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Jwajris aui i ? The accumulation of bills in the Senate and House of Representatives providing ^ for the construction of new public build- ^ ings, number 60 in the Senate, providing C{ for the. expenditure of about $13,000,000, and 150 in the House, appropriating in ' the aggregate $15,000,000. ; ? Havana is in a turmoil and on the I verge of mob violence owing to the unscrupulous acts of the present Government. ^ One day last week, there were twelve ^ murders, one suicide, eight highway rob- ti beries and four stabbing affrays. The sit- e] uation is becoming more alarming every i moment. a1 ? The Prohibitionists of Atlanta are pre- e: paring for another fight two years hence, o: While waiting for the next election they e< will devote their resources to educating la public sentiment up to the standard of s( prohibition. They propose to establish a t( weekly newspaper that will be devoted is entirely to the cause of prohibition. tl ? James Johnson, of Atlanta, sued Brad- T street's mercantile agency for defamation g! of character in publishing him to the trade, fc He lost his case in the lower court, but by ic an appeal to the supreme court he obtain- w ed a decision to the effect that Bradstreet's ? business is not a privileged one. Under a this ruling the jury gave him a verdict (1 against the Bradstreet company for $5,000. ?The tide of immigration is again at flood. During 1887, 500,281 human beings resolved that they would rather live in the United States than anywhere else in the world. The population of the United States has been more numerously recruited in earlier years, but not often. In 1880, 720,045 immigrants arrived, and in 1881 there 730,459. That was the top figure since 1873. ? Hugh M. Brooks, alias Maxwell, the young Englishman convicted of the mur- r der of Prellerand now awaiting execution in the St. Louis jail, is not at all cast down by the refusal of the United States Supreme Court to interfere in his case. He characterized the actions of the Courts as z infamous and travesties upon justice. He says that he has reason to hope for Executive clemency, and that is all that can now save his neck. C! ? The Central and South American Emi- j1 gration Association was formally organized " at Topeka, Kansas, on Thursday, with John M. Brown, president, S. W. Winn, h secretary, and James P. Berry, treasurer. j| The work of the meeting, beyond the rr election of officers, was kept secret. It is ^ said that the object of the association is to -1. colonize the negroes of the Southern States C in South America. p ? Some legislators are more favored than 1; others. Each member of the Louisville h legislative delegation received by express, a a few days ago, a case of fine whisky and a box of cigars, with the compliments of ft the* Mutual Protective Association of Louisville. Each member was also in re- 1 ceipt of a letter which advised him that b the executive committee of the association u would be in Frankfort shortly to see the ^ members. ? The wife of J. R. Howard, of Morley, " Michigan, left him recently to follow a D Mormon missionary named Smith. How- o ard organized a tar-and-feather brigade to p decorate the missionary, who appealed to ti the Howard City officials for protection. t) ?A notice was served on Smith advising him to leave the district within twenty- l< four hours or take the consequences. He 0 a showed some hesitation and was ridden w on a rail half a mile. He then concluded to go. C1 ? The Court of Appeals of Texas, sitting ti at Austin, has affirmed the verdict of the f( lower Court in the noted Thumm murder . case. Thumm, who was sheriff of Medina county, was convicted last fall of the mur- " der of J. W. Hildebrandt, a young attor- I ney of San Antonio, and sentenced to tl twenty-five years in the penitentiary. S| Hildebrandt was Thumm's third victim, gj one of the others being Fred Xiggli, a dep- , uty United States marshal, and locally celebrated, for his bravery. Thumm's fame e as a border sheriff was widespread. He I will be taken to the peuitentiary iminedi- y 1 ately. d ? Three years ago Joe Reed, colored, was 0 beating his wife when officer Frazier un- v dertook to arrest him. Reed shot and killed the officer. That same night a mob took Reed from the jail, and fired a bullet P into his head and swung him from a rope v over the suspension bridge. The rope ei- v ther broke or was cut and Reed fell into c the river. Duncan R. Dorris, a.journalist, v has now put together ample evidence to show that Reed survived both the bullet wound, the hanging and the fall, swam a ashore, was attended by a local physician, C and was subsequently smuggled away, q The doctor who dressed Reed's wounds ^ confirms the story.?Memphis Appeal. ? The two legal luminaries of the village ^ of Medina, N. Y., are having a fine ruu of P luck. A sporting man, who had been v fined by the village justice, kicked the b latter into the street. The justice had the J offender arrested and also sued him civilly for $2,000. The sport brought a coun- a ter suit for false imprisonment. ' Two a witnesses, arraigned for perjury, claimed ^ redress in $5,000 damages each. The two local attorneys?counsel for the respective j litigants?are suing each other for slander, u The wives of the witnesses have been arraigned for libeling the justice's spouse, j They have retaliated with a civil suit for e false arrest, and still more litigation is t threatened. Such jollity is unprecented in Medina's history. ? An amusing decision has recently been j rendered by the County Court of Webster ^ county, Ga. Mr. Elijah Carnes was sell- ? ing out for the purpose of moving to Texas, j and amoug his stock was a fine herd of cattle. Mr. Carnes owed considerable to 0 the merchants in Preston, and one of them attached the cattle. It was here that Mrs. Carnes appeared as the claimant of the v cattle. She said that while Mr. Carnes was paying court to her,he was not able to present her with an engagement ring, and in lieu thereof he presented her with a yearling heifer. This engagement offer- c ing grew and multiplied, and the result v is the herd of cattle which is the bone of ,, contention. The Judge awarded the cattle J, to the lady. ? A Santa Anna, California, dispatch of t Friday says: C. B. Hitchcock, an old citizen, and his wife, were murdered on Mon- Y day night by two Germans named Aush- \ lag Dyker, and the murderers were hanged t by vigilants on Thursday night. Hitchcock had sold his farm to Aushlag, and the f deed was acknowledged and the money v paid on Monday. Aushlag and Dyker ac- j companied Hitchcock and his wife home, v and that night murdered the couple and r buried them. Their disappearance awak- a, " ? 