Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, March 02, 1887, Image 2

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Scraps and Jatis. I ? Charles H. Page, who has just been ^ elected to Congress from Rhode Island, is i the first Democratic Congressman from that ? State for many years. His election was a ~ great surprise to the Republicans, and it is i said they are much disconcerted. ? The Senate of Texas has passed the prohibitory amendment to the constitution, which will be submitted to the people for ratification at the general election to be held for that purpose on the first Thursday of August hext. ? It is said that St. Louis has the politest lawye* in the country. A long and terrifflc roll of thunder having stopped him in the midst of an address to the jury, on resuming he bowed and courteously said: "Gentle- ; men, please excuse this interruption." ? All the ice that is used in Mexico comes Trom the top of Popocatapel; it is brought down the mountain on the backs of the J It _f i 11 XI irv natives, ana taea sixty mnes on tne cars iu ; the city, where it is sold at wholesale for ten cents a pound. ? The value of the cotton plant, great as t is acknowledged by all to be, seems to lave the possibility of being increased, since t has lately been discovered that the bark >f the root contains what promises to be an available coloring matter. ?.Dr. Hainswald, the African traveler, ays that in Zululand he met the savage pho killed the French Prince Imperial, and old him that if he had only taken the roung man prisoner he might have got a arge ransom, whereupon the Zulu wept pith regretand grief. ? The New York World, using the life * nsurance tables as a basis of calculation, has igured out that the late dependent pension >111, if passed, would have required $15,840,100 per year, or a total of $253,584,000 to lave met the claims of the pensioners from 7ew York State alone. During the war 67.000 men from New York were on duty, urn 421,000 survived. ? A Chattanooga dispatch of Briday says: y ENventy-flve Mormon elders are in Chatta- i looga and will start for various parts to en- t fage in their proselyting work. There are f low more than one hundred missionaries a n the South. Elder John Morgan, in iharge of the Southern head-quarters, says I hat there is a greater demand for elders i han can be supplied. The semi-annual de- i tarture of converts takes place in March J ind many hundreds will leave their homes, i -rpeunuo Caulker, a full-blooded African, 1 pro is a prince in his own country, Sherbio, , t country neat Sierra Leone, sailed for home . W>m New York Tuesday last with a wife : >f his own color, a native of Dayton, Ohio, laulker was sent over to this country six rears ago by a board of missions to be edu- . ated in the Christian faith. During his ab- F ence his people have been ruled over by J lis uncle, nis rather, the king, having diea. . Ie has learned the printing trade, and will ? rablish a paper in his native tongue when ? ie gets back home. j ? The House of Representatives of Tenlessee, on Friday, by a party vote, passed \ he bill to increase the pension of soldiers <j if Tennessee who lost the use of both eyes t >r both legs or both arms in the late war, ^ kom $10 to $25 per month. The bill pro- ] rides that the pension shall be allowed to c Confederate soldiers and to Federal soldiers r lot pensioned by the United States Gov- t irnraent. Objection was made to the meas- 2 ire by the Republicans on the ground that c t recognized rebellion, and was, therefore, t inoonstitutional. The bill passed by a vote ? >f 57 to 24. ? The report of the director of the mint J hows a marked increase in the production c >f the precious metals for the year 1886 over > bat or 1885. The gold output increased ^ torn $31,800,000 to $35,000,000 and the silver e traduction from $48,800,000 to $49,895,930. < Che total output of the two metals is $85,- c 00,000, or more than five millions greater han the production of any former year in < he history of the country. The gratifying j ncrease in the gold product is due chiefly :o improved methods of raining in Califor- 1 lia and to the development of the newly ^ liscovered gold fields in Alaska. ^? * ? The trial of H. Dodson, of AugugfaTKy., 1 tharged with being a vagrant, came off last reek before Judge George L. Bradford and ! t jury. The jury, after hearing all the evi- ' lence, returned a verdict of guilty and orlered him sold to the highest bidder at >ublic auction for a period of seventy-five lays. Judge Bradford has fixed March 5th is the day of sale. This is the first case of < he kind that has occurred in that part of c Kentucky for a great many years, ana much j nterest was manifested. The proof showed [)odson to be a worthless, insolent vaga- ( >ond, who lived in a state of filth and mis- ( >ry. He was very cruel to his family. t ? The Vermont Railroad Commissioners ? lave completed their investigation of the ? ?cent terrible accident on the Central Ver- e nont Railroad, by which thirty lives were i ost, and in their, report, say that up to the ' ime the accident occurred the train was t an with due and proper care. The de- ? ailment and its attendant horrors were due i >rimarily to the breaking of a rail, and c hen to the giving way of the central jour- j ml on the forward trucks of the sleeper f Pilgrim," the latter mishap being due I loubtless to a violent collision with the ? iroken rail. The Board finds that the de- t bet in the rail was of a character that could t lot have been detected until the accident i wcurred, and thus exonerates the company > ,nd its employes from all blame on account ( if the accident. i ? I c fA steamer which arrived at San Francis- : >n Friday from Honolula brings full parilare of the great lava flow from Mauna i. The sight is described as magnificent ond description. The column of fire was t observed from the summit of the crater the night of January 16. The fire died rn before midnight, but great volcanic nrbances continued up to the night of 18th, when fire and lava again burst h from the mountain side. The length he flow is estimated at twenty miles, s distance the lava accomplished in two s, spreading as it descended, reaching sea on the evening of January 20. The am of lava continued to flow without rruption until the 20th, when a river of burst forth, following the line of lava '. When the fires flamed out the heavy hquakes ceased, although slight tremors , e felt at intervals thereafter. The weather in the North and Northt continues unprecedentedly severe. A atch of Friday from St. Johnsbury, mont, says: The blockade on the railis in this section is the worst this season, ird wind has prevailed all night. The I train West on the Boston and Lowell d reached here at 9 o'clock last night, is still here, waiting for the road to be ed. It is said there is fifteen miles of ' West of here upon which the snow is i five to twenty feet deep. The high3 of the hills are nearly impassable. A /\f oo mo rloto CQ ? IUJIllU^lUll UlSpniV/II Ui VU^ otkuiv uivw wwj w* 2 other blizzard is blowing in Dakota, and rthern Pacific passenger trains are snow- t in near Sentinel Butte. Still another p izard is reported from Northern New