Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Scraps aofi (facts. ? Captain John N. Maffitt died at his ! < home in Wilmington, N. C., last Saturday I morning, after a prolonged sickness, aged j < sixty-seven years. He was an officer of the ; i United States Navy up to the breaking out j < of the war, when he resigned to unite his j fortunes with the South, serving through- j < out in the Confederate Navy with great dis- ; 1 tinction. ? The Chicago Police Department has j1 just made its official report of the bomb- { throwing affair, and gives a completed list of the policemen who were killed and wound- ed that dreadful night. The recapitulation < shows that 66 were wounded, f> of whom ( died and 10 have returned to their beats, leaving 51 who are still laid up with their wounds. ? Robert Yates, a little schoolboy from Aiken, S. C., was run over and horribly mangled by a freight car in the South Carolina Railway yard at Augusta, Ga., last Thursday afternoon, and died on Friday morning. He was waiting for the passenger train, on which he expected to return home, when the accident occurred. The car had to be lifted from his legs by means of a jack-screw. ? The paid base ball players throughout the country, the Washington Star states, number over 1,000, and draw annually salaries aggregating about $900,000. If to this sum were added the expense of sustaining grounds, the salaries of managers, gatekeepers, ticket-sellers and others, the total , would probably reach more than $1,000,000, to say nothing of the time of thousands of persons wasted in attending the games. ? Twelve convicts underwent the punish- ' ment of the pillory and the whipping post ' at Newcastle, Delaware, last Saturday. i Ten were negroes and two white. Six ne- I gro burglars stood one hour In the pillory ( and took twenty lashes each. Only one of ( the number manifested any physical suffering by the "cat." Three negro convicts of petty larcenies received twenty lashes and two whites for similar offenses ten lashes i each. s ? Brilliant Bartley Campbell, the well- I known playwright, is now a mental wreck, i Sudden prosperity, hard work, late hours, i speculation and dissipation have smashed ' him. For a long time he has been scattering his money, making absurd contracts, 1 fooling with spiritualism and acting like a lunatic. At last his friends have decided 1 that something must be done with him and | his remaining property cared for. He is , said to be suffering from the same disease that killed John McCullough. ? At present, by reason of a further fall in 1 the market price of silver, one hundred gold dollars will buy enough silver to coin $128.50 of standard silver dollars. To state the same fact in another way, the so-called "standard" dollar is to-day worth 77.78 cents. This dollar is kept in circulation on a par with the gold dollar, which is worth 99.99. eents miirp. hv the orerlit of the Gov- 1 ernment and the good management of Secretary Manning. In other words, the ; standard "dollar" is 77.78 cents substance , and 22.22 cents faith. ? J. Praugoot Ille, of Augusta, Ga., a meat dealer, who had a family and was in comfortable circumstances, committed suicide on Thursday by jumping into the Savannah River. He had tied a rope around his waist before taking the fatal plunge, in order that his friends might have no trouble in finding the body. He also stuck his walking cane in the ground 1 and hung his hat on it to attract attention. He was an inveterate smoker, and from this habit a cancer had developed, greatly disfiguring his face. The pain and horror of the disease is held to be the cause of the suicide. ? It has been ascertained that of the Polish and Bohemian rioters who drank of liquids found in a drugstore that they sack- ed during the recent rioting in Chicago, i eight have died and at least four more are , beyond the hope of recovery. A physician j who attended some of the poisoned nTen says the stuff taken was mostly wine of colchcium, which resembles sherry wine and has a strong smell of alcohol. The physician says it is a virulent poisoft, and ( almost certain death ensues if taken into the stomach in any quantity over a tea- , spoonful. It was swallowed by the rioters under the supposition that it was liquor of some kind. ? A gentleman, whose relations with Pres- 1 ident Cleveland are very intimate, recently 1 said that the President would not only be , married in June, but that the wedding , trip had been partially arranged. The ] trip would embrace Buffalo, Canada, and 1 the White Mountains, and might be even more extensive. While the bridal nartv were away several changes would be made in the White House for the comfort of Mrs. < Cleveland. The gentleman s?id the Pres- i ident had been decidedly annoyed when ] the report of his coming marriage was first , published, but now he takes the matter , more philosophically, and even enjoys some of the paragraphs afloat respecting 1 the matter. ? A dog belonging to A. J. Hall, a farm- < er living near Cabott, Arkansas, went mad i several days ago. and among the animals i which it wounded in its wanderings about | the farm was a milch cow. The cow showed no signs of being affected by the wound : and it was thought that hydrophobia would not result. A few days later, however, the animal showed the dreaded symptoms, < and at the same time the farmer's two little , children, who had been nourished with the '( cow's milk, exhibited similar symptoms and are in a critical condition, suffering ( most terrible agonies. Other members of ( the family are also ill, but their symptoms < are not so alarming as those of the chil- < dren and some hope is expressed that they may recover. ? Norway, whose annual revenue is barely about ?5,000,000, spends yearly ?100,000 in fighting leprosy. A visitor to one of the national asylums, in describing what she < saw, thus concludes a long letter on the subject : "Sadder to us than all the awful contortions and deformities we saw, was to behold in one of the women's rooms, knitting with the others, a lovely girl. For years she may live on?some do for thirty ! or forty years after their admission, though : mercifully 17. per cent, die between 20 and 30 years of age, and 40 per cent, between 30 and 50 years. Yet some live to an old age. If any are ever cured they are, as Dr. Hansen observed sorrowfully, 'ruins of human beings.'" I ? "Are you going to hit?" asked Marshal It. L. Jones of Frank P. Gray, who stood before him with a stone in his hand. An almost simultaneous shot pierced Gray i through the left breast, and he fell dying. ; This took place in West End, an aristocratic > suburb of Atlanta, at one o'clock last Sun- j . day while the people were dispersing from church. An old feud existed between the ' men over an attempt of Jones to arrest ' Gray, in which he was foiled. On Sunday, 1 while the marshal was trying to drive some i cows off the side walk, he was stopped by Gray, who claimed one of the animals, , which resulted in the tragedy as stated. The excitement which ensued was inde- 1 scribable. Gray was one of the best-known '< lawyers of that section of Georgia, rich, ( with a fashionable family and popular. , Jones was immediately arrested and hur- ( ried off to jail. Pie "made two attempts on his own life after he realized the nature of s his crime. < ? Atlanta is somewhat agitated at present * over the question whether prohibition may 1 not be thwarted by seeking to enforce the J provision of the charter which gives to the ' ( city government the