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Scraps and Jacts. ? London Saturday Review: When Mr. Kruger said, or was reported to say. that if the British wanted to take his country, he would make them pay ?100,000,000 for it, we laughed pleasantly. But it was the laughter of fools, and is already crackling like thorns under the pot of the ex-president at The Hague. The facts are that we have already spent on the South African war .?148,000,000, and as it is admitted that our expenditure is at the rate of ?6,000,000 a month, and we shall have to pay large sums lor uuiiipensauuu a.uu assistance to ruined farmers, the total probable cost will not be far short of ?200,000,000. This would be Ave times what the Crimean war cost us, and nearly a third of the debt incurred In the great struggle with Napoleon. ? Senator Bailey, of Texas, is in Washington bearing confirmation of the marvelous tales of the oil discoveries that are being made in his state. He says that the excitement is increasing daily, and that the territory of discovery is spreading nearly as fast. Says he: "The lack of coal has retarded Texas' progress, marvelous though it has been, during the last 20 years. When we demonstrate, as I think we shall do soon, that Texas has a practically inexhaustible supply of fuel oil, an era of progress, such as no other section of this country has ever known, will set in down there. In raw materials, particularly cotton, wool and iron, Texas is unsurpassed by any part of this country, and with plenty of fuel oil you will soon see cotton and woolen factories, iron foundries and machine shops springing up all over the state." ^ ? Says a Nyack, N. Y., dispatch of Oftlay 2: An exciting incident, which pruved to be almost a tragedy, broke up the meeting of Amity lodge of Odd Fellows at Spring Valley last night. Norman Hemmingway, who comes from Kansas City, and is a typical Westerner, has been stopping at Suffern for several months. Lately he expressed a desire to join Amity lodge. He presented excellent recommendations and last night was on hand to z take the degree. During a trying and exciting period in the ceremony which ^ was to make an Odd Fellow of him, W. R. Sherwood advanced upon Heming^ jr7 way in a threatening manner. It was -V} KJ so realistic that the Westerner whipped 'y/ . out a revolver from his back pocket W and fired at Sherwood. Sherwood staggered and put his hands up to his face. Consternation reigned in the lodge. Some members grabbed Hemmingway and disarmed him, while others went to Sherwood's aid. Sherwood had not been hit by the bullet, but the powder had flashed in his face and eyes. Sherwood was taken to his home, the ceremonies coming to an abrupt end. Sherwood is around all right today, but is considerably shaken up by his experience. Hemmingway was not molested and he left town today. ? It is expected that within a day or two the programme will be completed at the war department for a substantial reduction of the present strength of the United States army in the Philippines. Regular troops now there who have seen the most service are the Fourteenth, Eighteenth and Twentythird Infantry, and one battalion of the Third Artillery. They went out to Manila in 1898, in the first expedition under General Anderson, and if the announced policy of the department heretofore lived up to is continued, these will be the first organizations to return to the United States. Some of these troops will be replaced with the new levies just raised in this country. It has not yet been determined how large a reduction will be made. The department is also arranging to transfer a number of enlisted men from one branch of the service to another with a view to securing the balance of proportions contemplated in the reorganization bill. Enlistments are being made in satisfactory numbers. These enlistments will soon bring the army up to the maximum of 76,000 men. At present the infantry and cavalry under the schedule recently aDDroved by Secretary of War Root, are practically complete or would be If the excess of men in different regiments were transferred to regiments in process of formation. The artillery is still short, and the transfer proposition contemplates taking men of experience in the infantry and cavalry arms and assigning them to the artillery, if they should prefer that service. If not, the new enlistments will have to be made for the artillery in order to increase that branch to the maximum of 18,000 men. ? The city of Jacksonville, Florida, was swept by one of the most disastrous fires ever known in the South, last Friday. The fire originated in a pile of ginned moss, at the works of the Cleveland Fibre company, from a spark from a Negro cabin nearby, got beyond the control of the workmen, proved too much for the fire department, and rushed onward by a high wind fed fiercely on the pitch pine weatherboarding and dry shingles of neighboring buildings, until it was impossible to stay its course. The fire raged from 12.45 p. m., until 10.15 p. m., when it come within control, having practically burned out all there was on which to to feed, and having left a blackened swath three miles long and over a mile in width. The destruction included 148 blocks of buildings and rendered some 10,000 people homeless. The property loss