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Jwajjs and ^facts. ? General Wade Hampton has returned two flags to the fifth Pennsylvania Cavalry, which had been captured during the civil war. These flags were borne by the cavalry during the war and were captured by General Hampton's command. The presentation wasmade through Hon. M. S. Quay. ? Doctors and scientific men in Scran. ton. Pa., are interested in a peculiar case which has developed in that city. Ten days ago Charles Nier ran a needle into his foot. Surgeons sought in vain for it. Thursday afternoon Nier was taken to the plant of the Suburban Electric Eailway and his foot held near one of the dynamos. In fifteen minutes the needle was drawn oat. ? Prank M. Perry and Miss Kate Burroughs of Bridgeport, Conn., were married last week after a courtship of nearly thirty years. The long delay was caused by a Jirovision in the will of Miss Burroughs's ather disinheriting her in case she mar ried Mr. Perry. After hesitating for nearly thirty years, she consulted a lawyer, who promised to find a way out of the difficulty, and she concluded to take the risk. ? The Chinese question is not confined to the United States.. Chili gives a free passage and fifteen days board and lodging to European immigrants, but will not have Chinamen on any terms. A decree has been issued, which prohibits them from landing. The Chinese appear to excite antipathy wherever they go in numbers. They "take" well as curiosities, but are not wanted as citizens. ?Advices have been received from Samoa which show that there was no foundation whatever for the late sensahte tinnnl fflfnrtr relative to the sinking of r the United SStes man-of-war Nipsic, by the Germans. On the contrary everything is quiet and the Germans have entirely given up their aggressive policy. The German and American war vessels still remain at Apia, ready for any emergency that may arise. ? The scheme of annexing the suburbs to the city of New York ana in that way making it the greatest city in the world, is again before the people. A bill is now be fore the legislature appointing a commission to inquire into the practicability of the scheme. The Herald, which is the cham{>ion of annexation, says: "It is a grand dea and would make a magnificent city of New York, with an area of 320 square miles and a population of 3,000,000. ? An explosion occurred Friday afternoon in the mixing room .of the United States Dynamite company, near Toms% River, N. J., which gave the inhabitants* for fifteen to twenty miles around the impression that an earthquake or volcano had broken loose. Two men were in the building. One was blown to atoms and the other nearly so, but he lived long enough to say that he could give no reason for the1 - explosion. ? When Frank M. Smith, superintendent of public instruction in Tennessee, declared himself openly to be a friend of the Blair educational bill, the Legislature exEressed its displeasure at such sentiments y cutting off his traveling expenses. Smith has written the Governor that if the Legislature persists in this course he will be compelled to resign. Cutting down the pay of so important a school officer as the superintendent of education is an odd way to fight the Blair bill. ?The Iowa State Register, the newspaper of the new first assistant postmaster general, Col. James S. Clarkson, explains the reason of his appointment by the statement that "to change these postoffices, amounting to nearly 64,000 in number, from Democratic to Republican hands, and increasing the credit and reputation of the party in doing it, will require an unusual knowledge of men and politics." This information Col. Clarkson possesses, and "the President insisted upon his services at Washington on account especially of his knowledge of politics and of the workers in the campaign, and the obligations of the party towards such men." ? Pete and Tim Barrett, who murdered street car driver Thos. Tollefron, July 26, 1RS7. wftrfl hano-ad at Minneanolis. Minn.. last Friday morning. Tollefron was murdered when on duty by three men for his cash box, which contained only $20. Thg^ihr^jjjgn were three Barrett boys. was arrested for another offence, confessed while in jail, and was the principal witness against his brothers at their trials. The trials were long and exciting, and persistent efforts have been made since the conviction to secure a pardon for "Pete Barrett, who was only eighteen years old. ? The bagging trust, or pool, which caused a good deal of excitement and excited much opposition on the part of cotton planters and others last year, and which expired by limitation last December, has, it is announced in St. Louis, practically been reorganized and will be run or managed by the same parties as before. | The plan of operation will not exactly be the same as last year, however, and prices are not expected to be pushed up so nigh ; but it is alleged that it will not be long before they reach ten cents per pound. It is said that there is a corner in jute butts in New York, and that they are half a cent higher now than they were last season. ? The Oklahoma tract proper embraces about 1,800,000 acres of unassigned land in the Indian Territory. The President has just approved the deed by which the 8eminole Indians convey to the government all their title to adjacent lands of wide extent. The Creeks have likewise ceded their lands in the same country. The area thus ceded embraces about 5,500,000 acres, which, with the Oklahoma tract proper, has Texas upon its western border. The term Oklahoma is often applied to the whole country. The "boomers" are anxious to go in and possess it. The President will soon, by proclamation, declare the country open for settlement. ? It is said that the Southern Homestead Company, of Philadelphia, wishes to buy lands in South Carolina for the purpose of colonizing iu imsoiaio mruaers wnui.aunot longer endure the winter of a more northern region. The company have acted wisely in selecting South Carolina as the field of their operations. The colonists will find here a genial climate and generous soil, but above all they will find a people who will extend to them a warm and sincere welcome. Good Northern farmers are wanted in every part of the State. They can find no section of the whole country where they will be more gladly received, and, if they come, will soon learn from practical experience the truth of the oft repeated saying, that there is really no place like South Carolina. ?Senator Jonathan Chace, who has left the United States Senate and returned to his "continent" in Rhode Island, is a Quaker. Like Whittier, he says "thee" jand "thou," although the reporters in the Congressional Record usually change his remarks for print. Being a Quaker, Mr. Chace never availed himself of his right to name cadets for West Point or Annapolis, and he invariably declined to serve on any war-like committees, such as military, navy, fortifications or coast defenses. He believed with the old Lollards that war was wrong and unnecessary. Senator Chace never sat for his photograph. He returns to the shades of his cotton mills, and will be happy in his little "continent" at home. It is said that the principal reason for his resignation is that he entertains the belief that improper methods were employed to secure his election. ? me uuiteu out tea i^i3tnv;i> cuuu, Judge J. J. Jackson presiding, has been engaged last week at Wheeling, in trying parties indicted at the last term for violations of the election laws. The cases excite a good deal of interest, owing td the fact that with four exceptions, seventy odd indictments are all against Republicans, and the cases being prosecuted by District Attorney Watts, who refused to resign at President Harrison's request and who said publicly that his resignation was demanded that these indicted parties might not be convicted. The Repulicans claimed that the indictments were found for effect on the pending election contests. So far twenty-one cases have been disposed of, embracing the casting of illegal votes. Of these