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Jtoapsi aai Jads. ? Senator Sherman is quoted as having said, the other day, that if the labor strikers in the iron and coal sections continue and business disasters increase, a strong pressure would be brought to bear on the President to call an extra session of Congress. ? Charles L. Williams, postmaster at Nacooche, Ga., was appointed to the office which he now holds in 1830. He boasts that he has with his own hand, made oul every quarterly return from 1830 up tt March 31, 1883. ?Gonzoles, President or Mexico, nas issued a decree declaring that the new postal code will go into operation on January 1st, 1884. The new regulations embody the best features of the American and English systems. They reduce inland postage, and entirely reform the postal system. ? There are a few of the Northern States in which labor strikes are not occurring. In some, the strikes are orderly, while in others they have have been accompanied by riotous demonstrations and bloodshed. The strike is an institution that has not made any progress thus far in the South. ? It comes from Commissioner Raum's office that a concerted and general raid will be made in the Southern States within the next two months, for the overthrow of illicit distilleries and capture of moonshiners. The government is in possession ol information that will lead to the capture of a number of unlawlul stills. ? The business failures for the week ending last Friday, reported to R. G. Dunn & Co.'s Mercnantile Agency number 205, against 189 for the previous week. The New England States nacl 29, Middle States 31, Western 57, Suuthern 44, Pacific State? and Territories 20, Canada 14, and New York City 10. ? In the course of his temperance lecture in New York, last Sunday, the veteran Dan Rice advised anv one in the audience whc had taken a drink that forenoon to make it their last. "I have said the same thins to many distinguished men," he addea "and among them Zach Chandler. 'Zach,; said I. 'make this your last drink.' And he di(l, for he was dead before day break." ? A movement is on foot to enforce that article in the constitution of Arkansas which provides that no person who denies the being of a God shall hold any office in the civil departments of the State nor be competent to testify as a witness in any court, Mayor Foster, of Texarkana, is an atheist, and that being the case, it is claimed that he has no title to his office. ? A New Orleans dispatch says that F. G. Mack, who about four weeks ago, at Morgan City, attempted to pass one of the new nickels which had beenjilated as a $5 gold piece, was convicted on Tuesday in the United States Court, the jury stongly recommending him to mercy. Judge Billings yesterday sentenced Mack to one year at hard labor in the Chester, 111., penitentiary and a fine of $1,000.# ? It is probable that the coronation of the Czar will be postponed until the lOtn of June. The latest proclamation issued by the Nihilists merely refers to the Czar in a scornful way and says he is beneath criticism. Well informed persons in Russia express the opinion that no danger is to be feared to the Czar at the Coronation, with exception, perhaps of an act of an isolated fanatic, and even that they think is unlikely. ? The LeMore Brothers were French Makers of gray cloth. The N ewT Orleans branch house supplied the Confederate army. After Butler captured New Orleans they continued to send gray cloth to the Confederates. For this he arrested and punished them without trial. A ball and chain was put on one. They brought a claim of reparation befere the Franco-American claims commission, which has awarded $10,000 to the one who wore the ball and chain and $4,000 to the other. ? This year's flood on the Mississippi has been followed by swarms of gnats in the river parishes of Louisiana and Mississippi, in the same manner as the overflow of last year, and cattle, horses and mules are falli ug before their deadly attacks. The Vicksburg Herald reports that in the neighbor hood ot Mound landing, in Jtsonvar county, Miss., forty-seven fine mules fell victims to these dreadful pests on Thursday and Friday of the first week in April. Several counties above Vis'ksburg have been invaded by the gnats. ? A Washington dispatch of Friday says: When T. B. Keogh succeeded Robert M. Douglas in the office of United States Marshal for the Western District of North Carolina Douglas refused "to turn over to his successor certain official records, alledging that they were necessary to a settlement of his accounts with the Department of Justice. Hereupon the Attorney General directed the United States Attorney for that district to make an effort to have Douglas indicted on a charge of abstracting government property. The presiding Judge of the / V\?*w4 Jlj fKo nf T^nnorlac An vuui b is uir v/i ^*** attempt is being made to bring about a settlement of the difficulty. ? The authorities of Rhode Island have published a volume on the state of Rhode Island education, which is not particularly cheerful or encouraging, although the report begins with an allusion to "abundant evidence for congratulation," and contains the general remarks of the usual kind, such as this ; "It is at the fireside that the budding intellect of every child begins to unfold and expand." The report mentions for the whole of Rhode Island but 28 free nublic libraries, with only 79,314 volumes. But far worse is the statement that out of 55,832 children between the ages of five and fifteen, 13,825 did not attend any school at all, and that the public schools had but 35.095 attendants. ? To a newspaper reporter Mr. Tilden made the statement last week that he was not figuring or in any way bothering himself about party politics, either on his own or any other man's account. His only desire, he said was "to be left alone." He keeps au coarant retarding the the political world by reading the papers and by communion with a pleasant circle of friends. Although not a candidate for any position within the gift of the party, Mr. Tilden is by no means indifferent to its future, He considers the chances for the success of the National Democratic party in 1884 as of the brightest character, as things look to-day, and he hopes for the best. In answer to the question, "Who, in yo* r judgment, is the most available man for the Presidential nomination?" the old statesman cocked his eye and looking very wisely at the newspaper man, remarked: "That is a matter that has not yet developed." ? Postmaster General Gresham is proving himself the right man in the ri?;ht place. In making postoffice appointments in Mississippi, the other day, he recommended that the recommendations of ex-Congressman Chalmers shall be given no greater weight than may be properly attached to them as recommdations from a private citizen. An order was issued on the same day to appoint Samuel Grigg to a thousand dollot* olorDcjIim i? Pncfnffifo rfmonf KVX ViVilV0111|/ XI k'iiv a. vutuiuvv Grigg was endorsed by a member of Congress from Iowa. When that