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Itac ?0rMlc tftiquim. j YORKVILLE. S. & V \ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1889. CAPT- F- w- DAWSON. The sudden announcement of the tragic death of Capt. F. W. Dawson, editor in chief of the Charleston News and Courier, has called forth a general expression of regret and sorrow, and it may be truly said that his death is a calamity to the State, intAnftv imopu Kn Ko/1 VY UlUil iur liiC jjaat iwcuiij jcuto nv nuu served so faithfully and with a versatile ability as manager and writer, seldom combined in one individual. As a newspaper man he was endowed with wonderful energy and a strong and thoroughly trained mind, which exerted a commanding influence on the commercial, industrial and political affairs of the State; and while there were persons who did not approve all the methods advanced through the columns of the papei^ he controlled, yet the sincerity of his purpose to serve the State of his adoption was never doubted. The conduct of Capt. Dawson has been conspicious on many occasions, but in none was the grand character of the man so nobly displayed as during the earthquake calamity in Charleston in 18S6, when by his heroic example and words of cheer he inspired confidence and aroused the awestricken people to action in the midst of their great calamity. He was not a man of vain ambition, but rather of a modest, shrinking nature, seeking not public preferment and the applause of men, but employing his ample intellectual resources in building up the great newspaper of which he was the acknowledged head. The happy achievement of his success is known, not within the confines of South Carolina alone, but throughout the Union ; and to his memoory the News and Courier, which will prosper and grow in usefulness as time rolls on, will be the most enduring monument. MERE-MENTION. Of six Indians convicted of murder in Arizona and taken to the Columbus, Ohio, penitentiary three months ago for safe , keeping, three have already died of Mnmno ani4 nthorfi havintr Crtritrftfited uiaujpS) ouu vuv VVHV4U the disease, are expected to succumb to it. Thirty inches of snow fell in the vicinity of Sioux Falls last week. At Mauch Chunk Pa., the jury in the case of Engineer Cook, charged with criminal negligence, which resulted in the collision at Mud Bun, in October last, by which sixty persons were killed, returned a verdict of not guilty last Saturday after deliberating over twenty-one hours. ExMayor Hewitt, of New York tickled the Chattanoogians the other day, when in a public address he expressed the opinion that Chattanooga, in his opinion, would have more than a million and a half of population before another one hundred years. Sixteen deputy United States marshals have been killed in the Indian Territory during the past twelve months, and office-seekers are advised.to turn their attention in that direction. New Hampshire makes the sixth State that has refused during the last two years to adopt a prohibition amendment. The coroner's verdict has been rendered in the recent Hartford, Conn., hotel disaster, by which the building was demolished by the explosion of the engine, and twenty-three persons killed. The verdict holds the engineers responsible for the explosion. The outlook in the iron and steel manufacturing districts of Pennsylvania^? very discouraging. V. S.Sen ator uonatnau C1 Uhoue IslaUOT ^ Das sent in his resignatidmoTire-vnmnuvi of that State. The Rhode Island Senate, by a vote of 22 to 15, has passed the resolution resubmitting the prohibitory amendment to the Constitution. The resolution must now pass the Assembly to be submitted to the people in 1890. Three white prisoners, P. A. Cowan, Joe To wry and Henry Gunter, escaped from the jail in Shelby, N. C., last Friday afternoon, rvttvnn rona in for hiring men to commit burglary; Towry for stealing money, and Gunter, who is but fourteen years old, on the charge of house burning. The colored people of Illinois have undertaken an ambitious project. They have had an organization incorporated which proposes to erect a monument at the State capital to Lincoln, Seward, Sumner, Wendell Phillips and John Brown. The cost of the structure is to be $180,000 or $200,000. Legislative delegates from Nebraska, Minnesota, Colorado and Kansas, met last week at St. Louis to perfect a plan of action against the pork and beef combination. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Capt. W. H. It. Workman, the oldest member of the Camden Bar, died last Sunday morning, after a long illness. ? An aged couple, inmates of the Anderson poor house, eloped from that institu tion the other day and were married. ? In the Edgetield sessions court, last week, two murder trials were begun and concluded in one day. The defendants, both white men, were acquitted. ? Fort Mill Clarion: The Presbyterian congregation of this place has elected Prof. J. A. Boyd, delegate, and Mr. L. N. Culp, alternate to the next meeting of Bethel Presbytery. ?A section hand carelessly laid down for - ' * - * - - r : -i>~ : i A & Dap on me ^iir-juiue nauiuau uawn., ucai Tugaloo river. Both his hands, which were lying across the rails, were cut off by a passing train, leaving only his thumbs. ? In 1880 South Carolina had the largest colored majority of the Southern States, amounting to 212,227. Mississippi now greatly exceeds that number, while the .v negro population of South Carolina is said to be decreasing. ?James Taylor, a young man twentyfive years old, living on J. C. McDow's plantation in Lancaster county, walked from his house after breakfast on January 8th, saying that he "would be back in a few moments." He has not been seen or heard from since, although diligent enquiry and search have been made for him. ? Railroad mail service has been established by the postmaster-general from Monroe, N. C., by Waxhaw, N. C., Osceola, Catawba and Edgemore, S. C., to Chestdr, S. C., on the Georgia, Carolina and Northern railway, 45A miles, and back,six times a week, or as much oftener as trains may run, from March 2oth. ?A young man named Bunton died very suddenly at Pelzer, Anderson county, one day last week, under peculiar circumstances. Thirty hours before his death he was hale and hearty, but suddenly he felt a severe pain in his right hand, which began to swell, and in a short time the pain went all over his body, causing his death withX'n the time mentioned. ? A party of twelve or fifteen Mormon onverts from the country, boarded the train at Westminster, Oconee county, a few days ago, in company with a Mormon elder, all bound for the West. It is said that there are still two Mormon elders in Oconee county engaged in persuading poor, silly women and children to join their infamous band and emigrate to Utah and Colorado. ? The cotton platform and warehouse of Cely Bros., merchants, was burned ut Greenville, last Friday, with the entire contents of over eleven hundred bale3 of cotton. The fire started from a spark from a passing freight locomotive on the C. and G. road, near which the warehouse stands, and spreading with terrific rapidity under the influence of a stiff wind, was soon out of control of the fire department. The total loss is estimated at $54,000 ; total insurance $40,000. ? A dispatch of last Friday, from McKinney, Texas, says: Dr. E. L. Linder is in jail here for bigamy, lie graduated first from Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina. He then attended the College of Physicians at Baltimore; graduated in the practice of medicine from South Carolina Medical College at Charleston, and has diplomas from the colleges. He married first at Spartanburg to Miss Nannie Moore of that place, the daughter of a physician. He married a Miss Sally Eubank of Collin county, Texas, February 18,188J. He is 30 years old, and comes of a good'family in Union county, South Carolina. * THE MURDER OF CAPT. DAWS'JW The first intelligence of the murder of j Capt. Dawson reached Yorkville on Tuesday night of last