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fctaps and <facts. ? The New York Sim says: "There is no war, in fact or feeling, between the two sections; and the common interest of the South and North just now is to turn a corrupt party out of power and set up an honest and economical Government at Washington." ? The business failures reported to the mercantile agency of R. G. Dun & Co., during the week ending last Friday, number 151 against 158 last week. New England States 21, Middle States 16, Western 42, Southern 26, Pacific States and Territories 13, New York City 8, and Canada and Provinces 25. ? Cincinnati is to be the stamping ground of no less than five State conventions during this month. The Republicans lead off on the 5th; the Woman Suffragists, Greenbackers and Prohibitionists will air their isms from the 12th to the 15th, and the Democrats will assemble on the 21st. Next November the procession is expected to arrive in a materially different order. ? Wednesday of last week was Federal memorial day, and was elaborately celebrated at the North and in Beaufort, South Carolina. In Richmond, the First Virginia Regiment decorated the graves of Federal dead in recognition of the action of Phil Kearney Post, Grand Army of the Republic, which decorated General Pickett's grave on Confederate memorial day. ? The Postoffice Department is preparing for the issuing of the postal notes Nvhich were authorized by the last Congress. Bids are solicited for furnishing* 6,500 ticket punches, to be used by the postmasters in indicating the value of the notes. These postal notes will be issued for any amount up to $4.99 at a cost of 3 cents when purchased in ordiuary form, or 5 cents if made non-negotiable. The date of issue is October 1, at which time letter postage is to be reduced to 2 cents for each half ounce. ? Prof. Greener, in a recent speech, said he hazarded the statement that the colored people of the South to-day are better fed and better housed than any peasantry in Europe. In conclusion, the professor urged the colored people to cease being the sport of politicians. They could better afford to lose the ballot than to lose the esteem aud respect of the religious, industrious, temperate element; the liberty-loving and Godfearing class, which has made liberty and enfranchisement possible. ? James R. Grant, who died in Goochland county, Va., last week, belonged to a family of high social standing in Richmond. In 1869 ne became notorious for having killed H "R.ivp* Pollard, editor of the Southern Opinion, who had printed an article assailing the character of Grant's sister. Grant was tried for murder, but was ably defended by the late Henry A. Wise, and was acquitted. Soon afterward, young Grant left Richmond and went to >?ew \ork, where he joined the minstrels and became noted as a baritone singer of superior merit, under the name of James Russell. ? General Beaureguard speaking of the condition of the negro, some time since, said: "So far as my observation goes there has been a gradual decrease in the race, We have only to look at the neglect of the old and the young which prevails among the negroes to find out a reason why we believe there has been a decrease." When asked whether crime has increased among them since the war, said: "Yes, at the present time?in fact for years back?there has been a steady flow of the negro populations to the cities.' Here they indulge in all sorts of crime; and as a result our jails are filled with negro criminals." ? There is great excitement among the students of the Methodist College in Delaware, Ohio, over the arrival of Detective Morris from Columbus, who proposes to arrest a number of students and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. Some days ago a party of students led a cow, blindfolded, into the private room of President Payne in the college building and locked it in. When the president returned he found his room a scene of confusion and ruin. His bookcase, pictures, statues and chandeliers and carpets were damaged 01 destroyed. The faculty held a meeting and determined to arrest and prosecute the offenders. About forty students have been summoned to appear before the faculty and answer for drunkenness and billiard playing. It is said full twenty students will be expelled and a half dozen arrested for the cow outrage. ?The first comptroller of the U. S. Treasury has rendered a decision in a case involving the right of the United States to apply money appropriated by Congress to the State of Georgia by set off against the quota ol direct taxes apportioned to that State by the direct Tax Act of August 1S61. lie holds that the Act of March 3, 1883, tc refund to the State of Georgia certain money expended by the said State for common defence in 1777 does not in any respect affect or suspend the law requiring accounting officers of the treasury department to make set off, and is not mandatory in the sense ol repealing or suspending any prior existing statute. The same rule now applied to the State of Georgia has been applied to the States of Kansas, West Virginia and Missouri. The balance certified by the firsl .comptroller May 29, 1868, as due to the United states from the State of Georgia for its quota of direct tax has not been in any form set aside or rendered inoperative. ? The arrangements for the funeral ceremonies which will accompany the re-interment of the remains of John Howard Payne nt Oak Hill Cemetery on Georgetown Heights on the 9th of June, have recently been perfected. The body of the poet will l>e taken from the temporary resting place to the Corcoran Art Gallery and will be escorted thence to the cemetery by a funeral procession, consisting of the militia, the President, members of the Cabinet and ol the Diplomatic Corps, Judges of the United States Courts, Senators and Representatives, the poet and orator of the occasion, and the relatives and friends of the lamented Payne and of Mr. Corcoran. At the ceremonies a poem will be read by Roberts. Chilton, and an oration by Leigh Robinson, of Washington. The selection of music for the occasion will include "Home, Sweet Home," the hist verse of which the audience will unite in singing. The ceremonies, judging from the programme, will be solemn and impressive. ? A terrible accident happened on the new Brooklyn bridge at half past 4 o'clock 011 Wednesday of last week. The bridge wacrowded to its utmost capacity. On the platform at the New York tower the jam became so great that many fainted. A cry of distress was raised and a dreadful struggle began between the panic stricken crowds coming east and west. A number were, il is reported, crushed to death. In the end, the crowd coming from the Brooklyn side prevailed and rushed toward the New York anchorage, trampling down everything in the way. Men, women and children were buried under a mass of struggling humanity many feet high. As