Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, October 26, 1887, Image 2
Jwajris and ^acts,
? Counterfeit postal cards have beeu discovered
at Pittsburg, Pa., that are so skillfully
executed that their detection is very
difficult. This is the first attempt made
to nut spurious postal cards in circulation.
It is thought they come from New York.
? The Secretary of State of Texas, on the
advice of the Attorney General, has refused
a charter to a Scotch cattle and land
company with a capital of $2,000,000. The
grantingof such a charter to a foreign corporation
is declared to be contrary to the
public policy of the State.
?- Delegate Tool, of Montana, who is at
present In Washington, says that there
will be a hard fight made by four Territories
this winter for admission as States
of the Union. Montana, Dakota, New
Mexico and Washington Territory will
.. a -1-1 J
au present muir ciuiuis nuu jpicoo ui^iu
vigorously. And Utah.
?Col. Wm. McWilliams, a well known
political orator, was shot and killed in
front pf a saloon in Jacksonville, Florida,
by George Bangs, a policeman. The shooting
was the out-come of a long-standing
quarrel, and considered justifiable by many
as McWilliams had threatened to kill
Bangs on sight.
? A United States marine named Coleman,
living at Annapolis, Md., recently
refused to take pills which Dr. Gate wood,
of the navy, prescribed for him. Coleman
grew tired of taking medicine and told the
physician that it was no good. The doctor
naa him court-martialed and the Court is
trying to find out if Coleman is guilty of
insubordination.
? The United States Supreme Court has
decided to hear further arguments upon
the application for a writ of error in the
case or the condemned Chicago Anarchists,
and has set the hearing for to-morrow at
noon. The court has also decided to allow
the State of Illihois to appear in these
proceedings, and has notified Attorney
General Hunt to be present and make arSanient
in behalf of the State in opposion
to the petition for a writ of error.
? In their trade review of the past week,
Dun & Co. say: "Cotton is a shade higher,
with large speculative purchases based
on reports of damaging frosts. Sugar is
made strong by the formation of a trust to
control refining. Wool is more firm,
though not higher. The business failures
occurring throughout the country during
the last seven days number for the United
States 172 and for Canada 29, or a total of
201 failures, as compared with a total of
202 last week and 213 the week previous.'
? In the United States Supreme Court
on Thursday, Chief Justice Waite announced
that argument upon the questions
raised by the habeas corpus cases of Attorney
General Ayres and other imprisoned
State officers of Virginia, will be set down
for the second Monday in November, and
that meanwhile the prisoners will be set
at liberty on their own recognizances, in
the sum of $1,000 each, to answer the summons
of the Court when their presence
shall be required.
?Andrew Fleming, colored, was hanged
at Tallulah, La., last Friday for the murder
of Demp Benyon. A large crowd of
negroes had assembled to witness the execution,
but the law was rigidly enforced,
and only the number of persons allowed
by law were permitted to be present as
witnesses. The execution took place within
the prison enclosure. A colored minister
attended Fleming in his cell during
the morning. On the scaffold the condemned
appeared resigned to his fate, and
professed a willingness to die.
?Large consignments of whisky of
American 'manufacture sent to Germany
for storage two years ago, are now returning
on the European steamships, the
freight both ways and the storage being
considerably less than the cost of keeping
the liquor in bonded warehouses in this
country.. During the summer the owners
of large distilleries shipped their products
to Bremen and other ports for storage and
to avoid onerous revenue charges. Much
of the whiskey exported is now being returned,
the limit of time it is allowed to
remain out of the country having expired.
s ?There are no less thanl thirty-five widT~
ows of revolutionary soldiers on the pen'
sion list. .As several of them are under
80, it is not improbable that we shall still
in 1900 be paying pensions to the wives
of men who fought in a war that closed
before 1783. We now have 322,756 pen~ai
11 ??aKoKKt V?q xjCk
Bionerson iimruus, ttuu wm piuuauij ? ?? v
some 500,000 by the year 1900. The older
the veterans get, the more attractive they
become to young women desirous of insuring
themselves a comfortable income the
rest of their days. It will therefore be
well on to the year 2000 before we shall
be done paying the cost of the civil war.
? It is said that Stewart, the Wichita,
Kansas, drug clerk who was sentenced to
seventeen years' imprisonment and to pay
a fine of $20,800 for sellng liquor, is now a
clerk in a drugstore in Garden City, Kansas,
and that he was released on the payment
of $100. It is charged that he was
persuaded to plead guilty by the deputy
attorney general of the State for the effect
his sentence might have on other violators
of the prohibitory law, with the understanding
that he would have to pay only
a small amount and would not be imprisoned.
The attorney general says he has
no knowledge of such an arrangement and
he will investigate the matter.
? The excavations that are being made
at Pompeii, are giving most interesting
results. In the beginning of the month
the Borne correspondent of the Daily News
telegraphs a wooden case was dug up containing
a complete set of surgical instruments,
many of which are similar to those
used in the present day. A few days later
four beautiful silver urns of considerable
height were found, together with four
smaller cups, eight open vases, four dishes
ornamented with foliage and the figures of
animals, aDd a beautiful statue of Jupiter
seated on a throne. Besides these silver
objects several gold ornaments were also
found, such as earrings and rings. The
excavations are being rapidly pushed forward.
? The Georgia State Fair opened at Macon
last Monday under the most favorable
auspices. There was an unusually large
attendance for the first day. Jefferson
Davis and his wife and Mrs. Hayes and
Winnie Davis arrived Monday afternoon
and went directly to Capt. John Johnston's
residence. The party had lines of flowers
and one shout of cheers from Beauvoir to
Macon. An immense crowd greeted Mr.
Davis on their arrival and the city was
beautifully decorated and illuminated.
Yesterday was "Mrs. Davis* Day," she
and her two daughters,'Mrs. Hayes and
Miss Winnie, holding a public reception
in Fair Park. To-day there will be a final
review of Confederate veterans by Mr.
Davis at Fair Park.
? General Greely in his annual report of
the weather service, states that 68.5 per
cent, of the storm signals ordered during
the past year were verified by the event.
