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Jtaps and rfacts. ? Senator Butler has forced from Hon. John Sherman the admission that the neKo was provided with suffrage, not because he deserved it, but to avenge certain legislation by Southern States hostile to the reconstruction act. This is an important admission. ? Careful estimates by the Georgia State Agricultural Commissioner's correspondents, give the average damage for the State by the recent freeze as 31 per cent, to oats, 20 to wheat, 48 to peaches, 52 to pears, 26 to apples, 44 to small fruits and 2o to meat. The fruit crop in Southwest Georgia is ruined. ?The Raleigh News learns that in some sections of Halifax county every negro has "vamoosed," and there is not even a mr.tr toft Thn onnrlitinn nf snmfi nf thft LWa IVUI auv wuv.?.v? w - - farmers is also said to be deplorable, and it is reported that they are offering a pound of cotton for a pound of meat to any one who will supply them at once. ? The Southern Baptist convention will meet at Fort Worth, Texas, in May next. This is a large and able religious body. It covers the territory from Baltimore to Texas, and represents over 2,000,000 Baptists. It will be invited to hold its next convention in the First Baptist church, in Birmingham, Alabama. ? The goverment printing office is now engaged in filling one of the largest orders in its history. This is for 18,000,000 blanks for the use of the 40,000 enumerators of the eleventh census, who will begin work in May. It will take 15,000 reams of paper and 20 presses will have to be worked 22 hours each day for six weeks before the order will have been completed. ? By the passage of the Oklahoma bill in congress on Thursday, adventurers, boomers and land-grabers, who had been watching their opportunity, rushed to the number of ten thousand upon what is known as the Cherokee strip. On Saturday the president issued a proclamation ordering the would-be settlers on the strip to leave, as the lands in it still belong to the Indians and not to the United States. The Oklahoma bill does not effect the status of these lands. ? The Wilmington Messenger estimates that North Carolina pays yearly $6,000,000 nf tariff tavpo in addition to its own DrOD er State, county and municipal taxes. This money goes North in the shape of enhanced prices on articles bought from that section, such enhancement being caused by the tariff levied to prevent foreign competition and raise prices. The average tariff tax, the Messenger calculates, is four dollars for each man, woman and child. No wonder that the average farmer, with an average family, averages a loss yearly. ? A Sao Antonio dispatch represents a curions and anomalous condition of public affairs as existing in Hidalgo county, Texas. A factional war is constantly in progress iu that border bailiwick, and it has happened often within the past few years that the county has been practically without executive, judicial and clerical officers. The governor is frequently appealed to settle the bitter factional disputes, but his decisions are nearly all disregarded and the county is left with no official head. A self-constituted commission has just proclaimed a set of officials for the county, which will probably lead to bloodshed. ? Both branches of the Tennessee legislature have passed a bill annexing a suburban district with 20,000 inhabitants to the city of Nashville. The Daily American says with this addition to the population of Nashvillp. bv the next census the citv will be shown to be over 100,000. The American is delighted over the new addition. It says: "We are a great big girl now, and we don't associate with little girls any longer. We have discarded our aprons and have taken to banging our hair. We have laid aside our dresses cut short from the shoes toward the knees, and will hereafter wear gowns cut scant from the neck toward the waist. We are grown up and we are glad of it." ? The act prohibiting the further coinage of the $1 and $3 gold pieces and the three-cent nickel pieces has passed congress, and is now awaiting the president's signature to become a law. The utility of these coins as currency, it is said, has ceas6d. Some two years ago, says the Philadelphia Record, nearly six million gold dollars were brought to the Philadelphia mint, melted and coined into double eagles. Some doubts were expressed as to whether in destroying the gold dollar the unit of value would not be destroyed, but the unit of value is represented by a fixed quantity of gold, i.e., 23 22-100 grains. ? "The world looks new to me now," said James Kelly, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to imprisonment for life in 1871, and who was released on a pardon Thursday. "Grover Cleveland was sheriff at the time of my sentence," continued the old man, "and instead of sending a deputy to Auburn with me he went himself, saying that he had never been in the State prison and wanted to improve the opportunity. I believe I am the only man in the world who has been escorted to prison by a president of the United States. The very last paper Mr. Cleveland signed his name to at Albany as governor was my pardon, to take effect March o, 1890, and here I am." ? The trial, at Whitehall, Wis., of the Oleson lynchers was concluded last Friday. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree against Mrs. Oleson, Olehansen and Olesletto. The two first named were wife and son respectively of Oleson, who was dragged from his bed and hanged by the mob last November. About thirty other persons who took part in the outrage pleaded guilty to riot and were fined $100 each. Sentence was pronounced on the lynchers at Whitehall by Judge Newman. Chas. Johnson, Olesletto, Mrs. Oleson and her son were sentenced to imprisonment for life, three days in each year solitary. There was a scene of great excitement in court room. Mrs. Oleson fainted and there was groaning and shedding of tears. ? The announcement has just been made /that the field of Appomattox, the scene of v>^the second most momentous event that rra? occurred on American soil, the surrender of Lee; has been laid off in an extensive park, the lands constituting its site having been purchased some time since by a Northern syndicate composed of such well-known men as Governor Campbell, of Ohio, General Burdett, of the same State, and Mr. Samuel M. Bryan, president of the Bell Telephone company. The principal object of the syndicate is stated to be to furnish a permanent camping ground for the Grand Army of the Republic on the occasions of their annual meetings. From this source, if their proposition to this organization is accepted, they expect to derive their principal revenue, but there is reason to think that the income from the property will be increased by fees from casual visitors, who are likely to become more and more numerous every year, as travel from the North southward grows in volume. ? The killing of Deputy Marshal Saunders in Gadsden county, Florida, had no connection whatever, it appears, with politics. It was an ordinary murder that was invested bv the nestilent senator from New Hampshire, with a political character merely because Saunders happened to be a Federal officer. Who committed thecrime is not yet known. The motive is not known. It was not a transaction in which the people of Gadsden had any part. The officers of the county and State are doing all they can to find out who was the murderer. There is no occasion, therefore, says the Times-Union, to invoke Federal interference to secure the punishment of olfences against the laws of Florida. An investigation by congress is, however, invited. It will not be made, the TimesUnion thinks, because Mr. Chandler sees that it will bring certain scandals of the Federal courts in Florida into unwelcome prominence. ? As the session of the Mississippi legislature was closing the other day, the six colored members presented the speaker of the house a handsome silver tea set as a testimonial of their appreciation of the impartiality of his rulings. In presenting the tea set L. W. Moore, colored, speakingin behalf of his colored colleagues, said : "I was born in Mississippi, but raised in a Northern State; associations there led me to regard the Southern white men as dire foes to the negroes, but