Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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JJ$twp and ?acte. The great Eiffel tower at Paris has / been completed. It is the highest struc/ tare ever reared by human hands, so far as known, being 1,178 feet high, or over twice as high as our great monument at Washington. The electric light at its summit will be visible forty miles. ? The' treasure which was aboard the United States war ship Trenton, when she wae wrecked at-Apia, during the recent hurricane there, has been recovered. The Nipaic,'Which was damaged in the recent tiurrtcahe, will be taken to Auckland by the United States steamer Alert. ? It is expected that two or three companies of Mormons will be brought from Europe by the Guion line of steamers during the coming summer. Missionaries abroad have been unusually active of late, and aie said to have secured nearly 2,000 recruits for the church of the Latter-DaySaints. : ? ? . i ? An observance of Sunday is gradually coming in favor by managers or rauroaas. General Manager Hickson, of the Grand Trunk Railway, (Canada) has ordered that no freight trains be ran on Sundays, except those carrying live stock and perishable Sods. It is stated that the Delaware and udson railroad is also in sympathy with the movement. ? One case of yellow fever has been offlally reported at Sandford, Fla., which is 150 miles below Jacksonville. Dr. Hamilton, at Washington, has ordered the case isolated, and every precaution will be taken to control it. Last year feyer was raging in Jacksonville a long time before it was made public; consequently it got a good hold on the city. This time every case will be reported as soon as discovered. Every one anticipated another but milder epidemic this summer. ? The State legislature of Minnesota has passed a capital punishment law similar in some respects to the New York law. Under its provisions the prisoner is to be kept in solitary confinement and see no one but his family, his lawyers and his spiritual advisers. He is to be executed before sunrise, and may invite three persons to be present. The sheriff invites six persons besides the surgeon. It is made a misdemeanor for any newspaper to publish anything more about an execution than the mere fact. -Ex-President Cleveland has subscribed $50 to the fund iu -aid of the Confederate Home at Austin, Texas, and has written as follows concerning it: "I am in full sympathy with this enterprise, and want to contribute to its success. It appeals to the broad humanity which ought to characterize the American people, and I see nothing in. it which ought not to engage | tho effbrt of every riglrt thinking citizen. Surely, Neither prejudice nor passion should be allowed to interfere with the exercise of charity toward the unfortunate, nor with the tender of cheerful aid to the needy and suffering." ? Mr. E. G. Irving, superintendent of the Victor Cotton mills near Charlotte, N. C., has accepted, at a handsome salary, the position of boss carder in a cotton factory which is soon to be put in operation in Shanghai, China, and will sail for that country in a couple of weeks. The chief engineer and designer of the new factory is a Massachusetts man. The mill is to have a capacity of ten thousand spindles, and all of the machinery was purchased in America. Mr. Irving says all the regular hands in the mill will be Chinamen; their labor is the cheapest in the world, and, he adds, "in this business it is as good as any." ? It appears that when General Harrison was inaugurated, ten picked men were secretly appointed to guard him during the entire ceremony. Major Arraes, who is now being tried by court martial for assaulting Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, was one of the* ten. That is why he was close to General Harrison's carriage at the time that he was ordered out of the procession. His trouble with Governor JBeaver grew out of the summary way in which he was driven from his post of trust. If it had not been for this court martial it would never have been known, outside of a few, that General Harrison was protected by ten men during the inauguration cermonies. ? Says the Greenville News: A government official, in a recent talk with a News reporter about the violators of the revenue laws, stated that the most effectual and trustworthy information received by the government against violators was given by the women of the country, and in his long experience in the business he had never known information received through them to fail of a conviction of the offender. He also informed the reporter that their reason for doing this was through a feeling of chagrin ana mortification and with a desperate resolve to save either husband, son or brother. Their love of home and kindred was an incentive to action which nearly always proved effective. ? Summing up the career and influence of the Grange an exchange says: It is supposed by many that the Grange, or patrons of Husbandry, has been for some years on the decline. While this is true so far as some localities is concerned, the organization, as a whole, is in a flourishing condition, and in many States, especially in the North, exerts a powerful influence. At first its growth was too rapid to be permanent, and soon there was a reaction, but this only served to purify the order, and to-day, after an existence of twentyone years, the Grange is in better condition than ever before. It has divested itself of the !large class who joined merely for the money there was in it, and for several years therdhas been a constant and steady develo^thent. ? There is an expectation among some of the Southern Kepublicans^that the tariff bill of the sen* te will undergo important changes befoie it js pushed through the next congress. Mr. Ii. C. Warmouth, one and a large producer of sugar, says that he ha3 no idea that the bill of last session will be passed with the sugar bounty approved of by the leading Republicans in the senate. It is his belief that the country will find that it is in need of all the revenue it is now receiving, and that there will be no occasion for making a great reduction in the sugar duties. The sugar producers of Louisiana do not want a bounty, he says, but wished to be regarded as engaged in one of the industries entitled to protection by duties. The bounty system will not be popular, and it would not bo so satisfactory to the sugar planters and producers as a schedule of duties imposed according to the protection principle. ?Some of the Baptist ministers of Detroit, Mich., profess to see a danger to orthodox protestantism in the observance of Raster day, and at the minister's meeting on Monday discussed the topic: "Shall we observe Easter services in our churches" The sentiment of those present was largely against any special observ ance of the day, and the liev. S. W. Titus went so far as to say that it was the duty of the Baptist ministers to show their people there was no authority for the observance of the day. It was simply a get up for display, and not at all elevating in its religious effect. It is after the pattern of newspaper advertisements of "confirmation hats," said he, "and baptismal pants," added the Rev. C. R. Henderson. With these remarkable specimens of fine clerical wit in mind, one is not surprised that the authors fail to find anything elevating in the religious effect of an Raster observance. ? In the Federal court at Little Rock, Arkansas, last Saturday, the jury returned a verdict of guilty in the case of Charles C. Reid and J. Lucas, charged with interfering with election officers at Pluramervilloat the last election. The judge announced that he would not pronounce sentence until Monday morning, and ordered the men to be committed to the penitentiary until that time. Reid is a brilliant young lawyer of Moulton, very popular, and hundreds of ladies have thronged the court room during the trial. When he was ordered to prison Saturday evening a touching scene ensued as he bade his widowed mother to be of good cheer as she tearfully said good-bye to him. He told her he was not guilty of intentionally violating the law, and could stand it without losing his self-respect. There was not a dry eye in the court room ; but all pleading was in vain