Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, June 05, 1889, Image 2

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Straps and .facts. ? In the ten months ended April 30,1889, the number of immigrants who arrived in the United States was 818,807, against 372,90; during the corresponding period of the f>teViotfs year: The greatest decline is in mmigration from Italy, which has fallen in these two periods from 34,037 to 15,846. ? At Wjahita, Kansas, last Friday, Mrs. Catherftie Schmidt was found guilty of selling thraa-glasses of beer and wa?eentenced to three months in the county jail and was fined $300. This is the first instance in Kansas where a woman has been sent to jail for violating the prohibition laws, . ?r At High Ridge, near Stamford, Conn., there iaa wife. wEoiis the mother .of fourteen .children, all living and none of them twins. All but two live at home, and these two, catohing the scarlet fever, went home to be nursed. They gave it to the other dozen, and the whole fourteen were side at once, and medicine had to be mixed in pitchers and pans. ? Adjutant General Drum, having re&ch* it. ?: - e nt 1 I I eUXUUageui W ytJttlo, una uecu luiuian.v retired: from active service in the army. Geo. Kelton, who has been assistant adjutant general/ will act as adjutant general until an appointment is made to till the office. Meanwhile the army corps are stirred up to their depths respecting the appointment and promotions that will follo^r ? Daring the few weeks that have elapsed since the Oklahoma opening, the excitement has cooled rapidly,.and now but littleip heard of the new territory except vague tales of disappointment. The cov? eted strip is not taming oat the El Dorado that it was described to be. It witnessed the zenith of its development and population on the first day of its opening, and has since been declining in both respects. ? The Democrats of Ohio are now engaged in holding county conventions for the election of delegates to the State conventions and the nomination of legislative jand connty tickets. So far, in almost every JHhtance, the conventions have adopted iHplations strongly endorsing the late ^ ministration of President Cleveland, and _ reaffirming the principles of the Demo. crtic platform of 1888. ? The father of Hugh Mottram Brooks, alias Maxwell, who was hanged at St. \LiOuis last summer for the murder of Charles Arthur Preller, clings with pitiful persistence to the belief that his boy was innocent. The foreman of the jury that convicted Brooks recently received a letter from the old gentleman, who lives in England, which is full of bitterness against those whom he styles the murderers of his son. ? One of the constitutional amendments which will be voted on this year in Ohio proposes that municipal and town officers sball.be elected in each odd-numbered, and State and county offlers in each even numbered, year. This would reduce the number of elections one-half in each case. Yearly elections have grown unpopular in- Ohio as in many other States. The biennial amendment will probably be adopted. ?A Virginia court has been trying a case in which the plaintiff, who has been totally blind, for many years, claims $40,000 damages from the Richmond and Danville railroad for having been smashed up in an accident last year, and so iqjqred that his legs are paralyzed and he has to go about In a wheeled cnair. isuc ne conducted bis case, and maintains a large legar practice besides. ? Rev. Dr. William C. Young, of Kentucky, who led the opposition in the reunion of the Northern and Southern assemblies in co-operating to establish presbyteries open to whites and blacks alike, is president of Centre college, Danville, Ky. He is related on the mother's side to the Crittendens, and on the father's side to the Breckinridges, both old and prominent Southern families. He is an eloquent and forcible speaker. ?A new party has been discovered in South Dakota known as the single tax party. It was organized at Huron Saturday and a central committee appointed. It is the purpose of this party to open the campaign in the new State of South Dakota, with the ultimate view of incorporating the single tax principles into the constitution. The advocates of the new theory maintain that all public revenues should ultimately be raised by a single tax on the value of the bare land. ? A peculiar religious sect has stirred up a commotion near Tuscola, Illinois. They call themselves the "Pentecost Band," and it is believed they are seeking to make converts to Mormonism. They have broken up several families at Camargo, and induced several wives and young women to travel with them. Two of the preachers were mobbed there and the Rev. Sibert was nearly killed. The attack was also made on the Rev. Nelson, leader of the band at Tuscola, but he escaped and at once left. ? George Wegener, under sentence ol death in Pittsneld, Mass., and who took poison on Thursday night, remained unmAvninrv virVmrt Ko I'UUBCIUUB UUI11 xnuaj luviuiu^! niivu uv. died'. He left a letter to his jailer requesting them to make no investigation into his (teath. He alone was responsible, and no ehe can find out where he got poison. He'claims innocence of the crime charged, and adds: "If they take Tom they will will have the right one." Sheriff Crosby has instituted a rigid examination. Wagener was charged with assault on a sixteen* ybar-old girl. -?The Texas Spring Ealace was opened at Fort Worth last Wednesday. It is an exhibition of the products of the State. The three-story building is in the shape oi a cross, and covers sixty thousand square foot. It is covered inside and out with pictures representing Texas scenery and with geometrical figures, all made of the products of Texas. The interior of the building is filled with every product of the earth and sea, all from Texas. The exposition idea was suggested by the Sioux City Corn Palace, but the Texas Palace, as it stands, exceeds in execution anything the original designers ever dreamed of. The palace complete has cost $500,000. The bnilding was furnished by Fort Worth, but the whole State helped to decorate and fill it with wonderful products and pictures. ? A valuable estate was saved to the Hon. Jefferson Davis during the war by the fidelity and shrewdness of "Ben" Montgomery, a former slave. Three great cotton plantations, known as "The Hurricanes," at the lower end of Warren county, Mississippi, were owned by the Davises and practically managed by Montgomery at the opening of the war. In 1863, when the slaves were emancipated, the property wa9 "sold" to Montgomery "for $300,00C in gold," and the titles given him saved the estates from confiscation oy tne r eueral agents. He raised fine crops of cotton, corn and hay, and grew to be one of the richest colored men in the South. In 1875 Mr. Davis received the property back, and it now yields him a handsome income, although he prefers to live at Beauvoir, his seashore home. ?Carlos French, an intimate friend ol Roger Q. Mills, of Texas, was elected to succeed the late William H. Barnum as Connecticut's representative on the National Democratic committee at the meeting of the Connecticut State central committee held on Wednesday. Mr. French is a leading manufacturer in the Naugatuck Valley and a man of wealth, who& mature judgment is highly regarded by business men of his section. His experience in politics began three years ago, when he was elected to Congress from the 2nd district. He had always been a low tariff man, and while in Congress supported the chairman of the ways and means committee, with whose opinions in matters of the tariff he was fully in accord. Mr. Cleveland had no more sincere admirer in Congress than Mr. French, and in turn the President came to regard Mr. French as a sound Democrat, whose advice was invaluable, and, to use Mr. Cleveland's own words, "as a capital fellow." ?As the seventeen-year locusts are expected this week to appear in New Jersey and Southern Pennsylvania, it may be well to state that It is locust year almosl annually in some parts of the United States, where as many as twenty-two different broods have been observed, each