Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, March 11, 1886, Image 2

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ftraps and Jarts. ? Some time ago J. C. Wilson was lynched in Patrick county, Va., for stealing a' mule. At the last term of court the grand jury found bills of indictment against all the parties concerned for murder. This is; the first time within recollection that a lynching party has been formally presented by a Virginia grand jury for muruer. ? The American Humane association will distribute 100,000 copies of the current nutn-; bcr of Science, which contains the report of . the committee of American Ornithologist's Union for the protection of birds. The report shows that unless immediate measures be taken to prevent the present rate of des- j truction our woods and fields will shortly j be without birds. ? The business failures occurring throughout the country during the last week, as re-; gorted to Dun & Co., number for the United | tates, 207, and for Canada 39?total 24G, ; : l nm i__j. i_ .. _,i nop il. agniusi last wet:*, auu ^oo me wee* uc- ; fore. The business troubles appear to be"j increasing in Canada, while through the | United States the casualties are about up to the average. ? The New York Star, in answer to some i complaints that the Democratic administra. tion was not making removals fast enough, has figured it out, alio wi ng ten hours for each work day, that a removal and appointment have been made for every nine minutes of time since President Cleveland came into office. This shows that he has been making pretty rapid progress. ? On the 4th of July last W. E. Hermance started from Livington, Montana, in a canoe, to paddle to New Orleans. His brother, H. P. Hermance, joined him at Kansas City, and on Washington's birthday the two young men reached New Orleans in safety. They had traveled down the Yellowstone, the Missouri and the Mississippi rivers, a distance of 4,500 miles in a canoe. ? In the city of Philadelphia there are eight women physicians who havean annual practice of about $20,000 each. There are twelve whose income averages above $10,000 each. There are twenty-two who admit that their annual resources from their profession is above $5,000. Yet in no city in the country have women who sought to enter the medical profession met with more strenuous opposition than in the city of Philadelphia. ? The Civil Service Commission gives notice that it will hold an examination for book-keepers, stenographers and type-writers in the postoffice at Charleston, S. C., on Monday the 22nd instant. Persons wishing to attend the examination should at once request the Commission to send them application blanks. Blanks must be filled out in due form and be presented at the place of examination, as no person not presenting \snch applications can be examined. . ? A curious characteristic of the Washington monument was related by Col. Casey at " onnnnf maatinn. nf the enniotv On pvprv ICV^IIV UiVVllii^ V/* VltV i^/vivvj v.. w , W. J bright day the apex of the monument moves at least one inch westward in the morning, when the sun's rays first fall upon it, and eastward again in the afternoon, when the sun reaches the western side. The heat of the sun has an expansive effect upon the masonry, and the plummet that is suspended in the interior of the monument registers this movement from day to day. ? George Merritt, a revenue officer, was shot and killed last Saturday night at about 8 o'clock at Lula Station, Ga., on the Air Line railroad. He was waiting there to take the train for his home in Gainesville, and was called from an eating saloon where he was by a man named Coffee, who opened fire on him with a revolver as soon as he got outside. Merritt was shot twice through the heart and died instantly. The assassin fled and had not been caught at last accounts. ? The President on Thursday nominated James C. Matthews, of New York, to be recorder of deeds in the District of Columbia, vice Frederick Douglass resigned. Matthews is a well known colored lawyer, a graduate of Albany law school. He has been admitted to the bar of the United States supreme court. It is said that he has been successful in the practice of his profession and labored zealously aud effectively for the democratic cause in State and national campaigns since 1872. ? A Fort Smith, Arkansas, dispatch of Saturday says: Samuel Newton, the Choctaw wife-murderer, was executed yesterday in Gains county, Choctaw Nation. The condemned man was led forth to the scaffold about 10 o'clock iu the morning and was seated upon a blanket, after which he was blindfolded and a white paper pinned directly over his heart. Two attendants, one on either side, held his hands. The exennfinnai L-nolf hofhrp him ItimpH PflrPfllllv at the slip of paper and fired, killing the condemned man instantly. ? Onontiyoh, a full-blooded Indian, graduated No. 18 in a class of forty-eight at the Buffalo Medical College last week. He is the first of his race to take honors in a course of medicine in this country. His uncle, Oronyetekha (Burning Sky), was graduated at Oxford, England, and is now a successful practitioner at London, Ont. Onontiyoh is of pure Mohawk blood and his name signifies "Beautiful Mountain." Between the Beautiful Mountain and the Burning Sky the red men should certainly find health and happiness. ? A Chattanooga dispatch says: Agents who have been thoroughly canvassing North and South Carolina for colored emigrants say that the colored exodus from the Southern States to the extreme West has only fairly begun. At least 3,000 are reported to be now making arrangements to leave during the present season. Fully as many have already gone. They say they are going because they are offered regular wages as farm hands and are becoming impoverished in the South by high rents and small bargains. ? Rossanna Flynn, whose scalp was torn off in a Collingsville, Conn., factory, last August, is still under treatment at the Hartford City Hospital. The physicians are now engrafting bits of rabbit skin, instead of the human cuticle, on her head, and with fair success. The skin is built up around j the edges, and there is quite an island, so to : speak, of mingled human and rabbit skin j on the top of the head. The aim of the j doctors is to unite this with the edges below, j 1 ---L!!,. 4k/\?