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j^ctapjs and .facts. ? There is a telegraph operator at Pensacola, Fla., who takes no heed of strikes. He gets $10 a day because of the presence of yellow fever in town. He does not meet with active competition, even with his fancy salary as an inducement to other operatives to divide the field with him. ? A yoke of six oxen, drawing a raft on the Dismal Swamp canal, on Wednesday of last week, suddenly plunged into the canal j on account of the heat. James Ampey, one of the drivers who jumped in the canal to unchain them, was drowned by the oxen. Another driver was rescued with difficulty. ?The failurea reported by R. G. Dun & Co., for the seven days ending last Friday, throughout the United States and Canada, number 165, as against.170 last week. The distribution was as follows: New England States 23, Middle States 20, Southern States 80, Western States 48, Pacific States and Territories 41, New York 4, Canada 19. ?Hon. Herschel V. Johnson is reported to have exclaimed, when he heard of the passage of the secession ordinance: "I fear that. Ooorcin has tn-Hnv committed the gravest act of folly ever committed by an enlightened people." James L. Petigru made a much more sarcastic and memorable speech concerning South Carolina. Well, madness ruled the hour in those times. ? Ex-Gov. Hubbard, of Connecticut, started poor but grew rich. His daughter married her father's coachman and was outlawed from the parental mansion. Eventually she quit her numble husband and returned to her proud father. The father recently entered the den of the Wall street tiger and lost his money. The coachman may have a terrible revenge on both father and daughter. ? Dispatches of last Saturday to the New Orleans Democrat from all sections of the cotton belt show a considerable falling off in crop prospects as compared with last year, except In Tennessee and portions of Texas, caused by drought, caterpillars and boll worms. The decrease is estimated in some cases at 33$ per cent. Many reports from Texas also also show a falling off in the outlook. The corn crop also is reported considerably damaged by drought. ? There was a grand parade of Knights Templar at San Francisco on Monday of last week. Four thousand Knights were in nroeession. The streets alone the line of march were richly decorated, and the sidewalks and all available points were thronged with spectators. Several accidents occurred. Three standard bearers fainted from exhaustion, and Sir Alexander Meed, aid to the grand commander of California, was thrown from his horse and hail both legs broken. ? The Prince of Montenegro is a genuine reformer. Some time ago he closed all the saloons and drinking shops in all his dominion, regarding them as schools of effeminacy and corruption, and abolished all titles, so that while formerly every other man in Montenegro was an "Excellency," now even the ministers have to be content with plain "Mr."? and he has also recently issued an interdict against all "luxurious wearing apparel," including cravats, gloves, walking sticks, parasols and umbrellas. ? A part of Hell Hole Swamp, containing 17,000 acres, has been bought bv Mr. Joseph Remfry, who resides at High Point, N. C? as the representative of a company of English capitalists. The commissioners of the South Carolina sinking fund are to receive for the tract 510,000, payable in three annual installments. It will take about $100,000 to drain the water from this swamp, and its sale is regarded a good one for the State. The land thus sold forms part 01 tnat purchased by the infamous land commission in the days of Republican supremacy. ? Late reports from a large number of points throughout Texas show that except in a few localities, further rains could be productive of no marked benefit to the cotton crop. In a majority of cases it would result in injury. The excessive drought, which has been the most important factor in injury to the crops, has been relieved in some localities by rains, but as a general thing it was too late to do much good. It is plain that there will be a considerable decrease from last year's yield. The grain crops, however, have been successful in the full sense of the word. ? The Puritans of New England had their own way of testifying how much they thought of the female sex. If a man and woman were convicted of a capital crime, they hanged the man and burnt the woman. The New York Ledger recalls the last instance of this fine discrimination. It occurred in 1775 at Cambridge, when two servants were executed for poisoning their master. They were drawn on a sled to the place of execution, and Mark, a fellow of about thirty, was hanged, and Phyllis, an old creature, was burned to death. ? It is announced from New York that the Richmond and Danville syndicate has secured control of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. This explains the recent wide fluctuations in the latter's stock. The Memphis and Charleston is now 45}, and the Richmond and Danville is quoted at 05 to 67, and very quiet. It is stated that "cash" was paid for the Memphis and Charleston. A number of directors of the Memphis and Charleston have resigned, and will be succeeded by representatives . of the Richmond and Danville syndicate. ? A comprehensive and complete report of the cotton crop of the Nashville District, which includes Middle Tennessee and portions of West Tennessee and North Alabama, has been received. Seventy percent, of the reports received state the crops to be in better condition than on a corresponding date last year, twenty-three per cent, in a worse condition. Last year's crop of Middle Tennessee was the poorest for many years. The reduction in acreage this year amounts to 12? per cent., but, with continued favorable weather, tne prospects are fair for a > larger aggregate yield than last year. ? In proroguing Parliament last Saturday, Queen Victoria said she could refer with greater satisfaction than on some former occasions to the condition of Ireland. The provisions of the land act have been brought into wide operations and the late combination against the fulfillment of contracts, especially for rent, has been in a great degree broken up. There is a marked diminution of agrarian crime, and the associations having murder for their object have been checked by the vigorous enforcement of the laws and the punishment of offenders. Her Majesty refers to various measures to which she has given her assent and which she hopes will advance the interests of all. She refers to the legislation of the session in regard to Ireland as evidence of the anxiety of Parliament to promote the prosperity of that country. The House of Lords at the last moment agreed to the agricultural holdings bill. ? A dispatch from Park City, Utahj says that at an early hour last Saturday night a number of masked men stopped Engineer Thomas, Roadmaster Hughes and a fireman in the employ of the Utah Eastern Railroad Company, and compelled them to return to the shops, and taking an