a rk and New England. New England ! t ecially is dotted all over with snow- f nd trains, and in Maine, Northern Verit and New Hampshire railroad traffic j 8 been practically suspended since last t bt by the heavy snow, fierce winds and ; a zing weather. j c The Riviera, the scene of the earth- j rJ kes in Europe, consists of the land along c coast of Italy around and either side of : c Gulf of Genoa. It is divided into two t s, that on the west being called Riviera j 'onente, and that on the east the Riviera i Levante. The Appenines lie to the ! t hward and eastward of this tract, which j i inious throughout the civilized world t t delightful climate. Here are situated ^ e of the most celebrated watering places j. i Europe. Among them are the noted i laca, Nice, Canness and Bordighera, i 1 le places of less note are Ventimiglia, 1 >na, Mentone, San Remo and Oneglia. j i these towns are in the Riviera di Pon- ! ( . Genoa is at the top of the Gulf, and ; * two rivers meet there. In the eastern, c tiviera di Levante, are Chiavari, Le- ] ;o, Massa and Soezia, while at its south- j jrly extremity the Arno flows into the \ irian Sea. Some of the other places ] tioned, such as Pavia, lie to the north-1 1 1 of the Appenines in the direction of; i in, and are not, strictly speaking, in the ] iera. The Riviera di Ponente was once I I araous in the history of posting, but sinci ;he building of the railway few travel bj :arriage. Some persons still prefer th< oad along the Cornicho. The portion near ?t Nice is one of the most beautiful drive n Italy or France. Ike f ttrfcrille (jjtaqpim. YORKVILLE^S^C.^ ' ~ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1887. SATURDAY S STORM. The storm which appeared so threaten ng at Yorkville on Saturday afternoon evi lently spent its fury in Georgia as the fol owing special dispatch from Eaton ton, t< he Augusta Chronicle shows: One of the most destructive cyclones tha las visited Eatonton in several years, struct he edge of this place this evening abou t.30 o'clock. It came from a southwesterly lirection, moving to the northeast and pass id directly over the city, but in the air Ys far as can be learned of the damage dou< n and around the city it is about as fol ows: Col. B. F. Adams' residence was very >adly damaged aud the family barely es taped with their lives. His loss is very leavy. Willis Marshal, an old and respect id colored blacksmith, was killed in hii hop by timbers falling on him, crushing lis skull and killing him instantly. Th< nale academy was lifted from its founda ions and ruined. Fortunately there wai io one in it. Nearly twenty houses 11 vestern and northern Eatonton sufferec nore or less. The cyclone passed in nearly he same pftth as the one of '84. It is im >ossible to estimate yet the amount of dam !ge done, but it is very great. Richard Trippe, colored, on John Wright'! ilantation had an arm dislocated by a fall ng timber. Beverly Harris was severely njured. A large piece of timber from Col Adams' house, was blown through J. C Ulen's residence. There is slight damag< n the northern part of the town. Fencing md shade trees are totally destroyed Nearly all the property that was damagec n the storm of 1884 was again damaged bj he storm last Saturday. After the cyclone of 1884 spread so much lestruction, insurance agents representing various companies circulated at Eatontoi md interested several of the citizens in the advisability of carrying cyclone insurance ?n their property. Several gentlemen cared at the time, took out these policies md much of the wrecked property have the osses fully covered. The dispatch continues: Negroes are com ng in from the country telling of terribh lestruction and complete demoralization bj he cyclone. They report a narrow path it vhich the work of the wind was disastrous Prom their wild sayings nothing authenti* an he gleaned, but they report that a far ner was killed about six miles from Eaton on. It seems that the blizzard had a zigaig, up and down movement, touching the ground for two or three hundred yards hen rising again?descending to the eartl ind again rising. Immediately after the visit, the scene ai Satonton was fearful to contemplate. Thi :yclone came unheralded, save by a higl vind and threatening clouds, and its worl vas quick. Flying timbers, clouds of leaves >tc., filled the air, which, added to shriek: )f terrified and injured ones, created a stat< >f affairs terrible indeed. A later dispatch to the Chronicle saystha >nly one fatality, so far as known, occcured hat of Willis Marshall, a negro blacksmith rhe storm originated about three mile: .vest of Eatonton. The path of the cyclon* vas very narrow, being about fifty or sev mty-flve yards. Very little rain accom janied it. In this State the storm was quite sever* it Spartanburg and at Woodruff in Spar anburg county, though no damage wa: lone at either place. mun nvnmvvn inti EiAriiu.w IAMWHEIBO. A Washington dispatch of Sunday thu: jutlines the work of the few remaining lays of the present Congress, which ex liresby limitation next Friday: During the days and nights of the fractior )f a week remaining to the present sessior )f Congress the Senate will give instant at ;ention to conference reports and genera ippropriation bills whenever any of their ihall make their appearance, and ever} jffort will be put forth to finish the necessa y legislation before next Friday noon rhe members of the appropriation commit ee, upon whom the hardest work devolves ire divided in opinion respecting their abil ty and that of the Senate to creditably ac :omplish all that is expected, but the ma ority hope that, barring accidents and wil ul acts of obstruction, it may still be fount jossible to avoid the necessity for a called lession of the 50th Congress. Xp this enc he right of the Seuate and of its committee! o an opportunity for deliberation upon im jortant matters not yet brought before il vill be waived, and the Senate, as it has lone in previous instances of backward less, will content itself, under protest, with iuch amendments to House legislation a! t can secure in hastv conferences, takinc nuch forgranted and trusting much to luck To print and thoroughly examine the naval egislative, deficiency and fortification ap >ropriation bills, in their several ordinary itages through the Senate up to the point o inal action, would require almost as tnan.v veeksas there remain days of the preseiii iession. Miscellaneous subjects of legislation .vhich will probably fill up the spare mo nents, are put down in the caucus pro gramme as follows: Labor arbitration bill and grant'forfeiture bills, bill relating tc ottery advertisements parsing through the nails, bills to quiet land titles, Des Moines and grant bill, bill authorizing suits againsl he United States, bills for adjudication ol >rivate land claims in certain States and territories, bill for a monument to colored ioldiers, the Joseph Francis resolution, bill o reimburse Virginia and other States theii sxpenses in the war of 1812, and the interlational copyright bill. Senator Miller called up the House Pleu o-Pneumonia bill (the pending questior >eing the motion to reconsider the vote by vhich the Edmundssubstitute was adopted/ VIr. Ingalls will seek an opportunity to call lp for action the bill repealing limitation o the Arrears of Pensions act; and Mr, Cran Wyck will askUie Senate to pass the >ill relating to the disposal of the abandonid military reservations under the home,tead law. A contest is pending in secret session ovei he nomination of Public Printer Benedict, ind the British extradition treaty remains imong the unfinished matters on the execuive calendar, but it is not likely to be urther pressed for action this session. In the House the programme is to push ippropriation bills to completion by giving Lni -? iA??A^inrl nn r>c\ swrrxy oil B Ar l\noi nnoc iiuiii V/VtUV 11V.