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Straps and .facts.
? The effort to abolish imprisonment for
debt has been made for several years in the
New York Legislature. There is a bill
for that purpose pending now which stands
a fair chance of passage.
? Ostrich farming in South America has
advanced with such strides that the number
of tame birds there is estimated to have
increased from eighty in I860 to at least 70000
in 1884, producing feathers for export
of the value ot about $30,000,000 per annum.
? A young lady in Nebraska has two canaries
which she has named Cleveland and
Hendricks. Cleveland does not sing very
much, but Hendricks warbles all day, and
perches on a little roost at the very top of (
the cage. Cleveland sits on the floor most'
of the time and looks at the cat.
? The Alabama Legislature, now in session
is taking steps for the repeal of the act passed
at the session of 1884, which taxes for- .
eign capital. The repealing bill has passed
the House, has been reported favorably by
the Senate committee, and as it is known
that the Governor favors it, its friends are
confident of victory.
? With one week's work at Huntsville,
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the conversion of between two and three
hundred, all the churches reaping the benefit
of his services. The citizens at Huntsville
raised seven hundred and fifty dollarsand
presented it to him. He went from
there to Charleston, S. C.
? The question is beginning to be asked,
"Is this Congress a failure?" If the business
of Congress is to attend to and dispatch
with reasonable promptness in matters
which the public is interested it is a failure,
if to kill time in heated personal discussions
and questions of privilege it is a firstclass
success.
? It is said that President Cleveland will
consider no applications for such appointments
as come within the power of the executive
except after they have have been
considered by the members of the cabinet
in whose department they fall. This rule
will be imperative and will be enforced on
all occasions.
? The boundaries of the region known as
the West have been perpetually shifting.
Within the lifetime of old folks it commenced
along the foot hills of the Alleghanies.
A few years later the limit stood for
a while on the banks of the Mississippi.
To-day the boundary lies on the bluff's of
the Missouri, in the neighborhood of Kansas
City. Beyond that point lies the region
of tradition, prophecy, adventure, discovery,
enterprise, heroism?the West.
? The business failures throughout the
country during the week ending last Friday,
as reported by the mercantile agency
of It. G. Dun tfc Co., number for the United
States 239, and for Canada 31. Total 270,
against 3^6 -the previous week. This large
decrease is probably more apparent than
real. Itailroad and telegraph communication
in the West and Northwest has been so
much interrupted by snow that doubtless
many failures in remote localities have not
been reported.
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? xne uoioreu V/Oiiiiuissionens rAiuuuuuual
Conference met last Thursday night in
New Orleans to carry out objects suggested
by the original call. A number of prominent
colored men were present, including
M. W. Gibbs, of Arkansas, T. G.. Barbedoes,
of Massachusetts, W. J. Simpson, of Kentucky,
R. H. Herbert, of New Jersey, Phillip
Joseph, of Alabama, P. B. S. Pinchback
and James Kennedy, of Louisiana, and
many others. Mainly the establishment of
schools for the technical education of colored
children iu the mechanical branches and
trades. After discussing the objects in
view at some length the Conference adjourned
till Friday afternoon.
? A prominent Philadelphia publisher
says: "There is more money in Bibles than
in anything else. There is a steady, reliable
trade for the good book, and I think
I have made 2,000,000 of the different grades
since I have been in business. The price
ranges from ten cents for the kind given
away by the Bible Society to $30 for one
bound in velvet and ivory. I have nearly
ceased printing other books. As a general
thing they don't pay. Unless you can get a
work by a great author or a noted politician,
the sale of any book does not reach beyond
a small edition. I paid Alexander H. Stevens
$33,000 royalty on the 'War between
the States,' but only abput $0,000 for his
'History of the United States.'"
? A very singular case of suicide occurred
recently near Reading, Pa. John Steinman,
aged sixty-three years, a bachelor of
peculiar habits and the owner of a two hundred
acre farm, well stocked with cattle,
was found in his barn sticking in a barrel,
head downward, and with life extinct.
When discovered he was burdened down
with weights and stones tied around his
neck, showing that it was a case of deliberatesuicide.
It is not known how longSteinman
was dead. He was last seen alive two
days before. On investigation it was found
inai rive 01 nis cows ana iwo norses were
dead in his barn, all having their throats
cut. The instrument by which this was
committed was found to be on Steinman's
person, still damp; also, ?1,000 in greenbacks
were found sewed in his coat. It is
not known what caused the man to kill the
animals and then take his own life, but it
is supposed he was laboring under religious
excitement.
? Col. Thomas Buford, the slayer of Judge
Elliott, of the Kentucky, Court of Appeals,
died last Thursday morning at the Anchorage,
Ky., Lunatic Asylum, after a long
illness from chronic disease. Buford shot
and killed Judge Elliott for rendering a decision
against Buford's sister in a case involving
considerable property. After the
trial Buford was adjudged a lunatic and
sent to an asylum, from which place he
escaped, goinut across the river to Indiana,
where he liveR about a year, hunting and
fishing, the asylum officials being unable
under law to bring him back to Kentucky.
Without friends or money, Buford grew
sick and was finally forced by want to return
to the asylum, where he remained until
his death. It is only seven years since
he killed Judge Elliott, but in that time
Buford saw his family lose all their property
and the trouble of his brother was undoubtedly
the cause of the suicide of the
noted turfman, General Abe Buford, who
killed himself last summer.
? The proposed extradition treaty between
Great Britain and the United States,
a draft of which has been submitted to the
Canadian government, will embrace the
following offences: Murder, including assassination,
parricide, infanticide and poisoning;
attempt to murder, manslaughter,
counterfeiting or altering money or uttering
the same, forgery, embezzlement or
larceny, and obtaining money or goods by
false pretenses, crimes by bankrupts against
the bankruptcy law, fraud by a bailee, banker,
agent, factor trustee or director, a member
of or a public officer of any company,
rape, abduction, child stealing, burglary or
housebreakihg, arson, robbery, with violence,
threats by letter or otherwise with i
intent to extort, piracy as defined by the
law of nations, the sinking or destruction
of vessels at sea, assaults on board ship on
the high seas, and revolt or conspiracy to j
revolt by two or more persons on board
ship on the high seasagainst the authority of I
the master.
? A Macon, Ga., dispatch of Saturday
says: "One of the strangest stories that has j
ever been told has been brought out to-day j
by the death of a man who was accused of j
committing murder, yet proved his innocence
until his actions on his death-bed betruvorl
hitri A farnipr nnmpfl Kvnns was
murdered. lie was found lying with his i
head smashed in and an axe lying near.