power to issue liquor , licenses, which power it is claimed, still '' stands. Some very earnest anti-prohibi- \ tionists claim that the charter is in force un-; less expressly changed. Of course the pro-! hibitionists urge that the liquor license I' power is repealed by the General Local Op- f tion law and the election under it. And t many of the most ardent anti's have no i faith in the point. In July prohibition goes ] into operation. Numbers of the liquor . dealers have closed, and others have pre- 1 pared to go out of business. Many have ] started new business in their old stands, i and seem glad of the change. Paul Jones, { the largest wholesale dealer, will move his \ business to Louisville, Ky. From movements of the Liquor Dealers' Association, it is thought .that an effort will be made to 1 test the charter question in the courts. '< ? Capt. I). li. Smith, commander of the i > body-guard of the King of the Sandwich 1 1 Islands, is on a visit to his old home in Wilkes county, X. Fourteen years ago lie was a beardless youth employed in a a country store in the western part of North \ Carolina at a salary of $100 per year. That the King imposes the most implicit confi- (l lence in him may be known by the fact. o that he was sent to look after the Hawaiian }xhibtat New Orleans, from whence he has tl ust come. After visiting his old home, ^ Capt. Smith will proceed to Washington on 3usineas for his King. Thence he will go to i ? Lynn, Massachusetts, to buy a plant to furn-;1] ish Honolulu with electric lights. He gets v i salary of $2,500 as commander of the n King's guards. ' j, ?hc ^aquircr.;; YORKVILLE, S. C. : J THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 20,1886. J THE RAILROAD. ? In another column we print a number of extracts from newspapers showing the progress of work and surveys on the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad from Shel- I ay to Sumter. In addition to the informa- A tion there given, we learn that the necessa- b ry signatures have been procured to petitions asking- for township elections in Lancaster county, and the commissioners of that county will this week order the elections as requested. The company do not propose to stop the northern terminus at Itutherfordton, N. C., g is many suppose, but are now surveying a the route on from Itutherfordton towards d the Tennessee line. Two corps of engineers ire making the surveysbeyond Rutherfordton, one of which has reached within a few ? miles of Marshall, X. C. p Those who have seen the operations of s the Massachusetts and Southern Construe- i tion Company between Shelby and Black's, a ire sanguine of the faithful intentions of the corporators of the Charleston, Cincinnati ^ and Chicago Railroad. Work on the section r indicated is being pushed vigorously. The i pay-roll of contractors and employees be- I tween Shelby and Black's, for the month.of \ March last, exceeded $43,000, and for the ^ month of April was over $40,000, every dol- ^ iar/-kf ?rhioh vviic nnirl. Sinee the eoniDanv v commenced operations they have paid out o for construction purposes a I one over $300,000, 'J and have realized nothing, as yet, lrom any . county or township subscriptions in aid of j the enterprise. r The County Commissioners of York, at a g regular meeting of the board on the 3rd t instant, having served the local attorney of * the Construction Company with a notice ^ that if the subscriptions of Bullock's Creek jand Broad Kiver townships were not ac- f cepted by the Company on or before the t next meeting of the commissioners, on the }1 17th instant, the subscriptions of these two f townships would be revoked, on Monday ? last, at the specified meeting, It. A. Johnson, |n as general manager of the M. & S.' C. Co., o and agent for the C., C. & C. Railroad Com- v pany, accepted the said township subscrip- 11 tions, conditioned, however, at the request of committees respectively of said town- j ships, that said subscriptions and the ac- t ceptance thereof be void if work should not ft be commenced and prosecuted on said line I in the townships of Broad River and Builock's Creek, within one year from the 28th v of April, 18SG. On Tuesday last the work of making a permanent survey of the route between Rock Hill and Black's Station was com- ~ inenced at Rock Hill under direction of 0 Captain Ramsaur. We are informed by (j those in position to know that the perma- g nent line will be located over the original o survey through Ebenezer, viaTirzah Church 1 and on to Yorkville. rilT CHOI'S. * Our account, last week, of the condition ? af the crops was rather more encouraging as to wheat and oats than the facts subsequent- s ly ascertained, in part by personal observa- li tion, justify. Except in occasional and favored localities neither of the small grain ? crops is promising of a satisfactory yield. ^ A few warm days and nights during the ] early part and middle of last week brought up cotton generally, but cool weather since a then has injured the young plant considerably, and in many localities it is weak and ^ sickly. On Sunday night there was light ^ frost, the effect of which was noticeable on t potatoes and tender plants. Frost of any v consequence at this season is unusual in this t section, though in 1K."><; there was frost here !' on the Oth and 2drd of May. Since last Sun- J, clay the temperature here has been low, and n on Tuesday, Tuesday night and Wednesday, the rainfall was incessant, raising the > streams and overflowing lowlands. Fish- 0 ing creek, three and one-half miles from 0 town, was higher yesterday than it has been in eighteen years, and similar information reaches us as to other watercourses. The damage to crops on lowlands will be serious. t On Sunday and Monday mornings there i (j was heavy frost at various points in ini-;i: nois, Iowa, Northern Indiana and Western j t< Michigan, which did a great deal of dam- jil age to small fruits. At East Tawas, Mich., j thin ice formed, while at Muskegon, the ice was an inch thick and vegetation has 0 been killed. ii * j] S, PERSONAL MENTION. o D/f \V. 11. Barron, of Perry county, Ala- v barna, made a visit here last week, to his father Dr. A. I. Barron and other relatives, t He left on Monday, for Manning, in this t State, to visit his brother, B. P. Barron, Esq., and was accompanied by his father. J? They will remain in Manning several days, .< from which place Dr. A. I. Barron will ac- t< company his son, W. It. Barron, to Ala- s bama, and there remain for some time, to a be determined by the state of his health J; which has been feeble for several weeks past. Sam'l (I. Brown, Esq., who now lives at p Black's Station, was in town last Monday ti md was met by scores of his friends of all h iges and conditions, who were glad of the ^ ipportunity again to grasp the hand of the j| venerable gentleman whose popularity in- n ureases with his age. Mr. Brown was c striken with paralysis more than a year ti tgo, and has lost the use of his right arm M 1 ^.f KIc SI U1U MUf, UU t UlIK'I'\V IMJ, 1U1 U1IU V l III.? JC(U9) lis health is now very good. Mr. Walter 11. Moore and his grandmother, Mrs. E. A. Neely, are visiting friends 1 tnd relatives at Morganton, N. C. "f STIUTK ITY"*LI({HTMNW. a About noon last Tuesday, during the rain ? ;hen falling, a servants' house on the ' 'rounds of the King's Mountain Military School, and situate about 3"> or 40 yards u from the main school building, was struck v rjy lightning. The house is a double build- c ing, with chimney in centre, and the chim- ^ ney, which was the part struck, was demol- ^ ished, the Hue being completely torn down, s; ind falling into the rooms, and the portion J left standing rent to the hearth. The occupants of the house were out at the time, and though there was no tire ineither fire-place, | is a result of the Hash there was a dense ^ 5inoke which was almost suffocating in the i house several minutes after the occurrence, v .i .