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fcraps and Jfacts. ? General Lawton, of Georgia, nominated as minister to Russia, has had an interview with the President and placed his claims at his disposal. The Attorney General is preparing an opinion sustaining General Lawton's eligibility. ? At Cartersville, Georgia a peddler attracted a crowd and when he had sold about $100 worth of watches he suddenly lashed his horse into a run and disappeared. When the purchasers opened their purchases they found them devoid of works. The cases proved to be brass. ? The record of the windy month is written in ashes. Official reports estimate a loss of $9,000,000 by fire during March, in the United States and Canada. The total loss in the first three months of 1885 is shown to be $27,500,000. At this rate, if kept up, the result will be $110,000,000 for the year, even nn avfmwiinan? onnflonrrotinna rwv?nr II 11V/ UAVlViUiUUI J VV/UllWglMV(WlJt7 wvvtk ? The length of the wire used in the construction of submarine cable, now in operation is computed to be ten times the distance from the earth to the moon. The total length of cable now used is 68,000 miles, each cable containing an average of forty strands of wire, and making over 2,500,000 miles. ? A dispatch of the 8th from Phoenix, Arizona, says: The Mormon Bishop Stewart, and Elder C. J. Robinson, who were indicted for polygamy, were permitted to plead guilty to the lesser count in the indictment, of unlawful cohabitation, and the judge then sentenced them to 90 days in the Territorial penitentiary. ? It has developed that Charles Reed, the Southern Express agent who absconded from Morristown, Tennessee, a few days since, carried with him $2,000 from the safe, and a package containing $30,000, which belonged to the Scottish lumber company, which is carrying on extensive operations in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. ? Col. McClure has filed a plea of truth in justification in the suit of M. A. Dauphin against himself for libel, and has made a demand "in reconvention" under the laws of Louisiana for $25,000 for his expenses and counsel of the case. The trial is looked foward to with much interest by both * the friends and enemies of the parties. ? Both Houses of the Tennessee Legislature have passed over the veto of Gov. Bate the bill repealing the Railroad Commission law. Gov. Bate based his veto principally on the ground that the recent general election in Tennessee showed that the aggregate vote in favor of commissioners was a popular expression of approval of the principle of regulation through a commission. ? Richard Grant White, the well known -A !J OOA writer, uieu at nis resilience, oou j.-.ast Seventeenth street, New York, on Wednesday of last week. He has been ailing all winter from gastritis, and this it was that carried him off. He was one of the best known magazine and book writers in the country, and ;n past years has provoked no end of controversy and comment by the stand he took on several subjects. ? A late issue of the Salt Lake Tribune is authority for the assertion that the leading Mormon bishop has declared that the priesthood has concluded it would be cheaper to buy a Statehood for Utah than to endure the annoyance polygaraists are now being subjected to Dy the enforcement of laws. Among the laity this is now considered to be the plan of the Mormon campaign. ? William Donnelly, a farmer living near Urbana, Illinois, died last Thursday of glanders, contracted from his horses. His wife and daughter are both sick and it is feared that they have been infected. The State verterinarian has killed two of the horses and placed the farm under quarantine. The same thing has been done on another farm west of Champaign in the same State. ? Henry Ward Beecher says a great many sensible things, and the fact that they are sensible must be the test of his sincerity. Here is one of his latest: "A Confederate brigadier is just as good as a Northern brigadier. The South nas come back into the Union, the war is over, these men say they want peace, and when Southern men offer assistance and say they want to be peaceable, they won't let them." ? Lightning has killed 4,609 persons in France alone since 1835. An equal number have been seriously though not fatally wounded, and five times as many struck. The hot years were the most fatal, and those are remarkable as having been the best wine seasons. There has not been a single death from lightning in Paris or the Department of the Seine since 1864, though there have been many violent storms there during that time. ? A civil rights bill was passed by the Illinois House of Delegates Thursday'. It provides that all persons within the jurisdiction of the State shall be entitled to the full and equal.enjoyment of the privelages of inns, restaurants, barber shops, public conveyances, theatres and all other places of public convenience or amusement, subject only to the limitations established by jaw ana appucaDie 10 au citizens anae. a violation or the law is to be punished by a fine of from $25 to $500, to be paid to the person aggrieved, or to fine and imprisonment for the offence itself as a misdemeanor. ? The colliery owners in Derbyshire and Staffordshire have resolved to join those of Yorkshire in making a ten per cent, reduction in the wages of their miners. The miners in Yorkshire, already on a strike against the reduction, which went into operation in that county on April 1, number nearly 30,000, The Derby and Stafford miners willresist the reduction and go on strike. The present strike is the greatest that has occurred for many years in England. It threatens to last for many months, and will soon affect over 500,000 people who depend upon coal mining for a livelihood. ? Alabama ha/ an iron-clad liquor law. For concealing liquor in a prohibition county, with intent to sell or give away the same, the fine is $250 or $1,000, or imprisonment at hard labor for 12 months. For knowingly permitting anyone to conceal, etc., on one's premises there is a like penalty. All persons frequenting a place where liquor is so concealed are to be fined or imprisoned. The sale of liquor annuls a man's lease and leaves the lessee without a remedy. Constables in search of whisky are authorized to break open gates and doors. Express messengers may be fined or imprisoned for delivering liquor in prohibition towns. The prosecuting attorney gets double fees for conviction in liquor cases. ? The Manufacturer?' Jleeord, published at Baltimore, in its issue of last Saturday, prints its quarterly review of the industrial progress of the South, giving information of all manufacturing and mining enterprises organized in the southern States during the first three months of 1885. The aggregate capital of these new enterprises, including the amount expended in the enlargement of factories already in existence, is $20,591,100. Two coke iron furnaces of 100 tons capacity will soon be built at Anniston, Alabama. The capital is divided as follows: Kenlucky, $7,728,000; Maryland, $3,400,000; Alabama, $2,035,000; Virginia, $1,496,000; Tennessee, $1,222,000; West Virginia, $1,221,000; Georgia, $991,000; North Carolina, $715,000; Texas, $510,000; Louisiana, $465,000; South Carolina, $332,000; Florida, $200,000; Arkansas, $179,600, and Mississippi, $96,000. ? William