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Straps and iac;s. ? Estates do not always pan out as people think. Pierre Lorillard was thought to be worth some $15,000,000, but $4,000,000 was the actuality. On the other hand, the estate of the late John I. Blair, of Blairstown, N. J., which appeared in the will to be worth from $20,000,000 to $30,000,000, is now valued by the executor at $50,000,000. ? The current report of the statistician of the interstate commerce commtnnt/vn Vv * * >-* /Ml fft /-? tViQ f /111 r_ XlilOOlVll UliiigO VU V me lav v. vua v uui ing the 13 years ending June 30, 1900, 36.277 persons were killed by railroad accidents in the United States and 469,027 injured. The number of employes killed was 38,340, of passengers 3,485, and of other persons including trespassers, 54,452. ? The proposed continental boycott of American goods is taken very seriously in London city circles, says a London dispatch to the New York Tribune. The view is, the correspondent says,' that the menace of America is not merely a matter of trade. They profess to regard the question from a highly moral standpoint. They say it is no advantage to the world that a great nation should dominate it with ideals into which money can enter and with a system of government in which money is the controlling power. The Ideals of Europe have ever been higher than that and to drop to the American standard would be a fatal error. ? Says a Little Rock. Arkansas, dis"patch to the Memphis Scimitar: A detective arrived a few days ago in the Kings Kiver neighborhood, Madison county, and placed under arrest a supposed young woman, who had been teaching a private school in the neighhood for sometime. It turned out that the school teacher was a man in disguise, that his name was Sears and that he was wanted in Texas on the charge of a murder committed in Texas seven years ago. It is said that he was a most engaging person. No one has ever suspected the deception. When arrested he had $3,000 in cash in his possession, carried in a belt. ? Says an Omaha dispatch of July 16: Rev. F. Merten Smith, the noted English evangelist, who is conducting revival services in the cities of the west, tonight led a congregation of several thousand people in prayer for a bountiful rain, which will prevent business annihilation in the corn belt. An immense tent was erected in a small park ' located in the heart of the residence district, and in this were seated hundreds of men of the congregations of the city. About the tent, the side avails of which were raisea, ?ao iua?m ? crowd of citizens of all classes and all religious faiths, partaking in the exercises and lifting their voices in unison in repeating the invocation spoken by the divine. ? The ladies of Huntsville. Ala., says a dispatch to the Philadelphia Record, are heading a movement to employ white girls in their housework by way of answer to the implied threat of the Negroes to organize in order to further their interests. For some months the service on the part of the Negro girls has grown steadily poorer and it was exceedingly difficult to obtain a reliable cook or housemaid. The indifferent attitude of the Negroes, coupled with tne vague rumors, caused the ladies to believe that some organized movement was about to be set on foot, and forthwith they began to correspond with employment bureaus in the Northern and Western cities. Advices have been received to the effect that hundreds of white girls are willing to come south if assured of permanent positions. Some of the most prominent ladies of the city held several meetings last week to consider concerted action, and it is probable that within two weeks there will be abundance of white labor in this and other Southern cities. ? The report of the Isthmian cdWal commission, "which it was supposed would be completed before this time, may be delayed several months longer. The commission held a four days' session last week, and the end was not in sight when they adjourned Saturday. Another meeting will be held in about three weeks, but there is no expectation that the report can be finished at that meeting. The difficulty about completing the report is chiefly due to the delay incident to working up data connected with the cost of the canal over the various routes. Extensive borings have been made, especially over the Nicaraguan route, and the most careful calculations must be ivi-wlo from tVie data obtained bv these borings as 10 the cost of excavations, etc. The commission intends that its report shall be exhaustive and thorough in every particular and cover the entire ground, so that congress will have before it when it acts every possible detail of information and that there can i.e no excuse for further delay and no need for another commission. ? The use of crude petroleum as a fuel for the generation of steam on a large ocean craft has had a practical proof of