Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ftrajjsi and Jacts. ? Randolph Harrison, Commissioner of Agriculture of Virginia, under date of May 16th, says he has taken a trip through some of the richest counties of Virginia, and finds the condition of wheat and oats wretched. He estimates that the State will not produce over 3,000,000 bushels of wheat this year, against 7,000,000 in 1884. ?Papers on which to base the demand for the extradition of Maxwell, the supposed murderer of C. Arthur Preller in St. Louis, Missouri, who is now under arrest at Auckland, New Zealand, have been signed by Governor Marmaduke, of Missouri, and forwarded to Washington. He names two men as the State's agents to bring the murderer back. ?The seventeen-year locusts, predicted by Prof. Reilly, the government entomologist, seem to have made their first appearance at Bridgeport, Illinois. They have been found in large numbers close to the surface of the ground, and are moving up Wartl. 'J. lie lUUlUUUUIJS me suuug mail an unusualy large swarm will appear in a short time. ? Captain Polk Cole, a wealthy merchant, of Spring Place, Ga., met with a tragic and awful death Friday. He was prospecting for gold on Port Mountain, and wandered near a precipice to examine an opening that had been made by some miners. He missed his footing and fell over the precipice a distance of 200 feet. His body was crushed litterally into a jelly, every bone being broken. ? At Erie, Pa., last Friday, the jury awarded L. Rosenweig $48,700 damages for . being ejected from a Lake Shore passenger train. The train was a limited express and the conductor refused to accept a regular ticket or money from Rosenzweig, who was a passenger from Cleveland to Erie. Rosenweig fell in a pile of stone when he was put off the train, and paralysis is the result. He sued for $100,000. ? Two Mormon elders, Christian and Gainer, have been arrested and imprisoned at Elizabethton, Tenn. They made many converts in that section last year before the passage of the Anti-Polygamy law, and their converts state they will protect them at all hazards. State Senator Simmerly's father has been converted, and the former is working up public, sentiment against the Mormpns. The Sheriff refuses to release the prisoners and the Governor's attention has been called to the matter. ? Prof. Odium, a professional jumper, from England, who had jumped 170 feet into water, eluded the police ana undertook to jump from the Brooklyn bridge on Tuesday of last week. His body turned 3o feet above the water and he struck slantingly. He was taken out alive, but soon died in horrible convulsions. The jump was 140 feet. James Haggard, who accompanied Odium in his mission to take the foolhardy leap, has been committed to jail without bail. ? A Danbury, Conn., dispatch says: Benjamin Hawley, a farmer aged fifty years, buried his wife, who had long been an invalid, on Saturday. On the return from the funeral he stopped at a town with his housekeeper, who was one of the mourners, and they were married. Soon after the newly married couple reached home a crowd gathorpd and Hawlev was drasrered from the house. A barrel of tar anil"feathers had been prepared for him, but he begged so piteously that he was spared the torture. He was, however, placed astride a rail and ridden from one end of town to the other. '?From the report of the executive relief committee at Plymouth, Pa., the following summary is made: On the 5th of May there were 841 cases of typhoid fever. Since that date sixty-four new cases have been reported, making 905 in all. The deaths in the fjast two weeks have numbered 55, which eaves 850 case9, 134 being convalescent. The majority of the sick are reported to be on the mend, but many are still in a critical condition. The number of destitute families now receiving aid is reported to be 246. The total disbursements to-day reach $5,100. ? Two hundred of the marines sent by this government to Central America during the recent disturbances there, have returned to New York. They say all is quiet at Panama and that the isthmus canal is a failure and a gigantic swindle, all the agents being engaged in pludering the company. It is a common thing to allow workmen $15 a day of which $10 goes to the agent as rebate. The principal part of the working force consists of Jamaica negroes who are leaving as fast as possible because they are robbed and shot like wild beasts by the natives. Only two of the United States force were killed, both by their comrades for infractions of discipline. ? Some persons think that natural ice purifies water, but, in the report of the Plymouth plague, it is shown that last winter the drainage of a farm house in which one of the typhoid patients lived ran into the snow surroundintr the house. When the snow melted, the germs contained in the snowran into a rivulet w hich emptied into one of the reservoirs which supplied the town with water, which was then covered with ice. On account of the freezing of the water the reservoir had. remained unused during the winter. When the ice broke up and its use was resumed, the water had become thoroughly poluted with the typhoid fever germs. ? The world's exposition at New Orleans will be closed on the last day of this month. The friends of the exposition have raised $95,000 by subscription to meet the expenses of carrying it over until next November, when it will be reopened. Superintendent Jeffrey, of the Illinois Central, has telegraphed that the railroads and car companies reaching New Orleans will subscribe $100,000 toward the expense of reopening the exposition next winter. The citizens' committee is still receiving subscriptions, and the sum required will be made up. The board of management has paid off fifty per tent, of its indebtedness and believes that the exposition can be reopened next winter free of debt. > ? The crimes of Ferdinand Ward, the flash banker of New York, are to be presented to the grand jury this week. A large portion of the machinery of the District Attorney's office is eugaged on the case, and it is expected to present the facts clearly and fully at the start. W. S. Warner and J. II. Work, into whose hands many of Ward's stolen dollars have passed, will also be prosecuted if indictments can be secured. The District Attorney finds great difficulty in getting at the facts in the case, and there is a lingering suspicion that Ward can never be made accountable for his swiudling in a criminal case, and the most that can be done with him will be to keep him in Ludlow street jail for life under certain processes." ? The Hon. F. T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State under Mr. Arthur's administration, died at his home in New Jersey on the 20th instant. Mr. Frelinghuysen had occupied many positions of prominence both in State and national politics, being at one time appointed and confirmed as minister to Fngland, but declined for the reason that he had a controlling conviction that if he ever undertook an ocean voyage he would surely perish on the way. He served his State in the United States Senate for a number of years, and it is said that his service in that body was industrious and honorable. His family make no secret of the fact that his first serious illness was due to