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Jtoaps and Jacts. | ? Mr. Tilden has written an open letter to Mr. Carlisle suggesting that the surplus , in the United States treasury be devoted to improving the harbor defences, thereby pre- ! venting the necessity for reducing taxation. ? There is considerable opposition in Ohio among Republicans to the re-election of Senator Sherman, and those who are leading the opposition have high hopes of defeating him. They are pushing the claims of Governor Foster. ? Five members of a family were poisioned at Knoxville, Tennessee, on the 2nd instant, by drinking coffee in which the cook had placed half a pound of arsenic. Medical assistance arrived in time to save their lives, but two of them are still in a critical condition. The cook has been arrested and jailed. ?The members of Congress of both parties are said to be almost unanimous in favor of the immediate passage of the Hoar bill, settling the risrht of succession to the Presi dency in case of the death of the Vice-President by making members of the Cabinet succeed the President. This deprives the Presidency of the Senate of most of its interest. ? The result of the late English elections brings into deserved political prominence the two men who had formed the parliamentary alliance which placed the present British Government in power, Charles Stuart Parnell and Randolph Churchill. Both of these men have shown the courage, sagacity and originality that distinguish the statesman from the petty politician. ? On Thursday last, Indians attacked the town of Duncan, on the Pacific Railroad, and killed one man. They cut the telegraph wire between Wilcox and Fort Grant. A courier from D. H. Smith's store, who was sent to warn the people who live near Stockton, was chased into Fort Grant. It is feared that all families in that vicinity have been murdered. ? The pension matter has been finally adjudicated in North Carolina. It appears that there are 1,039 widows in the State and 979 old soldiers who are entitled to the benefits of the act and each will receive $14.75 per annum. This amount, small as it may seem, will no doubt help along considerably those poor fellows who wore the Rrey and who are now disabled, and the widows of those who fell in defense of the State. ? The Farmers' National Congress met in annual session on the 2nd instant at Indianapolis, Indiana, for the purpose of discussing and advocating legal reforms of importance to agriculturalists. They recommend the creation of Secretary of Agriculture as a' cabinet officer. The Congress is composed of representative farmers from nearly every State, and they will doubtless exercise a great influence for good over the interests of that class. ? The body of George Parrish, the engineer who lost his life in the late wreck on the Western North Carolina Road, near Warm Springs, has been recovered and forwarded to Lynchburg, Ya., his former home. The body of the young man named Whitley, who was acting as special fireman on that terrible trip, has not been recoverd. The sadness of Parrish's sudden death is increased by the fact that he was quite a young man and was engaged to marry a young lady of Lynchburg on Christmas eve. ? In Macon, Ga., last Thursday night, Sara Jemison and Ed. Strohecker, two well known young men, had an altercation in which Strohecker was killed outright, by a a pistol shot and Jemison received a wound which is thought to be fatal. Strohecker ? *Kas_ihe attacking party. The only reason given for the difficulty is that a day or ' . two previously Jemison refused to loan Strohecker a sum of money. Both young . men were well connected. A printer named McDonald has been arrested and commuted to jail as an accessory to the tragedy, it being charged that he prompted Strohecker to attack Jemison. ? James Bayard, the son of Secretary Bayard, who has recently been given a position under the department of the interior, was appointed by the efforts of Senators Davis and Gorman. His father refused to have anything to do with him, having cast off the young man because of an escapade leading to his arrest by the police in Washington several winters ago. The secretary ' is said to be further disgusted with his son because he is about to marry a Miss Deakings, a farmer's daughter who was employed as a waitress in a hotel at Fort Sugg, West Virginia, where he has been teaching school. ? Mrs. Hendricks, widow of the Vice President, is left in comfortable eircumstanes. She has herself largely taken charge of the private business affairs ol her husband, and has managed them with signal success?"much better," the vice President used to say, "than I could have done myself." The residence where Mr. Hendricks died, in Indianapolis, is worth $10,000, and he had other property in the city valued, all told, at about $00,000. His life was also insured in a considerable sum. Altogether it is estimated that his estate is worth $100,000. His will, bearing date August 8, 1866, devises to his wile and her heirs all of his property, real and personal, and appoints her executrix. ? As Alfonso has left only a little girl of five years old as heir to the throne of Spain, there is no telling what new outbreaks of radicalism and Carlism may suddenly destroy all prospects of her ever ascending the throne she would naturally claim. If Spain only had a few more men strong enough just now to organize the popular sentiment into a settled constitutional revolution, another hopeful republic might be ? lucked out of the effete civilization of pain. But the people as a whole are too much like Alfonso himself to meet and live by modern political ideas, and troubles will most likely continue and multiply that will make the regency of Queen Mary a very precarious settlement. ? Marshall Clements was hanged at Saguache, Colorado last Thursday for the murder of his brother Thomas and the latter's wife Susan, last August. The doomed man seemed to be in excellent spirits. On the way to the gallows he recognized several acquaintances, bowing pleasantly and addressing some by name. As he ascended ik/i ,,pc 1-^,1 i.: ie u, u..,i uic acaiiuiu tiic suciiii 111111 11 lit nnu anything to say. He replied that his death was deserved, and he hoped to be forgiven. He then bade his friends good bye and said he was ready. His neck was not broken, though the fall was seven feet. The knot had been tied too loosely and had become disarranged, causing death from strangulation. The execution was witnessed by | about a thousand persons, some of whom j came a hundred miles to attend it. ? Some months ago Newton Chance, an I aged itinerant preacher, from Indian Territory, was arrested in Sherman, Texas, charged with the murder of E. Junius Foster, in that city, in 1863. Foster was the editor of a newspaper. The killing occurred during the late war, and caused intense excitement throughout the State. The trial of Chanee has been in progress the past ! few days. A sensation was produced in ; court on Thursday by the voluntary testimo-1 ny ol James Young, who swore that it was j he who killed Foster. "I killed him," said | Young, "because he published