receiving such cordial and unprejudiced treatment upon this floorifcy the entire Democratic party here, these tedious suspicious have been eliminated from the bosoms of this feeble six, and for this I am authorized to speak. You are our best friends; we are here to-1 gether, and from preference and stubborn intention we will ever remain, and should the spirit manifested by this body prevail throughout the South it is a sure and cer' tain solution of the race problem in Mississippi*" This would be a good incident for Senator Ingalls to tackle. It has more substance in it than the exploded Fanz Bincident at Aberdeen, Mississippi, and to L, dwell on it n while in another oratorical flight would indicate his disposition to do a little of the "justice" he so strongly recommends to the Southern people. ? A Chattanooga dispatch of the 12th says: The postoffice department received frequent complaints that registered letters had been tampered with that passed through the Plum Branch office in Edgefield county, South Carolina. Suspicion fell upon D. T. Saunders, the postmaster, and an inspector was sent to that place to examine into the source of the trouble. Upon his arrival he found that Saunders had tied, leaving no trace behind. Thinking that he might communicate with his relatives there, the railway postal clerks were notified to keep a sharp lookout on all letters for that place. Last Thursday a receipt for a registered letter at Plum Branch, and returning to the sender, R. D. Davis, 625 Pacific avenue, San Francisco, aroused the suspicion of a clerk, and he telegraphed the facts to Chief I...?pector Sharp of this city, who in turn notified the fho San Wflnm<w?n authorities. They call ed at the address, played the bluff game on Davis, who admitted that he was Saunders and made a full confession, stating his pilferings extended over a period ol a year and amounted to $1,200. ^JarhviUc (inquirer. YORHV1LLE, S. C. : WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1890. RAISE SOME MEAT. We are advised that there exists a widespread indifference, especially among croppers and renters, in the matter of penning the usual pair of pigs for the benefit of the home larder next fall. Some even go sc far as to say in view of the present prices of meat that they "wouldn't slop a pig foi it." This is very unwise. The ruling price of meat last year and this year is nnf noppflanrilv an indication of what il will be next fall. It is generally understood that our farmers cannot raise meal at present prices, and a little reflection confuses us as to how anybody else can afford to do it. The secret of the whole matter is that the high prices of a few years ago induced overproduction in the Northwest. This the Northwestern farmers are endeaving to check by devoting their attention to something else, and it i< getting time for the results to bo felt in this section. At any rate, there is frt guarantee that the price of meai will be as low next fall as it now is, and those whe throw away their slops in preference tc raising a few pigs, will most likely re gretit. THE STATE DEM0RAT1C COMMITTEE. The State Democratic executive committee met in Columbia on last Thursday night to act upon the resignation of Stat* Chairman Izlar. Of the twenty-one members, eleven were present. J. F. Iihame of Clarendon, acted as temporary chairman. The resignation by Judge Izlar, of the State chairmanship was accepted, and a committee was appoirfted to draft resolutions upon his retirement from party work. Col. Hoyt was placed in nomination for the State chairmanship by Col, McSweeney and was elected. A sub-committee of five, consisting of Chairman Hoyt, Secretary Jones and Messrs. McCall, Boggsand Haskell, was appointed to acl for the whole committee in cases of emergency. It will not, however, have powei to nerform anv duty not delegated to it by the committee. The quorum required for general committee meetings was fixed at five members, so that the sub-committee, in case of a general call for a meeting, will constitute a quorum for business. The following resolutions were adopted in reference to Judge Izlar: 1. Resolved, that the resignation of Hon. Jas. F. Izlar, chairman of this committee, be accepted. 2. That we will ever remember his fidelity as a leader, his prudent counsel, wise management and efficient work. 3. That it is our sincere wish that he may long be blessed with health and strength tc serve the State in the high office to which lit has been chosen. 4. That the secretary be instructed to have a copy of these resolutions engrossed and send them" to Judge Izlar. The sub-committee held a meeting on Friday morning. The principal inattei considered was the preparation of an address to the Democratic voters of the State, which it had been decided to issue at the full meeting of the committee on Thursday night. Chairman Hoyt was authorized to draft the address, which after being submitted to the members of the sub-committee for approval, will be given to the press. On his return to Greenville, Chairman Hoyt prepared the address, and copies have been mailed to the members of the sub-committee. The document is not lengthy, and Chairman Hoyt says that many of the published statements as tc the purpose and tone of the address itsell have been misleading. The sub-committee did not appoint a meeting "to consider the Tillman-Shell movement," and the address itself will not be in the nature of an answer to the Shell manifesto, but will be such a document as may very well have been issued had the Shell call not appeared. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. The signal service weather crop bulletin issued at Washington last Saturday says : The week ending March 15 has been colder than usual in the central valleys, Gulf States, in Oregon, Northern California and over the southern and central plateau regions, the deficiency in temperature in these sections ranging from 2? to 3? below the normal daily temperature for the week. The season from January 1 to March 15 has been unusually warm, generally over that portion of country east of Mississippi, and from Missouri, Kansas and Colorado southward to the gulf coast and Rio Grade valley. The average daily temperature over the greater portion of this region has been from 5? to 9? higher than the mean for the same period, as determined from observations of the previous years, and the season is from ten to fifteen days in advance in the Middle Atlantic States, Southern New England and the upper Ohio Valley, while it is about one week in advance throughout the Southern States and central valleys. During the week there has been more rain than usual in the central valleys, the region of excessive rains extending from eastern Texas, northward to Eastern Iowa, and norteastward over Mississippi, East Tennessee and the States of the Ohio Valley. Over the greater portion of this region tho rainfall for the week exceeded two inches, while in eastern Texas, northern Louisiana, and a portion of Arkansas the rainfall exceeded three inches. Less than the usual amount of rain occurred in all the other sections of the country. The season opens with an unusual amount of moisture throughout the States rvf 4Un /inniMAl iinllAitonn/1 lolrn f, n/1 Ui tnc tcuuai v o auu inivu wu.;,.u.? on the Pacific coast, while there has been very little rain from Virginia southward to Florida, where less than one half the amount of rain has fallen. Freezing weather continues in the Northwest, where the season is backward and the ground frozen, and although the rainfall has been less than usual in this section, ample moisture is reported. The recent cold weather has proved injurious to wheat and fruit in Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and Indiana, and farm work is delayed by a late spring. The freezing weather, in the early part of the month, extended as far southward as the Gulf States, and Georgia and North Carolina, with injurious effects upon all fruits and vegetables, and in many localities fruits are reported as injured. Excessive rains in the lower Mississippi and Ohio valleys greatly delayed farm work and injured the crops. Wheat is reported in good condition in Texas, but the planting of corn and cotton has been delayed by the cold weather and the rain, and in some sections