its adaptibility in the voyage of the steamshiD Cowrie from Borneo to London, a distance of 10,000 miles. The metnod adopted on the Cowrie was to atomize the crude oil at the mouths of the furnaces by blowing it into the furnaces in the form of a spray, by means of steam jibs, and in this way a complete combustion of the fuel was obtained. A comparison was made with the old system of coal fuel on this ship, with the result that there was found to be a saving of over 40 per cent, in the weight of fuel a day, and by the reduction of the work of firing with oil fuel the complement of firemen was reduced from sixteen to six. The space occupied by a ton of oil, as compared with the same coal weight, was much less, being 34 feet for the former to 42 cubic feet for the latter? the coal being bituminous. There are considerable ouantities of oil fuel to be found in Borneo, and it is said to be superior to any yet found in Russia or the United States. ? According to figures by the Pittsburg Dispatch, the steel strike is daily costing the three companies involved $210,000 and the workmen $156,000. It is ^ - -1 - * * - n,. Iaoo esumaiea umi m mc uanj ium nearly 23,000 boxes of tin plate the American Tin Plate company is daily losing over ?90.000. while the loss to the canning companies unable to secure their material, is enormous in addition. Practically no stocks have been carried and consumption has kept up with the production for some little time past. About 700 tons of the 1,000 tons daily production of the American Steel Hoop company is being lost, and this represents a loss each day to the combine of at least $50,000. The loss of the gas stove manufacturers is also great, as the mills are closed which make a specialty of stove Iron. This is the heavy season for making stoves. About 2.000 or 2,500 tons of steel hoops, bands and cotton ties are being lost daily by the American Steel Hoop company by reason of the strike, and this represents a daily loss in money of $70,000. It is estimated that the men are losing in wages. $150,000. The tin workers will lose $6,000 daily in addition. In addition to all of these losses the many industries crippled now and in prospect represent the losses to the men of large sums that cannot be com-' puted now. The Amalgamated men are said to have a fund of 5200,000 with which to keep the strike going, and the many Amalgamated men employed in the various mills operating will go a great way toward keeping tne sinews of war in good condition. $hc ^(orhrillr (inquirer. YORKVILLE, S. C.$~ SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1901. An ordinance has been adopted by the town council of Yorkville, S. C., making it a misdemeanor for any person to be seen staggering on the streets of that town. If legislation of this character becomes generally popular in South Carolina the governor of that state will have to hold his little meetI ings with the governor of North Carolina in the latter's territory?Law Notes. If "Law Notes" had any regard for its reputation for accuracy, it would not make such statements as the above without investigation. The town <?f Yorkville has no such ordinance as referred to. The only thing to be found on the subject in the ordinance books is the following: J "From and after the passage of this ordinance, it snail be unlawful for any person or persons to be and appear upon the streets of Yorkville in a drunken condition." ' Most towns and cities have ordinances of the same effect, and such as have not are hardly in a Droper position to preserve publie decency. Why should the people of Elloree prefer the colored man, Robert Williams. as postmaster, to James A. Parker, the white McLaurinite? Is it a choice between an honest Republican and a sham Democrat? There is nothing to fear in &n honpet man's politics or religion; it is the wily deceiver, the gilded pretender who is to be feared. He it is who assassinates liberty in the name of Liberty.?Greenwood Index. Yes, what strange bedfellows politics do sometimes make. The Index does not pretend to state any facts in the case; but merely suggests something disreputable. It would have the Elloree people in the position of uphnlrHnc an "hnrost 'Raniihllean" against a "sham Democrat." If this is correct, the Elloree people are right; but as a matter of fact it is more likely that the "honest Republican" referred to is being upheld by "sham Democrats." There is a similar condition in Columbia. Dr. J. F. Ensor is no doubt a good man and competent postmaster; but there was a time when he was held up before the white people of the state as a disreputable renegade by the very people who are now endorsing and fortifying him against any and all supposed suggestions of Senator McLaurin. If this kind of thing goes on, Senator McLaurin's enemies will eventually succeed in building up quite a respectable Republican party in South Carolina. While it