Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, April 24, 1889, Image 2
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? In September, 1890, two centuries will
have passed since the first paper mill was
erected In America, at Foxborough, Philadelphia
county, Pennsylvania, and it is
proposed that the bi-centennial anniversary
of the event be fittingly celebrated.
George W. Childs and ex-State Senator Horatio
Gajes^ones.bave the matter in hand.
? Thus far^President Harrison has shown
hkMNAMfe.be a sectional president. He
has only Northern men in his cabinet,
and has chosen only Northern men, with
two,fingle exceptions, to represent the nation
abroad. He has ignored the black
element of his party completely, remaps
he tirfll recognize that element when he
begln^ ttf appoint janitors for the public
? According to a Wheeling, West Virginia,
dlspatcn, Enos Basham, who is serving
a four years' sentence, says he will not
accept a. pardon issued by the governor,
on the ground of "inferior intelligence
and inabillity to distinguish right from
wrong," and so will stay in prison. In
Basftam's o.wn phraseology, he "knows
more in a minute than Governor Wilson
has shown in his whole term."
? The Danville, Va., Register publishes
a pathetic appeal for aid ior the Patrick
county people who suffered by the recent
threat fires. The letter says hundreds of
peopl9are houseless and utterly destitute
of means of subsistence. They must have
aid or starve, as everything they had was
entirely consumed and their neighbors are
not able to supply their wants. They
have neither homes, clothing or provisions.
? A Fort Smith, Arkansas, dispatch
says: Capt. S. H. Scott, a prominent lawyer
of this city, has organized a large colo_
_ _ ny*and proposes to lay out a town near the
Kickapoo reservation. A party of North
Carolina negroes, headed by a planter
named George Ingram, has just arrived.
If the present rush continues to the 22nd,
more than twice as many will be on the
southern border of Oklahoma as can be
accommodated.
? A number of military companies have
accepted invitations to attend the celebration
to take place on the 3rd of May, next,
on the Guilford battle-ground, near Greensboro,
N. C. The grounds are to be prepared
by the erection of booths, stands, etc.,
which will be decorated with bunting. The
"Guilford Battle-Ground Continentals,"
in gay and pituresque uniforms, will take
part. Preparations will be made for the
entertainment or ten'tnoueana peopie.
i ?It was not many years ago that the
cotton-wood tree was considered useless
for the purpose of lumber. To-day it
is crowding white pine out of the market
for'certain purposes, and large fortunes
are > being made all along the
Mississippi river out of this wood, which
was once despised- as much in the field as
garfish always have been among fishermen.
In New Orleans white pine is worth
$85 a thousand, while yellow cottonwood
brings $65.
? Elections in many cities and towns of
Illinois on the liquor selling question were
held last week. A summary of the results
reached shows that the Prohibition^
ists were successful in the choice of antilicense
candidates in eighteen towns and
secured high license in two; that the
license element carried the day in seventeen
municipalities; that the straight Republican
ticket was victorious in six and
the Democrats in eight.
? A dispatch from Warrior Station, Alabama,
reports a sad tragedy at Reed's
Gsto, near that place. Four young men
called to see Miss Livingston. Her brother
objected to one of the visitors and went
off and got a pistol. When he entered the
room he fired at the one whom he supposed
to be the objectionable young man, but
who turned out to be his sister. The ball
struck in the cheek and lodged at the base
of the brain. Attending physicians say
she will die. Young Livingston is said to
have been drunk and is still at large.
? The Birmingham Chronicle renews a
suggestion which it made several years
ago, viz.: That the State of Georgia and
Alabama be remodeled and northern Alabama
and northern Georgia be made one
State, and southern Alabama and southern
Georgia be made another. This would include
in the northern or upper State the
cities of Birmingham, Atlanta and Augusta.
The object indicated is the consolidation
of the "black belts" of the two
States into one, and their mineral or white
regions in another.
? Says the Greenville News : "The natural
tendency of the Republican idea of
our government is to make the average
citizen look to a place or a pension as his
natural and proper means of living, to
build ft nation of pap suckers and paupers
instead of the great commonwealth of
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specting citizens we are intended to be
and * ill be under Democratic policies and
methods. 130,000 letters begging pensions
have been received by the new commissioner
within two weeks."
? Red Cloud, the Sioux chieftain who
has signified his approval of the Administration
by calling on President Harrison,
is 64 years old, but looks much younger.
His hair has a slight sprinkling of gray,
but his form is erect, his step firm and
his eye bright. He is not a very handsome
man, but he is an imposing Indian
and looks like what he is?a great chief.
He speaks very little English. He owns
a big farm, raises corn for sale and is rich
enough to live comfortably without doing
work with his own hands. He hires
younger Indians to work his farm.
? Land commissioner Stockslager estimates
from information received through
official and personal sources, that fully 100,000
persons would enter Oklahoma within
a month aftqr April 22. He says that
there are only about 10,000 homesteads
which may be entered under the president's
proclamation. There Will be, he
thinks, five or six applicants for each quarter
section. The commissioner has no
doubt that the precautions now being taken
to preserve order in Oklahoma and to
keep the intruders from adjoining lands
will be amply sufficient for the purpose.
? On the 8th instant the Pennsylvania
house of representatives, by a vote of 88
to 42, passed a resolution making the
pending bill forbidding unjust discrimination
in railroad freight rates a special
order for second reading on the following
day. The Philadelphia Record says that
on the 9th instant a consideration of the
special order was prevented by adjournment
suggested by a person "who distributes
railroad passes" to the members, and
it also asserts that certain members were
warned that all passes should be cancelled
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of Article xvii of the constitution of Pensylvania
is as follows: "No railroad, railway,
or other transportation company
shall grant free passes, or passes at a discount,
to any person except officers or employees
of the company." It is also provided
that the general assembly "shall
enforce by appropriate legislation" the
prohibition declared in this section.
? Civilization is fatal to the picturesque.
Just as it has robbed the American continent
of its majestic forests and boundless
prairies, and sub-divided the boundless
a'ries into petty parcels of tenanted
, so, too, it threatens to make the
buffalo, as we customarily call our bison,
a thing of the past. But while the decrease
in the number of these animals
could not, in the nature of things, have
been avoided, it has undoubtedly been hastened
by the needless slaughter so often
excused and dignified by the name of
sport. That in the four years from 1868 to
1872, 3,500,000 buffaloes should have been
slaughtered in the country west of the
Mississippi and south of the Missouri, is
not creditable either to those who permitted
or to those who engaged in it.
There are now only 750 head of buffalo,
wild and domesticated, on the whole
American continent, and unless some
measures shall be taken looking to their
preservation, that number is aiso likely
to be reduced.
? The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Ledger, on April 17, says:
"The civil service commission at present
consists of but one member, Mr. Lyman.
The President has been striving to reor-*
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those who desire to be members of the
commission has prevented. There is a
decided feelingamongRepublicansin favor
of three new members, Mr. Lyman being
regarded by many Republicans as a 'Mugwump,'
whose influence was given for the
re-election of Mr. Cleveland. The law
provides that both parties shall be represented
on the board. President Cleveland
nominated Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Thompson, of South Carolina, to be a
member of the board, but the Senate failed
to confirm the nomination. Mr. Thompson
is being urged for appointment by
Senators Butler, Hampton, and other Democratic
senators, and a considerable number
of Republican senators also endorse
Thompson. Ex-Congressman Merriman,
Life
of New York, one of the Democrats who
stood with Randall against the Mills bill,
is being urged by Mr. Randall, Charles A'.
