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jltoaps and Jfarts. ?Commissioner of Agriculture Henderson, of Georgia, estimates tne cotton crop of that State at 62 per cent, or 550,000 bales, and says if frost is delayed two weeks there will be a slight increase over this estimate. Heavy oat crops are being put in. ? William D. Clancy, a well known Charlestonian and one of the Masters in Equity for that county, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head Wednesday. He was a bachelor and was noted for his wil and social accomplishments. ? There is trouble in Texas over the anticivil rights bill decision, and the negroes are reported to be rising in force in Milan county. Troops were ordered out, but have been dismissed, a colored preacher having undertaken to restore peace. ? Abocit the first of next month the new time principle indicating the hours from 1 to 24 o'clock will be in practice. The watch factories North have already begun to make the new issue dials to mark the hours from 1 to 24. ? Tkn ir? raca nf Afrc ATvrn AliC 1CW4U A11 U1V V?"JV VI AIAJ Clarke Gaines vs. The City of New Orleans, just forwarded to the Supreme Court of the United States, contains 25,000 pages of legal cap paper and weighs 196 pounds, and the importance of the matters involved is commensurate with the bulk of the record. ? The business failures throughout the United States and Canada for the sever days ending last Friday as reported to R. G. Dun & Co., number 215 against 218 the preceding week, and 243 the week before. In the Southern, Middle and New England States there is a marked decrease noted. ? Near Falmouth, Ky., a bull planted himself in front of a fast express train or the Kentucky Central in an attitude of defiance. The locomotive struck him and killed him, but the baggage car and two coaches were thrown from the track and the rails were torn up for a hundred feet nr mAPf> ? At Huntington, Indiana, last Thursday, Charlotte Epps was found guilty of murdering her husband last June, by administering poison. Epps was an old and wealthy bachelor, and was married two months before his death, she previously having been his housekeeper. Herpunishment was fixed at imprisonment for life. ? A fire occurred in Savannah, Ga., on Wednesday afternoon of last week, and raged until after night, having exhausted itself after spreading over fifteen blocks, comprising the section between West Broad street and the canal. One hundred colored families and forty white families were rendered homeless, and the lass is over a million dollars. ? The express a^ent at Atlantic Station, Ga., was robbed ot a pouch containing $15,000 Thursday night. The pouch was hung round his neck, and he pushed it behind his back as he stooped to raise the handles ol hi% trunk, which he was about to wheel into his office. A man came behind him, cut the straD of the Douch and darted off with it into tRe darkness. ? Georgia has a Confederate pension list amounting to $25,00) per annum. One hundred dollars is allowed for a loss of a leg above the knee; $75 for the same loss below the knee; $60 for an arm above the elbow and $40 for an arm below. Under the present law all persons who have sustained such losses are carried on what is praticallv a pension roll,jComing up regularly every three years for the amount in cash. ? A dispatch of Friday from Corruna, Indiana, says: For some time past the farmers of this neigborhood, who own self-binding harvesters have been receiving letters at this and adjacent postofflces threatening vengeance because these machines reduce the demand for farm laborers. This week these threats took the form of barn burning. Several barns have been destroyed already, including two last night. One of these was set on fire at 3 o'clock this morning after the owner had guarded it until 2 o'clock. ? Every county in Ohio gave a majority for the second, or prohibition amendment exceptfive, viz, Cuynahoga, Franklin, Hamilton, Lucas and Montgomery. These counties contain the cities of Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo and Dayton, and kept the State from adopting the amendment. As to the actual vote cast on this question the prohibition vote is far ahead, but the enemies to prohibition owe their escape to the requirement that an affirmative vote on constitutional amendmentsshall include a majority of all the votes cast at the same election. ? Several severe explosions have recently occurred in London, supposed to be the work of Fenian sympathisers. The lieavm iest explosion, and "Qne had the plans of its projectors been entirely successful, would nave caused great damage and loss of life, 4-L/v nr?/l />Mr?t*/viiiArl v?r* ? KlTOTT An TllOiJ. YV tw UI1 U1C UllUCl^iUUIIU lai&HtVJ V/U X UV.O" day night of last week. The British government offers a reward of ?500 for information leading to the conviction of the perpetrators of this outrage, and the railway companies offer an additional reward of ?500. ? A large meeting of prominent colored citizens, held in Memphis last Friday night, adopted resolutions expressing regret at the decision of the Supreme Court in the civil rights case and asking the people of the State to join in petitioning the Legislature to repeal all its Act discriminating against colored people and protesting against confounding social and civil rights and in favoring the encouragement of colored people in the habits of economy and intellectual culture. They also compliment Judge Harlan. A ddresses were made by Congressman Casey Young and others. ? Frank James, the notorious outlaw, under arrest at Gallatin, Mo., has been given the freedom of the town, and great indignation is felt by the citizens of Gallatin over the fact. A warrant from Alabama is out for the arrest of James, but it cannot be acted upon until the State of Missouri is through with him. During the recent trial of James at Gallatin, while he was walking about the streets, a negro man was kept in the court house with a ball and chain attached to his leg, his offence being the stealing of a ham for his family. ? At a Democratic meeting in Danville, Va., last Saturday, at 3 P. M., matters pertaining to the approaching election being under discussion, a large number of negroes assembled near the opera house, in which the meeting was held, and created a row, first commencing a fisticuff. This soon led to the drawing of pistols by both sides, when a negro placed a pistol at Walter Holland's head and fired, wounding him, it is supposed mortally. Then a general fire opened, which resulted in the killing of three negroes and the wounding of many uuiers, sume muruiuy. vjieai cauiicraent exists, especially near the Western suburbs of the town. One white man was fired upon while patroling in that vicinity, which wounded him and nis horse. ? A meeting of a large number of representative colored men was held at Birmingham, Alabama, last Saturday in order to express the sentiments of the colored people on the decision of the United States Supreme Court on the Civil ltights act. Res* olutions were passed denouncing the court and condemning the act as a deception to the colored people. J. II. Welch, chairman of the meeting, in a speech advocated the cultivation of more friendly relations with the whites of the South. He said he believed that the Southern people, without regard to party lines^ would prove the last refuge of the colored people, ana wouia help them to reach a higher and nobler manhood. ? In his annual report Adjt.