twenty-one cases, two indictments were dismissed by the district attorney and seventeen were acquitted. The court adjourned last Saturday evening until yesterday. ? The negro exodus from North Carolina continues, and the negroes in the eastern counties seem to be crazed with the emigration fever. There are hundreds who have sold everything they possessed except the clothing on their backs and are waiting to go any where on any termsasking only that their railroad fare be paid. The exodus is to no little extent being felt by the farmers who had the negroes employed and depended on them to work through the season, because it is somewhat difficult to replace the negroes with white labor. A mass meeting of negroes was held in Raleigh last Friday night'at which the North Carolina Emigration Association was permanently organized. The object of the association is to colonize negroes in Arkansas. A State convention was called to meet in Raleigh April 22nd, to organize the whole State. ? In Rio Janeiro, at present there is but one topic?the epidemic which is making such great ravages among all classes. The official returns of death from yellow fever from the commencement of the year sum up 15,000 victims from that form of fever alone, and mortality from other types is unusually great. The inhabitants at Rio are dying off at the rate of 2,000 a month in a city of three hundred thousand, largely depleted by the flight of every one able to take refuge in the highland Sanitaria. Children from ten years down are the special prey, even infants a few days old succumb to the plague, and no medical skill avails to save the families of the most eminent physicians from decimation. No doubt the great severity of the epidemic arises from the complete failure of the rainy season to make its appearance, resulting in the great scarcity of water and in the drying up of swamps. Ifir itorMic fcuircr. YORKTILIE, S. C. : WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1889. FARMING IN SOUTH CAROLINA. The Charleston Newsand Courier of last Wednesday devoted considerable space to the publication of the views of the representative farmers throughout the State who have made farming a success. The opinions as expressed by these men throw a flood of light upon the agricutural situation in this State. They show that there are abundant opportunities in South Carolina for money making by farming; that farming will pay and does pay when it is conducted with the thought and attention that are given toother industrial pursuits, and that the difficulties in the way can be removed by patient and intelligent labor. The simple lesson of all that the farmers say seems to be that when farming is regarded as a serious business and is conducted on business principles and by business methods, the chances of success are equally as good as in other business enterprises. We copy from the News and Courier the following views of successful farmers in York county: W. N. ELDER, a prosperous and successful farmer in the southern part of York, and President of L^n nrv* A 1 lin on DO*TO U1C X UiA v>uuu ty x aiuiuio xxumuvvj onjo "In regard to my system of farming; when I labored and made a hand on the farm, taking the lead myself, I had all my plans laid out ahead and worked up to them ; but now, being a surveyor, I am necessarily absent from home at least half of my time. Hence I have no general plans, but manage as best I can according to circumstances. I plant from ten to twelve acres of cotton to the plough, about the same of corn, four or five acres of wheat, and the same of oats. I raise hogs sufficient to supply my own family in meat. In short, I try to raise my own bread and meat. "In my opinion farming can be made to pay by raising our own supplies at home, and having cotton, which is our money crop, for a surplus. The reason we hear so many complaints that farming does not pay, is on account of bad management, idleness, extravagance and buying on time at exorbitant prices. "I hardly know what to say in regard to the comparative value of the different crops. They are all valuable. "I am a strong advocate for the use of home-made manure, as its improvement is permanent, whilst commercial fertilizers tend to strain and exhaust the soil, hence when used it has to be continued or the land will fail to yield remunerative crops. "As I stated before, I generally hire my hands for wages, and my object in doing.so is that I can control the labor better I have my stables and lots cleaned out and apply the manure when made. Croppers and renters are careless and negligent about making manure and putting it out when made. As to labor, the negro, if properly managed, seems to be as good a laborer as we can get. He has to be watched and directed like a machine. He could be made more efficient if the employer would be more positive and exacting, requiring him to comply strictly with the terms of his contract, and at the same time the employer must be careful to fulfill his part of the contract. By so doing I think a great revolution could be effected." J. L. RAINEY, a wide-awake, prosperous and successful farmer in Western York, says: "I find from actual personal experience that the best system of farming is for every farmer to constantly watch closely and see that they do good work, that they do not plough the land too wet. I think that a great many crops are ruined by the colored farmers ploughing the land when it is too wet. I think too many of our young men are leaving their farms and allowing them to be worked by ignorant colored laborers. I am in favor of working as many hands for wages as can be looked after closely. When I rent out my lands I prefer white renters. As a general rule they will take more interest in keeping up the land. My rule is to lease ray land for five years, giving the renter the advantage of improvements. "I do not think farming can be made to pay by trusting the farms to ignorant colored laborers. As a rule, they will have the work done by their childrenwork that is comparatively worthless. My opinion is that so long as we trust our farming to be done in that way, we will always hear the cry' that 'farming does not pay.' "Let the farmers wake up and go to work and look after their farms them selves and they will succeed. In nine cases out of ten where the young men take hold of the farm and stay in the field with their hands, they are prosperous and successful?paying their accounts and saving money. "I think there is more money in cotton than in any other crop, provided we raise our supplies on the farm. But when a farmer trusts entirely in his cotton crop for everything, and it is a lamentable truth that many farmers do this very thing, he will come out at the end of the year hopelessly in debt. "As to the comparative value of home made manure and commercial fertilizers, I prefer the home made manure. This kind of manure is especially suited to the loose sandy soil. I think we should use compost, as it always leaves the land in better condition than commercial fertilizers." THAI). Li. CARROLL, a prominent farmer of Central York, says: "I always prepare my land carefully in the spring and winter mouths. I use a composition of muck and cotton seed and some acid. I plant early and cultivate rapidly. "I regard compost as double the value of the commercial fertilizer. "If farming does not pay when the seasons are favorable, it is from want of proper attention from the farmer himself. Farming may be made to pay by running the farm independent of the credit system, by using economy and industry and by giving close attention to business. "Labor can be made more efficient by giving close attention to and fair dealing from the employers. Atteution is the key to success in farming." CAPT. IREDELL JONES, of Reck Hill, says: "The South is poor in consequence of it business system. Losing sight of the many other industries it clings, to the one idea of making cotton. This has been its policy for one hundred years and failure has resulted, and in my opinion, under the system, will continue to result