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Straps and partis. { ? The prize for the best essay from the lit- \ erary class of the Vanderbilt University, j was awarded to Miss Marj- S. Conwell, a f grand-daughter of the late Bishop Soule. t She was successful against a class of 121 male s students. "This," says the Inter-Ocean, "is c a feather.in the young lady's bonnet not put t there by a milliner." ^ ? Queen Victoria's dropsical symptoms \ have assumed such an alarming character, i according to information received by the r Boston Herald's correspondent from authen- . tic sources, that the doctors only permitted c the trip to Scotland to relieve her of the \ melancholia caused by her enforced relinquishment of outdoor exercises. It is ex- ; pected that she will soon be a confirmed, bed-ridden invalid. ? The Manufacturer's Record shows that j in two vears the value of the agricultural products of the South ha." increased over $214,000,000. In those two years, the Southern product rose from 29 to 37 per cent, of the whole country. Only 60,000,000 acres of the South's 600,000,000 are under cultivation, and yet the products were valued at $875,000,000 it is predicted that within a decade this may be increased 50 per cent. ? A meeting of Irishmen was held in New n York recently to take steps to collect funds J to aid in defending ten persons who are in ; Gal way prison for murder. It was announced tnat the committee in England ha v- " ing charge of the defence had been warned a by the Government to cease their labors in 0 the way of collecting money. Itwasaccor- r dingly necessary to take action. A committee was appointed to make collections in aid 0 of the object. ? ? New Jersey is beginning to bestir itself t on the subject of grade crossings, and makes s the alarming discovery that, since 1869, or a in the past thirteen years, there have been 1 1,902 persons killed by the cars at grade 1 crossings in that State. This, too, is only (J the official report, and if New Jersey is like s other States, the reported railroad butcher- tl ies are only a fraction of those that actually r, take place. There are few needless dangers in the community which receive less 0 serious consideration than grade crossings. v Everv one of them is a chance for somebody f. to be killed. " \ ?It is rumored in Dublin that the Invin- : cibles have been extensively using poison in removing obnoxious persons. The police are investigating a number of cases of sus- , picious deaths which have occurred in the ^ past few years, especially the case of a hotel i keeper named Jury, of Dublin, who died a \ fortnight after the Phcenix Park murders, i From disclosures by the informers, the au- r thorities do not doubt that Jury was poison- p ed. The reason alleged for the poisoning is that he inadvertantly opened a letter ad- I dressed to Tynan, who was staying at Jury's 1 hotel. The letter contained directions in 2 regard to a secret society. ^ ? The gold and silver product of all the mines in the United States during 1882, was . $79,300,000 ; a decrease from 1883 of $1,600,000. $67,300,000 was added to the metallic { currency of the country during the year. 17 c of the States and territories produced gold, c and 11 of the 17 silver also. California is j the greatest gold producer, although show- ? ing a heavy decline since last year, while \ Colorado leads on silver. The smallest production of gold of the 17 was in Wyoming, ] $5,000. the next Virginia. $15,000, and the i third South Carolina"whose mines produced c $25,000 worth of gold. Georgia produced f $250,000 and North Carolina $190,000. s e? Under date of the 9th instant the Postmaster General has decided that under the %. recent Aet of Congress directing the re- c acyustment of the salaries of certain post- * masters where it was not done under Sec- c tion 8 of the Act of June 1866, no postmas- e ters are to be included within this legisla- o tion unless they waited to receive the oien- * nial readjustment of their salaries upon the . basis fixed by the act of June 19,18o4, i. e., 1 the actual quarterly returns for two years, 1 where such readjustment would have been c a loss of ten per cent, compared with a re- c adjustment on the basis of their average quarterly returns for twft years. ^ ? It is stated, from official documents, that there are in round numbers, 60,000 Indians in the United States that live on reserva- ? tions, and may be called civilized. They i are growing fewer in numbers each year, j Yet the cost of their keeping and education -] increases. From 1855 to 1868 the government spent for Indians $49,000,000; from 1859 to 1883 there was spent for Indians J $91,000,000. The excess is about $42,000,000. 1 There is spent now annually about $10,000,- t 000 on Indians, or about $160 per capita, e counting men, women and children. We j dare say that about one half of this sum sticks to the fingers of men who have made the "development" of the Indian an exact as well as abstract science. ?Sulieman Daoud, charged with setting fire to Alexandria, Egypt, during the bom- t bardment of that city last summer, was f hanged last Saturday. The execution took v place in the midst of the ruins of the great ' square. Sulieman had to be almost carried 1 to the scaffold, and he was nearly comatose c from fright. He wastinally hanged. Some c persons who were present at the execution \ say he died before the drop fell. On his way to the place of execution the condemned c man murmured that he had been victimized ^ by Arabi-Pasha. A heated debate occurred J in the English House of Commons on Thurs- 1 day, relative to the approaching execution, t a number of members opposing it, and urg- c ing the government to telegraph requesting a stay of the execution. ? An Alabamian declares that the farmers J for one hundred miles around the manufac- 1 turing region of. Alabama, have been usher- t ed into a new life?by comparison, one of luxury. Birmingham is the nucleus of a c country raising now large quantities of small products, such as fruit and vegeta- * bles, sold there or through the facilities its existence offei^ in finding a Northern v market, which until lately was not known, r He is in favor of letting the tariff alone and c abolishing the internal revenue system, and c adds that the iron industries of Alabama, e no more than those of Pennsylvania, could . live a day without protection. The proxim- * ity to coal gives Alabama an advantage. ^ Pennsylvania matches this with superior c coke and transportation facilities. d ? The national convention of colored men c favored by Fred Douglass and others, which L was first called to meet in Washington, it is i. now designed shall be held in Louisville, . Ky., although the colored men there say J it is not a fit place for the gathering, because s all the principal hotels and the best portions of the theatres are closed to negroes, and o the delegates will be able to find