Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, August 27, 1885, Image 2
J> traps and Jatts.
? Frank Josef Petmeky was hanged at
Auburn, N. Y., last Friday for the murder
of Mrs. Paulina Froleschein on the 1st of
June, 1883. His neck was broken by the
fall. He confessed the crime.
? The North Carolina Commissioner of
Immigration says that about 1,800 immigrants,
mostly foreigners, settle in that
State annually. But to offset this, the Wilmington
Star calculates that several thousand
natives go out in the same period.
? Business failures for the last week number,
for the United States 158, Canada 19,
total 177, against 168 the week previous.
The failures continue light in most sections
of t.hp nnnntrv. esneeiallv in Southern States.
The Pacific States alone show a decrease.
? The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press makes a guess that President
Cleveland and Secretary Manning
will recommend a reduction of the tariff
to the amount of about $40,000,0000, and that
this measure will be adopted by the Democratic
majority in the House.
? Drinking water, says a hygienic writer,
may be tested in this simple way: "Fill a
pint bottle three-quarters full of the water.
Dissolve in it one-half teaspoonful of the
best white sugar. Set it away in a warm
place for forty-eight hours. If the water
becomes cloudy it is unfit to drink."
? The Republican drift in New York seems
to be turning towards Mr. Evarts for Governor.
Evarts is willing, as if elected it
would give him a boost for the nomination
for the Presidency, for w hich he has a hankering.
It will "not be a lone race with
Evarts, for Levi P. Morton and several
other gentlemen are also willing.
? The Hon. Patrick Walsh is spoken of as
a candidate for Gubernatorial honors in
Georgia. Mr. Walsh is eminently fitted
for the position, and should he consent to
run will be strongly supported. He has
done yeoman service for the Democracy,
and is beloved by the entire people of the
State.
? A couple of years ago James H. Hopkins
lacked but one vote of enough to nominate
him for Governor of Pennsylvania instead
of Robert E. Pattison. Recently he
was defeated in an attempt to go to the
Democratic State Convention as a delegate
from a legislative district. "Politics is cu'rus,"
remarked "Nasby."
?Senator Riddleberger, Republican, of
Virginia, has been in Chicago lately, and
while there, speaking on negro suffrage,
characterized it as an evil of the worst description.
This is the conclusion that many
esteemed Republicans are coming to. The
negro vote for them has no longer the
charms it once had.
? John Morris, Sheriff of Reeves county,
Texas, got on a big spree the other night and
used his pistol freely. An attempt was
made to arrest him by Sergeant Courtright
and three other State Rangers, when Morris
opened fire on them and killed C. P.
Night and seriously wounded Samuel Lane.
The Sheriff was then shot three times and
killed.
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ritory has produced 130,499,038 barrels, and
the white sand 57,446,281. The most productive
year was 1881. Various causes, added
to the the extreme cheapness, have extended
the use of petroleum enormously.
For the past nine years the average increase
in consumption has been 1,571,363 barrels
per annum.
? Tony Auray, heir to a French fortune,
crazily started out to find a perfect girl. He
saw Marguerite Vagnair in a theatre, and
fancied she was the object of his search.
He made her acquaintance, courted her,
and won her love. Then his mania took a
murderous turn, and he killed her, afterwards
attemping suicide. He is on trial for
the crime.
? The Boston Globe abandons to a history
of patent medicines about two-thirds of its
ample space. It seems that venders of these
drugs estimate their annual sales at about
$25,000,000. Many fortunes have been won
and lost in this trade, but it is constantly
increasing, because the enterprising proprietors
nave spent $10,000,000 in advertising.
Like all other commercial pursuits,
there are hundreds of failures to one success.
?The most conspicuous foreign complication
now is the alleged seizure of the Caroline
Islands by Germany. These were islands
which Spain claimed without having
exercised dominion over them. The
wrath over Germany's usurpation seems to
be like a cholera move in Spain, and Alfonzo
threatens to throw up his commission in
the German army which was given him
during his recent visit to that country.
? Thomas Smith, aged 46, a farmer employed
by Mahlon Hoagland, near Rockaway,
N. J., became involved in a dispute
with his son, Lodie, last Friday night and
threatened to kill everybody in the house,
wherei*>on the son drew a revolver and
shot his father three times, killing him instantly.
The parricide walked to Rockaway
and surrendered. He is only 19 years
of age.
? A mob of fifty masked men raided Dala
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VUII) vicmgia, uu tt tunc.7uaj mgiu auu
warned all the inmates of disreputable
houses to leave immediately. The warning
was emphasized by the wrecking of
several of the worst houses and severe whippings
administered to their proprietors.
One notorious man fought and 30 or more
shots were exchanged before he fled and allowed
his place to be cleaned out.
? J. R. Walkup, of Emporia, Kansas, died
last Friday. He was Dresident of the City
Council and acting Mayor. He was also
Deputy Grand Dictator, Knights of Honor,
in Kansas. His death was occasioned by
poison, generally believed to have been administered
by his wife, a young woman
whose acquaintance he made while visiting
New Orleans last winter, and whom he
married about the 21st of July, in Covington,
Kentucky. She has been arrested.
? It is stated at the postoffice department
that the system of special letter delivery !
will not go into operation before October
1. It is found that it takes a long while to
get the preliminary work done in connection
with its introduction. Clerks are preparing
lists of the towns designated by the
law, based upon the returns of the last
census. Upon examinatton, it is found that
there are G20 cities and towns in the United
States, containing a population of the required
number.
? The biennial session of the North Carolina
Grand Lodge Knights of Honor was in
session last week at Winston. The reports
of the grand officers showed the order to be
in a highly prosperous condition throughout
the State, with $2,000 surplus in the treasury.
The per capita tax of the members
was reduced twenty per cent, for the next
two years. The next biennial session of the
Grand Lodge will be held in Washington,
ir? "Rpnnfnrt. eniintv. on the 3rd Mondav in
August, 1887.
? The return to life of a little child in Detroit,
on Friday, fifteen hours after its apparent
death and when it was lying in its
coffin, is the third instance of the rescue of
a living person from burial that has been
reported in the United States within the
past month. It is horrible to think that
cases may have occurred where animation
was only suspended at the time of actual
interment, but these instances of recovery
at the last moment are terribly suggestive
of such accidents, and the lesson they teach
should not be ignored.
