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ftraps and business failures for the week ending last Friday, reported to the mercantile agency of ft. G. Dun Co. number 197 against 182 last week. New England States, 11, Western 58, Middle 26, Southern 46, Pacific States and Territories 14, New York City 13 and Canada 29.

On the 19th of April just one hundred years will have elapsed since Gerorge Washington announced to the Continental army that a treaty of peace had been concluded between Great Britain and her American colonies, whose independence was by the same instrument irrevocably acknowledged. loct J.I1 LIU? U.J vuun icwt Saturday, $4,750 damages was awarded the plaintiffs in a suit against the Richmond Danville Railroad Company for $10,000. The suit had its origin in the killing of Jas. E. Rudd, a colored boy who went asleep on the track while minding cows and was run over by the train.

On Thursday last the Legislature of Ohio adopted a resolution submitting to a vote of the people a temperance amendment to the Constitution. Two propositions will be providing for regulating the tariff by law, and the other for the total of the manufacture and sale of iquor. Up in Vermont some very primitive and peculiar medical theories prevail, judging from the case, reported by telegraph, of a young man named Osier who killed himself by swallowing "an overdose of gunshot to cure boils." Anybody who wants to experiment further with this sort of remedy will avoid a good deal of suffering by taking the dose from a musket at short range: Elias Craft, in jail at Lexington, in connection with rseal for the alleged murder of Emma Thomas and Gibbons' children, is in receipt of a letter from from his brother stating that a negro in jail at Charleston, W. has confessed that he and another negro committed the crimes of which Neal and Craft are charged. A full history of this remarkable case will be.

found on the first page of this issue of the Enquirer. The post office department has issued an order amending postal regulations, so as to provide that all letters upon which one full rate of postage has been prepaid and all postal cards shall be forwarded from the office to which they are addressed to any other office, at the request of the person addressed or of the party whose card may be upon the envelope, or whose name may be signed 1 ndrliflAnol oVio VfrO uic (runuutauuivivuiu of postage. Such forwarding may be continued until the party addressed is reached. The Democratic State convention, to nominate a candidate for Governor, met in Atlanta 011 Tuesday. The contest be tween the friends of some of the most prominent candidates has waxed warm, and the indications at this writing are that there will tie pretty lively times in the convention, and it is not improbable that in the scramble a dark horse may come in and walk off with the prize.

The friends of acting Governor Boynton, claim, however, that he will have a majority in the Convention. President Arthur and party arrived at Jacksonville, Florida, Saturday evening. "They were met at Callahan by a committee of citizens who escorted them in carriages from the depot-to the steamboat landing amid a salute of artillery and the cheers of 10,000 citizens assembled along the route. He left at once for Sanford, where he will remain for several days, resting quietly. The President says he has no definite plans, but if the weather continues favorable will remain ten days or two weeks, part of which will be spent in fishing and hunting.

A Washington dispatch says: While Samuel Lee was unsuccessful in his attempt to oust Mr. llichardson from his seat in Congress, he has, after much persistent begging at the departments, finally succeed eu in oouiining a oerin at nve uoimrs a uay and expenses under the general land office. He is appointed a special land agent for the detection of fraudulent entries of public lands and assigned to the State of Alabama. Congress gave one hundred thousand dollars to be expended for this purpose, at the discretion of the department, and a number of have been Leo loft for his new field of labor last Monday. Incident to the ceremony of decorating the graves of the Confederate dead in New Orleans last Saturday, and laying the corner stone of a monument to be surmounted by an equestrian statue of Albert Sydney Johnson, an oration as delivered by Jefferson Davis, in which he eulogised the characteristics of the dead leader.

In Johnson, he said, he recognized a strong pillar to the Confederacy, and when he fell on the field of Shiloh the mightiest column which sustained the cause had fallen. He died in the moment of victory and had he lived a half hour longer he would have made General Grant a prisoner or a fugitive. The Confederacy had three great leaders, Lee, Jackson and Johnson, who would compare with the leaders of antiquity, or those of modern times. At a banquet in the evening the speaker reiterated these sentiments. The star route trials, though important, have become a permanent bore.

The daily renorts from the Washington court are wea risome reading, except when enlivened by the sparring of the counsel and an occasional bon mot from Ingersoll. The first trial lasted 15 weeks, and the 19th week of the second trial began Monday morning, with a prospect of long continuance. Mr. Horsey is undergoing the third week of his examination and is still troubled with a defective memory. He now proposes to stand upon his technical rights and accept the consequences, rather than bring his letter books into court.

But it is stated that some documentary evidence will be presented this week, which will be more convincing than any other evidence yet offered regarding the guilt of the parties on trial. Thus an element of sensation will be introduced which will make the star route renorts more interesting reading than they have been in the past. If the Nihilists had not already committed a long series of outrages and deprived Russia of one of its Czars, the manifestoes they are issuing daily would be tolerably certain to convince people that these revolutionists are blatant frauds of the most transparent description. A recent proclamation announces that preparations for the assassination of the Czar are going actively forward, and warns persons who value their personal safety to keep at a distance from the Czar during the coronation ceremony. It is hardly the usual custom of assassins to give the intended victim a long warning, and advise bystanders to get out of the way while the assassination ceremonies are going on.

Either these repeated manifestoes are a hoax, or, if genuine, the Nihilists have reached a degree of confidence in the complete success of their operations which emboldens them to throw off the usual precaution of secrecy. It might, at any rate, be well for the Czar to reflect that an uncrowned head is better than none. A Washington dispatch of Friday says a new and serious complication is threatened in the Star-route trial, and as before the trouble is in the jury box. There is no bribery in the case, but a more serious matter, involving the life of Juror Hughes. When he was assigned a seat among the jurors near four months ago it was observed that there was a 9light swelling in his neck, probably the size of a pigeon's egg.

