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fwaps ml <fad$. ? The Bishop of Raphoe, county Donegal, Ireland, writes a letter saying that the only chance the destitute people nave to main-tain life is through charity. He says the polity of the Bfcitish Government is evidently one of extermination. ? On the seventeenth year theory of high water and cholera, some St. Louis people are apprehensive for this spring. They had cholera in 1849 and 1866, the epidemic in each case being preceded by unusually high water in the Mississippi. ? The cause of the woman suffragists makes slow progress. The Massachusetts Legislature has rejected the bill granting women the right to vote at municipal elections by a vote of 127 to 60, a much larger majority ,against it than in all former years. ? The business failures of the week ending last iYiday, as reported to R. G. Dun ACo.'s Mercantile Agency, number 252, against 272 last week: New England 21, Middle States 40, Western 80, Southern 57, Pacific Coast and Territories 17, Canada and Provinces 27, New York City and Brooklyn 10. ? It is said that Senator Edmunds will resign the Presidency of the Senate next December in favor of Senator Anthony of Rhode Island, he having accepted the position with that understanding. The Vermont Senator prefers to remain on the floor where he can be of more benefit to his party. ?A bill which has been introduced in the New York Assembly to preserve the purity of elections makes it actual felony to receive or pay money for votes; it fines and imprisons offenders and deprives them of the right to vote or hold office for a term of years. ? New Orleans is fast becoming the great grain depot of the country. As an evidence of this, a steamer recently left St. Louis for that city with six barges in tow, loaded with 279,000 bushels of grain?53,000 wheat and 226,000 corn.. Since the opening of navigation 712,000 bushels of grain have been shipped from St. Louis in barges alone. ? Col. Harry Gilmor, the noted Confederate scout and guerrilla, who during the war was conspicuous for his pluck ana bravery in various cavalry expeditions under Mosby's command, died in Baltimore, on the evening of the 4th instant, from a cancerous affection with which he had been suffering for several weeks, in the forty-sixth year of his age. ? The first snake story of the season comes from Salisbury, N. Y., and is to the following purport: A colored girl of that locality who had been jilted by ner lover, killed a snake, ground it up and made a cake of it, which she gave her lover to eat. The snake eggs in his stomach hatched, and in a severe fit of coughing a few days ago he threw up a snake twelve inches long. ? Twenty years ago an old man named Kerce and his son were lynched in Worth f\ CLn noffla otoalinff ThprA hfl<3 VAJUlll/Ji') ua.j lvi vuvviv ?.*?w nover been a trial of his murderers, because as each term of the Court rolled around for an investigation of the case the court house of that county with all its records have been burnt. At this term of the Superior Court of that county seventeen men of good standing are to be tried for the lynching. ? The total discharge of the Mississippi during the flood of 1882, was 2,200,000 cubic feet per second; and it was then estimated tluxt the Atchalalaya carried off one-sixth of the volume of the river. This year the Atchafalayais discharging at the rate of 600,000 cubic feet per second, equivalent to 30 per cent., or nearly one-third of the volume of the Mississippi, having more than doubled its overflow since last year. Here is a danger that is threatening and immediate. ? Miss Kate Kane, of Milwaukee, appeared as attorney for the defendant in a recent murder trial in that city, and conducted her case very creditably . Her client was a colored man, and had fatally wounded another colored man in an altercation, which leads the Boston Traveler, no doubt a woman suffragist organ, to remark : "The spectacle of a disfranchised white woman conducting the legal defense of an enfranchised colored man, is a curious phase in American civilization." ? About this season of the year many people are asking what it is that determines the date of Easter. The answer is the moon of March, which Tennyson calls "the roaring moon of daffodills." The old rule is that Easter shall fall on the Sunday after the full moon which comes after the vernal equinox. That brings Easter this year on the zoth of March. In 1818 it fell on the 22nd of March. ? ?l!"'.* nneoiKla Tf Wl'll Tint. ff> I I Hie ctuucsi uaw jA/ooiwiv. .. .. ... .wv v.? upon that day again in this or the following century. ? There is a universal expression of satisfaction in the press of the country, North and South, at tne decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the cases of New York and New Hampshire against Louisiana, to the effect that the Xlth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a suit by a citizen of one State against another State, applies also to a suit brought by a State as assignee of one of its citizens against another State. The Court declares such a proceeding to be a clear evasion of the Constitution. * ? The swindle planned by a Cincinnati showman consisted in advertising for a treasurer for a minstrel show, and getting $500 from a candidate as pretended security. A country grocer was caught by the prospect of making a tour of the country on a salary of $25 a week, with all expenses paid, and he supposed that he was safe against fraud, because a company was ready to actually start out. But the performers were amateurs, lured into the affair at no cost to the manager, who fled with all the money after the first performance. The grocer committed suicide. ? At 3 o'clock last Thursday morning, an eastern train on the Little Bock and Fort Smith Railroad was boarded by four men 2 miles west of Mulberry statiou in Crawford county, and 140 miles from Little Rock. 