? A correspondent of the Iialeigh News \
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ana uoserver says: ^>ear riymuuwi, i\.c., i
a remarkable discovery has been made of j
trees which bear cotton. They are on land [
which belong to a Norfolk cotton dealer, I
who has had them carefully examined. The
trees are numerous and are in a swamp. |
They are thirty-five feet in height and per- j
haps a foot in diameter. They are laden J
with bolls which are now opening. These
are two-thirds the size of ordinary cotton 1
bolls, and are filled with a good lint. The
discovery may lead to some results.
? A Montreal dispatch of Saturdary says : j
Mr. Fitzpatrick one of the Riel counsel, !
writes that it is probable that the Kiel j
case will not be allowed a hearing before
the Manitoba Courts. Some time ago a j
newspaper of Montreal addressed a circular
of inquiry to the country papers of the Dominion,
asking their opinion on the justice
of executing Kiel's sentence. Fifty-four
replies have been received, 41 of which
consider that the sentence of death should
be executed, 7 question the prisoner's sanity,
2 question the right of the Government
to hang the offender, claim prejudice and
! unfairness in the trial, and ohe wishes the
Government to deal with the ease free from
suggestion.
J ?The New York State tramp law pro!
vides that every tramp, upon conviction as
; such, shall be punished by imprisonment at
! hard labor at the nearest penitentiary not
! more than six months. Tramps are defined
! as "all persons who roam about from place
to place begging, and all vagrants who live
without labor or visible means of support,
who steal over the country without lawful
occasion." Tramps who enter any building
without the consent of the owner, who maliciously
injure propertv, or carry fire-arms,
under the act mayne imprisoned for three
years.
? A strange occurrence is reported to have
happened at Leakey, Bandera county,
Texas, on the 16th instant. George Tutweiler,
a farmer, shot a hawk that was just
rising with a young chicken in its talons.
I The bullet passed through the hawk, and
! over a hundred yards distant, in a thicket
it penetrated the heart of Albert Johnson,
a neighborand intimate friend of Tutweiler.
: Johnson ran over fifty yards after he was
j struck, then fell and expired. A post mortem
examination revealed the fact that the
bullet had passed through the centre of the
heart. Tutweiler was exonerated by the
Coroner's jury.
?The County Prohibition convention met
in Cincinnati on Friday and nominated a
full ticket. The platform declares that inasmuch
as the prohibition doctrine had not
been recognized by the Democratic or Republican
party this year, it is the sense of
the convention that the purposes of its party
are only to be accomplished by placing in
the Legislature men who are friendly to
the Phrohibition cause. The resolutions express
the highest confidence in the sincerity
and ability of Dr. A. B. Leonard, the party
candidate for Governor, and the disbe-1
lief in the aspersions that have been cast
upon him during the campaign.
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THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27,1885.
THE CHOLERA.
A Madrid dispatch of Saturday says:
The condition of Granada remains pitiable,
and hundreds of people are attacked by the
cholera in the streets nearly every day.
There are no doctors and no authorities to
look after the victims, who often pass
through their agonies in the streets, and expire
unattended in the gutters. Most of
the unaffected population have fled, and the
few healthy citizens that remain are disheartened
and apathetic. Corpses remain
uncoffined and unidentified. The very misery
wrought by the plague has become a
nuisance and the Government has resorted
tr? thA HpsnprotA pxnpdient of comDelliner
soldiers and convicts to carry on the work of
removing from the public ways and interring
the bodies of unknown dead.
King Alfonzo has donated 12,000 to the
Granada cholera fund. The money was
badly needed at that place. There were reported
throughout Spain on Saturday 4,519
new cases of cholera and 1,220 deaths from
the disease, as against 4,483 new cases and
1,441 deaths on Friday.
The cholera is spreading in Marseilles.
Thirty localities are infected and there
were 140 deaths from the disease on Saturday.
Several cases o 1 cholera are also reported
near Nice, Italy.
A PROMISING OUTLOOK.
The last issue of the Baltimore Manufacturers'
Record publishes nearly five pages
covering the whole South, from Virginia to
Texas, showing that the prospects for crops
and the outlook for business in this section
are remarkably good. Not only is the
acreage of the cotton, corn and tobacco crops
the largest on . record, but the reports are
almost unanimous in saying that the yield
of these crops, excepting wheat, will greatly
exceed the best crops ever before produced.
It is also shown that the crops have been
made at a lower cost than any preceding
years, and the liens on crops for money
advanced to farmers are much less than
heretofore. Reports from South Carolina
show that while that State will produce
about 4,000,000 bushels more corn and prob
ably over 300,000 bales of cotton more than
last year, the aggregate amount of agricultural
liens given to obtain advances on the
growing crop is $3,000,000 less than in
1882, notwithstanding the fact that the interveningyears
1883 and 1884 were unfavorable
crop years.
In Georgia the Agricultural Department
estimates corn at 40,000,000 bushels against
30,000,000 bushels last year and 24,000,000
bushels in 1883.
Regarding corn, reports from the whole
South are most flattering, some stating that
the yield will be the best for years, others
the best for twenty years, and many the
best ever known.
It is thought by the United States Commissioner
of Agriculture that the increased
acreage in corn over last year and the splendid
yield which is now assured will give
the South not less than 50,000,000 bushels
more corn than last year.
The cotton crop is believed safe for much
the largest yield made, and for at least
1,000,000 to 1,500,000 bales more than last
year.
The tobacco, fruit and vegetable crops are
the largest ever made in the South. Rice
promises a large yield, and sugar a far more
satisfactory and profitable crop than in 1884.
Stimulated by the unprecedented crops,
business is already showing a decided improvement,
and prospects through the
South for the fall and winter trade are reported
as unusually good. In the organization
of railroad and manufacturing enterprises
there i&great activity, and the outlook
for industrial interests is particulary
promising.
STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTIONS.
The State Democratic Convention of Iowa
met at Cedar Rapids on the 19th instant,
and adjourned on the same day. A platform
of orinciDles was adoDted endorsing
the national platform, commending the ad-!
ministration of President Cleveland and de- j
claring in favor of the repeal of the pro-1
hibitory liquor law. The resolution endors-;
ing the administration of Cleveland was j
received with much enthusiasm.' On the j
subject of prohibition the resolution is as |
follows:
We pledge ourselves to favor and use our
best efforts for the enactment of the license
law of 1830, with power to increase from
$?>0 to $1,000 as may be deemed best for the
public interest in the various localities of
the State as expressed by the constituted authorities
of the locality. We pledge ourselves
to favor and use our best efforts for
the enactment of a law which shall punish
as criminal the manufacture and sale of
all adulterated liquors, such being the direct
cause of intemperance and destructive !
to health.
