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? Wheat receipts last week were the
largest ever known in Minneapolis during
any week in June. The aggregate was a
little more than one million bushels,
against 800,000 a year ago. Shipments
were also the largest ever known in the
history of the Chamber of Commerce.
? Green, the only colored man ever appointed
in the signal service, and on whose
account several officers, who refuse to act
with him, were dismissed or punished,
has just been discharged, having been
found a dead failure. He was appointed
by Arthur.
? Europe has 121,205 miles of railroad,
America has 155,757 miles, Asia 13,791, Africa
4,285, and Australia 8,045. Thus the
total railway mileage of the world is 303,083
miles. In other words, America possesses
more miles of railroad than all the rest of
the world.
L?^Capt. Lee, who is in command of the
soldiers stationed at Nogales, Arizona,
says the soldiers have the hostiles so closely
pressed that he thought they could not
reach Sonora. He had one-half his troops
mounted on private horses and mules belonging
to company wagons.
? A few years ago, Wilton was one of
the most flourishing villages in Minnesota.
A railroad built through that section left
the village at some distance, and now the
place is dead. One of its original proprietors
has just sold 115 lots to one purchaser,
and the old town site is converted into
farming land.
? The trouble between the full bloods
and half breeds in the Choctaw nation is
growing in intensity, and has in many
cases terminated in bloodshed. A party
of whites and half breeds were attacked,
Monday, on Buffalo creek, by a band of
full bloods. In the melee several were
wounded on either side, two fatally.
? Kentucky distillers will not distill any
more whisky until October, 1888. There
are in bond in Kentucky thirty-nine million
gallons of whisky, of which eighteen
millions were distilled in the last year.
There are five million gallons in foreign
ports belonging to Kentucky men, aud all
this makes the supply great enough to
last three years.
? The regulations have been framed by
the War Department for the purpose of
carrying into effect the act of Congress
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vide arras and equipments for the militia
of the States and Territories. Under the
apportionmeht of the $480,000 appropriated
last session, South Carolina will receive
$8,294.
? Prof. E. F. Clarke, a superintendent of
public schools, was shot at Henderson,
ivy., last Wednesday, by Prof. Thomas
Posey, the principal of the high school.
The two men having had a long standing
enmity, got into a quarrel in the high
school room, when Principal Posey drew
a revolver and fired three times at Clarke,
in the presence of the pupils, wounding
him severely in the face, arm and shoulder.
Posey surrendered himself.
? The Commissioners of Emigration in
the city of New York, recently decided to
send back to Ireland sixteen families, in
all nearly one hundred persons, sent to that
port by the agents of the British government.
The ground for this action appears
to have been the evident purpose of the
British government to shift from its own
shoulders the duty of caring at home for
this needy class of emigrants.
? The business failures occurring throughout
the country during the last week, as
reported to R. G. Dunn & Co., number for
the United States 140, Canada 33, total 173,
against 150 last week and 170 the week
Srevious. In the Eastern and Middle
tates failures are exceptionally light. In
other sections about the average number
are reported, but in Canada there is a considerable
increase, arising mostly in the
maritime provinces.
?-A dispatch from Eagle Pass, Texas,
says: Thomas Lamb, county judge oi
Maverick county, Texas, killed his brother,
Joseph Lamb, a wealthy ranchman,
yesterday, on Mexican soil. Later, Thomas
drove into Piedras Negras, intending to
cross to Texas. He was arrested. The
brothers had quarreled over the division
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out to keep the Mexicans from lynching
Lamb.
? The United States Supreme Court has
just rendered two important decisions in
the matter of Inter-State commerce. One
is to the effect that a State cannot tax the
receipts of a transportation company derived
from goods or persons passing into,
out of, or through its territory. The other
decision relieves telegraph companies from
responsibility for failure to deliver messages
passing from one State to another, so
far as the laws of the Stale from which the
\ message is sent are concerned.
is reliably stated that President
Cleveland, as Commander-in-Chief of the
Army of the United States, has resolved
to return to the States of the South all the
flags captured from their respective troops
engaged in the late war between the
States, taken on the field of battle by the
Federal troops. This resolve is largely
due to the instrumentality of Adjutant
General Drum, a thoroughly national
man, who wishes to withdraw from public
gaze all the mementoes of internecine
strifeand all the reminders of sectional
rivalry to the death.
? Explorers sent out by Governor Torres,
of Sonora, to ascertain the existence of a
volcano as reported near Bahispe, Sonora,
have returned. They report an active volcano
fourteen miles south of Bahispe, in
the Sierra Madre mountains. The party
could not approach nearer than within
four miles of the mountains. The crater
was pouring forth immense volumes ol
smoke, fire and lava; boiling water issued
from the side of the mountain into the
canyons, which are being filled up. The
boiling water has destroyed all vegetation
in the valleys in the vicinity. One peculiar
feature of the volcano is its great activity.
Boulders weighing tons were hurled down
from the crater.
? The famous Rowan county, Kentucky,
feud was re-opened on Tuesday. The
a town marshal of Morehea ' John Mannin,
had a warrant for the arrest of Jack and
Bill Logan, sons of the notorious Dr. Henry
D. Logan, who is now in Lexington jail
on the charge of murder. Mannin went
to the house of the Logan boys to arrest
them. An old lady told him they were
not in. He told her that he would have
to search the house and proceeded to do so.
As he ascended the stairway the Logan
boys, who were concealed above, fired
upon him, inflicting fatal wounds. Manuin's
posse of two men, who were with
him, then returned the fire of the Logan
boys, killing them both. Mannin never
took any part in the Martin-Toliver feud.
The Logans were active Martin supporters.
? A dispatch from Wheeling, West Virginia,
says the almost continuous heavy
storms of the past ten days have done a
very large amount of damage throughout
the State and contiguous territory. In
Ohio railroad travel has been greatly interrupted,
bridges washed away, live stock
drowned, crops ruined and a great amount
of valuable timber carried off. No through
trains have run on the Ohio river road
south of Wheeling since Monday, and last
Friday night three or four passenger trains
were blocked at Sisterville. At New
Martinsville, last Friday, the Methodist
church was destroyed by lightning. So
much wet weather in June has not been
known in a dozen years.
? It is expected that Mr. Carlisle will
visit Washington this week. A conference
will follow, it is believed, between the
President, Mr. Carlisle and Mr. Fairchild,
touching not alone the advisability of calling
an extra session of Congress, but the
form of the tariff bill to be presented to
the next House. It was Mr. Breckenridge,
of Arkansas, who first suggested
that the way out of the difficulty was to
practically settle the question before Congress
meets. This, he thinks, can be done
by preparing a tariff bill by and with
the advice of the President and the secre'
tary of the treasury, thus giving the prestige
of the Administration endorsement.
