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ROCK HILLS FIRST BALE.

The first'bale of new cotton was sold in
Rock Hill, on Wednesday, the 22nd instant.
Hwas raised by Mr.. j. NJ. Williford, weighed
$50 pounds, graded middling, and was
bought by Messrs Jones g. Robertson at -!
cents
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BURGLARY AND LARCENY.

On Sunday night last, between the hours
of and II o'clock, the dwelling house Of
Withers Ellis, colored, in this place, was for
cibly entered, and clock, hat, number
Of pictures and other articles, amounting in
value to S2O.25, were stolen therefrom. Cir
cumstances led toll suspicion that anegro-
a stranger here, who gives as his name AS
del Laney-was the guilty party, and on
Monday morning he was arrested, and after
an investigation of the case before Trial
Justice Lewis, that official committed the
accused to Jail on the charge of burglary
and grand larceny. An hour or two after
his commitment, Trial Justice Bell, of Clo-
yer, notified the officials here to be on the
look out for negro answering the descrip-
tion of Laney, who is wanted at our sister
town to answer the charge of stealing suit
of clothes. He is well dressed, in a new
suit, which, probably, is the one stolen.
He claims to have come here from Union
county, N. c.; but it is surmised that his
last permanentaddress in that State was the
Penitentiary at Raleigh.
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PERSONAL MENTION.

On Monday last, party consisting of Mr..
J. d. Colcock and wife, Messrs. J. w. Col
cock, J. r. Lindsay, John M. Hope and 7.
H. Glenn, started to Louisville, KY, to see
the grand exposition. Messrs. Lindsay and
j. D. Colcock will extend their trip to New
York, for the purpose of making fall pur-
chases for their respective stores. Mr.. j.
w. Colcock is on his way to Texas, where
he is in business. We are pleased to learn
that he contemplates returning to Yorkville
after next April, and making his future
home here.
Mr.. S. l.. Lowry will leave in a few days
for Abbeville, where he will enter in the
drug business as part proprietor of a store
already established there. Mr.. Lowry is a
practical druggist, a young gentleman OF
good business qualifications, and has the
best wishes of large circle of friends for
success ir his new home.
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for 80 600, has just been sold at Erie, Pa, for
S13, GOO. ......Seventeen million yards of
standard domestic cotton goods were sold at
auction in New York last Thursday. The
receipts footed up 50 1000, 900, the prices being
from 5 to 25 per cent. below what had been
the ruling market rates for similar goods
previous to the sale. .'.'.''''The Presidential
party were on the Yellowstone River last
Saturday, all represented to be we'll.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-08-30
DEATH OF II. J. BELL, ESQ.