week, while we were closing our columns for our last issue, aud at an hour when we could obtain no | particulars of the tragedy further than the bare recital of the death of Capt. Dawsou at the hands of Dr. T. B. McDow. The associating of the name of a physician with the deplorable occurrence and the fact that a bitter newspaper controversy had been waged for several days by prominent physicians and others in regard to the management of the City Hospital, naturally led to the conclusion, in the absence of other information, that the murder was the result of this controversy ; but such was not the fact. It seems that Capt. Dawson met his tragic end in the mission of saving from the despoiler a young woman without L-inrlroH r\r fpipnHs in this cnuntrv. em ntuuivu w* "* ' 1/ 7 ployed in his family in the capacity of teacher or governess of his children. The circumstances attending the murder of Capt. Dawson are as follows: He left the News and Courier office on the fateful day at half past three o'clock. Some time ago it had been brought to his attention that the governess above referred to, i who had been brought out by Mrs. Dawson from Lousaune, Switzerland, and for ! whose conduct, beingemployed in an educational and fiduciary capacity, Capt. Dawson was responsible, was conducting herself in a manner that demanded his immediate attention. He thought he had the best of reasons for calling on Dr. McDow, which he did at probably about twenty minutes to fonr o'clock. From Dr. McDow's office he never returned alive. The whole truth of the history of what really occurred in that office, and in the few moments of the tragedy, have been buried in the grave of Capt. Dawson. But enough | is known to leave no doubt that the murder was most brutal and atrocious. From the News and Courier's first account of the affair we take the following: There is no parallel to the manner in which the information as to the death of Captain Dawson was received in Charleston. At first it was not believed. It was too absolutely incredible to be believed. Only a few hours before the news of his death was received at the News and Courier building, he had left his office with his accustomed smile to all whom he was won't to meet on his way to the front door of the building. This was about a quarter past 3 o'clock, and at 7 o'clock tne information that he was dead came also like a stroke of paralysis to his co-workers at the office. So fast and far and wide had the news traveled that by the time it was announced at the News and Courier office, men had already begun to gather in groups here and there on the streets and at the corners discussing the event, not in its details but merely as the fact, "Dawson is dead." It can truly be stated that the kinship of the great editor and writer with his people was manifested j indisputably in the sombre light of his death. I Captain Dawson, it is believed, and I with the assurance almost of certainty, was foully murdered by Dr. T. B. McDow in the office of the latter, one door south of the south-west corner of Bull I street and Rutledge street. All the evidence points to this conviction, which grew stronger and stronger as the details of the terrible calamity and tragedy became known. It would in truth have been more in the nature of a kindly providence had the scholar and soldier died by a worthy hand. It is just here that it can be stated that he fell as he lived, fearless and dauntless, and in the protection of a stranger in his home and whose honor he deemed it his duty to defend. Yet it is a melancholy pleasure to recall, if there can be anything of consolation in thinking of the manner of his death, that the same fate which saved him gallantly fighting on many a battlefield of his country permitted him to die with the high and noble argument of the chivalrous defender of -woman on his eloquent lips. Ther.e is one home in rharleston "Where the pall that hangs over tnis city, yea hum State, lies with a tripplefold. It is not mPAf tn r?isp the veil that can scarcelv hide the depth, the utter desolateness, of the grief that hides that home. Yet there is no one in Charleston, nor any to whom the name of Dawson is known, who does not associate the stricken widow and bereft children with the irreclaimable deed in which the kindly and tender thoughts of the dead are almost insensibly and unconsciously mingled with the saddest of all human sympathies. It was at that home that the news of the atrocious assassination fell like a knell, of which none but the stricken family of Captain Dawson can have any adequate sense. The body of Captain Dawson was removed to his late residence Tuesday evening about half past 11 o'clock. The following is taken from the Charleston World's account: A glance in the neat office showed the chairs and tables arranged as though noth;ng had occifrred. The blinds of the windows opening on the porch were 61osed, but through the front windows and door, which were ground glass, a faint light crept, and its beams fell aslant on the upturned face of the dead. A solemn gloom had settled ?il? ! /wnSfA/l Kmnf V? over eVCiyilllUg, uuu llic caliicu ?/? oaiuingof those few gentlemen who entered at first, sounded unearthly, and the noise was as oppressive as the silence. As soon as a light was made, 'and the body was more perfectly seen, the way it was stretched on the floor wasstriking. It appeared as though it had been laid out for burial. Not a sign of blood was to be seen; the hauds were stretched out at his side ; a glove on the right hand, and the left lightly clasping its fellow. There was no hat upon the corpse, and a walking stick, which was'recognized as Captain Dawson's, lay upon a settee. Later the coroner appeared and took charge of the body. Dr. Michel was called to conduct the post mortem examination. He found that the ball had entered the right side, just below the floating ribs, taking a direcing slightly elevated, and very nearly straight. It passed through the liver, touched a kidney and cut the vena cava, one of the largest and most importan arteries of the body. The ball was fired from a 38 calibre Smith & Wesson revolver. Ajury of twelve prominent citizens was summoned, of which George W. Williams was made foreman. These gentlemen viewed the body and adjourned to meetfor the inquest at 11 o'clock Thursday morning al the Fireproof building. Dr. McDow was confined at the siation for an hour, or probably not so long, when he was removed to the jail. After thepos/ mortem examination was concluded, and the coroner's jury had viewed it and the crowd outside the office had retired, the friends tenderly raised Captain Dawson's body from the stretcher on which it had been placed and carried it to its own home, where it was dressed for burial and placed in a casket. From the same account we take the statement made by the prisoner to the World rt porter : " I was standing in the vestibule of my office, 7o llutledge street, west side, the second house from the corner of Bull, at about three o'clock this afternoon, when a gentleman approached me and asked me if I was Dr. McDow. "'Yes,' I responded, '1 am Dr. McDow.' " '"I am Captain Dawson." " 'Walk in Captain.' Whereupon Captain Dawson entered my office. As soon as he was well inside he said: 44'Dr. McDow, you have been using uncrentlemanly language to one of my ser vants.' "This I denied. The Captain continued, 'I forbid you speaking to her.' 4I will speak to her when I please,'I replied. " 'If you speak to her I will publish you in the paper.' "'If you do I shall hold you personally responsible. I shall speak to her until you show me that you have proper authority to prevent me. "As*soon as I uttered these words, Captain Dawson, who was standing in front of me, struck me a staggering blow on the chest, which caused me to fall back over my lounge and strain my back. "I endeavored to get up, and while struggling to do so Captain Dawson gave me a cut across my head with a cane, indenting my hat and causing me to stagger