engine and caboose run about thirty masked men to Coalville, some twenty miles distant. Leaving a number of men in charge of the train the Vigilants proceeded to the county jail. Bringing their guns to bear on the officials they obtained control of the jail, and after taking a man named Jack Murphy from his cell returned to the train and ordered an immediate return to Park City. Upon arriving there the Vigilants took Murpny and hung him to a telegraph pole near the station, the body being viewed by a number of passengers on the early train. Murphy was arrested on suspicion of having shot a man on the preceding Wednesday and was awaiting trial. ? The State Convention of the Constitution Prohibition party of Tennessee, closed its session at Nashville last Thursday evening, after adopting a platform of principles and transacting other business. The platform arraigns tne liquor traffic as the source of more evil than all other causes combined in the State; condemns it for assuming to dictate the legislation of the country, and calls upon the citizens of Tennessee to join Ti?? ? ?A? ' A itro/ynii nit; rrviiiuiuun party m accepting nic nogti of battle thus tendered by tne traffic by resolving that they will support no man for office who does not pledge himself to aid in having the question of an amendment to the Constitution of Tennessee submitted to the vote of the people by the next Legislature, with the view of prohibiting the manufacture, importation and sale of alco i holic stimulants. It is stated in the declart ation of principles that it is not now the purpose or plan of the party to put separate and independent candidates of their own party into the field, except in counties where the parties and candidates of existing parties will not agree to give the people a chance to vote on the constitutional amendments herein provided for, in which case they will put candidates of their party into the field and support them without regard to former party affiliations. YORKVILLE, 8. C. : THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30. 1883. THE RAILROAD COMMISSION. The Standard Freight and Passenger Rates, as finally arranged by the Railroad Commission, have been published and the tariff as now given out will go into effect on the loth of next month. As a large number of our readers are interested in the work of the Commission, especially as it affects certain classes of freight, we shall publish, next week, such portions of the standard Freight tariff as will enable them to form a clear idea of the work of the Commission. Thetariff now published, and which is final, does not differ materially from the experimental table issued by the Commission and printed in the Enquirer last June. The only important changes are in the rates on Cotton and Fertilizers. In each case the rates have been increased. For instance, on Cotton the rates are raised 6 cents a hundred pounds for hauls of 50 and 100 miles; 5 cents a hundred for 150 miles ; 21 cents a hundred for 200 miles, and substantially the originally proposed rates are fixed for longer distances. On Fertilizers the rates are increased 11 cents a hundred pounds for 50 mile hauls, and 3 cent a hundred for all distances above 50 miles. The maximum Passenger rates, as published, have been increased by allowancesto certain roads. In Georgia the rates range from 3 to 5 cents a mile, the latter rate being allowed to be charged by sonie short and weak lines. The rates fixed for South Carolina range from 3 to 4 cents a mile for adults, and allowances have been made to the weaker roads. BURYING Ire hatchet. At the Chatauqua Assembly, last Friday, 6,000 persons assembled to hear the singing of Federal and Confederate war songs, and addresses by Judge Albion YV. Tourgee, of New York, and Rev. Dr. Atticus G. Hay good, of Georgia. Dr. Vincent asked the soldiers of either army present to come to the platform, and two hundred responded. After the singing of war hymns, Judge Tourgee spoke. He said every nation should sing its own songs. The "Watch on the Rhine" conquered Fnince. The late war was the result of animosity. It was over, and the South made more progress in four years of war than in half a century before. True, the emancipation of slaves is the education of freemen. Yesterday set free the body, to-morrow will set free the soul. Dr. Haygood was introdueed and greeted with cheers. He waved an United States flag in response and said: "Georgia is now under U1C 5UUS iiuu Sliipra. JL lltur nttu inc unit; when I would have died for the other flag, and you would despise me if I were ashamed of that now. I am obliged to the choir for trying to sing rebel songs, but they could not do it. We do not sing them now, but we are not ashamed that we sang them once. Let us forget all but the good of the war. Great changes are going on in the South. We should be asked to show fidelty to the Constitution and its amendments, to the declaration of independence and to the flag, and nothing else. Boys growing up in the South will on some occasion fight for their country's flag." A letter was read from Senator Colquitt, of Georgia. The service** were the most impressive ever held atCha" tauqua. Several old Confederates participated. Ex-Governor Pierrepont, of West Virginia, was on the platform. " ^ A TERRIFIC CYCLONE. On Tuesday of last week a terrific cyclone visited Rochester, Minnesota, sweepiug over a territory sixty miles in length and about two miles wide. The entire northern portion of Rochester from the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad track, was a confused mass of debris. Scarcely a house was standing', and the few which were had been removed from their foundations and shattered as if by an earthquake. A gentleman who passed through the devastated town at 7 o'clock on the evening the storm occurred says the affrighted survivors were at work rescuing the injured and recovering the bodies of the dead. Before midnight twenty-three corpses lay in the hotel, to which they had been removed. They presented a shocking appearance, some of them being crushed ancl mangled out of all human semblance. Nearly all were injured about the head, and from their begrimed faces appeared to have been dragged in the earth by the whirlwind. Forty wounded persons, many of them seriously injured, had been removed to undestroyed dwellings. It was thought that at least twenty bodies remained in the ruins. The portion of the city swept by the cyclone composed about one-thiru of its extent, including several stores and generally the poorer dwellings. The storm appeared to have formed about eighteen miles northwest of Rochester, and, gathering violence as it progressed, destroyed several farm houses in its course. A lowering, dun-colored, funnel-shaped cloud was seen approaching the fated town, and in a few minutes the slaughter had been accomplished. No time was given for any preparation, had it been possible. The scene in the devastated district and in the place where the dead lay was indescribably sad. Mothers wildly