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Jtofljus and ^acts. ? A great number of Mormons have established themselves in Arizona, where they have appropriated the most fertile districts. While the ambitious Americans have been seeking for mineral wealth the wily "saints" have quietly encamped upon the choice agricultural regions. ? Athens, Ga., was much aroused last Thursday, when it was publicly made known that Mormon elders had suddenly oniuaMrl In A thpriQ nnri wftrp trpttincrefldv aypmivu ... ..?-0 a ? to issue cheap excursion tickets to Utah. The matter will be immediately investigated. It is thought that several converts have been made recently. ? A delegation of thirty'Chippewa Indian chiefs from Wisconsin and Minnesota called upon the President last Friday morning. The delegation urged upon the President the payment of $118,000 due to them from old treaties. The President promised to aid them in every way in his power, and to see that they received their just dues. The matter will be called to the attention of Congress. ? It was discovered at Castle Garden last Thursday that some forty German musicians, wno landed with their instruments on Wednesday and went to Pennsylvania, were deserters from the regimental bands of the German army. They succeeded in getting across the boundary into Belgium and came on the steamship Westerland. .from Antwerp among the steerage passen"gers. They each had considerable money. ? A few weeks ago the treasurer of Panola county, Texas, was murdered in his office, his head being nearly severed from .his body, and the office robbed of about 16,000. On Monday, Tom Forsyth, a deputy sheriff at Longview, was arrested for the murder and roooery. ne nas cuuieased his guilt. The jail is guarded, as attempts at lynching are feared. The widow of tne murdered treasurer has become insane, and Forsyth's mother is at the point of death from the shock occasioned by the occurrence. ? There is no mistaking the position of * the Democrats of Butler county, Pa. At a recent meeting of the Democratic county committee it was unanimously resolved that the Butler county delegates to the Democratic State Convention'should support "no man for delegate to the National Convention who is not in full accord with the Administration on the tariff question, and who does not earnestly favor the re? nomination and re-eleciion of Grover Cleveland to the Presidency in 1888." ? Itis stated on the authority of a Congressman that there are public building bills pending in Congress which appropriate $24,994,500 for buildings in different cities. We don't remember the amount appropriated for rivers and harbors, but we are sure the amount, will much overtop this figure, and all the creeks are not yet heard from. This is one of the most corrupting schemes practiced by our goverment. The cry, "the old flag and an appropriation" seems to be popular, and as long as it is so these enormous appropriations will continue. ? John A. Pendergast died in Kansas ^-City last Sunday. Eight years ago he was cashier of the Citizens' National Bank, of Springfield, Illinois. He wasdound short in his accounts for a large amount, and disappeared. He turned up in Kansas City soon after under the name of John Perry, and obtained a situation in a restaurant, where he worked hard and sent every cent to the bank. Saturday he received a receipt in full of all iudebtedness. He had heart disease, and the result of his joy was his death. ? Miss Clara Barton, President of the Red Cross Society, arrived at Mount Ver non, Illinois, the scene of the recent devastating cyclone, last Thursday. After viewing the wreck wrought by the cyclone, Miss Barton said that all that had been presented to the public through the daily press could not give a fair idea of the pitiable condition of the city. "The necessities," she said, "are not realized throughout the country. If the people of the country could come here and look but once at the scene, the donations would flow in .at once." During the thirteen weeks of Congress, which have just closed, there.have been introduced 10,000 bills and joint'resolutions in the House and Senate. Of this number thirty-one have passed both branches of Congress and been signed by the President. The number of bills introduced to date is over thirty per cent, greater than at this period of last Congress. Should their introduction continue at the same rate, the number will reach 20,000 by the end of the session. There have been fiftyeight days of the session during the thirteen weeks since Congress met. ? During the sinking of large pits and wells in Nevada, stratas of rock salt were cut through, in which were found imbedded perfectly preserved fish, which are doubtless thousands of years old, as the salt field occupies what was once the bottom of a large lake, and no such fish are now to be found in any of the modern Nevada lakes. The specimens are not petrified, but flesh, ana all are preserved in perfect form, and after being soaked in water for two or three days can be cooked and eaten, but are not very palatable. After being exposed to the air for a day or \ /two they become as hard as wood. s\ ? A dispatch of Friday from Marquette, Michigan, says: All the upper peninsular railroads are blockaded by one of the severest snow storms ever known here. It has snowed continuously Ibr nearly twenty-four hours and a heavy wind has drifted it badly. The storm is still raging and reaches the entire length of Lake Superior and extends well down in the southern peuinsular, where eighteen inches have fallen. At Mancelona about 18 inches of snow fell, the greatest amount that has fallen there in one day for years. The snow drifted six or seven feet deep for miles around in the country. At Mackinaw City the snow storm was the worst of the season. ? The Republican managers of the forthcoming national convention at Chicago are in a great stew as to what shall be done about the distribution of tickets. They will do well to avoid the scandal which attached to the performance of 1884. Tickets were sold broad cast, some of the prices running as high as $50, and some of the sellers running as low as Congressmen. And then, at the last moment, when the convention had been several days in progress, "preferred stock," to the extent of some thousands of additional tickets, was fraudulently issued. No more of that, please. ? A Houston, Texas, dispatch of Thursday says: The latest report of the massacre of negroes at Spanish Camp is that seven were killed and one severely wounded. The cabin was approached while the inmates were asleep and kerosene oil was poured around their bedding and then fired simultaneously. The murdering began as the half sleeping nefroes rushed from the burning house, 'ive were killed as they rushed out and two were shot in the house, and their bodies cremated. Only one escaped and he severely injured. The settlement is sixty miles west of Houston and composed of Mexicans, negroes and white desperadoes. The butchery is the outcome of a suit for possession of land recently decided in favor of the dead negroes in the district