Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, January 22, 1890, Image 2

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Scraps and .facts. ? Elihu C. Moore, a prominent merchant and liquor dealer of Huttonville, Randolph county, W. Va., poisoned himself, and died in great agony last Thursday. Moore had a large quantity of cheap wine which he dosed with dyes to make it resemble whisky. Before selling it he determined to drink some himself, to ascertain the effect. The poison in the dyes killed him in a few hours. ? Walker Blaine, the second son of Secretary Blaine, and solicitor of claims in the State department, died in Washington last Wednesday night of pneumo- j nia, after an illness of only three days, j His disease at first took the form of bron-' chial catarrh, of which he was supposed | to be recovering. It turned into pneumonia the day before his death. He was aged 35 years, and was very popular with all classes of people in Washington. He , was buried last Saturday. ? id nis cnarge 10 iue grauu juiy at . Durham, N. C., last week, Judge Armfield, of the superior court, dwelt on the matter of trusts. He read the statute on that question and told the jury that a reSort had come to him that a firm in that tate had combined with non-resident firms for the purpose of lowering the price of certain grades of tobacco, by parcelling - out certain markets to each firm, and instructed the grand jury to investigate the matter fully. ? A bill has been introduced in the house of representatives by Mr. Bingham for markiDg the battle positions of the Army of Northern Virginia, at Gettysburg, appropriating $31,000 for the purpose. The bill provides for marking with tablets the positions occupied by the Confederates, for the identification and purchase of land and avenues for the positions occupied by troops aloDg these lines, for the construction of drive ways, etc., 24 miles in length, and for determining the positions of the various commands as they were formed for battle. ? The somewhat celebrated case of Pickelsimer vs. Bichmond and Danville railroad, was decided at Danville, Va., last Thursday. in favor of Dlaintlff. giving him $13,000 damages for iDjuries received while on a train. He was traveling on a freight train with a load of cattle and fell from a . boxcar receiving serious injuries. The case had been pending for six years, and this was the second trial. In the former trial plaintiff got a verdict for $10,000. The case went to the supreme court and a new trial was granted. This time he gets the old verdict, with five years' interest added. ? A Springfield, Illinois, dispatch says that as an outcome of the long trial in Chicago of the murderers of Dr. Cronin, the Illinois Bar association has declared in favor of a radical reform of the jury system of that State. The association declared itself in favor of a law making the verdict of two-thirds of a jury legal in civil cases; in criminal cases the defendant to be acquitted unless two-thirds of the jury return a verdict of guilty, and that the death penalty be not inflicted unless ; tbe jury is unanimous in its verdict. A committee was appointed to draft a bill for presentation to the legislature. -Ex-President Cleveland says he has not requested Congressman Mills to reply to Mr. Blaine's protective article in the January number of the North American Review, but he hopes the report is true that Mr. Mills is preparing such an article. Mr. Cleveland says his pressing business engagements will prevent him from writing anything on the subject at present, though he does not think Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Blaine have exhausted the subject. He thinks the agitation of the question of tariff reform will be beneficial, as the more it is discussed the better informed the public would become in regard to the real merits of the controversy. ? At San Antonio, Texas, while workmen were excavating the central Alamo plaza, with the object of preparing the ground for a park, they turned up several copper cannon balls and a number I of half decayed human bones. The place I is within fifty yard3 of the famous struct- t ure which was the death place of Crockett c AM/1 nrtTviA r\f iho Kollo arc auu jduwiC) auu ouuiu ui tuu uauo ??v x flattened from having been fired against the stone wall, and, indeed, the venerable <3 building bears their scars. The bones are f those of Mexican soldiers who fell in the fray, some of whom were buried. The f bodies of the massacred Americans were t all burned up.. The relics have been taken , In by curiosity seekers. r ? Coughlin, Burke and O'Sullivan, three t of the prisoners found guilty of the mur- c der of Dr. Cronin in Chicago, have been d refused a new trial, and on Wednesday p they were transferred to the penitentiary j at Joliet. On their arrival there, Burke was sent to the cooper shop, Coughlin to 8 the stone cutter's shop and O'Sullivan to the shoe shop. A new trial was granted J to John Kunze, another of the convicts, fi and he was admitted to bail in $5,000 r which was furnished by a dime museum ? manager, who signed Kunze's bond, and the little German, in return for the favor, 1 will appear on exhibition at the museum, k It is not all likely that the State's attorney t will prosecute Kunze again. a ? In his address, John Marshall Stone, a the newly inaugurated governor of Missis- a sippl, made special reference to the reun- . ion next May at Vicksburg, of the "Blue 1 and Gray." The Governor expressed the e wish that hearty co-operation be given the t movement. He said the veterans of the t opposing force had long since laid down their arms, and were now following peace- ( ful avocations, and desire continued peace and friendship. He expressed the belief c mat congress wuuiu uoi puss ouuuaiuuc election laws to apply to the South, be- t cause of lack of endorsement from the v southern people. He recommended t strongly the abolishment of the present f convict-leasing system, and proposed that \ convicts be employed by the State on State 1 farms. r ? The real work of the census office will 1 begin in the month of June, when the t enumeration of the population of the United States will be made by visits from house to house. The facts thus secured will be arranged in Washington and made ^ public as soon as possible. The collection of manufacturing and other branches of ^ the census will proceed without regard to J the population figures. Secretary Noble 1 is busily engaged in examining the papers a in connection with the appointment of the supervisors of the census. Of the 175 su- . 1 pervisors provided for by the census act, quite a large number have been practical- 8 ly decided on, and it is tho intention of * the secretary to make his recommenda- j tions to the president next week in eight j or ten States. Others will follow as rapid- ] ly as is consistent with the importance of the positions to be filled. 1 ? A dispatch from Huntington, W. Va., says: Rev. J. W. Johnson, of the M. E. church, South, died in Huntington a few * mornings ago from the result of a most pe- I culiarand unusual accident. On Friday t evening preceding his death, in company g with Rev. M. F. Marshall, of the Episcopal church, Mr. Johnson was being ini- . tiated into the Royal Arch degree of the J local Masonic chapter. During the cere- 8 mony it was necessary to descend into a a pit thirteen feet deep by means of a rope susDended from the ceiling of the lodge r room. Mr. Marshall descended in safety, ' but while Mr. Johnson was suspended : over the pit the rope broke and he fell to ] the bottom. He was at once conveyed to i his home and his injuries did not appear r to be serious, but he steadily grew worse t and his physician was unable to save his a life. ? The supreme court of North Carolina . has filed an opiuion in the notable capital case of J. J. Boyle, a priest of the Roman f Catholic church, who was convicted at i Raleigh of rape upon Geneva Whitaker, a j young girl who was the organist at his j church. The opinion is by Chief Justice _ Merriman, and gives Boyle a new trial. The court holds that there was an error in 1 the judge's charge in the superior court in f failing to sufficiently and plainly state the c evidence given and explain the law aris- ii ing thereon. The judge should have call- j ed the jury's attention to the evidence as { to the place where the alleged rape was committed and the presence of persons 0 near the house who heard no outcry from t the girl, and the fact that afterward she joined her companions without telling a them she had been outraged. c ? The Iowa legislature is still deadlock- c ed as respects the house. The senate is Republican, but the house is half and half? 