so would ' esult in defeat and bloodshed." Shooting in the streets in all directions is :ept up continually and make it exceedingly angerous for any one to be in the streets. i.11 armed mob has taken the town. The heriff is too sick to leave his room. IIis [ nincipal deputy, (lordon, is present. About 1U o'clock to-day the (inventor or- ' ered the Montgomery (ireys to be ready to i tart at a moment's notice. They got to-! ether in a hurry, and the Western Railroad ! ...1 .. ir iii fliii'tu mimifiisi . At. ' <IU (V V1UIU ill will, v; -,?W bout 1.30 1\ M. they started, and arrived beore 3 o'clock. The Governor received a telegram from .'ol. T. J. Jones a little before 3 o'clock anouncing the safe arrival of the Greys at Opeika. lie found all quiet. The Governor j elcgraphed him to execute the law and serve recess to-night if necessary. At 2.45 A. M. , /'ol. Jones telegraphed that after consultation nth l'inckard they had decided to arrest the , inters to-night, and that Col. Gee, the solici-. or, was then preparing the alliidavits. The , rovernor answered: "Spare no pains to execute j he law night or day and permit no rioter to ! o escape." Dunbar is the old mayor whose < Dice was vacated by the Act of the Legisla-1 ure vacating the town charter and appoint;ig a commission of five citizens. Dunbar and f is crowd refuse to recognize the commission ! nd resist its authority. As the State Cegis-I lnture created the commission the Governor I will see that the acts of tlie commission are sustained at all hazards. A later . dispatch of the same date .says : Dunbar and others were arrested"before daybreak, and are now out under bonds. Dunbar defied the marshal and his posse yester- . day, but is very submissive now and offers to assist in getting the rioters arrested. At j noon to-day everything was quiet. It is feared that if the military leave to-night there will be serious trouble. Over one thousand shots were fired last night, but 110 one was .. hurt. The firing was not at persons, but was 1 due to general lawlessness of the mob, Gen. O'Neal has requested the judge of the Cir cuit Court to hold a social term to try the lawbreakers. The solicitor went with the , military last night and prepared the affidavits on which warrants were issued. SOUTH OAKOLTNA NEWS. ? The Supreme Court concluded the work of the term last Tuesday and adjourned. ? A valuable deposit of mica has been dis- 1 covered near Greenville. ? Some of the foreigners at Canulen have been begging around the streets, although they : are well dressed and in good health. ? The Chester Bulletin reports quite a number of persons emigrating from that county to Western .States. 1 ? S. 1'. Wilson, ot Anderson, Kinea me om- ; er day a hawk in his yard that measured fifty- , two inches from tip to tip. ( ? J. L. Irby, who is charged with a murder committed in Laurens, in 1S7S, and who tied , from the State, has returned and surrendered ( himself to the Sheriff oL Laurens county. ? Among the nominations sent by President Arthur to the U. S. Senate last Monday, was that of June Mobley, colored, to be postmaster at Union C. II. ? In the prompt payment of taxes Chester hikes her stand in the front rank. There will be no sales of land iff that-comity this year for any default of taxes. ? Some of the farmers of Chester county are losing their horses from disease, caused, they think, from eating corn damaged by the great freshets in September. ? Mr. Felix Lake, who found some valuable nuggets of gold on his farm in Edgefield county, not long since, has been offered several thousand dollars for his prospects. ? The gin and press of Mr. Lambford, who lives in Spartanburg county, near Green Pond, were destroyed by fire the other day. Twelve bales of cotton were also consumed. ? There were 11)4 decisions filed in the Supreme Court of South Carolina during the year 1882, which leads the Newberry Jlerald to say : "It seems to us impossible for three men to give these decisions the exhaustive study that they deserve. The Court should be increased by the addition of at least one judge.'' ? A petition to the county commissioners of Spartanburg county, is being signed in Spartanburg, asking thera not to issue the bonds voted to the Greenwood, Laurens and Spartanburg Railroad, until it is certainly known whether the Virginia Midland Road will ex tend its line to Spartanburg. ? The Circuit Court at Pickens was adjourned on the 24th, on account of the sudden illness of Judge "Wallace, who returned to his home in Union on the following day. The opening of the Court at Abbeville will be postponed a week on account of Judge Wallace's illness. ? Columbia lteyistcr: Fritz Husemann succeeded in opening the safe in the Master's ollice in forty-five minutes. The combination was known only to the late Master, and his untimely death prevented him from communicating it. It therefore became necessary to call in the services of an expert to open it. The safe was one of Mosler, Bahmann & Co/s fire and burglar proof. ?