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. Pine Lake, in Fulton county, N. Y.,
^ix the heart of the pine woods, is used in
winter whsn frozen over, by lumbermen
as a thoroughfare for hauling lumber.
On Tuesday, while twenty-four teams were
crossing it with heavy logs, the ice suddenly
broke. Seventeen drivers and all the
teams were drowned. Only six men were
rescued.
? The Arkansas House of Representatives,
by a vote of 5G to 12, Saturday morning
passed the joint resolution sympatSz- j
ing with Kansas in her county seat wars,
and Ohio in her struggle to suppress
"White Caps," and urging Congress to assist
the States named in suppressing the
existing lawlessness. Forgetting her own
troubles, Arkanses pities her neigbors.
? The first permanent injunction for
closing the saloon in Scott county, Iowa,
under the prohibitory law was granted
last Friday by the district court against
Iroanara in t.haf. Ilfiichborhood.
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Four of them are women. Any violation
of the injunction will cause the confiscation
of the defendant's property and their
own incarceration in the penitentiary.
? The question of rolling stock for the
transportation of iron has again become a
serious matter. Mr. S. B. Low, of Chattanooga,
in a letter to the Iron Age, says:
"The fact is that if ten thousand new cars
were added to the rolling stock of the
Southern lines, they would not have any
more than the trade demands, and the cry
would soon be for more."
? A bill has reported favorably in the
lower house of the North Carolina legislature
requiring all railways in that State
to fence their tracks. The farmers demand
the passage of the measure as a prow
tection against the killing of live stock by
railway trains, and a3 the farmers dominate
in the present legislature of North
Carolina, there is no doubt of the passage
of the bill.
? Capt. Wissman, who is to lead the
forthcoming German expedition into East
Africa, frankly declares that the employment
of force will be unavoidable; that
the more energetic the action the briefer
and more effectual it will be, and the less
liable to affect the general situation. This
simply means that the resources of civilization
are to be drawn upon, and that the
native population will be exterminated if
the disputed territory can be secured to
Germany in no other way.
? Birmingham, Alabama, is about to enlarge
its corporate limits by taking in the
and several thousand of suburban
a on. A bill will be presented to
slature of Alabama authorizing
(hisextension. Birmingham has had phenomenal
growth. Founded only a little
more than fifteen yearn ago, it now has a
population of between 30,000 and 40,000
and is growing more rapidly now than at
any time during its brief history.
? While the farmers of the Northwest
received a greater aggregate return for
their short wheat crop than for larger
yields, the harvest was badly cnstriDuiea,
and many are in distress because of a totalr
failure of the crop. The legislature on
Minnessota is moving to the relief of such
farmers in a bill appropriating $100,000 for
the purchase of seed wheat. The situation
in Dakota in this respect is much
worse.
? Over fifteen hundred convicts at Sing
Sing are anxiously awaiting the action of
the New York legislature on the convict
labor bill. They are now in enforced idleness,
as the last legislature passed an Act
prohibiting convict labor, except so much
as was necessary for the maintenance of
the prison. The convicts long for work,
and declare that enforced idleness is a
thousand times worse than any actual
punishment.
? R. G. Dun & Co., in their review of
trade for last week, say: The average price
of commodities has taken a turn upward.
The advance has been about 1 per cent.
A change for the better in this respect is
usually a favorable indication for the future,
but in this instance the temporary
influence of a change of weather must be
remembered. Business failures during
the week number for the United States
278, Canada 80, total 808, as compared
/ -<ffith 332 the previous week, and 287 for
1o?t jgfflr - '
? Dan Langly, a Georgia moonshiner,
was tried and convicted two months ago.
At the trial he told the judge that he was
to be married in little over a month, and
the judge therefore sentenced him to imprisonment
for just one month. He was
just able to quit jail on Monday and start
for his home in Gordon county, where he
was to be married on the following Wednesday.
He was so thankful for the light
sentence that he promised to send the
judge a gallon of the best moonshine whisky
to be got.
? The Colorado Legislature has a bill on
its calendar which provides for the punishment
and disbarment of any lawyer
found guilty of advertising his readiness
and ability to procure divorces. The object
is to reach that class of alleged lawyers
who fatten upon divorce cases, which
many times would be settled without a
resort to the courts were it not for the
alluring promises of secrecy in the process
of severing the marriage ties. It is ara
lour iimnl/1 HnOfOQQO fho
gucvi mat ouui a myy nvuiu uwivuwv v?v
number of divorces.
? Charles R. Jones, for several years editor
of the Charlotte (N. C.) Observer, died
in that city last Saturday afternoon of
uremic poison. On .Wednesday he was
examined and adjudged entirely deranged,
and arrangements had been made for committing
him to the asylum%t Morganton.
At one time, under his management, the
Observer was prosperous, but his political
aspirations began to tell on the patronage
of his paper, and in 1886, when he became
an Independent candidate for Congress
and was so badly defeated, it ruined his
business. In 1887 he was compelled to
make an assignment, but tried to pay dollar
for dollar. In the midst of all these
disasters he became a victim of whisky,
opium and morphine, which soon did this
dreadful work for him. He leaves a wife
and four children, and was forty-eight
years old.
? The revised Statutes prescribe that the
secretary of war shall lay before Congress,
on or be/ore the first Monday in February
of each year, an abstract of the returns
of the militia of the several States as received
by him from the State military
authorities. The report of Adjutant-Gen'
eral Drum, embodying this information,
which Secretary Endicott transmitted to
Congress on Monday, may be a little disappointing
as to the number of the organized
militia force. The totals are
8,397 commissioned officers and 98,109
enlisted men, making an aggregate of
This is a gain over the returns of
^^o^ygkr ago, yet less of a gain than had
been hoped by some in view of the doubling
of the annual militia appropriation
by Congress. Still, many of these returns
from State authorities date back a year
or two, so that the full effect of the liberal
legislation of Congress cannot be seen
in the present consolidated report.
? A Marion, Illinois, dispatch, of Thursday,
says: Race and labor troubles are not
confined wholly to the South. Three or
four unknown persons went to the home of
Logan Collins, a colored man, Saturday
night, and fired five shots into the house.
Collins returned the fire, but no one was
wounded on either side. The cause of the
trouble is that F. M. Westbrook & Sons,
tobacco packers, have lately imported
necrroes. claiming that there are not white
men competent to stem and strip tobaccos.
This has enraged a number of white laborers
who want the work. Threats have
been made to burn the factory, and the
colored laborers have received notice that
if they do not quit work and leave town
in ten days, they will be severly dealt with.
Logan Collins was one of the bosses of the
factory. He has treated the threats with
indifference. The factory owners declare
they will not discharge any of their colored
laborers, while some of the white laborers
declare that the negroes must go.
? Nevada has become so much alarmed
over the steady decline of her population
that a scheme has been agitated for acquiring
a lot of inhabitants by annexing
territory from another State. It was proposed
to take a large slice of three eastern
counties of California and thus give Nevada
a fresh start in the race of States. A
committee of the Nevada legislature was
accordingly commissioned to visit the California
legislature and submit the project.
The committee appeared at Sacramento
last week, but it speedily appeared that
-the trip would amount to nothing more
than a junketing expedition. The pre.
vailing feeling in the State is expressed in
L^these comments upon the incident by the i
Francisco Bulletin : "We are not giv^Ktagpart
of Califori la away to any State
^^br Territory. Notya rod or rood of our\
^^writory will bed6; iched. Th^aaen who
^^|Hri^^jgnctionsu( i a proceeding would/
to em igtyte. Th e
committee of the Nevada legislature, may j
therefore consider that it is wasting its |
time. "Mileage may come of its visit, hut i
nothing more."
