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Jtajisi and ,factsi. ? A colored clergyman of New York named Derrick says: 41 We must beg congress to let us alone. I for one am tired of seeing myself on the senatorial dissecting table, the mark for demagogues' dull wit." ? Governor Abbott, of New Jersey, in his inaugural address to the legislature, devotes considerable space to the question of ballot reform and advocates the adoption of the Australian system in all its essential features, including the exclusive use of an official ballot. ? When a car load of North Carolina negro emigrants, billed for Arkansas, reached Morristown, Tenn., last Thursday night, they were informed that they would be taken to Mississippi instead. They rebelled, and became so enraged at the agents who had them in charge that the latter had to flee for their lives. ? The officers of the steamer Baton Rouge, passing up the Mississippi river last Friday evening, report a heavy shock of earthquake at BellfootLake, Tennessee, at 3 o'clock Friday morning. A veritable {>anic ensued among the inhabitants of the ocality who have not forgotten the results of the great earthquake of many years ago, when New Madrid and much of the adjacent territory sunk beneath the Mississippi. ? A resointion has been introduced in the Virginia legislature to the effect that the representatives from that State in the National congress be requested to vote for an appropriation to encourage and enable the dissatisfied element of our colored population to emigrate to the Republican States of the North, where they may enjoy most hearty sympathy, and the South be relieved of the painful strain upon our political system. ? The railroad commissioners of Maine have taken a decided step in tho settlement of the grade crossing question. They state that they "feel it to be their duty torequire all ways hereafter laid out across the main line of a railroad, especially in thickly settled portions of our cities and villages, to be constructed so as to pass over or under such track, unless such a construction would be attended by extraordinary expense and inconvenience." ? United States engineers report that at Paducah, Ky., the boint has been washed away by the combined currents of the Ohio and Tennessee rivers until the two streams are separated by a narrow strip of land not more than ten feet in wiath, which will possibly disappear when the water recedes, as caving banks always follow a falling river. It is also reported that unless something be done at once the Ohio will be turned into the Tennessee, thus leaving the town of Paducah on an island. ? Representative Tillman, of South Carolina, says that he proposes to make a speech on the colored question, and he expects to tell the country some startling truths about the negro in the Southern States. He says he intended and desired to deliver some remarks on this subject during the last Congress, but he was persuaded to withhold his statements until a more opportune moment. He thinks the time has arrived, and promises to tell some interesting stories. ? Morrison R. Avery, of North Carolina, son of Judge A. C. Avery, and assistant photographe? in the U. S. geological survey, by mistake took several swallows of carbolic acid in his dressing room at Washington, on last Thursday morning, from a bottle plainly labelled "Pure Rye Whisky," and died an hour afterwards, although physicians were promptly summoned, and exerted themselves to the utmost to save his life. His remains were taken to Morganton, the home of his father, for burial. ?* Congressman Candler, of Georgia, who is chairman of the house committee on education, in speaking of the probable action of his committee in reference to the Blair bill, says: "If the bill comes to us from the senate so amended that the appropriation for schools is made without restriction, and put under absolute control of the States as the land-scrip fund was, I shall favor it. But if the Dill puts our schools under control of the Federal Government, and thereby makes mixed schools possible, I am against it. In other words, I stand just where I have always stood on this question." ? Adam Forepaugh, the veteran circus manager, died last Wednesday night at his residence in Philadelphia. Mr. Forepaugh has been ailing for some time past. He was attacked a week or two ago with the prevailing influenza epidemic which three or four days ago developed into pneumonia. Mr. Forepaugh was originally a butcher, but many years ago embarked in the circus business, in which he was yery successful, getting together a most extensive circus and menagerie, with which he amassed a fortune which is estimated at more than a million dollars. He was a large real estate owner. Mr. Forepaugh was 68 years old. He leaves a wife and one son, Adam, Jr., who will succeed to his immense circus property. ? The Federal election bill of Senator Chandler meets with but little favor from Southern Republicans. Congressman Ewart, of North Carolina, says: "I am opposed to any such thing and shall vote against it, as will other Southern Republicans. We are trying to build up a white man's Republican party in the South, and the passage of any election law would drive away from our party that class of white men who now vote with us on account of our principles of protection. The passage of the Blair bill and a bill to repeal the internal revenue law will do more to build up the Republican party in the South than anything else. If these bills are not passed I am afraid the North Carolina delegation will be solidly Democratic the next time. Our people are very strong in their demands for the passage of both." . ? Herr John Most, anarchist, whose sentence to one year in the penitentiary was affirmed by the supreme court of New York, was arrested in New York city by detectives last Friday. He was captured as he was leaving the house of Mrs. Hoffman, who was on his bond pending the decision of the court. Most was convicted of using language tending to incite a riot while making a speech at a meeting of anarchists held in November, 1887, to denounce the hanging of the Chicago anarchists. After the arrest of Most on Friday, he sued out a writ of habeas corpus on a petition that as there are grave constitutional questions involved in his sentence, he is desirous of having the case passed upon by the court of appeals. He was admitted to bail pending the appeal. ? The department encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic was held in Augusta last Friday at the headquarters of Augusta Post No. 2. Charleston, Savannah, Macon, Atlanta and Tallapoosa posts were represented. Colored delegates from Beaufort and Savannah claimed admission to the encampment from the colored posts which they represented. The committee on credentials submitted majority and minority reports, the former against and the latter in favor of seating the colored delegates. The majority report recommended the formation of separate encampments for colored posts. The minority report was adopted by a vote of 18 to 4, whereupon J. D. Crawford, commander, H. Burns, adjutant, and Phillip Hiedingsfeler, representing the E. S. Jones, Post No. 5, of Macon, withdrew from the encampment under the instructions of their posts. The Augusta post gave a banquet to the encampment on Friday night, to which the colored delegates were not invited. The G. A. R. is composed only of ov.TTninn Rnlriiprs. -Ex-Senator Riddleberger died at Winchester, Va., last Friday morning. He was born in Shenandoah county, October 4,1844. He had nothing more than a common school education. Although quite young, he served three years in the Confederate army and became a captain of cavalry. He was after the war commonwealth's attorney, and was elected a member of both branches of the houses of delegates. It was his bill for the settlement of the public debt which gave rise to the re-adjuster movement which swept the State and settled the financial policy. It was afterwards accepted by the Democrats. Itiddleberger at one time edited three papapers, and during the political campaign, fought two duels and spoke three timesall in one day. He took his seat in the United States Senate in 1883, and on the last day of the