hereafter. Of course there are individual cases of persons who succeed by intense toil aud a most self-denying economy ; but the idea of buying all things for the purpose of making cotton will continue to make poverty. The amount of profit in the business of farming under this system does not admit of prosperity. "In my opinion the hope of the South is through the instrumentality of manufactures and the development of all kindred enterprises. "This policy will induce population, de velop home industries and home resources of all kinds, encourage the sale and division of land into smaller tracts, will keep money in circulation, will afford employment for brain as well as brawn, will keep our best young men at home, and will afford home markets. This system, in turn, will encourage diversified agriculture?the only hope of the farmer to make him independent and prosperous. By such a course as this the North has grown rich. The South, in my humble judgement, can do likewise. The combination of capital in the various localities in the State is all that is necessary to start this new system. "These ideas are not fanciful. Our people are slowly but surely taking hold of them. To prove this I will instance the very usual interest and excitement for the past few years in the South on the subject of manufactures. "l tninK agriculture ana nmnuiaciurea ought to go hand in hand together. Like two good brothers the one will contribute to the advancement of the other, and both in time will succeed. The farmer and the mechanic are natural allies, and upon the union of their forces depends the victory." MAJ. A. H. WHITE, a successful and prosperous farmer of Rock Hill, says: "I hire all my plough hands for standing wages from January 1 to December 25. During the working and harvesting of the crop I hire day laborers at so much per day. Farming can be made to pay by sticking closely to it and not spending too much time away from it. I try to raise some of all the crops that can 4 be raised on my farm. Hiring for wages makes more efficient labor. "I use all the home-made manures that I can make, and supplement it with commercial fertilizers and make liberal use of them. "I run a five-horse farm, plant thirty acres in cotton, about one hundred acres in small grain, twenty acres in grass and clover ana about fifty acres in corn. I grow peas in the corn, and also plant rye and barley on a small scale, besides sweet potatoes, pinders and turnips. I also pay attention to Berkshire hogs, Jersey cattle and Southdown sheep." MERE-MENTION. Judge Parker, who presides over the U. S. court at Fort Smith, Arkansas, has sentenced, during his term, 162 murderers to be hanged. It is reported from Washington that a committee has in hand the collection of unused return tickets from that city for the benefit of disappointed and pennilesss office seekers. The Charlotte, North Carolina, Chamber of Commerce has adopted a resolution offering the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company $20,000 in cash and fifty acres of land to remove their shops to Charlotte. Following the example of England, Russia has decided to strengthen her fleets by building thirty vessels with all the latest improvements. Wm. E. Boudinot, formerly a distinguished naval officer of the old United States and Confed erate services, died suddenly at Pittsboro', N. C., on Tuesday of last ^eek. Some mountaineers, camping on the side of the Charlotte and Statesville Railroad track, threw apples at a passing train, and one crashed through a glass, the fragments of which seriously cut Rev. R. G. Miller, of Sardis church, in the face. The men" were arrested. Easter comes unusually late this year, falling on the 21st of April. Lent covers forty days, but there are fortysix days from Ash Wednesday to Easter. Of these six days are Sundays, which are feastdays. Business failures occurring throughout the country during the last week number for the United States 220, Canada 29; total 249, against 261 the previous week. The Connecticut senate has concurred with the house in passing the bill wMch prohibits selling, giving, or delivering tobacco in any form to persons under 16, and also prohibits such minor from the use of tobacco in cigarettes or any other form. The closing argument has just been made, in the court of appeals of New York State, in a case which has been in the courts for fifty years. The amount involved is only about $2,uuo. rne Mexican government has taken steps to prevent the introduction into Mexico of American lard, owing to the official announcement that it is detrimental to health. Some of the Congressmen are complaining that their pay is too small and are agitating the question of increasing it to $10,000 or more per year to meet the social requirements and other demands upon them. In the last of the Bald Knobbers appeal case, that of Dave Walker, the supreme court of Missouri has affirmed the ruling of the lower court, and the execution is set for Friday, May 10th. Testimony in a recent suit brought by Harris Gold, of Philadelphia, to obtain wages due him, revealed tne fact that ho had been employed to make trousers for ninety cents a dozen or seven and a half cents a pair. Robert Sigel, son of Gen. Franz Sigel, who pleaded guilty of forging pension checks, was sentenced by Judga, Benedict in the United States courFin New York city, last Friday, to six years imprisonment in Erie county penitentiary. In speaking of the cider clause' in the Massachusetts State law, a Boston man says that an orchard in that State is a good deal like self-righteousness, the more you have of it the worse you are off. A rinh nnnnpr frpnrcrfi Ornnk. atred 70. an inmate of the poor house at Srawfordsville, Indiana, was on Friday discovered to have $6,628, more than half of it in gold, hidden in a box under his bed. There is a man in Hartford, Connecticut, who has worked at forty-six different trades. A Florida grower has Northern contracts for three tons of watermelon seeds. Michigan lumbermen are investing largely in Southern pine. Recently 60,000acres, situated in Southern Mississippi and Louisiana, were purchased at remunerative figures by Michigan men. Iowa farmers raised enough corn last year to pay off all the farm mortgages in that State, and leave a balance of 100,000,000 bushels for feed and seed. The surplus in the United States Treasury has been steadily increasing for several days past, and now amounts to $00,200,000. Justice Stanley Matthews, of the United States supreme court bench died suddenly in Washington on Friday morning. He was a citizen of Ohio, and was appointed to the bench in 1881. Funeral services were held in Wa ihington on Monday and his body was taken to Cincinnati for burial. Hereafter in Kansas a grand jury can only be drawn on petition of one hundred taxpayers, and not then if the judge of the district shall declare a month before the beginning of court that there is no necessity for it. Owing to a heavy rain at Dayton, Tenn., on Tuesday night of last week, a part of the town was flooded, bridges washed away and blast furnaces surrounded by water. The loss will reach ?10,000. Alexander Vaughn, colored, was drowned. The jury in Engineer Major's trial?the third and last of the Lehigh Valley Railroad employes, indicted for having caused the Mud Run disaster?last Saturday afternoon, at I Maunch Chunk, Pa., rendered a verdict of not guilty. The verdict was received with vociferous applause. There are nniu 1 711(1 cnh- A llionr>ou in "Vnrth Cnpnlinn with a membership of 80,000. Mormons have been making many converts in Mitchell county, N. C., of late. Last Saturday afternoon one hundred persons left that county for Utah, being fully converted to the Mormon faith. Mormon missionaries continue work in Yancey and { Mitchell counties. The publication of official documents reveals the fact that throughout the Samoan difficulty with Germany, England was in full accord with the United States government. A Charlotte dispatch says that letters received from Illinois say there are thirty thousand white farm hands in that