? Indications now warrant the statement
that there will be no revenue legislation
this session, possibly none within the
year. It is not probable that the ways
and means committee will bring in any
measure which differs materially from the
original Mills bill, the report to the contrary
notwithstanding. The members say,
however, that they will surely make a
report to the House in time for action at
this session. The committee at this time
does not know what form of report it will
make. If the matter is brought to a vote
in the House, of which there is some
doubts, the leaders of the Mills faction
think they can hold all but a very few of
the Democrats to the support of their bill,
in which case both the Mills bill and the
Senate substitute will go to the conference
committee, and most likely to expire there
with this Congress. The members of the
ways and means committee excuse their
decision not to bring in a compromise bill
by the assertion that no offer of compromise
has come to them from the friends of
the Senate bill. Such an offer, if it comes
at all, will probably come after the committee
has made its report and the matter
is in the hands of the House.
She ?0fMIc (Jhiqniw.
YORKVILLE, S. C. :
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1889.
THE ELECTORAL VOTE.
At 1 o'clock P. M., to-day, Congress will
convene in the hall of the House of Representatives
and count the vote of the
electors for President and Vice President
of the United States. They meet under
the provisions of the-Act approved February
3, 1887, and unusual interest attaches
to the proceedings because of the fact that
they will be the fiist to be held in accordance
with the law. The votes of all the
States have been received by president pro
tem Ingtills and receipted for by him, that
of Florida being secured by a special messenger
as provided for in the amendment
of October 19, 1888. The electoral votes,
prior to 1877, were counted under joint
rule 22gf the two houses of Congress. In
1S77 tho oioffnrai commission counted and
declared the vote. In 1881, and also in
,188o, the counting proceeded under the
pterins of concurrent resolutions adopted
for those occasions only.
COLORED MEN VISITING HARRISON.
The delegation of colored men of the
South who are visiting Presdent-elect
Harrison at Indianapolis this week, consists
of five representatives from each
Southern State, including Maryland and
the District of Columbia, and is headed by
John M. Langston, of Petersburg, Va.
Langston has prepared a memorial to be
presented by the delegation to the President
elect. He says that the colored
people of the country, especially of the
South, while they are moderate in their
desires in regard to official recognition,
feel that the time has come when they
should be emancipated from social, political
and educational thraldom. The visit
is not so much an office-seeking hunt as a
mission to give him a full account of the
real educational, industrial, political and
^ocial condition of the colored people of
the South. The delegation will insist that
all general laws shall be enforced with the
same vigor ancTimpartiality in tffe South-1
as in the North, and that the fifteenth
amendment shall be enforced so that the
vote of all?white and black?shall be cast
and counted freely.
PROHIBITION IX MISSISSIPPI.
The Prohibition executive committee of
Mississippi issued an address to the voters
of Hinds county, calling their attention to
the election which was held yesterday.
The address contends that the prohibition
fight of the past two years in Hinds county
has been a great success. Among other
benefits claimed are that taxes have been
reduced, the public school term increased
from four to six months in the year, crime
and lawlessness have been reduced to the
minimum, and the expense of the circuit
court reduced $3,000 to $4,000 per year.
The address states that it is a well-known
fact that a large majority of the white
people are opposed to the election being
held with the present condition of things,
and claims that the overshadowing majority
of signers of the petition upon which
the election is ordered are ignorant negroes,
who sign by a mark.
Almost one half of the entire number of
signers are from one city. And it is admitted,
so says the address, that the intelligent
class of a country should rule it politically,
and argues that it is of more importance
that this class should determine
what shall be its moral and social features.
The address concludes as follows:
"Is it necessary to say more ? We are
confronted by a great danger. More is
involved in this election than a mere
question of whisky or no whisky. The
now Ka aooiKt onH onnnoG?fn 11 vt
uaugcx uau uc caonj uuu kjuwv^?v..v
avoided. What has been done in the past
can be done now. Let every good citizen
open his eyes in the emergency and say
this thing shall not be, and it will not be."
The Prohibitionists fear that the Antis
will endeavor to vote the negroes, and
that the principal object of the address is
to warn the friends of the movement of
this fact and to prevent it if possible, realizing
as they do that if the negroes vote
the contest is already decided, as ninetenths
of them oppose prohibition.
THE PACIFIC GUANO CO. ASSIGNS.
The works of the Pacific Guano Company
at Wood's Holl, Mas3., were attached
on Thursday last by the Lynn Institution
for Savings, and they have assigned to
John C. ltopes, of Boston. The liabilities
are about $1,000,000. The company's
headquarters are at Boston, and besides
the works they have at Wood's Holl, they
have mines at Beaufort, S. C., and works
at Charleston. The assignment is made
by Glidden & Curtis, the selling agents of
the company. While it is thought they
will pay all their obligations, it is probable
the company will be placed in the
hands of a receiver to protect all the creditors.
The business of the guano company
during the past two years has been bad
and they ai^ said to have lost considerable,
but the present season has been good,
and they were about recovering their
losses. The company have a capital of
$1,000,000, with capacity for a large business.
The fertilizers are mostly sold in
the South to planters, who give notes on
them. The liabilities of Glidden & Curtis
and the Pacific Guano company are
mostly to savings banks and trust companies,
although the Boston banks hold quite
an amount.
The assignment created a sensation in
business circles in Charleston, although no
one in that city is affected by the failure.
The business of the company there has
been good, and the failure is not attributed
to local losses. The company kept no account
in any Charleston bank. For the
past seven or eight years the company has
been in litigation with the State for royalty
due on phosphate rock, mined at Chisholm's
island, belonging to the State.
The State won the suit, and obtained judgment
for $54,000, and the case will come up
for a rehearing at Beaufort this week.
Last Friday the counsel for the State at!
tached property of the company at Chisl
holm's island and the works in CharlesEon
for the $5-1,000. Attachments were
adso issued on the property of the^compa
ny in Charleston by Baring Bros., of Lonnon,
for S15,U00 ; Kidder, Peabody & Co.,
of New York, for $25,000, and the Link
and Machinery Company, of Chicago, for
$2,000.
THE SMALLS-ELLIOTT CASE.
In the House of Representatives on
Monday, the Smalls-Elliott South Carolina
contested election case was taken up
and discussed without action at the time
of adjournment.
Mr. Crisp, chairman of the Elections
committee, took the floor and reviewed
the evidence in the case. At the conclusion
of this review he made a general argument,
declaring that the minority
claimed that as the district was a negro
district, it must have elected a negro to
Congress, and holding out against the argument
that Smalls had been injured in
the eyes of the negroes of the district by
his conviction when a State Senator, of
having received a bribe. Speaking of the
charge of the minority that the witnesses
had perjured themselves, he said that he
had protested against the assumption that
a man, even though an ignorant black
man, was not worthy ot nenet it ne cnose
to believe that a convict was not a proper
person to send to the halls of Congress.
He denied that air black men were Republicans,
and said that the scoundrelly
conductor many Republicans at the time
that party was in control in South Carolina,
had made many negroes join the Democratic
ranks.
