Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Scraps antl ,# acts. ? Business failures occurring throughout the country during the last week reported to R. G. Dun & Co., number for the United States 253; Canada 34; total 287, against 289 last week and 229 the week previous. More than two thirds of the whole number in the United States are furnished by the Southern, Western and Pacific States. ? Ex-Congressman Rainey, of South Carolina, is still in Washington, but has gone out of politics and into the coal trade. He can congratulate himself that he is no longer in Congress and liable to be hauled over the coals, and besides, in his new business it is probable that Rainey will lay by something for a rainy day. ? In reply to a colored correspondent who expressed fears that the Slater fund, of which ex-President Hayes is a trustee, was being misapplied, Mr. Hayes writes that fund is being used as Mr. Slater desired it to be, and sends a statement showing that during the last fifteen months $33,356 had been expended on the thirty-one colored schools of the South. ? Thursday night was in many places the nnlHocf nt tho winter Tho thormnnipter was 8? below at Richmond, Va., 13above at Charleston, 25 below at Staunton, Va., 2 below at Washington, 2 below at Baltimore. It was colder than ever known at Staunton and Fortress Monroe, Va. The bodies of a man, his wife and six children, emigrants, were found frozen stiff on the prairie near Oberlin, Kansas. ? In conversation with an intimate friend ' recently the President referred to the demands of the Senate upon members of his Cabinet for papers concerning removals and suspensions. "The Senate," said he, with force, "might as well inquire why I voted for Governor Hill last fall, or why I contributed to the expenses of the campaign, as to ask me why I appointed friencis of my administration to office." ? An anti-treating law has passed one branch of the Washington Territory Legislature. It prohibits any person from treating or entertaining "gratuitously any other person or persons to or with spirituous or malt . liquors, wine or cider, or any other beverage whatever, in any public barroom, saloon, beer hall or grocery in this Territory, or in any other public place of resort or amusement." The penalty is a fine of not less than $5 or more than $25, or imprisonment not less than five or more than twenty days, or both. ? The casket containing the remains of President Garfield has become damaged by the action of air and moisture, and accordingly, on last Saturday, it was placed, without opening, in a large, handsome and substantial bronze sarcophagus. The latter was then hermetically sealed and returned to the vault in which the casket has been since the funeral. The change was made without the knowledge of anybody except * the family and those who did the work, and four newspaper reporters who had been invited to witness the transfer. ? The Boston Herald gives the following story of slave days, which is more or less true: The exploits of the Pennsylvauian Mennonite preacher, in baptizing converts in fheSehnvkill river amid floating cakes of ice, at the peril of their lives, recalls the negro preacher, who baptized members of his flock under similar circumstances during the old days of slavery, and when the current would occasionally carry an unfortunate candidate under the ice and far away, he rolled his eyes to heaven and exclaimed : "De Lawd gibbeth and de Lawd taketh away. Pass on anoder nigger." ? In June, 1883, two notorious hoodlums of Galveston, Texas, Robert Owens and George Dodds, in a spirit of deviltry, attacked a hearse bearing a pauper corpse, and dumped the body into the street. They were sentenced to two years in the county jail, but on the petition of a number of citizens, Governor Ireland granted a pardon conditional upon their good behavior. Recently the same men were convicted of petty thieving. This fact coming to the Governor's knowledge, he has issued a proclamation revoking the pardon, and directing the Sheriff to carry out the judgment of the court. This is the first revocation of pardon in the history of the State. ? Si Minich, one of the three men who murdered Samuel Baldwin near Leadville, Colorado, on October 18,1884, for $1,700 was hanged in Leadville last Friday afternoon. Up to Thursday evening Minich expected Governor Eaton would commute his sentence to life imprisonment. He was indifferent to his fate, and drove the clergyman, who sought to convert him, out of his cell with violent blasphemy. Friday morning, when he discovered that he must hang, he called loudly for the preacher and earnestly prayed for the Almighty's forgiveness. He ascended the scaffold at 1.30 with a cigar in his mouth and a smile on his lips, and was launched into eternity, denying his guilt to the last minute. ? A Rutland, Vermont, dispatch of February 5 says: John O'Neil, formerly of Rutland, but now ol Whitehall, New York, has for years been expressing liquor in sealed kegs into Vermont. In December, 1882, the authorities seized lpo of his packages and upon O'Neil's crossing the line they arrested him. On 307 convictions he was fined over $6,000 with the alternative of 49 years and 2 months in jail. He appealed, and to-day the Supreme Court sustained the decision of the lower court. This decision makes the sending of liquor from New York by a common carrier to Vermont sale by the sender. O'Neil was held iu $10,000 bail, and the case goes over to the United States Supreme Court. ? In reference to the recent killing of Lieutenant Crawford by Mexican troops, noted in our last issue, the Tucson, Arizona Star says: "It can be shown to the satisfaction of any Congressional committee that trade had been constantly kept up by the Mexicans with the hostile Apaches while every obstacle had been put in the path of the American commands sent into Mexico in pursuit of renegades. Wherever it was possible officers were arrested and thrown into prisons. Among those who were thus incarcerated were Lieutenant McDonald of the Fourth Cavalry and Lieutenant Elliott of the Tenth Cavalry. They were kept under guard until the approach of large forces of American troops frightened the Mexicans into liberating them. From the most reliable information there is not the least doubt that the killing of Lieutenant Crawford was a premeditated murder." ? An Atlanta dispatch of the 3rd instant says: One of the most terrible results of the late freeze in Atlanta is a curious case, that ? ?