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?rraps aud Jarts. ? Dr. Lorenz, the famous orthopedic specialist, sailed to England last Wednesday morning on the White Star liner Celtic. He has performed 150 operations for congenital dislocation of the hip during his visit. He says his patients are doing well. -He expressed gratitude to the Americans for their kindness. He will return next summer. ? Unmarried men are excluded from the service of the great Williams railway, of Norfolk, Portsmouth and Newport News, and it is possible that the same rule will be applied to other roads of the Virginia capitalist, says a Nor -- -- -? i-v nh. IOIK, V&?| QlBpttlUU IV lliC Vyuai luiiv. vm server. Manager Gunn says the plan of employing only married men insures a steadier, soberer, more reliable class of men, who are more accommodating to the passengers and have at heart the interests of the road more than strangers and wanderers, as a majority of unmarried men are apt to be. ? The anti-trust bill introduced in congress early in December by Senator Cullom, of Illinois, may never be reported by the committee. It provided in the main for publicity and it was believed it had the indorsement of President Roosevelt. In speaking of the matter Wednesday, Senator Cullom said: "I sincerely regret now that the bill Introduced early in the present session to regulate trusts was not referred to the committee on interstate and foreign commerce. I fear it was a mistake on my part to refer it to the Judiciary committee. The present indications are that my bill is to be smothered to death in that committee. Had I sent it to my own committee it would at least have been complimented by getting a report on it." ? According to advices from West Africa the movement to further cottofi growing in the British West African possessions is rapidly developing, and the prospect Is said to be very encouraging For some time past the cottonspinners of Lancashire have been considering the question, and have readily identified themselves with it. Since the success of the German experiments in Togoland it has been decided to follow up the matter. With the object of proving that by the use of trained colored labor and by proper methods of cultivation a great success can be made of cotton growing in the Sierra Leone Protectorate and colony, which comprise some thirty-four thousand square miles, and in the other colonies and Nigeria, which contain about five hundred and fifty thousand square miles, a commercial exploitation company has been formed in England, and the manager is equipping his force for the work. ? A dispatch from Tangier, Morocco, Tuesday announced that the rebels had cut the acqueduct which supplied Fez with water and added that the city was now practically without water. It is further asserted that unless the Kabyleh tribesmen from the south come to the succor of Fez the place must surrender within three days. The nostility against the sultan is spreading in Fez. The Moors are exhibiting photograp.Ms of him arrayed In ridiculous garbs. The sultan yesterday assembled the nobles of the besieged town at the palace and exhorted them not to despair, assuring the chiefs that the imperial troops ultimately will triumph. Great Britain and France have notified Spain that they have no intention of taking any advantage of the situation in Morocco and that they desire the maintenance of the status quo, even in the event of the sultan being dethroned and his place taken by the pretender. These communications have reassured the Spanish government, which is thus relieved of fears of international complications. ? New York dispatch: The Standard Oil company has raised the price of refined ctl one cent a gallon. This is one of the greatest advances ever maae Dy the company, so exporters say, and is the climax of a steady increase in price which began three months ago. Little information was given today at the offices of the Standard Oil company, but it was admitted that the rise in price was caused by the unusual consumption of oil for heating as well as for lighting purposes. The price of kerosene for export in September was 8} cents a gallon. Since then the advances have been recorded by 5, 10 and 15 points, until the price was 91 cents a gallon. Yesterday the price jumped from 91 to 101 cents. The circular of the Standard Oil company says that the basis of kerosene is the price per American gallon of 110 test in cargo lots of 2,500 cases delivered at the refinery." Added to this are schedules for quantity, packing and test. Thus 3,000 cases of oil at 150 test, packed in imperial gallons, cost today 1,180 cents. Oil for export is generally packed in imperial gallons, which of course brings up the price. This advance in price also affects the retail dealers. Coming as it does when coal is so scare, it affects the consumer considerably. ? Bradstreet's review of the business year, published Wednesday, says: To say that 1902 was the best year this /innn?rv has ovor MnprlPnPPrt. while truthful enough in the main, does not suggest fully the enormous strides which the United States took in the year just closed. Practically every branch of ordinary trade and manufacture showed an increase above the best of previous years, and yet this immense enlargement of output was not sufficient of itself to satisfy the growing, it might be termed Insatiable, demand for all kinds of