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jitoajjs and 4fatts. ? The constitutionality of the law providing whipping for wife beaters having been affirmed by the Supreme Court, of Maryland, legal whipping nas been revived there for tnenrst time since 1819. The first victim received seven stripes "well laid on" on Monday. The prejudice against this form of punishment is disappearing fast. ? A horrible case of death from destitution near Wilkesbarre, Pa., was revealed last Thursday by the Ladies' Aid Society. A man named Leonard and his son were found dead in bed, his wife dying and two young children in the last stages of starvation. Relief was given. There is considerable excitement over the discovery. ? As an illustration of the great value of r* i /in i?f*I Ktr .*urcis wiai nit* auuicuuicn cauicu juuj;es, a Boston paper states that if a man could have known on Tuesday what the decision of Judge Lowell, in the Bell telephone case was to be, he could have put out $1,000 on "margins," and have cleared $28,000 within twenty-four hours. ? The business failures for the week ending last Friday, as reported to the mercantile agency of R. G. Dun & Co. number 00"), an increase of 31 over last week. The New England States have 41, the Middle States 39, the Western States 92, the Southern States 79, the Pacific Coast and Territories 10, Canada 35?and New York City 10. ? A woman who has been in the Georgia penitentiary 18 years on a life sentence is to be released by Gov. Aleck Stephens. He would pardon her if he knew what to pardon, but the fact is that nobody knows what she is there for. There is no record of her misdeeds on the prison register, and the woman herself does not know why she is imprisoned. ? Senator Blair's bill for assisting public education in the South does not create a permanent school fund, but proposes to expend for the first year $15,000,000, to be distributed on the basis of illiteracy; for the second year, $14,000,000, and $1,000,000 less each year for ten years, when the distribution ceases. In ten years the expenditure would reach $105,000,000. ? Eight of the men recently arrested in Dublin for the Phoenix Park murders were charged on Saturday with the murder of Cavendish and Burke. They were identified and a gun and two knives which were found in a house recently vacatecroy one 01 the accused parties was presented as evidence against them. The plot is unfolding more clearly every day, and the assassins are already under the shadow of the gallows. ? Michael S. Considine, of Philadelphia, is fined, imprisoned and disfranchised for four years for betting on last fall's election and then acting as inspector on election day. He was unwise enough to sue the stakeholder, as the bet was disputed, after the court said that under the law the money must go to the poor. The committee of one hundred picked Michael up on the criminal charge. ? Nearly 11,000 tons of newspapers and periodicals passed through the New York office last year to news agencies and regular subscribers. The receipts from this mass of mail matter amounted to $439,802.88, which is 27 per cent of the entire amount collected on mail of a similar class received by all the post offices in the United States. The New York post office receives an average of 35 tons of newspaper and periodical mail every day. ? More than 26,000 English soldiers were stationed in Ireland in 1881, or an army as large as that of the United States, in a territory two-thirds the size of Pennsylvania. There was a soldier for every 200 inhabitants in Ireland, one for every 400 in England and Wales. The regular army of Great Britain comprised, in 1881, 188,798 men of all arms, one-half of whom were on foreign service, and of the remainder more than one-fourth were stationed in Ireland. ? A French merchant in the City of Mexico has been authorized by the Mexican government to organize a company with a capital of $4,000,000 to bring to the Mexican Republic twenty French colonies, aggregating 500 families each. The Government grants land for the cost of surveying. Each family will pay the company in ten years $7(M) *? i 1 . Uir mull, iiiipifjiit*inn ituu uiitic, ui wiiiv.il amount $350 will go to the government. The company is to deposit 50,000 as a guarantee. ?On last Friday night another great snow storm, accompanied by extreme cold, prevailed all over the Northwest, and as far south as Kansas. In Kansas the small streams were frozen solid to the bottom. A Cheyenne dispatch of same date says.the Wyoming cattle range was covered with snow from one to three feet deep, and serious apprehensions were felt that many cattle would be starved to death. Overland travelers were furnished with provisions in anticipation of a railroad blockade. ? Young Cobb, who shot and mortally wounded Sheriff Shenneman, some daysago, near Winfield, Kansas, was taken out of the jail in that town last Thursday morning by a party of masked men and hanged to the railroad bridge on the outskirts of town. On the previous evening he confessed to Mrs. Shennenian, the widow of the dead sherifF, that he was Charles Cobb and gave her his revolver. Subsequently he stated to SherifF Mclntyre that he had been influenced by the reading of the exploits of jessc Jiuiifs una uuier uesptrruuues. ? The New York Tribune has the following gossip about a former resident of South Carolina: Governor Daniel H. Chamberlain, the well known ex-Governor of South Carolina, and since a brilliant member of the New York Bar, who has been abroad for some time past for his health, finds it now practically restored. Dr. Brown-Sequard advises him that, so far sis medicines go, he is cured, and that all that is further needed is rest. Governor Chamberlain is now in Rome, and, with Mrs. Chamberlain will sail for home on the Servia toward the close of April. ? The gradual emancipation of slaves in Brazil has not only permitted the country to prepare itself for the adoption of free labor, but its influence on immigration has also been most marked. From 1804 to 1872 the average yearly number of immigrants was under 9,000. In 1872 a law was passed in favor of gradual emancipation, and from that date to 1879 the immigrants averaged nearly 23,000 annually?almost three times the average before the enactment. The next two years showed nearly the same results ; but then a notable increase was obenri'ocl anrl from tha let nf .Trtnnnru t/i flip 31st of'December, 1881, 39,784 immigrants landed in Brazil. ?A dispatch from Halifax Court House, Va., dated January 27, says: "Last night James Guthrie, a prosperous young farmer, was married to Miss Hulda Martin. A large company was present at the wedding, which was solemnized at the residence of the bride's father. Owing to bad weather the guests remained at the mansion all night. This morning, when they had assembled at the breakfast table, it was remarked