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f / Jwapsi a?i t . ~ ? The new American havy, when completed, will consist of 22 vessels, ranging from the armored cruiser, Maine, carrying 444 men, down to a first-class torpedo boat, carrying 4 officers and eighteen men. There will be 5,786 men on board the 22 vessels?500 officers and 5,286 sailors and marines. ? The Covington, Ga., Star offers the farmers the following sensible advice: "Our advice has always been to diversify the crops; raise plenty of. corn and meat to supply the home demand; compost your manures; raise your own grasses, and ^pever buy a sprig of Western hay. Make ^;he farm self-sustaining in every particular; then raise as much cotton as you can as a surplus crop, and if you don't find yourself more prosperous at the end of two years, then you may say the Star is no farmer." ? The following remarkable experience of an Ohio lad is reported from Akron, in that State: A six-year-old son of R. B. Koons, a grocer, complained for several days of ear-ache, and finally got frantic with pain. The usual oil and cotton xemdy was tried, bat without avail. Finally something burst in his ear, andfeut came a quantity ^of pus, and with it a small cherry sUfbe that had partially split and Srminated, the sprout sticking out plain_ . It was recollected then that the boy Had been playing with some comrades ^Jtast August and that they had smeared J each other's faces with wild cherries, mashed up in their hands. The stone had been forced into the boy'.s ear, remaining for months without disturbing him until it began to swell, preparatory to sprouting. Iho Raleigh Christian Advocate, in ? giving examples of total abstinence from intoxicants, relates the following of Cen. R. E. Lee: "Just as he was starting to the Mexican war a ladv of Virginia gave him a bottle of fine old whisky, stating that he would no doubt need it, and would not be able to find any in that country. The general said, years afterward, in reference to this bottle: 'I carried that bottle all through the war without having the slightest occasion to use it, and on my return home I sent it back to my good friend, that she might be convinced that I could get on without liquor.' On another occasion the general invited some friends to drink with him. The demijohn was brought out, the glasses were filled?not with old 'Cognac' or 'Bourbon'?but with fresh buttermilk, which a lady, knowing - A- i a a. n ni8 caste, naa sent mm. ? The Scotch-Irish Congress, which will assemble at Columbia, Tennessee, on the 15th of May, will be an international gath. ering of a race that has been most conspicuous in proportion to number, in influencing modern civilization. The impress upon American institutions has been especially strong, and in no part of the nation has it been felt with more power than in the South. The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was proclaimed by the Scotch-Irish of Charlotte. N. C., more than a year before the Philadelphia declaration, which was itself signed by several illustrious members of the race. They were foremost in the Revolutionary struggle. They were active the formation of the National Constitution and furnished some of its firmest and ablest defenders. Patriotic and progressive, they have been prominent on every page of our public history; nor have they been less distinguished in Erivate life, in every sphere of which they ave been leaders. ? The Miller's Association have just issued a private circular for distribution among its members, which gives the following interesting and important information regarding the amount of wheat and flour on hand in six States?Mis\souri, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan?and also the condition and ^ acreage of the growing wheat crops of X the six States. The reports come from ^U>4 winter. wheat mills. The amount of j^eheat held by these mills is placed at 1,900,000 bushels more than one year ago, ansljRf flour, 200,000 barrels, or 60,000 bar""^rels tSqtqJ Average acreage of wheat planted Jn Missouri is 100, and its conditio 10d; Illinois is 9S acreage, 101 conditio ; Kansas is 144 'acreage and 100 condition; the ottier State average 94 to 98 in acrwge and condition. Of the amount of wMaiin farmers' hands, Missouri reports ?$he industrial ' development'of the Soutfi w$ discussed by the Providence, Rhode Island, Commercial Club at their monthly dinner last Saturday evening. Thhispeakers of the evening were Hon. Jdhm w. Candler, of Boston; Dr. H. M. Caldwell, of Birmingham, Ala.; Maj. J. (PBfien, of Chattanooga; Capt. Jos. F. Bonce, ot Sheffield, Ala.; and Col. W. A. ^Lamb, of Norfolk, Va. The speakers from; Alabama and Tennessee dwelt at length upon the marvelous riches of that patt of the country, especially of the coal and iron deposits, and the increasing demand for Southern pig iron in the North. The difficulties the South had to contend with after the war have been overcome and the developments of the past few years have revealed the great wealth of Southern mineral deposits. A mass of intereresting statistics was given, illustrating the wonderful growth of the South in recent years. Hon. J. W. Candler, following tho Southern speakers, dwelt upon several problems which the Southern States have yet to deal with successfully?among them the labor problem and the credit of the States. ? A serious riot between whites and blacks is thus reported to have occurred at Ty Ty, Worth county, Ga., last Friday: A constable had a warrant for a negro, and when he went to take his prisoner the negro drew a pistol and fired at the officer, with no effect. The officer, seeing ^his life in danger, also drew his pistol and fired, killingthe negro. A Brunswick and Western construction train was on a side track close to the scene, and all the negro hands quit their work and went to the ' aid of the negro whose arrest was attempted. This fired things up. In a moment a large crowd of white men was on the scene, and immediately the shooting became general, but wiser heads soon got in and the battle ceased. When the smoke cleared away it was found that two ^Begroes were dead and several others rTho noofrrtps hftvp crown reck VVUUUU^U* J.11V ^ 0 less, and it is understood that they threaten to lynch the bailiff and burn the town if the coroner's jury does not find the bailiff guilty of murder. The citizen at Ty-Ty are waiting with quickened pulse and loaded guns for evidences of hostility on the part of the negroes. The indications are said to be serious. -Ex-United States Senator John J. Pat. terson, of Miftletown, Pa., is in trouble. Alter the death of his first wife in Washington five years ago, he flirted from time to time with Mrs. Mary R. Fleming, of ^Philadelphia. A little over a year ago ?~ gonator-Pattorson married a Miss Frank, of Waukesha, who is young, wealthy and accomplished. Miss Fleming has recently come to the front and informed the press of the grounds of a suit for breach of promise and heavy damages which she is about to bring against the doughty ex-Senator. He denies the whole matter as a blackmailing scheme and says that Mrs. Fleming will never get a cent from him. Patterson was a prominent and very disreputable figure in reconstruction politics. He bribed the Legislature and served a full term of six years as United States Senator from South Carolina, but during the latter half of it did not venture back within the limits of the State. He was especially notorious as the author of the saying that "there is five years more of good stealing in South Carolina." He has a beautiful home on the banks of the Juniata, in sight of the mountains. He has lost and made several fortunes, but is now handsomely off and largely interested in railroad enterprises. ? The number of nominations sent to the Senate by President Cleveland since the opening of the present sessioiHxrcongress is now more than 325. The total number of confirmations made by the Senate is 53, leaving about 275 nominations still waiting for action. All of the 53 confirmations