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Scraps antl |acts. ? Those who have ihe impression that mountain fastnesses are the misplaces in which "moonshine" distilling is carried on, are badly wrong. The big cities of the country harbor as many moonshiners, probably, as the mountains. A dispatch of lust Friday tells of the capture of two illicit distilleries in New York city, during one day. Both were running in full blast, and each was turning out whisky at the rute of about 70 gallons a day. Four distillers were arrested and held in $2,500 bail each. ? Wilmingtou Messenger, January 27 : The five compulsory vaccination doctors coulinued on their rounds yesterday, and got iu a good day's work. In the two days they have vaccina?..! 1 ftftfl nunrilp At. inilllV ICU QUUUb x jvvv |/w^iv. houses they received a warm reception and they have some thrilling experiences to relate. One of the colored doctors was refused admittance to a colored womau's house, and armed with nothing but his vaccine poiuts, he was made to staud hack before a trusty axe. Auother doctor was held at bay by a colored mau who got bis guu aud dared him to cross his threshold. Two colored policemen who started in to arrest him were also made to staud back. This will be a case for the criminal court and the offender will repent his. folly when he is hauled up for his use of a deadly weapon. . ? The loug controversy over the question as to whether champagne or Keulueky whisky should be used in the ceremony attending the launching of the battleship Kentucky, has been settled by an agreement to use the water from a Kentucky spring. At the christening, Miss Bradley, the fair sponsor, will uncork a beautifully embellished silver vessel full of pure water. Ou the farm in Larue county, where Abraham Lincoln was born, there is an unfailing spring of cold, crystal water, where, in his boyhood, the great emancipator was wout to slake his thirst, using gourd or leaf dippers. The idea is to have a committee formally visit the spring, fill a silver vessel with sparkling water and seal it with appropriate ceremonies. Then the vessel will be given to Miss Bradley, who will guard it as a sacred * -r I 1.: trust until me nay 01 uh-mmu^ m<r seal on board the Kentucky. ? Columbia State: For once the London Times gets a focus on the financial situation iu the United Stales. The free silver votes in the senate are, as it says, the more portentous because McKinley has just renounced his silver faith. Those votes were cast, in fact, in direct reply to the president's speech at the banquet of the Manufacturers' association iu New York, where at a $15,000 (able in a $10,000,000 hotel, and in the presence of 1,000 men representing nearly a billion dollars of capital, he went over finally to the gold standard. It was a blow full iu his face that the senate deals, and it was meant to be such. The assurances of the Hannaized executive will doubtless fix his own course; but the uprising in the senate suggests that the course of the people will be quite different. Gold was on the banquet table but silver is in the air. ? One of the Charlotte Negroes who had ''smallpox," died Weduesday ; but whether from smallpox or other causes, has not clearly appeared. The Charlotte Observer, of Saturday, contaius the following account of a circumstauce growing out of the burial : Jo. Carter, Ed DeBruhl, Sam Foreman and Alex Harris, colored, are sadder and wiser men than they were Thursday. When Chief Orr called for volunteers Thursday to bury William Jackson, the smallpox patient, the four men mentioned above responded. DeBruhl, who drives for Dr. J. P. McCombs, was especially promiuent. He sat on the box which contained the corpse as it * -? .1 . ^ was OClUg IIUUICU iu luc truicmj. The four acted as pallbearers when the cemetery was reached. Yesterday morning early the pallbearers were called together, and under escort of Officer Hall, were taken to East branch, where the water is about 4 feet deep, and made to undergo prolonged ablutions. Disinfectants were used and the clothes of each burued, the city furnishing them entire new outfits. The matter of quarautiuing them was discussed ; but it was decided that that was not necessary. ? The Spaniards have succeeded in killing General Nestor Arauguren. Arangureu is the general who recently killed the Spanish Colonel Ruiz. Ruiz and Arauguren, it seems, were personal friends, and ostensibly upon a mission of friendship, Ruiz paid a visit to the insurgeut lines where he met Arauguren. Alter au exchange of conventionalities and general conversation, Ruiz began to induce Aranguren to accept autonomy. In accordance with a fair warning previously published by General Gomez, Arangureu had Ruiz killed on the spot. Since that tragedy the Spaniards have been after Arauguren. They learned that the general was accustomed to visit the house of a sweetheart at a place called La Pila Eu Eliuoute. The house was visited by a large force of soldiers one day last week, and Arauguren was found there. He admitted his identity and was promptly shot dowu. The bullet did not kill him at once and a soldier thrust a bayonet through his head. Some accounts say that Arangureu's sweetheart was also killed; but this is denied iu the Spanish versions of the story. ? Postmaster General Gary has is* I ? .1 i.? sueu an oruer cuangmg mo w.wt w. the one cent stamp from hlue to green. In about two weeks he will follow this by another order