gentleman applied to take the oath of office, he was asked if his residence was in Iowa, to which question he replied in the negative, adding that he lived in Virginia. The matter was referred to the Postmaster General, who declined to make the appointment, on the ground that Virginia is now full and that ne did not think it proper to credit a resident of Virginia to the State of Iowa, notwithstanding the application was endorsed by an Iowa Congressman. ?The Mormons are not idle. Sixty-one Mormon missionaries started from New York last week for different parts of the world?Sweden, England, Switzerland and Denmark?to gather recruits for the pastures of Salt Lake and the blessings of duplicated matrimony. They were of different nationalities and each one goes to his native country to invite his old friends and neighbors to the promised land. More powerful than the temptations of polygamy, if polygamy has any temptations to the average man, are the pictures of material prosperity, the thriving farms, the fat cattle and overflowing barns which the Mormon missionaries promise with perfect truthfulness, it mast be conceded, to all who go to Utah with the determination to work faithfully. These sixty-one missionaries go among people who know them and whom they know, prepared to offer great inducements to poor people to emigrate. The Tabernacle magnates are confident that each missionary ! will return within a year with at least ten ;; families apiece, or about three thousand per;! sons. If the Government has any serious !: intention of stamping out Mormonism il | might well consider this feature of thebusi; j ness. The school-house will make shorl ' | work of polygamy if the annual supply ol "converts" can be cut off. | ?hc fjorbvUle ! ' '' YORKVILLE, S. . : THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 26, 1883 EUROPEAN CAPITAL. The return of Col. John B. Palmer from Europe and the success of his mission to induce capital to this State has already been announced in these columus. He is now hnvino- two rooms in the Central National Bank building, in Columbia, fitted up foi . business offices. Col. Palmer has induced i the Dundee Mortgage and Trust Investment , Company of Dundee, Scotland, and the ( Scottish-American Mortgage Company, ol | Edinburgh, Scotland, companies having , each $5,000,000 capital and operating heretofore almost exclusively in the Northwest, ; to commence operations in South Carolina i under the recent Act authorizing loans to be ? made at 10 per cent, interest a year, and he ! is the general manager for this State. We > are told he will at once begin making loans ' on stipulated conditions, which it is thought [ will be a great help to our planters. Colonel 1 Palmer also represents the Southern States Mortgage Co., which has a capital of $5,000,i 000. This company has both British and South Carolina Directors. The South Caro' lina Directors are: Governor II. S. Thomp' son, Col. A. P. Butler, Col. John B. Palmer and Capt. W. B. Stanley. Colonel Palmer ' is the general manager in America, Col. ; James H. Rion, of Winnsboro, general counsel, and Col. John R. Abney, of Columbia, local counsel. DEATHS IjfcOUIMBIA. ^ Rev. Geo. Howe, D. D., of the Presbyte| rian Seminary at Columbia, died on Sunday , evening, April 15, 1883, at 5 o'clock. His ; death resulted from a fractured limb. Until Sunday last, it was expected that he would recover, as he seemed to be getting on so well. Dr. Howe was born in Massachusetts, in 1802, and descended from one ol the Pilgrim Fathers, who landed on Plymouth Rock. At the age of 12 he removed to Pennsylvania, and attended school there and in Vermont until 20 years of age. He finally graduated at Andover Theological . Seminary at 25; he was elected professor of Theology at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and his health failing, he came South in 1830. He was offered the Professorship of Greek and Hebrew in the Seminary at Columbia in 1831, and his connection with that school has remained unbroken until now. At the time of his death, he was professor of Biblical Literature and was also chairman of the faculty. Dr. Howe was twice married, and leaves a wife and several children. He occupied a high place in his denomination, and his death is greatly lamented. The eminent surgeon, and well-known physician, Dr. E. B. Turnipseed, of Columbia, died at <his home in that city on the n -f+oi. .11, lllllOUU nf Ol fr)l + /l 11 V? 11 in iinuuii, anci <4.11 iiiuvoi? v/* vi^?>v He will be remembered by many as surgeon of the Twelfth S. C. Volunteers in the early part of the war. Of him the Columbia Register says: "In his death many of the suffering poor of our city have lost a devoted friend as well as a skillful attendant, and the profession of medicine a member who was as bold and independent in the maintenance of his views, as he was thoroughly versed in the theory and practice of the healing art." THE POLITICAL TRIALS. In the United States Circuit Court at Charleston last Saturday, Judge Bond presiding, a motion was made by United States District Attorney Melton to have the election cases on the docket continued to a special term to be called for the first Monday in November next, at Charleston. The motion was resisted by A. G. Magrath, counsel for the accused, and Judge Bond announced that he would not order a special term, as there was not work to warrant it. He suggested that the present term might be adjourned over to an earlier day in November than that fixed by law for th^ holding of the regular term at Columbia, in ordef that the election cases might be tried here, where it is pleasanter. No definite action has yet been taken on this suggestion, however, and if the Court simply adjourns sine die all the election cases will, under the rule, go over to the regular term at Columbia in November next. After this matter was disposed of Mr. Magrath, of counsel for the prisoners, brought up the matter of the construction of the letter promulgated by Judge Bond several days ago, when the following colloquy ensued between counsel and the Court, as reported in the Sunday News : "These arrests," Mr. Magrath said, "have been uniformly made on information and belief, and 1 will ask your Honors if an affidavit on information and belief, merely supported by no other paper connected with the arrest, is a paper because it issues from a Commissioner's office upon which a citizen can be arrested. I made this objection before the Commissioner. The Commissioner stated that he had otherevidence, and that in his opinion that other evidence furnished him with the probable cause for the arrest. That other evidence was a paper unsworn to. stoned by some six or eight persons who, tlie Commissioner publicly stated, he knew nothing about. lie didn't know the parties nor their handwriting, and the statement was unsworn to. Does your Honor rule that that would be probable cause for arrest ? Judge Bond: If you want me to say whether a man can be arrested on the information and belief of a person, I must know the circumstances. It depends