--Rock Hill Jlemld: On the 12th instant an attempt was made to bhrn an old ginhouse l>elonging to Messrs. Allen and Iredell Jones, located a few miles from town 011 the "Clawson place." The "building was filled with corn, wheat and some cotton and when discovered the fire had made some headway, but fortunately its progress was checked. It was the. work of an incendiary who may yet be captured. ? Col. Baylis E. Elkin, of Fairfield county, died on last Sunday. lie served through the whole war as field commissary of a regiment of cavalry. lie was a member of the State Legislature in the House organized under Andy Johnson's reconstruction plans ; the president of the Tax Union in Fairfield county ; a delegate to the State Convention in 187(1 ; a member of the county Democratic executive committee, and always a good citizen and true man. ? At the recent meeting of the Grand Lodge I. O. 0. F., at Graniteyille, It. B. Hanuahau, of Winnsboro, was elected Grand Master ; II. F. Williams, of Greenville, Deputy Grand Master ; G. B. McCants, of Winnsboro, Grand Warden ; J. W. Itothrock, of Chester, Grand Secretary ; John Ilieseman, of Charleston, Grand Treasurer ; George W. Curtis, of Chester, Grand Representative. The following officers were appointed by the Grand Master : John F. Douglas, of Chester, Grand Marshal; Edw. M. Evans, of Chester, Grand Guardian, L. Philips, of Florence, Grand Conductor. John F. Douglas was appointed DistrictDeputy Grand Master for Chester District. The ' next session will be held in Greenville on the second Wednesday in May, 18S4. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? ueo. H. owepsuu is suuermg iruui [famui paralysis of the left side. ? Gen. Jos. E. Johnston was in Charlotte. Monday, on a business visit. ? The Randleman Manufacturing Company, in Randolph county, recently sold a Charlotte firm fifty thousand dollars worth of plaids, the amount of goods being one thousand bales. ? A colored man died suddenly in Goldsboro on Saturday from the eifects of having eaten a quart of oysters and taken a quantity of whisky to settle them: *' ? Charlotte Observer, Tuesday : The Steel Creek settlement, this county, has been exercised the past few days over the unaccountable disappearance of three men of that township, all of whom left families behind them, besides a lot of unpaid debts. Messrs. E. M. Crowell, Samuel Crowell and Anderson Brown are the men and they all left last week without giving a word of warning or stating their intentions. The first named wrote a letter home from Pulaski, Florida, but since then nothing is known of his movements. The other two men have not been heard from at all. All three were most respectably connected, and were in good standing with their fellowmen. What motive they could have had for thus decamping is not known. Their wives and families are in great distress about them, and in the meantime their property has been levied upon to secure their debts. Tiie Pout Romance.?The Marion Merchant and Farmer publishes the following as the sequel to the Marion county elopement case, the parties to which were discovered in .I inmitti iirrn after an absence I or eight or nine years; The heart of poor : John G. Smith, Jr., was gladdened on Wednesday by the arrival of his two sons about 14 o:: 15 years of age, fine hearty looking Georgia boys. From Smith's account of the elope- '< meat and other facts connected with the case, 1 it turns out that the most of Port's state- 1 ment is a fancy sketch. Port's wife whom he deserted, died not many months since. The statement about Smith's beating and abusing < his wife is also contradicted by a number of i reliable witnesses. Smith did not find out the 1 whereabouts of Port and his runaway wife un- < til about three weeks since, when he at once I took legal proceedings, the only object of 1 which was to secure his two boys. On the t conditions of their return and the return of i the money taken, Smith drops the proceedings ' against Port, who will be left to enjoy his 1 stolen wife, unlesb the local authorities where 1 he is interfere with him, 1 ft LOCAL AFFAIRS, I' ^ . S NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. \ T. Beattv Williams,. Judge of Probate?Cita- Lf lion? Joseph F. Wallace, Pis., Ap- J plieant?Thomas Bnliu, Sr., deceased. John J. ("boat?Publicr Sale. 1 W. C. Latimer?BigTumble in Winter Goods. c C*hirk Brothers?.Just Received. C T. M. Dobson?Gentlemen, Right This Way. Ii. W. Hope?Fertilizers?White Russian Gats. , F. I lapperlield? Family Groceries. Remember.!. M.