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gpitp and ? On a snrjaller scale, the State of Alabama is somewhat in the fix of the National Government. It has a surplus on hand. The balance in the State treasury, after paying July interest, is $5?0,000. The Birmingham Age urges a reduction in the rate of State taxation in order to reduce the surplus. ? Sim Jones advises wives to threaten to quit their husbands if they don't vote the Prohibition ticket; and ne says if there were more grass widows in the country it would make prohibition. To this the Snmter Republican says: "Sam's friends should put Ice on his head. Evidently there is something wrong with it." ?Thirty thousand dollars were voted by fftBiwaoa fKo nthor flnv for flrlntr mnrninc VVK|iVa9 V4IW V?MV* o and evening salutes to the flag, which brings out the curious fact that the powder left over from the war lasted twenty-three years. The last barrel was used early last spring, since when no salutes have been fired at any military post except West Point, Fort Monroe and Fort Riley. ?The discovery of the pool of Bethesda is announced. Nothing was known of the pool until quite recently, when- certain works carried on by the Algerian monks laid bare a large tank or cistern cut in the rock to a depth of thirty feet. The cistern is fifty-five feet long from east to west, twelve and a half feet in breadth, and lies under a church. A sister pool, lying sixty feet long, adjoins the first. ? There is honor among thieves. Tom Cooley and Wm. Walgolve were thrown into the Tombs two months ago for highway robbery. Sap Roberts went before Inspector Byrnes Saturday, confessed to having done the robbery, and asked that the men be released and he be made vD pay the penalty which had been visited upon them. All concerned are well known crooks of New York city. ?At 7 o'clock on Wednesday evening the water in the harbor at Marquette, Michigan, fell twenty-six inches in a few minntoa Thft fell was so raDid that ves sol8 at anchor were seen to sink. The wind was light off shore at the time, and the lake calm. A dense cloud swept out and over the lake a short time before, and is believed to be a gigantic waterspout or tornado, which drove the water before it in such quantities as to cause the strange phenomenon. ?The Manufacturers' Record truthfully says: Every factory, foundry or furnace which is established in the South proves a blessing to the farmers and helps to enhance their prosperity. When manufacturing enterprises dot the South as thickly as they do the Middle and New England States then will we see more prosperity among Southern farmers than they have ever before enjoyed, and the South will become rich beyond the wildest dreams of its most enthusiastic friends. ? The Rome Riforma, commenting on the passage of a resolution by the United States House of Representatives for the appointment of a committee to inquire into the evasion of the contract law, with special reference to the influx of Italians - into America, says the Italian government will be on its guard to see that neither America nor any country shall take measures contrary to the international law in opposition to the rights conferred on Italy through diplomatic relations. . ? Avery Truesdale, a carpenter of Sharon, Pennsylvania, and an old soldier of the 118th Ohio volunteers, made a unique Dresent to Gen. Harrison Monday, sending Kim a cane on which he had worked for several weeks. It Is composed of 10,500 pieces, of thirty-eight kinds of wood, representing the States of the Union. It is artistically pat together, and is surmounted with a knob in which is set a star, the badge of the Twentieth corps, to which Gen. Harrison belonged. The number of pieces in the cane represent the majority Mr. Truesdale thinks Gen. Harrison will have in Indiana. Gen. Harrison acknowledged the receipt of thee^no by letter, and sent Mr. Truesdale a very fine photograph of himself. ?James Y. Christmas, better known as "Old Jim Christmas," died in Washington on Monday. Christmas, who was 60 years old, had been ill for several months. He was native of Warrenton, N. C. He married a daughter of the late Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, and for many years resided in Washington, devoting his time to furthering the interests of the celebrated claimant. He figured in a startling trage- 1 dy about eight years ago in the house known as the Cataeazy mansion on I street. Mrs. Gaines, Christmas and family and Charles Whitney, ason or aire, uames, with his family, resided there. There was bad blood between the two men, resalting in an encounter on the stairway of the house in which Christmas shot and killed Whitney. Christmas was tried and acquitted on the ground of self-defense. He leaves a daughter and two sons. ? A decision, of more than ordinary importance and involving a new point under , the prohibitory liquor law of Iowa, has }ust been rendered by Judge Phelps, of the district court. Two years ago a saloonkeeper, whose place of business was enjoined as a nuisance, appealed to the Iowa ( supreme court, and after filing a supersedeas bond continued thetraffic. The injunction was sustained, and the saloon-keeper , again gave bonds and carried his case to the United States supreme court, where it is not likely to be reached for a year or two yet. Recently proceedings were brought to have him arrested and fined for contempt of court in continuing the illegal traffic, notwithstanding the injunc- , tion. His defense was, that pending the , decision of the Federal court, the injunction did not apply, but the district court nowdecidesthattheinjunctionmuststand, , and that the saloon must close. The saloonkeeper at once closed up and others will follow, as they admit that further resistance to the law is uselesss. ? The Department of Labor has been added to the list of executive departments at Washington, the President havingsigned the legislative bill. The new department will have the same status as the Department of Agriculture. The commissioner of labor, like the head of the Department of Agriculture, will report directly to the President, and not to any member of the cabinet. The commissioner will have a long list of subordinates, with salaries ranging from $2,500 to $1,200, besides messengers, watchmen, etc. The' law defines the object of the new department to be "to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor in the most general and comprehensive sense of the word, and especially upon its relations to capital, the hours of labor, + In/\f lo Kav? no? man onrl wnmon and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual and moral prosperity." It is also part of the duty of the commissioner of labor to investigate strikes and their causes, and to ascertain whether convict made goods are imported into the