The first formal ballot resulted in the
nomination for Governor of Hon. Chas. E.
Whiting of Monroe county, a farmer, exJudge
and member of the last Senate. Hon.
W. H. Brannon, of Muscatine county, was
nominated for Justice of the Supreme Court.
A spirited debate on fusion resulted in the
nomination of Hon. E. H. Gillett, of DesMoines,
the Greenback candidate for Lieutenant
Governor and ex-Congressman from
the 7th District, and F. M. Moore, of Davis
county, the Greenback candidate for Superintendent
of Public Instruction.
The Mississippi Democratic Convention
met at Jackson last week and adjourned last
Saturday afternoon, a deadlock having ensued
over the nomination of Attorney General,
which was ended on the sixtieth ballot
by the nomination of T. M. Mille/, of
Vicksburg. Governor Lowry was renominated
on the first ballot, over Darden, by a
vote of 190 to 42. A full State ticket was
nominated. The Convention numbered (518
delegates. In reference to the present administration
the following resolution was
adopted:
That in the policy of President Cleveland,
so far as disclosed, we see not only nothing
A 5 1 * lU'wn. inuniro nnn_
IO condemn, uuieveryunug i^? nwp'"- v.w.?fidence
in his wisdom, integrity and statesmanship,
and we hereby express our unqualified
endorsement of the same.
The Ohio Democratic Convention which
met in Columbus on Thursday, adjourned
on the same day, after a harmonious session.
Governor Hoadly was nominated for reelection
by acclamation. The administration
of President Cleveland was endorsed
by the following resolutions :
Upon the election and inauguration of
the Democratic candidates for President and
Vice President of the United States. These
fortunate events and the wise administration
that has followed have already dispelled
the illusion that Democratic success
is inconsistent with the business interests ot
the country or perilous to the rights of freemen.
The revival of prosperity and the
increase in value of property have already
begun to demonstrate the beneficence of
Democratic principles, and even before a
session of Congress has enabled the country
to realize the full fruition of their application
by legislation.
Wp pnnorrflfnifltp President Cleveland and
his Cabinet upon the auspicious, beginning
they have made in the necessary reforms of
government and heartily endorse their administration.
AN INTERESTING SIGHT.
Chancing to pass the well known houses
of Wittkowsky & Baruch yesterday, a special
reporter saw an odd sight?porters,
trucks, and shoe and boot cases all in
a whirl, the rattling of trucks on the
rock pavements going at the rate of a
mile a minute. All sounds, animation, bustle
and life. Our reporter, not having any
curiosity, was accosted by one of the trucking
imps with "Mjster, please move on
lively." Now, a reporter can stand to be
invited to festivals, church fairs, wedding
Earties, &c., and be told to walk up and
elp himself; but to be told to "step lively"
is more than he can stand; so for spite
he planted himself right in front of that
"live" establishment to watch developments
and thinks he was well repaid for his loss
of time. There he stood sometime, watching
boxes coming out of their wholesale
warerooms until they reached 500 or more
and still the fun ran "fast and furious."
Boxes of shoes, boxes of boots, boxes of
rubber shoes, until they were piled apparently
as high as the standpipe, and
reaching almost from the square to Taylor's
restaurant. Not being able to retain
our desire for a short local, we inquired
of the shipping clerk, Mr. Witherspoon,
"What all that meant? Were Wittkowsky
& Baruch moving?" He replied, "Why,
no! This is only a shipment of about 500
cases of boots and shoes, going to every
point of the compass?as far south as Green|
ville and Laurens counties in South Carolina,
and in this State to every county east
of here, as far as Cumberland and Bladen,
(in other words, in sight of Wilmington,);
north as far as Surry, Stokes and Rockingham
counties; west as far as Watauga,
Mitchell and Henderson. So you see that
this house does a large business in snoes.
The business of our house in this one line
has more than doubled this season, which
is not altogether owing to the prospect of
good crops, though it has a great deal to do
with it; but tnis house warrants to its
wholesale buyers every shoe it sells, and re
quires the country raercnant to warrant to
his customers the shoes thus purchased, and
refund the money to any one not satisfied.
So then, when a country merchant once
buys from Wittkowsky & Baruch he is almost
compelled to buy from them again, as
their customers call for the Wittkowsky &
Baruch warranted shoes. But," he continued,
"do not suppose that in this line alone
we do a large business, for if you will come
around here to-morrow you will see a similar
shipment of dry goods, notions, hats
and clothing, and," he added, "I think it
will be brisk now until the season is over."
So, cogitating in his mind how these energetic
and live business men manage their
large business, and how much they add to
the commercial status of our city, county
and State, and wondering whether they are
duly appreciated as they ought to be by our
people, the reporter wended his way back
to the office.?Charlotte Observer, 19th.
A Death Drink.?Last Friday morning,
between 4 and 5 o'clock Joe Jolly McGuffin,
a white man confined in the Greenville
countv iail, suddenly fell to the floor
of his cell" and died without speaking a
word, before help for him could be obtained.
He was in the front cell on the first floor,
the windows of which look out on Broad
street, and five other men occupied the same
cell. Early in the night somebody gave
him whisky through the window, folding
a piece of paper so as to make a trough of it
and passing it through the bars and coarse
wire netting by which the window is guarded.
The liquor was poured into this trough
from the street and ran through into a tin
cup held by McGuffin. Pie offered the
whisky to his fellow prisoners, who did not
drink much of it as it was unusually bad.
He drank some, but did not seem to be
drunk when he was last seen at that time,
and the next known of McGuffin was when
his fall to the floor awoke the others.
Squire McBee held an inquest over the
body on Friday. The evidence of McGuffin's
cell mates was taken and Dr. G. T.
Swandale testified that he had made a post
mortem examination and found that death
was caused by congestion of the brain. A
verdict was rendered according to that evidence.
McGuffin was a United States prisoner
from Oconee county. He was brought here
several days ago and lodged in jail, charged
with retailing liquor without a license, and
had been much worried by his failure to obtain
release by giving bond. His attorneys
had arranged to secure bail for him, and he
would have been released if he had lived
until P"riday afternoon. He was thirty-five
years old and a farmer, and owned some
property. He leaves a wife and several
children. He had been in bad health for
some time.?Greenville News.
