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15. B. ?I Ultu A Y, Editor. THURSDAY, JUNK 22, 1882. TERMS : ONE YEAR.SI.50. SIX MONTHS. Wc? Two Dollarn If not imbi In ndvnnrr. IMPORTANT NOTICE. TO XIII- J 'VMOCItATIC CI.U11S OF AN IH?HSON COUNTY. At a meeting of tlie County Executive Committee, held in thc iNTELMGENCEit Oflko Juno IStb, it waa resolved to call a County Convention, to he held nt An derson, S. C., on FRIDAY, thc 28t'n of JULY, at ll o'clock, u. m., for the purpose of electing delegate* to Stale and Con gressional Conventions, to he held in Columbia, S. C., August 1st, and to elect a County Chairmau and County Execu tive Committee to servo during the next two years. Upon motion it was resolved that all tho Democratic Clubs be called together on Saturday, July 22nd, at 2 o'clock p. m., to elect delegates to tho County Convention, each Club being entitled to one represeutnlive for every twenty-five members, and that the old list of mem bership of 1880 be tuken m a basis ; also, that ench Club select its member to serve on tho next County Executive Committee. It was further resolved that thc Plu rality aud Majority plan nt the primary election be referred lo tho different Clubs for action, and that each Club instruct its delegates to the County Convention whether the plurality or majority system shall be adopted in the next primary election, and that the Secretary of each Club bo requested to iusert in credentials of delegates tho result of action of each Club on this important measure. it was moved and adopted Mint it is the souse ol' this Executive Committee that thc representation lo tho State Con vention should bo double its present number, and that wo request thc State Executive Committee to increase tho number of delegates to thc State Con vention to that extent. E. B. MURRAY, Chairman. G. F. TOLLY, Secretary. KKIMSTHIOTIN? THE STATE. Tho Legislature convenes on Tuesday next, and will probably be in Bcssion about two weeks. Tho principal busi ness before tho body will be the work of redistricting tho State, mid when this is done lhere is very little doubt that tho General Assembly will adjourn. Tho weather is too hot to givo thc statesmen any pleasure during their stay in Co lumbia, and wo apprehend the session will cud ns soon as tho Congressional Districts are provided for. There have been numerous plans already suggested for tho redistricting of the State, several of which are very good. Below wo give tho ono arranged by the Xctn and Cou rier, which ia ono of the beat yet sug gested. It will givo some idea of tho probable arrangement of tho districts : L Charleston and Berkley (part, in cluding Charleston City, Moul tricvilio, Mt. Pleasant andS.im morville). 54,353 Colleton (part). 19,231 Orangcburg (part, including Or angoburg Court House. 27,701 Loxing'on. 18,564 119,909 II. Hampton (part). 11.497 Colleton (pnrt). 4,194 Barnwell.-39,850 Aiken. 28,106 Edgefield. 45,844 129,497 III. Abbeville. 40,809 Newberry. 20,497 Anderson. 33,012 Bickens. 14,889 Oconee. 10,256 131,563 IV. Greenville. 37,494 Spartnuburg. 30,407 Laurens. 29,444 Union.. 24.067 Fairfield. 27,765 159,177 V. York. 80,653 Chester. 24,152 Lancaster. 16,892 Chesterfield. 16,345 Kershaw. 21,63?! Richland (part, includ. Columbia) 19,692 129,272 VI. Sumter (part, including Sumter Court Eouso). 25,232 Clarendon (part,includ.Manuing) 9,081 Williamsburg (part, including Kingstreo) . 8,329 Darlington. 84,485 Marlboro'... 20,697 Marion.i. 84,107 Horry. 15,674 147,405 VII, Georgetown. 19,612 Williamsburg (part). 15,681 Clarendon (part). 10,109 Sumter (part). 11,805 Richland (part). 8.881 Orangeburg (part). 18,684 Charleston and Berkoloy (part)... 48,447 Colleton (part). 12,961 Beaufort. 80,174 ''Hampton (part). 7,244 , 178,548 We publish elscwhcro a letter from Governor Hampton which has tho ring of truo Dcmocraey about it. The Gov ernor will not be in the field for a nomi nation .which he does not desire, but will work for the success of the ticket. Gov. Hampton does not like some of tho work of the last session of the L?gisla ture, hut says that is no reason for aban doning the party-which has given us good government. He is entirely accu rate in the description of thc indepcu donts, when he says "they are stealing the livery of heaven with which to servo tho dovil," and that they aro "as br.d or worse than tho Radicals." Thia is plain talk, but it ia true. Altogether, tho letter is an in tere*'.''hg one, and boa con siderable political importance, as it set tles tho question that'-'Gov. Hampton Joes not desire a renomination as Gover nor of South Carolina. He now holds a iiigher position, and the State bna no right to call, on him to give it up to iccept thc Governorship." Ix? can rend?; ts valuable cervices where he is now. .Senator Henry D. Anthony, who has | just been re-elected for the fifth limo lo the United States Senate from Rhode Island, was born in Rhode Island in April, 1S15. He was graduated at Drown University in 1833, and adopted journal- j ism ns a profession. lu 184'J bo wa? elected Governor of Rhode leland, was re elected at the expiration of his term and declined a third term. In 1.SOS ho was first elected a senator from Rhode Island, bis election on Tuesday being