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Scraps and Jacts. ? The North Caroliua Democratic state con vention, held at Raleigh at last Wednesday, nominated the following ticket: Governor, Charles B. Aycock, of Wayne ; Lieutenant Governor,W. D. Turner, or Iredell ; Secretary of State, J. Bryan Grimes, of Pitt; State Auditor, B. F. Dixon, of Cleveland ; State Treasurer, R. B. Lacy, of Wake. ? Charlotte Observer: The cotton buyers in many Mississippi cities are counting upon doing business next year direct with the Carolina cotton mills. They say the tide of business from middle aud upper Mississippi is turned from northern to the Caroliua mills. These buyers eveu uow maniiri-oatoat int.pre.st in the extent 1COL IUO vuvvuv to which the millsarealready supplied or will need cotton for the remainder of this year. ? Secretary Hay denied Wednesday morning that there was any foundation for the report that arrangements have been concluded with Nicaragua and osta Rica for acquiring a strip of land ten miles wide between Greytown and Brito for the Nicaragua canal. He called atteutiou to toe fact that the Nicaragua Canal commission has not yet selected a route for the waterway and added that it was obvious that the state department could not make arrangements to acquire territory, as stated in the published report, without the consent of congress. Furthermore, the substitute for the Clayton-Bulwer treaty is still before the senate, he said, and there are various bills and resolutions before congress pertaining to right of way for the canal and other matters; and it was absurd to suppose that the government has takeu steps to acquire a strip of land from the Central American governments in the present situation and without the knowledge of the people of the couutry.. ? There was a remarkable pro-Boer mass meeting in Philadelphia last Tuesday night. There were present ( 5,000 people, mostly school boys. It was gotten up by Webster Davis for the purpose of protesting against the war now being waged by the British. 1 Speeches were made by Davis and Bourke Cochran, and Edward Mark- : ham read an original poem. The boys seemed to be interested principally in having fun, and they were difficult to manage. At the close of the meeting, there was a formal call for a messenger boy. In accordance with a previous arrangement, James Francis Smith, employed by a New York Express company, presented himself, and he was eutrusted with a sympathetic message to Presideut Kruger, signed by 5,000 high school boys. He was instructed to deliver the message iu 1 person, and he set out at once with the iuteution of leaving New York city Wednesday ou the steamship St. Louis. Two other boys accompauied him. The party will arrive iu the Trausvaal sometime during the summer. ? A remarkable experiment was made last Monday at the laboratory of Thomas A. Edison, iu Orange, N. J., when a piece of iron was melted iu five seconds. Louis Dreyfus, of Frankfort-on the-Maiu, who is the agent of Goldschmidt's Chemische-Thermo Industrie, of Essen, Germany, showed Mr. Edison this new process for attaining great heat in an almost iucredibly short time by the coinbustiou of a certain chemical compound, which the inventor keeps a secret, used in conn""'inn with nowdered aluminum. Mr. Dreyfus placed half a cupful of the chemical in a crucible, covered it with a small quantity of powdered aluminum aud then placed a wrench about half un inch thick aud six inches long in the crucible. Touching a match to the compound, Mr. Dreyfus stepped back and the mixture blazed up furiously. In five seconds the wrench melted. It is estimated that the heat evolved in the process was 3.000 degrees Centigrade, hitherto considered impossible to reach. The value of the process is expected to be shown in welding together steel rails. The iNatioual Tubing company is negotiating for the right to use it for welding together the ends of tubes. ? General Arthur McArthur, who is scheduled to succeed Geueral Elwell S. Otis as governor general of the Philippine islands, is spoken of as an excellent officer whose past military record renders it more than likely that his administration of affairs iu the east will he acceptable to the government. Geueral McArthur is a medalof-honor man, having planted the colhij rtJuimenf, on the crest of Missionary Ridge during the fiercest of the fight on November 25, 1863. He was boru in Massachusetts and went to the front in 1801 as a private in the Tweuty-fourth Wisconsin volunteers, rising