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(taps and Jfacts. ? Chief Justice Fuller is astonishing the Washington Bar by the "Chicago rapidity" with which he rushes through important cases in the Supreme Court. Ten cases a day i9 the present ayerage. ? The prediction is made that the next Congress, of which both branches is Republican, will admit five Republican territories as States, and thus add ten Republican members to the Senate, and probably increase the majority in the House materially. ? The author of the popular Nebraska law which makes mothers joint guardians of their children with their father, is Mrs. Ada M. Bittender, the woman lawyer of that State. In this connection it maybe mentioned that Kansas, Iowa aud New Jersey are the only other States of the Union where mothers are thus favored by law. ? Messrs. Wilson and Dickerman, postal clerks who were injured in the great collision on the Air Line near Greer's Station on October 28, 1887, have brought suit, says the Charlotte Chronicle, against the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company, and the cases are now being heard .in the United States court at Atlanta. v /They claim $50,000 damages each. 7^ ?Mrs. Harris is the name of a widow in Topeka, Kansas, who has done an original thing. She has put up over her husband's grave a lasting memorial of the illness , wnich causedhisdeath?mam"a-a-pofw. At the base of a simple granite shaft is carved a mass of coiling and writhing snakes. Above is cut his name and age and the simple sentence: "Died of Delirium Tremens." ? The Chinese vote in New York City numbers 45 in all. Of these, 30 registered, but the number of votes they could influence was far greater than an ordinary observer would suppose. Tom Lee, the Chinese deputy sheriff, with a German wife, lives in Last 81st street now, and is a powerful Republican factor in the affairs in the 21st Assembly district. William Sing, once the richest Chinaman in America, has a son on the police force and wields a powerful influence in 4th ward politics. ? Anna E. Dickinson, the lecturer and actress, has begun suit in the New York Supreme Court against the Republican National Committee to recover $1,250 for services rendered during the campaign. She claims she was engaged in September to deliver thirty lectures in the West, and was to receive $125 for each lecture and her expenses. She has received $3,750, but claims it was also agreed that in the event of Harrison's election she was to receive $5,000. ? At Carbon Hill, Ala., last Friday, W. S. Schumaker, postmaster and a very promnent citizen, was shot and instantly killed by his seventeen-year-old wife, to whom he had been married only a short time. Shumaker was very mucn depressed by the result of the election, and had been drinking heavily. Friday morning he attacked his wife with a knife, but sho disarmed him. He then seized an oil can and said he would burn her to death in oil. As hp pt.tnpIrpH hpr t.hp BPPnnH firnp shp shot him through the heart. Mrs. Schumaker then attempted to shoot herself but was prevented. She is in jail. ? The percentage of deaths from yellow fever at Jacksonville so far this season has been only about 8} per cent. This, however, includes new cases which have not yet terminated, so that 10 per cent, will perhaps be nearer the actual average, but that rate is rather below than above a fair estimate. This shows wonderful progress in the treatment of this disease since it first came under the notice of the medical profession of the Southern States. Twenty-five or thirty years ago the deaths were equal to not less than one-third the total number of cases, and some times ran up to one-half. This was in the days of "heroic" medicine, when the fever "was fought with quinine and other active agencies, but now "ti e mild power cures," and the death rate is correspondingly lowered. ? The course of the vote in Rhode Island is instructive. The State is given up to manufacturers, and the issue was fairly made on the reduction of the tariff, with no side issues and relatively little money used by either side. The vote was unprecedentedly large. That of the Republicans was increased over four years ago by 2,930, but that of the Democrats was increased by 5,142. The plurality of Blaine, which was 6,639, has been reduced to 4,427, a loss of 2,212 votes. This is on a total vote of 40,769, which is 25 per cent, larger than four years ago. Of this only a normal percentage was cast by new voters. As the Democrats gain a little over fiveeighths of the increased vote, it is plain that on a like issue in 1892 the State must be regarded as doubtful. ? In Washington, last Saturday, a prominent Republican Senator, speaking of the consequential effects of the results of the plpptinn nn thp npnriinc tariff nnpstinn in Congress, said that according to agreement in the last caucus which settled the matter of adjournment, the Senate bill will be taken up immediately after the reassembling of Congress, and will be pressed to a vote after certain amendments are incorporated, as the addition of tin plate and two and-a-half cents instead of the present duty of one cent a pound. He thought that other important amendments would be added, and that the bill would then go to the House, where he expected that it would be passed under the leadership of Mr. Randall, who would be able to rally the protection Democrats to its support. ? In the history of the United States but two Presidents have been defeated for reelection, Martin Van Buren in 1840 and Grover Cleveland in 1888. It is not an uninteresting coincidence that the successful candidate in the second contest should be the grandson of the successful candidate in the first. Moreover both defeats were incurred on commercial questions. The New York Times says: 44Van Buren was beaten as the result of the panic of 1837, from the effects of which the country had not recovered at the close of his administration. Mr. Cleveland, on the other hand, has been defeated while the country is in a condition of great prosperity, from fear that that prosperity might be interrupted by the adoption of the reform in the tariff which he had recommended and his party had endeavored to effect. It is to be hoped that the parallel may go no further. ? At Livingston, Ky., on election day, five men were killed and another mortally wounded. In a political discussion, Champion