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j^ajus and ^facts. ? During the eighty-one years of its existence, the British and Foreign Bible Society has issued from its London house alone 29,000,000 complete Bibles, nearly 32,000,000 New Testaments, and 11,845,000 gjortions of the Bible?altogether 72,500,? Chief Bushyhead, of the Cherokee nation, offers an original suggestion for the solution of the race problem. He would send all the blacks to Africa and all the whites to Europe. Then all the land would naturally revert to the redskins, the original owners of the country. ? From statistics just published, Minnesota stands first in the country as a wheatgrowing State, having produced the last year 45,000,000 bushels. California comes next with 40,000,000 bushels. The Dakotas produced 42,000,000 bushels, ranking third. Minnesota had 3,100,000 acres in wheat; California 3,200,000. ? The Navassa rioters were sentenced last Thursday in the United States circuit court at Baltimore. Geo.S. Key, Henry Jones and Edward Smith, convicted of murder, were sentenced to be hanged March 28th. The fourteen men tried upon manslaughter and convicted, were sentenced to terms in Albany, New York, penitentiary, extending from two to five years. ? A million tons of steel rails will be needed for the trackage decided upon by the trunk lines of the country this year. This quantity of material, delivered, will cost $35,000,000. And if we add the cost of fish bars, frogs, switches, ties, grading and laying, the total amount spent will reach the sum of $100,000,000. A pretty tidy outlay for one insignificant item of railway expense in one short year. ? The leading North Carolina negroes announce that there will be no more white Republican candidates for Congress in that State. This is because they have discovered that under a Republican administration the position of a defeated canditate is not to be despised. He comes in for a share of "pap" which, while rarely comparable to the fat job he lost, is nevertheless welcome to the average Republican?who is always hungry. ? The Democratic caucus of the Ohio Legislature has agreed on a bill re-arranging the congressional districts of that State, and they propose to push it through. The bill gives the Democrats fifteen and the Republicans six districts, whilst the present delegation stands sixteen Republicans and five Democrats. The bill nuts reDresentatives Butterworth. Gros venor, Kennedy and McKinley, Republicans, in Democratic districts. ?A Cossack officer named Pyevtzoff is taking a horseback ride from Bielovetchensk, on the river Amoor, in Eastern Siberia, to St. Petersburg, a distance of 5,300 miles. He goes quite alone on an ordinary cavalry horse and carrying his provisions with him. He started in November, and, when last seen by a party of merchants near Irkutsk, was in good health and spirits, and had made about a quarter of the distance, He expects to reach St. Petersburg in April. It will be the longest ride on record. ? On last Saturday the Virginia house of delegates passed a bill requiring that in the reassessment this year, of land and other taxables, the assessors shall indicate the race of each taxpayer. The object is to show the proportion of taxes paid by the negroes. During the last campaign some Democrats urged that the negroes should only be allowed for maintainence of their public schools, the proportion of school tax paid by their race. The scheme embodied in the bill just passed, if carried out, will furnish the data upon which the support of the schools wonld be based. ?England's oldest missionary society is now devoting its energies to the advancement of the spiritual condition of the Canadian Indians, and is known as the (,New England' Company." It dates from 1G49, in which year an ordinance was passed creating a corporation of sixteen persons, called "The President and Society for the f>ropagation of the Gospel in New Engana," with power to acquire lands, goods ana money, ine society naa lis origin in the interest created at that time by the labors and writings of John Eliot, and owed its first endowment to Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector, who ordered a collection to be made in the parishes of England and Wales, thereby obtaining the sam of ?12,000. The Montana legislature adjourned last Thursday night, having been in session ninety days and failed to pass a single bill. Addresses to the people were issued by the Republican senators and Democratic representatives. It is understood Governor Toole will call a special session to pass the appropriation bills about the 1st of May. It is said the governor will recognize the legality of the election of the five representatives from Silver Bow county, if the United States senate seats Sanders and Power. This done, the deadlock ends and legislation may proceed. Maginnis and Clark have practically given up the fight, and will return to Helena in a few days. ? The woman suffrage movement in Iowa has been given a great lift by Governor Larrabee, in his annual message to the legislature. He confines his recommendations simply to the extension of the right to vote in municipal elections, but ventures to call attention to the fact that "the Territory of Wyoming, after years of experience with woman suffrage at all elections, has recently, with great unanimity, engrafted the principle into the Constitution with whicn it is now seeking to enter the Union." He says the results of wo man's exercise of the sunrage in town elections in Kansas are such as to justify making the experiment in Iowa. But the general opinion of the ^Republican leaders is that the party has about all it can carry now without identification with any new cause. 7/?John Jacob Astor died last Saturday morning at his residence on Fifth avenue, New York, of heart failure. Mr. Astor's death was indirectly due to a cold which he contracted while in Europe in December last, and with which he has been ill ever since. He was in the 67th year of his age. John Jacob Astor was the eldest son of W. W. Astor, and a grandson of the original John Jacob Astor, who founded the fortune of the family. He was the head of the third generation of the Astor family. In 1875 his father died, leaving John Jacob a two-thirds share of his estate, valued at $2,000,000. During the civil war, Mr. Astor went to the front and served with credit as an aid-de-camp to General McClellan. He married a Miss Gibbes, of South Carolina, who died about two -/-years ago. He is succeeded by his only son, William Waldorf Astor, who was minister to Italy some years ago. ? Gen. John A. Foster, a veteran of the civil war and once a lawyer of repute, was found dead a few mornings ago on the UUUr Ui au lusuiautc uuiuc uu uiuauna^, New York, where he was accustomed to sleep. He was at one time an intimate of prominent Republican politicians, but his desire for drink lost him nearly all his friends. He abandoned his wife, the daughter of a Southern planter, and two grown-up daughters, about two years ago. Since then he has subsisted chiefly on charity. Since being deserted by her husband, Mrs. Foster has educated her two daughters as well as supported them and herself, on the small salary she has earned as a city missionary. She has worn widow's weeds since his desertion, so that she was fitly attired when she went to the office where her husband's body lay. General Foster was assistant judge advocate general during the latter part of the war, and as such conducted the prosecution of Mrs. Surratt. ? John Wylie, the Atlanta man who was implicated by Dick Hawes in the murder of the latter's wife and children, has been discharged from arrest, there being no evidence connecting him with the the crime. He has returned to Atlanta, but refuses to talk about the matter, except to affirm his innocence. On Saturday last, Hawes made a third confession, which is believed to be a true one. He confesses that he is alone guilty of the murder of his wife and two children. The confession has been placed in the hands of a friend of the condemned man to be made public after the execution. Next Friday is the day appointed for the execution of the death penalty on Hawes. One of the jurors who sat in his trial is erecting the gallows on which he is to hang. The lugubrious coincidence is brought about by the fact that