again. "While trying to recover myself, and seeing him in the act of aiming another blow at me with his cane, 1 managed to go around to my desk and get my pistol, a self-cocking five shooter of 30 or 38 calibre. "As soon as I got my pistol in my hand, and burning under the blows I had received by fist and cane, and especially ; the latter, 1 fired at Captain Hawson j and I thought 1 struck him somewhere in ; the chest. "He staggered and fell in a northwest-1 erly direction on my office floor, beside the table near which he had been talking. He fell heavily to the floor." "He was breathing hard when I leaned over him and raised him up. My first thought was to go out and call in some physician and see the extent of the wound, and if possible resuscitate him." "How many shots were fired?" inquired the reporter. "Only one. As soon as he fell I ceased shooting." "Hid you leave your office immedir\ tsvl ??on aicij' ; "No; in the excitement of the moment caused by the shooting, and remotely, by a little unpleasantness I had just had with my wife, I did not act at once. "Not long after, however, I got my buggy to carry out my purpose of calling in medical aid, and drove to the corner of Bull and Iiutledge streets. On arriving there I saw Policeman Gordon, whom I told I had shot Captain Dawson. "With the policeman I then drove to Judge Magrath's and also to Mr. Julian Mitchell's. Neither one was in. I concluded it was best under the circumstances, to deliver myself to the authorities, and I went to the central station, where I surrendered myself. "Subsequently Judge Magrath called and saw me. I engaged him as my counsel, and shall also engage Mr. Julian Mitchell." Do vou know where your ball took effect?" "No, I suppose, however, in the heart' for it was nearly on a level with my pistol when I fired." "Had you ever had any previous words with Captain Dawson?" "None whatever; I scarcely knew him." THE INQUEST. The coroner's inquest was- held last Thursday. G.W.Williams was foreman of the jury. The proceedings, notwithstanding the drenching rain, attracted a great crowd of spectators. Four witnesses were examined. Policeman Gordon, to whom Dr. McDow, the prisoner, surrendered, testified to that fact and related the conversation with the prisoner en route to the station house. The only material statement is that the prisoner admitted killing Capt. Dawson. G. W. Harper, the colored hackman, testified that he was on the opposite side of the street when Capt. Dawson entered Dr. McDow's office, that after the shooting he heard the words "you said you would take my life, now I have taken yours." Harper testifies that a colored woman, a vender of peanuts, was peeping through the window and that McDow's cook, Emma Drayton, came to the gate and ordered her away. Moses Johnson, McDow's coachman, testified and_denied all knowl edge of the killing. He heard tne snot in the doctor's office and was ordered by McDow's wife to investigate the cause, but swore he did not go. Emma Drayton, the cook, also denied any knowledge of the affair, except as to hearing the pistol shot. She denied a great deal of Moses Johnson's testimony, also the testimony of Policeman Gordon and the hack driver Harper. A woman named Jane Mitchell was arrested on suspicion of being the peanut vender seen at McDow's office window. She denied having been there. She was not identified by Harper. During the entire inquest Dr. McDow was seated near where the witnesses stood to make their statements. He was apparently calm ; but a close examination showed that he was very nervous. His anxiety amounted almost to agitation. He was asked after the examination of each .vitness if he cared to ask any questions of them, fcut he declined. He also declined to make any statement, saying that he would do so at the proper time. One of the jurymen suggested that Dr. McDow be removed from the room while his coachman was being examined, but to this the solicitor objected, saying that a man accused is given the right under the law of facing every witness brought up to testify against him. The witnesses whose testimony is given were the only ones examined, the solicitor suggesting l?iw< iirtuiinni iwutlmoiw?iiad u> uuuLlu tiie jury to (Ibluiu what the law required of them, and to name any party implicated in it. The court rpom was then cleared, and the jury was left to make out their form of verdict. After a short consultation the following verdict was signed by the jury. "We find that the deceased, Capt. F. W. Dawson, came to his death from a gun shot wound inflicted by a gun in the hands of Dr. T. B. McDow, at the office of Dr. McDow on Rutledge street, between the hours of 3 and 6 o'clock on the 12th of TVToroh 18R0 ami that Mnses Johnson was accessory after the fact." Dr. McDow and Moses Johnson were committed to jail on the charge of murder. It is not thought that application will be made for bail, although the next term of the Charleston Sessions court will not convene until June. It is thought, however, that a change of venue will be asked. ADDITIONAL FACTS. [From the Sunday Budget, 10th. The public is still craving fresh developments in the fearful tragedy which has so lately been enacted in their midst. They seem to feel that the bottom of the McDow-Dawson matter has never been touched. There are certainly some witnesses who know more than they care to tell. Moses Johnson is probably the best informed witness of what passed in the house after the shooting. According to the opinion of a prominent lawyer, he being made accessory after the fact, his testimony before the coroner's jury cannot be introduced as evidence, the law providing that no man shall be required to bear witness against himself, and if he does not voluntarily take the stand during the trial, he cannot be put upon it, and his knowledge of those events of so great interest to every one, and probably so vital to theends of justice, will be completely barred out. From an authentic source it is learned that Mrs. McDow was upstairs when the shot was fired, and in the light of certain previous information which she had had of her husband's troubles?nothing, however, in immediate connection with the lamentable tragedy, or the causes which led to it?she concluded at once that he had committed suicide. She heard the shot and the scream and was morally certain that her husband had shot himself in the office. She rushed at once to the kitchen where Moses Johnson was eating his dinner, and begged him and Emma Drayton to run to the office and see what was the matter. Moses went and returned to tell her that the Doctor was safe, and most probably, he said, that Captain Dawson lay dead upon the floor. \V hether she went in the office or not must, at present, remain a mystery. At all events she rushed out of the house a few minutes later with her child, and went to the Waverly House where her father was, and retired at once to a room, from which she has never emerged. SKETCH OF CAFT. DAWSON. Capt. Francis Warrington Dawson was a native of London, England, and was born the 17th of May, 1840. Early in the late war espousing the cause of the Southern Confederacy, he shipped aboard a Confederate vessel, the Nashville, Capt. I'egram, and the vessel made a safe voyniTu rnnninnp tho hlrvlrarlp at Hpqnfnrt. rtr After reaching the Confederacy, Dawson was ordered to duty at Norfolk, Virginia, where he served for a short time. He was then ordered to New Orleans, but on approaching the city discovered that his ship had gone down and that the city had been captured by the enemy. He was ordered to duty on the James river, but everything was so dull and monotonous, and he became so anxious to engage in battle, that he resigned his commission in the navy and took service as a private with the Purcell battery, Field's brigade. Hill's division, Army of Northern Virginia, in June, 18G2. This was at the time of McC'leliau's memorable march on Richmond, and Dawson was very soon gratified with a fight. In the bloody engagement of