State who will come to North Carolina if assured employment. The negroes' exodus will thus receive a heavy offset. The District Attorneyship.?Says the Batesburg Sentinel: It is said that Hon. Samuel W. Melton has made application for the position of United States District Attorney. Mr. Melton is one of the finest jurists in the State, and would no doubt give satisfaction. Though a ltepublican, he is possessed of many noble traits of character and has mauy warm friends in the Democratic party. On the same subject the Edgefield Advertiser says: There are two Republican candidates for the position of United States District Attorney for South Carolina?E. M. Brayton and Samuel W. Melton. Between these two there is no comparison. Brayton is without any reputation at all, as a lawyer, while Melton is the peer of the most distinguished in this or any other State and is to the manner and mannor born. Let it be Melton, Mr. President. ? Among the several amendments to the constitution of New Hampshire, which were voted on last week, was one to repeal that clause of the constitution which disqualifies Iloman Catholics for public office. The amendment received a majority of 9000 votes, but failed of the necessary two-thirds. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Wm. II. Hermlon, Chairman of Board?Loan and Savings Bank. Kennedy Bros. Sc Barron?Our Goods and Prices. M. & H. C. Strauss?First Choice the Best. Withers Adickes?The Old Way of Trade. H. F. Adickes?New Goods ! New Goods !! R. B. Davidson and W. T. Davidson?Executors' Notice. Mrs. T. M. Dobson?The New York Bargain House! James H. Riddle?Your Immediate Attention. Miles Johnson, Rock llill, S. C.?Richard is Himself Again. A. Williford?Wait for the Best. A. Y. Cartwright <fc Co.?The Racket Fires a Volley of Ringing Words at Its Patrons. L. M. Grist, Secretary?The Yorkville Graded Schools. Rufe Parish?A Pair of Mules. W. H. Roumillat A Co?To Physicians. W. C. Latimer?Home Again. A BIG RAILROAD SUIT. Taylor & Elmer, the contractors who laid the track of the Three C's Railroad frotn Camden to Blacksburg, have entered suit against the corporation for $38,000 alleged to be due them. Wilson & Wilson & McDow, represent the plaintiffs and the case is returned for hearing at the approaching term of York court of common pleas. jt ONE WIFE TOO MANY. "yAjCharlotte dispatch in the News and Courier of yesterday says: "Alexander Oliver, who until recently lived in York county, S. C., but who now lives in this county, has instituted proceedings against H. A. Benson, who lives in a Georgia village, for bigamy. Some two years ago Oliver's daughter, Miss Annie, married Benson, but it now develops that he another wife living at Statesville,' N. I YORKVILLE GRANITE. Tfig Rock Hill correspondent of the Charleston World writes to that paper under date of last Saturday : Mr. F. Happerfield, of Yorkville, was in town to-day to submit a proposition to the town authorities for the curbing of certain of our sidewalks. Mr. Happerfield is the proprietor of a large granite quarry situated about one mile from the town of Yorkville. This quarry is said to yield as fine a quality of granite as any country can boast, and it is there in inexhaustible abundance. ?T- PERSONAL MENTION. Mrs.' A. M. Brice and daughter, Miss Lutie, of Due West, are visiting the family of Rev. J. C. Galloway in this place. Conductor Waddell of the Three C's, has moved his family from Columbia to the Merchants' Hotel, Blacksburg. Miss Julia Speck, of Charlotte, N. C., who has been visiting in Yorkville for the past two weeks, returned home yesterday, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. H. H. Beard. Rev. W. T. Matthews and family, of Greenwood, S. C., are visiting relatives and/friends in Yorkville. ^-//COMPLIMENTARY TO YORK. /The Washington correspondent of the Charleston World makes the following complimentary allusion to a York county young gentleman : Dr. Edward Rhodes Stitt, who was nominated on Thursday by the President as assistant surgeon in the navy, is from Rock Hill, S. C., and is one of the youngest men eyer appointed in this branch of the service, being scarcely 22 years of age. Hfe* graduated at the South Carolina college in Columbia as Master of Arts with high hony ore before he was twenty, and about a year and a half ago graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in medicine, and almost immediately received an appoint ment as one 01 me assistant pruieasura iu the medical school of the University., _y/cRIME ENDS IN SUICIDE.#^ Ou/reatTers willrememuer.the marriage ofj/iss Sallie Talbert, of Blacksburg, last month at Whitaker, to a man named W. W. Thomas, and the departure of the couple immediately for Augusta, Ga.. In that city Thomas was recognized as a former citizen of Goldsboro, N. C., where he had a wife living and one or two children. To avoid arrest he deserted his wife No. 2 and went to Birmingham, Alabama, where he spent the time in drunken debauchery, closing his disgraceful career by committing suicide on the 15th instant. Before ending his life he wrote a penitent letter to his wife in Goldsboro, attributing his conduct to drink. J CUT DOWN IN HIS YOUTH. ?wr-comm unity was saddened last Fri-' day morning by the intelligence of the /death of Mr. Robert H. Brice, at the residence of his mother in Due West, on Thursday evening. Mr. Brice was in the 23rd vear of his acre, and a voung man of prom ise and with flattering prospects of life before him. lie graduated with distinction from Erskine College in 1885, since which time he had been engaged in teaching in this State and in Alabama. About the first of the year he came to Yorkville on a visit to his brother, Mr. J. Steele Brice, and his brother-in-law, Rev. J. C. Galloway, and on a trip to Lancaster during his visit he contracted measles, It was a case of severe type, from the effects of which he had not fully recovered when he decided to return to his home in Due West. On his return home his disease relapsed, terminating fatally. His remains were interred at Hopewell Church, Chester county, on Saturday. Declaration from yorkville. /The Columbia Register says that on Tuesday last a declaration was filed in the office of the secretary of State and a commission issued for the incorporation of the Loan and Savings Bank of Yorkville. The corporators include the following: TIT? TT TT 1 T r inrlonv win# n? xiemuuii, u i\uuci i uluuouj j Walter B. Moore, James F. Hart, Geo. W. S. Ilart, Wm. B. McCaw, D. Ed. Finley, M. C. Willis, John M. Hope, T. Baxter McClain, W. G. White and John May. The capital stock is $G0,000, to be divided into 300 shares of the par value of $200. As will be seen by advertisement, the new institution will take the name of the "Loan and Savings Bank," and books of subscription for the capital stock thereto will be opened in the Court House at 7.30 P. M. on Thursday, April 4th next. , i BUSINESS NOTICE^/ 4 ~ Mr. A. Williford, proprietor of the Winnsboro Exchange and Feed Stables, gives notice in our advertising columns that he will be in Yorkville on Monday and Tuesday next with a lot of fine Kentucky mules and horses, which he will ell on favorable terms. Mr. Miles Johnson, saddle and harness maker of Rock Hill, publishes a characteristic advertisement this week, placing his claims before the public. His reputation as a superior workman and one who sells only first-class goods is wide, and increases every day. He has built up a large business in Rock Hill, and deserves the succesi with which he has met. Attention is directed to the announcement of W. H. Roumillat & Co., druggists, who have just opened their business j in Yorkville. STATE RAILROAD EARNINGS. The Railroad Commissioners have just issued their monthly tabulated statement of the earnings of the railroads of the State for the month of January, 1881), and showing how they compare with the earnings of the same month last year. From an epitome of the statement in the Columbia Register we take the following: Of the 29 roads included in the statement, 20 show a gross increase of $91,413.07, the