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Scraps and Jacts. ? The banks that have failed number ten, out of a grand total of 7,448 banks and bank-, ing houses in this country. As long as the remaining 7,438 pay one hundred cents on the dollar, the financial condition of the United States is pretty solid. ? The Northern Methodist Church Conference has adopted resolutions discountenancing divorce except for adultery. A resolution to abolish thecolor line in churches and church schools was adopted by an overwhelming rntyority over slight opposition. ? Fifty thousand dollars have been appropriated by the managers of the New Orleans Cotton Exposition for the purpose of oilnurinr* 1 r\rl rv?an ty~iqIrn o cnoniul AV ailVTTlUC W1VIUU lliV/U IV UiMAV u> V^/VVIM* VA hibit of their progress in the arts, manufactures and the other forms of industry. ? Miss Maude Crowley, daughter of ExCongressman Crowley, of Lockport, N. Y., died on Sunday of last week, aged 19. It is said she was engaged to Allan Arthur, President Arthur's son, who broke the engagement, which resulted in melancholy which hastened her death. ? A man in Delaware stole an umbrella and his sentence is to pay the costs of prosecution, a fine of $6, one hour in the pillory, twenty lashes and three years in jail. If he had developed a bank or a swindling broker concern, his punishment would have been much less. Perhaps he would not have been punished at all. ? The court of inquiry investigating the conduct of the Fourth Ohio Regiment during the riot at Cincinnati, has reported. They find charges against nearly all the officers, and recommend the disbandment of the regiment, and that the officers against whom there are no charges be taken as the nucleus of a new regiment. ? The war of the circuses has taken its way Westward, one showman in Nebraska warning the farmers of that State against a ---i - - tii - nvai as a "lorriuie! pesuieuvc, nuu an mc proprietor of a show "composed of the worst and most desperate organized band of thieves, cut-throats, plunderers and housebreakers, candy butchers, fakirs, gamblers and three-card monte men." ? A special dispatch to the Charlotte Observer says that Archie Orraes, ticket agent of the Air-Line Railroad at Atlanta, went out to Ponce De Leon Springs, three miles from the city Saturday afternoon, and shot himself in the head. When found he was still breathing, but he cannot survive. The cause for the deed is supposed to be financial troubles and fast living. ? Col. J. O. P. Burnside, disbursing clerk of the postoffice department, wasarrested in Washington last Thursday charged with embezzling $4o,000 of government funds. He waived a preliminary examination, and failing to give bail for his appearance before AL. i r?i- 1/vnL/x/i ;rt;i lilt! t^niiiiimi tuun, ne wits iiaiacu up iuj?u on Friday night. Remarkable to say, the Government required a bond in the full amount of his defalcation. ? The business failures throughout the country reported for the week ending last Friday to R. G. Dun & Co., number for the United States 151 and for Canada 26 ; total 177, as compared with a total of 231 the previous week?a decrease of 55 failures?showing a lessened number of business casualties in every section of the country except Canada, where there were six more failures than the week before. ?William Brown, colored, was hanged la3t Friday morning at Belleville, 111. He murdered a peddler named Lakigne, a poor, crippled Russian exile, whom he induced to remain all night in his hut on February 26th. James Tucker, colored, was hanged at Paris, Arkansas, on the same day, in the presence of 20,000 persons, for the murder of Aaron Parker, on the 27th of last December. ? In the meeting of the funeral directors' association at Pittsburg, Thursday, the following question arose: "When man and wife are Duried together on which side of the husband should the wife be buried," to which R. B. Bringhurst, of Philadelphia, replied : "The one who ruled the house in life ought to have the best position, but as in weddings the wife leans on the left arm of the husband, it is advisable to follow out the rule by placing her on the left in death." ? Two hundred and seventy Mormon immigrants, in charge of twelve missionaries, . arrived at New York Sunday on the steamship Aurania, and left for Utah Wednesday evening. The immigrants are principally from Germany. Most of them are in families, there being but few single women. Nearly all the men were farm laborers in Europe. There are, however, some artisans in the party. A large proportion are children, who appear quite healthy. The Mormons seem to be all thrifty and are well provided with luggage. ? Another heavy frost occurred at Washington last Thursday night, being the third in successive nights, doing heavy damage to corn, oats, potatoes, garden vegetables, truck farms and especially tobacco. Ice a quarter of an inch thick is reported in Canada, and freezing temperature is reported throughout Western Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. At Albany, N. Y., ice half an inch thick formed during the same night. Nearly all the vegetables and small fruits were destroyed. Some of the farmers protected their strawberry beds by keeping fires burning near them all night. ? The Department ofState at Washington having been informed that the Chinese government proposed to enter a silk loom in operation as an exhibit at the New Orleans Exposition, the question arose as to whether the Chinese restriction did not prohibit the landing of operators on the ground that they were laborers. The question was referred to the treasury department, andSecinfnrmofl tho Rpprptflrv of Jk lUlVtUIVU ??<V P^WV. v. State that the Chinese operators would be admitted without molestation, with the understanding that they will not remain in the country longer than necessary to display their exhibit. ? The Bartholdi Statue of Liberty, to be erected in the harbor of New York will be the highest in the world. The Colosus of Rhodes is only 130 feet high ; Nero, by Zenodore, is only 118 feet high ; Arminius on the Grotenburg, near Dermould in WestEhalia, measures 92 feet, and St. Borromeo y Cerani, at Arona on Lake Maggiore, is but 77 feet high. The statue is now standing in the court of Messrs. Gavet-Gauthier, the founders, on view for the Parisians, who contributed $250,000 for its purchase. The figure measures 111 feet from the heel to the top of the head ; the head is 14 feet high ; the eye is two feet broad, and the nose is 3 feet 3 inches. The forefinger is 8 feet long. The statue contains 89 tons of copper and 120 tons of iron, and consists of 300 separate pieces. It will be ready for shipment from France as soon as the pedestal is completed. ? A Washington dispatch of Saturday says: So large a number of Congressmen are absent at Chicago and elsewhere, or <? ? ?a 1 xi?i. xi ~ ~ paired wnn aosent meinuers, umt mere is very little prospect of the presence of a voting quorum to dispose of important controverted measures in the House of Representatives before the end of the week. The unfinished business in the Senate is the Utah bill. Senator Hoar, who has it in charge, has gone to Chicago, and has requested Senator Ingalls to take charge of it during his absence. It will be called up each day, and if Senators have formal speeches to make on it the opportunity will be afforded. It is more likely, however, that it will be temporarily laid aside after being formally taken up each day, and that the time of the Senate will be given to the consideration of important and non-partisan measures on the calendar. ? A dispatch from Wheeling, W. Va., says: "John Adams, a prominent and v. wealthy farmer, and sheriff of Webster ^vrounty, became infatuated with a dissolute ^*>J3tt:ter. To free himself from his wife groutftfcjn-ought suit for divorce on the nesses toSofaithfulness, and secured witgranting oftfowi the charge. After the peared from the nwge Mrs. Adams disapsupposed that she hadPifcChood, and it was urday evening one of her&ftccmnty. Satwho was visiting a few miles!?