that the bride and groom were late in coming. Suddenly the shrieks of a woman was heard, and the startled guests hastened into the hall, where they met the bride of a night, who cried: "My husband! Oh! my husband!" When she awoke this morning, she found her husband dead by her side. She is almost insane from grief." ? The manager of a well known circus company, recently in St. Louis, is authority for tlie statement that the shows under canvas will probably be obliged to abandon railway transportation and go back to wagon whpelH. and he believes the dav is not far distant when they will. He savs the railroads are not anxious to haul the circuses. They have made a high rate for the i reason that certain circus proprietors are constantly suing the companies for alleged damages caused by accidents and delays. He says the expenses of a circus company i on the roachi few years ago were not one-fifth i of what they are now, while the receipts do not show a proportionate increase. In former years one ring was deemed sufficient, while now a circus to be considered first class must have two or more. Of eouse this innovation adds greatly to the expense. ? Everybody must acknowledge that this has been a very unusual season at home and i abroad. In regard to the United States, it may be descril>ed as "very bad weather for a civilized country." Blizzards and snows at the west: rain, snow, sleet and ice at the east. In the middle States we have had three weeks of as disagreeable days as have been known in any winter for many years. The rivers have risen in Austria, Hungary, Germany and Italy from incessant rains and the sudden melting of the snow, until they have swollen into floods and caused the loss of many lives and of an enormous amount of property, to the impoverishment of thousands of people. In England, as if in mockery, the winter has been altogether different. January has the balniiness of April. Thecrocusanddaffodil are in bloom. The primrose is out on the wayside. The violets are scenting the air with their fragrance, and in southern exposures the jassamine is displaying its yellow flowers. Buds are swelling and bursting upon the earlier leading trees, and it is feared that great damage will be done if the temperature falls and spring frosts are severe. ?0tfevilk #uqtthtr. YORKVIL.L.E. S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 8, 1883. ANOTHER BIO STEAL. J. II. Vincent, the State Treasurer of Alabama, absconded on Monday night of last week, a heavy defaulter to the State, his deficit amounting to $227,000, which, however, is amply secured by good bondsmen. It is developed that the money has been taken in the last two years, and nearly all before November last. Vincent, according to a statement made by witnesses befoVe the committee, lost over $100,000 in cotton through one house, Fred. Wolffe, and some through others. It is surmised that he may have loaned some, although no evidence to that effect has been shown. There has been some talk. latterly, since he bought a nice house, rich furniture, and a carriage and horses. The Governor has taken charge of the keys of the treasury for the present. The default will not interfere with the State's business in the least, nor cause any interruption in the regular payment of warrants. The January interest is all paid. Vincent is known to have been in Nashville on Thursday, and there he told persons that he was on his way to New York. The Governor of Alabama has offered a reward of $5,000 for his capture. ALLEGED BOGUS MEMORIALS. Fifty-seven petitions asking the passage of a bill to extend national aid to common schools were presented in the Senate last week by Messrs. Blair and Mahone?25 by the former and 32 by the latter. The uniformity in signatures to a great majority of these memorials has created some question of their genuineness as representative petitions. In many instances all signatures on the petitions to the number of fifty or a hundred are found to have been written by the same person, with neither cross marks nor memoranda to explain the rather singular fact. A printed caption to which the signatures are attached recites that the signers are "impressed with the danger threatening our republic because of the appalling illiteracy of the voting population as revealed in the last census for the enlightenment of which many of the States are unable to make adequate provisions, and believing it to be the constitutional duty of Congress to provide for the safety of the republic, no less in time of peace than in time of war, and that the enfranchisement of freedmen imposes an obligation upon the government to qualify them for the safe discharge of the duties with which they are charged." They "earnestly pray that" their "representatives in Congress," "will take prompt and efficient measures to avert this danger." In one instance, in the petition purporting to come from Aiken county, South Carolina, the names of three ministers of the gospel are signed to the petition by the same person, and among the Virginia petitions presented by Mr. Malione, the same hand writing, in blue graphite, is found the memorials purporting to come from Lynchburg and Salem, and the counties of Nanseniond and Pittsylvania and Gloucester. The petitions are not dated, and with but one exception, they are from the South. We suppose those from the South emanate mainly from the colored people. RAILROAD^LEGISLATION. Mr. John M. Robinson, of Baltimore, who is represented to be largely interested in railroads in North Carolina, has recently addressed a letter to Col. Wm. Johnston, of Charlotte, deprecating State legislation for the regulation of railroads, in this letter, Mr. Robinson says: "The action of the South Carolina Legislature, find the contemplated action of the North Carolina Legislature has taught me a lesson. I don't think any one with whom I have connection, could be induced to put another dollar in Railroads, either in North Carolina or South Carolina, or in fact anywhere in this country without substantial guarantee, that our rights to property would be protected." This was written presumably to affect the passage of the bill for the regulation of the railroads, now before the Legislature of North Carolina ; but notwithstanding the implied threat of Mr. Robinson, the legislative committee agreed last Monday to report favorably the bill creating three railroad commissioners for that State. With the exception of mere verbal changes the bill is identical with that passed at the last session of the South Carolina Legislature, creatinga railroad commission for this State. This bill we published in full last week. It is difficult to see in what particular this law is oppressive to the railroads. While it steps in to protect the people from a monopoly created and controlled by capital, at the same time it gives.these powerful corporations ample