and Reid and Lucas are behind the bars. ? Says the Philadelphia Telegraph: The I latest independent movement of South j Carolina colored men may not amount to ! much for manifold reasons, but it is at; least a step in the right direction. The j black man must hoe his own row, aud the sooner he comes to that decision and energetically starts out on that line the better | it will be for him, the South and the coun-1 try. Let him organize Farmers' Alliances and i other industrial schemes and push right out in the field of labor and he will make headway despite every obstacle. There are thousands of colored men scattered through|the South to-day who have come up through ignorance, helplessness | and poverty to positions of independence j and influence, and they have done this i through honest industry. What these have done other thousands may do. ? At -Pittsburg, Penn., last Saturday, Thomas Holloway, a gray-haired old man, was convicted of murder in the second degree for killing a man by request at Charllor's, on January 19. H'dloway's victim was Adam Slater. * The two men had been on a spree. Toward midnight they returned to their boarding house and sat down for a smoke. "I wish somebody would cut my throat," suddenly exclaimed Slater. "I'll do it for you, Adam," replied Holloway, and with that he stepEed to the mantlepiece, took down a long, een-edged butcher knife and drew back Slater's head, and deliberately slashed his throat twice from "ear to ear. un trial Holloway's only plea was that Slater asked to be killed. t ?0*Mle (Shwjuim'* YORKVILLE, S. WEDNESDAY,' MAYJ^ 1889. CANADA NO LONGER AN ASYLUM. The Weldon extradition bill has been passed by the Canadian parliament. Under its provisions criminals from the United States already enjoying an asylum in Canada are not affected, though the measure wished to make it retroactive on the ground that it was desirable to purify Canada of the legion of boodlers and other fugitives from justice who have been infesting it for years. "Criminals who come to us," said Mr. Weldon, "with hands full of plunder, having rendered families destitute, without any consideration for the orphan or widow, are entitled to no sympathy. There might be cases of hardship under a retroactive law, but the interest of morality should not be sacrificed to protect one." It was urged, on the other side, that many fugitives had resided in Canada for many years, and having reformed their evil ways had become respectable and useful citizens. Their actual character and means were such, it was held, as to make them an acquisition to any community, and to subject them now to requisitions on account of offenses committed twenty or thirty years ago, might in many cases lead to great hardships. The act as amended is, however, sufflcientlv broad and comDrehensive for a begin ning. The list of extraditable crimes includes murder, manslaughter, counterfeiting, forgery, larceny, embezzlement, obtaining money or valuable securities under false pretences, rape, kidnapping, burglary, arson, robbery, perjury, piracy, criminal scuttling of a vessel, mutiny* fraud committed by bankers and officers of municipal and other corporations, revolt and malicious acts done with intent to iDjure persons in a railway train. The "trusted clerk" and the "exemplary cashier," from and after the issue of the governor general's proclamation approving the law, will no longer find it safe to "skip" with his employer's assets to the Canadian side of the Niagara Falls, or become suddenly enamored of the beautiful ice palaces and winter pageants at Montreal. The "boodler," too, will find his lot a less happy one under the new law. OKLAHOMA. * Probably the greatest land craze ever recorded culminated in the territory of Oklahoma on Tuesday of last week, a succinct account of which is printed on the first page of this paper. There is recorded what may appear to be a typicl exemplification of AAerican energy ana perseverance, but which when divested of the glamor of these attributes, exhibits a little less than a thirst for gain, predominant in the human breast. But while the rush was great for the purpose of acquiring a "quarter section" of Uncle Sam's domain, which seems not yet to be exhausted, there has been great disappointment, and many of the boomers are returning to the States, disgusted with the result of their venture. While a large number remain and have taken possession by pitching tents or building rude cabins, not a few have been bitterly disappointed in their expectations. A dispatch of Friday from Kansas City, Mo., says: Bulletins in front of the telegraph office at the Union depot this morning indicated that the eaifly morning trains from UKiahoma were over two hours late. The cause of the delay was apparent when a train of fourteen coaches, crowded with returning boomers, came in. A more disgusted crowd could not be imagined. They were mostly originally from Iowa, Nebraska and Illinois. "I went to Leadville," said one "to make a fortune, and came back disappointed, but I knew there that I had to run my chances. I really thought there was something in this Oklahoma business, but I'll tell you there ain't anything in it." There were over J300 boomers in a train that left Kansas City Thursday night, and nearly 200 more wanted to go, but were obliged to wait for the next train. A number of returning boomers dropped out at various stations in Kansas. Edward Glover was at. the head of thirty Illinois settlers, leading them back home, lie said: "We were on the first train that arr'ved at Guthrie on Monday afternoon. We were not looking for town sites, but farm lands. We found pretty fair lands in the river bottoms, but not near as rich as the farms that we were leaving. The soil is red and close like brick dust. In fact, the greater part of the country looks like an immense brick kiln. Look at these shoes," and he displayed a pair of shoes covered with fine red dust. "That's the kind of land they call good soil." Most of the boomers who returned had staked claims, but had refused to settle on them and bring on their families. The most disappointed of these returning boomers were the Iowans. OTHER TROUBLES. From later dispatches from the promised land we take the following: A small pox epidemic now threatens Guthrie and other towns in the new territory of Oklahoma. The excitement caused by the knowledge of the brackish poisonous waters of the river is not a circumstance to the fear that has seized upon the minds of the people in regard to this fell destroyer. It seems that a man named Joseph Ellsworth, of Kansas City, more recently from Leadville, was taken Wednesday on his return from Guthrie and Oklahoma City, and is now quarau- | tined at a house near the Santa Fe railroad shops. It is reported that this man stood in line at the land office at Guthrie four hours, while waiting to file his claim on Tuesday, thus exposing to the attack all those with whom he came in contact at that time. As trains are crowded every day between Arkansas City, Guthrie, Oklahoma City and Purcell, the disease may have already spread to these towns. People who have heard of this case are anticipating an epidemic. The first outbreak will result in nearly depopulating these embryo cities in Oklahoma. Dr. Moore, of Arkansas City, who is in attendance on Ellsworth, says it is a genrnne case of smallpox, and people are excited over the matter, although officials say they can undoubtedly keep it from spreading. They talk quite seriously of establishing a quarantine on the Oklahoma region, as they have dubbed the new territory. ANOTHER VISITATION. A simoon swept the desert on Friday, and Guthrie is buried in red dust. The wind rose*at dawn, sweeping down from a j cloudless sky, and the red sand of the | plain was driven before it all day in stinging, stifling, masses. Tents collapsed, roofs were raised, and everything light and loose was blown away. There are now five cities included in this camp?North, South, East and West Guthrie, and Guthrie, proper. The latter covers .120 acres, supposed to have been set apart for town purposes, and includes depot, postoffice and land office, about which the heart of the city may be said to pulsate. Others circumscribe the suburbs with tents and blankets. Water