his fifth. He was elected president of the senate pro tempore March L'3, 1869, and was re-elected March 10, 1871. If he serves to the cud of his new term like Henton, he can write thirty years recollection of the United States Senate. He and Renton are tho only two Sena tors who have been so frequently re turned by their constituent*. Tho Hoard of Visitors of the Citadel Academy met in Charleston last week, and elected the officers of that Institu tion as follows: Principal-Co'. J. P. Thomas, of Charlotte ; Profess >r-W. B. Ball, of Baltimore : and Assistant Pro fessor, -Mazyck, of Greenville. The selections have not been received with much approbation, and wo fear tho Fac ulty ns thus constituted will not prove a success. The Governor is receiving numerous applications for appointments to cadet ships from different parts of thc State. Each county is entitled to two appoint merits, and in return for their education each beneficiary cadet is required to tench for two years in the public schools of the county from which he receives the appointment. Congress is beginning lo talk about adjournment, and tho date usually pre dicted for the realization of this blessing to the country is from thc tenth to the twentieth of July. The rountry will be delighted when the session of thc pres ent Congress ends. A FAMIN E-STRI CK EN SPOT. Tlloilnamlft of Virginian-. Sufft-rlti); with Hanger. DANVILLE, VA., June 13. But little relief has as yet reached Patrick couuty, whero from five to eight thousand people aro actually starving. There is no food in tho county. Corn and meal ami Hour cannot bc obtained for love or money. Tho crops last Fall ! were almost a completo failure. Not a drop of rain foll from carly in April to October. Tho ground became ns dry as ?powder. Corn withered and died. Al most everything green was burned up by tho hot ray? of the sun, and tho farmers wero able to save but little from-their fields of wheat. This little lasted them through tho winter, bul it has long since given out. For nome time paBt tho pco plo have been living on tho scanty sup plies forwarded from Danville and Rich mond. But these wero not sufficient to go around, and now several thousand Sicoplwaro not only Buffering for want of ood, but starvation Htares them in tho face. Indeed, there have been a number of deaths already, directly traceable to tho lack of food. j THE STA UV I Nd I'EOPLE. Patrick county is situated on the ex treme southern border of the State, in tho lilue Ridge Mountains. A great por tion of it is hard to reach. The ronds aro bad and run over tho mountains. They aro steep and rocky, and to supply tho starving thousands is not an easy task. As far back as November the offi cials of the county realized that a famine waa impending, nnd took whnt steps lay in their power to avert it. But their efforts wero futile, nnd r.s soon as hunger drove thom to it appeals wero sent to Danville for aid. Over a thousand bush els of com have already been forwarded from this point, and this does not include contributions from Richmond. But theso supplies are but a drop in tho buckot. The appeals for help como pouring in day by day and must continue until the latter part of July, when thc now crops can ho depended upon. Tho famine is widespread. It not only affects tho poor, but strikes homo at tho well-to do. There are many families in Patrick coun ty who aro in vt ry comfortable circum stances aa far as money goes, but money docs not help them now. Thcro is no food to bo bought unless ordered from some distant point. Thoso who can afford to pay hnvc offered largo sums for a littlo Hour, and people will walk miles to get a littlo corn. In some instances families who are well off have been living on bran, and were glad to got even that. Thoso who were fortunnte enough to 8avo anything from their crops Inst year have divided with their less fortunato neighbors, BO that now nearly every ono is in wnnt of bread. Kt'KN ES OF SUFFERING. Most of the dist i i butions of provisions aro made at Patrick Court House. Sup filies aro sent by rail to Burnt Chimneys, n Henry county, and Chen hauled in wagons. People wdio have visited tho famine-stricken cjounty toll sorrowful tales of tho sights witnessed. Farmers along tho country roads, Buffering for want of food, will not bo nblo to harvest their crops unless help reaches them. Their pinched faces speak the suffering which they aro forced to endure. Some of them have not seen a loaf of bread for many a day. These facts aro not ex aggerated in tho least. Tho appeals which como up from tho famine-stricken region tell tho talo of distress. When a wagon of corn arrives al Patrick Conrt Houao pcoplo cannot wait to bo served. They thrust their hands into tho bags and gnaw at tho kernels tonlloviato their hunger. A peck of corn is a prize which will bring n man many a milo. It is sorrowful to see children, with their wun faces, eagerly grasping a handful of tho golden treasure and carefully guarding every kernel. They cannot wait for tho corn to bo ground. Two or threo hun dred mon and women aro continually wailing at Patrick Court Houso and praying for succor. When provisions arrive and they go to their homes their places aro taken by others. Anything in tho