Stover, who was arrested and placed in the Butler county, X. Y. jail a few days ago for killing James Duncan, has confessed that Duncan makes the eleventh man he has killed. Stover was formerly a cowboy on the plains. He gives no details of his alleged murders, but says he is wanted in Kansas, Colorado and Texas for the crimes. Duncan, the man he killed in Butler county, was an old deaf man. He was sitting in Harper's dry goods store in North Washington, N. Y. Stover went into the store and offered to trade the clerk a bunch of keys for a cigar. The clerk refused. Stover drew a dirk knife and made a lunge at the clerk who knocked the knife out of his hand. Stover then took a revolver from his pocket and fired two shots at the clerk, who fled from the store. Stover then turned and seeing Duncan sitting by the stove, deliberately shot him twice, both balls passing through his lung. The desperado was not captured until he had emptied his revolver into various articles about the store. ? Logarisport is a town of six barrooms and one store in DeSoto Parish, La., on the Texas line. A grocery keeper named Charles j Nelson, on Sunday the 5th instant, killed a negro on the Texas bank of the river, and I immediately after crossed over to the Lou- ^ i isiana side. Major Truet, a Texas justice of . | the peace, came over to Logansport, and, | seeing Nelson there, authorized a man nam- & ! ed Ringgold to arrest him. Both men had u ; shot-guns, and when Nelson saw what was r( likely to happen he started to run, but was 5 overtaken and shot dead by Ringgold. t Ringgold at once recrossed the river and has not been arrested. This is the third n murder within two weeks at that place, h District Attorney Pugh states that there w have been thirty-eight men killed in and 0i around Logansport since the war, and not j;1 one man has been arrested therefor. It is thought now to change this rule, and that |' vigorous effort will be made to arrest at j least one Logansport murderer, just for the j ai novelty of the thing, i ci b: ihc ffflrMlc YOKKVILLE. S. ('. : ! ol THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 16,1885. ? THE COTTON SUPPLY. a During the past five weeks the cotton re- n ceipts from the plantations have steadily j( declined from 39,563 bales to 14,934. Last year at this time the receipts were 21,290 b bales, and the year previous they were 68,- ti 889. The cotton is about all out of the coun- f( try, and the crop thus far in sight foots up r( only 5,480,252 bales, against 6,461,481 bales two years ago. The southern mills have taken 20,000 bales less than, last year, and the northern mills 123,000 less. The stock ^ of East India and other foreign cottons is h lower than ever before at this season, being C only 540,000 bales against 709,000 last year, G while the American stock is 135,000 bales v less than last year. In 1882, when the en- si tire stock was 277,000 bales greater than ft now, the price was 1} cents higher, but h then cotton goods were much higher. a t< THE ILLINOIS DEADLOCK. The contest for the Senatorship has been tl going on in the Illinois Legislature for more p than a month, the candidates being General j, John A. Logan, Republican, nnd Col. Wm. R. Morrison, Democrat. Neither get a ma- j{ jority. Gen. Logan has evidently been n soured by the long contest and the hope de- v ferred. Replying to a charge of Mayor Car- r( ter Harrison, of Chicago, on the 4th, that he e had been a party to a fraudulent arrange- p ment to secure the election, Gen. Logan v said: p "I denounce Mayor Harrison as uttering p an infamous falsehood. He is a vile, infa- <.1 mous liar, a poltroon ancl a coward." On Saturday 14 Senators and 37 Repre- j sentatives were present in the joint assembly. Morrison received 19 votes, Black 2, Streeter 2, and Logan 2. THE WAR BEGUN. n The news from England for the last few & days is of an interesting and exciting char- i( acter. The clash of arms which has for b some time been anticipated has taken place S on the Afghan frontier, between the Bus- ^ sians and Afghans, and according to the a reports there was desperate fighting. The interesting feature of this contest is that it oi involves England and may precipitate hos- P tilities between that power and Russia. The news of the conflict which reached England created no little excitement, and ? the expression of opinion was that war was inevitable, and that preparation for it must T be made at once. In consequence of the warlike news from England there has been 0 a slight advance in the provision markets of the United States. In the event of war, bread and meat will go up, and cotton down. j THE RAILROAD COMMISSION. ci An i nteresting case was determined in the la Court of Common Pleas for Richland coun- 2, ty, last Thursday, Judge Witherspoon pre- rr siding, which will bring the question of the ti constitutionality of the railroad law square- ti ly before the Supreme Court. The rail- D road law provides that the entire expenses w of the Railroad Commission, including all 3, salaries and expenses of every kind, shall ni be borne by the several corporations owning n< or operating railroads within this State, according to their gross incomes. Under this ni act the Columbia and Greenville Railroad', w Company was assessed $1,06"), which was w paid into the treasury of Richland county th under protest. Suit was brought to recover R the amount. The railroad company'sattor- pi ney, John C. Haskell, and the State's attor- tt ney, .C. R. Miles, ably argued the case, at 01 the conclusion of which Judge Witherspoon w gave it as his opinion that the act was un- tt constitutional and directed the jury to find m for the plaintiff'. An appeal will be taken rj to the Supreme Court. T THE COLUMBIAN TROUBLE. The action of President Barrios, of Gau- ei temala, in proclaiming himself dictator of j the allied Central American States, and his gl attempts to subjugate the sister republics, cr have met with complete disaster. On the y| 30th of March, Barrios attacked the Salva-j doran frontier position El Coco, thus break- I ^ ing the promise given by him to the Unit- | ^ ed States Minister not to invade Salvador i a, and commencing operations without a dec- jr laration of war. The battle raged fiercely until nightfall, when the Salvadoran forces w concentrated upon Chalchupa. At daylight ^ on the 31st fighting commenced around San jt Lorezo. Alter a severe engagement, which jj lasted ten hours, the Gautemalan forces were completely routed with very heavy ^ iosses. Official dispatches of last Thursday to the Navy Department at Washington, confirm ^ the report that President Barrios himself was killed on the battlefield, and state that ^ hostilities between Gautemala and the al- | lied republics have been suspended, and an armistice of one month's duration is an- ^ nounced. The Legislative Assembly of e< Gautemala has annulled the decree promulgated by President Barrios on February 28, n in which a union of the Central American a Republics was proclaimed and Barrios an- ai nounced as Dictator and Supreme Military j ei Chieftain of all Central America. The Viivu 1 tonnrtmont ulsn hsmn rlisnntoh | from ('apt. Norton, commanding the Shen- a) | andoah, conveying the information that he 1 tl I has landed about 150 men in Panama for the tl protection of American