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JtojjjS and (facts. ? Governor Foraker will probably^be a caudidate for a third term before the Ohio KeDublican convention, which meets the latter part of Juno. If nominated and elected, he tfqtold still be considered in direct line for the Payne succession in the United States senate. ? At -Birmingham, Ala., last Thursday, Minnie Moss, a yotmg white woman, was senteacedAc- behaaged oa June 17. She was tried on a charge of highway robbery and an attempt to murder an old woman peddler. The verdict is a curious one from the fact that highway robbery is not a capital offence, and the victim of the attempted murder is yet alive. The case will be appealed. ?The next Honse, on the present basis, will consist of 164 Republicans arid 161 Democrats, but by December there will be four more States, whose representation will probably change the figures to 168 Republicans and 162 Democrats. The unseating of Democrats is expected to proceed as fast as circumstances will allow, with the result of making the Republican majority ten or twelve before the session uiusca. ? Some 160,000 acres of the finest land in South Dakota will probably be thrown open to settlement within a month, on the completion of negotiations by the government with the Sioux Indians of the Yankton agency. The Indians will sell seven townships on the north side of their reservation, and another rush of speculators, settlers and adventurers may be expected to follow as soon as, or before, the tract is ready for occupancy. ? Miss Frances E. Willard, who has just returned to Chicago from a lecturing tour in the South,, speaking of the recent sale of American breweries to British capitalists, believes that the prospects of prohibition are helped rather than hindered by this large transfer of capital. She thinks that American brewers see signs of an approaching storm, and they show much shrewdness in casting an anchor to the windward. ?The Rev. Mrs. Ellen Rinkle, a regularly ordained minister of the United Brethren church, at Wooster, Ohio, is probably the first woman ever authorized to perform marriage cermonies. She made an application a short time ago for a license to perform marriages. The judge before whom the case came up being unable to find any law prohibiting the issuing of a license, proceeded to grant one. Mrs. Rinkle will tie her first nuptial knot within a few days. ? The residence of the Rev. T. C. Clarke, near Virginia Beach, in Princess Ann county, Va., was burned last Thursday night about 12 o'clock. He, his two daughters and one son, and a niece visiting him, were consumed by the flames. His wife, Miss Ella Bidgood, the governess, and two children escaped. The origin of the fire is unknown, though it is thought to have been incendiary. Mr. Clarke was pastor of the London Bridge .baptist cnurcn ana was a preauuer ui note. ? The East Tennessee Farmer's convention was in session last week at Chattanooga. About 200 delegates were present, and the sessions were of interest and importance to the farmers. Papers were read on forrestry, raising blooded stock, improved methods of farming, and other subjects. Prof. S. W. Dabney of the University of Tennessee, delivered an address on the old and new methods of education in the South, and explained the workings and purposes of the experimental station at Knoxville. ? The Richmond and Danville railroad have issued circulars authorizing agents along their lines to ship to headquarters at Richmond samples of all mineral deposts found in the vicinity of the road free of charge. These samples must be accompanied with a fall description of where found and in what quantity, and must bear the sender's name before they will be acknowledged. The minerals will be analyzed by the road, and a full account returned by the sender. This is done with the object of encouraging the development of the mineral resources in their territory, as that will be largely beneficial to them. ? The board of managers of the New York Cotton Exchange has endorsed the report of the committee on trade, in a letter of the Farmer's National Alliance of New Orleans, which recommended uniform bales of cotton, and the use of cotton bagging for baling. The committee approve the idea Or uniform bales of 500 pounds each. The use of cotton bagging for covering, the committee believed, would nso fiheaD cra.de cotton and form a means of employment for many hands in the manufacture. It was considered useless for the Cotton Exchange to pass any rule in the matter, and it was referred to a special committee. ? A Pine Bluff, Arkansas, dispatch says: A young Mississippian named Chalmers, who has charge of the stock on Col. Gray's plantation, saw a negro named Brown cruelly beating a mule with a trace chain. He forced Brown to desist. On Thursday Chalmers and Brown met in a store. The negro picked up a stone jug and hurled it at Chalmers, who dodged, it and then drew a pistol and fired twice, both shots taking effect. Brown was mortally wounded. Chalmers rode away and has not been seen since. The negroes now threaten to kill the manager for telling Chalmers of the threat Brown made to kill Chalmers and they are arming. ? Prof. Hartley, of London, has been trying to find out why the sky is blue. His experiments show that the color arises from the action of the ozone upon the rays of light. The results of his examinations of ozonized air goes to prove that it is impossible for rays of light to pass through so little as five miles of air without the rays being colored sky-blue by the ozone commonly present, and "that the blue of objects viewed on a clear day at greater distances up to thirty-five or fifty miles, must be almost entirely the blueness of ozone in the air." In his laboratory experiments he observed that the quantity of ozone giving a full sky-blue in a tube only two feet in length, is two j and a half milligrammes in each square centimetre of sectional area in the tube. ? One of the most extraordinary suits on record has just been instituted in the superior court at Baleigh, N. C., by W. T. Hodge, a citizen of Wake county. Itseems that about twenty years ago a statute was enacted requiring all railroads operating in the State of North Carolina to make annual reports of their business to the governor of the State, and failure to make 9uch reports made the railroads liable to a penalty of $5Q0, which should go to any citizen who should sue for it. The statute has never been observed by the railroads, and Hodge has instituted suit against forty railroads to get the penalty. If successful he will gain an aggregate amount of $20,000. Included in the list of delinquent roads are the Chester and LOnoir and the Three C's. ? Of the forty-seven members of the class at West Point who will graduate next month, probably a score will have to be made additional second lieutenants, from the lack of vacancies. By the date of graduation there will be twenty-five vacancies in the line, and retirements will by that time perhaps furnish a couple more. But the same state of things existed a year ago, and yet before the 1st of January came around vacancies enough had occurred to furnish places for all.graduates who had been put upon the list of additional second lieutenants. The New York Times says: The experience of the past few years justifies the Act of May 17, 188C, authorizing the president to commission the surplus graduates of the military academy as additional second lieutenants. It also justifies the practice to which President Cleveland adhered throughout his four years, with a single exception, in favor Gen. Schofield's son, of not making any appointments to second lieutenancies from civil life. At present it is clear that the graduates from West Point and the promoted non-commissioned officers will absorb all such vacancies. ? The board of deaconesses of the Methodist Episcopal church have organized by electing its officers. The board has accepted as the basis of action the general plan adopted in Chicago last year at a conference of representatives from the United States where the order is about to be established. All applicants for admission into the Order of the Deaconesses will