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Wilmington daily commercial., 1874-07-22
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MAkgET STREET WHARF, WILMINGTON.
FIRST WHARF BELOW CHESTNUT ST. PuILA
Steamers sail daily at pm jyi-'y
ELEcrRIc LINE
NEW YORK. BROOKLYN. JERSEY CITY, BOS-
TON, PROVIDENCE, AND EASTERN CITIES
Tarough rates from all points on p, W. 4 b. Rail-
road and IT, connections.
Through hiils pf ladlng from Wilmington, Del.
Steamers VIII sail from
KING STREET WHARF
TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS AND SATURDAY
at 2, p. NJ.
PIER NO. IL. EAST RIVER,
New York, on alternate days at4, p. m.
For further information address
E. ANDREWS, Agent
mara-tf Wilmington Del.
i,ueH'S
WILMINGTON and Philadelphia
DAI1H STEAM FREIGHT LINE
Leaves French street wharf wilmington
he second wharf above Chestnut street.
Philadelphia, at O'Clock. =. NJ.
Goods and pat kages delivered promptly ant
eheaply ~ either city, OF transported 10 either rail
road Al Wilmington without charge for reship
GEORGE ". BUSH \ SON
French street Wharf, Wilmington
!. MERRlHEw, Agent,
second Wharf above Chestnut st. Phlla.
Es-Be particular To order freight by Bushs Line
jan9ly
Wilmington daily commercial., 1874-07-22
Lippinco,,s Cold Sparkling soda wa
Vic. Tn.icr,s ahnIern rIintnrr.

For Children and Adults, cures ChOlera, Cholera
McrBils, tfzmp-, ,DiarriOea DysFstsry, ard all pains
In the stomach and Bowels, caused ~ eating green
fruit aad vegetables, for -ale at
FOSTsk's DRUG STORE,
Front and M est stTeetg
Wilmington daily commercial., 1874-07-22
New casile connt.
Fine Tuscan oIive oil.

EQUAL TO THE BEsT AND MUCH CHEAPER
rtaa ne Bo,iled saiad Ola. Sod BY
Il. a r. SHOEMAKER,
Wilmington daily commercial., 1874-07-22
Marnn MeniI,er.

When the mercury hnyers in tile vicinity Di ~ d.
Rrces peopls become a nch interested in the ther-
mOnet.rs end n0iiee every variation of the tem-
perature. An extensive variety nf instruments Of
ihis KIND, at Hojerate prices, may he iia'i Df
r. BRINGHURST d co,
Corner 9th and Market Streets
Wilmington daily commercial., 1874-07-22

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on AND AFTER MONDAY. JUNE zsrH.
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The STEAMER 5. N. FELTON,
WIN Leave French street Wharf al e-so A. n, and
Reiarnlng. leave Philadelphia at 30 a. NJ, and
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Return Trp Tickets. s......................59 Cents
EoR CAPE MAY.
TUESDAYS. THURSDAYS AND SATURDAYS.
On and after SATURDAY, Jane 75ih,
THE STEAMER SUE, caP,. Ingram.
VII nun as above, leaving Philadeiphia from Arch
street wharf at Is ami New Castle lab on arrival
0i Train from Wilmington.
FARE o4tween Wilmington and Cape May s.. %
SIR -
CHILDREN i.N'
FoR LENEs DELAWARE.
EFfTy saturday. after landing a. car May. the
sUs viii proceed 70 Lewes returning on Mondays
zi5AM ".
Pare 70 LeWes.
Kxcursto ickets. 40
G. II. HuDDELL,
c. TAGGART,
je2.-sn 100 n. Delaware ave, Philadelphia.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-01-01

to Tombsville, in that county, once week.
The time fixed for the closing of the bids is
March 2l, 1874.
Mr.. Turner Barber, of Lancaster county,
claims to have gathered 116 bales Of cotton
from 1872 acres, with the prospect of getting
not less than Is more which are yet ungath-
cred, thus averaging bale to the acre.
The Circuit Court for Chester county,
meets on Monday next. The Chester Repor-
ter says: "Judge Mackey, last week, learning
that the Chairman of the Board of County
Commissioners of Chester would not be pres
ent with the jury commissioners, to attend to
the drawing of jurors for the approaching
term of the court, issued a bench warrant for
his arrest, and placed it in the hands of the
sheriff, who brought his victim to town and
placed him in safe keeping"
- The survivors of the famous Palmetto
Regiment, that won such brilliant renown on
the fields of Mexico, met in Columbia on the
9th ultmo, and elected the following named
gentlemen as delegates to attend the National
Convention of Mexican War Veterans, to be
held in Washington City, on the 18th Janu'
ary, 1874, viz: Messrs. r. G. M Dunnovant
Joseph B. Kershaw, Samuel MCGOWAN, Thos
j. Mackey, James D. Blanding, j. H. Will
liams, Carey w. Styles, Elias Earle, W. B.
Stanley, X. G. Billings, G.. S. Kirkland.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-01-01