interests. Secretary ; Whitney replied to him: "Your duty is ^ | confined to protecting the railway and steamship companies' property, and the p i lives and property of American citizens, 11 j and, so far as your force permits, to keep ai the transit open. In conflicts between the tc I local forces you must not participate nor u show favor or disfavor to either." I p Senor Becerra, Minister from the United 8( States of Columbia to this government, has rr received an official dispatch from his govern- /A ment, in which it is stated that tranquility al prevails throughout the republic except at ^ j Panama, Sabanillaand Santa Marta, which, ai it says, are in the hands of the rebels. The tr j dispatch also states that the government is w organizing in the State of Caucea, which w adjoins Panama, an expedition of 1,500 troops, which will be sent to Panama as ju soon as possible to suppress the revolt in ai that State. I ol THE MANITOBA REBELLION. d< The revolt of the lmlf-hreeds in the Cana- n< ian North-west has reached serious dimen-1 ons, and there has already been considera- cj le loss of life. There are fears of a general, bl prising of the Indians in the region of the ai ivolt, and the indications are that much ; b; lood will be shed before peace can be re-; ^ ored. The trouble grows out of the ar-! e( mgements made by the Dominion Govern- j ti lent in regard to land division and tenure, I 01 hich have worked badly. It is claimed I tt 11 the part of the insurrectionists that their ! T mds have been the prey of Eastern specu.tors, the possessors, in many instances, p} nving been unable to get their patents, Ui nd white encroachment has gone on in- al easing. During the past year the half-j reed agitation nas oeen Kepi up, muim^ t the instigation of Louis Kiel, the leader 1 the rebellion of 1809. The demands of nj ie half-breeds were notcomplied with, and fe le disaffection has ended in open revolt jainst the Dominion Government. It is ?r lid that $100,000 'would have paid all the ^ alf-breed claims, had the Government ac;ded to their claims at once, when an up- Si sing was seen to be inevitable unless the st ittlement was made. Compromise is now elieved to be out of the question until the ?bellion shall have been crushed by force f arms. Many times that amount will be c~ upended in the attempt, which will, of jurse, be at last successful, though at the e~ )st, as now seems probable, of much blood CI nd treasure. The half-breeds are more forlidable than the Indians. They are reck- u ;ss men, fearless fighters, and are skillfully v ;d. The Canadian Government appears to . e unprepared for this outbreak, and some ai ime must elapse before an overwhelming el )rce can be brought face to face with the ?bels. a< SHE WILL NOT RESIGN. Miss Ada C. Sweet, the .U. S. Pension n igent at Chicago, who declines to tender er resignation at the request of Gen. Black, ' lommissioner of Pensions, is a daughter of ? len. J. B. Sweet, who died in Washington ffiile occupying the office of Deputy Pen- g ion Commissioner. She succeeded her ei ither in the Pension Office in Chicago on r< is promotion eleven years ago, being first ppointed by General Grant. Her present b jrm expires by limitation, April 16, 1886. P The correspondence between herself and lie Commissioner of Pensions has not been ^ ublished, though her telegram to the Pres- f lent clearly intimates her intention not to c< mder her resignation. In an interview " ist Friday she said that she had received / o private information from Washington 11 dth reference to the President's attitude in jj 2gard to her case. She said she was much S( ncouraged by the newspaper reports of the 'resident's course up to the present, and she st as awaiting the outcome with interest, ir ler office has been flooded with newspa- S ers containing editorials about herself, and a le says that all the Republican, Independ- ^ lit, and not a few Democratic papers, de- cj lare that her course was the proper one, s\ nd that the President is expected to sus- ti lin her. She does not expect to be court- S mrtialed for "conduct unbecoming a gentle- 11 lan and an officer," as intimated by a jovi- " I correspondent, but she thought the Pres- ^ lent stood in the position of having to re- 'p uke either herself or the Commissioner. S( he adds that her books are in order, and tt lac, although she will be prepared to go at ny time, she will continue to attend strict- w l to business without fretting about the a' utcome of her telegram of protest to the y resident. (j THE MICHIGAN ELECTION. . ? There was a light vote in the Michigan <p tate election on Monday of last week. T he only State officers voted for were a cl ustice of the Supreme Court and Regents j* f the University. In Detroit, Morse (Dem- h: ;rat) for Justice had a majority of over u" 000 over Cooley (Republican and Prohi- p itionist). One hundred and eighty-four p| recincts outside of Detroit gave a Demo- ju atic majority of 4,207. The same precincts tl st fall gave a Republican majority of 225. The Detroit Free Press claims a lajority for the head of the Democratic " cketof not less than 20,000. In Detroit ^ le Democratic majority is 5,498, and the rp emocrats carry the municipal election as hi ell, with pluralities ranging from 1,100 to ti 712. Judge Chipman, Democrat, renomi- st ited for Judge of the Superior Court, had st 3 opponent. The result of the election in Michigan TTnfSI ~ my ue icgaiucu as a icvuiuuwn. vmti ^ ithin the past few years it has been over- w helmingly Republican, but the fusion of tl le Green backers and Democrats broke the y( epublican solidity, and cut down the Reublican majority to a few thousands. In le late election these majorities were not b< lly entirely swept away, but the State tl ent Democratic by 20,000 majority, and if le issue seems to have been the endorse- ei lent of Cleveland's administration in car- "j ring out the civil service reform measures. he platform upon which Morse, Dem- js . ratio candidate for Justice of the Supreme pi ourt, was nominated, pledged the party to idorse Cleveland's administration by Mich- a? 111 fan's vote at this electidn, so that the re- at lit is not simply the election of a Demo- p| atic Justice of the Supreme Court, and a ki tate Democratic victory, but also a Dem- to :ratic victory in a national sense, and is the P' rst popular endorsement by the ballot of w le policy of the new administration. As re 1 index of the drift of popular sentiment > p{ i the West, this vote is significant. The ca robabilities.are that a corresponding result lo ould be manifest in several other of the j? Western States on a similar issue, and that ^ will be found that others will fall into j ej ne with Michigan in the near future. i ca orrespoiulenee of the Yorkvillc Knquirer. LETTER FROM CHESTER. F1 Ciikstku, April 14?The skating rink at \ lis place was the scene of great enjoyment a last Wednesday evening. A large crowd ttended the merry occasion. A considerble number of the young people, both oung ladies and young gentlemen, appearI in masque, their gay costumes lending in [lditional brilliancy to the occasion. The m rincipal feature of the evening's entertain-; se lent was the competition for the prizes? j tc gold medal to the best gentleman skater I hi ad a perfumery case to the best lady skat- j w r. Mr. Edward Curry