except 7 are of nominations for promotion in the army and navy, which cannot be even remotely connected with politics. . Democrats who hear Republican Senators * deny that as many Federal offices as possible are to be left unfilled until Mr. Harrison assumes the office of President, point to thes^figures as a sufficient answer. A very large proportion of the pending nomin&Bons are j for successors of postmasters B^^ttPRes which have by law become Pres M^al offices through their increased a small number are tosuenominatedJ|Btt ing President as far as possible from the t necessity of removing office holders to i make room for the victorious Republicans. ( The fewer Democrats in office on the 4th t of March, the easier it will be to make the ( clean sweep so confidently expected by the 1 rank and file of the Republicans. t ? The town of Bolarin, Mercer county, 3 Mo., furnishes the following tragic story ' under date of Sunday last: Henry Thorn- < as, an old farmer, had four grown daugh- i ters, named Hattie, Margaret, Nancy and < Jane, aged 16,18, 20 and 22 years respect- ' ively. Last Wednesday night Samuel ' and Charles Hasbur, brothers, procured a ladder and helped Margaret and Jane out i of the second story window of their father's house, and as they were about to elope with the girls, the old man appeared ! on the scene, but too late to prevent their : escape. He at once procured the best; horse he had and a shot gun and started in ; pursuit. When about twelve miles from Vmmn Ko fttn flooinf* nilrfv He I I1V/UIO lie vfvtvwa VMV Mvwug v immediately opened fire on them, killing ! both boys and seriously wounding Marga- j rels After getting nearly home with the j girls he was told that the other two, Hat-1 tie and Nancy, had also eloped with Ned \ Gleason and Thomas Allison. He at once ; left the girls he had with him in charge of some neighbors and started after the others. After securing ihe other two girls without any serious trouble, he started back, but when about two miles from home a mob took possession of him and. strung him up to.atree. The old man was terrible strict with the girl?- He would hardly let them out of his sight, hence the elopement. He always bragged that he would not be bothered with lazy sons-inlaw. Public feeling is strongly in favor of the lynching. Margaret died Saturday night. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23,1889^ TAX EXECUTIONS TO BE ISSUED AT ONCE. The following circular has been issued from the office of the comptroller general and copies sent to the auditor and treasurer of each county in the State: Columbia, S. C., Jan. 17, '89. The following opinion of the attorney general is published for the guidance of county auditors and treasurers: "Office of Attorney General, Columbia, S. C., Jan. 17, '89. "Hon. J. S. Verner, Comptroller General. "DearSir: I have the honor to acifnnwipdw the receiDt of vour communi cation of the 15th instant enclosing a copy | of an Act therein entitled 'An Act in relation to forfeited lands, delinquent lands, and collection of taxes, approved 24th December, 1887, as amended by an Act approved 24th December 1888.' My opinion is reqnested upon this point: Shall the auditors make up, as heretofore, the 15 per cent, penalty book, giving the usual 15 days and the 10 days allowed by the AA., XIX. vol; Stat., p. 650, or shall they proceed under the forfeited land Act, and issue the execution at once, collecting the 15 per cent, penalty, etc., etc. "The provisions of law contained in the supply Act, XIX vol., Sec. 10, pp. 884 and A A. December 24th, 1886, XIX Stat., pp. 650, referred to by you, are inconsistent with the AA. December 24th, 1887, amended by AA. 1888, and are repealed by said Acts. The Act in relation to forfeited lands, delinquent lands, and the colection of taxes, as amended by AA., approved December 24th, 1888, requires the county treasurer of each county to issue a warrant or execution against each defaulting taxpayer in his county to enforce the collection of taxes, Hmmediaiely upon the expiration of the time allowed by law for the payment of taxes in any year,' etc. My opinion is, that it is the duty of the county treasurer to proceed4 uncfernib s&ld forfeited land Act and is.*ie the executions at once, the tima-h?^ngexpired? unless t(ie supfdy Act of the last session (which I iiaVe been unable as yet to examine) contains some contrary provision. Respectfully, Jos. H. Earle, Attorney General. County auditors will not make out the 15 per cent, penalty book as heretofore, as will be seen by the above opinion of the attorney general. County treasurers in each and every county of the State will at once proceed to issue a warrant or execution against eacn and every defaulting taxpayer, directed to the sheriff of his county, including^n said warrant or execution the 15 per cent, penalty, together with such costs, etc., as are provided for in "The Act in relation to forfeited lands, delinquent lands and collection of taxes, approved December 24th, 1887, as amended by an Act approved December 24th, 1888." J. S. Vernek, Comptroller General. STATE PENSION RULES AND REGULATIONS. The State pension board at its recent meeting in Columbia, adopted for the use of the county boards of examiners, the following rules and regulations to govern applications for pensions under the Act of the last General Assembly: 1st. Boards of examiners of applicants for pensions meet on the third Monday in January, elect one of their number chairman and one secretary. The chairman is authorized to administer all necessaryoaths required in the examinations made by th6 board. The secretary will keep a book in which he will record the minutes of each meeting, and also a book in which he makes a list of the applicants for pensions, showing the approvals and disapprovals. This last book is to be filed in the clerk's office of each county when the labors of the board in each year are concluded. 2d. The board, after organization, will give notice of the time and place of holding meetings and furnish blanks to all applicants who may apply for them. The , comptroller general will furnish the board with all necessary books and blanks. 3d. No application will be considered by the county board of examiners unless made upon blanks prescribed and furnished by the comptroller general. Each blank application must be filled out and signed by the applicant, and duly sworn to by him or her before some officer authorized by law to administer an oath. If the applicant is a soldier or sailor, he must describe plainly aud fully in his application the nature of his disabling wound, and, if the applicant be a widow, she must state the time and place where her husband died, and the nature of the disease which produced death, if he was not killed in battle. 4th. County boards will not approve any application for pensions, except when the wound was received or the death occurred before the war between the States had practically ended, except in such cases where it can be made to appear that the husband died while in prison as a prisoner of war, or from sickness or wounds which prevented him from reaching home after hostilities had ceased. 5th. Every applicant for pension must ' ? " - t 1 r appear personally Deiore me ooaru mr j examination and testify as to the truth ; of the allegations of his or herapplica-i tion, except when the board is satisfied as ' to the truth of the allegations of each ap-: plication, or the inability of the applicant to attend. 6th. When the Board makes a personal examination of the applicant, the chairman of the board will administer to him or her, or the witness who appears to testify in behalf of the applicant, the following oath: "You dosolemnly swear that the evidence you will give the board of county examaminers in relation to the application of for a pension under the laws of South Carolina, shall be the truth, the; whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God." The board has authority to examine as j many witnesses as they desire to satisfy ; their minds as to the truth of the allega. tions to each application, or otherwise. 