father was once Chief Justice Of the Province
of New York and Governor of New Jersey,
there occurs the following curious passage,
which shows deep seated prejudice against
the Nutmeg State, even at that early day:
"It is my desire that my son Governeur
Morris, may have the best education that is
to be had in England or America but my
express will and directions are that he be
never sent for that purpose to the Colony of
Connecticut, least he should imbibe in his
youth that low craft and cunning so Incl
dent to the people of that country, which is
so interviewer in their constitution that all
their art cannot disguise it from the world,
though many of them, under the sancttied
garb of religion, have endeavored to impose
themselves onto the world for honest men"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-01-01
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- The Legislature has adjourned until the
10th of January.
- Previous to the recess, the Legislature
postponed the consideration of the bill to re.
peal the lien law, until January, 1875.
COL B. +. Evans, of the firm of Walker
Evans g. Cogswell, died quite suddenly in
Charleston on Wednesday of last week.
- The United States Senate has confirmed
the appointment of A. S. Richardson as post.
master at Chester.
Judge Bond has appointed John McMan'
US, of Chester, Commissioner Of the United
States Court.
- REV. David II. Porter, formerly of this
State, died in Savannah, Ga, on Sunday Of
last week.
= Mr.. Thomas P. Walker, who has held
official positions of various kinds in Richland
county, died in Columbia on the 23d ultimo
- The assessed value of taxable property OF
this State is s176596,5O2. The levy of if
teen mills will raise s2,654,347.
Il. G. Andrews, Esq, has sold his interest
in the Columbia Union-Herald and severed
his connection with the paper. 1t will here
after be published by the "Union-Herald Pub
fishing Company"
- The postmaster-general advertises for
proposals for carrying the mail from Chester
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-01-01
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Gov. Caldwell is spending the Christmas
holidays at his home in Burke county, and will
not return to the capital until the 18th inst
- The Charlotte Observer is authorized to
say that Gen. D. H. Hill has severed his con-
nection with the Carolina Military Institute
Governor Caldwell declines to furnish the
Carolina Military Institute at Charlotte with
arms suitable for drill purposes.
- Hon. Weldon N. Edwards, many years
ago a prominent Democratic politician, died
recently at his residence in Warren county.
"A fearful storm visited Wilmington on
the night of the 25th. A number Of small
houses were blown down, trees uprooted and
fences Frustrated.
"A new post-oAice, called Island Ford, has
been established in Rutherford county, on the
route between Rutherfordton and Spartan
burg, South Carolina.
Peter Staley, recently arrested in Illinois
charged with numbering Henry Clapp, in
Guilford county, had his trial last week, and
was acquitted.
- The N. G. Central Iron Company, whose
works are near Friendship, Guilford county
turn out 10000 pounds Of iron per day which
is shipped to Philadelphia for the purpose Of
being converted into STEEL
The Wilmington Star says that G. A
Hayne, colored mail agent on the Whining
ton, Columbia and Augusta railroad after a
preliminary examination, has been committed
to jail in default of bail, on a charge Of rob-
bing the United States mail.
"A long and interesting controversy as to
the genuineness of the Mecklenburg declara
tion of independence, in which some of the
State papers labored to prove it myth, is
succeeded by the momentous question, "Whc
wrote Cousin Sally Dillard?" That hu'
morous production has always been accredi'
ted to Ham. Jones, of Salisbury; but the eff
fort is now made to rob him of the honor.
Joseph Baker, convicted of the murder Of
Newton Wilfong, colored, at the last term Of
Mecklenburg Superior Court, upon whom the
death sentence had been pronounced, and who
made his escape from jail on the morning ap'
pointed for his execution, has been captured
and returned to his old quarters. He had
been respited to the 18th of January, at
which time the sentence of the law will be
carried out.
- The bill known as the "Consolidation
bill," has passed both Houses Of the Legisla'
lure aud become law. 1t places under one
corporation the Atlantic, the N. G. Central
and the Western Extension roads-giving a
continuous line, under the same management,
from the seaboard to the Tennessee line. and
provides for the early completion of the Yves,
tern Extension from Old Fort to its terminus.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-01-01
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.

