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Scraps ami ?act$. ? Russia has in the Black Sea a powerful fleet which, according: to the treaty by which the Crimean war was ended, she cannot take through the Dardanelles except with the consent of Turkey and other powers which were parties to the treaty. It is reported from Berlin that within the past few weeks Russia has been trying to get from Turkey permission to take her fleet out into the Mediterranean with a view to proceeding with it on to the. far East. The understanding is that Turkey has r.o serious objection to ? ? ~>ntra. Knf t Rritain is not BUt'U CI* mv t v i wmi, kindly disposed <o the idea, and negotiations are still pending. ? Charlotte Observer, Saturday: There the thirty-two miles of the new double track of the Southern railway in Virginia in service at the present time; but, although this is a very short distance, comparatively speaking, it is of almost invaluable service to the road, for here, morning and evening some of the north and south bound trains meet without side-tracking, and while going at the rate of sixty miles per hour. That part of the new track in use is between Alexandria and Culpepper. Besides this span there are many miles of the track finished, with the exception of trestle and bridges and connecting links. There are nearly 4,000 negroes working on the various forces, these being divided in squads, which are strewn out with intervals of two or three miles. Each squad has grading and track-laying forces, and besides these are the bridge-building gangs. All of the work is under the supervision of Contractor W. J. Oliver, who is pushing it as much as is possible. ? Passenger train No. 76, eaetbound on the Seaboard Air Line, was held up one mile east of Sanderson, Fla., last Saturday night at about 7.45 o'clock by four white men. The door of the baggage car was blown open with dynamite, the robbers mistaking this car for the express car. The engine was stopped by a volley of shots fired into the cab. The fireman and engineer were taken off the engine and escorted to the second class coach, and the robbers ran the train ahead about a half mile, when they blew open the baggage car. The train conductor went forward, but was driven back to the coaches. Conductor L. S. Peck, who was deadheading over the line, called for firearms and volunteers. N. H. Harrison, claim agent of the road; B. B. McCaa, traveling auditor, and J. C. Williamson, traveling freight agent responded and the four went forward, opened fire and drove the robbers off. Conductor Peck took the throttle and ran the train four miles down the road. The robbers got no booty and made no attempt to rob the passengers, but there was great excitement in the pas senger coaches while the firing was going on. ? Secretary Wilson took occasion last Saturday to make a statement before the house committee on agriculture with reference to the charges that have been made from time to time to the effect that there have been leaks in the bureau of statistics whereby cotton speculators have been able to get advance information as to crop figures: He told the committee that he had invited the New York Cotton Exchange to send a man to him and he would appoint him on the staff of the bureau, so that he might learn the methods employed. The man was sent, but the secretary declared him to be incapable of grasping the system. Mr. Wilson Invited the committee to visit the bureau, telling the members that he would lock them in the room with the statistician when the results were being tabulated, so they might observe the whole process. The object of the bureau was to furnish the producers re liable information regarding the state of the crops of the country. This had been done in the past to a remarkable degree of accuracy, and he believed the cotton statistics of this year would prove nearly as correct. ? Cincinnati Enquirer: "I suppose very few people in the United States know that many men who have served their time in the United States army are now In China acting as drillmasters to the Chinese army, yet such is the case," said an army officer heiyj yesterday. "There is a firm in Hongkong which sends representatives to Manila to see the noncommissioned officers, and as soon as their time of enlistment expires they are told that their passage back to the United States will be paid if they will stop in China for a few months. To show they are sincere these representatives deposit a sum of - .oney equal to the passage back to the United States, and the noncom usually stops at Hongkong and calls upon this firm. There he is told that he is wanted as a drillmaster for the Chinese army, and he is offered a salary of $200 per month as long as he remains. A great many of the discharged sergeants remain in China for a few months. They are provided with interpreters, and drill the Chinese soldiers through them. China has also secured a number of German, French and English noncommissioned officers for "the same work, and as a result her army is getting on something like a good footing." ? Discussing the controversy between