Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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frraps and Jfacts. ? It is said that the spray of the great Yellow Stone falls in the National l'ark built up at its foot a mountain of ice scarcely yet affected by the spring warmth, and almost as high as the fall itself, which in midwinter was magnificent in form and color. ? The statistician of the New York Commercial Advertiser figures out that "in all human probability the 300,000 war pensioners now on the Washington roll will be increased to over 1,000,000 in the coming half century. The 11,324 men engaged in the war of 1812 left 17,892 widows and they increase yearly." ? Business failures occurring throughout the country during the last week as reported to R. G. Dun & Co., number for the United States 155, Canada 27. Total 182, against 215 last week and 214 the week previous. The decrease as compared with the previous week is considerable and is about equally distributed throughout the country. ? The election on local option in Botetourt county, Va., last Friday, resulted in a mtyority of 357 in favor of granting license for the sale of liquor. The first city to vote on the same question wili be Fredericksbars', where the election will be held on the 22na instant, and on the 26th Richmond and Lynchburg will vote. Excitement in Richmond is daily increasing. Both "wet" and "dry" people are working vigorously. ? A number of printed petitions are being circulated among the colored people of the South asking Congress for an appropriation to enable colored citizens to emigrate to Liberia. They ask for not less than $100 per capita to enable them to reach Liberia, and for six months' shelter for them and their children after they get there. These petitions are just beginning to reach Congress. ? Mr. Jefferson Davis has written a letter to a friend in Baltimore stating that it was untrue that he would deliver an address at the laying of the corner-stone of a Confederate monument at Montgomery, Ala. He says that he only consented to be present on that occasion after it was promised not to ask him to deliver an address, as his health would not permit of either the mental or the physical exertion necessary. If he were able no one could more appropriately deliver the address on the erection of a monument to the Confederate dead in the place of the birth of the Confederate Government. ? During the consideration of the voluntary arbitration bill in the House at Washington, the other day, statistics were submitted to show that in England the loss from strikes since 1870 had aggregated $270,000,000, and that there had been a similar loss in this country. The loss by the Hocking Valley strike alone, which fell on the people ofXJolurabus, O., amounted to $15,000,000. The strike at Saint Louis had resulted up to the 1st day of April in a loss of $1,200, 000 in the labor account alone, and incidental costs, direct and indirect, will foot up $4,000,000 or $5,000,000. ? The election in Rhode Island on Tuesday of last week resulted in a decided prohibition victory. Governor Westmore, Republican, is re-elected by less than 1,800 mtgority, while Edwin Metcalf, the Democratic and Prohibition candidate for attorney general, has a majority of 1,784. The prohibitory liquor law received over onefifth of all the votes cast. The liquor dealers are amazed and can scarcely realize that their occupation is gone. On the other hand, mass ana prayer-meetings were held all over the State Thursday night for the purpose of giving thanks and rejoicing over the result of the inosff memorable political contest that ever took place in the State. ? A. P. Henly, the clerk of the ordinary at Athens, Ga., shows the copy of an old will on file in the ordinary's office that probably has not its like in the country. Peter Terry thought that one Wells would assassinate him, and with this idea in his head, he made his will. In it he left his property to a certain number of his friends, whose names are mentioned, to be used in prosecuting Wells to the utmost extent of the law, provided he killed Perry. A few days after the will was made Perry was found dead in his garden, shot through the heart. When his will was read suspicion was aroused against Wells, and, on a search being made, the wadding from the gun that did the killing was found, and it proved to be part of the letter that passea oetween tnese men. Wells was tried for murder, convicted and hung in three months after the killing. ? The board of church extension of the M. E. Church, South, which was in session at Louisville, Ky., last week, completed its labors Saturday. The amount of the annual assessment fund was raised from $70,000 to $85,000, and was distributed among the different conferences in sums proportionate to their wealth. The Rev. William Monk, a well known evangelist of the northwest, was given full swing in his territory, comprising a large mission field, and was given instructions to push his work ahead and build at once the churches located in different points as he should in his judgment select. There was set apart $15,900 to be used in purchasing old mortgaged church property in New Mexico and pushing the cause of Methodism there. This work was put into the hands of Rev. Dr. Kelly, missionary secretary for Mexico. ? Says the Charlotte Observer of last Sunday: Captain S. B. Alexander, one of the commissioners appointed by Gov. Scales, to investigate the disputed State line between North and South Carolina, yesterday gave county surveyor Orr a copy of Spencer's survey, for examination. It is claimed that South Carolina now has a big slice of land belonging to Mecklenburg county, and Gov. Scales is making a vigorous effort to get at the real facts in the case. Spencer's survey was made, we believe, in 1880. Mr. Orr, our county surveyor, is to "figure on it," and see if it contains any inaccuracies. Mr. Orr was also given a written copy of a history of the dispute, how it arose and the ground upon which it is based. He will make a careful examination into the matter under dispute, and if he finds that South Carolina is claiming land that belongs to this State, he will not be backward in telling about it. ? As to the careless manner in which physicians' prescriptions are often put up, Chambers' Journal says: The result of a curious but very important tests as to the awnronu with which chemists.rlriitredstsand others make up prescriptions committed to their care has recently been presented to one of the London vestries. Fifty prescriptions were sent out to ordinary druggists, to co-operative stores, to "doctors' shops," and to certain traders styling themselves drug companies. The mixtures made were afterwards analyzed, to find out how nearly they agreed with the prescriptions they represented; but in order to give a liberal mar^ gin for error it was resolved not to put a black mark against any one if the chief constituent were within 10 per cent, of the right amount. Notwithstanding this margin, no fewer than seventeen out of the fifty mixtures were incorrectly dispensed. In one case the principal drug was less by 85 percent, than the amount ordered, while in another it was 57 per cent, in excess. The chemists and druggists came out best in this strange competition, as only C per cent, of their prescriptions had to