Mechanicsville, on June 20, 1802, he was badly wounded, but remained fighting his gun until completely exhausted by loss of blood, and was carried from the field. In this engagement his conspicuous bravery attracted the attention of his devoted comrades, and called forth the admiration of his captain who recommended his promotion to a lieutenancy, which recommendation was immediately carried out by the secretary of war. Dawson could not be idle; an^, although suffering severely from his wound, he applied for a position in the ordnance corps, passed a thorough and brilliant ex amination, and in August, 1862, was commissioned first lieutenant of artillery and ordered to duty with Longstreet's corps as assistant ordnance officer of which corps he served until the fall of 1864. After the battle of South Mountain in 1862, just before Sharpsburg, Lieutenant Dawson was captured by the Federal cavalry which escaped from Harper's Ferry, was taken to Fort Delaware and there confined for some time. Lieutenant Dawson was exchanged just in time to, take part in the battle of Fredericksburg, in December, 1862. He was with Longstreet through the Gettysburg and East Tennessee campaigns, and was by his side when he was wounded and Jenkins was killed, at the Wilderness. In the winter of 1863-64 he passed an examination for promotion, and received his commission as captain of artillery in May, 1864. After his promotion he was relieved of his command at his own request, and appointed ordnance officer of Fitzhugh Lee's division. In this capacity Captain Dawson served through the Valley campaign of Five Forks on March 31, 1865, where he was wounded in the shoulder. In all his service to the Confederacy Captain Dawson distinguished himself by his bravery and his devotion to duty, however arduous and severe. In the camp 1 - - x l r, &DC1 on UIK leuieu iieiu no wao ^cuiai auu companionable, and in line he was always at his post. He was in several of the most important engagements of the war, in three ol whicli he was wounded, and served'until the surrender, when he was paroled in May, 1865. On November 10, 18G6, he arrived in Charleston for the purpose of assuming the duties of assistant editor of the Charleston Mercury, and it is worthy of note, that while in this position, in the Spring of 1867, Captain Dawson waited in person on the two Rhetts, father and son, and made the formal proposition to them l^haP they should advise the South to accept the 14th amendment, to avoid worse trouble; that the Mercury could do this, because no one would suspect it of cowardice or of disloyaly to the South; that it would ensure the prosperity of the Mercury, make it the paper of the South, and save the people from frightful misery. In the fall of 1867, October 26, Captain Dawson, Mr. B. It. Riordan and Mr. Benjamin Wood, of New York, purchased the Charleston News, which they published as the News until April 3, 1873, when they purchased the old Charleston Courier and consolidated the two papers under the name of the I News and Courier. Of his subsequent caj reer, fresh in the minds of the people of the State, it is needless here to speak. Captain Dawson was twice married, the first time in May, 1867, to Miss Fourgeaud, of Charleston, and in January, 1874, to the youngest daughter of Judge Thomas Gibbes Morgan, of Louisiana, who with two children, survives him. HIS SLAYER. Dr. Thomas Ballard McDow was born in Camden, Kershaw county, 36 years ago. U/-V moo nrimarlltr Qfllinnforl in his nativfi XXV/ VY C*0 pilUJUlllj VUWVMVVVf A ft-a ??? . w county, and at a matriculating age entered the Cumberland University, at Lebanon, Tennessee. There he pursued a course of medical study, and graduated with the' first honor of his class in 1874. Subsequently he came to Charleston, and became a student of the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, located in that city, and graduated with considerable merit, being the valedictorian of his class, composed of bright material. His standing in the college entitled him on graduation to a position as one of the physicians of the city hospital, and there he served until his term expired. Afterwards he established himself in Charleston, and has been practicing there ever since, and was getting into professional business. Some years ago he married the only daughter of Mr. C. I). Ahrens, a well-to-do retired grocery merchant of King street. One child is the result of the marriage. He is about five feet seven inches high, and weighs, probably, 130 pounds. He is a brunette, and has features somewhat strongly marked?the nose being slightly inclined to Roman. He wears a deep brown mustache, cut close to his lips. His, manner is decided, and not without the graces of good origin and culture. He is a son of Dr. R. S. McDow, who is a practicing physician of Lancaster county, in this State. i'orrespondenre of the Yorkville Enquirer. i . _ i>ui ts miuji mjatasiuciv. r ^.^kwkuik, March 18.?Our town enjoyed laat weetf bo nut- vary u r vices that were held in the Presbyterian church, the object of which was to awaken new interest among our people in the cause of foreign missions. The exercises were begun Monday evening, when addresses were delivered by Rev. W. M. Anderson, of Rock Hill, and Rev. Edward I Lane, a missionary from Brazil. On Tuesl day morning addresses were delivered by Revs. B. P. Reid, M. R. Kirkpatrick and Edward Lane. Mr. Lane's talks about Brazil and the mission work being carried on there were very interesting and instructive, and it is sincerely hoped that these services will accomplish great results in stirring up our people, of all denominations, to a higher sense of their duty and obligations in regard to that grand and glorious work of evangelizing the world. From this point Mr. Lane went to Rock Hill, whence he expected to go and visit other churches in the bounds of Bethel Presbytery. By special request he addresed the congregation of the colored Presbyterian church in this place on Tuesday evening. Mr. H. L. Duke, school commissioner of Fairfield county, paid the schools of our town and vicinity a visit on last Tuesday and Wednesday. Mr. Duke is a young man and this is his first term of public service. He has, however, had a very successful experience as a teacher and seems to possess every qualification that would fit him for acceptably discharging the important duties of his present position. He expressed himself as be(ng highly gratified with the condition of trh^ schools in Blackstock. Misses Nellie Cornwell and Lillie Hardin, two charming young lady-pupils of the Chester graded school, have been the guests of Miss May Durham for two or three days past. A negro child, whose mother cooks for Mr. J. C. Mackorell and lives on his place, was so badly burned about six o'clock last Saturday morning that it died within twenty-four hours. This little girl, who was about four years old, had been left with two other small children in the house, and it is supposed that in playing with the fire, the dress of one caught. When some persons living near were attracted to the house by the screams?of the suffering child, they found her whole body, from about the knees to the throat, more or les3 burnt. Coresponilenec of the Yorkville Enquirer. NOTES FROM (1R0VKR. Gkoveu, N. C., March 18.?This com-., munity was shocked and saddened by the sudden death of Mr. A. (J. Ham bright. On Tuesday evening last while hauling a load of lumber home, and while going down a hill, the chain with which the wagon wheel was locked broke, allowing the watron to run up on the team. Some of the lumber slipped forward between the hind mules. From this they became unmanageable and started on a run down the hill, throwing Mr. Ilambright off and two wheels of the wagon passed over his body, from the effects of which he died in thirty minutes. He was cut down in the prime of life aud in health and prosperity. lie leaves a wife and eight children. He was buried with Masonic honorsat Antioch church by Buffalo Lodge, No. 