changing the brown " cent stamp to a dark blue. This action is in accord with the resolution adopted at the meeting last summer of the I'niversal Postal congress making uniform the colors of the one cent, two-cent and 5 cent stamps or their eijuivalents. " No change will be made in the color of the two-cent carmine stamp, because the postmaster general thinks that it sullieiently conforms to the color decided upon for that issue, red. Later some alterations in colors of stamps of the higher denominations will be made so as to prevent the duplication of colors which will follow as a result of the chunge already and about to be au - ^ thorized. The new issue will not iu < any manner invalidate those of siini- t lar denominations now in existence, ' which will be received for small mat- , ter used until their supply is exhaust- , ed. The agreement of the postal congress was to go into operation on the 1st of January, 1899, but General Gary felt that inasmuch as there was I nothing to prevent the changes earlier t than that date, they may just as well a he made at this time. r - - i islir \lorkvillc (Enquirer. ? ^ r YOItKVlLLE, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, FEB'RY 2, 1898. ? Upon the passage of the bill, for the repeal of the anti-free pass law the other day, Mr. McCullough proposed an amendment which provided that members who use free passes must not charge up mileage to the state. Hut ibis amendment the members refused to consider. ? Representative Witherspoon has introduced a bill to prohibit buntiug on the lands of another without permission of the owner. Such a law would play havoc with a long established custom in this state which is generally regarded as a right; but, at the same time, it would be just and proper. ? The Florence Reform Advocate wants elections every summer. It says: "We call on all newspapers to exert their influence against the passage of the bill proa a form nf fnnr vears for all elective offices. Such a law would cut the editors' s profits from candidates' cards about 25 | per cent., and, therefore, cannot be en- g dured by the members of the fourth ( estate." 1 ? Senator Fairbanks says that the first shot in a war with Spain will briug the United States to a depreciated silver basis. We have not been much in favor of war heretofore ; but if what the honofable senator says is true, some one will please . shoot. It was John G. Carlisle who truly said that war and pestilence are not nearly so destructive as the single gold standard, and as Mr. Carlisle was at his best then, there is reason to believe that what he said is .true. ? The fight in the senate, the other day, over the Teller resolution, was virtually a 1 fight for free coinage, and the vote by ' which the resolution was passed, shows 8 the sentiment of the senate on the most * important issue before the people. That the resolution can pass the bouse, nobody * has any hope, and notwithstanding the r fact that President McKinley voted for it 1 20 years ago while a member of congress, c there is little reason to believe that he 1 would now sign the resolution should it ' come to him from the house. But it is j not so much because times have changed. It is more on account of the changes in l men. ? I ? Judge Simonton has filed another dis- 1 pensary decision against the state. It ' was in the case of the town of Elko. 1 Previous to the passage of th? dispensary * law. Elko had the right to license the sale of liquor and did so. Upon the passage of the dispensary law, the necessary requirements for the establishment of a dispensary were not complied with and no dispensary was established. The legal sale of liquor was, therefore, discontinued. Bluenthal <fc Bickhart opened an original package shop ; but the governor promptly had it closed on the ground that inasmuch as the state was not selling liquor at that point, outsiders had no right to do so. Judge Simonton, in his decision, repeats what he has already held that the dispensary law is not an exercise of the police power; that prohibition does not exist at Elko, and although the state has not sought to sell liquor there, it re- 8 serves the right to do so, and that people living outside of the state have a right to sell liquor in original packages wherever the state has a right to sell it. The def cision, therefore, is against the state and in favor of Bluenthal A Bickhart. _ t ? Commenting upon the concealed 1 weapon bill recently reported by the f house committee, The News and Courier ( suggests the desirability of an amendment 1 providing that any citizen of character 1 may get from the police a permit under ' which he can carry a concealed weapon 1 without violating the law. Thesugges- ( tion is a good one. The people who make 1 the concealed weapon law necessary are people who do not respect any law whatever. They will not be affected by the law now proposed, except when they are j detected in its violation. These people are a perpetual menace to law abiding citizens. No law abiding citizen would ever carry a ( tfhcealed weapon from choice. There are times, however, when any given citizen feels it necessary to have a weapon with which to protect himself against possible attack by thugs of the character just mentioned. There ought to be, therefore, in the law some provision for the benefit of those law abiding citizens. Tt is well enough, as The News and Courier suggests, to arrange that upon application to the proper authorities, they may secure the right to go armed. Then they will never be put in the peculiar position of having ? .i , ,i.? r,?. ti.oin IO VIOlillC I III! 1.1WS III III*." mull nil I..v.. own personal protection. ? 