-Gen. Drum recommends the retirement of enlisted men who have served thirty-five years, and the shortening of the term of enlistment from five years to three years. He says the number of discharges from the army during the year ended June 30,1883, was 5,950, deaths 221, desertions 3,578. Total casualties 9,749. The total number of enlistments during the year was 8,998. Out of 7,931 accepted recruits, 4,538 were native born, 3,393 of foreign birth; 6,461 white. 1,470 colored. The number of applicants for enlistment rejected is 19,738. Every effort was made during the entire fiscal year to obtain sufficient men to fill the army to its authorized strength, but notwithstanding these efforts the total enlisted strength of the army on that date was only 22,851, or 2,149 less than the authorized number. ? At a meeting of Irishmen held at Chioa% go on the 15th .of last month, resolutions i were passed instructing the chairman to 1 .: communicate with the State Department | ! with a view to securing instructions to the ;' American Minister to England to use his ' influence toward securing an impartial trial 1 for O'Donnell as an American citizen on j ^ the charge of the murder of the informer * Carey, and ask a modification of the rules of practice before the British Court to the .! extent of allowing Americans to act as ' | O'Donnell's counsel. Secretary Frelinghuy sen, replying, says: "In the event of its ! being ascertained that Patrick O'Donnell ; is an American citizen, he will receive from the Executive Department of this government all the protection to which he is enj titled, in harmony with the resolutions you enclose. It is not within the province of ; this department to ask a modification of I a ruling of the Court in this particular ' case." He adds that if the English Court should need an assurance of the standing of the counsel from this country the Ameri can Minister will be instructed to give such | assurance. | ?lte forMlc tfsqutm. i 1 YORKVILLE, S. C. : | THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. 8. 1883. ; TUESDAY'S ELECTIONS. 1 On last Tuesday elections were held in ten States. Connecticut elected its House of Representatives and half its Senate ; Maryland, Governor, Comptroller, Attorney General and Legislature; Massachusetts, Gov. ernor, other State officers and Legislature ; Minnesota, Governor and other State officers, a railroad commissioner and also voted 1 upon three constitutional amendments; ' Mississippi elected a Legislature; Nebraska a Justice of the Supreme Court and University Regents; New Jersey a Governor, House of Representatives and part of the Senate; New York elected Secretary ofState, Comptroller, Treasurer, Attorney General, Engineer and Surveyor, and both branches of the Legislature, and also voted upon a proposition to abolish contract labor from < the State prisons ; Pennsylvania elected an , Auditor General and a State Treasurer; Virginia, Assemblymen and part of its i Senate. Of these States public attention is mainly ! turned to New York, Massachusetts and Virginia; to New York because of its importance as a factor in Presidential elections, and because of the squabbles among the Democratic factions which make it no easy matter to forecast results with any certainty. Notwithstanding the reports published of established harmony between these factions they don't seem to be any nearer together than they ever were, and John Kelly, the Tammany boss, still insists on playing dictator, and runs his candidates, and each of the other factions will do likewise, thus dividing the Democratic vote for members of the Legislature and giving the Re1 publicans a good chance to wajk in. This split, however, is only confined to the city of New York, and may not have much damaging influence on the State at large. THE OLD SOUTHERN EXPRESS. A Washington dispatch says that suit is about being instituted in the District Courts to determine the liability of the stockhold' ers in the National Express and Transporta. tion Company. This was a company which started after the war to do the express business in the South and was chartered by the State of Virginia. For a while its business ' was large and its directors consisted of some . of the mostprominentSoutherninen. Many business men of Washington and Baltimore subscribed for or purchased the stock for in1 vestment as holding out prospects of liberal returns, but owing possibly to extravagance anu niisuuiuugeiiieui, unci cuuiug nients of $20 per share on its stock, the eoin, pany closed business in 18G7. After a period of seventeen years certain creditors of the company are now trying to collect sufficient assessments from the stockholders of the late company to pay their claims, but so many questions of liability and equity are concerned that it probably can only be settled, so far as the District stockholders are concerned, by an eventual appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. The assessment necessary to pay the indebtedness of the defunct concern will be : about $17 on each share of stock. The Charlotte Observer says that the intelligence of the proposed action of the creditors caused quite a flutter in that city, where a large f number of shares were held, but after consultation, the share-holders concluded that they were liable and would have to pay. CONTESTS IN CONGRESS. Among the contests for seats in the next Cangress there will be several of peculiar interest. Papers have already been tiled with Air. McPherson, the clerk of the house, in the following cases: From the second district of Alabama there will be two contestants, G. H. Craig and J. W. Jones for the seat of Charles M. Shelly. Benj. F. Frederick will contest the seat of James Wilson, of the fifth Iowa district. S. X. Wood claims that he was elected from Kansas instead of Samuel R. Peters. George F. Garrison challenges the right of Robert M. Mayo to the seat belonging to the first district of Virginia. In the seventh district of Virginia the certificate was given to John Paul, who was subsequently appointed United States Judge. The Governor of Virginia has made no provision for a special election to fill the vacancy, and it is supposed that he prefers to wait and see what action the house will take 011 the contest made by C. T. ()'Ferrall for the seat. The most interesting contest will be between Chalmers and Manning, of the second Mississippi, and W111. McKinley, Jr., and Jonathan II. Wallace, of the seventh Ohio district. These two cases are likely to occupy considerable time and