searched for their children, while little homeless waifs were found whom the tempest had orphaned. One child was the only survivor of a family of seven. Passengers on the first train that arrived at Rochester were not aware that a cyclone had passed near them until their attention was directed to feather beds and articles of wearing apparel lodged against barbed wire fences, wheat and straw was twisted about the rails in large quantities where the cyclone crossed the track. Shortly before the train arrived at Rochester a freight train was wrecked on a trestle at the western approach of the place. The wind twisted the switch bar from it place, throwing open the switcn. me engineer saw nis pern wnen close at hand and jumped, saving his life. The fireman was carried over the embankment with the engine and killed. The fatal black cloud swept toward St. Charles, five miles southeast of Rochester, cutting a wide swath through the timber and farms, wrecking jjuildings in a little hamlet, and leaving two corpses and three persons fatally maimed. The body of one of the men killed was found in a tree top. i He had been torn limb from limb by the j mere force of the wind while being drawn , up and carried along by the terrible funnel, j A family named Stevens, consisting of four persons, saw the approaching storm cloud and hastily crept into a large tank cistern buried in the ground, and which fortunately contained no water. Their house was torn to pieces and wholly carried away over their heads, Not a vestige of their home I remained, but their lives were spared, Up to Thursday it was ascertained that j twenty'four lives were lost at Rochester! and forty person* seriously wounded. Three hundred nouses were demolished and two hundred badly damaged, One-third of the city was laid waste. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Claude Garrett, of Laurens, fell anil broke his right arm while skating last week. ? The attending physicians concur that Dr. Butler, who was severely injured at Lancaster, by being thrown from his horse, is gradually'improving, but his injury is serious. ? Three stores and dwellings were entirely destroyed by fire at Sumter, last Friday morning, involving a loss of from $25,000 to $50,000. ? Mr. John Miller, of Edgefield, was severely bitten by a horse last week, which has since died of every symptom of hydrophobia. ? Nelson Morse, white, alleged to have been implicated in the murder of James Ledford, at Landrum's Station, in Spartanburg county, $bout six years ago, Avas ari ?-> UwilrAMD uusl wctjv in x l^ivcnn wuiuj ? Chancellor James P. Carroll died at Cicsar's Plead last Friday, from the effects of a spider's bite, received a few days previous. He was about 7"> years of age. His remains were taken to Columbia and interred on Tuesday. ? Robert B. Hayne, of Charleston, who, for about ten years, served the South Carolina Railway Company as its pay-master, committed suicide in Charleston, on the 25th instant, by shooting himself during temporary aberration of mind. There was nothing wrong with his accounts. ? A lad named Burdett, in the northern portion of Laurens county, was endeavoring to lift a loaded shotgun over a fence by drawing, it up to him from across the fence by the muzzle, when the whole load was discharged into his right arm, rendering amputation necessary near the shoulder. ? The man who was lodged in jail at Laurens C. H.j a few days ago, charged with horse stealing, and who for several days re lusea to disclose ms name anu residence, proves to be Dr. Watson, of good family connection and of respectable standing at his home, Hickory, N. C. Much sympathy is expressed for his wife who has come to his aid. ? During a severe lightning and thunder storm on Wednesday of last week, Mrs. John Rawls and a negro man, in the Hollow Creek neighborhood of Lexington county, were in a field attending to some work. Becoming alarmed, they ran toward ahouse, but were stricken down and instantly killed by a bolt of lightning before they could reach the house. ? the Normal Institute reached the end of its third weeTc, last .Saturday. The attendance now numbers 230 teachers. The closing exercises of the Institute will take place to-morrow. Col. Coward, the State superintendent of education, is very much pleased with the success of the Institute, and listens to the lectures with as much pleasure as the teachers to whom they are given. ? Ahhpvillf* \fp/l!nm Tn "Mtffmnlifl tmvn ship, the dry spell has been so severe and so lon? continued, that the cotton crop is regarded as a dead failure. Last Monday one gentleman commenced ploughing up his crop of cotton. He had about fifty acres perfectly worthless. He will sow the land in oats, and as it was highly fertilized, will no douot be better paid than if he should un dertake to pick it. ? Asbury Chapel, located in Union county, about two miles from Grindall Shoals, will be dedicated on the second Sunday in September, by Rev. S. A. Weber, of Charleston.. The frame of this building was constructed more than thirty years ago, out of the best timber, and is in a state of perfect preservation, and is a testimonial of the benevolence of the renowned Hawkins family, by whose Christian liberality it was begun, though uncompleted, owing to death and the war. ? The ai.se of Sims and Wm. Gilmore, of Union county, accused of counterfeiting, was ended in the U. S. District Court at Greenville last Thursday, the jury returning a verdict of not guilty. In the same Court, a white woman named Eliza Scruggs., of Spartanburg county, pleaded guilty of retailing liquor without having paid the special tax. She was sentenced to one month's imprisonment in the Spartanburg county jail. Alexander McGregor, who has been postmaster at Jonesville, in Union county, pleaded guilty to the charges of embezzling valuable letters, stealing the valuable contents of letters and the unlawful disposition of postage stamps. ? The Pickens Sentalelsays that on Sunday evening of last week, Ella, an eleven year old daughter of Mr. J. M. Hayes, was fatally burnt by kerosene oil. It seems that her father and mother had gone to visit a sick neighbor, and during their absence the little girl went into the kitchen forthe purpose of startihg a fire, preparatory, perhaps, to cooking supper. In attempting to kindle the fire she, took an oil can, which contained about one pint of oil, and poured some of it upon the wood. The oil caught and communicated to the can, causing an explosion which threw the oil all over the body of the child, and at once enveloped her in flames. The child died from the effects of the burns. ? Columbia Registet: The County Commissioners of Sumter have reported to Commissioner Butler 597 miles of public highways and 18 river bridges in that county. The roads are not in good condition, but are as well kept as the present system and appropriation will admit of. The people are in lavor of abolishing the present system and substituting the contract plan. It is very difficult to get the roads worked, many refusing to comply with the law,-and to enr ... ^ 1 ^ iUlCC WHS litw Illtft Uceil iUUllll UllllUSt WIipUB" sible. Those whose duty it is to enforce it being unpaid officials, are not disposed to lose the time and incur the trouble incident thereto. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? "Walter Pool, Congressman-elect from the First North Carolina District, succeeding Louis C. Latham, died at Elizabeth City last Saturday morning, after a long illness. He had but recently returned from Hot Springs, Ark., and was thought to be somewhat improved in health. He was 32 years of age. ? An enterprising "Wilmingtonian has on the Cape Fear River a floating saw mill which he employs in the manufacture of boxes from sycamore. He also gets out from persimmon trees shoe lasts in the rough state, which are shipped to Albany, New York, where they are fashioned and prepared for use. He has already shipped 50,000. ? Gastonia Gazette: "We have reliable information that on last Tuesday morning, 21st instant, as Mr. W. N. Craig, of Crowder's Creek, was traveling with his wife and a little five year old daughteralong the road in a buggv, it ran over an obstruction, throwing the little girl out and hurting her so seriously that it is thought she will not recover. She was ha>*;ng ??>asms when last heard from. ? Chatharti Record: During the recent rain, a flash of lightning struck a tree in the yard of Mr. J. A. "Womack, of this place, and, glancing from the tree, ran to the fence (a few feet distant) and followed the fence (which was a barbed-wire fence) about 100 yards, shattering many of the posts. What i__ j. :J. 4.1...4. ii.? i: was singular auoui n was mat me ligiuiiing skipped some of the posts?splitting to pieces some of them and passing others by untouched. ? Charlotte Observer, Tuesday: The Woodlawn Cotton Factory, of Gaston county, was resold on Saturday by Mr. E. K. P. Osborne as commissioner, under a decree ofSuperior court. At the first sale of the property it brought $12,(KM), but this bid was increased ten per cent, and the property was ordered to be resold. Mr. Osborne says that some lively bidding was done and the property was finally knocked down to Mr. John It. Hall, of Philadelphia, at the priceof $15,000. This is regarded a very good sale and it will probably be confirmed. ? Lincoln Press : The settlement between ?11 :irn \\T Tirnl/ft/x rw?vi;?i tJA-OIierill VJT. >V iuui\cc auu tuc v>uuiiiussioners of Gaston, closed on last Sunday morning at 2 o'clock. It will be remembered that McKee produced two receipts, one for $1,700 and the other for $400, which he claimed had been given him by J. A. Davenport, Treasurer, for money paid. These receipts Davenport claimed were forgeries. The commissioners spent thirteen days in investigating the matter, and on last Sunday morning after summing up all the evidence, decided in Davenport's favor, Wo hear that the matter is not yet ended, for McKee will carry it into court, ? Last Monday morning, Harvey Jones was hanged in the yard of the jail in IiaJeigh, in the presence of J00 people. Early last year he shot and killed Deputy Sheriff AJvjs If, HJake while under arrest, After a I long pursuit lie was captured, tried and sen-\ ; tenced to be hanged, but appealed to the | i Supreme Court, which last springcontirmed : the decision of the lower court. lie was ; sentenced to be hanged on August 8th, and i J.' I the hanging was ordered to be public. y j This met with marked disapproval. In or-; jf der that the commissioners might reconsid- <;. , er their action, the Governor respited Jones \v j until last Monday, and the execution was ' hi ! then made private. Jones had made a pro- { I fession of religion. He was remarkably i self-possessed before the execution and on ; the gallows. He was hanged at G.40 A. M., i after speaking and praying. Death ensued j in twenty minutes from strangulation. His | jn age was 28 years, lie leaves a wife and an ;,, infant. About 1,000 people were outside the ^ jail with a strong force of police and special "3 constables, and order was perfectly pre- pc served. ^ te Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. THE LOUISVILLE EXPOSITION. Louisville, Kv., August 20.?Leaving ,, Yorkville at 4 o'clock in the afternoon on _ the 18th instant, I arrived at Lincolnton, 53 where I met Maj. J. K. Marshall, the pop- be ular ex-conductor of the Chester and Le- ce noir Railroad, and now the equally popular proprietor of the Burton House. At 1) o'clock I reached Newton, where at 3 A. M., I took the Western N. C. Railroad for ed Asheville. We struck the "Land of the (.r Sky" just at the peep of day, and I entertained myself, until we reached Warm . Springs, viewing the grand scenery which s|( met the eye at every turn. There is no s'( grander natural scenery on the American continent than that of Western North Carolina, and every admirer of the beautiful and romantic in the work of Nature should 'n at some time visit this beautiful region. in Leaving Asheville," we sped on, our train of reaching Louisville at 7.110 Monday morn- jj ing, when our party called a "convention" to decide at which hotel to stop. The "Al- . exander" was decided upon, and after break- 1,1 fast we began to separate?some going to the Exposition grounds, while others proceeded to "do the town," I among the latter. Louisville is beautifully situated on an a 1 elevated plain on the South bank of the he Ohio, in a great southern bend of that river, ch and near the centre of population of the ur United States. Geographically, it occupies jK the central point in the eastern half of the ,. Union. Within the past few years, Louisville has become one of the most important railroad centres, and its situation so favors the ad- ,, vantage 01 its ranroau connections, mat it is but one night in a "sleeper" from almost j1' every important city in the United States, in A more central point, or one more easily accessible, could not be named, and the fact at that it stands on the border line between the North and South, and centrally between the east and west, renders it an appropriate place for the several sections to gather and exhibit for the benefit of each other the to particular product of their skill and industry, te I was told before I left home that it would r0 be terribly hot to visit Louisville at this season, but to the contrary, I find it pleasant enough to be properly and without exaggertion, classed as a summer resort. The jj skies are cool, blue and crowded with tender ' stars. The beautiful Ohio widens like a great lake in front of the city, inducing re- ' freshing breezes, and the water falls musi- or cally over the rocky ledges, speaking in a "\V voice which must be heard. Down between jii the leafy shores it smiles and eddies and , murmurs and sings and toys with the emerald fringes of its banks and clasps the little islands with loving embrace and co- fr< quetishly runs swiftly away to the sea. fic Then looking wwt one sees the blue, blue 0p heights on the Indiana shore, for all the ^ world like far oV