-i. .i t> i 4ir:n:.,. ?..f Ol a convict intuitu duu \? uiittiiia \\ nu suifered so severely from its effects that it has been found necessary to amputate both his legs. The convicts enjoyed a three days' rest which the cold snap gave them. They were housed in a building warmed by three large stoves, and passed their time singing, patting, dancing and talking. The weather appeared to have no terrors for them, and when night came they crawled to their bunks, were chained down and went to sleep. On Saturday night when time arrived Bud Williams climbed the platform and dropped down on his bunk, about eight feet from the stove. The next morning, when the long chain which holds the convicts in place during the night was removed and the convicts began to stir about, Williams found it almost impossible to move. His feet had been frozen hard. In two weeks, notwithstanding the medical attendance, the flesh sloughed away from his feet and the bones cripped out. Bud Williams maintains that there was no fire, and that he had only a thin piece of blanket all through the night. The county commission is now making a quiet investigation of the matter. It is understood that the members are considerably worked up, and that they are going to give the matter a careful investigation. The commission will meet to-morrow. Sb far the members decline to talk upon the subject. _ ?Lieut. Greely is perhaps the only proin\inent Arctic traveler who now advances 'the theory advocated by Maury, Kane, and Hays that there i9 an open polar sea. His faith in this generally discarded hypothesis rests upon the fact that he saw floebergs on which were large stones, establishing their terrestrial origin. From their position he argues that they could not have formed a part of the glacial ice-cap of Greenland, and he believes they floated southward from the ice-covered land near the pole. He advanced his views on this subject at several of the public meetings he recentlv addressi | ed in Great Britain, and strange to say, : none of the great Arctic authorities who were present, and who have steadily ridi- I | culed the notion which Lieut. Maury pro- ! S( ! pounded, attempted to combat Lieut. Gree- j v j ly's theory or explain the phenomena he ! e i described/ Dr. John Itae, however, has j e since suggested that Greely's floebergs may C( | have been derived from immense masses a; j of snow piling up against some high and i precipitous bit of coast, which gradually ^ j became solid ice, and then becoming de- S( tached from the land drifted away as fresh ^ water floebergs?a process which, he says, Cl he has seen in operation 011 the northern v coast of t he con ti nen t. a fflrbtiiUc 2 y a- ? YORKVILLK, S. ('. : tJ p THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 11,188(1. t] A CHANGE OF GAUGE. |j A large railroad meeting was held in At- b lanta last Thursday for the purpose of discussing the change of gauge on the Southem roads and to arrange the details of the undertaking. The meeting consisted of ^j] representatives from all the railroads south of the Potomac and Ohio River, and was of an interesting character, inasmuch as it si affects some of the most important railroad jj lines in the South. j The meeting was called by a special com- S( mittee in charge of the work, and of which ti Col. Hanes, general manager of the Plant ii system of roads, is chairman. The Charles- ti ton roads were represented by Col. J. 13. * Peck and Mr. J. H. Averill, of the South e Carolina Railway; Superintendent Gads- r, den, of the Charleston & Savannah Railway, and Mr. Henry Walters, general manager n of the Atlantic Coast Line, on behalf of the a Northeastern Railroad. At present the railroads in the South have ? a uniform gauge of five feet, and the change Si is for the purpose of adopting the Northern a or standard gauge, which is four feet, eight ti and one-half inches. The difference in gauge 0 now necessitates a change of trucks on pas- 0 senger coaches at Wilmington and other t( points where the two gauges come in con- ri oni-l flir? onmnlptp transfer of freicht fi from one car to another, or at least a change (1 of cars from the trucks qf one gauge to those v of the other, and the enormous amount of money and labor which will be saved by the ^ change can, therefore, be readily seen. Most t| of the roads will be changed to a gauge of v four feet nine inches, as it is more convenient v and is sufficiently near the standard gauge b for all pracaticable purposes. It wasresolv- C ed in the convention to change the gauge on Monday, May 31, and Tuesday, June 1. e The details are fully provided for and the c work will be done almost without inter- c ruption in the running of important trains. It is estimated that the change, although 0 to be effected in so short a time, will cost n the various railroads concerned ?750,000. / 1( THE UTAH CONVICTIONS. p The Territorial Supreme Court of Utah has rendered a decision sustaining the con- ? viction of Apostle Lorenzo Snow of unlawful cohabitation. The court recites that j| Snow in Xauvoo first illegally married two v women at one ceremony and the contract tl therefore was null and void. He then married successively other women, all of whom ^ he supports and holds out to the world as his wives. This is shown by the testimo- p ny, while at the same time he"dwells with s< Minnie, his latest polygamous wife, who *< has a three months old child. The Court ? says this is one of the most flagrant cases jj of polygamy in the Territory and that no 0 error was made in convicting Snow. The N court also sustains the conviction of Brig- v ham Young Hampton of conspiring to establish a disreputable house for the purpose . of luring thither prominent Gentiles, and .. says that the testimony disclosed a wicked and disgraceful conspiracy which must be condemined by all. Snow is probably the most intelligent man in the Mormon church and is look- tl' ed upon by the adherents to the Mormon doctrines as a leader. His conviction and ^ sentence to the Penitentiary for eighteen months may have a salutary influence, s " ' " ' 1 1 I U tnougn ne is uenani an? upuuius puj.ygainous doctrines to the last. Pending his ! trial he delivered an address to his people i ^ in the Tabernacle, a report of which we ^ have in a Utah paper, the Southern I'tonian. j He compares the prosecution of the polyg- ti arnists to the persecutions of the Saints and ? in anticipation of meeting those Saints u hopes to be able to say that we have also passed through similar trials to those which jt conduced to their exaltation. In his ad- i dress he acknowledged several wives, and ! el said: "I told my wives to admit their I h ! ft marital relations to me, and my attorneys '11 to admit in my case that I claimed these j r( women in days gone by as my wives : that C( I do so now and expect to throughout all w eternity." n As showing the method of distilling the P peculiar doctrine of Mormonism in the i minds of this deluded people, we quote J.