Russia and Japan with a representative of the Associated Press last Saturday, Baron Hayashi, the Japanese minister to Great Britain said: "I only hope the Czar will give us peace, but my hopes are not strong. If we go to war it will be for issues whereon America and England have insisted diplomatically. We have received no pledges from any country that in the event of defeat it will step in and save us from being absorbed by Russia. We cannot count, even in extremities, on the armed support of any nation, in the world. It would be a struggle to the death. Perhaps we are not strong enough to fight Russia. There are two opinions about that." Baron Hayashi intimated that he thought Japan was bound to be beaten in the end. "If we were beaten," the minister resumed, "Russia would take Korea and Manchuria by right of conquest, and possibly Japan. No power on earth could then dislodge her from Central China and all the far East. I am sure it is better to go to war when you know you are right, even If defeat Is possible, than to see your independence submerged under a continual aggression that is bound to absorb you eventually. Nothing can avert war between Russia and Japan in future years, even if peace Is procured now, so long as Russia pursues her present far Eastern policy. "The American action in enforcing the opening of the Manchurian ports was a splendid example of honest diplomacy. It* ??oo a is^Mlo-htfnrwaril which contrasts favorably with Russian methods. No other nation, except Great Britain, when the British admiralty bought the two Chilian warships, has taken any practical step to live up to its diplomatic demands upon Russia anent the far East. We believe we are now fighting a diplomatic battle in behalf of America and Great Britain, but if only war can settle it we know we shall receive assistance from neither. We are prepared to fight our own battles and take the consequences." lite Alorkiille (Enquirer. YORKVILLE, S. C.i TUESDAY, JANUARY 19,1904. The average market value of land in York county is $10 an acre and the value at which land is assessed for taxation is $5.37 an acre. The general assembly adjourned last Saturday until tomorrow in order to furnish the committees an opportunity to get the preliminary work of the session in shape. There was a regiment of United States regulars in General Gordon's funeral procession. It is the first time since the war that the Federal government has shown a southern soldier such signal respect. Although at times it looks as if war between Bussia and Japan is inevitable at other times it looks as if the diplomats are going to be able to settle the trouble without a fight. Neither party to the controversy is especially anxious to try its strength. We have but little doubt that Mr. H. H. Evans is the proper man for the chairmanship of the state board of dispensary directors. There seems to be reason to believe that his election will help to bring the business to its proper level all the sooner. Anderson county has raised about $500 for the Hampton monument; but few of the other counties of the state have seen proper to bestir themselves ?vio cnHioot Tt has been Droposed in the general assembly that the state build the monument outright without reference to private subscriptions. Better this, of course, than no monument; but it will be a serious reflection on the citizenship of South Carolina if It falls to raise that paltry $10,000 under the conditions that have been named. One of our contemporaries seeks to enter a n :id protest against the advance sell ition of delegates to represent the ? >uth Carolina Democracy in the National convention. As to whether the names mentioned by the Washington correspondent of the News and Courier constitute the slate, we are not altogether certain; but that a slate there will be we have no doubt It has been so for the past ten years and so it will continue for some time to come. And after all why should anybody object, so long as they have such a poor way of helping themselves? It is quite possible that the hurried r\f IKo onmmorninl trpfltV b0- I tween the United States and China is of rather more significance than seemed to appear on the face of the transaction. Russia had all but gobbled Manchuria, and Chinese sovereignty of the province is merely nominal. The signing of the treaty, however, gives privileges to a country that is able to maintain its rights, and Russia's designs as to Manchuria are checkmated until she sees proper to formally annex the province. That she has all along been intending to do this there is little reason to doubt; but it is quite certain that she will now proceed with rather more deliberation. Reports from Columbia are to the effect the there has been a considerable amou it of drunkenness among members 5f the legislature during the last week. One of the Columbia papers print a story of a drunken member who Interrupted a religious meeting, and who had to be taken out of the church. The State has a story of a York member who was fined $15 in the recorder's court, and Yorkville citizens who have returned from CoiumI riiirlmv