* nndmnofo CI1PODCC f Hov I itUU Willie UIC) aunvi(j?iu w^t don't look for it under a year at least. ? The prohibition election in Baldwin county, Ga., occurs on the 18th instant and the campaign is becoming heated. Recently Sam Jones, the evangelist, made a prohibition speech in Milledgeville, which in tensified tne feeling between the supporters of the two tickets. On Saturday Sam Ennis, anti-prohibitionist and a brother of the sheriff of the county, shot and killed Deputy Marshal C. N. Haygood, a prohibitionist. The difficulty grew out of Havgood's criticising an anti-prohibition speech made by another brother of Ennis. Fears are entertained that Ennis will be rescued by his friends. ? Nine miles from Milledgeville, Ga., on , Thursday evening last Miss Carrie Raines j and her niece, Miss Ella Humphreys, { were murdered, both being shot in the neck. They were going to the house of Frank Humphreys, Ella's brother-in-law, / and were accompanied by him. Friday morning he reported that the party were attacked by four masked men, himself beaten ! and the ladies killed. The evidence before i the coroner pointed to Humphreys as the i murderer, and he was arrested and put in j jail, and threats are made of lynching him. I ? The Hebrew feast of the Purim begins; this year on the evening of the 18th instant. ; The feast of Purim derives its origin from the story of Esther, so beautifully told in the I Old Testament, and is commemorative of the deliverance of the Jews through her in-1 strumentality from the hatred of Haman. I The date of this event is set down in the! Jewish chronology as B. C. 333. The feast! is preceded by the fast of Esther, when the orthodox Jews abstain from food and drink from sunset to sunset in celebration of the three days fast of Esther before she presented herself before Ahasuerus to defeat the plot of Haman. ? Of the 325 members of the House, says the Washington correspondent of the New York HeraldI, not more than twenty-five, or one to every thirteen, have a reasonable prospect of renomination without conten-1 tion. It is said that Mr. Cox keeps the j New York members in a constant worry by writing from Constantinople to personal friends that he intends to return to New York early next fall, run for Congress, get elected and then return to his post until the fall of 1887, when he will resign to resume his political career at home. He has not yet settled upon the district he will run in, and that, it is said, explains the return to Tammany of some of the disaffected members now in the New York delegation. $!ie ?0rlmUc #uquirrr. YORKVILLE, S. ('. : , 3 ?? THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH II, 1886. THE CONGRESSIONAL OUTLOOK. The chief business of the Senate for the present week will be the discussion of the resolutions reported from the Judiciary rvinriiv?;tfon pmioprninjr the refusal of the VV/lUiiii kfcvv 0 ...? - Attorney-General to transmit all papers in the Dustin case (the immediate occasion of the President's special message) in compliance with the resolution of the Senate. The debate was begun on Monday and the question will doubtless give rise to bitter and lengthy discussion. Two appropriation bills, the pension and the urgent deficiency, have passed the House of Representatives, and there are now in the committee of the whole, awaiting action, the Indian, postoffice, military academy, army, consular, diplomatic and District of Columbia appropriation bills. Most of the time during the present week will be consumed in the consideration of one or more of these measures, and it is probable that at least one of them will be passed. THE BLUE RIDGE SCRIP DECISION'. The announcement cf the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Blue Ridge Scrip case in favor of the State and against the holders will be received with gratification by the entire people of the State. It was one of the many frauds brought about under Radical misrule, and but for this decision would have been a heavy burden upon the taxpayers. The suit was first brought in the United States Circuit Court before Judge Bond, who rendered a decision in favor of the scrip. From this decision the State appealed to the United States Supreme Court, aud to the able management of the case by Attorney , General Miles assisted by General Youmans, the people of the State are indebted for the I relief afforded by the decision, which frees them from $1,800,000 of fraudulent carpetbag obligations, the most of which was ! held by New York brokers, who, it is reatn snnnnsp nhtftincd it at nominal o'/iiuyiv ?<\/ j v ? ? figures, and expected by speculation to reap a rich harvest from the tax-payers of the State. PRESIDENT'S SPECIAL MESSAGE. The contest between the President and the Senate over the right to suspend from office culminated on Monday of last week by the presentation of the minority report of the Judiciary Committee of the Senate and by a special message upon the subject from the President himself. The report of the minority is a lengthy document accompanied with a volume of authorities to support it, and completely vindicates the President; though the message, which is printed in full on the first page of this paper, is the most complete disclosure of the merits of the case, and as an exposure of the sophistry nf fhp Rpnnhliran mnioritv in the Sen ate is a masterpiece of composition. He takes the position that the public offices are not regulated or controlled in their relation to Congress by the fact that they were created by that body, and that "they are unincumbered by any lien in favor of either branch of Congress growing out of their creation." He then declares that while he does not concede the right of the Senate to demand any public documents relating to suspension from office, such have always been transmitted. He claims that papers that are private in their nature are the property of the President as fully when kept in a department building as when in the executive mansion. These papers he refuses to transmit to the Senate, and sustains his action by Republican precedent. The message discloses the patriotism and statesmanship of the President in a broader light than these qualities have yet been revealed in his executive character, and his position will receive the commendation of his parly friends, while it is invulnerable to the attacks of his political enemies. WOMAN'S RIGHTS IN UTAH. I A large meeting of Mormon women was held in the theatre at .Salt Lake City last j Saturday. Many speeches were made and protests adopted. The speakers upheld the right of women to go into polygamy, and said that thousands of disreputable women in the East would be glad to be made wives such as the speakers were. They maintained that the government had no right to say that women should not marry and might j as well take the opposite course and compel virgins from the cloisters to marry. Such social preferences should be respected and the government has no right to interfere. The protest declared that womanhood had been outraged in the Courts by questions about expected maternity, fathers of children, ?fce. Suffrage was declared to be a vested right of women here, and should not be attacked. An omphalic denial was made that they voted otherwise than according to their free will. "The noble women" who refused to answer the questions propounded by the courts were eulogized and the action of Judge Zane and United States Attorney Dickson in requiring testimony from the legal wife against her husband in unlawful cohabitation cases was condemned. The wives and mothers of the United States were called upon to come to the assistance of the women of Utah in their resistance to interference with their rights. A committee was appointed 1 - ! ? i: ? f Onn imtlui lO memorialize me j. icoiucm. vnn.u si&stic speaker was desirous of knowing "whether Federal officers and courts would persist in their present course after reading our protest." Another speaker held the "horde of petty officials" in contempt. The Utah Legislature will adjourn this week and