Dana, and other Protection Democrats,
and it is thought Merrimau'8 chances for
appointment are very good."
? The war department at Washington
is in receipt of daily requisitions for ordnance
ana quartermaster stores for the
equipment of the militia of the country
under the annual appropriation of $400,000,
not only from old organizations, but
from those which have recently come into
existence. In the Territories, particular-1
iy, are there signs of activity among the
militia forces. The old organizations are
gradually changing their equipment to
conform to that of the regular army. It
is said that there will be fully 50,000 mili-!
tiamen on the occasion of the centennial
celebration. Thll fact is thought to be
significant of the wonderful efficiency"
of the present organization, making it
possible to concentrate an army of welldrilled
and well-equipped soldiers within
a day at almost any one of the more important
cities of the Atlantic coast. With
forty-eight hours for preparation, an army
of nearly 75,000 soldiers could be gathered.
? Both branches of the Minnesota legislature
have passed a bill making drunkenness
a crime, and it now awaits the
governor's signature. The penalties prescribed-are
severe enough to take away
the element of indifference and are, for
the first offence, a fine of not less than $10
nor more than $40, or imprisonment for
not less than 10 or more than 40 days; second
offence $30 to $40 fine, or 30 to GO days
imprisonment; third offence, GO-to 5)0 days
imprisonment.
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WEDNESDAY7APML 24, 1889.
7 MERE-MENTION^
It is probable that in the first report of
the postmaster-general, a one-cent postage
law will be advocated. ""Business failures
occuring throughout the country
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States 211 and for Canada 35, a total of 246
against 239 the previous week. In
the Cleveland, N. C., superior court, last
week, W. R. Hunt, convicted of slandering
a young lady of the county, MissSchofield
Mull, was sentenced by Judge Clarke
to two years confinement in the county
jail. A young fellow at Emporia,
Kansas, pawned his gun to obtain a marriage
license. From 100 to 150 fourthclass
postmasters are now being appointed
daily. Of these about one-third are to fill
existing vacancies. Another third are appointed
in the places of postmasters removed
for cause, and the other third succeed
postmasters who have served about
four years.' There will be about 350 of
the South Carolina military in the Washington
centennial military parade in New
York next Tuesday. The Hon. Allen
G. Thurman believes in territorial extension,
and thinks the United States will
soon annex Canada and all the continent.
Shelby, N. C., has voted $8,000
in bonds to erect a school building. " Mr.
Joseph K. Rickey, of Missouri, who showed
his faith in the re-election of President
Cleveland by betting $20,000, is now in
New York. He says that the Western
Democracy will be solid for Whitney for
President in 1892. Last year 153,000,000
shad and about 80,000,000 trout fry,
were distributed over the country by the
fish commission. New York will celebrate
Washington's centennial with the
biggest "bird of freedom" ever seen in the
country. The centennial arch at Madison
square will be surmounted by an eagle 24
feet from tip to tip. The losses by fire
daring March in this country and in Canada,
amounted to $10,912,000, an increase
over those for the same month last
year. Four Chinameo arrived in
Washington last Friday, having come as
a special commission from the emperor
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manners and means and methods of American
civilization. Postmaster Henry
G. Pearson, of New York city, died on Saturday
last. All the wooden bridges
on the Richmond and Danville railroad,
between Manchester and Atlanta, are being
replaced with iron structures. A
colored church in Indianapolis is going to
reproduce, on its own platform, the scenes
of the inauguration of President Harrison,
all the members of the administration and
their wives being represented in the show
by members of the congregation. Massachusetts
voted on Monday last on a prohibition
amendment to the State constitution,
giving a majority against the propo*
sition. All the passengers on board
the lost ocean steamer Danmark, 062 in
number, were rescued by an American
vessel while the Danmark was in a sinking
condition. The Brush Electric
Light company employs a man in New
York whose only duty is to cut electric
light wires at fires. He is paid a good
salary as the work is dangerous. The
Nashville, Tenn., American publishes an
authentic statement that a negro recently
hanged in that State under sentence of
death,; was resuscitated by a physician a
few hours after the execution. A
three million dollar fire occurred last Friday
on the east side of North river, New
York city. A negro woman has been
appointed postmaster at Franklin, a village
of 800 inhabitants in Macon county, N.
C. The negroes of North Carolina will
meet in State convention in Raleigh next
Friday, to consider the question of emigration.
This gathering is being watched
with peculiar interest. The yellow
fever deaths at Rio Janiero have reached
100 daily. A single man robbed the
railroad station at Pattonsburg, Mo., last
Friday night, semiring $10,000 and then
rode off. He covered the agent with a
revolver. The scramble for home!
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day. According to dispatches, yesterday
morning fully 50,000 people were awaiting
on the border, all impatient to make the
grand rush.
South Carolina on the Up Grade.?
The Hon. J. J. Hemphill, representative
of the Fifth district in Congress, has been
to Atlanta, Ga., where he spoke cheerfully
and hopefully of the progress of his native
State. In an interview with a reporter
for the Constitution he said:
"Yes, T think South Carolina is improving.
Her towns and cities undoubtedly
are. Her shops and factories are especially
prosperous, and their large profits inspire
new plants and additions constantly.
The agriculture of Carolina is not as prosperous
as it should be, and its depressing
effect modifies the general prosperity."
"What is the cause of it?"
"Surely nothing in the climate or the
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SOU can ue uie cause. jli> is me puiic\y ui
our farmers to rely on cotton alone, and to
buy their supplies from the northwest.
Wherever there is a farmer who raises
his own bread and meat and makes cotton
a surplus crop, he is more certainly pros?erous
than men in any other profession.
'he bulk of our farmers, however, do not
do this. The result is they get dissatisfied,
and they come to the town, leaving
their farms in the hands of negro tenants.
This means the utter ruin of their lands,
and the destruction of agriculture. I am
glad to say that in my section diversified
farming is on the increase. It is a doctrine
we shall all preach."
"Are the negroes leaving South Carolina?"
"There is a general drift of the negroes
toward the south from all the States, I
think, but there is not enough movement
in my section to excite comment. Every
year there are more or less heavy depor!
tations of negroes to Arkansas, Mississippi
! and Louisiana. This must tell after,
i awhile. Whenever there is a decided
! exodus from any section the newspapers
j make a fuss and call on the authorities to J
j stop it. I rather think it would be better
: to let it continue. We will never get the
white immigrants we need until the negroes
are thinned out by emigration."
A New Phase ok the Negro Question.?
ItepresentativeOates, of Alabama,
i takes a position that is at least new. It is
that the constitution only gives the negro ,
the right to vote but not to hold office. He |
I says that this was the moaning and intention
of the framer of the fifteenth amendment.
He holds that it Is only by per-j
mission of a State that a negro can be allowed
to hold ofticeatall. lie thinksllar- j
! rison is observing the spirit of that law. i
j He says it is competent for any State legI
islature to prescribe that all officials shall
1 be white.
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SOUTHERN DEVELOPMENT.