be called in question. Next came the co-operative stores with 20 percent, of error; then the "doctors' shop," with 50 per cent.; and lastly the drug companies, who are credited, or rather discredited, with 75 per cent, of errors. ? Charles Robinson, colored, was hanged at New Castle, Delaware at 1.00 P. M. last Friday for rape upon Miss Klia F. Gardiner, c. white lady. He died of strangulation and with very slight struggles. lie made a short speech on the scaffold reiterating his assertion of innocence, and while the deputy was adjusting the noose around his neck said: "Draw tighter. Farewell to the world!" In ten minutes the physicians pronounced the pulsations of his heart imperceptible. Allen J, Adams, in 1875 murdered his employer, Moses Dickinson, an aged farmer ol Amherst, Mass., by splitting his head open with an axe. lie then robbed him of a considerable sum of money and fled. After spending ten years as a dissolute tramp he confessed his crime during a drunken dispute, and was returned to Massachusetts, tried and convicted. He expiated his crime on the scaffold at Northampton a few minutes after 10 o'clocX., Friday morning. His utterances were blasphemous to the last. On the same day Cammille Gonzales was hanged at Bracket, Texas, for the murder of a ranchman nam ed Johnson on November 1,1884. Gonzajes ! was laughing when the drop fell. He made I a short speech before the fall, protesting his i innocence. He turned towards the jail and waving his hand and addressing the prisoners, said: "Good bye, my companions." There was not a tremor in him. He slept well and ate a good breakfast and dinner. He ascended the scaffold with a firm tread, and placed the rope around his neck himself whence it was promptly removed by the deputv. His neck was broken by the fall. Ihe forkvillc ?nquitM. YORKVKLLE, H. ('. : ^ THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 22,1886. THE BLAIR BILL. The Blair educational bill came up before the two committees of the House on Friday __ j r? ? 1Tn UOU gU.Vt? riSC IU <* II VCl^ ucwaic J u uum. the Committee on Education the bill came up as the special order, but a motion to further postpone its consideration was carried by a vote of 8 to 4, which is regarded as a final indication of the disposition of the committee toward the measure. Mr. Still as one of the advocates of the measure raised the point that the committee was not treating the minority with courtesy in thus summarily disposing of the bill, the members reconsidered the vote ar\d took up the first section, pending a consideration of which the hour of twelve was reached and the committee adjourned, leaving the bill unfinished business to be taken up at to-morrow's meeting. THE MEXICAYPEXSIOX BILL. The following is the text of the bill to pension survivors of the Mexican war, as passed in the House of Representatives by a vote of 158 to GS: Section 1. That the secretary of the interior be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to place the names of all surviving officers, solaiers and sailors who enlisted and served in the war with Mexico for any period during the years 1845, 184G, 1847 and 1848 and were honorably discharged, or their surviving widows, on the pension roll at the rate of $8.00 per month, from and after the passage of this Act, during their lives. Section 2. That the secretary of the interior is hereby authorized and directed to make such rules and regulations as are necessary to carry this Act into effect: Provided, that where it shall appear that a discharge is lost secondary evidence may be permitted, and where it shall appear that an applicant has received a land warrant, that snail be sufficient evidence of an honorable discharge, unless the evidence shews that he procured it by fraud ; and, provided further, that this Act shall not apply to persons under political disabilities. The South Carolina delegation divided nn thp hill. Mpssrs. "Dibble and Smalls voted aye; Hemphill says he voted against the bill because it gives pensions to persons in the Northwestern States who took no part in the war with Mexico. Some of them were mustered into service, but never left their respective States. It also proposes to give double pensions to others for service and disability, and cut out Southern veterans and their heirs who sympathized with the Confederacy during the late war. This bill is not yet a law, having yet to pass the ordeal of the Senate. In reference to this misunderstanding the Washington correspondent of the Xews and Courier says: Members of the South Carolina delegation are daily receiving communications from constituents who apparently imagine that because the Mexican pension bill passed the House it is a law. It will have to be acted on by the Senate and amended, and approved by the President before Mexican pensioners in the South can enjoy its benefits. While the bill at present authorizes their names to be placed on the pension rolls, an existing law prohibits persons who sympathized with or encouraged secession from drawing pensions. THIS >VEEKTX*COXGKESS, A Washington dispatch of Sunday says: The calendar of the House has grown to such proportions that the more important ? *MA Krv/?/vrk"?? nrr olormorl of tlm I'UUIllllUCCO aiu ucvuiiuu^ anil UJVU uw mv waning chances foe action upon their preferred measures, and are about to make efforts to secure the assignment of entire days for their consideration. Several motions will be made to-morrow to suspend the rules and pass the bill to regulate promotions in the Military Academy and the bill to make parcels and light merchandise mailable as special delivery matter. The river and harbor hiII comes up as unfinished business on Tuesday and will occupy the attention of the House perhaps two days. It will be followed by the diplomatic appropriation bill. The public lands committee may, under the newly conceded power, call up during the week one or more forfeiture bills. A number of bills changing judicial districts will be called up by the judiciary committee for action on Saturday. It is probable that the House will adopt an order setting aside Tuesday nights, instead of Fridays, for the consideration of private pension bills. The contest for the "right of way" in the Senate waxes warmer. It is the intention of Senators Edmunds and Morgan to ask i that the doors be kept closed the coming i week until the mysteries of the foreign relations committee shall be discussed. Sen- ' ator Collum proposes to insist upon contin-1 uous discussion of the Inter-State commerce . bill until that measure is voted upon. Senator Blair promises to keep up his fight for 1 his general pension bill, his arbitration bill and his two or three hundred private pension bills. Senator Sewell, if he is not appalled by the pressure in favor of other measures, will plead for the consideration of the Fitz-John Porter bill. Senator Itiddleberger threatens to make some brief but energetic remarks every day upon the : absurdity of secret sessions. Senator Van ] Wyck will no longer suffer the bill to | tax railway land to be put off without a | protest. Senator Hoar, who concedes precedence to the Inter-State commerce bill, will watch for a vacant moment to begin the battle in behalf of the bankruptcy bill; and the appropriations committee will exercise unusual self-restraint if it does not bring in one