-'v RECENT STORMS. There were very severe storms in Indina, Ohio and Kentucky last week, the ! amage to property and the loss from its estruction being unusually severe. Sev-^ ral casualties are also reported. On Saturday evening this section was : hreatened with a storm of no less severity j ban that of two years ago, but it passed j round within a mile or two of town, bear- J ng from north-west to south-east. There ; ras a strong wind with hail and rain. Here [ 0 hail fell, but the rain, about 0 o'clock, was ' eavy. At Spartanburg the wind wasse-j ere, unrooting the town hall, part of he Baptist church, and uprooting many rees. At Gastonia and other points on the j tir-Line Kailroad there was heavy wind, j xtendiner beyond Charlotte and inflicting ; considerable damage for some distance east I nd south of that city. ^ SlCCESSKIlT SHOOTINti. / As an offset to the exploit of Mr. Levi 'arter, of Chester, who recently killed two did turkeys and nine squirrels in twelve hots, Mr. Robert M. Plaxico, who lives ear Black's Station, in this county, informs s that a year or two ago, in one day's unting, he killed thirty-two squirrels and ne hawk in thirty-three shots, using a ifle and firing every shot except one withut resting his gun. A (iKO\VIN(TT(BVX. ^ A census of Black's Station, on the Airiine Railroad in this county, was taken a 3W days ago, and the population found to e 813 against 280 three years ago. POLITICS T\ THE STATE. HOW IT SEEMS IN COLUMBIA. The wide awake Columbia correspondent f the Augusta Chronicle writes to that aper: In all the counties farmers'clubs are oranizing to "keep up the agitation until fter the election." No politician will are openly to oppose what he conceives o be the wishes of the farmers. It is clearyT seen, therefore, that the "agricultural gitation" is a powerful factor in the coning campaign. But, while the farmers are lushing their platform, the politicians who ee in it a means for promotion are arrangng their little schemes toTapture this vote nd profit by the movement. There is said to be war among the differnt wings of the Democratic party in 'harleston, and the fight has been transfer eil from the sea to the mountains?at least t has reached the middle country with a rospect of "going up higher" before the lattle begins in earnest. Several cominuniations have appeared in up-county papers, pparently directed against certain branehs of the State government, but which, chen sifted and analyzed, invariably develip into an attack upon a local appointment, 'hese articles are believed to be the proluctions of a prominent low country poltician, whose object seems to be to estabish for himself the reputation of a great eformer. This having been done, and the ;ood will of a certain number of "out-ofown" newspapers secured, in advance of he assembling of the State Democratic Con ention, the fruit will be ready for gathring?provided other results have been rought about in the meantime. It is exacted that a dead-lock over the nomina- j ions of the head of the ticket may occur, I nd in this event the name of the great teformer will be proposed, his praises ounded, a hurrah raised, the convention aptured, and the gentleman, who will then ie in Europe, and of course not seeking the iffice, will be nominated. The politicians rill be defeated! Now all this may be die rumor. I vouch for none of it, but it is urrent gossip, and I furnish it as such. Tiere are certain little coincidences which, f strung together, give coloring of truth to hese rumors, but as they do not prove the net it is unnecessary to mention them, lowever, as already stated, the political riovementsare becoming lively and will be ratched with interest. THE FIFTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. The Columbia Register of Thursday gives he following intelligence from this Concessional district: Political gossiping is beginning to be the rderof the day in the hotel lobbies these lays in Columbia. The fight in the Concessional districts comes in for a big share f interest, and the various favorites and heir merits are discussed bv the crrouns of uen here and there. It has been the imiression that there would be no opposition o Hemphill in the Fifth District, but interst seems lately to be turning in that direction. "1 wonder," said one, "if Hemphill's tand on the silver question has really hurt dm in his district." "There is no doubt about its having weakned him, but whether it will defeat him an hardly be predicted this early in the ight," replied a prominent citizen of the rifth District. "There will be opposition, then ?" putin nother. "Who are spoken of- as candi- J lates?" "No candidates have shown up yet, but he Congressional timber of the district is einggone over. It is said, however, that he friends of C. E. Spencer, Esq., of Yorkille, will put him forward for the nominaion ; and, then, Col. W. It. Davie, of Cheser, is a possible candidate?but I am talkng too much," and the speaker subsided to ive way to a general discussion of the farners' movement. Mr. Spencer is a prominent and able lawer. Mr. Davie is a planter and a member fthe House of Representatives, and is one f the leading thinkers in the State. TIIE FOURTH DISTRICT. The same paper also has the following rom the Greenville district: Col. It. W. Ball and other prominent genleinen of Laurens are in the city in atteniance upon the .Supreme Court. Laurens ? in the Fourth Congressional District, and o a question by a Jteyister representative s to whether Congressman Perry would isivea contestant for his seat, Colonel Ball aid: "No, I don't think Perry will have any pposition, at least there is no sign of any n any portion of the district so far as I lave heard. I think he will have a walk ver." /ill ( ()[.. aikkx rk his own* successor? i The Anderson Journal says: We learn ! here is a movement on foot at Abbeville I \ H. to secure Judge C'othran's consent for .is name to go before the convention for i omination as the Democratic candidate ! ir Congress in this district in case Col. ! liken's state of health will not permit him I 0 be in the field. Abbeville proposes to land by Aiken if he is in the field, as we ! re informed, hut if he should he out it is eemed certain that Judge Cot bran's name 1 the only chance to hold the Itepresentaive in Abbeville county. We know noth- j ng of Judge Cothran'ssentiments in the j latter, hut it is needless for us to say that | is reputation as a patriot and statesman j rould be a tower of strength in any contest i hat he might enter. In our present light | t is a question whether this new move- j lent tends to complicate or simplify the oming race for Congress. The plot seems d thicken, and the lapse of a few weeks /ill likely show the drift of things toward a i ettlementof the questions as to who will [ e our next Congressman. Tiik Pkkshytkriax Skmixaiiy.?1The I loavdof Directors of the Presbyterian The-1 logical Seminary of Columbia, met in Co- j jmbia on Wednesday of last week and i djourned on Friday afternoon. All the j )irectors were present. The Jler/ister of aturday gives the following report of their ; roceedings: I