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Jtoaps and ^acts. ? Vincent, the defaulting treasurer of Alabama, seems to have successfully eluded arrest. The Montgomery Advertiser says: "He has completely succeeded in covering up all trace ot himself, and is now, undoubtedly, somewhere outside of the United States?most probably in Canada." ? Boston C'orbett, the man who killed John Wilkes Booth, is living in Kansas, engaged in the cattle business. He has become a religious enthusiast, and in a recent letter to a friend, he says that he has been directed by God to inflict daily punishment upon himself as a penance for having taken human life. ?A call signed by well known anti-monopolists in all parts of the country has been issued at Chicago for delegates to a conference for the formation of a new party. The con ferenee will be held on July 4th, on the basis of four representatives from each Congressional district, four from each Territory and four from the District of Columbia. ? The Spanish Council of Ministers, 011 proposition of the Minister of the Colonies, has decided to treat as freemen the 40,(MM) slaves who were not liberated by their owners in Cuba in 1870. The slaves referred to are those not included in the census taken in 1870 under the law for gradual abolition, because of their owners' failure to enter them in the lists. ? The business failures of the week ending last Friday, throughout the United States and Canda, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co.'s Merchantile Agency, number 27"), a reduction of thirty from last week. The New England States had 27, the Southern States 78, the Western States 85, the Middle States 48, the Pacific States and Territories 15, New York City 4, Canada 24. ? A bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives by Mr. Robertson, of Louisiana, for the more effectual suppression of lotteries, proposing to prevent the transmission through the mails of any newspapers, magazines or other publications which contain any information as to where lottery tickets may be bought, when drawings will take place, or what numbers have drawn prizes. ? The Senate judiciary committee has agreed to report for passage a bill providing . for the purchase from George Washington Parke Custis Lee, of the entire Arlington estate, comprising 1,100 acres, near Wash ington city, anil including the national cemetery, at a total cost of $150,000. Accrued taxes, some $15,000, are to be paid by Gen. Lee, who has agreed to the terms proposed by the committee. ? The complete immigration statistics for the year 1882, published by the Treasury Department quite recently, show the total immigration for the year to have been 712,542. This is a magnificent showing, but the increase over 1880 is only 5 per cent. Of the whole number of arrivals, New York received 472,988, or considerably more than one-half. Three times as many came from Germany as from any other countrys ? A Richmond dispatch of Friday says that John E. Cross, living at the foot of the Alleghany Mountains dreamed that he was on a chase and pressing a stag. Just as the imaginary animal turned at bay the sleeping hunter sprang out of bed, down the stairway, lighting on the top of his head. He received injuries from which he died to-day. A few monthsago Cross had a similar dream, resulting in his springing from the bed and injuring himself painfully. ? A sweeping bill regulating the side of liquors has been introduced in the New Jersey Legislature, with some prospect of its passage. It requires each liquor dealer to file a bond of $1,000 as a guarantee for the maintenance of good order, and makes the liscense for the sale of malt liquors from $100 to $250, and for spirituous liquor from $250 to $500, according to the location of saloons. The bill also prohibits the sale of liquor to minors. ? The United States will soon have 120,000 miles of railroads, the ties, fences, telegraph poles, locomotive fuel and and repairs for which will consume hundreds of thousands of acres of forest yearly, and if the demand i ?"? 4- 4l?/? ??a4a /"vf* Y vti > lur lumucr increase? in nu- uuv wi -r> |.v. i cent, per annum, accord in}' to calculation, and the forests decrease at the rate of 7,000,000 acres a year, one can form some idea of the great and urgent necessity for economizing as well as planting trees. Fencesalone cost $08,000,000 yearly. ? Two old college chums met at Austin, Texas, after a separation of live years. "1 am a reporter on the Telegraph," said one. The other replied : "Come to my hotel in the morning and you'll get a lirst rate tragedy to write up. You will know so much about the chief actor that you will be able to make interesting reading of it." The reporter kept the appointment, though regarding the promise of a demand upon his professional services as a joke* 7 but he found his old acquaintance dead bv suicide. ?The managers of the American Colonization Society say that Liberia is more prosl>erous than ever. Last year was a healthy one among the settlements, and the crops of rice and coffee were good. King IbrahamiSissi of the Medina country wants to open communications with the Government and prepare the way of traffic. The Colonization Societv has exported 21,000 persons to Africa. Tins has involved 17(5 voyages there. It is a remarkable fact that not one of the vessels carryiny emigrants to Liberia has been wrecked. ? Over a year ago Win. D. Murphy, of New York, sued the Hon. Wm. H. English, of Indiana, for $1,180 for speeches made in that State in the campaign of 1880. ! English claimed that the speeches were I ^ volunteer speeches and that they were not worth anything, and that such a contract as Murphy pretended to have made would l>e against public policy and void. To this the plaintiff demurred, and Judge Larremore Wednesday sustained the demurrer, giving the defendant leave to amend his answer. ? Mrs. Margaret Johnson, a widow, living in Atlanta, has started out to test Georgia law on a point that seldom figures in the Courts. She has tiled suits against several saloon keepers for damages, each in the sum of $10,000. Mrs. Johnson has a son named James, who is eighteen years of age, and whom she alleges has been made a confirmed drunkard. Prior to the commencement of his career of intemperance he was a mechanic and earned $12 per week. She seeks to get damages from those who are supposed to have worked her soil's ruin. ? Although nearly eight years have slipped away since the summer morning on which little Charlie Ross was abducted from his Germantown home, his father, Christian K. Ross, still hopes that he will someday see his long-lost boy. In a recently written letter to a friend Mr. Ross said: "I am still diligently making every effort to unravel the mystery connected with