Looking for Another Route.?The
Gaffney City Inspector of last week says:
Our people should not delay for a moment,
but should go to work at once, and take
such action as will attract the Augusta, P]dgefield
and Newberry railroad to Gaffney via
Union. Edgefield and Newberry are moving.
The townships in Union county,
through which this road would be built,
have already subscribed ninety .thousand
dollars, and our town and townships have
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suuscnueu twenty-iive wiuusuuu uuuars, tin
of which has superior attractions. Besides
Gaffney will guarantee a desirable Northern
connection. With Col. R. M. Mitchell, of
Augusta, and Hon. James Callison, of Edgefield,
attended with some of Newberry's
thorough-going men, and Hon. Wm. Munroe,
of Union, to manage this enterprise,
success will follow as does the night the
day. . ^ ^
Tiie Citadel Academy.?Were we allowed
a suggestion it would be that the Citadel
be closed; that the appropriation for it!
go to the South Carolina College at Colum- j
bia, and that the College at Columbia be '
raised to the rank of a real university.
There is no use for a military education, !
and those young men who are now Ca- j
dets could be taught as well at the College at
Columbia by the faculty there. It is gross
extravagance in a poor, debt-ridden State j
like this to attempt to carry on two institutions
for higher education, with two sets i
! of instructors, when one institution and one
faculty could do all the work as thoroughly '
as both do now.?Newberry Observer. '
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
New York City, August 18.?The city i
of Washington has grown very rapidly dur-1
ing the past quarter of a century. From a I
population of about 60,000 at the commencement
of the war, it has increased nearly
four fold, numbering at the present time
something over 200,000 souls. Taking its
beautiful situation into consideration, and
all the advantages it has fallen heir to as
the seat of the national government, the
wonder is that it was so long at a stand-still.
It has indeed at last lost the right to be called
"the city of magnificent distancesbut
the grandeur of its plan, its lovely streets
and avenues, its handsome public buildings,
and its elegant private residences,
with the Potomac on one side over a mile
in width, and low hills encircling it on all
other sides; all these give it some show of
right to the claim it now sets up for itself
as being the most beautiful city in America.
One cannot see very much of Washington
in a day. For a person that has the
time, a very good plan would be to take a
I whnlp ?lnv to learn the ereoerraphy of the
city thoroughly with the aid of a city map
and guide, which can readily be procured
at any of the news stands, and then, as the
street cars run by every point of any interest,
he can, with very little walking and
less expense, take in everything to be seen
in one or two days more. Another great
convenience of the present day to sightseers,
is the number of restaurants scattered
here and there over all the large cities,
where one can get his meals whenever he
feels so inclined, without the trouble of having
to go back to his hotel. And by stopping
at a house kept upon the European
plan, where you are required to take only a
room, nothing is lost i;i the wayof extra expense.
I was only a day in Washington myself?
just long enough to learn how to get about;
but through the kindness of Mr. Sam'l B.
Lathan, late of Yorkville, now in the War
Department, I was enabled to see a good
deal. Prominent amongst the places that
I visited were, the Capitol, the Smithsonion
Institution, the National Museum, the Botanical
Gardens, the War and Treasury Departments,
and the Washington monument.
This last is an immense structure. The
marble obelisk is 55 feet square at the bottom,
and decreases in size as you go up at
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until the top is reached, which'is 555 feet
above the gneiss rock foundation upon
which it is built, or 159 feet taller than the
Capitol dome.
From Washington I went immediately
to Philadelphia, where I spent a very quiet
and very pleasant day. This is a great big
country town of a million people?the most
orderly city of half its size in the world.
Of course a great deal of new blood and new
life has been infused into it since colonial
days, but the impress of the quaker founders
is still plainly to be seen on all sides; in the
general plan of the city; the character of the
buildings; and the style of dress and temperament
of the people as exhibited upon
the streets, &c. I have many a day seen the
people of Yorkville look more stylish and
more pretentious generally. Without stopping
to mention points of smaller note, I
may say at once that I visited the Centennial
grounds, and also Independedce Hall of
course, taking a long look at the old bell
[ which rang this great country of ours out
I of the grasp of King George III; but it
j seems to me that its work of liberty will not
! have been completed until it rings forth
again to proclaim to the world the solution
of the great problem how to keep "the
land of the free" out of the grasp of the
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great ana ever increasing uiuuupuucs ui mc
great and ever increasing cities of America.
The Union Depot at Philadelphia is a very
grand affair of the kind, and affords all the
modern conveniencs of which the traveling
Kublic can feel the need, until another step
e taken upon the road of general progresstowards
Western civilization.
On Friday morning after a two hours'
ride?the cleanest I ever experienced?not a
particle of dust or cinders, or a puff of
smoke, felt or seen along the whole line of
95 miles?I found myself in the great city
of New York, in and around which I have
spent four days with much profit, pleasure,
and interest, and of which I may tell you
something at an other time. c. E. s.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM ROCK HILL.
PnfiT.'. Utt t SI f A ncrnst. 94.?This sec
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tion is still dry and the crops are suffering
very much. Yesterday was the warmest
day of the season, the thermometer registering
102 in the shade.
Those persons who are interested in improved
stock are requested to meet at the
library building in this place on Thursday
next, at 11 o'clock, A. M., the object of the
meeting being to perfect a permanent organization..
Mr. James Walker, of Millsdale Farm,
in Greenville county, was in our town on
Friday and Saturday last, and took a look
at several of the horses and cows entered for
our coming stock exhibition. He was very
much pleased with those he saw, and seemed
sumrised to learn that we have such
stock in this section.
The Catawba Rifles received forty new
Springfield rifles a few days ago. These
guns are much lighter than the old guns,
and a great improvement on them in every
respect. The company will turn out as
soon as the hot wave passes over.
Elvin and Robert Kelly, colofed, had a
Sreliminary hearing before Trial Justice
. P. Westbrook on Saturday last, charged
with larceny of live stock. Robert
Kelly pleaded guilty and was started to
jail in charge of constable John Peay.
When within a mile of Yorkville Robert
slipped the rope with which he was bound,
gathered a stick and struck Mr. Peay a
blow on the head, felling him to the ground.
Robert then made his escape and has not
been heard from since. Elvin was committed
to jail to-day.
Mr. Robert A. Steele sold the first bale
of new cotton this evening to Messrs. A.
Friedheim & Brother at 10.40. This bale
was ginned on the Mason gin.
The Trusteesof Rock Hill Lodge Knights
of Honor, to-day paid Mrs. Mary A. Cobb
82,000, the amount of the policy on the life
of her late husband, Mr. Chas. E. Cobb.