The first duty of the board was to attend j pon the examination of the students, I rhich began on Wednesday and was eon- ' luded 011 Friday at noon. Four of the | oung gentlemen received certificates of J raduation as follows: J. M. Plowden, of: 'larendon ; K. IF Witherspoon, of Missis-1 ippi; W. II. White, of Spartanburg, and j . A. Wilson, of York. The board in its meeting for the transac-1 ion of business re-elected Hon. James j lemphill, of Chester, as President of the j oard, and Kev. T. II. Law as Secretary.; Ir. W. J. Puttie, of Columbia, was elected ; 'reasurer instead of Mr. T. A. McCreery, [ ,'ho dcHined re-election. W. A. Clark, of' Columbia, W. C. Sibley, of Augusta, and J. Adger Smyth, of Charleston, were appointed the Investigating Committee of the Semnary. Various reports were made, and the financial condition of the Seminary revealed a healthy condition. The matter of chief interest before the board was the relation with the Seminary !' of I)r. Woodrow in connection with his theories on evolution. In answer to the ; request of the board preferred in December last, Dr. Woodrow replied that he did not feel that lie could honorably resign the Perkins professorship of the Seminary under the present existing state of things. A minority of the board thereupon urged the immediate closing of the Seminary, i but this measure was defeated and the majority proceeded to the election of professors to two of the vacant chairs, Rev. Dr. J. A. Lefevre, of Paltimore, was elected Professor of Theology in place of Dr. J. L. Girardeau, who withdrew, and Rev. Professor J. F. Latimer, of Union Theological Seminary, nf Virnrtnin woe nlopfnd to the ('hair of Biblical Literature, lately filled by Dr. i Charles 1L Hemphill. The minority refused to take part in this election and protested against the proceedings. The majority of the board were lion. James Hemphill, Itev. W. J. McKay, Judge T. B. Fraser, Rev. S. L. Morris, Rev. T. H. Law, J. A. Smyth, of South Carolina and Rev. \Y. H. Dodge, of Florida. The minority were Rev. Dr. James Stacy, Rev. Dr. William Adams, W. C. Sibley-and (L W. Scott, of Georgia, and Rev. F. B. Webb and H. L. McKee, of Alabama. TIIK KELKiKU'S WORLD. SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION. On the l()th, the Southern Baptist Convention, held at Montgomery, Ala., met in the third day's session. The business in hand was a report on foreign missions. Different features of the work, embracing the Cuban, Mexican, Brazilian, African and Chinese missions, were discussed at the morning and afternoon sessions. Missionaries from each of these lands were present and presented the claims of their missions. Great enthusiasm was manifested, especially over the work in Mexico. Great interest was awakened in the work in Africa, and Dr. Ellis, of Baltimore, made an able speech in behalf of it. Dr. T. P. Pawford, of China, was earnest in the advocacy of missions on the self-sustaining plan. At the night sessions speeches were made upon the subject of Italian Missions by the Rev. Drs. Cooper, of Virginia, and Taylor, of the University of Virginia. The fourth and last day's session of the Convention was devoted to the Cuban mis sion. The question was whether the foreign or home board should take charge of it and prosecute the work. Able speeches were made for both boards, but it was decided by a large majority to give it to the home board. An amendment to the constitution was adopted so as to require delegates to be appointed by the 1st of May of each year, and the representation to he one delegate for every one hundred dollars paid into the treasury by the 1st of May of each year. A report on temperance pledging the members to work for the suppression of the whiskey traffic was adopted. At the night session a report on woman's work in missions was read. Rev. Dr. Cooper, of Richmond, Va., was selected to deliver the convention sermon. After the readingof the report on woman's work in missions, the Convention adjourned to meet in Louisville, Ky., on the 8th of May, 18S7. SOCTIIEHX MET1101> ISTS. In the Quadrennial General Conference of M. E. Church, South, in session at Richmond, Va.,on Wednesday, the finance committee reported on the matter in relation to the will of the late Lorenzo D. Bragg, of Massachusetts, recommending that it be referred to a book agent, to be elected by the conference, for him to do what he may deem best in the premises. Bragg died, leaving an estate worth $20,000 to be divided equally between the southern and northern Methodist churches in the event of his two children dying before they become of age. The committee of 'eptscopacy reported in relation to the matter of episcopal residences that in their opinion there should be a bishop from each of the great sections of the country. Dr. Peterson, of Virginia, chairman of the committee on revisal, presented a report in relation to the ratio of representation. The committee deem a change unI necessary. As to the paper looking to a change in the manner of electing delegates to the general conference, the committee I recommended non concurrence. The committee also recommended non concurrence in the matter of classing local preachers with laymen. A minority report will be submitted. Rev. Dr. John Miley, fraternal messenger from the Northern Methodist church, was introduced to the conference. Gov. Foreaker, the other fraternal messenger from the Northern church, did not come. Tlia ?vw,ef imnrtrtiinl hnsinpss nf Thnrsdnv Aiiv, mu,;wi..Tv.? ^ was the adoption of a report from the committee on Episcopacy recommending the election of four new Bishops, and Tuesday was the day set for the election. On Friday a resolution was offered, signed by Dr. T. J. Dodd, of Tennessee, G. F. Taylor, H. P. Walker and others, calling for a change in the rubric of the church touching the invitation to the Lod'ssupper. One resolution proposes that the invitation shall read : "All that do truly and earnestly repent of your sins and intend to lead a new lile, living in love and charity with | your neighbors," Ac., instead of "All that do truly repent of your sins and are in love," Ac. Several disciplinary amendments were proposed. A proposition requiring bishops to consult presiding elders in making appointments was submitted. The committee reported non-concurrence with the proposition. A vote was taken, and the original resolution was lost. A paper proposing to arrange the annual conferences into permanent episcopal dioceses was read, but lost when voted on. The committee on revisal presented their report. The committee had referred to it a paper in regard to dancing; also a clause forbidding dances, attending the circus and opera. The committee fully agrees that these evils are directly contrary to the general rules, which are sufficiently comprehensive to cover such cases, and recommend that said evils should be corrected under the law as it now stands. Judge Tucker, of Florida, of the committee on the defrayal of the expenses of the general conference, submitted a report recommending that the expenses of delegates be paid by the church. The discussion resulted in the committee's report being adopted. On Saturday, Itev. H. C. Philips, fraternal delegate from the African M. E. Church Conference, in session at Augusta, Ga., was presented and addressed the Conference. Revs. Sam Jones and Sam Small, evangelists, also attended the Conference. Various memorials were presented for and against the divison of the North Carolina Conference. A resolution was offered that Sunday