neither v ^ the accommodations nor the amusements which they might desire. One of the repreWK sentative colored men of the city, the editor v W& of the Louisville Bulletin, says that he fa- h ? vors holdimr the convention in IndianaDO- c K lis, Ind., because as he says in that city the o m colored man is treated right, and can go in- n | to the best hotels if he desires, and can , get the best seats at the places of amuseW ment if he is willing to pay the regular F " price for them. t ? A Mississippi planter, writing to Brad- r street, says the plain truth is that cotton has not been and, under the present sytem, cannot be produced for less than 9 or 10 cents per pound, actual cost. Take the average price paid to planters, and th ey do not re- ?! ceive more for their cotton than the oost of 1 production; hence as a class they have not t made any money for the past ten years. I He says a change is inevitable, and that the f, planters must either produce other things c or make cotton at a less cost. Many farm- . ers have gone to stock raising on lands fitted for that purpose. Improved implements v are solving some labor difficulties. The ii financial condition of Mississippi planters is t not good, but it has been improving lor two r years, not because they have been making money, but because they have lived harder ^ and economized more severely than any one s imagined was possible, and there seems to c be a determined effort on their part to get i out of debt and stay out. cl ? The jury of the Hustings Court of Dan- s ville, Va., in the case of wm. T. Dodson, ^ indicted for the murder of James Read, on April 23rd, to whom the case was submitted ~ Friday evening, have given a verdict of t murder in the second degree, and fixed the t punishment atfive years in the penitentiary. \ The jury was obtained from Petersburg, it c having been found impossible to get a jury j in Danville. Dodson seems pleased at the . verdict. A second jury was immediately 1 empannelled, consisting mostly of members < of the bar, before which Dodson plead guil- s y of house burning, in his attempt to burn he house in which Read's body had been >laced, his object being to create the im ression that he, himself had been burned, lee the country and thus defraud the life nsurance companies for the benefit of his amily, and by this jury he was sentenced o three years in the penitentiary. The ame men were empannelled on a tnird inlictment, and by them, on a plea of guily of embezzlement of the funds of the warelouse in which he had been employed, he I vas sentenced to two years. Pink Harley, ndicted as an accomplice of Dodson in the nurder, was discharged on a nolle prosequi. She feehviUe ^uquieet. YORKVILLE, S. C. : PHURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 14^ 1883. 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Simmons is our authorized agent or receiving subscriptions and advertisements n the town of Chester CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY. The annual commencement exercises of llaflin University, a school for the colored routh of both sexes, located at Orangeburg, vere conciuaea on rne evening 01 me oin nstant. The exercises were attended with nore than usual interest, as the year just losed has been one of unusual success and irosperity in the history of the University. The average attendance duringthe year was !72, and during the winter term 347 students vere enrolled. The forenoons of Monday and Tuesday vere devoted to examinations of the differ>nt classes. On Wednesday, which was ommencement day proper, quite a large irowd assembled to witness the exercises. Vmongthe visitors were Col. Asbury Cowird, State superintendant of education, and Jen. James F. Izlar, of the board of trusees. The morning was devoted1 to the readng of the standing of the students, and to lelivering the different prizes. There were bur graduates in the normal department, uid five in the oollege department proper. The speeches were all very creditable inieed, and some of them were remarkable for he good sense they contained, and the exlellhet manner in which they were delivertd. The diplomas were presented to the graduates by Dr. Cook, with a few appropriite remarks to each of the graduates. All he exercises were interspersed with excelent music by the students under the charge >f Prof. Anton Berg, who has charge of this lepartment of the college. The exercises were closed with an address >y Col. Coward to the graduating class and tudents. which did honor to the distin fished speaker. His remarks to the gradmtes were particularly eloquent and im>ressive and called forth frequent applause. The benediction was pronounced by Dr. )unton, and the large assembly quietly dis>ersed to their homes. The friends of C'lafin may well congratulate themselves upon he prosperity and success which has attendd the institution the past year, and the iright future it promises in the improvenent and elevation of the colored race. THE IRISH ASSASSINS. .Timothy Kelly, convicted of participaing in the Phoenix Park Murders, and the ifth and last remaining of the convicts, vas hanged in Kilmainham jail at 8 o'clock ast Saturday morning. There was a large rowd of people outside the prison, but no listurbance. It is believed that Kelly died vithout making any statement. Mr. Varian, member of the Prisoner's Aid Society, called upon Earle Spencer, Lord lieutenant, late Friday night and gave him lis personal assurance that at 8 o'clock on ne nigni ine rncenix rtirK muruers were iommitted Kelly was present at a meeting ?f the society. On Saturday morning Vaian stood in front of the jail and stated hat he expected every moment to hear hat Kelly had been reprieved. The authorities, expecting that a great rowd would collect at the jail duriug the (xecution, adopted as extensive precautions or the maintenance of order as those taken vhen Joe Brady was hanged. Police surounded the prison. Marines, dressed as ivilians, mixed with the crowd, and two ompanies of troops in readiness for any mergency were within the gate adjacent o the hospital. The crowd was very quiet, lowever. A number of women in the rowd fervently read the prayers for the lying. When the black flag was hoisted ver the prison some persons in the crowd ittered shrieks and a young woman fell on ter knees and called the curse of God upon ames Carey, the informer. The crowd oon dispersed. Kelly received the sacrament at 6:30 n the morning of the execution and knelt vith the priest in prayer. To the last morient he maintained a calm demeanor, but v&s very pale. His parting interview with XI 1 LVirl.itf iifn.i trAMT lis JllUUItrr UI1U menus Uli J. Iiua4y was vcij lainful. Saturday morning he gave a lock f his hair and some flowers to Canon Kenledy and requested him to hand them to lis mother before his death, lie repeated a >romise which he had made to his mother hat he would leave no statement or letter egarding the