to the colonelcy of the regiment on merit, with extra brevets for gallantry at the great pitched battle of the Civil war?Franklin, Teun.,?at Perryville, Stone river uud the battles of the Atlanta campaign. In 1S66 he was tnade a first lieutenant of the regular array, soon after promoted to a captaincy, and served on the frontier from 1S70 to 18S9, making a notable record as an Indian tighter. He was colonel when the war with Spain opened and the President made him a brigadier general of volunteers. He rendered valuable service in organiz ing the new troops, and with General Charles King, the novelist, he was ordered to the Philippines over a year agp. For efficient services at and around Manila he was last year made a major general. He has fought the Filipinos constantly, and knows them aud their country well. ? The new militia bill recently introduced by Representative Hay, of Virginia, is attracting considerable attention throughout the couutry. This bill is designed to create out of the militia of the'several states a volunteer army for use in time of war, to supplant the regular army. The bill contemplates a general broadening of the basis of the national guard, its equipment with the service rifle and its complete organization in time of war into regiments, brigades, divisions and corps, with the three battalion formation as in the regular army, and is desigued to obviate the necessity of a lurge standing army upon the expiration of the present law, July 1, 1901, increasing the standing army to 65,000, and authorizing the present voltin teer array of 35,000. The bill makes all citizens between the ages of 18 and 45 liable to military service in the volunteer army. It appropriates $yo,000,000 annually for the maiutainance and equipment of the national guard of the several states, thus forming the nucleus of the volunteer army, and requires the secretary of war to keep in each state a supply of ordnance stores sufficient for 90 days' use of the national guard of the state iu the event of war. It provides a system of mob-1 ilization for the guard by dividing the state into military divisions and provides f<r a board of officers in each state, who shall hold examinations for the position of second lieutenant in the national guard, such officers to be promoted for merit and efficiency. <Thc \lorhville (Enquirer. YORKVIIjIJE, S. C.: SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1900. ? The Anderson Iutelligeucer wants to see somebody ruu a newspaper as "Senator Tillman would ruu it." We would rather see Senator Tillman himself running a paper to suit his own notions. The Aiken Journal and Re** J A. * U ~ view, However, is connuem. tuai mo senator would succeed in running the paper into the ground and himself into a fat office. ? Mr. Collis P. Huntington, a railroad expert, warns the country that the Nicarauga canal cannot prove profitable. There is no doubt of the fact that Mr. Huntington is well up on the transportation subject; but there is reason to fear that his large interests in trans-continental railroads tend to warp his judgment with regard to the canal. There are experts who stand as high as does Mr. Huntington who not only believe that the canal will pay ; but they are also convinced that it will increase instead of diminish the business of railroads even of the class in which Mr. Huntington is interested. ?. 0 +. ? There was another eflfbrt in the house last Tuesday to kill the appropriation for free seed distribution. It was claimed that the seeds furnished to the agricultural department were generally of inferior quality, put off on the government by the seed trust. The bouse refused, however, to strike out the appropriation. Mr. Corliss, of Michigan, tried to secure an amendment to the seed bill that would furuish free dinner pails to workingmen. He claimed that there was as much reason why the government should do this, as there was why it should furnish seeds; but the amendment was lost. ? The senate committee on privileges and elections has decided, by a unanimous vote, to recommend the adoption of a resolution declaring that Hon. W. A. Clark, of Montana, is not entitled to occupy a seat as senator from that state. The committee was uot inclioed to censure Mr. Clark very severely, however. It develops that the use of money has always been common in Montana elections, and the methods of the people who have been working up testimony against Clark have been no cleaner than were the methods of Clark in securing