cause warm discussion. There were several other notices of contest filed soon after the election, but they have since been withdrawn. ^ ? COTTON PICKING MACHINERY. It does really seem that the days of cotton picking by hand are about numbered. The Charleston jVews a/ul Courier publishes a lengthy descriptive article on a cotton picking machine recently patented by Mr. C. T. JNIason, Jr., of Sumter, which docs the work thoroughly and without injury to the plant. The trial test showed the capacity of the machine to be 200 pounds an hour, which is by no means its limit, and a much larger gathering in pounds in the same time is looked for. One man and one horse easily manipulate the entire machinery. With one of these machines, a planter can gather his cotton at a cost of only $1 per bale, whereas it now costs $7. Taking this into , consideration, the saving will be great, to ! say nothing of the other advantages which ' such a machine would suggest. It is ex1 pected they will be ready for introduction ; j for the gathering of the next crop, and then ! planters will live, as it were, in a new age. 1 There is no humbug in this, and the cotton picker of old will remember his avocation ! as a thing of the past. THE COMING STATE FAIR. D. P. Duncan, President of the Soutl Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical So ciety, has addressed the following impor portant circular to the people of the State Another annual State Fair is at hand, anc it remains for the people of South Carolim to say whether it shall be even a greater more instructive and more useful one thai that of last year. What are the peculiai inducements to bring all classes of our peo pie together at a State Fair, beyond all othei occasions? First, it touches "every man's and woman's home and industry. Then is nothing within the round of our hom( economy, let it be of the narrowest or wid est scope, that does not find room and ex pression in this great objective view o what we are doing, how we are all living and what remains for us to do hereafter ii seeing and knowing what is possible to jus such people as ourselves, our own neigh bors, who perchance live but a few mi lei from us, or in our own county or section, 01 our own State. The great improvement in agriculture methods and implements, important a; tnese are, sureiy are not me most linpuriuui things to be seen at a State fair. Neithei are tne improved live stock or agricultural products, or manufactories, highly impor tant incentives as these are to progressive industry. There is that to be felt and seei: and felt no where else. It is the aspiration of all classes for a day of better things. That which is the brave, earnest wish of ar industrious, honest people, that which thej crave and hope for in their hearts, and earnestly believe themselves equal to, thai thing may be considered an accomplished fact as soon as there is one heart and one mind set upon it as a great social and industrial necessity. Now, when our people come to a State fair it is not one class thai comes, but all. Not only the well-to-dc farmer, mechanic or planter and their families are to be found in the throng, but the humblest citizens and their wives and daughters come and are welcome, and more than welcome?all find a common meetinp ground on this occasion of all others. We all come, not only to shake hands with oui old and accustomed friends and to exchange old ideas and preconceiveel notions, but tc make new friends, to get new ideas or tc impart them, and literally to feel the pulse of the people and to know how we now are and what all hope for. The numerous entpr+?>imriprit?j of most, interestina" char acter which have been provided by the citizens of the State capital will be seen by the largely distributed posters. These displays will be even more attractive to all classes of our people than they were last year. They are alone worth the trip. The articles on exhibition will bo more varied and improving and full of interest to all than ever. Nothing will be left undone tc show what our people are doing and have done. But there is one thing we cannot place before the public eye?what we are hoping for, what we mean to do and what sagacious practical men see possible for the future. Now to meet this very desideratum, tc enable miinformed people to see the true meaning for the future in what they see before their eyes, it is proposed to hold public discussion at our night meetings touching the industrial.matters of the State, so thai we shall all go away with a better idea oi what it means for us and our chidren aftei us. Whilst the pleasure-seekers are enjoying themselves in innocent amusements, the older or more practical heads may be making a reckoning of where we are in our industrial progress and comparing notes in a practical way, which will send the wisesl of us back home with something, if not much, to think about, which we are now earnestly thinking of or not informed ol at all before we met at the State Fair. Then let me urge on our people, one and all, tc come to the State Fair this season. There will Kq i-nrtiYi fnr ??v-Qr\rbnfl v this VPnr and many new and attractive features in the improved character of the articles on exhibition; also much to be enjoyed in the entertainments provided by the citizens ol Columbia. We all now see our way out of the woods?if not in all things. Let us come together in such a great gathering ol South Carolinians, as well as visitors from other States, as has not been seen within our borders. Last year showed what was entirely possible. Let this year show how much more is possible. D. P. Duncan, President. # ? ? SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Hon. J. B. Campbell, of Charleston, is dangerously ill in "Washington City. ? The ladies of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church at Winnsboro have bought a chandelier at a cost of over $100. ? The Blue Ridge Railroad paid its State and county tax this year, something it has: not done before in ten years. The amount was $2,052.56. ? The State Treasurer reported about $174,000 in taxes received up to the close of business on the 31st ultimo, which was the end of the fiscal year. ? Armistead Burt, a distinguished lawyer of Abbeville, died suddenly in his office on the 30th ultimo, from an affection of the heart, aged 81 years. \ ? Col. Coward, State superintendent of education, addressed a convention of trustees and teachers of public schools at Orangeburg last Friday. ? Fifteen of the delegates from this State have signified their intention to attend the Cotton Planters' Convention to be held at Vicksburg, Miss., on the 21st instant. ? A number of the political cases arising out of the election of 1882 will be tried in the U. S. Circuit Court at Columbia, beginning on the fourth Monday of the present month. ? Governor Thompson has. appointed E. M. Atkinson, of Chester a tltd^gate from the Fifth Congressional district totWFarmers' Congress of the United States, totneet in Louisville, Ky., on