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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-11-19
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Mr.. d. Rush Hudson and Captain VIM.
A. Peden, of Chester, died last week.
The work on the Spartanburg and Ashe-
Vile Railroad is being rapidly pushed along.
The regular term of the Supreme Court
commences on Tuesday next, oath instant.
Hamilton Wilson and Jeremiah Moss, of
York, and Rufus Froneberger, Of Charleston,
have been finally discharged in bankruptcy.
1t is said that the recent cold snap has
cleared Yellow Jack out of Charleston and
that the unacclimated may safely return.
A colored rifle club has been organized
at Winnsboro. 1t has nine men, rank and
file.
Governor Moses has appointed F. B.
Lloyd, school commissioner for Chester county,
in place of Dublin j. Walker, resigned.
- The Union says that in Columbia, on
Saturday last, caucus was held to see what
could be done to help Mr.. Speights, Of the
Grccnvlle News, to establish Democratic
daily in that city.
The Uuion.Herald mentions that Elihu
c. Barker, Whittemore's former partner, Col.
L. G. Northrop, Jacob Reed and Judge
Cooke, are candidates for the judgeship of the
first circuit, made vacant by the death of
Judge Graham.
One day last week colored woman at
Hilton Head stabbed another in the head
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NEWS OF THE DAY.

There are now in Louisiana twenty-eight
companies of infantry, four of cavalry and
two of artillery.
John H. Reagan, who was postmaster.
general of the southern..C ..Confederacy, has been
elected to Congress from Texas.
"A destructive fire occurred in Danville,
Va, on Saturday night, destroying the Roam
oke Smoking Tobacco Works, Rainey's ma
chine shop, and Crews & Rodenheiser's -four
ing mills. Total loss 100000; no insurance.
of one hundred and forty.fve cotton
mills, mostly in New Eng gland, all but four
or FIVE have reduced their production at least
one.third, and will continue this reduction
until January, unless forced to resume by
the action of others who may not feel dispos-
ed to limit their productions.
The Postmaster General will issue in
structons to postmasters throughout the coun-
try in very short time in explanation OF
their duties under the new postal law in car
rying out that section Of it in reference to the
receipt of newspapers, periodicals, &c, and
affixing of the new stamp gotten up for such
mail matter.
The claim of the widow Of Captain Fry
(who was shot in Cuba by the Spanish au-
thorities,) for s4Oo due him at the time he
left the United States navy for the Confede-
rate service, will have to be decided by Con-
gress, the law of March 2, 1867, being held
by the accounting officers to prohibit its pay
ment. The President and Secretary of the
Navy both favor the payment of the claim.
"A daughter of Jackson, the Alexandria
hotel.keeper who killed Colonel Ellsworth,
was discharged from the Treasury Depart
ment short time since Through the in
fuence of Col. Mosby, the President ordered
her to be reinstated, and, it is said, has d.
rected that she shall not be disturbed during
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his term. There is terrible indignation in
Radical circles in consequence.
The Legislature of Arkansas convened
on Tuesday of last week. In his message,
Governor Baxter congratulates the people on
gaining control of their own affairs, and trusts
victory will be used wise y and we'll, and that
no prescription will be INDUCED toward any
class. He refers with pride to the new Con-
stitution and urges many reforms. He says
the State has no idea of repudiating any just
debt, and recommends some provisions look
ing to funding outstanding Indebtedness. He
also recommends the revision Of the common
school system and other measures of import
ance. After the reading of Baxters message,
he vacated the gubernatorial chair in favor
of Garland, whom Baxter admits was duly
elected 10 the recent election but V. V.
Smith, Lieutenant Governor in the Baxter
administration, refuses to retire, and has Is
sued proclamation in which he claims to
be the lawful Governor Of the State. Gar
land has caused several arrests to be made in
consequence of the pretensions of Smith; and
to avoid arrest, Smith has retired to place
of concealment.
.
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with large penknife and broke off the blade,
leaving it sticking in the skull of the injured
woman, who went about her work and did not
discover that she was wounded until twenty.
four hours afterward. The blade has been
extracted, and the patient is doing we'll.
The Union Herald says the board Of State
canvassers have got through eighteen counties,
with the majorities pretty nearly as published,
except decrease Of 300 in Darlington. The
majority for Chamberlain will be about 49,
900.
1t is said that Whittemore's seat will
be contested on the ground that he is a non
resident. He has been elected Senator from
! Darlington, but has no residence in the State,
being absent except during the session of the
legislature and during the election campaigns.
; Two of the old cannon used in the revo-
lutionary war, at the old fort at Cambridge,
Abbevile county, were sold for five dollars
each, last week, and were sent to Charleston.
The cannon were about three feet long, with
bore large enough to shoot lemon, and
could easily be carried by muscular man.
- The following gentlemen have been elect
ed officers for the State Agricultural and Me-
chanical Society, for the ensuing term I. W.
Woodward, Esq, reelected President; D..
Wyatt Aiken, Secretary and Treasurer; R.
A. Griffin, j. N. Huffman, John Alexander
and Edward Hope, Vice. Presidents and R..
Tozer, j. B. Moore, VIM. Wallace, W. G..
Hinson and johnson Hagood members of the
Executive Committee.
- The Uuion-H Herald of Monday, in an art'
Gle ON the approaching session of the Legis-
lature, says: "The best calculation we can
reach puts the house at thirty-three straight
cut democrats, and seventeen independent
republicans, making fifty opposition. If the
Charleston delegation works with the demo-
crats, they will foot up body of forty-ive
votes solid in the lower house. In the SEN
ate there will be about fourteen of the oppo-
sition, within three votes of a majority. That
is, the regular republicans will have work.
ing majority on joint ballot of twenty-nine." :"
- The seat ofC. P. Leslie, recently elected
to the Legislature from Barnwell county, will
be contested on the ground that he is not a
citizen of the State, he having removed from
the State in 1872, carrying his family with
him and declaring at the time of his depar-
ture that he did not intend to return. Dur
ing the last summer he came to Barnwel
county, became candidate and was elected.
Leslie is the ex-land commissioner and it is
charged that he is an emissary Of persons at
the North who are holders of fraudulent State
bonds. 1t is also stated that Leslie voted at
the recent election, and that he will be in
dicted therefor in the United States Court,
and that his actings and doings as land COM
commissioner are about to be investigated in
the State courts.
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The Murkrille Gnqnirer.
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SOCIETY,".

