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Jtajw ami |acts.
? At a meeting of the board of council
of the city of Frankfort, Ky., an ordinance
was adopted prohibiting the sale of
cigarettes within the corporation. The
law went into effect on the 2nd instant, and
there is not a cigarette to be had in the
city.
? Alaska, which cost this country $7,200000,
has by her seal fisheries alone returned
to the treasury in twenty years $5,800,000,
and of this amount more than $5,000,000
may be set down as clear profit. The
charter of the Alaska Commercial company
expires in May next.
? A remarkable town, indeed, is Hanover,
Me., if the following, which is making
the rounds of the New England papers,
is true: "Hanover is without a
minister, doctor, lawyer or pauper, and
had enoup-h monev left over from last
year to gtfwithout'assessing new taxes."
? Mrs. Marie Louise Longstreet, wife of
Gen. Longstreet, who died in Gainesyille,
Ga., on Sunday of last week, was the
daughter of Gen. John Garland, of the
United States army, and was born at Fort
Sneliing, Minnesota. She was married
to Longstreet in Lynchburg in 1848.
? The grand total of money embezzled
from corporations, private firms and the
United States government during the year
1889, was $8,552,753. The annual appropriations
for the United States navy department
are less than double the amount
stolen, while the sum would meet the
expenses of the war department for three
months. The list of those who stole $100,000
or more foots up twenty-two.
? If the following story is true they have
a man over in North Carolina who is handy
with a gun. The dispatch comes from
Asheville and says: A terrible tragedy
took place in Mitchell county, twelve
miles from Bakersville, the county seat.
In a drunken row Christmas day three
men were killed. Friday, Monroe Garland,
a brother of one of the murdered
men, rode up to a crowd in the same
place and fired into the crowd killing
three and wounding twelve.
? Prohibition is to be tried in uast Tennessee.
A great land company, recently
organized with Clinton B. Fisk at its
head, has purchased 300,000 acres of agricultural,
mineral and timber lands in East
Tennessee, and proposes to establish a
manufacturing valley city and upland
health resort, placing in every title and
deed and lease an absolute prohibition
clause. This feature they declare to be
based, not upon moral or political sentiment,
but upon the wisest business policy.
? Fanny Bryant, the negro woman convicted
as the accomplice of Dick Hawes
in the murder of his wife and children,
has been transferred from the jail in Birmingham
to the Alabama penitentiary to
serve a life sentence. Her case was appealed
to the supreme court, but errors in
the bill of exceptions threw it out of
court. The woman refused to make any
statement before leaving the jail. The appeal
of Hawes has not yet been acted upon
bv the suDrerae court.
? Statistics gathered from the most available
sources indicate that 343,990 foreign
immigrants have settled in the South
during the past ten years, making the
whole number now living in this section
of the United States 048,043. From the
same sources we get the estimate that there
are now located in the South 394,930 Northerners,
principally from the States of Illinois,
Pennsylvania, New England, New
York, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa and Michigan
in the order named. The whole increase
in our population is estimated at 4,851,000.
? The work of organizing camps of
Democratic ex-soldiers and sailors in Indiana
is to be actively prosecuted. The idea
in organizing these camps is to provide a
place "where soldiersof Democratic belief
may feel at home and at liberty to express
their political sentiments without danger
of being called enemies to their country."
It is proposed to gather into the fold every
Democratic ex-soldier and the sons of the
veterans, who are to be liberally supplied
with Democratic literature.
? George F. Kellogg, of Stirling, State
sugar inspector, has filed his annual report
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in Kansas. The report shows that the
gr^nd total of sugar manufactured this
year was 1,293,275 pounds, against 694,274
pounds manufactured last year. In addition
to the foregoing, Inspector Kellogg
states that fully 290,000 pounds more sugar
will bo obtained from the seconds, which
will take a month or six weeks longer to
get out.
? The Georgia railroads are protesting
against a new law of that State requiring
the payment of taxes on sleeping cars
owned by non-resident corporations. The
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comptroller-general that it will resist the
payment of the tax. The sheriff of Fulton
has levied on the rolling stock of the
Georgia Pacific, Richmond and Danville
and Atlanta and West Point roads for
sleeping car taxes. No steps will be taken
to enforce the fi. fas, till Attorney-General
Anderson renders an opinion on the constitutionality
of the act.
? A clever trick was played by a rogue
on an Atlanta photographer the other day,
by which the rogue captured a watch,
while the photographer secured a good
picture. The sharper asked the photographer
to lend him his gold watch to wear
while sitting for the picture. The request
was complied with, and while the photographer
was in the dark room applying
the chemicals to the negative, his customer
sneaked out with the watch and
chain. The negative is a good one and
adorns the rogue's gallery at the police
station.
? The passage of an election law containing
the features of the Australian ballot
system is doomed in Maryland. At a
recent meeting of the Democratic editors
of the State, Senator Arthur P. Gorman
sounded the key note. He is opposed to
the passage of the Australian law, by the
general assembly, and he is opposed to the
passage of any law like it. So are the majority
of the democratic editors of the
State. This movement is construed by
some to be a thurst aimed at Cleveland,
whose pronounced advocacy of the Australian
system, in a speech at Boston, a
few weeks ago, attracted wide attention.
\x-?The Richmond Dispatch of last Mon^Nlay
publishes a letter written by Wilkes
Booth on the day he assassinated President
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been suppressed by the government in
1865. In his opening he foreshadows the
terrible deed which he accomplished when
he says: "Kight or wrong, God judge,
not man, for be my motive good or bad,
of one thing I am sure, the lasting condemnation
of the North. I love peace
more than life." He then discussed secession,
and singularly enough the race
problem which is now confronting the
country. He says: "This country was
formed for white men, not for the blacks."
He concludes: "A Confederate doing
duty on his own responsibility."
? That a few Indians yet linger in New
England appears now and then, rvs in the
reports of agents concerning the Penobscot
and Passamaquoddy tribes of Maine,
just submitted to the governor. The
tribes number !)20?the Penobscots being
much the smaller?and have cost the State
this year something over ?10,000. They
are not holding their own; during the
year 27 Penobscots have died out of 383,
99. Pftssamnnundtlvs. out of 537. It is said
that the schools are well attended, and
that the tribes are gradually improving
under their influence. The Penobscots
raised 3,647 bushels of potatoes this year,
and 1,779 bushels of other crops, while
their profits from trinkets.sold to summer
visitors are not recorded.
j? D. B. Garrett, of the colored colony of
*>k4fthoma, is in Topeka, Kansas, working
/up the scheme. He says there are now
fully 4,000 colored people in Oklahoma,
and that colonization work will be pushed
in all cities of the West. He says the
people are entirely satisfied with the country
and their prospects. Colonel Mason,
of Mississippi, who has been in Topeka
two weeks, is advocating the purchase of
the Cherokee strip for settlement by the
colored race. Several prominent negroes
of Topeka are moving in that direction
and will ask President Harrison to appoint
a committee of colored men to negotiate
with the Cherokees for the purchase of the
strip for homestead settlement for their
own race exclusively. This proposition is
founded on information that the Indians
are willing to have colored people settle
on the strip. It is argued that, as a resolution
has just been introduced in the United
States senate to appropriate a large sura of
money to carry colored colonists to Africa,
if the government can appropriate money
to transport the negro to Africa, it has the
power to appropriate money to purchase
lands for him at home, and could buy the
strip for the purpose.
--The congressional ways and means
committee sitting in Washington, spent
last Saturday afternoon hearing argu
ments in reference to the tariff on hemp,
jute, flax, and other articles of this character.
Charles E. Pierce, of St. Louis, a
manufacturer of jute bagging; J.N. Bemis,
also a jute bagging manufacturer, and others,
made long statements, urging a higher
tariff against jute bagging, the losses of
which, they said, would ruin the bagging
industry of this country. Congressman
McMillan took the lead in questioning
Pierce, whom he supposed to be a member
of the syndicate which cornered the
jute bagging stock of the country in 1888,
and increased the prices from 12J cents
per pound. Pierce said this course on the
part of the manufacturers of the country
was impelled by the provisions of the Mills
bill, to place jute bagging on the free list,
Had this provision been carried out, he
said it would have ruined the jute bagging
industry of the country, and forced the
manufacturers, who had ?7,000,000 or ?8,000,000
invested to sell their machinery
for scrap iron and close their establishments.