reappearing every seventeen year3. There are four of these broods peculiar to New Jersey, one of which is due now, having last re-appeared in 1872, extending east af far as Massachusetts and westward to Illinois. The line of appearance is expiated to be scattered in New Jersey. II is thought the cool weather has kept the victors back, but one or two have been reported at Princeton and Harper's Ferry? '"It4 iS1poesib!e that some of the brood may appear oh the shore of Chesapeake Bay. Locusts are not destructive excepl when they lay their eggs. In 1885, when they came, thesparrowsdid good execution among them, especially in the grounds ol the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, where they were watched by the scientists, and ir. "Brooklyn N. Y., where the sparrows are very numerous. ? Distributed among the eighty-flve national cemeteries of the United States are 325,230 soldiers's graves, of which 148,832 are marked "Unknown." At Vicksburg are 16,615 graves, at Nashville, 16,533, and at Arlington 16,254, the other cemeteries containing less numbers. The cost of the cemeteries has been from $250,000 down. At Arlington a single monument covers the bones of 2,111 unknown soldiers gathered after the war from the fields of Bull Run and the route to the Rappahannock. The grave of Gen. Sheridan is at Arlington. Nf?r Salisbury, N. C., in trenches occupying a space not more than four hundred feet square, are the bodies of 11,700 Union prisoners. '' Ike f ?tMle YORKVILLE, S. C. : WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1889. THE JOHNSTON CALAMITY. The most appalling calamity in the history of our country is the Johnstown, Pa., tragedy of last Friday atfci Friday night, and the destruction of human life in Conemaugh valley. The awful nigthmare of its horror is complete in every detail, and Governor Beaver proclaims that the loss of life, put down from careful estimate, at 10,000 or 12,000, is no exaggeration ! Happy homes, almost without warning to their occupants, were swept by the irresistible flood. In the blackness of night the seething, angry water, rushing as a torrent of death and destruction, tore from their homes the unsuspecting occupants, and in a few short hours the happy valley, teem ing with population, wealth and prosperity, was the scene of desolation which no pen can picture, and which in the realism of its terrible results stands as an incomparable eventfcn this continent. Truly, misfortune, disaster, makes the whole world akin. Not only does the sympathy of every heart in the Union go out in behalf of the stricken people whose lives were spared, but the event has attracted the attention of people in Europe, and in addition to the liberal contributions being made in every city in the United States, already have subscriptions been started in England, which example will be emulated in other European States. But while pecuniary assistance to the thousands of homeless people is timely and proper, there is no earthly power that can restore their wonted prosperity, their hopes, their ties of kindred and friends, shattered and sundered in so short a while! CLEVELAND'S SPEECH. At a banquet given by the Young Men's Democratic club of New York, one evening last week, Grover Cleveland made a speech in which he extended only words of encouragement to the Democratic party. He does not believe in despondency, and expresses the belief that if the party is true and loyal to its principles, yictory will perch upon the Democratic banners in 1892. For his line of action as chief magistrate he had no apologies to make. He said he had kept the party faith and therefore had answered party obligation. He did not bemoan defeat, but on the contrary congratulated his party that it did not barter its principles for success. Continuing, he said: "We know that we have espoused the cause of right and justice. We know that we have not permitted the country to await upon expediency. We know that we have not trafficked our principles for success. We know that we have not deceived the people with false promises and pretenses. And we know that we have not corrupted nor betrayed the poor with the money of the rich. Who shall say that these things promise no reward, and that . triumph shall not follow the enlightened ( judgment of the sober second thought of our countrymen? There are to-day no 't weak, weary and despondent members of the true Democracy?and there should be none." Freight Rates Fixed for South Carolina.?Last Friday the Stfite railroad commission completed its wbrk on the railroad freight rates by finisnhag the 1 tariff for the Charleston and Savannah railway, and all the rates will go into effect 1 June]. At the beginning the commission.;prepared a standard tariff for all the roads in the State, but there were so many exceptions asked for on account of the peculiar conditions or various roads, that in the end the commission concluded tomakpadifr. ferent tariff for each line, and this has' now been accomplished. Of course it is impracticable to do more than generalize some of the leading changes, when so many points are covered in so " many different tariffs, but the commission state broadly that they have made adjustments of rates on all the lines, reducing the charges for short hauls and causing i a slight average reduction all round. No i rates are increased. Those on fertilizers, i cotton, bacon, flour and other heavy freights, have been generally reduced. A marked reduction has been made in the i rates for the transportation of dressed stone, ; and they approximate those in force in Georgia. 'The railroad officials have acquiesced in the changes made. The classification of the Southern Railway and Steamship Association is adopted subject to the changes made by the "South Carolina exception sheet" fixed by the | commission. Not many additions have . been made to this sheet. As the rates , will not be published, the public can only . learn of their effect by experience in their working. The President's Policy.?Gen. H. H. Bingham, of the 1st Pennsylvania dis. trict, has been interviewed by the Wash, ingtou correspondent of the New York I Star. In speaking of the president's pol; icy in regard to appointments and removals, Gen. Bigham said: "The president's position upon this subject is well understood. His policy, as definitely announced ; in my presence, is that appointments will ' only be considered and made where there , is a vacancy by the expiration of commission and resignation. His belief is , that the public service will be improved and the party benefitted by a defi1 nite policy that assures office-holders a fixed 1 term rather than to keep them constantly in a state of uncertainty as to their fate every time there is a change in the political complexion of the administration. Such being his judgment, he has announced definitely tnat men in orace win De allowed to serve their four years unless removed for cause. While this policy will be assailed by some Republicans, I think it will be generally accepted in good temper. In | any aspect of the case it is a good thing for the public to know the president's attitude upon the subject, and I have given 1 it to you as he himself announced it to me and others." Capt. Dawson's Successor.?A meeting of the State Democratic executive committee was held in Columbia last Thursday night. From the Register, we learn that twelve members of tho twentyI one constituting the whole committee, were present, and the special object of the meet, mg was to elect a member of the National . Democratic committee to fill the vacand^ . in the representation therein from this ; State, caused by the death of Captain F. [ W. Dawson.. Mr. E. B. Murray, of Anderson, present. ed the name of Col. John C. Haskell, of j Columbia, in an appropriate manner, r The nomination was seconded, and no > other name being presented, Col. Haskell } was unanimously elected to the vacancy. .! A committee was appointed, consisting . of Gen. Izlar, N. B. Dial, E. B. Murray ; I and Colonel James A. Hoyt, to draft suiti! able resolutions in honor of the late Capt. !! Dawson, ex officio a member of the State . committee by reason of being a member [ of the National committee. ? An inter-State drill has been organized i in Charleston, to take place in October or ! November. Several large and tempting r prizes will he offered. AN AWFUL DISASTER. About 5o'clock last Friday evening a reservoir above the town of Johnstown, Pa., broke, and the immense volume of water contained in it rushed down the valley carrying with it death and destruction. Houses with their occupants were swept away and hundreds of people were drowned. The reservoir was formerly known as Conemaugh Lake. It is from 200 to 300 feet above the level of Johnstown,' being in the mountains. It is about four and a half miles long and from a mile to one and a quarter miles in width, and in some places it is 100 feet in depth. It holds more water than any other reservoir, natural or artificial, in the United States. The lake has been quadrupled in size by artificial means, and was held in check by a dam from 700 to 1000 feet wide. It is 90 feet in. thickness at the base, and "the height is 110 feet. The top has a breadth of over 20 feet. The reservoir was formerly used as a water supply for the old Penh sylvania canal, but for a numDer ot years past it has been owned by a party of gentlemen who used it for a fishing ground. These men had the dabt j inspected once a month by a Pennsylvania Railroad-engineer, and the last investigation showed that nothing less than a convulsion of nature cquld tear the barrier away. Steady rains for forty-eight hours ipcrepsed the volume of water in all the small mountain streams, which were already swelled by lesser rains earlier in the week. From the best information obtained at this time it is evident that something" in the nature of a cloudburst must have been the cause of the disaster. The course of the torrent from the broken dam at the foot of the lake at Johnstown is almost eighteen miles', and with the exception of one point the water passed through a narrow V-shaped valley. Four miles below the dam lay the town of South Fork, where the South Fork itself empties into Conemaugh river. The town contained about two thousand inhabitants. Four miles further down on Conemaugh river, which runs parallel with the main line of the Pennsylvania railroad, was the town of Mineral Point. It has eight hundred inhabitants, ninety per cent, of the houses being on a fiat and close to the river. Telegraphic reports indicate that the rainfall all along the Atlantic coast, from New York to North Carolina, was unprecedented during the interval including the calamity at Johnstown, and as a consequence a large number of the rivers and watercourses were out of their banks, some of them rising two ana three leet an hour. People early became dismayed and fled terror stricken to the highlands. The latest reports of the terrible calamity show that the earlier news was not exaggerated, but it did not fully describe the horror of the disaster. Tho town of Johnston was completely submerged, only the tops of two houses being above the, the water line. The houses were washed down the river by the dozen. The following dispatch of Saturday from New Florence, Pa., will convey some idea of the devastation of life and loss of property in the doomed district: Correspondents have arrived here from six miles from Johnstown, the scene of last night's terrible calamity. The reports which have reached here show not only that the earliest news was not exaggerated, but it did not fully describe the horror of the disaster. The whole beautiful valley of the Conemaugh in Cambria county, is a scene of devastation, ruin and death. Wrecks of houses, stores and factories are scattered all along the banks of the river for miles. A dozen villages and the city of Johnstown, with its population of 25,000, are utterly destroyed. To add to the horror of the flood, the debris caught fire at Johnstown. The big Cambria iron works are antirplv snhmprtrpd and will be a total ruin. The stories of scenes during the flood are fuil of terrible and pathetic incidents. Many persons were still in their houses when the surging waters rushed down upon the town and some were even caught at their avocations and drowned at their posts. Others rushed to the upper stories, only to be overtaken there, ana even when they reached the roofs they were washed away with the tide, and in many cases either dashed to pieces against some obstacle in the torrent or drowned. The village of Conemaugh was the first place reached by the flood. It's homes and business houses were torn away by the waters, leaving her 2,500 residents without shelter. Woodvale, with 2,000 inhabitants, a mile below, and the city of Johnstown, another mile down the valley, with the suburbs of Cambria City and Conemaugboro, were next caught by the flood. The torrent had traveled eighteen miles and was forty feet deep when it swept over Johnstown. In two hours time only two roofs ip the city could be seen above the water, and during those two hours a most dreadful scene >as witnessed by those who had reached .rvln'ono nf aofof ir yiavva ui oaiuwj , JTrees torn up by the roots swept by with hundreds of drowning victims clinging to the branches. Houses and bulky articles of furniture went by also laden with human freight. The struggles of the helpless victims in the turbid waters were heartrending in the extreme. Countless dead bodies were also seen rolling and tossed about in the waters, some of them still clinging to floating articles. At Bolivar the water spread in Ave minutes over the whole country, and men, women and children went floating away, shrieking wildly. From a Pittsburg dispatch of Friday we take the following: The latest accounts from Johnstown estimated that the number dead will reach several thousand. Up to 10 o'clock to-day, 1,755 bodies have been recovered. The water is stated to be forty feet deep all over the town, and there is not a house standing. It is impossible to make an approximate estimate of the pecuniary damage. All interest is centred in the terrible loss of human life. The natural gas pipes at Johnstown burst, setting fire to the wrecked buildings, udding horrors to the scenes already beyond description. At a small place called Ninevah, near Johnstown, two hundred dead bodies are awaiting identification. Several bodies which were rescued from the river at Pittsburg were washed down from Johnstown, and the terrible force of the current may be realized when the distance is given by the river as 100 miles. Estimates of the dead are placed as high as 3,000, but at the present excited condition, that estimate must be taken with considerable allowance. A late dispatch from Johnstown places the loss at $20,000,000 and says that 5,000 houses were svept away on Friday. THE LATEST. The latest estimates put the loss of life in the Conemaugh Valley flood at 10,000 to 12,000. The situation on last Monday is given in the following dispatch of that date from Johnstown: This morning opens up dark and dreary. Great drops of rain occasionally, and another storm seems imminent. Every one feels thankful, though, that the weather still remains cool, and that the gradual putrefaction of hundreds of bodies that still line the streams and lie hidden under miles of driftwood and debris, is not unduly hastened. This morning, the peculiar stench of decaying human flesh is plainly perceptible to the senses as one ascends the bank of Stony Creek' for half a mile along the smouldering ruins of the wreck, and the most skeptical now conceive the worst and realize that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of bodies, lie charred and blackened beneath this great funeral pyre. Searchers wander wearily over this smoking mass, and as occasionally a sudden shout comes over the waters, the patient watchers on the hill realize that another ghastly discovery has been added to that long list of revelations that chill every heart and draw tears to the eyes even of the pessimists. From tho banks many charred remains of victims of the flames and flood are plainly visible to the naked eye, as the receding waters reluctantly give up their dead. Beneath almost every