Court at Wharton. Spanish Camp is far from any telegraph station. ? It is telegraphed from Indianapolis, Indiana, that an important new line of action respecting prohibition has been practically inaugurated with the active support of the leaders of the movement in all parts of the country, the first step of which, it is likely, will betaken in that city. It grows out of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Kansas case, wherein it is asserted that the people cannot barter away the morals and health of the public, and plainly says that public traffic in intoxicants is against public health and life. Correspondence has been had with all prominent workers, and it has been agreed to try and attack the constitutionality of all license laws. Preparations have been completed in New York, New Jersey and other States to bring the matter immediately to a test. In Marion county, Ind., the prohibitionists expect at an early day to file with the county commissioners a protest against the granting of licenses to applicants for saloon powers. In case the commissioners decline to grant the petition, a result that is expected, they will appeal ' and carry the matter to the Supreme Court | of the State. 1 ? Congressman Springer gives the following as the method by which a minority may prevent surplus reduction: There may be 30,000 voters in a Congressional district. A thousand of these may be in; terested in a protected industry. Political ; parties are nearly evenly divided. The voters employed in protected industries frequently hold the balance of power. Candidates for Congress are admonished ' that unless they pledge themselves to sus1 tain the protective tariffs, they will lose the votes of those engaged in such industries. It frequently happens that the can; didates of both parties are therefore pledged to maintain protective taxation. 1 Thus, the minority may continually rule ! the majority through the law-making 1 power. ffltfetiHc inquirer. YORKVILLE, S. C. : WEDNESDAY, jflRCH 7, 1888. THE STOCK OF COTTON. Bradstreet's of last Saturday publishes special reports from over 1,400 uncounted interior towns in the South showing that at 674 towns there were 192,000 bales of cot ton on February 22. At 720 towns there were no stocks. The total quantity of cotton (crop 1887-88) in sight February 22 was about 6,171,000 bales. Adding the cotton reported at towns back of the regularly reported supply points, there are 6,364,000 bales of the 1887-88 crop in sight, or 140,000 bales in excess of the Cotton World's estimate of the total 1887-88 crop, and 64,000 bales in excess of the Agricultural Bureau's estimate of the total crop, | exclusive of stocks on plantations baek of the 1,400 towns reported. THE INTERNAL REVENUE. The New York Herald reports that the ways and means committee have agreed ' upon the internal revenue reduction which , ' will be reported to the full committee * f j 3 AU IUa early next weeK ana consiutaeu wim mc i tariff bill. They effect a total reduction of about $24,000,000 or $25,000,000. The tobaccco ' tax, except on cigars and cigarettes, is repealed, reducing revenue about $19,t)00,000. Licenses abolished will make a further reduction of between^4,000,000 and $5,000,000. There is no reduction on spirits of any kind. The manufacturers of fruit branr dies are allowed to place their product in bonded warehouses and take warehouse receipts for the same time as the whisky distillers now have. Some extreme penalties have been lessened. THE TARIFF BILL. The new tariff bill, which wassubmitted in the Senate on Thursday, by Mr. Mills, chairman of the committee on revision of the tariff, meets with the approval of the larger portion of the Democratic press, as being in harmony with the Democratic policy to provide, as far as possible, that articles used by the poor shall be taxed less heavily than those used by the rich, and that raw materials shall pay no duty at all to the end that American manufacturers may save what they are now required to pay in this way, and so be enabled to pay their workmen better wages, to secure the advantages of an open foreign market for their surplus products, and thus keep their works and workmen more steadily employed. The bill as reported will reduce the yearly customs revenues about $50,000,000. A synopsis of this feature of the bill is given as follows by Br adst reef's: The chief feature of the measure is the increase of the free list, which is made to include wool, lumber, salt, flax, hemp, jute and other vegetable fibers, chemicals and dyes, flax seed, linseed, cotton seed and nmtnn nii? nrpn?rntinns of aniline oil and coal tar, all essential oils, certain kinds of copper and nickel, and marble and building stones. The duty on pig iron is reduced to $6 per ton, the duty on iron or steel railway bars to $11 per ton, on iron ' and steel T rails, weighing not over 2") pounds to theyard,$14perton,andoniron or steel flat rails punched $15 per ton. The duty on woolen or worsted cloths and manufactures of wool is placed at 40 per cent, ad valorem. Reductions are also made on sugar, cottons and manufactures of cotton, on manufactures of hemp, flax and jute, and on a number of miscellaneous articles. According to the estimate of the chairman of the committee, the reduction which will be made in the revenue by the measure will be about $53,000,000, of which $22,250,000 will come from extensions of the free list, $12,000,000 from woolens, $11,000,000 from sugar, $1,500,000 from earthen and glass.ware, nearly $2,000,000 from inetals, $500,000 from chemicals, $500,000 from provisions, $250,000 from cottons, nearly $2,000,000 from hemp, jute, etc., and about $10,000,000 from sundries. The bill incorporates the main features of the bill for the reform of the administrative side of the customs service which was brought forward by Mr. Hewitt in the last Congress. The whole measure is framed with reference to procuring relief for the people from the burderrof unnecessary war taxation which they now have to bear, and in accordance with the expressed determination and frequent earnest efforts of the Democratic party. Should it not be defeated by ^he Republicans, it will speedily be made a law and begin to have its beneficial effect among the people at large. It is expected to be reported to the House by the 1st of April. The New York Herald says of it: "If the bill becomes a law it will secure this great boon of a steady, uninterrupted industry in many of the great branches of manufacturing in this country, and by en jablingour manufacturers to export tneir surplus will prevent those frequent gluts ! of the home market which have been so | injurious to workmen, and will at the ! same time revive our foreign commerce." Speaker Carlisle, who is now visiting a sick son at Wachita, Kansas, is reported to have expressed the following opinion , of the bill last Saturday: "The Mills tariff bill is a very conserva-! tive measure and ought to be passed. The I financial and industrial situation would ; have justified a much more radical meas- j ure, but there are always so many differ-; ences of opinion about details that it is j impossible to do exactly what ought to be ; done. This bill has been prepared with | great care, and I know that it has been i the purpose of its framers to deal fairly ! and liberally with any interest affected i by it. There has been no feeling of hos- i tility to capital or labor employed in the j manufacturing industries, and the bill,) , if passed, will not hurt them. Wool, i flax, hemp, jute, dye stuffs and many , other raw materials are placed upon the ; 1 free list, and this will largely reduce the i j'cost of production without reducing the 1 wages of labor. The consumer will thus ; be enabled to get cheaper goods, while ! the manufacturer will realize ample prof-, its, and the farmer will continue to receive the same or higher wages. 