?he IJMfevittc (Shuptim.
YORKVILLE, S. C. : r
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY^890.
HOW IT IS DONE.
The exodus of negroes, especially from
North Carolina, to the Southwest, is much
larger than even published accounts represent.
The Atlanta correspondent of the
Augusta Chronicle says those outside oi
Atlanta have no idea what proportions
the negro exodus has reached. Ail the
winter train, loads of the sable travelers
have been dumped down in Atlanta only
to be placed on other roads and carried
on to the West, to go on large plantations
in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and
Texas. Labor there is very scarce, and
the farmers and railroads act in concert, iu
turn negro emigration in that direction.
The railroads send agents among the farmers
to see how many laborers they want.
The farmer then places the amount of
money necessary to pay their fare and the
railroads dump them down as per contract.
The negroes leaving North Carolina claim
to do so because crops there have been
poor for a number of years. Land owners
of the State last year were ready to murder
every immigration agent that went there,
but they are encouraging the negroes to
leave this year.
The manner in which the immigration
agents induce the negroes to leave their
Carolina homes is through the medium of
highly colored circulars.
The first picture represents a negro with
his family leaving a broken down cabin
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Each member of the family is laden
with the simple household effects.
The next picture is taken five years afterward
and represents the negro in his
new Western home. He is standing, hoe
in hand, in his lot, surrounded by frisky
mules, fat hogs and fine chickens.
The third picture is that of a comfortable
two-story dwelling with a beautiful
lawn in front, on which a young darkey is
cutting the grass with a patent rolling
machine. At the gate a horse, attached to a
fine buggy, is hitched. On the front porch,
seated in largo and comfortable rocking
chairs, can be seen the pompous-looking
colored man, supposed to be the same
"poor nigger" who left his North Carolina
home a few years before.
The picture hits them square between
the eyes, and pretty soon there is a general
exodus.
THE BARNWELL LYNCHING.
A meeting of representative men of the
colored race, composed of delegates from
nearly every county in the State, was held
in Columbia on the night of the 2d instant,
to take some definite action in regard to
the recent lynching of eight negro prison
ers in Barnwell county. "The proceedings
are represented as having been appropriate,
and were characterized throughout by
temperate words and an entire absence of
vinaictiveness or revengeful feeling.
The meeting was presided over by S. J.
Lee, of Charleston. An address to the
people of theState was unanimously adopted.
It declares that the colored people of
the State have a very serious complaint
against many of the white people of the
State,because they had allowed to be taught
that any treatment of the negro tending
to impress him with the white man's superior
power in a conflictof force, is justifiable,
and inculcating the idea that the negro
had no rights. The address attributes
this indiscreet schooling to certain newspapers
in the State. The address recites
that the hue and cry made by such white
men, after they have committed outrages
against the negro, to the effect that they
are attempting insurrection against the
whites of such communities, is additional
outrage upon the colored race.
The Barnwell lynching was interpreted
as indicating the supremacy of the mob
element of the commonwealth over the
law-abiding class. The address concludes:
"Therefore, we deem it proper for our people
to abandon such sections of the State
wherein lawlessness prevails and life is
unsafe, and go to a section where life and
property are safe. We offer this as information
to the friends of humanity and
justice North and South, and appeal to
the chief executive and all officers of the
State, and to all citizens, regardless of
race or color, to unite in one common effort
in upholding the majesty of the law and
the fair name of South Carolina."
Resolutions were adopted advising the
members of the race to remain quiet and
allow the proper authorities to vindicate
the law.
A committee of nine was appointed to
wait upon Governor Richardson and place
their grievances, assuring him of their
fidelity to the State, and ask that such
power given him under the constitution
and laws of the State as chief executive,
be used to its full extent, to "have the perpetrators
of this foul, barbarous and atrocious
crime appr.hended and brought to
justice."
The committee waited on the governor
last Friday, and through S. J. Lee acting
as spokesman, requesting the governor to
see that the guilty parties are brought to
justice, and presented the resolutions
adopted.
iney were courteously received ny me
governor, who assured them that everything
in his power would he done to see
that the law is vindicated.
What the Herald Has to Say
About It.?The New York Herald, in
noticing the prosperous condition of things
in South Carolina among other Southern
States, has to say : "The Herald rejoices
that the people of South Carolina are so
prosperous. Hut would it not be useful
for them to let well enough alone and discourage
such wild propositions as that of
their Senator Butler, asking the Federal
government to remove the greater part of
the laboring force of the State to a great
distance? If the whites possess the
brains, education and morality of the
State, they ought certainly to have wisdom
enough to get on with the blacks.
In any case, is it not extremely unwise for
Southern men to take the lead in stirring
up strife with the negro?"
? In Spartanburg county, last Wednesday
night, a mob of negroes in masks, visited
the house of John Hall, a negro, who
was living with a white woman (who he
claims was his wife), took him out, tied
him to a tree and gave him a thrashingthirty
nine lashes. Then they turned him
loose and told him to leave the county.
The white woman was not molested, but
was simply warned to leave the State.
The white people of the neighborhood had
investigated the case and had determined
to bring it before the next term of court,
miscegeneration being a felony under the
laws of this State. The colored people,
however, took took the law in their own
hands and the parties have left the State.
? The Winnsboro News states it thus:
The income of the Clemson College for the
first year, is from the State $60,700 and
from the Clemson estate about $3000; or
the State gives $60,700 to get $3000 and the
privilege of naming its agricultural college
after Mr. Thomas 0. Clemson.
LETTER FROM ROCK HILL.
Orrospondi'ncc of the Yorkville Enquirer.
Rock Hill, January G.?Christmas c
was very quiet in our town. Business v
suspended and it seemed that all of
citizens desired to celebrate the day
home. Services were held in the Epis
pal church, Rev. Gordon M. Bradley c
dating. There were no accidents of 8
' serious nature, and less drunkenness tl
ever. The police force, which had b<
i increased, had no occasion to make a sin
arrest.
i The Rock Hill Combination CompE
i visited Lancaster Christmas day, and gt
' the citizens of that place an entertainm
i on Christmas night. The young men v
, compose the company, are loud in th
i praises of the hospitality of the citizen
: Lancaster.
i The company, by request, repeated
entertainment at this place on Fric
night, the proceeds being douated to '"3
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recently organized in our town.
Walker Coleman, colored, who clai
Fairfield as his home, in attempting
jump from a through freight train at t
place on Christmas day, came near los
his iife. He had his head badly bruii
and was unconscious when picked up, i
thought to be dying, He is now impn
ing. Fortunately he fell on his h<
which saved his life.
News was received at this place t
Mr. Jas. Shaffer, a former citizen, n
killed on the Air-Line railroad, week
/ore last, by falling between the coacl
on that road.
The elevator in the store of Frew Bi
fell with a sewing machine and the coloi
porter, Martin Knox, on Friday last. 1
elevator, which was on the third floor
the building, fell to the basement. 1
machine was broken in fragments, s
Knox received serious bruises.
Preston Garner, colored, an emplo;
at the cotton seed oil mill, met wit
fearful accident recently, which v
likely cause his death. In attempting
i adjust a set screw, or remove a cake
r meal, his shirt sleeve was caught in
i shafting of the cake mill, the shaft:
running at the rate of 1,570 revolutii
per minute. His shirt was torn comple
Jy off him, his neck lacerated by
belt, and severe wounds inflicted on
head and back, with a jaw bone brok
The wounded man was waited on by I
Fewell and Cornwell.