privileges and latitude to conduct their business in a more satisfactory manner to themselves than would be the case if rival lines existed. In fact, the railroad commission, as we understand it, seeks only to be the barrier between the people and monopoly. As such it should prove no detriment to railroad interests, while it will afford that protection to the people to be obtained in no other manner, in the absence of competing transportation lines. As to the effect State legislation will have on the pro posed f ederal eomroi 01 ranroaos, wiuen savors somewhat of centralization, the Atlanta Const it ni ion says : There seems to beno doubt that the establishment of properly constituted State Commissions will practically dispose of the problem of Federal control of railroads. The States may not regulate commerce between States, but, as in the case of Georgia and South Carolina, where they have Railroad Commissions, the question of regulating inter-State commerce resolves itself into a mere matterof rate adjustments. In South Carolina the rates of the South Carolina Commission will apply to a car load of freight. When the car crosses the Georgia line, the rates of the Georgia Commission will apply. If the rates of the two Commissions are adjusted so as to tit each other, the problem is solved, simply and naturally. That if is a proper solution no thoughtful person can doubt. It is a solution that each State can reach for itself, simply by establishing a board of Commissioners, composed of its ablest men. With a properly constituted Hoard in each State, backed by a wise statute, there will be no mow necessity for Federal regulation of railroads than there will be for Federal regulation of freight rates In'tween Georgia and South Carolina. SHERIFF'S FEES. In the Circuit Court of Orangeburg, last week, Judge Cothran made an order which will be interesting to .sheriff"?, if not to some litigants. In the case of J. W. Chi Ids & Co. against Jeffords ?Sr Albergotti, a rule against A. McQueen Salley, Esq., Sheriff ol Orangeburg county, was applied for on acaccount of his failure and refusal to serve a summons to renew execution. The main ground relied upon by Sheriff Salley in lib return may be briefly stated as follows: That he had offered to serve the said summons, provided his fees for such service were paid in advance, or in some way secured ; and further that the sheriff is entitled to hb fees in advance when the parties to be served are insolvent, as was the case in this in' 'I'l... ....... fiilNr r..l I.? Miliur. 1 III* iiniiixi noo 1111 a^v muuv.\i uv Messrs. DeTreville & Clover for Childs A: Co., and by Hon. Samuel Dibble, representing Sheriff Sal ley. At the conclusion of the argument Judge Cothran made the following order: "It api>earing to the Court that the Act oi 1880, approved February 20, 1880, Section 10, repeals Section 330 of the Code in reference to plaintiff's and defendant's costs, as distinguished from attorney's costs, and does not relate to the fees of the sheriff allowed to him for services rendered by him to parties litigant, it is ordered that amotion for a rule be and is refused." This is a question that has involved considerable doubt of late, and the decision oi Judge Cothran will doubtless be received as welcome news by the sheriffs of the State. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The last existing license for retailing liquor in Chester will expire next Saturday. ? There are now lot) cadets on the roll ol the Citadel Academy. ? A younger brother of Mr. A. Koppel, of Newberry, was lost by the Cimbrkt disaster. ? The tirst term of the Circuit Court for the new county of Berkeley is in session this week?Judge Cothran presiding. ? A safe was burglarized in Charleston last Sunday night, and $12,000 worth of diamonds stolen. ? The Rev. J. S. White has been called tc the pastorate of the Rock Hill Presbyterian | Church. j ?Greenville is booming with new* enteri prises?the latest projects being a fruit can! ning factory and a musical conservatory. ? The Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons will hold its annual meeting in Columbia on Tuesday, the l-'ith instant, and al night a supper will be given by the fraternity of the city at the Columbia Hotel. ? Win. P. Snyder, of Pennsylvania, is in Columbia, it is alleged, as one of Attorney General Brewster's assistants, for the purpose of assisting District Attorney Melton in the election trials to come before tin j U. S. District Court at the April term, j ? Meningetis is quite prevalent in Lauj reus and Anderson counties, and physij cians fear that it may become an epidemic. Shouldit do so that entire section would probably suffer. The tive negroes reported to have died in Laurens from eating n i goose bitten by a mad dog, really died o: cerebro-spinal meningetis. ? Capt. F. W. Dawson, of the News anc Courier, left Charleston on Saturday and wil j sail from New York in the Britannic this j week for a tour of rest and recreation abroad ; He expects to pass the spring months chief : ly in the South of Europe and will not re I turn before mid-summer. The best wishes I of a host of friends attend him upon hi) I pleasant journey. i ?Rock Hill Herald: In the accident ai i Thome's Ferry on the Catawba River, 01 | the first day of last November, by which t , colored man named George Hall was drown ed, Mr. S. 1). Carothers accidentally rur J a splinter in one of his hands, and tin : wound has given him great pain ever since developing recently intocaiarrn 01 tne iinnu ; It is in n bud condition of late and lie hie I been suffering intense pain. We trust tluil j he limy be soon rid of his trouble.. j ? At a meeting of the taxpayers ofColumj bia on Wednesday of last week, a resolutior j was carried by a vote of 124 to 02, to levy * tax of one mill upon all real and persona! j property within the corporate limits of the j city of Columbia, for the maintenance of the free schools of that district. This tax will j bring about three or four thousand dollar? i to the city school fund, and isto be devoted ! to reorganizing, and stimulating the school? | according to modern ideas. I ? In the opinion of the comtroller-general, i disabled veterans holding claims upon the j State for artificial limbs had better hold j such claims, as the money to pay them will | be in the treasury in a few months and they | will be settled then in full. Various perj sons are engaged in ascertaining, with a t x.. A I ...Iwv K^l/1 4-Kaoi. I Vll'W LU 1111*11 UlWUlll, \>JUJ 1IU1U tiicm: j claims. They will make a large profit by ; buying them cheap, if the claimants arc | foolish enough to dispose of their papers. | ?The value of the stock of every factory j company in South Carolina except five is ! above par and the stock of these five sells at , par; the stock of one company, Langley, j sells at $173; Graniteville and