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?raapis and darts. ?Col. H. C. Thompkins, chairman of the Alabama Democratic State committee, has been interviewed in regard to politics in in that State. Pie says he has no fears as to dissention in the Democratic ranks. The party is united, "and will remain so as a matter of self-defence." He does not anticipate any trouble of a serious nature from the recent trouble over the Farmers' Alliance matter. ? Two negro preachers, named Clarcy and Robinson, have filed suit at Atlanta against the Richmond and Danville railroad because, on the way to a conference at Athens last summer, they struck up with a crowd of jolly fellows who insisted on their dancing, to enliven the trip, all the way from one station to another. The preachers estimate their grievances at $20,000. ? Fifteen suits against as many druggists were commenced at Leavenworth, Kan., last week by Assistant Attorney-General Black, who was appointed by the governor for the special purpose of enforcing the prohibitory law in that city. The attorney alleges that every druggist in the city has been violating the law. One druggist acknowledges having sold two hundred flasks of wnisky in twenty-four hours to those who thought they had the grip. ? Great damage has been done in California by the Los Angeles river. It has changed its course at almost a right angle just south of the city limits, and after crossing the country for six miles empties *-*- U Cl O Tka innn. law me U1U oau aauun nvci. mc muwdation covers a large area. A large number of orange, walnut, lemon and other orchards are almost ruined. Growing crops in its course are completely destroyed. The total damage in tbe locality is estimated at $750,000. ? A few weeksago, Governor Goodell, of New Hampshire, issued a proclamation eirioining a rigid enforcement of the prohibition Jaws of that State. Following oat tbe intent of the proclamation, on Friday last forty-three saloons in Manchester were raided by the sheriff. The proprietors bad evidently received a tip, as very little liquor was found. The bars, and other tell-tale fixtures,"were noted as evidence and their keepers were summoned to appear in court Monday. ? Probably never before has a court ruled corn to be fuel; but it was so decided by a local justice at Wichita, Kansas, last Thursday, in a suit brought to satisfy a debt of $100. A thousand bushels of corn belonging to a farmer named Stead man had been attached. Steadraan said he was using corn for fuel and that a thousand bushels was not more than sufficient to last a year, and the justice ruled that under the law exempting a year's fuel the attachment could not hold. Tko o?n Ina inniophf nf n RS9 371 hftlftS ? X 11X7 1* V SJ* l?W TTVigUv V* ? of cotton op .he returns of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange embracing port receipts ? and the overland movement for five months ending January 31, inclusive, is 498 42-100 pounds per bale. Details by sections show?Texas 520 2-100; Louisiana 494 65-100; Alabama 497; Georgia 486 86-100; South Carolina 487; Virginia 485 44-100; North Carolina 488 17-100; Tenneseee, etc., 508 1-100, this last based on Memphis averages, 565 31-100, and St. Louis 512 per-bale. ? The election in Ohio on Tuesday to fill two vacancies in the legislature caused by thedeaths of Democrats resulted in returning Democrats. In the fourth senatorial district, the Democratic nominee was elected by 1,600 majority, an increase over the majority at the November election. In Franklin county, the Democratic delegate was elected by 4,200 majority, the largest majority ever received by that party in the county. The Democrats n.train havo a mainritv of eicht on ioint ballot, which will enable them to pass such congressional redistricting bill as they may desire. ? A hew phase has been given the famous murder case for which Dick Hawes is now in Birmingham, Ala., jail, awaiting execution of the death sentence on the 28th of this month for the murder of his wife and two children. John Wyly, a railroad man, was arrested at Atlanta, Ga., last Friday, on a telegram from Birmingham, charging him with complicity in the crime. It is understood that Hawes has made a statement implicating Wyly. Another version of the affair is that the warrant for Wyly's arrest was sworn out by Jim Hawes, Dick's brother, in the hope of delaying the execution of the sentence. ? On Monday last, the sub-committee on Indian Affairs heard arrguments on the senate resolution providing for the removal of the Apache Indian prisoners of war from Mount Vernon barracks, Ala., to Fort Sill reservation in the Indian Territory. Delegate Smith and Maj. Lewellen, of Arizona, spoke in opposition to the bill. They claim that if these Indians are sent west of the Mississippi, river, they will prove a troublesome element and will soon return to their old ways. Col. Law of the war department, was also present and answered questions put by members of the committee in regard to the customs of these Indians, etc. ? Mrs. Jefferson Davis has issued a circular in which she says, in reference to the biography being prepared of her late husband: "In order to make the book as complete as possible I shall be greatly ODiigea 11 our irienas wnose personal recollection of Mr. Davis would throw any light on any event of his life or tend to Illustrate his character, will record them and forward them to me. As I shall endeavor, as far as possible, to tell the story of Mr. Davis's career in his own words, I shall regard it as a real service to be furnished with copies of any letters from my husband relating to any public topic that his surviving friends may have preserved." ? The Augusta, Ga., correspondent of the News and Courier says the railroad emigrant agents have been ordered to leave the State of North Carolina, where they have been drumming up business among the negroes. The people of North Carolina are getting tired of having all the negroes leaving for the profitable fields of the West and are going to put a stop to the negro exodus. Recently several railroad agents who were in the State forming parties to leave were notified that they must get out of the State, as they were doing the country a serious injury. It is said that the communication to the agents was followed by an additional argument in the way of the six-shooter, which was an effective warning, and the railroad men have gotten outside of North Carolina's line and they do not intend to return. ? Both houses of the Mississippi legislature having passed the bill calling a constitutional convention, it has gone to the governor and will doubtless receive his signature. The convention will assemble August 12 next, the delegates being elected July 29. The bill does not provide for the submission of the work of the convento the ratification of the people, but this | does not prevent theconvention from ordering its submission and appointing a day when the people may vote for or against it. A Democratic State convention will probably be held not later than May to nominate the fourteen candidates for the convention to be voted for by the State at large. Two of these delegates are to be residents of each of the congressional districs, and must not be residents of the same county. ? Secretary Tracy's house is said to have caught fire from a steam drum encased in wood. The manner in which a heat of less than scorching intensity sets fire to woodwork is not generally known. The conditions necessary are, first, a degree of heat not less than 212?; second, the presence of wood in close proximity to the iron steam pipes; third, the existence of scale or rust on the iron; fourth, varying temperature. The heat drives the oxygen from the iron rust, which then becomes what is known as reduced iron, a finely divided metallic powder of the natural color of iron. The heat necessary to ignite the wood, which is in a tinder-like condition from its proximity to the hot pipe, is generated in the rapid oxidation of the iron. It absorbs oxygen so rapidly under certain conditions of humidity and temperature as to glow for a few seconds, long enough to set the adjoining wood on fire. ? The color line appears to be drawn with some severity in the Chickasaw Nation, where a capitation tax upon white men dwelling in that community, always a subject of some grumbling, becomes additionally so because the whites have lately been disfranchised. People cry out against taxation without representation, but taking away the ballot from taxpayers who have once enjoyed it is a rare occurrence anywhere. In former years