( further from Apostle Snow's remarks: n When I was called and ordained into tl the Holy Priesthood of God, I asked my- ti self this question: "Am I willing to offer si myself a living sacrifice to this work?" i And I accepted the conditions. I now wish p; to counsel all to prepare themselves for ev- C ery ordeal that may await them. Now is 1)1 the time that love should abound?that all bickering feelings should be eradicated, (.' and peace and harmony prevail in the | midst of the brethren and in their house- ii holds. si The Lord designs to bring honor and v glory to Himself and to His work through n: us, as well as to ourselves. I am pleased IJ that we have the privilege of showing to tt the world that there is a religion in ex- , oi istence that is worth living for and worth ci dying for. Some may ask, "What can I tl do to show my worthiness of the society of the tried Saints in Missouri, who weredriv- w en from their homes and compelled to C sign their property over at the point of ir the bayonet, to defray the expenses of the mob?" I say, now is the time?it is approaching like a whirlwind. Let no heart tl fail. Fast and pray that you may enjoy w the spirit and testimony of the holy re! liedon. Si I am speaking to you in view of meeting li you in your glorified state in yonder world; L and whether I shall see you again in life or 01 not, I expect to see you there. The pros- j pect of having a sentence passed upon me t( j next Saturday is but a small matter. It has been shown unto me as clearly as the sun- it ! shine that, as we are now, God once was ft and worked his way onward and upward, li step bv step, to H is glorious state; and why it should we not do likewise, by His aid and tl guidance ? We are the descendants of Abra- tl ham, who is now sitting upon his throne tl enjoying his glory, and that is our destiny 11 if we are faithful. God has shown to me .S that this gospel is true. I bear this testi- r< mony to you, and bear it to all the world, j a ' I never should have entered into the sys- II tern of plural marriage if God had not a j shown it to me to be true, and that he had q revealed it for the fulness of His glory; and a } I bear this testimony. The Prophet Joseph p , also explained it to me. I never acknowl- t< j edged one wife to be more legal than anoth- j g er. In the sacred covenent which God re-, It 1 vealod, they are all the same. 1 g RAILROAD NOTES. [Shelby New Era, February :!.] The contract completed by the Massaehu- j ?tts and Southern Construction Company 'ith Col. P. P. Dickinson, the distinguishd New York railroad builder is but another vidence of the financial integrity of the ampany and should send doubting Thomses to the rear to stay. It means that the r>mpany is in earnest in its intention to I uild a trunk line and has the ability to do a. A man so well acquainted with railroad j uilding, railroad builders and northern j iipitalists a Col. Dickinson, usually knows ! hat he is about and does not engage in ! ny questionable enterprise. The last week has been favorable to outf-door work and the contractors on both nes have made noticeable progress. The surveying corps of the Massachustts and Southern Construction Company ad reached Rocky Mount, and turning ack, are now running a line to Rock Hill, c- o nnnci/lorolilo t.rnfittlirf* hrnilfrhf. tn llPSir y the people of flock Hill, who urge that good line can be developed via that town, nd that the Charleston, Cincinnati and 'hicago can be built to its advantage via tock Hill as well as via Yorkville. Capt. Itamsaur, with his assistants, arrivd in Shelby yesterday and all are now enaged between Shelby and Black's. Mr. W. B. Hooper, has been appointed ssistant engineer and will have charge of lie work south of Shelby. He will for the resent be located here. Col. It. A. Johnson, general manager of he Massachusetts and Southern Construcion Company, who has been in South C'aroInafor the last two weeks, arrived in Shely Saturday noon and is now in Rutherirdton. Mr. Kirby commenced work on Monday bout three miles north of Black's with a Dree of seventy-five hands which is being ticreased daily. [Shelby Aurora, February 4.] The Massachusetts and Southern Contruction Company say they mean busness and will run from Black's, South 'arolina, to Shelby and Rutherfordton by uly, 188G. So says the smiling Col. JohnDn. The word has' gone forth that the rains will be here next July. Thisappears ncredible to some. The Aurora thinks hey will do well if the trains run from Hack's to Rutherfordton by next January, ret Col. Dickinson is a railroad man of past xperience and promises vigorous work and apid completion from Black's to Shelby. Work has begun at Moore's Mills three ii les this side of Black's and over 100 hands re now at work under Col. Kirby. A irge force will soon be at work along the ;hole line to Shelby. Col. Dickinson, ,'ho graded most of the Air-Line Railway, I avs the route will be vigorously pushed : nci built. He is a director and a large conractor and this inspires confidence in many f the doubting, and strengthens the hopes f the confident. Many who doubted their bility to think they soon have a railroad :> build now think they will soon have a ailroad to Black's S. G. The entire route rom Black's to Rutherfordton is now uner contract. The work of track-laying fill commence at Black's. [Black's Correspondence of the New Era.] Black's S. C., January 28.?This has een a memorable day in Black's. Alhough we had been assured that oun village fould be the point upon the Air-Line at fhich the junction with thatrailroad would e made by the Charleston, Cincinnati & Chicago Railroad, the official announcelent of the fact had just been received. It appened that Major John F. Jones, chief ngineer of the new road, with Captain 'laude Aiken, one of his assistants, had ome to town, and the citizens determined 3 welcome them heartily. The band was rdered to appear and about half past eight 'clock it was taken by our people to our ew hotel where Major Jones was stopping, ifter an inspiring air, Major Jones was )udly called for. He appeared upon the iazzaand, in a neat speech, emphasized tie importance, ig reference to Black's, of tie steps which had been taken and thankd the band and the people for the kind invest which they had always manifested i the projects of the company and for the arm hearted and earnest way in which riey have worked for their own success and iat of the company; and gracefully acnowledged the compliment paid to him. Ir. Chas. Cotton, a partner of Mr. W. II. ^irby, after a few remarks, referred the eople to Mr. Kirby, who said he would ?e them later. Mr. Geo. A. Frick, the ediir of the New Era, was made to say a few 'ords, expressing the hope of increased injrcourse between North and South C'arona. He was followed by Mr. J. W. Black, ur honored intendant, Prof. Neal and Ir. Jos. Black, your regular correspondent, ho distinguished himself, but whose modsty would not permit him to report it. Ir. Kirby then said he would see them and ivited them all to refreshments which 'ere much enjoyed. Aitogemer, everyDdy prensent had a first-class time. BUTLER AND LOGAN. In the Senate on Wednesday during the ebate on the admission of Dakota: Mr. Logan expressed his regret at Mr. rest's sickness. Going directly to the arument of the objections of Messrs. Butler nd Vest, Mr. Logan said that fourteen lates had been admitted under the force of enabling" acts and eleven States wit lint enabling acts. Congress, therefore, was ee to adopt either course, according to cirmistances, which, in each case, might seem est adapted to the public good. Mr. Logan asked what was the substanal objection to the admission. By readig a paragraph from Mr. Butler's speech e might get a glimpse, at least, a shadow f the real objection. The meaning of the bjection was that if Dakota were admitted would add three electoral votes to the lepubliean strength at the next