is stilb being sold, and it is execrable water at that. Gambliig flourishes openly. It has been the salvation of Guthrie that whisky was not admitted, and it is to this wise exclusion that little violence is due. Commissioner Stockslayer's declaration, that he would forfeit the claims of all United States employes, is regarded with suspicion, as it is now generally understood that the deputies were not sworn, and other hired gobblers are not technically in the Federal service. It is demanded that the government declare a forfeiture of the claims of all persons, irespective of employment, who were in the Oklahoma tract before Monday noon. The settling up on the Cherokee strip progresses in increasing volumes. Many camps are visible from the railroad, and boomers at stations declared that it is their purpose to squat there. Plowing and planting are well underway at numerous points. The troops have not yet been moved. Capt. Jack Hayes has sent out couriers to give squatters three days' notice to quit the strip. He is much beloved by the settlers for tne inexhaustible kindness he has shown them in the march down, and the practical help he gave them. A story comes under date of Saturday that a serious collision occurred on Friday, between a party of cowboys and some old soldiers who had located on the Canadian river c .ar tne soumern Doraer, me cowboys having tried to drive the settlers from their claims. In the fight five of the settlers were killed and one seriously wounded, though the cowboys were driven off. THE SOUTH CAROLINA REPUBLICANS. The scramble among the members of the grand old party for the federal offices in South Carolina, is no less interesting than is the president's reticent methods and icy treatment of them when they are in his presence. Col. E. M. Brayton, formerly collector of internal revenue and now chairman of the South Carolina Republican executive committee, has just returned to Charleston from a visit to the White House. He went there expecting the distribution of the federal patronage in South Carolina, but he came away without getting an office for himself or any of his friends. He was asked if it is true that the president intends to ignore the old line Republicans in the South and try to organize a new party on new lines. "Sir," was the reply, "it is true. During my whole visit I was impressed with the fact that the administration was not a friendly one to the Southern Republicans, and we can't understand it. The Independents who have been in Washington hard at work for some time, have evidently had some influence with the president." "How do the applicants seem to be received at the departments?" "Rather coldly, and the colored applicants do not seem to stand much of a chance. The president told an Alabama delegation which called upon him on Saturday that the appointment of colored men seemed to inflame the prejudice of the Southern people, and that while he expected to have to disappoint several hundred office-seekers, one feature of his administration would bo to see that the colored people in the South got their just rights. He seems to haye his own ideas about the situation in the South, and especially about the independent movement, and does not care to hear anything further about it or any arguments contrary to his present views. It is very evident, I think, that he wants to put the party on an entirely new basis in the South. In Alabama and South Carolina and Virginia there seems to be a new movemeni, and he is waiting its developments. The movement seems stronger in Alabama than elsewhere, as the new party there represents largely men of wealth of recognized standing and intelligence, but in South Carolina it is different. In Virginia the division is between Wise and Mahone, and the president seems to favor the former, ana if this is the case, Mahone certainly will not stand it." "What do you think of the president as you met him?" "He is not a pleasant man to interview. You cannot interest him in what the situation in this State really is, and you know that you are boring him all the while you are talking to him." Congressman Bob Smalls seems to stand no better chance for office than Bray ton. His appointment as collector of customs at Beaufort is objected to by some of the faithful with a longing for the same office, and in his statement, which has been filed with the president, in answer to the protest, he says: "The carpet baggers and rum element are making a fight on me, not because of any stain upon my character, not alleging that I have not served the party long and faithfully, unable to prove that even in the last election I did not vote for the home Republican ticket; but opposing me because the county convention nominated men who are adulterous drunkards and gamblers ; a disgrace to Beaufort and an injury to Republicanism." Kx-Senator John R. Cochran, of Ander son, ex-Collector T. B. Johnson and oxMarshall T. J. Tnomey, were in Columbia last Saturday, having recently returned from Washington. They are represented as not being so jubilant as they might be over the president's policy, and corroborate exactly Col. Brayton's views of the situation as expressed above. THE TRIAL OF HAWKS. The trial of Dick Ilawes for the murder of his wife and daughters, May find Irene, last December, was commenced at Birmingham, Ala., on Monday of last week, and will continue probably through the present week. Ilawes will be remembered as the criminal to prevent whose lynching so many lives were lost on the occasion of the lynching party attacking the jail when they were tired upon by the sheriffs posse. The time until noon on the opening day was consumed in arguing the third petition for a change of veuue and motions to quash indictments, all of which were overruled by Judge Greene. The drawing of jurors was then begun, and the panel was completed on Tuesday morning. There are three indictments against Ilawes, one for the murder of his wife, and two others for the murder of his little daughters. The present trial is ou the indictment for the murder of May, his oldest daughter, the finding of whose body at East Lake led to Hawes's arrest and the subsequent recovery of the bodies of his wife aud little daughter, Irene, at Lake View. Able counsel is engaged on both sides, and as every point is strongly contested, the trial proceeds slowly, there being not less than one hundred and fifty witnesses to testify. The theory of the prosecution is that Ilawes murdered May on Monday evening by smothering her, and afterwards tossed the body into the lake, where it was found next morning. The effort of the defence is to show that the death was caused by drowning, and the body must have been in the water several days before it could have risen. In the progress of the trial the theory of the defence as to the other case has been partly developed. It is that a negro woman, Fannie Bryant, saw Ilawes pay his wife $500, and killed her for the money. A man named Thompson, said to resemble Hawes, was her accomplice, and he it was who was seen on the dummy trains from Lake View and out to Fast Lake, taking little May out to the latter place where he killed her and put her body in the water; that the witnesses mistook Thompson for Hawes, and the former disappeared about the time of the murder, and has never been seen nor heard of since. The defence will make the most of Hawes's previous good character. He is by occupation a locomotive runner, and has been employed on a number of the Georgia railroads. All the officials of the Georgia Pacific road from president to yardmaster, have been summoned to testify as to his character. After the Hawes case is disposed of the case of Wyly brothers, Fanny Bryant and Albert Patterson, as accomplices, will be taken up in the order named. Among those familiar with the case there is a growing belief that the Wyly brothers and Fanny Bryant are innocent. It has never been acertained who the parties were that broke into Ilawes's cottage, the night after it was searched by the officers, and washed the blood stains from the floor and walls. Whoever the parties were, it is not believed by many that they were the real accomplices in the murder of Mrs. Hawes and Irene. The seveuth day of the trial opened last Monday, public