school superintendents be not allowed to serve more than four years; also a resolution to appoint mission evangelists. Roth were referred. A prolonged discussion was had over a resolution that acceptable matter for publication in the advertising columns of the ! /it. \ .1 n nt +l-ir? r>hiir<*h\ hf? I w// /.vr?f/r iiki wuir inv vhmiv**/ wV i not refused because of unfriendliness, real ; or supposed, of the parties seeking1 to ad- j yertise. The resolution was finally relerred i to the proper committee. ' Rev. Mr. Briggs, of Canada, delivered a | farewell address to the conference, in which i he uttered the most cordial expressions of fraternal love and friendship. Bishop Hargrave (presiding) responded,h reciprocating the pleasure expressed in the 11 visiit. KPISCO PAL. The Ninety-sixth Diocesan Convention of j; the Episcopal Church of.South Carolina met j in St. Luke's Church, Charleston, on Wed-1 nesday of last week. Thirty priests, two | deacons and forty-five lay delegates were [, present. The Rev. W. H. Campbell preach- ] ed the convention sermon, his theme being ) < the need for the higher education of tho ] ministry. A great deal of time was spent in discussing the proper organization of the ' body and deciding appeals from rulings of j the Bishop. The work of the Convention was entirely related to the church. i DECORATION DAY AT EHEXEZER. Reported for the Yorkville En<inirei'. I I Memorial services were conducted at '{ Kbenezer Cemetery on A Ton day, the loth of ti May, and the graves of the Confederate < soldiers, buried there were covered with ti flowers by loving mothers, sisters, wives jv and children. !:l. The services were opened with an appropriate prayer l>v Rev. J. C. Kilgo, of Rock i. IIH1 M. E. Church. ! The presiding officer, llov. J. II. Thornwell, called the roll of those who gave their lives in defence of their country and are a buried in the cemetery. He then paid a / most beautiful tribute to the memory of Mr. } Samuel 1). Barron, the originator of these '' services at Ebenezer, who since the last decoration day has joined his departed < friends and brothers. Mr. Thornwell then, j in a few well-chosen remarks, introduced to .a the large assemblage ('apt. Iredell Jones, the orator of the day, who delivered the s following address: Ladies of the Memorial Association of Kbcti- ^ czer : This is a solemn occasion. As time passes, and the farther we leave in the distance the a records and deeds of the Confederate soldier, the ; e dearer to us becomes the memory of his acts, :l because the nearer we approach an impartial jc' judgment concerning those acts. This, 1 repeat, V is a solemn occasion. I wish it were otherwise. I would like to feel happier than I do. I would " like to rejoice all of us together; but the im'pres sion of the Lost Cause is too deeply imprinted ' on my memory to bring forth smiles from me. !l The occasion does not warrant it. We are here r to mourn and drop a tear of sympathy l'or those of { our friends and relatives and countrymen who J oll'ered and lost their lives in defence of their ' country. A Confederate soldier ! What memories hang * around him ! What hopes lost; what trials suf- j fered ; what sins committed in attempting his * humiliation! To draw a picture of the tender 1 offerings made to-day, all over our Sunny South, 1 by our noble women, the deep sympathy, the [ gentle thought, as they hover around the graves 1 of the Confederate dead and strew them with the s sweetest and choices flowers of Spring, and to 1 < ** 1 ; ^ i ?i i ? ii<Vv! t see ino preuy iinti imiucciu cuiuueu, ;ia mej oji low with their little arms full of garlands and !l their hearts light and gay, and then to east ? around and witness some* maimed and aged (l soldier in solemn thought over tlie scene, re- 1 quires, I must admit, a power for graphic de- 8 seription which I do not possess. Take the J soldier from the fond embrace of his home ' circle, send him away with life and spirit, full of N hope and breathing the fresh air of liberty, and 8 return him in the cold arms of death?bury him. ' This makes a scene of sorrow uncqunlcd'in the 8 sorrowful events of life. Yet sixty thousand * soldiers with sword and buckler burnished for the fray, with gay and joyous hearts, left their y State?South Carolina?for blood-stained battle- r fields. How many have returned? Let the ' widows and the orphans and the desolate hearth- 8 stones toll! Let the sorrows and the sufferings 1 of the brave, true women of the State?not only the cultured and the educated, those in the high- ' er circles of life, but the poor and need}* and 8 humble?let all classes, all conditions ofour peo- A pie, answer. Yet we are asked to forget! For- ( get the genial smiles ofour loved ones as they looked in life to us! Forget the tenderest ties j in nature ; our affections, our ruined hopes and ( fortunes, fathers, brother, husbands, friends and all that life holds dear! No ; we will forget these memories never! This day is the anniversary of the death of S "Stonewall Jackson." Twenty-two years ago, I in that year when the great reverses of the g Confederacy began and the brilliant laurels f won against heavy odds on many eventful bat- j tie-fields looked as if they must be lost again, the sad news was heralded over the country that Stonewall Jackson was no more. He was wounded on the memorable night of the 2nd of May, after making his last and most celebrated flank movement, by which the right wing of Hooker's army was almost demolished and routed, the ^ military manoeuvre which resulted in a sweep- j ing victory at Chanoellorsville. He foil at the ^ time of his greatest glory, and the most unfortu- ^ natc part of the circumstance was that he fell by J the fire of his own men. That man of genius, * a Christian soldier, was lost; lost to the cause he loved so well, and lost to the people who had 1 learned to believe that victory must follow where f Jackson led ! How appropriate, then, that in . dropping our tears of sympathy over the graves { of the Con fed rate dead,that we selected the day on which their great Christian 9oldier died. But, my friends, what are we to say of the 1 causes of the war ? Weare told to submit. We c are told to shake hands across the "bloody ( ,.1,tlwif tlm miniif. nl' t hn ('nnfmlnrni'v was : unjust; that its soldiers were inspired by no true principles. We have been called Rebels, and all "" the anathemas in the catalogue of crime have > been attributed to us. Amidst it all we are 1 warned to forbear; that treason stalks abroad in ( every utterance. Shall we who are charged with ! the important trust of handing down to posteri- | tv the facts of history, fear to speak the truth? , Shall we admit that tiieSouthern soldiers, whose ' memories we are here to-day to commemorate, were actuated by no higher principle in their 3 great struggle than motives of treason or rebel- < lion? Which section tirst violated the constitu- s tional principles of the government of the Uni- J ted States? Which section first interfered with the institutions of the South? The Constitution . of the United States, which was handed down to , us by our fathers, guaranteed the equal rights of 1 theStatesof the Union, and an equal protection 1 to their property. Which party, under the an- I thority of '"a higher law," first raised its hand to < strike at the rights of property in these South- ( ern States ? Read, young men, the record of the j past, and believe, as I tell you to-day, that there never would have been a war between the States 4 if