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Scraps and Jacts. f? I) ? Colonel Ray's regimeut of immunes c has been ordered from the province of 1 Santiago to Savanuah. From there t the regiment will proceed to Macon p and be mustered out of the service, t All of the volunteer regiments will be t mustered out of service as soon as ti possible after Spain signs the peace treaty. ( ? A section of Charlotte was terror- s ized last Monday night and Tuesday c morning by a mad dog. He ran foam- v ing at the mouth, snapping at every- lj body in his path. The Rev. A. P. d "*"* ? "VC mtniatAt* An/) a r* 11 m . < rage, a memuuist ujium^i, ouu ? uuu. u ber of other white and colored men, p Miss Adel Lawrence, a popular young g lady, and a little colored girl, were c bitten by the dog this morning. There 0 was an affecting scene as they gather- g ed around the mad stone, which was s applied to one after the other. In all j| 12 persons were bitten and all are in v mortal terror of hydrophobia. c ? Havana dispatch 14th : Governor o General Brooke and General Maximo h Gomez have had no communication f( with each other since the invitation s and its acceptance by the latter to come to Havana. Twelve days have c elapsed since Robert E. Porter's agree- 1 ment with Gomez to bring about the c disbandment of the Cuban army on t the payment to the troops of $3,000,- s 000, and yet no step has been taken to c pay the Cubans or to disband them. 1 Each day it is said that "Gomez will be here in a couple of days but he is not yet here. The executive commission wired Gomez on Sunday requesting him to come here immediately, and he replied that he would do so. ? The funeral of General Garcia did not pass off with as much good feeling j as was at first reported. The Cuban j generals and troops made some trou- I ble. They were offended because ! General Brooke refused to give them a place in the line immediately behind . him and in front of his staff. He contended that be and his staff should ride together. The Cubans then re- ( tired angrily and the mob shouted for 1 the Filipinos and Aguinaldo and : "down with the Americans!" The Cubans later held a meeting and re- ? solved to carry their grievances to the , president. Then, as me resuii ox ex- ( planations, it dawned upon them bow improper it would have been for them ' to separate General Brooke from his J staff; and now all is serene again, i There is no doubt about it, however, | the Cubans are very touchy. ( ? A novel form of entertainment has been devised lor the Paris exhibition, and it is to be called the Mareo- , rama, being an idea of the poster artist, M. Hugo d'Alesi. It consists of a ! platform representing the deck of a i passenger steamer, approached by a i gangway, and complete with masts, < funnels, rigging, and all other equip- f ment. From the deck will be seen a panorama of the sea and the port from 1 which the voyage is commenced ; but 1 by various devices these will soon fade < away, and the various scenes to be encountered in a voyage to Constantinople witnessed. Naples and Vesuvius i are seen by sunset and sunrise, and a , storm at sea is also shown to the trav- , eler. A rocking motion is given to ' the fictitious vessel by mechanical means, and concealed fans afford sea breezes. The effect of the illusion is | said to be most pleasing, and in many | cases the deception is almost perfect, j BaUSmaha Cnn AT n/ilr Inn Kn prr * ?? JDUlllUIUlC uuu iiivvaivuwuig i county, N. C., of which Charlotte is the chief city, is already noted for having better public roads than any county in the south. They radiate ! from Charlotte and the extension has ' been gradual. So satisfactory has t been the result, in the iucreased value i of lands and decreased cost of haul- , age, that the county commissioners of j Mecklenburg have adopted a resolu- , tion asking the legislature for authori- J ^ to order an election on a proposition ' To vote $100,000 bonds for improvement of the roads of the county. "Mecklenburg's good roads," says the Charlotte Observer, "are the pride of | the county, and are pointed to as an | example by the enlightened and progressive men of the state. The sum of j $100,000 invested in their extension would be of untold benefit to the county. We cannot imagine any other in- i vestment of a like sum that would , help it as much." This is indeed a , valuable object lesson. ? Wilmington special to Raleigh Post: The arrest of a Negro for abandoning his wife led to the discovery of a curious religious sect which num- 1 bers among its followers many ignor- \ ant Negroes. These deluded darkies i pin their faith to an ill-favored, thick- , lipped West Indies coon, whom they worship as the Holy Ghost. This Negro arrived here some time ago?just ' drifted in?and proclaimed himself to 1 the Negroes as the Holy Ghost. The 