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# ISSUED TWIOB-A-WEBB:?WEDNESDAY -A.KTD FRIDAY. L. m. oeist & sons, Publishers. } % Ifantiig JJeutspger: 4?r fjromotion of the political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the |outh. J ces?KI!' VOLUME 41. ~ YORKVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1895. NUMBER 68. FROM WALL STRf VIA THE PR] BY AUSTIN Copyright, 1895, by the Author. CHAPTER VL Although I had the very respectable I balance of $65,000 at the bank, I had not as yet 6ince my arrival in London paid it a visit. This was in pursuance of our plan. So far I had only done business with the supernumeraries, and none of the people at the top had ever even heard of me. But we determined that they should not long remain in ignorance of the great American contractor, P. A. Warren. Three months had elapsed since our departure from London on our piratical tour to the Spanish main. In all nearly five months had passed since Green had frt fVin nl/1 n*hncA UiUUUU^OU UiV VV VUV v*v? impregnable vaults we had now at last determined to loot That in itself was a favorable circumstance, as it would give me a chance to flourish in a grandly indefinite way to the effect that I had for some time been a customer of the bank, and none of the officials would J probably take the trouble to ascertain how very brief, in fact, my acquaintance J had been. 1 I left London by the night mail from Victoria station for Paris, the first of j many hurried trips I took to the continent on the business we had entered upon. Truly we worked hard, spent money lavishly, brought all our power and genius to work?for what? To have the lightning fall and pitch us from our earthly heaven into prison's helL Upon my arrival 1 drove at once to the Hotel Bristol, Place Yendome, a swell hotel, where none but the greaf sirs of the earth could afford to stop. Here I registered as F. A. Warren, London, and at once sent off the following letter: P. M. Francis, Esq., Manager Bank of England, London: Dear Sir?I am a customer of the bank. Therefore I take the liberty of troubling you in the hope to have the benefit of your advice. Will yon kindly inform me what good 4 per cent stocks are to be had in the market; also If the bank will transact the business for me? I remain very truly yours, F. A. Warren. By return mail came a letter wherein I was advised to invest in India 4 per cents or London Gas. I wrote an immediate order to have the bank purchase ?1-0^000 of India stock and sent my oheck for that amount, on his own bank, payable to the order of the manager. I received the stock, instantly sold it and replaced the money to my credit, and the next day sent off an order for ?10,000 I Gas stock and repeated the operation until I had made the impression I wanted to make on the mind of the manager, so that when I returned to London for mv decisive interview and sent in mv card he would at once recognize the name, F. A. Warren, as the multimillionaire American who had been sending him ?10,000 checks from Paris. After the events narrated in the last ^ chapter I returned to London. I arrived early in the morning, and meeting my companions we had a long and anxious talk over my near approaching and all important interview with that great sir of the London world, the manager of the Bank of England. Happy for us if, in that interview, the manager had asked for the customary references or had used ordinary business precaution and 1 investigated me, or indeed had acted as any ordinary business man would have done under ordinary circumstances. Our known conclusions were that the fact that I was already a depositor, to gether with the impression made by the letters and my ?10,000 checks, would put the thing through. Yet we of course felt that a thousand things could arise to block our way effectually. A look, a word, a shadow or a 6mile in my face might ruin all, but still, after providi.V so far as possible for every contingency, after planning what was to be said or left unsaid at the interview, after my companions filling me full of advice, we felt, after all, that everything must be f left to my discretion to eay and to act as I thought beet This council of war was held in my room in the Groevenor. I had arrived from Paris at 6 o'clock Mac and I Dretutxaswja togemer at o. ueorge joined us at 9, and we talked until 10, aud then we set out together for the bank. Arriving there, they remained outside , watching for my reappearance. EnterJ ing the bank, I sent in my card?F. A. Warren?by a liveried flunky and was immediately ushered into the manager's parlor. He has long since gone over to the majority, so here I will not so much as name or describe him. Sufficient to say that as soon as 1 set eyes upon him I thought that we would have no partic/ ular difficulty in carrying out our plans. The manager, who had been told that I was a railroad contractor, expressed himself highly gratified to have uic do my business through the bank and said they would do all in their power to accommodate me. I told him that of course I was financing large sums and would require more or less discounts before the year was out. Then I came away, and meeting my two friends outside of the bank in answer to their eager inquiries