In some things, the laws of nature must be
obeyed or determination is the result. In no
case can natures laws be broken with impuni-
ty but in some cases disobedience and death
are inseparably and proximatey connected.
Man is, by nature, social being. Isolated and
alone, he cannot exist. In exile, the purposes
for which he was designed by nature cannot
be by him subserved. Society must be per-
petusted or man ceases to exist. Beasts of
the field congregate in droves, and birds col
lect into hocks; but this is very different
thing from society amongst men.
A few men can accomplish very little. The
prosperity of colony depends, other things
being equal, on its numerical strength. A
nations strength consists in the number and
virtue of its citizens A vast multitude of
human beings, of dissipated habits, collected
together, whether in country, town or city,
are only savages III proportion to their dissi-
patton, whether their place Of abode be Eng
land, America or Africa. On the other hand,
one single individual, separate and alone, it
matters not how virtuous that individual may
be, can effect nothing.
In civilized society, as we find i, the world
over, there are three classes of individuals !;
the extremely poor, the rich and the middle
class. The two extremes are 50 unlike that
they are alike. Paradoxical as such an ex-
preston may at first sight appear, it will be
found on close examination to be absolutely
true. The rich think they arc so much above
every one else, that they can, with impunity,
do as they please. The extremely poor think
that they are so far degraded below every one
else, that they can do as they please because
no one has any regard for them. Both classes
subserve the same purpose; both are nuisances
in war and in peace. 1t is true, in our coun-
try, we have no individuals who are rich, even
in moderate degree; but, unfortunately. we
have vast multitude of persons who think
they are rich and increased in goods, and in
this case as in all others, fancy is more pow
erful than fact. We have multitude of
"thirty- ty-seven-and-a-half ccuts aristocracy"-
dirty shirt nobility-who feel as rich as a
Crusus and as wise as an Argus. Many of
them are as absolutely poor as poverty can
make them still they affect to be rich.
The bone and sinew Of all civilized society
is found in the golden mediocrity. From
this class come those who fight the battles of
the country in time Of war, and advance its
prosperity in time ofpeace. This class Of in
dividuas has furnished more than ninety-nine
one hundredth of the statesmen, poets, orators,
mathematicians, jurists and divines, the world
has ever possessed. 1t is still furnishing this
class of individuals, and will continue to fur
nish them to the end of all time.
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LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