He proposes to introduce a* new class of
signals, which will indicate whether a
predicted storm is to be light or severe,
and from what quarter the wind is to
come. He will also indicate whether the
storm-centre is approaching or has already
passed the station where the signal is disf
laved. It is recommended that the West
ndian service be renewed, inasmuch as
many of our hurricanes come from that
Suarter. It is suggested that a system of
ver and rainfall stations might be devised
which would enable practiced observeis
to predict the extent and continuance
of great floods many days in advance,
and thus mitigate the severity ol
ui^aowi uuu w uwvio*
? Paul Villeneuve is a day laborer and
sexton in the village of Artigues, near
Moncrabeau, on the River Boise, in Gascoigne,
France. One day a lady from a
neighboring village, staying at Artigues,
was struck dumb with astonishment when
she perceived Villeneuve passing her
dressed in a knitted vest of the exact pattern
and color of that vest in which she
buried hpr husband two years before, the
fashion of the region being to bury the
dead in a complete suit of clothes. She
followed Villeneuve and recognized on
the back of his vest the exact mark she
had years before stitched with her own
hand in all her husband's wardrobe. She
immediately reported to the Maire, who
issued a search warrant. Proceeding to
Villeneuve's house, the officers found all I
the drawers, cupboards and closets filled c
with kerchiefs, rags, neckcloths, sheets and c
shrouds, shirts, dresses, vests, pants and t
I other articles used in dressing the dead, c
Everything was mended, brushed, wash- a
ed and ironed with the utmost care, prov- t
ing Villeneuve's wife to be a commend- i
able housekeeper. Nevertheless the court; t
sent both these grave robbers to the peni- I
tentiary for five years. F
Ibe fjbrfeviUe tfwjiiim. \
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YORKVILLE, S. . : J
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26,1887. *
THE AIR-LINE RAILROAD ACCIDENT. '
[From the Greenvillo News, last Friday.j r
It was fearful tidings that eame to the s
city early yesterday morning.
Dreadful rumors, all the more dreadful
that they were indefinite, caused people to
lower their tones and talk with bated
breath. The rumors told of a dreadful
, railroad disaster and the loss of human
lives. The true story rapidly developed,
and it carried its full of horror.
The north bound passenger train on the
Air-Line road and a southward bound
freight train, met on the track at a point
nine and one-half miles from the city, and
two and one-half miles from Greer's station.
A fearful collision followed in which
three lives were lost, one man was fatally
injured, and nine others wounded in greater
or less degree of severity. The accident
aroused tne deepest interest here, and
the entire force of physicians in the city
together with hundreds of people, actuated
by motives of charity or curiosity, visited
the scene of the wreck during the day.
Nothing else was talked of in town.
Passenger train No. 51, due here at 1:01
A. M., yesterday, was delayed by the
crowd of excursionists, returning from the
Atlanta exposition, reaching here four
hours and twenty-five minutes behind
' time. Night Operator Nicholes had or'
ders for "fifty-one" to run "four hours
and twenty minutes late." He delivered
copies of the order to Conductor C. P.
Marshall, and to Engineer Robert F. Wall,
receiving the signatures of each. The
effect of this order was to set back the s
schedule, the time indicated, four hours
and twenty minutes. This information s
was given to the officials of all trains on 2
the road. It was given to Conductor Revell s
and Engineer Joe Harris of the south
bound special freight. 2
Shortly after the passenger train with
its coaches, pulled away from the Green- 2
ville depot, the special freight rolled into
Greer's station. There were no orders for 2
it there and the operator did not meet the 2
train. Had the freight side-tracked at this
point, there would haye been no collision, c
It is probable that the freight men cal- 1
culated that they could reach Taylor's
Station, four miles this side of Greer's, (
before the delayed passenger train made t
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LUttl pUilJl>. JL1IC nam tvntu uuv u> kuu
station and on its way to Taylor's. The
two trains were off and away, each all
unaware of the terrible meeting before
them.
About two miles and a half this side of
Greer's is a long stretch of track with a
steep down grade, followed by a long curve.
It was here that the trains met. The passenger,
running about thirty milesan hour,
rounded the big curve. The freight train
rolling down the grade, with unimpeded
momentum, rushed on. Like the terrible
combat of fiery monsters, was their meeting.
The two huge engines leaped together,
and with a resounding crash and a
single powerful tremor, settled back from
their embrace. It was the work of an
instant.
In a moment, the locomotive of the
passenger train, or such of it as could be
distinguished from its fellow, was lying
broadside on the right of the track, while
the freight engine was overturned on the
other side. The fearful shock had mangled
and crushed the big machines almost
out of the semblance of locomotives. Only
a tangled mass of iron bars and iron plates
was left of them. The fires of the furnaces
soon communicated to the waste and com- ,
bustible substances arout d the engines,
leaving a smoke like the smoke of a grim
and bloody battle.
A moment of quiet followed the collision,
and then all was confusion. Back at
the rear of the train, in the Pullman cars, a
the shock was scarcely peceptible, and it t
was sometime before all the passengers be- .
came aware of the nature or extent of the t
disaster. It was but a brief interval, however,
before scores of men were alongside
the wrecked cars and working faithfully
and bravely to rescue the human beings
that were known to be imprisoned in the
debris.
It was a rare sight that met the eyes of
the passengers as they crowded from the
train. Ahead was a string of freight cars.
Behind was the train of coaches and Pullman
sleepers. Between these two lay the ,
pair of gigantic locomotives, seeming in
their death struggle and yet panting, reeking
with the fury of it. Behind the freight
engine were the wrecks of three freight
cars,and scattered all around them were the
bales and boxes of goods contained in
them. . Fire soon reached these from the
blaze of the engines, and completed their
destruction.
But it was back of the passenger locomotive
that the force of the collision was
felt. Next to the tender was the postal
car and next to that came the express car,
followed by the baggage car. These three
cars were almost complete wrecks. The
front of the long, sixty foottfnail car was
uninjured. At its rear, the express car
had accomplished a complete telescope,
the front of the express being forced half
way into and on top of the rear of the postal
car. With the mass of mingled, shattered
timbers, the two could hardly be
distinguished, there being but a wrecked
mass of debris. The baggage car was
crushed in and thrown from its trucks, but
suffered nothing like the damage inflicted
on the others.
It was known that a number of people
were in these wrecked coaches and attempts
were at once begun to rescue them.
In the forward mail car were three postal
clerks, Sheriff Glenn, of York county, and
two young men who were riding in the car
on special permits. Route Agents S. M.
Dykeman and W. R. Wilson, of Atlanta,
and James Killian, of this city, were on
duty. In the express car were Messenger
J. B. Erwin, of Asheville, his brother
Willie, his two sisters, Misses Mary and
Nannie, and his cousin, Mrs. Hampton
McDowell, of Asheville.
The shock was unexpected. Its effect is
best described through the experiences of
men who felt its effect. "I was lying
down at the rear of the mail car," said
Route Agent Killian, "when the shock
came. I was not asleep, but simply restiner.