his continued absence. In our family the subject is often the theme of conversation. Charlie is often spoken of as living, and shall be until we know the contrary." ? John C. Parker, while in the Criminal Court room, at St. Louis, awaiting trial for killing a man, shot and killed his wife, and holding the weapon close to his temple, fired a second shot. The wife was killedinstantly, Parker dying within an hour and never spoke. The wife carried the pistol to her husband with which to kill herself and him. A letter was found written by Parker, telling his wife had helped him in the plot against her own and his life. Although she knew when she entered the court room she was going to meet her death, she walked without a tremor. Parker had a record of the blackest kind, and Mrs. Parker was far above him in the social scale, and sacrificed her family ties to link her fate with his. ? A dispatch of the 8th, from Rawlins, "Wyoming, says the coach which left Pacific Springs was caught in the snow storm of the 2nd instant. The coach was abandoned, and the occupants started back on foot to the station. The driver, W. J. Stewart, was found frozen to death standing in the snow, and Thomas Scott, superintendent of the line, was also found standing straight up in the snow frozen so that he could not move. He will lose his hands and feet. W. V. Stark, a passenger, has not yet been found. They were out three days and nights. Another stage driver was badly frozen. He reports two feet of snow on the levels and cattle starving. This stage line runs from (Ireen River to the I'nion Pacific * : Railway, to Fort Washakie, Wyoming, through the South pass of the Rocky Moun-1 tains. ? Under the new treaty which it is proposed to make with the Sioux Indians, the government in addition to giving 320 acres of land to the head of each family and 80 i acres to each minor child stipulates to furn-! ish to each Indian settlement a physician, i carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer and I blacksmith for a period often years. On! their part the Sioux surrender between 17,000 and 18,(KM) square miles of their for-1 mer reservation, and agree not to sell orj slaughter for sale the cows and oxen to be , furnished them by the government, unless j by permission of the Interior Department, j She ilorkviUc Inquirer, j VORKVILLE. S. C.: THURSDAY MORNING. FEB. 15, 1883. SAVANNAH'S CELEBRATION. The Sesqui-centennial anniversary of the settlement of Georgia by Gen. James Oglethorpe and colonists, was celebrated last Monday with imposing ceremonies. The day was opened with a salute of 18 guns at sun rise. Crowds poured into the city from all quarters during the forenoon, people being present. Governor Stephens and staff, the General Assembly of Georgia, the Civic Commissioners of Maryland and Rhode Island and distinguished visitors from all parts of the South were present. The day was bright and beautiful. During the morning there was a grand military display, 5,000 soldiers from Florida, South Carolina and Georgia being present. At the theatre, Gov. Stephens delivered an address and was enthusiastically recei ved. The sesqui-centennial ode, by Paul II. Hayne, poet laureate of .South Carolina, was read by Gen. Henry It. Jackson, Mr. Hayne being too feeble. Then followed a grand historical pageant, representing the landing of Oglethorpe and their colonists from their ship, under an artillery salute, and their re ception by Tomochiehi and Yamacraw Indians. A sudden rain dampened the enthusiasm, but the centennial was continued at night by a magnificent pyrotechnic display. On Tuesday a trades display took place, and at night banquets were given to the distinguished guests. CALIFORNIA RAILROADS. The Legislature of California seems to be impressed with the importance of laws for the regulation of the railroad corporations in that State. A bill has been introduced in the Legislature declaring that all railroads organized under the laws of the State are public highways. The bill prohibits any corporation organized under the laws of any other State, government or sovereignty from operating a railroad in that State. On the expiration of any charter or right of way, the property belonging to such railway whose charter expires shall revert to the State for the common use of the people. It demands equal freight rates for all shippers, and any discrimination is to be punished by tine and imprisonment. No corporation ormmivuri linilnr hi\v< of California. is nor guniovu u.mv. V..V ~ J- -mitted to accept a charter from any other State, and any corporation violating this or any other provision of the bill is by that act dissolved, and forfeits its charter in an action by the Attorney General in behalf of the people. The rates of fare and transportation fixed by the commissioners must be complied with, and any departure therefrom will be severely punished. CONGRESS. Congress is still hammering away on the tariff bill. To pretend to give a daily summary of that august body in their cussings and discussingsofthis vexed question would impart toour columnsa soporific effect which we desire to avoid. Suffice it to say that with so many antagonizing interests represented in the halls of national legislation the assembled Solons find it difficult to harmonize as to what customs duties the various imported article? shall pay. Eastern Representatives are more pronounced than those of any other section for a high?a protective?tariff, especially 011 all manufactured articles, from children's dolls, wooden nutmegs and white oak hams, to hair pins and steam engines. They would admit on the free list nothing that Yankee inge nuity could imitate by either fabrication or adulteration. The Western members, while not so pronounced in favor of a high tariff, generally vote with the East as against the South and some Northern Democrats of liberal views, who admit that high tariff does not mean relief for the working man, but only tends to increase the wealth of the manufacturer. As to the measures of the tariff as its thousand and one sections are adopted, at the rate of a line per day, it may be stated generally that features of the bill inimical to the South are forced through by the Republican nuyority, one instance of which may be cited in the proceedings of Saturday, when the tax of 11 cents per pound on cotton ties was insisted upon by the Republican majority in the House, who carried their point despite the protests of the planters through their representatives. As an offset to this, the Senate, on the same day, adopted an amendment reducing the tax on tobacco and snuff to 8 cents per pound, and on cigars to $8 per thousand. Tobacco, snuff and cigars are consumed largely at the North. The consumer pays the tax. Tobacco is produced in the Southern States, except the Connecticut collard variety used as wrappers for manilla paper cigars, and the manufacture of tobacco enters largely into the industry of these same Southern States. 