in his paper ' the lying assertion that the murder of my ! father was the best thing that ever happen-1 ed for Northern Texas." The jury render- j ed a verdict of "not guilty," and the aged j prisoner was released in the midst of demonstrations of great joy. The old preacher j wept like a child as the peopie crowded : around him. ? In Norwich, England, on the 30th ulti-' mo, a horrible sight was witnessed at the hanging of Kobert Goodale, a market gardner, for the murder of his wife at Wisheaeh, I September 15 last. Fifteen stone weight was used, and the drop was six feet. When the trap was sprung the rope rebounded ! violently, and Goodale's head was severed from his hotly, me spectators were horror stricken, and became sick at the scene. An inquest was held. The hangman said Good- i ale's head looked as though it had been cut with a knife. He had a thin vertebra*, j The surgeon said the hangman was sober and cool and collected when he sprung the trap. Goodale's death was almost instantaneous, and was more merciful than by strangulation. The jury rendered a verdict in i accordance with the facts, attaching no blame j to the hangman. ? A Raleigh (X. ('.) dispatch of Friday j says: Governor Scales to-day notified the | sheriff of Gates county that he declines to change the sentence of the law in cases of 1 Isaiah Richardson, John Swanner and Edward Sanders, all colored. These men last September broke into the store of Wiley & Eggleston, near Gatesville. Over the store persons were sleeping. The burglars were armed to the teeth. They were convicted in October and sentenced* to be hanged on November 23. On the petition for respite the Governor granted it until December 7. His action in the matter is now final, and the men will all be hanged next Monday. To-day the Governor sent a similar notice to the sheriff of Mecklenburg county in the case of Nelson Stewart and Anderson Davis, n ? i 1 ni negroes, wno on ?epiemuer ii, eunnimicu ( burglary at the residence of S. G. Strickland in Charlotte. They were convicted in Oc- ' tober and sentenced to be hanged Noveni- 1 ber2f>. They were respited until December i 9. They will be hanged tliat day. i llorhvillr $ttfjnim.: *yS YORKVILLE, S. C . : THURSDAY MORNING, DEC. 10, 18S5. CONGRESS ASSEMBLED. The Forty-ninth Congress assembled last Monday, and at once proceeded to elect officers. As had been foreshadowed by caucus proceedings, John Sherman was elected President pro tem. of the Senate, and John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, Speaker of the House. The Democratic Senators cast their votes complimentary to Mr. Harris, of Tennessee, for Speaker pro tem., and in the House, the Republicans voted complimentary to Mr. Reed, of Maine, for Speaker. Both presiding officers were installed, and proceeded to swear the new members, which was done without objection. The remainin^ officers were (hen elected and sworn in. The death of the Vice-President was announced, and after adopting resolutions in reference thereto, both Houses adjourned until Tuesday, on which day the President's message was read. THE ATLANTA ELECTION. Judge McCay, of the United States District Court, has granted an injunction against the Ordinary of Fulton county restraining him from counting the ballots, or declaring the result of the recent prohibition election until the injunction shall be dissolved. The injunction was granted in answer to Paul Jones, as an importer of wines and liquors, and Cincinnati stockholders in the Atlanta Brewery. The Paul Jones case seems to rest on a decision of United States Chief Justice Taney, which declares that the right to import wine carries with it the right to sell it, and no State could nullify the Federal laws as to importation. The case of the Cincinnati stockholders in the brewery "is that to declare Atlanta dry would be for one State to confiscate the property of citizens of another State. Other grounds are taken to the effect that the local option bill is unconstitutional because it was not legally passed ; and referring to the election declares that it was illegal because it was not advertised forty days before being held; because registration in two voting districts was illegally done, and because the whole county voted on the question. Final argument on the motion for perpetual injunction was set for Tuesday last. MORMONISM. Mrs. Xewall, of Salt Lake, Utah, in a lecture in Baltimore, recently, gave an account of her observations of Mormon life. She said that Mormonism is a terrible solid pyramid, with John Taylor as the apex. It is a thoroughly organized, treasonable politico religious scheme to overthrow the United States government and the Christian religion. The Mormons boast that in twenty years they will have a President in the White House. They teach the children that the Saviour was a polygamist, and that Martha and Mary were his plural wives; that John Taylor is their president; and their children only know the United States government as a thing to scorn. The Mormons have four hundred missionaries all over the world. The speaker described a book by Cannon, giving an account of his missionary labors in the Sandwich Islands. Mormonism's creed is made of others'. Its , sensual ideas are taken from Mohammedanism, its doctrines of transmigration and the inferiority of women from Buddhism, its priesthood and tithing system from Juda- ; ism. As in all false religions, women is the greater dupe and sufferer. According to Mormonism she cannot rise at the resurrction unless the man to whom she has been : sealed lifts the white veil placed over her face at burial and whispers her name. The Mormon women are not only of the lower order of mind, but some are also of high intelligence. The sixth wife of the next- , door-neighbor of the speaker was raised and educated in Boston, and the last wife 1 sealed to John Taylor was an English wo- 1 man of noble birth. The priesthood is the most terrible power, and that the govern- J ment cannot touch. There are now 200,<>()() | Mormons in the West, and a large number i scattered over the country. [ < STATE /EDUCATION. < The Seventeenth annual report of the ! State .Superintendent of Education, address- ' ed to the present session of the Legislature, ( is a full and complete record of the educa- < tional work that is being done in the State, I and shows a satisfactory rate of progress in h both the work and general condition of the 1 | public schools throughout the State. A I , higher standard of qualification for teach-1 \ ers is demanded, and the demand is being \ gradually met. Letter school-houses are being built, and pupils are more regular 1 and punctual in attendance. The total re- J ported enrollment for 18S3 was 178,023, against 183,G19 in 1884?an apparent de- i crease of 7,590. This difference, however, ! < is believed to be due to errors in the re-1 port of 1884, which have been avoided in 5 the report for 1885, and the belief is strength- \ ened by the fact that an increase of 7,949 is I' reported in the average attendance. I j In recommendations made by the State ; Superintendent he says: The evils resulting to the public