'Ph/I roViKorc nrclarArl flip n?SSPtlTOfS tothrOW up their hands and began firing their pistols. Conductor John Cain, who was in a rear car, was shot, from the effects of which he died that day, and a train-man wae fa-1 tally wounded. The robbers then rushed for the engine, but before they could reach it engineer Rogers started the train and prevented the robbery. The highwaymen jumped off while the cars were in motion. ? The new revenue act lessens the amount of internal taxes to an estimated amount of forty million dollars, but it does not diminish to the extent of a dollar the cost of coliectlng the remainder. - It was a question with the majority in Congress how to reduce the revenues while retaining the army for collecting them, and they have succeeded in solving the problem very neatly. Statistics from New England collection districts show that the cost of collecting each $100 was as follows last year at the places named: Castine, Me., $198 ; Kennebunk, Me., $445; Saco, Me., $259 : York, Me., $823; Barnsta* JL t?010 . ble, Mass., ?hs ; i^agartown, iuuse., , Nantucket, Mass., $671; Bristol, R. I., $152. ? Atlanta, Ga., seems to have profited greatly by her cotton exposition for 1881. The aggregate capital invested in that city since then is about $1,500,000, employing no fewer than 2,000 operatives and paying annual wages approximating $800,000. And these additions have been varied. A grain elevator and a cotton compress have been built; a spinning company has completed and nearly filled its capacious building with machinery, and is preparing to double its capacity; the great fair building has been purchased by a compauy with a capital of $250,000., and is half filled with machinery; companies have been formed for building apparatus to prepare cotton for the spinner; fertilizer ana other manufactories have been established in and near the city, and a concern has been organized for the manufacture of oleomargarine. ? The negro still has a commercial value in certain emergencies, if we may credit the following Washington dispatch snowing the true inwardness or the game of the whisky men in Congress: It has already been stated in these dispatches that the attempt to seat Mr. Lee. the South Carolina colored man who contested the seat of Mr. Richardson, completely blocked the bonded whisky bill, the shipping bill, and all the other business in the House of Representatives during the last day and night session. In this connection the story is that the agents of the whisky men offered Lee $15,000 to withdraw and iiliow the bonded whisky bill to come to a vote. It is also said that while the House was in a dead lock over the election case, and nothing could be done without unanimous consent, a good many Republicans were willing to abandon the negro contestant for the sake of obtaining consideration for business in which they were more interested. Finally one of them went over to. Mr. Holman of Indiana, who is always on the alert for jobs and never hesitates to object to any bill that looks suspicious, no matter whether its patron be Republican or Democrat, and said to him: "We are ready to allow tne resolution to seat Lee to be laid on the table, so that we can goon with other business." "Oh, you are!" replied Holman. "Let me tell you that shall not be done. The nigger is worth his weight in geldwhere he is now, and there he shall stay until this Congress expires." ?0tMle inquirer. YORKVILLE, S. C. : THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 15,1883. How to Order the Enquirer.?Write the name of the subscriber very plainly, give postoffice, county and State, in full, and send the amount of the subscription by draft or postoffice money order, or enclose the money in a registered letter. Postage.?The Enquirer is delivered free of postage to all subscribers residing in York county, who receive the paper, at post-offices ' within the county; and to all other subscribers the postage is paid by the publisher. Our subscribers, no matter where they receive the paper, are not liable for postage, it being prepaid at the post-office here, without additional charge to the subscriber. Watch the Figures.?The date on the "address-label" shows the time to which the subscription is paid. If subscribers do not wish their papers discontinued, the date must be kept iii advance. Cash.?It must be distinctly understood that our terms for subscriptions, advertising and jobwork, are cash in advance. &35~ Mr. J. L. Simmons is our authorized agent for receiving subscriptions and advertisements in the town of Chester BURIAL OF GOVERNOR STEPHENS. The memorial services in honor of the late Governor Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, began in Atlanta at 10 o'clock last Thursday. The attendance was overwhelming, and not one-twentieth of the people who desired to do so could get into the hall of the house of Representatives, where the exrcises occurred. Many delegations of citizens and military were there from different parts of the State. Speeches were made by Hon. Martin J. Crawford, General Robert Toombs, General Henry R. Jackson, Senator Joseph E. Brown, Colonel C. C. Jones, Attorney General Anderson, Dr. H. V. M. Miller and ex-Governor James M. Smith. ' Large numbers of people continued to arrive during the city. Such crowds were never seen in Atlanta before. All the Streets were packed, and with the population of Atlanta that turned out, there must have been over 75,000 persons on the streets. The memorial services were opened with prayer by Rev. William Adams, of Augusta. Sentor Colquitt introduced the speakers. General Gordon read a series of eulogistic resolutions, after which he spoke in | terms of praise of the public and private life of Mr. Stephens. General Toombs, on j ascending the stand, almost broke down with emotion. He spoke for nearly an hour on the life of Mr. Stephens, and said he would have deserved all honor if he had done no act in his life except to advocate those principles of States rights which he had always held to. In the afternoon tne funeral services took place and were conducted by Rev. John Jones. Dr. Talmage, of Brooklyn, made the closing prayer. The funeral procession was a mile and a half long, and took half an hour to pass a given point. THE ELECTION CASES. The examination of the Fairfield prisoners for alleged violation of the election laws was begun in Columbia on Wednesday of last week, Ex-Chief Justice Willard appearing for the Government, and Messrs. John C. Haskell and H. A. Gaillard for the defendants. The first case called was against Thomas J. Dawkins, Thomas McGill, Jr., A. E. Davis, Andrew Wallace, John M. Kirkland, James Herron, Nicholas Peay, Hayne McMeekin, John W. Lyles, James McMillan and Thos. Aiken, for conspiracy in violating the Revised Statutes, in threatening and intimidating voters. The Government so far has examined only two witnesses, James H. Martin and J. F. Corley, white Greenbackers of Richland county. At the conclusion of the examination of these witnesses, the prosecution asked for a continuance on account of the absence of an important witness. Commissioner Bauskette granted the application, but on the following morning the witness whose testimony was considered of so much importance by the officers of the Government was hunted up by the defendants, and through their counsel they urged Judge Wiliard and District Attorney Melton to proceed with the investigation. This they declined to do, and the cases were continued until the 20th instant. The testimony so far elicited does not seem to connect the parties with the crime of which they are charged. The prosecution, evidently recognizes this fact, and have asked for more time probably with the view of endeavoring to strengthen their case if it can be done before abandoning it altogether. The Winnsboro News says the defendants on trial are all respectable citizensof