is no doubt true, as reported by Commissioner of Navigation Chamberlain, that only twice in the history of the country has last year's shipping construction been exceeded, it should not be forgotten that about 80 per cent, of this new tonnage is for the coasting trade. The coasting trade of the United States is held exclusively for Americans and the freight service is the cheapest and best in the world. But America stands a poor show in the matter of carrying even our own foreign exports and imports. One almost insuperable difficulty is the higher scale of wages that must be paid under the American flag: and another is the more expensive ration bill that Americans are required by law to furnish to their sailors. It is not desirable to change either of the conditions by reducing the advantages that American sailors enjoy; nor is it necessary. Give the American carrier of foreign freights a little assistance, and it will Tint ho q crroat whllp until hp will hp in a position to give the world all the advantages that are now enjoyed from our coasting trade. He will earn his greater wages all right, and at the same time give the shipper more service for his money. Exports and Imports to and from the United States last year amounted to 40,000,000 tons of freight. Of this only 9 per cent, was carried in American ships. The coasting trade involved 168,000.000 tons of freight, and all of it was carried in American ships. The coasting trade can and will take care of itself, as is indicated by the report above quoted; but to get our shipping established in the foreign carrying trade is next to impossible without liberal and intelligent help. The Ilig Strike. Because of the large number of men concerned and the vast interests involved. the strike of the Amalgamated association against the United States Steel corporation, commands the inter est not only of the people of this country, but of the entire world. This strike is the biggest thing of the kind on record in this country. There is nothing like it in all history. The number of men who took part in the Homestead strike of a few years ago, were a mere handful to those now out, and there is nothing in the way of precedent upon which we can base comparisons. The sympathies of most people in this country will naturally he with the strikers on general principles. Tlu-re is a feeling that the capital that has been aggregated by the steel corporation is too great for safety, and there should be a labor organization of strength sufficient to offset its power. But this Idea only plays around the margin of the real Issues Involved. As The Enquirer understands this matter, the cause of the strike is not so much an increase of pay or the establishment of shorter hours, as that none but union men shall be permitted to work in the great steel mills of the country. The principle also extends beyond the steel mills to every department of industry, and at the bottom of it all is the idea that labor, instead of capital, should control the industries of the country. This, of course, is not the immediate object of the present battle; but the tendency is lindniihtedlv In that direction. and there is ahead a long, stumpy road for all concerned. While it is not difficult to understand the ideal to which the rank and file of labor is working, still it is not always safe to place too much reliance on the integrity and ability of the labor leaders. Sometimes they are men of the highest and most unselfish of purposes; but too often they are just as jntten and as unscrupulous as tney represent their employers to be, and their object in raising disturbances is not unfrequently the advancement of their own personal interests instead of the interests of those more honest, but less intelligent, workers who look to them for guidance. Again, it should be remembered that while all strikes are generally supposed to be fomented by discontented labor organizations, this is not exactly the truth. Sometimes it happ'ens that the best interests of a big manufacturing enterprise calls for a shut down. It may be because of temporary financial embarrassment, because of short profits or because of other circumstances. Conditions may be such as to make inexpedient an honest shut down, and under such circumstances, the management uses the means to manipulate the labor unions so as to incite a strike, shifting the blame for suspension from their own shoulders to the shoulders of the laborers. As to what may have been the immediate cause of the present great strike there is. of course, no telling. The steel corporation may be responsible for it, and the responsibility may be with the labor leaders. If the steel corporation is responsible, the object is the depression of securities with a view to the squeezing out of the smaller stockholders; or it may be for the pur pose of establishing a nigner scaie 01 prices for steel products. If the