or more of the regular appropriation bills and take the floor in virtue of i its dominant rights under the general prac-1 tino/if tho KonntP What will hp flpfiinllv ; accomplished during the week no one can tell. Indicted for Mal-Pkactice.?Considerable sensation has existed in Atlanta for , the last fortnight over the death of a lady j who was discovered to he Miss Julia Lock, < of King's Mountain, N. C. She went to ; Atlanta under an assumed name, and put | horeself under the treatment of Dr. Green, j j a well known specialist and a prominent i member of one of the leading churches in | Atlanta. She died, and efforts were being j made under cover of night to remove her ! : body when the city authorities came in and J established the fact that the woman had died from criminal mal-practice and thatj Dr. Green had removed the evidences. The , leading doctors of tfre city testified that the ] work was that of an expert, and this lead the coroner's jury to the verdict that the death was the result of mal-practice. At ] ; this stage the grand jury took the case up and they have found an indictment against I Dr. Green, charging him with the offense. j j The doctor has been prostrated by the developments. He was arrested Wednesday. ; j The warrant charges him with assault and j with intent to murder. Subsequent to the ; arfest Dr. Green's bond was fixed at $1,000. j Is?i{.r. Sehenck, German editor of Pack, published in New York, died at the High- j i land Park Hotel in Aiken at 2 o'clock on 1 Wednesday of last week. I AN APPALLING CALAMITY. SECTIONS OF MINNESOTA, IOWA AND MIS- i SOUIil LAID WASTE BY A CYCLONE. | St. Cloud and Sauk Kapids, Minnesota, ; were swept by a terribly destructive cy- j clone on the afternoon of the 14th instant, j A <lispatch from St. Paul says: The first knowlege of the disaster was contained in a telegram sent to Mayor Ames from St. Cloud, reporting the disaster and asking that a special be sent with physicians. A similar dispatch was received from Sauk Rapids. Immediately upon receipt of these messages preparations were made to re-1 spond to the call for help. A train for St. ! Cloud left at G o'clock. Information at i hand is very meager and sensational reports are current that one hundred people were killed. It is believed that at least forty persons have been killed and about seventy-five wounded, but it is impossible to get much information as yet. All is excitement and the streets are filled with men and frightened women aitd children. The disaster is certainly appalling. As nearly as can be learned, scores of houses have been entirely wrecked. Twelve phy sicians were aboard the relief train which i left for St. Cloud. A later dispatch from St. Paul says: Private advices say the storm struck the railroad between the roundhouse and the depot, and swent a path GOO yards wide through the city, levelling between loO and 200 houses. II. M. Clark, a well-known lumberman who lives in St. Cloud, says ninety persons were killed and more than 100 injured, many very seriously. Reports of the cyclone at St. Cloud, Sauk Rapids, Rye Station and other points in the vicinity, last night and early this morning, were not exaggerated. At three o'clock this morning in the places named there were forty-nine dead and nearly two hundred injured, with many still missing, whose bodies will probably be recovered. Just enough houses are left in Sauk Rapids to form a fringe around the village limits. The debris is not piled in heaps, but scattered far and wide. The sign <lSauk Rapids" on the Manitoba depot, and a basket full of school books were found in Rye Station, fifteen miles distant. This shows the terrible power of the storm. The fury of the storm at St. Cloud is thus vividly described in a dispatch from that place on Thursday: A few minutes after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon the skies became overcast with a dark cloud, and a great black maas rose over the hills southwest of the city, and coming with terrible velocity to the western outskirts in a direct line for the Manitoba freight yards. The clouds hung low, and rolled over and over like smoke over a battlefield, and were accompanied by a loud roaring sound, that resembled a conflagration in its fury. The funnnLoKonnrl mwl tho rminf. tiuuu ?oo iunii^rotia^tU) uuu uiw dragged along the gfound like the tail of a huge aerial beast, lashing everything that came in its path into atoms. The citizens had hardly time to flee to their cellars and seek other points of refuge before a whirlwind was on them and the air filled with flying boards, shingles, bricks and other debris, that was strewn over the country and piled in promiscuous heaps. It came from the southeast and moved in a northerly direction until it reached the river, where its course was diverted and followed the river banks until it reached Sauk Itapids, where it diverged to the left, passing directly through the centre of that town. The utmost excitement prevailed. Women and children fled from their houses and rushed aimlessly about in the midst of the dark cloud of dust and an avalanche of boards and brick. Men lost their presence of mind and stood in silence and inactivity in the presence of the wind demon. It was hardly noticed before it was on the city in all its fury, and the people were not warned of their danger before it was upon them, and they fell like grain stalks before the reaper's sickle. The portion of St. Cloud struck by the cyclone was the southwest section and was the residence portion occupied by the laboring class of people, the majority of them being foreigners employed on the railroads. Their dwellings were light built houses and became easy prey to the monster that had so viciously nounced upon them. They tvara liL-o unplflo cliollu in tho rrrn?n nf fhn whirlwind, and were picked up and tossed in the air and rent into a thousand pieces. The earth was plowed up in the line ot the cyclone, and the path over which it passed, to a width of nearly a quarter of a mile, looks as though it had been upheaved by a terrible volcanic eruption. It had hardly begun its terrible work before it was finished, and the scene that greeted the eyes of those who had escaped its fury was one that caused the stoutest heart to shudder. The cries and shrieks of the wounded rent the air, and the ground was strewn with the bodies of the dead. Among them were stalwart men, weak women, and weaker children. The citizens almost to a man rushed to thedemolished districts, and summoning physicians began their work of rescuing those who were still living from beneath the piles of dirt and fallen buildings. At Sauk Rapids the storm was equally severe, striking the city shortly after 1 o'clock in the afternoon and destroying the best portion of it within six minutes. Not a single business house was left standing on Main street. Many residences were demolished. The wind came from the southwest and swept everything before it for a width of several blocks. The court house is now a heap of ruins, and several county officersare killed. The Union school-house, the Presbyterian and the Congregational churches, the postoffice, a flour mill and a large machine shop were all converted into kindling wood in less time than it takes to tell it. What was once the centre of the town is now covered with debris?timber, doors, pieces of furniture, ete. Only the city hotel remains intact. The Northern Pacific depot is literally blown away and a large number of freight cars overturned upon the tracks. Scarcely a vestige of any of the wrecked structures remained intact. The ground is covered with all kinds of timbers, promiscuously tangled together. It is estimated that 4D(? structures (all frame) were blown down and the neat and costly Manitoba depot was unroofed and wrecked, thus almost entirely cutting off telegraphic communications. The only building of any consequence aside from the depot injured was the brewery, and this was badly warped and twisted.