Mullins and John Martin pulled their revolvers and commenced firing at each other. The former was a prominent Republican, and the latter a Government official. The friends of each took up the quarrel and twenty pistols were pulled, and a fusilade of shots followed. The desperate men fought for several squares. The fight cuuuuueu ior niieen iuinui.es, wnen, ior wantof ammunition, the sanguinary affray ceased. It was then found that Samuel Ward, a member of the Kentucky Legislature; John Clifford, agent of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad; John Martin, a Government storekeeper; Frank Stewart, an employee of the Kentucky Central Railroad, andC. Mullins were killed, and J. Sambrook, a merchant was badly wounded. ? The bureau of statistics has been engaged for a considerable time past in the effort to ascertain the number of divorces that have been granted in the United States during the twenty years between 1866 and 1886. The compilation is very nearly completed. The statistics bearing upon the subject have been derived from > the records of the twenty thousand courts of law having jurisdiction in the matter. The report, it is said, will contain avast amount of information of great value from a national point of view, and particularly as a basis of future legislation. There is no country in the civilized world where marriage is made so easy as in the United States, and where divorces are so common. The loose practice with respect to the marriage rite has taken from what was once a serious ceremony all its old sanctity, and the ease with which divorce can be obtained is the natural consequence of the reckless way in which marriage is entered \ upon. ? Canada's great snow storm of last Fri\ day is thus described by a Quebec dispatch of Saturday: The snow storm which began Thursday night, continued until last night, and was one of the severest ever j known at this season of the year- It ex tended over this and all the maritime provinces. The snow is two and a half feet deep along the lower St. Lawrence. A I heavy gale blew all of Thursday night. The fog horns could not be heard, and the weather was so thick that lights were invisible fifty feet away. It is feared there was great loss of life to fishermen in the gulf. The steamers Sardinian and Lake Ontario were compelled to anchor at Riviere du Loup with a large fleet of weather bound vessels. The steamer Paulina dragged her anchors and went ashore on the rocks in Trinity Bay. The captain was drowned. A lumber laden schooner is ashore at Mantone. The crew were in the rigging all night, and one was frozen to death. The steamer Montreal, which left here for Montreal, Thursday, is unheard of since. Telegraph wires are down, and trains are delayed in all directions. Of the large number of fishing boats which were below Anticosti Tuesday, none have been heard from. Many must be lost. ' YORKVILLE, S. cT\ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14,1888. THETPRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. The great national political contest is ended, and enough is known as to the result to show that the Democratic party sustains a defeat as overwhelming as it was unexpected. The Republicans elect not only their national ticket, but they have secured a majority of the Representatives in the Fifty-first Congress, which will stand 173 Republicans to 152 Democrats. A small majority on joint ballot in the State Legislature of Delaware has been secured, which will result in the election of a Republican to succeed Saulsbury as United States Senator from that hitherto Democratic State, his term expiring in March next. The following table shows the electoral vote as it will probably be cast in the electoral college: Fob Harrison. For Cleveland. California 8 Alabama 10 Colorado 3 Arkansas 7 Illinois 22 Connecticut 6 Indiana 10 jjeiaware o Iowa 13 Florida 4 Kansas 9 Georgia 12 Maine 6 Kentucky 13 Massachusetts 14 Louisiana 8 Michigan 13 Maryland 8 Minnesota 7 Mississippi 9 Nebraska 5 Missouri 16 Nevada 3 New Jersey 9 New Hampshire 4 North Carolina 11 New York 36 South Caroliua.. 9 Ohio 23 Tennessee 12 Oregon 3 Texas 13 Pennsylvania 30 Virginia 12 Rhode Island 4 ? Vermont 4 Total 162 Wisconsin 11 West Virginia 6 Total 239 Necessary to a choice?201. The following returns give a very nearly correct estimate of the popular vote in the various States: California.?The Republicans carry California by 8,496. Five of the six Congressmen elected are Republicans, besides a Republican chief justice and Democratic associate. There will be a Republican legislature. Colorado.?The Republicans claim 13,875 majority in the State; a gain of 5,006. Illinois.?Complete returns from Illinois give Harrison a plurality of 21,134 over Cleveland. Fifer, for Governor, has a plurality of 11,956 over Palmer, Democrat. Indiana.?Indiana votes the Republican ticket by 3,000 to 4,000. Harrison carried Indianapolis by a plurality of only 156. The entire Republican state ticaet is elected, from Governor down to reporter of the Supreme Court. The Democrats elect nine Congressmen out of the thirteen. Iowa.?Sixty-one counties, complete, give Harrison a net gain of 10,984 or a plurality so far of 26,000. The remaining thirty-eight counties will probably raise his plurality to 34,000. Kansas.?Returns have been received from every county in Kansas. An estimate from these reports gives Harrison 70,000 plurality over Cleveland, and 65,000 over the entire Democratic State ticket. The Legislature is almost solidly Republican. Maine.?Returns have been received from all but nineteen small voting places. The following are the footings: Harrison 72,659, Cleveland 49,730, Fisk, 2,637, Streeter, 1,241. Massachusetts.?All but two towns in the State have been heard from and give Harrison 183,447, Cleveland 151,990, Fisk 8,641. The Gubernatorial vote is, Ames 180,439, Russell 152,846, Earle. 9,170. Republican plurality 27,593. Two missing towns will probably increase the Republican plurality by 50 votes. Michigan.?Harrison's plurality in Michigan will reach 22,000 against 3,308 for Blaine in 1884. This surprisingly large gain is undoubtedly due to the return of the Greenbackers to the old party lines. Four years ago the fusion vote of the State was 189,361, the straight Democratic vote being 149,335, and the Greenback vote 41,490. The combined Greenback and Union Labor vote of last Tuesday will not exceed 8,000. Minnesota.?Harrison's plurality is 25,000. The Republican State ticket is elected by 20,000, and the Republicans elect five Congressmen, Nebraska.?Official returns received from 34 counties in the state, which four years ago cast a fraction over half of the entire vote of Nebraska, give Harrison i 1 no /?