soon as the newt ilic-oot?ir ,1-oc (iftnvOVPfl tn tl)P \p\V yjl 111U Ul.TUOlVi it UC Wi* t VJ vv* v V ?..v York station by the onset of the panic stricken crowd the police were called and the bridge closed. The work of removing the crushed and wounded then began. A number were taken to the City Hall police station and others to the Chambers street hospital. The police report that at least ten or fifteen were killed. ? Chalmers, the Mississippi renegade, whe was a red-hot Democrat as long sis he coulci use the party to advance his personal interests, and got kicked out of the party trace* because he could not get a seat in Congress to which he was not entitled, has called t mass convention to meet at Jackson, Miss, on July 4, to secure an endorsement of hi: political course. His opponents, led bj Lynch and other prominent and represen tative Republicans, have called a meeting of the Republican executive committee fo; June 23 to consider whether it is best foi the Republicans to train with Chalmers an} longer or not. Lynch is a far better Repub liean than Chalmers and should be able t< thwart the evil'designs of his enemy, al though there is no telling what the resul will be, for the love of the ordinary negr< politician for a mean white man is some thing beyond comprehension. Wheneve: a white man becomes so disreputable tha the Democrats cannot stand him he is al ways sure to receive a cordial welcome in to the Republican fold. We shall watel the struggle in Mississippi between the ne gro and the renegade with much interest ? In the central Criminal court of London last Thursday, the Recorder, charging the grand jurv, referred to the dynamite conspirators, Dr. Gallagher, Bernard Gallagher, Whitehead, Curtin, Ansburg and Wilson, and said that the indictment against them I would charge the six prisoners with treason- j | felony. He stated that Lynch, alias, Nor- j : man, who turned informer, had been per! mitted to give evidence for the Queen. He would describe the plans of the Fenian conspiracy which existed in America. If the grand jury, said the Recorder, believed that the prisoners were connected with that conspiracy that they would return a true bill against them. Lynch's evidence, I he said, would be most fully corroborated by other witnesses. The charge had been postponed for some days while the Crown was deciding as to the exact nature of the indictment. A second indictment, the Recorder said would be preferred against six of the prisoners, including Lynch, for having in their possession nitro glycerine with intent to commit murder. Lynch would also be permitted to give Queen's evidence in fKoonco Tlio o-ninrl inrv rpt,nrned true bills in all the cases within an hour after receiving the Recorder's charge. ibc forfeviUc (Nftim. YORKVILLE, 8. C. : THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 7. 1883. THE LOUISVILLE EXPOSITION. The Southern Exposition will open at Louisville, Ky., on the 1st of next August and will continue one hundred days. The exhibition will be conducted on a larger scale than ever before attempted in the United States, with the exception of the National Centennial Exposition of 1870. The object of the exposition is to bring together at this central point exhibits of the products, the industries and the arts of the various parts of our country. Governor Blackburn, or KeniucKy, 111 reuruary mat, i ! sent George M. Harvey, Esq., to this and other States sis a Commissioner of the Southern Exposition, and in accordance ; with a request made through him Governor ' Thompson has appointed the following . named gentlemen as Commissioners to ; represent South Carolina at the exposition: ] ! Ex-Governor Johnson Hagood, Hon. A. P. J ^ Butler, Col. D. P. Duncan, Dr. A. B. Rose, Col. C. S. McCall, Col. S. S. Crittenden, Col. John B. Peck, Col. Thomas Taylor, R. L. McCaughrin, Esq., R. A. Love, Esq., \ Captain W. G. Childs and C. R. Vulk, Esq. I J THE KENTUCKY TRAGEDY. ; A statement by Mrs. Philip B. Thomp son?the first she has made for publication, | of the matters that resulted in the killing of ; Walter Davis by her husband, Congressman i Thompson, whose recent trial and acquittal i is fresh in the minds of our readers?api peared in Cincinnati last Thursday morn ing. Mrs. Thompson denies pointedly that she was drunk at the St. Clair Hotel and j ' called God to witness that Walter Davis j | was innocent of any wrong towards her , when she went into his room that night. ! She says they could not awaken Miss Buek ' ner and therefore she went into Davis'' > room. Iler story was told at Mrs. Davis' I house and in her presence. It is reported from Lexington that Mrs. [ Davis will enter a civil suit for damages 1 against her husband's slayer, and that, backed by all the Davis influence, she will ^ prosecute it determinedly for the clearing I up of the mystery and the honor of the dead i man's name, which she is convinced nas been foully and unfairly aspersed. ! NATIONAL COLORED CONVENTION. A convention of the colored citizens of Newberry county, has been called to be held at the courthouse on the 23rd of June, for the purpose of electing delegates to a State Convention, which will be held at Columbia, to , elect delegates to the Colored National Con? vention, which meets in Washington in Sep? tember. A meeting composed of precinct chairmen 1 and other leading colored men of Sumter ; county was held on the 21st ultimo, ostensiJ bly for the purpose of securing representaf tion in the National Conference of colored ; men, which takes place in Washington, 1). ! C., in the month of September. One of the ! prominent movers in this, who is a man of j intelligence and education?the Rev. I. B. Smith?states that it is the desire and inten? tion of his race to make an effort to secure i recognition, and whichever party will guarantee them the largest share could rely upon ' their support in the future. ' THE FOURTH* VICTIM. J Thomas Caffrev, the fourth of the Phoenix I Park murderers brought to thegallows, was j hanged in Kilmainham jail at 8 o'clock last Saturday morning. During a farewell in1 terview with his mother on Friday, Caffrey ' broke down completely. The crowd outi side the prison on the morning of the execution was very small, numbering only about > fifty persons. Among these were the moth er and brother of the prisoner, and a woman L who has been present at all the executions of the men convicted of the murder of Lord t Frederick Cavendish, and Mr. Burke, and i who prayed for the condemned men. Cafi frey was composed when on the scaffold, i His death was instantaneous. He wrote a " letter to his mother Friday evening, in which he said: "1 hope you will never have 1 cause to blush for my name. As I am pay. ing the penalty of my crime in this world, I . hope I won't have to suffer for it in the next." i THE (iARFIEEDS IGNORED. A Washington letter says that Charles A. ? Garfield, a