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Jtoajjs and Jacts.
The New York Herald is pushing its
y ^agitation for the proposed extension of the
Presidential term. The business men of
Nfw Yqrk,s?em to be very much in favor
of-extertdhjg the term, and the majority
consider six years as about the right
length. Many favor eightyears, and some
few see fio reason for a change.
? Tfie wife of the Rev. Dr. B. M. Palmer,
of New Orleans, died on Wednesday.
She was born in South Carolina, in 1822,
and was the daughter of a Presbyterian
clergyman. At 19 years of age, she marriecftheRev.
Dr. B. M. Palmer, whose
first pastorate was in Columbia, S. C.,
whom thou anont. tho onrlv nnrtion of
tvmw.w % ? -J. r their
married life, and where their five
children were born.
? A curious paper is circulating at Birmingham,
Alabama. It is addressed to
Mr. Harrison, reciting that he now has
an opportunity of making a national administration
that will break all sectional
liDesand result in a united country. He
is urged to appoint good officials in the
South and to give the South liberal and
enlightened treatment It is signed by
prominent business men, irrespective of
party.
? Representative Perry Belmont, of the
1st New York district, has been tendered
and has accepted an appointment as United
State minister to Spain to succeed Dr.
J. L. M. Curry, resigned. Mr. Belmont
will at once transmit to the Governor of
New York his resignation as Representative,
in order that his place may be
filled by special election. His resignation
as a member of the House will cause a
vacancy in the committee on foreign affairs,
of which he is the chairman.
? The trial of the members of the "White
Caps" secret organization ended at Little
Rock, Ark., last Thursday. Frank Davis
and Jack Mel linger were sentenced to five
years'imprisonment at hard labor and a
fine of $500 each. Dr. H. C. Hite, Caleb
Glascoe and Colonel Beckham were sentenced
to six years and three months imprisonment
and fined $500 and $100 respectively.
The men, who lived in Randolph
county, had terrorized a large section of
the country, driving away people who had
incurred their hostility.
-V- In Philadelphia, last Saturday, Keely,
of Keely motor fame, was sent to prison
forcontempt of Court in failing to carry
out the orders to maae a proper aescrifrtion
of his machine for use in the
suits pending against him. He claimed
that the description prepared by him was
the best he could do. The only course
thait Keely's counsel can pursue is to carry
the case to the Pennsylvania Supreme
Court and ask for ail entire review of the
proceedings and a reversal of the decision
of the lower Court. He will be kept in
confinement until he shall purge himself
of this charge of contempt or shall be released
on a writ of habeas corpus.
?1Assistant Postmaster-General
Stevenson's annual report shows that
12,288 postmasters were appointed during
thjrpast fiscal year, one-half on account of
resignation or commissions expiring; only
/1,244 were removed. Two-thirds of the
f offices established were in the Southern
States and Indian Territory. A list has
j been prepared at the post office department
showing that between December 1st
and the end Cleveland's term, eighty commissions
of postmasters appointed by
I President Arthur will expire. The list
includes every State, New York of course
leading. The salaries of these offices range
from $1,500 to $3,400 a year.
? A Vicksburg dispatch says that Congressman
Chalmers, of Mississippi, will introduce
a bill in the next Congress to regulate
elections in the South. The bill will
provide that on the request of one hundred
citizens in any district who believe
a fair election cannot be held, the clerk of
the House shall provide supervisors lor
each district. They shall select a voting
place and conduct the election. Inspectors
for each voting place shall be appointed.
There shall be no ballot boxes, but a
list of voters and candidates shall be kept
by a clerk, and each voter registered as
he votes. The commissioners shall count
the votes and declare the result.
? A curious interest attaches to the Prohibition
vote thrown in California last
week. According to the returns from the
different sections of the State, the bulk of
the teetotal vote there came from the
Southern counties, which constitute the
freat wine-growing region of California,
n Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Santa
Clara, which are all dotted with vineyards
and yield thousands of tons of grapes, the
Prohibitionists came out in force. Inmost
of the towns in this beautiful region such
a thing as a liquor saloon is not tolerated,
and wine drinking is proclaimed a vice to
be shunned. Nevertheless, these good
people continue to plant vineyards, and
it is said that 100,000 acres will be devoted
to grape culture in that State this winter.
? The twenty-second annual convention
of the National Grange of Patrons of Husbandry,
commenced in Topeka, Kansas,
last Thursday. Delegates were present
from every State in the Union. Acting
Worthy Master James D. Roper, of Massachusetts,
presided. Memorial cervices
were held in honor of the deceased Worthy
Master P. D. Dorden, of Mississippi,
who died in July last. The standing
committees were then announced. The
eighth annual conventidn of the Farmers'
Congress of the United States also met in
that city. R. F. Keolb, of Alabama,
presided. The roll showed thirty States
represented.
? The New York Herald's Washington
correspondent telegraphs as follows under
date of Friday: "A distinguished Democratic
leader, who recently talked with the
President regarding the election, quotes
Mr. Cleveland as saying: lI am told that
without the tariff issue in the last campaign,
we should have carried the country.
That may be true, but the time had
come when the issue between the two parties
had to be made and the Democrats
made it. It is better to be defeated battling
for an honest principle than to win
by a cowardly subterfuge. Some of my
friends say we ought to'have gone before
the country on the clean administration
we have given the people. I differ from
them. We needed a clean cut, well-defined
issue. We were defeated, it is true,
but the principles of tariff reform will
surely win in the end.' The President is
also quoted as saying that he was well
pleased with the vote of New York city,
but was much disappointed with the result
in Kings County."
? The annual report of Third Assistant
Postmaster General Harris, which has
been submitted to the Postmaster General,
states that the total cost of the Postal Service
for the last fiscal year, (inclusive of
amount earned by the Subsidized Pacific
Railroad companies for mail transporta- ,
...?o (t.-.o 1Of! flilA 1 f:7 'Pl.t. Kuilul aiwl I
l/lI/Li J wao ^U^MUfUVU-ZiVl & <IV j-?? ?.-? I. ....x, ,
money order receipts amounts to$62,695,176.79;
leaving a deficiency of $5,430,227.88.
