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# % I issued twioe-a-week?wednesday a]\td friday. l. m. grist & sons, Publishers. } % .jfamitj JJcicspaper: dfor the promotion of the ?otiiicat, Social, Jfjricultural arnt Commercial Interests of the South. \ TERsii:ciVcopvvthree cknts!01" VOLUME 41. YORKVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, JTJLY 20, 1895. NUMBER 48. A DESERT CLAIM. I By MABI E. STIOOEY. [Copyright, 18M, by J. B. Lippincott Company. ] CHAPTER IL The buildings of the K 6 ranch were grouped in picturesque disorder on a little plateau dotted over with box elder trees, forming a natural park at a bend of the shallow creek. The small stream deserved its name of Big Cow creek only by way of comparison with a tiny consort three miles or so across the country, to which it became united a N few miles below. In point of beauty indeed both deserved fairer titles, but the early settlers of Wyoming were practical souls, given to considering every object with reference to their particular interest, the cow. In all the country round no fairer grazing ground might be found than this, where the cattle might revel knee high in grasses in this blossom time of June. The valley was walled in on either side by v abrupt, flat topped heights, revealing the boundaries of the ancient river, and along the banks ran a procession of old elder trees, gnarled and twisted as though they had joyously wrestled with the winds of centuries, their fresh foliage a glory of green and gold, while here and there an old cottonwood towered head and shoulders above the others almost somber in the dignity of duller and darker dress. Crowding down from the hills into luxuriant masses on the banks of the stream was a gay riot of Wild flowers of every hue, as if, for this brief carnival time of Bummer, nature had been minded to give beauty for ashes with mad prodigality. The house was a low, rambling struc, ture, complaoently violating every known law of architectural style in the series of additions which had grown upon the first settler's cabin, but within it was most ingeniously contrived for both comfort and convenience, lacking few of those luxuries that have come to be the necessities of modern refinement "It is not in the least an ideal cattle ranch," Edith declared, with a laughing affectation of disappointment. "I v- must reconstruct my ideas from first to last I came expecting to 'rough it,' and find silk portieres and Persian rugs, high art furniture and the latest books. I feel that I have been a victim of misplaced oonfidence; that 'the wild and woolly west' is a myth. This is a paradise. " She was lying in a hammock in the c shade of the wide piazza, that, save for one broad entrance way, was all walled in on its open sides with vines of wild oacumber. Through that wreathed opening one looked down a velvety slope of lawn to the creek, across which a noble group of trees joined hands, flickering lights chasing each other across the polished leaves as the light breeze buffeted the willing branches to and fro. A wooden bridge crossed the creek in the shadow of the trees, and resting on its timbers at one side a small flume carried water from the irrigating ditch on this side to the garden beyond, the tiny flow laughing, gurgling and rollioking on its way with ten times the noise and jollity of the murmuring creek below. Bet een the swaying branches one caught a sapphire flash here and there of the water winding about among the wild rose s. thickets, as though searching out the fairest flowers, its low banks guarded by a diminishing line of trees in-fresh summer bravery softly outlined against the misty gray of the 6andy bluffs below. Under the trees by the bridge, a pretty picture against the background of shimmering greens, a young woman in a brown cotton gown, bareheaded, and with well rounded arms showing to the elbow, was feeding a flock of downy chickens, the clang of the spoon beating against the pan calling her charges together sounding like an accompaniment of cymbals in the drowsy summer symit Calling her charges together. phony of bird song and the hum of insect life, the soft swish of many leaves, and the melody of running water. Edith looked at all the fair picture with exquisite delight, but most of all 6he looked at this girl. "You have not had time yet to find onf fKn fVirvrne V>tanno f V"? flin rncnc " vr?