noot fotv Hflvs rpnort having seen a number of drunken members loafing in the lobbies of the hotels. From our viewpoint all of this Is utterly disgraceful; but at the same time we can hardly see how anything else is to be expected under a government which seems to consider traffic in whisky the chief object of its existence. There is reason to hope that the public road question is at last to receive the serious consideration of congress. In addition to the bill recently introduced by Senator Latimer, whose speech in support of which is summarized elsewhere in this issue It. ..Icit nantllnn o nn.t,fnll? pared bill introduced by Hon. Walter P. Brownlow of Tennessee, which is deserving of attention. Representative Brownlow's bill provides for the appropriation of 524.000.000 at the rate of $8.000,000 per annum and to divide the amount among the state in proportion to population, no state receiving less than $250,000. South Caro lina's apportionment would be $388,000. It Is provided, however, that no state or county shall receive any portion of the appropriation unless it Is willing: to spend an equal sum itself. In other words up to the amount of the apportionment, the National government will put up a dollar for road Improvement for every dollar put up by the state or county. Of course, we do not look for the passage of any such measure at once. While there are lots of congressmen who are broad enough and Intelligent enough to see the wisdom of spending government money on the roads, it is not probable that a majority of them will be able to reach such a plane until after they have grotten some very positive and unmistakable instructions from the great mass nf vMprs Rllt this mat ter of road Improvement under national encouragement Is coming and the sooner It comes the greater will be the prosperity of this great country. A bill Is pending In the general assembly providing that the state pay for animals destroyed by the state veterinary surgeon on account of alleged contagious disease. We are not prepared to approve this suggestion; but at the same time we freely admit that the problem Involved is a knotty one. For instance there was an alleged ' outbreak of glanders In this county a year or two ago. Glanders is a disease that has been considered throughout all time as equivalent to certain death. We have no information that any horse or mule died from the alleged disease during the alleged outbreak referred to. Several, however, were killed by order of Dr. Nesom, the veterinary at Clemson, and at least one which was pronounced by him to be suffering from erlanders. recovered and became sound and well after It had been tied out In the woo'ds for a week or two. If the state should inidertake to pay fulHprices for such animals, as may be condemned to destruction, It would be imposed on frequently. The Idea of full pay is utterly-Impracticable. But there ought to be some responsibility somewhere. There is reason to doubt as to whether there was ever a genuine case of glanders in this county during the alleged epidemic. It is quite certain that the horses that were tied out in the woods and which recovered were not afflicted with the disease. So while it Is hot practicable to pay for all animals condemned on suspicion, it seems that something should at least be done to protect stock owners from tlfe consequences of irresponsible incompetency. Iv his letter to the News and Courier of Monday, Mr. August Kohn discusses the proposition for the establishment of additional judicial circuits as follows: Whether there will be two additional judicial circuits provided for by this legislature is a matter about which there is much doubt. If there is a probability of such legislation it amounts to no' more than that, for there is no certainty about it at all. In the first place the Judiciary committee seemingly has no well defined opinion as to whether the circuits should be created, or if they are to be, how they are to operate. Wltn me lawyers disagreeing- and laymen In* the legislature more or less opposed to the idea or indifferent about it. the outlook for the two new circuits is not over bright, though the question has been agitated so long and so persistently that it may be that something will be finally done. Laymen are more or less inclined to the opinion that it is not the fault of having only eight circuits that court business is congested or drags along slowly, but the fault largely of the lawyers in postponing cases and resorting to other methods of causing delay. Laymen may be wrong In this, but many of them think so nevertheless. They realize, however, that present conditions are not desirable and their opposition to two new circuits is not so strong that they will not relent if it is shown that such legislation will prove a remedy and bring relief. There is one thing about the whole question which seems certain beyond all question, and that is should the matter reach the proper stage the legislature will overwhelmingly vote to abolish the system of having special Judges, a plan which has been frequently resorted to In the past few years. This supposed expedient has proven entirely unsatisfactory to lawyers and people generally, and that is one feature of the case which has aided muqh in creating some sentiment in favor of additional circuits. THE IMMIGRATION MOVEMENT. Meeting In the Senate Chamber This Evening to Formulate Plans. The first meeting of the South Carolina Immigration Executive committee ? Ill V. v.u m.._?J?.. ? 