be obliged to stand on a trial of three months under the supervision of the pastor of the church to which they belong, and at the expiration of that time the applicant will be recommended as a probationer. After a probation of two years a license will be granted to the board, though to no person under 25 years of age and who cannot show a certificate of good health from a physician. During the two years of probation a course of reading and study ig prescribed, lteligious books, which are in thorough accord with the doctrines j of Methodism and books relating to the | duties of a nurse will be used. The board recommend that the probationers pass their time in preparing- for their future course in life in somenurse-training school If it can bo conveniently done. The deaconesses will receive no salary. ? The United States pension bill for the current fiscal year appropriated $80,400,000 for the payment of pensions and $8,000,000 more to meet a threatened deficiency, making the total appropriation $88,400,000. This whole amount will he necessary to meet the demands of pensioners, and it may be there will be a deficiency, but it is said at the pension office that there is no truth in the statement that $105,000,000 will be expended for pensions during the fiscal year. H. C. Bell, chief of the agents' division of the pension office, who is intrusted with the duty of seeing to the expenditure of pension appropriations, says the appropriation for the next fiscal year; $80,400,000, is too small, and that there will h? a rfafio.tancv of about $15,000,000. General Black, he says, did not ask, for enough money to prevent a deficiency, even on the basis of expenditures then existing. The pension roll at the time the appropriation was made was and it still is constantly increasing, so that it is evident that if we expend $88,400,000 this year, $80,400,000 for the next year will be wholly inadequate. - I j til JwfcmL YORKVILLG, S. C. : " WEDNESDAYTMAY 29, 1889. THE CLEMS0N WILL. On Monday of last week, in the United States circuit court at Charleston, Chief Justice Fuller 9igned an order dissolving the injunction in the Clemson will case and sustaining the will. The following is the order dismissing the bill: Isabella Lee, by her guardian, Gideon Lee, vs. Richard W. Simpson. This cause came on to be heard upon bill and answer, and the report of the special master reporting the testimony taken in the cause. After due consideration of the same and of the arguments of counsel, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the last will and testament of Mrs. Ann C. Clemson was a due execution of the power of appointment vested in her by the will and codicil of her mother, Mrs. Fioride Calhoun, it is Ordered, adjudged and decreed that the order of injunction heretofore granted in this cause be dissolved, and the bill of the complaint be dismissed, with costs to be paid by the complainant. Entered May 21, 1889. M. W. Fuller, Chief Justice. So far as Justice Fuller's decision goes, the Fort Hill property reverts to the State, as intended by the bequest; but there is no doubt that the complainant will appeal and carry the case up to the .United States supreme court. Mr. Youmans, of counsel for complainant,has already intimated that such will be his advice. As to probable future proceedings, the Charleston correspondent of the Greenville News says : As a State cannot be sued except by its own consent, inquiry was made as to whether the executor, Simpson, taking advantage of the dissolution of the injunction, could not by an immediate conveyance of the property to the State preclude the complainant from proceeding further in the courts. The title to the property, however, cannot be assigned to the State until its acceptance by the legislature, which cannot be before next November. This will give the complainant ample time to put in an appeal, which appeal, in the opinion of legal experts, will act as a supercedeas to the conveyance of the property until the appeal has been passed upon by the supreme court, so that the Clemson bequest promises to remain an unsettled issue perhaps for several years to come. THE PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY. In the closing days of the Southern Presbyterian assembly, in session last week at Chattanooga, Tenn., Dr. Woodrow and his interminable evolution theories came up for the usual discussion. The proceedings on this question are thus reported: Elder James Lyons, of Virginia, moved that the assembly, instead of approving the action of the South Carolina Synod in condemning as unwise, irregular and unconstitutional the action of the Charleston presbytery in forbidding public contending against the Baltimore assembly in the Woodrow evolution case, should disapprove of the Synod's action because of the fact, as he alleged, that an examination of the full records of the presbytery's action showed that the so-called interdict was not intended to limit either private judgment or the constitutional right of proper discussion. In support of his amendment Mr. Lyons began reading criticisms of the assembly's decision in regard to Dr. Woodrow's case, which appears in Dr. Woodrow's paper. Dr. Woodrow arose and said that if his private character was thus to be assailed, he wanted the protection of the assembly, or full opportunity to defend himself. The moderator declared Lyons in order. Dr. Woodrow appealed from this deI cision, but was not sustained. A recess was taken. At 2 o'clock Mr. Whaling continued his rejoinder to the report on the minutes of the synod of South Carolina. He made an able and strong address in behalf of the Synod's action. Dr. J. L. Girardeau followed in rejoinder in behalf of the action of the Charleston Presbytery. "We did not mean," said he, "to forbid all legitimate contending against the decision of the assembly. We were a presbytery and endeavored to stop the mouths of gainsayers against the fold. The truth of God was uttered by the assembly when it declared that the scriptures were not silent in regard to the nature of man's creation. The opposition says the Scriptures are silent. We say that it is an error. We hold that they are not silent. We say that a man's body was created out of dust. Dr. Woodrow acknowledges in his address, in 1883, that the body of Eve was an exception to the operation of the law of evolution, and why not the body of Adam? Scripture gives the creation of Adam, and no principle of evolution can break the Word of God. Had we not as guardians of the church the right to prohibit the circulation of such false doctrine ? After all this matter comes to the old question, whether we, as a church, are to consider the Scriptures as silent or not in regard to the manner of the creation ? The general assembly said not, the Charleston presbytery said not, and I hope this general assembly will say the same. Will this assembly order out a Ale and shoot down this presbytery for being a little over-zealous in defending God's teachings?" The question was called up on tne adoption of Mr. Lyons' amendment that tne action of the South Carolina synod, in condemning the action of Charleston presbytery forbidding public contending against the decision of the Baltimore assembly, be disapproved. The vote was announced? 