interest in the proceedings continuing unabated. The defence continued the examination of witnesses to show the resemblance between Thompson and Hawess All said that the resemblance was close except that Thompson had a deformed eye. It was shown that Thompson was intimate with Mrs. Hawes, visiting her day and night during Hawes's absence, and he suddenly disappeared after the finding of May's body and has not been seen since. It was shown that Thompson's clothes answered the description of those of the man seen on the dummy with May on Monday night, while evidence was adduced to prove that Hawes's clothes were light instead of dark. The cross-examinations brought out that Hawes treated his wife badly, frequently beating her and that she was dissipated. Intense interest was awakened when the defence put Hawes himself on the stand. He gave an account of himself from babyhood. He married Emma Hawes ten years ago in Atlanta and filed a* bill for divorce in Atlanta two years ago last October. He had hired a good lawyer, in whose hands he had left the matter. He went to Atlanta in September last to see his lawyer, who said he could get the divorce without trouble that same month, and Hawes supposed he had gotten it. He then gave an account of his movements at the time of the murders. He saw his wife and children. He had brought May up town that night to get her some stockings. He carried her back home and returned to town. He sent Willie, his boy, to Atlanta that night, and returned home between 1 and 2 o'clock that morning and found his wife and two girls gone. The house was open and empty. He had paid his wife ?500 on Saturday in the presence of Fannie Bryant. He saw Fanny on Sunday, and she said that Mrs. Hawes and the girls were at* Mrs. Caroline's. He detailed his actions on Monday and Monday night, saying he had spent the time that night between (? and 10 o'clock at various stores and saloons. He had worn a blue coat, light pants and slouch hat all during Monday. They were in court and were identified by him. He had not been to East Lake since last summer and never saw his wife or either of his daughters after Saturday night. Hawes's cross examination was long and searching. Fannie Bryant, the supposed accomplice of Hawes and under indictment for the murder of Mrs. Hawes and Irene, was called by the State in rebuttal. Sl^ denied having seen Hawes pay his wife $500 and said Hawes came to her house on Monday about dark and got little May and took her away. It was expected the State would close in rebuttal yesterd ay when argument would begin. MERE-MENTION. Within five years, 1,900 decrees of divorce have been granted in New Hampshire, which is at the rate of about one divorce to every ten marriages. A Rushville, Illinois, girl put her lump of chewing gum on her pillow. It got into her ear while asleep. It took several days to remove it and she is now deaf. Florida claims to have supplied California with 2,000,000 young orange trees since the 1st of last September. It it estimated that there are 363* colleges in the United States, 4,850 institutions of learning, and 05,718 students in them. A strange and fatal disease is prevailing at Pauline, Arkansas. The symptoms are heavy chills with a severe cough. The skin turns yellow prior to death. Five fatal cases have occurred within the last few days. Negroes from all parts of North Carolina met in Raleigh last Friday and organized the North Carolina Emigration association. About 300 negroes were present, and nearly every county in the State was represented. In the superior court of Rutherford county, N. C., last Friday, Robert P. Willis and Samuel Halford, white men, were convicted of burglary and sentenced to be hanged on the 27th of May. An appeal to the supreme court was taken. There is no check to the famine and death rate in China. Failures throughout the country during the week ending last Friday number for the United States 186 and Canada 28, a total of 213 compared with 246 the preceding week and 223 the corresponding week last year. A workman last week fell from the suspension bridge, 200 feet, into the whirlpooi;beiow Niagara Falls and was drowned. After to-day a duty of 60 per cent, will be imposed by France upon any lard imported in which there is a mixture, large or small, of cotton seed oil. A meeting of Southern manufactures will be held in Augusta, Ga., to-day, the object being to come to some agreement in regard to the output of manufactures, and to regulate the same. The regular income of John D. Rockafeller is twenty millions of dollars a year. That makes him the richest man in the United States, perhaps the very richest in the world. He is a Baptist. Last Saturflo" ??qo tVifl aauanfiofh anniuoraaru r?f th? uaj uuu inv ijv ? v.u v?vvi* uuua * v*va?? j w? ? birth of Odd Fellowship in the United States, and the event was properly celebrated in Philadelphia, by representatives of the order from all parts of the country. The colored vote in New York, Indiana and Ohio, is larger than the Republican pluralities in those States. On a recent day in Pittsburg, Pa., there were so many funerals that livery men were unable to supply the demand for carriages. The store house and barroom attached to J. H. Parish's distillery in Rutherford county, N. C., was burned by an incendiary last Friday night. Loss $000; no insurance. The pecuniary loss sustained by the telegraph companies of New York by the order requiring them to remove their poles from the streets will exceed ?100,001). Cyrenus Arter, of Youngsville, Pa., went to Sugar drove to attend the funeral of a brother who had been accidentally killed, was taken ill there with grief, and died in a few days. Dr. Catling, the inventor of the famous (ratling gun, and other weapons, is liviug in Boston. He is seventyone years old and a native of North Carolina. The strawberry crop, which is now being marketed in Louisiana, is unusually large. From April 12 to April 17, over 1,200 bushels of strawberries were shipped from the station at Hammond in Tangipahoa Parish. John F. Price, confined in a Colorado penitentiary for horse stealing, has fallen heir to ?100,000. He formerly lived at Circleville, (). There was a case of yellow fever at Sanford, Florida, last week, but Surgeon-General Hamilton, who has thoroughly investigated the situation, expresses the opinion that there will be no infection in the State this year. Harrison's South i on Policy.?A Washington dispatch say : President Harrison has adopted a remarkable Southern policy. Saturday a delegation of colored men came all the way from Alabama to consult with the president about the new "white man's Republican party," the foundation of which was started at Birmingham recently. They were not in the president's presence five minutes before they discovered that the new organization was actually iuspir ed by a suggestion from the White House, anil that it was Mr. Harrison's deliberate purpose to attempt to break up the Democratic party in the South by dividing it ou the industrial tariff is3ue and distributing executive patronage among protection Democrats, thus inserting a tariff wedge in the Democratic organization. The chosen spokesman of the delegation was not half through with his address when the president interrupted by saying: "Well, what do you want me to do? I cannot very well use the army and navy to givo you the protection you ask. Postoffices won't do you any good; what do you want?" "All through the interview," said oue of the delegates, "The president seemed to have in mind the Petroleum V. Nasby idea that it was postoffices we were after. We came up to lay our views before the president because of the general impression in our State that he was in some way back of this 'white man's Republican party.' We have had our say and we are going home again. The president told us that even if a party should be established in the Sputh calling itself a 'white man's Republican party,' that wouldn't hurt us." One of the delegation, Philip Joseph, editor of a paper for colored people in Mobile, ventured to interject a few words of dissent, to which the President replied: "If once you get these white men identified with you on the tariff issue, they will be forced to join the ranks of the Republican party, and