Mr. Rowell, of Illinois, denied the relevancy
of the remarks concerning the conviction
of Smalls when a member of the
State legislature. He then criticised severely
tne laws of South Carolina, which
he said were framed for the purpose of
disfranchising the Republican voters of
the State. > *
Elliott, he said, held his seat by virtue
of an election held by the returning board
of South Carolina. The committee had
gone behind the returning board, and
thrown out two precincts which had run
the gauntlet of both the District and
State returning boards.
AN INDEPENDENT^MOVEMENT.
On the 4th instant, a meeting, composed
of Greenbackers,Independents and Republicans,
was held at Pickens Court House.
While its manipulators claim for it
the dignity of a convention in which "four
counties were represented by strong delegations,
and official reports were received
from seventeen other counties, showing
an aggregate strength in the movement
of twelve thousand five hundred men," a
correspondent of the Greenville News,
who was on the ground, says it was a tame
affair. The correspondent says: "McLane
and Russell were the Greenback-Independent
speakers, while Jeremiah Louper
represented the Grand Old Party. Being
sales day and Farmers' Alliance meeting,
a fair crowd was at the Court House, but
little interest was taken in the speaking.
The local Republicans at this place seemed
to think the meeting was not simon pure,
and so did not attend it."
The meeting was presided over by Jeremiah
Louper, and after speeches by W.
W. Russel, J. Ilendrix McLane, Wm. B.
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JUIK1SUI1 lilltl O 1J. jLJLj uCj aa auuivoc uuu
set of resolutions were adopted as follows:
ADDKESS TO THE WHITE PEOPLE OF SOUTH
CAROLINA.
The government of all States and countries
have for their object the elevation of
the masses of the people, and just^n the
degree that the Christian civilization is
developed among them. The fundamental
principles of our government guarantee
to every man the right to enjoy liberty
and the pursuit of happiness.
During the carpet-bag regime the Democratic
leaders persistently pledged that if
the people would' place them in power,
this would insure economical government,
prosperity, good schools and untrammeled
suffrage to all, regardless ol race or party.
In 1876, at great sacrifice, we entrusted
them with power. Since that time they
have uninterruptedly held all branches of
the government. But instead of realizing
that prosperity, enjoying the advantages
of that enlightenment and exercising that
freedom in, elections so often promised
*knr>. thn orQ
wrongs. The progress of the State is greatly
hindered, immigration and capital prevented
from coming among us; the system
of public education is very unfairlarge
suras of the people's money being
annually appropriated for a favored few,
while the masses are very poorly provided
for, and the constitutional guarantee of
American citizenship is outraged to an
extent that seriously threatens the peace
of the commonwealth.
Under the present system of elections a
large majority of the voters are practically
disfranchised, yet they are forced to bear
the burdensome taxation yearly levied
upon them, while being practically without
representation in the affairs of the
government. Crime and debauchery, on
the plea of political necessity, are practiced
to an alarming extent. Therefore,
we. native white citizens, seeing, as we
now do, the great need of more liberty in
political action an enlightenment among
the masses of the people, do, in convention
assembled, declare in favor of more
and better common schools, and in favor
of free speech and honest elections. We
also favor a full and just protection for all
American industries, to the end that there
shall be secured a sure and steady home
market for the product of all American
labor. We protest against English interference
in national politics, and against all
obstructions of their Bourbon allies to a
free ballot in South Carolina. We also declare
our intention to hereafter affiliate
with the national Republican party in its
efforts to secure honest elections, establish
good schools and bring material prosperity
to the South as it has done for the North.
We heartily commend Senator Blair, of
New Hampshire, for his untiring efforts in
behalf of universal education. We endorse
the verdict of the American people in November
last?in the election of Gen. Benjamin
Harrison to the presidency. And,
by offering to his administration our full
support, we wish to forever put to rest the
joipt falsehood of the Bourbons and carpet-baggers
that all native white people
in South Carolina are Democrats. We
call upon all liberal white men to unite
with this movement to the end of purifying
the ballot, inviting northern people
and northern capital to come to the State,
and help develop our natural resources,
and aid us in reaching a higher civilization.
Whereas, the carpet-baggers and Bourbons
claim now, as they did twelve j'ears ago, that
all the native white people in South Carolina
are Democrats, and all the colored people are
Republicans, thus publishing to the world the
falsehood that the white and colored races respectively
form the so-called Democratic and
Republican parties, and
Whereas, we wish to annihilate that false
claim, therefore,
Resolved, 1st. That the Independent State
Executive Committee be authorized to publish
the proceedings of this convention in the northern
papers; also, to print 20,000 copies of our
address for circulation in this State.
Resolved, 2nd. That the Stute committee be
empowered to appoint a County Chairman in
every county, where the local organization is
not yet sufficiently developed to elect one under
the rules of the organization.
Resolved, 3. That we urge upon our friends
all over the State the importance of thorough
organization in every county, and the organization
continue to be kept secret as it is at
presentthat an earnest effort bo made to re
port to our graiui rany next niuuiuci ?u curolled
membership of 30,000 white men, and
that the 4th of next July be the day for this
rally, unless the State committee deem it expedient
to appoint another time.
Resolved, 4. That the work of securing signatures
to our circulars bo continued as a prelude
and auxiliary to the work of organization.
Lynch Law in Louisiana.?A Shreveport
dispatch of Saturday says: "Haywood
Handy, colored, who shot a young
white man named Chas. Stewart, in Bossier
Parish yesterday, was lynched by a
mob last night. Handy was being taken
from Houghton to Belevue by two deputies
when he was seized by the mob.
Stewart died this morning. It appears
that Handy and two other negroes were
charged with hog stealing, but were acquitted
in the district court a few days
ago. Feeling that Handy and others had
evaded justice through technicalities, and
inasmuch as their past record for hog
stealing and other offences was bad, a few
of the citizens residing in that vicinity
determined to at least give all of them a
flogging and notify them that if they were
ever charged with the same crime again
they would have to leave the parish.
When the party reached Ilandy'e hou?e
he refused to allow them to enter, and
they burst the door open. Stewart was in
| the lead, and Handy shot him and then
I made his escape and went to Houghton,
j where he was arrested.
| ?P. F. Frazee, a citizen of Columbia,80
: years of age, attempted to commit suicide
' last Monday afternoon.
* .
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Withers Adickes?A Reason for This.
May & May, Druggists?Cure Your Cough.
May <t May, Wholesale Agents Botanic Blood
Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga.?Worth $1,000.
A. Y. Cartwright it Co.?The Racket Store
Wakes Up.
M. C. Willis, Proprietor?The Carolina Buggy
Company.
Win. D. Glenn?Do You Need- a Mule?
M. <fc H. C. Strauss?Good Advice.
J. W. Dobson?To Arrive This Week?Tobacco?Dried
Peaches and Apples?Canned
Goods?Glass and Putty.
S. M. MeNeel?My Goods.
Enquirer Oflice?Miller's Almanac.
D. E. Finloy, Clerk of Board of County Commissioners-To
Highway Overseers, itc.
Wm. H. McCorkle, Probate Judge?Fiduciary
Returns.
Yogbg Ladies' Aid Society?Martha Washington
Tea Party.
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
*" X)nion fnr
IS USCU 111 11IU nuvciuocuicuvo. in\,c 1UI
the minion 30 cents per pound; for the bourgeois
25 cents per pound. Any party deslringboth
fonts can purchase them at 25
cenfrrper pound. Terras cash.
MAIL OX THE THREE C'S.