United States. ? Twenty or thirty years ago a sensational story was started to the effect that a Western explorer was quickly turned into stone as a consequence of drinking a quan-: tity of fluid found in a rock cavity, and ' which he supposed to be pure water. It! was, however, heavily charged with sili- ; con in solution, and the poor man became petrified as the poison coursed through his [ veins with as fatal result as did the "juice ofcursed hebanon," which caused the death of Hamlet senior. At this late day the scientific dream appears to be verified. Fluor spar is a "rock," in the geological sense of the word, and fluorine is obtained by treating the spar with sulphuric acid. | The extreme facility with which flourine combines with many other substances has long been known, and obtained for it a rather extensive application in the arts, particularly in the etching of glass. The English chemists now say that they have discovered it to be a universal solvent. It combines with all the metals, and the fervor of its embrace is such that in uniting with sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium and aluminum they are raised to a red heat. Manganese and iron filings, if slightly warmed before being exposed to it, burst out into brilliant scintillations, and even gold yields to it at moderate temperatures, though the latter metal refuses to combine with oxygen when melted. Water brought into contact with this L : ~rr? gas gives up its hydrogen to form the glass dissolving hydrofluoric acid, and the oxygen of the water is liberated in the shape of the much talked of ozpne. Those wno have read something of the researches of the old time alchemists find it difficult to believe that a few of those philosophers had not discovered the secret of a powerful solvent if not a universal one. May they not have accidentally stumbled upon fluorine, and observed it working some of the above named wonders without being able to account for it? ?be ffltferiUe inquirer. -ORKTILLE g WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1888. A PROHIBITION AMENDMENT. A proposition to submit to the several States a constitutional amendment to prohibit the liquor traffic in the United States has been favorably reported by Senator Blair from the committee on education. The proposed amendment reads as follows : "Section 1. The.manufacture,importation, exportation, transportation and sale of all alcoholic liquors as a beverage shall be and hereby is forever prohibited in the United States and in every place subject to their jurisdiction. " Sec. 2. Congress shall enforce this article by all needful legislation." The report accompanying the^ill says: " It is proper to say that there are members of tne committee who concur in the report recommending the submission of the proposed amendment to the States who do not by such action indicate their approval of the adoption of the amendment as a part of the Constitution, nor that they would themselves advocate its ratification by the Legislatures of the States." After stating that a majority of the committee think that a refusal to submit the proposed amendment to the States for ratification would be analogous to the denial of the right of a party to be heard in court upon a question of private right, the re port continues: " The agitation for national legislation for the extirpation of the traffic in alcoholic poison made and sold to be used as a beverage will never cease to disturb andf finally to destroy the great political partiel until they submit to the States the quef tion of enlargement of national, constitutional jurisdiction, so as to include control of the subject. When decided, if adversely to the ratification, the subject will Ibe eliminated from' national politics, at least for many years. If, on the other band, the proposed amendment should be ratified and become a part of the national law,[the chief curse of the world would be summoned to the block of national justiceJand die by the hand of the only power wlieh can wield an axe big and sharp enougtl to cut off its hydra head. Then we shall have peace." No Compromise on the Tariff.? Chairman Mills, of the House Ways and Means Committee, said on Saturday that a final vote on the tariff bill would be reached not later than ten days hence. The wool schedule is the only really important item left for consideration. Mr. Mills believes that this item will be disposed of within two days. Some of the Democrats may be inclined to speak mildly in opposition to it, but there is no indication that any gentleman on that side of the chamber will vote against it except Mr. Randall. The two California Democrats, Messrs. Biggs and Thompson, notwithstanding the enormous wool interest of that State, will vote for free wool, and so will Mr. Foran, of Ohio, who has been all along regarded as one of the followers of Mr. Randall. Mr. Mills is not concerning himself re yarding the Dill whicn tne senate is preparing to substitute for his measure. H?does not know what its provisions will be', nor has he attempted to learn. He regards it as very probable that the Senate bill will be drawn on the lines of the Chicago platform, and that it will embody no feature which the Democrats will be willing to accept, Should this be the case, little or no time will be lost in a fruitless discussion of the matter. The conferees will simply announce their failure to agree; the remaining business before the two houses will be speedily disposed of, and an adjournment will follow, probably about the 10th of August. Fruit of the Gallows.?On Tuesday of last week Edward A. Deacons was hanged at Rochester N. Y. His neck was broken by the fall. Deacons was a tramp, and his victim, Mrs. Ada Stone, had refused to feed him. He was perfectly careless about his fate, and abused any newspaper men who approached him. Stephen Freeman, colored, convicted of the crime of rape on a white woman, was hanged at Wilmington, N. C., on Wednesday. The execution took place in the jail, only thirty-six witnesses being admitted, as required by law. Several applications were made to the Governor for pardon or commutation of sentence to life imprisonment, but after careful consideration he refused to interfere. Freeman protested his innocence to the last. George M. Rider was hanged at Marshall, Mo., last Friday for the murder of R. P. Tallent, about three years ago. Ebenezer Stanyard, the Yourigstown, Ohio, murderer, who killed hissweetheart, Alice Hancock, early in 1885, was hanged in the penitentiary annex, in Columbus, at 1 o'clock last Friday morniflg. He played his accordion before going to the scaffold and appeared at ease, talking a great deal and meeting his fate frith more 1 1 1 ^ nerve man many supposeu ne wuum. The Weather and the Crops.?The South Carolina Weather Service furnishes