This deficiency is owing mainly, the report
asserts, to the great extension of the
free delivery service under a modification
of the old law, and the increase of railway
mail transportation. Among other recommendations
the following is made: That
as a substitute for the franking privilege,
members of Congress have an annual allowance
in money for the purchase of postage
stamps, with which to pay postage on
speeches and official matter sent in the
mails; and that, if the rate of postage on
letters be reduced to one cent, as has already
been proposed in Congress, there be
onl^two classes of mail matter recognized,
namely, letters and all other matter now
comprehended in the third and fourth
classes, postage on which shall be uniform
at one cent for every two ounces; and
newspapers and periodicals, at the rate
now fixed?one cent a pound.
? William Showers was hanged at Lebanon,
Pa., last Wednesday. The crime for
which he paid the penalty with his life
was the murder of his two grand-children,
Samuel Speraw and Willie Kohler, on the
17th of May, 1887. He was arrested at his
home near Annville on Monday, May 39.
The crime was the most revolting and !
heartless one in the history of the State.
The children were aged four and six
years. The murderer was sixty years of
age. Charles Johnson was hanged at
Waterloo, N. Y., last Thursday for the
murder of a jail guard whom Johnson killed.
Two men, Johnson and Caldwell,'
were confined in Waterloo jail awaiting
trial on the charge of horse stealing on the
day of the crime, January 10th, 1887.
When on the morning of that day a guard,
John Walters, went to the cell where the
two men were and unlocked the door,Johnson
hit him a terrible blow on the head
with a stove shaker and fractured his
skull. They then made a dash for liberty,
but the sheriff, fully armed, blocked the
way, and they were driven back to their
celi. Walters lingered some daysand then
died. Caldwell was tried and sentenced
to Auburn for life. The trial of Johnson
resulted in his execution. Fritz Ansleg,
under sentence of death at Los Angeles,
California, for the murder of an old man
and his wife, escaped the gallows last
Friday, by taking strychnine Wednesday
night.
farlmllc t&nquim.
YORKVILLE, S. ^
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21,1888.
MR. HARRISON NONCOMMITAL.
To insure some expression from the
President-elect on the subjects which are
now nearest the Southern people, the
Augusta, Ga., Chronicle addressed a communication
to Indianapolis last week, to
which the following reply has been received,
and is published in the Chronicle
of Sunday:
Editors Augusta Chronicle: Your letter
of November 10 has been received. I do
not feel that I can comply with your invitation
to write something upon what is
commonly called "the Southern question,"
for publication in your paper.
I have declined all overtures of the correspondents
here to submit to any interviews
or to outline any policies.
What I have said during the campaign
is accessible to you. When an appropriate
time comes I shall not hesitate to express
such views as I hold, and shall hold all
my views subject to modification upon further
consideration. Very truly yours,
Benjamin Harrison.
THE AUGUSTA*"EXHIBITION.
Such has been the crowded condition of
our columns that we have been compelled
to omit notices heretofore prepared of the
magnificent industrial exhibition which
opened in Augusta, Ga., on the 8th iustant.
The address on the auspicious occasion
was delivered by Hon. J. S. Cothran, of
this State, and the unanimous verdict of
the people is that it was a noble, patriotic
effort.
The mechanical exhibits are said to be
very superior and of every possible kind
for the utilization of every product. The
display of textile machinery is also the
finest ever made in the United States. Of
southern woods 350 specimens are exhibited.
There are also some five hundred
manufactories exhibiting in the main
building, and prominent among them as
a source of iuterest to visitors just now,
in view of the agitation of the jute question,
is that of the Acme Manufacturing
Company, of Wilmington, N. C. They
?<p!n the ordinary pine straw of the pine
forests into a yarn, and then weave the
pine straw bagging, which is destined to
revolutionize the style of bagging in use.
Another object of interest is the largest
locomotive used on any railroad in the
United States.
The exhibition will not close until the
loth of December.
STATE FARMERS' CONVENTION,
The annual convention of the State
Farmers' Association was held in Columbia
last Wednesday night. There were
sixty-nine members present, representing
twenty counties. Owing to the failure of
York to hold a county convention, this
county was not represented. G. W.
Shell, of Laurens, was elected president.
T. P. King, M. L. Donaldson and G. Leap
hart were elected vice-presiuenis, auu
John P. Duncan secretary and treasurer.
The following resolution, offered by J.
C. Stribling, of Oconee, was adopted :
"Whereas the Hon. Thomas G. Clemson,
deceased, did by his last will and testament
donate the State of South Carolina
a large property for the purpose of establishing
an Agricultural College on Fort
Hill, in said State, and, whereas, we the
farmers of South Carolina, feel the need of
agricultural education and very much desire
the said college to be established ; be
it, therefore
"Resolved, That the Legislature be urgently
requested to pass a joint resolution
at its ensuing session to the effect that the
State will accept the Clemson bequest
whenever the will shall have been established."
H. B. Buist offered the following resolution
which was adopted:
"This convention recommends to the
Legislature that will soon meet, the names
of five gentlemen to fill the vacancies on
the Board of Agriculture that will soon
occur by the expiration of their terms of
office."
Dr. J. 0. Byrd, of Darlington, offered a
resolution recommending the calling of a
constitutional convention, which was unfavorably
reported by the committee and
the report sustained.
A resolution urging and requesting the
State Legislature to in some way secure a
reduction .of the expenses of the State
government, was defeated in committee.
Resolutions were adopted to appoint a
committee of two members of the convention
to visit the Mississippi Agricultural
College, the two members of the State
Board of Agriculture at Large to be invited
to accompany them, their report on the
institution and its work to be printed in
one paper in each of the cities of Charleston,
Columbia and Greenville. J. E. Tindal
and D. K. Norris were appointed.
No member of the State executive committee
was appointed from York.
MCUOWANTBHKJADE.