*Adams. c Annie Feruusou?Attention ! Ladies. I Colcock, Miller A Co. ?This Means Business. ,s M. Strauss?Try, and Try Attain. t J. A. McLean, Judge of-Probate?Citation?Jos. s F. Wallace, C. ('. C. Pis., Applicant?Sain- J uel Barber, deceased. r J. A. McLean, Judge of Probate?Citation?An- J drew J. Gofortli, Applicant?Reuben Go- I forth, deceased. JUDGE OF PROBATE. ,J. Beatty Williams, Esq., lias been duly s commissioned Judge of Probate of York g county. J COTTON SHIPMENTS. J The cotton shipments from this place since September 1st to last Monday, 2'Jth ultimo, i amount to 5,4*21 bales. t UNITED STATES JURORS. j In the United States Circuit Court at t Charleston, last Monday, Hon. George 8. Bryan presiding, the grand and petit jurors were < drawn for the April term of the Court, which : convenes in Charleston on the first Monday of ^ April next. Among the petit jurors drawn ' are J. M. Ivy and W..L. Robertson, of York j county. t WINNSBORO NEWS AND HERALD. R. Means Davis, Esq., has withdrawn from the editorship of the Winnsboro News and Herald, and is succeeded by Mr. Charles A. ( Douglas, as a partner of John S. Reynolds, 1 Esq., who has been associate editor of the pa- ( per for the past eight years. The present management express the determination to make < the News and Herald more than ever accepta- 1 ble to its readers?a promise which the editors < have the ability to fulfill. 1 THE DESERTED WIFE. 1 The Gastonia Gazette gives the name of the i deserted wife, whose arrival in Charlotte was ' noted last week, as Mrs. Adams, the wife of * ( Henry Adams, of Caldwell county, X. C. The ( Gazette gives her maiden name as Sully, and ( says her parents live near Yorkville. "We have < made inquiry of several persons, but none 1 recognize the name in this part of the county. 1 The woman has two young children?the j yougest an infant; and her husband deserted , her, eloping with another woman. i COMPLIMENTARY HOP. ( Mr. .T. D. Colcock returned last week with ^ his Georgia bride, their nuptials having already , been noted in our Ilymenial department. Mr. Colcock is extensively known from Boston to 1 Alabama as a popular and successful salesman, as in Yorkville and surrounding country he is 1 also known as a popular and enterprising merchant. The happy couple have the best wish- ; es of a large circle of friends. A hop compli- ] mentary to the bridal pair will be given in the old Masonic Hall to-morrow evening. A HOUSE ON WHEELS. I An unusual sight was to be seen on Main street last Monday evening, it being a house mounted on wheels and drawn by mules. ( Messrs. Ilunter & Oates desired to move a one , story wooden house from the lot on which they ! are building their new store, and under the 1 supervision of Sheriff Glenn, the work was successfully done, by mounting it on a truck ' arranged for the purpose, and hitching to it a team of five mules. In less than an hour after ( all was ready, the house was drawn from its location, near the Presbyterian church, to Mr. Oates' lot. on Main street?a distance of ] mile. Thus has disappeared from one of the streets another old landmark, this house having been built about the year 18117, by the late Thomas Palmer, and used by him for a number of years as a shoe shop. PERSONAL MENTION. The connection of Col. W. J. Houston with the Richmond & Danville Railroad ceases tolay. Col. Houston has been connected with the Air-Line Railroad ever since its completion, he having been retained on that division by the Richmond A Danville combination, and from his long connection with the road had become to be regarded as a permanent fixture of that important railway line. In the various positions of responsibility and trust which he occupied Col. Houston performed his duties with satisfaction to his company and the public, and in retiring from that service, he will have the well wishes of a large number of friends. AVe were pleased to meet our whilom townsman J. S. It. Thomson-, of Spartanburg, who with his family paid a short visit to relatives here, returning home last Monday evening. CHURCH NOTICES. Itev. J. IT. Edwards, of Hock Hill, will i preach at Union (Baptist) Church in the forenoon next Sunday, and in the Baptist Church in Yorkville at 3.30 o'clock P. M. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. R. P. Franks, , Pastor. Services at Philadelphia Church in the forenoon, and in the church at Yorkville < at night. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. , Lathan, Pastor. Services at 1(B A. M. Sun- . day-school immediately after the close of ser- ( vices. i Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. Services as the usual hours. Morning and evening. J Episcopal?Rev. A. Prentiss?Services in ! the Church of Our Saviour, Rock Hill, in the forenoon; in the Church of the Good Shep herd, Yorkville, at night. < THE SINKING OF THE CIMBRIA. j The survivors of the Cmbria describe the 1 ? i 4. moment 01 ner sinning <i? <i mnuic unc. xnc air was filled with the cries of drowning lmn- < dreds, who remained floating a short time ; until benumbed by the icy water. Iti a few < minutes all was over. ; The scenes on, board the ill-fated steamship < after the collision defy description. The pas- \ sengers, many of whom were women and cliil- j dren, woke up