_ turned Nelsine, almost with an air of pique, being, in fact, rather given to a certain enjoyment in the littlo airs of martyrdom she assumed by reason of her social isolation. "I shall see nothing but the roses, my dear. I never saw so many together in all my life before. And to think that I actually have been wasting sympathy upon you, you wretched littlo impostor! You write charming letters, Nelsine, but you belong to the school of the impressionists. Your scenery is always de lightfully vague and sketchy. I had imagined you in a howling wilderness." "Well, I think the wilderness is here, for all the roses. You forget that one of the drawbacks of Arcadia is a lack of society." "No, 1 don't I count that in with the roses and other blessings. Society is a nuisance." "Ah, you are like a man who had just dined, crying out, 'Who wants anything to eat?' You have been satiated with the world, the flesh and the devil for the time being." "I have, my dear, certainly, and the last may take the first and welcome, 60 far as I am concerned at this moment," luxuriously swaying back and forth, enjoying the landscape with eyes half closed. "You are perfectly blasphemous, you couscienceless creature! I lament afresh that we are 60 miles from church privileges. " "What a relief it must be in the matter of bonnets 1" rejoined the girl, smiling incorrigibly. "For my own part, I shall appreciate the opportunity for finding 'tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones,' and all that sort of thing, without the drawback of a congregation, but I suppose there are neighbors somewhere?" her glance speculatively ranging the dis tant bills. "Ob, yes. Within a radios of 20 miles there are several families?such as they are. Good people, too, hot you know the type"?shrugging her dainty shoulders. "Nottingham lace curtains in the parlor and 'God Bless Our Home' in worsted work over the mantel." "I recognize the description, and is the yoang woman yonder one of the natives?" "Artalissa"?glancing down at th. young woman by the creek, who had now put down her pan and was gathering roses on the other side?"oh, Artalissa is from Nebraska!" ' 'Artalissa of Nebraska. What a fetching title that would be for a novel!" idly amused with the idea. "I believe she might tell a bit of a story if she chose. I have heard some hints of a romance. Somebody?I think it was her sister?married her lover," Nelsine explained, with the smiling indifference we accord to the tragedies of other lives. "And so Artalissa's heart was broken," Edith rejoined, regarding the girl with languid curiosity. "If it was, she believes in the theory of similia similibus curantur. In her limited sphere Artalissa is a dreadful flirt The boys on the plaoe are all dead in love with ber, for which I am de voutly thankful, hoping they may amuse her sufficiently to induce her to stay." "Death to the frogs perhaps, but"? "Oh, men have died from time to time, but not for love," replied Nelsine, calmly cynical. "If it is fun for Artalissa, I am not disposed to worry about the frogs. The servant girl difficulty is too serious in Wyoming to be squeamish about trifles?another of the drawbacks of Arcadia. We have more than work enough here for two girls, but even with the bait of $30 a month it is all we can do to find one. When I read of 200,000 working women on the verge of starvation in New York, it makes me furious. If only the sentimentalists and silly philanthropists would stop talking and writing about it and devote their energies toward bringing those starving women west, where they are needed"? "She is rather handsome," remarked Edith absently, her eyes following the girl. "There seems even a certain air of refinement about her. I should hardly have regarded her as belonging to that class." "Thraf: r-lnccl EYir rnfrr'n nnlfp TCdifh. don't breathe 6uch a reflection aloud!" cried the other in comical dismay. "Artalissa belongs to the best society?in Afcadia. She teaches a district school in the winter?with half a dozen scholars. In the summer she has done housework in certain well recommended families, partly, I believe, because of the little family unpleasantness before referred to, ou account of which she prefers not to go home, and partly because of a canny eye to business. And I suppose the next thing she will bo getting married. I live in fear and trembling? such havoo as matrimony has always played in my household. Never a girl have I had who has not left me to be married within six mouths of her coming. There seems a fatality about the place. I believe even you would succumb to the sentimental influence?hard hearted little wretch that you are?if there wa9 any man in the country whom you could possibly marry." "Do you think so?" and Edith looked away as she spoke, with an odd little 6mila "Speaking of that, do you know it seems rather 6trauge, dear, that you don't seem to find anybody to please you?" Nelsiue observed insinuatingly, hitching her rocking chair, a degree nearer. "I wonder how much longer you will keep us in suspense,'' regarding the girl with a sort of tender curiosity, a certain gleam of excitement lighting her dark eyes as she perceived a 6niile deepening and dimpling about the pretty mouth. "Not much longer, I think, Nelsine, '' the girl's face flushing faintly as she answered, with a soft little laugh. Mrs. Ellery's face, stiffened momentarily with surprise, was swiftly transformed to ecstasy. "Edith, you darling girl, you don't mean to tell me"? "No, I don't," she replied, with teasing nonchalance, "but I think I may before long." "You are not engaged, then?" her faco falling disappointedly. "Not irrevocably, but I have taken a couple of mouths to decide if I will be. " "And that was the reason of your 6ndden determination to visit us." jumping at tne conclusion with