the juror, Mr. Ed. Griffin, is an experienced scaffold builder, and Sheriff Smith has made up his mind that his part of the official melancholy work shall be executed with promptness and dispatch. ? On Saturday of last week, Rev. T. M. Joiner, the Englishman who alleged that he was run out of Randolph county, N. C., just before the holidays, made his appearance at Raleigh. He had been appointed to a Methodist church at Obevlin, a settle raentof intelligent, well-behaved colored people a mile from Raleigh. He preached there last Sunday, and took up his abode in the village. He was not called to the pastorate of the church, but was sent to it, and from the very first the congregation objected to his presence. Monday their objections took a very practical turn, and at a church meeting it was decided that Joiner was not wanted. The negroes said their relations with the white people had always been amicable, and that they did not propose to have such a man as Joiner fill their pulpit. Joiner accordingly left Monday night. He will be remembered as the man who claimed that he was a British subject, and alleged that he and his wife had been brutally treated in Randolph county. He was run away by the people there, mainly Quakers, because he preached and practiced social equality, aDd gave advice to negroes which was likely to lead to race troubles. Ihc fj0rMIc (fruqtuM. YOItKVILLE, S. . : WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1890. JUSTICE AT LAST. James Redpath, the noted life long abolitionist, has recently written a manly letter on the character of Jeffers~i Davis, which he had the oportunity to study by being a guest of Mr. Davis for several months just previous to his death; and though he once regarded Mr. Davis "as a conspirator, a rebel and a traitor," he concludes his letter as follows: "Lest any foreigner should read this article, let me say for his benefit that there are two Jefferson Davises in American history?one is a conspirator, a rebel, a traitor and the'Fiend of Andersv nville,'? he is a myth evolved from the hellsmoke of cruel war?as purely imaginary a personage as Mephistopheles or the Hebrew devil; the other was a statesman, with clean hands and pure heart, who served his people well from budding manhood to hoary age, without thought of self, with unbending integrity and to the best of his great ability?he was a man of , whom all his countrymen who knew him personally, without destinction of creed political, are proud, and proud that he was their countryman." PERPETUATING THEIR POWER. A Washington dispatch to the Augusta Chronicle of yesterday, referring to the recent unpleasantness over the appointment of Duckworth to be postmaster at Sharon, Ga., says : The Sharon matter is looked upon as a great outrage here. Major Barnes sought an interview with the attorney-general?represented the utter groundlessness of the charges, and the great outrage of arresting people with Winchester rifles, who were quietly pur suing their daily avocations. The extreme Radicals here are very anxious to pass an election law for supeivision of congressional elections in the South. They are determined to perpetuate themselves in power at any and every hazard. They fear the loss of the next house through Democratic gains in Ohio, Maryland and other States. They seek to make up for this by gains through federal supervision in the South. Every little thing which happens in the South they magnify for political capital to fire the Northern heart, and to drive the more moderate element of their party in congress into the support of this proposed federal election law. This is what it means. MERE-MENTION. The citizens of Rocky Mount, a small town north of Wilmington, N. C., have recently been annoyed by several incendiary fires and alleged threats from negroes to burn the entire town. The trouble seems to have grown out of an unpleasantness in connection with the negro emigration matter. Col. W. W. Dudley, of blocks of five fame, was in North Carolina last week, prospecting mining property. It is said that his manners are so engaging that a dyed-in-the-wool Cleveland man will forget in five minutes that he had anytning 10 ao wun ine meinous uy wnien Indiana was carried for Harrison. Mr. Sawyer has introduced in the senate a bill making it a punishable otfence, by fine and imprisonment, to mail a letter to a lottery company, or for receiving a letter addressed to such a company. A severe snow storm prevailed in the Sierra Nevada mountains, California, last Thursday night. Trains on the Central Pacific railroad were snow bound until Saturday. Seventeen citizens of Sharon, Ga., have been bound over in the sum of $600 each, to appear at the Aprilterm of the United States court to be held at Augusta, on the charge of "unlawfully conspiring, combining and agreeing together to prevent by force, intimidation and threats E. L. Duckworth, postmaster ofSharon, from discharging the duties of the office." Eighty white emigrants from Union county, N. G., recently passed through Charlotte on their way to Arkansas. Iteyburn, Republican, has been elected to succeed Congressman Kelley from the Fourth Pennsylvavia district. In the election the Democrats made a gain of 1,300 over the vote of 1888. Failures during last week number in the United States 230 and in Canada 41, a total of 271, compared with 302 the previous week. For the corresponding week of last year the failures were 229 in the United States, and 41 in Canada. A steam plough is now ploughing 120 acres a day near Merced, Cal. Henry J. Fanz, who is now in Washington, the victim of the Aberdeen outrage, has been recommended by Superintendent Porter for appointment as special agent for the Eleventh census, to collect statistics relative to recorded indebtedness. ltev. John H. Lance was murdered in Union county, Ga., on Sunday night of last week while on his way from a country church at which he had just preached. The crime is believed to have been committed by moonshiners fearful of exposure by him. In Will county, Illinois, on Thursday, the Farmers' Alliance held a meeting to listen to a protective tariff speech, after which a vote was taken and every member voted for radical tariff reform. John Coffee, who was tried last week in Gainesville, Georgia, for the second time, for the murder of Deputy Marshal Merrit, was acquitted. After a deadlock of five weeks. and three days, the Iowa legislature has compromised on the selection of a speaker, the Republicans yielding the choice to the Democrats. Thomas Allen, the man who took the first train out of Chicago in 1848, is still living in that city at the age of 80. In the house of representatives last Monday, Chicago was selected on the eighth ballot as the place for holding the world's fair in 1S92, by the following vote : Chicago, 157; New York, 107 ; St. Louis, 25; Washington, 18. Whole number of votes, 307 ; necesary to a choice, 154. By the breaking of a dam for the storage of water, near Prescott, Arizona, last Saturday, forty persons lost their lives and an immense amount of property was destroyed. At Machias, Maine, the thermometer last Sunday, at 0 a. in., registered twenty degrees below zero. At 5 p. m. the mercury marked thirty degrees above, and a thick snow prevailed Monday morning at 0. The thermometer Monday night was fifty degrees above and raining. This beats all previous records in that locality. The Great Corn Yield.?Secretary A. E. Gonzales, of the board of agriculture, has received a letter from the editor ol the American Agriculturist, acknowledging the receipt of a copy of the photograph of the warrant for $500 paid Captain brake by the board for his great yield of corn. Potographer Heckling made the picture, which is a fine one, and it is to be engraved to adorn the pages of the March Agriculturist, which will contain an illustrated account of the great corn contest. The editor "of the Agriculturist writes that South Carolina has just right to be proud of her tremendous victory, and that the New York board has followed theexample of our board of agriculture to the extent of offering a prize of $500 for the best yield of potatoes by a farmer of that State the coming year, lie also refers to the possibility of a prize being offered for the largest cotton yield by the Agriculturist, if the difficulties of assuring an accurate and honest return of results could be overcome.?