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans. * The latter body is unable to organize or do anything but adjourn. The Democrats would be willing, it seems, to compromise c on a division of the offices, but the Re- > publicans want them all. In the State s senate much interest is felt in the fate of c Mr. Allison, whoso friends want him re- fl elected to the United States. The Repub- e lican majority in that body is small and ii uncertain as respects Allison. There are n formidable competitors. Senator Allison's p excessive yielding to the tariff tax-eaters of I $ y he east has iojured him with the farmers )f Iowa. He used to be a pretty strong tariff reformer, but has gone down hill with the r )ther so-called leaders. He is responsible , br the odious form of the senate tariff sill that is to be the basis of the next tax < neasure. It is not improbable that the 1 vacillating senator will be allowed an opportunity to study the tariff at home t unong its victims. ? Letters recently received in St. Louis t oy W. L. Eagleson, business manager of i the Oklahoma Immigration Society in 1 Kansas, from points in North Carolina, ? jay that a large number of negroes of that J State are going through in wagons this winter to the new Territory. Eagleson . says there are now about 22,000 negroes in Oklahoma, and that by spring there will be at least 50,000. He claims they . merht to have that country and says that ; President Lincoln and the Republican j party promised to give it to them. He i idds: "We are determined to take it myhow, and we will make it one of the . grandest in the Union. I favor Col. Mor- 1 ?an's scheme to purchase the Cherokee * Strip and other lands in the Indian Terri- e tory, exclusively for the negro settlement. < Grive us a Blair bill, Indian Territory, and c Senator Butler's $5,000,000, and we shall i i>e content. Oklahoma, in my judgment, j is the land of promise for the race, and * migration the panacea for every ill now ( iffecting the negroes of the South." t Ike forferille ; YORKVILLE, S. C. : < WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22,1890. THE CLEMSON WILL CASE. J The board of trustees of the Clemson t Agricultural and Mechanical college will j bold their first meeting, for the purpose of t organization, in Columbia to-day. This ( will be the first assembling of the entire 1 ooard as completed by the election of 6ix { rustees by the last general assembly, who, { with the seven named in the will of Mr. . Clemson, will have the management of the oew institution. It is understood that 1 here is little to be done at the meeting I o-day except the organization of the j >oard by the election of a president and 1 lecretary. The board is composed of the ( ollowing, the first seven names being those ^ >f the trustees appointed by the Clemson 1 will: R. W. Simpson, D. K. Norris, J. E. f 3radley, M. L. Donaldson, B. R. Tillman, t * n r T T t. ill. ooweu, J. Jii. nuuuuiiia&ci^ u. u. . )rr, B. W. Edwards, J. E. Tindall, E. T. e backhouse, Allan Johnstone and T. H. J lardin. s } The ease of Isabella Lee vs. R. W. r limpson, executor, is still pending in the c Jnited States supreme court, and counsel t in both sides appeared before that tribunal i ast Monday on a motion to have the case * dvanced on the docket, and a date set H or a hearing at the present term, for the eason, as urged by Attorney-General [ Carle, that if this be not done, the moneys r ppropriated by the general assembly will ? ie idle in the treasury of the State and the c ilans for the establishment of the college r >e disturbed. 1 , t , r THE JOINER CASE. J Rev. I. N. Joiner, who complains to the J British minister at Washington, as a ? British subject, that he and his wife were j ladly treated at their home in Randolph f ounty, N. C., has returned from Washing- 1 on to Greensboro, and he and his wife are E [uartered at the Bennetseminary, aschool b or colored people. p Since Joiner's complaint has been made s o the British minister, Solicitor Long, of r be Judicial circuit in which Joiner lives, ? las published a letter in which he says S hat if Joiner had complained to the proper ifficials at home he could have had re- o Iroeo. fhot fha nnnrta are nnen fnr the ti rotection of all citizens. Solicitor Long e ntimate8 that Joiner is seeking sensation ,nd notoriety rather than protection. As to the cause of the demonstration on 0 oiner, it is charged that he not only con- j ined his preaching to the negroes, but he p ireached to them such doctrine as was S alculated to excite their animosity against 0 he whites. He preached that there should ? e no color line and told the negroes that r hey were just as good in every respect s s the whites, and that they should demand t social equality which is now denied them, > ,nd if the whites refused to give them ? heir rights, as set forth by him, the "Rev- ^ rend" gentleman reminded them that j, hey had a very effective weapon in the ( orch. c Joiner^ has published a letter in the c Jreensboro Workman contradicting these * harges. ' As a result of his visit to Washington, s he British consul at Charleston has for- ( varded to the North Carolina authorities e he complaint in the case, with the request ^ rom the British minister for aid in makng an investigation. The attorney-gene- ^ alof North Carolina has the matter in r tand, and his investigation will doubtless r >ring to light the facts. c THE WEST VIRGINIA CONTEST. 1 The legislature of West Virginia con- I rened at Charlestown on the loth i nstant to . lecide the gubernatorial contest between c Clemming, Democrat, and Golf, Repub- s ican. On convening, the Democrats had 1 t majority of three on joint ballot. 8 The subject was thoroughly canvassed ^ >n Thursday and Friday, and on Friday g ifternoon in joint assembly of the legis- j ature, Chairman Keer presented the ma- r ority report, consisting of 154 octavo i >ages. In the afternoon, Senator Morris, f Republican, presented the minority re>ort, which filled 180 pages of closely ^ vritten legal cap. The majority report a vas not read, but distributed in pamphlet r orm and ordered printed in the journal, -j dr. Morris read the minority report, or he greater part of it, before the joint as- a embly. (] After the presentation of the report a t oint committee was appointed to prepare 1 i mode of procedure, and the joint session J; idjourned until Monday. j: The majority report bears evidence of <; nuch study and labor. It shows that the s nost outrageous frauds were committed i n several counties. Negroes were brought J n from other States to work upon the railoads and in the mines, and were induced j 0 vote by their Republican bosses without ( 1 shadow of right. In other cases votes i vere openly bought and paid for in cash t >y the score. It was a sorry political 8 raininc in fraud and corruption which N ntelligent white Republicans put the ? >oor negroes through in West Virginia, c 3y all the evil methods known to the un- t crupulous political managers, Goff conrived to get an apparent majority on the c ace of the returns of 112. The vigorous ^ ontest which the Democrats made in the p egislature kept him out of the office, and c t has also kept out the man really chosen 1 or more than a year, the former govern- 1 ?r holding over until his successor should ^ >e declared elected. c The minority report presents the longer " rgument of the case; makes the state- I nent that the election was fair and a legal 1 me; states the point of difference between * nembers of the committee, and states ^ hat Goff was elected by a majority of 140. ( ? q ? United States Marshal Cunningham has p nade a requisition on the department at e Yashington for funds to defray the expen- s es of the February term of the district n ourt, which meets at Greenville on the C Irst Monday in February. The total of the o stimate is $22,694, of which amount $2,870 t 3 for the pay of jurors, and $17,000 to wit- I lesses. The balance is apportioned, to c prisoners $1,000, marshal $1,000, bailiffs C 476, and miscellaneous $348. p THE CORN PRIZE AWARDED. On Friday