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Jtoaps and <factj5. ? The failures for the week ending last Friday, as reported to R. G. Dun Co.'s Mercantile Agency number 182, compared with 20") last week. The New England States had 28, Middle 82, Western 58, Southern 38, Pacific States and Territories 15, New York City 11 and Canada 19. ? A young Mormon couple who went to the Endowment House in Salt Lake City the other day, to be married, were turned away, with the statement that thirty-five marriages, the full capacity of the institution, had already been rushed through. It is said that more young giris are going nm> polygamy than ever before. ? David Matthew, builder of the first three American locomotives and inventor of the cab which shelters engineers and firemen, is still living and will attend the Chicago railroad exposition this Summer. The first two of the three locomotives went to South Carolina, while the third was used in New . York. ? An insect ht\s appeared in the grain fields of California, wnich, it is feared, will . prove disastrous to the crops. It first appears as a small, green louse, but in a few days develops into a fly with gauzy wings. The bull element in the San Francisco Produce Exchange is making capital out of the scare about this bug, declaring that if it appears throughout the State the crop will be entirely swept away. ? Texas dispatches say that a violent wtnd storm swept over the Northwestern Sortion of that State last Saturday night, oing much damage at Bonham, Palo, Pinto and Belton. A number of houses were blown down, and in Bell county several persons are reported to have been killed. A school house containing 70 children near Fort Worth was demolished, but only one child is reported to have been hurt. ? A dispatch of the 27th ultimo, from Harrodsburg, Ky., says: Congressman Phil. B. Thompson, Jr., shot Walter Davisas he was stepping from a smoking car this morning on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad. Thompson was inside the car, and the ball went through Davis' head, producing instant death. The cause alleged for the deed was ' an undue intimacy of Davis with Thompson's wife. After the shooting Thompson walked away unmolested. ? In the Michigan Senate, last week, the prohibition amendment to tneConstitution, which had been put on its passage, was lost by a vote of 20 to 11, not two-thirds, but nearly a strict party vote. The matter was then reconsidered. The proposition providing for local option was laid on the table for future consideration. This action has settled, as certain, the impossibillity to carry the prohibition amendment at this Legislatnre. ? The following sad story comes from Dayton, Ohio: John O'Connell and wife, on Thursday last, missed their little daughter and started in search of her without feeling any alarm. Passing near a deep canal they discovered the child struggling in drowning agonies. The father plunged in to rescue her, but was unable to swim and was siezed with cramps and sank. The wife sprang in to assist her husband and child and she also sank. The entire family were taken out dead a few minutes later by men who, attracted by the mother's screams, witnessed part of the. tragedy, but could not reach them in time. ? Mr. Ker concluded his argument for the prosecution in the Star Route trials hist Monday. ' In summing up his argument he said that the defendants had received for service on the nineteen miles mentioned in the indictment $409,404 and their profit amounted to $142,051. These routes were originally let for $30,861, and were finally increased so that the contractors received $900,000 for the contract term. The total revenue on these routes (excluding the railroad offices) aggregated $12,357. The government claimed that routes had been unnecessarily increased, and for a corrupt purpose. ? In the United States Circuit Court of Jefferson City, Mo., last Thursday, James W. Harrison, Presiding Justice, and J. A. Lockhart and J. A. Prather, Associate Judges, of the Lafayette County Court, were ordered to jail for contempt of Court in refusing to obey a mandate of the United States Court directing them to levy a tax of $2,(KM) to pay an installment of the judgment obtained on a suit upon County bonds. The County offered to compromise the bonds at 80 cents on the dollar, at which rate $1,200,000 of its bonded debt had already been compromised, but the holder of the judgment refuses to take less than 100 cents. The Court ordered the Judges to be confined in jail until they obey its mandate. ? Hon. Jefferson Davis recently told Mr. Morgan of the Boston Herald that he does not like to be interviewed because he is "constantly being maligned and villified by the press." He further said in a recent talk with a reporter: "What is due from me in the way of hospitality I shall only be t<x) happy to extend to you; but we must let politics alone. 1 am not a public man, nor am 1 public property. 1 am not a seeker for office nor is any office seeking me. 1 am plain Mr. Jefferson Davis, a private citizen, who in the evening of his life, desires to live in quiet and peace with his neighbors, without molestation or outside interference." ? The Board of Trustees of the fund of $1,000,1)00 given by the late John F. Slater of Norwich,, Conn., to be devoted to the eeucation of colored children at the South, met in New York on the 20th ultimo and decided on a plan by which the fund should be administered for the ensuing year. Resolutions were adopted declaring that for the present, schools which give instruction in trades and other manual occupations which will enable colored youths to make a living and become useful citizens will be carefully sought and preferred in appropriations from the fund. Thesuni of $20,(KM) was appropriated to be expended during the year 188.'!. ? The Supreme Court of Georgia has given an opinion which will interest farmers, to this effect: A merchant always warrants that what he sells is reasonably suited to the use for which it is bought, therefore, in a suit on a note given for chemicals to be used as a fertilizer, the plea being failure of consideration, there was no error in charging, "that if the jury believed from the evidence that the fertilizer for which the note was given was properly and skillfully applied by the defendants; that the soil was suitable and the seasons favorable, and that the fertilizer failed to produqe any result as to increase in the crops, then the fertilizer was not reasonably suited to the purpose for which it was sold, and you should timl for the defendants," the converse of the proposition being fully given. ? Wm. T. Dodson, of Danville, Va., was arrested at Franklin Junction, in that State, on , the24th ult., for the murder of the negro wo-; man already reported. He confesses that! he hired two negroes to bring him the body I for dissection pretending he was a physician. I He says he