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f traps and Jfacts.
? Treasurer Wyman has issued notice j
that the supply of one dollar United States
Treasury notes is exhausted and no more 1
can be shipped, and that the two dollar
notes will be exhausted in a couple of days. ;
No more can be furnished to the business;
community until an appropriation is made 1
for printing them.
? Frank James arrived at Huntsville,
Ala., last Friday, in custody of the Federal
authorities. He is to be tried upon the
charge of robbing the paymaster of the riv- j
er Government works at Mu&sel Shoals of I
$5,000 in March, 1881. Dick Liddall, who;
was convicted of the same robbery, a year j
ago, will testify against James. The appearance
of James tallies exactly with that
of the robber given by the paymaster.
? The local option law, authorizing the i
people of each locality to decide for them-1
selves whether they will permit or prohibit
the sale of intoxicating drinks in their
midst, seems to be making headway in
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.ungianu, ami iub imiicuuuu? mc umi n
will not be long before the law becomes
general over there. The temperance movement
is making rapid strides among the
Britains.
? About twenty-five firms in this country
make a business of publishing school books.
They do a business of perhaps $8,000,000 a
year. Only three of the school book publishing
houses are south or west of Philadelphia
or Baltimore. Two-thirds of the
business is done by five firms. It costs each
of the larger firms something like $200,000
a year for agents and other expenses under !
the "introduction account."
? Miss Haikwalth, a very much esteemed
young lady of Dayton, Ohio, was found
apparently dead 011 January 10th and was
buried. Her life-like expression however
left an impression of doubt upon some of
her friends, and they had her body exhumed.
The body had turned over on its side,
handfuls of hair had been torn out and the
flesh was bitten from the fingers, and thus
she died in her grave.
? The sub-committees of the committee
on privileges and elections of the U. S.
Senate, appointed under Mr. Sherman's
resolutions, are investigating tne auegeu
political outrages in Copiah county, Miss.,
and Danville, Va. The sub-committee on
the Mississippi case is sitting in New Orleans,
and that appointed to investigate the
Danville affair is taking testimony in
Washington city. No new facts have been
developed by either investigation.
? The business failures during the week
ending last Friday, reported to It. G. Dunn
& Co., number for the United States 240
and for Canada 52; total 298 as against 278
the preceding week?an increase of twenty
failures. The casualties arq comparatively
light in the New England, Middle and
Southern States. In the Western States
t and on the Pacific Coast failures are still very
numerous, while an increase even over the
heavy figure of last week is noted in Canada.
In New York city the assignments are
generally un important.
?If the bill recently reported from the
House committee on Pensions which provides
for the payment of pensions to soldiers
of the Mexican and Indian wars, becoraerfa
law it is estimated that the cost of
the Government will be abont $1,370,490,
and that the average life of each pensioner
will be about fourteen years. There are
living to-day 11,000^survivors of the Mex
ican War, ana wno juugm m uie
Florida, Creek and Black Hawk wars, making
a total of 14,276 soldiers who will receive
pensions if the bill becomes a law.
? Thomas Benton, colored, was hanged at
Plaque Mine, La., last Friday, in the pres*
ence ?f 2,000 people, for the murder of
Robert Duggar, on July, 8th 1883. After
prayer with his spiritual advisers, Benton
resumed his cheerfulness and walked arm
in arm with the ministers and mounted the
scaffold. He bid the crowd good day and
said he was ready to go; that he had nothing
against any one and hoped to meet
them all in Heaven. His neck was broken.
When the drop fell, a moan ran through the
crowd rttad one woman shrieked and some
fainted. .
? JamesG. Smith, Chief of the Division
in the office of the Auditor of the Treasury
for the Post Office Department^ who was
detailed last summer by the Secretary of
the Treasury to examine into the postal
methods and accounting of the Governments
of England, France, Switzerland and
Germanv, has just presented his report to
the Sixth Auditor and it has been transmitted
to the Secretary of the Treasury and
the Postmaster General. Mr. Smith finds
many features in the postal systems of the
European Governments worthy of adoption
into our own administration, and has recommended
several changes of a radical character
in the existing system.
Last Thursday morning Jacob *Worthington,
a wealthy farmer of Madison, Fla.,
awoke and found that his two. children, a
team cf horses and $500 in money hail been
stolen. Suspicion pointed to a white laborer
who was missing, and an armed band
started in pursuit. The fugitive was overtaken
at Devil's Glen, on the Chattahoochie
River. He sought shelter among the rocks
? and defied his pursuers. Several shots were
fired at him, when he placed the children
before him and threatened to kill them if
he- was molested. One of the pursuers
named Oxendine, of Thomas county, GeorSia,
an ex-Confederate sharp shooter,
rought his rifle quickly to his shoulder and
shot the desperado dead, the ball passing
between the two children, who were recovered
upharmed.
? A difficulty, resulting in the killing of a
young mau named Edward B. Philpot, occurred
at the engine-house of the Clinch
Fire Company, of Augusta, Ga., about 1
o'clock last Friday morning. A ball was in
progress at the engine-house, during which
two couples, one waltzing and the other
promenading, struck against each other.
Words ensued between the two young men,
who finally left the hall and went down
stairs into the engine room, where the difficulty
was renewed, resulting in one of them,
Chas. C. Greer, stabbing the other, Edward
B. Philpot, near the heart, inflicting a
U'ftnnrl whifh r-miQpd flpflth in flboilt TWentV
minutes. Greer gave himself up to the police.
He is a master-machinist in the Central
Railroad shops and came to Augusta
from Macon. Philpot was an employee of
the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad.
? In Greene county, Tennessee, last Friday
night, the wife of James Hunter was
shot and instantly killed by some person
who fired from the outside of the house.
Mr. Hunter and his wife and other members
of the family were sitting around the
fire. Mrs. Hunter was in a rocker, when a
gun was fired through the window, three
bullets passing through Mrs Hunter's head.
It is supposed that the murderer intended
to kill James Hunter, but the wife, in rocking
to and fro, received the shot intended!
for her husband. Mr. Hunter is a wealthy j
farmer and had just received a large amount i
of money. Two brothers, named Moon,
who are suspected of the murder, were can-j
tured below Greenville, coming towards :
Knoxville. They had a rifle carrying the j
same sized bullet as was found in Mrs.
Hunter's brain, and their footprints correspond
with those found near Mr. Hunter's j
window.