as to what had transpired I told them that so far as the bank officials were concerned our way to the vaults of the bank was wide open. r So ended the last scene of act 1. The next day I went to the Continental bank in Lombard street and bought sight exchange on Paris for 200,000 francs, paying for it by a check ou the Bank of England. I was given a note of identification to the Paris agent of the bank. IET TO NEWGATE. MROSE WAY. BIDWELL. That night I left Victoria station for Paris. At 10 the next morning I had my money, and going to the Place de la Bourse, near the exchange, I commissioned a broker, who was a member of the exchange, to purchase bills in London for ?8,000. I cautioned him to buy bills drawn only on well known banking houses. About 8 o'clock he had the bills ready. I paid him the amount, along with his commission, and examining the paper found be had purchased for me about what I wanted. I will explain, for the benefit of any reader not conversant with financial transactions, that if John Russell, cotton broker in Savannah, ships a thousand bales of cotton to a firm in Manchester, the firm in Manchester authorizes him to draw a bill of exchange on their firm, payable at some London bank at three or six months' time, for the value of the cotton. We will say the price is ?10,000. Russell draws ten bills for ?1,000 each, 6ay, payable at the Union bank of London. He gives these bills to a money broker in Savannah, who sells them on the exchange and gets for them whatever the rate of ex change may then be on London. The president of the Georgia Central railroad may have ordered a thousand tons of steel rails in England for his road, and to pay for them he orders a broker to buy for him bills on London to the amount of the cost of the rails. He purchases the Russell bills, and these bills of exchange he sends in payment to the steel rail manufacturers in England; so, as a matter of fact, the president of the Georgia Central pays Russell for his thousand bales of cotton, but has the bills of exchauge. So, in place of ?10,000 in gold being freighted twice across the ocean, the ten pieces of paper cross only once. These ten bills for ?1,000 each, drawn on the Union bank of London at six months, in due time are presented at that bank and are duly accepted. Instead of commercial notes or bills they are now known as acceptances and are just as good as a bank note. Therefore if the owner, no matter who he is. wants the money at once any bank will discount all or either for the face value, loco thn infprficf Tn ovorv pnmmorr-inl center of the world these accepted bills are being discounted by banks and moneyed corporations for enormous sums, but by no bank in the world in such huge amounts as by the Bank of England. Its daily discounts run into the millions. What our plan was will be made clear later. The evening of the day of my arrival in Paris found me on the express speeding to Calais. Two hours past midnight I was on the miserable little passenger steamer that plies across the chopping channel and which I suppose has seen more of human misery than all the fleets that sail the Atlantic, for the channel has strong countercurreuts, and wind, tide and currents seem ever to be in violent opposition, and here E'er across the main doth float A sad and solemn swell, The wild, fantastic, fitful note Of Triton's breathing shell. And Triton (old Neptune's other name) makes all passers over this part I of his realm pay ample tribute for "his fantastic, fitful note." The Paris night express lands one at J early dawn in London, nearly alwavs weak on the legs, however. 1 breakfasted with Mac, and after that took the bills to the various banks on which they were drawn, and leaving them for acceptance I called again the next day and received them back, bearing across the face the magic words: London, Aug. 14. 1872. Accepted for the Union bank of London. E. Barclay, Manager. J. Wayland, Assistant Manager. Then I hurried to the Grosvenor, and we an looitea at mem wuu cunuaity, for it was upon the imitation of just such acceptances that our whole plan was based. Of course the success or failure of our whole plan turned upon this point. Is it the custom of the Bank of England (in 1873) to send acceptances offered for discount to the acceptors for verification of signatures? This is always done in America, and had this very requisite precaution been used by the Bank of England our plan would have been fruitless. Taking my deposit book and the genuine bills, I went to the bank and left the bills for discount. This was at once done, and the amount placed to my credit. I drew ?10,000, and that night found me once more one of 500 unfortunates paying tribute to Neptune. This time I landed at Ostend aud took the train for Amsterdam. There I repeated the Paris operation, securing ?10,000 in genuine bills. I returned to Loudon and as before left them for acceptance. Then my companion manufactured a lot of imitations and put them away with those previously manufactured to be all ready when the day came to use them. The genuine bills were then discounted. All the details of events leading through the long summer and autumn days of 1872 up to the hour when the golden shower began to fall on us