1 Negro who was arrested for abandon- j ment testified that all followers of the | Holy Ghost are commanded to leave ( their wives when these helpmeets do not have the same abiding faith in their apostle. It is said that this darkey has caused many families to sep- ] arate who were living in happiness before his advent. The unbelievers speak sueeringly of his followers as "dem ( Holy Ghost niggers," while the faith- ( ful worship him as having all power ( for good and evil. A peculiarity of the , sect is that the men do not cut their hair or shave their beards and the women wear turbans of white cloth in J lieu of hats. ? The obstacles to railroad traffic re- i suiting from the receut blizzard, says a Washington dispatch of Wednesday, < have been overcome to such an extent ] as to warrant the companies operating i trains to the north and west in an- < nouncing that traffic will now be re- < sumed practically on schedule time. < It has been an almost herculean task | for the railroad companies to remove i the great drifts of snow and clear the i tracks; but this has been accomplished 1 and passengers will again be enabled < to travel without discomfort or danger. I All traius ou the Baltimore and Ohio . and the Pennsylvania that were detaiij- . ed by the elements have arrived, and i those which started from New York i and intermediate places today have ar- 1 rived, though more or less belated. < The local officers of the Baltimore and i Ohio announce that trains on all its i lines will resume schedules tonight, ? ?hile the Pennsylvania also is ready I jr business east aud west. The At- < intic Coast Line announces its road I lear from New York to Jacksonville, i "hree trains left for the south during I he day and evening. Locally the I rust ration to business and traffic from i he storm effects has disappeared and i be city is resuming its normal condi- 1 ion. ? "I do not believe," said Henry ieorge, Jr., in his letter declining to erve on a committee to arrange for ertain Remember the Maine serice?"I do not believe in the kind of Korfv that, President McKinlev is ealing in. The freedom that is given nder military despotism must be as otten as the horrible meat that was iven to our citizen soldiers in the reent Cuban war. Men who came to fficial power by the use of the most igantic corruption fund that was ever een in politics, who have since rioted o public expenditure at Washington, rbo have added enormously to the ommon man's burdens for the benefit >f rings and special interests, and who iave killed more soldiers with bad Dod and bad treatment than were lain by Spanish bullets, are not to be mplicitly trusted when it comes to onferring liberty upon other peoples. Reeling that with such views I caunot onsistently take part in a public cere ony that to many may imply tacit auction of the actions and principles if the administration at Washington, 1 . respectfully ask to be excused." (The IforkriUe (Enquirer. YOltK VILLE, S. C.: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1899. ? A correspondent of the Columbia state, says "Camden is an old town? learly 150 years old?and In all that :ime the inhabitants here have never experienced such a cold snap as we ire having now." Pshaw, that's nothng! The inhabitants of Yorkville .lave not experienced such another ;old snap in 4,000 years. ? The last issue of The GafTuey Ledger comes to us in the form of a ?even column folio, with the announcement that hereafter the paper is to be issued twice a week?Wednesdays and Saturdays. The first number of the new venture shows up handsomely as j progressive newspaper that is creditable alike to Gafihey and the county if Cherokee. ? Senor Agoncillo, the Filipino com _ 1 ' missioner, now in irionu-eai, is quuicu as saying that the fall of Iloilo is of no special significance, as the Americans had ships while the Filipinos had none. "But wait," he continued, "until they get into the interior, and they will have more than their work cut. out for them." There is a possibility that this is a mere idle threat; that the Filipinos, now that they realize that the Americans mean business, will submit to the inevitable. It is a fact, however, that if they adopt the threatened method of bush fighting, they can keep it up for a long time, and many an American solder will leave his bones in the dense tropical iungles of that land with which America now has no right to meddle. ? We are glad of the passage of the McEnery resolution ; but at the same time we do not think it is going to have much practical effect. If the army reorganization bill becomes a law, and it probably will, the president will have a free hand to continue his operations in the Philippines so long as he sees fit. It is reasonable to assume that every dollar of American treasure and every American life lost in the conquest