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Jtoaps and ^atts. ? One George Thompson, of Iowa, who supposed that New Hampshire was a part of the United States, went out hunting while on a visit to a relative in that State, Sot lost in the woods and on the night of une ?0 froze his cars and toes. ? The Dutch General van Merlen, in Harlem, invited his surviving comrades on the field of Waterloo to celebrate with him the seventy-fifth anniversary of the battle. Seven veterans responded. Their ages were respectively 97, 95, 94, 93, 92, 92 and 91 years. All save one are in the most straitened circumstances. ? Gen. Clinton B. Fisk died at his residence in New York on the 10th instant, in the 63d year of his age. He was prominently identified with the temperance movement, and was the prohibition candidate for the governorship of New Jersey in 1886, ana in 1888 was the candidate of that party for president. He was presid?nt of tho hoard of Indian commission ers since 1874. ? Mrs. Gould, the handsome and wealthy, but somewhat eccentric English woman, formerly of Atlanta, who stabbed her husband to death with a lady's ornamental dagger at Murphy, N. C., last week, has been acquitted by a coroner's jury. The evidence shows that when she struck her husband, who was drunk, he was in the act of striking her over the head with a heavy riding whip. ? A Raleigh, N. C., dispatch says: The Republicans here are indulging in some strong talk against the Federal election law, now before congress. It is understood that A. W. Shaffer, Raleigh's postmaster, has denounced it as a pusillanimous and cowardly measure. There is a sentiment crystalizing to the effect that any Republican who signs the petition to put the law 111 operation in this section, must be utterly ignored. ?An official report to Secretary of the Interior Noble, says that recently there was a severe shock of earthquake, followed by a terrible roar, and it was found that the geyser, called New Crater, at Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming, had an eruption. It is throwing up a column of steam, stones and water about two hundred feet in circumference, and to the height of about 126 feet, and shaking the whole basin around that vicinity. ? The Louisville Courier-Journal prints a table compiled from official statistics which show that while 3,000,000 Democratic voters in fourteen Northern States elect only forty-seven congressmen, 3,300,00C Republican voters in the same States elect one hundred and twenty-six congressmen. In other words, the Republicans require only 25,000 votes to elect a member of congress, while the Democrats, in order to elect a member, must have 63,000 votes. ? So far as is knowu, there are now no m jre legal obstructions in Kemmler's path aWa?? TKa t?Y?if K Q Ko Q c Ml U|IO CIOVUIUII tilBlli inc ninui iibuvuq corpus has been dismissed and Kemmler has been remanded to the warden of the prison in which he is to be electrocuted, in order that the sentence of the court may be carried out. The big electric light company that has fought the case so stub* bornly may find something else to delay the execution, but it is probable that nc further efforts to postpone the inevitable will be made. ? There was a large meeting of the Farmers'alliance, of Prince William county, Va., at Manassas, Friday last. The Democratic members of the alliance held a meeting and endorsed for State senator, E. E. Meredith, of that county, against Gen. W. H. F. Lee, present member, who is a candidate for renomination. The farmers are being advised by their leaders to go into the primaries.and conventions and vote their full strength for the man that is most favored by them. ? Isn't it about time to own up that the late Confederacy did the most magnificent fighting in history? The New York Tribune estimates that there will be 750,000 names on the pension list when the new laws shall have gone into effect. Counting these 750,000 crippled and disabled relics of the war in connection with the hundreds of thousands of killed, it is impossible to escape the conclusion that the Confederates did some very dreadful fighting. ?The Arkansas Republican State convention met at Little Rock on the 9th instant and declined to place a Republican ticket in the field, and formally endorsed the Union-Labor ticket, headed by Rev. Jf. B. Fizer for governor. The platform adopted is a complete endorsement of the administration in power and the majority in congress, a reaffirmation of party principles. It charges the Democratic party with the murder of John M. Clayton, whose portrait was exhibited iu the hall, and declares the Democratic party a party of assassins. ? There are 73,000 members of the Kansas Farmers' alliance, and from an investigation conducted by the officers of the organization, it is made to appear that only 7,500 members have farms unencumbered, and the majority of these are carrying mortgages on chattels. Against these 7,500 owners of unencumbered farms, are 21,700 men who rent farms, many of which were formerly .owned by them, but have been lost through foreclosure. The remaining 44,000 hold farms subject to mortgage claims aggregating $146,563,134, and the astonishing assertion is made that a majority of them have defaulted on their interest, and may be sold out at any time under foreclosure suits. ? Ex-Representative Farwell, of Iowa, has written a letter declining to be a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor. He says the McKinley tariff bin as it leic toe nouse contains provisions that he would not support or defend for a nomination to any office. "To add," says Mr. Far well, "to the hi^h duties levied during the war, an additional per cent, in thesetimesof close competition and low wages, is only giving the manufacturers opportunities to oppress the people by forming monopolies and trusts." John Thomas Waternouse, of Cedar Rapids, in the same congressional district, a large property owner and a Republican, says: "The McKinley tariff bill will kill the Republican party here." ? The anticipations that have been for some time entertained that the Transcaspian railway would place large quantities of Central Asian cotton upon the Russian market, are being rapidly realized. The export of cotton from Turkestan has increased twenty-five fold in five years. Last year the importation of Asiatic products into Russia by the railway was increased 127 per cent, over those of 1888, cotton being amongst the products which most largely contributed to the increase. The returns of January in the present year, however, show the most striking increase in movement of cotton. In that month alone over 9,000,000 pounds of Central Asiatic cotton were imported into Russia, the greater part of it coming from Bokhara, and it was stated that the Russian factories will probably receive nearly 00,000 tons more in the course of the year. ? Director Leach of the Mint thus writes to the Philadelphia North American: "The amount of pure silver in the standard silver dollar has not been changed since we first began coining. The quantity of pure gold to the dollar, as fixed by the act of 1792, was 24.75 grains, the ratio in coinage being 15 to 1. By the act of June 28, 1834, the pure gold was reduced from 24.75 to 23.20 grains to the dollar, the ratio between gold and silver in coinage being 1 to 16.002. By the act of January 18,1837, the fineness of the gold coins was increased about three-fourths of one-thousandth by changing from the standard of .899225 to .900, which increased the pure gold in a dollar from 23.20 to 23.22 grains, at which it has remained up to the present time. The ratio between the two metals in coinage was fixed by this act at 1 to 15.988, at which it still remains." ? Ex-State Treasurer Archer, of Maryland, entered the court in Baltimore on Wednesday and pleaded guilty to the charge of embezzling the funds of the State. He was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. This was an unexpected ending of the case, as a lengthy trial had been anticipated. Archer made a statement in which he said: "No part of the State's money or securities was ever used by me in gambling, stock speculation or for political purposes, nor have I at this time one dollar of it left. I therefore submit myself to the good judgment and mercy of the court." Immediately after the sentence Archer was driven to the penitentiary. The director of the penitentiary says that Archer is not only a very sick man, but that his mind is becoming affected and that he will be insane or perhaps dead inside of three months. ? Chicago's experience with its late hot spell?not yet entirely over?was about as bad as any American city has ever encountered. we have had sunstroke epidemics in this country before, New York and St. Louis suffering badly from them, but never quite as bad as "the Lake City." The ' actual number of prostrations by the