no progresss has yet been made toward assimilating the laws of Utah to those of the United .States. All propositions tend in the contrary direction. The deadlock between the Governor and the Legislature isstili unbroken. The First Fatal Accident on the New Railroad.?A colored man by the name of Anderson, of Charlotte, was accidentally killed on the line of the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad on Saturday by the caving in of dirt from a cut. j lie was quickly dug out and a physicianl was summoned, but Anderson had received internal injuries which resulted in his death in a few hours. At the time of the accident Anderson was in an infirm physical j condition. Had he been well, he would j probably have recovered. lie was buried on Monday at Blacks' by Kirby & Colton, by whom he had been em ployed.?Shelby Neir ffi'fr, tlrtl, I | . THE EDUCATIONAL BILL. On Friday last the Blair bill providing j j national aid for education, passed the Sen- j 'ate by a vote of 36 to 11. This bill went | over from the last session, and during the ! j greater part of the present session has been a subject of Senatorial discussion, it having met the opposition of several Senators regardless of their political affiliations; as in j the case of our own Senators, Hampton fa- j voring the bill and Butler opposing it. The j following is a summary of the bill as it passed the Senate: For eight years after the passage of this bill there shall be annually appropriated from the treasury the following sums in aid of common school education in the Slates and Territories, and the District of Columbia and Alaska: First year$7,000,000, second year $10,000,000 third, year $15,000,000, fourth year $13,000,000, fifth year $11,000,000, sixth year $0,000,000, seventh year $7,000,000, eighth year $5,000,000, making $77,000,000, besides which there is a special appropriation of $2,000,000 to aid in the erection of school houses in sparsely settled districts, making the total fund $70,000,000. The money is given to the several States and territories 4,in that proportion which aL" ?L/vl/* r\cki*cf\r\C in mini) whn j IIIU Wliuir IIUIIII'UI UI iiuouuj II. vi.v.. ....... being of the age of 10 years and over, cannot write, bears to the whole number of such persons in the United States," according to the census of 1880, until the census figures of 1890 shall be obtained, and then according to the latter figure. In States having separate Schools for white and colored children the money shall be paid out in support of such white and colored schools respectively in proportion that white and colored children between 10 and 21 years old in such State bear to each other by the census. No State is to receive the benefit of the act until its Governor shall tile with the Secretary of the Interior a statement giving full statistics of the school system, attendance of white and colored children, amount of money expended, &c., the number of schools in operation, number and compensation of teachers, Ac. No State or Territory shall receive in any year from this fund more money than it has paid out the previous year from its own revenues for common schools. If any State or Territory declines to take its share of the national fund, such share is to be distributed among the States accepting the benefitof the fund. If any State or Territory misapplies the fund or fails to comply with the conditions, it loses all subsequent apportionments. Samples of all SCnOOIOOOKS in use ill Hie cuiuiuuu svrnuuia of the States and Territories shall he filed with the Secretary of the Interior. Any State or Territory accepting the provisions of the Act at the first session of its Legislature after the passage of the Act shall receive its pro-rata share of all previous annual appropriations. Congress reserves the right to alter or repeal the Act. The bill now goes to the House of Representatives for concurrence. It will probably pass the House, though in that body it has a number of opponents and its immediate passage is not looked upon as a forgone conclusion. The Washington correspondent of the News and Courier gives the following as the positions of the South Carolina Representatives on the question : Representative Aiken, chairman of the education committee, was opposed to the bill last year, and although he has been too unwell to appear in Congress this session, I am informed by some of his friends that his opinion is unchanged 011 this subject. Representative Dibble said: "In the South, only about one man in four is able to pay taxes for educational purposes, so that one taxpayer really pays for the education of his own children and the children of three others. This is a rough estimate, but I think it is sufficiently accurate for illustration. Hence the burden issevere, and since the general Government has brought about this state of affairs by Federal legislation, in amendments to the Constitution and by Reconstruction Acts, it is simple justice lor tne united otates to iuriusn sumc help to the South in this particular. This is to be accomplished by an appropriation to aid common schools on the basis of illiteracy, the money to be expended by the States in their respective school systems, ! thus doubling our educational advantages, without increasing our taxes, or introducing Federal interference with our school systems. lam, therefore, in favor of reasonable aid by the General Government to the South by an educational bill of this nature." Representative Hemphill says that, although he has not yet investigated the subj'ect carefully enough to express decided convictions, he is inclined to favor the Blair bill, providing it can be passed in such shape as not to infringe upon the rights of the State to control its own educational system, and provided also that the Southern States, whom it is supposed to benefit principally, do not have to pay a larger proportion of the sum appropriated than they receive from the apportionment under the bill. Representative Dargan says he believes the bill to be unconstitutional. If it should becomea law the inevitable tendency would be to give the Federal Government control ot the common school system of the State, ! which would be a misfortune to all parts of ; the country, but an unspeakable disaster to ! the South. I doubt the wisdom of any scheme which tends to make people rely either in whole or in part on the help of the Government, instead of teaching them the most important of all lessons, that their welfare depends on their own efforts and I self-denial. The demoralizing effect of Fed! eral aid is greater than that of State aid, { because the persons who receive the money do not pay the tax; or, at any rate, only a small portion of it, and that is paid indi! rectly and unconsciously, and is as demoralizing as a pure gift would be. Expedience in Connecticut is against Federal aid ! as an instrumentality for the promotion of education. It hindered the cause instead i of advancing it. Representative Tillman says he is against ; the bill because he believes it unconstitutional, and because he does not believe the Republicans ever intended that the money appropriated by the bill shall go South, i Mr. Elair may have