7th. The applicant must have the affidavits of onp or mofe credible witnesses as to the service of each soldier or sailor i in the war between the States, or if the ! applicant to foe a widow, affidavits as to th^ service of the husband in said war and this death whp*. in such service. Each apuae4ti*?? a certificate from the, his or her 1 two bun- j C|MjkUCutC | )n the application announcing theit decison, must, in each case, give an accurate lescription of the nature and character of he wound 8 of the sailor or soldier appli:ant, the amount of income and all other easons which influenced them in reaching heir con elusions, which decision must be in writing, as shown in blank and signed 3y each member of the board, if present, ar a majority. The physician mustsetout in the blank for that purpose a minute lescription of the wound of each soldier or jailor, freed, as far as possible, from the technicalities of his profession. 9th. The law allows each member of the board three dollars per day for his services, not to exceed eight days. The accounts for each member will be made out by him and forwarded to the comptroller general, at the expiration of their labors, who will issue to each member a a warrant on the State treasurer for the amount due. The accounts must be sworn to before some officer qualified to administer an oath. 10th. The boards will forward all of the applications acted upon by them by the first day of February, and all others as soon after as possible, to the .comptroller general by express. The comptroller general will pay the express on the same, as the law allows no funds to the county board to pay these expenses. MERE-MENTION. By a census, just completed, Atlanta claims a population of 74,676. At Raleigh, N. C., last week, J. C. Parrish, a white man, convicted of criminal assault upon his little daughter, was sentenced to be hanged on the 29th of March next. The coldest wave of the season passed over the Northwest last Friday. The temperature was 30? below zero in Dakota and Minnesota. Business failures occurring throughout the country last week numbered for the United States 284, Canada 46; a total of 330 against 381 the previous week. Daniel G. Fowle was inaugurated Governor of North Carolina at noon last Thursday, in the presence of a large assemblage It is charged that an Arizona judge fined an editor $300 for criticising one of his decisions. The matter will be investigated by Congress. The cost of the recent Birmingham riot, in which an attempt was made to lynch Hawes, the wife murderer, will be to the State of Alabama about $5,000, principally for transportation and subsistence of troops.*"; John Greenwall will probably be the first criminal to be executed under the law of New York, substituting electricity for the gallows. He was convicted at Brooklyn of murder in the first degree. The Florida Tropical Exposition at Jacksonville is attracting many visitors. There is trouble in Mississippi. An editor metaphorically referred to a citizen as the "nigger in the wood pile," and now that citizen insists on the necessity of a coroner's inquest to establish the fact that he is a white man. A negro prisoner in the jail at Danville, Va., was fatally poisoned from eating a slice of pudding which the wife of another negro Erisoner had prepared for her husband, ut which he refused to eat."".*""The Railroad commissioner of Virginia,in his annual report, shows the casualties of 1888 to have been 100 persons killed and 600 injured. There are about 3,000 miles of road in the State. A party of revenue officers returning from a raid on illicit stills in the North Carolina mountains last Friday, were fired on from ambush by ?1 trfAiinrl moonsmuers. oeyuiin Iiicu vrcic wuuuued, and a prisoner was rescued. Over a hundred shots were fired by the irate distillers. The Connecticut Historical Sopiety has announced that the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the first draft of a State constitution will be celebrated at Hartford on January 24. Itidenour, who had been twice convicted and sentenced for murder, was acquitted on his third trial at Winchester, Va., last Friday. Five inches of snow, the first of the season, fell in the Valley of Virginia last Sunday night. The twenty-first annual convention of the Washington National Woman Suffrage Association is in session at Washington. Kemper county, Mississippi, in which the outrages upon negroes by whites, are said to have occurred, is a district remote from railroads. The trouble seems to have no political bearing, but is caused by a few turbulent persons who wish to drive the negroes out of that region. ? CWitt- -ELoJ. timore fertilizer manufacturers say they have received a number of communications from Farmers' Alliances in the Southern States. These are usually in the shape of letters of inquiry as to the price of fertilizers by the car load, the rates of freight, the analyses of the compounds, &c. From a general examination of a mass of these communications, it appears that these Alliances are not always ready to give the security for prompt payment for the goods that the manufacturers get from the Southern merchants. There are many merchants engaged in the trade who have credit for all the fertilizers they order. They sell it to farmers whose credit is good, and the manufacturer is sure of his money. Manufacturers say they sell their goods at six to ten per cent, profit, and this profit does not give margin for risks. TheSouthern merchant gets from 50 cents to $1 a ton advance, and he knows what farmers are entitled to credit. It is as yet a question whether the manufacturers will to any considerable extent engage to ship fertilirprs in lots of 100 tons, more or less, on Alliance orders, to be distributed among: 20 or 50 farmers, without a clearly definedunderstanding about getting their pay, having the freight bills settled and the goods properly handled when they reach the country railroad station to which they may be billed. The Farmers' Alliances in the South are assuming considerable proportions and may get their co-operative plans on an acceptible business basis. Good credit is one of the requisites of every merchant who hopes to succeed, and that credit must be established in a practical, unsentimental way. Then he can buy goods at the best figures and his custom is solicited. He in turn will see to it that his customers are of a reliable class. These are the primary rules of business life, and upon them the Farmers' Alliancescan get along swimmingly. One of these letters received by a fertilizer manufacturer from a country station in Georgia, shows that the representative had an eye to a business turn for himself. He mentioned the number of tons his Alliance will want, and proposed to be the agent of the manufacturer in selling it to them.?[Baltimore Sun. As to Schools.?One of tb-^ first questions asked by persons at the North who are thinking of coming to South Carolina, is about the schools here. If we want to get immigration from the Northern and Western States we must be able to demonstrate to them that our public school system is fully equal io all requiremeats. Intelligent immigrants, such as we want from these parts of the country, will not go into localities where there is any lack of interest in educational matters. Thus far only two of the Southern States have come up to the requirements in this respect?and the results are evident in the " - * * AL.i 4.U 4.^0, great innux 01 seiners umi must) ouvica have received. True, they have advertised their attractions liberally, but their most attractive and effective advertisements have been their public schools. Both States maintain a high standaid of schools, and neither regards it as good economy to cut down to the lowest point the appropriations for the public schools' system. When South Carolina makes her school system what it ought to be, she will not need to advertise her resources to attract immigrants. They will come without being asked, and will induce others to follow them in such numbers that the increase In the taxable wealth of the State will give first-class schools, without increasing the tax burden.?