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f craps and Jfacts. ? The colored mail agent, Gordon, who fora long time has been a mail agent on the j road between Charlotte and Statesville, has been removed, and is succeeded by \V. | Smith, colored. ? Capt. E. M. Hayes, the recruiting officer at Charlotte, states that Gen. Drum con-; templates establishing a colony of retired j army officers somewhere in "North Carolina, probably near Asheville, and with this ! view purposes an early visit to the State. ?The North Carolina State Exposition was organized at Raleigh last Thursday with a capital stock of $50,000. William I. Primrose, of Raleigh, was elected President , and Henry. F. Fries of Salem, Secretary. The Exposition will be held during the entire month of October. ? The Hon. J. B. Grinnell, for whom the 1 town of Grinnell, Iowa, was named recently said: "In Grinnell there are no saloons, and no one has been sent to jail, to the poor house or to the penitentiary for twenty-five years. We can stand a cyclone occasionally if you will keep whisky from us." ? The State Grange of Maryland, at its meeting in Baltimore, in December last, passed a resolution endorsing the Temperance alliance of that State and expressing a determination to co-operate wit h the friends of temperance in the move to suppress the traffic in intoxicating liquors in that State. ? J. W. Perkins was killed on the Grand Trunk Railroad within the limits erf Maine in 1882. An indictment was found against the Railroad company. The case has just been concluded at Lewiston, by a verdict of guilty, and a fine of one thousand dollars was imposed upon the railroad corporation. ? A California sheriff, despairing of success in his fight for re-election by conducting his canvass in the usual way, has spread broadcast a card from the prisoners under his care, extolling his skill in capturing them, calling attention to his official virtues, and assuring the voters of the county that he can certainly "run well." ? An amnsing controversy is in progress in Washington as to the possibilities to which Fred Douglass has subjected himself j by his marriage with a white woman. An old statute has been discovered, in which a fine of five thousand pounds of tobacco figures as the punishment for sucli marriages. The statute alluded to is one hundred and sixty years old. ? The committee of the colored men's State central committee cf Illinois has called a conference of colored men, to be held at Pittsburg, Pa., April 29th, to discuss the course to be pursued by the colored voters in the next Presidential campaign, and the "shot gun policy in the South." Another move to solidify the colored vote for the Republicans. ?Surprise was caused at Reading, Pa., last Friday, by the arrest of eight wellknown citizens on a charge of horse racing with sleighs on the public road. They were held for court. The charges are brought under the blue laws of 1794, which prohibit racing and provide that upon the conviction of the accused the horses be sold and the proceeds placed in the county treasury. ? Seven members of the U. S. House of Representatives, who were elected to the Forty-eighth Congress, have died since their election. They are Herndon, Ababama; Cutts,Iowa; Haskell, Kansas; Poole, North Carolina; Updegraff, Ohio; Herron, Louisiana, and Mackey, South Carolina. Mr. Maek-ev was the onlv one of the seven who lived long enough to occupy his seat. ? The Governor of Rhode Island calls the special attention of the Legislature to the increase of the number of divorces in the State. Over 2,000 have been granted in ten years. Many of the divorces are collusive. The Governor thinks it unnecessary to enlarge upon the danger to society of a "continued weakening of the marriage contract." It all comes from permitting divorce for any reason. Divorce cannot be taken in moderation. It is sure to be abused. ? The business failures of the week ending last Friday, as reported to the Mercantile Agency of R. G. l)un & Co., number for the United States 321), aud for Canada 44?a total of 373. Compared with the preceding week, an increase of 56. More failures are reported in the Middle and New England States than usual, with the increase on the Pacific Coast is quite marked. Failures are also more numerous in Canada and the Provinces. ? Yonkers editors are proverbial for their gallantry to the fair sex, but one of them got discouraged on a New Year's day and swore off. He found one of the 1GU pound faries of his city trying to pick her way across a muddy street. What else could he do? lie took her in his arms and landed her high and dry shod on the other side, when sme smilingly exclaimed: "Oh, that's too nice for anything. Let's go back!" That editor has gone into winter quarters. ? A Washington special dispatch of Sunday to the News and Conner says that the Springer investigating committee will soon take up the South Carolina marshal cases. It has started out to probe these abuses to the bottom. The particular case of Marshal Blythe and the frauds and impositions practiced on the government and the people of South Carolina, will form the most interesting chapter in these investigations. The case will come up this week, it is thought, as the reports of the examiners and all the papers have been referred to the committee by the department of justice. ? Simon Bonnor, colored, was hanged at Port Gibson, Miss., last Friday, for the murder of James K. Lif*ht, white, in November last. isonnor wno mm maue a iuu coniession of the crime last week, showed considerable firmness on the scaffold. The fall was eight feet, and Bonnor died without a struggle. John C. Collins, who robbed a mail coach in Colorado, in 1S75), and killed W. F. Cuinmings, a banker, while robbing him of of two gold bars worth $7,000, was hanged at Nevada City, Colorado, last Friday morning. The execution, which took place during a violent rain-storm, was witnessed by a large crowd. ? The Senate committee on the judiciary has ordered the Lowell bankruptcy bill to be favorably reported to the Senate with amendments. It preserves State exemptions and authorizes involuntary proceedings only against persons whose debts amount to more than $1,000, and only against traders. It diminishes the number of commissioners in bankruptcy by onehalf. Many of the amendments suggested by the bankruptcy convention, which met here a few days since, were incorporated in the bill. Senator Hoar will report it on Monday. Some of the features above noted among are those contended for by Western Senators in the last Congress, and their adoption greatly increases the chances for the Dassasre of the bill. ? Probably for want of something else to write about, the Philadelphia papers are reviving the Keely Motor excitement. It is now nearly nine years since the story of the alleged invention first started the rounds of the press, and regularly, ever since, at stated intervals, the public is promised some startling exhibitions of the wonderful capabilities of the engine. The latest story is as follows: In a letter to Edward G. Kan- j dall, President of the Keely Motor Company, the inventor announces that the mechanical portion of his invention is complete. After the first of February "nothing will be left," he says, "but setting up the transmitter, when all labors will terminate preparatory to operating and showing the specific qualities of the perfect vibratory engine." 