of the islands will make just so much larger the account that the Filipinos will haye to pay on the day of final settlement. In the meantime, the ability of the Filipinos to pay will have constantly grown less and less; and unless the Americau people, by their votes, say otherwise, the result will be permanent occupa tion. As we see it now, we have no idea that the Philippine question will be permanently settled this side of the ext presidential campaign. MORE TROUBLE FOR NEAL. Kumor Insists That There Is Something Wrong With Bis Accounts. Serious trouble is brewing in Reform circles here, owing to the condition Df affairs in the office of Superintendent of State Penitentiary W. A. Neal, who was defeated for re-election, says an Anderson special to the Atlanta Journal. It is stated, on what appears bo be good authority, that all is not well with his accounts. A general upheaval now seems imminent. Colonel Neal is now here, having come from Columbia yesterday in company with J. S. Fowler, W. Q. Hammond, J. B. Watsou and other lessees of convicts, whose contracts were in danger of revocation by the board of directors now in session. These three gentlemen are also Neal's bondsmen, ind it is said creditors. A number of Lhe contracts were revoked for irregularities, among them Watson's, who is charged for three years' hire, Watson beiug the nominal owner of the W. A. Neal plantations in Anderson and Pickens counties. It is said the lessees ire still charged large amounts for the innual hire of convicts for which they liold receipts. Mr. Fowler is the only >ne who could be seen this mornng. He was very reticent and would neither affirm or deny; but said he had i satisfactory settlement with the ooard as lessees. Nearly all are cbarg- t ;d with applying products of the state ? to their individual account here, giv- t ing official receipts for sale. Neal has ? seen a potent factor in state and coun- 1 ty politics for a number of years, wield- f ing tremeudous influence. He is known t is the "Mark Hanna of South Carolina." f ? t A DUBIOUS CRITIC. s i Consistency Is Really a Rare Jewel Some- g times. v Editorial in Atlanta Constitution. r The Charleston News and Courier g puts itself in a rather dubious position i jy attempting a criticism of the vote r ;ast by Senator McLaurin in iavor 01 t /be ratification of the treaty of peace, c The News and Courier states : "Senitor McLaurin did not change his atti- t ,ude upon the question without advise- [ aent." This declaration is susceptive of two constructions, the one which c would charge dishonor upon Senator t McLaurin by creating the impression J ;hat he bad been "waited upon" and ? nduced to do a thing which he ought t not to have done, and the other, that r be "changed bis attitude" upon the ] question. t The first suggestiou is one which will t be indignantly repudiated by all who know Senator McLaurin, because they know bim to be a man of sterling worth, devoted to his country and con- 1 scious of the dignity of bis position. The second assertion is one which is not based upon facts. Senator Mc- ? Laurin did not change his attitude 1 upon this question in any sense. He < declared himself at first as opposed to political expanson. He declares him- I self as being still opposed to political ] expansion. The only question which i be had to consider was whether the ' ratification of a treaty of peace with I Spain should be incumbered by outside < issues,, which would continue Spaiu as i a party to all further negotiations. ' Senator McLaurin wisely concluded that the first duty of the United States I was to get rid of its armed enemy, and i to secure beyond question, the right ' and title by which it would proceed < with further legislation in regard to < the Philippine islands. With the sign- i ing of that treaty Spain has been dis- < missed, and now we are in a condition i to take up that quarrel, about which The News and Courier was so prema turely agitated, and to deal with it i upon high Democratic grounds. So much for Senator McLaurin's vote for ratification and the grounds which led to it. i The real humor of the editorial of The News and Courier is in the sentence in which it declares that Senator McLaurin set himself "in opposition to a majority of his party associates in the senate." Ye heavens! what a charge from such a source. When the Democratic majority in the senate was doing its duty in the 1 face of an arrogant Republican foe it was The News and Courier which carried the dagger for the reputation of the members thereof. When a president of the United States, elected ostensibly as a Democrat, set himself iu opposition to the Democratic majority of both senate and bouse, it was The News and Courier which stood beside the man who defied the organized power of his party. When the Democracy of the nation, through