Fairfield. The result is awaited with more than ordinary interest. A Washington dispatch of Monday, gi vp<* the following as the intentions of the Government towards the people of the State: Early in April the Government will try a large number of cases in South Carolina, of persons charged with offences against the election laws. Several of these cases were tried last year, when District Attorney Melton, of the South Carolina District, was assisted by Mr. Ker, now of the star route prosecution, and Mr. Saunders. In the trial of the new cases, the1?" .rict Attorney is to be assisted by the Hon, Richard Crowley, V/v*.D or*fl All* Qnxrrlar nf Ponncvl. UI i <Ji JV, UUU 1U1> uaj MK,? | v/? ? vauuj vania. The trials are expected to be held before Chief Justice "Waiteand Judge Bond, and as there are nearly UK) of them, it is expected that there will be a long and interesting contest. The affidavits are now being prepared in South Carolina, and Mr. Crowley, who has been recently retained, is familiarizing himself with the case of the government prior to leaving for Charleston. As confirming the above, the Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier telegraphs on Monday night, from that city, as follows: It is reported that a deputation of the subordinates of the United States district attorney will leave Columbia to-morrow for Chester, to make further arrests of Democrats for alleged violations at the hist election of the Revised Statutes. Of course no official information of the raid can be obtained from its originators. It seems to be certain, however, that county after county will be searched in turn for information upon which to base these persecutions of reputable citizens. Synder is still here, and with Willard is confabluating and scheming to further advance the campaign of spite against the Democracy. The conclusion of the correspondent is that the white people of the State may as well make up their minds that they have to undergo another such ordeal as that through which they passed last spring. THE WORLD'S COTTON EXPOSITION. The act recently passed by Congress and signed by the President in regard to the celebration of the "One hundreth anniversary of the production, manufacture and commerce of cotton in the United States" gives to the proposed exposition a national and even an international character. It is enacted that "a World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition be held in 1884 under the joint auspices of the National Cotton Planters' Association of America, and the city where it may be located. The President is empowered to appoint within one year six commissioners upon the recommendation of the Cotton Planters' Association, and seven others upon the recommendation of the majority of subscribers to the enterprise in the city where located, and those thirteen will constitute the board of management; also commissioners from the growers thereof, with functions to be determined by the board previously mentioned. The Cotton Planters' Association will select the city in which the exhibition will be held, and the board of mangement there located will determine the date of opening and closing the exposition and fix upon a schedule of appropriate ceremonies for opening and dedicating it. Commissioners will receive no compensation from the United States treasury, and the Government will not be liable for any expenses attending the exhibition. At the proper time the President will make a proclamation through the Department of State setting forth to foreign governments the nature and conditions of the enterprise, and inviting their participation. There will be prepared at some mint of the United States medals with appropriate emblems and inscriptions commemorative of said World's "Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition." The closing section of the act provides for the importation free of duty of articles designed for exhibition. Mr. Morehead has, it is understood. received assurances from the English and French ministers at Washington that their govermente will take an active part in the exhibition by sending a large representation of their products, and the more so now that the enterprise has been recognized as a national one. THE NEW SENATE. The United States Senate of the Fortyeighth Congress will be composed of thirtysix Democrats, thirty-eight Republicans and Messrs. Mahone and Riddleberger. These two Virginia Repudiators, sometimes denominated Independents, might as well be called Republicans, for no doubt they will always act on party measures with that party, as Mahone has done since he took his seat in the Senate. The parties, therefore, in that body practically stand thirty-six Democrats and forty Republicans. The Democrats lost with the old Congress Messrs. Johnston of Virginia and Grover of Oregon, whose places are taken by Messrs. Riddleberger and Dolph, Republicans. The Republicans lost Mr. Kellogg of Louisiana, whose place will be taken by Mr. Gibson, Democrat. Mr. Davis of Illinois, sometimes called an Independent, is succeeded j by Mr. Culiom, Republican. There remains till June a vacancy in the representation of j New Hampshire, whose Legislature does ! not meet till then. Mr. Rollins' place will then be filled by a Republican, and the above figures are based on that assumption. The new Senators who come into the existing Congress are Bowen of Colorado in place of Chilcott, Colquitt of Georgia in place of Barrow, Cullom of Illinois in place of Davis, Wilson of Iowa in place of McDill, Gibson of Louisiana in place of Kellogg, Palmer of Michigan in place of Ferry, Sabin of Minnesota in place of Windom, Manderson of Nebraska in place of Saunders, Dolph of Oregon in place of Grover, Riddleberger of Virginia in place of Johnston and Kenna of West Virginia in place of Davis. It will be apparent that the Senate is not strengthened by the changes. nAom * T v irwrrno ruoiaii jjla 11 r,iva. Owing to the fact that of recent years nearly all national legislation, no difference what interest it may affect, in order to be passed at all, must be smuggled through in appropriation bills, it is difficult, if not impossible, to keep intelligently posted pending the discussion of any measure in Congress. Newspaper readers knew that the august body, which, happily for the nation, expired by limitation on the 4th instant, had before it the post office appropriation bill, and all were satisfied that if it afforded any stealings and pickings it would pass, no matter what its other provisions might be; but few, we opine, were prepared to learn of the reduction of letter postage, which is one of the provisos of the bill. Exactly what this reduction is cannot be definitely stated just yet. It is hidden far away in the gloomy depths of the aforesaid appropriation bill, and it is divulged only a'little at a time, just as the department officials are able to digest the law. It