Twelve survivors of McGowan's Sharp
shooters met in Columbia last Thursday,
and organized an association with Major
\V. S. Dunlop president, N. Ingram Hazel
vice-president, John C. Squier secretary,
arid David Moore treasurer.
[ Major Dunlop, who is now State auditor
of Arkansas, is a native of York county
and entered the Confederate service in this
county, as a member of Co. B. 12th Kegiment,
S. C. V. He is well and kindly remembered
by a large number of his old
army comrades. The following are extracts
from his speech before the associaation
after its organization:
After a period of inactive service with
the line of the brigade, the battalion found
itself, in the summer of 1864, defending
the Confederate capital and Petersburg.
AtChapiu's farm, three of its men, with
rifles, engaged a battery of Federal artillery
and made it so hot for them that they
stampeded it. The demoralization extending
to the whole Federal line, it took panic
and left the field. The three sharpshooters
returned with more than three
prisoners and quantities of captured arms
and munitions.
At P*eams's Station the sharpshooters
drove in the Federal sharpshooters and
engaged the enemy's line of battle at four
hundred yards, silencing the fire of a ninegun
battery in their front. They fired
each one hundred and sixty rounds in this
five hours' fight. When the line of battle
was advanced the battalion of one hundred
men, supported by the line, captured
two thousand prisoners and the nine pieces
of artillery previously engaged.
At Jones's farm, on the first day's fight,
the sharpshooters charged and routed the
Federals sharpshooters and captured thirty
or forty. The next morning they
charged the line of battle and captured
about two hundred and forty prisoners.
The next famous incident of the battalion's
fighting was when it was ordered to
take Mcllwuine's hill from the Federals,
after its unsuccessful assault by the whole
Confederate line. The survivors were
promised as a reward thirty days' furlough
to visit their families. By dawn
they had swept the hill, but were not re
Iievea uy me line, aim nem me piMiuuii
till 9 o'clock at night, when they were relieved
hy the regular line.
At Hatcher's Run, the last position held
by the line before the withdrawal to Appomattox,
the sharpshooters occupied the
front and daunted two solid lines of battle
of the enemy. They held their ground
until the last of the Confederate right on
that line had withdrawn.
At Sutherland's station the sharpshooters,
with the line of battle drawn, repulsed
three separate and direct attacks from as
many heavy columns of the enemy, and
only yielded the field when the Confederate
flanks were turned.
The following is the membership of the
Association:
Major W. S. Dufilop, Arkansas, Commanding
Battalion; Lieutenant N. I.
Hasel, Charleston; Sergeant David Moore,
Columbia; S. W. Ruff, Fairfield; Rufus
Harling, Edgefield; I. Dicks, Barnwell;
Henry Bundrick, Fairfield; John E.
Squier, Columbia; S. Thomas, Richland ;
Colonel A. C. Haskell of Columbia, O. F.
Chappell of Bookman's, W. H. Brunson,
of Edgefield.
ECHOES OF THE ELECTION.
Connecticut went for Cleveland by only
385 plurality.
Returns from all but three small counties
in Kentucky give Cleveland 181,384,
Harrison 153,732; Cleveland's plurality,
27,662. The remaining counties will make
the Democratic plurality about 28,000.
The total vote is the largest ever cast in
Kentucky.
Official returns from Virginia, with the
exception of four counties, which will not
affect the result, give Cleveland a majority
of only 1,586.
The official returns of Iowa settle the
closest election contest in the history of
that State. Out of a total vote of 400,000,
Peter A. Day, Democrat, has about 500
majority over John Mahin, Republican,
candidates for railroad commissioner. The
other Republican candidates, Smith and
Campbell, have large majorities. It is
thirty-one years since a Democrat has been
elected to any State office in Iowa.
Complete official returns of Arkansas
give Cleveland 85,902, Harrison 58,702,
Streeter 10,613, Fisk 614. Of the five Congressmen
elected one is a Republican.
The Congressional vote of Indiana is
555,777, divided as follows: Republican
264,556, Democrat 259,965, Prohibition
9,252, Labor 2,004: Republican plurality
4,571. The Prohibition vote of Indiana in
1884 was 3,025, and in 1886 it was 4,646.
The large Prohibition vote in the late election
is a matter of surprise to many of
the best posted politicians of both parties.
The Indiana Congressional delegations
stands ten Democrats and three Republicans,
a Democratic gain of four.
Returns from all the counties in Tennessee
show these figures: Cleveland, 159,079;
Harrison, 139,815; Fisk, 5,699; Streeter,
48. For Governor: Taylor, Democrat,
156,836; Hawkins, Republican. 139,034;
Johnston, Prohibitionist, 6,843.
The official returns of the Presidential
election in Maryland gives these totals:
For Cleveland, 261,957; Harrison, 236,325;
Fisk 4,954; Streeter 15,853; total vote 519,089.
Cleveland's plurality 25,632; majority
4,825.
T. S. Riley, chairmen of the Democratic
State committee of West Virginia, makes
the following statement under date of
last Sunday: Official returns from this
State are sufficiently ascertained to warrant
the announcement of the election
of Judge A. B. Fleming, the Democratic
candidate for Governor, by a small but
sure majority. The rest of the State officers
are elected by large majorities. The
Legislature will stand on joint ballot, 46
Democrats, 44 Republicans, and one Labor-Union
Independent.
At Republican headquarters in Washington,
it is now claimed that the next
House will consist of 165 Republicans and
158 Democrats, and two doubtful districts
yet to be heard from, one in West Virginia
and the Phelps-Blunie district in California,
which, it is claimed, will send Republicans.
At the lowest estimate the Republican
majority in the House will be
five, and may be seven or nine, according
to the way in which these doubtful districts
go.
MERE-MENTION.
The worst storm of the season prevailed
at Muskegon, Michigan, last Saturday
night, and there was three inches of
snow in the western part of Pennsylvania.