carried it into an upper room of the house occupied by himself alone, wrapped it in bed clothing, poured kerosene over it, fixed a lighted candle on it and | went away. His mistake he says, was in j cutting the candle so long that the house j did not take fire during the night?it being | his purpose to burn the house and have it j appear that he, himself had been burned in I it, and thus enable the family to obtain the j amount of a life insurance policy recently j procured. ? Advices from New Mexico say that j Gen. ctook: DroKe camp ax w ncox mn Thursday, and started for Guadaloupe Canyon with 300 troops, 200 Indian scouts and 21 wagons. In a talk with General Crook, | the Indian scouts told him that they wanted him to lead them against the Cheracahuas until all were exterminated or captured, as they could not hope for peace on the reservation until that was done. The expedition was admirably appointed and \ supplied for ninety days. On tneir arrival at Guadaloupe Canyon Captain Crawford i and Lieutenant Gate wood, commanding the scouts with one company of troops under a picked officer, will penetrate the fastness- j es of the Sierra Maore Mountains, and the remainder of the command will be posted \ along the boundary. Captain Dougherty | has been ordered to join his command at j Fort Apache, to guard against anticipated trouble with the White Mountain Apaches. 1 ?The number of delegates to which South ^Carolina will be entitled in the Southern , jiaptist Convention which meets at Waco, j Texas, on the 9th instant, is creditable to i \ the denomination in this State, as the basis 1 of representation is one delegate for every ?100 to the Foreign and Home Mission I Boards and one delegate for every $500 ex- j. pended in fhe work of State Missions. The fiscal year ended last Saturday, and con- i1 tributions have been made during the past ] month which are not included in the esti- ] mate already furnished by the secretaries , of the Home and Foreign Boards, from ! which we learn that South Carolina is en- ! titled to 121 delegates, distributed as fol- I lows: On the Board of Foreign Missions, i 57; Home Missions, 45; State Missions, 19. j These figures represent $5,700 contributed , during the past year to Foreign Missions; ; $4,500 to Missions, and $9,500 to State mis- , sions, making a total of $19,700. The sum total is greater than in any previous year j since the war. ? In compliance with the terms of a resolution adopted by a Convention of colored 1 people of the District of Columbia, which , met in Washington, on the 1st of last January, a call has been issued for a National Convention of colored men, to be held in Washington on the 24th of September, 1883. The call, which is signed by a committee i of which Fred Douglass is chairman, di- j rects the holding of Conventions in the several States and the election of delegates as ionows: ^vmuuuui s-t, vrcurgnt ^uun Carolina 22, Sbuth Carolina 2o. Virginia 22, Mississippi 2G, Louisiana 20, Tennessee and Texas, each 9, Kentucky 11, Arkansas and Maryland, each 9, Missouri G, Florida and Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, New Jersey, New York and West Virginia, each 3, Pennsylvania and Ohio, each 4, California, Colorado, Nebraska, Connecticut, Iowa, Rhode Island, Maine, Michigan, Massachusetts and Minnesota, each 1?in all 288. The Convention is called for the consideration of the present and future condition of the colored people of this country, and of the best method of securing to them the full enjoyment of their social and political rights. ihe fertile (inquirer. YORKVILLE, H. C. : THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 3, 1883 How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name of the subscriber very plainly, give postoffice, countv and State, in full, and send the amount of the subscription by draft or postoffice money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The Enquirkk is delivered free of postage to all subscribers residing in York county, who receive the paper at post-offices within the county; and to all other subscribers the postage is paid by the publisher. Our subscribers, no matter where they receive the paper, are not liable for postage, it being prepaid at the post-office hero, without additional charge to the subscriber. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "address-label" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kejyt in advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that onr terms for subscriptions, advertising and job work, are cash in advance. THE STORM LAST WEEK. The severe storm of last week seems to have spread over a large area of country, < spending its greatest fury, however, in States of the South-west. In Mississippi S3 persons were killed and 300 wounded?many of them seriously. The loss of life is unprecedented, while the destruction of property was great. At Wesson, La., which place was almost annihilated, the measles is i spreading among the wounded, and great ' destitution prevails. Among the casualties mentioned was the wounding of W. E. Cox, a telegraph operator, who, while sitting at his j instrument, had both arms and both lggs 1 broken. One man had a trunk blown away 1 which contained $6,000. It is stated that ] crowds of idle negroes, who refuse to work ( are stealing from the ruins. Eighteen persons were killed at George- j town, Miss. At Beasley's settlement a lady ] and several children were killed and great , damage was done. i There were 111 stores, churches and pub- j lie buildings at Beauregard, and there is not ( a building of any pretensions remaining. MissGeorgie Mitchel, who was killed, is ] said to have had $600 in money and $1,200 worth of jewelry blown away. A sign from j Beauregard was blown 29 miles, and papers , lwion fVtnnrl (Smilesnu*j?v. Southeast ward of Beauregard for a distance of eight miles the cyclone played sad havoc. At Aberdeen the storin was destructive, and a suburb of that city containing twentyfive or thirty families, was absolutely wiped out, three of the negroes being killed. Two others have since died from their wounds, while twenty-five are under treatment. Many of them are in a precarious condition. The county jail is converted into a hospital, where the victims receive the best attention. Several casualties are also reported at Natchez. Great damage is reported in Clark county, Georgia, to crops, houses, &c. One negro was killed and two persons fatally injured. Reports from Crawford, Ga.,show considerable damage by the storin. Many houses , were blown down and many injured by lightning. There was great loss of property. A negro was killed near there. ( In our own State the storm was severe in ] the counties of Barnwell, Orangeburg, Un- 1 ion, Sumter, Clarendon, Anderson, Ker- j shaw, Greenville and Darlington. ( As to the effects of the cyclone in Barn- } well county, the yews and Courier says: . The cyclone on