Vaucleuse, $170; Piedmont, $lo<); Reedy River, Clifton and Camperdownat$12o; Farryvilleand i Pelham, $120; Cedar Shoals and Valley j Falls, $110. The dividends paid, as far as reported, ranged from 10 to 20 per cent., the Cedar Shoals paying the largest percentj age and the Saluda Mills the next highest, i 12i per cent. I ?A meeting of representative men from j Union and Spartanburg counties, in this I State, and Rutherfordton county, N. C., ; was held in GafFney City on the 23rd ult-ij mo, to devise plans for the immediate conj struction of a narrow gauge railroad from j Rutherfordton, X. ('., via GafFney, to Union I C. II. Resolutions looking to the speedy I completion of the proposed road wore j adopted, and the opinion was expressed i that within twelve months the cars would i be running from Rutherfordton to GafFney ! City. ! ? Chester Bulletin, Friday: Mr. James G. | McAlilley, son of the late Hon. Samuel McAliley, died suddenly at the old home* ! stead near town yesterday morning abou-; ! -I o'clock. He got up from bed at the time i mentioned and while dressing fell to the ; floor and expired almost immediately. Hi! ! had for some time been slightly unwell, but j the day before, wasengaged in his usual duties about the farm. It will he remembered that about two months ago he got his right arm badly torn in agin, but had about recovered from this accident. He wasaged about forty years, and leaves a wife and child. ? The Greenville. News reports that dep uty Collector Elisor has recently destroyed in Greenville and Spartanburg counties and in portions of North Carolina, (J,(MM) gallons of mash and beer, and .'100 gallons of low wine. At one point near the North Carolina line his party of revenues was attacked by about a dozen moonshiners, and a sharp fusiladewas maintained for some time, the attacking: party being finally driven off. No one was hurt in the revenue party. Collector Elisor withheld this information from the public for some days, wishing to make his report to the government before allowing it to become known. The expedition was made nearly ten days ago. ? About Id o'clock last Sunday morning, the body of Alfred G. Thomas, the late chairman of the board of county commissioners of Beaufort county, was discovered suspended by the neck with a rope in the water closet attached to the premises he occupied. There is 110 evidence yet to justiI fy any other conclusion than that he com mitted suicide by jumping frona a chair 011 * the top of the seat to the ground which his feet touched. Death no doubt was produced by strangulation. No cause is yet ascertainf ed or assigned for the commission of the deed. Thomas was also clerk of the town council and editor of the Sea Island Xetrx. NORTH CAKOUNA NEWS. ? The Wilmington Mar says there are 290,000 acres of swamp land belonging to the State, between Pamlico Sound and the South Carolina line. ? A bill in the Senate to allow a pension of three dollars a month to Confederate soldiers who had lost an eye, leg, or arm in the war, has been referred to the judiciary committee. ? When the Richmond and Danville syndicate secured the Western North Carolina branch, they contracted to build an extension to Ducktown, and have five hundred , men now at work and nearly fifty miles graded. It is now the intention of the syndicate to extend the brunch from Ducktown to Chattanooga. ? Propositions have been made by A. L. Buford and others controlling the Western North Carolina Railroad, to buy the State's interest in that road for *(i(M),(KM) in North Carolina four per cents ; also by Julius A. Gray and others to buy the State's interest in the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Rail, road. ? A tire in Charlotte last Thursday morning, destroyed the ohfRock Island Woolen Factory building. The building was used as a warehouse and contained a hundred ] bales of cotton, a heavy stook of commercial fertili/.ers and some groceries, all of which were burned. The fire is supposed 1 to have been incendiary. The loss is about $.'15,(MM), mostly insured in Northern and British companies. < ? W. I). Allred, of Handleman, Randolph , county, has invented a railroad switch which ; promises to revolutionize railroading. The ' switch is under the complete control of the engineer, and he can Handle it from his en1 gino at whatever speed it may be running. This is the great desideratum in railroading. Inventors have puzzled their brains for years trying to evolve this problem which youug Allred seems to have graspeo. The model has been hied in the patent office, and application will be made for a patent. ? There are forty thousand square miles : of almost unbroken forest in Xorth Carolina, comprising pine, chestnut, oak, maple, beech and hickory timber in their finest i growth. It is estimated that in ten years ' the timber alone in North Carolina will exceed in value the present total valuation i of all the property in the State, including 1 land. The State grows nineteen varieties of oak, and its pine forests ar? of the heav iest. The building of new railroads will rapidly open this region to the Northern and Eastern lumber markets. I ? The Charlotte Observer of Friday says : I The amount of cotton in the fields yet uni. picked is astonishing. A gentleman of this f place who recently made a trip to Huntersvilie, says that he saw three fields that had I never yet been touched, not a boll having been picked since the cotton opened last fall, i Mr. Turner Barber has one hundred acres . of cotton that has been ready to pick since - last October, but has never been touched. The trouble seems to be a scarcity of picki ers. Farmers have offered as high as ?1 ) per hundred for pickers, but few could be secured at even that high price. Hundreds I; of idle colored people daily lounge around k the city, but they cannot be induced to go to i. the country and do a little work. ? Leopold Whitehead, of New York, a 'x clothing drummer, while seated in one of the coaches of the Richmond and Danville , Railroad, Sunday, noticed that some of his . buttons were gone and got a needle and > thread and began to sew them on. The train t jostled considerably, and, making a dig to hit the button hole, he sent the needle into his thumb. It pierced the bone and broke i off in there. On Whitehead's arrival in . Charlotte, he got into a carriage and drove 1 to a physician's to have the broken needle cut out. No soooner had the doctor began to cut for the needle than his patient fainted 1 dead away, and it was some time before he i revived. The doctor was unsuccessful in his attempt to extract the needle, and found s that it could not be done without cutting off the thumb joint. I Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM UNION. Union, S. C., January 21).?To .see and read the Yorkville ExtitritKK, vividly recalls to memory the dear old soul, who, six | or seven years ago