It is estimated that the sum of
to nnn nnn ?.?o? lnr*lrprl nn hv plpntinn bets
in New York City alone. Ten or fifteen
convicts were foiled in their attempt
to escape from the Tennessee penitentiary
at Nashville last Saturday night. For
the information of those who are curious
on the point, it may be stated that the
full name of the next mistress of the
White House, asshe signs it, is Jane Scott
Harrison. Among those who called
upon President-elect Harrison last Thursday
was General Reuben Davis, of Aberdeen,
Miss., who is a cousin of Jefferson
Davis. Gen. Davis, was formerly a brigadier
in the Confederate army. A
boy named Will Spinks struck and killed
with a fence paling an Italian fruit vendor
named Christophine in Atlanta Thursday
night. Spinks escaped. Three Mormon
elders who had been id Madison
county in the Western part of Alabama,
about ten days, were tarred and feathered
last Thursday, and warned to leave within
twenty-four hours. Hubbard, Price
& Co., of New York, report that investigation
entirely contradicts the theory that
the Farmers' Alliance has anything to do
with the backwardness of the cotton movement.
Five men convicted of illegal
voting got long sentences in New York
last Friday. H. S. Moore, railway
mail clerk, became angered during a playful
scuttle Thursday night and stabbed and
killed James Hunt, member of the Georgia
Legislature from Catoosa, in the room
they shared in a boarding house at Atlanta.
In the Vermont House of Representatives
last Friday, the bill granting to
women the right of suffrage was defeated
by a vote of 192 to 37. Business fail........
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during the last week number for the
United States 20"), Canada 32; total 237,
against 220 the previous week. From
New York to Kansas City for ninety
cents is certainly very cheap traveling,
but that is what the warring trunk lines
are now carrying immigrants for. The
general missionary contribution of the
Methodist church, at a meeting in New
York last Saturday afternoon,appropriated
the following amounts to misssionary
work: Italy, ?47,000 ; Mexico, $52,000;
C'orea, $16,104. Shocks of earthquake
were felt in Massachusetts last Saturday,
and at San Francisco on Sunday afternoon.
Hughes county, Dakota, has a
genuine case of leprosy. The subject is a
childof Mrs. Bansum, born whileshe wasa
missionary in China. The neighbors refuse
to have communication with members
of the afflicted family. Judge Thurman
celebrated the 75th anniversary of
his birth on the 13th instant, and was congratulated
by many friends who called
upon him.
The Yellow Fever.?The situation
at Jacksonville is improving, though new
cases of yellow fever are of daily occurence.
There were eight new case3 on
Monday and four deaths. Total cases to
date, 4,621: total deaths, 406.
? The prisoners confined in the Camden
jail made their escape on the 14th instant.
On Friday, two of them, Edward Bush
and Henry Gaither, both colored, were recaptured.
LOCAL AFFAIRS. '
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Mrs. Dora P. Smith?A Fine Farm for Sale.
Lowry A Starr?Tobacco.
Mrs. MollieE. Dobson?Temple of Fashion.
Withers Adickes?There is a Time to Sow and
a Time to Reap.
Walter B. Moore A Co.?Coffins and CasketsGrocer
i es ? C rockery ? H a rd wa re.
Hunter A Oates?The Mammoth Stirring up
Trade with the best Goods at tho lowest
Prices.
M. C. Willis?What tho Yorkville Enquirer
says.
Kennedy Bros A Barron?Clothing?School
Books?Flannels?Ladies' Vests?Fine
Tobacco and Cigars?Cartridges.
M. A H. C. Strauss?The Great Rush.
Jno. C. Kuykendal?Notes, Sharps and Flats.
UNTIL JANUARY 1st, 1880.
Tiik Enquirer will he furnished from
this date until January 1st, 1NK0, for 25
Cents.
TO PRINTERS.
We offer for sale about 350 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
I cents ner nnnnd. Anv nartv desirine both
fonts can purchase them at 25 cents per
pound. Terras cash.
THE DENNING CASE.
In our notice of the suit of George A.
Denning vs. the Carolina, Georgia and
Northern Railroad Co., we erroneously
stated that a new trial was granted. The
motion for a new trial was argued by
MessrS. Spencer an<J"Glenn, of counsel for
defendant, and per contra by W. B. Wilson
and W. B. Wilson, Jr., counsel for
plaintiff; but the motion for new trial was
denied by the Court.
PARDONED.
Governor Richardson Raspardoned Marcellus
Moss, of Cherokee township, who
was convicted at the summer term of
Court, 1888, of breach of trust with fraudulent
intent and sentenced by Judge Kershaw
to imprisonment in thecountyjail for
five months. Moss is sixty years old and
is in ill health. His pardon was recommended
by the presiding judge and the
solicitor.
YORK'S CONDEMNED MURDERERS.
Unless thWe should be executive interference
in thVway of/ a respite, there will
be at least tvwKexefDtions of the death
sentence in the YhrltvilleJail on Friday,
the 7th of next monlh. Dolph Wheeler,
Samuel Phifer andjvhvt Rise, all colored,
are the culprits. Tme particulars of their
trials are fresh in tl/e minqe of our readers.
A petition is in cilculationsmraying commutation
of Mat/Rose's sei^ence to life
imprisonment,,bdf we learn that no effort
is makiner. or likfcly to be made, for exec
utive clemency fn behalf of Phifer and
Wh^elenf
^ THE STATE PAIR. .
The twentieth annual fair of the South
Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical Society
closed in Columbia on Friday last.
It is pronounced a success, and visitors are
said to have enjoyed themselves better
than ever before. Yorkville was represented
in the live stock department by
Mr. T. M. Whitaker, who took first prize
for his thoroughbred horse Thomas Morrison,
two years old ; first prize on thoroughbred
filly Drift, three years old ; and
second prize for thoroughbred filly Mollie
K., two years old. Capt. J. C. Wither*
spoon, of Rock Hill, also took a premium
on the best South Carolina raised filly two
years old.