swift feminine intuition. "Well, of course it is lovely, but all the same I wondered, you dear, queer thing'"? "After you had invited me over and over again I confess I cannot see so much occasion for wonder if I finally came," the girl interrupted, with some genuine pique. "Mrs. Hallet was returning home to Denver, too, and urging me to come with her. Really my mind was almost made up to come before? this?happened." "It was sweet of you to come, darling, whatever the reason," kissing her rapturously. "But will you tell me when?this?happened, how it happened and all about it? I am simply dying to know. First of all, who is he?" "You will approve, I think. It is Marshall Woodbury." "Marshall Woodbury?of all men!" her face expressing glowing appreciation of the advantages of such a union. "You are to be congratulated if ever a girl was. But why did you hesitate, you perverse ohild?" "The woman who hesitates is lost," the girl murmured absently, her gaze following the line of the creek. "I feel rather lost when I think of it, Nel6ine." "It was not my way," pursued the other reminiscently. "When I fell in love with Hugh?ah, me, what a goose I was!?I could hardly eat or sleep until I was sure of him, while you"? pausing tentatively and studying the girl's calm face with a sort of puzzled wonder. "My appetite continues good, thank heaven," laughing unconcernedly. "And unless I dissipate with coffee at unseemly hours I still enjoy the sleep of the just." "You don't appear to have it in you to make a goose of yoursejf in that way like the rest of us," Nelsine protested, a touch of reproach in the tone. "You have flirted too much. It has spoiled you." "I have ? experimented a little," Bmiling demurely. "Be just to me, dear." "I don't know what you expected." "I expected a miracle to happen, and it did not I asked that the water be turned to wine, but"? "You asked too much. Men are none of them perfect." "But one must?experiment to find that out, don't you think? One must be educated up to the point of compromise. " "Oh, I don't understand you at all, you trying creature! Here you ought to be the happiest girl in the world, with such a chance before you?everything that, you could ask. To be sure, there may be a slight disparity in point of years; but," she added, with naive ingenuousness, bethinking herself, "there is every compensating advantage." "To be sura Let us never forget the compensating advantages, criea me girl, with something of sardonio mirth. "And I suppose you really do oare for him a little, or you would not even think of it" "I care for him a great deal," she admitted quite calmly. "If I am ever to marry at all, I am sure I could scaroely do better. He is really very nice." "You'damn him with faint praise,' as somebody says," Nelsiue declared,, smiling faintly, with a baffled air. "The question is not as to the depths of his affection, I take it. He is madly in love with you, of course." "Oh, as to that, I might say, in the words of the good book: 'He is of age. Ask him.' " A hint of sarcasm lay iu her rather mirthless laugh. ' 'To tell the truth, he appears quite?rational. I even think U is not altogether flattering to my self love, but I am rather persuaded that it was my talents as a housekeeper which principally won me favor in his eyes, and he is kind enough to feel that I may be safely intrusted with the care of the children. He is a widower, you know. And when affections are served up warmed over, who is it says of second love that it is merely a flower laid on the grave of the first?" "Oh, don't! How can you? When it is such utter uonseuse too. The adaptability of men's hearts"? "Oh, yes. The adaptability of a lobster in the matter of its claws. We have heard the comparison so often, and we know it must be true. Only if one were disposed to be exacting, unreasonably critical in selecting one's Jobster, the first growth of claws might'scem rather preferable on the whole, don't you think?" "Ah, that is it! I understand at last," cried Nelsine triumphantly. "You are jealous that he cared for another first. You really do care for him down in your heart more than you are willing to admit, you proud little iceberg. '' "Do you really think so?" Her smile was half sad, half whimsical, but there was no smallest blush of girlish con sciousness. "Well, do you know, I tell myself that a hundred times a day, but somehow every morning I have to begin the story all over again. It is like Penelope's needlework. Only I don't uudo it 011 purpose really, Nelsino. And don't look so discouraged. I am not yet wearied with well doing. Perhaps with two months more of repetition the statement will stick." to uk continl'ki) wkdnksday. His Explanation.?During the war old Rastus was asked by a Federal soldier why he was not out fighting for his rights. After pondering for a moment he replied, "Did yo' ebber see two dogs a-fightin' over a boue, sab ?" "Yes, oh, yes!" "Did you ebber see de bone fight?' % ittiocrilanrmK. Reading.. BACK AT "TAXPAYER."' Citizen Submits Facts anil Figures ami Issues a Challenge. Editors of The Enquirer : As no