-?*? rrurt M 0b,U3y; uieveianu oy,u< i. jluc oaiuv wuuties four years ago gave Blaine 39,476; Cleveland 26,532. This indicates a Republican gain of 8,000 in the State and 30,000 plurality for Harrison, with an increase in the aggregate vote of Nebraska of 53,000 over that of four years ago. Governor Thayer's majority will be between 20,000 to 22,000. Nevada.?Returns from the State of Nevada, as far as counted, give Harrison 4,443, Cleveland 3,132. Congressional returns, as far as counted, give Bartine, Republican, 4,115, and Cassiday, Democrat, 3,143. New Hampshire.?Complete returns from all towns and wards in New Plampshire give Harrison a plurality of 2,284. For Governor, Goodell (Rep) 44,897, Amsden (Dem) 44,188, Carr (Prohibitionist) 1,575; no choice. New York.?The latest returns from New York State place Harrison's plurality at 11,702. Hill's plurality (Democrat,) for Governor, is about 10,000. It is possible that two of the State electors on the Republican national ticket have not been elected; Seward and Stranahan. It is charged that by a deal between the Republican national committee and the United I Labor party, the managers of the latter j gave out tickets with the United Labor I party electors at the head and the rest of the names being Republicans. The scheme is said to have brought many thousand votes to the other thirty-six Republican electors from the labor men, who only glanced at the first name on the ballot, and thought the ticket straight for Cowdrey. Ohio.?The Republican electoral ticket | has 20,220 plurality, and the Republicans make a gain of one Congressman in the State. Oregon.?Three-fourths of the returns from Oregon are in and show a ten per cent, larger vote than in June, and about ten per cent, increase in the Republican majority, which will be about 8,000. Pennsylvania.?Returns from every county in the State show a plurality for Harrison of 72,948, a Democratic gain of 8,071 as compared with the vote for President in 1884. The new Congressional delegation is composed of 21 Republicans and j 7 Democrats, a Republican gain of one STATEMENT OF ~ ~l?HKSin'NT s c S -! ? T3 0 *2 O > c .2 ?S-a > ?; es in js ?. ^ 2PRECINCTS. | ? Ss| * CS ? * |K o I o c 6 . -g op u a * > ? * % i o C w " ^ o o on H Bethany, 68 17 71 85 7 Bethel,... 114 ... 113 114 10 Black's, 108 ... 185 198 12 Blairsvilie, 127 27 127 154 10 Buffalo, 21 ... 21 21 2 Bullock's Creek, 97 ... 95 97 9 Clark's Fork, 25 1 25 26 2 Clay Hill, 81 1 52 52 5 Clover, 127 i) vn> 133 n Coates's Tavern, 67 11 67 78 G Fort Mill 176 ... 172 176 10 Hickory Grove 134 28 126 162 10 McConnellsville, 114 ... 114 114 11 McElwee's Mill, 79 ... 79 79 7 Rock Hill, 409 7 408 416 34 Thompson's Mill, 44 ... 44 44 4 Tirzah 59 ... 59 59 5 Yorkyille, 395 7 391 405 31 Totals 2305 105 2274 2413 200 member. The new State Senate will be composed of 35 Republicans and 15 Democrats, a Republican pain of one. The new House of Representatives will have 142 Republicans and 59 Democrats, with three doubtful districts to hear from. This is a Republican pain of about 9 members. Rhode Island.?Complete returns pive Harrison 21,968; Cleveland 17,496; Fisk 1,276. Republican majority 3,196. Vermont.?One hundred and eightynine towns in Vermontgive Harrison 39,721, Cleveland 14,887, Fisk 1,205, scattering 34. The same towns in 1884 gave Blaine 34,328, Cleveland 15,020, St. John 1,529, Butler 615. Republican majority over all 22,357, a net pain of 6,428, against a majority of 17,159 four years ago. Wisconsin.?Wisconsin is Republican by 15,000. The Democrat0 gained largely in Republican counties, but Democratic counties, nearly all made losses. Washington Territory.?John B. Allen's majority over CharlesC. Voorhees, (Dem.) for delegate to Congress, will not be less than 5,000. The majority of the Legislature is Republican. West Virginia?There is still doubt as to the result in West Virginia, present indications favoring a small Republican majority for President, State and Legislative tickets. Fleming, the Democratic candidate for Governor, has filed an application for a recount of the Kanawha county vote. Alabama.?The returns indicate a large majority for Cleveland throughout the State. Arkansas.?No returns have been given from this State; but its vote is Democratic with a solid Democratic delegation to Congress. Connecticut.?Complete returns in the State of Connecticut are: Cleveland 74,904, Harrison 74,519, Fisk 4,181. Cleveland's plurality 385. The Democratic candidate for governor carries Connecticut by 1,500 plurality; but no candidate receiving a majority, the vote will be thrown into the Legislature, which is Republican. Delaware.?Cleveland's plurality in the state is 3,444. Congressman Pennington, Democrat, is re-elected by over 3,400 plurality. The Legislature will have a Republican majority of two on joint ballot. Florida.?Florida gives the Cleveland electors and the Democratic State ticket a majority of 5,000. Georgia.?Returns from all but seven counties show Cleveland's plurality to be 58,257. The entire Democratic delegation is elected to Congress. Kentucky.?No official returns have yet been published from Kentucky. The State is Democratic, and though it was claimed that Carlisle would lose his election by reason of irregularities in his ballots, it has since been acertained that the election law does not affect the alleged discrepancy, and his re-election to Congress is assured. Louisiana.?The Democratic majority in Louisiana is 30,000. The Republicanselect one Congressman?Coleman, in Logan's district. Maryland.?Maryland is now considered by the most sanguine Democrats asa doubtful State, as will be seen by the following returns: Maryland and Baltimore city give Cleveland 105,740 votes; Harrison 100,234; Fisk 4,832; Cleveland's plurality 5,506; Cleveland's majority over Harrison and Fisk 674. Mississippi.?A solid Democratic delegation is probably elected from Mississippi. Missouri.?Cleveland's plurality will be about 12,000. The Congressional delegation stands ten Democrats and fourteen Republicans. New Jersey.?The Democratic plurality