The concussion was sharp and quick,
1 and not louc It was more like the break- j *
ing of a pane of glass by a stone thrown |
against it. Then came the crashing aud j(
crushing of the cars. I was knocked sense-, <
less then, and when I came to, found ray-1<
self imprisoned among the broken timbers ; *
of the upper part of the mail car. The I i
; express had telescoped our car, and near t
i me, caged in under the ceiling, was Miss *
Quinn, of Washington. She was crying i
i for help piteously. ]
"I could hardly tell how badly I was i
hurt, and began pushing my way out of the *
, top of the car. A little way off was Mrs. 1
, McDowell with her body severed in two. j
i It was horrible, and it seemed an hour j <
before anybody came. I succeeded at last I *
in getting out, and with the help of Route 11
i Agent Dykeman, we got out Miss Quinn. j <
i It was a terrible experience." Mr. Killian ; 1
i was injured in the spine painfully. 1
! Messenger Erwin's two sisters and his i
cousin, Mrs. McDowell, were riding in the I
i car with him to avoid the crowded train, j
j At the front of the car was a pile of bask- i
i ets of cotton samples. On these, near to t
i the ceiling, were lying Miss Quinn, Miss t
' I Mary Erwin and Miss Nannie Erwin. t
drs. McDowell had gotten up and was
lown in the car. When the two cars had
rashed together, the young ladies found
hemselves in the middle of the mail
oach, Miss Quinn being imprisoned
against the ceiling near Mr. Killian and
he Misses Erwin finding themselves lyng
near Mr. Dykeman. They were all
hree rescued without serious injuries,
diss Mary Erwin had her nose mashed,
>roducing a painful injury.
The death of Mrs. McDowell was the
nost horrible feature of the disaster. She
vas returning from the exposition at Atanta,
to her husband and five children at
\.sheville. The body of the unfortunate
ady was cut completely in twain, the
ower limbs being found on the'track beow
and the upper portion of the body renaming
among the debris of the car. Her
leath must have been instantaneous.
Engineer Robert F. Wall never spoke
>ut once after the collision. He was
nashed under his overturned engine, but
?efore death relieved him of his agony, he
ailed once aloud to Conductor Marshall,
ftl. Darnell. Wall's fireman, escaped with
ighter injuries, beiug severely scalded
ibout the head and shoulders. He will
nost probably recover.
Among the debris of the engine of the
reight was found the body of J. L. Webter,
who had his arm wounded so as to
equire amputation, and was otherwise
calded and bruised. His injuries gave
lim terrible pain and he died after being
emoved to Spartanburg.
Robert F. Wall, the dead engineer, had
he best reputation of any man on the
oad,. "He was the best railroad man I
sver knew," said an engineer who knew
lim well. He is from Virginia, but his
ocation for some time has been in Charotte,
where he has a wife and five children,
lis death will be mourned earnestly by
lis comrades on the road. His dead body
vas sent on to his family in Charlotte.
The engineer of the freight, Joe Harris,
s one of oldest engineers on the line, and
las been looked on as one of the surest.
Tis part in the affair which has so suspi:ious
a look, is regarded with surprise by
he railroad men who knew him. Claude
Ftevell, the freight conductor, is a new
nan, having been promoted to his posiion
but a few months ago.
The following is a list of the dead and
vounded, which has been gathered from
he most authentic sources, and is believed
o be complete and accurate:
Mrs. Hampton McDowell, of Asheville,
S". C., killed.
Robert F. Wall, of Charlotte, N. C., engineer
passenger train, killed.
J. L. Webster, of Columbus, Georgia,
ireman of freight, died from injuries.
J. B. Erwin, of Asheville, N. C., fracure
of left leg, and right foot crushed and
nangled. His condition was considered
serious last night.
Miss Mary Erwin, Miss Nannie Erwin
ind Willie Erwin,' of Asheville, N. C.,
ind Miss B. F. Quinn, of Washington,
slight but painful injuries.
S. M. Dvkeman. of Atlanta, mail route
igent, injured back and wounded hand.
W. B. Wilson, of Atlanta, mail route
igent, slight injuries.
Jas. Killian, of Greenville, mail route
igent, injured in spine, with gash on face
md bruises.
Ed. Parnell, of Charlotte, N. C., fireman
>f passenger, scalded in face and about
lead and shoulders, with painful bruises.
Philip Black, colored, of Charlotte, N.
3., trainman on freight, concussion of
irain.
The News of Saturday contains the pro:eedings
of the coroner's inquest over the
>ody of Robert F. Wall, the engineer of
he passenger train. The conductor, flagnan,
baggage master and porter of the
nail train, and the watchman and the
igent at Greer's, testified before the jury,
vhen the following verdict was rendered :
4Thdt the deceased, R. F. Wall, was killid
by a collision on the Richmond and
Danville Railroad, of passenger train No.
il, and a special freight train on the same
oad on Thursday morning about 5.50
>'clock, on the 20th of October, 1S87, in
Jreenville county, S. C., about two miles
rom Greer's Station, and from the lights
md evidence before us, we are of the opinon
that the collision was occasioned by
he reckless running of Conductor C. A.
ievell and Engineer J. F. Harris of the
aid special train."
The wounded, who were removed to
Jreenville,are doing well, several of them
laving left for their homes.
The conductor and engineer of the freight
rain are at their homes in Charlotte, havng
left the scene of the collision immedi,tely
after its occurrence. The Charlotte
Chronicle of Sunday contains an article to
how that while these men are to be
ilamed for the terrible accident, they are
lot to be censured. That paper attributes
he cause of the accident to the system
iow in vogue on the Air-Line Railroad by
vhich conductors and engineers are virtuilly
made train dispatchers, and throws
he responsibility for the accident upon the
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rate, the Chronicle says:
The case can be stated very simply.
Jnder the old order of things, Engineer
larris and Conductor Revell would have
>een instructed to meet and pass No. 51 at
Sreer's station. But under the new sysem,
their orders were as follows: "No.
il is running four hours and twenty minites
behind schedule time, from Greenville
to Charlotte." This notice was reeived
by Engineer Harris at Spartanburg.
The regular time for 51 to leave Greenville
was 1:01 A. M. To this, 4 hours and
!0 minutes had to be added. Then the
:onductorand engineer, by the dim light
>f their lanterns, had to pull out a volumiious
sheet containing the schedule of ten
rains, locate each train, particularly the
>ne first coming to meet tnem, make their
:aIculations and take their own responsi)ility
for the consequences.