1 lence the magnanimous reduction. If tobacco chewing and snuff-dipping were confined to the South, and the Connecticut "planter" had a patent on his collard stem plant, the "slaves of the weed" would be ground to the dust under the exacting tariff for the protection of the important New England industry, just as the chewing gum monopoly of our Down East neighbors is now protected. But fortunately the use of tobacco is not confined to the South. It is one of the responsive chords which makes the whole nation kin, and consequently the Senate has magnanimously agreed to reduce the tax on this national vice. It is probable that an extra session will be called, immediately on the expiration of the present. A conference of the Republican caucus committee of the Senate was held on Saturday morning to determine which of the various measures now pending in the Senate shall be regarded as the most important to pass to a vote when the tariff measure shall have been disposed of. Senators i Edmunds, Allison, Sherman, Ilill, Miller of | California, Harrison and Aldrich werepres: ent and devoted three-quarters of an hour ' to discussing the general subject. No definj ite programme was settled upon, but it was decided that the shipping bill seemed to : present greater claims for precedence than 1 any other measure, and a general understanding was reached that this bill shall first J be called up after the disposition of the tariff bill. GA8TR0N0MICAL. \ ISIr. Walcott, of New York, has accom- { plished the feat of eating sixty partridges * in thirty days, eating two at each meal. The task was undertaken on a wager of $350, r and the loser admits that the money was c fairly won, and ordered it to be paid over. * Besides the original wager, several thousamI J dollars, bet by outside parties, changed ? hands. Mr. Walcott's performance is gen- t erally regarded as an impossibility, and for ( the benefit of any who may wish to try the c experiment, we quote his words detailing > the plan he pursued : ^ "Of course I was almost certain that I j could eat the quails when the bet was made . ( I think any man who diets judiciously could t do the same as I have. The effect of these ^ quail dinners is about the same as eating t the dry flesh of a turkey, and the only thing rj mar is necessary is 10 gri Mime uquui \\ mni will make the flesh assimilate, and 1 think gastrine is the best for that purpose. Other men have eaten quails?in fact it is an old story?and have suffered from indigestion, and after a certain time the birds became repulsive to them. But if all the other meals of the day are eaten as usual and the quails taken as an extra meal the result will be the same as in my case. If you fast to eat quail indigestion is sure to follow." The continuous eating of quail imparts an offensive odor to the flesh, and in order to overcome this Mr. Walcott has taken a Turkish bath every day. Apropos of Walcott's feat, we quote from the Greenville Xem of Friday thefollowing story : Walcott, the quail eater, may as well hang up his digestive apparatus and lay down his appetite, for he is beaten and must hide his diminished stomach in sheer humiliation. Last night a citizen of Greenville county named Montgomery at Frazier's restaurant declared that he could eat half a gallon of stewed oysters. They were measured out to him, and he absorbed tlieiastone. He then turned his attention to eggs, and ate four dozen?forty-eight?scrambled, on top of the oysters. As a top dressing he then took :i pint of oysters raw, and then, on a ten dollar bet, ate, and apparently enjoyed, fourteen raw oysters, thickly sprinkled with brown sugar, which is itself an unprecedented feat, lie offered to bet that he could eat another half gallon of oysters, but found no takers. These are facts, and can be vouched for by a dozen men. FITZHUGH LEE IX BROOKLYN. One of the notable events of the day was ( the arrival in Brooklyn, N. Y., last week, * of Gen. Fitzhugh Leo and his staff, who 1 went by invitation as the guests or Col. 1 Fasten, of the Thirteenth New York regi- * ment. The regiment was reviewed by Gen. Lee on Thursday, of which the New York j Herald gives the following account: The Thirteenth regiment was reviewed last evening by Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, of Yir- ( ginia, accompanied by several officers of his < staff and ofthe Virginia Volunteers. Among l them were Col. Wertembaker, Col. Ander- J son, Col. J. Lane Sterne, Major George-Ben. Johnstone, medical director of the brigade ; \ Major R. \V. Hunter, ("apt. T. S. Keller, < Capt. F. W. Dawson and Air. Norman V. j Randolph. The officers all wore gray uni- j forms, the colors as worn by the Thirteenth. \ Gen. Lee wore a general's chapeau and epau- ( lettes and the yellow silk sash of his rank. \ He also wore the gauntlet gloves that had | belonged to Gen. Robert E. Lee and were ( worn by him on many celebrated occasions, ; particularly at Appomattox. On the inside . of tlw cuffs was the name "Robert E. Lee," \ wri. n in ink by the General himself. \ After his death the gloves were sent to Gen. ( Fitzhugh Lee and were worn last night for \ the first time. ( The review was probably one of the most j interesting ever held by any regiment of { the New York National Guard. When the ] passage in review came the band plaved { "Carry me back to ole Virginia," and when f Fitzhiigh Lee uncovered to the flag there j was a perfect storm of applause. A dress parade followed, during which (ten. Lee made a speech to the men of the Thirteenth. He told them of their meeting ( at Yorktown and how glad he was to meet t them again. Referring to old times he said , that when the war broke out he was at the j Military Academy. He had been reared in j a different faith from his Northern associ- t ates in the army and he had thought that . the State of Virginia had the first right to \ his service and his sword. Rut when the \ sun of the Confederacy had gone down he- , hind the hills of Appomattox he had real- "j ized that the war was over. He was now a . citizen of the United States, equally inter- j ested with every other citizen in its glory t and greatness and as loyal a citizen as any. j Prolonged cheering greeted the General's remarks. t THE WESTERN FLOODS. < The floods of last week in the north-west- j ern rivers were the most disastrous of any j that have occurred in recent years. A Cincinnati dispatch of Sunday says: The city is in consternation on account of j the great rise in the Ohio River and what i is expected to come. The water had reach- < Lti 1 hi tun! a hiilf inclies nt C half-past o'clock this afternoon and was < rising at the rate of two inches per hour. < Desperate efforts are being made to save * the merchandise in the lower part of the t city. Advices from above indicate that < a heavy rise is still coming. 