1 think ; the bill will pass substantially as reported, j If it be defeated the Democratic party will appeal to the people on this question ! at the next election, and a Congress will be chosen that will reduce the revenue much more than is now proposed." THE 0UTL00K*1N CONGRESS. A Washington dispatch of Sunday fore-! shadows as follows what the two houses of Congress are likely to do this week : The Senate committee on appropriations intends to call up early in the week the urgent deficiency bill. It is expected that it will be disposed of without much delay, but, should attention be called pointedly to a table of deficiencies during a series of recent years embodied in the report, political debate may be brought on. The dependent pension bill is unfinished business, having the right of way over everything but the appropriation bill. The undervaluation bill, which gave way a week ago to the pension bill, will be taken up as soon as the latter is disposed of. Senator Sherman has stated his purpose to call ud the Anti-Chinese bill as soon as possible," but is not likely to get an opportunity this week, unless possibly in the morning hour. It is expected that the Senate committee on finance will take up and report back favorably the House bill authorizing the secretary of the treasury to purchase United States bonds with the treasury surplus, and an opportunity may possibly be found during the week to bring it before the Senate before passage. The Alabama contested election case will be called up in the House. The indications are that bitter party strife will be developed, and that two days will be required to dispose of it. One or more of the various labor bills now on the calendar are likely to be discussed and acted upon during the week. The Military Academy appropriation bill will also be passed without much delay. ltepresentative Springer, in behalf of the majority of the committee on Territories, has prepared a report, which he will present to the House, recommending the passage of what is known as the "Omnibus bill" to enable the people of Dakota, Montana, Washington and New Mexico to form State governments, and to be admitted into the Union on an equality with the other States. A STARTLING JUDICIAL DECISION. [From the Kcowee Courier.] An important decision was rendered by Judge Norton at the recent term of court ~ * * kl,n..:iln Tt icimnnrtanf fn tovnflvpr^ Ut/iUUCVlllC? JLl iOIlU^Uluvwuvw v.wj as limiting the power of subscriptions to railroads by townships, denying such power in the case at issue on two grounds: first, because a township, not being a corporate body, the act chartering the Greenville and Port Royal railroad and amendatory act chartering the road as a body corporate, attempts to create a township a corporate body with the sole power and , for the sole purpose of enabling it to subscribe to the stock of another corporation, the railroad. This he holds violates Article 2, section 20 of the constitution, that "every act or resolution having the force of law shall relate to but one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title." Second, were this point successfully controverted, the act would still be obnoxious to Article 9, Section 8 of the State constitution. Within the meaning of this provision Ninety-Six is not a township and the purpose as to it, subscription to the railroad, is not a corporate purpose within the meaning of the provision. The two acts so far as they authorize a subscription by townships to the railroad in question, and so far as they purport to incorporate any township or townships, are declared to be unconstitutional and void and taxes levied under such acts are illegal. The decision is on the complaint for relief at the suit of Jefferson Floyd and others vs. J. Wardlaw Perrin, treasurer of Abbeville county. The following is the full text of the decision: This action was begun by the plaintiffs on the 23rd of February, 1887, under section 268 of the general statutes, to recover three hundred dollars and five cents of taxes paid by the plaintiffs under protest to meet the interest on the bonds issued by the county commissioners of said county as corporate agents of Ninety-Six township under the provisions of an act entitled "An act to charter the Greenville and Port Royal Railroad Company," passed 23d December, 1882; and of an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to charter the Greenville and Port Royal Railroad Company' " passed 24th December, 1886, which tax tne plaintiffs allege has been illegally assessed and collected; because, first, sundry of the conditions precedent to the issuing of the bonds have Kaon norfnrmo/] sppnnri. the railroad UV/t WV/U pwiiviauvv* ) WVW..V.J company has located its line in a direction not authorized, and has thereby forfeited its charter; and, third, the act authorizing the subscription is in violation of Article 2, section 20 and Article 9, section 8 of the Constitution of this State, and ask judgment declaring the said act and amendment unconstitutional, the assessment thereunder illegal and for the repayment of the sums paid by the plaintiffs thereunder. The defendant alleges that all of the conditions precedent to the issuing of the bonds were duly performed and pleads res judicata as to the validity of the bonds. It is well settled that in the hands of an innocent holder, the recitation in the bonds of the performance of conditions precedent is binding on the tax-payers liable to their payment, but that in the hands of persons with notice, the performance of conditions precedent may be inquired into. The defendant is entitled to whatever defence the holders of bonds could make. The bondholders not having been made defendants, the burden of the proof is upon the plaintiffs to show that the tax should not be collected. In the absence of evidence I must assume that the bonds recite the performance of all the conditions precedent to their issue and are in the hands of innocent holders. The plaintiffs are therefore estopped from showing that the conditions precedent have not been performed. They are not estopped from contesting the validity of the bonds on other grounds. The charter of the railroad company can be declared forfeited only by proceedings directly instituted for that pqrpose. Plaintiffs therefore fail on that ground. The act under consideration being to charter a railroad company also gives power to couuties, townships, &c., to sub- < scribe to its stock in a certain way and enacts that for the purposes of the act townships "shall be, and they are hereby, declared to be bodies politic and corporate, and vested with the necessary powers to ; carry out the provisions of this act." Authority establishes the validity of the act as to municipal corporations already in existence, such as counties, cities, &c. The questions therefore seem to me to be? 1st. Is a township a municipal corporation ? 