Thomas J. Bell, Esq, died at his residence
in this place at o'clock P. NJ, on Wednes-
day of last week, in the Gath year Of his
age. Mr.. Bell was native of York county.
In 1912, he entered the law office of Geo. W..
Williams, Esq, and prepared himself for
that profession with which he had been in
timately connected ever since. AS an advo-
cate Mr.. Bell was jealous and earnest in be-
half of his clients, and when he undertook
u case, whether trivial or important, the
cause of his client was emphatically his
pending the progress of the suit. Since the
war Mr.. Bell has done more gratuitous prac-
tice for defendants, in the court of sessions,
than any other lawyer, perhaps, in the
State. For long period after the courts
were restored, since reconstruction, it was
the practice of the presiding judge to assign
counsel to the defendant in every sessions
case if the defendant was unable to employ
a lawyer. This assignment, in the courts
of York. usually fell upon Mr.. Bell, who
from this cause, and the fact that he often
appeared at the solicitation of defendants,
without fee or reward, won for him in the
courtroom the title Of "the poor mans
friend"
At the time of his death, Mr.. Bell was the
oldest member of the Yorkville bar, and
the last term of our circuit court was the on
ly one that he failed to attend since the war.
During that term he was confined to his
room with the illness which terminated his
life.
With the drawing of party lines by the
results of reconstruction, Mr.. Bell took an
active part in the politics of the State, ar
aying himself with the Democratic party.
In 1874, he received the Democratic nomina-
ton for the House of Representatives of the
State Legislature, but afterwards declined.
In 1876, he took an active part in the Hamp-
ton campaign, and was among the most
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government in that memorable canvass.
Mr.. Bell married daughter Of the late
James Brian, for two terms before the
war, sheriff of York county. She survives
him. Mr.. Bells obsequies were attended
last Thursday at II o'clock by large con-
course of citizens. The funeral services
were conducted by Rev. T. R. English, of
the Presbyterian church, who delivered an
impressive and Instructive discourse found
ed upon the 18th chapter of Matthew.
LIABILITY OF EXPRESS COMPANIES.
In our issue Of the 18th, was published a
short communication calling attention to
the fact that an express agent delivering a
package of liquor shipped to collect on de-
livery and receiving the pay therefor, COM
pleted the sale, and thus, though innocent
ly, violated the statute prohibiting the sale
of intoxicating liquors within the corporate
limits of Yorkville. The question being
thus presented to the Intendant of the town,
he at once addressed note of inquiry to II.
G. CASTOR, Esq, the Solicitor of this ciscuit,
to which Mr.. CASTOR replies as follows:
CHESTER, S. G., August %, 1888.
F. HAPPERFIELD, ESQ. Lntenddnt OF
YorkriUe: Having returned home yester-
day, now reply in full to yours of the 18th
instant, the receipt of which heretofore ac-
knowledged by postal card. l am satisfied
that the courts will hold that where liquor
is shipped to Yorkville C. o. d., that there
is no sale until the money is paid that the
receipt of the money and the delivery con-
stitute the sale, and that the express agent is
responsible. Very respectfully,
r. C.. GASTON, Solicitor.
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CHURCH NOTICES.

Presbyterian-Rev. T. r. English, Pastor.
Services next Sunday, at 1870 A. M, and
8. p. M.
Methodist Episcopal-Re R. P. Franks,
Pastor. Services at Philadelphia Church at
II A. NJ. and in the church at Yorkville, at
P. M.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian-Rev.
R. Latham, Pastor. There will be no service
in this church next Sunday.
Baptist-Rev. J. E. Covngton, Pastor.
Services at Union at 1890 A. NJ, next SUI
day. Sunday-school at the church in YORK
vile, at $50 A. NJ. Prayer meeting in the
church at Yorkville, Thursday, atS.35 P. NJ.
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DEATH OF MRS. HART.

Mrs. Margaret Jane Hart, the wife OF
James F. Hart, Esq, died at her home in
this place at o'clock last Sunday morning,
aged about ~ years. Mrs. Hart was the
daughter of Mr.. William and Mrs. Minerva
Ratchford, of this county, and was married
to Major Hart in 1868. She was of sweet
and kind disposition an affectionate wife
and mother and an exemplary Christian and
member of the Presbyterian Church. Mrs
Hart had been in bad health for some time
previous to her death. The immediate
cause of her death was pneumonia. Besides
her husband she leaves six children who
have the sympathy of the community in
their bereavement.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-08-30