replanting will be necessary. In Louisiana cane is reported in good condition, but planting is delayed. Low ground is under water in Louisiana and Mississippi. The week was favorable in South Carolina for all crops, and the planting of corn, cotton and rice is in progress. DOES NOT WANT THE NOMINATION. col. no vt dec taxes to decome a caxdid ate roit aovEitxoit. Greenville, S. C. March 12, 1890. To the Editor of the Florence Times: As you were kind enough to suggest ray name I'or the office of governor, I deem it due to you that my position be made known at this early date, in advance of any action on the part of others with reference to placing candidates in the field for this high office. As I have already intimated to you in a private communication, I am not an aspirant of political honors of any kind, and i am entirely content with occupying the station of a private citizen, striving to discharge the duties of citizenship with proper regard for the interest of others, and always entertaining a profound concern in measures affecting the welfare and prosperity of South Carolina. But I have no desire for official station, and much less inclination to enter upon an active campaign ? in order to secure it. The demands for a large business are sufficient to occupy my entire time, and it would be turning aside from a well defined purpose in life and ; from congenial employment, to seek en gagement in an uncertain uccupuuuu at best, while so far as I can see there in no 1 sufficient reason for so doing. I hold it to be true that the State has a right to the services of its citizens, and some of them must necessarily fill public offices, but so far in life I have escaped the duty and privilege of rendering services in an official capacity, where I wa9 dependent upon its emoluments for a living. I will be glad to continue exempt from this line of duty, and have no doubt ray fellow-citizens will gratify such a reasonable desire, allowing me to remain in the ranks of those who will strive earnestly for the promotion of good government without wearing the badge of office. I honor most highly those who render such service with fidelity and patriotism, and with an eye single to the best interest of our commonwealth, but it is not my wish to join the honorable fraternity of office-holders, : and I certainly cannot be induced to enroll myself among the office-seekers. I am not insensible, however, to the honor conferred by yourself and others in suggesting me for the office of governor, and > beg to express ray heartfelt thanks for the > unmerited compliment, especially from so I riiauy Ol luy 1C1IUVV JUUIUCUIOI^ nuucnj good will and esteem I am proud to claim . after nearly one-third of a century has been spent in editorial labors. The news' papers of the State, allow me to add, have ? much to do with moulding and guarding t public sentiment, and asa general rule the . press of South Carolina has always re mained steadfast in principle and courageous in times of peril. It is a high 1 privilege to be associated with such true 1 representatives of the profession. Be as> sured that I will co-operate most heartily ' in whatever will tend to develop and . prosper our beloved State, and it is my [ unalterable conviction that the unity and 'r supremacy of the Democratic party means > the promotion of these desirable ends. } We can differ among ourselves as to men i and measures, and we can contend most > earnestly for what we conceive to be right, , but no true Democrat will jeopardize the ' harmony and solidity of the party simply to gain a temporary advantage over his > fellows. I have the utmost confidence in the patiotism and common sense of the people, and have no fear that they will be led into political error and doubtful expedients when an opportunity is given . them for reflection. With sincere regard, , I am, very truly yours, ^ James A. Hoyt. MERE-MENTION. > Charles E. Cross, the Raleigh bank wrecker, is serving a seven years' sentence in the workhouse. A few days ago an old i family servant, who had but recently heard i of the troubles of Cross, walked a long dis tance to present himself at Raleigh and offer to serve out the sentence of Cross. Of course no such arrangement could be made, but the devotion of the former slave to his master^ was strikingly shown. The i itev. r. jm. Joiner, wno nas gainea con, siderable notoriety in North Carolina of ; late, on account of his appealing to the British minister for protection, has left that State and gone to Cincinnati. In ' a secret meeting of the Georgia State alliance executive committee, held in Atlanta last Friday, resolutions were adopted ask, ing the political parties of Georgia to 1 order primary elections, but not earlier than August 1. John Wylie, who has been twice arraigned and acquitted on charges of complicity in the murders committed at Birmingham by Dick Hawes, 1 gives notice that he will enjoin the publica, tion of Hawes's alleged confession if it itn. plicates him in the crime. The business failures occurring throughout the country last week number for the United States 1 217; Canada 35, a total of 252 compared > with 2G0 the week previous. In proportion to population, Boston has suffered [ more severely from the grip than any other city. With a population of 420J)00 ! Boston has had 885 deaths. New York, with a population of 1,500,000, has had . 2,503 deaths from the disease. Robert ltaines was hanged at Hartselle, Ala., last 1 Friday, for the murder on January 17, . 1889, of his brother, Bone Raines. Both were drunk at the time of the killing. The condemned man confessed his guilt on the scaffold. T^he Sam Jones taber nacle in Richmond, Va., is to be a monster. It will seat 11,000 people. "**)<" A i Canton, China, paper estimates that 7o0,000 i people die every year in China by fire and ? flood, but it is not satisfied. "The fact is," it remarks with cold-blooded cynicism,"the great need of China is the sudden removal i of 2,000,000 or 3,000,000 inhabitants to make r elbow-room for those who are left. A resolution has been introduced in the U. S. senate providing for an amendment of tne uonstituuon, 10 maae me eiecuon ui | senators by the "qualified electors" instead of the legislature of each State. Wil liarn Whitley, the celebrated centenarian ! of Stanly county, N. C., died a day or two ago at his home in that county. He was born iu the year 1775. Ex-Congressman Taulbee, of Kentucky, who was shot and wounded in the house wing of the Capitol on the 28th of February, by a newspaper correspondent named Kincaid, died from the effects of the wound last Thursday. Kincaid is held for mur! der. Governor Lowry, of Mississippi, hoc iccnorl a nrnpla triotir>n nrrlpri ncr ft n pIpp tion of delegates, 129 in number, for the State Constitutional convention to assem( ble at Jackson next August. VrOn Fri, day the Louisiana Lottery company forwarded to thegovernor?100,000, to be used , to protect the people of Louisiana against , inundation in consequence of the threatening condition of the river. This money was declined by the governor because it [ is on the eve of a session of the legisla, ture, during which a renewal for the extension of their charter will be acted , upon. " One hundred and twenty walnut trees standing in the forest near Delphi, Ind., were lately sold for $10,008. An adverse report was made to the house | committee on Banking and Currency one | day last week, by a sub committee, on the various bills for the issue of fractional , paper currency. The question of al[ lowing chickens to run at large is the issue in the municipal election at Norwich, Kan., and there are already two tickets in | the field. The Kentucky, legislature | has passed a bill calliog a constitutional , convention.""