Tho Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun writes the following:
A well informed Northern gentleman,
who is theSouthern manager of tho affairs
of one of the largest and richest corporations
in the country, a corporation whose
connections and ramifications cover the
South as a net, recently made some interesting
statements to the Sun correspondent
with reference to the industrial condition
of the Southern States. For the last
ten years this gentleman has, in the line
of his employment, made an annual tour
through the South, visiting every city of
any prominence from Richmond, Vp., to
Galveston, Texas. He stated that the
growth of the cities and towns both in population
and material improvement during
the past decade has been phenomenal, and
he regards to-day's results as the mqre becinninc
of future extraordinary progress.
In his opinion nothing can check this
spirit of enterprise but an improper interference
with that local self government
which is not only the germ of our National
Constitution, but the source of the wealth
and happiness which are enjoyed in the
North and West. Ho thinks that Northern
capitalists who have visited the South,
studied the situation and the relations of
the races, and invested in various enterprises
in that locality under the firm belief
that there would never be a revival of
carpet-bagism, but that the laissez-faire
system, under which the South has been so
rapidly rehabilitated, would prevail. He
said that Northern men familiar with the
political situation believed that a Republican
administration could give the colored
people every reasonable recognition without
attempting to bring about artificial
equalization which nothing but force could
prolong or an array perpetuate.
This gentleman further stated that in
his frequent conversations with Southern
business men in all varieties of occupation
and grades of wealth, he found that the
fear of negro supremacy was the bond of
the solid South, and that the explanation
why men who were of Whig descent and
Protectionists by conviction, voted the
Democratic ticket en masse was because
they dreaded the resumption by the Republican
party of a power anything like
parallel to that wielded in reconstruction
davs. "Remove this real or fancied terror
from their mind's eye," he said, "and the
solid South will go to pieces."
The Southern business men speak well
and kindly of Mr. Harrison and his administration,
and they talk contentedly of
his apparent disposition to "keep hands
off." They expect to see the negro recognized,
but express the hope that he will
not be elevated to positions beyond the
reach of his moral ana intellectual capacity,
and earnestly desire the President and his
party to avoid putting him in offices whose
execution, by the very nature of the duties
involved, is calculated to produce strained
relations, reawaken old prejudices, excite
new fears and provoke race antagonisms.
"I regard," he continued, "the opportunity
of Mr. Harrison as unparalleled
for making fame for himself by doing good
to his country. If by his policy as made
known by what he does and leaves undone
he can remove from the Southern mind
its anxiety and suspicion, he will knit the
States into a closer union by disintegrating
both the solid South and the solid North?
for they are reciprocal entities, having an
independent existence."
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM ROCK HILL.
Ro^k Hill, April 22.?Easter Sunday
dawned most beautifully, and the weather
was all that one could wish for. Services
appropriate to the day were held in the
Episcopal and Methodist churches, which
had been tastefully decorated with evergreens
and flowers. At the evening services
in the Methodist church the holy
communion was administered by the presiding
elder, Rev. A. M. Creitzberg, a?
sisted by Rev. J. W. McRay and Rev. J.
C. O'Dell, the pastor. The special music
rendered by the choir was very sweet and
appropriate.
Sunday night Rev. T.'M. Bailey, of
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State Baptist convention, preached in the
Baptist church here.
Joseph Cornwell, colored, was shot on
Wednesday night last near Smith's Turnout,
in this county, by JohnBaskins, with
a pistol, from the effects of which he has
since died. Immediately after doing the
shooting, Baskins made his escape and is
still at large. A woman, Cornwell's wife,
was the cause of the shooting. Cornwell,
while going to a neighbor's house, met
his wife in company with Baskins, who
left the wife on sight of Cornwell. Cornwell
hailed him, but got no reply. His
wife refused*to say who it was. Cornwell
followed him a short distance, and finding
it was Baskins remarked, "All right; I
know you now," whereupon Baskins
turned and fired with the above result.
An inquest was held over the dead body,
Trial Justice W. S. Adams acting coroner.
Mr. Andrew J. Evans, who for a number
of years has been clerking in the
drug store of Mr. J. B. Johnson, visited
Charleston last week, where he passed a
most creditable examination before the
State pharmaceutical board, and received
his license.
A long petition, signed by a majority of
the citizens of this place, most of the county
officers, and the entire jury who tried the
case, has been forwarded in behalf of June
Massey to the governor, asking a commutation
of Massey's sentence from five years
to two years in the State penitentiary.
He was convicted at the June term of
court, 1886, of stealing from a box car at
the depot in this place, one keg of whisky.
The Davis Canning and Candy Factory
company has purchased the boiler and
engine for use in their business, and are
now arranging for the necessary machinery.
The first wheel in the Rock Hill Construction
company's works was turned
Saturday. The machinery has been placed
in position.
News from Mrs. Thomas O. Flowers,
who is still in Baltimore, is very encouraging.
Dr. Chisholm, under whose treat
merit sne is, nopes to restore ner eyesignt.
x^Dr. K. R. Stitt, recently appointed assistant
surgeon in the United States navy,
,is on a visit to his uncle and aunt, Mr.
and Mrs. John R. London. V
An election was held by the congregation
of the "the Church of Our Saviour"
this morning for wardens and vestry to
serve for one year, and delegates to the
diocesan convention, with the following
result: Col. C. Jones, warden ; Maj. J. R>
London, junior warden.
Vestry?W. B. Wilson, Jr., F. H. London,
W. Dillingham, F. B. Rock, J. J.
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Delegates to Diocesan Convention?Jno.
R. London, Iredell Jones, VL R. Rock, W.
B. Wilson, Jr. Hal.
Correspoudenee of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM UNION.
Union, S. C., April 19.?To-day is Good.
Friday, and all of the schools of this place
have closed, and also a number of stores.
Gabe Cole, a stalwart colored man, who
a year ago was one of the most prosperous
of his race, was arrested last Sunday week
by Sheriff Long, and placed in jail as a
lunatic and a aangerous man. His wife
died about a year ago, and since that time
his mind has been greatly affected. He
had accumulated quite a considerable
amount of personal property.
Mr. Jasper Lawson, a respected farmer
of this county, committed suicide last
Wednesday by drowning himself in Tyger
river. Ilis body was found late that
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Mr. James B. Porter, who.some seven or
eight years ago came to this place from
Yorkville, and opened a beef market and
a furniture store, lias, by hard work and
economy, pushed his way to the front.* He
now owns a large confectionary store and
also deals in groceries. He has just opened
up one of the prettiest soda fountains in
the State.
The man Perkins, who was engaged in
the disturbance at Miss Bessie Farrar's
Sunday-school last Sunday week, was
arrested at Gaffney City last week, and
taken before Judge Hudson at Spartanburg
on a writ of habeas corpus, and released
on a bond of $201) to appear at the
next term of court at this place, w. a. e.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM UNION COUNTY.
Etta Jane, April 20.?A good rain fell
here last Sunday and crops are growing
off finely. In a few days all the cotton
will be in the ground and most of the corn
will be planted.
We commend our loquacious friend
"Tillet" Porter to the readers of ThkEnqirek
who have business with the weather
bureau, and hope they will find it convenient
to confer with him in matters
pertaining to weather and crop prospects.
Mr. William Strain has just returned
from a month's visit to Trough Shoals
factory. He reports the operatives (many
of whom are from western York and
northorn Union counties) as in good spirits
and earning good wages. If present
i prospects are not deceptive, our country
has a bright future ahead of it. So mote
it he.
With the building of the Augusta division
of the Three (''s Railroad, we hope
to see the immense water power of Broad
river utilized. Ours will then be a manufacturing
as well as a producing section,
and hundreds of worn in and children
can find profitable and honorable employment
and contribute to the country's
prosperity.