? Hot Springs*Arkansas, is still excited
over the killing of the Flynns, who were
all gamblers, by a party headed by a New !
Orleans gam bier named I)oran. Jack Flynn
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lintl nontii imu kiiicu mice men ni?cvv uv,fore
they encountered each other, one of
Flynn's victims having been an editor.
Flvnn ruined Doran's business and attempted
to assassinate him. Doran returned to !
New Orleans, organized a band of seven
other desperadoes and after waiting a
month went to Hot Springs and attacked
the Flynns, killing one of them and two
outsiders. The Chief of Police is a partisan
of Doran, and the Sheriff of Flynn, and
"each is trying to obtain possession of the
opposition gang. Meanwhile the citizens
have organized a military company and are
warning the roughs of both factions to leave.
Doran's mission to Hot Springs was known
to all the New Orleans gamblers who waited
about the telegraph offices for two days
before the attack on the Flynns to get the
news of it.
? Hon. Joseph C. S. Blackburn, who has
been elected I". S. Senator from Kentucky
to succeed Senator Williams, whose term
expires March 4, 1885, is in the forty-sixth
year of his age, having been born in Woodford
county, Kentucky, October 1, 1838.
He is an orator of national reputation, and !
is a favorite with the Democrats of Bqjti- j
more, where he has made several address- j
es In behalf of his party. Mr. Blackburn i
commenced the practice of law at Lexington,
Ky., in 1858, but in a few months moved
to Chicago. In 1860 he returned to Kentucky,
and at the breaking out of the war
entered the Confederate army as a private.
He afterwards joined the staff of General
William Preston, as aid-de-camp, and distinguished
himself for daring in several
engagements. At the close of the war Mr.
Blackburn settled in Arkansas, but in 1868.
returned to his native county, where he
engaged in farming and the practice of law.
He was elected to the State Legislature in
1871 and 1873; was elected to the forty-fifth,
forty-sixth and forty-seventh Congresses,
and was re-elected to the forty-eighth Congress
as a Democrat, receiving 16,799 votes
against 5, 692 votes for Hord, Republican.
Ibc ffltMle inquirer.
YORKVILLE, S. V. :
THURSDAY HORNING^ FEB. 21, 1884.
EX-MAJtSHAL BLYTHE.
In an interview with the Greenville correspondent
of the Xeics and Courier, ExMavshal
Blythe expresses the confident belief
that he can meet the charges preferred
against him by the government examiners,
allusion to which we made last week. His
general defence is that he followed strictly
the customs of the Marshal's office, and
that the departures from the strict letter of
the law were for the convenience of the
creditors, and could work no injury to the
government or to individuals. As to the
charge that he presented false accounts for
approval, he says: "These accounts were
generally made at great distances from me,
were sworn to by the deputies, and certified
to by the commissioners as correct; and if I
had 'gone over the figures and items,' I
could not have detected any fraud if any
had existed. Among the commissioners
were Hawthorne, Heyward, Poinier, Barrett,
Melton and others equally above reproach.
I take it that most of the matters
herein designated frauds were charges which
they and the commissioners thought they
had a right to make."
Of the action of the examiners when
they visited him in Greenville, and their
subsequeut report, he says: "When the
examiners came here, I thought it was to
correct and improve the methods of the
marshal's office. I gave them every facility.
In fact they made but little examination into
my office, but took the facts as stated by myself
and my clerks. In their report of them,
however, they have not given one word of
explanation. They admitted that the department
had no system, but that each
marshal acted for himself. They admitted
that I had made improvements on the
methods of my predecessors who had no
trouble in any way. The report, therefore,
was a surprise to me and I shall await-pa-1
tiently the judicial investigation
Mr. Blythe's personal standing has always
been-High, and in 1880, when he bore 1
thejlepublican standard through this Con- 1
sessional District, he made a favorable impression
upon his political opponents, and
for his own good reputafion, as well as for
the honor of the State, we hope the judicial
investigation, upon which he relies,
will prove that he is not in so bad a posi- 1
tion as the report of the government examiners
would indicate.
THE PROTEUS COURT OF INQUIRY.
The report of the Court of Inquiry into
the loss of the Arctic relief steamer Proteus, ,
was transmitted to the Senate last Thurs- .
day by the President. It finds Lieutenant (
Garlington guilty of error of judgment in
not waiting longer at Pandora Harbor after
the sinking of the Proteus, in order to con- j
nect with the consort steamer the Yantic
and make a depot of supplies, but it com- .
mends his general conduct of the expedition
before and after this event, and says
that the error described occurred in the ex- .
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for which he should not be held to further
accountability. To Gen. Hazen the report
gives credit for zeal and good intentions,
but finds grave errors and omi&sions in his
actions, which are described at length, numbered
from 1 to 9, forming a severe arraignment
of that officer.
While awarding credit to General Hazen,
chief signal officer of the army, for the best
intentions in devising measures for the
rescue of the command of Lieutenant Greely
and for an earnest desire, which it was
impossible that he should not have entertained,
to restore those adventurous men to
their country and homes after two years of
exile from the world of humanity, and
while further commending the study and
care of General Hazen and of his assistants
in the signal office in 18811, in the preparation
of the outfit and men of the expedition
of that year and the selection of the
men composing the expedition, the Court
is of the opinion that in many particulars
and in some of the gravest moment he failed
in an adequate comprehension of the necessities
ot the case and of the measures and
means essential to meet them.
Tilt ntsitiia rLuuua.
The destruction by the western floods? '
the overflow of the Ohio river and its tributaries?will
surpass that of last year. It is 1
estimated that not less than 100,000 persons '
are rendered homeless by reason of the !
overflow, driving them from home and 1
shelter. The distress is spread over a vast 1
area of country. From Pittsburg, Pa., to (
the mouth of the river, about 1,000 miles, 1
the valley of the Ohio is flooded. Some villages
have been swept away, and in the
cities the loss and distress are very great.
At Cincinnati the river formed a vast lake
ten miles lonir. and at least two miles wide.