it was the black men among some of the tribes of the Indian Territory who complained of the drawing of the color line against them. However, the authorities at Washington have taken the ground, on the strength of legal decisions, that the Indians have the right to determine who are to. - citizens, and they have not been slow to exercise it. Last October the Chickasaw supreme court disfranchised the whites who had married Indian women of the tribe, and some of whom not only had been voters for years, but were at that time members of the legislature at Tishomingo. There was a dissenting opinion, but the secretary of the interior promptly recognized the majority opinion as valid, and for practical purposes it "goes." It is this decision which has embittered the prospect of the next collection of the head tax on white men, and it is quite possible that trouble will result. The question has some bearing also on the proposed sale of Chickasaw lands and allotments in severalty, so that it may ultimately reach congress. UflrMle (Hhiquutr. YORKVILLE, S. C. : WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1890. " THE MERCURIAL FRENCH. Some consternation was caused in Paris last Friday by the appearance in the French capital of the Duke of Orleans, the oldest son of the Count of Paris, who is the head of the house of. Bourbon-Orleans, and as such, the claimant of the French throne. He was banished from France, when but a boy, in 1818, but afterwards permitted to return. Four years ago he and his family were banished a second time. The sudden appearance of the son, Philippe Louis Robert, gave rise to the story that the count, as pretender to the throne, had abdicated his claims in favor of the duke, the heir of Louis Phillippe, and the heir of the old Bourbon line, and the young man was arrested, the fear having been entertained that he had entered France unbidden, to attempt a coup d'Etat after the manner of Napoleon III. The duke, however, protests that having just attained his majority, he entered France for the purpose of placing himself at the disposal of the military authorities? that is, to serve as a conscript for three years in the French army. The authorities did not look with favor upon this story, and while he is held as a prisoner, it is probable that he will be escorted out of France? His father sailed from Portugal a few days ago for the United States, and this fact gave color to the suspicion of a plot against the French Government. The repeal of the law providing for the expulsion of members of the Orleans family was on Saturday moved by Mr. Pradien, in the Chamber of Deputies. Deputy Pradien contended that the enforcement of the law wounded patriotic sentiment, and made it impossible for ihe descendants of illustrious Frenchmen to serve their native country. The motion was opposed by Deputy Thevent, and was finally rejected by a vote of 328 noes to 71 yeas. A NOTE OF WARNING. The Greenville News, one of the staunchest advocates of the farmers' movement in the press of the State, points out ni. u f/-v ho q miafobrn in fho wuat it WUV.U1YW V\J UW c* UilOiwuv a? V..^ plan proposed in -the address recently issued by Capt. Shell. The News denies "the wisdom of the recent action of the executive committee of the farmers' movement, as announced by the manifesto of Chairman Shell," and advises "repudiation or amendment of that action by the friends of the movement." The News then goes on to say : "The executive committee has the right to call a convention of the body of which it is the active force and to recommend certain action. But it has no right or power to enforce obedience to its recommendations or suggestions. The convention will be, when it meets, a sovereign body and can take such action as it may deem proper. "Our advice to the people is to elect delegates to the convention instructed to oppose the nomination of a State ticket or any action further than the preparation and publication of a clear, distinct platform of principles and demands. "The signs of the times indicate that any ticket put up in March will be doomed to defeat at the Democratic convention in August. We can agree on principles, but will split on men. The farmers' movement is not so thoroughly organized that it can concentrate and hold its strength for any ticket it may present during a campaign of four months. A ticket made in March would have arrayed against it the strength, of every ambitious man in the State whose name was not on it. The press of the State is unanimously against nomination by the March convention, and a ticket nominated then would face the hostility of the newspapers, including many which have heretofore been the staunch friends of the fanners' movement. "With the course of legislative und executive action the farmers intend o insist upon clearly outlined, it will be easy to elect to the Democratic State convention delegates pledged to support no man for any office who will not publicly commit himself to that action; and a caucus the night before the convention can choose from the available men those for whom the 5** otTmnotkiT HlfJfK fofmoro UClCgatCO iu ojiiipatii,y rvtvu tuo tuiuivto will vote. That will do away with slates, or the suspicion of them, and make the result as nearly the expression of the will of the people as it is possible to obtain in any convention. "The farmers of the State have the control of affairs in their hands if they will use their power wisely. They are organized and united. They can take possession of the party machinery and have the right to do it because they compose seventenths of the party's strength. They will make a disastrous mistake if they waste their strength by uselessly promoting divisions among themselves and challenging hostility and opposition. "Their duty and interest is to give their power for measures, not for men." grievances^ the negro. The convention of colored men in sessession at Washington last week, elected ex-Governor 1*. B. Pinchback, president of the national organization, and issued an address, which, after rehearsing in the usual manner the grievances of the race, closes as follows: "The propositions now pending in congress looking to the deportation of, or immigration of colored American citizens of this country to any other country, or even to any other part of our own country, through government aid, also meet with our most emphatic condemnation and disapproval, for we cannot exile ourselves irom mis euumry ns a ucuiiini^iu^ movement against our growing numbers as an excuse for the nation doing its duty towards American citizens. While we recognize the right of colored American citizens to go to any country they may desire or any other part of our own country, yet we do not believe that it is any part of the duty of the general government to render aid or assistance from the federal treasury for that purpose, and we do not ask it. All weask isjustice, equal rightsand fair play. If under such circumstances, we cannot survive, we will have none to blame but ourselves. We recommend the adoption of the following resolutions: "Resolved, That the national organization, created by this convention, be authorized and instructed to call upon the president of the United States and present him with a copy of this address, and also to thank him in the name of the convention for his kind allusions to colored Americans in his address to congress; also to appear before the different committees of congress having jurisdiction of the subject matters referred to in this address, for ' the purpose of urging upon said committees the necessity for the said proposed legislation and to give reasons in detail for the same." I # __ Not so Bad after All.?A dispatch ; to the Louisville Courier-Journal from : Lexington, Tenn., under date of last Sat-! urday, gives an interview with II. J. j Fonze, the alleged victim of violence at; Aberdeen, Miss, about whom so much has been said in the United States senate re- j cently. Fonze says: "I went to Aber deen in October, after the death of Jeffer- J son Davis. In December I went upon the j roof of a building to work, and found aj rope which I untied. I did not know then that it was one which held an effigy of 1 Secretary Proctor, of the war department. ( When I came down I learned that it had ( been reported that I had said no effigy ( should be hung while I was in town. 1 Will McDonald, bricklayer, asked me t about it, and struck me across the nose and | eye, inflicting a slight wound. I conclud- i ed to leave town. The mayor came and f asked me to stay, promising me protec- ? lion. Citizens also