way of food is acceptable. Flour 'and corn aro needed above everything else. Cheap Postage? WASHINGTON, June 16. Poitoffice officials say that tho surplus of recoipts over expenditures for tho past year will foot up in tho vicinity o.' a million dollars. There is a largo ele ment in Congress who argue that tho Department bas no right to bo self-sus taining, or, at least, be made n source of revenue to Iho Government. In antici pation of tho fact that the year's opera tions will disclose a margin of receipts over expenditures, a number of bills aro pending looking to a reduction of tho cost cf postage to tho public. Among theso uro one or two to reduco letter postage to two cents, to abolish postage on second-class matter, and to introduce the secret message card, which would take the place ol short letters and coat ono cent. Tho Postmaster-General is understood to be favorable to some kind of redaction, but bo.is opposed by many jf tho other officials of tho Department, as Congressmen .are getting in a, hurry io go home, it ia not at all certain that my thing will be done this session. GOV. HAMPTON'S rosiiiox? Iii; UeclluCH ti? Itecome i? Candidat* for Governor natl Crgefl I nit y Anions thc WML- |?CO|ll?. To tlf. Editor of t/cr Newland Courier : WASHINGTON, June 17, 1882.---Sever al friends have written to mc urging that 1 should become a candidate for Clover* nor, and to those I have privately given my reason why I could not do co ; but as thc press of tho State bas in various quarters broached this matter, I deem it proper that my views should be made known lo the people HO that there may he no misunderstanding of my position. It is not necessary for me, I trust, to say that I would willingly make any personal sacrifice for the benefit of the Slate, or that my services can always be commanded by my fellow-citizens should an emergency arise demanding them. Hut in my judgment no such emergency now exists, and apart from this there are many other cogent reasons why 1 should not euler the contest for the office. In the bret place several gentlemen of high character, unquestioned ability and large experience, perennal friends of mine, have been suggested for this honorable position, and (rom that number one can bo selected who can fill the place with honor to the State and to himself. Un der no circumstances would I antagonize these friends, and this reason is ot itself sufficient to control my action in thia matter. Hut there arc many other rea sons of great loree which influence me. I am anxious lo withdraw from public life at tho earliest practicable and proper moment, und f am therefore unwilling to enter upon new duties, or to assume new responsibilities. lt was only in response lo what I re garded as au imperative demand of the people of my State that I consented to bo their standard-bearer in 1876; obe dience to thc popular will has kept me in public lifo from that time to the present, but I do not conceive that there v'll be j any necessity for my continuance in it much longer; certainly there can be none for my seeking a place which eau bc worthily lilied by any gentleman who may be nominated by our Convention. I beg therefore that I may not in any way be considered as a possible candi date. I am profoundly grateful for thc unvarying kindness of my fellow-citi zens which has been manifested so often and in so many ways, and if their kind feelings ?till continue these can bo shown in no manner more gratifying tome than by allowing mc to seek the quiet and thc repose of private life, for I assure them that I sbnll lay down the responsibilities and tho honors they have bestowed upon me with far greater satisfaction than I assumed them. Hut while I cannot enter the field as a candidate, I shall cheerfully do all in my power in behalf of the nominees of our ??arty if the Convention gives us good men and n good platform. Every true mun in thc Stale should feel impelled by thu highest sense of duty to do this, if wo hopo to preservo tho inestimable blessings secured to the Stale by tho heroic efforts of thc people in 1870. Tho perils that .surround us now aro nearly if not quito as great as they were then, and the incentives to united action are just as urgent. It is only by keeping our ranks unbroken that wo can main tain homo rulo and honest government, and it is disheartening to feel that our present dangers spring not from tho strength of our opponents, but from divisions, jealousies and dissensions among ourselves. * If mistakes havo been committed by tho representatives of our party, the people hold in their own hands the abso lute power to remedy whntever evil has been done. No error that has been com mitted by their party can justify any mau who bab tho interest of the State at heart in deserting ita rankH, for all need ful reform can bc had within its organi zation. I regret therefore beyond ex pression to seo dissatisfaction in any quarter, becauno of opposition to some of the tnensiircH adopted ut tho late session of the Legislature. Without reflecting in tho slightest degree upon either tho wisdom or the patriotism of that body, I think that their action in regard to tho Registration law mid the Stock law was unfortunate, but my opposition to these laws l-i no reason why I should desert tho only party that bas given honest and good government to tho State since the war. My conception of Democracy is that the majority should rule, and those who oppose tho measures mentioned will have the opportunity of ascertaining at the next election on which sido the ma jority stands. Should it bo tho popular will that thi-.