-VrThere are now twentynine Revolutionary pensioners on the list, | all widows. Theindictmentin Missist sippi against John L. Sullivan has been ' quashed by the supremo court of that State on the ground of being defective in its averments. The court reversed the case, and remanded the defendant to the next . term of the Marion county court to answer such indictment as may be found against him there. Heavy rains last week in the Mississippi valley caused an overflow , of the Mississippi and its tributaries, and heavy loss of property. The Rate ok Interest.?By an act of the last legislature the law in regard to the rate of interest was so amended that , no higher rate than eight per cent, per an; num shall be charged for the hiring of money, the legal rate remaining seven per cent, except upon special agreement. The law did not take effect until the first of March, 181)0. The following is a copy of the law in question: "No greater rate of interest than seven per centum per annum shall be charged, taken, agreed upon or allowed upon any contract arising in this State, for hiring, ' lending or use of money or other comraodj ity except upon written contracts wherein, I by express agreement, a rate of interest not oxceeding eight per cent, may be charged. No person or corporation lending or advancing money or other commodity upon a greater rate of interest shall he j allowed to recover in any court of this j State any portion of the interest so unlawfully charged; and the principal sum, amount or value so lent or advanced, without any interest, shall be deemed and ' taken by the courts of the State to be the true legal debt or measure of damage to all intents and purposes whatsoever, to be recovered without costs: Provided, That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to contracts or agreements entered into, or discounts or arrangements made, prior to the first of March, 1890. LETTER FROM BLACKSBURG. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. Blacksburg, March 18.?Another touch of winter has been upon us, and Sunday was thought to be the coldest day we have yet had. March is certainly playing her hand very well, and reminds one of ye oldeu time. Those of our people who believe in early gardening have been stopped in their work. From the present outlook, the probability is that the seeds sown will remain in the ground some time before they germinate. LaGrippe is relaxing its hold upon our town, ana nearly all of its victims have recovered. The annual meeting of the Magnetic Iron and Steel Ore company was held 4. ILA AMaa A^4LA Oil ytJBierutty at me cut put ate uiuv;o ui mo company in this place. No business of importance was transacted, and the meeting adjourned over to the 17th of April. The Blacksburg Land and Improvement company have rented the vacant store in the Reese block on Church street, and are fitting it up for an office. Dr. Wm. Jarvis, of Claremont, N. H., and Maj. P. P. Dickinson, of New York, have each recently bought an interest in the company, and the former has been elected a director. We were all delighted with and quite proud of our new paper, The Blacksburg News, which made its first appearance last week. I sincerely trust that our citiizens, both in town and country, will patronize it so liberally as to enable the proprietors to maintain the high standard of excellence with which they have launched-, forth their enterprise. Mr. J. P. Babbington will move his family, this week, from Shelby to this place, and occupy one of the new cottages on Mountain Avenue, recently built by Major Jones. A core oven and brass furnace have been completed at the foundry, and work on all the building has so far progressed, with the greater part of it under roof, that the structure is more massive and capacious than it appeared in its unfinished state. Mr. Wm. M. Jones has the machinery placed in his sash, blind and door factory, and did the first work with it last week. Work on the graded school building is drawing to a close, the sash being placed in, partitions built, etc., and it will soon be ready to receive the furniture. fPLrv 1 m knn! nAna rvf k A fp k fAA O'a JLUC luucaocu UU91UCOS U1 UIC X 1J1CO vo railroad has forced the company to extend the side tracks on the lower yard just below the freight depot in this place. Mr. J. W. Rhyne has added a saw mill to his cotton gin plant, and it is now in operation. The addition to the Air-Line hotel is nearly completed and is quite an improvement, not only in the way of a comfortable suite of much needed rooms and hotel facilities, but as an ornament to the town. Owing to the fact that so much interest is being taken in the mineral wealth of our section and county, there is quite a demand for Lieber's report of the geological survey of the State, made before the war. Copies of the work are very scarce, and, as it a very valuable and exhaustive one, it would be well to have a reprint of it. Any person having a copy to dispose of will be liberally paid for it by Mr. J. W. Thomson, proprietor of the Merchant's Hotel in this place. Mr. Joseph Black has invented a cook ing stove, with several novel leatures, and if he succeeds in perfecting and having it generally adopted, it will revolutionize the culinary work to a very great extent, and prove a blessing to our housewives. The fire is placed in the bottom and centre of the stove, on the principle of a furnace, the heat and smoke ascending on opposite sides of a range of ovens ana escaping through a pipe in the centre. There can be an indefinite number of ovens, ranged one above the other, and, by means of dampers, placed on each side of the furnace, the heat can be so controlled as to furnish on either side, at the same time, as high or low a temperature as should be needed to do slow or rapid cooking. For instance, while a cake or batch of rolls can be slowly rising and cooking on one side of the stove, a ham can be boiling on the other?both accomplished by the same fire. Two other very important advantages connected with this invention are the saving of fuel and the cheapness of manufacture, as it is estimated to cost not more than fifteen dollars. Mr. Black has applied for a patent, and from the encouragement he has had from the patent office will no doubt obtain one. Recently, while an old building was being moved on the premises of Mrs. Martha Hopper, near Buffalo church, quite a number of tin types were unearthed. They were pictures of men and children exclusively, and it is thought they were buried there by parties who formerly lived in the neighborhood ; but who left during the kuklux troubles and who wished to obliterate every likeness of themselves, whereby they might be discovered in another State. Mr. A. F. Sharpe concluded the exercises of his school at Buffalo last Saturday by an exhibition and speeches by Mr. W. B. DeLoach and Rev. J. A. White, of our town. While these were all very fine and creditable, no doubt the most enjoyable features of the occasion to the greatest nnmhpr vl'opp thp hnnntifnl rlinnpr be stowed by the patrons of the school, and the sweet music furnished by the Three C'8 brass band. w. a. LETTER FROM HICKORY GROVE. Correspondence of the Yorkvllle Enquirer. Hickory Grove, March 17.?Since the riot Saturday evening, the 8th instant, quiet has reigned in our town. Few farmers have been seen here during the week. The weather having been favorable, they have been busily engaged on their farms. Some have planted corn. Mr. Thomas Smith has planted thirty acres of the best land on his farm. Gardening seems to be moving slowly. Potatoes, peas, etc., have been put in the ground, and some other seeds have been sown, but it does seem that there could have been more done in the gardens. A good deal of cotton is still coming in to market. Messrs. Jas. Burgess, Thos. Patrick and Jeff George were in town on Thursday last with cotton. They are citizens of Union county, and generally do not sell their cotton until they get ready. They obtained 10.70 for their lot. Dr. Caldwell, who for several years has been connected with the State Asylum, and who is a native of York county, has decided to make this his home. He has purchased the residence previously owned and occupied by Mr. J. W. Castles, and will begin housekeeping with his newly married wife. We open our hearts to all like these and bid them God speed. Mr. Pursley, who was shot in the riot, is getting along very well. The man who fired the shot has not yet been arrested. So far as can be learned no effort has been made, further than the issuing of a warrant. Mr. Alonzo Thomas, of Sharon, has been employed as policeman by the town council. Mr. W. S. Wilkerson has begun the building of a neat cottage, which will be for rent when completed. Saturday night and Sunday we had the coldest spell of weather we have had this season. Old