last Monday was one of the j most destructive storms ever known in the 1 interior of this State. In Barnwell county ^ it raged with unprecedented fury and de- . stroyed a great deal of property, overturn- . ing houses, killing stock, uprooting trees and laying waste a section of country for a ' distance of fifteen miles. In one neighbor- ] hood, consisting of five large plantations, ( there is not a house left standing, and the : lands have been so covered with fallen tim- ' her that it will be impossible for the planters to carry on their farming operations for . some time. The people living in the coun- , try through which the storm passed need ' assistance. They are without shelter or food. THE GO01) TEMPLARS. The Giand Lodge of Good Templars which i was in session at Spartanburg last week ad- < journed on Thursday. One of the interest- i ing features of this gathering of the Good i Templars was the public temperance meet- ' ing held on Wednesday night. The Itev. < W. If. Strickland had been invited to adrirp-si: ffip meetinfr. but was unavoidably ab sent. The Rev. II. F.Chrietzburg, of .Sumter, who had also been invited, and who has just been chosen Grand Worthy Chief, was also invited and addressed the meeting. Prof. Carlisle was requested to speak in the absence of the Rev. W. H. Strickland. Professor Carlisle presented to the students of Furman University, through A. P. Abell, a valuable and interesting man- , uscript, being a portion of manuscript of a temperance lecture and notes written : and delivered by J. Belton O'Neal, the eminent jurist, to the students of Furman Institute, then situated at Winnsboro'. The manuscript was to have been presented to Mr. Strickland, but as he was unable to i attend, the honor of receiving it was conferred upon Mr. Abell. The manuscript is ; forty years old, having been penned June j 16th, 1842. It contains many interesting statistics bearing upon the liquor traffic at I that date, and is certainly a precious relic. ! THE IRISH IN AMERICA. h A convention of Irishmen?citizens of the 01 United States?was held in Philadelphia on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of last $ week, the object being to wind up the af-1 o fairs of the Irish Land League in America ii and merge it into another body, whose 11 scope will be broader and more far-reach- jj ing. The Land League, as originally or?anized, deals only with questions of land a, and law, and not with those of national tf and local self-government. The new or- I] Epmization will grapple with all three of these questions and some others besides. The call for this convention states its ohjeet to be to form a new League, after the ti plan of the National League of Ireland, \\ which will blend into one organisation all M the Irish societies of the United States and P nnw nrmini?ntinn to he Siftilia- I .i i^miuwn ?t> u ted with the Irish National League of Ire- n land. The principles of the Irish National ti League which was formed in Dublin, in n October last, are as follows: 1?National ^ Self Government. 2? Land law reform. " :l? Local self goveanment. 1?The exten- fl slon of parliamentary and municipal fran- ft chises. ">?The development and encour- si agement of labor and the industrial interests of Ireland. These principles form the <1 platform upon which the new National ti League was created. The convention was largely attended by ? representative Irishmen in America and o Canada, and on the second day the commit- o tee on resolutions reported a preamble and h resolutions. The preamble is long and is a i> powerful arraignment of England forcrimes g of every conceivable character against Ire- b land as a nation and Irishmen as individ- a uals. It proceeds as follows: 11 "The Irish-American people, assembled o in convention at Philadelphia, submit to the ? intelligence and right reason of their fel- s low-men that the duty of a government is > to preserve the lives of the governed ; to * extend their liberty ; to protect their prop- ^ erty to maintain peace and order j to allow each portion of the people an equitable and <efficient voice in its legislation, and to pro- n mjbte their general welfare by wise, just and I humane laws. We solemnly declare and c cite unquestioned history and universal , knowledge of living men in testimony u. thereof, that English government has ex- (l isted in Ireland not to preserve the lives of ^ the governed but to destroy them. Entire I communities it has wantonly massacred by j the sword ; to the asylums of terrified women it has deliberately applied the blazing torch; into helpless towns it has discharged deadly bombs and shells; through consecra- r ted crypts, where age and infancy sought v shelter, it has sent its bloody butcher; the 7 sacred persons of venerable priests it has stretched upon the rack or suspended from / the gibbet; innocent babes have been impaled on the points of its bayonets because, v in their own words, its emissaries "iiKeci tnai < sportits gold has been folded in the hand n of the assassin and has rewarded the infamy t of the perjured traitor ; its treacherous false- a hood vas lured patriots to unsuspected death; as ii .he swordj cannon, torch, scaffold, dag- c gerand explosive were not enough, it en- a joys the unique infamy of being the only c government known to ancient or modern C times which has employed famine for the t' destruction of those from whom it claimed. a allegiance?forcibly robbing the Irish peo- , gle of the fruits of their own toil, produced x y their own labor; it has buried not a hun- t: dred, not a thousand, but more than a mil- I lion of the Irish race, unshrouded, uncoffin- ti ed, in the grave of hunger and has merci- u lessly compelled the other millions in compulsory, to seek in alien lands the bread they were entitled to in their own. There a is no fornfcof cruelty known to the lowest r' savage which it has not practiced, on the a Irish people in the name of the highest civ- fc ilization. There is no device of fiendish in- n genuity which has not been adopted to recluce their numbers. There is no species of destructive attack however insidious or vio- 0 lent, ancient or modern, rude or scientific, a whether directed against life or matter, in . ti any portion of the globe for which its bar- t] barities in Ireland "have not furnished an +1 example. There is no form of retaliation, to which despair or madness may resort, for which the English cruelty in Ireland is not a exclusively responsible." " The resolution arraigns England by charg- a ing that the English government in Ireland, originating in usurpation, and per- I petuated by force, having failed to dischargeany of the duties of a government?never S having acquired the consent of the governed?has no moral right whatever to exist in ^ rrelapd, and that it is the duty of the Irish race throughout the world to sustain the ji Irish nponlp in the emDlovment of all letrit- P [mate