124 yeas and 35 nays. A recount was demanded and resulted 104 yeas and 36 nays. Every delegate from South Carolina, except two from Charleston presbytery, voted "no." The final vote to adopt an amendment to the substitute disapproving the action of the SouthCarolina synod and upholding the Charleston presbytery, resulted in 113 yeas and 31 nays Thus was in reality the doctrine of evolution again snowed under. The convention adjourned on Saturday, ! to meet in next annual session at Ashe-1 ville, N. C. The following is a report of i the proceedings of the closing day: Reports of the standing committee on education and systematic beneficence were j read and adopted. The latter fixed the j collection days of the ensuing year as fol- i lows: January and August, collecting for the sustenation fund, February for ; church erection, March for publication, April for foreign missions, June and September for evangelistic funds, July for invalid funds, December for colored evangel-1 istic funds and Tuscaloosa Institute. The report of the committee on Sabbath i observance was submitted and considered ! seriatim. The first section of the report was the 1 ^fcWWWWW v*\\\\\v\\\\\\\\VkV wwwmww r ,? wwmwm n following resolution, recommended for j adoption: That we fkvor a petition to Congress to make the day of inauguration the lirst Wednesday in March or the last Wednesday fn April, to avoid the serious occasion for Sabbath-breaking that arises from having the inauguration occur near the beginning of the week. Dr. Woodrow moved that the resolution be stricken outas proposing an action contrary to the principles of the church. The motion was carried. The second resolution provided: J ' V That the Assembly endorse a petition to Congross to adopt a law against Sunday work except works of necessity and. rpercy, so far as the jurisdiction of the general assembly extends, with the usiml exceptions iiu favor of those who observe Another day of the week as the Sabbath. This was suspended during the noon recess. It was aaopted with an amendment that the assembly, instead of endorsing the petition, advised 'it&Veople to sign it. A petition urging the ministers and members to refrain from traveling on Sunday, except in cases of necessity and mercy, was carried. , 114 , j The report of the commission on the cotoplaint of the Mecklenburg presbytery against the Synod of North Carglina was brought up for discussion. This is a very complicated case, which has been three /^AVtAnnl oaoamKltr fViO lIULies UCll'IC llic gcucim aooouiuyi tuu Synod of North Carolina and the 'Mecklenburg presbytery respectively. The Rev. D. P. Robinson was convicted in a civil court of Meckleburg county of deserting his wife, who was granted a divorce and alimony, which was never paid. The presbytery suspended Robinson from communion and the ministry. The synod partly reversed this decision. The presbytery appealed and the case was sent up to the general assembly at St. Louis, which sustained the presbytery. It was remanded and again sent to the general assembly. The report of the commission sustaining, for the most part, the presbytery, was adopted. Commenting upon the action of the assembly in the Robinson case, the Charlotte Chronicle says: "AH Charlotte is surprised by the action of the Presbyterian General Assembly in reversing the finding of the North Carolina synod against the Rev. D. P. Robinson. He was charged in the civil and church courts with excessive cruelty to his wife and has been a fugitive in South Carolina several years, dodging North Carolina courts." THE NEW DISTRICT ATTORNEY. On Friday last the president appointed Abial Lathrop, of Orangeburg, district attorney for South Carolina, to succeed Leroy F. Youmans. The Washington correspondent of the News and Courier, reporting the fact of the appointment, says: This act of the president caused much sorrow and disappointment in the Bray ton and Melton camps. Each was confident, after consulting the president and Attorney General Miller a few days ago, that the appointment would drop into his invidual grasp; hence their surprise must be very great. At the White House it is said that neither Mr. Brayton nor Judge Melton created a very favorable impression on the appointing power, and Mr. Brayton spoiled whatever chance he may have had by confiding to a friend of the administration the fact that he had not practiced law for a number of years. In making this selection the president ig4-K<~v CnnfL Pornlino fqp. UUiCU LI1U tUUlCUUlUg Ul/uvu vuiv/titJM 'UV tions aDd picked out a comparatively dark horse. Mr. Lathrop made his canvas so quietly that but few of his friends were aware that he was in the race. He had the endorsement of Judge Simonton and several other judges in the State, and even his enemies admit that he is a good lawyer and a man against whom nothing personal can be charged. The South Carolina contingent here was completely knocked out when they saw the official announcement, and they are like strangers in a foreign land ; they do not know which way to turn or what course to pursue. They claim that Mr. Lathrop is not a party leader by any mGans, and while he is regarded as a negative man, his personal affiliations have been more with the Demcrats than with Republicans. From sketches of Mr. Lathrop it appears that he is a native of Genesee county, N. Y., and is 43 years old. The Orangeburg correspondent of the News and Courier speaks of him as follows: "He commenced his law studies with Judge Bangs, now of Buffalo, N. Y., and finished in the office of his brother, Win. Lathrop, at Rockford, Illinois. He was admitted to the bar in Illinois in 1871, and came to South Carolina in 1876 on account of his health, and finding the climate beneficial made Orangeburg his home and married Miss Mattie Heidtman, of this place. By integrity, industry and close application he has built up a fine practice. His brother, William Lathrop, has been a member of congress. Mr. Abial Lathrop is held in high esteem by our people, regardless of party. He has never been active in politics here, generally coinciding with the Democrats for good local government, but always voting the Republican national ticket." Another correspondent says: "Mr. Lathrop, whil^a Republican on National issues, has norehown himself to be a rabid partisan and has never been a worker irv, politics. In State and municipal elections he has voted the Democratic ticket and has been in accord with the best element of his city in local affairs. Socially his position is good. He is a prominent member of the Orangeburg Social club and belongs to the Lutheran church. At the Orangeburg; bar he is considered a good lawyer. He made no active canvass for the position, which, however, he probably obtained through the influence of Webster. Considering the opportunities for blundering presented by the varied candidates for the office, the President has apparently made a shrewd choice. But it is not one which will please the straight Republicans or the masquerading Independents." Mr. Lathrop will continue to reside at Orangeburg, making that place his headquarters. The Weather and the Crops.?The South Carolina weather service, in co-operation with the United States signal service, furnishes the following for the week efiding last Saturday: Rainfall?For the State below the normal. Temperature?For the State was about normal. Sunshine?For the State was slightly above the normal. Weather conditions?The rainfall for the State was below tho normal, some light showers in the upper counties on the l!)th and but partially distributed. .The temperature was about normal. Sunshine wasslightly above the normal conditions, on the whole being unfavorable and injurious to growing crops. The spring crop of oats generally conceded to be a failure. Early planted corn in localities where it has been well tended looks fair. Cotton, as far as reported, where it is up to a stand, yet shows favorable, but replanted cotton on account of drouth has not yet come up, and until a general rain comes it is difficult to determine the result of its germination. Rains needed badly throughout the State. Farmers much discouraged. The weather crop bulletin, issued last Saturday night by the United States signal office at Washington, says: The week ending May 25 was cooler than usual in the central valleys and the South-1 ern States. In the last named section the j temperature differed but slightly from the normal temperature for the season. From January 1 to May 25 has been about the normal, except in tne soutn Aiianuc ami Southern portion of the Gulf States, where the season has been cool, and is from two days to one week late. The rainfall for the Week has been greater than usual in the New England and Middle Atlantic States, where the excess in rainfall ranged from one to three inches. Well distributed showers occurred in the upper Mississippi Valley, the lower Ohio Valley, Kentucky and Eastern Tennessee, but no rain occurred iu the southern portions of Georgia, South Carolina, Southeast Alabama and Florida, this being the second week during which there has been a total absence of rain in this section. Only light showers are reported over the central portion of the cotton region, including Mississippi, Alabama, eastern portions of Louisiana, and western Tennessee. The rain-1 fall for the season continues in excess on the Atlantic coast from New York to the eastern portions of South Carolina, and | generally from the Missouri Valley southward to the Texas coast. Over the central portions of the cotton region from 50 to Go per cent, of the normal rainfall is reported. The weather during the week has been favorable for all growing crops throughout the Northwest, central valleys and New - ?: 1? * * England, but the drouth continues in the South Atlanticfend East Gulf, 'where reports show thkt all crops are greatly in need of rain, <?otton and small fruits have doubtless beenonore dk.lesB inured. Insects are increasing rapidly and gloomy prospect generally are reported. The drought also extends over Southern Louisiana, but in Northern Jjonisiana and the western portions of Mississippi, the conditions are more favorable. Heavy rains occurred on Saturday over Tennessee. < ,yFiRKTOT?