Conductor Revell is a young man, a
'green horn" and a party evidently unitted
for the position which he held. He
lad been on the road for not more than a
veek, if that long, and of course Engineer
.Tarris assumed almost entire responsibiliy
of the train. Engineer Harris had been
'doubled" for a week past, and on Wedlesday
night he came in from Atlanta,
ested two hours and started out again on
hereturn trip. Twenty-five heavily loadid
cars in charge of a green conductor belind
him, the track in front to look after,
rnlf dead from overwork, a cold, drizzling
ain driving into his face! what wonder is
t that poor Joe Harris made a mistake in
iguring out his schedule. The running of
lis engine was care and responsibility
:nough under ordinary circumstances, but
o this was added the responsibility of
iguring out the problem: "51 is running
1:20 late; where will I meet her?" Joe
md the conductor studied the bigschedlle
sheet where "two lines must be looked
lown and four lines across," and they
limply made a mistake. No. 51 was reguarly
due at Greer's at 1:27. Four hours
ind twenty minutes late made it due there
it 5:47. The conductor and engineer of
he freight made a mistake in calculating
he time when the passenger would reach
Jreer's, and pulled out expecting to meet
;hem at Taylor's. This is the whole story,
inu wnne in snows cieany mac narris auu
[level 1 were to blame, it does not show
hat they are to be censured. Under the
iresent system too much responsibility is
ilaced upon the trainmen and to this fact
done is due Thursday's disaster.
Engineer Harris was one of the most
:areful engineers on the road, and was so
;autious and particular that he had gained
he nick-name of "the Granny." He was
i favorite among all railroad men and enoyed
the confidence of the railroad auhorities.
He can be blamed for making
i mistake, but, at the same time, the rail oad
management must be blamed for
ilacing him in a position liable to make
t. The lesson of the wreck is clearly that
;oo much responsibility is placed upon the
:rainmen.
The Chronicle says a warrant was revived
in Charlotte on Monday for the
irrest of Engineer Harris, the warrant
laving been issued by Coroner McBee,
if Greenville county. The officer in whose
lands the warrant was placed has not
ieen able to find the engineer.
? The President and his traveling comlanions
returned to Washington last Satirday
morning, having started on their
our September 30th, and traveled four
housaud five hundred miles and passed
hrough seventeen States. I
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISE3IENTS.
Glenn Brothers?New Sale Stable.
May A May?Attention Ladies.
Withers Aaickes,?Nowadays.
M. C. Willis-Notice.
Lindsay A Moore?This Way for Bargains.
H. F. Adickes?Just Opened This Week.
W. C. Latimer?Grandest Display.
James R. Kennedy, Probate Judge?Citation?
W. Norman Elder, Applicant?Allen
Bratton, deceased.
Lowry A Starr?Blue Stone.
M. Strauss?All Persons Who Have Seen.
Miss Annie Rawlinson?Music Lessons.
Walter T. Barron?Executor's Notice.
UNTIL JANUARY 1st, 1888.
The Enquirer will be furnished from this
date until January 1st, 1888, for 45 cents.
THE COLD WAVE.
The first cold wave of the season struck
us yesterday evening, having been preceded
during the day with a cool, drizzling rain, such
as usually denotes the departure of the fine autumnal
weather for which our climate is noted.
- J? FINE TOMATOES.
Mr. James A. Watson has our thanks for a
liberal present of-tomatoes grown in his garden
in this pldce. They were of the "Acme" and
"Livingston's Favorite" varieties, and of
large growth and delicious flavor.
PERSONAL MENTION.
. Mrs. Wm. B. McCaw left here last Friday
for New Orleans on a visit to her parents, expecting
to remain in that city during the winter.
Miss Ella Avery, of Ebenezer, is in York-.:n?
-vr~. r ?i, r\ Wnll.oi.
VIUC VJOltlUg xUlOitfUSCpil V* IT UlAVi
AUCTION SALE OF LAND.
On Saturdajr4*fby Joseph F. Wallace, administrator,
with the will annexed, of Edwin Wilson,
deceased, sold at public auction, at the
late residence of the deceased, on Crowder's
Creek, in the upper part of this county, the
landed prop irty belonging to the estate, consisting
of 416 acres. The tract was sold in
three parcels as follows: Tract No. 1,134 acres,
bought by D. J. Jackson at 311.75 per acre.
Tract No. 2, 125 acres, including the dwelling
house, bought by Mrs. Margia Wilson at ?17.25
per acre. Tract No. 3, 157 acres, bought by J.
F. Jackson and W. D. .Henry at ?15.25 per
acre.
^-rbEATH OF MR. LAWSON JENKINS.
Mr. Lawson Jenkins died at the residence
of his son, Mr. J. H. B. Jenkins, in Gastonia,
N. C., on Friday morning last, 21st instant,
aged 76 years. Mr. Jenkins had long been a
citizen of York county, but recently went to
Gastonia to reside with his son. A, few weeks
ago he received a severe hurt from a fall, and
on Sunday night preceding his death had a
stroke of paralysis. Mr. Jenkins was a worthy,
consistent Christian and long enjoyed the confidence
and esteem of his fellow citizens. His
remains were brought on Friday afternoon to
the residence of his son, Mr. W. W. Jenkins,
in this place, and on Saturday buried at Sharon
Church, in this county.
FARMERS' ASSOCIATION.
The following notice from the President ol
the Farmers' Association of York county fully
explains itself. He calls a meeting of the Association,
to be held in the Court House on the
21st of next month. The counties throughout
the State are holding similar meetings and appointing
representatives for the purpose
named, and it is desired that York shall be
fully represented in the State Convention to be
held in Columbia on the 1st of December:
The Farmers' Association of York County
?}n 1-1 - - x XT/%_
win assemoie tu lurKviue, uu juuuunj ^uvember
21st, at 11 o'clock A. M. Each club is
requested to send ten delegates. The object ol
the meeting is to elect live representatives to
the State Farmers' Convention, which assembles
in Columbia on the 1st of December next,
and to transact such other business in the interest
of agriculture as may be introduced. It
is hoped that the local Clubs will hold their
meetings at an early day, and send full delegations,
as this meeting at Yorkville will doubtless
be very interesting. Iredell Jones,
President Farmers' Association York Co.
CHURCH NOTICES.
Methodist Episcopal?Rev. "W. W. Daniel,
Pastor. Services every day this week at 10.3C
A. M. and at 7.30-P. M., conducted by Rev. H.
F. Chreitzberg. Services next Sunday at 10.3C
A. M. and 7.30 P. M. Sunday-school at 3.30.
Prayer-meeting this evening at 7.30.
Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor.
Services nextSunday atll'A. M. and7.30 P. M.