The postmaster at Yorkville has received
official notification that a daily mail
service has beeri established on the Three
C's Railroad, extending the service from
Rock Hill to Rutherford ton, N. C., to go
into effect from Monday, the 25th instant.
The securing of this ?reat publicxnayenience
is due larg?]y^|^xaj^x^PlW^f
Representative Hemphill, who is ever
watchful of the interests of his people.
yC. COLORED M". E. CHURCH.
Trhe State Conference of the M. E.
Church was in session at Aiken last week.
The following appointments were'made
for churches in York county, which is included
in Greenville district, of which J.
E. Lowry is presiding elder: Yorkville,
E. M. Pinckney; Yorkville circuit, S.
Thomas; Blacksburg, W. Littlejohn ; Clover,
H. P. McElwee; Rock Hill, York
Goodlette. The next conference will be
held in Marion.
THE PENSION BOARD.
Tnere was a meeting of-the York County
Pension Board last Monday, which is
the last meeting of the board that will be
held until sales-day i n next October. Ther^
were six additional applications filed for
pensions, as follows: T. M. Grant, Hoodtown
; Margaret Carder, widow of John
Carder. Nancy Sextos*, widow of James
Sexton, Rock Hill; Mary Martin, widow
of Walker N. Martin, Vicey Bolin, widow
of W. Riley Bolin-, Nancy I> Dover, widow
of Wm. M. Dover, Clark's Fork.
The State Board, the decision of which
is final, has not yet acted upon any of the
applications from York county.
^YORK'S IRON ORE.
We l?arn by the Columbia correspondence
of the News and Courier, that corporators
of the Magnetic Iron and Steel
Mining and Manufacturing Company, of
Blacksburg, have filed their return and a
charter will issue. The return shows that
20 per cent ($10,000) of the capital stock has
been paid in to N. A. Pratt, a corporator
and agent authorized to receive the same,
that the remainder by instalments in cash
and property has been secured to that
company, and that the other conditions
precedent to the issue of the charter have
been complied with. The corporators
signing the return are John L. Black, S.
T. Martin, N. A. Pratt, Noble Smithson,
D. G. Wylie, N. W. Hardin and R. A.
Westbrook. The company is already
mining large quantities of ore and shipping
it to ^teelton, Pa.
LOCAL LACONICS,
^j^ha^might have proved a serious fire
FiHdajijansnuife^rMinti^rJnri^yjia,
prevented only by a timely d^covery ,of a
blaze in the lot in rear of Herndon Bro.'s
store. In the lot is a large quantity of
firewood, lumber, and several bales of cotton,
besides several buildings contiguous.
It is supposed the fire, which was soon extinguished
after its discovery, originated
from an ash box.
A patent has just been granted to Q. J.
Hoke, of Yorkville, assigned to W. J.
Herron, of Winnsboro, J. R. Lindsay and
S. L. Miller, of Yorkville, for a spark extinguisher
and arrester.
A slight sprinkle of snow, the heaviest
we have had here for two years, fell after
two o'clock last Monday morning; but
before noon it had all disappeared.
/ DEATH OF D. P. OWEN.
Mjr. T)avid P. Owen died in Shelby, N.
C., on Friday last, aged about 6G years,
fie was born in Lancaster county, and
when about sixteen years old, with his
father, moved to Yorkville, of which town
he has been almost continuously a citizen
until about two years ago, when he moved
with his family to Blacksburg. He was
by trade a coach body maker and a skillful
workman, though he did not confine
himself to that branch of business, he being
also a good cabinet maker and expert
as a general wood workman. He was a
man of strong religious tendencies, strict
in his devotions and strove to live up to
the golden rule. For some time past his
health has been bad, and with his daughter
he moved from Blacksburg to live
with a son in Shelby, but died only a day
or two after moving to that town.
CRISP AND^ICY READING.
We ?5^imencethis^week the publication
of ttye latest work of the French humorist
and caricaturist, MaX O'Rell, entitled
"Jonathan and - His Continent," which
just, now is attracting the attention of the
reading public of France and America.
The sketches, which are replete with good
points and spicy sayings, though of course
exaggerated, are the result of his rambles
last yekr through American society. His
impressions of America and Americans is
pronounced the most clever production of
his pen, and if on reading his satire, any
American citizen finds himself "photo<
graphed^tfwtu-re," he-csw jinlj. laugh at
what the keen eyed and witty Frenchman
has to say, which, if severe, is kind. Of
course the author is only satirical, and in
that sense must he be read and understood^
The publication will run through several
? ? nf Titv PvrnTTTDri) QtlH ITO n rl.
ijuiiiuvia vi hud fT v
vise our readers not to miss a chapter.
U. S. DISTRICT COURT.
V The February term of the United States
district court for the western district of
South Carolina, was opened in Greenville,
on Monday of last week. W. R. Davies,
of York county, was made foreman of the
grand jury. From the daily reports in the
Greenville News we take the following:
Wyatt Goings entered a plea of guilty of
retailing without license and was sentenced
to two months' imprisonment and a
fine of $100.
Rufus Williams, charged with retailing
without license, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to one month in jail and $100 j
fine.
William Cornwell pMaded guilty to the
same charge of illicit retailing, and received
a sentence of two months in York county
jail and to pay a fine of $100.
James Wallace pleaded guilty of retailing
liquor without license and was sentenced
to six months in York county jail
and $100 fine.
Eli Roddey, who was not present, was
tried on two indictments, one for resisting
an officer and one for retailing liquor without
paying the license tax. lie was found
guilty in both cases.
Jim York and Cap York were tried for
retailing, the defendants both failing to
appear and the cases being heard separately,
they were both found guilty. This offence
was committed in York county,
though the defendants are citizens of
North Carolina. !
Jefferson F. Baker was tried for retail-)
ing without license and acquitted. He
was represented by W. J. Cherry, of Rock
Ilill.
The News reports the following as the
most interesting trial on Thursday.
John R. S tarns, charged with carrying
? A
on the business of a retail liquor dealer
without a license tax. The defendant is a
merchant in Lancaster county. It was
charged that he sought to evade the law by
selling an intoxicating drink in the form
of "bitters." One of the bottles said to i
have contained the "bitters" in question 1
was produced in evidence. The bottle
was empty, but it was mildly and facetiously
whispered that it had been full 1
when first exhibited in evidence in the
grand jury room. The jurymen were
allowed to smell this bottle, which was a
very plain and unassuming bottle, bearing 1
no evidence of having been "loaded," 1
and the gentle whiffs that penetrated the 1
twelve notrils seemed to have had, for the
prisoner, a disastrous effect. It was proved
Al i. C14. J i U *\rv? 1
limb oiarua imu auiu wicac umeia, uul iui
medicine, but to be drank as a bevbrage;
that they were so used, and that they did
make men drunk. On that evidence and
after a careful charge from Judge Simon- :
ton, the jury brought in a verdict of 1
"guilty," and the defendant was sentenced
to imprisonment in the jail of Lancaster
county for one month and to pay $100 fine.
The case was conducted by the district attorney
on the one side, and by W. J. Cherry,
of Rock Hill, and J. B. Bell, of Yorkville,
on the other.
In the'r final presentment, last Monday,
the grand jury made a strong attack
upon the evil from the sale of whisky in
the form of "bitters" by country merchants,
and expressed the hope that the
conviction of a Lancaster merchant for that
offense at the present court will lead to
stopping the evil.
CHURCH NOTICF.S.