-e laws should be repealed or modified, the next Legislature can take action in that directiou. Wo may rest assured that no redress of any evil can bo bad by tho restoration of Radical rule, and in the present condition of races and parties in the Stato an Inde pendent is, if possible, worse than a Rad ical, for be is an enemy "who steals the livery of Heaven to serve the Devil in." In the great fight we are making to pre serve tho civilization of our State, he who is not with us is against us, and no specious pretence of love for the "dear neoplo" cnn bide tho cloven foot. Let mo therefore, as one who has had every political aspiration moro than grat ified, aud who seeks nothing save tho prosperity nud wei faro of his State, urge our people moat earnestly to stand linn and Keep united. Let every lover of his Stato register at once and be ready to vote. Let us nominate our best men for all ibo offices. Let us adopt and enrry out in good faith the principles which gave us success in '70, and we shall again be successful. I venture to offer this ad vice to my fellow-citizens becnuso of the trust nud continence with which they havo honored me ; bceauso of my anx ious solicitudo for thc preservation of good government ; becnusc my public career ia drawing to a closo, aud above all, because I do not wish to seo thc groat Erineiples and the grand cause for which rave men struggled so zealously and de voted women prayed so earnestly in '76* lost by apathy, indifference or treachery in '82--or ever. I um, very respectfully, WADE HAMPTON. Swinging From A Tree. CHATTANOOGA, Juno 10.-Between midnight nnd day Sunday morning, Mattie Vaughan, a white " woman of Winchester, was aroused by a vince say ing that they had ii noto Vor her. She states that sho arose and opened thc door, when Henry Huddleston, a colored vagabond, seized ber and outraged her Serson twice. Thc alarm was given unday morning, when a crowd started in pursuit. He was found about five miles north in tho house of a negro. Huddleston was seen on thc street drunk, and loft Arledgo's saloon last night at about ll in a drunken condition. He was placed under guard in tho court houso yard. At about 9:30 p. m. a crowd ot men suddenly broke in on thc guards, blew out tho light, seized tho prisoner, carried him from tho room in tho court house, where bo was confined, and took bim to a treo in thc court hoimo yard, where he waa lynched. Everything was done io a qu'ek, yet determined manner. In a conversation with Huddleston, about dark, ho said ho know he would bo hung, but denied his guilt. Tho tree on. which bo was hung is the Hame that Dotson was hung on in 1866. Tho fol lowing inscriution was pinned to bia clothes: "Whenever a man becomes tired of lifo let bim follow thc example of thc deceased and secure death." - Tho United States District Court for tho Western District, which meets in GreenviUo ou Monday, August 7tb, will probably be in session several weeks. It Ss stated that more cases have been bound over to this term of Court than for many year* and the end is not yet. tl WAIFS FROM WASHINGTON. An Iiullgimnt llutvl Prom iii? Loyal I'rc???. WASHINGTON, June 17.-Thc Radical campaign against South Carolina is fair ly under way. The N. V. Tributa to- I uay prints with immense display of < i/'i/?>.' a considerable porti"ii of the "Edgefield" letter to The Newt and Cow ; rier and its comments thereon, recently I published. The extracts are headed, < ''Bourbon Moral Depravity," and the head lints pronounce il an attack on i "the law providing for a fair vote." In i an editorial on the subject entitled, "A i Shocking Revelation," tho Tribune goes into mock spasms over the enormity of the sentiments expressed. In conclud ing it says : "This astonishing com pound of immorality and blasphemy is called by the leading Democratic news paper of the State strong and straight forward. Comment is superfluous upon a revelation like this." There is no better argument for the repeal of thc separate box clause of the law than this raving itt its behalf by the Tribune. The Tribune also notes the fact that Nat Myers, who was "guilty of treason to the Republican party in 1870," and recently discharged from the postal service by the postmaster-general on the application of Mackey, Smalls and Lee, has been provided with another place as stated-it) Thc New* and Courier. This reappointment is made directly by the President. If Myers becomes a national issue, as this attack seems to indicate, I can furnish some inside facts connected with the matter which cannot bo ii^od at present. The Washington Republican this morn ing contains a recent letter of Charles II. Moise, of Sumter, to the Augusta Chronicle, stating that Mackey was elec ted to the seat he now holds, and that the Democrats know it. Tho Republican styles the letter "Bourbons admitting their own rascality." This bushwhack