asked me not to leave, i I went off on the night train. I learned that McDonald came to the depot to talk i to me, but I did not see him. I did not i think much of it and see no cause for | all this fuss which has been raised. I am \ a hot-headed Democrat." Fonzehas had, as yet, no communication from the attor- j ney-general. < CAPT. SHELL REPLIES TO CAPT. JONES. | To the Editor of the News and Courier: ] In answer to the communication of Col. s Iredell Jones, published in the News and j Courier on the 3d instant, allow me to say ( that I am afraid he has taken a one-sided { view of the call for a convention of the t Farmers' Association, which is to be held ] at Columbia on March 27, proximo. The call, when boiled down and tersely stated, l amounts to this: ( First. A demand for a more economical government by the reduction of ex- 1 penses, salaries and unnecessary "existing I institutions" wherever practicable and J possible, which will insure a general reduction of taxes, as well as the benefits of an agricultural college, without increasing the burdens of our people. Second. A demand for cheaper, more practical and scientific education for the farmers and mechanics, artisans and laborers in the State, all of which is embraced in the demand for an agricultural college. Third. A demand that the land scrip and Hatch funds, the agricultural bureau, and fertilizer funds be used for the benefit of those who pay them, or for the purpose for which they were intended, instead of being diverted and monopolized for other "existing institutions" as they have been. , Fourth. A demand that the railroad commission be made of some benefit and use to the State, or abolished altogether, so that the responsibility may rest squarely upon the railroads for any any mis- < management and oppression, until such t time as the people may see fit to curb and i control them, by fair and proper laws. \ Fifth. A demand for reapportionment of ? representatives and senators in the gene- ? ral assembly, and also in our Democratic , conventions, so that all parts of the State ' may be fairly represented, and the State { freed from the autocratic control of tfbrtain { parties and places, regardless of the will ( and wishes of the people. I Sixth. A demand for a constitutional ( convention, by which our judiciary and , certain fundamental laws could be reform- i ed, thereby makinga better and more eco- J nomical government of the State possible. , Seventh. A demand that the penitentia- ( ry system be so conducted as to give the t greatest possibie return to the State, both J in money and in the improvement of our i public works, roads, highways, bridges, . etc. f Eighth. A demand that the South Caro- ] lina University, which has had no opposi- j tion from us, should take care of its own . interests, and that its friends and advocates should cease their opposition to the | Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical col- ( lege, for in truth, there is no necessary an- , tA/?A?\!n?vi hAfmnan f ttTA , Ul?ULI10Ul uciwxcu nic bnv< These are the principal demands made i in the call which I had issued, at the re- . quest of the executive committee of the \ Farmers' Association, and the call ends as ] follows: ( "We therefore issue the call for a convention oi tliose uemocrais wno syuiptumzu wuuuui views anil purposes, as herein set forth, to meet in in Columbia in the house of represen- 1 tatives on Thursday, the 27th day of March 1 proximo, at 12 o'clock M., to nominate a ticket $ for every State oflicer, from governor down, to i be put in the field for ratification or rejection t by the next Democratic State convention, and we pledge ourselves to abide the result, wheth- * er that is for or against us." Now is there a single demand made * therein that was not made in the Farmers' * Convention of 1886, and which has not 1 been repeated timeland again, both in and ( out of our conventions, up to the present * time? The farmers do represent about 1 eighty percent, of the people of the State, ) and they have endeavored by every means in their power to secure the benefits and J remedy the evils alluded to in the call, 1 and they have also endeavored to "modify J the laws of the State by other methods," 1 and now, after having been bitterly op- { posed and thwarted at every turn, they 1 have been compelled to call a convention ! of all those who sympathize with them J and their views, for the purpose of nomin- 1 ating a ticket which will go before the ( people and advocate them. The call makes no distinction as to pro- ! fessions, callings or classes; and all "arti- ' sans, mechanics and laborers, as well as all f professional or mercantile classes who sym- 1 pathize with us," are invited to co-operate. 1 Certainly "the Democratic party is " strong enough, and good enough," and we c do not propose to use any other, but we 8 certainly have the right inside of the party 1 to meet, formulate our views, let our wants ? be made known, and put representatives ^ in the field who will advocate them, and 1 most steely, we admit the right of others f who do not agree with us to pursue a 8 similar course. Of course it would suit 1 some people for us to go along in the old c ruts, and let other people control us, as 8 they see fit, but we have found that the ^ "usual methods" are inadequate to the oc- 8 casion, particularly as they are under the 8 control of the "existing institutions." ; The Clerason College will not be secured 1 until we have a legislature perfectly in c sympathy with us, and our other demands c will not be complied with until we have a ? Democratic convention, and a State gov- 1 ernment in perfect accord with us. If we } sit still, rely upon "ordinary methods," 1 allow our Democractic convention, State c government and general assembly to be J controlled as they have been, we can only 1 expect a repetition ot the ring rule which has so long been the bane of the State. G. W. Shell. \ Laurens C. II., S. C., February 7,1890. ^ THE OUTLOOK IX CONGRESS. A Washington dispatch of Sunday fore- c shadows the work of congress the present week as follows: The new code of rules will be the chief subject of interest to come before the 1 house of representatives for consideration this week. It is the intention of the com mittee on rules to call it up as early as * possible, and to ask the house so to limit debate as that final action on the sub- f ject may be reached within two or three ^ days. While there are many of the new * rules that are obnoxious to the Democrats, it is not probable that opposition will be r manifested otherwise than by speeches > and by adverse votes upon them, provi ded the minority are afforded what they > regard as reasonable time for discussion. < Trobably by the time the rules are uis- < posed of the committee on elections will ? have reported the contested election case of Atkinson vs. Pendleton, from West t Virginia, and action upon that case will t consume the remainder of the week, with > a possible exception in favor of the unfinished business, which is the bill to extend i the circulation of national banks. 1 There are Indications that the Blair edu- 1 cational bill, which has the right of way > in the senate, will run through the week I and perhaps a longer period before a vote is reached upon it. The author has not > yet finished his speech, and a number of 1 senators are ready to follow him with set 1 speeches on the same subject. The bill in charge of Senator Piatt to organize a Territorial government for ? Oklahoma will probably bo disposed of 1 in the morning hours, and any odd ends 1 of time therein remaining will be devoted to miscellaneous "unobjected" business on > the calendar. > In executive sessions the senate, it is * expected, will consider the nominations of Gen. Morgan to be commissioner of Indian affairs, Dr. Dorchester to be superintendent of Indian schools, and ex-Governor Warmouth to be collector of customs at New Orleans, all of which are subjects of controversy. The Board of Agriculture.?A meeting of the State Board of Agriculture was held in Columbia last Friday. ExGovernor Ilagood was unanimously reelected chairman. Among the proceedings was the following: I The board refused to grant the petition : of the State Agricultural Society for an 1 appropriation to be applied to an agricult-! ural experiment station near Charleston, j Official recognition was granted to It. II. Ferguson, of Buffalo, N. Y., who is endeavoring to plant colonies in South Carolina, and the commissioner was recommended to give him such assistance in his work as he might deem advisable. On