is estimated at something1 like $10,000,000; but the figures cannot be definitely fixed for quite a while yet. It is known that a number of people were burned; but how many cannot be ascertained. It is also a fact that quite a number were drowned in the St. John's river in which they were forced to take refuge against the terrible heat. During Sunday, people gathered such of their household goods as had been saved, on the lots left vacant by their burned building. Some had a few blankets, frying pans and other articles, but most of them were reduced to tlie clothes on their backs. Many who were quite wealthy during the morning, had been stripped of all their possessions. The governor of Florida sent troops to take charge of the burned district on Saturday to keep thieves from scratching among the ruins for treasure. Although the people had not yet made any appeal for assistance, subscriptions commenced coming in on Sunday, the Armour Packing companj leading with 51,000. The state of Florida will do all it can for the sufferers and the people of that portion of the city which was not burned are helping There is great need for assistance fro it the country at large. She \lorkvilIr (inquirer. YORKVILLE, S.C.Y^^nrDnvroniv H1V6 IQfil W EiiSiiEjau.il? mat o, Yes, undoubtedly, politics is a dirtj business. Now that efforts have been made tc slander both Butler and Hampton, the Greenville News wants to know whc will be selected as the next victim. If the people who aggravated General Hampton into speaking so unkindly of Senator McLaurin can now gel the general to denounce his long time friend, A. B. Williams, it will begin tc look as if there is an end of humar constancy. We are glad to have it from Press Agent Larner that the Pretender's $100,000 fortune is the result merely ol his thrift while representing Belton, S C., in congress.?Greenville News. We beg to inform The News that Mr Latimer has ever been a thrifty gentleman. Some few years ago he used his privileges on the floor of the house tc sell enlarged photographs to his felloe members, and in this way probablj laid the foundation for his recent luckj strike. There is as much difference betweer the Democracy of Grover Cleveland anc Mr. Bryan as there is between that ol Mr. Bryan and President McKinley, yet In o nrall Irnnwn foot that Genera Hampton was always an admirer ol Grover Cleveland, and that his democracy today is of that kind rather thar of the kind represented by Mr. Bryar and Senator Tillman. The Columbia State avows Itself against Tillman and McLaurin both, so it says, while The News and Courier is upholding Tillmar with an ardor that it has not before exhibited for years. South Carolina politics is strangely mixed at this time and instead of the situation condensing down to only two parties, it looks as if there may be a half dozen 01 illVI c. The Greensboro Telegram avows its substantial agreement with the sentiments of Senator McLaurin's recent Charlotte speech, and says that il any of the esteemed and learned contemporaries which dissent from it will kindly point out a specific sentence 01 paragraph in it, essential to his general argument, which they consider not a fact or a reasonable deduction therefrom, it will be glad to lay before such a person the reasons which have impelled it to follow what it believes to be the dictates of common sense. In concluding its paragraph, The Telegram calls for a show-down in the sentence: "The quotation, please, now, not somebody's idea of what they expected or hoped Mr. McLaurin would say or what they have since said he said."?Charlotte Observer. Pshaw! The logician of the Columbia State can knock out the whole speech in one "argument" of three letters. Hampton and the PollticlanM. The political sensation of the week has been furnished from Columbia, out of an attempt to make capital against Senator McLaurin because of an effort on the part of certain of the senator's friends to ascertain whether General Wade Hampton would accept the Columbia postoffice. Ona ci/)a nf tho otnrv the fnrts rnn nected with the alleged tender?appears elsewhere In this issue, being embodied in the statements of gentlemen best in a position to know. The other side of the story, being the facts connected with the probable operation of rearousing in the old general's memories of his political wrongs, by designing people who now have his ear, can only be inferred from the circumstances. On the one hand, as the result of a suggestion from Mr. A. B. Williams, of Richmond, one of the most sincere and disinterested admirers of Gen. Hampton living today, there is a delicate effort to ascertain whether the old general would accept, without putting himself under the slightest obligation tc anybody, a position that would make comfortable his few remaining years General Hampton's wishes having beer ascertained, the matter is dropped as delicately as it was taken up. Rumor gets hold of the story, and designing politicians no doubt begin to fill the old gentleman's mind with dark suspicions, and by the time the interviewers come around they have things in satisfactory shape for further developments, We think we are incapable of feeling the slightest animosity toward Wade Hampton. As far as is possible for living man, he represents something sacred. In all South