school is system on account of the short term of of- 1 fice'and the mode of selecting the Superin-; tendent of Education and School Commis- 5 sioners indicate an imperative necessity for il LllttllgC 111 IIIVIMJ [Ull HUllltiio. .a c in mended, therefore, that the Superintendent 1 of Education, like the Circuit Judges, be elected by joint ballot of the General As sembly for a term of lour years, and allow-1 ' ed a salary equal to theirs. The County 1 School Commissioners should be appointed by the Governor, upon the recommendation for cause. Each commissioner should re- ( ceive a salary of ?1)00 a year, or a fixed per- 5 centage of the county school fund. : , He also recommends that action be taken i : in the General Assembly upon a bill pre- ( viously drafted by him to determine the j limits of the school age, about which some s confusion now exists. That, in order to 1 ' 1 avoid ill considered and inconsistent legis-1 J lation in regard to the school system, the j Superintendent of Education be accord- j j ed the privileges of the floor, pending de-1 i aates upon measures recommended by him, ind the opportunity to give such explanations and information as may be necessary to well considered action. That the Legis- ' lature consider anew the merits of a bill introduced during the session of 1884 so as to amend the school law as to allow, out of i the school fund, the necessary expenses in- j purred by the School Commissioners in at tending one meeting it year at me um ui : the Superintendent. Tlmt an appropriation of $150 be made and authority given for the purpose of publishing in the Carolina Teacher such matter of official interest ts ouglit to be brought directly to the attentention of the teachers. That some provision be made by the General Assembly for the apportionment of the county school fund among the several school districts of each county, so as to avert the threatened necessity of closing tiie school during the current school year, as soon as the balances from previous years are exhausted, in consequence of the delay under the existing law, in the time of listing property for taxation. Of the educational work in York county the report of the County School Commissioner, embodied in the State Superintendent's report, says: During the past year two Teachers' Institutes were held in York county?one for white teachers, conducted by W. II. Witherow, of the Chester Graded School, and so far as I have been able to learn from teachers who attended, though the number was very small, general satisfaction was given and the results beneficial. Of the results of the Institute for colored teachers, conducted by Mr. J. T. Roberts, of the York Institute,' I cannot speak intelligently, yet we saw very little improvement in the following examination. From the statistical information appended to the report we take the following in reference to York county: Number of schools in operation during the year 1S85, 152. Total number of pupils in attendance, G,173, classified as follows: white male, 1,G81; white female, 1,415; colored male, 1,415; colored female, 1,G32. There were employed during the year ISO teachers, of whom 55 were white males, 71 white females, 54 colored males and G colored females. The average monthly pay of teachers was827.50 to males and 824.4S to females. Correspondence of the Yorkvillc Enquirer. LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chester, December 7.?Dr. John E. Walker, formerly of this place, was recently appointed an assistant surgeon in the Emigrant Hospital in New York. Last year he had a position in the Colored Home and Hospital, located in the same city. He is a son of Mr. John Walker, for many years the Sheriff of this county. His late appointment is an indication of his attainments in his profession. His many friends here are glad to hear of his success, and the honor that has been conferred upon him. James Wilson, colored, was dangerously, if not fatally injured on last Tuesday by an old gin'with which he and some other colored boys had been tampering. Mr. John Flennikin, on whose plantation he was employed, thinks there is little hope of his recovery. Our community was again agitated with the whisky question last week. Two petitions were in circulation, the signers of one asking of the legislature the submission to the popular vote the important question of Ii/inncu nr tin lippnep nf thp ?ilp nf intoYlcat ing liquors in the town of Chester; the signers of the other petition asking the Legislature to continue in force the present Act, prohibiting the sale of spirituous liquors in the town of Chester. The advocates of license say that if the question is submitted to the popular vote, and decided against them they will quietly acquiesce in the decision of the people, and aid in securing an enforcement of the law. As the present arrangement fails to prevent thefcale of liquor in our midst, it might be best to leave the question to the vote of the people, and then carry out in good faith whatever is determined upon. A sunlight exhibition by means of a magic lantern was held in the skating rink on last Thursday evening. There was a fair attendance at the entertainment. Many views that were expected did not arrive in time. They will, however, be on hand next Thursday evening, when another exhibition will be given. In addition to the views advertised in the programme others will arrive in time for the next exhibition. Mr. Witherow is expected to deliver a lecture at the entertainment in connection with the historical views that will be exhibited. Bishop Keener, of the Methodist Episcopal church, preached a splendid sermon on yesterday at the court house. This able divine was favored with the presence of a large congregation. There were four accessions to the church, three gentlemen and one lady. A considerable number of colored people are on the eve of leaving the Feasterville neighborhood for Louisiana. According to my information, about forty families will endeavor to better their condition in this way. This being sales-day, a considerable number of people were in town. A large amount of hind was sold at reduced prices. This was due to the low price of cotton, and the consequent scarcity of money. The number of acres of land sold to-day was about 0,000, a good part of which was situated on the waters of Broad River. M. Rights of the Railroads?Ax Important Decision.?On Saturday night the Supreme Court filed its decision in the case decided some time since by Judge Witherspoon, in which he sustained the Columbia and Greenville Railroad in their refusal to contribute their proportion to the salaries of the Railroad Commissioners, and pronounced that portion of the act unconstitutional. The suit was brought under the provisions of the "act to facilitate the collection :>f taxes," incorporated in section 2G8 of General Statutes, by the Columbia and Greenville Railroad Company, an incorporated company operating a railroad within the state, to recover the amount assessed ind charged against it as its just proportion :>f the expenses of the Railroad Commission, according to its gross income proportioned to the