motion of Col. Duncan, the movement, initiated by the New Jersey board of agri-! culture looking to the organization of a I national board of agriculture, advisory to1 :he secretary of agriculture, was endorsed, ind the board promised to have South Jarolina represented at an agricultural :ongress, which it is proposed to hold at Washington, in advocacy of such a nationil board. The board also endorses the jroposition of the New Jersey board that eports of State boards of agriculture and state horticultural societies be caused, by ict of congress, to be carried free in the nails. The board determined to continue work it the Darlington and Spartanburg experinent stations and made the usual approariation of $5,000 each for carrying on their .vork this year. The director, Mr. McBryde, was instructed to make experiments to ascertain die quantity of okra stalks that can be jrown per acre on average upland and bottom lands, and the cost per pound of sroducing the fibre. The director was instructed to make monthly, or as often as Dracticable, to the commissioner of agriculture for publication, reports of the progress of experimental work at stations and he result of such experiments as are of Dublic interest. Governor Hagood offered the following esolution which was unanimously adopt}d: The State board of agriculture of South Caroina recogizes with pride the fact that in eoniletition with the whole United States the argest crop of corn grown has been by a South Carolina fanner. They further recognize the act that this is the largest authenticated crop >f Indian corn ever grown to the acre in any >art of the world ; therefore, Resolved, That the thanks of the board be md are hereby tendered to Mr. Z. J. Drake for he honor he has by his acbievment conferred ipon his State, and the demonstration he has 11HUU Ui luu puasiunintJa ui uui oua anu ujiuiatc* On Mr. Porcher's motion the board revested Mr. Drake to report to it the results of future crops grown on the prize icre, with the view of ascertaining the ;ontinuing effect of the fertilizers used in Baking his famous crop. It was decided to hold a State faffhenr nstitute at Ridge Spring, Edgefield coun:y, the coming summer, and a resolution ;ncouraging the holding of county farriers' institutes was adopted. A SPLENDID IDEA. Editor of the Enquirer: I have re:ently heard informally discussed the feasibility of establishing a seminary for poung ladies in Yorkville, and although he idea has, as yet, taken no definite shape, I deem it a capital one, and Would isk that you kindly permit me space in pour columns to help agitate the matter. In the first place, the necessity or sucn in institution. You have but to look ibout you to see it. Every year numbers )f young ladies are sent off to school, perlaps to another State, from this town, lounty and surrounding counties. It is jenerally with much reluctance that their parents allow them to go so far from under heir care and protection. But there is no remedy. They must be educated or allowed to grow up in ignorance, and some senjible parents actually prefer the latter ilternative to sending their daughters too rar away from home. A first class semiaary at Yorkville would derive a handiome support within a radius of less than 3fty miles, to say nothing of the patronage it would necessarily receive from the lower part of the State. It cannot be denied that this town would ae a perfect location for such an institution. Its health record will compare favorably with any point in the world. The climate is all that could be desired. The moral atmosphere is of .the very purest. Our people are educated, cultured ind strictly religious, representing all Protestant denominations, and forming a :ommunity into which no parent would abject to sending his daughters. The benefit that such an institution ivould be to the town is hardly to be es;imated. Say that it shall be capable of iccommodating one hundred young ladies, say twenty of them are residents of the own and eighty are from abroad. It is jstimated that the expenses of a young ady at a first-class boarding school unounts directly and indirectly to about ;wo hundred and fifty dollars a year? lot less than that. Here is a saving if at ieast $5,000 per annum by keeping iur daughters at home, besides bringing n from an outside source not less than >20,000 from the eighty other young ladies. This is not fancy either?it's fact. Educa;ion is a necessity. It must be had, and his money is now being paid out^md :onsiderably more, from a radius of less ;han twenty miles of this town. A first,'lass seminary at this place would receive nore than enough patronage within the larrow limits just mentioned to support t, and by going but a short distance furher out, enough more to make it abunlantly profitable. Now to the last point. So far as raising he necessary capital is concerned, the semnary is more than half established. The King's Mountain Military School buildng is admirably adapted for the purpose, [t combines all the necessary requirements -a splendid building, provided with all :onveniences, suitable location and handomely arranged grounds. There is not a letter building for the purpose?one so :omplete in all its appointments?in the state. The idea is to convert the propery into a boarding school. It would reiure about $30,000 capital to operate such i school. Now suppose we go about it in his manner: Form a stock company and Ii vide the stock into 1,200 shares at $25 per hare. The owner of the school property vould put a part, or the whole of it, in as tock. Here you have about twenty thouand dollars to start with. Surely the renaining ten thousand can be raised in the own and vicinity. In this manner we an establish a first-class school for firstlass people, and charge and receive firstilass prices. Properly managed, such an notifufirvn ii-nnir) h*? a fliviflpnrl navinerin vestment in less than'three years. In fact, t would almost repay our people iu the >utput of money kept at home which vould otherwise be sent abroad for educaional purposes. These ideas are not mine. They origilated with a very observant Northern genleman, Col. Pardee, of the Manufacturers' Record, but I am ashamed that I did not hink of the matter before. However, I iincerily hope that the progressive spirit >f our people will carry the scheme to success. Yorkville, S. C., February 10. VIGOROUS GROWTH OF AX ALLIANCE. lorrcspondenre of the Yorkville Enquirer. Blackstock, February 8.?We are not ixactly in The Enquirer's circuit, but ead a good paper like it all the same. We ask a small space to tell a few solid acts about a solid Alliance, Shady Grove, STo. 144, which was organized one-and-alalf years ago, with five members. Anti- Allinnpo rrmn watnhed our move nents with the same spirit as iittle Bessie vatched her baby brother when he crawlid over the floor, thinking this vay nature intended him to navigate. )ne day he stood up by a chair, when she :alled her mamma to "come quick and lee baby stand on his hind legs." From five we grew to ninety. This body >eing too large and scattered, we decided o divide, and White Oak Alliance No. 191 was organized. We have made arrangements to get noney, at a low rate of interest, and will )uy for cash this year. Said money was >orrowed from one of the firms we traded vith last year, who has always proved a lelp in time of need. Folks didn't like us ere we dared say a vord about politics. Now if we hurrah or Tilman, Shell's Manifesto, or the "Infernal College" they still don't like us. 