1 Prominent business men here, who are I not sensational, say to-night that the dam- < age from the present overflow of the Ohio < River in Cincinnati, Newport and Coving- 1 ton will amount to millions of dollars. The t water at 7 o'clock this evening was (51 feet i 8 inches high and rising nearly two inches i hourly. Thousands of people crowd all 1 the bridges watching the floods. A rise of 1 three feet more is expected. All the trans- 1 fer wagons in the city are employed in re- moving goods from danger. The Supension > bridge is lined with wagons hiking leaf i tobacco over to Covington. The water < through which they pass in going to the * suspension bridge is over their axles. Pas- * sengers between Covington and Cincinnati ; are compelled to cross the water at the r Cincinnati approach to the suspension < bridge in boats or vehicles. At the present < rate of rise passage to the bridge by vehi- 1 cles will soon be impossible. Steam ferry i and street railroad communication between here and the Kentucky side of the river is cut oft' entirely. The Cincinnati approach j to the Newport bridge was free at 8 o'clock, \ but in danger. In Newport the military 1 barracks are flooded and nearly two square .' miles of the city is under water. People ' have been taking coal and provisions in J boats all day to the inhabitants and deliv- ' erinir throuirh the second and third story f windows. All the houses and factories along the entire front at Covington are flooded and the water is in the second story of some of them. Nearly ten miles of rive r front in Cincinnati is more or less under water. The flood extends from Ninth 1 street to Second street, and on Pearl street 1 the cellars are tilling. Alon? the landing j the flood is up to the second and third ' story of many buildings. The roof of a 1 big wharf boat viewed from the Suspen- | sion bridge looks nearly as high as the 1 roof of five-story houses on the public ' landing. All railway freight and nearly < all express business west and north has j been stopped. The Ohio and Mississippi ' Railway transfers passengers by omnibus 1 four miles down the river and thence by steamer makes connection with Aurora, Ind. The Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and ' Chicago uses the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton lines to reach its own line in Indi- ] ana. The Cincinnati, Washington and < Baltimore trains go out from the Cincin- ? nati, Hamilton and Dayton depot. If the ] present rate of rise continues all these lines i will have to transfer at Cumminsvillc to- ( morrow morning. The Little Miami divis- s ion of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. ] Louis and all roads south of the river re- i main intact and are likely to continue so. i At West End the people are trying to 1 save the cattle from the inundated pens. I The difficulty is very great, as boats nave ( to be employed and the cattle must be led > out one by one. They often get frightened, . break away and go back into their pens, i All the Mill Valley for miles north from i the Ohio is a broad sea. 1 In the city, from Pearl street down to the river front the greatest activity and ex- ( citement prevails. The fire department is 11 jumping out the Pearl street cellars to entble the merchants to save their goods. The iver this morning invaded a house adja?nt to the Supension bridge where unslack*d lime was stored along with quantities of osin. The heat from the lime set the rosin,, >n fire. Engines have been at work on the ire all day. It continues obstinate but not violent. On Walnut street up to Fourth enhe sidewalks are covered with packages of iugar and groceries which have been busily removed front the cellars and the work >f removal continues to-night as far as men an accomplish it. The damage to goods n cellars on Pearl street is much feared. The stock yards are flooded and stock rains cannot "move in any direction. All >usiness will be suspended until after this langer is past. At about 8.30 P. M. it was 'X pec ted every minute that the gas lights vould be extinguished. Only a few inch's more of rise will bring about this result, riie belief is now that the rise will not stop mder 03 feet, which would be the highest >11 record. The coal fleets are believed to be safe, rhe weather is still warm and the snow is neltiny. Occasionally there is a light rain. Yd vices from above indicate that the rise vill continue at least twenty-four hours, rhe Commercial Gazette's specials report hree inches of rain at Parkersburg and the iver rising. The Little Kanawha is risngan inch hourly. At Marietta two undone lalf inches of rain has fallen and the river s rising slowly. At Portsmouth a heavy ain prevailed for twenty-four hours, eiulng at noon to-day. The river is a foot uglier than on Friday night. At Pittsburg t is raining and the weather is warm. The mow is melting and the river is rising. At Vlaysville the water is rising two and a lalfinehes per hoar >uid many business louses have their t^lhfrs flooded. The damage is not confined to Cincinnati, but extends the whole length of the Ohio iver, while the overflow of other rivers in Pennsylvania, Western New York and some if the New England States has caused a prolortionate loss in the damage and destruction of property. A Cincinnati dispatch of Monday says hat at 11 o'clock that morning the river had cached (l:l feet 5 inches, and had risen 2 nches during the past three hours. Barges ire being run along Second street to relieve he wants of the people living there. The urrent along Front street is so rapid that lavigation is dangerous. The Suspension siridge am not be reached at all except by )oats. Newport bridge is also inaccessible jxcept by boats or wagons. Suffering among she people in the Hooded part is unavoidable, is no organized efforts have been made to reieve them, but something must be done soon or loss of life is inevitable. Ji'dgk Wallace and the Abiieville Lynching.?In his charge to the Grand lury at Abbeville, Judge Wallace spoke >f the recent lynching of Dave Roberts, :he would be assassin of l)r. Klugh, but apparently in vain, as the jury took no action. Fie said: "Lynching is an act of violence outside she limits of the law. We live under a government of law. For centuries there las been going 011 a struggle to eliminate she human will from governmental funcsions. The government is not a good govTiiment where human will is not eliminased. In free governments the human will nust not he controled by passion and prejulice. In free governments we