[Aiken Recorder. Tiie Charleston P.EPURLiCANs.-Since Mahone's recent visit to Charleston, the political situation in Republican circfes in that city has undergone a sudden ch&nge. Up to this time it has been undentood that ex-Postmaster .Taft, the leading carpet-bagger, here, had retired from politics, and the colored Republicans had cen.ered upon I)r. W. C. Crum, a prominent coored man, for postmaster. It is now announced that Taft has changed his mind and vants to go back to the post office, and there is consternation in the camp In consequence. It is also rumored that in case Mahone gets the Postmaster General's portfolio, a prominent Democrat who was on his staff in the army and with whom he had a long interview during his visjt here, will be appointed. The friends of Postmaster Mowry are confident that he will retain |his place, and a number of other Pemotcrats are working op a boom for Major It. jJvvMansfield,*-who was formerly sujerinservice in LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. S. M. McNeel?New Store ! New Goods !! John Caldwell and T. L. Carroll, Executors of William Caldwell, deceased?Notice to Debtors and Creditors. W. B. Williams, County Auditor?Yorkville School District. J. H". Riddle?We Want to Do You Good. M. & H. C. Strauss?Good News. J. W. Dobson?Flour?Leather?Coffee?HayWheat Bran. H. F. Adickes?Opened This Week. Withers Adickes?We Honestly Believe. W. C. Latimer?Grand Midwinter Closing Out Sale. J. A. Darwin?''Here's Your Mules." : J. Ed. Jefferys?Undertaking?Coffins, Caskets, etc. A. Y. CartwrigbtA Co.?The New York Racket Store again lays its Claims before the Eeople of York. Glenn?Somethingabout Mules. L. A. Johnson, School Commissioner?Notice to Teachers. v/ ADDITIONAL. COUNSEL. D/E. Finley, Esq., of the Yorkville bar, has been retained as additional counsel to represent the respondents in the township bonds cases from York county, now in the Supreme Court on mandamus proceedings. ' HIS WORK* FINISHED. Capt. Taylor, who had the contract for \ laying the track of the Three C's Railroad from Camden to Blacksburg, has finished up everything in connection therewith and discharged his entire force last Saturday. JiTHE STATE BOUNDARY LINE. JLn his message to the North Carolina Legislature, now in session, Governor Scales says that the controverted boundary line that lies between the county of lifecklenburg,, (N. C.) and South.^ Carolina, re-., mains unadjusted. RESIGNATION. Rev. C. T. Scaife, who last summer accepted a call to the pastorate of Flint Hill Baptist church, in this county, has resigned as pastor of that church and accepted a call from Bethel and Bethlehem churches, near Woodruffs, in Spartanburg county. -i_ TAX RETURNS. W. B. Williams, county auditor, publishes an important notice this week to the tax-payers owning property in the corporate limits of Yorkville. Those tax? payers in making their returns for 1888-89 are required to make separate returns of property situated within the said limits, to be taxed for the support of the free schools of Yorkville school district. 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. This paragraph is a sample of the bourgeois, and the minion is used in the advertisements. 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. Terms cash. /' . NEW STORE. Attention is directed to the announcement yi our advertising columns of Mr. S. M.VMcNeelr who about the 5th of next month will'6peh atfreshr slpck of general merchandised hi?jqew- bciIding near the C. & L. depot. Mr. ;?fcNjeel is a young, progressive business fcman, witty atjpple capital, and while He will be welcomed to Yorkville, his selectionof this town for a permanent business location indi&tes his superior sagacity. ' t ?L TOWN ELECTION. The election for intendant and wardens of the town of Yorkville for the twelve months ensuing, passed off very quietly on Monday last. There were two tickets before the voters, and the result is as follows: FOR INTENDANT. John J. Hunter, 202 FOR WARDENS. J. Ed. Jefferys, 190 G. W. S. Hart, 198 R. B. Lowry, 196 WP*ter'JP-.Mpor??....... ?>186., " ~ FOR INTENDANT. James A. Watson, 60 ' r UIV VYAflWJiilO. I Wm. M. Kennedy, 67 L. George Grist, 07 J. A. Darwin, pi W. C. Latimer, y61 serious cutting scrape. . About 7 o'clock yesterday evening, in frpnt of R. A. Parish's store two xjegro boys, Bob Pierce and Ned Edwards/ each aged about 14 years, engaged in a/quarrel, drawing their knives, and on coming to blows, Ned cut Bob, inflicting a'severe wound in the groin. The wounded boy was taken to Lowry & Starr's drug store where his wound was dressed/by Drs. Lindsay and White. From the nature of the wound and the excessive losa'of blood, his condition is critical. Immediately after the cutting, Ned ran to his father's house in the southern part of town, where he was found and arrested by F6liceman O'Farrell. - ^/the county commissioners. yresterday was the day appointed for the organization of the new board of county commissioners. Owing to the illness of Mr. Ross, one of the members, he could not be present. Messrs. T. G. Culp and R. W. Whitesides, the other members elect of the board, were present and effected an organization by electing Mr. Culpchairman. D. E. Finley, Esq., was elected counsel and clerk of the board. The office was then formally turned oyer to the new board, Dr. Allison and Capt. Mills being the only retiring members, Mr. Whitesides having been re-elected ; and the new board then proceeded to the transaction of routine " business. There will be a meeting of the board on Tuesday next, 29th instant. x^mail on the three c's. MryB>M. Turner, superintendent of the railway mail service, with the officials of the Three U's itanroaa, maae an inspection of the route last week for the purpose^ of extending the railway mail service over the road from Rock Kill to Rutherfordton. On his return to Charleston Superintendent Turner expressed himself as very highly pleased with the road and will recommend at once the establishment of the mail service over its entire length. The News and Courier, from which-we-obtain thece facts, says the postoffice authorities in Washington have written to Superintendent Averill that the mail service will be instituted as soon as Superintendent Turner has sent in his recommendation. It is, therefore, expected that the mail service from Charleston to Rutherfordton will be 1 commenced at once, and then there will be no interruption of mails regularly every day between the termini of the line. The people all along the route of the road are said to be very anxious for the early establishment of this mail route. i. . THE TOWNSHIP BOND CASES. On Saturday last the counsel for the respondents in the two cases from York county to test the validity of the township bond Act, the writs of mandamus in which were madereturnableon to-morrow, filed a motion in the Supreme Court asking for an extension of time. The attorneys made in their paper the following declarations: 1. That a rule to show cause in each case was issued on the 8th of January, and made returnable before the Supreme Court on the 24th day of January, and that the return is required to be served at least five days before that time. 2. That owing to the number of counsel engaged, it was impossible to have a conference for several days after the petitions and rules had been served, and it is possible that counsel will not have time to pre pare tne reiurn. 3. That it is the declared purpose of the relators, made through their counsel, to, test the validity of the township bond Act* by these proceedings, a question involving " nearly a half a million dollars, and that it is wholly impossible for counsel for the respondents to do justice to their clients upon issues of law arising out of these proceedings within the time named in the rule for a hearing. 