won the gold medal,! tl ad Miss Emma Lewis, the perfumery case, j C rhile they were the successful competitors, ! ai - ? ? A! i?i ?..,i I l./ le SKUllMg WHS UC?UUIU1, uiiii wns ui lmired by the spectator*. The receipts of in le evening highly pleased the managers of di le rink. I b< Chester has lost one of her young ladies. | st n last Wednesday Miss Florence Babcock j w as united in marriage to Mr. John I\ cc age, formerly of Rock Hill, but now of I w nion. The ceremony was performed by ' in ,ev. Mr. Joyner, of Yorkville. Shortly se fter the marriage the newly wedded couple ci: >ok the train for Union. The oil mill is endeavoring to do all the of ork it can before the close of the season, w i runs night and day and turns out about M >0 gallons of oil in twenty-four hours. The to lill finds a ready sale for its oil and fertil- ju jr. The sale of the latter about keeps! In pace with its manufacture. The greater j to ortion of it is shipped away. j Ci On last Thursday an old colored worn-| ui 1, Sindy Boo, was run over by a freight' ain at this place, and fatally injured. She j Ci as gathering chips under the train and : hi hile intently engaged in this work did i pi ot observe the train move until it was too cc te for her to escape receiving mortal in- j ar iries. The left leg below the knee was er nputated as soon as medical aid could be E jtained. She died on Friday night. Her re iath was the result of. her own carelessjss. The colored Baptists of Chester have resntly completed a neat and substantial lurch building:. It is located on a desirale lot within a short distance of the depot, id in close proximity to the colored Presyterian church. Its completion bears tesmony to the inflexible purpose of the col ed Baptists to have a church. Undismay1 by their past misfortune in the destruc011 of two churches, they have struggled 1 with one heart and one mind until now ley can rejoice in the fruit of their labors, hey deserve great credit for the persistent of their efforts. Mr. James Morrow, of this county, deirted this life on last Wednesday. He led at a good old .age, having passed the lotted period of threescore years and ten. ATfKcru T.nmnkin A' Rrvee have erected commodious warehouse at the depot for orage purposes. The dimensions are 00 y 100 feet. The use made of it by our own lerchants shows that it meets a want long It by the mercantile community. No material damage was done by the ost on last Saturday morning. Several rmers wit h whom I talked on the subject ive this as their opinion. A colored man was brought to town on anday and lodged in jail, charged with ealing bacon from Mrs. E. A. Holley. M. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? More corn is being planted in Newberry >unty this year than for several years past. ? Oats are growing very rapidly in Claridon, and give promise of making a large op. ? The Grand Lodge^ Good Templars ill meet with Piedmont Lodge in Greenilie county, April 28th. ? Speculators stand about the Court House t Marion and buy up jury and witness tick' ts at ninety cents on the dollar. ? An Edgefield man gave his entire pay 3 a petit juror, amounting to ten dollars, ) the village Presbyterian church. ? The annual meeting of the South Carolia Medical Association will be held in Charsston, beginning on the 21st instant. ? An eagle measuring six feet seven inch3 from tip to tip, was killed near Suramer>n, in Clarendon county, a few days ago. ? Mays, the negro Radical postmaster at iranchville, has obtained several Demoratic signatures to a petition asking for his Mention in office. ? Reports come from all parts of Spartanurg county of the fearful prevalence of neumonia. Not infrequently almost a diole family is stricken down. ? Richard Eraser, colored, was hanged in t?or/1 r\f fLn annnGr ioil in PhorlDcfnn lact. 'riday tor the murder of Jack Gethers, also fiored, in July last, lie died without a lurmur. ? J. M. Mackay, who will be remembered I this State as interested in Blue Ridge .*rip and other financial schemes of the Republican State government, died in Hud)n city, N. Y., on the 4th instant. ? The railroad depot at Barnwell was ;ruck by lightning early on Wednesday lorning of last week and burned to the round. About thirty tons of guano and II the other freight stored in the building rere destsoyed. ? J. II. Livingstone, a carpet-bag politiian in South Carolina in the days of good :ealing, and who has of late held the posion of postoffice inspector, credited to this tate, has been invited, with thirteen others i the same department, to resign. ? William H. Phillips, a printer, of Aiken, 'as tried last week in Washington, I). C., >r killing /James F. Shober, a brother typo, he evidence showed that it was a case of ;lf-defence and the defendant was acquit?d. He was defended by Senator Butler. ?James J. Willard, of Oconee county, who ras so seriously wounded in the head, in an ttempt to arrest a number of negroes in wain county, North Carolina, on the 3rd of larch, 188"), died in Macon county, North arolina, on the 2nd instant. ? The first death benefit in the Abbeville odge of Knights of Honor was paid on uesday of last week to Mrs. Jacob Ivurz. his lodge was organized in 1876 with ten larter members. It has now on its roll stween fifty-five and sixty members and as paid into the benefit fund over $5,000. ? The Newberry Herald of Thursday says: Wre note with pleasure that the Associate eformed church has had an elegant organ laced in it, through Mrs. C. Mower. We idge that this is a present to the church by lat lady, and if so it shows the largeness : heart of one who never does things by lives." ? The people of Lancaster have at last be>me thoroughly aroused upon the subject " the unhealthy condition of that town, wo public meetings have recently been Bid to discuss the matter, and as a result le sum of $200 has been raised by private ibscription for the purpose of cleaning the reets. THE COTTON OUTLOOK. Advices from almost every part of the Duth indicate that a full average of cotton ill be planted. In the Mississippi valley le area planted will be larger than last ?ar, the land being free from overflows id in a fine condition for preparation for le reception of the seed. There seems to i no fear in the West that the market will j overstocked with cotton next winter, and le planters are pushing their business as there was a good margin of profit at ght or nine cents per pound in their local arkets. Nearly all over the South the old an of covering everything with mortgages id liens, before or shortly after the crop planted, is still in vogue. A very large oportion of the planters continue to pay igh rates of interest or enormous per centre on cash prices for provisions for a few onths' credit. The mortgage crop is probily the most important that has yet been anted. It seems that everybody ought to now that there is no chance for a planter i make any money on cotton when supics have to be purchased on credit. Those ho pay cash as they go almost invariably ake a profit, yet thousands ol planters fuse to cut down their operations to a lint that will enable them to adopt the isli system. It will be seen that the outok for profit to the producer of the cotin crop is considerably mixed, especial' in the older States. The outlook for large crop is favorable just now, but the lances for