1 oMfitrxlAl An r\f f Uft hnrj f CIICU lilU suspitll/ll tUC iJCi^nuuio, ?? uv made search, and found the bodies and t sufficient evidence to convince them that > Aushlag and Dyker had planned every- j: thing beforehand, so they strung them up 0 to a tree and they were still hanging this j noon. ? So much suffering and death has been t reported among teachers and pupils in 11 Nebraska, in the late storm, that prom- J u inent people and papers have advertised e for public contributions to the heroic j v teachers and to aid those who have been j s crippled through losing limbs by freezing. ! h To secure accurate data, the State Super- i v intendent has issued a circular calling on ! all county superintendents to forward ; \ at once the names of teachers and pupils j 1] in their locality who perished in the j v storms, those who have since died from [a the effect of exposure, and the names of! i teachers who performed heroic actions in j ii saving and attempting to save the lives of s; their pupils. Full accounts are asked, and p the Superintendent urges that meritori- j e ousactsandheroicdeedsshouldbeprompt-. \ ly recognized and those left in distress bo j C promptly remembered. j$ ? Walter M. Gibson, ex-prime minister ; s of theHiawaian islands, under King Kala- i c kaua, died in San Francisco, Saturday, of j tl consumption. The body was taken to j c Honolulu for interment. The career of Gibson was checkered and eventful. He j p was a native of South Carolina, and only a few years ago was a common day laborer in u the town of Anderson. Going west, he first ^ became identified with the .Mormon dog- j " ma; but afterwards went to the Haiwaian islands, where he took a prominent part in g the goverment under Kalakaua. After1 ti le death of his first wife, who was a outh Carolina woman, he married a aughter of King Kalakaua, who survives ! im. About six years ago, after having | sen to position and fortune, Gibson visi-! >d the scenes of his early life, wearing j is honors with the modesty of an Ameriin citizen. ? Advices from the Mexican frontier say lat very unusual leniency is exhibited by le Mexican authorities in regard to the ite of the Mapula train robbers, three of j horn, Charles Smalls, Hutchison and Doc j lines, were caught, and are now injail at j hihuahua. They have all confessed, and j ieir share of the plunder has been recov-1 red. it was considered a foregone conusion after their arrest, that they would t once be shot, as a recently passed law vpressly requires, but for some reason or ther the death penalty will not be inflict3, but they will all be sentenced to hard ibor for life. Such a sentence is usually jrved out in some of the mines belonging ) the Government, and the punishment i considered equal in severity to that of le Russian exiles in the Siberian mines, he reason of the leniency shown in initiating the death penalty to imprisonment >r life, is because the culprits are all Amer:ans, with whom the Goverment did not ish to be too severe. Ihr fjarfeviHe (Sruquim'. YORKVILLE, S. C. : WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1,1888. A "GREEN GOODS'' VICTIM. County Commissioner Perkins,'of Lanaster, has suddenly acquired an unenvible notoriety by the-avidity with which e swallowed the tempting bait of a New 'ork sharper. On the 24th of December, e left Lancaster for the purpose of deposing with the Boston Safe Deposit and 'rust Company the township bonds of janeaster county in aid of the Charleston, Jincinnati and Chicago Railroad. It apearsthat he performed this duty prompter and satisfactorily, but on his return ome^ie decided to stop over in New York nd spend a day. While sauntering along Iroadway he was met by a "saw dust" or green goods" swindler named Rogers, 'he latter said he had met Perkins before, ut Perkins could not remember Rogers, ntil he explained that he had formerly een a merchant in ChaiJeston, and had let Perkins in Lancaster. Rogers then rought about a confidential conversation ffering for sale "green goods," and exlained the utter impossibility of deteciou. Perkins became interested. Rogers ikl him that Government officials devoid millions of green goods yearly to their wn private use, and there was no reason /hy Perkins should not make money, too. So plausible was Rogers' story that the upidity of Perkins yielded, and on his ream home he secured four hundred dollars >r the purpose of investing in the temptiggreenbacks. On Sunday of last week e returned to New York and again met Rogers, but detectives were watching lem. Perkins sent a messenger to Wall ireet on Monday and exchanged $280 in ilver for bills. All the arrangements for tie transfer of the green goods were eflectd and the exchange was to be i made at )esbrosses ferry. At the ferry the pair /ere arrested. Rogers tried to shoot the etectives, but the revolver was twisted ut of his hand as it went off. No one /as hurt. At police headquarters Rogers /as searched and $400, which Perkins had aid him for green goods valued at $4,000, /as found. In Perkins' valise the stuff /as found. As usual the packages of bills ontained blank green paper, with but $32 /orth of bills around them. Rogers was sent to police headquarters nd Perkins to the house of detention. )n Friday the case was brought up in the 'ombs Police Court, before Police Justice Velde. Perkins made a statement explaining the circumstances attending his lurchase of the "green goods," when he i-as subjected to the following catechising iy Lawyer Hummel, as reported in the Vorld: Mr. Hummel, in soft, persuasive accents nd with much apparent friendliness, got t him and elicited the information that ie was a farmer and owned a saw mill. "Oh, you do?" said Mr. Hummel, raisng his eyebrows and smiling sweetly. And you hold a public office?" "Yes, sir; I am County Commissioner of jancaster county," said the astute Southrner, looking as if he wished very much hat he wasn't. "What are your duties?" "Well, I have to take care of the buildng of the county roads and look after the aupers, and I have charge of the county tonds and finances. I look after the buyng and selling of bonds." "The office?let me see?is an elective ne?" "Yes." "Then you possess the confidence of the oters of Lancaster county ?" "Yes, sir, I do. And 1 deserve it." "Ah ! You are an honest man ?" "Yes, sir, I am." "Now, Mr. Perkins, I suppose you are onversant with the laws of the land, t'hich make it a felony to have in one's possession or to utter or pass counterfeit noney?" "Well, no; I don't know much about hem." "What! Do you mean to tell us that ou, a County Commissioner, and having j n charge the county finances, don't know he laws against counterfeit money ?" Mr. Perkins hemmed and hawed and inally owned up that he didn't know it ras unlawful to deal in counterfeit money. Jut he had not attempted to purchase rhat he understood to be counterfeit noney. Well, what had he come to New fork for? To get "green goods," he said. "What did you understand green goods o mean?" No answer. "Vegetables?" > 17 auongi* x neres? Dress goods? Beans? Any kind f wearing materials?" asked Lawyer fummel, impatiently. No, it wasn't exactly that. It was a ;ind of money, he admitted; and he tried o explain that it did not come within his inderstanding of counterfeit money, beause it was too good a counterleit; it rould pass for real, and