Mrs. Laura J. May, widow of the late
Robert I. May, died in this place on Saturday
morning, in the 38th year of her age.
She leaves three little girls and one little
boy. With the resignation of a true Christian
she has patiently and uncomplainingly
bore her sufferings until finally her hour of
deliverance came and her spirit soared
aloft. Her death cast a gloom over our entire
community. She was universally esteemed
and loved by all, as was shown by
the large concourse of friends who attended
her funeral yesterday afternoon. Hal.
Correspondence of the Yorkvllle Enquirer.
LETTER FROM CHESTER.
Chester, August 24.?The funeral services
of the late T. Chalmers Gaston were
held at this place on last Monday afternoon
in the Presbyterian Church. The church
was filled with sympathizing friends of the
family of the deceased, liev. James Saye
conducting the services, assisted by Rev.
It. W. Sanders and Rev. L. C. Hinton.
The Lee Light Infantry, of which Mr. Gaston
was a member, attended the funeral in
a body. Dr. James Gaston, of Atlanta, Mr.
Richard Lee, of Sumter, and Mr. Torrence,
of North Carolina, were present. Rev. Mr.
* 1 Ml A A 1 A1
?aye in nis auuress uiusiraieu me uncertainty
of lile by Mr. Gaston's sudden and
unexpected death. He referred in appropriate
terms to the confidence reposed in
him by the people. Rev. Mr. Hinton made
a very impressive and touching prayer on
the sad occasion. It touched a sympathetic
chord in the hearts of the entire congregation,
and was certainly calculated to give
great comfort to the bereaved family. Reference
was appropriately made to the high
character and exalted worth of the deceased.
At the close of the services the funeral procession,
preceded by the Lee Light Infantry
moved to the cemetery, the pall bearers,
Messrs. G. J. Patterson, S. Hamilton, J. M.
McNeel, J. L. Glenn, W. A. Sanders, David
Hemphill, T. N. Youngblood, J. B. McFadden,
W. H. Hardin and Dr. G. B. White,
walking by the hearse. Arriving at the
cemetery all that was mortal of T. C. Gaston,
one of the best, purest and noblest men
of Chester county, was laid away in the I
grave. Our county and State can ill afford
to lose such a man.
An assault and battery affair took place
at the depot on last Friday afternoon. William
Moore, a merchant of our town, pre
sented an account against Gregg Beard, j
an engineer on the C. C. & A. Railroad. A |
misunderstanding arising about the account, [
the engineer proceeded with iron knucks j
to assault and batter the merchant in an !
outrageous manner. The latter was badly |
injured. Desiring satisfaction for the as-1
sault, if not for his goods, he stated his
grievances to Trial Justice Lecky, and obtained
a warrant for the arrest of Beard.
The warrant, however, could not be executed,
as Beard had left for parts unknown.
Hereafter when one of our merchants wishes
to collect an account, he must go armed
cap-a-pie in order that he may be prepared
for any emergency that may arise.
A picnic was given at Tall Oaks in this
county on last Saturday. A large crowd
was in attendance, and everybody, old folks
as well as young folks, enjoyed themselves
immensely. The dinner was splendid. As
usual on such occasions there were many
soft speeches by sentimental young men
and sentimental young ladies.
Delegates from the various Townships of
this countv interested in the construction
of the proposed Georgetown and North Carolina
Railroad, met at the Court House in
this place on last Saturday. An organization
was effected in the election of major
Julius Mills Chairman, and J. K. Henry,
Esq., Secretary. The Chairman was directed
to correspond with the Massachusetts
and Southern Construction Company, and
secure such information as is desired by the
Township committees. The Chairman was
also instructed to secure the co-operation of
the Western townships of York county.
Miss Lizzie McClintock, of this county,
died on yesterday.
At the late fruit exhibit of the Chester
Fair Association the following persons obtained
premiums: John Banks?largest
watermelon on exhibition ; Jesse Hardin?
t i 1_? ? i. u i. r t
Desi nieion on e.xmuuiuu; ? . .j. jkiuj?
largest variety of melons; J. A. Walkerbest
Cherokee watermelon; W. A. Rosborough?best
squashes; Mrs. R. H. Lovebest
beets; C. B. Smith?best tomatoes; J.
C. McAfee?best stock beets; J. A. Walkerbest
peaches; J. F. Atkinson?best Susquehanah
peaches; J. D. Means?best pears; E.
P. Moore?best Foster peaches; J. H. McLure?second
best pears; J. 1). Mans?best
variety of apples; J. H. McLure?largest
and best variety of grapes; C. B. Smithsecond
best variety of grapes; .J. S. Bratr
ton?best Concord grapes; C. B. Smithbest
Clinton grapes; Jesse Hardin?best
exhibit of growing cotton. m.
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The McKxigiit Investigation.?The
end of the McKnight investigation resulted
in the acquittal of DaLy and Divine. The
entire investigation seems to have been
carried on with unnecessay bitterness, and
the finale was certainly a "consummation
devoutly to be wished." The' evidence
against both prisoners was entirely circumstantial,
and, considering a fact brought out
in the evidence, that Daly and Divine bore
a good character, we do not see how Trial
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U UOlrltC M lllllliau WUiU v.v??v/ Wi.wt.
wise than acquit them. Detective Weber
worked up the ease faithfully, but was unfortunate
in giving away too much information
to the newspaper reporters, which
Major Buist took advantage of and used
against him. Pie also put himself in bad odor
with thespectators by his cutting and sarcastic
replies, and the spectators exhibited their
feelings by cheering lustily whenever Maj.
Buist made a point against the detective.
Thp TVTp.wh nnd Courier is of the opinion that
Daly and Divine may be again called upon
to answer the same charge. This may be
possible, but will amount to nothing unless
further and more substantial evidence is offered.
No South Carolina jury will ever
find Daly and Divine guilty of murder on
such flimsy, circumstantial evidence as was
offered in Trial Justice Williman's court.
We sincerely hope and trust that the murderers
will be discovered, and it is presumable
that the detectives will continue the
trial. To our mind the whole affair is
shrouded in mystery,, but with some faith
in the old maxim, "Murder will out," we
are inclined to believe that sooner or later
a halter will dangle about the neck of the
murderer of the unfortunate Mrs.|McKnight.
Columbia Record.
