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Scraps and Jactis. ? Business failures occurring throughout the country during the past week reported fb R. G. Dun & Co., number for the United States 181, Cauada 29?total 209; against 187 last week and 187 the week previous. ? Justice Woods,in the United States Court * at Atlanta has rendered a decision which in effect is a warning to the Georgia Railroad Commission that regulating freight rates beyond State limits would be interfering with inter-State commerce. ? The House Judiciary Committee has reported in favor oftheannullraentand dissolution of the corporation of the Mormon Church. They oppose the appointment of trustees for the management of the church, as partaking of the union of church and state. ? A professional beggar died recently in Rio Janeiro and left a fortune of $200,000. A Rio journal remarks that the discovery should occasion no surprise, as it is well known that many of the beggars in that city are worth more than those who bestow aims on them. ? ? J. R. Bodwell has been nominated by the Maine Republican Convention. Bodwell is a rich man and was Blaine and Manley's candidate. It is said that there will be a very decided bolt, as the old soldiers consider themselves treated badly by the discarding of Dr. Hamlin's claims. ? The latest advices from Auckland, New Zealand, state that the volcanic eruption at Farawera, destroyed entire villages in the district, by swiftly burying them in ashes. The surface of the earth for many miles around the active volcano was disturbed by an earthquake which accompanied the eruption. ? Dr. Sunderland received a fee of $100 for performing the President's marriage ceremony. It was a brand new bill which had never apparently been in circulation. It was handed to the doctor by Col. Lamont immediately after the President's departure. Dr. Sunderland made his wife a present of the bill, and she will keep it as a memento of the occasion. ?On last Wednesday the Supreme Court of North Carolina affirmed the judgment of Wake Superior Court in the case of Gooch and Smith, white men, charged with the murder of John A. Cheatham, a merchant of Raleigh, a year ago. Both of the men were convicted and sentenced to be hanged, but appealed. They will be resentenced at the August term of the Superior Court. A ?i?Vks-v KnrrAn'Q/l rrnnoir Dnoilffh n. iiCgiVf HIIU Wi.untu.uuuv,, of a Raleigh merchant to get a marriage license, explained his action by saying that ^ he had a pretty good sized cotton crop, and had heard that the farm hands talked of demanding more wages. He had therefore looked about, and having found a healthy widow with three able-bodied children, would marry her next Sunday and put the children to work on the farm on Monday. ? In Oregon the Democrats have elected the Governor, the Treasurer and a Supreme Court Judge. The Republicans elect the Secretary of State, the State Superintendent of Education and thg State Printer. As the Governor, Secretary of State and the Treasurer constitute the board lor the management of all the State institutions, the Democrats will have control of the State's atfairs for the next four years. ? The first public reception given by President and Mrs. Cleveland was on yesterday evening, to which the Cabinet, diplomatic corps, judiciary, Congress, officers of the army and navy, and heads of certain bureaus and ladies of their families were invited. A general reception, to which the public are invited, without cards, will be given next Friday from 9 to 11 o'clock A. M. ? The night express on the Georgia Central railroad was wrecked at Rogers, eightyfive miles west of Savannah, Tuesday morning of last week. A block of wood tightly wedged between the rails at the switch threw the engine and three cars from the track. Fireman Charles Maddox was killed and Engineer Wm. P. Prendergast was severely mjureu. n was a ueuueruieiy laid plan to wreck the train. ? Congress has entered upon the seventh month of its session, and its proceedings have presented to the country a wretched spectacle. The Republican Senpte and the Democratic House, though divided by party spirit, are united in their joint incapacity to solve any important questions of legislation. In all the weary months since the last of December not a measure of public interest has been passed, except the bill for settling the Presidential succession. ? At Terrell, Texas, last Monday night, Orange Terrell called on a young lady and found there Miles Henderson, another visitor. He immediately drew a pistol and shot the young man in the breast and the young lady through the leg. He laid down on a bed in the front room saying he was going to kill himself, but shortly afterwards City Marshal Kellar walked into the room and ordered him to throw up his hands. He did so, shooting at Kellar at the same time, whereupon the latter riddled Terrell with bullets. ?The dissolution of Parliament, upon which Mr. Gladstone has all along been determined, turns over the entire question upon the naked issue of home rule to the voters of Great Britain, 5,707,000 in number. , Scotland includes but 574,000 of these, and Ireland 741,000 more, so that the battle will really be fought out between the 4,391,000 in England. Of their decision he would be a rash man who who ventured on a prediction. Nothing in past English politics sheds much light upon it, and the divisions of the past three months render the problem still more complicated. ? A private letter published in the Kansas i City Time.$ tells of a party of hunters and I geologists who were camped in Southwestern Kansas one night when a meteor fell near i them. In the morning they found a huge mass buried in the ground, and still quite warm. They managed to break off a chunk of a pound and a half weight, carried it to Denver and had it assayed. It panned out about 20 per cent, of gold, G4 per cent, of iron and 11 per cent, of nickel, with copper and ; other metals. The party are going back I with dynamite and tools to get the rest of the meteor, which they calculate weighs five tons. If the assay holds out they will get a ton of gold. ? A dispatch of Friday from Cheyenne, Wyoming, says: A family named Armstrong, consisting of husband, wife, two sons and one daughter, went up in Little Mountain Valley last fall and settled. They mysteriously disappeared in the last part of May and not until now has any trace of j them been found. A party of cowboys pass- j ing below the location of the ranche on i Tuesday found the body of Mrs. Armstrong j in the canon. The remains of Mr. Arm strong and his daughter were found some i distance below, one in a treetop and the } /tiL/vx i ? V* I M/\nlrn 'PK A V\r\xrC* Ko tm r?nf UUIC1 111 UJ??il lUL'IV^. X HO UVJO lia v ^ uwt i been discovered. It is surmised that the sudden flood caused by the melting away of i the snow swept away the house and its in-! mates, and the position of the house serves i to confirm this belief. ? Horrible reports come of Orange riots in Belfast, Ireland, on Wednesday night. The mobs that gathered seemed to be crazed with rage and triumph. Two taverns kept by Catholics were broken into and looted and one of them was burned after all its liquors had been set running in the streets I and a bonfire had been made of its furniture and fixtures. Parnell and Gladstone: were burned in effigy and the police, who made gallant efforts to