murders. THE CLERGY AND TOBACCO. At the last session of the Presbyterian Asembly, an attempt was made to prohibit heological students who receive aid from he educational board from using tobacco, t was considered by some that it is unjust 3r these young men to receive the benefion<-.Anf thp fhnrch in order to helD them hrough their course of study, and then raste in expenditure for smoking or chewog, the money which is bestowed upon hem. Most c>f the students do not receive nore than one or two hundred dollars a 'ear each, from the board. The youth who mokes or chews in the week to the extent fa quarter of a dollar a day makes a serious nroad on this fund. The great trouble in lealing with this habit on the part of the tudents was found to be that most of the irethren composing the committee in harge of the matter are habitual smokers hemselves, and, according to the story old on them, had to lay their cigars on the \1ndow sill as they sat down to discuss the [uestion- The resolution they passed, adnonisbing economy on the part of theologcal students, carefully avoids the mention >f tobacco, but recommends that students hould not squander the money given them. \ CROP REPORTS. , s Under date of last Saturday the Depart- j J j ment of Agriculture at Washington reports j J | an increase in the cotton area slightly ex- jc ; ing 3 per cent. Florida and Tennessee fail 1 by one point to maintain their area and 1 there is a decrease of about 10 per cent, in r the cotton districts of Virginia and Miasouri. The increase is 8 per cent, in Texas, 7 in Arkansas, 5 in Louisiana, 3 in Alabama, 2 respectively in South Carolina and Missis- s sippi and in Georgia. The Department recorcf of the area in 1882 was 16,276,000 acres. 1 Returns now indicate a breadth of 16,780,000 acres?an increase of 504,000acres. The area ^ by States is in thousands of acres. Virgin- f ia 55, North Carolina 1,050. South Carolina 1,619, Georgia 2,873, Florida 258, Alabama } 2,610, Mississippi 2,278, Louisiana 932, Texas c' 3,035, Arkansas 1,188, Tennessee 807. Missouri, Indian Territory and the other States j contribute the remainder. Planting has a been late and replanting to till defective stands more general than usual., The cold and wet April, followed by a cold . nnrl vprv rlrv Afn.v. with frosts from Mav 20th to 24th, continued the attempts to fill the gaps up to the date of the report and in ^ the Gulf States belated plants had not ap- 1 peared on the first of June. Persistent efforts have been made to perfect the stands 1 throughout the cotton belt. The low tem- t perature and rains of April have delayed planting and retarded the growth. *A11 re- 3 turns make the season late, th" * nge being 4 from one to three weeks. Muia favorable weather in lower latitudes begins already to j brighten the outlook. There were counties c in rCorth Carolina in which one-sixth to < one-third of the cotton was not up. The frost of the 23d of May, which extended ^ nearly or quite through the area planted r was especially injurious. On the Northern a border in South Carolina the cold nights and drying winds during May greatly reduced , vitality and the weather of the first week of * June was scarcely warm enough for cotton. ^ Similar causes produced like effects in Georgia, somewhat modified by milder temperature, yet one correspondent claims from 11 personal record the worst season for cotton in c twenty-seven years. In the remaining i-t- - 1 xt*v* fhnn olhltjs uie MJIIipeilVLlUC Jinn uccu iuiyci man usual. There is frequent report of the pres- c ence of the aphis wherever the plant is in t worst condition. The caterpillar made its o appearance on the . 14th of May in Butler county, Alabama, twenty days earlier than I ever known before, and Robertson and Vic- c toria in Texas report their presence. It has A been generally too dry, but serious injury is I nowhere reported, .though threatened in Southwestern Texas, especially in Guada- [ loupe, Medina, Lavaca, Somerville and ? Lima. Notwithstanding these drawbacks c there is a fair stand of medium vitality and i usually clean clean culture. The average of r condition is represented by 86 against 89 in June of last year, which was lower than for g several years, though improving constantly t afterwards. The averages of condition are: g Virginia 81, North Carolina 81, South Caro- a lina 85, Georgia 85, Florida 94, Alabama 87, c Mississippi 86, Louisiana 91, Texas 89, Ar- a kansas 87 and Tennessee 78. WHEAT, OATS AND BARLEY. ^ The condition of Winter wheat is report- g ed lower than in May throughout the entire r area, with few exceptions. The decline c amounts to 4 points in Connecticut, 14 in r New York, 2in Ohio, 8 in Indiana^ 15 in II- c linois, 7 in Missouri. It is slight in Michigan and generally throughout the South. The general average of the condition is 75 j against 83 in May; in June, 1882, it was 99. ? For Winter wheat it is by States as follows: c Connecticut 92, New York 63, New Jersey s 101, Pennsylvania 97, Delaware 83. Mary- I land 98, Virginia 93, North Carolina 95, H Georgia 96, Alabama 95, Mississippi 83, a Texas 86, Arkansas 80, Tennessee 85, West Virginia 88, Kentucky 77, Ohio 60, Michigan 80, Indiana 67, Missouri 70, Illinois 51, Kan- c oa i:r do an 'niKnon sas OX), UUllUIlllll OO, UlCguii i;v. 11I?C ?ig- , ures indicate the condition of the growing ^ wheat without reference to loss of area, by ? showing up the Winter killed areas. The * Spring wheat area has been increased about ? half a million acres or nearly five per cent. I Iowa reports a reduction of 2 per cent.; 1 Minnesota makes an increase of 5 percent., ^ Nebraska of 7, Dakota of 40 and Montana c of 5. The Spring wheat States have an I acreage of nearly ten million acres. The condition of Spring wheat is everywhere f high, averaging 98 per cent., the same aslast t year. The area of barley increased 5 per ' cent. The total acreage is about 2,850,000 u acres. The condition averages 97 per cent. I The increase in the area in oats is 4 per J cent. ; the area is nearly 19,200,000 acres. J The condition is high, averaging 90 per u cent. r v Arrest of the Check Raisers.?The J" Atlanta Journal gives the following account ? of the arrest of Bechtler and his confeder- j ates who raised a check from $20 to $1,200 and succeeded in getting it cashed in Shelby some weeks ago, an account of which we have heretofore published : . The train that came in from Roswell this 1 morning brought in Officer J. J. Green, of r our police force, D. D. Suttles, Sheriff of r Cleveland county, North Carolina, and J. T. Bostick, Magistrate of Shelby, N. C., who had in custody C. G. Bechtler and R. A. D. J Hardin, both charged with forgery. A his- 0 tory of their crime, flight and capture is here " detailed. On the 18th of May the two persons in cus- 0 tody, together with one J. A. Mason, all re- F sidinginoraboutShelby, North Carolina,en- b tered that town for the purpose of making a raise. The