Presdential lection. He inquired of Mr. Butler (who ad meanwhile entered,) whether that was le point. Mr. Butler denied it and said he had al?ady declared that even if the political imulexion of Dakota were Democratic, he ould have felt obliged to oppose its adlission under the present aspect of its aplieation. If Dakota came here under an nabling act, and had complied with the mditions required by the act, he would (it oppose its admission. But even in that ise, he would not vote for the admission if le so called action of the Territory was not le bona fide action of the people, but of a nail political clique. Dakota, Mr. Logan said, had 201,000 peole, and had polled ">7,000 votes. South arolina had 700,000 people and only voted 1,000 votes. Mr. Butler corrected Mr. Logan, South arolina had 1,000,000 of population. Mr. Logan admitted the error, but still isisted that there was something wrong nnewhere, when Dakota polled so many otes relatively to the vote of South Carolia. True only 31,000 votes were cast by akota on the election for the new constiition, but that was because the Democrats f Dakota, under the direction of the Demo atic committee, had not participated in le election. --I 1 41... 4 4.. ,ur, Duller Hllilt lllilt null IU uu ith the question under debate. South arolina was not applying for admission ito the Union. Mr. Logan admitted this. Mr. Butler thought Logan's remarks, lerefore, as applicable as if Kamchatka as applying for admission. Mr. Logan?"That is the opinion of the enator. The Senator had said South Carona was in the Union. So she is," said ogan, "and I say that she has never been at." Mr. Butler?"I am glad to hear the Sena>r say that." Mr. Logan said his references were more 1 sorrow than in anger, but he could not >rbear saying that it was not "north of the ne" that bitterness was found or injustice lculcated. It was not north of the line lat it was sought to deprive the people of leir votes. The objection to Dakota was le part of a great scheme to keep out the lepublican States until the Democratic tates could be brought in also. That was a ^petition of the old principle of the "free nd slave" States. Mr. Logan read from le Charleston News and Courier an article dvocating the enactment of a property ualifieation for voting. There, he said, is proposition to deprive the mass of the eople of the right of suffrage. "TheSena:>r from South Carolina laughs," said Loan, "I don't see why you should not lugh, because that is the way you are oingto control that country after a while. The start of the Democracy had been in South Carolina." "Yes, said Mr. Butler, "while the distinguished Senator from Illinois (Logan) was i the leader of that party." "Not the leader," replied Logan. "I was i a follower, and I followed so far behind that j I got left." (Great laughter and applause ! in the galleries.) The attempt to keep out Dakota Logan characterized as a part of a great scheme to keep out the States that sent Republicans to Congress. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chester February 8.?In my last correspondence I gave a general account of the attempted escape of some of the prisoners in the jail at this place. I have since obtained the particulars and now give them, thinking they will be of interest to the readers of Enquirer. Sheritf Hood entered the jail about sundown for the purpose of putting the prisoners in their cells for the night, as they were permitted to stay in the debtor's room during the day around the fire. While in the act of searching a prisoner, Allen Good, colored, charged with forgery, seized the sheriff. The latter levo 1. . rl of fiio ncL'nilnnt hllf if QnAn. ci1110 jnolui au 1110 aooauuubj wmv ?v ed. At this moment another colored prisoner, Anthony Heath, charged with larceny, also seized the sheriff, and with the aid of Allen Good, overpowered and took the jail keys from him. They ran to the door, hut could not unlock it. The sheriff went to them and ordered them back to their cells. They refused to go, and joined by George Stroud, another colored prisoner, again seized the sheriff and wrenched his pistol from his hands. George Stroud cried out to Allen Good, "blow his d?n brains out." The Sheriff, at this critical moment, said to Henry McCullough, another colored prisoner, who was standing near, "for the Lord's sake help me." Henry, quick as thought, seized Allen Good, and shook his arm so violently that the pistol dropped from his hand and fell on the floor. The sheriff ran and got it, and going back said to the prisoners "stand aside." Allen Good said "I won't do it." The sheriff replied, "If you don't I will shoot you." Good said, "shoot and be damned." The sheriff fired and the ball passed through Good's brain, producing death in about three hours. When Good fell Heath and Stroud jumped into the debtor's room, thus ending a most daring attempt to break jail. Henry McCullough deserves all praise for his timely assistance to the Sheriff. The latter would certainly have been killed if not for this assistance. The coroner's jury found that Allen Good came to his death from a pistol shot fired by Sheriff Hood while in the discharge of his duty. ] Adarge number of our citizens signed a petition last week, asking the Governor to pardon Henry McCollough., The petitioiy was presented to his excellency and tl^| pardon granted. Sheriff Hood went to Columbia last Wednesday, and gave bond for his appearance at Court. His trial will be only a matter of form. The iirm of Hood, Chambers & Co. has been dissolved. The dissolution was doubtless occasioned by the recent death of T. L. Chambers. Mr. J. B. McFadden, our county treasurer made his final settlement with the Comptroller General a few days ago, being the first treasurer to do so. His administration of the office has been very satisfactory to the Comptroller General and to the people of Chester county. His books show a nulla bona of only $371.04, while he has on hand the following: For county purposes, $6,o74.43 ; for railway purposes, $4,002.94 ; for school purposes $4,406.92. Mr. McFadden has been suggested for State Treasurer by many of his friends. The oat crop in this county has been badly injured by the late freezing weather. Farmers will be compelled to do a great deal of re-sowing. Mr. W. II. Nance has returned from Charleston, where he remained several /weeks for the benefit of his health. He was not improved by the trip. Cproner Murphy is suffering from a brokatvarm, occasioned by a fall on our slippery streets. The X. C. & G. Railroad Company finished a few days ago a survey of their proposed line to Rocky Mount via Smith's Turn Out. M. Correspondence of tbe Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM ROCK HILL. Rock Hill,S. C., February 8.?A meeting of citizens of Catawba township was held in Roddey's Hall on last Thursday. C'apt. Iredell Jones was called to the chair and stated the object of the meeting, which was to consider the question of the railroad proposed to be built by the Massachuond Wmithom Construction Corananv. After thoroughly discussing the matter,"a committee of ten was appointed to secure