202, of which he was a member. The last two weeks have been spring-like and the farmers of this section have made good use of the fine weather in preparing the soil for their crops, gardening, &c. The fall sown oats and wheat are looking well, but need a light rain. The Farmers' Alliance in this section have succeeded in getting fertilizers on favorable terms. While there will be more used than should be, there will be a considerable falling off in the quantity as compared with previous years, which is favorable indication of economy. It is to, be hoped that the members of all Alliances will practice economy all around and make a double effort to produce all their supplies at home. It will require this to place the farmers on their feet and on the road to prosperity. Mrs. Ellen Quinn, widow of E. C. Q,uinn, died on the oth instant. She leaves four children. A Farmer. ? John L. Adams died in Macon on the 14th, after fasting for twenty-six days. It will be remembered that Adams, a prominent cotton factor in that city, committed forgeries for large amo""ts, and that he was arrested and jailed ;or these crimes. Since his incarceration he ' as stubbornly refused to eat or driuk, and at last he yielded to absolute exhaustion. He literally died of starvation. I LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. H. A. D. Neely, County Treasurer?LocalTax Notice. H. A. D. Neely, County Treasurer?Annual Report of the Treasurer of York C'ounfy-for the fiscal year 1887-'88. Mrs. T. M. Dobson?The New York Bargain House. M. A II. C. Strauss?We Call Attention. L. A. Johnson, School Commissioner?Exam ination of Teachers. J. II. Riddle?Every Article. ^ W. C. Latimer?Grand Central Hotel, New York City. / Geo. IT. O'Leary?Dealer in Furniture, Stoves/ Ac.?Saddles and Harness?Iron Safe. Withers Adickes?We Still Claim. May A May, Druggists?Now Goods ! New Goods ! ! W. G. Turner?Warning. F. Happerfield?Another supply of Elegant Hams?York Marble Yard. LOCAL SCHOOL TAX. The county treasurer gives notice elsewhere in this paper that the books for the collection of the special school tax of two mills, for the graded schools of Yorkville, will be open in his office from the 21st instant until the 20th of April, on which date the books will be closed, and 15 per cent, penalty will attach upon all taxes remaining unpaid. INTERESTING LECTURES. \ Rev. Edward Lane, a native of this State, . and for the past twenty years a missionary at Campinas, Brazil, delivered two very interesting lectures in the Presbyterian church at this place?one on Sunday night, and the other on Monday morning?detailing his experience as a missionary and the progress of the spread of the gospel and. the growth o 1 Christianity in that country. Ifljis arrival here was previously unannounced, and it is regretted that it was not more generally known. 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 7.30 o'clock. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. The pastor being absent, there will be no services in his church next Sunday. Sunday-school at 8 P. M. 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'clock. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J. C. Galloway, Pastor. The pastor being absent, there will be no services in his churches next Sunday. Sunday-school at 3.30 P. M. Baptist?Rev. R. G. Patrick, Pastor. The pastor being absent, there will be no services in his church next Sunday. Sunday-school at 3.30 P. M. Prayer-meeting to-rnbrrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. A DOUBLE MARRIAGE. - The chimes of wedding bells pealed out merrily yesterday. The noon train on the Chester and Lenoir Railroad brought a gay party of about twenty from Gaston county, N. G\, to the Parish Hotel, and when the landlord was notified by one of the number that the party would make up at least two marriages as soon as the parson arrived, his eyes twinkled, and the news went from guest to guest, it being the dinner hour, and soon the hotel was in commotion. Rev. W. W. Daniel was summoned to perform the ceremony binding the nuptial cords on two couples for life, and when he arrived, the parlor of the hotel was thrown open. The visitors assembled, and also a goodly number of the regular guests of the house, when Mr. R. A. Parham and Miss Laura J. Falls, and Mr. C. W. Parham and Miss Maggie Ferguson, with their respective attendants, stood upon the floor and the ceremony uniting the two couples in the holy bonds of wedlock was impressively performed by the officiating minister. The happy couples received the congratulations of their friends, when they repaired to dinner, which had been ordered at the ' hotel. They returned to their homes on the evening train. The following is a list of the prisoners now in jail, awaiting trial at the next term of the sessions court, which will convene on the first Monday of next month: William Edwards, larceny of live stock. Enllftr Snrratt. hreaoh of the Deace. John Rozzelle, forgery. Robert Smarr, William Smarr, ars..n. Alonzo Falls, highway robbery. Lee Rogers, burglary. Bishop Patton, Henry Massey, Peter Kennedy, housebreaking and grand larceny. William Barnett, rape. Jim Hicks, grand larceny. Jasper Partlow, horse-stealing. Pleasant Witherspoon, Andrew Witherspoon, arson. Meek Barnett, highway robbery. Edward Edwards, assault and battery with intent to kill. Charles McManus, John C. Feaster and Charles Colston, charged with the murder of W. C. Abernathy on the night of January 24th last. Richmond Jeter, larceny. Matthew Harris, grand larceny. Mitchell Davi9, burglary and larceny. Amos McCoy and Calvin Adkinson, housebreaking and larceny. Robert Miller, obtaining money under false pretenses. All of the above are colored, and besides those in jail, there are several under bond to answer for similar offenses. 1 --V^PETIT JURORS?SECOND WEEK. / On yesterday the following names were drawn to serve as petit jurors, commencing on the second Monday of the approaching term, and continuing so long as their attendance may be required, the jury law, as applying to York county, having been amended at the last session of the Legislature authorizing the presiding Judge to detain the jurors drawn for the second week until all jury cases shall be disposed of. Heretofore they were required to attend only for the week. The following is the list: C. T. Thomas King's Mountain." F. I). Davidson, York. W. B. Sealey, Bethesrin*. W. J. Miller, Ebenezer. W. A. Love, King's Mountain. T. C. Dunlap, York. G. A. Gettya, Catawba/ J. S. Sailler, iwit, I L. A. Propes, King's Mountain. Joseph A.Smith, York. J. II. Henry King's Mountain. K. W. Burris, Bethesda.-R. B. Glenn, Bethel.,-' Frol. Mobley, Catawba^ T. J. Strait Bethesda^ F. P. Giles, Catawba^. I). F. Neoly, Catawba.': R. Frank Lindsay, Betbesda,W. G. Finley, Bethel^ J. B. Prather, Ebenezer. D. P. Lesslie, Catatvbar-A\ G. Crawford, King's Mountain* J. J.Daniels, Catawba* I). J. Moore, Bethel?