in New Jersey is put down at 5,000. The Democrats elect three Congressmen. The Legislature will be Democratic by a close vote. The Senate stands Democrats 11, Republicans 10. This is the first time in ton vcaru that, tho 1 )pmoerats have had the Senate. The lower House is claimed by the Republicans to be a tie, but the Democrats say they have a majority. The closeness of the Legislature will make the contest for United States Senator next winter unusually exciting;. North Carolina.?Cleveland's majority i^\ from 8,000 to 10,000. The Republicans/ made heavy gains in the State and elect two, and probably three Congressmen. The Democratic State ticket is elected. South Carolina votes solidly for Cleveland. Only a light Republican vote was polled and it was confined mainly to the lower tier of counties. All the Democratic Congressmen were elected; but in the Charleston and Beaufort districts, where there was opposition, the defeated Republicans may contest. Tennessee.?Cleveland's plurality in Tennessee will be about 12,000. Nearly every county in West Tennessee shows large Democratic gains. Congressman Jas. Phelan of the 10th district is re-elected by over 7,000 majority. The success of the Democratic legislative ticket in Shelby county ensures the re-election of Senator Harris. The Chattauooga district elects a Republican Congressman. Texas.?The latest and fullest reports show that the Democratic majority in the State is over 150,000. The entire Democratic ticket was elected in the State. Congressman Sayers gets through by a small majority. Virginia?Returns not official, but deemed reliable, from all parts of the State, give Cleveland a majority 4,355. THE VOICE OP THE PRESS. [From the New York Evening Post.] "Well, the first battle has been lost by a narrow vote. What follows? The world moves either forward or backward. It does not stand still. The victors of Tuesday's contest can no more stand still than the vanquished. The responsibility for the national finances will, after the 4th of March ne'xt, rest with the Republican party. The surplus will stare Mr. Harrison in the face, just as it now stares Mr. Cleveland. It must be got rid of either by reduced taxation or extravagant appropriations. The smallness of the Republican mainritv forbids that the latter policy should be adopted. It will not be safe to inaugurate a system of national profligacy in order to empty the treasury. As little will it be safe to repeal the whisky tax in order to maintain imposts on the necessaries of life. The masses have got an inkling for the first time that the tariff is a tax on consumption, and therefore an undue and unjust burden upon labor. They are , not likely to forget anything that they have learned in this campaign of education. The Republican leaders, those who in former years have denounced the present exorbitant tariff and tried to bring it within the measure of decency, will now be put to it to stem the rising tide which calls for reform in our system of national taxation, a tide whose impulses are not unfelt in their own ranks, j We will not anticipate the outbreak of tariff reform in Itepublican councils, but we do not see how it can be avoided. [From the Now York Mail and Express.] The Republicans were prompt to accept the issue of protection, and showed the courage of honest and well-founded conviction from the beginning of the controversy precipitated by Mr. Cleveland. Doubtless it has seemed to mere politicians I ELECTION IN YORK COUNTY. N< ? RKV'SENTATIVKS 01 >-} " 3 " ? H '3-a . c "H b ^ -Si 2 " 01 ? s. o ~ ? 3 u > .be o= gs |o 5 | ^ H ' >2 ? ' ? . 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OIK Q1Q 010 QIC 009 1>)C\ O tJ-n \96**d UIO OIU UiU UKJ U1U UMM W-U 4 2014 2015 2013 2013 2013 2000 2007 201fi 200<) 2l that the Democratic campaigners wen "smarter" than the Republicans, in tha the former were "Revenue reformers," 01 "Free Traders" or Protectionists," accord ing to the prevaling sentiments of their re spective localities. But the uniformity o Republican expression, and paramount is sue of the day, has had its legitimate anc wholesome effect the intelligent voter who have held the balance of power The Republican campaign for protectioi has been sincere, honest, consistent. I has educated the voters in regard to thi lesser and larger national economy. I has brought patriotic sentiment into polit ical economy, and has given to the latte an interest that it had not before possessec as regards the great masses of our voters And protection has come to stay. [From N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, Ind. Rep. Mr. Harrison's election will, of course retard the progress of tariff reform an< undo all that has been accomplished fo the reform of the civil service, for Mr Harrison is not in sympathy with either o these reforms, and Mr. Cleveland's loss o the election through his refusal to use thi civil service as his machine, will not en courage other Presidents to virtue. Wi cannot regard the election, therefore, other wise than as a misfortune to the country. HARRISON AND THE TARIFF. Thus early after the election the state ment is made in Washington that proba bly immediately after his induction inb office, Gen. Harrison will call the mem bers of the Fifty-first Congress together His motive for this will be to arrang some plan for the reduction of taxation There is no reasonable ground for the be lief that any concurrent action upon th matter will be had at the session begin ning in December next. To wait until th regular assembling of the Fifty-first Con gress, wmcn win no itepumican in ooti branches, would be to postpone the sub ject until the session was well under way In other words, a year and a half from th present time would necessarily elapse be fore a tariff" bill acceptable to the adminij tration could be passed. Gen. Harrison's friends say he will b unwilling to wait eighteen months befor moving in a matter so important, and tha the outlook therefore for an extra sessio: is one which may be classed among th strong probabilities of the near future. As to Gen. Harrison's views on the tar iff question, the following from the Chica go Tribune, of last Saturday, is regarded as significant. The Tribune is a tariff re form paper: "There is a great and important wor] for the Republican party to perform aloni the old lines of nationality and progress Fortunately the party has in General Har rison the man for the hour, now that it ha been called by the people to resume its ol< place in the unfinished work. Genera Harrison believes in and insists upon th reduction of the tariff needed to stop th accumulation of a Treasury surplus, am which can be made without impairing th just protection of American industries." Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM ROCK HILL. Rock Hill, November 12.?The elec tion on Tuesday was one of the quietes ever held here. The vote was light. Th colored people in general did not go nea the polls. Some eight or nine Democrati colored men voted. At the Congressiona dox mere was uuuppusmuu iu iuuukiul: hill. The household affects and stock of th late Mr. R. W. Workman were sold a public sale at his lafie residence on Thurs day last. On Saturday the home place containing about 22Q acres, was sold an< purchased by A. FrieUheim &Ero. at $8.0 per acre. The black (jack land adjoining containing 146acres, Was purchased by Mr Q. A. Thompson at $7.80 per acre. Mr. E. B. Rock, telegraph operator a this place, has beep appointed expr^s agent, vice Fred. H. Jjondon, resigned. Two of Rock Hill's1 popular young mei have left this place. One has gone to Ten nesseeandthe other to Virginia. The; will return, however, in a few days, eao with a charming wife. The chrysanthemums in the lots a Laurel wood Cemetery are beautiful, am numbers of the citizens visited the ceme tery yesterday to see them. Several pri vate yards have beautiful displays. Capt. John C. Witherspoon shipped tc day for exhibition at the State fair tw colts, aged one and two years. They wer greatly admired by our people as the; were led to the depot. Capt. Witherspooi is a great admirer of fine stock, and a visi to his place will show that he has succeed ed in raising fine animals A large and enthusiasti 3 meeting of th citizens and business misn of our towi was held in Roddey's Tall last night Maj. Jno. R.London presided. The ob ject of the meeting was tc form an associ ation for building dwellii g houses, whicl the rapid growth of our town demands A committee was appoin ed, consisting o ten, to solicit subscriptions to the capita stock of the company. At the same meeting k board of trad' was suggested and a committee was ap pointed to solicit members. A committer was also appointed on electric lights, am it is probable that soon we will have thi : 1 1 .'?r.4r.rl LtT fklli/lf ri/lj t\T luwu iiiuujiLmicii uj Eivbtiiviy ? MERE-MENTION. At Cortez, ninety miles from Austin Nevada, last Friday, an Italian name Davis ltolsani shot and killed Richan Holt because the latter would not loai him some money. A number of men tool Rolsani out and hung him to the limb o a tree. The most phenomenal snov storm that ever occurred in Northeri Kansas, began last Friday morning am continued furiously all day. Trains wen all delayed and telegraph wires prostrater in all directions, with the exception of on< line to Kansas City. Theextentofdamag* cannot be ascertained, owing to thesuspen sion of telegraphic communication. Th< first through express train from Paris arriv ed at Constantinople last Friday. Pus iness failures occurring throughout th< country during last week number for th< United States 194, Canada 32; total 22( against 27f> the previous week. Ovei 11,000,000 dozen of eggs were importec from Canada last year. The Nev York Herald calculates that the election ir that city on Tuesday cost, in all its manj ways of expense, fully $2,000,000. A Frenchman, who was recently sent to th< Baltimore work house, claimed to hav< walked every step of the way from Texai to that city. Twelve persons wen killed and twenty injured at a fire ir Rochester, on Friday night. By t mine explosion at Fontenac, a suburb o Pittsburg, Kansas, last Thursday, 140 min ers, who were at the bottom of a shaft 11! feet below the surface, lost their lives. Tli< explosion was caused by black damp. OVEBBER 6, 1888. 1 En COM'.SIONKKS. CONSTITUTIONAL >t AMKNDMKNTS. -g I . . P.J'(1?0|!S. Com. = ao ? "I y 8 .12 re ' - . < ~ S .= ? u S? . '3 t. -2 se a 0 C, O x ^ S. = 5 3 j 5 . p 2^ fj r H o ?< 3 d . f a li ; * : ; s= = - ^ . ? . i i ! T o o> i o v o H CJ- ? a fc ?H I >< H 71 70 71 10 71 71 10 49 00 ' 108 108 108 ... 107 108 ... 107 1 105 ... 108 123 120 121 18 120 120 84 8 j 76 7: 152 00 00 00 ... 00 00 ' 54 31 89 5 102 21 21 21 ... 21 21 21 ... ; 21 ... 21 03 03 03 ... 03 03 74 10 8 76 03 20 15 20 ... 20 20 1 111' 16 ... 21 52 52 52 ... 52 52 27 6 48 2 52 118 118 110 ... 110 118 13 102 13 102 121 0.> IIO ?M ... DO DO 4U ... ... DO 170 170 170 ... 170 170 50 49! j 35 89 170 109 109 109 ... 109 105) 104 5 j 104 5 109 117 117 117 ... 117 117 103 G 110 7 117 79 79 79 ... 79 79 17 00 70 0 79 l 348 348 348 ... 347 348 57 244 99, 178 350 , 44 44 44 ... 44 44 1 43, 30! ... 44 57 57 57 ... 50 57 7 42 321 11 57s s 322 320 321 ... 322 322 70 238 154 ' 81 325 ' I : [111 2000 21)09 37 2019 2014 711 1002' 1020 ' 018 2074 3 THAT CAVE AT BLACK'S. r Further Investigation Proves the Underground Cavern Story to be no Hoax. ' Staff Correspondence. Black's, November 13.?Investigation' i of the supposed subterranean cavern un3 der the lot of Mr. M. C. Byers, on Whittaker's mountain, is now being pushed under direction of Maj. Jno. F. Jones, M. It. Reese, Col. R. A. Johnson, Maj. J. F. Hart, Col. Urquhart and Dr. J. G. Black. The well has been uncovered to the depth of 52 feet, and although the diggers are yet some 20 feet above the point where the opening was found at the former excavation, the peculiar roaring sound, of which mention was made last week, can , already be distinctly heard from the botJ torn of the well. To your correspondent ,? the noise seems to proceed from an under1 ground stream of considerable volume r rushing over a shoaly bed. Itisimpossi ble to locate the exact position of the supJ. posed cataract, but the sound indicates it 1 to be between fifty and one hundred feet e west of the point where the shaft will strike the opening. e The work of investigation is being push" ed as rapidly as possible, but owing to the fact that only one man can work in the shaft at a time, the progress is necessarily slow. Two more days will probably solve the mystery. The negro well digger who - is working in the shaft thinks the walls o are perfectly safe above him, and appre hends no danger from below. A half dozen or more unusually bold ' springs burst out of the foot of the mountain at different places. It is not altogeth ' er improbable that they form an outlet for !