Subequently the excressence, which proved to be a cancer, increased rapidly, and is now larger than a man's hand. One of the attorneys for the Government is authoritv for the statement that the explanation of the lengthy crossexamination of Government witnesses by the defence lies in this fact. No one could fail to notice the rapid progress made by the destroyer, and it is regarded as only a question of a short time before juror Hughes will be forced to leave the jury box and there will be a mistrial. There is not the slightest hope for the sufferer, and his pitiable condition has been freely commented upon by visitors to the courtroom. It is only a question of endurance.

W. Howarth of Concord, N. a sufferer from asthmetic complaint, came to Lawrence, sometime ago to place himself under the treatment of Miss Anna Morse, an alleged restorer of health by the faith cure. After several calls from her, during which time his condition varied, last Friday he felt worse and summoned Miss Morse. At her request, she was left alone with him for six hours, administering treatment by gating intently in his face.

At the expiration of that time, Howarth lost all confidence in the woman and ordered a regular physician. The physician came but Horworth died before nelp could be afforded. The physician stated that he died of exhaustion, caused by the protracted agony in which the woman kept him for six hours. If the fair practitioner was at all handsome, and possessed the witchery usually attributed to her sex, it i was no doubt a trying ordeal for a sick man. i And if she sat for six long hours "gazing intently" in- her patient's face, without 1 speaking a word, we wonder not that he i lost faitn in all things earthly.

fffltfeviUe YORKVILLE, S. C. THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 1883. LOCAL OPTION IN GEORGIA. Georgia has a local option law which was passed at the last session of the Legislature.

It permits each county to vote no license, and in case a majority of the voters so decide, the Governor is required to proclaim prohibition in that county for two years from date of his proclamation, when the vote, is to be taken Under this Act, a lively campaign is in progress in several counties, while a large number, in which elections have already been held, have voted in favor of prohibition by surprising majorities. The Atlanta correspondent of the Louisville (oitrier-Journal mentions as a strange feature of the campaign the fact that the counties which are adopting the prohibition platform are those which would have been least expected to do so. Thus Emanuel, Effingham, DeKalb, and other quiet and orderly communities are taking no part in the struggle. Spalding county, where more murders have been committed during and since the war than in any other half dozen, and where drinking is universal, has joined the temperance column. Clayton county has long been notorious as a resort of desperadoes.

Last week the county voted for prohibition by over six to one. Paulding county has also voted into line, and a more drunken county than Paulding, the correspondent says, there was not in Georgia. THE NEW POSTMASTER GENERAL. On Thursday Last, the President appointed "Walter Q. Gresham, of Indiana, Postmaster General.

He is a United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit of Indiana, and when notified of his appointment was presiding in the Court at Evansville. Judge Gresham was born in Harrison county, Indiana, in 1832. He studied law and began his practice at Corydon, the county seat of Harrison county. Shortly before the outbreak of the war he was elected a Representative in the State Legislature, and in 1S61 he was Chairman of the House Committee 011 Military Affairs. While occupying this position he co-operated so skillfully and energetically with Governor Morton in the organization of the State militia that the latter commissioned him as Lieutenant Colonel of the Thirty-eighth Regiment of Indiana Volunteers.

He remained in the service until April 30, 1866, when he was mustered out, having been severely wounded in the action before Atlanta. During the war General Greshain's personal relations with General Grant were very friendly, and when the Irtttor beestm? President in I860 lie appointed Mr. Greslmm District Judge for the District of Indiana. In 1881 he was strongly urged for a place in the Cabinet of President Garfield. Judge Gresham has accepted his appointment, and will in a few days assume the duties of his new office.

The President has designated First Assistant Postmaster General Hatton to act as Postmaster General until Judge Gresham assumes the head of the department. END OF THE SIMS CASE. The case of Dr. Sims, of Aiken county, who was charged with a nameless crime against his wife, committed in December last, and which was removed to Columbia for trial, was disposed of last Friday, a nol.pros. being entered.

The nature of this alleged offence has never been printed in the papers, though the public generally is familiar with the facts as charged at the time of the occurrence, when popular indignation was so strong against the accused in his own county that military protection was necessary to prevent him from being lynched. When the case was called in the Sessions Court of Richland, the following letter from Mrs. Sims was read in open Court: Columbia, S. April 6,1883. To the Court: 1 respectfully decline to be sworn as a witness against my husband in this case and protest against being made to testify.

I did not wish my husband prosecuted, but only desired him bound over to keep the peace. I did not know the contents of the affidavit drawn up by the officer until after the arrest was made, and then 1 did not go before the grand jury at Aiken, because I did not wish my husband punished, and I only came here because I did not wish to be brought under arrest, as bench warrants were issued to bring me. The circumstances of the case have been greatly exaggerated by idle rumor. My husband has inflicted no bodily injury upon me, and I have long ago forgiven him for any wrong he may have done me. I wrote the solicitor that I wished the prosecution stopped, and I now pray the Court not to destroy the peace and happiness of our family and the welfare or our child by forcing me to testify in this case.

Most respectfully, lulls. I J. 1U ft I MS. After the reading of this letter an effort was made by the Solicitor to compel her to testify, but Judge Hudson held that a wife could not be compelled to testify against her husband in a case of assault, and she being the only witness, the case fell to the ground. This case presented a nice point of law, on the question of a 'vyifo testifying against her husband for assault, which has never been adjudicated by the Supreme Court of this State but the ruling of Judge Hudson seems to have been all that was left the Court to do under the law and the peculiar circumstances of the case.