the Constitution had been respected. Rut the ] greed for gain and the lust for power, added to a wild fanaticism which a quarter of a century of ( oppression and misrule has not been suflieicnt 1 to allay, was the true cause of the war. The , North was a manufacturing community; the South was agricultural. Their interests at the period preceding the war were more antagonistic than now. A tariff for protection, which tilled 1 the coffers of New England at the expense of the South, was the cause of the great Nullification movement in 1832. The restrictions of the rights ] of the South in the territories, and the aggres sions which were steadily made against the institutions of the South, culminated in the election ; of a Republican President, elected by the North ' upon a platform of hostility to Southern rights k and Southern institutions. Orators and states- I men in vain appealed to the party in power to f treat the South with justice, and to adhere to the ] constitutional principles of our government, j Rut on the wild wave of fanaticism the North was deaf to all entreaty, and the Confederate sol- \ dier believing that the steady encroachments on his rights would at last endanger his liberty, and 1 what followed let the history of the gory battlefields of a four-years' war tell to succeeding generations. Remember this, my young friends. > Remember that slavery was not the only cause of the war. It was the occasion ; not the only cause. * The principles of liberty live to-day. J They will never die, I hope, while the blood of ( an Anglo-Saxon courses in our veins. ,nl? .1.... I f...,Lf if mnv 1 1 III? I'Utiling IS ill |iuaiu I*-/ ??<i> * bi t*OK *K lii.vj be an enduring peace. It is a gratification to us j nil to feel so, and I believe I to-day express the ' feeling of all the people of South Carolina that 1 the Union now preserved, should endure forev- 1 er; and that the slaves now set free should re- ], main so through countless ages. ( Hut to-day the South feels that there has been -y a revulsion in the great head of the Nation. . Misrule and fanaticism have been hurled from J power, and there sits in the Presidential chair of I the United States Government a chief magis- I trate who believes that the glory, the power, e and the welfare of our country depend upon a just and equitable execution of its laws, and ,, who entertains a proper respect for the rights of the States. May God grant that the Govern- 1 inent will always be justly administered, and f countless ages witness a united, prosperous and d happy people. a My young friends, you are sooner or later to assist in guiding the destinies of the Republic. | Let the animosities of sectional war pass out of your minds, but cherish the memory of vour J1 (lead forefathers and love to sing their deeds { of valor. Love the spirit of liberty ami love ^ the soil you live upon. Love your State and/ 1 look upon her with a jealous eye and be ready j; to resent the lirst foul blow at her rights, and j rise in your might to still the tongue and shat- m ter the arm which may be raisod to desecrate the graves of your noble sires ! Young ladies, you have your mission in life to 1 perform. Trials and sufferings will doubtless come to you. Learn not to place too great a o price on the pleasures of prosperity, but that s true virtue will consist in your being willing and ready to meet the sorrows of life ami misfortunes with a true philosophy. I need not point you to the noble examples before you?your peerless mothers. The women of tho South! ? What words of commendation shall I utter in >S regard to them? The sentinel on guard at the r front in the "wee sma' hours" of tho night, walks ? in silence on his post of duty and keeps his lone- f( Iv vigil; perhaps now and then the neigh of a u horse disturbs thestillnessof the sleeping army, or the flicker of a dim camp fire relieves the 0 darkness around. What are the thoughts of that < ' faithful sentinel? How are they all at home? C Who takes care of mother now? Who provides \ for my my littlesistersand brothers? Too soon g his rcvcricsare disturbed. "Who comes there !" ( "Friend with the countersign." Hashing by, a scout rushes to headquarters. The enemy is tdvancing. The long roll beats; couriers rush v to and fro; the clatter of bayonets is heard; > "Fall in, men!" "Forward, men !" and ere the It gray dawn of morning beams forth, the clash of g irms, the fury of battle, the rolling volleys of ^ musketry, interspersed with the heavy thundering peals of artillery, tell too plainly that the work of deadly destruction is going on. Where ? is our lone sentinel? Snatched from life to b death, and lost amid the carnage of battle, he II leaves those at home to ask forever, "Who will j e . are for us now?" So, my friends, the part r played by those who were left at home?tiie women gnd children of the Revolution?was aftcn times more trying to them than to the i soldiers at the front, ami history will award to . the women of the South a place in the coronet of virtue equaled for patient, cheerful endurance 1 under the terrors or war, by no people on earth, b The Valley of the Shenandoah was occupied Iternately by Federal arul Confederate troops, t is said that no sufferings, either of hunger or nxietv resulting from the devastations of the nion army, were sufficient hardships to prevent lie bright smiles and the waving of handkerhyd's from greeting the approach of the Con derate army. Yes, 1113* friends, remember, as ime passes, that you have a country worthy of our highest respect and greatest honor. It has history, bathed in tears and stained with blood hough'it be, yet fresh fledged with the white ,ings of virtue. "A land without ruins is a md without memories; a land without memoies is a land without liberty!" Yes, give me the land that has story and song 'o tell of the strife with thorightand the wrong. J i'cs, give me the land with a grave in each spot mil names in the ground thatshall not be forgot, i'cs, give me the land of the wreck and the tomb; 'here's agrandeur in graves?there's a glory in gloom ; 'or out of the gloomy future brightness is born, is after the night looms the sunrise of morn ; tnd t ho graves of the dead with grass overgrown, lav yet form the footstool of liberty's throne, tnd each single wreck in the war path of Might Uiall vet be a rock 111 the temple of Right." To the company of volunteer militia I have a rord to say. I would urge upon you to allow 110 nek of zeal or press of business to prevent your nnual visits to this sacred spot. Come hereforver, like the Arabians to the shrine of Mecca, nil unite in the celebrations of these sacred occasions; and moreover, keep up forever 3*0 ur or:ani/.ation that you may assist, if need be, to ;uard and protect your native soil from external ttacks, as well as from insurrectionary within, veep up the martial spirit of your country, and et tne world he aware mat the nianiioou 01 your ancestors continues to burn brightly down the urrent of time. Conic here as a sacred duty ; oinc as a mark of Respect for those here buried, vho sacrificed their lives that the blessings of iberty should lie perpetuated. In conclusion, Ladies of Ebenezer, allow me o thank you for your kind invitation to speak 0 you oil this occasion. I trust that I have not oogreatly disappointed your expectations. To ninglc my tears with yours over the shrine of liese dead heroes is to mo a sad consolation. As me of the survivors of the Confederate armies 11 whose columns it is my proud boast to have lerved, I am