The idea has since been largely discussed
and generally approved, and something is
likely to come of it.
? The State of North Carolina has till
now declined tc tax its people to pay interest
on $10,000,000 of bonds issued in 1869
by the first Legislature chosen under the
Constitution framed by the Convention,
which Gen. Canby assembled in Raleigh,
February 14,1868. The decision of Judge
Bond, just made at Raleigh, holds that the
agents of the State must collect taxes to
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all property in the State to meet the interest
on the bonds in question, as required
by the law authorizing their issue. It has
been held hitherto that the State, under
the Federal Constitution, could not be sued
by citizens of othei*States. This difficulty
has been evaded by Morton, Bliss & Co., of
New York, by getting a citizen of North
Carolina to bring suit in their interest. It
is now in order to compel the State to levy
a tax. What if it should not ?
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YORKVILLE, S. ii\fc
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15,1887.
HE DIDX'T NAME COLUMBIA.
Some members of the Grand Army of
the Republic of St. Louis having proposed
to invite President' Cleveland to attend
their approaching reunion and parade,
others opposed the presence of the Democratic
chief magistrate on that occasion,
which has brought from Gen. W. T. Sherman
a letter, in which he says:
"Let us do right as near as we know
how, and trust the future to the boys who
look od us old veterans as prodigies, or as
old fogies?a lingering superfluent on the
stage of life.
"I believe I know you both perfectly
well, and that you would sacrifice life
rather than honor; therefore whatever
you do I will stand by you?the same as to
Rainwater, Kennard, Cobb and Jerome
Hill, who took the wrong side in 1861, but
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who are now witn us in nearmnu aci iur
the Union?one and indissoluble, now and
forever.
"Instead of the Grand Army of the Republic
meeting only in the loyal States of
1861,1 am in favor of their meeting hereafter
at Nashville, Chattanooga, Atlanta
and Richmond, following the example of
our armies in the war for the Union.
THE CROPS OF THE COUNTRY.
the state crots.
The State Department of Agriculture
has received two-hundred and forty-six
special reports from its township correspondents
regarding the crops, of an average
date of June 1, of which the following
is a summary:
Cotton.?The crop is from two to three
' weeks earlier, and stands better than last
year. The crop is clean and growing rap1
idly, and isnow verging to limbandsquare,
' ana looks vigorous and healthy. It has
not been iecreased in acreage?reported
at 96 per cent. The condition is reported
in upper Carolina at 102 per cent.; middle
Carolina, 102; and in lower Carolina,
1 100. An average for the State of 101 per
cent. This is above the condition at the
same period in 1882, 1883, and in 1884,
when it was reported at 96, and in 1886 at
! 86 per cent., showing that the crop is in a
bette" condition than for a period of years.
Corn.?The growth of corn was somewhat
retarded by the dry weather in April
1 and early May, but recent rains in nearly
every section of the State has improved its
condition very much. On sandy and botr
torn lands is good. Owing to the favoraEle
spring and absence irom floods the
ottom lands have been better prepared
i and planted earlier than usual. Corres>
pondents estimate the crop on bottoms at
i 28 percent., and on uplands at 72 per cent.
The condition of the crop in upper Caro1
lina on bottoms 89, on uplands at 100; in
: middle Carolina on bottoms 90, on uplands
98; in lower Carolina 87 on bottoms, on up,
lands 98; making an average for the State,
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on DOin Doitoms anu upmuus, vt pci icut,,
, against 83 per cent, compared to the crop
, of last year.
Wheat and Oats.?Wheat and fall
sown oats were injured by freezes, the
I former a little and the latter very much ;
but where the oats were too thin for a
stand were resown in early Spring.* The
, correspondents report that the crop will
, yield much better than expected, the recent
rains having very much improved
the condition of the crop. Harvesting has
; commenced in some localities. The con!
dition of both crops is reported at 91 per
cent, for wheat and 82 per cent, for oats,
II against 75 per cent, for each last year.
1 Fertilizers.?The amount of commer1
cial fertilizers sold In the State for the
' past season, as is shown by the books of
the Department, is less than the season of
; 1885 and '86.
General Summary.?Last year it was
! estimated that 19 per cent, less farm sup1
plies was purchased than in 1885, and this
1 year 10 per cent, more than last, still making
a decrease of 3 per cent, less than in
, 1885. This increase is due to freshets,
, which destroyed the entire corn crop on
the bottoms, forcing farmers to buy at the
beginning of the season. But our farmers
are cheerful, hopeful and buoyant, and do
not complain. And when it is recollected
i that less fertilizers have been purchased,
labor cheaper and the crop cultivated at
less cost up to this time than any crop for
years, they have some reason for rejoicing.
! Labor in nearly every locality has been
i more plentiful. Owing to the failure of
i the crop last y&ir, taught theni to prepare
for the worst, and, as one correspondent
, puts it: "They hold their own woiiderfuli
ly ; most of them started with nothing and
still have it."
NATIONAL CROP REPORT.
i The National Agricultural Bureau pub,
lished on Saturday returns to that date.
I The reports indicate a reduction of nearly
two points in the area of Winter wheat.
. Changes in acreage of States are very
; slight, except in Kansas, where a reduc;
tion of 22 per cent, is reported, caused by
i bad harvests and low prices. The Spring
i wheat area has been enlarged G per cent.
from an increase of immigration and farm
i making West of the Mississippi in districts
I traversed by the Northern Pacific Itail
road. Most of the increase is in Dakota,
which reports an increment of 24 per cent.
i The total area of wheat is about 37,000,000
acres, a fraction more than that of the
previouscrop. In the condition of Winter
wheat, there is no marked change, the average
being 84.9, a reduction of nine-tenths
of one per cent. In 1886 the June average
! was 92.7.
The area of Winter rye has been dimini9hed
over 0 per cent.,'mainly by a large
' | reduction in Kansas. The condition is betj
ter than that of wheat, as usual averaging
! 88.9. An apparent enlargement of barley
I acreage of 3 per cent, is indicated. The
I increase is in Dakota, California, Oregon
j and the territories. The condition averi
ages 88, being slightly above that of wheat.
! There is a continuance of the extension
I of oats culture. The increase is 4 per cent.
| This crop has taken part of the area forI
merly in wheat in Kansas, an advance of
80 npr cent, over the acreage of last vear.