the 5th of next month. ? In Union county on Monday, Union and Goshen townships voted subscriptions to the Union, Gaffney City and ltutherfordton Railroad. Dayton township voted almost unanimously against it. ? Columbia Register: Colonel Coward states that the reports to -WrKii^ce in reference to public schools are highly^ncuuraginc find show a wonderful imnrovemCnt in educational work for the past year. ? The New York World is authority for the'statement that "Senator Butler, of South Carolina, will give up cotton planting and i;. now iH-New England buying stock for a grass and horse farm." ? According to the Columbia /fry islet', it will take 17,000, carp to supply the demand which is on file with the Fish Commissioner, and every one of the 850 applicants have made a pond especially for carp. ? Willie Chafee, a Lancaster youth, who is a student at Fort Mill Academy, was seriously shot in the head with a pistol, the other day, by a companion, who did not know the weapon was loaded. ? The merchants of Spartanburg say that the farmers generally are prompt in paying their past indebtedness. This speaks well for the county, notwithstanding the shortness of crops. ? The colored Baptist Association of Fairfield met at Winnsboro last week. Then; were one hundred and thirty delegates in attendance, representing theterritorial jurisdiction embracing the counties of Fairfield, liinlilond eiiMetut- nnrl lv nr<h*.i \v ? A correspondent of the Winnsboro JVeics and Herald complains that there is an active business done at Monticello, Fairfield county, in "bitters" and "tonics," and that this is a violation of the law regulating the liquor traffic. ? The value of real estate by the last assessment in Lancaster county is $1,250,878, and the value of personal property 8712,871. The average assessed value of horses in the county this year is $06.}; the average assessed value of cattle is 88, and the average assessed value of mules is 8773. ? The Newberry Observer having charged Major E. B. Murray, of the Anderson Intelligencer, with being a prospective candidate for Congress, that gentleman replies in his newspaper, virtually admitting the soft impeachment. There are prospects of an exceedingly lively fight in that district. ? U. B. Whites, the defaulting Treasurer of Newberry county, having pleaded guilty to the charge of failing to turn over money to his successor, was sentenced to pay a fine of $2,000 or to one year in the county jail. Failing to pay the fine he went to' t jail. . ? The negroes of Lexington have been stricken with the emigration fever. The * ; Dispatch says: "The negroes of this county : ' have made up a purse to pay the expenses 11 of Press Shackleford in visiting Arkansas . t: for the purpose of reporting the attractions > of that promised land, as they contemplate ? an exodus. He will leave for Little Rock r next week." ; " ? Rock Hill Herald, Thursday: The Rock [ Hill Lodge of the Legion of Honor has paid . | Mrs. Anna Hall So,(100, the amount due her on the death by her husband, Mr. J. Ira ? Hall. Last week, the Knights of Honor " paid Mrs. Hall $2,000, that being the amount * due her by that order on the death of her \ ' husband. r J ?Columbia Register: About 2(!0 rolls of t companies from South Carolina in the Con. federate service have been sent to the Ad- I 5 jutant and Inspector General's office, 04 are s r in course of preparation and about 124 re- t main unaccounted for. It is earnestly urg- v i ed upon those whose duty it is and pleasure ? J it should he to furnish" these rods of the ^ l .gallant Carolinians that they go to work a ? and prepare them. . . r I ? In their presentment, last week, the ^ - grand jury of Oconee county made the fol> lowing recommendation : "Believing that e l as a people our growth and prosperity are l retarded to a great extent by some of the , laws of the State, and that no relief can be t obtained under the present^Constitution of a r the State, they respectfully ask the dclega- ( - tion to the General Assembly from this v i county to exert their influence in behalf of I the calling of a Constitutional Convention." ; ? On the 1st instant, the South Carolina Railroad abandoned, tpe Barnwell branch, " i a short line rnnning from Blackville to b i Barnwell court house, a. distance of fifteen \ > miles. This action is taken inconsequence p of the new freight tariff which is made to : apply to the Barnwell road the rates in i use on the South Carolina road, at which 1 rates, it is claimed, it can only be operated ; at a loss of $500 a month. Col. Peck, Super- . ! intendent of the South Carolina road, says ^ other branch roads in the State will be A ' abandoned, and is probably correct, such e > action having been threatened by the an- t ? thorities of other lines. p ! THE MORMON PROBLEM. ? | George G. Cannon, the delegate from r\ \ Utah to Congress, is in Washington and j ; lias been interviewed on the report of the , Utah Commissioners. To the reporter Can[ non said: "The Edmunds law had precisely the ti [ effect I predicted, just the effect I told Sen- p ator Edmunds it would have, but he thought p [ I was too much interested to give an un- ) biased opinion. It has whooped our people , up, to use a common but expressive term. ! To illustrate, there is a grandson of Brigham [ Young, a young man not over 22 years of ! age. He is rather wild, not bad; but he ^ ; has always been rather careless with re- v gard to religion. His friends have believed c that his sympathies were with the anti- i: J Mormon element, and perhaps they were 0 ! in a measure. Well, at the last election t( | lie went to the ballot-box and putting in a ; vote said: 'They have disfranchised pap " ' (his father) but I'll put in a vote that will (' count for his side.' You see he had but one t wifo nnvor lisul unv mnrp nnrl thev could t '1 not disfranchise him." "Has Edmunds' j law been very obnoxious to the Mormons ?" ^ [ inquired the reporter. "The law itself has ; not," replied Cannon, "but the way it is c administered is very oppressive. It has v i been given a construction not warranted t ' by the constitution." "In what way?" ; "Ithas been made retroactive. Men areex' eluded from voting for acts alleged to have ' been committed many years prior to the s 1 enactment of the Edmunds law. For in- a J stance, the ex-Mayor of Salt Lake City had v 1 once two wives, but is now a widower. He 1 has been disfranchised. The present Mayor 1 has but one* living wife. He had another a | who lived but a short time. He is excluded & I from voting, although he, like others, com- a mitted polygamy many years before the law p was enacted. Mrs. Dr. Kichardson was ex- n | eluded from voting because her husband, . while living had another wife. This con; structionof the law hasgi ven rise to test suits, 11 and I am satisfied it will not stand in the p courts. But as I said at the outset, this tl ' prosecution has made our people mcfre e united. It has drawn the young people 0 who were indifferent as to the churcn and " its