8. G. Observation-Disclosures Sale.
James F.. Hart, Plaintiffs Attorney-T0 the De-
PENDANTS, Samuel B. Hall and others.
Walter Brem & Martin, Charlotte, N. Especial
Reduction in Prices.
J. Fl. Clawson-Assignee Sale-In Bankrupt
cy-In the Matter of Ira Hardin, II. f. Nc
Fadden, Bankrupts.
Joseph NJ. Adams-Look Out for the New Tin
Shop-Repairing- -Ware-Stove Pipe.
T. NJ. Dobson & Co.-Come and Go with Me'-Ho
For Observation-Disclosures -Wanted-Guns-
Cutlery--Groceries-- Cloth-Top Shoes-Hats
and Bonnets-B s-Boots-Shawls-Ca Cartridges
Spool Thread-Hoop Skirts-Squares-Set-
tie Your Understanding
IrOns-Shoes.
w. II. Il J. p. Herndon-Our Flour cannot be
Excelled.
Joseph A. Mclean, Judge of Probate Citation
J. F. Wallace, Clerk of the Circuit Court,
Applicant-George Wright, deceased.
j. l.. Watson, Treasurer-Tax Notice.
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CIRCUMSTANCES.


Such is the nature of man, that he is con-
troled by the circumstances with which he is
surrounded. The very atmosphere which we
breathe, the scenery amidst which we move,
the food which we eat, the individuals with
whom we associate, all have an irresistible in
Auence upon us, either for good or evil. In
tellectually and socially, and to very great
extent, morally; each of us is just what the
circumstances by which we are surrounded
have made US. Had we been differently sit
uated, we would have been very different, in
almost every respect, from what we are. Our
surroundings either elevate or degrade us.
The food we eat, the clothes we wear, the house
we live in, either ennoble us, in our own esti-
nation, or sink US to level with the beast.
1t is nonsense to say that it matters not what
we eat, or with what we clothe ourselves, or
what kind of house we live in. If we are
men we will be men under any and all cir
cumstanccs. This is about equivalent to say
ing, if we are we are. There are some cir
cumstances that prevent US from being men.
So long as these circumstances surround US,
we are prohibited from being what we might
otherwise be. A monk in a cave presents, to
the mind, man in his most hideous aspect,
morally. The squalid filth and poverty Of
his body is correct index of his soul. The
emaciaton of his body is an indication Of the
poverty of his soul. TO be man in cave is
impossible.
The house we live in and the clothes we
wear should be neat. 1t is not necessary
that the former be frescoed nor that the latter
be tasseled with gold. Every man feels better,
and IS better, when clad in clean clothes-it
matters not how coarse-than he can feel or
can be, when attired in filthy rags. A dirty
shirt makes man feel that he has lost his
CASTE 1t sinks him in his own estimation,
and, consequently, in the estimation of every
one else. No man can feel that he is as much
a man when astride a carcass of bones, as he
does when mounted on fat and we'll curried
horse. When mounted on the carcass, he is
COllSlduIly loOhluS w soo wiz 10 it"Sni"S "0
him when mounted upon the fat and spirited
horse, he is looking to see who is admiring
him. In the one case he feels degraded; in
the other he feels dignifed. In the one in
stance he feels ashamed of himself and his
surroundings and would, if he could, hide.
In the other he feels that he is the peer ofany
body, and is anxious to be gazed upon by
every eye. In the one case he feels that he is
nobody; in the other he feels that he is
man. Really, it is wonderful what influence
little circumstances have upon US in making
us either great and good, Or in making us lit
tie and mean. We, by all irrevocable law Of
our nature, become like our associates, wheth-
er those associates be men or monkeys, saints
or demons. The house we live in is a kind of
picture of the soul, that is incascd in our
bodies.
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CHESTER, Nov. 16,