disaster are so numerous that ilculations as to what the total number of lies, or the price will probably be, are prelature. Experience shows that the area anted is only one small factor in the soition of these problems.?Savannah (Ga.) ens. Homicide in Lancaster.?W. B. Curtis as killed in an affray at Lancaster last [onday morning, by a'man named Emanjl. Curtis had been employed for some me as a workman at the Ilaile gold line. Among those who worked at the line with Curtis was Emanuel, who, it ems had lost a sum of money amounting ? twenty-five dollars. Emanuel spoke of iving lost the money and chargeci Curtis ith having stolen it from him. The lought of being branded a thief so enraged urtis that he drew his weapon like a flash ul fired a shot at Emanuel. The aim had sen hasty, and the bullet went wide of its inrLr F.mnnnel -in Hip meantime, had rtiwn his revolver and returned the tire ffiire Curtis could shoot again. The bullet ruck Curtis and he turned to escape, but as quickly overtaken by Emanuel who mtinued firing bullets into his body. Curtis as shot five times, and death was almost istantaneous. Emanuel surrendered himlf to the officers of the law and is in istody. The scene of the shooting was in a room ' a hotel at Lancaster. Curtis, with his ife and two children boarded at the hotel, rs. Curtis heard the first shot and rushing the room, opened the door and entered, st as Emanuel opened fire upon her husind. The first bullet from Emanuel's pis1 grazed her scalp and passing on entered .irtis' breast. Emanuel continued firing; itil he emptied five chambers. Emanuel states that when he accused 1 jrtis of stealing the money, Curtis left i m, but quickly returned to the room with 1 stol in hand, Curtis remarked: "I have: une to get satisfaction," raising his pistol j id firing at the same time. The bullet, itered the wall over Emanuel's head, j manuel then opened fire on Curtis, as al- j ady related.?Charlotte Observer. ' LOCAL AT7AIRS. |; NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. MeElwee it Darwin?Pat Sheep Wanted. ! c Drs. J. A. <k E. F. Glenn?Surgeon Dentists. ' <1 W. E. Stoncy?Insurance License. t M. Strauss?Come Before the Bargains are Gone. a Parisli it Colcock?Guanos. * Hunter it Gates?It must be So! Withers Adickes?A Question. F. K. Smith?West Liberty Street Livery and j ^ Feed Stables. ] T. M. Dobson & Co?The Old Chap Again. I <. Herndon Bros?War. ! Berry <t Barber?Why is it ? F. Happerfiold?Fresh Groceries. A May it May?In stock, and arriving fresh every ?i day. 1 John C. Kuykendal?Mortar Notes. ( < SCHOOL COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE. ' The office of the County School Commissioner y has lieen removed to the second floor of Parish c it Colcock's store, first door to the right of the ( landing. 1 UNTIL .JANUARY 1ST 1880. t We will furnish the Yorkville Enquirer from this date until January 1st, 18tf<>, for $1.70, the cash, in all eases, to accompany the sub scripuon. SUPREME COURT. ] The April term of the Supreme Court will be- t gin on Tuesday next, 21st instant. The Sixth Circuit, which will be given two days, will be 1 called on the 19th ot May. PUBIilC DOCUMENTS. Wo acknowledge the reception recently from i Senator Butler of several copies of reports on i various industrial subjects, just published by i the Department of the Interior and pertaining I to the Census of 1880. I DISCHARGED. J Tom Johnson, colored, of this place, arrested ^ several days ago on the charge of selling whisky contrary to the United States internal revenue J laws, had a hearing before Commissioner Pride at Rock Hill, on Wednesday of last week, and ] no case being made against him by the testimony elicited, ho was discharged. CHURCH NOTICES. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. J. Thomas Pate, Pastor. Services at 11 A. M., and 7.4o P. M., next Sunday. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. ; Services at the usual hours, morning and evening, next Sunday. Baptist?Rev/.I. E. Covington, Pastor. Services in the church at Union next Sunday at 11 A. M., and at Yorkville at 7.30 P. M. THE SMALL GRAIN CROPS. The continued unprecedented cold weather in Febi'uary and March injured the small grain 1 crop beyond recovery. It is safe to say that not more than two-thirds of an average crop will be realized in this county. The injury to the grain crop has been general throughout the State, though a few localities report fair prospects. The deficiency In the oat crop will be greater than that of the wheat. There was frost on Monday and Tuesday mornings, that of Tuesday morning being so severe as to affect garden vegetation to some extent. Fruit is thought to be uninjured as yet. _ X A FAITHFUL PASTOR. The Associate Reformed Presbyterian of last week makes the following allusion to Rev. Dr. R. A. Ross, the venerable pastor of Sharon and Smyrna congregations, in this county: "Rev. I)r. Ross has served as pastor or one church of his present charge, in York county, S. C., for forty-two years. We believe that this is the longest pastorate in the State of any denomination. Who speaks to the contrary ? The Doctor's bow abides in strength and he preaches with all the freshness and vigor of his younger days. He is one of our ablest ministers and most acceptable pastors." military* matters. Lieutenant W. G. Childs having resigned the position of Adjutant of the Palmetto Regiment, Colonel J. Q. Marshall has appointed Lieutenant E. R. Arthur of the Volunteers to till the vacancy, and Sergeant W. H. Orchard of the Governor's Guards has been appointed Sergeant ^lajor of the regiment, vice Sergeant W. If. Scott, resigned. The Jenkins Rilles of Yorkvillo, is designated as Company G of the Palmetto Regiment. The Adjutant General will make his annual inspection of the company on Friday the 8th of MajV - a the last execution. The last murderer hanged in Yorkville pre- < vious to the execution last Friday, was Peter Culp, colored, who was hanged for the murder of his wife, on the plantation of Mr. George J. Steele, near McConnellsville, in May, 1871. He was tried before Judge Thomas at January Term, 1872, and found guilty and the sentence of the i Court was duly executed on the day above i named. At that time executions in this State were conducted publicly, and the occasion drew an immense crowd to Yorkville. In the absence of local militia, a company of U. S. Infantry 1 and a detachment of U. S. Cavalry acted as a 1 military support to the Sheriff". | our cotemporaries. The last issue of the Associate Rejot med Pres- , byterian, published at Due West, S. C., announces that Rev. J. McC. Todd, one of the editors, , has severed his connection with the paper and is , succeeded by Rev. J. T. Chalmers, of Winns- ( boro. Mr. Chalmers' name appears at the head , of the paper as one of the editors, but he will not , enter fully upon his duties until the first of July. , Mr. C. R. McJunkin, son of Mr. C. M. Mc- i Junkin, late editor of the Palmetto Yeoman, ] whose death occurred last week, announces that ( he will continue the publication of the paper, j Mr. Jno. C. Tipton, of the Lincoln, N. C.t Press, announces that he has associated with him his , brother, Mr. B. F. Tipton, and together they will , begin at an early day the publication of a week- < ly Democratic newspaper at Dallas, N. C., to be , called the Current. , bethel presbytery. ? The Snrincr session of the Bethel Presbytery convened at Lancaster on last Friday evening. There were about twenty ministers and thirty- i five ruling elders in attendance. ' Rev. C. R. Hemphill, D. IX, the last Moderator, ' preached the opening sermon, portraying, in ' forcible terms, the offices of the second person of ! the Trinity. I)r. Hemphill is a ripe scholar and ' a very able divine, although a young minister. Rev. R. A. Webb was elected Moderator. On 1 Sunday a largo proportion of the members of * the Presbytery repaired to Waxhaw Church, in 1 Lancaster county, to celebrate the centennial of 1 the first Presbytery in South Carolina. Rev. J. ' II. Thornwell delivered the centennial sermon, 1 and Rev. J. If. Save, the oldest member of Pres- i bytery, delivered an historical address. Much 1 interest was token in the ceremonies. Waxhaw ' Church is one of the oldest in the State, its his- 1 tory extending as far back as 1751. 