night before the morning of the d 18th, Bechtler and Hardin had stayed all \ night at the house of Mason's father. While t there, Bechtler had got into a conversation o with old man Mason, and learned that the old t man had a claim against the railroad company thereabouts. Bechtler offered to collect I it for him the next day, and suggested S that if the younger Mason were sent with ? him, there would be no difficulty in getting h the claim. The old man assented, and the ft next morning Bechtler and Hardin set out d with the old man's son towards town. When they had reached the suburbs of the d village Bechtler called a halt, and producing a cashier's check of a'Greenville, S. C., ? bank on the Fourth National Bank of New j York for $1,200, dated January 8th, gave it r into the hands of young Mason and instruct- / ed him to present it at H. D. Lee & Co.'s i< bank in Shelby, and they would immediate- 2 ly hand him over the money. He further n told him to state to the teller of the bank a that the check came from J. A. Simmons, agent of the Mica Mining Company, in s1 Mitchell county, and that the reason the '? check had not been presented before was be- S( cause the money nad not been needed. a Still further he instructed the green young v man to ask for $900 in cash, and the balance a in the shape of a check for $800, payable to 'r( A. Baker. The two men remained in the a brush outside of town until Mason should jj return, which he did shortly, bringing with ^ him the $900 in cold cash and the $800 check 0 as directed, and stating that there had been ^ no difficulty in getting the money. They f, started back towards old man Mason's, but j1 before reaching there they succeeded in ? dodging the youth, who went home alone. | &970 wns found on the nerson of Bechtler. rr His wife was arrested on a warrant and ^ lodged in jail. (j g] Shot by an Avenging Brother.?Jo- p seph G. Sitton, Superintendent of the Mary- ^ land and Charlotte Copper Mine, in Mecklen- p burg county, N. C., was shot and killed r. while in Ids room at his sister's house near the mine on Tuesday of last week by Thos. ^ L. Shields, brother of his sister's husband. M Shields walked into the room, accused Sitton p of having betrayed his (Shield') sister, a girl of sixteen, and demanded that he marry her. Upon his refusal, Shields stepped C to the door, picked up a double barreled snot ii gun he had left outside, and shot Sitton v through the head, killing him instantly, b He then got his valise, which was ready u packed, and went to Charlotte where he an- ri nounced the killing, delivered himself to the ii fn loil xiro ixrino* nvumino. A Ullivcia nuu >VC11V IV J?11) ?xi tion. Me declined to give any particulars J of the circumstances leading to the tragedy, but reiterated that Sitton had ruined his p sister and refused to marry her. A coro- T ner's inquest was held on the following day, and the verdict was that Sitton "came to his death by the criminal act of one Thomas L. n Shields, by a shot discharged from a gun in d the hands of the said Shields." The jury tl also reported Shield's father as an accessory / before the fact, and he was subsequently arrested, and after a hearing on writ of habeas o corpus was admitted to bail. s< The affair creates considerable excitement \ in Mecklenburg, there being two sides to the 1 tory. The sister of Shields, whose honoi le desired to protect, bitterly denies thai here has ever been any improper conducl >etween Sitton and herself. Sitton was an inmarried man about 80 years of age, and a lative of Due West, S. C., where his paents now live. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The May weeds are waist high on the treets of Barnwell. ? The crops in Barnwell are reported to lave suffered very much for want of rain. ?South Carolina graduates one cadet al ?Vest Point this year. Mr. Davis, of Fairield, who stands number four in a class of 52. ? The monument at the grave of Gen. darion, in Berkeley county, was partially lestroyed by a recent storm. ? Mrs. G. It. Rains, the widow of the late '"en. Gabriel R. Rains of the Confederate :rmy, died at Aiken on last Saturday. ? The sales of cotton at Lancaster have mounted, since the first of September tc 1,007 bales. ? A cannon ball weighing four pounds was >icked up in the old British fort near Ninety-Six last week. ? It is against the law to fish with a net >etween the 1st of May and the 1st of Sepember in South Carolina. ? In the recent big cotton fire in New York Messrs. J. M. Ivy & Co., of Rock Hill, had 48 bales burned, but it was fully insured. ?A- drug store in Barnwell county has langingin its southeastern corner over a lot if patent physic the sadly suggestive legend, 'Nearer my God to Thee." ?Col. Thomas L. Jones, who was recently iefeated, or cheated out of the Democratic ionization for Governor of Kenttickey is , native of this Statev; ? Fred Nix, the noted Republican poliician of Barnwell county, lost two of his hildren last week from diphtheria, bothdyn the same day. ?The Lancaster Ledger says: A white nan, named Smith, is suspected as the inendiary who fired the barn of Mr. W. D. lyatt at Pleasant Valley. ? More than thirty persons, white and olored, have been arrested by the town auhorities of Anderson for the non-payment if the street tax. ?Mrs. Martha Boyce, wife of Rev. James Joyce, D. D., associate editor of the As.voiale Reformed Presbyterian, died at Due Vest on the 4th instant. The deceased had teen for years quite helpless wit;h paralysis. ?The story of the child of one of theTurksh bear exhibitors having been killed and tartly devoured by one of the bears in Lanaster county, the other day, is contradicted >y the Lancaster papers. The Turks have lot been in Lancaster for several weeks. ?In Berkeley county the law against liquor elling in the country districts is resisted on he ground that the prohibition of liquor elling in the country is discrimination .gainst one class of citizens in favor of anither. Judge Wallace sustained the law, ,nd the case goes to the Supreme Court. ? Rev. J. N. Craig of Holly Springs, Miss., vho was recently elected by the General Asembly of the Presbyterian Church, which net at Lexington, Ky., to the secretaryship ?f the commission of home missions, was lastor of the Presbyterian Church in Lan ttSlCI 1UJ ICI1 Ul twelve JCtll.