aconite that in some unaccountable way was bottled with the mineral water he used, and Dr. Lincoln, of Wahington, says that there was enough left in the bottle to kill four men. ? Icebergs, which have drifted farther south this spring than ever before noticed by mariners, have destroyed at least two vessels. Capt. Andreson reports that at midnight, May Gth, he ran into ice near the banks of Newfoundland. The next afternoon icebergs surrounded and crushed his vessel, the crew escaping to the ice with their boats, taking but the clothes they stood in and one bag of bread. They remained on the ice until Sunday morning, wet, half-starved and nearly frozen. They came out of the ice at 2 a. m. Sunday with the boats and pulled westward in a thick fog. After pulling for about two hours they pulled alongside the steamer Mary Louisa, of New Castle, bound for Liverpool. They were taken aboard and the captain stated that they had struck ice some time before and the vessel then was leaking badly. Captain Anderson had been aboard just about an hour when the Mary Louisa began to sink. Loth crews, numbering about ; 36 persons, left the steamer in three boats ana proceeded west. Monday morning, c j May 11th, the boats were well together notwithstanding the thick fog which prevailed. ^ On that day the weather became clear, and he , finally they sighted the bark Brilliant bound for Quebec. She immediately hove hi) to and took all hands aboard, landing them at Liverpool. tic : ?Every morning for the past two years I Kobert Miller, a rag-picker, of Pittsburg, wl I Pa., has compelled his son Charles to search Jj? : the streets and ash dumps for rags, and if -1' the boy failed to return with the bag filled mi he received a beating. The boy finally re- rej | fused to perform the duty imposed upon ev | him, and his father locked him in his room ?n and fed him on bread and water. Last t0 i week James Watson, another rag-picker, P? ; offered to trade Miller a yellow dog for the ' 1 TT - ' >- 1 ? <-??i -l- till S Doy. ne saiu ne wouiu nuu worn iu uu iui ! him at home where he could be watched. 001 ; Miller agreed. He hitched the dog to his P* cart, and expressed himself entirely satis- ^ I fied with the bargain. The lad did not ap- ** preciate the treatment that he received m 101 his new home any more than he did with c?' his father, and ran away for the second time. Now Watson sues Miller for the recovery of his dog. In the meantime the Humane So- j" ciety has taken charge of the boy. fJflrfcriUe inquirer. | we tai YORKVILLE, S. . : w? rig THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 28,1885. coi THE COMMERCIAL CONVENTION. Co COI The Commercial Convention, at Atlanta, W( last week, was composed of delegates from ni( nearly all the Southern States, and the pro- W? ceedings were harmonious. Among other Be things, the Convention declared in favor soi of the following.: ^ 1. Extension of foreign trade. thi 2. A uniform bankrupt law. to 3. The temporary suspension of silver coinage. . ... . tic 4. Against National control of railroads. m, 5. The abolition of tobacco revenue tax. 6. Steamship connection with South a ^ America. j\I, 7. A National Department of Commerce. gn 8. Against tax on commercial travelers, thi THE RICHMOND TRAGEDY. The trial in Richmond of Cluverius for th< the murder of Miss Madison, in that city on of the 13th of March last, is still progressing, thj the examination of the State's witnesses not ^ having yet been concluded. The trial has ?0J attracted attention throughout the country jn for reasons independent of its sensational an character and sentimental belongings. It th< has surpassed the Jennie Cramer tragedy w in New Haven, of August, 1881, and very much like that crime, may fasten upon the th< accused every evidence of moral guilt with- m< out riveting the vital link in the circumstantial evidence of absolute complicity in the killing. The Baltimore Arnerican fears ^ the inefficiency of our jury system as a l0j means of bringing criminals to justice. The co, amount of circumstantial evidence aceumu- av lated against him is very convincing, and r yet the lips of the chief witness are closed. W? Cluverius himself cannot, under the laws of Virginia, be required to "criminate him- aJn self." In nearly all the civilized countries pn of Europe the accused is the chief witness. fa> If he be innocent, his ready answers to all the questions propounded by the officers of 'as the law soon establish his innocence; if he be guilty, why on earth should he not re{ "criminate himself?" Commenting upon J this idea, the Augusta Choronicle says: an The fact is that the two people who prob- ?rc ably knew how Lillian Madison came to be 1)61 found floating, a slimy corpse, in the reser- ar* voir that Saturday morning, are silent forever. The swollen lips of the murdered girl were sealed with death before the tragedy ia was complete, and if they could tell the ?'r secrets of the crime, the trees and tombs of Hollywood would be her only audience. cr The mouth of the accused, who listens every as day to the damaging evidence with so much cai unconcern, is more compressed as circumstances point to his guilt, and the law does ^ei not force him even through the ordeal of ex- P1* plicit falsehood which his manner has enabled him so thoroughly to act out. The evidence has coupled young Cluverius inr suspiciously with the betrayal of the dead . J girl eight months before the killing. It has 18 1 disclosed a continuance of correspondence a8 and visits through the period ending the fatal 13th of March; it has connected Clu- J3*1' verius with the forwarding of the decoy let- Pe< ter, which enabled Miss Madison to leave in her employer's house without suspicion, for UP Richmond; it has proven that the young Pe^ people found out each other's whereabouts bv note; that they were together on the reI street; that they visited unfrequented sub- USI urhs and doubtful places in each other's by company, and finally that they left a street ag( car at nine o'clock on the last night upon which Fannie Lillian Madison was seen Pe! alive, making their way together towards l)e( the city reservoir. of After midnight the prisoner returned to his hotel and left the city for his home be- reJ j fore daylight, the secret of the tragedy in ('ei I all probability safe in his own imperturba- co* ! ble bosom, and the lips which could hardly USI { have been made to cry out against his ! shameless treatment of her in life, now ] j more rnufiled than ever against a declara- cr< , tion of his guilt. an The fact that the defendant cannot be put r upon the stand and subjected to a rigid cross- do examination, allowing the jury to deter- ] mine from his answers, his innocence or we his guilt, forces the Baltimore journal to say ne that the jury system was in feudal times a i means of protecting the poor man against the coi : oppressive nobleman, and as such was dear mj ! to Englishmen. But now there are no op- thi | pressive lords, and the system is used to ] i protectcriminalsagainstjustice. Thewhole coi system seems to be devised to hinder a cn searching investigation into crime. * sta i The Illinois Contest.?The long con- re] i test in the Illinois Legislature over the x< United States Senatorship was ended on oa ! Tuesday of last week by the election of thi Logan. In a speech to the members of the tin ' Legislature, after the election Logan said : thi "In this contest, Mr. Speaker and gentle- it. men, which has been an unusually close i th< and heated one, 1 am proud to state that i sio nothing has franspired to mar the friendly I wc relations existing between myself and my | col worthy opponent. For thirty years this < ' ? 