first cousin of President Garfield, ' has been the city for a long time fruitlessly ; endeavoring to secure some position under J the present Administration. He is about i to return home in South Cleveland, ()., ! in disappointment. It is an odd fact that " not a single relative of President Garfield \ holds a position under the Government. . Early in President Garfield's administra[ tion Mr. Charles Garfield was promised the [ position of United States marshal for the . Torn tor v of Utah, but the office not then ; being vacant, his appointment was not ^ made. As it was soon to become vacant, however, he was told by President Garfield , to make his preparation to go to Utah to [ to take charge of it, and was engaged in closing up his business in Ohio for that purpose, when the President was shot. He 3 afterward made formal application to Pres1 ident Arthur for the same place. His apl pointment was earnestly pressed by both r Ohio senators, thirteen Republican merfi bers of Congress, Gov. Foster and other r Ohio State officers, George K. Nash, ehairr man of the Republican State central com[ mittee of Ohio, every senator and repre. sentative of the Ohio Legislature and other > prominent persons. It was represented to - President Arthur that Mrs. Garfield earnt estly wished that he should have the place, > but the office was given to another. Mr. Garfield having sacrificed his former busir ness, was left entirely out of employment, t He then made application for another - position in one of the departments here, Dut he has been unsuccessful as above stai ted. Mr. Garfield was a soldier, serving " in the army as a captain and then as a major from July 1, IHGd, to the close of the , war. A RUINOUS RAIN IN IOWA. At G o'clock last Friday evening one of the very worst rain storms that ever visited Iowa, set in at Council Bluffs, and for four hours poured in torrents. Indian Creek, which runs through the heart of the city overflowed, and the damage is royghly estimated at $200,000. Seven iron bridges and two stone culverts belonging to the city were swept away, also several dwellings and barns. All the business houses on Main street and Broadway were flooded and several lives are reported to have been lost. The water in the streets one block from the creek was waist deep with a swift current. Cries of help could be heard in every direction, but thctewiftness of the current rendered assistance impossible. At 12 o'clock it was still raining in torrents. The flood rose so quickly that many business men found it impossible to reach their wives and children, and a number narrowly escaped death from drowning while endeavoring to get in their homes. The gloom and mourning in the city is universal. The Xonpurcil of Saturday says: The most frightful calamity occurred last evening after G o'clock. It had been threatening rain during the entire day with occasional showers, but when evening came it been contending for possession of the territory lying along what is now the Mexican frontier. According to the policy of the United States such of the Apaches as properly belong to our side of the line have been collected into two reservations, at or near each of which is the usual agent of the Indian Bureau and a garrison of troops. One of these reservations is in New Mexico? Fort Stanton, and the other in Arizona at San Carlos?Fort Thomas. A large part of the Apaches, however, still remain in Sonora and Chihuahua. These Indians occasionally come North to see their old friends at the agencies and the agency Indians return their visits, and while making such trips they keep their hands in by stealing cattle and horses which fall in their way, and by killing everybody whom they encounter. They are the natural and common enemies of both Americans and Mexicans; they give no quarter and expect none. Such a visit or raid across the borders creates a panic, but the cause isgone before a hue and cry can be raised. Some time since Secretary Frelinghuysen, in behalf of the United States, and Senor Romeo, the Mexican Minister, with the approval of his own government entered into an agreement, not a treaty, that the troops of either nation might follow such raiding party I across the national border and destroy them. I The pursuit, however, must be immediate, I in hot blood, on afresh trail, and, according to international law, due notice being given to the party, and must cease the moment the authorities of the territory invaded were able and willing to take it up. General Crook was assigned to the command of the Department of Arizona on account of his special fitness and experience, and lie was given an increased force to enable him to prevent these Apache raids, which so interfered with the development of the resources of the territory. Tnis force consisted of two full regiments of cavalry, the Third and Sixth, one regiment of infantry, the First, and 200 Indian scouts?twothirds of all now employed by the United States. General Crook was convinced by the recent raids that peace and security in Arizona could be attained by making the Apaches in Sonora respect and fear the power of this government, and he therefore determined to follow the raiders to their hiding places in the mountains which separate the Mexican States of Sonora and Chihuahua. He made his preparations with great care and deliberation, and took the precaution of first visiting Sonora in person and consulting with its civil and military authorities with regard to his contemplated movement. They were only too glad to have such an auxiliary in the work of preventing Apache raids, and, having assumed himself of this, General Crook returned to his command and began the movement now in progress. The War Department has given General Crook the fullest liberty toconduct this bold enterprise in his own way and his own I time. reDOsinir in him absolute confidence and furnishing him with men and money fully up to his requisitions and estimates. There is no hurry in the matter, for during his absence from Arizona all railway and mining operations and other pursuits of the people of that Territory are going on without interruption and his presence on the other side of the border will keep all the hostile Apaches there from undertaking another raid. General ('rook in due time will account for everything in his own way or perish. Thk Gallows.?