recent session staggered from his seat in drunken fury and was removed by the sergeant-at-arms. Riddleberger's last act was to break away from Mahone. He was a man of more than ordinary ability and possessed a fiery sort of courage, which did not bring him influence, because it could not supply the place of moral stamina. ?The militia bill of Mr. McKenna, of California, is a simple substitute for a mass of obsolete legislation now on the statute books. It divides the able-bodied male cit izens between the ages of 18 and 45 into two classes, organized and reserve militia, and accepts as the former class the armed and uniformed State forces now maintained. It provides for assigning regular officers to instruct this organized militia, and authorizes the secretary of war to furnish six heavy guns or mortars, and also camp and garrison equippage to each State for its militia ; and it establishes a bureau of militia in the war department. The present statutes contain no such distinction between organized and reserve militia, but have sundry ancient provisions directing the able-bodied citizens to be ready for service, or enrollment, with "a good musket or firelock" and "two spare flints," while the ^officers must have "a sword or hanger and spontoon." It is quite time to modernize these laws, which were enacted in 1792; but very likely it will also be found advisable to add something to Mr. McKenna's bill. The coming meeting of the National Guard Association at Washington will probably suggest such additions. Ike ?0rMle (?uq?im'. >< YOKKVILLE, S. C. : o/ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29,1890. COL. JAMES A. HOYT. The mention of Col. James A. Hoyt's name in connection with the nomination for the office of governor of South Carolina, in the approaching canvass, is already meeting with much favorable comment. By extracts from several of our State exchanges, which we publish this week, it will be seen that he is already receiving an endorsement of the press. We second the nomination. A man of the people, with an untarnished private record for virtue and honor, and a public life unsullied by blot or blemish, too noble to stoop to the subtle wiles of the politician, he would inlfk Kim in fha ornhprnfltnrinl ohair inav tt i vii vm w v**w ? v. ? the confidence of the people, and his administration would be of such a character as to retain it. A RACE AROUND THE GL0BE.7 An exciting race around the globe between two enterprising young newspaper women, came to an end last Saturday evening by the return to New York of Miss Nellie BIy, who accomplished her task in seventy-two days six hours and eleven minutes, having covered during her travels a distance of 23,000 miles. She sailed from New York for England on the 14th of November. Her competitor, Miss Bisland, pursued a different route, going by rail from New York to San Fancisco, and traveling west all the time. She reached Paris on the 18th, but too late for the Havre steamer, and she then hastened to London and took a steamer, the Bothnia, which unfortunately for her is a slow sailing vessel. Had she caught the Havre [steamer, with fair weather, she would probably have beaten Miss Bly, whose return was via San Francisco, and her progress was impeded by the snow blockade of the western railroads. Miss Bisland has not yet arrived, though her vessel is now due. As it is, it was a pretty race and shows what can be accomplished in this age of steam and electricity. Miss Bly says, however, that if people in other parts of the world would travel with the same rush and speed that we do in the United States, the trip could be made in twenty-four days. THE FARMERS' ADDRESS. The address of Mr. G. W. Shell, of Laurens, President of the Farmers' AssociaI tion of South Carolina, to the Democracy bill does not imply coercion. It provides an appropriation of $5,000,000 for the purpose of assisting the negro to leave. The emigrant must make application to the nearest United States commissioner, and make oath that he intends to move permanently and that it is done in good faith. When the application shall have been approved by the commissioner, the quartermaster general of the army is required to furnish the desired transportation. This is about the substance of the bill. On the 16th instant, Mr. Butler addressed the senate in support of his proposition. A full report of his speech is printed on the first page of this paper. He made a strong and dispassionate argument, and did not of the State, is printed on the fourth page of this issue. The address is lengthy and remarkable in some, of its utterances. The point is made that South Carolina has never had a republican form of government since the days of the lords proprietors, but it has been an aristocracy under the forms of a democracy, and that "whenever a champion of the people has attempted to show them their rights and advocated those rights, an aristocratic oligarchy has bought him with an office, or failing in that, turned loose the floodgates of misrepresentation and slander in order to destroy his influence." This is a broad assertion regarding the past history of the State; but if it is startling, what shall we think of the charge made as to the present condition of affairs wherein it is said by Mr. Shell: "All the cry about 'existing institutions' which must remain inviolate, shows that the ring?the South Carolina University, Citadel, Agricultural Bureau, Columbia Club, Greenfield building ring?intend, in the future, as in the past, to get all they can, and keep all they get. These pets of the aristocracy and its nurseries are only hoping that the people will again sink into their accustomed apathy." A general arraignment is made of everything pertaining to the State government, from the governor down to the humblest official, and the charge of inefficiency is freely made. But these abuses it is proposed to correct inside the party lines, without the intention of disrupting the j present Democratic organization. What may be the result of the remarkable manifesto is yet to be seen. Fortunately it was promulgated at an early day, and will give the people time to reflect upon the serious charges made; and it is equally fortunate that the proposed convention is called at an early date. The deliberations and actings of that body can go before the people in ample time before permanent nominations are made, and if this "Farmers' movement" means anything more than a mere wholesale arraignment, the people will know it. THE RACE PROBLEM. We are not of those who believe any great amount of good can result to either race by a continual discussion of the problem now supposed to be confronting the white and black people of the Southern States. There is really no problem, only as the importance of the question is magnified by constant discussion, which is fruitless of anything except to clothe the negro with undue consequence, and cause him to believe that he is the only and the greatest issue before the contending parties of the nation. If the "negro" question should be entirely ignored for a few months by the Southern press, leaving it for Northern Republican sheets to vapor over the supposed wrongs of the black race as much as they pleased, they would soon become tired of the subject and we would have a quietus to the barren discussion. Rut while this is true, the question will not down. It comes up in nearly all our deliberative bodies, and occupies much of the time of our national legislature. Senator Butler's proposition to deport at government expense all negroes in the United States who may desire to change their home to Africa, is now under discussion in the United States senate. The confine himself to party or section. He presented the subject in a clear and forcible style, and in such a cool, dispassionsionate manner as must have surprised the bloody shirt shriekers on the othei side. That the plan proposed by Scnatoi Butler, if carried out, would redound tc the benefit of the negroes none will deny, but it would be an undertaking almosl too gigantic for consummation. Presenting the question as he did, has had one effect, at least. It has put to the test the question of the Southern negro's attachment for his home, and the sincerity of