Commenting upon the termination of this case, which has excited much nublic inter est, the Columbia Register remarks editorially It is sincerely to be hoped that Mrs. Sims' averment in her affidavit that "the circumstances of the case have been greatly exagerated by idle rumor" covers all the atrocities of the case that wont to the public ear at the time. We cannot see how the uni fortunate lady could consent to reconcilia! tion ever more if the rumors prevailing at the time were true. Let us hope, then, these were not true; and, under all the circumstances, if the unhappy wife wishes to hush the scandal deep down in her own heart, we humbly think Judge Hudson has done right in refusing to snatch i from her bosom the secret she would hide from the public gaze. We sincerely be! lieve that society will suffer no injury from the ruling of the Court.

We entirely concur with counsel for the defence in the view they take of the sanctities of the marital I relations. The rule of the common law is a wise one, which inviolably respects these sanctities of life and in regarding the fami; ly as the initial point of human society, and hence the corner stone of government, and which cannot therefore be ruthlessly i disturbed without tearing asunder the bands of society. DEATH OF PETER COOPER. I Peter Cooper, the millionaire and philan- 1 thropist, died of pneumonia, in New York, on Wednesday of last week. Mr.

Cooper celebrated his 92d birthday February 12th, when there was quite a social gathering at his house. He had been ailing for some time with a slight cold, and on Sunday he was compelled to remain in his bed. His family physician was summoned, and on i his arrival at once discovered that his pa- tient was suffering from a severe attack of i pneumonia. Mr. Cooper's advanced years a were a great drawback to his recovery, About 2 o'clock Wednesday morning he called his son, ex-Mayor Cooper, and Mrs.

Abram 8. Hewitt, his daughter, and her family to his bed side, saying that he knew he had not long to live and that they must become reconciled to that fact. His death occurred exactly at 3 a. m. He remained conscious up to the time of his demise and made several remarks in regard to family affairs.

Air. Cooper was born in New York February 12th, 1791, and lived a life full of honors from his early boyhood. Mr. Cooper began life without the benefit j. of an education and made himself what he was.

Blessed with a remarkable genius and an energy and will such as few men possessed, he steadily made his way in various mechanical and manufacturing pursuits, working inventions with active mind, and by courageous, enterprising spirit he be- came a millionaire not by bilking his fel- low men of their honest earnings, not by ruthless speculations, but by brave and per- sistent work and by the use of his great and remarkable gifts to the great ends he had in view. The example of the great American man of business is particularly valuable to i the age, as giving unquestioned evidence to the world that a man need not be devoid of the humanities of life whilst aecumula- ting a great fortune. He lived to a great purpose and goes to rest after a long and honorable and a most useful life, blessed of all men, an honor to his country, an honor to his race, and one who has left behind an enduring monument of his love for his fellow men and for the laboring classes of society, which shall hand his name down to our remotest posterity as one of our greatest and best citizens. His funeral, which took place in New York on Saturday, was a very impressive and remarkable one. The streets were crowded with spectators and the working men turned out by the thousands and followed the hearse from the church to the ferry.

He had established himself in the affections of the people of all classes in that city as, perhaps, no man ever did before, and his funeral was the occasion of a general and sincere manifestation of sorrow by them. SOUTHERN LAND LOAN ASSOCIATION. The Columbia correspondent of the Charleston News and Courier, writes to that paper under date of the 9th instant: Col. J. B.

Palmer has returned to Colum- 1 bia from England, and brings with him the news that he has induced the Dundee Mort- 1 gage and Trust Investment Company of Dundee, Scotland, and the Scottish-American Mortgage Company, of Edinburgh, Scot- 1 land, companies having each $5,000,000 cap- ital and operating heretofore almost excluqivtpIv in the Northwest, to commence one- rations in South Carolina, under the recent 1 State law enabling loans to be made at 10 1 per cent, i nterest a year. These companies expect to make loans on first mortgages of land for terms of five years at 10 per cent, interest, and as they do not desire in any event to become proprietors of the land, nor to cripple the planters, they 1 will limit their advances to one-third the cash value of the property pledged. This 1 is a wise policy, for while it will furnish all needed relief to the planter, he will not be 1 tempted to run the risk, by mortgaging it too heavily, oi losing his plantation. What 1 these companies desire is safe investments at a fair rate of interest, for as long a period as possible, and South Carolinians, therefore, need not fear that the lands of the State will 1 be g- bled up by foreign capitalists. Half a dozen companies like these have been for years doing a large business in the States and Territories of the Northwest and in Canada, and the advantages of the system have been shown to be great.

The farmer has obtained money for long terms at rates which would not be afforded by local lend- ers and has thriven accordingly. no fV? A LUi. til uuiuco nig i for South Carolina of these companies, with I a large amount in bank to draw from, will immediately begin making loans'. If the loans are satisfactory large sums will be advanced to planters. Besides this arrangement, Col.

Palmer ac- 1 complished while in London another pur- in organizing a new com- pany expressly for Southern business. This organization, the Southern States Mortgage Company, limited, was perfected and the ftrst meeting of the directors held before Col. Palmer left London. Its plan is the same as that of the other companies named and its capital is $5,000,000. It was design- 1 ed to take the charter of the Southern Land Loan Association granted at the last session of the Legislature, but that question is not yet decided, and it will probably not com- mence operations for a month or two.

Of i this association there are six British directors and four directors citizens of the State, Gov. II. S. Thompson, Col. A.

P. Butler, Col. John B. Palmer and Capt. W.

B. Stanley. Col. Palmer is the general mana- 1 ger in America, Col. James H.

Rion, of 1 Winnsboro, general counsel, and Col. John B. Abney, of Columbia, local counsel. The correspondent concludes that we are in a 1 fair way to have a plenty of "British gold" in South Carolina before long, and it will be obtained, one can be certain, at far less cost to the planter than crop liens at 50 per cent. a year.