"A PICTURE OFCHARLESTON." '
With last Monday's issue of the News
and Courier, its subscribers here received
a mammoth supplement, it being the
News and Courier's industrial issue for
1888. The issue contains 48 pages of the
same size as the News and Courier, securely
stitched and covered with fancy paper,
on which the title is neatly printed in
black and geranium lake. But while it
is a fine specimen of the typographic art,
it is no less valuable, as setting forth with
maps, illustrations, descriptive articles
and business announcements, the advantages
of the city in the interest of which
it is printed.
EVANGELIST LEITCH.
Although last Sunday was the third
since the Rev. Mr. Leitch commenced his
series of meetings at this place, conducting
two services every day, the deep interest
he has awaked in the cause of religion.
so far from ebbing, has increased with
every service. His labors here have been
crowned with success, several accessions to
the different churches in town being due
to his work. That he is accomplishing
great good cannot be denied, and in his
labors he should have the united prayers
and sympathy of all Christian men and
women. His series of meetings here will
close with the service on Sunday night
next, and during the remainder of his
stay day service, beginning at 11 A. M.,
will be conducted in the Methodist church,
and for the better accommodation of his
large congregations, night services will
be held in the Presbyterian church, beginning
at 7.30.
RAILROAD NOTES.
Capt. Taylor, the tracklayer, has moved
his camp, which for several weeks has
been located near Yorkville, to a point ashort
distance beyond Hickory Grove.
The steel rails for the remaining gap of
twelve miles between Hickory Grove and
Black's, are being delivered from Charleston,
and if the weather permits the work
of tracklaying will be resumed to-day,
and proceed without interruption until the
work is completed to Black's, which can
be accomplished in ten or twelve working
days.
There is talk of running the south-bound
morning train through to Augusta.
The telegraph being erected by the
Western Union, along the line of the road,
is progressing in about the same ratio that
messages are sent and delivered. After
about three months it has been completed
from Camden to Oakhurst, the first station
this side of Kershaw, a distance of thirtythree
miles. _
THE AIR-LINE WRECK.
The terrible accident on the Air-Line
I Railroad on the 12th instant was invested |
with a sensation of peculiar and painful
interest to the people of Yorkvilie from the
fact that our young townsman, Postal
Clerk R. T. Allison, was among the injured,
and the first reports representing
him as fatally hurt. Dispatches of a
more assuring character were received,
later, however, and the latest intelligence
of his condition was received here yesterday
by his brother from Postal Clerk J.
C. Davenport. The purport of this letter
is that Mr. Allison is resting well, and
from present indications is thought to be
out of danger, but as his wounds are in-c
ternal, the physicians say a few more
days will be necessary to develop their
full extent. Mr. Allison's mother went
immediately to Atlanta, where he was
taken from the scene of the wreck, and she
is yet with him.
The Atlanta Evening Jourpal of Tuesday
of last week has the following paragraphs
in reference to the accident, which
will be read with interest:
"The injured are all doing as well as
could be expected. The loss to the road
will be not less than $60,000.
"At 11 o'clock the two mail clerks, Shumate
and Allison, arrived on the Air-Line
I
train. Mr. Shumate was resting easy, except
when he was moved, and then he
complained of great pain in his left shoulder
and thigh. He also had a severe
bruise on his chin. He was removed to
his father's home, the old Castleberry
place, on Peters street. '
"Mr. Allison is a much younger man,
and in fact he,is a mere boy, but he acted
with a great deal of heroism throughout I
this whole affair. When he saw that the
train was off the track he jumped from the ;
rapidly moving car. '
"After the cars caught fire he assisted in
removing Mr. Shumate, and then, true to ;
duty, he repaired at once to the telegraph
office and sent a dispatch Jo Superintendent
Turner, telling him of Shumate's in- 1
juries. In the telegram he said not a
word about himself. After the excite- '
merit had subsided. Allison found that he
had been hurt more seriously than he had
thought.
"He was forced to take to his bed, and
came down on the train this morning lying
on a mattress spread out in the mail
car. He was suffering intensely with
pains in his chest and stomach, and his
eyes were filled with tears as he lay for
sometime on his mattress spread out on a
pair of baggage trucks in the depot.
"A delegation of mail clerks met the
train and lent their assistance in removing
the wounded men.
"Allison's home is in Yorkville, S. C.,
and he had made up his mind to leave the 1
mail service on the first of January."
CHURCH NOTICES.
Episcopal?Sunday-school at 3.30 P. M.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev.
J. U. Galloway, Pastor. Services at Tirzah
next Sunday at 11.30 A. M. by Rev.
L. A. Johnson. Sunday-school at 3.30
P. M.
Methodist Episcopal?Rev. W. W. Daniel,
Pastor. Services every day during
this week, and on Sunday, at 11 A. M. by
Rev. Thomas Leiteh. Sunday-school at
3.30 P. M.
Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor.
Services every evening during this
week at 7.30 o'clock, and on Sunday evening
at 7 o'clock, by Rev. Thomas Leitch.
Sunday-shool at 3.30 P. M.
Baptist?Rev. R. G. Patrick, Pastor.
Thanksgiving services next Sunday at 11
A \f UimrlutT.cnhnnl at 10 A PrPV
er-meeting to-morrow eveningat 7 o'clock.
The pastor will deliver a sermon to children,
at Union, on Sunday at 3 P. M.
RAILROAD EARNINGS.
The Railroad Commissioners have issued
their tabulated statement of the earnings
of the railroads in the State for the month
of September last, as compared with the
same month last year. The report, in
contrast with all that have preceded it for
several months past, shows a large net decrease.
Of the twenty-seven roads included
in the statement, only six show an increase,
and two of these show an increase
because they were not in operation in September
last year. The gross earnings in
September 1887, were $700,284.56; this year
$547,832.34. The net decrease is $158,090.45,
or 22.575 per cent. The per cent, of decrease
on the roads controlled by the Richmond
and Danville is 15.07 per cent. The
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta shows
the greatest falling off of the Richmond
and Danville roads, $22,402.20; the Atlanta
and Charlotte Air-Line,.$9,385.05; and
the Chester and Lenoir, $474.76. The total
passenger earnings for September, 1887,
were $157,481; September, 1888, $152,803.59
; decrease, $6,001.94. The total freight
earnings for the month in 1887 were $493,736.71;
same month this year $336,092.44 ;
decrease $161,747.57.