labor leaders are responsible, the object may be selfish individual advancement, or it may be a patriotic purpose to reach forward after higher ideals. But who-1 ever is responsible, and whatever may be the object, the whole country is going to suffer from the disturbance, and in the end it is doubtful as to whether anybody will be able to point to any real profit. MEIIE-MENTION. Refreshing rains fell throughout Nebraska, Kansas and Texas last Tuesday, to the great relief of many drought parched sections The United Mine Workers went on a strike at Birmingham last Tuesday because they were unwilling to work with the Knights of Labor The gold shipments from the Klondike this year up to date have amounted to $5,000,000 Seven million pounds of meat were lost in a big packing house fire at Wichita, Kansas, last Tuesday So far there have been nearly 50,000 applicants for the 13,000 claims that are to be thrown open for settlement in Oklahoma English cable companies are considering the advisability of reducing cable rates to the far east to a penny a word The United States government has purchased Mullet Key from the state of Florida for use as a quarantine station A bulletin issued by the census office, Thursday, shows that there has been a decrease of the Chinese population in the United States since 1890 of 17,675, the number now oeing 89,800. The Japanese increased during the past ten years from 2.037 to 24,300 The drouth in Texas is still unbroken, according to a Dallas dispatch of Thursday. The heat is as intense as the average for the last three weeks. A small patch of the cotton district received a small rain last night, but the rainfall was purely i?-1 ?_ on/1 woo fnnflneH tn a iUt'itl 111 CAICIU ttiiu part of Fort Bend county around Richmond. near the Gulf coast, and made no great change in the cotton crop situation. No rain has fallen today in the state and there are no signs of any. Cotton growers and cattle raisers are gloomy Josiah Tyson, who died in Australia recently, has left $40,000,000 to be divided among heirs residing in Georgia and Alabama The glass bottle makers of the United States are working up a combine that is to be capitalized at $30,000,000. ROCK HI IX HAPPENINGS. Dent motive Rain*?To Advertlwe the City?BIr Plelnc?Glanders. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. Rock Hill, July 18.?The Improvements contemplated on the Carolina hotel will amount to about $2,500. The architects in charge are Messrs. Walters & Legare, of Columbia. Rev. J. H. Thacker, well known at Hickory Grove, will preach to the Edgmoor Woodmen on Sunday. There's no use talking about it any longer?the rains have simply played whaley with the crops in this section. Monday there was a whopper below here; Tuesday we had a gully washer; last night a trash mover and today a toad strangler. Who ever saw such a year? There will not be enough corn made from Rock Hill to the river, on any road that may be traveled, to supply one farm; but where the weather will nonnit tho mitrinne trv ne-nin nnd plant once more, only to see the ground washed Into gulleys, and the seed destroyed. If your correspondent believed in the use of cuss words, he might say that we are in a h-11 of a fix. The Rock Hill Buggy company, as your correspondent is informed, is not employing its usual big force. One of its best men, Mr. T. N. Balfour, left a few days ago to go to Virginia to accept a place with a popular buggy company of that state. The city council has agreed to appropriate $50 to pay for a write up of the town in the Charleston Exposition magazine. Mr. J. S. White, a member of the council, has the pluck and public spirit of his lamented father. He gave $50 for the same purpose. It was plain the council would not give $100, as was proposed. So in order to induce the council to make a subscription at all, as seemed probable would not be done, Mr. White offered to give half if the council would appropriate the other half and this brought thei to terms. The Commercial club picnic ws quite an affair yesterday. They dran soup and other "things in abundanc ate fried chicken and hard boiled egg munched on corn bread and baker bread, shot a thousand rounds of cla pigeons and the blue firmament, an then came home and said they had big time. The hot sun done their ey< up in good order. W. J. Roddey too the honors for the best shot over : others of the gun club. He broke ! out of 37 pigeons, but the trap wj wide open and close enough to ha% done the birds up with popguns. Or of the wags in town said that a popi lar preacher who stuck to the crow to the end, had taken an armful < hymn books, but it is not recorded th? he had any use for them. The Yorkville writer in the News ar Courier was mistaken in saying thi Henkle Bros, had sold 11 head of muh | to dealers in this city. Only two i this sect'on were bought from Henk! Bros., and they went to the countr; Your