therefore he conidered it equivalent to good money. lie lad paid 8100 for what he supposed to be irtually 84,000 of crisp new bills. Then Lawyer Hummell swelled with 'irtuous indignation, and the South Caroinian found that his soft-spoken friend ras an enemy in disguise. "After this nswer," said the lawyer, "it would be an nsult to your Honor to prolong this examnation. This honest, respectable, pseudo awdust farmer-financier insults the exierience and every day common sense of very person within the sound ol my oice, when he tries to impose upon the fourt by urging that he came here to buy 4,000 in good money for 8400. The widest tretch of your legal imagination could not onjure a case of larceny from these facts hat would hold water in any criminal ourt. I ask you to consult the District attorney if you have any doubt on this oint. He must sustain me." Justice Welde then adjourned the case ntil Saturday morning, when Itogers was ischarged from custody and Perkins told o go home. Justice Welde refused to rant an order directing the 8400 to be reLirned to Perkins, saying that Perkins had 110 standing in court; that he had j tried to procure counterfeit money with J which to cheat his neighbors. It now ! seems that the sharper will retain the $400, ^ while Mr. Perkins will return home a ! m sadder if not a wiser man. j ^ THE BLAllTBILL. J( The Blair educational bill is the only question which seems to absorb the attention of Congress, it now remaiuing, as for ^ three weeks past, the unfinished business j. of the Senate, Mr. Morgan, of Alabama, P speaking against it last Monday. The (.J bill meets with considerable opposition "\\ on the Democratic side of the Senate, I ^ the principal argument useu ny 11s opponents being its unconstitutionality. This, however, is specious argument, ^ when it is remembered that AttorneyGeneral Garland and Associate Supreme T justice Lamar, give it their hearty ,, concurrence. The bill is also supported h by Senator Hampton, and no one is more heartily in sympathy with its provis- Jj ions than ex-Governor Thompson, who, when State Superintedent of Education, appeared before the Congressional Committee of education, and in advocacy of og the measure said: j. "First. That the State of South Caroli-Sv< na is now doing all in her power for public education. Secondly. That it is impossible in her S( impoverished condition for her to furnish 11 the means of education to the masses of 11 the children; and ?' Thirdly. That the aid we ask for, if se granted at all, should be granted imme- M diately." tli The Richmond Dispatch quotes with hearty commendation the remark of the Memphis Avalanche that, "if national aid tc to common schools encourages mendican- o' cy, State, county and city aid must do the Si same thing, because the same people who pay the local taxes pay the national taxes." c The Danville Register says thereupon : "Certainly they do, but the trouble is ^ that, in the South, the white people have A to bear the burden of educating the na- ' tion-'s wards, and we think it is high time L that those who emancipated the negro ' were contributing something toward his education. The Blair bill must pass." The Dispatch closes the argument thus: ' "Yes, as in substance we have said heretofore, whenever you hear a man say that v the Blair bill is a bill to promote mendi- <ji cancy, you may set it down that he be- c lieves the public school system promotes 1 mendicancy." The editor of the Carolina Spartan, him- C( self an earnest supporter of the bill, sounds a the key-note of the opposition in the fol- h lowing paragraph: "There seems to be little doubt as to the E educational bill passing the United States c Senate, but its opponents hope to smother C it to death in the House committee. The opposition comes from two sources. Those G who believe that public money should be used only for governmental purposes op- >: pose the measure, saying that if you appro- la priate money for education, you have a i3 right to take it for any other purpose. Some of these same men are in favor of e] fostering monopolies, voting large land c( grants to railroads and otherwise enrich- ti ingthe few at the expense of the many. g( In the South there is a large number of n persons opposed to education at the ex- ,, pense of tne State, believing that the par? ? * -?!? ?. ah Kin n/ln rtn t n ^ ^Ut WI1U 15 UUWI1I11J?? \Jl uuauic iv ^uuvaiv . his children should have no help. They believe that ignorant, uneducated people u make the best laborers, and that when the e.' spelling book is put into the hand of a negro, a field hand is spoiled. From 0 these two classes comes the opposition to tl the Blair bill." c] PER EM PTOHlfcH A LLEXtiES. ?0 An exceedingly nice question will prob- p ably arise as to the application of the Act C( of the last Legislature to reduce the num- a, ber of challenges allowed the accused in \ certain criminal cases. Forexample, sup- / pose a prisoner is arraigned for trial, at some of our approaching terms of court, d for murder. Suppose that the killing oc- n curred before the recent Act was passed, ti or had gone into effect. To what number tl of peremptory challenges is the accused en- e< titled? Will he be allowed only ten, ac- p cording to the law at the time of his ar- a raignment, or twenty, as the law stood at ei the time the homicide occurred? When a a person is accused of a crime, it would S( seem hard that the Legislature should have the power to reduce the number of *v his peremptory challenges. Iftheymaybe , reduced from twenty to ten, there is nothingto prevent the Legislature from reducing them even to one or none at all, if it should be desired to obtain the con- C( vietion of some prisoner. Of course this tl is not likely to occur with honest legisla- a tors; but the question is, have they the a power? If the courts hold that in the f< case we have supposed the prisoner is en- " titled to only ten peremptory challenges, [j it gives this power to the Legislature, a And yet it is probable that the courts will S! feel bound to declare this to be the law, tl and hold that the accused is entitled to ? peremptory challenges according to the j* law at the time of his arraignment, and not at the time the crime was committed. There is nothing in the nature of a contract between the prisoner and the State, p by virtue of which he can claim the num- p ber of challenges to which he would have been entitled at the time of the perpetra- .. tion of the crime. The State does not say ' "if you will commit this crime, I promise , /iLnllArtrv/ia tl'Lnn tTAIl O fA ntlf " J'UU t'linucil^co >*ncu wwt ui V/ |vv?v on trial for it." The Constitution declares sl that the accused shall have a trial by jury. ai The Legislature declares that upon ar- (1 raignment he may have, in certain cases, Cl twenty peremptory challenges; this priv- ? ilege,vgranted without a consideration, may be revoked by the same power by <1 which it was granted. At any rate, how- J ever, the courts may hold on the question, u the point is a nice one for some