1 Jd. If a township be not a corporation, is its creation so foreign to the title of the act under consideration as to be considered a distinct subject ? 3rd. If a township be a municipal corporation, is a subscription to a railroad com- 1 pany a township or corporate purpose ? Municipal corporations are the inhabitants of small territorial subdivisions of the State, invested with subordinate local 1 administration of their own affairs. By the act of September 2(5th,lSG8, townships were incorporated with the power, among numerous others, to grant and vote moneys for making highways. This act was repealed by act of January l!)th, 1870, (14th St., 313) and townships were deprived of all corporate powers; but the names and boundaries were preserved, presumably because such names and boundaries 1 had been generally adopted as assessment and school districts under other statutes which conferred no powers upon tne organizations as townships, though in the former they were mere geographical lines for convenience in assessing and collecting taxes; and in the latter possessed of ( corporate powers by law for school purposes , alone. Gen. Stat. Sec. 1008. I conclude i that a township is not a corporation. , The title of the act relates only to the incorporation of the railroad company, but its general purpose being to provide for the construction of the railroad, it has ' been authoritatively held that any subject germane to the object is sufficiently em- ! braced within the title, without making i the title a general index, thus, that giving 1 authority to a county to subscribe to a rail- i road company, which withoutsuch author- j ization could not do so, is embraced with- i in a general title to incorporate the rail- ' road, because a railroad is a highway, the building of which is as much within the general scope of the corporate powers of a county as the construction of other highways, (legislative authority being necessary to legalize a tax for the latter,) and the authority to subscribe was merely in furtherance of the object of the act. A township not being a corporation, the present act goes a step fuither and creates a corporation with the sole power and for j the sole purpose of enabling it to subscribe j to the stock of another comoration. That | further step renders it obnoxious to Article 2 section 30, constitution South Carolina, in that it relates to the creation of two separate and distinct corporations, only one being mentioned in the title. But as this conclusion will doubtless be controverted, let us see whether, if not obnoxious to that provision of the constitution, the act not rendered void by Article 9, section 8, constitution of South Caroolina, which authorizes the legislature to yest the corporate authorities of townships, Ac., with power to assess and collect taxes for corporate purposes. All the authorities agree that townships, Ac., by reason of this provision of the constitution may not be vested with power to assess and collect taxes for any other than a corporate purpose. Townships in this State have no corporate purpose, no corporate existence. The act under consideration does not purport to give Ninety-Six township any corporate existence or purpose, except to subscribe to thatrailroad company. If it had failed to subscribe, it would have been as lifeless as iny^^iotbeen referred to by descriptiontCTHWWE By the act it does not become such a township as may be vested with power to subscribe to the railroad company. It is not a township within the meaning of Article 9, Section 8 of the constitution of South Carolina. And the purpose is not a corporate purpose within the meaning of that constitutional provision. Weightman vs. Clark, 103, United States supreme court, 256, is analogous. It is ordered, decreed and adjudged that the acts of the legislature, entitled respectively, "An act to charter the Greenville and Port Royal Railroad Company" and "An act to amend an act entitled "An act j to charter the Greenville and Port Royal Railroad Company," are unconstitutional and void so far as they purport to authorfze townships to subscribe to the capital stock of said railroad company; and, also so mr hs li purpuns iu iuuurpuraie any township or townships; that the tax assessed, levied and collected to pay the interest on the bonds issued in behalf of the township of Ninety-Six was illegal; and, I do certify that the taxes hereinafter enumerated,' upon a trial upon the merits, were found to have been illegally and wrongfully collected and ought to be refunded to the persons named respectively. MERE-MENTION. The Michigan supreme court has decided that two points of the new State liquor law are unconstitutional. The business failures occurring throughout the country during the week ending last Friday number, for the United States 202, Canada 42 ; total 244 against 270 the previous week. On Thursday morning a freight train on the Southern Pacific Railroad went through a bridge into Hondo Creek, Medina county, Texas. The cars fell fifty feet, and two men were killed. "If ten men in this country," says the New York World, "should with- i draw their capital from railroads, mines and factories, more than800,000 men would be thrown out of work, and more than one million people would suffer by it." A cyclone passed over Newton, Kansas, last Thursday evening, damaging property in that city to the amount of $50,000. The Republican Senators and Representatives met on Thursday night to appoint the Congressional election committee. Robert Smalls was appointed as the member for South Carolina. At Bonharo, Texas, ; last Wednesday,#herifF Evans and an Illinois officer, at Trenton, arrested E. Munday, who is wanted at Mt. Carmel, 111., for ' robbing the mails. Munday was a postal clerk, and at various times abstracted registered packages from the mails. On j Friday four Mexican soldiers crossed the J Rio Grande at Eagle Pass to capture a ( deserter. They were driven back by a sheriffs posse, one Mexican being killed ; and another wounded. An inter nanonai convention uj women win meet in Washington on the 25th instant for an : eight days' session. The deepest well 1 drilled in the United States is that of George Westinghouse, at Homewood, near the city of Pittsburg, which on December 1,1887, had reached a depth of 4,G18 feet, when the tools were lostand the drilling ceased. Several swindling individuals recently took a lot of Confederate money to Mexico and succeeded in disposing of it in Guadalajara at all the way from par to 30 per cent, premium. The