suddenly and rushed on deck | hither and thither, screaming witli terror, j First one boat was lowered and then another, f There were eight hoats, but the ship sank so ( rapidly on the starboard side that many peo- < pie fell into the water. The four boats on the j port side were quickly filled with people, but ' could not be lowered on account of the angle ; at which the ship lay. The four on the star- f board side safely reached the water, but boat | ^ Xo. 5 capsized, and those in it struggled for a i short time and then sank. Boat Xo. 7, under j command of the second officer, with twenty- t eight persons and another boat with eleven * persons got away safely, and after drifting 11 near twelve hours were picked up near Cux- si haven. . 11 A third boat with seventeen persons was; t rescued by the bark Uiumant, bound from ; t New York to Bremen. These were sill that si were saved. Among them Mr. 13. E. Lorenz, of Frankfort, oi.e of the rescued, gave a long c account of the terrible scenes he witnessed. ! 1 Though the officers did their duty nobly, they j r were unable to maintain order. Men, women j si and children were mad with fear. Those who 1 e had secured plsices had a violent struggle to 1 keep the bosit from being swamped. The six j i Indians were driven away by some sailors by (t axe blows on their hands. Capt. Hansen stood j s till the last moment on the bridge, but could have no control over the five hundred terror- j r stricken human beings beneath him. 11 Men, women and children?whose families? 11 slung together in despair. One young mar-'t ried couple preferred to meet death quickly , t by cutting each other's veins. The ship's t loctor, Herr Feige, some of the stewards and i t the stewardess and some officers distributed j t iife saving belts to the last moment, but 11 those thus provided were not benefitted, for | c nost of them died from the severe cold, j t The survivors who escaped in boats say that a ,vhen they rowed away the water was covered r vith bodies kept up with life belts. Only a 11 'ew were alive when the boats left, and of o These officials attenueci me commutes s ueeting last Friday morning and endeavored 0 explain the state of affairs in the census >ureau, but their statement only confirmed he opinion of the committee that the work of ' he census was in such a state of confusion hat Congress would not be warranted at this : ime in granting a greater amount than is j larely sufficient to keep the bureau running. t is not unlikely that this action of the comaittee will be followed by a bill providing for he early termination of the work of collating ,nd publishing within limits considerably narower than as now contemplated by the scienific gentlemen who have charge of the details . 1 the work. j hese as many were taken in the boats as poss-1 ible. Scarcely fifteen minutes elapsed after the :ollision until the vessel sank. The screams j, if the drowning could be heard a long dis- j ance away, and must, they say, have been j leard by the people on board the Sultan. No : icmplaint has been made against the (lhnbria's'\, new, although of the saved twenty-two be- j ong to this class. Capt. Hansan stood on he bridge till the ship sank. The first ofii- , :er, Karlowa, worked for the benefit of the iassenger8 to the last moment. Second officer , jpruthzen with an axe was cutting off woodvork for rafts for the passengers while the , ihip was going under water, and after sink-!, ng he was picked up by one of the lioats. j < rhe third and fourth officers were also picked ip out of the water. Only three women are among the saved and I wen these had to lie dragged into the boats , iy force, so great was the terror and confulion. Many families of five or six persons lank together. One thing certain, however, , vas that there never was the slightest chance , if saving a third of the people on board by neans of the boats, even had all been launchid, and great and presumably just as is the ndignation against the captain of the Sultan, here will doubless be a searching inquiry iuitituted as to the duty of the steamship com>any in providing sufficient facilities for es:ape for every passenger on board. The fimbria has sunk in nearly ninety feet >f water. She stands upright, ller top yards ire just visible at high tide. The Frankfurter Journal says the officers of lie steamer Sultan have been placed in jail, die steamer Sultan ha3 been seized by the iolice. Iler captain asserts that he waited at he scene of the disaster twelve hours after be collision. LAST OF THE KUKLUX LAWS. One by one nearly every provision of the sojalled civil rights legislation of Congress has 'alien to the ground. The ostensible design )f the legislation was to enforce the amenduent of the constitution in behalf of thefreednen of the South ; but its partisan object was n mil firm the nnwer nf t he carnet-baer croveril nent and put the voters more completely unler the control of the