signatures to a petition to the County Commissioners, asking that an election be held in Catawba township on the question of the township making a subscription in favor of the proposed road. A similar meeting will be held at Ebenezer Academy at 11 o'clock, A. M., on Saturday next. On last Thursday morning a most fearful accident occurred in our town. Lugenia White, a colored woman, attempted to kindle a tire with kerosene by pouring the oil from a can. The flame communicated to the can, exploding the vessel and setting tire to the woman's clothing. Enveloped in flames, she ran from the house, but was caught by some friends who extinguished the flames, though not until most of her clothing was burned from her body. She is still alive but in a critical condition. It does seem that so many accidents oecuring of this kind would teach persons that kerosene is not the proper thing with which to kindle fires. \et it is surprising to know how many intelligent persons use it for that purpose. On last Saturday, Mr. J. W. Brown carried a gun to the shop of Mr. J. W. Westerlund for repairs. A workman in the shop not knowing it was loaded, in attempting to unbrcach it fired it off. The load barely missed a colored man, an employee in the shop, burying itself in the opposite wall. At the time there were several persons in the shop, and it is very fortunate that no one was hurt. On yesterday a number of the witnesses who attended the I". S. Circuit Court at Greenville arrived at this place. They report that a number of the defendants who went from here pleaded guilty to the charges/preferred against theryi. "-{Mr. John T. Rodttey/who was so severely kicked by his horse about ten days ago, is again out and at his post of duty. lie says he has been kicked by girls, which was very painful, but as between the kick of a girl and the kick of ahorse, he would prefer the kick of a girl every time. The recent cold and changeable weather has occasioned considerable sickness in this section, especially among' cnuuren. -ll)r. James A. (xlenn has been confined to his bed for over a week. * plrs. John ('. Witherspoon has been quite sick for some time, iter physicians consider her dangerously sick and her recovery doubtful. I trust this may. not prove the case, as she is a most estimable lady. I am sorry to report from information received from a number of farmers that the freeze of Thursday and Friday nights did great damage to the oat and wheat crops in tjiis section. ^jfhe trustees of the Bock Hill Academy "Have elected Mr. J. C. Davidson, of Mecklenburg county, X. C., as principal of Bock Hill Academy. He is a learned and accomplished gentleman. Miss B. V. Wood, our Post Mistress, has so much improved that she was able to be at the post otlice to-day. This is her first sickness since she has been in office, a period of fifteen years. 11 a l. A True Bill.?An exchange says: Congress appears to be devoting so much time to fighting the President and trying to make itself ridiculous on the silver question that necessary legislation 011 other important subjects is not making much headway. The copyright question, the bankrupt law, the new navy and many other subjects that should receive prompt and earnest attention are getting slighted. The two things 1 which Congress will not forget to do is to vote all the revenues out of the treasury and turn night into day in its squabbles for partisan advange. This much maybe grant- 1 ed, but the public will regret that what costs so much should be worth so little. LOCAL AFFAIRS. I? m I h NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. | fl W. H. Moore?Notice. Win. E. Rose, Administrator, Columbia, S. C.? n Notice. II. F. Adickes?Acknowledged Headquarters j for Shoes, Ac. C. E. Spencer?Parish A C'olcoek. j Sam M. Grist?"Our Women in the War." j Jsseph N. Steele, James B. Allison and R. P W. Whites ides, County Commissioners? w Township Election. ,S J. W. Dobson?Tobacco. Ac. I S. A. McElwee?Fowls Wanted. Hunter A Oates?The Mammoth. " T. M. Dobson A Co.?School Hooks as Cheap as w the Cheapest. h ^Lindsay A Moore?Insurance Notice?Our Ob- g ject?The Mule?Pocket Knives. W. C. Latimer?Bargains in Dry Goods. Kennedy Bros. A Barron?Clothing?To Our Farmer Friends?Crockery?Sewing Ma- w chines. * n John C. Ivuykendal?(it),000 runners. n Withers Adickes?Business is Not Too Brisk. rr Lowry it Starr?Sow Yoti r Cabbage Seed. COTTON SHIPMENTS. ^ Tlie total cotton shipments from the depot at j;, this place from September 1st, 1H85, to the sth ii instant, aggregate 5,726 bales.. tl DELINQUENT TAXPAYERS. Ml On Tuesday last, Thad Wallace and Jordan Hutchison, both colored, were sentenced to the ^ county jail by trial justice's court for a term of \ thirty days each for refusal to pay their State and county taxes. OUR PREMIUM BUGGY. v Club makers for the Enquirer, or others in- j terested, are informed that the splendid buggy, a which we offer as a lirst premium, can now be g seen in the buggy and carriage repository of e Mr. Frank E. Smith. PERSONAL MENTION. Mr. R. Haskell Dobson returned home last S) Saturday, havingjust graduated from the East- a man National Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and has entered the store of T. M. Dob- g son it Co. as book-keeper. g CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. t( On Monday last a slight change of schedule p went into effect- on the Chester and Lenoir Rail- p road, doing south the train arrives at Yorkville at 12.05 P. M., and leaves at 12.25. doing ^ north, it arrives at 5.55 P. M., and leaves at 6.10 , P. M. f PRISONERS IN JAIL. 8 There are now 26 prisoners in the county jail, 11 of whom seventeen?3 white and 14 colored?are awaiting trial in the next Court of Sessions. Nine?Ignite and S colored?are United States prisoyffrs, serving sentences imposed by the U. v S. yfrcuit Court for violation of internal reve- v iiWe laws. ^ ' RESPITE GRANTED. R In consequence of the representation mtule to Ji the Governor as to the condition of Mary Ellen Williams, colored, now in jail under sentence of r death for poisoning her husband and three step 1 children, near McConnellsville, his Excellency lias granted a respite until Friday the 19th of 9 next November, between the hours of in A. M., f and 2 P.M. \ RAILROAD ELECTION. J r The required number of freeholders in Y<wk township liaving petitioned the County Com- S missioners to order an election on the question ot r the township making a subscription of ?75,000 in v aid of the Charleston, Chicago it Cincinnati Rail- f road, the Commissioners have appointed Satur- c day the l-'tth day of March next as the day of i said election. The conditions upon which the proposed subscription is to be made are fully set S forth in the notice published in another column ii by the County Commissioners. v LIEUT. MICAH .JENKINS. J The last issue of the Army and Navy Journal savs that the resignation of First Lieutenant 0 Mieah Jenkins has been accepted by the Presi- ^ dent, to take effect on March 1st, 188(5. Lieut. Jenkins is the son of the late Gen. Micah Jenkins, one of the founders of King's Mountain Military School and a distinguished soldier in f< the Confederate Army during the late war. The o reason for Lieutenant Jenkins' resignation is not given. c MONEY WANTED. q By reference to an advertisement in another column, it will be seen that the County Com- p missioners wish to borrow, upon a pledge of the t. entire" tax levy for county purposes for 1886, t the sum of 84,000. This money is wanted y for the purpose of defraying the current ex- s penses of the county until the next tax collec- j, tions are made, and the proposition is made in v accordance with an Act of the Legislature. Per- 0 sons having money to loan will find this a safe investment. Sums will be received in any amount from 8100 up. L. ELDON DRAYTON. a The above is the title of a neat little volume of ? 