[Columbia Register. LETTEK FROM BLACKSBUIUi. 1 Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. I Blacksijurg, February 2o.?The warm, I sultry weather we have been having for 1 the past few days culminated yesterday 1 afternoon in a thunder shower, and this 1 morning is as bright and pleasant as a May < day. < Dr. S. C. Fewell has bought a lot on < Pine street from Mr. W. D. Johnson, on j which he will build a residence during the ] year. He has also purchased from Mr. i Lowndes Black one-third interest in theold i livery stable lot fronting on Shelby street, < and his object is to include in the business < block, which Messrs. Reese & Black, the i other owners of the property, will build thereon, a handsome brick drug store. The Episcopal church at this place was 1 recently the recipient of a handsome donation of prayer books and hymnals from W. F. Marshall, Esq., the popular solicit- < ing agent of the Three C's railroad. 1 The Farmers' Alliance in our township seems to be in a prosperous condition, and in many ways has been a great help to the farmers. The sub-Alliances are increasing in numbers. The members of four ol them bought their supplies from Whisonant Bros. & Co., of our town, during the past year, and their trade amounted .to about twenty-five thousand dollars, every dollar of which has been promptly paid. They bought, too, only such things as they and their families actually needed to eat and wear. No money was thrown away for unnecessary articles. Of course this speaks well for our farmers; but I hope and believe that they are in a condition to do still better for the ensuing year, by having raised more of their supplies at home, and thus being enabled to cut down their expenditures at least one-third for food and raiment raised and made elsewhere. This ability to be more self supporting, will inure, not only to their good, but for the general prosperity of all classes. i Taking a more extensive and general ' view of this question, one might think that the past year was the beginning ot a new era lor the Southern farmers, and that by a united and organized effort they have raised themselves to a higher plane, and in great measure thrown off the shackles of credit and liens. Evidently something has been at work in their favor, for their staple, cotton, commands a higher price than any other commodity on the market, (except coffee) and is higher than it has been for several years, while nearly all kinds of goods, made out of it are rating at very low prices, with little demand for them. I believe that to the farmers themselves is mainly due the credit for this wonderful revolution, and in this noble effort to reassert their rights, and reclaim their manhood and standing in the commercial world, every possible encouragement should be given them. For their part they should hold fast that which they have gained, and instead of slipping back down the hill, "scotch and rest," so that they will be able to take a strong and united pull, and another year will find them at the top of the hill. The "original" Crow Indian Medicine 1 company folded their tents like the Arabs, 1 and moved over to Gaffney City on Sun- 1 day last, carrying with them, no doubt, a good deal of much needed money, and < many regrets from those of our people ' who allowed themselves to be deluded and 1 humbugged into buying their nostrums. ' For I feel sure, knowing how it is my- s self, that the pains they "moved" and < the "miseries" they cured, will sooner or later return. A balloon ascension was the main feature ? of the day on Saturday, and quite a large ; crowd of people from the country gather- ; ed into witness it, and while waiting for ( the baloon to start up, bought about sixty } dollars worth of the "medicine." What ? a clamor of romance and superstition still < lingers around the name, "Indian!" ( W. A. ( LETTER FROM" ROCK HILL. ! Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. Rock Hill, February, 25.?Our people , are busy in their gardens. While the moon is not right to plant potatoes, a . number of our citizens are, nevertheless, 1 planting them. Several of our citizens 1 gathered strawberries from their gardens j recently. Mr. J. J. Hull had on exhibition last week a few very fine ones plucked 1 from vines in his garden. Mr. Jno. Rat- j terree has a green hog apple he found in 1 his field. Mr. Ratterree does not seem to ! think we are through with the winter. 1 He informed me that March 3rd, 4th and 1 5th, in 1835, were the coldest days ever | known iu South Carolina; that it was so ! severe that a large number of forest trees ! were killed. J An inquest was held on Wednesday last, Trial Justice Whyte acting coroner, over the dead body of a six-weeks old baby of i Minnie Baily's, colored, who lives just on i the edge of town. The verdict of the jury i was "death was caused by accidentally i smothering it by its mother." ? The congregation of the M. E. church ( has extended an invitation to Evangelist ( Leitch to hold a series of services in the ^ church here, commencing the first Sunday f in April. Mr. Leitch has accepted the in- j vitation, and a committee has been ap- 1 pointed to make all the necessary arrange- i ments. < Our tobacco dealers say their sales, es- i pecially of cigarettes, have fallen off con- c siderabiy since the enactment of the law i prohibiting the sale to minors. ( The ladies of the Episcopal church have i purchased a desirable lot on Elm avenue, 1 and hope soon to build a rectory thereon, i IJn\r Sum'l T.paprJ nf f'hpsfpr. whniHthp 1 oldest minister in the South Carolina Con- 1 ference, paid our town a visit last week. It is his first visit since 1807, and, as might t be expected, he was greatly surprised at t the growth of the town. He remarked i that he had read a great deal about Rock c Hill's progress, but had concluded it was newspaper talk, until he came and saw for himself. ' s The grip has left a number of ourcili- j zens with pneumonia. In some families f there are from two to three cases. Mr. V. t 13. McFadden is very ill with it, and also : two of his children. ( There were a number of farmers in town on Saturday, and the question of calling ? a meeting in the court house on sales-day ( in March was thoroughly discussed. It is | decided to hold a mass meeting of the t farmers and those in sympathy with them 1 at the the court house on Monday, the 3rd j of March, to select delegates to the Colum- j bia convention. i LETTER FROM HICKORY GROVE. \ Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. j Hickoky Grove, February 24.?Babe 1 Edwards, colored, was arrested on Monday c evening last, and locked up, for profanity ( and for making some bold threats on the t streets. He was brought before the coun- c cil for trial, after remaining lor several hours in confinement, and was fined one dollar and fifty cents and released. t The council held a meeting last Wed- t nesday morning and passed an ordinance ( permitting the sale of spirtuous liquors at t this place. i v- The election of officers for council was t held last Friday, resulting as follows: Dr. j fM ?1 UT 1 J ? i. 3 i . 