then you will have a nucleus to go upon. If they have been in the Confederate army so much the better. The best way to protect you is to take up the tariff protection first. Then when you have a sufficient following of white men committed on that point you can hold them on all the other issues, aud if congress passes any new laws to protect you in your votes, those laws can be enforced." LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. W. C. Latimer?A Growing Business. Mrs. T. M. Dobson?Boom, Boom, Bang! F. I iapperiield?Yorkville Marble Works. R. B. Dowry's Grocery Store. M. &. H. C. Strauss?Don't Ask for Credit. M. Strauss, President?Meeting-of Board of Trade. J. II. Riddle?They Have Arrived. Withers Adickes?What shall we Fat and Drink? W. II. MeCorklo, Probate Judge?CitationMrs. S. E. liainbright, Applicant?A. C. Ilambright, deceased. BOARD OF TRA DE. By notice of the secretary, published elsewhere, it will be seeD that a regular meeting of the Yorkville Board of Trade will be held in Hunter & Oates's opera house on Friday evening next, at 7* o'clock. BASE "BALL. The first game of the season at this place was played yesterday by two juvenile clubs, the "Hustlers" and the "College Nii^e," the former winning the game by a score of 14 to 17. TEACHERS' CERTIFICATES. Of the fourteen examination papers unacted upon when our report was made up last week, first grades were given to one white and one colored applicant; two second and three third grade certificates were issued, and seven were licensed to teach,/ COTTON POST OFFICE. The postoffice department has directed a change of the location of Cotton post office, from Chester county to York county, and Mr.yW. T. Smarr has been appointed postmaster. * The office will be at his residence, and will be supplied as heretofore, via Lowrysville to Cabal. This order is now in operation. CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY. On Monday a declaration was filed in the office of the secretary of State for the incorporation of the Carolina Buggy company of Yorkville, the corporators of the proposed company being M. C. Willis and Walter B. Moore. The amount of the capital stock is $50,000, to be divided into one hundred shares of $500 each. A commission was issued. THE BRICK AND TILE WORKS. The steam engine and a portion of the mofihinorw fnr fhr? hriplr and lilt* works to I IMHVII1UV1J *>? be erected at this place, near tb&ThreaC's depot, have been received and are being placed in position under the energetic direction of Mr. Stewart, the active member of the company. He hopes to have his works in operation within teu days or two weeks. \/ BETHEL CHURCH. At tfie" quarterly communion, held at the old historic church of Bethel, in York county, on Sunday, 21st ultimo, five names were added to the roll of membership. Messrs. D. T. Partlow, D. M. Wallace, P. E. Moore, W. E. Adams and John II. Adams, Jr., were solemnly inducted into the office of ruling elder; and also Messrs. S. J. Clinton, J. B. Faires and John M. Miller were set apart to the office of deacon. The church now has 8 elders, 9 deacons and 312 members. THE WEATHER. Reports of the variableness of the weather as the past month drew to a close, reach us from every direction. In the North and West it was cold with heavy rains causing overflow of streams and some loss of property. In this section frost was apprehended one or two nights, but there was none sufficient to injure fruit or vegetation. Sunday was a blustering disagreeable day, threatening a heavy storm in' the forenoon, which, however, ended in the fall of a few flakes of snow, followed by a cool rain of short duration. AHEAD OP YORKVILLE. -r ? !.. ti.: ine JOnnson ^liy rjuierpnae ui jaot jc 11I day makes the statement that the contract | has been let for the burning of 5,000,000 .bricks, a part of which are to be used in building the depot of the Three C's railroad in that city. It will be a union depot and will be located near where the Three C's line crosses the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad. The building is to be 300 feet long and 30 feet wide. The same paper says that the Three C's Railroad company have sold already nearly one hundred lots from thejr acquisition of land in Johnson City. t m ? CHICKAMAUGA ASSOCIATION. As has heretofore been published, an association has been formed for the purpose of preserving the battle-field of Chickamauga, the society to consist of one hundred persons representing all the States which had troops in that lield?fifty from each of the two contending armies. It is also proposed to obtain a charter from the State of Georgia, and eventually model a society somewhat upon the plan of the Gettysburg association. A letter from Gen. Marcus J. Wright and Col. S. C. Kellogg, secretaries, n has conferred upon our townsman, ueu. xu. M. Law (known throughout the South as commander of Law's Alabama Brigade, but who before the close of the war attained the rank of major general,) the distinction of being one of tbc association, and he has accepted and consented to serve. V/BUILDING NOTES. ('apt. Lindsay is making preparations to build an addition to the south side of his store house on Main street. The addition will be of brick, tifty feet by twenty-three, and two stories. A part of the first floor will probably be used as the office of the Loan and Savings Bank. The materials for the now Methodist church are being delivered on the lot where it is to be erected, on the south side of East Liberty street, at the intersection of the street with the Chester and Lenoir railroad. The building will be of brick, and in the latest style of church architecture, in accordance with designs in course of preparation by Mr. Bonewell, architect, of Hickory, N. C. The materials for Mr. Sam M. McNeel's residence are also being received, and work will commence on it at an early day. ^yoiikville's new bank. Friday last a certificate of charter was issued from the office of secretary of State upon the return of the corporators of the Loan and Savings Bank of Yorkville. The capital stock is $00,000, divided into shares of $100 each, a novel feature being that 20 per cent, is payable at once in cash and the balance is payable in monthly instalments of $1 per share. A meeting of the stockholders in the new corporation was held on Monday night last. G. W. S. Hart was called to the chair. A majority of the shares was found to be present, when it was decided ,to elect a board of directors for the ensuing year. The following were elected: G; W. S. Hart, W. H. Herndon, W. B. McCaw, W. G. White, M. C. Willis, T. B. McClain, J. R. Lindsay, J. M. Starr. At the first organition Mr. Hart was elected president; Mr. McCaw, solicitor; and Mr. J."It. Lindsay, treasurer and cashier. A committee on bylaws was appointed, and other matters perfected pertaining to the organization of the new institution. centennial services. Yesterday was the centennial anniversary of the inauguration of George Wash- i ington as the first president of the United States; and besides the grand military and civic pageant in New York city, where the inauguration ceremonies were performed, services appropriate to the day were held in the churches throughout the land, the event being signalized by the ringing of the church bells at 9 o'clock A. M. In Yorkville business was suspended from 9 A. M. until 1 P. M., and services were conducted in all the churches except the Episcopal, which at present is without a rector. On the first page of The Enquirer this week will be found an interesting description of the inauguration ceremonies of Washington, one hundred years ago, and it is meet that we of to-day should study the grand character of the man who was chosen by his countrymen to the exalted position of chief magistrate of a republic which in the first hundred years of ils existence has grown to be the mightiest nation on the earth. That it has withstood the ! shocks of strife from without and contention within, is the best evidence that it is a fabric erected on just principles, securing to her people all the blessings of civil , and religious liberty, and that it will con- j tinueto increase in grandeur and great- i ness as time rolls on. May we not attrib- j ute this grand success to the fervent religi-: ous spirit pervading our forefathers, the early founders of the republic? On the august occasion of his induction into office, the first president said: "It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules the universe?who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benedictions may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States, a government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every steD by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, .seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency." Such were the pervading sentiments of the first inaugural, uttered by one relying with pious confidence upon divine power to guide his thoughts and actions. Entering upon the second century of the existence of our government, may we not hope that our officials in every station of public trust will be imbued with the same reverent thought and feelings, and that our nation will continue in its mighty and wondrous career. 