the following concerning the effect of the weather on the various crops during the week ending July 14: The rainfall for the past week has been below the average, and for the same period the temperature has been above, with much sunshine. In the northern counties the weather for the last seven days has been injurious to all crops except cotton. The temperature has been high, accompanied by northwest parching winds. In the middle counties the rainfall has been unevenly distributed, except in Marion county, where the fall was very even and much good was obtained. Aside from this, there are places where the want of rain is assuming the proportions of a drought. The geueral condition of upland corn is unfavorable and that of cotton good. In the southern counties, the heat has been intense but has moderated during the latter part of the week. Conditions are favorable for cotton, but injurious to corn and peas. Serious Railroad Accident.?on Wednesday night last the south-bound express train on the Midland Railroad, went through a trestle about two miles south of Orange Court House, Va. The trestle is forty-eight feet high, and was undergoing repairs at the time of the accident. The train was moving at a speed of six miles, crossing the trestle under regular orders. The engine had passed safely over most of the trestle when the smoker, mail, baggage and express cars went down with a great crash, dragging down the engine and tender and two passenger coaches. Two sleepers remained standing on the trestle. The engine went down pilot end foremost, thus communicating no fire to the wreck. All the lights were extinguished in the fall. Eight passengers were killed and twenty-one were wounded. Among the killed was J. X. Torrence, of Gaffney City, S. C., and President of the Cherokee Falls Manu factoring Company at Black's. He was returning home from a trip to the North, where he had been to purchase machinery for the factory of which he was the head. Mr. Torrence was a native of Gaston county, N. C., and his body was interred Friday afternoon in the burying ground at Olney Church, near Gastonia. The services were conducted by Rev. Mr. Mcllwaine, and were attended by a large concourse of pe ople. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. NOTES FROM UNION COUNTY. Etta Jake, July 16.?As previously announced, Rev. Harley preached at Mr. Henry Wilkinson's last Saturday evening to a large congregation. His text was Luke 19th chapter and 10th verse: "For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost." The sermon was truly a practical one. In his enumeration of the cardinal principles of religion the onDoi-if chmvpd an amount of theological Q|/vunvk WIIVTt vv. w. ? ? _ _ research. Proficient Christian workers choose their subjects from among the most debased of society. The life-boat is launched to first rescue those farthest out in the sea of ruin. Christ came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Only the sick need the physician. Space forbids our giving a synopsis of the different thoughts suggested by the speaker. We congratulate our brethren and friends of Western York upon their success in securing a minister so eminently qualified to do a good work in their midst. To gain the victory they must properly support his hands while the battle is going on. With us each successive visit to that section, or meeting'with those good people turns the clock of time backward for a quarter of a century and arouses the pleasant recollections < f oilr boyhood days. Little girls we then knew in their childhood or infancy are now matronly, hightoned ladies and mothers, qualified in every respect to preside over the domestic affairs of the President's mansion. The present mail arrangement, I find, is very unsatisfactory to the people in the Hopewell, and Hickory Grove sections. The Enquirer does not reach them now until Friday. It is hoped the next issue will be sent out on the new schedule on Thursday, and that before long the whole line will be supplied with a daily mail. The thrift and business enterprise of that section calls for increased mail facilities, and to that it will eventually gravitate. We pledge it our support. For the past eight years the arrangement has been the best that a tri-weekly mail could be. It supplied those offices with The Enquirer in five hours after it was printed. Yesterday morning the dry spell came tn on onH hv a trpntle rain, which promises erreat relief to our suffering crop9 and anxious farmers. / On Saturday evening last, in Drayton^ville township, Henry Blanton killed I James Bullock with a rock. From the ' account we get, Mr. Blanton was justified in doing so. They were returning from a barbecue at Grindall Shoals when the difficulty, which grew out of an old feud, took place. Bullock was under the influence of liquor when he received the fatal blow. It is time that the good and law abiding people of all classes and colors, and political persuasions irrevocably pledge themselves to support no candidate for office who directly or indirectly (through his friends or otherwise) uses spirituous or intoxicating liquors of any kind whatever to influence votes, but treat all such as disloyal to the best interests of a law abiding people. Sigma. Correspondence of the Yorkrille Enquirer. LETTER FROM ROCK HILL. Rock Hill, July 16.?Our section was visited with good rains on Sunday, which were of great benefit to our farmers, and cooled the atmosphere. The rain was badly needed. Charles Morris, colored, was arrested on Saturday last, under a warrant issued by Trial Justice Whyte, charged with housebreaking and grand larceny. The evidence was not sufficient to convict him, and he was Released. He was escorted to town by a number of railroad hands, who I were anxious to see the ends of justice/ meted out. 7 To-day our town is full of candidates ana drummers, the latter, however, predomJ inating, there being thirty-nine in town, all of whom are very polite. The Thurman beaver mania has struck our town, and many can be seen on the streets. VTSach day from one to two trains pass /tn>s place loaded with watermelons for the Northern markets. The trains are special fruit cars, drawn by coal-burner engines. Henry Toole has commenced the erection of a two-story brick building on Main street, to be used as a barber shop and billiard room. I There is a great scarcity of fruit in our/ market this season. / Anderson Hall, an old and respected colored man who lived four miles east if this place, died on Tuesday last of consumption. He has always been a friend to the Democracy and stood by those/in 1876 who saved the State from radical rifle. I regret to have again to state that there was no service in either of the flour churches of our town last night, andl on yesterday morning only one church Was open. With a population boasted byjour town, and containing four churche^, it does seem that we should have n^ore preaching, and that the ministers should arrange to have services in one or more churches each Sunday morning and night. Hal. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. NOTES FROM WESTERN YORK. Hoodtown, July 16.?We had a nice rain yesterday. It fell very slowly?just fast enough to be absorbed by the earth ; and now, instead of farmers weariDg their former long faces, they wear cheerful smiles. I suppose the rain has a tendency to contract. Ilev. J. L. Harley preached at Mr. Henry Wilkinson's last Saturday afternoon. Mr. Wilkinson has been in bad health for several months. 1 > ~ "M".. ITnvlmr ouaicforl h\r nprhiinq 1VCV# i'l 1 j uotfiwwvv* ..?^w two or three other ministers, will hold a protracted meeting at Shady Grove, beginning the first Sabbath in August. There will be a picnic near Mr. W. Y. White's, Tuesday, the 31st instant. The ladies are all invited to be present with well filled baskets. A negro boy who lived on Mr. J. S. It. Thompson's place, near Howell's ferry, was examined by Drs. Feemster and Ward last Friday, and adjudged a lunatic. He was taken to Yorkville Saturday, and will be sent to the asylum soon. Rambler. Correspondence of tbe Yorkville Enquirer. NOTES FROM GROVER. Grover, N. C., July 1G.?The farmers in this section are done laying by their crops and are now enjoying the shady grove and discussing the political issues of the day. The noise of the threshing machine can now be heard in all directions. The corn and cotton crops are looking fine and promising, though corn on uplands is needing rain. True, on yesterday morning we had some fine showers, but by evening the clouds had rolled away. The Farmers' Alliance of Cherokee will give a picnic at Antioch on Friday the ilrrl nf A utrust. Antioch Church sends as delegates to the Sunday-school convention to be held in Yorkville on the 27th instant, Messrs. E. Hardin, J. II. Dickson, W. H. Bird, Preston Green, D. It. Bird, C. C. Huges and Wm.Gold. Index. ? One of the ostensible objections of the Republicans to tariff reform is that it will bear hard upon and ruin the American labor. If that be the doctrine why is it that they name for President a man who favors opening wide the gate to Chinese immigrauts, whocanliveonmiceand make money, working at wages that will completely undermine the American laborer and practically deprive him of employment? If the American laborer is in the tender care of the Republican party why doesn't that party propose to stop immigration of European laborers who are pouring into the country by the many thousands ? LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Mrs. Hariet J. Bratton?Administratrix's N< tice. R. L. A. Smith?Candidate for G'oronerof Yor county. See fourth page. Johnson Hagood, Chairman Board of VisitorsSouth Carolina Military Academy. James B. Allison, Clerk?Bridge Contract t Let near the residence of R. M. Whiti sides, on Bullock's Creek. Withers Adickes?Peas as a Fertilizer. M. C. Willis?James P. Culp employed t Salesman. See fourth page. J. A. Watson, Yorkville, S. C.?Land for Salt May it May?Unpainted Statements. Walter B. Moore <t Co.?Dealers in Crockerj Hardware, Groceries, Tobacco, Snut Soap, Undertakers' Supplies, Shingle! Doors, Blinds and Sash. A. Y. Cartwright & Co.?"Figures Won't Lie. Hunter <fe Oates?Goods and Prices of Suimm Stock not Complained Of. M. <t H. C. Strauss?Please Take Notice. Lowry&Starr?Turnip Seed, Paint, Lime-Ad and Milk Shakes. Parish <t Kennedy?Cow Peas, <fcc. UNTIL JANUARY 1st, 1889. The Enquirer will be furnished from thi date until January 1st, 1889, for $1.10. WITHDRAWS. Mr. R. G. Whitesides publishes a card in thi paper, withdrawing his namo as a candidate fc the House of Representatives. CHESTER FAIR. We have received a pamphlet copy of the pr< mium list of the tenth annual fair of theChes ter Agricultural, Horticultural and Mechanic! Association, which wfiil open at Chester, on tb 9th of October, and continue four days. A THE GOLD HILL BAND. ' The tfoMHill fjnps BandAvill give their ai: nual picnic at Brown's Shop, near Fort Mil on the 27th inetant, to which they invite tb public to attend with baskets. The Meckler burg Band will also be present, and much er joyable music is confidently expected. CIRCUIT COURT JURORS. In the United States circuit court at Charles ton, last Thursday, grand and petit juroi were drawn for the November term of the Un ted States circuit court to be held at Columbi on the fourth Monday in November next. I E. Guthrie, of York, was drawn as a gran juror, and R. C. Hutchinson and J. ErvinGoi don, citizens of York, were drawn as pet jurors. THE SANITARY COMMISSION. Our citizens will do well to heed the impoi taut notice published to-day by IntendantHa; relative to the sanitary condition of the towi Yorkville has long enjoyed the reputation < being one of the healthiest towns in the Unite States and in view of the prevalent sickness i other .places, our people should look well 1 the cleanliness of their premises and give dii ease no opportunity to germinate. ECLIPSE OF "THE MOON. On Sunday night next there will be an eclipe of the moon visible to the larger part of th world, except eastern Europe and Asia, and < more interest than the one of January 28th. I * 1 A*-- iU the approacmng ecupse mo umminui ui iu earth's shadow will be much larger in propoi tion to the diameter of the moon, darkenin the surface more totally. By central time tb moon will enter penumbra at 8.55 P. M.; ent? shadow at 9.54 ; total eclipse will begin at 10.51: middle of eclipse at 11.45; total eclipse wi end at 12.36 A. M.; the moon will leave shadow at 1.35 ; and leave penumbra at 2.34. JUDICIAL CONVENTION. Ata meeting of the Democratic County Chaii men of the counties composing the Sixth Jud: cial Circuit, held in Chester yesterday, to d< termine upon time and place of holding the ju dicial convention, it was decided to hold tb convention in Chester on the 6th of August. For want of a quorum from the countk composiug the Fifth Congressional distric no action was taken regarding the Congres sional convention. The York Democratic Executive Committe being in session here yesterday, precludin Major Hart from attending the Chester meeting he was represented in it by D. E. Finley, Esc r i^Q^lTY, SAVE ONE." A practical argument in favor of the whip ping post as a punishment for petty offence was offered last Friday. Jim Garrison, a co] ored lad, who has been taking lessons on th streets for a long time, and who has gained th soubriquet of "Little Jim," was detected th second time in stealing whisky from the celln of Dowry & Starr's drug store. Mr. Star made complaint to Jim's mother, tlireatenin the boy with prosecution by law, when sh suggested a compromise, authorizing