his election. The committee will probably so report. It is understood now that Clark will go back to Montana and ask the people of his state to vindicate him. This, it is thought, will result in a renewal of the fight with Dally. ? After calling especial atteutiou to the circumstance that the anti-McLaurin newspapers failed to acknowledge the senator's vote on the Puerto Rieau tariff bill, the Manning Times goes ou to say : What we started to show, however, was the systematic efforts on the part of McLaurin's enemies to conceal what ho does do that will meet with the people's approval, and to magnify, and contort into misrepresentation such acts as they think will be disapproved of. The record shows McLaurin to have voted on every party measure with his party, and it also shows that he has had the manliness to be independent of all cliques or political clans. This fight 011 McLaurin now would have been made on Senator Tillman ; but those opposed to Tillman know they stand no more chance to defeat him, than does a cat in an oil tank without claws; so they begin far ahead blazing the way to McLaurin's defeat. Hut two years is a long way oil', and the conspirators may he striking at the base of a tree which will come down on themselves with destructive force. We do uot think The Times has any occasion to worry. That sayiug of Lincoln's to the effect that "you can fool all the people some of the time ? 1 11 A 1 4! aDd some ot trie people an me ume; but you can't fool all the people all the time," was great. It was true then and it is true now. The people have plenty of lime in which to adjudicate the case of Newspapers vs. McLaurin, and it is quite probable that their verdict, when it is rendered, will be pretty nearly right. We would like to ask The Enquirer wl * it takes to make a Republican paper^?Spartanburg Herald. That is easy. The elements required for a Republican paper are about the same as are required for a Democratic paper. For one thing, there must be an absence of convictiou and principle on the part of the editor. The editor must be a subservient creature?utterly destitute of freedom of thought. He must blindly stick to party candidates and party platforms?every man of them, and every plank. If the party nominates a scoundrel with a record as bad as a jailbird, or the platform contains principles that no intelligent man can endorse, the editor of the party organ must hold up such cauditates to be paragons of virtue, and such principles to be as sound, as holy and as true as the decalogue. If the platform contains planks, the carryiug out of which mean the ruin of the editor's readers, the editor must, like the Judas Iscariot of the Chicago stockyards, continue to lead to slaughter those who are trusting him for wise and safe guidance. That is what it takes to make a Republican newspaper and that is what it takes to make a Democratic newspaper. The day has been when this kind of a uewspaper used to be more numerous than it is now. We are glad to know that au intelligent public is fast killiug it out, and we hope to see the day when it can exist in this section no more. Senator Tillman stands for a bounty not exceeding 12 per cent, on cables of American manufacture. That is a nice position for a Democrat, especially for one who took such a.proper stand against the armor plate extortion. Is his inconsistency due to a belief that cable manufacturers are more worthy of subsidies than armor plate makers, or to a desire to tickle the Pops with "an interesting experiment in government ownership?" ? Columbia State. Really, we see nothing inconsistent in this position. Senator Tillmau has all along been pre-disposed in favor of the protection idea. If he had reasoo (o believe that the prices charged for armor plate were exorbitant, it was all right for him to advocate the fixing of a reasonable limit, and to provide that unless private corporations should furnish plates within that limit, the government would establish au armor plate factory of its own. Armor plate is a product iu which the government is especially interested, and it is right that it should protect itself. Exactly the same principle applies to the manufacture of cables. It is much more desirable that cables be manufactured in the United States than that they be manufactured abroad. If American manufacturers are uiiuble to compete with foreigners, it is proper that Amercan manufacturers be encouraged sufficiently to enable them to compete. As iu the case of armor plate, this