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fcraps and Jacts. ? The committee appointed to count the cash in the treasury and unfinished notes in the bureau of engraving and printing completed its work last Friday. It has found the cash and unfinished notes to correspond with the account on the treasury book. ?Chattanooga, Tennessee, has grown since the war from aclumpof white-washed warehouses and shanties to a city of 2o,000 inhabitants ; from a tax roll of $1,300,000 to one of $7,000,000, and has developed her industries from a capital of $209,000 to a capital of $5,000,000. ? The Spanish authorities endeavor to conceal the truth about the cholera scourge. But it is known that the progress of the horrible malady has not been checked. The boards of health in American cities have received an early warning of the danger of an invasion of this country by the Asiatic mnnetpp ? President Cleveland was visited several days ago by an Ohio Congressman who wore a straw hat. To the President's remark that he had invested early, he replied: "I didn't want to be considered too slow in making the necessary change." The President is said to have acknowledged the point by a faint smile. ? The business failures throughout the country during the week ending last Friday, as reported to Dun & Co., number for the United States 203 and for Canada 26, making a total of 229 against 248 the previous week. The failures are pretty evenly divided between the different sections of the country. ? The seventeen year and the thirteen year locusts are booked to appear this season according to the government enthonologist. They will soon be here, to remain until July. This is said to be the first time in 221 years the two broods appear in conjunction. Farmers must look out for this double pest. ? The Washington, D. C., Graphic thinks that if one-fourth of the offices throughout the country are filled by Democrats during the first year of Mr. Cleveland's administration, it will indeed be rapid work. On the basis of 114,000 offices, in round numbers, it ineans28,500 apponitments of all sorts, which are 2,375 a month, 548 a week, 91 a day of eight hours, eleven an hour, or one every five minutes?excluding Sundays. ? The New Orleans Picayune has com. menced printing on paper made from bagasse?the refuse sugar cane after the juice has been pressed out. It is thought that it will be an excellent substitute for old rags. Should the experiment prove successful the price of white paper will be materially reduced, and the large sugar growers will find a bonanza in what has hit herto been thrown away as useless. ? There have been many greater masters of war than Grant among his contemporaries, says the London Telegraph, and the tremendous American struggle itself developed more than one leader who was technically his superior. He had close rivals on his own side, and on the other there arose directly above him the chivalrous figure of Robert E. Lee. ? A farmer in Maryland was missing and his friends became alarmed. Search was instituted. He was found stretched out on top of a hay pile in a barn, where he had taken a solid nap of ninety hours duration. They had to shake him pretty hard to wake him up. He said he thought he had been asleep an hour or so. He does not drink, says he will never more go to sleep outside of his own house and insists upon his wife seeing that he is waked up every morning. ? Sea going men say there never was the like of the icebergs so far from the Northern seas now floating in the Atlantic. The steamer Critic, arrived in New York from England, Wednesday, ran for sixty hours along a field of packed ice trying to find an opening. The ice extended as far as the eye could reach in a northwest and southwest direction, and was composed of icebergs of enormous size. Old sailors say there is no record or tradition of such quantities of ice so far from the polar regions. ? Senator Sherman will soon visit the South. Fearful, perhaps, that his bloodyshirt record would prejudice him in the minds of Southern people, he has written a letter to prominent Tennessesan, in which he "hopes to remove prejudice and relieve the apprehensions of a large number of Southern people that Republicans like myself do not have the same hearty desire to promote their interests and prosperity as fully as we do the interestsand prosperity of our own State and section." ? Secretary Manning has directed that the issue of one and two dollar notes be dis 1 ? ?i ta : , ??:,] k.. continued ior me present. n- is suiu w^v some that this action has been taken for the purpose of forcing the subsidiary coins into circulation, but this is denied at the treasury department. It is stated that the discontinuance became necessary by reason of the excessive issue of these notes of late, and because they are coming back to the treasury for redemption in about as good condition as when first issued, which adds a very considerable item to the expense account of the department. The order of the Secretary is simply in the line of economy. ? A Washington letter to the New York Sun says: "Democratic senators and representatives cannot be accused of neglecting their household. The telegraph makes daily reports of the success achieved by them in providing places for sons, brothers, nephews and other kindred. Senator Blackburn's brother was appointed collector of internal revenue in the Ashland district on Wednesday. A son of Senator Vest was put in the consular service. So was a son of Senator Pugh. Senator Butler, who urged the appointment of Morgan as consul to Melbourne, has a son in the consulate at Liverpool, and a brother librarian to the house of representatives." ? On the subject of color-blindness a correspondent writes to the Pall Mall Gazette: "A very large proportion of so-called colorblindness is, I am convinced, due to ignorance, and, in confirmation of this opinion, there is the undoubted fact that it is rarely found in examination of female candidates. If color-blindness is an organic defect of the visual aparatus surely it ought to exist in somewhere about the same ratio in the male and female. 1 don't for a moment deny the existence of genuine colorblindess, but I do contend that the genuine defect is a rare one. My suggestion is that instruction in colors and their names ought to form a distinct item in the curriculum of all elementary shools." ? The second trial of the case of Lewis Itosenweig against the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway for $100,000 for damages to his person by being ejected from a limited express train, near Cleveland, a year ago, began at Erie, Pa., on Monday of last week. Col. liodgers, the Lake Shore's attorney-general, startled the court with a motion to compel Itosenweig to be put under the influence of anaesthetics for the sake of making experimental tests of the alleged paralysis of the plaintiff's lower limbs. Itosenweig offered to submit, but his family physician demurred, and testified that he would not be responsible for hi* rmtient.'