of our h subtle attorneys to discuss.?Columbia tl Register. ai T The Proposed Negro Exodus.?An : Indianapolis dispatch of last Friday says: u Col. A. A. Jones, of the State Auditor's g office, who is connected with the latest u proposed exodus of negroes from the Southern States to South America, talks ^ freely about the scheme. He is an active friend of all movements for the improve- ]J ment of the condition of his race and was jc engaged in the first exodus of 187!). t] "This exodus," he said, "will be effect- Ci ually pushed, and by May 1 we expect to tl get our first party on the road. There are st no headquarters as yet; the movement is very young?less than a month old. So Jl far as active work is concerned, headquar- ? ters will be established probably in New ,, York. We shall have three agents in Cin- ti I cinnati, one at St. Louis and one at Chica- p go. I am agent at this point. We have b some of the best people in the country in- A terested; men who are willing to go down 11 into their pockets for the relief of their oppressed brethren. "We have selected South America for a t location, because of the climate and the w I adaptability of the soil to produce such ar- (l tides as the colored people are accustomed . . ..'..A _ ii to raising, wo nave liivesugauju me w country, and received favorable reports. Our people do not want to come North and West because of the climatic conditions, and because the prejudice against a black face follows them even there. In South America, as well as in other parts of the world, the color of the skin does not bar a n man out of the race for the best. n "We shall start our emigrants from nr Eastern points. We have agents at work tl in the South now, and we shall get as b many emigrants as possible out of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, while not m neglecting Missouri and Kentucky, and n if there is not a big emigration before next d summer then I miss my guess." ii The Sumter Rioters.?K. Penning- .i( ton and John It. Keels, two of the parties w i implicated in the Sumter shooting affray t( by which Trial Justice Haynsworth lost d his life, have been admitted to bail by C Chief Justice Simpson in bonds of SI,000 o each. JIarby and Bowman, the other two o rioters, made application before the Chief ft Justice yesterday for bail. a LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. r. C. Latimer?Below Cost!?Pay Up ! eo. T. Sohorb?Wind won't Fatten ! ay it May, Wholesale Agents of B. B. B., Atlanta, Ga.?Blood Poison. [4th page.] 10. C. Kuvkendal?"We are all growing old Together." lines B.Kennedy, Probate Judge?CitationHarriet J. Bratton, Applicant?John S. Bratton, deccaiwd. 'ithers Adickes?JVecontinuoto receive new Goods. W. Dobson?Roland Chilled Plow, arish it Kennedy?Sour Crout. owry it Starr?To Physicians. . C. Leech?Warning. falter B. Moore it Co.?Strike in York county, ay it May?To suffering humanity, unes K. Kennedy, Probate Judge?Citation? J. Frank Ashe, Applicant?Dr. W. G. Campbell, deceased. \ M. Walker?Spanish Ground Peas. . 11. Harris, Pineville, N. C.?'Two Horse Farm for Sale. "\r i^AiioAn .tr Oa? ?*!?<* flitt rnnkp.t am i-'v>uou11 iv gun uuu m ?i?w ? ? prices have done. . F. Adickes?Just received this week, unter ?fc lOates?Walk in, tumble in, anyway to f?et in and secure the bargains, cnnedy Bros. <fc Barron?Plows?Seeds. . Strauss?In reply to Inquiries. THE SUPREME COURT. Tho Sixth Circuit will be called at tho April rm of the Supremo Court 011 Monday, May th. Tho time allowed for tho Circuit is four ?ys. THE ROCK HILL. FOSTOFFICE. Among the recent nominations sent to the mate by tho President, was that of Miss uena Yista Wood to bo Postmaster at Rock ill. The ovidcnco of Rock Hill's prosperity, 1 the fact that it is a Presidential postofTiee, lems flfcnu by tho "It. II. !an" when he appeared in tho dream before le "Yorkvillo Man.*' CHURCH* NOTICES. Episcopal?Rev. Edmund N. Joyner, Recr. Services this (Wednesday) afternoon at 4 clock, and on Sunday at 11 A. M. and 4 P. M. iinday-school at J P. M. Associate ReTormed Presbyterian?Rev. J. . Galloway, Pastor. Services next Sunday at A. M. Sunday-school at 3.30 P. M. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor, o service next Sunday morning. Services in to evening at 7 o'clock. Sunday-school at P. M. Prayer-meeting to-morrow eyening at o'clock. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. W. W. Daniel, astor. Services next Sunday at 11 A. M. and P. M. Sunday-school at 3 P. M. Prayerleoting this evening at 7 o'clock. Baptist?Rev. F. C. Hickson, Pastor. Serices next Sunday eveningat 7 o'clock. Sun*y-school at 3 P. M. Prayer-meeting this rening at 7.15. V PERSONAL MENTION. Prof. R. J. Herndon returned with his acnnplished bride on Wednesday last, and gave pleasant reception to a number of friends at is iatner s resilience, on vveunesuay uvcum^. We received a call this morning from Mr. W. . C. Lyons, of Centralia, 111., who is In South arolina visiting relatives and friends in York, kester and Fairfield counties. Mr. C. A. Sanderson, proprietor of Whately len summer resort, at Whately, Mass., is in orkville, visiting his friend, Mr. S. Anderson IcEhvee. Mr. Sanderson was in Yorkvillo ist April during the excitement attending the inching of Giles Good and his companions, fter learning all the facts pertaining to that pisode, as a fair-minded Xorthern man, he irrected many misrepresentations made irough a portion of the Xorthern press,having len for himself that neither political feeling or race prejudice precipitated the affair, hut lat in all the circumstances the lynching ould have been inevitable had the offenders een white ineu. Mr. Sanderson took home itli him the limb on which Giles and two othrs were hanged, had it worked up infancy arcles, several of which are now in the Sheriffs (Tice, and may be seen thero for a few days by lose having such curiosity. Among the artiles made from the limb are three police clubs, ne of which ho presented to Town Marshal 'Farrell, 'yvhich he now carries, and in the osscssion df wlytehjie 110 longer feels thene2Ssityof kwpingnftiis pcfokot a rabbit s foot 3 a charm. / THE ECLIPSE OF THE MOOX. The sky was cloudless last Saturday evening, 111s affording a fino view of the eclipso of the 10011, which began-about 6.30 P. M., and connued for about two hours. When first seen 10 moon had a mottled appearance, but as the dipse bccamo total, this changed to a red low, the dark shado across the moon's disc isappearing slowly. A feature of the phenoninon was a luminous line extending the entire istance of the lower edge of the moon, which lenied to have an oscillating motion. It was robably the finest view of a lunar eclipso ever 'itnessed in this section, and the effect was cautiful. The following brief explanation of io phenomenon will bo of interest: "As tho sun and the earth are both round, 10 shadow cast by tho earth is an immense one, tho appex of which is on a straight line iirough the centre of the sun. This apex is bout 858,000 miles beyond tho earth, and the ngle at