means to substitute for it national ^ *elf goverment. Pledge unqualified and ^ constant support, moral and material, to ^ their countrymen in Ireland in their efforts it to recover national self-government. They n compliment Mr. Parnell. Express sympa- t< thy with the laborers of Ireland in their a' efforts to improve their condition. Coun- [j sel their countrymen in Ireland to buy nothing in England which they can pro- st luce in Ireland or procure from America er France and pledge the Irish-Americans to promote Irish manufactures by encour- sj iging their import into America and to use tl their utmost endeavor by plain statements li ff facts and discrimination in patronage to tl persuade American tradesmen from keep- li ing English goods 011 sale. They denounce n the liberal policy ; thank a number of Path- b, 3lic clergyman, who are named, ior pro- k viding homes for Irish immigrants into the n United States, and add: The people of tl Ireland are by the laws of God and nature w entitled to live by their labor in their native ft land, whose fertile soil is abundantly able to nourish them, but since a brutal govern - G ment compels large numbers of them to *}. emigrate, it is the duty of their country- c< inen to warn them against the snares of n poverty in the large cities and to assist them o in the agricultural regions. They denounce si the policy of the English government in first reducing the Irish peasantry to abject ^ poverty and then sending them, penniless to the Unitec|| States, dependent upon ai American charity, as unnatural, inhuman 21 and an outrage upon the American govern- bi ment and people; directing the attention a< of the United States government to this ^ iniquity, protesting against its continuance and instructing the officials who shall be chosen by this convention to present a protest to the President of the United States tl and respectfully but firmly to urge upon ^ the President that it is the duty of the " government of the United States to decline -y to support paupers whose pauperism began a] under and is the result of English misgov- d; eminent, and to demand of England that A she send no more of her paupers to these G shores to become a burden upon the Ameri- ^ fan nnnnlo. The concluding resolution is T.\ ? t.?,? 0 c., one of thanks to, and confidence in Patrick p Egan, whom it welcomes to the Irish hearts a: and homes in America. P The report of the committee on organ iza- |(. tion was then read. The preamble and [J first section of the constitution are as follows : c Whereas, In the opinion of the citizens of tl America and Canada, who are Irish and of tl Irish descent, it is needful for the purposes ti hereinafter set forth, that, sinking all prl- tl vate prejudice and creed distinctions, tney si do unite to secure this common end and ti bind themselves together under the name si and title of the Irish National League of a America. Section 1. The objects of the Irish Nation- 11 al League of America are : First?Earnest- ir ly and actively to sustain the Irish National E League in Ireland with moral and material ii aid in achieving self-government for Ire- a< land. 2nd?To procure a clearer and more accurate understanding by the American people of the political, industrial and social m condition of Ireland and that they may see C for themselves that her poverty is the resul t F t)f centuries of brute force and destructive ai legislation, and that if permitted to make a] er own laws on her own soil she will demnstrate the possession of all the essentials, atural and ideal, for political autonomy, eneflcial alike to Ireland and the United tates. .Id. To promote the development; f Irish manufactures, by encouraging their i \ ltroduction into the United States; to pro- j lote the study of Irish history, past and .J resent, and to circulate carefully prepared terature in the schools and the societies. ^ mt the justice of thecause may be defended j gainst ignorance, malice and inisrepresenition. 4th, To encourage the study of the i rish language, the cultivation of Irish mu-1 c and an enlightened love of art, character- A (tics which made the past of our race bright mid darkness and have always secured for j le Celt success and renown in every coun y in which he has an equal opportunity -| 'ith his fellow. 5th, To hurt the enemy here he will feel it most by. refusing to urchase any article of English manufacire and by using all legitimate influence to j iscourage tradesmen from keeping English rj lanufactures on sale. Gth, To abolish sec- , onal feeling, to destroy those baleful anilosities of province and creed which have een insidiously handed down by the enely ; to weave a closer bond of racial pride e nd affection and to keep alive the holy , ame of Irish nationality, while performing lithfullv the duties of American citizen- * hip. t The other sections of the constitution are t evoted to the government of the organiza- 1 ion. Alexander Sullivan was elected president f the National League. With the result j I tins convention, mr. miuivun is niuoc f ne of the most prominent Irishmen now \ ving. He is 35 years of age, and was born { u Maine. He stumped the State of Michi- r an for the constitutional aipendment giv- ( lg to negroes the right of suffrage, and was n active abolitionist. He was a Itepubican until 1872 when, being a strong friend r f Greeley, he supported the Liberal move- . tent, and has since been a Democrat. He 7 j tudied law with Algernon 8. Sullivan, of Jew York, and has been for a number of ^ ears in successful practice in Chicago. After the election of officers, Father P. * Jronin, by authority of the conference comlittee of seven appointed at the Land .league Convention on Wednesday, announed from the stage that the Land League of . America was not dead or dissolved but enjowed with more vigorous life in the new National League, so that Charles Stewart 'arnell could point to 10,000,000 united- 1 rishmeri on the American continent. A 1 "'ao ?y?n/lAon/l nnnmnrl flrof fho ( ml delegations caucus and elect their rep- < esentatives in the executive committee 1 i'hich was to elect a permanent council of t for the National League. 