1 %v?hpiaH' hnt?A Koon nnrlc? ! I LIUIIUllI UUU Hl^acn iia vu uccu mvuuo, i i ; and 1 trust we will always continue such. J ! [Loud cheers.] I believe there never has Be j been a contest between two persons waged lit more earnestly for their parties than this, he and yet the mutual relations remain so |rr, pleasant. I respect Mr. Morrison politically fai and socially, and 1 am proud to say we are th< friends, and sincerely hope we may ever be spi friends. [Cheers.] As to the other gentle- wl man who was my opponent for a time, I thi | can say nothing against him, nor would I ba | want to. Mr. Tree and myself lived neigh- pe bors for many years in Chicago, and I have we always had the highest respect for him. j wi lie made a good contest?coming late in the no held and being a little short of votes?as he eri could make. For him I have nothing but I ] respect. In conclusion, gentlemen, I desire ' <ra to say that no matter what may have oc- j ev curred during the contest, it has been car- j th< ried on in a spirit of fairness. No such con-| X< test has ever been known in this country wi before, and it has appeared strange to me ; pic that there has been so little excitement and i Xc bitterness exhibited. : otl j "I leave here having no bitter feeling towards any one who may have opposed me. 1 i I respect a man who will stand by his creeds ide ' and nis friends, and I expect no more from the others than is accorded. If I go to Wash- obs ington, I do not go there with any fire burn- ing ing in my bosom, or a feeling of antagon- He ism to any party or the present adminis- the tration." thfl SENATOR TEST ON MORMONS. speaking about the recent visit of the :>rmon delegation to President Cleveland, nator Vest, of Missouri, said: 'I have always regared the Edmunds II, in one of its features, as striking at the jst holy of connections?the marital rela n. Under that bill the wife may be ought into Court and compelled to tell lat has passed between herself and husnd under the sacred cover of marriage le bill pretends to uphold the Christian irriage of one man to one woman, bul illy striking it the most dangerous blow er known. Why, a man may be wed tc e wife for thirty years, and then remove Utah and become afflicted with the lygamous craze. The woman may be opsed to it in every form, but she can, undei e Edmunds bill, be forced to come intc urt and swear away the liberty of the rtner of her youth. She is still his wife hy such a thing is simply outrageous ie~oniy excuse that Edmunds could mak( it was that the husband could not be avicted without the testimony of tht fe. Bayard and Garland voted for the II. I told Bayard that with his views the sacred character of the marriage reion he was doing-wrong. Garland had a :al excuse. The people who were murred at Mountain Meaaow came from Arnsas. I stood up in the Senate and opsed the bill, as I would again. They callme a Mormon out in Missouri, but ] ;nt on the stump and defended my action d was sustained. Yet our people are as ;terly opposed to Mormon polygamy as 3 people of any other State. We drove igham Young and Joseph Smith and 3ir followers out of the State. The retins of the walls of the old Temple ol 3n still stand at Gallatin. It is a beautispot on a high hill, overlooking the coun7 for miles around. The Mormons cernly had an eye for beauty in choosing it old General John B. Clarke had had his iv he would have wiped out Mormonisrr :nt there. He captured the Mormons and ademnod Young and Smith to be shot 3 was just about to execnte them wher lonel Donaphen came up with a Claj unty regiment. He told Clarke that il mldn't ao to shoot them without commu mating with the Governor, whose naras is Boggs. A messenger was sent tc ?ggs, at the capital, and he came in per i to Gallatin. Meanwhile Young anc lith had agreed to leave the State if re ised. When Boggs came he agreed t( ose term9, and the Mormons went bacn Nauvoo, 111., where Smith was shot. 'A curious commentary on the opera ins of the human mind came recently t< y attention in connection with this affair lere is a man living at Chillicothe, Ohio veil-known merchant, who was with th< armons at Gallatin. He told me thai lith and Young gathered the women or e inside of the Temple. The men all goi tside or on the walls, and were instructec kneel in prayer. The prophets told them sre was no danger whatever, as the angelf the Lord would come down and sweep b Missourians off the face of the .earth ell, General Clarke, not having any feai angels, just deployed his troops, sur jnded the temple and scooped them al as captives. It was the failure of th( gels to come to the rescue that pursuadec b Chillicothe man that Smith and Younp ;re false prophets, and he left the Mor >ns soon after. But no longer ago thai it year he argued with me at some length b genuineness and authenticity of the Drmon Bible as a revelation from Diety.' CROPS IN THE STATE. Under date of the 21st instant, the State spartment of Agriculture publishes the lowing summary of 272 township reports Bering every county in the State, of ar erage date of May 1st: The weather during the month of Apri! is very favorable for farming operations, d farm work progressed satisfactorily ,nds have been better prepared than usua d growing crops are free of grass and ir aper condition to be fully benefitted bj /orable seasons. rhe wheat crop is not so promising as ;t year. Owing to the severe wintei tather good stands were not generally obned, and a full average yield will not be ilized. Fall sown oats were badly winter-killed, d except in a tew favored localities shorl >ps are anticipated. Spring oats have an injured by dry weather and stands } defective. rhe cotton area has been slightly decreasbelow last year, but the crop is reported much better condition than on the flrsl May, 1884. rhe area in corn has been somewhat in ased this year, and the stand is reported very nearly an average, and the general idition of the crop better than last year, rn lands have been better prepared and tter fertilized, and with good seasons the aspects for a lull crop are better than foi /eral years. Not a single township in the ite reported a decrease in the area planted corn. Che condition of sugar cane and sorghum a. ?i 4.1, repurieu luucu mgucr uimi msu^cui, ? 