Sunday-school at 3.30 P. M. Prayer-meeting at
7.30 to-morrow evening.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J.
C. Galloway, Pastor. Services at Tirzah next
Sunday at 11 A. M.. and in Yorkville at 7.30 P.
M. Sunday-school at 3.30 P. M.
Baptist?Rev. F. C. Hickson, Pastor. The
pastor will be absent next Sunday, attending
the Sunday-school Convention, which meets
with Antioch church next Friday. Sundayschool
at 3 P. M.
Episcopal?Rev. Edmund N. Joyner, Rector.
Suuday-school at 4 P. M.
THE AIR-LINE ACCIDENT.
Romany persons from York county were on
bne ill-fated passenger train wrecked on the
Air-Line Railroad last Thursday morning as
to invest the occasion with local significance,
for which reason we devote considerable space
to a graphic description of the occurrence, condensed
from the Greenville JVewa. Besides the
large number of persons from all parts of the
county, the names of all of whom we could not
procure, there were from Yorkville, Sheriff R.
H. Glenn, G. W. S. Hart, Esq., and his sister,
Mr. T. B. McClain and Mr. Olivor E. Grist.
Mr. Grist is an attache of the Enquirer office,
and with the other passengers was returning
from the Piedmont Exhibition. Ho was in the
sixth car from the locomotive and escaped
without any injury, though he describes the
wreck and the mass of debris caused by the
collision, and the spectacle of the dead and
maimed and the groans of the wounded "as a
scone long to be remembered. Sheriff Glenn
made a very narrow escape with his life, he
being in the mail car at the time of the accident
and his head barely escaping the projecting
end of the roof of the telescoping car. He was
slightly stunned, and when he recovered consciousness
he found himself tightly wedged
between the broken timbers of the wreck and
within two feet of the body of Mrs. McDowell,
who was cut in two. Near him was a lady faster
d by the broken timbers, shrieking for
help, and begging to be killed. The Sheriff extricated
himself as quickly as he could, and fortunately
discovered a hand-saw, which he at
once commenced using to good purpose. He
sawed the timber from around the lady and
helped her from her perilous position, gratified
to find that she was but slightly injured. We
learn from persons who were present that Sheriff
Glenn was conspicuous, with others, by his
presence of mind and promptness of action in
rescuing endangered passengers and preventing
additional horrors to the calamity by the
spread of fire. Dr. Saye, of this county, is also
spoken of as being prompt in his endeavors to
render assistance, and it was he who removed
the upper part of Mrs. McDowell's body from
the wreck. The accident is greatly to bo deplored,
and yet it is remarkable that so many
of the passengers escaped unhurt.
v^keeting of old farmers.
""TaP. Duncan, President ol'the State Agricultural
Society, has appointed as representatives
of York county in the meeting of "old
settlers," or those who have farmed for forty
years, to be held in Columbia during the week
of the State Fair. Col. John S. Hratton, of
Guthriesville ; Dr. T. W. Campbell, of Clay
Hill; and Col. J. W. Rawlinson, of llock Hill.
The object of this meeting is thus explained
by President Duncan:
I am asked what is meant by fanning for
forty years ? I reply: The boy who began to
plough when he was ten years old, and has
made farming his life's work, and is fifty now,
I regard as having farmed forty years, and on
this basis the delegates may bo selected. Having
laid the object of this meeting before the
railroad authorities, with the showing that it
was intended to reach a class of our farmers
whom it is hard to stir out on any public occasion,
and who rarely attend our Fair, they
recognized the convention as an interesting
anxilliary to the Fair, and those whom I have
heard from have generously consented: to
furnish free transportation for the delegates,
as soon as notified of their names. As the
time is short, I must beg the counties to be as
prompt as possible.
I desire to throw out another subject for the
consideration of the convention. There was a
time during the .experience of these farmers,
when the farmers of Soutfi Carolina made all
they consumed, upon their own plantations,
excepting sugar, coffee, salt, some hardware,
and finer qualities of clothing; and tho sun
did not shine upon a more prosperous,
happy and contented people throughout tho
wide, wide world. To-day the rule is to buy
all they consume and raise just enough cotton
to get credit for another year.
Can't something he learned by the discussion
of this subject in all its bearings ? We
haye the same people, the same soil, tlie same
genial sunshine, the same clouds, and beyond
them all the same healthful, calm, pure, blue
vauft
J BURGLARY OF A STORK.
On Tuesday night of last week, the store of
J. W. Dobson, of this place, was burglarized
and robbed. Tko thief concealed himself in
the evening in an apartment in rear of the storeroom,
but a part of the same house, and after
the store was closed at night, by boring around
IKa rlAAi* lon/Unn1 intn tlio ulnrn hn
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gained entrance without difficulty. Among
the articles taken wore four pistols, a gun, a*
bag of shot, a quantity of cartridges, four
pocket knives, half a cheese, soap, ink, soda,
about ?2 in cash, and some papers that were in
the money drawer, the whole amounting to
about 945.
On discovering the robbery, next morning,
Mr. Dobson said nothing about it. His suspicion
rested on a colored boy about 19 years old,
from Chester county, named Henry Beckham,
who drove a team for him in the summer, but
who has been idle for several weeks past. On
Thursday, Beckham was near Mr. Dobson's
store, when the latter asked him to call in. Ho
was loath to enter, but finally went in, when
Mr. Dobson at once confronted him with the
theft. Beckham became very indignant and
started for the door in high dudgeon, but ho
was dotained and searched, three men being
nocessary to hold him for the purpose. On
his person were two pairs of pants and in the
pockets of the under pair two loaded pistols
which Mr. Dobson identified as his. Beckham
then saw that further denial was useless,
and he confessed to the deed, and restored to
Mr. Dobson all of tho stolen articles. He is
now in jail awaiting trial.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM BLACK'S.
Black's, October 22.?The foundation
of two piers of Broad Kiver bridge were
i found to be so defective, that the Richmond
and Danville Railroad Company is
having them rebuilt.
Each cotton factory built in the Southern
States increases their wealth in proportion
to the amount expended in building and
1 a; ii ic ?4U/v..
operating tneui, ii uu ujuic, ueoauae l11 c_y
1 are usually built with northern capital;
but it is difficult to convince the merchants
' of Black's and Gaffney's of the truth of
1 this proposition, for the reason that the
1 factories that have been built near them,
rob them of at least fifty per cent, of the
cotton crop that was sold on their markets.