Episcopal?Sunday-school at 3.30 P. M.
Young men's union prayer-meeting will
be hbld in the Methodist church next
'Tuesday evening at 7.30 o'clock.
Baptist?Rev. R. G. Patrick, Pastor.
Sunday-school at 3.30 P. M. Prayer-meeting
to-morrow evening at 7.30 o'clock.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev.
J. C. Galloway, Pastor. Services next
i Sunday at 11 A. M. Sunday-school at 3.30
P. M.
Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor.
Services next Sunday at 11 A. M. and
7.30 P. M. Sunday-school at 3 P. M.
Prayer-meeting to-morrow evening at 4
o'clock.
Methodist Episcopal?Rev. W. W. Daniel,
Pastor. Services next Sunday at 11
A. M. and 7.30 P. M. Sunday-school at 3
P. M. Prayer-meeting this evening at 7.30
o'cloctoy/'
y >A PERSONAL MENTION.
: Mra. Lula Gardner and children, who
| have been visiting relatives in Greenwood
for the past two months, returned home
last Friday.
y Mrs. G. M. Webb, of Shelby. N.C., is in
Yorkville, visiting her daughter, Mrs.
John A. Darwin.
>rfudge Witherspoon returned from Mt.
Pleasant last Friday evening, having finished
up the business of the sessions court
of Berkeley on Thursday, and no common
pleas business being ready for the court.
He will return to Mt. Pleasant next Friday,
and will devote such time as may be
necessary to closing up such business as
the* members of the Berkeley bar have
ready. He will open the court of general
sessions in Charleston on Monday, 25th
instant.
The Johnson City Comet, published
last Thursday, says: "Col. T. E. Matson
was able to be on the street to-day, after
ao illness of several days."
^TMrs. Geo. L. Riddte, of Zeno, is in
Yorkville, visiting relatives and friends.
Xw. B. McCaw, Esq., returned from New
Orleans last Monday evening, leaving his
family there. Hissick child is improving.
^JTNING A DRUGGIST.
On thef^nd day of this month Dr. D.
C. Atkinson moved his drug store from
Chester to this place, opening his stock in
the Dr. Craven house, near the Three C's
Ifrtel. In the course of his business on
Aflnday and Tuesday, the former being
s?%day, he dispensed whisky to sevensoriptions
therefor1 himself, he! being a
licensed physician. On Tuesday afternoon
the intendant. and one of the wardens
visited his place of business for the
purpose of inspecting his file of prescriptions.
It was at once produced, there
being no attempt on the part of Dr. Atkinson
to conceal his transactions. It being
a violation of an ordinance of the
town, however, for a druggist to fill a prescription
written by himself, Dr. Atkin
son was summoned before the council to
answer for the transgression of the ordinance,
and deposited fifty dollars as bail
until he could procure Mr. Sanders, his
legal adviser, from Chester. On the arrival
of Mr. Sanders the matter was adjusted
by Dr. Atkinson forfeiting his fifty
dollars bail to the town, the council consenting
to drop the sixty-eight remaining
cases so long as Dr. Atkinson conducts his
business according to law.
RAILROAD NOTES.
The Three C's Railroad, which is said
by railroad men to have the finest rolling
stock of any road in the South, has recently
received ten new freight cars, which,
on their arrival in Charleston the other
day, were thus described by the World:
They are thirty-four feet in length, have a
capacity of 40,000 pounds, and weigh
21,900. They are very striking in their
appearance, being, like the passenger cars,
of a peculiar metalic color, like zinc. The
doors are of the Wagner patent, which fit
like a glove and open by swinging out
on a crank and then sliding back. They
bear the legend, "Charleston, Cincinnati
and Chicago" in three lines on one end,
and the monogram, "3 C's" on the other.
An order was given for one hundred cars
of this pattern, all of which are expected
to be ready for the road before a great
while.
Two new locomotives have also just
been received at Charleston for the road,
of which the News and Courier says: "Two
very handsome and serviceable locomotives
for the Three C's road have just been
received at the South Carolina railway
shops and will be put into service at once,
^he cylinders are nineteen inches in diameter
and the engines are, perhaps, the
largest ever seen in Charleston. Both are
coal burners and will be used for awhile
on the'South Carolina railway, and then
willife sent to the Three C's road."
. / THE BOARD* OF TRADE.
"'There was a meeting of the Yorkville
Board of Trade on Wednesday last for the
purpose of perfecting the organization of
the body. The President, Mr. M. Strauss,
was in the chair.
He appointed as an auditing committee,
Messrs. H. F. Adickes, Samuel M. McNeel
and P. R. Bratton.
Also, as a standing committee on printing,
the secretary and treasurer, John A.
Latta and John May, Jr.
The executive committee was requested
to attend to the duty of procuring a charter
for the board.
W. L. McDonald, Esq., was elected
solicitor of the board.
It was moved and carried that the president
appoint a committee to confer with
the railroad authorities in the effort to
procure more favorable rates on local
freight shipped to or from Yorkville. The
president appointed as said committee,
Messrs. John M. Hope, M. C. Willis, W.
B. Moore, John It. Ashe and W. L.
McDonald.
Another motion was made and carried
that the executive committee confer with
the managers of the telegraph lines doing
business here, and also with the managers
of the Southern Express Company, with
the view to having the telegraph offices
consolidated in one office in a central part
of the town, with the express office in the
same building.
The committee on hall not being able to
report the securing of a suitable place for
holding the meetings of the board, Hunter
& Oates tendered the use of their opera
house for that purpose, which was accepted.
The board then adjourned until the first
Friday night in May.
N.
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Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
NOTES FROM~BLACRSTOCK.
Blackstock, February 11.?The rise in
the price of cotton has been bringing in
considerable quantities of the fleecy staple
during the past week or ten days. One of
the largest farmers who ships from this
place, Mr. P. E. Kell, has nearly two hundred
bales piled up here awaiting sale.
Several car loads of commercial fertilizers
have been brought to Blackstock already,
notwithstanding the fact the Alliance
men in these parts have voted to let
this commodity severely alone. One of
our largest and most successful planters,
Mr. James Jones, has announced that he
will not use a bit of guano this year.
This gentleman, however, does not belong
to the Farmers' Alliance.
Our town is such a very orderly and
law-abiding place, that our council has
seen fit to dispense with the services
of our solitary policeman, only retaining
the gentleman to attend to the lighting of
our street lamps. Of course his salary has
been greatly reduced, and it was hardly
uni atural that he should have announced
with evident relish to one of our local
terrors, that he could cut up just as much
as he pleased now, without any fear that
the mighty arm of the law would be interposed
to keep him in check.
One of Blaekstcok's promising boys, Mr.
Reuben McCrorey, has gone to Lexing
ton, Kentucky, for the purpose of taking a
thorough course in the business college
there. His younger brother, Jones,
though only a school-boy of about seventeen
years of age, is regarded among us as
quite a musical genius, and is known all
along this line of railroad and its branch
systems as a first-class telegraph operator.
He has refused several good offers to work
at a regular job, preferring to go on with
his education; but he very oft.eifgoos for
two or three days at a time to worETfor
some poor fellow who is getting off from
his office long enough to pay his sweetheart
a visit, or perhaps to take her back
with him. No wonder then that "Jonesy"
is a favorite both at home and abroad.
Our hotel people have been kept very,
busy during the past five or six weeks.