worked so faithfully and earnestly to increase its circulation as he plied his way, each week, when not hindered by the swollen streams between Yorkville and Cross Anchor, via Bullock's Creek, Pinckneyville, Nit. Tabor and this place. lie never failed to greet a friend with the genial smile, and the "good morning" or "evening," as the case might be, which was no natural with him. He always manifested the same kind and accomodating disposition every time he was ap proached, and was noted for his very kind attention to the people along his route. It is said that it was a great pleasure to him to carry packages for his friends from place to place along his route, and I think he once carried, or at least it was said that he carried, a large grindstone from here to a friend a; Mt. Tabor or Pinckneyville, on the faithful "Little Black," which had carried our kind old friend, his master, thirty thouand miles on this route, according to J the last account of the "Little Black's" ' travels. Please inform him through the Knquiukk, if there is no other means of communication, that his many friends in Union hope that he and his horse are yet : living together, and as happy as they ever were, and that they may live for .many years to come. We have had several days of very pretty < weather, which have dried up the mud on i our streets and the public roads, and consequently business is a little more brisk than for some time past. During the time ' since Christmas there has been but little ; business done, save among the peanut von- ; j dors, who, I think, have done a pretty fair ] trade. The farmers will begin work soon, if the J weather remains clear. There has not been \ as much wheat and oats sown this season j as last; but I think a sufficient amount was i planted to make a very fair crop, if the 1 seasons are favorable. ' Dicey Humphries, an old colored woman, j came to town one day last week and took , out an indictment against one Jeff Hum- i phries, an unnatural son, who, some days < before, in a moment of fitful anger, abused 1 his mother unmercifully, sis she alleges, for 1 no reason at all. Mr. T. J. Harris, unfortunately, had sev- i 1 - 1 - ? ni- 1??L< ?V1 * r\4r\ +? f\%\ t ITiU OH ICS III CUllUll Ulliiiuu iu iii.i I'laiiuniwu < a few miles below here, lpst week. The fire 1 is supposed to have originated from a spark 1 from the steam engine. Mr. B. F. Powell, who now lives in this < town, and who formerly lived at Fort Mill, < York county, will soon leave here, I am i informed, for Charlotte, which place he t will make his home for a while at leash i Mi's. John S. Young, of Union, was elect- }. ed one of the Vice-Presidents of the State < organization of the Women's Christian t Temperance Union, which was effected at 1 the State Convention in Charleston, week i before last. The selection is a splendid one, t as she is an earnest and enthusiastic porker r iu the temperance cause. Nkvolo. t LOCAL AFFAIRS. ] NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 0. .1. Gwin, Chairman?Curd of Thanks. L. R. Williams?Administrator's Sale. M. Strauss?Cost, or no Cost. John R. Ashe?To the J-uhlic. W. O. Guy?Bees for S ue. Franklin Davis it Co., Richmond, Va.?Fruit < Trees. Withers Adiekes?Received this Week. J. C. Kuykendal?York Drug Store Paragraphs. . Latta Brothers?Farming Implements, Ac. Look out for J. M. Adams. 1 Hunter A Oates?Great Excitement. Colcock, Miller A Co.?Dissolution of Copartnership. j T. M. Dohson?Selling at Cost. J. J. Smith A Co. ?Bargains, Bargains. , I). C. Anderson?Monroe High School. Edwards A Castle, Philadelphia?Red Sole Leathern Specialty. John M. Thoniasson?Executor's Notice. i Ilart A Hart, Plaintiffs Attorneys?Notice to Robert H. Neshitt, defendant. R. II. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Sheriffs Sales. .1. F. Wallace, C'. C. Pis.?Clerk's Sale. Whitaker A Glenn?Fine Mules?Wanted. COMMISSIONER OF AFFIDAVITS. (r. W. S. Hurt, Esq., has been appointed i commissioner of affidavits at this place for North Carolina. KING'S MOUNTAIN MILITARY SCHOOL. The second session of the school-year, lHKd, of the above school, opened on last Monday. About twenty-five cadets are enrolled, up to this time, for the present session. The merits and facilities of the school entitle it to a much larger number. PERSONAL* MENTION. Judge Witherspoon left last Saturday for ' the Seventh Circuit, lie will preside at Newberry this week and next. Hon. W. B. Wilson, who was confined to his room nearly all of last month, by slight ( indisposition, is improving. We regret to note the serious illness of T. J. Bell, Esq., who has been confined to his bed for the past month. Messrs.S. A. McElwee, J. M. Rawlinson, (i. Parish and II. II. Beard, are in attendance on the special term of the United States District Court in Greenville, as jurors. The docket for this term embraces !)b cases continued from last term, and over a hundred cases sent up since, nearly all of them being violations of the internal revenue laws. CHURCH NOTICES. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. It. P. Franks, Pastor. Services in the church at YorkviHe, morning and evening. Sacrament of the Lord's Supper at the close of morning service. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. Lathan Pastor. The pastor will fill his regular apointment at Tinea h next Sunday. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. Services at the usual hours, morning and evening. Episcopal?Rev. A. Prentiss. Services this (Wednesday) evening at 7..'10, it being Ash Wednesday. Also Friday morning, at the usual hour. Services next Sunday at the regular morning hour. The regular Lenten L'flM'iflnu offer f h U'opL' will ho mi ovorv Thursday night at and every Friday morning at 11 o'clock. a hint to farmers. Toward the end of each year, when accounts between planters and their tenants are being settled, many of the latter class find, or pretend to find, that the contracts between themselves and their employers are different from what they supposed, and much dissatisfaction and trouble are the result. This might all be remedied by abiding by the provisions of the following section of the Revised Statutes : Sec. 2081. All contracts made between owners of land, their agents, administrators, or executors, and laborers shall be witnessed by one or more disinterested persons, and at. the request of either party, be duly executed before a Trial Justice whose duty it shall be to read and explain the same to the parties. Such contracts shall clearly set forth the condition upon which the laborer or laborers engage to work, embracing the length of time, the amount of money to be paid, and when, if it be on shares of crops, what portion of the crop or crops. sales-day. Last Monday?sales-day for Februarywitnessed a large attendance of people in town from the country; but nothwithsjaiuling the number, it was the most