'How cau somebody please such people?" Can we divide the Democracy when we ire three-fourths of it ? Let the court miicp rino's nnd other small billious bodies all in line and stop their grumbing. Other brunts we also look for; but this ,ve have resolved on, to wit: "To run vhen wo can, to go when we cannot run, ind to creep when we cannot go." ty. Chamberlain on the Negro.?At the neeting of the Boston Reform Club, held ast Saturday evening, ex-Governor Chamjerlain of South Carolina, made an able ind eloquent speech, protesting vigorously igainst the Republican pension policy and ilucidating the negro question in the South. He contended that there is no race Droblem, as such, that the negro in the South is making better progress than at my time since his freedom, that instead )f being a race problem, the negro ques,ion is a political problem, engineered for he sole benefit of the Hoars arid Chanders and Ingalls of the North, and that the government has done all that it can do for he negro in his social and political life. ? In the Chesterfield sessions court, last Friday, Judge Witherspoon presiding, fames Blakeney, colored, was convicted of ;he murder of Robert Simpson and sen;enced to be hanged April 4. He was ac:easory to the crime. The man that did :he shooting has not been found. A wonan was at the bottom of the quarrel. All he parties are colored. I LOCAL AFFAIRS. I fi? . - - I of NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Pr E. A. Crawford, S. Y. C.?Sale Under a Lien. Miss Daisy Williams?Removal. R. J. Herndon?Piano Tuning. tn Creighton, Sherfesee & Co.?The Rock Hill re Machine Works. t( Mrs. T. M. Dobson, Proprietress?I Am Still Printing My Low Prices, No Matter who it Hurts. W. C. Latimer?Mercantile Gossip. A few ]q Rambling Remarks on the Quality Line. ? Withers Adickes?Our Rraneh Store. J. A. Darwin, M. D.?Money saved by wait- " >ng. > - / B FINE ORANGES. Di Mr. F. J. Sturman, of Anthony, Florida, Pi has our thanks for a box of select oranges, pn the product of his grove. ch STATE PENSIONS. Under the new pension law, pensions will be given out in two installments, instead of by monthly payments as was done last year. The payments will be issued he through the clerks of court on March 15, bl and June 15. There are about 2,000 per- fo sons entitled to pensions, and each of these de will receive $12 at each installment. a jV CHURCH DEDICATION. /The time fixed for the dedication of the " neWMethodist P]piscopal church in this 0 place is Sunday, the 23rd instant. As here- ce tofore announced, the dedication sermon th will hp nrpftched bv BishoD Duncan, of ry " ' v . ? ' Spartanburg. On Friday night next the an trustees and stewards of the church will ty meet in the Sunday-school room of the new edifice for the purpose of arranging a of programme of the dedication services. SP POSTPONED. it i The entertainment promised last week by the Willing Workers to be given on Uc the 14th instant, has been postponed until next Tuesday evening. In the development of their plans, the young ladies realize that they have not allowed themselves sufficient time in which to perfect Fl arrangements for the elaborate treat pro- Pr posed, and hence the postponement. We are assured that there are some pleasant |r( surprises in store for next Tuesday. . . pi HE W ON THE PRIZE. ra A few months ago the insurance compa- fr< ny represented by Mr. Sam. L. Miller, of f0 this place, offered a prize of a fine double case gold watch to the agent in this State re who would write up the largest amount of p, policies from the 1st of February, 1889, to ra January 1st, 1890. The award has been gr made, and Mr. Miller was the winner, jj| he having written policies to the amount de of $175,000 in the time specified. This is W( said to be the largest insurance business th ever done by one person, during a single dc year, in this State. da nANK AT TU.ACKSRIIRO It On Friday last a declaration was tiled wi with the secretary of State and a commis- ha sion issued for the incorporation of the an Magnetic Bank of Blacksburg. The ne amount of the capital stock is to be $20,000, oc to be divided into 400 shares of the par *ei value of $50 each. The corporators are: 80 N. W. Hardin, Frank Hammond, M. R. Reese, J. G. Black and Wm. M. Jones. All the incorporators are citizens of J. Blacksburg, except Mr. Hammond, who da lives in Greenville. at / PERSONAL MENTION. ge 4Miss Kate Neely, of Chester county, is an visiting Mrs. H. A. D. Neely. acl Mr. J. W. Zimerman, of Charlotte, was m in Yorkville on Sunday. We were pleased to receive a call last ^ Monday from Mr. J. T. Bigham, editor of ^ the Gastonia, N. C., Gazette. m J Prof. R. J. Herndon returned from New York last Sunday and makes an important to announcement in our advertising columns to-day. a* Miss Eleanor Shires, modiste in the man^tua department of W. C. Latimer's estab- at lishment, left on yesterday for a visit to a. ".r-.. TI l>ew x orK. Rev. G. H. Waddell left on Monday for jjj Columbia, he being a delegate from the ta York County Bible Society to the South Carolina Bible Association, which meets in that city to-day. 1 ? SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONVENTION. A] The committee in charge has issued an ^ elaborate programme of the exercises of QC the South Carolina State Sunday-school fe( convention to be held in the First Presby- In terian church, Columbia, March 4, 5 and 6. ' It is intended to make this the most in- , teresting meeting of the body yet held. ^ B. F. Jacobs, of Chicago, the most promi- j, nent Sur lay-school worker in this country, g will be in attendance. All railroads hav- ^ ing lines entering Columbia have agreed ' to give reduced rates to those attending the convention. Tickets can be purchased ca March 2nd, 3rd and 4th, good to return until March 8th, inclusive. Persons ex- ^ pectingto attend the convention are re- ] quested to notify Albert M. Booser, Colum- Ar bia, not later than February 28th, as the local committee at Columbia will not be j0, expected to provide emeriainmeni ior any an persons not thus reporting. ^ death op mrs. withers. ' abj Mrs. Margaret A. Withers died at the thi residence of her son, Mr. A. S. Withers, aft til' in this place, at 2 o'clock p. ra., on Monday jj-j last, 10th instant, in the G9th year of her m< age, having been born near Davidson College, Mecklenburg county, N. C., May 1st, 1821. She was the widow of the late Dr. ho John B. Withers, who died February 5th, caJ 1880, and her maiden name was Springs. cr( Mrs. Withers was a kind-hearted Christian he woman, whose walk was characterized by b? an exemplary and blameless life, and not- Cai withstanding the hand of affliction pressed heavily upon her, she retained her mental ^ faculties to the end, and died in the tri- of uraph of the Christian faith. She leaves ?h two sons and one daughter surviving her. Her obsequies were held at the Pre9byte- thi rian church at 3 p. m., yesterday, Rev. T. I)e' R. English conducting the exercises. de, UNITED STATES COURT. ^ In the United States court at Greenville Ne the following cases from York county were k" disposed of last week : ng Wheeler Henry, colored, of Yorkville, it i carrying on the business of a retail liquor ^v" dealer without having paid the special li-1 sta cense tax. Verdict, not guilty. ' Elijah Sutton, colored, of Yorkville, rel same offense. Verdict, guilty. Senten- thi ced to twelve months imprisonment in the toi South Carolina penitentiary and a fine of vii $100. thi Andrew Kobbins, colored, was conveyed from York jail on Monday last, and to-day Tom Thompson, colored, was also taken from the jail for trial on the charges of sel ling liquor without license. Alex. Archie, colored, a defendant from qq York, awaiting trial at this term of the rel court, was detected in stealing a valise do from a fellow colored man, and on Friday "J1 he was arrested. He confessed the theft, ^ and on Monday was tried for the offense jn and sentenced to four months in the Green- pfl ville jail, and to pay a fine of $100. pr THE COLORED METHODISTS. The conference of the Northern Method- W( ist church, at Marion, closed last week. ci? Various reports were read as a part of the W closing proceedings. In the report on the state of the country the following resolu- ^j( tions were embodied, which, with the re- thi port, were unanimously adopted : in "Resolved, That we rejoice in the loyalty of , the M. E. Church to the principles or our re- mi publican form of government, and the noble fr( work thus far prosecuted by her for the aboli- ^ tion of ignorance and prejudice. , "2. That we deeply deplore the recent coldblooded and atrocious crimes committed with- j W in the bounds of our State upon the helpless j a and defenceless members of our raco, and com- | CO1 mend to the sympathy of all people their wid- , er ows and orphans. re( "3. That we regret the silence of so many pulpits from which Gospel missiles of condemna ! tion should have been hurled against the false ! ! and prevailing idea that might makes right. j th ; "4. That wo highly appreciate the indomita- no I ble and repeated ellorts of tho Hon. II. W. J i j Blair in congress for the passage of his invalu-1 f01 ablo educational bill, the passago of which i tj, I would bring light and progress, wealth and j . I recognition to our yet needy people. j , | "5. That wo earnestly entreat the friends of j our raco to usoall possible influence and justi- tlii I ible means necessary to iissist in the passage tliis great measure, and that wo devoutly ay God's blessing upon the same. "<>. That we hereby condemn the professed ncern recently manifested in the halls of ngress by certain members thereof relative