Mr. Edward Fewell, of this place, e
Miss Annie Shiver, of Columbia, w
married on Wednesday night at the r<
dence of Mr. W. E. Gonzales, in that ci
Rev. Mr. Blackman officiating. The h
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afternoon and went at once to the reside]
of Mr. Alex. P. Fewell, father of
groom, where they were met by a num
of friends, who enjoyed a most pleasj
reception. The bride is one of Columbi
charming young ladies, and the groom <
of the Magic City's popular young men
Geo. 1\ Itunkle, who has been conrn
ed with the Western Union Telegrs
company's office at this place has b<
transferred to the Charlotte office, and I
Cohen, of Chester, has taken his place
night operator.
There is considerable Complaint amt
. our citizens in regard to the mails on t
Three C's railroad. The non appearai
of my letter in last week's issue was cam
by the Coon taking it to Blaeksburg a
returning the next day to Yorkville al
the paper was printed. A gentleman
this place informed me he mailed a let
here for Yorkville that was received th
four days later.
Mayor J. M. Cherry has issued noti
for a town election for mayor and warde
to serve the Magic City for the ensui
year. The election will be held on Thi
day, January 9th. As the present coi
cil have been so efficient they will be li
ly to succeed themselves. The registei
vote of the town is 210, a number of p
sons having failed to register during 1
month of December.
The postofflce has been removed fr<
the Carolina Hotel building to the n
hnildin? adioinine the First Natio:
bank.
Robt Archer, colored, was arrested by i
town authorities last week for disorde
conduct. There was the ready pistol fou
on his person, and he was at once turr
over to Trial Justice Whyte, charged w
carrying concealed weapons. He adtr
ted the charge, and gave bond for his i
pearance at the next term of court.
The cost of new buildings erected
Rock Hill during the past year is estim
ed at about $140,000, which fact, of its*
proves that the Magic City is on a boom
Our town is getting up a soap facto
It will be no trouble to produce the I
but it takes grease to run all machine
and I am informed that the cotton s?
oil mill will throw oil on the troub
waters. Hal
LETTER FROM SHARON.^
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
Sharon, January G.?The holidays i
gone, and we are six days in another ye
The holidays passed off very pleasan
here, and the young folks seemed to en
the season as much as though it were I
first that ever occurred. They se'
ready and, indeed, anxious to start on I
wnrlr nf thft now vpflr. F.VPrv OR6 flee
to have fond recollections of the old, a
bright hopes for the new year.
The schools around have dated their
/ginning from this morning. Miss Bes
Mason, of Yorkville, takes charge of 1
Wood Lawn school, just outside of t
place, and Miss Brownie Whitesides, fr?
Clark's Fork, will begin a school near I
Wm. Ross'. I understand that Miss H
tie Hardin, of Chester, and Miss Jem
White, from Chester, will continue wtv
they were last year; the former at Blai
ville and the latter at Hoodtown. Tt
have not yet decided on a teacher for I
school at this place.
OMr. and Mrs. S. S. Plexico, of this pi a
<arb spending a while with their friei
and relatives in and around Cartersvil
^Georgia.
ysMiss Rebecca Shaw, who spent the h<
days with her uncle, Dr. Saye, and .1
Ross's family, has returned to Union to
sume her studies.
\Mr. W. R. Rainey has returned to <
Huntersville High school. He left n
year's day.
The Farmers' Alliance of Blairsville r
last Saturday at their regular place of me
ing, and among their many transactio
decided to unite their efforts with those
the good people of the com munity, to bre
down the unlawful sale of liquor in eve
instance, i unaerstanu mat eacn a
every one has pledged himself to rep
every violation of this law that comes \
der his eyes.
"-Jae had a very exciting election in to
otl the 2nd instant for intendantand w
dens. The election was not decisive
the case of the intendant. Messrs. ltob
Plexico, J. A. Graves, J. D. Hamilton a
J. N. Ross were elected wardens. A n
election for intendant will be held on I
8th instant, when, it is hoped, a deeisi
will be reached. Wo need a council, a
until we have one the progress of our to
will be hindered.
The Young Men's Missionary socii
held their regular meeting in the A. It.
church yesterday and decided to endea1
to have all the missionary societies of 1
A. It. P. Church to have themselves rep
sen ted by delegates in general assemb
and the secretary was requested to asc
tain the sentiments of the societies on 1
subject. The young men of this socii
seem to have a good deal of zeal in 1
work, and will doubtless do a good w(
in the church.
The business men have made no arranj
ments for this year. They seem to f
the weight of the alliance in this sect!
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LETTER FROM HICKORY GROVE.
Correspondence of tlie Yorkville Enquirer.
Hickory Grove, January 4.?The s<
warm and balmy spring weather of the 1
month has considerably changed in I
iasi iew uays ana a xoucn 01 wimer is m
being felt in our young town, to the gr
relief of all our people, particularly so
those who have killed or will soon kill
porkers. From the talk of our citizens
good old fashioned snow would be hu
ly relished now, and to the farmers woi
lend hope and energy and be a sure ind
to a bountiful harvest in the ensuing su
mer. The old year is gone.
"Like the clew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the fountain,
Like the bubble on the river,
It is gone, and forever."
The new year has come, and with
many will endeavor to turn over a n
leaf in life's busy panorama and in soc
, and personal habits. Some brave resol'
to lead new lives will be made, some
be kept, many to fall, by the wayside
the same old rut. Some will bound 1
ward with new life, along the pathways
industry and business, of honor, truth a
uprightness. Hope, joy and energy v
brighten their crest. Many will be li
the miserable trader, who could not p
through a certain place without getti
drunk. On a certain occasion he personal
"Resolution" to stand by him, and havi
gone safely through, sober, proposed to g<
back and "treat" Resolution as a gooc
lay friend, and they both got drunk. Never
vas theless, humanity advances and will stil
the continue to advance,
at Some business changes have taken plac<
;co- in our town. The old firm of T. M. Whis
iffi- onant & Co., has dissolved, eliminating T
iny M. Whisonant, and will assume the nev
lan name of Castles, Morehead & Co. Th<
jen retiring partner, Mr. T. M. Whisonant
gle will hereafter be associated with Mr. C
W. Whisonant, in the new storehouse o
iny the latter in this place. Mr. Littlejohn
ive of Gaffney City, is framing and pushinf
ent rapidly the work of his new store house
rho one door south of the new furniture ston
ieir of C. M. Martin. Still south of this, Dr
sof J. W. Allison is hastening the frame an(
foundation work of a new and large pri
the vate residence for himself and family
lay On the main corner, west, Mr. J. C. Mc
Dhe Gill is preparing to give the painter'i
ety Drusn a joo on nis store uuust;, uuu n
bright and gay colors, will endeavor t<
ras catch the spring breezes of the trade anc
to traffic of the place and country,
his On the west bank of the Broad, we an
ing told, Mr. A. Frank Smith has sold hii
sed place to a Northern company for abop
md $7,500, and will move to the Grove wit!
ov- his family. A profitable gold mine, ii
jad sight, is the inducement to the transac
tion. Mr. James Love, Jr., is negotiatinj
hat' with the same company for the sale of hii
vas place with the same inducements and hop
be- ing for similar results,
hes The Hickory Grove academy will com
mence operations on Monday next, unde
os. the guidance and direction of Mr. Cauthen
red of Heath's Springs, Lancaster county, wh<
Phe comes with high recommendations as ?
of teacher.
?he Miss Ella Leech, a daughter of Tria
md Justice G. C. Leech, is very low with scar
let fever.
pee The first car-load of acid came to th<
h a Grove on Thursday evening, consigned
vill W. R. Walker, Union county,
to Mr. James A. Corry, a promising younj
of lawyer, born and reared a few miles fron
the this place, on the banks of the Broad, die<
ing at Gaffney City, on Thursday last, of con
3ns sumption.
?te- Some of the citizens of the Grove are be
the ginning to put on airs and talking abou
the the building of a cotton factory. A wagoi
en. and buggy factory is spoken of; a harnes
)rs. and leather shop also, and other enter
prises are said to be, a few miles off, stand
md ing on tip-toe and looking over the Grow
ere as a field for future investment, senex.