In an anonymous letter received by one
of our citizens (perhaps' it was an April
fool) we have been castigated by the writer
for what we have said at different
times and upon different occasions about
the Mormons. The patchwork of scriptural
references given, represents a "crazy
quilt" rather than regularly concatenated
scriptural doctrines. If these modern
Lamechites are to be defended by such
ignoramuses as is that writer, we can
only say, "Let the heathen rage."
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Cui-irxpoudenre of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM WHITE OAK.
White Oak, April 20.?The farmers
of this section are making a strong effort
to raise a full crop this year, but work has
been somewhat delayed by too much rain
in the early spring. The weather for the
past three weeks has been more favorable
and farm work bus been progressing rapidly.
We are now in the midst of cotton
planting. There will be very little corn
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this year. On uplands a fair crop has
been planted and it is coming up well.
The wheat crop is not very promising,
while the oat crop is more favorable.
The Farmers'Alliance is making some
headway in this county. There is a suballiance
at this place, and we think it has
been of some benefit to the farmers.
I notice that Mr. W. O. Guy, a prosper- <
ous farmer near Lowrysville, is reported
as having the longest cotton row in the
State, viz.: 4J miles. It might be safe to
say that it is the longest cotton row in existence,
and if I thought I could reach his
house without trespassing on that particular
part of his crop, I should like to
visit him this summer, and see for myself.
Dr. H. F. Gibson has been confined to
his bed for the past six weeks.
Dr. W. F. Mitchell, who has just graduated
in raediciue, will locate here for the
practice of his chosen profession.
There was a shooting scrape here this
morning between Gray Boulware and
Jones Mobley, (both white men) in which
Mr. Boulware was slightly wounded.
The difficulty originated over a trivial
affair. h flat.
Correspondence of the YorkvlMe Enquirer.
LETTER FR0M~RLACKSTOCK.
Blackstock, April 22.?The matter
relating to the dower-interest held by
Mrs. Boulware in most of the property
in and around Blackstock, has at last
been satisfactorily settled. A compromise
was effected, by the terms of which
she will receive about one-third of what
the land was sold for at sheriffs sale, instead
of one-sixth.
It seems that quite a number of farmers
in this community have been holding their
cotton until the recent advance in price,
as several large lots have been sold here
within the last week or two.
A railroad force is now at work here,
making some much-needed improvements
in the premises of the agent's house, and
also rebuilding the cotton platform, which
was almost in a tumble-down condition.
A "dime-reading" was had at the Pres
byterian parsonage last Friday evening,
under the auspices of the Virginia Aiken
society, which was organized by .some of
our little folks with a view to furnishing a
room in the new parsonage building. The
attendance was good, and everything
passed off very pleasantly, a nice little
sum being realized for the society.
Our town is getting ready for the refreshment
of the inner man during the approaching
summer season, as one of our
enterprising druggists has just purchased
a handsome soda-water fountain, and will
soon be ready to furnish quite a number
and variety of cooling drinks.
A negro named Wm. Pihckney, who received
one shot in the leg during the Boulware-Mobley
shooting fray at White Oak,
Saturday morning, came here on the local
freight train that morning, to receive medical
attention. Dr. Douglas probed the
wound, which was in the fleshy part of the
left leg, just below the knee ; but failed to
find the ball, which must have rebounded
or imbedded itself in the bone.
Several of the fair young lady visitors,
whom Presbytery brought to our community,
have prolonged their stay with
friends; so that many?the younger brethren,
especially?feel that we still have the
best part of Presbytery with us. Miss
Mattie Beaty, of Winnsboro, is visiting
the family of Mr. D. H. Stevenson, and
Misses Lelia Steele, of Rock Hill, and
Bessie Johnston, of Lincolnton, are at Mr.
W. W. Brice's.
v CirreHpondenre of the Yorkvllle Enquirer.
NOTES FROM RLAIRSVILLE.
Blaiksville, April 22.?The majority
of the farmers in this section are buying
all the corn they use, both for family use
and for stock. I think all the farmers who
have had any experience in using western
corn are aware of the fact that it is not a
flesh producer.
There is a great scarcity of seed corn in
these partsand it has took hustling around
for some of the farmers to obtain cofn to
plant. Some of the farmers are about done
planting cotton, while others are about
through with their first planting. It is
rather early to plant grey sandy lands,
though there is much cotton land yet to
ue prepureu.
The farmers are using us much fertilizers
this year, if not more, than heretofore,
and it seems that they are not willing to
risk a crop without it. Bottom lands are
being well prepared, and another earnest
attempt will be made to raise' good crops
of corn. Upland corn is looking as well as
could be expected owing to the cool nights
and cool winds. Wheat and oatscrops are
looking very promising. Owing to the
late sowing of spring oats they are a little
backward. The prospect for a good fruit
crops is very promising.
V Mr. llobert Moore, who lives a few miles
^sast of BlairsviHe, met with the sad misfortune
of getting his leg broken a few
weeks ago. He is getting along as well as
could be expected.
y Mrs. It. P. Smith, of Bullock's Creek,
(who has been quite ill for several days, is
better.
( Our community issaddened by the death
^of one of her noblest citizens, Mr. W. L.
Hood, of Hood town, who died of pneumonia
after an illness of about ten days, aged
about 56 years.
Mr. John Whitesides, who lives near
Hoodtown, had the misfortune of losing a
line mule on last Saturday night, supposed
to be by the use of western corn.
-.Miss Sallie White, of Chester, is visiting
neh* sister, Miss Jennie White, who has
charge of the Hoodtown academy, and
also friends and relatives.
'/Master Ed.Shannon, who made allying
visit home some days ago, has returned
to Galfney's to resume his studies.
Croaker.
Correspondence or tlie Yoi-kville Enquirer.
_JL
NOTES FROM HOODTOWN.
Tt- .... * ?:i no T>u? nnn?
mH!JITUWMy -it). JLUC }JU3t uiuuui
has been a remarkable one. During it we
had some weather characteristic of the
four seasons, and in consequence almost
every one now have colds.
There has been but little rain; not
enough for spring oats, which are not
looking as well as they did some time ago.
Wheat, on the other hand, is looking more
promising. Farmers are generally well
on with their work. If nothing happens
to the fruit later on there will be an abundant
crop this year.
Rev. J. Jj. Harley preached for the colored
people at Wilson's Chapel last Sunday
evening. After services, he started
for Rock Hill, where he expects to preach
the remainder of the week. Rambler.
Correspondence of the Yorkvillc Knquirer.
NOTES FROM LOWRYSVILLE.
Lowrysville, April 23.?Cotton planting
is more nearly finished in this section
than at this time last year. The acreage
will be about the same.
Mr. Jesse Williams, one of the oldest
; citizens of this section, died near here last
Friday afternoon. He was born in the
year 175)0.
Mr. J. W. IiOwry is reading medicine
with Dr. Anderson, of this place. He expects
to enter a medical college next fall.
Dr. J. C. Brawley, a recent graduate
from the Baltimore Medical College, expects
to leave here next Monday for Baltimore,
he having been elected to the position
of resident physician in the above
institution. u no who.
? David Munson, a whito man, while
fishing, fell into the river near Cheraw,
the other day, and was drowned.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
M. <k H. C. Strauss?Come With all You
Wants.
Withers Adickes?Seasonable and Sensible.