are of intense, even dramatic, interest. I will not, however, lengthen the narrative by giving here any further account of them, but will merely relate the story of the last five days before the actual presentation of our home brewed acceptances. The bank had been discounting for weeks comparatively large sums for me of the genuine article, and our imitation was a close copy. Many thousand pounds of the genuine article discounted for me had matured and hnd been paid, and more thou.'ands were still in the vaults awaiting maturity and would fall due while our home manufactured bills would be laid away in the vaults, there to remain for four or five months until due. Of course a full month or two months before that we could pack our baggage and be on the other side of the world. But, as the sequel will show, the reality took on a different complexion from the ideal. My credit at the bank was solid as a rock. That means I had gone through the red tape routine. It only behooved us to use circumspection enough to avoid making mistakes in our papers, and fortune was ours. I knew everything was all right, but George, being a thorough business man himself, could not comprehend that it could be quite right. and ne insisted npon one supreme test. Any single bill of exchange is seldom drawn for more than ?1,000, rarely for ?2,000, and one of ?6,000 is almost nnheard of. But George had made up his mind that as a test, and to make an impression npon the bank manager, I should go to Paris and get a bill on Loudon from Rothschilds drawn to the order of F. A. Warren direct Could this be done it would of course make it appear that I had intimate relations with the Rothschilds, and as a minor consideration we could use the Rothschilds' acceptance?a pretty nervy thing to do, as Sir Anthony de Rothschild, the head of the London house, whose name we proposed to offer, was a director of the Bank of England and would have to pass his own paper for discount?that is, paper bearing his name, manufactured by ourselves. TO BE CONTINUED. ^Miscellaneous iicatling. CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. No More Divorce In thin State?DUcunMng the Suffrage. TUESDAY?TWENTY-SECOXD DAY. The committee on the right of suffrage made a report consisting of 15 sections. The most important provisions of the report are as follows : Every male citizen of the United States, 21 years of age and upward, who has resided in the State two years aud iu the county one year, aud who is laboring under none of the disabilities provided in the constitution, shall' be a legal elector. Electors inust be registered once every ten years. No man shall be entitled to register unless he can read and write any section of the constitution, or understand the same when it is read to him, or can show that he pays taxes on $300 worth of property. After January, 1898, the "understanding'' clause is abolished, and all electors must be able to read and write or must pay taxes on $300 worth of property. Lost registration certificates may be renewed. Any individual who may be denied a registration certificate, shall have the right of appeal to all the courts. Illegal and fraudulent registration shall be puuished by law. The following are disqualified as voters: Persons convicted of burgI .L-r. A.. .... lary, men, arsuu, uuuuuni^ ^uuus ui money under false pretenses, perjury, forgery, robbery, bribery, adultery, embezzlement, bigamy, or crimes against the election laws, unless pardoned by the governor. Also among the disqualified are idiots, insane per sons, paupers supported at the public expense, aud persons confined in public prisons. In all cases registration books shall be closed at least 30 days before an election, and at all general elections each of the two parties that cast the [largest vote at the preceding election, shall have equal representation on the boards of managers aud canvassers. In municipal elections involviug au ;issue of bonds, all citizens who have paid taxes on $200 worth of property, shall have the right to vote. No power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere to prevent the free exercise of the right of suffrage. The first discussion of the day came up on the divorce question. Mr. Henderson wanted to allow divorces for adultery and not to allow the guilty parties to marry again. Mr. Watson was against the grantiug of divorces for any cause. The discussion was participated in by quite a number of members. Only a few seemed to be in favor of divorce even for adultery ; but several wanted to recognize divorces in other States. Senator Tillman was one of these, and he made a speech in favor of the proposition. The convention would have nothing of the kind. By a vote of Sfi to 49, it decreed that there shall never be any divorce in this State, and all efforts to recognize divorces granted in other States were unmercifully snowed under. Messrs. Ashe, Brice and A. H. White voted against divorce, and Mr. Wilson voted for it. The vote of S. E. White is not recorded. Mr. Ellerbe's resolution to take a recess uutil January 14 came up. Mr. Ellerbe argued that the delegates had already given three weeks of time to the consideration of the new constitution, and now he thought it fair that they be allowed