Up to the time of adjournment for the
holidays no measure of general public impor
tance was perfected by Congress. The most
important question before either House is the
proposed repeal Of the bankrupt law, which
bill was passed in the House of Representa-
tiyes and has been considered in the Senate
but without final action. The act, as passed
by the House, provides for the continuance Of
all cases pending, with a reduction of fees and
charges.
In the House, Butler, of Massachusetts,
from the judiciary Committee, reported sup
Elementary civil rights bill. 1t tprovides that
any proprietor of public inn, place of en-
tertanment, line of stage coaches, or other
means of transportation, or of a cemetery, be-
nevolent institution or public school, wholly
or partly endowed for public use, who shall
make any distinction as to admission or ac'
commodation of any citizen of the United
States, because of race, color or previous con-
dtion of servitude, shall, on conviction there
of, be fined not less than 500 nor more than
81 900 for each offence, and shall be liable to
the citizens injured thereby in damages, to be
recovered in an action of debt; such action to
be prosecuted in any United States Circuit or
District Court having jurisdiction.
The Select Committee on Salaries reported
bill fixing the salaries ofmembers at s5,5oo'
to be in full of all allowances, except for act
ual individual travelling expenses, and reduc'
ing all other salaries that we're increased last
sessi-n to what they had been before, except
Judges of the Supreme Court and the Pres
dent during this term. An amendment was
adopted making the reduction to take effect
from the 4th of March, 1873. The bill was
not disposed of.
In the Senate, Gen. Gordon's resolution OF
inquiry, regarding the seizure and sale of cot
ton and disposition of the proceeds, passed
1t is sweeping, and will unearth some State
secrets.
In the House, Judge Harris, Of Virginia,
offered bill to abolish the tariff on printing
paper, type and type metal also, a bill to pay
old soldiers and widows of the war Of 1872,
without proof of loyalty.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-01-01
THE BANKRUPT LAW.

The bill which was introduced into Con.
gress for the repeal of the bankrupt law,
passed the House by heavy majority. The
Senate has not as yet taken any action upon
it, but will doubtless do so as soon as the re-
cess is over.
We regret that the House has taken the
action it has in this matter. That there are
some Objectionable features in the present
bankrupt act, few will deny but this would
seem to call for amendment, rather than the
repeal of the whole act The act has been OF
great benefit to thousands of our people, and
in the vicissitudes of fortune it may be indis'
pensable for many more, who through misfor-
tune may become so involved as to require its
aid. A State law cannot give them the relief
which a general bankrupt act does, and an
honest debtor may, through no fault of his
own, become so hopelessly embarrassed as to
give way to despair; when if he could find an
escape from his debts by a surrender of his
property in bankruptcy, his hopeful energy
and work might be saved to the State. We
regard the act, too, as peculiarly beneficial to
the South, which in its commercial dealings
with the other sections of the country is al
most always found on the debtor side.
We hope that the Senate may yet refuse to
concur in the action of the House, that such
amendments may be engraftcd upon the law
as experience has shown to be necessary, and
that the bankrupt act, in its main features
may stand as one of the permanent statutes Of
fl,o country
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-01-01
THO Y0RKV1hLE EMoUxRER.

Johnston. Tract of 1l3 acres in Bethesda
township. Consideration $500. .
Rev. R. Latham to |. j. Evans. Tract OF
5 acres in York township. Consideration
5000. .
VIM. Wallace to Andy Wood. Tract Of
so acres in Ebenezer township. Considera-
tion 5000. =,
David II. Carroll to Thaddeus l.. Carroll.
One.third interest in 73s acres in York town.
ship. Consideration Sl4OO.
Rev. R. P, Johnston, attorney in fact tor
J. Z. DuBose, to Pnyton Berry. Tract OF 8
acres in York township. Consideration $57.
Peter Crawford to William S. Crawford.
Tract of 95 acres in Bethesda es, or C"tawoa
township Consideration 1862.
John Quinn to A. E. Thomasson. Tract
of 225 acres in Kings Mountain township.
Consideration $1,000.
- Robert Patterson to w. L. Sundifer. Tract
Of 317 acres in Bethesda township. Conside-
ration 1855.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-01-01
,flnantial all0 Gonlnwrtia.