touched more than ordinarily by he tender olliees of respect which you perform o-tlay. Sooner or later we shall all pass away md enter the columns with our comrades in the fraud march through eternity. Tell it to your children to guard the rear of that advancing arny, and protect from slander and inisreprescntition the untarnished honor of the Confederate oldier. Pitched suddenly into war against vasty unequal odds, without military training and vithout the material and means of warfare ; igaiust an enemy which had the world to draw rom for men and means : with our ports bloekuled and supplies cut off, wo struck a dauntless dow that reverberated around the world. Proceed in your good work, Ladies of Ebene:er. Apart from the record of war, this spot of 'round and your beautiful village have a classic listory extending back in tlie dim past to a periid even more remote than the traditions of your remediate ancestors can recall. Concluding, the speaker paid a high complinent to the people of Ebenezer and pronounced 1 panegyric upon the noble dead of Ebenezer vho fell in the cause of the Southern C'onfed After the address, the ladies and children, ill laden with beautiful flowers, escorted by he Catawba .Rifles, placed upon the graves )f the departed heroes the floral offerings. The services were solemn and impressive. May the rising generation ever renember the Tenth of May and always assemble at old Ebenezer Cemetery and place lowers upon the graves of those who 'ought and fell in the Lost Cause. l. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. J?liKTTEli FROM ROCK HILL. Rock IIill, May 17.?The religious services that have attracted so much interest ind have done so much good in our town, vere continued at the Baptist and Presbyerian churches during the past week. At he latter church the pastor, Rev. \V. B. fennings, was assisted by Rev. A. W. Aliler, of Charlotte. On yesterday the pastor idministered the rite of baptism to three jersons, all adults, and received eighteen nembers into the church. At the Baptist church, last night, the Dastor, Rev. J. Q. Adams, preached an ex ellent sermon, after which five persons re eiverl tl^p rite of hnntism and were received nto the church. LThe Rock Hill Literary and Musical Club i\as organized on last Tuesday afternoon, i-vith the following officers: President, Irclell Jones; Vice-President, W.J.Cherry; secretary, W.-B. Jennings. The object of he club is laudable, and it is hoped its organization will be permanent. Mr. I.J. Farris, a worthy citizen of Ebenecer township, had the misfortune of losing in eye one day last week. He was cirtting itove wood, and a piece flew up, striking um in the eye and putting it out. \ Mr. Thomas L. Johnston and bride arrived at this place on Tuesday afternoon rom quite a pleasant trip to some of the lorthern cities. On Friday night a-large eception was given them at the residence if Mrs. I). A. Johnston, the groom's moth?r. The reception was largely attended by he elite of the town, and a number of ladies md gentlemen from Charlotte and York/ille. yMissLessie Witherspoon, the accomplished daughter of Judge Witherspoon, of iforkville, is on a visit to friends in this dace. Our town was visited by a terrible wind itorm on Saturday afternoon, accompanied vith liVht rain. The wind did no damaerc. 50me sections were visited with bail. The annual inspection of the Catawba Rifles will take place next Wednesday afernoon. T. J. Reavis and Miss Carrie Sides, of Concord, N. C., arrived at this place by the iouth-bound train to-day and immediately epaired to the Globe Hotel, when the bash"u 1 young man requested the proprietor, Mr. Morrison, to send at once fora minister, [n a few minutes Rev. J. C. Kilgo made his ippearance, and soon two hearts beat as one. fhe couple, who are strangers here, took the irst train for Concord. Hal. CnrrespontleiH'e of the Yorkville Enquirer. vC LETTER FROM CHESTER. /Ciikstkk, May 20.?The Grand Lodge of ndependent Order of Odd Fellows of South Carolina met at this place on last Wedneslay morning and adjourned on Thursday (veiling, after a harmonious session. The ollowing Grand Lodge officers were elected or the ensuing year: O. W. Buchanan, of A'innsboro, Grand Master; R. W. Whita:er, of Langley, Deputy Grand Master; Jerhard Riecke, of Charleston, Grand A'arden; o. R. Lowman, of Orangeburg, fraud Secretary; X. W. Trump, of C'olum>ia, Grand Treasurer; F. DeMars, of Orange>urg, Grand Representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge. Air. David Moflatt, a most excellent citi;en of our town, died on yesterday. He nerchandised for many years in our county, ind afterwards at this place. The funeral ervices were held thismorningat 11 o'clock t the Associate Reformed Church. fill.. I T ]nrn?l.? .niifl fill l.iiaf 1IIO llCU ijl^HL 1111(111 11^ 1CIUUIUU Ull 1(1(31 'riday from the Catawba Falls. Their enoyment of the trip equalled their most san;uine expectations. Mr. J. 1). Itatterree of our town, and Miss Uberta C'ureton, of Fairfield county, were parried on last Wednesday morning. Rev. dr. Van was the officiating clergyman, 'he happy couple embark in their matrimodal career with the best wishes of their nany friends. The dry weather is injuring the small rain crop. Farmers also complain of bad tands ol cotton. m. I nt kkest i ng Statist res.?M r. Ransom, vho is preparing the report on the internal ommerce of South Carolina for the United itates Treasure Denartment. has received eturns from 22 of the cotton mills in the itate, giving full reports of their business or the year 1SS5. Similar reports have ieen received from the fertilizer factories, il mills, china factories, bagging factories, tc. Several of the railroads have furnishd statements of their tratlic for tiie past ear, and the others are expected to do the ame soon. Mr. Bartlett, of the Railroad 'ommission, has prepared a sketch of the nception, growth, length and cost of the arious railroads in South Carolina, ('apt. Valker, the Deputy Collector at Charleston, las interested the agents of the vessels enaged in the coastwise trade of the State in he matter, and full reports of the freights arried by their vessels are expected. Full tatistics of the exports and imports to and rom our ports, of agricultural productions, | nanufactures, mines and products of forsts and fisheries, will be included in the J eport.?Colioiifoid Jicyixft'r. ? Last Saturday morning Senator K. \V. I fobo, of Spartanburg, was thrown from lis buggy, his head striking a stump, die physicians report concussion of the rain, and he is not expected to live. RAILROAD NEWS. TIIE ROANOKE AND SOUTHERN. Says the Charlotte (Jbserrrr of Friday A correspondent at Roanoke, Va., says that "the -engineer corps engaged in making a preliminary survey of the Roanoke and Southern railroad, are making rapid progress in their work, and report favorably jasto grades." The engineers are work- * | ing in the direction of Charlotte, and the result of their work will be eagerly awaited by our citizens. Two routes will be surveyed southward from the Virginia ! line through North Carolina. CHARLESTON, CINCINNATI ANI) CHICAGO. Says the Shelby Aurora: The future Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad is pushing vigorously its work toward rapid completion from Black's, S. C., to Rutherfordton, X. C. A large force under the sub-contractors is at work. Grading the route, trestle building and delivering cross-ties are being rapidly pushed, ;\nd everything promises that the train from Black'stoShelby will