Senate postoffice committee has decided to report favorably the Spooner InterState telegraph bill. The Mexican secretary of the treasury has given his ] countrymen a surprise. He reports that . the receipts last year were the largest ever , known, while the government expenses ' fell ?400,000 below the amount appropriated. * The Democrats elected their entire municipal ticket at Lexington, Ky., on Saturday, beating the Republicans two l to one. It was the first straight-out par- c ty fight for many years. During the ? past ten years no less than six species of j North American birds have become, ex- , tinct, and it is claimed that the English ( sparrow has been the main cause of their , disappearance. i For the Yorkville Enquirer. X0 MORE LIGHT TO GIVE! Editor of the Enquirer: I begin l to suspect that "W." is right in one < thing?that I have been kicked by Solo- t mon'sAss! It is related that when Lord t Cornwallis surrendered to Gen. Washing- 1 ington, he tendered his sword by the ( hands of a subordinate. Gen. Washing- t ton immediately instructed one of his ( own subordinates to receive the sword. I , remembered that; but, desiring "more j light," yielded to the impulse, and re- , plied to what the Lieutenant had to say , after the General had wisely dropped the < discussion. Having no light to give, ! "W." proce6tf3Tto'show himself in tme \ feather and regales the readers of his let- J ter with a specimen piece of his skill in 1 the art of using epithets. If he could 1 go so far in a piece to be read by the public, what must have been his private cogi ration over tne request ior me ngru ne t found himself unable to give? I frankly ( confess that I am no match for "W." in . the field to which he invites me. He may relish that atmosphere?it would stifle me. The General deemed it wise to drop the 1 discussion, and I find it necessary to drop J the Lieutenant! One of the People. | Tiie Constitutional Centennial.? i The Senate select committee on the Cen- s tennial of the Constitution of the United States has instructed the sub-committee, 1 consisting of Messrs. Hiscock, Hoar and j Eustis, to draft a report to the full com- j mittee providing for the appointment of a t commission to make preparations for a a suitable demonstration in the spring of a 188!) commemorative of the centennial of i the adoption of the Constitution of the 3 United States. The bill will also request j ? the President to invite the higher officers 0 of State of the fifteen Spanish-American \ Republics to visit Washington and nartic ipate in the celebration. It is proposed to j l appropriate8300,000 to defray the expenses J of the occasion. j " Cut ix two isy the Train.?An un-1 8 known negro man was killed by an Air j " Line freight train, at Gastonia, last Friday i night. lie was stealing a ride, so it is be- | T lieved, and fell between the cars. The wheels of one car ran over his body and t cut it entirely in two, the head and j shoulders falling to one side of the track, j. The body was buried at Gastonia Satur- u [lay afternoon.?Charlotte Chronicle. n BST The Virginia Senate, last Monday, is without a dissenting vote, adopted a reso- v lution appointing a committee to go to ]< Washington and urge the passage of the ? Blair educational bill, and the repeal of the H internal revenue tax on tobacco and fruit ti brandies, and to oppose the reduction of e Jutieson ores and wool. LOCAL AFFAIRS, f NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Jos. F. Wallace, C. C. Pis.?Personal Property Exemption. J. J. Hogue, Shelby, N. C.?The Daisy Churn. R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Sheriff's sale. Withers Adickes?Is too busy this week to change his Advertisement. J. C. Jackson & J. W. Neil?Notice ot Dissolution of Business Relations in the Sale of Clocks.. ? C. G. Parish?All Alone. Dowry it Starr?In the Paint Business. Hunter & Oates?Our Buyer, Mr. Hunter. M. Strauss?Why Standing Idle? W. C. Latimer?Settle Your Account. W. B. Moore, Administrator of the estate of 11. Springs Moore, deceased?Notice to debtors and creditors. Wm. H. Speck?Go to Speck's. May it May, Druggists?Wo Have Them All. W. B. Moore it Co.?Blacksmith Tools. John W. Love?Executor's Sale of land of the estate of Hugh R. Love, deceased. THE COLORED METHODISTS. Rev. E. M. Pinckney, who was appointed pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at this place, at the recent session of the Conference at Charleston, has arrived here and entered upon his duties. For the past four years he has been the Presiding Elder of the Greenville district, and as a minister lie maintains a high posjiion in his church. / FORT MILL GOODS. Mr. John L. Watson, one of the stockholders in the Fort Mill cotton factory, was in town last Monday, and had with him samples of the plaids woven in the new factory at Fort Mill. The samples are quite creditable, though Mr. Watson says the goods will be much better after the machinery is properly broken in. Of the two hundred looms that will be placed in the factory, about one hundred and thirty are now in emigration. PERSONAL MENTION. Mr. John J. Hunter, of the firm of Hunter it Gates, left 011 yesterday for the northern markets, to make spring purchases for his house. Mr. R. A. Parish left yesterday for Parrotts vine, xeunessee, iur nie purpose or uujrmg it lot of horses. The many friends of Mrs. B. Neely Moore, who is in Now York for medical treatment, will be pleased to learn that the latest intelligence from her physician gives indication of improvement in her condition. Mrs. Wade Williford, of Wii.nsboro, is visiting ber relatives in this place. Mr. John B. Bratton and bride returned home last Wednesday evening from Florida. church' notices. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. W. W. Daoiol, Pastor. Services next Sunday at 11 A. M. and 7.30 P. M. Sunday-school at 3 P. M. There will be no prayer-meeting this evening. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. Services next Sunday at 11 A. M. and 7.30 P. M. Sunday-school at 3 P. M. Prayer-meeting tomorrow evening at 4 o'clock. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J. C. Galloway, Pastor. Services next Sunday at Tirzah, at 11.30 A. M.,and in Yorkyille at 7.30 P. M. Sunday-school at 3.30 P. M. Baptist?Sunday-school at 3 P. M. Prayermeeting this evening at 7.30. Episcopal?Rev. Edmund N. Joyner, Rector. Sunday-school at 3.30 P. M.' assaulting a policeman. On Monday afternoon Claudius Hall was on the street drunk and disorderly, when Town Marshal O'Farrell approached him for the purpose of arresting him. Hall's son, Benjamin M., was near and perceiving the movements of the policeman, he approached and struck him a severe blow on the head with a rock. Mr. O'Farrell fell to the ground stunned by the blow and was seriously hurt. Policeman Robinson effected the arrest of both the Halls, who were locked up in the guardhouse, and later in the evening, by direction of the Intendant, moved to the jail, where they remained until yesterday morning. The elder Hall was fined by the Intendant ?5 and the younger one was turned over to Trial Justice Bell on the charge of assault aud battery of a uigu anu aggrayiutju naturu auu rursiouiu peace officer. The Justice bound bim to the next term of the Session Court, and in default of ?1,000 bond, he was committed to jail. Vhaye taken "a contract. Mi\F. G. Power and Capt. W. G. Gibbons bave jointly taken the contract for grading six miles of the railroad now in construction unJer the management of the Richmond and Danville system from Clarksville. Va.,to Durham, N. C. Their work will be in Granville sounty, N. C., one of the finest tobacco growing counties in that State and a county of considerable wealth. Mr. Power has held the position of resident angineer on the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad, from the commencement of ivork between Black's and llutherfordtou, and since last May has held the same position on the work, with his office in Yorkville. He will remain here, his duties as engineer not being interrupted by reason of entering into this contract. Capt. Gibbons, who will have control of the tvork, has been superintendent for Griffin & Norton ever since they commenced work on ;heir contract here, until a few days ago when le resigned. Ho is an indefatigable worker, md during his residence hero of nearly a pear has shown himself to bo a worthy, honsrable gentleman. sales-day. There was quite a largo attendance in town ast Monday, sales-day for March, and as the lay was damp and chilly, it was admirably idapted to furnish to the lovers of the ardent a pretext for indulging their propensity, which ,vas done to some extent, several persons being m the streets late in the afternoon in a hila ious frame of mind. All passed off' quietly, lowever, with the exception of the altercation jetween Hall and Town-Marshal O'Farrell, loted elsewhere. The only official sale was by the Sheriff, who ly virtue of writs of fieri facias sold the interest of John S. McNeel in a tract of land situa;ed in York county, on the Chester line, conaining about seventy acres. Sold at the suit IV. T. I). Cousar <fc Son vs. John S. McNeel. Dn offering the property the Sheriff announced lie terms of sale to be cash, and if the pur:haser failed to comply within fifteen minutes ifter the auctioneer received the bid, at the ixpiration of the fifteen minutes the property vould be ro-sold. It was bid off by John S. McNeel at $225; but tailing to comply, the Sheriff, according to his announcement, offered t again. Mr. W. T. D. Cousar bid 925. Mr. McNeel bid 9.'K>, but the Sheriff would not recoglizo the bid, and the land was accordingly ;nocked down to Mr. Cousar. THE TRIANGULAR MARRIAGE. We have printed soveral statements in regard 1 o the marriage of Miss Florence Little, of 1 Jaffney City, as alleged, to two husbands, both iving, and the two ceremonies alleged to have leen performed within eleven days. The fol- i owing, published in the Charlotte Chronicle of ast Wednesday, appears to come from the 3 'woman in the case," and as it is the only au- j horitative statement we have seen from her or j ler friends, wo reproduce it. The Chronicle i lays: ] Our correspondent at Gaffney City writes us, j inder date of the 28th,- as follows, in regard to j i.y* UiioJttnatj oKmif wliloli tliorn IJU limtlllUUUliU IJllOHiCOO ii uv; v* w umvu v..v. w < ias been recently so much talk : "Miss Little ' sat this place at present. She stoutly denies hat she over has been married to Mr. Mintz, ] aid seems very indignant at the report. She ] avs she has not seen Rev. Mr. Carter (who, it j s alleged, married herself and Mintz) in ten j ears, and that although Mintz and Carter may fly she had married Mintz, still it is emphatcally untrue. As to whether her tale be true * ir not, it is not for me to say ; but she certainly 1 m presses one that she speaks the truth. 1 "She says Dr. Atkinson did not want her to i eavo him, but she would not do him the in- j ustice to live with him while such a report was ( gainst her, or at least, until she could estabish the untruthfulness of it. This, at least, hows a true womanly spirit in her ; and it ' urely shows the right kind of feeling in Dr. Ltkinson to believe what she says." In addition to the above, the Chronicle of ( ^riday says: t Dr. D. C. Atkinson, of Chester, S. C., passed J lirough the city last night with his bride, Miss c attlo, whoso supposed marriage with a young ( nan named Mintz, a few days previous to her ] uarriage with Mr. Atkinson, has created so , nuck talk. Dr. Atkinson has been in Gaffley's investigating the matter, and says that he I i hilly convinced of tho truthfulness of his t irifo's statement. She stoutly avers that tho alBged marriage with Mintz never took place, nd that he got up the report, out of jealousy, / aerely to injure her in the eyes of Dr. Atkinon. Our Gaffney City correspondent says that * he people there commend Dr. Atkinson's l ourse in the matter. f Hut in the'face of tlicso statements, Mr. Au- I gustus Mintz claims that he and Miss Little were married at the house of the Rev. Mr. Carter, on the night of February 1st, eleven days before the marriage contract was entered into between Dr. Atkinson and Miss Little; and on Saturday last Mr. Mintz, accompanied by his father, came to Yorkville for the purpose of seeking legal counsel, to which end they retained Messrs. Hart it Hart. Mr. Mintz seeks a dissolution of the marital bonds which he claims do exist between himself and Miss Little; and the question which now agitates the inner sanctum of Hart it Hart's law office is, how shall the dissolution be obtained. THE STATE PENSION'S. We are informed by Mr. Wallace, Clerk of the Court, that all persons who have applied for pensions under the recent Pension Act, are required to come forward and renew their applications on new blanks, which ho has received for that purpose. The new blanks, one form of which has beon sent to the Clerk and one to the Auditor, must be filled out and signed by all applicants before the applications will be considered. For the information of those interested, we give the following summary of instructions sent out from the office of the Comptroller-General and applicable to the new blank applications: First?The applicant must fill out the blank, sign and make affidavit to same. This must be accompanied by affidavit of one or more disinterested witnesses. Second?The applicant must have certificate from two physicians showing disability and extent of disabling wounds. Third?The certificate of the County Auditor with complete return of applicant's property, as shown by blank, both of applicant and his wife, showing that applicant's income does not exceed ?250 per annum. If applicant is a widow she must fill out and sign the return of property as per blank. Fourth?The certificate of Clerk of Court must also accompany the application as shown by blank. RAILROAD NOTES. The contractors had line weather last week and accomplished a great deal on their work, which, however, has been retarded by the rains since Saturday. As to progress below, we learn from coi. Allen and Mr. A. Lewis, who returned Saturday from the Camden end of the line, that the grading is