nine roads showing a decrease of $10,085.91, leaving the net increase of the roads of the State for the month considered $81,327.18. The largest increase shown by and road is $14,131.89 by the Charleston and Savannah, the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta coming next with $12,881.08. The next in order are : Northeastern, $11,.232.70; Columbia and Greenville, $10,G59.74; Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line, $9,455.78. The South Carolina Railway showed an increase for the month of $7,011.08. The earnings of the Charlotte, V Columbia and Augusta Railroad show a decrease of ?563.82, and the Chester and Lenoir a decrease of $966.84. The total passenger earnings of all the roads for the month compare with January, 1888, as follows: January 1888, $202,959.86; January 1889, $266,281.58; increase, $23,291.72. The total freight earnings compare: January 1888, $451,134.00; January 1889, $507,148.93; increase, $56,014.93. The tonnage hauled was: January 1888, 388,572 tons; January 1889, 357,182 tons; increase, 68,510. THE AI1ERNATHY MURDERERS. - 'While there has been no official promulgation of orders, it is nevertheless an open secret well verified, that the AdjutantGeneral has communicated with Captain Lindsay, of the Jenkins Rifies, directing him to hold his company in readiness for orders, and at the proper time for the delivery of the four York prisoners now in Richland jail for safe keeping, if it should be deemed necessary to secure their safe delivery to the authorities of York county, the Governor will invoke the arm of the military to secure that end, and give them protection pending their trial. It will be remembered that they were' removed from York jail only a few weeks ago to prevent them from being lynched. ELECTRIC LIGHTS. Mr. L. U. Campbell, representing the Brush Electric Light Company, is in town for the purpose of ascertaining the prospect of introducing that system of lighting in Yorkville. A meeting of the town fcaymcil jfpp held last night at which Mr. Campbell was present, and after hearing his estimates, &c., a committee was apnnintorl fnc (ho mirnrtco nf oanortoinintr pi/IUI/^U JU1 111V |'U? f'UUU VSA UUVViiiltilUJ^ the number of arc lights neccessary for lighting the town, in order to arrive at the cost of the same. This will be done by the committee going over the ground to-day, and in the mean time the citizens and business men will be called upon with the view of ascertaining the number of incandescent and arc lights which may probably be taken in business houses and residences. 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. Services next Sunday at 11 A. M. and 7.30 P. M. Sunday-school at 3 P. M. Prayer-meeting to-raorrow~lSvening 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'clock. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J. C. Galloway, Pastor. Services next Sunday at Tirzah at 11.30 A. M. Services in Yorkville at 7.30 P. M. 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-morrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. vC i/ipit. omvirs b It is said that there will be about twenty-five witness for the State in the Abernathy murder cas*. 4 Peach and other fruit trees are now out in full bloom, about three weeks later than usual, which is attributed to "a late Easter." Within the past week nearly every house in Sharon has been neatly painted, and the nourishing little village presents an improved appearance altogether pleasing ard refreshing. Commencing 'to-day, the north-bound passenger train on the Three C's running between Blacksburg and Lancaster, will arrive at Yorkvilleata 10.2GA. M. instead of 12.04, and on and after Monday, as we are informed by Mr. Moore, agent at this place, there will be a general change of schedules of the trains on the road. Chicago fresh beef at McElwee's market last Saturday was a delicacy new to Yorkville. Contrasting this savory, juicy meat, produced by grass and grain, with the insipid, tasteless article grown on cotton seed diet, affords a theme for a lengthy sermon, a discourse, a homily, an essay, a lecture or a general protest against our South Carolina method of destroying the very "grass" which constitutes "all flesh;" but as "the partridge sitteth on eggs and hatcheth them not," so we desist the task which in the shadow of those who have preceded us, we l'ear would only prove futile. YORKVILLE GRADED SCHOOLS. Prof. W. J^Thackston, formerly principal of^bb^west End graded school, of Grpdfwille, and recently unanimously etecteuVby the board of trustees superintendent of Uie Graded Schools of Yorkville, arrived l^ere last Thursday evening, preparatory to entering upon his duties. He has made a very favorable impression upon all our citizens whom he has met. A meeting of the trustees was held on Monday evening last, and the following teachers were elected for the school for white pupils: Mr. James A. Watson, Miss Ella Davidson, Miss Minnie Wilson, Miss Maggie Gist. 5 As heretofore announced, the schools for whites and colored will be opened on Monday next, April 1st. The tuition in the common free school grades will be free to all persons residing in the school district, without regard to the age of the pupil. The free school grade will embrace the following studies: Primary?Heading, spelling, arithmetic, oral geography, writing, industrial drawing, composition, calisthenics. Grammar Sfhnnl?South Carolina and United States history, natural and political geography, grammar, reading, writing, "business forms," industrial drawing, arithmetic, physiology and hygiene. The tuition to pupils residing outside the school district is fixed at a very low price, as is also the tuition for studies outside the free school curriculum. The scale of prices is published in the announcement in-our advertising columns. The female college building, which has been secured for the white school, has just been repaired, the grounds cleaned up and everything put in good shape for the opening of the first term. Other improvements will be made as the necessity for them demands. The first session will continue through the months of April, May and June, when there will be vacation until the 1st of September. As has heretofore been announced, the superintendent comes with the highesi testimonials as to his competency, and the teachers who will be under his direction are also well known for their proficiency. Arrangements are now being made for furnishing books to pupils at the lowest possible cost. The teachers for the colored schools will be elected on Friday night next. York's Legal Advertising.?Upon the repeated authority of a member from York county in the South Carolina Legislature, we recently stated in comparison with Cleveland county printing that The Yorkville Enquirer received last year for one year's official advertising for York county authorities, $1,0.15.15. We received the above in our office from Mr. Gold, a representative man in York county, and had no reason to doubt its accuracy, until last week's Yorkville Enquirer corrected the above and replied "to the various erroneous statements recently made in regard to the cost of public advertising for York county." The Enquirer received for the fiscal year 1885-0 total for county advertising $012.35; for the year 1886-7 $462.30; for last year $315.00. We gladly print the above correction, as we seek only the truth.?