0 A>nlnnli wilt ue nciu l ucauaj lligiiL a.t o u rn/vn in the senate chamber. The state association was organized on the 10th of November last. Enthusiastic representatives from eighteen counties were present. The lofty object the association hopes to accomplish through immigration is the engrafting upon the citizenship of this state of sturdy settlers from the old country, who will populate the agricultural section now being deprived of its citizens in order to give them employment in the cotton mills. It is said that the mill men have reached a point now where they realize that the source of their labor?the rural districts?must be replenished with people, to meet local demands for the raw staple, as well as supply the markets which the mills have brought into existence with such marvelous rapidity. One of the movements contemplates interesting Scotch immigrants. The Scotch figured prominently in the early colonial settlements in both the Carolinas, and many of the leading and most progressive citizens of the state are of Scotch or Scotch-Irish extraction. The environment is highly favorable to Scotch immigrants. The work of the executive committee at this meeting is highly important and means much for the success of the association. The committee's duties, as outlined in the convention, are: First?To prepare a constitution for the South Carolina Immigration association, and each county organization. Second?To prepare in suitable form all information relative to the resources of the state. lmra?to eiecc a general agent upon whom shall devolve all the duties appertaining to an immigration agent. Fourth?To devise a plan by which to raise the funds necessary to defray the expenses necessarily incurred.? Columbia State, Monday. UOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. T. M. Whlsonant, Hickory?Has a fine lot of mules and horses every head of which is guaranteed to be just as represented. "Don't fall to see me," he sayS. 1 Jas. M. Starr & Co.?Remind you that their grippe and cold cure cures in 24 hours. They want you to use Starr's pond lily cream for chapped hands, and recommend Starr's syr. white and tar for coughs. J. J. Hunter?Representing one of the largest tailoring houses, solicits orders for spring suits, overcoats, etc. Guarantees fit and satisfaction. Ferguson & Clinton?Invite smokers to try their cigars. .They want to supply farmers during this year with the supplies that they will nefed to make the next crop. Probate Judge McCorkle?uives nouie that Anthony Partlow has applied to him for letters of administration on the estate of Anthony Partlow, Jr., deceased. J. Q. Wray?Has received a new shipment of shoes and tells you about them. He reminds ladles that the Julia Marlowe shoe Is made for particular ladies. Strauss-Smith Co.?Have bought a big stock of shoes and in order to make room are offering some good bargains in shoes that they have on hand. They give a detailed description of their mar^r kinds and qualities with the prices at which they offer them. Foushee Cash Store?Announces a special discount sale that takes place on Friday next. It gives a long list of articles of every day use on which are quoted many Interesting prices. It will also give away a dollar doll to some energetic girl under ten years of age. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? The K. M. M. A. barracks are again aeseriea to tne owis anu mc ums, ? Torkville Is badly In need of additional store rooms and residences. There is a constant demand for buildings of this kind, and if they could be provided they would no doubt be utilized. ? January business has been rather better than usual up to this time. Ordinarily the first two weeks of January are the dullest season of the year In Torkville; but such has not been the case this year. ? There will be a special meeting of the First Associate Reformed presbytery in the Associate Reformed church tomorrow, in connection with the installation of Rev. W. C. Ewart. The services will be commenced at 11 o'clock a. m. Rev. Dr. J. C. Galloway of Gastonia, N. C., will preach and preside. Rev. J. S. Moffatt of Chester will address the pastor, and Rev. J. L. Gates of Hickory Grove, will address the people. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mrs. M. J. Clark of Dandrldge, Tenn., is visiting Mrs. Susan Wallace. Miss Sallie Walker of Winthrop, is In Torkvnie, tne guesi 01 xars. n. C. Walker. Messrs. S. L. Miller and E. R. McElwee "of Columbia, were in Yorkvllle this week. Mr. and Mrs. A. Rose and son, Andral, are visiting relatives and friends In Columbia. Miss Mary L. Gardner of Loulsburg, W. Va,, Is visiting friends and relatives in Yorkvllle. y' Messrs. F. E. ^Dean and Philip Moore are spending a few days with friends In Yorkvllle. Misses Rose Lindsay and Bessie Williams left Saturday for a visit to Gastonla and Charlotte. Mrs. W. R. Beadles, who has been visiting in Yorkvllle for several weeks, has returned to her home at McRay, Ga. Miss Mattie Caldwell, who has been visiting Mrs. A. Y. Cartwrlght for several weeks past, left Saturday for a visit to King's Creek. Miss Mary Burkes, who has been with the firm of J. M. Heath & Co., for the past two seasons, left for her home In Virginia on Sunday. MaJ. Jas. F. Hart .went down to Ches* " * ? ?! 1 ? ? 1-"" I n f VlO rer inis morning 10 piu utiiiaic ?? celebration of Lee's birthday today. He had been invited to deliver the principal address of the occasion. A notable feature of the exercises is the marking of the graves of about forty Confederate soldiers who died at a hospital in Chester during the war. Mr. H. Q. McElwee had his right hand painfully injured last Saturday afternoon as the result of an accidental discharge of his gun while out hunting. It seems that his dog had gotten itself fastened in the crack of a fence, and the gun was discharged while he was working to secure the animal's release. The discharge cut a deep gash at the base of the thumb; but no bones were injured. He will have to carry his hand in a sling for some timej but has no apprehension of the loss of any of his fingers. "BREACH OF THE PEACE." One of York's representatives has been figuring in the Columbia police court for alleged breach of the peace. The Enquirer has been able to gather but few facts about the circumstance other than has appeared in the Columbia State. This paragraph is from the State of Saturday: Representative Preston D. Barron was fined $15 in the recorder's court yesterday for "breach of the peace." Mr. Barron told Officer Marsh who made the arrest that he was a member of the house and was not liable to arrest during the session of the general assembly except for treason, felony or breach of the peace, but the officer considered Mr. Barron's conduct a breach of the peace. Mr. Barron resisted and was arrested with some difficulty. He was taken to the station where he was detained over night. In the court Mr. Barron called the recorcter's attention to the constitution of South Carolina relating to arrest of members of the general assembly, but the recorder sustained the action of Officer Marsh and tried the case. Additional developments are reported in the same paper of Monday as follows: In the State's report of Representative Preston D. Barron's detention by the police Thursday night and of his subsequent appearance in the recorder's court in which he pleaded protection by the constitution of South Carolina relative to arrests of members of the general assembly it was mentioned that Mr. Barron would appeal from the recorder's decision. Messrs. DePass & DePass, who have been re talned by Mr. Barron, yesterday said ii that as far as they could see now no v appeal would be taken from the re- v corder*s ruling as to what constituted k a "breach of the peace," the charge Ii under which members of the general t< assembly may be arrested. a The charges against Representative b Barron as written on the police docket s are "drunk and disorderly conduct." g Recorder Stanley ruled that either a "drunk" or "disorderly" was a "breach t of the peace" and that members of the P general assembly are as liable to ar- t rest for that as other citizens of South v Carolina. s r NOTE AND COMMENT. 1 c The work of tax collections with the t 1 per cent penalty continues slowly, j Treasurer Neely is taking in a few dollars each day, and toward the end of the month will probably have another small rush. The regular spring term of court of general sessions and common pleas will convene April 18. There will be ten weeks between the adjournment of the approaching special term and the convening of the following regular term. s The floodgates of the Catawba, dam were closed down last Saturday, and hundreds of people went to the scene on Sunday to watch the mighty basin I fill with water. At least two of the big water wheels were started on Sat- j urday afternoon; but The Enquireii t has not been able to get any definite j Information as to subsequent devel- { opments. I Sheriff Logan has made a record j In serving the Jury for the special term .] of the court which convenes next Mon- { day. Jurors for both weeks were ] drawn together last Friday morning, ] and during the afternoon the sheriff < started three deputies out to cover the ] county within the shortest possible | IIIXIC. X1C CApevio IV nave Wiii^iCic itturns by tonight at 6 o'clock. There have been more voluntary transfers of real estate during the past few months, and fewer Involuntary transfers than have been known during any similar period for a number of years past. The statement applies especially to York county. The significance of it is that the high price that cotton has been bringing, has not only enabled most debtors to meet their obligations but has furnished a surplus that has facilitated more trading than usual. Some years ago when cotton