number of miles of road in the State operated by it, under the order of the Comptroller General, in accordance with the requirements of Section Ho3 of General Statutes, and paid to the County Treasurer }f Richland by said company under protest. The case was tried in the Court of Common Pleas of Richland county on the 2-Sth if April, 1SS") before Hon. 1. I). Witherspoon, presiding Judge, and a jury. The presiding Judge charged the jury that the assessment made and the amount collected from the plaintiff under section l-l">3 of General Statutes is the imposition of in extra additional tax, illegal and unjust, ind in violation of the constitution of the J State, Article 1, Sections 23 and 3(1, and ; Article IX, Section I, and instructed them to find a verdict for the plaintiff for the iinount demanded in the complaint, (toivit, SI,033.51 as assessment and j?2">.SD pen ilty on one-half of that amount ior non- > payment in May, 1884). I: The jury found a verdict for this amount, | ind judgment was entered for the same, j From this judgment an appeal was ta-; ken in behalf of the defendant to the Su- j, preme Court of the State. The opinion of the Court is delivered by i Justice McGowan and concurred in by the Jhief Justice, and Justice Mclver dissents, j Columbia llcf/i.slrr, (!///. Tiik Ki.kctiox of Jrik:ks.?'The re-elction of Chief-Justice Simpson and of Cir- J uit Judges Pressley, Aldrich, Hudson, J Witherspoon, Wallace and Cothran by the ' Legislature, and virtually without dissent, ' s something more than a renewed vote of 1 confidence in the learning, industry and ' Integrity of the bench. It is, besides, a significant declaration that the direct rep- 1 csentatives of the people, in the Senate and ' House of Representatives, have no love of 1 change for the sake of change, and that in 1 :he case of the Judges at least, the political > uleof rotation in office should not apply.? j l Cluirles/nu Xeics owl Courier. t LOCAL AFFAIRS. ?' 1C new Advertisements. Jos. F. Wallace, C. C. C. Pis.?Clerk's Sales. Hon Mock, Sole Agent?Allen's Improved Cot- ho ton Seed. tl, T. O.Walker, Commander?Amerioiin Legion of t Honor. . 11. F. Adickes?On Monday, 11th of December. ,,f MclClwee it Darwin?Tennessee Ilogs at f> cents tn Per pound?Turkeys Wanted. 11. Brandt, Chester, S. C.?Announcement. 1 L. J. Dickson, Agent?Land for Sale. W. C. Latimer?New Markets. ' Withers Adickes?Wanted. Herndon Brothers?1885. do John 0. Kuykendal?'The Subscriber. ae Lowry it Starr?Xmas. ]n Ilohbs it Dunlap?Hill's Improved Feather Renovator at Chester. J. L. McGill?Executor's Notice. '*1 Kennedy Bros, it Barron?Blankets. lei D. M. Ferry it Co.'s Seed Annual. Be J. Beatty Williams, JudgeofProbate?Citation? 1). I). Oaston, Applicant?Joseph Mct'osh, deceased. ' James B. Allison, Clerk?York County Bonds. 10 Mary H. livers, Administratrix?Application ior 01 Discharge. The Standard Dramatic Company Next Monday j? Night at Hunter <fe Gates' Opera House. * . W. II. Carroll, Administrator?Application for 10 Discharge. f? UNTIL JANUARY 1ST, 18S0. q We will furnish the Yorkvili.e Enquirkr jj from this date until January 1st, 1880, for 15 ^ cents, the cash, in all cases, to accompany the subscription. , 2s" COMPLIMENTARY HOP. A hop, complimentary to several newly married couples in our midst, will bo given by the ,( young gentlemen, who are yet out of the raatrimonial noose, in Bratton's hall to-morrow night. . a< LAND SALE. at By the advertisement q4^lr. L. J. Dickson, lr agent, offering for sale at auction a tract of land known as the "Lockhart place," it will be seen in that the sale will hike place at the Court House, b< on the first Monday of January next, lx LECTURE ON CHINA. ' On this (Wednesday) evening, at 7.J0, Rev. . John Davis, D. I)., of the Presbyterian Church, j who for seven years has been laboring as a mis- ? sionary in China, will deliver a lecture in the Presbyterian Church on the customs of that people and the ]>rogress of Christianity in their ^ midst. . fc A FINE VARIETY OF COTTON. $1 Attention is directed to the advertisement of H Mr. Ben. Mock, offering to the planters of North N and South Carolina Allen's improved cotton P seed. Mr. Mock has a large number of testi- tl monials from planters in this and other .States, and all speak in the highest terms of the variety, V endorsing it as coming fully up to all the points b of excellency claimed for it. Among the testi- P monials is one from Mr. It. R. McCorkle, a progressivc young farmer near town, who planted ! a small quantity of the seed last Spring and is liiehlv pleased with the result?both astoquali- e; tv of lint and quantity of yield. o n THE SLAYER OF TURNER. NPersons who were in town last Monday say Si that there is positively no knowledge as to the H) whereabouts of Robert Bishop who shot and u killed A. N. Turner at Black's on the 24th of last q month. The excited populace knowing that he received three, if not four, wounds, and feeling certain that he could not etfect his escape, centered their attention upon Turner, and when too ' late discovered that Bishop, despite his wounds, had quietly slipped away. It is thought that he is in concealment somewhere in Union county. It is said that Bishop has declared that he will ^ die rather than suffer arrest, and will kill any t man who tries to capture him. But there are determined men on his track all the same. ^ TAX COLLECTIONS. Si The total tax collections in York county, up ? to the dato of closing the county treasurer's I! books, were $08,484.82, as follows: For State purposes, $29,(534 97 For ordinary county purposes, 13,470 82 For Railroad 9,158 38 " For public schools, 10,774 02 G For local school dist. No. 13, 324 50 n For polls, 3,740 00 n 5 per cent, installment penalty, 1,2(54 87 a 8(58,308 10 0 Paid under protest, 9(5 45 P Local school, dist. 13, under protest, 20 21 tl Total $08,484 82 t( The number of delinquents is about the same C as bust year, and the sum uncollected is probably o no larger. tl . . - ri REORGANIZED AND ENLARGED. y The Standard Dramatic Company, which has h been in Yorkville for several days undergoing d reorganization, will soon be ready again to take J? the road. Mr. McElreth, the genial proprietor ^ and general manager, has about perfected his arrangements for making a brilliant tour of the V South, in which he is a general favorite, and on j. Monday night next will open in Hunter A Dates' ^ Opera House with a strong company in A. J. i Ryron's celebrated play, "Our Hoys," in which Mr. McElreth appears as Perkins Middlewick, a 1^ part made famous by John E. Owens, proprietor ^ of the Charleston Academy of Music. This is ^ announced as the last appearance hero, this sea- tl son, of the Standard, and we trust they will be ?