* The small residences were mostly occupied by foreigners, whose names it has been impossible to secure with any degree of accuracy. The money loss is disproportionately small. It is estimated that $00,000 will replace all the buildings destroyed. The force of the storm was so great as to wrench off the door of the safe in the postoffice and carry it some distance from the building. A church bell weighing 1,000 nnimilu u'iic fnunrl nmrmnr tlio rlnUric! fnnr hundred feet away from any building. The remains of the dead are almost unrecognizable, being completely crushed and blackened. There are a remarkable number injured about the hips and spine. Many of the survivors will be disabled for life. Thirty-one persons are already dead. The list will be swelled to forty. Dr. Ames of Minneapolis, who is on duty at St. Cloud, informed Dr. Dolliver that at least thirty deaths can but result from the visitation there. At Sauk Rapids a man named Van Etton, who weighed 250 pounds, was carried 100 feet through the air and fatally injured. A dead baby was found in the street. No owner for it can be found. At St. Cloud, in the track of the storm, stood the Manitoba freight house and cars filled with freight. The heavy cars were lifted from the tracks and cast in a shape-J less mass. Iron rails were torn from the ties and twisted like the smallest wires. Telegraph poles were torn up and the wires twisted into curious masses. The freight house was totally wrecked. The roof was lifted and blown several hundred feet. The sides next succumbed, and over $.'1,000 worth of freight was scattered piecemeal over a quarter of a mile. Dispatches from towns in Western Iowa show that the loss of property in the section between (Jriswold and Audubon by Thursday's cyclone will reach nearly $150,000. Everything was laid low in the path of the storm. The small loss of life is accounted for by the fact that the cyclone occurred in the day time, and nearly every one had time to get to their "cyclone cellars," which nearly every farm in that part of Iowa is provided with. A St. Louis dispatch says: A fearful ey clone passed over Monroe township, Nod-j away county, Missouri, on Thursday evening, destroying dwellings and outhouses and killing thousands of dollars'worth of stock. ! Three person? were killed and many in- J jured. Many of the wounded are not ex- j pected to live. At Burlington, Mo., the j railway station was blown to atoms and j great damage done in town and in the sur- j rounding country. Two boys, living near ; town, were killed. Many other persons were seriously injured. There was a heavy j thunderstorm at Louisiana, Mo., in the forenoon of the same day, and two men ! were struck by lightning and instantly : killed. There was a solemn mass of requiem in J the Cathedral at St. Cloud on Friday morn-! ing for the victims of the cyclone. Thir- : teen of the bodies were in the Cathedral. J Similar services took place in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, where there were four bodies. The dead wore buried in two large graves, nine adults in one and eight children in the } other. Another child died at St. C;Aid on Friday, and additional deaths continue to be ! reported irom toe country uisiricis. ruuiteen dead were buried in the cemetery at Sauk Rapids. Ten doctors have been in attendance and a large number of nurses from St. Paul and Minneapolis. The loss of property in St. Cloud is estimated at $70,000 and in Sauk Rapids at $280,000. The wreckage on the railroad is estimated at $20,000 Reported for the Yorkville Enquirer. BETHEL PRESBYTERY. The Presbytery of Bethel met at Fishing Creek Church in Chester county on Friday, April 0th, at 11 A. M.f and was opened with a sermon by Rev. R. A. Webb. Of its twenty-tlyee minieta^jjeventeen were present, and of its forty-one churches thirty were represented. Rev.' George Summey, of Chester, was chosen moderator and Rev. M. R. Kirkpatrick, of Clover, was chosen assistant clerk. A committee previously appointed to prepare a Manual of the presbytery, submitted the result of their labors and were directed to have as much of their report, as in their judgment they should deem necessary, printed and circulated among the ministers and churches previous to the next fall meeting. After a warm discussion, the presbytery decided to adhere to its present plan to send ten per cent, of its home mission money to the Assembly's committee for distribution outside of its own bounds. The opposition sought to have all these funds sent to the central committee and then draw back so much as the presbytery might need. The last General Assembly sentdown several overtures to the various presbyteries, recommending their adoption as amendments to the Book of Church Order. The first concerned the method of changing the late provision made for the amendment of the Confession of Faith. To this the presbytery consented. The secontl proposed to confer upon presbyteries the power of original jurisdiction in cases where a session was incompetent to act. This, and other kindred overtures were answered affirmatively. The third concerned the powers of the foreign missionary in ordaining other missionaries, and was answered negatively. The fourth asked the presbyteries to enact an article conferring the right to moderate a church court upon ruling elders. Both the affirmative and negative of this proposition were voted down, and so the presbyA. 1 lery mattes iiu uuswcr. The report of the committee on the Directory of Worship was placed on the docket. The Revs. W. B. Jennings, Roger Martin and J. 8. White were appointed a committee to arrange for a yearly representative Sabbath-school convention, having for its object consultation and comparisonof methods. At an adjourned meeting, held at Winnsboro last year, the presbytery adopted a programme for the celebration of a centennial service at the old Waxhaw church, where the Synod of South Carolina and Georgia was first organized in 178"). According to this programme, the Rev. Jas. H. Thorn well was to preach an appropriate sermon and the Rev. Jas. H. Saye was to read an historical sketch of Waxhaw church. But the presbytery, such, failed to hold this service, and at this meeting adopted the following resolutions: 1. Presbytery laments its failure to attend, as a presbytery, upon the centennial services to see to the carrying out of its own programme and to enjoy this rare privilege. 