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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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- "
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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
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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
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?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.