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. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J. C. Galloway, Pastor. Services next Sunday at 10.30 A. M., and 8 P. M. Sunday-school at 4 P. M. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. 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 Sunday at 10.30 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday-school at 1 P. M. Prayer-meeting to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock. Baptist?Rev. R. G. Patrick, Pastor. Services at Union next Sunday at 11 A. M. and in YorkvilleatS P. M. Sunday-school at 4 P. M. Prayer-meeting to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock. ^^-personal mention. Mr. M. Whitt, who has been quito ill for some time, was on the streets yesterday. * N'Mrs. C. G. Parish and daughters, Fannie, Laura and Lillie, are visiting at Clover. ^Mr. J. Wilson Marshall, of Fort Mill, is in Yorkville, spending a few days with relatives. ^ Misses Belle Caldwell and Lula Riddle, "Of cowling ureen, are in lontvnie, ine Siests of Mrs. J. H. Riddle. Mr. Wm. I. Witherspoon, who is in busess at Charlotte, N. C., paid a Hying visit to his home here last Friday. ><-Mr. Brooks Inman visited his home on Hfeullock's creek last Saturday, and reports that he enjoyed fine strawberries at his Sunday dinner. y' Miss Hattie Lowry, who has been visiting Dr. M. J. Dowry's family, of Meridian, Mississippi, since last winter, returned home Friday afternoon. Messrs. J. G. McNulty, W. W. Sanford, J. B. Walker, H. Ci Mills, J. F. Hart, Jr., P. R. Brattonand H. I. McCaw are in New York, taking in the centennial celebration. COUNTY COLORED ALLIANCE. On yesterday delegates from ten sub-alliances of the Colored Farmers' Alliance of York county, met in the court house at this place for the purpose of organizing a county alliance. The following sub-alliances were represented by duly accredited delegates: China Grove, White Hill, Mount Zion, Toole's Fork, Foundation, Bandana, Neil's Chapel, New Hope, Mount Hopewell, Old Providence. The meeting for organization was by order of the State deputy, B. E. Commander, and the county organizer, J. J. Frazier. The roll of delegates was called, after which the county alliance was organized by the election of the following officers: f TVT / 11 aimoHlnfonrlanf WT " ill. V1IUVUU, V.UUUKJI OUJJCIIUIOUUI.UI., II , L. Minton, secretary; A. F. Hall, treasurer; A. W. Wallace, conductor; W. M. H. Miller, door-keeper; Y. II. Harris,chaplain ; It. Ward, outside guard. After the organization addresses were made by several of the members, and after the adoption of resolutions pertaining . to the good of the order, the meeting adjourned sine die. While the alliance of the colored farmeas, like that of the whites, is a secret organization, members of the white alliance, familiar with its principles, speak favorably of them, and the organization has the endorsement of leading and prominent members of the white, alliance. THE TOWNSHIP BONDS, On yesterday afternoon the following letter was received by the board of county commissioners of York county, which places the question of the right to the bonds issued by certain townships of York county in aid of the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago railroad in a new phase: Boston, Mass., April 24, 1880. To the Chairman and Members of the Board of Commissioners of York County, S. C., and to 1). Finley, Clerk: (Jentlomen: Demand oils been made upon the Boston Sale Deposit and Trust company by tho Massachusetts and Southern Construction company, upon order of the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad company, for delivery to it of$7f>,<)00 of the sovon percent, coupon bonds of York township, S. C., issued April 1st, 1887, due April 1st, 1012; $7.7,000of tho seven por cent, coupon bonds of Catawba township, S. G'., issued May 1st, 1880, due May 1st, 1011$24,000 of the seven per cent, coupon bonds ol' Broad Kiver township, S. C., issuod May 1st, 1880, due May 1st, 1011; $18,000, of the* seven per cent, coupon bonds of Ebenezer township, S. C., issued May 1st, 1880, duo May 1st, 1011; $8,400 of the seven per cent, coupon bends of Cherokee township, S. C., issued May 1st, 1880, duo May 1st, 1011; all of said bonds having been issued by townships in your county in aid of the construction of tho Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago railroad. Domaud is made upon us for tho delivery of said bonds, with interest adjusted from the time of completion of said railroad through said townships, and tho acceptance of tho same by the railroad commissioner* of South Carolina. On tho evidonce furnished us in support of this demand, and considering the judgment of your supreme court, holding tho trust indentures oxecuted between this compuny and your board "ultra vires, a nullity, because not in pursuance of any duty imposed by law," upon your board, it seems to us that the particular form of evidence of tho completion ol' the railroad through the townsmps, preseiueu in the void indenture, need not now bo considered by us. Unless, therefore, you furnish this company with sufficient reasons for not delivering these bonds as requested, it is advised that it must hold itself in readiness to make delivery on any day after May 2nd, prox. Boston Sake Deposit it Tkust Co., By M. Stone, President. Immediately on the reception of the tibove letter, after ehusultation by members of the counsel for the respondents in the mandamus cases, the following reply was sent to the president and the secretary of tho Boston Safe Deposit and Trust company : Yoiucvillk, S. C., April .50, 1ss!>. M. Stono, President, and Edward K. Pcmd, Secretary, Boston Safe. Deposit aud Trust Co., Boston, Mass.: Replying to your lottor, just received, I would remind yon that your company is trustee ; that the conditions precedent to the doli very of tliQ bonds have not been complied with, atjd should!you execute your unparalleled threat by delivering tho bonds on tho day mentioned, proceedings will be Instituted to instruct you concerning the inviolability of a trust. Tlie decision of the court in rc is obiter du'tti, and decides only that tho potitionors could not onforco their rights by mandamus. D. E. PlNI.KY, Clerk and Counsel to the Board "of County Commissioners of York county, H. C. OorrcMpundencp of tkr Yorkvllle Knquirer. LETTEK FROM RUCK HILL. Hock IIIll, April JO.?Centennial day is being clebrated by the citizens of our town. All business was suspended from 9 a. in. until 11 a. in. Promptly at 9 o'clock the church bells began to ring, and continued for half an hour. Appropriate services for the day were held in the Presbyterian and Methodist churches, attended by large congregations. Miss Jennie Miller, of Yorkville, has beeu teaching a class in painting at this place for the past three months. \ esterday her school closed. (Jreighton, Shefersee & Co., had offered two prizes?two handsome gilt frames?for the best oil and crayon picture. The pictures were placed on exhibition yesterday afternoon at the residence of Mr. John li. London. A large number of ladies and gentlemen visited the residence of Mr. Jjondon to view the works of art. A committee, consisting of Mrs. Frel. Mobloy, Mrs. W. C. Hutchison and Miss Sallie Gibson, was