* tiff if he were chloroformed. The court ruled that the motion was preposterous, and ordered that the case go on. ? President Roberts, President of the defunct Bank of Augusta, Ua., for whom a requisition was made by Gov. Hill, of X. Y., and whsch is now pending in the courts, cut his throat with a razor from ear to ear on Tuesday morning of last week. While the wounds are gaping and ugly, the physicians say they will not be fatal. The jugular vein and carotoid artery are not severed. I Recent complications have so affected Rob- j erts' mind astorender him partially insane. : The grand jury had found true bill against l him for forgery and embezzlement as Pres- j ident of the Batik of Augusta, and he was j required to furnish bond for his appearance ; in the sum of $1(5,000. These true bills, | with other troubles, led to the rash attempt to take his life. It is also reported that the grand jury found a true bill against K. H. Watson, cashier of the bank of Augusta, for perjury. Bail is required in Watson's j case in the sum of $12,000. Speculation on Wall street led to the downfall of these men, as also Geo. T. Jackson, President of the Enterprise Manufacturing Company, whose trial for embezlling $250,000 of the company's money, ended last Saturday | with a verdict of guilty. He was sentenced to the penitentiary for six years. His counsel gave notice of appeal. ?On last Thursday evening the town of Somerset, Pa., was shaken from centre to i circumference by an explosion of nitro-gly-' I cerine and dynamite at the Somerset Chem- i ical Works, located one mile east of town on ; the farm of JohnStone. The explosion occurred in the nitro glycerine oven, where one of the proprietors, W. T. Beach, of New i i York city, was at work. He was blown into atoms. The largest pieces of bone, flesh or ; | clothes that could be found were not larger j than a silver dollar. The nitro-gly cerine i I building with eight others were strewn to ; I the winds, portions of them being found j | miles away. The works are situated in an i I opening in a dense wood, the large trees of which were uprooted and blown down tor rods around by the force of the explosion. From 12 to 15 men are employed at the works, but owing to its being a holiday none of them were at work. Where the building in which the explosion occurred stood, there is a hole large enough to bury the building in. There was 800 pounds of nitro-glycerine and 3,000 pounds of dynamite in the different buildings. fJorfeviUe inquirer. l'ORKVILLE, S. C. : THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 21,1885. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION. The Columbia Register of Saturday says: "The Civil Service Commissioners have designated C. M. "Wilder, J. S. Leaphart and Henry A Wallace, connected with the Postal Department, as a Board of Civil Service Examiners, who will assemble at the United States Court House in Columbia on the 9th of June, for the examination of applicants for positions in the Classified Departmental Service at Washington, and for the conduct of such other examination as the Civil Service Commission may request. Blanks and all necessary information will be furnished persons who desire to stand the examination upon a request addressed to the Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C." MR. SCHURZ^ANlTTHE SOUTH. During the trip of Carl Schurz through the South last winter he was so much pleased with it he has written a pamphlet upon the New South. It is the result of hisob- i servation and inquiries on this trip. The New York Times, in commenting upon it, says: . "The topic is certainly a seasonable one i at this time, when, as Mr. Schurz observes, every candid man in the country has become convinced that the Southern people were not 'waiting the advent of the Demo- 1 cratic party to power to put forth disloyal ! sentiments and schemes/ and Mr. Schurz 1 has treated it in a way which will make his: nnmnhlet, instructive and profitable reading, ^North or South." THE RICHMOND TRAGEDY. I The trial of Cluverius for the murder of 1 Miss Madison on the 13th of last March, is now progressing in Richmond. This is the 1 most noted capital case that has been on the Virginia criminal dockets for a number of years. In connection with this affair public feeling in Virginia has run very ' high, and it was with difficulty that a jury was secured, a week having been consumed in this feature of the case alone, several ( hundred men having been summoned on 1 different v en ires. The jury was completed on the 11th and the hearing of evidence commenced on the 12th. The examination 1 of witness is slow and tedious, and the trial bids fair to consume several weeks. It is ' understood that the aim of Cluverius will 1 be to prove an alibi, which his friends assert he will be able to do. We print on the fourth page of this paper a full history of this interesting case, and upon its features 1 as there outlined the State is now conduct- ! ing the prosecution. CONVENTION OF JUDGES. Pursuant to adjournment the Convention ! of Judges assembled in the Supreme Court 1 consultation room, Columbia,on Wednesday j evening of last week. The following were i present: Chief Justice Simpson, Associate $ Justices Mclver and McGowan, and Judges Aldrich, Hudson, Kershaw, Witherspoon, i Wallace and Cothran. 1 The Committee on Revision, appointed ] at a previous meeting, reported through < Judge Wallace that they had no proposi- ( tion to make as to any change in the Rules 1 of the Circuit Courts. ( Rule 14 of the Circuit Court rules was ] amended so that it now reads as follows: 1 Rule 14?No agreement or consent be- i tween the parties or their attorneys, in re- [ spect to the proceedings in a cause, shall be ] binding unless the same shall have been re- . tho fnrm nf ?n nrrlpr hv consent UUVVU iV V * V/ -J, . and entered ; or unless the evidence there- 1 of shall be in writing, subscribed by the 1 party against whom the same shall be al- ? leged, or by his attorney or counsel; or un- j less made in open court and noted by the j Presiding Judge. The State Reporter was requested to pub- ^ lish in the next volume of Reports, all new i Rules and modifications of the Rnles adopted since the publication of Shand's Manual. THIS YEAR'S ELECTIONS. The elections to occur the present year are J already being discussed throughout the i country. After a President has been chos- i en the next thing is to test the public ver- < diet on his administration by another pop- '< ular election. Hence those to be held next fall, which, ordinarily, are of a purely local * character, will be watched with more in- j terest than usual. It is said that Cleveland , is chagrined at the election of Weaver, Re- j publican, to the Illinois Legislature, from a 1 strong Democratic district, though it is ad- ?' mitted that Weaver's success is attributable \ entirely to the apathy of the Democratic j voters, who were so confident that no effort | was made for their candidate. The Presi- 1 dent censures the Democrats of that dis- i trict none the less, however, properly claim- j ing that apathy is no exsuse for defeat. Elections are to be held this year in the