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Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-04-03
TMNHOMAS
Ill HOUSE.
Re opened 10y
J. NJ, THOMAS,

j. NJ, THOMAS,
Main Street. Bristol, Tenn.
HAVE again reopened the Thorn
L rs House. on Main Street. qnd am
prepared to furnish first-cIaSs accom-
mediation to the public No money
aud no pains will be spared L. make
the Motel all it was IN it's palmiest
days.
Boarders will be received on good
terms.
Being provided with good stables /
am prepared to furnish stalls food ana
attention to horses.
Rail road passengers will find the
house located in easy distance of the
Passenger Exchange, the tables well
furnished and lodging unsurpassed
POrters regularly at the trains to re-
ceive baggage and conduct passengers
Jan g. '74-tf
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-04-03

The question has often been asked
where can | get my fine watch or
clock properly repaired, so that /
can rely ON it. That question can
easily be solved 10y having yonr
time keepers repaired, adjusted and
cleaned by
A. PIoKEM
practical matchmaker and ieweler,
from London, England,
Bristol, Va. & Tenn.
June 2A.-tf.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-04-03

Fare from Bristol, Tom, to Richmond, Va. $I4 ~
rare II'M Bristol, Tenn TO fetersburg, " l4.7i
Fare from Bristol, Tenn via NOrrulG to
baltimore, meals and state room on steam.
rtn' lui.G) sI7 so
Faro from Rristol Teup., via Norfolk to Phil
Sdelphia, via Baltimore (neals aud state.
RON on steamer iucudcd) $40 81
IRE from Bristol tenn. via Norfolk to
New YORK. viz uld Dominion $. 5 Com.
rany, meals and state room on steamer
mclrdedl f2o. 90
Fare from Bristol Tenn, via Norfolk and
Baltimore, aud thence an Railroads, via
Philadelphia tn New York meals and
state room ON steamer included, S2S 90
Fare from Bristol, Tenn, via Norfolk to
New YORK and return, mcals and state
room on steamer included, s34. 70
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-04-03
REhTEIIBEPI

That the largest, pre'tiest and cheap
est stock of Diamond, Amethyst
Pearl aud other rings is at Pinken'.
New Model Jewelry Stole. no 5s7- II
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-04-03
Remember -!

That the most chaste, elegant and
cheapest stock Xmas presents ana
New Years gifts Is at PIcken's New
Model Jeweiry Store. no 5S7--tf.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-04-03

Book Binding. The Ne,cs Office il
now prepared t. bind Magazines, or to
rebind old books in neat and sub
tantIal style, and at moderate prices.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-04-03

a OOO Can't he made hy eVeiy agent every
hHSjH month IN the business we furnish, hut
~ - those willing to work can easily earn
dozen dollars n Day right in their own localities
Have room to eN plain here. Business pie asant
and honorable Women, and boys and girls, do ~
well - men We will furnish YOU a complete
0utHt froe. The business paws better than any
thing Else We viii bear expense Of starting
voh. Particulars tree. Write and see Farmers
aud mechanics, their sons aud daughters. and all
classes In need or paying work ~ home should
write II ms and learn all about the worr at once
Now g. the time. nun't delay. Address. TEVB
Co. Augusta, hSine. july ll,'76-lys
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-04-03
Remember i!

That the only place you can have Your
Nmas presents engraved free Of charge
is at Picken's New Model Jewelry
store. no 5S7-tf.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-04-03

Bunting ~ Pepper are IN receipt
OF their Garden Seeds keep a large
supply. Call early and secure an as
sOrtment March 7-tf.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-04-03
81, Bristol
! I'D. Foundry
AND
Machine Shop,
Encourage Home Manufacture.

WE ARE NOW PREPARED TO FURNISH
All kinds ofCAsTlNGS In oar line. And TO do an
ishing With promptness and In the best manner
Large nHmber OF PLOws, GAZE MILis sc. on
hand. DIXON, SMITH co.
July n. 1871.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-04-03
TICKETS

to Baltimore and New York for sale at great,
reduced rates. Rl3 Close connections made at al
pOials for
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1877-04-03
THIS PASSENGER LINE,

New and elegant Parlor Sleeping Cars run thro,
from Iymchhmrg L NIlInlA- m
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$50 90
S2S 90
AL 20
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-16
MERE.MENTION.