-Robert Henderson, colored, who murdered his wife near Oxford, N. C., last November, by beating her, was hanged at Oxford last Friday. The execution was private, only a few persons being admitted within the enclosure, but a large crowd tilled the town, as it was expected that the hanging would be public. He made a full confession. The drop fell soon after noon. There was a bitter feeling toward Henderson, who narrowly escaped I lynching the day after the murder. He had I been tried in April and was sentenced on tne ! last day of that month. The jury was comJ posed equally of white and colored men and I quickly agreed on a verdict. The woman ! was about to become a mother at the time I of the murder. ' John Baily, aged 38, and Henry Wim1 bush, aged 30, were hanged at Macon Ga., on j Friday, in the presence of a crowd estimaI ted at 8,000. Bailey murdered Paris Tapi pan, an old negro, last July during a disi pute over one dollar. lie escaped, out was ! captured in September. He was tried in i November and found guilty. Wimbush i killed Morgan Washington, negro, last June. ! Both men were working on the railroad i shoveling dirt. Wimbush quarreled with 1 Washington and hot words passed. Willi seemed as inougn uie very imiiveus icn. Dark portentous clouds swept around to the eastward and discharged their torrents into the headwaters of Indian Creek and a flood with constantly increasing volume poured through Couucil Bluffs, sweeping bridges and culverts from one end of tne stream to the other. Many buildings were swept away. All that part of the city lying between the Bluffs and Broadway on the north was inundated bv the rushing and boiling waters. The sight was awful to behold. The loss of life at this writing is feared to be large, as numerous'instances of drowning have already been reported. At midnight a general gloom spread over the city, which was increased by tne continuance of the rain, although the creek seemed to have spent its fury. The water in the western and southern part of the city is rapidly rising and many people have been compelled to take to their boats to escape. It is impossible at this hour to give the facts as to the extent of the devastation by the storm, but the loss to the city alone will be hundreds of thousands of dollars, independent of that to private individuals. During much of the time the rain fell with such force that its effects upon those exposed to it was similar to that 01 a heavy snower bath. At times it would almost take a person's breath away. There was no wind. A number of persons were reported drowned last evening, but it turns out to-day that' no lives were Tost, although some hairbreadth escapes are reported. Hundreds of families living adjacent to the creek were driven from their homes, which were more or less damaged. A number of houses were dashed to pieces as they floated off. One heavy iron bridge with a fifty-foot span was carried more than two blocks, and its heavy iron girders and striinfers were bent and warped as if they hacf been wire ropes. The damage is now estimated at 5300,000. THE INDIAN CAMPAIGN. The following statement of the view taken at army headquarters of the situation of affairs 011 the Mexican frontier and of the plans and circumstances of Gen. Crook is promulgated by the War Department: The United States acquired Texas, New Mexico and Arizona and Old Mexico in war in 1846-48. Ever since that time our army and adventurous emigrants had been fighting with the Apaches?the general name given to many bands of Indians, of about the same type, known distinctively as Tontos, Jicarillous, Warm Spring Indians Chimin hmis;. whn for two hundred vears have j bash told Washington to say sheep and he | would shear him. Washington said sheep ' and Wimbush jumped behind him and cut I him 30 that he died soon after. Wimbush ; was tried in November and found guilty. ! Both cases went to the Supreme Court and new trials were refused. Both men were defended by ablecounsel, who stood by them till the last. The condemned-men joined the Catholic Church while in prison and spent a month of the time in praying. On the morning of the execution, they arose in good spirits and appeared ready to die. The morning was spent in devotional exercises. The men ascended the scaffold with firm steps. They had previously confessed their crimes and made only short statements at the gallows. Thedrop fell at about 1 o'clock and they were pronounced dead in thirteen minutes. The majority of the crowd present were negroes. CALLING OUT THE TROOPS. The strike of the Illinois miners, which culminated last week in rioting and bloodshed, has been in progress for fully two weeks. The remarkable feature in its latter stages was the active part which the wives and daughters of the miners took in preventing new men from working the mines. These women, numbering fully three hundred, marching in battle array and supported by one hundred ;nul fifty miners, took possession of the mines and work was entirely suspended throughout the district. The militia, which Governor Hamilton ordered out on Thursday, consisting of companies from Taylorville, Edwardsville and Verden, was concentrated at East St. Louis, so as to be in readiness to proceed to any point threatened. They were placed under command of Col. Barkiey, of Springfield, who received instructions from the Governor to take his orders from the sheriff of the county in which the troops were stationed. On Tuesday morning Barkiey was notified that the mob had taken possession of the mines around Belleville and the civil authorities were powerless. lie immediately started with his three companies on board a train and arrived at Belleville late in the afternoon, when he learned that the mob had taken possession of mint) No. 1, at Beinicke, a small station on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, in St. (.'lair county, three and a half miles west of Belleville. The militia started for that point, reaching it about 5.30 P. M. From the car windows they saw a mob of 500 strikers and about 100 frantic women in possession of the mine. The women had just come from Rose Hill and, wild with rage, and were very much more demonstrative than the men. The train stopped in a ravine between two high hills, and both bluffs were covered with strikers, the women having taken a position on the summit. Deputy Sheriff Anthony, of St. Clair county, mounted upon a box on the depot platform, and addressing the strikers, said he did not desire to have trouble, but he wanted the laws complied with and urged the mob to disperse peaceably. Before he concluded the report of a pistol rang out on the air, followed by two more shots from the summit of the hill. The deputy sheriff felt a bullet whistle past his ear and noticing where the smoke came from in the mob drew his pistol and tired in that direction. This was the signal for a general fusilade from the mob, and one of the soldiers, who was just getting out of the cars, fell with a bullet through his knee. Two thirds of the militia were still in the cars, when Deputy Sheriff Anthony ordered Col. Barkley to give the word to fire, and the Colonel shouted out the command to his men. The troops filed rapidly out of the cars and poured a volley into the strkers with deadly effect. The latter retreated, but returned the fire, whereupon a second volley was given by the militia. l iiu iriou 01 men unu women uuki scattered and ran helter-skelter through the