heat Ik. during the past week is placed at 1,200, with about 120 deaths directly due to sunstroke. The mortality on Monday, June 30, ran up to 184, and for the week will be 800 or over, or at the rate of 40 per 1,000, which is more than twice the average mortality of the city and almost as bad as an epidemic. This, however, represents only the fatal cases; a prominent physician of Chicago gave the number of persons suffering from the heat, that is actually sick from it, as 20,000 at one time. All outdoor work was suspended, in many establishments a large number of employes failed to report for work, and even horses and dogs died in great numbers. In two hours in one day forty-one horses were reported as lying dead in the streets. IJorMlc #trqnircr. i YORKVILLE, S. C. : WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1890. , THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. The South Carolina weather service, in i co-operation with the United States signal service, furnishes the following for , the week ending Saturday, July 12 : I The rainfall has been about the average ; for the week, as has also been the teraper. ature, while there has been an excess of sunshine. The rainfall has Ueen fairly . distributed, and, as a rule, has affected all crops very favorably. Corn that Was , planted .in March is very promising and is so well advanced that even a protracted drought, would not now damage it very , seriously. Young corn and vegetables, in a few localities, are needing rain. The sea[ son thus far has been almost an ideal one , for the cotton plant, and a majority of cor, respondents report that crop as promis, ing in the extreme. J In the State monthly crop report for June, the estimates given below are based upon reports received from 2^7 special correspondents of the department of agriculture in every part of the State. ' Eighty correspondents report the weather J favorable ana twenty-five unfavorable. . The condition of the cotton crop reported ' at 103, one month ago, is still very high. . The warm, dry weather that has prevailed over the greater part of the State has been | most favorable for the growth of the plant 1 and the destruction of grass. The crop has been well-worked and is exceptionally ' clean. At this date the condition in upper Carolina is 101, middle Carolina 101, | lower Carolina 100. Average for the State 101, against 88 at the same date in 1 1889. The outlook for the corn crop is not so good as on June 1st, as the early planting ' has suffered for rain in some sections. ' The condition in upper Carolina is reported at 95, middle Carolina 89, lower Caro' lina 90. Average for the State 91, against 1 97 for the same time last year. The small grain crop was harvested in fine condition. Wheat was seriously injured by rust. The yield is estimated at six bushels per acre. The product is estimated at 40 per cent, less than last year. Thirty-six correspondents report the quality as good as last year, and eighty-three correspondents as better than last year. 1 The yieid of oats is estimated at eleven 1 bushels per acre. The yield of fall and spring sown was about the same. The 1 total product is estimated at 22 per cent. less than last year. The quality is ra1 ported as better by three correspondents, as good by 130, and inferior to last year by sixty-four correspondents. THE COTTON CROP IN GENERAL. The statistical report of the department of agriculture at Washington for July shows an improvement of the status of cotton, the average of condition having advanced from 88.8 to 91.4 since previous returns. There was generally excess of moisture until June 10, with fine weather since, giving opportunity for the destruction of grass and for thorough cultivation. On the Atlantic coast the crop is generally well advanced, while it is late in the Southwest, where planting was delayed by overflows and heavy rains. That which was planted early began to bloom from the 15th to the 25th, and in the Southwest some bolls are reported as early as the 20th. While the plant is in various stages of advancement from the wide range of seeding, it is now almost invaribly in full vigor of growth, of good color and high promise and very free from rust, free from worms, except weak invasions of the first broods in the more Southern belt. The present average of July conditions has heen exceeded oulv once in the last five years, and is stated as follows by States: Virginia 92, North Carolina 95, South Carolina 95, Georgia 95, Florida 91, Alabama 95, Mississippi 89, Louisiana 8G, Texas 89, Arkansas 89, Tennessee 94. Nearly throughout the cotton area two or three weeks of dry weather is reported, but scarcely any injury from drought. Since the first of July heavy rain has been reported on the Atlantic coast. The weekly report of *he national agricultural department, issued at Washington last Saturday, says: Generally throughout the South Atlantic and Gulf States reports indicate that , the weather has been favorable to cotton, although the corn crop throughout this section is generally in need of rain. Texas reports cotton generally doing well. Picking has commenced. Louisiana reports the weather very favorable for cotton, with a prospect of the best crop in twenty years. Cane, rice and corn are also reported in a good condition. Some injury has resulted to crops in the West and central North Carolina, owing to the drought, but so far the injury has not extended to the cotton , crop. STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION. The State board of equalization met in the hall of the house of representatives on Tuesday of last week. Twenty-three counties were represented by the chairmen of the respective county boards. York was I represented by Mr. Geo. L. Riddle. From The Columbia Register we make the following summary of the proceedings : The meeting was called to order by the comptroller-general, who laid before the board the cetificates of the various members. After the members were duly sworn in by the comptroller-general, Dr. Paul Pritchard, of Beaufort, was called to the chair, and Mr. Winthrop Williams was appointed clerk. After effecting an organization, a short recess was taken, and sessions were held in the afternoon and at night. The night session adjourned to meet on Thursday morning. At the meeting on Wednesday, after hearing read the reports of the various committees appointed the day before, the board proceeded to fix the valuation of real estate in the various counties. The value returned by the CQunty auditor in his abstract to the comptroller-general was allowed to stand as reported in a number of the counties, including York. In the county of Chesterfield, 10 per cent, was added to the value of the acreage, in Marlboro 15 per cent, was added, in Horry 10 per cent., in Kershaw 10 per cent., and , in Fairfield 8 per cent. In Chester the value of the property outside of cities and towns was reduced 41 per cent. On motion, the comptroller-general was invited to address the board on the subject of bank taxation. Mr. Jefferies, of Union, was appointed a committee of one to wait upon General Verner and convey the board's invitation. General Verner appeared before the board and made an address of some length on the subject referred to. At its conclusion the following preamble and resolution was adopted by the board : Whereas, it has come to the attention of this board that the equalization of the property of banks and banking institutions, manufacturing companies and other companies, with many species of personal property in the different counties of the State, are manifestly unjust, and there is now no law by which this inequality can be remedied : Resolved, That a committee of eight, one from each judicial circuit, bo elected from the members of this board to memorialize the general assembly on this important subject, and to advocate before that body the passago of an act to remedy this defect in the law. In compliance with the resolution, the committee therein provided for was appointed. The appointee for the sixth circuit is G. H. McMaster, of Fairfield. The Truth Tersely Told.?This is no time either to divide our people with foolish questions, or to send fresh and inexperienced men to congress. The South now, more than ever, needs her trained men to represent her.?