Carolina, or for that matter in all the United States, there is not a grander character living today. No other man living in the state has shown so much unselfish devotion to his people. There is no other man to whom the people of South Carolina owe sc much. Notwithstanding the political exigencies of the occasion or the fact that Hampton had outlived his usefulness, there were few healthy consciences in this state that were reconciled to his removal from the United States senate, and there are not many today who do not sympathize with him in cherishing memories of wrongs that w'nild not be tolerated in another. All those people who contributed dollars tc h> lp him out of straits in which he was thrown by the recent destruction of his house by tire, will be able to see in the action of Mr. Williams and Senator McLaurin motives other than political, and even the most suspicious politicians of the state will not be able to endorse all the flings and insinuations that r have been thrown out in connection - with this affair. As Hampton says, all the people of i the state know he cannot be bought. . Nobody knows it better than A. B. Wili liams. Senator McLaurin has all along known it as well. The Columbia State and News and Courier do not know it any better now than they did twenty years ago. Had he seen proper to ac cept the appointment, they would have had no more right to say he was bought than they had to say the same thing when he accepted with such reluctance tne nouse mat grateiui irienas gave j him. The very circumstances of the '> offer would preclude every suggestion of such a thing, even without taking ini to consideration the incorruptible char- ' acter of Hampton. As a matter of fact, there is everw " reason to believe that had General" ^ Hampton not reconciled himself to the , idea of spending his last days in mar- , tyrdom, he would have accepted this ] ; appointment. No one will deny that he feels that the people of his state hav^- -, been ungrateful to him. He has sad& ] as much so plainly that he cannot be , misunderstood. While he is now un> willing to accept political favors from ] his own people, he made it clear the ] ) other day that he did not have the , same feeling toward President McKin ley. He says he would have accepted ] the railroad commissionership from the j president; but "nothing from that | k source," meaning Senator McLaurin. ( In view of the fact that the senator has letters of grateful acknowledgement on account of past effort in behalf of the old general, we can only account for this ill-tempered fling on the ground ( that his mind has been freshly poisoni ed during the past few days by politic- . I ians who are close to him and who do not hesitate to use him for their pur- ] poses. ( The incident is very regretable. > . There is nothing regretable in the factC< ; that an effort was made to give Gene- ( > ral Hampton the means of spending his . r last days in comfort. Rather than oth- , r erwise, we are glad that it was done. r We do not blame him, however, for being unwilling to end such a glorious -j life in such an unimportant government (_ t position. We are sorry, however, to ( I have seen him betrayed by designing | p schemers Into slurring the motives of ( t people who had it in their power and ( ! desired to give him help that they hoped , f would prove acceptable. 1 THE FAMILY OF McLAIJRIN. 1 l ( ! They Have Alwayn Been People of I Standing nn?l Conviction. 1 Greenville News. Tuesday. 1 The Greenville News has received the " following communication from a well-" known gentleman of Hagood, S. C., who chooses the pen name of "Fair ' Play." We print it as addressed: 1 Editor of The State: As much is being written and spoken pro and con respecting Mr. McLaurln, will you permit these lines from one i who is acquainted with the family? I am not personally acquainted with i Mr. McLaurin, though I have seen him when a youth, bowing at a Methodist 1 1 altar for prayer. He is descended from, ' praying people, the best people in th^Jf eastern part of the state. The family ' . is one that, to my knowledge, has an ] ' unsullied record, to be a member of i [ which, wherever known, is to be honor- j ' ed and respected. i They are a thinking people, who have j the courage of their convictions. I 1 i have wondered whether they saw ( ; things as he does. They may not, and ( if so he is fully aware of it. I They have never been a people to ^ court popularity at the expense of prin-^ 1 ciple. Let me reiterate. I am not per- "1 sonally acquainted with Mr. McLaurin, j and am simply writing about his fam- ? ily who, extending as they do, through t Marlboro and Marion counties, S. C., are also quite numerous in Robinson i ; county, N. C. They are a prominent family, have always been because they have been largely free from those vices i and excesses which degrade and debase I and have followed after, championed . those things that make for peace. In the church they have been a spirited stay because they had character; they i were a financial stay because they had I money, the fruit of honest toil. Some ( people can be so poor that they are > mean, but I never knew a McLaurin [ to be so. All the McLaurins I ever . knew were fairly well off; there were , no failures among them: they sueceed. ed at what they went