1 A recess of ten minutes was then taken 1 i)r the purpose of electing the council, after 1 rhich a resolution of esteem for and con- s lolence with Michael Davitt was unani- 1 nously adopted. A resolution of thanks i o the officers of the late Land League was t Iso unanimously adopted. By unanimous s onsent it was then moved and carried that resolution of confidence and cheer be abled by the officers of the convention to \ Jharles Stewart Parnell. James Redpath j hen introduced Mrs. Parnell, who with j laurel wreath, crowned the bust of George i Vashington in full view of the conven- f ion amid great enthusiasm, a banner of $ reland being waved over her head at the t ime by the vice president of the central j nion of Philadelphia. j Mrs. Parnell and Messrs. Egan, Redpath < nd Brenan, addressing Mr. Sullivan di- j ectly, begged him to come forward and i ccept the presidency. Mr. Sullivan came 3 the front of the stage and said he reeogized that the voice of the people was the oice of God. In obedience to the voices * f Mrs. Parnell and Messrs. Brenan, Egan nd Redpath and the voice of the convenion he would consent to act temporarily as lie servant of the Irish in America, not as 1 heir leader. \ After singing a number of patriotic songs, c mong them "God Save Ireland," and the ^ Star Spangled Banner," the convention ( djourned without day. Commenting upon the convention, the > iondon Times, in an editorial, says : I The Irish Convention at Philadelphia be- i an with the clap-trap of folly and maligni/ and closed after the same fashion. The j 'hole scene would be painful were it not j jpremely ridiculous. The only practical jggestion made by the Convention for in- w iring Great Britain, is the advice to the eonle of Ireland to buy nothing from Eng- t md unless they are obliged to. It is a conission of impotence when Irish malice is riven to such paltry expedients, which, if ieil, would only injure its adopters. The i 'sson for Great Britain is to ignore Irish- t len and abandon me nope01 unngmg mem j, ) a better frame of inind by the eontinu- ' ace of unmerited favors. They have al?ady convinced the rest of the world that v ley are unfit to have national indepen- d ence, and they must be made to feel the t :rong hand of the law. r A Gkeexijack Ghost.?A Washington j. aecial to the New* and Courier says that ^ le National View, a Greenback paper pub- r shed in Washington, in the interests of v le Greenback election cases in South Caro- ^ na, published last Saturday a crazy anony- ^ ious letter alleged to have been received j y J. H. McJjane, late Greenback nominnee j >r Governor of this State. The letter bears j, o date, but is said to have been received on -y le morning of April 2o, and has been for\nrded to the attorney-general. It is as >llows: "Headquarters K. K. K.: We warn once. * ur second notice will be followed by the 1lack hand of vengeance, armed to redress t le insults and oppression heaped upon our i itizens. Their sufferings cry out, and aught but blood will satisfy. The cyclops ' f our lodge has decreed that but one head 1 mil fall and that head is thine. Your t loice is between exile and summary exe- c ition. Therefore, know and believe it is ] ue that if you are found in Columbia on t le 28th of April, 18813, you will be notified, i, nd if you still persist in remaining on the )th of April the bolt will fall and you will c e numbered among the dead. Reflect and I Lit. In flight is safety, in resistance is i eath. Bv order of the grand Assizer, I). .. and T. P. I). Order F. F.? t The Centennial Cotton Exposition.? ? . meeting of the executive ^committee of J. le National Cotton Planters' Association * as held in Vicksburg, Miss., on the 24th h Itimo. Among those present were Sena- o ir.I. Z.George, General 13. S. Ricks and rm. Ingersoll of Mississippi; Colonel Rich- t. rdson, Hon. H. R. Lucas and A. W. Cranall of Louisiana, and John C. Calhoun of 11 .rkansas. General Gordon and Senator c arland of Arkansas were represented by a roxy. Petitions numerously signed were / jad from several Western and Southern v ties. Addresses were made by several rominent gentlemen. Colonel E. D. Richrdson strongly and enthusiastically sup- a nimm nf "NAw Orleans for the ti U1 WVl HIV VA141 111 W< X w.. ication of the Centennial Cotton Exposi- n on. At the close of his speech the follow- (| if? resolution was unanimouly adopted: lleaolved, That the World's Industrial and otton Centennial Exposition be held at le city of New Orleans for the reason v lat New Orleans is the commercial cen- g >r of the cotton States and has signified, 0 irough her representatives here, her dere to have such location at her disposi- ]. on and to take such steps and provide " ich means as will make the exposition h success. A On motion of President Moorhead, Colo- p el Richardson was recommended as the j lost suitable person for President of the !xposition Company. A resolution endors- G ig the Mississippi River Commission was j* lop ted. * ii p - The board to examine applicants for the C( aval cadetship at Annapolis for the First i ongressional District met at Charleston on ? riday. Not one applicant made hisappear- L ice. Congressman Dibble will therefore h p point a candidate of his own selection. A LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 'lie Singer ManulacturingCompany, Columbia, S. ('.?Wanted. V. 11. Williams, Auditor, York County?Tax Notice. . E. Smith, Agent?Metal ic and Wood Burial Caskets and Cases. Vithers Adiekes?New Groceries. ii. Strauss?Something Interesting. . M. Adams?Stoves?Encourage Home Industry?Smoke?Hooting and Guttering, jnttn Brothers?Family Groceries and Plantation MiinnHn? >. (\ Latimer?Clothing, Dress (joocts and Millinery. P. >S. JeffervH?Guano, Machinery, tfce. ferndon Brothers?Warm Weather?Sugars? Hams?Molasses. P. M. Dohson?Listen to Me For a While. cotton shipments. The shipments of c<jtton from the depot 11 this place from .September 1st, 1882, to Tuesday last, 1st instant, aggregate 7,939 >ales. J cottoAexchange. The attention oij planters and cotton buyirs is directed to the notice, in our adverising columns, of the auction sale of cotton, o take place in Chester on Tuesday next, he 8th instant. Notice is given that one housand bales will be placed on the market on that day. naval cadetship. There were four competitors for the aplointment of Naval Cadet at Annapolis, rom this Congressional district, before the >oard of examiners at Chester, on the 25th lltimo. J. M. Thompson, son of W. Banks Thompson, Esq., of Chester, was the sucressful candidate. a chilly may-day. The month of May was ushered in, last Tuesday, by a cool rain[ which fell constanty during the day. T1 is year has been renarkable for the superabundance of rain hat has fallen; though this section has brtunately escaped disesters by the raging ifthe elements that have visited other por;ions of our State, to say nothing of the earful loss of life and property in the Southvest. Those observant of the fact say that :he ground is more saturated with water :han it has been for seven years. railroad bridglj destroyed. We merely had time!to mention in our ast issue the destruction of the bridge of he Cheraw and Chester Railroad over the Catawba River, which was completely washid away by the freshet on Tuesday of last veek. The bridge was completed only ibout two weeks before the catastrophe, and ;he loss will be considerable; but we learn :hat the lessees of the road will soon have :he wrecked bridge replaced by another structure. The river is said to have been ligher than it has been known for fifty fears. Broad River, on the western side of * i ~x IL. ;ne county, was aiso on a oig uoom au me same time. m TAXABLE PROPERTY IN YORK. From the Auditor's abstract it appears ;hat the taxable property in York county ror the year 1882, is as fol ows: Amount of personal property, $1,624,.' 