'I'lic postolliee department is growing < more active in its effort to protect its 1 patrons from swindlers. Lately, many t people who have hit at big otters that l they have seen in the gratuitously eircn- < lated "newspapers," of the kind at which i the Loud bill strikes, and in "patent t outsides," have sent money according to i iirections and been surprised to receive heir letters back marked "fraudulent." rhis has occurred at the Yorkville post>llice several times lately, and we have 10 doubt that it occurs just as frequently it other postofllces of equal importance. L'he fact is the government has instructed a - - * - -- 1 1 MA o i' tltA /1/S11 n f wtt JOSimasiers 111 Mil parts ui me tTuimttj o look after the local swindlers who are ilways trying to trap the innocent, and efuse to deliver mail to them. Of course, totwithstanding the vigilance of the government, a great many people get swinlled by dealing with frauds of the kind eferred to, and the safest thing is for hem to pay no attention whatever to foreign advertisments, in gratuitously disributed newspapers, however alluring inch advertisement may be. The newsjapers referred to, which are sent outgrauitously, are not sent without an object, md as a rule the greater the apparent iniucement held out by these foreign advertisements, the greater is the swindle. ? The bill to place telegraph and express companies under the jurisdiction of he railroad commission, and which has jassed the bouse, was expected to come ip in the senate yesterday. Whether it jag yet been disposed of The Enquirer ias not learned. This bill had its origin n this section and was introduced in the ;enatt at the last session by Senator Love, [t was killed by a small margin; but laving been introduced in the house at he same time by Representative deLoach, and not being acted upon at the ast session, came over to the present sesdon, and, as stated, passed the house. The feeling that the railroad and express companies, both monopolies, should be subject o some kind of government control, is feneral. The principal trouble in these parts has been with the express company. \s to whether or not the charges of that organization are unreasonable we are, of ;ourse, unprepared to say. But this, as ve understand it, is not the principal source of complaint. There seems to be jut little uniformity as to rates. The iaine package carried over the same disance, at two different times, is liable to oe charged for at different prices, and hen local merchants have had the expedience of having to foot larger bills when hey paid express at this end of the line, ban when the charges were paid at the shipping point, especially when that shipping point is in the north. This gives the dea that shippers at the north enjoy ower express rates than shippers at the south. All the^e things have gone to wild up well-founded dissatisfaction ; wt now begins to arise the question in >ur mind, suppose the bill becomes a law, vhat benefit will it be to the public. If he railroad commission is of any value n the regulation of the railroads, we confess that we are unable to see it. For intance, Yorkvilleand York county should iave the benefit of much better schedules. Vnd if the raijroad commission does not prevent discrimination on the part of the ailroads, how are we to expect it to help is in regard to telegraph and express ompuuies. That the object of the bill inder discussion is along the right line, here is no question. We feel some of he abuses. Others feel them. We have ieen active in trying to have the railroad md express companies put under the juisdictiou of the railroad commission ; >ut we confess that we have a fear that >ur efforts have not been along the right ine. Unless something is done to prod ip the railroad commission, we are satisied of it. ? The Atlanta Journal is quoting <?eo. P. Rowell A* Co. to prove that it has the argest circulation of any newspaper pubished in the south. A wonderful impression this statement is calculated to nake on the general public ; but to peo>le who are familiar with the newspaper msiness, it is ridiculous. And one of the irst questions that the general public vill be inclined to ask is, why is it that ieo. P. Rowell & Co. are so much better mthority on The Journal's circulation ban is The Journal itself? But that is lot the true inwardness of the situation. Pirst-class newspapers know <?eo. P. ttowell A* Co. and similar concerns, only is big blackmailing agencies which make t business of swindling the newspapers >n the one hand and their customers on he other. As a matter of fact, they are igents ot neither the newspapers or the idvertiser; but simply unscrupulous (harpers who live by their wits. Take he Rowell concern for instance. It isofen quoted as The Journal has just done, is an authority. Its method is to send >ut circulars to the newspaper's asking "or the facts as to their circulation. Someiines the newspapers answer and somelines they do not. The newspapers .vhieh do not answer are usually govern)d by their knowledge that no matter vhat may be their circulation, its quotaion in the directory will do them neither ;oodor harm ; while others who are with>ut circulation or other merit, and with lothing to swear by, send