& V/? Vi (11A UbllV.1 UUPU1VOO ind little general legislation is expected luring the remaining days of the session The legislative appropriation bill will agair iccupy the attention of the House on Mon lay and will be followed by the deficiency >ill, which is to be put through under sus> lension of the rules. During the four leg slative days remaining it will be in ordei o pass any measure by a two-thirds vote inder suspension of the rules. Looking tc his last chance, members who are charger ,vith the management of important meas ires?such as the Pacific ltailroad inquiry esolution, the department of agriculture lill, pleuro-pneumonia bill and educationa )ill?will make every effort to secure recog lition by the Speaker, in order to get a vote in their bills. Some?a very few?of these efforts may succeed, but in most cases al rhance for legislation will be cut off by the rtesentation and discussion of conference eports and other privileged matters. It i; mderstood that no attempt will be made te aass the fortification appropriation hill fo :his year, that for last year, which is nov n conference, being intended to cover the remainder of the current term and the nex [iscal year. 3 - A WOMAN HANGED. i Mrs. ltoxalanna Druse was hanged at 3 Herkimer, N. Y., at 12 M., last Monday for - the murder of her husband on the morning s of December 18, 1881. William Druse, the murdered husband, treated his family ? very badly, and it was shown on the trial that Mrs. Druse was by no means a woman > of bad disposition. It would seem from all that is known that the woman did about all she could to keep her family together and a roof over their heads, for the burden 01 tne work fell upon her. Druse mortgaged his farm again and again and squandered the money. He would go away and be gone for weeks, leaving his family without food or fuel, and his wife had to chop wood and dig frozen potatoes from the ground in which Druse had buried them as they were dug. The nearest neighbor was Charles . Gates, half a mile away. He had married " Mrs. Druse's sister and had two sons, Chester and Ffenk. It was several days after Druse was missing before an investigation was made. Then Frank Gates told the whole story. - He had spent the night of the 17th with George Druse. He was the first one to - get up in the morning, and he lighted the . fire in the kitchen stove. Druse then got up and came into the kitchen in his usual hasty temper, and grumbled because there } was not a warmer fire. He then went muttering off" to the barn to do the "chores." t When Druse came back from the barn [ Mary Druse and her mother had come into t the kitchen. Druse at once commenced ' abusing them, taking as his text the size of a grocer's bill which had been augmented by his own purchases of tobacco. Over this and over a threshing board which had been cut up he stormed and swore like a madman. Druse at last sat down to his breakfast still swearing and the quarrel oUll ramnrr furinnslv Ilia wife Onfl Hnncrh f OV1U X Uf, lug JIU* 1UUUIJ J iiik> f( V...V. J_, - ter retorting to his abuse. During the 3 height of the battle of words, Frank says, I Mrs. Druse whispered to him and to George j Druse to go out doors. They did so, and a - few minutes later heard a pistol shot. 3 They started to go into the house, and as i they reached the door Mrs. Druse, in a state 1 of great agitation, flung it wide open. She r held a pistol in her hand, which she shoved - at Frank Gates, saying: "Shoot him ; I can't make the pistol go off. Shoot him, or I will shoot you." 3 Farmer Druse was then sitting in an ob scure corner of the room on a chair. Blood t was flowing from a wound in his neck, and . about his neck there was also a rope tightly . drawn, to the end of which Mary, Druse's i daughter was holding with with allstrength. ; Druse was struggling feebly. Frank took . the pistol from Mrs. Druse and fired it at I Druse until it was empty. Mary then took 7 the pistol and tried to reload it, but a cartridge exploded and narrowly escaped i wounding her. r Druse, when his daughter let go of the i rope, fell to the floor with his head toward ) the hearth. He was still living and coni scious. His wife seemed to be in a state of , frenzy, with all the concentrated hate gath, ered from years of abuse fully let loose. As ) her husband fell she seized an axe and raised it aloft. Druse, lying on the floor, saw her - and fully realized her intention, for he } moaned out feebly : 7 "Don't, Roxey; don't." i Mrs. Druse hit him a sickening blow on . the head with the axe. It killed him as he j lay. She then nacaea away at me ueau - man's neck with the dull-edged axe until - the head was severed from the body. The mother and daughter then secreted 3 the headles? body in the house, chopped it , to pieces, boiled the flesh from the bones, i concealing in a swamp near by such evidences of the murder as they could not t destroy. 3 After detection, the daughter pleaded 1 guilty and was sentenced to the Onondac ga penitentiary for lile. A strong effort , was made for the mother; and after her 3 case had gone adversely through all the 3 tribunals the Governor declined to interfere though thousands of messages and petit tions were sent to him, praying executive , clemency. On Saturday Mrs. Druse made her will, 3 bequeathing her body to her clergyman 3 and her cabinet organ to her daughter - Mary, now in the penitentiary. A service - was held in her ceil on Sunday night, and the usual religious services were conducted 3 on the scaffold. Mrs. Druse wore a simple - black dress which was made for the occa3 sion. Only the small number of persons allowed by law witnessed the execution. THE QUIVERING EART1'. 