1 IMPORTANT JUDICIAL MANDATE. On Thursday last Judge Bond addressed I the following note to the Clerk of the United States Circuit Court at Charleston, in refer- enee to the arbitrary arrests of citizens of this State on frivolous charges. This note is the result of an informal talk between Col. John C. Haskell, who represents de- fendants in some of the political cases now pending, District-Attorney Melton and i Judges Bond and Bryan.

The letter will be communicated by the clerk to the United States commissioners throughout the State 1 Charleston, S. April 5,188.3. James E. Hagood, Clerk United States Circuit Court, Charleston, S. Clerk: It has been brought to the attention (c of the Court that in several instances in ca- ses of misdemeanor the United States Commissioners have issued warrants of arrest upon affidavits made upon information and 1 oeiiei merely wunuui iui) iu nit- sources of the affiant's information or the grounds of his belief, under the impression that the Commissioner had no right to make such inquiry.

No warrant of arrest or seiz- ure for any offence against the laws of the United States upon the mere belief or susni- rj cion of any person should be issued. The Court desires that you inform the Commis- sioners that it is not only their prerogative but their duty to examine into the sources of affiant's information and the grounds of his belief. If other proof is at hand or ac- cessible it should be had and examined. The issuing of warrants of arrestand seizure is not a mere ministerial act but a judicial function, and should not be done until the Commissioner's judgment is satisfied there is probable cause. And the Court desires the Commissioners also to know that for the safety and protection of the community and i the orderly conduct of judicial proceedings, i all process issued by them, except under ex-; traordinary circumstances, ought to be serv-: ed by the Marshal of the United States or his Deputies.

Hugh L. Bond, Circuit Judge. This letter, which is tantamount to an or- Uer of Court, says the News and Courier, will afford a measure of protection to the perse-' 1 cuted citizensof South Carolina at this when hundreds of innocent men are being dragged from their homes on warrants based a on affidavits made on information and belief )y pliant hirelings who have never even in the counties where the offences are illeged to have been committed. If this: could have been obtained two months tgo many of our citizens would have esaped the indignities and inconvenience to vhich they have been subjected without the ihadow of justification or excuse. The last lentence of the letter puts a stop to the out ageous practice among the United States lommissioners in this State of serving warants upon parties to be arrested by persons vho have no authority whatever to perform hat duty.

A Whether Brewster's pan, Snyder, who is cnown among his Pennsylvania neighbors is "Affidavit Billy," is blessed with a soul ve are unable to say. But we have evidence an official kind that he possesses a stomich, and a capacious one at that. In leaving Philadelphia for South Carolina, with a jood retainer in his pocket for work to be lone in the so-called "Election cases," he --1 il. ilippneu Uie inner niiiu wini uie luuuwing stock of provisions, as reported in the now before the First Comptroller of he Treasury 2. Dinner at the (Sirard House $1 50 Jan 2.

Supper at the tJirard House 1 50 Jan 2. Late supper at Hroad street station before taking train for Charleston 1 50 The voracious appetite of the Assistant District Attorney has furnished a subject for nuch humorous comment by a portion of northern press. The Philadelphia Record has an amusing article on His gastrolomic and legaf performance from which extract the following passages Those who object to Snyder's bill do not into sufficient consideration the nature )f the service required of him in South Carolina and the lact that this service retires a strong stomach for its effective performance. lie is sent to South Carolina to vrestle with the election lavs of that State ind to aid in the prosecution of persons accused of obstructing the freedom of the balot. In the course of Snyder's inquiry into lie operation of South Carolina's Eight-box Ballot act he had been obliged to examine lundreds of colored witnesses, who related manner in which they were deprived of suffrage by putting their tickets in the vrong box, through ignorance of the slight iccomplishment of reading.

For sucn a ask Snyder did well to strengthen the inler man with frequent dinners and suppers before approaching the scene of action. By atest account from Charleston the Eightiox ballot law has been too much for him, lot withstanding the vigor of his attack. If Snyder kept up this rate from Philadelphia Charleston his tour was in the nature of if a devastating march, and his next will have an extraordinary gas ronomic interest. If it permissible or him to forage upon the enemy among vhorn he is sent there might not be so much ibjection but his accounts, when audited, ire paid out of the contingent fund of the Department of Justice. ELECTIONS LAST WEEK? The election for Rhode Isand, 011 Tuesday of last week, resulted in he choice of Bourne, Republican, by a najority of 2,500 over Sprague.

Sprague's rote was lighter than was anticipated. Several municipal elections were also leld last week, resulting generally in favor the Democrats. In the municipal elections on Tuesday he Republicans elected their candidates in tastoria, Lebanon, Van Wert, Galion and Ohio. A divided ticket was electid at Mansfield, Pomeroy, Newark and Vkron. The Democrats elect their entire icket at Chillicothe and Findlay, and tenia elects a Democratic city solictor.

John H. Farley, Democrat, was elected nayor of Cleveland by probably not less han 3,000 majority over George W. Gardler, Republican. The entire Democratic ity ticket is believed to be elected, and the Democrats have control of the next council. The Democrats elect James McConville KiowheiiVilKr.

The Iiopuhlirnuis; fleet the remainder of the city ticket. Returns from 17 out of 26 precincts of Jolumbus, give an estimated majority for A'alcott, of about 400. The balance the Republican ticket is also probably dected. An election was held in Michigan for two supreme Court Judges and two Regents of he.State University. The Democrats and Ireen backers united on a fusion ticket, lividing the candidates equally between hem.

They elected their entire ticket? Judges and both regents of the In Detroit the election for six "Rnorrl rncililtpil in lie election of the straight Democratic tickit by majorities ranging from 100 to 800. The Democrats in East Saginaw elected heir Mayor and five out of eight Aldernen. John L. Wessels, Republican, was sleeted mayor of Bridgeport, Conn. The Republicans also electecl the city clerk and majority of the town officers.