^PERSONAL MENTION.
Miss Norma Strauss and Miss Mary
Johnson left here yesterday to spend Gala
Week in Charleston.
^ Mr. James Jones has accepted a position
as clerk in Mr. R. A. Parish's grocery
store.
"tfMr. F. H. Reid, of Charlotte, N. C., is
in Yorkville visiting friends.'
v>Mr. Isaac McFadden, of Smith's Turnotit,
formerly with Messrs. \V. L. Roddey
& Co., of Rock Hill, has accepted the position
of salesman at Willis's Carriage Factory.
Capt. J. T. Koennecke and family, of
Charleston, are at the Yorkville Hotel.
.VMrs. A. Springs Withers and children
are visiting friends and relatives in Charleston.
Mr. James P. Culp, connected with the
Yorkville Carriage Factory, is spending
a short vacation with his parents near
Wylie's Mills, Chester county.
VMr. Ervin Gordon, has accepted a position
as cotton buyer with Latta Brothers,
with headquarters in Yorkville.
VMessrs. James F. Glenn and James
Snyder left here last Monday to spend
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liaia YveeK in unariesion. messrs. n.
Moore, E. R. McElvvee, and probably others,,
will go to-day.
vMr. Miles Johnson, of Rock Hill, was
M Yorkville last Monday.
Miss Gertrude Sherer, of Black's, is in
Yorkville, visiting relatives.
Mrs. James E. Smith was summoned to
Atlanta, last Saturday night, by telegraph,
to the bedside of her daughter, Mrs. W. E.
Ferguson, who was reported to be seriously
ill.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM ROCK HILL.
Rock IIill, November 19.?From appearances,
we are going to have some
rainy and disagreeable weather.
I learn that the farmers in this section
have sown more wheat this fall than ever
before.
Cotton came in freely last week. The
prices ranged from 9fc to 9.40. A larger
quantity was sold at the latter price.
JT. As stated in my last letter, two of our
' young men having been shot by cupid's
darts, left town last week and returned
here with their wives on Friday. The
following are the bridal couples: Rev.
\V. M. Anderson, pastor of the Presbyterian
church at this place, was married on
Thursday last, at Dyersburg, Tenn., to
Miss Saddie K. Latta. The ceremony was
performed by the father of the groom. A
number of friends met the happy pair at
the depot. At present they will reside
with Miss Ann Starr, but soon expect to
occupy the parsonage, which is fast approaching
completion.
Mr. M. C. Gaines, the courteous and accommodating
agent of the C. C. & C. Railroad
at this place, was wedded to one of
Virginia's lovely daughters, Miss Lula
Bland Roane, on the same day, at Ashdale,
Va. They were also met by a large number
of Iriends at the depot and driven to
the residence of Mrs. Blake, which will be
their home for the present.
Thursday afternoon a number of the citizens
called to extend their congratulations
to both Mr. and Mrs. Anderson and Mr.
\ajicUMrs. Gaines.
K The name of the station in the old town
~6f Ebenezer, a few miles from this place,
on the Three C's Railroad, has been named
Old Point. The name, while I would like
iu see me uiu une reituueu, ia vcij a^jnupriate.
Old citizens say that it was the
I intention of the C. C. & A. Railroad to pass
through Ebenezerand locate a town there.
) A large number of our friends from the
country, and a number of citizens of the
town, are indebted to Messrs. S. T. Frew
& Co. for a delightful dinner served in
their store. They had an expert cook
from New York. The meal was cooked
on one of their large gauze door stove
ranges.
A number of the Masonic fraternity of
this place visited their sister lodge at Fort
Mill on Thursday last, the occasion being
the dedication of the newly erected lodge i
building in that town. They all report
having had a most delightful time and
enjoying their visit. Several of them expressed
themfelves in very complimentary
terms of the growth and future prospects i
of the hospitable town. Hal.
For the YorkTille Enquirer.
YORK COUNTY FARMERS' ALLIANCE.
York County Farmers' Alliance met in
Yorkville on Friday, November 16th, and
was opened in proper form by the president.
The secretary, upon calling the roll of
the various sub-Alliances, found them all
properly represented.
The object of the meeting was stated by
the President, viz.: To take action on the
work assigned to the committee on constitution
and rules of order and business.
Also, to make arrangements about the
purchase of fertilizers and supplies.
In the absence of Capt. A. Moore, chairman
of committee on constitution and
rules of order, &c., W. PI. Crook, secretary
of said committee, made a report, which
was received and unanimously adopted.
The Alliance then adjourned until 2 P.
M., at which hour the members re-asssembled.
The president read several communications
received by him from L. L. Polk,
vice-president of the National Alliance,
and secretary of the North Carolina State
FarmersJ Alliance, concerning the workings
of the order, and how they contemplate
operating their business agency in
North Carolina. Also, a communication
from our worthy president, E. T. Stackhouse,
in reply to several questions propounded
for the good of the order. Also
a communication from our State secretary,
J. W. lleid, giving his reasons and
expression of regret for not meeting with
us as promised. Also, a communication
from J. R. Ashe, concerning the manufacture
and manipulation of fertilizers; all
of which, on motiou, was received as information.
The following resolutions were offered
and adopted:
That for the present, the various sub-Alliances
make their own trade arrangements.
In order that our trade agent may have backing,
so as to give him tinancial standing in
commercial circles, that we endeavor to raise
a fund for said purpose, and that the secretaries
of the various sub-Alliances solicit sub
scripuons from tue mourners, ami report me
amount received at our January meeting.