The destruction and destitution in West
Virginia and Kentucky are as great as in <
Ohio. Congress lias opportunely come to <
the relief of the distressed people, by making
a liberal appropriation to be expended
for provisions, tfce., and much more is also
being done by private contributions. j
A Vein of Tin* Ore Discovered.?The ,
rumors that have been heard for several
days past to the effect that the searching
partie's efforts at King's Mountain had
been rewarded by the discovery of the coveted
vein of tin bearing ore, were yesterday ! |
confirmed by parties who arrived in the
city direct from King's Mountain. The
vein was discovered by Captain Iiell and
his party several days ago, but they covered
it up and endeavored to keep it quiet until
they perfected all their arrangements for ,
properly bonding the land. The vein is
four or five feet thick, but how deep or how
long is as yet unknown. When all the
bonding arrangements are completed -the '
work of developing the vein will be pushed
forward, and its probable extent investigated.
There is no doubt of the fact that it i
is a real tin ore vein, the ore being exactly
similar in weight and appearance to that
sent to the Charlotte mint for assay, and
from which a quantity of pure tin was reduced
and left at the' Observer office for inspection.
The vein has been found and
the prospects for a tin mine at King's
Mountain are promising. The property
upon which the vein has been found is
bonded by Judge Averv, Dr. C. W. Dabney,
C'apt. W. T. R. Bell and Mr. J. T. Claywell.?Charlotte
Observer, Friday.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
In the Senate, on the 11th, a communication
was received from the Secretary ol
War, transmitting, in compliance with a
recent resolution, a statement showing the
number of soldiers of the late war who served
in the Union army one year; how many
two years, and how many three years, and
the amount of money required to equalize
the bounties of those who served in the said
war. Senator Pendleton presented the credentials
of Hon. Henry B. Payne, Senator
elect from the State of Ohio for the term beginning
March, 1885. Senator Sherman sent
to the desk, and the clerk read a telegraphic
dispatch from Richard Smith, of Cincinnati,
saying that Congress should make an immediate
appropriation of $101),000to relieve the
sufferers by the floods in the towns between
Pittsburg and Cairo; adding that Cincin
nati needed nothing, but that otner piaces
were almost helpless. The telegram was
referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
A message was received from the
House announcing its continued disagreement
with the Senate 011 the Greely reliel
bill. The question at issue between the
Senate and the House was an amendment
of the Senate providing that the expedition
should be composed exclusively of volunteers.
After debate, the Senate decided", by
a vote of 29 to 22 to recede from its amendment.
Senator Butler offered a resolution,
which was agreed to, directing the Committee
on Agriculture and Forestry to inquire
into and report upon the condition ol
the Government tea farm in South Carolina,
whether it had been abandoned by the Government,
and if so why and by what authority,
and whether the experiment of tea culture
had been fairly and fully made. In
connection with the resolution Butler presented
a letter from John 0. Minor with accompanying
papers, which were also referred
to the committee. The Senate, after
passing some private bills, went into executive
session, and on the doors being reopened
a message was received from the House
of Representatives' announcing the passage
by that body of the joint resolution authorizing
the Secretary of War to issue rations
for the relief of destitute persons in the district
overflowed by the Ohio River and its
tributaries, and making an appropriation
of $300,000 to relieve the sufferers by such
overflow. The joint resolution was read
three times and passed. The Senate then
adjourned.
In the House, under the call of States, a
number of bills were introduced, among
them one by Mr. Oates, of Alabama,.restoring
to the pension rolls the names of those
dropped therefrom onaccountof disloyalty.
A resolution was offered by Mr. Young, ol
Tennessee, directing the Secretary of State
to make proper inquiry in regard to the
murder of II. P. Cooper, Michael O'Brien
and Geo. II. Stieff, in Mexico and to ascertain
whether or not it is pr'oper to ask any
redress therefor at the hands of the Mexican
Government. A joint resolution wasadopted,
appropriating $300,000 for the relief of
sufferers by the overflow of the Ohio River
and its tributaries, after which the House
adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 12th.,-41 lengthy discussion
ensued on Mf.'Voorhees' bill to prohibit
officers and employees of the United
States from contributing money for political
purposes. At the request of Mr. Voorhees,
the bill was referred to the Committee
on the Judiciary, as he objected to its reference
to the Committee on Civil Service, ol
which Hawley is chairman, on the ground
that when trying a case before a Judge
whom he knew to be against him, he always
took a change of venue. After a short
executive session the Senate adjourned.
In the House the Naval Appropriation
bill was considered in Committee of the
Whole, the entire session being devoted to
discussion of the bill.
In the Senate, on the 13th, the Chair announced
the affixing of his signature to the
joint resolution relating to the Greely relief
expedition. After the consideration of some
private bills, the Senate took up as the special
order for the day, Senator McPherson's
bill reported by Senator Bayard lrom the
Committee 011 Finance, to provide for the
issue of circulation to national banking associations.
The bill provides that upon the
leposit of any United States bonds bearing
interest in the manner required by law, any
national banking associaton making the
same shall be allowed to receive from the
Comptrollerofthe Currency circulatingnotes
if different denominations in blank, registered
and countersigned as required bylaw,
not exceeding in amount the par value of
the bonds deposited, provided that at 110
dme shall the total amount of such notes is
sued to any association exceed the amount
vt such time actually paid in or its capital
stock. The bill repeals all laws and parts of
laws inconsistent with its provisions. Senvtor
Sherman offered an amendment providing
that if any of the bonds drawn should
:>car a rate of annual interest higher than
Ihree per cent., additional circulating notes
should be issued equal in amount to one-half
the interest accruing on such bonds before
their maturity in excess of three per cent,
per annum, such amount to be ascertained
md stated by the Comptroller of theCurren:y
on the 1st day of July of each year hereil'ter.
Senator Bayard spoke at some length
in favor of the bill, lie was followed by
Senator Sherman in support of the bill with
[lis amendment. The debate was also participated
in by Senators McPherson and
Aldrich. After an executive session, the
Senate adjourned.
In the House, Mr. Ilarmer, of Pennsylvania,
presented petitions in favor of pensioning
Union soldiers who suffered in Andersonville,
Bibby, Belle Isle, or other Confederate
prisons. The remainder of the session,
until 5.10 P. M., was devoted to the consideration
of the Mississippi contested election
ease of Chalmers against Manning.
In the Senate, 011 the 14th, the bill mak?ll
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routes was passed. The consideration of the
bill relating to national bank circulation
was resumed. Beck spoke at some length
in favor of the bill. Morrill opposed it at
equal length. In fact, nearly all the speeches
delivered during thediscussion have been
long. Several amendments were offered
and advocated in speeches of greater or less
length by Morrill, Aldrich, Vest and Morgan.