W. C. Latimer?The Bazaar Nails its Banner
on the Outor Wall.
A. Y. Cartwright <fc Co.?Woaro Hero Again J
Mrs. T. M. Dobson?Tho New York Bargain
Store?lis Pi ices Telling.
W. H. Roumillat & Co.?Alvin Joslin.
Royal Baking Powders. See Fourth Page.
G. *R. Talcott, Suporintendent.~?Chestor and
Lenoir Railroad?Change of Schedule.
Sec Fourth Page.
D. Cardwell, Columbia, S. C.?Piedmont AirLine
Change of Schedule. Seo Fourth
Page.
REV. R. G." PATRICK.
In Orangeburg correspondence of Charleston
papers, we notice that the revival in
the Baptist church at that town, conducted
by ltev. It. G. Patrick, of Yorkville, still
continues, and much interest is manifested.
v j
HAS NOTRE8IGNED. /
The Johnson City, Tenn., Comet, published
at the home and present headquarters
of Col. T. E. Mat son, chief engineer of
the Three C's railroad,authoritatively contradicts
the statement recently made that
Col. Matson had resigned the position of
chief engineer. ,
SUSPENSION OF BUSINESS.
Mr. M. Strauss, president of the Yorkvilleboard
of trade, requests the announce
ment that on Tuesday next the stores and
places of busineas in town will be closed between
the hours of 9 A. M. and 12 M., the
occasion being the religious worship in the
various churches between those hours in
commemoration of the centennial inauguration
of the first president of the United
States. v
ROB1NIA P. O.
We are informed by Mr. A. E. Love,
postmaster at the above office, recently
established by the postoffice department,
and six miles west of Yorkville, that regular
service will begin with it this week.
The office is located three miles from the
Three C's railroad, and it will connect
with the railroad at Sharon, the service
being two times a week, on Wednesday
and Saturda^eyenings. /
ADMITTED TO RAIL,
On Thursday last Mr. A. B. Ferguson, a
farmer living three miles north of Lancaster,
charged with the murder of one of his
colored tenants named Osborne Clifton, on
the 13th instant, appeared before Judge
Fraser at this place on application for bail,
which was granted in a bond of $1,500.
The defendant was represented by Ira B.
Jones, of the Lancaster bar, and the State's
solicitor by W. L. McDouald. On his return
to Lancaster Mr. Ferguson promptly
made the required bond.
TEACHERS' CERTIFICATES.
Of the examination papers submitted by
applicants for teachers' certificates at the
recent examination, all have been acted
upon except fourteen by colored applicants.
There were fourteen white applicants
of whom six received first grade,
six received second grade, and two received
third grade certificates. There
were thirty-four colored applicants, of
whom five received third grade certificates,
and fifteen were licensed to teach,
the papers of fourteen applicants yet to he
examined and passed upon. ,
EASTER ELECTION. / "
At the annual Easter election, the congregation
of the Church of the Good Shepherd,
of Yorkville, elected the following
officers and delegates:
Wardens?Jno. C. Kuykendal, Geo. W.
S. Hart.
Vestrymen?J. Ernest Lowry, Kobert
B. Lowry, A. Springs Withers, H. Fred
Adickes, Walter B. Moore.
Delegates to Diocesan Convention?Jno.
C. Kuykendal, Geo. W. S. Hart, W. B.
Wilson, Sr., Asbury Coward.
,A. Springs Withers was re-elected secretary
and treasurer.
THE STATE PENSIONS.
The York county pension board has
not yet received from the State board any
notification as to the number of applications
from this county favorably acted
upon. As explaining the delay in the payment
of pensions, the Columbia correspondent
of the News and Courier says:
Complaints are made of delay in the
payment of the pensions authorized at the
last session of the legislature. It must be
remembered that each application for a
pension must be considered by three
boards of pension examiners, next the
State board of pensioners, and finally the
county board of pension commissioners,
composed of Confederate veterans. All
of this red tape consumes time, and some
counties haye not yet chosen the boards
last mentioned.
THE NEW BRICK YARDy^
Mr. W. H. Stewart, who has purchased
land near the Three C's depot from Mr.
W. C. Latimer for the purpose of entering
upon the manufacture of brick, is now in
town making preparations to begin operations.
He informs us that he lias purchased
steam engines and brick machinery
of the most approved style for making
the best quality of brick, and he expects
to commence work within ten o~ twelve
days. This is a new industry which will
be welcomed in Yorkville, and we hope
it will give an impetus to building in the
town.
We were misled in our statement last
week that Mr. Stewart is associated with
a number of Rock Hill gentlemen. While
the business will be conducted by "W.
H. Stewart & Co.," only one man, and he
^not a Rock Hill gentleman, is associated
with him. Mr. Stewart desires this correction
made.
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 8 o'clock.
Baptist?Rev. R. G. Patrick, Pastor.
Services next Sunday at 11 A. M. and S
P. M. Sunday-school at 4 P. M. Prayermeeting
to-morrow eyening at 8 o'clock.
Methodist Episcopal?Kev. W. W. Daniel,
Pastor. Services next Sunday at 10.30
A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday-school at 3
P. M. Prayer-meeting this evening at 8
o'clock. \
Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor.
Services next Friday at 8 P. M., Saturday
at 10.30 A. M. and 8 P. M. and on
Sunday at 10.30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Communion
after morning service on Sunday.
The pastor will be assisted by Rev. W. M.
Anderson, of Rock Hill. Sunday-school
at 3 P. M. Prayer-meeting to-morrow
afternoon at o o'clock.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev.
J. C. Galloway, Pastor. Services at Tir/.ah
next Saturday at 41.30 A. M. and 1.30
P. M., and on Sunday at 11.30 A. M. Communion
after service on Sunday. The
pastor will be assisted by Rev. J. M.
Grier, of King's Mountain. Services in
Yorkville at 8.30 P. M. by Rev. J. M.
Grjer./Sunday-school at 4 P. M.
x PERSONAL MENTION.
Maj. Jas;-F. Hart is in New York.
J. S. R. Thomson, Esq., and Mrs. Thomson
and daughter are visiting Mr. II. F.
Adickes.
We received a pleasant call last Monday
from Mr. Miles Johnson, the veteran saddler
and harness maker of Rock Hill,
whose reputation as a superior workman
extends throughout upper Carolina,
j C. E. Spencer, Esq., and family; Mrs.
C. E. May and Dr. J. R. llratton and Mrs.
j llratton, are visiting Charleston. Dr.
! llratton is attending the State Medical
| Society as delegate from the York county
i Medical Association.
j Mr. Robert J. Latta, for several years
employed as a civil engineer by the Atlantic
C^jist Line Railroad company, has
been home for the past week on a visit.
During his engagement with the Atlantic
Coast Line company he has taken a high
position in his profession, having been
entrusted with several important commissions,
and discharging his duty with
the utmost satisfaction to a railroad management
that does not permit on any of
its new lines a heavier grade than thirty
feet to the mile. Mr. Latta informs us
that he has orders to make an immediate
survey for the Atlantic Coast Line of a
route from Camden toSumter. His camp
equipment has already been shipped to
Camden, and he will commence the work
about the first of May.
THE CHURCHES LAST SUNDAY.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL.