$< greeted by a large house, which we know they b will deserve. tl THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. fj The meeting called last Thursday night by the rj Intendant to discuss the propriety of levying an additional tax of one mill for the purpose of improving the lire department of Yorkville, was tl attended by about forty citizens. Mr. J. Ed. \\ Jefleryswas elected chairman, and after stating ii the object of the meeting various propositions tl were suggested and discussed, when the follow- h itig resolution, offered by Mr. John M. Hope, sj was adopted: Resolved, That in renewing the town charter V of Yorkville for one year, the Legislature be requested to amend the same by authorizing the s( town council to levy a tax of one mill for the purpose of improving the lire department of the tr town by sinking tanks and increasing the water supply'for extinguishing lires. jj CHURCH NOTICES. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. J. Thomas Pate, ^ Pastor. There will be no preaching in this church on next Sunday, the pastor being in at- tl tendance upon the session of the Annual Conference. Sunday-school at the usual hour. tl Episcopal?Rev. G. A. Ottmann, Rector, ei Morning and evening service next Sunday at the usual hours. Sunday-school at 3.JO P. M. < Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rov. J. C. Galloway, Pastor. Preaching next Sunday at Tirzah at 11 A. M. Presbvterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. Ill ... > U: Services at 11 A. M., and 7 P. AI., next rsunaay. ? Prayer-meeting Thursday at 7 P. M. Sundayschool at :$ P. M. Baptist?Rev. J. 10. Covington, Pastor. Services in the Church at Yorkville next Sunday at 11 o'clock A. M. Business mectingat 10 A. >1. I1 . li AMUSEMENTS. / Cl The drawing room entertainment given in j'1 Hunter it Ontes'opera house last Friday night V by Mr. Harry Brown, assisted by Miss Nellie 1 ' Claire, Miss Nina Ritchie and Mrs. S. B. McJOl- j'j roth, all of the Standard Dramatic Company, was, as the bills represented, a recherche, enter- sj. tainment and quite satisfactory to the audience. Mr. Brown is a veteran actor and was ably supported. "Delicate Ground" and "Forty Winks" p] were the plays presented, interspersed with se- i rc lect recitations by Mr. Brown. The stage was j jjj properly set for the plays, and the acting through- v< out was exceptionally good. As Pauline in t'fl "Delicate Ground," Miss Nina Ritchie won the a plaudits of the audience. Young as she is, she dt acted her dillicult part with confidence, ease, Ol and a piquancy that pressage for her a bright j or future in the dramatic profession. In "Forty T Winks" Miss Nellie Claire displayed considcra- I hie art. Both of the young ladies are actresses | ^ of decided merit, as is also Mrs. McFlreth. Mr. 111 Brown, in the title role of each play, fully sus- I'll Laincd public expectation. j SALKS-PAY. I T As is always the case at this season of the year, !j.n there was a large attendance of persons in town j*|? last Monday, sales-day for December, Sonic of j , the crowd evidently not having faith in the clli PI [ acy of the Irish granger pig at Yorkvillo, pru- ^ lentiallv armed themselves in advance with a ' ^ lew rounds of "star-light," and though in alleys ! ind out-of-the-way places the crystal beaker? j fr which is the poetical simile for a black bottle of bug-juice?passed from lip to lip, imparting | beer and inspiration, there was no disturbance jU worth mentioning. Towards evening the police m ran in a few who had "bathed their drooping , ,st ipirits in delight beyond the bliss of dreams," cd out the captures were easily effected, the vie- to inis of hilarity having reached the point, when, I ;e Sample Switchel in the last stages of a period- j ell drunk, they hud come "to stay." : la It would bo superfluous to say thata few horse US raps marked the monotony of passing a few pi ?urs in town, and that the noble animal was lif e innocent cause of much chaffering and ban i ring, not to say several exchanges of equine i >sh, decidedly advantageous to both the conicting parties. j Vl There were no official sales by the Sheriff. i ^ The Clerk of the Court sold the following I i en opertv: f At the suit of \V. I?. Wilson, Jr., against j ^ iseph A. McLean and S. A. (ilenn ; tract of lis j jj res known as the "MeKenna place." Bought | r S. A. (ilenn at $(> per acre. j .jj At the suit of Arnold Kreidhiem and Julius j reidhiemagainst Allen Henry and Elvira Mil- j r; tract of 13f> acres in Catawba township. ]j( aught by Joseph Miller at $1(> per acre. tii At the suit of Kennedy Thompson and others til ;ainst Stephen Meek and others; house and to t, bought by J. A. Carroll for $7<i, and J acres \\ land bought by J. A. Carroll for Sal. Cl At the suit of Edward Coykcndall against in snnie A. Covkendall and others ; house and t at Black's. Bought by Edward Covkendall til r^SUO. li: At the suit of Robert S. Hope against John W eorge Smith and others; tract of 37-1 acres in ei ethesda township. Iiou^rht by Williams ?fc w oore and Robert Conrad at 810 per acre. es At the suit of T. J. Cockrell against J. (J. Me- n< eel and others; "Home tract," containing -40 P' res, bid oil' by John S. MeXoel at 812.50 per J-f ire; the "Postell tract," 200 acres, hid oil" by >hn S. MoXeel at $12.00 per acre. At the suit of Jonathan F. Jackson against ' lizabeth P. Jackson and others; tract of 101 ( ires, bought by Jonathan F. Jackson at 810 per ire ; the "Thoniasson tract," 72 acres, bought y S. A Smith at $12.75 per acre; part of the j, Home place," in tho town of Clover, divided ftj ito 25 lots and sold as follows: Lot Xo. 1, o] night by John Knox for 825; Xos. 2 and J, d Might by John Knox for 810 each; Xo. 4, d Might by J. F. Jackson for 80.50; Xos. 5 and 0, hi Might by C. F. Spencer for 85 and 82 respect- A civ: Xos. 7 and S, bought by W. B. Wilson, ill r., for $2and 82 respectively ; No. 0, bought by . E. Spencer for 85; Xo. 10, bought by J. Ran- n olpii Wallace for 85; Xo. 11, bought by T. X. homassoti for 88.50; Xo. 12, bought by C. E. r( penccr for 82.50; Xo. 12, bought by C. Sexton a' >r8l2; Xo. 1-1, bought by J. W. Lawrence for P [1.50; Xo. 15, bought bv It. 15. Youngblood for 15.25; Xo. 10, bought by S. A. Smith for 815: r< o. 17, bought by J. F. Jackson for 818.75; Xo. ^ 5, bought by W. M. Matthews for 825; Xo IS, of P 10 town plat bought by S. A.Smith for 8221 ; Xo. n 5 of the town plat and part of 21, bought by R. V. Shaw for 851; Xo 25, of the town plat, bought n y T. F. Jackson for 820; Xo. 20, of the town ^ lat, bought by J. F.Jackson for 811; Xos. 28, ^ ) and 20, of the town plat, bought by J. M. ?] nckson for 82.2.50, 821.50 and 81S.S0 respectively. ^ M. R. Nichols, as agent of the legatees of the fj state of Daniel Nichols, deceased, sold a tract 1 f 05 acres lying .S miles west of Yorkville. tl [ought by M. R. Nichols as $2.00 per acre. il Among other personal property, J. R. Lind- is iy, administrator of R. M. Lindsay, deceased, ft ild (5 shares of Yorkville Female College stock, O hich brought 820 per share, and 10 shares of e hester and Lenoir Railroad stock, which rought 810 per share. u a?bm?nun lt Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. J) LETTER FROM ROCK HILl^ / Rock Hill, S. C., December T.XMack farnett, colored, was arrested in Charlotte, C., on last Thursday,charged with burn- ft ug the depot of this place in April, 1884. \ t appears that Robert Steele, colored, on e eing sworn, states that he and Sam Gill cl iw Barnett saturate a batch of cotton with el il and apply a match