* G. H. O'Leary, York. 10. R. Mills, Catawba*J. F. Oates York. W. If. Crook Fort Mill. T. B. Ross, Cherokee. A. J. Berry, Bullock's Creek. Joseph Ilaniel, York-. J. Newton Steele, CatawbaJ. A. Hope, Broad River." J. L. Plexieo, Bullock's Creek. S. G. Keistler Catawba. J. B. Thomasson, York. PERSONAL MENTION. Mrs. M. Strauss has returned home from an extended visit to Charleston. Mrs. S. M. McNeel has returned from a visit to Union county. Mr. Henry C. Mills, of Salem, N. C., arrived in Yorkville yesterday. /Mr. John F. Jefferys, of Spartanburg, is visitine- his relatives in this place. y We received a pleasant call on Friday last from Mr. James G. Love, of Smith's , Ford, Union county, S. C. Mr. Greene Sandifer left here last Sun- i day afternoon for Atlanta, Ga., where he has gone to accept a position as postal clerk on the Air-Line Railroad. Gen. Wilder, vice-president of the Three , C's Railroad, visited Yorkville again this ( week, and spent a day or two examining i the granite quarries in the vicinity of I town. The report is current that Col. R. A. Johnson, general manager of the Three | C's Railroad, was stricken with apoplexy ] a few days ago at Blacksburg. Our infor- ' mation is that for the past few days he has been indisposed, having suffered from an attack of paralysis in the face. At latest accounts he was doing quite well, with the prospect of an early recovery. -t/Mj*. Paul G. McCorkle, who was seriously hurt on the railroad at Clover on the evening of the 7th instant, was removed to his home in this place last Monday. His many friends will be pleased to learn Mat he is getting along very well. ^ Mt. R.T.Allison, postal clerk on the Air-Line Railroad, who has been coufined to his room at Atlanta ever since the accident last December, by which he sustained serious injuries, returned to his home in this place last Wednesday. He was accompanied from Atlanta to Yorkville by his young friend, Mr. J. C. Davenport, also a postal clerk on the Air-Line road. We were pleased to receive a call last Wednesday from Major Theo. Dehon, the veteran newspaper canvasser and agent, who is now traveling in the interest of the Charleston World, and presenting the claims of that journal to the people of the State. The World is a new journalistic enterprise in Charleston, and though having only completed its first year, has already attained a high position as a firstclaas and ably-conducted daily. ^Intelligence has been received here that Mr. Robert Brice, a law student at this place who is visiting his mother at Due WJest, is dangerously sick from a relapse of measles. X. LOCAL LACONICS}. Mr. H. Wr^Hope has been appointed a&^istant agent at the C. & L. depot at this place, vice A. F. McConnell resigned. Of the thirty-two members of the senior class who will graduate from the South Carolina College next June, York has not a representative. The next session of Bethel Presbytery will conveneat Blackstock, Fairfield county, on the 12th of April. Rev. J. H. Thornwell, pastor of Fort Mill church, will preach the opening sermon. A mink which had the temerity to enter Tom Ballard's premises in broa^l daylight last Saturday afternoon, was shot by him, and the body turned over to a little boy who skinned it and sold the hide for seventy-five cents. Referring to the post office at Darlington, Washington correspondents speak of the postmistress there as the widow of Gen. E. M. Law. Gen. Law is living, and his home is in Yorkville. The incumbent referred to is the widow of his brother. Last Friday evening the dump car used by the section hands under Capt. Adams on the Three C's Railroad, came very near being run over by tneaown ?noo jf iy train, and to avoid a catastrophe those who were on the car scrambled off as best they could, throwing the car off the track and out of the way of the approaching engine. Wm. Gill, colored, one of the men on the dump, received a severe cut on the cheek, extending nearly the length of his face. Dr. D. C. Atkinson was summoned to his relief and rendered necessary surgical attention. Correspondence of the Yorkvllle Enquirer. NOTES FROM L0WRYSV1LLE. Lowrysville, March 19.?The weather in this section has been fine for several days, and farm work has been rapidly advanced. Several horses and mules have recently died in this vicinity from blind staggers, supposed to have been caused by eating unsound corn. Mrs. Erwin lost one, W. R. Sims two, G. Williams and several others one each. Several of Lowrysville's citizens are in attendance upon court (at Chester) to-day. u NO who. \ Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. FORT MILL MATTERS. Port Mill, March 18.?The business men of this place on last Saturday organized a Building and Loan Association. The following officers were elected to look president; F. M. Whitesell, second vicepresident ; L. N. Culp, M. M. Mooney, II. A. Fulp, A. W. Parks, Thomas Suell, J. VV. Ardrey. Mr. J. M. Spratt was elected secretary and treasurer. Mr. M. M. M >oney has purchased the residence of Mrs. M. J. Withers, and last week moved his family from Shelby, N. C., to this place. Mrs. Withers is now occupying the Durant residence. c. Cort-Mpondencc of the Yorkville Euqoirer. j notes from sharon. Sharon, March 18.?Our town was very agreeably surprised on Saturday afternoon last by the Blairsville Cornet Band, which paid us a visit and discoursed some excellent music, after which the members partook of a splendid supper, prepared by the ladies of the place, and served at the residence of Mr. Robt. R. Plexico. The farmers in this section have begun work in earnest, hnd consequently there are few people around town, except those who come on business. There are a great many farmers trading here?several who live in Chester county. We will soon boast of adrug store, which will be opened by Dr. J. P. Hambright. Messrs. Good & Plexico have in operation a shingle machine. Mr. John B. Ross has moved his family into his new house. Mr. Jos. M. Plexico will soon have his new residence finished, when he will move into it. w. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. Better from rock hill. Rock Hill, March 18.?As our citizens were on their way to church yesterday morning, they were startled by the alarm of fire. In a short time a large crowd had gathered at the Carolina Hotel, from which place the alarm was given. The cause of the alarm was the burning out of a chimney flue in the hotel building. Oh Thursday morning a dog belonging to Mr. F. B. Thomasson left home showing signs of hydrophobia. He came in the direction of Rock Hill and was killed here. On his way he killed a goose belonging to Mr. John G. Steele, and bit several dogs, two belonging to Mr. Robert Hope, Jr., which he has since killed. This morning another dog in the same section showed symptoms of the same disease, and was followed and killed. The young ladies of this place are practicing for a fan drill, to be given soon in l^oddey's Hall, for the benefit of the cornetbtmd. -'"Mr. Thos. F. McDow, of the law firm of Wtfson & Wilson & McDow, will remove to Yorkville on April 10th, where he will permanently locate. Mr. McDow, during his short stay at this place, has won many friends who regret to see him leave. -Mr. W. Norman Elder organized a Farmers' Alliance, near Coates's Tavern, last week. Mr. J. T. Ferguson waseiecieu president, and Mr. N. 13. Williams, secretary. Work will soon be commenced on the buildings for the Davis Canning and Can- 1 dy Company. . Hal. ('orrespoudence of tbe Yorkville Enquirer. ITEMS FROM UNION COURT HOUSE. ! Union, S. C., March 15.?Rev. Thos. IX. Leitch, the evangelist, who has been carrying on a series of meetings for the past two weeks, is doing a noble work for our town. Last Wednesday and Thursday i nights the door of the church was opened, .? and 45 persons, mostly young people, I offered themselves as candidates for the < church of God; some for the Methodist, i and some for the Baptist church. i Last Tuesday was set apart as a day of I prayer for the young men of this town. < All of the places of business closed for two hours?even the bar-rooms?and a glorious, i happy meeting it was. There never was such a meeting held in Union before, i Two of the bar-keepers attended this service, one of whom has not been in a church for many years. We have had some beautiful weather I for the past week. < I learn that a white boy by the name of Henry Short, who lounged around our . 3treets for some days, committed an as- i mult upon a little negro girl, aged 7 years, < near West Springs, in this county. The ' ?irl died a few hours afterward and the i negroes in that section are greatly excited i over the act. . < Miss Daisy Gist, of Yorkville, who has j i been visiting relatives and friends at this i place for some time, left for her home lasst i Tuesday. w. o. u. 11 ... Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FR()M~BLACKSBURti. Blacksburcj, March 18.?Since accepting the superiutendency of the Southern I division of the Three C's Railroad, Major j Jones has organized and established a gen-1 eral office at this place lo facilitate its j operations as well as to more effectively : direct the different traffic departments. I Mr. M. M. Freeman, who has been asso- j ciated with the Major in the management | of the road since the opening of the Ruth- | erfordton division, has been appointed ! auditor and cashier, and as such has charge of details relative to the accounting for revenues from all sources and of all expenses relative to freight and passenger business. Mr. H. J. Orme is chief cierk in the freight department, and Mr. PL If. Johnson chief clerk in the passenger department. In the operating department, Mr. T. C. Grier is in charge of the telegraph service of trains, Mr. J. R. Mew of transportation, Mr. G. C. Hutting of bridges and building, and Mr. I. Martin, of machinery, etc. Mr. G. McD. Higgins, of this place, was one of the killed in the fearful wreck that occurred at Clifton, on the Air Line railroad last Saturday morning. He was on board the foremost of two sections of freight on his way to Easley to visit his parents, who live at that place. AtClifton the first section stopped but neglected to send out a flagman or otherwise signal the second section, which soon came rushing around a curve at a high rate of speed, and crashing into it creattd dreadful havoc. Two men were killed almost instantly and four others seriously, if not fatally, hurt. The loss to the rauroaa, including the wrecked engine, is roughly estimated at about $50,000. Young Higgins was about nineteen years of age. He has been a resident of this place since last fall, and was employed in the drug store of I)r. T. B. Whitesides. He was a quiet, steady young man and had made many friends here. ? -? Correspondence of the Yorkvllle Enquirer. NOTES FROM BLAIRSV1LLE. Blaiksville, March 18.?We are having some very tine weather and the farmers seem to have gone to work with a full determination of trying to make farming a success in the future. Your correspondent had the pleasure of visiting the new town of Sharon some days ago, and found it doing a flourishing business, there being as many as seventy wagons there in one day, hauling off supplies and fertilizers. We hope Sharon will continue to bloom, and will soon be the rose along the line of the Three C's, as it will be a great advantage to the farmers of this section. The farmers of our section are about done sowing oats. There has been a great amount of oats sown, and there will be a demand for them. Oats that were sown in the month of February are looking fine. The prospect of a good wheat crop is somewhat gloomy at present. Some of our fast farmers are talking of planting a good deal of corn this week. The?Blairsville school seems to be in a flourishing condition and the patrons seem to be well pleased with their competent teacher, Miss i .nna Brice. She has nine Latin students and several music pupils. Miss Alice ltoss, who has been very ill for some weeks, is better, and by careful attention will soon be able to be up again. Mr. M. M. Ross, who has been at home, for some time, has returned to Due West, where he will complete his studies. Little Rubie Burris, who had the misfortune of getting his leg broke some weeks ago, and who has been staying at his uncle Robert Moore's since the acci-1 dent, was removed to his home, near McConnellsville, last week. He is doing well. Mrs. Sarah Russell, who has been visiting her daughter at Walhalla, has returned home after an absence of two months. Miss Agnes J. Sherer, of Bullock's creek, is yisiting friends and relatives near Blairsville. Messrs. Will and John Lucas, of Blacksburg, were visiting friends and relatives in this place last week. Croaker. Correspondence of tbe Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM CHESTER. Chester, March 19.?The new telegraph line along the route of the Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railroad, reached here from Monroe one day last week. As soon as the communication was made complete, and the keys in the two towns began to beat as one, Mayor Terrell, of wodr(wrl*jui uvw Ufa atW 1 good wishes to the people of Chester. Mayor Jones promptly returned the compliment, and now everything is lovely and the wire hangs high. P^r some time past the Stonewall Fire Engine Company, of this place, has been apparently on its last legs. On the other hand, the colored fire organization, the "Lincolns," has been full of life, and always promptly on the scene at the first ringing of the fire bell. Fortunately, there has been no great need for the services of any organization for a long time. This was no excuse, however, for the degenerate condition of the "Stonewall's," once a power in the town, and so an effort was made last Tuesday night to overhaul the company, and put it in ship shape once more. The meeting was held in the council room, and was entirely successful in the accomplishing of that where unto it was called. The company was reorganized, and the names of twenty one members were enrolled at once. The follow- ' ing officers were chosen: D. Hemphill, President; B. M. Spratt, Chief; John B. McFadden, W. H. Hood, John R. Thompson, J. T. Jvy, Directors ; VV. E. Moffatt, Chief Engineer; T. H. White, Secretary and Treasurer. The axemen and nozzlemen will be appointed at the next meeting, to be held on Friday night of this week, at which, meeting additional members will he received and the reorganization completed. Two committees were also appointed to report at the next meeting; one to confer with the town council and to see if that body will buy rubber coats for the nozzlemen; the other to consider the question of a new uniform, and to report on Friday night whether or not they think a new one necessary, and if so, what kind. Speaking of the town council, that body has recently rented and comfortably furnished a place of meeting, the room secured being that formerly occupied by Mr. F. L. Whitlock as a law office. Their former place of meeting was entirely uusuitea to the purpose, and had the appearance inside of a deserted lumber room. Mr. (ieo. F. L.atimer, aged about sixtyfive years, dropped dead in his yard on Friday afternoon. At the time of his death Mr. Latimer was going from the wood pile to the house, when he suddenly fell, dying almost immediately, the trouble being heart disease. The deceased was a native of York county, and was by trade a cabinet maker. For a time he worked at his trade in Winnsboro, but came to Chester about forty years ago, to work for James Aiken, who at that time had a shop below and across the street from the present site of Brice A Carpenter's stables. Mr. Latimer's wife, who survives him, is a sister of-Judge Hudson. The Chester and Cheraw train ran over a small negro child about one mile this side of Lancaster, on Friday afternoon. The wheels passed over the knee of one leg, making necessary an amputation, which was performed by Dr. S. E. Babcock, the company's physician. At the time of the accident this child and a companion were playing on a trestle. As the train drew near one of the little darkies got scared and tumbled off, falling quite a distance, but sustaining no injury. The new passenger depot and baggage room of the ltichmond and Danville Company, were opened for use last week. The new depot is as pretty as a summer house and no less convenient than pretty. It stands between the narrow gauge and broad gauge tracks and fills the demand exactly. Two comfortable waiting rooms are provided, one on either side of the ticket office, one for whites, the other for ?nd as the accommodations are equal, neither color can grumble. The township board of equalization was | in session on Thursday, and once more j had a good opportunity to see how torpid ire the consciences of some good citizens. ! Mr. Robert P. Sweat and Miss Catharine i Willis were married on the 9th. Mr. Hazel D. Byars died near Wilksburg on the 8th instant in the twenty-sec-! Dnd year of his age. Court opened at ten o'clock yesterday, Judge Fraser presiding. The organization M the grand