is known, however, in a general way, that on and after the 1st of next October, letter postage, "on single letters." will be two cents, instead of three. and that the money order system has been materially changed. The change in the money order system will be put in operation as soon as the necessary arrangements are perfected. Proposals will soon be requested for furnishing the new style of money order blanks and postal notes provided for in the bill. The new system will enable persons to send by money order or postal note, sums not exceeding $5 for three cents, whereas it now costs ten. A new two-cent stamp will be adopted for letter postage, several designs for which have already been submitted to the Third Assistant Postmaster General. Neither of the designs has yet been adopted. Beyond the fact that the stamp will contain & picture oi wasnmgton and have the legend "United States Pestage," instead of "U. S. Postage," as at present, nothing has been determined. It is thought, however, that the stamp will be of a brownish color. THE MISSISSIPPI FLOODS. The situation along the Mississippi last Thursday, at which date the water attained its greatest height, is thus described in telegraphic dispatches: At Helena, Arkansas, the river was stationary, with 45 feet 11 inches on the gauge. A decline was not expected ior several uays. Work on the levee was still going forward, and people of the vicinity had confidence in their security. The country below Helena is entirely submerged, the water in many places pouring over the levees back into the river. Reports from Austin, Clarksvllle and Friar's Point are of the most discouraging character. Not a single house in any of those places has escaped the deluge. The weather is clear and calm. The correspondent of the St. Louis GlobeDemocrat wrote from Helena on Thursday as follows: There are not more than two or three spots of ground visible between Memphis and this point. Scores of .the best farms in Arkansas and Mississippi are completely ruined and most of them are abandoned, the owners and laborers having fled to higher ground. In many places cattle are standing in the water, which overflows the platforms, and almost every gin house is filled with colored people. At Harbut's Landing there were eighteen negroes in two boats moored to a tree on the flooded bank; waiting for a steamboat to take them away. There is not a foot of < dry land in forty miles. Skiff loads of col- I ored people, with their household goods, are to be seen at various points, seeking for ground to rest on. At Sterling, colored people, horses and cattle are indiscriminately huddled together in the upper story of the only store. Most of the fences and houses along.tne bank are still intact, though many nave been floated away. At Star Landing dwellings are full of cattle and gin houses full of negroes. It is Erobable that there will be a big rise below ere, as the flow of water from St. Francis River is undiminished. Captain Thorwegan of the steamer Chouteau thinks there is unprecedently high water between Vicksburg and New Orleans on account of the closing of Bonnet Carre crevasse. The bridge and trestle over Cassadas on the Iron Mountain Hoad, one mile West of here, was discovered to be afloat last night from backwater coming from a break in the levee below here. This will cut out Helena from all railroad communication, as railroad men say it will be impossible to get trains out until the water subsides. The situation at Helena on Saturday is thus described: The river has declined half an inch and will probably continue to fall slowly for several days, when a more rapid decline is expected. The levees are still being strengthened and will be made thoroughly uopiirD in +V11C1 vininfir Tbo bonlrumfor still rising in the overflowed districts below. This will continue until the decline in the river is great enough to draw the water back through the crevasses. The most terrific currents, the roar of which can be heard during the still hours of the night, are leading through the country below carrying destruction with them. In Old Town lake region the water is higher than ever before from the same cause. Cabins, fences and the dead carcasses of animals are to be seen floating down the river in great numbers. A Helena dispatch qf-Monday says : There was another decline of an inch last night making a total of 3 inches since the decline set in. The gauge now shows 4(5 feet 8 inches. There is no fall noticeable during the day time, but every morning there is a decline. The weather is clear and springlike. Sufferers by the flood within our borders will be provided for by State aid which cannot come too quickly. There are between ">00 and 700 negro refugees wholly unprovided for, and are powerless to help themselves. The levees around Helena were never more secure. AN UNSATISFACTORY OUTCOME. Bradstreet's New York Journal which steers clear of politics, speaking of the tariff bill of the last Congress says: Tariff legislation at Washington has come to be a discreditable conflict of individual nnrl mrnnrstp interests for sneeinl nHvnntn ges. The present tariff bill is the unsatisfactory outcome of an attempt to reconcile the conflict of* interests so far as to pennit the passages of some sort of a bill to meet the public demand for a reduction of taxation. The amount of reduction effected remains to be seen. No two authorities are agreed upon this point. Some simplification of the tariff is Relieved to have neen effected, and this is particularly welcome. While the present bill is welcomed for the minor benefits conferred, it is not to be thought that the adjustment will prove in any sense a permanent setttlement of the vexed questions at issue. As the appropriations for the ensuing fiscal j'ear have been reduced some $110,000,001, it is fairly certain that the necessity for a further reduction of taxation will be forced upon the Fortyeighth Congress at its first session. It is to be hoped that the policy advocated by Bradstreets' will find favor. This position is in brief as follows: The policy of protection was entered upon in the United States under the plea that its duration would be temporary. Sooner or lacer a distinct reckoning must be nad before the people, unless the popular conflict is warded off by an avowed willingness on the part of manufacturers to submit to a reduction of protective taxes at intervals extending over a period of years. The carrying out of schemes in finance dependent upon future legislation is difficult, but it is believed that the tariff muddle is susceptible of such a solution. This done, the tariff question would be "taken out of politics." In no other way is its removal possible. At present it is the political question for contending parties to battle over. The depressing influence of a prolonged popular contest lmon r\ luioi*-?oco intorflcfo rvf* fhn nnimfnr upuu Hit