The number of drummers this season was
certainly larger than was ever known
here ; and just as soon as they began to
slack up a little in their rate of coming,
the tide of horse drovers began to roll
through. Right in this connection it may
be said?and 1 think the traveling public
can testify to the truth of the assertion?
that nowhere else in the State can a town
so small as Blackstock boaat of better
hotel accommodations.
Among the visitors to our town and
community, we notice the following young
ladies: Miss Mattie Beaty, of Winnsboro,
is spending some time with the family of
Mrs. D. H.Stevenson ; Miss Ella Doty, of
the same place, is visiting Mrs. James
Jones ; Misses Cynthia Durham and Eunice
Caison, both from Fairfield county,
are with Mrs. M. Durham and Mrs. E. M.
Shannon, respectively.
'Twas quite a general surprise this morning
to find the ground covered over with
snow, that had fallen during the night to
a depth of nearly two inches. It has been
such a long time since so much snow has
been seen in this latitude, that the older
persons even, share, in some degree, the
joyful feelings with which the children
always greet our wintry visitor.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM LANCASTER.
* Lancaster, February 12.?In the Lancaster
mandamus case for the delivery of
the township bonds, the relators filed their
answer to the return of the respondents on
the 10th instant, and sent in their arguments
for the supreme court on the same
day. The respondents will file their reply
and send in their arguments on or before
Tf Jo f KmirvKf tKo f inoo.
UltJ iUOUlLlbi JLI/ lO iiiuu^nu tiiuv i uuu
much as this township bond question has
been before the supreme court in one form
or other, for more than a year, a speedy
decision of the questions submitted will
be made by the court, and the vexed question
be settled.
Newton Clanton, who is one of the parties
charged with the homicide of Gadsden
Earle, a colored man, in the town of
Lancaster, a few weeks back, was, on writ
of habeas corpus, admitted to bail by Judge
Aldrich in Camden, on Friday last, his
bail bond being fixed at the sum of one
thousand dollars. Shortly after the disClanton
on bail, the otherman.
wifffams, whp is ^a"r]*ea vvTtTT"'aorrTg*rft?~
shooting, was'brought in by W. A. Davis,
of this town, and lodged in jail, where he
is now. Mr. Davis it is said knew where
he resided in North Carolina, and having
noticed the reward of one hundred dollars,
offered by the governor for his arrest, procured
the necessary papers, went to the
sheriff of the county where the prisoner
resides, and he and the sheriff repaired at
once to his home, found him in bed, arrested
him, and brought him forthwith
here and delivered him up to the she'riff.
This prisoner and Clanton will probably
be tried at the approaching term of court,
which commences here on the first Monday
in March.
Judge Fraser will preside here at the
March term of court, when there will be a
good deal of business, if the same be in a
state of readiness for trial.
We have had some cold weather for the
last week, the severest of the season,
which is retarding the farmers in sowing
their oats. It is observable that the farmers
do not sow in the fall as much as they
did four or five years ago, being apprehensive
of the severity of the winter on their
ona>n crrnin "Rut, to one who has seen and
experienced large yields from the fall sowing,
the spring sowing would seem to be
of doubtful propriety. The severity of
winter occasionally injures the fall sowing,
especially when the grain is sown late in
the fall ; hut in nine cases out of ten the
fall sowing will greatly out yield the spring
sowing.
The prospect here now is that commercial
fertilizers will not be purchased so
generally as heretofore?at least this is the
Eresent outlook, from the resolves made
y the Alliance.
J. D. Morgan, of this county, one day
last week, shot and killed Samuel Catoe,
in a personal difficulty, in the south-eastern
section of this county. Morgan surrendered
himself to the sheriff and is now
awaiting his trial. Nosilla.
Curresp? -lence of the Yorkville Euuuirer.
LETTER FROM UNION.
Union, S. C., February 8.?Mrs. Wallace
A. Robinson, formerly of York county,
wife of W. A. Robinson, of this place, died
very suddenly last Wednesday morning.
The circumstances of her death are as follows:
She got up early that morning and
cooked breakfast and eat very hearty.
After breakfast she cleaned up her house
~nd swept her piazza, appearing to be as
well as usual. After finishing this she
went into an adjoining room where her
niece, a little girl of about 4 years, was.
Shd unbuttoned her dress at the neck, and
was just fixing to change^-plasiej:. which
she had on her chest, wnen she fellTo" tffe'
floor. Her niece called her, but receiving
no response, ran for her aunt who lives
only a short distance away, and when
she arrived Mrs. Robinson was dead. It
seems that she died from appoplexy. Mrs.
Robinson has been a member of the Presbyterian
church for many years, and was
a pure and devoted Christian. Our whole
community sympathize with the family
in their sad bereavement.
Last Sunday night, while Rev. B. F.
Lamply, the Baptist minister at this place,
was holding service in his church, a negro
went to his home and tried to secure entrance.
He went to the back door and
tried to get in. Finding it locked, he went
to the front and that was locked also. He
then knocked, and Mrs. Lamply asked who
it was. He made no reply and she asked
again, and receiving no response, her little
son, about twelve years of age, got the
shovel and went to the door and opened
it, and a large, stout negro man stood in
the doorway. The brave little fellow
threw the shovel and struck the scoundrel
in the face and closed the door on him.
w. g. c.
Correspondence of the Yorkvllle Enquirer.
. LETTER FROM UNION COUNTY.
Etta Jane, February 9.?Our Union
county people haye given the Hickory
Grove market a strong patronage this season.
The prices there have generally been
"the top of the market." A good portion
of the cotton is crop yet unsold and will
drop in there as the holders wish to sell it.
The railroad newsand chit-chat generally
has been hushed up or lost sight of since
the Farmers' Alliance and other reformatory
measures are being discussed by our
people. We are glad, however, that the
decision of the supreme court in the township
bond cases came soon enough to save
us the trouble our neighbors in York
county are likely to have over theirs.
The last few days have been quite wintry,
and oat sowing and "turning stubble"
has been hindered on account of frozen
ground. It is too soon yet to say what
amount of cotton our people will plant
this year. They are too undecided. I am
afraid the promises to plant less cotton j
and more corn will get "frost bit," and the i ]
same old "slip-shod" method will be adopt- {
ed later on, by some of them, at least, j
Though the same amount of guano will j
not be used, K?eel quite certain. '
Madam rutnbr has circulated a report 1
that Messrs. C. W. Whisonantand D. J. F.
McLuney, both of Wilkinsville, will re- t
move to Hickory Grove sometime soon, i
They are too well fcnown in that section t
to need any introduction at our hands. ]
The good and high-toned people of that
town will find them and their excellent ^
families worthy members of their society. (
All we have to say to the people of Hick- (
ory Grove, is that "our loss will be their ,
gain."
The county commissioners met the people
at Thomson's mill yesterday to let out '
the contract for building a bridge there. 1
We learn that the lowest bid was $1,394,
which they refused to accept; but agreed 1
to pay $1,300 for it. Mr. ^fhomson
Robhs was the lowest bidder. The specifications
outline a splendid bridge?lb feet
above common water?on stone pillars with
a span of 110 feet across the stream. This
bridge is much needed, and located as it
is among a people who are broad gauge, I
don't think they will allow that small
amount to cost them the convenience of it. ,
Mr. Julius T. Howe, who has been liv- '
ing at Blacksburg for several years, has
returned to his plantation on Broad river.
"There is no place like home." Sigma.
\ Correspondence of the Yorkvllle Knqulrer.