to take a recess in order that they might have the opportunity to look after their own private business at home. He also argued that the delegates would be better prepared for wise action after a recess than they are now. The propositions under consideration are new to most of the delegates, and during the proposed recess, they could not only have time to consider them carefully; but they could also see the people and get a better idea as to what was the best thing to do. Senator Tillman opposed the idea of taking a recess. His main ground of opposition was the fact that among the members of the convention were several congressmen and two United States senators. It was important that these be in their seats in January, and be thought the convention owed it to the people to go ahead and make the constitution without unnecessary delay. Ashe voted against the recess, and the other members of the York delegation voted for it. Next came up a proposition for a recess of ten days. All the York delegation except A. H. White voted for it; but it was lost? 86 to 53. The night session was taken up in the discussion of the liquor question. It was decided to incorporate in the constitution authority for the dispensary law as now on the statute books, and also to provide that the legislature can authorize the granting of license if it sees nt; duo never again snau uquor be sold by the State or by individuals, in quantities of less than a half pint, and UDder no circumstances shall liquor be drank on the premises where sold. On the question of putting the dispensary in the constitution, Messrs. Wilson, Ashe and A. H. White voted yes, and Messrs. Brice and S. E. White voted no. On the question of allowing the State to sell liquor for a profit, all the member of the York delegation voted no. WEDNESDAY?TWENTY-THIRD DAY. The first debate of the day was on the proposition to require towns that are divided by county liues, to decide as to which couuty shall have jurisdiction over them. The proposition was kill- i ed ; but it was provided that hereafter no county line shall be established so as to pass through any incorporated town or city. The next debate was on Governor Tillman's proposition providing that all factory towns shall be incorporated ( so sood as they reach a population of i 1,000, and that in factory towns there shall be no property qualification for j voting. I Senator Tillnlau defended his proposition with all his ability. He said ] that as matters now stood, the factory i authorities had complete control over t.K? nnerntives and ennld even dictate 11 J ?? ? j how they should vote. He wanted it arranged so that the operatives would be assured local government by them- i selves, and unless the matter was pro- i vided for in the constitution, they could not get it, for the reason that ( the factory corporations would control the legislature. Mr. Gage said that if this were the < case, it would be well to strike at the i root of the cancer and abolish either the factories or the legislature. He did not believe, however, in forcing a charter on anybody until they asked for it. George D. Tillman maintained that the factories had a right to control their operatives. No member of the convention would keep iu his employ an obuoxious laborer, and they should not require corporations to do what they would not do themselves. After several hot tilts between different members, George D. Tillman moved that the Ben Tillman proposition and all amendments to it, be tabled. The motion carried by a vote of 93 to 44. So factory towns are left to apply for charters or not as they see fit. Majority and minority reports were submitted on the article relating to education. The most striking features of the majority report are : (1.) There shall be separate schools for whites ; and colored. (2.) The constitutional ; school tax shall be 3 mills. If this , tax fails to yield $3 per capita to the pupils eurolled, there shall be an addi- < tional levy sufficient to make up the deficiency. (3.) The general assembly < shall provide for the raaintuinauce of Clemson and the South Carolina col- | lege. (4.) All profits derived from the ( sale of intoxicating liquors, except j such as go to town and county, shall go to the school fund. i At the night session, it was decided to leave it to the legislature to decide I how much salary that body should be ( paid. i Mr. W. B. Wilson moved to strike | out the provision relating to the anti- 1 dueling oath. The motion was lost 77 to 59. Wilson and S. E. White voted to strike out the section, and Brice aud A. H. White voted to retain it. 4 . t. ~ 1.. A. 1 _ ,1 T).?U *1... asiic !