Major Runklee, who was dismissed from
service and sentenced to the penitentiary in
1872, on the findings of Court Martial, ap.
proved of by Belknap, has been restored with
back pay, amounting to 1000. Miss
E. T. Burke, wealthy lady of Cleveland,
Ohio, committed suicide by drowning, at
Providence, R. l., last week. She was in poor
health. General N. B. Forrest has writ
ten letter to the President, heartily approv-
ing of his policy toward the South. '''''''.The
steamer Eten was recently wrecked off Val
paraso, and about one hundred lives were lost
Only three of all on board were saved. ''""A
deputation of Chinese merchants recently
waited upon Senator Morton and requested
the Senator to introduce bill in the next
Congress looking to the encouragement Of
Chinese immigration to the United States,
and encourage the Chinese now here, to re-
turn home. ...'.'''"Five hundred and ifty.fve
murders have been committed in New York
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-16
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Ohio S0raheads In Council.

"A meeting of the anti-Administration
Republicans of Ohio, was held in Columbus
last Thursday. Resolutions were adopted
bitterly denouncing President Hayes for his
Southern policy and declaring the second
resolution adopted by the Republican State
Convention at Cleveland inconsistent with
the proposed declaration of fidelity to the
principles of the Republican party. This
resolution of the State Republican Conven.
ton reads as follows:
Resoiped, That the Republicans of Ohio re.
affirm their unfaltering confidence in Ruther.
ford B. Hayes as statesman, patriot and
Republican, and cordially approve and sup.
port bis efforts for the paci6cation of the
country and the establishment of its civil SER
vice upon a basis of purity and efficiency.
The discontented Republicans of Ohio say
this resolution is falsehood, adopted solely
for party expediency, a libel upon the Repub.
lcans of Ohio and unworthy of the grand
record of the party. The meeting also adopt
ed resolutions inviting correspondence from
Republicans throughout the State, and ad-
vice as to the course to be pursued during the
present campaign. An executive committee
was appointed to receive correspondence.
The Indian War.
"A dispatch from Deer Lodge, Montana,
dated August 11th, gives the following &C.
count of a battle between the Indians and
Gen. Gibbons command:
w. H. Edwards has just arrived from Big
Hole, bringing accounts of a terrible battle
between Gen. Gibbons command and the Nez
Perces on the Big Hole river, August 9Th.
Gibbons command, consisting of 1872 men, II
officers, 1873 regulars and 81 citizen volunteers,
crossed over from Ross Hole on Wednesday,
starting at II o'clock; the same night they
moved down all of the troops with the excep-
tion of few left to guard the transportation,
a few miles above, close to the Indian camp,
which was on Big Hole, about three miles be.
low, where the Bitter Root and Bannock trail
crosses. At daylight the firing was opened
by the volunteers on an Indian going after
the horses. The charge was then made on the
camp, and some hard lighting took place in the
next two hours, during which time large
number of men and Indians were killed The
soldiers then charged the lodges, but were re-
pulsed. The Indians then attempted to cut
the soldiers from high wooded point, but the
latter charged, beating hack the Indian ad-
vance from the point which they held, and at
once fortified. Fighting continued all day,
and was still progressing 6tfully when the
courier left at II o'clock. The fighting was
desperate on both sides.
Failures Of Fruit Crops.
- At the Fruit Fair, held at New Gar
den, N. c., last week, j. Van Lindley read an
interesting essay on fruits, in which he made
the following allusion to the occasional fail.
ures of the fruit crops. York county being
in the same latitude as the section to which
Mr.. Lindley refers, and subject to similar eli
matte effects, bis remarks are of interest to
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-16

during the last ten years. Potatoes are
go plenty in Kansas as to be hardly worth
marketing. '''''''''Tbe census gave Paris, in
1876, / ,98S, ,8O6 inhabitants ...SamuelJ.
Tildeu and Theodore Tilton are sight seeing
in London. ."..''...r'During the year just closed,
the United States sold 1O5,OO0,OOO yards of
cotton goods abroad, ten times more than was
exported the year before. .'''''''The perma.
nent exhibition in Philadelphia is having
scant patronage. ge.'''"'""The Democratic Con-
vention Of Virginia in session at Richmond
last week, nominated F. M. w. Holiday for
Governor. ...".
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-16
STOCKHOLDERS, MEETING.