A negro girl was found in the room buried
under a pile of corn. She said she had been
paid by Evans' brother-in-law, C'arr, to let
him in the room with another white man J
and a negro. While they were in the room
they killed Evans. The white man ran
away and the negro was afterward killed.
The*girl was sentenced to Dade Coal Mines
for life, where she now is. Carr died to-day.
On his death-bed he said he was in a perfect
hell, and called ail into the room to
hear his story, when he died with the secret
on his lips.
? It is believed in Paris that John Morrisey
was the chief conspirator engaged in
the last explosion in Condon. Morrisey, on
being interviewed by a Herald correspondent,
the other day, was very tactiturn, and
refused to say anything about what he has
(lone in England. "1 should like, however,"
said he, "to correct the statement recently
published in America. Irishmen
there are reported to have said that O'Donovan
Rossa is not responsible for the ex-'
plosions in England. Now, I can tell you j
that the men who blew ui> the Tower, j
Westminster Hall and the House of Com- i
mons werehis agents and acted in obedience j
to his orders. The funds supplied for these !
attempts come directly from that branch of I
the extremist party which acknowledges
O'Donovan Rossa as their leader. To lower
Rossa's prestige the Devoy-Breslin crowd
now say he does no real dynamite work.
All I can say is if Rossa had been allowed to
apply the skirmishing funds in his own way ;
England would have suffered more than
she has." The dynamite conspirators resident
in Paris profess a thorough confidence !
in O'Donovan Rossa.
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YOKKVILLE, 8. C. :
THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. Ill, 1885.
LIABILITY AS TO COSTS.
Judge Cothran's recent ruling in Newberry
upon the question of costs is of importance
both to the legal profession and to
the creditors of insolvent debtors, being in
fact aimed against a principle under the
application of which many a valuable estate
has been consumed by the costs. The
ruling is as follows:
"Crotwell vs. Wells?Costs. In a creditor's
bill it is the primary duty of the executor
or administrator of the insolvent estate,
as the representative of all the creditors, to
oppose all unjust claims presented against
tne estate. It may be to the interest of
creditors interesse to render service in this
behalf; but in the absence of collusion or
fraud between the primary representative
and any of the creditors the action of creditors
in aiding the primarv representative
must be regarded as volunmry. Therefore,
when counsel representing a creditor goes
under the call to prove his client's demand
against the estate, he is only entitled to the
costs of reference for proving that particular
demand.
"To illustrate: Suppose an insolvent
debtor dies having fifty creditors, fifty
references are held to prove fifty claims represented
by fifty lawyers. Each lawyer
claims $5 for each reference. That would
amount to the sum of $2,500 for references
alone. This is an extreme case, but it is
strictly within the operation of the principle
contended for, and cannot be allowed."
THE INAUGURATION.
It is expected that about twenty thousand
persons in military and civic organizations
will be in line during the inauguration parade.
The military will represent the Middle
and Southern States, and probably some
of the Western States. So far, not a military
company in the New England States
has signified an intention of visiting Washington.
The New York Sixty-ninth regiment
will arrive in the morning and leave
that night. The Seventh regiment found
that its members could not spare the time
from business to go to Washington. The
armory of the Washington Light Infantry
was at their service, equal, perhaps, to
their own in New York, and every facility
was offered the corps to make the visit agree
able.
The Washington Continentals, from Schenectady,
the Albany Jackson Corps and
Rochambeax Grenadiers, of New York
State troops will be in line. The Pennsylvania
division of fifteen regiments and the
three batteries, numbering between eight
and nine thousand troops will be in line. The
Virginia brigade, under (ten. Fitzhugh Lee.
1,500 strong, will be a feature of the procession.
The Phil. Kearney Guards, of Elizabeth,
N. J., is the only military organization
from that State that has applied for position
in line. Maryland, especially Baltimore,
will send a large military contingent, the
corps being able to arrive and depart the
same day. m
The feature of the military parade will
be the large number of colored companies
in line. There will be five from Norfolk,
Va.; three from Baltimore, one from Philadelphia?the
Gray Invincibles?one from
Fredericksburg, one from Richmond and
one from the University of Virginia. In
addition there will be the well drilled and
finely equipped companies of colored troops
in Washington. The war, postoftice and
interior department, Winders' building,
quarters at the navy yard, the Courthouse
and other public houses will be used as
quarters for many of the visiting regiments.
THE ENGLISH DEFEAT.
The London papers contain lengthy accounts
of the recent figting in the Soudan
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Uy WJIK'il IIIU J'jUgiiaii tuiin met' \>iiu <t itverse.
The correspondent of the Chronicle
gives the following account of the battle:
As the crest of the sandy ridge was being
slowly but surely approached by our flameedged
square, the enemy, many of whom
had hitherto remained hidden, made a j
supreme effort to check our resistless ad- j
vance. Their charge was a superb one, but!
our men awaited the shock with the utmost
calmness. No gap was made on this occasion
of which advantage could be taken i
by the fierce spearmen. In advance, and i
oil the Hank of the advancing mass, we !
could see some half-dozen splendidly mount- j
ed Arabs, evidently sheikhs of importance, J
encouraging their men with voice and ges-1
ture, prancing defiantly. Steadily, merci-1
lessly rang out the sharp roll of our tire, j
Surely no force breathes that can stand up i
against the hail of bullets which poured into j
the enemy's extended ranks. Scores dropped
in their tracks at every fifty yards. |
But the swift tide of yelling, gesticulating, ,
spearbrandishing warriors rolled on, and it J
seemed as though it must reach our ranks, j
Our men set their teeth, but the expected |
death grapple did not come. Several of j
the sheikhs had now fallen, and as the
enemy came nearer they suffered more terribly.*
At a hundred yards there seemed
to be a slight check. At fifty yards there
was a perceptible waving, which culminated
in evident check when the first ranks
of the enemj were within thirty yards. 1
Some of our men cheered, and the steady j
roll of musketry continued remorselessly,!
until finally '.he enemy turned and fled.
The corespondent of the New* writes: i
"We in the :edoubt heard the wordsof.com-1
mand clearly. As the square stopped the .
men lay down to deliver volley after volley
with st.perb steadiness. At last the
critical moment came, when the rebel spearmen
advanced to hurl themselves against
the little square. The men never wavered
a moment, out cheered lustily when they
saw their foes coming. The marines and
mounted infantry received the charge with
afire so deadly that the Arabs dropped in
line, then recoiled and retired broken.
Meanwhile another dense column, advancing
from the south was stopped by shells
from Norton's guns in front, fired with great
precision. Then the enemy's redoubtable
reserve of horsemen, standard bearers, and
fanatical followers rushed against Wilson's
force. Again the withering fire in which
the Guards and Sussex this time played a
part, and the furious onslaught was stopped
to be renewed no more. As the square disappeared
behind the ridge we heard two
volleys more. Then all was silent. W hether
the square had reached the Nile in safety
or been overwhelnunl by the hordes of rebels
unseen by us, we had no means of knowing
before morning."