The elected the city and town treasurer md collector. The citizens' ticket, nominated by the Republicans in Hartford, was elected over he regular Democratic ticket. The aldernen will be 10 Republicans to 0 Democrats, tnd council 18 Republicans to 14 Democrats. The Republicans made up a union ticket or city officers, renominating the present Democrats and two Republics. The Democratic caucus refused to upport the two Republican officials, but hey were elected.

The city election in Jacksonville, relulted in a straight Democratic victory by a najority of The election in Fernandila passed off quietly. There were two in the Republican. Holey, inti-custom house, was elected mayor. Kely and Hoyt, on the citizens' ticket, were ilected aldermen. The indications are that the whole ticket and four, or perhaps five, out of ieven Councilmen are elected in Evansville, The principal issue was the reluction of interest on the city bonds to 4 )ercent.

It was proposed and supported )y the Democrats. The Republicans in Keokuk, elected leorge D. Rand mayor, by 465 majority; Marshall, assessor, and five out of six counilmen. The Democrats elected their reorder and one alderman. Unofficial returns from all one pre in Cincinnati show that the Democrats lave elected the Mayor, two Judges of the Superior Court, a member of the board of Juolic Works, Treasurer, City Solicitor, Police Court Judge and three members of the School Hoard by majorities ranging from 01) to 4,200.

The Republicans elect the, 'omptroller, Prosecuting Attorney, Police L'ourt Judge, Director of the City Infirmary, kVharfmaster and two members of the Board Education by majorities ranging from 500 to 2,000. The Democrats made a clean sweep of the rity tickets and Common Council in Dayon, Ohio. The school board is Republican tbree majority. The election in Dubuque, Iowa, in the success of the entire Democratic icket. Fred.

O'Donnell's majority for will be 1,005. Another Hotel fexas, had a hotel horror last Friday night, i is thought that an explosion of gunpow-1 ler in a store on the ground floor blew out1 inn iirollu nn ncinir tlioontirP blll'lflinfr fall, the ruins at once taking fire. There verc many inmates in the hotel at the time, whom nine were either killed outright; ir burned to death in the ruins. Three per- ons were fatally injured, and twelve slight- injured. A Dr.

Turner lay between two imbers until one of them burned in two, bus releasing him, and one man to escape icing burned by the flames cut his throat. The Proposed Extra 1 all for an extra session of the legislature to elievO the political prisoners and provide or their defence becomes decidedly absurd i chen we consider that the necessary approbation would be probably three thousand and the expense of making it ten housand. That should be enough, but here are other stronger reasons against the I roposed extrasession. The question would tot be worth discussing except for the fact hat events of late years in this State have aused doubts whether there is any depth i foolishness to which we will not descend, Greenville News. LOCAL AFFAIRS.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Geo. W. 8. Hart, Mary J.

Carothers, Executrix, and J. J.Miller, Jos. F. Notice. J.

M. Adams-Wooden Ware? Glass Ware, Ac. Withers Groceries. May A all Wnom it May Concern? Drugs. M.

Forget to Examine. Latta Reapers? By the Potatoes? A Bargain. Herndon T. M. Chatting.

Hunter it Display. H. F. Millinery. Jos.

F. Wallace, C. C. Sale. MEDICAL CARD.

We direct attention to the card of W. G. White, M. a recent graduate in medicine, who has located in Yorkville for the practice of his profession. Dr.

White is a very deserving young gentleman, of fine ability and high moral character, and will deserve the success which we know his talents will merit. C. L. RAILROAD EXTENSION. Col.

A. C. Haskell, President of C. A. Railroad Company, the lessees of the Chester and Lenoir Railroad, is now in New York for the purpose of buying iron for extending the track of the road on from Maydon.

its present terminus, towards Lenoir. There axe now ready nearly enough cross-ties for the entire length of the new portion of the line, and the work of track laying will probably begin at an early day. CHURCH NOTICES. Associate Reformed R. Lathan, Pastor.

Services at 10.1 o'clock A. M. Methodist R. P. Franks, Pastor.

Services at King's Mountain Chapel in the forenoon and in the church in Yorkville at night. T. R. English, Pastor. The session of Bethel Presbytery will commence in this church at 7.30 P.

M. tomorrow. The opening sermon will be preached by Rev. L. R.

McCormick, the retiring Moderator. Preaching at 101 A. and 7-1 P. on Sunday. The sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be administered immediately after the morning service.

FREAK OF LIGHTNING. During the prevalence of the storm last Friday night, lightning struck a large tree in the yard of J. Nat. Thomasson's residence, about miles north-east of town. The tree was shivered, and slight damage done to the building.

Mr. Thomasson was lying atthe point of death, with pneumonia, at the time, and several of his neighbors were at the house. None of the inmates were affected by the shock except one young man, Mr. Hogue, who had his eye-brows singed by the subtle fluid. Mr.

Thomasson died on Saturday. He was aged about 49 years. He leaves a wife and seven daughters. On account of bodily affliction his wife has been unable to walk for twenty-three years. DEATH OF A GOOI) MAN.

We regret to learn of the. death of Mr. Lemuel father of Mrs. A. W.

Ingold, of this place, which occurred from paralysis at his residence in Randolph county, N. on the 6th instant. At the time of his death Mr. Liueberry wsurfn the 77th year of his age. He was the most substantial citizens of his county, enjoying the fullest confidence of hie fellow-men and neighbors.

In early nuumood he connected himself with the Methodist Protestant Church, and livfcd a lHc of uprightness and piety, his Christum character and pious example exerting'a wholesome influence in his community. He was ever active in the promotion of church and educational interests, and was a man of liberal views in all that pertained to the material progress and prosperity of his county and State. A kind neighbor, liberal in his dealings, charitable in disposition, his death will be a loss to his community. NEWSPAPER CHANGES. We learn that our sprightly contemporary, the Orwrtvimi Gazette, has been purchased by Mr.