The increase is large in the Northwest,
and there is a tendency to enlargement in
all sections of the country.
1 In the acreage of cotton an increase of 1
1 per cent, is reported. There appears to be
j a slight decline in the States of the Atlanj
tic coast and an increase west of the Mis1
sissippi. State averages are: Virginia
1 90, North Carolina 99.5, South Carolina 98,
: Georgia 98.5, Florida 97, Alabama 100, MisI
sissippi 100.4, Louisiana 102, Texas 10f>,
j Arkansas 102.5, Tennessee 100. The condition
of cotton is higher than in any year
1 since 1880, the average being 98.9: and has
only been exceeded three times since 1870.
The best yield in that period was in 1882,
when the June condition was 89, a figure
that has been discounted six times since
1870. It is a good beginning but does not
i insure a good crop. The State averages
are: Virginia 99, North Carolina 99, South
Carolina 98, Georgia 99, Florida 98, Ala
baina 99, Mississippi 99, Louisiana 97,
Texas 91, Arkansas 98, Tennessee 97; general
average 96.9. There is generally an
unusually "good stand." The "plant" in
Texas, early planted, did not come up
well, but late planting is better. There is
not a full plant in some fields in Arkansas.
Clean cultivation is reported as the rule,
and healthy color and good growth.
THE SIGNAL SERVICE WEEKLY REPORT.
The following is the signal office weather
crop bulletin for the week ending last
Saturday:
During the week the weather has been
warmer than the weekly average in all
the agricultural districts east of the Rocky
mountains, except in the Atlantic States
from Maine southward to Virginia, and
in Southern Texas. This excess of temperature
for the week has been greatest in
the corn and wheat regions of the Northwest,
where the average daily excess ranged
above normal from! to 8?, the latter excess
in eastern Dakota, conditions most
favorable in the present stage of the crop.
In the cotton belt the excess of temperature
has averaged from one to three degrees
daily, save in Texas, where the
temperature has been about normal. The
tobacco regions have had weather, from
one to two degrees wanner than usual 10
westward of the Alleghany mountains,
while to eastward it has been from one to
four degrees colder.
The temperature since January has been
substantially normal in the Atlantic States,
and from New York westward to Michigan,
while a slight deficiency, less than
a degree daily, has existed in grain districts.
A seasonal excess of temperature,
averaging from one to two degrees daily,
has prevailed over Ohio, the Lower Missouri
and Lower Mississippi valleys. During
thq past six wef>ks, which have been
important, especially for the grain-growing
districts, the temperature has been
steadily in excess over the corn and wheat
regions, and has been nearly stationary in
the cotton belt, which conditions must have
been most beneficial to these crops.
During the week the rainfall has been
slightly deficient in the agricultural district,
except from western Pennsylvania,
southwestward to Kansas and Indian Territory,
where a slight excess has fallen.
Showers have been numerous and well
distributed, save in a few instances of local
importance only. The large seasonal deficiency
of precipitation over the cotton
belt has been mitigated by recent rains
which have been well distributed and of
timely occurrence.
Over all the agricultural districts the
weather of the week has apparently
been favorable for the important crops, a
marked deficiency of temperature occurring
in localities of secondary importance
. as regards staples. South of the thirtyninth
parallel, where presumably grain
harvesting is now general, the weather
has been favorable for that work, as no
general rains have fallen or high winds
occurred, while sunshine has been at or
above the average. Local rains have fallen
in the past eight hours, or are predicted,
from Minnesota eastward to Michigan,
where they will be timely and beneficial
to growing crops.
Next Year.?It is evident even to the
casual observer of politics, that the Republican
party is going to make Herculean
efforts to elect the next President. The
policy outlined by Mr. Sherman in his
Springfield speech, the recent utterances
of Mr. Blaine, and the drift of the entire
stalwart press, leave no doubt as to the aggressive
plan of campaign that will be
adopted by the Republican party. Every
appeal will be made to the interests, passions
and prejudices of Republicans to
elect the candidate of their party whether
he be Blaine or Sherman. The Republicans
are going to make the most of their
opportunities, and barrels of money will
be spent to change the result in the close
States. The labor party and the prohibi~
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election of 1888.
President Cleveland's administration
has been clean, healthy and vigorous. It
has been honest and economical, and all
of the interests of the nation and ol the
; people have been protected. His re-election
is a matter of vital importance not
only to the South, but to the peace ^pd
well-being of the whole country. We arSF
i satisfied that his administration meets
with approval of good men everywhere,
irrespective of party affiliations, and that
the conservative and intelligent public
opinion of the country favors his re-election.
But, notwithstanding the general
approval of President Cleveland's admini
istration, it will require a united Democracy,
North and South, to secure his reelection.
Whatever differences may exist
between the members of the party on
economic and other questions, they must
be held in abeyance until the more important
and momentous question of Democratic
supremacy is secured. We must
agree to stand on the Chicago platform.
This is broad enough and strong enough
to support all good Democrats who profess
fealty to party. It is wide enough for
free trade Democrats and protection Democrats?like
Carlisle and Hurd, Randall
' and Tillman?to stand upon. We will
' need the active and united support of
every Democrat to re-elect President
Cleveland.?Augusta Chronicle.
Ax Ambushed Raider's Guide and
his Brave Wife.?Joshua Howard, of
Glassy Mountain township, upper Greenville,
appeared before United States Commissioner
Hawthorne, in this city, some
time ago, as a material witness against accused
moonshiners. In his evidence he
incautiously admitted that he had guided
a party of revenue officers in a raid on a
blockade still in hisneighborhood. While
he was working in his lield, near the summit
of Glassy Mountain, hoeing corn on
Wednesday, he was fired on by several
men in the woods. One bullet passed
' through his left shoulder, another went
through his jaw, lodging behind the left
ear, another cut his right ear, and a fourth
passed through his hat. His wife, who was
working in the same field, dropped her
hoe and charged the concealed assassins,
who fled. She pursued them until she
was exhausted and then returned to her
husband. There is a clue to the assassins,
but they have not yet been captured,
j The neighborhood in which the outrage
| occurred is the same in which Deputy
Marshal Elkin was recently shot, and in
which the horses of a raiding party received
a number of bullets from concealed
persons.?Greenville News.
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Another Railroad.?Cleveland county
wants a third railroad, to come from
Gaffney City via Shelby to Cranberry,
passing as near the centre as practicable.
To the English and New York capitalists,
represented here on Tuesday by Col. S.