in their igures to the advertising agency, so as to lave something to prove their statements ibout circulation. But so far as Row >11 A Co. are concerned, they care little vhether a newspaper answers their questions or not. If the newspaper answers, hey quote the figures as given, ami if it loes not answer, they (ill in the blanks to suit their own notions; generally, howiver, taking care to put the figures lower ban they ought to he in the hope of compelling more consideration next time. Then during the year Howell A Co. puIrish a weekly journal called Printers' Ink. It is filled with advertisements, some genuine and others bogus, or sit east of highly responsible newspapers .vhich have not authorized such adveriscuients. The idea is to catch the little fellows who can be induced to bite because the big ones are supposed to have ntten. Then again, t he 52 issues of Prin:ers' Ink are so managed during the year :hat in one or the other of the issues, rach paper in a given territory will be made to appear to have a larger circulaion than any other paper in that territory, and during the year each and every paper can prove by Printers' Ink that it is the "leader of its class." And these are the people, and this is the kind of authority that the Atlanta Journal is quoting to prove that it has the largest eireution of any paper in the south. The Journal is a very good newspaper. That it has not got the largest circulation of any newspaper in the south we will not say, for the reason that we do not know. Hut we cannot think for a minute that it is not fully aware cf the fact that Geo. P. Rowell ?fe Co. are the princes of swindlers and blackmailers, and when The Journal I quotes Ueo. f. Kowen iv V/O. w> uuwici um | a fact that would be of more weight when stated on its own unsupported testimony, why it just gives us that much less respect for The Journal?that is all. ? The story of Mount Vernon church, published on the lirst page of this issue, is just about complete enough to show how valuable would be the history of that congregation were it written up in full. In getting up the information for this sketch,- the writer ran across the trail of other facts which would have greatly helped the story had it been practicable to develop these facts to their fullest extent. However, the story is quite interesting as it is, and may, sometime, prove a great convenience to someone else who may undertake a more elaborate sketch. Not only this, as the result of our investigations we are from time to time picking up many valuable points which will add not a little to some of the stories that are to follow. RACE WAR IN ARKANSAS. Kloodshed In Expected as the Result of Old Troubles. The town of Louoke, in Lonoke county, Arkansas, is in a ferment on account of the imminent probability of a bloody outbreak between the whites and Negroes. A dispatch of Sunday describes the situation as follows : "The situation at Lonoke continues critical. According to trustwoitny reports received here today, Negroes are leaving there in droves and business is almost at a standstill. It is hard to get reliable information concerning the situation from the usual news sources, but parties arriving here from Lonoke report a reign of terror prevails and that affairs are in a worse condition than last uight. "A traveling salesman came op from Lonoke this afternoon. He said peaceable Negroes who have lived in Louoke for years, are taking their families and leaving tow n. The younger Negroes are sullen ami defiant. He says that business is at a standstill, and that he had to leave there because he could do no business. He suid (hat there is a well organized movement among an element of whites to run all Negroes out, and that a meeting of white men was to have b< en held this afternoon to devise plans for carrying out this purpose. "Oscar Simonton, the Negro merchant who, a month ago, escaped from a party of would-be lynchers after being seriously wounded, has been summoned to appear before the grand jury, which convenes February 7. Simonton has called on Governor Jones and expressed the fear that if he returns to testify he will be killed. He has appealed to the governor for protection, and has been assured that it will be given. If necessary, Simonton mill lw? psi-nri-.pd to Lonoke bv a com puny of uuilitia. The trouble iu Lonoke couuty dates hack ahout 25 years. At that time three white men, all prominent, were killed by Negroes. The crime resulted in a ruce war, in which numbers on both sides participated. A party of whites took refuge in a swamp, whieb was surrounded by Negroes, ami a terrible battle took place before the besiegers were routed. Ever since there has been more or less trouble in Louoke county. The feud then started has been continued by the sons and relatives of the three murdered men und many tragedies have resulted. It is not to he understood that the bitter feeling against the Negroes extends to all of the white iuhabilauts of Lonoke couuty. Many white citizens have done all in their power to prevent the trouble and deplore the situation ; but they have been unable to prevent it. Some white property owners of Lonoke are trying to dispose of their property aud express their iulentiou of moving away." Thb Governor's Appointments. One of the reasous of Ellerbe's uupopularity with politicians was brought about by his indepeudent course iu making appointments. The first of importance was a United States