at. I beg to re, mind you I am writing about Mr. McLaurin's antecedents. They have been L public spirited, benevolent. At least > one of them was in the habit, so I have [ heard on good authority, of helping omMUnno vnnritr mon tn nn Pflurntlon. . and that man was close akin to Mr. . McLaurin. They were kind masters, ( . good neighbors, the best of citizens, t and, as you may infer from what has s , been written, very respectful to preach- t ers. { I have said nothing about Mr. Mc- { , Laurin save that the only time I ever ( . saw him was when he was kneeling at t . a Methodist altar for prayer. More than . one of them has risen to great distinc. tion. filling the highest offices in the j gift of the people with credit to them- r\ , selves; to the satisfaction of their constituency. In all the relations of life they were , true. I can feel that it was just such ^ . stuff that made sturdy Scotland and t history that she is not ashamed of. r I have said nothing of Mr. McLau- j rin because I do not know him. , , "Fair Play." ( ? San Francisco dispatch to the New t i York Commercial: N. R. Ingoldsby, a f ? naturalist, claims to owe the discov- t I ery of a fortune to a rat. Ingoldsby i : was camped on the San Pedro river, o near Mammoth, Ariz., hunting for ani- v mals and mineral specimens, and was i annoyed by the constant disappearance I of small articles that he left lying v ' about his domicile. He would leave his I t tent in the morning and returning find c ; a fork or lead pencil or some other t I small trifle missing. As he had no e > neighbors, and could discover the trail {1 i of no person or animals, he was in a j i fair way to believe in Satanic manifes- t ; tations, when he noticed that for every f' article taken a bit of stone or wood was left in its place. Ingoldsby stopped i hunting and watched for the thief. He f ( found him to be a large rodent of the : species known as the trading rat, and r with the mystery solved, spent many hours In noting the habits of the culprit. When he lost a silver spoon and received a piece of quartz carrying free ?old, Ingoldsby became the rat's shadow. After days of suspense and failure he succeeded in following the rat to its home. Nearby was the ledge from which the quartz had been taken, ind Ingoldsby after a hurried examination, rushed for civilization, to file his claim. He has named the property the Rat Hole Mine. When Ingoldsby's acquaintances cry "Rats!" Ingolshy feels his nuggets and smiles. /yrnE NEWS IN CHEROKEE. Nre Brldjce Acrom llroad River?Addreaii to the Veteran*. ^Etta Jane, May 4.?From an old Forkville paper, this announcement is :opied: "Mr. G. N. Hambrick was married to Miss Naomi Mitchell on December 21, 1849, by Rev. W. W. Carothers." Mr Tomoa MoyoAnrn'a mnnv friends ivlll regret to learn that he Is lying very low at his home in GafTney City, and is not expected to live much longer. The county commissioners of Cherokee county have let the contract for building an iron bridge across Broad river, just about the old Cherokee ford. It will consist of three spans, each 150 feet long, which will be supported in the river by four cylindrical piers. The bridge will cost $6,195, outside of the approaches. Some of the Hickory Grove members name over one evening last week and met the Walnut Grove camp, Woodmen of the World, and had a good deal af fun. We learn that a movement is on foot to secure the pastoral services of Rev. Mr. Marion at Woodlawn. He is now supplying Hickory Grove and Salem churches. jfl^armers in this community are much wrought up over their crop prospects. Cotton seed and corn planted before the last rain is not coming up well, and* the ground is getting too hard for it to come. Irish potatoes are at a bad 3tand, and sweet potatoes are rotting pa?the hill. ''Owing to the busy season and the inconvenience it may be for all the members of the Ladles' Memorial association to turn out on the 25th instant, to lecorate the graves of the Confederite soldiers buried at Salem, the meeting may be put off until a more leisure time. Stanyarne Wilson, Esq., of Spartanburg, will deliver the address on the accasion, and as a majority of the sol- I liers buried at Salem are from his native county?York?we presume that J there is a treat in store for those whoi bear him. He is a fine speaker, as our| eaders already know. It was the intention of the association to bring the meeting off on the 10th instant, but as 1 number of them wanted to attend the -eunion in Columbia, it was postponed. When it does come off we bespeak f<?l :he occasion a large attendance and all the flowers obtainable. j. l. s. v ^ROCK IIII.L HAPPENINGS. Roddey HoMpltal Project?No Election Yet?PerHonal. Rock Hill, May 6.?Constable J. T. Thomasson seized eleven gallons of tforth Carolina liquor at the depot here ast Saturday. It was rather dry durng Sunday. The committee of citizens recently ippointed to obtain the signatures of 'reeholders to a petition on the calling >f an election-on the question of municipal ownership of light and water slants, is not yet able to report the reluired number of names. ^The "District Skule" entertainment )y the King's Daughters was a big "'""ooo The on/llonfo Arilnvprl thp fun. lULttOO^ X1IV t* UUIV/1IVV - ? ?J ind added $60 to the bank account of he Daughters. A number of