materials. In many cases the usual foreign outlet for products was, perforce, neglected by the American producers, who confined their efforts to supplying insistent domestic demands, while in others foreign production was called upon to reinforce domestic output, with the result that new currents and channels were created in our foreign trade. Export trade, therefore, shrunk, while our imports expanded to unprecedented figures. The railroads of the country in their efforts to handle the business of ierea mem, eunam aa iic?ci ueiuit. from congestion and complaint of interference with production and distribution of the products of the farm, the mine, the shop, and the loom, was practically universal. Industrial uarest was naturally marked, as it always is In times of either prosperity or/""\ dull-' / V ness. Speculation, it is true, felt the checks Imposed upon it by conservatism by short crops in the preceding year, and last but "not least By high rates for money, but despite that fact that stock market operations were only about one-half those of 1901. Banking clearings, those usually reliable guides of business, showed aggregates- practically equal to the hitherto unheard of totals of 1901. All this was accomplished with a minimum of frictloti, as deflected in the form of business embarrassment." ?hc \lorhvillr (Snquircr. TORKVILLE, S. C.t SATURDAY, JANUARY 3,1903. The year 1903; may it Increase the prosperity and happiness of us all. CONORE38 seems to believe in letting well-enough alone, and so far as we are able to see, that is a pretty good policy just now. It is now quite evident that Great Britain and Germany have no Intention of playing in the American apple orchard without the permission of their Uncle Sam. President Castro, of Venezuela, has agreed to meet all just demands of foreign powers with reference to the pro tocol to be signed before the pending issues can be submitted to the Hague tribunal. The principal demand of the powers is a cash payment of $300,000. The Charlotte Observer of last Sunday, published an interesting illustrated article about the Catawba Power company and its great works at Indian Hook, in this county, and through the courtesy of our enterprising contemporary we hope to reproduce the whole story, together with the engravings, in the next issue of The Enquirer. We have no reason to believe that the late Increases In the price of oil are not legitimate. It is easy to see why, on account of the scarcity of coal, people should revert to oil for heating as well as power purposes. So far as the local consumers are concerned, they can only get around the advance by blowing out some of their lamps. The alliance between Great Britain and Germany is not at all popular in either country. The British people have not got a great deal of confidence in the Germans, and the confidence of the Germans in the British is no stronger. It JLs doubtful If the- (jwui-urqent leaders In the two countries could make such an alliance a very serious affair even if they desired. The United States treasury starts the New Year with more gold In Its vaults than this or any other government ever held at any time before. There is now in the treasury building in Washington and in the various subtreasuries throughout the country $615,319,367 in gold. These holdings are four times as much as the present holdings of the Bank ofEngland, one and a half times as as much as the Bank of France, four times the amount in the Imperial bank of Germany and nearly twice what the Imperial bank of Russia has stored up. Canadian government officials have recently expressed themselves strongly in favor of the Monroe doctrine. They did not express themselves openly as to why they approve the idea, but the reason is not hard to guess. Canada is a dependency of Great Britain. Be cause or ner position, uikhi oiuaiu is ever liable to complications with the European powers, and in such an event Canada would be a most vulnerable point of attack. The Monroe doctrine will brook no foreign conquests in America, and the United States would consequently become an ally of Great Britain to the extent of defending Canada. No wonder the Canandiana consider the Monroe doctrine a good scheme. m ?? The News and Courier brings The Enquirer severely to task for the following observation that appeared in our issue of December 24: "It was understood last summer that the Greenville News made a trade with Mr. Latimer conditioned on the assistance of that gentleman to Mr. Richardson, in case of his election to the senate. Developments seem to lend color to all "these rumors." Although it is a fact that there were campaign allegations of the nature stated, we will conress mat we were too hasty in saying that such a trade was "understood" to have been consummated. Upon more mature consideration we beg to withdraw the reflection that our observation carried against the Greenville News, and to say that we believe the editor of that paper incapable of becoming a party to any kind of a political bargain looking to his personal advantage. In this same connection also, we beg to thank the News and Courier for having so properly brought us to task and prom ise to try to be more carerui udoui repeating such an offense. The United States Steel corporation has gotten up a plan whereby it proposes to make every operative a sharer in profits and a stockholder. The plan Is very