-J. ? It is a fact not generally known that the listinguisheel divine, Dr. McTyeire, of the d. E. Church South, was born and raised in he. Sleightown neighborhood in Barnwell ounty. He owns considerable land in that ection, and frequently visits the place ol lis biith, and on every such occasion he pends for presents lor his renters fully the .moujitmany of them pay as rent money. ? The total receipts of the first instilment ?f State taxes up to June 8th this year mount to about $25,000 more than those ol he corresponding period of last year. It is stimated that if this ratio of increase coninues the receipts of State taxes payable in day will reach, by the end of this month, 171,000. This will be over one-fourth ol he total amount of State taxes due this rear, and will be a very considerable inrease over the ratio of May payments ol irevious vears. ? Wellington Stepp,aged 17, a son of Rev. C. Stepp, was drowned while bathing in he mill pond of Mr. J. R. Hutchinson, near iowensville in Greenville county, on Satirday last. He started to swim across the ond, which is about one hundred and fifty 'ards wide, and on reaching the middle ol t sank, mysteriously, and was drowned beiefore assistance from his comrades could each him. It is supposed he was attacked vith cramp on getting into the cold curent of the middle of the pond, and thus ost control of his limbs. His body was reovered after draining the pond, and was liter red on Monday. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Southern Telegraph Company promses to have an office open in Charlotte withn six.weeks. ? Fifteen car loads of steel rails for the Tiester and Lenoir Railroad passed through Charlotte last Saturday. ? Gen. A. J. Dargan, of Wadesboro, a irorainent lawyer and one of the landmarks f the Pee Dee country, died last Friday, ged about G3 years. ? According to the report of the directors f the mint, the mines of North Carolina iroduced last year $190,000 in gold and $25,00 in silver. ? Gaxtmia Gazette.: A very bad type ol lisentery has existed in this section tor several days and has proved fatal to many ol he little children. The disease is mostly f a typhoid form which makes it difficult o control. ? Heavy rains are reported on the Western sorth Carolina Railroad. A washout near ialisbury, surprised a freight train, but no erious damage was done. The locomotive iad been detached from the train and was deling its way carefully along, when it went own. Very little rain fell about Concord. ? The Charlotte Journal-Observer of Monay says : The two fast trains are to be put ack on the Air-Line Railroad to-day. The chedule of the trains will be as follows: fo. 50 leaves Charlotte at 2 a. m., and arives at Atlanta at 2 p. m. No. 51 leaves Atlanta at 3.10 p. m., and arrives at Charjt-te at 3.40 a. m. No 52 leaves Charlotte at .10 p. nr., and arrives .at Atlanta at 1.20 a. i. No 53 leaves Atlanta at 4.50 a. m., and rrives at Charlotte at 4 p. m. ? Rufus Reed, a colored man of Charlotte, timulated by the Apparent success of the 'urkish nomads, now making their grand Duthern tour, bought a bear a few weeks ?;o and started out through the country ifl. Uni n?i sinnrlu v Ti.nfiis or so much s was left of him, returned to Charlotte for epairs. He and the bear had had a fight nd the colored man only saved his own fe by cutting the bear's throat. Heed was 3rribly mangled. His fingers were bitten ff, and part of one foot and one entire eel, together with a big piece of meat om his'leg, were missing. He states that iinself and the bear were in a room toether, when, for some unaccountable cause, Iruin became enraged and jumped on him. 'he two fought around the room for some me, when finally the bear got the man own in a corner and was about to make tort shrift of him. Already one of Reed's ands had been torn into fragments, and ne bear had the other hand in his mouth. Leed managed to grasp a knife in his laceited hand and drove it into the bear's iroat, when the beast rolled over dead and le battle was ended. But for the knife 'hich Reed fortunately had with him, the ear would undoubtedly have killed him. Resurrected Correspondence.?The olumbia lief/ister of Sunday has been let lto the secret of a rich correspondence diich took place just gfter the last election, ut which was never laid before the public ntil now. The exact wording of the cqrL'spondence is not given, but it is accurate 1 substance. The first letter was dated at Jkcn, S. C. and read as follows: . Hetidrix McImm, Columbia, C. Dear Sir: Who is Governor? Some eople say you are, some say Thompson, 'lease let me know. Yours truly, I. D. Durham. The reply was short, sharp and, as Arteius Ward would say, "Sarkastic." It was ated at Columbia and signed by a friend of ie would-be Governor: lev. /. D. Durham, Aiken, S. C. Dear Sir: Who is State Superintendent f Education ? Some people say you are, mie say Coward. Please let me know, 'ours truly, J. Hexdrix McLane, per . j Xj ocal affaies, I ? '! NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 1 ; MeElwee <fc Darwin?We Will Do It. L i W. E. Stonev, Comptroller-General?Insurance ' i License, i J. Spratt Wright?Fair Warning. North Carolina Millstone Co., Charlotte, N. C.? "Moore County Grit." , j T. S. Jefferys. Agent?Machinery. J. M. Adams?Headquarters for Stoves?Wooden Bowls?New Goods?Beeswax. > Kennedy Brothers & Barron?Country Cloth. W. C. Latimer?New Goods. May & May?The Corner Drug Store. ' Withers Adickes?Crockery and Glassware. T. M. Dobson?To be Given Away. W. M. Walker, D. I). S.?Dental Surgery. , R. Lathan, Chairman Board of Examiners? School Notice?School Trustee. DENTAL SURGERY. Hr W Af Wo lL-oi bos nssncintPfl with him in the practice of dentistry, Dr. A. Y. > Cartwright, a young | entleman who comes ? recommended as bein j well skilled in the profession. Their car l is published in an1 other column. THE MILITARY CONVENTION. ; Lieut. Joseph G. Wardlaw is in attendance upon the military convention which assembles in Columbia to-day, as a delegate from the Jenkins ltifles. The object of the convention is to memorialize the Legislature to provide for the better organization of the | State militia. STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. During a slight shower on Wednesday af| ternoon of last week, lightning struck on ; the premises of Mr. David L. Black, who lives a mile and a/half east of town, and killed a fine Polaiul-China hog, which was i rooting around the spot, where, only a few minutes before th< bolt struck, a valuable horse had been fe ?ding. Without endors! ing the doctrine of Fatalism, Mr. Black concludes that by taring a notion to ride to town at the momqnt he did, he saved the life of a horse. \ \ ANOTHER FIN4WI1EAT PATCH. We noticed a week or two ago a fine patch of whent. in tmvn balonffinir to Mr. Robert 1 J. Latta. Our attention hsls been called to j another, which we have riot seen, though we have seen heads of grain taken from it. This field was sown by Mr. |J. B. Scott, near Philadelphia Church. It is beardless, and a ' hybred known as Landreth's White Wheat. The heads on exhibition jneasure 71 to 8 , inches in length, are well jfilled and represent a fair sample of the field. RAIN?THE CROPS. [ A fine rain fell last Sunday afternoon, which was the first of any consequence with . which this immediate section has been fa, vored since the 8th of May. There have been good rains in other sections of the i county. Drouth.is confined only to certain localities, and the rain of Sunday was gent eral. Cotton and corn are improving. Hari vesting