ing is gloated over. Tho opposition of Mr. Bond I'On Lowndes to thc improvement of tho Satitee River;, is pctaiatcnt. He had a memorial struck of and sent to every member of tho commerce committee yesterday which neutralized Col. Rich ardson's efforts. This was the memorial Cox had printed in the Record to day. A great many Republicans only need a small excuse like this to decliue to pass thc appropriations for thc South. Col. Rrchardson knew nothing of this memo rial pf six planters until ne saw it in tho Record this morning. It is understood that the sub-commit tee on elections are agreed that Congress man Richardson is elected, and that a report favorable to him will be made, but In view of tho prayers of Republi cans it may not bc presented until thc next session, in order not to discourage Leo's constituents. President Haskell, of thc Charlotte road, and General Manager T. M. R. Talcott, of the Richmond and Danville, were here yesterday endeavoring to get, a fast mail train rc established between Washington and Atlanta, and also to Augusta. They stated that the roads were now in fine order, and that a fast schedule could be kept up, which was not tho case before. In this interview with tho postmaster-general the latter took much interest in the subject, and it is probable thc contract will bo renewed. Maj. Harry Hammond has been herc for the last few days obtaining informa tion and statistics for the forthcoming handbook of South Carolina. He re ceived much data, especially in regard to thc fisheries of the State, and returned to-day. It is proposed to hold a Republican caucus Tuesday next, to consider the course of the party in regard to thc pending bill redlining the internal reve nue, taxation. Tho disposition is to unite and to defeat it for fear it be amended so ns to include tobacco, &c. Nearly everybody Is agreed that ad journment will take place between tho 10th and 20th July, if there is much of a fight over thc naval appropriation bill, as expected, thc latter date will be the most probable.-Correspondence News and Courier. Politics In Court. The Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observ er, ol tho 11th inst., says : "Yesterday a motion was made to set aside tho vordict of the jury finding D. D. Bryant and J. H. Bell guilty of fraud ulently throwing out tho election returns in Halifax. The motion was overruled, and his Honor Judge Bond read the sen tenco of tho Court, ordering tho defen dants to pny a fine of $500 each and the costs, and this sum to be paid during the term of tho court, or the defendants would bo punished hy imprisonment. Tho defendants were placed in the cus tody of tho Marshal until tho fine and costs were paid. This was dono in the afternoon." The Neics and Observer, commenting on the trial, says: "In the community where these de fendants reside it would bo impossible to j convince the people that they knew their action was illegal or that they had any corrupt purpose in thc matter. The ovi dence fails to disclose a reasonable ground for their conviction. They made an honest mistnko as to the extent of their powers and tho scope of their du ties. They were under oath to faithfully and impartially canvass tho returns, and they carno to tho conclusion that the re turns to bo lawfully canvassed must bo lawful returns. They were of opinion that the Halifax returns with the protest annexed were not lawful returns. Per haps a mnjority of the people would agree with them about that, and, being of that mind, they thought it their duly not to count them. Under tho charge of Ihe Court they ought not to have been convicted. But the jury singled out two for conviction, and found that all the others hnd acted from a mistaken idea of their powers. "Looking nr. the jury, TO notice that it was composed of soven negroes and five white men, and we further find that the Court allowed thc District Attorney in selecting the jury to uso a power that has never before been exercised in trials of misdemeanors in this State. The Court allowed tho District Attorney to stand aside jurors that he did not like, without challenge. In au ordinary mind a cou nection will naturally arise between this uovel prac.ice, adopted only in cases of a political cast, and this verdict which ?oems so peculiar and indefensible. They are the two peculiarities of tho case; they go togothor. Ordinnry folks will soe in them only causo and effect. It had been better for tho moral effect of tho verdict had tho Court adhered to Ibo practico heretofore, in vogue in like crim inal cases in the Federal and Stato Courts in North Carolina. The law of the Court has been long settled ; it is tho practice. Novel departures in special cases impart to tho Court nnd to the proceedings an air of having a special object in view-a purpose to convict-and an apprehension that conviction cannot he secured under the ordinnry rules of the Court. It must bo borne in mind that Chief Justice Waite repudiated this practice, and would not allow it in the Federal Court where he was silting." - Mr. Hipp, living on Mn W. P. Harmon's river plantation, in Newberry County, sowed two and one-fourth bush els of wheat ou between three and four acres of land and threshed out ninety six bushels. It is estimated by good judges that Ibero arc twenty or twenty five bushels left on tho land, it having fallen dowu so that it was difficult to father. This makes a yield of about 120 ushols from two and a quarter acres. Tho above statement is vouched for by Mr. Harmon, who was present, saw ft threshed and measured and received twenty-four bushels for his rent, that being one-fourth. rERRIBLE TORNADO I? TUE ?EST. I Town* Swept Away-luimenit LOM of Life. DES MOINES, IOWA, June 1?. A turnado ?wept through central Iowa late last night from Northwest to South east, twenty miles North of Dei Moines, fhe town of Grinnell was struck by it ind half of the town Icrt lu ruin*. The following i- the late?' information re sewed : "GRINNELL, June 18 - 1.50 A. M.