quiet and orderly crowd of its size that we have ever seen on our streets on a similar occasion. It was one sales-day when there was but little liquor drank by those whose inclination leads them to indulge in the ardent; but notwithstanding the stringent liquor laws of South Carolina, and the fact that prohibition exists in Yorkville, the bottle will occasionally pass around on the sly, and last Monday was not an entire exception to the rule. It was plainly apparent, however, that the morals of the people are improving in this respect, or that on last Monday the supply of liquid poison was diminished. There was the usual amount of horse-swapping and trading, which is innocent enough in itself, and always satisfactory to both parties so long as each thinks he has the best of the trade. There was but one official sale?the following, by the Clerk of the Court: Tract of land belonging to the estate of Mrs. Mary Nelson, deceased, containing 3i:jacres, situated near Rock Hill; sold for partition. Bought by A. A J. Friedheim, at $10 per acre. THE LIQUOR LAW. The Charleston iYmvf and Courier publish- j es the following as the present condition and the essential features of the liquor law in this State: ( The liquor law as it now stands prohibits < the licensing of spirituous or intoxicating liquors in South Carolina outside of the in- i corporated cities, towns and villages of the j State, and makes it unlawful for any person 1 to sell such liquors without a license so to do. < This prohibition includes the sale of all i wines, fruits prepared wmi spirituous nq- < uors, bitters or other beverages of whicli : spirituous liquors form an ingredient. The 1 punishment for a vioration of the law is a i line of not less than $20(1, or imprisonment ; for a term of not less than six months, or I both, in the discretion of the Court. The 1 county commissioners of each county are i specially charged with the duty of obtain- i ing information as to the violation of the i law, and with the duty of instituting prosecutions therefor. I The sale of intoxicatTng liquors may be . licensed by the municipal authorities in any > incorporated city, town or village upon the < payment, by the person applying for die ? same, of $100 in addition to "the license < charged by such city, town or village. This 1 H100 must be paid to the treasurer of the county in which such city, town or village is situated, and must be applied to the ordinary expenses of the county. No corpora- ' tioii license can be issued until the State li- i cense of $100 lias been paid. t The municipal authorities of any city, > town and village in the State have the pow- 1 >r also to grant city, town or village licenses c tor the sale of intoxicating liquors in quan- ( :ities less than a quart, and have the right ( :o fix the price of such licenses provided t bat the same be not less than $7"> per annum. r rhe person obtaining such license must be i econiniended by six respectable taxpayers s >f his neighborhood, and must enter into a < iond of $1,000 with three good sureties for $ he keeping of an orderly house, &c. s A license to retail wine, cider and brewed J >r malt liquors within the corporate limits r )f any city, town or village may no granieu t ipon the payment of a licon.se fee of not less j ban $2o. The person obtainingsuch license n oust he recommended as above and must t five a bond of $")<)(> for the keeping of an s irderly house, for the observance of all laws 1 ovulating the sale of such liquors, and that c le will not sell any spirituous liquors or ad- 1 nixture thereof. Nothing in the law is held ( o apply to sales by the manufacturers in t piantities not less than one gallon of domes- 1: ic wine manufactured by them from grapes o ?rown within this State, nor to the sale by licensed distillers in original packages of ( not less than ten gallonsof spirituous liquors ' distilled by them within this State : Provl | Jed. That such sale by licensed distillers shall only be made on the premises where I the said spirituous liquors are manufactured, j The sale of spirituous or malt liquors, or ! wine or cider, is prohibited on Sunday. Druggists and apothecaries are not allowed to sell intoxicating liquors in quantities less than a quart except on the prescription r?f a licensed physician, unless they takeout the municipal and State licenses'as above provided, and if they sell in quantities over a quart they are subject to pay the same license as other dealers selling liquor in such quantities. Wilfully furnishing any intoxicating drink hvsale, erift orotherwise. to any person of known intemperate habits or to any person when intoxicated, or to a minor or insane person is deemed a misdemeanor and is subject to a tine of not less than $10 nor more than $100, with imprisonment of not less than 10 days nor more than 80 days. The law does not in any way interfere with the right of the citizens of any L'ity, town or village from prohibiting by a majority vote the sale of intoxicating liquors within the limits of such city, town or village. These are the essential features of the law as it now stands. The full text of the law can be found in the Revised Statutes and extends from Section 1731 to Section 17(H). MERE-MENTION. The courthouse at Lafayette, Walker county, (la., was burned last Friday morning. The records and everything of value were destroyed. The bored well at Meridian, Mississippi, is 930 feet deep and no water. It is thought some 300 or 400 more feet must be bored. The Marquis of Lome's term of office as governor general of Canada will expire next November, (ion. Wolseley is mentioned as his successor. Prince Karl, of Prussia, who died recently at the age of .S3, smoked from eighteen to twenty cigars each day for the last six years. In 183(1 Kentucky produced a little over eight hundred thousand gallons of whiskey, and last year over thirty million gallons, it would seem that the internal revenue tax does not hurt the liquor interests The extreme western boundary of the United States is in the island of Attoo, as far beyond San Francisco as that city is from Maine. San Francisco is thus only the half-way station in the journey across the country. It has been decided to devote two days to thd sesqui-eentonnial celebration at Savannah, (4a., Feb. 12 and 13. One feature will be a civil, military, and trades procession. The date of the coronation of the Czar of Russia has been finally fixed for the 27th of next May. Livingston, the colored West Point cadet from Florida, who failed to pass his examination, has been appointed to a $i,3io cierjtsmp at \> asiimgioii. jv\(Jovernor Hendrix has entirely recovered from his recent illness, unci his friends say that he is looking better than ever. It is also hinted that he has one eye on the White House. The State Legislature of Texas has passed .a bill to create a board for equalizing and assessing railroad and rolling stock and movable property. This will affect all the railroads and 'their connections operated in Texas. The army, including officers, cadets and professors, numbers 28,002 men in active service, with 400 retired officers. Gov. Butlers message, according to the Boston Adccrtizer, contains twenty-nine recommendations, eighteen insinuations, five misrepresentations, four revelations and one promise. There are over 900 blind persons in the State of Arkansas. The question is being discussed in Illinois to limit the regular sessions of the Legislature to one in six years. A proposed constitutional amendment in favor of woman suffrage will be voted on by the people of Oregon next Tuesday. The Ottawa Free Press says it cost over $?