finished to Lancaster, and the track is laid and surfaced up to Rollins', twenty-six and one-half miles north of Camden, and twelve miles below Lancaster. The surfacing of the track being completed, it was the intention to resume laying iron last Monday. There is now no doubt about the track being in perfect order for trains to Lancaster by the 1st of next month. Hardeman <fc Streeter, the bridge contractors on that portion of the road below Rock Hill, have the timber for the trestles over Mill Creek, Waxhaw and No. 13 all framed and ready to place. They are also making satisfactory progress with the bridge across Catawba River. The masonry for this structure has been delayed by the swollen condition of the river. A new coal burning engine has been received at Camden for the use of one of the construction trains. On Tuesday of last week the Railroad Commissioners inspected the last sixteen miles ol the completed track, and finding it in good condition authorized its opening for traffic. A train prepared to carry both passengers and freight now runs daily (except on Sundays] between Camden and Rollins', leaving Camden at 9 A. M., and arriving at Rollins' at 11 A. M. Returning it leaves Rollins' at 11.05 A. M., and arrives at Camden at 1.05 P. M. As to the rumored removal of the Chief Engineer's office from Rock Hill to Johnson City, Tenn., we learn authoritatively that such removal is not contemplated before next July. The Johnson City Comet speaks in encouraging terms of the present status of tho work west of Rutherfordton, N. C. Seven corps oi engineers will soon be on the line, peremptory instructions having been given that tho entire line must be located by the first of June. Correspondence of the Yorkvllle Enquirer. V^ETTER FROM ROCK HILL. Hill, March o.?The Steam Fire Imagine Company No. 2 gave a festival on Friday night last at Roddey's hall. It was a most enjoyable occasion. One of the most interesting features was the balloting for the most popular fire insurance company represented in Rock Hill. There were seventeen companies entered, all represented at this place. The German-American Insurance Company of New York, of which Mr. Fred. H. London is agent, received the largest number of votes. The proceeds were quite satisfactory, and will be used in the purchase of uniforms for the company. The agent of the Southern Express company at this place was notified by the agent at Newton, N. C., that there was a valise in the Newton office addressed to John Pleffner and shipped from Rock Hill by John Lowrance. Both of these persons were suspected as being the men who committed the recent burglaries in and around the residence of Mr. D. T. Lesslie, seven miles from this place. The valise was ordered to be returned to the express office here. A search warrant was issued by Trial Justice Whyte, and the valise, on being opened, was found to contain clothing and other articles belonging to a colored man named Jim Douglass, who was present and identified the goods. Lowrance is now in the Charlotte jail for an offence committed near Newton. He was sent to Charlotte, for safe keeping. Heffner is still at large. Both are white men. ?Ct>r. Theodore DuBose, who has been practising his profession at this place for several years, left last Friday for Sewanee, Tenn., where he has received the position of resident physician of the university. Dr. DuBose was a valued citizen, and our nmrimiinitir ronrrotfrpfl tr? SPP him IpRVP. WtllUIUUiVJ A VVI.VV* vv wvw mm m ? .WM . He made many friends during his residence here. Work will be started at this place tomorrow on the line connecting the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad track with that of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta. The switch or connecting track will start from a point near the base ball ground, run through the factory yard, and connect with the C., C. & A. on the White street crossing. Mr. A. It. Eskridge, contractor from this place to Ebenezer, has put a force of hands to work on that portion of the road. Hal. + ? THE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN. The Chicago correspondent of the New York Herald writes that Melville W. Fuller, who argued the claims of Chicago before the Democratic National Committee, gives as the reason why June oth was selected as the date for holding the Democratic Convention, is that the Convention might be able to show Congress that it cannot dictate to the President as to what he should do in the matter of the tariff. The correspondent says: "A platform will be adopted in consonance with the President's tariff message, and this will give the cue to Congress, should Congress see fit to pass a tariff bill that did not meet the President's views, he would be under no obligation to sign it in view of the impending declaration of the National Democracy to be made at the ilfr T.a!h'o Pnntronfinn Jit 1JUU1J VUU T VUVlVKt "All this goes to show that Mr. Cleveland is greater than the Democratic party, having the rank and file of his party at his back and the independent thinking Tien of the country as well. "Western Democrats are disposed to pay imall attention to Randall and Gorman, tor it has become virtually a settled fact .hat should the Republican National Contention adopt a protection platform, as Mr. Depew says it will, and run their canlidate upon it, the defection to Cleveland vould be sufficient to turn more than one Republican State from him. "Already the Democrats are claiming Wisconsin and Michigan with some show )f reason, and there is room for Illinois, ,00. There are thousands of western Rejublicans who would rather vote their >wn ticket, but in case the Republican Jonvention follows the advice of Messrs. dlaine and Depew, the country will be asonished to find that when the material >rosperity of the country is concerned party ies will bind but lightly." ? The construction train on the Georgia, | Carolina and Northern Railroad is now unning out five miles from Monroe. It s expected that the track laying will be inished to the Catawba Kiver, which is 22 niles distant, in a short time. Correspondence of tbe Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM GROVER. Grover, Jst. C., March 3.?It has been sometime since this part of the vineyard has been reported through the columns of the Enquirer. Health is generally good through this section. The farmers have taken advantage of the mild and baliny weather this week in turning land, sowing oats and ditching. They expect to plant a large corn crop this season. 