[Augusta Chronicle. PROGRESS OF THE STATE CAMPAIGN. During the last week the State canvassers were at Camden on Tuesday, at Sumter on Wednesday, at Florence on Thursday, and at Chesterfield on Friday. The discussions were of the same general character as those preceding, which have been fully reported, and with which all newspaper readers are by this time familiar. At Camden and Sumter the meetings were of a disorderly character and some confusion and noisy demonstrations occurred at Florence. At Chesterfield the meeting was quiet and orderly. The only break in the monotony of the discussion was at Florence. At that place Tillman inaugurated an entirely new role. He did not speak on the issues of the campaign at all. Bratton spoke first and was followed by Tillman. Tillman said he thought the debates should be discontinued. He said they did no good, as everybody had decided whom to vote for. He asked all who were for Bratton to hold up their hands and quite a number of hands were raised. He then made the same proposition as to Earle. A large number of hands were raised. Then? "All for Tillman raise their hands." About half responded amid a deafening cheer. He then said he would turn them over to Gen. Earle and sat down. He had some misunderstanding with the chairman of the meeting as to the order of the speeches. He objected to preceding Earle. The chairman refused to alter the programme to suit him. Earle's speech wa9 aggressive. Of the phase the canvass seems now to be assuming, Mr. L. H. Patillo, staff correspondent of The Augusta Chronicle, and who has attended nearly all the meetings in this State, writes as follows: "The political situation in South Carolina is indeed a critical one. C'apt. Tillman is regarded as a tire-brand of the most incendiary nature, and there is a deep, uncompromising hatred against him. Serious results would follow anything like a riot at the campaign | meetings now in progress. If one pistol shot should he fired, orany reckless act perpetrated which would precipitate bloodshed, he would be one of the first men killed. "It is said that Tillman realizes the danger of his position and that it was a consideration of this fact that prompted him not to speak at Florence. "Gentlemen who are commenting on the circumstance, declare that he inaugurated it as a programme by which to get out of speaking at Orangeburg and Charleston. Orangeburg is the home of Judge Izlar, whom Tillman has frequently charged with perjury. "The friends of Judge Izlar are very bitter against Tillman for the insult, and it is understood that they will force him to make an unqualified retraction when he reaches Orangeburg, or face consequences too serious for publication." THE TILLMAN*CONFERENCE. The conference of Tillman adherents in Columbia on Monday of last week was attended by twenty delegates from various garts of the State. By a delay of his train apt. Tillman was prevented from being present, as he had anticipated. Capt. Shell presided over the deliberations, which were secret. From The Columbia Register's report of the proceedings, as best it could obtain them, the following 'kA A AAttVAAf Oil ITI Q \T f\f 13 DU [J[JU3UU IU UC Ck tui I tew OUUJ LUUI J vt fiiv deliberations: After a careful estimate it was concluded that of the 320 members of the State convention, Tillman can now securely depend upon having 160, lacking only one of the number necessary for a choice. The counties regarded as doubtful are Charleston, Fairfield, Georgetown, Horry and Richland, with delegations aggregating 60. The matter of appointing committees in every county to seek to secure control of the August convention was disscused, and also the selection of the committees to take charge of that convention. Something about this arrangement did not suit a delegate who said Anderson was not ready yet, and work must be done there first. It appeared to be the sense of those present that the August convention should not be allowed to provide a State primary, on the ground that the injection of the primary question at this stage of the campaign would be dangerous, or at least that as it was believed that Tillman and his ticket could be nominated by the convention plan it was not now necessary. The matters of having a reapportionment of the representation of the various counties at the September convention made at the August convention, and of having a new State executive committee elected at the last named convention, are also understood to have been discussed. The idea of making nominations at the August convention did not seem to be favored, but it was declared indispensable that the Tillman forces should control both the August and September conventions. It was the sense of those present that the same delegates be elected to both conventions as far as practicable. Not a doubt was expressed but that the victory was as good as won, and the tone of the conference was more than hopeful, rather jubilant, in fact. The conference adjourned a half hour after midnight. THE ANTI-T1LLMAN CONFERENCE. The anti-Tillraan conference appointed to meet in Columbia on last Thursday, was attended by a large representation, every county in the State except Pickens being represented. York was represented by George L. Riddle, Robert vVitherspoon, Iredell Jones, J. F. Hart, Jr., A. E. Hutchison and John R. London. On Thursday night, organization was effected by electing Chancellor W. D. Johnson, of Marion, chairman, and Major L. A. Ransom and W. II. Gibbes, Jr., secretaries. Several speeches were made in opposition to the Tillman movement, notably by Judge A. C. Haskell, Chairman Johnson, Joseph W. Barnwell, of Charleston, and ex-Governor Sheppard, of Edgefield. A committee, consisting of one from each county, was appointed to draft resolutions. Iredell Jones was appointed from York. At 10.25 p. m., the conference adjourned until Friday morning. The conference met at 9.30 on Friday morning. It was decided to hold the session with closed doors. Those not delegates, on the floor and in the gallery, then withdrew, and the reporters, some of whom remained as delegates, did so on the understanding that nothing was to be reported except what was allowed to be by the conference. From The Columbia Register we copy the following proceedings of Friday: The body remained in session until 2 o'clock, at which time it adjourned sine die. Before adjournment, a resolution was offered by Mr. W. M. Jones, of Spartanburg, providing that only the results of the meeting be published as given out by the secretaries, was adopted. Ex-Governor Hagood, for the committee on resolutions, of which ex-Governor Sheppard was the chairman, reported the following preamble and resolutions, which were adopted : A DEMAND KOU A STATE PRIMARY, Whereas, on the 27th day of March, ult., a convention assembled in the city of Columbia, under thecall issued by G. W. Shell and others, assuming to represent the Farmers' association of South Carolina, and suggested to the people candidates for governor and lieutenant-governor; and whereas, the leaders of the movement thus inaugurated, havoassailed the integrity of the Democratic party of South Carolina in its administration of the affairs of the government of the State, and have charged its chosen and trusted officials with extravagance, imbecility, debauchery and perjury ; and whereas, it is believed and is confidently assorted that the affairs of the State since 187<? have been administered with ability, with justice, with unimpeachable integrity, in strict compliance with the demands of the platforms of the Democratic party, and in faithful obedience to the requirements of the constitution and laws of the State; and whereas, in the prosecution of the issues thus presented, without precedent and without justification, prejudices have been excited and strifes have been engendered which jeopardize the unity and solidity of tho Democratic party, and which imperil tho maintenance of white supremacy in South Carolina; and whereas, it is the duty of all good citizens, members of the same political household, who are willing to subordinate self-interest to tho public weal, who are willing to sacrifice personal aspirations to the general welfare, having one country and a common destiny, to heal the breach now existing and rostore harmony in the Democratic party; and, whereas, to this end it is important that tho individual judgment of every Democratic voter in Soutli Carolina should bo separately expressed ; and, whereas, the people demand that hereafter nominations for State officers should be mftde by primary election: Therefore, bo it Resolved first, That the delegates to the nominating convention called by tho Democratic executive cominitteo to convene on the Kith day of September proximo, should bo chosen by a primary election. Second, That a committe be appointed by the conference to prepare and propose for adoption by the convention called by the Democratic executive committee for tho 13th of August proximo, an amendment to the constitution of the Democratic party of South Carolina, providing for a primary election, which shall contain tho most stringent rules and regulations for the conduct of such primary election so as to insure the most perfect fairness in the management, and tho most truthful counting and returning of the results thereof. A CO-OP KR ATI VK COMMITTKK. The following resolution roported by tho committee was adopted: Resolyod, That a committee composed of two members