3 On Wednesday morning last i) severe > earthquake occurred in Southern Europe, by which the loss of life and destruction ol , property were terrible. The most startling i news comes from the Genoese Itiviera. i Over fifteen hundred people were killed in - that district. At the village of Bajardo, I situated at the top of a hill, a number of i inhabitants took refuge in a church when r the shocks were first felt. The subsequent - and greater shocks demolished the church, . and three hundred of the people who were - in it were killed. The destruction of prop, erty in the section of Italy visited by the - earthquakes was immense and widespread. The total number of deaths reported up to - the present time is about two thousand. - Shocks were felt at Parma, Turin and Corol neza. Undulations of the earth were nol ticed at Catania, in Sicily, at the foot of I Mount -Etna. 3 A London dispatch of Thursday says: Further news concerning the earthquakes t in Southm Europe yesterday state that, 3 although there have been no further shocks - at Nice the panic has not subsided. Fugin J? i.;? i tives are neeing in every uirccuou. x euuie 5 are afraid to re-enter their houses and no: tels, and last, evening the heights back of . the city were crowded with refugees. Two , thousand English, American and Russian visitors were camped out during the night ' on elevated ground. Six thousand persons f have left the city and started for Paris. A ' son of Mr. Albert N. Hatheway, American t consul at Nice, was seriously injured. There have been no further disturbances at , Monte Carlo. The place is filled with thou sands of refugees from Cannes, Nice, Men ton and San Relo. It is difficult to find , shelter for the great number of people com> ; pelled to camp out. A more confident feel! : iug prevails to-day. Gaming has been suss pended and the band is playing on the t terrace for the purpose of restoring confif dence to the frightened people. 1 Another shock was felt at Menton on 1 Thursday. It was so severe that the hous1 es were shaken. No one was injured. Adr ditional details concerning damage done by yesterday's shock show that in some cases villages built on mountain sides were top pled into valleys. Three railway trains i were despatched with food for the sufferers. ' A number of soldiers were also sent to assist ) then*. I On Thursday there was a renewal of the i earthquake shocks in the southern section , of France, and terror yet prevails. Nice, i Cannes and Menton are half deserted. AI though the earthquake was much less seri ous in France than in Italy, the panic here has been excessive. The people are de pressed by the carnival dissipations, and , | their imaginations have painted the event ?!:?-* VvArKitnnf rntoc t > I ill hie uaincov vuiui.ji aj.wiMiiiuiv iuwu i**v charged forall conveyances. There is a crush ! i of visitors who desire to leave, fearing the renewal of the shocks. To-night nobody i dares to sleep in the houses. Wagons, car; riages, ships' cabins and all other available , conveniences have been seized at high prices, i the owners camping out. The streets are . filled with people carrying bedding. Visii tors have deserted the hotels and are sit ting in long rows of chairs in the streets. ' There are rumors of enormous damage in - the mountains caused by avalanches set in motion by the shocks. Horses became restr | less and refused to move hours before the , event. Sorgue's River, fed by Petrarch's ) Fountain, suddenly overflowed, but soon 1 subsided. Two slight shocks were felt at Nice and r Cannes on Thursday, but no injury was ) caused by either. The disturbances killed 1 two persons and injured twenty-three at - Nice ; killed four and injured two at Par; 3 killed two and injured twelve at Pollene. 3 At Chauteau Neuf many were injured. At 1 Savona two houses fell, killing nine per3 sons and injuring fifteen. The whole pop3 ulation of Savona are bivouacked about s town. Fifty persons were injured at Men31 ton and one was killed. r Oscillations of the earth from north to f south were felt throughout Switzerland 3 quite severely. No loss of life is reported, t but much damage was done to property. Later reports from 'Rome give the fol lowing official list of killed and wounded: Bajardo, 300 killed and wounded; Diano Marino, 250 killed and injured ; Bressano, 50 killed and 37 injured; Diano Costello, 30 killed; Castelano, 30 killed and many injured. The number of persons killed is less than was supposed. It is estimated that in the province of Porto Maurizio 570 I were killed and 1*6 injured. In theprov! ince of Genoa 34 were killed and 37 injured. Bajardo and Diano Marino were the only places destroyed. Cervo was only partially damaged. Churches at Bajardo, C'astellano and Aurigo were thrown down by the shock. Great damage was done in the villages around Nice. At Daluis the Church and Drab Castle are in ruins. Montfertunateau, at Culle, is leaning like the far famed Tower of Pisa. A dispatch of Saturday from Rome says: Three more shocks of earthquake were felt at Forli, in the province of Campobasso, yesterday. The bodies of 24 persons who were killed by the earthquake last Wednesday have already been taken from the ruins in Diano Mirano, and it is known that 1G4 are yet under the fallen buildings. Almost the entire population of Diano Mirano are encamped on the seashore. Three hundred communes were visited by the earthquake, and as yet reports of casualties have been received from but sixty. Dispatches of Sunday from Rome say that heartrending details of the disasters are being continually received. The survi vors at Diano Moriano say that the majori ty of victims were killed by the second shock, the people having re-entered their houses to procure clothing. The bodies, wrapped in shrouds, lie in the middle of the streets. Signor Genala, minister of public works, has visited Bajardo jfiad has attended the funeral of 230 victims of the church disaster, who were buried in a common trench in the nrtr*-i TT A nloA tvin/ln nnHnn/yomonto tciiicici nu aiou luauc aiiaiigouivubo ju* a temporary hospital for the injured. Slight oscillations were felt on Saturday at Albenza and Porto Maurizion. lielief committees are being organized throughout the country, but it is impossible to supply the numerous wants. A bill will be introduced in Parliament for a credit of $6,000,000 for relief purposes. San Ramo is deserted. There were 303 persons killed and ISO injured in that town. THE EARTHQUAKE AT HOME. The Charleston JVeios of last Sunday says: A distinct earthquake shock was felt here about 6 o'clock yesterday morning, yet it was not hard enough to arouse many persons who were asleep at that hour. The earthquake is described by those persons who felt it most plainly as a double barreled affair. The "first motion was from west to east, and was followed by a north and south vibration. The disturbance did not last more than five or six seconds. The shock was also felt at Fort Sumter, Mount Pleasant, and a letter from Oakley, Berkeley county, stated that the disturbance was also noticed there, but that it was slight and harmless. A sharp shock, lasting from four to six seconds, from north to south, was felt in Augusta, Ga., at 5: 46 Saturday morning. No damage was done. A few bricks on the high wall of the burnt Globe Hotel were jostled off. The recurrence of these shocks has renewed the fears of many there. Harlem, Thompson and Hollywood, Ga., also report having experienced the disturbance. At 6 o'clock, Saturday morning, a slight earthquake tremor was felt at Savannah. Windows rattled and pictures and articles on mantels were shaken, but no damage was done. The duration of the tremor was about 5 seconds. A sharp shock was also felt in Columbia at 6.03 o'clock, the vibration continuing about 20 seconds. Doors, windows, chan deliers and glassware were rattled in a lively manner, and people were generally 1 awakened from their sleep, though no damage was done. 1 MERE-MENTION. There will be twenty-six hold-over ltepublican Senators and twenty-five hold-over , Democratic Senators