activethan at our last report, with but light re-
ceipts We now quote extremes at to IA cents.
Flour, per sack of 100 lbs, $3.50 to $5.l5; Corn,
IS to 80; Meal 80 to s5 Peas 65 to Isl Oats, SIS to
65 Sweet Potatoes IS to 80; Irish Potatoes, 81 to
Sl.75 to 1926.
CHARLOTTE, Dec. 3O.-CoTToN. Sales yes.
terlay were very light. The ruling price for low
middling was IA and the market closed firm.
NEW YORK, December 29.-Cotton quiet.
Uplands 1863 to l63. Futures closed steady. Sales
0,95l bales: January Is 1915; February 18 9-32
to l6 5l6; March 16 1915 to l6 1892; April III
May III to II 1915.
and in good ddemand-middlingl l54; low middling
Is strict good ordinary 14l.
LIVERPOOL, December 29.-Noon.--Cotton
quiet and steady-upands Sid.
Financial.
NEW YORK, December 29.-Gold, l0i.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-01-01
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The Congressional Districts.

"A few days before the lecess of the
Legislature, the House passed to a third read
ing bill to divide the Staten five Congress-
ional Districts. 1t provides that the first con-
gressional district shall be composed of the
counties of Georgetown, Williamsburg, Dar-
lngton, Marlboro, Horny, Chesterfield and
Sumter; the second congressional district of
the counties of Charleston, Orangeburg, Clar'
endon and Lexington the third congressional
district ofthe counties of Rchland, Newberry,
Abbeville, Laurens, Anderson, Oconee and
Pickens the fourth congressional district of
the counties of Greenville, Spartanburg, Un-
ion, York, Chester, Fairfield, Kershaw and
Lancaster the fifth congressional district OF
the counties of Colleton, Beaufort, Barnwell,
Edgefeld and Aiken.
The S. G.. Conference.
- The South Carolina Conference of the
Methodist Church, which was in session at
Sumter, adjourned on the 18th ultimo, to
meet next year at Greenville. In the list of
appointment. we note the following:
Presiding Elder for the Columbia District
w. H. Fleming; Yorkville Station-D. D.
Dantzler; York Circuit-L. A. johnson
Rock Hill. E. Watson; Chester-J. W.
Humbert; East Chester-E. j. Meynardie
Blackstock Circuit-C. D. Mann Unionville
Station-A. H. Lester; Lancaster-W. l..
Harper.
Rev. A. w. Walker, who labored on the
Yorkville station for the past two years has
been sent to Summcrvlle, twenty miles from
Charleston; Rev. P. F. Kistler is on the
Bamberg circuit; J. B. Massebeau at Willis
ton O. A. Darby at the Washington-street
Church in Columbia J. G. Russell at Rich
land Fork, near Columbia; Landy Wood at
Georgetown; J. w. Kelly at Camden, and
W. T. Capers and G. M. Boyd at Abbeville'
The Labor Question.
- In some of the northern and western
cities trouble has been apprehended from the
unemployed laboring classes. At meeting
in Chicago the sentiment that the day was ap'
preaching for an equitable division OF the
wealth of the land was loudly app!lauded.
In Cincinnati there have been two recent
meetings oflaborers. One composed OF Ger
mans, denounced the press as in league with
the capitalists. Carl Rosa, the Austrian agl-
tator, said that the condition of the working
men was worse here than in Germany. The
other meeting, composed of Irish, contented
itself with denunciations against the city gov
ernment.
In New York committee Of a working
mems meeting held at Cooper Institute waited
on Commissioner Van Mort demanding work
or pay for the same for those in enforced idle
ness, which was brought about by the Govern
ment sanctioning speculation in the circula-
ting medium of the country. They also de-
manded that work should be furnished direct
to them, abrogating all contracts Another
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-01-01
The alurkrille enquirer.
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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-01-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Caleb Cushing has been appointed Minis
ter to Spain in place Of Sickles, and accepts
the mission.
1t is reported that the Postmaster Gener-
al opposes any modification of the present
postal laws.
Marion Fewell, VIM. Ramsey and. John
Whitlock, of South Carolina, convicted a year
ago of being ku-klux, have been pardoned.
john L. Pennington, who during the war
published a paper in Raleigh, N. c., inimical
to the Confederate cause, has been appointed
Governor of Dakota Territory. Since 1860
Pennington has been living in Alabama.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-01-01

delegation waited on Mayor Havcmycr, re-
questing him to sign certain ordinances which
have passed the board of Aldermen, for i'm
provement of streets and avenues, 80 that they
may obtain work. The Mayor intimatcd
that he would sign the ordinances.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-01-01
THE BENDER MYSTERY.