1 The next meeting of Presbytery will be at 1 llethesda, in this county. J 1 DKATH OF AX AGED MAX. Mr. James 15. Davidson, an old and respected , citizen, died on Friday night last at his residence ? in this county, about two miles south of Phila- j dolphin Church, and the same distance west of j Guthriesville. He was born on the 6th day of f November, 1707, near the residence of Robert ( M. Lindsay, deceased, about six miles south j of Yorkville, on the present line of the Chester and Lenoir Railroad, and was consequently, , at the time of his death, in the 88th year of j his age. He settled at his late home in the ? year 1823, where lie continuously resided un- j til the date of his death?a period of about (12 ( years, which was devoted entirely to agrieultu- ] ral pursuits. He was remarkable for his activ- j ity and the retention of his faculties at a ripe old <; age, and as recently as 1883 was able to pick cot- i ton regularly every day during the season. He t was a quiet, unobtrusive citizen and had the ill j will of no one. He raised eight sons and one ( daughter, all of whom attained adult age. All j his sons were soldiers in the Confederate Army, s three of whom were killed in battle. f-j- t TWO CONVICTS KILLED. j 1 On Thursday afternoon last two convicts were killed by the penitentiary guards near Columbia, r the particulars of which are given by the Coluni- 1 bia Register as follows: *' About half-past 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon? t the hour when the convicts are usually assem- t bled to return to the prison?Lewis Pettis, col- ( oral, sent from York county on April 4, 1883, . under sentence of ten years imprisonment for manslaughter, and William Henry, alias John Ayers, colored, sent from Charleston county on I March !?, 1885, under sentence of live years im- a prisonment for larceny of live stock, made a 'j break from the canal below the colored cemetery, , and were both killed by the guards within 150, yards from the point from which they started. > They made the break when about forty yards s distant from the guard. Pettis had his shackles g on in perfect order, while the chain connecting ^ the shackles of Ilenry was cut in twain. One of the prisoners was shot in the back of the neck, * the ball breaking the spinal column; the other was shot about the centre of the back, to the left d f the spine. Both of them were instantly killed, k )nlv three shots were tired at them. fr On Friday morning the coroner of Richland tt onnty held an inquest over the remains of the tl lead convicts and the jury rendered a verdict w hat they came to their deaths by gunshot wounds r t the hands of certain of the penitentiary guard Sf vhile in the lawful discharge of their duty. ti Lewis Pettis, the York convict, killed Sandy it Vorkman, colored, on the plantation of Mr. S. S] j. Milling, near Ebenezer, in this county, on tundny the 19th of November, 1X82, by striking a lis victim in the right breast with an axe. He d vas committed to jail on the following day, and d it March term of the Sessions Court was tried ?( >efore Judge Kershaw. In extenuation of the w ifl'ence he pleaded that the deceased was paying c mproper attention to his wife, and that the deed p vas committed while under the. excitement in :ident to finding him at his house under suspi- j.; iious circumstances. The jury returned a ver- tl lict of manslaughter and the Judge sentenced h lim to imprisonment at hard labor in the peni- n entiary for a term of ten years. n SURRENDERED BY HIS BONDSMAN. ? D. A. Long, who was indicted at the last term sl )f the Circuit Court on the charge of bigamy, and ? ,vho was admitted to bail by Judge Wallace in a 1 lond of 8300, Mr. M. A. Thompson becoming his mrety, was surrendered by his bondsman and ? recommitted to jail on Friday last. Long, who is a carpenter by trade, came from Jaston county, North Carolina, to Rock Hill, ^ leveral months ago, and being industrious and 1 (toady, gained the confidence of the people. He P recently married an estimable and highly rejected young lady of the town, and soon after a the marriage the rumor gained currency that he P then had a wifo living in North Carolina. On s being confronted with the charge he attempted to make his escape, but was captured' a mile or two from town and on a hearing before Trial r Justice Fewell he admitted that when only six- ? teen years of age he went through tho form of a marriage ceremony with a woman of ill repute, ? much older than himself, she having inveigled him into the misallianco; that it was not a valid a marriage, first, because no license was issued by J the county register, as the law of North Carolina requires, the register refusing to issue license j because he was under age; and secondly the . ceremony was illegal because not performed by j a person properly authorized by the law of the State to solemnize the rites of matrimony. He . further claimed that soon after this mock mar- j riage, he still being a minor, his father sent him ( to Florida, where he lived for more than a year, and had never, since he loft North Carolina for Florida, lived with the woman. This story was plausible and to some extent gained for him tho avmnnthv of those who had so recently censured * him; but with that strange perverseness for J which trial justices and other administrators of the law are noted, Trial Justice Fewell decided * to hold him for the action of the grand jury, Court being then in session, and in default of 8200 j bail he was committed to jail. The grand jury found a true bill, and the case being called, the State moved a continuance, one reason being that ' there had not been time to procure testimony 1 from North Carolina for either side, and the ] family of his second wife desired, in justice to ' her, that he should haye ample timo and oppor- f tunity to vindicate himself fully and entirely; ' or failing to do so, abide the consequences. The motion for continuance was granted and * the Judge fixed the amount of bail at 8300. The ' bond was given, Mr. Thompson becoming his surety, as above stated; but after signing the ( bond he investigated the caso in North Carolina, ' and finding the records all against the accused, he decided to annul his bond. The Analecta, published at Cherryville, in Gas- ' ton county, N. C., fully confirms the ugly ru- 1 mors in connection