Last Sunday was bright and beautiful,
typical of the Christian festival it commemorates?the
resurrection of Jesus
Christ?and in the Methodist Episcopal
church the day was celebrated with appropriate
Easter services. The floral decorations
of the church were profuse and skilfully
arranged. In the corridor, rising
from a moss-covered mound, was a large
floral cross, on which was the word
"Peace." The altar was laden with the
most beautiful flowers, while on the pulpit
were also appropriate floral offerings, and
on the walls were gracefully suspended
wreaths and festoons of evergreen. On
the wall, in rear of the pulpit, was the inscription
in letters of evergreen, "Christ,
our Passover." Surmounting the inscription
was a gilt crown, and underneath a
cross in evergreen on which were the letters
I. H. S., and on either side of the cross
the words "Jesus," "Master."
Services were conducted by the pastor,
Rev. VV. \V. Daniel, who read the 16th1
psalm, the 24th chapter of St. Luke, and
the 1st chapter of the first epistle general
of Peter. His sermon was founded on the
following words of this chapter: "Blessed
be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, which, according to his abundant
mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively
hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible,
undefiled, and that fadeth not away,
reserved in heaven for you, who are
kept by the power of God through faith
unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the
last (ime." The discourse was an able
elucidation < f the position that, what differences
soever may exist among Christians,
no matter what their temperaments,
or what their mental or physical constitutions
may be, their common experience
is that thev have all received the SDirit of
holiness and experienced the renewing
and purifying influence of the Floly Ghost
on their souls, enabling them to render
holy obedience to God. This inheritance,
reserved in heaven for the saints, is characterized
by every conceivable excellence.
It is undefiled; it is incorruptible; it
fadeth not away; it is in safe keeping, reserved
in heaven, and believers are kept
by the power of God for this Inheritance.
Giving, from these points, his conception
of the Christian's future home in glory and
the manner of attaining unto it, the divine
emphasized the doctrine that the home
described, with all its glory, its excellence,
its perfection, is a reality only through the
resurrection of Jesus Christ; that the
whole plan and structure of our salvation
depended upon the fact of Christ's resurrection
from the dead. The resurrection
of Christ lays the foundation of our hope
strong and sure, and gives us a hope both
sure and steadfast. Jesus taught in words
most unequivocal the reality of the future
life. When he rose he broke the bonds of
death, and coming forth from death's conquered
domain, he spoke words of cheer
and inspiring hope to every trusting heart,
"Because I live, ye shall live also." TLen
the Christian should ask, "What does the
resurrection mean to me?" "Have I this
life?" If so, my heart will join in the exultant
shout, and with joy unspeakable
and full of glory will I join the apostle
in this sweet anthem of praise, "Blessed
be the God, even the Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who according to this abundant
mercy hath begotten us again unto a
living hope by the resurrection of Jesus
Christ from the dead."
The miisinAf, the mornine- service, which
wus well rendered, consisted of the following
selections:
Voluntary?"A LittleWliile." Chant...Bonar.
Bohold the Bridegroom > Hudson.
Redeemed K i rk patrie k.
What a Gath'ring that will bo Kurzenknabe.
The half has never been told Hudson.
The choir is composed as follows: Organist,
Miss Jessie Owen ; flute, Mr. Geo.
H. Berry; voices, Wm. C. Owen, Frank
A. Gilbert, Henry C. Strauss, Mrs. Hattie
Berry, Miss Cora Clark, Mrs. Ed. Thomas,
Miss Ella Jefferys, Miss Minnie Goforth,
Miss Coonie Russell, Miss Luella Owen,
Miss Essie Owen.
The exercises of the Sunday-school in
the afternoon consisted of "A Service of
Scripture and Song for Eastertide," and
were witnessed and enjoyed by a congregation
filling the church to its utmost capacity.
The following is the programme:
Hymn?"Wo aro March illg On." Geibel.
Responsive reading of the Apostles' Creed, with
organ accompaniment, "Home Sweet Day
By and By."
Responsive Chant by Choir.
Hymn?"Blessed Easter." Geibol.
Lord's Prayer?Congregation.
Hymn?"We Come a Happy Throng."
?Kirk patrick.
Responsive Reading?Dead in Sin.
Hymn?"Redemption." A. A. Armen.
Responsive Reading?The Quickening Spirit.
Responsive Service and Song by Infant Class;
Reading; Hymn?"Jesus knows my
Name." Swoney.
Responsive Reading?Alive unto God.
Hymn?"Bright Angels of Easter." Goibel.
Selection?"The Voice of Easter;" read by Mr.
F. A. Gilbert, superintendent of school.
Singing by congregation?"Coronation."
Rosponsive Reading?Forever with the Lord.
Hymn?"By and By." Sweney.
Hymn?"Forever with the Lord."
?Montgomery.
Bonediction by Rov. T. R. English.
The responsive service and song by the
infant class was so neatly rendered that
requests were made for its repetition,
which was promptly complied with, the
class consisting of the following children:
Mattio Johnson, Evelyn Parish, Sallie Leo
MeClain, Bessio McClain, Hattie Owon, Sallio
Goforth. Lillie Kennoday, Lula Briggs, Cora
Brings, Maude Parish, Aurelia Parish, Nelly
McClain, Fannie McClain, Annie Owen, Georgia
Owen, Pearl Goforth, Lillian Goforth, Eldred
Dobson, Bonny Johnson, Frank McClain,
Felix McClain, Thomas Goforth, Andrew Kenneday,
Harry Smith, Bobbie McClain, Willie
Williams, Truman McClain, Lindsay IIopo,
Bertie Smith, Pack Williams, Hazel Owen,
Charlie Goforth, Win. Kenneday.
The evening service was conducted by
Rev. J. L. Harley, pastor of King's Mountain
circuit, who preached an ablo and instructive
discourse founded on the 13th
verse of the 3rd chapter of Galatians:
"Christ has redeemed us from the curse of
the law, being made a curse for us; for it
Js written, Cursed is every one that Banguiu
n l?Qo )l Thoanhiopl tvao lliA nhinp
CU1 UU o* bi CVy. A4IVWUVJVW ?> v..v
ment of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The music included the following selections
:
Voluntary?"Coine to me." Chant...Mcintosh.
Resting at the Cross Kirkpatrick.
Jesus will give you Rest Swoney.
Where is my Soul to-night?
?Martha J Lank ton.
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL.
The Episcopal church, though neatly
and tastefully decorated, tlio floral offerings
were not so profuse as is the custom
at the Church of the Good Shepherd. This i
was owing to the fact that the parish is
without a rector at present. Lay services
were read by Warden G. W. S. Hart.
PRESBYTERIAN.
The pastor, Rev. T. It. English, preach- j
ed his morning discourse from Joshua |
24 15?latter clause: "Rut as for me j
! and my house, we will serve the Lord."
'Theme: Family religion, and to show |
that every Christian family is a church. j
In the evening he preached from First!
Kings, 18th chapter, latter clause of 17th .
verse: "Art thou ho that troubleth
j Israel?" Subject?to show that a sinner
! is a troubler of himself.
BAPTIST.
There was no morning service at the!
Baptist church. In the absence of the ;
pastor, Rev. It. G. Patrick, services were
conducted in the evening by Mr. J. H.
Dew, a ministerial student in Furman
University. His discourse was founded
on John 3, 3?the hitter clause of the j
verse?'"Except a man be born again, he I
cannot see the kingdom of (iod." The |
following points were developed: The j
nature of the new birth. It is wholly a j
a spiritual one. Satisfactory evidences :
that a person has received the new birth. |
The absolute necessity for receiving it, j
there being no substitute. Man, in his !
unregenerate state is unprepared for the j
society of Heaven.