upon what the party is accused of and the party who gives the information. AT*. AT.wyfo+Vi . Tu Tint tfio infnrmot.irm which is given to the affiant a part of the information which is bound to ne exposed to the accused ? Judge Bond: The United States is not bound to disclose its case. There is no case before the Court at present. When an arrest is made in this way the party can be brought before .the Court on habeas corpus, and the question can be determined. Mr. Magrath : We merely thought your Honors might have been induced to make your former order more explicit. Judge Bond : I think the instructions already given are as clear as need be to any Commissioner who has sense enough to be a | Commissioner. Judge Magrath : That is exactly what we i think, may it please the Court. Mr. Melton: We think so too, may it ! please your Honors. The discussion thus ended in this rather i unsatisfactory manner, and the court proI ceeded to dispose of civil matters. Dog Oil for Consumption.?Last week J a report reached our office that a fine fat dog j had been killed by an Aiken butcher upon the order of a consumptive visitor from Minnesota, for edible purposes. Upon investigation we learned from the butcher j himself that the canine was not killed for! the sake of his meat, but for the oil contained in his fat, which the gentleman proposes to drink as a cure for consumption.?Aiken Recorder. | A LITTLE SARCASM. Some of the officers who handle the mon| ey of the State and Counties have objected to the law requiring them to make ; itimized reports each year. The editor of the Abbeville Press and Banner deals with ' such in the following style: ^ Seriously, it was certainly a piece of outrageous presumption on the part of our ' Legislators, to pass a law which required the people's financial agents to make full and exact reports of their managements of the taxpayer's money. For this reason, these officers are not to be blamed for not complying with its provisions. It cost too much money to let people know the facts as to where the different sums went, and then to require each officer to give an itemized statement of his drafts and payments from the public treasury might expose some little acts of personal favoritism which every officer has a perfect right to grant his friends. Why require all these officers to make reports? One of them would answer every purpose. If one of them is honest, it necessarily follows that all others are faithful to their trusts. T).?4- aK/v?tm r*ll 4L{l! rvriri nfr inln flin L)UL, ftUUVC aU) UllJ WHO iiiiv/ viiv business of our masters? Why expose their actings and doings to the vulgar gaze i of the tax-payer? Why open their hooks to everybody, when it is known that anyi body, even if he lives twenty miles from , the Court House, can come here and deI mand the exercise of his right to see the ' books and records of any public officer? Why then expose his books and reports to 1 the inspection of every private citzen, to S every loafing crowd on the street corner, at > the railway stations or elsewhere ? These [ idlers should have other business than seeking flaws and errors or even worse in the financial management of our public funds! If an honest officer has matte a mistake , why expose his error in this heartless man[ ner? It might injure him in the race for ? re-election. We say then, let our officers, our grand ' jurors, our newspapers, and persons who ! hope to hold office, join in the demand up> on our Legislators to repeal this odious law. ; If it remains on the books, how are errors, [ steals, and wrongs to be covered up and smoothed over ? Let the law be repealed instantly. Let no such Democratic outrages remain on our books, which at some unex pected moment may ruin the character of a good and true Democrat officer, who may now be above suspicion. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. I ?Charlotte is to have a union depot cost ing $50,000. ? From all parts of the State, the reports are favorable for a good fruit crop. It appears to have suffered little if any from the sudden and severe changes during last month. ? In Monroe, on the 16th instant, Miss i Rebecca West was handling a pistol which was supposed not to be loaded, but one chamber contained a cartridge, which was exploded, the ball striking E. C. Edgeworth, inflicting a wound which may prove fatal. ? Last Friday night the store of Julius Grier, a merchant in the Providence neighborhood, Mecklenburg county, was burnt, with a stock of goods, involving a loss of about $2,000. The fire originated from the explosion of a kerosene lamp. ? The Charlotte Journal- Observer says that . Mr. John Redman, an old citizen of Iredell county, was killed by two of his nephews, sons of Mr. Absalom liedman, on the morning of the 18th instant, in a quarrel over the dividing line between their lands. ? Dr. R. W. Glenn, an old and well known physician of Greensboro, died very suddenly in his office last Saturday evening. He was attending to a lady patient, when he suddenly remarked that ne felt ill and requested the lady to go down stairs and summon his son, which she at once did. When the Doctor's son came in he found his father lying on the sofa, and was greeted with the remark: "You can't do anything for me, son; I'm dying with congestion of the 1 luners." He exnired in a few minutes after wards. I)r. Glenn was greatly esteemed in Greensboro both as a citizen and a physician, and his sad and sudden death is deeply regretted. -? SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? It is estimated that not less than 4,000 bales of last year's cotton crop are still in the hands of the farmers in Chester county. ? Mr. H. Blanchard, of Boston, has subscribed $999,500 to the Mount Pleasant, S. C., railroad. ? The colored Baptist Church at Forkville, Abbeville county, was destroyed by an incendiary fire last Saturday. ? La?t Tuesday six more of the forty immigrants who arrived in Camden in January last left for other climes. Of the forty only one family still remains in the county. ? Mr. C. B. Lewis, traveling correspondent of the Detroit Free Press, over the signature of "M. Quad," paid Greenville a visit last week. ? The State Dental Association met at Aiken Tuesday and adjourned 011 Thursday. The attendance was unusually large and the proceedings were highly interesting. ? At the dedication of Piedmont institute, last Friday, Col. A. Coward, State .Superintendent of Education, and the Revs. Messrs. Elwell and McCaslin delivered eloquent addresses. ? W. H. Day, master car builder in the railroad shops, was elected Intendant of Florence last Monday. His opponent was Belton O'Neil Townsend, a lawyer. The vote stood: Day 265, Townsend 215. ? Catawba river was higher last Monday than it has been for ten years, owing to lipflw mins the nrevious dav and nierht. Seven spans of the trestle of the Cheraw & Chester Railroad, just completed were washed away. 1 ? The unveiling of the Confederate inon- 1 ument at Camden will take place on Wednesday, June 20th, instead of the loth as Ereviously