with Long's disgraceful ca- * reer. That paper of last Saturday's date furnishes indubitable proof that Long was married to 1 Mary Ann Hovis, in Gaston county, by J. Kiser, 1 a Justice of the Peace, eight or nine years ago, a ' license having been duly obtained therefor; that Mary Ann is now living in Gaston county, and that she is a woman of good record. The A na- I lecta further says that since the recent proceed- t ings in York Sessions Court, Long has been in < that county, and a report of his marriago here * having preceded him, he denied it, but admitted t that he had been living with a woman at Rock 1 Ilill. While in Gaston he attempted to bribe his f wife No. 1 to sign a paper certifying that she did t not recognize him as her husband. This she re- a fused to sign. She says she considers herself the 9 only lawful wife of David Long. However many women he may marry, she claims to be the first, though the rest are welcome to him. 1 It is supposed that Long was making his ar- * rangements to skip the country, having returned I to Rock Hill last Thursday for his tool chest and * clothing when he was unexpectedly and unavoid- 9 ably detained. t THE GALLOWS. t On Friday last, in York county jail, Columbus I Cranford, colored, pftid the penalty of a foul and t cowardly murder, committed in the south-west- 1 ern part of this county, near tho dividing line c between York and Chester, on Sunday night the i r>th of last October, his victim being a young I colored man named Ellison Sanders. > On the following day a number of colored men c of that neighborhood, among them Columbus I Cranford, were arrested on suspicion. Two in- e quests were held, one on the (ith and the other 1 on tho 8th. The testimony elicited at the in- j quests was deemed by Trial Justice Good, acting 1 as coroner, sufficiently strong against Columbus 1 Cranford to warrant him in committing Colum- i bus to jail, while all the others suspected were t discharged. This evidence, which was substan- t tially the same as that produced on the trial, which was held in the Court of Sessions on Sat- t urday the 1st day of November following, was 1 to the effect that a feud existed between Giles t Wood, colored, and the deceased Ellison Sanders, 1 and a prosecution was brought up in Chester I county by Ellison against Giles, resulting in the 1 committal of Giles to the jail of Chester county- a The charge against Giles, we believe, was lar- ( ?env. The term of Chester Court was approach- 6 ing, being only eight days subsequent to the I late of the killing. Giles Good and Columbus t Cranford were friends. They had held in- j terviews after Giles was committed to jaib 1 ind it was proved that Columbus had said, after j one of these interviews, that if he could put 1 Kllison Sanders and two others out of the way, 1 Liiles Good would "come clear." This declara- I tion of Columbus Cranford, sworn to by a color- 1 3d woman named Sylvia Thomson, was relied r upon by the State as the motive of the accused to 1 commit the murder. Other testimony offered by > die State, showed the following facts: The horn- l ieide was committed about four hundred yards t beyond the house of Columbus Cranford. The 1 shot was fired from the bush. The deceased was it the time with three other colored men, the 1 four walking on the wagon road leading through i die plantation. They were walking in disorder 1 is follows: Oliver Kobbins, first; Wilson Rob- "v bins, dr., second; deceased, third; and Junius 1 rhomson, fourth. It was on a bright moon light 1 light, and the three men testified that the per- t son who fired the shot, who was squatting in 1 he bushes, jumped up and ran. They pursued c aim, and Oliver Robbins swore that in the pur- i mit, as the assassin ran one way, and he another, i hey met face to face, and he was thus enabled to i dentify Cranford. The defence relied upon the following testi- v nony: There were two inquests. At the first, a leld oil the Oth of October, Oliver Robbins swore e lositivelv that the assassin was Columbus Cran- c ord. On being pressed (in this same examina- ti ion) he modified his statement by saying that ti io could not swear positively that it was Colum- n jus Cranford who fired the shot, but he was si satisfied that it was he. On the same inquest, ti iVilson Robbins, Jr., swore that he believed the ? ; nurderer was Columbus Cranford, but he could tl lot swear positively, nor could he swear that the i\ me who fired the shot was a white or a colored tl nan. On the second inquest, held on the 8th, v dl three of the witnesses swore positively that tl ho murderer was Columbus Cranford ; and on 0 he Sessions trial they swore the same. s] On the trial, Junius Thomson excused himself \\ us to his testimony on the first inquest, because, tl le said, he had been advised by Mr. Jason Jones, a: 1 r., to be careful how he charged Columbus with p he crime before Columbus was put under arrest, li ho reason assigned for this advice being that h .'olumbus was a dangerous, desperate man. Mr. u fones verified this statement. h The prisoner sought to establish an alibi by g iroving that at the time the shot was fired he c< vas in his yard, sitting in front of his house, h ['his the prisoner swore, and was sustained in it b >y Mariah, his wife, Julia Ann Cranford and oi lam (food. The alibi failed, however, in con- r< equence of contradictory statements made by h lam Good on the morning of the 7th, when he, G he prisoner, and others were arrested on sus- ol >icion. at The current belief was that the shooting was n< lone with a musket. Columbus Cranford was i d: nown to own a musket which was never seen om the commission of the murder until after le trial, and between the date of the murder and . le trial effort was made to find it, a search arrant naving ueen unimni jui mm |iui|iuov, efore the committing trial justice Columbus lid he did not know where the gun was. Some me after the trial his musket was found where had been concealed in some seed cotton in a nail house in his yard. On the testimony detailed above the jury, after short nbsence to their room, returned a verict of guilty of murder. On the following Monay morning Major Hart, of the prisoner's counjl, made a motion for a new trial, the points of hich he argued with much ability; but Judge othran denied the motion and sentenced the risoner to be hanged on the 19th of December. On November 29th, a representative of the Inquirer, accompanied by Major Hart, visited ie condemned man for the purpose of receivlg any statement that he might see proper to lake. He was perfectly willing to talk, and iade a lengthy statement, which was published n the 4th of December. The burden of this tatement was a general denial of all knowledge f the murder, but an effort to connect Giles lood with it, on the ground that Giles and the eceased had had a previous difficulty and on one cc&sion, as Giles believed, Ellison had fired at im in concealment, the ball grazing his foreead. He then said that he was sitting in his ard at the time Ellison Sanders was killed; hat five shots were fired, and he heard the reort of the guns distinctly. He declared that he id not fire either of theshots; and while he had belief as to who fired the fatal shot, he had no msitive information as to which of several perons did it. Through the intercession of his