was 5 cents a pound, the supply men wrote up their liens on a basis of about $20 a bale or $80 to the plow, and tried strenuously to hold their customers within those limits. The outlook is that the limit will be raised considerably this year. The more conservative business men seem to think that about $40 a bale or $240 to the plow is pretty nearly in the neighborhood of the right thing. Such an appreciable difference ought to allow the farmers who give liens plenty of elbow room. Mr. J. F. Wallace, pension commlsV orlr nAiintv id In hid nf. 1 OJVIiCl lUi x vm vuuiivj) v. flee every Saturday to receive appll- 1 cations and give Information to peo- i pie who want to know about pensions. < Up to this time he has received quite a < number of new applications, rather < more than enough to make up for the < deaths that have occurred during the 1 past year. Although It has not been ' necessary, many who are already re- | celving the benefits of the law have made application for the continuance , of their pensions. Mr. Wallace has , all information at his finger tips, and can answer any question pertaining to , the subject of pensions without hesi- , tation. Senator Brice has introduced a bill < giving to the people of towns in which ] dispensaries are located the right to j decide from time to time whether or i not they would have these dispensaries j removed, and he also intends to intro- , duce a bill to provide that the qualified , voters of a county may decide upon j the question as to whether or not dis- j pensaries may be established within < their limits, in incorporated towns or ] elsewhere. Both of these propositions j are meritorious and we hope to see i them became law. It is easy enough to < argue that the people of the country j have no right to say whether or not i there should De a dispensary in me town?that It is none of their business; but as a matter of fact the people of the country are as much interested as are the people of the town. It follows also that if a majority of the people of the country believe In the establishment of dispensaries, they have no right to inflict such an institution upon any municipal corporation that is opposed to it. All this is in accordance with the fundamental principles of local self-government, and does not admit of honest question. It is understood that the state board of dispensary directors is bitterly opposed to the measures that Senator Brice is advocating, and they have a strong influence with the members of the legislature; but still, the spirit of liberty js growing and there is reason to hope that If the bills do not pass at this session they , will eventually become laws. "You may say what you please about the enforcement of the dispensary law; but I'll tell you as a fact that Governor HeyWard has the tigers on the run in Columbia," The speaker was a Yorkvllle citizen who spent a part of last week at the capital. "With a* friend, who though not a resident knew more about the city than I," the gentleman continued, "we made a search for a glass of beer. The first place at which we inquired, was a restaurant where I had frequently bought beer. 'We don't keep it,' said the proprietor, and we renewed our search. My friend led the way to a place of which he knew, and there the proprietor directed us to go through the back way and up a flight of stairs. After we had mounted the stairs about half way to the second story we came to a lattice F work door securely locked. It was J opened by a negro. Then we followed d along a dark corridor winding about v with confusing turns until we came I to another locked door. There we rap- I ped repeatedly for fully a minute, and t! finally the door was unlocked by a ii white man. We told the man what a we wanted and followed him through n some more winding corridors in which I there were no lights, coming out finally a ito a large room, the door of which ;as unlocked. The room was filled flth people engaged In games of all lnds, principally poker and the like, t was a regular gambling den. We aid our guide that we wanted beer, nd he turned us over to a negro porer who declared that there was but a Ingle bottle In the place and he would et It for us. He produced the bottle nd poured out a glass for each. Afer we emptied the glasses my friend iut down a dollar. The porter declined o take the money, saying that no beer /as sold in the place. We left by the ame way we had come in and on eaching the outside, my friend sought o pay the proprietor; but he also dedared that there was no charge, so ne uui wtuj nui semeu. ui nuuioc, would not pretend to say that there ire not dozens and dozens of tigers n Columbia for people who know the opes. Indeed, It Is probable that the >eople who own the den where we got he beer make, a business of selling vhlsky and beer to people they know; >ut If my own experience is to be taktn as any kind of an index to the sitlation, buying such refreshments on he sly is rather up hill business for Grangers." LOCAL LACONICS. Remedy For Hog Cholera. A number of cases of hog cholera lave been reported throughout the iountry surrounding