selected to award the prizes. Miss Mecca Avery received the first prize for the best oil painting, it ueing a cluster 01 cnrysanuiemums, and Miss Esther Neisler received the prize for the best crayon picture, a large deer head. There were quite a number of beautiful pictures on exhibition. The graded school has decided to picnic atBlacksburg on Friday next. The children will be accompanied, in a large measure, by their parents. The Rock Hill silver cornet band will accompany the party and enliven the occasion with music. Mr. W. B. Wilson, Jr., and Capt. L. M. Davis are the only citizens we have in attendance at the centennial celebration in Hew York. Mr. John T. Roddey and Mr. E. E. Poag are both building handsome residences on Main street, near the graded school. Mr. John T. Itoddey expects to occupy his as sodn as completed. Will report later as to Mr. Poag. Mrs. Thos. O. Flowers returned from Baltimore on Sunday. Her eyesight has been almost completely restored. This section was visited on Sunday with a very heavy wind and rain storm, but no damage was done. Hal. Correspondence of the Yorkvillc Knquirer. LETTER FROM LANCASTER COUNTY. Spring dell, April 27.?Our people are about done planting their cotton crops. Some have had cotton up for ten days, while others expect theirs in ten days to come; but as the season seems backward, perhaps the early bird will not get all the worms. Corn planting is now occupying the farmers' minds, and with favorable seasons will progress rapidly, though this thing of planting corn, after the cotton has been planted, seems like farming backwards. Within the recollection of the writer many farmers laid by corn in the latter part of May and first of June. Then it was out of the way of harvesting small grain. Besides that, corn had all the benefit of spring seasons, and was enabled to make its crop of ears before the usual spring drought. Those farmers generally had corn enough ? ,1 L vtr?1.1 :l t ?.1 uI? ilfiu LU >V UU1U it I1UI UU UUV1SUU1C to return to early planting and try whether the results would be better or not ? In this connection it is opportune to state that Hon. W. II. Stewart, of York county, and Mr. W. II. Beckham, of Lancaster county, have prepared an acre of ground on which they intend to plant corn and try to win the thousand dbllar prize. Hereafter we will endeavor to send you a history of its preparation and culture. This acre is on the farm of the late Benj. J. Cureton, two miles southeast of Springdell, and on what was formerly called the "Physicking spring branch,"? now called by the railroad authorities "Mill Creek." Small grain has been looking badly. But that is not unusual at this season, because ground plowed up in early spring or late winter must "run together" and undergo a chemical change about this time, and such conditions are temporarily unfavorable, while in the end beneficial to the plants. This month has been unusually dry. Many days the plows could not do more than half the regular amount of work, because the ground was so hard. Then the wind seems to have chosen April, instead of March, in which toventits wrath. Perhaps this is another coincidence due to the lateness of the season. The writer has not observed whether a late Easter Sunday is indicative of lateness in the advent of spring weather and the putting forth of vegetation; but he thinks he has observed that seasons change gradually, sometimes getting later and sometimes earlier, vacillating with some degree of regularity between two extremes. Whether lunar influences, which I suppose determines the date of Easter, has a controlling power in this, or whether there is mere coincidence?if any coincidence as a rule?is a qnestlon which I would like tc see ventilated. Will not some older and more observant persons give your readers the benefit of their knowledge, observation, experience* or speculation ?' If lateness ol Easter causes, or is coincident with, lateness of season, the almanacs will enable farmers to calculate better as to the propei times to plant various crops that are seeded in spring. . Waxhaw. Chop Repokts.?The South Caroling weather service, in co-operation with the signal service, furnishes the following foi the week ending last Saturday: Rainfall for the State was slightly below tire normal. Temperature was about an average. Sunshine was about an average. Weather condition?The rains of the 2f)th, although butfairly distributed, were reasonable, yet in some sections rain is badly-needed. The average temperature and sunshine has developed crops. There has bpen about 80 percent, of cotton planted, some already to a stand, and with the corn, small grain aud fruit prospects, the farmer feels much encouraged. The circular of the signal service at Washington, issued Inst Saturday, savs: The week ending April 27 has beeu farmer than usual in all the agricultural districts except at stations on the South Atlantic, where the temperature has been about normal. In the central valleys, from the Gull coast to the lake region and Minnesota, the daily temperature ranged trom three to six degrees above. The seasonal temperature from January 1 to April 27 continues higher than usual except on the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts, where the average daily temperature has ranged from one to two degrees below normal. The rainfall for the week has been below normal throughout the cotton, wheat and corn regions of the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri valleys, except Eastern Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin, where large excesses are reported. Very heavy rains occurred during the week on the Atlantic coast from New York southward to Georgia, an excess of more than one inch occurring over the greater portion of the Middle Atlantic States, and from three to six inches in Maryland, Delaware, Eastern Virginia and Southern New Jersey. Well distributed rains also occurred in Florida and Georgia, South Garolina and throughout New England. The storm which caused unqsual rainfalls on the Atlantic coast during the latter part of the week, continues central this morning near Norfolk, Va., attended by rain throughout the Middle Atlantic States, the upper Ohio valley, the lower lake region and New England. Seasonal rainfall continues in excess from New York southward to Florida. Over the central portion of the cotton region and over the greater part of the wheat region, from GO to 7o per cent, of the usual amount of rainfall occurred. The crop conditions in Teuuessee continue good, although more rain would improve the general condition.' Cool nights and a deficiency in rainfall were unfavora uiu hi uie central portions or me cotton regions, including Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana, although no serious injury has resulted yet; and Cotton and corn are reported in good condition. In the South Atlantic States the weather was favorable, crop prospects were never better, and the fruit is considered safe from frost. Washington's Character.?There was a large audience in Chickering Mali, New York, lastSunday,tohear Prof. Felix Adler's talk to the Society for Ethical Culture on the subject, "The Character of Washington." He said that while Washington possessed strongcharacter, admirably suiting him as a statesman and leader, he had weaknesses and passions like others ; but his great will power enabled him to subdue them. lie lacked the eloquence distinguishing many of his contemporaries, but his conversation was to the point, and his speaking from the heart. Ho told several interesting incidents showing that Washington had a temper, and of his firing his pistol in the air to arrest the confusion of his troops during the evacuation of New York by the British. ?? - . SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ^ ? J. W. Ashley, an Anderson farmer, is planting 5ot) acres of cotton this year. ? Macbeth Young, a young lawyer of TJnion, has gone to Oklahoma with the idea of settling. ? Cotton is a had stand in Barnwell be6iuse of the spoiling of seed 'by iftln;: laAt fall, and some farmers who have seed hold it for a dollar a bushel. ? A United States fish car has arrived at Columbia with 0,000,000 shad eggs, which, wheu hatched out, will he placed, iu-...the Savannah and Congaree rivers. ? Stephen Oibson died at} hprhOme in Fairfield on the 20th. ITe was perhaps the oldest citizen of that county, having reached the age of 99years. u ? Henry I). Howren, probably the brightest newspaper man in Ch^lestph, but who was continually changing employers because of his drinking habits, has suddenly become converted and opened a campaign as an evangelist hwtSap..run . ji. . ? In Spartanburg county there are eight cotton mills in operation or adder constructions with a total of 122,000 spindles. Clifton leads with o0,000, which is tihe largest number of any cotton mill in the South. Many other portions of the State are displaying considerable energy in factory building. 