A. R. PRESBYTERIAN.
Services in connection with the regular
spring communion commenced in the A.
R. P. church on Friday night last with a
sermon by Rev. R. M. Stevenson, of Bethany,
who also preached on Saturday morning
and on Saturday night. Saturday
night closed his connection with the services
as he was under the necessity of leaving
in consequence of a prior engagement
elsewhere.
The pastor, Rev. J. C. Galloway centered
the services on Sunday forenoon, and
as appropriate to the day, preach a sermon
founded on a part of the Gth verse of
of the 28th chapter of Matthew, taking as
a text "fie is risen."
Subject?a summing up of the evidence
demonstrating the reality of the death,
burial and resurrection of Jesus.
Upon the conclusion of the sermon the
sacrament of the Lord's Supper was administed
to the qpmmunicants present.
At a meeting of the session on Saturday,
it was decided to have services in the
church at 9.30 A. M., on Tuesday next,
commemorative of theeentennial anniversary
of the inauguration of the first president
of the United States, and to return
thanks to Almighty God for the bleasings
we enjoy as a nation and a people. The
ringing of the bell will tie commenced at
9 o'clock A. M. and be continued five
minutes.
COURT ADJOURNED.
The court of common pleas adjourned on
Friday last, the jurors havjng been discharged
on Thursday. Judge Fraser
moves along very quietly, but he dispatches
business with promptness. A
large number of causes on the civil side
of the court were disposed of, few only,
however, of public interest. When we
went to press last week the jury was out
on the appeal caseof John A. Rainey, colored,
of Ebenezer township, vs. the Three
C's Railroad company. The railroad
company had appealed from the award of
a board of arbitration, which gave $350
for the right of way through uainey'9
lands. The jury returned a verdict in favor
of plaintiff for $237.50.
In the case of Robert Morrison, in
which the jury gave a verdict in his favor
for $2,395 for right of way of the Three
C's railroad through his lands, a motion
for a new trial was argued by J. F. Hart,
counsel for the railroad company, and the
motion wa9 refused.
In the case of John G. Steele vs. the
Three C's Railroad company, for damage
for the killing of a dog of plaintiff's by
the defendant railroad company, the plaintiff
was nonsuited.
E. B. Mobley vs. the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta Railroad company, in
an action for damage sustained by the
plaintiff to his wagon and team by the
defendant company, received a verdict for
$100.
A trial which attracted local attention
was the case of Mrs. J. Bolton Smith, Sen.,
vs. J. Ernest Lowry for damage sustained
by her in the shooting of her watchdog
in the public streets of Yorkville by the
defendant. ?The trial occupied several
hours and every point was hotly contested
by the able counsel on either side?Messrs.
Finley & Brice for plaintiff, and Wilson
A Wilson A McDow for the defendant.
The jury returned a verdict in favor of
plaintiff for $90.
In the case of E. A. B. McCarter and
others V9. Lawson K. Armstrong, an acdnmoffoa
ir\ lon/la r\f nlotnf! ffj fnr
ttuu 1U1 UAUIUggo tU 1UIIUO VI j^iutubiuu <wi
want of proper drainage of defendant's
mill pond, and the further question as to
whether there is any more ditching to be
done, a jury having passed upon the first
branch of the case awarding a verdict in
favor of the defendant, on Friday morning
the question involving the necessity of
more ditching to be done by the defendant
was argued by Mr. Spencer for plaintiff's
and Major J. F. Hart for defendant. The
jndge reserved his decision.
Other causes heard were either unimportant
or of private litigation.
v'
The ICnigiits op Honor.?The thirteenth
annual session of the Grand Lodge
Knights .of Honor of South Carolina, met
in Columbia on Wednesday last. There
are fifty-eight subordinate lodges in the
State, with a membership of about 3,000.
Nearly all the lodges were represented in
the meeting of the grand lodge. An interesting
feature of the flrstday's proceedings
was an address before the lodgo by
Supreme Dictator L. A. Gratz. On the
second and last day of the session the following
grand lodge officers were elected
for the ensuing year :
W. W. Simons, of Charleston, Grand
Dictator.
P. K. McCulIy, of Anderson, Grand Vice
Dictator.
W. IT. Lockwood, of Beaufort, Grand
Assistant Dictator.
N. N. Burton, of Batesburg, Grand Chaplain.
J. W. Moore, of Hampton, Grand Guide.
G. W. Holland, of Newberry, Grand
Reporter.
T. J. Robertson, of Abbeville, Grand
Treasurer.
IN. w. Trump, 01 uoiummu, uruuu
Guardian. .
J. L. Addison, of Edgefield, Grand Sentinel.
J. A. Ilenneman, of Spartanburg, II.
Ryftenburg, of Sumter, and F. II. London,
of ltock Hill, Grand Trustees.
W. W. Simons, of Charleston, was elected
supreme representative for the term of
two years, and M. L. Bonham, Jr., of Columbia,
alternate.
The Centennial Trip.?The part taken
by the president and the party by whom
he will be accompanied on the occasion of
the centennial celebration, in New York
next Tuesday, has already been outlined
and approved by President Harrison. The
president, Mrs. Harrison, the president's
private secretary and others of the president's
immediate party, the vice president
and the members of the cabinet, the justices
of the United States supreme court,
will leave Washington in a special vestibule
parlor car train ou the Pennsylvania
road the day before the celebration. The
traiu will make no stops oxcept a brief and
necessary one at Trenton. At Elizabeth
the president's car will be detached from
the train. The rest of the crowd will go
on to Elizabethport. Meanwhile the presidential
party will be met at Elizabeth by
Governor Green, of New Jersey, and a
small number of the most distinguished
officials in the State, and the entire company
will temporarily remain as the governor's
guests. The special engine, after
it has taken the rest of the train to Elizabethport,
will go back to Elizabeth for the
presidential car, and the president, the
governor and party, will also be conveyed
to Elizabethport, where all the heads of the
centennial committee will be waiting to
welcome them. The party will then be
escorted across the bay to New York, followed
by the greatest naval pageant ever
seen in this country.
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J uIJOK jl'KI?SKI.jsy.?it oas ueeu rumored
lor several days that Judge B. C. Tressley
would shortly tender his resignation
as judge of the First circuit. A reporter
for the News aud Courier saw Judge
Tressley yesterday on Broad street and
asked for a statement in regard to the
matter.
Judge Tressley said that there was no
truth in the rumor, but that it was well
known among the lawyers of the State
that ho would not be a candidate for reelection.
His term will expire next February
and his successor will be elected by
the legislature. Judge Tressley has told
the lawyers and his friends on the circuits
he has visited for the last time good-bye,
and he will not go the rounds of the circuit
after next February. The judge is
in excellent health and appears as well
and sprightly as he did ten years ago.
Ilis refusal to accept the judgeship again
will be a source of great regret all over the
State.?[News and Courier. '
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? A band of Mormon converts will soon
leave Chesterfield county for Utah.
? There are fourteen prisoners in Abbeville
jail awaiting trial and four of them
are for murder.
? Dr. T. E. Lucas has given a lot in
ChesterflelcJ to the Presbyterians, who propose
to erect a church on it this summer.
? There is some talk that the water power
on Iiroad river known as the Old Rolling
Mill place, is soon to go into the hands
of a Northern company for manufacturing
purposes.