(lSH?, ... Joshua F. Ross, a well known lawyer and Republican politician, of Gloucester C. II., Virginia, who was on bail waiting his second trial for killing his uncle George Hughes, committed suicide on Thursday by shooting himself. Reports from the entire cotton belt of Texas are extremely favorable for the crop, which is represented to be as promising as was ever known at this season of the year. At Ottawa, Ontario, at the fish erie.s department, it is learned that the receipts from the United States fishermen for licenses granted under the regulations now in forco, thiq spring amounts to nearly $6,000, which is double the amount received during the whole of last year. A Portland, Maine, business man lost a $20 gold coin on his way to work a few days ago, and returning at night, found the same piece on the pavement, where it had remained unnoticed all day. A soldier belonging to a detachment of the Austrian army in TrannBylvania was recently killed by a bullet from a Manlicher rifle discharged during target practice at a distance of more than two and one-half miles. John Franklin, of Athens, Ga., was very much surprised when he went to his home the other night to find that during the day a swarm of bees had taken possession of his house. They entered through a knot-hole in the weather boarding. A negro has been committed to jail in Birmingham, Ala., for challenging another negro to fight a duel. A bill to prohibit the sale or manufacture of liquor in Illinois, was rejected by the legislature Thursday by a vote of 62 to 55. Atlanta was visited the other day by seventy-five Ohio newspaper editors. Seventeen year locusts have appeared in Tennessee, around Sewanee. Every bush and tree is laden with the pests, and they are succeeding in making themselves heard. The famous case of Myra Clarke Gaines against the city of New Orleans for the recovery of a large amount of property has finally been ended in favor of her legal representatives, after a litigation of fifty-six years. "On Thursday last Dick Hawes, convicted at Birmingham, Ala., of the murder of his daughter, was sentenced to be hanged on the 12th of July next. ExJudge Thomas Ruffin, formerly of the suSerior and the supreme court benches of forth Carolina, and a man of marked legal acquirements, died at his home in I TJ IIIAn ttunrln tt mown! # 11U1SUU1U UU JLUUlOUaj IIIUIIJIXI^I xiiv business failures throughout the country last week number for the United States 207, (Jan ad a 22, a total of 229, as compared with 258 the previous week. There is no more idle waste of time than the speculation by newspaper editors and writers as to the Democratic presidential nominee three years in advance of the nomination. Valley Forge, the historic headquarters of Washington during 1777-78 is advertised for sale by the owner. Gen. Harrison Kelley, llepublican, has been elected, without opposition, to congress from the Topeka, Kansas, district, to succeed Hon. Thomas Ryan, recently appointed minister to Mexico."; The Connecticut State Senate, by a vote of 11 to G, has concurred with the House in passing the bill prohibiting the manufacture or sale of oleomargarine colored in imitation of butter. The bill also prevents the sale of imitation cheese. Ex-President Hayes has been giving a course of lectures at Oberlin College, Ohio. The belief obtains ground that there will be an extra session of Congress, beginning about the first Monday in October. A move has been nut on foot which, if carried out, will soon have Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Milwaukee connected by telephone. Five persons named Barnard, brothers and cousins, were convicted last week, in the circuit court of Hancock county, Tenn., of the assassination of a harmless old man named Henly Sutton, and sentenced to be hanged on the 12th of July. H. Greenfield Schorer, a young Episcopal clergyman, of Baltimore, laboring under heart disease, committed suicide by shoothimself last Sunday. Itiotingand bloodshed is of daily occurrence in Oklahoma in the settling of land disputes among the settlers. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM LANCASTER. Lancaster, May 27.?Last week, in some respects, was rather an eventful one in Lancaster. Col. Rice, tiie state superintendent of education, paid the county an official visit, and made a talk to the pupils of the Franklin Academy. Gen. M. L. Bonham, the adjutant and inspector general, inspected the Lancaster Guards, and was banqueted by tne company. Gen. Bonham is very .popular here. And there has been conducted for ten days a protracted meeting at the Baptist church, at which the Rev. T. J. Taylor, of Warrenton, N. C., has preached some very able and effective sermons. Mr. Taylor is one of the most interesting preachers of the gospel that I have ever heard. The Rev.. C. W. Humphreys was installed on Saturday last pastor of the Presbyterian church at this place. Rev. W. M. Anderson, of Rock Hill, preached the sermon, administered the obligations, and delivered the charge to the congregation, and the Rev. Mr. Millard delivered the charge to the new pastor. The ceremonies were quite interesting. Our farmers are very much downcast at this time, in consequence of the protracted drought. We have had no rain here, to do any good, for two months, and the great trouble is that the crop is not up well, and most probably will not now come up. The stand of cotton is very bad, indeed, and unless it rains in a few days there will be no likelihood of getting a stand of cotton in time to make a crop. There is, however, some hopes entertained that the seeds are still sound in the ground, and the cotton will come up yet as soon as it , rains. There was some rain about, last night, and, at this writing, there appears to be some prospect for more. rei> rose. The Southern Office Seekers.?A Washington dispatch says: In the distribution of the fourth-class post offices First Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson states that he does not propose to recognize one faction in the various States to the disadvantage of the other. He says he does not believe in encouraging factional fights within the party lines, and so far as? he is able he proposes to deal out the fourth-class postmasterships to Republicans without regard to their local differences. In speaking on this subject he said that so far as he has been informed, the administration has set down 110 fixed policy with regard to the patronage in the Southern States, and the claims made by certain factions that they are to control all appointments made in their respective States are without authority. The South Carolina Republicans have three grades of representatives in Washington office hunting. The regular Republicans are headed by 13. M. Brayton, white, chairman of the State committee, and Thomas S. Miller, colored, a contestant for a seat iu the next congress. The Independent Republicans are marshaled by J. Hendrix McLane aud Thos. Russell, both white. The third faction is in command of ex-Congressman Bob Smalls and Sam Lee, an ex-contestant for a seat in congress, both