j States of Connecticut, Iowa, Kentucky, i Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New i York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Isiand and Virginia. Of these, Connecticut, Ken- < tucky, New Jersey, New York and Virgin- 1 ia went Democratic in last year's election, 1 and Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, i Pennsylvania and Rhode Island were Re- 1 publican. As a general thing, however, the t Democratic pluralities in these States, par- < ticularly Connecticut, New York and New 1 Jersey, were small, whereas the Republican < pluralities in the Republican .States were large. There ought to be no doubt about ? Iowa and Pennsylvania. Massachusetts al-, i so may be considered as a reliably llepubli- j can State. It is on the the States of New J i York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Ohio j s that the interest will chiefly centre. In all i these, the two parties go into the contest largely on national issues, and it is acknowl- ( edged that the result will be a fair test of the ' present strength of the parties, and indicate \ whether the election of a Democratic ad- | ministration has strengthened the Democ- .< racy or not. 11 I ] A Clean* Sweep.?Commissioner Col-; i man, of the Agricultural Department, finds 1' the balance in the treasury due to the de- j i partment to be just S3f>, his predecessor hav- i ing consumed, with this exception, all the i funds on hand. ! < THE CENSUS. The last Legislature failed to make the necessary appropriation for taking a census of the State this year, as required by the Constitution. This failure is attributed to the Senate branch alone, the House having passed the bill, which was rejected by the Senate. The object of taking the census, as required by the Constitution, is to reapportion the representation in the General Assembly. A reapportionment would increase the representation from the up-country, and would proportionately decrease the representation from the low-countrv. For this reason, it is alleged, Senator Smythe, of Charleston, was an active opponent of the bill in Senate, on the ground, to quote his own words, that "it would enable a few more rural members to draw a day." By the aid of the low-country Senators, including the three negro Senators, the bill was defeated after passing the House. In the doubt upon the subject, the Governor addressed a communication to Attorney-General Miles, requesting to be advised whether the enumeration can be made under existing law, there being no appropriation by the General Assembly for the expenses of such enumeration. The Attorney-General gives a lengthy opinion on the question, which is to the effect that the Governor must call an extra session, or let the matter go over to another year, insomuch as there is no appropriation out of which the Secretary of State could meet the necessary preparatory expenses of the work. If an extra session is to be called, there is not a day to be lost in doing it. It is claimed by those who have investigated the subject, that from an examination of the United States census of 1880, some of the counties of this State have a greater representation than they are entitled to, and some not as many as they should have. END OF THE KIEL REBELLION. Riel, the leaderof the Manitoba rebellion, was captured at noon last Friday, three miles north of Batouche by three scouts of the Dominion troops. He appeared to be unconcerned after his capture, but begged not to be shot. He was taken to General Middleton's headouarters. While riding to camp he expressed himself to his captors that he did not think the uprising would be without result, as the complaints of formers would now he regarded with some degree of attention. When told that his books and papers had been captured, he said : "lam glad; this will show that I am not the actual leader of the rebellion. I have been encouraged by people of good standing at and around Prince Albert who invited me over from Montreal." He asked would they give him a fair trial?civil or martial law. He was told he would be tried by martial law. Itiel drew a long breath, but said nothing. He spoke again of not being the head man in the rebellion and then commenced praying and made the sign of the cross. He asked whether his family would be blown up with the gun with a crowd, meaning a Gatling gun, and then said he didn't want to be selfish, and hoped none of the Half-breeds would suffer, nor his own family. He then commenced praying again. In appearance he is now a common Half-breed, and looks very dilapidated. He spends most of his time talking in a wandering manner, and praying that his capture will end the rebellion, so for as the Half-breeds are concerned. * * -T 1* r ii,A A Oanu 01 inamns cume m jxuiij me trcai on Saturday to help Riel and were met by the Half-breeds, who told them the war was over. Everything is now very quiet around Batouche. Most of the prisoners taken have been allowed to return to their homes, but the ringleaders, including Riel, were taken to Prince Albert last Monday. THE COST OF CATCHING HIM. The wonders of the magnetic telegraph ire illustrated in the detention at Aukland rf Maxwell, the murderer of Preller, in St. Louis about four weeks ago. The murderer went from St. Louis to San Francisco, from which city he sailed for Aukland, New Zealand. As soon as it became clear that Maxwell was the murderer, the St. Louis luthorities immediately put the telegraph into requisition. The message cost over >3 per word, and was sent from St. Louis to New York, and from New York to North Sydney, Cape Breton, by land lines; cable :o Valencia, Ireland; thence by land across Ireland; cable underneath St. George's Channel to London; by another cable, Lon:lon to Lisbon, Portugal, thence by cable :o the Island of Malta, where it was repeatid through another cable to Alexandria, Kfrypt; land lines conveyed it to Suez, from whence it went by cable beneath the Red tea to Aden, Arabia, on the Gulf of Aden ; )y cable again under the Arabian Sea to Bombay, India, and land wires Bombay :o Penaug, on the Malay Peninusula; ca3le again to the Island of Java, where it was repeated through another cable to Port Aarwin, North Austrailia; land lines took t to Sydnney, from whence it again took :o water by the South Pacific cable to reach Wellington, New Zealand. From Welling;on it went by land to Auckland, where, it was effective in capturing the murderer. THE MORMONS. A Delegation from Utah called on the President some days ago and presented the esolutions adopted recently at a mass meetng of Mormons protesting against the acts )f the Federal officials. The following is in extract from the presentation: We protest against uniair treatment on ;he part of the Federal Government. We protest against a continuance of Territorial bondage, subversive of the rights of freemen and contrary to the spirit of American nstitutions. We protest against special legislation, the result of popular prejudice ind religious interference. We protest igainst the conscience of one class of citizens being made the criterion by which to