V- LETTER FROM ROCK HILL. W
Rock Hill, February 12.?We were
visited Monday night by the first snow of
the season. The fall was very light, the
ground being scarcely covered.
./^Vlrs, G. B. Sandifer has been elected an
assistant teacher in the graded school.
The growth of the school necessitates additional
help. There are now 237 names
on the roll.
VJGapt. L. M. Davis has purchased the lot of
J} A. Williford, with the buildings thereon,
on Railroad street. It is the intention
of C'apt. Davis to establish a canning factory
for the purpose of canning fruits and
vegetables. He will make arrangements
with the farmers to plant vegetable seed
so as to supply him with vegetables this
suiiimer.
A large number of negroes are leaving
the India Hook section of this county for
the West. They leave on the trains that
pass this place at night. They are induced
to leave their homes by immigrant agents.
On Friday an old negro was killed by
the south-bound passenger train on the
C., C. A A. Railroad, three miles below
this place, while crossing the trestle over
Toole's Fork creek. He was struck by
the train and knocked from the trestle,
and falling to the creek below, his head
was severely cut by a rock on which it
fell. He died soon after being taken up
and put on the train. His body was taken
to Chester. He was a stranger in this section,
no one being able to identify him.
On Sunday of last week Mrs. Lucy
Deas, while on her way from church with
her grand son, who was driving her, was
thrown from the buggy and seriously
hurt, having her right arm broken, and
receiving other serious wounds. She is
an aged lady, being in her 77th year. The
wounds are giving her great pain, and
friends much uneasiness.
A few days ago the store of T. P.
Meetze & Co., of Lexington, was broken
into, the safe blown open, and about $600
stolen. On Sunday afternoon a welldressed
man arrived at this place and registered
at the Carolina Hotel as T. G'ulleton.
Yesterday morning Mr. W. 13.
Meetze, of Lexington, arrived and had
Culleton arrested, charging him with the
robbery. He was taken to Lexington on
yesterday and given a hearing, which resulted
in his being discharged from custody,
there being not sufficient evidence to
hold him for trial. He returned to this
place this morning. Hal.
Making a Place for Mr. Thompson.
On Friday last, the President sent the
following nomination to the Senate: Hugh
S. Thompson, of South Carolina, to be.a
civil service commissioner in place of
Alfred Edgerton, removed. Judge Edgerton
was at the capitol Friday afternoon.
He says that he had received no intimation
from the President of any intention
to remove him from office till the day before,
when he called at the White House.
.the 4ij
'sign office in oruio*. uiat it might Se~f
filled by Mr. Thompson. The President
said there was little hope for securing Mr.
Thompson as long as there was no suitable
vacancy on the commission. Mr. Edgerton,
however, promptly declined to resign,
holding that his resignation would not be
creditable to himself or help any other
person (intimating that Mr. Thompson
could not be confirmed if nominated). Of ,
course, the President might exercise his
prerogative if he saw fit. The President j
did see fit, and when he (Edgerton) '
reached his office Friday morning, he found ,
the following letter awaiting him, dated I
"Executive Mansion, Washington, Feb. \
9: You are hereby removed from the office (
of United States ciiil service commissioner."
This was signed "Grover Cleveland." ,
When the news was communicated to
the remaining commissioner, Mr. Lyman, !
that officer was surprised, and found him- j
self in a predicament, as he was by no
means satisfied tha; he had the authority *
to discharge the brmalities of the civil ]
service commissioa. Mr. Edgerton says ,
he cannot recall ajy differences with the '
President, excent those erowimr out of !
what he describe! as "the fact "that the
president is the 3rst mugwump in the \
land, while I an: a straight-out Derao- k
crat." He intend to write a letter to the
President in a daj or two, acknowledging '
the receipt of hit removal, and perhaps 1
adding an expression of his opinion on |
the President's cmrse in the matter.
Mr. Edgerton was appointed by the t
President early h his administration. i
The Kershaw Railroad Subscrxp- c
tion.?The Canden correspondent of the c
News and Courfcr writes under date of last t
Wednesday: Tie presentment of the grand s
jury to Judge Aldrich to-day contained f
the following: g
"Complaints bave reached us of a very
grave nature?'hat the election held in
1886 for the issung of county bonds for the c
construction of he Three C's Railroad was 0
illegal, as the Jet providing for such elec- ?
tion was not complied with, and, as a consequence,
it isciaimed by many that it V
was a nullity. We have appointed a committee
to inaki a thorough investigation r
of the matter, aid at the next term of the 0
court we will fc fully prepared to report ?
upon it." "
The committee appointed is composed
of Messrs. Jades Goodale, S. D. Luca3, ?
E. L. Raley ad J. B. Hall. The first u
mentioned is fum Camden and the others r<
from eastern lershaw, the section where u
the main disanction is. One member of ?
the committee ays he thinks there is no H
use in the instigation. An old sore is *
TtgHtu-t^i^^Trr'Hfrruaiorcd that the in- e
vestigation whifi was started some time
ago. and at whid Col. Blanding offered to
assist for no conlderation, but to see justice
meted out, Al through because it was e>
discovered that ?gal advice, which called (.j
for money, wasr^uired. Now if the mat- f
ter is taken cha?e of by the grand jury
all the citizens othe county will have to P
pay their share othe expenses. Theopin- oi
ion of wise andconservative citizens is tl
that the subject sould be well studied be- tl
fore expense is uflergone. fo
pi
State Agkicutukal and Meghan- tl
ical Society.?Tie regular spring meet- ra
ingof the State Aricultural and Mechan- at
ical Society was held in Columbia last cc
Wednesday nigh The attendance was la
good and much iterest was manifested, la
President Joseph I. Humbert, of Prince- lo
ton, Laurens corny, delivered an excel- fe
lent address, alludig appropriately to the tr
death of Vice-Priident B. II. Massey, pi
of Fort Mill. S^gestions were made ol
recommending anncrease in the amount j tl
of premiums offenl for exhibits of field ar
crops and for dair^implements. The re- ry
port of the secretarand treasurer showed ! w
the receipts of the ast year to have been | H
$11,109.55, and disbrsements of $10,981.03, I h<
of which nearly $21)0 was for permanent ! W
improvements, &eral new members i I)
were voted in, anlCol. It. A. Love, of, tl
Chester, waselectedjce-presidentin place j v<
ofB. H. Massey, dQased. A. H. White, j pi
of liock Hill, was ected a member of the i gi
executive committe j si
Pendleton was sected as the place for | th
the next joint summ meeting of the State j Pi
Grange and the Agruitural Society. j w
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? The indications om Washington are It
that the ways and mins committee of the ' vi
House will agree ufo a compromise be- 1 y<
tween the Mills bill pd the Senate bill, j bj
A reduction of thejvenuesof the gov- ca
ernment is demandethy the people, and 1 w
any compromise that^ill bring about a co
saving to the taxp^rs of $40,000,0001 fe;
should be agreed u[n. Both parties I M
should remember thai0mpromise is the j bi
essence of legislation.1 ! ur
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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Evangelist Leitch is conducting a series
of meetings at Bennettsville.
? "Lewis Ashley," colored, in jail in
Barnwell for failure to pay taxes, turns
lut to be a woman. She says she has always
worn male attire.
? Rev. \V. B. Elkin, a well known Baplist
minister of Fairfield, has been appointted
chaplain of the South Carolina penitentiary
by the superintendent, T. J.
Lipscomb.