4. That an extension of thirty days for the hearing and ten days for the service of the return, will better meet the ends of .-justice as between jthe relators and re spondents, and the deponents do not now feel that they can safely go to trial at an earlier day than that indicated above. They therefore pray for such an extension of time as the Court may deem proper. The motion was presented for consideration on Monday, and the Court granted an extension until the 15th of April next. ? *4 THE TAX BOOKS CLOSED. The tax books were closed on Tuesday of-last week, after which date the 15 per cent, penalty attaches, and as may be seen by the circular of the comptrollergeneral published in another column, in which is embodied the opinion? of the attorney general on the subject, execution follows immediately. The total amount of the taxes assessed in York county was ?74,426.78, of which to j the date of closing the books there was collected $69,629.95, leaving uncollected a bajance of $4,796.83 from wh^ch about $3,000 railroad tax is to be abated, which wiil reduce the deficiency to about j $1,796.83. There will also be additional j entries, not included in the tax book,; which will amount to $400 or $500 in ! addition to the delinquent amount of $1,796.83. The list of delinquent taxpayers shows the number to be 1,033. church" notices. Episcopal?Sunday-school at 3.30 P. M. Young men's union prayer-meeting will be held in the Methodist church next Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. Services next Sunday at 11 A. M. and 7 Sunday-school at 3 P. M. Prayertp-raqrrow evening at 4 o'clock. ^Baptist?Rev. R. G. Patrick, Pastor. Services next Sunday at 11 A. M. and 7 P. M. Sunday-school at 3 P. M. PrayerMeeting to-morrow evening at 7 o'clock. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. W. W. Daniel, Pastor. Services next Sunday at 11 A. M. and 7 P.M. Sunday-school at 3 P. M. Prayer-meeting this evening at 7 o'clock. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J. C. Galloway, Pastor. Services next Sunday at Tirzah at 11.30 A. M. and in Yorkville at 7 P. M. Sunday-school at 3.30 P. M. the state pensions. The State pension board has appointed a board of examiners for each county in the State, and has also prepared and adopted rules and regulations for the making applications for and examining applicants and granting of pensions. These rules are published in The Enquirer to-day. The Dension examiners appointed for York county are Dr. J. Rufus Bratton, Joseph F. Wallace and Robert H. Glenn, who in accordance with the requirements of the act, met on last Monday and organized by electing Dr. J. R. Bratton chairman and Joseph F. Wallace secretary. There were no applicants present, and the board adjourned until Saturday next at 11 o'clock A. M. There will also be a meeting of the board on Thursday, January 31. These meetings are rendered necessary by reason of the impossibility to give the necessary notice to applicants to meet the board at the Court House on Monday last, and also for the lack of the necessary blanks on which to make the applications. These blanks have now been received and will be furnished to applicants by the clerk of the court or either member of the examining board. : Those who desire to secure pensions should remember that the fact of their having received pensions heretofore, does not entitle them to the benefit, under the new law, until they have made new applications therefor and the same have been properly approved ; and if these applications are not made before the county examining board on Saturday next, or at thenoeeting on the 31st of this month, there will be no opportunity for making applications again until sales-day in October. A nmisnHonr .s ^/A meeting of the trustees of the Yorkville graded schools was called on Thursday evening last. There were present J. F. Wallace, chairman, C. E. Spencer, D. E Finley, J. Ernest Lowry, F. Happerfield, J. A. Darwin and L. M. Gristy The constitutional oath of office was administered by D. E. Finley, notaty public, to Messrs. Happerfield and Darwin, they not being present at the organization of the board. Mr. Happerfield, who was elected at the last meeting, and in his absence, secretary of the board, tendered his resignation, which on motion was accepted. L. M. Grist was then nominated for secretary and unanimously elected. , Mr. Spencer offered a resolution that the secretary elected under the Torkville School District Act, be required also to perform the duties of the treasurer of the board. This resolution was seconded and unanimously adopted. A resolution that the free public schools of Yorkville district be opened on the first Monday of April, 1889, was adopted. W. B. Williams, county auditor, was present by invitation, and' after consultation with him, he agreed to prepare the tax list for Yorkville school district and deliver it to the county treasurer on or before the 10th day of March, 1889.^Jor collection. On motion, Messrs. Happer|$lt^ Darwin, Lowry and Finley were appointed a committee to provide the necessary buildings in which to conduct the white and colored schools of the district. PERSONAL JIENTION. VMiss Daisy Hart is at Gaffney City visitnig relatives. Captain and Mrs. T. S. Jefferys are visiting friends in Charleston. Miss Lizzie Anthony has gone to Decatur, Ala., on a visit to friends and relatives. - Capt. Junius Thomson and Dr. T. B. Whitesides, of Blacksburg, were in town on Monday. ^liss Laura Latimer left here yesterday on a visit to her brother, Rev. Thomas D. Latimer, of Corinth, Mississippi. Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Tanner, of Saluda, ?T. C.,are in Yorkville, the guests of Mrs. Elizabeth Jofferys, tho-gmuehiTulhei of the latter. f YW. B. McCaW, Esq., was summoned to New Orleans on Friday last, in consequence of the severe illness of his child which is in thftt city, where Mrs. McCaw is visiting her parents. Q'Mr. R. Dinkins Avery, a son of Major J. \V. Avery, formerly a citizen of Yorkville, was in town last week. He is engaged in business with a New York house for which he is traveling in the South. Mr. C. G. Parish made a hasty trip home from his railroad work in North Carolina, returning on Monday evening. He thinks he can finish up his contract in a week or two, after which he wilft come home to stay. | On Monday last we received a pleasant call from W. Waddy Thoaison, Esq., of Gaffney City, and a prominent member of the Spartanburg bar. Mr. Thomson was in Yorkville on professional business, and during the few tours of his stay was greeted by a large number jof his old friends. \ Of the condition of Col. Matson, who was seriously wounded some tipeagoby a drunken rowdy on a railroad train in Tennessee, the Jot'nson City CodW of last Thursday says: "Jol. T. E. MiiLon, was out on the streeton Monday fo?he first time. He will'leave for New ork on business connected with the Ti?e C's as soon as he is able to travel." W ^rTG. McNulty, E. M., who hfere-openkd and is working the gold ouiie on the Strain place, 4} miles north-east of town, returned last Saturday from ajpisit to New York. He is accompanied fyy Mr. W. W. Sandford, of that city', who visits York for the purpose of prospecting the mineral resources of this section. Col. J. E. Allen, of the'Three C's Railroad, whoso headquarters have been in Yorkville for the past two years, made his final departure from our midst J*8* Monday, he having been summoned *? the office of the company in New Yor?? preparatory to assignment toanothefdj- ^ vision of the work. During Col. Ali?n 8 ^ residence here he made many friend3 Yorkville and along the line of the wad, , whose best wishes will accompany^1? j wherever he may go. 1 Correspondence or the Yorkville Enquirer. '' LETTER FROM LANCASTER. Lancaster, January 21.?The "Sorkville Enquirer visits, weekly, * few families in this section, and, as far a8 we can learn, always makes a good impression. It is one of the oldest and beste8tablished weeklies in the State, and weniight ndd. with nrrmrifit.v. in t,hfl South. The selections are all