the deportation of the negro, and that we gard it as a subterfuge and inconsistent with e relations that should exist between reprentatives and their constituents." In this, the Greenville district, the folwing appointments were made : Blacksirg, VV. Littlejohn ; Clover, S. Green; oek Hill, York Goodlett; Yorkville, J. , Smith; York circuit, F. W. Vance; sep Creek, G. W. Beckham. E. M. inckney, who was stationed here for the ist two years, was appointed to Wesley urch in the Charleston district. The conference will meet next year at reenville. THE ELEVENTH CENSUS. John W. Noble, secretary of the interior, is sent to the treasurer of the county ank schedules on which to furnish inrmutinn nrt Iho atoHutic>j nf Ihp wpnlfh ibt and taxation of the county, covering period of ten years, from 1880 to 1889, elusive. Accompanying the blank schedes is a circular from which we take the 1 lowing: In order that the returns of the eleventh nsus may be complete and practically useful, e statistics called for are absolutely uecessa. Much painstaking, clerical labor and rearch must bo performed in order to collect d enter the facts and figures required. Counofiicials have already shown great courtesy d done much in many ways to facilitate the ogress of census investigations. As servants tlio county residents, they will, by making a ecial effort now in behalf of the census oflice, in for your county a creditable showing, as ieserves. If they neglect the opportunity, place obstacles in the way, the record will, a matter of course, be imperfect and contrast [favorably with that of other counties. THE WEATHER. The most disagreeably cold weather of e winter is upon us at this writing. On riday the warning came, and true to the ediction the mercury began to fall, and iturday, Sunday and Monday were exBmely cold and disagreeable days, with ight sunshine, but a "thin air," cold, ercing and penetrating. Yet with the iv / hillv almAunlioro thorp hn? hppn nn " 1 J ...V.V ~~~~ ~~ ?ezing of the ground, and only thin ice rmed. In the north and northwest the cold is ported to be intense. On Thursday and iday the worst storm known in years ged throughout western Pennsylvania. iow, hail, rain and wind prevailed. At airsville, Pa., a large glass factory was imolished by the wind and three men are killed. Hundreds of buildings in e western part oF the State were blown iwn or damaged. Dispatches of the same .te report a severe storm in Minnesota. was represented as the worst blizzard ithin the recollection of the oldest inibitant. The wind was from the north d the air was a cloud of snow. At Winpeg, Manitoba, the heaviest fall of snow curred since 1882. The fall of snow ex- 1 nded as far south as Staunton and Harrinburg, Va. CHURCHNOTICES. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. C. Galloway, pastor. Services nextSun,y at 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sunday-school 3 p. m. Baptist?Rev. R. G. Patrick, pastor, rvices at Union next Sunday at 11 a. m. d in Yorkville at 7.30 p. m. Sundayhool at 9.30 a. m. Prayer-meeting toorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. Episcopal?Rev. K. S. Nelson, rector, orning service on next Sunday at 11 :lock. Sunday-school at 3.30 p. ra. 0 evening service unless announced at orning service. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, pasr. Prayer-meeting to-morrow evening 7 o'clock. Services next Sunday at 11 m. and 7 p. in. Sunday-school at 3 p. m. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. G. H. Wadill, pastor. Prayer-meeting this evening 7 o'clock. Services next Sunday at 11 m. and 7 p. m. Sunday-school at 3 p. m. le hours for services will be indicated by e ringing of the bell of the new church, e bell of the old church having been ken down. . CORONER'S INQUEST. On the -1th instant, Coroner S. L. Purser held an inquest over the dead body of drew Neely, colored, who died at the iuse of Erasmus Neely, colored, in the irthern part of the county, from the ef,'ts of a gunshot wound received in a ysterious manner, which was not cleared 1 by the investigation of the jury. The jury was composed of J. M. Thomson, foreman," Henry Watson, Slone >ckridge, J. Q. Howe, J. A. C. Love, W. Falls, O. C. Beamguard, H. A. Falls, ' C. Falls, C. C. Beamguard, E. B. Faulk- 1 r and J. T. Quinn. 1 In view of the mystery surrounding the se, we present the testimony iu full. E. W. Pressly, M. D., the examining lysician, certified a follows: [ have this day examined the dead body of iderson Neely and find that became to his 1 i'-Am "Anofol norilnnUia finflammiitinn the lining membrane of the abdomen] folvinga gunshot wound, indicted some time ice. The wound was inflicted over the juncn of the tenth cartilage, with corresponding ' ; of left side, and ranged downward into the ( dominal cavity with result aforesaid. Erasmus Neely, colored, testided: I heard it Anderson was at Yorkville, and I started ! erhim. I wentto KatieNeely's and found it Anderson was at Rufus Quinn's. I found m at Quinn's. I brought him to Frank ! sore's on Sunday, the 2(kh day of January. ] 3 stayed there until Tuesday, the 28th of nuary, when I brought him to my house, j was not until February 2nd that ho told me had been shot. I could not learn how it J me about. He would only say that he was ' ot in a difficulty between Chester and Steel . 3ek. It had been, ho said, three weeks since 1 was shot. He seemed unwilling for it to j known how it came about. I Erank Moore, coloied, testified : Deceased ' me to my house on Sunday a week since, d on Monday of that week he toid me tie nau en shot. He said he had been shot in an old I ape ; that he had been arrested on account an old dilRculty and taken by a deputy to arlotte. I understood that he bad had a'difulty with a deputy on the road and the depy shot liini. Jle did not tell me how be m escaped from the officer. He said it hapned ten days before. Erasmus Neely, recalled, said that he knew ceased had been shot before Sunday, but that ceased did not tell him so until February 2d. lesse Allison testified that he saw Erasmus iely bringing deceased homo, but ho did not ow what was wrong. iallie Neely, colored, testified: Deceased ver told me that he had been shot. I learned From my husband. I did not ask deceased y questions about it. I was at the house ion he told my husband. He was in bod conmtly after he came here. This closed the testimony, and the jury turned the following verdict: "We find ; at deceased came to his death from peri- l aitis, the result of a gunshot wound pre- 1 ously inflicted by parties unknown to ; e jury." j LETTER PROM ROCK HILL. i rrspomlunce of the Yorkville Enquirer. I Rock Hill, February 11.?-A meeting 1 the Bible society was held on Wednes- ] y night last, in the Methodist church. I lere was a large number present. After 1 ligious services, conducted by Rev. Gor- i n M. Bradley, interesting addresses were < ide by Rev. James S. White and Mr. J. < . W. Elder. After reading reports, an t >ction was held for officers, and resulted ] the election of Maj. A. H. White as < psirlpnt. the resident ministers as vice- i esidents, L. M. Davis, secretary, and J. , Miller treasurer. All of the officers, th Messrs. B. N. Craig and A. R. Banks, ;re elected delegates to the State assoition, which meets in Columbia on ednesday. At a recent meeting of the executive mmittee of the State Agricultural and echanical society, it was decided to hold e summer meeting, which will be held August, at this place. Judging from the small amount of comgrcial fertilizers being hauled away >m this place, the farmers are not going ! use them so liberally this season. The town council held a meeting on I ednesday night. The petition from j number ol citizens, asking the town i uncil to exempt all persons and prop- ! ty from taxation for the year, who have J :ently been added to the town by the \ Jension, was presented and discussed. ie council acted unfavorably upon the e petition upon the grounds of having authority to grant the request. 