Our way to the river, says the
Chronicle, was clear after two hours fighting
which it comes not to the lot of many
men to witness. Let it he recorded that j
the enemy fought splendidly, not only with
brute courage, but with, on the whole, a
marvelous amount of military intelligence. :
Along the whole line of our advance from !
the zereba their dead and wounded are ly- j
ing along the sand and under the mimosa j
scrub. There can however, be no doubt that'
no less than 300 were killed outright, and
their wounded must have been pretty well
in the ratio of five to one.
A telegram was received at the War office !
in London last Sunday from General Wolseley,
in which that officer sends an account
of the fall of Khartoum as given by a na- (
tive who was an eye-witness to the entrance I
of the rebels into the town.
Khartoum, his informant says, was en-1
tered by El Mahdi's forces at daybreak ;
on the'morning of January 2(1. General j
Gordon was killed by a volley from rebel j
riflemen while he was on his, way from his
headquarters to the Austrian consulate.
ThS Austrian consul was killed in his residence
and the Greek consul is held prisoner
by El Mahdi.
Ishmael Pasha, ex-Khedive of Egypt, is
now in London canvassing for supporters
for a scheme looking to his restoration to
the Khedival throne. Jlis partisans assert
that the governments of Austria and Italy
advocate the deposition of the present
Khedive, Tewfic Pasha, and the replacement
of Ismail. It is reported that the
Hritish government is considering a scheme
to create Ismail Viceroy of Nuoia, ana 10
retain Tewfik as Viceroy of upper and lower
Egypt.
The press association states under reserve
that late on Saturday night the War office
sent a telegram to Miss Gordon, at Southhampton
to the effect that Khartoum had
not fallen and that Gen. Gordon was safe.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Knquirer
LETTER FROM CHESTER.
Chester, February 17.?Capt. F. H. Barber
and Mr. W. H. Hardin returned on last
Wednesday from New York, where they
had gone on business in connection with
the Fishing Creek Manufacturing Company.
They enjoyed the trip to the great metrop-^
olis, notwithsianding the extremely cold,
weather. While they found business quite
dull, there were indications of its reviving,
which promised to be more marked after
the inaugurttion of the new administration.
They succeeded in making arrnagements
for the purchase of additional
machinery for the Fishing Creek Factory.
This machinery will increase the capacity
of the mill to the extent of a thousand
spindles. No better proof is needed of the
flourishing condition of the Fishing Creek
factory.
Mr. It. B. Bell, of this county, sold his
plantation a short time ago and left for
Florida, with the intention of making that
State his future home. On his arrival there
he was not pleased with the country,
and after a brief stay returned, doubtless
impressed with the fact that South Carolina
is the best State and old Chester the best
county in the State for a man to live. Let
others who have been attacked with the
emigration fever stay where they are and
be satisfied with their present homes, for
they will not be able to improve upon them
in this world.
John Cain opened a banoom at this place i
on last Friday, and wer e to work selling
whisky without license, in violation of an
ordinance of the town. The same afternoon
the Council met and finding him guilty
of violating the law in four cases, fined
him $80; $20 for each offence. Being, doubtless,
of the opinion that he could not afford
to sell whisky at such a dear cost, he closed
his bar and left next day for Charlotte,
where he could engage in the same business
without paying such heavy fines for the
privilege. He presumed upon more liberal
treatment at the hands of our Council,
who were supposed to have a leaning towards
the sale of intoxicating drinks. He
has found out that no matter what their
private opinions may be they will strictly
enforce the ordinance against the sale of
whisky, and every other ordinance of the
town, without fear, favor, or affection. I f |
our Council had taken a different course,
Cain's example would have been followed
by others, and as a consequence, a number
of barrooms would have been in full blast
in our town.
Last Saturday was one of the most disagreeable
days of this winter. Sleet and
snow divided the day between them. Our
streets were quite slippery and locomotion
was not only unpleasant, but somewhat
difficult. This has been a very severe winter.
On last Wednesday the thermometer
registered six degrees above zero.
Miss Julia Perkins and Miss Mamie Wylie,
of Lancaster, were recent visitors of our
town. They were guests of rs. S. B.
Meacham. Our young men enjoyed their
society and regretted their departure.
The Town Council held a meeting on yesterday
for the purpose of trying some parnn/>on^G/l
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the streets. They were lined two dollars
each for violating a town ordinance.
The Council, ata late meeting, decided not
only to impose a fine, hut to imprison, if
necessary, violators of the ordinance prohibiting
the sale of intoxicating liquors.
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Ji:st Criticism of Coxhrkss.?Nothing
more wearisome and disgusting than the
proceedings of our Congress is nrinted. It
is an everlasting record of long debates over
parliamentary quibbles, set speeches which
nobody sees, hears or pays any attention to,
and struggles of opposing selfishness, enlivened
now and then by disgraceful violence
of speech evoked by disputes which would
be unworthy of ten-year-old boys. One
party is as bad as the other. The Democrats
are responsible for the miserable record of
the present Congress, because they have a
majority in the more active body, but a Republican
majority did no better when it existed.
in the last twenty years Congress
has done nothing of real value to the public
except what it was forced to do by overpowering
weight of public opinion and facts and
figures.
We believe the movement recently developed
to prevent the printing in the I tec- J
<>r<( of any speeches not delivered on the
floor of the House is a step exactly in the1
wrong direction. There would be more j
sense in requiring all speeches more than five )
minutes long to be printed without being
spoken. If that requirement existed, the
few members who are in doubt on any ques-!
tion could read the discussion at their leisure j
and there would be time for the transaction
of real business. In these days of cheap,
newspapers and books and quick printing,
adherence to the system of legislative'discussion
byword of mouth, that was proper a
thousand years ago, is ridiculous. All who
want to discuss any subject before Congress,
ought to be required to submit what they
have to say in print, as lawyers do their
briefs. It is the only remedy for the tremendous
waste of time and money caused
by the tendency to make speeches.?(ireen- i
riffe Xeirs.
Aftf.k thk Whiskv Sellkks.?'The
Town Council is after the illicit whisky
sellers in dead earnest, and last week scooped
down on two of those gentlemen. They
have been plying their avocation rather
boldly of late, but the Council is on the war
path and is determined that if the traffic is
not broken up it will not be their fault.