berunningou September 1, 1880. Some promise an earlier date m and affirm August as the time. Mr. B. ^ Blanton has the cross-tie contract from Black's to Sandy Run, over20 miles, and he a has criven bond for the deliverv of them ' "m before July 2(1 on the whole line. The Shelby Xeic Era has the following concerning the operations north of the AirLine Railroad : Col. Thad. Coleman, who is surveying the line of the Charleston, Cincincinnati and Chicago Railroad between ltutherfordton and Marion, has his corps now at Weaver's about 8 milesfrom Marior J Col. Matson, with his corps, is at work about 20 miles north of Marion, going over the mountains toward the Tennessee line. Col. P. P. Dickinson is to be south on the 19th to inspect the work that has been done on the trestles and bridges between Black's and Forest City. Col. R. A. Johnson, gen- ^ eral manager of the Company, has just pur- ^ chased the finest lumber mill in this country. It has a fifty-horse-power engine and sixty-five-horse-power boiler and is located on a fine tract of land, purchased by Col. Johnson for the company, near Webb's Creek. Col. R. K. Allen, of Harrisburg, Pa., has been selected to have the entire management of the mill. He will employ about 35 hands and is now preparing a camp which will include a commissary. The first lumber Col. Allen will saw will be used for the trestle on Webb's Creek, containing over 350,000 feet of lumber, lie will then get out lumber for the stations, warehouses and platforms on the road. Mr. Franklin ^ G. Power, of Grafton, Va., is now engineer 4 in charge of the work between Shelby and Black's, while Mr. W. B. Hooker has charge of trestles between Shelby and Rutherfordton. ^ The Rock Hill Herald of Thursday says: It is now considered certain that the railroad has been located to Yorkville as well as to Rock Hill. We are informed that a majority of the freehold voters in Cane Creek, Gill's Creek and Pleasant Hill townships, in Lancaster county, have signed petitions asking the County Commissioners to order elections in the townships named on the question of subscribing to the projected railroad. The citizens of Indian Land township, Lancaster county, held a meeting at Belair last Mdhday to ask the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad Company to consider the practicability of a route southward by the way of Ivy's v Mill on the Catawba River. It is stated that Indian Land and Waxhaw townships, in Lancaster, will both subscribe liberally if the company will build the road through that section. In reference to the proposed subscription in Lancaster county, theJieview of last week says: The county commissioners held a meeting at the court house last Saturday for the purpose of considering petitions presented by freehold voters in the townships of dill's Creek, Cane Creek and Pleasant Hill, asking for an election to determine whether these townsnips shall subscribe to the capital stock of the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago railroad. It being ascertained that a majority of the qualified freehold voters of the respective townships had signed the petitions, the county commissioners decided to order the election pray- - % ed for at an early day. Formal notice of. the election will probab'ly appear in our next issue. The C., C. andC. Railroad was represented at the meeting, by Major Jas. F. Hart, of Yorkville. The several amounts which these townships propose to subscribe are as follows : Gill's Creek, $89,000; Cane Creek, $19,000; Pleasant Hill,$19,000; making a total of $77,000. It is estimated that the amount required to be raised by taxation to pay the interest on the bonds to be issued by these three townships for the sums named will be So.GO on the thousand of taxable property. Of the survey in Sumter, the Watchman of the 11th instant says: Major Ramsaur, with the engineer corps of the C, C. & C. : Railroad, reached Sumter last week, having run the preliminary survey of the railroad route from Camden to this place. It was run by Smithvilleand Heriot'sCross Roads, and we learn that the engineer is highly pleased with the route except at Smithville where it is tortuous and grades high ; but the engineer is satified that he can find a shorter route, upon a re-survey, of G or S miles. This he could not now make as he was compelled to run another route from Lancaster across the Catawba River, and then to locate the line for contractors from Rock Hill on to the North Carolina line > through Yorkville. MEKE-MKXTI0N. The Anarchist, Herr John Most, committed to the Tombs prison in New York several days ago on the charge of endeavoring / to incite a riot, has been released on $1,090 bail. The money was subscribed by some of Most'sfriends. The business failures occurring throughout the country during the last week, as reported to R. G. Dun & I/o., liumuer ior uio i nueu oitues, iuu; Canada, 20; a total of 170 as against 192 last week. An agent of a dynamite company employed to break up a lot of old iron at Pittsburg, loaded a ten-ton anvil with a great charge of dynamite and touched it oft* on Friday. The result was a tremendous explosion. Several houses in the neighborhood were wrecked and one man was badly hurt by a flying fragment of iron. The > Governor of Illinois has ordered the withdrawal'from East St. Louis of the militia ordered on duty during the prevalence of the railroad strike. The liquor dealers of Indiana have formed a protective association, the object of which is to oppose any legislation looking to higher license. The Hon. Francis T. llord, Attorney-General of Indiana, has been legally adjudged a lunatic. There is prospect of a lively campaign in Georgia, as Gen. J. B.Gordon and Maj. John E. Bacon have arranged to stump the State together. Bacon seems to be the most popular man. The question is asked, "If Gordon could not afford to be Fnited States Senator at So,(Kin per annum, how ean lie take the Governorship of the State for only $3,000?" Many petitions are before Congress asking an appropriation to pay 81U0 per capita to colored persons emigrating from this country to Liberia. The Ohio Legislature has re-enacted the Scott liquor law. Arthur J. Grover, who murdered Granville G. Loomis, in Wood county, Ohio, last May, was hanged in the Ohio penitentiary last Friday. Officer Thomas Redden died on last Monday mrrning, making the sixth death among the wounded by the dynamite bomb thrown among the Chicago policemen during the Anarchist rioting in that city. Thk KxifJirrs of Honor.?The Supreme Lodge of the Knight of Honor, in session last week at Providence, It. I., r elected the following national officers: Supreme Dictator, L. A. Gratz, Tennessee; Vice Supreme Dictator, J. T. Milburn, Kentucky ; Assistant Vice Supreme Dictator, A. I? Af-iino- rpnnrtor It. F. Kelson. ! Missouri; treasurer, J. W. Branch, Missou| ri; chaplain, G. W. Holland, South Carolina; guide, P. C. Carleton, North Carolina ; I guardian, P. S. Wren, Texas; sentinel, ! Lewis Wilson, Ohio; trustees Oakey Johnson, West Virginia; G. T. Woodman, ! Maine; F. J. Mott, Colorado. ? Luther Barnett was killed a few days* ago by his brother-in-law, Oliver Hester, on the Pacolet river, fifteen miles above Spartanburg. It is said that Hester was whipping his child, a year and a half old, and BarnottJ remonstrated with him and besrired him to desist. A ciuarrel snruutr up and Hester picked up, a plough lying in the yard where they were and threw it, striking Barnett on the head causing speedy death. Hester surrendered himself. A