at largo and 0110 from each congress ioual district of the State, bo appointod for the purpose of advising and co-operating with those Democrats in the several countios of this State who are in favor of sustaining the integrity of tho straightout Democratic party, and I sustaining and following the constitution of the J regular Democratic party, and of proposing ^ such measures within tho lines of the regular Democratic organization as in their judgment *' may conduce to the consolidation and extension of a sentiment in favor of sustaining the ^ principles and rules of the straightout regular ^ Democracy of the State, and that Democrats ^ who are in s}rmpathy with the objects of this conference are hereby requested, as far as pos- ^ sible, to conform to tho suggestions of said committee. ' THE COMPOSITION OF THE COMMITTEE. , The following were elected as the oxecutive commitee, comprising two members from tho j Stiite at large and one member from each congressional district: At largo?Gen. J. D. Kennedy, of Camden, chairman ; Iredoll Jones, of York. . First district?Cen. Edward McCrady, Jr. ; Second?L. W. Youmans, of Darnwell. f Third?J. S. Fowler, of Anderson. ] Fourth?T. W. Woodward, of Fairlield. Fifth?W. K. Davie, of Chester. Sixth?W. D. Johnson, of Marion. Seventh?Walter Hazard, or ueorgotown. , AN ADDRKSS TO 1JE PREPARED. | Mr. Walter Hazard offered the following res- f ohition: ! Resolved, That the central conunitteo elected > by this conference is hereby authorized and ! instructed to prepare and issue an address to ' the Democratic party of South Carolina, setting 1 forth the dangers which now confront that party and impressing upon all Democrats within the State the importance of vigorous and concerted action to avert these dangers and of ] preserving intact the political organization ] which is the only guarantee of white suprem- i acy therein. TO MEET AGAIN IK NEED HE. Col. T. Stobo Farrow introduced the follow- . ing resolution, which was adopted amid ap- ] plause: ^ Resolved, That when this conference ad- < journs that it adjourn to meet subject to the ] call ot the president, and in the event that the August convention refuses to make provision for the election of delegates to the September, convention by primary election, that the pres- , identcall a meeting of this conference to be ' held before the September convention, for the ; purpose of consulting together as to what course J shall be pursued to preserve the existence of i the regular Democratic party of South Carolina. ( The following resolution "was offered by Mr. 1 E. J. Brennen and unanimous^ adopted : \ Resolved, That this conference heartily en- | dorses the fight for pure Democracy now being conducted by Gen. John Rratton and Gen. Joseph H. Earle. The advisory committee appointed by the conference held a meeting at the Grand Central hotel at 4 o'clock Friday evening and remained I in session several hours. On adjournment it ; was decided that the committee should meet again in Columbia on Wednesday, the Jfith ( instant. THE SILVER BILL PASSED. , In the house of representatives last Sat- i urday, after a lengthy debate, the confer? x xi? i L ; 11 i ence report on me suver 0111 was miopieu | and the bill passed, similar action having ; been previously taken by the senate. The ( bill was passed in the house by a strict ^ party vote?yeas, 122; nays. 90. Of th?' South Carolina members, Cothran, Dihble, Elliott, Hemphill and Tillman^'voted ' against it. Dargan and Perry wer^paired and did not vote. The following is the bill as it has passed both houses: i That the secretary of the treasury is hereby ' directed to purchase from time to time silver bullion to the aggregate amount of four and a half million ounces, or so much thereof as may be olfered in each month at the mar- ! ket prices thereof, not exceeding 81.00 for 371 25-100 grains of pure silver, and to issue in payment of such purchases silver bullion 1 treasury notes of the United States, to be pre- I pared by tho secretary of tho treasury in such j form and of such denomination, not less than 81 or more than 81,000, as he may decide, ( and a sum sufficient to carry into effect tho , provisions of this act is hereby appropriated , out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Sec. 2. That the treasury notes issued iu ac- 1 cordance with the provisions of this act shall be redeemable on demand in coin at the treasury of the United States or at any office of auy assistant treasurer of the United States, and when so redeemed may be re-issued, but no j greater or less amount of such notes shall ( be outstanding at any time than the cash j of silver bullion and standard silver dollars coined therefrom then held in the treasury purchased by such notes, and such treas ury notes shall be legal tender in payment of : all debts, public and private, except where I otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract, j and shall be receivable for customs, taxes ana I public dues, and when so received may be re-issued, and such notes when held by any i national banking association may be counted j as part of its lawful reserve. That upon tho ! demand of the holder of any of the treasury ] notes herein provided for, the secretary of the i treasury shall, under such regulations as he ; may prescribe, redeem .such notes in gold or j silver coin at his discretion, it being the estab? 1 lished policy of tho United States to maintain ] the two metals on a parity with each other at ! the present legal rates, or such rates as may be i provided by law. ] Sec. 3. That the secretary of tho treasury shall each month coin 2,000,000 ounces of silver , bullion, purchased under the provisions of , this act, into standard silver do..ars, until the 1 first day of July, 1801, and alter that time he ' shall coin of thesilver bullion purchased under the provisions of this act as much as may be necessary to provide for the redemption of the treasury notes heroin provided for, and any gain or seignorage arising from sucli coinage shall be accounted for and paid into the treasury. 1 Skc.4 That the silver bullion purchased under the provisions of this act shall bo subject to the requirements of the existing law and the regulations of the mint service governing the methods of determining the amount of pure silver contained, and the amount of charges on (reductions, if any to be made. Si:c. 5. That so much ol tho act of February 28, 1878, entitled "An act to authorize the coinage of the standard silver dollar and to restore its legal tender character," as requires tho monthly purchase and coinage of the same into silver dollars of not less than two million, nor more than four million dollars' worth of silver bullion, is hereby repealed. Sec. f>. That upon the passage of this act the balances standing with the treasurer of the United States to theeirculating notes of national banks for deposits made to redeem the circulating notes of such banks, and all deposits ( thereafter received for like purpose, shall be covered into the treasury as miscellaneous receipts, and the treasurer of the United States shall redeem from the general cash in the 1 treasury the circulating notes of said banks i which friay come into his possession subject to redemption, and upon the certificate of tho < comptroller of currency that such notes have been received by him, and that they have been destroyed and that no new notes will be issued in their places. Reimbursement of their | amount shall be made Jo tho treasurer, under such regulations as the secretary of the treasury may prescribe from an appropriation lierobv created to be known as tho "national bank , note" redemption account, but the provisions of this act shall not apply to deposits received 1 under section 3 of the act of June 20, 1874, re- . quiring every national bank to keep in lawful 1 money with tho treasurer of the United States < a sum equal to 5 per cont. of its circulation, to | bo held and used for the redemption of its , circulating notes; and the balance remaining j of the deposits so covered shall at tho close of ' each month, be reported in the monthly public debt statement as dent of the United States j bearing no interest. Sec. 7. That this act shall take effect thirty days from and after its passage. The president approved the bill irame- 1 diately upon its receipt at the White i House, last Monday afternoon. 1 The Catawha Indians.?There was a ; genuine Indian in town yesterday. Ilis name is Ben Harris, and he is 19 years old. J Mo ia n ?nn of tho late John Harris, a former chief of the Catawba tribe, which lives on ' a reservation of 800 acres near Rock Hill. < There are at present 70 in the tribe. They | have no chief, but are under management of a white man, A. E. Smith, who is agent ] for the tribe. The goverment allows them 1 8800 a year and pays theirdoctor's bills and funeral expenses. Ben, who was here < yesterday, in conversation with 'Squire Maxwell, said they wanted educational advantages which at present they have not. He could neither read nor write. 