when the Senate of the , Fiftieth Congress meets. The oldest exCabinet officer now living is Historian Bancroft, who was President Polk's Secretary of , the Navy forty-two years ago. Governor Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, has issued his proclamation calling for an extra session of the Legislature, to meet at noon on the 16th instant. The West Virginia Legislature adjourned without electing a Senator, and the appointment devolves upon the Governor. On Thursday the Mississippi ltiver bank at Lecta, Miss., caved in and the warehouse and office at the landing went into the river. Other buildings are in danger. Jim Stevens, colored was hanged at Princess Anne, Md., last Friday for criminal assault in October last upon a ' white widow aged 80 years.: There were 186 business failures in the United States last week. The President has decided that he knows of no reason why a special session of the Senate should be called. A citizens' mass meeting was held in New York last Friday night to advocate high license .and the rest riction of the liquor traffic.,**--v>Public sentiment in Chicago is so much against hanging tne anarchists recently convicted there that their sentence will probably be commuted to imprisonment for life. >^he women of Parsons, Kan., held a niMe meeting and jubilee on the 22nd to celebrate the passage of the female municipal woman suffrage bill. They are registering in great numbers. Vive les dames! Joe Glare, a murderer confined in Murray county, Ga;, jail, was released last Saturday night by a gang of fifty masked men. Senator ' Ingalls, Republican, was installed on Saturday as the presiding officer of the Senate. Of seven boys who were walking on the railroad track near Gaston, Penn., on Saturday, six were killed by a passing train. At Richmond, Va., on Wednesday night last, Mrs. A. L. Roth died from the effects of a morphine injection carelessly administered by a drunken physician. The House of Representatives sustained the President's veto of the dependent pension bill by a vote of 180 to 7G. All the South Carolina members voted to sustain the veto. Correspondence for the Yorkville Enquirer. NOTES FROM OLIVE. Olive, Chester county, February 2G.? | For a number of years "after the war," this i section was without convenient postal fa! cilities, -but through-the., efforts of our efficient Congressman, Hon. J. J. Hemphill, j we are again in regular communication I with the outside world. Our postoffice is Olive, and is kept in the same building as was the Sandersville postoftice "before the war." Mr. James A. Sanders, Sr., is our postmaster. The marriage bells have been ringing in our midst and two loving hearts have been made to beat as one. On Wednesday, 23rd instant, ltev. G. A. Blackburn, of McC'onnellsville, united in marriage Mr. Lawson W.Smith, formerly a resident of Yorkville, and Miss Ida Gwin, daughter of Br. T. M. Gwin, of this neighborhood. The wedding was quite an enjoyable affair to all who were present. The couple went through the ordeal of the marriage ceremony in a handsome manner, and the bride looked her lovliest as she stood before the officiati ing minister and took upon herself the solI emn and impressive marriage vows. The costume of the bride was white cashmere, oriental lace and white satin ribbons. Other ladies present were dressed as follows: Miss Sallie Bailey?black cashmere and velvet; Miss Ilattie Kirkpatrick?blue silk and velvet; Miss Jennie Brawley?black silk with beaded front; Miss Lula Trueblack cashmere and velvet; Miss Alice Gwin?black silk and velvet. On the next day after the wedding, the bride and groom, with a few guests, were given a splendid reception at the residence of the groom's uncle, Mr. Jeptha C. McKnight, who, by the way, has recently been tied by the silken bonds of matrimoi nv. Mr. Mclvnight is just now putting the finishing touches on a new dwelling house which will be one of the handsomest and most convenient country residences. for many miles around. The building was erected from plans furnished by Mr. T. Baxter McClain, of Yorkville. The rains in this section have been so excessive that farming operations have been much retarded. Many of our people have not yet finished the sowing of oats, and very little stubble land has been "turned over." Olivk. LOCAL AFFAXH9 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. May it May?Blood and Money. (Fourth pago.) Royal Baking Powder Company, 10(1 Wall St., New York, N. Y.?Royal Baking Powder. (Fourth page.) Glenn it Darwin?Fine Stock. John R. Ashe?Concerning Guano. W. B. Williams, Auditor?Poll Taxes. W. II. Moore?Notice. James R. Kenned}', Judgeof Probate?Citation? W. Newton Neil, Applicant?Joseph Neil, deceased. Jos. F. Wallace, C. C. Pis., Referee-W. E. Erwin and others, against S. E. Bration and others. Hunter it < >ates?Shoes. T. M. Dobson it Co.?New Millinery Goods. Lindsay it Moore?Go To The City GrocerySave Y our Stoves?Sh i ngles?U ndertak crs' Supplies?Use Mrs (J. K. Miller's snuti. May it May?To Country Merchants. T. S. Jeiferys?The Cyclone. H. P. Adiekes?Just '.Received This Week. C. M. Church?Removal. PERSONAL MENTION. Mr. J. S. Hemphill, of Waverly, Tenn., formerly a citizen of Yorkville, is here on a visit. Rev. J. E. Covington, formerly pastor of the Baptist church at this place, hut now pastor of the Baptist church at Union C. H., is now in Yorkville, on a visit to his numerous friends. A NEW INDUSTRY. In addition to all the other branches of carriage and wagon work conducted by Mr. M. C. Willis at his carriage factory in this place, he proposes also to manufacture railroad carts, a neat specimen of which he has just completed and placed on exhibition. THE TELEPHONE. The line of telephone connecting Rock Hill and Yorkville is now completed and in splendid working order. Yorkville congratulates herself on this bond of union with her sister town, hoping that the bond ere long will be strengthened and be mado forever durable with the steel rail* of the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicagj/Railroail. / IMPORTANT NOTICE. T(ie county auditor publishes an important notice to-day to all tax-payers of York county over 50 years of age. By instructions he has received from the Comptroller-General, all tax-payers over 50 years of age are exempt from the payment of capitation tax. Such tax-payers are requested to report their names to the auditor's office tjy the 1st or next April. THE WORK OF ONE MONTH. vS?iw.books of the depot of the Cheater und Lenojnr Railroad at this place show that for the inonth of February 399 way-bills were received, representing 1,995 consignments. The amount collected on freight received during the month vrtfll not fall far short of $0,000. During the month there were 234 passenger tickets sold at tlio ticket office, amounting to 8248.55. ANOTHER OWL. If the signs of the times do not greatly deceive us, this has been a most auspicious year for owls, and large ones besides. Another has been reported to us by Mr. John T. Latham, which he killed on the 22nd of February. It measured 5 feet 3 inches from tip to tip, and the talons of the bird, which he left at our office, appear to have tltejsize and strenth of an eagle's. / DECLINE