Morgan's amendment provides for the
use of State bonds in the same manner that
United States bonds are now used as security
for national banking circulation. Plumb
was about to address the Senate upon the
bill reported from the committee, when the
Senate, went into executive session, and
when the doors were re-opened adjourned.
In the House, the consideration of the
Mississippi contested election case of Chalmers
against Manning was resumed, and
considered until the hour of adjournment.
In the Senate, on the loth, the consideration
of the bill relating to national bank
circulation was resumed, and Senator Plumb
addressed the Senate in regard to it. The
rapid extinction of the national debt, he
said, was going to destroy the national banks
as a media of circulation. All measures before
the Senate to retain connection between
the banks and the currency were a tacit admission
of the fact. Plumb concluded by
offering an amendment providing that
whenever a national bank surrenders its
circulation the Treasury shall issue greenbacks
to an amount equal to the surrendered
national currency. Bayard and Jones, of
Florida, spoke briefly in opposition to
i Plumb's views. A vote was then taken on i
. the amendment heretofore submitted by j
Sherman, providing that if any of the bonds
J deposited bore interest higher than 3 per
(i cent., additional notes should be issued
. ] equal to one-half the interest in excess of 3 j
' per cent, accruing before maturity. This
[ was voted down?7 yeas to 42 nays. The J
s House joint resolution appropriating the j
[ further sum of $200,000 in aid of the suffer.
ers by the Ohio floods was read three times I
and passed. After executive session the :
. Senate adjourned until Monday.
; In the House after the adoption of a joint j
> resolution appropriating the further sum of
$200,000 in aid of the sufferers by the Ohio !
. floods, the Miasissippi contested election case |
! was resumed, and a lengthy debate ensued
on the adoption of the majority and minor.
ity reports of the Committee on Elections?
i the former favoring Manning, and the latter
: Chalmers?and the action of the House re
suited in continuing the contested seat vacant
until the case is decided on its merits.
Adjourned until Monday.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Candidates are cropping up in Laurens
and Pickens. Four aspirants for Sheriff
are reported in the latter county.
? Harrington Hawkins and his wife, an
aged couple, of Edgefield county, died last
week of measles. The wife died on Tuesday
and the husband on Friday.
? The annual inspection of the First Regiment
of Cavalry will be held at Hampton
on the loth of March. There are eight companies
in the regiment.?
The wife of the 'Kt. Rev. W. 11. W.
Howe, Bishop of this diocese, died in Charleston
on \\ ednesday of last week, and
was buried from St. Philip's Church on the
following day.
? Mountain Shoals is to be the name of a
new town, in Laurens county, on the line of
+I10 rirnonvillp T.jiiirons nnrl Savannah
Railroad. Fifteen lots were sold there last
Saturday, at from $20 to i?5G for half and
one acre lots.
? Perry Abraham and Catherine Stepp,
! colored, have been arrested and committed
( to jail in Greenville, suspected of being the
. perpetrators of the murder of Mrs. Edna
Black, in that county, in the month of
' August, 1878.
? It is stated that the Raleigh and Augus1
ta Railroad, which will reach Cheraw duringtheyoar,
is to be pushed rapidly through
to Columbia. When completed it will
place Cheraw within three hours of the
capital, i nstead of twenty-four, as at present.
? The Governor has issued a writ of election
to the Comissioners of Election for the
counties comprising the Seventh Congressional
Districts for the election of a member
of Congress to fill the vacancy created
by the death of E. W. M. Mackey. The
election is to take place on the 17th of
March.
? Henry Davis, of Oconee county, is a
1 remarkable man. He is in the 91st vear ot
! hisage; had has bacon for sale every year for
fifty years; never planted a seed of cotton
. in his life; raises his own tobacco, never
having, bought but one and a half plug;
has plenty of money; is a native of Anderson
county.
1 ? Bennettsville expects to come out of the
wilderness shortly. The 8un -ethd Monitor
' says: "The ttout.?'ourolina Pacific Road
i will he completed to Bennettsville by next
November. The Cape Fear and Yadkin
Valley Road will be completed as far as
| Shoe Heel, N. ('., within the next sixty
days."
? Near Batesburg, Lexington county, on
Sunday of last week, Stanmore Walker shot
and dangerously wounded his brother-in,
law, Jesse Scott. They had a quarrel last
summer about a very trivial matter and
. were not on speaking terms. Walker, riding
by Scott's, deliberately shot him in his
own yard without notice or warning. Walker
cannot be found.
? The Sumter Watchman, printed at the
home of Mr. Tuomey, nominated by the
President for the position of U. S. Marshal |
for .South Carolina, speaks in tne mgnesi
terms of that gentleman's qualifications for
the office. Although the nomination has
not been confirmed by the Senate, Mr.
Tuomey receives daily, hundreds of applications
for appointment to office.
? About the first week in January Laura
. Kinard, a maiden lady aged 40 years, living
alone with her father in Newberry
county, was found in the house badly burned
and dead, and under circumstances that
gave rise to strong suspicions of foul play,
or at the least that she was the victim of
malpractice by her father, who is an eccentric
sort of man, and an herb doctor.
Efforts were made to obtain an analysis of
the contents of the stomach of the deceased;
bus the coroner failing in this, the jury of
inquest have returned a verdict that she
came to her death from burnipg and from
other causes unknown.
? Union Times: On the 7th instant, as
Foster Garvington, colored, was taking
plank from the saw, at Tucker's saw mill,
in Santuc township, a plank struck the saw
' and knocked him down, throwing him
across the saw while it was running. His
leg was cut off just below the body in
a shocking manner, and one arm and a
hand were dreadfully mutilated. Medical
aid was procured as quickly as possible, and
every care and attention was given the unfortunate
man, but all were unavailing, and
he died Thursday night.
? Two Mormon apostles are on mission
work in the north-eastern part of Spartanburg
county. They generally seek the dark
corners, where there are no post offices and
where the people do not read. Speaking of
their movements in Spartanburg, a correspondent
of the News and Courier says:
"They find entertainment with the kind,
good people of the neighborhood where they
are working. It is a very difficult question
to settle as to what ought to be done with
these men. They are not disturbers of the
peace ; they do not attract crowds; in fact
they move about quietly and cautsously.
There is, therefore, no chance to have them
up before the magistrates, and what is to be
done with them is a question not easy to
answer.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? There are forty prisoners confined in the
Charlotte jail.
? Charlotte is already making arrange-1
ments for a grand celebration 011 the 20th of
next May.