Mr. Star to give her wayward son a good whipping This Mr. Starr proceeded to do, laying on th lashes "forty, save one," which it is hoped wil have a salutary effect upon tho incorrigibl subject of the castigation. / DEATH OF J. L. ADAMS. ' Intelligence was received here last Wednes day of the death at 8 A. M., on that day, ii Gastonia, N. C., ol Mr. J. Leander Adams He returned to his home in Gastonia fron Hnntersville, N. C., some time ago, feelini unwell on his arrival, and continued to gro\ worse until death ensued. His disease wa typhoid fever. Mr. Adams was a native o - * * 1 ? i.1 York county, Having Deen raiseu iu iuo uohjc neighborhood, where he lived until about fou years ago, when he moved to Gastonia. H was a quiet, conservative man and a devote* Christian, being a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church. His age was about G7 years Three children and his wife survive him. H was buried at Bethel 011 Thursday, a largo con course attending the obsequies. CHURCH NOTICES. Episcopal?Rev. Theo. D. Bratton, ltectoi Sunday-school at 5.30 P. M. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastoi Services next Saturday at 8.30 P. M. Com munion services on Sunday at 10.30 A. M Sunday-school at 5 P. M. Prayer-meeting to morrow afternoon at 0 o'clock. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. W. W. Daniel Pastor. Services next Sunday at 10.30 A. M Sunday-school at f> P. M. Prayer-meeting thi evening at 8.30 o'clock. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J C. Galloway, Pastor. Services next Sunday a Tirzah at 11 A. M. Sunday-school at 5.30 P. M Baptist?Rev. R. G. Patrick, Pastor. Ser vices next Sunday at 11 A. M. Union service at 8.30 P. M. Sunday-school at 5 P. M. Pray er meeting to-morrow evening at 8.30 o'clock. THE CITADEL VACANCIES. We publTsh'thifTweek an official notice rola tivo to beneficiary vacancies in the South Caro lina Military Academy, one of which vacan cies is from York county. The vacancies wil be filled by competitive examination befor county boards which will meet for the purpos on September 13, next. The county examininj boards will be appointed by the State superin tendent of education and will report the result of their work to Gen. Johnson Hagood, chair man of the board of visitors, at Barnwell, t* whom application for information relating t< the competitive examination of cadets shoul( be made. Before the applicants for beneficiary cadet ships can appear for examination they mus have the formal permits of tho board of visit ors. Tho applications will be considered b; the board of visitors at a meeting in Colurnbi; on September 4. All applications must b mado out in tho strictest conformity with th proscribed regulations. It is desirable that ap plications be forwarded to Gen. Hagood at th earliest day. For full directions as to th course that must bo pursued by those wh< wish to become competitors for the vacant ben efieiary cadetships, attention is directed to th annnnnnpinpnt HOMICIDE. Late lust Friday afternoon near the farm o Rev. L. A. Johnson, about six' miles north west of town, John Petty was shot by Win. C Harvey, receiving a wound from a shot gui from the effects of which he died the nex morning. Both are white men, and previou to the difficulty lived on adjoining places, Har vey on Mr. Johnson's place, and Petty 01 William Burns's place. Each was a man o family and our information is that they botl moved to that neighborhood recently fron North Carolina. Coroner Caldwell held an inquest on Satur day, with the following jury: R. N. McElwoo foreman, J. A. Barry, J. C. Miller, G. F. Hod rick, J. C. Enloe, J. L. Stuart, E. B. Price G. R. McCartor, P. B. McAfee, J. F. Smith R. R. Boattie, Willis Dover. k Dr. J. Rufus Bratton, summoned as a medical expert, certified as follows: "I hereby certify that I have this day ex5 amined the dead body of John Petty and find the same afflicted with a gun shot wound k of the lower border of the left side. The shot entered the lateral section of the body, ? divided the main artery in that region, and buried themselves in the tissue ana walls of o the right hip-bone. The hemorrhage from 3- the wound of the large artery on the left side, was in my opinion, the cause of his death." Mary Whitaker testified that she was in the 13 road, in company with John Petty, when Cal Harvey came along, and observing them went, she supposes, to his house and got his gun, and G returning, fired, indicting the fatal wound. She saw the shooting. ' Eliza Jane Ross, colored, testified that she ?? was near by when tho shooting took place, sr She heard Cal speak nfter ho fired, "You are the man I've been looking for some tiino." Emiline Harvey, wife of the slayer, G. W. Dickson, E. F. Land, Mrs. M. C. Petty, wife of the deceased, and John Edwards, all testified as to previous threats made at different times by Wm. C. Harvey that ho would kill is Jack Petty. Mary Lewis testified that Harvey confessed to her, after the shooting, that he had shot Jack Petty; and further: "I heard him say all summerthatho intended to kill Jack Petty. He accused Jack of poisoning his dog last spring. Cal. was sober when he killed him." The jury returned a verdict that "Jack Petty 3- came to his death by a gunshot wound in the j- hands of Wm. C. Harvey, on tho 13th of July, il 1888." ie Harvey made his escape, going in the direction of Broad River, which he crossed at Howell's ferry, about 9 o'clock Friday night. It is thought he is making his way to Georgia, in J" whichjS^ehe has relatives. ie /^PERSONAL MENTION, l- Mr. T. M. Whitaker left here this morning l- for Newton, N. C. Mrs. Gen. Evans, of Edgefield, is visiting Mrs. Judge Witherspoon. Mrs. W. M. Corkill, of Chester, is visiting ]" relatives and friends in this place. J^^Miss Mattie Mcintosh, of Newberry, is visiting Mrs. Withers Adickes. 'a _S>Miss Fannie McNinch, of Concord, N. C., ' is visiting Mrs. W. W. Jenkins. Misses Georgia and Iva Withers are visiting at Lowrysville. 1 Miss Jeanette Davidson is visiting at Guthriesville. Miss Huldah McNeel is visiting her brother, r- Mr. S. M. McNeel, of Bullock's Creek, rt Miss Stitt Harris, of Columbia, is in Yorki. ville visiting relatives. >f Miss Bessie Gibbes, of Ciuincy, Florida, is d visiting Miss uaisie nart. n Miss Ella Avery, of Ebenezer, is in York;o ville visiting Mrs. Joseph 0. Walker, j- Mr. W. Newport Grist and family, of Marietta, Ga? are inYorkville visiting Mr. Sam M. Grist. Miss Adie Solomons of Charleston, is-visit10 ing Mr. M. Strauss. Miss Norma Strauss re10 turned yesterday from Charleston. * Mr. Horace H. Beard and family are visiting n Capt. John F. Speck, father of Mrs. Beard, at 16 Augusta, Ga. r" yDr. John May, who has been indisposed for 8 some time past, left here last Friday morning, 0 accompanied by his son Charlie, for a few weeks |r stay at Cleveland Mineral Springs. 