1\T T r i. rs. iv. waru, iiiieuuaub ; >v. o. iuuuihead, J. \V. Smith, Yal. Thomasson and j II. K. Seahorn, wardens. The election t passed oft'quietly, and we expect to enjoy i peace and prosperity at Hickory Urove ? during the next twelve months. j The first car load of bacon this year was t received here a few days ago by our depot t agent. ( Mr. Joe Leech, a young farmer near t town, had a mule injured by passing cars a t ' few evenings ago. j Miss Nannie McKeown passed the Grove j this afternoon on her way from Blacks- ( burg, where she has been visiting for a ] few days. We had the pleasure on Sunday, of hearing Rev. Mr. McCauley of the A. R. P. .c church. His text was taken from 119th i Psalm, 9th verse: "Where withal shall t a young man cleanse his way." The t striking truths which he impressed are i worthy of serious thought by everyone ( who desires to make this life a success. c We regret to give up Mr. McCauley, and t wish he could spend tho year in our midst, i f He goes in a few days. \ Rev. Mr. Sloan will probably supply the s appointment next month. hex. ( The Lee Equestrian Statue.?The J bron/.e equestrian statue of Gen. Robert ( E. 1 iOe, by Mercie, the French sculptor, has fi been completed and is ready to be turned 1 over to the monument association. The executive committee of that association have just received notice to that effect from t the founder who cast this work of art. i The committee have selected Col. C. P. E. t Burgwynne, of Richmond, the engineer S who supervised the construction of the c granite pedestal, to go to Paris and in- t spect the statue, and if it comes up to the i specifications to make the final payment c to Mercie for his work. Col. Burgwynne t will sail from New York March 1, for c Paris to carry out the duty with which he t has been entrusted. If the work is satis- ? factory the statue will be packed up at c once under the supervision of Col. Bur- t gwynne and shipped to Richmond. So t 'ar as known, none of Gen. Lee's near rela:ives and intimate friends have examined :he statute since it was cast, but the plas:er of Paris cast, before it was placed in :he hands of the founder, received the ,iearty approval of members of the family of the great Confederate chieftain. In leference, it is understood, to the wishes )fGen. Jubal A. Early, the unveiling of :he monument has been postponed from May 15 to the 29th. That gentleman, who is said to be the largest contributor to the monument fund, was anxious to be present m the occasion, and to enable him and 3en. Beauregard to do so, the postponement was agreed to.?[Baltimore Sun. THE FARMERS' ASSOCIATION. From the Rock Hill Herald. It is suggested through the Herald that [ call a convention of the Farmers' Association of York cou..ty. This I do not feel authorized to do for these reasons: I was elected president of the Association in 1886, re-elected in 1887, to serve one year. I called a convention in 1888, md went to Yorkville to meet the members. I found only the secretary; not a sinerle delegate responded to my call, and qo convention has been held since. Again, I have no sufficent reason to believe that the farmers of this Association ufYork wish to assemble in convention at this time. The political feature, which the State executive committee seeks to inject into this organization of farmers, was sxpressly prohibited by resolution, unanimously adopted, at the last regular State sonvention. Under these circumstances, it would seem an assumption on my part to issue the call, and I respectfully beg to decline 30 doing. Iredell Jones. ALLIANCE TOPICS. ? The Due West Alliance has been holding meetings weekly of late, but will return to monthly sessions soon. v, ? The business manager of the Allitmce Df Aiken has saved to Alliance men of that county $4,500 in the purchase of fertilizers this season. ? A called meeting of the Greenville Dounty Alliance, last Thursday, decided adversely on the proposition to establish a county supply store. ? Jonesville Alliance, Union county, has resolved : "That we will endeavor to give Dur farms more attention the present year than we have in the past, and we will idle no time that we can profitably spend on Dur farms. ? Says the Progressive Age: The Farmers' Alliance has saved the farmers of America $5,000,000 in twine, $2,500,000 on sagging, and it is claimed, that through the operation of the. Alliance Exchange, liscounts have been secured that will make the amount saved by farmers $10,100,000 annually. ? The Lancaster sub-Alliance has passed i resolution declaring, "That when any member fails to pay, at maturity, debt contracted for advances for agricultural purposes through the agent of the Alliance, he shall be expelled, unless excused for *ood cause by a unanimous vote." ? Beth Eden Alliance, in Newberry county, adopted the following at a recent meeting: "Resolved, That we do not approve of the holding of a State convention of farmers as proposed in the call issued by Captain G. W. Shell as chairman Df the executive committee of the State Farmers' association." ? The following are the amounts of the salaries received by the officers of the. National Alliance and Industrial Union: L. L. Polk, president, salary $3,000 per innum and all expenses, with $1,000 per innum for office assistant; J. H. Turner, secretary, salary $2,000 per annum and all ?xnenses : C. \V. McCune. chairman exec jcutive committee, salary $2,500 and all expenses; Evan Jones, chairman judiciary committee, salary nothing and no appropriation for expenses; Ben Terrell, lec:urer, salary $3,000 per annum and all expenses, traveling and otherwise. ? Says the Cotton Plant: If anybody imagines that because the Alliance is not i political organization its members propose to take no notice of political matters, le will discover that he has badly inis:aken the purposes and principles of the jrder. One of the highest duties of an Aliance man is to look well to his political ights and privileges, and this duty is beng thoroughly instilled. The order will lot go into politics, but its members will *o to the polls, at the primaries and at ;he general elections. And they ^vill snow the men who best represent their nterests and they will vote accordingly, rhat much can be depended on. ? On the subjectof the sub-treasury plan, iresented for consideration by the Nationil Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Unon at the St. Louis meeting, the Castroville, Texas, Anvil says: "There will be i bill introduced in congress, at an early lay, to establish sub-treasuries, and in lonnection with these, storehouses and elevators, in all counties that raise a given imount of agricultural products. The obect of this movement is to supply the armer with the means of procuring advances on his crops, at a low rate of interest, and thus prevent the forcing of crops jpon the markets, that invariably break lown prices to the injury of the producer. Such a measure may pass the lower house )f congress, but it is extremely doubtful if t can be passed through ine American House of Lords. The passage of such] a neasure would mean death to the national mnks and money syndicates?and these lave a strong grip upon the Senate. That body is largely composed of millionlires, and those who owe their election to , he money power. The Senate does not epresent the labor, but the wealth of the :ountry." The New Postage Stamp.?The new ityle of postage stamps adopted by the lostoffice department are now being printed and issued to first class post officer, ihroughoutthe country. It will be a month^ /et before they will be issued to the sec>nd, third and fourth class post offices. The new stamps are smaller than the old, md the colors and designs have been chang;d. They are thus described: One cent, irofile of the bust of Franklin; color ultra narine. Two cent, profile of the bust of Washington; color, carmine. Three cent, profile bust of Andrew Jackson; color, Durple. Four cent, profile bust of Abralam Lincoln; color, chocolate. Five cent, Dortrait of Grant ; color, light brown. Six :ent, portrait of Garfield; color, metalic ed. Ten cent, portrait of Webster; maori green. Fifteen cent, portrait of Clay; :olor, deep blue. Thirty cent, profile bust )f Thomas Jefferson; color, black. Nine;y cent, profile bust of Commodore Perry ; :olor, orange. No Danger from the March Contention.?If the ticket put in the field at he March convention should not be enlorsed by the State nominating convenion, that will be the end of it, as the e .ecitive committee of the Farmers' Associaiou have pledged themselves "to abide the esult, whether that is for or against" them. There is no threat to bolt or run an indejendent ticket. And if it be determined o make nominations at the March contention, we believe a good ticket will be .elected?a ticket composed of sound, able Democratic material. Where, then, is here reason to apprehend detriment to he best interests of the State. It has nev;r been proposed to make nominations at he March convention and force such a icket upon the voter nolens volens. It is proposed to put a ticket in the field forratfication or rejection by the next Demo:ratic State convention.?[Laurensville Herald. -- Walk in and Help Yourself.? senator Cullom has introduced, at request, t bill now before a Senate committee auuithori/.ing the Secretary of the Treasury o lend money to farmers at 2 per cent, nterest a year. This beats subsidies to leath, and there is some honest measure )f justice about it, insomuch that they yill be only letting the farmers have the ise of their own money which has been .vrongfully taken from them. The subiidists, on the contrary, want an out-and>ut gift of other people's money. Of ourse, no such bill will pass any congress. [Jut if one, why not the other? Why :an't the farmers walk in and help themielves too? But, of course, this is "Vto)ian."