last, Col. A. P. Butler, comnissioner of agriculture, received the folowing official announcement of the award >f the American Agriculturist corn prize. The letter is dated New York, January 15: Dear Sir: We beg to officially inform you hat our grand prize of ?500 in gold for the largist yield of corn on one measured acre will be iwarded to Mr. Z. J. Drake, of Drake's postofice, Marlboro county, S. C. He will, therefore, >e entitled to your prize of $.'500 also. The preiminary report of his crop will appear editoriilly in the American Agriculturist for February, and the full report in March, together with he chemical analyses, etc. Congratulating you on the great success of four enterprise, yours very truly, American' Agriculturist. The letter also encloses a proof copy of ,he editorial which will appear in the February number of the Agriculturist, and s as follows: the world's record broken. The crops of corn actually grown on one acre n the American Agriculturist prize cropcomjetition for 1889, will alone amply repay us for ill the great expense and labor involved in the snterprise. It is worth ten thousand dollars to lemonstrate that such crops can be really proluced on one acre. The award of the whedt >rizes in this issue, as promised, compels us o put over until the March number the wonder"ully interesting comparison of the corn crops ind the award of the corn prizes in full. It is luo our readers, however, that the yield of the hree largest corn crops be no longer witnleld. The American Agriculturist grand prize of 5500 in gold will be awarded to Zachariah Jorlan Drake, of Marlboro, S. C. He will also revive a similar prize from the South Carolina lepartment of agriculture, as this enterprising x>dy offered to duplicate our prize if it was aken in that State. Mr. Drake's crop of corn >n the ear from the exact contest acre weighed 17,407 pounds. The average of three tests, by is many witnesses, was that 100 pounds of this iorn contained only eighteen pounds of cob. Consequently, the gross weight named contained 14,273j pounds of shelled corn. At fiftylix pounds to the bushel, the crop was within i fraction of 255.buBhels (exactly 254 bushels, 18J pounds) of shelled corn on one acre. But this was the green weight as taken from .he held. According to analyses made at the south Carolina experiment station by Drs. W. 3. Burney and J. B. McBryde, under the sujervision of the director, Dr. J. M. McBryde, his crop was remarkably dry, as were all the :orn crops in South Carolina. The shelled corn jontained only 15 per cent, of water. We find, herefore, that the 255 bushels of shelled corn :ontained 217 bushels of actual dry matter in he kernels, without any water whatever. On he basis of 10 per cent, water for thoroughly :rib-cured old corn or kiln-dried corn, the yield vas 239 bushels of shelled corn. Summary of the American Agriculturist jrand prize crop on one acre: Shelled corn, treen, 255 bushels; crib-cured, 239 bushels; iry matter in the kernels, (no water whatever,) !17 bushels. The second largest crop was grown by Alfred Sose, Yates county, New York. His yield vas 15,898 pounds of corn on the ear, averaging !6 per cent, cob, or 213 bushels of shelled corn ;reen weight; 191 bushels crib-cured, and 174 mshels of actual dry matter. The third largest crop was grown by George Partner, Pawnee county, Nebraska, his gross veight of corn on the ear being 11,380 pounds. :t averaged only 16 percent, cod, of 171 bushels jreen weight, 151 bushels crib-cured, and 137 >ushels of dry matter. The fractions are omited in all these data. These crops break the world's record. The argest yield previously recorded was 200 bush>ls of shelled corn, green weight, alleged to iave been grown by Dr. J. W. Parker, not far rom Columbia, South Carolina, in 1857, and ts accuracy has been questioned. But there is 10 doubt as to the complete honesty of these irops in the American Agriculturist prize crop ompetition. Judgment should be suspended >y the unbelieving until they read in the American Agriculturist for March how these nost unprecented crops were grown, and the freat precautions that were taken to secure ibsolute honesty and faithful accuracy. Certainly, thecompletesummary of the prize orn crops and the full award of premiums in he March number of the American Agricultuist will be awaited with intense interest. The onsiderable number of crops in excess of 100 tushels per acre, with the practioal details of ulture and the scientific investigation conlected with the corn class of the American Agriculturist prize crop Competition, must nake the forthcoming issue of this magazine n original contribution to progressive agriculure that will be of inestimable benefit to American farmers. The results in the Amerian Agriculturist prize competition will never >e equalled so far as corn is concerned, but, if ts lessons are made use of, our corn product >er acre will be very largely increased, and he farmers' profits correspondingly enhanced. We may add also that toe superD snowing cade by South Carolina will not be dimmed >y the complete record of her contest corn rops. She has shown what can be accomplished in the agriculture of the New South, louth Carolina's enterprise will not only be ewarded many thousand fold, but she has enouraged her farmers to make a showing that /HI be worth veritable millions to her sister >tates. The $500 awarded for the largest yield f wheat last year goes to Henry F. Buron, of Salt Lake, Utah, for a yield of ighty bushels on one acre. mermTention. Governor Hill, of New York, has floored the requisition of the governor of rlississlppi for Muldoon, Donovan, Mur?hy, Cleary and Butler, implicated in the iullivan-Kilrain prize fight. In the case f three others who claim to have been nly spectators, the governor temporaily revoked the warrant for their arest. Professor Carnelly, of Aberdeen, ays that since 1870 the average duraion of human life has increased by five ears. Two thousand four hundred nd ninety-five telegraph poles have been elled in New York, and 14,500,000 feet of vire has come down. Calvin S. Brice las been elected United States senator from )hio, receiving a majority in both houses f the legislature. Business failures iccurring throughout the country last raob- n ii m Hot* fnr flip TTnitpH 307? or Canada 31, a total of 338 against373 the >revious week. The Lenoir Topic ays that two-sevenths of the acreage of Caldwell county, N. C., i9 owned by northrn companies interested in the lumber (usiness. Hon. E. K. Wilson, Deraoicrat, has been re-elected United States enator from Maryland. A local opion election in Lynchburg, Va., last week esulted in the close vote of only seven najority in favor of license. A barrel ?f whisky, wrapped in cotton bagging and >earing the trade mark of "Alliance Whisky," was shipped last week from Baltinore to Winnsboro, S. C. Hon. John ). Harper, of Caldwell county, N. C., a >rominent citizen and who was a member >f the 42nd congress, died on the 9th intant. Alderman Porter, of Pittsburg, Ja., and his three constables, have been entenced to imprisonment on conviction >f conspiracy?the alderman to nine nonths in the penitentiary and the contables to terms of from 30 days to one 'ear in jail. The Pennsylvania Raiload company has decided to still further rnprove the facilities of its limited express rains, and add to their conveniences by ntroducing a stenographer and typewriter or the service of the passengers. The leath record of Boston last week was 330 gainst 463 the previous week. To pneu nonia, following influenza, is aitriDuieu 1.3 deaths last week, and to influenza itself, It is announced that ex-President ,nd Mrs. Cleveland will go to Florida soon nd spend a few weeks. Prince Ameleus, who was king of Spain from Deoem>er, 1870, until February, 1873, died at Purin last Saturday. By an act of the ast legislature of Georgia, January 19, the lirthday of Gen. Lee, was made a public loliday in that State. The 19th falling on Sunday this year, last Monday was oberved as the anniversary. From figires presented to a Senate committee by delegate Du Bois, of Idaho, it appears that dormonism is growing stronger instead if weaking in the West. Rev. C. L. 