its organized channels, from state to state sent up indignant delegations to protest against the crucifixion to which Cleveland had submitted the Demo T - mi "KT J cratic party, it was me news uuu Courier which sulked in its tent and gave comfort to the enemy, even though that enemy was the apostle of the Negro propaganda and a high protective tariff. In the affairs of its own state it is The News and Courier which has played the part of recalcitrant for the last 10 years in its violent attacks upon Democratic organizations and Democratic nominees. When men start to criticise the actions of others, it would be well for them to examine their own skirts, and judged by this rule, the Charleston News and Courier is in no position to criticise the position of auy one toward a Democratic majority in senate or house. Senator McLaurin, however, is aware of these facts, as is every reader of The News and Courier, so that this attack will be regarded in the light of ajoke though the humor be somewhat heavily veiled. CAPTURED WITHOUT A FIGHT. Filipinos Didn't Attempt to Make a Stand at Iloilo. The city of Iloilo, the second most i important city of the Philippines, was captured last Saturday by the forces under Brigadier General Miller. The following story of the incident is told in the Associated Press dispatches of Wednesday morning : On the morning of Friday, February 10, General Miller seut an ultimatum to the commander of the rebels on shore, notifying him that it was his intention to take Iliolo, by torce it necessary. Noncombatants and for- 1 eigners were warned to leave the town within 24 hours. The rebels were also warned that they must make no further belligerent preparations. The I gunboat Petrel was then moved to a position close in shore and near the rebel fort, while the cruiser Boston , took up her station at the other end of the town. 1 Friday passed quietly. During the < day many refugees left the town of ! Iloilo. The majority of them were | taken on board foreign ships lying in ( the harbor. Searchlights from the United States warships were kept all night long il- ' luminating the town and its defenses. 1 The rebels, so far as the lookouts on < the ships could discover, remained ; juiescent throughout the day. At 8 o'clock on the morning of Sat- . urday, February 11, the gunboat Petrel signaled to the cruiser Bostorvthat ! the rebels were working in their trenches. In return the Petrel was or- i dered to fire warning shots upon the ( town from her three pouuders. This ( was done, and the rebels replied with a harmless fusilade. The Boston and Petrel then bombarded the rebels' ' trenches, completely clearing them ol ' their occupants in a very short time. ] Soon after the bombardment began i dames broke out simultaneously in va- i rious parts of the town. Thereupon < 48 marines, acting as infantry and ar- "! illery, were landed from the Boston, ind a company was sent ashore from he Petrel. These detachments march?d straight iuto the town of Iloilo, and loisting the Stars and Stripes over the ort, took possession in the name of ,he United States. The capture of the town and its deenses having been accomplished, the narines and soldiers who bad been lent ashore proceeded to save the American, English and German conmlates from destruction by the fire vhich was raging among the inflamnable buildings of the town. The Swiss consul's residence, which was n the same row as the consulates jamed, was burned, but foreign mer:antile property escaped with slight lamage. There was some desultory firing by he enemy in the outskirts of Iloilo, >ut not a single Americun was injured. General Miller's force had complete iontrol of the situation when the Pexel sailed from Iloilo for Manila. The sixth U. S3, artillery regiment occupied i position commanding both the >ridges leading into the town, and the Tennessee volunteers and Eighteenth [J. S. infantry were occupying the renches that had been constructed by ,he rebels. OUR POLICY IN THE PHILIPINOS. UcEnery Resolution Passes the Senate by a Vote of 26 to 22. The United States senate spent lome time on Tuesday discussing, the VIcEnery resolution, which was voted jn in the afternoon. The McEnery resolution was offered ast week previous to the vote on the peace treaty ; but was postponed until after the treaty was disposed of. It tvas claimed that the resolution would bave to go on the calendar; but, by unanimous consent, on laBt Saturday, t was agreed that the resolution be voted on on Tuesday afternoon. During Monday, several senators talked as though they were opposed to allowing the resolution to come to a vote, and they sought to question the conditions under which uuanimous consent bad been secured. In response to statements made, Senator McLaurin pxnlained how the unanimous consent agreement was reached, and then