?[Columbia .Register. What Aiiout tiie "Canal?"?It seems hat the Columbia people are beginning al eady to wonder what they will do with he canal. One suggests that it be sold for 0,000,000?about enough to pay off the :ity debt and the canal bonds. The quarer whence the purchaser is to come is not ,ret indicated. It appears certain, in any svent, that the canal will be a splendid hing for Columbia. Rut it would seem squally clear that Columbia must make he start in utilizing the water-power. She must prove her own faith before she ;an inspire the confidence of outside capial. The business men of Columbia must mild the first mill.?[Winnsboro News. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Foimd?Apply at the Enquirer Ofllco. Walter II. Moore?Don't Delay. J. II. Riddle?The Plow Brand. W. D. Glenn?You Can't Afford to Wait. I). E. Finley, Clerk?Roads and Bridges. Mrs. T. M. Dobson, Proprietress?Dobson's Racket Has Them. R. B. Lowry?Buy Your Goods at Bob Dowry's. M. it II. C. Strauss?Prices Greatly Reduced. R. J. Herndon?The Grand Weser Piano. John May, Jr., ifc Co., Dealers in Gents' Furnishing Goods?Our Goods are now Arriving every Day. W. C. Latitner?A Wonderful Business. V/ - *_ YORK'S STUIIKNTS. The Columbia Register of yesterday publishes an honor list, showing the standing of the students of the South Carolina University, as shown by the results during the first term. In the list are the following names from York: Proficient?J. D. McNeel, of the Junior class; A.T. Hardin, (special student,) W. W. Miller, (elective student.) FARMERS' MASS MEETING. Members of the Farmers' Association have requested of us publication of the following notice: There will be a mass meeting of the farmers of York county at the courthouse in Yorkville, on the first Monday in March next, to elect ten delegates to the Farmers' State convention, to be held in Columbia on the 27th day of March, 18!)0. This meoting is to include not only farmers, but men of all callings who are in sympathy with the Farmors' Movement. ;>C FOR SELLING LIQUOR. On Thursday last, Policeman Ingraham Wilson arrested in this place Berry Bryant, colored, for selling liquor, and he was locked up. On Monday, Deputy Marshal Thomasson took him before U. S. Commissioner Pride, at Rock Hill, for a hearing, which resulted in binding Bryant over for trial in the U. S. court. In default of $200 bail he was committed to jail yesterday evening. MONDAY, 31 ARCH 10, 1800. Our present club offer will expire on Monday, March 10, at 1 p. in. Persons who may desire to renew their subscriptions to The Enquirer, or those who may wish to become subscribers, should avail themselves of the present opportunity without delay. See the nearest club-maker and let your subscription commence with the opening chapters of "Dunraven Ranch," a fascinating serial story. The first chapters of the story will appear in our next issue. PERSONAL MENTION. ^Mr. John M. Garrison, of Charlotte, N. C., spent Monday and Tuesday with his parents near Philadelphia church. dvlr. G. C. Bonniwell and wife, of Hickory, N. C., were in Yorkville la9t week visiting the family of Capt. T. S. Jefferys. /Misses Ella and Gertrude Davis, of Rock Hill, are in Yorkville visiting Miss Emmie Hannahan. ~X Mr. Wm. J. Deviney, of Clifton, Spartanburg county, is in Yorkville visiting relatives and friends. KILLED AT A TRESTLE. On last Saturday night the north-bound passenger train on the Chester and Lenoir railroad collided with a buggy which was standing near a trestle a mile and a half above Hickory. The occupant of the buggy was a Mr. Sherrill, and he and his horse, attached to the buggy, were both killed. The supposition is that Sherrill was under the influence of liquor, and when he reached the railroad crossing, instead of driving across, his horse turned and followed the railroad to the trestle where it stopped, its driver probably asleep or unconscious. No blame for the accident is attached to those having charge of the train. Mr. Sherrill leaves a wife and four children. BISHOP DUNCAN. On his recent visit to Yorkville, Bishop Duncan was the guest of Capt. T. S. Jefferys. The many friends and admirers of the distinguished divine were gratified on meeting him once more in our midst. Besides the ordination sermon, delivered in the forenoon, in the afternoon he delivered an address before a mass meeting of the Sunday-schools of the town?the schools of other denominations having been invited to be present. Plis discourse on this occasion was founded on the word " W-a-t-c-h." In the evening he preached a sermon, mainly for the benefit of the young men, founded on Psalm xix, 10: "More 10 De aesireu are iney man guiu, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb." The subject of the discourse was the evils of money making from a mere mercenary point of view. LOCAL LACONICS. ^ There are quite a number of cases of the grip in town at present. Though of a mild type, the disease attacks old and young alike. ^rA squad of the Jenkins Itifles, under command of Lieutenant Bell, were drilling on the streets last Friday afternoon. There was no observance of Washington's birthday in Yorkville last Saturday, nor does the day seem to have been generally observed throughout the country. 5 The contract for building a bridge across Taylor's creek, on the Landsford road, about five miles southwest of Rock Hill, was let out on Thursday last by the county commissioners. Mr. A. J. Hoffman was the successful bidder, his bid for completing the work being $218. The following prisoners, all colored, have been received by the sheriff, sentenced at the recent term of the United States court, to imprisonment in the York county jail for violation of the internal revenue laws: Thomas Thomasson, one month ; Anderson Robbins, two months; Henry Robbins one month. Thomas Patrick, colored, a "trusty" in the county jail, escaped from that institution last Monday evening. He was committed by Trial Justice Johnson on the tilth of last November, on a peace warrant, and recently had been entrusted by Sheriff Crawford to do chores about the jail. On Monday evening he went down to the yard for wood and neglected to return. The sheriff, however, expects soon to capture him. ATTEMPT AT !SUICIDE. From the Monroe, N. C., Register we learn that on Wednesday night, Mr. Frank Bear, well known in Yorkville, attempted to commit suicide at the house of Mr. William Stephenson, who lives at Potter's crossing, in Union county, N. C., seven miles west of Monroe, on the G., C. and N. railroad. Bear arrived at Mr. Stephenson's house in me evening, ana asked permission to stay all night, which was granted, Mr. Stephenson noticingnothing suspicious about him until some time after he had gone to bed, when he heard Bear talking to himself in a way that convinced him that the stranger's mind was unbalanced. During the night he attempted to kill himself by cutting his throat, and then stabbing himself over the region of the heart. The knife used was a very dull one, which probably saved his life. The wound in his throat was something over an inch in length and very narrowly missed the jugular vein. The wound over the heart was about half an inch deep. Mr. Stephenson took him to Monroe on Thursday morning, where physicians dressed his wounds. Bear said a lot of doctors were after him, for the purpose of killing him, and he thought he had just as well kill himself. lie said, however, that he made a bad job of it, and did not think he would try it again. Bear said he knew he had religion when he tried to take his life. Arrangements were being made to have him confined, but he eluded the officers, and after obtaining a drink started down the Carolina Central railroad, enquiring the way to Wilmington. Mr. Bear is about 3G years old and a native of Columbus, Ohio. His mother and a sister live in Detroit, Michigan. He is it a coach painter by trade, and has been em- a ployed here by Mr. M. C. Willis for the ti past two years. Recently he has drank tl very hard, and on Monday of last week, $; in a state of aberration from indulgence in c drink, he strolled from town, but was found by a friend, who instituted a search si for him, near Sharon church, and he b returned to Yorkville. Tuesday after- IN noon he was thought by acquaintances to fi be in his right mind, but on account of his S dissipated habits he was discharged from V the shop, and on Wednesday he left York- I vilie, ending up the day with the advent- o ure above detailed. fi CHURCH NOTICES. fi Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. 