his pretended Northern friends in aid ing him to secure a better one. It proves that while to a certain extent, and tha1 mainly through persuasion, the negro is inclined to migrate from one Southerr State to another, he has no desire to bend his steps northward, and to an unappreci able extent to sail for Africa's golder strands. It has also brought to plainei "ioiv thp hvnncrisv of the Northern Re publicans in their pretended sympathj for the negro. Hoar and Blair replied t( Butler immediately, and on Thursday In galls, of Kansas, made a two hours' speech in the senate in opposition to Butler'! bill. So far from taking a broad and libe ral view of the subject, as did Butler, hi! speech was devoted to vituperation anc abuse, and much of it was of an incendi ary character. And while he spoke ir this strain, he offered no words of encour agement to the negro, nor did he propos< any plan by which he might better hi; condition. VIRGINIA ELECTION LAWS. A delegation of colored men from Vir ginia were before the house committee or election of president and vice-presiden last Saturday, to talk about the operation! of the election laws in Virginia. Then were five persons in the party as follows A. W. Harris, Joseph T. Wilson, W. W Avans, P. C. Carrigan, and Ross Ham ilton. They formed a committee appointed bj a convention of colored people held ii RiniimnnH TWomhor 17th Inst. In nresen JLVI\*&J 1AJVUU | *yvwu?vv? ? v? | .MW.y - ? r - this matter to congress. Harris was th< principal speaker, and he submitted t written statement showing, at length, lh< manner in which it was alleged the regis tration laws of Virginia had been evaded and manipulated in various Federal elec tions. Other.members of the delegatior made short addresses, and were closely questioned by the various members of th< committee concerning the statements thej made. The address presented says that on th< registration day before the last election 30,000 legal voters in the State were dis franchised. In conclusion, an appeal ii made to congress to change the existing national election laws so that it shall n( longer be in the power of election officer! to disfranchise arbitrarily any voter t< whom is given the right of ballot by th< constitution, and to remedy the wrongs and evils which they complain of by re ducing the representation accorded in th< house of representatives proportionate^ to that extent in which suffrage in th< Southern States, and especially in Virgin ia, is practically denied and suppressed. MERE-MENTION. Upon the invitation of the Virginia leg' islature, Senator Daniel delivered an eulo gy of Jefferson Davis in Richmond las Saturday. The address was heard by e large audience, including many distin guished persons. Being "too weak t< withstand a power of the first rank,' Portugal has answered England that sh( will withdraw her troops from the dis puted African territories of Shire anc Mashonland." For several days last week negro laborers employed in the lum, ber industry near Apalachicola, Fla., wer< nn a strikp. and sn serious was the situa^ tion regarded, that the governor ordered out a company of militia to preserve order Thirty-five ringleaders have been arrested and quiet is partially restored. Capt Sanford.C. Kellogg, of the U. S. cavalry has completed the special duty on which he has been engaged for a year past, the compilation of an accurate map of the battlefield of Chiekamaugua. The subscription lists for the Grady monumenl fund have been closed. There has beer subscribed to date $17,055. Tammanj Hall, of New York, contributed $500 tc the fund. In a street fight, which occurred at Sabatha, Kansas, on Thursday night, Wesley McNamara, a prominenl citizen, was bitten on the finger by 2 stranger, whose supposed name is Gilbert Jones. Saturday, McNamara died in terrible agony, exhibiting symptoms of hydrophobia. During the hearing of a case of conspiracy and riot transferred from Fort Bend county, Texas, to Galveston, a terrible tragedy was enacted in the court room on Wednesday, in which Kyle Terry, a nephew of the late Judge Terry, was killed, and two men were badlj wounded. A band of 800 Indians, or St. Peter's reserve, a few miles from Winnepeg, is rapidly dying out. They are affected with la grippe in its most severe form, and being without proper medical attention, rapidly succumb to the malady. Cassius T. Lee, a prominent citizen, and grandson of Light Horse Mori-v r.oo nf Rovnliitinnflrv f?mp. (lied W1 ' J Vi ? V?U VawMvra^ * ~ J at Alexandria, Ya., last Thursday, aged SI years. Revenue officers have recently made two seizures in Gaston county, N. C.?the still of Alonzo Iihyne, and that of a man named Forbis. EBusiness failures during last week for the United States were 295, for Canada 43, s total of 33S, compared with 33G the previous week. For the corresponding week ol 1S89 the figures were 330 in the United States and 32 in Canada. Two-thirds of all the children born in Connecticut in 1880 were boys. There are in the Episcopal Church Diocese of Virginia about 00 churches without rectors. The most remarkable case of insoraonia on recordls reported from that land of remarkable products, Georgia. Charles Harden, a negro, of Athens, in that State, is said to have lived four years without sleeping at all. Ransome Gill, a well-to-dc farmer, who was serving as juror in the superior court at Louisburg, N. C., was assassinated and shot dead last Thursday evening while on his way home from court. Coffee transactions on the New York Exchange last year amounted tc 14,37S,750 bags, a decrease of 6,000,00C bags. Reports to the agricultural department of Kansas represent the growing wheat crop in that State to be in a very fine condition. During the calendar yeai of 1889, 109,140,917 pieces of coin were exeecuted at the mints of the United States, having a total value of 858,194,022. The Russian government will begin nextspring to build its 4,500-mile railroad across Siberia. This is a big undertaking, and its estimated cost is 8220,000,000. Negro emigration from North Carolina continues unabated. It is estimated that 27,000 have left that State within the last three months. It is estimated that it will require 40,000 enumerators to take the census this year. They will commence theii work in June. The seceders from the Woman's Christian Temperance Union who left the old organization on account of its affiliation with politics, have organized at Cleveland, Ohio, under the name of the Non-Partisan Woman's Christian Temperance Union. About 200 ladies representing the States of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Maine Vermont, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota, were present. The warm rains in northern California last week have melted a large quantity of snow in the mountains and caused the rivers and --* a. a ^ SI reams IU uvernuw men unimu, uuiuj; great damage. George H. Lounsbery, cashier of the New York post office, or being detected in a shortage of about $40,000 in his accounts, committed suicide by shooting himself last Saturday morning Codification of the Statutes.?The Newberry Observer criticises the action o the legislature in providing for the codifi cation of the statutes. The consitutior provides that the laws shall be codifiec every ten years. The first compilatior came out in 1871?the Code of Procedure having been published in 1870. The pres ent general statutes were issued in 1882? the legislature having been somewhat tar dy in providing for the codification. The compilation ordered by the recent Act wil come none too soon. There is a genera demand among lawyers all over the State for something better, in every way, thai the present general statutes. That wori reflects little credit on anybody.?[Spar tanburg Herald. > LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. I Miss Daisy Williams?Portrait Painting. W. D. Glenn?I havo Arrived. W. C. Latimer?Thought for Pood!?Som Solid, Unvarnished Facts for Epicures. Kennedy Bros. it Barron?Headquarters fo School Books and all Kinds of Fin , Stationery and Writing Material. 5 Mrs. T. M. Dobson?200 Pairs of Children' Shoes?That High-toned Low-pricei Racket Store of Dobson's has got then i at Last. , M. it H. C. Strauss?Cold Rain and Wind. Withers Adickcs?Profits are short with u ' Nowadays. ' II. F. Adickes it Co?Watches, Clocks an< Jewelry. 