principle applies especially to such government necessities as sub-marine cables. In one case Senator Tillman believes that the manufacturers are abusing a monoply, and in the other he believes that a bounty is uecessary to existence. If he was right in the case of armor plate, and we believe he was, he is certainly right in the matter of sub marine cables. MERE-MENTION. The Boers claim to have recently secured 30 new pieces of artillery and a large quanlity of ammunition. A parly of Princeton astronomers will observe the coming eclipse from Wadesboro, N. C. General Wheeler realizes that he is no longer a member of the house, and has written a letter to an Alabama newspaper, in which he expresses regret that the governor of the state does not call an election for his successor. General Gatacre, commander of the third division of the British army in South Africa, has been recalled to Englaud. It is stated that there are charges against him. Fighting has been in progress for several days at Elandslaagte, the scene of the opening battle of the South African war. The Puerto Kicau tariff bill passed the house last Wednesday by a vote of 1G1 to 163. Lewis Red wine, whose defalcation as cashier of the Gate City National bank, At lanta, caused such a seusution a few years ago, died of consumption on Monday at Bowie, La. Reports of Wednesday tell of a 10 iuch fall of snow iu Central Kansas. It is probable that President McKinley will uieit PK.jrlntto nil the 20th of MaV. Quite n strong vice presidential booui is being worked up for Admiral Schley. It is stated that over 200 people are ill with grip at Forest City, N. C. Colonel Neat Not Guilty. In the case of Colonel \V. A. Neal, tried in Columbia last Monday and Tuesday, on the charges of breach of trust with fraudulent intent and grand larceny, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. This left two other cases against Colonel Xeal; but it was not thought that he would be convicted in either of them. Boone a Humbug. The Port ltoyal Post has gone back on its old friend, Colonel Alfred Boone, and warns the counties along the line of his latest project to watch out and not get. skiuned. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ] For the Murder of Casoie Boan. After a sensational trial lasting sev- , eral days, Harvey and John Jackson were convicted at Chesterfield last Thursday of the murder of Cassie Boan, a young woman of Indian descent recently. The men are said to have 1 burned the woman alive. For some reason the jury recommended the murderers to the mercy of the court and they will go to the peuitentiary for life instead ot to tne gaiiows. The Lockhart Railroad. Juuesville correspondence of the Columbia State, Wednesday: Mr. R. Southgate, general engineer of the 1 Southern railway, came over last week and met Captain Johu C. Carey, presi 1 dent of the Lockhart mills, and (hey c went over the Lockhart railroad and t iuspected it. Captain Carey expects to have the trains running to Lockhart in a abort while. About two depots will he established on the road, and a f regular train will be put on as soon as '' the road is completed, making a round t trip each day. The bead of the road will be at Lockhart. Connection will be made with the Southern at Lock j. hart junction, two miles south of Jonesville. 1 The State Executive Committee. The state Democratic executive com mittee met in Columbia last Wednes- I day night, and was called to order by \ Mr. Wilie Jones, the cbuirman ; Mr. J. 3 C. Wilborn representing York county, jj The ouly business that was transacted was such as was outliued in the open ing address of Chairman Jones as fol- a lows: "Gentlemen of the committee: 0 You are assembled here tonight for the purpose of calling a state conventiou of ii the Democrats of this state to meet 0 May 16th, in accordance with the con- j stitutiou of the party, for the purpose of selecting 18 delegates to represent 0 South Carolina in the national Demo- c cratic convention to meet July 4th, to a nominate candidates for president and c vice president of the United States." q The question of doing away with the t campaign ny counties wa? uuu uubuoged, tbe committee evidently preferring a to leave that matter for the state con- " vention. One of the delegates wanted v to pass a resolution declaring Mrs. Dewey the Mark Hanneress of the Democratic party. The proposition, of course, creuted some amusement. j. The Custom House Blind Tiger. Says a Washington dispatch of Wed- v nesday : The