persons say they have never felt such cold before at this time of year. Mr. J. W. Smith, a worthy citizen, died yesterday evening at 1) o'clock, and after the funeral at his residence by Kev. Mr. Gatlin, will be taken to Salem, where his remains will be interred. The business men of the town are now closing their doors to attend the funeral services. Mr. Smith died of lung disease, with which he has been suffering for a number of years. w. h. k. McLane at His Old Tricks.?J. Hendrix McLane, who wears better clothes since Harrison was elected president, and seems to have solved the problem of living without work, is secretly trying to organize a political movement in this county. He went out to the Jackson Creek neighborhood on Friday and sounded some of those who were formerly adherents of the Greenback doctrine, as to their possible participation in the new party movement. As Mr. McLane came fairly and squarely over into the Republican camp by his actions at the meeting of the Republican league at Nashville, it must be taken for granted that his present purpose is to extend the membership of the Republican party, and that alone. It is learned on good authority that McLane is advocating the placing in the field of an opposition candidate to the Democratic nominee for congress in this district at the next election. McLane always was a man who would bear watching.?[Columbia Register. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. A. Y. Cartwright, Intendant?An Ordinanco Fixing the Commutation of Street and Road Tax for the Current Year. J. II. it A. T. Neoly, Administrators of the estate of Thomas S. Neely, deceased?Application for Discharge. Geo. T. Schorb?The "Opera" Piano. Withers Adickes?Fertilizers. J. A. Darwin?A Fine lot of Tonnesseo Mules and Ilorses. 1 M. A H. C. Strauss?If Low Prices are Any i Inducement. D. K. Finloy, Clerk of Board?Bridge Contract to Let. Alonzo Rose, Hickory Grove, S. C.?Fine Whiskies, Brandies, Wines and Tobacco. , F. Happerlield?Elegant Fresh Hams. Mrs. T. M. Dobson, Proprietress?Home Again. Now Look Out for a Genuino , Racket. Bargains that Could Not be Had by Staying at Home. A. Y. Cartwright & Co.?The Pioneer has Its Say about Spring Goods. W. C. Latimer?Hon. Daniel Webstdr said "There is Always Room at the Top." Our Gentlemen's Clothing is a Wonder to Behold as it Surpasses all former Selections. F. E Smith?Livery and Feed Stables. THE WOUNDED POLICEMAN. >A note received yesterday from Hickory Grove informs us that at 9.30 yesterday . morning, Mr. Hobert Pursley, the policeman who was wounded in the riot at that place on the 8th instant, was thought to be in a better condition to recover than at any time since he was wounded. His temperature is considerably reduced, and he is cheerful, with inclination to talk. SCHOOL DISSENSIONS. On last Saturday the county board of examiners heard a complaint brought by some of the patrons of Valdora school, situated about eight miles west of Yorkville. "The teacher of the school is Mrs. Minnie P. McCormick, and one of the grounds of comtitrto A^rtinof kon olloivinrv non?lo/if nf piailil v> ao agaiuob uvi ? auv^iu^ uwgivw vi duty as a teacher. Complaint was also brought against two of the trustees for keeping open the school with an attendance too small to justify its continuance. The complainant, Mr. R. N. McElwee, was represented by VV. L. McDonald, Esq., and Mrs. McCormick by Messrs. Finley & Brice and G. W. S. Hart and J. B. Bell. Complainant's counsel withdrew the charge against the teacher, and passing upon the other ground of complaint, the board decided to continue the school until the close of its fourth month. MAINTAINED HER INNOCENCE. On the evening of the 3rd of January, 188G, the barn of Mrs. A. J. Matthews, near Clover, in this county, was burned under circumstances which led to the suspicion of Effie Connor, a middle aged colored woman, who, with her husband, lived on the place. She was committed to jail on the charge, and at the ensuing March term of the court a true bill was found against her, but the case did not go to trial that term. At the July term a mistrial was entered, the jury failing to agree. When the case was called at the October term, the woman having remained in jail all the while, the solicitor submitted a motion for nolle prosequi, and she was A hnt? rolnaon frnm tail U19Uliai^CU? XXUCI IIVl iVIVUOU JIViAJ jut! she lived with her husband on the lands of Mr. Joseph 0. Walker, west of Yorkville. Recently she was attacked with pneumonia, and on Friday she died. We are told that on her death bed, among her last declarations, she stputly denied any complicity in the burning of the barn, or any knowledge thereof. local laconics. In an altercation last Friday afternoon, at Tirzah, between Johnson Lowry and Gammie Gray, both colored, Lowry inflicted a severe gash in Gray's left shoulder. Lowry was arrested on a warrant charging him with assault and battery with intent to kill, and after an investigation on Saturday by Trial Justice Bell, he was committed for trial. On Sunday he gave bond for his appearance at court mid was released from jail. The communication of "An Old Woman" will be published next week. There will be a meeting of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the Knights of Honor hall at 4 o'clock this afternoon. All members are earnestly requested to attend. Last Sunday and Monday were the coldest and most disagreeable days of this year. They are recorded by the signal service as the coldest of the past winter. From the large quantities of guano being delivered at the railroad stations at this place, it may be concluded that the farmers will use the fertilizer as liberally this year as heretofore. ^ death op e. 31. rose. Our citizens were quite surprised yesterday when they learned that the relatives in this place of Mr. E. M. Rose, of Columbia, had received the sad intelligence of his death, which occurred in Columbia at 3 o'clock last Monday morning. His illness was of short duration, as on Sunday he was up and in his usual state of health. Sunday night he was seized with congestion of the heart, and all earthly skill proved unavailing till death ended his suffering. Mr. Itose was the oldest son of Mr. W. E. Rose, long a citizen of Yorkville, and much of the life of the deceased was spent in this place. For several years, however, he has been living with his parents in Columbia. He was aged 46 years and 10 days, and was never married. His remains reached here on the Chester and Lenoir train at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, accompanied by his mother and brother and sisters, and were deposited in the residence of his brother-in-law, Mr. H. W. Smith. They will be interred in the family plat in Yorkville cemetery, the services conducted from the Episcopal church by the rector, at 3 o'clock this afternoon. PERSONAL MENTION. Rev. V. I. Masters returned home on Saturday from a two weeks ' visit to relatives and friends in Anderson county. Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Dobson returned home from the northern markets last Thursday. Mr. J. A. Darwin has returned from the Tennessee stock farms with a nice lot of farm mules and saddle and harness horses. >' Mrs. Geo. T. Latimer, of Philadelphia, is in Yorkville visiting the family of her sou, Mr. Samuel L. Latimer, v Mr. James A. Owen, of Chester, is in Yorkville, visiting friends and relatives. . Mrs. C. E. Spencer returned home last Saturday from a short visit to friends in Alexandria, Va. Mr. R. A. Parish has gone as a special TTnifed States denutv to assist in trans ferring from Greenville jail to the penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, the prisoners sentenced at the recent term of the district court to that institution. Mr. Robert T.Allison is in Atlanta, Ga., this week, to be present at the trial of his suit against the Richmond and Danville Railroad company for damages sustained by him by an accident on the Air-Line road in December, 1888. His mother is also in Atlanta with him. CONVICT DISCHARGED. June Campbell, colored, sentenced to the penitentiary from York county for the term of four years, at July term, 188G, of the sessions court, on a plea of manslaughter committed on the Gth of July, of that year, has returned to his home, his term having