jury followed, Mr. P. L. IlarJin being chosen as foreman of that body. J The judge charged the jurors fully and clearly concerning their duties, laying spe- j cial stress upon the need and importance af examining into the workings of the county officers. Special attention was also called to the laws against gambling and the irregular sales of intoxicating liquors. A number of bills was given the grand jury for consideration. During the day the grand jury brought in true bills against the following offenders: Brooks Bobbins and .Samuel Brice, carrying concealed weapons; Thomas .Johns alias Banks, forgery; Issabud Lumpkin, assault and battery with intent to kill; Vander Hewitt, Brooks Bobbins, Victoria Hardin, Fred Washington, Henry Elder and Pink Walker, larceny of various kinds and degrees ; John Nelson, burglary. A true bill was also found against James Comer for shooting Isaac McFadden, of Fort Lawn, the charge being assault and battery with intent to kill. No bill was found in the case of Sicily Wright, a warlike Amazon, who tried to make hash of one of her own sex here a few weeks ago. It is said that this offender intended pleading guilty, but the grand jury saved her that trouble, Pleading guilty was quite in the fashion yesterday, five of the malefactors named above having availed themselves of that privilege as their names were called. Two cases were tried regularly, that against John Nelson for burglary, and thatayainst Victoria Hardin for stealing twenty six ears of corn from M. I). Allen. Both these cases resulted in conviction. Judge Fraser believes in passing sentences as he goes along. He gave Sam Briee and Brooks Robbins each two months in jail or $20 fine, for making walking armories of themselves; Thomas Banks, for his skillful use of the pen in signing Holman Caldwell's name to a note of his own drawing, got twelve months in the penitentiary and a five dollar fine. All three of the above had plead guilty and hence secured some of the quality of mercy. The trial of Thomas Lipford and Walker Smith for the murder of Sam Buff was commenced to-day, and ended late in the afternoon with a verdict of acquittal. The jury was out about ten minutes. A forestry convention for Chester county has been called to meet at Glenn & McLure's office on Friday, the 22d instant. The call is signed by the following well known citizens: J. L. Harris, J. J. McLure, H. A. Green, T. N. Berry and J. L. Glenn. The object of the meeting is to organize a forestry association, which %nay afterward lengthen its cords so as to take in othA counties and thus grow into a state organization. The aim of the association, as your correspondent understands it, is two-fold, to encourage in all possible ways the planting out of new trees, and the protection of those already here. Mr. Robert H. Stringfellow died here on Saturday night. The funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church at four o'clock Sunday afternoon, Rev. J. S. Moffatt preaching the sermon. The church was filled to overflowing with a large crowd that gathered to pay their last respects to him wnose long me, stretching seven years beyond the scriptural limit of threescore and ten, had at last come to a peaceful close. Mr. Stringfellow was born on upper Fishing Creek. Shortly after the close of the war he removed to Florida, but after a residence of eight years in that State he returned, in 1874, to his native county. He was a member of the Presbyterian church for over a half a century, for twenty-five years of that time exercising the office of a ruling elder. Mr. Stringellow's wife still survives him, together with five sons and two daughters. Two of the sons reside in Florida. John Thomas and Miss Maggie Lee were united in the holy and perpetual bonds of wedlock on the 14th instant by Trial Justice Leckie. This wedding was of the runaway variety. A number of bridges were torn up in the northwestern part of the town on last Thursday night. This is the second time that the bridges have been disturbed during the present year. It must be the fermentation of spirituous and malt liquors. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM UNION COUNTY. Etta Jane, March 18.?At present the weather isspringlike. The shower of rain last Friday and warm sunshine now are showing on vegetation. Wheat and other small grain crops are making a fine show. We have never seen the peach trees so slow in blooming. Our friend William Byers gives us what he says is a sure index to a peach crop. He says all the blooms do not mature fruit; only those "twin buds" produce mature fruit. The single buds merely make a form that falls off before it matures. Of course -the question of frosts is left out. If he is' right we may look for a reasonable crop of peaches this year. TTtrr peoprcure planting sugar cane extensively. We are at a loss to know what has become of the York "cow buyers." The cattle on a thousand hills seem to be holding a regular bovine congress in this neighborhood, and among them are some first Class "say rocKeis." oome 01 uur citizens have cornered on cows and intend to make the Charleston people pay for their beef. The stock law is a dead letter here. Wheat, oats, turnips, potatoes, &c., are at the mercy of roving cattle. Mr. Leander Petty and Miss Nannie Worthy were married yesterday by J. L. Strain, N. P. This is the fourth time Mr. Petty has been married?and he isn't more than 45 yet. Widowers, don't despair. Sigma. GENERAL NEWS NOTES. ? Virgil Jackson was hanged at Utica, N. Y., last Thursday for the murder of Norton Metcalf on the 27 th of January of last year. Willis Green, Anderson Mitchell and Daniel Jones, all colored, were hanged at Arkadelphia, Ark., on Friday, for the murder of a negro preacher named Arthur Horton, May 21, 1888. The execution was private. ? Thomas Woolfolk, the alleged murderer of nine members of his family in l$ibb county, Georgia, has obtained a change of venue from that county, on his second trial, the empaneling of a jury for which was attempted last week. After exhausting the entire jury list of the county and failing to obtain twelve jurors, the judge ordered that the case be transferred to Houston county, in which court convenes the first week in May. ? A Washington dispatch in the Charleston Budget of Sunday says: It is said that ex-Congressman Smalls will be appointed to one of the auditorships of the treasury department, or, if he likes, he can have the position of minister to Hayti. This, it is said will be the only appointment of anv importance that will be given by President Harrison to any negro. Nearly all of the South Carolina Republicans have left the city disgusted. They say that it looks jus though the party in the South will uot receive any recognition by the president. ? The weekly weather crop bulletin, issued last Sunday by the sigual office at Washington, says: There has been a deficiency in rainfall for the week in all districts except North and South Carolina, where there has been an excess. Seasonable rains fell largely in excess in the South Atlantic States and on the Pacific coast. There was a slight deficiency in New Knglaud and the central valleys, and in Dakota and Minnesota. Favorable reports have been received from the South Atlantic and (iulf States, where spring planting has madeexcellent progress, cane planting being nearly completed in Louisiana. There have been three light frosts in that State during the week. There have been no adverse reports received from any section, and the week has in general been favorable for farm work in most districts. am V U&YAL *4KlN6 POWDER Absolutely Pure. This powder never vnrles. A marvel of purity, strengthand wholesotncness. More economical than the ordinary kinds,and cannot be sold in competition with the multitude of low tost short weight alum or phosphate powders. Soi.d oni.y tM c* ns ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., KM Wall St., N. Y. (fij- At wholesale liy WALTER B. MOORE Jt CO., Yorkvilli; 8. C. March 28 13 lv V