tastefully made, and with a view to impart useful knowledge and to build up the moral tone and character of its numerous readers. The editorials are short and pointed on the current topics of the day. The correspondence has become an interesting feature. And, to "cap the climax," the mechanical work of the paper is superb, far surpassing that of any other weekly within the range of our knowledge. One of the greatest mistakes made by newspaper men of the present day. is the wretched typography with which their papers are clothed and sent out. There is more negligence displayed in this particular than in most any other business. Twothirds of the weeklies, and a great many dailies, go out in bad type, badly printed, and .badjy punctured. vIndegd, it takes hard study and the light of the -'noonday's sun" to read them. The result is that no one desires to see or read them, and no one cares to write for them. This criticism, by no means, applies to The Enquirer ; for it, as above indicated, may be pointed out as a model in mechanical work. We would like to see The Enquirer, with its solid knowledge, tasty selections, racy correspondence, pointed editorials, and condensation of all the news of the day, introduced in every family in this County. We know of no better current matter for the people. And we may avail ourselves of an opportunity of giving you some current news from this county. The people of Lancaster ore peculiarly fond of shows and amusements. .Many always manage to have a little pocket money to gratify their curiosity. Mexican Chick, with his wife, has been here for Driving entertainments in the "" v ,,vv"wl M- O open air, for the purpose of advertising his medicines. His company consists of himself, his wife, Love the contortionist, and two negroes. His night entertainments have been attended by very large gatherings, and were such as to draw and please the many. His style of procedure Is modeled after that of the Wizzard Oil advertisers, but not on bo grand a scale. He has picked up many a penny. Our people do not make as much outward demonstration against the township bonds as the people of York. They seem to be willing to abide the result of the decision to be made by the supreme court, in the madamus cases now before the supreme court. It is purely a business matter in the court, and there is no call for popular demonstration. The lawyers are hard at work; making returns, preparing arguments, and hunting up constitutional authorities.. Every thing will depend on the force and effect of the very recent Act of the Legislature, which will be construed by the supreme court, so far aa the State courts are concerned. Our people are much pleased with the new schedule on the Three C's Railroad establishing a daily train to go and return from this place to Blacksburg. This will enable parties residing here to visit Rock Hill, Yorkville, or Blacksburg, and return the same dayj And it would seem tq^SLa. scii IffeTmercnants oiljotn Rock Hill and Yorkville, because it will afford some of their customers quick transit to go and return the same day. It will very much increase the travel on that part of the road, and likely be agood thing for the company. Conductors and agents of the road say that up to this time the travel from this point to Camden has been greater than upon any other section of the road. We had a marriage in town last week; Capt. Wade Reeves, of Richland, to Miss Sallie Wade, of this county. Capt. Reeves has settled and become a citizen of this town. Merchants of the town had a remarkably fine trade all this last fall and up to New Year's day. Since then the complaint is, that it has been a little dull; and some of the merchants jocularly remark: "The picnic is over for this season." About six thousand bales of cotton have been sold in this town this season?not so much quite as last year, as several thousand bales have been sold at Kershaw, Mineral Springs and Pleasant Hill. O. P. Heath, one of our largest, ablest and mo9t competent merchants, has sold out to his copartners in business. He has made a large income, and will most likely establish a bank at this place. The Farmers' Alliance is pretty well-organized in this county. They hold their meetings pretty often, but keep their own secrets. It is reported that the fertilizer companies in this State will not sell to any one except a few special agents, and that the members of the Alliance will not purchase from such agents on account of the high price. It is said that the Alliances are turning their heads toward Richmond, Norfolk and Baltimore for fertilizers for the present year. If the fertilizer companies and the merchants have been selling fertilizers to the farmers at the extravagant rates complained of, their policy has been a ruinous one; for it is "killing the goose that laid the golden egg." The farming interest must be made to prosper in this country before we can possibly have any permanent prosperity. I have omitted the most interesting topic until the last. There was held in Lemonds's Hall, on last Friday evening. ' "--1 1. iL. a fflo'st entertaining iesuvai, uuuur me anspices of the A. R. Church. The supper furnished by the ladies of the church and their friends on the occasion was most abundant and superior. The ladies of the town, in great numbers, and with an array of beauty and grace, were in attendance. And the stalwart men were there for the ham, turkey, and the oyster soup. Rev. Mr. Mills and his accomplished lady witnessed the affair. There were some interesting and instructive amusements to pass off the time?such as throwing the green bag, &c. But the most exciting thing was a "spelling bee," at the close, in which a number of persons participated. Two persons chose the spellers, or such as they could induce to take a part, and Prof. Baird gave out the words from "Reed's Word Les-" sons," little school book. The prizes were, to the one last on the floor, a magnificent iced pound cake, and to the one who missed the first word, a tin cup. The spelling commenced by giving out such words as owl, whip-poor-will, spinach, whortleberry, tapioca, chamois, &c., until, one by one, all fell out except Mrs. Char-1 lotte R. Foster, who won the prize. I do not know who received the tin cup. One of the captains was cut down at the word succotash, a word that he had never seen in print, and of which he had never heard. The only consolation that he had was, that he missed the tin cup, and one chosen by him won the prize. His antagonist stood up longer, butfellatamorecommon word, to wit: crystallize., The affair passed off nicely ; but I desire to tell your readers a secret. If you are ever called into a spelling bee, and required to spell words out of the little word book, some little twelve year old school boy or girl is going to put you out, and "don't you forget it." You had better call for Webster's spelling'book or the dictionary, if you want to compete with the youngsters. Nosilla. tL ' 1 \ SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. we ? Adjutant-General Bon ham has raoved un yom Abbeyille to Columbia. ? ?Over eighty families of colored people Ur nave recently emigrated from Kershaw Fr for the southwest. foi Martin Luther Society recently organ- pe ized in Charleston, has for'one of its ob- W jects the encouragement of immigration j tin from Germany to Charleston. . i by - In the United States Court at Atlanta, P? on Tuesday of last week, James L. Kil- Pe Iain, was awarded $12,000 dam?ges for In- no. juries received, whilerunning w a railway W1 postal clerk on the Air-Line Railroad, in te' the wreck at Greer's, near Greenville, in ro he fall of 1887. ' jy1 -The Governor haS appointed the fol- J? nwing as members of the State Medical Q board of Examiners: Drs. A. N. Talley J? I Columbia, T. Grange Simmons of * Charleston, C. It. Tabor of Fort Motte, 8. \L Orr of Anderson. J. C. Wilcox of Darangton. b dl' ? Orangeburg Court?Judge WitherSpoon presiding?commenced with a heavy nc tfiminal docket, there being six cases for re I Murder. One of the most important of tjese was that of A. C. Norton and Richard tj" ^jprton, father and son, charged with the D n lrder of Lafayette Hamlin on the 23rd G O! January, 1887, which ended on Satur-' di y with a verdict of acquittal- * q ? The Postal Telegraph Company, now ?i raged in extending its lines in the 8l ithern States, will complete a line from ^ R hmond, Va., to Columbia, S. C? by the j. Ja er part of next summer. The line will e] pefbrected along the public highways, as fl t?9 Western Union Company have right 8) of way along railroad tracks. This is the ^ Mickey-Bennett system. ti ? J. Hendricks McLane, of Greenback b notoriety, passed through Greenville last d Saturday on his way to Columbia. He d savtr no oner our two Or i licans, who called on him at his hotel. 