secretary of the treasury has received a report from tbe special b agent who has conducted the investi- ^ gation of the reported use of the custom house at Charleston for tbe storuge of d contraband liquors for illict sales. A 0 number of officers and employes of the custom house were asked for an expla- r nation of the finding of the liquors; ^ but all disclaimed having any knowledge concerning it except one of the a uight men who admitted having allow- r ed some of his friends to keep the liquor there. Other testimony disclosed a information which led the officers mak- P ing the investigation to believe that the ^ liquor belonged to a certain individual v in Charleston who has a wholesale liquor dealer's license. Tbe conclusion 8 of the officials is that a certain deputy h collector is responsible for the storing a of liquors in the custom house and that v several employes had full knowledge >' of it. The report is accompanied by copies of the testimony taken. Tbe v treasury officials have taken no action 8 in regurd to the matter; but there 9 seems to be no doubt that the guilty parties will be immediately brought to justice. h ?2 Strike on the Southern.?The y Southern railway telegraphers, who j belong to the Order of Railroad Tele 1 ?? ot??;Lro loaf. ThurQ. ? grapner*, ?cul uu a m duy. The strikers include about 90 y per ceut. of the telegraphers in the employ of the ruilroad. The purposes j, of the strike are as follows : "To secure reinstatement of its mem- v hers who were discharged by the r Southern railway. g "For the right to be heard through committees iu the adjustment of indi- g vidua! grievances. -y "For a set of rules and rates of pay g to govern train dispatchers, telegraph- ,( era, agent and other station employes, y in their employment, discipline, etc. g "Twelve consecutive hours work per day where one or two telegraphers n are employed, includiug one consecu- ^ live hour for dinner ; ten consecutive (| hours, including meal hour, in all relay, g dispatchers' offices and offices where g more than two telegraphers are em- ^ ployed, except that the rule will not t| make working hours more than those n that, may now he effective. v "Eight consecutive hours for train dispatchers. rt( "Pay for overtime for telegraphers, dispatchers and others iu excess of the ? above hours, hut nothing less than 25 w cents per hour. j "To abolish the practice of compell- ^ ing agents to load cotton and the per- ^ forinauce of other meuial labor. C( "A minimum wage scale of $45 and jt $50 per month, according to territory c or location. "One hundred and twenty dollars ^ per mouth for train dispatchers. q "The securement of fair and equita- ^ hie rules regarding promotion." s. The War In Africa.?There has been no satisfactory news from the war o in South Africa during the past few tl days. Lord Roberts is still at Bloem- t< fontein. He now has under his com- y maud at least 214,000 troop, with 12,- C 000 more afloat. The main body of h the Boers is said to be entrenched a somewhere between Bloemfoutein aud w Pretoria; but every indication still c poiuts to the fact, that there are nu- e merous swiftly moving small bodies n operating around Bloemfoutein. Gen- o eral Buller is believed to be quite busy o in northern Natal. London thinks w that Lord Roberts has completed the h formulation of plans for the advance d on Pretoria and he expects to move a within a few days more. h LOCAL AFFAIRS. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. r. M. Heath & Co.?Tell of their opening on Wednesday and Thursday, and announce that the millinery season is now fairly launched. They also mention some specialties in the way of shoes, shirts, clothing, etc. fork Drug Store, Registered Pharmacist ?Publishes a list of the names and the number of votes cast in the bicycle contest up to Wednesday evening, the 11th instant. WITHIN THE TOWN. Two additional car loads of machinsry have arrived for the Sutro Cotton uill. Materials are being accumulated in arge quantities out ut the York Cotton nills for the new buildings to be ereced there soon. At Trinity church tomorrow night, lev. J. M. Stead man will preach a careully prepared sermon on the subject, 'Will the tie that binds us on earth lind us in heaven." There were quite a large number of leople in town from the country on Thursday, and business, especially in he dry goods line, was unusually good, festerday was also quite a busy day. At the annual meeting of the Jasper .light Infantry last Tuesday night, Mr. V. B. Moore