tho apex is only about one and onomrth degrees. Now the moon is only 238,800 liles from the earth, and as it revolves around tie earth it must necessarily pass sometimes iirough this immense conical shadow. At a istanee of 238,800 miles from the earth, that hadow measures over 4300 miles across, while io moon measures only about 22(H). It is posible, therefore, for tho moon to be entirely wallowed up in tho shadow, and when this appens we have a total eclipse." RAILROAD NOTES. The work on the railroad in this vicinity is rogrcssing very satisfactorily, the contractors ot having been seriously delayed on account f tho weather. Oapt. Lewis is now placing the mbers of the bridge at tho crossing of tho hester road, and it will not be a groat while efore tho old highway, obstructed since last iimmcr, can be resumed. GrifHn it Gorton re making good time on their work of graing, as also are Smith it Lathrop. The grading ontracts of these tirms extend about eleven liles west of Yorkville. The Johnson City, Tcnn., Covict of last Thursav says: "Capt. II. Lumsden and Capt. W. . Johnson, came in from the Breaks last Satrday, and spent two days in the city, returnlg Tuesday. Capt. Johnson has the lino of io Three C's located beyond tho mountain ad is pushing tho work in Kentucky. Capt. iiimsden is working a forco of hands grading io lino in tho Breaks, and reports work proressing as rapidly as circumstances and the eather will allow." The (enfrytyin^nlon|. of the Columbia 'ef/i.ftcr writes under date of Thursday: "Now there are only two pieces of tho roadcd untinished between Camden and Lancasir?one cut on the fourteenth mile, which will o finished in a day or two?any way, by io time tho tracklayers get to it?and the large nt at Hanging Rock, which will be finished lis week. It is very probable that a regular :hedule will be running between Camden and ancaster on tho 20th of next month. Col. ohnson, who arrived last night, seems woll leased with tho progress and is enthusiastic rer tho future prosperity of the road and eominnities through which it will run. He hopes lat Sumter will subscribe something, and roiniscs, if done at once, that the road will be uilt from Camden to Sumter by July or ugust. Tho authorities have under adviselont an oiler from a large contracting coinany, whoso plant Colonel Johnson saj's is ortli ?750,000, to finish the road from Aslimd, Kv., clear through by January, 1889. his company, if they get the contract, will ork nt night, by eloctrie lights, as well us uring tho day, and will offer a good guaranie to finish it by January, 18S!>, never mindig tho tunnels and other difiicult pieces of ork." Corresjiuudi'iice of the Yorkville Enquirer. y LETTER FROM ROCK HILL. Rock Hill, January 00.?The com mi t?e appointed to solicit subscriptions to the ew cotton factory have already secured ear ?50,000, and have in view ?25,000 lore. Work will soon be commenced on te building, and it is expected that it will e completed in the next four mouths. Mr. F. II. Barber has placed in Laurel ood Cemetery at this place a handsome lonument to the memory of his two aughters. The monument is the largest i the Cemetery. The Missionary and Sunday-school Un)n of the Chester Baptist Association met dth the church at this place January 27th ) the 29th. The Union is composed of elegates from all the churches of the hester Association, and meets generally n Friday before every fifth Sunday. Its bjects are to discuss and formulate plans >r carrying on successfully missions, home nd foreign, education, Sunday-schools and other work carried on by the church A goodly number of delegates, botl clerical and lay, were present from the va rious churches of the Association. Rev J. I). Mahon was re-elected Moderator an< S. Cryder Sturgis, clerk. The special order, State Missions, wa taken up and discussed by Revs. F. O. S Curtis, J. D. Mahon and R. W. Sanders Quite a spirited discussion was had nex on the permanent endowment of Furmai University. Discussion opened by Rev R. W. Sanders, who was followed by oth ers on the same subject. Home Mission received attention next and some fact and figures were presented showing a vas amount of destitution yet in the Southeri States, esneciallv in Louisiana and Texa? Statistics were read giving evidence o the excellent and lasting work done by th Home Board of the Southern Baptist Con vention to give the gospel to destitut places in the Southern States. Sunday-schools were next discussed, al ter receiving reports from the differen schools. Satisfactory progress is being made aloni this line, judging from statistics presented A mass meeting was held at 7..10 Satur day night, in theinterestof Woman's Mis sion to Woman, at which stirring speeche were made by Revs. Messrs. Hinton, Ma hon, Curtis and Sanders. The Union then adjourned to meet a Mt. Zion, Chester county, Friday befor the fifth Sunday in April, 18SS. The following clerical delegates were ii atttendance: Bcvs. L. C. Hinton, J. C Adams, F. O. S. Curtis, J. I). Mahon am It. W. Sanders. A missionary sermo was preached on Sunday morning by Rev J. D. Mahon. Services were conducted a the same hour at the Methodist Churcl by Rev. R. W. Sanders; also at the coloi ed Baptist Church by Rev. F. O. S. Curtis Collection was taken on Sunday for th permanent endowment of Fur man Uni versity. The weather was all that could hav been desired, and the attendance on th Union was remarkably good. Muchgooc no doubt, will be the result of the meetin in the growing and prosperous town c Kock Hill. Hal. For the Yorkvillc F,nqnirer. STUDYING THE FINANCES. chapter ii. Editor of tiie Enquirer: I heartil, concur in the sentiment expressed by th honorable Senator from York, "that th facts should be correctly stated, and lc the people judge fairly, as they will do.' The Senator says that I "made many errc neous statements." If I did, and mad them purposely, there can be no excuse fc me?nothing will justify willful misstate ments,by whomsoever made. Herein m position differs from that of the honorabl Senator?I can be excused for an errone ous statement, due to lack of informatior Not so with the Senator?it was his dut to be posted op these matters. But, did make any erroneous statements? And,more important still?has the Senate made any ? Now, in order to show an alleged savin of $8,100, the Senator says that a "1 mi raises $2,600, this for four years will rais $10,400, from which deduct $2,300 for d( ficiency, and you have a saving of $8,100. The Senator may not call it an "erroneou statement," but the $2,300 deficiency is deficiency due to insufficient levies fc three (not four) years?f. e., from Noven ber 1, 1884, to November 1, 1887. If w are to deduct anything from $10,400, w must assume that the rate of deficiency i uniform, and deduct ($2,300 plus $766.6( $3,066.66. $766.66 is an "erroneous state ment" of fair proportion, not altogethe overshadowed by a still larger "erroneou statement" of not less than $2,880! Fellow citizens, do you save the E> quirer? If you don't, you ought t( You could then