8 He was reported as saying that he was t just returning from a visit to Gen. Harri son, and thai he had gathered from the \ President-elect that his policy towards the t South would be a distinctly conservative t one. j ? Says the Winnsboro News: The Fair- e field. Couty Alliance met in the Court 1 House on Friday morning, a fair repre- i sentationof each sub-Alliance being pres- c ent. Among the matters considered, t which were given to the public, is the fol- i lowing resolution: The Alliances of i Fairfield county in convention assembled, c pledge their members to purchase no fer- ] tilizers this year at a rate in advance of i the prices ruling in 1888. t ? Winnsboro News: A sufficientamount. ? has been subscribed to the capital stock t of the cotton factory to warrant organiza- > of nnm Pni. ffcio ..urnnqp n meeting i Wivu ttt V/UWi JL\Jt Vliio |/M* I'VWV ? ? ? ?g is called for January 31st, and as soon as the organization is perfected, work will be commenced. Over $30,000 has been subscribed on the books, and as some who promised to subscribe have not yet done 1 so, it is believed that by the time of the i meeting this sum will be considerably in- e creased. ] ? Mrs. O'Keefe, of Hamburg, was burn- j ed to death on Tuesday morning of last { week. She was up early, preparing breakfast for her husband, superintendent of 1 Rutherford's brick yards, in Hamburg. ( An oil lamp that she was using burned ( low and dim. She approached it, and in t attempting to blow it out it exploded, and r the blazing oil was communicated to her dress. Her cries brought assistance, but too late to save her from a terrible and fatal ' burning. ? There was a meeting of the Republi- 1 can State executive committee in Colum- e bia last week. They decided to recom- j mend to the proper authorities the appointment of Gen. Wm. Mahone to the 4 position of postmaster general in Mr. v Harrison's cabinet. Mr. E. M. Brayton 1 was recommended for the position of 1 second assistant secretary of the treasury, j now held by ex-Governor Hugh S. ] Thompson. No recommendations were . made by the committee for the appoint- , ments to the local federal offices. ? Thomas P.Alexander, who was sen- ' tenced to be hanged for the murder of his 1 wife, an appeal having been taken to the i higher courts, will be resentenced at the next term of court at Pickens, the appeal j having been dismissed. The circumstances of the killing were about as follows: ' They had . p.-dispute about some wood 1 the breakfast. He wanted to burn it up A that night. After some bitter words she went to bed, andaboutmidnightoneof the ( oldest children waked up and found his mother dead, lying near the middle of the ] room in a pool of blood with the head ] almost severed from the body, which had ] been done with a chopping axe while she j was sleeping upon the bed, as there was , blood upon the wall and bed. I ? The full particulars of a homicide in Columbia last Monday are prefaced by the Register as follows: At about 4 o'clock 1 yesterday afternoon, in the barroom of Mr. i J. P. McCartha, on upper Main street, < George Bateman, a negro, was fatally stab- } bed in the neck by W. D. Kelley, a white man, who of late has been employed at the | grocery store of Huffman & Wright. The . victim of the stabbing died a few minutes after receiving the fatal blow. His assail- ' ant was almost immediately arrested and ( is in the guard house. Thus briefly can j be outlined the main facts of the latest j addition to the list of local homicides, and . no one of them, so far as the information 1 at present obtainable indicates, was more needless or committed with less provocation. As the result of the over-indulgence ( in intoxicating lT^jtnr one man lies dead, ( bathed in his own blood, and another, \ within a narrow cell, c^es the penitentiary { or worse staring him in the face. ] POLITICAL NOTES AND GOSSIP. I ? Anthony Higgins, Republican, has I been elected by tne Delaware Legislature 1 U. S. Senator, to succeed Saulsbury, Dem- ' ocrat. i ? The Connecticut Legislature has elect- ( a Governor of that State, an election by I the people having failed. M. G. Bulke- 1 ley, Republican, was chosen. : ? So far 163 Republicans and 159 Demo- j crats have received certificates of election j to the 51st Congress. The 3rd Tennessee ( district, and the 3rd and 4th West Virgin- ( ia districts are yet in dispute. g ? There is a colored man named E. D. ( Long, in Chicago, who thinks he deserves i a place in Harrison's cabinet. He is out t in an interview in which he asserts that c he once saved Harrison's life in Washing- t fnn urhnn g riinau/gv ivoa hogpinff c down on the Indiar^senator. ? There is a belief that the electoral colleges have elected Harrison and Morton. This is a mistake. These estimable gentlemen will not be elected until Congress meets and counts the votes next month. Meanwhile Grover Cleveland still has Q7,0(K) pnnular-majority? A dispatch from Fort Dodge, Iovva, says: The movement for the organization of a society of Democratic voters of the Union army is not confined alone to Indiana. Active steps are being taken for the organization of a camp in this county, and 81 members of the proposed organization have already been obtained. ? Says the Augusta Chronicle: Congressman Elliott's friends are apprehensive. The contested election case from the Beau- a fort district comes up this week, and it is believed some Northern Democrats,. admonished by the late election, will vote to unseat Elliott. Chairman Crisp will make a good fight for Colonel Elliott. -Ex-Senator Wm. Mahone, of Virginia, spent last Thursday in Charleston. He was visited by Maj. E. M. Thurston, his former ordinance officer, Col. H. E. Young, of General Lee's staff, ex-Postmaster, W. N. Taft, and a delegation of the young colored Republican club of the city. General Mahone announced in an interview that he would like to have the office of postmaster-general in Harrison's ; cabinet. He left at midnight for Peters- J burg, Va. * ? The statement comes from Augusta, * Ga., that the colored people of Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia and other South- j ern States are arranging to send a delega- s tion to visit General Harrison to present t their views of the Southern question, j The delegation is to be headed by John e M. Langston, of Virginia. It will be in t Indianapolis by the first of February. It v is said the delegation will be composed of t none but representatives of the race in the jSouth. c ? At a meeting of the Virginia State t Farmers' Assembly, held in Richmond last Thursday, a report was adopted on local organization which provides for a t thorough organization among the farmers ? with a view of securing the election of e local candidates and members of the legis- c lature. It also authorizes the appointment s of county and precinct directors to promote i the scheme. A resolution was referred to c the executive committee looking to the \ teaching of agriculture in the public p schools. Officers for the ensuing year a I i i ;re elected, and a resolution favoring limited silver coinage was adopted. The Woman's Christian Temperance lion bore down upon the Senate last iday, and when each senator arrived he Hid on his desk an extensively signed tition