gullies and ravines. After the smoke had cleared away it was found that one ol the strikers had been instantly killed, another shot through the head so that he cannot recover, and a third was shot through the hips. Several made their escape, leaving bloody trails behind them. The exact number of the strikers killed or wounded is not known. A number of the strikers were taken prisoners, and on trial last Friday, for riot, thirty-four pleaded guilty and were each fined $25 and cost, but a stay of execution was granted during their good behavior. ROCK HILL ITEMS. From the Herald, May 31. The Catawba Rifles?42 rank and filewere inspected by Adjt-General Manigault, accompanied by Col. Marshall, of the Palmetto Regiment, on Tuesday of last week. Palmetto Council is the name of the lodge of the Legion of Honor organized at this place last week. The following are the officers of the council: Commander?J. M.Ivy; Vice-Co mm under?W. G. Heid ; OratorJulius Friedheim ; Past Commander?B. P. Alston ; Secretary?F. H. London ; Treasurer?J. M. Cherry ; Collector?J. Ira I-Iall; Chaplain?Win. Dillingham ; Guide?Jas. F. Keid; Warden?J. H. Overcash; Sentry?J. S. Sultz; Medical Examiner?J. W. Fewell. Trustees?A. Friedheim, F. 0. London, John Alexander. Little Walter Hunter, infant son of Mr. J. S. and Mrs. Mary E. Myers, of Charlotte, died at the resilience of his grandfather, Col. J. W. Rawlinson, in this place, on Tuesday morning last, and in the afternoon the remains were taken to Charlotte for internment. The deceased little boy wasaged only fifteen months, and he is the third baby buried by the bereaved parents. This last , stroke of the Divine hand falls upon them j peculiarly heavy. The people of Itock Ilill tenderly sympathize with the parents and i kindred in their bereavement. I The third annual meeting of the stockholders of the Hock Hill Cotton Manufacturing Company was held in the parlor of the Globe Hotel on Tuesday afternoon last. There was a full representation of stock. The following officers were elected : President, A. E. Hutchison. Secretary and Treasurer, David Hutchison. Directors, A. E. Hutchison, J. M. Ivy, W. L. Roddy, J. R. London, A. H. White, J. I. Middleton, ] of Baltimore, and C. A. Chisolm,of Charleston, vice W. 13. Fewell, resigned. The President's report showed a net profit of 5 per cent, on the workings of the factory for the year ending May 1st, and this result, considering the great depression of the yarn market for the past year, is highly satisfactory to the stockholders. The policy of adding more machinery for the purpose of making twisted yarn was discussed at length, and a resolution was adopted giving the Board of Directors authority to make such addition, within their discretion. The Board adjourned feeling highly encouraged with the showing madfv in the report and with the future prospects of the factory. ?; Tiik Dky Weather.?We hear much complaint in all directions of the spell of dry weather we are passing through. We hear, however, of good stands, and notwithstanding the cold bite, we see nothing at all gloomy. The* crops are generally in a fine condition as to tilth and are exceptionally fertilized. Accounts show more farm manures used this year than ever, besides 0 percent, increase in commercial fertilizers. The present dry spell will make the plants root deep and the fields will come into June clean, with a seasonable June, (the true growing month for cotton and one which makes the corn area tell most,) we will have our farmers smiling and happy once more. We want above all things, this season, good corn, pea and root crops to supplement a shrinkage in small-grain. If, therefore, June will only do us justice, we will come out right side up with care. We lay great store by increased fertilization and entering June with clean fields.?Columbia Register. | Is Tin-: Bite of a Woman* Poisonous? I In?a party at St. Joseph, Mo., as a paper of that city informs us, was a young man | "noted for his brilliant conversational powi ers," and a beautiful girl "from one of the | upper countiesand in the course of a i struggle for a trinket "the girl sank her S ivory teeth into the fleshy part of the young 1 man's arm." He politely concealed hispain I till he returned home, when, on removing ; his garments, blood was found trickling from the wound. Next morning the lacerated arm was swollen to twice its natural size, and he was laid up for several days. The St. Joseph paper in relating the incij dent refers to another and worse one of simi ilar nature that occurred at Cape Girardeau ! a few years ago, in which a young gentlej man actually died from a playful bite on j his thumb by a young lady. The paper reI marks: " It frequently happens that the bite 1 of a woman is poisonous." >, LOCAL AFFAIRS, }i? 1; . ai new advertisements. ei J. Beatty Williams, Judge of Prolmte?Citation? p Patnelia I,. Jackson, Applicant?!). K. (j Jackson, deceased. ' M. Strauss?Where to Buy. jt>( J. E. Lowry?A Revolution in Horse Powers., ft Hunter A Oates?Inspectour Large Stock. ,1 J. Q. Hoke?Machine Repairing, j John R. Ashe?Strayed?Points of Interest? Kainit. 11 i J. M. Adams?Thev All Do It?Stoves?Smoke, Puff, Puff. ' 11 i Wilhers Adic.kes?We Continue to Keep Our V Stock. o > J. R. "Lindsay A Co.?Dress (foods, Ac. T. M. Dohson?Don't Tell Papa. Chronicle and Constitutionalist, Augusta, <??., 11 (4th page). \\ Ashley Phosphate Company, Charleston, S. ( ., (4th page). R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Sheriffs Sale. \\ sales-day. There were no official sales of any kind on last Monday?sales-day for June, and c.( but a small attendance of people in town. 0 postmaster wallace. i> We are pleased to notice that Mr. John K. ^ Wallace has so far recovered from the se- e rious hurt he received on the night of May 11 2 as to be able to return to town and resume his duties in the postoftice. 11 personal mention. n Judge Witherspoon left home last Friday afternoon for the Eighth Circuit, over the j courts of which he will preside this month ij and a part of the next. He opened the Cir- jf, cuit last Monday, at Abbeville. kino's mountain high school. j Hon. A. M. Waddell, of Charlotte, X. (!., j will deliver the annual address before the ' Alpha and Delta Societies of King's Moun- ]( tain High School, at King's Mountain, X. Ci C., on Thursday the 14th instant, it being J; the occasion of the commencement exercises j of that institution. S no change of schedule. v The announcement made in this column j: last week, emanating from the Charlotte r Journal-Observer, that there would be a J , 1 change of schedule on the passenger trains y of the C., ('. and A. Railroad, was prema- j ture. From the railroad officials we have * since learned there will be no change from v the present schedule time. is machine repairing. i Attention is directed to the advertisement ? of Mr. J. Q. Iloke, who announces increased facilities for the repairing of machinery ; and other work in his line. Yorkville can t now boast of two shops in which almost any p machinery used in the county can be re- I ! paired at short notice. The erection of these 2 j shops here is a good indication, and our t wish is that they may both grow to exten- o , si ve and prosperous establishments. t DEATH OF HUBERT WRIGHT. | Robert Wright, colored, died at his home j in this place last Saturday, aged about sixty years. Until emancipation he was a slave, v having been bought by the late Col. Win. ^ Wright from a Virginia trader about forty years ago. From the date of his purchase by C'ol. Wright he was the trusted body , servant of that gentleman during the Colonel's life time. After emancipation Rob- ? ert showed himself to be industrious and n energetic, and retained the confidence of all who knew him. (TAX COLLECTIONS. I' The books for the collection of the May a installment of the State and county taxes t 1?