senator. The governou believed that Juo. L. McLaurin was well qualified for the place, and his record in the lower house of congress showed hi in to have merited promotion without cousulliug anyone; he appointed McLaurin and the people endorsed that appointment by electing McLaurin with overwhelming majority. But the appointmeut of McLaurin caused lots of murmurings among the politicians ; every fellow who held a big pluce imagined himself lU- J,.ki fill ,.l.w.o mal|? uic i i^ui luau iu mi iiic |'i?vv ujmuv vacant by the death of Earle, and when McLaurin was selected there was weeping and oaths recorded to take Ellerbe's scalp. Then the governor had another appointment to fill ? the comptroller general's office? made vacant by the resignation of General Norton ; again the politicians perched themselves upon the political fence with mouths wide open ready to catch the crumb; hut when the governor came along and went on up the road to oiler it to a man who was not looking for the place, there wus a general flopping of wings and screeching.?Manning Times. Ankeri to Join. Pnlitmhia 1?i?<ric)ur T.uf liutn Alov v"-" " -? under & Co., big cotton operators in New York, have written to Governor Ellerbe, asking that lie become a member of the "American Cotton Growers' Protective association'' which they are forming. The object of the association is stated to be to protect the growers in getting a just price for their cotton. This may look us a rival of Mr. Roddey's scheme, though the general details of the latter plan are not known. LOCAL AFFAIRS. ? INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. | J. A. Shurley, Superintendent of Education?Gives notice that there will he an j examination of free school teachers at j Yorkville on the ISth of February. , W. I*. Harrison, Cashier?Publishes a i statement showing the condition of ihe * Loan and Savings bank of Yorkville 1 on the .'list day of December, 1S97. ^ Clarence M. Kuykendal?Talks to you about Campbell's Cough Cure, and tells you that if you will cut out the coupon ( in his advertisement, you can get live t cents for it in the purchase of a bottle of j the medicine. H. C. Strauss?Announces another cut in the prices of blankets, overcoats and quilts. He is also "prepared to sell you shoes as low as the lowest, and has a complexion soap which he wants to sell to the ladies. Grist Cousins?Offer to sell you a number of articles necessary for farming operations at less prices than usual. Tracechains at 30 to 35 cents a pair; singletrees, 15 cents ; Hoy Dixie turn plows at $1.20; plow moulds, 3 cents a pound ; clevises 5 cents; backhands at 10 to 25 cents; plowlines ami hamestrings, 10 cents; collar pads, 20 cents; hoecake soda at 5 cents a package. J. A. Graves, Sharon, S. C.?Has an estray red heifer for which he wants an owner. Glenn A* Allison?Will have a car load of horses and mules for sale on next Mini day?salesday. 1). A. II. A chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution was organized at the residence of Judge Witherspoon in Yorkvillo last Monday with the following members: Miss Lessie D. Witherspoon, Mrs. S. E. White, Miss Virginia Hratton, Mrs. Mason Hratton, Mrs. S. M. McNeel, Mrs. B. N. Moore, Mrs. It. 11. Hanahan, Miss Mary E. Hughes, Miss Maggie Gist, Miss Daisy Gist, Miss Maggie Moore, Mrs. W. S. Tillinghast, and Mrs. Eugene Gary. Miss Lessie D. Witherspoon was elected president; Mrs. 11. N. Moore, vice president ; Mi's. S. M. McNeel, secretary; Mias Maggie Moore, treasurer; Mias Virginia Bratton, registrar; Miss Maggie Gist, historian; Mrs. S. E. White, dele- | gate to the national eongreas of the order, which meets in Washington within a ^ short time. Several names were discuased, but the J general preference was for King's Mountain chapter, and unless there should be objection on the part of the national an- ( tIn>ritips of the order, this is the name ( that will be adopted. JANUARY HONOR ROLL. Following is the honor roll of the Yorkvllle graded school for the month of January, just (dosed: Ninth Grade?George Hart, 95 ; John Jenkins, 94; Harry Spann, 93; Mntf'att Kennedy, 91. Eighth Grade?Alma Walker, 98: T. C. Dunlap, 97; Barron Kennedy, 95; Jno. Ashe, 94; Elhel Latimer, 94; Annie Smith, 93; Bessie Williams, 93; Jetferys Ashe, 91; Elizabeth Hunter, 90. Seventh Grade?Nellie Schorb, 98; Sadie Waters, 90; Hallie Withers, 9(1; Louise Lowry, 94; Nannie Grist, 92; Straussie Walker, 92; Mary Hope, 90; Gladys Withers, 90. Sixth Grade?Maggie Robinson, 99; Mary Williams, 98; Henry McLain, 96; Lottie Belle Sitriril, 96; Willie Waters, 96; Anna Spann, 95; Bertie Smith, 95; Hazel Grist, 90; Anna Horton.90; Lowry McLain 90; Earle Morrow, 90. Fifth Grade?Anna MeCaw, 99 ; Philip Hunter, 99; Bessie Gilbert, 97; Lilla Herndon, 96; Kate Hunter, 96; Marion Grimes, 94; Frankie Clawson, 93 ; Gerald Lowry, 92; Carrie Beard, 91; Robert MeCaw, 91; Eunice Grist, 90; Beulah Grimes, 90. Fourth Grade?Glenn Allison, 98; Joe Hart, 98; Josie Carroll, 97; Lenora Williford, 97; Edna Horton, 96; Marion Logan, 96; George Cartwright, 95; Samuel Miller, 95; Mary Brian, 94; Bedford Moore, 94: D. Wyatt Neville, 94; Mary Walker, 94; Mary Dobson, 93; Mamie Lee Grist, 93; Monroe Willis, 92; Beulah Long, 91; Hamilton Witherspoon, 90. Third Grade?Oren Abernathy, 97; Fannie Barron, 97; Marie Moore, 97; Virginia Neville, 97; Leon White, 96; Jennie McClain, 95; Helen Lowry; 94; Julia Smith, 94; Georgia Summit, 94; Lillian Withers, 94; Frank Riddle, 93; Olive Walker, 93; Charlie Berry, 91; Hattie Hunter, 91; Quay Williford, 91; Ed. Alexander, !H); Robert Herndon, !H). Second Grade?Bessie Pegram, 99; Winnie Crawford, 99 ; Wardlaw Adickes, 99: Rozella Abernathy. 