11 J. C. Galloway, pastor. Services next Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7.110 p. m. Sunday- 0 school at 3 p. m. h Da?? LT ? Yolurin rootnr il rjjMSuupai?ncvi v/iuuii) ?wbv>? ^1 Morning service next Sunday at 11 o'clock. t] No evening service unless announced at a morning service. Sunday-school at 3.30 " p. m. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, pas- j tor. Prayer-meeting to-morrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. Services next Sunday at a 11 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Sunday-school at J1 3 p. m. ti Baptist?Rev. R. Q. Patrick, pastor, p Services at Union next Sunday at 11 a. m. ' and in Yorkville at 7.30 p. m. Sunday- b school at 10 a. in. Prayer-meeting to- v morrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. ^ Trinity Methodist Episcopal?Rev. G. i II. Waddell, pastor. Prayer-meeting this J1 evening at 7.30 o'clock. Love feast Fri- H day evening at 7.30 o'clock. Service Sun- d day morning, with the sacrament of the * Lord's Supper, at 11 o'clock. Evening t service at 7.30 o'clock. Sunday-school at I 3 o'clock p. m. ? RAILROAD NOTES. [ Of the progress of the work in Tennes- s see on the Three C's railroad, the Johnson a City Enterprise of last week says : The Three C's railroad has been completed e through Washington county, and a passenger I train will he put on next month. Seventy-five a miles of the road toward the coal fields has v been graded. Tho one hundred miles from g Erwin to Minneapolis will be formally opened ]< on the Fourth of July, and the event will be n appropriately celebrated in Johnson City. g Contractors for the grading in Unicoi & county, Tenn., are now moving their g forces there. p The work between Rutherfordton and Marion, N. C., is progressing satisfactorily. " The Shelby Aurora says that "after I much tribulation and litigation, the rail- 41 road law-suits in Cleveland county have v been settled. Cleveland county is now a Li v am nnn wnrlli r\f yay lug an auuuai iaa uu iu,uuv nuitu v* bonds issued to aid the Charleston, Cincin- C nati and Chicago railroad. This was for e so much stock in the Three C's road, which r stock, amounting to ?75,000, has never t been issued to Cleveland county although i two years have elapsed," and the Aurora thinks the county is now entitled to re- e ceive the certificates of stock. c Mr. Ileps Jones, of Knoxville, Tenn., C and Mr. Burrell Blanton, of Shelby, N. C\, have the contract for grading that portion C of the Augusta Division between Blacks- I burg and Newberry. We were in possession of this information and could have I published it last week, but in deference to J the management withheld it, the reason C assigned by Col. Johnson for not desiring I its publication being that the contracts i were then unsigned. The Shelby Auro- c ra says the grading will comprise 71 miles, c and that the contractors will begin grad- t ing next month in Union county, S. C., c and have to finish 40 miles before January a 1,1891, according to the contract fbrjhe issue of Union county bonds. / 8 / i CHURCH DEDICATION. t Last Sunday was an eventful and auspicious day in the history of Methodism in Yorkville, it being the (Jay appointed lor the dedicatory servicesand consecration of , the handsome new church edifice, just j completed, of the Methodist congregation in this place. The morning opened with j Indications of rain, but before the services a were begun the sun shone out, revealing a c beautiful spring-like day of pleasant temperature. The hour appointed for the j service was 10.30, but long before that r time the people?men, women and children?began to assemble, and soon the p spacious room for worship, and the adjoin- S ing Sunday-school room, were filled. As c an act of brotherly courtesy and in a spirit ? of commendable Christian harmony and amity, the pastors of the other churches in town omitted their regular morning ser- ^ vice, that they and members of their re- t spective congregations might be present d and participate in the interesting exercises. s Seated on the pulpit were Rev. K. S. Nelson, rector of the Episcopal church ; Itev. J, T. It. English, pastor of the Presbyterian c church ; and ltev. It. G. Patrick, pastor of o the Baptist church. Itev. J. C. Galloway, fi pastor of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church, was absent on account of ill- t ness. Besides the above ministers, there were on the pulpit or inside the chancel, g Itev. G. W. Gatlin, who was pastor of this b charge in 18G8; Itev. W. W. Daniel, pastor of Yorkville congregation for the last e four years preceding the present, and Itev. I L. A. Johnson, of Yorkville, now a super- J1 anuated minister. q Promptly at 10.30 the pastor, ltev. G. H. Waddell, accompanied by Bishop Duncan, v who conducted the exercises, entered the v church, their entrance being the signal for r "Old Hundred," which was rendered by ^ the choir This selection was followed by ^ a voluntas , "Eglon," by G. F. Kubler. The Bishop then announced as the first rj hymn in the service, No. oG, by Charles n Wesley, "Eternal depth of love divine," n to the music of "Migdol," by Lowell I Mason. ? After prayer by the Bishop, the first lesson in the dedicatory service was read by , \\T \\7 rinniol from (JpHPsis. 28th . chapter, verses 10?22. e The second lesson was then read by li Bishop Duncan, from St. Paul's Epistle to i>" the Hebrews, 10th chapter, beginning ? with the 19th verse. 0 The Bishop then gave out hymn G97, "Come, O thou God of grace," which was a sung to the arrangement of "New Haven," o by Thomas Hastings. f< The Bishop then announced his text from the book of the prophet Jeremiah, ? 0th chapter, 10th verse: "Thus saith the g. Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and t; ask for the old paths, where is the good way and walk therein, and ye shall find ii rest for your souls." The eminent divine b delivered an able, interesting and instruct- ^ ive discourse from these words; doctrinal, as was mete for the occasion, but embody- \ inrr a onntimpnf. tlf PVf'PPrl i n (T UberalitV fi for all Protestant Christian denominations, t except the strolling conductors of "holiness meetings," whom he characterized as desecrators of the gospel. Adhering to 0 the words of his text, "and ask for the old q paths," he traced the history ofMethodism p from the days of John Wesley to the pres- ^ ent, his argument being that while the s times and conditions of things have J, changed?while there has been an advancement in intelligence and material progress a since the founding of Methodism, yet the d great principles of Christian life as enun- t; ciated by Wesley and adopted by the no- e ble band of his followers, and the thousands who have since embraced the doc- c, trines, stand to-day unchanged and un- n changeable. His logical conclusions were J< a defence of the tenets of the church and a I refutation of the idea that Methodism, as inculcated by the fathers, is in a state of *1 decay or being contaminated by frivolity. [J It was a masterly argument in defence of ? the church in which he is a devoted ser- $ vant, and strikingly free of word or p thought contravening other denoraina- ^ tions. At the conclusion of the sermon, the ^ Bishop announced that there was yet an p indebtedness of about $1,000 on the build- $ ig and it wa9 desired to raise a sufficient mount to liquidate the debt. Subscripions were started, and in a few minutes he required amount wa9 raised in sums of 300, $100, $;30, $2o and down to smaller ontributions. The dedicatory exercises were then reumed, the following officers of the church eing present and participating: Dr. W. I. Walker, J. Ed. Jefferys, F. Happereld, J. W. Dobson, T. S. Jefferys, II. C. trauss, Frank A. Gilbert, J.E.Smith, V. L. Goforth, George