>,000 to foot the bills of the Lome party in their trip ending at Charleston, and that hotel servants fared bounteously in "tips." In the criminal court of Nashville, last Saturfl?o ttafifinn* /if /?v Uilj j ouu^c v(uaiir.i, uii niv; pckiuwii \ .* treasurer Polk, reduced the bail bond of the latter to $50.000. John Henny, who was sentenced last Friday in the New York criminal court to imprisonment for life, on the charge of murder, committed suicide on Saturday night, by shooting himself through the heart. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee and stall', are, by invitation, visiting New York, the guests of Col. Austen, of the Thirteenth New York Regiment. Gen. Lee will review the regiment while in New York. A weekly newspaper, printed, or rather lithographed, in the Chinese language, lias been commenced in New York. Louisiana has a cash balance in the treasury of $1.152.000. Seven Americans were killed last week in Mexico, in a mining camp row. The third trial of Neal and Craft, charged with participating in the murder of the Gibbons family near Ashland, Ky., began at Grayson, Ky., last Tuesday. Gov. Blackburn has ordered 400 State troops to Grayson, to remain during the trial. Disastrous Hoods, by the overflow of rivers, occurred in western Pennsylvania, eastern and northern Ohio and Indiana on Saturday and Sunday, entailing great loss of life and property. Congress is still debating the tariff bill. Insubordination of the cadets in the naval academy at Annapolis is so serious as to require the suspension of several, and a special committee appointed by Congress to investigate the cause. Prohibition' in Spartanburg.?On this subject a correspondent of the Xern and Courier writes from Spartanburg under date of last Saturday: "The temperance people are still in suspense as to the decision of the Supreme Court in regard to the late vote in Spartanburg on prohibition. There is little fear, however, as to the result. Even should the recent election be set aside as irregular, which is not anticipated, the present City Council will scarcely grant any license this year; it is confidently believed that in another election with registration there would be a larger majority than before for prohibition. The Prohibitionists would have been glad to have a registration before that election, as they believed that it would cut off many illegal votes on the liquor side. But while the question was duly considered, it was the opinion of able lawyers that the law did therefore, give a handle to the barkeepers to make an effort to invalidate the idection. Signally defeating them, howaver, with that disadvantage and many others on the side of prohibition, the remit of another trial is not feared. Prohibition has certainly made a great change in Spartanburg. It is now a rare thing to see an intoxicated man upon our street. J liave observed but one?and that one a tipsy negro boy?since the new year came in. 1 do not say that no liquor is drank now, and I hear the assertion frequently made that it is still freely sold among us. MUl lilt' CKWIIIK Ol lilt" Mill IWlllin iin*? v ci:ainly cut ofF a vast amount of drunkenness. And now many countrymen, who used seldom to come to town without getting trunk, go back to their homes and families iober. And as one result of the prevalence >f good order on the streets the city council las reduced the police force to two men. Thk Soi'tir Carolina Dirkct Tax Casks.?The Washington Republican says : 'Before the Supreme Court, in general term, i rule to show cause was granted on a petiion for mandamus filed by Mr. Karle, with vhom Mr. Lowndes is associated, for Dr. William J. Jenkins, of Beaufort, South Car>Iina, against the secretary of the treasury, to ompel him to pay over to I)r. Jenkins as the >riginal owner of a tract of land sold for direct axes, the surplus proceeds of said sale, riie appropriations committee of the House, it the last session, thought that under the itatute, as construed by the Supreme Court r II... lit fl,,i T.H'I,,!. II,, )l UK* I iium nmu-D in nit j?,i mi v.i.iv, ...? ippropriation was necessary, hut that the ieeretary could pay on his own warrant. Sntertainilig a different view, the secretary efuses to pay without an appropriation,and he proceeding is brought to decide this joint. Another interesting question which irises in these direct tax eases is whether he original owner is entitled to recover the urplus proceeds of sale when the Govern nent became the purchaser, under the Act >f February (i, and Mr. ]Carle has trought a number of cases in the Court of Maims to procure a judicial construction of he statute relative to the objection raised ty the department in its construction thereof. " agricultural notes. ? Thirty-four negroes left Laurens last week for Middle Tennessee. ? The Newberry says the cotton crop of that county for 1SS2 is estimated at ;jo,<km) bales. ? It is estimated that there will be 40,000 bushels of rice shipped from Camden this season. ? A great many farmers in Barnwell county are just beginning to sow oats. The planters near Barnwell are complaining of a scarcity of lal>or. ? The executive committee of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Association will meet in Columbia on the evening of the loth instant. ? Capt. J. C. Stribling, of the Ashtabula stock farm, in Anderson county, last week j sold the beautiful Jersey cow, "Lily of Glen more," (No. 7,077) to Mr. G. b. Turner, of Fairfield, for $1,loo. This is the highest priced cow ever owned in this Shite. ? The low price of cotton, and the high price of provisions last year, with the large purchases rendered necessary by the bad crops of 1881, conbine to show that the farmers, even with a big cotton crop just sold, meet 18X1 with empty pocket-books. ? The stock law is slowly going into effect in Chesterfield county. In Lexington county, says a correspondent of the Columbia JtegMer, the feeling is scarcely changed for the better, but there is a general acquiescence and acceptation of the situation. ? The Camden Journal says: "Therecent warm spell has improved the appearance of the small