administer udgment uninfluenced and uncontrolled by passion. This human will is not eliminated when the crowd undertakes to enforce she law. This is the only time 1 have ever barged a grand jury upon the subject of yliching?the Judge is not a prosecuting pfticer. I sit here to try a* case upon the acts as presented in the regular way. It loes become me, however, to uphold the aw, and every good citizens must uphold nul mif/m'p it Your Tiprxonnl and nroner :y rights are in danger when the laws are mproperly executed. No crowd of men should undertake to execute laws, when swayed by passion and prejudice. Upon ill uncertain statements of facts the vigor if the htw must be maintained or our rights ire in danger. You must support, uphold, md lend vigor to the law, if you would lave "freedom and liberty under well reguated law." You are the grand inquest of he county. You are not detectives. You ire not to ferret out crime. But when there s a flagrant and open defiance of law, then t comes within the purview and scope of ,'our duty to bring the perpetrators to trial, [n regard to this lynching take such steps is you think proper. If you find out the jarties present them in your presentment ;o the Court with the witnesses to prove she facts." _ A Western Episode.?Reliable informaion has been received at Tucson, Arizona, >f two fights with the Apaches, on the south iide of Papigochic River, at the foot of the tills of the Sierra Madre Mountains, Chiluahua. The fights were between the Apaches and citizen soldiers of the town of remosachi and the surrounding district. liUst fall Governor Louis Terrazas authorzed the people of that section to organize a jompany of citizen soldiers to pursue, fight, apture, kill and scalp marauding Apaches. Jn January 2!) a company surprised a camp if Apaches. The fight was shortand quick, md twelve Indian scalps were taken. Tliir;v-three Indians, including men, women and hildren, were captured, and fifty horses kVith saddles and bridles, and thirty-eight jack horses, loaded with provisions and jquipnients, were captured. It appeared to ;he citizen soldiers, from the large quantify of provisions, arms and ammunition capaired, that a large band of warriors belongng to the captured party was temporarily ibsent, and a consequently hurried march kvas begun to reach Temasaclii in safety with he prisoners and supplies. The citizens vere overtaken by a superior number of Apache warriors who attacked thecompany savagely. The citizens fought desperately uid finally succeeded in holding all the prisjners, but lost six of their own men and had i few wounded. The citizens took four scalps, and the Indians recovered 10 of the 18 loaded horses. The company arrived at reinasachi,;llomiles west, on the right bank jf the Papegochic River, with 1G scalps, 28 >1(1 and young prisoners, a nuinner or war lorses and 28 annuals loaded with ]>rovision.s ind arms. Southern It ai lkoads.?The Railroad Record, published at Atlanta, Ua., noting :hat 11,000 miles of new railroads werebuilt n the United States and Territories in the rear 1882, points to the fact that nearly one:hird of it was done in the South. It ^ays railroading has just begun in the Southern States, and that there is no reason why a greater mileage will not be constructed in 188:5; the work is cut out for it and the capital is ready ; the steel rail mills need not lespond ; all their product will be required for the next twelve months. ' Manufacturers >f railroad supplies of all kinds will have ill they can do to till their orders if they tvill only let Southern railroad managers ind contractors know where their places of msiness are and what they have to sell. ;he Record adds: "The same will apply to lealers in mills, machinists', miners' and industrial trades' supplies generally; for the South lias awakened ; capitalists have discovered that here is the field for profitable investment. A great and glorious future lias dawned for this country of wonderful md inexhaustible resources." vvfi-nuvvvt tv t, wcastek.?The Char otto Observer of Saturday has the following: There has been no little excitement in Lancaster the past few (lays, in consequence >f an attempt made to kill Mr. W. 11. Cash, <011 of Col. E. li. C. Cash, who has been in Lancaster for a week or so. Last Sunday light two pistol shots were fired in the winlow of his room at the hotel, but without my harmful results. Mr. Cash's visit at [Lancaster is a subject of much speculation unong the citizens. Some think that his Mission is to get a case for Melton, in regard :<> the Lancaster riot, and others think that! le is trying to collect evidence sufficient to i contest the election. Young Cash is six feet 1 ax inches high and weighs 240 avoirdupois. | A.11 that he said about the shooting was that f the party who did itj would call 011 him 11 the day time and give him a showing, le would accommodate him. He further stated that theycould kill him if they wantHi to, but his father would certainly avenge he assassination. LOCAL AFFAIRS. 1 . i NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 1 J. B. Allison, Clerk?Notice to Highway Snr- y veyors. j "Dobson '& Parish?Full Up! H. W. Hope?Fertilizers. J. C. Kuykendal?York Drug Store Paragraphs. 1 W. C. Latimer?Groceries. j Kennedy Bros. & Barron?Farming Implements. Withers Adickes?New Goods on the Way. J. It. Lindsay A Co.?Are Meeting any Coinpeti- t tion in their Line. < T. M. Dobson?School Books, School Books. \ R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Sheriff's Sale. J. Beatty Williams, Judge of Probate?Notice, j McElwee & Darwin?1,000 Turkeys Wanted. , COTTON SHIPMENTS. 1 The shipments of cotton trom tne uepoi m i this place, from September 1st, 1882, to Monday last, 12th instant, aggregate 5,845 bales. CHANGE OF*ADDRESS. We are requested to give notice to their friends in this county, that the postoftice address of the following parties, who moved from York county to Texas about a year ago, is changed from Grove to Chicota, Lamar Co., Texas: It. A. Black, R. S. Adams, J.;j. L. Gill, W. W. Hoover, J. J. Thomas and Mrs. 31. M. Gill. NEW TYPE. The Enquirer is printed to-day on an outfit of entirely new type, from the electrotyped heading to the last line on the fourth page; though the difference in appearance between the present and previous issues of the paper is so slight as to be scarce- 1 ly appreciable except to typographers. This . is the third dress of new type in which the . Enquirer has appeared since 1870?it being our purpose to keep the typographical ] appearance of the paper up to the progress ; of the day. CIIUllCII NOTICES. ( Episcopal?Rev. A. Prentiss. Services I in the Church of Our Saviour at Rock Hill, 1 in the forenoon, next Sunday; in the Church ' of the Good Sbenhord. Yorkvilie. at nierht. i Methodist Episcopal?Rev. It. P. Franks, 1 Pastor. Servicesat Kind's Mountain Chapel in the forenoon ; at Yorkville at night. i Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. i R. Lathan Pastor. Services at 10JJ0 A. M. i Sunday-school immediately after close of i the service. i Presbyterian?Rev. T. Jt. English, Pas- 1 tor. Services at the usual hours, morning I and evening. 