11,11 lightly decreasing area in both crops. More interest has been manifested in tojqo than in many years, and there ha:; m a general increase in the area planted this crop throughout the State. In the per counties the increase amounts to 3(1 r cent, over last year. iVith few exceptions, the field labor is >orted as ample and more efficient than ml. In some sections fruit was injured frosts in April. Apples were not damid and the crop will be abundant. The books of the department show that 1C r cent, more commercial fertilizers have in used this year than last?up to the first May the consumption for 1884 amounting 97,488 tons, and 1885 to 113,47G tons. The jorts of the department indicate a slight crease in the use of these fertilizers in ;ton, showing that a larger quantity than jal has been used in grain. OTHER CROP NOTES. [n some parts of Orangeburg county the >ps are very good, while in others they i suffering badly from want of rain, rhe cotton and oats are poor in Clarenn county, but the other crops are good. Ln Marion county all the crops are backird, but very promising, though rain is eded. The fruit crop is said to be superb, light rain has done good in Lancaster inty, but very much more is needed tc ike the fields look as well as they ought al is season. From portions of Edgefield county, come nplaints of cold weather and stinted >ps. Phe Carolina Spartan thus sums up the .te of affairs in Spartanburg county: "The 3orts from the crops are somewhat mixed, jw and then a farmer will report that his ts and wheat are first rate, but as a general ing the oats are low and unpromising and 3 wheat has very short heads and is later an usual. The stand of corn is good and is growing off well, but in many places e cotton is a poor stand and it is growing iwly. Some few persons are planting this ;ek, and it may do as well as the earlier tton." jrood stands of both cotton and corn are sorted in Williamsburg county, [n Abbeville county, says the Press ana inner, "the oat crop may be set down at tie better than a failure. The grain it ading very near to the ground, and s sat deal of it is too low to be cut. Many iners will make but a little more than s seed which they sowed last fall. The ring oats will not amount to much. The leat crop is also short, but is better than s oat crop. The area which was sown in rley and rye is exceedingly small. Our ople have got their cattle and horses sc !ll accustomed to living on barren hills, thout any shelter, that they need nothing w but a few bits of old worthless NorthI or Western hay." Harlequin bugs are playing havoc with rdens in Camden. They attack almost ery kind of vegetable, and very soon after 3y attack a plant the leaf blights and dies. ) remedy has yet been discovered which II prevent their depredations except to !k them off by hand and destroy tnem. ) bird or chicken will touch them, and no ler insect will go near them. [hik President's Body Guard.?Preset Cleveland was somewhat astonished ; other day, says a Washington letter, to ;erve a battalion of infantry manceuver; in the grounds south of the White mse, and promptly made inquiries as to i meaning of it. Word was sent back it it was the signal corps battalion be ing exercised in military tactics. Some ex. tremists jumped at the conclusion that an armed guard was to be placed around ' the White House, and some even went so far as to make the declaration that the Presi- i > dent ought to be protected in this way. A 1 visitor at the White House, on a recent oc casion, when the President received so ! many callers, expressed his astonishment at ' i the lack of precautions for the safety of the President. According to his statement there were only a few unarmed ushers in i proximity to the President, and if some t crank had felt disposed he could have struck ' at the President unmolested. For the in> formation of these men it may be stated - that the apparently unarmed ushers are in . > reality stalwart policemen detailed ior aury , at the White House, and besides having " black-jacks in their coat pockets each man > carries a self cocking revolver of the largest i calibre in his hip pocket. Especial pains have been taken in the selection of these offi. cersthatthey shall be wiry, plucky fellows? - men who would not lose their heads in case s of an emergency. ! Correspondence ol" the Yorkvllle Enquirer. ! LETTER FROM CHESTER. l Chester, May 2o.?Dr. Mayo delivered a very entertaining lecture in the Court House on Tuesday night. The attendance was good, but preaching in one of our ; churches lessened the audience to some exi tent. The distinguished lecturer in porJ traying the advantages of education min5 gled wit with wisdom in a very interesting ^ I and pleasing manner. His hearers greatly , , enjoyed his amusing stories. Their def light with the lecture prevented weari ness, notwithstanding jts length. Dr. Mayo - has been instrumental increasing in the South public interest in education. He is ' deeply in earnest in advocating the cause ' of education, and his earnestness inspires ' the hearts of others with a stronger love I for this good cause. The people of our State and the entire South owe him a debt 1 of gratitude they can never pay. A change 1 of the evening appointed for his lecture oct casioned the absence of a number of coun try teachers. If circumstances had per mitted, every teacher in our county should ) > have heard Dr. Mayo's lecture. They would have been animated with new zeal I in the prosecution of this self-sacriticing work. > The dry weather, which was injuring ^ crops and gardens, came to an end last week. Every section of our county has been visited with more or less rain. In > some places it was light, but generally it was quite abundant. -Wheat and oats, ? notwithstanding the injury they had suf fered from the dry weather, have been t generally benefitted, and will doubtless 1 make a better yield than was expected a t short time Hgo. While the small grain I crops have been greatly injured, still the ? yield of these crops' will probably be suf5 ficient to enable farmers to tide over the > hard time intervening between harvest and , the gathering of corn. Cotton and corn are r immeasurably benefitted by the late rain. These crops are growing rapidly. One of 1 our farmers on the western side had corn 5 several days ago half leg high. I In my last correspondence I spoke of the f dog slaughter at this place. The destruc tion of tne dogs was renewed last week and i extended to tlie hogs. A number of these ' animals fell victims to the poison of un' known parties. An effort is making, with ' some prospect of success, of discovering the parties. Some parties in the country are agitating J the advisably of this county instituting suit J against the Cheraw and Chester Railroad > Co. for reimbursement to the county of in1 terest paid on its bonds from 1875 to 1880. The facts arise in this way: In 1874 an Act I of the Legislature was passed authorizing ? this county to issue six per cent, bonds in subscription for preferred stock of the C. & I C. R. R. Co. The bonds were issued in the 1 early part of the year 1875 to the extent of r $75,000. By the terms of the Act the^ preferred stock was to be issued by the C. & C. ' Company when the road was completed through the county." That event occurred in June, 1880, and the preferred stock was ! issued at that date?1500 shares at $50 each. The said act provided also that prior to the r issuance of said county bonds the Railroad ' Company should execute and deliver to the ( County Treasurer of the county a bond in 5 a sufficient sum to secure the payment of interest on the said county bonds until the said railroad shall be completed in the 1 county. In other words, this bond of the ; railroad company was to guarantee a reimbursement to the county of the moneys 1 paid by the county in meeting the interest | on its bonds from their issuance in 1875 