*? a?e(1 13, climbing Mount Hero, a mountantSJQ^ 'n wooded, came across a rail pen. Loo&l? in, he saw a woman. He ran to the nearest house for friends. Returning they found the mother of the child nearly dead from exposure, chained to a rock in the pen. On being revived she said her husband had had her taken to a cave and kept there till almost dead from starvation. Two davs be fore he brought her to the pen and fastened her by the chain. The place where she was | found is lonely, and is not visited once in a i year. It is supposed that the husband I meant to let her die, then remove the chains | and make it appear a case of suicide. The country is terribly aroused, and the guilty man and his dissolute friend will be lynched if caught. Mrs. Adams will die." ?ltc ?wMle #mjuim. YORHVILLE, S. C. : THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 5, 1884. HOW MANY DELEGATES ? The Laurensville Herald is in doubt as to the number of delegates that will compose the next State Democratic Convention. Article 3 of the constitution of the party reads as follows : "The State Convention shall be composed of delegates from each county in the numerical proportion to which that county is entitled in both branches of the General Assemby." But the editor of the Herald say9 : "As to what is meant by 'numerical proportion' we do not exactly understand. Of course we all know that the word "numerical" denotes number, and I that "proportion" signifies the arrangement of parts, but we can see no authority given in said article for sending double the number of delegates to the State Convention that a county has Representatives in both branches of the General Assembly. Hence, we think this important question should be settled before the assembling of the county convention." This is certainly a very important matter, and ought to be decided without delay. It j is not at all likely, however, that the number nf Hplptmfps will be decreased, and counties that eleot delegates before this question is settled should elect the same number they had in the last convention. REGISTRATION. The importance of registration should be remembered by the Democratic voters of the county. Those who registered two years ago, and still have their registration certificates need not register again; but all who have become qualified electors since the last election are required to renew them. By Act of the last Legislature that clause of the registration law prohibiting the renewal of registration certificates is repealed, and now upon satisfactory evidence before the register that a certificate has been lost, it is his duty to renew it. Applications for the renewal of registration certificates can be made until the first of October, but those who, within the last two years, have become of proper age to vote, should bear in mind that they have but little time to lose. Persons not now of age, but who will be of proper voting age at the time of the election, are entitled to register, and the same class of voters can vote in the primary election, even though they may not be 21 years of age on the day of the primary election. The books of registration will be open at the Court House on the first Monday of July next, and then only can voters who have not yet registered enroll their names and obtain their certificates qualifying them to ;? > +Vi<-k nionfinn novt Yfivpmhpr. This V 111 111V &1V/VVK/II UVAV *w . V... . is an important matter to all Democratic voters. There is a singular unanimity in the desire by Republican voters to register or renew their lost certificates, while it is feared that the Democrats are singularly apathetic on the same subject. ? GATHERING OF THE CLANS. A Chicago dispatch of Saturday says that the morning of that day witnessed the arrival of a large contingent of the delegates mainly from the Southern States who came in independent detachments and representing irregularly from all portions of the South. There were a large number of arrivals from Iowa, and practically the entire delegation from that State is now in the city. Two Blaine delegates came in from the eighteenth Ohio district and they were accompanied by somewnat over one nundred outsiders. They marched to their hotel from the depot in a solid body. The event of the morning was the arrival of the California and Nevada delegations, whose transit eastward has already been very widely heralded. They were met at the depot by a delegation of citizens and preceded by martial music, marched to their quarters at the Palmer house. The delegation gave three cheers for the gentleman from Maine and separated. The room set apart for the reception of the delegation of business men from New York, by the business men of this city, in advancing the candidacy ol Mr. Arthur, is being richly decorated in anticipation of the arrival of the party from the east at 3 o'clock this afternoon at the Grand Pacific hotel. The managers in charge of the movement in the interest of Senator Logan have thrown open two large parlors on the first floor in place of the more contracted quarters heretofore occupied by them. It is estimated that about 300 delegates are now in the city. The National committee began its sessions at noon on Saturday. , , , The Normal Institute.?Every teacher who can possibly spare the time and money should attend the Institute in Spartan burg. Board may be obtained in private families at four dollars a week for the session. It will be a little higher at the hotels. The railroads generally give reduced rates to teachers. The Institute will begin the loth of July and continue four weeks. A secretary will be appointed, who will make all arrangements as to the securing of board. The following are some of the reasons why teachers should attend. 1st. Teachers who are not perfect can learn something. 2d. They will be the better prepared to work after old nlans or to make new ones. 3d. The teacher's work tends to isolate ! him from his fellows and the community, j One session at the Institute will draw him 1 nut nnd hrinp> him into svmnathv and har ! mony with others engaged in the same i work. 4th. They will have more exalted opinions of their profession and work. 5th. Spartanburg is a delightful place to I spend a month or two in the summer. Good i water, mineral springs, fine drives, pleasant 1 nights and a bracing air make the place at! tractive. Gth. An excursion to the mountains will j be made during the session. This is a rev! elation of wonderful scenery, especially to ! persons who have never been in the moun| tains. Special rates are given to those who wish to run up on the Asheville road on Saturdays and return Mondays. ! 