Each passenger train on the Richmond
and Danville Railroad has been overloadi
ed for several days, with passengers going
' to the Piedmont Fair at Atlanta, Ga. The
, road could not possibly accommodate them
all. Many passengers were forced to ride
on the platforms and in the baggage and
express cars. Several parties from town
and many from the country bought tickets
" here and were much pleased with the exhibits
and President Cleveland and wife.
It is peculiarly strange that a city ol trus
ly southern ideas and principles and the
i Constitution an exponent of these principles
and a strong advocate of Southern
, rights, would invite Samuel J. Randall,
, the chief apcstle and apologist of the pro,
tective tariff, amongthem,asthe"Plumed
Knight" of the occasion, when the protective
principles advanced by him are
antagonistic to every Southern interest. A
i true Southerner can accept the whole plat'
form of the Republican party with more
consistency and right-reason than he can
the protective tariff doctrine advanced by
northern Democrats.
President Cleveland's Southern tour was
! skillfully planned and elaborately executed.
It shows that he is a methodical
thinker and systematic worker, and his
speeches show that he took the trouble to
become perfectly conversant with the statistics
and history of every city through
which he expected to pass.
Mr. Simmons, of Charleston, S. C., spent
1 some time among us this week, looking
for a stock farm.
1 Much uneasiness and excitement was
manifested here over the collision on the
Richmond and Danville Railroad, that occurred
at Greer's, S. C., Thursday mornincr
aa t.hpre were a creat manv from
; Shelby, who passed over the C., C. & C.
via Black's to the Piedmont Fair; also
several from Hickory Grove and other
i parts of this county. w.
Correspondence of the Yorkvllle Enquirer.
' NOTES FROM WESTERN YORK.
Hoodtown, October 22.?We are again
having some clear weather, after a few
leaky and cool days which checked the
opening of cotton, of which there is a good
deal yet to open. The cotton crop has been
picked about as fast as it opened. Our
farmers are nearly all done gathering their
corn, and the yield is much better than
was expected, after so much of the grow1
ing crop was destroyed by the freshet.
1 Several persons from .is place and vicinity,
took advantage of the low rates of
1 travel, to visit the "Gate City," whither
they went to take in the great Piedmont
? Exposition. Some of our neighbors were
i on the north-bound passenger train that
collided with the south-bound freight near
. Grier's; but fortunately they escaped with,
out injury.
Miss Joella Harmon, who has for several
weeks been lying very low at Itev. Mr.
; Ariail's, has recovered sufficiently to be reI
moved to the house of her uncle, Dr. T. S.
R. Ward, where she will remain until she
is able to go to her father's in Spartan,
burg.
Little Julia, daughter of Mr. George D.
Hood, has been quite ill for some days
' past; but I am glad to know she is improving.
1 Mrs. Ariail, wife of our pastor, who has
; been absent about two weeks, visiting relatives
in Lancaster county, is expected to
1 return soon.
The postofflce at this place has been taken
in on the route from Yorkville to Bullock's
Creek, and hereafter the mail will
be carried by the route contractor, at the
expense of the government, instead of being
paid for by private individuals as it
has been heretofore. Our thanks are due
Hon. John J. Hemphill for the interest he
, took in the matter. Rambler.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM ROCK HILL.
1 Rock Hill, October 2-f.?On last Thursday,
John Moore, of the firm of Moore &
Eskridge, sub-contractors on the Charleston,
Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad between
this place and Catawba River, came
i to town and drew from Col. W. H. Kirby,
the principal contractor, the amount of
their last month's estimate. The amount
was $1,376, for which Col. Kirby gave
Moore a check on the First National Bank
of Rock Hill. Moore left town immediofoiv
fnr thp ramn. and unon arriving
there, as I am informed, he told his hands
that Col. Kirby was not at Rock Hill, and
he could get no money with which to pay
them for the past month's services. He
then left for Lancaster, where he had the
check, given him by Col. Kirby, cashed
by Heath, Springs & Co., and left Lancaster
for parts unknown. Friday night, G.
> Kelly Moore and Richard Eskridge, his
partners, left the camp, taking with them
seven mules, six of which were mortgaged
to W. L. Roddey & Co. The aggregate
loss by several of our merchants by the defection
of this firm will be considerable,
while many of the farmers near the camp
are losers. The loss falls very heavy upon
Col. Kirby, about $2,GOO. The indebtedness
of the absconding firm will amount
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All of their employees were in town on
' Saturday with their pockets full of checks,
; which they could not get cashed. Col.
Ivirby has engaged them all to complete
the contract in his own name. Col. Kirby
' was in Charlotte on Saturday and had
just settled bills for Moore & Eskridge to
the amount of $800, when he received a
telegram from his secretary, Mr. John S.
Moore, informing him that the sub-contractors
had skipped.
Rev. W. B. Jennings preached his farewell
sermon on Sunday last, to the Presbyterian
congregation here as their pastor.
The church was filled with our people of all
denominations. Mr. Jennings leaves this
week for Macon, Ua., his new charge.
The church at this place will extend an in
vitation to Rev. E. W. Smith, of Greensboro,
N. C., to become their pastor.
On Friday last, Mr. Peter Garrison
brought a load of cotton to town. After
selling the same and making a few purchases,
he placed the proceeds of the cotton, j
amounting to $40, in an envelope, which
he put into his pocket and walked from
the store of It. T. Fewell & Co. to the postoffice.
On arriving there he discovered
that the envelope, with its contents, was
missing. He at once retraced his steps in
search of the package, but without avail.
The invitations for a dance complimenI
tary to Mr. and Mrs. Frank O. London, to
be given by the young men of Rock Hill
on the night of the 28th instant, have been
issued. A pleasant time for the young
people is anticipated.'
Mr. A. M. Young, of Charlotte, and
Miss Bessie M. Caldwell, of this place,
were married on Thursday afternoon last,
in the Presbyterian church, Rev. W. B.
Jennings officiating. The happy pair took
the 5 P. M. train for Charlotte, their future
home.
John Hart, a colored cook in t,ho cnmn of
Mr. Tate on the Carolina, Georgia and
Northern itailroad, eleven miles from
this place, was shot in the knee by a member
of the party who were endeavoring to
arrest him for attempting to shoot Mr. S.
D. Cherry, one of Mr. Tate's foremen.
Hart was brought to this place and given
apreliminary hearing before Trial Justice
Whyte, who committed him, in default
of bail, on a charge of assault and battery
with intent to kill. He was sent to the
jail at Yorkville. His wound, though
painful, is not serious. Hal.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM CHESTER.