- a larger stream which is thought to have e a cavernous passage through the mount. ain. w. d. g. 0 Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM LANCASTER COUNTY. Craigsville, Nov. 10.?Two weeks ago r The Enquirer's readers on this side of * Catawba river were amazed at the mame moth proportions of the paper. We had read tne notice that beginning with the i- first of next year The Enquirer will be enlarged to an increase of six columns of reading matter, but we did not expect a double sheet. The first impression of the e writer was that your new Campbell press t had overdone its work and by some "cann traip slight," printed two sheets instead e of one. However, the surprise was understood at last. Such enterprise is truly commendable. I would suggest that when you have photographed, electrotyped L" and printed the different points in York d county, your subscribers might be glad j- to have a consolidated picture of all the towns to hang upas a map. This might , be accomplished by cutting out the differ? ent points and pasting on canvas, or by an artist grouping all together in one grand masterpiece. Again, prints and readings, " matter both might be pasted on canvas, ( | thus preserving a condensed history of the , business points in the county, which might p be of great value to succeeding generations. ? Go ahead in the good work, and may your ? shadow never grow less! p "News" did you say? We don't realize the meaning of. the word just now, nor do we enjoy the article it represents. There was some talk about an election the other day, but it seems almost like a dream. There was nothing exhilarating , or exciting about the matter. If we can't ,1 get up more fun and fury, we might as well p quit the business. I never have seen, ? since the war, so little feeling and exertion displayed in an election. Even the neV groes did not turn out in great numbers to l_ the support of the Republican national " ticket, and when they fail it is a bad day for elections. * The weather is so gloomy that everybody seems of the same complexion. Gathering of crops is six weeks behind what it was last year at this date. Six - bales of cotton to the plow will be a good . average. It is doubtful whetherthisneigh;' borhood will reach that figure when all * the plows are counted fairly and full rex turns are made. The corn crop here is very short, but the price of Western corn ought to be comnnrativelv low. as the excess over last year's crop in the whoie country is enough " to afford bread for every individual in the u nation. One of our citizens is reported as saying that the failure in a corn crop was f not of much importance now, as we have j railroads to haul it almost to our doors. Whether this was said in the spirit of deep irony suitable to the occasion is not recorded; but it carries with it a scathing satire against the present mode of farming. " Bad crops make more changes in habitae tions than are usual. People seem to attach some blame for failure to locality. Hence ^ a good many changes are contemplated by t tenants and croppers, to see if they can better themselves. Waxiiaw. e Crop Reports.?Under date of last Sati urday. the department of agriculture at ;. Washington reports a good season for coti ton-picking during October in the South west, and only moderately favorable i weather in the Atlantic coast States. The i. wet weather of September proved very f injurious to the quality, prostrating the 1 plants and rotting the bolls, causing blight and sheddiug and injuring the prospects of e the top crop. There is much stained fibre, - and the quality is much poorer than that e of the previous year. ] Picking was late commencing, but there b has as yet been no killing frost, rendering possible a partial compensation as to the length of the season. The indications of the yield per acre average the same as last year at this time, though the previous con,' dition of the plant scarcely warrants the 1 expectation of so much late growth and 1 harvest outcome in November. TheStates i west of the Mississippi report a slightly i larger yield than last year's, while Georr gia, Alabama and Tennessee indicate a nA/lnnfiAn TKn Qfafoc in/li OlI^UL 1 CUUtHUUi l UVy is tit vi uituvo cate nearly the same expectation at this 1 date. 1 The returns of the yield of corn made to 3 the departrtfent of agriculture indicate a 1 yield per acre quite as large as that of ' 5 1885, and larger than any other crop since 3 1SS0. The aggregate grown on a larger ^ area will exceed that of any previous 3 American product, being very close to I 2,000,000,000 bushels, or about 82 bushels . per capita, which has not been exceeded in 3 several previous years. In corn the sur3 plus average yields in the States are as fol; lows: Ohio 35.2 bushels, Indiana 35, Illinr ois 36.2, Iowa 37, Missouri 31, Kansas 27, 1 Nebraska 3(5. These seven States produce ? 04 per cent, of the crop aggregate. The ! general average will fall somewhat under 7 27 bushels. j ? An Anderson dispatch of Friday to the 3 News and Courier says: "There were uine 3 cases up before the mayor yesterday for 3 violation of the prohibition law. All l were convicted and sentenced, the fines in i all the cases amouting to ?270. The fines f were thirty-five dollars for proprietors -land twenty dollars for clerks. There is a I general expression ofopinion that the fines ; imposed were too low. In Mayor Tolly's 1 reign they would have been ?100 each." LOCAL AFFAIRS. . ( NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. f Tos. F. Wallace, C. C. C'. Pis.?Notice to tho j Creditors of J. .Toflerson Kirkpatrick, deceased. >?. S. Plexico, Administrator with Will Annex- ] ed?Saleof tho personal property of John , P. Hood, deceased. L. M. Grist?Heating Stove for Sale. ! Lowry it Starr?Ready Mixed Paint. Hope, PegramA Co.?Notice to all parties Indebted. >. S. Plexico, Iloodtown, S. C.?Notice to the < creditors of Johu P. Hood, deceased, and < Mrs. Nancy Rebecca Ilood, deceased. J. W. P. Hope A Co.?Notice to all parties in- 1 debted to tho late Firm. I UeorgeT. Schorb?Heating Stoves. j M. A fi. C. Strauss?Now is the Time. , J. IT. Kiddle?A Kind Request. H. F. Adickcs?Exceptional Lines and Prices. < A. Y. Cartwright it Co.?Another Volley of ] Low Prices into the Public. Withers Adickes?Our Chronic Haste. 