colored. This three winged mon strosity, known as the Republican party in South Carolina, has been a source of considerable annoyance to the administration since the 1th of March last, and they have flooded the White House and the departments with charges and countercharges against each other of the most 1 scandalous nature. Thus far the administration has practically ignored them and i given them to understand that they need expect but little reward for alleged services until they can reach some harmonious understanding. During the past week General Clarkson appointed several fourth-class postmasters in South Carolina, and immediately the leaders of the three factions came forward and claimed individual credit for the changes made, and announced that the administration had finally concluded to recognize in the future the faction with which they are respectively identified. ? Columbia Register: A meeting of the ! State railroad board of equalization was held in the office of the comptroller general ; last Thursday. That official laid before the board the returns thus far received I from the various railroads of the State and I the same were duly examined and considered. The board then adjourned to meet again on Tuesday, the -1th of June, when it will complete its work. w | LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. S. E. Hatnbright, Administratrix of the estate of A. O. 'HRmbright, deceased?Notice to Debtors and Creditors. J. P. Richardson, Governor?Proclamation. K. P. Lowry?The Worth of Your Money. R. A. Parish?Jtleinz's Pickles. M. A II. C. Strauss?Six and Eight Cents. Withers Adickes?Now Goods. W. C. Latimer? Oui Grand Parasol and Kan Opening. ' ? Mrs. T. M. Drtbson?War to the Knife!?Vie... Lory for the Bargain House. II. F. Adickes?Grand (.'losing Out Salo of Dry Goods, Millinery and Fancy Goods anu llats and Caps. A. Y. CartwrightJc Co.?That same Old Racket is being Infused with New Life every Day. H. F. Adickes, Yorkyille, S. C.?Watches from $2.50 to $50. W. II. Houmillatit Co?Sheriffs Salo Cigars. ^ MURDERER WANTED. Governor Richardson offers a reward of $7"> for the apprehension of John Basxins, charged with the murder of JoeCornweil, in this county, on the 2ftth of April last. PAY TRAIN. A pay train, in charge of Major John P. Jones, superintendent, went down last Monday, paying off the operating force of I XL - mi m . .... ! 1 1 1 me xnree ? ruiuunu, tinu uuuuncss nuwij faithful employees were made happy. FROM THE 'MOUNTAINS. From the Johnson City, Tenn., Enterprise of last week, we learn that the locating corps of the Three C's railroad having finished their work in the vicinity of that city, have moved in this direction, to Hollow Poplar, Mitchell county, N. C. COMMENCEMENT SERMON. Rev. R. G. Patrick, of Yorkville, has Accepted an invitation from the faculty and board of trustees of the Franklin Academy at Lancaster, to deliver the commencement sermon before that institution on Sunday, the lGth of June. FROM .JAPAN. -?~L Miss Maggie Moore received a letter at noon last Monday from a friend in Japan. The letter bore the postmark of Yokahoma, May 3. It was remailed at San Francisco, May^l, and received here at noon on the twenty-fourth day after being started on the long voyage. THE BRICK YARD. On Monday last, Mr. Stewart put in motion the machinery of his brick yard which started off in a most satisfactory . manner. The capacity of the machine is 3,000 bricks per hour. This is an industry which we trust will provo highly remunerative to the proprietor. j NEW SAFE. We Exchange bank has received and applied to use a new Herring's patent cha'tnpion safe, which is practically burglar and fire proof, with combination and time lock and all other latest improvements. It is the intention, before a great while, lo place the safe in a fireproof brick vault. EXCURSION TRAIN. The Three C's railroad management ran an excursion yesterday to Overlookplace, near Blaeksburg, starting from Lancaster. The train was well filled when it arrived here, and at this place the excursionists were joined by thirty-five or forty ladies and gentlemen for whom the popular pleasure resort has attractions, regardless of the weather. { BASEBALL. "jOOnsiderable number of Yorkvillepeople were pleasantly entertained at the Baseball park last Wednesday afternoon by an interesting match game between the Yorkville Amateurs and the Queen City nine, both local clubs. The game, j which was well played, lasted about two hours and resulted in favor of the Queen City boys by a score of nearly two to one. The two clubs will play another game this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. SHARON DEPOT. - Considerable excitement has been oc/vo^iAno/l of Shorrvn onrl vininitv hv fln fir I I II I II Y' I LJ 1 U V k/iiUIWil 1 j J W. der issued last Saturday over the signature of Major Jones, superintendent, directing that from that date no trains shall stop ut Sharon for the pupose of taking on either freight or passengers. The railroad management gives no reason for this action, which, while it will work a hardship to the people of Sharon and vicinity, can in 4?o possible way benefit the road. THE CONDEMNED MEN. One"week from next Friday is the day appointed for the execution of the death sentence on Charles Colston and John C. Feaster, convicted at the last term of the sessions court of the murder of Mr. \V. C. Abernathy on the night of the 20th of January last. Although their time is rapidly drawing to a close, up to the present both men are obdurate, each one asserting his innocence of the terrible crime. CHARGED WITH POISONING. ' 00s Monday last Allison Smith and Thomas Fewell, both colored, were lodged in jail on the charge of attempting to poison a colored woman. The parties live on the lands of Col. W. J. Bowen, six miles southeast of town. Smith is an old man, nearly blind, and Fewell is a young'man. Before Trial Justice Bell, who committed the accused to jail, Fewell admitted that he mixed the poison and attempted to administer it under the old man's direction. RIGHT OFMVAY CASE. On Saturday last a jury of arbitration made an award in a right of way case on the complaint of Mary J. Dennis, against the Massachusetts and Southern Construction company. The complainant is a colored woman, living in Chester, but owuinga tract of land 4J miles east of Yorkville, through which the Three C's railroad runs. The jury awarded $00 damages. Messrs. Finley & Brice appeared for the complainant and (>. \V. S. Hart, Esq., for the railroad. MOVED THEIR PLANT. Messrs. Smith & P^wer have transferred their stock and implements from Yorkville to Surry county, N. C., where they have taken a contract on the N. W. N. C. railroad, which is being built by the Itiehtn'inrl onH [Wnnilld cvufpm iinfl PYfpmlst UJV/UU IfcUVft * ?11V >7J +mmm v. V... . northwest from Winston. Their mules | anil horses were driven over the country, making the start from here Monday morning. Their carts and implements were shipped yesterday evening by rail. About forty colored laborers, who were in Mr. Smith's employ on the Three C's, left yesterday to enter upon this work. MILITARY INSPECTION. On Friday afternoon last the Jenkins Rifles of this place were inspected by Gen. Bonham. There were thirty-flve men under review, and after the inspection Gen. Bonham briefly addressed them, complimenting them on their general bearing in ranks. He also referred to the Sherman incident in connection with the South Carolina soldiery at the New York centennial, rebuking in scathing terms Sherman's unjust criticism of our volunteer soldiery who marched in the procession. Gen. Bonham was responded to on behalf of the company by Private McDow, whose (remarks were well received and highly/commended by all who heard him. I PARDON GRANTED. Governor Richardson has granted a pardon 16 Martha Beckham, alias Mat Rose, colored, convicted together with Adolphus Wheeler, colored, at October term, 1888, of the sessions court of York of the murder of George Beckham, her husband, and sentenced by Judge Hudson to be hanged with Wheeler. It will be remembered that Wheeler shot Beckham on the night of July 27th, 1888, under circumstances leading to connect her with the deed