went on to say : "I do know that there are senators in this chamber who would uot have voted for the treaty if they had not been assured of an opportunity to vote upon the McEnery resolution. If any senator was not present when the unanimous consent was made, it was his own fault. I give notice, therefore, that I shall object to any vacation of the unanimous consent agreement." During the discussion, it developed that several senators who had voted against ratification of the treaty were opposed to the McEnery resolution, principally, because of their feelings toward Mr. McEnery on account of his having voted for the treaty. The discussion resulted in developing the parliamentary precedence of a resolution to the same general purport as the McEnery resolution, and offered by Senator Bacon, of Georgia. 8enator Bacon's resolution was as follows: "That the United States hereby disclaim any disposition or iutention to exercise permanent sovereignty, jurisdiction or control over said islands; and assert their determination, when a stable and independent government shall have been erected therein entitled, in the judgment of the government of the United States, to recognition as such, to transfer to said government, upon terms-which shall be reasonable and just, all rights secured under the cession by Spain, and to throughout leave the government and control of the islands to their people." The vote on the adoption of Senator Bacou's resolution resulted in a tie?29 to 29. Both Senutor Tillman and Senator McLaurin voted for it. The vice president voted against the resolution and killed it. Next came the vote on Senator McEnery's resolution, which reads as follows : "That by the ratification of the treaty of peace with Spain it is not intended to incorporate the inhabitants of the Philippine islands into citizenship of the United States ; nor is it intended to permanently aunex said islands as an integral part of the territory of the United States ; but it is the intention of the United States to establish on said islands a government suitable to the wants and conditions of the inhabitants of said islands to prepare them for local self-government, and in due time to make such disposition of said islands as will best promote the interests of the citizens of the United Slates and the inhabitants of said island. This vote resulted 26 to 22 in favor of the resolution. Senator McLaurin voted for the resolution, as he did for that of Senator Bacon. Senator Tillman was present during the voting on the McEnery resolution ; but did not vote. He gave as a reason next day that the resolution had "been amended all out of shape." In Trouble About a Dog. Gastouia Gazette, Thursday: Last Sat urday evening Mr. Marion Gardner was tried for shooting Mr. Hope YVhyte's dog, and was acquitted. Tiiao/Io ?? fin ?./1 ? ?/ ??. fr\r* Qfpul. x u^ouaj j uaiuuci was 11 ivv* iv? wwm> ing the dog and was bound over to court in a bond of $50. Esquire W. I. 3towe sat on both cases. It appears that Gardner was in Bessemer a week ago last Tuesday looking for a lost log. Hearing that Mr. D. K. Tate bad a stray dog, he looked at the animal and said it was Mr. Bob Rankin's log and that be would bring him home. Mr. Tate let Gardner have the dog. In a few miuutes parties in Bessemer, it is claimed, heard the sounds of gun shots and a dog yelping. When Mr. Whvte recovered his dog he had a plug of flesh torn out of odc shoulder and a short string tied around the neck. Gardner claims that he did not shoot the dog ; but that the dog got away rrom him. Some believe that he tied die dog up' and shot him, and it is resorted that a charge of cruelty to aniiials will be preferred at court. Gardaer skipped bis bond for shooting the log and was brought to trial from iforkville. LOCAL AFFAIRS. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. H. A. D. Neely, County Treasurer?Gives notice that the time in which state and county taxes may be paid without the 15 per cent, penalty, is extended until the 28th of February, 1899, inclusive. He also notifies persons who have paid the penalty that they will have the same refunded upon presentation of their respective receipts. Dr. A. Y. Cartwright?Will hereafter practice dentistry in the rooms over the York Drug Store. Grist Cousins?Offer to sell you Dixie spoon soap at less than cost. They tell you about the molasses they have in stock and give some information about Nine O'Clock Washing Tea. A ROUT PROPtiE. Mr. Robert Galbraitb, of Spartanburg, was in town on yesterday shaking bands with old acquaintances. Mr. W. N. Elder, who has been ill with the grip for some weeks, was in Yorkville on Wednesday. G. W. S. Hart, Esq., has been down for several days with a complication of grip and asthma. He is able to be up again. - Miss Carrie Neisler, of Rock Hill, and Miss Sallie