? Arrangements have been perfected by
which the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens
railroad will pass into the hands of
the CongareeConstruction company and be
completed to Newberry in the next twelve
months.
? Dr. Jas. C. Furman, professor of metaphysics
and English at Furman University,
Greenville, is very ill. His condition
is critical. Dr. Furman is very old and in
tlin L-n.inn /if I 1 11 ..C ~1 -1
Hiv.Yiiiifi UI 1U3L IlitU tttspUlll.il H1CKness
which weakened him very much.
? The Rev. John M. Lander, of William*
aton, has decided to heed the urgent call
of the church, and to go to Juiz de Fora,
Brazil, to found a school for the Christian
education of boys and young men preparing
for the Protestant ministry. He expects
to sail from New York ou the 5th
of June.
?Gaffney City has voted $20,000 to the
Camden, Chester and Gaffney City railroad.
The vote was unanimous. This
makes the road a certainty, and General
Manager D. A. Thomas says that the survey
will be commenced in a few days,
and that dirt will be broken as soon as
possible.
? Maj. G. W. Connor, formerly of Spartanburg,
fell dead Monday morning at
Varnville, it issuposed from heart disease, .
while walking in his garden, apparently
in good health. Major Connorat one time
held the position of superintendent of the
agricultufal department of the South Carolina
College.
? The Greenville News humorously says :
"Oh Judge Norton, Judge Norton! Was
it you who sentenced a man to be hanged
on Good Friday, the day when all good
Catholics and Episcopalians go to church
and all thrifty Baptists, Methodists and
Presbyterians in the country plant beans?
What were you thinking of?"
? About fifty South Carolina farmers
have given notice that they will compete
for the SI,000 which is offered jointly
by the State board of agriculture and the
American Agriculturalist, in case a South
Carolina competitor shall make the best
yield of corn per acre in the competition
instituted by the Agriculturist.
.?Says the Anderson Intelligencer: A
negro woman living near Mosely, on the
Savannah Valley railroad, a few daya ago
left her children in the house and weut to
the field to work. One of them, a twelveyear-old
boy, put a rope around his little
five-year-old brother's neck, and throwing
the other end over the joist, drew the child
up and held it suspended until dead.
? The following South Carolina companies
will attend the centennial celebration at
New York: Washington Light Infantr^,
Charleston; Butler Guards, Greenville;
Lee Light Infantry, Chester; Marion ?
Rifles, Marion; Richland Volunteer* and
Governor's Guards of Columbia; and the
Morgan Rifles of Spartanburg. The companies
will be quartered in a hall at the ^
corner of First street and Second avenue.
? On the afternoon of the 13th instant,
while a thunder cloud was passing over
the town of Honea Path, Anderson
county, the .barn on the premises of Rev.
D. W. Hiott was struck by lightning.
The building was badly torn up. Two
pigs in a pen near by were killed. Several
chickens were killed under the building.
A buggy in the hallway of the barn
was very much damaged. The barn was
set on fire, but by the aid of timely assistance
it jyas soon put out.
? Says the Anderson Intelligencer: The
schoolmaster is needed at home. Notlong
since at the meeting of one of our grand
juries, one of them said to another, "Very
intelligent looking jury; I wonder how
many can tell us the name of the governor?"
After a moment's reflection, No 2
said he did not know. "Ask the next,"
said No. 1. No 3 could not tell, and so
the question was passed around, and but
three of the grand jury could tell the name
of the governor of South Carolina. Verily,
we do need schools and school teachers.
? A Washington dispatch says: Charges
have been filed with the president against
ex-Represenative Smalls of South Carolina,
which, if proved true, are likely to
prevent his appointment as collector of
customs of Beaufort, S. C., said to have
been previously determined upon. One of
the charges made against hira is that he
bolted the party ticket at the last presidential
election, and that he has committed
acts 01 treachery to the party which make
him unfit for the least recognition at the
hands of the present administration.
? Says the Lancaster Review : Miss Jane
Blackmon, aged about sixteen years,
daughter of James E. Blackmon, who
left this county several years ago, was
fatally burned last Wednesday afternoon
while burining brush on Mr. John Hilton's
plantation in this county. Her
apron catching fire the flameswere quickly'
communicated to all her clothing. A
young man near by, Mr. Maharey, ran to
her assistance, but before the fire could bo
extinguished the unfortunate girl was so
badly burned that the physician attending
her pronounced her injuries fatal. Mr.
Mahaffy was severely burnt himself in
trying to save Miss Blackmon.
? The reference was held in Charleston
on Wednesday in the Clemson will case
before United States Commissioner J. E.
Hagood of the United States circuit court.
A mass of documentary evidence was submitted.
The only oral evidence submitted
was that of Mr. Pat Calhoun, who testified
that there was an agreement and understanding
between himself and Gideon Lee,
the father of Miss Lee, who is contesting
the Clemson will, that if they should succeed
in winning the suit and recover the
Fort Hill property bequeathed to the State,
the place was to be sold to the witness,
Pat Calhoun, at a reasonable figure. The
reference was then adjourned to Abbeville.
The counsel on both sides expect to argue
the case before Chief Justice Fuller, who
is expected at Charleston in May.
? The Greenville News of Saturday
says: From an official of the Farmers' Alliance,
a reporter for the Daily News learned
incidently yesterday that the recent removal
of Dr. Hester, of Spartanburg, from
the post of the State business agent of the
Alliance, was creating a stir in Alliance
ranks all over the State. The State Executive
Board of the Alliance met at Spartanburg
about two weeks ago to consider the
chargesagaint Dr. Hester, which has created
such a great commotion among the
Alliance members in Spartanburg county.
nr. tiester appearea beiore the board and
made a lengthy statemant of his side of the
case. His explanations of his management
of the affairs of his office was not satisfactory
to the State board, it appeared,
and they concluded the investigation by
dismissing Dr. Hester from the position.
It is understood that no successor will be
appointed to the office until the State Alliance
meeting in July, when it is stated
that Dr. Hester will make an appeal from
the decision of the Executive Board to that
body.
Presbyterian Unity.?The committees
from the Northern and Southern Presbyterian
churches were in session at Atlanta,
Ga., last week. The object of the
meeting was to formulate a plan of close
co-operation?a harmonious working together
of the two churches?in the performance
oi mission labors. The question
of organic union was beyond the scope of
ths conference, and it is said the subject
was not touched upon in the discussions,
which were secret. The labors of the committees
were concluded on Thursday afternoon.
They held a secret session in the
morning, and at twelve o'clock the subcommittees
on home and foreign co-operation
in mission work and the evangelization
of the negroes,handed in their reports.
The joint committees declined to make
public their reports. They will be turned .
over to the assemblies of the Northern and
Southern church which will hold meetings /
during the month of May. The South- /
em assembly will meet in Chattanooga on
the 18th of May. The reports will be pro- '
mulgated by the assemblies.
Trying to Save a Woman's Neck.?A
great effort is being made in Pennsylvania
"to prevent the execution next week of
Mrs. Whiteling, the woman who poisoned
her husband and two children. It is said f
that no woman has ever been hanged in the J
Keystone State, and sentimentalists are f
putting forth strong exertions to save the ,
life of Mrs. Whiteling. The Peace Society
and other organizations are actively at
work in her behalf. The board of pardons
has refused to interfere in her favof, and
the whole weight of the movement of her
friends is thrown upon Governor Beaver.
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