our music lovers are In ittendance upon the music festival in Charlotte, and tomorrow will go to Coumbia to the re-union. The Roddey hospital project has taten definjfe shape; but as yet no site las been selected. The matter of lo ation, however, is not giving the proectors a great deal of concern. The First Presbyterian church is still vithout a pastor. Recently several vistors have held services there, on trial, is it were, we suppose. Mr. Eggleston, if Portsmouth, Va., preached yesterlay morning and evening, and he :eems to have captured the congregaion, at least the younger part of it. rle is young, good looking, intelligent ind has the reputation of being a zeal>us worker. The Associate Reformed church here, vhich started with 16 members five fears ago, now has 130 members. Rev. V. S. Rogers has done it all. The Chicora Cotton mill will resume iperations within the next few days. A thief went into the window of the store of R. L. Hanna last Saturday light and stole a few groceries. Mr. and Mrs. A. Freldheim have gone in a trip that contemplates Baltimore, he Buffalo exposition and possibly Eu ope. aauuiv f/hdi.nij. The Wentlier nntl tlie Crop*?Commniiion fit Bptlinny. Zapok, May 6.?The beautiful weathir of the past few days has given a icalthful start to vegetation. Corn hat was planted before the rains has lot developed a good stand. Cotton las begun to peep out of the ground tnd looks as If It were very much dls ouraged at the prevailing low price. Northwestern York is showing up he best prospects for wheat that I lave ever seen. Really it seems as if he people are at last beginning to real ze tne real necessities 01 me huuuuuh, ind at the present rate of progress vithin a few years more we will be inlependent of the world. The sacrament of the Lord's Supper vas celebrated at Bethany last Sablath. The services commenced on Frilay and closed Sunday night, the pasor, Bev. R. M. Stevenson, being assistd by Rev. E. F. Griffith, of Mooresille, N. C. There was a good attendince, especially on Sabbath, when the icople came from all parts of the couny. Rev Griffith is an able, earnest and hxjuent speaker. Sut. ? It is the dryest town in the state so ar as the sale of alcoholic liquors are oncerned; but still there are some ilegal sales going on and the situation leeds to be watched constantly. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. W. J. Roddey, Gen. Agent?Publishes a receipt from W. W. Lewis, attorney in fact, in regard to the payment of Equitable life insurance on the life of the late John R. Ashe. W. B. Moore, Captain?Publishes an order to members of Co. L, 1st regiment, S. C. V. F. P. Venable, President, Chapel Hill, N. C.?Makes announcement of the summer school for teachers, of the University of North Carolina. C. E. Spencer, Att'y at Law?Offers to loan money on improved farms in York county. A. H. White, Rock Hill?Advertises high grade Berkshire pigs for sale to the first comers. York Drug Store?Tells of two ways of doing things and says it only does anything one way, and that way is the right way. H. C. Strauss & Co.?Talk about their millinery business, and ask shoppers to do certain things when in the store. They also talk of adjustable underskirts, shirt waists and bust formers. C. P. Lowrance & Co.?Talk about condiments, and especialy celery preparatfons. J. B. Williams?Tells of the new goods that are coming to him, and says that for pure and fresh goods to call on him. T. W. Speck, The Jeweler?Makes some pointed remarks about crockery, and invites you to see him before you buy anything in this line. R. J. Herndon?Lets you know of the receipt of two organs and a piano, and says he will sell them very low. Loans and Savings Bank?Gives another chapter on banking methods and invites you to investigate its methods. Jas. M. Starr & Co.?Wants you to see them before you buy a truss, and guarantee to fit you. They also tell you that Paris green is a good thing to kill potato bugs. York Implement Co.?Tell of the Deere disc cultivators, which they have in stock, and also of walking cultivators and Buckeye binders. They also have binding twine. OUT PEOPLE. yMr. J. Q. Wray is in Union this week, 4>n business. ^ffars. Sallie Griffith, of Charlotte, is visiting the family of Mr. W. W. Lewis. Mr. Fred McFarland has recently graduated from the Virginia Business college and taken a position at Blackstone, Va. Mr. John Dickson, of Columbia, is visiting relatives and friends in Yorkville, and is the guest of Mr. B. N. Moore and family. VMr. G. W. S. Hart, Mr. M. C. Willis, and Mr. W. B. Moore are at Greenville in attendance on the diocesan convention of the Episcopal church. VDr, John I. Barron returned home "from Baltimore last Saturday, haviner just graduated from the Medical school of the University of Maryland. Rev. J. C. Johnes left yesterday for Greenville to attend the meeting of the general council of the Episcopal church. He expects to return next Friday. ^-Mr. James F. Glenn, in the cotton business with Chas. E. Johnson & Co., of Raleigh, returned to Yorkville last Friday, having closed his season at Sumter. Miss Wilmarth Jackson, of Newport, passed through Yorkville Monday on her way to Atlanta, where she expects to spend two months with her sister, Mrs. Hyndman. Mrs. Rebecca Jackson, of Newport, has sent The Enquirer