Castor, of Concord, N. C., are visiting in Yorkville, the guests of Miss Addie Williams. Rev. W. G. Neville returned on Thursday from what be intended to be a two weeks' visit to Horry and Georgetown counties. He cut bis trip short on account of the severity of the weather. Major J. F. Hart went to Columbia last Wednesday night to appear before legislative committees against the bill which proposes to allow the North Carolina division of the South Carolina and Georgia railroad to condemn rights of way through public streets. Miss Nellie Hobbs, of Yorkville, who is fitting herself as a trained nurse in the Massachusetts General Hospital, in Rnsfnn. stands first in a class of 75. This is according to an examination held about February 1. CHEROKEE CONTRIBUTIONS. Hon. Wm. Jefferies, says tbe Gaffney Ledger, has been appointed to receive contributions in Cherokee county for the Confederate re-unioD iD May, and has asked tbe following gentlemen to assist him and that they go to work at once: Gowdeyville?P. S. Webber, J. L. Strain and J. Rufus Poole. Dray ton ville?Wm. Joues, Jno. D. Jefferies and M. M. Tate. White Plajns?B. F. Bonner, Luther Gutbery and T. T. Bryant. Limestone?Moses Wood, D. A. Thomas, J. L. Clary and J. C. S. Wood. Cherokee?Wm. F. Dye, Wm. Caldwell and Colonel W. D. Camp. Morgan?Joseph Price, R. P. Scruggs and Drue Scruggs. BLACKSBURG DISPENSARY. The dispensary at Blacksburg will have to go probably. Tbat is the outlook now. The following was served on the grand jury recently by the town council of Blacksburg: Whereas we, the town council of Blacksburg, S. C., believe that the existence of a dispensary at this place is detrimental to the good morals and general welfare of the place? And whereas, the people of the town and surrounding country have signed a {tetition to the state board of control askng for the discontinuance of the dispensary at this placeBe it Resolved, That we, the town council, of Blacksburg, S. C., in accordance with our opinion and the wish of the people, respectfully ask the grand jury of Cherokee county to make, in its final presentment, a request of a state board of control, to discontinue the dispensary at this place. Done in council this February, 16, 1899. In its final report to the court of general sessions, last week, the grand jury incorporated the above with this endorsement: We recommend that the petition be granted, and should the state board deem it unwise to discontinue the dispensary at Blacksburg, that a member of the county board of control and dispenser be appointed from Cherokee township. WITHIN THE TOWN. The exercises of the Yorkville Graded school, which have been suspended throughout the week, will be resumed on Monday. There is an egg famine in Yorkville. The stock on hand, though frozen on Sunday and Monday, was soon exhausted. The supply from the surrounding country has since been very light. There has been out mue man irom the north this week. The New York papers of Sunday arrived on Monday ; but they were the last until yesterday. The Carolina and North-Western passenger train has been making good time during the freeze except on Monday and Tuesday. The only trouble with it is that it does not try to connect with the northbound Southern at Chester. There has been a great deal of rabbit bunting in Yorkville and vicinity during the past week. The robbins are here. They came along with the snow, and at the hands of the small boys, and at the bands of a good many grown up folks, too, they have been catching it ever since. The bronze lady who officiates at the fountain in the court house yard, is covered with an ice cloak that would be perfectly beautiful if she would only don it along about next August. Dr. A. Y. Cartwright has removed his dental office from the rooms over the Loan and Savings bank, to the upstairs of the York Drug Store building. Ue has three rooms now, and is putting on the finishing touches with paint, paper, mattings, etc. Hie new quarters are both comfortable and convenient. O. R. & C. R. R. Representatives of the Ohio River and Charleston railroad appeared before the house committee on railroads yesterday in reference to amendments which it is desired to make in the road's charter, says the Columbia State of Tuesday. A favorable report with, modifications*, will be made by the c committee. ( The Ohio River and Charleston has 8 been completed as far as Gaffneyj 1 where its further progress was stopped t by litigation with the Southern rail- < way in regard to crossing the latter's track, and by other legal impediments; I but the promoters are now confident of < getting the road through, its route ? will touch the most important mill c towns of the state and give Charleston a direct communication with the west. The road will run from Gaffney to Clifton, and there is talk of an extention to