to it. Gill is now a i theguardhouseat this place. The North s] 'arolina authorities will deliver Mack Bar- p ett to the South Carolina authorities this p ,'eek, when he will have a preliminary n earing before Trial Justice Fewell. Sam t] fill denies that he was in Rock Hill on the \ ight the depot was burned. Itwillbe.re- u lembered that the day before the burning r; negro boy was lynched, and at the time d f the lire a number of the citizens of this ci lace thought that the lynching had some- ri liing to do with the fire. E Rev. J. B. Traywick leaves to-day to at3nd the Annual Conference of the M. E. S hurch, South, which meets in Columbia ti n Wednesday. We regret to learn that p fie re is some doubt about Mr. Traywick o eturning to this circuit. During the two \\ ears he has had charge of this circuit he ft as discharged his duties faithfully, and has v one a good and noble work. There will e an effort made at the session of the Con- tl wence to divide Rock Hill circuit, putting E idnah, Antioch, India Ilook and Concord hurches into one circuit, and leaving Rock tl 1111, Friendship, Mount Holly and Cross tl toad Churches in the present Rock Ilill b ireuit. S Bessie, the eleven-year-old daughter of w Ir. W. S. Creighton, came near a serious if ti ot a fatal accident on Thursday last. She a: as standing in front of the fire-place, when p er dress caught on fire. She ran out of V fie room and was running through the pas- d ige, the flames as high as her head, when, o v chance she was met by her father, who irew his waistcoat around her and sinoth- C' red the flames, burning his hand badly in fi oing so. 1 am glad to say she was not sc- c< iously hurt. 11 A colored girl named Mary Kennedy, 13 ged twelve years, was burned to death in a lis township on Wednesday last. She w 'as standing in front of the tire with a baby tl l her arms, when her dress caught. She si irew the baby down and ran out of the ci ouse, but before assistance could reach her n le was so badly burned that death ensued, p -Mr. J. 11. Johnson is building a handsome vo-story residence on Hampton street. Rev. W. 11. Jennings preached a special jrmon to women on last Sunday. 0 Itev. John Davis, 1). 1)., a missionary tr, > China from the Southern Presbyterian g, hurch, will lecture in the Presbyterian tl lurch at this place at an early day, his v ibject being China. \ Nothing has been heard of the wherea- p outs of Charles F. May, the jeweler, who y ;ft this place and a number of creditors on y le 25th ultimo. n Wedding bells will ring in Itock Hill on p le lflth instant. This time a cotton weigh- jj r. IIai.. > ^ ^ -D ^orrospondence of (he Yorkvillc Enquirer. THE STATE LEGISLATURE. p( Columbia, December 7.?Since writing y ist, no measures of general importance c( ave become laws by the action of both ai [ouses. There are several bills of more or p sss general interest on the calendars. S The action of those members who favor p, . onomy in the administration of the pub- n: c affairs has had a good effect in restrain- t lg the action of others, and whilst the can- si is, as a body, arraigned no particular do- ji artment of the State government, they j< >ok steps to ascertain whether or not re- T notions might not be made without im- ai airing the efficiency of the public service, ti ; was, as its action showed, an enlightened xly of men, and there was no disposition i lown, as a body, to be "penny wise and | T mnd foolish." ! C< The joint resolution to submit to the peo-, CI !c the (question of calling a Convention to ; te svise the Constitution upon its final passage m i the Senate, failed to receive a two-thirds lu ate, as required. The chief objections to <): illing a convention were the expense, and ! V vague feeling that some things might be J be me which would disturb the harmony of I to lr party, and thereby endanger the pres-1 i 11- e?i; or ii< irienuiy leuiuig uuiwcvu mu nara, hj hese objections were strengthened by the of gument that the evils complained df in hi le present Constitution can be remedied by j in nendments from time to time, as the do-1 el ands may be made for these reforms. an A Bill is on the calender of the Mouse to ('( )olish free tuition in the S. C. University, in he argument used by the friends of the easure is the well known one brought tit rward by the friends of every denomina-' an anal college in the State?that the State, Cc 'giving free tuition in her State College, is In itering into competition with them, and xing them to defray the expenses of free tli ition to the injury of their own institu- co ans. Another argument is used by the hi iends of the free common schools, that it is hn ving to the purposes of higher education a lei uch greater proportionate share of the en lblic school funds than to the free com-' an on schools, and that it is the duty of the ate to expend the money intended for the tli lucation of her people so that it will inure ed the greatest good of the greatest number, pr The Bill in the Senate allowing Judges to 1 of ~ 7 large juries on matters of fact as well as of m w, was defeated by a very large majority, m well as a Hill to reduce the number of S< 'remptory challenges now allowed to de-1 in ndants in criminal cases. X The Prohibitionists and their opponents j ei tve had several tilts in the House without tli iy very decided results as to what is the ews of a majority of that body. The Hill provide for the submission to the voters Abbeville county of the question of "Li- ( < use" or "No License," in tlie incorporated at wnsof said county, at a special election, a as the subject of a long discussion in the t> ouse. It was very ably argued pro and c<; <n. The bill was recommitted, and will obably fail to pass. From the best infor- ^ ation I can gather, the sentiment of a j-() ajority of the Legislature is opposed to w egislative interference, and that the ques- w on should be settled by the people under p ie local option ; but there is no disposition i extend the local option to any town in "j hich it is now prohibited by Legislative j lactment, unless it is asked for by a large " uijority of those interested. r There was an organized effort made to jolish the Trial Justice system and estab- ? sh a county court instead thereof. This " as defeated on the ground that it would P: itail great trouble and expense to people ho live at a distance from the Court IIous- "l whether they might be litigants or wit- s( ssses, and greatly increase the county ex- e; inses, as it would involve the expense of le salary of County Judge, County Court 01 lerk, County Solicitor, juries, Ac. n We learn that the York delegation have 2i freed upon 2A mills as the amount to be ii icorporated in the Supply Bill for county ei urposes in York county. An election was held last Friday by the js egislature in Joint Assembly for a Chief stice and Six Circuit Judges. W. I). 