published. The monument will e erected at the intersection of Broad and Laurens streets. ? The local freight train, with passenger coach attached, on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad now runs only triweekly. It goes northward on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and Southward on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. ? Four hundred dollars was raised at Chester C. H. in a few hours last week for the defense of the persecuted Democrats of that county. Rossville has raised over one hundred dollars. Other clubs in the county will do ther part. ? Barnwell Democrats, indicted in the United States Court at Charleston, presented a beautiful bouqet of flowers to Mrs. W. P. Snyder, the wife of Melton's special assistant counsel in the prosecutions. The lady is a Democrat, and is trying to convince her husband of the error of his way. ? Pickens Sentinel: In many instances the fall sown oats which were thought to have been ruined by the cold winter are bunching surprisingly and promise a pretty fair crop. There is generally a good stand of spring sown oats, though dry weather and | rust may injure them so much that they may not produce so much as the seed. ? An election held at Gaffney City on the 19th instant on making a subscription to the Union, Gaffney City and Rutherfordton Railroad of $8,000 by the town of Gaffney City was carried by a unanimous vote, and $16,000 by Limestone township was carried by a large majority,almost unanimous. The election for a subscription of $100,000 by Rutherford county, N. C., is to be held on the 12th of May. i ?On last Thursday President Haskell and j the officers of the Charlotte, Columbia and J( Augusta Railroad, together with a delega- ,t tionof citizens from Chester and Lancas- { i ter, visited the new trestle across the [ | Catawba River on the line of the Chester j | and Cheraw Road. The structure has been . built within the past eight weeks at a cost j of $2,500. It is substantial in make, and * adds greatly to the value of the road. j ? The Winnsboro' News and Herald says: ?. "Reports from the country are to the effect t that the farmers are badly behind in prepar- ^ ing and planting their crops. As yet very t ! little corn has been planted, and it is now j about or near the usual time for planting 8 cotton. It is needless to say that the eondition of affairs reported is not attributable to r the indolence of our farmers, but to the un- a I usually bad and inclement weather for the t past two or three months." ^ ? William P. Snyder of Allentown, Pa., t Melton's assistant attorney in the political s prosecutions, has purchased 5,400 acres of t fine timber land in Chesterfield county from Colonel E. B. C. Cash, and proposes to have j four saw mills, costing about $8,(KM) each, in full operation within the next six months, i He says there is money in it, and he proposes to make South Carolina his home for , a portion of each year at least. We will bet \ < a hat that Snyder will vote the straight I. Democratic ticket at the next election. ? Jesse F. Cleveland, a young man of the i' most respectable family connections, for two ;, years or more, and until a short time a^o a ' teller in the National bank at Greenville, ] left that town on the 9th instant, ostensibly to visit Florida for the purpose of getting married. It has since transpired that he absconded, leaving unpaid debts to the j amount of $5,(KM), including about $2,")00 j taken from the bank while he was teller. \ When last heard from he was at Houston, Texas. ? Adjutant-General Manigault is sending nirinilnpj t/i thp tJlirvivinnr orpnPrsll offk'Prs! nf South Carolina in the Confederate army re- } questing them to furnish him a statement ] of their field and staff officers during the war, for use in making up the Confederate roster. These circulars are addressed also ] to the relatives or representatives of general officers who died during or since the war. There were in the Confederate service from South Carolina four major-generals, three ( lieutenant-generals and twenty-four briga- 1 dier-generals, besides two major-generals < and seven brigadier-generals natives of < South Carolina, but residents of other States , at the time of their appointment and appointed from them. For tlie Yorkville Enquirer. THE ELECTION AT BLACK'S. Black's, S. C., April 10.?I gave to the i Enquirer of the 29th ultimo, as an item of ( news, the result of the municipal election ^ of the 26th, that the issue was made square, License or no License; and as some one writing over the signature of "Citizen" from this place has made an effort to show ] that I had misrepresented and that they 1 would correctly inform the public. If it is J of any interest to any one except ourselves ( locally, as to how the vote was cast, and i in1 vindication of myself who have for a \ long time reported to your paper and al- , ways made an effort to be correct in my information, I will give you the result of the vote as stated by the .managers of tfce election, who still have the vote and poll list 1 preserved and are informed as to how each ( individual cast his vote. The total vote was 50; 38 whites and 12 colored. .Dr. Wil- . liain Anderson, who was a candidate for 1 Intendant on the no License ticket, with < two of the candidates for wardens on the i same ticket, received 15 votes; the other t two, 17 votes each. James W. Black, who was a candidate on the License ticket for Intendant, received 33 votes; two of the wardens, and the other two, 32 votes, and t that two voted independently of the vote ] cast for license was 21 white and 12 colored, , instead of 16 white and 17 colored, as rep- ; resented by "Citizen." The 21 white voters 1 who votecl for License, are respectable and t permanent citizens and legal voters, and c not transient, as "Citizen" seemed to want ( to impress the public. "Citizen" has no right to suppose how the eight not voting would have voted. Some of them publicly expressed themselves in favor of the i License ticket. As to what was the ques- . tion, the no License party presented no I other grounds than that tne Prohibition k party should carry for the sake of prohibition, and if these tax-payers, property- ? holders and good men, as "Citizen" calls ' them, had not been so easily put off their J lead, they might have carried their party ^ triumphantly through. "Citizen" infers 1 that those voting for License are not a very * responsible or a very respectable class. I don't reflect upon the voters of either side; but if "Citizen" will stick close to the truth it will make him more respectable. ? Joseph Black. ( ? ] Serious Railroad Accident.?The most serious accident on the North Carolina ' Central Railroad in ten years occurred near High Point on Wednesday of last week. 1 The accident occurred in a deep cut two c miles from that town, and was caused by a s cow. When nearing the fatal spot the c engineer of the northbound freight train saw the cow on the track ahead of nim and gave the usual warning notes through the whistle. The cow