UNJUST LAw.-The laws of South Caro-
lima prohibit the Sheriff from employing a
lawyer as clerk in his Office, and yet the
State, so to speak, makes the Sheriff judge.
In all cases which are contested, he is made
Judge, and unlike any other Judge, ne is
made responsible and accountable for his
mistakes. If Trial Justice, Probate
Judge, or a Circuit Judge errs in Judgment,
the higher court reviews his decision and
corrects his errors and the inferior Judge is
not sufferer in costs or otherwise, except
in the modification of his pride which may
follow the reversal of his judgment. Not so
with the Sheriff, If he errs in Judgment,
he is made to foot the bill of costs, and IS
required to make good in money, any error
that he has committed. With this unfair,
ness of the law which discriminates against
him, is it right to deny him the benefit of
the legal advice and aid Of a member of the
Bar, as clerk and counselor ?-Ad6@riHe
Press and Banner,
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portation within the meaning of the law.
No goods can be regarded as exported, if,
at the completion of the act, the thing
carried out has been returned within the
country. If cask of Madeira is carried
to Calcutta for the benefit to be enjoyed
after its return, this is not expectation"
He continues eff, then, an intention
exists to carry spirits now at Newport
News, Va, to Hamilton, Bermuda, with
the purpose, after landing it there, of
shipping it back to this country, l am of
opinion that there will be no expectation,
and consequently no importation when it
is returned, SO far, at all events, as to en-
title the owners to any privilege con-
nected with expectation or importation"
There would seem to be now no recourse
for the whiskey owners but to pay ma
turing taxes, and renew the battle for the
extension or removal of taxes not yet due,
as they undoubtedly will renew it, at the
next session of congress.
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The Color Line Again.

d. The color line will be drawn again at
West Point this year, so cadet of one of
the higher classes tells the country
through the New York Times. Alexan-
der, colored cadet, has been admitted
from Ohio, but it is announced by the
white cadets that social ostracism in all
its iron rigidity will be his lot during the
four years of his course. Only such in
tercourse with him as is absolutely re-
quired in the class room and in the ranks
will be endured, but the hazing, of which
most of the lowest class men have to en-
dure more or less, will be omitted in his
case, and in respect to ordinary discipline
he will probably be somewhat favored,
because "to treat him as other cadets are
treated would create the impression that
he was prosecuted on account of his color"
For what earthly reason except his
color" is Alexander to be thus exception
ally treated 7 The cadets seem to be-
taking the surest possible way to deepen
the impression they seek to avoid. In the
departments of the government, in con-
gress, at the colleges and seminaries, in
professional life almost everywhere, the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-11

A TUNNEL beneath the sea from Dover,
England, to Calais, France, was long ago
projected and work was begun. England
was seized with paroxysm of terror, lest
through the intrumentality of the tunnel
the fiction of Dorking should become a
dread reality, and work was suspended.
In his speech at the celebration of his
birthday at Birmingham recently, John
Bright spoke in favor of close and friendly
relations with France and then scornfully
alluded to the fear of national danger
from the narrow opening in the ground
through which communication with Eng
lands Gallo neighbors is sought. al
should suppose" he said, sit was neces-
sary to go to Bedlam to discover any one
who could have entertained such super
stition that, with 35,000,000 persons in
Great Britain and Ireland, of whom
100000 are grown men, they could not
defend hole in the earth about twenty
feet wide" And this is pretty much the
light in which the American public views
John Bulls CONSERVATION over the pro-
jected "hole in the earth"
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"man and brother of the colored skin is
accorded the courtesies which civilized
beings customarily extend to each other.
Such determination is in harmony with
the spirit of our institutions, and in ODE
dience to the precepts of common human
ity. But here is community of young
fellows, beneficiaries of the government,
recipients of advantages to pay for which
colored men are taxed, who take the
money Of colored men, hut announce their
purpose to ignore representative of the
race whose right at the school is as broad
as their own. Are these youngsters of
a finer mould than other students Are
they exempt from the courtesies prac-
ticed by their superiors, from the Pres
ident downward 2 1t is not case of
individual likes or dislikes. 1t is an Or
ganized, predetermined, tyrannical exer-
else of caste by the young men as body
so merciless that, were white cadet in
clined to allow the promptings of his bet
ter nature to have their natural bent, he
would be overawed by the consciousness
that he would himself become the object
of the blighting seclusiveness enforced
upon the colored youth. 1t is organized
violation of the spirit, if not the strict let
ter, of the national institutions, and a fit
subject for the interference of the national
government. If a military school is ne
cessity and the young men cannot be 9TH
erwise cured of their despotic exclusive
ness, turn them all out and start anew,
and repeat the process till the understrap-
pers learn the first principles of true lib
erty and independence. Concerning an
other aspect of this matter, the Springfield
Republican says at seems incredible,
however, that among the young men at
the national military academy, preparing
themselves for profession whose boast it
is that its members are all gentlemen,
there should not be some who are willing
to spare their comrade, their equal in all
rights, and in everything but complexion,
the long misery of four years of enforced
solitude. If there are none, West Point,
whatever its merits as school of techni-
cal military training, is not place where
the virtues of manliness, generosity and
courtesv fourish"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-11