an old writing in the shape of a certificate of character that was given to her father, the late James Jefferys, as a Sunday school monitor in Guernsey, on March 30, 1817. Charlotte Observer, Sunday: Mr. J. W. Tripp, a son of the superintendent of Ihe South Carolina and Georgia Extension railroad, was in the city last night. He had been to Spartanburg, S. C., to attend the music festival and stopped over in Charlotte to secure tickets for the Charlotte festival. Mr. Tripp says trains are now running through on his road from Marion to Camden, S. C. All the trestles washed away sometime ago have been replaced. The loss of the S. C. & G. Ex. road was nearly $100,000. ^^fHE COTTON GROWERS. The York County Cotton Growers' rruiecuve association met in me court house last Monday, pursuant to the adjournment from the meeting held on salesday In April. Mr. D. M. Hall, who had been elected president on organization, called the meeting to order, and then asked to be | allowed to resign In behalf of someone i else better qualified to discharge the [duties of the position. A number of | members insisted that Mr. Hall should hold the presidency; but he remained firm and Mr. J. C. Wilborn was elected In his stead. On taking the chair, Mr. Wilborn again urged the Importance of organization among the cotton growers. He argued that all opposing interests are organized and that the cotton farmers should learn a lesson from them. One benefit that would compensate for all the trouble that could be incurred, would be the ease in securing reliable information. Township secretaries would report to county secretaries, county secretaries to state secretaries, and state secretaries to the head of the general organization. The head of the general organization would thus be accurately informed as to acreage, growing conditions, gathering, production, etc., and would send this information down through the channels mentioned to each individual farmer. On motion the chair was requested to ( appoint a committee of five members in i each township to prosecute the wprk of j organization. The motion carried with ] it instructions to the effect that the i township organizations be completed _ between this date and the first Monday , in July next. On that day, a county , convention is to be held in the court house for the purpose of attending to , such business as may come up, and j more especially for the purpose of electing delegates to a convention of ^ the Southern Cotton Growers' Protective association, to be held in Atlanta, Ga., on August 31. Each of the town- ( ship organizations will be expected to send not less than five delegates to the county convention of July 1, and the county convention will send as many delegates to Atlanta as may be deemed 1 advisable. The committees on township organization were appointed as 1 follows: 1 Bethel?D. G. Stanton, J. W. Jackson, t J. B. Ford, Perry Ferguson, Dr. T. W. 1 Campbell. Bethesda?W. B. Love, P. E. Moore, I John H. Steele, J. L. Starr, AdgerHuey. \ Broad River?R. W. Whitesides, J. P. a Hambright, R. M. Whitesides, J. A. Brown, W. S. Wilkerson. Bullock's Creek?T. A. Gvvin, W. T. M. Beard, Agur Bankhead, J. C. Blair, R. M. Carroll. Catawba?John M. Williford, Brant-, ley Rawls, W. P. Crook, Julius Frei<W")~ helm, A. H. White. i Ebenezer?J. A. Shurley, J. A. McFadden, Henry Massey, T. M. Carothers, W. J. Miller. Fort Mill?W. H. Windle, S. H. Epps, B. M. Faris, J. R. Haile, S. L. Coltharp. King's Mountain?D. M. Hall, J. M. Thomasson, C. T. Thomas, J. M. Stroup, J. D. Smith. York?S. M. McNeil, D. C. Clark, J. L. Moss, J. B. Neil, J. E. Lowry. On motion it was agreed that the gentleman first named on each committee should be recognized as chairman. There being no further business, the meeting adjourned until the first Mon-*day in July, before which time it is expected that all of the township organizations will be completed with large membership rolls. i l nil i n auuu i niicisei W. H. Newbold, Esq., of Chester, who i was sent by the governor recently to < Investigate the identity of the Oxford, i Mississippi, prisoner, who was thought s by certain people out that way to be M. ' R. Reese, made his report last week. It < was as follows: .? Governor M. B. McSweeney, Columbia, ] S. C. , Sir: Pardon my delay in writing to you since my return from Oxford, Mis- ! sissippi, after M. R. Reese. I have no"b been able to do anything since I^gOTJi back, because the trip nearly broke me , down. I arrived at Oxford Saturday night, i last. Sunday morning, in company i with Mr. Montgomery, Esq., U. S. dis- . trict attorney, J. A. Montgomery, (our man, the bum who worked up the Reese ' matter, and claimed all rewards); Rev. 1 Winters, a groceryman-preacher, j and J. A. Montgomery's side-partner; Dr. Wilkins, the county physician, and Sheriff Dawkins, went to the Jail to see 1 Raymond Stevens, supposed to be M. ] R. Reese, the fugitive from justice. , When I saw the man I knew at a glance that he was not Reese; but I did * think he was Bud Dalton, a notorious ' outlaw that was badly wanted by the ] United States government, and the . Wells-Fargo Express company, for 1 train robberies in North Texas and In- 1 dian Territory, in 1890, so I walked up | to the man to examine him closely, ( when he said: "You cannot see me here. Come back