introduced the bill in good faith originally, but his party friends have taken control of it, and they will use it for their own purposes to any extent they care to go and then load it down with objectionable features so that the Southern men cannot vote for it. lie characterizes : the measure as a Trojan horse and advises the Democratic party to keep away from it. j Representative Perry says he has not yet j given the question enough consideration to warrant him in expressing an opinion on the subject, and is therefore open to convicI tion. From a casual reading of the discussion going on in the Senate he is inclined to j favor the bill for the reason that it will dis; tribute a large amount of money in the j South and greatly benefit the school system ! in that section. If the proper precautions ! are taken to govern the expenditure of this ' money the Southern people will gladly welj come the assistance from the Government, j ! He says there are also several serious ques- j tions which arise in opposition to the hill, I j and for that reason he will look carefully j into the subject before casting his vote for ' ' or against it. Representative Smalls says he cannot be j quoted too strongly in favor of the bill. He will work for it and vote for it under any j and all circumstances, and he firmly be-! | lieves that the time has come for the Gov-! I eminent to come forward and assist in edu-1 | eating the poor people throughout the j United States. Hesays it is considered con- j i stitutionally proper to appropriate money . I annually toeducate lazy and drunken Indi-! j ans, and he cannot comprehend why it is j considered unconstitutional to appropriate money to assist in educating poor, unfor-' tunate American citizens. Thk Court of Edgefield.?In the Sessions Court of Edgefield, last week, the three cases against Robert F. Jones, for the murder of the three Pressleys last October, was continued until the next term of Court, j The case of the lynchers of C'ulbreath was also continued. In reference to this case and its continuance the correspondent ol the Xeu\k and Courier says: When Senator Butler, the leading counsel for the defense in the Culbreath case, stated in open court that it would, perhaps, be better for the community of Edgefield that the trial of the thirty-one lynchers should be indefinitely postponed, he did not utter the sentiment of the people of Edgefield county. When Attorney-General Miles said that if the law had been violated it should he vindicated, he must nevertheless have been clearly impressed with the conviction that that vindication \jfes a thing of the very distant and misty fifture. It is safe to assert that the people of Edgefield county are anxious and willing that the lynchers shall have at least a speedy trial, and, if they are convicted, will not stand in the way of an equally speedy and proper punishment of the murderers. There has not been at the present term of court anything like either a loud mouthed denunciation by the enemies, or an open approval of the homicide of Culbreath, by the friends of the lynchers. It may, perhaps, be contradiction in terms to speak of the friends of the lynchers, but it is, nevertheless, the fact that they have a large following, who will use every endeavor to secure their acquittal. It may be unnecessary to state thedact, but these friends are to be found solely in the neighborhood in which the assassination of Hammond took place. In any ordinary murder trial the accused will always have some defenders. In this most extraordinary case it is ? - ~ - ?' ? " A ik A AWfi Cllt/Mll/I KA UUl surprising UlilL IIIU l) lli:nci3 onuuiu ug hedged in by an army of friends. Many of the defendants represent large families, and considering there are thirty-one defendants, it is evident, that including their relatives and immediate acquaintances, they are backed by a large clan, financially, influentially and otherwise. Culbreath also was a man who had a host of friends, and between his clan and the lynchers' followers the feud which grew out of the first tragedy is increasing in virulence from day to day. It is doubtful, whatever way the case may terminate, whether peace will be declared among them for at least a generation to come. It is not at all improbable that more blood may be shedf>ef6rethe final disposition of the case is reached.. ABOUT THE EMIGRANTS. As much interest has been taken in theextensive movement West by the colored people from this.vicinity, we publish the following clipping from the Sacramento, (California) ilee, which, taken in connection with other information recently collected, enables us to state some facts not hitherto generally known: "This morning the overland train from the East brought two emigrant cars loaded with colored people from Charlotte, N. C., en route to E.J. Baldwin's ranch, in Los Angeles county, to replace Chinese in the way of picking grapes and oranges and doing other labor. The company comprises ten families of all ages, men and women 1 I ....^1 n.o ,?Q11 il I III UUt>a UUU 1IICY aiu >vgu ^AUbllVU) fed and warmed and evidently happy." An Observer reporter met agent Slough on the street yesterday, and was informed that he had a party of 35 to ship to Yazoo City, Mississippi last night. This party is to goon the lands of Mr. J. W. Champlin, the contracts having been made before they started. It is expected that 150 more will be sent from this place within the next few days, and the end is not reached yet. Mr. Slough has orders for four hundred and fifty laborers all to be located in Northern Mississippi and Arkansas, and the inducements offered to colored people to go West are of such a character as to be eagerly accepted by the average colored man. We are informed that the terms, on which contracts are made are these. Lands, seeds, horses, implements, everything needed on a farm, are furnished by the landowners, while the laborer is required to clothe and board himself, and receive one half of the crop he raises. When it is taken into com sideration that this help is wanted in one of the most fertile sections of the United States, and that all that is necessary to reach that station is the consent of the laborer, it is no wonder that large numbers are going. If the pledges given to the emigrants are carried out by the proprietors, the fact cannot be disguised that the industrious laborer will materially better his condition by going. It takes very little calculation to convince any one of that fact. The statement that these people are carried away from North Carolina by schemers for the purpose of making money ior me railroads carrying them is not to be believed. The older book earned* by the agent is proof positive that there is a demand for labor in the West. It is a fact too that no white help is taken, notwithstanding many applications are made by white people to go. There is another fact in connection with the matter of worthy consideration: It is stated that where these crowds are gathered they include many of the best colored people in the community. It is useless to say the emigrant agent is responsible for the movement. He is merely facilitatj ing matters. It will continue so long as i the