Chester, October 24.?The first case
tried in the Circuit Court at this place last
week, was that of the State vs. Thomas
Lowry, colored, charged with assault and
battery with intent to kill. The prosecutor,
Oliver Itobbins, testified that the defendant
assaulted him with stones, thereby
inflicting serious wounds on his head. His
daughtertestified substantially to the same
fact. The defendant's testimony was entirely
different. According to his story
of the trouble, the prosecutor was the attacking
party, and he, to defend himself,
used his fist and not stones, as was charged.
The jury found the defendant guilty of an
assault and battery of a high and aggravated
nature. He was immediately sentenced
to six months in the penitentiary.
A true bill was found against Daniel Atkinson,
colored, charged with an assault
and battery with intent to kill. A true bill
was found against Thomas Graham, color
ed, charged with forgery. He made a confession
of his guilt, and was sentenced to one
year's imprisonment in the Penitentiary.
A true bill was found against William
Hughes, colored, charged with carrying
concealed weapons. A true bill was
found against Betsy Wilks, Amanda
Wilks and Henry Wilks, all colored,
charged with petit larceny. No bill was
found against Henry Wade, charged with
selling intoxicating liquors, but a true bill
was found against Dr. J. S. Crosby charged
with giving prescriptions unlawfully, and
practicing medicine without being registered.
Dr. Crosby was then tried. The
State found some difficulty in producing a
prescription that was claimed to have been
given by the defendant. It was, however,
finally produced. The State also had some
difficulty in establishing the signature of
the defendant. None of the witnesses was
willing to swear positively on this point.
The defendant was acquitted.
Argument was heard on Monday night
before Judge Wallace in a matter relating
to rights of way through the lands of A. H.
White and others by the Charleston, Cincinnati
and Chicago Railroad Company.
The company located their track and site
for a depot on the lands belonging to A.
H. White and others. They instituted
proceedings to condemn the rights of way
and lands for a depot, and obtained an
order for a jury to assess compensation for
the landowners. The latter filed their
complaint for an injunction to prohibit the
location of the road on the line selected by
the company and the erection of a depot
at the locality selected. Judge Witherspoon
granted an order for the Company
to show cause before Judge Wallace why
they should* not be enjoined. The argument
was full and exhaustive. The
Hon. M. C. Butler and Major Jas. F. Hart
represented the Railroad Company, and
Messrs. C. E. Spencer and J. C. Witherspoon,
A. H. White and others. The Judge
reserved his decision.
The first case tried on Tuesday was that
of the State vs. Amanda Wilks, Betsy
Wilks and Henry Wilks, all colored, charged
with stealing peas from Mr. Estes. The
defendants were acquitted. True bills
were found against Fox Myers, charged
with bigamy, and Charles Whitus, charged
with conducting a drug store without a
license. William Hughes, colored, charged
with carrying concealed weapons, was
tried. The defendant did not deny having
a pistol on his person, but claimed that
it was not concealed. There was some
conflict of testimony on this point. A
verdict of "not guilty" was rendered. The
next case tried was that of the State vs.
William Davis, charged with stealing a
goose from C. A. Jamieson. The defendant
admitted the accidental killing of a
goose belonging to the prosecutor, but
claimed that he put another goose in its
place. His testimony was confirmed by
that of the wife of the prosecutor. The
defendant was acquitted. The grand jury
made its report and was discharged. The
condition of the public offices, according
to their report, is quite satisfactory. The
next and last criminal case tried was that
of the State vs. Mollie Gibson, colored,
charged with arson. The Solicitor was
assisted in this case by Senator Patterson.
The prosecuting witness was Mrs. Murray,
whose house the defendant was charged
with burning on the 30th of last March.
The testimony against the accused was
entirely circumstantial. The circumstances
were those of bad feeling between the
prosecutrix and the defendant and threats
made by the latter. She was found not
guilty. The rest of the week was consumed
by the Court in the trial of civil
cases. The Court of Common Pleas adjourned
nine die on Saturday. To-day and
to-morrow the Court will give its attention
to the transaction of equity business.
Mr. 1). B. Refo, for eight years traveling
salesman for J. D. Ratterree, has resigned
his position to take effect on the 1st of next
January. He expects to accept a similar
Eosition with some Northern or Western
ouse, where he will command a more extensive
trade. He is a successful salesman.
M.
merKention.
The Georgia Legislature has adjourned
after a four months' session. Of all the
public measures discussed, none were finally
adopted. TheCourfs at Jacksonville,
Fla., decide that the standard time
now in general use there is illegal, and
that papers and criminals must be executed
and Courts convened by the old sun
time. The Constantinople police are
closing all liquorshops kept by Europeans,
on the ground that they are demoralizing
the Turkish people. A terrible epidemic
of typhoid fever is raging in Iron
Mountain village, Michigan. Over two
hundred cases are reported, and numerous
deaths. The first snow of the season
in Ohio, fell at Cleveland last Friday J.
C. Flora, the champion quail eater 01
America, has commenced the feat of eating
100 quails in 50 consecutive days. A
desperado, named Perry Ackers, in Maxwell,
Story county, Iowa, on Saturday
I night, murdered a justice of the peace and
J the mayor of the town and then committed
suicide. Hon. E. B. Washburne,
of Illinois, ex-minister to France, died at
Chicago last Friday night. Three saloon
keepers, convicted and pleading guilty
of selling liquor on Sunday in Utica,
N. Y., have been sentenced to breakstone
in the county jail for thirty days. A
Mrs. Lokey, a factory operative, fell dead,
in the Augusta Police Court on Saturday
last, just as she had taken an oath as a witness.
Amer Green was lynched at
Delphi, Carroll county, Indiana, on Saturday,
for the murder, a year ago, of a farmer's
daughter. He died protesting his innocence,
and declared that the alleged
murdered woman is now living in Texas.
The liepublican National Committee
will meet in Washington on December
8, to fix the date and place of the National
Convention. The Episcopal
Church Congress of the United States is in
session at Louisville, Ky. It is stated
on pretty reliable authority, that the railroad
magnate, Robert Garrett, is insane on
the subject of telegraphs. He has been
sent on a health excursion to Mexico.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Senator Youmans, of Barnwell county,
has made 300 bales of cotton this year.
? Guy S. Garrett, a popular young man
of Laurens, formerly a cadet in King's
Mountain Military School, has gone to seek
his fortune in Texas.
? It is estimated that Spartanburg county
will make 100,000 gallons of sorghum and
savo thereby $25,000, which would haye
been paid for a like quantity of foreign
molasses.
? The State Supreme Court has rendered
a decision affirming the constitutionality
of the Act imposing liability on railroad
companies for the salaries of the railroad
commissioners.