elaborate, dividing the employes in different classes that include all, from the highest to the lowest. It is proposed that a division of the earnings be made entirely on the basis of net profits; but no-one is to receive a share until after five years' of continuous service. An employe who quits the service of the company without cause and on his own motion before five years, loses his interest in the prospective dividend. Employes who die or are disabled are to get their respective shares. It is provided also that em ployes may purchase the stock of the corporation In amount graduated to their yearly earnings, at a less price than the same stock can be bought on the market. The whole plan seems to be perfectly fair to the employes of the company, and If carried out, promises to make the United States Steel corporation the most stable and prosperous business enterprise the world has ever seen. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. A Matter of Coarse. Judge D&ntzler has filed his decision in the Lake City and Danton dispensary case. He decides the law con - - - TTTI1_ Btltutlonal in US exemption w ?? Iiamsb<?g from the operations of the dispensary law; but finds that the proper legal proceeding to open the dispensaries in the two towns had not been complied with. There may be an appeal to the supreme court, but if these towns still want a dispensary they will have to start all over again. Without Food or Water. Lancaster Ledger: Mr. J. R. Sistare, of Riverside, has found his Jersey cow which disappeared so mysteriously about three weeks ago from where he had her staked out near his home. Some boys out hunting Christmas day ran upon her fastened, in a body of woods where she had wound the rope tied to her halter around a sappling and had been unable to get loose. It was exactly two weeks she had been gone and during all this time she had had neither food nor water. Of course, she was reduced almost to a skeleton by her long fast. Urared to Sne For Libel. The ronowmg irom xne oiuie evidently refers to the Anderson Mail: Governor McSweeney is being urged by some of his friends to sue an up-country dally paper for libel. This paper In an editorial intimated that in pardoning Mcintosh, the white man.twice: convicted of murder, the governor was actuated by motives that were questionable. There was a suggestion of bribery in the charge which was very galling to the governor's friends, and he is by some of them being urged to bring suit for libel. His public acts, they claim, ore open to criticism, but such a charge as this should be challenged. Murdered by Whisky. Lancaster special to Columbia State: The day before Christmas a white man by name of Tom Thorn, living near Westville, in Kershaw county, had been in Kershaw imbibing liquor pretty freely. He left for home late in the afternoon. Next morning his dead body was found near the track of the Southern railway. It is supposed he fell out of his buggy in a stupefied condition on the track of the railroad and was run over by the westbound passenger train from Camden to " --? : wo O foorfllllv KiaCKSDUrg. mo uuuj , mangled, one leg was mashed off and the top part of his head was gone. A bottle of whisky was found near his person. His horse and buggy was fo'und near by unharmed. Victory For the Mill*. Charlotte Observer: The cotton mills In the Piedmont region of South Carolina associated themselves some time ago for the purpose of . bringing about a reduction In the rate on cotton goods to northern points. Falling to reach any conclusion in this way they then brought an action before the South Carolina railroad commission to establish a rate to the nearest seaport within the state of South Carolina, which is Charleston. The fact was brought out that the lines were receiving as revenue about 35 cents per hundred pounds to the port of Norfork on cotton goods destined to northern points and the through rate was constructed via Norfolk. About the same proportional charge was being received on such cotton goods as moved via Charleston. The mills contended that if the Southern railway could handle cotton goods from Spartanburg to Norfolk over about 450 miles of the road with profit at 35 cents- per hundred weight, that in the same ratio cotton goods could be handled to Charleston, a distance of about 225 miles, at 24 cents per hundred weight. The commission, in rendering an opinion, established a rate to Charleston for dls tances over 230 miles at zs cents anu distances over 270 miles at 30 cents, to Charleston. All this was in South Carolina and the state commission had full control of the matter. It is said that the Clyde Line will make a rate of 20 cents from Charleston to New York. This would make the Spartanburg: to New York rate 50 cents, as against 53 cents as formerly. DEPORTATION OF THE NEGRO. Scheme Not So Impractical an Is Claimed. The Philadelphia Ledger agrees with Senator Tillman that Senator Morgan's plan for the colonization of southern Negroes in the Philippines is chimerical, and adds: "It is entirely futile. In the first place there are about 9,000,000 Negroes in the United States, and, assuming that they would all be willing to go, the expense of transporting them and finding them suitable and alluring habitations in the Philippines would cost the government more money than even the United States has developed for any purpose whatever." ? 