disperse the mob, were repeatedly routed. The efforts of Prot-' estant clergymen to appease the people w^re vain. The police killed five persons. The mobs were led and incited by girls from the factories who seemed to be crazed. Troops have been sent to Dublin, Belfast and Durgan. The disturbance was instigated by the failure of the Home Rule bill in the British Parliament. ? A Toledo, Ohio, dispatch says: "A most remarkable case of suspended animation has just been brought to light in that city. Two years ago Hugh Mclntyre, a young man living in Detroit, married a daughter of Mrs. Cunningham, who resides in Toledo. A few days ago he died. His remains were placed in a vault temporarily at Detroit. Eight days after hi3 death an uncle visited the vault with the intention of removing the body to the cemetery, and was horrified to see the young man sitting up in his coffin,' the glass broken. Young Mclntyre was very weak and pale; his hands were lacerated and bleeding, but he wasstill alive. He was taken to the city at once. Ilis wife was terribly frightened, but was delighted to see him after having mourned him dead. The family are very superstitious, and have kept the case quiet,*although they admitted the truth of this statement to a reporter. :?ltc forMlc topim. J YOKKVILLE, S. ('. : WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1<>, 1886. NOT SUCH A BAD COI NTY AFTER ALL We notice a paragraph in several of^our exchanges stating mat mere are ioriy-imee cases of murder to be tried at the August term of the Court of Sessions for Edgefield. This is calculated to mislead the public miud in the absence of an explanation, and the impression might be made that there had been forty-two murders in Edgefield since last court, which is very far from being true. Thirty-two of these cases are against the Culbreath lynchers who stand charged with homicide, and are to be tried at the next term. The foregoing, from the Augusta Chronicle, refuting erroneous impressions likely to arise in reference to the good people of Edgefield, conveys the information that including the Culbreath lynching there are only twelve actual cases of murder pending in that law-abiding county, which is not a bad showing, after all. THE BOTNDARY SlUVEY. Our Fort Mill correspondent indulges a little pleasantry at the expense of our North Carolina neighbors relative to the survey now being made to locate the boundary line between the two States. That any of the States adjoining South Carolina should want to take in a portion of her fertile territory and especially that the good Old North State should want to capture as much as possible of the historic counties of Lancaster and York, we are not surprised. The birth place of Andrew Jackson and the ' ' i I ITi 1 Ann oauie-neiu 01 jyiiijj a muunuuu unvc '""h been coveted, not to say claimed, by our venerable sister; but when an actual survey hot only gives unequivocally to Lancaster county the honor of being the birthplace of the illustrious hero of New Orleans, but may probably give to South Carolina the prosperous town of Pineville, which had been supposed to be over the line, in Mecklenburg county, thejokeistoogood. Should North Carolina renew her claims to the old battle-field which rendered Yorktown possible, and insist upon a survey, it is not unlikely that in that direction it would be [ found that we are entitled not to the battleground alone, but the beautiful and progressive town of the same name on the AirLine Kailroad, to say nothing of the northern suburbs of Urover, All-Healing Springs, probably Gastonia and other outlying localities. The survey seems to be still progressing, and awaiting an official .report, which we suppose will be made, we take the following, written by one of the surveying party, from the last Charlotte Gazette: "We 'commenced at a point one mile north of Allen W. Heath's and finished up to the line between Waxhaw corner and Twelve Mile Creek, striking the creek some two-hnndred feet west, and down the creek from an old gum stump, the supposed corner. The gum stump found by us is said to be the one located by the original surveyors, one hundred and fourteen years ago. If the gum tree located as the corner, was of any size, in the year 1772, I think it highly improbable that any portion of it remains to this day. On Tuesday morning May 2oth at about 2.30 o'clock, we made an observation to find the pole and to get our proper course for the line to or near Pineville, the old course being 37J degrees west, ours 33 degrees west. Without any interruption of note we ran 132 miles and located the comer near J. T. Downs Esq., some J of a'mile from the old line and east of it, taking off a considerable slip of territory from North Carolina and putting several farms and farmers on the West side, namely: John N. Howie, James McGinn, Neely McGinn, W. J. Iloagland, J. D. Culp, S. B. Cunningham, Mrs. W. A. Boatright, J. H. Elms, J. It. McC'ullough and J. G. Moss. Our corner fell short of the old supposed corner probably a mile. We will run the line from this corner to the Catawba river, say about eight miles, during this week, and then the work will be submitted to the authorities for their considertion and consummation. I will say, just mv nniiiinn is that the two .States ",v" v> "V - - # will adopt some compromise line, say near the old line. "As to locating the birth-place of Andrew Jackson, I obtained a little bit of traditional history of that disputed spot from Mr. Martin Key, a very responsible man and who is said to live on the place where Jackson was partially raised. I saw the spring near the spot where the cabin was* claimed to stand. This is half a mile north of Waxhaw Creek, and half a mile west of the Charlotte and Camden dirt road, and about one mile west of the State line, on the South Carolina side. "I suppose this story has been the cause of the dispute between North and South Carolina, both claiming Jackson. The writer is not familiar with the early history of! Jackson. I am inclined to the opinion that Lancaster county has the best claim, taking" j several reasons into consideration." Homicide and Speedy Acquittal.?On last Wednesday afternoon, W. E. Cuthbertson, a grocery merchant of Charlotte, was shot through the heart and instantly killed by his son-in-law, Cyrus Long, a young dry goods clerk. Two years ago Long married Cuthbertson's daughter, but the match was j so bitterly opposed by the girl's father that j the couple ran away and were married. Since then Cuthbertson has made repeated | threats to kill Long. Long's baby was sick ' last week and Cuthbertson's wife went to see [ it. When she returned Cuthbertson gave her ! a brutal beating and would probably have ! killed her but for the interference of neigh-1 bors. Cuthbertson also made threats to kill i Long on sight. On Wednesday afternoon | the two men met on Trade street, and Long drew his pistol and shot Cuthbertson dead, i Long was committed to jail, and in the j Criminal Court of Charlotte, which was in session last week, he was arraigned on Saturday. The violent character of Cuthbertson j and his repeated threats to take Long's life, j were shown on the trial, as also the peaceable j andquietdispositionof Mr. Long. The jury ; was out seventeen minutes and returned a verdict of not guilty, which, the Observer says-, is strictly in accord with the sentiment of that community. Cuthbertson is a native of Union county, X. C., and his body was taken there for burial. Tiik County Sues tiik Kailkoad Company.?Lancaster county has brought suit against the Cheraw and Chester Railroad Company for $GG,000, being the amount of interest the county has paid on the county bonds for eleven years. The action is necesitated by the fact that the county of Chester has brought suit for $25,000, the interest paid out by that county. The outcome of j this suit will probably be a surrender of the lease by the C. C. & A. Railroad. There is a difference of opinion as to the policy of this litigation, but the commissioners, in view of the fact that Chester has moved in the matter, arc in duty bound to protect the interest of our county, by securing a judgment for this claim. Ira B. Jones, Kscj., will represent the county.? Lancaster Lrthjer. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM FORT MILL Fort Mill, S. Cm Jnne 12.?The weathi er is said to be an unfailing topic. At any i rate it affords the opportunity to observe that Sugar Creek has again been over the ! top of Barber's bridge, and destroyed any amount of prospective corn. A ferry is now run by J. M. Slagle, where Doby's bridge used to be. About 2 o'clock on Thursday rain fell faster for about fifteen minutes than it had in many a day. Scarcely any work has been done on the farms this week, and consequently grass is growing rapidly. I forgot to tell in my last that the former | freshet had moved the old Springs Mill (near Nation Ford) so far out of place that [ the proprietor declines to do anything further with it as a mill. On last Thursday afternoon electricity afforded our scientists a topic of speculation. Several loud reports were heard in such quick succession as to remind one of a squad of men attempting to lire at cnce, and a flame about twice the size of a man's hand for a moment stood sentry on a telegraph pole. Then the mysterious visitor resolved himself into a committee of investigation and went about in the office peering into odd nooks and crannies by the flashing light of many lanterns. Nobody was hurt, but some were willing for the show to close immediately, if not sooner. On Thursday nicht an exhibition was given as the closing exercise of the session by the pupils of Fort Mill Academy. They acquitted themselves handsomely, and reflected credit on their teachers, Messrs. A. It. Banks and J. A. Boyd and Miss Mananssas Withers. The prizes were bestowed by Rev. J. B. Mack, who made a few remarks befitting the occasion. Dr.^Girardeau preached here last night to a good congregation who were wrapt in attention for fifty-five minutes listening to his eloquent discourse on "the unselfishness of Jesus Christ." All who heard him were glad that they attended the meeting. Among the many misfortunes of our people the loss of the peach crop occupies a prominent place. Some have thought this was caused by hail bruising them, but it occurs alike all over the neighborhood ; so it is now attributed to excess of wet weather. 'Squire Culp managed to have a peach pie three days ago, but the rot has prevented his further enjoyment m that direction. A good deal of noise was made some time ago about the line between the States of North and South Carolina by those on the other side of the line. They even went so far as to claimFort Mill and a goodly strip of adjacent territory. North Carolina's surveyor has so far given us several thousand acres that we had not claimed; and now Fort Mill, while extending a cordial welcome to all whose citizenship may be changed by the survey, especially welcomes Pineville into the fold, and proposes to take that village as a suburb under our protect ??*!! Aiwf I-. AH *\KAi!wlnd fni? TTntU Ulg WUJf^ Ulll.ll JU1 llici 1U1. Jiui. comes it that the Charlotte Observer has lately been so silent on the subject of this survey? Is it because it makes a great difference whose ox is gored? Well, if that daily journal will muzzle the news, we must take it as best we can, by signs, etc. We hear of no candidates from this corner. Probably the crop has been drowned out. By the way, did you ever hear of a shower of rain being called a "toad strangler"? After Thursday's rain a prominent citizen found several dead toads near his house. Of course it is thought that they were strangled. Axon*. CONDITION OF THE CROPS. Under date of last Friday, the Department of Agriculture at Washington makes the following report of the condition of the crops : "The area of spring wheat is nearly the same as last year's breadth in Dakota, a decrease in Nebraska, and a small reduction in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The minor Spring wheat districts show a small advance. The extension of the minor Spring wheat districts show that the small advance in the extension of thearea in Dakota isdue mainly to settlement and the necessity of ready money ior improvements amrsumuvv nni iu last year's unsatisfactory flax product in Southern Dakota. The effect of low prices for wheat has been counteracted by the superior rate of yield of recent years. The condition of Spring wheat averages 084 against 1)7 in June last year?Wisconsin 07, Minnesota 90, Indiana 100, Nebraska 07, Dakota 00, Washington 100. "Winter wheat is not quite so promising as on the 1st of May. A slight decline in condition is reported in the West, and the low condition of the Southern crop is still more reduced, yet the average is only reduced two points, from 04.0 to 0:1.7. It is still from an average to high in the great wheat producing States. In New York it is not tillering as in years of strong root growth. It is very promising in iuaryianu and Virginia, except in wet lands. In the South it has been affected with rust, shrivelling the grain harvested. There has been injury from drought in Texas, rains and floods in Ohio and hailstorms in Missouri. The prospect is good for a small fraction above twelve bushels per acre. "Rye has also declined from the general average of 95.7 to 93.4during the last month. The barley acreage has been increased three per cent., and the condition averages 100. Last year, in June, it was 89. The large acreage in oats in 1885 has not been extensively increased. It has been slightly reduced in Kentucky and Ohio, where the area* was abnormal last year. The increase will approach half a million acres. The condition averages nearly 90 against 94 in 1885 and 98 in 1884. It is the highest east of the Alleghenies and a little below a full condition in the South and West. "The tendency to an increase in the area of cotton has been checked in the Eastern States of the Cotton belt. - Returns show a slight reduction in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Virginia. The more Western States, in which settlementand farm extension has been active, exhibit some increase,. I mainly in Texas. The net increase is about j 250,000 acres, an advance of about one and three-eights per cent. The record stands: Virginia 99, Georgia 97, Florida 103, Alabama 99, Mississippi 102, Louisiana 102, Texas 107, Arkansas 102, Tennessee 101. The condition of the crop is lower than in 1885, averaging 88.7 against 92 last year. It is lower in seven States and higher in North Carolina, Florida, Texas, and Tennessee. The State averages are: Virginia 95, North Carolina 97, South Carolina 83, Georgia 82, Florida 97, Alabama 87, Mississippi 88, Louisiana 85, Texas 90, Arkansas83, Tennessee 99. Heavy rains have caused damage in / .