2. Presbytery further regrets that no appropropriate record was made of these services. It then records the fact that a "sermon, abundantly adapted to the occasion, and full of the spirit and power of the gospel, was preached by the Rev. J. H. Thornwell from Luke, v: 7. It was a feast of fat things to the large and intelligent audience there assembled." The Rev. J. H. Saye failed to respond, because he had not been notified of his appointment. Since the last meeting Rev. Roger Martin has been installed pastor of Allison Creek and Beth-Shiloh churches, and Rev. J. S. White of Hopewell. The Rev. 1 f. B. Pratt was released from the pastoral care of Lancaster. He has been employed by the American Bible Society to make a new translation of the Bible into Spanish, lie will shortly move to Staunton. Ya. Mr. Jas. A. Wilson, a member of the Yorkville church, was licensed to preach, and call3 from Aimwell *nnd Longtown churches were placed in his hands, which he accepted. Mr. G. A. Blackburn, a licentiate of North Alabama presbytery, was received on certificate from that body, and Olivet church given permission to employ him as a stated supply. The Rev. W. G. Neville was received on certificate from the presbytery of South Carolina, and a call from Concord church placed in his hands and accepted. Arrangements were made for his installation in May. The churches of Catholic and Pleasant Grove called Rev. J. L. McLin, of Harmony presbytery. It is understood that he will shortly apply for admission into this presbytery with a view of entering upon this work. Calls for Mr. J. J I. Lumpkin, a student under the care of the Athens presbytery, from Richburg and Cedar Shoals churches, were presented, found in order, and retained by the presbytery for the present. Also calls from Mizpah and Salem churches for Mr. T. P. Burgess, a theological student under the care of Harmony presbytery, were found in order and forwarded to Harmony presbytery. A call was also presented from the Lancaster church for Rev. R. > A. Webb, which he declined. A memorial sketch of the Rev. L. H. i Robinson, deceased, was read and approved by the presbytery. The Rev. it. A. Webb, and Major Jas. G. < Lowry were elected principal, and Rev. Geo. Summey and elder Sam'l McCormick < alternate commissioners to the General As- : sembly to meet in Augusta, Ga., May 20th. J After thanking the people for their hospi- ( tality and the railroad authorities for reduced rates of travel, the presbytery closed J its very busy session on Tuesday at 12 o'clock. It will hold an adjourned meeting at ' Blackstock on the 7th of May, and its next ; regular meeting at Clover in September. Stated Clerk. ! Dr. Woodrow's Orthodoxy Vindicated ny His Prkshytery.?1The Presbytery of Augusta, of which I>r. Woodrow is a member, is now in session at Waynesboro, Georgia. It will lie remembered that last year Dr. Woodrow asked his Presbytery to ; investigate the reports of his unsoundness on account of his views on evolution, and that the Presbytery then refused either to try him or to say there was no cause for ] trial. The .Synod of Georgia, on appeal, re- ] versed this decision and ordered the Presby- , tery to take up the case. Last night a tele-;. gram was received here, stating that the j, Presbytery has cleared Dr. Woodrow, and ! furthermore has elected him as its commissioner to the General Assembly of the i Southern Presbyterian Church, soon to con- i vene at Augusta.?Columbia Iietjbfer. 1 ? John Reed, colored, living on Mr. J. j j M. Moore's place in Lancaster county, was j ] shot by the accidental discharge of a pistol J in the hands of his brother on Tuesday morning last. The ball entered his left ! breast and glanced around the ribs inflict- \ ing a bad but not serious wound. The , brother was greasing his pistol when it was < discharged. LOCAL AFFAIRS } . f NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. v O.K. Spencer, Plaintiffs Attorney-Notice to J Creditors. ii May A May?Paint, Paint, Paint. t E. It. Mendenhall, Administrator of I. M. Wal- 1 lace, deceased?Application for Discharge. Ii Frew Brothers, Rock Hill, S. C.?Again We a Come to the Front. e W. G. Reid A Co., Rock Hill, S. C.?Buggies, 1 Carriages and Wagons. i: M. Strauss?17 Years. t T. M. Dobson it Co.?Our Opening. I Riddle it Pegram?Notice. f W. C. Latimer?Grand Success. 1 John C. Kuykendal?Short Stops. t Withers Adickes?Down, Down, Down. f Lowry A Starr?Chills Cured Again. 1 II. F. Adickes?Grand Central Fancy and Dry t Goods Estabiishmentand 1 ieadquarters for a Hnnts mid Slinf>?. ( i 1 UNTIL JANUARY 1, 1887. 1; We will furnish the Enqitiukk from tliis date i; until January 1, 1887, for $1.05; or for one year * to two names paid for at the same time, $4.00. single subscription $2.50 per annum. INTERESTING SERVICES. * A series of very interesting services are be- ' ing conducted in the Associato Reformed Pres- v byterian church in this place, in which tho pastor is being {ibly assisted by Rev. W. W. Orr, Iluntersville, N. C. Tho services were com- ? 11 menced on last Friday night and have been attended with increasing interest. Since the an- ^ nounccmont last Tuesday night, Mr. Orr has consented to remain longer. Service will be held this (Wednesday) evening at 8 o'clock. ^ N/ HAPPY MARRIAGE. p At RFoVlock A. M. yesterday, Mr. J. B. Pe- s gram, one of our most prosperous young mer- n chants, and Miss Fannie Hope, daughter of Mr.-^ \ J. W. P. Hope, of this place, were united iiy ^ marriage, the ceremony being performed by T Rev. T. R. English, of the Presbyterian church. I The happy couple have the congratulations and C well-wishes of a large number of friends. They C took the twelve o'clock train for Charleston,! where they will enjoy their honeymoon. THE DEPOT AT CLOVER. ^ The Columbia correspondent of the 'News and ^ Courier writes : Citizens of Clover, York county, j on the line of tho Chester and Lenoir Railroad, ^ some time ago requested the railroad commissioners to use their influence to secure for their A town adequate depot accommodations. After a ' full correspondence, General Manager E. B. Thomas, of the Richmond and Danville Railroad system, has notified the commission that he has issued orders for the erection of a station at Clover, which will be, he thinks, ample for the service required. THE WRONG NAME AGAIN. Last week, in referring to the funeral discoursed delivered by Rev. H. C. Dennis, we designated s his church as the "A. M. E. Church." He in- a fnvms liu t.hnt. sin>h is nnt. tlio nrnnor dfisicrnnt.ion 1 of his denomination, and that its proper appel- s lation is "Methodist Episcopal." Our use of the objectionable first initial was mainly for the benefit of tho hasty reader, who might have confused the church with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The colored Methodists draw the line at South, and when that word is omitted it may be understood that the Northern branch, of which tho colored Methodists are adherents, is meant. RAILROAD "PROSPECTS. On Friday last representatives of the Massachusetts and Southern Construction Company met the County Commissioners of this county in the oflice of the Commissioners in Yorkville, when thcCommissionersdesignatedandappoint- j ed the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company , as the agent in whose hands to deposit the bonds ( of Cherokee township in aid of the Charleston, ( Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad, the bonds to be j delivered to the Construction Company agreea- r bly to the conditions upon which the township 1 subscription was made. This would indicate ( that work will be commenced in Cherokee township, on this side of the