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ty, LETTER FROM BLACKSBURG.
ap- Corr(.d|>ondcnce of the Vorkvllle Enquirer.
lay Blacksburg, January 7.?For the pas
nee several days the weather has been seasona
the bly warm, with a heavy, damp and rathe
ber oppressive atmosphere with clouds am
ant sunshine alternately. This morning thi
ia's sky is still overcast, but the clouds are fly
>ne ing aboutand the wind blowing and whist
i. ling as if a storm was going to burst upoi
ict- us. We would feel better for a change an<
iph a colder and more bracing air.
?en The exodus of negroes from North Caro
Mr. lina to the Southwest continues. Durini
as the last ten days nearly two thousand havi
passed through here over the Air Line rail
)ng road, bound for Louisiana, Arkansas an<
the Texas. A majority of them came fron
nee around Goldsboro. This movement on th<
3ed part of the negroes, from a small beginninj
md mado a few years ago, and which it wa
:ter predicted would soon cease, seems on thi
at other hand to be growing rapidly, an<
ter assuming large proportions. Dissatisflei
ere with their present quarters, they seem de
terrained to leave them with a vague idei
ces of being bettered by the change; and thi
ns, whites, though opposed, at first, togivinj
ing them up, now appear not only willing fo
irs- them to go, but encourage the exodus a
un- far as they are able. Senator Butler wa
ke- just so far in advance of the times whei
red he predicted and favored such a changi
>er- several years ago, and bills have recently
the been introduced in the United States sen
ate by three Southern senators to providi
om a place for the negroes to go to, and way
ew and means for them to get there,
nal Judge Witherspoon spent Saturday
night here on his way home from Alabama
the Mr. A. S. Crocker, foreman of Mr. W
rly M. Jones's sash and blind factory, arrivet
ind here last week with his family, from Carey
led N. C. They occupy the dwelling at th<
ith corner of Carolina and Shelby streets re
lit- cently vacated by Mr. I. W. Moore ant
ap- wife, who have gone to Lancaster to livi
for the present,
in Miss Dora Chamberlain, of Woodruff
at- S. C., is'visiting the family of Dr. 11. I?
elf, Darwin.
i. Miss Mary Gregory has taken charge o
ry. the school at Holly Grove, near here.
ie; Prof. J. T. Moore and brother, alter i
ry, two weeks' vacation, opened Cherokei
sed High School yesterday with a good at
led tendance of pupils.
Miss Eva Twitty has returned fron
Rutherfordton, and resumed her duties ai
music teacher.
From the good results obtained in quiti
ire a number of cases by the use of the wate
ar. from Ihe spring on Dr. T. B. Whitesides'i
tly property, in this place, the Doctor was in
joy duced to send a gallon of the water to thi
:he State chemist for analysis, and the follow
em ing is a verbatim copy of his report in thi
the matter:
ins Total solids per U. S. gallon, 29.90 grains.
n(j Silica [S2 02 ) 1.G4 grains
Chlorine, 0.29 grains
:,1 ? T_,.? ^ A A M9. rrrnin<3
VAiuu li uu ttJiu xxi uiuiiia,
Dr" Lime(Ca. O.), 2.77 grains
816 Magnesia, (Mga.) 1.22 grains
the Sodium, 0.58 grains
his Potassium, 3.91 grains
Sulphur Trioxide, |(S. 03) 0.58 grains
Carb. lithium, undetermined. Formic aci<
a* and other things, not determined.
" It will be seen that this water is not on
p!p ly heavily charged with the various salts
nearly 30 grains to the gallon, but contain!
p * a larger percentage of potassium than evei
the Hot Springs of Arkansas. Dr. Burner
has asked for a fresh sample of the water
and promises another and more decidec
ids anaiysis spring. w. a.
lle' MERE-MENTION.
os. Associate Justice Brewer the newly ap
1 _ C IU. Ofofm
Qr poiuieu iuemuer ui me umicu
re'_ supreme court, was invested with his blacl
silk gown and took his seat upon the bene!
the for t*16 fir8t ti006 ^a8t Monday. Sever
cw hundred and fifty-five miles of railroac
have been built in South Carolina sine*
net 1880, and in the South 19,710 miles of tracl
,et_ have been laid in the last ten years. Th<
ng Grady monument fund has reached ovei
t 0f $15,000. Horatio Allen, who ran th<
first locomotive engine ever propelled ove:
jry a track in this country, died on Tuesday o
[n(j last week at his home in Montrose, N. J.
ort at the age of 88 years. P. W. McKinnej
Jn. took the oath of office as governor of Vir
ginia on the 1st instant. Ex-Governoi
wn Lee has been elected president of the Pitts
ar_ burg and Virginia railroad. The bus
jn iness failures throught the country las
ert week number for the United States 291 ant
ntj Canada 31, a total of 322 against 288 th<
ew previous week. Two horses were killec
the an(* t^ie^r driver knocked senseless lasi
jon Friday night, in Chattanooga, by a broker
n j telephone wire that had crossed an eloetrii
wn light wire. Philmore Ball, colored
was hanged at Louisville, Ga., last Friday
jty for the murder of J. L. Evans, a whit<
p man. He confessed. The Pensacoh
ijnr Commercial reports that an English syn
the dicate has bought 750,000 acres of land ii
re. Florida at SI per acre. It is estimatec
,jy that Santa Barbara county, (Jal., contain!
:er' thirty bee farms, 2,350 hives. The out
put of honey for this year was 40,001
jty pounds. The warm weather has cos
[he the farmers of Tennessee about $350,000 ir
)rk spoiled pork; besideslosses by cholera sup
posed to be caused by keeping fatted hog
ye. too long. Congress reassembled las
?ej Monday, after a holiday recess of tw<
on# weeks. According to compilations bj
the Chicago Tribune, 175 persons wen
lynched in the United States during th<
year 1889, as compared with 144 in th<
year 1888. A bill has been introducet
f. in the Virginia legislature looking t<
J*' the re-establishment of the whippinf
^ post. Governor Itoss, of Texas, offer;
l,c $250 reward for each of the lynchers o
ow. two negroes in Angelina county on Decern
eat ber 2Gth. A masked mob rode int<
Hamilton, Ga., last Sunday morning at J
at o'clock and rescued Will Wallace, a notec
a desperado, from jail. The influenzi
epidemic is spreading through Baltimore
i and there is no abatement of the disease
1?X in Philadelphia and other Northern citiei
m" except New York, where a slight decrease
is noted. It does not seem to have made
any headway in the South. The Brit
ish minister is investigating an outrage
alleged to have been committed upoi
it Rev. T. M. Joiner, an English subject
ew while in pursuit of his ministerial calling
:ial near Ashboro, Randolph county, N. C.
ves
to ?On Saturday, at the works of Mur
in doch & Calvin, on the G., C. and N. rail
or road, near Fish Dam, Union county, Wil
} o't liam Wiley was killed by the falling of j
nei large rock and a piece of wood. At the
ml inquest it was proven that no blame coult
ike be attached to any one, but, that the de
ass ceased was careless in not getting out o
ing the way in time when he knew the rocl
ted would fall. The jury found a verdict ac
ing cordingly.
j LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
I W. C. Latimor?Grand Closing Out Sale
Thirty Days ! See Fourth Page.
) Richmond and Danville Railroad cotnpan
Change of Schedules. See Fourth Pa
A. Y. Cartwright & Co?Our Branch Housi
' Hickory Grove will be discontinued al
7 Thirty Days.
3 F. Happertield -First-Class Groceries.
, Withers Adickes?We Start the New Year.
. Mrs. T. M. Dobson, Proprietress?I Went!
f Saw !! It's So !!!
M. <fc II. G. Strauss?The Cold Winter Air.
J J. B. and A. T. Neely, Administrators of
? estate of Thos. S.#Neely, deceased?S
? of personal property.
3 T. M. Whisonant <fc Co., Hickory Grove, S.
. Dissolution of Copartnership.
1 Castles, Morehead & Co., Hickory Grove,
i C.?New Firm.
J. II. Riddle?En Route.
' John May, Jr. & Co?Gents' Furnishing Goo
W. Brown Wvlio. C. C. C. Pis. and Admir
3 trator of the estate of J. Bolton Smi
1 deceased?Administrator's Sale and I
) tice to Creditors and Debtors.