was re-elected captain ; Jr. W. W. Boyce was elected first ieutenant ; and John R. Hart, E-q., v'as elected second lieutenaut. The ppointees for the non-commissioned ffieers will be announced later. There will be special Easter services n Trinity church and in the Church f the Good Shepherd tomorrow, loth churches will be handsomely decrated for the occasion, and in acordance with a time-honored custom, special feature of the service in each hurcb will be a thank oOering. In >inity church the offering will be for he benefit of the Epworth orphanage, nd in the Church of the Good Sheperd, it will go to the building fund vhicb the congregation is raising. ABOUT PEOPLE. Miss Ida Harshaw, of Guthriesville, 3 visiting friends in Yorkvilie. Mrs. E. B. Beard has been quite unwell for several days with the grip. Miss Donella Rice, of Denmark, is n Yorkvilie, the guest of Mrs. J. P. Vhite. Rev. Boyce H. Grier expects to conuet religious services at Lancaster tolorrow. Mrs. J. L. Williams and children arived in Yorkvilie from Kershaw on Thursday afternoon. Mr. J. B. Pegram is able to be up nd about; but he does uot seem to be ecovering hisEtrengtb very rapidly. A letter from Mrs. M. J. Clark, now t Lakeland, Fla., announces such imrovement in the health of Mrs. S. W. '""alu as to warrant her return next /eek to her home at Chattanooga. Lieutenant James B. Allison, now tatioued at Columbus, O., has received is commission as a first lieutenant, nd has been ordered to Alaska. He till leave for that territory on the 16th Dsiant, and will go by way of Seattle. Mr. G. C. Leech, of Hickory Grove, /as in Yorkville u few days ugo iu earch of a bale of cotton that was tolen from his gin recently. He had ooked Chester and other points ; but /ithout any more success than be met ere. The Columbia State says that on the 5th instant, at 4.30 o'clock p. m., Mr. Villiam Banks, son of Prof. A. R. tanks, of Rock Hill, will be married 0 Miss Laurens Louise Yance, daugher of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Watson fance. The ceremony is to take lace at the Vance residence in Coumbia. Mr. VV. Berry Cauthen, formerly /ith the Carolina and North-Western ailroad at Yorkville, is now working sr the Southern, and is at present loated at Winusboro. He says his work 1 much more satisfactory than at Torkville, in that it is not so heavy ; ut still he is not altogether reconciled i) the change for the reason that he /ould rather be with his many frieuds ere. Mr. Chas. S. Henniug, of the Parlelee Library association, left yesteray lor Shelby, having been culled here by a telegram. He has not yet nisbed the work of organizing a local , ranch of the association ; but is geting aloug very nicely, having already be promise of more than a dozen leinbers. He expects to be back ithin a few days; but if be fiuds it leonveuient to come back, be will i end au agent to complete the work. | Fort Mill Times: Last Sunday, two randsous of Rev. Dr. J. B. Mack ere baptized at the residence of Mr. '. B. Belk?the fourth sou of Mr. and Irs. T. B. Belk and the first born of Ir. and Mrs. W. B. Ardrey. The I ompauy assemmtu ui iussci vice ?ua, i the matter of relationship to the ( hildreu,a remarkable one, there being resent three great-grandmothers, three raudmolhers and two grandfathers. 1 'here were four generations represeu- 1 id in the ease of each chdd, which ; peaks well for the healthfuluess of our ommunity. ( Although close in the neighborhood : f 70 years of age, Mr. T. G. Gulp, tie county supervisor, is a much bet- J ir man, physically, thau mauy 1 ouoger men of half his age. Mr. < 'ulp went down to the Catawba river i ist Saturday to personally make some , leasuremeuts that were necessary dth refereuce to the proposed bridge ontract. He and others had stretchd a line across the river, aud while eturniug, Mr. Culp accidently fell i ut of the boat. The water is some 7 , r 8 feet deep at the point where he 'ent overboard ; but it is stated that . e managed to keep his head up, and id not get his hair wet. Declining 1 ssistance, he got back into the boat 1 imself, and notwithstanding the cold, i be continued the work he had gone out to do until be bad finished. It was several hours before he got an opportunity to change his clothes, and when he was in Yorkville on Tuesday, he appeared none the worse for his involuntary bath. Mr. Culp has long had the reputation of being the most expert swimmer in Catawba township, and in times past he has assisted in , the recovery of the bodies of quite a number of people who have, on various occasions, been drowned in the Catawba. , MILLINERY OPENING. The millinery opening of J. M. 1 Heath & Co., on Wednesday and Thursday, was an unqualified success. The fact was attested by the large number of ladies who went out to see it despite the disagreeable weather, and who, having seen the show once, went back to see it again. All of the best informed judges are agreed that a more elaborate affair of the kind has never been seen here. Mtilar !?