80; amount owned jy corporations, $6,710; n ilroads, $463,305? ;otal, $2,004,595. Value )f real property, $,014,835. Total value or real and personilty, $5,109,430. The ta:: levy is 11 9-20 nills, apportioned as follows: State tax ! ?24,269 79 lounty tax 15,328 29 tailroad tax 1 8,686 03 school tax 10,218 86 ?oll tax 1 3,92100 Total $62,423 97 The County Treasurer's books were openid in Yorkville last Tuesday, for the colleeion of the May installment. CHURCH NOTICES. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. it. Lathan, Pastor. There will be no services in this church next Sunday, in conse[uence of the absence of the pastor, who vill assist in communion services at Neely's reek Church on that day. Episcopal?Rev. A. Prentiss, Rector. ,Services in the Church of Our Saviour, at Rock till, at the usual hours, morning and evenng, next Sunday. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. R. P. Franks, Jastor. Services at Philadelphia Church at 1 A. M.; in the church at Yorkville at ; P. M. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pasor. Services at 10.30 A. M.; and 8 P. M. DEATH OF Dr.* J. J. MILLER. I)r. John J. Miller died at his residence n the north-eastern pirt of this county?in he Clay Hill section--at noon on Sunday ust, aged about 40 years. The disease yhich terminated his life was dysintery, with which he had Pcen sick five or six lays, having but a.siort while previous to his illness recovered from an attack of >neumonia. Dr. Miller was a deservedly >opular physician, hi: > practice, as we have leard stated, extending in three hundred umilies. As a man and as a citizen he was nuch admired by alljwho knew him. He vas an upright and consistent member of ii6 cnurcn?ii meinour hi i n/Mii uuiigicjjtiion, Associate Reformed Presbyterians, lis remains were deposited at Tirzah buryng ground last Monday, the funeral services >eing conducted by Rev. Dr. Lathan. Dr. filler leaves a wife and two children. THE AIR-LINE"RAILROAD. The Charlotte Journal-Observer says : On he 13th day of May, there will lie an imlortant change in the running of trains on he Richmond and Danville and the Airjine Railroads and two extra mail and pasenger trains, Nos. 52and 53, are to be put on he run between Charlotte and Atlanta. All his is the result of the session of the "time onvention," held last week at No. 4G Jond street, New York. It is supposed hat the schedule on the Charlotte, Colum?iaand Augusta Road will be changed to orrespond with the changes on the R. & ). and Air-Line, though we have no official affirmation about that. Nos. 52 and 53 will be the fast trains beween Charlotte and New York, and the chedule time will be 21 hours between hese points, about four hours quicker than he old schedule. The time between CharAte and Danville will be only five hours, ne hour quicker than the old run. The announcement that the Air-Line day rains are to be put back on is official and nay be relietl upon. The trains were dis- ' ontinued last fall, and ever since that time periodical rumor would be heard first in ? j. rti 4-1. +Urt,. Ltmnia aim next ill tiiiinuue mut mcjf re re to be resumed at such and such a day, ntil by and by it got to be a standing joke nd the public soon ceased to pay any attenion to it. But now that it is officially anounced, the people will hail the news with elight. STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. We devote a portion of our first page, this I< reek, to the proceedings of the above or- ' animation, the thirty-third annual session j j f which body was held in this place last: reek. The proceedings, though mainly af-j jcting the medical profession, will he of invest to laymen. The membership of the i association includes several of the most rnminont ohvslcians of the State, and the ! oings of the doctors in their annual convo- j itions are invested with a peculiar in- M 3restto those whose health and lives are n l their keeping. Our report is a faithful j j ortrayal of their proceedings, with the ex- j 1 option of one omission which we wish j' ere to correct. The name of I)r. T. W. 1 ampbell, of this county, should appear as aving been elected to membership of the issociation. His name was presented fori i membership on the first day of the session, and lie was unanimously elected, but by some means it was overlooked, in making up our report. in the presentation of the boquet of flowers to the Association, on Thursday, the names of no ladies on behalf of the donors were mentioned. We are authorized to say that the floral offering was tendered by Mrs.) M. 11. Metts, and in the name of the ladies ( of Yorkville. To the indefatigable efforts of our towns-1 man, l)r. J. It. Bratton, much is due for: the success of the meeting, in a social point of view, and the high gratification of all j the visiting members, which they were free to express, as one result of the meeting in j Yorkville. PIEDMONT COLLEGE.' In our "State News" column last week, j was printed an item?a waif, clipped from | vnha ?l-nlo + ii'o +Vin rlarlifHitinn nf Piedmont College, in Pickens county. This item represented the speakers of the occasion as Col. A. Coward, SJate Superintendent | of Education, and the Revs. Elwell andMcCaslin. On reading this item, after his return home, Col. Coward calls our attention to what he characterizes injustice to RevDr. Grier, the President of Erskine College, who delivered the oration of the day, his subject being "The Schoolmaster and his Work." Col. Coward speaks of this address as being a highly meritorious effort, and urges that Dr. Grier shall have his proper place in the picture, and we take pleasure in making the correction. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. NOTES FROM BETHEL. Bethel, S. C., April 28.?Items of news are not as thick in this section as the famed leaves on Vallombrosa's side," but as persons like to see themselves in print sometimes, I will endeavor to give you a line or two. Farmers are very busy just now, taking every advantage of the sunshine. I think a few of us had begun to feel despondent on account of so much rain, but the sun bids us all do our best, and promises a plenteous harvest yet. Every body is busy, getting corn and cotton planted. Wheat and oats are flourishing, and the fruit crop is not nearly all killed. In short, I think we have a great deal more to be thankful for than about which to grumble. 