The secretary read the following preamble
and resolutions as adopted by the Oats
Alliance and published in the "Cotton
Plaut":
That whereas it is reported that the manufacturers
of fertilizers are about to combine or
have combined to raise their prices; therefore,
be it
Resolved, 1st. That we pledge ourselves to
buy no guano manufactured by any company
that has entered into any combination for
fixing the prices of guano, whereby it Is freed
from the influence of the moBt wholesome law
of supply and demand that should regulate the
price of every article of commerce.
2nd. That we condemn as tne natural enemies
of mankind, any individuals or corporations
who are combined or may combine to
raise the price of any article of prime necessity
to the people, and declare that all money thus
extorted is obtained by fraud and rascality.
3d. That the agricultural commissioner of
South Carolina be requested to inquire into
the matter, and ascertain, if possible, what fertilizer
companies are engaged in the reported
combine, and if any are found to be in it to
publish the names of every one thus engaged,
so that the farmers may know who are concerned
in it. ,
4th. That we deplore the fact, if it be a fact,
that the government of the United States is
unable to protect its citizens against the inquitous
trusts and combines, whereby we are
being robbed of our hard earnings bv unscrupulous
speculators and unprincipled capitalists.
These resolutions were heartily endorsed
and unanimously adopted.
There being no other business the Alliance
was closed in proper form until the
next regular meeting.
W. N. ELDER, President.
J. F. Ashe, Secretary.
For the YorkvIIle Enquirer.
BETHEL NOTES.
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Bethel, November 15.?These notes
will not follow in the well beaten paths so
frequently used in your columns for the
last few months. For, being suggested by
more agreeable and pleasing surroundings.
our theme will necessarily suggest
a different line of thought.
One of our school boys came home recently
with tears in his eyes, and with sobs
that made articulation almost inaudible,
narrated the doleful tale that he had been
pounded. And doubtless the blows were
by no means pleasant. We have often
seen black eyes and disfigured faces from
the ponderous blows of assailants.
But at the Bethel manse, on the 14th
instant, there was a pounding and a severe
one too, of an entirely different nature.
True, the blows fell ponderously, and in
such rapid succession, that it was all useless
to think of dodging; but there were
no tears shed, no black eyes, no disfigured
faces, or unpleasant feelings. There was
no partiality shown whatever; but the
pastor and his whole family were pounded?and
well pounded. Although the day
was cold, bleak and rainy, still, at an
early hour, the good people of our new
charge came pouring in, on horse-back, in
buggies and carriages, through the cold,
mud and drenching rain, each one converting
himself into a veritable Santa
Claus, for each was well ladened. They
came from all directions, and from the
remotest limits of the congregation; all
aees. from the urattling infant to the aged |
sires and matrons, being represented.
And, had not many who were prepared
and ready to come, been detained by the
excessive rain, we know not how all could
have been accommodated.
At noon a long table was spread, which
literally groaned under its load of good
things. Such a dinner was served as the
Bethel people are ndted for getting up.
The pastor and family spent the day very
pleasantly and jovially with their congregation.
All enjoyed the day, and parted
feeling well paid for the sacrifice. And
after the usual handshaking, and mutual
well-wishing, all parted once more; but
not till after many substantial tokens of
esteem and friendship were left behind?
tokens which will be seen upon the table,
and enjoyed by the inmates of the manse
for many days in the future. The whole
thing was a genuine surprise; for it was
gotten up so noiselessly, that we knew
nothing of it till the people began to
collect. But when we saw so many bundles
being unloaded, we soon realized why
it was that so many of the good people
happened to think of paying us a visit all
at once. And best of all, this is only a
continuance, though in double proportion,
of the kindness bestowed upon us ever
since we came among these people?the
storms that followed the preceding and
preparatory steady rain.
How pleasant and encouraging it is for a
pastor and family to be thus remembered
by an appreciative people! It is not so
much the amount given, as the spirit that
actuates it, that gives so much encouragement
to a pastor, and binds him and people
closer and closer together. May the
good Lord, who put it in their hearts to
thus so kindly remember us and ours,
abundantly bless each one of them, owning
and richly blessing the work of their hearts
and the labor of their hands, till, when
filled with the goodness of God, they shall
all meet again around his throne in glory.
And to each one of them we would tender
our heartfelt thanks for the abundant
kindness shown to us, and pledge again
that while you are thus ministering to us
in temporal things, and encouraging us in
our work by your kindness and friendship,
we will labor more earnestly and
zealously in ministering to you in spiritual
things.
whnf-pvpr m?v have been her past his
tory, Bethel is to-day a united" people.
There is, doubtless, as much harmony and
unanimity of feeling as there has ever been
at any time in the past. Pastor and people
are united, and people united among
themselves, laboring shoulder to shoulder
for the advancement of the Redeemer's
kingdom. And as a natural result there
are manifest tokens of the Spirit's presence
and power among us.
Quite a number have recently been added
to the membership and the attendance
upon public wtfrship is increasing. Material
has been purchased, a live committee
appointed, and, in ashort time the church
building will be adorned with a new and
stylish dressing of paint.
The approaching thanksgiving day will
be observed by appropriate religious services,
and a thank-offering for the Thornwell
Orphanage. On the day following,
services preparatory to the observance of
the Lord's Supper on Sunday the 2nd of
December, will begin. During these solemn
and interesting services, we hope and
pray that the Spirit of God will descend
witli power among us, and not only greatly
revive his own people, but also quicken
many another into newness of life.
G. S. Robinson.
Correspondence of the Yorkvllle Enquirer.
LETTER FROSTUNIOX COUNTY.
Etta Jane, November 17.?We are glad
to know that the citizens of Yorkville and
York county, have had an opportunity to
verify our statement made several months
ago in regard to the evangelistic work of
Rev. Tom Leitch. It is not to be expected
that all the seed sown by this laoorer in
the Master's work will fall upon good
ground; but, wherever he has labored,
abundant evidence is left to show that the
cause ot unrist nas triumpneu over saiauie
influences, and that an abundant harvest
is in store for the Master's use. We know
of no people whose intelligence more empowers
them to judge and appreciate a good
work than the citizens of old York, ana we
expect to hear of glorious results attending
his ministration among them. For intelligence,
mental and moral worth, the people
of York county are second to none in
our State, and this in a great measure is
our voucher for the foregoing assertions.