The first offender of this kind before the
Council last week was a colored man named
Will Jordan. He was arraigned on Wednesday
and the evidence of his guilt being
conclusive, was convicted and sentenced to
pay a tine of twenty-five dollars or be confined
in the guardhouse ten days. The sentence
was aiterwards commuted to thirtvtive
days' labor on the streets. .Jordan is
now working out the sentence and we hope
his late will learn him to hereafter have
..w.i-r. munont fnr thp IflU'H of fllP toWll ill
which he lives.
The next day Mr. J. A. Williford was arraigned
before the Council, being also charged
with illicit whisky selling. There were
three separate cases against him and he was
convicted in each, the evidence being positive
as to his guilt, lie was sentenced to
pay a tine of twenty-five dollars in each case,
or be confined in the guardhouse for thirty
days. He has paid the tine in one case.
After the expiration of ten days he will
again be required to pay twenty-five dollars
and ten days theroafterthe third installment
must be forthcoming.
A hundred dollars in two days is doing
pretty well, and at this rate the town
treasury will soon be overflowing with currency.?
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LOCAL AFFAIRS.
new advertisements.
\V. 15. Williams, Auditor?School District No. l:>.
D. Harrison?School Commissioner's Office.
C. K. Spencer, Plaintiffs Attorney?Notice to
Defendants.
W. C. Latimer?Pay up. Pay up.
J. 11. Lindsay?Seed Oats.
Kiddle it Pegram?Fresh Arrivals.
Herndon Hros.?40. All for Glory. 40.- Stoves. |
li. F. Adickes?Grand Central.
Parish it Colcock?Guanos.
Hunter A* Oates?Bargains.
Berry it Barber?Fine Cake.
John ('. Kuykcndal?Reverberations from the
Y. D. S*. Mortar.
W. J. Rawlinson, Administrator?Application
for Discharge.
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THK SNOW.
On Thursday night and Friday the deepest
snow of the season, fell at this place, the fall attaining
the depth of two or three inches. The
snow was immediately preceded by the coldest
weather of the winter. The temperature has
moderated since Monday, and thesnow is rapidly
melting away.
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laurkxhyillk herald.
We congratulate our friend of the Laurensville
Herald on the resumption of his newspaper so
soon after the lire by which his entire offieo was
destroyed. The Herald appears on material
temporarily secured pending the arrival of a
new outfit of type, press, A*c., which has been
ordered.
The Merchant ami Farmer, which was also destroyed
by the same lire, has not yet resumed
publication, nor do we know the intentions of
its proprietor.
V A YORVILLE NEGRO ABROAD.
Some time during last summer C'alvin Cham-!
berlain, a ginger-bread complected negro, and for
a number of years a resident of this place, had I
a misunderstanding with his better half, which
resulted in his departure, lie went to Atlanta,
fin., and there espied a sack of Hour which he
immediately coveted and appropriated to his
own use. The owner discovered that Calvin was
the thief, and had him arrested and tried. He
was convicted and sentenced to work for six
months in the chain gang.
THE TOWN OF GROVER.
It turns out that South Carolina has a small
share in the honor of the first town in the country
to be named after the new President. A bill
for this purpose has been introduced* in the
North Carolina Legislature to change* the name
of Whitaker, in Cleveland county, to the name
of fi rover. Whitaker is one of the thriving villages
that have sprung up within the last few
years on the Air-Line Railroad', and so near the
State line is the town that it is in both States.
The post-oftice is in South Carolina, though, we
believe the hotel, only a few hundred yards distant,
is in North Carolina.
CHURCH NOTICES.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Preaching
at 11 A. M., next Sunday, by Rev. I). Harrison,
of the Presbyterian Church.
Baptist?Rev. J. K. Covington, Pastor. Services
in Yorkvillo at 11 A. M.
Methodist Episcopal?Rev. J. Thomas Pate,
Pastor. Preaching in thechurch at Yorkville at
11 A. M., next Sunday, and at Philadelphia
Chureh.at :i P. M. on the same day.
Episcopal?Rev. E. N. Joyner, Rector. Services
next Sunday at the usual hours, morning
and afternoon.
Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor.
Sei vices at 7 P. M., next Sunday, by Rev. R. A.
Welb.
King's Mountain Mission?Rev. I.. A. Johnson.
Pest or. Services at Canaan Church at 11
o'clock a. M. next Sunday.
DEATH OF P. P. CHAMBERS.
The Columbia Register records the death of Mr.
Ptolemy P. Chambers, which occurred in that
city on Friday last. Mr. Chambers was a native
of York county, having been born at the wellknown
"Chambers Place," about two miles
south-east of Yorkville, where his parents lived
and died. After reaching man's estate, Mr.
Chambers, with his brother Mijamon, went to
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the cotton brokerage business. They are yet
remembered by on r older citizens, some of whom
can recall the days before railroads, when they
hauled cotton in wagons from York to the Columbia
market. The following paragraph from
the liefjislcr gives an insight to the character of
Mr. Chambers ; and it is to be regretted that by
the mutations of this world, one so worthy as he
should have fallen, in his declining years, from
affluence to want:
Mr. P. P. Chambers, an aged citizen of Columbia,
and who was a prosperous and well-to do
cotton merchant in the palmy days of old "Cotton
Town," died at the County Alms House yesterday,
about !> A. M. He was in the 82nd year of
his age. Mr. Chambers, a year or two ago, became
so enfeebled by age and disease that he was
incapable of active iife, and he voluntarily took
up his abode where he would find proper'attention
in his declining years. He was a survivor
of the Florida war, and was entitled to a pension,
which he would have received had he taken the
required oath?of not having aided or sympathized
with the "rebellion." This he positively
refused to do; and only a few days ago, when he
knew his end was drawing near, he remarked
that 82,700 was awaiting him, which he could re?
,w,inr tint he nreforred to die
in tho Alms House to affixing his signature to a
paper which would do violence to his nature.
Mr. Chambers had seen days of plenty and to
spare, and when Sherman passed through Columbia
the old gentleman lost several hundred bales
of cotton by the tire.
THE ROYAL ARCH MASONS.
The seventy-fourth annual reunion of the
Royal Arch Chapter of South Carolina was held
in Charleston, on Tuesday of last week, and was
presided over by Conip. <1. J). Bryan, M. K.
<>rainl High Priest. A constitutional quorum
being present, the (1 rand Chapter was opened in j
ample form. M. E. Pomp. CJ. T>. Bryan, (fraud
High Priest, then delivered his annual address.
With the exception of adopting an amendment
to the constitution in relation to the election of
otlicers, only routine work was done. The following
grand otlicers were elected :
Com p. <1. 1). Bryan, M. E. grand high priest ;
Pomp. J. K. Brazeale, Anderson, R. E. deputy
grand high priest; Coin p. W. T. Branch, Abbeville,
R. E. grand king; Comp. Morris Clarke,
Marion, It. K. grand scribe: Comp. J. S. Connor, I
Winnsboro", Rt. Rev. grand chaplain ; Comp, C.