McDowell Tate, George ltickard, of England,
and John L. Martin, of New York,
we offer $50,000 upon the terms voted, or
to the Boston syndicate we offer the same
condition. Col. Tate, in May, asked for
sixty days time to make the necessary arrangement
with capitalists. That time
having elapsed, he came according to
I promise, with capitalists ready, able and
' willing to make the contract to build the
j road from the South Carolina line to Vir!
ginia. He was ready then and there to
accept the contract and would not ask for
the bonds until the road was finished in
Cleveland. Here is a business offer for
our county commissioners to accept on the
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i now awaiting action. So the prospect for I
i a road is brightening.?Shelby Aurora.
The Murderous Indians.?The dis- i
; patches from Arizona seem almost a repe-'
j tition of those which were sent immedi!
ately after Geronimo and his band left
j the San Carlos Reservation. There were |
! less than forty of those murderers, but!
| they killed more than one hundred settlers j
! and kept a large part of the United States
' army hard at work for many months. The }
i number of fugitives now on the war path 1
j is said to be seventeen, but it may be \
' larger. They are making their way to the j
{ Mexican mountains, slaying settlers and '
j miners as they go. It was believed that
j the removal of the Chircahuas and Warm
i Springs to Florida would insure peace in
! the Southwest, but if the character and
i impulses of the thousands remaining on
| the reservation were not correctly estimat|
ed the Goverment has a difficult task be'
fore it.
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Correspondence of the Yorkvllle Enquirer.
LETTER PROM FORT MILL.
Fort Mill, June 13.?Such quiet reigns
in this vicinity, and so gently peaceful
are its people, that even the partridges
have their nests in the middle of the town.
Times are dull, but crops are promising.
Still, we are not totally somnolent. Our
Gretna has its romances occasionally as
well as other places.
Last Wednesday night, about midnight
at that, while our trial justice was napping,
"Suddenly there came a tapping,
As if someone gently rapping, rapping at"?
not his chamber door, but the window.
At the same time a male voice, in hurried
tones, called to the 'Squire, notifying him
that a couple wanted to be married in
haste. Nothing was intimated as to leisurely
repentance. Though impressed with
the momentousness of the occasion, the
'Squire responded that they would have
to wait until he dressed, by which time he
was near the window. The expectantgroom
replied that there was no time for.
dressing; that the "old folks" were after
them ; and they were in a hurry. On being
then requested to step round into the
porch at the frontdoor, the swain again insisted
on a hasty service at the window.
Now the 'Squire was taken aback. It
being customary for the officiating officer
to stand in front of the couple, his modesty
revolted at the situation, as his costume
was only a slight improvement on that of
the Georgia major. The 'Squire had no
notion of presenting a full length picture
of himself between the window curtains
in such a limited dress. So he decided to
only give them a head-and-bust-view, by
sliding down to the floor and leaning over
the window-sill.
After a few vow?and acknowledgments,
the trembling twain were made one; the
'Squire reached out his long, sinewy arm
in congratulation; the jingling fee fell into
his palm ; good-nights were exchanged ;
and the meeting broke up. Whether the
"old folks" have ever caught up has not
been ascertained.
At the Fort Mill Academy, on last Wednesday
and Thursday nights, the closing
exercises of the session were well performed
by the pupils thereof, who not only
obtained great credit for themselves, but
rpflppfprl it. nn the efficient teachers.
Healthy location, able instructors and
good society bespeak for this institution a
liberal patronage. In the closing exercises
all did their parts so well that to mention
any names, without naming all would
be unfair; so, as your time and space are
precious, it is only fit to add that the educational
and social advantages of our
school are such as to invite the attention of
persons at a distance as well as those living
near.
I said crops were promising. So they
are; but, if the cold weather continues as
it has for three days, the promise will be
withdrawn. Fires have been found very
comfortable since Saturday morning.
Work toward building the factory is
progressing with due speed.
The health of our "cut off" is tolerable.
Some persons are threatened with dysentery,
and a few cases have developed, but
none have been fatal as thus far heard
from.
Some of our citizens are wondering
when the next primary is coming on.
They complain that this seems to be an
off year, and they dislike the want of opportunity
to air their privileges and opinions.
Don't joke the 'Squire too severely, when
you see him, about his official costume,
because "the boys" are continually telling
him to pull down his vest, straighten his
collar, &c. Anon.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM CHESTER.
Chester, June 13.?The following petit
jurors were drawn on last Tuesday for the
Circuit Court to convene at tnis piace on
the fourth Monday of this month : G. W.
Culp, Samuel Gunhouse, Abram Brown,
J. A. Thompson, L. B. Fennell, 0. M.
Massey, R. S. Crockett, George Beach, W.
F. Jordan, J. B. Houze, J. F. Atkinson, J.
S. Wilson, C. J. Moore, J. G. Smith, S. B.
Nail, J. R. Hickleti, John Archer, J. A.
Hafner, E. T. Atkinson, Sr., T. D. Allen,
R. H. Ferguson, I. McD. Hood, Sr., L. D.
Jtoaar, J. E. CornWeif, W. C. Gladden, J.
vv. Dye, W. B. Simpson, R. W. Hardin,
Henry Caldwell, \V. M. Glenn, J. (). Darby,
R. S. McCullough, Matthew Lynn, W.
I. Clawson, S. J. Curry, J. H. Hardin. Of
these, John Archer, W. M. Glenn and R.
McCullough are colored.
Dr. W. G. Campbell, who practiced medicine
for several years in the vicinity of
McC'onnellsville moved to Palatka, Fla., a
few months ago. While his business prospects
were good, the climate did not suit
him. In consequence of an hemorrhage
from the lungs, attributed to the dampness
of the air, he has been compelled to
return to South Carolina,and is now visiting
one of our citizens, Mr. B. M. Spratt.
If his health improves he may return to
Florida next winter, but in all probability
will remain in his native State. His
friends entertain this hope, for he is too
good a man for us to lose.
Capt. F. H. Barber, President of the
Fishing Creek Manufacturing Company,
was in town on last Thursday. lie reported
some trouble with his employees in
consequence of their uniting with the
Knights of Labor. He gave notice the
week previous to those who continued
their membership with this organization
that he had no farther use for them. On
xr 1 " fn ronnrf fnr
iUOLIUHy, ilUUUl IU1IJ' inncu ivj av*
duty, as they were unwilling to leave the
Knights. While here on Tuesday, Captain
Barber took the necessary legal steps to
secure possession of the houses occupied
by these nployees. As far as his mill
is concerne 1, he proposes to run it without
the help of Knights of Labor, or not
run it at all.