un1 til the time of the completion of the road ; through the county, when the county should ' be entitled to receive its preferred stock in 1 1880. The Act provides that the preferred stock shall bear 7 per cent, interest, and that the additional one per cent, (contemplating, 1 evidently, tnat six 01 tne seven per cent. on stock shall be applied to the payment 1 of interest on the bonds) shall be so in vest1 ted as in time to create a fund for the retirement of the principal of the bonds. In ' Thompson vs. Railroad, our Supreme Court ' decides that the preferred stock shall be en' titled to receive 7 per cent, in their stock i 1 before any dividend shall be paid on com- ; 1 mon stock. So that the 7 per cent, interest on the preferred stock cannot be demanded > as interest on a debt, but only received as a ( 1 dividend out of net earnings when declar1 ed by the corporate authority. It is mani' fest, therefore, that the Legislators and the Courts entertain different ideas as to the 1 meaning of preferred stock as used in the , ! act of 1874. Of course the construction of ' the Courts is controlling. Whether, there- , fore, the county shall ever receive any in- ' ( interest on its preferred stock, depends up' on the earning of the road. In the mean- ' time the county is paying $4,500 a year in1 terest on its G per cent, bonds. The bonds ; run thirty years and will mature in 1005. 1 But to recur to the cause of action against s the railroad. It is the bond executed by ? the railroad to the county in 1875, to reim- ] burse the county for interest paid on the county's bonds from 1875 to 1880. That interest was $4,500 a year, and for five years : would amount to some $22,000. It is claimi ed that this is a subsisting and valid debt , due by the railroad to the county. It may be of interest to state that the above stated ? bond of the railroad is lost. The Act made i ; the County Treasurer its custodian, and at < the time of its execution, in 1875, Yocum s was the County Treasurer. In September, i [ 1881, the stockholders of the Cheraw and Chester Railroad, excluding the holders of i ? the preferred stock, leased that road to the i ! C. C. & A. Railroad for a period of ninety- , , nine years. By the terms of that lease the ' i county of Chester receives an annual div[ idend of one and one half per cent, on its , I preferred stock, or $1125 per annum. The J lease contains a clause which provides, that I in case the county of Chester calls upon the 1 ; C. C. & R. R. to pay the above stated bond 1 of the C. & C. Railroad Company, or if the 1 i property of the C. & C. Railroad shall ever 1 be subjected to the payment of that bond, then the C. C. & A. Railroad shall have one s of two privileges; first, to throw up and cancel the lease, or second, to pay the bond ' and be thereafter free from the payment of > any dividends, or any stock until they have > repaid themselves from such source the ; l amount so paid by them. If, therefore, the - county presses its case, it will lose the $1,125 i i it is now yearly receiving, should the C. C. i ! ?fc A. Railroad throw up the lease; and ; ! should the road be put to sale for the debt, ? i it would have to bring more than $100,000, , i the amount of the first mortgage debt, be- , fore the county could realize anything on i its claim; and if the road is sold for no , more than $100,000, the county loses every; thing, stock and all. If the county presses I its case, the C. C. & A. Railroad may pay c down the $22,000, but withhold further aiv- f idends for 20 years to come. m. t The Broad River Road.?From an in- ( terview yesterday with Mr. James Black and Dr. Ramsour, of Black's, S. C., we learn , that Col. Berkely, superintendent of the : Air Line road, has been there, considered the Broad River road from Alston to Shelby, 1 and wants to see it built. He says if the people will make a$12o,000 subscription that ] his road will take the contract and put the {l trains on; or, if the people will grade the ] road, his company will do the same part by 1 us. The people about Black's are taking up t a private subscription and mean to have ^ an immediate survey made. This of course 1 is only a link in the chain that leads to I Cranberry.?Shelby (N. ('.) New Era, 20///. I i LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. John R. Ashe, Intendant?An Ordinance. ['alvarv Presbyterian Church?Application for Charter. \V. E. Stoney?('onyitrollef-Oenoral?Insurance License. John P. Speck, Jeweler?Silver-Plated Ware. I. Reatty Williams, Judge of Probate?CitationMrs. Margaret E. Deal, Applicant?J. Augustus Deal, deceased. W. Holmes Hardin, President?Annual Meeting of Stockholders of the Chester and Lenoir Railroad. Berry & Barber?Ice-Cream Parlor. Lowry A Starr?Cream Soda, Ice Soda Water. Hunter A Oates?Co to the Mammoth. r. M. Dobson A Co.?Crockery at Cost. John C. Kuykendal?Sounds from the Mortar. Eptinftdv Bros. A Barron?Just Received. Dyspepsia Can be Cured. UNTIL .JANUARY 1ST, 1880. We will furnish the Yokkvillk Enqcikkk from this date until January 1st, 1880, for $1.45, the cash, in all cases, to accompany thesubscription. LUSUS NATURJE. Mr. R. R. Allison informs us that he has a calf on his place, seven days old, that is double jointed in every joint, and is regarded by all who have seen it as quite a curiosity. COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS. C'apt. J. C. Lynes, of the faculty of King's Mountain Military School, in this place, will deliver the Commencement address on to-morrow, before the Eunomian and Polymenian Societies of Shorter College, Rome, Ga. )\ THAT SCHEDULE. With abundant caution westated last week that a change of schedule would go into effect on the Chester and Lenoir Railroad last Monday. The change was not made, but it is now said that it will be made next Monday. \ GEORGETOWN 1UNIVERSITY. We have received from Mr. S. B. Latban an invitation to the 14th annual commencement of the law department of Georgetown (D. C.) University, on Mondy, June 1st. Mr. Latban, who is a student of the University, will graduate from the institution at this commencement, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. < THE TOW\ COUNCIL. The Town Council have elected G. W. S. Hart, Esq., as counsel for the board, and Mr. J. T. Nevins as town marshal. Mr. Xevins will enter upon his duties next Monday. The owners of dogs in town will be interested in the ordinance adopted by the Council at their second meeting, which is published in our advertising columns. DWELLING":BURNED. On\Vednesday night of last week, the dwelling house of Mr. Leander Howe, who lives about four miles north-west of town, was destroyed by an accidental fire. The fire is supposed to have originated from a defect in the flue into which tho utnvp.ninfi was inh-ndiieed. and the flames spread so rapidly that Mr. Howe saved only a small portion of his furniture. DEATH OF A RAILROAD MAN. Mr. J. Bender Poag, a native of this county, died at Birmingham, Ala., on Sunday last, of congestive fever, aged 31 years. He was a son of Mr. Samuel Poag, deceased. Mr. Poag was formerly employed on the Air-Line Railroad, but for the jiast year, with the exception of two months' absence on a visit to Guatemala, Central America, was an employee of the Georgia Pacific Railroad. His