From our earliest recollections York county
has numbered among its ministers some
of the ablest theologians in this State,
and this fact alone sufficiently guarantees
to us that its people will better appreciate
the services of Rev. Thomas Leitch, the
evangelist.
Last Wednesday our section was visited
with a rain, much to the perplexity of our
farmers. "I never saw so much rain in
my life," is on everybody's lips. Cotton
nwn't nnpn At lpaef half thp nrnn is still
in the bolls, and perhaps will not open.
It rots before it opens, and is very hard
and tedious to pick.
The cool weather since the freshet in
September last has been of great advantage
to the damaged corn. Much of it has been
saved, and will no doubt go a long ways
toward feeding stock, and making bread
through the winter. There is thousands
upon thousands of damaged corn along
the rivers and creeks that will make
nothing but hog feed, and those people
who have been more fortunate than to
lose their crops would do well to buy it
up at a nominal price and feed their hogs.
By grinding it and evoking the meal it
makes splendid feed for stock or fattening
hogs.
Since the opening of a cotton market at
Hickory Grove, a large amount of trade
from this side of the river is drifting that
way. Much of the supplies for next year
will be bought there. Liberal ferriage
rates are made for market wagons, and
the prices offered and paid for cotton there
are quite an inducement to those who
have it to sell.
At Hickory Grove there are five business
houses doing a general mercantile
business. In less than three weeks, between
700 and 800 bales of cotton have
been sold there at prices running as high
as $9.50. At that market 110 bales were
sold yesterday.
Rev. J. C. Galloway, of the A. R. Presbyterian
church, will preach at Unity
church next Sabbath, 25th instant.
Sigma.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Mormon elders are preaching in the
piney woods section of Lexington county.
? Four lineal descendants of the renowned
John Knox, of Scotland, are now living
in Manning.
? J. D. Carwile, formerly of Abbeville,
has been elected to the Texas Legislature
by a handsome majority.
? In the general election, Miss Eliza
Garner, candidate for school commisioner
of Union county, received 93 votes.
? R. C. Bishop has been elected by the
town council of Gaffney to the position of
chief of police of that town.
? Governor Richardson has issued his
proclamation appointing Thursday, the
29th instant, a day of thanksgiving and
prayer.
? The South Carolina association of exConfederate
Surgeons, at their meeting in
Columbia last Thursday, re-elected their
old officers and decided to make lineal descendants
of members eligible to membership.
Dr. R. Andral Bratton, son of Dr.
J. Rufus Bratton, of Yorkville, was elected
a member of the association.
? The Woman's Christian Temperance
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Union or spartanourg nave suorameu a
petition to the city council asking for an
election on the license question. They
have the requisite number of names, but
the council is investigating the whole list
and cutting off the names of such as are
not entitled to vote. The probable elec- *
tion is creating no excitement, and, if ordered
by the council, it will pass off very
quietly and not draw out the full vote of r
the town.
? The protracted municipal license war
in Charleston came to a close on the 13th,
the imprisoned merchants, twenty in
number, accepting the terms offered them
by the city, viz.: each defendant to take
out a license, which amounts, it is estimated,
will reimburse the city for the actual
cost of the trials before the city court.
The city remits the fines, which aggregate
several thousand dollars, and the court
officials also remit their fees and costs.
This ends one of the most remarkable litigations,
perhaps, on the records of the
courts in Charleston. It is more than i
probable that the license tax of the city
will be so amended next year as to rid it
of its most objectionable features.
? In the Edgefield Court of Sessions last
Thursday, the case of the State vs. It. J.
Jones, murderer of the three Pressleys,
four years ago, was taken up, and the
evidence was concluded Friday night at
11 o'clock. This trial was for the murder
of the old man Pressley. The evidence
did not vary from that given at the last
two trials, except that the effort of the
State to introduce evidence going to
show who have the right to the occupancy
of the land which was the immediate
ouiisd nf thp homicide. was futile. The
Judge ruled that the introduction of the
evidence would necessitate an inquiry and
investigation into the question of title,
which was not admissible on the crimnal
side of the court. Six arguments were
made, and the jury took the case, remaining
out 18 hours, when at 10 A. M. on Sunday
they reported that they were unable
to agree and a mistrial was ordered.
Directors of tiie Three C's Railroad.?An
adjourned meeting of the
stockholders of the Charleston, Cincinnati
and Chicago Railroad Company, was held
in Charleston last Thursday. A majority
of all the stock outstanding on the books
of the company September 29,1888, as re- '
ported by the Boston Safe Deposit and
Trust Company transfer agents, was represented.
.
The annual election for directors of the 1
road was held with the following result:
Frank Coxe, capitalist, Philadelphia,
Pennsyvlvania.
P. P. Dickinson, consulting and constructing
engineer, New York.
Chester W. Chapin, capitalist, New
York.
Wharton Barker, (of Barker Brothers,)
banker, Philadelphia.
W. F. Weed, capitalist, Boston, Mass.
James F. Furber, general manager, Boston
and Maine Railroad system, Boston,
Mass.
James A. Pumrice, vice president Boston
and Albany Railroad Company, Boston,
Mass.
William D. Bishop, director and ex
president New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad Company, Bridgeport,
Conn. |
Jacob L. Green, president Mutual Connecticut
Life Insurance Company, Hartford,
Conn.
Amos Barnes, director Connecticut and
Passumsic Riyer Railroad Company, Boston,
Mass.
Gen. John T. Wilder, Johnson City,
Tenn.
W. L. Roddey, merchant and banker, >
Rock Hill, S. C.
P. J. Sinclair, Marion, N. C.
Col. Frank Coxe was re-elected president,
and Gen. J. T. Wilder vice president.
t
Admitted to Bail.?Dan Thornburg,
one of the twin brothers who were implicated
in the shooting of Wm. Aderholt,
who was captured and jailed on the 9th of