turn to its columns an ascertain that the "unappropriated ba ance" of the "ordinary county tax," o ^November l, 1884, was j. aum that a large number of unpresented clain; was then outstanding.. The County Con raissioners 'have always asserted that th unpaid claims would not reduce the $7 421.20 below ?.'1,000. The County Treasu rer, however, in his report, in IMarcI 1885, shows that ?2,880 is nearer the exa( figures. He reported on hand (count fund) ?1,430, and new claims paid ?l,59i making ?3,025. The error of the Count Commissioners lay in notdeductingcertai receipts (fines from trial justices, <&c,) suff cient to reduce the ?3,025 to ?2,880. Lc us re-model the Senator's statement: 1 mill raises ?2,GOO, this for three years wi raise ?7,800, from which deduct (?2,300 fc deficiency, and the surplus of ?2,8S0) ?5,18( and you have a saving (?) in three yeai of ?2,G20, including the amount withhel from the "outside poor" (who remaine with us)! The word "saving" means one thing t the Senator, to me quite another. Ther has been in his eyes "a saving," when th levy has been reduced. It takes a redui tion in the expenses to satisfy me. But, w can not definitely fix the loss to the count from her inability to "pay as she goes. Is it saying too much to assert that ever bridge built on credit, costs the count forty per cent, more than it otherwis would ? "Let the people judge"?will nc ?100 cash build the same bridge that woul cost ?140 on credit? It was "a pretty pi< ture." View it from this standpoint: i\ the commencement of the Senator's tern there was a surplus in the treasury ( ?2,880; at the end of the third year th surplus is all gone, the county is ?2,300 i debt and has gone to borrowing monej upon which she must pay 7 per cent, ii terest! Are the gentlemen who are r< sponsible, pleased at that view of things "What will the jurors who had to discour their pay certificates last summer sa when they speak ? The Senator says: "The county lev from 187G to 1884 was 3 mills." Now, m tax receipts lie before me, covering longer period than that mentioned by th Senator. What a pity he did not consu his tax receipts?they would have save him (living in a glass house) from throw ing stones labeled "erroneous statements': They would have shown him this: Count levy for 187G (i. e., November, 187G, to Nc vember, 1877) 21 mills; 1S77, 2 mills; lS7f 2 mills; 1879,2 mills. The Senator says, too, that my crit cisms of his letter were inspired by hosti ity to himself. In the first place, I den ic; in the second, there has been no caus for personal hostility between the Senate and myself. That does not deter me froi saying, however, that his attempt to mak me say (by implication) certain things i my first communication, is hardly fail For example, he says that he is not a "office-seeker." Well, I never said, di rectly or indirectly, that he was. Ther is, then, no issue between vs. If he was nc an oflice-seeker,?not using the term in a offensive sensc?thcn the office sought him The honorable Senator has the righ to say that much for himself, and he ca settle that issue, if any, with "the people': Another example: I never said that tlr past indebtedness of York county was *G,0()(. There was not a word or line calling ii que?tion the statement of the Senato that $2,300 was the deficiency. I acceptci that statement of the Senator as correct and have not even attempted to verify it Still another: The Senator says, refer ring to me, "he intimates that the sami Legislature that stopped the printing o these reports, was the one that first re quired their publication." "Let the peo pie judge" whether, in writing, I inti mated anything, or, desirous of drawinj their attention to a particular matter, sai< what I wanted to say in that plain Englisl that then understood, albeit a sensitive Senator imagined that something else wa: implied. Perhaps I was mistaken, but . thought 1 was doing somo pretty plaii a?11_: t T-'n. infnriYlfltinn r>f in V fol let 1 K I 11 ^ ? KJL L 11 v. luiViuiv?v<v/M ?- ^ low-citizens, I will remind them that th< County Commissioners' reports alone weri published from 180!) to 1SS3, when, b? some law adopted in 1S82, the reports o the Treasurer and School Commissione were also published. In conclusion, the people, at least, wil not question my right to look into thi condition of the county's finances. Still I did not enter upon "a careful stud^ of these important matters," until the hon orable Senator had exteuded an invitafio) to "the people" so to do. He may nov sneer at what 1 call "studying the finances and ridicule the idea of my attemptin; such a thing. To my fellow-citizens, . . | have simply to say that I have done the .1 best I knew how, getting my information - j as best I could. Sneer on, Mr. Senator? . I am content to know that when you speak 1 of the people, I can proudly subscribe my; Self? OXF. OF THEM. s ! . ' | SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ' I ?Mr. J. Witherspoon Ervin has moved t<from Morganton, N. C., to Darlington. f ? Fishing Creek cotton Aictory, in Ches^ aer county, is now illuminated with eleeg trie lights. s ?There are 771 tax defaulters in Abbet villecounty. Or these 74 are on real estate n and 700 on personal property. Mr. John Outlaw, of Chester county, is f probably the oldest man in the State. He e was born in 1770. Ife was a soldier in the - war of 1812. e ?Dr. W. F. Kirkland, Jr., and Mr. | i"Tampion Jjuwiou, wiiu aovciui .ycaia - left Barnwell county to go to Florida, have t returned to their old homes richer only by experience, p ? Jesse B. Mobley, aged GGyears, a prom[ inent citizen of Lancaster county, and his sou, a youth of fifteen, died within fortyi_ eight hours of each other last week, both s of pneumonia. C'apt. Tillman has published a lengthy t letter in which he says in effect that he e will no longer agitato the questions on which he has been speaking and writing Q for the last three years. U ? Itev. J. II. Sayc, of Chester county, d probably the oldest Presbyterian minister n in the State, celebrated his golden wedr. ding 011 Monday last. lie has been the t pastor of Fishing Creek Church in Chester h county, for ovw forty years. * ? On Thursday, Mrs. Kirby, a widow ' lady living in Spartanburg county, left 0 her eighteen-months-old infant in charge l" of her other children and went to visit a neighbor. During her absence her baby 0 fell in the fire and was burned to death. ,e ?Mrs. Minnie Franklin, who is wanted ^ at Walhalla, on the charge of effecting the ^ escape of prisoners from Walhalla jail, one of whom was her husband, was arrested in Atlanta and locked up last Monday night. She asserts her innocence, but will be detained until South Carolina officials arriye. ? ,(.V serious accident occurred in Charlesy tori on Wednesday at the old jail, which e w(ts wrecked by the earthquake, August, e 188G, and is now being taken down. Two .k white men, J. W. Brock and Robert n Lynes, were thrown down and buried in ). the ruins, both receiving injuries that will e probably prove fatal. A ?v,Af?Amnnf ?c; r\*~\ fnnf fn nrfrnniyo o -fV lUUYCIUWK IQ V,.. 