1 Mr. Keely asks that a suitable place for a tviiKlw. nvK!Kifi/\n oonolJo nf oppnnimrwliU ! JJUU11V CAIUUJUVMI, vapUMlV \Jl uvvvimwwtn ting several hundred persons, he secured for an early day. Mr. Randall has sent out a circular to all the stockholders announcing these facts, and inferential}' asking them to hold themselves in readiness for the greatest exhibition the world has ever seen. | The "greatest exhibition" will take place in Philadelphia. ? In the Texas Legislature, the Senate has passed the House bill providing that a person fencing around the land of another, or public lands, shall be fined fifty cents for each acre enclosed, and every three months j the fence is retained is to constitute asepa-1 rate offence. The Senate amended the bill so as to permit the herding stock upon the , University lands by the payment of $30 per section. An amendment also provides that a person inclosing unoccupied private lands, not his own, is exempted from penalty by paying ten cents per acre yearly to the State treasury, and an additional amendment ex-'< empts the person enclosing the lands of another, if the fences around the tract so enclosed have open gates for both inside and outside fences. The House bill, making fence cutting punishable from one to five years in the penitentiary, was passed also. A dispatch of Saturday from Austin says that State Senator Terrell received an anonymous letter on Friday threatening that if free grass was interfered with by the Legislature, all the waters in the State of Texas enclosed in pasturage would be poisoned. The letter created a sensation in view of the mysterious disease that is sweeping off numbers of cattle in certain sections of the State. ihr ffftMlc (Shuptim. YORKYILLE. S. V. : THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 7, 1884. THOMPSON FOR RE-ELECTION. We publish in another column, from the News and Courier, a communication to that paper from Sumter county, advocating the re-election of Governor Thompson. This I article but embodies the sentiments of a j majority of the people of the State. While many other prominent and worthy names have been recently mentioned in eonnocj tion with this high office, we think it is emI inently due to Governor Thompson that he I be elected for a second term, and as prelimI inary to the election, that he receive by acclamation the unanimous nomination of I xi... . VA urAwlo /nlive i lilt: i">UU<J VUUVCHUUll. xw nuiuo w? vru... I can add to the eulogium of the Governor by the writer of the communication, nor are any necessary, when the spotless record of Governor Thompson is before the people artd his official acts "known of all men." SOUTH CAROLINA IN 1SS4. | The Charleston Xews and Courier of last Monday issued a four-page supplement containing a review of the industrial life of this State, made up by special correspondents from each county. The consolidated reports of these correspondents is quite full and exhaustive, and though it must be admitted that reports from the oounty correspondents could not be absolutely correct, they are no doubt generally reliable, and as in the case of York county rather below than above the actual figures. These reports will accomplish much good in laying before the world the prosperous condition of .South Carolina, and when it is remembered that much of this progress has been made within the last four or five years, it is a matter upon which our people may well congratulate themselves. The manufactures in the State lirst demand attention as a comparatively new feature in the industrial history of the State. Beginning with cotton manufactures, it is seen that the value, in gold, of the product of all the cotton mills in the State was as follows: I860 S 713,050 ,c>-" 1 'KS <LU loar., ? 1880 2,895,709 1883-84 7,903,198 The percentage of increase was a follows: 1860-70 7S per cent. 1870-80 178 per cent. 1880-84 175 per cent. The increase of machinery employed in the manufacture of cotton is given as follows: Looms, 1860, 525; 1884, 8,652. Spindles, 1860,30,890; 1884, 195,112. The production of lumber and naval stores has increased, within the last three years, 74 per cent. The manufacture of commercial fertilizers has shown the unprecedented increase of $32,324,404 in 1883, as against $8,615,195 in 1860. In agriculture, the increase of the cotton crop of 188;] was 114,815 bales more than in 1860. There was a decrease of five millions bushels in the production of corn lor the same years ; of oats the increase was 4,280,158 bushels, and of wheat an increase of RIO OOQ Kn^Vinlu From the information embodied in the report the cotton crop of 1884 is estimated, if the season is at all favorable, at 700,000 bales. In this connection the JYewn and Courier remarks editorially: This is a fair estimate of what may be expected, if the season be favorable, and if the estimate be reduced considerably there is still an enormous improvement in the agricultural situation as compared with 1860. The increase in oats, a distinctively white man's crop, is worthy of special notice. Moreover, the advance in agriculture is due to the labors of the white people of the State. The county reports are clear and unmistakable on this point. Colored labor was less efficient last year than it was live years ago, and the available supply is constantly less than the demand. In the counties where the negroes are most numerous the efficiency of colored labor is greater than it was five years ago, while a decline in efficiency is reported in the white counties. The explanation probably is that the demoralization of colored labor, under negro rule, reached the extreme point in the counties where the negroes are most numerous. In such counties the good effects of improved government would necessarily be more marked than in counties where the demoralization had not been so great. The colored farmers, as a rule, are not making progress, not saving money and not acquiring land. They succeed betteras land-owners than as tenants, and, as a body, are valuable as laborers only so far as they are directed and controlled by the white men. The number of immigrants in the State is insignificant. It is the native white farmers who have lifted South Carolina agriculture out of the slough and who make it progressive and profitable. Mark this statement. In seventeen counties, containing about one half of the total population of the State, the white farm labor is"to the negro labor as 44.1 is to o4.9. Four-tenths of the workers on the farms are white men. In the State as a whole, three-tenths of the agriculturists are whites. Side by side with this pregnant circumstance put the statement that there are over twenty-five thousand improved agricultural implements in the State, and that, excepting in five or six counties, attention and effort are directed to the improvement of cattle, sheep and hogs. So are the advancement and development in agriculture accounted for and explained. A recapitulation of the consolidated reports gives the whole value of agricultural, manufacturing and mining products of the last 2.'