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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.