mountains, rollyig in billows and crested with sunlight. Within 111 the city, deeply shaded streets, and flow- Wl ering trees delight the eye, which follows the leafy aisles into the distant green mist and is lost to sight. And, at night, (ah! r, .1 i.1. t. - J. I Li U T ~ S? reuuer mis is wnut uruugiu, mt; nere^ 1 can keep it no longer) when the stars come out 8. and the lights of the houses flash among the greenery, and the dear darling white robed p} girls come to the garden gates or dream maidenly dreams on the large piazzas, or "big front steps" or musically laugh or talk ? with sweet feminine Kentucky accent, what more would you find of beauty under the It vail of Night elsewhere? "Give me Louis- jn ville or give me death," say 1. If you will excuse me for expressing my poetical verson of things so freely, I will go ? back to "doing the town," but I really didn't think I had so much music, poetry, vi etc., in my soul. cli Fourth street is the great retail street of Louisville, and is its most popular and fashionable promenade. At the southern end of this street, and in the midst of the most Jc fashionable part of city, lies Central Park? th a pleasure ground for the city of eighteen ^ acres, unequalled by any park in the world for the size and magnificence of its forest trees. Central Park lies between Fourth and to Sixth streets, and is now directly reached by ar horse car lines on those streets, and running ar beyond the park. This park constitutes the northern inclosure of the Exposition ? grounds, and the northern front of the main 11 building is on its southern line. Arrange- Pr ments have been made for bringing every ca horse car line in the city directly to the Ex- he position entrances, and on the southern line hr of the grounds the Louisville and Nashville railroad has erected astation, at which they land passengers within two hundred feet of an entrance. I will not tiro you this time?nor myself j either?hut will cork ud for the Dresent bv adding that everyone who can avail themselves of the cheap rates to the Great South- " ern Exposition, should do so. Events will th be dated in Kentucky from it, instead of the J. war, as has been the custom in the past. y, L-G'G- ch A Rhode Island View.?The Rev. I)r. AY Haygood, of Georgia, a synopsis of whose he views in regard to the negro we gave a few ^ days since,has been discussing, at Chatau- nf qua, New York, the negro problem, in its r1 religious aspect. J fe asserts, as is admitted, lu that the negro is naturally religious. Without opening the question of the relation of fo morality to religion, it is equally true and t]r just to say that the education of the negro 1 in the United States has produced for and 4 imbued him with a higher form of religion PT than his ancestors knew or practiced in the g^ wilds of Africa. Even in and through sla- be very he advanced to a higher civilization ; .su for his unthrift, his thievery and his immoralitv notwithstanding, helearnod something of humanity, of the restraint of personal 1 passions and responsibility to a Supreme in Power, however inadequately it might be (ja recognized or obeyed. In the very eonsti- ' tution of the negro race religion is more ll*> emotional than with the Caucasian ; but just as the severe logic of the Puritan, unanswer- AY' able, his premises beingadmitted, has given th way to a milder belief and more Christian th bearing, so the sensuous religion of the ne- ca gro is capable, it cannot be doubted, of be- . ing so disciplined as to bear higher and better fruit. They do not burn witches, nor 11 hang Quakers. Is it not to be hoped and ca expected that in process of time they will pe reason and live within the Pauline lines of W{ moderation? One thing is undoubtedly true : it is neither wise nor safe to treat the , negro in this regard, as beyond the pale of 111 serious consideration. Hysterical religion St has been witnessed in other camp meetings w< than those of the Methodists ; and it may th be questioned whether the stealing of a co chicken after prayer meeting is a more heinous sin than gambling in stocks after a hypocritical alms giving in a church from a which the poor are virtually excluded.? of Providence Journal. frt Unjust Law.?The laws of South Caro- aP lina prohibit the Sheriff from employing a W1 lawyer as clerk in his office, and yet the coi Shite, so to speak, makes the Sheriff a judge, fri In all cases which are contested, he is made T-- '1 - -? '1 I11? ^4-LriM Tti/-ln?n Vin ? a it ?J UUgU, ill III UUllKi: HIiy U111C1 u uugv, III 1.3 1 made responsible and accountable for his , mistakes. If a Trial Justice, a Probate Judge, or a Circuit Judge errs in judgment, ly the higher court reviews his decision and Di corrects his errors and the inferior Judge is r0( not a sufferer in costs or otherwise, except in the mortification of his pride which may follow the reversal of his judgment. Not so with the Sheriff, |f ho errs in judgment, he is made to foot the bill of costs, and is aci reipiirod to make good in money, any error ra; that ho has committed. With this unfair- jn ness of the law which discriminates against ti(] him, is it right to deny him the benefit of the legal advice and aid of a member of the Bar, as clerk and counselor??Alibeeille\ In /'rem uml Banner, , I toi LOCAL AFFAIRS. j NKW ADVERTISEMENTS. iri.sh A Mcknight?Best in the Deck. R. Lind.sav A Co.?Gone North. M. Dohson?The "Old Chap." erndon Brothers?Stoves. . II. O'Leary?Furniture Department, Ac. ithers Adickes?New Goods, itta Brothers?Getting Ready, Ac. M.Adams?New Goods. <1. Lowry, Clerk ol'Board?Lowrysville Acad- | emy. YORKVILLE'S FIRST BALE. The first bale of the new crop of cotton sold the Yorkville market was brought in by r. C. 31. Parrott, last Tuesday, and bought j Messrs. Clark Brothers. It weighed ">11 >unds, classed good middling and brought n cents per pound. ROCK HILL'TFIRST BALE. The first*bale of new cotton was sold in ock Hill, on Wednesday, the 22nd instant, was raised by Mr. J. M. Williford, weighed 0 pounds, graded middling, and was >ught by Messrs. Jones & Robertson tit 121 nts. ^ rutsL.ii; i;urKuvE,iuE.Ni. The county commissioners have contract1 with Maj. T. P. Whitesidesfor the delivy of a sufficient quantity of granite to rb the pavements on the north and east lesof the Court House lot. IVTaj. Whiteles is now delivering the stone. REVIVAL. A protracted meeting and revival has been progress at Union Baptist Church, four iles north of town, under the ministration Rev. .1. E. Covington, assisted by Rev. , \V. Thomasson, since the 15)th instant, asing on Sunday night last, and resulting nine conversions to the church. DIPHTHERIA. We learn that this disease is prevailing to serious extent in the Clark's Fork neighirhood, especially among the children. A ild of Mr. R. N. McElwee's died on Satday, and seyeral others in his neighbored are dangerously ill from the same sease. _ BLACK'S STATION ITEMS. "Ego/' writing from Black's Station, last onday, says that section has suffered very i.1 ? C 4.1 ,1 4-U.