? At a meeting of the County Commissioners
of Kershaw, held in Camden last
Saturday, $50,000 of county bonds were issued
to the Charleston, Cincinnati and
flhipsicn T?.fn1rnarl Cnmnnnv
? The Anderson Journal earnestly remonstrates
with the farmers of its county
who, it says, are shipping away their cotton
seed by the car load for 17 cents a bushel
and depriving their land of a fertilizer of ^
incalculable value.
? P. C. Sudduth, of Greenville, a white
youth, respectably connected, is in jail
charged with having killed Joe Ferguson,
the negro recently found dying in the
woods at Chick's Springs. A gambling
party and row in the woods caused the
trouble.
? Mrs. Levi Stone, of Pickens county,
was leaning over a pig pen Thursday feeding
her pigs, when a sudden movement on
her part caused a needle which was sticking
in the front of her dress to be driven
into her heart, killing her instantly.
? According to recent statistics there are
at present in South Carolina thirty-one
cotton mills, and it takes 97,538 bales of
cotton annually to keep them running.
Our State stands second in amount of
home consumption, Georgia heading the
list with an annual consumption of 125,170
bales.
?Says the Spartanburg correspondent of
the News and Courier: Hosea Vise left this
county fifty-four years ago, with his young
wife, and went to Illinois to grow up with
that State, which was then only fifteen
years old. Fie has seen his children and
grandchildren grow up around him and
buried his wife, who was a Miss Lettie
Moore, of this county, and now has returned
to visit his native county.
? A merchant in Laurens has received
and order from a New York syrup dealer
for five hundred barrels of sorghum. This
will be converted, by the aid of sulphuric
acid and eduonsp. intn ahnnf. 1500 harrpls nf
deleterious stuff which will be returned
under the fanciful names of "golden syrup,"
"silver drips," &c., and sold, some of
it probably to Laurens people, at three
times the cost of the original wholesome
article.
? In Pickens county, one day la,st week,
a negro cabin, in which there was a sick
infant, caught fire during the absence of
the parents. Mrs. Clark, a white lady residing
in the vicinity, seeing the danger,
bravely ran into the burning cabin and
rescued the child, receiving at the same
time injuries from which she may die.
The house fell"in just as she ran out and
she was seriously burned.
? In the corner stone of the old Presbyterian
Church in Spartanburg, which was
recently torn down, there was found a
sealed glass jar containing a Bible, hymn
book, confession of faith, a church paper,
a copy of the Spartan dated September,
1844, a daguerreotype of Mr. Holmes, the
first pastor, and other things, all in a good
state of preservation. They will all be
taken care of and deposited in the corner
stone of the new building.
? George S. Turner, the owner of Valley
Falls cotton Factory in Spartanburg county,
was tried in the Sessions Court of that
county last week on the charge of murder
and found guilty of manslaughter. He
was sentenced to the penitentiary for five
years. It will be remembered that in
June last a dispute arose between him and
a German employe named Metzkie about
a settlement of wages, and during the dispute
Turner shot the German, killing him
instantly. After sentence was pronounced
notice of appeal to the Supreme Court was
served, and the prisoner was released on
$5,000 bond.
? Mrs. E. F. Willoughby, wife of T. C.
Willoughby, of Scranton, in Williamsburg
county, has entered suit for $50,000
damages against the Northeastern Railroad
for tearing up three or four miles
of railroad track leading out of Scranton
into the woods and used by her in ,
transporting logs to her saw mill. She
leased the iron from the Northeastern
Railroad. The company claimed that the
rent was due, and while her husband was
absent in Philadelphia, the railroad officials
proceeded by force to take up the
iron. She took her stand upon the track,
forbidding its removal, but the officials
took her up bodily and moved her away.
The Cost of the Wreck.?The recent
wreck on the Air Line road was a costly
one to the Richmond and Danville Company.
It is estimated that the wreckage
of rolling stock and damage to goods alone
will amount to ?25,000, and parties who
are in a position to know, say that if the
company gets out with a loss of not less
than ?50,000 it will be fortunate. The passenger
engine destroyed was one of the
large new engines built especially for passenger
service on the Richmond and Danville,
and cost $7,000. The freight engine
was an old one and was valued at ?5,000.
No attempt will be made to repair the engines
for there is not a sound piece of machinery
left in the whole wreckage. The
engines were as completely destroyed as
if workmen had taken sledge hammers
and broken them to pieces .?Charlotte
Chronicle.
BSy The corner stone of an equestrian
monument to Gen. Robert E. Lee will be
laid in Richmond to-morrow with imposing
ceremonies. Gen. Wade Hampton,
as chief marshal, will command the procession.
^
aSF* Sixteen divorces were recently granted
in one day at Houston, Texas.
Ularlitt sports.
YORKVILLE, Oct. 2(5.?Cotton, 8.60 to 8.85.
ROCK HILL, October 26.?Cotton, 8J to 8.85.
LIVERPOOL, October24.?Cotton firm; uplands,
old,
CHARLESTON, October 24.?Cotton quiet;
middling, 94.
NEW YORK, October 24.?Cotton dull; uplands
OS. Futures closed easy, with sales of
80,200 bales, as follows : October, 9.73 to 9.76*;
November, 0.57 to 0.58; December, 9.55 to 9.56;
February, 0.66 to 0.67; March, 9.73 to 9.74;
April, 9.81 to 9.82 ; May, 0.89 to 9.90 ; June. 9.97
to 0.98 ; July, 10.03 to 10,04; August, 10.08 to
10.10.
Comparative Cotton Statement.
NEW YORK, October 21.?The following is
the comparative cotton statement for the week
ending October 21,1887: 1887. 1886.
Receipts at all ports for week...271,375 265,607
Total receipts to this date 1,452,443 1,037,067
Exports for the week 176,288 147,823
Total exports to date 740,031 492,650
Stock at all U. S. ports 571,945 545,456
Stock in interior towns 124,747 102,887
Stock at Liverpool 438,000 294,000
Stock atloat for Great Britain...217,000 223,000
Spttial plotters.
Iteligious Notice.
Rev^s. J. McLeod will preach at Mount Vernon
on uJe^fifth Sunday in this month at 11
o'clock, A. M., and at Shady Grove at night.
October 19 42 2t
"We DigOur Graves With Our Teeth,"
Is a trite but true saying. Chipman's Liver
Pills relievo Indigestion and cure contingent
disorders, such as Sick-Headache, Biliousness,
Costiveness, Sour-Stomach, etc. They are purely
vegetable and will not produce inconvenience
or irritation in their action. Give them a
trial. Sold by Lowky *fe St.vkii, "the Druggists."
January 26 4 tf