Air-Line Railroad, at an t early day. t We also understand that work will be begun ( within a week from to-day on the line between t this place and Rock Hill. Engineer Ramsaur 1 has been directed to permanently locate the road-^ s bed between this place and Rock Hill, and wijc * probably begin that work at Rock Hill to-mor- * row. Mr. Urquhart has been instructed to follow ) close upon the engineer and secure tho right of j way for tho line as permanently located. When these preliminaries have been completed, accord- ^ ing to the information wo have, the grading of ( tho road-bed will begin at as early a time as practicable. ' ( CHURCH* NOTICES. ( Presbyterian?Rev. T. It. English, Pastor. * Preaching Friday evening, Saturday morning <and Saturday evening. Sacrament of the Lord's * supper at the morning service on Sunday, preaelN, f ing on Sunday evening. Morning services at ^ 10.30; evening services at S. The pastor will be / assisted by Rev. W. E. Mcllwain, of OastomftT j N. C. A congregational meeting will be held j immediately after prayer meeting to-night. ^ Sunday-school at 3 P. M. ^ Baptist?Rev. J. E. Covington, Pastor. Ser- j vices in the church at Yorkville next Sunday at j 11A.M. Sunday-school at 0.45 A. M. Prayermeeting Wednesday night at 8 o'clock. ( Methodist Episcopal?Rev. W. W. Daniel, Pas- c tor, Services specially appropriate to Easter on i Sunday next at 10.30 A. M.andS. P. M. Associato Reformed?Rev. .T. C. Galloway, \ Pastor. Services at Tirzah next Saturday and C Sunday in tiie forenoon and afternoon of each C day. After tho forenoon service on Sunday, * the sacrament of tho Lord's Supper will he dis- ^ pensed. The pastor will ho assisted bv Rev. C. K. McDonald. ' ? Episcopal?Rev. G. A. Ottman, Rector. Scr-, 1 vices on to-morrow, Good Friday, at 10..'S0 A. M.,-K and at 4 and H P. M. On Sunday next, Sunday- _ school at .'5 P. M. On Monday, the annual Easter " election at 4 P. M. * ^ King's Mountain Mission?Rev. L. A. John- c son, Pastor. Preaching at /ion next Sunday at I 11 A. M., and at Canaan at 2.30 P. M. * t THE FARMERS IN* COUNCIL. [ Pursuant to the notice given in these columns i( last week, a number of the farmersof York met .[] in the Court House at 2 P. M., last Tuesday, for j the purpose of appointing delegates to represent J( the county in the Farmers'Convention, to meet ? in Columbia, on the 20th instant. f On motion of Capt. Allen Jones, Col. Frank II. t Rrown was unanimously called to the chair and r A. W. Ingold was requested to act as secretary. Tlie chairman explained the object of the meeting, and in doing so, desired to remove any er- ^ roneous conclusion that might be formed from previous publication, that the meeting was called ^ by the County Board of Equalization as such? ^ though the meeting originated with members of j the Board, but not in their capacity as such. He ? said it is due to York that the county be repre- a sentcd in the Convention, and that he would hoar a any person present. p Capt. Allen Jones then addressed tho meeting, p He said he desired to see York represented in the Convention, whether tho deliberations of that 0 body result in any good or not. He hoped the ll State Convention proposed to be called on the S 2Hth, would not drift into polities, and thought C that if the farmers of the State could meet in 3 Convention and devise for their own good, the s movement should be encouraged. He moved v that a committee of three bo appointed to noininato delegates and alternates to represent the v county. The motion/was carried, and the chair v ippointed as the committee Dr. Jno. F. Lindsay, ? T. (J. C'ulp and J. T. Dowry, who retired and .j soon after reported the following: DKLKOATK. ALTERNATE. r B. II. Massey, Samuel E. White. Frank H. Brown, R. T. Gillespie. '' I. Ernest Lowry, E. M. Law. B Iredell Jones, James A. Watson. V Robert E. Guthrie, John S. Bratton, Sen. n The report was adopted, and no further busi- c tiess being presented, the meeting adjourned. C FACTS ABOUT EASTER. This year Easter falls on Sunday next, the 0 latest dato on which it can possibly occur, being 5 nearly a month after the beginning of the sec- \ and quarter of the year. From an anonymous o Article we take the following curious facts per- f] taining to the recurrence of this church festival: n w.iu flrut-. the Oster or Anril fi Feast. Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after p Llie first full moon ai'ter the 21st of March. It j may fall as early as the 22d of March or as late ? is the 2f>th of April. Easter was the Saxon godless of the East and typified the spring, the sun- ^ rise, and the renewal of life. The practice of b presenting eggs to our friends on Easter was V handed down to us from the Persians. With them an egg is a symbol of life and creation. There is a tradition that the world was hatched From an egg. It is the creative germ embodied j in an egg for which the two Persian deities, similar to our God and devil, contend, and will contend until the consummation or the destruction 0 ef all things. tl The late date on which Easter falls this year tl ias not happened in this century and will not eeur again. In the next century Easter will all on April 25 in 1943. If we turn back to prerious centuries, we find that such a late date for Caster occurs only once in each century, that J s?1734, 1(56(1, 1546, 1451 ; and the fourteenth cen- j ury goes without such a late date; 1204, 1109, 014,919. The earliest day for Easter, March 22, las occurred only once in this century, in 1818, 1 nd it will not recur before A. I). 2,000. This ( arliest day for Easter has occurred in 1702, 1653, 1 698, 1573, 1478, 1386; the thirteenth century t 3 passed over, 1149, 1041. 946. It is interesting , o know how Easter will distribute itself up to j t. D. 2,000. In the present century Easter will all only twice more in March, oii the 29th in . 891, and on the 25th in 1894. Of the remaining J welvc years of this century five Easter days 1 all in the first week of April (in 1888 on April 1, t 893 and 1899 on April 2, 1896 on April 5, three in he second week (in 1887 and 1898 on April 10, ( nd 1895 on April 14.) and four in the third week I s in 19(H) on April 15,1892on April 18,1897on April V 8, 1889 on April 22. As indicated above, the J ast week of April, with the exception of 1886, j 3 not represented again in this century by an i Caster day. j PERSONAL"MENTION. Mrs. Mary E. Bain and Mrs. Sarah J. Bain, of ^ ?ew York wiilnweil sisters whose maiden name >'as Clark, having spent tlie winter in Florida, ] isitcd Yorkville on Monday, remaining over intil yesterday, for the purpose of paying a ( ribute of sisterly devotion to the grave of their ( ounger brother, Mr. Robert A. Clark, who died J n Charleston in 1X75and was buried in the ceine- < eryat this place by the side of his wife, who was j diss Chambers, and whom he married in Winnsioro, though she was a native of Yorkville. ( 'hoy placed on the grave of their brother a ] icautiful emblem in the form of a cross, com- ( >osed of Immortelles. The ladies express them- < elves as highly pleased and gratified at the 1 icatness of the cemetery, this being their first J isit to Yorkville. ,Mr. Withers Adickes, representative of Homo telief Lodge of this place, Knights of Honor, ' eft on Monday last to attend the session of the Jrand Lodge of South Carolina, which met