UUOillUOO llltVA^OVO v/1 wunvx j would be very great. This outcome can, we believe, only be averted by an agreement of those who control the leading industries with the revenue reformers for a gradual reduction of the tariff. Such a policy was promised, in theory, by those who were mainly instrumental in securing the adoption of protection. An imperial government in dealing with protective taxes would at the proper interval frame and put in execution such a scheme of reduction. But with agents of the manufacturers practically in charge of legislation at Washington, the permanent solution indicated is out of the question unless the captains of industry will agree thereto. Failing in that, a popular contest will, perforce, be entered upon, and the danger is that the ultimate outcome will be a violent reduction of protective taxes. From every point of view it is desirable that such a contest be not invited. _ Bishop Northorp's Installation.? The installation of the Rt. Rev. H. Pinckney Norrhrop, as Bishop of Charleston, last .Sunday, was an interesting event. It took place in the Cathedral chapel, which was handsomely and appropriately decorated, a dense crowd of all denominations being present, among them a large number of visiting clrergymen. The services were solemn and impressive. The procession was composed of over fifty persons as follows: 1. The Vicar General of the Diocese, the Verv Rftv. Tb .T. Ouie-lev. and two aeolvtes. 2. Chorister boys, twenty-two in number, bearing baskets of rose leaves, lighted candles and many other insignia. 3. The clergymen of the city and visiting clergymen not engaged as officers of the Mass, attired in cossacks and surplices. 4. Bishop Moore, of St. Augustine, with two attendant clergymen. 5. Bishop Gross, of Savannah, with two attendant clergymen. 7. Bishop Northorp. attired in cope and mitre, and followed by two pages in red and white cossaks and surplices. The mitre worn on this occasion was of yellow silk richly embroidered with gold; the cope was of silver with gold trimmings. After the ceremony of installation, solemn high mass was celebrated, and Bisop Moore, of St. Augustine, delivered a sermon appropriate to the occasion, which was followed by O. bvic f-ndrtross fry Bishop Not till up, In which t while conscious of his owp weakness, he trusted that his elevation to the high and responsible position in the church to which he had been called would result in glory to God and in the salvation of souls. In conclusion he blessed his people and besought them to pray God that he might do his work faithfully and well. Wiggins as a Pkophet.?An Ottawa, ^ i . j-- i- > r i ? . itt: : uiltario, (lispaicn 01 iuoiiua^, any a; >* ig^llls to-day claims that his prophecy has been reported at Halifax, and telegrams he received from all points indicate severe tempests. He says he has always entertained the greatest anxiety for the safety of the people on the shores of the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Mexico. In the former a major tidal wave, of which the minor one 011 our coast was a reflection, must have occurred on the afternoon of the 10th. London time. Hundreds of thousands of lives* perished. He expressed great fears for the safety of the "City of Chester," and characterizes this storm as the greatest that can possibly occur on this planet, and the greatness of its extent is the only hope of safety in any particular quarter. He makes a sly hit at Canadian and United States authorities for not hoisting their storm tignals until the storm was actually beatin? upon the continent. Some people, he said expected an impossible storm yesterday, nut ne had repeatedly said that his object i i making predictions was for the safety of nariners, as no danger could possibly occur on land, except in the vicinity of the places named as being exposed to the tidal wave. But people like to be frightened and 2lung to their own interpretation in preference to his. ? There is a movenent in Texas towards cutting up large fanns into small ones. Several land owners fropose to divide their large plantations intosmall farms and offer them to actual settlor on the installment 1 plan, believing that tuch a course will fill ] up the State with thrifty taxpayers. LOCAL AFFAIRS, i . : NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Dr. J. A.- Glenn?Dental Surgery. i Wanted. Hunter & Gates?Removal. J. R. Lindsay <k Co.?Mr. J. R. Lindsay is now in New'York. " ] Herndon Bros.?Piedmont Wagons. W. C. Latimer?Gone North. J. M. Adams?New Goods?My Stoves Booming?Clocks and Looking Glasses?Garden Seeds?Rockingham Ware. T. M. Dobson?Mr. T. M. Dobson and Mrs. Mol- 1 lie E. Dobson are now in New York. H. F. Adickes?New Goods, New Goods. Withers Adickes?Just Received. COOL WEATHER. There was heavy frost last Monday morning, and ice half an inch thick. The day was bright and clear, but unusually cool for the season. DEATH OF D*. F. JACKSON. Mr. D. Frank Jackson, a brother of Dr. H. G. Jackson of this place, and Col. Andrew Jackson, died at his residence, near Clover, on Friday last, in the 72nd year of his age. CHURCH NOTICES. Methodist Episcopal?Rev. R. P. Franks, Pastor. Services at King's Mountain Chapel in the forenoon; at Yorkville at night. Episcopal?Rev. A. Prentiss. Services at night. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor. There will be no services at this church next Sunday. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. R. Lathan, Pastor. Services at 10.30 A. M. Sunday-school immediately after close of the .service. ALMOST A FlItE. Mr. Joseph. W. Neil, who lives three miles north-west of town, on the King's Mountain road, came near meeting with a serious loss on Wednesday afternoon of last week. While ginning cotton with his portable engine at his own gin-house a spark fell near the gin-house, and tired a lot of cotton stored under the house. Fortuately the direction of the wind carried the flame from the house, and the tire was extinguished, though not before 24 bales were damaged. The loss was slight, though the gin house and contents narrowly escaped. BENEFITS PAID. The late Mr. Oscar P. A. Moltke was a member of Home Relief Lodge, Knights of Honor, of this place, the Knights and Ladies of Honor, of this place, "Home Lodge," No. GO, and the Mutual Aid Society, the last named being a branch organization of the Knights of Honor. By his death his family have received nearly six thousand dollars from these different orders. The fund of $2,000 from the Knights of Honor was constructively received on the 10th of January; but owing to the fact that the Supreme Lodge properly held back the money until a guardian was appointed for the minor children of the deceased, and evidence of such guardianship forwarded, the money was not received here until last Saturday. ItOCK HILL'S COTTON TRADE. A correspondent of the Charlotte Journal gives the following statement of the shipments