P.Jackson, Columbia, E. grand treasurer; Comp.
J. E. Burke, Charleston, E. grand secretary ; |
Comp. A. It. White, Rock Hill, (5. captain of the :
Host; Comp. A. Doty, Jr., Charleston, grand j
Royal Arch captain ; Comp. L. E. Meyer,
Charleston, grand sentinel.
The grand council of royal and select masters ;
of South Carolina, met at 7 A. M., in Masonic
Temple, and was opened in ample form by A.
II. White, M. 111. grand master. The grand
master read his annual address, which, with the
recommendations, were adopted by the grand
council without reference. After hearing the reports
of the grand recorder and the grand treas- j
urerand the report of the committeeon the grand j
recorder and the grand treasurer's books, which j
were adopted, the grand council proceeded to j
the election of the grand otlicers, with the fol- \
lowing result:
W. T. Branch, Abbeville, M. I. < f. M.; W. W. j
Humphries, Anderson, Deputy Master; A. II. !
White, Rock Hill, <!. C. of works; C. E. Jackson,
Coltimbia.H. Treasurer; D. D. Moore, Rock
Hill, <f. Rec.; Rev. J. M.Bovd, Marion. <?. Chap- i
lain; J. E. Brazeale, Anderson, <?. Marshal; II. |
Heiuitch, Columbia, (f. C. of!!.; J. ! '. Reid, !
Rock Hill, H. C.of C.; 10. R. Arthur, Columbia, !
H. Stewart; E. K. Meyer, Charleston, 0. Sentinel, j
The grand otlicers present were installed and
the grand council closed in ample form to meet i
on the same day in 1 HHti, that the grand chapter
does, at (? o'clock, A. M.
AS OTHERS SEE I S.
We copy the following from the Walhalla i
(hnrier:
The annual report of the Treasurer of York
county, published in the Yorkville K.Ntjt'iRKit, i
is one of the most interesting county exhibits wo j
have examined in a twelve month. The receipts J
nl'the County Commissioners from all sources
amount to the sum of $24,SOS.lit. The disbursements
amount to the sum of $17,2so.sl, leaving a
cash balance in the county treasury of $7,421.<
The receipts for a special fund, being a county!
subscription to a railroad, amount to the sum
of $10,.*il0.22. The disbursements of this fund
amount to the sum of $12,227.42, leaving a cash
balance in the county treasury belonging to
this fund of $7,201.7!*. The total receipts for free
school purposes is$22,S7S.2S. The disbursements
are $10, 2(52.41, leaving a cash balance of this fund
on hand amounting to $0,dir>.S7. The total county
taxation in York amounts to the sum of $07,2(t.").(Hi,
and there is in the county treasury the
Sum of $21,2211.01 for county purposes. This j
gives the people of that county a handsome sum
in cash to begin the current year. With the
cash on hand money can be saved to the people.
We have no means at hand of knowing what the [
State tax of York is, but we presume the tax of
that county altogether is not less than $100,000.
The foregoing is an implied compliment to
York, which we fully appreciate; but the county
does not contain so much taxable property as
our coteniporarv seems to believe, nor enough.
with the State tax added to the county tax, to j<
make an aggregate ol'$100,0(H).
In scanning the county treasurer's report, the ^ '
Courier has fallen into several errors, which we
proceed to correct.
Included in the item of $14,sort.Hi, "receipts of j
the county commissioners from all sources," !1
is the sum of &S,hK<i, which was an unxpended
balance of the previous year.Included
in the item of gl!l,fjl!l.22, "the receipts
for a special fund, being acountv subscription to
a railroad," is the sum of ?0,5(14.41, which was
also an unexpended balance of the previous
year.
Included in the amount of ?22,97S.2S "receipts j
for free schools," is the sum of uncx- J
ponded balance of the preceding year.
The Courier also labors under a mistake as to
the total count)/ taxation. The total State tax, |
and alt taxes collected in York county up to the
1st of November, 1SK4, for the fiscal year isx:{,
amounted to only $50,17:1.44, instead of $f>7,20f>.l>7,
as the Courier construes the report. The income
fAc nnnntv titwl lvii 1 vrv.ifl ttnriMwow nntuidA nffnY
ation, was about $2,H(H), of which 31,450 was ticrived
from dividends 011 railroad stock, and the
balance from fines, delinquent taxes of the year
18K2, incomes from the poor house farm, and
licenses.
York pays her taxes as promptly as any county
in the State. There are but few eases of nulla
bona, and in winding up the business of the last
fiscal year, only three pieces of land were offered
on last sales-day for delinquent taxes. There
were no bidders 011 either of these, they having
been exposed to sale, as we understand, on account
of disputed titles.
A FARMER DUPED.
Rock Hill Jferald.
On Monday evening of last week two
white men applied for lodging at the residence
of Mr. J. A. Thomas, in Chester county.
They were accorded permission to remain
over night, and after being escorted
into the house and seated in front of a glowing
fire, the elder of the two strangers gave
his name as A. Summerfield, the owner of a
large livery stable at Lancaster, and that
his companion, whose name was DuPre,
was a Frenchman, who had lately gone to
Lancaster and could not speak English.
Summerfield then entered into the details
of an interesting tale which our readers will
perhaps read with interest and we reproduce
it here.
About three weeks before, so the story
runs, two young Frenchmen, named DuPre,
arrive at Lancaster from France for the purpose
of establishing a factory for the manufacture
of fine French woolen and cotton
goods. The machinery for this purpose had
been shipped from France and had arrived
at Lancaster several weeks ago, together
with $500,000 or $000,000 worth of fine French
goods, samples from a factory in France
which was owned by the DuPre family,
the samples being brought to this country
to give the people an idea of the splendid
class of goods that would be turned out by
the proposed Lancaster mills. The brothers
also brought with them twelve black sheep,
of an extraordinary kind, the wool of
which was used in France for the manufacture
of finecassimeres and doeskins. These
sheep were exported lor the purpose of
stocking a farm near the proposed factory
and it was expected the farm would finally
furnish the mills with all the wool that
would be needed.
The brothers had received much encouragement
from the people of Lancaster and
Chester, and were making preparations to
COIllIIlfllL'U l/JIt? CrtHJllUIJ \/l lliU iatl I/IJ. i tiiuing
the selection of a site, however, the
elder of the DuPre brothers dropped dead
on the streets of Lancaster and this calamity
put an end to operations for tfte present.