7th. In a few words, it may be said that 1 the teachers' meeting in Spartanburg this year, will be furnished with ample means j for improvement, recreation and social en: joyment. The daily lectures by the regular faculty, the special lectures by distinguished educators, and the teachers' meetings ; will furnish an amount of valuable information that will compensate one for the time and money spent in coming to Spartanburg. Let there be a grand rallying of the teachers ^of the State. It will do them good.?Caroj**qSpartan. u^jnh^Sftiocratic National Convention, ? IJJSS&'iicago on the 8th of thp 802 delegates. UndeJ nmkX'no^ 535 '? THE CANDIDATE OF TWO PARTIES. B Ben Butler, of Massachusetts, enjoys the ^ distinction of being before the country as the ^ standard bearer of two parties in the pres- a1 idential race. He is the nominee for Presi- bi dent of the Labor-Reform party, and on w Thursday last, the Greenbackers, in their ?l Presidential Convention at Indianapolis, nominated him as their candidate for Pres- a} ident, and West, of Mississippi, for Vice- ]y President. The Greenbackers show by their works that they are not bound by sectionalism, and that Sherman's late waive of the bloody shirt, by procuring a Senatorial investigation of alleged political outrages V, in the very State that claims Mr. West, has no terrors for them. Usually political ex- |y treraes in the United States meet by the fr coming together of Massachusetts and st South Carolina, and we think in this case ^ a mistake was made in not giving our own r( m-irv ca/?a?/1 i\1aaa an fKa fi/iL'ftt K\f 1 iUtuniic uic sauuu pi?v.c i/u mc nv.ivv.v uj q( the side of the Massachusetts statesman, p But a compromise on Mississippi was probably the best that could be done, and it evinces progress, if nothing else. The platform adopted sets forth the ob- te jets of the Greenback party and what it has r* accomlished, saying that Congress had re- ?! pealed over $12,000,000 annual taxes for banks, throwingthisburden upon the people oi to pay interest thereon. It denounces as \ dangererous to our Republican institutions M those methods and policies of parties which have sanctioned or permitted the establish- ,T ment of land, railroad and other gigantic oi corporate monopolies and demand such tl Government action as may be necessary to take from such monopolies the powers they have so corruptly and unjustly usurped and restore them to the people to whom they be- r( long. It denounces the policy of granting fi large tracts of lands to corporations and de- ii mands the forfeiture of all unearned grants, aj and that alien ownership of land be prohibited. It demands Congressional regula- ? tion of inter-State commerce and the es- b< tablishment of a Government postal tele- d graph system and a graduated income tax, tl and makes various other demands in the ^ interest of labor. 0] The Greenbackers are organizing with the it view of prosecuting the campaign in earn- ei est. The .National committee were in ses- v sion a day after the adjonrnment of the P Convention, having organized by electing J E. A. Gillette, of Iowa, antl D. W. Ter- (j lindo, of New Jersey, Secretary. w SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. u ?The oat harvest has begun at Williams- P burg, and is regarded as exceedingly good, h ? The Williamsburg secret societies are s' accepting the due bills of their members for ^ fees payable in the fall. ? The Winnsboro Herald has positive information that there will be no June term t of the Circuit Court of that county. ^ ? Francis I. Sessions, Sheriff of Horry 5 county, died at Conway, last Friday even- p ing, aged G1 years. p ?In Greenville, last Friday, John Jackson, colored, was committed to jail for thirty n days by a trial justice for failure to pay the ^ poll tax. te ? One firm in Chesterfield county returns t fifteen thousand acres of land at $3,500, and d thousands of acres are returned at a similar w valuation. The county is out of debt. ri ? A farmer in Kershaw county now has on C hand 1,200 bushels of home-raised corn. His example is worthy of imitation by all al the rest of the farmers. F ?The case of young Lee, who was wounded when Boggan Cash was killed, and who was tried in the Chesterfield Circuit Court i? last week for agravated assault, resulted in n a mistrial, eleven of the jury being for ac- 11 quittal. P ? Adjutant-General Manigault has finish- ?] ed the Spring inspection of State troops. r! He reports the condition of the troops as r' verv irood indeed, and fully up to the stan darcl "of last yeari Numerically the commands are about the same as last year. ? The Greenville Enterprise says: "Isaac t M. Bryan, Esq., has been retained as the leading counsel for the defendant in the case of the United States against A. Blythe, late United States marshal! for South Carolina." u ? Allen Delaney was shot by Sandy Rob- ^ ertson, in Fairfield county, on Thursday p night last and died soon after. The affair grew out of the fact that Delaney had taken r( the part of a woman who had prosecuted r( Robertson. All the parties concerned were tj colored. t( ? A white man named Burns, from North p Carolina, made a contract with Mr. Logan tl Webster, of Marlboro county, to work for tl him during the present year. Burns got w dissatisfied and violated the contract. lie S was taken up and sent to jail by a trial justice for thirty days. C( ? Mr. J. C. Keys, who has a farm near An- ti derson, is one of the champion farmers of that county. His grain fields are exception- j* ally fine this year. It is expected that he ^ will make 1,000 bushels of barley and sever- cj al thousand bushels of oats and wheat. Mr. U Keys is a very successful farmer, and the se- r( cret of his success is that he diversifies his ? crops and makes cotton a surplus crop. ? The Columbia correspondent of the News a and Courier writes, under date of Saturday: J"! Private advices received here state that an 11 alarming amount of illness prev Ms at the ^ Clifton Factory, Spartanburg county, about l1 three hundred and fifty hands being sick with black measles, mumps, dysentery and fevers. It is reported that the deaths average two a day. ? Thp nf Ssitnrrlslv ?i says: "Capt. S. E. White, of Fort Mill, S. ti C., has an Ayrshire cow that gives seven . gallons and two quarts of milk everyday. The cow is undoubtedly a magificent ani- {} mal. Several parties refusing to believe it, were invited to witness the milking and ~ measuring yesterday, and went away satisI fied on seeing the gallons measured bej fore their own eyes." i ? Ex-Deputy United States Marshal Star- rp : ling P. Landford, formerly of Woodruff's, tf i Spartanburg county, who ran away from ; Greenville three years ago after forging an- ^ I other's name to a postoffice draft and doing i other rascally deeds, was arrested last Fri- " ! day at Statesville, N. C., by Postoffice In! spector L. B. Lamson. Landford was ~ | brought to Greenville and turned over to 11 ! Deputy Marsnai James iving, wno lougeu ; : him in jail to await trial at the August | I term of the United States District Court. 