1 1 " ? ' ? On the 20th instant, about.ten miles north of Anderson, a young man named John Irby was drowned in Tucker's mill pond while trying to save his brother,from a similar fate. In saving his brother he lost his own life. Others came In turn to save his brother but not until it was to late to save him. This makes the seventh person drowned in this pond. ? About fifty South Carolina farmers have given notice that they will cdtaapete for the $1,000 which is offered jointly by the State board of agriculture and the American Agriculturist, -in case a Sooth Carolina competitor shall make the best yield of corn per acre In the competition instituted by the Agriculturist. ? The State Medical association of South Carolina was in session in Charleston last week. The meeting was haAnonioua aiud profitable to the members. Among the n$w members admitted to the association was Dr. T. L. Corntvell, of Rock Hill. Among the delegates elected to the American Medical association was Dr. S. R. Bratton, of Yorkvilie. Laurens was selected as the place for the next meeting. ? Speaking of the agricultural outlook in Oconee county, the Walhalla Courier says:- Seldom have we been favored with such fine spring weather. There has been sufficient rain to keep the ground in condition for thorough plowing, aqd the farmers are well up with their work all over the county. Corn is coming up gnd looking well. Cotton planting will soon be done. Wheat, oats and rye are growing rapidly. The fruit prospect was never more promising. Apples, peached, pears, plums and cherries promise the largest yield of many years. ? A dispatch of Saturday from Ninetyci*.. * a ? - J! J oix says: ivu aujuurueu uiBeuu^ ui ine old Augusta, Greenwood and western railway was held here to-day, a majority of the stock being represented. The meeting proceeded to elect a president and { board of directors. Mr. A. M. Aiken was , elected president, and L, It. Denny, C. L. Kfnard, W. S. Allen, E. M. Lipscomb, D. It. Jones, J. li. King, J. w. Fouche, D. T. Kinard and B. F. Arnold v directors. By resolution the president and directors were instructed to proceed at once to have set aside the Act of consolidation with the Carolina, Knoxville and Western railroad. Major It. Vf,, Shand, of Columbia, and Capt. A. Urquhart, of the Three C's road, were present. It is expected that the Three C's company will make a proposition to complete the Augusta, Greenwood and Western as soon as the latter company gets in a position to entertain propositions. The Ciiaklotte Post Office.?The president has appointed Archibald Brady post master at Charlotte, N. C., vice Gen. Young, whose death occurred a few weeks ago. The appointment of Brady is regarded in Charlotte as significant, and ini dicating that the president will adhere to his Southern policy. Referring to the appointment, the Charlotte Chronicle says: * This appointment ends a long local struggle between Charlotte Republicans. Mr. Brady was opposed by nearly all the party workers here. His backing consisted of a few prominent gentlemen who are Republicans from principle, but who eschew local politics. The appointment is in keeping with the ! president's policy tobuild up a white man's Republican party in the South. It was s made clear to Mr. Harrison that Mr. Brady had declined to run on the Republican s ticket for the State senate, and that he had i even scratched the local ticket. These are > strong points in the North and West i against an applicant for office; but here ijx s the South they seem to have weight in , favor of an applicant. In other words Mr. f Harrison rather,seeks to encourage the idea of an independent, genteel white ,R?i publican who is willing to fly Ih.^enug : of the negro vote. As the negro vote. haS rather tended to defeat the Republican party in the South, than otherwise, the nroairlonf'a nnlinv ia ominontlv nrapHiVil i politics. ; 7 Si '* '" k ? ? ? ..! /.J t <7 ; The White and Black Republicans.?-The Washington correspondent of the New York Times says: "The fchite r Republicans of the South have had a great deal to say about the failure of Democifcta to 'give the negro a show' in Southern politics, but now thataRepublicabadmln^ > istration is in power, some of them are hot ! so anxious to see colored men in office. i The postmaster-general's daily appoint* > ments of from oue hundred and iifty to? i two hundred postmasters are beginning tp take in the Southern States, and there a > colored man is receiving a postmaster's or ? a postal clerk's commission. As a result protests are beginning to come in from ; white Republicans, who fear that morb such appointments will be made. They i don't like to have their mail handed out by a colored man who draws a salary i from the government, and in some cases i they have taken the trouble to come on to Washington in person to say so. One of : tho protestants is Col. Newcomb Clarke, ex-speaker of the Michigaif house of representatives, but now of Ocean Springs, Miss. Col. Clarke is a good Republican, but he is here to head off, if he can, the proposed appointment of a negro postmaster at Ocean Springs. He is not the only Southern Republican who thinks that making a colored man a postmaster is giving just a little more 'show' than iseutirely agreeable or necessary." + ? Tint Gali.ows.?Ctesar Frazer, colored, was hanged at Charleston last Friday at 10.30 A. M., for the murder of A. Oldenburg, a merchant in that city, whom the culprit attempted to rob on the night of February 9th, last. The condemned man confessed his guilt. lie proteased the Catholic faith, and the execution was unattended by the usual scenes of shouting and praying. At Bennettsville, on the same day, Jas. 11. McLaurin, colored, a boy 15 years of age, who was convicted at the February: term of court of committing a criminal assault upon a young lady living near Clio, in Marlboro county, on January 14, 1888, and who hasalways heretofore denied having committed the crime, confessed his guilt Friday morning when two clergymen paid 'him their farewell visit. .He then said that he was prepared to die, At his request he was baptized and received into the church. He ascended the gallows at 11 o'clock, was very nervous, but said he was ready to die. The trap was thrown at 11.12, but his neck was not broken. He died from strangulation in fourteen minutes, and eighteen minutes afterwards his body was cut down and turned over to his relatives. The execution passed off VB?y4 quietly and there was no trouble. o-;'-1 ; The Prosperous South.?Baron Erlanger has returned to Cincinnati from a ten-days' inspection tour over his system of roads known as the "Qpeenapd Credent Route," extending from Cincinnati to New. Orleans,with alinetoMeridianandShreve-: ? port. "While he was in New Orleans he was a guest of the Slidell family,'to whom, he is related by marriage. The Baron, although he has been in control of these, roads many years, had never passed over them. To a reporter he expressed His great pleasure at the condition in which he found his properties and the evidences of prosperity in the belt of country which they serve. "What I saw," said he, "was a continual surprise. No man can visit that portion of the South for the first time without feeling that the half has not been told regarding its wonderful prosperity. Everywhere development is being pusned with all the force, capital, and enterprise, practically unlimited, can command. Certainly the future of the South is most promising, and the growth and development down there is- bound to rChult in great profit to Cincinnati."