The young brother was thus placed in a
lamentable condition, being unable to speak
the prevailing language, a stranger in a
strange land, having on his hands the dead
body of his brother, a great amount of factory
machinery, and a lot of goods worth
?(500,000. He telegraphed his father in
France for instructions. The old gentleman
replied at once, directing the young man to
embalm the body of his brother, to leave
the machinery with Heath Bros., to dispose
of the goods as well as he could, and
then return to France with the body for
interment.
The sorrowing young brother had arranged
with Summerfield to assist him in
disposing of the goods, and he was glad to
say they were succeeding well. The merchants
of Charlotte had made purchases to
the amount of $150,000. Oh Friday before
they had left Lancaster with five wagons
loaded with goods to sell as well as they
could in the country, t'p to Monday they
had succeeded in disposing of all but one
wagon load and had sent the other wagons
back. The amount obtained from the three
days' sales was about $20,000. On that day
they had sold of the remainder about $3,800
worth, many of the neighbors around buying
heavily, and what was then on hands
would have to be sold by the next morning
as the young Frenchman would leave Lancaster
for France on Wednesday morning
in company with the embalmed body of his
brother. The remnant therefore would be
sold at a great sacrifice?French calicoes at
It cents per yard; French cassimeres at 5
and 10 cents, and other French goods at
equally low prices. The goods were put up
in packages containing a few patterns of
calico, which Mr. Thomas was assured were
bolts, a few patterns of poplins, a few pieces
of cassimere, two table-cloths and two suits
of what was claimed to be French broadcloth.
The merchants in Charlotte had paid
*60 per suit for the broadcloth, it was alleged,
but if Mr. Thomas wanted them they would
make a sacrifice and sell them at $33 per
suit. Summerfield expatiated a long while,
but failed to effect a sale. The conversation
finally took a turn and presently Mr. j
Thomas and his guests retired.
The next morning found Summerfield and
his bereaved companion still anxious to sell
the remaining goods, and as an inducement
to get Mr. Thomas to buy offered to sell him
the suits for $110 and throw in the calicoes, j
etc., but he still declined to purchase. A
further proposition to take $90.31) for the j
pile was accepted and the money paid over, j
when the couple left, ostensibly for Lan-1
caster, but in reality in search of others !
whom they might be able to dupe.
Some time after Summerfield and his com-.
panion had taken their departure Mr. !
Thomas made close examination of his goods ;
and concluded he had been wofully swin- :
died, whereupon he went before .Justice i
Magill and swore out a warrant against j
Summerfield, who had done all the talking, j
He easily got on their track and traced ;
them to this place, on Thursday afternoon, j
but not until after they had departed. lie'
got Constable C. J. Pride, Jr., to accompapy I
him in pursuit and next morning Mr. Pride
succeeded in capturing Summerfield at the
residence of Mr. John Nichols, in this coun- j
ty, where he and the young Frenchman had
lodged the night before. Summerfield was
brought back to Kock Ilill, and before the
constable could take him to Itiehburg before
the Justice by whom the warrant was issued,
Mr. Thomas agreed to drop the suit if
Summerfield would pay back the money
upon the return of the goods and would
pay the costs in the case. This Summerfield
agreed to and did do, and was soon on the
road seeking whom else he might devour.
Whether or not Mr. Thomas was swin-!
died we are unable to say, but it is surprising
how easily be allowed himself to be ;
"taken in." The story of Summerfield was !
unreasonable and as thin as water, and the j
wonder is that any sensible man could have '
been gulled by such a tale. Summerfield, '
however, has been traveling over the country
generally and Mr. Thomas seems not
to have been his first victim.
Our friends in Lancaster will be glad to
know that the death of the elder DuPre
brother will not*stop the building of the
factory, asSummerfield assured Mr. Thomas
that its erection would he commenced as
soon as an English-speaking cousin of the
DuPres could come from France to take >
charge of and superintend its building, and "
that it would be expected of all who had
gotten advantage o( their great bargains
that they would assist the coming Frenchman
in buying up sheep farms. Captain
Thomas, we suppose, will assist. At least
we think he ought to, as they have taught
him a valuable lesson.
Tiik Fkuiu aky Cotton Hkpokt.?'The
February cotton report of the Department
of Agriculture at Washington makes the
crop sent to market from the plantations 011
the 1st of February 81)1 per cent, of the crop,
leaving 101 to be marketed. Virginia,
North Carolina, Florida and Louisiana report
00 per cent.; Texas and Georgia 01 ;South.
Carolina 92; while Mississippi returns 89
per cent., Alabama 87 and Arkansas and
Tennessee 87.
The average date of the close of picking
is earlier than last year by six days in Virginia,
three in North Carolina, three in
South Carolina, one in Georgia, three in !
Mississippi, ten in Texas, eight in Arkansas
and ten in Tennessee. The date is the
same as last year in Florida and Alabama.
The average of the dates reported here are:
Virginia, December (5; North Carolina, Novembers);
South Carolina, November 20;
Georgia, November 19; Florida, November
80; Alabama, November 28; Texas,
November28; Arkansas, December 1; Tennessee,
November 80.
From returns of the product compared
with last year an aggregate crop of about
five and two thirds of a million bales is indicated,
or about 99 per cent, of the crop of
last year, and but slightly differing from the
indications of the December report. The
comparison is as follows, by States: Virginia,
90, North Carolina 101, South Carolina
112, Georgia 101, Florida 102, Alabama
100, Mississippi 98, Louisiana 97, Texas 89,
Arkansas 99, Tennessee 101. In WestMississippi
there appears to be a reduction in the
product, notwithstanding the increase of
acreage.
M KKE-MENTIOS.
The North Carolina Legislature has increased
tht! number of iudieial districts iri
that State from nine to twelve The
outlook is encouraging for the extension of
the Carolina Central railway from Shelby,
X. C., to Spartanburg, the Cranberry Iron
Works and into Tennessee. Alexander
Moulton, who was Governor of Louisiana
in 1842, and in 1861 President of the Secession
Convention held at Baton liouge, died
at LaFayette, La., last Thursday, aged
81 years. A bill has passed the Arkansas
Legislature prohibiting baseball playing
on Sunday, under penalty of a heavy
fine. A high license liquor saloon bill
is pending in the Pennsylvania Legislature.
Mahdi means Messiah. The autocrat
of the Soudan is a religious impostor.
Gen. McClellan, like Gen. Hancock,
has declined to be chief marshal of the
inaugural parade in Washington. On
Thursday, the President addressed a special
message to Congress, recommending an additional
appropriation to relieve the New
Orleans exposition from its present embarrassment.
The Blockley almshouse near
Philadelphia, in which 684 lunatics were
confined, was destroyed by fire last Thursday
night, and eighteen of the inmates perished.