3eo. Williams, colored, was brought up disorderly conduct and assaulting the ;v. Thomas Gilmore. He was required contribute $5 to the town, rhe first persons to appear from the new strict were Messrs. John Pritchard, Dock Johnson and Nute Johnson for riot- j ous conduct at the Standard Mills on Sun- j day last. For want of evidence the case was dismissed. Mr. John Katterree was required to pay one dollar on account of j his pigs getting through a crack in the fence. Considerable complaint has been made to the council that the C., C. and A. railroad freight trains block the crossings on main street. There is an ordinance prohibiting this. The marshal has been instructed to summon Conductor Huges to appear before the council at the next! meeting. It is likely the town treasury j will be benefitted. In my letter last week, I mentioned Capt. Roddey as being the only merchant engaged in the mercantile business now, who was so engaged fifteen years ago. I was mistaken ; Mr. Arnold Friedheim has been in business here for twenty-one years, and has heen one of our most successful merchants. Rumor says one of Rock Hill's young widowers will lead to the altar next week one of Camden's charming and accomplished young daughters. A large number of people from the country are in town to-day and the merchants are kept busy. Messrs. L. M. Davis, 13. N. Craig and W. 8. Creighton have been appointed by the town council to assess the property within the town limits. Dr. T. L. Corn well, A. E. Smith and \V. M. Frew were appointed as a sanitary board. Mr. John J. Hathcock and Miss Anna B. Cook, both of Concord, N. C., were married at this place in the North Rock Hill circuit parsonage yesterday, Rev. J. W. Mclloy officiating. They left on the evening train for Concord, where they hope to make friends with the old folks. Mr. Joseph Long, of Concord church, will represent that church at the Sundayschool convention in Columbia. The past few days have been regular winter days, and some of the weather prophets predict snow. hal. LETTER FROJTBLACKSBL'RO. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. Blacksburg, February 11.?There is such a dearth of news in our town and section, that were it not I have a penchant for writing about the weather, the readers of The Enquirer might not be favored with the "letter from Blacksburg" this week. Wednesday last was quite as warm as a mid-summer day, the temperature running up to 85. Thursday and Friday, there was an almost continuous rain, accompanied by a cool east wind. / Since then the air has been clear, and just cool enough to be bracing. Mr. Geo. W. Deal, of Hollidaysburg, Penn., having decided to make this place his future home, has purchased a lot from Mrs. M. F. Anderson, on Rutherford street, and will soon begin the erection of a dwelling thereon. We are still having a light form of the influenza, though its victims are not numerous, and I hope the recent rains has washed away all the bacilli, or microbes, that are said to produce the disease. A few of the cases in and around town have been complicated by bronchitis or pneumonia; others with a moderately high range of temperature, have had a slow convalesence, while the prostration and weakness, which, indeed seems to be a prominent symptom of la grippe almost as great as that which follows an attack of I/J LfilVlV? IV T VI I Mr. Daniel A. James has been quite sick for the past week with pneumonia at the residence of Dr. T. B. Whitesides, but is reported better to-day. His sister, Mrs. Peyton Darwin, of Yorkville, is with him. The Crow Original Indian Medicine Co., have erected their tentsand platform on our town common, and expect to remain here for a week or two, and manufacture medicine from the roots, barks, herbs, etc., that can be gathered from the hills and valleys surrounding Blacksburg. I suppose the people generally, and especially the small boys, will attend their free concerts, and give them all the money they have to spare in return for the fun and novelty of the show, to say nothing of the wonderful cures which they expect to be performed. Mr. James H. Goss having succeeded in giving bond for his appearance, in August next, at the U. S. circuit court, to be held in Greenville, has returned to this place. Mr. W. R. Lipscomb, who has been engaged in railroad work in Virginia, is at home for a brief visit. Mr. R. P. Roberts, secretary and treasurer of Cherokee Falls Manufacturing Co., will leave this morning for Philadelphia, New York, and other Northern cities, on a business trip in the interest of the company. Col. It. A. Johnson, who has been the guest of Major Jones for several days, left yesterday morning for Columbia, accompanied by Dr. J. G. Black, and Mr. A. Urquhart. w. a. MERE-MENTION. Fourteen young lady boarders at the High Point (N. 0.) Female college were dangerously poisoned by eating souse at dinner on Saturday. The symptoms were alarming and all the physicians in town were summoned!. The prompt administration of remedies, however, saved the lives of all. rThere is great destitution among the people of Hamilton county, Kansas, caused by the failure of the crops last year; and from Greenvill^county, Va., an appeal for aid is made ir^ behalf of the people of that county, who are suffering from a similar cause. Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, will soon call an extra session of the legislature for the purpose -mainly of enacting better road laws. A sheriff's posse, while arresting a colored man named Eli Ladd, at Munice, Ind., last Friday, tired on him, 3even balls entering his body and killing him instantly. The deadlock in the Iowa legislature?the contest being over the election of a speaker of the house?still continues.-'v^'A lone Mexican held up the stage rwelve miles from Florence, Arizona, last Friday and stole the cash in transit by express. Injury to the wheat and oat crops in all partsof Georgia is being reported. The acreage devoted to these cereals is larger than i n years, but the attack Df what is called the Hessian fly is said to be playing sad havoc with the crop. The flies cover the ground and suck the wheat and oats until they kill the germs of life and then fly to fresh fields. The fly is also inflicting great damage to the grain crops in the State of New York. Business failures occurring throughout the country last week number for Canada 50, the United States 205?a total of 321 compared with 391 the previous week. Gen. Salamanca, captain-general of the island Df Cuba, died last Friday eveing, his symp toms indicating yellow lever. isear Stevenson, Ala., last Friday night, the dwelling house of a farmer named Roth was burned, and he and his wife and four children perished in the flames. Primus Jones, a member of the Georgia legislature, and the farmer who tor several i years past marketed the first bale of cotton , for tho wholeSouth each season, died from pneumonia last Saturday at his home in ( Baker county. He was probably the most ( successful farmer in Georgia. The date for the unveiling of the Lee monument at Ltichmond, Va., has been changed from the loth to the 29th of May next to suit the [ convenience of several distinguished gen- ! tlemen whose presence is considered im- j portant. /)Asa result of last week's sit- 1 ting of the court at Wilmington, Del., six- I teen men were publicly whipped last Sat- 1 arday in a driving rain storm. They re- : ceived from five to ten lashes. All were 1 convicted of thieving. By an explo- j lion in a colliery at Abersychan, England, j last Friday, 150 miners were killed. The ! contested election case over the governor- J ship of West Virginia has been decided 1 ay the legislature in favor of Fleming, 1 Democrat, the vote standing 43 for Flem- 1 Ingand 40 forGoff. Carr, the Union-Labor 1 senator, voted with the Democrats The ! Atlanta Constitution tersely states a plain 1 proposition thus: If Mr. Harrison wants ' to test the race feeling at the North let ; him appoint a dozen negro postmasters in New England. Secretary Tracy has 1 recovered, to some extent, from the severe ihock he received by the tragic death of < his wife and daughter last week, and re- f jumed his duties in the navy department < last Monday. Sixty-five out of seven- 1 ty-six members of the present senate are i lawyers, and of the three hundred mem- ] hers of the house far more than two hun- ' ired are drawn from the same profes- i fion. The municipal election in Salt i Lake City last Monday resulted in the 1 election of Gentiles to all the city offices, i ay a majority for that ticket of 1,200, thus i taking the government of the city out of ( Mormon control. The deadlock in the i Montana legislature took a new turn last I Monday by all the Democratic members 1 )f the senate absenting themselves and < eaving the State, thus depriving the sen- i ite of a auorum. The Virginia sen- < ite, last Monday, defeated the bill to per-11 nit women to practice law in that State. 