Yorkvllle, especally to the southeast during the past 'ew days. The losses from the disease lave been quite serious, and the folowing remedy recently obtained by VIr. W. R. Carroll from an experienced itockman of Tennessee, will no doubt prove of Interest and value: "One-half pound of black antimony; | pound of cayenne pepper; 1 pound copperas; 1 pound soda; 1 pound madder; 1 pound ground ginger. Give one tablespoonrul three times a day." Death of Mrs. J. W. Marshall. Mrs. J. Wilson Marshall died at her lome in Rock Hill last Thursday night ifter a brief Illness. The following is ,'rom the Herald of Saturday: The deceased was a daughter of the late W. [. Clawson and his wife Martha Wlllam Clawson, and was born In Yorkvllle, June 15th, 1841. She attended :he Yorkvllle Female college, from which she graduated in 1868. On the 19th of December, 1860, the day before South Carolina seceded, she was marr led to CapL J. W. Marshall. A few lays afterwards she accompanied him to his home on Edisto river In Colleton county. Six weeks later Captain Marshall volunteered for service In the army of the Confederacy and from that time until the close of the war she Ived alternately between her home on the Edisto river and her father's home In Yorkvllle. After the war she removed with her husband and three children to Fort Mill township, where the family lived until they came to Rock Hill In 1892. To them were born ten children, namely: ' Julia, wife Df W. W. Boyce, now dead; Jennie, wife of Rev. R. L. Grier of Elizabeth 21ty N. C.; Emily, who died at the age of nine years; an infant son who Jled at birth; J. Wilson Warshall; Wm. D. Marshall, who died when two and tme-half years old; Fred D. Marshall jf Atlanta; Miss Mary M. Marshall; J. Edward Marshall and'Thomas E. Marshall of Cleveland, O. Death of Col. C. J. Pride. Col. Cadwallader J. Pride, died at the residence of his son-in-law, Dr. W. R. Simpson, In Rock Hill, last FrI a a. ? A A o f t Ar o jay morning at o.?u u uiula. iuvh ? long and tedious illness. The Rock Hill Herald of Saturday contains the following1 brief sketch of his career: Sol. Pride was born at Wyoming, the family home of the Prides, near Landsford, in Chester county. His father svas Frederick Lafayette Jones Pride ind his mother Amaryllis Sitgreaves jf Halifax, N. C. He spent his young manhood in the Landsford section and ifter his marriage In 1851 to his cousin, Amelia Sitgreaves, a daughter of Jol. John Sitgreaves, he continued to live at the Pride home for several fears. He with his young wife removed to Roddey town, In Chester :ounty, where he was engaged in the mercantile business. Thence he removed to what was known as Pride's >Id store, likewise in Chester county, ivhere he continued the mercantile busmess. Coming to Rock Hill, after the var he made this his home until the lay of his death. At one time he held :he position of magistrate, that of town narshal, was a United States commisiloner for twenty-eight years, and was :ensus enumerator In 1890. In 1892 he vas appointed postmaster of this city, jelng succeeded by* Mr. E. E. Poag In L896. In 1900 he was again appolnt;d postmaster and died when his comnisslon lacked only ten days of exjlring. The family name of the debased was not Pride, but Jones. The 'eason for this Is explained in a litle volume written In 1899 by the late Col. Cadwallader Jones of this county, vho dedicated this highly Interesting >ook In the following manner: "To ny descendants this history of my an:estors Is affectionately dedicated by Cadwallader Jones." MaJ. Cadwallaler Jones of North Carolina, was the ather of Frederick Lafayette, Halcott r., Cadwallader and Lucy. Frederick _afayette Jones assumed the name of ^ride at the request of his uncle, Haliott Briggs Pride, who died childless, md was very desirous of perpetuating lis family name. It was Frederick ^afayette Jones Pride then who moved o Chester county and settled at Wyonlng on the Catawba river. He was he father of the deceased as well as if Martha Cobb, afterwards Mrs. Dr. Chomas Hunt of New Orleans; Halott J. Pride, and Dr. John Sitgreaves >ride. To Col. Pride and his wife, Lmelia Sitgreaves Pride, were born even children, viz: Frederick J. Pride, rho died unmarried; John Sitgreaves 'ride, Allen DeSaussure Pride, supiosed to be dead; Cadwallader Pride, ? whrv mflrrlo/1 Ifnfp P_ RowlPV. aughter of Dr. Rowley, of Greenville, i'ho has one daughter, Amelia; Arthur jOve Pride, dead; Junius Atmore ride of Columbia, who married Marha Llllard of Knoxvllle, Tenn., havng two children, Helen Cadwallader nd William; Annie Ross Pride, who larried Dr. W. R. Simpson of Rock Llll, two children, Cadwallader Pride nd William R. being of this issue. MERE-MENTION. Senator Hanna has Issued the official call for the assembling of the National Republican convention to be held In Chicago during the week beginning June 21 Citizens of Alexandria, Va., have Invited President Roosevelt tc be present with them on the occasion of their annual celebration of Washington's birthday... .Mr. Wm. J. Bryan has announced that he will publish his Commoner in St! Louis dally