L1NcoLNroN, N. c., August 7, 1877.
A meeting of the stockholders of the Ches-
ter aud Lenoir Marrow Gauge Railroad Com.
pany, was held this day, 10 the Court House,
in Lincolnton, N. G. ..-.
On motion, Judge David schenck was called
to the chair, and j. F. Wallace and James
Mason were appointed Secretaries. u-r
On motion, G A. Cilly, U. Matthews and
A. Costner were appointed committee to
verify proxies. Ind ~., .........r.a. 5......
The committee to verify proxies reported
that 11S shares were represented in person,
and 1880 shares by proxy-in all, 2,973
shares, which being a majority of all the
stock, the meeting was declared duly organ
ized ....,.
The chairman then read the report of the
chief engineer. upon surveys for the location
of tie road upon the different routes proposed
between Lincolnton and Lenoir, when it was
decided to adopt the route surveyed via the
town of Newton, citizens of Newton giving
their written guarantee to do the grading and
trestling of the road.bed from Lincolnton to
the town of Newton, within reasonable time.
After the adoption of the report Of the
committee appointed to examine and report
upon the guarantee of citizens of Newton, on
motion of Dr. A. H. Davega, it was ...a
Resolved by the stockholders, in meeting
assembled, That the line of road from Lin
colnton to Newton, known as the "Valley
Line" be and the same is hereby adopted,
subject to any slight notifications to lessen or
not increase the cost thereof.
The following resolution, offered by Major
g. A. Cilly, was adopted: ... ..
Resolved, That the President of this corpo-
ration be paid the sum of twelve hundred dol.
lars salary for the current year, and so much
of the resolution passed at the annual meet.
ing at Chester, in May last, as fixes it at nine
hundred dollars, be repealed.
JIG. Hall offered the following resolution,
which was adopted:
Resolved, That the provisions of the reso.
luton and guarantee affecting the grading
and trestling from Lincolnton to Newton,
shall apply to any persons who may hereafter
offer to construct any part Of the road.bed
above Newton.
On motion, the thanks of the stockholders
were returned to the Chairman and Secreta-
ries, when the meeting adjourned.
DAVID SCHENCK, Chairman.
]. F. WALLACE, secreta,ies
JAMES MASON. oecre'af'eS'
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-16
Majority in favor of altering the Fence Law,
BURGLARY AND ROBBERY

On Wednesday night of last week, the store
house of j. w. P. Hope, near the depot, was
burglariously entered and number of ar
ticles, including the cash drawer, stolen there
from. Although the burglars intended to
convey the impression that they entered BY
forcing the door on the west side of the house,
it is very clear that they effected their object
simply by unlocking the door of the north
end of tho building Near this door was
found about twenty keys Of different sizes and
patterns, and with the keys, some burglars
implements. A number of new railroad
spikes was also among the outfit.
Mr. Hope has been missing articles from
his store for some time, and is now fully sat-
isfied that it has been unlocked and quietly
entered for that purpose. To avert suspicion
of entering the house in this manner, the
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-16
TRIP TO THE MOUNTAINS.