0 j ? Capt. Robert W. Andrews, of Sumter, ^ i aged 93 years, who recently left his home j ] for the purpose of making a pedestrian i P; ' tour to Boston, where he has a son living, | ! reached Washington last week. He has av- ; tl I eraged 25 miles a day since undertaking j tl I the trip. While in Washington, he called ! T ! on, President Arthur, and he says he has I tl ! spoken to every President of the United j j States from Washington down to Arthur, i IV I with the exception of the late President j fr ! Garfield. (c< I ?Columbia Register, Saturday: It is j h stated that a gentleman recently from Ger- o j many, who remained in Columbia several : days, has gone to Oconee county to establish k rights to an immense body of land, the ! t( 1 titles to which run back to 1790. Over a i T 1 thousand persons are now in possession of w 1 these lands, and they can only oe ousted by tl long litigation. The Register's informant in 1 further states that the claim to tne janus . in question has created much excitement; s\ in the country, and that the lawyers are d ! looking for a harvest in the field of litiga- 01 I tion. i v J ? Joel Vaughn, who lives near Seneca S City, is said to have one of the largest fami- ft i lies in the United States. He is about eigh- n j ty years of age, has been married four times ii and now hasan infant child. Hislastthree tl ! wives were widows, all of whom had chil- I . 1 dren by their previous husbands, respetive- ]ji ly eight, seven and four, a total of nineteen, tl I These four wives bore Mr. Vaughn twenty- ri seven children, which, added to the nine- n teen step-children, gave Mr. Vaughn con-! y trol of forty-six children. There are thus d ; seven different sets of children. j oi ! ? At the last term of Court a suit was h ! brought against the county of Aiken by p Mrs, S. E, Twiggs for $3,000 on a charge of 1: tresspass and damage in opening a road ii through her lands from the nigh lands in d eech Island to the swamp lands. Judge fitherspoon issued a temporary injunction straining the use of the road until the latter could be heard before Judge Aldrich t Chambers in Barnwell. The case has een recently argued before Judge Aldrich, ho has decided that a county cannot be . led on an action brought for damages for esspass, but he continued the injunction a ntil regular appointed commissioners have 3 pertained the actual compensation due o [rs. Twiggs for the land. v PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. a J n the Senate, on the 2Gth, Blair presented e resolution of the General Conference of the 11 Northern) M. E. Church, then sitting at a hiladelphia, favoring the passage by Con- a ress of the Educational Bill recently passed rr y the Senate. Senator Ingalls reported '1 nm the enmmittee nn the Judiciary, a sub il;ute for the joint resolution introduced by v enator Jackson proposing an amendment b ) the Constitution of the United States in i slation to the terms of office of the Presi- b ent and Vice-President. The amendment i rovided tor in the substitute is as follows: r "Article 2?Executive powers shall be vest- a I in the President of the United States of nicrica. The President and Vice-President p sreafter elected ahull hold their office for the v irm of six years, but the President shall not be j s-eligiblo, lior shall the Vice-President be eli- c ible to the office of President if he shall have cercised the same incase of vacancy therein." ? The Utah bill came up for the regular I( rder, and Hoar proceeded to speak in ad- ^ oeacy of the bill. Atfer speaking for some ! me he yielded to enable the Mexican pea- \ on bill to be taken up. The principle a mnges made by the Senate Pensions Com- " littee in the bill as itcame from the House ^ F Representatives, are. jjrst,in striking out . le clause that limits yiddws' pensions to j: ises of widows who were married before ' ie soldier's discharge from the army, and ? ermitting the payment or the pension to II Mexican soldiers' widows who have not jrnarried ; and, second, limiting the bene- t ts of the act to persons who are dependent """t- ""An O.nii* Aiirn lolinr nf I wuuic Ui in [;ai t u|ji/ii tu^ii vuii iuuui w? distance from others for support. MitchII. Chairman of the committee on Pen- , ons, explained the effect of the amend- * >ents and said that if every soldier should J, e pensioned for service without regard to isabilities, the application of the rule to i, le surviving soldiers of the late war ould involve the couniry in an expen- r iture of about $100,000,000 annually. His 2 pinion was that every man owed milary duty to his country. The estimat- ^ ;1 number of Mexican soldiers now sur- . iving was 3G,000, and the bill gave a ^ ension to all who had served even one ? ay. He thought that those who did not eed a pension ought not to ask it. After ebate, and without action the matter t ent over. Brown offered the following mendment to the Utah bill: "That vol- _ ntary sexual intercourse of a married 1 ei-son with one of the opposite sex not the > usband or wife of suen married person ^ lall be the cause and the only cause of ab)lute divorce from the bond of marriage in le District of Columbia or in the Territories f the United States and any other places abject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the 'nited States ; but the courts may in cases t common law grant divorces from bed and oard in said District or Territories or other \ ? 1 JUUtfS suujeub IU lilt? cauiuoivc jiui^ii^ui/u ? f the United States." Adjourned. In the Hou.se, after an introduction of a t umber of bills under the call of States, t urner of Georgia, called up the Ohio con- p isted election of Wallace vs. McKinley. f he majority report unseats McKinley and t eclares Wallace to be entitled to the seat, t hile the minority resolutions confirm the s ght of the sitting member. Belford, of 'G olorado, introduced a bill appropriating e )00,0()0 for the erection of a home for dis- r bled soldiers of the Confederate army at \ redericksburg, Va. Referred. Adjourned. \ In the Senate, on the 27th, the Utah bill s as discussed, Brown's amendment provid- v ig that voluntary sexual intercourse of a larried person with one of the opposite sex, j ot. the husband or wife of such married \ erson, should be cause, and the only cause \ fabsolute divorce from the bond of mar- { age in the District of Columbia, the Ter- ? tories and other places subject to the jurisiction of the United States being the subict under debate. i In the House, a joint resolution appropri- <\ tin<j $100,000 for the relief of the sufferers t y the overflow of the Mississippi river and s s tributaries was passed. t] In the Senate, on the 28th, the Mexican j! ensions bill was discussed, nearly the entire av being devoted to it. s In the House, the session was devoted to le consideration of the legislative appro- j riation bill. t In the Senate, on the 29th, an amendment ^ iducing the appropriation by the House r ^solution for the sufferers in Louisiana by s ic overflow of the Mississippi was agreed ^ ). The resolution as amended appro- s riates $40,000. The conference report on 'j le agricultural bill was agreed to, and e le District of Columbia appropriation bill u as passed. After executive session the ] eriate adjourned until Monday. e The session of the House was devoted to <] msideration of the legislative appropria- p ori bill. a In the House, on the 31st, on motion of s Ir. Poland a bill was passed restoring the t iw of 1867, in the matter of appeals from s rcuit courts to the United States Supreme s ourt in habeas corpus cases. This law was c ipealed a few years ago, while the McAr- t le case was pending before the Supreme u ourt. The District of Columbia appropri- t tion bill with the Senate amendments was jiferred to the Committee on Appropriaons. The regular order having been de- -y landed, the House proceeded to the con- r deration of business reported from the a ornmittee on Indian Affairs. 