of cotton from that point the present season: September, 1,105 bales; October, 5,155 bales; November, 3,275bales; December, 2,842 bales; January, G52 bales; February 1,155 bales; and there has also been consumed by the Rock Hill Manufacturing Co., within the same time, 900 bales; making the total receipts, 15,101 bales, with about 2,000 bales still to come in, against 8,066 bales for the same period last year. The same corresponciencient says: .Messrs. Jones & Robertson afe in correspondence with Northern capitalists looking to the sale of their water power at Landsford. This is considered one of the tinest water powers in the State, and is a magnificent field for investment. DEATH OF AN EDITOR. Mr. G. N. B. Evans, for nearly forty years connected with the press of North Carolina, and for more than twenty-five years editor of the Milton Chronicle, died at his home in Milton, on Saturday last, at a venerable age. Mr. Evans was a native of South Carolina, and worked as a journeyman printer in Yorkville fifty years ago. He was the Nestor of the North Carolina press, an independent thinker and fearless writer. In the organization of parties in North Carolina previous to the war, he was an earnest advocate of the measures of the Whig party, under such leaders as the Moreheads, Gilmer, Reed and others. As a satirist he had few equals with the pen,and was the author of the famous letters over the signature of "Jesse Holmes, the Fool-killer," which were written with the aim of correcting the faults and foibles of the day. With these letters dates the first appearance of a popular style of "shooting folly as she flies." At the time of his death he was a member of the State Senate of North Carolina. HUNTER & OATES. i This enterprising nrm muveu mio uieir new store?built by them on their own lot, west of the Court House?last Monday, and : on Monday night, the spacious store room was brilliantly lighted, displaying, not only the elegance of the room, but a corps of busy ( men arranging the goods moved from their j former house and opening and marking new : goods which have remained unpacked for several days, awaiting the completion of the new house. While there is a smaller num- J ber of inferior business houses in Yorkville than any town we know of its size?the J houses generally being substantial, if not al- j together elegant?this house just erected by < Messrs. Hunter & Oates marks an era in the progress of Yorkville, and their enterprise j and energy?not omitting the good taste j they have displayed in its construction and . arrangement?deserve the commendation j and congratulation of all our citizens. The . xtnrp-rnnm is 1111 fW>t hv fl-j, nml ns thfthnilrt- 1 ing from basement to roof was designer! hv \ MT.TTunter?an architectural feat in which 1 he may justly take pride?so was the ar- j rangemept of the store room planned by r him. The house can be entered from the i street by three doors, the middle one, how- < ever, landing you upon an elevator, which c is ready to take you to the second story or lower you to the basement. But as the proprietors vaguely promise to fit up the second c story for a town hall?Yorkville does not f aspire to an opera house?we will not go up i at present, but wait until the next play sea- ? son opens, by which time we trust it will be k ready and sufficiently inviting to induce |! some good companies to visit us. Going t downward, we are soon landed on the floor c of the basement, well lighted and ventilated, t neatly plastered and as inviting as any v store-room on the ground. This is fitted J up in the best style for the grocery de- e partment of their business, and here every j, thing in the family and fancy grocery line g is temptingly displayed. Having gone s through this capacious room, and wishing ? to return above, we can either take the elevator and ascend without exertion, or an easy flight of steps will take us up to the e floor above, landing us near the centre of j< the room. Here we find a "bewilderment" q of dry goods, clothing, notions, Ac., which ^ go to make the stock they will carry on this ~ floor, all of which is is displayed on shelves c. and counters, or packed in drawers, but so gj conveniently arranged that the salesmen ii are at no difficulty in readily producing any d article in stock. Having feasted our eyes J* on the display of goods, we return to the ^ street, anil casting our eye at the well pro- n portioned front, and the massive walls of c< hard brick, we are charmed with the pleas- j? ing combination of beauty, strength and durability. The brick work and plastering were done under the supervision of Mr. A. Cody, the wood work under contract by Mr. George M. Ford, and the painting, upon which so much of the intererior appearance depends, j by Nelson Davies. Where white is not used the work is in imitation of rosewood, maple and mahogony, and not only well are the imitations made, but the tints representing these woods are so well arranged as to preserve perfect harmony and the most pleasing effect; The house is an ornament to our town, and creditable to its enterprising owners. ' For the Yorkvllle Enquirer. SCHOOL AGE. I am frequently asked if children under six years old and those over sixteen, are entitled to the benefits of the Free School Fund? For the information of all concerned I answer this question by saying that the school law of South Carolina specifies no school age. The Constitution of the State provides (Article X, Sec. 4) that "It shall be the duty of the General Assem Dly TO provide ior ine compulsory aueuuance, at either public or private schools, of all children between the ages of six and sixteen years, not physically or mentally disabled, for a term equivalent to twentyfour months at least: Provided, that no law to that effect shall be passed until a system of public schools has been thoroughly and completely organized, and facilities afforded to all the inhabitants of the State for the free education of their children." The law contemplated by the above section of the Constitution has never been enacted. It is my opinion that impliedly, the school age is from six to sixteen, inclusive. Still, I do not think it would be safe in any case, to attempt by law, to exclude children under six years or over sixteen years from the free schools. It. Lathan. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Sixteen Laurens county negroes left Greenville, Tuesday, for Arkansas. ? There are only four inmates in the Lancaster alms house?one white and three colored. ? The Anderson grand jury recommends the building of a more commodious Court House for that county. ? A colored ex-warden of Anderson is now confined in the county jail charged with stealing $200. ? The Rock Hill Herald says that Mr. Thos. D. Falkner, of Fort Mill, has obtained a patent on the spring motor for running a sewing machine, recently invented by him. ? The Chester Bulletin says: "It is rumored that fifteen citizens of Lancaster are soon to be arrested on charge of complicity in the recent riot at that place." ? On Saturday night last the yarn factory of Searles A Dallas, on Little River, in Abbeville county, was destroyed by tire, to geuier witii luitj uiiitro ui uutujn uiiu, <xjuu worth of yarn. No insurance. ? Josh Wardlaw, a prominent negro politician in Abbeville and an active member of the State constabulary force during the Scott regime, died some days ago in the Lunatic Asylum at Columbia. ? Incendiaries attempted to burn and rob the cotton warehouse ot Mr. Jphn O. Hardin at Chester the other night. The fire was extinguished after having damaged the cotton to the extent of $400. ? General James Walker, the well known Washington artist, will paint General M. C. Butler's cavalry fight at Trevillian Station. The picture will De 8x12 feet and will be painted from a Southern standpoint. ?Dr. S. S. Marshall, a citizen of Greenville, was accidentally shot and killed near Greenville, Florida, on Monday of last week while shooting ducks. His remains were brought homo for interment. ? The Spartanburg Herald says that cotton is coming in that market slowly. Low prices deter many from selling, they preferring to hold on to what they have in hopes of a rise in the market. ? The Camden Journal tells of a wild, woolly black woman who is at large in the wilderness of Lynches Creek. She has recently attacked several persons, biting and beating them in a fearful manner. A party has organized to capture her. -Mr. W. B. Cash, son of Col. E B. C. Cash, was in Chester last week, the popular impression of his visit being that he was trying to find out if any fraud was committed in that county in the election for member of Congress last November. ? The consolidation of the general man agement of the Columbia ana Cfreenvnie Railroad and the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, has been fully consummated, and Mr. E. F. Pelot, who was paymaster of the Columbia and Gfeenville Railroad, has been made paymaster of both roads. ? On Wednesday of last week the United States Circuit Court of Greenville adjourned until the first Monday in August next. During the term just ended 10G cases were disposed of. Of these, 40 were found guilty, 17 not guilty, 18 entered pleas of guilty, and 31 were discontinued. About 81 cases were continued. ? Columbia Register: applications have been received from farmers in Georgia and Alabama, for copies of the Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture, the parties declaring that they have more faith in the analysis of fertilizers which it contains than in the work of their own States. It is a high compliment to the fidelity with which the work in this department has been done. The reports are now ready for distribution to any one applying for them. ? At the Lunatic Asylum, last Saturday, telegraphs the Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier, a patient from Edgefield county, named Z. F. Whatley, a sufferer from acute mania, while in a sitting-room with half a dozen other male patients, managed to free his hands from the straps which bound them to his waist. He then tore off the arm of a wooden settee and made a wild ittack on those in the room. He struck a patient, named James A. Barrington, from \Iarlboro' county, in the back of the head, fracturing the base of the skull. He then ittaeked^ffft Cant we II. a keener. nrt/l foil ] ilm. Another keeper ran up and secured Whatley. Barrington died Sunday mornng. Cant-well is not dangerously wounded, rhe facts were not known out of the Asvum until Sunday when an inquest was held >n Barrington's body. The coroner's injuest exonerated the officers of the Asylum rom all blame in the matter. ! t t t ( Injunction* Dissolved.?A correspon- ] lent of the News and Courier writes from jpartanburg, under date of the 8th instant: \ Ifter somewhat elaborate argument in the \ ase against the county commissioners of j. spartanburg and the Greenwood, Laurens i md Spartanburg Railroad, Judge Wither- ( poon has dissolved the temporary injunc- t ion, and there is now nothing in the way $ if an early issuing of the bonds. I learn t hat another of the signers of the petition on \ vhich the injunction was obtained has I withdrawn his name, and only five are left i, 0 bear the brunt of the fight. There seem- c d to be a general expectation that the in- i unction would be dissolved as soon as ar- v ument was heard, and there is therefore no j; urnrise at the result. The case was argued I t Union where Judge Witherspoon is now b lolding Court. p j] A Compliment Spoiled.?Judge With- fi rspoon, while dining at a gentleman's res- t( lence of this place during (.ourt, passed w uite a compliment upon Sheriff Watts. S peaking of the immense tlrong in the pi 'ourt room, the Judge remaked that the pi rder was excellent, considering the dense w rowd. and that Capt. Watts was the best w heriff he had ever seen. This being told h< 1 a group of a half dozen p?rsons, the other I ar ay, Capt. Watts being om of the party a to ystander cruelly remarkol that "perhaps a> is Honor had never seer many sheriffs." Ik m attempt to explain tnd molify the re- m lark made the matter jo better, and the o\ nnpliment to the Captiin was lost in a is at.?Laurenttuif/e Herab. A THE TARRIFF BILL. The sections of the tariff relating to the internal revenue are given in full below. The reductions of special interest are those on tobacco. The conference committee changed the law as it passed the Senate in only three particulars, the most important being the change of date when the reduction of the tobacco tax goes into effect from July 1, 1883, to May 1: Section 1. That the taxes herein specified, imposed by the laws now in force, be, and the same are hereby repealed, as Hereinafter provided, namely: On capital and deposits of banks and bankers and national banking associations, except such taxes as are now due and payable, and on and after the 1st day of July, 1883, the stamp tax cn bank checks, drafts, or orders and vouchers, and the tax on matches, perfumery, medicinal preparations and other articles imposed by Schedule A, following Section 3437 of the Revised Statutes; provided that no drawback shall be allowed upon the articles embraced in said schedule tnat shall be exported on and after the 1st day of July, 1883: provided, further, that on and after May 15,1883, matches may be removed by manufacturers thereof from the place of manufacture to warehouses within the United States without attaching thereto the stamps required by law, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Sec. 2. That on and after the 1st dav of May, 1883, dealears in leaf tobacco shalf annualy pay $12; dealers in manufactured tobacco shall pay $2.40; all manufacturers of tobacco shall pay $0; manufacturers of cigars shall pay $6. Peddlers of