> vuie is not, recorueu. .duui iiik Tillmans voted to strike out the pro- i vision.. I Wigg, one of the colored delegates, i wanted to include in the oath "or in a < lynching bee," so as to debar partici- ' pants in a lynching from holding oflice. The proposition was killed by a uar- ( row margin. I The following was adopted : "The i marriage of a white person with a Negro or mulatto, or person who shall < have any Negro blood, shall be unlaw- < ful and void." 1 At this point, Bob Smalls created < considerable consternation. He moved to amend the section by adding the ! following: "And that any white per- i son who shall live and cohabit with a i Negro or mulatto, or person who shall : have one-eighth or more Negro blood, 1 shall be disqualified from holding any < office of emolument or trust in this State, and that the offspring from any i tuch living or cobabition, shall bear i she name of the father, and shall be < entitled to inherit and acquire property the same as if they were legitimate." Mr. Cooper moved to amend by striking out the last 32 words of the amendment, and Mr. W. D. Evans moved to table both amendments. This was done. Senator Tillman moved to reconsider the vote just taken, and his _ * . ? _ J monoD carried. It began to look very much as if the Smalls ameudment was going to carry as originally stated. Great confusion ensued and the convention finally decided to adjourn and wrestle with the matter again next day LETTER FROM BETHEL. The Ideal Condition* that Prevail In an Ideul Township. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. Forest Hill, October 2.?The fellow that suug, "Sometimes drunk and seldom sober; but fall of the year comes in October,'' didn't miss it very far. All through the month of September, we had the very hottest kiud of weather, missing even the usual equinoctial gale; but October came iu with quite a cool wave and early yesterday morning the bottoms were white with frost. There has been no killing frost yet though, and may not be so for some time. The leaves on the trees are still fresh and green, and ripe tomatoes may still be gathered from the vines. The dry weather, it is hoped, may ( last awhile longer, as rain now would , be of no benefit except to lay the dust. ' i ne mte cotton nous ana turnip paicnes are past redemption. The turnip crop did promise to be fine ; but the , farmers say now that there will be few, if any, made. The cane crop is very good this | year, and there has been a quantity of | molasses made in this community. Be- . sides there has been quite a quantity , of cane used for feeding horses, cattle, ( and hogs. Some of our farmers have not fed any corn since the cane got , ripe enough to feed, and they say that , their horses and hogs fatten on it. There has been more long forage , housed this year, and in a better condition than the oldest inhabitant can ] remember of having been saved. The corn in the field is very dry, | and shells off the cob like old corn , that had been housed for six months. < It is a good time now for those having coru on the river and creeks . Lo take the advice that Senator . Finley gave them some time ago, to ( gather in the corn before it was ] washed away by a freshet. Mr. j Finley's mythical lore does not seem | to have come directly from Jove, and ( ihe early freshet that he predicted f turned out to be a drought. Yet it is a long lane that has no turn, aud j when the wet weather does come, it may come hard aud last a long time ; 30 since the most of the crop is dry prinntrh to house. we think it would be v,,w-o- ? ? - 4 well enough to save what is made and not run the risk of having it swept ( away. The fruit is most all gone. There is , still a good many late apples and a . few persons have late peaches; but ! the main fruit crop consists of muscadines, winter grapes, persimmons and ' black haws. The persimmon crop is ! as good as I recollect of having seen, aud the lean hounds and opossums ought to get fat. This is good weather for chills. I was over at Dr. Campbell's a few days 1 ago, and Mr. James Stanton and my- i self went to the orchard and eat some 1 apples and finished up on hog plums and muscadines. I also eat a piece of j watermelon that the doctor was eating as we came into the house. Fearing that I had eaten too much and might get sick, I thought I would 1 ask Billy?the doctor's youngest boy? , what he had eaten since breakfast. So I said, "Billy, have you eaten any apples today?" "Yes, sir." "Mus- ' cadines?" "Yes, sir." "Hog plums?" ' "Yes, sir." "Watermelon?" "Yes, sir." As he had already filled my bill, I thought I would see if he had 1 eaten auything else, so I asked, "Any- J thing else?" "nothing except some ' grapes and raw potatoes," was the ' answer. I thought if Billy could stand it I could. I came out all right; but 1 Mr. Stanton and Billy paid for their 1 indulgence with a chill or two. I hear of some persons having chills, ^ DUt mis particular sccnuu is as a general rule healthy. The watermelon ( crop is about doue, and CufTee no longer sings : "0, de ham bone am sweet, and de bacon 1 am good, De possum meat am berry, berry fine ; j But give me, O, give mo, I only wish you would, . Dat watermillion smilin' on de vine." ' Cuff will have to be content with the bacon and 'possum ; but it appears tRat some of them want the ham bone J also, for they broke into Mr. Bone ? Campbell's smokehouse about two ( weeks ago and took two hams. 1 Mr. Clawson Warren has made a f quantity of the finest molasses that we t have ever seen in this country. They s lite made from .Siam Jelly cane. Mr. 1 Warren sent off for the seed, paying 15 t ients an ounce for it. The price seem- c 2d large; hut from the quality of mo- ( lasses made it was a good investment Dn Mr. Warren's part. t They have a hen over at Mr. Wm. ( Stanton's that believes in woman's 1 