**wl <1 \roo t |? v?**\ tonnrl ill viuui^kl, <11111 (l vliwu^uf ti (io i,iiiv?ivvuv\? ill Texas, but it has been broken since by refreshing rains. The stand lias been irregular, but has been practically remedied by replanting." MAXWELL COOL AND EASY. Since the trial and conviction of Maxwell, a St. Louis letter says: If Hugh N. lirooks, alias Maxwell, the self-confessed murderer of Charles Arthur Preller, at the Southern Hotel, in April, 188"), feels any pangs of conscience or fear of death on the gallows he does not show it. 11 is first action after the jury returned a verdict yesterday declaring him guilty of murder in the first degree was to bring out his cigarette paper, his tobacco and roller and mechanically to roll a cigarette while one of his attorneys whispered to him to keep up his courage. The attorney's suggestion was unnecessary, for beyond a slight pallor on !-!_ r. .1 .... *,r. oVintl. tll.lf Illb liU'U LUL'l'U \\ <13 liuimu^ iw mat mv verdict was a surprise to him or that he feared it in the least. To-day Maxwell spent i?i his new quarters in Murderers' Row. His old cell on the ground lloor was easy of access to visitors and was comparatively comfortable. Now he will not be annoyed by visitors. It is said that the principal grounds for the motion for a new trial which will be pressed by the prisoner's attorney are, beside the errors in the instructions, the bringing in of a lot improper and incompetent evidence. The admission of the detective's testimony, it is said, was a monstrous error. Hundreds of exceptions have been taken, and the case will go to the Supreme Court on the same grounds that took the Hayes case there, the unconstitutionality of the law allowing the State fifteen challenges in the city instead of eight, as in the country. Maxwell, when visited by a correspondent to-day, was lying on his bed in his cell, seemingly enjoying the "Old Curiosity Shop," which he was reading. When asked how the verdict affected him he held out his arm and showed that there was not a tremor in it from the shoulder to the fingerends. "The only thing this verdict has done for me," he said, "is to upset all my plans for the future. I expected firmly to be acquitted and had my mind made up that I should be free to do as I pleased when this confounded trial was over. I would have gone on the lecture stage or taken an engagement in one of the dime museums, as I had flattering offers for both; but I would have continued such a career only long enough to get sufficient money to pay back Preller's heirs the sum that I took from Preller's body and to pay my fare to Hyde, where I intended to enter into a partnership with my brother. This verdict, though, has upset me, and now I shall be obliged to put off my plans for a little while until this trouble is settled." The general feeling is that he will not get a new trial and that he will be hangr \ Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. THE PRANKS OF A VICIOUS 1)0(1. C'lovku, 8. G\, June 14.?About G o'clock in the afternoon, on the 8th instant, Mr. John J. Smith, a merchant of this place, was sitting at a table about the centre of his storeroom, busily writing. While he was thus engaged, a strange dog entered by the front door, passed in behind the counter, went on towards the rear end of the store and came out from behind the counter at II II I 1 ?e C!.V,UI, II1U Upi'IUHg l?> IIIU riglll lllllju UI iU! . oil jtill* lie did not know the dog was in the house until that moment, and as soon as the dog saw him, being so close, the animal jumped at him and bit him on the thigh. Mr. Smith kicked off the dog, and as he started to jump up, the dog again grabbed him on the right arm just below the shoulder joint. Mr. Smith again knocked off'the dog and it passed on to ttye re^rpnd of the store and he saw no more of it. Mr. Smith immediately ran to the front door and called to some persons on the opposite side of the street, telling them that he had been bitten by a large dog. Capt. \V. B. Smith ran to him, and about that time the dog was seen on the sidewalk, it having come out by a side door at the rear end of the store. When the dog reached the corner it turned and started across the street, passing on until it went under Jackson & Jackson's store, where it was killed. It seems that the do? was first seen on Crowder's Creek, beyond Mr. J. C. Patrick's place, five or six miles north-east of here. It was seen several times on the day before it came to this place. It passed through Mr. S. L. Adams' yard, but did nothing there. It was next seen on Mr. M. II. Currence's place, where it entered a cabin and lay for some time under a bed. The old woman living there was in her garden at the time, and seeing the dog enter her house, she remained outside at least an hour waiting for assistance. Before any one came, however, the dog passed out^ After it left there it was next seen at Mr. Br A. Clinton's, about two miles east ofbdre. Mrs. Clinton was out and when sheefltered the house it whs standing on the floor. It paid no attention to her, and when she stepped to one side of the door it went out. It next passed through Mrs. C. Matthews' yard, and came on from her house to this place. It disturbed nothing in its travels except to fight other dogs. But to return to Mr. Smith's unpleasant adventure with the animal. Of course the affair created a good deal of excitement in town. Dr. J. R. Latimer was present, and in less than five minutes from the time Mr. Smith was bitten he cauterized the place on his arm, which, by the way, was more a bruise than a bite. Mr. Smith did not have on his coat, and the dog's teeth caught in his shirt sleeve. Having on thick pantaloons the bite on his leg did no harm. After cauterising the arm, Dr. S. A. Smith came in, and he with Dr. Latimer accompanied Mr. Smith to his house, and it was then decided, as a precautionary measure, to cut entirely away the bruised place on the arm, which was done in a few minutes and the incision thus made again cauterized. Air. Smith's arm is very sore from the cutting and cauterizing, but otherwise he is getting along very well. There are various opinions in regard to the condition of the dog, but from all the circumstances the majority of those conversant with the facts do not think it was a case of rabies. J. I). (S. - ? (loiTespoutleiice of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chester, S. C., June 14.?'The following petit jurors were drawn on last Tuesday for the approaching term of the Circuit Court for this county. J). G. Anderson, Thcs. Shannon, Sr., J. J. Gibson, E. A. Crawford, W. 11. Kiser, G. W. Simpson, J. L. Fennell.G. C. Nesbit, E. P. Moore, E. It. Caldwell, J. D. Hardin, It. It. ITaffner, J. II. Gill, A. B. Douglas, W. W. Graham, J. It. Thompson, J. B. Atkinson, Anderson Green, Ira Pressley, Wm. Ilollis, J. II. Bigham, J. F. Stone, B. A. Grant, W. II. Abel, G. F. Latimer, E. M. Shannon, J. It. Kilsey, W. J. Corn well, Wm. Lindsay, J. M. McFadden, It. W. Abel, II. A. Brakefield, B. F. Wilks, W. O. Guy, If. C. Stewart, W. A. Duncan. A heavy rain fell in town and county on last Wednesday morning. Our streets were badly washed and the small stream that traverses a portion of our town rose higher than it has yet done. Two benches of the bridge over Iloopaw's Creek, on the Chester and