GEN. SPINNER ON "SH1NPLAsrERs."- "A
dispatch from Washington, under date of the
18th instant, says: "Treasurer Spinner, in
his annual report, says that constant COM
plants have been made, and are being made,
that the laws made to restrain the issuing and
circulating of notes other than those author
lied by act of Congress are evaded, in large
sections Of the country, and in many localities
they are utterly disregarded. He says that
the latter is particularly the case in the States
of Georgia and Alabama, and that most Of
these violations of law are by municipalities
and by manufacturing companies. He goes
on to say: I can speak of this evil from per-
sonal experience and observation. In local..
ties at the South almost the entire circulation
consists Of such local issues, that are put upon
everybody in change, and, unless used in the
place Of issue, are worthless to the holder.
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CHILD BURNT.

On Friday evening last, while Il servant
girl in DR.. Alexander's family was temporari-
ly absent from the kitchen, her child-an in
fant II months old-was burnt to death.
1t seems that the child was sitting near the
cooking stove, on which the mother had left a
torch lying, and it burned down, some Goals
falling upon the child's breast, which ignited
the clothing, and death from suffocation soon
resulted.
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COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEETING.
A meeting of the Board of County Com
missioners will be held on Monday and Tues
day next, for the transaction of business
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CIRCIIIT COURT.

CIRCUIT COURT.
Monday last was the day appointed for the
above tribunal to convene but in consequence
of the absence of the Judge, who is presiding
this week in Winnsboro, after the roll Of jur-
ors was called, the Clerk adjourned the Court
until the first Monday in December.
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The AIRLINE Railroad Difficulties.

Majority for Conservatives and Independent
Republicans one.
The AIRLINE Railroad Difficulties.
- The Atlanta Herald says that the At
lanta and Richmond Airline Railroad has
changed Misunderstanding passed into the pos
session of Mr.. T. S. Garner. Several days ago
an injunction was filed and petition made to
force the road into bankruptcy, of which
movement the Herald says:
Last Saturday night Mr.. Garner resigned
his position as Master of Transportation on
the Airline Railroad, we opine with grave
ulterior object in view. Any way, on yester-
day afternoon Mr.. T. S. Garner, by virtue Of a
deed to about 65, or perhaps 70 miles of the
A. & R. A. L. Railroad, extending from At
lanta, which he exhibited to US, took full pos.
session of his portion of the road. He does
not propose to stop train, or in any way in
terfesre with their running, but he does intend
to appoint his own treasurer, agents, ETC., and
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EDITORIAL INKLINGS.

Scott's maj ority-1S70. 1881
Chamberlain's majority-lS74......"llO4s
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LITERARY DEPARTMENT.

We have contracted for, and already received
several ORIGINAL STORIES by some Of the
most popular serial writer's of the day, and in the
first number Of the new volume will be COM
menced an unusually pleasing story from the pen
of South Cardinals gifted daughter, Mrs. DEAS,
now of California, whose contributions to the
press have always been well received, and whom
we have secured as regular contributor to the
Literary Department of the ENQUIRER. This
story entitled