1UU? YV ?. company to build a factory at Catawba y Falls on the Catawba river. The projecte ors contemplate building a railroad from j- the falls to'Bascomville, and there connect i. with the Cheraw and Chester Road, or tc y some convenient point on the Georgia, I Carolina and Northern Road. - ?Two companies have responded tc >r General Bonham's suggestion of an encampment during the Summer. The hong or of the first responses came from the II Irish Volunteers and Carolina Rifles, 01 ie Charleston, who have communicated with i- the Adjutant General's office their desire " and readiness to go into the proposed enis campment. a ? William O'Brien, white, was shot in ,r Charleston, by It. A. Mosely, a white youth of 19 years, on Tuesday night ol e last week. The shot was aimed at ,e O'Brien's brother, between whom and !,a Mosely there had been some trouble, 0 The dying man has made an ante mortem statement. Mosely surrendered himseli !r and is now in iail. is * ? Chester correspondence of the Columbk Register says: The dwelling house of Hen j ry Nunnery, in the eastern part of the (j county, was burned a few nights since I_ together with all household effects, a large n quantity of flour and $700 in money. The jfc origin of the fire is unknown. Mr. Nun |S nery is about 75 years of age, and not able j. to sustain this great misfortune. q. ?The minutes of thov last Baptist Con f. vention contain some interesting statis i- tics as follows: Ordained ministers, 406 i? churches, 740; total membership, 72,554 t baptisms last year, 5,590; Sunday-schools y 630 ; membership, 40,545. Aggregate con tributions of the denomination, ?163,606 y The secretary remarks, however, that"ful n returns of the moneys raised and expendec [. would give an aggregate of over ?200,000.' ;t ?An effort is being made in Halsellvilh a township, Chester county, to secure a sub 11 scription to the capital stock of the Geor ir gia, Carolina and Northern Railroad Com ). nanv. The friends of the subscriptioi s mostly live on the lower side of the town d ship, which will be more directly benefit d ted by the railroad. Two petitions are ir circulation, one favoring and the other op 0 posing the subscription. The amount o e the proposed subscription is 8G,000. (c ? Easley hCesscnger: The grand jury pre -- sented for prosecution five or six mor< e parties for being accessories to the lynch y ing of Waldrop at Central. This much o ' their presentment was ordered by Judg< y Norton to be served upon Trial Justice y Gossett, with instructions to have their committed for trial. As soon as Mr. Gos >t sett received official notice he correspond d ed with the solicitor, and after getting nec > essary instructions, proceeded to Centra J where he is now investigating the charge; against the accused. ^ ? The Pesident has recently acted upor ie appeals for executive clemency from Soutl n Carolina as follows: Garland P. Carrier ^ convicted in South Carolina of violating the internal revenue laws and sentenced t( twelve month's imprisonment and to paj a fine of 8500. Sentence commuted to on< 11 month's imprisonment, on condition tha y the fine is paid within that time. E. It Hipp, convicted in South Carolina of pass y ing an altered bank note, and sentenced t( y three years'imprisonment and to pay i a fine of 8500. Sentence commuted to fifteer ie months' actual imprisonment. 1 ?On Thursday night, Benjamin Sporl _ and Charles Shorter, two white citizens of Clarendon county, while on their way ' home from Manning, had a difficulty, ir ? which the latter was dangerously cut ir >" the abdomeu with a knife by Sport. The wound extends from side to side and exI poses the bowels. Grave fears are enterI tainecl for his life, Whisky was the cause ' of the difficulty. Sport is still at large, y No effort has been made to arrest him. ? Mr. Mike. Ham mo), an old citizen o! Manning, committed suicide on Friday by taking laudanum. He had been drinkj" ir'ig hard for a week and longer, and is " supposed to have been deranged at the time. He swallowed about eight drams of the drug. It is not stated that Man~ ning is a prohibition town, from which ? omission we infer that it is not, while if it is a license town, the lesson is conveyed , that murders and suicides may occur in towns where the license system prevails. ,n About Elections.?This is a Presiden tial year. Elections will be held for Cone gress as well as for State offices and Presi' dent. Itepresentatives will be elected in 1 all the States on Presidential day, Gth of ? November, except in Maine, Vermont and Oregon. Maine elects her Congressmen O 1 I? 111 Tnnn .If on<l 1 UU Ot!|JtCIIJ UC1 IV, VICgUll Wll vnuv nil, mm ; Vermont on September 4th. In all the other States, except Alabama, Arkansas, 13 Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Oregon, Vir1 ginia and Vermont, elections will be held, " generally for State oflicers and Legislators, but in some instances for Legislators alone, ' on November 6th. Alabama's State eJecij tion occurs on August 6th, Arkansas' on * September 3rd, Georgia's on October 3rd. I Maine's on September 10th, Oregon's on 3 June 4th, Vermont's on September 4th, j! and Louisiana's on April 17th. Virginia, L Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi 1 and Ohio do not elect Legislators this year, and Maine, Oregon and Vermont hold 3 their State and Congressional elections on 3 the same day. / f Death of Chancellor Mell.?In r the death of Itev. P. II. Mell, D. D., Chancellor of the University of Georgia, 1 which occurred at Athens, in that State 3 last Thursday morning, the church and , whole country has lost a great and good j man. He was one of the leading mem bers of the Baptist church, but he shed a i lustre by his native ability and by his / acquisitions in the realm of knowledge , and his great usefulness upon the whole X country which will mourn his loss. VeriL ly a Prince has fallen in Israel! Correspondence of tbe Yorkville Enquirer. NOTES FROM BLACK'S. Black's, January 30.?We are now having very cold and clear weather. Nearly all the merchants of our town have hung out their red flags. They .are selling out at cost. Most of them will buy a new spring stock. The town authorities are having the ! streets repaired, a work much needed, as some of them are in very had condition. Mr. Joseph Black, who attends to the signal station, keeps us informed daily as to the weather. I Since the election the citizens seem to be satisfied and are giving the school their hearty support. They will use every i effort to make the graded school a success. A few days ago one of the drivers era! ployed at Borders & Cline's livery stable, i iilifrhted from a bu<???v within a mile of town. When the horses found that no one had charge of them, they made a dash for home, going at a frightful speed through the streets. Several attempts were made to stop them, but without avail. When they reached the stables they ran over a buggy, breaking it to pieces. Alpha. MERE-MENTION. David