H. Berry, II. H. leard. Dr. Walker, chairman of the board f stewards, addressed the Bishop as allows: "We present you this house, to be set aside rom all unhallowed or common uses, for he worship of Almighty God." To which the Bishop responded : "Forasmuch as God has put it into the hearts f his people to build this house for his worhip, and has blessed them in their undortaktig, we solemnly dedicate it to his service, for he reading andexpounding of his holy word, lie administration of his ordinances, and for 11 other acts of religious worship. That he nay graciously accept this labor of our hands, 3t us devoutly pray." He then said, the congregation kneeing: ( "Almicrhtv anil overlastintr God. the heaven nd the heaven of heavens, cannot contain thee, tiueh less this house which we have built, yet hou dost humble thyself to behold the inhubiants of the earth, and doth promise that in all ilaces where thou dost record thy name thou irilt meet with thy people and bless them. Let hy name be recorded in this place, and here et thine honor dwell. Preserve this house, Khich wo set apart to thy service, from injury nd desecration. Accept the worship wliicn iere shall bo oirered to thy name. Let thy loly Spirit accompany thy word and ordilances, which shall be here administered, so hat they may prove means of grace to all who hall receive the same. May many sons and laughters be here born to the Lord Almighty, jet thy people be abundantly satisfied with the atness of thy house, and make them drink of ho river of thy pleasures. Let their children ie here fed with food convenient for them, and ie brought up in the nurture and admonition f the Lord. Let the living waters go forth rom this sanctuary, carrying life and joy to ,11 around. Let thy work appear unto thy ervants, and thy glory unto their children; nd let the beauty of the Lord our God bo ipon us; and establish thou the work of our lands upon us; yea, the work of our hands stablish thou it. Now, therefore, arise, O jord God, into thy resting place, thou and the rk of thy strength; let thy ministers be clothed Kith salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in ;oodness. We beseech thee, 0 Lord, to overook our unworthiness, forgive our sins, and nake us a habitation of God through the ipirit. We offer all our offerings through the ver-blessed name of our Lord and Saviour esus Christ to whom with thee, and the Holy ipirit, be glory and majesty, dominion and ower, both now and ever. Amen." The Bishop then announced hymn. G93, 'Behold thy temple, God of grace," by 'hcebe Palmer, sung to the music of 'Holland," by W. W. E. Bradbury, which pas followed by the long metre doxology ,nd the benediction by the Bishop. And thus was dedicated to the living *od, a house of worship which we trust nay long remain a beautiful and enduring onument to the zeal and religious devoion of the honored denomination which t represents. Not the least interesting feature of the xercises was the elegant music. The hoir is constituted as follows: Miss Jessie )wen, organist; Mr. G. H. Berry, flute. Joices?Mr. Wm. C. Owen, Mr. Wm. A. )\ven, Mr. Frank A. Gilbert, Mr. R. E. Montgomery, Mr. H. C. Strauss, Mr. R. J. Vithers, Mr. Frank E. Smith, Mrs. G. H. Jerry, Mrs. F. A. Gilbert, Miss Mary ohnson, Miss C. R. Russell, Miss Luella )wen, Miss Katie Lewis, Miss Essie Owen, Miss Ella Jefferys, Miss Cora Clark. The nstrumental music was much improved m this occasion by the cornet in the hands if Prof. R. J. Herndon, and as vocalists he Misses Davis, of Rock Hill, Mrs. Nail, if Chester, and Mr. \V. H. Herndon, ,dded to the effectiveness of the music. An illustration of the building with decription, and a brief sketch of Methodism n Yorkville, will be found on the first >age of this issue. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Several cases of rabies among cows, logs and dogs, have recently developed n Colleton county. ? Dr. J. H. Strom, a member of the iresent legislature from Edgefield, died ,t his home in that county last Thursday light. ? On Friday last, on Main street, Columiia, Oscar Sox, a worthy young man of jexington county, was rushed upon by a unaway horse and killed. ? Chairman E. M. Bray ton, of the Ite ublican executive committee in this Itate, is making an effort to prevent the onfirmation of District Attorney Lathrop, n account of his alleged Democratic tenancies. ? The Abbeville Medium suggests that ne of the chief subjects to be considered iy the Farmers' Movement convention is he equalization of representation so as to ieprive Charleston of the unfairly large hare she has. ? Judge Witherspoon adopted a rule at he recent sessions of court at Chesterfield hat witnesses must remain inside the ourt house, and if they answer from the utside when called, they should forfeit pay or that day. ? William Leaphart, colored, tried in he Lexington court of sessions last week or an outrageous assault upon Miss Canon on the 2Gth of last January, was found ullty and sentenced by Judge Wallace to e hanged on the 11th of next April. ? The Barnwell Sentinel says: It is now vident that the friends of David C. teady will leave nothing undone to have lim acquitted. It is reported that a disinguished criminal lawyer of the Empire Itate has been engaged to defend him. ? Last Thursday sixty convicts, who /ere working on the Columbia canal, and /ho were somewhat unwell when caried out in the morning, were taken with a grippe and compelled to give up. They /ere marched back to the penitentiary nd are now in the hospital. A * T^Hawaa rinn nrrr /lAlinfir Tocf AlJ I^llUICU) cv/uuvj j im.jv 'hursday, George Collier, a young white aan, shot and killed another young man araed Will Lindsay. It is claimed that ^ndsay assaulted Collier's wife. Linday's body was shipped to Mrs. Lizzie Jndsay, Gastonia, X. C. ? Col. F. W. McMaster has announced lis candidacy for the Democratic nominalon for mayor of Columbia at the April lection. Col. McMaster will have a urge following, if his success in the past 3 any criterion. There may be other andidates, and the contest between Mayor thett and his competitors will be a lively ne. ? Says the Winnsboro News and IlerId: Capt. G. W. Shell, who has held the ffice of clerk of court for Laurens county Dr a long time?since ISTGwe understand? a preaching the doctrine of rotation, reminds us of the prood old lady who, in xplaining the doctrine of predestination, aid it means "Election for me, damnaion for you." ? Mrs. Levelle, the woman who was shot n Charleston, Monday night of last week, y her husband, Napoleon Levelle, died on he following morning. Mr. Feldman, ier uncle, who was also severely wounded t the same time, will probably recover, jevelle is a Northern man and an ex-Fedral soldier who settled in Charleston $?fcpr he war. ? Says the Wateree Messenger : Hon. J. ). Harrison, of Fairfield, we learn, gave orne attention to the harvesting of hay n the Wateree river last year, above Chestnut's ferry. He has about 100,000 ounds which he is putting up in bales. Ve understand that he will devote coniderable attention to the hay crop this ear. This seems to be quite a promising ndustry. ? A farmer's conference was held in Orngeburg on the 20th instant. About a ozen leading fanners of the various secions of the county composed the confernce. The result was a call for a mass aeeting of the Farmers' convention, to be eld at Columbia on March 27, 181)0. The all is signed by Messrs. John E. Wanamaker, J. W. Summers, It. W. Bates, I. It. Walter, G. M. Norris, and John C. lolman. ? The Greenville Mews has obtained the allowing statement of the expenses of the ecent special Feruary term of the I)isrict court: Witnesses, *13,09(5.20; jurors, 1,832.Go; miscellaneous expenses (about) 02 ; bailiffs and crier, *90 ; cost of sending rocesses and transportation of two conicts to the Columbus (Ohio) penitentiary ibout) *1,000; total, *15,116.83. This is a lose estimate of the entire cost of the term, /hich lasted exactly two weeks. The exenses, it will be noted, amounted to 1,259.063 per day. Spending tiik Situ plus.?A Washington dispatch to the New York Advertiser says: A new element has come in to influence pension legislation. There is, of course, no limit to the demands made in the name of the old soldier, and the promisesofthe Republican party are equally without limit. Rut the party has other friends who want a