'Squire Adams, with the help of some other members of Bethel, has organized a Sunday-school at White Oak school-house, about four miles west of Bethel church, on the Armstrong's Ford road. This school, it is hoped, will be a great benefit to the people in that section, who have no regular religious service nearer than Bethel, or Union church, in Gaston county. The lover of wild flowers would be charmed with the display now along the banks of the creeks. Woodbine, honeysuckles, yellow jasmine, sweet shrubs and violets, grow in reckless profusion along Crowder's Creek and Beaver Dam. All these are now in bloom, and in another week or two the laurel will be out in its waxen beauty. Stylus. , MERE-MEJiTIOJf. * Advices from Vera Cruz report that yellow fever has broken out in that city, several cases resulting fatally. Mrs. Nathan Harrison, of Rhea county, Tenn., was found dead in lier bed on Friday morning last, with two bullet holes in her head. Suspicion fell upon a physician who slept in the next room, and he has been arrested. The election for Governor of Georgia passed off ?[uietly on the 24th ultimo. Henry D. McJaniel was elected without opposition. The vote was light. The Legislature will convene on the 10th instant, to count the returns, and the inauguration will probably take place on the 12th."; Chemicals used in making cologne caught fire in an Atlanta drug store on Friday last and caused widespread alarm. Claud Griffin, the bookkeeper, was severely burned in extinguishing the flames, and Willie Matthews, aged fourteen, had his fingers badly burned in his efforts to save Griffin. George Wan was lynched at Florence, Alabama, last Friday, for the murder of a boy named Robert Bethune. Green B. Raum, U. S. Commissioner of internal revenue, has resigned, and six ex-Congressmen have applied for his place The Rev. Dr. Henderson, who was a Colonel in the Confederote service, has been transferred from the Methodist Church South to take charge of a Methodist Church in Jersey City. Renewed precautions are being taken in Dublin by the authorities because of numerous letters which have been received, threatening to blow up public buildings with dyna TKwm+'j lioira Kaon f/i IIlllUi i. I11LUIO lilt V V/ l/Wll iiiuuv w blow up the Hank of England and Portsmouth. Twelve thousand persons in Galway, Ireland^ have applied to the government for assistance to enable them to reach America. Eight hundred arrived at Boston on Monday, and the Cunard line has booked as many more as their vessels can carry over in three months. Mrs. Kate Kane, a Milwaukie "Female lawyer" as she is designated in the report, was sent to jail the other day for throwing a glass of water in the Judge's face. Since September last there have beeiv shipped from the port of Norfolk one million two hundred thousand bushels of oysters. During the month of April twenty-nine new national banks were authorized to begin business, a majority in the western and northwestern states and territories. Mr. George K. P. Tate, of the Tate Brothers, manufacturers, at Mountain Island, in Gaston, X. C., died on last Sunday afternoon. There are 8% tons of silver coin lying in the vaults of the United States subtreasury in New York, 620 tonsof which are legal tender dollars. Eliza Pinkston, ' the famous Louisiana witness in the electoral controversy of 1875-'77, has died in jail at Canton, Miss., on the 25th ultimo, where she was serving a term for larceny. Mrs. ' Sarah P. Mackey, mother of Congressman E. W. M. Mackey, and widow of the late I)r. Albert G. Mackey, died of paralysis in Washington city, last Monday. She was born in Charleston and lived there for fifty years. A wind and hail storm prevailed in portions of Louisiana last Sunday. The heaviest damage was sustained near Mindem Late reports from Wesson and Beauregard, represent the people of these ' towns, visited by the cyclone of last week, in a very despondent and deplorable condition. What is known as the Scott liquor law in Ohio, was decided unconstitutional bv Justice May, at Steubenvilie, last Mon' -i i? ?ii:.? +i,n (Uiy. -.y saioon kcciiui. ocmiiji tviuiuuu nii> written consent of his landlord was arrested as a test case. The justice gave an opinion ; that the law is unconstitutional because the ^ tax is unequal, and because it impairs existing contracts. A heavy frost, with ice, in Northern Virginia, on Monday night, j blighted the fruit, but did not injure the ' wheat. No corn lias yet been planted in ( that section, the weather having been too ! cold and wet. The steamer Catalonia, 1 which arrived at Boston last Monday, ' brought over 1,200 steerage passengers, most ' of whom came to America at the expense of f the British government. Gratitude of ax Unfortunate Max. 1 George White,of Greenville, who wassentto t the Penitentiary for killing J. H. Schofield in Greenville county, on Christmas day, 1 1880, and was recently pardoned by the Governor, writes the following card to the i Greenville Xewx: < "Please allow me space to tender my .< earnest thanks to his Excellency, Governor i Thompson, to Solicitor Orr and to the ] generous citizens of Greenville for their t kindness and sympathy, and to the people t who have so nobly aided my family during i my long absence. 1 also return my grateful i thanks to Superintendent Lipscomb and r Captain Sligh for their invariable kindness t to me while I was in the Penitentiary. I i mi overwhelmned with sorrow when 11 i think of the cause of my punishment, but i All can see from it what liquor can do, for if ? it had not been for that I never would have t been in trouble. \ hope it will never serve my friends as it did me, and that they will i take warning by me and never drink liquor. > Two long years shut up away from my { family for taking a little spree! 1 will i never drink another drop while 1 live, j; Language fails me to express the gratitude j I feel at being restored to my family once i\ more." ' , SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Meat and flour have both jumped up in Spartanburg. Bacon is now 11 cents there and flour has advanced f>0 cents a barrel. ? There are now ;">04 lunatics in the State Asylum and the number is constantly increasing. ? The Columbia stocking factory hits commenced operations, and when fully under way will turn out 3,(MH? to 3,(100 pairs per day. ? J. Middleton Whitesill of Cow Castle township, Orangeburg county, was kicked by a horse one day last week, from the effects of which he died. ? A colored woman was washing clothing under a tree in Barnwell county last week, when a storm of wind came up, blew the tree down on her and killed her instantly. ? Rev. W. M. Grier, D. I)., of Due West, has been selected to deliver the oration in Greenville on Memorial Day, the 10th of May. ? Mr. L. B. Toole commenced shipping cabbages from Williston, Barnwell county, on the 18th ultimo. He expects to ship 30,000 this month. ? The total taxable value of property in Aiken county by the recent assessment is $4,983,600. The total assessment for school purposes is $13,179.32. ? A number of pasture fences in Chinquapin and Gilbert Hollow townships, in Lexington county, have'recently been destroyed by the opponents of the Stock law. ? The ice manufactory, machinery, and forty tons of ice