inducements now'offered are kept hefore the negroes, and if the emigrant agent leaves some one else will do his work. Besides it would be a poor speculation for railroad companies to send thousands of dollars here to pay passage for a set of people who are not able to pay tbeirown way, and then drop them down in a wilderness to care for themselves. Such treatment would soon reach their old homes, and so far about the only thing heard in this direction has been some general charges made apparently with little foundation.?Charlotte Observe)', Sunday. farmeriTmoving. A meeting of the farmers of Greenville county was held in Greenville on the 3rd instant, and delegates were elected to attend the farmers' convention which will be held some time in the spring. They invite the convention to meet in Greenville. Several speeches were made in the meeting, some of the speakers disagreeing with Farmer Tillman. Farmers of Edgefield county will hold a meeting in April and the movement there promises to be a success. The fanners of Pickens county met on the 2d instant. The main question discussed was the cultivation of tobacco. Some of the most successful farmers of the county said that they had given tobacco a trial, and from their experience they were against ! the tobacco culture. Others believed there j was money in it and inteneded to give it a fair test this year. I am of the opinion that the test will prove a success. Passing from the culture of tobacco, the meeting took up the "Tillman Convention," but one farmer objected to calling it the "Til| man Convention" but preferred calling it the "Farmers' Convention." The Farmers' move will doubtless have a number of supporters in this county. A resolution was passed to call a mass meeting of farmers on April 1, for the purpose of selecting delegates to the State Convention and ascertaining the sentiment of the farming element of the county on the questions which will probably come before the Convention purely agricultural, and are opposed to arraying one class of citizens against another in politics. A farmers' meeting was held in Lancaster on the 1st instant and the following resolutions were adopted: That this meeting request that an Agricultural club be formed in each township, on the drd Saturday in March, 188G, at 2 o'clock, P. M. and that one delegate for each twenty members, and one delegate for each fractional part thereof, be appointed tn oftnnd n r?llhimnotinor nt. T.aflCnster C. II., to be held on the 1st Monday in April, next, at 11 o'clock, A. M. That it is the sense of this meeting, that a State Convention ol the planters and farmers should be held. That it is the sense of this meeting that all officers of this State from Governor down, inclusive of Congressman, shall be nominated by primary election. That farmers do not plant so great an area in cotton, but will plant more of the cerials and raise their own supplies. Those persons shall be considered as farmers who reside on the farm or whose chief occupation is farming, and ministers of the Gospel who are engaged in agriculture. It was also moved and carried that three members from each township be appointed by the chair to organize agricultural clubs, which appointments were made in accordance with the motion. The Lisbon Agricultural Club of Laurens county has invited Captain II. It. Tillman to be present at its meeting on Saturday, March 24, and address that organization on the farmers' movement. ? The Rev. W. M. Grier, D. I)., President of Erskine College, delivered the anniversary address before the students of the South Carolina Medical College on the 4th inst. It is pronounced an able address. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Lowrv A Starr?5,000 Grand Republic Cigarros. Hunter A Gates?Boots and Shoes. Withers Adiekes?Where Is the Place to Buy. John C. Kuykendal?Special Inducements to Physicians. Lindsay A Moore?Sentenced to be Hanged?Sea . Fowl Guano?Reinforcements?1,005 Times Annually. H. F. Adiekes?Grand Central Fancy Dry Goods Establishment. Boston Star Concert Company?Entertainment To-morrow Night. V/ THE COTTON SUPPLY. Tlie shipments of cotton from the depot in this place from September 1st, up to and including last Tuesday, the Dth instant, aggregate G,<?4G bales. On the same day there were in the hands of the Yorkville buvers 507 bales, making a total ( of 7,21.?. bales handled in the Yorkville market c the present season. ( PERSONAL MENTION'. We were pleased to receive a call, last Saturday, from Mr. B. P. Tipton, editor of the Dallas, ' N. (J., Current. Mr. Robert J. Latta, who is engaged as one of 1 the engineering corps on the railroad building i between Wilson and Fayettevillo, X. C., made a 1 flying visit to his home, in this place, last week, ( returning on Sunday. I REPAIRING THE RAILROAD. ! The railroad is being repaired by the laying of ( new steel rails in the place of the old ones, which we learn will be done immediately for a distance j of two miles each direction from the depot. ] There is also a vague rumor that the track from Yorkville to Lancaster will be changed to the standard gauge, and that the telegraph line will 1 be extended from Yorkville to Lenoir ; but we , fear these last-named improvements are yet in < the dim future. 1 BOSTON STAR CONCERT COMPANY. By reference to announcement in our advertising columns, it will be seen that the Boston Star 1 Concert Company will give an entertainment in 1 Hunter it Oates'Opera House to-morrow even- 1 ing. This company is under the management of 1 Mr. Ozias W. Pond, and includes a combination . of unexcollcd talent, consisting of Medora lienson Emerson,soprano, who is pronounced the ' "coming American prima norma; waiter i-.merson, the famous cornet soloist, pronounced the most brilliant performer of the age ; Charles F. : Dennee, tho celebrated pianist and composer; and Miss Nella F. Brown, the accomplished , reader and elocutionist. The company is now making a tour of the South, and has received the highest encomiums of the press in every town and city in which it has appeared. CLUB MAKERS?PREMIUMS. The time limited in which persons were authorized to form clubs for the Exquirf.ii under our recent offer expired on Monday last. The three largest lists, entitled to the three special premiums, were returned respectively as fol lows : Walter II. Moore, 130 names ; J. N. Roberts, 107 names; W. O. Gloyer, 8.7 names. Other club makers returned very handsome lists, running from 0 to 49 names, among whom we mention the following: J. 1). Gwin, 0. S. Holton, W. J. Xeely, E. P. Love, J. B. Ross, R. K. Seahorn, W. A. Baber, Sam'l G. Brown, John D. Faris, W. F. Smith, W. H. Crook, J. A. Flannigan, H. K. Roberts, Mrs. 1). A. Lumpkin, D. T. Lesslie, Major M. Smith, T. G. Gulp, Albert M. Grist. To all who have interested themselves in ?i.~ tlin l.'.NTfiiriiiKU fnr the vear Hie tlltiimuui. u 1886 our thanks are due and hereby tendered ; and notwithstanding the stringency of the times their efforts have fully met our expectations. CHURCH NOTICES. Episcopal?Rev. G. A. Ottmann, Rector. Services at 11 A. M., and 4 P. M., next Sunday. Sunday-school at .'1 P. M. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. W. W. Daniel, Pastor. Services every Sunday at 11 A. M., and 7 P. M. Sunday-school at 3 P. M. every Sunday. Prayer-meeting Wednesdays at 7 P. M. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J. C. Galloway, Pastor. Services at Tirzah next Sunday at 11 A. M. King's Mountain Mission?Rev. L. A. Johnson, Pastor. Services at 11 A. M., next Sunday at Philadelphia Church. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. Services at 11 A. M., and 7 P. M., next Sunday. Sunday-school at 3 P. M. Baptist?Rev. J. E. Covington, Pastor. Owing to the absence of the pastor there will be no preaching in this church next Sunday. Sundayschool at 1?.4"> o'clock. A. M. COURT STENOGRAPHER. Publicity having been given in several newspapers to the fact that there has been no appointment of a stenographer for the Sixth Circuit, Judge Witherspoon, upon whom making Reappointment devolves, has dropped us a note explaining the cause of the delay in making the appointment. lie has in vain sought the aid of four stenographers in this State, as well as members of the bar of this circuit, in his efforts to secure the services of an efficient officer. As the responsibility of making the appointment devolves upon .1 udge Witherspoon, he has concluded that it is better to delay the appointment than to risk the chances of an inefficient officer. The lawyers of the circuit with whom he has conferred upon the subject concur in this view. No experienced stenographer within this State has as yet applied for the position, though two applications have been made?one from Nebraska and the other front New York. The Judge will make no appointment, however, unless the applicant is known to possess all the requisite qualifications to properly discharge the duties of the office. Of course, the salary of the Court Stenographer cannot begin until the appointment is made; and besides, the Legislature failed to make an appropriation for that purpose. THE ROAD TAX. The last General Assembly passed an Act to permit persons in the State liable to road duty to pay a commutation of two dollars per annum in lieu of wot king on the roads. The following is the Act: That all persons liable to perform road duty in this State and residing outside of incorporated towns and cities, be and they are hereby authorized to pay to the County Treasurer of the county in which they reside, a commutation of two dollars in lieu of the time such persons might annually be required to labor on the public roads, which in no case shall be less than six nor more than twelve days in any one year, as the Conntv Commissioners of the several counties may direct. And whenever any of such persons liable to road duty shall pay the commutation tax herein provided for, it shall be the duty of the County Treasurer to furnish such ' person with a certificate showing that the com- j mutation tax has been paid, which shall relieve J the person so paying from road duty for the year ' in which said commutation tax is paid. 1 Skc. 2. That immediately after the payment of 1 the said commutation tax,* it shall be the duty of the County Treasurers of this State to furnish J the County Commissioners of their respective ? counties with the names of all persons who have ] paid such commutation tax ; and the said County ! Commissioners shall furnish all overseers or ' contractors with the names of all such persons, who shall not be liable to road duty for the year i in which said payment may be made. * < Skc. ff. That all money so paid in commuta- ; tion of work on the public roads shall be kept . separate from the general county fund, and shall 1 be exclusively applied by the said County Com- , missioners to repairing the highways and" bridges of the county, by contract or otherwise, as 1 i , . f . jV/yithat 1 may ue (UH'iiieu must BApsmwiv. .. ..... T said County Commissioners be required to expend said money upon those sections of the public roads whereon the persons paying such commutation tax may be liable for road duty : Provided, Nothing herein contained shall apply to Gregg township, Aiken county. Agreeably to the provisions of the Act, Treasurer Neely has caused to be printed the required certificate to issue to those desiring to commute in lieu of working on the roads, and is prepared to issue them at any time upon receipt of the specified tax. CORONER'S INQUEST. On Wednesday night of last week, Miles Cook, a colored driver employed in Frank E. Smith's "livery stables, died under suspicious circumstances. On Tuesday morning he left town with a traveling salesman, taking hint to several places in the western and southern part of the county, and arrived at Lowrysville, in the upper edge of Chester county, lato in the evening, where the salesman remained all night. Miles, in company with another negro, went to a negro's house in the neighborhood to spend the night, and there they met some colored men who were of the "country faction" in the famous Mt. /ion riot, on the 4th of last June. It so happened that Miles was one of the town faction in that same disturbance; and though the unexpected meeting of these opposing forces produced no commotion, it was noticed that the reception of Miles and his companion was not cordial. While at the house Miles took a drink from the water jacket and soon after became quite sick. By norning he was speechless, and was brought to j lis home in this place, where he died about 12 j j'clock Wednesday night. There was suspicion ! hat he might have been poisoned, and on Thurslay Coroner Caldwell impaneled a jury of in- j juost, and after the preliminary proceedings ad- ! ourned until last Monday morning, when a vritten report was read from Drs. Lindsay and White, as follows: "According to instructions from Coroner Cald- j .veil and also the jury of inquest, we made an 1 lutopsy of the body ot Miles Cook, and removed j he stomach, the contents of which we did not | jxamine, nor would we recommend a chemical | malvsis of it, as a close examination of the other | .'iseera of his body plainly indicates that his leath was the result of congestion." In accordance with this statement of the med- j cal experts, and other testimony, the jury renlered a verdict that "the deceased came to his leath from congestion as per report of medical ixperts hereto attached." A DESERVED APPOINTMENT. It affords us pleasure to learn that our friend, Major 10. C*. McLure, of Chester, has obtained a lesirable appointment in the post office department at Washington, which fact is conveyed as follows in a dispatch to the Charleston News mid Courier : "Major E. C. McLure, of South Carolina, was an Friday, selected by Postmaster General Vilas to be chief appointment clerk of the post-oflfce department at an annual salary of s$l,800. The ofiice to which Major McLure has been appointed has been vacant since November last. He will have supervision of the clerical appointments exclusively, the appointment of postmasters being confined to another branch of the office. There were many applicants for the place, but Senator Butler and the other members of the South Carolina delegation persevered in behalf of Major McLure, and their efforts were finally crowned with success. - Major McLure has for some time past been Senator Butler's private secretary, and he was deservedly popular at the Capitol.