1 HANDLE FACTORY, t The machinery of the spoke and handl i factory is being placed in position, work i men to operate the same are arriving, am 1 it is expected to start itall in motion thi - week. 1 JUDGE PRESSLEY. The opinion was current that Ju( .j; vx 1 - a. _ m ^ ...UU 4 1. r rressieys term 01 urnue ka^iicu wilu m last session of York circuit court at whic he presided; but it does not expire unti the close of the present week. He pre sides this week at Spartanburg, and hi successor, Judge Izlar, will finish the terra 3 ALLIANCE MEETING. i A meeting of the sub-trustees oN^for! . County Farmers' Alliance was hefti inth i court house yesterday. The meeting wa . attended by a full representation. Th > object of the meeting was to elect a count 3 agent for the State exchange vice Capt. h H. Glenn, resigned. Mr. Joseph C Walker was elected to the position. TAX COLLECTIONS. The time for closing the tax books wil expire on Friday next, after which date rr further extension of time will be given and the penalty will attach on all unpai< taxes. At this time about $7,000 remain unpaid in York county, and the numbe ol delinquent tax-payers is between on thousand and eleven hundred. REVIVAL SERVICES. The revival services at the Baptis church, of which mention was made las week, are still in progress. The pastor i being assisted by Rev. V. I. Masters, c this place, and Rev. J. Q. Adams, of Rod Hill. There will- be services to-night a , 7.30 o'clock, when an announcement wil - be made with regard to the continuatioi i of the services. 1 BIBLE SOCIETY. 3 There will be a meeting of the officer 7 and members of the executive committe of the Yorkville Bible society at the Ex 3 change bank at 5 o'clock this afternoon ' The meeting is called to attend to loca business and to appoint delegates to th 3 meeting of the Bible association of Soutl ? Carolina which will meet in Columbia oi the 12th of February next. > ELECTRIC LIGHTS. V/ ? Mr. P. 0. Hebert, a representative c 3 the Westinghouse Electric company, c . Pittsburg, Pa., and Charlotte, N. C., is ii 3 town for the purpose of working up j company to invest in theestablishing of ai 3 electric light plant at this place. At . meeting of citizens in the court house oi Friday night, a number became sufficient ly interested in the scheme to undertak the organization of the proposed company THE FLY. " Dr. W. M. Walker exhibited at Th] Enquirer office yesterday morning specimens of the fly or insect which is de vasttaing the growing oats and wheat ii , this section. He informs us that they ar quite numerous on his farm, and the com plaint comes from other localities in th I county that the pest is inflicting seriou t damage to the crops. It is also reportei to be very destructive in other parts of th J State. I T51ANUFACTURING IN CLOVER. A certificate of charter has been issuei ' by the secretary of State for the incorpora tionofthe Clover Cotton Manufacturinj ' company, located in Clover, this county . to oin nnn Tho nflFWr ' i nc capuai 10 ^ivjuvui A?IV VU?W? and directors elected are as follows: Presi " dent, W. B. Smith ; secretary and treas urer, M. L. Smith; directors?J. J. Wilson r J. It. Barron, W. B. Stroup, W. B. Smith ? Z. Carroll, J. F. Jackson, L. K. Arm strong, T. P. Whitesides and D. M. Wal ^ lace. \/ l / ^-BUILDING NOTES. Mr. T. B. McClain is procuring the ma " terials for building two six-room cottage ' on the lot formerly owned by Miss Sa ! Watson, on Cleveland avenue. He is als , building two smaller cottages on his lam t on the Pinckuey road, in the southwes suburbs. When these are finished he wil I have built eight neat residences for occupa j tion by our increasing population. i Mr. John It. Ashe has given out the con s tract for a neat dwelling house on his lo ? south of his residence. I . COMMITMENTS TO JAIL. ; Joseph Millwood, white, was committe< to jail last Thursday, charge with crim inal assault upon two little colored girls near Blacksburg. Frank Jackson, colored, was also com I mitted to jail, charged with burglary am larceny upon the premises of Rev. It. M f Stevenson, near Bethany church, on th< 1 night of the 21st instant. r On Monday night, Richard Belk, colored i was lodged in jail on a commitment b: i Trial Justice Johnson, of Bethel township i the charge against him being larceny o * live stock. ! THE JENKINS RIFLES. ' A meeting of the Jenkins Rifles wa held at their armory on Wednesday nigh | last. The resignations of Capt. J It. Lind . say and Lieut. H. C. Strauss were tendere< > and regretfully accepted by the company > Tim fnllnwinf* nftiepra were then elected v.tw.....,, J Walter B. Moore, captain ; James B. Bell first lieutenant; Itufus A. Parish, secon< ; lieutenant; Rev. R. G. Patrick, chaplain , T. F. McDow, attorney. Several nev I members were received into the company and it was determined to go forward an< - comply with all the requirements of thi ; militia law of the State as amended at th< . last session of the legislature. THE COTTON MARKET. ; For several days past the cotton marke ! has been active with good prices, thi highest paid in Yorkville being 10.85. Ii all the markets the prices were high, thi | cause being generally attributed to thi ; short supply, although the crop of las [' year will be about 7,.'100,000 bales, which i more than for a number of years past ' The supply seems shorter than the de s mand. On the other hand, it is though [ by some that the Alliance is controllinj the cotton and holding it back from mar ) ket, thereby appreciating the price i Whatever may be the cause, so long a the receipts continue small, and the visibli " cotton does not increase in the interior j good prices will probably hold. J THE JURY LAW. There has been no change in the jur^ [ law as it affects York county, since the ac ; approved December 22,1883. At the las , session of the legislature that act wa 1 amended simply by the addition of thi word Greenville, so as to make the act ap Dlicable to that county as to York and thi other counties named, and to include th? ; counties of Aiken and Barnwell in thi f second proviso of section 22o8 of the Gen " eral Statutes. As a matter of interest ti J those liable to jury service, we publish th' , section: ? Sec. Whenever tho terms of the court _ of general sessions and common pleas in th counties of Edgefield, Barnwell, Marion Aiken, Williamsburg, Richland, Orangeburg York, Greenville and Colleton, shall bo for tw< ) or more weeks, no petit juror shall bo requirei [ to serve more than one week at any term o 1 said courts. Thirty-six jurors shall be drawi } in the manner provided by law to servo for th ' first week, and a like number shall be so drawi J to serve for each subsequent week, of each tern : of said courts: Provided, That whenever - jury shall be charged with a case, such jur; shall not bo discharged by reason of anythinj in this section contained until a verdict shall have been found or a mistrial ordered iu such case : And provided, That the thirty-six jurors drawn in the county of York for the second week, and in the county of Barnwell for the second week of the winter term, and in the coun6 ty of Aiken for the second week of the spring term, may be held over after the expiration of r the time for which they wero drawn and until e the business on Calendar 1 of the court of common pleas for said counties shall be disposed of. ? Separate writs of venire shall issue for the d jurors drawn to serve for each week of said 11 terms of court: Provided, also, That the board of jury commissioners for Marion county, fifteen days preceding each spring term of the s court, shall draw thirty-six petit jurors to serve for the first two weeks of the term, and ^ on the first day of the spring term to draw thirty-six other jurors to serve for tho balance of the term. 6 UNITED STATES COURT. The regular February term of the United d States district court for the Western diss trict of South Carolina, will open in Greenville on Monday next, the 3d of February. The Greenville News learns from revenue officials that the term will probably be a e long one. The number of cases already ? made up is unusually large and the prospects