correspondent may have a piec of good news to give you of another f nancial institution for this city. Oui side parties have been investigate and a gentleman who knows tells rr that it is only a question of a fe months. HOODTOWS XOTES. . Condition 6f the Crop*?Fine lie! of Oats?Polities. Correspondence of the Vorkville Knauirer. Hoodtown, July 18.?After an ur usually hard struggle with "Genera Green," most of the farmers are abot to come out victorious. A little wor still remains to be done. Cotton, whll very small for the season, seems to t growing well now, and forming qui! well. Upland corn is very good, where : has had proper cultivation. A gres deal of it was not worked out unt too late to make much of a yield. Bi little bottom lands have been cultlva ted. Even after two or more replanl ings, there was still no stand of cori Low bottoms were so continually ovei flowed as to drown that out also. There were some fine oats harveste in this section. Mr. J. E. Latham ha the finest yield of oats I have any ir formation about. From a field of 3 acres, he gathered 700 dozen of extr fine oats. The land was good, and als fertilized quite heavily. Several ol people made the remark that it wa the finest field of oats they had eve seen. "Wheat is generally turning out rath er light here. Where properly put ii on red clay lands, it is giving a bette yield. Twenty to one is about tb best yield I have heard of. The cemetery at Shady Grov church, was recently neatly enclose with wire netting. A protracted meeting will began a Shady Grove the first Sabbath in At gust. Services begin in the afternoo at 4 o'clock. Mr. A. E. Feemster put up som partly boiled cane Juice last year fc vinegar. As it did not make goo vinegar, he poured it out to his tw shoats a few days ago. They wer soon in a drunken stupor, whic they could not be aroused from, bu very little, until the next mornin; when one was still rather boozy. H concludes that what he considere valueless stuff must have been prett strong wine. Several of our citizens went on th excursion from Lockhart to Columbi last Saturday. We hear the anomalous political sit uation discussed a little occasional^ Most people are waiting for furthe developments in this line. Senator McLaurin has probabl made some friends lately, though hi advanced position is rather too diffl cult of solution for most of our peopl yet. Voce. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. New*paper Changes Hands. Mr. James T. Harris, president c the Bank of Spartanburg, is reporte as having purchased the Spartanbur Daily Herald. The Herald is said t be a valuable newspaper propertj The understanding is that Mr. Garling ton will continue as editor of the pa per. To Revivify the Alliance. Columbia Record: President J. C Wilborn, of the State Farmers' Alii ance, and who Is also railroad commis sioner, said today that at the meetin of the state Alliance, which is to b held in this city on July 24-25, the pro ject of revivifying the alliance woul be taken up. While the Alliances sub lodges no longer hold their regula weekly meetings, it is claimed the ad herents of the Alliance are just as nu merous as they were in its palmies days. The plan on foot is to revive th interest in these lodge meetings. Fo that purpose it is likely that the stat Alliance convention will appoint a agent or lecturer, who will visit ever county and try to interest Allianceme in renewing their allegiance to the or der. There used to be lecturers wh were paid, but interest flagged in alii ance affairs, the lecturers were no paid, and consequently their enthusi asm for the success "of the noble or der" waned. There are no lecturers o agents now going about the state t keep up interest in the organizatlor Mr. Wilborn feels confident that wit a little stirring up the farmers wi again organize. Every otner profes sion and calling is organized for mu tual protection, he says, and there 1 abundant reason why t*e farmer should do the same thing. Mr. Wilbor thinks that all Alllancemen should b allowed to come back in full fellowshi without reference to back fees due, o without reference to what the variou lodges may owe to the state organiza tion. This will no doubt prove a pop ular scheme in the reorganizatio plan. Mr. Wilborn thinks that th $17,000 now on deposit belongine- to th Alliance and turned over by the ex change, can be used for the purpose o paying the agents. It is drawing in terest and that will amount to enoug to give a man a very good salary. Th? Price of Corn.?Will it be dollar and a half per bushel nex spring? It looks so now. What wil we do if this Is so? After failure of th corn crop in 1815 many people emigra ted to Tennessee and elsewhere fo fear of starvation, for there were n railroads in upper South Carolina t bring in corn. Now when there ar railroads, there will be no corn to lm port except at high prices, for ther seems to be a greater