1 decided language. In the trial of U. B. Whites, the default- j ing treasurer of Newberry county, one plea, in extenuation of his offense was the fact ( that he had been a good Confederate soldier, ( and since the war had been an active mem- . ber of the Democratic party. In his charge to the jury, as reported in the Newberry Herald, Judge Witherspoon used the follow- , ing emphatic language on this point of the case: "I deem it my duty to say to you, gentlemen, that all this talk about the past , services of the prisoner," (as a soldier and Democrat), "has nothing to do with this case. You are to be governed by the law and evi- ' deuce. Sad will it be for the State, when , outside influences are allowed to come into , Court and interfere with the administration , of justice." These words will commend ' themselves to all right-thinking people. ] Judge Witherspoon's charge on all points bearing upon the case is highly commended as being able and impartial. large gin house burned. The Gaffney Carolinian notes the burning . of Mrs. Jessie M. Thomson'sgin house, with i contents?about eight bales of cotton, two j thousand bushels of cotton seed and one hundred bushels of sweet potatoes?on Fri- J clay night, 2nd inst. Some hands had been J picking cotton on Friday and had tire at the < field. The first discovery of the fire was by < parties across the river in Union county, ' and it was discovered near where the has- 1 kets were set in the evening and on the opposite side of the building to where there ( were three or four hales of lint cotton, i However, nothing definite as to the origin I of the fire is known. The building was 1 perhaps the largest and best of the kind in J York county, being sixty-four feet by tliir- ! ty-two and two stories high. It was sub- j divided into convenient and neat roomsand i had every convenience. Loss from twenty- ! five hundred to three thousand dollars. In- ' surance two thousand dollars. ! 1 SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. j ? A valuable mica deposit has been discovered near Greenville. ? The town of George's, on the South Carolina Railroad, lias adopted prohibition. ( ? The question of moving the Court House of Lexington to Gilbert Hollow is now agitating the citizens of that county. ? A barn and contents in Sumter county, belonging to Solicitor J. J. Dargan, was , burnt by an incendiary fire last Thursday i night. Loss, $1,300; insurance, $o(X). 1 ?Mrs. Maria S. Wofford, the widow of 1 Benjamin Wofford, the founder of Wofford College, died in North Hudson, Wisconsin, ( January 18, aged 8(>. ? A ten-year-old daughter of William H. Groce, near Greer's Station, Greenville 1 county, was bitten by a mad dog on Tuesday of last week, and 011 the following day died of spasms caused by fright. ? Mr. C. A. Calvo, Jr., the State Printer, is now delivering the Acts of the last session of the Legislature. The work was 1 completed this year a month earlier than it ' has usually been done. ? South Carolina has one hundred thou- ( sand men available for duty, unorganized; o, 170 non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, 432 conunisoioned officers, 372 company officers, (53 general staff officers and 7 general officers. ? Major A. I), Ilitt, who, in ante-bellum ; days was one of largest cotton buyers in ; Columbia and possessed a fortune estimated at $200,000, died in the almshouse of that city 011 Saturday last, aged 78. He was , never married. ?The Lancaster Ledger says the amount of cotton yet in the fields in that country is as- ' tonishing, and cites as one instance a farmer in Indian Land township who has , one hundred acres that remains untouched in the fields. The scarcity of labor is attributed as the cause. ! ? Says the Columbia Register of Friday: ; "An examination of the return of fertilizers sold within the State for the present year shows a falling off of about 800 tons compar- < pared with the same elate last year. Tins we fear bespeaks a smaller area in small ! grain than was sown in the Fall of 18S1." ? Mr. Samuel Robertson, a young man of twenty years, living near the town of Lan- < caster, cut his leg with an axe. Ilis wound 1 was dressed and it was thought to be heal- 1 ing. A few days ago the wound began j bleeding, which could not he stopped, and 1 amputation was made on Sunday of last i week. > ? Mr. N. Frank Moulton, of Laconia, New 1 Hampshire, proposes to engage in the man- 1 ufacture of hosiery at the South Carolina J penitentiary, employing convict labor for ( this purpose. The Board of Directors have j hired him tifty-five convicts and he will 1 proceed to erect the necessary machinery, f which will cost about 30,001). ? The President has nominated M. K. Robertson for postmaster at Greenville. 1 The nomination was made against the earn- 1 est remonstrances of citizens of all parties, | who preferred Mr. Beiers, a Republican, ; who has been chief clerk in the post-office J several years; but the preference was given j to a machine politician without reference to .* lis qualifications for the position. It is jrobable that harmony will be restored by ;he retention of Beiers as assistant, with vhich the Greenville people will be satisied. ? The cause of U. B. W'hites, the defaulting treasurer of Newberry county occupied :he time of the circuit court?Judge Wither>poon presiding?on Tuesday of last week, uul resulted in a mistrial. The jury stood ) for conviction and three for acquittal, rhe indictment on which he was tried was ailing to turn over public moneys to his successor in office. Another case against aim?for embezzling public funds?was continued. ? Last Saturday morning, Randolph Gilliore, colored, of Union county, was arres:ed in Columbia and taken before United States Commissioner Bauskett on a charge >f passing and having in his possession counterfeit coin. He passed live one dolar pieces on different parties, some of whom lid not discover the fraud until after he was arrested. He claimed to have received :he counterfeit money in change from some me on Main street, and insisted that it was genuine. It is a very poor imitation of the me dollar silver United States currency, and is-made of some light soft metal. He was committed to jail in default of $1,000 bail. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Henry Walker, a revenue offfer in Albemarle county, died last Friday morning from wounds inflicted by one Fraley, an illicit distiller, who fired from ambush upon ,iis unsuspecting victim. Fraley has been irrested and the feeling against him is very strong. ? The county commissioners of Guilford refuse to grant license to negro bar-rooms in Greensboro, and their action is claimed to be a discrimination on account of color which is inhibited by the 14th amendment. There is talk of raising the question by a vumrfamux proceeding and taking it up to the Supreme Court of the United States. ? The assistant director of the U ni ted States mint visited Charlotte recently, the Observer says, for the purpose of examining the mint building in that city, and looking into its adaptability as a storage house for a portion of the surplus silver in the United States treasury. His report will be favorable, and it is probable that $20,000,000 will be stored there. ? Oliver H. Dockery, Republican candjilate in North Carolina for Congressman at large, a month ago served on R. T. Bennett, his successful competitor, a notice of contest. On Thursday last Bennett tiled his answer, claiming his election by four hundred larger majority than that shown by the official count. After Bennett tiled his answer, Dockery decided to abandon the contest, and has published an address to that effect. ? Wm S. Battle, engaged extensively in manufacturing, in Kdgecomb county, has failed for a considerable amount, and the failure involves Hon. Kemp P. Battle, President of the University of North Carolina, who has also failed for $40,000. Leroy Davidson, a prominent grocer and commission merchant of Charlotte, made an assignment last Saturday. His liabilities lire about $18,(MM), with nominal assets amounting to $22,U(H). MERE-MENTIOJi. The tribunal has quashed the indictment Against Prince Jerome Napoleon, and he was liberated last Friday afternoon. On recount of failing health. Judah P. Benjamin, the Queen's Counsel, has finally retired from the practice of his profession. The Knights of Honor of Louisville, Ky., have determined to erect a lodge building, to cost ?100,000. There is a proposition to'locate a central lodge of the order at Louisville. In it. Louis, last week, Oby E.Owens, arraigned on the charge of embezzling $200,000, while teller of the Third National Bank of that city, pleaded guilty. "When Mine Nilsson, 111 Atlanta, sang "Old Folks at Home," all the colored people in the gallery eried. The Southern telegraph Company is erecting a line of wire from Lynchburg to Danville. An English company recently bought $2,500,000 worth of rattle in Utah. Senator Ferry, of Michigan, has failed with liabilities amounting to several hundred thousand dollars. It is officially reported that the number of men Available for military duty in the United States is 0,797,000. The police of Chattanooga, Tenn., make more arrests for drunkenness and other crimes on Sunday than any other day in the week. A petition has been presented in Congress praying that all Union soldiers and sailors who were confined in Confederate prisons be pensioned. Last Thursday night John Day Farlen shot a young man named Freeman, who was eloping with his daughter, at Roxuna, Michigan. The girl's father pursued the lovers on horseback, armed with a rifle, and fired as soon as he overtook them. The Maine Legislature is about to pass a constitutional prohibitory amendment. It goes so far as to exclude cirlor Thp hill to nluco Smalls, of South Carolina, on the retired list of the United States navy has been pigeon-holed. Strong opposition to the bill comes from the Republican Secretary of the navy, who says its adoption would be legalizing social miscegeneration, to which he could never give his consent. The trial, in Dublin, ot the men charged with the assassination of Lord Cavendish is progressing; but on Saturday the court adjourned until to-day. The testimony against the accused seems to be conclusive. At Baxlcy, Ga., lastSaturday, A. X. Currey was shot and killed by George Wilcox, his father-in-law. A negro who was about to be lynched at Paola, Kansas, on Saturday, for an outrage on a girl of his own nice, killed himself by cutting his throat with a pen-knife. The swords of honor presented to Lords Wolseley and Alcester, Jby the Egyptians, cost $8,750 each. #49 The Cotton Movement.?The monthly report of the National Cotton Exchange, us made up at New Orleans last Friday, snowing thecotton movement in the United States from September to the close of January, gives the overland movement direct from producers as721,022 bales against 058,640 last year; to the millsdirect090,240 bales against 1185,447. The January shipments to the mills were 79,090 bales against 20,099 last year, and 70,887 the year before. The total spintiers' takings was 1,001,045 bales against 1,177,242 last year, and 1,100,591 the year before. The spinners took in January 220,771 bales against 100,024 bales last year. The total shipments to Canada were 20.783 bales against 21,208 bales last year. Tlie cotton in transit overland at the close of January was 15,202 bales against 5,104 last year ; at sea between ports 02,849 bales against 12,905 bales last year, the port receipts 4,280,110 bales against 0,717,1.07 bales last year. The - 11 4\ .? 4-lw\ following are uie i-urreuuuiiB i"i me iiiunui in the port receipts as telegraphed to Exchanges: 10,904 utiles; to be added to Baltimore 0,187 bales; to Newport News 1,383 bales; to Wilmington 2,808; to Boston 000 bales; to Philadelphia 306 bales. The Political Persecutions.-?Let every white man in South Carolina understand that the Federal Administration is determined to have some Democrats convicted of political offences at the approaching term of the United States Circuit Court at Charleston, if it can be done by any hocus-pocus whatever. Jt has been announced by the so-called Department of Justiceat Washington, that the existence of the Republican party in South Carolina depends upon the conviction of the Democratic defendants in the cases that are to be tried! Northern counsel has been engaged to assist the minions of Radicalism in this State in the unloly work. Think of it! Right or wrong, somebody must be convicted.?Anderson j Journal.