1 ACTS OP THE LEGISLATURE.
3 In this issue of The Enquirer we pt
3 lish a number of important public acts
t the last legislatuie. The acts regulati
1 the rate of interest is not operative ui
\ March 1st, 1890. Until that date contra
, may be legally made as before the passs
b of the act.
THE BOND SUITS.
The county commissioners of York eoi
r ty have gone to Charleston for the purp<
, of verifying before the clerk of the Unii
5 States court, their returns to the writs
1 the township bond suits instituted by 1
j Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Ri
. road company. The case will come up
a hearing in the court at its next term,
3 April.
THE COUNTY ALLIANCE.
y A meeting of the York County Farme
i Alliance was held in the court house 1
1 Friday. There was a full representati
" and matters of a business nature for the <
suing year were discussed, but what v
t done unaer tms neau is wunneiu in
i publication. We are permitted to si
s however, that reports from the vari<
" snb-alliances represent them to be in f
g working order and increasing in memb
ship. Rev. L. A. Johnson was elec
and installed chaplain of the alliance, v
Rev. J. L. Harley, who has removed fr
the county. The business of the meet:
1 not having been concluded last Friday,
? adjourned meeting will be held on the 1
j instant.
0 MORE HEAVY HOGS.
Reports of heavy hogs raised in Y<
^ continue to reach us. Mr. E. R. Sapo
j of Blacksburg, killed one, 27 months c
which netted 401 pounds, and two o
- year-old shotes that weighed GOO poun
? Mr. T. E. Harper, near Balloon post offl
? in the north-eastern part of the coun
] killed two hogs 18 months old, one weij
i ing 358 and the other 408 pounds net. I
e J. E. Harper, of the same neighborho
? killed a shote, of only 9 months, that n
3 ted 304 pounds. The Messrs. Harp(
j hogs were Berkshires. Mr. J. A. ltat
j ford, who lives two miles south of tov
- killed seven hogs this season, one weij
i ing 370 pounds, another 372, and five av
3 aging 230 pounds.
r IMPORTANT TO PENSIONERS.
s The secretary of State has notified l
3 pension board of each county that i
^ general assembly, at the recent session, i
t propriated fifty thousand dollars to p
. the pensioners of the Slate, one-half
3 the 15th of March, and the other half
9 the 15th of June, 1890. He requests tha
meeting of the board be called on the 21
T instant, to revise the list of the county a
[ indicate to the State board of pensions,
i March 1st, those pensioners who are fou
, to be in actual need.
3 In accordance with this request, 1
j board of pension examiners for Y<
3 county will meet in the court house on I
third Monday, 20th of this month, wli
, an applicants are requireu 10 appear
fore them and file applications for rene\
of pensions or to obtain pensions.
CHURCH NOTICES.
* Young Men's Union Prayer meeting v
. be held in the Presbyterian church*ni
Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock,
i Associate Reformed Presbyterian?R
3 J. C. Galloway, pastor. Services at Tin
nextSunday at 11.30a. m. and in Yorkv
p at 7 p. m. Sunday-school at 3 p. m.
s Episcopal?Rev. K. S. Nelson, past
Morning service on next Sunday at
3 o'clock. Sunday-school at 3.30 p.
* Evening service as announced at morni
3 service.
Baptist?Rev. R. G. Patrick, past
Prayer-meeting to-morrow evening a
; o'clock. Services next Sunday at 11 a.
and 7 p. m. Sunday-school at 9.30 a. in
Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, p
tor. Prayer-meeting to-morrow even;
at 7 o'clock. Sunday-school at 3 p. m.
1 Methodist Episcopal?Rev. G. H. W
dell, pastor. Prayer-meeting this even
f at 7 o'clock. Services next Sunday at
s a.m. and7p.m. Sunday-schoola^3p.
1 THE IS03I WILL CASE,
i For several months a case has b<
* pending in the probate court involvi
he troliHiftr nf Iho last. will flnH t.Pfitflmi
of James W. Isom, deceased, who li\
. in the eastern part of York county. I
a Isom had been married twice, havi
i children by his first wife, but none by
1 second wife surviving him, who is I
| mother of children by a former husbai
j In the disposition of his property, it v
c willed to his wife "to be disposed of as i
3 might choose." The children by the fi
r wife petitioned the probate court to
3 quire the will to be proved iu solei
f form, the purpose being to have thequ
tion tried whether, as claimed by the ]
j titioners, the testator was of insufficii
- mind to make a will, and whether or l
r his wife had used undue influence to
| cure the will in manner and form as wi
t ten.
] Testimony was taken last summer
3 fore the probate judge in Yorkvillc, a
1 also at an adjourned hearing in Re
Hill, and it was agreed by counsel to si
1 mit the case without argument.
On yesterday Probate Judge McCorl
' announced his decision, which sustains I
3 validity of the will.
1 Fin ley & Brice and C. E. Spencer i
peared for the petitioners, and Wilson
j Wilson & McDow for the will.
3 SALES DAY.
j There was a large attendance of peo
t in town on-Monday last, sales-day for Ji
i uary. To come to town on January sal
- day is a good old custom from which <
? people are loth to depart, whether the
traction be to purchase property under 1
j auctioneer's hammer, to sell, swap or b
3 horses and mules, to perfect arrangeme
3 for the coming year, or merely as a c
' interested spectator to observe the mo
1 ments of the crowd. The bidding on pr?
\ erty was not spirited, which, howev
3 may be attributed to circumstances unc
f which it was sold, and the prices obtain
- should not be regarded as a test of t
3 value of York county lands. The folic
I log was sold by the clerk of the court:
l Under order of foreclosure, at the s
of the Scottish-American Mortgage co
3 pany vs. Charles M. Green; two tra(
9 No. 1, containing 2494 acres, bought
3 Hart & Hart, attorneys, at $2 per ac
I No. 2, containing 318 acres, bought by II
3 & Hart, attorneys, at $2 per acre,
i Under order of foreclosure, at the s
, of James F. Hart, executor, vs. T. Mil
' Gwin; two tracts on Susybole creek. I
I, containing 113 acres, bought by El
Inman for $115. No. 2, containing I
acres, bought by J. F. Hart, executor,
! $275.
i Under decretal order, for partiti
3 among the heirs of Joseph Smith, dece
* ed, at the suit of S. C. Smith vs. It. L.
j Smith and others, tract of 167 acres
c Broad River township. Bought by M.
. Nichols for $100.
Under decretal order, at the suit of Ni
cy J. McGinnas and others vs. Mary C.
Beamguard and others, for partition
among the heirs of John J. McGinnas,
for deceased, tract of 140 acres, known as the
y? John Watson tract. Resold at the risk of
ge. the former purchaser. Bought by W. B.
^ McCaw, attorney, for $000.
As agent of the heirs and as administrator,
D. J. Smith sold the following t
I property belonging to the estate of 1). *
Chesterfield McKinney, deceased : H
the A tract of 168 acres, being tract No. 40 1
ule on Map B of the King's Mountain Iron 1
company lands. Bought by N. W. Har- J
c'> din at $1.00 per acre. , '
T _ i. ___.il. 1L_ _.U lUn.Ani, ?
g. .LjOI, will] mtj (.'Ullage UIUIUUII, nnuaicu t
on the south side of Lime street, in the ,
d town of Blacksburg, containing one acre. s
ii8- Bought by N. W. Ilardin for $325.
th, Lot of one-fourth acre, with the cottage
*?" thereon, on the corner of Lime and Shelby (
streets, in the town of Blacksburg. {
Bought by N. W. Ilardin for $450.
Store house and lot containing one- *
eighth acre, fronting on Shelby street, in ,
nP the town of Blacksburg. Bought by John
M. Guy ton for $405.
cts . v
ige v><^ERSONAL MENTION.