41 That is pure asseruun. riuuouij The Ledger has., not given an hour of careful study to this solution of the problem. If It will read "An Appeal to Pharaoh," written by Mr. Carl McKinley, of the editorial staff of The News and Courier, and published by Fords, Howard & Hurlburt, of New York, it will find a great deal of illumination upon the subject. The book was printed in 1889, and by careful calculation the author showed, that the whole colored population could be transported from the United States to Africa in ten years, at a total cost of $32,000,000 a year, that the internal revenue tax on whisky and tobacco alone then yielded nearly four times that amount annually, and that, on the basis of $25 a head for the transportation of the Negroes from the United States to Africa, the revenue on whisky and tobacco for eighteen months would cover the whole transportation expenses of removing the whole race. In a speech delivered in the United States senate in the winter of 1887-88, Senator Morrill, of Vermont, said that four and a half millions of immigrants had been brought to the United States during the seven years following 1880, and Mr. McKinley figured that, "with rn-i lo rtror flopt than thnt pncflfi'pd in immigration business on the North Atlantic coast, we could have sent away nearly three-fourths of our colored population in the period Indicated, or could send away all of them in the course of one decade." We wish the Negroes would go. It would be better for them and better for us.* Their going would revolutionize the labor conditions in the south, of course, but it would relieve the south from an ever-present menace to its civilization.?News and Courier. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Glenn & Allison?Announce the opening' of the male and horse season on next Monday, salesday for January. Mr. Glenn has just returned from the markets and they will be ready to suit you in quality ahi price. They also say something in regard to buggies, wagons and harness. T. W. Speck. The Jeweler?Wants you to bring him your watch or clock, if either needs repairing. He guarantees his work to be satisfactory. C. P. Lowrance & Co.?Call the attention of people who 0Fe tbem to the. fact that their accounts are now due and they want thelriooney. Riddle & Carroll?Tell you they do not know enough about territorial expan ston to discuss that, hut they do want an expan&ioh of their business. They want you to see them whether you buy on time or for the cash. M. C.. Willis, Mayor?Gives notice that the water rent for the past quarter is due and muat be paid on or before January 10th. : H. C. Strauss & Co.-^y that they are with you for a short tJTpe yet, or until they can cIo6e ypi fheir business, by a lump sale of tie- stock. They are offering some attractive bargains in all classes of goods HKARD, THOUGHT AND SEEN. 't3" The reporter teams on what it considers to be good authority, that there will be another daily passenger train on the ChaflestaL division of the Southern from and after January 13. It has not been practicable to get exact information. It is understood that the principal object of the. train is to handle a sleeper between ^Charleston and Asheville; but as to Whether it is to make daily round trips/cannot be stated. It is quite possible' that the train may not be put on at all; but there is every reason to believe that our infor- j mation, as far as it goes, is straight. If the new train is put on, there will no doubt be an improvement in the mail facilities from the south, which now furnish so much ground for complaint along the whole line of the Charleston division. Although the prige of mules and horses is high compared with what it has been, the outlook 'is that there will be a good deal of business doing in this kind of property this winter and ' ? - nt null1 spring. lueie ui c a <i>w..yv. 0 reasons for it. The first and best reason is that cotton is bringing a good price and promises to^ontinue to hold up at least untilthe. next crop has been sold. There does not seem to be any reasonable probability of cheap cotton during the present year. Then another good reason-for the prospective demand for stoelQls the fact that many farmers who Intended to put in a considerable wheat* acreage were disappointed as to their plans and now there seems to be nothing }ptt but to plant more heavily ijhpotton. Still another important reasofa' for better business is the fact that the average condition of the people ii much better than It has been at this ttime for several years past. ?< > REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. The following transfers of real estate were recorded Jn, the office of the county auditor, the month -Of December: '' bethel. A. A. Barron to catawoa rower cum. pan?. 21 acres ..(lncbiSJng one acre in North Carolina),'ferryboat and cable. Consideration $1,000....(Wright's Ferry). W. Brown Wylie, clerk of the court of common pleas, fo L. T. Woods. 2 acres; consideration $100. (Neely's store lot). W. T. Nichols to W. T. Youngblood. 110 acres; consideration $800. BETHESOA. W. Brown Wylie, clerk of the court of common pleas, to C. E. Spencer, trustee, 1153 acres; consideration $1,250. BROAD RIVER. M. J. Wallace to T. R. Smith. 138 acres: consideration $925. W. L. Gilflllen to John R. Wright. 38 acres; consideration $225. R. R. Plexlco to P. E. Brooks. One lot; consideration $155. J. H. Waddell to W. S. Wllkerson. 