11 ^ KILLED BY A CRAZY MOTHER. iv On Sunday last the wife of Jerome Cook, colored, who lives on Crowder's creek, near Henry's Knob, in this county, shot and killed her nine-year-old son, named Samuel M. Cook. . On being notified of the fact, Coroner Caldwell impaneled a jury of inquest composed as follows: W. D. Lesslie, foreman; J. S. Clark, 1 D. T. McCarter, B. C. Jenkins, Z. P. Bigger, J. A. Forbes, R. B. Harvey, J. J. Deas, E. M. Wilson, J. S. Carroll, J. H. Adams and J. Q. J3 McMackin. Drs. A. P. Campbell and E. W. ' Pressley were also summoned as medical experts. They rendered the following certificate: "We have this day examined the body of 10 Samuel M. Cook, deceased, and find that he g came to his death from a gun shot wound, one ;, shot entering the base of the brain by the roof .. of the right orbit, and another entering frontally between the sixth and seventh ribs and coming out posteriorly near the lower border of'the ribs, passing entirely through the liver. No other shots entered avitalpart." j8 Jerome Cook, the father, and Berta and Hanna Cook, sisters of the deceased, were examined 0 as witnesses. The former was absent from the 6 house at the time of the shooting, but he testi6 fled as to the unsound condition of his wife's r mind. The children testified that they saw r their mother tako down the gun and shoot their ^ brother, they being powerless to prevent the 0 act. r The jury rendered a verdict that "the saidS. '* M. Cook came to his death from a shot delivered 0 by a gun in tho hands of his mother." 1 Subsequent to the inquest the physicians cere tified that upon examination they found the mother of the dead boy insane. She was lodged in jail on Monday, preparatory to commitment to the lunatic asylum. a RAILROAD NOTES. ' Owing to unavoidable delays in tho work of a roofing tho bridge over Catawba river, that S structure will not be finished before Friday or v Saturday. This work and the trestle on this s side of the river offer tho only obstacles to tracklaying, and it is safe to say that they will soon be removed. r All the grading between Yorkville and tho e rivorwill be finished up by Saturday, and we ^ are informed that tho roadbed for the entire dis" tanco is in splendid condition and will require ' but little dressing up for the crossties. e Of the Augusta Division but little mention has been made recently, though the engineers are busily engaged in locating the line. Our information is to the effect that the engineering oorps has reached tho town of Union, having ' surveyed and settled upon a route from Newberry to that place. On Wednesday last, the ' county commissioners of Union county arranged with the attorney of the railroad com pany for putting into the hands of a trustee for future delivery the bonds subscribed by the the townships of Goshen Hill, Union, Goudoysville and Pinckneyville. The town council of tho town of Union also adopted the s same arrangement and conditions for the bonds subscribed by tho town. These subscriptions are to tho Augusta Division which will pass ^ through Union and unite with the main line ' some where in York county. While there is some speculation as to tho point of connection, 8 we are informed by one who claims to know that tho line can be brought through Bullock's Creek, York, Bethel and on to Charlotte by a united effort on the part of these localities. I M. E. DISTRICT CONFERENCE. The conference of Chester district M. E. - Church, South, Kev. A. M. Chreitzberg, P. E., 1 will bo held in Yorkville, commencing on the e 25th instant and closing on the 2(Jth. Bishop e W. W. Duncan will preside. The introductory 5 sermon will be preached on Thursday, 2(3th, by - Rev. A. G. Stafford, of Lancaster. The follows ing is a list of ministers and delegates: Chester Station?Rev. H. F. Chreit/.berg, P. C., Rev. Samuel Leard. Delegates?G. W. Gage, 3 J. L. Glenn. Alternates?W. T. D. Cousar, J. 3 II. Buchanan. i Chester Circuit?Rev. J. B. Traywick, P. C. Delegates?J. Harvey Hardin, W. G. Austin, E. Y. Lee, Davis G. Anderson. John H. Kirk" patrick, Win. A. Triplett. Alternates?J. W. t Davis, L. G. Grant, S. B. Hardin, W. H. L. - Wilks, W. H. Connor. f East Chester Circuit?Rev. G. T. Harmon, P. a C., Rev. A. B. Brown, L. P. Delegates?J. F. Barber, Nelson Ford, R. H. Kee, C. Reeves, F. M. M. Hieklin, W. F. Ferguson, L. T. Jackson. 0 Alternates?R. B. Anderson, J. G. Barber. Rock Hill Circuit?Rev. R. Herbert Jones, o P. C. Delegates?James G. Anderson, Jas. A. q McFadden, Lewis M. McElwee. Jas. A. Giles. Alternates?James A. Williford, A. W. Steele. North Rock Hill?Rev. E. G. Price, P. C., " Rev. J. F. Isom, L. P., Rev. J. B. Copeland, L. e P. Delegates?Dr. E. L. Glenn, Perry Martin, R. D. Sealy, W. S. Garrison, J. A. Jamison. I Alternates?J. B. Davis, J. M. Seigles, W. 0. Youngblood. r Fort Mill Circuit.?Rev. J. M. McRoy, P. C., W. C. Patterson. Delegates?Henry Crook, " W. F_ Harris. W. D. Rogers, R. C. McRoy. Alternates?Wesley Collins, R. C. Wolfe, i Yorkville Station?Rov. W. W. Daniel, P. t C. Delegates?T. S. Jelferys, P. Happeriield. Allernates?H. C. Strauss, E. Thomas. King's MountainjCircuit.?Rev. J. L. Har" ley, P. C., Rev. L. Johnson. Delegates? i Jos. A. Smith, R. J. Dunlap, W. R. Hayes, R. f 11. Black. Alternates?J. R. Williams, . Wm. Jones, W. F. Slater. Black's Circuit?Rev. J. W. Elkins, P. C. 1 Delegates?J. P. Whisonaut, W. S. Wilkerson, J. E. Leech. Alternates?T. M. Whisonant, - W. P. Dye. York Mission?Rev. M. A. Connaly, P. C. ' Lancaster Station?Rev. A. J. Stafford, P. C. Delegates?B. P. Miller, W, D. Lemmond. '? Alternates?J. A. Twitty, C. S. Starnes. . West Lancaster Circuit?Rev. John Owens, P. C. Delegates?D. Eli Dunlap, I). A. Garner, J. N. Hagins. Alternates?Jno. F. Bell, J. Lee man, Jr. Tradesville Circuit?Rev. J. B. Piatt, P. C., Rev. C. A. Plyler, Rev. Plyler. Delegates?R. H. Sapp, J W. Carnes, M. A. Plyler, T. S. Riddle. Alternates?C. A. Plyler, Jr., Robert Langley, J. B. Bruce, D. F. Sapp. West Chesteheld Circuit?Rev. M. H. Major, P. C., Rev. Moore, Rev. Turner. Delegates?J. A. McCaskell, Jr., C. P. Blakeny, A. P. Raley, Harrison Lee, R. Nelson, J. A. McMillan, Jimmy Evans. Alternates?Dr. P. B. Miller, P. Grant, J. B. Threat. Chesterfield Circuit.?Rev. J. W. Kilgo, P. C. Delegates?D. M. Barrentine, James Ross, J. F. Hunly, W. J. Hannah. Alternates?W. M. Boatwright, C. B. McNair, W. B. Odum, John L. Rives.ORK EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. A meeting of the Democratic executive Committee of York county was held in the Court House at 11 A. M., yesterday, County Chair man James i<\ ilnrt presiding, and tuo precincts represented as follows: Black's, J. C. Whisonant; Blairsville, R. T. Riggins ; Bethany, T. P. Whitesides; Bullock's Creek, Elias Inman; Clay Hill, Perry