J. E. Page, who will continue the publication of the paper as editor mifl proprietor. Under the administratym of Mr. G.

W. Chalk, the founder of and the a. i more reeeiu euiiunai ujnyoi ui Tipton, the Gazette bright, newsy sliect. In the retiremfenjrof Mr. Chalk from the field of journalism ive wish him abundant prosperity in any future pursuit, and under its new management we wish the Gazette continued success.

At a public sale of the Lincolnton Times material, last week, the property was purchased by W. T. Massev, who, we learn, will associate with him in the publication of the paper, Mr. John C. Tipton, late editor of the Gastonia Gazette.

As editor of the Gaeztte Mr. Tipton displayed considerable newspaper talent, and in 'the conduct of his new enterprise we can safely say that he will give Lincoln county a creditable sheet. CHARLOTTE JOURNAL-OBSERVER. The consolidation of the two Charlotte dailies, the Observer and the Journal, has already been announced. In this case the older paper was absorbed by the younger, and the consolidated journal, under its present management, is a decided improvement on both papers when they were published eemnmtfd flip prl i tnrin 1 staff nsnnnnnnced in the Journal-Observer, consists of A.

M. Waddell, editor-in-chief, P. F. Duffy and "Wade PI. Harris.

Mr. Waddell is an able and experienced editor, having conducted the Wilmington Herakl with signal ability for some years previous to tlje war, and laying down his pen for the invord when the struggle came on. Since the war he has represented Wilmington district in Congress for one or Mr. Dutfy is likewise an experienced newspaper man, having been connected with the North Carolina press sinceJr870, for the last three or four years as associate editor of the Observer, with which paper he was connected at the time of the consolidation. Mr.

Harris, who more specially has charge of the local department, is a young gentleman of fine attainments and superior business qualifications. He is a native of York county, "true and to the manner born," in which county his parents now reside, though young Harris, after preparing himself for the bar located in Charlotte for the practice of his profession. He found, however that newspaper work is more congenial to his taste, and admirably does he discharge the duties devolving upon him in tho position of local editor. The Journal-Observer contains the latest telegraphic reports and reaches Yorkville eight hours in advance of any other daily. It also reaches points on the AirLine Railroad as far west as Greenville in advance of any of its competitors.

The terms of the daily are $7 per year, $3.75 for six months, $2 for three months. THE DRY GOODS TRADE. We referred last week to the trade outlook in Yorkville this Spring, taking occasion to call the attention of our readers to the magnificent display of our dry goods stores, each of which has a finer and larger stock than it ever carried before. A feature of several of our dry goods houses this spring is the addition of a millinery and a dress-making department in connection with their departments in charge of practical and accomplished ladies in their respective professions. We risk Horning in suyiug unit isiung uiivville this season will find more attractive millinery goods than is exhibited in any town in the State outside the cities of Charleston and Columbia.

Any taste in this line can be suited, and any style of goods, from the finest to the cheapest qualities, furnished. This is a question which deeply concerns our lady readers, and in this connection we copy from a fashion journal the following notes relative to the pre- vailing styles: New hats and bonnets are not as large as for several seasons. Some of the round hats not included in this rule are the sombrero, being the counterpart of the wide brimmed hat worn in the Southern States and Mexico, the genuine Gainsborough and Spanish bull fighter's hat, which has a large, round brim turned up on the edge; fancy straws, fine Tuscans, Leghorns and Panamas are seen in the handsomest hats. Two straws are sometimes seen in the same hat. Basket straws and rough-and-readys are prepared for knock-around" hats.

The 1 shapes of bonnets include small and medium pokes, the Langtry, a close-fitting capote, small bonnets bent up to a point in front and a dozen others. Velvet, china, crape, soft large red silks, black, white and colored lace and linen bunting are used for entire bonnets and hats and for trimmings. The linen bonnets are very pretty and entirely new. They are shirred over the close frames and trimmed with linen ribbon edged with gold. Flowers are lavished upon most bonnets, and are not only of muslin but velvet, silk and satin.

Leaves, rosettes, large bunches of ribbon ends, cut in points and made into ruehings, pompons or bows, are among the most novel ana becoming trimmings. Lace in changeable hues, black and white with small rosettes fastened at intervals through the pattern, are placed on in full plaited ruchmgs or cover the brim flatly. Aigrettes, ostrich tips and plumes, silk, feather and tinsel pompons are among the trimmings. Strings are.of one-inch velvet and Ottoman silk ribbon, two and three pairs being worn, each of a color used in the nonnet and trimmings. Colored straws of all kinds are seen.

The colors are the same as in dress goods, yellows of the orange class prevailing, from the brilliant color in the plumage of the Baltimore oriole to the dull tint that merges into a golden brown dull blues and reds of the terra cotta and strawberry tints under new names, yellowish and reddish browns, olives and a new and brilliant scarlet are prevailing tints. Among the new hats is a little capote of 1 fit- C-M 1 linen, wiin mil pinning 01 uiee annum wc face, peach blossom pompons and a little gold comb hold the folds at the back. Gilt edged linen and peach blossom narrow strings finish this little ''Flora." A capote of black lace is shirred from the centre of the crown to the brim over thick gold wire. Pointed ends of brilliant red ribbon form the trimming of the pointed front, and a pompon of the same is placed on one side near the top of the outside. satin and black velvet strings.

On a poke bonnet of rather large size, known as the Hernnani, is a large bunch of ribbon ends of golden brown velvet ribbon and a brilliant orange color called Patti yellow in Ottoman ribbon. An aigrett of the two colors, with a bunch of brilliant tips and a long plume of brown finish the outside. This is faced with brown velvet inside the brim, while the outside is covered with a changeable brown and gold Dull red velvet is used as a face trimming for a King Charles hat. Outside are handsome black plumes. The Spanish or bull fighter's hat, worn by both ladies and gentlemen in Spain, is seen in heliotrope and blue velvet mingled with ostrich tips and plumes of the same colors.