as accessory before the fact. They were tried together and both convicted and sentenced to be hanged on the 7th of December. The governpr commuted her sentence to imprisonment in the penitentiary for ten years, and Wheeler was hanged on the day appointed. On the j gallows he asserted that Martha Beckham j had no participation in the crime, and this statement, with a petition in her be- j half, endorsed by the judge and solicitor, induced the governor to restore the woman j to liberty^ BUILDING NOTES. ~7Mr. McNeel's residence on Main street, j nWr the depot, is approaching completion, | and wi]l be a handsome building, adding to i the appearance of that part of the town in which several neat residences have been recently built. xMr. J. Ernest Lowry has improved his residence on Main street by putting on a new roof and building a piazza in front, ^r. J. It. Bratton has recently made sdthe improvements on his corner building | known us the old Masonic hall, among the changes fitting up a suite of rooms on the second lioor to he used as offices by himsel and sons. THE WEATHER. There is general complaint of dry weather throughout this section. Very few sections of the county have been visited with rain during the present month. Here, on the 14th, a shower of four-tenths of an inch fell, hut succeeding sunshine and continuous winds soon rendered the ground as dry and hard as before the rain fell. In this section the month of May is usually showery, but this year has proved an exception to the rule. Notwithstanding the want of rain, cotton is doing fairly well; corn, though suffering, is not seriously damaged, and wheat is heading reasonably well, though on short stalk. Oats has suffered from drought more than any other crop, and will be short. There was slight frost in various localities in the county on Thursday morning, but little injury to vegetation resulted therefrom. EDUCATIONAL ADDRESS. On Wednesday night last, Co) Rice, State superintendent of education, addressed a goodly-sized audience of ladies and gentlemen who assembled in the court house to hear him. Major James F. Hart was asked to preside as chairman, and after prayer by Rev. R. G. Patrick, Major Hart, in a few well chosen words, introduced the speaker. Col. Rice then entertained his hearers in an address on the subject of education, confining himself to topics mainly connected with the practical workings of the school, the duties of teachers, parents, trustees and others connected with its operatiou. He congratulaterl the nennle of Ynrkvillp on the DTO pitious beginning of the graded schools recently inaugurated here, and hoped they would continue to flourish, a, blessing as they would prove to be, to the eutire community. The address was replete with wholesome counsel and practical suggestions, rather than oratorical flourish, and clearly indicated that Col. Rice isdevoting his time and thought to building up and improving the educational facilities of the State. / ^>\JPERSONAL MENTION. Mr W. Frank Garvin, of Lancaster, is in town. TT^Irs. Alonzo Rose is in Columbia visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. Alice Nail and children, of Chester, are visiting her parents in this place. Mr. Charley Webb aud wife, of Shelby, N. C., are visiting relatives in this place. Miss Lizzie Itatchford.of Gaston county, N. C., is visiting relatives and friends in Yorkville. VMrs. John F. Speck and two of her children, of Charlotte, are in Yorkville, visiting relatives and friends. Judge Witherspoon left on Friday last for Beaufort, where he opened court on Monday morning as presiding judge of the Second circuit. ... Mr. Thomas J. Bell, who has been engaged in teaching school in Florida since January, returned to his homo in Yorkville on yesterday afternoon. ^Stanyarne Wilson, Esq., of Spartanburg, is" visiting his father and other relatives at this place this week, aud from here will go to Rock Hill, to visit his brother, W. B. Wilson, Jun., Esq. CHURCH NOTICES. I<,.r.Jor>r>r>o 1?SlinrlftV-HPtinnl lit A I), fll. ,, , Yquugmeu's union prayer-meeting will be held in the Methodist church next Tuesday evening at 8.1") o'clock. Baptist?Rev. R. G. Patrick, Pastor. Services at Union next Sunday at 11 a. m., and in Yorkville at 8.15 p. in. Sundayschool at 4 p. m. Prayer-meeting tomorrow evening at 8.i5 o'clock. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. \V. W. Daniel, Pastor. Services next Sunday at 10.30 a. in. and 8.15 p. in. Sunday-school at 4 p. in. Prayer-meeting this evening at 8 o'clock. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J. C. Galloway, Pastor. Services at Yorkville next Sunday at 10.30 a. in. and at Tirzah at 3.30 p. m. Sunday-school at 4.30 p. m. In consequence of repairs which the church at this place is undergoing, services will be held in the opera house. Presbyterian?llev. T. It. English, Pastor. Prayer-meeting to-morrow evening at 8.15 o'clock. Preaching next Sunday moruiug at 10.30 by Rev. W. B. Mcllwaiu. The regular Sunday-school exercises in the afternoon will be dispensed with and j Mr. McIIwain will deliver an address for the benefit of the children. The other Sunday-schools of the town are invited to be present. CUTTING SCRAPE. On Saturday night last between 10 and 11 o'clock, a cutting scrape occurred on the street near the M. E. church, In which James C. Steele received two severe wounds, inflicted by Ben Armstrong, both white men. They live as neighbors not far from Fishing Creek trestle on the Three C's railroad, 21 miles east of town. Both men were drinking on Saturday night, and starting for home accompanied by Armstrong's littlo son, a quarrel ensued between the men. This was kept up from Main street until they reached the church, on East Liberty street. It is said by an eye witness who was walking leisurely behind the parties, that Steele was disposed to be aggressive towards Armstrong. When near the church the men came close together, having been on opposite sides of the street to that point. iTm-p Ai-mstroi)??lsaid to Steele. "You have been abusing me ever since we started; but if you will stop cursing me I will see you home." Steele replied in a belligerant manner, when to this witness, who was still approaching them, Armstrong appeared to strike Steele two blows, but when this man reached them he found that Steele was cut in the left breast, and above the cut was a stab, both wounds j having been inflicted with a knife. Town i Marshal O'Farrell was notified, and pro-! curing a buggy he conveyed the wounded 1 man to the office of Dr. George Walker, 1 who dressed the wounds, and Steele was then sent to his home. The wounds, j' though severe, are not necessarily fatal, j and at last accounts the wounded man was j resting very well. No arrest has been made, though Armstrong does not evade an investigation, and was in town last Monday. ? Seven ye?s ago the State of South Car- ( olina entered suit against the Pacific Guano company and others for the recovery ' of certain phosphate lands. A settlement | has been affected during the last few days ' by which the State has received $112,000 royalty on phosphate rock mined while the property was in the hands of the phos- \ phate companies. Besides this, undisputed title to 5,000 acres of marsh phosphate 1 lands and to phosphate creeks has been ac- i' quired by the State. The property recovered is valued at $100,000. ? There was a slight frost in some places f in Lexington county last Thursday morn-; ing, enough to kill Irish potato tops. I Rain is badly needed. Correspondence of tbe Yorkville Kuquirer. LETTER FltliiT BLACKSBCllti. IJr.ACKSBUjtf;, May 28.?On Thursday 1 evening last, our efficient State superintendent of education, Col. Itice, gave us a ( splendid talk about the common schools ; of the State, and especially in regard to ttye . duties of the officers who have the over-! sight of them. New light was thrown upon this part of the question, and it is ! hoped that Col. Rice's efforts to arouse the J people to a sense of their responsibility in seeingthat thesehool law is en forced, was1 not in vain. The only regret is that mere ; of our citizens were not out to hear this i most excellent address. * . / Cherokee Township