Ferguson; Clover, R. A. Matthews; Clark's Fork, R. J. Love; Fort Mill, S. II. Epps ; Hickory Grove, J. C. Chambers; McElweo's Mill, A. J. Hoffman; McConnellsville, J. F. Ashe; Rock Hill, John C. Witherspoon ; Tirzah, Henry Massey; Thompson's Mill, E. T>. Thompson ; Yorkville, D. E. Finley. All the preciucts were represented except Buffalo, Bethel and Coates' Tavern. The chairman explained the object of the meeting of the committee to be to appoint a day for the County Convention to appoint delegates to the State Convention, and transact other business that may properly come before it; to appoint times and places for candidates before the primary election to meet and address their follow citizens; to appoint a day for the primary election, and other incidental matters that may be presented. Mr. Chambers offered a motion that the Countv Convention be called to meet in the Court House in Yorkville on Tuesday the 31st of July, and that election of delegates to the convention bo heldat the various precincts on Saturday, July 28th, between the hours of 2 and 5 P. M. Adopted. Mr. Chambers moved that the chairman appoint a committee of five to appoint times and places for public speaking by. the candidates, and appoint a day for the primary election. The motion was adopted, and the chair appointed as the committee Messrs. Chambers, Ferguson, Witherspoon, Massey and Hoffman. The committee retired and afterwards reported dates for public speaking, and appointing the 30th of August as the day for holding I the primary election. The report was adopted. (The dates for public speaking are embodied in the official notice of the chairman published elsewhere in this paper.) It was also ordered that all candidates shall sign the pledge before the secretary and deposit with, him on or before the first Monday of August, a fee of (56 for defraying the necessary expenses of the campaign. The following resolution was adopted: That the chairman and secretary be authorized to require a pledge from each candidate that he is in full sympathy with the Democratic party, is elligible to the office for which he is a candidate, and that he will abide the result of the primary election. This concluding the business presented before the committee, the meeting adjourned sine die. Correspondence of.the Yorkville Enquirer. BLAIRSVILLE NOTES. Blajrsville, July 1G.?We have had a refreshing rain, and crops are much revived, while the farmers will now shorten their lengthened faces and finish up their summer's woric. Our farmers are now taking some encouragement from a new source?the Farmers' Alliance, which is being organized in various sections of the county, and at 2 P. M., on Saturday next a meeting of the farmers will be held at Blairsville for the purpose of organizing a sub-Alliance. We say to farmers, wake up and look to your interests. Rip Van Winkle slept and missed many golden opportunities. We must be on the excursion train with our brother farmers when it reaches the goal of relief. Let us meet and organize at once or change our profession. The farmers and land-owners should reflect upon the small amount of forest now standing in the county. The forests are almost as far distant from each other as the oases in the Great Desert, and the sight of them is much welcomed by the traveler. We should be more careful to preserve the growing timber for future use. Scientific men say that forests increase the amount of rainfall, and State governments in the north and north-west encourage tree-planting with a view to this?result. But we yet have much more timber in this county than is found in some other counties in the State. There is much complaint on Turkey creek of the Means grass, which seems to thrive with the cultivation of crops. The question is, how can it be killed out. Mr. R. S. Plexico recently killed a rattle snake of large size. The Harmony Presbyterians met on the 14th and appointed a committee to select a site for the proposed new church, which is L- , u.i/ ? tu to oe located WlllllU Ilttll a uinc m uiv Three C's Railroad. They adjourned to meet again on next Saturday to hear the report of the committee. Croaker. For the Yorkvllle Enquirer. CHESTER DISTRICT CONFERENCE. The fifth annual session of the Chester district conference will be held at Yorkville, July 25-29. Preaching will begin on Wednesdayeveningat8.30 o'clock. There will be two business sessions daily, beginning respectively about 9 o'clock A. M., and 3 o'clock P. M. There will be preaching daily at 11 o'clock A. M., and 3 o'clock P. M. We cordially invite all to attend any of these services. Addresses will be delivered to the Sunday-school, on Sunday afternoon ofthe Conference. An invitation is extended to the other Sunday-schools to attend. If our friends desire to assist us in entertaining the conference, with the assurance of their hospitality being appreciated, they may make their desire known to any of the following committee of arrangements. T. S. Jefferys, ) J. W. Dobson, I John May, Jr., [Committtee. H. C. Strauss, | F. IIapperfield. J W. W. Daniel, Pastor. MERE-MENTION. Floods along the Ohio and the Little Kanawha rivers, last week, destroyed an immense amount of property. Fields were flooded and hundreds of acres or growing crops and harvested grain were ruined. The Governor of Missouri has declined to pardon or commute the death sentence of Hugh M. Brooks, alias Maxwell, the St. Louis trunk murderer, but has granted a respite of four weeks, dating from last Friday, the day on which he was to have been nanged. The business failures occurring throughout the country last week number for the United States 21G, Canada, 24; total 240 against 214 the previous week. The President has commuted to eight months' imprisonment in jail the sentence of \V. P. McKee, convicted in the Western district of North Carolina of robbing the post office and sentenced in May, 1888 to two years' imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary at Columbus. The first snow of any amount in July fell on Mt. Washington, N. H., last Wednesday night. In some places the drifts were a foot deep. ? Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, the Prohibition candidate, was interviewed at Detroit on Monday. He said he would make no speeches until September. "We will gain larerelv." he said, "in New York, and will probably increase our vote there 50 per cent., drawing chiefly from the Republicans. We will gain largely in New Jersey, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Missouri, also in the New England States. Our gains in the North will come largely from the Republican party; in the South from the Democratic party. Our strength in the South comes from all classes, white and black, except the uneducated negroes. The latter class seem to think that one of the boons conferred on them by Abraham Lincoln was liberty to drink like their old masters." SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The town of Union is much agitated over the illicit traffic in whisky, which is said to be going on in that town. The circuit solicitor is censured for not looking after the matter. ? Mr. William H; Foster, of SpartanI burg, has pecan trees ten years old that | grew from the seed. They have a fine ; crop of nuts this year. He also has coffee | trees that grow well and bloom but neyer fruit. ? At a reunion of Confederate survivors in Lexington county last Saturday, two brothers named Reedy, forced a quarrel upon Manuel Williams, a peaceably disposed man, who, in self-defense, shot and instantly killed one of the brothers with a pistol and stabbed the other through the heart with a pocket-knife. ? John Green, colored, of Berkeley county, who was convicted of murder at the June term of court for that county in 1888, the jury coupling with their verdict of guilty a recommendation to mercy, was sentenced by Judge Norton to be hung on the 10th of August. The Governor has commuted this sentence to life imprisonment. ? In the court of General Sessions at Pickens last week, the trial of the six negroes and one white man for the lynching of Waldrop resulted in a mistrial. The case was given to the jury at 8 o'clock Wednesday night, and at 11 o'clock, Thursday,* after being locked up fifteen hours, they reported that it was impossible to agree, and a mistrial was ordered by Judge Wallace and the jury discharged. It is understood that ten of the jurors were in favor of convicting all the prisoners, while two jurors were unwilling to convict Gaillard Eaton, the white man. The jury was composed of white men. The case has excited great interest, as it is the first instance known where a white man was lynched by negroes. On Friday Thomas P. Alexander, white, was convicted of the murder of his wife and sentenced to be hanged on the i4th of September. ? The Abbeville Medium says: "A majority of the farmers of the State, we believe, are in favor of accepting the Clemson bequest and of establishing an agricultural college at Fort Hill. Now is the time to go to work for the purpose of realizing their wishes. The first step is to elect a Governor who sympathizes with this purpose. Before voting for any man for the high position of Governor the farmers should require a positive and direct pledge from him that he will use his best efforts to secure this college." It puts the question in positive terms to Gov. Richardson, supposing him to be a candidate for re-election, and says, "If he is indifferent about the matter, and it is not his way of thinking, some other man should be chos en. The State has hundreds of citizens of sufficient capacity for the place who are fripnHlv with thp fdrmors " POLITICAL ITEMS. ? The National Independent Colored Political Union, of which the Hon. S. C. Moore, of Mississippi, is chairman, and which has its headquarters in Washington pretty, has issued a spirited circular, in which it declares that the Republican par ty has made political slaves of the negroes since the war, protesting against the theory that the negroes belong to any party exclusively, and setting forth various reasons why the colored people of the country should vote for the election of Cleveland and Thurman. ? The South Carolina Democratic Association has been formed in Washington. John F. Treutlen, of Columbia, is president, and W. B. McDaniel, of Columbia, secretary. The other officers are: Jas*. N. Lipscomb, of Newberry, first vice-president ; Edward Mclver, of Cheraw, second vice-president; K. S. Murchison, of Abbeville, financial secretary; J. S. Cutting, of Berkeley, sergeant-at-arms. Executive committee?C. M. Davis, Spartanburg f James Tillman, Edgefield; C. C. Manning, Manning. ? Republican newspapers persistently and purposely allude to the Democrats as "free traders." Of course people who have a common measure of sense know that the purpose is to detract from the real issue of the campaign, and prevent the , deserved relief to the people which is promised by the Democracy in the shape of a reduction of taxes on raw materials and some of the necessaries of life. The Democratic party has had charge of this government considerably more than half the time of its existence. Why didn't the party institute free trade during all that time? ? The Virginia Democrats are making preparation to begin at once the most systematic and active campaign in that State known for years. In mapping out the plans for this campaign especial efforts are to be directed to the section of the State directly interested in the internal revenue and repeal of the tobacco tax. It is a section of Virginia that the Republicans hope to make gains in this year. Wellinlormed Democratic leaders believe, though, that, despite all the efforts that their opponents will make, Cleveland's administration will be fully indorsed in every portion of the State which has heretofore been Democratic. The Importance of Good Hotels.? Few men are better qualified to speak oif the importance of good hotels to cities and towns than Mr. Wheeler, the architect, who is now in Charleston in the interest of the new hotel which is under contemplation in that city. Speaking on this subject to a reporter for the News and Courier, Mr. Wheeler said: "My experience is that whenever a good hotel is built in a crty, and I have built a great many of them, they add greatly to the value of property and to the importance of the place. 1 have built hotels in Atlanta, Decatur and other places, and have always found this to be the case. The best evidence of this fact is that whenever a new place is settled or started the first thing done there is the erection of a good hotel. The reason of this is that visitors and people from outside always get their first impressions of a town frbm the hotel. If the hotel pleases them and comes up to their expectations their impression of the town is apt to be favorable." Social ftafias. To My Friends. Owing to sickness in my family, and other causes intervening since my name was announced in the Enquirkr before the Democratic voters of York county as a candidate for the House of Representatives, I will not be able to do myself and my friends justice in a canvass of the county. Iam, therefore, constrained to wiLiiuruw iny liuuiuus *v cauuiuiuc. jnupmg in the future, if necessary, to respond to the solicitations of my friends, and duty to my country, lam, Respectfully. R. G. Whitesides. July 18 29 lt? A Healthy Growth. Acker's Blood Elixir has gained a firm hold on the American people and is acknowledged to be superior to all other preparations. It is a positive cure for all Blood and Skin Diseases. 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