are that the court will have the | heaviest docket it has attacked for years. The cases are mostly of the usual trivial 9 nature, however, and there are very few " of special importance. York furnishes no petit jurors to this k term. The following citizens of this coun?. ty were drawn to serve as grand jurors: s 14. B. Campbell, Clay Hill; Matthew Hare per, McConnellsville; W. B. Daniels, Rock ? ? * CHURCH BUILDINGS. The work on the new Methodist church is virtually completed, though there is some delay in making interior arrangeI ments. The bell was put in position in 0 the steeple last Thursday. It weighs 000 '? pounds and is in the musical tone of b d flat. The date for the dedication has not 3 yet been determined upon, though it will r be some time in next month. Bishop Dune can will be requested to preach the dedication sermon. With the completion of this building the Methodist congregation it will have an edifice for worship in which it they may justly take pride, s The finishing touches to repairs of the ,f Presbyterian^church have just been put k on. Besides a new slate roof, the exte,t terior walls have received a coat of stucco' II and the wood work has been freshly paintn ed?all in appropriate and harmonizing tints, which add to the architectural beauty of the building. ^<6 8 PERSONAL MENTION, e Mrs. C. G. Parish is visiting at Ruth erfordton, N. C. i. Mrs. Bell, of Mecklenburg, N. C., mothil er of Mrs. W. L. McDonald, is visiting her e daughter. 1 J. M. Garrison, formerly of York wile, but recently in business at Knox ville, Tenn., has recently accepted the position of bookkeeper for H. Baruch, ofCharlf IotJ?-JMr. M. M. Ross, of Sharon, and Mr. Ed. Q IwMcClain, of Yorkville, have accepted a positions as salesmen in Messrs. John a May, Jr. & Co's. dry goods store. a.Y We regret to learn that Mr. Robert E. q Goithrie, of Guthriesville, in this county, is lying very low with a second attack of ?L..i ? i_- i . xr e paralysis, wmcn came uu rum rasi xuuur> day afternoon. ' -/.Mr. Julius A. Carpenter and Mr. W. W. Crates, formerly of Greensboro, N. C., with E their familes, have recently removed to '? Yorkville. Mr. Carpenter is employed by the Carolina Buggy company, and Mr. a Gates by the Yorkville Spoke and Handle e company. e CHURCH NOTICES. g Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. j J. C. Galloway, pastor. Services nextSune day at 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sunday-school at 3 p. m. ? Methodist Episcopal?Rev. G. H. Waddell, pastor. Prayer-meeting this evening 1 at 7 o'clock. Love feast on Friday even ing at 7 o'clock. Services next Sunday at ? 11 a. ra. and 7 p. m. Sunday-school at 3 p. ' m. The hours for services will be indicas ted by the ringing of the bell of the new - church, the bell of the old church having i- been taken down. i Baptist?Rev. R. G. Patrick, pastor. ? Services at Union next Sunday at 11 a. m. - and in Yorkville at 7.30 p. m. Sunday school at 9.30 a. m. Prayer-meeting tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. Episcopal?Rev. K. S. Nelson, pastor. _ Morning service on next Sunday at 11 8 o'clock. Sunday-school at 3.30 p. m. e Evening service as announced at morning 0 service. j Presbyterian?nev. t. it. jt^ngusn, pas^ tor. Prayer-meeting to-morrow evening 1 at 7 o'clock. Services next Sunday at 11 . a. m. and 7 p. m. Sunday-school at 3 p. m. STATE PENSIONERS. An adjourned meeting of the county 1 pension board was held in the court house on Monday last to pass upon applications not regularly filed at the meeting on Mon] day of last week. Twenty new applica. tions have been made, nine by soldiers and i, eleven by widows of soldiers, all of which have been passed upon by the board. The - following is a list of the new applicants: ] soldi Kits. A. D. Bums, Lominack, P. 0., a soldier in * Company O, 18th S. C. V. 2 John Childers, Hickory Grove, Company B, 5th S. C. V. Y. VV. Neal, Hickory Grovo, Company K, ' 17tli S. C. V. / J. W. Shedd, Hickory Grove, Company F, ( 23d S. C. V. 1 Sherod Childers, Hickory Grovo, Company 1 C, 17th S. C. V. A.J. Jlugties, urovor, uompany r., jzwi 11. C. State Troops. Joseph A. Pursley, Hickory Grove, Comg pany G, 18th S. C. V. , J. I). Sutton, Fort Mill, Company 11, fith S. 1 C. V. E. M. llailes, Yorkville, Company K, 30th j N. C. State Troops. WIDOWS. Nancy M. Dunlap, Rock Hill ; widow of : Robert Dunlap, Company A, 17th S. C. V. , Itemintsio Martin, Rethauy; widow of Rob4 ert L. Martin, Company R, 13th S. C. V. M. L. Merritt, Fort Mill; widow of R. N. 5 Merritt, Company II, 18th S. C. V. y N. A. McSwain, Yorkville ; widow of S. 0. McSwain, Company G, 49th N. C. State Troops. ' Nancy E. Adams, Rock Hill; widow of Win. I Adams, Company A, 17th S. C. V. 0 Latitia Ann McCarter, Bethany; widow of p O. N. McCarter, Company G, 18th S. C. V. Mary M. Bowen, Blaefcsburg; widow of R. L. Bowen, Company C, 17th S. C. V. Mary N. Whetstino, Grover; widow of W. F. Whetstine, Company G, 49th N. C. State Troops. ^ Sarah Wyatt. London ; widow of 0. W. \Yyatt, Company M, 16th N. C. State Troops. ? Mary E. Revels, Clover; widow of John J. 3 Revels, Company G, 18th S. C. V. B Nancy J. Rattaree, Bethel; widow of Henry R. Rattaree, Company B, 5th S. C. V. 1 THE GUBERNATORIAL RACE. 8 Col. James A. Hoyt, of Greenville, has been mentioned in connection with the - next Democratic nomination for governor, t Colonel Hoyt is one of the best men in the j State. He would make an admirable governor.?[Spartanburg Herald. Col. James A. Hoyt, of Greenville, is * /?f f Ka a no noraoQ a memiuueu u,y ouuicui uic uiaicpupbipmii candidate for governor, to succeed Govere nor Richardson. He will probably have a strong support if he enters the race.-[Anderson Journal. It is yet rather early in the year to be springing forward candidates for State of7 fleers. There will likely be no lack of t material available from which to select, t and no harm can come of talking of these o matters, though a little early in the season.?[Newberry Herald. B The Florence Times nominates Col. Jas. ' A. Hoyt, of Greenville, for Governor, e and shows conlusively what kind of agovb ernor he would make if he could be induce ed to run. The Press seconds his nomination, and thinks that no better man for the position could be four.d in the State.--[Colfeton Press. 0 Before a grain of corn has been planted the Columbia Register comes up bustling 8 with the question, "who will be the next 6 governor." Dear contemporary, wait until crops are laid by and the State conven0 tion will meet and relieve your anxiety. 1 ?[Barnwell People. n ? Judge A. P. Aldrich is now presiding 6 at his last court, in Abbeville, which con1 vened last Monday, as his term of office a expires with Abbeville court. Judge y James Aldrich, who succeeds him, will g hold his first term at Anderson. LETTER FROM ROCK HILL. i Correspondence of the Arkville Enquirer. ( Rock Hill, January 27.?The spring- e like weather continues with us. The farm- \ era have certainly nad a splendid opportu- I nity for preparing their lands for the t coming crops, and I am pleased to say that 1 most of them are availing themselves of ( the opportunity. It has always been the opinion of your correspondent that the s better the land is prepared the better crops i are raised. t On Wednesday last the annual meeting t of the stockholders of the Rock Hill Con- 1 struction company was held in the Board t of Trade rooms. The president made his 1 report, after which an election for seven < directors was held, which resulted in the election of the former directors, viz.: W. ] M. Frew, A. Friedheim, D. Hutchison, ] W. L. Roddey, J. B. Johnson, W. G. ] Reid, R. T. Fewell. The board, after the i meeting, held a meeting and elected the ' following officers: W. M. Frew, president; i D. Hutchison, vice-president; J. B. John- 1 son. secretary and treasurer; W. H. Stew- 1 art, manager. J The King's Daughters gave a pleasant ! entertainment at Roddey's hall Friday i ? - ?L 1 nni T\\7 r\ ? r* urn o nnito 1 Illgni. 1 lit; cl iipUUTOU V* CUUlUg YT?0 VJUHV ? a novelty, and some of the actors might have wished it a reality. Quite a nice sum 1 was realized. 