366 acres; consideration $2,100. bullock's creek. J. A. Graves to Beauregard Hill. 160 acres: consideration $2,146. J. S. Moore and others to Vistula Maloney. 93J acres; consideration $472. O. J. Gwinn to W. H. and R. J. Herndon. 143 acres; consideration $700. Wm. Liinasay ana jonn ituub, executors, to T. Butler Woods. 25 acres; consideration $65. Mary E. Shannon to Susie A. Haffner. 229J acres: consideration nominal. J. Starr Moore et al., to Queen Esther Kerr. 93 acres; consideration $472.44. M. E. Shannon to J. A. Shannon. 191 acres; consideration nominal. CATAVBA. Marion Jefferies to E. E. Poag. Lot of four acres; consideration $217. W. Brown Wylie, clerk of the court of common pleas, to Ira J. Dickey. 160 acres; consideration $1,280. W. J. Neely to Mrs. A. K. Neely. Lot; consideration $1,000. Elizabeth A. Hefley and A. T. Ferguson to Martha M. Ross. 19J acres; consideration nominal. W. L. Roddey to Southern Railway company. Lot: consideration $5,000. (Old Three C's depot), j A. and J. FreidheJm to Berry Crosby. Lot; consideration $65. E. C. Stahn to McDonald Clinton. 134 acres; consideration $500. EBENtZER. M. E. Massey to S. B. Jackson. Lot in Tirzah; consideration $400. j. w maiiiicw? ei ai., iu o?u? t? . Barron. 11$ acres; consideration $2,550. FORT MILL. J. P. Anthony to Catawba Power company. 30$ acres; consideration $150. Elizabeth Alexander to W. T. AndersonT 63$ acres; consideration $92. KINO'S MOUNTAIN. M. Lilly Whitakei to M. J. Brown. 3$ acres; consideration $70. C. E. Spencer to C. A. Whitaker. 51 acres; consideration $400. Emily M. Smith to Jesse Edwards. 1J acres; consideration $25. YORJC. Geo. H. O'Leary to Rose C. Smith. Lot: consideration $k.o. Mary J. White et u. to R. H. White. Lot; consideration nominal. W. Brown Wylie, clerk of the court of common pleas, to Dr. R. A. Bratton. Lot and building; consideration $600. (H. W. Smith lot in Yorkville). W. Brown Wylie, clerk of the court of common pleas, to J. W. Love. 310 acres; consideration $3,100. (BarronPressly place, three miles east of Yorkville). Myrtle M. Ford to "W. G. Turner. 2 acres; consideration $80. T. L. Carroll to Job F. Carroll. 157 acres; consideration $1,800. J. B. Rawls. attorney In fact, to Martha Ann Rawls. 64J 'acres; consideration nominal. W. B. Steele > Aah B. Williams. 2.9 acres: consid.ea^H nominal. Helen W. Adi .H J. P. Anthony. Lot of land, nur acres not stated In deed: consldt82.50. Mary A. HallJeo^Kes A. Jackson. 207 acres; consideration $2,406. The "Panky place," near Tirzah. W. Brown Wylie, C. C. C. Pis., to J. S. Brice, attorney. Three lots in Yorkville and seven acres and one lot outside incorporate limits; consideration $646. (T. B. McCIain property). W. Brown Wylie, clerk of the court of common pleas, to J. S. Brice, attorney. 10 acres; consideration $45. (T. B. McCIain property). J. S. Brice, trustee, to W. Brown Wylie. Lot and building; consideration $3,300. (Kennedy Bros, and Barron building in Yorkville). ABOUT PEOPLE."^ Mr. J. W. Castles, of Hickory, was In Yorkvllle on Thursday. 7<kfr. S. L. Miller, of Columbia, is spending a few days In Yorkvllle. Dr. J. H. Saye, of Sharon, was in Yorkvllle on business last Wednesday., -/Mr. J. A. Tate returned to Port Mill Wednesday to resume his work in the graded school. -^Messrs. Pride Ratterree and C. W. F. Spencer, of Rock Hill, were in Yorkvllle Thursday. Mt-s. R.' T. Allison and children are visiting the family of Mr. W. M. Allison, at Henrietta, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Grist and children returned Wednesday evening from a visit to ChewsvUle, Md. -?Mr. Felix Walker, of Columbia, Is in Yorkvllle on a visit, to the family of his father, Mr. J. O. Walker. /Mr. John Jackson has moved with his family from near Filbert, to Capt. W. B. Moore's cottage on Wright avenue. Mr. H. It. Paul, traveling inspector for the Mergenthaler Linotype company, of New York, was in Yorkvllle yesterday. Oftftnlrt T Anrmr or?/1 Tall (q TJf, ijcooic uvni j uiiu w u?*(* aiv man, of Lowryvllle, attended the Williams-Lowry wedding In Yorkvllle, on Tuesday evening. Mr. Charles Williamson, for the past three* or four months a salesman for H. C. Strauss & Co., has returned to his home near GuthrlesviUe. ^Mr- E. B. Lowry (Todd) has accepted a position with the Henderson Gro-; eery company,, of Charlotte, and commenced his work on January 1. : Mr. J. C. Elliott is still confined to his home with rheumatism. He was able to get down to his office on Christmas day; but found it more advisable to remain at home. Miss Nettie Hlrshberger, who has had charge of the millinery department at the store of H. C. Strauss & Co., during the fall season, left Thursday morning for her home in Virginia. Mrs. W. A. Barber and children, of New York, arrived in Chester on Wednesday for a ten days visit to the family of her father, Mr. W. Holmes Hardin, and other relatives and friends. Supervisor-elect Boyd was in Yorkville on Wednesday. He has not yet reoelved his commission, but has his bond all ready and will take charge of the office as soon as his commission I arrives. 