failure of crop in the Northwest than there is here It was said that in 1845 Major IS R. Eaves furnished hundreds of pound of turnip seed to the people of Ches ter county free, and that a great quan tity of food was thus furnished th needy. The people of Fairfield hai better take time by the forelock am plant anything that will help suppor life until the crop of 1902 shall b made.?"Warning," in Winnsbor News and Herald. Fishing In Charleston.?Senato Tillman caught "right smart of fish on his trip up the coast, and it is un derstood he is angling in the politico waters hereabouts for suckers. Hi catch should be made a special dlspla; at the exposition.?Charleston Post. LOCAL AFFAIRS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. e, Riddle & Carroll?Say that the worl s, knows that the old Hickory wagor 's are the best on wheels and say the y will sell them at the right prices an id on the right terms. They advise yo a to use their Mocha and Java coffe ?s J. Q. Wray?Advertises a shirt w.iii ik sale and gives some close prices o 11 different styles and grades of shii 35 waists. is I. W. Johnson?Still has some vinega re and tells you about Uneeda ging( te wafers and graham wafers that ai i- fresh. d R. K. Montgomery?Gives notice th? jf atter August 1, on account of tl it increased price of shoes, the cost < shoeing will be 60 cents round at tl id "We Fix It" shop. - a tn n r ii i? nitfA U i/. v_,. viai rv auu umcio *ji*c num ;s of a Woodmen of the World picnl n to be held at Filbert on August ?. le York Drug Store?Says that It has tui y. nip seed. e H. C. Strauss & Co.?Talk about ligl 1- weight summer clothes at low price t- and about all sorts of straw hats ft ig men at all sorts of low prices, le J. F. Pursley, Clover, S. C.?Says he i w at the top In the grocery busines and talks about a number of spech articles and Invites you to see hii about them. J. J. seller & Co.?Say that If pro* pectlve buyers of building hardwai d and carpenters' tools will call o them, they will be glad that the have turned the light on prices. W. Brown Wylie, Clerk?Gives notic of sale in the case of Richmond Gua ;j no Co., petitioner, in re Geo. L. Rid "i die, guardian, plaintiff, vs. Jaco l* Battle et al, defendants. The sai , will take place on salesday for Au \l gust. :e " COMMOX PLEAS. lt There is but little reliance to be plac L* ed upon the most careful calculation " as to how long a term of court wi lt continue in session. L" It appeared Tuesday, at noon, tha there would be a sine die adjournmer on Wednesday. Judge Gage though " so; but the court was still in sessio . yesterday. d Only two important cases have bee d argued. The ttrst was that of A. . Dunlap vs. Thomas Dunlap, adminii LO trator, petition to re-open an old Judg a ment on an allegation of fraud. \\ 10 W. Lewis, Esq., appeared for the petl d tioner, and Major J. F. Hart for th is defendant. The second case was tha !r of Jackson vs. Jackson, which has bee in court for several years. Jt is a par l* tition case. C. E. Spencer, Esq., rep 1. resents the plaintiff, and Messrs. \V !r W. Lewis, W. B. McCaw and Majc ie James F. Hart, the defendants. Argument had not been conclude e yesterday at noon, and the under d standing was that Judge Gage woul carry away the papers in both case! Several orders have been signed sine i- Monday; but none of them are of es n peciai general importance. It was suggested on Thursday tha e court take a recess until September ' ,r and this idea was still under favora d ble consideration yesterday. S^ITHIX THE TOWX. it Wa bolt of lightning went into th r tolonVinnn rtfRna Thnrflflflv flftArnOOr e and burnt out a number of fuses. Th d report caused consternation in tne of y flee and vicinity; but nobody was hurl 4- The expected colored excursio e from Charlotte failed to materializ a Thursday, the management being un able to put up the necessary cast The excursion advertised to go fror ir. Yorkville to Charlotte yesterday morn tr ing, carried a large crowd. ijJmie Heath-Hinson livery peopl y slaughtered two horses last week on ac Is count of glanders. It was on the ad I- vice of Surgeon Nesom. One of th e. animals nad been affected suspicious! for a week or more. There was a dis charge from the nose; but no othe typical symptoms so far as the repor ter can learn. The other horse wa similarly affected but to a less extern On his recent visit to this place, Sur >f geon Nesom examined the horses an d | gave it out as his opinion that th g disease was most probably glanders o He had no mallein, however, wit r. which to make a scientific test, an was unable to definitely decide th .