-A tpecial train from Des Moines i chid this place at 3.40 with twelve physicians on board from Des Moines, Colfax and Kellogg. The situation is even ?vors? than first reports made it appear. Thir ty-two people were killed and about one hundred or more wounded. Eight deaths are reported from Malcomb, which ?un tirely destroyed. Rrooklyn bas also suf fered, some eight of the students badly injured, having been dug out of the ruins. The Cbapin House is turned into n hospital ; nome of the most dangerous cases are being carried there." A special sent at 7.?IOsay?: "Fromthe numerous and contradictory stories of the startled citizens wc gather the story of a deep roaring sound preceding a funnel-shaped cloud. C. Pittman's house was completely levelled, burying Pittman, his wile and three children, his wife's sister and ber little baby. A three year-old girl, Hattie, was taken out dead. A boy, Harry, was fatally injured mid Arthur slightly injured. Not far away, nt the residence of Lewis, an old gentle man and lady were killed. From hero the storm pursued a zigzag direction to tlie North of the city, when, after wiping out the finest residences in that "portion of the city, it moved toward the college. The next building was dumped into a heap of lath and plaster and broken tim ber, burying beneath it eight students who roomed therein, all of whom were afterwards rescued more or less injured, but one subsequently died. In a two story house Miss Abbie Agard wns killed. There is hardly a sign left of thc bouse. In the vicinity was a block which con tained nine houses, and all but ono \vas leveled to thc ground. In one bouse of thia block four persons were killed-Mr. Ford and wife, a hired girl and Mrs. Totton. In this vicinity F. W. William's house was unroofed. Professor Herrick's and Mrs. Morris^two houses were bunch ed together. The scenes around tho ruins aro heartrending. The engine house, where seventeen of the dead bodies are laid out, presents a sight that brings back army days. Some of tho dead aro in the wrecks of their houses. The number of injured ranges up among the hundreds. At Malcomb seven are dead." DES MOINES, June 19.-A special from Grinnell says : "The surgeons now report that forty-one are dead at Grin nell and that five or six more cannot live through the night. The number wound ed exceeds one hundred and fifty and tho number of houses destroyed is be tween 140 aud 150. The total loss of property is now estimated at $000,000. It is feared that the number of deaths at Grinnell will reach seventy-five. News bas been received that Mr. James's wife and two daughteis and two other per sons living four miles Northwest of Grinnell are dead. It is now thought that the loss of lifo outside of Grinnell will reach twenty-five and the total loss nearly one hundred." IOWA CITY, IOWA, June 19.-From ten to twelve persons are reported to have lost their lives at Irish Ridge by the cyclone. METROPOLIS, ILLINOIS, June 19.-A terrible cyclone struck this city yester day evening, blowing down several bouses, killing Dick Turner, capsizing and sinking the Bteamor Jennie Waiker and scattering tho harvested wheat in the vicinity. The damage is heavy. Fatal Railroad Accidents. WHEELING, WEST VA., Juno 17.-A special says : "The train on 4the Clari's burg nnd Western Railroad which left Clarksburg yesterday morning, while en tering the trestle at Wabli ns, was pre cipitated over the trestle. About twenty passengers were aboard, including six or seven ladies. Mr. Carey, supposed to bo from New York, and Mr. Goldsborough were killed. Miss Leonie White, of Freeman's Creek, was fatally and twelve others badiy injured." ATLANTA, June 17.-Thc switch at Kingston was left open this morning by the upward bound freight train, and the passenger train from Chattanooga on tho western and Atlantic Road, ruuning nt tho rate of forty miles an hour, ran on tho siding and into some freight cars, killing Audy West, the engineer, instant ly, and injuring fireman George Bass so that he died. v Southern Mail Contractors. The joint resolution which passed the Senate to-day reapproprinting $875,000 appropriated in 1877 to pay certain Southern mail contractors authorizes tho Sccretury of tho Treasury to nt once pay the late contractors of Kentucky, Louis iana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Caro lina, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia the amounts due on their respective; contracts for thc years 1859, 1860 and 1861, with a