'owell, the Baptist missionary from North Carolina, who some time ago in a fit of nsanity cut the throat of his little daugher in North Africa, has died in an asylum it Algiers, it is learned. United States Senator John W. Daniel has designated January 25th as the time of the delivery if an address in Richmond on the life and haracter of Mr. Davis. The address is at he request of the legislature. Much lamage to the farming interests in Inliana and Ohio was inflicted by rising vaters. In the Mississippi legislature, Jen. A. M. West, from Marshall county, las introduced in the senate a memorial to ongress asking for the abrogation of the 5th amendment to the Federal constituion and instructing the Mississippi deletion in congress in accordance therevith. In the Petersburg hustings ourt, last Friday, the grand jury returned 'not a true bill" in the case of Gen. Wm. dahone, charged with feloniously shootng Herbert Harrison on the night of November 5. There has been a ruptire between Portugal and England, the lispute originating in the demand by Jreat Britain that Portugal shall relin[uish to that government certain of its lossessions in Africa. As the weaker govrnment, Portugal complied, but under trong protest. John Webb, who aade a murderous assault on T. G. Mclausland, at Davenport,Iowa, on the night f October 28, was last Friday sentenced o the penitentiary for thirty-five years, le was at once taken out of town to esape the fury of the mob. Solicitor Jeneral Orlow W. Chapman, of the department of justice at Washington, died last Monday morning at his residence in that city of pneumonia, superinduced by the grip. The fall of snow, during the past few days, in the West aud Northwest is unprecedented in recent years. There is a complete blockade of railroad and telegraph lines between Chicago and the Pacific coast. alliancTtopics. ? The Farmers' Alliance of Abbeville has organized a bank to be known as the Farmers' Loan and Trust company. Over $50,000 was subscribed to its capital stock. ? Mr. E. P. Hipp, a member of the Rightwell Alliance in Lexington county, on account of rheumatism, was unable to sow his small grain crops. One day last week 20 members of his Alliance, with their horses, horse-feed and their own rations, repaired to his fields and by an hour by sun had his seed in the ground. ? Lancaster Ledger: Nearly every Alliance in Lancaster county has by-laws against intoxication. As a consequence there was less drunkenness in Lancaster the past year than for some years past. Economy has been practiced and supplies have been obtained at lower prices than formerly. Men have seemed more concerned about paying their debts and, all in all, we are a better people than we were twelve months ago. The Alliance deserves the credit. ? Says the Marion Index: The county alliance excnange nas ueeu orpmaeu uuu is now ready for business. The county business agent will be in his office in Marion every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday prepared to take orders from sub-trustees. Orders from individual members of the Alliance will only be received through the trustee of the sub-Alliance to which the member belongs, and the State exchange will only fill orders from the county business agent. A number of the sub-Alliances have arranged td pay cash this year for all they buy. ? "An Alliance Man," writing from Union, to the Greenville News, and recommending a Union county man as Judge Cothran's successor in congress, says: It is now a known fact that the Alliance of this State proposes to take quite an active part in politics this year, and why not? When we think for a moment that about nine-tenths of our people are Alliance men, there is presented power and influence in the Democratic party, as there is found no division, the Democratic party and Alliance standing as one. The great question that confronts us an Alliance is, who shall represent us in the different important positions of our gov emment? The answer given by a great many is this, that we want good, honest, industrious and economical men from our own order. The Gallows.?At Fort Smith, Arkansas, shortly after noon last Thursday, six souls were launched into eternity by the law. It was the execution of the death sentence on Sam Goings, James Burris, John Billy, Thomas Willis and Jefferson Jones, all Choctaw Indians, and Austin James, a Chickasaw. All were murderers. Two other murderers, George Tobler and Charles Bullard, negroes, were to have been hanged also, but were respited until the 30th. They received the respite with bad grace, saying that if they are to be hanged they would prefer going with the rest. ' Sam Goings and James Burris were hanged for the murder of Houston Joyce, a young white man, in November, 1888, near Nimishlie in the Choctaw nation. Joyce stopped at Burris's house for dinner, and after leaving the house was intercepted by Burris and Goings, who told him they intended to kill him. He begged piteously for his life, but without avail. Both fired a bullet into Joyce's back and he fell dead. Goings and Burris were arrested four months later and not only confessed the crime but told of killing a white man several years ago. Both are under twenty years of age. John Billy and Thomas Willis were convicted of the murder of a white man, supposed to be W. B. Williams, a whisky peddler. The killing occurred near Talli hani, in February, 1889. Williams went into that neighborhood with a lot of whisky. The Indians bought some of it and got drunk. A difficulty ensued, and Williams, becoming alarmed, started to run, but was riddled with bullets. Billy and Willis were arrested and, upon the testimony of an Indian who saw the killing, were convicted. ? 1 Jefferson Jones, a Choctaw Indian, was convicted of the murder of George W. Wilson, an old white man, who was living near Tallihani, Creek nation, in March, 1889. Austin James, a Chickasaw Indian, was convicted of murdering a young man from Alabama, named Thomas Elliott, near Fishiminge, Chickasaw nation, in 1883. He killed Elliott because he had had trouble with his half brother. Friday afternoon Isaiah and Charles Dent were hanged at Clinton, La., for the murder of Mr. Pra9torious, near Ethen, whom they waylaid and shot to death on the 1st of July last. James Holcombe, colored, was hanged in the jail yard at St. John, La., on Friday, for the murder of Madeline Willis, a little colored girl, on November 12,1889. How to Save Your Meat.?As the warm and variable weather of this winter renders the killing of pork unsafe for keeping, we print the following from the Texas farmer, J. D. Wellborn, as his mode of treating pork in warm weather: "Warm, damp weather opens all the pores in the meat. The salt will extract everv Darticle of the impurities inside of four "days, but the salt keeps these impurities from evaporating by holding them in a liquid state around the meat. This blood, etc., will attract flies and will sour the meat; but if at the end of four days the meat is taken up and old brine poured off and the salt brushed off, then resalted with clean salt, covering the meat entirely, allowing no two pieces to touch, and cram salt next to the box, so each piece will be wrapped in salt, it will keep. I have resaltea this way when the meat was tainted, and all the taint would disappear and the meat cure up sweet and pure. The refuse salt can be made to pay for itself by sowing it on loose sandy soil or trashy land of any kind so as to show about like a heavy frost?not thicker; but do not put on clayey, stiff soils without trash." TO PICKLE PORK. Sides may be pickled and make more desirable meat than if smoked. Pickling can be successfully done as late as the first of March. The following recipe is said to be reliable: "The meat should be dusted lightly with saltpetre, sprinkled with salt and allowed to drain twenty-four hours, then plunge into pickleand keep under weight. Make eight gallons of brine strong enough to float an egg, add two pounds of brown sugar, or a quart of molasses, and four ounces of saltpetre; boil and skim clean, and pour cold on your meat, covering it all with the liquid. Keep weighted down as above." Found Dead in Bed.?Ex-Rev. James S. Meynardie was found dead in his bed at Augusta, Ga., last Wednesday morning. A dispatch from Augusta, briefly reciting his checkered career, says: "The cause of his death was heart failure, the result of intemperance. Mr. Meynardie was a remarkable man. At one time he was a power in Augusta, and his word was law with thousands of people. He was a Baptist minister of note, and was master workman of the Knights of Labor here when the