udge another. We protest against the breaking up of family relations formed previous to the passage of the Edmunds law, ind the depriving of women and children jf the support and protection of their husbands and fathers. We protest against the prosecution of persons, many of whom are infirm and aged, who entered into plural marriage before it was declared a crime, ind have never violated any law. After hearing the statements made by the j delegation the President told them that so i far as he was able he would see that the J law was impartially administered, and in I making appointments he would endeavor; to give them men of character who would J see that justice was administered to all. i Concluding his remarks the President's face ' broke into a smile as he said: "I wish you but there could be like the rest of us." "All we ask," rejoined the speaker of the delegation, "is that the law be impartially administered." "You are entitled to that," said the Pres-! ident, "and so far as I am concerned, I shall see that it is so. I will give these matters my attention as early as posssble." Mon Violence in Virginia.?On last Saturday K. A. Jeter, a prominent business man, and one of the most popular citizens :>f Bedford county, Ya., was shot and killed by H. W. Terry, son of Gen. \V. it. Terry, superintendent of the Virginia State penitentiary. The tragedy originated in the following trivial manner: Terry gave Jeter i dog some time ago, and he named it after ferry's sister. On the occasion of the shooting, Terry was passing Jeter's place of business, and, jocularly, Jeter asked why he did not come to see his kinsfolk, referring to the log. Terry took the remark as an insult, i and drawing his pistol fired and instantly | killed Jeter. The murder created great excitement throughout Bedford county, which was in-! tensified on Sunday at the'funeral of Jeter, and at 2 o'clock on Monday morning a party of twenty disguised men rode into Liberty, the county-seat, gained possession of the jail by force, and taking the murderer out, hanged him. After the commission of the murder, Terry's friends claimed him to have been insane, but other cases recently tried in Virginia, in which murderers were cleared on claims of insanity, made the lynchers i more determined. The lynchers are thought I to be relatives of Jeter. THE KNIGHTS ^OF HONOR. I The Supreme Lodge of Knights Honor i met in St. Louis, Mo., on the 12th instant. On the second day of the meeting the Supreme Secretary's report was submitted, and shows that there were on the first of January of this year 2,500 working lodges in the country, with a total membership of 128,848. Since then twenty-five new lodges have been added, and there nas oeen a net gain of 2,2(50 members, making a present membership of 131,180. During the year 1884 twenty assessments were called, which yielded an aggregate amount of $2,709,5G1, and the number of deaths was 1,409. The Supreme Treasurer presented a financial statement, which shows since the last annual meeting there has been received ^ 82,409,(5%, and the disbursements have been 1 82,274,120, leaving a balance in the widows' and orphans' benefit fund of $145,075. The general fund report shows receipts $36,585, expenditures $14,578, and a balance to the credit of this fund of $22,000. After these reports had been disposed of, Delegate .Russell offered, a resolution that the part of the report of the Supreme Dictator which refers to the conduct of exSupreme Treasurer Breckinridge be printed and be distributed throughout the rank and file of the order. After a heated discussion the matter was referred to the committee on state of order. On Thursday, the question of paying benefits in case of suicide was taken up and discussed at length. The Supreme Lodge is in favor of paying the insurance in such cases when the person committing the deed is insane beyond question, and does not appreciate the effectof his act, but in any event it thinks the benefits should be withheld. The Treasurer submitted a statement regarding the expenses incurred by the Supreme Lodge in the Breckinridge case in Kentucky. On motion, it was decided to leave the salaries of officers of the Supreme Lodge the same as during the past year. All the old Supreme officers were re-elected for the ensuing year. A BLAST FROM YILAS. The following circular, which explains itself, has been issued by the Postmaster General. It has thus far been sent to the Democratic members of Congress from the States of Ohio, Indiana and Virginia and will be sent to members of delegations fW\iv> of Vmr .Qfatoc: [Confidential.] postoffice d epa utmext, Office of Postmaster-General, Washington, d. c'., April 29. Dear Sir: The continued illness of Mr. Hay will delay his coming for some time yet to the Department, and I think it desirable that some action he taken in the way of removals, and am impatient to assist our people in securing relief to which they are justly entitled from partisan postmasters. I have had a conference with the Virginia delegation and they will soon bring in their cases, and I shall hope to make the earliest removals in that State. As soon as they shall all be ready, and I hope within a week, I desire to appoint from three to ten in a county in Virginia amounting to several hundred altogether. I had intended to invite yourself and the Democratic delegation from Ohio, to meet me this week and consider the plan upon which we should proceed in making removals in Ohio. But I understand it will be inconvenient for some to travel hither now, and it has occurred to me that perhaps the same end might be accomplished by writing. I shall beg you, therefore, to consider4 the suggestions I make as to the methods of procedure, and if you can adopt them and get some cases ready within the next two or three weeks, I think within the month of May I can give substantial relief that will take away the importunity and discontent. I think that from fifteen to twenty-five per cent, of the fourth class postmasters in Ohio might be removed within the next two months, and great good accomplished thereby, if our people will adhere to a proposed plan. This is, in short, to pick out the most obnoxious and offensive partisans in each county, to the number 01 a sixm to a quarter of all, and choose first-class men to take.their places. I will require no more proof of partisanship in these selections than the affirmation of knowledge on the part of a Representative or Senator that the postmaster has been an active editor or proprietor of a Republican newspaper printing offensive articles, easily shown by slips; or a stump speaker, or member of a political committee, or officer of a campaign club, or organizer of political meetings, or that his office has been made the headquarters of political work, or that his clerks nave been put into the performance of political duties. Possibly other acts of equal force may be noted in cases. If the Representative does not know the fact, it should be established by some affidavit of some person whom he can affirm to be of unquestioned credibilty, or by some documentary