THE HONOR. M*( S. Rufus Moore requests us to make the announcement that he declines the nomination of Intendant made through our columns last week; and Capt. J. R. Lindsay and Mr. M. C. Willis also request that we announce their declinations as Wardens on the same ticket. While not unmindful of the consideration of their fellow-citizens, these gentlemen, collectively and individually, authorize their peremptory declinature of a place on the municipal ticket. LARCENY OF MEAT. On Saturday last Alec. Simpson, Rebecca Johnson and Yicey Johnson, all colored, were lodged in jail, and on Monday Mitchell Dickson, also colored, was put in with them, the quartette being charged with burglary by breaking into the smoke-house of Mrs. McFadden, of Bethesda township, and stealing fourteen middlings of meat. A portion of the meat was found near Lewis' Turn Out, in Chester county, and another portion of it was found about a mile from the town of Chester. It appears that in bearing off their bootj' Alec, carried five of the middlings on his shoulder a distance of fourteen miles, and the women carried two middlings each, the same distance. Alec, was discharged from the peni tentiary only about two weeks ago, having oeen sentenced to that institution on convictHm--X)f burglary. / THE FREE COMMON SCHOOL FUND. The free common school fund for the fiscal year commencing November 1st, 1885, has been apportioned by the board of school examiners as follows: ^ District No. 1?Cherokee 3 1,071 30 " " 2?King's Mountain 773 15 " 3?Bethel 1,101 38 ? ? 4?Fort Mill 842 2ti " " 5?Catawba 754 30 " " 6?Bethesda 619 04 " " 7?Ebenezer 1,159 50 " 8?York 800 28 " 9?Broad River 913 81 " " 10?Bullock's Creek 1,424 95 " 11?Yorkville 367 10 " " 12?Rock Hill 340 45 " " 13?McConnollsville 298 Oil Total 810,460 33 The abovo amount is the apportionment ot the sum derived from the two-mill levy. In addition to the apportionment abovo stated each school district will receive the amount derived from poll tax in the district. CHURCH NOTICES. King's Mountain Mission?Rev. L. A. Johnson, Pastor. Services atKing's Mountain Chapel at 11 A. M. next Sunday. Episcopal?Rev. E. N. Joyner, Rector.?Services next Friday evening at 8 o'clock and on Sunday at 11 A. M. and 4 P. M. Sunday-school at 3 P. M. Associate Roformed Presbyterian?Rev. J. C. Galloway, Pastor. Services next Sunday at 11 A. M. and at 3 P. M. Sunday-school after the afternoon service. Baptist.?Rev. F. C. Hickson, Pastor. Services atUniou next Sunday at 11 A. M., and at Yorkville at 7.30 P. M. Sunclay-scnooi at a P. M. Methodist Episcopal.?Rev. W. W. Daniel, Pastor. Prayer-meeting next Sunday morning at 10.1") o'clock ; preaching at 11 A. M. and 7.30 P. M. Sunday-school at 3 P. M. Prayer-meeting this eyening at 7 o'clock. Presbytorian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. Services next Sunday at 11 A. M. and 7.30 P. M. Sunday-school at 4 o'clock P. M. Regular monthly concert of prayer for missions to-morrow evening at 7.30 o'clock, on which occasion an address will be delivered by Rev. F. C. Hickson. RAILROAD GOSSIP. Owing to the continued wet weather last week the engineering corps, under charge of Captain Ruinsaur, made but little progress with the survey from King's Crook in the direction of Yorkville. When wo heard from the corps on Monday last they were in the neighborhood of Smyrna Church, in Rroad River township. It is thought by persons in that township with whom we have conversed, that Hickory Grove will be immediately on the line of the road. Chief-Engineer Matson informs us that ho has closedVontracts for all the cross-tics that he will need. He speaks assuringly of the progress of the work, contracts for the principal portion of it havinir been awarded to Smith A Ripley, well known contractors of New York. t The line is permanently located from the Georgetown road, in Kershaw county, to a point one milo north of Salem Church, in the Pleasant Hill neighborhood of Lancaster county. During the present week Mr. E. T. Iteveley, the resident engineer, will stake the lines for tho grades and the work of grading will bo commenced without delay. Tho work of permanently locating in this direction from Pleasant Hill has also been commenced. As soon as Capt. Itamsaur's survey is completed the lino ofhis survey to Yorkville will bo placed under charge of a resident engineer and tho work of grading 011 this portion of the line will begin. Col. Matson is confident that trains will run from Yorkville to Camden by the 1st of next November. His office hero is already the scene of busy activity. Pes ides the business transactions incident to a work of this kind, his assistant, Mr. G. K. McCormick, a skillful draughtsman, is drawing maps, plans, ifcc., pertaining to the survey and construction of tho road. In addition to the above, wo tako tho following from the Shelby papors of last week: ' Tho Aurora says: It is reported that work will begin simultaneously at Bhftk's and Cam den, and the work will be pushed to a rapit completion. The outiook for this new route is encouraging. They claim to possess abundan cash and large railroad subscriptions from dif fereut counties. Mr. P. P. Pickerson tried t( iral tha on fir/i ( nntrnnf. fnr irrndinc frnill Black'! to Camden, but the work was awarded to th< lowest bidder, Messrs. Smith & Ripley, of Nev York who will soon commence operations. Tin work above Rutberfo'rdton will not be com menced this year, but the Southern portion wil be pushed rapidly to completion, and in a yeai or two we may see through trains from Charles ton to Shelby. Many doubted last year then ability to go "beyond"Black's, but their doubti have been removed and the road will certainly bo completed to Camden. Capitalists have in vested money in the enterprise, the road is 1111 der mortgage for a good sum and the work wil soon be graded and track laid from Camden t< Rutherfordton, a distance of one hundred am lifty-three miles. The New Era has the following: Track lay ing on the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicagi Railroad has progressed rapidly during the pas week in spite of the extremely unfavorabl weather, and track layers aro now within tw< miles of Forest City. They will, in all proba bility, reach RutheVfordton about March 10. A the track layers are now so far from Shelby an< large quantities of freight are being shippet over the road, the C. C'. it C. have secured tlx services of another locomotive, which will b received this week, after which time it is prob able that one of the engines will mako regula trips to Black's for freight and supplies. Dur tl,/, "IV *.r? n 1- /I.IMU lultfA rA 111^ tu<4 jJOSb ? UVJTV 9I.\ ^iaui\ uuo imvu ucvu iv ceived for tho use of the road. The work on tk< depot is progressing rapidly. The frame of th< passenger depot is erected and the water tanl is completed. Mr. ltudasill says that lie wil finish his work within the stipulated time. Tho Charlotte Observer of Saturday says: To day the Richmond and Danville will furnish th Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Kailroa* Company with auother outfit in tho way of ai engine, engineer and fireman. Mr. G. Si. Rob erts is the engineer that will be transferred, am he will take Mr. Will Ross along as fireman. i is understood that the engine will be put on th roau to day, and a train run regularly fron Black's to the upper end of the line as far a completed. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM ROCK, HILL. Hock Hill, February 28.?At last I an enabled to report clear weather. The we spell ended on Saturday evening with tremendous rain?a regular "trash mover,1 accompanied by a terrible wind and hai storm which could be heard roaring fo miles before it reached here. The storn was so severe that many of our citizen thought a cyclone was coming, and the; made preparations for leaving; their houses Trade was quite lively with the mei chants on Saturday. Quite a number c persons from the country were in town They report the roads in a bad conditionin a worse condition than ever befor known, they being in some places almos impassable. The peach trees are in bloom. I an afraid they are putting forth their flower i too early, as their great enemy, frost, i lurking around, and with one breath ca destroy the entire crop, which would b i quite a loss to our fruit-growers. , Last week a car loaded with hay arrive' , at this place from the west. When th door of the car was opened, a large Plymout Rock hen flew out, having come the entir distance shut up in the car. During he travels she had made a nest in the ha, and began laying eggs. On Friday afternoon the alarm of fir was given, and Rock Hill's well discipline fire department, followed by a number c citizens, was soon making its way in th , direction of the office of the W. U. Teh graph Company, from which a volume < smoke was issuing. The alarm was cause by the explosion of a kerosene oil lamf One or two buckets of water soon extir guished the fire. Except the loss of th lamp the only other damage done wa frightening the manager out of two years growth. J3r. R. H. Hope sustained a very serioi f and painful hurt last Friday night. Whil on his way to visit a patient in the cour try, he had alighted from his buggy an , started towards the house, when his fee slipped, causing him to fall, striking th back: of his head against the ground, whic knocked him insensible for ajshort time His head is still in pain. A can- containing about one hundre pounds of lard that was stolen from th residence of Mr. V. B. McFadden, abou ten days ago, was found on Monday las on the bank of Wild Cat Creek, a few hun dred yards below the ford on the York ^vHle road. ' v I am informed that it is generally be lleved by the farmers of the county tha they are not permitted to sell fresh meal such as beef, pork and mutton, at retail i: Rock Hill. This is a mistake. Any one ca sell fresh meat here in any quantity betwee the hours of 9 A. M., and 4 P. M. \ i In conversation with the President olStlj . First National Bank of Rock Hill, he ic formed me that the Bank is doing a mos flattering business, far exceeding tne es pectations of its most sanguine friends , that the smallest amount on deposit at an; ; time during the month of February, sut ject to check, was $3G,000. Hal. Correspondence of tbe Yorkville Enquirer. i LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chester, February 28.?The directors c of the Chester and Camden Itailroad Con: ' pany, at a late meeting, made the Nations Bank of Chester the trustee to hold al bonds and titles to real estate subscribe to the capital stock of this Company These securities are to remain in the hand of the trustee until the railroad compan, complies with the following clause in th petition for township elections: "Nopai of the proceeds of said bonds to be util ized or expended until said railroad ha been entirely constructed and complete* through the said township, and trains c cars shall be placed thereon for the pui pose of transportation. That upon the pei formance of this condition by said railroa* company, the said bonds, orproceeds thereol be turned over to the proper authorities c said railroad company or their assigns.' It appears from the above condition tha the voters of Baton Rouge, Hazlewood am Rossville townships who will soon decid the question of extending aid to the Ches ter and Camden Railroad, will be entirel; safe in voting in favor of the subscription desired. The bonds issued in payment c the subscriptions will be placed in the hand of the National Rank of Chester and wil there remain until the railroad is completei through these townships. The taxpayer will be fully protected. They are sure c the railroad if the bonds are spent. Rev. J. A. II. Mundy, of N. C., deliver ed a lecture to a large audience at the Cour House on last Wednesday evening on th< "Mistakes of Life." His hearers wer highly pleased with the lecture. In enum erating the mistakes of life he referre< to those who engaged in a profession o huainp^q fnr which thev had no talent o fitness. ltev. Mr. Munday has been sue cessful elsewhere as a revivalist and hope to succeed in arousing the unconverte< at this place to a sense of the danger o their condition. He has also in view thi establishment of a reformatory in Colum bia for abandoned women. The wet weather of last week impede< agricultural operations generally. It es pecially interferred with the calculations o those farmers who desired to sow oats. Mrs. Mary Coin, of this county, died oi lastTuesday night. She was sick only a fev days. The burial took place on Thursday at New Bethel Church. The County Board of Equalization wil meet at this place on the 8th of March This notice may be of interest to soim persons. Mr. Robert Marshall, Sheriff of Davidsoi County, Tennessee, is visiting his brother Major J. K. Marshall, of our town. Tin Major's son, James Marshall, Jr., will returi with his uncle to Tennessee this week, ant expects to engage in some business there llis many friends here wish him all possi ble success in his new field of labor. Isabod Wilson, colored, was arrested ant placed in jail on Saturday, charged witl an assault and battery of an aggravatet nature. ' Mrs. J. A. Wade, of Wilksburg, diet | suddenly on Saturday evening. Her deatl is attributed to fright occasioned by thi storm of that evening. T rjrt?