to the light." He shut the '' cell door and we went to the window at I the other end of the cell. He commenc- \ ed to try to make terms with me to . "identify" him as Reese, and to allow him to escape, and he offered me money ' to do this. He claimed to have seen me ( in the West, and certainly knew of several of my exploits when I was with the express company, and worked in 1 the Western states and territories. He i did not look at all like Reese, and if we , could have gotten those people out there to have sent us a description of Stevens, instead of a copy of my Reese i circular, I believe that I could have \ told from a shadow of that man on the ground in the sunshine that he was not ' Reese. Here is a partial description of 1 the two men: < Reese, big Scotch-Irishman; looks , like a North Carolina boomer; 5 feet 10 inches high: red face; large boned; square build; large blue-grey eyes (with green in them), bull neck, big /I VtlrrVi n?/1 Kl?AO/1 frtrQ _ Ill Ulcll Iicau, 111511 aitu uivau &v? V head (rounded), coarse featured, scar on back of head, right side. Stevens, trim looking, half-blood Creek Indian. (If he was dressed up would look like a Northern congressman). 6 feet 2 inches high, blue-white Indian skin, small boned, round build, small re-brown eyes, small long neck (for a big man), small, trim head, medium low forehead, black hair (as thick ' as a cur dog's), small ears, looked 35 years old, (said that he was 40), fine fea- , tured, a typical Westerner, no scar behind right ear (on head) as shown by ' certificate of Dr. Wilkins. I The two men looked nothing alike. ] Stevens was held on several charges in . U. S. court that the district attorney ' said would give him more than a life sentence in the aggregate, and he hoped 1 to profit by the Reese incident by mak- ( ing his escape. And after I had failed to identify him as Reese, our men, ( Montgomery and Winters tried to con- 1 vince me that I was mistaken about the [ matter; and when I would not be convinced. they offered me one-half of the reward to help them get It (by fraud I 1 presume), and when I rejected this 1 proposition they said that they would { bring Stevens here at their own expense. I told them that I would ' ask you to give them a requisition for r the man if they wanted it, and would t not put the state to any expense in the matter. The United States district attorney was on the train Sunday even- J ing with me, and he said that J. A. i Montgom.ery and Winters told him at j the train "that they had gotten a letter from a party in South Carolina say- ? ing that I would not do to trust, and i that they believed that I was bought t out before I came there, the reason that I would not identify Reese." They are still certain that they have Reese. Gov. ? A. H. Longino said that he thought f that he knew you. He signed my requi- v sition all right for Reese. W. H. Newbold. 1 ? t The physician's certificate is as fol lows: o Oxford, Miss., April 29, 1901. This is to certify that I have thor- r oughly examined R. Stevens, supposed r to be M. R. Reese, around the back r of the head for scars said to be caused by a bullet wound and an operation for a the removal of the parts of the bullet, t and I find nothing to indicate scars of o that kind. J. P. Wilkins, c County Physician. j WITHIN THE TOWN. t ? Quite a number of additional fami- p lies have moved into the York Cotton fl mills settlement during the past week, f and there are now vacant but a few t nouses out 01 tne toiai numoer owneu o by the company. <^fThe local merchants have reached A an early closing agreement, which is to 0 go into effect next Monday, from and ?' after which date business will be suspended at 7 p. m. This does not apply n to the drug stores. -L- The damage to goods on Main sweet, on account of dust, is extensive and the discomfort is also very a great. That the people should put up ? ivith such a situation when the remedy s at hand, seems Incomprehensible. \ a W. O. Rawls reports a consid- tj n4ble demand for garden and lawn aose, indicating that there will be lib;ral patronage of the water works this c>] summer, regardless of the measuring jut of the supply by the gallon instead t) >f by the quarter as it used to be. ? The salesday crowd last Monday q, ,vas the smallest that has been seen in forkville on a previous salesday for a a rear. Except those who came in con- f, lection with the exposition and cotton ti growers' meetings held in the court ei louse, there were but few visitors. a ? An effort is being made to secure, si iy private subscription, the sanitary p vork that was done under the ordinince that was killed by the recent de:ision of Judge Townsend. It Is very mportant that this work should be lone somehow by somebody. It was >eneflclal to the health of the commuilty and this Is not to be measured igalnst dollars and cents. ^^^Irs. Helen S. Bullock, the W. C. T. J. lecturer, who was In Yorkville last veek, succeeded In organizing a local hapter of that order. It Is to be known is the Yorkville W. C. T. U. Mrs. S. V. Weber is president; Miss Maggie 31st, vice-president; Miss Georgia iVitherspoon, recording secretary; Mrs. N. B. Williams, corresponding secreta y; Miss Wilmoth Jackson, treasurer, rhe first regular meeting of the chaper will be held at the residence of Dr. md