1 The tribe, he says, adhere to their original dialect. They had an offer to go West and settle, but they preferred to remain where 1 they are. Ben was dressed in regular cow-boy style, ' a large sombrero, gray pants, with fringe down the sides, beads around his neck, and ' his hair long and flowing. He had been traveling with a patent medicine compa- J ny, and left them at Spantanburg to return 1 home.?[Charlotte Chronicle, 10th instant. The County Commissioners.?The j following is the text of the joint resolution to amend Article IV of the constitution by , repealing Section 10, which provides for . a board of county commisssioners: 1 "That Section 19, of Article IV of the constitution, relating to the judicial de- ' partment, which provides for the election j of a board of county commissioners and prescribes the jurisdiction thereof, be re- J pealed." . If the proposed amendment receives a majority of the votes cast at the next election, it will become a law. The repeal of ! Section 19, however, will not in itself ef- J feet the abolition of the office of county ' commissioners. It will simply leave the 1 I l.o rwlo /if fho 1 PfT i a t II TP I illtmn in liiu iiaiiua ui vnv which may pass a law limiting the number of county commissioners to one or extending it to six, or, what is more probable, providing an entirely new method of managing the affairs of the several counties of the State. If you wish to preservo your county governments, the safest wa^ will be to vote against the proposed amendment. LOCAL AFFAIRS. t t NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ? jouis Roth?"Word Eating." ? fames F. Hart, Chairman?County Convention. ? Villain Whyte?Candidate for the House of Representatives. j folm May, Jr. Co.?Our Special Sales dn- r ring the next two weeks. V. C. Latimer.?Passing on, Men ! day A May, Druggists?Bod-Rug Lotion, drs. L. M.* Bonner, Principal, Duo West, S. Due West Female College. [ dilusS. Carroll?Candidate for County Com- j missioner. I V. M. Grier, Principal, Due West, S. C.?Erskine College, d. it II. C. Strauss?Stock Taken. Prices Reduced. drs. T. M. Dobson?Dobson's Racket. LADIES' AID SOCIETY 1 rPUrt T n/ltno) At/1 onoi'ofv r\f f hp Prpfthv jl nu uauico xuu w. ?..w ? ??^ eric.n church will dispense ice cream on he church green from 5 to R p. mM on Friday next. FOR SELLING WHISKY. Adolphus Rice, colored, of this place, vas arrested last week and had a hearing aefore United States Commissioner Pride, it Rock Hill, on Thursday, charged with etailing liquor without a United States icense. Pie was bound over for trial at ;he August term of the U. S. District court it Greenville. j OF LAST YEAR S CROP.^X!, J. Leander Parish, J. E. Getty vRobert 1 Black and A. E. Gettys, have sold to J. H. Riddle within the past few days about 50 ' sales of cotton, which is now being de- j ivered. This cotton is of last year's crop J ind was carried over up to this date by . ;he gentlemen selling it. Mr. Parish had < ;he largest lot?25 bales. The prices paid i m these purchases averaged a little over j 11} cents. 1 CARRIERPIGEONS. ^ Mr. E. L. Starr, of Philadelphia, shipped to II. H. Beard, express agent here, ] six .carrier pigeons to be liberated on last 1 Monday morning. On account of unfavor- ' able weather, however, they were retain- J ?d until yesterday morning, when, at 5.40 1 they were turned loose for their homeward light. There are wagers in Philadelphia 1 that they will make the distance from Yorkville to that city in twelve hours. STANDARD INSTITUTIONS. 1 Attention is directed to the advertisement of Due West Female college, and of Frskine college, both located at Due i West. S. C. Mrs. L. M. Bonner is prin- 1 ;ipal of Due West Female college, and ' under her management the institution i well maintains the high reputation it has always deserved. Erskine college enters i upon its fifty-second year with Rev. W. ' M. Grier, president, and five professors and i a tutor, and offers superior advantages for obtaining an education at moderate,.! ? - THE GRADED SCHOOLS. On Thursdav last, as required by act of the legislature, the trustees of the York- ; ville graded schools made their annual i public report of the conduct of the schools and the disposition of the school funds to the close of the last session. The meeting was organized by electing Col. W. H. McCorkle chairman, and requesting A. W. i Ingold to act as secretary. The report, which was published in The Enquirer last week, was read by Jos. F. Wallace, chairman of the board of trustees, and on ( motion it was received as information, and the meeting adjourned. Commencing at 12 m., an election was held on the question of voting a two-mill tax in aid of the schools for the ensuing year. But little interest was manifested by the taxpayers, only 37 votes being cast; 28 for the tax and 3 against it. HIS 78TH BIRTHDAY. OirWedpesday last, the 9th instant, Mr. It. C. Kerr, of New Orleans, cele- ( brated the completion of the seventyseventh year of his age, noting which The Times-Democrat of that city says: ( Mr. R. C. Kerr, secretary of the supervising department of the Cotton Exchange, reached the ripe old age yesterday, July )tb, of seventy-seven years. Notwithstanding his many years, Mr. Kerr is as active ' to-day as most men twenty years younger. Pie has been with the Cotton Exchange ever 3ince its inception in 1871. and numbers among his tirm and fast friends the entire membership of that institution. Mr. Kerr was born in North Carolina, and served his apprenticeship is a printer in the Tar Heel State fifty eight years ago, and before the war, when many people who are now gray haired men anil women were children, he was city librarian; in fact there are few of the old time public school pupils who do not roeollect with pleasure the ola librarian who was always uniformly clever and courteous. We join with Mr. Kerr's numerous friends in the Crescent city in wishing him many happy and pleasant returns of the day. CHURCH NOTICES. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Ilev. J. C. Galloway, pastor. Services next Sunlay at 10.30 o'clock a. m. and 8.30 o'clock p. m. Sunday-school at 5 o'clock p. m. Episcopal?Rev. K. S. Nelson, rector. Morning service next Sunday at 10.30 :)'clock. Evening appointment will be announced at morning service. Sundayschool at 5.30 o'clock p. m. Baptist?Rev. R. G. Patrick, pastor. Prayer-meeting to-morrow evening at 8.30 D'clock. Services at Union next Sunday, it 11 o'clock a. m. "Future Punishment" will be the subject of Mr. Patrick's discourse in Yorkville next Sunday evening it 8.30 o'clock. Sunday-school at 9.30 j'clock a. m. Trinity Methodist Episcopal?Rev. G. H. Waddell, pastor. Prayer-meeting this 3vening at 8.30 o'clock. Services next Sunday at 10.30 o'clock a. m. and 8.30 a'clock p. m. Sunday-school at 4.30 o'clock p. m. j Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, pastor. Prayer-meeting to-morrow evening at 8.30 o'clock. Services next Sunday at 10.30 o'clock a. m. and 8.30 o'clock p. m. Services will be conducted by Rev. A. J. Witherspoon, chaplain of the Seamen's ' Bethel, of New Orleans. Sunday-school at o o'clock p. m. J /NDEATH OF S. H. WILLIAMS. j MrNsarauel Henry Williams died of cholera morbus at his residence in this \ place on Friday afternoon last, aged o7 years and 4 months. Mr. Williams was a native of Pennsylvania, but came to South Carolina when young, and his life from : boyhood was spent in Yorkville or York county. He was a coach and buggy maker by trade, and a skillful workman. He was a devoted husband and a kind parent. A < communicant in the Presbytenan church he walked in the paths of the righteous. ! Devoted to reading the scriptures, the Bible was his constant companion in his , hours of leisure, and as if foretelling his i approaching dissolution, though then in his usual health, on the the loth of last 1 month, he placed a memorandum in his ' Bible requesting that the hymns, "Come ' let us join our friends above," and "Now by the mercies of my God," be sung at his ' funeral, and that his funeral sermon be an expounding of the 91st psalm. These J dying requests, as they almost seem, were complied with, his pastor, Rev. T. R. Eng- : lish, reading as the lesson the selected j psalm and preaching from it an able and edifying sermon. Mr. Williams leaves a widow and three 1 daughters. At the time of his death he : was employed In the Carolina buggy factory, and as a mark of respect, work in the ( factory was suspended at noon on Saturday, the day of his funeral, his late fellow workmen acting as pall bearers. Ilis funeral was largely attended, and in their bereavement his family have the sympathy of the entire community. I NCyOIIK MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. ] The