<vn?? VaaKt r\f T.nun'c' rPnt*n Out J JUU VCJ' Ui uuuio AM.t. was arrested aud put in jail on yesterday charged with a crime the particulars o which will be given again. I prefer to wai until the preliminary examination is heh before making any developments. In tlii way justice will be done. m. AN UGLY AFFAIR IN CHESTER. I (SPECIAL DISPATCH TO TIIK YORKVIM.K ENQUIRER. J j Chester, March 1.?John Harvey Neely, . a large farmer on Fishing Creek in this '? county, was arrested and lodged in the jail 3 at this place last Sunday, charged with ravishing the four-year-old daughter of George 3 B. Mosely, who lives near Lowrysville, and [ is a brother-in-law of Neely. The crime is r alleged to have been committed on Satur" day morning, Neely having stayed at Mose4 ly's house on Friday night. Neely came to Chester about midday last " Saturday and tried to sell a span of horses, 1 but failing to do so, he became intoxicated 3 and took a room at the Cotton Hotel on Saturday night. He was arrested on Sunday - morning by Sheriff Hood, on a warrant ta3 ken out by the father of the injured child, e and rramediately lodged in jail. The child a is represented to be in a critical condition. " A preliminary examination was held to1 day before Trial Justice Leckie. The result 1 shows that all those who were in doubt as ? to the grounds of the charge have lost faith . in his innocence and have abandoned him. r The proofs are conclusive, and unless he can ^ produce strong evidence in his favor at the e next sitting of the Sessions Court, his 0 chances will be meagre. j The proceedings of the day have shown so strongly against him that there is some " apprehension of lynching, and Capt. Pat1 terson has received orders from the Govi ernor to guard the jail with the Lee Light j Infantry. t In view of the excitement it is thought e the Sheriff will remove Neely to the jail * of some other county to-night, provided he yiay think he can make the attempt with safety to the prisoner. Duriug the examination to-day Neely maintained a bold front, although the mother of the injured child cried piteoust ly for his heart's blood, and declared her a willingness then to die. ? The entire male population of Lowrys1 ville and Turkey Creek were present at the r preliminary hearing, and all left with bown ed heads. s Neely's wife has been with him since y Sunday evening. i. Everything is quiet thus tar, 9 P. M., - and the jail is being guarded by the Lee 'f Light Infantry. r. ' everything quiet. e Chester, March 2, 10 A. M.?Neely was it not removed last night, as it was thought he would be. The jail was guarded all a night by the Rifle Company. There have s been no indications of violence since the ? preliminary hearing yesterday, on which e occasion there were serious apprehensions as to his safety, and it is asserted that had d he been conducted from the Court House e through the threatening crowd he would h probably have been killed. He will proba? bly be removed to-day. AH seems quiet y at present. R. e SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS, d ?John Kleckley, auditor of Lexington if county, died on the 25th. e -s- Northern capitalists are about to erect i- machine shops and an iron foundry in Flor>f ence. d ? The February term of the U. S. District K Court at Greenville was formally adjourned l" last Friday evening. e ?The Presbyterian Church of Spartanburg has elected Rev. Mr. Jennings, of Rock Hill, as pastor. It is not known whether he will accept or not. e ? The bonds to be issued by the town !- council of Walhalla, amounting to $5,000, d for the extension of the railroad from the >t present depot to some point in Walhalla, e have been negotiated at par to a citizen of h Charleston. The bonds are to bear 0 per >. cent, interest. >^--The salaries of the public school teachers d' ofAbbeville county have been reduced to e ?20, $15 and ?10 a month, according to the it grade of the teachers. Much adverse critiit cism has been expressed. The Prm and i- Banner is in favor of further reducing the salaries to ?15, ?12.50 and ?10. ? A difficulty occurred at Holly Hill, on !- the Eutawville Railroad, in Berkeley coun t ty on Wednesday night, between a young Jew who owned a store at that place and Q some negroes employed on the road. The Q Jew was shot and killed. Three of the neQ groes, charged with the murder, have been committed to Berkeley jail. ^Thirty-five years ago the foundation was l" laidyor the erection of a statue to John C. Calhoun in Charleston. It was not until a few months ago, however, that the project grew into shape for realization. The stat y ue is now on its ieet, ana me ioraiai unveiling ceremonies will take place on the 26th of April, which day it is proposed to make a State holiday, and have the entire military forces of South Carolina participate in the ceremonies. >f ?The "Holiness Evangelists," a perigrii nating revivalist band composed of three il men and one colored and two white woII men, were expelled from Columbia last d Wednesday night. Their harrangues, adr. dressed mainly to the negroes, were of an is incendiary character, condemned by the y thoughtful people of the colored race, while e the speakers indulged also in slander t and vituperation of the best people of the I- city. The young men decided to send them s on, which they did by gentle force. This d band, however, is not a part of the"Salvatf tion Army," which is conducting meetings - in Columbia, and is in nowise objectionable - to the citizens. r, the indiaxTlegislature. ?f The contested election cases in the Indi" ana Legislature have been the cause of much t excitement in that body, which on the 24th i ultimo culminated in a row. At 9 o'clock e on that morning, when Greene Smith rapi ped the Senate to order, Col. Robertson, the y Republican claimant to the Speaker's chair, s who had been admitted to the floor, started ?f toward the chair. He was met on the steps s by the assistant doorkeeper, who told him il he could not come in. The Colonel replied i that he was presiding officer of the Senate, s and must take his seat, and stepped for>f ward, when the doorkeeper repelled him to the foot of the stairs. Thereupon he stood in front of the clerk's desk and stated that t he had been elected Lieutenant Governor e of the State, and by the constitution was e the presiding officer of the Senate, and he - demanded his seat. The point of order 1 whs raised that none but members of the r Senate could take up the time of the body, r which Mr. Smith sustained,and called upon the doorkeeper to remove Robertson from s the chamber. The doorkeeper approached .1 Ilobertson, took his arm and the two walked f out of the main door. lie mounted the steps e and made a speech, reciting what had trans pired in the chamber, and cautioned the people to do nothing that would infringe 3 the peace or dignity of the State, or what i- they would regret in cooler moments, f During the excitement about the Senate doors three of the Senators attempted to _ . 1 enter and had difficulty. Senator Johnson, v of Wayne, denounced the doorkeepers, and / during the melee a number of persons from the inside approached the door, among 1 them Senator McDonald, who put up his . hands. Johnson thought it to be an ate tempt to thrust him back and struck the Senator in the face. Senator Dermott was i ordered into his seat, and when the ser, geant put him down threw him to the floor. 0 The Speaker of the house announced that 1 when the Lieutenant Governor was presid1 ing in the Senate according to the constitu. tion, the fact of their passage would be - communicated to that body. This was received with great applause, lie instructed 1 the rinnrkeener nnt. tr> admit, the senretnrv nf i the Senate to the hall, in order to frustrate 1 any design to present a communication. After the expulsion of Robertson the 1 democrats of the senate took up the regui lar order of business, but the eighteen ree publican members refused to answer the roll calls and declined to in any way give countenance to the proceedings. , A great deal of important legislation is f pending, no provision having yet been made t for the expenses of the State benevolent in-1 stitutions, and the general fund of the treass ury is exhausted. The session expires by limitation on March 7.