- matter. To be on the safe side, th nvery people took the horses out an shot and burned them. Then, on th advice of Surgeon Nesom, the stalls i 3. which the horses had been kept sep 1- arate from the other stock in the sta i- ble. were taken out and the whol g place disinfected in accordance wit: e the surgeon's directions. Since th i- slaughter of the animals, and in fac d for several days previous, the liver; i- people have not allowed horses othe ,r than their own to enter their stables [- and in sending out their horses the; l- have been especially careful to sen it buckets along for watering purposes e It has now been about ten days sine ir the horses were shot, and as no ne\ e cases have developed, the livery peopl n are breathing somewhat freer ove y the situation. They are Inclined t n think that, after all, the disease wa - not glanders; but some other disease o fully described in the horse books a i- similar in appearance, but non-infec it tio/us and not necessarily fatal. )%DOVT PEOPLE. o ^Tvir. H. L. Wright, of Clover, is visit t ing the Buffalo exposition, h Mr. Alexander Izard, of Rock Hil it has heen In Yorkville for several davs Miss Helen Riddle, of Zeno, is visit . ing her grandmother, Mrs. L. M. Grist s cPMiss Emma Clintion, gf Bethel, i s visiting the family of Mr. J. J. Huntei n <yMiss Janie Colvin, of Chester, is ii e Yorkvilie, visiting the family of Mi n R. B. Lowry. r ^Miss Eula Dobson is spending a fev days with her cousin, Mrs. Richards _ at Stanley, N. C. Mr. W. B. Cauthen and family, o n Blackstock, is visiting the family o e Mrs. Janie Parish. e Miss Norma Strauss, of Charleston arrived in Yorkvilie last Wednesday and is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. C . Strauss. h Mr. J. H. Estridge has moved hi family from Cleveland avenue to tlv Cartwrlght residence, on King's Moun tain street. a Mrs. Mary R. Williford and childrei t returned home last Tuesday from i jj visit to the family of Mr. W. M. Alii e son, at Henrietta. . AMIss Marion Logan returned home oi r "Wednesday after an extended visit ti 0 relatives in Bethesda township. Shi 0 was accompanied home by Miss Bessii e Sandifer, of Ogden. _ ^Alr. H. F. Adlckes, of Raleigh, N. C. - ramp down from Raleitrh on Wednes s day evening on a visit to his mothe , and other relatives. ^fMr. J. Bratton Lowry left Thursda: 3 night for Tampa, Fla., after a visit o . a couple of weeks to relatives ant . friends in Yorkville. e ?pGovernor McSweeney has given th< J Fifth district scholarship in th< (j Charleston Medical college, to Elwoot t F. Bell, of York county. e Mr. .coward Thomas, of Sharon, vis o ited friends in Yorkville yesterday. Mr. Samuel L. Miller, of Columbia is in Yorkvnle on business. cJ- Messrs. J. A. Tate, R. A. Dobson r -Starr M. Mason, J. B. Kennedy, ant " Misses Anna Steele and Ella Neely - have returned home from the summe: .1 school for teachers at Spartanburg, s 'me ex-students of Winthrop hel< y their annual reunion at Glendale, Spar tanburg county, on July 10. Fifty-set' i | en teachers, representing every class " that has gone out from Winthrop e<cept the class of *95, were present. York county was represented as fold lows: Margaret Anderson, class of '98; is Louise Gillespie, class of 1900. y Mr. George S. Bryan, of Greenville, d who is to be assistant superintendent u of the Yorkville Graded schools, was e. here Thursday and Friday. it Union Progress, July 17: The celen bration of the fiftieth pastorate annirt versary of Rev. A. A. James will be held next Sunday, July 21st, at Fair r, Forest church, where he has been the >r faithful pastor for fifty years, in all of e which time he has never taken a vacation. The service will commence at it 11 o'clock, a. m., and Rev. B. F. Wiltc son, president of Converse college, will )f make the address. A goodly number le of Presbyterians from this city expect to attend as there will be no preach:e ing at their church on that day. ic The Lafayette, Alabama. Sun, of Wednesday, has the following with refr erence to the death of Miss Loula McClain: "On last Saturday, news was it received here from Mr. T. B. McClain, i. at Yorkville, S. C., that his daughter, >r Miss Loula. was dead. While the news was not unexpected, yet it was indeed v is a shock to her friends in Lafayette, s, Some months ago this young lady came il to Lafayette an entire stranger, but n within a few weeks, by her ladylike manners, charming graces of mind, i- and strict attention to duty she won a e circle of friends who admired her n greatly. In the work she had in hand y she found some difficulties to check her progress, out undaunted she pressed ie on, never tiring, never giving up, till i- within a day or so before she was tak1 en ill sne had secured enough names to b warrant her in establishing a library Its here. Fatal disease laid its hand upon l- her and she was forced to give up her work. Her Illness was of a complicated nature and her physician and friends feared the worst from the beginning. Owing to pressure of busi - ness her father was called back home '8 and he decided to carry his daughter H with him. For only a few days was she permitted to stay with her parents it in their home, for