in ' Jeorgetown yesterday. j /ffrs. J. R. Bratton and W. G. White, delegates if the York Medical Association to the State ilcdieal Association, left on Monday to attend . he latter body, which met In Camden on Tues- j lay. Dr. Bratton is also a member of the State , loard of Health, which also meets in Camden his week. I Miss Carabelle Steele, of Brooklyn, X. Y., and j diss Lessi'e Witherspoon, of this place, whom ] diss Steele has been visiting for the past few nonths left on Tuesday for Sumter. Mr. A. Urquliart, of the Massachusetts and 1 southern Construction Company, will have his icadquurters at Yorkville for the next few veeks, and with his family has taken rooms at ho yorkville Hotel. ^fr. John Alexander, of Philadelphia, has 1 pent several days in town recently. Ho has , pent the winter in the South, most of the time .t Aiken, and being a prominent member of the Jnited Presbyterian Church, and ardently de- . iring to see consummated the union of that lenomination and the Associate Reformed Pres jyterians?a subject now under consideration ; >y both churches?he attended the meeting of i ?irst Presbytery of the A. R. P. Church at jfllead in Mecklenburg county, X. C'., last veelc. Mr. Alexander is a venerable gentlenan, having been an elder in his church for ifty years, and visited Yorkville by invitaion of Rev. J. C. Galloway, who was a guest at 1 lis house in 1875. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. 1 LETTER FROM ROCK HILL. Rock Hill, April 10.?The past week las been a very dull one for news. The veather has been so favorable for farming )perations that very few from the country :ame to town. Most of the farmers have ( slanted their cotton, and I learn that the , tcreage is equally as fctrge if not larger than J ast season. It appears that it pays to raise :otton at 8 cents. In my last letter I stated that the Adjuant and Inspector General would inspect ;he Catawba Rifles on the 10th of May. Jn last Friday new guns were issued to-J he company and they will have a dress 3arade this afternoon. 1 ' The town clock, which for some time past 1 ills been a nuisance, is now running properly. The complaints to the town council vereso numerous that they decided it would )e better to secure the services of another . ceeper, which they have done in the person < )f C'apt. L. M. Davis. Now we shall have ime. All persons know that the business )f Rock Hill is run on time. The concert given by the Carolina Concert < Company on last Thursday night is spoken i )fin the highest terms, especially the per- ; 'ormance of Mr. Robert J. Herndon on the ( :ornet. He was frequently encored. We ; dl feel an interest in Bob and hope he will neet with the success which as a musician < le so well merits. ><Some little boys, while playing in the ( ,'ard of Mr. J. Lawrence Moore, set on fire . in old stump that was surrounded with J eaves, and in a few minutes the leaves , vere on fire. Timely assistance only pre- ] /ented the flames from reaching the dwell- , ng. The only damage done was the burnng of several panels of fencing. Rev. John Davis, D. I)., a missionary to vhina, will preach in the Presbyterian hurch in this place on the 26th and 27th nstant. The regular spring communion service vill be held atEbenezer Church, beginning in Thursday, April 29th and'close on Sun- , lay night. 'The pastor, Rev. J. II. Thornveil, will be assisted by Rev. John Davis, ; ). 1)., and Rev. T. R. English. Last week Mrs. J. C. Poag was accident- , illy thrown from a buggy by the wheel strikng a stump. She was painfully bruised. j CMiss Willie Miller was seriously hurt on ast Wednesday afternoon by jumping from i buggy. Mr. Thomas L. Johnson, who vas out driving, met her on the street acomnanied by a little daughter of Mr. W. 1. Wilson, Jr., and kindly offered to drive s hem home. He assisted Miss Miller and | he child into the buggy, and then in atempting to get into the buggy himself, he ] ost his balance and fell under the vehicle, . Iropping the lines from his hands. The < lorse becoming frightened, ran. Miss Mil- \ er showed wonderful presence of mind. , She took the little girl by the arm and laid j icr on the ground and then jumped from he buggy. In doing so she received inju- | ies which have confined her to her room. . IIal. i A Wonderful Srring.-A very wonder- j ul spring has has been discovered in Ashe ounty, N. C., according to a long special in he New York Times sent from Abingdon, Ja., dated 5th April. A boy accidentally j iiscovered it. It cures poison oak after two ' lathings. It heals old sores. The whole 1 ccount is marvelous, and, if not highly ex- ' ggerated, some wonderful cures have been nade by this wonderful water. Here is a 1 >art of the account: ( "The boy's father then tried the eflicacy ' f the water upon sores which had annoyed f iim for many weeks, and in a marvellously ' hort time was entirely relieved. lie then 1 oncluded to keep secret the locality of the ' pring, allowing no one to go to it but him- J elf; but always keeping a supply of the 1 rater at the house. The neighbors swarmed ' o his house to try the magic water. Many 1 rare healed of various maladies, and all J rare eager to know where the spring was ituated. The old man kept his secret, owever, going under cover of night to fetch J he water. Finally he was followed to his ife giving fountain. In less than twenty- ' Dur hours every brier and bramble for ( lany a yard around had been beaten by the rat of men and hoofs of horses, so great * ras the throngcomingand going. A basket ' iceting' was appointed by the Methodist ' ircuit rider, to be held at the spring on a 11 ertain Sunday. It is estimated that 700 1 ersons were present. The preacher told of ^ is wife's wonderful cure. In consequence f a kick from a cow one of her legs had een in a painful condition for four weeks. Vlthin 15 minutes after the first application f this water she began to experience relief rom pain, and after 12 or 15 hours' treaticnt the pain was entirely gone. This was ne of the many instances related by the readier to his eager listeners. From that ay people came from far and near, driving ometimes .'10 or -10 miles in a wagon and waiting several days for a chance to fill their arrels. ()n Sundays from 300 to 400 persons fere to be seen on the spot." ? On Saturday afternoon of last week, Ir. J. \V. Garrett, Jr., and Miss Lula feard, daughter of T. P. Beard, formerly f Yorkvilie, left the city of Spartanburg n a buggy ride, and when they returned hey surprised their friends by announcing hat they were "man and wife." Reported for the Yorkville Enquirer. ASSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBYTERY. The First Presbytery of the Associate Reormed Presbyterian Synod of the South net at Oilead Church on Monday the 12th nstant. Gilead Church is under the pasto al charge of Rev. Win. Y. Love, formerly )f York county, and is situated in Mecklen>urg county, N. C., six miles west of Ilunersville, the latter place being on theStates/ille Railroad, fifteen miles west of Charotte. In the absence of the retiring Moderator, dev. J. M. Todd, the preliminary exercises ,vere conducted by Rev. R. A. Ross, D. D., he oldest member of the presbytery. Rev. J. T. Chalmers, the stated Clerk, ailed the roll, and forty-three members answered to their names, embracing seveneen ministers, nineteen elders, two licen 1 rtt/io n ?