-.4. lruiu wit? uruuguii mat una picvai:c-u many parts of the county. A joint stock company has been organized Black's Station, for the purpose of buildg a tobacco factory. The merchants are preparing extensively r the fall trade. D. D. Gaston is moving his new brick building; Surratt& Carpenr have moved to their splendid new store om, and all are preparing for agood trade. THE RITE ORECONFIRMATION. Rt. Rev. Bishop B. W. B. Howe, of this iocese, visited this parish on last Sunday id delivered two able sermons in the lurch of the Good Shepherd. As a pulpit ator Bishop Howe has few superiors. rhile his sermons are deep and instructive, s thoughts are clothed in words which a iild may comprehend. This constitutes e chief element of imparting instruction ^m the sacred desk as from any other of:e. Whoever expects bombast from Bish> Howe, because of his eminence in the lurch, will be seriously disappointed. At e evening service the rite of confirmation as conferred upon a class of six. CHURCH NOTICES. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. irvices next Sunday, at 10.30 A. M., and P. M. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. R. P. Franks, istor. Services at Philadelphia Church at A. M.; and in the church at Yorkville, at P. M. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. . Lathan, Pastor. There will he no service this church next Sunday. Baptist?Rev. J. E. Covington, Pastor, irvices at Union at 10.30 A. M., next ? ur.ly. Sunday-school at the church in \ orklle, at 9.30 A. M. Prayer meeting in the lurch at Yorkville, Thursday, at 8.30 P. M. np ATII t\r MDG ITADT l/un * AA WA 1IAA?I.1I JLM. CM A.% M. Mrs. Margaret Jane Hart, the wife of imes P. Hart, Esq., died at her home in is place at 6 o'clock last Sunday morning, ;ed about 42 years. Mrs. Hart was the lughter of Mr. William and Mrs. Minerva atchford, of this county, and was married Major Hart in 1863. She was of sweet id kind disposition ; an affectionate wife id mother and an exemplary Christian and ember of the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. art had been in bad health for some time evious to her death. The immediate use of her death was pneumonia. Besides ;r husband she leaves six children who ive the sympathy of the community in eir bereavement. PERSONAL MENTION. On Monday last, a party consisting of Mr. 1). Colcock and wife, Messrs. J. W. Colck, J. It. Lindsay, John M. Hope and T. . Glenn, started to Louisville, Ky., to see e grand exposition. Messrs. Lindsay and I). Coleock will extend their trip to New ork, for the purpose of making fall purases for their respective stores. Mr. J. '. Coleock is on his way to Texas, where ; is in business. We are pleased to learn at he contemplates returning to Yorkville ter next April, and making his future >me here. Mr. S. L. Lowry will leave in a few days r Abbeville, where he will enter in the ug business as part proprietor of a store ready established there. Mr. Lowry is a actical druggist, a young gentleman of lod business qualifications, and has the st wishes of a large circle of friends for ceess in his new home. DEATH OF T. J. HELL, ESQ. Thomas J. Bell, Esq., diedat his residence this place at 1 o'clock P. M., on Wednesy of last week, in the G4th year of his e. Mr. Bell was a native of York county. . 1842, he entered the law office of Geo. \V. illiams, Esq., and prepared himself for at profession with which he had been innately connected ever since. As an advoVfr Hull wn<s zpnlniis jinrl pfirnest in be If of his clients, and when he undertook case, whether trivial or important, the use of his client was emphatically his nding the progress of the suit. Since the ir Mr. Bell has done more gratuitous prace for defendants, in the court of sessions, an any other lawyer, perhaps, in the ate. For a long period after the courts ?re restored, since reconstruction, it was e practice of the presiding judge to assign unsel to the defendant in every sessions se, if the defendant was unable to employ lawyer. This assignment, in the courts York, usually fell upon Mr. Bell, who >in this cause, and the fact that he often peared at the solicitation of defendants, thout fee or reward, won for him in the urt-room the title of "the poor man's end." * - " * i -ai- ^ r? t>^ii At tiie time 01 nis ueaui, .ur, duu was me lest member of the Yorkville bar, and e last term of our circuit court was the onone that he failed to attend since the war. iring that term he was confined to his am with the illness which terminated his e. With the drawing of party lines by the ; suits of reconstruction, Mr. Bell took an tive part in the politics of the State, arming himself with the Democratic party. 1874, he received the Democratic nominain for the House of Representatives of the ite Legislature, but afterwards declined. J 187(1, he took an active part in the llamp- , i campaign, and was among the most 1 earnest advocates of home rule and honest government in that memorable canvass. Mr. Bell married a daughter of the late James Brian, for two terms before the war, sheriff' of York county. She survives him. Mr. Bell's obsequies were attended last Thursday at 11 o'clock by a large concourse of citizens. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. T. R. English, of the Presbyterian church; who delivered an impressive and instructive discourse founded upon the 25th chapter of Matthew. LIABILITY OF EXPRESS COMPANIES. In our issue of the 16th, was published a short communication calling attention to the fact that an express agent delivering a package of liquor shipped to collect on delivery and receiving the pay therefor, completed the sale, and thus, though innocently, violated the statute prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors within the corporate limits of Yorkville. The question being thus presented to the Intendantof the town, he at once addressed a note of inquiry to T. C. Gaston, Esq., the Solicitor of this circuit, to which Mr. Gaston replies as follows : chester, ?. u., august 'SZ, iw.'j. F. IT a r re rf i eld, Esq., Intendant of Yorkville: Having returned home yesterday, I now reply in full to yours of the 16th instant, the receipt of which I heretofore acknowledged hy postal card. I am satisfied that the courts will hold that where liquor is shipped to Yorkville C. 0. I)., that there is no sale until the money is paid ; that the receipt of the money and the delivery constitute the sale, and that the express agent is responsible. Very respectfully, T. C. Gaston, Solicitor. hukglaky and larceny. ()n Sunday night last, between the hours of S and 11 o'clock, the dwellinghouse of Withers Ellis, colored, in this place, was forcibly entered, and a clock, a hat, a number of pictures and other articles, amounting in value to $2<).2o, were stolen therefrom. Circumstances led tothesuspicion that anegro? a stranger here, who gives as his name Asdel Laney?