Pelzer and Anderson. From Camden to Blacksburg will be a line, 1 giving connection with Charleston. The gentlemen who appeared before 1 the committee yesterday were Mr. Samuel Hunt, of Cincinnati, president c of the O. R. & C.; Dr. J. G. Black, of Blacksburg; R. K. Carson, of Spartanburg; T. B. Butler, of Gaffney. Major A. V. Calvert, of Spartanburg, ? was also present at the hearing. If the legislation which is desired i should be secured, the officials and interested parties believe the extension can be made without further delay, * and the importance of the interests to be developed is great. i SOME WEATHER SIGNS. Since the failure of the predictions of the ground bog, the faith of many | of those who believe in weather signs < has been shaken. But they should not be discouraged. There are sigus and signs to fit all imaginable occasions i and conditions. A Yorkville gentle- i man contributes the following: "The 15th of February was Ash Wednesday, and the sun shone brightly during the greater part of the day ; therefore, we are pretty sure to have a good wheat crop this year. I have taken especial notice of this time-honored sign for a number of years, and it has never yet failed." The above quoted remarks were made by a gentleman in the bearing of the writer on Thursday, and are given for the encouragement and consolation of those who are depressed on account of the long continued cold and wet weather that has prevailed during last fall and the present winter. Another said : "There will be three more snows before the weather settles." "How do you know ?" he was asked. "By an unfailing sign, which is that for each foggy morning in August, there will be a corresponding snow during the following winter. There were seven foggy mornings last August. We have already had four snows this winter and there will be three more." Those whose woodpiles have been exhausted, or getting low, or likely to, during the next six weeks, had belter take warning and replenish, if the opportunity should offer, so as to be on the safe side. PRETTY BAD NEGRO. Magistrate G. C. Leech, of Broad River township, was in Yorkville on Wednesday, and the reporter took occasion to ask him for additional infor' mation about the recent shooting of Sidney Clyman by Tom Hemphill. "I do not know anything about the matter except what I have been told," said Mr. Leech; "but according to what Hemphill's sister has to say, the boy is a pretty had one. She said that the quarrel originated about a piece of rabbit that Clyman had taken out of the pot while Hemphill was iu the woods. This difficulty had apparently been settled, when, after a while, Clyman was coming toward the house, taking the cylinder out of his pistol. Hemphill jumped out of the bouse with bis gun, and telliug his sister to get out of the way, blazed loose at Clyman. Clyman fell, yelling that be was killed. Hemphill seized an axe and started to strike the fallen Negro, and would have done so had the boy's sister not assured him that Clyman was already dying. Mr. Leech went on to say that Clyman is not badly hurt. It is because there was only a small charge in the gun. Had the gun been properly charged, there is every reason to be lieve that the shooting would prove fatal. Hemphill has a very bad reputation all throughout the section in 1 which he lives. He is only a small Negro?in fact, quite a dwarf?but he ' has a disposition like that of a fice and is coutiuually snapping and snarling. ' He was not at all worried about what 1 he did to Clyman, except that when ' arrested he remarked that "it wa9 powerful cold weather to be on the chaingang." * . i ACCIDENTAL HOMICIDE. I Arthur Chambers, about 10 years of i age, and a son of Adam Chambers, a 1 well-to-do and highly respected Negro, I was accidentally killed near his home, I three miles east of Yorkville, la9t < Wednesday afternoon, by Henry Thompson, an uncle, and about 20 ' years of age. i Coroner Brian was uotified as soon j as possible, after the killing, which oc- i ? ^ ?U/*n O Anl/ on/1 Vi nl <1 on / curreu at auuut ^ v viuvnj auu uciu au v inquest during the same afternoon? 