the disease had done it its work, and she was called across the it bar. The ministries of friends here to n this young lady were of a most delicate nature, and showed that she had won n the affections of the strangers whom r. she was among. Such noble characi ters as was Miss McClain impress the world for good. Her short life was not r. lived in vain. She had touched manI kind at many points and the refining e influences of her true womanhood will t prove lasting. To the bereaved, love n and sympathy are extended. She rests sweetly under the shade of the trees >- in the summer land of bliss." r. r THE C. & r". BANK SHORTAGE. d Expert S. H. Askew, who was appointed some months ago to examine ^ into the affairs of the Commercial and e Farmers' Bank of Rock Hill, and who i- filed his first report at the spring term of the court, filed the following addij" tional report on Wednesday, and it - was agreed that he complete his labors in the matter and receive as compensation the sum of $1,000: 4 By reference to an exhibit of assets e and liabilities as snown by the bank 1, books, filed with my former report, it e will be seen that after adding all income to the stock subscriptions paid in, t. and after deducting all expenses and n dividends paid, and allowing all indebte edness shown by said books, there should still be on hand for the stock1. holders, $43,017.69, besides furniture and n fixtures. And if the assets should hold r- out as shown by the books, and as listed by me therefrom, there would be e that much for the stockholders. In my said report I stated a num ber of alleged shortages and I have e given much time and attention to the y question whether they really exist. I 1- now take up this item again: r I. "Cash, all short $ 6,346.17." The receiver still claims that he got s no cash at all when he took charge. 1 t. II. "Overdrafts .....$ 10,176.64." "Many of them disputed." a I exhibit with this report a statement e showing: 3. 1. List of notes agreeing h with those turned over to d the receiver, footing ud $105,948 60 e 2. List of notes that the ree ceiver says he never got.... 27,371 53 d List of notes turned over e against the same payers, n but the amounts different: 1. 3. As shown by the books...f 5,142 22 4. As turned over to the ree ceiver 7,575 51 h 5. List of notes turned over e to receiver, not on books... 13,661 30 t Total of all notes turned y over $127,185 41 r "Atlantic National Bank....$ 8,184 68." J( "Denied as to 7,129 18." y This should have been reported as d $9,184.64, all of which was denied, and 3, a counter claim of $2,055.50 made, make ing the alleged shortage $11,240.18, inv stead of $7,129.18, an error caused by e inadvertently taking $2,055.50 from $9,r 184.68, instead of adding them. 0 I wrote the said bank for its accounts s ?for such parts of it as was not in i llie irtcivci n uttiiua?ttiiu men iwauc g out a reconcilement sheet herewith _ filed, showing: C. & F. Bank debits not credited and Atlantic National bank debits not credited...$103,608 40 C. & F. Bank credits not charged and Atlantic National bank credits not I, charged 92,368 20 Difference $ 11,240 18 t. After preparing like statements as to s all the other banks mentioned in my \ former report, except the two Charn lotte banks, which will be filed here\ with, last Thursday night, which was as soon as I could get them prepared, * v I mailed the Atlantic National bank i, statement, asking for their items of debit and credit not on C. & F. books, f and received an answer that they f would be furnished in about a week. I have not prepared the statements i, to the Charlotte banks, because I have ( not received their accounts, though asked for. If I am to continue this work . shall s send the statement out promptly. I j e wanted to hear from the Atlantic Na. tional bank, and complete that item before taking up the others, and then ! send the statements out all at once. i All the reconcilement sheets prepar. ed show tne same discrepancies as stated in my former report. ^ When I offered in my last report not a to charge for any time in excess of one e month that I might have to take to e complete the work, I had no idea that there was so much asked of me: and it was only in preparing the reconcile1 ment sheets that I found out the exr tent of the work. I respectfully ask to ueuuuweu iucumpi?ie me worn oil suuu y terms as may be just, and if it is not A f to be completed, that I be paid at the j same rate per diem heretofore fixed for the excess of the time spent in that e direction. e J LOCAL LACONICS. - It Paid Haiidnomely. The Lockhart Band people cleared * nearly $200 on their Columbii. excursion. The money is to be used in helpj ing to pay for the band's $1,000 set of f instruments, purchased recently. f The State Alliance. J The annual meeting of the state Al liance will be held in Columbia on July " - 24 and 25. The round trip rate from