The scenery presented by the mountain
range forming Blue Ridge, Z grsnd and mag
ni6cent. Let US pass through Hickory Nut
Gap 1t is nine miles long, and beautiful
stream, Broad river, courses its way over its
rocky bed for nearly halfthe distance, appear
ing now and then in the path of the traveller,
not to dispute his way, but to gladden. him by
the sight of its cool and refreshing waters, and
to add life to the scene by its brisk and tu-
multuous movement. .... .. .
1t is, perhaps, not saying too much to de.
clare that the scenery afforded BY this Gap is
not surpassed by anything of similar kind
in the world. 1t is one of Natures pictures.
sketched in her highest style and finished in
her most consummate manner. Here are
found blended the elements of the wild and
picturesque, the beautiful and the gay, the
grand and the misunderstanding, indeed,
picture which enchains the beholder, but de-
flying all powers of description.
But to view the mountains as they are, the
tourist must leave the high way and penetrate
their recesses. This may be done on horse
back but as Christopher North remarks, if
10 lad or manhood, and accustomed to the use
of limbs, which Nature has given you, why
not be pedestrian and ascend the rugged and
precipitous cliffs? Then from their lofty en-
inence survey the wondrous panorama which
is spread out before you in the almost limitless
distance, and gather with your own hand the
wild flower which springs up in your path,
and suffer it not Ito waste its sweet fragrance
on the desert air."
Harris and Levauthorp's views, from the
top of Bald Mountain, are also worthy of
mention. Here We obtain a grand sight.
The mountains rise countless in number, vast
in extent, and superb in assembled grandeur.
On top of the mountain, bursting from the
side, is a stream of as cold and pure water as
earth affords, known as Murphy's Spring,
where the traveller quenches his thirst Huge
oaks shoot out their branches over his head,
forming beautiful canopy, under which he
may rest from the labors of the ascent, and
acquire fresh strength for the task of further
exploration. But who is adequate to de-
scription of such scenes but he to whom it is
given
ITO muse on Nature with poets eyer"
Pursuing our way, We reach the town of
Asheville. This town is beautifully situated
on the banks of the Swannanoa river, and
commands an extensive mountain prospect.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-16
SOTJTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Mr.. Thomas l.. Rogers died in Charleston
last week from typhoid fever.
York has paid the largest amount of tax
es on the July installmeut, Of any county in
the State, except Charleston.
Col. r. M. Sims has been elected an hon
orary member of the Georgia Horticultural
Society.
Mr.. Simon Langston, of Darlington coun-
ty, has a child one year old, whose thighs
measure eighteen inches in circumference.
M. F. Thomas, colored, Of Abbeville, has
been commissioned as Captain of Company A,
18th Regiment of South Carolina Militia.
The post band left Columbia last Tues
day, for the purpose Of joining the regiment
to which it is attached.
Governor Hampton left Columbia last
Monday night for White Sulphur Springs,
Va, where he will spend a few days in recu'
perating his health.
The annual exhibition of the State Agri-
cultural and Mechanical Society, takes place
in Columbia on the second Tuesday in No
vember next
Col. J. P. Thomas, at one time Supern-
tendent of the Arsenal Academy in Columbia,
is engaged in writing history of that institu-
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-16

ty.fve minutes. The weight of the ashes,
which contained few calcined fragments of
bone, was four pounds and eleven and half
ounces. The burning of the corpse was re-
garded as an interesting town show, for near
ly thousand people stood by while the roast.
ing was going on.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-16
THE FENCE DISCUSSION.

"Maul and Wedge" desires to be heard
again in reply to IF. H d." and develops
himself as follows:
"Come around again." says F. H. D. Please
give this place in your paper. make my own
good many widows and children that can't build
fence, and some have no place to build on. see
there are good many fast young men proWling
for himself and act accordingly. Not long ago, I
discovered an animal prowling about my resi-
dence. discharged the contents of my old shot
gun, to let it know that was at hand. did not
think hit calf. From the way it bellows, L
suppose did. If the rail-maker gets out Of en-
ployment, suppose he can have chance to pro-
cure other employment as satisfactory as that on
which be has been engaged. When you get the
fence law in good running order, will perhaps
see it. Now leave the case with you to work
out your own salvation with fear and trembling
7 am done. MAUI AND WEDGE.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-16
THE FENCE ELECTION.

The election last Tuesday on the question
of altering the fence law was conducted very
quietly in the different townships in which it
had been ordered. No undue excitement
prevailed at any of the precincts. While
colored men voted in favor of the proposed
change, there were white men-land-owners-
who voted against it. 1t was not expected that
the change would be voted for by majority
in York township; though the majority
against it would have been considerably re-
duced had there been larger turnout of
those who favor the change. The advocates
of the change did not vote their full strength,
while the opponents were out in full force
and were active until the close of the polls.
As will be seen, the question carried in Beth.
ell, Bethesda, Bullock's Creek and Catawbs
townships. After the system is put into oper'
alton in those townships, and its advantages
perceived, others will adopt it. Such changes
can only be brought about gradually, and
though it may be some time first, yet we ven'
ture the prediction that the time will come
when those who are now most violently op-
posed to the change will become its warmest
advocates. The following is a tabulated
statement of the vote:
YORK TOWNSHIP.
Against altering the Fence
In favor of altering the Fence Law,....""..'Zel
Majority against altering the Fence Law,...l5o
CATAWBA TOWNSHIP.
In favor of altering the Fence Law, ,.-........Soe
Against altering the Fence Law, ......""..'5'o
Majority in favor of altering the Fence Law. l3
KINGS MOUNTAIN TOWNSHIP.
Against altering the Fence Law, ........ Z52
In favor of altering the Fence Law,..........". Is
Majority against altering the Fence Law,... 1853
EBENEZER TOWNSHIP.
Against altering the Fence Law, ....... AO
In favor Of altering the Fence Law,... lo'
Majority against altering the Fence Law,... 73
BETHEL TOWNSHIP.
In favor of altering the Fence Law, !a6
Against altering the Fence Law. lou
Majority in favor of altering the Fence Law, 40
BULLoCK's CREEK TOWNSHIP.
In favor of altering the Fence Law, 29z
Against altering the Fence Law, ,............" III
Majority in favor of altering the Fence Law, Il
BETHESDA TOWNSHIP.
In favor of altering the Fence Law, 800
Majority In favor of altering the Fence Law, IS
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-16
RELEASED FROM JAIL.

