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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
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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
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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