adventurers who made .hem the basis of a desperate political rule. Since the passage of the Civil Rights laws ;he Supreme Court has made numerous decisions declaring them invalid as invasions of the luthority of the State governments. In August last the Record reviewed at length the decision of Judge Barr, of the United States Circuit Court in Kentucky, dismissing the case of Belle Smoot against the Kentucky Central Railroad, for damages for ejectment from a train. The Court held that as Kentucky had passed no law abridging the civil rights guaranteed by the amendments to the Constitution, the case was one for civil damages in the State Courts and that the Federal Courts, therefore, had no jurisdiction. The decision just delivered by the Supreme Court of the United States inacase involving the validity of a provision of the Kuklux law of 1871 enforces this doctrine and repels the pretension that the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution gxtendsthe criminal jurisdiction of the Federal Courts over cases that are cognizable by the State Courts. An indictment was found in the United States Court in Tennessee against Harris and others, for attacking, wounding and beating four colored persons when in custody of a deputy sheriff. The indictment charged the defendants with conspiracy under a provision of the Kuklux laws which makes the offense punishable by fine from $300 to $3,000 and imprisonment from six months to six years. In Pennsylvania or any other northern State such a Case 11 1 ? .1 ;i.? 4.t.? COU1U 1101 UilVtJ 1UUIHI IIS ?Vivy tu tnc xcuciai courts ; but in Tennessee it was considered a good case for prosecution under the Kuxlux law. On the trial the judges of the Circuit Court in Tennessee could not agree concerning the constitutionality of the law, and the question was certified to the Supreme Court for decision. In delivering the nearly unanimous opinion of the Supreme Court .Justice Woods holds that the amendment to the Constitution under which the law of Congress in question was passed in design to operate upon the States and prevent them from abridging the rights and privileges of citizens of the United States. Tennessee had made and enforced no laws depriving citizens of the rights of person and property, and therefore this was not a case for the interference of the Federal Courts to enforce the amendments to the Constitution. The Fourteenth Amendment was designed to compel the States to respect the rights which belong to the American citizen, and only when the States fail in their constitutional obligations in this respect can the power of the General Government be invoked for his protection. It is the province of the State authorities to stamp out such acts of violence as are involved in this case and to punish them, and if the Federal Courts can interfere here under a strained interpretation of the Constitution their jurisdiction can be stretched over theft, burglary, arson and all the other crimes in the catalogue. This is the sound doctrine of State rights which the Republican Justices of the Supreme Court lay down. It not only sweeps away the whole body of Kuklux laws which have been ruthlessly enforced by Federal Judges in portions of the country, but it calls a halt in the march toward the centralization of power in the General Government. This legislation, no longer potent for mischief, stands on the statute book as a monument of the partisan fury that succeeded the civil war. While it afforded no protection to the rights of the freedmen, it served to confound the ancient landmarks which separate the power of Federal and State Governments. What partisan majorities in Congress have refused to do in abrogating this unconstitutional legislation has been effected by the judgment of the highest court.?Philadelphia Record. The Winter Wheat Crop Prospects.? Though it is too early in the new year to form an opinion of the Northwestern grain crops it is gratifying to note the favorable condition of the Winter wheat. It is well known that the yield of Winter wheat depends very much on the permanence of its snow covering during the intensely cold weather, as without such protection its roots are injured. Py the middle of December the Northwestern Winter wheat was generally covered by snow, which the St. Paul Press, of the 11th ultimo, reported had fallen to the depth of ten inches over a large area. The mild weather in the third week in December carried off some of this snow and exposed the soil to Diting onzzarus. oin on | the 21st of tliiit month snow again prevailed j in the Northwest, and this fall and the subse-1 juent falls have not been snbjected to temperatures high enough tc melt them. The heavy mow storm of last Tuesday and "Wednesday ilso added to the thickness of the covering jver a large area of country west and South of the lakes, and a Chicago dispatch of the 17th instant reports that "'wheat is in a line condition, and the