evidence. In recommending for appointment, I beg the Representative will state the age,. business, and what kind of business experience, and a description of the business character of the applicant, and also of his habits and standing in the community. It would be well to file evidence showing that he will be satisfactory to the community, and when there are various candidates; I shall be obliged by any explanation which the Representative can give. This necessarily imposes a little trouble, and yet not very great, but it seems to me resonable to require very extraordinary care and trouble enough to be taken to represent surely the facts. The earliest removals and appointments of this kind will challenge the keenest scrutiny. The former must be justifiable and the latter beyond criticism. Some mistakes have perhaps occurred, and our adversaries are keenly interested to make the most or every muit, because they have perceived a strong current of general approbation of the purposes of the administration, In rendering this justice to our people, which consists of the removal of obnoxious the and substitution of our friends, I feel that it is very desirable to proceed with extreme care, and that I am correctly representing the President's wishes and purposes in earnestly soliciting that every step may be taken accordingly. I may add that the common good is infinitely beyond the welfare of any one person, however great his place, so appointments, to further mere personal ends, should be absolutely forbidden, and recommendation upon that basis may as well expect disfavor. I shall very willingly take up the case of any district or of any county, whenever they are ready; and I shall be glad if the Representatives can personally attend and go over them. Papers should bo sent in as soon as possible, and will be then carefully briefed in the Department; and when so ,1~ .no.l.,.,u,,nintn,nntc Prtn hp mnrlo Wl til great rapidity. Should you think it desirable to have a personal conference before this is begun, I shall be very glad to meet the delegation. But as I have felt it desirable to relieve them of unnecessary journeying and ex-! pense, I have written asimilar letter to each ! Representative from Ohio, and respectfully solicited responsive action in accordance j with the spirit of it. Very truly yours, \Vm. F. Vilas, Postmaster General. ? A notable event in the proceedings of the Diocesan Convention in Columbia last week, was the question of admitting colored ! delegates. The discussion was lengthy, con-1 suming nearly two days, and was partici- j pated in by most of the prominent members of the Convention. The decision was in favor of admitting colored members to the privileges of the Convention. ? The appointment of Hou. Leroy F. Youmans to be United States District Attorney for South Carolina gives general : satisfaction throughout the State. LOCAL AFFAIRS, if, new advertisements. J w .T. R. St'horh?Treasurer's Report. st Berry it Barber?Something Nice in the Bread p Line. In W. C. Latimer?Dry Hoods. Herndon Bros.?Grain Cradles?Hoes, itr. tl Withers Adickes?Our Stoek. tl J. W. Dobson?Grain Cradles. oi M. Strauss? Let it be Understood. ^ ai Wilson it Wilson, Plaintiffs' Attorneys?Notice s| to Defendants. s< Geo. ii. C. Neal it Son, Baltimore, Md.?Write for Samples of Dry Hoods. o until january 1st, 18so. n\ We will furnish the YoiiKVir.r.K Esquibku w from this date until January 1st, 188(>, for $1.45, t(: the cash, in all cases, to accompany thesubscrip- J' t*>p. < ci A the telegraph line. The telegraph line between this place and < Chester lias just been equipped with new poies i and the entire line put in first-class order under ' the supervision of Lineman Romanstine. Dr. MAYO. C, Tlie public are reminded that on this (Wednes- | p day) evening at 8 o'clock, Dr. Mayo will deliver q a lecture in the Court House on educational top- o ics. The lecture is free, and a general invitation tl is extended to all interested in the cause of edu- tl cation to attend. \ f * i( X THE NEW TOWN COUNCIL. g The town government was turned over to the ci new board last Monday afternoon, which is com- p posed as follows: John R. Ashe, intendant, and tl J. A. Darwin, F. A. Gilbert, John M. Hope and p Sam M. Grist, wardensv The new board elected p Mr. Darwin senior warden, and Mr. Gilbert a clerk and treasurer, and without transacting any d further business adjourned until Wednesday af- S terpoon. b CHANGE OP* SCHEDULE. . n It is stated on what is deemed reliablo authori- ti ty, that a change of schedule will be made on b the Chester and Lenoir Railroad next Monday, i.' The train coming south will arrive at Yorkville at 1 o'clock, P. M? and at Chester at 2.0f?. Going t! north, the train will leave Chester at 4.30 P. M., C and arrive at Yorkville at5.35 P. M. During the V continuance of this schedule no freight cars will A be attached to the passenger trains. HOUSE MOVING. S The most successful job of house moving yet g done in Yorkville. has been accomplished by C Messrs. J. F. Kendrick and W. L. Goforth, their i part of the undertaking having been completed 1 last Friday. The house moved is the two-story C frame house which adjoined the Adickes build- d ing on the east. Besides having a porch in front * and a shed in the rear, it was on a stone founda- s tion four feet above the level of the street. Get- * ting the house off tho foundation was the great- ? est difficulty, and it required several days to move it out into the street, which was just wide ? enough to admit the structure, and it blockaded . the street until it was rolled to its destination on - ft ? i ~ :a. ?:n UA ^ aiot adjoining tne ranruau, wiiere ? ?m w uhcu ^ up for a residence. c CHURCH NOTICES. t Methodist Episcopal?Rev. J. Thomas Pate, 8 Pastor. Preaching at 11 A. M. next Sunday. At }( 8 P. M., this congregation will unite with the j1 other churches in the meeting of the Bible So- . ciety at the Presbyterian church. , Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. Regular services at 11 A. M. At 8 P. M., Rev. C. ? H. Wiley, agent of the American Bible Society, jj will deliver an address in the church, before the v York County Bible Association, on which occa- 0 sion all the other churches of the town are invited to attend. Sunday-school at 4.30 P. M. Prayer-meeting at 8 Thursday evening. jj King's Mountain Mission?Rev. L. A. John- ]< son, Pastor. Services at Canaan Church next j Sunday, at 11 A. M. Baptist?Rev. J. E. Covington, Pastor. Ser- 1; vice at 11 A. M. Sunday-school at 9.30. S Episcopal?Rev. E. X. Joyner Rector. Service ti at 10.30 A. M., and at 8 P. M., next Sunday. r TAX COLLECTION. ^ ?b The county treasurer is now meeting his ap- C pointments for the purpose of collecting the May rI installment of State and county taxes. Up to k last Saturday his collections were as follows: J State tax $1,440 57 d Ordinary county tax 054 95 A Railroad tax.....". 