continued on the track and though the speed of the train was check- j ed by the application of the brakes the en- ( gine struck the cow just as the deepest part *of the cut was reached. The cow was r knocked forward a few feet and in a mo- \ ment was under the wheels of the engine, a The drivers bounced the rail and the engine n fell over on its side against the embank- , ment and was driven deep into the earth by the two forward box cars, which being im- * polled by the momentum of the heavy train, a were driven on top of the engine. Engineer n Gayle, who stood with his hands on the le- c ver at the moment of the crash, was drawn from under the debris* dead. His body was terribly mangled and death must have been instantaneous. The fireman, Wm. Wilson, \ white, had a narrow escape, but managed to jump partly clear of the wreck. He was T struck by some timbers and badly hurt. 1 The flagman who was on the forward car, was 1 painfully, but not seriously injured. The 11 wreck was extensive, nearly the whole of the train having been completely destroyed, j and the cars being wedged tightly between the banks of the cut, the work of clearing ' the track was exceedingly difficult, requir- h ing two material trains, each with a set of A hands working on either side of the wreck K eighteen hours, tp clear away the ruins and y replace the track, which was torn up for a -y considerable distance. g What South Cakolina has Learned.?South Carolina is one of the Southern t< States that has hearkened to the advice giv- H en by the press, to diversify crops and not give up too much of the land ana labor to cotton. By devoting more care to the cultivation of the staple, and bv using more fer- o tilizers, she has succeeded in raising larger u cQtton crops than ever, with the same acre- ^ Eige and even less labor than she formerly employed ; while the extra labor is used in P the production of home grown supplies, h such as corn, wheat, oats and potatoes. F How advantageous is the diversified farm- y ing is proved By the fact that an increase of j home grown supplies is accompanied by an increase of cotton. A report of the South Carolina Depart- n ment of Agriculture shows that in the past o: three years that State has increased her pro- d iuction of wheat from 962,358 to 2,973,600 ^ bushels, or more than three-fold ; her pro- T Iuction of oats from 2,715,050 to 8,094,600 r bushels, at the same time that her cotton L jrop has advanced from 522,548 to 630,758 b bales. Besides these there was a large in- tl urease in melons, lettuce, cabbage, sweet t* ind Irish potatoes and other vegetables, j strawberries and fruits of all kind. South Carolina, of all the Southern States, ippears to best appreciate the situation, as eJ jhe is showing by building dozens of cotton G mills and raising food crops instead of all la ;otton.?New Orleans Times-Democrat. ]j Attack on a Circus.?At Dover, Del- lc iware, last Saturday evening a circus com- J pany was attacked by a mob after the per- n< ormance had concluded. The mob open- h< hi nre on me wagons us mey were uemg muiled to the depot for embarkation occupied by a guard of showmen. Eight or :en circus employees were shot, some se- at iously. Charles Henderson, one of the ie proprietors, was shot in the eye and head, p )ne of the drivers was shot from his wag>n. A portion of the wounded were taken P' o the office of a physician, where their in- w uries were attended to and others were 01 arried to the cars. A committee of citi- te :ens waited upon the sheriff at midnight th ind requested him to restore order and i rail out the militia to suppress the out- v preak. That official hastily summoned a Y posse, with which he waited upon the pro- tli prietors of the show and tendered them his lerviees, and under their protection the re- a nainderofthe wagons proceeded from the es ihow grounds to the depot without moles- v< ation. All the wagons were loaded and pc it 3 o'clock Sunday morning a special at rain started for Cambridge, Md., with a is physician in charge of the wounded. No fr irrests have yet been made. Several pri- to /ate residences and places of business were ar iddled with bullets. Breech-loading guns 01 md revolvers were the weapons used by ca he attacking mob, who were dissatisfied as vith the show. A dispatch from Cam- to pridge, where the show exhibited Monday ac tated that there was no hope for the recov- ci< >ry of Henderson. eli LOCAL AFFAIRS. ; new advertisements. ! L'. 10. Spencer, Intendant?Town lOlaetion. Many Planters?Cotton for sale. T. 10d. Jetl'ervs A* Co.?New Furniture Store. , 1 L'lark Brothers?Hams. lohn C. Kuykeudal?York Drug Store Para- | 1 graphs. | ] I. M. Adams?Headquarters for Stoves?New i , Hoods?Cutlery, etc. ieo. \V. S. Hart?Assignee's Sale, r. M. Dobson?Dress Makingand Millinery. May A May?Drugs, Ac. railroad agent. ( INIr. A. F. McConnell lias resigned his po- ^ sition of agent of the C. & L. Railroad at 1 this place, his resignation to take effect on ( the 1st of May. He will be succeeded by ^ Mr. T. C. Dunlap. ( twinTtalves. Mr. H. C. Conner, who lives about 2A miles 1 north-west of town, has a cow that gave i birth, the other day, to twin calves, both of 1 which are perfectly formed and healthy ani- < mals. i PERSONAL. Rev. R. Latlmn went to Chester last TuesJay, by appointment of Hon. J. J. Hemptiill, to act as one of the board of examiners )f the applicants for cadetship from this Congressional District to the Annapolis Naral Academy. DIED IN THE ASYLUM. We learn by a note, just received, that Mr. John Nivens, an inmate of the Lunatic Asylum, died in that institution on the 13th instant. He was the son of Mr. J. G. Niv?ns, of Fort Mill township, and about twenty-two years of age. \ THE BAPTIST CHURCH. The Rev. J. E. Covington, of Marlboro, :ias accepted a call to the pastorate of the ^ Baptist church in this place and of Union s jhurch, four miles north of town. Pie will nake his home in Yorkville, and will enter apon his pastoral duties about the loth of lext month. THE LINCOLN PRESS. We have received the initial number of be above publication, commenced at Liniolnton, X. C., W. T. Massey, proprietor, ind John C. Tipton, editor. Mr. Tipton is avorably known as having been formerly iditor of the Gaston ia Gazette. The Press s a neatly printed sheet and gives evidence :hat it will be conducted with ability. THE POSTOFFICE. The Postoftice department has ordered, is a tribute of respect to Hon. Timothy O. Flo we, deceased, late Postmaster General, bat all the postoffices throughout the coun;ry shall be closed on Saturday next from 2 :o 5 o'clock P. M. In conformity to this >rder the postofflce in Yorkville will be closed between the hours named. ' STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY. The State Medical Society of South Caroina met in annual session in this place yesterday. The following members of the society, arrived on Tuesday afternoon: R. A. Kinloch, F. L. Parker, H. I). Fra;ier, T. B. McDow, Jno. Forrest, G'harleson; J. C. Wilcox, Darlington; T. J. Metvie, Woodlawn; J. C. W. Kennedy, Mt. Willing; E. Miller, Florence; MoffattWyie, C. L. Clawson, Chester; A. A. Moore, Camden; C. Taber, Orangeburg. HAIL