is in progress. The yield of small grain crops will not be so large as last year; but the quality?especially of wheat?is equally as good. ' KNIGHTS OF HONOR BENEFIT. i An order to the Supreme Treasurer, ; Knights of Honor, for $2,000, the amount of [ Capt. J. R. Gardner's benefit, was received ; by the Reporter of Home Relief Lodge, of which Capt. Gardner was a member, last ; Monday morning. It is just two months since Capt. Gardner's death. This proves the promptness with which the order meets ? its obligations. Were the beneficiary in town to sign the necessary papers, the full amount of the benefit would be forwarded j- by the the Supreme Treasurer within a week. ILLICIT LIQUOR TRAFFIC. > The arrest of Adam Fewell, colored, last Saturday morning, charged with retailing spirituous liquors, created considerable consternation among those who have been thus violating the law for some time, and the consequence was that before daylight Monday several colored individuals fled the town, fearing arrest upon similar charges. We learn that it is the intention of the town council to suppress this illicit traffic, and the sooner offenders profit by the warning ' the better it may be for them. NOTES FROM UNION. 1 "Nicolo" writes, under date of the 11th: "The new Presbyterian church in this place is completed and will be dedicated next . Sunday, the 17th instant. The dedication sermon will be preached by Dr. J. L. Girardeau, of Columbia. The new church is a 1 beautiful structure of Gothic architecture and it adds greatly to the general appearance of our town. We are very sorry, in' deed, that the Rev. J. Lowrie Wilson, of York county, cannot attend the dedication. Pie is very much loved by the Union people, 1 and we were anxious to have him on that ' occasion. We had a nice rain here on yesterday, which was needed. The wheat crop in this county is reported as being fine. PRISONERS IN JAIL. The following prisoners, all colored, are now in the county jail awaiting trial in the next Court of Sessions for the offences charged: David McFadden, burglary and larceny; Henry Blalock, assault and battery 1 with intent to kill; Meek McCully, attempt to rape; Martha Smith, burglary; Jack ; White and Laura Johnson, burglary, larceny and arson ; Elizabeth Dye, infanticide; Thomas Matthews, housebreaking in the day time; Adam Fewell, retailing spirituous liquors without a license. Elizabeth Dye was committed last week. Besides the above prisoners awaiting trial, Frank Johnson, colored, and Robert Orr, colored, are in jail serving sentences of Trial Justices' Courts. CHURCH NOTICES. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. R. P. Franks, Pastor. Services at King's Mountain Chapel on Sunday at 11 A. M., and in the afternoon. In the church at Yorkville at night. Episcopal?ReV. A. Prentiss, Rector. Services in the Church of Our Saviour at Rock Hill, next Sunday. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. Lathan, Pastor. Services at 10.30 A. M. Sunday-school at 0. Prayer meeting every Wednesday, at "> o'clock, P. M., until further notice. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. Services at 10.30 A. 31., and 8 P. 31. Baptist?Rev. J. E. Covington, Pastor. : .A TTninti novf OUrVlL'CS ill LllC icguuu nwuio Hi. DI11UII Sunday. Prayer meeting in the church at Yorkville, every Tliursday evening at 8. a card from maj. woodward. Having published, as a matter of current news of the day, the alleged correspondence between Mr. Cash and Maj. Woodward, in justice to the latter.gentleman, we copy from the Greenville News of last Friday, the following card which fully explains itself: Winnsboro, S. C., June To the Editor of the News: In a late issue of your paper appeared what purported to be a "correspondence" between Mr. W. B. Cash and myself. Some who read this publication have expressed surprise that my name appeared as a participant in any such issue. For the benefit of those, who I are evidently casual readers, and who cer tainiycio not Know me personally, j. uesire to state that I have never written Mr. Cash a "note" nor a line in my life. What is given as my "note of the 17th," was a mere endorsement upon the back of his note, which was returned, and, as appears, was addressed to no one. I certainly did not intend it for a note to Mr. Cash, and was much surprised and deeply mortified that papers, including your own, should have dignified this affair into a "correspondence." This is the only concern which this matter has given me, and I ask, as an act of justice that you and others who may possibly have been misled by your heading of "correspondence," give this, my version. Sincerely do I hope that I obey rules of society, and recognize principles of ordinary politeness and propriety, which will forever i prevent me from appearing as a participant in any such "correspondence." Very respectfully, T. W. Woodward. CORONER'S INQUEST. On Monday last, J. C. Chambers, Esq., : discovered the dead body of a colored man named John Dye, Jr., lying in Bullock's j creek. He immediately gave notice of the fact, and Coroner Caldwell impannelled a jury of inquest, who, after obtaining all tjje facts they could, returned a verdict that the deceased came to his death, on Saturday night or Sunday, from accidental drowning. He had been in bad health for some time, illlU llji LI 11 Cv 111 1UU1 uup piCTJCUUlg 1I1D death was delirious. From the fact that in his clenched hand was a piece of vine, corresponding with a broken vine within grasp of the foot-log, the supposition is that he attempted to walk across, and lost his footing and caught the vine for support. The vine broke and he fell into the water ai\d was drowned. THE PALMETTO REGIMENT. 5 The Lee Light Infantry, of Chester, has perfected a reorganization by the election of the following officers: Captain, Julius Mills; First Lieutenant, Charles A. Brice; Second Lieutenant, Thomas N. Berry; Third Lieutenant, John W. Dunovant. The roll has thirty-nine names. The inspection of the Lee Light Infantry will take place in about twenty days. This company, when under command Capt. J. K. Marshall, was one of the finest in the Fourth Brigade, and will, no doubt again take a high position. According to the Columbia Register the companies of the Palmetto Regiment now number as follows, rank and file: Governor's Guards 44 mcniana voiumcerM Columbia Flying Artillery 31 Richland Light Dragoons 27 Cordon Light Infantry 44 Catawba Rifies .'. 42 Jenkins Rifles 34 Lancaster Grays 43 Edisto Rifles..' 