? The employees in tlie internal revenue
offices in North Carolina number 009, and !
their annual pay foots up $574,000.
? At a meeting of the Carolina Fair As-1
uociation and citizens of Charlotte, last Sat- j
urday, it was decided not to hold a fair of
the Association until the fall of 1885.
? The Gastonia Gazette of last Friday, announces
the death of Mr. Wilson Parish, of
' Crowder's Creek, which occurred last month, j
Mr. Parish was a native of York county, <
S. C.
? Several Northern sportsmen are ex pec-1
ted at High Point soon. They have paid j
the State and county tax 011 4,0U0 acres of 1
1??'1 f#M* IKn nnvilntvo i\f 1
J ill HI 111 111111/ V1Y/II11 l/^y 1UI mv< v>? i
shooting birds upon it.
? Lincolnton Press: Mr. Abo Mauney, of;
Beaverdam, Gaston county, armed himself I
last week and went forth to shoot wild tur- }
keys. After dark he started home and los-!
ing his way fell into an abandoned gold |
mine, where he remained until the next j
day, when some persons working in a sul
phur mine near by, heard his calls for help
and rescued him, unhurt, but very hungry.
? On Christmas night of 1882 an old man
named Lee Penick, from Gaston county,
while walking on one of the streets of ChaVlotte
was suddenly shot down and seriously
j wounded by a young man named Worj
Chester Ilicks. Penick recovered from his
i wound, and Ilicks returned to Charlotte last
, week, having been absent ever since the
:! shooting, and was committed to jail for the
, I crime.
I ? The remains of about 400 Confederate
I soldiers have been removed from their forI
rner resting place in the Methodist burying
ground in Greensboro, and, deposited
i in "Memorial Square," at the new city cem;1
etery. We learn that the ladies of the me;
raorial association will soon commence to
turf the grounds preparatory to decorating
the place with shrubbery of various kinds.
In due time it is contemplated to erect a
suitable monument to the memory of the
i deceased soldiers. 1
Ij ocal affairs.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS'. ., <
n unter it Gates?Bargains, Bargains, Bargains. <
M. Strauss?Great Bargains.
Parish <fe McKnight?A Cyclonein the Dry Goo?l.s
Business. * !
Withers Adickes?Fertilizers. ; ]
T. M. Dobson?How are You, Old Chap?
T. B. MeClain it Co.?Clothing.
J. N. Roberts?Notice. 1
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HEAVY RAINFALL. '
A heavy rainfall, accompanied by high '
wind, thunder and vivid lightning, occurred !
on Tuesday night. The rain was almost '
continuous for nearly three hours, and the .
streets were more deeply Hooded than at
any time during the past winter.
V AMERICAN LEGION OF HONOR. * J
A movement has been inaugurated to establish
a Grand Council, in this State, of the
American Legion of Honor. To obtain this
result it requires ten subordinate councils
and a membership of 1,000. A census of!
the councils in the State is being made, and j 1
if thev are found to contain the requisite j i
membership, application will be made for ]
the organization of a Grand Council. 1
V FOUND GUILTY.
In the Sessions Court of Fairfield, last
Friday, before Judge Aldrich, Jim Gillespie
and Henry Lane, members of Lewis ,
Broomfield's gang of burglars, were tried
and found guilty of grand larceny, the of- '
fense charged being the robbery of P. Landecker's
store in Winnsboro, in January :
last. Gillespie and Lane were sentenced by
the Court to ten years each at hard labor in
tjie penitentiary.
ANOTHF.R MURDER.
The Charlotte Observer, of last Saturday,
reports as follows the stabbing, with fatal <
results, of one farm hand by another, in <
York county, recently: i
Monroe.Springs, a colored farm hand in
the employ of Mr. A. C. Springs, at Fort j
Mill, died night before last, from the effects
of a stab in the back of the neck, inflicted
by a colored companion. Monroe was at a
festival three weeks ago when he got into a
difficulty with another negro, who drew a 1
knife and stabbed him in the neck. Monroe i
was carried home and the negro fled. Both ;
negroes were in the employ of Mr. Springs, >
and a few days ago he received a message
from the murderer, stating that "if Monroe
gets well I'll come back, but if he dies good
bye to ole Caliny." Our informant did not
know the assassin's name, but the authori- i
ties do, and they think that he is a little
previous in bidding "Caliny" goodnye.
churcii'notices. I
Methodist Episcopal?Rev. J. A. Mood, j
Pastor. Services in the church at Yorkville i
next Sunday, forenoon and evening. Prayer
meeting every Wednesday night, conducted
by Rev. L. A. Johnson. Sundayschool
at 3 o'clock, P. 31.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev.
Robert Lathan, Pastor. Services at Tirzah
next Sunday. J
Baptist?Rev. J. E. Covington", Pastor.
Services in ..the church at Yorkville, at 11
A. M., next Sunday. Sunday-school at
Union at 2 o'clock, and the ordinance of !
baptism at 3 o'clock, P. 31.
Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor.
Services at the usual hours, morning and j
ouoninor novf Hnnilnv. ,
VfV..4..b, .
Episcopal?Rev. Aug. Prentiss, Rector.
Morning and communion service, next Sun- 1
day, at 10.30 A. M. Sunday-school at 3 P. .
M. Evening service at 7 P. M.
^ THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
/Next Sunday's services in the church of :
the Good Shepherd, in this place, will close
the parochial relations of the Rev. Augus- .
tine Prentiss with this parish, he having
accepted a call to the Episcopal churches in i
Elkhart and Mishawka, Indiana. Mr.
Prentiss entered upon his duties as Rector ;
of Yorkville and Rock Hill parishes, in ;
1882, conducting his first services in the ;
church at this place in the month of July, '
in that year, since which time he has been 1
a faithful, zealous and beloved laborer in J
the parishes in which he labored. Highly (
gifted with intellectual powers, a close stu- ]
dent and ardent in the work of his Master, <
he bids fair to become a shining light in the ]
church. During his association here with
the people of all denominations he made a
most favorable impression, and he takes ,
with him the best wishes not only of his (
own vestry, but of all with whom he became
acquainted. "NVe learn that he will leave
about the fourth of March for his new field
of labor.
MAIL CONTRACTS.