log or blackened beam, a glistening skull or blanched remnant of ribs or limbs marks all that remains of life's hopes and dreams. It is almost impossible to conceive tho extent of the smoking ruins. An area of eight or ten acras above the dam is covered to the depth of forty feet with shattered house^, borne from the residence centre of Johnstown. In each of these hou.'ies, it is estimated, there were from one to twenty or twenty-five people. This is Ihe data upon whieh to estimate the number that perished on this spot, and if the data be correct, the bodies that lie beneath these ruin^must run well up into hundreds, if not thousands. The government is rendering the unfortunate people all the aid possible. There i9 greatjdeaf of an epidemic of typhoid fever as the result of the hundreds of decaying bodies.with which the ground is strewn, and for want of means cannot be buried. Johnstown is under martial law, and every one who goes about the place is challenged and required to give an account of himself. The water has subsided to a great extent and the streets in the main part of town are free from water. The falling of the water has laid bare the terrible work of the flood and the full extent of the disaster is only now being ascertained. The streets are one sickening, foul smelling mass of wood and debris, and the work of searching for bodies has only fairly begun. So far sixteen Hungarians have been, lynched for riflipg dead bodies of valuables. i _ _ The Freshets in Virginia.?A Rich mond dispatch of Saturday says: The tremendous freshet in James river has about reached its highest ppint. To-night the water came upon Main street above the old market to the depth of six inches. It had already backed up; onFranklin street to the depth of three feet, and persons are moving about in row-boats on the corner of 17th and Franklin. Considerable damage has been done to the city water-works and there is a probability of a scarcity at* water in the city mains, as the present pumping capacity is about one-half the daily consumption. No trains have left Richmond except over the York River Line to West Point, and the city is entirely cut off from the outside world, as far as mail facilities are cdncerned. The losses in the cities of,Richmond and Manchester will aggregate many thousand dollars. Richmond is almost as completely isolated from the outside world as she was during some portions of the war. Apprehensions of a freshet equal to t that of '70 and '71 proved to be well founded and All day considerable excitement has been caused as a consequence. The street car lines are stopped, and passengers have to be transferred. Cary street is practically valueless as a thoroughfare and boatmen have been doing a thriving business all day, traversing the streets from the river to Main in small hnats. The cellars in that Dart of the citv are all flooded. Every moment it is expected that the upper and lower gas works will'be drowned out. All places of business along the docks are badly under water, but the occupants had been forewarned and had taken the precaution to remove their goods to places of safety. At Mayo's bridge, connecting this city with Manchester, the water is fully thirty feet above the high water mark and is almost up to the floor of the bridge. Workmen are now engaged tearing up the planks so as to afford as little resistance as possible to the angry stream. A great volume of water from Lynchburg is expected before morning, and it is calculated that fully six feet will be added to the present height. This, with tide water, will completely submerge all the lower portion of the city and do immense damage. Trains left for the north over the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad, and no. mails are received over that route, owing to serious washouts and losses of bridges, &c. Passengers had to go north via the York River railroad and steamer at West Point, on the Chesapeake and Ohio. On the Richmond and Danville there were no trains either out or in. This is the heaviest freshet known in Richmond for years. Fortunately no loss of life has yet been reported. mereVentiox. Lightning struck and seriously injured a minister while he was preaching last Sunday at New Liberty, Indiana. His face was badl Wourned and his sight nearly destroyejL^^-'Dr. S. P. Moore, who was surgeon genfergl of the Confederate States, died suddenly last Friday morning, at his residence in Richmond, of congestion of the lungs. The Connecticut house has passed, by a vote of Go to 59, the bill giving women the right to vote on the question of the sale of intoxicating liquors. A severe earthquake shock wa9 felt last Friday at El Paso, Texas. One building was badly cracked by the shock. Recommendations of fraternal co-operation have been adopted by both Northern and Southern general presbyterian assemblies. The Northern presbyterian assembly voted in favor of prohibition, but the action is not to be looked upon as expressing any political sentiment whatever. At Danville, Va., last Thursday afternoon, a wind storm blew down afive story brick building in progress of erection, and six workmen were killed by the falling walls, and five severely wounded. A negro under the name of Henry Coleman was hanged at Portsmouth Va., last Friday for murder. He claimed to be from Georgia, but two Mecklenburg negroes, as the Charlotte Chronicle learns, identified him as Ford Knox, who brutally killed Constable Durant, near Pineville, N. C., a few years ago. - + - 1 " Tup: Weather and the Chops.?The South Carolina weather service, in co-operation with the United States signal service, furnishes the following for the week ending, Saturday, June 1st: Rainfall?For the State wis about normal. Temperature?For the State was about normal. i Sunshine? For the State was slightly above normal. Weather conditions?The rainfall for the State was about normal and generally fairly distributed; the temperature was about normal; sunshino was slightly above normal ; conditions on the whole, together with the much long looked-for rain, has had a decided favorable effect upon all growing crops. Fall oats, according to reports, will scarcely realize 50 per cent. Cotton that was up to a stand promises well.' Replanted cotton will doubtless develop. Corn, in many places, has been seriously injured by bud or wire worms ; gardens, in many places, are a failure. The fruit yet promises an abundant yield. Farmers now feel more encouraged. The Sa.moan Conference.?The Sa inoan difficulty lias been satisfactorily adjusted by the reprensentatives of the three powers interested. The questions to be decided were?the restitution to the Samoans of their rightful government; indemity to Germany for | losses in the islands, and the establishment of a permanent government at Somoa. The United States have carried their points in all particulars, but this does not mean that Bismarck is backing down, so much as it means that he is anxious to be on good terms with the United States government at the present juncture of affairs in Europe. He has got as much as he can attend to at home without getting into complications with this country. The peaceful settlement of the difficulty, however, is a striking evidence of the fact that disputes between nations can be settled by j diplomacy or arbitration. The Samoan affair, small as it may seem, at one time promised to be quite a question. "War, with all its disastrous results in the loss of life and property, was thought of, but by submitting the question to peaceful arbitration these deplorable, consequences were avoided. Nations have gone to war on account of far less momentous questions than this, and that the whole thing has been settled without bloodshed is a subject of congratulation to every lover of peace. May the time soon come when all such disputes between nations may be so settled with as little irritability !?