A Sunday-school teacher asked
a little girl of her class if she had been baptized.
"Yes." said the little girl, "two
times." "Two times! Why howcouldthat
be?" exclaimed the teacher. "It didn't
take the first time," said the child. At
a Mormon conference recently held in Glasgow
it was stated that the total number of
Mormons in Scotland at present was 471, and
that elders were actively engaged in mission
work in various districts of the country.
Supposing a prayer on a formal
occasion is read from a printed slip and a
typographical error completely ruins the
proper sense, will Providence receive the
petition as read, or as originally written?
'PL/v ?? ? n flinAlnrvl/in 1 cnni
lilt' 91UUC1II.'? ill <V ?t toici ii invuiw^ivtti oviftiinary
argued for hours about this, and the
final vote was a tie. The Associate Reformed
Synod of the South reports the following
statistics: Total number of members,
6,727; total amount of salaries paid, $38,909.16;
total amount of contributions, including
seminary endowment, $64,851.76;
contributions per capita$9.59. Francis
A. Drexel, the senior of the two brothers at
the head of the Drexej banking houses in
Paris, New York and Philadelphia, died in
the latter city last Sunday afternoon. In
joint session of the Illinois Legislature, last
Saturday, the roll was called for a vote for
the Fnited States Senator. The speaker
voted for Morrison, which was the only
vote cast. Twenty-two Republicans and nine
Democrats were absent. The World's
Cotton Convention adjourned last Saturday
to hold its next annual meeting at Charleston,
S. C. El Mahdi officially announces
the death of Gen. Gordon, while on the other
hand hopes of his safety are yet entertained
in England. I)r. Hembold, of
"Buchu" fame, who has been an inmate of
Xorristown, Pa., hospital for the insane during
the last three and a half years, was discharged
last Friday. On Sunday last,
officers discovered two negroes obstructing
the track of the Galveston, Harrisburg and
San Antonio Railroad, near Ruling, Texas,
for the evident purpose of wrecking an approaching
train. In arresting the miscreants
one negro was instantly'killed and the
other was mortally wounded and afterwards
died.
The Snow Blockade.?A Chicago dispatch
of Monday says: The weather here
and throughout the Northwest generally today
is again intensely cold. At 8 o'clock
this morning in Chicago the mercury indicated
15? below zero. The weather is clear,
but the air is filled with particles of snow
that are being blown around by the keen
itfin/i cinmnlc i?rp fivinw find a fur
ther drop of J0? in the temperature is predicted.
At Omaha the mercury is 1.'}? below, at
St. Paul 10? below, at Des Moines 10? below,
at Dubuque 18? below, Fargo, Dakota, 28?
below; at Winnipeg 34? below. Chicago
and Alton, Louisville, New Albany and
Chicago and several of the smaller lines are
blockaded. The former road sent out one
train about noon, but expressed little hope
of being able to get through. The Grand
Trunk has refused consignments of ireight
to-day. The chief trouble is South and
Southwest. Trains West and North are
nearly on time.
Dispatches from St. Louis say all Chicago
trains out of St. Louis have been abandoned
on account of the snow blockade.
Trains on the Chicago, Burlington and j
Qiiincy Railroad arrived seven hours late.
All trains Fast of the Mississippi River are
also late. The Wabash, Illinois Central
and Chicago and Alton roads have stopped
running their trains for the present.
Tiik GaIjI.ows.?Dr. L. M. Beach was I
hanged at Jlollidaysburg, Pa., last Thurs-1
day, for the murder of his wife on April 7,
last, lie was perfectly cool; slept well the
preceding night, and ate a hearty breakfast I
and dinner. The time for the execution was |
set for 1.30 P. M., on account of an express I
wish of the culprit that he should take din-;
ner before being hanged. His neck was
broken by the fall. All the prisoners in the 1
jail were admitted to the yard to witness the ,
execution.
Richard Tieuke was hanged in the corri-1
dor of the Philadelphia, Pa., county prison
at 10.21 on Thursday morning, for the mur-'
der of Augusta Zimm, his friend's wife and j
his own paramour. He was in mortal ter-j
ror and nearly fainted before reaching the '
scaffold. His neck was dislocated by the
drop and he was dead in six minutes.
On the same day, Elijah Parker, who
murdered Lewis Fox in December, and
Rust Johnson, who murdered John Wall,
in August last, were hanged on one scaffold,
at Little Rock, Arkansas. Johnson declared
that he was innocent.
At Selina, Alabama, Han ford Jackson,
colored, was hanged last Friday for the
murder of Rufus Gill, another negro, in
March, 1883. The hanging took place without
any incident of unusual interest.
" ?______
Toh.uvo Plaxtix?.?Judging from the i
facts and figures presented by various persons,
the business of tobacco planting will
be profitable in this section. But caution
and moderation should guide all movement
in the matter. It should he remembered i
that an experiment is only an experiment
and that the skill necessary for success can
be acquired only by experience. Nobody
ought to invest much in an enterprise of
doubtful value.
The best way to test the tobacco scheme
will be to devote patches of from three to
ten acres to it?just so much as can be properly
attended without neglecting the other
crops. We must consider that the farmers
who make tobacco and nothing else are in
the same condition as those who make cot- ,
ton and nothing else, or wheat and nothing ,
else. Experience proves that the secret of j
successful farming is diversified crops, j
When all our .farmers make some cotton,
some tobacco, some upland rice, wheat, oats, <
corn and bacon this will be one of the garden
spots of the world, and the people of
the city and country will be rich and comparatively
independent of weatherand commercial
d isasters.?fWeen riHe Xewx. I
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? (.'heap watch chains arc very generally
worn in Xewbeiry.
? John P. Boyce, sheriff of Beaufort county,
died at his home in the town of Beaufort on
the Pith instant.
? The Court of Sessions for Lancaster
county will convene on February 2J. Judge
Wallace will preside. The criminal docket
is heavy.
? The Rev. John Kershaw has resigned
the rectorship of the Episcopal unuren m
Home, Ga. It is probable that he will take 0
charge of the churcn at Winnsboro.
? The people of Georgetown county have
voted a subscription of $100,000 to the capital
stock of the Georgetown and North
Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad Company.
-Seventy-five families of colored people
left Florence on Sunday last, and still there
is no complaint among the farmers of any
scarcity of agricultural laborers.
? Cadet M. F. Smoake, of Orangeburg
county, S. C., died at the Naval Academy,
Annapolis, Md., on Wednesday of last week.
The remains were forwarded to Orangeburg
by direction of Cadet Smoake's lather. i
? Mr. Willie Hums, of Lancaster, was accidentally
shot by Mr. Clark Pressley while
out target shooting several days ago. The #
ball entered Mr. Burns' right arm near the
elbow and came out under his arm.