-?r,4- TiRtifiurlntf inn a J WC1C C1U3CU iU?-3L lliuioucy aiiv Witvwiuuo i for the month were as follows: f ' For State purposes, $ 4,481.27 5 S * For county purposes, 2,829.34 8 c i For Railroad, 1,603.76 9 T j For Schools, 1,887.48 7 * , Polls 138.50 0 d Total ?10,940.37 9 !' The collections this year exceed those of ! last May by ?1,074.41. THE RAILROAD. s We learn from James Mason, Superinten- e dent of the Chester and Lenoir Division of v the C., C. and A. Railroad system, that the r rails have been shipped from New York for t , the completion of the road from Maiden to p ; Newton. A full force under Roadmaster IV Waddill is now working on the track, and i with ample facilities, it is the intention to j) complete the road to Newton by the 1st of t July. The distance is seven miles, and this r; portion of the road will be laid with steel rails. It is contemplated to have a grand p celebration at Newton on the completion of j the road to that point. n CHURCH NOTICES. u , Baptist?Kev. J. E. Covington, Pastor. C Services at 10.30 A. M., and h P. M., next v Sunday. ^ Methodist Episcopal?Rev. It. P. Franks, J Pastor. Services at 10.30 A. 3VL, and 8 P. M. ti Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. Services at 10.30 A. M., and 8 P. M. ^ Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. i( R. Lathan, Pastor. Services at Tirzah tl Church next Sunday. Prayer meeting in tl the church at Yorkville every Wednesday, tl at "> o'clock, P. M., until further notice. F Episcopal?Rev. A. Prentiss, Rector. Ser- d vices in the Church of the Good Shepherd C( next Sunday, at 11 A. M.,and 8 P. M. RETURNED FROM TEXAS. j Capt. and Mrs. L. M. Grist returned on ^ last Thursday morning from a somewhat (j extended visit to the State of Texas. As a j recreation and the enjoyment of a visit ^ through a section of the Union all of which was new to them beyond Montgomery, Ala., |( they had a pleasant and delightful trip. In the issue after the next of the Enqci- ^ H.KR. Cant. Grist will furnish the readers of ? the paper with a sketch of his visit to the v Lone Star State and the impressions it made '} upon his mind. lie did not visit Mexico, as at first contemplated, the excursionists on that trip being confined to members of the Baptist Convention which assembled at ^ Waco. w SAI) DEATHS. ft The people of our town were recently j ' made very sad. At midnight on Wednesday, May .'loth, John McGill Kennedy, son d of Air. W. INI. and Mrs. R. A. Kennedy, died, e and on Sunday it was announced that Miss *Minnie A. Smith, daughter of Mr. John J. J' and Mrs. J. M. Smith, of Clover, was no jf more. h< In both these cases Death showed that he r< is no respecter of persons. In the one case h he laid his icy hand upon a boy in whose | < generous bosom the fires of manhood were ij just beginning to kindle; in the other case y his victim was a lovely girl rejoicing in T all the charms of youug womanhood. 3 /"v.. LVwl.i tlm roimiiiK nf .Tnhn ICplinnd V ^ V/Il rilUtlvV uiv iviimiiiw V. ^ . were conveyed to Sharon, where, after ap- t| propriate funeral services, conducted by p Rev. Dr. It. A. Ross, they were interred in n the family burying ground. a: On Monday the remains of Miss Smith T were brought from Clover, where the family has resided for the past two years, and where ^ she died, and were buried in the cemetery a' of this place. The funeral services were a: conducted by Rev. T. R. English, pastor of n the Presbyterian Church in Yorkville. I ti . } e< DEATHS OF FINE ANIMALS. ft On Tuesday of last week, Mr. Frank E. i ft Smith drove a pair of his horses to King's i Mountain, having left here with a view of j ^ taking his wife and mother to All Healing ; p Springs to spend a few days, after first visit- j s ing a relative at the first-named town. They c< arrived at King's Mountain in the afternoon,: having stopped at the Springs for a short ^ while, where Mr. Smith gave his horses water. After putting away his team in the (; stables of Long's Hotel, in King's Mountain, ei e went to the stables at 12 o'clock at night, j ntl found both horses apparently well; but irly on Wednesday morning he was sur-1 rised to learn that his fine clay-bank was I ead. The supposition is that it died ofj ilic. While at the Springs on the day be>re it died, he declined an offer of two hunred dollars for the horse. On Wednesday, Mr. F. llapperlield lost a uile under singular circumstances. While lie animal was being led away from the rell, in the yard of his residence, it stepped n one end of the handle of a hoe. The oposite end of the handle flew up, striking the rnle in the flank and severing an artery, diich caused it to bleed to death within ten linutes after receiving the hurt. The mule as worth CIRCUIT COURT. June term of the Circuit Court for York >unty will convene on the fourth Monday f this month,- his Honor Judge Hudson residing. As usual at this term, there all be hut little business before the Court, itheron the Sessions docket or the Com1011 Pleas calendars. On Tuesday last the illowing petit jurors were drawn to serve t the approaching term : Juror. / Township. litehel Meek,colored.Y.. Broad River. . P. Duncan, Bullock's Creek. . C*. Comer, Kbenezer. ohn M. Jackson Bethel. K C'. McKinney Broad River. aines Nelson, Bethesda. hnrles B. Bvors, .J.. Cherokee. .ndrew Neely, colored,Y. Ebenezer. i'm. Bridges,' Cherokee. . R. Carothers, Fort Mill. os. M. Whitesides, ./. Broad River. . D. McConnell Bethesda. 'oter Hardin, colored,Y.. Bethesda. Irwin Blair Bullock's (.'reek. l. R. Bolin, ./ Broad River. >. T. MeCarter, -.^King'sMountain. ia\vrence Adams, colored, Bethel. tunes Mcachain, colored,....y/.. Cherokee. . N. Merritt, Fort Mill. . J. Stewart Fort Mill. V. M. McGill, ./. Cherokee. siuic R. Gates, ./. Catawba. 'Inlander E. Moore, 1. ,.Bethel. 'oleman Bobbins,colored,..V..'.Bullock's Creek. . (t. It. Neely, Bethesda. i. 1). IIollei\ Catawba. i. Sidney White, Fort Mill. olmson livers, colored, Broad Kiver. imeon Earle, colored,....'