-?A fitm nnm miccinnavc All fkn ?v? in_ .lUbVO UIIU Ik V V* Will III lOCiWllVi w? ilil LllVi lillli sterial members of the presbytery were present with the exception of" Rev. Drs. [lobert Lathan and John E. Pressley, and Revs. John Hunter, J. M. Todd and J. C. Chalmers. Rev. J. C. Galloway was elected Moderator by acclamation. Rev. J. S. Moffatt and C. R. Bernbaek, jf the United Presbyterian Church, were }Iected members of the presbytery. Rev. Moffatt was assigned to the Charlotte mission and Rev. Bernbaek to Sardis Church, in Mecklenburg county, N. C. Rev. Mason W. Pressley, who was present for a short time during the sitting of presbytery, was grauted a certificate of lismissiop to connect himself with PhilaJelphia Presbytery of the United Presbyterian Church of North America. He has accepted the pastorate of the North United Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, and lias gone there to enter upon the duties of the position. ' , In consequence of bodily infirmity, Rev. John E. Pressley, I). I)., and Rev. John Hunter demitted their respective charges? the former Coddle Creek and New Perth, and the latter Sardis. The overture from Synod in regard to the proposed union between the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Synod of the South and the United Presbyterian Church of North America, came up for consideration us a special order. After discussing several propositions the following preamble and resolutions, submitted by Rev. R. G. Miller, were adopted. Whereas, there are negotiations before us looking to a union between the United Presbyterian Church of North America and the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Synod of the South, Resolved? 1. mat ior pruuenuui reasous uie niiai vine be postponed until the next regular meeting of presbytery. " 2. That we believe that the present basis is not seriously objectionable and the union desirable. Twelve ministers and ten elders voted in favor of the resolutions, and two ministers and eight elders against them. The presbytery adjourned on Tuesday afternoon, to meet at Statesville, X. C., on Monday after the fifth Sabbath of August next. # Member. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? A rock fish weighing twenty-four pounds was recently caught in a seine near Branchvilie, and was sold in that town for $2. ? At Barnwell a few days ago Charlie Dunbar, colored, climbed to the dizzy comb of the Methodist church and beat out with his hat the fire that had caught the laths. ? Messrs. W. C. Benet and E. B. Gary of Abbeville have been mentioned in connection with the Congressional aspirants of the Third District. ? Says the Newberry Observer: Several correspondents of various newspapers have said lately that Col. Aiken is out of the Congressional race. This is a mistake. Col. Aiken wHl be a candidate for re-election. ? On Sunday, the 11th inst., near Gafifney, Mr. Lewis Cleary hung himself, but his body was cut down before life was extinct, and he was revived. y^-sMr. John Lee, the last survivor of the war of 1812, of Chester county, died in that county on the 9th instant. He was in his . ninety-fourth yearand was the oldest citizen of the county. ? The Rev. Naomi Tamura, a native of *. Japan, is lecturing in the Presbyterian churches throughout the State. While in Winnsboro he was the guest of Col. Jas. H. Ition. ? Jackson Mack killed Robert Rodgers accidentally at the still of D. R. Edwards. Colleton county, on the evening of the 3rd instant. Mack was examining a pistol and cocked it, and in letting down the hammer it slipped and the ball entered the back of ltodgers' head, passing through and coming out over the left eye. -Thirty-three years ago when Robinson & Eldred's circus showed in Anderson, a young boy left his home and followed the elephants. Reaching Washington he made x stop, and there learned the printing business. Never once since he left had he paid his old home a visit. This week he passed through Easley for the land of his birth, not the sportive lad of thirty-three years ago, uui iiiuun uiuKtrn in iil-ukji. ? Lancaster Ledger, April loth : Coroner Burns held an inquest on Saturday last over the body of Tine Ilorton, colored, in Pleasant Hill township. Horton was driving a wagnn of Mr. Stover's on Friday when the horses became frightened and ran away. No sooner than he got them stopped Mr. istover and a negro man noticed him fall forward in the wagon, and on his not rising went to him and found him insensible. Dr. Beckham was sent for but in a few minjtes the negro died. The verdict of the joroner's jury was death from heart disease. THE RAILROAD STRIKE. The latest phase of the great railroad strike in the Southwest is given in the following St. Louis dispatch of Saturday: The business done by the East St. Louis Railroad continues to increase. Yesterday i greater volume of freight was transferred across the river than during any day since the strike. The Bridge and Tunnel Company, which formerly did all the transferring across the river by the Bridge and Belt Road, which did the transferring between the different railroad yards have been unible to employ a sufficient number of men to do all the business, and ferries and transfer teams have been called upon to perform this work, but find that they have more than they can do. This inconvenience of transferring is the only cause for the roads not being in full operation. Great activity prevails in all railroad yards to-day, and numerous trains to and from all points, are irriving and departing. About 9 o'clock last night in East St. Louis, Lieutenant Burroughs, of the 8th regiment, and foursolliers who were on duty guarding the coal lumps south of St. Louis Bridge, noticed six men prowling about the cars, who, when they beheld the soldiers, attempted :o escape. They were marched at the point if the bayonet to the guardhouse north of Relay depot, where they were searched and piaceu unaerguaru. mu nix prisoners appeared to be strikers, and two of them are he Bailey brothers, who have figured prominently in East St. Louis labor affairs. Their cases will be investigated. It is feared that trouble will result if the onference between the railroad commission tnd the railroad company and the-Empire Protective Association did not settle the lifiiculty. Members of the Knights of Labor in the imploy of the Missouri Pacific Company lave been notified that they must withdraw rom the K. of L. or quit the service, and m imperative order has been issued to oadmasters to give employment to no man vho is a member of the society. MKRE-MEXTION. Hon. Samuel Dibble is the South Carolina nember of the Congressional Democratic Committee, of which J. Randolph Tucker, >f Virginia, is chairman. The Virgina Midland Railroad has been leased by the tichmond and Danville Railroad Company or ninety-nine years. The Democratc State Executive Committee of North Carolina met last Thursday and called a Rate Convention to meet in Raleigh on the 5th of August. The Minneapolis City Jouncil have voted $2.p,000 for the benefit of he cyclone sufferers. Governor Bates las appointed the lion. \V. C'. Whitthorne o succeed Howell E. Jackson as United Rates Senator from Tennessee, Senator Fackson having been appointed U. S. Disrict Judge to succeed Judge Baxter, wjiose leath occurred recently at Hot Springs, \rkansas.