proviso that no payments shall be made for mail servico rendered alter May 31, 1861, or after tho Legislature of any State or any State's Convention had passed an ordi nance of secession. The resolution also prohibits payment to those contractors of the ono month's extra compensation usually allowed in cases whero mail ser vice is discontinued by order of the gov ernment. (iuiteau Must Hang. WASHINGTON, June 19. Justice Bradley of the United States Supreme Court, to whom Guitcau'scouu Bel applied for a writ a? habeas corpus, to day bled a dcuinl of tho application with tho Clerk of tho Court. Justice Bradley bolds that tho Court nf the District of Columbia had full jurisdiction of the case, and that no reasons exist for grant ing the writ. - The Spartanburg Representatives have all expressed their opposition to taking up any bills at tho extra session except that to redistrict tho State. - Dr. A. K. Durham, of Greenville, discovered, tho other day, in the vicinity of the city, he thinks, an unusually rich deposit of gold ore. He brought aspeci mcn with him and exhibited it to a well known gentleman in Greenville, who is quite proficient in detecting valuable mineral, when it was pronounced to be as fine a sample of South Carolina gold as has ever been seen.- Greenville A'ctr*. - Tho funeral took placo at Alexan dria, Va., recently of Col. Wm. R. Mc Lean, who had tho singular fortune to own and resido upon tho fields of Manns sas and Appomattox when tho two armies met at theso places at tho begin ning and end of the war. After Manas sas, anticipating continued hostilities in that neighborhood, bo bought t farm near the Appomattox River, to which he removed bis family. It was on this farm that Gen. Leo completed tho formal act of surrender. - Senator Van Wyck waa taken to task by tho postmaster general for his voto against Worthington's confirmation and other matters In executive eessioo, and was given to understand that tho president desired no advice in tho matter of appointments from those nnt fully in accord wrJt tho administration. Tho interview, nhich occurred iu the presence of Secretary Teller and others, ia said to have been stormy and excited. Van Wyck held that if patronage was to be at the expense of the surrender of per sonal convictions, ho wanted none. (Jenem. Sews Summary* - With the .lune collection of taxes the PicLens County Commissioners have retired $2,500 of thc County bonds. $5,500 were retired last year, making a total retired to date of $8,000. - Registration for Oconce County ts progressing slowly but surely. Up to Wednesday morning 1,489 persons had received their registration certificates. - Hiders Burton and Carpenter con tinue to disseminate Mormon doctrines in York County, but they will not let the colored brothers and sisters into the fold. - There ha. been no bacon in Abbe ville for a week, and the people are dam ero us for hog meat. - The .South Carolina appropriations in the River and Harbor Hill passed tho House in committee on the 10th inst as originally fixed : For continuing the im provements of Lynches River $4,400, Great I'eedce $0,0i>0, Wateree $15,000, Wappoo Cut $10,000, Charleston harbor $300,000, Georgetown harbor $7,000, Edisto River $?,000, Big Salkehatchie $5,000. A survey was ordered for the Waceamaw River between Conwayboro' and Waceamaw Lake. - As to tho number of men idle by tho strike, il is difficult to arrive at an exact statement. Tho best estimates we have is that of the Secretary of thc Western Iron Association. The number of men employed in the mills affected is given as follows: Pittsburg District, 20,000; West Virginia, 3,228; Ohio, 10,266; Indiana, 1,740. Illinois, 2,408; Kentucky, 2,017; Michigan, 025; Ne braska, 100 ; Wisconsin, 500 ; Shenango Vally, Penn., 3,000-total, 45,752. - When the Legislature meets on the 27th it will find itself confronted with two questions outside of its regular busi ness of redistricting the State ; one will be the formation of new counties, the other the repeal of '.'.ie Hegistration law. It should pay no attention to either one of these questions, but should attend to the special business for which it was called, and then adjourn.-Newberry Herald. - This town, Ninety-Six, being tho centre of a rich agricultural district and geographically near thc centre of four large Counties, will petition our Legisla ture next Fall for the formation of a now Couuty, with the court house situa ted here. This point is remoto nearly thirty miles from any Couuty scat r t.d isa need long felt. The occasion does not nrise altogether from a local interest, but is anxiously clamored for by all within tlie limits of the proposed new County. It embraces probably the richest sections of the four Counties named-Abbeville, Edgefield, Laurens and Newberry. - There is an exciting campaign ahead in Maine. Three State tickets aro al ready in the field and a fourth will be put in nomination. There is the great est interest manifested in the contest for Governor. The Greenbackers are split into two wings-thc Fusionists and the Solon Chase crowd. Governor Tlaisted has already received a renomination from tho Fusion Greenbackers and Chase hos been nominated as the leader of thc wing he carries about with him