'r f POLITICS IN TIiE STATE. t ? Col. It. E. Bowen, of Pickens, has been ? oniinated for Congress from the Third I)is- J ict. * ? The Union Times thinks that Col. David ? i. Duncan should be re-elected solicitor for ^ lat circuit. 0 ? The Seneca Free Press says : "Thorough j rganization is just as necessary to retain v le control of our government as it was to a ?scue it from the hands of our oppressors." ^ -The Kershaw Gazette does not admire r ilden, but it thinks that it is unwise to be r irowing mud at him until after it is deter- t lined whether or not he will receive the t emocratic nomination for the Presidency, i] ? The Cheraw Sun and Monitor has pub- i shed an address to the colored people of c hesterfield and Marlb.oro' counties advis- s lg them to keep out of polities and go to v ork to improve their material condition, s ? E. A. Webster, the Republican oracle of 9 rangeburg county and a delegate to the 'a:ional Republican Convention, thinks c lat Arthur will be the nominee of the r arty for President. s ? The Chester Bulletin thinks there are ^ ireo paramount issues which should be } loroughly discussed in the ensuing canvass. *? hose are taxation, the free-school law and J le lien law. t ? After mature reflection Mr. G. H. Mc- Q. [aster, of Winnsboro, has decided to retire ? om the Senatorial contest in Fairfield mnty, his private interest not permitting c is being a candidate for the Senate or any ther position. 1 ? The Easley Messenger is in favor of ma-1 a inga Congressman out of Judge Cothran, | a ) take the place of Col. I). Wvatt Aiken, j q he Greenville News says "Judge Cothran ( ill not come off the Bench," and suggests 0 lat Mr. George Johnstone, of Newberry, s ; a good man to run for the place. j ? The Columbia correspondent of the r Teivs and Courier, writes under date of Fri- j \ ay: "The Columbia contingent of Federal ( u Ifiee holding delegates to the Chicago Con-. I ention left to-day for the West. While the ! a outh Carolina delegates are nominally; s >r Arthur, they will break for the winning , t mn as soon as ne shows his hand. No dis- j iterested sacrifice of office is proposed by | ^ ip nrlliorents of Arthur in this State." i ? The Columbia correspondent of the At- j t inta Constitution says: "I had a short talk ' t le other day with Beverly Nash, who, du- i o ;ng the reconstruction days, was one of the i f lost powerful negroes in South Carolina. ; e le has wholly abandoned politics,,and now , o evotes his time to cultivating a small farm s 11 the outskirts of the city. He says that c e learned some time ago that politics didn't h ay, and therefore withdrew from politics, j e le is still a Republican, but takes no part a 1 their meetings. He is the picture of a ; isgusted, disappointed negro politician." i p Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. 1 g< ON HIS TRAVELS. I "Y FIRST I.F.TTER FROM DR. I.ATHAN. I cj New York, May 31?As is known to j t(j ho readers of the Enquirer, I left home ? nd those nearest and dearest to me, on ^ lonclay, the 20th instant, for the purpose , B f attending the Pan-Presbyterian Council, tl irhich, according to adjournment, is to meet .V1 t Belfast, Ireland, June 24th. From my f arliest recollection there has been in my I 'o( aind a strong desire to see Europe. The ccumulating cares of life have not been ai ble to weaken this desire. On the contra- n< y, it has grown stronger as I grew older, j ti 'his is not strange. Ireland is the home of j Ii ny ancestors, and in the midst of a people j n: yhose veins coursed pure scotcn-irisn si >lood, I was born and educated. Such be- qi ng the case, I confess that the moment I oarded the train at Yorkville I felt that n the kind providence of God the dream of ay childhood, boyhood and riper years was bout to be realized. v The journey thus far has been exceedingly ? leasant. The Capital of the United States ras reached at 9.20 A. M. 011 Tuesday. laving some time at my command, I con- I\ luded to spend a day in the city. As C night be expected, every feature of Amer- . ?an society is presented to the view in jj he city of Washington. Men and women a] rom all sections of the United States visit ?( he Capital. Some, like myself, go there 0 gratify their curiosity, others go to look ' fter some busineas, and others again, go to ? ;et business. &1 At mid-day I went to the capitol. This Jl 3 a huge building?rather, it is a number of luge buildings. I shall not attempt to de- sr cribe it. In order to do this successfully, lti rould require natural endowments and an tl mount or jenrning mat no onu man pusatrrs-s- u< s. It would require, instead of days, years ti o study it. The structure is massive and C worthy of the American Nation. Through the kindness of a friend, I was dmitted to the Members' Gallery. From j his elevated position, I could look down Q, ipon the law-makers of the country. It is 1T iften and truthfully said that England has S( tecome great in spite of her kings. It may le as truthfully said that the United Slates ? s great in spite of her legislators. The first ~ luestion before the House on Tuesday, was ^ ne continuation of the discussion of the n lection case of Wallace against McKinley. n Vallace and his friends claimed that he had >een elected a member of Congress, while " dcKinley and his friends claimed that he lad been elected. ^ In the matter, I felt, I may say, no inter- J* st, and it was apparent that the majority of *J he members of the House cared absolutely ^ lothing. Several members made half hour j!t peeches. The speeches were tame?very ^ ame indeed?mere school-boy exercises, o' sTo one listened to a single thing that they vere saying. In fact, I never saw a more 11 lisorderly public meeting. While a mem- 11 >er was on the floor speaking, the rest, ^ nany of them, at least, were standing up in h groups talking, others were walking about, ,nd I saw one member quietly smoking a n igar. In the House, there are a number ot p mall boys?bright little fellows?apparent- nr __ j? ? x- x 1 rtiUa,. y iroin ton 10 tweivu years uiu. xney ?u- vi mart looking little fellows, and all are well u Iressed. These are the sons of?well, of t( heir fathers, of course. They are pages, b hat is, they wait upon the members of Con- ci ;ress. Whenever they