Bruce, who murdered W. It. Wilson, at Itussellville, Alabama, a few weeks ago, was taken from jail last Friday night and lynched. The Supreme Court of Missouri has decided that the local option law of that State is constitutional. This ; establishes prohibition in thirty-four of the fifty-one counties, and eleven of the six, teen towns and cities that have voted on , the question. George Edwards, a farmer, was shot and killed last Friday at Guyton, Wa., by a trap gun set in a store for burglars. lie entered at one door, 1 while the storekeeper was opening the other, in doing which the gun was discharged. Jim S. Semmes, who murdered Deputy Sheriff Outrey, near Tuscaloosa, Ala., was taken to Birmingham on Saturday, and placed in Jxil out of fear of the mob at Tuscaloosa. The Massachusetts Democratic executive committee unanimously endorses President Cleveland's tariff message. A bill has been passed by the Mississippi house providing 1 for pensioning disabled Confederate soldiers who are unable to work, and for col. ored servants of the same who are similarly situated. Kear Amite City, La? , last Saturday night, Ben. Edwards, color i ed, was lynched for brutally assaulting a ; white woman. In the city of Mexico the average winter temperature is 58 in L the early morning, GS at noon, and 55 at midnight. King John, of Abyssinia, claims to be a descendant of the Queen of [ Sheba. General Lew Wallace has re" ceived 837,000 as royalties on "Ben Hur," i the sales of which have reached nearly 200,000 copies. Florida fig trees are \ putting on the first crop of figs for the year. Last Thursday night about 12 ' o'clock, Jack Blount, Matthew Blount and Peterson Spruill, colored, charged with the murder of one Dawson, of Creswell, | N. C., were taken from Plymouth jail, j lashed to trees and riddled with bullets r about one mile from town."*: Business failures occurring throughout the country , during last week number for the United ; States 268, and for Canada 49; total, 317 against 314 the previous week. Steel Creek church, in Mecklenburg county, N. 1 C., one of the oldest Presbyterian churches * in the South, and the largest in Mecklen[ burg county, was destroyed by an accidentj* al fire on Tuesday night last. L i ? To Enforce Prohibition.?A bill was | introduced in the Iowa Senate last Friday f to amend and make more effectual the laws for the suppression of intempert ance. It provides that County Boards of . Supervisors shall appoint not to exceed > four agents for each county, who will be t licensed by the District Court for one year ; to buy and sell whisky, brandy, and wine, j and alcohol for medical purposes, pure al. cohol for mechanical and scientific uses, ? and wine for sacramental use. Applicants must present a petition signed by not less i.t i. i... n i. A irmn twenty-live lUApityets auu men , ,r. *' wi^es as to his character, and certifying ' to the fact that he never in any way en! gaged in keeping a place for the indiscrim' inate sale of intoxicating liquors. The Law Can be Enforced.?Much j has been said about the failure to enforce } the law in reference to carrying concealed ) weapons. Our lawmakers wiped out the dueling practice. They did it by such 3 laws as enforced it. If the carrying of a " concealed weapon worked the forfeiture of " office, if the act disqualified the citizen " from holding office, and if new officers 1 were required to swear that they had not " carried a pistol, dirk, slungshot, or other * deadly weapon, since the passage of the 1 Act, the market would be stocked with ^ old pistols?Abbeville Press and Banner. ^-A/Rock Hill Company.?A certificate - of charter has been issued from the office 3 of the Secretary of State on the return of - the corporators of the Southern Loan and f Investment Company.of Rock Hill. Fif3 ty per cent, of the capital stock of $150,3 000, has been paid in cash and the followi ing directors elected: W. L. Koddey, W. - J. Koddey, J. E. Koddey, S. L. Keid, J. - F. Reid and J. H. Miller. W. L. Rod dey is President, and W. J. Koddey, Man1 ager and Secretary of the company.?Co3 lumbia Register, yesterday. The State Pensions.?The Columbia 1 correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle 1 says: The Comptroller-General's office for ' the past two weeks has been flooded with ' applications for pensions. Ninety-five ap5 plications have been filed since the 10th of 7 the month and the number is being daily I increased. General Verner has been inc formed by several Clerks of County Courts ' that the first lot of blanks sent out from " his office have been used, and they sever^ ally ask for another shipment of the same. 1 Another Advance in Phosphates. There is another advance in phosphate t rock, and it is now held at $4.G0 per ton, < delivered at the mines, against $4.25 last T week, and $3.50 to $4 a few weeks ago. Good crops, free demand and the discouragement of foreign shippers by the former low prices, are given as the cause. The advance in kainit is attributed to the fact that the visible supply is 10,000 to 15,000 tons below the expected demand. Charleston Sun, Monday. UJarlitf Ilfports. YORKVILLE, Feb. I.-Cotton, 91 to 9J. LIVERPOOL, January 30.?Cotton dull; uplands, 58d. CHARLESTON, January 30.?Cotton firm; :,1 at~ ir? UUUUiill?, 1". 1 NEW YORK, January 30.?Cotton firm : uplands, 10 11-1(3. Futures closed quiet and steady, with sales of 89,000 bales, as follows: January, 10.56to 10.58; February, 10.(>0to 10.61; March,*10.69 to 10.70; April, 10.76 to 10.77; May, 10.82 to 10.83; Juno, 10.89 to 10.90; July, 10.92 to 10.93; August, 10.94 to 10.95; September, 10.45 to 10.46; October, 10.11 to 10.13; November, 9.97 to 9.98; December, 9.97 to 9.99. Comparative Cotton Statement. NEW YORK, January 27.?The following is the comparative cotton statement for the week ending January 27,1888: 1888. 1887. Receipts at all ports for week... 89,557 125,939 Total receipts to this date 4,483,993 4,304,458 Exports for the week 103,419 174,880 Total exports to date 2,989,155 2,953,004 Stock at all U. S. ports 927,659 915,513 Stock in interior towns 218,040 162,302 Stock at Liverpool 746,000 831,000 Stock afloat for Great Britain...277,000 256,000 y HYMENEAL. .\i.\iuuKi>?-vi mo iioine 01 me nrme s rattier, in York couhty, January 25th, 18.88, by Rev. B. P. Reid, Mr. J. McCALLA MOORE and Miss KITTY M. STARR, daughter of Mr. John L. Starr. At the residence of the bride's father, in Union county, on the 24th ultimo, by Rev. B. G. CliiVord, Prof. ROBERT J. HERNDON, of Yorkville. and Miss MAMIE KANT, daughter of Major John A. l'ant. At Clover, York county, on the 11th ultimo, by Rev. M. R. Kirkpatrick, Mr. JAMES NEELY and Miss REBECCA KNOX. All of York county. Near Bethel Church, York county, on the 25tli ultimo, by Rev. M. R. Kirkpatrick, Mr. F. S. QUERY, of Steel Creek, Mecklenburg county, N. C., and Miss MAGGIE WALLACE, of York county. At the residence of the late Jefterson Kirkpatrick, on the 31st ultimo, by Rev. J. B. Traywick, Mr. JAMES P. AYCOCK and Miss EMMA KIRKPATRICK. Both of York county.