43 Palmetto Rifles 31 Lee Light Infantry 38 41,1 RECENT DEATHS. Mr. Henry Calvin Conner died at his residence, about three miles west of town, on Wednesday nigjht of last week, and was buried in the Yofrkville cemetery on the following day, the funeral services being conducted by Rev. T. It. English. Mr. Conner's disease nvas consumption, undei which he had tieen sinking for several years. At the time ,of his death, he was in the 40th year if his age. He was a native of Chester county, but came to Yorkville, an orphan, at an early age, and learned the trade of coach painter, at which he worked either as employee or as conductor of the business i ntil a few years ago when his failing heath warned him to seek other occupation less c onfining. He then bought a farm?the pla e of late his residence?to which he movec. During the struggle over the admission ojf Kansas as a State, in the year 1855, Mr. Conner, then a young man, went to that territory and acquired a resi dence in order to enable him to vote with the pro-slavery party in the organization ol the territorial ; government. After the defeat of the Lec >mpton Constitution he returned to Yoriville. During the late war lie served as a member of the Jasper Light Infantry, 5th Regiment, and always bore the reputationj of a good soldier. And as he was a good soldier in time of war, he was a good citizen in time of peace. Quiet and unobtrusi/ve, but a man of sterling integrity, he vnjoyed the conlidence and esteem of-all Who knew him. Miss Alice Smarr, daughter of Mr. J. D. Smarr, of thisjcounty, died at the residence of her aunt, Mrs. Love, in McConnellsville, 011 Saturday morning last, and was buried at Bullock's dreek Church on Sunday, the Rev. J. Lowrie Wilson preaching the funeral sermon. Miss Smarr was an attractive and accomplished!young lady, and the favorite of a large circle of friends. She was aged about 22 yeaijs. In last wfeek's Enquirer, under the heading of ''Sad Deaths," appeared the name of John McGill Kennedy. In this week's issue, we are called upon to chronicle the death of his little sister, Carrie Jane, which occured on Saturday night last. It is but seldom that two deaths occur in one family within a fortnight. Such, however, is sometimes the case, and whenever it does occur, it fills the reflecting of the community with a solemn awe. This feeling is intensified when the individuals snatched away are, as in the present instance, a hoy of fifteen years ana a sweet little girl of only five summers. Verily man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. Death surely is a great evil, but by no means the greatest of evils to which flesh is heir. Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy not only have the heart felt sympathy of this whole commuty, but they have one inexpressible com?VA 4-lirx for?f twrckv f.ViP crflVPQ nf .Tnhn and Carrie, they can shed tears of sorrow without any sad reflections. For the YorkvlJIe Enquirer. THE BLACK'S STATION CONTROVERSY. EditoR op the Enquirer: I see from your correspondent's reply to "Citizen" that he has asserted that ray statements were all false, but he fails to show why they are false. He simply denies ray statements, and I simply say, they are true. Now, Mr. Editor, I merely reply, in self vindication, stating that I have had one object only I ^ nnmontinn ototomonta mnrlo I Ul'lUlU JI1C, V i/i. , UHVlVlltVUVU I ill regard to our municipal election. I [ have had, all along, no desire at all for "personal controversybut as your correspondent has signified his intention to end this controversy, I forbear. Citizen*. MERE-MENTION. Maj. Nickerson, of the U. S. Army, who recently fraudulently obtained a divorce from his wife is to be courtmartialed for conduct unbecoming a gentleman and an officer, and the divorce decree lias been annulled. The Augusta Chronicle says: The owner of a hay farm near Augusta nets from $7,000 to $0,000 per annum. Is there a cotton planter within fifty miles of him who does as well 011 less than MO acres ? The Mexican revenues, which in 1879 were but $16,128,000, rose last year to nearly $32,000,000, and are expected to reach $40,000,000 this year. English capitalists are reported to have "cornered" the largest remaining tracts of black walnut timber in this country. The remains of John Howard Payne, which arrived from Tunis in March last, after having been buried there over thirty years, was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington City, last Saturday afternoon. Two brothers named Bar-1 ber, desperadoes, were lynched at Waverly. Iowa, last Friday night. It is announced from Washington that the President will give his close and immediate attention to the questiou of consolidating the internal revenue districts. Argument was closed in the Star Route trial last Monday. It was thought the charge would be delivered and the case goto the jury on Tuesday. The full proceedings of the trial are to be printed, and will make 6,000 octavo pages in small type. mo mai 01 um u^iuunuc ^v/nspirators, Dr. Gallagher, Bernard Gallagher, Ansburgh, Carter, Whitehead and Wilson, charged with treason felony, began in London. last Monday morning. A dispatch of the 11th, from McKinney, Texas, says that late 011 Saturday afternoon a terrible cyclone prevailed west of that place. The Dockhill place was completely destroyed by lightning. The case of Paul Strobach. the Alabama United States marshal, on trial in Montgomery, for swindling the government, by rendering false accounts, was given to the jury on Saturday night last, and, after being out four hours, tney returned a verdict of "not guilty," and lie was discharged. I AGRICULTURAL NOTES. ? The wheat crop in Union county is very I hue. The ears are a little short but full and j the grain plump. i ?Mr. J. T. Hill, of Union, cut last week from one and one-eighth acres of land 120 ! dozen of heavy bundles of oats, which is equivalent to 100 bushels an acre. ? The merchants of Greenville are making large sales of agricultural implements to the ! farmers of Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderi son and Pickens counties, j ?The shipments of western corn to Cam I den this season has been much less than in i former years. Our farmers seem to be gradj ually learning the importance of planting something besides cotton, j ? Three hundred and five crates of peaches have been shipped, to date, from Williston, Barnwell county. Heavy daily shipments of cabbage and potatoes are being made to northern and western markets. ? Abbeville Medium : "The weather which has continued dry so long, makes it impossible to predict how the crops of the county j will turn out. Wheat is said to be very tine. *1 Oats will not yield as much as last year. . ia nnf nn. ond onffnn iu in flan VA7111 in nut VVVKVM *u lii V?M*> ger of the 'sore shin.'" ? The Carolina Spartan says that the wheat t crop is better than reported last week. The grain promises to be very plump and heavy and tne yield good. Cotton is growing slowly, the weather being too dry for a rapid growth. Spring sown oats are very low, and the grain will he light unless it rains this week. Gardens are doing but little good. Where there is a good stand of corn and cotton there is 110 loss yet on account of the dry weather. _ Wild Wokk of Wind and Rain.?A Dallas, Texas, dispatch says that the storm on Saturday night seems to have