\/. Ebenezer. L A. Smith, Ebenezer. V. li. Love, Bullock's Creek. i. P. Blankensbip, Fort Mill. j. L. Smith, King's Mountain. )avid P. Lesslev, Catawba. !. It. Patrick,...". Bullock's Creek. I. E. White, Fort Mill. MILITARY INSPECTION. Wednesday of last M eek was the day aplointed for the inspection of the Jenkins titles and the Cadets of King's Mountain Military School?the latter corps, by Act of he General Assembly, constituting a part f the Fourth Brigade of the State volunteer roops. Adjutant-GeneralManigault, aecomtanied by Col. J. Q. Marshall, of the Palnetto Regiment, arrived about one o'clock, \ M., having come over from Rock Hill, chere the Catawba ltilies were inspected n the preceding day. Six o'clock was the ime fixed for the inspection, and promptly ,t that hour the Jenkins Rifles, under eomnand of Capt. J. R. Lindsay, marched to he grounds of the King's Mountain Miliary School, where the inspection was held, 'he Rifles were met by the Cadets who esorted them to the parade ground and the wo companies were drilled respectively by .'apt. Lindsay and Col. Coward. The evoutions of the companies were witnessed by lurtro prnwrl whn hurl nsspmhlprl?nmrmp* hose present being quite a number of ladies. Hter the drill was over, the companies were armed in separate lines, and formally inpected by Gen. Manigault. He was quite omplimentary to both the Cadets and the titles, and was gratified to see by their soilierly bearing that the former were well naintaining the enviable reputation of the nstitution to which they belong; while he Itifles were in all respects the equal of ny company he had met on his tour of innection. At the conclusion of his remarks ach company gave the General three cheers, /hen the Cadets called Col. Marshall. He esponded in a neataddress, complimenting he young men 011 their fine military bearng. The Cadets gave him three cheers, nd the line of march was then taken up for tose's Hotel where a collation was preared. The Cadets escorted the Rifles to he hotel and then returned to the baracks. After refreshments were served to the coinany and a number of invited guests, Gen. 2. 31. Law was called and responded in a eat and weu-cnosen auaress 01 nve juiiites. lie was followed by Gen. Manigault, 'ol. Marshall and Maj. J. P. Hart, each of ,'hom was called out by the company, len. Manigault warned the members of the enkins Rifles of the gravity of the assumpion of this regiment in taking the name tiey bear, reminding them of the lustre ron by the Palmetto Regiment in the Mexian war, and of the high esteem in which hat command was held by the officers of lie regular army. Gen. Manigault served lirough the Mexican war as an officer in the 'almetto Regiment, and in his remarks he welt mainly on incidents of the war in annection with his regiment. Col. Marshall expressed his high grutificaion at meeting here so finely equipped a Dinpany, numbering 34 men rank and file, 'hose proficiency in the school of the solier was equal to that of any company he ad yet met. Having accompanied Gen. [anigault on his tour of inspection, he was repared to speak in the most encouraging ?rms of the personnel of the regiment, and e had 110 fears that it would fail to sustain lie fame of the old Palmetto Regiment ,'hose record forms one of the brightest ages in our country's history. Major Hart was happy in his remarks .'hicii were cnmnlimontarv to the soldiery nd the visiting officers. At night n hop in compliment to the visting officers was given at Bratton's hall, ,'here beauty and chivalry mingled in the \stivities of the ball room. Virginia and Texas Chops.?The most iscouraging accounts of the crops in differnt sections of Virginia are coming in. otton is coming up badly, and the tobacco lants are small and in some instances drylg up in patches. If a full crop of tobacco > made it will be very late. In the peanut jction many farmers have been forced to ?plant in consequence of the seed planted aving become rotten. The reporter of the Agricultural Bureau, t Washington for Northern Texas, makes le following crop report for June 1st: vrheat that was late sown is not so good, hat which was early sown, particularly [editerraneau and Nicaragua is fine. There isome little talk aboutarust in the bud, but le stalk is healthy, and so long as this is the ise 110 injury is apprehended. The yield romises to be a fair average. They are | ow harvesting. Oats that were early sown re very good, the late sownare notsogood. hey are beading rather slowly, but the av- j rage yield will be good. The corn is fine and as been well cultivated, and the acreage is trge. If the season should continue favorble the yield will be large. Cotton is good nd stands well up. The nights have been ither cold lately lor it, but it has plenty of me yet. The acreage is from 10 to 1"> per Hit. less than last year. All the crops are fteen days late, but the prospects are good >r an abundant harvest. ? ? ? There is some unfavorable comment in olumbia over the removal of Mr. M. C. lobertson, Head aerie in me oecreuiry ui j tate's office, by Secretary of State Lipsimb. It is the first removal except "for tuse" made in the State House since 1.H7U. lie other employees in the State 1 louse premted Mr. Robertson with a handsome tesmonial to show their sympathy. Mr. A. . Jones, of Newberry, succeeds Mr. Rol>rtsou as the secretary's chief clerk. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Eighteen lawyers were licensed by the State Supreme Court last week. ? A council of the American Legion of Honor was instituted in Chester on Tuesday of last week. ? The United States Fish Commissoner i placed 580,000 young shad in the Catawba | river last week and 420,000 in the Congaree. ? Bishop Wilson is to preside over the next session of the South Carolina Annual Conference, which convenes in Sumter, December o. ? Senator Hampton has accepted the invitation extended to him to deliver the oration on the occasion of unveiling the Confederate Monument in Camden, S. C., on the 20th of June. ? The West gold mine, near West Springs, Union county, is in full operation, running twenty stamps day and night. The yield of gold is satisfactory to the company.' Mr. E. McDowell lately sold his interest for $10,001). ? Mr. M. J. Myers has discovered a vein of almost pure gold on his land in Chester........... Tlin I'nin 5a n utrimrftf Vl'hitp liUU VUU111J. i in; >v_m ?o u v? <f flint, fairly studded with glittering metal. He has gone to Boston to purchase mining machinery. ? The school houses of South Carolina avvererage in cost $47. In North Carolina they average much better?