Mr. C. W. McFadden, being in town recently,
informed me in regard to the thriving
condition of the Landsford Farmers'
Association, of which he is President. The
Association meets every month, and at
every meeting an essay is read on some
subject pertaining to farming. Mr. McFadden
states that the Association has
accomplished considerable good.
The Sixth Itegiment Survivors hope to
have their reunion in August next, at
Petersburg. The realization of this hope
depend upon the railroad rates. W. A.
Sanders, Esq., is in correspondence with
the authorities as to the rates.
Mr. L. T. Nichols has been appointed
railroad agent ot this place. He will take
charge July 1st.
The following deaths have recently occurred
in this county: Mrs. Mary McKeown,
of Blackstocks, Mr. LaFayette
Bigham, of Bichburg, and a child of Mr.
Samuel McKeown, of llalselville. >i.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM ROCK HILL.
/Hock Hill, June 14.?Last Wednesday
and Thursday were the warmest days we
have experienced this summer; but on
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the temperature
changed considerably, and blankets
and fires were comfortable. A nice rain
visited this section on Thursday night, accompanied
with some hail, but no damage
was done.
During a thunder storm on Friday afternoon,
a colored girl, about 12 years of age,
living on the plantation of Mr. Peter Garrison,
in Ebenezer township, was killed by
lightning. She, with two other children,
had taken shelter under a tree irom tne
storm. A bolt of lightning struck the
tree, killing the girl and severely shocking
the other children. Strange to say, the
child that was killed was farther from the
tree than either of the others. Trial Justice
Wilbnrn was called upon to hold an
inquest, but under the circumstances he
did not think it necessary to put the county
to the expense.
f)n last Wednesday, but for a timely discovery,
the handsome residence of W. L.
Roddey would have been laid in ashes,
and under rather peculiar circumstances.
Mr. Koddey having had the floor of the
hall oiled and rubbed with cotton and
cloth, some of the cotton was left on the
first floor, and was discovered to be very
warm. It was thrown in the yard, in the
sunlight, and soon it was discovered to be
in a blaze. One of the family going to the
second story, on which the floor had been
similarly oiled, discovered a bunch of cotton
on Are. 'In this connection I will say
that insurance statistics show that a large
! proportion of the fires of the present day
j are caused by leaving greasy rags around
the houses. j
On last Friday morning, a colored worn- *
an went to feed her chickens, as was her
custom, and found several of them dead. ^
She also found a quantity of dough scatter- j
ed on the ground around the house. Soon
after, all her chickens were dead. Some I
mean, contemptible person had mixed 'I
"rough on rats" with meal and thrown it 1
in the yard. ,
>Mr. D. C. Williams, while fishing with
hook in the carp pond of Capt. J. C.
Witherspoon, on Thursday last, caught an
eel that measured 4 feet in length and G
inches in circumference.
Mutton and lamb have never been as
scarce in our market as this season. Why
do not our farmers raise more sheep? I (1
chnnlrl like tn henr frnm snnifi nf them on
this question.
The peach and apple crop is a total failure
in this section, but the blackberry crop Jj
proposes a full yield.
^rOn Sunday night, at half past 8, fire was a
' discovered under the steps of the chapel of
the Episcopal church used by the colored
people. The fire was soon extinguished. 0
Two negro boys, Cooper Berry, aged 11 u
years, and Monroe Jtawlinson, aged 13, t(
were seen lurking around the chapel just .
before the fire was discovered. Suspicion
fell upon them and they were arrested.
While under arrest they admitted that
they had set fire to the chapel, one holding f
a brick while the other struck a' match \
upon it. A large pile of shavings had li
been placed under the steps, and but for a
the timely discovery the chapel would r
have been destroyed. e
The would-be incendiaries had a preliminary
hearing before Trial Justice Whyte
yesterday and were released from custody,
the trial justice holding that evidence 4
obtained from a prisoner under arrest is t:
not competent. It is just such law techni- J
calities as this that causes Judge Lynch to f
exercise his authority. Here are two per- s
sons who admitted, in the presence of sev- n
eral gentlemen, that they set fire to a v
building, yet they go free. d
At a meeting of the town council, held
last night, it was decided to purchase a
Silsby No. 5 steam fire engine, 1,000 feet of
hose, a hose reel, and to dig cisterns, and <
issue $4,000 in bonds to pay for the same, i
One of our liberal hearted citizens has of- r
fered to advance the $4,000 and await the a
issue of the bonds. The engine has been f
ordered. Hal. s
MERE-MENTIOX. J
Nearly 3,000 immigrants were landed at
Onstle Garden last Friday. The con
stitutional prohibitory amendment has
been defeated in the Massachusetts House
of Representatives, 142 to 77, not the necessary
two-thirds of the members recorded
in favor of the measure. The New
York Tribune says that there is no legitimate
reason for the tremendous advance
in coffee. A set of speculators are lying
about the short coffee crop. They have
increased the cost of the poor man's luxury
200 per cent, in one year. Cadet Ulysses
G. McAlexander, the colored cadet from
Kansas, who will graduate this year at
West Point, stands well in his class and
among the cadets, his conduct having been
uniformly admirable. Gen. Sherman
was so pleased with the militia drill in
Washington, he will recommend that these
drills be continued at Government expense.
Two Seminole Indians, convicted
of having murdered a comrade some 8
three weeks ago, were shot by order of the
court near Seminole Agency, Indian Territory,
a few days ago. Real estate is
in demand out West. In Kansas City unimproved
lots are selling at $2,000 per foot c
front. In Chicago, improved lots com- (
mand $1,800 per foot front. The Panama J
Canal is near the end of its financial rope. L
It has spent all but $45,686,000 of the $375,- t
000,000 it has raised, and a third of this is
needed for annual interest charges. Its <
last loan sold at 45 centson the dollar. A i
Lynchburg, Va., dispatch says snow fell 4
on the peaks of Otter mountain, within
sight of that city, on Saturday, which was 1
the first snow, so late in the season, since c
1857. Among forty-five cadets graduated
from the Annapolis naval academy ]
on Thursday, are two South Carolinians? ]
Newton A. McCulley, No. 7, and Victor j
Blue, No. 30. Jefferson Davis is ex- j
pected to attend the commencement exer- '
cises at the Randolph-Macon College at s
Ashland, Va. The entire band of the ,
Apache captives at Fort Pickens, Florida, .
joined in a medicine dance on Saturday 1
night that was witnessed by over five
hundred persons. Rains have recent- c
ly fallen in nearly all the counties in Texas,
and the $rop reports are now of roseate s
hue. Many predict that 1,500,OOU bales or 1
cotton will be made this year. Mrs.