1 Mr. Robert Carroll acting as foreman < of the jury. Henry Thompson was t the principal witness. His statement t was to the effect that he and Arthur 1 bad been sent to the woods to take a I message to Ed Eastes, who was en- i gaged in hauling wood. They took e along with them a gun, belonging to t Adam Chambers, with the intention of c shooting a rabbit or any other game f that might show up on the way. A 1 crow came flying over, and Thompson c prepared to shoot it; but it turned, and 1 did not offer an opportunity. Wbile he was letting the hammer of the gun 1: down, Chambers called his attention to \ the fact that the wagon was coming, t and, as he looked around, the gun was t lischarged. The charge took effect in Chambers's left eye, killing him intantly. Ed Eastes testified to having leard the report of the gun, and said bat when be reached the spot, Arthur Chambers was dead. The testimony and circumstances minted to the fact that the killing was intirely accidental and without malice, md the jury returned its verdict acordingly. BETTER ROADS. First Citizen?The roads are terrible. Second Citizen?Yes, terrible. First Citizen?The county commisnissioners ought to dp something. Second Citizen?But they have no noney. f irst uitizen?men tne legislature >ught to do something. Second Citizen?But what can the egislature do without money? First Citizen?Well, the grand jury >ught to do something. Second Citizen?And what can the jrand jury do? First Citizen?Enforce the law. Second Citizen?Would that give us ;ood roads ? First Citizen?It would help. Second Citizen?But would it give js good roads ? First Citizen?No. Second Citizen?Then what is the remedy ? Unless you fipd a remedy we must put up with what we have. First Citizen?But we can't put up with what we have. The whole county is snowbound. When the snow tnelts it will be mudbound. People have been freezing for want of firewood. Most of tbem have the money and would be willing to pay anything that is reasonable. People who have the wood and who would be glad to sell it at tbe price tbat is being onerea, are unable to get it to market. In many cases people are suffering in tbeir bouses for tbe very comforts of life. They have either the money or commodities that will bring money; but on account of the roads are unable to bring about the exchange. The condition of the roads paralyzes business and paralyzes everything. From the standpoint of comfort, health or common sense, there is no estimating the daily cost of such conditions to tbe whole country. Such conditions for six weeks would cost enough in dollars and cents to macadamize every public road in the county. Second Citizen?Then why do we not do something ? First Citizen ?That is what I want to kuow ; but I am neither the legislature or the county board of commissioners. What cau I do ? Second Citizen?No; it ip as you say. You are not the county board of commissioners or the legislature; but you, as much as any other man id the county, are responsible for the horrible conditions by which we are surrounded. You recognize the evils of bad roads fully, aud you see clearly tbe benefits that are to be derived from good roads; but you have never* waked up to the one all-important fact that the only way to get goo<J roads is to pay for them. Some feiv people might, for an object lesson, go down into their pockets and make a gift to the public ; but there is no daoger of such a spirit becoming general. It ought not to. The man who is not willing to do bis share is entitled to nothing. He does not deserVe even to be allowed to ride over a good road after it has been completed.. But if everybody will pay, then the thing can be done. The only remedy is taxation. There should be a property tax and a poll tax, and until such taxes are levied and used for road purposes, we may as well put in our time barking at the moon as complaining of present conditions. THE CATAWBA POWER. The Enquirer has beard a great deal, one way or the other, about the proposed electric power plant at Neely's ferry, on Catawba river; but has not yet been able to secure anything like a definite statement as to the intentions of the company, or as to whether indeed the plant will really be erected. This latter contingency, it seems, depends upon various circumstances. The letter from Columbia by Mr. VV. H. Stewart, the other day, indicated that there was much opposition In Bethel to the construction of the accessary dam across the river, and sought to re-assure the Bethel people by calling their attention to the fact that the bill would allow landowners .o sue for any damages that might be caused to their property, etc. A citizen of Bethel township was in iforkville a few days ago, and gave the -eporter an idea of the feeling of the ceople along the river. The people jp there understand that the proposed lam at Neely's ferry is to be 30 feet in seight. This, they say, will be sufficient to produce a great inland lake bat will extend for miles up the river, ind that although the company might >uy and own all the lands that will >e covered by ordinary back water, seasons of freshet, the damage will sxtend a great many miles still furher up the river, and cause much lamage for wbicb it will be difficult to ix the responsibility in the courts. Another ground of objection is the :laim that the dam will cause more or ess sickness, etc. One of the representatives in the louse notified the Bethel people last veek that it would be a good idea for hem to send representatives toColum>ia to look after their interests, as the