! years as follows: 1800 ?54,4i)f>,707 1870 44,1.77,070 18S0 50,888,.70:1 1884 70,7.74,7:1.7 In other words, after all the losses of the war, and with free labor, the gross income of South Carolina, from the sources named, was ">0 per cent, greater than it was in 18(5(1. Tiik Rack in the Black District.? Within the past two days a considerable crop of candidates for Congress has sprung - ? 1- I \! /.( on/1 flift O/IHO m Klr\ up 111 [lit1 JililCH UlSHU'l, dim 111^ oiuuiiuic for the Congressional shoes of the dead Representative promises to be a lively one. The following candidates are mentioned as being in the running : Robert Smalls, Collector T. R. Johnson, S. J. Lee, the colored lawyer of this city; T. E. Miller, the canary colored ex-State Senator of Beaufort; Dr. \V. C. Crum, colored, of Charleston; and the inevitable (lark horse, Sam Lee, who ran against Congressman Mackey in the last election, is tilling a Federal office in Alabama and will not be in the race. Local Republican politicians here think the contest will be narrowed down to Smalls, Miller and Collector Johnson, with the chances of nomination in Small's favor.?Charleston Xeirs and ( hinder. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. In the House, on the 28th, immediately after the reading of the journal, O'Hara the colored member from North Carolina announced the death of Representative Mackey, of South Carolina, and offered the customary resolutions, which were unani moulsy adopted, expressing the regret o the House at the news of the decease of one of its members, anel authorizing the Speak er to appoint a committee to take charge o the funeral arrangements. The Speakei subsee{uently announced as such committee Pettibone, Calkins, Bisbee, O'Hara, Willis Davis, of Missouri, and Hemphill. The House then, as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, at 12.10 P. M., ad journed. In the Senate, Senator Hoar, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the original bill relating to the enforcement o the law in Utah. On presenting it, he sail he (lid not himself favor that clause of the bill which requires the exclusion of womei: .from suffrage ill that territory. A message was received from the House of Representor lives announcing the death of Congressmar Mackey of South Carolina, and the Senate after appointing a committee on its part tc attend the obsequies of the deceased, ad journed. The committee consisited of Sen ators Butler, of South Carolina, Pendleton of Ohio, and Ilill, of Colorado. In the Senate, on the 29th, Senator Came ron, of Wisconsin, introduced a bill to es tablish the Territory of North Dakota Senator Voorhees offered the following res olution, which was agreed to: "That th< committee on post offices and post road! be instructed to inquire into the propriety and expediency of admitting all newspa pers, periodicals and other printed reading matter to the United States mails free o postage; said committee to report by bil or otherwise." Senator Sherman's pream ble and resolutions relating to the election! in Virginia and Mississippi, last year, wer< then laid before the Senate, and Mr. Slier man spoke in their support. He was follow ed by Mahone, and at the conclusion of hi: remarks, calls of "Vote" were heard, ant the Chair announcing the question to b< 011 agreeing to the resolution, a demanc for the yeas and nays was made, and, with out remark from any Democratic Senator the matter was brought to a vote and th< resolution was passed by 33 yeas to 29 nays The preamble was then agreed to by tin same vote. Allison called up the Hous( bill making approriations for the paymoni of rebate on the tobacco tax and providing for the expense of the Legislature of tin Territory of New Mexico. For tobacco re bate it appropriates $3,7">0,000, or so mud thereof as may be necessary; for the ex penses of the Legislature of New Mexicc it appropriates $21,965. The bill was rear three times and passed. In the House the greater part of the session was occupied in discussing a resolutior introduced by Mr. Hopkins, of Pennsylvania, referring to a special committee on investigation, charges against H. V. Boynton a reporter of a Cincinnati paper, the allegation being that Boynton approached Mr Keiffer during the closing days of the las! session of Congress with corrupt propositions, intended to influence Speaker Keifer's official action. The resolution was amended by directing the committee also tc inquire and report whether any other member of the press now holding a seat in the reporters'gallery, against whom charges have been preferred, has been guilty of conduct that ought to deprive him of his right tc such, and as* amended was passed. The conference report on the bill to send an expedition in search of Lieutenant Greely's Arctic exploration party reported, and the report was adopted. The result of the conference is the striking out of the Senate amendment requiring the crews of the relief ships to be volunteers. On the 30th, the greater part of the time of both Houses was devoted to the obsequies of the late Congressman Mackey. In the Senate on the 31st, a flood of petitions was presented from a dozen or more States, praying for prohibitory liquor laws in the District of Columbia and the Territories. The petitions were referred to the committee on education and labor. The Senate refused, by a vote of to 27 to concur in the report of the committee of conference on the Greely relief bill and resolved to appoint a new conference com mittee. Mr. Piatt's resolution, directing the committee on postoffices and post roads to inquire whether telegraphic charges have been injuriously affected by the large stock dividends of the Western Union Telegraph Company or consolidations or contracts with competing or other companies, and whether through the Gold and