order was in a flourising condition. Since that time his career has been checkered. "Mr. Meynardie was a splendid pulpit orator, and was thoroughly versed in Knights of Labor matters. While he was at the head of the order here the big strike and lockout of the employees of the Augusta factories was inaugurated. The operatives had implicit confidence in him, and he engineered the strike until the national officers of the Knights took it in hand and settled it. "After this the people seemed to have lost confidence in Meynardie hoth as a labor leader and a preacher. He was accused of haying received money from politicians for his influence in elections and with partaking too freely of intoxicating beverages. He resented these imputat: f.nm fha nflAnlo OlYinnff LIU US auu WHUUICYY JiUHi UiV MLuvug whom he had labored so lone:. Leaving the city, he began business on a farm near Augusta. "As a farmer he was remarkably successful, and made money rapidly. But he seemed to be a man that could not stand prosperity. The Baptist ministers of Augusta ostracised him and fellowship was withdrawn from him." ? Some cotton buyers from Liverpool, England, were in Darlington the other day. They shipped a consignment of about four hundred bales direct to Liverpool with reclassification. This is the first shipment of the kind from Darlington. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. D. E. Finley, Clerk of Board?Printing Proposals. Wanamaker A Brown, Philadelphia?An Energetic Man Wanted. W. C. Latimer, Proprietor?A Great Embroidery sale is now going on at the Bazaar! fSee Fourth Page.] Carolina Buggy Company?It's Money we Want?White Ash, White Hickory and Yellow Poplar. A. Y. Cartwright A Co.?Blown into Flinders. Clothing Flying in the Air. A. II. White, County Trustee?Meeting of the : Sub-Trustees. W. D. Glenn?I am Coming. Sam M. Grist?Second-Hand Implements. I Mrs. T. M. Dobson?He Must be Downed ! ! Withers Adickes?With the Advance of 185)0. i M. A II. C.Strauss?Do not Neglect the Opportunity. W. H. McCorkle, Probate Judge?Notice to Executors, Ac. Thomas L. Craig, Gastonia, N. C.?Horses and Mules. F. Happerfield?Twenty Pounds of Rice for 81. J. A. Darwin?Fine Saddle and Harness Horses and Mules at Alliance Prices! J. II. Riddle?They Have Arrived. RAILROAD PROGRESS. We learn from the Johnson City, Tenn., -1 1 r?i.. ?:I? (l,A enterprise uiui uuuut iun^ umco ui mo grading of the Three C's railroad has been completed west of thatcity, and four miles of track has been laid. revival'services. Revival services are being conducted in the Baptist church this week by the pastor, Rev. R. G. Patrick. The first service was held on Sunday night, and there will be services each night during the week, commencing at 7 o'clock. The attendance has been good and considerable interest is being manifested. ? - 4 county pension board. "^hd county pension board met iri Hunter & Oates's hall last Monday for the purpose of examining new applicants for State pension and passing upon the claims of old pensioners.' The full board was present, viz.: J. Rufus Bratton, M. D., chairman; Jos. F. Wallace, secretary,and Capt. R. H. Glenn. All of the old pensioners, of whom there are 32 in this 1? ? ~ ? '? ?? I flvnont uKonf uuuuiy, were re-cAaunucu, cavsjjv ?uuuk a half dozen who failed to attend. Twelve new applicants were examined, and twelve new applications were received from widows of soldiers. Besides the 32 male pensioners above noted, there are on the pension rolls from this county 59 widow pensioners in addition to the 24 applications received on Monday. ^'^^-PERSONAL MENTION. "XMrs. W. B. Williams is visiting at Biacksburg. Representative B. J. Gold was in town last Monday. Messrs. W. L. Goforth and G. C. Ormand, who have been railroading in Virgina since last summer, made a flying visit to their homes last Thursday. --yMi8s Kate Henderson, of Coronaca, Abbeville county, spent a few days in Yorkville last week with the family of Rev. G. H. Waddell. Miss Lula Goodrum left on Monday for Charlotte to be present at the marriage of her brother, Thomas Goodrum, to Miss Agnes Alexander, of that city, which took ? i i i piace/yesieruay evcuing. \/ l)EATH OF J. L. WATSON. MrTJohn L. Watson, a prominentcitizen of York county, died at his residence in Ebenezer on Friday last, 17lh instant, aged 66 years and 1 week. Mr. Watson held the office of county treasurer from the 30th of March, 1873, until the 31st of May, 1877, when he was succeeded by Dr. T. C. Robertson under .the Hampton government. Mr. Watson discharged the duties of treasurer in a manner satisfactory to the people. After his retirement from office he devoted himself to agricultural and manufacturing pursuits, and besides being a successful farmer he was largely interested in the Fishing Creek and the Fort Mill cotton factories, to the successful inauguration * of' which enterprises he contributed of means and energy. Mr. Watson was a man of liberal views, and ever ready to aid in the development and progress of his section. MORE HEAVY HOGS. Mr. J. W. P. Hope killed three hogs last Thursday weighing net respectively 335, 345 and 378 pounds. A total of 1,058 pounds. Perry Anderson, colored, of York township, killed four hogs a few days ago of his own raising, and eighteen months old, that weighed 305, 307, 304 and 309 pounds each, a total of 1,225 pounds. Mr. W. H. Hicklin, of Bethesda township, slaughtered a hog on last Thursday that weighed net 622 pounds. On the 15th instant Mr. F. H. Barber slaughtered a horae-raisea nog wnicn weighed 702 pounds gross, and 602 pounds net. It was of the Red Jersey breed, and only nineteen months old. The hog was raised by Mr. Barber's daughter under a proposition from him that if she made it weigh 600 pounds he was to pay her $50, 700 pounds, $75, and for each pound over 700, $1.00. Miss Barber received $77 for her superintendence. ^ A PLEASANT REUNION. On last Thursday, the 16th instant, there was a pleasant family reunion at the residence of Mrs. Elizabeth Jefferys, of this place, it be^ng the anniversary of her 86th birthday, and was celebrated by the presence of all her living children, viz.: Mrs. Bebecca T. Jackson and her husband Mr. S. W. Jackson; Mr. J. Ed. Jefferys and his wife; Capt. T. S. Jefferys and his wi fe; Mrs. Mattie K. Gilbert, wife of Mr. Frank A. Gilbert; and Mr. Wm. A. Jefferys. Mrs. Jefferys is the oldest resident of Yorkville, being the widow of James Jefferys, Esq., who died in 1883, in the 83rd year of his age. The many friends of Mrs. Jefferys extend their congratulations on her having passed her four score years in the full possession of her mental faculties and in the enjoyment of health excepting the infirmities incident to age, and hope her exemplary life may be spared for many more anniversaries as pleasant to her as was the gathering at her family Jboard last Thursday. CHURCH* NOTICE8. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J. C. Galloway, pastor. Services at Tirzah nextSunday at 11.30a. m. and in Yorkville at 7 p. m. Sunday-school at 3 p. ra. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. G. H. Waddell, pastor. Prayer-meeting this evening at 7 o'clock. Services next Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sunday-school at 3 p. m. Baptist?Rev. R. G. Patrick, pastor. Services every evening this week at 7 o'clock and on Sunday at 11 o'clock a. m. and 7 o'clock p. m. Sunday-school at 9.30 a. m. Episcopal?Rev. K. S. Nelson, pastor. Morning service on next Sunday at 11 o'clock. Sunday-school at 3.30 p. m. Evening service as announced at morning service. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, pastor. Prayer-meeting to-morrow evening at 7 o'clock. Services next Friday at 7 o'clock p. m., Saturday at 10.30 o'clock a. m., and Sunday at 11 o'clock a. m. and 7 o'clock p. m. The sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be administered during the morning service on Sunday. The pastor will be assisted by Rev. Mr. Mcllwaine, of Gastonia. Sunday-school at 3 p. m. RAILROAD EARNINGS. From the tabulated statement of the earnings of the railroads of the State for 11 XT. .tmrviKni* la of inaf ? qqudH [flC lUUliin %JA 11UYOI uuut 1(*QV| J uuv 4UWUVM . by the railroad commissioners, it is shown that a net increase of $111,059.01 was made over the same month in 1888. Of the thirty-four roads included in the statement, twenty-four show an increase of $119,278.26, and the eight roads showing a decrease reduce the figures by $8,221.25. Of the roads credited with an increase the Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line shows $21,516.25, and the total increase of the' earnings of the roads of the Richmond and Danville system is 12.92 per cent. For the first time the Three C's railroad makes a report, but not comparative, as it November, 1888, the receipts of that road were included in the receipts of the South Carolina railway, with which it was ther operating. The Three C's makes a good report for its opening one, showing a bush ness of $12,574 for the month of last No> vember. The Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta shows a decrease of $5,913.42, and the Chester and Lenoir a decrease of $81.58 The total passenger earnings compare as follows: November, 1889, $240,652.98 against $191,427.13, in November, 1888, t gain of $44,769.57. The freight eahningi | were: November, 1889, $555,392.97; No j vember, 1888, $483,214.47, a gain of $62,057. 65. The total tonnage in November, 1889 i was 372,964 tons, against 270,947 tons ir the same month of 1888, a gain of 94,241 j tons. LOCAL LACONICS. The young men's union prayer meet ings heretofore held on Tuesday evenings will be discontinued after this date. By reference to our advertising columns it will be seen that Mr. W. D. Glenn ex pects to arrive on to-morrow or next daj with a car load of fine horses and mules. The engine of the spoke and handle factory was fired up for the first time yea terday morning. The machinery will nov be placed in position, and the works start ed in a few days. The cold wave predicted yesterdaj morning struck Yorkville in the after noon, and from 7 o'clock yesterday eveR iug there was a decidedly perceptible change in the temperature, the mercurj falling several degrees. Green Siraril, a worthy and industrious colored man, when he paid his subscriptioc for The Enquirer last week, remarkee: that he did not then owe a cent to any per son, and that he had money ahead for the current year. He has worked lands of ex Sheriff Glenn for several years, and with his industry he displays good management In 1876 he espoused the Hampton cause; and has acted with the Democratic parti ever since. The retention by the new town counci of Mr. Ingrahara Wilson as town mareha will meet the approval of a majority o our citizens. Since he entered upon the office he has discharged his duties it a manner satisfactory to all and showi himself to be an efficient officer. The ser vices of Mr. Montgomery, who ha9 beer policeman for several months, are dis pensed with only as a measure of economy and from the fact that with our orderly quiet population, one policeman is deemec sufficient. Mr. Montgomery goes fron here to Rock Hill to enter upon business. THE TOWN ELECTION. ^ The town election, on Monday last, pass ed off very quietly and without any ex citement. There were two tickets votedthe one placed in nomination by a meet ing of citizens in the court house on Tues day night of last week, and an oppositioi ticket formed afterwards. The ticket nom inated by the citizens' meeting was a follows: For intendant, A. Y. Cartwright for wardens, Wm. H. Herndon, J. Ed Jefferys, William M. Kennedy, Rober B. Lowry.^The ticket in opposition t< this, as first formed, was the following For intendant, J. O. Walker; for wardens Robert B. Lowry, Alonzo Rose, W. W Jenkins, Geo. T. Schorb. Mr. Jenkins de /tlinnrl run and fhp nomp nf .T_ Fd Jefferys was substituted for his. Then were only 24G ballots cast; 143 by whiti and 103 by colored voters. The vote wa as follows: INTENDANT. A. Y. Cartwright, 12 J. O. Walker, 11 FOR WARDENS. J. Ed. Jefferys, 23! Robert B. Lowry, 23 Wra. H. Herndon, 13' Wm. M. Kennedy 12 Geo. T. Schorb, lb Alonzo Rose, 11! Scattering, The election resulted in the choice of th< regularly nominated ticket. The new intendant and wardens wen qualified yesterday, and the council wai organized by electing Mr. Herndon senio: warden and Mr. Jefferys town treasurer Mr. Ingraham Wilson was continued towi marshal. It was decided to dispense wit! the services of other policemen lor th< present. Joe Partlow, colored, was con tinued in charge of street repairs. The following is a schedule of the towi property turned over by the outgoinj council to the new : 1 fire engine, 1 hool and ladder truck, both in good order; 1 cart, 48 street lamps, 4 32-100 acres of land 2 scythes on snaths, 10 picks, 14 shovels 1 hoe, 1 axe, 2 rakes, 1 rock hammer, i water buckets, 3 tin cups. LETTER PROM BLACKSBURG. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. Blacksburg, January 21.?As a result probably of the blizzard west of us lasi week, there was a slight break in the love ly autumn-like weather we haye beer having. A rain, weunesuay nignt, wtu followed by two cold days, with the tem perature down, early in the morning below the freezing point, and we wen congratulating ourselves that the long looked for winter had come at last. It was a short-lived satisfaction, however, and the days are as warm as we could wish to have them in May or September. Another establishment has recently beer added to the business enterprises of oui town. Messrs. Babington & Roberts, the well known printers and stationers, ol Shelby, N. C., have, moved here and organized the "Blacksburg Printing Co.' with J. P. Babington and C. P. Roberts a-' business managers and J. P. Babington, secretary and treasurer. These gentlemen bring with them, not only skill and experience in their particular work, but a well earned reputation for fair dealing, and business tact, which will make them, in more ways than one a valuable acquisition to the place. We all give them a hearty welcome and wish them much success in ! their new field. They occupy the second story of Mr. R. A. Westbrooks's new brick store house on South Mountain street. Mr. Jonathan Moore, a prominent and respected citizen who lives near Bufdwelling house of Dr. J. W. Allison is profalo church, in this township, and for thirty years a subscriber to The Enquirer ppiphrafprl his seventieth birthday on the 15th instant by gathering around him, in the home where he now resides, and in which he was born and raised, all the members of his family, consisting of nine children, thirty-six grand-children and one great-grand-child, who, together with sons and daughters-in-law, made an assemblage of fifty-eight persons, who feasted upon one of those bountiful dinners, which Mrs. Moore has the reputation of preparing. It was a joyous occasion to all present, and your correspondent wishes the worthy couple "many happy returns of the day." Mr. Jas. Martin, of Moore's Mill, gives the following record in the hog-raising line which will compare very favorably with those already published in The Enquirer. He recently killed a sow, and her four one-year-old pigs. The mother weighed 340 pounds net, and the pigs averaged 280 pounds net. Mr. A. B. Crosby has sold his interest in the firm af Moore & Crosby, general merchandise, to his partner, Mr. G. M. Moore, who continues the business at the same stand witn Mr. Jtieaiana in cnarge. Mr. B. A. Westbrooks's brick store house, on South Mountain street, is about finished and he is moving his stock of goods into it. Mr. Geo. Parker has had his new store house painted. The painter's brush has also been applied to the new livery stable and the stores of Whisonant Bros. & Co., and Dr. J. G. Black, improving their appearance greatly. Among other additions to their already well equipped livery stable, Messrs. Borders & Cline received yesterday an elegant set of harness made to order, for their 'bus, which are not only showy in appearance, but substantially made, and when on their handsome creams, present a turnout of which anyone might be proud. The Greenville convocation of the Episcopal church will meet at Lancaster on the 29th instant. A number of the clergy and I lay delegates will pass through this place, and having to lie over Monday night, services will be held in the Episcopal church, beginning at 7.30 o'clock. Our citizens enjoyed an entertainment on Tuesday night last at the academy, given by the members of the Lyceum club, of Gaffney City, consisting of instrumental and vocal music, happily rendered by Misses Lipscomb and Carroll, and followed by the laughable three-act comedy, "Not so bad after all." If these talented amateurs of the drama from our progressive sister town will only give our people a moreexteuded notice of their coming next time, they will have the pleasure of playing before a larger audience. Our genial and acc mmodating county auditor was here on hisannual tourThursday and Friday last. I noticed that his reception was more largely attended than that given by Mr. Neely a month or two ago. Our popular druggist and physician, Dr. S. 0. Fewell, was married on the 14th instant to Miss Birdie Pipes at the residence of her father, in Louisville, Ky. An elegant reception was given the happy couple at the home of his father, Dr. - W. B. Fewell, in Fbenezer, in this coun, ty. I am pleased to know that Dr. Fewell will soon bring his bride to our town . and make this his future home. The negro exodus continues. Two large ' trains of them passed through here in the ' last few days, over the Air-Line railroad. This seems to be the great thorough> fare used by them in seeking new homes. Pursuant to a call of the school trustees r for the graded school district of Blacksburg, a public meeting was held at the " Cherokee academy yesterday to determine what tax levy should be made for school - purposes within the district for the year . 