Mrs. W. J. Thackston returned from <
Greenville yesterday. t
Mrs. M. E. Minter is visiting her son, <
Jn" Mr. J. B. Minter, in Charlotte. t
vMiss Willie Miller, of Rock Hill, is vis.
iting Miss Minnie Wilson. (
*n Mr. J. A. Darwin left here on last Mon- j
..e day on a business trip to Tennessee. t
*l " Mr. Charles Webb and wife, of Shelby, J
?r N. C., are in Yorkville, visiting relatives. ,
in o W. B. McCaw, Esq., has about recovered f
from his recent illness, and is on the street. 1
Mrs. Sidney Nail and children, of Ches- t
!r8' ter, are in Yorkville, visiting friends and
a3* relatives. }
on, j Mr. J. H. B. Jenkins, of Gastonia, came
en- down on Monday and will remain for sev- ]
vas eral days. j
om V Dr. Sumter Lowry, of Palatka, Florida, j
iy, is on a brief visit to his relatives and j
ous friends in Yorkville. {
ine Mr. W. M. Stephenson, of Monticello, 1
er- Arkansas, is visiting relatives in the Phil- '
ted adelphia section of this county. j
ice >Dr. George Walker, has gone to Phila- <
om delphia for the purpose of consulting au- J
ing thorities on intricate chronic disease under
ftn his treatment. I
4th wSales-day attracted a goodly representa- 1
tion from Blacksburg, among whom were
Dr. John G. Black, Major A. Urquhart, '
Dr. T. B. Whitesides, Col. John L. Black,
cjj N. W. Hardin, Esq., and other prominent
,1^' citizens of that growing town.
ne^fMr. R. Speight McLean, a native of
ljg< Yorkville, who left our town about eleven
ce years ago, is now here on a visit. When ,
lyj he left York v.Mic, he had but little more I
than arrived at man's estate. He says he !
has seen much of the world since his de- <
0(j' parture from here, but is now located at '
iet* Burneyville, Chickasaw Nation, Indian ,
;r8> Territory, where he is engaged in raercan- i
ch_ tile business. / !
Vn, LOCAL LACONICS. /
jh- Green Wedington, colored, was locked ]
or. im in iflil locf ftnnrlav mominor nn ft nnm. i
mitment for grand larceny.
A called meeting of the Woman's
[l,e Christian Temperance Union will be held
tbe at 4 o'clock this afternoon.
ap_ The Chester and Ler.oir railroad author)ay
ities have completed a side track from the
on main line to the 9poke and handle factory.
on Elijah Sutton, colored, had a hearing
t a before Intendant Hunter, the other day,
3th on a charge of violating the ordinance pro<n(j
hibiting the sale of liquor, and was fined
by $25, or thirty days in the guardhouse.
ncl He appealed to a full board of the town
council, who, after hearing the case, retl,e
duced the fine to $15, which was paid.
)rh Sutton was subsequently arrested by Unitthe
ed States authorities and bound over for
ien trial.
Two very nice organs have been received
val for the new Methodist church?one of
heavy tone, to be'used in the church service,
and the other, a smaller instrument,
to be placed in the Sunday-school room, i
all To the exertions of Mr. Frank A. Gilbert i
.. it? ?;n u_ '
?xi me congregauuu win ue iuucuicu iui mis (
fine acquisition to their new church edi- i
ev. fice. The building is nearing completion, '
:ah and it is the expectation to dedicate it in J
ille about one month from this time.
Notwithstanding the large number of
or. persons who were in town last Monday,
11 the quietness and good order which prem.
vailed throughout the day were especially
ing noticeable. A gentleman who has lived
here forty years says it was the most quiet
;or. public day he ever witnessed in Yorkville. i
t 7 Not a police arrest was made during the
day, though three, of white and colored
' citizens of the town, were made after
' night.
as- While colder weather than has been
ing known for years, and blizzards and snow
storms prevail in the North and West, inad
volving loss of life, damage to property
. and detriment to business, the weather
here is of pleasant, autumnal tem perature.
11 So warm has the winter generally been
m. that vegetation seems almost not to have
been blighted, and in some instances fruit
trees have bloomed. Ripe and fully majen
tured strawberries were taken from a garj0g
dentin town the other day. <
eut / MEDICAL ASSOCIATION,
fed The regular meeting of the York County |
dr. Medical and Surgical Association was (
ing held in Bratton's hall on Monday last, Dr. (
his J. Rufus Bratton, president, in the chair. <
the The secretary, Dr. R. Andral Bratton, \
ad. called the roll of members, and the followvas
ing answered to their names: J. R. Bratshe
ton, T. W. Campbell, T. R. C'arothers, T. A.
rst Crawford, T. L. Corn well, Wm. A. Hood,
re- J. p. Kennedy, W. M. Love, Jno. P. Lindran
say, John May, Sen., Alex. Mack, E. W. !
les- Pressley, T. S. R. Ward, W. G. White, R. ]
pe- Andral Bratton. 1
3nt The minutes of the last meeting were ]
not read and confirmed. <
se- The essayists appointed at the last ]
rit- meeting were continued until the next, j
viz.: Dr. J. P. Kennedy, Dr. Miles J. t
be- Walker. Alternates, Dr. Alex. Mack, *
.nd Dr. George Walker.
>ck The committee on by-laws reported and 3
ub- their report was accepted. By order of <
the society, the committee was continued !
kle until their report is published. j
the On motion, a committee was appointed 1
to draft resolutions in regard to the re- j
ip- striction upon physicians in prescribing s
& whisky. *
The committee, consisting of T. W. t
Campbell, K. W. Pressley and J. P. Ken- i
. nedy, submitted their report, whleh, upon [
p amendment is as follows : c
IDResolvod,
by the Medical Association of York a
G8- county, that the act of the legislature forbid- c
jur ding the prescribing or giving away of whisky t
flf. by physicians to bona tide patients to be an i
7*~ unjust and illegal restriction upon the rights of c
the physicians holding diplomas from regularly
my chartered colleges, anu detrimental to the best
interest ot patients who really need said drug. (
.. The names of Dr. Isaac A. Biggers, of
1 Clay Hill, and Dr. J. T. Darwin, of Blacks- ?
burg, were proposed for membership and j
unanimously elected. a
jer' Dr. E. W. Pressley gave notice of a mo- c
^ tion to be submitted at the next meeting, 3
Sr. . tha nbnncrp nf nlaoe and time of c
he Vi^. . I o r
meeting of the association.
'w~ Several cases of an interesting nature to
., the profession were reported, among them
U1 one by Dr. W. M. Love of extra uteriue
m - # #
>tg pregnancy, with presentation of specimen;
'. ' also, a case of placenta previa.
y Dr. T. R. Carothers reported a case of rere|
covery from poisoning, a teaspoonful of
ar strychnia sulph. having been mistaken by
., the person finding it in the road, for quinine.
The recovery was suggested by a
^0r member, after hearing the report, to be a
. * clinching proof of predestination.
Dr. T. A. Crawford reported a case of
for ovar'an cyst> recovery.
The meeting adjourned until the first
0Q Monday in April.
as-!
A. I ?Col. J. H. Averill has resigned his poI
' f sition as superintendent of the South Caro- c
.p j lina railway and gone to Macon, to take
charge as superintendent of the main line
of the Central railroad of Georgia between t
in- Atlauta and Savannah. 1 c
NEW LAWS OF THE STATE.
ACTS PASSED AT THE LATE SESSION OF
TllE LEGISLATURE.
FARM I NO OUT CONVICTS.
\.n Act to amend the law in regard to the
leasing and hiring out of convicts and to provide
for the purchase of a State farm or farms
and the employment of the convicts thereon.
Section I. That tho hoard of directors of
he State penitentiary be, anil they aro hereby
inthorized and empowered, to purchase out of
lie surplus oarningsof the penitentiary, a suitible
farm or farms, to be worked anil planted
>y convicts under the superintondency of said
>oard of directors: Provided that the price
>aid therefor shall not exceed forty thousand
lollars. And tho said board is authorized to
etain in its hands and apply to such purchase
ill surplus money received by it from the opc ations
of said institution during the past fiscal
rear: Provided, farther, that no farm or farms
ihall be purchased in which said directors,
>r any of them, shall or may be directly or
ndirectly interested.