* CIRCUIT COURT. The next term of the Circuit Court of York county, Judge Hudson to preside, will convene on the fifth Monday, 29th day, of the present month. On Tuesday last, in conformity to law, the constituted authorities drew the following jurors?the grand jurors to serve for the year I88f>, and the petit jurors during the first week of the term: GRAND JURORS. Irwin Blair,, Bullock's Creek.J. J). Whitesides, Broad RiverW. H. Stewart, Fort Mill. VV. E. Good, Bullock's Creek. John T. Lowry, York. J. B. Blanton, Cherokce.R. M. Plexico, Cherokee. W. T. Hartness, Cherokee.A. C. Sutton, jr., Fort Mill. B. M. Faris, Fort Milk W. C. Abernathy, Catawba^ D. W. Fowler,...*. Jin Hock's Creekv S. S. Plexico, Bullock's Creekr J. A. Abernathy, Cherokee. T. A McKeown, Broad River.W. R. Warren, Fort Milh" B. J. Gold, Cherokee.F. II. Dover Cherokee.. PETIT JURORS. J. B. Pegram, YorrtvBruce Hopper, CherokeetB. Frank White, Cherokeer W. G. Bowdle, Bullock's Creek.J. B. Wood, , York. J. B. Heath, CatawbarR. J. Riggins, BethebF. 1). Moore, Cherokee L. D. Johnson, Fort Milk-: J. W. Anderson, Catawba*-W. D. Lesslie, King's Mountain*J. J. Gaulden, York.A. J. Goforth, CherokeerD. A. Fulton, Bethesda^ J.T. Bigham, York.. John M. Hope, .... York. J. L. Williamson, Bethesda.. W. E. Srnarr, Bullock's CreekrA. Cody, York.? M. R. Reese, Cherokee^ E. S. Thomson, Broad River.Leroy S. Nivens, Fort MilkJohnson Moore, colored, Broad River^ J. B. Robinson, King's Mountain^ A. Friedheim, Catawba*. John Knox, King's Mountain.. J. C. Purseley, King's Mountain. J. E. Leech, Broad River. J. if. jsmitll, v^uuiw uiw8. E. McFadden,..; Bethesda^ J. H. Campbell,i Bethesdar0. J. Gwin, Bullock's Creek. J. R. Barrorij King's Mountain. J. J. Shaw, Catawba,J. W. Brown, Bethesda. W. J. Caveny, Bethesda. LIST OF LETTERS Remaining uncalled for in the post oftice at Yorkville, S. C'., March 9th, 188(5: John J. Astor, Mollie J. Ash, J. H. Adams,Mrs. I). F. Alexander, S. W. Alexander, Frony Barron, Mrs. W. L. Baber, John Brian, William Bratton. Mary Barnwell, J. A. Brown, Mrs. F. I). Black, Stephen Bratton, Mrs. M. V. Baber, Fannie Barron, Watsell Bestwood, Warney Brian, Nannie Barnett, Nancy A. Biggers, Rebecca Branch, Solomon Bryant, Noah Blalock, Jane Clinton, S. B. Carroll, C. A.Carroll, J. I). Clark, 3; R. Carroll, W. B. C'assells, J. C. Comer, C. A. Carlisle, 1). M. Campbell, Lucy Davis, Mrs. R. J. Dunlap, Mary Dennis, S. DalTers, James Ellet, Nathan Ellis, Susan Ellis, Catharine Fewell, C'has. B. Francisco, H. L. Faulkner, Fannie Farr, Richard Fuller, Laura Ferguson, R. ILGilfillan, S. H. Gatteroy, P. Goforth, Delia Gregory, F. M. Galbraith, Kate Gwin, MalindaHill,2; Miss A. 1). Thomson, W. R. Horton, Lizzie Hart, R. B. Hartness, S. J. Holmes, James Harper, J. W. Hosten, MissH. M. Hogue, John R. Jeter, II. M. Jarvis, Messay Jackson, Z. J. Jones, Jane Jones, B. King, Lucy Keptley, WolfKlawansky, Cynthia Knox, W. S. Loughfidge, Lizzie Loughridge, J. J. McCosh, Y. M. Morgan, Hattie Miller, B*Marck, Katie Neely, Wilson Marshall, J. D. Miskelly, Emma Miller, R. M. McEIwee, Thafer Meek, R. W. Mackie, Yiolet Murdock, W. N. Mellican, Agnes McCants, Mollie Martin, J. C. McKnight, M. It. Maring, M. R. Nichols, James Nivens, Elizabeth Partlow, Ward Parker, James IT. Patterson, Grantson Rost, Emily Smith, Favette Stone, Willie E. Spots, John Smith,2; t. H. Stockwell, 2 ; Liza Stoney, Mrs. John Smith, James Smith, 2; Robert Shaw, Mason Stowe, Richard Sudduth, S. E. Stephenson, C. E. Smith, W. A. Sassamon, S. II. Smith, Dr. W. H. Smith, Solea Smith, C. H. Smith, 2; J. G. Templeton, Giles Thompson, H. A. Thomasson, J. C. Troy, 2; Y. I). Turner, Mary Thomasson, John Thomasson, James Turner A Co., C'orrie Templeton, S. Wilson, W. A. Williams, Kate Whitesides, J. C. Whitesides, Jessie Weston, 3; Toney Woods, Mary E. Walker. Violet Watson, J. A.'Whiiesides, Mary Wade, Willie Williams, J. B. Weston, 2; Henry Wylie, J. B. Whitesides, David Watson, Hugh Wallace, J. J. Ward, John Walker, Jesse Weightell, Elizabeth J. White, w. r. wnue, -urs. m. <?. ? hsuu, inu?u i Van Tassel 1. Persons calling for any ol the above letters will please say "advertised." Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM ROCK HILL. Rock Hill, March S.?The culture of tobacco is receiving considerable attention in this section. A number of farmers are planting experimental patches. Perhaps the largest planter of the weed in this section is Mr. George A. Cowan, who will plant ten acres. His farm is two miles east jf this place, and those who have seen his land say it is well adapted to the culture of tobacco. I trust that all who experiment with tobacco this season may meet with success. If we can raise tobacco in this county it will be a more profitable crop than cotton at eight cents per pound, the present price. A number of the enterprising citizens of 'West End" Rock Hill are very much improving that part of town by planting shade trees. In a few years "West End" will be the most attractive part of the town, and if the population continues to increase as it has done in the last two years, it will rank next in population to the section of our town known as "Brooklyn," whose population rias been wonderfully increased during the past year. Two colored train hands who work on die material train of the C., C. & A. Railroad, which was at this place yesterday, aegan playing, when one of them accidentally cut the other on the wrist with a knife ae had in his hand. An artery was sever Hi, tnougn me wounu is not uungeruua. The wounded man promptly received medial aid. The fish pond and park of Messrs. Friedlei m & Brother, which was so attractive :o our citizens last summer, will be much nore attractive this season. They have nade, and are making a number of improvements, among them a platform for lancing. There is a petition to President Cleveland n circulation here asking the pardon of lames Gooch, colored, who was recently ientenced by the U. S. Court at Greenville o nine months in the South Carolina penientiary on conviction of perjury. I learn hat the petition has already received the | lignaturesof the jury that convicted him, j md also of a number of the citizens of this j dace. The eclipse of the sun last Friday after-1 noon was visible at this place, and witnessed by a number of persons. Dr. Arthur Millard, of Pana, 111., preached in the Presbyterian church at this place yesterday morning. His sermon is said to have been one of best ever preached in this place. He will lecture on Tuesday night for the benefit of the Rock Hill Library. Hal. ?? . -+ ^ ? Correspondence of the Yorkville Knquirer. ^ , LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chester, March 8.?Our community was painfully surprised on last Wednesday morning by the unexpected death of Mrs. E. C. McLure. On Tuesday her condition appeared to be so favorable that her physician was hopeful of her recovery in due time. On Tuesday night congestion set in, and she at once began to sink, dying next morning at 10 o'clock. The funeral services were held the next day at the Presbyterian Church, being conducted by Rev. George