-was the guilty party, and on Monday morning he was arrested, and after an investigation of the case before Trial Justice Lewis, that official committed the accused to jail on the charge of burglary and grand larceny. An hour or two after his commitment, Trial Justice Bell, of Clover, notified the officials here to be on the look out for a negro answering the descripI T ?M/\*? n4- Aim oiofny liuu ui jjuiicj j ? iiu 19 nauicu at \/ui oioiv* town to answer the charge of stealing a suit of clothes. He is well dressed, in a new ! suit, which, probably, is the one stolen. He claims to have come here from Union county, N. C.; but it is surmised that his last permanentaddressinthat State was the Penitentiary at Raleigh. OUR COTEMPORARIES. The Pee Dee Index, published at Marion, has just completed its first volume, and announces that it is 110 longer ari experiment, but "a business fixture of Marion county." With a constantly increasing circulation, and under the control of Hon. W. J. Montgomery, the Index has a promising future. The editor of the Index is a member of the Legislature, and we are pleased to observe, by his editorial columns, that he is devoting some study to the road system of the State. "We copy from the Index, this week, an able article on this subject. We have received the second number of the Cotton Plant, published by \V. J. McKerall, Esq., at Marion. This publication is devoted exclusively to agriculture and kindred subjects, and should be read by every farmer in the State. Specimen copies may be seen at this office, and we will take pleasure in forwarding subscriptions. The Charleston News and Charier has contracted for a Hoe fast press, to cost $30,000, and as soon as it can be built and set up in that office, the paper will be enlarged, and changed to an eight-page sheet. THE CROP PROSPECT. The time in which to produce the cotton crop of this'year has practically expired, and the present outlook is gloomy, to say the least. In some sections of the county, notably Ebenezer, the crop is badly cut off. "We hear of nnfi nlanter in that section who has MO acres planted, from which he does not expect to pick three bales. This is a tine farming portion of the county, but the want of rain has told fearfully on the farmers. Other portions of the county have not suffered so severely, and from the Bethel and Clark's Fork sections we have comparatively favorable reports. Taking the county over, however, intelligent farmers who have had opportunities ot investigating the subject by observation, inform us that not more than half a crop cai be expected. A partial rain fell on the 22nv, l? i it came too late to be of much benefit t either cotton or corn. The corn crop will fail far below what would be reasonably reckoned half a crop. We have heard of several fields in the south-eastern part of the county which have been entirely abandoned, the drought early in the season having so cut them off as to render cultivation useless. Fortunately, the people are in better condition for a short corn crop than they were in 1881, as much of the grain crop of 1882 is still in the hands of the producers, while the wheat crop of this year was reasonably good. Even with the failure of the corn crop, and a partial failure of the oat crop, which did not come up to expectations the past harvest, it is hoped there will be a sufficiency of breadstuff in the county to prevent scarcity before the next harvest. MERE-MENTION. Count de Chambord, grandson of Charles X., of France, and who in 1871 sacrificed the French crown rather than to "abandon the white flag of Hanry IV. for the tri-color," died at Frohsdorff last Friday. A bill has passed the Georgia Legislat ure re-districting that State. It will interest many people to know that it has been decided that a cent stamp partly on the wrapper and partly on the newspaper constitute it a sealed package, and the package will go only to the dead letter office. The Pitt- j sylvania, Va., negroes, three in number, who murdered the farmer, Shepard, on the 10th instant, were tried in the Hustings Court of that county last week and found guilty. They were sentenced to be hanged 011 the 28th of next month. The trial of Frank James, the noted bandit and train robber, is progressing at Gallatin, Mo., and is attracting considerable interest. ExGovernor Benjamin Conley, postmaster at Atlanta, Ga., and five attaches of the postoffice were removed last Saturday. The removal was wholly unexpected by the public, and the cause is said to be general dissatisfaction with the removed officials. A wild, sensational rumor comes from Ogden, Utah, to the effect that a band of cowboys have organized for the purpose of kidnapping President Arthur and his party, tne alleged object being to hold them as hostages for a large ransom. An Atlanta dispatch states that arrangements have been completed between H. I. Kimball and the fiii-nriTc i\f flio Vimlidll "I-Trmwo nmnorlv n ml certain citizens, by which a larger house will be built, at a cost of half a million dollars. There are six thousand applications from colored people now before the Colonization Socletv for transportation to Liberia. Bricklayers in Austin, Texas, are on a strike for six dollars a day. The extra session of the Pennsylvania Legislature has cost up to date $231,000, and the complaint is loud. The Democratic State Committee of New York met at Saratoga last week and called a convention to be held in Buffalo on September 27th. There are nearly 20,000 German voters in Iowa, and they are said to be solid against the Republican party on the prohibition issue. During the present month $26,000,LKH) has been paid by the U. S. Government on account of pensions. A horse that was sold in Columbia, S. C., last February j for $2,000, has just been sold at Erie, Pa., for | $10,000. Seventeen million yards of ; standard domestic cotton goods wore sold at auction in New York last Thursday. The receipts footed up $2,000,000, the prices being | from 5 to 2o per cent, below what had been the ruling market rates for similar goods previous to the sale. The Presidential party were on the Yellowstone River last ! Saturday, all represented to be well. ! Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. FROM THE PACIFIC COAST. Sax Francisco, August 10.?After a j pleasant trip of just three weeks from the I time your correspondent left South Carolina, S he arrived at the Golden City of the West | on the night of the 7th instant. As locations or even incidents of travel [ east of the Mississippi River?the Father of I Waters?would be of little interest to your j readers in this day of steam and electricity, [ I will begin my narrative at Salt Lake City, | Utah, first premising that I am not a recent j York county convert to Mormonism, nor even a votary of the peculiar doctrines of these people. Rut a trip to San Francisco would lose much of its savor without stopping over at Salt Lake City long enough to at least learn something of a sect which has formed a prominent topic throughout the enure iana since in-i-t, ana wnuse leacmiigs and practices in open defiance of United States laws constitute a national problem apparently no nearer solution than when Joe Smith first promulgated the creed, which, strange to say, has at this day so many followers. We reached Salt Lake City on the 3rd, after thirty-two hours' travel from Denver, a distance of 659 miles. Much of the waysay 425 miles?is over a desert waste which can never be made of any value except for valuable deposits of coal which are found in several places. The land is hilly and broken, and the bare hills and mountains are a picture of desolation. Water has been obtained along this portion of the railroad only by boring artesian wells, which was accomplished by the railroad company at great expense. All of Utah that I saw was'originally a desert, hut the land is free from alkali, and when it is irrigated it produces fine crops, but not so good as the prairie lands further east. The Mormon settlers'have reclaimed a large extent of country, and actually built a city ia a desert; but it has cost an immense amount of labor to die canals and ditches for the purpose of conveying water from the mountains and distributing it all over the country. Salt Lake City has an abundant supply of good water which is conveyed by ditches and pipes along every street.' The Mormons have truly accomplished a % wonderful work, which no people could ever have done who were not controlled and moved by fanaticism. The city is well laid off and contains many tine public and private buildings. The Tabernacle, which seats 10,000 people, is not a tine building, but it is a remarkable piece of architectural skill. The Temple, when completed, will be an elegant structure of solid granite. The Mormons are in a large majority and control the city, county and territorial governments, and openly defy the United States laws against polygamy. Only stern military rule will eftect a change, and the sooner it is enforced the better it will be for the whole country and the people of this territory. On the second day of our stay in Salt Lake City we visited the Tabernacle and heard two Mormon sermons, defending their faith and urging their people to live moral and Godly lives. The sermons contained a mixture of good and bad. Towards Gentiles, the Mormons are reticent. A "stranger" knocking at theirgates can learn but little except what may come from close observation, and to learn much of their peculiar doctrines, habits and practices, requires more time than the wayfaring man has at his disposal. Only a government official on a large salary can afford to probe the secrecy of the latter day saints, and as the work is easy and the pay good, naturally enough it progresses slowly. While, of course, every man has not a brigade of wives?for even a Mormon would And things lively for him in this state of affairs?there is 110 denying that polygamy is practiced to a considerable extent. And while the men thus much-married, and irretrievably wound in the meshes of Hymen's silken bonds present a calm, subdued exterior, what may be more surprising to the women of the east, the wives all having a common interest in the same husband apfear to live amicably and harmoniously. t there is any cat-clawing and hair-pulling such disagreements are kept from the Knowledge of the Gentiles. As an instance of woman's fidelity it may be stated that at this time Belle Harris is undergoing imprisonment for contempt of court, the offence consisting in her refusal to answer the question whether or not she is married or ''sealed" to a man who is known to have at least one wife besides the alleged wiie in tne person 01 Leue narns. This affair arose in a test ease of trying a Mormon for adultery before Judge Twiss. When one of the Mormon's alleged wives was brought upon the witness stand, she blocked trie trial by refusing to answer the question of the prosecuting attorney as to whether or not she was married; the Judge sent her to jail for contempt, and there tne case rests. In prison she is known as Mix* Harris, and the Mormons claim that she has the sympathy of every woman?Mormon and Gentile?in the territory, the ground of this sympathy being that as no woman is bound to tell the truth respecting her age, neither is she required to say, in a court of justice whether she is married or single ! Great Salt Lake is one of the natural curiosities of this locality. I visited the lake and enjoyed a bath in its turbid waters. The water is so dense and strongly impreg nated with salt that a person floats on its surface without the power even to swim. The air is pure and bracing, and here it seldom rains. San Francisco is distant from Salt Lake City 935 miles, and to make the journey by rail requires two days and two nights. In that brief time we passed over more different geological formations than I had thought could be found in the United States. This teaches us at least that everything in this world is made for some wise and useful purpose ; but it requires a considerable exercise of faith to believe that the vast barren hills and plains over which we passed?sometimes for fifty miles at a stretch, without a sprig of grass or a drop of water?were made to serve a useful purpose in the grand system of creation. Without beholding for himself the reader cannot realize the desolation of about 500 miles of the route through Wyoming Territory and the State of Nevada, while some portions of Utah and California are no better. After leaving Salt Lake City, we passed through five different ranges of mountains, each one two or three hundred miles from the other, and four ranges were covered with snow on the highest peaks. They are generally spoken of as the ltocky Mountains, but each range is known by a different name. Soon after penetrating California, while the railroad is still winding its way around the mountain tops, but gradually descending to the plain, we saw the gold mines, some of which created so much excitement years ago. At one place, called the Dutch Flats, the high hills, for four or five miles, have been dug down and the washing of the dirt in the river has filled up its channel for forty miles below. After leaving Salt Lake City, we traveled 700 miles without seeinga single acre in cultivation, or many acres which by the mere agency of man ever can be cultivated. A blight seems to have desolated the whole region. After getting down the mountain into the Valley of Sacramento River, in California, wo fnnnrl o Imon+ifnl ?-?f nt*A^iin. tive and well watered. It produces splendid crops of all kinds of grain and fruit, hut corn will not grow, as the dry season cuts it off before it matures. Apples do not grow well; but I have never before seen such fine peaches, pears, plums and grapes as grow 111 these valleys and are in the market here for sale. We found all the depots and platforms of the railroad in the valleys piled up with wheat in sacks awaiting cars to carry it oft', and in many places the sacks were piled in the fields. At one place we saw an orchard of four hundred acres in pear trees, and several vineyards of more than one hundred acres each. Grapes are very fine and very abundant. San Francisco is a magnificent city, with