Tegular quarterly meeting of the York County Medical and Surgical association, was held in Masonic hall in the town 1 ' ?A ? i. At- ~ ,i 4. if (Jlover oil ine win instant, trie prcsmuut > Dr. Jno. F. Lindsay, in the chair. i The secretary, Dr. R. Andral Bratton, read the minutes of the last meeting, which were confirmed. Drs. Isaac A. Bigger and W. A. Hood, were appointed essayists for the next meeting. Dr. J. T. Darwin, essayist for the pres3nt meeting, was detained at home, but he Furnished a paper on tobar pneumonia, which elicited a lively and practical discussion as to treatment, etc. The essay was accepted for its true merit with the thanks of the association.Dr. John P. Kennedy read a very inter- < jsting paper on abdominal surgery, a sub- 1 ject ably treated by him and showing 1 Jeep thought and research in this now < much discussed and experimental field. i Dr. J. A. Crawford, another essayist for this meeting, unfortunately for the associ- < ition, was detained at home. i Other members present reported cases if much interest and benefit to the associ- ] ation. Dr. J. T. Darwin extended the hospi- ' talities of Blacksburg to the association, J for its next regular meeting, which invitation was unanimously accepted. i The thanks of the association were ex- i ended by a rising vote to the fraternity md citizens of Clover for their kindness md hospitality, their pure atmosphere, md that luxury so often denied the phylician, a night of quiet, undisturbed rest. The association adjourned to meet next n Blackshurg on the night of the second Tuesday of October next. PROGRESS OF THE RAILROAD, The Southwest Virginian of last week, mblished at Wytheville, Va., says of the )rogress of the grading of the Three C's ailroad in that section: The Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Raiload company busted the suspension of work >n their line by coming foward and paying its lands and ordering the work pushed forward is rapidly as possible. From Clinchport east, or one mile and three-fourths, there has been 10 work done 011 the line, as it has not yet been letermined just how it will run there, but it teems most probable that it will run through Clinchport. It is thought by the engineers that ,vork will be commenced on the line above the nouth of Lick creek as soon as the Norfolk and Western commence to ship freight on their ine. The tunnel above the mouth of Guest iver, is being pushed as rapidly as possible by he two shifts hands. Tho heading has been Iriven in 145 feet on the east side ; tho other lido has just been commenced. It will be tinshed in about two months. Tho grade is pret" fnAtvi ttinndi e\f (viiauf pivot* :o Clinchport, and many of the camps are broken up and tlio men, teams and tools are being moved to other sections of the road. The Johnson City, Tenn., Comet of last sveek says : Three or four hundred Italian and negro laborers arrived on Wednesday, and were sent but to Kennefick's camp on the Three C's in .he afternoon. Mr. Kennetick has the contract in Unicoi county, Tenn., and must complete it to the North Carolina line by the 20th bf August. He says he will complete it in tbo specified time. The excavating is practically linished, and track laying will bo commenced in two/weeks. >^-BEATH OF MRS. RIDDLE. /Our townsman, Mr. James H. Riddle,, has the deep and sincere sympathy of the people of Yorkville, besides a large circle, bf friends and relatives outside of town, in' the severe affliction he has just sustained by the death of his young and devoted wife, Mrs. Mary Eliza Glenn Riddle, which pccurred from fever at his residence in this place on the morning of the 11th instant. She was the daughter of Mr. George L. and Mrs. Mary Riddle, and at the time of her death was aged 27 years 11 months and 13 day8. A wife of less than three years, and surrounded with all the comforts ofa pleasant home and the companionship of a fond and loving husband and two young children, all that would add to life's temporal enjoyment seemed hers. But the king of terrors came with ruthless hand and cut off her life in the young prime of years, the 3ummons being short. Of a gentle disposition, kind and affectionate, and leading a Christian life of exerffphHwpiety, her untimely death will be. rnourneoby^a large circle of friends. Her funeral, which was conducted in the Presbyterian church by her pastor, Rev. Dr. T. R. English, was attended by a large and sympathizing concourse. As scriptural lessons the pastor read the twelfth chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, and the fourth chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Thessalonians. His discourse was founded on the words of Job: "Though he slay rae, yet will I trust in him." From these words of resignation to the Master's will the eminent divine drew a pathetic and instructive lesson fraught with words of assurance and promise to those who in the faith have gone before, and words of solace and comfort to the living. Her remains were followed to the Yorkville cemetry, where, by tender hands they were consigned to the tomb. THE FIRST BALES. The general belief among farmers is that with no disaster, the cotton crop of York county, this year, will be from one to two weeks earlier in maturing than it has for several years past. As a matter of interest we have compiled from our files the dates of sales of the "first bales" in the Yorkville or Rock Hill market each year for the last twenty years. As will be observed, the earliest date hero recorded is August 20, 1881, and the latest date September 18, 1877: ry m _ ?_ ? i _ ^ ^ ^ > t?< . _ ^ ^ m gcgoxoocejegooBcegoooixaoxaoaoaxxooce ? MK a>>.co>a}>.>.>.>cccDajooc?acccc>oc S? P js ?cc?c?ccEcfflffi??????E? 2. B?ftB&B&sas532HBBB3S5 2 *" ~ 5 - ~w?oaextoto 4. g; a ?=_ ^oo.w^wpPw.a^^w^^^^>: B ? L,?r!fsSg>>>.^s?>^^.8 1 1 I ? ?S ?2:3-3 wrgS'goofrt^s:?? 3 &ar|-I = F?-?s:Sa?S-soj|i-"" a C ? S2- f^ggS* ??????? I .2 0 ? go- 2 * .a ?* ? ? ?3 2. "i 3 r. >? r* ' ' j_. tn in SH e* SH 53 O Jh JH SH ?H ?H ?-t K ?-3 o 5-1H fi ^ 5- 3322? I?"25?22 8 . r!''MSK"<l 3; o - ; m ? ^mmm^OM' J00000.^3mhhh C f:t??a?r argils! faq** S sHiiH i???^pigSgg g 2 frfrfr 5 ' ' S* V* 2. COO * o <1 ? ? ? EC I? <_ I? _ M ? .? (- ^ ? j-s;ipoaostcifcKucaci?oip-ioa! *1 sc b tc 01 b -1 'j, b 00 3- x 3-i Jf . ? C i'l O ? CJI O ? ? CJI O C;i o THE WATER WAS BAD. The Rock Hill correspondent of The Columbia Register, writing last Wednesday, says: The postal clerk on the Three C's railroad failed to leave any south mail for Rock Hill yesterday, and when the negro mail carrier from this postoftice put the mail going north from Rock Hill in the mail car, the clerk kicked it out. The south mail tor Lancaster was not thrown oft' at that place, but brought on here. All the State papers and other important mail matter come to Rock Hill from the southern part of the State via the Three C's, and great disappointment was felt here when it was found that no mail bag had been put off. Such dereliction of duty should be very severely punished in the postal clerks. This negligent clerk was not a not a negro, but a white man. Replying through The Register to the above, "Sub-Postal Clerk, Three C's R. R.," says: I see from your correspondent from Rock Hill, certain charges made against the postal clerk going north 011 the Sth instant. In my reply let me brielly state that the whole fabric of it is a base fabrication. I was suffering severely from a change of water, and not in a condition to properly attend to the duties of the day. By the postal regulations I am responsible for receiving any mail not directed properly to my line; going north, therefore, I could not receive a pouch or canvas mail sack directed south, hence I returned it to the carrier. As 011 the same day the same postal clerk gave to ttie lorkviue posi orate uuiy i two packages of newspapers and a bundle ofletters made up at Lesslie for distribution, and in the pouch for distribution from Yorkville only one newspaper, we must conclude that the sudden transition from the swamp water of the low country to the pearly, limpid and wholesome beverage of the hill section, must havo had a most deleterious effect upon him, becoming worse as he progressed with the arduous duties of his trip. COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Pursuant to a call of the chairman, the York County Democratic Executive committee met in the court house at 12 m. on Saturday last. D. E. Finley, secretary, called the roll, and the following members were present: Blair ille, It. T. Itiggins; Bethany, T. P. Wnitesides; Bethel, L. K. Armstrong; Clay Hill, Perry Ferguson ; Coates's Tavern, J. D. Cornwell; Clover, W. Beatty Smith; Hickory Grove, J. C. Chambers; McConuellsville, J. F. Ashe; Yorkville, D. E. Finley. The chairman explained that the meeting had been called in compliance with a request of the State Democratic chairman, in