are needed the par- ti icular member whom they are accustomed o serve, claps his hands and immediately ai he little fellow is seen running, at full tt peed, to serve the dignitary for whose ben- ]V fit and by whose influence he was employ- c< ;d. Many of these little fellows are nearly fi elated to some of the great men of the e< Jnited States. Their mothers generally si ive in the city. These pages receive about fi eventy-five dollars per month for their ser- a dees. a The Senate is a less noisy body than the louse of Representatives. This, no doubt, ^ s due mainly to the fact that it is not so D arge. It is manifest that much of the na- |;( ional legislation is nothing but the most g glaring partisan trickery. aj Everything in the city of Washington is i( ?n a grand scale. The public buildings are ^ n keeping with the progress of the age. 0] ["he streets and avenues, parks and every- ^ hing of this kind are beautiful beyond de cripuon. i nert; is m cuurse ui cicvuuu u. p, iew pension building. This, I was told, 0] s the largest brick building in the world. t The world is represented in Washington ^ ociety. Washington is not a business city, jc .lthough a large amount of all sorts of busness is transacted there. The majority of J?( hose who reside, or rather, congregate in Vashington are there for the purpose of Measure. A kind of "show off" spirit ^ eems to have taken hold of everyone. jr ?he pleasure vehicles which traverse the treets are strange, nondescript things. + ?here seems to be a passion for two-wheel- y d vehicles. Of these two-wheeled, pleas- C1 ire carriages there are two kinds. The on- a( y difference being that in the one the driv- ? r sits in front; in the other, he sits behind. ?he latter kind, I was told, is used in no dace in the world except in Washington nd the city of London. It is called a nanom. I have no knowlege of the deriva- ai ion of the word, but I am sure that han- ni om and handsome, however much they re- f( emble each other, have a totally different *r rigin. A hansom is, beyond all doubt, the b' igliest thing of the vehicle kind that ever net the gaze of mortal man. In addition ti o this, it is said to be very severe 011 a Ir lorse?a first class horse killer. st On the 9.50 train on Wednesday, I left y Vashington for New York. This great Ji netropolis?the grandest city in America ^ .ndone of the grandest in the world?was S? eached at 5.30 P. M. Here I was met by a ^ riend whose face I herhaps had once seen, 11 mt had long forgotten. \V ith this friend I e; pent the time very pleasantly. New York P! s not equal in the number of its population 1 o some of the European cities, neither is it n qual to them in the wealth of its inhabi- J? ants generally, but still, New York may veil be regarded as one of the great cities " ?f the world. It is situated on Manhattan * sland. This island, triangular in form, is a cashed on one side by the North river, on J1, .nother by the East river, which is a con- " inuation of Long Island sound, and on the emaining side by Harlem river, which is lot a river proper, but only the junction of d he North and East rivers which is caused S iy a tide flowing through a ravine on the c< lorth side of the island. Manhatan island s about two miles wide and thirteen long, P onsequently, contains about twenty-six P quare miles. This territory is covered ? vith houses, some of which are fourteen P tories high and in which fifty families re- P ide. b< It is impossible for any one to see much d if New \ork in two days. It is too large; ^ io one pair of eyes are able to take it in in ai o short a time. It would take a short life- jc ime to gain a thorough knowledge of New ei fork. A month, a week, even a day makes ir . vast difference in the appearance of things ^ n some parts of the ciiy. Old houses are r* orn down and new ones, larger and grand- t-i - 5 x ?fr x in every respect, are erceieu m uicu -tead. In the northern section of the city " he greatest amount of building seems to be tl ;oing on. In fact, there is no place else to w mild. Es'ery few years multitudes of peo- rc >le move up town. ^ In some sections of the city, the houses v re all that immense wealth and the best S< rchitectural skill and mechanical genius ti an make them. The Roman Catholic 'athedral is the finest structure of its kind & n the Continents. This mighty building B urpasses anything of the kind in the city, d lere the devotees of the Pope of Rome rc neet and mumble out their devotional ser ices. Atall times in the day, and perhaps, light also, individuals may be seen in this E ordly temple. Some of them are reading bi nd some are nraviner. while multitudes ei imply come in and bow down to what is by ti hem regarded as the picture of our Saviour. One of the most beautiful places in New it fork is the Central Park. This is situated af n the northern portion of the city and con- bi ains near one thousand acres of land. In ei he northern part of this park stands the sc belisk, which was brought a few years ago, p; rom the land of the Pharoahs. \ our read- tl rs, 110 doubt, remember the fact. Itconsists tl >f a single shaft of granite, with four faces T lightly tapering. Each of the four sides is cl overecl from top to bottom with hieroglyph- ol cs. The celebrated Vanderbilt bore all the tl xpense connected with the transportation b< nd erection of this obelisk. si In Central Park there is everything to h< >lease and instruct. The menagerie is very P X)d. In it may be seen the native animals r every country on the globe. One of the most wonderful things in New ork is the facility for traveling through the | ty. Several lines of elevated railroad ex>nd through the city, and street cars run in 1 directions. These conveyances keep | ling night and day and pass every minute, he grandest thing of all is the Brooklyn ! ridge. This was begun in 18G7, by legisla- j ve enactment, and finished in 1883. One 1 ear ago a very serious accident occurred on j lis bridge. The people became panicricken and rushed pell-mell over each j iher. Even those persons who have been born j ad raised in New York, and who have I ever been out of it for any great length of me, are amazed at its marvelous growth, i no place in the world is the power of lind and money more manifest. In a very lort time the Austral will sail, and, conseuently, I must close for the present. it. Lathan. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The Democratic State Convention, of orth Carolina, will meet in Raleigh, on the >th instant. ? Hon. Henry Watterson, of Louisville, [y., delivers the annual address at the hapel Hill commencement to-day. ? The State Military Board of North C'arona, held a session at Salisbury, last week, nd adopted a code of regulations for the Dvernment of the State Guard. ?The track of the Western North Carolina .ailroad has been laid on the Ducktown ranch, ten miles beyond Waynesville, into ack3on county. -The noted case against Ray and Ander>n, the Mitchell county murderers, who ist February killed a man in a dispute over le possession of a mica mine, was to have een tried at Lenoir last week, but wasconnued. The prisoners will remain in the aldwell jail until the next term of Court. ? Shelby Aurora: It is difficult to ascertin the cost of an orange which caused inirectly a fight between seven negroes and ne woman on Sunday, broke up a colored leeting, took the whole day for the trial of jven defendants who wounded and cut aeir victim with knives. Six of the uilty ones will work on the streets under uard at 37J cents per day for two months, hat orange has cost in lawyers' fees, witesses for State and defendant and two lonths wages for six, over $190. ?Charlotte Ob.ientr, Sunday: Capt. F. S. leWolfe, with his wife and three daughters, ill to-night bid farewell to Charlotte and ;ave for distant Oregon, in which State leir fortunes will in the future be cast, apt. DeWolfe will locate in the growing ttle city of Portland. His departure irom harlotte is a matter of genuine regret by ur citizens, who feel that Charlotte will be le loser and Portland the gainer by the iove. Cant. DeWolfe was at one time layor of the city and his administration 'as considered the best of any previous to is time. ? The Newton Enterprise: About twelve lonths ago in Caldwell county, Henry Clipard, a young man, killed another young uin by the name of Carlton. He fled the juntry, but returned just before the last irm of the court and surrendered himself ) the officers of the law. He was taken efore Judge Graves on a writ of habeas :)rpii8, and it appearing to be a case of jusfiable homicide was admitted to bail. On [onday he presented himself at court, was rraigued, and a special venire summoned ) try the case Tuesday. He went home [onday afternoon, and while on his way to jurt Tuesday morning, a short distance om Lenoir, stopped by the wayside, pull[1 off his coat, presented a pistol to the left de of his head just back of the ear and red. The bullet passed through his head nd came out on the other side. He died bout five hours after the shot. ? Upon the trial of Thomas L. Shields for ic murder of Joseph G. Sitton, in the Suerior Court of Mecklenburg, in 1883, which ^suited in conviction and an appeal to the upreme Court for a new trial, the Judge I lowed the State to introduce a letter writ;n by the deceased on the night before the omicide, addressed to the sister of the prisner, Miss Mollie Shields. It was admitted y the State that this letter had never been Kseived by Miss Shields, nor in fact had ver been seen by her until handed to her ri the trial, but the same was found in the unk of the deceased, among his other ef!Cts, on the morning of the homicide. The itter was introduced by the State, after obction by the prisoner, for the purpose of jntradicting the testimony of both the risoner and Miss Mollie Shields. The Sureme Court says, in this there was error, hat the letter could stand on no better footlg than a naked declaration on the part of ie deceased. That it could not he admitid as evidence, for the reason thatit wanted ie solemnity of an oath and the test of a oss-examination. And for this error, in Emitting the letter in evidence, anew trial ; awarded. MEKE-MEXTIOK. Illicit distillers in New York threaten :med resistance to the collection of interal revenue taxes. The Wabash Rail>ad, with its 3,600 miles of track, has gone lto the hands of a receiver. There will 3 1,600 delegates, from Europe, Asia, Afrii, Australia and America in the Internaonal Sunday-school Convention, which icets in Louisville, Ky., on the 11th inant. Ferdinand Ward, of the firm of rant & Ward, who is now in Ludlow Street ail, New York, on the charge of swindling, lys that the responsibility of Grant is the -- * rnu tine us ins own. * lucre uuvc uccu lore dynamite explosions in London, inicting serious loss of property, and great xcitement ensues thereby. " The susension of the banking house of D. W. liddleton &Co., of Washington, is the most otable failure of last week. The cash deosits in the bank were about$250,000. The tilure is total. The bank was established i 1867. A Buffalo, N. Y., dispatch of riday, says there was a heavy snow storm long the Lake Shore route on that moring. Decoration day was observed iroughout the North last Friday. A Fatal Duel.?A Morganton, N. C., ispatch of last Saturday to the Charleston unday News says: Information was rejived here to-night of a duel which occurid yesterday in the mouth of a mica mine i Mitchell county, in which Col. Nellis orden formerly of Louisville, Ky., and a [r. Linebeck, of Mitchell county, were the rincipals. The weapons used were pistols, orden was instantly killed. The trouble stween these two gentlemen grew out of a ! ispute about mining. During the past few mnths intense excitement has prevailed mong the people of Mitchell and the ad ining counties, growing out of the discovry in that section of immense veins of uca, some of which have yielded as much i three or four hundred dollars a day. The ;port of these valuable discoveries has at acted mining engineers and speculators om many sections of the Union. Among lose who visited Mitchell county, attracted lither by these mines, was Col. Borden, ho was the victim of the meeting this lorning. Col. Borden was a well known lining speculator and engineer in Louisille and well known throughout this State, aon after he went to the mica mine couny lie worked several very rich mines, tnong which was one claimed by Linebeck Bros., of Mitchell. The meeting between orden and Linebeck to-day grew out of a ispute about their respective ciaims to the line in which the encounter took place. | ? Colored Children* andtheSchools.? j ducation is universally acknowledged to 3 one of the chief corner-stones of enlightled governments, and all enlightened naons provide for popular education. If it elp all other nations and races why should ruin the negro ? It may ruin negro boys 1 > field hands, and we believe it does, ! Lit for that matter most white boys do not ijoy field labor much after having had hool advantages. But if education imroves negroes "mentally and morally," can le white people, in good conscience, on nit account withhold education from them? here are 75,000 white and 90,000 colored liidren in the public schools in South Carina. If the public schools are abolished icse 75,000 white children are denied the jnefit of the public schools. It can't be asimed that they will get an education any-.nr Mnnh on occnmntinn would beDUerile. JH? WUVU WU ? ~ 1 I >ee Dee Iwle.v. i Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chester, June 3.?The stockholders of the Fishing Creek Manufacturing Company held their annual meeting at the mill on Wednesday. Senator Patterson presided over the meeting, and Mr. J. L. Glenn acted as secretary. The President's report showed the Company to be in a flourishing condition. During the past year the amount of net profits reached $7,800, which was 10A per cent, on the paid up stock. Ever since it began operations the profits of the Company have been expended in purchasing additional machinery and equipments, 1,000 additional spindles were put in the mill the past year, and the stockholders directed 1,000 more spindles to be put in this year if the Directors think best. When these have been put in, the whole number of spindles will be 5,300, which will fill all the avalable space in the mill. Capt. F. H. Barber