Desperate Escape of Convicts.?The
most daring escape in the history of the
Arkansas penitentiary occurred at that institution
between G and 7 o'clock last Friday
evening. Seven convicts forced their
guards to surrender and cooly walked away.
There were forty-seven convicts working at
thie brick-kiln at the time of the escape
under a guard of eleven men armed with
Winchester rifles and double-barrelled shotguns.
Nothing was noticed till the time
for work to cease approached, when George
D. Anderson, a notorious convict, serving
out a three-year term for grand larceny,
suddenly snatched a shotgun from a sand
box where it had been secreted and leveling
it at the guard said :
."Jim, I don't want to kill you, but unless
you drop your gun I'll do it."
The guard let the gun fall, and at the
same moment two convicts, named John
Vest and Thomas Kelley, procured guns
and pointed them at the guard Lange. The
other guard ordered the convicts into the
stockade and the order was obeyed by all
but seven. Of these, Anderson, Kelley and
Vest, white men, stood with their guns
ready, while four colored convicts joined
them. Anderson then took the leadership,
and arming two of the colored men, marched
with the seven convicts outside of the
walls. P.
On reaching this point the whole band
hastily disappeared. A posse is after them.
A bloody battle is expected, as all the
convicts are desperadoes and it is thought
will never be taken alive. Bloodhounds
were put on their trail, but they succeeded
in killing one of the dogs and eluding the
others.
The escape has caused a sensation, and
news of the capture of the fugitives is anxiously
awaited.
The Columbia Seminary.?The Directors
of the Columbia Theological Seminary
held a meeting at Augusta on Wednesday.
The principal business was the filling of the
vacant professional chairs. Rev. C. C. Hersman,
I). D., President of Westminster College,
Fulton, Mo., was elected to the chair
of Biblical Literarure, formerly occupied by
Dr. Hemphill. Dr. H. had been previously
elected to the Perkins Professorship, but
declined ; he has, however signified his willingness
to accept this one. Rev. C. R.
Vaughan, 1). D., of Brownsburg, Va., was
elected to fill the Pastoral Theology chair.
This completes the faculty for the present,
which includes Rev. J. L. Girardeau, D. D.,
Professor of Didactic Theology, and Rev.
Dr. Tadlock, Professor of Church History.
This is believed to be the strongest Faculty
the Seminary ever had. Rev. J. B. Mack
aays the duties of the Perkins Professorship,
which at present consists of two recitations
a week, were considered too light to demand
the services of a separate Professor now, but
as the chair is to be enlarged so as to include
the whole field of Christian Apologetics by
the synods this fall, a Professor will then be
elected. The duties will be divided among
the other Professors until then. The session
of the Seminary opens on the 21st of September,
and the next meeting of the Board
of Directors will be held in Columbia on the
7th of October.?Columbia Record.
A Singular Case.?The Greenville News
reports the following case, terminated last ;
week, in the U. S. District Court:
i\r:n;o.n T/irrion n tall rnsneotable look
?T XIAltWXl UU*V?l?tif ?.?
ing but plainly dressed young black man,
was the prisoner. He is a citizen of Hock
Hill. The evidence for the Government i
was about as usual. Bishop Patton, yellow
youth, and Randall Berry, black, swore
they had frequently bought liquor?pints,
half pints and drinks?at the rate of fifty
cents a pint and ten cents a drink. They ,
got it about Christmas time and up to ,
March of the present year; went to the
prisoner's house and purchased directly
from him. This was the case for government
and Isaac 31. Bryan counsel for the !
prisoner, arose and played a little joker in
the shape of a license to Jordan to retail
liquors from November to March in due <
and legal form issued by the proper author- i
ities. Judge Carpenter, for the government,
promtply consented to a verdict of ,
not guilty. Why the license was not produced
on the preliminary examination before
the commissioner was not explained.
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A quantity of finished material for the
State House?mostly finished balusters, and
valued at$3,000 has been accidentally found
in the basement under the corridors of the
building. The material was stored there
about the close of the war and had been for- i
gotten. '
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
.T. B. Beal, Gastonia, N. C.?Manufacturer of
Doors, Sash, Blinds, Mouldings, &c.
O. A. Darby, D. D., President?Columbia Female
College.
J. Beatty Williams, Probate Judge?Citation?
John D. McConnell, Applicant?Reuben
McConnell, deceased.
J. R. Schorb?New Howe Sewing Machine, Jth
page.
C. E. Spencer, Plaintiff's Attorney?Notice to
Absent Defendants of William McKeown,
deceased.
John C. Kuykendal?Operatic Mortar Notes.
Lowry it Starr?Attention ! Ye Shivering Mortals.
Hunter it Oates?Lower Prices at the Mammoth.
H. F. Adickes?Extraordinary Offer.
W. C. Latimer ?Grand Clearing Out Sale.
T. M. Dobson it Co.?Great Bargains in Millinery.
M. Strauss?Trunks and Valises.
R. L. Wallace?Beef Market.
J. Beatty Williams. Probate Judge?CitationFrank
H. Brown, Applicant?Hence Wallace.
deceased.
J. H. Wilson, Principal?McConnellsville High
School.
McElwee ife Darwin?1,250 Watermelons.
J. Beatty Williams, Probate Judge?Citation?T.
G. Gulp, Applicant?Westley G. Graham,
deceased.
THE FIRST TO GO.
Mr. W. C. Latimer starts to-day for the northern
markets to purchase his supply of fall and
winter goods.
BAPTIST S. S." CONVENTION.
The York County Baptist Sunday-school Convention
will meet in the Baptist church in this
place at 11 A. M. to-morrow.
UNTIL JANUARY 1ST, 1SSO. *
We will furnish the Yorkville Enquirer
from this date until January 1st,*188(5, for 75
cents, the cash, in all cases, to accompany the
subscription.
SASH FACTORY.
Attention is directed to the advertisement of
J. B. Beal, manufacturer of doors, sash, blinds,_
<fcc., Gastonia, N. C. Mr. Beal has all the facilities
for tilling orders at short notice and at satis
factory prices.
ANOTHER FINE MELON.
Messrs. McElwee & Darwin have again placed
us under obligations for a line Georgia watermelon,
sent to us from their market last Tuesday
evening. It weighed forty pounds.
ARMS FOR THE JENKINS RIFLES.
The Jenkins Rifles, of this place, have just
been supplied, through the Adjutant and Inspector
General's oflice, with a complement of Springfield
rifles and accoutrements of the U. S. regulation
pattern.
" THE MoCONXELLSVILLE POISONING.