Cheraw ltailroad, were washed away. The bridge had just been repaired, the train having passed over it on the day before for the first time since the carrying away of the same portion of the structure by the tremendous rain of the preceding Sunday. The agricultural situation in this county is not promising. Corn on lowlands has suffered an unhappy fate, having been washed away, buried under sand, or otherwise destroyed. Farmers will be forced to replant where the condition of the land will permit. Cotton is also in a bad fix. It is exceedingly grassy, as the wet weather has prevented it of late from receiving proper attention. Dry weather is indispensable to the obtaining of a victory over General Green. The wheat and oat crops have been damaged to some extent by the rains. Spring oats are very good and promise a good yield if not destroyed. Louis Backstrom, colored, who killed Calvin Barber, colored, a few days ago in the eastern portion of this county, has not yet been arrested. lie has doubtless taken counsel of his fears and tied to parts unknown. A reward by the Governor might lead to his capture. The political campaign gives no sign of opening. The rain with its results absorb the attention of the farmers, and the farmers' movement has so perplexed the politicians that they prefer to await developments. No candidates for county offices have yet been announced. Rev. Mr. (frier, a* brother of Rev. Dr. (frier, President of Erskine University, will supply the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church at this place for a short time. It is hoped that he will in time equal his distinguished brother in ministerial attainments. J. M. McNeel, Esq., Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee, of this county, is quite ill in Atlanta. There is little hope of his recovery. Thn ('hoctor ATncipnl f'lllh U'fint to Rock I Hill last Friday night and and gave an entertainment which was successful in every particular. m. A Word for the Primary System.? The State Convention has been called to meet on the -1th of August. Now let the people go to work. See that every township delegation is instructed to support in the county conventions delegates to the State and Congressional Conventions who will vote for the nomination of all Democratic candidates by primary elections and a direct vote of the people. That is a fair and Democratic method. It will give opportunity for the expression of the sentiments and wishes of the people and strike at the root of all the existing political evils. The only ground on which that method can be opposed is that the people will not know or do what is best for themselves; or, in other words, that they are not fit for self goverment." Such a claim ought to be contradicted by practical illustration. It is false and slanderous. If it was true, our government would be a failure, a fraud and > nti( 1 4I.O tiArtnnf /inillfl Tltlf. niir. a I<li LWj anvt tuv/ gvuiii/i ?i v "v vm4 selves under u king or an emperor the better.? Green viffe News. ? Nancy Lewis, colored, of Edgefield county, came very near dying recently from the bite of a spider. E*OC??/lkIU J&Jtf* new advertisements. J. Ed. Jetlerys?Pay by the 1st of July. 'Forced Apart.'?What Is It? Frew Brothers, Rock Hill, S. 2-hWMi Pounds of Ship Stuff?Cucumber Picklos. John ('. Knykendal?Moxie Nerve Food. John F, Speck, Jeweler?Bargains! Bargains!! i Bargains! ! ! Withers Adickes?New Goods Constantly on the Road. Ilunter tfc Oates?Bargains ! J. W. Dobson?Fruit Jars?White Corn?Cow Peas?Grain Cradles. John MeGill, Administrator?Application for Discharge. CHANGE OF NAME. The post c.fllce in Gaston county, N. C., heretofore known as Garibaldi, has been changed to Belmont. until january i, 1887. We will furnish the Knqhihkk from this date until January 1, 1887, for $1.25; or for one year to two names paid for at the same time, $4.00. Single subscription $2.50 per annum. NC personaiTmention. Xliss Jennie May Clawson and Miss Minnie Wilson, of this place, are visiting friends and relatives in Spartanburg, S. C. Dr. A. I. Barron returned home last Thursday from Alabama, apparently none the worse by so extensive a journey for one of his age. He was accompanied by his son, B. P. Barron, Ksip, of Manning, who returned home on Friday. THK EPISCOPAL CHURCH. On Sunday night last Rev. O. A. Ottmann, rector of the Church of the Oood Shepherd at this place since October, 1S85, preached his last sermon to the congregation, unless providentially detained here until next Sunday, in which circumstances ho will probably officiate. He intended leavingon Monday last for his new charge at Fayettevillc, X. Y., but was detained by thesickness of his child. Since his connection with the church at this place, Mr. Ottmann's relations with his parishioners have been of the most pleasant kind, and while they with regret see him depart for another field of labor, it is only from a sense of duty that he makes the change. WAS THE DOG MAI) ? Our Clover correspondent gives a circumstantial account of the pranksof a vicious dog which wound up its career in Clover the other day, by biting or attempting to bite, our good friend Mr. John J. Smith. While it is not probable the dog was affected with rabies, Mr. Smith has very properly taken precautions against the consequences of a mad-dog bite, and besides the medical treatment mentioned by our correspondent, he sent to Mr. J. T. Butler, of Charlotte, X. for a madstone in the possession of that gentleman, and proposes to avail himself of that remrwl r.loA \fl? S! 111 i 111 ' U nifltlV friAtlflci 111 flllft VUJ uiou, ?n. j ... .... tion hope he will escape any further unpleasant consequences from his ugly adventure with the grange canine. DIED IN JAIL. Mary Ellen Williams, colored, convicted at October term, 1885, of York sessions Court of poisoning her husband and three step children, near McConnellsville in this county, on the liith of August last, and sentenced by Judge Kershaw to be hanged on the 11th of last February, but who was respited by Governor Thompson until Friday, the 10th of next November, it having been shown to the Governor that she was cnccicntent the time appointed by Judge Kershaw for the execution, gave birth to a male child on Tuesday, the 8th instant, and on Friday last, the lltli instant, she died of congestion of the lungs. The child is still living and has been delivered to the mother of the dead woman, who was present during her confinement. The body of the dead woman was taken charge of by her father, Adam Caruth, who lives near the town of Chester, and on Saturday was taken to Chester county for burial. J GLANDERS IN YORK. Jr llr. John G. Mack, of Mack's, in this^ffnty, having informed Agricultural Commissioner Mitlertliat glanders .was prevailing among the horses in his section, that official sent Dr. Mcln II19,it > ULUI IIIUI J a HI ui VII'U tvovvo, WW W to investigate the matter. After an inspection of the stock alleged to he diseased, the snrgeon reports four cases of glanders among the horses, and recommends that the horses should be immediately killed to prevent the spread of tho disease. The owners of the stock object to this action, as they hope to cure the stock. They are willing to have the stock killed if they are paid for them, but the Department of Agriculture has no authority to accede to this demand, but is required by law to destroy all such diseased