1 C'apt. E. II. Mils, who returned last 1 week from Charleston, where he had been 1 attending the pet stock exhibiton, reports the same as a grand success. J Rt. Rev. W. 13. W. Howe, of the diocese of South Carolina, preached two sermons < in the Episcopal church on Monday morn- 1 ingand night, which were listened toby j large congregations. He leaves to-day 1 for Chester. < The music at the Episcopal church o.i l Sunday morning was very impressive. ] Mr. Wm. Dillingham at the organ, assist- J ed by Mr. Robert Hope, Jr., on the cornet, and Misses Ella and Gertrude Davis, Mr. I and Mrs. J. J. Hagans and Mr. E. B. i Rock, added much to the service. f The quarterly conference of Rock Hill circuit was held at St. John's M. PI. church, at this place, on Saturday. On Sunday morning and night, Rev. A. M. Chreitz- ] berg conducted the services, and at the lat- 1 ter the communion was administered. The contractors of our town are circula- ] ting a petition to the town council asking < that body to pass an ordinance requiring each and every building contractor to pay < a license of fifty dollars a year. j The Rock Hill Library, under the new and excellent librarian, Mrs. L. A. Bar- i ron, has become quite a pleasure resort for j our young people, and the older ones can- . not refrain from paying a visit. It was J truthfullv said in the Rock Hill edition of The Enquirer that it is "The People's' Pet." In the country the farmers have taken advantage of the good weather and are well up with their work. From the number of mules in market our horse dealers must think there will be an unusual amount of ploughing done this season. There were good congregations Sunday | at India Hook and Concord. There will be preaching next Sunday at Adnah and | Antioch by the pastor. One of the young ladies attending the Antioch school played sick one day last week, and instead of going home fell in with her lover and got married. At Antioch church preaching had been announced for two men at the same hour on last Sunday, one of whom was to preach on prohibition. At the appointed hour a large congregation assembled, and neither preacher put in an appearance. When the pastor made the announcement, he said from the two men you will certainly get one sermon, but he was mistaken, hal. LETTER FROM BLACKSBURG. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. Blacksburg, January 28.?It is certainly time that we were having some winter weather, and to chronicle the fact of a decided change in that direction would afford me much pleasure; but I cannoi, for the past seven days, with one or two exceptions, have been warm, and some of them sultry and oppressive. Yesterday was as bright and pleasant as a summer day, and fires were not necessary to comfort last night. A sharp north wind is blowing this morning and a fall of several degrees in the temperature. The promised service was held in the Episcopal church. The ministers present were Revs. Messrs, Gadsden, McCullough, Holly, Bratton and DuBose, the latter two reading the service, and Mr. McCullough pronouncing the benediction. An able and instructive sermon was delivered in a very eloquent and forcible manner by Mr. Holly to a very attentive congregation. Services will be held again in the church on Sunday next. ltev. Geo. L. Cook, who has had charge of the Presbyterian church here, has resigned, and will make Greenwood his future home, from whence he will go through ; the country as an evangelist. His work will be within the bounds of South Carolina presbytery. Rev. Lewis McSwain, an aged minister of the Baptist church, was buried at An- ? tioch church on Sunday. lie was one of the few men, now living, who did not be- , lieve that it was necessary for a preacher j of the gospel to be educated; but that the j God, for whose cause he labored, would put i the heeded words into his mouth, and, i therefore, that all of his utterance when in s the pulpit, were divinely inspired. He j was an industrious and useful citizen, and r at one time exerted quite an influence in j his church and section. s On Friday last, Charles Hopper, while carelessly handling a shot gun, which he thought was not loaded, accidentally dis- J charged it, and part of the contents entered ! the back of the seven-year-old grand child . of Nero Graham. The wounds, though * not serious, are very painful. All the " parties are colored, and live near Antioch c church. 5 Mr. Guy ton, our postmaster, has moved ! the office to the opposite side of the street j into the building he recently bought, and which formerly belonged to D. C. McKinney, deceased. c Maj. Jones left yesterday morningforSa- c vannah, to attend a meeting of the freight J superintendents and traffic managers of * the several lines of railway in the South. 8 He was accompanied by Mrs. Jones, and t Dr. and Mrs. Jarvis, who will take in Sa- c vannah, Ga., St. Augustine, and other t points, in Florida. * Mrs. Theo. D. Bratton and Miss Lizzie * Bratton are visiting the family of Dr. f Anderson. j Mr. Jno. H. Keeter, a former resident of this place, was married last Wednesday to a Miss Edna Duke, of Pendleton, in the } Baptist church at that place, Rev. J. A. e White, of Blacksburg, performing the r ceremony. The happy couple are spend- r ing their honeymoon at his father's in c Rutherford county, N. C. w. a. 1 MRS. MORRIS* ACQUITTED. I Mrs. Cora Scales Morris, of Reidsviile, a N. C., who for several days past has been t on trial for her life at Wentworth, the coun- e seat of Rockingham county, charged (1 with murdering her husband last August, was acquitted on Monday last, un ac- i count of the youthfulness and beauty of \ the prisoner and her family connections, t the case attracted wide interest. 1 The testimony adduced against her was c in brief as follows: i Martha Williamson, the colored cook, c was the first witness examined. She tes- p tified that on the morning of August 19, 8 1889, she went to Mr. Morris's room, and v that he was lying on the bed with his c hands folded across his breast, as if dead, f A handkerchief was spread over his face h and an empty chloroform bottle was near s the bed. She told Mrs. Morris that her s husband was dead, and she told her to go a on about her business, saying she (witness) q was a fool. s Charles Fetzer, the Beidsville druggist, j testified that he received a note on Sunday p night, the 18th of August, 1889, saying: s "Send two ounces of chloroform and charge g to Mr. Morris." Mr. Fetzer sent the chlo- p roform as requested. ? C. M. Goode, who was the first white t person to go into Mr. Morris's room after rj his death, testified that Mrs. Morris did t not want him to go to Mr. Morris's room, c saying he was not dead, but sleeping. Air. T. W. Hannaford was placed on the witness stand and his evidence created t a decided sensation. Air. Hannaford is J a young man and lives in Iteidsville, the p home of Airs. Alorris. He testified that he a knew her and said that he had seen her p ? i it, i?i i?? *ur QruDK El ner noiut*. nenuu uucu tucic m ? the night and saw several whisky quart o bottles about half full about the house, fi When asked what hour he was at Mrs. t Morris's house where she was drunk, wit- t ness replied, "From 1 to 4 a. m." 1 Mr. J. C. Womack, an insurance agent, c testified that some two weeks before Mor- n ris's death, he met Mrs. Morris on the li street. She asked him if he insured lives. Told her he did. She then told him that A she wanted him to insure Mr. Morris and d asked about the cost. Said she would r send Mr. Morris to see him. Mr. Morris s came the next day. Gentleman was in ( the office when he came in. Called wit- \ less out and told him he wanted to take iuta $10,000 policy but did not care for inybody to know it. Said he did not ,vish it himself and was just doing it to ilease his wife. Told witness he wanted he policy made payable to Mrs. Morris. Policy was delivered to Mrs. Morris about me week before his death. Dr. L. G. Broughton, a Iteidsville phyliciat, who cut out the dead man'sstomich and made an examination, testified :hat he could not arrive at any opinion as :o what caused death, but said death could lave resulted from chloroform by inhalaion, and did not think Mr. Morris could nave administered it himself undei the circumstances. Dr. J. N. Hester, a dental surgeon of (ieidville, was among the first to go into Mr. Morris's room after he had been reported as dead. Mrs. Morris told him lot to go, that her husband was not dead iut sleeping. He told her that he would lot disturb him and went on. Morris tvas on his back, lying out at full ength on the bed, with his hands folded icross his breast and stomach. Witness said he found the handkerchief over his mouth, covering the nose slightly. Examined to see if he could detect any pulse. N'one. I moved the handkerchief from lis mouth. I saw the chloroform. I detected the odor. I saw a bottle of chloroform on the bed. The handkerchief ivas wet. Mrs. Morris did not tro on the witness >tand, and introduced no evidence at all. After argument, which was made by jminent counsel both for the State and the prisoner, Judge Merriman charged the ury, and they retired at ten minutes to 'our Monday afternoon. After remaining )ut half an hour returned a verdict of not juilty. While the verdict was not unexpected, it is claimed that it does not give satisfaction. Mrs. Morris married her husband against ler will, and to rid herself of him was the uotive charged for her commission of the illeged crime. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The South Carolina Conference of the Northern Methodist church will meet in Marion to-morrow. ? There is considerable complaint in Newberry county of damage to wheat and mts by the fly. ? About forty negro families, numbering 100 men, women and children, have left Barnwell for the West, and others will go. ? W. II. Charles, who shot and killed Wash Cannon, colored, in Greenville, a ew nights ago, has been admitted to bail jy. Judge Norton in a bond of $1000. ? Newberry has voted in favor of estabishing graded schools in that town. Only 1G votes were cast against a two-mill tax or that purpose. ? A. C. H. Kopff, a citizen of Sumter :ounty, while in a fit of despondency, :ommitted suicide in Atlanta last Thurslay night by shooting himself with a fistol. ? R. P. Moore, a young white man who ,vas confined in Chesterfield jail for killing W. Allan Jordan last September, broke jail i few nights ago by boring out with an luger, and made his escape. ? N. T. Purdy & Co., of Camden, who for leveral years did the largest business of my house in Kershaw county, made anaslignment last Saturday for the benefit of heir creditors. They attributed their ailure to the short crop of last year. ? There are only two prisoners in Abbeville jail at present. Lewis Burnside is serving out a sentence for selling liquor, ind is also held under a charge of murder, lim Davenport is held for trial on a charge )f larceny from the field. Both are colored. ? The Spartanburg Herald entertains the jpinion that W. J. Gramlin, formerly of ;hat town, and whose death was reported ?s having occurred a few days ago at San Luis, Mexico, is not dead, and that the story is only pretence. It seems that he is jnder recognizance for trial at Spartanburg for murder. ? Laurens as a mule market is something ;o be wondered at. During the present season more than two hundred and fifty lave been sold, and there are now three lundred on the market. This number ioes not include those sold under mortgage account. The largest sales of any one lay were made sales-day in January, numbering 72. ? Last Saturday morning at 5 o'clock, as ;wo southbound freight trains were nearng Honeapath on the C. and G., railroad, ,he second section telescoped to the first, :ompIetely demolishing the engine and several box cars. One negro brakeman vas killed outright. The engineers and ireman of both trains saved their lives by umping. ? Thedwelling house, kitchen and smoke louse of Mr. George Caughman, who lives ibout twelve miles south of Prosperity, in Edgefield county, was destroyed by fire Friday morning about 4 o'clock. The loss vas almost complete, as he saved only a i small part of his household goods, all of >acon and one barrel of flour. The loss is ibout $800 ; no insurance. ? The stockholders of the Atlantic, Ashe/ille and Knoxville railroad met at Gaffley City last Friday evening and the folowing elections were made: President J. V. Sarratt; vice-president, Major J. W. Wilkes; treasurer, Colonel A. N. Wood; lecretary, S. B. Lathan ; attorney, J. Stoio Farrow; general manager, D. A. Thomas. The officers and directors of the oad seem to be very sanguine about the luccess of the enterprise. ? Frank Nichols has been appointed iostma8ter for Greenville. Nichols is a lative of Maine, but has been a citizen of jreenville for a number of years, conductng successfully a fancy goods and toy itore. He has been a consistent Itepubli:an, but never meddled with local politics >r associated in any way with negroes. 3e is competent, and will be as acceptable o the people of Greenville as any one of he half dozen candidates for the place. ? Last Saturday night five prisoners estaped from the jail at Kingstree. The es:ape was affected by cutting through a wo inch board on the inner cell with a cnifeand removing the brick work in a ipace large enough to crawl through, cuting a like opening through the masonry >f the outer wall under one of the windows, earing a blanket into strips and tying it o the iron lattice work of the window and hereby reaching the ground some fifteen eet below. One prisoner remained in the ail. ? A white man named James Vincent,# ind Charles Gilliam, Lattie McMahon and iVm. Davis, colored, have been arrested ind committed to jail, charged with the nurder of the colored woman, Susie Ferlandez, whose dead body was found in a litch near Union C. H., a few days ago. The woman had been murdered at least a veek before the discovery was made, Wm. Davis having confessed that the body was it first concealed in a vault in the Presbyerian church yard, where it remained sevral days before it was thrown in the litch. ? On last Wednesday night, four miles rom the town of Abbeville, A. N. Nelson vas shot and killed by his wife, and she atempted to take her own life by shooting lerself immediately afterward. The evilence was very meagre at the coroner's nquest, and the jury found that the deeased came to his death at the hands of >arties unknown to them, but the woman dmits that she did the killing. No one vas present at the time but their little hildren, theoldest of whom isa boy about Ive years of age. The little fellow says lis mamma killed his papa about a pair of hoes. It seems that he bought a pair of hoes in Abbeville that day for his wife, nd going home under the influence of li[uor, he lost them on the way, and his wife ent him back to look for them. Iteturnng again without them, hiswife, in a fitof assion, seized a shot gun and fired one hot at him. The load took effect in his houlder and side of his head, several shot enetrating the brain through the ear, :illing him instantly. She then placed he other barrel to her forehead and fired, "he shot tore up the scalp and fractured heskull. She isstill alive but in a very , ritical condition. Tiie Snow Bound West.?Even with he cold snap of last week in the South Atlantic States, it is difficult for our peoile to realize the intensity of the cold t the same time in the Northwest. Disiatches from many points in Wisconsin, owa and Illinois report that the mercury n Thursday reached the lowest point so ar this winter, ranging in different secions from 10 to 26 degrees below zero, he latter temperature being recorded at Slack Kiver Falls, Wisconsin, Thursday oorning. Thursday evening the weather noderated and a heavy snow fell over arge aieas. A dispatch of Thursday from Tocoma, Vashington, says: The first train in ten lays over the Union Pacific railroad arived here yesterday morning. The pasengers report a snow blockade near Baker lity, Oregon, where eight passenger trains cere snowed in, the first one having been caught Sunday a week ago. The passengers report a terrible experience, three passengers having died during the blockade and a number of women and children being taken sick and receiving no other attention than that extended by their fellow passengers. The second train, bringing a large quantity of delayed mail, arrived last evening. At least ton human beings, and thousands of catt'e perished in Washington during the past week. Reports from Colvillo Reservation are to the effect that cattleare dying by hundreds from starvation and thirst and that the ground is covered with over two feet of snow on a level, and in some places is d-ifted mountains high. The keeper of the stage station, twelve miles from Alma, started to walk to town last Thursday, and Saturday his body was found on the prairie only a mile from his home, frozen stiff. The mail carrier at Wild Guose Creek perished on the same day, and eight cattlemen are known to have lost their lives in the storm. Cattle men estimate that they will lose half of their herds this season. A dispatch of Monday from San Francisco says: Railroad officials at Sacramento succeeded in having communication for a short time iate last night with theTruckee office on the eastern slope of the Stova mountains, when it was learned that snow is sixteen feet deep on the track between that place-and a station five miles west of there. The late rains, followed by freezing weather, had transformed this into ice which will have to be chopped out anil ok/MtAl/t/1 ninntt !