The New York Times, referring to the
disturbances at Ely, justly distributes the
responsibility as follows: "By criminal
Encouragement a considerable sum due
the workmen was allowed to fall in arrears
of wages. 1t is highly improbable that
the laborers could lend the company this
large amount of money, and when bank
ruptcy or suspension seemed imminent,
the men rose in mutiny and seized prop
erty which, as they argue, is the product
of their unrequited labor. Of course, as
to methods, the men are wrong. They
can not pay themselves in this lawless
fashion. But the company, mismanaged
and deeply involved, is responsible for a
riot which, to the laborers, seems the
most practicable protest against neglect
and oppression. If the company has
been guilty of swindling its laborers, it's
outrage is not only on these, but on the
whole community, for it has compelled
the state to use, in the interest of crime,
powers that are meant for the protection
OF law and order and honesty"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-11

SANTA FE, New Mexico, is now in the
full tide of its tertio millenial celebra-
ton. 1t has continued ten days and will
last about three weeks longer. On the
opening day there was procession made
up of United States troops, bands of mu-
sic, Zunis, Aztecs, Apaches in war paint,
Spanish Mexicans and New England
Yankees and representatives of the hetero-
geneous tribes and races of that distant
country, with grotesque features in endless
variety. To keep up this stir for thirty
three days amid midsummer heat, would
appall community of the average age of
American settlements, but Santa Fe,
with its one-third of thousand years of
existence, may have acquired the patience
for complacent endurance and enjoyment
of the trying ordeal.
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Notes and Comments.