pursuance of a resolution of the State Democratic Executive committee, calling a convention of the Democratic party to meet in Columbia on Wednesday, the 13th Df August at 12 m. for the purpose of determining whether delegates to the State nnminotinor pnnvpnflnn. to be held on the 10th of September or thereafter, shall be sleeted by a primary election; and that the duty of this meeting would be to provide for a county convention to choose delegates to the said State convention, and luch other business as may come before it. After discussion of the subject, Mr. Chambers offered a resolution, which on intendment, was adopted as follows: Resolved, That a county Democratic convention be called to assemble at Yorkville, on Tuesday, the 20th day of July, instant, at 11 D'clock a. m., for the purpose of electing ten lelogates to represent the county in the State convention, called to assemble in Columbia on August 1.1th, 1800, and to transact such other business as may come before it. That the Hovoral precinct clubs, under the constitution, are entitled to he represented by the following number of delegates : , Hlacksburg, 0. ( Blairsville, 4. Bethany, 4. Bethel, 4. Buffalo, 2. Bullock's Creek, 4. Clark's Fork 3. Clay Hill, 3. Coates's Tavern 3. Clover 5. Fort Mill, 6. Hickory Grove * 0. McElweo's Mill, 4. McConnellsville, G. Rock Hill, 10. Tirzah, 3. Thompson's Mill, 3. Yorkville II. And further, that each club will moot and elect dologates, under form proscribed by county constitution, on Saturday, July 26th, instant, the polls for said election of delegates to be open from the hour of 1 p. m. to 6 p. m. After the adoption of the above resolution, Mr. Finley, secretary and treasurer, submitted for inspection his cash account with the executive committee for the past two years. His items of disbursements, for some of which he had no vouchers, were approved. It was shown that he has paid out about $4 more than he has received. ? Tlie meeting then adjourned sine die. ^/XPERSONAL MENTION. ^AHss Minnie Wilson is visiting at Cafl*aen. Dr. John May, Sr., is at home from the springs. Miss Mary Jackson, of Newport, is visiting in town. Mr. and Mrs. H. C.Strauss are at Cleveland Mineral Springs. C. E. Spencer, Esq., and family are at Blowing Rock, N. C. Miss Ethel Latimer is visiting her uncle J. A. Ratchford. ;>' Mrs. W. O. Tatum, of Bamberg, is visiting the family of Dr. John May, Sr. 5- Miss Annie Douglas, of Chester, is in Yorkville visiting Miss HeloiseCoward. >r Miss Stitt Harris, of Columbia, is in Yorkville visiting Miss Ilattie Bratton. Miss Ella Jefferys will leave this afternoon for a visit to relatives in Spartanburg. & Miss Kate Hannahan, of Columbia, is in Yorkville visiting the family of Capt. T G Tflfforva X. U ViiVi J Ul ^ Mr. H. F. Adickes and family left on yesterday for an extended visit to Morehead City, N. C. ^Mr. Charles R. Simmons is at his father's home, four miles north of town, quite sick with fever. Dr. J. R. Bratton leaves for Anderson to-day to attend a meeting of the State medical board. Mrs. Emma F. Curry, of VVildwood, Florida, is on a visit to her relatives in Yorkville and in the county. . Rev. R. G. Patrick is assisting Rev. V. I. Masters in a protracted meeting at Shiloh church, near Hoodtown this week. Miss Janie Stephenson and Miss Chanie Owings, of Feasterville, Fairfield county, are in Yorkville visiting the Misses Cody. ^^-Miss Iantha Anderson, of Thomaston, Texas; and Misses Ruth and Ethel Brice and their brother, of Fairfield, are visiting Hon. A. S. Wallace. Miss E. A. Shires, superintendent of W. C. Latimer's mantua department, leaves to-day for New York, and from that city she will sail on the 22nd, in the steamer 'Arizona' for Liverpool, whence she will visit her former home in Manchester. Judge Witherspoon left yesterday for Columbia, where he will open court for the trial of cases to-day. As will be remembered, on account of the illness of the judge, the court of sessions was adjourned from the day of its regular sitting until to-day. Only the cases of the prisoners who were in jail at the time of the regular opening of the term will be tried, and it is not likely that much, if any business on the civil side of the court requiring jury trials, will be taken up at this term. We are pleased to note that Judge Witherspoon's health is much improved. MERE-MENTION. July 8 is mentioned as one of the hottest days throughout the country on record, while July 11 was the coldest day on record at this period of the year. On Mt. Washington the thermometer was zoabove zero, and the tops of the mountain were white with snow and frost. Foreign bankers, last Friday, ordered $1,000,000 more gold for shipment from New York to Europe, makingso far$2,000,000 in gold bars shipped to Liverpool. Georgia's first bale of the new crop of cotton, mentioned last week, was sold in New York on Friday at 10jf. The first bale of Texas cotton, crop of 1890, was sent to Galveston from Duval county. It weighed 650 pounds and sold for $100. The busness failures throughout the country last week number for the United States 155 and for Canada 22, a total of 177 compared ! with 1991ast week. The coroner'sjury lays the blame on the superintendent for the disaster at Farm Hill coal mine by which thirty minerslosttheirlivea. Col. H. C. Jones, of Mecklenburg, N. C., has withdrawn from the race for congress leaving the course clear for S. B. Alexander, the alliance candidate. Col. Jones proposed to be the candidate of the Democratic party, but a sufficient number of counties in the district have declared for Alexander to such an extent as to render his nomination certain. Miss Winnie Davis has returned from Europe, landing in New York, where she will remain for a few days. Miss Geneva Green, a young and beautiful art teacher, recently from Vermont, shot herself through the heart with a pistol at West Point, Georgia, on Wednesday. No cause for the act is known. Georgia has plenty of room for immigrants. There are in Pierce county 400,987 acres of land, of which 112,118 are improved; Ware contains 117,903 acres, of which 10,087 are improved; Wayne, 249,000 and 9,997 improved; Appling, 367,075 and 13,352 improved. Other counties make a similar showing. During the last year forty-two colleges received gifts of money amounting to $2,675,000. France has more than a quarter of a million carrier pigeons trained for war purposes. The congregation at Oxford has decided to include the examination for the degree of bachelor of medicine in examinations for o.rttnon Tho naw hridorp Authorized by congress to be buiit across the Hudson river between New York and Jersey City, will be 7,000 feet long and have one central span 2,850 in length. At a fish pond in Fayette county, Ga., last Thursday, there was a riot between blacks and whites in which four negroes were killed and several wounded, and several whites were wounded. Stanley, the African explorer, and Miss Dorothy Tennent, were married in London last Saturday. J. D. Rockefeller has just given another $100,000 to the Baptist Educational Society for its general work. Gen. John C. Fremont died suddenly in New York on Sunday of peritonitis. He was the first Republican candidate for the presidency, receiving the nomination of that party in the campaign of 1856. NOTES OF TH?STATE CAMPAIGN. ? Abbeville has elected Tillman delegates to the August State convention. ? After a lively row and several fights, the Colleton County convention on Saturday, by a vote of 79 to 45, elected a Tillman delegation to the State convention. ? The Edgefield executive committee, in session the other day, adopted resolutions opposing the primary plan in the approaching election, but favoring it in 1892. ? The Marlboro' convention on Saturday elected a Tillman delegation, declared against a primary, and adopted resolutions denouncing the State Executive committee. ? It was published last week that the Pickens County alliance nominated candidates for county officers. This is denied by alliance men, who say they did not "nominate," but "merely suggested" them. ? The Tillman men captured the Democratic club of the town of Barnwell, over the earnest Drotest of Gen. Hagood and others, elected a straight Tillman delegation to the county convention and adopted Tillman resolutions. ? Winnsboro News: It is reported that Levi Douglass, a negro shoemaker of town, is organizing the negroes so as to be prepared to take advantage of any rupture in the Democratic party. Levi says he has two hundred well organized and drilled. ? The vote in the Georgetown County convention was 83 to 42 against Tillman. No delegates were elected to the September convention. The delegates to the August convention are uuinstructed, but it is understood that four are anti-Tillman men and two for Tillman. ? It is rumored in Union that at the county alliance meeting held thereon the 4th, a committee