remains, accompanied by his mother and friends, were brought down the Chester and Lenoir Railroad, via Gastonia, last Tuesday morning, for interment at Bethesda Church on that afternoon. SUPREME COURT. In the Supreme Court, on the 19th instant, the following cases on the Sixth Circuit were called: C. J. Pride etal. vs. If. J. Pri^le et al. Continued. A. P. Kitchens et al. vs. John R. London. Continued. Mary R. Briggs vs. Benjamin P. Briggs. Motion to restore case to docket. Mr. J. P. Hart was heard pro. Motion granted, and case continued. John A. Darwin, adm'r, vs. the C., C. <k A. R. R. Co. Mr. Rion was heard for appellant; Mr. W. B. Wilson for respondent; Mr. Rion in reply. John A. White et al. vs. Jonathan Moore, adm'r. Mr. G. W. S. Hart was heard for appellant; W. B. Wilson for respondents; Mr. J. P. onnnllont ill T*Or*l V ... .Vf.J . >c... SKIPPED THE TOWN'. About three weeks ago u young man calling himself Crawford, a sewing machine repairer by occupation, stopped at the boarding house of Mr. Owen, taking his meals and paying for them the flrst few days on eating; but on the second week of his stay he engaged board for the week and appeared to be busily engaged in his business all the time. On Saturday last he informed his landlady that he had a machine to repair that evening, which might detain him beyond the regular supper hour, and asked her to please save supper for him. The supper hour came without him, just as he had predicted, and the hour for retiring to bed found him not at his boarding house. It was subsequently ascertained that he took the train that evening for Gastonia, and from that place went to Charlotte. He succeeded in fleecing a few others here in small amounts. CHURCH NOTICES. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. Services at the usual hours, morning and evening. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon the pastor will preach at Mr. R. L. Lindsay's. Prayer meeting at 8A P. M. Thursday. Sunday-school at 4i P. M. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. J. Thomas Pate, Pastor. Services at Philadelphia Church at 11 A. M., next Sunday, and in Yorkville atsA P. M. Prayer meeting Wednesday at.Si P. M. Sundayschool at 4 P. M. Episcopal?Rev. E. N. Joyner, Rector. Service at Sutton's Spring next Sunday at 11 o'clock A. M., and at 2 P. M. Services in the Church of the Good Shepherd, Yorkville, at 8i P. M. Associate Reformed Presbyterian. The next service in this church will be held on the first Sunday in June, by Rev. J. C'. Galloway. There will be preaching at 10A A. M. on Saturday, June (ith, and sacramental services at the same hour on Sunday. Baptist?Rev. J. E. Covington, Pastor. The pastor will be absent; attending the Sundayschool Convention. Dr. MAYO'S LECTURE. Rev. Dr. A. D. Mayo, editor of the New England Journal of Education, of Boston, delivered ii lecture in the Court House on Wednesday evening of last week, taking for his subject, "How does universal education pay?" The distinguished speaker was gracefully introduced by Col. Coward, State Superintendent of Education, and for more than an hour a large and intelligent audience was well entertained and in structed with a thoroughly practical address, in which it was shown that the education of the masses is the safest bulwark of American citizenship. While Dr. Mayo sustained his positions with new and forcible illustrations, his address was not entirely confined to the advantages jf universal education, but he also depicted many of the faults in the educational system of the country, the greatest of which is the employment of incompetent teachers, and pointed out the advantages that a community would derive by sustaining a graded school properly equipped with competent instructors. Every branch jf his subject was ably discussed, and in such i style ot brightness and originality as to make i lasting impression upon his hearers. Dr. Mayo's tour of this State was made at the instance of the State Superintendent of Education, who was with him a part of the time. The Doctor visited nineteen counties while in the Jtate, and every community in which he leetur}d will be benefitted years hence by the truths which he so forcibly presents. THE BIBLE CAUSE. Sunday night last, Rev. C. H. Wiley, Agent of lie American Bible Society, delivered a discourse in the Presbyterian church on the evangelical influence of the Bible and the great good -hat has been accomplished not only in America, jut throughout the world, by the publications )f the American Bible Society. At the conclusion of his discourse a collection was taken up for lie purpose of purchasing a supply of Bibles for he Yorkville depository. All tho churches of he town were represented in this meeting. On Monday morning, Rev. T. R. English, President of the Yorkville Bible Committee, nul Revs. J. T. Pate and J. E. Covington, met Jr. Wiley at his request, and all the members of ho committee except Mr. English having left he committee, it was reorganized by Dr. Wiley vith the following officers, viz.: President? dev. T. R. English; Secretary and Treasurer? P. A. Gilbert; Executive Committee?Rev. J. T. Jate and Rev. J. E. Covington. Mr. John J. Hunter was elected Depositary, and the collection of Sunday evening was paid over to Dr. Wiley with a request that lie order a supply of books with the amount. ] In this meeting of the Committee it was also g ordered that donations be made only on the ? written direction of one of the officers, to be tiled by the Depositary. j j ( VILAS* LETTER. 1 The letter of Postmaster General Vilas to 1 Democratic Congressmen, in regard to changes in fourth class postmasters, is variously 1 commented upon in Washington. Jtepub- t liean members thought at first that it was i an invention to satirize the administration. ' Democrats, on the other hand, speak of it t as a lively attempt to hunt obscure postmas- ( ters with a brass band. The latter class also condemn the plan as tending to make ( them detectives, informers, and establish- j ing in their district a system of espionage I j that does not belong to their congressional | j duties. The fourth class post offices in the ^ United States number about forty-nine . thousand, and the whole number of Presidential appointments is less than twentyfour hundred. The fourth class postmas- 1 ters receive not over $1,000 per annum, their 1 salaries ranging from $5 to that limit. ' Third class offices pay between ?1,000 and ' $2,000, of which there are 1,850. Second \ class between $2,000 and $3,000, of which 1 there are 410. First class, $3,000 and up- * ward, of which there are only 81. 