We have been furnished by Hon. J. J. ,
Hemphill with the recent awards of con- {
tracts by the Post Office Department, for {
carrying the mails in this vicinity for four (
years, from the 1st of July, 1884, as follows: ]
RouteNo. 14,182, from Yorkville, by Bethany
and Clark's Fork, to Yorkville, twice a
Atuoi-Hofl tn H n finjt.lpman at S14(i
per annum. ]
lloute No. 14,183, from Yorkville to Bullock's
Creek, three times a week. Awarded '<
to James J. Horton, at ?240 per annum.
Rotite No. 14,184, from Yorkville to Hope- i
well, three times a week. Awarded to H. j
F. Horton, at $249 per annum.
Route No. 14,185, from Yorkville to Garibaldi,
N. C., twice a week. Awarded to W. ]
0. Glover, at $240 per annum. j
Route No. 14,180, from Yorkville to Char- i
lotte, N. C., twice a week. Awarded to S.
D. Castleman, at $.'330 per annum.
Route No. 14,187, from Yorkville to Rock
Hill, twice a week. Awarded to ?S. D. Cas- ,
tleman, at $156 per annum. ?
Route No. 14,145, from Gaffney City to
Etta Jane, three times a week. Awarded
to S. D. Castleman, at $306 per annum.
Mr. If. F. Horton, to whom was awarded
the route from Yorkville to Hopewell, is a
resident of Bullock's Creek township, in (
this county. Mr. W. (). Glover, to whom 1
was awarded the Garibaldi route, resides in
Gaston county, N. C. Of Mr. J. J. Horton, j
to whom was awarded the Bullock's Creek (
route, we can gain no information ; nor do j
we know anything of Mr. 8. D. G'astleman,
to whom the other routes were awarded. '
We suppose he is a professional mail con- '
tract bidder, residing in another State, and j
intends to sub-let his contracts. ,
7 SERIOUS SHOOTING SCRAPE. j
On Friday night last, James It. Hoyle, of ,
Clover, in this county, was committed to s
the jail in this place on the charge of shoot- ]
ing and seriously wounding J. It. Strick- <
land, in that town, on Friday afternoon, j
Hoyle keeps the hotel in Clover, and also
carries on the business of house painting.
Strickland, whom he shot, was in his em- <
ployment as a journeyman painter.
The facts pertaining to the difficulty, as j
we are able to gathor them, are substantial- 1
Jy as follows: Hoyle has the contract for
painting the Presbyterian church, and <
Strickland was engaged to work upon it. J
On the day of the difficulty both men were ! (
in/im. +i,o ;ntinnnpp nf linnnr. Strickland I ,
V..V, ... ,
lmcl been at work during the forenoon, and !
after dinner resumed work, continuing un-:
til about 2 o'clock, when ho quit work and |
walked down the street, lloyle met him |
near the railroad crossing south of the cle-:
pot, and commenced using abiftive language j
to Strickland. Finally he seized Strickland ;
and struck him two or three blows with his f.
fist. Strickland then took hold of Hoyle j
and lloyle drew his pistol. Strickland then !
let loose of lloyle and fell back a step or i
two. lloyle then put his pistol in his pock-1
et and they clinched again, but soon separated,
and then Hoyle again drew his pistol!
and fired, the ball entering the lower part of j
the breast, a little to the right of the centre j!
of the breast, and lodging, the physicians j
think, in the region of the liver.
Immediately after the shooting, Hoyle I
talked off towards the hotel, and Strickland r
went into W. B. Smith's store and asked for <
water. Perceiving that Strickland was 1
ibout to fall, Mr. Smith and others caught j
liold of him and laid him down. I
About this time Hoyle, with pistol in <
hand, started for the store in which the
wounded man was lying, but just as he en- 1
tered the door, Trial Justice Bell, who had , '
Mine up in the meantime, wrenched the; j
pistol from his hand. ]
lioyle was subsequently arrested and ! i
committed to jail by Trial Justice Bell. <
Strickland was taken to his room, and 1
Drs. A. P. Campbell and J. R. Latimer call- j
3d In. Probing failed to find the ball. Both ! (
physicians pronounce his condition precari- <
3us, though he appeared to be resting well 1
on Tuesday. I'
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)C NATIONAL EDUCATION.
Col. A. Coward, State Superintendent of .
Education, returned last Monday evening }
from Washington city, where he had been (
in attendance upon a meeting of the "De- }
partment of Superintendents" of theXation- i
3.1 Educational Association. (
rryt A* f X*-5_ J X- X ~ i? XL- ~ f
me meetings or mis ueparuueiu. ui mu .
Association were held in the Congregationil
Church and presided over by Hon. B. L. ]
Butcher, of West Virginia. Three sessions ]
were held daily on Wednesday, Thursday i
and Friday of last week, and in attendance !
were a large number of gentlemen from all !
parts of the country identified with educa- (
tional interests?among them Mr. Bicknell, |
editor of the Boston JXlucational Journal; ]
I)r. Curry, agent of the Peabody fund, and
others.
During the sessions of the Association, a .
number of addresses were delivered on educational
subjects?one by Major Bingham, j
of North Carolina, which attracted general :
attention, presenting, in a true light, many
interesting facts concerning Southern work 1
and Southern education before an audience |
but little acquainted with either. ,
One principal object of this meeting in .
Washington was to bring the attention of ;
Congress directly to the question of Feder- 1
al aid in the work of eliminating illiteracy
from the masses, especially in the Southern
States. A hearing was given to a committee
of the Department of Superintendents, i
1 A1- ~ An
uy nit? xiuusc iiipu nfiiiuc v^i/iiiuiiii^u.? vu
Education, on Saturday. This meeting lasted
five iiours and was addressed by Dr.
Bicknell, of Massachusetts; State Superin- ,
tendent Orr, of Georgia; Col. Coward, of '
South Carolina; Mr. Holcombe, of Indiana;
and Mr. Armstrong, of Alabama, who pre- '
sented the subject in earnest arguments. (
Col. Coward speaks of this meeting of the j
Association as pleasant in every feature.
Discussion was frank and pleasant, and the <
interchange of views harmonious and un- I
biased by political matters.
The next meeting-of the Association will ;
be h^k' at Madison, Wisconsin.