[Shelby, N. C., Aurora. C?rres|)ondence of the Yorkville Knquirer. LETTER FROM~BLACKSBURG. Blackbbuko, March 20.?At at a re-organization of the Magnetic Iron and Steel Ore Company, which took place here at their corporate office, the following directors, to manage the business of the company for the ensuing year, were elected: Col. R. A. Johnson, (Jen. John T. Wilder, J. G. Rlack, J. L. Black, N. A. Pratt, Geo. W. Scott, and A. B. Harris. At a meeting of the directors, held immediately after the stockholders' meeting, R. A. Johnson was elected president; Geo. W. Scott, vice-president; Col. John L. Black, managing director; N. A. Pratt, chemist and mininc engineer, and N. W. Har din, attorney. The capital stock subscribed and paid in is ?43,750, which amount has been ordered increased to ?437,500 by a resolution of the stockholders. The Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad Company will begin at ouce to build a track from here out to the company's mines, which are about three miles distant. Preparations are now being made to ship ores on a large scale. Quantities have already been shipped to Richmond, Steelton, Pa., Birmingham, Ala., and analyses and practical tests in the various forges, demonstrates the fact that these magnetic ores, averaging over GO percent., are as fine and clear of impurities, as any found in the United States. A visit to the mines will show that they are inexhaustable. The company has sufficient capital to develop these ores and place them on the market in a crude state, or manufacture them at their mines. A company with the capital this has, and with the assistance of so eminent a chemist and mineralogist as Dr. N. A. Pratt, State Geologist of Georgia; Gen. J. T. Wilder, a practical manufacturer of iron, with large experience, and Col. R. A. Johnson, general manager of the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad Company, ati energetic financial king, backed by unlimited capital, should succeed and realize from their property here large dividends for their stockholders and benefit our town and county beyond estimate. Col. J. L. Black has purchased derricks, etc., to enlarge his mining operations, and, will largely increase his number of hands this week. The company owns some of the finest water powers on Broad River, and expects in the near future to put in a turbine wheel, at one of their powers, and transmit to their mines the power generated by the wheel, by an electric dynamo and motor, to operate derricks, tram cars, crushers, etc. At a small expense this power could be brought on to Blacksburg to drive a cotmill that our people are trying to build, and other manufactories, as it is estimated that the shoals owned by the company are capable of developing 15,000 horse-power. An exciting election was held here yesterday over the choice of a town council, with the following result: N. W. Hardin, intendant; J. S. Mintz, J. D. Kennedy, Jos. Black and D. S.# Ramseur, wardens. Col. R. A. Johnson, general manager of the Three C's Railroad, has been with us for ten days or more. He has been organizing the officers under the new management. Gen. J. T. Wilder, vice-president of the C., C. & C. Railroad Company, and Dr. N. A. Pratt, State Geologist of Georgia, have been here several days during the past week, the former looking after infonoofa nf o rnorl ho ranrooonfa flnH (iliU lUbOlCOlO \Jl VUU 1 uuu iiv av^/ivuvuku MMV* his interests in the Magnetic Iron and Steel Ore Company; the latter conducting negotiations concerning the iron com1 pany. n. Correspondence or the Yorkrllle Enquirer. LETTER FROM ROCK HILL. Rock Hill, March 25.?A called meeting of the board of trade was held on Thursday night last to coisider a proposition submitted by the town council to isue [$10,000 town bonds, to be expended in macadamizing and otherwise improving the streets of the town. The matter was carefully considered and thoroughly discussed. It was decided to request the town council, should a majority of the freehold voters sign the same, to petition the next legislature to authorize the issuing of the bond3. For some months it has been known fn fha nftlrpra nf thp law that whiskv this case areas follows: in June i?ou, David E. Jeter, a white man residing in this county, fell out with his brother-in was being sold by some person or persons in the neighborhood of Fort Lawn, and strict watch has been kept to detect the guilty party. On Thursday night last Deputy U. S. Marshal James T. Thomasson, assisted by Richard and Cad Reeve?, scooped in, while in camp near Fort Lawn, two white men, a wagon, mule and horse, and about fifty gallons of corn whisky. They were brought to Rock Hill Friday and given a hearing before U.S. Commissioner Pride, who in default of bail sent them to York jail. They gave their names as C. M. Waters and Robert Hunt, and claimed Lincoln county, N. C., as their home. Robert Miller, colored, was sent to York jail last week by Trial Justice Wm. White, in default of $.300 bail, charged with obtaining money from Mrs. John A. Hayes under false pretence. The amount involved was only five cents. The people of the county and trial justices should consider the expense incurred in taking cognizance of such trivial causes. Mr. J. Lawrence Moore died at his residence in this place on Saturday night, in his 70th year. The cause of his death was pneumonia. He was buried this morning in Laurelwood cemetery, Rev. Mr. Odell, of the M. E. Church, officiating. Mr. Moore was one of our most respected citizens, besides being one of the | oldest. He was born and raised in this place and died in the same home in which he was born. On Saturday night a negro child died suddenly on the farm of Mr. John G. Steele. On account of some remarks of the mother, who is idiotic, foul play was suspected. Trial Justice Whyte on yesterday summoned a jury and held an inquest. The child was carefully examined by Dr. T. L. Cornwell, who pronounced the death from natural causes. The jury rendered a verdict to that effect. It was suspected that the father of the child, who is non comnos mentis, had killed the child by a blow on the head. There was a serious cutting affair in the Indian Nation on Sunday morning, in which Joe Ballard, a white man, seriously cut John Brown, an Indian. Ballard escaped after doing the cutting, and as yet has not been arrested. Dr. Corn well, who dressed Brown's wounds, considers them very serious. Capt. Ed. It. Mills has received an incubator and fired it up last week for hatching. He has 95 eggs in it and hopes soon to turn out 95 chicks. At a recent meeting of the directors of the Davis Candy and Canning Company, the contract for the second building was given out. They will issue, in a few days, a schedule of prices for vegetables, and our farmers can then see if it will pay them to undertake to raise them for consumption by the company. IIal. Correspondence of tbe Yokrville Enquirer. LETTER FROM UNION. Union, S. C. March 23.?Rev. T. H. Leitch will close his evangelical labors here to-morrow night. Up to last night, 111 persons had offered themselves as cadidates for the various churches in this place. There appears to be no abatement in the earnest working of the great evangelist, or the solemn interest felt by the large congregations who daily listen to him. Truly may we believe that God is in our mid9t, calling sinners to repentance, and many have answered, "Lord what shall I do to be saved." We can truly say that Mr. Leitch has done glorious work in the town of Union for his Lord and master, for which he can only receive the full measure of his reward, when God shall say to him, "Come up higher." D. E. Jeter, who murdered his brotherin-law, Jara'es W. Busby, in this county, twenty-eight years ago, has been arrested in Madison county, Tenu. The facts in law, James W. Busby, and later waylaid and shot him fatally. The murderer tied from South Carolina and has been lost trace of all these years, until a few days ago his own indiscretion in talking caused his arrest at Jackson, Tenu. Requisition papers on the Governor of Tennessee have been made out and entrusted to Sheriff Long of Union, who will go and bring back Jeter to stand trial for the crime lie committed so long ago. Col. Jas. L. Strain, of this county, has sent an application for the position of U. S. Marshal, endorsed by some of the best men in the upper part of the State. We know of no man who could fill the position better than he. Mrs. J. 1). Arthur, who has been visiting her parents at Rock Hill, returned home last Tuesday. Miss Edna Stroble, of Chester, is visfting. the family of Judge W. H. Wallace. Mr. F. Walker Moore has gone to Blacksburg, to visit his brother Thomas, who is teaching a large school in that tiourising town. Now