teachings, to take sides. It placed them t] in a position where they had to take sides with their own people or against them, and natnrollv tlimr hnvp i?hn<3f>n tn sffl V with their parents and friends. Now, at the last A election for delegates, our candidate receiv- v , ed as many votes as usual, while the opposition got only what it polled when I was r elected to the Forty-fourth Congress. The a , votes of the young people, who were indig- , nant at the oppressive construction of this 1 law against tneir parents and relations, made up for all that we lost by disfranchise- t< inent." d "Then the law has not injured Mormonism?" put in the reporter. $ "No," said Cannon. "Except that it is i unpleasant to stand prosecution. Hut the q people of Utah can stand a great deal of op- . pression. They are united, industrious and i( frugal, and having endured much, can endure much more. There are a good many people in Utah besides the Mormons, and g they can't enforce oppressive laws against the latter without pinching the others some. Now the clique who clamored for the Edmunds law are very much dissatisfied with e its operation. They were disappointed. , Their scheme was to get entire control of . the Territory and having failed by this C1 means, they" want to try another. Now n they want a legislative commission if they ai can bring it about. Failing in that, they ft will perhaps perpetuate the existing com- n mission. It is to continue until the Terri- . torial Legislature enacts certain laws. The finwrnnr ran if lip ehooses. prevent the w legislation by his veto, or by insisting upon fi legislation that the people cannot grant, ii In this way the present commission could n be continued. The enemies of the Mormons cry out about treason, but they can't point to a single act of that kind. They t( have tried to prove the Mormons into some r( overt act that would give a pretext for call- c< ing for troops, but none such have been p committed. This Edmunds act was well v calculated to arouse such indignation as , would break the peaceful bounds, but the people have borne it with patience, and 1J will bear on." ? Sam Lee Heard From.?Sam Lee, the notorious South Carolina Radical politician, has been heard from after a silence of several months. A Washington dispatch to v the New York Times thus recites Sam's ti latest adventures as related by himself: ^ Samuel Lee. of Alabama, is a very light colored man, who was recently conspicuous ^ as a claimant for a seat in Congress. He * did not get that, but he was consoled by an n appointment as special agent of the General d Land Office. He is in the city at present, Sl and gives an account of his occupation that je is not calculated to excite much desire to serve the land office in his State. His work is that of a detective. The hostility of the i' people is so great that he cannot allow his cl business or even his name, to be known, ti fie has to have a guide thoroughly acquainted with the country and the people, as he * would arouse suspicions by his questions if he . traveled alone that would make it impossi- 11 hie for him to get any accommodations, and H might lead to Ids being attended to in such a fashion that accommodations would be a pj matter of no concern to him. In the region of Alabama, where he is mostly employed, he says that there is no one that I would give him a meal or a place to sleep, * knowing him to be an agent ol the Govern- al ment. One man who knew that he had some position under the Government did q give him a supper and a breakfast, but did not dare let him sleep in the house, and '; Mr. Lee spent the night in the woods. This spirit of hostility is due in part to the fact that the entire population is, directly or in- to directly, interested in violating the land i0 laws and defrauding the Government, and ^ partly to the fact that this region is full of moonshiners who are as much afraid of a special agent of the general land office as B they are of an agent of the internal revenue tl bureau. They would not tolerate any offi- J< cer of the Government. Many of the so- at called poor whites are employed by capitalists to aid the latter in making fraudulent j entries of timber and mineral lands, and in a ^ moment of extreme excitement they might shoot a rascally agent of the Government who was trying to breakup their business. 01 LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. t. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Sheriffs Snles. larthn Blair?Fair Warning os. F. Wallace, C. Pis,?Tlerk's Sales. . C. H. Duff?For Sale. ames Reese?New Barber Shop. '. S. Jefl'ervs, Agent?Acid Phosphate for Wheat. id ward P. Steele?Executor's Notice. . R. Lindsay A Co.?Wanted. \ M. Dobson?Wonderful, If True. lunter A. Gates?Grand Cash Sale. . Ed. Jefferys?New Furniture Store. V. C. Latimer?Millinery. I. Strauss?To the Interest of Buyers. Vithers Adickes?New Goods. . M. Adams?They all Do It?Stoves?I Defy Competition. 'arisli A McKnight?Wanted to Sell. CIRCUIT L'OURT. The Circuit Court for this county, his lonor Judge Fraser presiding, is still in ession and will continue the remainder of his week and probably for a portion of next veek. The first week of the term was ocupied with Sessions business, and last week nd the present to the trial of civil causes equiring a jury. Besides an unusually urge Sessions docket, Judge Fraser found a argc amount of civil business on the C'alndars, and he decided to go through them. ivrcMidAnv riup On Thursday last,Tbout 9 o'clock P. M., . cotton house, belonging to Mr. It. E. Juthrie, about six miles south of Yorkille, was destroyed by fire. In the house t'ere eight bales of cot on and 300 bushels of otton seed, which vere also destroyed, .'his was not at Mr. Guthrie's home-place, ?ut atone on which I)t niel Rainey, colored, wis a tenant. All the circumstances point o the fact that the fire (was of an incendiary rigin. ' I tAe restoration of the jews. On Saturday morning next, at 11 o'clock, he Rev. A. W. Miller, I). I)., of Charlotte, s. C., will deliver a lecture on this intersting subject in Bethel Church. The lecure will be divided into two parts. One iart will be delivered in the morning, and he other in the afternoon, with an interval f three quarters of an hour between them, 'his lecture is given by invitation of the tidies' Aid Society for the purpose of putine some monev in their treasury, and hey will charge an admission fee of twentyive cents. The public are invited to be resent, and none will be disappointed in heir expectation of hearing an able and nstructive lecture. . JUDOE WITHERSPOON. Judge "Witherspoon left his home in this lace last Saturday for Charleston, where he rill preside over the Circuit Court of that ounty which conven ;d last Monday mornng. The Xews and Courier says the work f the Sessions, as it always is at the fall erm, is very heavy. There are sixty prisners in jail for offences ranging from murer down to hog stealing. The majority of he cases are for larceny. The case against Smil Hyman, charged!with the murder of Minnie Cochran, whicll resulted in a misrial at the last term, is the only murder ase for trial. The solicitor thinks the work rill occupy the attention of the Court fot en days. 1 FROST. The first killing frost of the season in this ection occurred last Thursday morning, bout fifteen days later than usual. There no a 1 cn n lionvv frn^f nn the succeeding norning. Owing to the lateness of frost, nd the generally propitious \Veather, the ill has been favorable to fanners. A larger mount of cotton has opened than was exectecl, and mild weather has admitted of lueh fall plowing and seeding. Farmers all us that oats have been sown plentifully nd the prospect for that crop is now very romising. The frost has been general in liis State, and is noted as far north as Fredricksburg, Va. Ice was reported on the nd, at Society Hill, Darlington county, in bis State. churciTnotices. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. It. P. Franks, 'astor. Services in the church at Yorkille, forenoon and evening, next Sunday. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. t. Lathan, Pastor. Services next Sunday t Tirzah, to be conducted by Rev. W. A. I. Plaxico. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pas3r. Services at the usual hours next Sunay, morning and evening. Episcopal?Rev. Aug. Prentiss, Rector, ervices in the church of the Good Sheperd to-morrow (Friday) at 4 P. M. On unday, morning prayer and holy commun>n at 10.30 A. M.; Sunday-school at 4 P. [. ; evening prayer and sermon at 7 P. M. Baptist?Rev. J. E. Covington, Pastor, ervices at 11 A. M. TIIE GRUBEK FAMILY. The Gruber family playecl to large audinces in College Hall 011 Monday and Tuesay nights. Mr. Grubei is a natural musiian and a genius in his way. He discards luch of what he terms the theory of music 5 exemplified by the teachers, and p. rirms by what he claim: to be the practical lethod. However mu ill he may differ om other exponents 0 the divine art, it innot be denied that le produces a rich, ill tone on the violin, ar d his style is pleaslg. Mrs. Gruber is 1 vocalist of high lerit, and the childrer ? four in number, le youngest only four 3 ears of age?seem > inherit the musical tilent of their pa silts, ami their performances enciieu enamiums of praise. Witfli the. accustomed berality of ZNIr. (Jrubqr every time he isits Yorkville, appropriating a share of is receipts to a beneficent object, on the resent occasion he gave a portion to the imetery fund, an act of liberality which our itizens fully appreciate. SALES-DAY. Monday last, sales-day for November,1 as a propitious day, which, with the at actions of Court week, induced a large atmdance of people in town. The day passed uietly, however, with the exception of one nock down, which occurred near the beef larket. The assailed man, whose name we id not learn, was white, and so, we pre urn nniilrl nnf lint?, WilS IIJS UiNSiWlUllt, UIUU^II ?u vuvlivi Iiwitarn his name, nor the origin/)f thediflillty. The horse-swapping brigade was out 1 lull force, and a number of costanogas umged hands, presumably to the satisfac011 of all parties. The Sheriff sold, by virtue of writ of fieri tciux, the interest of Wm. B. Davidson i a tract of land near Bethany.Church, ought by \V. Porter Good for $10. The Clerk of Court sold the following roperty : At the suit of Emily Atkinson vs. L. G. [cCreight and others, tract of 104 acres on ishing Creek. Bought by J. M. Williford : $12.30 per acre. At the suit of Jerome C. Miller vs. Mary . Miller and others, tract of 88 acres, known i Miller's Mill, on Allison Creek. Bought Y J. C. Miller for $1,S00. At the suit of Samuel M. Fewell, Execuir, vs. A. F. Fewell and others, house and t in Rock Hill. Bought by W. J. Rawtison for $200. At the suit of W. Z. Kell and others vs. anks Kell and others, tract "Xo. 3," of ic lands belonging to estate of the late )hn G. Kell. Bought by George C. Leech i $7.55 per acre. Tract "Xo. G," of the me estate, 74 acres. Bought by George C. eeeh at $12.25 per acre. All the notes and accounts due the late :m of J. J. Smith & Co., as advertised in ir last issue, except the account of Sam j Brian, colored, for $1.05, were sold by their I Assignee, and brought the sum of $17.60. The account of Sam Brian had been paid on the first day of October, and was included in the advertised list through an oversight j on the part of the Assignee. RAILROAD ACCIDENT. A serious accident occurred to the north-; bound train on the Chester and Lenoir Rail- j road, on Wednesday evening of last week, j between Gastonia and Dallas. The Gasto- j nia Gazette gives the following particulars of the affair: The train jumped the track near Bradley's Branch, about a mile above town, and being 011 a steep grade the cars could not be checked until they rushed down the grade and over the trestle, tearing up everything as they went. The track was torn up for fifty yards and the trestle was completely demolished. The baggage, express, and second class cars were capsized, and the ladies' car was turned to one side on the bank of a precipice. The following passengers were on board besides the train hands; Mrs. Gregory, Newton ; Mrs. Gillam and three grand-children, Columbus county, Ga.; Mrs. Kirby and two children, and Mrs. Robinson of Gaston ; Mrs. Roberts, of Cleveland county; Mr. Grose, of Lancaster, S. C. Mrs. Gillam was hurt in the side and back slightly. Mrs. Kirby's child was slightly bruised on the head. Mr. Wolfing, the exr>rnii<iriin'i nninfnllv hurt in thp nnlrle. Mr. Grist and ^ir. Akin, mail agents, escaped miraculously. Mr. Falls, proprietor of the Falls House, went immediately with his hack to the wreck, and with the assistance of Mr. Bradley brought all the passengers to the hotel, where they were cared for. The wreck is the worst that has ever taken place on this road. MERE-MEXTIOX. The President has issued a proclamation designating Thursday, November 29th, as a day of national thanks jiving. It is estimated by the commissioner of pensions that ?40,000,<M)0 will be required for the payment of pensions during che tiscalyear. It is said that the money paid for fertilizers in Hartford county, Maryland, this year would have bought all the land in the county twenty years ago. The negroes of Texas are reported as dissatisfied with the plan of exclusive cars for their accommodation and the train men on the Texas Central Road, where the system has just been inaugurnfpfl. havp heen comnelled to take col ored people out of the cars assigned to whites. There were seventy deaths from yellow fever in Havana last week. A court of inquiry has been ordered by Secretary of War Lincoln to convene in Washington City to-day, to investigate the failure of Lieut. Garlington's Arctic Expedition. The corn crop ofl883 is estimated at 1,621,100,000 bushels, the largest, with but one exception, ever grown in the United States. Nyie of a gang of counterfeiters were arrested at Steinville, Ind., last Thursday At noon last Thursday, Gen. Sherman transferred the command of the army to Lieut.