2^Mrs. Mattie Harshaw has issued invitations to the marriage of her daughter, Miss Ida to Robert S. Poag. The ceremony will take place near Guthriesville on January 14 at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Mr. Will McCorkle, who has for several months been a salesjnan for W.' B. Moore & Co., has taken a position with the York Cotton mills. Mr. Craig McCorkle has taken a position with W. B. Moore & Co. . Miss Marlon Harshaw, of Guthriesville after spending several days in Yorkville this week, left on Wednesday morning to spend a week with the family of her sister, Mrs. Wm. J. P. Wylie, in Rock Hill. Mr. A. J. McFarland, who holds a lucrative position with the Blackstone Manufacturing company, of Blackstone, Va., has been on a visit to relatives and friends in and near Yorkville. He returned to Virginia yesterday. gj Messrs. W. H. and C. T. (JrooK, or Fort Mill, came over to Yorkville Wednesday on business. They drove through the country, and found the roads'in a terrible condition until they came to Tlrzah, after which travel was comparatively easy. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Neville entertained a number of friends from Chester at a dinner party yesterday. The party consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Gaston, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Aiken and Miss Adelaide Gaston. They came up on the Carolina and North-Western train in the morning and returned in the afternoon. Fort Mill township has at least two citizens who are over 90 years of age. They are Matthew Merritt and Stephen Sutton. Mr. Merritt is about 94 and Mr. Sutton about 92. The latter is still in good health and able to travel miles on foot. Mr. Sutton's health is not so good. He is subject to attacks of indisposition during which he is con- I fined to his bed. Rev. A. L. Stough, the venerable pastor of Flint Hill Baptist church, In Fort Mill township, preached his last regular sermon In that capacity last Sunday. Mr. Stough has been pastor of Flint Hill for two terms, aggregating In all about twenty years. His work has been able and acceptable; but because of his advancing years and the wide range of territory that the big congregation covers, he decided sometime ago that he could not well continue his duties with entire satisfaction to himself and he resigned. Rev. Mr. Stough still has, however, heavy demands on his time and services, and has no Idea of quitting work so long as the splendid health he is enjoying, continues. It is reported that he has In contemplation the erection of a new church at Plnevllle, N. C. WITHIlf THE TOWlf. ? The dispensary was closed Thursday on account of legal holiday. ? The stockholders of the Loan and Savings bank will hold their annual meeting on January 9. ? Next Monday is salesday for January. There will be some valuable property offered before the court housei door. ? Business has been rather slack this week, most of the business houses devoting their attention principally to stock taking. ? Auditor Williams opened his books Thursday for the taking of 1903 tax returns. Quite a number of returns were made during the day. ? The young men of Yorkville "rang out the old and rang in the new" last Wednesday night In accordance with time-honored custom aip* they made a thorough Jib of It. y ? Although thorex<vas a large number of Negroe' *n Jrorkville last Thursday, "Emanc^atJOfn Day," there was ho special.attempt af any kind of a celebratloh.'^The crowd was quite orderly. ? The Loan and Savings bank, the postofflce and telegraph and express offices, observed Thursday as a legal holiday. There was?not a great deal of business transacted In the town during Thursday. ? Cashier Harrison, of the Loan and Savings bank, remarked Wednesday that the town has made noticeable financial progress during the year just closed. There has been nothing like a Doom, ne says, but tnere nas been a noticeable improvement in general conditions. ? The town council tendered the compliments of the town to the firemen last Wednesday and Thursday nights, in the shape of oyster suppers. The white .firemen were entertained at Roth's, in a splendid layout, and the colored firemen at their Friendly Aid Hall. The affair was very pleasant throughout. ? As will be noted from their big announcement in this issue, Messrs. <51enn & Allison propose to make their stables a place of unusual attraction next Monday to the many people who are interested in fine stock. Mr. Glenn has been in the west for the past ten days buying a load of mules and hores, returned to Yorkville yesterday morning, and said he expected his purchases to arrive not later than today, Saturday. ? Mr. Kelly Long, a tintiner from Gastonia, N. C., in the employ of Mr. W. O. Rawls, fell from the roof of Mr. R. J. Mackorell's kitchen last Wednesday afternoon, and besides sustaining painful bruises, had one of his little Angers nearly cut off. The accident was caused by nails of the scaffolding slipping from unsound wood. Although badly shaken up, Mr. Long has not ceased work. He is now neiping wun the roof of the annex to the York Cotton mills. ? The marriage of George W. Williams, Esq., to Miss Eulalia Lowry, in the Presbyterian church last Wednesday night, was a social event of unusual local interest, and a large number of people gathered to witness the ceremony. Rev. W. G. Neville officiated. The church bad been prettily decorated for the occasion, and all arrangements had been perfected with care and precision. The officiating minister met the bride and groom at the altar, in front of the pulpit. The bride, accompanied by her sister. Miss Lizzie Lowry, as maid of honor, and followed by a half a dozen pretty bridesmaids, approached by way ol the main