from residents of his own State, hen they had all been sent to the desk, 3 presiding officer was almost obscured the height of the pile. Altogether tne titious contained the names of 14,174,735 rsons. Senator lliddleberger, who has t been conspicuous as a co-operator th the Temperance Union, except as a rible example, when he hauled out his II and sent it to the front, said that, lile he presented the petition and beved heartily in the right of petition, t he wanted to put himself on record as ing unalterably opposed to any such ,'islation. Mr. Riddieberger was listento by the senators and he secured an pecial amount of attention from the iies' gallery, in which were seated a imber of members of the Woman's iristian Temperance Union. The ladies iw look upon the Virginia senator as a al naughty man. -Those nearest the president-elect say at he will make a clean sweep of all emocrats now holding Federal offices, overnor Foraker, who is well known as spoilsman, after a long conference with eneral Harrison, said to his friends: There is one thing that you may rest aslred of, and that is that this administraon is going to be Republican." Gen. ?w Wallace, who is a confidential advisr to General Harrison, says that at the rst eabinet- meeting the President will iy: "Gentlemen, I have called you ere cot for consultation, but for instrucion. My instructions are that you go ack o your offices and within thirty ays eplace all the Democrats in your eparrfients with Republicans. ~3Cta"j2shtngtoh ~3fspatch of Saturday ' -># ays: There is do immediate probability hat tfe Senate will enter into the considirationof any of the different plans which lavebien proposed relative to elections in he Soith. Senator Sherman's bill has lot raei with the favor which its framer ntendd. It is not known that he fully mdorsei all its provisions himself. He ias stafcd distinctly that it originated vith agpntlfiman whose name he did not lisclose. It is understood the author of he bill it a man who has long been promnent in politics, and who for many years 'epresented the South in Congress. Some >f the most eminent constitutional lawyers in the country have declared that it s constitutional. But the Republicans, or want of time, and for other reasons, I ire not disposed to enter upon the consid- r iration <f this subject in the few weeks vhich remains of this Congress. For the Yorkvllle Enquirer. POUNDINf OF A PRESBYTERIAN PASTOR. Editor of The Enquirer: I renoved to this county last July with ny family. We located at the parsonage it Bullock's Creek, and have tried to be aw-abidiny citizens, but to our astonishnent a conspiracy has been formed to run is out. Last Saturday, the 19th, as we vere quietly preparing for services in the :hurch, according to appointment, the iongregation came up stealthily, Indian ityle, and took possession of the parsonage. They blockaded the back porch with bags )f com, floor, dried fruits, potatoes, &c., ;hen greased the house with butter, lard, sacon and hams. Even the ladies joined :he band to show their contempt for our journess by pouring in honey, sugar, ellies, &c. What shall I say about that bundle of ioap ? Was it meant as a reflection on our civilization? Chickens were brought and turned loose in the yard to tantalize, for it is proverbial that men of our profession have no use for that fowl; in fact, we are restless as long as one is in our sight. If we become puffed up, you may know it is that box of soda that is doing the mischief. Old Red, the cow, wanted to help us run the enemy off, but when a load of peas and cotton seed was emptied out for her, her anger was ap-peased. To add insult to injury-the ladies brought a quantity of prepar^food, as though we did not ___ fiTOU Jiua "if long table in ~ ;he yard and then compelled us to eat. Finally, gathering up courage enough ;o speak, I aaced what all this meant. I ivas coolly toid that we deserved a pounding, and thatthe time had come to give it. It was thoroughly done. We will be sore for two or three months, and the scars made on that day will remain as long as fife itself. We write this as an appeal to you for protection, and if any one should come ind help us in the least to put down this conspiracy, ve will never call on him igain. Now, Mr. Editor, a word seriously. We, :he occupants of the Presbyterian parsonage at Bullock's Creek, will long remember January 19th, 1889. Such lavish kindness ivas wholly unexpected, after having revived so much already. "Truly the lines lave fallen to (us) me in pleasant places." [t is pleasant to know our labors are appreciated. R. P. Smith, Pastor. Bullocks Creek, January 21. Fighting the Teusts.?As might be expected, the Western Legislatures are jailing into the "trusts," that have so lourished the past year, with wet sheets * . md a stormy sea. It is not proposed to egulate or tolerate to the least degree any features of the various combinations, but X) tear them up one and all, root and jranch. The Michigan Legislature is favorably considering a n?asure declaring 'all contracts, agreements, understandings or combinations made, had, or entered into by and between any person, cosartnersbip or corporation within or ivithout this State," whose purpose is to regulate or raise prices, to be conspiracies Dunishable by fine and imprisonment: ind it is also declared to be unlawful or any persons to deal in articles controlled by such combinations. Governor MarIn, of Kansas, recommends that the most stringent and far-reaching laws" be enact:d to suppress trade combinations, and the nunicipal authorities of all cities and owns, he further recommends, should be rlothed with ample authority "to protect heir local industries against the rapacious freed of these destroying freebooters." The'Yellow Fever Epidemic.?A argepartof the last report of Dr. Iiamilon, U. S. Surgeon-General, is devoted to ;he recent yellow fever epidemic in Florila, with maps, illustrations, etc. It covers he epidemic to November 20, last, and the nvestigatian.ahows that the dispasp was-? irst brought to Key West by a family lamed Balivo, who kept a hotel in Hayinaand moved across, while that at Tamia was from Key West by a fruit dealer jained Burke. As to how the fever reachid Jacksonville, Florida, and Jackson, Mississippi, could not be discovered. Dr. Jamilton urges all States to have state joards of health toco-operate with thema ine hospital service, and believes the epdemic in Florida could have been checked ooner if they had had a board of health. The Appboaching Inaugural Profession.?A Washington dispatch of Monlay says: It now begins to appear that he inaugural procession will be too large o move in the allotted time. So far the nauguration committee has received ap>lications from civillian bodies promising >ver 18,000 men, and the military bodies, lumbering 22,000, will make 40,000 in ine at the closest calculation. The head >f the column can't reach the reviewing tand before 2 o'clock, and would have to >ass at the rate of 8,000 an hour to finish >efore dark. It will be the largest inaugiral procession ever known, and from the iresent indications, a quarter of a million leople will be on hand to witness it. The Ruling Passion.?At Tallahasse, Florida, one of the pupils of the colored chool in pagBing along a street the other norning found a hen's nest. True to the nstincta of his innocent nature, he gathired in.the eggs and hurried on. When he owner went out to get her egers thev vere all gone, but the school books of the erprising little darkey were there and lis name written in them. In his moment if supreme bliss he had forgotten everyhing except the eggs. jtST For several days past there has been alk of a rupture between the Tnited States Government and the German powrs on account of alleged insults to Ameriarfs and the American flag by German eamen off the Samoa islands in the Pacifc ocean. The German sailors deny the harges, and while the matter is being investigated by the State department, all relorts of a prospective war with Germany ,re purely sensational.