tobacco, snuff and cigars shall pay special taxes as follows: reamers 01 tne nrst ciass as now aennea oy law, shall pay WO, peddlers of the second class shall pay $15, peddlers of the third class shall pay $7.20 and peddlers of the fourth class shall pay $3.60. Retail dealers in leaf tobacco shal pay $250 and 30 cents for each dollar on the amount for their monthly sales in excess of the rate of $500 per annum : provided that farmers and producers of tobacco of their own growth and raising at retail, directly to consumers, to an amount not exceeding $100 annually. Sec. 3. That hereafter the special tax of a dealer in manufactured tobacco shall not be required from any fanner planter or lumberman, who furnishes such tobacco only as rations or supplies to his laborers or employees, in the same manner as other supplies are furnished by him to them: provided, that the aggregate of the supplies of tobacco so by him furnished shall not exceed in quantity 100 pounds in any one special tax year, that is from the first day of May in any year until the 30th day of April in the next year: and provided further, that such farmer, planter or lumberman shall not be, at the time he is furnishing such supplies, engaged in the general business of selling dry goods, groceries or other similar supplies in the manner of a merchant or storekeeper, to other than his own employees or laborers. Sec. 4. That on and after May 1, 1883. the internal taxes on snuff, smoking ana manufactured tobacco shall be 8 cents per pound, and on cigars which shall be manufactured and sold or removed for consumption or sale on and after the 1st day of July, 1883, there shall be assessed and collected the following taxes, to be paid by the manufacturer thereof: On cigars of all discriptions, made of tobacco or any substitute therefor, $3.00 per 1,000; on cigarettes not weighing more than three pounds per 1,000,50 cents per 1,000, on cigarettes weighing more than three pounds per IjOOO, $3 per 1,000; provided that on all original and unbroken factory packages of smoking and manufactured tobacco and snuff, cigars, cheroots and cigarrettes held by manufacturers or dealers at the time such reduction shall go into effect, on which the tax has been paid, there shall be allowed a drawback or rebate of the full amount .of reduction. But the same shall not apply in any case where the claim has not been presented within 60 days following the date of reduction, and such rebate to manufacturers may be paid in stamps at a reduced rate, and no claim to be allowed or drawback paid for a less amount than $10. Sec. 5. That on and after the passage of this Act every manufacturer of tobacco or snuff shall, in addition'to all other require ments of law, print on each package, or securely affix by pasting on each package containing tobacco or snuff manufactured by or for nim, a label, on which shall be printed the number of the manfactory, the district and State in which it is situated, and these words: "Notice.?The manufacturer of this tobacco has complied with all the requirements of law. Every person is cautioned, under penalties of law, not to use this package for tobacco again." MERE-MENTION. There were two hangings in New York, and one in Alabama last Friday. President Arthur will make a trip to Florida at no distant day. As a mark of respect to the memory of Alexander H. Stephens, and sympathy with the people of Georgia. Gov. Barstow, of Vermont, ordered all State offices closed on the day of Mr. Stephens' funeral, and flags placed at half mast on the State Capitol. The musician Remenyi has found a twelve-year old girl in Texas, whom he pronounces the greatest violinist America has ever yet produced. The steamer Yazoo sank in the Mississippi on Sunday of last week, and sixteen persons were drowned in her As an illustration of the aptness of the Chinese language, it is said that the Celestials designate a sewing circle with the compound, chin-chin. One hundred ornamental painters in a St. Louis car factory have struck because a young Chinaman was placed in the shop to learn tne business. The director of the mint says there are three million of the new nickels in circulation. The superintendent of public instruction in New Jersey has issued an order absolutely forbidding corporal punishment to children in the public schools under any circumstances. Governor Stephens' last official act was signing the pardon of a convict. Mr. Newhall, who built the Newhall House in Milwaukee, which was re cently burned at such an expense of human life, and who was a rich man at that time? is now a milk-peddler in that city. The Public Printer is quoted as stating that it will be necessary to purchase presses and machinery to the amount of $50,000 to complete the'issue of the reports of the tenth census, now in course of preparation. Captain J. I Waddell, who commanded the famous Confederate cruiser Shenandoah, was injured seriously by a fall in Annapolis, Md., on Thursday.- There were several serious riots in Paris last week, the principal reason assigned therefor being that--??, 60,000 persons are out of employment.??A little boy, Edmund Pendleton, accidentally shot and killed himself with a toy pistol in Augusta, Ga., last Monday. Seventeen monkeys are held in bond at the Wilmington custom house, the owner being un- ; willing to pay the duty on them. April i)th has been set as the time for the trial af the Phmnix Park murderers to commence in Dublin. _ The Georgia Campaign.?The nomination for Governor promises to be hotly con:ested. Govenor Boynton and his friends ire hopeful, and his canvass for the nomilation will be vigorously pressed with good hances for success. M^or Baccn is in he field to stay. Judge Crawford will be l strong competitor. He will resign from he bench if nominated. Judge Simmons vill not be a candidate on account of Maj. Bacon's candidacy. Hon. Henry McDanelis in the hands of his friends. General 'ook will not refuse to run if nominated. Ion. Tete Smith and Congressman Blount rill accept if nominated. Senator Colquitt i favorable to the nomination of Governor loynton. Senator Brown is understood to e indifferent and is not going to take any art in the nomination. Hon. George T. > times is mvoniDiy mentioned. He has iends all over the State who would rejoice ) see him Governor. His nomination ould be acceptable to the best men in the tate who recognize that his services to the arty entitle him to preferment. It is apirent that Governor Boynton will have no alk over unless the men now in the field ithdraw. There is a growing feeling, awever, that it would be best for the State ld.the party to nominate Governor Boynn for the unexpired term. This Vvould ,'oid any bitter teeling growing out of a ?ated contest for the nomination. It is aditted that he has a decided advantage er competitors. He is in possession?he a man of good character and fine ability. ugu.ifa Chronicle.