was appointed to draft a series of questions to be propounded to candidates for congress for the Fourth district. The sub-treasury bill is the most important question in the series. ? At the recent meeting of the Oconee Farmers' alliance, resolutions wero offered to nominate candidates for the legislature And to suggest proper persons to be presented to the county convention for delegates to the State convention in September. After quite a long discussion these resolutions were tabled by a decided majority. ? Orangeburg Democrat: In his sermon in the Methodist church last Sunday morning, the Rev. Mr. Watson appealed to all Christians to he careful as to whom they cast their vote for. lie said that to put a man at the head of State affairs who had no respect for God and religion, would be an everlasting disgrace in the grand old commonwealth of South Carolina. ? Says The Marion Star: It is reported that there is a prospective candidate for the legislature from this county on the Tillman ticket that is heartily in favor of "abolishing" the State supreme court for the reason "that its judges are mainly lawyers." It is scarcely necessary to auu that this expectant candidate is likewiso a disappointed and unsuccessful litigant. ? Up to this time ten counties have declared through their conventions in favor of Tillman, viz.: Abbeville, 12 delegates; Aiken, 10; Barnwell 12; Chester, 8; Colleton, 12; Hampton, 8; Lancaster, (J; Marlboro, 0; Union, 8?a total of 82. The Georgetown delegation is said to be divided, 2 for Tillman and 4 anti. If this bo correct, Tillman now has 84 pledged delegates. ? The Chester Democratic convention elected the following delegates to the August State convention: Dr. S. M. Wylie, George W. Gage, Dr. K. A. Wade, T. J. Cunningham, C. W. McFadden, P. T. Hollis, S. M. McAfee and Dr. W. H. Heath. These delegates are all for Tillman. By resolution, these delegates were instructed to vote against the ordering of a State primary and making nominations for State officers by the August convention. ? A Spartanburg dispatch of the 7th to The News and Courier says: Many persons came to the city to register to-day. There were nearly two hundred negroes that were disappointed. A large number of young white men also failed to get registration tickets. The attorney-general telegraphed this morning that registration to-day would not be lawful. The negroes met and began to take a list of names who desired to register, but they did not complete it. ? The Aiken Democratic County convention elected the same set of Tillman delegates to the August and September State conventions. About 200 delegates were present, all for Tillman but 9. The convention declared against a State primary. The newly appointed county treasurer's commission reads for two years. A number of Tillmanites are red-hot about it because he isanti-Tillman. He has come in from the country where he has been canvassing for the long term, and is of course happy. ? The county executive committee of Charleston met last Friday night and engaged the grand opera house for the campaign meeting to be held there on the 24th instant. The opera house will seat 3,000 persons. Thelast timeCapt. Tillman spoke in Charleston the man in the band who played the base drum let his instrument tall, anu tne rumonng noise 11 maue a? n rolled over the belgian block roadway created a panic and'a stampede, the negroes, who were out in great numbers, shouting "Earthquake!" ? The Newberry Couuty convention was held last Friday to elect delegates to the August and September State conventions. The same delegates were elected to both. A resolution to instruct forprimary was voted down by 175 to 42, the Tillman men voting solidly against primary. Dr. S. Pope moved that the convention endorse B. R. Tillman and those on the ticket with him, but some delegate moved an adjournment, which received several seconds and was almost unanimously carried, and the convention declined to pass an endorsement. ? A Sumter dispatch of the 9th says: The Republicans will take advantage of the present division of the Democratic party in South Carolina and attempt to resume control of the State. E. M. Brayton, the chairman of the State Republican committee, slipped in here last night and addressed a large crowd of negroes for two hours. In the course of his speech he told the negroes that now was their oportunity to elect officers of the State. He formally announced, so it is declared, that he would be a candidate for governor of South Carolina, and earnestly appealed to them to organize and support him. He dropped into the town very quietly and the applause that greeted his speech last night was ascribed by the unsuspecting whites to the enthusiasm attending the arrival of the Democratic candidates for governor and State house officials. No one dreamed that it was a negro political meeting till to-day when the cat was let out of the wallet by one who attended the harangue. SOl'TH CAROLINA NEWS. ? The population of the town of Chester, as returned by the enumerator, is 2,705, of which 1.302 are white and 1,343 colored. ?Pee Dee Alliance: Mr. J. F. Everett threshed 4,200 bushels of oats on the bottoms of Pee Dee river, during the last two or three weeks. ? In Lancaster county, on the 2nd instant, H. B. Massey shot and killed W. J. Blakeney. Both white and their homes in Flat Creek township. ? Lancaster Ledger: Mr. Leo Faile, of Flat Creek, killed an owl last week which measured from tip to tip, 5 feet and 5 inches. He also killed a hawk which measured 41 feet from tip to tip. ? Rev. B. D. Lucas has been accepted by the board of missions of the M. E. church, South, as a suitable man for the China missions. He intends sailing for China about the first of September. ? Rev. W. L. Pressley, D. D., has tendered his resignation as pastor of the Due West A. R. P. church, that he may accept the presidency of the theological seminary, tendered him by the synod at its last fall meeting. ? A. R. Presbyterian: The Alumni of Erskine have resolved to erect a new college building on the campus. The matter has been talked of for more than a year. Definite action was taken at the late meeting of the Alumni association to enter upon the work at once. ? At a meeting of the Draytonvillo alliance, in Union county, it was resolved not to patronize any bar room at any place, and also to impose a fine upon any momber who did patronize such men, and if he did and became so intoxicated as to be put into the calaboose, he would be expelled from the alliance. ? Napoleon Levelle, convicted in Charleston of murdering his wife and sentenced to be hanged, has appealed to the supreme court. It is claimed that the supreme court will not hear this appeal until next January, and even should the court refuse to grant a new trial, Levello will not be resentenced until June, 1891. ? Spartanburg Herald : Tho population of this city, as ascertained by the census just taken, is 5,550. This figure will be largely augmented when the Spartan mills shall be at full work, and when the different manufactories already projected shall be completed. Before the end of six months Spartanburg's population will go over 7,000. Twenty years ago it was little over a thousand. ? lathe Union sessions court last week the grand jury returned a true bill against Samuel Jefferies and no bill as to C. C. Roberta These parties, it will be remembered, were indicted for the murder of I)r. White, in that county, in 1806. The whole thing has been enveloped in mystery, until recently a son of Dr. White caused the arrest of Jefferies and Roberts. On motion of Solicitor Schumpert, Judge Norton granted a continuance of the case, on account of the absence of a material witness, until the October term of court. Maj. D. It. Duncan, Jefferies's counsel, was anxious for the triai of the case. ? Spartanburg Herald: Mr. Moore, the brother of W. A. Moore, the well-known merchant at Cowpens, came to his death . in a dreadful manner at the saw mill of Cash & Moore, near Thickety, on Tuesday of last week. He was helping to load some planks on a wagon, when one fell. To avoid being struck by this plank, Mr. Moore threw one leg back, and, that leg striking the saw in motion, he was pulled down over it and fearfully cut. The left leg was cut offjust above the knee, and the right cut off between the ankle and the knee. The saw next lacerated the left arm and cut it off just above the elbow. Mr. Moore then falling with his right sido to the saw, it lacerated his right arm, and threw him violently off in front of it. The unfortunate man was cared for as soon as possible and all that surgical skill could suggest was done for his relief. Rut he was beyond the reach of human aid, and breathed his last a few hours after the dreadful occurrence. Mr. Moore was about seventeen years of age, and had many friends who will deeply deplore his untimely death.