1 It will thus be seen that the great labor of hunting down offensive partisans is to ] be among the fourth class incumbents, j Now it is said as a fact by both Itepublican < and Democratic members of Congress, that : if removals have got to be determined by j the rule laid down by Postmaster General i Vilas there will not be many, if any, chang- j es on that ground. There is not, it is said, a i fourth class postmaster in the United States C who either publishes, owns or edits a news- j paper, or who has an office, except as all such offices are established in country stores, or who employs clerks paid out of Govern- ] ment funds. Neither were they, as a gen- ( eral thing, stump speakers, or members of ] a political committee, or officers of campaign clubs, or organizers of political meet- ( ings, the provisions of the Civil Service law ( discouraging such labor. Take the State of , New York for example: There are only 11) first class, 45 second class and 1GG third ( class?or 221 Presidential appointments in all?in that State. Of the 3,000 fourth class offices it is said that not one hundred of them pay enough to make them even desir- 1 able. 1 ISDIAN^TKOCBLES. A Tucson, Arizona, dispatch of Saturday says: Adyices now coming in show that energetic measures taken to head off Geronems and his band of a half hundred Chiricahua bucks, who left their reservation a few days ago were put on foot none too soon. Telegraphic advices are to the effect that the Indians have already commenced to mark their flight with blood. Reports are received to the effect that two men were kill- < ed on Eagle creek Tuesday night, while a fresh horror is reported from the little mining camp of Alma in the Sierra de L'Aguil- 1 da mountains on the Rio San Francisco. Here a party of miners .were surprised at i their work. According to the meagre reports thus far received four of them were killed and scalped. The Rio San Francisco traverses New Mexico and Arizona in a southwesterly direction, emptying into the Rio Gila a short distance over in Arizona. Confirmatory advices are also received of a statement that the fugitives have been ; sighted by Capt. Smith and his scouts on upper Eagle creek near the scene of the murder of the two men as above reported. ( Reports of engagements are hourly expected. It is believed here that the Indians are ( thoroughly desperate and will make a desperate stand somewhere in the mountains, where they are known to be, and although great confidence is placed in the veteran , fighters who are after them, the well known treacherous nature of the Apaches causes , considerable apprehension. Passengers arn vingat Tucson from Georgetown report that the Appaches killed a man at Bullard's mining camp, eighty miles north of Silver City. Advices from Lordsburg state that Captain Lee, who is in pursuit of the Indians, was obliged to stop two days at Canada Ilanche, owing to the scarcity of rations, Capt. Pierce and a company of scouts left Gila Friday morning for Mule Springs. His train consists of 132 mules, carrying provisions for 32 men, but the cavalry are short of supplies. News was received at Tucson on Friday that the Indians liraro coon hpfvvppn Cnrli?le find Silver C'itv going south. The Ballot-box Manipulators.?In Chicago, last Friday, on application for a writ of error in the case'of Joseph C. Mackin and William J. Gallagher, which was argued before Judge Gresham and Justice Harlan, these two jurists disagree. The effect of this is to send the case to the United States Supreme Court. Mackin and Gallagher were convicted of rifling the ballotbox in the third precinct of the eighteenth ward at the recent nation^ election and substituting bogus ballots for those cast by electors. They were released on bail pending the decison on the motion for a writ of error. Their prosecution was based upon the filing of a criminal information against them by the United States District Attorney, and the point was argued by their attorney in the present instance that their offence partook of the nature of an "infamous crime," in the meaning of the United j States Statutes, and that a criminal infor- j mation was not adequate, but that the accused should have been regularly indict- ' ed by the grand jury. On this point Justice Harlan and Judge Gresham disagree, the former holding that the conviction of the . two men was adequate and complete, the prosecution being long and expensive and great interest centered in the result, owing to the prominence of Mackin in local political affairs. If the Supreme Court should sustain Judge Gresham, the prosecution ! would have to be renewed. In the mean- j time indictments against Mackin and Gal- ' lagher are pending in the State Court. j Statistical Tricks.?To what an extent the correctness of the figures of the census of ? 1880 was vitiated in order to magnify the 1 manufacturing interests of the country, may ( be gathered from an article published in last Saturday's BradstreeVs, from the pen of .Mr. Schoenhoff, the well known statistician. Almost every manufactured product has had ( its cost counted several times over. For i example, a coat which sells for $5 is entered < once as wool at SI, next as cloth at SO, and . finally as a product worth So, the whole ^ summing up SO in the census report. Simi- ] larly a machine that sells forS" by successive t counts for ore, pig, bar iron and finished 1 products. The general result of this meth- i od of piling up the apparent wealth, Mr. i Schoenhoff thinks, is very demoralizing to 1 business and he hopes to see it stopped, 1 now that conservatism is in fashion. Of c the $9,81:1,321,4(31 affirmed by Mr. Ximmo ( to have been our product in 1880, as much as 1 $3,300,823,549, it is held, is imaginary.?lial- n fi/nore Sim. | t - + ++ c TheIroxyofFate.?Howfortunesorae ! t times makes footballs of men is illustrated U in the ease of Jlon. It. M. T. Hunter, of Vir-1 \ giuia, who has recently been appointed col-1 c lector of customs at Tappahannoek, Ya., a t position worth less than $1,000 a year. He i once had an ample fortune, represented his ! ( State for successive terms in the Federal i: House of Representatives and in the Senate, 1 s was prominently mentioned as candidate t for the Presidency in the Charleston con- ^ vention, and was afterwards in the Confed-; ( erate Senate. He was quoted and regarded j ^ as one of the best authorities on finances in i s the country. Unable to recuperate, in his ] old age, he accepts a position which thou- r sands of men infinitely his inferiors would ' c not consider worth their notice. Such is life. ? C. A. Boyd, alias C. A. Brockford, a ( young man who had resided in Columbia c for several months, was arrested in that i city hist week, and on a requisition from j c the Governor of Ohio, taken by the officers 1 o to that State to answer charges of exten- j sive forgeries committed there a year or t two before. He confessed to his crimes, j and it was also discovered that he had been ?. guilty of fraudulent practices while in Co- f luinbia. ( ? Richard Roberts, who was shot by Bart- e lette Sims in the town of Lancaster on ! J the 2d instant, is gradually improving, and t his physicians now think he will recover.lt SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The trestle of the Greenwood, Laurens md Spartanburg Railroad over the Fnoroo liver has been completed, and trains will oon be running regularly to Woodruff's, Spartanburg county. ? Col. Leroy F. Youmans luts qualified as Jnited States District Attorney for South Carolina, and also sent to Speaker Simons lis resignation as a member of the Legisature from Richland county. ? The Columbia Register reports a heavy milstorm in the lower section of Richland :ounty last Thursday afternoon, which did nuch damage to corn, cotton and fruit. Trees were blown down in every direction, md altogether the storm had been a severe >ne. ? Tiie Rock Hill Heruhl of the 21st says: Jol. J. M. Ivy left on Tuesday