Stock Telegraph Company, or otherwise the Western Union Company, has prescribed rules or regulations for the transmission of press news, and authorizing the committee to send for persons and papers, was agreed to. No further decisive action was reached, and after a brief executive session, the Senate adjourned until Monday. In the House, a bill was passed forfeiting land grants to certain States to aid in the construction of railroads, after which, the Speaker laid before the House a message from the President transmitting, in response to resolutions of the House, the report ol the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, relative to the restriction of the importation of American hog products into Germany and France. Immediately a clash of jurisdiction arose as to which committee was entitled to the report of the Secretary of State?Townshend, of Illinois, favoring the committee on commerce; Hatch, ol Missouri, the committee on agriculture, and Curtin, of Pennsylvania, the committee on foreign affairs. Finally the matter was compromised to the mutual satisfaction of all parties by ordering the message printed and laying it on the table. Adjourned, The session of the House on the 1st instant was occupied in debate on the bill tc rim nrmw (Jon. Fitz John Porter. cashiered by a court martial in 1803 for alleged treachery to the Union cause. After a lengthy debate, participated in by Northern members, the bill was passed by a vote ol yeas, 184 nays; 78. Of the South Caroli na delegation, Messrs. Dargan, Evins, HempI hill and Tillman voted in favor of the hill Messrs. Aiken and Dibble are neither recorded as having voted nor being paired The House, at 7.35, adjourned until Monday THE MORMON QUESTION. The bill reported to the Senate by Mr Hoar, from the Committee on Judiciary, tc amend the act relating to polygamy in Utah provides that in any proceeding and examination before a grand jury, a judge, justice or United States Commissioner or a court in any prosecution for bigamy, polygamy oi unlawful cohabitation under any statute o the United States, the lawful husband 01 wife of the person accused shall be a competent witness, and may be called and com polled to testify in such proceeding, examination or prosecution, without the consent of the husband or wife, as the case may be Any prosecution for bigamy, polygamy oi unlawful cohabitation may be commenced at any time within five years next after tlu commission of the offense. Any person violating the law is to be deemed guilty of ? misdemeanor. The law makes it unlawful for any female to vote at any election hereafter held in the Territory of Utah for an> public purpose whatever, and provides thai j the registration and election of officers of ! r | the Territory shall be declared vacant, and I t i that hereafter the dutiesof such officers shall ' f : be performed by persons appointed to exe- ; I ?j cute them by a board of five persons, with a j > j salary of $3,000per year each, tobeappointed T - i by the President, by and with the consent f | of the Senate. j 'j J | SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. J C ? A terrific wind, thunder and lightning , . and rain storm passed over Columbia early last Friday morning. 'i ? In Abbeville recently two men quarrel- 1 > ed and fought, and one bit the other's nose 'J - off. There was a two day's trial and the 1 fine was live dollars. ? The Industrial Exposition of the Charleston Agricultural Society opened last week > under flattering auspices and will continue ^ j until the 21rd instant. 1 C ? Mrs. Elizabeth Xowell died in the poor- 1 I house at Abbeville recently. She was admitted to the institution in 18f>4?thirty ; years ago. j 1 ?William Pryor White, formerly of Ma- } i rion, was killed recently in Texarkana, Ar- * - kansas, by the accidental discharge of a pisi tol. lie leaves a wife and two children. , ? The Greenville New# is authorized to ) state that Col. W. H. Perry would not, un- s . der any circumstances, permit his name to f be presented as a candidate for the ottice of N Governor. u . t? The impression prevails among farmers in many parts of the up country that oats sown in December and the latter part of November have been badly damaged by the I . recent freezes. 1 - ? William and Kufc?ell Gregory, charged i i with the murder df'Mr. Funderburk, in p 5 Lancaster county, have surrendered them- \ selves to the authorities, and are now in ( Lancaster jail. r ? The grand fury for this year, in Fair? field county, drawn last week, consists of 1 fifteen white men and three colored. The 1 panel of the petit jurors for the February t - term consists of thirty white men and six j =5 colored. i i ? Wm. B. Howard, colored, arrested in . Baltimore, has been broughttoSpartanburg on a requisition from the Governor of this ' State, the charge against him being the em- 1 J" bezzling of funds of a colored society in c * Spartanburg. ?. i ?The November term of the State Su- ] I preme Court took a recess last Saturday, un - til the 14th of April. The April term will , convene on the loth of April. By the order > of circuits the Sixth will be called on the I 28th of May, to which two days will be de- t ' voted. 1 * 1 > ? A Spartanburg negro was arrested re- j ' cently, charged with living in adultery with j [ a white woman. After being released upon ( r, their own recognances to appear for trial at i the next term of Court, the couple repaired . to a lawyer's office and had a contract drawn c ( up whereby the negro hires the white wo- > man to cook and do his house work. And s thus they continue to live. . ? A fatal boiler explosion occurred last Friday morning at Dawkins, a station on the Spartanburg, Union and Columbia Rail- : - road, by which a negro man named Rabb * i was instantly killed and several others 1 wounded. The scene of the accident was a t steam saw mill. It appears that Rabb had t carelessly permitted the water to be exhausted from the boiler, and when the explosion occurred lie was disemboweled and blown 1 through the roof of the building. A hole l! , twenty feet square was made through the 1 top of the mill by the flying pieces of the c boiler, and a large piece crashed through the roof of a store over a hundred yards distant. Itabb's body came to the earth a mass of jelly. Four or five men standing in the t vicinity of the ruill were slightly wounded. ^ ? Wm. Hone McKenzie, a native of Scot- 1 land, met a sudden death in Aiken county, last Thursday. He was the local inspector j. of the Corbin Banking Company, and had f visited Aiken for the purpose of inspecting \ some lands offered to secure loans. While t driving out from Aiken C. H., to the place t, he had engaged to inspect, his team became frightened at a train of cars, and ran away. ] Mr. McKenzie and his companion, Mr. Williams were both thrown from the buggy. The line, which Mr. McKenzie held, c ' became entangled about him and lie was ? dragged by the horses some distance, xvhon i he was thrown into a culvert at the corner , ; of a street and his neck broken, while the 1 horses, freed by the breaking of the lino, 1 dashed onward. .Mr. Williams received e painful injuries by his fall, among them be- t t ingoneor two broken ribs. Much sympa- , i thy was expressed at Aiken for the untime. ly death of Mr. McKenzie, whose body was t , embalmed and expressed to New York. kIt will probably beshipped to Scotland. 