445 15 ti Poll tax 70 50 C( School tax 523 80 Special school tax, district 13 8 75 ^ Total $3,143 78 S The collections for the same period liist year S( amounted to $3,288.40 The treasurer is now in the eastern part of the ^ county,and will be at Rock Hill the last three days of this week. Commencing with Monday next, he will be at his otlice in Yorkville for the v C' remainder of the month. X CHURCH NOTES. a Rev. T. R. English will preach at the Poor House next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Rev. W. W. Duncan,D. D., of Wofford College, Jj preached an able and instructive sermon in the 11 Methodist church at this place last Sunday evening. Dr. Duncan has a wide reputation as one of the leading divines in the M. E. Church. Rev. J. R. McAlpine, the new pastor of Bui- .. lock's Creek and Beersheba Presbyterian Church- o es, has entered upon his duties, though he will not l)e formally installed until the third Sunday c, * **- t UI I1UAL IllUUtll. x Rev. L. R. McCormick was installed pastor ti of Zion Presbyterian Church on Saturday last, si Rev. T. R. English of Yorkville, and Rev. George Summey, of Chester, assisted in the in- C stallation services. a Rev. C. ii. Wiley, LL. D., of North Carolina, l'< agent of the American Bible Society for that fi State and South Carolina, will deliver an address tl in behalf of the work in which Ite is engaged, in the Presbyterian church at this place at 8 o'clock P. M., next Sunday. All the churches in town are invited to attend. Dr. Wiley's life has been devoted to the cause of education and religion. e He is well known as a writer and theologian, f. and is an earnest worker in the Bible cause, to (j which he has devoted all of his time for the last n fifteen years. h railroad" earnings. ! The Columbia Register publishes a statement ^ of the earnings of railroads in this State for the month of March, 1885, giving also the per cent, j of increase and decrease as compared with the ? same month last year. From the statement we jj take the following: S( Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line?1884,8103,73(5.- I 8:5; 18$5,$114,558.(52; increase, ?10,821.79; 10.4:5 t( per cent, increase. jj Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta?1884, $55,(511.119; 18815, $58,910.12; increase, $3,298.13; 05.93 J' per cent, increase. P' Chcrawand Chester?1884, $3,104.32; 1885, $4,047.35; increase, $943.03 ; 30.38 per cent, increase, w Chester and Lenoir?1884, $5,225.17; 1885, $7,- y 4(57.88; increase, $2,242.71; 42.92 per cent, increase. While several roads in the State show a de- ( crease of earnings for the corresponding date last year, none of them make such a showing as the Chester and Lenoir, which shows an increase L of nearly 43 per cent., or to be precise, 31.49 per ol cent, more than the Atlanta and Charlotte Air- Ct Line, and 3(5.99 more than the Charlotte, Colum- O' bia and Augusta. The average net per cent, in- ir crease of all the roads in the State was 04.98. THE COTTON OUTLOOK. U We are in receipt of a circular of last Satur- W day's date, from Messrs. Latham, Alexander A* P1 Co., the well known cotton merchants of New *C York, in which they say: J1' mt__ ?u? ?? e..,. .1/li'nin.nil tsi# . (Iip size Hie cuuoii vcai is mi i?n , of the crop now coining to market can ho closely j?( arrived at. It will not vary materially from 5,- | lo 700,000 bales. This much being established, it is j 13 apparent that the supply of cotton now and the 1 ( ? in-coming of the new crop will, at no time, be i large, and that with any revival in trade it will be ; inadequate for the requirements of the world, j unless spinners' takings should be checked by) the usual result of light supply and advance in y1 price. * A. The position of cotton, both in price and sup- j jtl ply, is as exceptionally favorable now as com- j pared with former years. i n( The stock in the United States ports is .'12,542 bales less than last year, and (Hi,750 bales less I4 than in INS.'!. : ry The total visible supply of cotton in the world Ah is .'510,.",04 bales less than last year and (>49,050 bales A less than in 18s:5. ' ill Were general business in a normal or usual fp condition, cotton, with its position so strong, as c)# shown above, would naturally be higher. Hut various causes have prevented it from feeling the intluenceot its own exceptional situation. Chief . among these causes, and the one dating farthest I P1 back, has been the long-felt and much harped upon dullness in trade; hardly secondary to this ; in its ell'ect upon prices, has for some months j oj past, been the fear that England was about to be- j pe come involved in war with Russia. Happily, ^ this great war-cloud that threatened Eurone has I ?i blown over, and signs of improving trade are j 4 daily becoming more apparent. Only yesterday sc 20,000 packages of cotton goods?the greatest fH number ever offered at a singlesale?weresold at of ublic auction in New York, at highly satisfac>rv prices. \V"ith returning activity in manufactured goods, ith peace seemingly assured, and with cotton r anding again on its'own merits, the outlook for 8 lantersand merchants is more cheerful than it ! as been for many months. , j Latest accounts*from the East India crop are to 1 * le etfect that.it is backward. In some districts le yield is turningout disappointingly small, in tilers it is only three-fourths of last year's crop, I ? ad in others again it is reported as being very j c tiort; the shortage likely to increase as the ] ?ason advances. i j At the opening of the planting season in our I wn country the ground was in unusually line I mdition, owing to the hard frosts of the past I inter. Planting was satisfactorily completed, j I 'ithout decided increase in the acreage devoted i f > cotton, and the growing crop, though late, has j ( p to this time, progressed favorably. But no j rediotion as to the ultimate out-turn of a cotton j , rop can be made at this early date. 1 n.uiiuinniuiiiniuia <if ihn Vn?Irvll1n Knniilrer. ! _ ? ' It X LETTER FROM CHESTER. J Chester, May 18.?The religious ser- j ices at Gethsemane colored church in this ? Dunty, were recently disturbed by disorder/ negroes. Complaint being made before ( 'rial Justice Lecky, with the names of the j ffenders, a warrant was issued, and five of 5 le parties were arrested, three making ? lieir escape. Cain Hicklin, James Glenn, ] Valker McClellan, Watts Sims and Maur:e Marshall were lodged in jail, and Josh ims, James Lowrv and William Sims es- . aped. On last Wednesday, the day ap- ! ointed for a preliminary examination in j tie case before Trial Justice Lecky, a comromise was effected between some of the * rominent officers of Gethsemane Church j nd the parties in jail, and the latter were ischarged. James Lowry and William imms, who made their escape, were em- 1 raced in the compromise. In addition to * articipating in the disturbance, Josh Sim- < aons was charged with an assault and bat- 1 ery with intent to kill. A warrant has 1 een issued for his arrest. The prosecutor i 3 Mabry Davis. 1 Memorial day was observed as usual at ' his place, Major J. K. Marshall being the hief marshal of the day. The procession 1 /as composed of the Lee Light Infantry, < allowed by citizens in carriages and on i Dot. Mr. J. K. Henry, the orator of the 1 lay, made a most excellent address. He 1 poke in appropriate and touching lan- 1 ;uage of the brief life of the Southern ! 