On Friday last, Robert stinson, the old me-
gro who shot Abe Moore, and voluntarily sur.
rendered himself to the authorities-an &C.
count of which we published at the time-ap'
peared before Trial Justices Darwin and
Lewis, on a writ of habeas corpus, and after an
investigation of the case, was discharged on
his own recognizance in bond of one hun
dred dollars. The wounded man will recover.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-16
TAX RETURNS.

By a.notice of the County Auditor, pub
lished in our advertising columns, it will be
seen that pursuant to instructions from the
Comptroller General, the books of the Office
will be kept open at Yorkville for receiving
returns of property until the 1st day Of Sep
ton,hor .....-..
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-16
COUNTY INDEBTEDNESS.

Upon the petition of fifty taxpayers, Gov
ernor Hampton has appointed commission,
consisting of Cadwallader Jones, of Rock
Hill; s. E. White, of Fort Mill; and VIM.
C. Black, of Blacks Station, to investigate
and ascertain the actual bona fide indebted
ness of York county. The following is
the Act of the General Assembly providing
for such commission in the various counties in
the State, and under the provisions of which
the commission for York county are empow-
cred to act
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of
South Carolina, now met and sitting in Gen
eral Assembly, and by the authority Of the
same, That upon the petition of fifty tax
payers of any county in the State, stating that
said county is in debt, and that the validity
of said debt, or some portion thereof, is doubt
ed and challenged, it shall be the duty of the
Governor of the State to appoint a commits.
sion, consisting of three competent and dis
Greet citizens of said county, to investigate
and ascertain the true and real bona fde in.
debtedness of said county, who shall report
in writing to the bo .rd Of county commission.
or, u statement 6f:said 0osa fde Indebtedness,
and shall also report to the General Assem-
bly,, at its next session, the amount of said
bona fde Indebtedness. ..
SEC. 2. That the said commission shall
have the power to send for persons and pa
pers, be authorized to swear witnesses, and to
call all persons having claims to appear be-.
fore it, and establish such claims, after due
and sufficient notice, by publication of thirty
days in the paper of said county; that pend.
ing said investigation the proper officers of
said county and counties are hereby directed
and restrained from levying and collecting
any special tax for the payment of said past
county debt, created prior to the first day of
November, A. D., 1876.
Sec. 3. That the members of said commits.
sion shall each be entitled to receive 81 per
diem for each day actually employed in such
work, not to exceed in ell thirty days.
Approved June II, 1877.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-16
NOTICE TO TEACHERS.

We are requested to announce that the
School Trustees for York township, will meet
in Yorkville on Saturday, 25th instant at 10
o'clock, a. NJ. for the purpose of considering
applications for the position of teacher in the
several schools ofthe Township to be opened
at an early day. They must he based upon
certificate from the Examining Board, and
should be in writing, endorsed by number
of citizens who expect to patronize the schools
respectively.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-16
LOCAL AFFAIRS
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Joseph A. Mclean, Judge of Probate Citation
W. I. Clawson, Applicant-Lucian P. Sad
Ter, deceased.
Keenan, Brothers, Proprietors-Columbia Hotel
T. M. Dobson & Bargains Misses Shoes
Ready-Made Clothing-Men's Shoes-Biv
ingsvilleS Shirting- -Cottonades- Millinery
Guns-Groceries.
William J. McGill-McGills Mills.
Key Found.
WA. Moore, County Auditor-Ta1 Returns.