one has auswered "Citizen's" communication, he still invites discussion and answer as to the issuing of $10,000 worth of gold bonds. If any private individual who pays taxes on $500 worth of real or personal property desires to know who I am, he can get the information by calling on the editors of The Enquirer. He can then avoid'the folly of resorting to ridicule or personal attacks on private character. I desire to say that I have i wnwe an mcomparaoiy less proportion- ate sum has been spent on the common ^ schools. If this is true, and I have no 8 reason to beljeve to the contrary, I beg to say that I thiuk the whole thing unjust, and that the common schools are entitled to a much larger proportion of the public funds expended in behalf of education. But back to the subject. I am still opposed to the idea of asking the town of Yorkville to buy a wreck of an old building, even at the reduced price of $4,000, in order to get three rooms 20x20 in size. I think a more desirable school building can be procured at a much less price. Before concluding, let me say that since the question of personalities has been raised, I desire to make this proposition. So soon as each and every individual who desires to do so has had his say in this matter, let us all publish our names in order that the public may judge as to who and what we are. I would also like you to publish the following correspondence which explains itself. Yorkville, July 22, 1895. Mr. J. F. Wallace, Manager for the Owners of the Yorkville Graded school building : As one of the owners of the property, I have the right to know what negotiations, if any, are pending for the sale of the property and what price has been agreed upon by a majority of the owners: * * * Yorkville, S. C., July 22. Mr. * ? * ?; I have no knowledge or information whatever of any negotiations, pending or otherwise, for the sale of the graded school building for $2,500 or any nthornrii-A. J. F. \VA r.T.APE. With the above observations and * facts, I am willing to rest my case, at least for the present. Citizrn. c a ^ _ J TILLMAN'S PLAN. < How White Supremacy Way He Secured In g the State. I Senator Tillman has unfolded his 2 plan for regulating the suffrage ques- c tion. He promulgated it in a speech J to 600 people at Hunter's Ferry, in Barnwell county, on last Tuesday. A reporter of the Columbia State, who was present, reported him as follows: "I have given a great deal of thought c to this matter. The 15th amendment t is an insuperable bar to a permanent t and lasting arrangement. Any scheme f that may be adopted can only be tem- r porary, and will be largely dependent v on white unity, as it is upon the ad- r ministration of the law rather than in its language we must rely. This has v been the case with the registration f law ,and the eight box law. As loug s as 'no discrimination on account of k race or color' can be made, even an r educational qualification pure and g simple would only serve its purpose of r disfranchising the Negro while he re- t mains ienorant. How then can we s disfranchise illiterate Negroes without \ at the same time taking the right of suffrage from the same class of white t men ? It is easy enough and cannot c be called a fraudulent system. The f Mississippi constitution provides that f every voter must be registered, and 1 tbut the applicant for registration must 1 be able to read a clause in the consti- f tution, or be able to understand and Y explain it when read to him. The s right to judge of the latter rests with a the supervisors of registration. If the c applicant can read he must be registered, and, therefore, be allowed to vote. I "If he cannot, it is easy to see that a the Negro could not understand, while 1: the white man would. This is natural, r as the whites are the more intelligent i race. Couple a provision forbidding c registration after conviction for crime, 1 and require the applicant to be also t possessed of a good moral character, t and you can see how many thousands t always been in favor ot the grafted | school, and that I most cheerfully pay | the tax necessary for its maintainance, , though I have no direct interest in the | matter whatever. ! I am in favor of the constitutional < two mill tax for school purposes, and I | think it just and right that this tax j should be divided between the raceB. t Further than this, I am in favor of s ? prmeiflornhlA inprpntin nf t.bifl fftT if . the additional funds raised will be \ expended for the benefit of the com- < mon schools rather than in the interest higher education. < According to figures recently used c by Hon. W. J. Montgomery, of Marion t county?and I have never seen these f figures disputed?in the year 1893 the j State expended at the rate of $460 per { head on the students of South Caroli- j ua college. On the common school ^ pupils of the State, the average ex- ] penditure was $2.60 per head. On all the State institutions of higher education, the average expenditure was $206 per head ; and on all the common 1 school pupils in the State the average expenditure was $2.08 per head. Mr. Montgomery