STORM. About "> o'clock last Sunday afternoon a evere hail storm passed over the Turkey >eek section, in this county, extending to f Philadelphia Church. The hail was dam igmg to tne young iruii ami me growing n vheat and oats. In the section visited by c he storm, we learn there was a partial * rop of fruit, but the most of it was tie- ^ troyed. In this place and other sections if the county, a heavy rain fell on Sunday t iveningand night. t NEW FURNITURE STORE. By reference to our advertising columns, f t will be seen that Messrs. J. Ed. Jefferys<fe C to., have opened a furniture store in one ? oomofthe old IlarrisHotel building. They 11 viil keep a full line of furniture of all styles, [ nd furnish coffins, burial cases, &c., at short ]. lotice. Besides the goods kept in stock, Mr. e efferys, manager of the house, is one of e he most skillful mechanics in the country, j nd will repair any article of furniture, or ? uake to order any thing in the line of ^ abinet or light wood work. CHURCH NOTICES. Episcopal?Rev. A. Prentiss, Rector. Serices next Sunday at 11 A. M., and 8 P. M. t Methodist Episcopal?Rev. R. P. Franks, \ 'astor. Services at Philadelphia church at d 1 A. M.; in the church at Yorkville at ight. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. t. Lathan, Pastor. Preaching in this church 17J P. M., to-morrow, (Friday;) lOi A. M., ^ aturda.v, and at the same hour on Sunday v Drenoon, when the sacrament of the Lord's J upper will be administered. The pastor c rill be assisted by Rev. J. T. Chalmers, of <1 Vinnsboro. Preaching also at 1\ P. M., unday. J( Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pas- a jr. Services on next Sunday morning at a 0.30 and in the evening at 8 o'clock. si GRAND LODGE K. OF H. 'I The Grand Lodge of the Knights of Hon- m r of South Carolina held their seventh an- h ual session in Aiken last week. Grand Dieitor J. W. Perrin and the other officers were ^ resent, with the exception of Grand Chap- e tin Brice. After initiating members in the o 'ourth degree it was found that forty lodges ir rere represented out of a total of fifty-four. rl t was found by report that four new lodges J -ere organized during the past year. The ^ leinbership of the lodges is two thousand i? ne hundred and seventeen; the number of Si eaths seventeen during the year. Reports P' rere read by the Grand Dictator, Grand Jy reasurer and Grand Reporter, and by the elegate to the Supreme Lodge. The fol- j)( >wing officers were elected to serve during tl le ensuing year : R. O. Sams, Grand Die- tl itor; A. Coward, Grand Vice-Dictator; tl ulius L. Moses, Assistant Grand Dictator ; ^ . W. Holland, Grand Reporter; J. T. Rob- j)( tson, Grand Treasurer; Henry Kohn, w rand Guide ; B. G. Clifford, Grand Chap- cc in: G. D. Maxwell. Grand Guardian; M. p; . McSweeney, Grand Sentinel, and the fol- ^ iwing Grand Trustees: M. L. Bonham, . r., \V. R. Delgar and J. L. Addison. The ^ ext meeting of the Grand Lodge will be eld in Charleston. cc KIND WORDS. The correspondent of the Rock Hill HerW, who reported for that paper an excelnt synopsis of the proceedings of Bethel resbytery last week, introduces his re- ^ jrt with the following kindly remarks ^ hich we take pleasure in transferring to ' j ir columns, only adding that if the wri- g( r represents the town of Rock Hill and T le Eastern section of York county gener- in ly, the sentiments he expresses toward c' orkville are heartily re-echoed to our iriving sister town: - Jn The people of Yorkville received us with Co hearty welcome?threw open their hous- ,So i, and they are now giving the visitors the to ?ry best. Their splendid hospitality dis- th )sed in such a kindly way, makes us feel m ; home among them. Our sincere wish ju that some blessing may tall upon them m om the.se exercises in their midst. This tr wn has a long and good history of kind j.si id noble deeds. It is the place where jlt ir forefathers and mothers in days gone by .si; .me for nearly all their supplies, and the y< sociations of the past still make us love come from time to time and renew our quaintance with the spot of so many prp- ?? ous memories. Time has made great re langes. The country has felt the steps of to ts progressive march, while the old citizens are fast disappearing from the earthly stage and giving ylace to others of the rising generation. orkville seems to be improving. We see new buildings and others repaired?the work of the past year or two?and an indication of prosperity. May tier prospects continue bright, and her good people be ever blessed in possession of nappi ness and peace. THE CONCORD OVERTURE. The action of Bethel Presbytery touching the question of a man marrying his deeeas-i id wife's sister must be concurred in by i two-thirds of all the Presbyteries constituting the Southern General Assembly. Several Presbyteries have recently acted upon j this overture substantially the same as the ; lisposition of it by Bethel Presbytery in j jession at this place last week?among them the Orange Presbytery of North Carolina md the Chesapeake and the Hanover Presbyteries of Virginia. The Wilmington, N. "., Presbytery decided to maintain the itutrn quo. Alluding to this subject, the jlreensboro Patriot has the following paragraph, which may explain the origin of this much vexed question : Though the inhibition in the Confession of Faith is treated by many as a dead law, ivhen its violation is brought to the atten:ion of the Church court the discipline is enforced. Such was the case several years igo with Rev. Mr. McQueen of the North Carolina Synod. His case was appealed to ;he General Assembly, and the decision of Presbytery was affirmed by that court of last esort. Since that time the question of unending the Confession of Faith has been igitated, and has resulted in submitting the luestion to the different Presbyteries, in :no shape of the ''Concord Overture." THE KOCK HILL ROAD CASE. Judge Kershaw has filed his decision in ;he above case, entitled York County vs. 5am'I M. Fewell, which is as follows: This was an appeal from the decision of ,ne commissioners 01 x orK county, mying put a public road through the lands of the lefendant, and alio wing compensation therebr, from which the defendant has appealed. The testimony has been taken and reported :o the Court, and the case was heard upon :he papers, testimony and argument of counsel. The first ground of appeal is that the compensation awarded was insufficient, and igainst the evidence. The law requires that just compensation ihall be made to the proprietor of lands :aken for public uses, and the prepondermce of the testimony here, raises great ioubt as to whether the sum allowed by the Jommissioners is sufficient fully to compensate the defendant. When there is so vide a difference of opinion as is manifes:ed in the testimony I think it proper to efer that question to the determination of i jury. It is very probable that the defendmt would have a