1 ? a From the News and Courier. r GOV. THOMPSON FOR RE-ELECTION. n Statehukc;, January :>!), 1884. ^ To the Editor of the News and Courier: i We see by the papers the mention of several ( names for the position of Governor. In every case, so far, we have been glad to note ? that those nominated have been put before e the people conditionally, "Provided Gov- * > ernor Thompson is not a candidate." We * fear from this that there is a purpose some- & where to put Governor Thompson in some c ; other place than the office he now occupies. v We people in Sumter county shall always a . rejoice at the happiness and prosperity of r Governor Thompson. We shall always con- a sent, too, to seeing him placed in other po- k . sitions, provided he wishes the change. r But as at present advised, we can't see t where we could put him to give him so wide j: a tiekl of usefulness as his present office af1 fords. To make hiin United States Senator j is not now in contemplation, because that ? would displace Wade 1 lampton ; and no one ^ , dreams of doing this of course. Then why t ' move him ? Why talk about this man or t 1 that man for his place? We need him right r " where he is. lie is now where his noole ! ambition?to-wit, the ambition to serve 0 i South Carolina most efficiently?would keep a j him, and there we would like to see him re- J main for some years yet. lie has shed 1 us- t ' tre on his State in his every act since he has v been Governor. He has kept an eye, un- * ' dimmed by prejudice or passion or'selfishF ness, on her highest interests. His hand e has never been put to the accomplishment t ' of any official act but it was moved by a i sincere desire to permeate the true welfare of those he is engaged to serve. We in s 1 Sumter county know better, perhaps, than '. others in the State how loftily he performs 1 , his duties?how no littleness, or unworthi- 1 ness is allowed to creep into any of his offi- s cial doings. He strives not to serve person' al friends, he knows not that he has a pcri sonal enemy, when he addresses himself to the tasks set before him as an officer. His o i, conduct in regard to our county appoint- j ! ments, was as high, as free from all person.. al considerations, exhibited as much selfcommand and fidelity to his trusts as the , 1 history of the exercise of the appointing , power could furnish in this country. John ^ . Quiney Adams could not have been firmer ' . or truer in standing upon official duty and c disregardingnll outside considerations. And ^ ' Adams had no friends and had no feelings to tempt him astray, while Thompson has as warm, as devoted personal friends as any r man living, and a heart as ardently recipro- c . cal of their love as ever beat in a human o , bosom. Vet he is always true, always pa- '\ XVn wnnf liini fr? ho !l sllinillC liirllt i ' before our young men?a noble example to ' lead our rising politicians away from the ' practices of such debased creatures as Payne, [ , of Ohio, typifies?the "spoilsmen," men t who do not hesitate to put in, however un- j 7 C fit, and take out, however able and faithful, j r , any officer may have proven himself, the | j ' sole question being not what does the public 1 " interest require at my hands, but how many j * votes can I probably secure by this appoint-! t - ment?men who make politics a low trade? i j t men who do not hesitate to perjure them-\1 selves under their official oaths to reward 3 " hard workers (for them) at the primaries, or t to punish those who dared to withhold supl port from them. Public interests to the ^ i winds! No, we want a chance here to C . to show how the good people of this county i L value such a man as Governor Thompson, i j. I and, above all, he is more serviceable to his | (j State where he is than he possibly could be i ' any where else. So let him "stay Govern- e ' or," as the old negro woman said of Hamp- J' I ton. ***** LOCAL AFFAIRS. j* , ; tli NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. CI fiddle it Pcgrant?Fertilizers. .atta Brothers?Fertilizers. 1 . 'arish A* Mcknight?Another Elephant. t. A. fiiltillen?Administrator's Notice. St os. F. Wallace, Administrator?Xotice. i j j application for Charter. I f )r. John R. Latimer?Medical Xotiee. ; 10 . C. Blair?Reward. | St . R. Coleoek?Bricks For Sale. . \ t. If. (rlonn, S. Y. C.r?Sheriff's Sale. . M. Adams?Look for J. M. Adams?Stoves? ' / (ijirden Seeds. Ac. , \ M. Dobson?$100 Worth t<> bo < iivon Away, j rt lart A Hart?A Word to the Wise. ohn W. Lawrence. | j]] . Beatty Williams, Jiulgeof Probate?Citation? | B. If. Massev, Applicant?Ilirnm K. Cure- , Jl' ton, deceased. w K. M. MILITARY SCHOOL. fr The present session of Kind's Mountain j sh Military School opened last Thursday, un- w ler favorable prospects of a full attendance. se NEWSPAPER CHANCE. j JjJ Mr. Paul Moore has sold the Lancaster j ,u leview to Messrs. Charles T. Connors and J. j ^ u. Kiddle. ..Mr. C onnors assumes eiuioriui ontrol. jr PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS. cc On Friday last, the day appointed for a w econd examination of teachers of public 1T] ree schools, there were 35 applicants, of 11( vhom 25 passed successfully as follows: First rrade, 3; second grade, 8; third grade, 14. COTTON SALES. P The cotton market has been somewhat i? )risk (Turing the past week, the sales from b, Wednesday of last week to Tuesday even- u ng aggregating 265 bales. Besides this n imountsold direct in this market, Yorkville S( myers have bought large lots at Clover and >ther points in the county, deliverable at ft, he places of purchase. ePERSONAL MENTION. The Rev. T. ]). Latimer, a native of this S ounty, and who is now pastor of the Pres- n jyterian church at Waverly, Tenn., is payng a brief visit to his parents, who reside ? lear Yorkville. Rev. Mr. Latimer is on n lis return to his pastorate from Philadelihia, where he has been taking a final ^ ;ourse in the elocutionary art under Profes- ^ ;or Murdock, in the National School of v Rlocution. _ OUR CLUB LISTS. Club-makers for the Ecquikek for the ^ rear 1884 are making satisfactory progress, u md we are able to report that the paper now y las as satisfactory a