A black straw resembling small rosettes in Langtry shape, has a wreath of dull electric blue pansies and black and blue velvet rolled around the crown, and has four pair of strings. A little Panama is simply trimmed with white mull and feather pompons. Ktrnw bonnets of nil kinds nre trimmed with large sprays and wreaths of flowers. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Oliver Watson, of Lancaster county, while cleaning a pistol one day last week, was accidentally snot in the leg.

A bald eagle, measuring over five feet from tip to tip of his wings, was killed in Spartanburg county last week. The resignation of Iiev. G. A. Trenholm as pastor of Purity Presbyterian Church in Chester has been accepted.

Air. Guerry, the artist, has painted a life-size portrait of the late Gen. M. T. Gary, which he will present to the State.

B. Pressley Barron, a prominent lawyer of Clarendon county, is confined to his home by paralysis. county returns $6,934,330 worth of real and personal property including 600,490 acres of land worth and pays on 4,192 polls. Mrs. Chapin has organized a temperance lodge 145 strong among the whites, and 140 strong among the blacks of Allendale, Bamwell county.

The Pickens Sentinel says that nearly all the citizens of that county who emigrated West last fall have returned to their native homes, wiser if not richer by their experience. A number of people in the Raley's mill section, Kershaw county, are still opposed to the stock law and threaten vengeance against any one who interferes with the liberty of their stock. A man named David A. prietor of a livery stable at Central, in Pickens county, was thrown from a wagon, while the team was running away, oil Wednesday of last week and instantly killed. James Coleman, colored, who killed a colored woman 011 the college campus in Columbia last fall, was convicted in the Sessions Court of Richland last week, and sentenced by Judge Hudson to be hanged on the 11th of next month.

Maj. T. W. Woodward, of Fairfield, has accepted the invitation of the executive committee of the Survivors' Association of the Sixth Regiment to deliver the customary oration at the next reunion, to be held at Richburg in August next. The question as to the best means of getting the public roads properly worked is now receiving a good deal of attention all over the State.

The grand jurors of various counties have recommended, in recent presentments, that the roads be worked by a system of taxation. A11 effort is being made by certain parties in Orangeburg county to get the Governor to pardon the men convicted in that county about a year ago and sent to the penitentiary for five years for whipping a colored man for voting the Democratic ticket. A negro named Frank Johnson, an escaped convict from the South Carolina penitentiary, was arrested in Augusta, last Friday night. He was sentenced for ten years, for larceny, and escaped five years ago, since which time he has been living continuously in Augusta. The machinery of the Pelzer cotton mill, in Greenville county, was put in operation for the first time last week.

Work was commenced on the mill in 1881, and everything pertai ning to buildings and mach i nery is of the most approved kind. The capital stock of the company is $500,000, the most of which is held in Charleston. J. D. Montgomery, supervisor of registration far Marion county, has been bound over for trial in the U.

S. District Court, charged with registering voters not entitled to registration, and for entering names on certificates different from what he did on his books. Capt. 13. 13.

McWhite and Mr. 13. II. Myers for conspiracy, and James Corry for voting underage, were also bound over last week. In Charleston, last Friday, United States Commissioner Gayer dismissed, for want of olinvmw oil flin nlnnfioii I Iproui LU SUDUUll lite uaa HIV cases brought before him from Williamsburg county.

There were seven of these prisoners, all Democrats, and it seems that the most serious feature of the charge against them was that they "voted at places where they were not entitled to vote." In the examination before the commissioner the fact was developed that Republicans and Greenbackers of Williamsburg county were liable to the same charge, and the cases were dropped. Near Easley, in Pickens county, on Wednesday of last week, while a party of hands were working the highway, William Wood, an energetic industrious citizen, was killed by the falling of a tree upon him. Mr. Wood was assisting in cutting the tree down, when it fell and lodged in another, The falling tree, it is said, broke in two and part of it fell upon Mr. Wood, striking nim on the head and killing him almost in! stantly.

Mr. Wood was a voung man and leaves a wne una cimu. xit? wxki from road duty, but volunteered liis services. A tramp attempted to shoot Maj. Thomas W.

Woodward, of Fairfield county, last week but was disarmed before he could accomplish his purpose after a tough struggle. Maj. Woodward charged the tramo with shooting and wounding a favorite clog belonging to the Major, which gave rise to the altercation. According to the account of the affair as published in the Winnsboro JYews, only the Major's coolness saved him from great bodily harm. lie escaped uninjured, however, and secured the tramp's pistol besides.

Columbia Register: About 7 o'clock last Thursday morning two white men named J. B. Oliver and J. R. Williamson, between whom a quarrel had been in progress for several days, met on the plantation of Captain John H.

Ivinsler in the upper part of Richland, and Williamson was shot by Oliver in the breast and face with a shot gun and died from the wounds soon after. Oliver surrendered himself at once to Captain Ivinsler, who is a Trial Justice, and was by him committed to jail where he is now confined. The Coroner held an inquest on the following day. and the verdict of the jury was simply that the deceased had been killed by Oliver. The accused will make application on a writ of habeas corpus for bail.

NORTH CAROLINA NEWS. Mrs. Ella K. Trader; who spent $100,000 of her own money in aiding the wounded soldiers during the war, now lives in poverty at Asheville. Rutherfordton Banner publishes the death of John Lewis of that county, an eccentric individual, aged 88 years.