stock. A meeting of the Hoard of Agriculture will bo held as soon as possible to take action in the matter. The diseased animals are understood to belong to contractors engaged in grading tho Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad. DEATH OF AN OLD CITIZEN. M r. Pollard S. Thomasson, probably the oldest citizen of York county, died at liis home, five miles north-east of Yorkvillo, on Friday afternoon, the 11th instant. He was born in Louisa county, Va., on the 5th of April, 171)1, and was aged at the time of his death 05 years 2 months and 6 days. In February, 1821, ho moved to Chester county, .S. C'., and until August 1822, worked as a carpenter. At the latter date ho removed to York county, and for three years was employed by Col. Thomas Williams, the grandfather of Mr. Thos. W. Clawson, of this place. While he had the strength to work he continued to be engaged in agricultural pursuits. His wife died in 18t?8, aged 04 years. He was a Deacon of Union Baptist Church, three miles north of this place, for a number of years, having been a member of that congregation ever since the constituting of .the church in the year 1837, and was prominent among the original members who organized the congregation. CHURCH NOTICES. Baptist?Rev. J. E. Covington, Pastor. Services at Union Church next Sunday at 11 A. M., and in tho Church at Yorkvillo at 8.30 P. M. Sunday-school at 3.30 P. M. Prayer-meeting this evening at 8.30 o'clock. Presbyterian?Rev. T. It. English, Pastor. Services next Sunday at 10.30 A. M. and 8.30 P. M. Sunday-school at 4.30 P. M. Prayer-meeting to-morrow eyening at 8.15. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. W. W. Daniel, Pastor. Services next Sunday at 10.30 A. M., and 8.30 P. M. Sunday-school at 3.30 P. M. Pravmeeting this evening at 8.30 o'clock. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J. C. Galloway, Pastor. Services next Sunday at 10.30 A. M. and 3 P. M. Sunday-school immediately after evening services. King's Mountain Mission?Rev. L. A. Johnson, Pastor. Services at King's Mountain Chapel at 11 A. M. I A FALSE RUMOR. Tho statement has been frequently made recently ihat Hon. B. II. Masscv, of this county, would enter the race for the Congressional nomination from this District; but we have authority to give the rumor an unequivocal contradiction. Mr. Massey does not now, nor has he at anv time, entertained any idea of seeking tho nomination. In this connection, replying to the intimation of our Rock I Till correspondent, in Iiis letter published to-day, relative to the rumored candidacy of Mr. Massey, and also of Col. W. B. Wilson, we have only to say that while the above denial as to M r. Massey may be regarded as ex cathedra, we had no less authority for the omission of Col. Wilson's name from the paragraph printed last week. Col. Wilson has received several solicitations to become a candidate for the nomination, but he has not entered the race as have Col. Coward and (Jen. Law, and he is not a candidate % 7 % in the sense that these gentlemen are. As we understand his position, while he does not propose to enter the field in a contest for tho nomination, yet should it bo tendered him he will not declimj. ( K CIRCUIT COURT. Thfli slimmer term of the Circuit Court for York county will convene on the tirst Monday, fitli day of July next, his Honor Judge Fraser to preside. With the exception of the First Circuit, the Summer terms of the Circuit Courts in this State are devoted only to Sessions business, and as tho outlook now indicates a light | Sessions docket iit the approaching court, tho term will probably be short. On Tuesday last the following petit jurors were drawn in accordance with tho provisions of tho law : F. M.Walker, King's Mountain; W.T. Smith, W. G. Palmer, II. 10. Wilkcrson, Jolm L. Raiticy, (J. L. McNeel, Bullock's Creek; J. J. Roach, John Shillinglaw, F. I'. (iiles, A. 10. Smith, R. II. Cornwell, Catawba; W. J. Love, R. T. Castles, Broad River ; C. C. Webber, J. R. Heland, L. M. Hardin, J. F. Williams, J. W. Black, G. W. Foster, Cherokee; R.J. Davis, W. 10. Patrick, J. R. Long, Bethel; James 11 Hoy, 10. A. I Crawford, John L. Starr, J. F. Isom, J. H.Steele, J. Frank Moore, Bethesda; J. L. Kimbrell, Fort Mill; \V. J. Faris, M. R. Kec, Ebenezer ; W. I,, Goforth, W. W. Jenkins, J. C. Jackson, Merrit Whit, A. K. Carroll, York. U. S DISTRICT JUDGE. In the latter part of last week a petition was ' signed by the members of the Yorkvillc bar asking the appointment of Colonel Charles 11. Simonton, of Charleston, as Judge of tlie United | States District Court, in this State in case a va- I canoy should occur by the retirement of Judge I Bryan ; and a paper is now here emanating from | the Newberry bar, soliciting the signatures of ; the legal profession recommending to the position J. F. J. Caldwell, Esq., of Xewberrv. As to tho probable retirement of Judge Bryan the ! Greenville Xeirs, alluding to the circulation in ; that city of Col Simonton's petition, says: "Among the signers was Isaac M. Bryan, son of Judge Bryan, the present occupant of the place for which Col. Simonton is recommended. This fact taken in connection with the other one that Judge Bryan's sons in Charleston and many of his warmest friends signed the paper, seem to indicate clearlv that the Judge intends to retire front the bench and has let his purpose l>o known. Under the law he can be retired on his own request at full pay for the remainder of his life. It is generally believed among those in a position to know "something of the matter that Judge Bryan will retire and that Col. Simonton will succeed him. Senator Butler and Representative Dibble are said to favor Col. Simonton's appointment." MOIll'] BASK BALL. On last Wednesday afternoon the Heavy Batters and Cadets again met on the ground of the latter. A heavy rain commenced soon after the beginning of the game, and the players were forced to retire. Immediately after the rain had subsided, however, the respective nines resumed their places and continued the contest under difficulties. After three balls had been j batted to pieces, the game was called at the close, of the .Stli inning, the score standing ">7 to 41? tallies in favor of the Cadets. On Friday afternoon a hotly contested game took place between the Cadets and Light Weights. Numerous spectators gathered on the ground to witness the result, and the contest proved a very interesting one. During the lirst inning only one run was made, and that by the Cadets. In the third inning, however, the Light Weights secured a slight advantage, which they maintained until near the close of the game. When the Cadets took the bat for the last time they were thirteen tallies behind. This number they steadily diminished, but when the tie was reached two outs had been recorded against them, and the winning run was scored only by a close shave. In the following table the figures in the first column represent the number of runs made by each player, the next left on base, and the third shows how many times each were put out: CADET NINE. LIOHT WEtr.llTS. R. I.. II. P.O. R. I.. R. P.O. Levi If 4 2 a Gist r f 4 0 6 llrntton p 7 1 2 E. Hart .')li .... 7 0 3 Scovillc s ? ... !i 1 3 Law c 8 (I 2 Muckenfus.s 2liI 4 Dolison p 4 I .7 Garrett lb "> 0 4 Kuykenilal s s 7 0 4 I 4 McElwee c f... 4 2 4 Bailey rf C 1 2 F. Hart I f.;... 