snow adds greatly to its security md promise.1' Kansas appears to be the only state in which the snowfall has been so defi-1 dent as to leave the growing wheat unprotected, but the fall of Tuesday last in the eastern lart of the State may relieve the situation, the present prospects for this important crop ire, therefore, good, and there is no reason to 'ear that the future developments of the season j vi 11 mar them.?Xar York Herald. ?. Contusion in tiik Census.?The Senate ippropriation committee has agreed to report i joint resolution appropriating $200,000 to :ontinue the work of the census with an iniendment reducing the amount to $100,000. The original amount was made up of $100,000 o continue the work of the census during lie current fiscal year and the remainder to be ipplied to next year's work. The committee have found the work of the :ensus in such an unsatisfactory condition, lowever, that they are unwilling to recomnend the appropriation of any considerable !1 anount without the assurance that the mon-1 iy will not lie wasted, and this assurance they j, lave thus far failed to obtain, notwithstand-1 ng the fact that they have had before them 1 wice the secretary of the interior and acting ! uperintendent of the census Richards. j j CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY. In the Senate on the 23rd, Mr. Garland introduced a bill to ^encourage the holding of a Cotton Exposition in 1884. The bill provides that an exposition shall be held at a time and place to be designated by the Executive Committee of the National Cotton Growers'? Association, under the management of a board of thirteen persons, to be appointed by the President, on the recommendation of the association and subscribers to the .expenses of the exposition, who are to co-operate with the board of commissioners, consisting of..one from each State and Territory, to be appointed by the President, on the recommendation of the Governor of the State or Territory. The title of the exhibition is to be "The World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition." The entire session was devoted to discussion of the tariff bill?the iron ore amendment being under consideration. In the House, a resolution was reported from the committee on elections, directing a Bpecial committee to proeeed to the Fourth Congressional district of Alabama and take evidence in. matters of the pending contest from that district. The resolution was ordered printed and went over as unfinished business. Mr. Atherton, of Ohio, from the same committee, obtained leave to file a minority report. The committee on naval affairs rereiiorted the bill to place Rol>ert S. Small, of South Carolina, on the retired list of the navy, with rank of captain. Printed and ro-committed. The House at 11.30 went into com mittee of the whole on the naval appropriation bill. In the Senate on the 24th, the tariff bill was discussed during the entire session. Several amendments were sulopted slightly reducing the duties on steel .in various crude forms and on steel railway bars. In the House, the naval appropriation bill occupied the entire session. In the Senate on the 25th, the day having been set apart for services in honor of the late Senator Ilill, of Georgia, after the adoption of appropriate resolutions, eulogistic addresses were delivered by Senators Brown, Edmunds, Vest and others. The House was occupied with the naval appropriation bill. In the Senate on the 26th, after the close of the morning business, the tariff bill was taken up and occupied the remainder of thejiession. In the House, other business was dispensed with, and the tariff bill was discussed in committee of the whole. In the Senate on the 27th, after the presentation of credentials of newly elected Senators, the tariff bill was taken up, and its consideration occupied the remainder of the day. The House was also occupied with the ? tariff bill. * MERE-MENTION. .i Governor Butler, of Massachusetts, proposes to settle the woman suffrage question in that State by submitting it to a vote of the women themselves.- Dore, the French painter, and Flotow, the -German composer, ~ * >* 4 ^ Wm are ueaa. rue oionewun jucksoii a??oci- -? ation of New England, has vote<l to send 11 delegates to the unveiling of the statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee at Lynchburg, VaM in June. Queen Victoria is a large real estate owner in New York. An advance in rents by her agents has changed the tenants in a large block in Broadway, near Eighteenth street. Lieut. Flipper, the colored officer ^ who joined the Mexican army after his dis- v charge from that of the United States, has m been promoted to a brigadier. At a sale of old coins and paper money in New York the other day, a North Carolina ten-shilling note of 1740 brought $11.50. If published reports are true, Gov. Blackburn, of Kentncky, has probably done more pardoning than any executive in the history of