that every young man of this town has united himself with the church, a Young Men's Christian Association is in progress, and in a few weeks its organization will be consummated. Capt. C. A. McHugh, a rising young lawver. of Charleston, and a member of the legislature, will be married to Miss Agnes Hill, one of our most popular young ladies, next Tuesday, 26th. \v. g. u. I'orrespuudenre of tbe Yorkvilie Enquirer. LETTER FROM UNION COUNTY. Etta Jane, March 23.?Another fine week for business has passed off and it has generally been made good use of by our farmers. Some excitement has been created by thefrequent visits of Mormon elders, who are in the habit of preaching in this township. These vagrants, (if that is the proper name for such persons) are quite a nuisance wherever they have set to work, and if reports are to be believed, they are the means of destroying the happy domestic relations of well-doing people. In the immediate vicinity of the place where these devotees to polygamy do their ministerial work, strange noises are heard, and rumor is that one of the proselytes is frequently annoyed by these mythical sounds. No one has as yet been able to tell what it is, but I suppose "some men's sins go before them to judgment while others follow afterwards." David E. Jeter, who killed his brotherin-law, J. W. Busby, in this county, in 1860, has been arrested and is now in jail at Jackson, Tennessee. The sheriff of this county will soon have him in jail here, and his trial will come off in June next, I suppose. As both parties are respectably connected and belong to the best families in the county, the trial will be watched with no little interest by our people. After the lapse of 29 years, nearly a generation, it is quite likely that a number of witnesses have died and it will be hard to get a fair trial. I am told by old people who remember the affair that they fell out about a difficulty their wives had over a ham of meat. Hence the killing. Wade, son of John It. Osmond, died at Mountain Shoals, N. C., last Saturday. He was employed in the factory there. His age was about eighteen years. Allow us to congratulate The Enquirer upon its successful career, and the abundance of reliable news it affords its readers weekly. May it never grow less, nor outlive its usefulness. Sigma. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The State Sunday-school Convention met in Trinity Church, Hasell street, Charleston, at 8 o'clock yesterday evening. ? Gaffney City will vote on April 15, on I nifAniinn mi KfinwJ kl 0 I *1 Q bile ({UCablUU U1 auuaviiuiug ?i"|UVU iu uuuua to the Chester, Camden & Gaffney City Railroad Company. ? Dr. Woods, the pastor of Columbia's First Presbyterian church, has decided to accept a call from the Second church of | Memphis. ? Mr. G. E. Tucker, of Union, has an Esquimaux dog named Java that he values at $200. It is covered with white wool and weighs about seventy-five pounds. ? It is said that the Atlantic Coast Line will in a very short timecommence to survey their projected branch to Camden. Their intention is to build at once. ? The cotton receipts at Rock Hill during February were 832 bales. From September to February 28,10,241 bales were received as against 10,909 for the same period la3t season. ? It is said that over ten thousand bushels of corn have already been shipped to Gaffney City this season to supply the demands of Spartanburg members of the Farmers' Alliance. ? Judge Melton returned from Washington to Columbia, last Saturday night. He says he is certain to receive the appointment of District Attorney for South Carolina. ? ? John Tolbert, of Abbeville county, is conducting a still hunt for the marshalship of South Carolina, but thus far he has not called upon Senators Butler or Hampton to aid him in his aspiration. ? The Newberry Republicans are having a fine row among themselves. Henry Kennedy has been deposed as county chairman and D. R. Phifer has been endorsed I for postmaster at Newberry. ? The Southern Postal Telgraph Company has surveyed a line which will run via Camden on a direct line between Wash| ington and New Orleans. The line is expected to reach Camden by the 1st of June. ? The first honor that has been paid the qnlirl South and South Carolina from the postofflce department, was the appointment on Thursday last of Miss Nannie J. Bryce, of Walhalla>S. CM as postmaster at that place, vice D. B. Darby removed. ? The United CottonSeed Oil Company, of Pennsylvania, has signed a contract for the erection of a $50,000 plant at Barnwell for the manufacture of cotton seed oil and fertilizers. Its operation is guaranteed by July 1st next. ? Petitions asking executive clemency for Harrison Heyward and William C. Williams, the colored lynchers of Pickens county and under sentence of death, are being circulated by the colored people in various sections of the State. ? The reference in the Clemson will case has been adjourned from Charleston to meet at an early day at Pendleton. The attorneys have agreed to submit the case to Chief Justice Fuller of the United States supreme court. The case will bo heard in Columbia or Charleston. ? Judge Kershaw has returned from Florida much bettered in health. He will soon be able to resume his judicial duties. The entire State rejoices over this learned, upright judge's improvement, and trusts he may live long to mete out justice with ? ? a e L !_ 11 an even nana ior nis leuuw-ujeu. ? Seven members of the Mt. Pilgrim (colored) sub-Alliance, in Kershaw county, have been arrested and committed to jail by a trial justice, the charge against them being the posting of a written notice forbidding members of their society working for certain persons in the neighborhood under penalty of one hundred licks on the bare back. The grievance with the colored alliance is that the obnoxious white men desire a strict enforcement of the stock law. ? The unusual spectacle of two womenone a particularly beautiful young married woman?on trial for assault and battery with intent to kill, was the sensation in the sessions court of Greenville last week. Mrs. Sarah Belland and her daughter, Mrs. Mattie Hicks, were tried for making an assault on Mrs. Adeline Rhodes, a neighbor, with whom they were on bad terms, last Christmas eve, in Grove township. All the parties are of respectable and wellto-do families. The jury found both defendants guilty of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. The verdict was a great surprise. Notice was given of a motion for a new trial. ? Says the Clifton, Spartanburg county, correspondent of the Greenville News: Clara, the nineteen-year-old daughter of J. S. Hagins, eloped with E. Mathis and was married on Thursday by Captain James Wood. After the ceremony the party went to the house of the groom. The news of the runaway match soon spread through Clifton and reached the ears of Mr. Hagins. He was very indignant and threatened to take the life of both bride and groom. He procured a shoemaker's knife, a weapon with which he is exceedingly skilled, and repaired to the house of the groom. Without uttering a word?being a mute?he made a desperate lunge at the throat of young Mathis. The blow was somewhat parried, but struck Mathis just above the ear, indicting an ugly wound about two inches in length. The bride interfered and received a slight cut on the hand. The interference of friends prevented any further bloodshed. Dr. (). G. Falls promptly sewed up the wound of young Mathis and pronounced it not fatal. Hagins was arrested. I Correspondence of the Vorkvllle Enquirer. ^ NOTES FROM IIOODTOWN. IIoodtown, March HO.?Our farmers have beeu busy preparing for another crop. There lias been a considerable amount of work done, notwithstanding the weather, since Christmas, until about i three weeks ago when it was such that but little could be done. The prospects j for a wheat crop are very poor. Oats, i both fall and spring sowing, are looking j well. j We hear a good deal of complaint about corn rotting since it was gathered. Mrs. | Smarr had hers thrown out of the crib ! and