right to the verdict of a ury before he could be deprived of his property; but at all events, the circumstances lere are such as to satisfy me of the propriety of taking the course suggested. As to the objection to the width of the oad, the Act of 1825 upon which the appelant rests his objection, was repealeddpy the jJeneral Statutes of 1872. And I find no aw now limiting the Commissioners in any ase, in laying on a highway, to one of less han 80 feet width. If a highway leading to Camden in 1825 vould reasonably require to be of that width hm mfiv bo inferred from the law hen enacted, a highway to Rock Hill, and o near to that town as this, would reasona)Iy require as much space, and I apprehend hat in the absence of any statute law for)idding it, the authority to lay oft' a highvay would include or imply the power to five it a reasonable width. The propriety of laying off the highway tnd the necessity and propriety of the loation, are matters so much in the discre- , ion of the Commissioners, that in the abence of manifest unfairness or impropriety, he Court would not interfere. The circumstances here are not such, cerainlyj as would make it proper to overturn . he decision of the special Commissioners , ppointed by the County Commissioners. | It is ordered and adjudged that it be reerred to a jury at the next term of the ( Court for York county upon the testimony . lready taken herein to ascertain upon an , ssue to be framed for that purpose, and sub- J nitted to them, the amount of compensa- , ion to be allowed the appellant, Samuel M. ! Vwell, for damages, which will be sustain- ( d by him by reason of the laying off and stablishment of the said highway, and that : n all other respects the action of the County Commissioners and their determination of he matter involved in this appeal be con- . irmed and made the decision of this Court. : That upon the finding of the jury upon 1 he question of damages, the appellant have Lidgment for the amount by them to be de- j ermined, upon the approval of the same by he Judge presiding at the rendition of the , erdict, the costs of this appeal to await the j ietermination of the issue herein directed. . J. 13. KERSHAW, April iO, 18S.'l. Presiding Judge. ] ??i Returning from Liberia.?In a diision of a second class coach of the south- < ound train of the Richmond and *Dan- < ille Railroad that arrived in Charlotte ( f. C., last Thursday, was a group of nine i olored people?two women and seven chil- 1 ren?who were ju.st reaching home. They ?ft two years ago to cast tneir lot 011 the 1 hores of Liberia, a land, they were made i } believe, flowing with milk and honey, J nd where the only work required to make f: living was to go out in the woods and c hake a tree, when enough provisions would t dl to make a meal for a family of ten. c 'his was their idea of Liberia, and they 3 rere doomed to bitter disappointment and r )ng months of homesickness and weary i jffering: The party got off the train at c oncord, their old home. They all belong- r cl to the Phifer plantation, and they were ? nabled to come home through the kindness t f their white friends in Concord, who 1 lade up a sufficient sum to bring them. L he party were just two months making e le journey home, and when they arrived a ley were found to be in a pitiable condi- a on. Their feet are strangely afflicted, 1: eing swollen to three times the usual size, j mtie had lost their toes, which had drop- p ed off as if through leprosy. This disease s i said to be caused by insects which Jattack t le people of Liberia. In some instances r lese insects attack the whole body of a t erson, but generally they are confined to I le feet. A physician of Charlotte was on I le train and became greatly interested in le case. The sufferers told him that their et were then in much better condition lan when they left Liberia. Their troubles 2gan 011 the first day of landing in Liberia v hen they saw that their idea about the a mntry was vastly mistaken, and the whole a ?J--~ ..1,1 ftiViin fViof I fl iny WUU1U UCIVU ictuintu ill Uiv cjaajl^ uu?v ? irried them over had it been possible, a iieir friends left behind are sick and dy- ti ig, and have hoplessly abandoned the idea y " ever getting back unless through the It moronity of their white friends in this a \ ? Correspondence of the Yorkville EnquirerX 0] \ti LINES FROM TEXAS. Y Tucker Station, Texas, April 18.?This h ation is 81 miles from Palestine, on the I. H G. N. Railroad. We have a depot, ticket ai id express office and two stores in the ti ace. We also have a church and school II >ing on, to which my children are going, ft am ticket and express agent, and am sell- ft g goods, work a garden, raise my own y uckens, keep two cows and get more milk 21 id butter than my family can consume, ft lie range for cows and horses is fine. Far- ft ers are generally busy with work, on ae- )v unt of so much wet weather; though ft me few are beginning to work corn. Got- L n planting has been progressing for more $ an two weeks. There were 27 persons in ft imber?little and grown?landed at my ? )use on the 22nd of January last from Fort ni ill township, York county, S. C.?all rela- tc ces but one, and I believe they are all sat- Si tied. No sickness with us. I have one al n carrying 104 young chickens, from the J1: ce of partridges to the smallest size. Can is >u beat this in York county ? i ,K Henry F. Johnson. .v'di ^h -Jt-is stated that the laws against the ir tailing of liquor outside of incorporated rt wns are utterly ignored in Pickens county, ti Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. THE CHEROKEE FALLS FACTORY. Hickory Grove, S. C., April 19.?On Friday last, in company with some friends, I visited the Cherokee Falls Manufacturing Company, attracted thither by the report of a picnic, and a desire to personally inspect the works, business and establishment of the above-named company. The day was favorable, clear and bright, after the rainy weather of the first part of the week, and on arriving, we found a goodly number of persons already assembled, of both sexes, old and young, no doubt drawn thither by the same motives and desires, in part at 'least, of your correspondent. Very soon after our arrival?about 11 o'clock?the crowd was considerably increased by fresh arrivals from Black's Station and Gaffney City, flourishing towns on the opposite side of 1 x r. _ 1 uroatl mver ana hoi mr away ; aim iu?u from the South, along the tributaries of the river. Three things usually determine the character of all picnics: the appearance and behaviour of the crowd assembled; the pleasure sought, or in ordinary parlance, the business of the day; and the picnic proper, or the dinner prepared. At dinner time 1 took a calm survey of the crowd, and both as to personnel and behavior I pronounced it good. The ladies were pretty, chatty and attractive; the gentlemen attentive, obliging, temperate and thoughtful. There was less billing and cooing, moonshine and nonsense than ordinarily characterizes such occasions, judging from what we saw when