[Winnsboro News. Must Show Causk.?Judge Hugh L. nf I " n i t/irl ?lfa foo pimiiit nnnrf I UU1IU) w I UUV> L UIVLVl V*?VUAV wmi V for the Western District of North Carolina, has issued a mandamus ordering the commissioners and treasurer of the county of Rutherford, N. C., to show cause on the 17th day of this month, why they should not be jailed for contempt of his court in refusing to turn over to the officials of the Three C's railroad the balance of the interest due on the bonds of Rutherford county, issued to assist in the building of said road. Cool Weather.?In New York State, Pennsylvania, Michigan and other northern and western States, killing frosts occurred on Wednesday morning. The damage to grapes and garden truck is heavy. In Indiana, on Thursday, a heavy rain was succeeded in several parts of the State by a fall of snow from one to six inches deep. On the same morning there was a heavy white frost in Illinois, killing all kinds of tender fruits and blasting corn on low grounds. LOCAL AFFAIRS. C tl NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. h E. A. Crawford, S. Y. C.-Delinquent Tax Sales. rr A. Y. Ci^rtwright <fc Co.?ThoNew York Racket is Smashing its Own Prices and I)e- C' moralizing the Public. p M. & II. C. Strauss?We Don't Quote Prices. rr Withers Adickes?Our Stock is Kept Complete. R. E. O' Far roll it Co.?New Barber Shop. I Lewis M. Grist?The Modern Road Cart. \ RAILROAD MEETING. c To-morrow is the day appointed at this 31 place for the annual convention of the stockholders of the Chester and Lenoir 0 railroad. f g] N\/ LODGED IN JAIL. On Sunday last John Grier, colored, of Rock Hill, was lodged in jail on a commitraent by U. S. Commissioner Pride, th6 offence charged being violation of the-s. internal revenue laws. 4 J ICE CREAM. _ The "Willing Workers" of the Presby- v terian church will have ice cream for sale- , in the court house yard to-morrow, from % 11 a. m., to 4 p. m., the proceeds of their Cl sales to be devoted to the benevolent objects of their society. j1 X. JQONE FORTABRIDE. Rev/3> . Galloway, pastor of the A. R. P. Church, left yesterday for Monmouth, 8j Va., where he expects to be united in mai^ riage to Miss Blanche E. McKemy, the $ ceremony to be performed in the Presby- r( terian church at that place to-morrow. His many friends wish him a pleasant trip, q The couple are expected to arrive here on t| Friday evening. a RAILROAD ASSESSMENTS. V The State railroad board of equalization Q held its final meeting in Columbia last Monday, and decided upon assessments of ^ the various railroads in the State. The v following assessments per mile were made ^ on the roads named : Atlanta and Char- ^ lotte Air-Line, $13,500; Charlotte, Colum- M bia and Augusta, $10,500 Charleston, y Cincinnati and Chicago, $5,000: Chester M and Lenoir, $2,500. : ^ WELCOME RAIN. c The protracted drought in this section ^ was broken by copious:showers which fell Wednesday night and Thursday last. The temperature, however, was cool for several days immediately succeeding the rain, and sliVht frost on one or two morniners is reported from several localities in the 1 county. The rain has been general over ' the State and the despondency of a few days ago has given way to a more hopeful tl feeling. ti t< THE CONDEMNED MEN. . Unless there should be executive interference, which is extremely doubtful, on Friday next Charles Colston and John C. e Feaster, under sentence,of death for the ^ murder of W. C. Abernathy oc the night ^ of the 25th of last January, will suffer the extreme penalty of the law on Friday next. A representative of The Enquirer visited them yesterday in their cells, to hear any statement they would make, S but each one stoutly denied his guilt of the critne. ?J^QMMISSIONEIt'S BOND. Several days ago Mr. It. T. ltiggins and P Mr. John L. Rainey, two of the sureties on the bond of William ltoss, one of the coun- a; ty commissioners, withdrew their names from his bond. On Thursday last, Mr. tl ltoss executed a new bond with It. J. Dun- e lap, R. M. Allison and R. N. McElvvee ns sureties. The reason assigned by Messrs. ^ Riggins and Rainey for withdrawing from the bond was that on account of the town- i ship bonds complications, they feared that the county commissioners might be involved in litigation, {hid they wished toavoid the possibility of legal harrassment. It is d due to all parties concerned to say that si they avow no prejudice to Mr. Ross in their action. u ARRESTED AT BLACKSBURG. On Tuesday of last week Mrs. Florence Atkinson, who, accompanied by her husband, Dr. D. C. Atkinson, went on the ex- ^ cursion on that day to Blacksburg, was ar- j rested in that town on the charge of biga- g] my. The various statements in connection with her alleged marriage to Mr. Augustus Mintz a few days previous to her marriage to Dr. Atkinson; are familiar to the public and need not here be repeated. ^ The warrant for her arrest was issued by Trial Justice Camp at the instance, it is said, of Mr. J. S. Mint/., father of Mr. a Augustus Mint/. Bond for her appearance at the next term of York sessions court was required in the sum of $500, . which was promptly given. For the past ^ three or four months Dr. and Mrs. Atkin- ^ son have been living pleasantly in York- J ville. , v ANOTHER GAME THIS AFTERNOON. 51 According to appointment, a second E game of base-ball was played between the a Queen City and the Amateur clubs, last Wednesday afternoon. Although again s< defeated, the latter succeeded in very much 1( reducing the score recorded at the previous d game, and with proportionate improve- F ment, the contest promised for this after- p noon will prove very interesting. The 2, following is the record of last Wednesday's game, the first column showing the num- E ber of runs, the second, times put out, and ^ the third, times left on base : QUKKN (,'ITYS U ro Lit AMATBUIIS H PO LP. r Bell f> 1 2 McKhveo .112 Glenn 1 G 1 Allison 2 2 1 T Moore 4 2 2 Tate 0 <) 0 " O'Leary 2 G 0 Gordon 1 4 1 Knykondal... 5 2 2 Moore 0 2 2 1>.I O 1 llnnlnn fl .1 1 J *1 ?) i L/llliia|> \r -X X Dobson 1 3 1 Withors '2 3 0 p Hoard f> 3 0 Johnson 3 3 1 Robertson.... '? i 0 Barnes 3 1 1 -y YORK COUNTY PENSIONERS. j Clerk of the Court Wylie has received the pension warrants for those entitled to j draw pensions in York county, being for the months of February, March, April J and May at $;} a month, or $12 in all. The following is a list of the pensioners in York county for the year 1881): j Women?Mary E. Whitener, E. C. Patterson; Margaret Smith, M. P. Strait, \V. ft F. Feeraster, Nancy Sexton, Mary Mar- 1a tin, Vicey Bolin, N. J. Dover, Marga- cl ret Shillinglaw, Mary Nichols, Minerva bi Kitchens, Catharine Bolin, Jane A. Hill, M. C. Choat, E. M. Pursley Nancy Lem- * ons, M. S. Tomlinson, M. E. Itobinson, J E. Jane Gordon, E. L. Bolin, E. L. Jack- *5 son, Leutitia Brown, M. C. Wilson, Jincey Mullinax, Rebecca Parish, Elizabeth sf Ferguson, Louisa Duncan, Patience Col- & lins, S. It. Carothers, M. E. Caton, Caro- jfl line Cobb, Jane A. Ferguson, Mary B. Davidson, Elizabeth Morris, Martha A. Poag, Martha Bolin, Cynthia Abernathy, Jane C. Barnes, Julia Peters, Mary F. .. Gill, Z. J. Jones, Sarah E. Lynn, Sarah D. Crawford, Adeline Bolin, Sarah L. e; Berry, Martha E. Minter, Dulcinia Chil- nr ders, Margaret C. Bolin, Louisa Itainey, tl M. It. Lindsay, II. A. Carr, Mary J. u Smith, Nancy Turney, Mary E. Sandifer, ... Caroline C. McKnight, A. M. Howe, Mar- ' garet S. Miller, E. D. Garrison, Margaret Carder, Sarah G. Camp. Sl Men?Wylie A. Moss, John A. Newton, J< Jr., Simon Ferguson, W. W. Bruce, Jack- C( son Adkins, A. H. Meritt, David E. e: Thomas, John H. Jones, j. D. Gaulden, Hugh B. Wallace, J. B. Farris, John H. ? Weaver, James Childers, D. G. Bennett, " Jamos A. Bell, S.J. Harvey, W. T. Bailey, W. C. Perry, Michael Dover, J.G. Parker, a S. L. Laney, S. L. Campbell,It.G. Graham, tc A. F. Lindsay, James Barnes, J. W. Mis- , kelly, James B.Steele, W. D.Camp, R. A. ci JIagins, llobert 13urns, 11. It. iSeil, T. M. ij Grant. ai EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY. a< Governor Itichardson has pardoned Nel- y, son Clawson, colored, who at a term of the f0 sessions court for York county, held in De- 01 cember, 1874, was convicted of the murder ai of a white man named James Pressley, ^ near Fort Mill, on the 14th of September, ?c 1874. Judge Mackey, who presided, sentenced the convicted man to