shucked. It was found to be more \ than hall rotten. We have heard of several horses being sick, caused from being | tetf on Western corn, some of which is "badly damaged. '"- /Mr. Wm. A, Hood returned from Baltimore the other cjay a full-fledged M. I)., jtnd is now a member of the pill fraternity. IiAMIlLEH. POLITICAL NOTES AND COMMENT. ? Whitelaw Iteid has been appointed ard confirmed as minister to France, and Fred Grant as minister to Austria. ? Governor Luce, of Michigan, has sign- I ed a bill which allows women to hold the omce 01 scnooi inspector ana vote ior candidates for the office. j ? Last Thursday the Rhode Island Re- j publican State Convention nominated Herbert W. Ladd, of Providence, for Governor, Daniel G. Littlelield for Lieutenant Governor. ? Republicans throughout North Caroli- * na have been holding indignation meetings, at which strong resolutions censuring the recent legislature for passing the election law, similar in its operations to that of South Carolina, were adopted. ?Says the Salt Lake, Utah, Herald: Some people entertain peculiar ideas of the fitness of things. It is said that a certain gentleman stands a good chance for a fat office in this Territory because he lost $80,000 on the wrong side in the ClevelandBlaine Jection, and that Blaine is aware of the man's misfortune. ? Bob Smalls and Dr. Crum, of Charleston, and Albert Hicks, of Newberry, headed a South Carolina negro delegation which called on President Harrison last Friday in the interest of Dr. Crum for Postmaster at Charleston. Smalls filed a petition at the postoffice which he said contained over G,000 names, endorsing the doctor for postmaster. ? There are prospects of a very lively political struggle in Pennsylvania. Senator Quay, it is said, has determined to defeat the re-election of Senator Don Cameron for the United States Senate, and has already begun to make his plans for the contest, which will take place two years hence. P. A. B. Widener, a Philadelphia LAML.VM rtiL/v rt 1 / ! n/J TV-f M t \ I11MT 4/\ MAAA?T/\W uaimei, wiiu aiucu V(UA^ IU ICWVCI his financial feet several years ago, will be entered against Senator Cameron. ? One of the most interesting contests over important post-offices, says a Washington dispatch, comes from Greensboro, North Carolina. Mrs. Settle, widow of United States Judge Settle, is backed by powerful social influence, but is opposed by Representative Brown and a majority of the Republican politicians of that district. They represent to the President that Mrs. Settle would give the control of the postoffice to Democrats, while it is very important for Republican prospects that the office should be managed by those in-symthy with the cause. ? The Rhode Island Democrats are prosecuting a vigorous campaign for the election which takes place on the first Tuesday in April. They have nominated for Gov ernor Mr. Davis, whom they elected two years ago, and who gave the State an admirable administration. The recent removal of the property qualification confers the franchise on about seven thousand new voters, most of whom are expected to vote with the Democrats. The Republicans1 have usually carried the State by about four thousand plurality, and their managers are still claiming it by a majority just one half of that. But the Democrats are putting in some hard work, and with a reasonably fair election they will win the fight. ? Postmaster General Wannamaker has : a 11 -.1 issueu ttu urutfr uirecuug uu eierKS iu me office of the first assistant postmaster-general, and such as may be required from other bureaus of the department^ untU otherwise directed, to begin work -? o'clock A. M. instead of 0 o'clock as heretofore, and to remain at their desks till 6 o'clock P. M. instead of 4 o'clock. This increase of hours is made for the purpose of facilitating the dispatch of applications and preparation of papers for action in the office of the first assistant-postmaster general. Herefore a pressure of work has been relieved by putting on an additional force of clerks; but Gen. Wannaraaker seems to have restarted to a more business method in securing a dispatch of work. ? Says the Washington correspondent of the Charleston World: Thomas E. Miller, who is contesting the seat in Congress from the seventh South Carolina district, has written a letter to President Harrison, in which he speaks without reserve of the so-called independent Republicans of his State. He refers particularly to J. Hendricks McLane, and says that the latter's coterie of office seekers come only to the front when the Republican party is in the ascendency. These "Republicans," he says, were entirely absent from the State during the four years of Mr. Cleveland's administration. They did not send a delegate to the national convention, and did not utter a word during the campaign. They did not even vote for Harrison, but fTf f U A MAnil 1 4- a f 4Vl A aIaa! J a?1 tllA a Irn Allftl wiicu iuc? icauiuui tuc cicuwuu waanuuvvu, they hurried to Indianapolis and masqueraded as representative men of South Carolina. Miller says that General Mahone has been indorsed by the state executive committee, and he adds that men of Mahone's character, ability and honesty of purpose would be welcomed by South Carolina Republicans. The Weather and the Crops.?The South Carolina Weather Service furnishes for the week ending last Saturday the following: Rainfall?The rainfall in the upper counties was below the average; in the middle counties it was about an average and in the lower counties above an average. The temperature throughout the State was about an average. Sunshine?There( was about an average amount of sunshine throughout the State. All conditions were favorable to farming interests. The weekly weather crop bulletin of the signal service at Washington, issued last Saturday, says: "The season is from ten to twenty days in advance in Minnesota and the upper Missouri Valley, about one week in advance in New England, New York and New Jersey, normal in the wheat region, , and from two to four days late in the cotton region. There has been a large excess of rain for the week from western New England southward to eastern North C'aro lina, and from the Missouri Valley southward over Arkansas and the interior of Texas. In all other sections a deficiency of rain is reported, though heavy showers occurred in southern Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, probably resulting in much improvement in the crops in those States. In the Lake region, and west over Minnesota and Iowa, there was an almost total absence of rain. The rainfall for the season has been in excess on the Atlantic coast, from New York southward to Florida, and from Texas northward to Dakota. In the cotton and wheat regions east of the Mississippi the rainfall for the season ranges from 50 to 75 per cent, of the normal, while in southern Mobile, Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota and Texas there has been from 25 to 75 per cent, more rain than ususual. The weather has been favrrable for the growing crops and farm work throughout the central valleys of the Southern States. The recent rains in the wheat region as far north as the latitude of central Illinois, extending from Ohio to Kansas, have doubtless improved the condition of the wheat crop. The weather conditions in the Southwest, including the Gulf States, have enabled the farmers in that section to almost complete the planting of corn and to prepare the ground for the cotton crop. Reports from the South Atlantic States indicate that favorable weather has improved the small grain and fruit crop in that section. In New England the ground is generally frozen and covered with snow. Farm work has been retarded in New Jersey ; owing to the recent storm, which left the ground covered with from four to six t ' inches of snow. In New York and Pennsylvania the weather was generally favorable, resulting in an improved condition of the wheat, rye and grass crops. -? I ? The Press and llanner calculates that prohibition will save #:i7,i)5t? to the people of Abbeville. k -