SOUTHERN MORMONS. 1
A party of Southern Mormon converts *
passed through Atlanta on Wednesday on (
their way to Utah. The Atlanta Conxtitu- ,
'ion, speaking of these emigrants, says : 1
The party consisted of Mormon converts *
from Cleveland county, N. C. They were
en route to Utah, under the leadership of '
Elder Davidson, a glib-tongucd Latter Day <
Saint, who had persuaded them to abandon <
their homes in the old North State for the \
polygamous paradise on the shores of Salt i
Lake. Two of the men were middle aged, <
two were stalwart young fellows, and the
five women ranged in age from nineteen to 1
forty. All of them were rather good-look- 1
ing, well-dressed and apparently above the '
average in intelligence. * 1
But the Mormon leader, Elder Davidson,
as he was called, attracted more attention '
than his simple victims. The elder was a 1
young man, not over thirty, with a handsome
face, keen, flashing eyes and a black 1
mustache. lie was well dressed and would
have been presentable anywhere. Elder
Davidson had plenty to say for himself, but
as his train was about to start, it was impos- '
sible to interview him satisfactorily. As 1
the train rolled out of the depot with the
Jeluded converts and the impish guide who 1
had them in charge, the bystanders gave 1
expression to their views in strong and not (
particularly choice language. 1
V/ MASONIC MATTERS.
rA.t the Convocation of the Royal Arch 1
Chapter of South Carolina, in Charleston, j
en the 12th instant, the following officers j
were elected for the ensuing year:
G. D. Bryan, Charleston, M. E. Grand j
High Priest; J. E. Breazeale, Anderson, R. i
E. Deputy Grand High Priest; W. T. ]
Branch, Abbeville, R. E. Grand King; (
Morris Clarke, Marion, R. E. Grand Scribe); <
J. S. Connor, Winnsboro, Right Rev. Grand (
Chaplain; C. F. Jackson, Columbia, E. <
Grand Treasurer; J. E. Burke, Charleston, E.
Grand Secretary; A.H.White, Rock Hill, i
Grand Captain of the Host; W. N. Chand
ler, Winnsboro. Grand Royal Arch Captain; t
L. F. Meyer, Charleston, Grand Sentinel. j
On the same day the Grand Counci 1 of Royal
and Select Masons met in the same city. 1
The Most Illustrious Grand Master read his 1
address, which was referred to an appropri- '
;ite committee. His address shows that Cry p- ,
tic Masonry has not flourished in this State,
but that there was some evidence of a revival
of interest. The business was princi- 1
pally' matter of routine. The following: 1
?rand officers were elected and installed for j
the next ensuing year : ?
A. H. White, Rock Hill, Most 111. Gr. 1
Master; W. W. Humphreys, Anderson, <
Dep. Gr. Master; W. T. Branch, Abbeville, <
Gr. G. of W.; C. F. Jackson, Columbia, Gr.
Treasurer; D. 1). Moore, Rock Hill, Gr. <
Recorder. 1
PROGRESS OF THE RAILROAD.
The first train of the Chester and Lenoir :
Railroad reached Caldwell county last Thurs- i
Jay, and of the event, and the progress of j
the road, the Lenoir Topic says: s
On last Thursday, the track having been 1
laid and spiked down across the Catawba ]
railroad bridge, a train of three loaded 1
aars and a locomotive was brought across (
into Caldwell county. Upon this train ]
were Mr. James Mason, superintendent of
theC. & L. Railroad, Major Waddill, con- '
druction master, and Major G. W. F. Har- j
per, of Lenoir one of the stockholders and *
directors who has worked in season and out *
af season for the completion of this road, *
ind Mr. J. P. Rosseau, superintendent of J
the bridge building. Track laying was at s
ance progressed on this side of the bridge J
md it was understood that trains would '
run to Mull trestle, two miles into Caldwell, J
an Saturday evening. \
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THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK. f
An occasional correspondent of the JVeics
aid Courier, writing from Columbia, on the 1
political outlook in this State, gives the fol- ^
lowing as the "indications" thus early in g
the political year: >
The probabilities are that there will be no s
apposition whatever to the re-nomination s
af Governor Thompson. A number of articles
on the subject have appeared in the c
county papers, but nowhere has there been i
my suggestion of opposing the renomina- *
tion of the present Governor, who has given t
general satisfaction by the courtesy, intelli- 1
*ence and the unwavering fidelity with J ?
which he has discharged the duties of his 1 ]
important office. Thesingle objection made ! i
to him is that of the Aooevnie 1'ress ana i
Manner, which does not want any man as ; c
Governor who is an enthusiast on the sub-1 ]
ject of popular education. There is little I (
feeling of this sort in the State, and what is j t
treated by the Press and Manner as an objec- s
tion, is, in the eyes of most people, a strong 11
recommendation. If it were not, the Gov- j
Brnor's opinions on the subject would not be i (
in objection to him, for the reason that the ; t
Governor has no power whatever in the | (
matter. The State constitution makes it Ir
obligatory to support the public schools, and : s
it is the Legislature which has control of ]
the subject, except so far as the Constitution 1 s
prescribes the minimum tax that shall be! J
levied. It had been hinted that Governor I.
Thompson might become a candidate for '
Jongress this year, but there is the best authority
for saying that under no circumstances
will he accept the nomination for Congress,
and that he will consider it a high
nonor if he shall be renominated and reflected
as Governor.
There will be considerable stir in three of
;he Democratic Congressional Districts this
summer. It is no secret that Congressman
John H. Evins, of the Fourth District, is in
Had health, and he will not be a candidate
for re-election. The State has no better
representative in Congress than Col. Evins,
md his inability to serve the State any longer
will be a serious public loss. There is
no doubt that he has won the confidence and
respect of the Republicans as well as Democrats
as an able and hard working member
>f Congress. He .is now serving his fourth
term and would probably have been renominated
if he could have been a candidate.
There are several candidates in prospect.
Richland has ex-Attorney-General L. F.
Voumans and Col. Wra. Wallace. Fairfield
is expected to put forward the name of Col.
T. W. Woodward, but that jovial and unreconstructed
crentleman declares that he will
not be a candidate again. Greenville will
have two candidates, Mr. James L. Orr and
Ctol. W. H. Perry, the eldest son of ex-Govcrnor
B. F. Perry. Spartanburg will probably
enter asa candidate Col- D. R. Duncan,
now the Circuit Solicitor, and who was the
man who, as president of the company, carried
the Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad
across the Blue Ridge. Union, like
Spartanburg, will have but one candidate,
md he will be Col. I. G. McKissick. There
is plenty of room for speculation as to the
chances of the several gentlemen spoken of,
but not more than three of them are expected
to develop any considerable strength. s
The present representative of the Third
District is Col. D. Wyatt Aiken, who is serving
his fourth term, and is a candidate for
renomination. There is not much likelihood
that he will be opposed in his own
county, though it has been hinted that there
may be aspirants there. Newberry will
have a candidate in the person of the Hon.