1890. Rev. J. A. White was elected chairman and W B. DeLoach secretary. > " The object of the meeting was fully and' ) thoroughly discussed, and a levy of two r and a half mills was made. The attendance was not very full, but those who j did attend were the representative and , property holding citizens of the dis, trict. . w. a. LETTER FROM^MCKORY GROVE. ? Correspondence of the Yorkvllle Enquirer. Hickory Grove, January 20.?Hicko, ry Grove is still on a boom. The academy has opened under lair ' auspices under the direction and guidance 1 of its efficient teacher, Mr. Cauthen, and r with a goodly number of pupils. The storehouse of Mr. Littlejohn is rapI idly approaching completion and the , gressing. The firm of J. M. Roark & Brother has 1 opened up a wagon shop, and in conneci tion with the blacksmith shop of West? raoreland AMcGillare turning out ready i for use good farm wagons. Whitsides A Scoggins, at the this place, have ginned about 500 bales of cotton the present season. A prominent citizen of the town inform, ed your correspondent to-day that appli- > nolinn frvr hnuaoa In rent ara almnat rlflilv 1 VMiavu IV* "VMOVO *vr ?VUI, { being made and he stated that if the houses were built, a dozen could be rented to an advantage in a fortnight. This is a sure sign and unerring index of the future growth and material prosperity of the young town. Whisonant & Whisonant - have opened their new store house. The citizens of the town are awaiting the . reception of the full text of the recent act of . the legislature, amending the town charter, before determining the course to be pursued on the license question. 1 The short cold snap last week was very - fatal to fat swine in this vicinity. Mr. 3 Wra. G. Wilkie killed a 13-months shote . that netted 365 pounds. Others in the ' neighborhood have done nearly as well. ' The writer of this, being well acquainted * with this section of our county, would > say that it is better supplied with home made pork this season than it has been in the last decade. This is well for our material prosperity ; but it should be be kept up and increased in the future. One of the most contemplative poets of the last century said that "Man made the ? ? j? a. *1 n^ 3 town, dui won inaae tne country." iso j much for the town. Now what about the 9 country. Well, the farmers are preparing to resume the work for another crop, plowing stubble, sowing oats, ditching, etc. I fear the miid winter is against them. Besides the beneficial and fructifying influences of frost and snow the farm la9 borof our country is much like the Miss B who would not go to the ball without a t fashionable dress. Unseasonable weather 7 is an excuse. The freed labor is in a state H of unrest, some going to the railroad I and some going West. This is mainly the floating part of it and will in the end " help the industrious farmer. Some of the colored population are no doubt mystified, 3 mainly through ignorance, about the idea 3 of colonization. Some have the idea that r the government intends to send them to Congo, Soudan or Liberia by force, as was asked the writer a few days ago, by two representatives of the race, who were ig1 norant of the fact, that the government 3 had just about as much legal or constitu tional power to send the white man to "Java or the Friendly islands," contrary to their will or desire. The watchword of the progressive farmers for 1890 with whom I have conversed, is a full grain : crop, small store debts and all the cotton I practicable. alpha. LETTER FROM ROCK HILL. J Correspondence of the Yorkvllle Enquirer. Rock Hill, January 21.?The board of trustees ot the graded school, at a recent meeting, decided to add a special department of stenography and book keeping, and have selected Mr. W. R. Davie, Jr., to take charge of the same. [ Some of our farmers report the Hessian . fly as damaging the wheat and oat crop. { The mum party, which was given at j the library building on Friday night by . the ladies of the Episcopal church, was very enjoyable and quite a financial suc5 cess. Mr Frank O. London could not Irppn his mouth shut and was the first to j pay his fine. j The King's Daughters will give an en) tertainment at Roddey's hall on Friday night consisting of a Japanese wedding, i Mr. Jno. L. Watson, who is known to the people of York county, he having been ( county treasurer from 1873 to 1877, died at f his residence in Ebenezer on Friday last. . He was buried at Ebenezer church yard ' on Saturday. j Bishop Howe will visit this parish on Sunday and hold service in the Episcopal [ church morning and night. While here . he will be the guest of Mr. E. R. Avery. [ Our citizens are endeavoring to get the I summer meeting of the State Agricultural ! and Mechanical society held here. A pub, lie meeting was held in Roddey's hall, r Wednesday night, and resolutions passed nvtanHini* ftn invitntinn tn the societv. [ The board of trade also passed similar - resolutions. It is the wish of our citizens, i should they decide to visit us, to give them a hearty welcome. The annual meeting of the stockholders 1 of the First National bank was held in the . bank on Tuesday evening. The presi. dent of the bank made a most lavorable . report, showing that the bank is doing a prosperous business. An election for di- i rectors was then held, resulting as follows: W. M. Frew, W. L. Roddey, J. E. Roddey, A. F. Ruff, John R. London, W. i J. Roddey. After the meeting, the board of directors met and elected the following i officers: VV. L. Roddey, president; W. J. Roddey, vice-president; J. H. Miller, cashier; Lee Kerr, teller; J. S. Lindsay, book-keeper. Mr. John R. London, the former vice-president, declined re-election. Mrs. Maggie Workman, of the Bethesda , neighborhood, died very suddenly on last Friday evening. She was in her usual health in the morningand died at 7 o'clock in the evening. She leaves a husband and two children. The members and friends of Adnah church are to meet on Wednesday,the 29tb, to enlarge and otherwise improve the grave yard. The spirit of building, which has char acterized the town of rock tun, is spreading into the surrounding country. New I buildings, and old ones repaired, are to be \ seen almost everywhere you go. Mrs. Markhain, of Tryon City, N. C., is visiting friends at Rock Hill. 1 James Nelson, at Smith's Turnout, and ; Henry Beard, near Nannie's mountain, ' 1 are quite ill with pneumonia. ! The Rock Hill Combination company will likely, in a few weeks, give an enter- 1 tainment in the opera house in Yorkville. About fifty colored persons have left ] this place during the past ten days for ( Arkansas; most of them from the imme- t diate neighborhood. ? The quarterly meeting of the Rock Hill i circuit will be held at theM. E. church on ! < Saturday and Sunday next. Rev. Mr. j j Chreitzberg, presiding elder, will preside.; ( Maj. A. H. White, grand high priest, R. j < A. M., of this State, leaves for Charleston ( t to-day on official business. ( Mr. W. C. Whitner has commenced the j i survey of the town of Rock Hill, as its; c limits have recently been extended by an i t act of the recent session of the legislature. | \ Dr. T. M. DuBose and family are on a ( visit to Ilock Hill, his old home. The doctor expresses himself freely as to the progress of the town, and his many feiends here are using their efforts to induce him to remain?which I am pleased to say he will likely do. The cold wave on Thursday night caused a number of our citizens to kill hogs; but the warm weather of the past few days has given them considerable uneasiness. The C., C. & A. Railroad company is going to build a new passenger depot here. The plans have been received, and if built according to them the depot will be an ornament to the town. iial. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The house occupied as a residence by A. L. Porter, at Winnsboro, was destroyed by fire last Thursday night. ? The Ledger estimates that the cotton crop of Lancaster is more than 5,000 bales short of the crop of last year. ? Two stores were burglarized at Edgefield last Thursday night. From the safe in one of them $300 in money was taken. ? The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Hugh S. Thompson, of South Carolina, to be one of the civil service commissioners. y^? On Wednesday last A. W. Geiger, of Lexington county, killed a rattlesnake measuring five feet in length with twelve rattles and a button. ? B. H. Boykin, a prominent planter of South Kershaw, lost his barn and contents valued at $2,000, last Thursday, by fire. The cause was due to accident. ? Col. Mike Brown, one of the wealthiest and most enterprising men of Barnwell, has sold out his entire interests in that county and will move to Savannah. <>? The colored man, Jack Fields, who was injured while firing a cannon at Aiken on the day of Jefferson Davis's funeral, died from the effects of his injuries last Wednesday. ? Baylis Boggs, formerly of Pickens county, after a month's residence on 4he outskirts of Clifton, has been appointed postmaster at that place and will probably assume control of the office in a few days. ?The contest for the postmastership at Newberry came to an end last Thursday by the appointment of Robert Moorman. The Republicans of South Carolina at Washington say they will make a fight over his confirmation in the senate. ? The boiler of a sawmill at Barnwell exploded last Saturday afternoon, killing instantly a colored boy, Felix Furman, mortally wounding Mr. James Alford, and slightly wounding a colored man named Felix Furman. ? The Richmond and Danville Railroad Company sold a lot of 87 hogs at Anderson the other day, to pay freight. They brought good prices. They were shipped to Anderson, but the consignee refused to receive them. Hence the sale. Vkr A family returned from Arkansas to Laurens county last week, having come all the way in wagons and having been about two months on the road. The old gentleman said that he had been longing for years to get back to "old Carolina" just to get a good drink of water. ? W.J. Whipper, the ex-probate judge of Beaufort county, who has been in jail for several months for contempt of court, in refusing to comply with Judge Aldrich's order by surrendering to his duly elected successor the books and records of the office, has at length yielded, and given up the records. ? W. J. Gormley, of Spartanburg, died last Thursday evening at San Luis Potosi, Mexico, from injuries received by falling from a bridge on the night before. He and a number of hands were repairing the bridge, and in some way he lost his balance, falling thirty feet and being terribly mashed, causing death in fourteen hours. ? The Charleston, Sumter and Northern railroad formerly known as the Eutawville railroad, is now open for business from Pregnall's to Sumter, and through freight and passenger schedules are now in effect, making connection at Pregnall's with trains on the South Carolina railway. ? A charitable and benevolent lady of Columbia has undertaken to raise a fund for the benefit of the families of the eight Barnwell negroes who were lynchea a few weeks since. It is proposed to secure a fund of at least $2,000, which amount will be nearly sufficient to provide the families of the deceased with comfortable homes. ?Susie Fernandez, colored, a Spartanburg woman, was found, last Friday, murdered not far from the court house in the town of Union. Her throat was cut and there were signs of violence. She had been missing for over a week, but was supposed to have returned to Spartanburg. Robbery is thought to have been the motive of the murder. ' ? The grip, in a mild form, is taking a general course among the students of Wofford college, Spartanburg. There are a number of cases reported under the care of a doctor. One of the professors is down with the disease. The cases so far have lasted only a few days and the patients were confined only a short time to their beds. Several cases have caused alarm, but are now on a fair road to recovery. The Winnsboro News says: The exodus of the colored people to Arkansas is increasing every day. It is said that no less than forty-five families left last week ; and all of these families have been living within a radius of four miles from Winnsboro. About thirty negro families have left Monticello and Strother, and about sixty negroes have left Woodward's and Blackstock, all bound for the West. ? A negro named Washington Cannon was shot and killed in Greenville last Saturday night by W. H. Charles, a white man, who is salesman in a store in the western part of the city. The negro was drunk and had a quarrel with Charles, who ordered him on the premises. He returned, it is said, armea with a rock, when Charles killed him. Charles is in the hands of the sheriff. ? Under date of November 30, 1889, W. J. Massey, a Liberia emigrant from Lancaster county, writes to the Ledger that he is anxious to return to his old home. A New York dispatch of Friday, noting the arrival of a vessel from Liberia, mentions among those on board, "Mrs. Massey and her son, who are returning to South Carolina," from which it may be inferred that her husband is dead. ? On Friday, at Abbeville, Ike Butler was shot in the breast and killed by Jim Holmes. The shooting was done with a pistol. Butler died in about fifteen minutes. Holmes made his escape and has not yet been captured. The difficulty arose out of a discussion about a woman who was ironing some clothes. They were both negroes and employed on the G., C. and N. railroad. ? A white man named James Scott was found dead at the bottom of a ditch in the central portion of Greenville Friday morning. Scott had been on a spree all day Thursday. He started home late at night, and it is supposed stumbled into the ditch, where school children found him. In falling a distance of eight feet he was stunned and his face became submerged at the bottom of the drain. He was strangled, and he seemed never to have moved after his fatal tumble. ? On Monday of last week, Sheriff Lancaster, of Barnwell, swore out a warrant, upon information, against Ready, the two Bennetts, Walker and Sweat, for the murder of William Black. The latter four were arrested ou Tuesday and brought Deiore Trial justice j. n. ,t> urea naiicr, who, upon beinp informed that they had appeared before Trial Justice Dunbar that same morning:, and had given bond to appearand testify at the next term of court against Ready, and for want of testimony against them, discharged the prisoners. ? In the Orangeburg court of sessions, last week, the case against Sally and Margaret Dwight, charged with infanticide, ended in a verdict of not guilty. George E. Boyet, charged with the murder of Asa Bissell (both white) was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary. March Houser was sentenced to eighteen months in the penitentiary, and R. B. Livingston and D. Hughes were fined each $25 for selling whisky. ? On last Saturday morning Dick Gardner, a white penitentiary convict attempted to escape after being taken from the itockade and set to work. Another white eonvict, Wm. Spencer Jackson, ran with lim. The guard fired upon them, killing Gardner. Jackson made good his escape, 'unning the gauntlet of several musket lischarges. Gardner was from North Car>lina, and was serving a ten years' senence for horse stealing. Jackson is from Chesterfield county, and was convicted of *iot and assault with intent to kill and jarrying concealed weapons, and sentenced ;o four years on each of two counts. Both vere received at the penitentiary last year; Jardner from Lancaster county.