Section 2. That no contracts for the hiring
)r leasing of convicts to be employed in phos>hate
mining shall hereafter be made by said
x>ard of directors.
Section 3. That said farm provided for in
section 1 shall have sufficient elevation to present
the same from floods and overflows as
lear as practicable.
Approved December 23, 188!).
THK i'ARE ON COTTON.
Vn Act to amend Section 1,195 of the General
Statutes, relating to tare on bales of cotton.
Section 1. That Section 1,195 of the General
Statutes, relating to tare on bales of cotton, be,
ind the same hereby is, amended by striking
jut the whole of said section and inserting the
'ollowing in lieu thereof, so that said section,
is amended, shall read as follows :
Section 1,195. The custom of making a deluction
from the actual weight of bales of unnanufactured
cotton as an allowance for breakige
or draft thereon, is abolished; and all contacts
made in relation to such cotton shall be
leemed and taken as referring to the true and
ictual weight thereof without deduction ; and
30 tare shall be deducted from the weight of
luch bales of cotton except the actual weight of
he bagging and ties used in balingsaid cotton.
Section 2. That this Act shall take effect from
ind after the 1st day of September, 1800.
Section 3. That all Acts or parts of Acts in
:onllict, or inconsistent with the provisions of
his Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
\nd whenever it shall be agreed between the
trnyer and seller to deduct tare on cotton bales
,t shall be as follows : For bales of cotton covsred
with seven yards of standard cotton bagging
and six iron ties, the actual tare shall be,
md is hereby, fixed at sixteen pounds, and for
jales of cotton covered with seven yards of
standard jute bagging and six iron ties, the
ictual tare shall be, and is hereby, fixed at
;wenty-four pounds; and when buyer and
seller agree to sell at net weight, and when
bales of cotton are covered with seven yards
}f standard cotton bagging and six iron ties,
;he actual tare shall be, and is hereby fixed at
sixteen pounds ; and when bales of cotton are
covered with seven yards of standard jute bagging
and six iron ties, the actual tare shall be,
ind is hereby fixed at twenty-four pounds.
THE RATE OF INTEREST.
An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to
amend Section 1,288 of the General Statutes,
regulating the rate of interest upon any contract
arising in this State for the hiring,
lending or use of money or other commodity,"
approved December 21, 1882.
Section 1. That Section 1 of an Act entitled
'An Act to amend Section 1,288 of the Generxl
Statues, regulating the rate of interest upon
my contract arising in this State for the hiring,
lending or use of money or other commodity,"
ipproved December 21, 1882, be and the same
is hereby, amended by striking out the word
"ten" where it appears in said section and inserting
in lieu thereof the word "jeight," so
lhat section, when amended, shall read as follows:
"Section 1. That Section 1,288 of the
General Statutes be, and the same is hereby,
amended by inserting after the word commodity,
on the third line of said section, the following
words, to wit. "Except upon written
contracts, wherein, by express agreement,
i rate of interest not exceeding eight per cent,
may be charged." So that said section, when
Lhus amended, shall read as follows: 'No
greater rate of interest than seven per centum
per annum shall be charged, taken, agreed
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this State for the hiring, lending or use of
money or other commodity, except upon written
contracts wherein, by express agreement
i rate of interest not exceeding eight per cent,
may be charged. No person or corporation
lending or advancing money or other commodity
upon a greater rate of interest shall bo allowed
to recover in any court of this State any
portion of the interest so unlawfully charged;
ind the principal sum, amount or value so
lent or aavanced, without any interest, shall
be deemed and taken by the courts of this
State to be the true legal debts or measure oi
Jamages to all intents and purposes whatsoever,
to be recovered without cost.'" Provided
that the provisions of this Act shall not apply
to contracts or agreements entered intc
jr discounts or arrangements made prior to the
first of March 1890.
WORKING CONVICTS ON THE STREETS.
An Act to authorize and empower certain incorporated
town in the State of South Carolina
to substitute hard labor on their streets
for tine and imprisonment in cases of misdemeanor
which come under their jurisdiction.
Section I. That all incorporated towns in
the State of South Carolina of three hundred
inhabitants or more are hereby authorized and
ampowered to substitue hard labor on their
streets for tine and imprisofiment, in cases ol
misdemeanor which come under theirjurisiiction:
Provided, that in no case shall such
sentence to hard labor exceed a term of thirty
days, unless otherwise provided by law.
. Section 2. That this Act shall take effect
from and immediately after the date of its approval.
Approved December 23, 1889.
REGULATING WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
An Act to provide a punisment for making use
of false scales, weights or measures in buying
or selling.
Section 1. That any person or persons who
shall knowingly make use of any scales,
weights or measures which fail to conform to
the standard thereof prescribed by law, in
buying or selling any goods, wares, merchandise
or other article, shall be deemed guilty ol
a misdemenor, and upon conviction shall be
fined in a sum of not more than one hundred
dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail
for a period not exceeding thirty days.
Approved December 23,1889.
TIIK HOMESTEAD LAW.
An Act to amend Section 1998 of the General
Statutes, relating to the alienation of homestead.
Section 1. That Section 1,998 be amended so
that the same shall read as follows:
"Section 1,998. No waiver of the right oi
homestead, however solemn, made by the head
of a family at any time prior to the assignment
of the homestead, shall defeat the homestead
provided for in this chapter: Provided, however,
that no right of homestead shall exist or
be allowed in any property, real or personal,
aliened or mortgaged, either before or after
assignment, by any person or pesons whomsoever,
as against the title or claim of the alienee
or mortgagee or his heir, or their heirs or assigns."
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Approved December 24, 1889.
LA 110R CONTRACTS.
An Act to amend Section 2084, Title VI I., Chapter
LXXVIII., of General Statutes of this
State, relating to labor contracts.
Section 1. That Section 2084 of the General
statutes of this State, relating to violation of
contracts, be, and the same is hereby, amended
by striking out said section and inserting in
lieu thereof the following: "Section 2084.
Whenever such contract or contracts are violated,
or attempted to be violated or broken,
whenever fraud is practiced or attempted to be
practiced, by either party to such contract or
contracts, at any time before the conditions of
:he same are fulfilled and the parties released
^herefrom, either in keeping any account or
iccounts between him, her, or them, and the
ithor party or parties to such contracts, or in
,he division of the crop or crops, or the paynent
of money or other valuable consideration,
>r if it bo a disinterested party chosen to make
i division or divisions of crops hereinbefore
provided, he, sho, or they shall be liable to
prosecution as for a misdemeanor, or in failing
wilfully and without just cause to givethe labor
easonably required of him, her, or them by the
erms of such contract, or in other respects
ihall refuse to comply with the conditions of
inch contract or contracts, or shall fraudulently
nake use of or carry away from the place where
he crop or crops he, she, or they may be worKng
are planted, any portion of said crop or
;rops, or anything connected therewith or beonging
thereto, such person or persons so
>ffeuding shall bo guilty of a misdemeanor,
md upon conviction, bo punished by imprismment
of not less than thirty days nor more
ban two years, or by a tine not less than $25
lor more than $.">00, in the discretion of the
ourt.
LETTER FROM ULACKSTOCK.
'orreitponilt'iice of the Yorkvillu Enquirer.
Blackstock, January <5.?The new year doos
tot find our people, especially the merchants,
n as good spirits as could be desired. Crops
lave been short and collections bad ; but wo
ire all looking forward hopefully to the future,
md expect to do what we can to make this
rear a prosperous and happy one.
The business of the late J. E. Johnston was
ilosed up by a sale on the 23rd of December,
he entire stock of merchandise having been
joughtby Mr. Alex. Macdonald and Mrs.S. E.
limpson.
The entertainment given by the ladies' so:iety
of the Presbyterian church, in the acadeny
during the holidays, was quite a success,
ind a very nice little sum 01 money wasreuized
thereby. Some choice vocal music was
endered during the evening, and our cornet
land made its first public appearance on this
iccasion.
Mr. T. H. Sponce, of the firm of Spence A
iValker, sold out his share in the business to
dr. Thomas Walker, a younger brother of his
lartDer, and has gone to Lancaster to take a
lituation in a buggy and wagon building esablishmont
there. Mr. Spence has many
varm friends in Blackstock who dislike very
nuch to give him up, but we are all glad to
tnow that his business prospects arc so bright
n his new home.