'onfederacy, and of the noble example i t had set to other nations struggling for iberty and independence. The Confedera y, he said, had not lived in vain, as it pro- ] iuced those two immortal characters of his- j ory, Lee and Jackson. He paid a hand- 1 ome tribute to one of Chester's honest and i rusty soldiers, Col. W. A. Walker. At the ] lose of the address, the graves of the dead \ leroes were adorned with flowers and ever;reens. , A considerable number of dogs died at , his place a few days ago from the effects , ?f poison administered by unknown par- ( ies. A reward was offered for their disovery, but thus far without any substan- ; ial result. Great indignation was excited j ,mong those citizens who had suffered the j oss of their dogs. Their wrath, however, , 3 subsiding, and will soon pass away, unless ] he dog slaughter is renewed. ( Crops have been greatly injured by the ute dry and cool weather. Wheat and ats are hurt beyond recovery. It is not ikely that they will produce more than one- i ialfof a good average yield, with favorable ' weather from this time to harvest. More- . ver, corn and cotton have been injured by he cold as well as by the dry weather. One ; armer informed me that his corn on bottom ; and was killed by frost. There were doubt- . sss other farmers whose corn suffered a sim- J lar misfortune. { The skating rink was the scene of a live- ( y gathering on last Friday night. The katers appeared in masque. Their cos- ' umes were quite beautiful. The ladies rep- . esented music, crazy quilt, Mother Hud- : ard, United States, peasant, roses, Maid ; f Orleans, purity, sun-flower, milkmaid, , rirl of the period, red roses, butterfly, nun. ; 'he gentlemen represented: boss of the itchen, lady of the house, Jesse James, ' apanese, Chinaman, Turk, bootblack, boyude, coachman, Hip Van Winkle. Miss 1 Ldeline Watchel, representing music, ob- j lined the prize for the most beautiful lady osturae. Mr. F. M. Galbraith Jr., repressing a Japanese, obtained the prize for J he best gentleman costume. Mr. R. F. immons wore a splendid costume repre- ' enting an organ grinder. 1 The Stonewall Fire Engine Company of I his place have been invited to attend the larriage of Stonewall Jackson's daughter at tichmond on the second of June. The in- ' itation was extended in consequence of the i ompany bearing the name of her distin- 1 uisned father. The company will hold 1 meeting to consider the question of at- i ending tne marriage, n iney I'ttunui uiend, they will send a handsome present 1 o the daughter of the lamented and illus- 1 rious Stonewall. sr. i For the Yorkville Enquirer. . FARMERS' CLUB OF BETHEL. The Farmers' Club of Bethel township /ill meet on next Saturday, May 24th, at o'clock P. M. ' I The way is still open for farmers to beome members and to contest for the prizes, f you live too far from the place of meeting ' 3 attend, and wish to bdcome a member, end us your name and address. Many farmers have neglected to join our ' lub from the fear that it would fall through, { nd members become disinterested after a . iw meetings. This fear you may banish 1 om you minds. Our Club is growing, and tie members seem to become more enthusi- ( stic and interested at each meeting. T. W. CAMPBELL, Pres. J E. I). Thompson, Jr., Sec. j Mrs. Hendricks Was Right.?The 1 vening before Mrs. Hendricks went West s om Washington she and the Vice-Presient dined with a gentleman with a short e ameand a long record in Congress, who j as been appointed to a foreign mission, c luring the evening the latter told Mrs. a lendricks that he was going to take with f im, as Secretary of Legation, a Republi- f m. Mrs. Hendricks retorted: "Gov. Henricks is not responsible for my opinions in e eneral, and particularly for my opinion < l this instance, but I think you owed your r ;at in Congress to Democratic votes, and >\ think you owe your present appointment r > Democratic votes. If you are under ob- 1 gations to your Republican friend, I think f ou ought to settle the matter with him r ersonally, and give the office of secreta7 to a Democrat." The Minister after- , ard told the story, and said he guessed Irs. Hendricks was right, and he had bet- c >r take a Democratic Secretary with him.? hh-ayo Time*. ^ Sentenced to Penal Servitude.?In ^ ondon, last Monday, the jury in the case c f Cunningham and Burton charged with J lusing the explosions at the tower of Lonon and elsewhere, returned a verdict find- d ig both prisoners guilty. They were both 3 mtenced to penal servitude forhfe. v Cunningham maintained his self-compos- y re, but Burton broke down and sobbed f hen the verdict was rendered. When the v risoners were asked if they had anything a i say why the sentence of the law should si :it be passed upon them, Cunningham pro- g sted that he was innocent. He said that i 3 was willing to accept penal servitude >r life, but they could not touch his soul, y urton simply declared that he was inno- ft ;nt. a The Gallows.?Charles Ilenry Rugg, f( dored, who murdered Mrs. Lydia Maybee ? id her daughter, Mary, at Oyster Ray, L. t] , nearly two years ago, was hanged in the f, il at Hunter's Point, last Friday morning. t( John Langster, who is described as "the \, ?gro ex-cavalryman, ex-lunatic, desperado C( id thief," and the murderer of police offiir Fowler, was hanged in the corridor of " ie jail in Washington City at J) o'clock . M., last Friday. The murderer was a A ember of the chain gang. He escaped ? om the gang while at work on September 1 He was pursued by Officer Fowler, who 0 und him in an outhouse. A struggle enied in which Langster got hold of Fowler's " stol and shot and killed him. p1 b - There seems to be some difference of 0 linion existing in Kershaw county in Jference to the result of the vote cast in $ at county in the late railroad election, I though the Gazette declares that "the ^ heme has been carried by an overwhel- 1 ing majority." No official declaration a the result has yet been made. u SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? A heavy frost in Pickens county, a few lights ago,'killed the tops of Irish potatoes md other tender vegetables. ? The Governor has appointed E. B. Muray, of Anderson, a director of the Peniteniary, vice Major D. F. Bradley, resigned. ? Rev. Thomas E. Gilbert, late of the touth Carolina Methodist Conference, was ihosen one of the assistant lecturers of the STew York East Conference (of which he rns been a member since April, 1884,) at ts late annual session at Hartford, Conn. ? George C. Tanner has been appointed >y the President to be Consul of the United states at Chemnitz, Saxony. This is spoken if as a good appointment. Mr. Tanner is veil known in railroad circles, and has riends all over South Carolina. ? At Belton, Anderson county, on Monlay, seven negroes, Allen Gaillard, wife tnd five children, were poisoned by bread ?aten at the family meal. One of the chilIren died Wednesday. At the inquest the poison was traced to the bread. An analysis will be