goes on to say that dur- 1 ing the past five years, the State has spent $1,000,000 for higher education, c Wednesday, July 31, will be observ;d as Children's Day at Salem church. The Hopewell and Broad River Acadeny Sunday-schools of York county, vill be fully represented among the ictors, and a general invitation to sverybody friendly to the cause is repectfully invited to attend. The 31airsville band is expected to furnish nusic for the occasion, and the ladies vill please remember that they are exacted to bring well filled baskets vith them. We hope The Enquirer vill have its representative there and ve will give him a hearty welcome. The Union County Veterans' assoliation will hold their re-union at lonesville on the 2nd day of August. Jeneral M. C. Butler, Judge W. H. irawley and other distinguished exoldiers are expected to be there, 'reparations are being made to enter!,000 people. The military encampnent will congnue from the 30th of fuly to the 3rd of August, inclusive. Sigma. t nnn tu it nudtm i triti/ A UUU 1I1A1 l\LJL All/ XX X illV/lki | A gentleman in Bristol, England, iwned a dog remarkable for both inelligence and devotion. The dog had teen taught to run errands. It was a >art of his daily duty to go to the neat market, carrying a basket in vhich was the money to pay for the neat. One day bis master thought he vould put a new test to the dog's aithfulness and intelligence. He intruded the man who kept the mar:et to take the money as usual, but to efuse the meat, and order the dog to ;o home without it. This the marketnan did, and the poor dog returned o the house dejected, melancholy and low, with ears and tail hanging, aud vith the basket empty. Seeing his master, he seemed to try o put on an air of cheerfulness, evileutly hoping that the situation would ie understood. But no ; the master rowned upon him, scolded him harshy, and bade him go out of his sight, rhis was almost more than the poor ellow could bear, and sneaking out, r le crept under a table in an outer f hed, where he lay for two days, to I til appearances in a state of gloomy y lespair. i On the third day his master called i lim out, speaking kindly to him again, t tnd the dog was wild with joy. Again i lis master sent him to market with the i noney in his basket. The dog went n, but this time he placed the money in the floor, and put his paw on it before ] le allowed the market-man to take t he basket. Then the man gave him i he meat; the dog quickly whisked 1 he money back into the basket and 1 trotted off home with both meat ana money giving them to his master with in air of decided triumph. Rules for Bicycle Riding.?A surgeon gives, in an English magazine, some excellent rules for bicycle riding : 1. Never ride within half an hour of a meal, which means either before or after. 2. Wheel the machine up any hill the mounting of which on the wheel causes any real effort. 3. See that the clothing round the stomach, neck, and chest is loose. 4. Have the handle bar sufficiently raised to prevent stooping. 5. Be as sparing as possible of taking fluids during a long ride. Rinsing the mouth thoroughly, as well as gargling with cold water, will quench the thirst as well as, if not better than, taking fluids into the stomach in large quantities. 6. Except the wind, roads, etc., be favorable, never ride more than 10 miles an hour, except for very short distances. Attention to these points will tend to relieve the pressae on the right side of the heart, breathlessness will largely be prevented, and even persons witn certain iorms 01 neari uiseaso may ride with safety. A Train Stopped by a Mouse.? On the Italian railways an electrical apparatus, upon the departure of a train from any station, rings six strokes upon a gong in the next station. The stationmaster at Capri, hearing three strokes when there should have been six, immediately came to the conclusion that there was something wrong an the line, and ordered up the electric signals of warning. The train, which was by this time under full headway, :ame to a dead stop. Then began a transfer of telegraphic messages. The passengers were anxous to know what was the matter, rhey waited while the messages went back and forth. The inquiry establish-J .L_ e?. .u:? ?,?0 ?U LUC met 11JUL CVCi Jblliu^ nao iiguv an the line, and the train was ordered forward after considerable delay. The stationmaster about this time thought it might well to look into his ' *ong, and there he found, stuck fast between the cogs of the electrical apparatus, a mouse. The unhappy animal happened to be in the interior of the clock when it 'struck one," and down he attempted to run, but was caught between the murderous wheels. His little body was big enough to stop the whole apparatus, and consequently the train, as well. Going Security.?I affirm that the jystem of indorsing is all wrong, and and should be utterly abolished. I believe that it has been the financial ruin of more men than?perhaps? all other causes. I think that our young men, especially, should study the matter carefully in all its bearngs, and adopt some settled policy to