rights; so instead of laying the aver- J ige sized egg, she luys eggs about the f size of a pigeon egg. I don't think she wears bloomers; but I expect she \ 3rows. t Mr. J. R. Cook still has plenty of f ipples in his orchard. He has the best t selected orchard of apples in this part t the State. ] Mrs. J. M. Burnett has a little "Creepy cow" from which she makes a pound of butter a day, besides allowing milk for the calf. Mr. A. F. Weaver, of Greencastle, Penn., has returned *to his home, after having placed the new machiuery in Mr. George L. Riddle's mill. The mill now turns out us good a quality of flour as can be produced in the world. I know whereof I speak, for I have seen the flour aud eaten biscuit made from it. The ladies who are using it say that it rises nicely. Mr. Robt. B. Riddle is in luck. He found a guinea nest last week with 52 eggs in it. He said that when he first saw it he was almost willing to swear, like the fellow he heard of once, that it was as big as a falling leaf table and six eggs deep. Miss Sallie Campbell will attend the Industrial college in Rock Hill. Mr. James Campbell's little child has been quite ill; but is now better. Mr. Walter Garrison, who for the past year has been living in Bethel at Mr. McCulley's, died at his father's home last Saturday of iuflamation of the bowels. Mr. Will Bigger is the biggest game chicken fancier in the up-country. He has several yards of games from imported stock. He gets orders for his fowls from all parts of the United States. We have noticed a good many coveys of young birds lately, and sportsmen, after the 1st of November, will be having a nice time around Nannie's mountain. Mr. J. M. Barnett has a cherry orchard set out on the top of Burnett's mountain. The frost does not kill fruit on the mountain, so Mr. Barnett has come to the conclusion that it will be a good place to raise cherries and grapes. He says he thinks peaches will also do well tip there ; but that the soil is too dry for apples. Cotton is being picked very fast, ind every gin in this section is being run to its fullest capacity. The quality is fine as there has been no rain to stain it. Mr. George Riddle has 18 fattening hogs that are now in fine conditiou. He says that they have not eaten 10 jushels of corn. He feeds them on .vheat bran moistened with water, rhey ought to net, by killing time, >,000 pounds of pork. This is the grandest all round country on God's jreen earth, and there is no reason why jvery man in it should not prosper. Don't bank too much on cotton even f it does go to 10 cents; but raise hog, lominy and molasses. They will pan >ut more in the long run, aud make us uore independent and happy. Rumor says there will be a marriage n high life, in Bethel soon. x. ROCK HILL HAPPENINGS. Another Mill In Prospect?Mutter# nt the College?Personal Mention. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. Rock Hill, October 2.?Another Northern capitalist wants to invest ?5,000 in a cotton mill at Rock Hill. His proposition is for the citizens of 5ur town to add to his capital $25,000 TP Aim /tih'ionu ooa fit fn talra Lli Ul U< XX UU1 U1U6VUO uvv u v vv him up, we will have six mills with a total capital of $750,000. The directors of the Library association are making an addition to their already commodious structure. The additiou is of brick, and when finished, it will be occupied by Mr. S. J. Bell. Messrs. Hutchison & Cherry, insurance men, have recently fitted up for I heir Mr. Hellner, one of the neatest affices in town. Mayor Hutchison has decided to put an a force of night policemen. Mr. Bob Deas, electrician, is putting 700 lights in the Industrial college. Miss Sarah Ingold, has beeu appointsd superintendent of the linen^departinent of the college. The college is to he opened on October 15. There will be reduced rates on the occasion on the Southern and Ohio River & Charleston railroads. So far, there are 382 applicants for quarters in the dormitory. Prof. Brazeale, instructor in mathematics at the Industrial college, arrived on Monday with bis wife and diild. I understand that the condition of Rev. Dr. Thorn well, of Fort Mill, is considerably improved. Mr. J. J. Harrison has contracted vith Mr. Mitchell for the erection of a hvelling house on Flint street. Mr. Wilson Moore has gone to the south Carolina college. Mr. John N. Gaston leaves today 'or Due West to enter Erskine college. Doctor Perry's Prize Pics.?Dr. rl. M. Perry proposes to scoop the golden prize offered by The News and Courier for the biggest hog in the State. ile has fuiir Poland Chum pigs that irst saw the light of day on the 27th >f February. As the young pigstersihowed unusual growing qualities, Dr. ?erry commenced weighing them on he 14th of June and has kept a rec>rd of the results of each weighing luy. On the 11th of June the pigs weighid as follows : 106, 102*, 107J, 100. )n the 10th of July : 164, 158, 158, [55. August 7th: 218, 204, 210, 202. September 9th: 284, 263, 279, 274. September 23rd : 307, 279, 284, 293. The foregoing figures gives the veight of each pig. It will be seen hat the first pig gained 201 pounds, rom the 11th of June to 23rd of Sepember. The second, 176} pounds, he third, 186} pounds, and the fourth l93 pounds.?Greenville News.