-Gen. Sheridan. There were no ceremonies attending the transfer. A. L. Rives has been appointed general manager of the Richmond and Danville Railroad, vi<;e Mr. Talcott, resigned. Two Mormon missionaries in Mississippi have been arrested for vagrancy. They nave plenty of money, and a test eiise will be made of the affair. At Keokuk, Iowa, the colored people in mass meeting 011 Wednesday resolved to ask the next Legislature of Iowa to adopt the section of the civil rights bill which has been decided to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States. The secretary of the navy has written a letter to Commander Wildes condemning his course on the Greely relief expedition. Gen. Robert Toombs, of Georgia, has joined the Methodist Church. The Mormon apostles own and run a bank, an opera house,street railroadsand a mammoth trading post in Salt Lake City, control the Utah Central railroad, and collect $500,000 a year in tithes from the faithful followers of the Church of the Latter-DaySaints.*-,*Next Saturday will be the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther, the great German Reformer, and preparations are making in several places for the proper celebration of the day. Internal Revenue.?The annual report of the commissioner of internal revenue for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1883, has < been submitted to the secretary of the treas- < urv. The commissioner reports the receipts from all sources of internal revenue during the year as $154,553,344, against $146,523,233 for the preceding year, and the total cost of < collection as $5,113,734. He says the ex- 1 penses amount to about 3J per cent, of the : sum collected. The statistics of the details : of the service, as given in the report, show that $61,275 was expended through collectors and revenue agents for the discovery and punishment of frauds. Three hundred and ninety-seven illicit stills were seized and 1,635 persons were arrested. One thousand one hundred and twenty-nine distilleries were operated during the year and i 18,644,787 bushels of grain were consumed, < which is 8,814,304 bushels less than last year. Seventy-two million two hundred and thir-L? At 1 1 1 ,1 ?.w] rithliim and their calls for help were soon esponded to by the neighbors. Mr. Bailey tever spoke after he was attacked, and ingered in an unconscious state until one 'clock Tuesday afternoon, when death reeased him from his sufferings.-- Union Times. Jntaittial anb Commercial. YORKVILLE, November?.?Cotton8Jto9.55. CHARLESTON, November 5.?Cotton dull ; middling, lOi. NEW YORK, November 5.?Cotton quiet; upands, 10*. Futures closed dull but steady, with ales of 72,000 bales as follows: November 10.30 [> 10.37; December 10.52 to 10.53: January 10.67 o 10.68 ; Februarv 10.81 to 10.82 ; March 10.06 ; ipril 11.08 to 11.00; Mav 11.10 to 11.20; June 1.30 to 11.31 ; July 11.41 to 11.43 ; August 11.50 to 1.52. Comparative Cotton Statement. NEW YORK, November 2.?The following is he comparative cotton statement for the week nding November 2: 1883. 1882. teeeipts at al 1 ports for the week, 239,280 252,430 'otal receipts to this date 1,458,851 1,365,538 Exports for week 153,485 170,531 'otal exports to date, 633,801 701,191 tock at all U. S. ports 768,547 580,449 took at all interior towns 127,928 88,129 took at Liverpool 433,000 462,000 iinerican for Ureal Britain 120.000 172,004*. ty-ilvtj M1UUSUI1U uuc I1UUU1CU tinvi .TCYCUIJfive gallons of spirits were produced during the year against 104,109,077 in the preceding year. The commissioner reports an increase in the production of manufactured tobacco 1 and snuff of 9,115,947 pounds over that of last year, and an increase of 180,234,977 in the number of cigars, and 9,880,427 in the number of cigarettes produced. He pre- i sents figures to show that the reduction of taxes made by the internal revenue Act of , last March will, on the basis of last year's business, cause a reduction of revenue from tobacco during the present fiscal year of at least $25,000,000. He estimates that the re- 1 duction of taxes on proprietary medicines, ; bank checks, matches, bank deposits and capital and on tobacco will cause a reduc- . tion of internal revenue receipts of not less . than ?43,000,000 per annum. He thinks, however, that the increased revenue from , distilled spirits for the current year will so , augment receipts this year that they will reach ?120,000,000. He reports that during J the first three months of the current fiscal j year the receipts from internal revenue were ?2!),171,170, which is a decrease of ?7,920,501 from the receipts of the correspond- j ing period of last year. The collections from tobacco during the year amounted to ?42,104,249. The number of collectors and , districts has been reduced during the year ' by consolidation from 126 to 83, and the annual saving is estimated at ?125,000. He } i reports the condition of the service excel- , lent except in a few localities. He estimates the expense of the service for the . fiscal year ending June 39,18S5 at ?4,999,199. Presbytkriax Syxod.?The Presbyte- ( rian Synod of South C'arolinamet in Ander- s son on Wednesday the 24th ultimo. The ? Synod includes all the ministers and 1 churches of that denomination in South 1 Carolina, embracing 176 churches, about 110 n i nvon/>iipra nnfl nvor 1 !2.00(> members. There f were present at the recent meeting 46 min- i istersand 66 ruling elders. The following i delegates attended from York county: T. 1 It. English, J. Lowrie Wilson, M. R. Kirk- t patrick, L. R. McCormick, R. A. Webb, J. f S. White, J. P. Moore, R. S. Wilson, ,J. Le- a under Adams and A. H. White. j The opening sermon was preached by v Rev. J. S. Cozby, of Sumter county, on the r polity of the Presbyterian church, Text, 1 r Tim., o: 17. Rev. J. B. Mack, 1). D., was 1 elected Moderator. Narratives and statis- c tical reports represent the church as in a l satisfactory condition. Greenville was se leeted as the next place, and Wednesday evening before tl^e fourth Sunday in October, 1884, as the time of the next meeting. : The World's Cotton* Exposition*.? , Commissioner-General Morehead of the World's Exposition, to be held at New Or- i, leans next year, arrived in Boston last Sat- s urday, and met a large number of exhibit- t( ors at the American Exposition, who, it is expected, will duplicate their exhibits in ; New Orleans. Morehead will visit the j Govornors of the New England States with the purpose of organising and perfecting the exhibits from these States. Morehead, t] who is also president of the National Cotton e Planters' Association, requests the Gover-11 nors of the cotton manufacturing States of '1 New England and the President of the New >}' England Cotton Manufacturer's Association ! 