aisle, while the groom, accompanied by Dr. John I. Barron, as best man, approached by way of one of the side aisles. The bridesmaids mere Misses Daisy Williams, Rose Hunter, Mary Hunter, Sadie Dunlap, Elise Moore and Jennie Hart. The ushers were Messrs. William Lowry, Harry ,6pann, C. W. Carroll and Frank G. Dobson. After the ceremony,' theTbridal party proceeded to the residence of the bride's parents and partook of a splendid banquet prepared for the occasion. The presents were both numerous, beautiful and valuable. In all they Included consid erably more than a hundred. Tne bride is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Lowry, of Yorkvllle, and the groom is a son of the late Jonathan B. Williams, and both are highly esteemed and popular in Yorkville. Mr. and Mrs. Williams are now at home to their friends in their residence on East Liberty street. ? The opera house on Thursday evening, January 1st, was a scene of beauty and enjoyment It was the occasion of the midwinter reception and dance of the cadets of the King's Mountain Military academy. The hall was beautifully decorated with pictures, potted plants, evergreens and flags; and the national colors were draped from the center of the ceiling to every window, making a lovely canwhite and blue; while ? . from the center was suspended by red; white and blue ribbons an Immense bunch of the mystic mistletoe. There were two stacks of arms, with drum suspended, one on either side of stage. Between these and behind a screen of ferns and other potted plants sat the musicians. The guests were met as they entered by the reception committee, Mrs. W. G. Stephenson, Mrs. R. T. Stephenson, Mrs. W. B. Moore and Mrs. Withers Adickes, and passed on to the ushers, Cadets Holland Morrow, Friedheim and Sinkler, who conducted the ladies to the dressing rooms. The ushers wore their swords I and sashes. They also distributed the dance programs which were artistic and dainty, furnished with pencils and cords in the K. M. M. A. colors, purple and white. The floor managers and leader of german was Mr. Ilion Johnson, assisted by Capt. John Ashe, who has just assumed his duties in the academy. Light refreshments were served Just before the german. There were tables furnished with "flinch," the popular game for those who did not care for the dancing. Those present were: Mr. Ilion Johnson with Miss Jennie Hart; Capt. John Ashe with Miss Mary Schorb; Dr. John B. Bowen with Miss Margaret Daniels, of Virvlnia; Mr. Quinn Wallace with Miss Mom* Schorb: Cadet-Adj. J. W. Powell with Miss Anna Sp&nn; Prof. J. H. Witherspoon with Miss Amanda Clawson; Mr. Robt. Chandler, of Mayesville, with Miss Mary Wilson, of Manning; Cadet H. Witherspoon with Miss Fannie Parish; Cadet-Lieut. McBrlde Rhodes with Miss Elizabeth Hunter; Cadet Keene Dobson with Miss Llllie Parish; Cadet Rafael Ramirez, of Porto Rico; with Miss Gerald Lowry; Cadet W. A. Searson with Miss Helen Lowry; Cadet Philip Hunter with Miss Reita Witherspoon, of Guthriesville; Cadet' Joe Hart with Miss Kate Hunter; Cadet W. Bedford Moore with Miss Marion Logan; Cadet Albert Hammond with Miss Mamie Lee Grist; Cadet-Capt. Marsh Morrow with Miss Frankie Clawson; Cadet-Corp. Charlie Moore with Miss Cornelia Elliott; Cadet Clarke Adickes with Miss Hattie Elliott; Cadet-Corp. Marshall Trammell with Miss Bessie Sandlfer; CadetSergt. Arthur Bennett with Miss Emma Clinton, of Clover; Cadet Helvetio Boschetti, of Porto Rico, with Miss Marie Moore; Capt. H. D. Wolff with Miss Louise Lowry; Cadet-Lieut. W. B. S. Chandler with Miss Rosa Steele; Mr. Clarence Glenn with Misses Ford, of Bethel; Misses Iva Withers, Hazel Grist, Charlotte and Isabel Irwin, Rose Hunter, Julia Witherspoon, Josie Carroll, Ellse Latimer, Lenora Williford, Margaret McCorkle, Rosa Lindsay, Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Willis, Mrs. Speck, Mr. and Mrs. Moultrie Bratton, of Brattonville; Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Moore, Col. and Mrs. W. G. Stephenson, Mrs. R. T* Stephenson, Mrs. Amanda Clawson,'Mr. and Mrs. Withers Adickes, Mr, and Mrs. W. E. Dendy, Mr. Harry/ Spann, Messrs. Paul Neely Moore, Bob Johnson, Harry Ruff, of Rock Hill, T: H. DeGraffenried, S. Guy and W. G. Darby, of Lowryvllle; Geo. McCanta, of Wiiiboro; McCarty, Leon Moore, of Roc Hill; Capt W. S. Schneider, Cadets thur F. Beale, of Cuba, Maurice M<5, P. Adams, Frank Latimer, Fred Jj bs. Sam Miller, Edward Sinkler, Ft Dick Johnson, Cadet-Sergt. Ben Miey, Cadet-Corp. T. Cunningham, pet-Sergt. MaJ. Albert Freidheim, <det-Sergt.' Holland Morrow. j LOCAL LACOWICgy Aa to fn(ioni. Peon desiring information about Confec ate pensions should apply to James Blair, of Bullock's Creek; W. S. Wl rson, of Broad River; Iredell Jones, ' Catawba; Jeff Lumpkin, of Ebene ; J. W. Ardrey, of Fort Mill; or J. tyRobinson, of King's Mountain. These fntlemen can give information to the iople of their respective townships. Jr. Jos. F. Wallace, pension com mi oner, may be seen in his office at ny time during the month of Januai Although the law prescribes that h devote only Saturdays to the subjec Mr. Wallace is at the service of the interested in pensions at ail times. Will ] canp at Roelc Hill. Roct J ill Journal: The efforts of the Commcial club to secure the Citadel encamnent for Rock Hill for next summ have been successful. The formal acknowledgement and acceptance i the Invitation will likely be