be hanged on tl the 1.1th of January, 1875, but in the mean- ai time a strong petition in favor of com- b< mutation was sent to Governor Chamberlain, and he commuted the sentence to j)( life imprisonment at hard labor. In granting the prayer of the petition Governor tl Ihatnberlain called attention to the fact hat it was the first instance in which he ad interfered with the verdict of a jury, 'he homicide was claimed to have been ommitted in self-defence, and it so apeared to many at the time of the trial, 'he full pardon granted by Governor tichardson was recommended by Judge Vitherspoon, who was at the time of the onviction acting solicitor; by the preseut Dlicitor, Mr. McDonald ; by all the couny officers, and by the chief business men f Yorkville. The reasons urged were hat Clawson was only guilty of manlaughter and that he has already been sufciently punished, having served fourteen ears. ^Hpersonal mention. C. E. Spencer, Esq., and Mrs. Spencer re at Cleveland Mineral Springs. /Miss Kate Moore, of McConnellsville, is biting the family of Capt. E. A.Crawford. /Mr. J. W. Snider and Mr. Mason Eerpson are spending this week in Berkeley ounty. Mrs. Rufus Knox, of Blacksburg, is visting her mother, Mrs. Martha J. Bell, at his place. R. E. Allison, Esq., of Lancaster, paid u in.vine n v Joi t mat oa luiuuy uii |i luxes* ional business. Miss Annie Wallace has returned home rom Staunton Female Institute, having ecently graduated from that institution. We were pleased to meet, last Thursday, 'apt. J. A. Dodson, who is connected with tie construction of the Georgia, Carolina nd Northern railroad and visited Yorkille on business for his road. His headuarters are in Chester. Mr. Richard Hare, of Blackstock, but irmerly for many,years a citizen of Yorlcille, is here on a visit, and has been glady met by a large number of old friends. Ir. Hare arrived here on Friday, which ;as his 7Gth birthday, but despite his ears, he looks hale and hearty and walks r'ith the briskness of a much younger man. Mr. T. B. McClain expects to leave rorkville on the 20th instant for New York ity, and will take passage on the steamhip City of Rome, on the 20th, for Liverool. Mr. McClain intends visiting difirent point of interest in the British Isles, nd also on the Continent, but theprincial object of his visit will-be to take in the aris Exposition. CHILDREN'S DAY. Last Sunday the regular exercises of he Presbyterian Sunday-school gave way 3 a missionary festival, to which the Baehers and pupils of all the other Sunday:hooIs in tdwn were invited. A large ongregation assembled in the church, and 11 wprn prlifipd unrl Insfrnnfpfl hv thp py. rcises, which were conducted under direcion of Mr. James A. Watson, superintenent of the school. The following was the rder of the exercises: Gospel hymn, 235, by the school. Prayer, by Rev. W. B. Mcllwain. Responsive reading?"The Islands of the ea." Gospel hymn, 185, by the school. Responsivereading?"The Fiji Islands." Gospel Hymn, 354, by the school. Responsive reading?"An' Island Emire." Gospel hyinn, 29(5, by the school. Address on the subject of foreign mis ions by Rev. W. B. Mcllwain. V Gospel hymn, 370, by the school, during* he singing of which a collection for-1orign missions was taken up. Responsive reading. Prayer by Rev. W. A. Rogers, of the I. E. Church. Benediction by the pastor, Rev. T. R. English. SALES-DAY. The following official sales were made y the clerk of the court on Monday last, iles-day for June: At the suit of Thomas McGill individally ancl as agent, vs. R. II. Glenn, S. Y. ., and others, a tract of 308 acres on Wolf reek. Bought by C. E. Spencer,attorney, t $1 per acre. At the suit of John Nichols vs. Robert '. Millen and others, under decree of fore[osure, tract of 78 acres in Bethel townhip. Bought bvC. E. Spencer, attorney, t $11.25 per acre. At the suit of C. E. Spencer, executor, s. It. W. Smith and others, under decree f foreclosure, tract of 51 acres, on the Ldair's ferry road, nine miles .from York-' ille. Bought by C. E. Spencer, attorney, t $4 per acre. The sheriff sold the following property: The interest of Eleazer Parker in a tract f 237 acres, on the waters of King's creek, svied on at the suit of James McGill and 'homas McGill. Bought by Thomas Mcfill for $30.At the suit of C. E. Spencer, exefctriei^ s. James G. Plexico, deceased, tract of ' 3 acres in Bullock's Creek township.,. Sought by A. F. Plexico for one thousfvnfl nd two dollars. x The interest of F. B. Gaffne^ih and to 3veral tracts, situate in York county, bejnging to the estate of W> W. GafFney, eceased, as numbered on maps of the [ing's" Mountain Iron company lands, repared by W. TV Allison, D. S., October ,1880: 1. No. 1.0, map A, Macros; bought by J. t. Bell for $45. 2. No. 11, map A, 50 acres; waived by . E. Spencer, attorney. 3. No. 15, map A, 94 acres; waived by E. SDencer. attornev. 4. No. 18, map A, 187 acres; bought by . B. Bell for $43.50. 5. No. 19, map A, 101 acres; bought by V-. W. Gaffney for $31. G. No. 20, map B, 551 acres; bought by >r. 1). C. Atkinson for $97. 7. No. 39, map B, 322 acres; bought by V. B. Wilson, Jr., for $80.25. 8. No. 41, map B, 271 acres; bought by . E. Plexico for $80. 9. No. 33, map B, 21S acres; bought by . B. Bell for $100. 10. No. 45, map B, 70 acres; bought by . E. Plexico for $31.50. 11. No. 57, map C, 87 acres; bought by . E. Spencer, attorney, for $47.50. 12. No. 58, map C, 370 acres; bought by . E. Plexico for $130. 13. The lime interest of the late King's fountain Iron company in a tract of ind belonging to Eliza Long, and pur-~ lased by W. \V. Gaffney, now deceased ; Dught by C. E. Spencer, attorney, for $5. The above was levied on as the properr of F. B. Gaffney at the suits of Prury Co., and others. The interest of W. W. Gaffney in the ime lands, at the suit of J. W. Brigham Co., and others, advertised to be sold ist Monday, was not offered. WINTHROP SCHOOL. As has been previously announced iu lese columns, there will be a competitive lamination for women on the 3rd of next lonth, in Yorkville, for scholarships in le Winthrop Training school for teachers, nder provisions of the Act of the legis.ture approved December 23,1887. At the request of James H. Bice, State iperintendent of education, Rev. L. A. ahnson, county school commissioner, will >nduct the examination. The board of saminers Will consist of Mr. Johnson, a ? vrv\o n an rl linv T?. (r Pafrink and I ,ev. W. W. Daniel. For the information of would-be applimts, we publish the following pertaining > the conduct of the school: The competitive examination will inude arithmetic, grammar, geography, nited States history, reading, writing id spelling, and will be similar in charjter to the usual county examinations. The successful applicant will receive the late appointment, equivalent to $150.00 ir one session of nino months, and the ie ranking second will receive the scholrship for tuition only, given by the Winlrop school for each county of the State, rovided both examinations are satisfac?ry. Thirty dollars of the $150.00 will go to ie Winthrop school for tuition, text-books id other necessary school expenses of the meficiary. The remaining $120.00 will i paid to the appointee to assist her in sfraying her personal expenses, such as lard, railway fare and the like. The students of the school will board at leWinthropschool boarding house, which I is under the management of an estimable : Christian lady, who will do everything possible to provide the comforts of a home for the young ladies placed under her care, j Her charge for board, including fuel and ; light, will be S15.U0 a month or $135.00 for the entire session. A student may board elsewhere for special reasons satisfactory, to the superintendent. Applicants for scholarships must be not j less than eighteen years of age. ; The school session will begin September 25 and continue for nine months, closing j i in June. The students are required to be piesent on the opening day of the school. The superintendent will meet all stu- ; dents at the trains. I < The graduates of the scjhool are. entitled , to teach in the public schools of the State as j; first grade teachers, without further exam- j ination. The design of the school is to prepare for teachers young women who already have a good education, by training them in the methods of teaching and school managemunt lUVyU VI The course of study includes the following studies and methods of teaching them: Heading, spelling, English language, arithmetic, geography, physiology, history of the United States, lessons on form and color, lessons on minerals, plants and animals, elements of physics, writing, drawing, vocal music and calesthenics, psychology, history of education, school organization andmanagement, practice in teaching. The total expense of a student need not exceed $165.00 for the entire session. CHURCH NOTICES. Episcopal?Sunday-school at 5 p. m. Young men's union prayer-meeting will be held in the Methodist church next Tuesday evening at 8.15 o'clock. Baptist?Rev. R. G. Patrick, Pastor. Services next Sunday at 10.30 a. m. and 8.30 p.m. Sunday-school at 1.30 p. m. Prayermeeting to-morrow eyening at 8.30 o'clock. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. W. W. Daniel, Pastor. Services next Sunday at 10.30 a. in. and 8.15 p. m. Sunday-school at 4 p. ra. Prayer-meeting this evening at 8.15 o'clock. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J. C. Galloway, Pastor. Services at Tirzah ' next Sunday at 11 a. m., and in Yorkville 1 at 8.30 p. m. Sunday-school at 4.30 p. m. The service in Yorkville will be held in the opera house. , Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pas- i tor. Services next Sunday at 10.30 a. m. and 8.15 p.m. Snnday-school at 4 p. m. ; Prayer-meeting to-morrow evening at 8.15 o'clock. ~">tomspondence of the Yorkville Knquirer. 1 O LETTER PROM ROCK HILL. Rock Hill, June 4.?Since my last let- , ter wo have been visited in this section by an abundance of rain, and both farmers and merchants feel a great deal bet4ety I /Tito annual meeting of the stockholders ! rff tub Rock Hill Cotton Factory company was held on Thursday evening last, and the report of the president was very satisfactory. The old board of directors was re-elected, viz.; A. E. Hutchison, A. H. White, Jas. S. White, W. L. Roddey, Jno. It. London, of Rock Hill; John Gill, of of Baltimore; and F.J. Pelzer, of Charleston. The directors, at a subsequent meet- i ing, elected the following officers: A. E. ; Hutchison, President; I). Hutchison, secretary and treasurer; and J. R. Neisler, superintendent. They also declared a semi-annual dividend of 3} per cent. 1 ^TJn Friday last the board of trustees of ^he Rock Hill Graded school held their annual meeting and elected Prof. A. R. Banks principal, with Mr. Jno. L. Doug- 1 las, Miss Emma Roach, Miss Manassas 1 Withers aud Miss Mary Clarkson, as assistants. There is one vacancy as assistant teacher still to be filled. Miss Anna Rawlinson, will remain in charge of the music department. The school is daily increasing, and one of the trustees informs me that it will be necessary to add to the building, if the increase continues, as the building was only intended to accommodate 250 pupils, and there are now near 200. Last Snnday afternoon was observed by the children of the Presbyterian church as "Children's day." The services were opened with prayer by Rev. W. M. Anderson, pastor. The services, under charge of Major A. II. White, superin- ' tendent of the Sunday-school, consisted of songs and responsive readings by the children. Mr. W. II. Stewart delivered ' an address on foreign missions. The committee appointed for the pastors of the churches of our town to arrange for ; the meetings to be held by the Rev. Mr. Pearson at this place, beginning on the last Sunday in September, held a meeting on Thursday afternoon. The committee decided to order a tent which will seat 2,500 persons, a firm in St. Louis having offered to rent the same. In our report of the car-load of cans for the Davis Canning and Candy factory the same should have read 50,000 instead of 5,000. / The copeert given in the hall of the ] graded^hool building on Friday night < 4qrRto benefit of the Rock Hill cornet i haro^as a success, and was greatly en- , j^d by^skirge audience. The programme 1 was well ammged and fully carried out. j The competitiVe.drill by a squad of the < Catawba Rifles, consisting of Messrs: Jno. j W. Cowan, S. T. Frew, Jno. Milling, J. ] W. Steele, Jr., John A. Steele, John W. i O'Neal, J. N. McElwee, Jr., P,.C, Poag, after being hotly contested, was won by ] Mr, John W. Cowan. The prize, a beauti- < ful boquet, was presented by Capt. Iredell i Jones. Mr. Cowun, in accepting the same, j responded in a few fitting remarks. i J. lit) LUWIJ uuuuai aic iciuuvuig ait oigU| hitching; and awning posts on Main street. Thejfiying of the curbing along this street is progressing rapidly. Mrs. W. D. Montgomery; oldest daughter of Mr. S. M. Fewell, died of consumption, at the residence of her father in this place, on Wednesday morning. - The deceased was quite young, lier remains were interred in Laureiwood cemetery on Thursday morning, Rev. J. H. Thornwell officiating. ... The same morning, Randolph, the little babe of Mr. and Mrs. E, R. Avery, was also called to its homo above. Its death was caused by a complication of diseases caused by an attack of measles. The remains were interred in Laureiwood cemetery, the services beiug held in the Epis: copal church, Rev. E. X. Joyner officiating. There is being a substantial iron fence placed around tho First Presbyterian church yard. The latest thing talked of in Rock Hill is a proposed street car line. Mr. Jno. R. London leaves to-day for the North to purchase additional machinery for the Standard Cotton Mills. kal. Corri'spumleuce of the Yurkvllle Enquirer. LETTER FROM" BLACKS lib KG. IJIjACKSHurg, June 4.?Together with the rest of the country, our section received some refreshing showers of rain last s week, and everything wears a brighter c and fresher look since then ; but the weath- c er has become so much cooler that fires r are quite comfortable morning and even- r ing. ' j A spelling bee, which was recently or- i gani/ed for the benefit of the Presbyterian (i church, is now in successful operation, v and rae^ts every Friday night in the hall t over the store of I). L. Brown & Co. It 1 not only adds to the finances of the church, c but affords amusement and instruction, t and we notice is becoming quite popular, s Our railroad contractors, Messrs. Jack- s ins & Crosby and J. B. Ross are getting t ready to move their plants, at once, to c Boydton, Mecklenburg county, Va., where c they have taken work on the Atlantic and t Danville railroad, a new route projected 1: from Portsmouth, Va., to Chicago, and s being built by a company of English and I Western capitalist, of which General Ew- v ing, of Ohio, is president, and C. B. Peck c manager. The engineer corps of the Three C's v Railroad company, engaged in revising a L1JU 11 LIU JUL C11U AU^U3Ltt UlV131UUy liV/Ui v< this point to Newberry, passed Cherokee e Falls factory, crossed Broad river one and fi a half miles below, at Eagle's Island, (one s of the Ninety-nines), then proceeded down "N the river to the mouth of Thickety; then t to the right, crossing Pacolet three-fourths I of a mile below Skulls' Shoals, towards t Union. Chief Engineer Molesworth re- I ports this as the cheapest route yet surveyed, and is locating the line. He ex- o pects to finish the revision of the line to Newberry in six weeks. Betsey Griffin, an aged negress, died near here Saturday night. Although her r exact age cannot be ascertained, yet it is t known, from trustworthy dates, that she t lived over one hundred years, and it is r believed by persons who have known her li for fifty years, that she was about one hun- u dred and ten years old. She was a great sufferer from asthma, nearly all her life. She never wore glasses, her eyesight re-' maining good to the last, and.Vshe was.an unusually bright and intelligent person for her race. She claimed the Island of Mad- . agoscar as her native place, and thus accounted for the straightness of her hair. . An excursion train over the Three C's railroad, will be run from Rutherfordton ^ and intermediate