$130. In Virginia they average $481; in Tennessee $202. This is for the South. Co North and you And comfort and luxury. The average in Illinois is $1,43(5; in Ohio$1,800; in New York $1,584. ? The barn and stable of Mr. \Y. I). Hyatt in Lancaster county was destroyed by Are on Sunday night, May 20. There was no insurance on the building and Mr. Hyatt estimates his loss at $1,500. The fire was undoubtedly the work of an incendiary and the torch is thought to have been applied inside the barn among the straw and fodder. ? The Columbia and Greenville Railroad is in a flourishing condition, as will be seen by the following statement, estimated in round numbers, of their transactions: From October 1,1882, to April 30, 1885], the expenses were $15,000 less than the corresponding period last year ; the earnings for the same time were $90,000; making an actual saving of. $105,000. ? In Columbia, last Friday, a young man, adjudged insane and waiting transfer to the Asylum, managed to slip off and hire a hack. Driving to a house he induced the unsuspicious driver to go in with a message, and while the driver was on this duty he drove off, and was not intercepted until he had gone four miles into the country. ? me siaie rsuperinienucni ui jjuuciinuu has issued a circular announcing the beginning of a State Normal Institute for colored teachers in Columbia on July 5, ending August 1, 188.']. Tuition to all colored teachers will be free. Board can be obtained in Columbia at low rates, and may be secured in advance by applying to the Secretary, Mr. Thomas .L Gregory, Columbia, S. C. ? At an exthusiastic meeting of the citizens, and business men of Greenville last Friday night, resolutions were adopted declaring it to be the sense of the people that Greenville will subscribe $100,000 to the capital stock of the Carolina, Cumberland Gap and Chicago Railroad, on certain conditions, one of which is to secure Greenville on the main line. A subscription of $4,000 for surveying purposes, will be paid over at once. ? The Carolina Spartan says: "The frost of the 13th instant will be a memorable one. It will be a long time, perhaps, before another comes as late. Winter fires were kept going all day the 22nd and 23rd. Farmers rode into town with overcoats buttoned around them. Laborers built fires in the cotton fields to warm while they were chopping cotton?a thing not often seen in this section. Men ploughed with their coats buttoned around them. In many places the leaves and twigs of the ?- ? 1*511 r\rl Tn Kr?ffn?Yi lonrle pCrSlIIlIIIUU WCIC JYHlcvi. i.11 uuimiii iuiiu.) the frost was white as is seen in winter. ? The Charlotte Journal-Observer learns that while a party of Turks with performing bears, were encamped near Lancaster last Thursday, the big black bear killed and partly devoured one of the children. The Turkish women were not noticing the child, and it got too close to the bear, when the savage animal knocked its brains out with one blow of its huge paw, and then tore its flesh off by the mouthful before the men could beat the bear into subjection. The body of the child was buried by the Turks, who then turned and gave their remaining two children a good whipping each, to make them keep away from the bears. ? The people of Spartanburg are hopeful thatthe projected ltailroad from Rutherfordton, N. C., will come to their town. The Spartanburg delegates returned from a railroad meeting held in Rutherford ton last week, and are much encouraged with the prospect. Some time ago Rutherford county voted a subscription of $.">0,000 to a road to be built to Spartanburg, but the county commissioners have never issued the bonds and certain parties now want to divert this subscription to another line in the direction of Shelby. A large majority of the people, however, are in favor of the Spratanburg road, and it is probable that this will be built first and the Shelby road afterward. MERE-MENTION. On Friday an insane woman in Cumber land county, Pa., cut the throats of her three children and then killed herself. John Anderson, an inmate of the Joliet, 111., State prison, was murdered by his cell mate, Michael Mooney, last Thursday, who hail secretly made a knife from a tile to accomplish his purpose. Kansas farmers hold over 5,000,000 bushels of old wheat and over .'17,000,000 bushels of.oldcorn. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville, Ky., is hunting other quarters, its lase of the Waverly Hotel expiring two years hence. It rained in torrents in ^Mobile for live hours on Sunday of last week. The water was waist deep in some of the streets, and there were some narrow escapes from drowning. Total rain fall in live hours five and a half inches. Three factories in the United States consume nearly two million eggs a year in making the peculiar kind of paper used by photographers known as albumen paper. The negroes in Illinois propose to hold a convention to secure their political rights. Illinois has been a Republican State ever since the birth of the Republican party. The National Convention of Fertilizer Manufacturers was in session in Baltimore last week. A disastrous tiro occurred in Lvnchbunr. Ya.. on the morning of the .'50th ultimo. Five men were killed by the fulling of a wall. Gen. G. P. Puel, U. .S. A., died near Nashville, Tenn., last Thursday from the effects of an operation performed 011 his jaw some three weeks before, complicated with heart disease. Three cyclones swept-across Indiana on Monday of last week. The loss of property and life was fearful. A war cloud, not larger than a man's hand, has risen in the eastern horizon. For two days last week the French bombarded two ports on the northwest coast of Madagascar, causing great destruction of British and other merchandise. This demonstration may give rise to serious complications. Mormon missionaries have appeared in Charlotte. Seventeen of them have been at work in the counties west of Mecklenburg, and have made .'57 converts, 15 of whom have gone to Utah. The annual pony penning at Morehead City, N. C., takes place June 15th. Hundreds of people always attend these pennings; from the novelty of the thing, to buy ponies etc. This time between 800 | and 1,000 wild ponies will be penned; a larger number than usual. Col. Edmund IVltlUUUSUlif *71 lTlliXJIOOipUlf >* J1W iiuo WVV,il elected President of the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, is a native of North Carolina. He is one of the most extensive cotton planters in the South, and has large capital invested in manufacturing. A tornadostruck Greenville, Texas on Sundpy afternoon, and 150 houses were either blown down or moved from their foundation. One life was lost, that of a colored child. On the same day a cyclone swept through Butler county, Alabama, demolishing several houses and killing one negro and wounding several other persons. Mr. Merrick concluded his argument in the Star Route trial on Tuesday, 5th instant. Col. Buckner II. Payne, the author of "Ariel," died last week' in the Davidson county, Tennessee, asylum, of which he had been an inmate since 1879. He was 84 years of age and died a blind man and a pauper.