1 understand that some of our energetic merchants are talking of rebuilding again ; while others will not attempt to do anything in the line of building until a law suit is settled, which is now pending in the circuit court of Cleveland. The free public schools will close in this district the lastof March. "We are pleased to see chronicled in the columns of the Enquirer and other papers the passage of the Blair educational bill in the U. S. Senate, and hope that the House will treat this great and important bill in the same manner and that it will receive the PresiJt At ? ^!. ? J ~ ? ,1 U ^ ^ ? ... uems signature auu ueeuiue it iaw. The voters of this part of the county " have decided to hold a meeting at Pine . Grove School House, March 17th, 1888, at 1 P. M., to select candidates to be put before the next primary election in York county. All who are interested in the selection of good men will come out on that day and take part. Index. : SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The reported death of Col. E. B. C. Cash last week was premature. ? The prohibition election in Abbeville county last Thursday resulted in favor of prohibition. A small vote wa3 polled, and there was generally little interest taken in the election. No excitement was develX-H. J. Jolley, who lives in the lower 'part of Darlington county, buried his wife on the 19th of last month, and on the following Sunday, just a week later, was married to his second wife, thus showing his high appreciation of his first one. ? The "VVinnsboro News says that at the granite quarries in Fairfield county, 50 , common laborers are employed. There are 20 block-makers employed, 19 of whom are Scotchmen. The block-makers earn j from 83 to ?4 a day. Between 81,200 and ( 81,600 is paid out each month to employees. ? Mr. John B. Herron, of Anderson, had , a rat killing at his place in Varnes township last week, when 26 rats were discov ' ered in a pile of 25 bushels of corn and 24 of them were captured and killed. The remarkable part of the episode is that four of the rats were snow white but had black eyes. A fire in Winnsboro last Thursday ntght destroyed the livery stable of W. It. Doty & Co., loss $15,000, uninsured; H. W. Timms, general merchandise, $9,000, un1 insured; Landecker & Co., loss $1,200, in surance $500; the Episcopal church, loss $5,000, uninsured, and Paul Jenkins' restaurant, $800, uninsured. The total loss f is $30,000. ? An election was held in Halsellville township, Chester county, last Saturday, l to decide upon the question of subscribing i to the capital stock of the Georgia, Carolii na and Northern Railroad Company. The opponents of subscription carried the elec. tion by a vote of 153 to 67. The defeat of the measure, however, will have no material effect upon the action of the company. ? The supreme court has filed its decision in the case of the county of Lancaster vs. the Cheraw and Chester Railroad Com. pany. Judgment below reversed and case remanded for a new trial, unless the plain tiff, within thirty days after written notice 1 of the remittitur from this court in the.cir, cuit court, enter upon the record there a a remittitur of the sum of $36,000 and that upon this being done the judgment thus reduced be affirmed. ? On the 9th of last month, Isaac Nettles, colored, who was convicted of arson in i 1878 in Darlington county, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary, ; was drowned in Broad River. Nettles was one of the convicts employed in building the piers of the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Railroad bridge. Search was made for the body of the drowned man the next day, but without success. On Thursday his body was discovered in the fY>ncrnrpp lnrlcrprl in thp limhs nf n fallpn tree, about fifty yards above the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad bridge. ? In the sessions court of Anderson last Thursday, Judge Norton re-sentenced Jap. Davis, the wife murderer, to be hanged on the 23rd of this month. Davis, who is a white man, brutally murdered his wife by shooting her with a shotgun loaded with nails, in September 188G. He was tried at the February terra of court, 1887, and was convicted and sentenced to be hanged in March of the same year, but the case was carried to the supreme court, which final- ^ ly sustained the verdict of the lower Court. Davis is a medium size man about fortyfive years of age. He is in good spirits and does not seem to care much about his fate. ? Three little white boys named Charley Swing, Walter Gray and Walter Miller, each about twelve years of age, ran qway from their homes in Greenville the other day, and started to go to Texas, but only got as far as Mauldin Station, in Greenville county, where they spent the night with Newton Blakely, who advised them to return home, which they did the next morning. The boys had been reading novels and had armed themselves with pistols and dirks and had made a cave in the river bank below the city, where they met to read stories and arrange to enter upon a life of adventure. They are the sons of highly respectable parents. ?An attempt in Charleston to swindle two accident insurance companies was ful- . ly exposed by the coroner's inquest last y Thursday. A negro named Joseph B. Dudley was insured in the two companies for ?10,000, the medical examiner being also a negro doctor. It was given out, some time after the insurance was effected that Dudley had died from a wound in the head received by a fall, and the doctor who acted as medical examiner, gave a certificate of death to that purport. The insurance companies sent agents out to investigate the matter, and on exhuming the body buried as Dudley, it was found to be the body of a negro boy, who had been buried in Potter's field, and who, the physicians testified, died of consumption. The insurance doctor, and Dudley's wife t disappeared before the conclusion of the coroner's inquest. A Cotton Panic in New York.? George T. Dixon, N. V. King and J. H. J Garrison, cotton brokers of New York, | failed last Monday, and among other 1 heavy losers by the panicky condition of 1 the New York market, a special dispatch I to the Augusta Chronicle says that James Harle, a bold operator of Atlanta, who was carrying about 150,000 bales when the decline began, lost $250,000 by the decline in prices. As to the cause of the decline, finding many with large stocks on hand, brokers were reticent, when approached on the subject. Various theories as to the cause of the excitement were advanced and generally discussed. Some held that the Mills tariff bill, which places substitutes for cotton on the free list, was responsible. Others thought that the recent publication, which placed the present and prospective stock at a low figure and thereby considerably affected the market, had suddenly- been proven erroneous. As a matter of fact, it j recently appeared that the stock was greatly in excess of all expectations. Monday marks the heaviest sale in the [ history of the cotton exchange, 441,000 bales, as against the previous highest sale of 404,000, which was made about nine or ten years ago. UWut Reports. YORlvVILLE, March 7.?Cotton, 9i to 9j. LIVERPOOL, March 5.?Cotton flat and prices somewhat irregular; uplands, 5Jd. . CHARLESTON, March 5.?Cotton at a stand ; J middling, 10i. NEW YORK, March f>.?Cotton unsettled; uplands, 105-10. Futures closed steady, with sales of441,300bales, as follows: March, 9.80to 9.88; April, 10.01 to 10.02; May, 10.09 to 10.10; June, 10.10 to 10.17; July, 10.18 to 10.19; August, 10.22 to 10.23; September, 9.78 to 9.80; October, 9.02 to 9.64; November, 9.54 to 9.55; Lecomber_9.55 to 9.50; January, 9.02 to 9.04.