1 R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C.?Sheriffs Sale. UNTIL JANUARY 1st, 1880. The Enquirer will be furnished from this date until January 1st, 1889, for 30 Cents. ^?FARMERS' COUNTY CONVENTION. Owing to the failure of delegates to attend, no convention of the clubs composing thp Vnrtr fVinntv FnrrnPM' Association was held here last Saturday, as had been requested by Iredell Jones, County Chairman. /accessions to the population. v Mrs. Minter has moved from the country into the M. E. parsonage, and Mr. B. F. Bear, foreman of Willis's painting department, has moved his family from Atlanta into one of Mr. Quinn's houses on King's Mountain street. music for"the fair. Prof. It. J. Herudon, of this place, has been engaged to furnish music for the State Fair which began in Columbia yesterday. He imployed the Gold Hill band, of this county, which will play under his lead. X strawberries in november. Vm. Crawford, an industrious colored man of Smith's Turnout, in this county, informs us that on the 9th of this month he gathered fine ripe strawberries in his garden, and that several vines are now in full bearing of berries ripening. sketch of yorkville. Mr. W. S. Killingsworth, traveling correspondent of the Charleston Daily World, furnishes that paper of the 5th instant with a very readable sketch of Yorkville? its present business enterprises and prospective advantages. the three c's excursion. The News and Courier of yesterday says it is probable that the excursion to Charleston over the Three C's Railroad 12 i. i.~ i-U ? Maa/1 cumpumeuiury iu uib luvvua uu iuc iuau, will take place on the first Monday and Tuesday in December. TO PRINTERS. We offer for sale about 850 pounds of bourgeois body type and the same quantity of minion, both of which are in use in printing this paper. Price for the minion 30 cents per pound, for the bourgeois 25 cents per pound. Any party desiring both fonts can purchase them at 25 cents per pound. Terras cash. EVANGELIST LEITCH. The interest manifested in the meetings conducted in the M. E. Church by Evangelist Thomas Leitch, increases with his labors, and the services, which are conducted every day, in the forenoon and at night, are attended by large congregations, all eager to hear his enunciation of gospel truths. He will remain here this week and probably next. / Rev. R. A. AVEBB. ^Rev. R.'^T^Vebb, formerly pastor of Bethel Presbyterian church in this county, was formally installed as pastor of Westminster Presbyterian church, Charleston, on Sunday night last, in the presence of a very large congregation. The sermon was preached by Dr. W. T. Thompson by direction of the Charleston Presbytery. The text was "Preach the Word." The charge to the pastor was delivered by ltev. Dr. Brackett, and the charge to the people by Rev. Mr. Burgess. PENITENTIARY CONVICTS. On Thursday last, Mr. Hardee, of the penitentiary guard, arrived here for the r?imr\Ann waha! trinrv n nrl nAntrmrinnr fn f h Q fJUIJJUOC; Ui ICV/Cl VlUg UUU WU vw.jiug lu vtiv State's prison the prisoners sentenced to that institution at the recent term of the Sessions Court. They are five in number, all colored, and as follows: Robert Crawford, grand larceny; one year. Andrew Glover, larceny of live stock; one year. Anabel Jones, administering poison with felonious intent; ten years. Taylor English, assault and battery with intent to kill; one year. Sam Swan, carrying concealed weapon ; four months. ^ personal mention. VMr. F. L. Townsend and wife, of Union, are visiting Mrs. M. R. Smith, of this county. vMiss Bessie Gist is visiting friends in Charleston. Mrs. O. F. Colston, of Maine, returned ^o Yorkville last week to spend the winter. tfMr. R. A. Parish and wife left yesterday to attend the State Fair. ^ Mrs. J. H. Riddle is visiting her parents at Zeno. ^Col. J. E. Allen, of the Three C's Railroad, returned last Monday from a visit to his home in Harrisburg, Pa. ^Br. J. G. Black was in town yesterday. >Misses Mary O'Farrell, Jenie and Kate Cody left this morning for Charleston, where they expect to remain until next Monday. church" notices. Episcopal?Sunday-school at3.30 P. 31. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. AV. W. Daniel, Pastor. Services every day during the week at 11 A. M. and 7.30 P. M. by Rev. Thomas Leitch. Sunday-school at 3.30 P. M. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. Services next Sunday at 11 A. M. and 7 P. M. Sunday-school at 3.30 P. M. Prayer-meeting to-morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. Baptist?Rev. R. G. Patrick, Pastor. Services at Union next Sunday at 11 A. M. after which the ordinance of baptism will be administered. Services in Yorkville at 7 P. M. Sunday-school at 10 A. M. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J. C. Galloway, Pastor. Services next Friday at / r. _u., oarurciay at n ..u., i and Sunday at 11 A. 31. Communion j after service on Sunday. The pastor will j be assisted by Kev. \V. \V. Urr. Sundayschool at 3.3(1 T. 31. TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT. An entire train of Richmond and llan- j ville cars, including1 postal car, first and j second class coaches and a fine new vesti-1 bule car, was burned to ashes on the Air- i Line division at noon last Monday. The j burned train was the fast mail and express, No. 53, bound from Atlanta to Charlotte, and the accident, which resulted in its destruction, occurred in the vicinity of Tugaloo river, near Tocoa. The train was running at its usual speed, when sudden- j ly there was a jolt under the forward ; trucks of the postal car, which was succeeded by another, when it, the express j car, the first and second class passenger and the Pullman vestibule cars, all went down a thirty-foot embankment leaving the locomotive on the track. There were l several passengers on the train, but all escaped without being seriously hurt. No sooner had they cleared the wrecked train than the cars caught on fire from the overturned stoves, and soon they were entirely consumed by the flames. The first intimation of the accident was received here yesterday morning by a telegram from Postal Clerk Robert T. Allison to his parents. He was on duty in the postal car it the time of the accident, and the news Df the catastrophe was the occasion of much solicitude on the part of his friends, until later in the day his father received 1 telegram from