9ft; Mary Hope, 99; Mi I'd red Abernathy, 98; Arthur Hart, 98 ; Willie Jenkins, 98 ; May McLain, 98 ; Mattie May Neville, 98; Maxie Waters, 98; Wheeler Willis, 98; Earle Grist, 97 ; David Logan, 97; Claud Walker, 97; W. G. White, Jr., 97; Wilmore Logan, 96; Ottman Rose. 95 ; George Grist, 92. First Graph?Edward Finley, 99; Louise Dobson, 99 ; Fredriea Lindsay. 99; Edna MeClain, 99; Mary Starr, 99; Carrie Cartwright, 98 ; Mary Cartwright, 98; Tristiarn Easterling, 98: Nannie Hope, 97 ; Jessie Iiaber. 96 ; Samuel Latimer, 96; Aubrey Willis, 91 ; Wade Williford, 91. LOCAL LACONICS. Price of Cotton. The price of cotton on the Yorkville market, for good grades, is now ranging from 5J to 51. Tlrzah's Liquor Sales. According to the state board of control, the liquor sales at Tirzah for the year just closed, amounted to ?8,762.50, and the profits on these sales amounted to ?606.82. As to Free Passes. Representative Witherspoon voted against the repeal of the anti-free pass bill and Representative deLoach voted for it. The votes of Messrs. Epps and Johnson are not recorded. Tax Returns. Auditor Williams will be in Rock Hill during the remainder of this week for the purpose of taking tax returns, and from next Monday, tho 7th instant, to the 19th instant, on which day the time in which returns may be made will expire, he will be in Yorkville. Snow Last Sunday. The first snow of the winter in sufficient quantity to admit of the raking up of a snowball, fell last Sunday. The snow continued to fall for several hours, and in places covered the ground ; but by Monday afternoon it had almost all disappeared. Hut Will Cot Another. Mr. T. W. Speck, the jeweler, received recently a big thermometer with a giad....*^,1 o..Miutliinir liLrn ? vuril ill uaicu oviiiv .... v .. ^ ... length. The spirit bull), however, was j broken in transit, and it will be some s days yet before Mr. Speck will he able to j regulate temperature as lie now regulates t time. t Circumstances Were Suspicious. ] The investigation of the supposed case t of infanticide near Tirzah, last Friday, j by Coroner lirian and a jury, developed suspicions circumstances; hut it was not considered that the fact were sullicient to warrant a charge of murder against the > mother, Kmeline itratton, colored. . Better Mall Facilities Desired. Fort Mill Times; A petition is being t circulated among our citizens and will he sent to the third assistant postmaster gen- 1 era! asking that a daily mail route he es- ti tahlished between Fort Mill and W. F. s Cunningham's. The proposetl route will take in liarbcrsville and Harrison, and c from Harrison to \V. K. Cuniiiiighani's \ back to Fort Mill via Pleasant Valley. ( The postollice at Mr. Cunningham's will ? he called "Ardrey's." This will enable i the people of that neighborhood to get heir mail daily, while at present they ? >nly receive it about twice each week, d 'oHtmrtHt<T Ht Carp. e Mr. Milus S. Carroll has been appointed o jostinnster at Carp, York county, vice e F. A. Ilogue resigned. The petition for Hr. Carroll's appointment was placed h iometime ago in the hands of Dr. Strait, e riio people of the Carp neighborhood ti rill no doubt be glad that the matter has s it last been settled, for it began to look at h >ne time as if they were to be deprived of b ha ,*rmvpiiipiir>p of their office. It I Tremendous Porker. The probability is that Mr. D. P. Leslie, v >f Leslie station, will have the distinction u >f slaughtering the largest hog this year. J tie has had in a pen for the past four or J ive weeks, an immense Poland China, ? hat is about 2 years old, and which looks t ike it will net nearly 500 pounds. The u eporter saw the hog last Saturday, and I inderstood from Mr. Leslie that he would ?' laughter it upon the first favorable op- r jortunity. . o rills Will Do It. ^ As the result of the recent election in ' Tirzah on the whisky question, an effort f s being made to have the dispensary law 1 to amended that hereafter any town in 1 vhicb a dispensary is established may J tet rid of the.same upon a majority yote of t us citizens. The proposed amendment I .vill provide that the people may vote for 1 lispensary or prohibition, and if it passes 1 md the people vote for prohibition, then, c inder Judge Simonton's rulings, they a ran not be troubled with original package u hops. ' Straight Rate to Charlotte. ^ The quickest route from Yorkvllle to Jharlotte now is over the O. R. A C. and southern by way of B lacksburg. This salso the longest route. The Enquirer 1 s reliably informed that as soon as the 3. R. C. people can make the necessary trrangements, which will be within the s he next few weeks at the furthest, they ? II Afffl? u mini ruin nt'or tho rnufl.1. f ivhieh will put the Tare down to the cost i )f the shortest route between the two i joints. ? Municipal Matters. s The town council held a meeting last t Friday night. Only three members were f jresent. The corrected rules and regula- t ions of the board of health, as recently 1 iubmitted by that body, were informally liscussed ; but no action was taken. The < question is whether the town council, the < board of health, or the two bodies in cou- < iiection are to have discretion and au- 1 Jiorily with regard to municipal health ? regulations. In the meantime, the board i jf health continues to feel, and very t properly so, that its hands are tied. I Another Sad Death. Mamie Betts Carroll, the infant daugb- 1 ;er of Mr. W. R and the late Mrs. Mamie ' Carroll, died at the home of Mr. Carroll 1 in Yorkville last Sunday morning at 10 1 j'clock. The sad death of the young 1 mother, when little Mamie was born, ' |ust four months ago, is still a matter of i fresh recollection. The child enjoyed 1 comparatively good health until last Sat- 1 Lirduy night, when there was a sudden congestion of the vital organs and death f followed as stated. Mr. Carroll, accom- 1 panied by bis brother, Mr. Church W., ' left Sunday afternoon to take the body of 1 :he little one to Chewsville, Md., where 1 it has been interred by the side of its mother. J [ft* Duly a Fee "Kill. ' The Columbia Register of iastSaturday 1 mentioned a favorable report on a "free ' ferry" bill introduced by Representative ' II. E. Johnson. There was no explanation as to the nature of the bill, and in view of the fact that the subject of "free ferries" has been mentioned at different times in connection with the Catawba J bridge matter, the natural inference was 1 that the bill had some reference to that. 1 Mr. Johnson was in Yorkville on Mon- 1 day, having come up to his home on Sat- : urday night. Upon being asked with t regard to the bill, be said that the state- t meiit was an error. He has not Intro- 1 iueed any bill relative to ferries, but t probably the reporter for The Register ? uot mixed as to a bill which he had intro- 1 J need with reference to fees of magis- i trates for taking testimony in certaiu i Pay For Election Manager*. \ Managers who served in the recent spe- i lial election in this county, are very much ( interested as to their pay, and The En- i }UIRER has been requested to inform 1 hem as to the situation. Mr. J. M. Tay- i tor, who is chairman of the board of elec- i lion commissioners, served as messenger \ to carry the vote to Columbia, and he also took with him for collection the accounts t if the managers. Upon the presentation t if his bill to the comptroller general, he i was referred by that official to the attor- c ney general, who advised bim that there g were no funds on band applicable to the * purpose, and that he would have to apply c ;o the York delegation in the house to 1 make special appropriation. The matter is * low in the hands of the York delegation t which, we have no doubt, will see that it s is attended to ; but which, so far as we * liavo noted, has not yet brought the mat- t ,er to the attention of the house. All f hat is necessary is for some member of \ he York delegation to present the ac- J onntsof election expenses and tbey will, c no doubt, be paid. s He's Hack Again. ! The little old bluebird is back again. I lie disappeared some two or three years d ?go, and his disappearance has been the J aiuse of considerable concern. Many i writers have had their say about him in the papers. Some thought he bad been iriven out by the English sparrow, some .bought he was killed in the terrible 1 freeze which extended even to the orange 11 trees in south Florida, and others thought a still other things. The bluebird was sad- V iy missed, too. He has never been known I to do anybody any harm. He always ap- * peared bright and cheerful, and that his t disappearance should be noted is not sur- t prising. Hut he is back again and is do- h ing business at the old stand. On the t tppearance of a snow cloud last Sunday fc Horning, he was seen about his accus- H :omed haunts in large numbers, looking ust as natural as if he had never been j, nn ? !? ? I..IU Imon Sa tint ltnntvn. . iway. *v nuiu iic ijoo uvpn iq iiv* N..v^ iiul why he has come hack, is only a mater of conjecture. It is a fact, however, j. hat he left about the time of the Cleveand panic, and maybe he has returned o announce the end of MeKinley pros- & lerity. Hut, anyhow, lie is welcome. v ABOUT I'KOPLK. fi .Miss Fannie Heck ham, of llock Hill, is t< risking Miss Kate Moore. ii Mrs. Willis, of Harnwell county, is in e forkvilie, visiting the family of Mr. M. | Willis. ? Mr. T. W. Speck is devoting much of w lis spare time these days to the study of jpplics and is getting well up on the eience. Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Thomasson return- s <1 last Thursday from Tampa, Florida, u vhere they have been since the 8th of " Jctober. Mr. Thomasson has been en- " ;aged in looking alter his orange grove, " lear Tampa. ^ Mrs. A. McPheeters, of Yorkville, w elebrated her 77lh birthday last Saturay. A dozen invited friends were presnt with her during the day, and the ccasion is reported to have been a most njoyable one. ' Mrs. K. H. Glenn is now at the home of er brother, Mr. N. A. Simril, two miles ast of Ynrkville. She has almost enirely recovered from the serious injuries he sustained by a fall while engaged in anging pictures at the residence of her rother, Mr. J. W. Simril, at Ebenezer, tst November. Mr. Joseph H. Baker, of Philadelphia, ras in Yorkville from last Saturday night intil Monday morning, accompanied by leasts. Win. Akers, Jr., of Philadelphia, A. Depew, of Delano, Pa., and Harrion Ball, of Mahanoy City, Pa. The genlenien named composed a hunting party inder the pilotage of Mr. Baker. Mr. iaker is a son of Mr. Charles E. Baker, >f Philadelphia, who will be pleasantly emembered by many of the older citizens f Yorkville and vicinity as a resident of forkville during the war, having come lere with Dr. C. P. Aimar una'others roin Charleston. The Bakers lived in lie Mrs. M. J. Clark house, now occupied iy Mr. G. T. Kadclitfe and family. Mr. fosepb H. Baker, mentioned above, was lorn in Yorkville, and his hunting trip iringing him as near as Charlotte, N. C., ie ran over with bis friends to see the own of bis birth and such of bis father's >ld friends as are still alive. Himself ind party spent the time here pleasantly uid left by way of the northbound Caroina and North-Western on Monday for Vsbeville. bhbmbhbbhb BLACKSBUKti BUIMJET. 