? Mr. Britain Parker, of Lancaster county,
took his little daughter, five years old, to the
field with him l?,st week, where he was
burning broom sedge. The little girl's
clothing caught fire and she was burned to
death.
? On account of the severe cold weather,
which Judge Pressley severely felt in the
present state of his health, he adjourned
Abbeville Court last Saturday sine die,
promising an extra term in April, when the
weather moderates.
? The Rev. T. 1). Witherspoon, I). I).,
of Louisville, Ky., has been elected president
of Davidson College. W. S. Graves,
A. M., of Liberty, Va., has been elected
professor of Greek and German. Dr. Witherspoon
is a native of South Carolina.
? John F. Hobbs, who acquired some notoriety
in this State several years ago by his
desertion of the Democracy, and is now living
in Atlanta, Ga., wants to ?0 to Australia
or South America as a Lnited States
consul under Cleveland's administration.
? A white woman who left her husband in
Pickens county and eloped to Texas with
another man has been recently heard from.
She has been abandoned by her paramour,
and now writes begging her husband's
forgiveness and asking for money to return
home.
? The small grain crop in Spartanburg
eountv has suffered much in consequence of
the recent cold weather. Wheat* is very
small and weakly, and the fall sowing of
oats has been thinned very much, and killed
in some instances. A large area has been
sown in oats since the middle of January,
and these are not hurt, as they are not up.
? There has been no Criminal Court in
Chesterfield since May, 1884. This is a great
hardship to prisoners. There are in jail ten
prisoners, who will probably be compelled
to remain until court. Some of the prisoners
have been in jail upwards of one hundred
days already. The expense to the
county for feeding the prisoners is $100 per
month.
? The Aiken Journal and Review says that
the county jail at that place is in a deploraable
condition on account of defective drainage,
and that the stench from the cells is
horrible. There are twenty-four prisoners
confined in the jail, and of course they are
the immediate sufferers from the condition
of things complained of. The Journal insists
upon it that the jail should be improved.
? The Newberry Observer says: "J)r. II.
P. Tarrant, an experienced and skillful
druggist, but for several years past a victim
to strong drink, was committed to Newberry
jail Thursday upon a warrant charging
him with forging the name of Geo.
O. Robinson & Co., of Augusta, to a draft
and collecting the money ($55) from Mr.
Beckman, of Aiken. A deputy sheriff came
up Tuesday and carried the prisoner to
Aiken, where the offence is charged to
have been committed sometime in 1884.""
? About four o'clock last Sunday morning
the ceiling of a dungeon in the Greenville
jail was discovered to be on fire. Eight
prisoners were confined in the dungeon.
Their purpose was to fire the building with
the hope of making their escape. The fire
was discovered in time to prevent any serious
damage to the jail, and also to frustrate
the plan of the prisoners. The sheriff of
Greenville will prosecute the offenders for
fkr, ?ircrvn
inu tnuic vi aivviii
Train Robbers in Texas.?A Harwood,
Texas, dispatch of Monday says : Two men
boarded a passenger train on the Galveston,
Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad
at Ruling about 10 o'clock last night, and
when the train was about half way between
Ruling and Harwood the passengers in the
first class coach were surprised at beholding
their two supposed fellow passengers standing
in the centre of the car with hankerchiefs
over the lower portion of their faces
and revolvers in their hands. The men
quietly demanded the cash from the passensengers
in the coach, eschewing all mention
of jewelry. They made no attempt
on the remainder of the train, but jumped
from the platform while the cars were in
motion. It was done so quietly and quickly
that the passengers in the other coaches
and the conductors knew nothing of the
robbery at the time. They secured about
$ '100 in cash.
Was It Accident, or Murder??According
to a lengthy account of the affair in
the Charlotte Observer of Sunday, B. Allen
Freeman, a gunsmith, was found in his store
in that city last Saturday night, lying face
downward on the floor, with a bullet hole
in the centre of his forehead. The bullet
went clear through his head, dropping out
when the surgeons shaved away the backhair.
The wounded man tried to recall the
circumstances, but with blood and brains
oozing out of his l^ead he could only manage
to say that he thought the shooting accidental.
He thinks he shot himself, although
there was some one else in the store at the
time, who appeared to have Hed when the
accident occurred for fear of being charged
with the shooting. The wounded man will
die. The strangest part of it is that the
former proprietor of the shop was also killed
by the accidental discharge of a pistol.
Kentucky Terrorism Rebuked.?A
Rexington, Ky., dispatch of Saturday says:
Thpnttomnted rescue from the Rowan coun
ty jail of four men, convicted of murdering
John G. Hughes in November last, led
Judge Cole to have summoned twenty
armed men as a special guard. Six who relused
to servehe caused to he indicted. Two
of the prisoners turned State's evidence, and
on their testimony, supported hy other witnesses,
Wm. Garner, the leader of the band
of Regulators, was to-day convicted and
sentenced to life imprisonment. Judge
Cole has, during the trial, punished several
gross contempts, and his action is doing
much to induce the people of that region to
resist the terrorism to which they have
long been subjected.
parkt Reports.
YORKVILLE, February is.?Cotton i?to 10.40.
LIVERPOOL, February 10.?Cotton dull, with
si limited supply. Middling uplands Od.
CHARLESTON, February 10.?Cotton quiet,
middling 10 11-10.
CHARLOTTE, February 17.?Cotton It to 10.40.
NEW YORK, February 16.?Cotton firm;
middling uplands, 11 3-10. Futures closed dull
but steady with sales as follows: February 11.21 ;
March ll'.20to 11.27; April 11.30 to 11.31; May
11.30 to 11.40; June 11.49 to 11.50; July 11.57
to 11.5S; August 1 LOG to 11.07; September 11.2G
to 11.28; October 10.82 to 10.84; November and
Dei-ember 10.07 to 10.70.
Comparative Cotton Statement.
NEW YORK, February 13.?The following is
the comparative cotton statement for the week
ending February 13: 1885. 1884.
ReeeiptsatalL ports for the week, 68,618 104,007
Total receipts to this date ,.4,202,383 4,131,280
Exports for the week 83,290 115,*860
Total exports to date, 2,903,009 2,097',734
Stock at all U. S. ports 836,602 l,019'o77
Stock at all interior towns 145,980 136,390
Stock at Liverpool 901,000 898*000
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SEED IRISH POTATOES.
Lr HUSH ELS pure EARLY ROSE IRISH
J) POTATOES for sale at $1 per bushel. Apply
at ENQUIRER OFFICE.
February 12 7 tf