-??? om/vciuu awajr uv ijauu. It is understood that the railroad company have endeavored to secure telegraphic communication with Reno in order that a few at least of the West-bound trains that are there can be ordered back to Ogden and their passengers transferred to the Southern route. The situation remains the same on the road to Oregon. The water in the streams and rivers of California is receding, but in some places slowly. The loss throughout the State by flood cannot be even approximated or estimated at this time, but it seems certain it will not be so great as at first estimated. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. In the house, last Monday, several bills and resolutions were introduced. In committee of the whole the house proceeded to consider the bill appropriating $1,500,000 for the erection of three United States prisons and for the imprisonment of United States prisoners. An amendment was adopted providing that prisoners under 20 years of age shall not be associated i n confinement with those of older years. A long discussion ensued and then the committee rose and reported the bill favorably to the house and it was passed. One of the prisons is to be located north, and one south of the thirty-ninth degree north latitude and east of the Rocky Mountains. The third is to be located west of the Rocky Mountains. In the senate a bill was introduced by Senator Hale, of Maine, and referred, requiring the superintendent of the census to ascertain the number of people whoown their farms and homes, and the amount nf thp mnrtaacrp. indebtedness there on. The resolution heretofore offered by Senator Chandler, calling on the attorney general for the report of the United States marshal for the Northern district of Mississippi, concerning the maltreatment of Henry J. Pounce, at Aberdeen, Miss., was taken up for consideration. This is one of the measures introduced in the senate by the Republicans for political effect, and its discussion by senators of both parties was long, and at times manifestations of warmth were exhibited. Senator Walthall, of Mississippi, first addressed the senate. He said that from what he had heard of that affair he felt warranted in saying it was simply the wauton conduct of a few persons, disapproved by thecommunity in which itoccurred. He was followed by Senator George, of Mississippi. Chandler, of New Hampshire, and Ingalls, of Kansas, replied, and the discussion was then participated in by Hoar, of Massachusetts, Wilson, of Iowa, and Reagan, of Texas. The resolution went.over without action. Founce, whose alleged mistreatment gave rise to Chandler's resolution, is a citizen of Indiana, and a house painter. While working on the roof of a house in Aberdeen, to which one end of a rope sustaining an effigy of Secretary Proctor was fastened, the rope became detached and the effigy fell. It was alleged that Founce cut or unfastened the rope intentionally, and , in consequence he was horsewhipped by some of those sympathizing with the effigy demonstration. Senator Butler gave notice that his colleague, Senator Hampton, would address the senate to-morrow on the bill to promote the emigration of the colored people. ALLIANCE TOPICS. ? C. A. Richey has been elected group agent for the sub-Alliances which trade at Abbeville. ? The first organization of a Farmers' Alliance on the seaboard was consuraated in Charleston last Saturday, when a subAlliance composed of farmers of James and Wadmalaw islands was organized in that city by E. T. Stackhouse, president of the State Alliance, and W. N. Elder, State organizer. ? A traveling salesman who arrived at Savannah last Sunday from the interior of Georgia, says that the merchants of several counties are nonplussed by an Alliance boycott. The Alliance, in its opposition to middle men, notified the merchants in Washington, Emanuel, Johnson and the adjoining counties, that if purchases continued to be made through drummers, the farmers would boycott the merchants. ? On the first Tuesday of this month the Farmers' Alliance of Elbert county, Ga., arranged a scale of prices for their trade for 1S90, and submitted the same to ha mprnhnnts of Elherton. It seems that these prices did not suit those merchants who did a supply business, but the cash houses readily acquiesced, and signed the agreement. It is learned that since that time there has been a boycott issued by the Alliance against five business houses in Eiberton. ? The farmers of Spartanburg county are making their arrangements to buy more guano from manufacturers than usual. The Alliance people will generally use the same brand. But many others who use as much as a carload are going to buy where they can get it the cheapest. The local dealers will not sell as much as usual. About half the guano used in the country will be bought in carload lots from manufacturers. ? The Laurens County Alliance has appointed a committee to make arrangements with prominent manufacturers of commercial fertilizers as to securing their supply for the present year at the lowest possible prices. A number Have answered satisfactorily and it is presumed these will control the bulk of the trade this year. It is understood also that the Alliance has made satisfactory arrangements with merchants in Laurens for the obtaining of their supplies, such as groceries, hardware, etc., and in consideration of the alliance trade the merchants have agreed to pay the salary of the trade agent of the Alliance. Meeting of Representatives of tiie Militia.?The executive committee of the National Guard Association of the United States, have directed that a meeting be called at Washington, L). C., on next Wednesday. Each State is entitled to be represented by officers or ex-offlcers of the National Guard, to be selected in such a manner as may be directed by its adjutant-general. Among the subjects which will be discussed are: Increase of appropriation, uniform arm of service for the several States, and the hygiene of the militia. It is believed that if there shall be a strong representation from the different States at the meeting, it will do much towards inducing Congress to increase the appropriation to $1,000,000. Adjt.-Gen. Bonham has already complied with the request of the association that he should forward to its officers statements showing: 1. The number of occasions on which the militia of the State have been called into active service since 1875. 2. The number of times called out, the causes and the terms of service. 3. Notable incidents of such occasions. 4. The advantage derived by the public from such services. 5. The sacrifices made by the troops and the number killed or injured. (?. What the State militia require in the way of arms and equipment. This information was asked and sent in order to show congress what the militia of the several States has done and what it needs. To attend the meeting on behalf of South Carolina, the following officers of the State troops have been appointed as delegates: Adjutant-General M. L. Bonham, Jr. ; General R. N. Richburg, of Columbia; General C. St. G. Sinkler, of Georgetown ; Lieutenant-Colonel 1). Cardwell, of Columbia; and Major If. II. Rutledge, Jr., of Charleston.