circulation as in any ^ rear of its existence. Those who contem- b date availing themselves of the benefit of b :Iub rates are reminded tuat tne time in vhich they can do so will expire at 12 ^ )'clock M. on Monday, March .'Ird, after vhich date the subscription price to single aibserihors will be $2. ">0. ? V DISEASED CATTLE. . We learn that there is a disease of a pecu- * iar kind among cattle in various parts of he county, in some instances proving fatal, j iVe have heard no name of the disease, j hough it seems to affect the spine. A gen- ^ leman of experience gives as a remedy and tlso a preventive of the disease, spirits tur- . lentine. He says a teaspoonful given once ^ i week for two or three weeks will act as a ireventive, while it may be given benefilially to cattle affected with the disease. . S( U. S. CIRCUIT COURT JURORS. & Of the jurors drawn to serve at the April erm of the United States Circuit Court, yhich will be held in Charleston, the folowing reside in York county : Grand Jurors?Felix H. Dover, Whit a- ^ cer's ; J. Henderson, Yorkville. Inquiry 91 ails to reveal the name of "J. Henderson" J< n this locality, and the supposition is that et he name is either a misprint, or its owner v t colored man, unknown to fame. jj, Petit Jurors?James A. ltatehford and B. ' Briggs, Yorkville. sl It is probable that the political cases will ome up again for trial at the April term. j LPPLETON'S STANDARD UEOURAPHY. fc We have received from Mr. J. Van Holt gj sash, Atlanta, Ga., Southern manager 1). jJ Vppleton & Co., a copy of Appleton's High- ]] r Geography, South Carolina edition, of jr he "standard" series published by the Ap- j] iletons. The special feature of this edition (< s that it contains several pages devoted to ^ South Carolina, thus rendering it particular- \i y valuable to the people of our State. As ^ . school room text book it has the endorsement of hundreds of teachers in this State, 11( nd, like all the school books issued by the S( Yppletons, we doubt not it will become de- n ervedly popular upon general introduction. ^ U. S. COURT AT GREENVILLE. St The special February term of the United ei Itates District Court at Greenville conven- v d last Monday. Mr. David L. Black, of his place, a juror, left last Saturday night, oj o attend. On Monday night, Deputy U. n i. Marshal Beckham left here, having in harge F. M. Medlock, white, charged with 0] iolating the U. S. internal revenue laws, p nd Dick Shurley, colored, charged with tj obbing the U. S. Mail between Lancaster p nd Monroe, N. C.f both of whom were mnnrl over for trial. There are ciuite a lumber of important oases to be tried at ti his term, and a full docket will probably 0] trolong the session into March. ri THE TIN DISCOVERY. ti The discovery oftinoreat King's Mountain L Itation has caused a genuine excitement in af hat town. Dr. T. J.* Walker, who lives Ji here, sent us on Tuesday last some speci- 13 nens of this ore, which can be seen in this si iffice. The story of the discovery of tin ore t King's Mountain is told in a few words. M Imnnncnmn minni*il cnf>i*imWl? from 11 OUIilV JtiillVAUi U|/vv??L.vtw WV..V .. hat place to the Boston Exposition last cl ear, were some black, heavy lumps of min- G ral marked "unknown." A Boston min- N ralogist took the specimens, and on assaying ti hem pronounced them to be tin ore. This, SI n due time, led to prospecting, and J)r. cl Valker writes us that a company is now ir inking a shaft on Capt. Bell's lot, and the ai ndications are very favorable. The ore is lentiful on tin? surface, and the specimen c ent us will^malyze Toper cent, of tin. RECENT DKATHS. Mr. Calvin Gordon died at the residence Se if his brother, Mr. 1). A. Gordon, in this oi dace, 011 Wednesday last, of paralysis, after d; . brief illness, aged Go years. Mr. Gordon cas formerly a citizen of this place, and to ; ^ lis enterprise the town is indebted for the ^ inc brick building popularly known as j,( 'Rose's Hotel." lie left this State, how-j ai ver, twenty-nine years ago and settled in : "1 'olorado county, Texas, where he continled to reside until last December, when he 0SJ eturned to Yorkville. Of his family, only 1 p, me son, about fifteen years of age, the child : w f his second wife whom he married in tti .'exits, survives him. His remains were i ol wriedat Bethesda church. j j.^ Mrs. Rose Ann O'Leary died at the resi-; [ence of her son, Mr. Geo. H. O'Leary, in j,, his place, last Saturday afternoon, aged it:l years. Mrs. O'Leary was of Scotch-Irish i w >arentage, and was born in County Antrim, c<r' reland. She was the daughter of the late j innmo Unro wiin immigrated from Ireland *i, JWIjjV VJ o America and settled in Yorkville 08 js 'ears ago, and in this place she continued gi 0 reside until lior death, having married j cc dr. Jeremiah O'Leary, who died in April, 850. Mrs. O'Leary was a woman of many 1 ar inc traits of character, and an exemplary i ^ hristian. The mother of a numerous fam-! th Iy, she leaves many descendants, and a 1 hi irge circle of friends who will regret her ! sl' lemise. She was buried in the Yorkville 1,1 emetery 011 Sunday afternoon, ltev. Mr. ; English officiating at the obsequies. 1 NV The death of Mr. Parks Wilson, formerly I ell known in Yorkville, he being a son of e late Josiah J. Wilson, who lived near over, was announced some days ago as iving occurred recently at?Little Hock, rkansas, while on his return from this ate to his home in San Antonio, Texas, is remains were brought to York county r interment, and buried at Ebenezer on unlay of last week. A NEGRO DESPERADO. The negro mentioned by our Chester corspondent as having recently shot and dan;rously wounded young Samuel Pressly, i Cabarrus county, X. ('., escaped arrest id came to Fort .Mill, in this county, near hich town, on Monday last, as we learn om the Charlotte Observer of Tuesday, he lot Mr. Will (i. Durant, a constable, who as endeavoring to effect his arrest. It ?>- 11 . 1 - ems irom me wuzrrvtrn ua-uuut, ui?t mc ?gro, Knox by name, quietly surrendered when approached by the constable, id as they were proceeding to Fort Mill, nox, seeing his opportunity, quickly jerk1 a pistol from Durant and shot him down i the twinkling of an eye. Mr. Durant retired the bullet in his bowels, and the ound is a dangerous one. With his retaining pistol he fired three shots at the egro, but he made his escape. CHURCfl NOTICES. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. J. A. Mood, astor. The pastor will preach at Mt. Yeron at 11 A. M., next Sunday. Services will s conducted in the church at Yorkville, at L A. M., by Rev. L. A. Johnson. Prayer leeting every Wednesday night. Sundaytliool at J P. M., every Sunday. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English. Pastor, ervices at the usual hours, morning and veiling, next Sunday. Baptist?Rev. J. E. Covington, Pastor, ervices at 11 A. M., next Sunday. C'omlunion service after sermon. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. tobert Lathan, Pastor. Services at Tirzah ext Sunday. Episcopal?Rev. Aug. Prentiss, Rector. Iorningand communion service at 10.30 A. I. Sunday-school at:IP. M. Evening ser ice at 7 P. M. SALES-DAY. The attendance of beople in town on last londay?Sales-day for February?was unsually large, Quiet and good order preailed in a remarkable degree, and the sol:ary policeman on duty made his accus)med rounds with no extra duty to per)rm?one of the good results of prohibition. The following property was sold by the heriff, by virtue of writs of fieri facia*: One tract of ten acres near Rock Hill, ivied on as the property of D. A. Button, .ought by A. Friedheim <fc Bro. for $27.50. Tract of 150 acres, near McG'onnellsville, ivied on as the property of J. Harris Mconnell. Bought by John R. Ashe for $140. Defendant's interest in two tracts of land ivied on as the property of \Y. R. McCul)ugh. Bought by John S. McCullough for 13.23. Defendant's interest in the same land levid on as the property of 8. P. McCullough. iought by John S. McCullough for $305.60. The Clerk of the Court offered the lands f the estate of Mrs. M. O. Hemphill, to be )ld by decretal order of the Court, but no tie was made. PENSIONERS IN YORK. Hon. H. M. Teller, Secretary of the De[lrtment of the Interior, has furnished us ith the following list of United States pen-1* ? xi l oners 01 lora county, uu uie pension ion, anuary 1, 1883: The amount drawn by ich is 88 per month, and all are either surivors or widows of survivors of the war of <12. The following are the names of the irvivors and their post offices: Tolbert Dnes, Edward Kersey, Robert Lindsay, imuel Smith, David Stephenson, Yorkille; Daniel Seaborn, Hickory Grove. The Rowing are the widows of survivors: arah Brandon, Rebecca Riddle, Bethel; avinia Minter, Blairsville; Clarrissa A. [enry, Bowling Green ; Mary Kirkpatrick, lizabeth Black, Bullock's Creek ; Eriexene [ill, Clover; Susan C. Holcomb, Mary C. herry, Rhoda Kerr, Rock Hill; Martha .. Cowen, Isabella Williams, Martha rrighjt, Elizabeth Stephenson, Sarah A. [uykendal, Yorkville. Of the above names, the following are ow. dead: Daniel Seahorn, David Stephen>n, Samuel Smith, Isabella Williams, Saih A. Kuykendal, Edward Kersey, Tol?rt Jones. Of course, it is but proper to ate that payments to the deceased pension"3 stopped with the date of death. THE UUUGLAK GANG. Quiet remains in the jail since the attempt r six of the prisoners to escape on Tuesday ig-ht of last week. Confessions of those in le plot confirmed the Sheriff's first theory f their designs. Finding themselves comletely balked in their efforts to drill a hole irough the wall, they resorted to the only Ian remaining, viz.: to make an alarm and ttract the Sheriff to the door at which they ere all congregated, and on the supposion that he would hastily open it, rush up11 and overpower him. The plan miscared, however, as the Sheriff acted too cauously to admit of falling into the trap, ouis Broomfield, the burglar, is implicated > the leader of the plot, and he and Frank ohnson, charged with arson, and Larkin ratton, charged with larceny, have been cured in irons. Of Broom field's gang, i*,rvin uarron ana [inor, alias Babe Dixon, have been arrested i this county and committed to jail on large of burglary. Henry Lane and Jim illespie, arrested in Mecklenburg county, '. C., have been surrendered upon requision of the Governor of this State, to the iieriff of Fairfield county, to answer the large of burglarizing P. Landecker's store 1 Winnsboro, only a few nights before the rest of Broomfield was effected. orrespoiulence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chester, S. C., February 4,1884.?In confluence of a break in the boiler the Catawba 1 mill was not in operation for several lys last week. It is due to the inferior malinery that this enterprise has not paid any ividends to the stockholders. Theirexpections would undoubtedly have been realed if the mill had been at the start equip?cl with substantial machinery. As it is, id has been from the beginning, the profits 'the mill have been consumed in keeping le poor machinery in repair. The mill of +<? lioc hi,on fiirninir nut nhont 4fi() fralloilS ' oil per day. in a couple of weeks new esses will be put in, when the yield of oil ill be doubled. The new presses will also irn out a greater quantity of oil to the ton ' seed. They will turn out 40 gallons to le ton of seed, which will be an increase of ur gallons, as the old presses turn out fiG illons. The cake turned out by the new resses will be better for feeding purposes, i it will contain a less per cent, of oil. It ill only contain G per cent, of oil to l.'J per nt. of oil which thecake turned out by the d presses has. The mill is far behind on its ders. It finds no difficulty in selling all ic oil and cake it can make. The former delivered in New York at 41 cents per dlon ; the latter is sold in this and other unties of the State. Mr. T. X. Bennett, dealer in engines and jricultural implements, has made an asgnment to Mr. J. B. MeFadden for the ?nefit of his creditors, llis misfortune is ie to his inabilityto make collections. He is assets in the shape of notes and accounts ifficient to cover his liabilities, but was lable to realize upon them. lie has been hardworking persevering man, and fully erited success. A meeting of the creditors ill hike place on the 8th of February. Rev. Mr. Pressly, the Associate Reformed ' minister of our town, received intelligence ; one day last week that his brother, who lives in North Carolina, while attempting I to arrest a negro, was shot by him. The bullet penetrated the brain of the unfortunate man, and he now lies in a dangerous condition. Messrs. Colvin & Hood, who have been i selling out their stock of goods at cost for ! some time, sold the remainder of their stock on last Wednesday to Messrs. Parish <fe McKnight, of Yorkville. Judging from the reports of farmers, the oat crop has been considerably damaged by the late freezing weather. As this crop is absolutely essential for feeding purposes, it is fervently hoped that the injury will not be as great as now feared. Conductor John Moore, who sustained a few days ago on the Chester and Lancaster train a painful injury at the hands of L)r. T. B. Marion, is slowly recovering, though still quite weak from loss of blood. Efforts I hear, have been made towards a compromise of the unfortunate affair, though with what success is not known. Mr. Robert S. Hope, one of the most estimable citizens of our county, has been quite sick for several weeks. His condition