grain crop considerably. The acreage in tnis county thus far is very small, comparatively, and the stand is bad, owing to the plant being killed out by the severe frosts in the first part of January." ? Pickens Sentinel: Some of our farmers have commenced sowing their spring oats. We think it a mistake that oats were not all sown last fall, for we believe spring sown oats fail about four out of five years. We don't believe there is altogether as good a -smaJl grain crop planted for this year as there was last. ? Says the Winnsboro News of Saturday: Observant farmers inform us that not more than one-fourth of the area in small grain in this county last year has been sown during the present season. The causes assigned are the large cotton crop, requiring all the time and labor for gathering it and the excessively inclement weather. The condition of that sown is reported unfavorable? much of it being killed out by the intense continued cold weather. The short supply of this crop, for the feed of stoek, will be in a great measure made up by the more than average corn crop of last year. ? The Abbeville Medium says: "Last year abundant crops were made, but still money has been scarce. Prices realized were so small that the general condition of the people has not improved. This year the prospect is not encouraging. Less grain has been put in. Very little wheat comparatively was sowed and the acreage in oats decreased. Ijtibor commands higher prices than ever, and stock and provisions are still at enormous figures. Lien prices will prevail, and if dry weather comes, which is more than likely, we will see the close of 1HM:} in a worse condition than ever." ? Columbia correspondence News and Courier : Assistant Fish Commissioner Huske has returned from his visit of survey to Georgetown. He finds that in the Waccamaw River, on the banks of which it was proposed to establish a shad hatchery, the fish are reported to be not plentiful enough for hatching purposes, and no hatchery will be established there this year. He will make another visit to that section during the season in March to judge finally whether there is encouragement for the erection of a hatchery there next year, and to try some experiments in the way of hatching sturgeon. As sturgeon constitute the material from which most of our canned salmon is derived, the cultivation of this ungainly fish may prove profitable. The shad hatchery on the Edisto River will ^ be opened this season 011 the 20th inst., ten days earlier than last year, and the force employed there will be increased from four men last year to six this season in order to operate it more effectively. A Narrow Escape.?The telegraph has briefly reported the rescue of Dr. Ilape, who, while exploring Tallulah Falls bluff, fell a distance of three hundred feet, 011 Sunday night of last week. The Doctor himself gives the following account of his adventure: "I started to descend the cliffs by a new pathway leading down and to the right of "The Devil's Pulpit." After making the descent in safety I started up the river towards "Oceana" and found a somewhat rough experience. I soon found myself 011 an unexplored pathway that ran 011 the side of an almost perpendicular cliff. The usual difficulty of briers and brambles was supplemented by the wet and treacherous condition of the moss, grass, <fcc. My clothing was wet and the road more and more difficult. At one time I would be within ten feet of the river as it rushed along in resistless fury and, in order to advance thirty feet up the river, would have to scale the wall to the height of two hundred feet. Progress was necessarily slow, and after a toilsome trip oi inree nours i iounu myseii at a point directly opposite the "Devil's Pulpit." I luid already passed two points that rendered a retreat by the road 1 laid come impossible, and in the closing of a dreary and rainy winter evening found myself at an altitude of about one hundred feet, perched upon a treacherous mossy shelf that hung suspended, as it were, midway between the "Pulpit" and the river. The fact that it was im- % possible to either advance or retreat stared me in the face, and calling philosophy to my assistance I prepared to make the best of it. Securing a piece of pine that had lodged there I occupied my time by carefully cutting it in long shavings. In this way I kept up a light until about three o'clock / ? t x i. l .i.1 next morning, ^vuuui icii u ciuck myauention was attracted by a number of lights that came plunging down the mountain side and I knew that my friends were searching me me. The wierd and fantastic effect of their flambeaux gave them the appearance of Titans. As they advanced near I recognized the stalwart form of T. H. Martin in the lead, but the terribleroar of the falls rendered conversation impossible. I shouted and by pantomime convinced my friends that they could only wait until morning. "Tuesday morning Messrs. Dean, \Y. F. Young and P. K. Wimby guided by a signal flag waved by T. II. Martin from the top of a tree which he had ascended and where he commanded my position, dropped a rope from above which after securing it to a sassafras bush, my descent as you witnessed waseasily accomplished. Mvexperience during the night was less unpleasant than you would imagine. My only regret is the trouble and anxiety that it caused my friends." Tine Wilkksija kre Disaster.?The excitement of the cave-in of the Delaware and Hudson mine does not subside so rapidly as some anticipated. The people living in the neighborhood of the disaster cannot be persuaded that the worst is over. There are as yet no new signs of further danger. The "ompany has yet made no investigation of theaffair. The breaks in the water mains are extended and new pipes will have to be laid in another direction in order to furnish the upper portion of the city with water. The residents who can find tenements continue to leave the dangerous quarter, but hundreds of families still remain. On Friday arrangements were made for the children to attend the school, now liable to tumble down at any moment, to 4 go to another school. The strictest vigilence is maintained by self-appointed watchers, who xeep a careful lookout for appproach ing canger. A scene occurred on Friday wnen rue readers were caning ior men to go below. Hundreds of women and children stood about. When the chief said that at least ten volunteers were required, there was not a miner present who did not leap forward at the call. Then the wives and mothers present raised their piteous cries in discouragement of the acceptance of such a dangerous mission. At length one big brawny fellow stepped out and exclaimed: "Only those who have no wives, mothers, sweethearts or sisters are wanted and no others shall go down. Are there any such here?" Fully forty brave fellows came forward at the call and said they were so conditioned.