* ? The Governor of Missouri has declined i :o deliver Frank James upon a requisition j Tom the Governor of Minnesota to answer he charge of murder in connection with the Korthfield robbery. Governor Crittenden ' ;tates that he cannot deliver the prisoner to my other State until after the disposal of :he indictments pending against him in Missouri. Correspondence of the Yorkyille Enquirer. LETTER FROM ROCK HILL. Rock Hii.l, S. CM February 12.?The many disadvantages incident to a protracted spell of inclement weather the citizens of our town and the surrounding country have been forced to suffer for the past several weeks. The farmers have done but little plowing, and the road^i are in such a condition as to prevent them from bringing in their cotton or hauling out their fertilizers. I am informed that a great deal less of the commercial fertilizers will be used this year than last year. The acids and kainit have almost supplanted the ammoniated guano. Each year seems to develop some new and improved mode of planting, cultivating and fertilizing, attended with much success, as evidenced by the unprecedented yields of the different products grown. Small grain is looking better since the weather has become warmer. The many labor-saving agricultural implements , as are peculiarly adapted to the cultivation of our lands are being used by quite a number of our farmers. One firm here received last week the largest shipment of riding and walking cultivators ever brought to this market?fifty-five in number. With the cultivator, two horses and one man can easily plow seven acres per day, breaking up the soil more thoroughly and uniformly than the old slyle of plow, while one man and two horses can do the work of six men and horses. This is not theory, or farming on paper, but the actual experience of some of our most successful and practical farmers. The trade among our merchants has kept up remarkably well, notwithstanding the bad weather. Our town, so far, has sustained the reputation of having enterprising, energetic business men. Coal is now being used at the Rock Hill cotton mill. It is equal to, if not superior to wood. The Fishing Creek cotton mill was not stopped for a single day on account of the unusually high waters. The natural fall is so great that no back water will materially interfere with the running of the mill. Hon. Giles J. Patterson and C. E. Spencer, Esq., were here last Thursday and ^ Friday, in attendance upon a court of d reference. The testimony in three cases, which had been referred, was partially taken. Quite a number of witnesses were examined before the referee, euvintr the court a considerable degree of importance. The trial justice's court has been the scene of considerable litigation during the past six weeks. I am pleased to notice the decided improvement in the Rock Hill Herald, with a continuance of its steady improvement under its present management. The Globe Hotel, under the management of Messrs. Post & Blair, the most accomodating and efficient proprietors, has been pronounced by the most fastidious commercial tourists one of the best that they find in all their travels. That settles it, and we have reason to boast of a hotel worthy the name. Lux. ? Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM UNION. Union, S. C., February 12.?There have been within a week two homicides committed in this county. One week ago last Sunday night a difficulty arose between two negroes living on the plantation of Mr. T. G. Whitlock, near Mt. Tabor, in which one was killed. The negroes claim that the J two quarreled .about some money that was due one by the other; but from what I can gather from the white people living in that neighborhood, jealousy was at the bottom of the difficulty, and that it was premedi- 1 tilted by the man and his wife. The other murder was committed in the north-western portion of the county, near the Thomson gold mine?the slayer and his victim both colored men?and from what I can learn the murder was unprovoked. On Thursday night last, a young colored man, apparently in perfect health, retired for his night's rest in a fodder loft, and the next morning he was found dead. The cause of his death is a mystery?no one assigning any reason for it. About two weeks ago, Gen. Jos. T. Gist left here on a visit to relatives in Arkansas. He spent most of last winter in Helena and vicinity, and was there during the great overflow of the Mississippi. During the past few days of dry weather the mud and slush very nearly disappeared from our streets; but it looks now as if the heavens were arrayed against us, and that we are doomed to have the everlasting mud again. One word about the farmers. A great complaint is heard of the thin stand of wheat and oats, but more especially about the oats, from all sections of the county. Where grain was sown early stands are pretty good; but the late planted wheat and oats are very thin, and in many instances it will have to r be replanted this spring with cotton or corn. Here is what Mr. J. C. Shettlesworth did on a one-horse farm, last year, in the lower part of the county. He made 011 this farm, 10 bales of cotton, averaging over 450 pounds to the bale; 125 bushels corn; 20 bushels wheat, and a small quantity of oats. Now suppose his cotton averaged only 450 pounds to the bale, and he sold the crop at an average price of 9A cents per pound, it would bring $684. The corn, at 75 cents per bushel, is worth $81.75. The wheat at $1.50 is worth $30. The seed of the cotton crop?NM) bushels?atl2A cents per bushel, is worth $50; and the shucks would be worth at least $15.25. This would give a total of $861 for the crop, to say nothing of the oats raised on the farm. Suppose it cast $461 to make the crop, $400 is a handsome income on a onehorse farm. On a four-horse farm Mr. S. made 574 bales cotton and 400 bushels corn, besides wheat and oats. Niccolo. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM BLACK'S STATION. Black's Station, S. C., February 12.? r We are having a great deal of cloudy, disagreeable weather, which has prevented the farmers from commencing their usual spring work. The sale of fertilizers has commenced, however, and the sales at this place ^ promise to be as large this year as they were last, with considerable competition among dealers. ltev. J. A. White, of Shelby, has moved to this place, and taken charge of the academy, assisted by Miss Laura Sharp. Under their efficient management the^success of the school is assured. A two-year-old child of Mr. J. M. Allison, living near here, while playing on a chair, fell and broke its leg below the knee. Mr. J. D. Williams, of our town, was married last week to Miss Lizzie Duncan, of Union county. On Wednesday evening ** many friends of the happy couple met them at the residence of Mr. D. M. Williams. The occasion was a pleasant one. The table was no less an attractive feature, arranged with much taste, with the arts of cookery that met the eye on every hand. Later in the evening a complimentary hop was given the groom and bride at the residence of Mr. Junius W. Thomson. A few days ago, our town, with other towns along the Air-Line Railroad, was excited over the rumor that a flagman on one of the freight trains had the small pox. On arriving at Atlanta, however, physicians ; there pronounced it roseola. Peter Pruitt, who at August term, 1882, of the U. S. Court at Greenville, was sen