share of the money in the treasury, other obligations to meet, and some of them come into consideration before the old soldier. The steamship companies and the like, with their claims for subsidy, demand the first attention. It is not within the power of the minority to do much, but when the distribution of the surplus is made, holding the balance of power, they may have some say as to where it shall gr. The Southern members have been talking this matter over a great deal lately. They do not believe in government gratuities; they have voted for liberal pensions for union soldiers who have been disabled, but they make their protest against prodigality of expenditures for pensions or anything else. Rut now it has come to a pass, they think, where the surplus is bound to be spent, going to either rich corporations or to the poor soldiers, and they think they ft Sm% KafuTflOn thn ItlKl I1UVC tt yuitc in UCUUI Ug Vi.v >two. If they have to make this decision, they say they will vote for the soldier. They have determined to vote to give pension bills right of way before all subsidy or other bills designed to distribute the surplus among corporations. The result of this will be that the majority will either . ve to vote against their own pension bills or else see their pet subsidy schemes fail. The Gallows.?Ellison Mounts was hanged at Pikeville, Ky., on Tuesday of last week for participating in the murder of Miss Alafair McCoy and her brother. He was cool to the last and as the black cap was pulled oyer his face declared that the Hatneld outlaw gang forced him to engage in the murder. 'Win. Seely Hopkins was hanged at Bellefont, Pa., on Wednesday for the murder of his wife and mother-in-law. The -i iL- n?i a; a in ir rni urop leu me nrst mijetii iu.jo. ?iiu xupe broke and the condemned man was again fastened up. The drop fell successfully the second time at 10.18. On the same day Jacob Schoop and Thomas J. Cole were hanged together in Moyamensing prison, Philadelphia, Pa. Schoop was hanged for the murder of Anton Schilling, and Cole's execution was for the murder of Walter McAllister. John King, colored, was hanged at Osceola, Ark., last Friday morning, for the murder of Mrs. Warrenton, a widow, and her two children, a boy of 14 and a girl of 10 years, in May, 1888. The murderer and his victims lived on a plantation of W. P. Haite, about three miles from Osceola. King went to the home of Mrs. Warrenton about 5 o'clock in the morning and rapped at the door, which was opened by the little girl. She was hit with a club by King. In the morning Mrs. Warrenton was found dead, her skull was fractured, and her son fatally injured. The girl lived long enough to convict King. He has persistently insisted on his innocence. Tiie U. S. District Courts.?Says the Washington correspondent of the News and Courier: To Mr. Dibble belongs the credit of securing the passage of the first South Carolina bill since the new rules in the house were adopted. By clever manipulation he obtained consideration on Wednesday for the bill regulating the sittingsof the United States courts in South Carolina. It is provided that there shall be four regular terms of the circuit court, as follows: In Greenville on thefirst Mondays in February and August, in Charleston on the first Monday in April, and in Columbia on the first Monday in November. The office of the clerk of said court shall be kept in the cities of Charleston and Greenville, and the clerk shall reside in one of the said cities, and his deputy in ine omer. The regular terms of the district courts of the Eastern district of the State shall be held in Charleston on the first Mondays in January and July, and in Columbia on the fourth Monday in November. The terms of the Western district shall be held at Greenville on the first Mondays in February and August. The office of the clerk of the district court shall be kept in Greenville and also in Charleston. It is also provided that in case any person be convicted in either the Ptostern and Western rlistriefs who l?v reason of his flhsenofl has not received sentence, he may be brought before the j udge of said district, in whatever part of the district he may be holding court, and sentenced according to law. Tiie Reform that is Needed.?Here is the reform most needed in South Carolina to-day?the reform in the administration of the criminal law. Read the list. of crimes in this State this week?read them every week and every day; see for what slight provocation human life is taken; see the number of homicides occurring in almost every section of the State; see how in this old State?one of the original thirteen?settled more than a hundred years ago, and dotted over thick with churches and school houses and all the elements of retirement?human life is becoming as insecure as it ever was in the lawless daysof the worst borderSlates. ?[Newberry Observer. The Duke of Orleans.?A cabinet meeting was held in Paris on Saturday at which it was decided to set aside the sentence of two year's imprisonment imposed on the Duke of Orleans, and to have him escorted to the frontier immediately, but when about to board the train on Saturday night, he was re-arrested and carried back to prison. The cause for this action was a declaration made by M. Manjan, a Boulangist deputy, that as the Duke of Orleans had been pardoned he would demand similar action in favor of the strikers who have been convicted in the provinces. Send the Rest Men.?It is hoped that every county in the State will send a full and strong delegation to the convention proposed to be held at Columbia in March. The successful achievement in the near future of the reforms advocated will de pend in great measure on the wisdom and conservatism of this convention. Hence the great necessity of every county being represented by its best men, who can and will see to it that nothing is done of a radical and revolutionary character. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.?[Iveowee Courier. On the Installment Plan.?A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch of Friday says : Several months ago a young man named Lewis, opened aclothing store in this city. He organized six clubs of forty members each, who paid one dollar per week on a forty dollar suit of clothes. Every week there was a drawing and one member of each club drew a suit. Lewis has suddenly left town without leaving his address, and about two hundred men, who have paid ten or fifteen dollars each and drawn no suit, are trying to ascertain his whereabouts. ?? Tiie Way the Money Goes.?The New York Times estimates that the total appropriations to be made by the present congress will reach $4/50,000,000. The receipts having been estimated at $38/3,000,000, this would leave a net deficit of $G">,000,000. The indications are that the pension bill and other pet measures of the Republican party will not leave much of a surplus in the treasury after the regular appropriations are provided for. The Times thinks that Secretary Windom's .$44,000,000 of net surplus over the expenditures will not materialize. A la isam a Politics.?The Alabama uemocrauc convention, at wmcn a governor and other State officers are to be nominated, is to be held at Montgomery ? on the 28th of May. There are now six gubernatorial candidates in the field. The Farmers' Alliance has grown to be a 9trong political factor, and the campaign will be full of excitement an'd interest. The Republican executive committee will meet next week to decide on a course of action. Cotton Manufacture.?1The whole amount paid for wages in cotton manufacture in 1880 was ?45,(>14,41!). The total profits (not including improvements in plants) ?50,525,427. This shows for whose profit a tariff' works. Or state it in another way; 200,000 operatives divided ?45,000,000, while less than 1,0<K) employers divided ?50,000,000. There is no trouble to see which way that cat jumps. ? A call signed by Leonard Williams, chairman of the Greenville County Farmers' Association, has been issued for a mass meeting in the court house at Greenville on salesday in March, to elect delegates to the State Farmers' Convention in Columbia on the 27th of March. The call concludes with the following words: "It is hoped there will be a large and general attendance of all who favor lower taxes, general retrenchment and equal rights."