Cignarale, sentenced to death in New
York last week, will be the first woman .
hanged in that city for nearly two hundred 1
years. Reich, a Hebrew, also under sen- \
tence of death in New York, will be the "
first person of that race hanged in New 1
York, if not in all America. Leading 1
citizens of San Antonio, Texas, have been (
arrested by a United States commissioner \
for breaking up a prohibition meeting held *
on a lot owned by the United States. <
? ? , ]
To Test the Railroad Law.?A ?
Washington dispatch of Friday says: The
constitutionality of the Inter-State Com- ,
raerce law is to be tested by the railroads
shortly. The claim will be made that the s
act itself is not constitutional, and that j
its enforcement adds an additional ground 1
for the courts setting it aside. No action 1
will be taken until the commission an- ]
nounces definitely what its policy will be
upon the fourth section of the act. The '<
alleged illegal manner of execution re- ]
lates to the titles of the commissioners
to the offices. It will be urged that the
commissioners have not been confirmed ,
by the Senate, and that consequently :
their acts are void. The point is made ]
that the terms of the Inter-State Commerce
act itself require that the commissioners
should have been confirmed by
the Senate before they could act, and that j
aside from the terms of that act, inasmuch ?
as the offices are new offices, and not va- t
cancies, they cannot be filled except by
and with the consent of the Senate. This
point is based upon the provision of the
Constitution which provides in effect that "!
the President shall nominate, and by and c
with the consent of the Senate, shall ap- g
point all officers of the United States j
whose appointments shall be established j
by law. The railroads which are inter- i
ested in this movement are closely united i
in the matter, and the list does not, of ,
course, include those for which the long a
and short haul clause has been suspended. j.
A Town Jarred to Atoms.?A St. j
l'etersburg uispatcn 01 jasi. rnuay says; i
The town of Venome, in Turkistan, is a
wreck. Its inhabitants refuse the shelter of
their former hr mes and are seeking safety
in open air. Day before yesterday a slight
shock of earthquake was felt, but little
attention was paid to it. Continental papers
publish accounts of the disturbances,
but no material damage was reported.
Now the city is almost entirely laid waste ;
public buildings and private residences are
tottering and swaying, and there is not a
safe roof in the place. There are a few
houses left standing, but the people can- ,
not be induced to seek shelter in them.
One hundred and twenty persons were
killed and one hundred and twenty-five
more or less injured, half of whom, because
of exposure and lack of medical attention,
will die. The shocks still continue
at intervals. It is almoet impossible to
obtain details of the terrible disaster. It
is feared that the tale is not half told.
Kelief has been sent the stricken populace.
Slight jars are felt throughout the section
of country, but, so far as known, no further
loss of life or property than the above
has occurred.
Temperance Agitation in North j
Carolina.?On Monday of last week,
fourteen towns in North Carolina voted
I,,'*!/,*, ttfi'fli fho fnl.
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lowing result: t(
For prohibition?Raleigh, Pittsboro, s
Concord, Durham, Reidsville, Warrenton. ?
For 1 icense?Charlotte, Uoldsboro, Kins- Sl
ton, Winston, Henderson, Oxford. ^
Tie vote?Margarettsville, Salem. v
? The Presbyterians of Spartanburg seem ?<
determined to have a new church. They a
began to agitate the matter about a month a
ago and already have secured subscriptions C
amounting to over five thousand dollars. u
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
'arish & Kennedy?Our Business Is and Shall
Continue for the Good of All who deal
with Us.
iowry <fc Starr?Found at Last.
Iunter & Gates?Bargain Counter at the Mammoth.
I. F. Adickes?A Bid.
'. M. Dobson ?fc Co.?Great Closing Out Sale,
'iedmont Air-Line R. & I). Railroad?Change
of Schedule,
no. C. Kuykendal?Poultribina?Don't Spot
the Clothes?The. Great DisinfectantQuinine
and Its Kindred Alkaloids?Rare
Chemicals?Squibb's Goods?Lehn <fc
Fink's Specialties.
UNTIL JANUARY 1st, 1888.
The En'quirkr will be furnished from this
ate until January 1st, 1888, for $1.30.
~V^ ADET JENKINS.
Among the graduates at West Point this year
3 John M. Jenkins, of Yorkville. son of Micali
enkins, of the Confederate army, who graduted
tenth in a class of 04.
DIME READING.
mere win oe a aime reading at me resilience
f Judge Witherspoon on Friday night next,
mder the auspices of the ladies of the Presbyerian
church. The public generally is invited
o attend.
^7TtEV. DR.'LATH AX.
Rev. Robert Lathan, LL. D., one of the proBssors
in Erskine Theological Seminary, Due
Vest, paid a brief visit to Yorkville last week,
eaving on Friday evening. His many friends
nd former parishioners here were gratified to
neetliim, and to find him in the enjoyment of
xcellent health.
THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER.
The Charlotte Observer of yesterday contains
he announcement that the proprietorship of
ho paper has been changed, Col. Charles R.
ones, for the past fifteen years its editor and
iroprietor, having transferred the proprietorhip
to Mr. Harvey A. Deal. Mr. Deal antounces
that the publication of tho Observer
rill be continued as a Democratic journal, inlependent,
but hot neutral.
THE COTTON PLANT.
We have received the June number of the
Cotton Plant, tho first issued under the now
nanagement, and we pronounce it an excellent
lumber. Mr. A. M. Howell is the new editor
,nd he gives ample evidence of his ability and
itness-for the position. Every farmer in the
state ought to subscribe at once for this admirible
agricultural journal. Subscriptions revived
by Sam M. Grist, news agent, Yorkville.
SHOOTING NEAR MASSEY'S STORE.
Near Massey's Store, six miles east of town,
resterday afternoon, Jim Jackson, colored, ac
:useu mary nrooKS, coioreu, 01 siuuung ma
vatch. He went to her, on the public road,
lalf a mile below the store, gun in hand, and
lemanded the watch. She denied having it,
vhen he fired at her, putting the full load in
ler side, arm and breast. She made for the store
or protection, begging piteously, and he was
ilose upon her and in the act of discharging the
:econd barrel of his gun at the woman, when
lis wife came running down the road, calling
0 him not to shoot, as she had found the watch."
it seems that his step-child had misplaced it.
le then went home and gave the child a severe
vhipping. Then, fearing the consequences of
he shooting, he fled and has not been captured.