We learn that Adam Williams, the fifth victim
of the poisoned bread, near McConnellsville,
last week, will recover from the effects of
the poison which he swallowed. Fortunately
for him, he did not eat as much of the "sweet
cake" as the others.
Rev. E. N. JOYNER.
We regret to learn that Rev. E. N. Joyner
was suddenly summoned from his home in Rock
Hill on Tuesday last to the bedside of a sick reli
ative in North Carolina. In consequence of his
unexpected absence, the series of meetings to
have begun at Sutton's Spring to-day is indefi
nitely postponed.
TWELFTH REGIMENT SURVIVORS.
By a note received from J. R. Boyles, Secretary
of the Twelfth Regiment Survivors' Association,
we are requested to give notice that the next
reunion of the Survivors will be held in Yorkville,
on Thursday, the 1st of October, next.
Special rates will be obtained on the railroads for
those desiring to attend.
THE LIGHT GRAIN CROP.
As showing the lightness of the small grain
crop this year, Mr. W. Nelson, of Smith's Turnout,
informs us that he threshes for the public
and for a number of years has averaged as a season's
work 19,000 bushels. This season his machine
covered one-third more territory than
eyer before and threshed only 4,38:1 bushels.
COLUMBIA FEMALE COLLEGE.
We have received a catalogue of Columbia
Female College for 1884-8T), which shows an attendance
of 121 pupils during the past session,
and should be sufficient evidence as to the high
favor in which the college is regarded. The college
is under the direction of Rev. O. A. Darby
who will furnish any information in connection
therewith that may be desired. See advertisement.
McCONNELLSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL.
Attention is directed to the advertisement of
the above school, which* begins its next annual
session on Monday the 31st instant. The school
is under charge of Prof. J. II. Wilson as principal,
who enjoys a high reputation as a teacher,
having formerly been principal of the Male
High School at LaGrange, Ga. Under his
management, McConnellsville High School bids
fair to take high rank.
CHURCH NOTICES.
Episcopal. Sunday-school at 5 P. M., next
Sunday, the bell ringing at 4.30.
Baptist?Rev. J. E. Covington, Pastor. Services
at the usual hours, forenoon and evening.
Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor.
Services at 11 A." M., next Sunday, and in ^ie
evening at 81 o'clock. Prayer meeting Thursday
at P. M. Sunday-school at 41 P. M.
Preaching at Templeton's School House at 4
f. M.
Methodist Episcopal?Rev. J. Thomas Pate,
Pastor. Services at Philadelphia Church next
Sunday at 11 A. M.
A SUIT FOR DAMAGES.
In the Superior Court of Kurke County, X. C.,
held at Morganton, the suit of Mrs. Mary Kirby
against the lessors of the Chester & Lenoir railroad
was tried week before last. Mrs. Kirby
was a passenger on a train that was thrown from
the track near Dallas, in October 1883, and she
claims to have received severe internal injuries
by the accident, and brought suit to recover 810,000
damages. The jury awarded her the amount
claimed. As explaining how .Burke county, X.
C., was the place of venue in the suit, it may be
stated that the road touches one corner of that
county, and we suppose this fact was made the
pretext for trying the case as remote as possible
from the main line.
AX EXTERPRISIXG HOUSE.
We print from the Charlotte Obsewer of the
10th an article under the caption of "An Interesting
Sight," giving an account of one day's
shipment of goods by the lirm of Messrs. Wittkowsky
ik Baruch, of Charlotte, proprietors of
the wholesale and retail store which is aptly
styled "the colossal establishment of the C'arolinas."
The firm is personally known by us,
awl we are tree 10 say inai me uwuau ntu^ reserves
the success that has attended it. Our
readers, when visiting Charlotte on business,
are advised to give Wittkowsky it Baruch a
call. Mr. B. N. Moore, of Yorkville, is now
connected with the house, and will make jt to
the interest of his friends to give him an opportunity
to serve them.
THE PISTOL IX LANCASTER.
News was received here last Monday morning
of a fatal shooting affair in Lancaster on Saturday
night, in which W. C. Moore was shot and
instantly killed by B. F. Welsh. Particulars of
the affair have not been received, though the
statement is made that the men had quarreled on
Saturday, and the two meeting in a store late
that evening, the quaarel was renewed, when
Welsh lired upon Moore, the bullet passing
through his breast and killing him almost instantly.
Welsh was arrested and placed in jail
for a preliminary examination. Both men are
respectably connected. Welsh has been long
known as a merchant in Lancaster, and Moore
had recently moved to that place, where he had
opened a drug store. lie leaves a wife and two
children.
A SINGULAR FREAK.
Mr. Erwin B. Carnes, who lives with Mr.
Sam. M. Scott i>\ miles west of Yorkville, informs
us of the remarkable freak of a partridge which
recently came under his observation. A few
days ago he was walking in a pasture field near
the houso and discovered two young chickens
which were chirping. Not seeing a hen, his
curiosity led him to make an investigation,
when he found that the young chickens were
under the protection of a partridge. He tried
to catch the chickens, when the partridge, somewhat
after the manner of a hen when her
brood is in danger, essayed to light, with the
view of protecting the chickens from harm.
Mr. Carnes left the chickens, and a few days
later, when near the same place, he found them
still under the maternal wing of the partridge.
This time he captured the chickens and look
them to the house. After keeping them there
for a short time, he returned with them to the
field, and released them near the spot where first
discovered. They commenced chirping and soon
the partridge appeared and assumed the care of
them. Mr. Carnes intends to watch the results
f'oT this curious freak. There are 110 other chiek|
ens of the same size on the premises, and the
supposition is that the partridge hatched the
hen's eggs which produced the chickens.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? The State Sunday-school Convention
met in Columbia on the 18th, and adjourned
on Friday night, the sessions being marked
by the utmost harmony, while favoraable
and interesting reports were received
from different sections of the State.
? The Air-Line Railroad, through its attorneys,
Messrs. Duncan & Sanders, of Spartanburg,
have arranged a compromise of
damages for all the persons injured in the
recent smash up at Wellford. The money
has been paid and the road has no fear of
suits.
?The Methodists of Spartanburg for the
next twelve months will be without a house
of worship, as their church is to be torn
down soon, preparatory to building a new
church. At a recent church conference it
was decided to use the court house in the , 1
morning and to join with the Presbyterians
in the evening services.