0; impson was elected Chief Justice without v ^position. Gen. Moore's name was withrawn from the contest against Judge Al- t, rich, and this left all the present incuments without any opposition. Pressley, j. ldrich, Hudson, Witherspoon, Wallace ' nil Cothran were re-elected. , *| In regard to the census question there is ^ otliing settled. Your readers will remem- n er that last year the 1 louse passed a Bill to quire the Governor to have a census taken, ad appropriated money to defray the exenses thereof. The Senate rejected the \ ill. The object of taking the census is to S ^apportion the representation in the House f< f Representatives. The House has again a assed the Census Bill, but the Senate has b ot yet acted upon it. a The Senate, 011 Saturday, passed a joint reslution proposing a Constitutional amend-! ti lent enabling the Legislature to accept the p !i..1 Oi.~i.~-. n T An.!elo I 1 imou maies v.ensus as a uasis i/i ucjiiam- | r ive apportionment, which if agreed to by | v lie House, would enable the representa- a ion to be re-apportioned, as the C'onstitu- t! ion requires, without any cost to the State, g 'he Senate also proposed an amendment to tie Constitution to make the State Superntendent of Education elective by the Leg- a slature and to increase his term of office to ^ >ur years. Also, to give the appointment v f County School Commissioner to the Gov- q rnor. * j, A bill has passed the House and is now s, nder discussion in the Senate, to authorize j 'ounty Commissioners and municipal au- & tiorities, to work criminals, sentenced at v ard labor for a less term than twelve a lonths, on the public highways. 11. RAILROAD PROGRESS. All the contractors on the Shelby-Ituther- 3 ird division of the Atlantic and North >\ Vestern Railroad are now at work in good p arnest. Last week Maj. John F. Jones, () hief engineer, and Capt. 0. A. Ramsaur,. |] liief of the field corps of the Massachusetts v nd Southern Construction Company in- s pected all the work already done and ex- r ressed themselves much pleased with the h rogress that has been made. There are ^ ow over five hundred hands at work upon r le road. Major Jones last week visited t 'orkville and, upon his return, was called rj pon by Mr. W. II. Kirby, an experienced j . 4m/?vvi Vr\wr \rnvlr tirli A _ turuuu uuiiiiticiui Hum x wii\j jj esires a contract on the road. The field s 3rps of the company is now engaged in v iinning a preliminary line direct from t [lack's to Yorkville, >S. C. c In Yorkville township, of York county, n outh Carolina, petitions for a railroad elec- 0 on have been in circulation during the j, ast week and the election will propably be e rdered upon a subscription of $75,000 and q 'ill prescribe that the road shall be built i om Black's or King's Mountain to York- s ille. v Col. II. A. Johnson, general manager of j le company, is expected to return from ^ toston to the .South by the end of the week, t; Messrs. Wright Bros., the contractors on g ic Carolina Central, Railroad have moved leir camps to Beaver Creek and will soon uild another on Mr. Stroud's place near , andyliuu. They now have 125 hands at n ork' At one point the laborers of the j( ,vo companies are working in sight of one ,x nother. The force employed by the com- ' any is about as large as that of the Messrs. bright. Nothing authoritative has been Q eveloped concerning the definite intentions t f the company. j C'ol. Montcure, the chief engineer of the ^ arolina Central Railroad, returned to-day > om Phmnixville, Pa., where he had just ~ included a contract with the Plnenixville ridge Company'for a bridge over the First j, iroad river. The structure will be of iron q bout 000 feet in length in all. The river ill be crossed by a span 145 feet long and c ic rest of the flat by a viaduct of forty and e xty foot spans. In a few days Col. Mont- ?.l ire expects to give out contracts for the j, ?st of the bridges between Shelby and iney Mountain Ridge -Shelby NewKru, 2d. ME RETENTION'. Ferdinand Ward shows, by ( Jen. (1 rant's r wn bank book, that he received $242,000 in ood money against $130,000 put in. A eneral snow storm prevailed throughout ic North-west last Friday. The total '' ote cast in the election of Governor of <i 'irginiawas 200,071, of which Fitz Hugh s: ,ee, Democrat, received 152,544, John 8. rise, Republican, 140,410, and scattering, t( J. Some of the sheriff's in Pennsylvania , lake from $15,000 to$20,000 a year.'*"-Flor- t) la hotel keepers expect a quarter of a milon of guests this season. ;'There are n 727 National banks in the United States. | _ .bout luO were started last year, ah are i 'ported to be in good condition. "'"The j ultan of Turkey has 2G0 wives and his ! ersonal expenses are about $12,000,000 a i ear. Prohibition is in effect in 110 j lunties of Georgia. The indications j re that John W. Daniel, the King's Mounlin centennial orator, will be elected IT. ! > . Senator from Virginia to succeed Ma-jc one. vBernhardt G. Berger, of the fa- ; n ious family of Swiss bell ringers, died at i? homasville, Ga., of consumption. A tate Prohibition Convention will be held j t.| i Greensboro, X. C., to-morrow. Charles ! ;lI ones Soon, a young Chinaman educated at rinity College, joined the X. C. Conference i i() ; its recentsession in Charlotte, and has re- ! irned to China as a missionary. Tin-: South Carolina Confluence.? ! lie annual session of the South Carolina inference of the Methodist Episcopal liureh, South, convened in Columbia yes-1 rday. This will probably be one of the ? ost*important sessions of that body ever ' ?ld. Bishop J. C. Keener, D. D., of New n rleans, will preside. The Rev. R. A. . oung, D. D., missionary secretary of the ^ >ard of church extension, is also expected be present. ! Besides the regular routine work and the . ipointingof the preachers to their places . work for next year, the Conference will 1 ive several other matters of very great :.ll! iportance before it. An editor will be i 111 ccted for the Southern Christ inn Arfrocutc, ^ id delegates will be elected to the General inference of the Church which will meet Richmond, Ya., next May. The claims of Paine institute, an instituin for the education of colored teachers 1 id preachers, will be presented, and the inference will be asked to make a contriition to aid in securing an endowment of fi.ooi), which has been promised by a gen man in Missouri on condition that the nference raise $1">,U00 to secure suitable lilding for the Institute. This amount is been divided among the different con- i '"""""a .in/I t line lor oil tl>r? iillior nnnfur. < ices that have been held have paid the w nount assessed upon them. ?'i A mutual insurance society, known as 8.?' e Conference Brotherhood, will be form- p" . 'Idie object of this society will be to ,15, ovide, by a small assessment on the death 1,1 a member, for the family of the deceased I mi ember. The proposition to change the ime of the church so as to omit the word )uth will be submitted to a vote, and will, all probability, be unanimously rejected, one of the other conferences have cousent1 to the proposed change in the name of 10 church. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. -The Edgefield Chronicle says that the >urthouse in that town is the shabbiest id filthiest courthouse in the State, and is disgrace to so large and populous a coun' as Edgefield. This is a plea for anew turt house. - The AVinnsboro Xeirx of Thursday says: nothor squad of colored people, we are inrmed, will leave for Arkansas early next eek. It is just a matter of time until they ill long for the cotton fields of the old iilmetto State. -Charlie Sauls and Joe Halford, aged >out fourteen, have disappeared from their Dines in Walterboro. They are sons of ell-to-do and respectable parents, and their aving is unaccounted for, only on the round that they are reckless boys. ? The Town Council of Abbeville having \ssed a stringent ordinance againt the saie f whisky on Sunday, the whisky men ave jointly obligated themselves not to ?11 or give away any whisky on Sunday, tcept on a physician's prescription. ? The annual meeting of the stockholders f the Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Rail)ad Company was held in Columbia on the nd instant. After the stockholders' meetlg the board of directors met and re-elect:l all of the old officers. ? The Ashevilleand Spartanburg liailroad > reported to be progressing finely. An fficial on the construction force states that illy one half mile of track between Ashe- t, illc and Hendersonvilie remains to be raded, and there are only four miles of the rack to be laid. ? The Mayor, police and business men of klgefield have published an affidavit deying that there was revelry by anybody in liat town on the occasion of the release on ond of the Culbreath lynchers. They proounce the reports sent out by newspaper orrespondents as "false and slanderous." ? About forty families left Iligh Point, iaurens county, last week, for Arkansas, everal negro families also left the county )r homes in the West. The Herald says n emigrant agent was in the county week efore last quietly working up an exodus mong the colored people. ? A colored man was arrested in Charlescm last week who confesses his implication n the murder of Constable Blackwell in Mgefield county last October. Blackwell ras sent to arrest some disorderly negroes, nd they barricaded themselvesand fired on he officer, killing him. The murder caused reat excitement at the time. Giiouls in Atlantahile the funerI of John Harvey was/in progress at West ,Tiew Cemetery, Atlanta, the other day, it as noticed that the coffin was very light, 'his induced the opening of the lid, when t was discovered that the coffin was full of and. Harvey died in the hospital and the octors evidently used his body for the disecting table. The grand jury have got to fork on the case and they propose to make full investigation. A day or two subsequent to that event, it fas discovered that the body of Mrs. Win. lice had been stolen from her grave at lason's Church seven miles from Atlanta, 'lie day after she was buried some one iassing through the graveyard found an ld-fashioncd tuck comb. He took it in his iand, and in passing the nearest house, in rhich her parents lived, the comb was hown to the dead woman's mother, who ecognized it at once and said that it was ier daughter's comb. This fact caused the elief to arise that the grave had been obbed, and it was at once decided to have * he grave opened and examination made, "he dirt was removed and the coffin found 11 its proper place. This was taken out and pened. There was nothing in the coffin ave the underclothing worn by the dead foman. The grave robbers had taken off he body and the dress, leaving the underlothing in the coffin. A gentleman, living ear the graveyard, said he was awakened n that night by a wagon going by the house 11 the direction of the graveyard. lie nevr thought of body snatchers and conseuently paid no attention to it. When Mr. lice heard that his wife's body had been tolen he became frantic with grief, and it /as feared he would do injury to himself, lis mind has been failing ever since, and ie is almost crazy. He does nothing but nlk of his wife's suffering death, and the rave-robbers stealing her body. Collapse of a Mutual Benevolent Association.?The Mutual Self-Endownentand Benevolent Association of Amer:a, with headquarters in Fort Worth, Texs, and division offices at Greenville, S. C'., nd San Francisco, Cal., has suspended payment. Three garnishments have been issudat Fort Worth by members of the associaion. One for the recovery of the amount of ues and assessments paid and the other wo for the collection of mature coupons, so one has been made wealthy by the faille, but hundreds of poor have been made oorer. Julien Field, the postmaster at 'ort Worth, is President of the association, 'he organization has collected over $1,00000, and now lias $14,000 on haud. Loss of ontidence on the part of the members causd the the stoppage of the payment of asBssments, and this, in return, caused the nspension of payment on the coupons. iffarlicf glcjjorts. YORKVILLE, December !>.?Cotton 6$ to 8J; LIVERPOOL, December7.?Cotton dull atul rices generally favorable to buyers: middling, 3-Kid. NEW YORK, December 7.?Cotton dull; midling uplands, 93. Futures closed steady with ties of <50,300 bales as follows: December, ,29 to ;>.:?<); January, 1>.M<> to 9.37 ; February, 9.46 >9.47 : March. 9.SK to 9..">9: Anril. 9.6!) to' 9.70: lay, 0.80 to 0.81; June, 0.01 to 9.02; July, 10.01 ) 10.02 ; August, 10.10 to 10.11; September, 0.83 > 0.85. C11ARL KSTON, December 7.?Cotton steady ; liddling, 82. Special ttoinrs. The Witness is with You. Clay Hill, s. C. Nov. 27th, 1885. John C. Kcykknpat.?Agent for Longman & lartine/' Pure Prepared Paints, Yorkvillc s. .?Dear Sir: It gives me pleasure to recomlend unqualifiedly, the Longman A .Martinez ure Prepared Paints sold by you. Nine years ;o I painted my residence with them, in two >at work. The covering is yet perfect, hard id uniform, and still looks fresh and new. his is in reply to your inquiry as to my opinio of the L. A M. paints. I am ver\ truly Yours, DAVID A."A. WATSON. Direct Testimony. The direct testimony of every person who has led the Piedmont Beauty Tobacco is, that it is ic best chew for the price in the market. Two >ld boys" told us a few days since, "pintedly it as the best they had seed since the war." And tar in mind, brethren, that the P. 15. can be had town only of Kuykendal. Cross Examination. A housekeeper overhauling her silver and i ware, table cutlery and glass and finding em all dingy and rusty would be a cross ex uination, wouldn't it ? No such thing occurs families that use Lustrahn. Lnstrabo sold in wn only by Kuykendal. Judges* Charge. Judges of Cigars all over the 1*. S. charge all vers of a good smoke to use the Tansill's inch all Havana tiller, and sold in town only Kuykendal. Tlio Vordict. The popular verdict is that J. I. C'. Harness I is the best for leather, ('lean, softening, war proof. .Inst the thing for shoes in wet weath. Sold in town only by Kuykeiulal. Prom mi Fx-<?overiior of S. Carolina. Sans Sotci, September 2nd, 18S4.?Messrs. estinoreland Hros., (Jentlemen :?I most eoriilly reeonimend your Calisava Tonic. For vcral years past I have been troubled with ingestion and dyspepsia. My son, Dr. llext M. >rry, of Philadelphia, who knows the itigreents which compose your Tonic, spoko favorav of it. In two months I have used 4 bottles d am entirely relieved. 15. F. PERKY.