Ceorge Johnstone, who is chairman of the
committee of ways and means of the House
of Representatives of the State. Oconee
and Pickens have suggested no candidates
io far. It is reported that Anderson will
put in the field Mr. E. B. Murray, the edit
Dr of the Anderson Intelligencer, and one of
the most active member's of the House of
Representatives.
The Second District is now represented
by Mr. George D. Tillman, of Edgefield,
and his re-nomination will not be opposed,
it is thought, ip his own county. There
may be opposition to him in Hampton and
Barnwell, as well as in Aiken. In Barnwell
State Senator Lartfgue is talked of as
a probable candidate, ana from Aiken Representative
G. W. Croft is named.
The Fifth and Sixth Districts are represented
by Messrs. John J. Hemphill and
George \V. Dargan respectively. These
gentlemen are now serving their first term,
having been elected in 1882, under the Act
re-distri^ting the State. They have given
satisfaction to their constituents, and will
be re-nominated without opposition
J* affairs of ^the Seventh, or Black
District, the Democrats, do not take much
interest. There is no Talk of nominating a
Democratic candidate in the district, and
the Republicans will be allowed to fight it
aut in their own way.
Altogether the outlook for lively times
luring the canvass for the nominations is
^uite promising, and it is not v^ry wide of
the mark to suppose that there will be considerable
activity on the part of the Republicans,
during the two or three months immediately
preceding the election. The inlicatious
are that there will be no Republi >un
nnnnsit.inn t? the eleetinn of the Demo
"rrvv* ? ? ??
cratic candidates for State offices, or except
in the Republican counties, to the Democratic
candidates for county offices and the
Legislature. The Republicans will naturally
make an effort to carry one or more of
tne Congressional districts and try to obtain
i majority for their electoral ticket. Their
chances in the latter respect will depend
very much on the character of the Democratic
candidate for President and the nature
of the platform on which he stands.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. '
LETTER FROM CHESTER.
Chester, February 19.?A call has been
extended by the Blackstocks Baptist church
to Rev. Mr. Ebeltoft, now of Shelby, N. C.
A worthy member of this church inlormed
me one day last week that he and his brethren
are quite hopeful of securingthe services
cf this excellent minister. After finishing
the course at Louisville Theological Seminary,
he was called to the pastorate of the
Baptist church at Mansfield, Louisiana,
where he labored acceptably until failing
health compelled him to resign. After
waiting a while, he took charge 01 a
church in Virginia,, but was again forced to
resign on account'of bad health. He has
for some time been engaged in some secular
employment in Shelby, N. C.,* but now
purposes to re-enter the ministry. If he ac- ''
cepts the call tendered him, he will be in
charge not only of the Blackstocks Baptist
church, but also of the Hopewell Baptist
church, near Richburg.
Rev. L. C. Hinton, for so many years the
pastor of the Baptist church at this place,
ind afterwards the pastor of several Baptist
churches in this county, entered on the
pastorate of Sugar Creek Baptist church,
York county, the first of the year. He will
?ive his whole time to this church, as the
membership is quite large, numbering
ibout four hundred. He has been kindly
received by the members of the church and
congregation, and his work in their midst
promises to be greatly blessed.
A meeting of the Directors of the Agricultural,
Mechanical and Horticultural Association
of Chester, Lancaster, .York and
Fairfield was held at this place on last Wednesday.
The President, Vice Presidents,
md Directors constitute the Board of Directors.
The officers of the Association are
Gen. John Bratton, of Fairfield, President;
Col. John S. Bratton, of York, Major T. W.
Woodward, of Fairfield, Gen. John Erwin,
;>f Lancaster and Mr. Jesse Hardin, of Chester,
Vice Presidents. The Directors are
Col. It. A. Love, Mr. S. M. Wylie, Mr. J. II.
Hardin, Col. E. T. Atkinson and Mr. W. IT.
N'ance. The gentlemen present at the late
meeting were Gen. John Bratton, Col. J. S.
Bratton, Col. It. A. Love, Mr. S. M. Wylie
md Col> E. T. Atkinson. Important action
tvas taken at this meeting in regard to the
premium list, which will he published in a
few weeks, and then distributed. It was
lecided to dispense with the silver premiums,
and in its place give cash. It is believed
that the revisement of the premium
ist is such as will have the effect of increasng
the exhibits at the next fair. It was
ilso decided at the Directors' meeting to
;rect additional buildings at the fairgrounds.
Col. J. S. Bratton, Col. E. T. Atkinson and
R. A. Love were appointed a committee to
supervise the erection of such buildings as
,vere needed. The matter of representation
)y the Fair Association at the New Orleans
Exposition was discussed at the Directors'
neeting. It was proposed to call upon the
State Board of Agriculture for aid to meet
;he expenses of transporting exhibits to and
rom New Orleans.
From September 1st of last year to February
1st ot this year 23,985 bales of cotton
vere shipped from this place; during the
lame time the year before 30,471 bales were
ihipped. During last month 1,539 bales
,vere shipped from this place; during the
;ame month last vear 2.936 bales were
ihipped.
A number of our citizens have contributed
juite liberally to the establishment of an
ndustrial school to be attached to the Brainird
Institute of which Rev. Mr. Loomis is
he worthy principal. A workshop will be
juilt with the amount contributed. Dr. A.
i. Haygood, agent of the State fund, will
provide the workshop, when completed,
,vith the necessary tools.
Mr. J. Lyle Glenn has resigned the office
)f Trial Justice at this place. Mr. \V. T.
Robison and Mr. W. M. Leckie are applijants
for the position. They have sent to
:he Governor petitions signed by their respective
friends. The. appointment will
jrobably be made this week.
Intelligence was received here on Saturlay
of a destructive tire at Blackstocks on
she night previous. Two stores with their
.'ontents and a warehouse were consumed,
rhe sufferers by the fire were J. E. Johnson
& Co.,Coleman & Banks and Mr. Elmore
Ivell. About 70 bales of cotton were destroyed,
of which 24 bales belonged to Mr.
Kell, and the rest to Mr. J. E. Johnson.
I. E. Johnson & Co. were insured to the