Summey, Rev. R. W. Sanders and Rev. Mason W. Jt'ressiey. iur. suraraeys remarks on the occasion were exceedingly appropriate and touching. His reference to the little babe of four days was calculated to touch any and every heart. Dr. Gill Wylie and Dr. Robert H. Wylie, both living in New York, were the only members of the family that were not here. Captain , W. L. Roddey and wife, of Rock Hill, relatives of the family, were present on the sad occasion. Maj. McLure arrived home from Washington on Sunday preceding the day of her death. He is left in a desolate condition, with a dependent family of four children. The large attendance at the funeral and burial testified to the sympathy of our community for him and his motherless children. A large crowd assembled on Main street on last Friday evening to witness a rope^ walking performance by two colored men. The expectations of the crowd were not realized. In other words the performance was a humbug. Farmers have made considerable progress in their agricultural operations during the East two or three weeks. Now that they ave entered on the work of another year, they seem to be in better spirits than some time ago. There is unmistakable evidence of the continued operations of the lien law. Wagons, filled with supplies, are daily leaving our town for different portions of our county. Merchants are cautious in furnishing supplies, and generally demand as a condition the endorsement of the liens by the landholders. Some of our large landU/>1/)AMn /!/% wa4- lilfn fKn nfia??!ttr 1 inn lotir fni* UUIUCI3 UU IJUt Uivg HIC pilUillj uvu mn ) ivt ^ the reason that they are unwilling to incur the risk of endorsing the liens of their tenants. A majority of landholders, however, are pleased with the law, for the reason, as they say, that it gives them better control over their laborers. The latter feel their dependence upon the land holders, as they "cannot get supplies without their endorsement. _ Major E. C. McLure, of our town, received a telegram on Saturday from Washington announcing his appointment to the position of appointment clerk in the Postmaster General's department. Reapplied for Third Assistant in this department and obtained the position named. He will not leave for "Washington until after Court, as he is compelled to be here at that time. t /.On last Tuesday evening, by Rev. Mr. iBissell, Miss Mattie Hardin, of Richburg, and Mr. J. B. Kennedy, of Ridgeway, were -married. The bride is a daughter of the late Peter Hardin, deceased. The bride has a multitude of friends in this county who will accompany her to her new home with Jheir best wishes. Mrs. Jane Hemphill, of our town, who was desperately ill a short time ago, is recovering. Her friends are Very glad to hear of her recovery. Mrs. Evans, of the upper portion of this .county, died last week. _ Rev. Mason W. Pressley, pastor of the .Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church of our town, has accepted a call to a church in New York City, and will leave Chester * for his new field of labor as soon as possible. > While extremely sorry to give him up, his friends congratulate him on the great honor bestowed upon him. Rev. Mr. Curtis has accepted the call to the pastorate of Calvary and Liberty Bgp- , ^ tist Churches of this county. * '* m. ' SOUTH CAROLTNA NEWS. ?Professional burglars have been blowing open safes in Spartanburg. ? In the southern half of Laurens county the oats are entirely killed, and some wheat ' fields have been sowed over. ? The fruit trees of Edgefield county have been much injured by the severe winter. It issaid that some orchards will not bear at all. ? The Conference of the Evangelical Lutheran Tennessee Synod will meet in St. 1 Andrew's Church, in Richland county, on Friday, the 2Gth of March. J ? The Anderson Intelligencer says that a mechanic of Belton, in that county, claims that he has succeeded in inventing perpetual motion. ? A car load of oats arrived at Prosperity, Newberry county, on Saturday and was sold by Monday evening, and the demand was unsupplied, the farmers wanting them to sow. ? In the Court of Common Pleas at Sumter last week Mrs. Mary Muldrow was awarded a verdict of $2,000 against the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta railroad for tne killing of her husband at Marion last year. ? Thirteen persons charged with committing a number of burglaries in Camden recently, were arrested and placed in the Kershaw county jail last week. One of the parties implicated is a policeman of the town of Camden. ? John Benson, a colored man in the county jail of Laurens, now under sentence of death for the murder of liobert Byrd, colored, on the 26th of April, 1884, will be hanged on the 10th instant, unless the executive clemency intervenes. ? Commissioner Coleman of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, has made an unfavorable report on the Govern- ^ ment tea farm at Summerville, in this State, and is of opinion that experimenting . there with the tea plant had better be abandoned. ? At Piedmont factory, in Greenville county, on Tuesday of last week, James W. King, aged about 40 years, killed his wife, and then cut his own throat, causing almost instant death. No cause can be assigned for the tragedy. Their family consisted of seven children, six of whom were employed in the lactory. ? Senator W. T. Field, of Pickens county, has paid to the county treasurer of that county $220 to be added to the public school fund. This is the money Senator Field has received over expenses for his services in the State Senate. This is an example that * ? but few politicians will imitate. ? Lancaster Review, 3rd: Both Mr. Wylie Estridgeand his wife, of Flat Creek, died of pneumonia on last Thursday, the former about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and the latter at a late hour during the night. Mr. Estridge was about 35 years of age and his wife a few years younger. He was a good citizen and will be missed by the community in which he lived. ? In the Union Court of Sessions, last week, Judge Kershaw presiding, B. Brooks Going, tried for the killing of llenry Ii. Fowler last Christmas, was acquitied. The case attracted much interest on account of the respectability of the accused as also the deceased. The defence was conducted by Messrs. David Johnson, Jr., Rion and Mclvissick. ? llina Hogg, colored, the oldest woman in the county and probably in the State, died in Aiken county, on the 19th ult. Authentic records of the Hogg family, to which she belonged before freedom, show that she was born in 17GG, ten years before the Declaration of Independence. The old woman, according to this statement of the Barnwell People of the 4th instant, would be about 120 years old. For several years she was entirely helpless. ? Bishop Keever has directed Rev. R. P. Franks, who went from Marion Street church to Cheraw at the beginning of the present conference year, to take charge of the Sumter church, in place of Rev. Manning Brown, whose disability compelled him to give up his work about a month ago. The congregation at Cheraw, however, is so well pleased with Mr. Franks, that they have forwarded a strong protest to the Bishop against his removal.