THE consolidation of internal revenue
districts is expected to save 100000.
JUDGE FREEDMAN of New York has
declared invalid the act of Mrs. Margaret
Gilman in leaving sum of money in
trust for the saying of masses for the re-
pose of the souls of herself and her hus-
band.
HARPER's WEEKLY 1T is more and
more evident that the democrats will not
venture to raise the cry of free trade next
year, and that the more sagacious demo-
cratic leaders are resolved to try hurrah
Harrison campaign, and to rely upon cry
of corruption" and "turn EN- out"
They will lack, however, the immense ad-
vantage which the hurrah campaign of
1910 derived from the business panic and
prostration of 1887. But in 1884, if the
country is busy and prosperous, change
for its own sake will be less seductive
cry"
KNOX, the editor of Texas SDfings and
Sheahan, New York sculptor, have
met son the field of honor" After
drunken dispute Wednesday night of last
week, Knox sent formal challenge, and
Thursday they went to quiet place near
Hoboken with two or three friends and a
doctor, and did battle at twenty PAGES.
Both missed at the first shot, and Knox
wanted to stop, but Sheahan thought the
thing had better go on, and at the second
fire Knox's arm was grazed near the
shoulder. Then the two shook hands and
renewed their interrupted friendship, and
all hands went to dinner.
HERALD AND News: eff we read the
signs of the times Alright, we are on the
eve of political revolution in this state.
In both parties few have controlled the
machinery and dictated the nominations.
There were signs of revolt all along the
line at the last election. In the second
congressional district the slate was
smashed and Judge Poland nominated.
1t is very evident the people propose to
make nominations next year and woe to
those party leaders who attempt to block
the will of the people. The machine in
both parties needs smashing and, unless
something unforeseen happens, it will be
smashed. The watchword for 1884 will
be " The Best Men for Office"
PROFESSOR HUXLEY, in an address at
the International Fisheries Exhibition,
pointed out that an acre of good fishing
ground will yield more food in week
than an acre of the best land will yield in
a year. Still more striking was his picture
Of the moving mountain of cod," l20
to $50 feet in height, which for two months
in every year moves westward and south
ward past the Norwegian coast. Every
square mile of this colossal column of fish
contains 120,000,O00, consuming every
week, when on short rations, no fewer than
100000 of behring's. The whole catch
of the Norwegian fisheries never exceeds
in a year more than half square mile of
this cod mountain" and one weeks sup
ply of the behring's needed to keep that
area of cod from starving.
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To the Sunderland disaster in England,
sacrificing hundreds of children, is added
the drowning in the Clyde of one hundred
and fifty persons by some stupidity in
launching the Daphne, as described in
our column of foreign news. Americans
are sufficiently unheeding of human life
and our cousins over the water have not
failed to remind us from time to time in
terms of habitual mildness and delicacy
of this among some other alleged national
failings America, however, must yield
to Europe the palm for moving acct
dents by field and by flood" and also for
the stupidity which was the cause of these
" accidents" Launching top heavy
vessel in this country would have been
instantly seized upon by experienced
Britons as evidence of the essential I'M
fitness of Americans for ship building.
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The owners of the eighty odd million
gallons of whiskey in bonded warehouses
are again in trouble. They failed to per-
suade congress to give them three
years extension of taxes due or to be-
come due. Then they tried to prevail upon
the Canadian government to 80 change
its laws as to admit of sending the whis-
key there for the purpose of "importa-
ton and evasion of immediate payment
of taxes. This scheme failed and then it
was announced that the owners would
send the whiskey to Bermuda to acquire,
by Immediately bringing it back, the ad-
vantage of three years extension of the
payment of the tax. But now Attorney
General Brewster has baked this game.
In his opinion the dues ON whiskey can
not be evaded by temporary removal of
the goods. "The payment of taxes on spir-
its in bonded warehouses;" he says, can
not be evaded or postponed by withdraw
ing them from bond and sending them to
Bermuda or elsewhere, with the intention
Of ultimately returning them to this coun.
try. Such shipment of whiskey with
such purpose and intention is not an ex-
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The amount of stamps imprinted on
checks and drafts received at the internal
revenue bureau for cancellation and re-
demption exceeds $35,OO0,0O0. The
words stamp redeemed " is imprinted
upon the checks and they are return
ed. Shipments of checks with stamps
cancelled are being made from the inter
nal revenue bureau daily. Persons hav-
ing stamps upon checks and drafts can
celed and returned to them, need not,
however, expect the money for the value
of the stamps so Cancelled for some to
come, as all such claims are referred to
the accounting officers of the department
to be audited before warrants are issued.
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An Ishmaelitish Coin.

Silver seems to be disturbing element
in the national currency, and the trade
dollar among silver coins is in partic-
ular manner the source of annoyance and
the object of mems buffetings. This coin
was never intended to circulate at home,
but has, nevertheless, found its way largely
into the channels of trade and is an end
less vexation. II is an Ishmaelite among
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-11

liz you are frequenter or a resident of a
miasmatic district, barricade your system
against the scourge of all new countries-ague,
bilious and intermittent fevers-by the use OF
Hop Btters. Ludington, Mich, February 2,
1880. | have sold Hop Btters for four years
and there is no medicine that surpasses them
for bilious attacks, kidney complaints and
many diseases incident to this malarial climate
H. I. Alexander.
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The increase for the last six months in the
number of failures is 1,6i7, or forty-fiye per
cent. The increase in the New England states
however, has been but from 541 in the first
half OF 1881 to 627 in the first half of 1882, and
767 during the past six months.
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In you have failed TO receive benefit from
other preparations, try Hoods Sarsaparilla it's
the strongest, the purest, the best, the cheapest
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Slafrhmar & gumrai.
WEDNESDAY, JULY IL, 1883.

TERns-s2OO per year, strictly in advance; $3.50 IL
not paid within three months.