govern their conduct, so as to ae ready to answer the man who asks them to sign his note. What responsibility does one assume when he indorses a note ? Simply this: He is aeld for the payment of the amount in lull principle and interest, if the makjr of the note, through misfortune or mismanagement or rascality fails to pay it. Notice, the indorser assumes ill the responsibility, with no voice in the management of the business, and io share in the profits of the transaction, if it prove profitable ; but with a jertainty of loss if for any of the easous stated, the principal fails to pay the note. How to Copy Engravings.?To :opy engravings, mix 10 grains of bi-I * - 4 A OA r.C ;iiruiuuie ui puiasu aim ^ugiuiua ui sulphate of copper in one ounce of listilled water. Spread this mixture )ver common writing paper and let it Iry; then lay the engraving, face lownward on the prepared side of the japer, cover them with a piece of date glass and expose to the sunshine, 'n about 30 minutes a faint copy is jroduced in yellow. This must be .vashed over with a solution of nitrate )f silver (20 grains to one ounce of disilled water), and, when washed over i beautiful red picture will make its tppearance. Fix by washing in pure vater. If it is desired to change the ;olor of the picture, soak it in salt vater until it disappears; then hold it n the sun for five minutes, and the same picture will reappear of a fine ilac hue. BST* Nyack people tell of the followng incident that occurred at a wedling in the village : All went merrily intil the bridegroom was called upon ;o produce the wedding ring. In vain m felt in his trousers for the indispeninhlo nrtirlp Xnthi icr rnuId hp fnnnd ;xcept a hole, through which the ring lad evidently fallen into his boot vhich he wore. What was he to do? 'Take your boot off," said the parson, rhe suspense and silence were painul. The organist at the dominie's lidding struck up a "voluntary," the /oung man removed his boot, the ring ,vas found, also a hole in his stocking, ind the worthy minister remarked, ;vidently with more than the ceremoly in mind, "Young man, it is time fou were married." A Virtue Rewarded.?Mother? Did you give sister the larger part of he apple as I told you ? Little Johnly?Yes, mamma. "And did you feel lappier for it?" "Yes'm. Her part [vas rotten." )f Negroes will be disfranchised with- I >ut fraud or without infringing on the i L5th amendment to the United States i constitution. Should we ever have a government that would appoint regis:ration officers who wanted to enroll ! ;he Negroes as voters, this scheme ! would not work. But there is a dif:erence between having it in the constitution and depending on the eight 30.x aud registration laws. A de- ' 'eated minority of white men could lever obtain control of the govern- 1 nent by using the Negro vote. ( 5uch a minority must obtain control }f the government by obtaining a white ! Majority first, and it would then have nAo/1 nf Vi A Vonrrn ] JU UCCU U1 lUt J.1 ^glVi "Another safeguard would be to provide that no illiterate person failing of :he necessary requirements for registration, will be eligible after the first slection, and that after five years the equirements for registration be the ibility to read and write pure and simple. This would act as a spur to :nen of both races to fit themselves for the suffrage, and would not perpetuate the confessedly obnoxious but necessary provisions of trusting to the judgment of the supervisor. The charge that such a system would perpetuate iishonest elections is false." Continuing, Senator Tillman paid: 'If this scheme is not adopted, then, so far as I can see, there is nothing else ,o do but have qualified woman's sufrage and hide behind petticoats. I am perfectly willing to give the women of South Carolina the right to vote when hey ask for it, hut I don't believe they vant it, and until they do ask for it, [ prefer the other plan." LETTER FRoVuJlON COUNTY. Death of Mrs. Rbyne?A Bloody Tragedy Recalled?Children's Day?Big Reunion on August 2. Jorrespondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. Etta Jane, July 20.?Mrs. Ua Rbyne lied at her home in Gastonia, N. C., >ne day this week, after an illness of [4 days, with typhoid fever. She left i husband and three children (the ,'oungest being only 9 months of age) ind a host of relatives and friends to nourn her loss. Mrs. Rhyne was a native of this sounty and has a history which many >f the older people of Western York vil! remember, and which probably, vill not be amiss to report here, briefy. She was the infant daughter of Dr. Alexander White, who was asassinated on the night of August 24, 1865. He was sitting at the window vith the child on his knee. She be:ame fretful, and as her mother took ler from his arms to quiet her, a flash rom the outside and a report from a leavily loaded gun rang out upon the ur, and before its echo had ceased o reverberate among the hills of Abngdon creek, the immortal spirit of Alexander White had returned to the Dod who gave it. One moment longer ind the child would have shared the ; ate of its father. t