afternoon ast on an extended Western tour, with leadquarters at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His condition has greatly improved of late, ;he pain in his shoulder having subsided ind his health being much better. wt: ? .1 T.ittlpflhjil >Y 1 UU^UUl U i H' (I O j UUtUl vttt jr -*-? * ?.. w mers McMaster died on Thursday night from the injuries which he received a few Jays ago in falling from the second story of iiis father's residence. lie was a bright ind interesting little fellow, and all who knew him will feel much regret at his untimely end. We tender our sympathy to the grief-stricken family. ? Miss Lula West, the Laurensville cataleptic, was still living last Thursday morning. The Herald of Friday says : Her case >eems to baffle medical skill, and her tenacity to life is wonderful. She has lain in i perfectly helpless condition for nearly two months?this being the fifty-sixth day?being unable all this time to move hand or foot, or even speak so as to be understood, and has not partaken of a particle of nourishment. ? Dr. Joe Foster, a popular and successful physician of Jjaucaster, has been brought Lo death's door by a terrible carbuncle on his neck. The carbuncle had been lanced seven times, each stroke of the lance being made downward through six inches of flesh, and still no relief was obtained. To add to Dr. Foster's sufferings, erysipelas set in, and he died on Saturday. Dr. Foster was surgeon of the 7th South Carolina regiment during the late war. ? Iii Orangeburg on the night of the lGth All Ut UIIIsw-l msrani, jroncemau ^viurtiuiiu woa mucu m an altercation with Z. M. Wolfe, ex-chief of police. The fatal fight was made with pistols, each firing two shots. Albrecht fell shot in the right breast and expired almost instantly. His hand clenched his pistol as he lay dead. Wolfe at once surrendered to the law. The tragedy occurred in front of the store occupied by M. Walls and Z. M. Wolfe. The latter has a bar attached. Wolfe was not hurt in the fight. ? Spartanburg Herald: Work is being vigorously pushed forward on the Asheville and Spartanburg Road. Five miles of the line from Asheville this way are reported ready for the ties and iron, and 1G5 hands are now at work on the road. The "big fill" is the only serious impediment, and as many hands are at work as can operate. We understand that owing to some hitch in the arrangements, Inman refused to furnish the money as was anticipated, and the work is now being done by the Terminal Company, composed of the various lines interested in its completion. ? Several days ago, says the Greenville News, a young man named Benjamin Verdin, whose parents live in Greenville county, suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. He was hoeing cotton in a field on his father's place with some hands, and after leaving his work once or twice and lying down on the ground, walked away toward the woods. Since then forty or fifty men have been unsuccessfully searching for him. lie left without money, coat or shoes and without any known reason. He was a hard working, intelligent and affectionate boy about seventeen years old and had had no trouble with his family or anybody else. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Mr. J. Lineberger died at his residence near Garibaldi, Gaston county, on the 18th instant. ? James M. Sharpe, a prominent citizen residing near Statesville, committed suicide last Friday. ? Dr. C'. Whittier, Riverside, California, has purchased GO,000 acres of land in Swain county, paying therefor at the rate of *1 per acre, cash. ? 1). L. Glover, agent at Troutman's de pot, in Iredell county, was hunting squirrels with George Mask last Friday, and while both were running after a squirrel Mask's gun struck against a tree and was discharged, the contents striking Glover in the abdomen. Glover lived only three hours, but before his death he exonerated Mask, stilting that the shooting was accidental. ? The Supreme Court of North Carolina, in the case of W. A. Anderson, on appeal, rendered a decision last Saturday, confirming the sentence of the lower Court which imposed the death sentence for murder. Anderson is the man who, with E. I). Kay, was found guilty of a tripple murder at a mica mine in Mitchell county last year. lie was sentenced to death and Kay to twenty years' imprisonment. ? In Cleveland Superior Court, last week, John Scates was sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary for bigamy. Scates, who can be little more than thirty years of ige, has, in his eventful matrimonial career, married four wives, two from Cleveland county, one from the neighborhood of Saffney City and one from near Whitaker, in York county, S. C., all of whom are still living. However, John's weddings will now probably cease for a few years. ? Charles Easton and Kobert Jarvis, the two young men arrested on suspicion of being the authors of the dynamite outrage in Charlotte a few days ago, after having a bearing before Mayor Johnston were discharged. They were afterwards re-arrested, md upon a hearing of the case before Trial Justice Waring, Easton was discharged, and Jarvis was bound in a bond of $300 to appear for trial in the criminal court, which convenes next week. MEREOIEXTIO.N. Ex-Judge T. J. Mackey has been emplqy-. 3d by Gen. W. B. Hazen to prosecute a suit igainst the New York Times for $100,000 lamages. He has associated Col. John li. tVbney, formerly of Columbia but now of Sew York, with him in the case. The )opulation of Washington city, according to he police census just taken, is 205,000. In 1883 there were in the United States 0,380 nurders; in 1884, 13,397. Charles Warden, a white man, escaped from jail at Yuco, Texas, while under sentence of death or murder in 1860. Now he lias been recaptured and the authorities do not knowexactly what to do with him. Both Houses of the New York Legislature passed l census bill last Friday similar to that veoed by Governor Hill, and then adjournal. There were 2:5!) business failures hroughout the country last week, against !29 the week before. Harry Noah died n New York of Bright's disease on Monlay. He was Frank Moses' private secreary, and was in the revenue department mtil a year ago. Alton, Illinois, and Concord, Ohio, were struck by cyclones last Monday afternoon, and much damage reulted to buildings. The damage to growing rops was also very great. Victor lluro, French author and statesman, is lead. The Old Testament has been reused, after twelve years of labor. Only ix members of the original sixteen on the ioard of Revision survive. The changes nade will no doubt be subject to various riticism. Hangman's Day.?Jasper Rhodes, a nullatto, was hanged in the jail yard at ialveston, Texas, last Friday, for the murler of bis wife in October last. Only a United number of persons witnessed the exeution. Rhodes mounted the scaffold with ;reat firmness. He admitted his guilt, lis neck was broken by the kill and he lied in a few minutes. Goodwin Jackson, colored, who beat Jandy Redmon, colored, to death with a ence rail in November last was hanged at 'larendon, Arkansas, 011 the same day. The xecution was witnessed by a large crowd, ackson died protesting that he did not inend killing Redmon, but struck him for hreatcning to strike bis (Jackson's) wife.