'he First Snow?Cltlsens Vote Fur Three Mill Levy?Personal Mention. Blacksburg, January 31.?The first now of tiie whiter fell yesterday." It beran about 8 o'clock in the morning, but ell rather fitfully until about 10.30 when t began to conic down in earnest, and t looked as if we were going to have a genuine snow storm. However, its fury oon began to subside and the snow ceased o fall before the ground was well coverid, and tbiR afternoon the sun is shining irigbtly and not a vestige of the snow is eft. At a meeting of our citizens at the traded School building on Saturday evening, called for the purpose of voting' >n a levy for the graded school fund, the rote was unanimous for a three mill levy in all property?real and personal?witbn the school district, to raise money for be expenses of the school for the term jeginning next fall. Mr. Peek, ourclever carpenterand rail oad man, has moved into the bouse at be corner of Cherokee and Chester streets ivitb a view to purchasing it. With bis raried and extensive acquaintance with owns, be has not found one which, for health, convenience of location and cleverness of the citizens, can surpass Blacks>urg, so he has wisely determined to nake this bis permanent home. Mrs. Gray, of Cincinnati, the wife of the general traffic manager of the O. R. A C. ailroad, with her two children, will be jere for a couple of months on account of he climate, as tbe guests of Miss Emmie Lumpkin. Rev. Dr. McCollough preached in the Episcopal church on Sunday to a large :ongregation and administered the holy :oinmunion. He has not been here be'ore for more than a year, and bis many riends gave him a warm welcome. . " W. A. MEHK-mention: The trial of Sheriff James Martin and SO deputies, for the murder and felonious bounding of a score of striking minersat Latimer, Pa., on the 10th of September ast, was commenced at Wilkesbarre, Pa., yesterday. Both sides are represented by ible counsel, and it is expected that the rial will last a week. An Associated Press dispatch of Sunday says that the imallpox bas broken out among the coal ind iron miners at Middlesboro, Ky. The disease is said tc have been brought nto that section by a Negro miner from Alabama. Very cold weather is prevailing throughout the north and northvest. The gold reserve inthetreaslry now amounts to $150,000,000. An (ffort is being made to work up interest n a southern exposition to be held in S'ew York in 1900. A fleet of Spansh war vessels sailed for America last Saturday. The California Mining fair vas opened at San Francisco on Saturday. The end of tbe second week of he strike of the Massachusetts coton spinners, shows but little change n tbe situation. The strikers are reviving financial aid from many orjanizations in all parts of the country. Dr. C. A. Simmons, the originator >f "Simmons' Liver Regulator," died at lis home in Atlanta last Sunday night. Wm. J. Bryan sent Senator Teller a elegram congratulating him on the pas;age of the bond resolution by the senate. Senator McLaurin was sworn in as lenator from South Carolina last Monday or the term ending 1903. A Knox'ille, Tennessee, dispatch to the Atlanta Fournal, says there is much difference of pinion as to the character of the alleged mallpox prevalent at Middlesboro, Ky. lany people say that it is not smallpox ; lutsome unknown disease. The navy lepartment has dispatched the warship lohican to Samoa to protect American uterests there. tlind Hoy's Remarkable Achievement. Greenwood Index: It will be reitem tiered that some 8 or 10 years igo, while the two little hoys, John ind George, of Mrs'. Anna Swearen;eu, who is a sister of the Hon. George ). Tillman and Senator Ben Tillman, vere out huntiug, one of their guns vas accidentally discharged, the disiliarge striking full iu the face of John ind depriving him of the sight of both lis eyes. He is the elder of the two toys. After a few mouths of great utieriiig that science and money could lo for liiua, was done, vainly, the boy tecame happy and cheerful, and retimed with renewed avidity to his tuilies, which he always loved. After our or five years at the Spartanburg iistitute for the blind, in which he ained the highest houors, even beoming withal a good piano player, he ras sent to the South Carolina college, rom which institution comes now, da t;<l Deceit)iter 20, iovi , u n-jiui 1 uc01ig upon its face seven or eigbt I's, noli I followed by two small stars, "his means''highest distinction." And lore than this, President Woodward riles upon the report?sent to Mrs. wearengen : "This is the highest recrd in college. Your sou is our fiuest ludent, aud 1 cougratulate you ou his [intinued and progressive improvelent." And yet this boy is blind. A oy from Edgefield reaches the highest icord ever allaiued in the old South arolina college. We rejoice heartily 'ith his widowed mother.