expired after a deduction of time to his credit for good conduct. The circumstances of the homicide, as recalled, were as follows: Both men were in the employment of Mr. George L. Riddle, of Zeno. On Monday evening, July 5,188G, Ed. returned to the house he occupied on the premises and placed a clean shirt upon the bed. That night June went in and slept upon the bed, not knowing the shirt was on it, and rumpled the garment. The next morning Ed discovered that his shirt had been rumpled and soiled, and a violent quarrel ensued between him and June. Mr. R. B. Riddle came up during the quarrel and put a tem porary stop to it by assigning the men t( the work he had intended for each to dc that day. lie directed June to hoe cottoi in a new ground field, and as the grount was rough he suggested to him to put on i pair of old shoes to protect his feet, tellinj him where he could find a pair in the mill. June went to the mill and brough the shoes up to the door of the kitchei and sat down to trim off some raggee edges of the leather, having borrowed i knife from Mr. Riddle for that purpose While June was thus engaged, Ed, wht was inside the kitchen, addressed him ant said, "The next time you lie on my clothe; I will not ask you why you did it.' June replied: "Why don't you do some thing about it now?" and as Ed turned fron the window of the kitchen, June jurapec up and plunged the knife in Ed's breast penetrating the heart, and death resultet in fifteen minutes. Mr. R. B. Riddle ar rested June immediately and he was com mitted to jail on that day by Trial Justici Perry Ferguson. July term of court wa: in session, and on Wednesday the gram jury returned a true bill on the indictmen for murder. On Thursday the casi came to trial, D. E. Finley and J. B. Da vies having been assigned to defend thi prisoner. He pleaded guilty of man slaughter, which the solicitor consented t accept, whereupon he was sentenced fo four years as above stated. CIRCUIT COURT. r~ The spring term of the circuit court fo York county will convene on Monday, 31s Instant, Judge Norton to preside. Oi yesterday the grand jurors for the yeai and the petit jurors to serve the first am second weeks of the spring term, wer drawn as follows: ORAND JURORS. Jaa. F. Davidson, Bullock's Creel J. A. Ellis, Cheroke< W. B. Choate King's Mountair W. C. Owen, Yorl S. P. Blankeuship, Fort Mil James McSwain, Ckeroke* J. II. Wilburn, Cheroke< S. A. Fewell, Ebeneze] \V. A. Carson, Bethesdi W. J. Davis, King's Mountair D. T. Partlow, Bethe J. C. Clawson, Fort Mil J. M. Ford, King's Mountair W. P. Roddey, Ebeneze: Allen Bettis, Cherokei John F. Glenn, Bethe John R. Long, Ebeneze S. A. Blanton, Cherokei I'ETIT JURORS?FIRST WEEK. D. J. Glenn, Jr., Bethe W. T. McFadden, Bethesdi Win. Rawls, Yorl J. D. Felts, Bethe J. 0. Stewart, Fort Mil Georeo A. Cowan Catawb: W. M. Allison,...; Yorl John A. Falls, King's Mountaii J. N. Iiussell Bullock's Creel H. B. Goforth, Cheroke* J. D. Gaulden Ebeneze C. L. Whisonant Cherokee R. N. Dulin, Bethe J. S. Hood, Bullock's Creel R. J. Caldwell, Yorl Jos. M. Whitesides, Broad Rive J. W. Ardrey, Fort Mil F. B. Home, Broad Rive GeorgeS. Cobb Broad Rive E. F. Bell, King's Mountaii R. M. Roark, Cherokei W. T. Huey, Catawbi 15. J. Fitchett, King's Mountaii W. J. Gordon, Yorl Jamos M. Sherer, Cheroke J. S. Gourley, Bullock's Creel J. L. Williamson, Bethesd; W. C. Armstrong, Fort Mil Thaddeus Bolin King's Mountaii John B. Moore, Cheroke S. P. Pierce, Ebeneze T. A. Brown, King's Mountaii F. P. Kirkpatrick, Bullock's Creel A. F. McConnell, : Yorl James M. Kirkpatrick, Bullock's Creel A. K. Smith Catawb; PETIT JUIIORS?SECOND >AYJ2EK. John T. Spencer, Catawb J. E. Sadler, Catawb Robert Conrad, Bethesd; W. H. Edwards, Ebeneze VV. A. Aycock, 15UUOCK s ureei John Law Jackson, King's Mountaii T. II. Lesslie, King's Mountaii J. C. VVylie, Broad Rive M. M. Tate Cheroke James Scoggins, Broad Rive T. N. Allen, Catawb J. G. Anderson, Catawb D. W. Barron, Bethe S. B. McCullough, Bethe F. M. Walker, King's Mountaii W. G. Brown, Bullock's Creel J. W. McKeown, Broad Rive A. J. Hardin, Broad Rive S. A. D. Robinson, Bullock's Creel P. R. Byers, Jr., Cheroke W. M. Frew, Catawb A. T. Jackson, colored, King's Mountaii A. E. Gettys Yorl J. N. Roberts, Yorl J. M. Miller, Bethe J. B. Mickle, Jr Bullock's Creel John J. Smith, King's Mountaii S. M. Jackson, .... Ebeneze C. C. Hughes, Cheroke A. L. Lineborger Ebeneze S. J. Sturgis, Catawbi C. H. Merritt, Fort Mil D. D. Gaston, Cheroke Isaac T. Faris, Bethe W. D. Westmoreland, Cheroke R. S. Hanna, Bethesd; -U YORK COUNTY BIBLE SOCIETY, / The York County Bible Society held ii annual meeting in the Presbyteria church at this place on last Sunday nigh A good number of the members were prei ent and the proceedings were quite inte: esting. The meeting was addressed b Rev. T. H. Law, of Spartanburg, distric secretary for North and South Carolim and reports were made by Mr. J. M. Elder, colporteur, and Mr. F. A. Gilber corresponding secretary. In his address, Rev. Mr. Law traced th spread of the Bible from the Luthera Reformation, in the Sixteenth century when the poor had access to the scripture only through an occasional isolated Lati volume, chained to pulpits in the churci es, down to the present time, whei through the agency of the British an American Bible societies, it has bee translated into almost every written lai 21 1 1 ~ I* A ~ ~ 11 ...V, guage Oil eanu, UUU umue net; iu tin wii are unable to buy. From this he went int interesting details of the operations of th American Bible society, and told how in i 7.3 years of existence ithad printed anddii tributed fifty-two million copies and r< duced the cost per copy lower than any otl er book of equal volume in existence. H also explained the workings of the societ and showed how, by means of auxiliary o ganizations with their branches, it extent ed its usefulness and influence into ever corner of the world. At the conclusion of Rev. Mr. Law's ac dress, Mr. Elder made some interestin statements. He had been canvassing th countv. under the auspices of the society since last November, and during that tim had thoroughly worked the townships c York, Ebenezer, Catawba, Bethesda, an a part of Bullock's Creek. Out of 94 white families visited, ho had found 8 without Bibles; and out of 1,31G colore families, there were 571 who possessed copy of the Scriptures. He has distril uted 1,139 copies, of which 752 have bee sold and 387 given away. Mr. F. A. Gilbert, corresponding seen tary, read his annual report, which was a follows: I. TREASURY. Money on hand at beginning of year 874.^ Received during year for books sold 69.5 Received from collections and donations.. 32.' Total 8176.1 Paid Amor. Rible Society on book acct...890.1 Paid for other expenses 8.1 Cash on hand 77.' Total 8176.1 II. DEPOSITORY. Valuo of books in Branches and Depository during the year, 811.1 Value ofbooks received during the year.. 98.( Total 8109.1 Value of books sold during the year, 869.2 Value of books donated, 1 Present yaluo of books in Yorkville Depository 39.( Total ...8109.1 After the reading of the secretary's re port, the society enrolled a number of ne\ members and re-elected the retiring boar of officers as follows: President, Rev. J. C Gadoway; Corresponding secretary, F A. Gilbert; Treasurer and Depositary John J. Hunter; Executive Committee Rev. J. C. Galloway, Rev. G. H. Waddell Rev. R. G. Patrick, Rev. K. S. Nelsor Rev. T. R. English, Messrs. J. A. Watsor > T. S. Jefferys, J. G. Ferguson, W. T. Bar) ron, J. C. Kuykendal. i The society adjourned to hold its next 1 annual meeting at Yorkville on the third i Sunday in March, 1891. I CHURCH* NOTICKS. ' Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J. C. Galloway, pastor. Services atTirzah j nextSunday at 11.30a. m. and in Yorkville at 7.30 p. m. Sunday-school at 3 p. m. 1 Baptist?Rev. R. G. Patrick, pastor. * Prayer-meeting to-morrow evening at 7.30 ' o'clock. Services next Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Sunday-school at 10 a. m. ? Episcopal?Rev. K. S. Nelson, rector. Morning service nextSunday at 11 o'clock. Eveningappointment will beannouncedat 1 morning service. Sunday-school at 3.30 , p. m. ' j Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, pasj tor. Prayer-meeting to-morrow evening " j at 7.30 o'clock. Services next Sunday at "Ilia. m. and 7.30 p. m. Sunday-school at 0 I 3 p. m. s | Trinity Methodist Episcopal?Rev. G. | j H. Waddell, pastor. Services this evenI ing at 7.30 o'clock, conducted by a visiting B minister. Services on Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Sunday-school at 3 p. m. '0 LETTER PROM ROCK HILL. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. r Rock Hill, March 17.?On last Thursday afternoon, some three hundred negroes gathered at the C., C. and A. railroad depot to bid farewell to about twenty of their r friends who were going to embark for a it Western State. The tears that were shed, Q and the lamentations were many. When . the western-bound party arrived at Char.' lotte, a number decided to forego the J pleasure of a western tour and they ree turned to their homes. The legislative candidates are numerous around our town. There are no less [...than eight, it is said, already in the hands 5. of their friends. There are also several > --mentioned for county commissioners. j~- The stockholders of the Rock Hill Real ^ Estate and Loan company, one of the town's latest enterprises, held their first r'~.annual meeting on Friday last. Presii. dent D. Hutchison and Secretary and -Treasurer J. M. Cherry, read their reports, J- -which showed the company to bo in a 1. nnnrlilinn tha nrnflla hainof piUSUClUUO tuuui 14VU| Viiv {/tuuM ^ior the first year 17 percent, on the capital j[.jtock. It was decided to increase the \Z capital stock from 800 to 1,000 shares. The r.--old board of directors and officers was rea."-elected. A bale of cotton was brought to this l.--market and sold last week, which, instead i- of being covered with bagging, was bound rt-with inch plank and iron ties. The cold weather for the past few days _,has been the severest we have yet had. Mr. A. D. Holler, a short time ago, pur^."chased a cockerel and six hens of a very t,-.desirable breed, at a good price. The er-cockerel weighed 11} pounds and the hens '"'--from 6 to 7J pounds each. On Saturday ^morning last, he found that during the Tprevious night some one had robbed his c^ "nen house of all but the cockerel. It is alrljnosta nightly occurrence that some rob\Z-beiy is committed, and if it is not stopped iv-the coroner will likely be called upon to rr--hold an inquest. The grip is on the decrease, here there ^Tbeing only a few more casese heard of. iZl The wind to-day has been very high, blowing clouds of dust up and down the e^, streets. This afternoon at 5.15, when the c^-wind was at its height, the cry of fire was 'heard. At once the fire alarm was given, J- "and Main street was full of people, the fireg^'men running for their apparatus and the r~ citizens going in the direction of the fire. n^-The steamer, in a few seconds, was on her ?.- -way up Main street, with the smoke pour<~-ing from her, ready to battle the flames, {" but her services were not necessary, as the li"'cause of the alarm was from a defective flue in the cook room of the residence a> Mrs. M. W. Russell, whicl* had been discovered in time to be extinguished by r] buckets of water. The alarm created quite i. a panic on account of high winds, and toil. night being the anniversary of the great u. Are of 1887, when a large portion of our r- town was laid in ashes. The congregation of Ebenezer church a' have decided to replace the present church building with a handsome brick edifice, il." This is perhaps the oldest church now il. standing in this section of the county, and the grave stones in the cemetery will anc tedate those of almost any section of upper { South Carolina. While the congregation t" regret to see the old church removed, they e! are gratified to know that it will be reft. placed with one that will stand for 3. many ages. The wires of the Western Union Telej* graph company were to-day transferred j' from the old office to the new one, recently ly built over the passenger depot of the r. C., C. and A. railroad. The new office e. presents a neat appearance, and is very r- convenient to our business men. hal. a. , , , J; LETTER FROM BLA1RSVILLE. l" Correspondence of the Yorkvlllc Enquirer. e! Blairsville, March 17.?As we pitch a. our crop for the present year, let us hoist . our sails with the intention of coming out right side up next fall. Let us get betts ter off, if we have to work night and day. n If we have to go with our elbows out, let t us do it, if it will bring better times. The ' most effectual way to down many monop3" olies and trusts is to lock ourselves up r* with corn and meat of our own raising, y plant plenty of corn, and other grain crops, ;t and when we are at our leisure, take down j our day books and figure on what we can j do without and not wnat we may think we want. Let us get hold of that end of the rope and pull it as tight as we can and we will be surprised to know how many e things we need that we will find that we n can do without. . Another cold wave is upon us, ana 1 [ fear the fruit is nearly all killed, though I ;s have examined a few peaches and find a D few not killed. Wheat and fall oats are i- making a poor showing. There is much 3f complaint as to fall oats being killed out d in places, thought to be caused by the|dry fall and winter months. Mr.E. M. Plaxico, of King's Creek, was *7 visiting friends and relatives near Blairsio ville some days ago, and reported that o wheat in his section was looking well up ie to the recent heavy frosts, and claims that t8 he thinks the wheat is badly injured, as it v was very forward. 8 -/ Mr. James Jenkins, of Gastonia, N. C., 27 will soon move to Sharon and will occupy l- the residence of Mr. W. A. Robinson until e he can build his dwelling, y Some of our farmers have planted a good deal of upland corn, while others are busi' ly engaged pieparing for it. I heard a *" farmer say a few days ago that he was at y least a month ahead, or a month further along than he was this time last year. 1- The roads in this section are being put g in good condition. croaker. e The Lee Statue Accepted.?Mercie's r, equestrian bronze statue of Gen. Robert E. e Lee has been accepted and, it is understood, )f will be shipped to Richmond at once, j About ten days ago the Lee Monument ? Association sent Col. C. P. E. Burgyn, the J engineer under whose supervision the monument was erected, to Paris to inspect d and, if perfectly satisfactory, to make the a deferred payment and accept the Lee j. statue. Thursday morning the board received a cablegram from Col. Burgyn, saying: "The statue is received. It is magnificent." 3- It is the expectation of the members of is the board that the work will be packed and shipped to Richmond immediately. It will probably arrive early in April. The board still need about $1,")00 or $2,000 to I Day freight on the statue and defray some ro other necessary expenses incidental to I bringing it to Richmond. >o The arrangement now is that when the statue is removed from its landing place 0 to the pedestal, on which it is to stand as a [*> lasting memento of the love of his people ^ for the great chieftain, it will be hauled jo through the streets by citizens. = The monument and the statue are to be deeded to the State of Virginia. x) The Powers of tiie Farmers.?If >5 the farmers really desire to control the - nominations, let them elect farmer deleis gates to all the county conventions, and l8 from these conventions let them send farX) mer delegates to Columbia when the regular Democratic convention is called. Then, >7 when the candidates are named, they, - if in the majority, can choose any set of" !5 men for the State offices they desire. To follow a few office-holders in advance will gain them nothing, but on the other hand ^ might lose them a great deal. This, we 13 all know, is a farmers' country, and it is just as necessary for them to have a government judiciously and economically ad ministered, as it would be if we were all 1 merchants, lawyers and mechanics. The ' farmers have it in their power to accom'? plish much good for the whole people if >? they will only go to work in the right way i, at the right time.?[Barnwell Sentinel. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? C. II. Suber, a prominent member of the Newberry bar, died on Wednesday last. ? Sheriff Nichols, of Spartanburg, by direction of Governor Richardson, has transferred Turner, the murderer of Finger, to Richland jail. ? Last Friday two negroes in Newberry county engaged in a boxing match for fun. One struck the other on the neck, breaking it, resulting in death. ? The Wilkinsville Alliance of Union county has offered a , remium of $50 for the best acre of cotton raised by one of the members this year. ? On Wednesday last, 1,300 bales of cotton, belonging to the Pelzer cotton factory in Greenville county, were burned. The loss is about $G0,000, covered by insurance. ? W. H. Charles, of Greenville, tried in the sessions court last week for the murder of a negro named Wash Conors, in January last, was acquitted on the plea of self defence. ? Nine prisoners, seven colored and two white, were sentenced at the recent term of Greenville sessions court to the penitentiary for terms ranging from one to three years. ? Major D. A. Townsend, of Union has been elected by the two literary societiesof Davidson college to deliver the annual address at the commencement exercises of that institution next June. ! ?The county primary campaign has been inaugurated in Oconee county, by the announcement of two candidates for the office of school commissioner?D. A. Smith, editor of the Courier, and D. S. Craig. ? The house of Charles Gibson, colored, in Beaufort county, was destroyed by fire Saturday night. Gibson, his wife and child, perished in the flames. There is suspicion of foul play and incendiarism, but no proof. j ?The State board of pensions met in Columbia last Friday ana completed the work of passing on all the rolls that have I been sent in by the various counties. From two counties?Florence and Georgetown?the rolls have not yet been sent in. ? The farmers of Newberry held a meeting last Saturday to elect delegates to the convention to be held in Columbia on the 27th. Eight delegates were elected, and a motion was adopted instructing them to vote for nominations in the State convention. ? Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Wanamaker, Mrs. Ilussell B. Harrison, Miss Wanamaker, Mrs. Wildon, of Philadelphia, Miss Rnhinson. of New York. Mr. Russell B. Harrison, and Mrs. Hammond, ofTrenton, spent last Friday in Charleston, on their way to St. Augustine, Florida. ? The Clarendon Enterprise of last week says: "We learn that Judge Kershaw is quite ill from a stroke of paralysis in Sumter, and the court there has adjourned. Such an able jurist and a noble gentleman would be missed from the bench, but it seems that his health will force him to retire." ? In the Union sessions court last week, William Davis, colored, was convicted of the murder of Susie Fernandez, a dissolute colored woman and sentenced to be hanged on the 9th of May. The solicitor nol prossed the case against three others, indicted as accessories to the murder. ? It is thought by the intendant of Johnson that Murrell and Carpenter, under sentence of death for the brutal murder of Younce, and who escaped from Edgefield jail in December last, are lurking in a swamp in Edgefield county, and have never been out of the county since they broke jail. ? The governor has granted a pardon to W. D. Hilton, who was convicted of stealing a mule at the October term of court, 1889, for Lancaster county, and sentenced to one year in jail. The jail physician states that Hilton has a malignant ulcer of the throat which cannot be treated with any hopes of success while he is confined in iail. ? An experiment is being tried by Levi Gibson, of Marlboro county, to destroy the cotton worm. He thinks that if the seed is rolled in sulphur before being planted, a sufficient quantity will be distributed through to kill the worm. Sulphur is cheap, and if the trial succeeds Mr. Gibson has done his fellows an inestimable service. ?The Farmers' association of Lancaster county held a meeting on the 10th and elected six delegates to the Farmers'State convention to be held in Columbia on the 27th. The following resolution was adopted : That it is the sense of this meeting that the Democratic party of this State should nominate all the executive officers of the State government by primary election under the plurality rule, and that it would be unwise in the convention of the 27th instant to make nominations. ? Colleton Press: On the 11th instant, Mr. J. M. Donnelly, a prominent mill man, and Mr. Stephen Blocker, a young man under 25, met in the woods a few miles from Walterboro (not by appointment but accidentally,) and drew their pistols and began firing at each other, which they kept up until their pistols were emptied. One of the balls from Mr. Donnelly's pistol penetrated the right arm of Mr. Blocker, inflicting a painful though not serious wound. Dr. J. G. Sanders was summoned, and extracted the ball. It is not known whether Mr. Donnelly was hit or not, as he could not be seen by a reporter, and no one knew. The cause of the shooting may be related in a few words. Mr. Blocker and a daughter of Mr. Donnelly became engaged to be married, against the wishes of the girl's parents. Several attempts were made by the couple to elope, which only added fuel to the fire of madness that glowed within the bosom of the father. Threats were made and the two men went armed for mutual protection. So when they met they concluded to settle the matter. The Leitch Meeting.?The Leitch meeting is still in progress, the evangelist continuing to preach twice daily to immense congregations. Among his hearers are to be seen, both night and day, persons livine- twelve and fifteen miles from the courthouse. Mr. Leitch has a way of his own of expounding the scriptures which is evidently attractive and impressive to many. Id fact, men go out regularly to hear him preach whose faces heretofore were seldom, if ever, seen in a house of God. He is waging a relentless warfare against whisky drinking, whisky selling, dishonesty, dancing and card playing, and in handling these subjects he does so literally without gloves. While his expressions are not at all times the most elegant, they are uniformly pregnant with force and pointed ness. One of the results of Mr. Leitch's labors was the declaration on the streets a few days ago by the proprietors of a bar-room in town of their determination to go out of the whisky business and lead better lives in the future. The parties referred to are regular attendants upon Mr. Leitch's services. Before Mr. Leitch leaves Lancaster we hope to be able to chronicle other evidences of his work of reformation in our midst. ?[Lancaster Review, Wednesday. The Farmers' Agitation.?All reforms of abuses, however slight or great, are brought about by an agitation of the abuses in question and the pointing out of the manner of their correction. This is what the farmers are doing at this time. In despotic countries, like Russia, such a movement is impossible; but in America free speech is protected. No sane man, whether following the vocation of farming or not, will so act as to divide the Democratic party in South Carolina so that a condition of our public affairs sim ilar to that existing in this State from 1868 to 1876 will be made possible. The farmers do not want it, are bitterly hostile to it, and will not have it. They have rights, however, and their view of how the State's affairs should be managed and conducted are entitled to the respect and consideration of those who honestly differ with them.?Greenville Enterprise and Mountaineer. Crop Statisticians.?E. T. Stackhouse, president of the South Carolina State Farmers' Alliance, appointed J. W. Iteid, of Reidville, S. C., crop statistician for this State. The president of each county alliance is requested to at once appoint a county crop statistician and report the same to Mr. Iteid. The county president will request each sub-alliance president to appoint a sub-alliance crop statistician and to report his address to the county crop statistician. The State crop statistician will be paid by the State. The county crop statistician's compensation will be fixed and paid by the county organization, and the crop statistician of the sub-alliance by the sub-alliance. J. F. Tillman, the national crop statistician, who attaches very great importance to this work, will furnish blanks and directions for making the reports.