points to thi? place on Friday, 7th instant. We expect a large crowd of our North Carolina friends down. i Real estate still seems to be in demand at our place. Since my last. Mr. M. R. Iteese has sold one house and lot on Lime street to J. W. Ithyne; J. W. Castles a lot on Pine street to J. L. I)avies; and Dr. J. G. Black tb W. D. Sherrer^no lot on John street, on which Mr. Sherrer is erecting a neat cottage. w. a. Correspondence offlhOYorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM RLAIRSVILLE. Bi.Airsville, June 3.?News of interest is very scarce in these parts at present, and things are gliding along smoothly and quietly. We regret to learn that the Rose of Sharon is about to lose its fragrance, out nope soon 11 win uu us uiuupu^ head and come forth as terrible as an army with banners, and the blind pulled from the ditch and the lame made to walk and go on their way rejoicing. Wo had quite a refreshing shower last < Thursday, but it does not. seem to have < been of much advantage, owing to the cold nights and winds'which followed. There is a great complaint of bad stands, of cotton. Some have plowed up and planted over, while others are replanting. Some have secured a very good stand on red lands, where it was planted early, but all late planting oh red lands is not half a stand, and it seems that the seed has germinated and died. Cotton on gray lands is looking as well as we might expect with the cool nightsand Winds. Upland corn is looking tolerably well. The wheat crops of this section will be seasonably good?better than was expected. Oats have suffered more from drought than any other crop. I find oats that were sown in February are tolerably fair, while those that were sown during the month of March will almost be a failure1 in some sections, and some farmers pave concluded to pasture them- ' A gcojLfetand of corn has been obtained on bottomlands where they have been properly prabttred. In cloddy, rough land, it isaimost 6, fafittfe,. Mrs. Solomon Moore, who Has bera quite ill with pneumonia, is better, and the prospect is that she will soon recover. Mr. J. M. Hope, who lives neaf'tsharcm, is not improving:, and islylngvery low with the infirmities of old age. M.\ John Whitesides, who lives near Ilooi'town, had the misfortune of losing another fine mule one day last week. Too touch corn. Miss Carrie Bray, of Spartanburg, i9 visiti.ug" friends and relatives in Hoodtown, Miss Pinkey Carroll, of Biairsvijle, is visiting friends near Bullock's Creek. Quarterly conference will be held at Shady Grove on Saturday before the third Sunday in June. Services will begin on Friday night. Next Sunday will be Children's day at Bullock's Creek. croaker. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. NOTES FROM SHARON. Siiaron, June 3.?This section was blessed with rain on Thursday last, which was greatly needed, though we have not yet had enough to wet the ground thoroughly. The weather has been quite cool for the last few days and cotton is not doing well. Our citizens have been very much exercised over the action of the Three C's Railroad company in regard to the removal of our portable depot. We cannot understand why our little town has suffered for what Beems to be a county matter; or at least Beveral townships are concerned in the bond matter. But we feel proud of Sharon whether we have a station or not, and think that we havo shown what we would do if we had the opportunity; and we feel safe in saying that our merchants will carry out their supply contracts if they have to haul their goods on wagons. We know that we have hauled goods twice the distance that we have to haul now, but of course we would like our station to be restored at an early day. Gur hotel man has nothing to do, and solely upon his account I hope that passengers can soon bo allowed to get on and off at this point. Two of our hoys visited your town one day last week by private conveyance, which, by the way, paid them very well, for they caught a "cooter" on the way and sold it in Yorkville for money enough to buy six bottles of beer. Mr. Robert R. Plexico came very near having his house burned one night last week, but for the timely awakening of Mrs. Plexico, who gave the alarm in time to extinguish the Are. It caught accidentally from the stove and was making quite a rapid start,, having burned a part of the flooring out, and the wall on one side of the room. " ward. Corresp?n<l<-'iice of tlie York villi? Enquirer. LETTER FROM McCONNELLSVILLE. Ml-Connellsville, June 4.?Since my last writing, our town has been visited with a refreshing rain, which gladdened this hearts of our citizens and revived vegetation. Although the rain came too late to materially benefit the small grain crop, and was hardly sufficient for early planted :orn, yet there was plenty for cotton, and it is to be hoped will render the laborious and unsncct_. ful plan of replartting unnecessary. Your correspondent, while out walking last Saturday, examined some of the seed which hod been lying in the ground since the 8th of fifast May, and found them all perfectly sound, while some were beginning to sprout. There will be a spelling bee at the Mcdonpellsville academy next Friday night, June 7th, gotten up by tbe Young Ladies' Add society. The champion of the evening will be presented with a handsome prize, which will he well worth striving ior, while the first one to miss a word will ilso receive an elegant present. The en:ertainment will afford an abundance of imusement and a large attendance is andcipated, owing to the fact of the admission fee being the paltry sum of ten cents. Last Sunday was duly observed as ChilIren'sday. Mr. S. C. Sturgis delivered in address on the subject of foreign misilnna Tfuraaan olnnnonf annual tn ftvorl ;very effort in spreading the gospel in leathen lands, where ignorance and superstition reigns supreme. He also impressed lis hearers with the fact that this desired ibject eannot be accomplished by their jifts alone, but that every gift should be iccorapanied with a fervent prayer from ;he heart l'or the furtherance of Christ's dngdom. Miss Bessie Johnston, who has been spending a while with her sister in this ; ilace, took her departure last Monday for Lilackstock. :* Oorrcsponilenrc or the YorkvI!l?> Enquirer. LETTER FROM CLOVER. Clover, June 3.?The south-bound pas- > enger train, on Tuesday last, unloaded a orpse at this place. There was no one in harge of it, and there was no one here to eceive it. As decomposition had comnenced, Mr. Smith, the agent, was a little & >erplexed for a time as to what to do with t. The case was marked W. 1). Alexan- ' L ler, Clover, S. C. That was all to indicate ? % vhom it was for. There is a colored man >y that name living a few miles from here. ? [hey sent for him, and when he came and ipened the case he recognized the corpse o be a brother-in-law of his, O. T. Thompou. It seems that Thompson left here orae time ago and went to North Carolina o work on a railroad. On account of its ondition they could not examine the orpse closely, but they thought, from the ilood about the face and head that the man lad been killed. This, though, was only upposition. Nothing definite has been earned about the cause of his death. He yas neatly dressed and placed in a good | offln. The Clover Alliance met last Saturday, vith a good attendance. It was said to be ,n important meeting ; but of its imporance we know nothing further than the lection and installment of officers. The allowing were elected to serve for the enuingyear: President, VV. Tr~Beanjmiard: r? it .1 x t n 1 t . i " ice-rresiaeni, j . j, ru"u~ iafiKar>n ; Secreary, W. Thompson Jackson/Treasurer, J. 1. Kobinson; Cnaplain, J. Q. Howe ; Lecurer, John Knox ; Doorkeeper, J. M. ^ord; Sergeant-at-Arms, H. P. Jackson. We have had a fine season at last, and verybody is feeling happy and cheerful. J. D. G. ? The board of penitentiary directors has elieved J. D. Hardin of his contract to do he earthwork on the Columbia canal, and he work will be completed under the diection of the penitentiary directors. A > [irge force of convicts will be employed mtil the work is finished. 1 .