the country. During his administration, he has pardoned more than 1,500 criminals and remitted more than $2,(XX) of fines. Gen. Francis A. Walker has arrived in Washington, and will proceed to complete the census. A Nashville dispatch says that the accountant has found the defalcation of Folk, late State Treasurer of Tennessee, to be 8292,427.25. Polk's bail was Ag fixed at 8100,000, instead of 810,000 as erro- " neously reported. Baltimore has over four hundred cases of small-pox, but the disease is said to be under control. From statements of passengers on board the Vimbriuj it would seem that the Captain of that vessel was at fault for the collision which resulted in the sinking of his ship and the drowning of 300 of its passengers. Pope Leo has appointed to the vacant See of Charleston, S. C., in succession to the late Bishop Lynch, Mgr. Northrop. The disaster record for 1883 is a frightful one already. Eight hundred lives have been lost by live of them, and property valued at $2,500,000 destroyed Princess Louise sailed from Charleston for Bermuda last Friday morning. Thos. M. Bowen and II. A. W. Taber have been elected United States Senators from Colorado. Twentyone prisoners have been arraigned in the police court at Dublin, charged with various degrees of crime against the government, including conspiracy and the Phoenix Park assassination. At the meeting of the directors of the Richmond & Danville Railroad Company on the 27th ultimo, there was no election of a General Manager. Col. Talcotfc, the former General Manager, who has the power to hold over till an election, has since resigned. INTERMARRIAGE OF THE RACES.?In the United States Supreme Court, on the 24th ultimo, in the case of Jno. C. Tinsley, plaintiff in error, against the Commonwealth of Virginia, on motion of Mr. F. S. Blair, the attorney-general of Virginia, the appeal w.is dismissed with cost pursuant to the Kith rule. Tinslev. the nlarintiff in error in this case. who is a colored man. was tried and convicted in one of the State Courts of Virginia for marrying a white woman contrary to the law of that State which prohibits the intermarriage of white and black persons. He brought the case upon a writ of error with the intention of testing the constitutionality of the Virginia law, but when the case was called this afternoon he virtually allowed it to against him by default, having taken no steps to prosecute the appeal. An explanation of his apparent negligence may perhaps be found in the fact that the Court has now under consideration a case from Alabama which involves precisely the same question, namely, the constitutionality of State laws prohibiting miscegeneration. ? The Alabama case is entitled Toney Pace and auother against the State of Alabama and also arises out of the living together of a negro and a white woman. Tinsley, the plaintiff in error in the case dismissed this afternoon, probably thought it unnecessary to go the expense of employing counsel to prosecute his appeal when the principal at issue would shortly be decided in the case already befor the court. In the Alabama case above referred to, the Supreme Court rendered a decision last Monday. The court holds that the law of Alabama prohibiting miscegeneration is not in conflict with the 14th amendment to the constitution or with the civil rights legislation founded on it, for the reason that it applies the same punishment to both offenders, white and black, without discrimination. Jfhtaiteul anb Commercial. YORK VILLE, January 31.?Cotton 71 to 9.30. CHARLESTON, January 29.?Cotton lirm; middling, 10. LIVERPOOL, January 29.?Cotton quiet; uplands 5 11-Hid. NEW YORK, January. 29.?Cotton dull; uplands, I0 3-U). Futures steady: January 10.14; February 10.14; Murch 10.27; April 10.41; May 10.56; June 10.70. Comparative Cotton .Statement. New York, January 20.?The following is the comparative cotton statement for the week ending January 20 : 1888. 1882. Receipts at all ports for the week, 135,101 SI,189 t Total receipts to this date 4,152,585 3,043,112 Exports for week 155,856 95,701 Total exports to date, 2,710,084 1,887,170 Stock at all U.S. ports 880,389 1,149,060 Stock at all interior towns 174,619 192,203 Stock at Liverpool 821,000 631,000 American for (ireat Britain 289,000 208,000 The Cotton Supply. The total visihlesupplyof cotton for the world last Saturday was 3,184,436 bales, of which 2,570,136 bales was" Americar-.,against 3,096,812 bales and 2,582,436 bales respectively last year. The receipts of cotton at all interior towns are 75,436 bales. The receipts from plantations 110,162 bales. The crop in sight, 5,025,977 bales. Liverpool Cotton Market. Last week's circular of the Liverpool Cotton Broker's Association says : The demand for cot- 4 Ion increased and prices hardened with a large business. Though the supply was abundant the Hnotations closed at an advance. American was in ex tensive demand and advanced 1-ldd and id.