Alliance met here ! Saturday, and had a lull discussion of the j bagging question. Although no official j action was taken, yet the sentiment of the farmers is decidedly in favor of cotton j cloth for bagging. Mr. J. C. Plonk, superintendent of the j Cherokee Falls Cotton factory, has gone north for the purpose of buying additional muahi naru fur t ha mill Mr. G. M. Guiton has been appointed postmaster at this place. The retiring postmaster, Mr. 1). J). Gaston, has had charge of the office for about fourteen years, first as assistant to C. P. Ramseur for three years, and then as chief for eleven years in succession. Careful and exact in their dealings with the government, polite and attentive to the patrons of the office, naught can he said but in praise of Mr. Gaston and his efficient assistant, Mr. W. A. Baber. We hope that their mantles will fall upon as worthy shoulders. Several pieces of property in our place have recently.changed hands. Mr. M. 11. Reese has sold two houses and lots; one on Carolina street directly opposite the residence of Mr. J. H. Crawford, to R. M. Randall; the other on same street to Henry Black. Mr. Reese has also disposed of one-fourth interest in Overlookplace, (Whitaker mountain), Mr. J. J. Whisonant being the purchaser. Mr. 1. W. Moore, (roudmaster on the Three C's railroad), has purchased a very pretty lot in the grove just above and east of the Limestone spring, on which he expects soon to erect a handsome residence. Mr. Reese has also, in course of erection, a nice cottage on Academy street. Mrs. Margaret M. Brown, widow of the late Samuel G. Brown, died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. M. E. Deal, in this place, in the 77th year of her age, on Saturday evening at 8.40 o'clock. Since the death of her husband last June, a blow from which she never recovered, Mrs. Brown gradually became weaker in mind and body, but never lost those noble traits of character for which she was revered and loved by all who knew her. With a singular honesty of purpose and a high sense of her moral and Christian obligations, she filled well the various positions which fell to her lot in this life, and whether as wife, mother, mistress, friend or neighbor, she was always true to her trusts; so that when the end came she was ready (like ripened grain) to be gathered to her Father's house to be forever at rest with the Lord. w. A. Correspondence of the Yorkvllle Enquirer. LETTER FROM ROCK HILL. Rock Hill, May 27.?On Thursday evening the Catawba Rifles were inspected by Gen. M. L. Bonham. Promptly at 0 o'clock the company was formed in line on Main street und marched to the parade ground, commanded by Capt. A. E. Smith with his assistants, Lieutenants J. F. Reid and R. T. Feweli. Immediately after the inspection, the company, with a number of invited guests, repaired to Roddey's hall, where refreshments were served, and the following toasts offered and responded to: The State of South Carolina; by Iredell Jones. The State Militia; by Gen. Bonham. The County of York; by Hon. W. B. Wilson, Jr. The Town of Rock Hill; by W. J. Cherry, Esq. After the toasts were drank, a number of the friends of General Bonham, by invitation of Lieutenant Feweli, enjoyed a delightful supper at the Carolina hotel. The company passed a creditable inspection. They are determined now to have an armory, and in less than sixty days the entire company will appear in new uniforms. On Friday night our citizens were given a very pleasant entertainment at Roddey's hall by the ladies of the Episcopal church, assisted by a number of friends. The entertainment consisted of crowning a "May Queen"?Miss Corrie Mobley as queen. The stage was filled with sweet little girls, who acted as maids of honor, with Masters Peter Ihrie and C. Latta Reid as pages. The little girls, all dressed as little fairies, reminded one more of lit tie angels. Mrs. Dr. J. M* Hunter and Mrs. S. L. Reid certainly deserve a great deal of praise for the admirable manner in which they trained the little ones. After the queen was crowned, ice cream was served. The entertainment, besides being very pleasant, was a financial success. The Construction company is building an addition to the main building, which will be 21x60 feet, 2 stories high. The Davis Canning and Candy factory turned on steam last Tuesday. They received that morning their first car load, 5,000 tin cans, for putting up fruit and vegetables. On Tuesday was sold under seizure by the United States government, at this place, a wagon, horse, mule, 50 gallons of whisky and other articles. The whisky sold at $1.25 to $1.27 per gallon. J. II. Rice, State superintendent of education, addressedthe citizensof this place in the graded school building on Tuesday night. Prof. Banks gave a calisthenics exhibition by the infant class, and singing and recitations by the older classes. The exercises were interspersed with music. There is a great demand in our town for small dwellings. Most of those going up are too costly for mechanics ana persons of small means to rent. Hat,. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM McCONNELLSVILLE. McConnellsville, May 27.?The long spell of dry weather, to the sore disappointment of the farmers, remains un-1 broken. Some of the young ladies have suggested the plan of holding a special meeting for the purpose of praying for rain, which we think would not be a bad idea. Dr. J. Lowrio Wilson, of Abbeville, who will be remetnbored as the beloved pastor of Bethesda church for sixteen years, paid his many friends here a Hying visit last week. Mr. S. C. Sturgis, the principal of the McConnellsville Academy, left for Rock Hill last Friday to attend a meeting of a few teachers to discuss tne expediency 01 i organizing a county teacher's association. A few teachers were requested by the school commissioner to meet for the above purpose and Mr. Sturgis happened to be one of the fortunate few. In reporting the progressive spirit of our town, it becomes our pleasant duty to note the flourishing and prosperous condition of the McConnellsville academy, under the supervision of its able and efficient principal, Mr. Sturgis. The academy was opened last fall with rather gloomy prospects, and with only fourteen pupils on the roll. Now there are forty-nine enrolled, which is about the extent of the school-going pop-j ulation of this community. The average j attendance is good and we feel assured that | the school is doing a noble work in furthering the educational interest of the community. The Farmers' Alliance held its regular bi-weekly meeting last Saturday evening and Mr. S. A. Crawford and Dr. J. P. Kennedy delivered addresses. Mr. W. L. McLeave, owing to pressing duties, was absent, and his name was carried .over to the next meeting when the Alliance will beaddressed by the following gentlemen : Mes- i srs. W. L. McLeave, D. A. Fulton, M. j Harper, Win. Conrad and B. F. Caroll. Correspondence of the Yiirkvllle Enquirer. FORT MILL MATTERS. j Fort Mill, May 27.?The injuries of Mr. B. M. Massey, who with his brother, j Dr. J. E. Massey, was thrown from a bug-1 gy last week by a runaway horse, have i proved quite serious. He has not yet re- s covered his mind, nor does his condition,; which appears to be critical, seem to im- j prove. Drs. Massey and Crawford are with him constantly. The publication of the Fort Mill Clarion : is to be resumed under the auspices of a joint stock company, with Mr. Joseph Drakeford, in whose name the business will be conducted, as editor and manager. Both sides of the paper will be printed at home, and tho necessary outfit for that purpose, consisting of new pressand now type,1 has already been purchased. . The building of three new brick houses , will bo commenced here this week. One of them is to bo a handsome residence and the other two are to be stores. Our farmers are well up with their work. However, the .weather is so dry that this fact doesn't amount to much. We had a slight sprinkle of rain last night, which though sufficient to settle the dust, and freshen up vegetation a little this morning, was hardly enough to benefit the growing crops. Your Waxhaw correspondent should give you a long letter for this