The exercises of tho Blackstock academy
vere resumed on Thursday last, Mr. Dick
laying come back into our midst, accompanied
iy his bride, on tho day before.
Miss Marshall, of Columbia, is now the guest
if Miss Sallie Simpson.
? About fifty families of negroes, num>ering
between 125 and 150, left Newberry
:ounty last Thursday for Palestine, Texas.
ALLIANCE TOPICS.
? A certificate of charter has been issued
by the .Secretary of State for the incorporation
of the Newberry Alliance Warehouse
Company of Prosperity. A president and
secretary and treasurer have been elected
and more than twenty percent, of the capital
stock subscribed has been paid in.
? The Kansas Farmers' Alliance, the
State Grange and the Knights of Labor
have formed and offensive and defensive
Alliance according to the recommendation
of the recent Farmers' convention and the
Knight's of Labor convention. The object
of the combination is co-operation in
Kansas business and politics. The combined
Alliance numbers in its ranks over
125,000 members.
? From the Columbia Register we learn
that at the meeting of the Richland Farmer's
Alliance, on Friday, among the matters
attended to was the decision as to the
stores to be given the patronage of the alliance.
Bids from many of the prominent
business houses of the city are understood
to have been received. It was decided to
award contracts for trade in boots and shoes,
hardware, etc., and groceries, which were
nriiron tn rloa lor?j i n t hp rPSnPPf i ve 11 neS. A
decision as to fertilizers'^is to be made
latter.
? At a meeting of the Spartanburg Alliance,
last Friday, the building of a cotton
seed oil mill was determined on, and N.
F. Walker was made chairman of the canvassing
committee to raise thirty thousand
dollars stock. The committee consists of
one member from each of the sixty-two
county sub-alliances. While the success
of the undertaking will depend on the taking
of stock by individuals, no doubt is
felt that the stock will be readily placed
and that the mill is assured. It will be
located at Spartanburg.
? At the meeting of the Greenville County
Farmers' Alliance, last Friday, a committee
was appointed to submit plans for
the establishment of a co-operative cotton
seed oil mill in Greenville, on the joint
stock plan, similar to the State exchange.
Resolutions were adopted looking to the
establishment of a general supply store in
Greenville. The organization is also considering
the advisability of building a
warehouse for its use. An informal dis,
cussion of the matter of buying guano and
supplies for the year was had, and the prevailing
sentiment was that the joint note
and cash plan is the best.
? Of the Spartanburg Alliance, the correspondent
of the News and Courier says:
Our County Alliance held their first meeting
of the year on Friday. The attendance
was not as full as it was at some of
the meetings last summer. They did not
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There was some difference of opinion on
that subject. It was finally agreed to refer
the matter to Mr. M. L. Donaldson,
the State business agent, and get his report
by the next meeting, which is on the 20th
instant. One plan is to purchase all the
guano through the State agent. One
objection to this plan is that it is too late
in the season to inaugurate it. The farmers
want their acid phosphate by the first
of February. If they wait until the whole
1 State can agree as to the kinds to be used,
the roads will be blocked with freight and
some of them will get behind. The Alliance
m6n of our county will use about
, 4,000 tons this year, and if they can save
only five dollars on a ton, that will be a
great help to them. They also appointed
a committee to consider the practicability
of establishing a cotton seed oil mill.
? A. B. Brassell, the State alliance lecturer
for Alabama, recently delivered a public
speech, in which he advised the farmers
to attend the meetings and primaries,
and then, if necessary, to work for and
- elect men to public offices who can be depended
on to carry out the principles of
, the alliance, independent of the Democratic
or Republican parties. The aliiance
men, as a rule, will oppose an independent
political movement, which would
mean the grave for Democracy and white
supremacy. The Democratic leaders will
, make a desperate effort to prevent any dii
vision of the white vote. Many allinance
i men declare they will leave the order rather
than follow an independent political
; movement. The next State Democratic
convention will he held next ADril and the
] election in August following. There are
> four avowed Democratic candidates for
governor and doubtless there will be several
others in the field before the conven.
tion meets. In view of the situation, the
Alabama delegates to the recent Alliance
1 convention at St. Louis, have issued an
address to the alliances of Allabamaassuringthem
that nothing in the resolution
adopted there is intended to influence their
action as to party. The address also ur
ges the Democratic Alliance men to stand
? by the Democratic party, and concludes
by declaring that none of the delegates vo[
ted or endorsed that plank by which it
was agreed that no man should be support;
ed for office "who could not be depended
on to enact those principles into statute
laws uninfluenced by party caucus." This
caucus plank had become the leading issue
in Alabama national politics.
/ SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Three negro prisoners, charged with
burglary and larceny, escaped from the
I Walhalla jail last Wednesday night.
?The Hessian fly has appeared in count;
less swarms in upper llichland county,
and much damage is feared to the growing
1 oats and wheat.
~?The negroes are leaving Williamsburg
county by the hundreds for the turpentine
farms of Georgia. Soliciting agents are
numerous and untiring.
SUThe Columbia Register says: The law
prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors?enacted
by the last legislature?will
1 go into effect the loth of February.
? The colored State fair, which closed in
Columbia last Saturday, though not a prononounced
success, was creditable to the
colored people in their first attempt to
make a display of their farm products and
stock.
? The short businesss-like session of tho
South Caralina legislature, just adjourned,
is being generally commended all over
the land. The New York Tribune declares
that if legislative sessions in the North
were as brief as this, not much would be
heard in favor of biennial gatherings of
the Legislatures.
. Jpz- In the case of Isabella Lee et al. vs. R.
W. Simpson, executor of the estate of
' Thomas G. Clemson, which is to be carried
up on appeal to the full bench of the
supreme court, the counsel were allowed
ninety days in which to submit argument.
This period would expire January 12th,
but by mutual agreement the time has
been extended and argument will be
submitted late in January or the first of
February.
? In reference to Congressman Cothran's
resignation, the Abbeville Press and Banner,
published at his home, says: While
we are not authorized to speak for him,
the current opinion hereabout is that
Judge Cothran will not, .?sign his seat in
congress immediately, and possibly he
may serve out his term. The probability
is that there will be no election for congressman
before the usual primary elec
tions, which are held previous to the general
elections. Candidates may therefore
keep themselves in running trim for the
summer election.
? two muruers were reporceu irom mrlington
county on the 1st instant. On the
28th of December, Aleck Easterling, colored,
while sitting in hisdiningroom with
his family, was shot dead through an open
door. The assassin escaped. On the following
day, George Windham, aged 18
years, white, and RobertGrandy, aged 17,
colored, got into a drunken quarrel in a
wagon in which they were returning from
a neighboring town. Windham stabbed
Grandy to the heart, drove home, tin
imcneu me norses ana men ilea, leaving
the body in the wagon, where it was found
next day.
? Governor Richardson has commuted
to imprisonment for life in the penitentiary
two murderers who were sentenced to
be hanged on Friday next. One is Lafayette
Woods, colored, of Sumter county,
who was convicted at the last term of
court there of the murder of his stepson,
James Gethers, a lad 7 years old. The
charge was that he whipped the boy so
severely on the 24th of August last that
the lad died from the effects the night following.
Woods was sentenced by Judge
Witherspoon to be hanged December 13,
1889, but a respite was granted and his execution
was postponed until Friday next.
The other case is that of Calvin Clyburn,
colored, of Lancaster county, who at the
last term of court there was convicted of
the murder of Anderson Mcllwain and
sentenced by Judge Pressley to be hanged
on January 10. The circumstances of the
killing were that at a church meeting called
to try Clyburn and a woman named
Letha Bush for wrong-doing, and at which ,
both were expelled, Clyburn got into
an altercation with Mcllwain, the woman's
father, and the lie was passed. Mcllwain
raised a stick to hit Clyburn and
the latter shot him. Self-defense was the
plea put up, but it was not thought to be
sustained.