A story has been going the rounds to the
effect that the Bender family, who are charged
with committing several murders in Kansas
a year ago, were recently arrested in Spartan
burg county, in this State. 1t turns out that
the parties arrested were Thomas Webb and
his wife, who, upon a hearing before a trial
Justice, vindicated their innocence. Webb
and his wife, who are an elderly couple, were
living in Yorkville about the time the Kansas
murders were committed.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-01-01
COLLECTION OF TAXES.

In another column will be found the an
nouncement of Treasurer Watson that he is
ready to receive the State and county taxes
for the year 1873. The aggregate taxes
amount to fifteen mills, or one and one-hali
per centum-twelve> mills for State purposes
and three for the use of the county, including
the "ku-klux tax" Elsewhere in to-days pa
per may be found the "tax act" as'passed by
the Legislature. Welearn that an impression
prevails with some persons that the taxes are
to be paid in two installments. This impres
sion is erroneous. The taxes are due and
PAYABLE between the 1st day of January and
the 9th day of February.
TRANSFERS or REAL ESTATE.
Since our last report, the following trans
fers of real estate in this county have been
recorded by the County Auditor:
M. w. Russell to Margaret Russell. Lot
in Rock Hill. Deed ofgift.
HIT. Freeze to James G. Poag. Three
acres in Catawba township. Consideration
s75.
A.C. Sutton to John M. Latham. Tract
of 81 acres in Fort Mill township. Conside
ration S400.
R.H. Glenn, Sheriff, to w. H. Hardin
Tract of 267 acres in Bullock's Greek town
ship. Consideration S3204
VIM. Wallace to D. A. A. Watson. Tract
of 1874 acres in Ebenezer township. Consid
Grafton $2750.
J.H. Cawson, assignee of A. T. Black, tc
A. D. Holler. Lot in Rock Hill. Conside
ration $50.
Miss Elizabeth M. Massey to Nicholas
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-01-01
ARREST OF A MURDERER.

Owens, who murdered Mr.. John W. Cheek,
citizen of this county. in CASTOR county, N
c., last summer, while they we're travelling to-
gether in a wagon, and subsequently, made
his escape on Mr. Cheeks horse, has been ar,
rested in one of the border counties of Ten.
nessee, and committed to the Jail Of Madison
county, N. G. A son Of the murdered man
has gone from here for the purpose of identi'
fying the murderer.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-01-01
THE CITIZENS, SAVINGS BANK.

The Citizens Savings Bank having been
adjudged bankrupt, a notice is published in
another column, calling for meeting of the
creditors at Columbia, on Wednesday, 18th
instant. Notice is also given that meeting
of the depositors in the Yorkville Branch,
will be held at this place on Saturday, the
10th instant, for the purpose of taking such
concerted action as may be deemed necessary
to protect their interests. Mr. W. B. Metts,
Assistant Cashier, also calls for meeting Of
the depositors at the Bank in this place on
Monday next.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-01-01
PARDONED.

We are grati6ed to learn that on the 18th
ultimo, the President pardoned Samuel G.
Brown, Esq, of this county, who about two
years ago was sentenced to the Albany peni'
tentiary on chargeof ku-kluxism. Robert
higgins, of this county, was also pardoned at
the same time. We learn from an exchange
that the pardons were issued upon the recon-
mendation of Senator Robertson and Con.
gressman A. S. Wallace Messrs. Brown and
Higgins arrived at their homes in this county
on Tuesday night last.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-01-01

We have been pleased to receive call from
Mr.. James A. Watson, formerly ofthe Kings
Mountain Military School in this place, but
now connected with the Bryant, Stratton and
sadler Business College of Baltimore. This
institution enjoys wide reputation, and to
its faculty Mr.. Watson is an acquisition OF
which the College may we'll boast. During
his visit here, Mr.. Watson would be pleased
to confer with any who may desire to avail
themselves of the advantages and opportuni-
ties presented by the institution with which
he is connected.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-01-01
THROUGH FROM ST. LOUIS.

Railroad facilities have opened up new
market for this section, in the city of St.
Louis, NO., and W. H. G. J. P. Herndon
have already availed themselves of its advan-
tages, having few days since, received car
load of wheat in bulk, shipped through in the
same car, direct from that city. The car was
six days on the road from St. Louis here
1t is not very Aattering commentary on our
agricultural policy to have to send so far for
bread, yet while such necessity seems to ex-
ist, the enterprise of our young merchants
deserves a passing notice.