in his vest pocket. The Prohibitionists have also got together a ticket, but they are of little account, politically speaking, this year. The Republicans will Darno their ticket to-day and tho Democrats will wind up tho conventions on the 27th. - Gen. W. L. Bragg has published a letter in the Alabama Democratic papers withdrawing his name as a candidate for tho United States Senate. He says he does this because he has found that sev eral counties have instructed in favor of the return of his friend Senator Morgan, and he adds : "I owe too much to our great party to be instrumental in disrup ting it in any county of this State, and I would quicker experiment with the lifo of either of my two children than I would enter upon any course of conduct that would have tbe effect of disrupting and breaking down the Organization of our p.uty in any county of this Slate." - The S:ntc Pup-erne Court adjourned last Friday until thc fourth I'm-day in November, unless sooner convened hy the Chief Justices, Toe lo I i wing is the order of tho circuits at t n- Xoveni ber term, 18S2, and the days assigned to each : Fourth Circuit,Tuesday, Novem ber 28, two dav?; Fifth Circuit, Thurs day, November 30, four dav-; Sixth Circuit, Thursday, December" 9, two days; Seventh Circuit, Tuesday, Decem ber 12, eight days; Eighth Circuit, Tuesday, January 9, 1SS3, four days; First Circuit, Tuesday, January 16, six days ; Second Circuit. Thursday, January 25, two days ; Third Circuit, Tuesday, January 30, two days. The special docket will be called on the followiug Mondays of the term, to wit : December 4, ll, IS, January 15, 22 and 29. ANNOUNCEMENTS. House of Representatives. Tho fiicnda of MAJ. A. S. TODD respectfully announce him as a car Mdato to represent Ander son County in thc next Legislature, subject to the action of tho Democratic primary election. _ VOTEES. For Probate Judge. J. <i. CLINKSCALES, Esq., is hereby present rd to thc voters of Anderson County os a candi dato for tho office of Probato Judge-subject to tho action of thc Democratic party at tho next prima ry election. EAST ASDBIISO?. WARNING. A LL persons are hereby notified not to ii. employ or harbor a negro boy named Arch Rice, about nineteen years of agc who Is under contract with mo for this" year. E. H. PENNELL. June 22, 1882 49 2* Notice to Contractors. f\S the Fifth of July next at tho County KS Poor House will bo let tho Building of Four Brick Tenement Houses to tho lowest responsible bidder. Spocilintlons mado known on day of letting. By order of thc Board. J. E. B HE A ZEA LE, C. B. V. C June 22, 1882 40 2 Notice of Application for Rail road Charter. NOTICE ls hereby given that an appli cation will be made at tho Fall ses sion of tho Legislat-iro in 1882 for a Charter for a Railroad, to bc known ns the Charles ton and Anderson Railroad, to extend from Anderson C. H. to some point on the At lantic and Frerch Broad Vallev Railroad nt or near tho Town of Troy in* Abbeville County. Juno 22, 1832 40 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS. All persons having demands against thc Estate of Elijah M. Grif?n, deceased are hereby notified to present tho fame to the undersigned, properly proven, within the time prescribed by law. Thoso indebt ed to the ?tate arc notified to make pay ment to the undersigned. ' M. K. MITCHELL, Adm'r. Juno 22. 1882 4 3 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ANDERSON COUWTY. % M'. W. Humphrey*, Judye pf l*robatt\ WHEREAS, Kisiah 8impson has an plied to mo to graut her Letters or Administration on 'ho Estate and effects or Wm. Tims, deceased. These aro thereforo to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and cr?ditera ?r ,">e ?aid William Tims, deceased, that they bo and appear before mein thc tourt of Probate, to bo held at Anderson Wan "non Sw tbo 7lu "Xv of Joly. 1882, after publication hereof, to show causo ir any they have, why tho said Adminis tration sbonld not bo granted. Given nn <icr my band, this 19th day of Jnnc. 1832 T ~> W- HUMPHREYS, j. p; June 22,1882 49 1 2 AGENT FOU THE* CELEBRATED VAN WINKLE GIN, FEEDER CONDENSER, Manufactured at Atlanta, Georgia, and to -which the PEE MIUM was awarded at the Atlanta Cotton Expo sition, Charleston Industrial Exhibition, Feb ruary, 1662, and at the South Carolina and Georgia State Fairs 1881. CERTIFICATE. E. VAN WINKLE A CO.-Awarded for host Hantplo, best goneral r?sultait, Ginning, ami best constructed Machino, tho first prlzo, $100.00, or Gold Modal. JODOKS-B. S. RICKS, Mississippi. T. W. SMEDES, Mississippi. AV B. BARROW?, Connecticut. H. I. KIMBALL, Director General Atlanta Cotton Exposition. ?escrirption o?* cmr Gin. tailed tn and drivou in from tho end, and any ono of them can bo taken out or re placed w ithout interfering with thc other sticks. Wo uso no wiro nor gluo, and it is 'inpossible for the sticks to fly olT. The ribs aro inado of best chilled iron and most improved pattern, tho saws of best English steel and needlo pointed. Every partof tho Oin has boon gotton up with groat caro, with tho especial Idea of making ama chino that will not got out of order, easily ropairod if it should, always ready for work, and givo tho best general results. 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