counsel the lovernor granted a rospite until the (ith of Febuary; and in the meantime evidence was proured warranting the arrest of Giles Good, Sam lood, Quay Tigler and Wallace Reed, all colorid, as accessories before the fact to the murder, rrial Justice McCaw issued the warrant for their irrest and they were brought before him for a ireliminary hearing. In the progress of the learing Wallace Reed desired to make a statenent. He was cautioned by the Justice that if le did it would be at his peril; but he persisted n his request, and permission being granted lim he made a statement to the effect that it was le who fired the gun, and that a conspiracy exsted among a number of colored men?Columius 0 ran ford, Giles Good, Quay Tigler, Sam food, himself and perhaps others, to murder Ellison Sanders. This statement made under he solemnity of an oath, justified the Trial lustice to commit all four to jail to await the iction of the grand jury at the approaching March term of the Court. On these facts being presented to the Governor, le again respited the condemned man until last Friday, the 10th instant, in order to give him ;he benefit of any new developments that might oe made in the trial. For reasons but recently stated in these columns, Giles Good only was put upon his trial as in accessory before the fact. Wallace Reed was nadea State's witness; but his testimony shed no new light upon the case. On the witness itand he denied all knowledge of who shot Ellijon Sanders, and as explaining the contradiction jf his statement before the Trial Justice and his ^stimony then in Court, he said he was acting jpon what he understood to bo a principle of law, that if on a preliminary examination one )f the accused acknowledged the crime, and >n the trial "took it all back, then all of them kvould come clear." This point was not well aken, though Wallace got out of the scrape by pretending to turn State's evidence; Giles Good .van acquitted, and Sam uood and Quay Tigier ire now on bail. Columbus Cranford's days on earth were now apidly drawing to a close, and the reporter /isited him again last Thursday, accompanied ay the doomed man's faithful counsel, Major Hart. The Sheriff admitted Columbus to the passage jetween the rows of cells on the third floor of he jail. He was pleased to meet his interview's, especially his counsel, and probably from the act that Quay Tigier and Sam Good are yet to be ried for alleged complicity in the same murder, le seemed to entertain hope of either a respite or (ventually a pardon. Certain, that at noon on ho day preceding his death, he entertained but i slight idea that he was rapidly nearing the ihores of eternity. After a general conversation of a few minutes, dajor Hart told him that if he had any statenent to make before the final scene, the report;r for the Enquirkr was present and would >rint it just as he might see proper to make it. Dranford replied that he did not think he could iay anything more that would be to his benefit han he had already said on the first interview vith the reporter. His only idea seemed to be hat a telegram to the Governor would secure a >ardon. While he made no formal statement, in he course of the conversation he said that Walace Reed was the instigator of the murder, the :ause of Ellison Sanders' offence being that he lad joined the Democratic club and voted in the >rimary election. He said that Wallace's plan vas to organize at least thirty men and kill every colored man who was known to have voted the Democratic ticket. With this movement, howiver, he said he did not sympathise. He said le, of his own knowledge, knew of only two >ersons in the conspiracy, and they were Wallace rteed and Quay Tigier; that Giles Good's wife cnew of it, but was opposed to it. He also defied having any conferences or exchanging okens with Giles Good while Giles was in Cheser jail. It was evident that he then had no confession o make, and it was apparent to his auditors that le could impart more than he seemed disposed o communicate. The first intimation he ever lad that his gun had been found was now given fim by the Sheriff, who told him where it had )een concealed, and that it was found some days liter ilie trim* xn.a ?iw au cviucut outpnnc iu >anford, but it soon passed over and his conversion wandered back to the subject of a pardon, tfajor Hart assured him that all hope of execuive interference was then utterly vain, and im>ressed upon him the importance of directing lis thoughts to a future state and making his >eace with his God, assuring him that all had ieen done for him that could be accomplished lere, and his only hope was to look to Him belefore whom all must be judged. Maintaining lis innocence, he was returned to his cell, renarking to the Sheriff, as he entered, that rem this time on he desired to act with the vhite people, and that if the Governor would lardon him, he would hereafter always act with he white men, and that Ellison Sanders was tilled because he voted the Democratic ticket; Shortly after this interview, Rev. T. R. Engish, pastor of the Presbyterian church, called lpon him as a spiritual adviser, and though he lad the opportunity of spiritual consolation a$ arious times after his sentence, this was the irst time that he gave outward manifestation of >eing impressed with the solemnity of his situaion. He was not stolid; ho was not stoical; ic possessed more than the ordinary intelligence if one in his station of life ; but yet there was n his outward demeanor a strange display of ndilferenceto his impending doom, or an endurng hope that it would yet be averted. On Friday morning he heard the noise of the workmen making preparations for the closing ct in the drama. The scaffold was being erectd on the same lloor on which was located his ell, and within easy hearing, but the portenious sound of saw and hammer in the erecion of the instrument of death, apparently had o terror for him. With those who called to eehim he conversed calmly and without agitaion of voice or manner. To those who first idled upon him he said if it was the decree of lie law that he should die he was prepared and ould meet his fate without a murmur. When le reporter reached the jail he found in the cell ith the prisoner, Rev. Scipio Green, pastor of le Methodist Episcopal (colored) Church, Elia ood and Allen White, colored, the former as a piritual adviser, and his companions speaking ords of encouragement and consolation. After lese men retired the reporter approached him nd again offered to be the communicant to the ublic of any statement he desired to make, fe said he had but few words to say and these e would speak on the gallows ; but, he contined, "I can say to you now, the first person I ave told, I am guilty of the crime; I fired the nil that killed Ellison Sanders." Some further mversation ensued in which the reporter told im of the efforts his friends had made in his ehalf and that his counsel had labored as zealusly for him as it was possible to do. He then jlatcd to the condemned man the fact that after is trial and just before the incarceration of Giles ood and others, Major Hart had secured a part ['the wadding used in the charge that was fired ; Ellison. This was a triangular piece of a ewspaper of an inch and a half oi^two inches in imension, on one side of which was a portion