20") pages, written by Rev. J. L. Stokes, of the n A. M. E. Church, South Carolina Conference, 11 under the nom dc plume of "Reginald May," and published by the Southern Methodist Publish- ^ ing House, Nashville, Tenn. The thread of the story hangs on incidents connected with the late J' war and the thraldom of South Carolina during the reconstruction period. It is graphically told, * and is well worthy a perusal by the young men 8 of the South, to whom the volume is dedicated. Mrs. John May and Mrs. T. S. Jeffereys, of this :l place, are agents for the book, from either ot whom it may be procured ; and it is also for sale at thejf'orner Drug Store. /i .. y f THE POSTOFFICE. L I On yesterday Mr. W. Adolphus Moore, the ,, iVpwly appointed Postmaster for Yorkville, as- J suined charge of the office. We understand that the office will remain for the present in the j, building in which it is now situated. The retiring Postmaster, Mr. John It. Wallace, has held ^ the office since April, 1K7J, and during this peri- u od has discharged his duties in a manner gener- '? ally acceptable to the public. Mr. Wallace was ct as strongly endorsed for reappointment as was a any other applicant for the office; but it seems n that Congressman Hemphill threw the weight p of his influence in favor of Mr. Moore and se- u cured for him tho office. Mr. Moore, however, has the qualifications necessary to make a good it postmaster, and his appointment is clearly an b indication that the adminstration intends mak- t( inga clean sweep of all Republican appointees, b RAILROAD MEETING. \^/ On Friday last, the ">th instant, pursuant to a notice previously given, a meeting of voters of it York township was held in the Court House S for the purpose of acting upon the report of the committee in reference to a subscription by - York township to the Massachusetts and. Southern Construction Company's proposed railroad. ^ Col. W. It. Wilson was called to the chair and A. W. Itigold was appointed secretary. On tak- V5 ing the chair, Col. Wilson explained the object , of the meeting, and in a few remarks urged the importance and necessity of this township mak- ^ ing the proposed subscription. ^ At the conclusion of the chairman's remarks, ^ Major Hart, on behalf of the committee, made p a verbal report in which he said the necessary p number of signatures of freeholders had been procured to a petition asking for an election, and n lie thought the proposed subscription by this j<: township would secure the location of the railroad by way of Yorkville. In this connection ct he also read the following letter which he had q i%ceived on Thursday evening from Rock Hill: it Rock Hirx, February A.?Mnj. J. / '. Hurt: 0! We had a meeting to-day and decided to peti- n tion the County Commissioners for an election to vote on a subscription of ?75,000 or as much less as the Constitution may require, for the . Charleston, Cincinnati and 'Chicago Railroad. . The meeting was very satisfactory, and we hope 'f to carry matters through all O. K. Respectful- li lv, ?fcc., W. L. Roddky, Ch'm.X'om. yi Major Hart then gave in detail the conditions hi upon which the subscription is to be made, and if assured the meeting that the committee had ill ? - * - ? ....a fi turown around me iiix-p?ijui.-> u\ uiy for tlioir protection, in case the subscription is made anil eventually accepted by the Massaehu- SI setts and Southern Construction Company by the hi location of their route via Yorkville. Ilcalsoex- I1 pressed his confidence in the good faith of the ^ company, and believed the road would be built through the county. * ^ Mr. J. R. Schorb moved that the report of cj Major Hart, on behalf of his committee, be re- fj] ceived, and that the County Commissioners be requested to order an election in this town- jc ship on the question of the towsliip mak- m ing a subscription of $75,000 in aid of the proposed road ; the date of the election to be lj< fixed hereafter. The motion was unanimously u] carried. U] Mr. (t. H. O'Leary, of the committee, then an- le nouneed that Major ITart had resigned his posi- at on on the committee and that C. E. Spencer, Isq.Jiad been substituted as chairman, in Major [art's place. j( Xo otlier business being presented, 011 motion j. f Capt. L. M. (' rist, the meeting adjourned. 0 COU XTER F KIT I NTi IX YORK. \ X * in Charlotte, last week, a white man Mined ^ ames Freeman, and a colored man named p lufus Lowrancc, both residents of Charlotte, (] ere committed to jail to answer in the United ti tates Court on a charge of uttering counterfeit ? lver dollars. Low ranee had passed two of the a ogus coins upon a mountain apple peddler, li ho caused the arrest of the negro, and 011 a a caring before a justice of the peace for obtain- fl oods by false pretences, he said the counter- y lit coins were furnished to him by Freeman, S "ith instructions as to how and upon whom to H ork them off. This led to the subsequent ar- $ 2st of the two persons by United States Com- 8 lissioner Harrison the charge of counterfeiting. * he Observer, from which we gain this informaon, says: ? "So far as is known, Freeman is not charged . rith the manufacture of the spurious coin, but 1 ) indicted for furnishing it to Lowrance to put 0 lto circulation. The officers seem to believe t tiat they are in a fair way to run down the en- fc ire gang of counterfeiters, and it is to be hoped r nat they will succeed. It is believed that the c oins have been made by a gang who have been perating in this county, and in York county, . G\, and that tlie coins were manufactured in . 'ork.'' l 9 / CHURCH NOTICES. t Baptist?Rev. .1. 10. Covington, Pastor. Ser- J" ices at the church in Yorkville next Sunday at 1 I A. M. Immediately after service there will be r meeting of the Women's Missionary Society. a uiiday-school at 0.45 A. M. Prayer meeting s V very Wednesday evening at 7.15 o'clock. Episcopal?Rev. a. A. Ottmann, Rector. Ser- _ ice, with the Holy Communion, at 11 o'clock * l. M. (Ry request the subject of the Rector's r ermon will be Infant Baptism.) Sunday-school j 13 P. M., and evening service at 4 o'clock. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. r ervices at 11 A. M., and 7 P. M., next Sunday, j unday-school at 3 P. M. a Methodist Episcopal?Rev. W. W. Daniel, Pas- f ir. Services every Sunday at 11 A. M., and 7 t '. M. Sunday-school at 3 P. M. every Sunday, 'raver-meeting Wednesdays at 7 P. M. | Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J. t'. 