11 SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Randall 1). George, colored, of Charleston, has been appointed supervisor for the Third district of South Carolina. ? Sixty colored emigrants left Newberry last week for Arkansas, and others will go this week. They say they are seeking better land, and not expecting to find better white people or receive higher wages. ? The remains of Lee Shultz, who was shot at Fish Dam on Monday of last week, by Robert Moorman, were taken to his home in Virginia for interment. Moorman is confined in Union county jail. ? The Walhalla correspondent of the Greenville News says: Prohibition has been tried in our town a month, already, very much to the satisfaction of every one. Instead of it beinr the means of stagnating business, it has revived it. - # ? At Edgefied, last Saturday night, John Smith cut Pierce Mitchell's throat. Both parties are colored. Mitchell lingered about one hour. Mitchell claimed that Smith owed him for a ten-cent watermelon. Smith has been lodged in jail. ? The remains of Hon. W. W. Boyce, whose death occurred at Alexandria, Va., were taken to Winnsboro and buried in the Episcopal cemetery last Thursday. The funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Ellison Capers, of Columbia, assisted by the Rev. James G. Glass, of Winnsboro. ? James B. Cleary, a farmer who lives five miles from Newberry, attempted on Saturday last to shoot his daughter, a young lady about 18 years old, but his pistol was wrested from his hands, and the attempt thwarted. Neighbors were sent for for protection. All were in the room together, when Cleary, in a fit of madness, grasped a hatchet and gave his wife several bows on the head, which will probably prove fatal. Cleary has been arrested and lodged in jail. He h'as been a well-to-do farmer, but his mind is crazed by drink. ? The annual session of the South Carolina State Grange Patrons of Husbandry was held in Columbia last Thursday. Only Kershaw, Chester, Newberry, Union and Florence counties were represented. No business of importance was transacted. The spread of the Farmers' Alliance and other causes have resulted in reducing the membership of the Patrons of Husbandry in South Carolina very materially. While at the height of its success the order had some 15,000 members in the State, it now probably has but little more than 1,000. ? At Florence, last Wednesday night, S. T. Burch, coroner of that county, shot and killed a negro man whom he caught in the act of stealing potatoes from his yard. It appears that Mr. Burch had been missing several articles from his premises from time to time, and he was on the lookout for the thief. The man attempted to escape, and when aboutjumping a fence Mr. Burch shot him and he fell dead. Mr. Burch surrendered himself to the sheriff and was subsequently released on a writ of habeas corpus. The name of the negro is given as Guy Sanders. ? The supreme court has filed with Clerk of Court Arthur a remittitur in the case of John B. Barnes, affirming the decision oi me circuit court auu uismissiug uie appeals therefrom. Barnes, a white man and a jeweler by trade, had been sentenced to the penitentiary for two years, but was* granted a pardon on condition that he leave the State, the pardon to be forfeited if he returned. He did return, was arrested on another charge, of which he was acquited, but sentenced to be remanded to the penitentiary to serve out the balance of the sentence he was serving when pardoned. When Barnes was pardoned he had served . but eight months of a two years' sentence, which would leave him sixteen months to serve. He has been in jail, pending the issue of his appeal to the supreme court, for over three months, for which he gets no credit on his penitentiary sentence. ? A strange story comes from Allendale, a hamlet in Barnwell county, near the scene of the recent lynching. Hattie Frazier, a negro woman and her infant, a month old, were the victims of a queer black cap outrage. When the news of the butchery at Barnwell courthouse reached the Allendale section, Hattie Frazier was one of the negroes who did not join in the chorus of condemation of the act. On the contrary she openly expressed the opinion that the murdered men had only got what they deserved. Since that time the womau has been in bad odor with her race. She had received threats from time to time, but treated them with scorn. One night last week, however, while asleep in her house with her infant, she was aroused by a noise indicating that some one was trying to get in at the door.- Not suspecting anything, she went with her child in her arms to see what was the matter. Arriving at the door she was seized and dragged away from the house, and subjected to a most brutal beating. After the departure of the black caps the woman dragged herseif to her house, where she found her child lying on the ground. The next day she identified two of her assailants. They were negro women living in the vicinity, and were at once arrested and lodged in jail. These women turned State's evidence and confessed that the flogging was done by a band of from 20 to 30 negro women wh > were dressed in male attire with black masks and caps, and who undertook to punish their victim for her expression of opinion about the Barnwell negroes' fate. Upon their testimony, 15 negro women residing in the vicinity were arrested. The affair has created considerable excitement in Barnwell county. Great efforts were made to keep the mat-, ter quiet, but the story has leaked out. ALLIANCE TOPICS. ? The county agent for Spartanburg advertises that he has "just received 30,000,000 pounds of flour for Alliance men." ? The New Pisgah Alliance, in Spartanburg county, has passed resolutions deprecating the union of the Alliance with the Knights of Labor organization, and threatening, should the union be effected, to surrender its charter. ? Says the Augusta, Ga., Chronicle: The political conditions in Georgia and South Carolina are already simmering and in a short time they will boil over in both States. The Alliance will make the governors. No man will be nominated who is not either a member or a strong supporter of the agricultural interest. The farmers have the power in their own hands and they will doubtless use it. As a matter of fact the Alliance has the power to make congressmen, senators and governors. ? The Woodruff, Spartanburg, correspondent of the Herald, says: The work of our Alliance friends does not seem to be running exactly smooth at this place. .. They are well supplied with comforts and conveniences, have the best men of the county associated with them, and just what is out of order is hard to tell. The trouble, however, seems to be with the sale and distribution of supplies as represented by the different agencies of the county. Complete organization and a little practical exprience will no doubt remedy existing defects and give success. All of which is anxiously looked for. ? Referring to a recent meeting of the Alliance in Anderson, the correspondent of the News and Courier says: Not being ,i member of the Alliance I am unable to s?ive any of the details of the meeting, but I am iuformed that the question of a successor to Col. Cothran was discussed, but no decided action was taken in the matter. We all hope that when considerinu thi? mipstinn nnr nonnia luill l/v/xlr far. VM> VVJVIV tr ill Ivyv/CK iw* ther than simply to see whether or not the aspirant is a farmer or lawyer, but will also consider the fitness of any and all candidates who offer for the position. We c need our ablest men to the front in national politics just now ; but, of course, it depends to a great extent upon what position the Alliance takes in the matter, whether :>r not we will get them. However, we have an abiding faith in the sober sense of 3ur people as a body, and if misled by some demagogue of to-day, they will be very apt to correct the error the first opportunity they have of doing so. ? Says the Charleston News and Courier ff Saturday: Some days ago Gen. E. T. Stackhouse was in the city. In the course af an interview he intimated that the fight against the Jute Trust would be kept up for several seasons. He also said that he believed that the reason that success whs iiul cumpieie was DPcause tne larmera used so many substitutes for bagging. He does not believe that the same difficulty will exist this year. Last season it will be remembered that the mills either could not supply the demand for cotton bagging ur the orders were sent in too late. It is not likely that such a drawback will exist this year. It is expected that all the cotton mills in this State will manufacture the kind of cotton bagging that is needed this season; that is to say a substantial, durable covering. The advice has been ?iven that the orders of the Alliances . 3hould be sent in early.