made. ? William Logan, a negro barber, of Lan:aster, while on a visit to Monroe, X. C., ast Monday, got into a difficulty with Hen y Stockton, another negro, about a woman, tnd shot him through the bowels. Logan led, it is supposed, back into South Carolila. Stockton will die. ? The last issue of Scientific American contains an illustration of a new cotton picker nvented by R. K. Charles, of Darlington, which may come in and take the place of ill others. It is made on an entirely new orinciple, and the inventor claims that it ivill work. ? Greenville News: The revenue officers eport signs of increased activity among :he moonshiners in the upper end of this county and in Pickens, and Collector Bradley will not have to wait long for an opportunity to begin operations. Three or four stills in upper Greenville and the same lumber in Pickens are said to be known of ijy the revenue officers. ?Vanus Hawkins, a good citizen of Greenville county, came to his death last Thursday in a singular manner. He rode up to i country store, and after alighting from his horse, and while in the act of hitching it to the limb of a tree, the animal gave a violent jerk which had the effect of breaking Mr. Hawkins' neck. Death resulted almost instantly. ?The case against the three negroes, Peter clcott, William Burden and Ralph Mills, for breaking into the Darlington postoffice md stealing between $o00 and $700, has been discontinued in the United States District Court at Charleston and the prisoners have been turned over to the State authorities of Darlington on the charge of burglary. ? At the annual meeting of the board of directors of the Columbia Theological Seminary, last week, eleven of the thirteen members being present, the following officers were elected: President, Hon. James Hemphill; Secretary, Rev. J. B. Mack, D. D.; Treasurer/!. A. McCreery, Esq.; Librarian, Rev. J. L. Girardeau, D. D. Rev. C. r' TT" ^ r\f WTnofmin. u. nersman, u. u.t rreaiucm m "wwinir 3ter College, Missouri, was elected as Perkins Professor, to fill the chair formerly occupied by Professor Woodrow. ? The United States fish commissioner's oar reached Columbia last Thursday with a million and half of young shad to be placed in rivers in this State. Sergt. Brainerd, of theGreely Arctic Expedition, was one of the party having charge of the fish. Sergt. Brainerd made the famous expedition northward from the Greely headquarters with Lieut. Lockwood, and reached the furthest point north ever attained by man. As his companion died from the hardships of the expedition the sergeant has approacnsd the Aorth Pole more closely than any living man. ? Laurensville Herald, Friday: Miss Lula West, of this town, who was spoken of in this paper two weeks ago as being totally paralyzed for over thirty days, yet lingers in that deplorable condition, and has not tasted any nourishment "for forty nine days without any perceptible change, only as she weakens down the last few days. It is noticed she can move her hands and feet it timesa little, yet she has a littleeolor of blood at times about the face, and appears to know her friends when they go about her. ? The Greenville News of Thursday says: Two Mormon missionaries are at work in the mountains along the line of Spartannurg and Greenville counties. They have traveled around about three weeks, but had not made any converts at last accounts, rheir plan is to go among the poorest and nost ignorant people and preach their doctrines in private houses where they are allowed to spend the night. Excitement is rising and indignation is developing, and it is not at all unlikely that the unwelcome visitors will feel the weight of public wrath very distinctly, and forcibly before many more nights. The people of upper Greenville do not propose to stand any nonsense )f the sort being taught among them now. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The colored mail agent, Calvin, be;ween Charlotte and Shelby has been removed, and John Harrell, a white man, \ppointed in his place. ? Cant. Waddell, who has long been conlectea with the Chester and Lenoir Rail oad, resigned the position of conductor last Friday, and will go to Blowing Rock, Wataugua county, for the purpose of openng a hotel. ? Newton Enterprise, Friday: By referjnce to our last year's file we find the rtatement in the issue of May 2d, that vheat was heading and much of it in full )loom. It is now the fifteenth of May and rery little wheat shows any appearance of leading yet. But it is in keeping with the eason. ? It is now thought that the Spartanburg ind Asheville Railroad will not be competed this summer. It seems that there is >ne job near Asheville that will take nearly ill the summer to finish with the present orce. If this be so the road will not be inished this year. ? The President has appointed Mr. Samuil A. Ashe, editor of the Raleigh Xeivs and Observer, to be postmaster at Raleigh, in Pace of Mr. Nichols, commission expired. Chis is a very proper nomination, and a ecognition of the eminent services of Mr. Vshe has rendered the party of which he las been for years an able and willing chamPon. ? After a protracted contest, Col. Hamilon C. Jones has received the appointment ?f United States District Attorney for the vestern district of North Carolina. Col. ones is an able lawyer and a gentleman. ?hat he will fill the office with credit to Pmself and satisfaction to the people there an be no doubt. His competitor was Mr. ohn Staples, of Greensboro. ? Shelby Aurora: John Scates, a well Pressed carpenter, was arrested here on londay, charged with having three living rives. Etta Waters, whom he married 12 ears ago, Rosaline Owens and Martha Saris, of York county, S. C., are alleged rives of this uxorious man. He lived here vpnr nor* nnrl rotiirnofl rpppntlv\ Rp aid "he came in search of a job and has ot one now," when thesheriff arrested him. le married his last wife one year ago. ?Joseph H. Martin, a North Carolina outh, who, while in a State of intoxication, itally shot Percy L. Carrington on board Virginia Midland passenger train near harlottesville, Va., last March, was tried >r murder and acquitted on the ground of alcoholic insanity." His counsel moved lat he be delivered to the custody of his iends, but Judge Taylor sent him to jail, > await preparations for commitment to an isane asylum. The verdict is generally jndemed by the North Carolina press. ? A three-story brick building on Trade ireet, in Charlotte, occupied by Hamthond .Justice as a hardware store, fell in a mass f ruins at0 o'clock last Thursday morning, he disaster was caused by the weakening f the foundation of "the west wall by the xcavating of a cellar for a new building on ie site of one recently burned there. The racking wall gave timely warning and noody was hurt. The adjoining building, wned by W. J. Yates, editor of the Homedemocrat, was damaged to the extent of 3,000. The fallen building was owned by >r. J. H. McAden, whose loss is $7,000. tammond & Justice's loss on stock is$25,000. 'hey are insured for $11,000. The ruins lught fire, but the flames were soon got nder control.