Postal .Superintendent lurner, informing him that he was not seriously injured, and that he had been removed to Atlanta, where he is having every attention. RAILROAD ACCIDENT. A serious accident occurred to Capt. Waddill's south-bound passenger train on the Three C's Railroad last Friday morning. About four miles south of Claremonl, on the South Carolina division, the train was thrown from the track by a broken rail. The engine passed over safely, but the baggage, second and first class coaches were derailed. Several passengers were on board, but fortunately none were seriously hurt. The colored fireman lost the first and second fingers of his right hand, and the poor fellow presented a ghastly appearance on his arrival at Kingville. Much credit is.dup to Capt. Waddil! for his efficient action on the occasion and for his kind attention to the injured, llis train narrowly escaped a similar accident between Lancaster and Camden only a few days before. The track had spread, but its condition being discovered by a negro man, he waited at the proper point and signaled down the train in time to avert the impending mischief. RAILROAD NOTES. On Monday Capt. Taylor finished laying the side tracks and making the necessary connections for the depot at Rock Hill. The necessary quantity of iron for completing the track between Hickory Grove and Black's is afloat and daily expected at Charleston. Col. Matson says the remaininggapcan be filled in ten working days after the landing of the iron at Charleston. The Marion N. C. Bugle publishes a telegram from Col. R. A. Johnson to Mr. P. J. Sinnlnir r?f that, nlnne. Tt. is dated New ~ , r,%,vv' ? w ? York, October 31, and reads: "We have to-day signed papers agreeing to complete and have the railroad in operation to Marion by July 1st next." Voters of Mecklenburg county, N. C., are petitioning the board of county commissioners for bond elections in aid of three new railroads. To a reporter of the Chronicle Mr. J. H. Weddington spoke of the 2 importance of these projected roads to Mecklenburg. "One of these roads," said Mr. Weddington, "is the Great Western Air Line from Charlotte to Weldon; another is a branch of the Three C's from Charlotte to Weldon, and the third is a line from Charlotte to Yorkville, Union, and Lancaster, in South Carolina." "The line in the direction of Camden or Lancaster," continued Mr. Weddington, "will secure us competition in freights, and the lines in the direction of Albemarle, Weldon, Yorkville, and Laurens, will open up to our city a very valuable territory for business, and will serve to vastly increase Charlotte's yearly volume of trade." CIRCUIT COURT. The Court of Common Pleas was in session all of last week and this week until yesterday evening, when it was adjourned sine die. The jurors were discharged last Saturday. The causes coming before them for trial were of a complicated nature requiring much time for hearing, and only a few were tried. There were only two of special public interest. One of these was Lou C. Massey vs. Jos. F. Wallace, executor of B. F. Briggs, deceased. The action was brought on a sealed note for $1,875 given in 1875, and bearing interest at the rate of 12j per cent, per annum. The note was also subject to sundry credits. The alleged consideration was to make restitutinn fnrinitirv to nlaintifTs renutation. she and Mr. Briggs having lived in terras of criminal intimacy from 1809 until his death, which occurred in 1885. On this point the issue turned. The Court instructed the jury that if immediately after the date of the note the improper or unlawful cohabitation between them had ceased, the note would be valid and the plaintiff would have cause ; but the same relations having continued after the acceptance of the note, it became invalid. Verdict for the defendant. Hart & Hart and Mr. McCaw for plaintiff; Wilson & Wilson and C. E. Spencer for defendant. The other case was that of George A. Denning vs. the Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railroad Co., for amount alleged to be due on work done by him on Catawba river bridge prior to cancellation of contract by the company. Verdict for plaintiff for $1,907.80. On motion a new trial was granted. Wilson & Wilson for plaintiff; Glenn & McLure and C. E. Spencer for defendant. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM FORT MILL. Fort Mill, November 12.?The cotton crop in this section will be of about the same yield as last year, which is a much better result than was anticipated by the farmers when picking first commenced. .. The burnt district of our town is being rebuilt. J. W. Ardey has finished a large two story brick building, and it is now occupied by the firm of Ardrey & Massey. L. J. Massey has built a brick store, which is occupied by Massey & Hughes. The new Masonic hall is on the second floor of this house. The hall will be dedicated at the next regular communication, which will be held on Thursday before ' the next full moon. Thespinninj. department of the new cotton mill is approaching completion. The engine that is to run both mills is now in position, and the machinery is here ready to be put in. The factory is now lighted with electric ity. t. g. c. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Mr. J. Snellitig of Red Oak, Barnwell county, made 4,000 pounds of seed cotton on one acre this year. ? Capt. J. P. Mickler, of Walhalla, made this year off of three-fourths of an acre in his garden, thirty-three and one-third bushels of corn. ? The South Carolina Association of Medical Survivors of the army and Navy of the Confederate States, will meet in Columbia to-morrow. ? Ex-Governor J. C. Sheppard has been employed by the tax payers of certain townships of Kershaw county to look after their interest in certain railroad bonds, voted in aid of railroads running through that county. ? A dispatch to the News and Courier says that at Gaffney City 011 the night of the 5th instant, John Petty shot Dave Lindsay, killing him about a game of cards. Petty has fled and can not be found. Both colored. ? President-elect Harrison has two cousins iu South Carolina?one Major Whitner Symmes, who lives in Greenville, and the other who bears the family name and lives in Chester. The Greenville cousin voted the Republican ticket for President; but Mr. Harrison, of Chester, voted for Cleveland. ? 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