here a few days. Suferlntendent Cowar announced his <fe<tslon last week i Cadet A. E. Hutclison, of the Rock ] 11 contingent of the corps. The good i ws comes from Chlet Hutchi, son, w ? iSiin Rock Hill ths week on a visit t was thought alt along that the in tation would be aicepted, but the an ouncement of the lhal decision will b< received with plefiure nevertheless although it causa ho great surpriq. The corps, embrfcing 120 ca- " dets, rill encamp on the gkded school ground and will be herelwo weeks? from j ine 16 to July 1. tith the encampnfnt to stay will 1 > the First Artille Y band, the finest I the United States army. Dancing u1 be in order e fry night, either Friedhelm hall of on the club,floor. > j MEBK-MB1TI J. The Argentine governnnt has sent a special commission fa the United States^ to look into Am lean educational ?> methods and to nploy some AmerlQin teachers he Chicago and Eastern Illinois Rail ad company has tft linilhlp ir>1r Ita llnM from Chicago to New Or! ns New Tork exchange is at a p nlum of 161 in Mexico. France and Guatamala have agreed to si nit certain claims that the French g< trnment has against the Gnatamala | eminent to , the Hague tribunal....G ?ral Nelson A Miles has left China foi tour of the European capitals traveli by way of the great Siberian rail ad The coroner's Jury having c rge of the matter of fixing the res] isibllity for the recent disaster on t Canadian Grand Trunk railroad, is not yet ; been able to agree during the : menth of November 463 tending im, migrants were debarred om landing in the United Stateh b ,use of the 1 operation of the vlimni itlon laws. The number permitted tc nd was 55,177. Marconi's Wirblkss. 'he citizens of Sydney, Nova Scotia, ave a great 1 dinner last Tuesday nig in honor of ; oiguur maitviu, nuu ubiixcmiui coi tabllshment of his wirefe telegraphy between Table Head, NA Scotia and Poldu In Cornwall, Engld. An elab> orahe electrical display As a feature of the decorations. AShe opposite ends of the table were pled two miniature Marconi to wen representing the stations at Tabj? lead 4ind at Poldhu, CornwalL ,J34tifn these two. i. atatl?> a'a electric -igTf' flashed at Intervals, signifying jtjf> passing of wireless messages. ijf Mayor Crowe paid iiph tribute to i Marconi, and the Injitor spoke at [ length on the program? his Invention. After reviewing theMrly stages of wireless telegraphy, Irconi said: 1 "The cost of estalihlng a tmnsantlantlc wireless telekphy service Is less than 1200,000, whflt cost $4,000.000 to lay an Atlantic Ible. From this ?maa A a 4nl_ YUU L'tUl RUUli; sec L nuciCBC iviegraphy cdn be carri on at a much less cost than cables A.t the present time the cable com ties serve the purpose admirably, tl is for the rich, but the masses?theat majority of people in the civilise fosld?are precluded from using C cable, because of its cost Wireles elegraphy, by bringing down the co of communication oversea, will do treat thing for mankind! As for G t Britain and her colonies and the "eat American republic to our south will give a better understanding I reen them all and strengthen to a -ge degree the , family ties which bini tern. "As you. are awai we are under contract to transmit ssagen for ten cents a ward, but you ied not be surprised if In the futc wireless messages are flashed aci i the Atlantic at a cost of. a cent a rd." ? i Fool Rather Than T f. Columbia correspoi nee of the News and Courier: a rnor McSweeney has granted a j Ion to M. M. Bright, of Cherokee ctyy. Governor McSweeney received i strong presen tation of the case, i which it was shown that Bright li owed a mule from a friend; that . tpefslinother party, who said he wa rolpg to Spartanburg and ottered t ise his buggy if Bright would use th on-owed mule in the conveyance, i 'he unknown stranger promised to urn the mule after he had made t trip. Bright got out at Damascus, i 1 the stranger went on, but never relined the mule a- tau? tttakam Uirtha o ftorrro h IU nil . U V7I1U ITCLfUl. i?|?"w W*?V. tfM.va Weber indicted Brlghtlthorse stealing and he was conyfed and sentenced to two years onfe chaingang. It was not stated that Bfht was poor, that he had no counsel si that he was entirely unknown in Oflfokee county, where he was tried, abohad he been tried in Shartanburg colty, where" he is known, or had. he be^ able to employ counsel he wou!di.j?st likely not have been convicted. ,,v| was stated that Bright was "simif and unsuspecting" and that his filly history is not such as would sugift forethought or care. Governor Moreeney previously refused to grant je pardon, but upon the strong showinjfmade and the endorsement of Judge Cry. he granted the pardon; AT THE CHUlfHES. ASH APT ATS REBRMED. Sunday Services?sJday school In the afternoon at '.30 o'fack. BAtflST] REV. w. E. IUHT, fASTOR. Sunday SbrvicA?Suijlay school In the morning at 10 icloc} CHURCH OJTHl GOOD SHEfffERfl. rey. j. c. jones, Irector. Sunday SRRViCEsjrI.ajf services at 11 o'clock a. m. linjnreadefa, Mr. G. W. S. Hart and CaptnP W?'S. Schneider. Sunday school fa tP afternoon at 3.30. TRINITY MElHOffST EPISCOPAL. Sunday SHRficE^rPreachlng In the morning $t It ^'clotf. and in the evening at 7 o'clock, Sfd&y school In the afternoon at 3ji0 o'lock. PRiBY<RIAN. REV, W. 4 NBVtUE, PASTOR. Sunday! SEnfricHaMorning services at 11 o'clock. * Sunay school in the afternoon! at 3io o'cfck. Evening services at '.00 afolock.; ' I