In his younger days he was a stage driver, and in 1830 he carried the mail between Rutherfordton and Yorkville. In Charlotte on Friday morning Mr. Frederick Severs, a native of Charleston, but for many years a resident of Charlotte, while under the influence of mental i--i- iii liuil, UJUK ins own me uy Liuuiig inn imuai from ear to ear. The State Board of Agriculture of North Carolina has decided to make a full display of State products at the fair of the New England Mechanics' Institute at Boston in September next. An ample appropriation will be made to secure an admirable display.

A boiler attached to an engine of 75 horse power exploded in Newberne on Thursday, killing two men, and wounding two others. Half the building to which the engine was attached was demolished, and a dwelling house, one hundred yards distant, was destroyed. The car shed of the Carolina Central Railroad at the Lincolnton depot in Charlotte, together with a large brick building used as a tool house, was totally consumed by tire Saturday morning between 1 and 2 o'clock. The fire originated in the cupola of the shed, which was struck by lightning during a storm that occurred just before the blaze was first seen. The faithful hounds which have lain before the jail door at Plymouth, for several months have at last been removed by the release of their masters, two negroes convicted over a year ago of rioting and sent to prison for two years.

The fidelity of the dogs and the good conduct of the prisoners so w'orked upon the sympathies of the citizens of the town that they petitioned Governor Jarvis for the pardon of the two men. The prayer was granted last week, and the dogs again rejoice in the possession of their masters. For the Yorkville Enquirer. MUNICIPAL ELECTION AT BLACK'S. Editok of the Enquirer I see, from your issue of the 29th ultimo, that your correspondent at this town had little to say, and that little only about the municipal election held in this place on the 2Gth, in which he speaks of the "large majority in favor of license;" "the issue having been made square: License or no license." In correction, or at least modification of these broad assertions, I wish to say to the people how this "large majority" was obtained, and then leave them to judge whether or not the issue was made "square," as so complacently stated by your corres ponclent.

In the first place, I wish to state what the voting strength of this place is. The full strength, as nearly as I can ascertain, it, is 58 at municipal election time, but at tax-paying and street-working times considerably less. At the recent election, the vote stood: for license, 33; against license, not voting at all, but supposed to be against the sale of whisky in our town. Of the 33 voters who gave this "large majority" for license, 17 were colored pitizens, leaving only 16 white votes cast for license; and of that number there were 6 who had not been living in the place twelve months; therefore, only 10 white citizens voted for the eulc of liquor at- Bluek's. On the other side were 17 good citizens, most of them property holders, who votecl to free the people of this place from the accursed traffic.

More: If we include the 8 not voting, we would have 25 voters opposed to the licensing of barrooms in our town. Saying nothing about statements made by the license this election was not a test of license, or no license, but simply to set off some parties from the lead, and various other manipulations used in connection with the getting up of this "large majority," it will be seen that it dwindles clown considerably. Citizen. MERE-MENTION. Blue Horse, a Dakota Indian, writes to the President asking for a glass eye to replace one which he had knocked out while in the menial employment or cutting woou for his wife.

The English newspapers accuse the Fenians of sending linen infected with small pox through the mails. Ingram and Green, two murderers were lynched by a mob Tuesday night at Hastings, Nebraska. Ex-Senator Allen G. Thurman fell and broke his left arm at Columbus on Tuesday. The time-honored scarlet uniform of the English army is to be abandoned, and gray will be used, hereafter, in all active service.

Col. Forsythe, in command of the troops in pursuit of the marauding Indians in New Mexico, has lost the trail. The Indians are said to have killed 52 people before crossing the line into Arizona. Ex-Surgeon General Barnes, one of Garfield's physicians, died of Bright's disease, in Washington last Thursday. A St.

Petersburg, Russia, dispatch states that 50,000 men will be present at the coronation of the Czar, as a guard of protection. They are to be fully armed and move around as a sort of special police among the crowd. Forty per cent, of the population of Richmond, is colored. The cotton mills of the South give employment to about 400,000 people. It is computed that the forests of Texas will supply the whole country with timber for one hundred years.

A Washington dispatch of Tuesday says that Richard Crowley, of New York, has resigned his position as special assistant counsel for the United States in the prosecution of the alleged election fraud cases in South Carolina." The trial of the Phoenix Park assassins was begun in Dublin last Monday. 13isi xk.ss an appearance of general prosperity in business circles the failures for the first quarter of the present year show a formidable increase over those of 1882 and 1881, both in regard to numbers and amounts involved. The total number of failures was 3,180, an inofnoco (tfl nor cpnt nwf thn samo riod in 1881 and 49 per cent, over 1882. Ilie total liabilities foot up $42,235,535, an increase of 42 per cent, over last year. The assets are reported at $23,603,828, an increase of 55 per cent, over 1882.

The average liabilities for each failure amount to the average assets, $7,542. The ratio of total assets to total liabilities is 56.2 per cent. The lowest average liabilities to each failure was $7,912, in the Pacific States; the highest, $20,701, in the middle States. The mercantile agencies which have compiled the above statistics claim that the increased number of failures was a simple cleaning out of a lot of crippled firms which have been hanging by the eyelids for a long time. Practical Results of a Carp On the 29th of April, three years W.

Woocl placed 200 young carp in lus two ponds near this city, the fish being from three-fourths of an inch to an inch long, and of the "scale carp" variety. Yesterday the ponds were drawn off and 84 full grown carp found, averaging five pounds in weight, the largest being 25 inches long and weighing six and a half pounds, while the smallest weighed four pounds. The fish will be transferred to a spawning pond and will spawn in two weeks, after which the sunnlv of vnnnf? earn will be be practically unlimited. Mr. Wood has declined an offer of $2o for a single pair of his old fish, and is preparing to ftfrnish carp on an extensive scale, having large and carefully arranged ponds.

He will have a tank wagon so that fish can be brought here to the market alive and killed in the presence of Newss Saturday..