done its work in narrow strips in sections miles apart. At Cedar Hill, south of Dallas, the farmers report that growing crops were flattened to the ground, fences were blown down and reapers and wagons standing in the fields rolled over and over by the fury of the winds. Near Hutchins Station the destruction was so complete as to dishearten the people, some of whom moved to i town yesterday, having given up farming and turned their attention to working as day laborers. Wheat standing in shocks was scattered to the winds, water in huge streams flowed 011 the fields and cut jagged ruts through what had been model stands of corn, cotton and grain. Hail stones of loyrra 0170 uriiro Lardrn/I nn 111 lnw rtlor>ou nnfl UVl^V II V1V WUiilVWl V4X MIMV4 i left traces of the havoc tney wrought in a number of dead bodies of sheep, calves, ; rabbits, dogs and birds, which are to be seen on all sides. Fifteen miles west of Dallas great trees were torn up and carried 1 long distances, orchards were twisted and i stripped of branches and young fruit was i strewn on the ground. A heavy wind storm, accompanied by rain, struck the southwestern portion of the city of Springfield last'Friday evening, unroofing several houses, blowing down barns, fences, &c., doing quite a large amount of damage. No one injured. Special dispatches to the State Register from Bluff's Chapel, Jackson, Berlin and other ? points along the Wabash Railroad, west' of the city, report the heaviest rain storm that has fallen for years, the whole country flooded and great damage done to the crops. Hanged.?Elbert M. Stephenson was hanged at Lawrenceville, Ga., last Friday in the presence of 8,000 people, for the murder of his aunt a year ago last August. One Sunday morning Mrs. Stephenson was found dying, with several bullets in her side. She said her nephew shot her. Stephenson was arrested while arranging his tent at a camp meeting. He denied any knowledge of the crime, but subsequently confessed that he had lived in adultery several years with his aunt, and that her son fired at him and killed his mother. The woman lived eight weeks and testified at the preliminary trial. She said as she saw Stephenson running across the yard with a gun in his hand, she felt that he was going to kill ljer, because sne was going 10 marry one xiirum iuuuk. It was proven that her son was not on the premises when she was shot, and no doubt remained of Stephenson'sguilt. When sen| tenced he began playing crazy, but without shaking faith in his sanity. Thursday he,, requested that a brass band should play "Golden Slippers" at the gallows. His rerequest was refused. Stephenson showed no sign of emotion on the gallows. He sat with one foot on the trap and played with the rope as he called men by name and familiarly conversed with them. Many persons asked him if he was guilty, but he 'answered equivocally and to the last neither confessed or denied his guilt. At seven minutes past one o'clock the drop fell. His neck was not broken and he hung forty minutes. His wife refused to receive his body. His uncle took itand buried it in thesamechurchyard where lies the woman he murdered. The Indian Campaign.?Late advices from Fort Bowie, Arizona are to the effect that General Crook was in the Zahuarispa district in the Southestem part of Sonora, on May 27th, and that up to that time he had-, had no general engagement with the hostiles. This information comes through . Mexican officers who commanded a small detachment of Sonora State troops engaged in scouting through Zahuarispa. The point where Crook was met is about 250 miles Southwest of the boundary line. A large ranche was located there and a detail of .American troops was engaged a procuring a large stock of provisions. The hostiles had scattered but were being followed by Crook's San Carlos scouts. Crook was confl'lnut tVinf Vila fnmoo Wftillri nvBWfimp I1UV/11U tliuU IXIO xvivvij vruuivt VT ??.v hostiles in the heart of the mountains. General Crook stated that the march from Bow- < ispe South had been a severe one, but the troops were in good condition. He was aware of the disposition of the Mexican troops in Sonora and Chihuahua, and expressed satisfaction at the arrangements for co-operation. On may 20th General Crook entered the Sierra Madres again and pushed South. These circumstances were communicated to General Bandoth, commander of the Sonora State troops, and also to General Torres at Hernersillo. A Shocking Murder.?A terrible murder was committed on Wednesday night of last week about three miles from Georgetown, the unfortunate victim being H. H. Rembert, a young man of that community, about 23 years of age, and the murderer is supposed to be Jerry Cox, colored. A correspondent of the News and Courier, gives the following particulars of the affair : Rembert had taken Cox in the country with him to buy beef, crossing the Sampit Ferry on their way. On their return tney reached the ferry about 12 or 1 o'clock Wednesday night, when the fearful crime was committed. Cox's statement is that young Rembert. being unable to get the ferryman to put liim over the river, attempted to swim across, after having tied his clothes on his back, and was drowned. Rembert's body was found on Friday evening in the river and was examined by three physicians the next morning. The examination disclosed the facts that the deceased had received an ugly blow on the side of the head across the right eye, that his neck was dislocated, and that life was extinct before the body was placed in the water. A knife belonging to tho tlnnonspfl nnd monev sunnosed to belonir to him were found on the person of Cox. i The coroner held an inquest, and the ver- 9 diet of the jury was that the deceased came to his death at the hands of Jerry Cox and others not known to the jury. Claims of Maimed Soldiers.?The Comptroller General has begun the payment of the claims of Confederate soldiers who lost limbs or received other permanent and serious injuries (provided for) in the late war. The .State appropriated $7,(MM) for these claims, and the Board to whom they were submitted, consisting of the Governor, the Comptroller General and the Chairman of the State Board of Health, have allowed a number sufficient to exhaust < $6,310 of the fund. Claims in excess of the appropriation have been tiled, and at the next meeting of the Board, in July, the remaining $G80 will be awarded when those remaining over will be kept on tile until the Legislature provides for their payment novt wintov TIip nlnn nf iwivnienf, is that which prevailed in Georgia, viz.: For an amputation above the knee $100; below the knee $75. For an amputation above the knee $100; below the knee $75. For an amputation above the elbow $00; below the elbow $50. Other injuries are allowed for according to their character. Blanks are being sent to all those whose claims have been passed upon for tilling and signing.?Columbia lieymler, Friday. #