Dr. Hope was called to the assistance of the
vounded woman. He pronounces the wounds
levere, but not necessarily fatal.
CHURCH* NOTICES.
Baptist?Rev. F. C. Hickson, Eastor. There
vill be a Church meeting at Union next Saturlay,
at 11 o'clock. Preaching at 11 o'clock Sunlay
morning, after which there will be comnunion.
Services at Yorkville at 5 P. M.
Sunday-school at 3.45 P. M. Prayer-meeting
his evening at 8.30 o'clock.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J.
D. Galloway, Pastor. Services next Sunday at
.0.30 A. M., and 8.30 P. M. Sunday-school at
1 P. M.
Methodist Episcopal?Rev. W. W. Daniel,
Pastor. Quarterly Conference next Sunday,
in which occasion Rev. A. S. Cauthen, P. E.,
vill be present. Preaching at the usual hour.
Love feast at 0 A. M., and communion of the-.
Lord's Supper at the forenoon service. Preachng
at 8.30 P. M. Sunday-school at 4 P. M.
grayer-meeting this evening at 8.30 o'clock.
Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor,
services next Sunday at 10.30 A. M. and 8.30
?. M. Sunday-school at 4 P. M. Prayer-meetng
to-morrow evening at 8.30 o'clock. J
Episcopal?Rev. E. N. Joyner, Rector. Sunlay-school
at 4.30 P. M.
King's Mountain Mission?Rev. L. A. Johnion,
Pastor. Services at Philadelphia Church
lext Sunday at 11 A. M.
RAILROAD VALUATIONS.
The State railroad board of equalization met
u Columbia lust week and decided upon the
isses8nient for taxes of the railroads in the
state. There are twenty-nine railroads in
lie State, and the assessments run from $500
o $14,000 per mile. There was but little
:hange made in last year's asssessment. Last
/ ear the average assessment per mile was
S6,544, while this assessment makes the avirage
about $0,050 per mile. There are four
oads assessed this year that had not been built
it the time of the previous assessment.
The following is the assessment of railroad
iroperty in York county:
CHARLOTTE, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA.
120-10 miles, at $10,500per mile,$2157,300
Depots, 2,300
Wood and water stations, 1.050
Buildings, 850
Lots, 150?$241,050
ATLANTA AND CHARLOTTE AIR-LINK.
'8 miles, at $1:3,500 per mile, $102,937
Depots, .'. 300
Buildings, 200
Land, 400- 103,837
CHESTER AND LENOIR.
10 miles, at $2,500per mile, $ 05,000
Depots, 5,500
Buildings, 2,400- 72,900
Total valuation in county, $418,387
Other real estate owned in the county by the
ailroads named, not included in the above
issessment, is charged against them on the tax
luplicate under the head of real estate.
NC circuit court.
The summer term of the Circuit Court for
fork county will convene on the first Monday
>f July next, his Honor Judge Norton to prelide.
This will be Judge Norton's first Court
n York county since his elevation to the bench.
;,rom present indications there will be very
ittle business, eiitier of sessions or civil cases,
jefore the Court. On yesterday the following
urors were drown, by the properly constituted
luthority, to serve during the first week of the
erm :
>V. Henderson Carroll, Cherokee!/
David T. Lesslie, Catawba*.
,V. B. Boyd BetheU,
?. N. Whitesides, King's Mountain.1'
D. M. Johnston Bethel#
itufus Hunt, colored, Broad RiverI.
R. Neel, Broad Riverr
it. E. Porter, Cherokee.*'
iurton Long, colored, Catawba*rVm.
Elgin Jackson, Bethel.}r.
M. Armstrong, Fort Mill."
3imri Carroll, King's Mountain.t
3. T. Bales Fort Mill/
t. M. Wallace, King's Mountain J-'
rV. Y. White, Bullock's Creekx.
J. R. Smith Broad River/
H. White Catawba,"/
r. L. Kimbrell, Fort Millti.
M. Black, Ebenezer-tV.
A. Owens, York.1.'
V. U. Moore, King's Mountain/;
V. H. Williams, C'atawbaK
i. H. Prison, King's Mountains
Clarence S. Bratton, Bethesda*.
3. A. Crawford, Sr., Betbesda*!.
V. B. Wylie Catawba/'
JarshallJ. Merritt, Fort MilLt
'antes B. Wood, King's Mountain."'
i. A. Westbrook, Cherokedj
t. E. Shook, Catawba?-;
l. J. MeGill, Cherokee:''
[. W. Russell, Catawbaf.
II. Barry, Ebenezertohn
C. McCarley, Bullock's Creok/
ohtt Caldwell, York.\/
. Meek Whitesides, Broad River.*. RAILROAD
NOTES.
The lino through the incorporate limits of
)\vn has at last been permanently located,
tarting from the site adopted for the location
f the depot, east of the cemetery, it runs
011th 011 Church street, to tho land of Rev. L.
.. Johnson, passing east of his residence,
here it curves south-west passing over tho
,nd of John A. Latta to the Chester road,
outh of the Court House, crossing the road
bout 100 yards within tho incorporate limits,
nd thence on land of Mrs. E. M. Law to tho
heater and Lenoir Railroad, where it enters
poll the land of J. W. P. Hope, and connects
with the previous survey. The difficulty of socuring
a desirable line through a town without
entailing serious damage and great inconvenience
to owners of property will bo readily appreciated,
and in their efforts to accommodate
all parties the engineers in charge deserve
commendation. The line was perfected by
Mr. Power, in charge of this residency, and
Mr. Mosby, in charge of the Ebenezer residency,
and those concerned bear testimony to
their accommodating disposition and desire
to perform their duties satisfactory to all parties.
As located, the Charleston, Cincinnati and
Chicago will cross the Chester and Lenoir
about one-half of a mile south of the depot
of the latter, on a sub-grade 23 feet under the
track of the Chester and Lenoir. On Mr.
Latta's land there will b*e some heavy work,
there being one cut of 27 feet and a fill of 30
feet. '
Messrs. Griffin <fc Gorton have now been at
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thoroughly practical men, and provided with
all modern appliances, they have already made
much progress. For the masonry on this part
of the work, Mr. Griffln has opened a quarry
on the lands of Rev. L. A. Johnson.