4 1 1 Dunbar c .7 I) 4 Moore 2b 7 1 1 llannaiin e f... 8 I U O'Lenry lb.... 3 4 2 Total 42 8 26' Total 48 12 27 Messrs. Dunbar and Garrett, Kuykendal and O'Deary, deserve special mention as the best batters on their respective sides. Mr. Law received a nice boquet for his work behind the bat, and Mr. Frank Hart should have had two for as many splendid catches in the left field. Mr. McCaw, manager of the Light Weights, was ruled out on the ground that the Cadets had no tenth man to manage for them. The umpiring was done by Mr. R. Smith. His decisions were positive and impartial. At the close of the game the umpire was borne oil' the field by the enthusiastic victors. The Light Weights and dispersing spectators joined in the Cheers, and so ended the most interesting contest of the kind it has liecn our pleasure to witness for many a day. THE BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL. The exercises in the Baptist Church on Sun clay afternoon last, by tne pastor ana leacners anil pupils of the Sunday-school, were of a very interesting nature, and were witnessed and enjoyed by a largo concourse. The occasion was known as "Children's Day," and was a celebration in honor of the Sunday-school and missions cause, consisting of music and recitations by the children of the'Sunday-school and appropriate religious observances by the pastor. The church was most elaborately and very tastefully decorated with evergreens and llowers?in this respect excelling any previous lloral decorations wo have yet seen in Yorkville. In the vestibule was the inscription, "Welcome All," and on the wall in rear of the pulpit, wrought in evergreen, were the words, "Rescue the Perishing." The | music was well rendered, Miss Mary Ellen Ferguson presiding at the organ, and the recitations I were delivered almost without fault in either pronunciation or enunciation. The following is the programme: Voluntary?Pi'aisejo the King of Kings...School. Invocation, Pastor. Scripture selection?I John, J: 1?3; 14?24? Superintendent Sunday-school. Singing?Around the Throne of Heaven...School. Prayer, Pastor. Singing?Children's Day Hymn, School. Responsive Reading .. School. Singing?Jesus loves the little Children,... School. Recitations?Our Children's Day, Miss Virgie I'crgiison; u lairuer m uiu nuns unu Flowers, Miss Mamie Low ranee ; Tlie Worship of the Flowers, Miss Jessie Grist. Singing?Jesus is All in All, ..School. Recitations?God is in Heaven?Miss Fannio Grist, with Truman <irist, Lewis Ferguson, Miss Maggie Ferguson and Miss Lillian Covington; Little Temples?Miss Ida Ferguson; Jesus Loves Me?with Chorus between?Clarence Lowrance, Albert Crist and Truman CristFollowed by "What Will You Give?'' Miss Jessie Crist, Miss Allie Grist, Miss Janie Grist, Miss Mamie Lowrance, Miss Yirgie Ferguson and Miss Ida Ferguson. Singing?Good News Comes O'er theSea...School. Recitation?Our Privilege, Miss llaity Ferguson. Singing?Wonderful Words of Life School. Address?Sunday-school and Missionary Work of our Publication Society, Pastor. Singing?I Want to be a Worker l'or the Lord, Sclfool. Collection. Singing?Doxology. Henediction The address by the pastor, Rev. J. E. Covington, of which the following is a brief synopsis, was an interesting review of the work accomplished by the Haptist Publication Society since its organization sixty-one years ago. He said; In the year 1S24, eighteen men and seven women, met at a private house in the City of Washington agreeably to a call issued by leading men of the Baptist denomination, and entered into the organization of the Baptist General Tract Societv. now the American Bantist Pub Mention Society. After a trial of two* years the society transferred its headquarters to Philadelphia in order to secure better facilities for the accomplishment of its work. For the first sixteen vcarsof its existence, it confined itself to the publication oftracts, which have been scattered over the length and breadth of our land, and also in Germany, Sweden and France. In 1840, it commenced the publication of hound volumes and Sunday-school periodicals, when it changed its name to the one it now bears. Later on it added a Bible department, and now from its plates are issued yearly, thousands ofeopies of God's Word in most of the languages of the world. In 1850 it first purchased a home of its own on Arch street at a cost of $20,000, hut its rapidly increasing business soon demanded still more ample accommodations, and in 1870 it entered, free of debt, one of the finest stores in the world, at a cost of over $258,000. The capital of the society is embodied mainly in trust funds invested in the business of the Society, with the condition that the interest front time to time should be appropriated forever to the gratuitous distribution of books and tracts. There are now in possession of the Society sixtyone of these trust funds, varying in amounts front twenty-live dollars to fifty thousand dollars, amounting in the aggregate to $.">51,501.28. The total amount already received from the invested funds and expended in grants of books and tracts is $145,452.18. The present annual income to becxpended in this way isabout $12,000. The Society conducts three kinds of distinct Missionary work. 1. Circulation of the Bible among the destitute poor. It is stated by those who ought to know that there are at least eight millions in our own favored land who are without the Bible. To assist in supplying this destitution is a part of the society's mission work. Every warm hearted Christian must want a share in it. During the last five years, ending April, 1885, the Society has given 554,8?f5?an average of 182 per day?of these perishing ones, a copy of the Bible or Testament, at a cost of $5!),21*2.78. 2nd. Another kind of missionary work is Christian colportage. The colporteur is a pioneer missionary?a sort of forerunner of pastors, and besides the distribution of books he preaches in private families when opportunity oilers. 5rd. Perhaps the greatest feature of the missionary department is its Sunday-school \ work. Distinct agents are appointed for this, | audit is now the aim of the society to place in every State and Territory of the Fnited States, [ a first class Sunday-school missionary. The So-; cietv's Sunday-school missionaries and colpor-1 teurs have organized (5,5!>5?an average of 555 per year. Last year they organized 4(52 schools. Since the organization of the Society, it has I f distributed two hundred and seventy-nine millions of tracts and books. If all it has published had been put in book form, it would have made over eighteen millions of books costing $1.0o each. During the sixty-one years of its existence, it has aided ministers with grants of books for their libraries ; in like manner it has aided 11,800 Sunday-schools. The total receipts for all purposes the firstyear, were $.'173.80. TheOlst year itamountedto$oll<),8!)8. The population of the United States has doubled in about every thirty years. The membership of the Baptist denomination has doubled in every twenty years. Hut the receipts oftheSociety have not simply doubled, but increased more than live times in the last twenty years. Ami the publications of the society during the same time have increased more than ten-fold. Closing, he said, the future of this great society is with God and the denomination it represents. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM ROCK HILL. Rock Hill, June 14.?On last Friday night the citizens of our town were highly entertained by an amateur company from Chester, composed of young ladies and gentlemen of that town, under the management of Mrs. K. L. Murray. The entertain""C/-./1 /\ t' 4U A aa MIn 4A U Vnit? VAOI?JO I lit* lib cuusimcu Ui Hit? tanuua, ixzai o Eve," and vocal and instrumental music. It was enjoyed very much by those present. I trust that our talented neighbors may see proper to visit us again. Capt. Iredell Jones informs me that his card to "The Voters of York County" meets with approval on all sides, and that he is very much encouraged by the succe&s of the movement. Steps are being taken at several precincts to organize clubs in accordance with the spirit of the card. Rev. J. M. Boyd, former pastor of the M. E. Church of this place, and now presiding elder of the Marion district, paid a short visit to our town last week. lie was welcomed by a large number of friends. ^Lillie, the only child of Mr. Robert Frfew, uted on Tuesday last, aged two years and six months. The death of little Lillie was certainly a sad one, especially to the distressed father, who was so recently called upon by the angel of Death to give up wife, mother and sister. In his sad affliction he. has the heartfelt sympathy of our entire community, as was attested by the large concourse of friends who assembled at Laurelwood Cemetery on Wednesday afternoon to lay her at rest. VMr. J. D. Heath died yesterday morning of typhoid dysentery at the residence of his sister, Mrs. Blake, on Hampton street, aged 34 years. He was buried in Laurelwood Cemetery this morning. It seems that our town has been sadly afflicted this year. During the year 188") there- were twelve interments in Laurelwood Cemetery, and up to the present time this year, not yet half closed, there have been twelve. I have been informed by a gentleman of this place who recently paid a visit to Lancaster, that it is rumored in that town that Hon. B. II. Massey, of Fort Mill, will be a candidate for Congress. I also notice that the Enquirer failed to mention, in the last issue the name of Col. W. B. Wilson, of Yorkville, as one of the candidates, as his friends have brought him forward, and it is generally understood here that he is a candidate. Our farmers are busy harvesting their oat crop and killing grass. The early peach crop, which was so prom- " ising a few weeks ago, is almost a total failure, caused by the fruit rotting. IIal. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? William Ramsey, colored, has been convicted of manslaughter for stabbing to death Robert Ford, colored, near Walterboro. ? The recent term of Berkeley Sessions Court, Judge Witherspoon presiding, contributed eleven colored convicts to the penitentiary. ? An Irishman arrested at Ridge Spring for refusingto work theroads claims British protection, and has appealed to the British Consul at Charleston. ? Col. Christopher F. Hampton, a younger brother of Senator Hampton, died in Columbia on Tuesday of last week after a long illness. He was sixty-two years old. ? United States Commissioner Obear, of Winnsboro, has committed Sam Barber to jail so that the United States Court can handle him for passing counterfeit Bland dollars. ,fT ? A mad dog was killed a few days ago in Manning after having run through the flrnii/rli imanln'c linncaq iumn LWYYU) gWIUg HUWU^Il O I1VUOW) JUUI|Jing from house tops and generally terrorizing the community. ? Newberry News: About a month ago Mrs. McKensie was severely bitten on the hand by a strange cat. She has been gradually getting worse ever since. It was not a ease of hydrophobia at lirst. ? Mr. J. If. Ezell, of Spartanburg, was sawing a pine tree, !)2 inches through, cut from the C'owpens battle field and his saw cut through a musket ball, which was evidently used in that battle. ? Mr. Marshall Amaker, who has been confined in jail at Orangeburg for some time on the charge of murder, has been admitted to bail by Judge Witherspoon. The bond for $o,000 was signed by his four brothers. ? Joe Brown, white, formerly a citizen of Newberry county, was killed on the 8th of May last, near Gallatin, Tennessee, by being shot in the breast four times by John anil James Dunham, with whom he was drinking and playing cards. ? Lancaster Ledger, 9th : During the big rain on last Sunday hundreds of little fishes and coutersfell in the neighborhood of this place. More than a dozen were picked up in Main street just after the rain. Some of ofi 11 11 itl nn* 111UU1 ?UIC Ollll IIVJU^, ? Considerable excitement prevails in the neighborhood of Hunter's Chapel, near Bamberg, over the cowhiding of Mr. John Studley by Messrs. W. T. Connelly and A. L. Ott. Studley had been circulating sto- % ries about Connelly's sister. ? An Abbeville negro boy a few days ago was out minding a cow. lie tied the rope around his body and sat down to play. The cow suddenly started home on a run and dragged the boy with her. His leg and several ribs were broken. ? S. Outzs, a young farmer, committed "V suicide by hanging, near Meeting Street, Edgefield county, on Tuesday. He was working in the field with some hands, and having quarreled with some of them went into the woods near by and hung himself in a tree. ? C. A. Price, express messenger, who was wounded in the accident on the Santee River trestle, died on Tuesday, making the seventh death by the disaster. The verdict of the coroner's jury was to the eft'ect that the accident occurred from unknown causes. It is estimated that the wreck will cost the ' " Northeastern Railroad Company SCO,000. ? Mr. Sam Williamson, living three miles from Greenville, on Wednesday last unearthed a pot on his place containing over $3,000. During the war the place was owned by an aged bachelor refugee from Charleston, and it is said that he told people in the neighborhood that he had his money buried. He died and his body lies buried on the r\ 1 a nn ? Winnsboro Xeirs, Thursday: The Rev. J. P. Marion, who has acceptably served the good people of Iloreb and Salem Presbyterian churches for several years past, as pastor, has accepted a call for his services from the Presbyterian church at Lancaster. ^ . At a special meeting of Bethel Presbytery held at Winnsboro on Monday last, the pastoral relations heretofore existing between him and his people were dissolved. ? Lancaster Ledger, 9th: Two Mormon preachers made their appearance at a country church eleven miles above here on last preaching day and asked to be allowed to address the congregation. Itev. Mr. McGIenden moved that the congregation be dismissed, which motion was carried. The ladies and many ot the men went home, but a few men remained to lecture the Mormons. The Mormons con- * eluded that they were in the wrong pew and did not tarry long. ? Albert Hamlin, white, was shot and seriously wounded by James Nelson at the latter's house, four and a half miles below Bel ton, Anderson county, last Wednesday. It is said that Hamlin had been ^ on intimate terms with Nelson's sister and went to Nelson's house to see her, being accompanied by four other men. Nelson objected to the visit and some shooting was done in which both parties participated. Kach accuses the other of shooting first. The result was that Hamlin was struck in t one shoulder by the load from a double barrelled gun and very severely wounded. All the parties have been bound over to Court.