Mrs. Weber next Friday afternoon it 5 o'clock. All the ladies who may be nterested are Invited to attend the neeting and enroll their names. -^"Messrs. J. J. Keller & Co., have In Progress extensive Improvements at :heir lumber yard. The old temporary mill building has been replaced by a :wo-story structure that Is In every way larger and more convenient. The roller has been placed outside the nuilding as a further precaution against Ire risks. New machinery has been jrdered, and within a few weeks the slant will be turning out quite a diverdty of manufactures from wood. The stock of lumber the firm now has sn hand is probably the largest ever seen in Yorkville. It has been drawn from points up and down the S. C. & 3a. Ex. railroad and from the local saw mills. ^ There was a meeting of patrons, teachers and trustees of the graded rohool in the court house last Friday lfternoon on the subject of a proposed new building. Mr. J. J. Keller was present with the handsome plans re:ently prepared by his firm and explained them to the pleasure and satisfaction of those present. No definite iction of any kind was taken?none was expected. The meeting was merely for the purpose of giving information. The trustees are In the position 5f desiring to give the people of the Iforkvllle school district a first-class modern school building, if they desire t. While that amount has not been fixed upon irrevocably, the general Idea is to ask for an isue of bonds to the amount of $15,000. The bonds voted ind financial arrangements perfected In detail, it is the purpose of the trustees to buy a suitable lot, let out a contract for the school building on the most advantageous terms possible, and complete it with modern furniture, etc. As to just how much money will be required they do not know. It will be Impracticable for them to determine jntil the work nears completion; but they will be as economical as possible md will not use the entire $15,000 unless they should find it absolutely necessary to do so. The question of location has not been settled yet; but, of rourse, must be before the people are isked to vote. THE CHARLESTON EXPOSITION. If York county is not properly represented at the South Carolina InterState and West Indian exposition, it will not be the fault of the gentlemen who have been appointed to look after the matter in this territory. That fact was developed very clearly at the meeting' that was held in the court house on the subject last Monday. Along with a good representation of sub-commissioners, a number of inter;sted citizens were in attendance, and ? the meeting was conducted in a business-like manner that augurs well for future developments. Major A. H. White called the meeting to order, and isking Mr. W. B. Moore to take the :hair, made a brief statement to the iffect that "the business at hand is to see whether York county wants to be 'epresented in the best possible manler at the exposition. We have here a lumber of resources In the way of Tianufactures, minerals, woods and igriculture, and if we would develop ;he resources we must advertise them, rhe exposition furnishes us an oppor;unity. It is for us to take advantage >f this opportunity. To do this we've rot to work and we've got to go down n our pockets. If we are willing to do his, let us say so and go on. If we Lre not willing, then let us stop and lot bother about the matter any furher." Mr. Moore talked in very much the lame line. He called attention to the _ act that all of the big successes of the vorld, corporate and private, were built ip mainly by advertising. It was by his means that the West was develop d. and if we would develop our own lection we must advertise it. There is 10 doubt of the fact that we have a nost desirable country, he said, and low that the attention of the North ind West is being turned this way for he first time since the war, we .should iffer every possible inducement that is alculated to encourage the tide of captal and emigration in our direction. 'eople do not visit expositions like that o be held at Charleston merely for Measure; but their main objects are to ind desirable homes or investments or their capital, and we must keep hese facts in view in the consideration f the questions now before us. Mr. J. (J. wiiDorn suggested that tne rst question to be settled was whether r not York county desired to be repesented at the exposition. The meet-ig voted that representation is emiently desirable. Dr. J. H. Saye said that, in his opin>n, representation is so important, hat the meeting would be justified in sklng the county board of commisloners to appropriate a sum of not less han $1000 to be used to that end. The uggestion met with hearty approval, * nd a motion was offered to the effect hat a committee be appointed to lay he matter before the county board at s next meeting in June. In the dlsussion, however, it developed that the ommissioners are without legal aulority to appropriate public funds for iich a purpose, and the idea was abanoned. Upon motion of Mr. J. E. Beamguard, committee consisting of one member om each township, was appointed to ike steps by the appointment of oth- t r committees, personal soucuauuu nd otherwise, to raise funds by private I abscription and get information about 4 rospective exhibits, of whatever na- M