1 ralloway, Pastor. Services at Tirzah next Sun- r ay at II A.M. ! King's Mountain Mission?Rev. E. A. John- ^ on, Pastor. Preaching at Philadelphia Church ext Sunday at 11 A. M. | YORK CASES AT GREENVILLE. ^ In the United States Circuit Court at Green- g ille, the following cases from York county, j /ere disposed of on Saturday last, as we learn ] rom the Greenville Xews : s Simpson Cooper, colored, retailing, was found ;uilty and sentenced to fhree months in York nil and 8100 tine. James W. Wallace, retailing, was acquitted. J Anderson Wallace, colored, pleaded guilty of 1 nloilinif ami wna oontnnnPil to fhrpfi months ill fl fork jail and 8100 fine. Dawson*" Robertson, colored, same charge, ame nj<?t, same sentence. Jom\ Harnett, colored, was tried for retailing, ou^fd gniity and sentenced to two months in I^Trk jail and ?100 tine. William Lindsay, guilty of retailing, one nonth in York jail and 8100* fine. Besides the aboye prisoners, delivered to the Sheriff and now serving their sentences, he also eceived on Tuesday, Hiram Turney, white, conicted of retailing and sentenced to York jail oronemonthand a tine of 8100; and Rufus Hunt, olored, same otfence, sentenced to York jail for hree months and to pay a fine of 8100. Deputy U, S. Marshals Beckham, Pride and Imith, who delivered the prisoners to the Shertf, returned to (ireenville on Tuesday evening rith George Coleman, and Abram Home, both olored, charged with retailingspiritnous liquor rithout license. The grand jury returned "no bill" in the case f George B. Stewart, of York, charged with retiling. AX INTERESTING CASE. Quite an interesting legal point was argued beore James S. Lewis, trial justice, in this town, n last Tuesday. Mr. Elias Inman, a worthy citizen of York ountv, owning lands in both Chester and York ounties, was prosecuted for not clearing out 'urkey Creek, where the same passes through is lands in Chester county. Mr. Inman was repared to meet the charge on the facts, but his ounsel insisted on making the point that the rial justice in York had no jurisdiction, because iie lands lay in Chester county. It will be oborved that Mr. Inman was not charged with dong anything illegal, but with not complying riththe law requiring him to clear out the bed f the creek passing through his lands in Cheser. * The counsel for the State complained that the ourts in Yorkeounty ought to have jurisdiction, s the courts in Chester had not. But counsel 51* the defence contended that the courts in either countv had jurisdiction, and was by no a leans complimentary in regard to the wisdom isplayed by the Legislature in the enactment of *] he law. y The trial justice dismissed the case for want of e irisdietion. a The Suite was represented by J. K. Henry, \ isq., who came up with the County Commis- <j ioners of Chester county to the trial. The de- t jnce was represented by Messrs. (i. W. S. Hnrt 2 nd J. C. Chambers. t t v The State Treasury.?The Columbia t orrespondent of the Charleston News and s 'ourier writes: s The State treasury is steadily approaching a tie point where the last year's taxes may I e definitely abandoned and the Govern- c lent conducted for one year on the accumu- r ited surplus of a decade. t It will be a surprise to the people of South t 'arolina to know what resources their treas- r ry possesses in the very middle of these hard times." At the request of the Neios nd Courier correspondent Treasurer Rich- I rdson has had prepared the following state- 1 lent of the cash balances of the treasury at c eriods extending over the most recent f lonths: t On October 31,188"), there was a balance t i the treasury of $133,500.41. The Novem- s er receipts were $107,660.73, making the a ital $301,107.14, which, less $20,034.04 dis- v ursements in November, made the cash a alance November 30 $280,232.20 The December receipts were $377,100.87 nd the disbursements $110,168.00, includ- a lg about $51,000 anticipated interest on the a tatedebt. The cash balance in the treasu- s y December 31, 1885, was therefore $547,- y 33.08. a The receipts in January, 1880, were $32,71.55 and the disbursements $145,425.80 of p 'hieh about $77,000 was for interest on the p tate debt. The cash balance January 30, s 380, was accordingly $434,270.73, a very r andsome and creditable sum. c There will be no May collection of taxes n lis year, and $200,000 usually received from o lis source at a dull period of the year will r e lacking. Rut in consideration of the p resent treasury surplus n uut's nut appear u robable that there will be any necessity fi >r borrowing money to tide over the sum- q ler season, so barren of taxes. If the Leg- t ilature does not pare the tax line too close- u i the State will be able in a year or two to h itch up with its disbursements, and, relin- g uishing the taxes of "the lost year," make o s appropriations, as a State ought to do, Lit of the funds actually in its treasury, and ot conjecturally or prospective. p An Ovation to a Murderer.?Peter h Weast is serving a term of three years c< 1 the Illinois State prison at Joliet for kil- a ng his wife's betrayer. On Friday his six p ear-old daughter died, and influence was p rought to bear upon Governor Oglesby that h lduced him to grant temporary leave of h jsence to the convict to attend the child's d meral, which occurred Saturday. The tl ews that Weast would be in attendance c< >read, and that morning fully 1,000 people ii ad assembled at the Plumb House to meet J im. His arrival was attended with a ver- n able ovation. Fully GOO people, among horn were the Mayor, city officers, promient merchants and ladies, visited and n look hands with him in his room. The si lurch, one of the largest in the city, was a lied to overflowing, several hundred wait- p ig outside in the bitter cold until the serv- tl es were over, and then following the re- g lains to the cemetery. The action of the Governor in thus estab ?hing a precedent is variously commented ft pon, and will doubtless lead to legislation si pon the subject of convicts being granted h ave of absence to attend the funeral of rel- c< ions. fi MERE-MENTION. The snow storm last week was the heavest in many sections of the country ever mown before. Snow fell within four miles f the city of Mexico, the iirst since the ear J850. Initiatory steps are being takn in Louisville to abolish lotteries in Kenucky. James Spence, treasurer of Milan county, Ga., hanged himself last Friay on discovering that his son had been am peri ng with the county funds. At 'ohoes, X. Y., last week, a boy 14 years of ge was smothered to death, by direction of lis physicians, to end his agonies caused by n extreme case of hydrophobia, resulting rom the bite of a mad dog received six ears ago. The Rev. Dr. Harrows gave ome sdea of the magnitude of this country 11 a statement recently made by him. lie aid that if the entire population of the lobe, estimated at 1,400,000,000, were dialed into families of five, the State of "exas alone could give each family half an ere of land to live upon. Denis W. lilda