the company were assembled. The examination and inspection of the factory buildings, the tenement houses, the store near by and the river rolling its muddy waters around and along the NinetyNine Islands, furnished the means as well as the character of the picnicers' pleasures. Fishing, boating, chatting and loitering around, with here and there some sentiment and romance, formed the staple of the pleasant bill of fare. The dinner, prepared by the ladies, and spread out on nice and clean cloths, on the bank of the river, without any apparent design, was abundant and excellent, both as to the materials and the manner of its preparation. Altogether, I pronounce this a good picnic, and its pleasures largely due to the fadies of Black's Station, and Gaffney City, and heightened considerably by some visiting ladies from the State of Pennsylvania and the City of the Quakers. But your correspondent had a double motive in being there that day, and perhaps a few facts in reference to the new industry and its operations may not be void of interest. The works of the Cherokee Falls Manufacturing Company are located on the nlrl citfl nf thu PhornVoti Trnn Wnrts lnnor since numbered among the things of the past?one mile below and south of the Cherokee Ford, on Broad River, and about five miles from Black's Station, and six miles from Gaffney City, both thriving villages on opposite sides of the river and located on the Air-Line Railroad. The site was purchased by Mr. J. A. Deal in January, 1881, and very soon afterwards the factory was projected and the work commenced under the auspices and by the conjoined energies, labor and means principally of three men?Mr. Deal, of York county, S. C.; J. W. Torrence, of Mecklenburg county, N. C.; and Alexander Latham, of Charleston? the last-named of whom is now dead. The company was incorporated by the Legislature of this State at trie session of 1882. Some time during the early part of the year 1882, the company commenced spinning yarn with 2,000 spindles, and in January last, 2,500 more were added, making a total of 4,500 spindles now in operation. The original cost of the buildings, jnachinery, water-supply and the whole paraphernalia was about $80,000. The factory buildings consisist of the main building along the river, the tenement houses, 25 in number, ranged along two hillsides in form of an inverted V, with a store house at the base, near by the factory, and a grist mill a short distance up the river, and another house used at times both as a school house and church. The buildings are substantially built'and apparently of good materials. The main factory building is of brick, 100 feet long and 50 feet wide, three stories in height parallel with the river, with an "L" running north used as a preparatory department for cutting, sorting, cleaning and rolling the raw staple. The number of hands now engaged is 45 or upwards, all white, except one, a negro. The number of the factory population is about 125 or b'10. The amount of cotton consumed is 3 bales per day, or 18 per week, tlfxU 111U UlUUUV/b V/X UXIXOj XXX U1V OUU^V VA warps and twist yarns, by an arrangement of the superintendent, is shipped to a house in Philadelphia., Shipments are made weekly. The goods now sell for 18 cents per pound, less freight and commissions. The stockholders of the company now number eight, and in the payment of operatives use a system of checks payable at their store, which enables them to retain much of the wages-money, and is alike convenient and beneficial to the operatives. The water power is developed at present >0 as to leave a surplus, and on this head, in the judgment of competent men, the river, without much efl'ort or expense, could be made to furnish power to propel machinery for a business demanding a capital of a million of dollars or more. The above are some of the salient features Df this young industry which has been started in the north-western portion of York county, and is demanding the encouragement, sympathy, and pecuniary support of :hose of its citizens who can afford to give it. The practical question at the bottom of ;his, as well as all other enterprises, is, will t pay ??is there any money in the concern ? [n many cases, and in many of our Southern states, cotton lactories are paying handsome lividends, and several in our own State, noably Graniteville, Piedmont, Glendaleand >thers. In this new enterprise, as the lawyers would term it, prima facie, the case is nade out?success is almost assured. The vater power is there and will be there fortver. Its accessibility to the Air-Line Raiload, one of the leading thoroughfares of the >outh, and the high and rolling character of he country where it is located, ensuring lealth and strength to all engaged in the msiness; acid to tnese, judgment, prudence, oergy and a rigorous economy in the mangement and administration in the business; ,nd these2 in the judgment of your corresmndent, is well supplied in the person of dr. J. A. Deal, the original projector, at iresent the superintendent and one of the tockholders, and whom many who read his will readily recognize as a successful ailroad contractor and builder, and an acive and influential member of the State jegislature in the memorable session of the lampton and Chamberlain contest. _ Amicus. mere-Ihentiox. Seven hundred recruits are now on the av to regiments in Arizona, New Mexico, nd the Department of the Columbia, with view to the possible necessities of the Inian campaign. The Connecticut sente has defeated the prohibitory constituional amendment by a vote of 11 nays to 9 eas, four members being absent. A trge paper mill at Catawissa, Penn., owned nd operated by McC'rady & Co., of Philadelhia, was burned on Thursday night. The lill was recently refitted with new machinry. The loss is estimated at seventy-five lousand dollars. Curley, the Phoenix ark murderer, has been sentenced to be anged on the 18th of May. Seventeen llinois towns have voted for prohibition or uti-license and thirty-one for license. Of le latter six are for high license. The lelawaro House of Representatives has delated the local option bill by a vote of ! +<? 11 fll-iin I 'nn. t u/ II* v/lliw J/VUil/VlUUV VV?I ention will meet in Columbus on June 1st. The President and his party ex;nded their trip to Savannah, Ga., arrivig there last Thursday morning, from hicli city they returned direct to Washlgton. A company has been formed at ouisville, Ky., with a capital paid up of )(>,(>0U, for the purpose of exporting whisky ) the Bermudas. The corporation repre:nts heavy whisky interests. Goveror Brown's $50,000 has been finally accep'd bv the University of Georgia, and a tate bond for that amount bearing interest ; 7 per cent, and running for fifty years as been signed by Governor Boynton and sued to the University. Ex-Senator Kellogg has employed Charies Reed, who fended Guiteau, to appear as counsel for im in the impending trial for conspiracy 1 the Star Route frauds. A New Yoi^c 'formed gambler who has taken to leciring, says' that the amount of money an*