week, as ho doubled himself on the 22d instant, having succeeded in finding the rib that was 1 " * ' fn nllinr umr#lv! laKeu iroiu ^vuuiu ? uuujr. he was married, and I wish him much joy and happiness. /'"u. Correspondence uf the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM GOULD. Gould, York county, May 27.?We are needing rain badly in this section. Early planted cotton and corn are generally good where they have been well'worked, but late planted cotton and corn are not doing well, because there is not sufficient moisture, m, the ground to cause the seeds to germinate'. The seeds that have been planted are generally sound, however, and a good rain would give them a favorable start. A good portion of the bottom land is yet to plant, and some of it to be plowed for the lirst time. It is now too hard, and the breaking of these lands will have to be deferred until it rains. Wheat is short in stalk, though the heads are well tilled. Spring sown oats are heading out just above the ground, and without rain soon, will hardly be high enough to cut. On last Thursday Lilley Good, a colored woman living on W. E.tjtood's place, was severely burned. Her clothing wasalmost entirely burned from her body before her cries brought assistance. On Friday a two-year old son of Mr. W. E. Good's died of dysentery. One day last week a little son of Mr. Hoy Sherer met with a fatal fccident. His older brother was on a mule, and the unfortunate little fellow had mounted a trough, intending from it to get upon the mule behind his brother. In making the attempt he seized his brother's leg, but just at this moment the mule wheeled suddenly around, causing the little fellow to fall under the animal, which stepped upon him, one foot pressing upou his bowels, inflicting injuries from which he died this morning. H. p. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? A company of northern men will erect a | $100,000 cotton seed oil mill at Spartanburg. ? Mr. Joseph Denck, Sen., the well mnuini ir. r\f fVJnmhio rlioH at. hid home in that city last Thursday. ? Mormon propagandists have been recently laboring with some success in Chesterfield and Darlington counties. ? Ex-Coroner W. P. Graham, who has been in Beaufort juiil for several months for contempt, has turned over to his successor the records of the office and been released. ? The Southern Postal Telegraph is being erected between Cheraw and Camden at the rate of three miles per day. The poles are strung with four wires, two copper and and two steel. ? The Baptist Educational society at its recent meeting in Boston, donated $7,500 to the endowment of Furinan University at Greenville, on condition that the Baptists of South Carolina will raise an aditional sum of $20,000 for the endowment by the 1st of December 1890. ? The Orangeburg County Farmers' Alliance numbers about 1,200 members. At their lastmoetiug they pledged themselves not to use any jute bagging as long as they can procurecottou bagging for their cotton ?and they ordered 50,000 yards of cotton bagging for the next crop. ?The old Preston place in Columbia, and one of the finest pieces of property in the State, has been sold and will be converted into a Presbyterian female college. It ia now used by the Catholics as a convent, whicfc will be located in another portion of the city. The place brought $30,000. ?The governor has respited until the 28th of June, T. P. Alexander, a white man sixty-two years of .age, under sentence of death in Pickens jail, for the murder of his wife; and who was to have been hanged last Friday. The condemned man is in a low state of health, and will probably die before the expiration of the respite., ? A heavy rain fell at Darlington Sunday afternoon, for the first time iu two months. During the storm the signal polo in the centre of the public square was struck by lightning and shattered. Splinters were thrown one hundred feet, and the pole was set on fire. The top was immediately pulled down. The heavy rain put the fire out. ? Mr. T. G. Poynton, an Irishman, a bachelor, who lived alone about one mile from Clifton, Spartanburg county, died Sunday morning. lie was a man of considerable intellectual attainments, and has traveled around the globe four times. About two weeks ago he went to live with XX yv*rt f Urv yv? vorn ! nf LJL* ijfl.Tl vV v;uu, uuc VI tiiv w|!Ciav(*vo ?/* Clifton Mills, and willed all his property, amounting to $1,500 to $2,000, to nim. ? The Sumter Watchman says that up to this time the crop prospect is worse in that county than it has been since 1881. For nearly two months no rain has fallen in sufficient quantities to be of real benefit. On April 15th, 16th and 25th, very light rains fell, but not since the first day of last month has rain fallen in quantities sufficient to insure the germination of seed. ? Col. A. H. Leftwich has obtained from the commissioners of Spartanburg county the right to lay the track of the Electric railway, connecting Spartanburg with Whitney, Clifton and Qlendale, over the public highways. This railway will give Spartanburg the advantages of a street car line, and at the same time solve the problem of building the factories on the water courses and yet holding a large part of the city trade. ? The Rev. J. M. Lander, a son of l)r. S. Lander, of Williamston, will leave next Friday for Brazil to engage in missionary work at Juez de Pora, where a Protestant male college has been established to educate young men 01 tsrazu ior me ministry, air. Lander will be one of two teachers in charge of the work, and is seut out by the mission board of the Methodist church, South, at Nashville. ? The proprietors of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian have removed the press, fixtures and other office furniture of that paper to Greenwood, and henceforth the exponent of the A. It. Presbyterians, South, which has been published in Due West, for the past thirty or probably forty years, will be issued from the office in Greenwood. In connection with it Mr. Bonner will continuo to publish the Little Banner, a Sunday-school paper, and he will also edit and publish the Greenwood Times, a weekly secular paper. ? C. W. Whitmire, a negro of Newberry county, has been appointed postmaster of Newberry, and the people are highly indignant. The Observer, deprecating the appointment, says: "The appointment of Whitmire is a bitter pill for the best people of Newberry; but no doubt it was so intended by the president and postmastergeneral. There is one comforting reflection, however, appointments, such as this one, will do more to hold the white peop'e together than anything else that could happen." ? For some time ill feeling has existed between Mr. John Lyon, a prominen t far m er of Abbeville, and Mr. 1). L. Mabry of that place,whomarried Miss Lila Wardlaw the daughter of Mr. Lyon's wife. Miss Wardlaw is the granddaughter of Mr. Robert Wardlaw, well know in South Carolina, a grandniece of Judge Wardlaw, and a cousin of Mr. Patterson Wardlaw of Columbia. Saturday morning, directly after? o'clock, Mr. Lyon was seen to enter the village academy, by which Mr. Mabry had to pass ou his way to his office, with a double barrelled shot gun in his hands. He is reported to have said that he had the gun to give to some boys who were going squirrel hunting. When Mr. Mabry approached the accademy Mr. Lyon stepped out and said: "Do you want to fight?" leveling his gun. "No," said Mabry, "but if you shoot you are a d?n coward." Lyon at once discharged one barrel of his gun, which was loaded with buckshot, the charge striking Mabry in the head. As Mabry fell he said: "Don't shoot. I am killed," but Lyon discharged the other barrel, the charge of which hit Mabry and he expired almost immediately. Mr. Lyon then carried his gun to Joel Smith's and said: "I have killed Mabry." The victim of the tragedy was a promising young lawVf>r 91! VPtirs of a era a nraHimfanr Wnffm-zl college and the University of Virginia. Eleven wounds were found on Marby's head, neck and chest. Lyon, who is about' 02 years old was committed to jail. The shooting created a tremendous sensation and the affair is deeply regretted by all. Mabry leaves a wife and two small children.