was hanged at Prescott, Arizona, for he murder of Deputy-Sheriff J. Murphy >n the 20th of December last. At Ausin, Texas, large carp-breeding ponds leased iy the State were frozen to the bottom duing the recent cold spell, and 30,000 young arp were frozen to death. Mr. Bayard to Resign.?The Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Cimes writes: There is a rumor current here hat Secretary Bayard will shortly resign lis place in President Cleveland's Cabinet. Phis determination, it is said, had been cached several days ago, when it became .pparent that Mrs. Bayard must die. The ecretary was on the point of tendering his esignation on the sudden death of his laughter, but was persuaded not to do so by >ersonal friends and by the kind attentions .t. if the President. The secretary was very ond of his children and of his wife, whose llness has been long and trying. He s a very sensative man and has been woried somewhat by public criticism. This tself, however, would not have seriously iffected him, but in connection with his amily afflictions it served to add percepti>lv to his burdens. Just now, on this second bereavement, he irobably feels that retirement from the pubic eye and public criticism would be the nost welcome thing to him. To one in his iresent unhappy situation the political fame is not worth the candle. lie is not mly sensitive, but high-spirited, and will fo out of office with dignity, mourning only lis beloved dead. The sad event of to-day, vhile not sudden and unexpected as that of i fortnight ago, will cast a gloom over the nfinl world of Washington which will not >e easily dispersed. Near friends of Mr. 3ayard are of the opinion that he will reign within the week. The Ohio Troubles.?Pending theadustment of the Ohio senatorial difficulty )y the joint committee of arrangements igreed upon, comes a special dispatch from Columbus which shows the revolutionary engthsto which the republicans are prepar:d to go and isatthesame time an admission nore shameful perhaps than all the illegal epublican proceedings so far reported. The telegram is to the X. Y. Tribune and is is follows: "On February 9th judge-elect Vlinishall will take his seat on the supreme )ench. The court will then stand: Rejublicans?Johnson, Spear and Minishall. Jemocrats?Owen and Follet. The repubicans, thus having a majority of the court, vi 11 doubtless hasten the reference of the juestions of law and constitutional rights tnd privileges involved in Senate contests jefore that judicial body." What is this jut an admission that the supreme court is ;o be appealed to not for justice but for a epublican partisan verdict? Some one has iuggested that the original Augean stables -vere probably located in Ohio, and there is eason in late occurrences for the idea. The President's Old Competitor.? fhe Washington correspondent of the In lianapolls Journal says in a recent letter: Very few people know that there sits in Congress a man who once ran against Grover Jleveland for the position of Sheriff of Erie :ounty, New York, and altough beaten by lim at the time, he filled his unexpired , erm and is- now a member of Congress, vhile his successful rival is President. The nember is John B. Weber, of Buffalo. He s a small man, with a pleasant face and [uick, active step and manner. He is a Re)ublican, but that does not prevent him rotn being on good terms with President Cleveland. Soon after Mr. Weber came lere this winter he called at the White louse, and jokingly remarked to Mr. Cleveland: "You see, I am following you. ?irst, you beat me for Sheriff. I fell into mur shoes when you became Mayor. Look tut; perhaps the same good luck may follow ne now that I am herein Washington with fou." The President smiled, and said: "I im watching you, never fear." ^Strange Effects of a Snake Bite.? The condition of Mr. Sylvester Sams, a veil known citizen of Pickens county, Ga., sxcites considerable interest. Two years go, Mr. Sams, while walkingover his farm, vas bitten by a rattle snake. He immeliately resorted to the native remedy, whis:y, of which he took copious draughts. Nothing more was thought of the matter intil six months ago, when Mr. Sams berayed symptoms of St. Vitus' dance. He vas never still, not even in his sleep, witching his muscles and moving incesantly. Lately he has developed violent ymptoms, and has beat his wife and family, nd in fact all who came within his reacn. ie now acts like a man with a well defined ase of rabies, only instead of barking he nakes a rattling sound. He has been taken o Canton jail, where a strong guard will be >? :ept over him until the crisis of his case is eached. A Border Sensation.?A company of Jnited Statessoldiers arrived at Fort Worth, ?exas, on Saturday en-route for Fort Conhas. They are fifty in number and are rom barracks at Columbus, Ohio, where hey were recruited. Several soldiers stated hat the recruiting officers had been intrueted to enlist all available men at once, nd it was reported in Ohio that trouble vith Mexico on the border was a possibility t no distant day. ? The railroads of New York State had remarkable record last year. They did business exceeding ?111,000,000 and not a ingle passenger was killed from causes beond his own control. There is a temper nuts lecture in me returns, nuwever. Vhile every one of the millions of sober >assengers was carried safely, the small roportion of passengers who were drunk how thirty-nine killed. Drunkenness is ightly assumed to be a cause within the ontrol of the passenger, hence these thirtyine deaths are excluded from the returns f passengers killed through a fault of the ailroad companies. It is said that this is irobably the first year since the establishment of railroads, that such an immunity rom fatal accidents has been shown. It is uite probable that this rest is due to coninuous Improvements in signaling aparats and rolling stock, which improvements ave kept in advance of the growing daners from higher speed and more mrmerus trains. - ? The Governor has pardoned from the enitentiary llillard Burns and Ike Henry, oth colored, convicted of burglary and irceny, at the March term, 1SS3, for Union ounty. The pardon of the prisoners is sked for on the ground that they were imroperly convicted. The affidavit of the rosecu'tor shows that hisstepson, while on is deathbed confessed to the deponent that e had committed the crime for which the efendants were convicted, and told where lie remainder of the money stolen was con?aled, and deponent found it in the place idicated. The solicitor recommends and udge Witherspoon concurs in the recommendation for pardon. ?Seven men were sentenced to death l the Federal court at Fort Smith, Arkanis, on Saturday. All will be executed on ipril 23d. They are convicted of particiation in different murders and include iree Indians, two white men and two neroes. ? Edison's latest invention is an apparatus > /.n.wlln/y nn/1 WnnAi in m/m Z ^ ? ii~ scimuig auu itwvuig icict;iiijJiin; jutsiges from swiftly moving trains. He 'N-opes to utilize this invention to establish jmmunication between ships at sea twentyve or thirty miles distant.