belonging to C. C. Habernicht, in Columbia, and valued at $20,000, was destroyed by an accidental tire on Monday afternoon. ? The general opinion is that there will be a pretty fair peach crop in Spartanburg county, if there are no frosts after this. In some places they are not injured at all, while in others they are killed entirely. ? Mr. Thomas E. Enright, of Abbeville county, died on last Monday. He left the greater part of his estate,' amounting to about $3,0(H) for the building of a Catholic church in Abbeville. ? Mr. Thomas Miles, of Philadelphia, owns a plantation containing 5,000 acres, in Clarendon; and yet our northern friends declare that the plantations are all too large in the South. ? The old grave yard at Newberry, in which Judge .John Belton O'Neall is buried, is greatly neglected, and an effort is being made to preserve it from further desecration. ? The Agricultural and Mechanical Association of Greenville has decided to add another interesting feature to the agricultural gathering on the 7th instant. A Jersey cattle and butter show will be given in addition to the addresses. ? There are twenty-four qounties in South Carolina that have a graater number of acres of land than Newberry county; but there are only eleven counties in the State whose real estate has a greater total value, according to the comptroller's books. ?Precept and practice: The editor of the Abbeville Press and Banner announces that just now he "is paying some attention to farming, lie has some corn to sell to any cotton farmer who may be behind on bread, and is preparing to plant more corn, to sell next Spring." ? R. C. Crockett, white, of Lancaster, who is accused of shooting Harriet Belk, colored, has been arrested in Monroe, N. C. Sunday night a placard signed "Colored People" was posted on a store door in Lancaster denouncing the deed, accusing the white people of conniving at the outrage and making threat of retaliation. A public meeting of the white citizens of Lancaster was held next day denouncing the outrage. ? The Anderson Journal says the small grain crop of Anderson county generally is reported as in a very promising condition, fully as much so as last year, though by no means as extensive. A number of causes combined last fall to prevent the seeding of darge areas, but we near of one now and then who has a larger crop than he had last year. All such are fortunate, and the next in order will be those who plant plenty of corn this year. ? Professors Boggs and Hemphill, of the Columbia Theological Seminary, will be formally inaugurated some time this month, probably on the week preceding the meeting of the General Assembly. It is expected that the annual meeting of the Alumni Association will take place at the same time, and that the Alumni lecture before the students by the Rev. Dr. B. M. Palmer, on "The Theology of Prayer," will also be delivered on that occasion. ? J. W. Billings, who has been the cashier in General I. S. Bamberg's bank at Bamberg, Barnwell county, since August, 1879, was arrested on April 18 upon the affidavit e r* i "?"> 1. ?l L! !il. oi general uamuerg, cnurgiug mm wiui breach of trust and the fraudulent conversion of various sums of money, amounting in the aggregate to several thousand dollars. Billings gave bond for his appearance for trial at the June term of Court in the sum of $1,760, Colonel J. T. McCounts of Bamberg and the Messrs. Fairy of Branchville becoming his sureties. ? The Supreme Court of this State decided a somewhat novel case on/ Friday. A man was convicted of manslaughter in Edgefield in 1876, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Having served five years of his term he appealed to the Supreme Court for release on habeas corpus on the ground that under the law the circuit court had no right to inflict a life sentence on him. The Supreme Court ruled that under the decision in the Bond case it had no right to interfere after judgment had commenced to be executed although it intimated tin? opinion that the sentence was erroneous. The prisoner will probably obtain his release by pardon. ? Frazier Copeland, colored, was hanged in the county jail at Walhalla, at 12 o'clock last Friday, by Sheriff Bobbins for the murder of William J. Hunnicutt in December last. At 10 o'clock Copeland spoke from a .window of the jail for one liour to a mixed crowd of white and colored , people. It was a rambling talk, chiefly denying that he killed Hunnicutt. He admitted, however, that he was near enough to hear the licks struck. He was attended in his last moments by Itev. C. D. Mann, white, and Rev. T. J. Clark and Rev. Young, colored. Although C'opeland was a Baptist minister, he was denied a burial in their cemetery. Rev. Clark, pastor of the Methodist Church at Walhalla came to the rescue and had his congregation to take charge of the body giving it a decent burial the next day after the execution. our publicTroads. It seems that Senator Butler means to tight out our public road question, if it takes live-long Summer through. The Senator promises to collate the road systems of the several States and publish the same. It is well that the Senator should turn his attention to this important practical matter, but we despair of any good coming out of the collation he proposes. The whole thing to be done depends entirely on the willingness of the people at interest to consent to do it, .md to consent to take any earthly interest in the matter. The whole thing is so easy af achievement with the will to do it, that iny half dozen intelligent, earnest, practical men in the State can sit down of a morning and frame a system which will do very ivell to begin with, going on from time to time with such improved methods as practical experience might suggest. In the first place, we must give up our old ield road system as utterly inefficient and a sort of tax which is manifestly unjust and inequal, saddling as itdoesthe poorer classes of people with the work. Our roads ffiould be farmed out to contractors and a road tax imposed to pay for the work. Peo)le who use the roads should all contribute :o keep them up and not confine the exac:ion to a certain class of people of a certain ige. Everybody should contribute to the ,vork just as everybody uses the roads, rhere is no other way to achieve this but by i general road tax. Then there should be oa<t engineers to lay out tne woj-k ior tne mprovement of the ways on some economcal plan looking to such a gradual and progressive improvement as shall end in tirst lass road ways. All this cannot be done at once, but we nust have a plan to work up to so that each rear's work snail be a step forward to the >nd instead of a chronic patch to be patched xp again tuque ad finem and to no earthly food purpose. If the Senator can move our jeople to take such an interest in the matter is to bring them to any practical consent to h> ani///ii)i(/ toward any practical iniprovei