during the sitting of the Democratic National convention. Tom Turner and Jesse Edge, two white farmers were run over and killed by a Georgia railroad train near Lafayette, Ala., last Friday John Harris, a negro was hanged In Atlanta on Friday for the murder of Policeman Drasback last P1/Vf(<4n V?An<^a A# twiJa vciuuci uvcuuo vi viauc are adopting resolutions asking their senators to vote for the Panama treaty. ... .The native press of Korea has been advocating the assassination of all foreigners A dispatch from Uniontown. Pa., tells of the release during the holidays, oh his own recognizance, ot James Swang, who had been convicted of the murder of Bill Turner. Swang spent the holidays with his family and returned to prison The St:*-T, a leading Republican paper of St Louis, has deserted Roosevelt and Is advocating the nomination of Hanna or Cannon....About a dozen Chicago churches have been closed by order of .. the building commissioners of the city because their construction does not coniorm xo me requirements 01 uie ure . ordinances. The state treasurer of North Carolina has fined the Western Union Telegraph company $1,000 for failure to pay a privilege tax of 25 cents for each mile of Its wire as prescribed by law Eight large cotton mills at Concord, N. C., operating 80,000 spindles, have arranged to reduce their running time to four days a week. It is because of the high price of cotton and the low price of manufactured goods Seven negroes were killed at New Berne, N. C., last Monday as the result of a boiler explosion More than a dozen peonage Indictments are pending in the Federal courts of Alabama.....James K. Jones, chairman of the Democratic National committee has issued a call for the meeting of the National convention to he held in St. Louis, Mo., on July 6. The Panama canal treaty* was favorably reported to the senate yesterday. SOUTH CAROLINA NEW8. Our Delegates to 8L Louis. Washington correspondence of the News and Courier: Senator Tillman, Senator Latimer, Governor Heyward and State Chairman Wylie Jones will probably be South Carolina's "Big four" delegates to ine i^emocrauc national convention to be held In St. Louis next July. There may be a contest over Senator Latimer's place' in the "Big Four," but those who profess to know something about the political game as it is played in the Palmetto State seem confident that the slate when made up will contain the four names given above. There will be a ' general scramble for convention honors thip year for one of the catchy attractions spread before the national committee last Tuesday by the - St. Louis boomers was that delegates would have "Dead Head" privilege to the world's fair. " ? Washington correspondence Brooklyn Eagle: An ingenious scheme has been proposed by Representative Burleson of Texas, to put sri end to one species of fake cotton crop reports? a kind utilized every year to force down prices and prevent the growers from getting the rates the- deserve for their product. Mr. Burleson is himself a cotton grower and thus has a first hand knowledge of the methods that ore employed by individuals to drive down prices while cotton is in the fields and to boost It up after it has left the hands of the growers. "I have a very* simple remedy for this evil. I have . proposed a nominal tax of 1 mill per, bale of cotton ginned within the United States. The idea is not to raise revenue from the taxation, but to establish some machinery for getting accurate and official Information about the size of the product. I propose to have the census office take charge of ffimrlloHnn nf the qtflttatipii which will be published as soon as possible for use of the public. The total tax" on a crop of 10,500,000 bales of cotton would be only $10,500, and none of the ginners would object to this small tax. Every cotton grower to whom I have spoken about this scheme has expressed enthusiastic Indorsement of It, and I hope it will be adopted by congress." AT THE CHURCHES. TRINITY METHODIST EPISCOPAL. REV. J. L. STOKES, D. D., PASTOR. Prayer meeting tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock. PRESBYTERIAN. REV. W. G. NEVILLE, PASTOR. Prayer meeting tomorrow evening at 7.00 o'clock. ASSOCIATE REFORMED. Prayer meeting tomorrow afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD. PP.V T n. -TOM VIC ft RHCTOIL Services this afternoon at 4.30. gpcrial polices. Oliver Chilled Plow* at $8 Cash. Heretofore the cash price of Oliver Middle Buster plows has been $9. We have decided to reduce the price to $8 on and after today, Friday, Jan. 15. Those who have purchased and paid cash at the old price are entitled to a rebate of $1, and we will make same allowance to those who may have bought on credit, but who shall pay cash within the next thirty days, of on or before Feb. 12. It gives us pleasure to explain as the reason for this announcement, the fact that the merits of these plows have at last gotten the recognition they deserve, and our sales have increased to an extent that gives us better profits at )8 than we have heretofore been realizing at 89. Respectfully, Riddle & Carroll. _