? A meeting of the citizens of Winnsboro
was held on Wednesday, to devise plans for
raising money for the improvement and reJmirof
the buildings of the Mount Zion Colege,
which are now used for the Winnsboro
GradedSchool. The state of these buildings
is such that unless something be done at
once, they may become so bad as to be out
of reach of repair.
? J. J. Cooly, and A. J. Surratt, citizens
of Williamston, both wardens of the town,
and hitherto respectable citizens in the community,
have been indicted in the LV S.'
District court now in session at Greenville, 4
for manufacturing spurious coin. Their
case will be tried this week and will be one
of the most important and interesting ones
of the term.
? Sometime ago a lamp filled with kerosene
oil exploded in Dr. A. M. Snider's bedroom,
in Orangeburg county. The explosion
was caused by an improper fitting wick
and attempting to extinguish the light by
blowing down the chimney. The lamp was
shattered into atoms, one piece striking Mrs.
Snider, who was some distance off, cutting a
severe gash in her foot. The clothing of
Mrs. Snider and her little baby were badly
burned, but neither of them was badly injured.
The doctor, who was standing right
over the lamp, was not touched by either
the oil or the flying particles of glass.
? Greenville News: Many people do not
believe in the existence of the jointed snake
and very few persons have seen one, but a
number of young men from this city who
are trustworthy, assisted in the killing of
one last week, it was in nates townsnip,
upper Greenville, and was between two and
three feet long, gracefully shaped and beautifully
striped. When killed it broke into
eight or nine pieces, the largest piece, that
attached to the head, being about a foot
long. The other fragments were from one
to four?inches long. They wriggled and
worked about, but seemed to be unable to
get together.
? Lancaster Review: The authorities at
Columbia of the Insane Asylum sent back
to Lancaster one day last week Mr. James
Croxton, an inmate of the Asylum from
this county, probably believing he had sufficiently
recovered to be restored to his family
; but it turns out they were badly mistaken.
On Sunday morning last before
daylight, Mr. Croxton went to the house of
his brother, Butler Croxton, a few miles below
town, and threatened to kill everybody
in the house. As he was effecting an entrance
at one door Mr. Butler Croxton with
his wife and children escaped through another
and fled to the woods for safety. The
lunatic has been secured and will doubtless
be returned to Columbia without delay.
mereTmention.
The next Keutucky Legislature will
stand, so far as known, 56 Democrats to 13
Republicans. The Knights of Labor
have ordered their members employed on
all railroads west of the Mississippi to refuse
to handle any of the rolling stock of
Jay Gould's Wabash railroad. Florida
will hold an election in November on the
question of adopting a new Constitution.
The youngest son of Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee, the Democratic candidate for
Governor of Virginia, died at his home in
Fairfax countv. Virginia, on Thursdav of
last week. It is estimated that $9G,500,000
is invested in newspapers in the United
States. Several cases of yellow fever
have been reported in New York city recently,
though due precaution has been taken
against the spreading of the disease.
A fire in Texarkana, Arkansas,
last Friday, destroyed $150,000 of property.""
The case of Maxwell, the alleged
murderer of Preller, in St. Louis is set for
a preliminary hearing on the 2nd of September.
The small pox is decreasing
in Montreal. On Sunday night a killing
frost occurred over the greater portion
of the Northwest Territory, extending
southward to the northern part of Minnesota.
The Famous Gaston Suit.?The celebrated
case of Davenport vs. McKee was
concluded in the court at Shelby last Satur
day evening, and resulted in favor of McKee,
after the jury had completed a few
hours wrangle with one refractory member.
The amount to which McKee is entitled by
this decision is to be announced by Judge 4
Shipp, in this city next Saturday. This is
a suit between ex-Sheriff McKee, of Gaston,
and Mr. Davenport, the treasurer of that
county, to recover $1,700, which McKee
claimed to have paid Davenport in settlement,
but which' Davenport denied. McKee
produced receipts for the money signed
by Davenport, but the latter held that the
signatures were forgeries. Though we
have not been so informed, we will state
that this case is probably destined to meet
its end in the Supreme Court.?Charlotte
Observer, Tuesday.
Utarkt Reports.
YORKVILLE, August 26.?Cotton 9 to 94.
NEW YORK, August 24.?Cotton steady; middling
uplands, 10 5-16. Futures closed lirm with
sales of 57,900 bales as follows: August, 10.21 to
10.22 ; September, 9.79 to 9.80 ; October, 9.64 to
9.65; November, 9.59 to 9,60; December, 9.(52 to
9.63; January 9.70 to 9.71; February, 9.80 to 9.81;
March, 9.91 to 9.92; April, 10.01 to 10.02; Mav
10.12 to 10.13; June 10.22 to 10.24; July 10.29 to
10.31.
LIVERPOOL, August24.?Cotton dull; middling
uplands, 5 7-16d.
CHARLESTON, August 24.?Cotton dull; middling,
10.
CHARLOTTE, August25.?Cotton dull; middling,
101 to 10 5-16.
Comparative Cotton Statement.
NEW YORK, August 21.?The following is
the comparative cotton statement for the week
ending August 21, 1885: 1885. 1884.
Receiptsatall portsfortheweek, 4,402 2,865
Total receipts to this date 4,716,929 4,762,601
Exports for the week 17,722 11,642
Total exports to date, 3,881,732 3,873,446
Stock at all U. S. ports 145,427 147,440
Stock at all interior towns 6,459 8,770
Stock at Liverpool 684,000 777,000
AmericanafioatforGreatBritain 15,000 12,000
HYMENEAL.
Married?At the residence of the bride's fath
er, on tkehth instant, bv vv. L>. tamp, i nai justice,
Mr. HENRY WILSON and Miss.SALLIK
HARDIN. All of this county.
By W. D. Camp, Trial Justice, at his residence,
on the liith instant, Mr. GEORGE WHITE
and Miss AMANDA McDANIEL. All of this
county.
jsgraal gfotices.
For Warden.
The name of Mr. JAMES H. RIDDLE is recommended
to the voters of Yorkville as a candidate
for Warden to till the vacancy occasioned by
the resignation of Mr. J. A. Darwin.
Many Voters.
August 27 35 It
Diamond Dyen, Diamond Dyes.
We have now on hand a complete line of these
exceedingly cheap, durable and perfect Dyes,
consisting of every color, and being suitable for
dying Wool, Cotton, Silk, Feathers and Fancy *
Wood Work, they supply a long-felt want. No
trouble. Any child can understand the directions.
Everybody call and get a package for ten
cents. ' * LOWRY A STARR.