was re-elected President, and Mr. J. C. Hickiin Secretary and Treasurer. The same Directors were re-elected with the exception of Mr. Madison Heffley, whose place was filled by the election of Mr. J. L. Watson, of York countv. who is one of the largest stockhold ers. The building, the machinery and the equipments of this mill are first-class, and the prospect of its paying a good dividend in the near future is quite bright. The Democratic Executive Committee of this county at their late meeting expressed their opposition to the nomination of the State ticket in June. They were also opposed to the election of delegates to the Judicial and Congre&sional Conventions by the County Convention in June. They are of the opinion that an early opening of the campaign would be unwise. I have no doubt that the County Convention will take a similar stand by declaring against the nomination of the State ticket in June by the State Convention. In accordance with the instructions by the Executive Committee, the Chairman, J. M. McNeel. Esq., drew up some appropriate resolutions in regard to the death of one of their number, Dr. W. M. McCallum. His many friends inChesterand York counties will be pleased to know that he was regarded by the Committee "as a high-toned gentleman, as a zealous and untiring physician, and as a liberal, patriotic, and public-spirited citizen," also as "a staunch, unwavering adherent of the true and tried principles of unsullied Democracy." The late hail-storm in the lower portion of this county was very damaging to the crops. One farmer who expected his oat crop to yield 300 bushels will not gather one-tenth of this amount. His neighbors were also havy sufferers. Not only small grain, but cotton and corn were ruined by the hail. Tn nni*fi/Mia nf flin oaiint\r nrnnu All UUICI J^Ul V1UUO Vi HIV WUli vjr HIV vivpo were greatly injured by the tremendous fall of rain. Lands have not been so badly washed in many years. Lowlands were generally flooded, and where planted, must be replanted. Henry McCullough, colored, who several months ago ran away from this place, charged with selling intoxicating liquors without license, was arrested at Ilock Hill on last Friday by Deputy Marshal Pearson. On last Wednesday Pink Hill, colored, was arrested in York county by the same officer on the same charge: Our municipal authorites contemplate draining Col. E. T. Atkinson's fish pond for the reason that it is believed to be injurious to the health of our town. Our local Board of Health, consisting of Dr. J. A. White, Dr. D. Lyle, and Mr. David Hemphill, have reported the pond as detrimental to health. A number of our physicians have taken issue with the board "on this question. The probabilities are that the town authorities will be governed in their action by the report of the Local Board of Health, and drain the pond. If so Col. Atkinson will doubtless bring suit against the town on a claim for damages. Our Board of Health are adopting such measures as they believe will conduce to the health of our town. For this they are entitled to the thanks of the community. Mrs. Watson, whose extreme illness was mentioned in my last correspondence, died on last Wednesday afternoon. She was a most estimable lady, and her death is greatly lamented.. ' m. ? ? political notes. ? There are about one hundred colored delegates in the National Republican Convention, which met in Chicago last Tuesday. ? Ex-Governor Chamberlain has written a letter to the delegates at large from New York to the Chicago Republican Convention, opposing the admission of the Mahone delegates from Virginia. He also writes in the r a i _ n A ?xi L.A XI x ux). interest; 01 iirtnur us net-ween wmi- geuueman and Blaine. Notwithstanding Chamberlain's letter, the Republican Executive Committee, by a vote of 31 to 10, on Saturday, determined to seat the Mahone delegation. ?The Augusta, (Ga.) Chronicle remarks editorially: "Senator Don Cameron was warmly welcomed on his return to Washington, and by none more cordially than by Democratic Senators. Mr. Cameron has ? been specially kind to the South and her Senators, many of whom reciprocate his goodfellowship. We are glad that Don Cameron is in his seat again. He is master of his own spirit. The South may have occasion to thank him for valued services toward her, in spite of party affiliation." The State Normal Institute.?The faculty of the Normal Institute for white teachers, which will be held in Spartanburg during the month beginning July 16, has been determined upon. Prof. E. S. Joynes, LL. D., of the South Carolina University, was some weeks ago selected as the President of the Institute. He will occupy the nVioir r\f TTnorii?h lifprntnre. The other members of the faculty are: Principal, S. S. Woolwine, of the Howard School, Nashville, Tenn., pedagogics and school management; Professor JR. Means Davis, of the South Carolina College, history and geography ; Principal W. H. Witherow, of Chester, natural philosophy and physiology; Superintendent D. B. Johnson, of the Columbia graded schools, mathematics; Miss Annie E. Bonham, of Columbia, model school and calisthentics; Miss Susie Gibbes of Charleston, drawing: Prof. Witherow, music. The faculty has been selected with great care, and is a capital one. The people of Spartanburg have manifested great interest in securing the Institute for that city, and promise to do their utmost to make the session successful. The Vengeance of a Mob.?A special dispatch from Madrid, Iowa, says: "A mob of about seventy-five men completely wrecked the office of A. K. Webb, a lawyer of this city last night. The mob was quiet, determined and quick in its work. The office was located in a one story building owned by Webb, and everything, including his large and costly library, was taken out, and with the papers, furniture, and material of the building, strewn the full length of the street and completely destroyed. A number of citizens watched the work from their doors, but were not allowed to go out into the street. Webb's office has several times before suffered indignities at the hands of different parties. His ' ^ Ka?? 4-a aaI I llllt? bun ttguiiibt ail HUIiiui; uKjy tu ^uiicvo an attorney-fee in a suit which never came to trial, and his attachment of the boy's wages, was the immediate inciting cause of this unauthorized destruction of Webb's property." An Independent's Views.?The Philadelphia Times, (Independent) says : The first necessity of the Democrats or opposition elements of 1884, is a man who embodies in himself the abuses of protracted and corrupted Republican rule. With such a candidate, a platform that means little or nothing may greatly hinder or absolutely defeat his election, while no deliverance made by a lot of muddled leaders can command additional votes for the party. The people sincerely want a change of National government, as they did in 1840, 1848, I860 and 187G, but they don't want a rickety and distrusted Democratic machine to take the place of the now rickety and distrusted Republican machine. Give the people a chance. Give them a man who is bigger and stronger than an expedience platform, and there will be a hopeful battle for the opposition in 1884.