2 to appoint delegates to the convention of ^ the last named association, to be held at is Vicksburg on the 21st instant. '/ NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Senator Voorhees, of Indiana, delivered the address at the Weldon fair last Tuesday. ? Says the Lincoln Press: Harry, the black Lewellyn setter of Maj. J. K. Marshall, has been entered for the all age stake at the Eastern Fields Trial Club at High Point. ? Thomas DeJarnett, who shot and killed his sister in a house of ill repute in Danville two years ago, and was acquitted on the plea of insanity, and confined in the insane asylum at Raleigh, has been completely restored to his reason. He has enlisted in the First U. S. Cavalry, and is stationed at Walla-Walla, Washington Territory. ? Two men from Asheville, N. C., have been living mysteriously in aswampin Opelousas Parish, La. One of them calling himself Lane, murdered a man and was killed resisting arrest. His companion was called Brown and claimed to be his cousin. They acknowledged having fled from justice in North Carolina, and claimed to belong to the "Redman gang." ? .Monroe inquirer: :ur. jioncure, wi Portsmouth, an attachee of the Carolina Central Railroad, was in Monroe last week for the purpose of locating a route for a new railroad from Monroe to Chester, S. C., which the railroad authorities propose to build. This company is abundantly able to build this road, and we understand there is but little doubt that it will be ultimately built. ? Charlotte Observer: The Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad Company purchased two new engines and put them on the road bust week. Friday evening they made their first trip, and a disastrous one it was, too. By some blunder, one of the engines was left standing on the main track at a point near the Gulf, and the other engine pulling a train of ears came along and crashed into it. Nobody was hurt, but the two engines were seriously broken and battered up. Bad luck, for the C. F. & Y. V. R. R., but it may prove a good lesson to the company in the future. (Jhoi> Reports.?The New Orleans TinierDemocrat of last Thursday publishes special dispatches from a large number of points in the Southern States showing the conditidh of the cotton and grain crops on the last day of October. The following is a synopsis : Alabama?Cotton acreage increased 8 per cent.; yield G7 per cent, as compared with ' last year; picking season the best ever known, 90 per cent, of the crop having already been picked and 56 per cent, marketed. Grain crops, except wheat, good. Arkansas?Cotton acreage unchanged ; yield 85 per cent. ; picking season splendid, about one-fourth of crop picked and onefifth marketed. Florida?Cotton acreage and yield unchanged from last year; 84 per cent, of crop picked and 25 per cent, marketed. All grain crops excellent. Georgia?Cotton same acreage as last sea son ; crop short 32 per cent, f picking season excellent and nine-tenths of crop picked. Grain crop about 30 per cent, below last season. Louisiana?Cotton acreage 2 per cent, below last year's yield ; 30 per cent, short; picking season excellent; two-thirds of crop picked and two-fifths marketed ; quality is staple. Grain crops large. # Mississippi?Cotton acreage 3 per cent, greater than last year, but yield only 64 per cent of last year's crop ; picking season not so good on account or rains ; two-thirds of crop picked and two-fifths marketed. Grain crop one-fourth short. Tennessee?Cotton acreage slightly leas and yield 84 per cent, of last year's; picking season magnificent, one-half the crop having been picked and one-third marketed. Cotton crop good, but oats and wheat poor. Texas?Cotton acreage about same as last year, but yield only 67 per cent. ; picking season excellent, nine-tenths of the crop having been picked and one-half marketed; quality of staple excellent. Political Prosecutions.?The State Democratic Executive Committee met at the Carolina National Bank last evening to make preparation for the defense of the citizens of South Carolina who may be brought before the United States Court for prosecution for alleged violations of the election laws of the national government. The committee are convinced that the prosecutions will be begun before the Unitecl States Circuit Court which will convene in Charleston on the fourth Monday in this month, and that they will be carried on with all the power of the government and with the utmost exertion for conviction. About -forty cases will be brought before the Court, in eluding thirty from Marion county alone, and the others from the counties of Fairfield and Chester. The defendants and their witnesses from Marion county especially are unable to defray the expenses incident to a long trial, and this fact is known to the prosecuting officers. The State Committee have determined to protect and defend the persecuted citizens of South Carolina to the most liberal extent, and have secured the services of the able counsel who so heroically defended the political prisoners in Charleston over a year ago?lion. A. G. Magrath, Hon. L. F. Youinans, and Captain J. K. P. Bryan. It will be the duty of the Democrats of South Carolina to second the efforts of the State Committee, and they would be false to their past record if they did not respond with alacrity and cheerfulness and use all the means in their power to defeat the conspiracy of our enemies. Let every Democratic juror be at his post and perform his duty.?Columbia Register. Bad Accident at the Rock Hill Factory.?A very serious accident, resulting in the destruction of the engine at the Rock Hill cotton factory, occurred last Friday evening, and will cause a suspense n of busineas in the factory for the next ninety days. The cylinder head was torn all to pieces by the crank shaft which, being released by the pin dropping out, flewoverand not only knocked the cylinder to pieces, but tore uj> the engine room in a lively manner. It was a very strange accident, the like of which seldom happens. At the time it occurred, the engine was being driven under i full hp-irl nf stenm. nnrt the moment the pin dropped the crank flew up, tearing out its fastenings and knocking the cylinder to pieces. The accident will necess-tate the purchase of a new engine and according to oreman Neisler's estimate, a suspension of ivork for 90 days. The Itock Hill Menufacuring Company employs 100 hands, who vith their families, make a total of 300 jeople dependent upon it for their support, rhe loss in breakage of machinery, comlined with the enforced suspension of work, vi 11 beaseriousone to the company.?Charoft e Observer, Sunday. Sudden Death of Rev. J. S. Bailey.? )n Tuesday morning our community was tartled by the announcement that Rev. J. 1. Bailey, the beloved pastor of Enoree, dt. Tabor, Cane Creek and Mt. Vernon Presbyterian churches, was dying from an ittack of paralysis. Late the evening beore Mr. Bailey was on the street, convening freely and in apparent good health. Vbout 9 o'clock his family discovered that lis articulation was indistinct. He went o bed in apparently good spirits, but in a ew minutes he was discovered struggling in , paroxysm of paralysis. His wife and numrest daughter wore the nnlv nersons