? John McElree, the jeweler of Charleston,
has made an assignment, though it is
thought his embarrassment will be only
temporary and that he will soon resume
his business.
? William Knabe, senior member of
the piano manufacturing firm of Baltimore,
died at Aiken Tuesday night. lie
visited Aiken three'weeks ago for the benefit
of his health.
? Already nearly 4">,000 tons of fertilizers
have been shipped from Charleston. The
fertilizers trade promises to be heavier
than last year, when 181,000 tons were
handled.
? In a row in Columbia on Monday pf
last week, W. B. Lowraoce struck U. S.
Commissioner John Bauskett with a stool,
and Mr. Bauskett fired one ineffectual
shot with a revolver.
? The comptroller-general of South CarCarolina
estimates the present population
of this State at 1,150,000, aud the taxable
property at $162,000,000, or ?150 for each
man, woman and child.
? The Gaffney City correspondent o#f the
Greenville News says one firm in* that
town, agents of the Farmers' Alliauce,
have registered over two thousand farmers
for their trade for the present season. ^ v _ ^
? A young man named Golden was arrested
in Iiarnwell last Thursday as one
Ed Goodloe, charged with murder in
Texas. Golden has been in Barnwell
county over a year and married there.
The Governor of Texas has telegraphed
that he will make a requisition for him.
? The depot at the encampment grounds,
two miles from Spartanburg, was burned
last Saturday afternoon. The fire is supposed
to have originated from a defective
stove flue in the telegraph office. This
was an excellent building and cost about
$1,500.
? At a meeting of the directors of the C.,
C. & A. railroad, held in Columbia last
Monday, a quarterly dividend of one per
cent, was declared. The dividend is payable
on the 27th of this month. Dr. J. H.
McAden, of Charlotte, was elected a director
to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of his brother, R. Y. McAden.
? It is stated that there will be this year
six or seven vacant scholarships in the
Nashville Normal College for this State.
Students must be over seventeen years of
age. They are given two years' tuition
and training in educational methods, and
$25 per moni h. Scholarships are awarded
by competitive examination.
? J. Turner Stewart, one of the county
commissioners of Fairfield, having died
recently, Senator Woodward declines to
make a recommendation to-the Governor
for filling the office by appointment, but
will leave it to the people to decide by primary
election whom they desire. There
are already sixteen candidates for the
piawc*
? The school commissioner of Fairfield
county has raised a hurricane among the
patrons and trustees of Mount Zion Institute,
Winnsboro, by the manner of his apportionment
of the school funds. This institute
has been receiving ?1,000, but the
new apportionment reduces it to about
$300. The matter will be carried before
the court at its next session, which will be
on the 18th instant.
? In a business part of Charleston?corner
of Minority and Wall streets?on Saturday
night last, about 9 o'clock, E. H.
Oldenburg, grocer, 60 years of age, was
murdered at his store by two negroes, who
had entered his store for the purpose of
robbery. The murderers escaped with the
till, containing about $50, but at 3 o'clock
Sunday morning were captured at Ashley
Junction. They are Ciesar Frazer and Ned
Cris, two noted desperadoes. J
? In the sessions court of Kershaw, last J
week, Emanuel Gaskins, colored, was con- 1
victed of the murder of Betsey Clark, col-^
March next. He was convicted on his o(S^
testimony. His counsel made no argument
in his behalf, nor did the solicitor
make any address to the jury. It was a
plain case of brutal murder.
? Ella F. Brarnan, of New York city,
who has received commissions from thirtythree
States of the Union as commissioner
of deeds, has applied to Governor Richardson
for a similar appointment for the
State of South Carolina, but he replies
that "it is not the custom in this State to
appoint members of the better but weaker
3ex to offices of any kind, and that he accordingly
regrets his inability to grant the
application."
? A conference was held in Columbia
last Friday between the railroad commissioners
and representatives of the railroads
doing business in South Carolina.
The conference was for the purpose of
discussing the standard of freight tariff
proposed by the railroad commissioners.
The railroad commissioners of the various
States will meet with the inter-State railroad
commission at Washington on
March 5th, to decide upon a general
freight tariff for the railroads in the United
States.
? Last Thursday evening, Hon. W. C.
Keith, of Walhalla, died unexpectedly to
lis friends, after a few days' illness of tyihoid
pneumonia, at the age of 53. Col.
Keith filled many places of honor and
;rust in Oconee county. He has served
nany terras in the legislature, and for
nany years stood almost alone as a leader
)f the Democratic party. For a number
)f years he has been one of the editors of
he Keowee Courier, and has always stood
is one of the most Drominent and sucress
ul criminal lawyers in that part of the I
State. I
? Concerning the troubles in Beaufort
ounty, caused by the contumacy of old H
officials who have refused to vacate the
ffices, and have concealed their records,
he grand jury recommends that the new
ounty commissioners buy books and seals
ar all offices, as the records had been car- B
ied away by the old officers, and that the B
Id officers' bondsmen be indicted, and B
lso that the officers be indicted for carry- B
ag the records of the county away. They B
lso made demands on each of the old B
fficers for the books and seals they had B
iken away. Each of them refused to sur- B
mder, and said he would only give them jfl
p when the highest courts in the land B|
rder him to do so. All the officers who fl|
ifused to vacate?the judge of probate, ^B
le coroner and three county commission- ^B
rs?are now in jail. ^B
MERE-MENTION.
The Farmers' Alliance is now the great- j^H
it power in Mississippi. A State exlange
has been established, and its efct
has been seen on the business of the
resent year. Citizens of Corisso, Col- H|
rado, rather than to see the newspaper of
le place moved to a rival town, which ]^B
le editor was making preparations to do, M
irced an entrance into the office, broke the ^B
ress to pieces and made a street bonfire of ^B
le cases, type and furniture. Steel ^B
tils now weigh 100 pounds to the yard? Bfl
3 increase from 56 pounds Jim Ross, |Bj
>lored, was hanged at Bradenburg, Ky., flfl
st Friday, for the murder on April 6th ^B
,st of Benedict Rhodes, a wealthy bache- ^B
r. Robberv was tho imnc.-o ?> *
? iuuuvc nuu 110 C0I1- ^^8
ssed the crime. A bill has been in- j^H
odueed in the Pennsylvania legislature
rohibiting treating, making it a penal
Tense, punishable by a fine of not less #1
lan $f>0 or over $100, for any one to treat 1
lother to intoxicating liquors. Hen- I u
' Wormack, living near Social Circle, Ga., j
as bitten by a rabid cat about a month ago.
e died Thursday after undergoing all the
errors incident to hydrophobia. Mr.
Wormack was a strict teetotaler. The ]
akota House of Representatives defeated
ie woman suffrage bill last Saturday by a
>te of 20 to 22. James K. Walker, I
ivate secretary to Governor Lee. of Vir- I
nia, committed suicide last Thursday by 1
looting himself with a pistol. After |
ie 4th of March Col. Daniel S. Lamont,
resident Cleveland's private secretary,
ill assume the position of general pasnger
agent of the New York Central
ailroad. The cost of the signal ser- j
ce is estimated at about $4,000,000 a
;ar. A new trial has been granted j
j the Supreme Court ">f Georgia in the !
se of Tom Woolfolk, who is charged
ith killing his whole family, near Matt,
nearly two years ago. There are 1
ars of Woolfolk being lynched. On
onday last, the president approved the j
11 making the department of Agriculte
an executive, or cabinet oflice.
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