/? rtvKiKit Inn u fro. A i U IJ j LUC CAU lUlliVU luviuvivu m v* v mendous display of feminine finery, the like of which is seldom seen in a town so small asYorkville. Ordinarily a dozen trimmed hats are considered as making a creditable show. In this instance the exhibit included not less than 50, presenting all the various styles and J designs that Dame Fashion has dictated for this season's wear, and in addition there was such a profusion of ribbons, laces, feathers, fruits and flowers as to bewilder even the ladies themselves. Altogether the exhibits must have represented thousands of dollars in value, and most visitors seemed to be at a loss to decide whether to bestow the more admiration on the fine judgment with which they bad been selected, or the splendid skill and taste with which they were displayed. Any attempt at description of so much beauty, especially by the uuinitiated, would tend to make the show * seem commonplace, and it is enough to say that the bats, though generally of light materials, are unusually large this season. One of the bats that was considered especially attractive, was described to the reporter by one of the ladies as being "a lovely creation in swell pompadour, made of etuscan net over tulle, aud trimmed of roses of a A new blue, blending to belio, with a crown of helio straw." Another was described as "a beauty in jet and pastel blue, brim with appliques of gold, and wings of etuscan, to give height; front decoration of June roses, and back. / ___i 1st ... _sn. II A ground or omure nueri/y sua. auu so it goes on through the list; but to name all the pretty new materials requires a vocabulary far beyond the attainments of any masculine writer. A striking feature of the show was the beauty, profusion and natural appearance of the artificial flowers. These had been arranged in baskets and in pots in such a manner as to deceive at least the casual observer. Suid one of the lady clerks to the reporter : "One Yorkville lady remarked to me, 'Oh, where did you get those roses? You must have ordered them, vfor I am sure they could not have grown here.' 'They are artificial,' I replied. 'No, I meant those,'she said hastily, pointing to another group. They were artificial, too." Wednesday was a miserably raw day, and there was only a few ladies from the country. Even the Yorkville ladies did not turn out in large numbers ; but Thursday was not quite so damp and cold, and not only were the Yorkville visitors more numerous than on Wednesday ; but ladies came long distances, from all directions, representing every section of the surrounding country. The show was thoroughly appreciated aud enjoyed by all. LOCAL LACONICS. Until January 1st, 1001. , The Twice-a-Week-Enquirer, filled with the latest and most reliable * news, will be furnished from the date of this issue until January 1, 1901, for $1.46. Baccalaureate Sermon to Wlnthrop. Bishop W. W. Duncan, of Spartanburn. will preach the baccalaureate sermon to the young ladies of WinLbrop college, in Rock Hill, on Sunday, Juue 3. The Snake as the Weather Prophet. The cool weather of Wednesday and Thursday gave additional proof that the suuke is certainly the father of lies, and is not as reputable even as other weather prophets. Because snakes bad begun to appear, it was suggested that there would be no more cold weather. N'ew Mail Route. An effort is on foot to secure the establishment of a new star route to run from Sharon to Hoodtown, with w?. mails three times a week. The plan includes the establishment of a postoffice at Mr. A. B. Crosby's, with Mrs. Crosby as postmaster. This arrangement will be quite a convenience,to the people of the neighborhood. Deuth of Mr. J. M. WUIlford. Writes a Hock Hill correspondent under date of Thursday : Yesterday ifteruoon, at bis home near this city, Mr. James M. Williford, one of the best-known aud most prosperous farmers of the county, died suddenly from ^ heart failure. Feeling as well as usuil, he went out and saw to the feeding