Mr. C. G. Parish has taken the contract for
clearing the right of way on the work of (5riffin
<fc Gorton and Smith & Lathrop, ten miles
in extent. He now has a force of hands at
work under direction of Mr. A. F. McConnell.
Mr. Ross is now working on this side of
Fishing Creek.
C'apt. Lewis will commence placing some of
the timbers of the trestle over the creek this
week.
The Lancaster Ledger says: The trestle over
Sanders' Creek, six miles this side of Camden
is finished, and a part of tho force of Capt.
Streeter has commenced work on the trestle
over Hanging Rock Creek. There are only
four more trestles to build between Lancaster
and Camden.
Of tho progress of tho survey of the Georgia
and Carolina Midland, the Newberry Observer
says:
Mr. Win. 0. Whitner, who has been appointed
by Chief Fngineer Matson, engineer lor the
Three C's, between Newberry and Black's, has
been in town since Monday organizing his
corps and awaiting some surveying implements
that had been ordered. He began Tuesday
afternoon a preliminary survey from Newberry
toward Union.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Lancaster jail was empty all of last
month.
Thn "Ronflof nVinrnVi of TTritAn P TT fa
A. A A V/ JJUp bAOU VUU1V/11 U1/ UU1V/IJ) V? All} AC?
being thoroughly repaired.
? Anderson farmers are beginning to
complain of &n over abundance of rain.
? Col. Henry Buist, one of the leading
lawyers of Charleston, died in that city on
Thursday.
? The negroes who left Union county last
winter for Arkansas have been heard from
and they are anxious to return.
? Mr. J. W. Perry, of Statesville, N. CM
has been called to the pastorate of the
Baptist Church at Ridge Spring, Edgefield
county.
A- The Barnwell kaolin syndicate has recently
disposed of one-half of their interest
in their chalk deposit for $100,000, the first
cost of which' was $5,000.
? The Methodists of Lancaster are talking
about building a new church. A prominent
member-offers to start a subscription
for that purpose with $500.
? The surveyors running the second line
of the Georgia, Carolina and Northern railroad
have just passed Abbeville. The
new line runs through the town and gives
some of the private dwellings quite a close
shave.
? In the Court of sessions at Walterboro,
last Friday, before Judge Hudson, Cassar
White, colored, was tried and found guilty
of the murder of E. A. Morgan. He was
onntnn norl ir\ Ko Vion rrorl An fVin OAfVi Af
iv uc nau^vu vu tuv v*
August.
? On Tuesday of last week, Columbia
township (Richland county) voted on the
proposition to vote a subscription of $40,000
in aid of the Columbia, Newberry and
Laurens Railroad. The vote was 512 for
subscription to 78 against it.
'/^.During the hard storm of last Wednesday
afternoon, a boltof lightning struck the
Greenville and Laurens telegraph line below
Fountain Inn and succeeded in scattering
itself widely. It splintered ten of
the poles simultaneously, leaving them useless
wrecks.
Vv? Dawho lake, near Georgetown, is covered
with dead fish, cooters, etc. After a
terrific storm a few days ago the waters of
the lake, formerly clear and soft, became
black as ink and bitter as quinine. Amphibious
objects are leaving the lake. The
phenomenon is attracting much attention.
? Winnsboro News: A gentleman who is
a pretty good observer, and from his official
position has an opportunity to see the
crops in the various sections of the county,
informs us that he never saw them in better
fix, and that one would be well repaid
for his walk to go out and see the model
farm of Mr. A. Williford, just out of town.
? The following list shows the decisions
of the Supreme Court as reported in 24
Vol. S. C. Reports which is the last volume,
and gives the number of cases in which
each Judge has been reversed, confirmed
or modified: Aldrich?affirmed, 1; reversed,
3; modified 1. Frazer?affirmed, 5;
reversed, 1. Wallace?affirmed, 9; reversed,'!;
modified, 1. Pressley?affirmed, 10;
reversed, 7; modified, 1. Cothran, affirmed,
7; reversed, 5. Witherspoon?affirm
ed, G; reversed, 2. Hudson?affirmed, 10;
reversed, 2; modified 1. Ke/shaw?affirmed,
9; reversed, 1. Total affirmed, 57;
reversed, 25; modified, 4.
Tiie Corner in Coffee Broken.?On
Monday morning the New York coffee
market opened excited and the price went
down nearly 30 per cent., causing a panic
and the failure of several prominent firms.
There are several reasons assigned for the
panic, among which is a heavy decline in
Havre, France, where coffee is largely
dealt in, but the principal cause, accord- 1
ing to competent authority, is the fact that
the Brazilian crop, which was expected to
fall far short of that of 1886, is actually
more than five hundred thousand bags
larger. The crop year ends July 1, and
good authorities say that the Brazilian
yield this year will be six million one hundred
thousand bags.
It is also said that the "boom" was originally
engineered by a New York and Havre
syndicate, who were wise enough to retire
when they had cleared a profit of 74 cents
a pound in April last. Then the Brazilian
syndicate took hold of the market, and
have until recently had everything their
own way. The report of the increase of
ihe crop, the decline in Havre and the
^cautious action of the banks, are thought
Iby many to indicate the speedy collapse
"of this gigantic speculation.
^ Two Plows to the Mule.?Farmers
_?an save much time and labor and easily
Jceep up with their work by following the
-plan sugested below : Mr. Henry C. Ciray,
Who farms about five miles from Aiken,
invented it, and he says he wishes every
'farmer would try it and see how nicely it
-works. He runs two plows to one mule,
4-emoving tne singieirees ana nitcning the
.traces directly to the plow-frames (one to
each.) The mule walks between the rows
'of cotton and the plows turn up the right,-hand
sides one way and making a short
turn, the other side of the row going back.
Thus double the amount of work is done
in the same time, the only addition being
'a hand to run the plow. Farmers who try
this plan will have no excuse for getting
'behind in their work, or letting "General
Green" get the best of them.?Aiken
Journal.
End of a Noted Case.?On last Monday
the Supreme Court of Georgia rendered
a decision in the famous David Dickson
.will case. The testator, David Dickson, bequeathed
nearly $300,000 to his illegitimate
colored daughter, Amanda Dickson, and
her children. The Court sustains the will
and the decision makes the legatee the
richest negro woman in this country.
aST-On Saturday, Francis Patterson, a
well known character of Elmira, N. Y.t
and mentioned only as "Blind" Patterson,
received $13,322 back pension from the
government, and hereafter will receive
$72 per month. He was stricken blind
while on picket duty.
3ST- There were two new cases of yellow
fever at Key West on Monday.
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