is thought by his friends to be quite critical. He is the senior member of the Arm of Hope & Lowry, of Lowrysville. Thomas Mills Alexander, infant child of Air. and Mrs. N. B. Alexander, died on last Friday night and \va* buried the next day. These parents have been sorely afflicted in the death of several children. Mr. J. B. McFaddeu has made a most excellent county treasurer. He was the first treasurer that made his report to the Comptroller General, and it was of such a character as to receive the highest commendation from the Comptroller. $17,078.40 being the amount on the Auditor's books, he collected* $10,910,09, having a nulla bona of only $039.10. He found the county in debt; it has now a balance to its credit of several thousand dollars. The Presbyterian congregation was favored yesterdav with two excellent sermons by Rev. J. S. White, of Rock Hill. His many friends in this county and elsewhere will be glad to know that his health, which a year or so ago was so feeble, is now almost restored. A meeting of the State Grange and Agricultural Society will he held this week in Charleston. Col. R. E. Love will attend as a delegate from Bull Run Grange, and Mr. Richard Atkinson as a delegate from Sandy River Grange. It may not be amiss to state that Bull Run Grange recently effected a purchase of about twenty thousand pounds of bacon for its members. Though this is sales-day, very little property is advertised for sale. Mr. Ben. Castles, of this county, recently Purchased a large tract of land in Longtown, 'airfield county. The tract is a portion of the plantation once owned by Mr. Ben. Peay. m. Ran Away from Home.?A big boy and a little boy boarded the train on the C. & G. R. R., at Frost's Mills, six miles this side of Columbia, yesterday, and proceeded to pay their fare in currency from one station to another as Captain Isaacs called on them for assessmentsaftereach stop. Their very remarkable and expensive method Of traveling excited remark, and the larger boy at last confided to the benevolent and guileless brakeman that he was from near Rock Hill and had run awavfrnm school on .v Friday after obtaining $25from a Rock Hill merchant on his father's credit. He gave his name as Cornwell and had brought the little fellow along as a companion, the scheme being to go to Illinois and amass a fortune forthwith. His ideas about where Illinois was, how to get there and what he was going there for were very hazy, and he concluded to stop and rest at Newberry as a convenient point on the journey. The two were left standing on the platform at that place gazing very wistfully after the train, and a dispatch stating their whereabouts was sent to Hock Hill. They have doubtless by this time changed the opinion they freely expressed that they were "too far froni home to be caught."?Greenville Neicx of Friday. MERE-MENTION. The Phoenix Glass Works, at Phillipsburg, Pa., the most extensive establishment of the kind in the United States, were destroyed by fire last week. Five hundred hands are thrown out of employment. Loss $125,000 Four hundred and fifty two Railroad trains leave Breton every day in the week except Sunday. The board of managers of the World's Cotton Exhibition at New Orleans, have rejected all bids of con tractors for the construction of the main building, and have decided to construct it themselves. Hon. Wendell Phillips died at his home in Boston last Saturday, in the 73rd year of his age. The Senatorial deadlock in the Kentucky Legislature continues. It is probable that Speaker Carlisle will yet be the compromise candidate. Jrostitriitl anil dDommcrrial. Yorkville Market. UKl'OUTKD BY RIDDLK A I'KORAM. YORKVILLE, S. 0., February6.?The following are the quotations of Cotton' in this market: Good Middling P IK) (a) Middling 9 65 (a* Strict Low Middling 9 40 (a> Low Middling 9 15 (a, Tinges 8 ? @ 9 ? Stains .. 6 ? ty 8 ? CHARLOTTE, February 5.?Cotton 9 11-16 to 101-16. CHARLESTON, February 4.?Cotton quiet. Middling, 101; low middling, 101; good ordinary, 9?. LIVERPOOL, February 4.?Cotton in moderate inquiry and freely supplied. Uplands, 5 15-10d. NEW YORK, February 4.?Cotton dull. Uplands 10jf. Futures closed barely steady, with sales of 01.000 bales as follows; February 10.05 to 10.00; March 10.79 to 10.80; April 10.94 to 10.95; May 11.08 to 11.09; June 11.21 to 11.22; July 11.33; August 11.41 to 11.42; September 11.07 to 11.09; October 10.70 to 10.75; November 10.59 to 10.1)4. Comparative Cotton Statement. XEW YORK, February 1.?The following is the comparative cotton statement for the week ending February 1: 1884. 1883. Itoeeiptsatall ports for the week, 109,401 109,054 Total receipts to this date 3,954,903 4,1190,703 Exports for week 104,417 102,844 Total exports to date, 2,503,803 2,800,405 Stock at all U. S. ports 1,066,563 923,007 Stock at all interior towns 152,709 166.960 Stock at Liverpool 798,000 851,000 American for Great Britain 331,000 289,000 Special Notices. Religious Notice. Rev. R. A. Webb, of Bethel, will preach at Allison Creek C'hureh, next Sunday, the 10th instant, at 11 o'clock, A. M. Appointment Recalled. The notice given at Beersheba Church on the fourth Sunday of January, that Rev. J. M. McLain would preach in that church on the second Sunday of the present month, is recalled, owing to circumstances over which he has no control. February 7 0 It Tribute of Respect. Philanthropic Lodge. No. 22, A. F. M. Yoricville, .S. C'., February 4,1884. To the IF. M. and Brethren of the. Lodge : The undersigned committee, appointed to prepare a Memorial upon the occasion of brother Darwin's death, respectfully report the following TRIBUTE OF RESPECT. Brother P. B. Darwin was called from his earthly labors on the 28th day of December, 1882, at the ripe old ago of 78 years, having been a memj her of Philanthropic Lodge for the past 21) years. Ho leaves behind him a character for uprightness that this Lodge and his own town and family may well be proud of. It does not become us, ! therefore, to mourn his departure as we would for one who had been cut down as a green blade; we should rather be thankful to our Grand Mastor tiliove. that he was fullv riDO for the harvest. and that through so many years he had been permitted to work in and out amongst us as one not forgetful of that day which has come upon him, and which, sooner or later, must overtake us all. liexolvcd, 1. That a blank page of our minutes be dedicated to his memory, on which shall be recorded his name, age, time of raising, and day of death. 2. That this Lodge extends its sympathies to the family of Brother Darwin. :i. That a copy of these proceedings be furnished to the family, and that the same be published in the Yorkvilfe Enquirer. Fraternally submitted, R. H. GLENN, (*. E. SPENCER, J. ED. J EPF EE VS.