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Scraps and Jacts. ? There has been but little news from the far east during the past few days. The last telegrams of special importance described the Russians as retreating toward Mukden with the Japanese in hot pursuit. The Russian army was badly crippled and the Japanese were tired out. There are rumors of fighting at Mukden and it is possible that the Japs have forced Kuropatkin into another battle there: biit this Is not certain. ? The only negro company at Manassas is from Connecticut in com mand of a negro named Ross. Ross is the negro who gave out in an interview some days ago that he would exact the same respect from the white officers and men that are accorded by them to other whites. But Ross has not had the opportunity to carry out his intentions. He was placed at the extreme right of the line at Manassas, away from the balance of his regiment and has had but little opportunity to mix with whites from the north. ? Dallas, Texas, September 5: The several colonies of Guatemalan ants planted on the government's experimental farm on Washington Heights, in Williamston county, have mysteriously disappeared, whether from climatic or other causes is not known. The ants are destroyers of the boll weevil. Some objections were raised by farmdrs at the time concerning their introduction. Employes of the government farm are conducting investigations to try to learn the cause of the disappearance of the ants. ?Clergymen of Greater New York are still pouring hot shot into Bishop Potter on account of the subway tavern he has started. Rev. Charles A. White, a Primitive Methodist preacher, of Brooklyn, delivered himself thus in the course of an interview: "Today the churches declare that the liquor business is legal; that it is legal to fill a man with liatiid damnation and then send him home to throw his wife downstairs and break the bones of children; that it is legal to poison your boy and mine; that it is legal to send 28,000 men and women to untimely graves every year. Here Bishop Potter opens a hell hole with the doxology and the benediction." ? A party of professional cracksmen has been operating in this state for more than a year, and it is doubtful if they have been outside the state in that time. Periodically we read of a store, a postofflce or other place being entered and the safe cracked and robbed, and it is scarcely to be doubted that it is done by the same crowd every time. The richest haul it has made in North Carolina was at Yadkinville, Tuesday night, when it robbed the county treasurer of $8,000 or $10,000 and the postofflce of $300 or $400. In every case the gang conducts its operations undisturbed and escapes with its booty without difficulty. Notwithstanding the liberal reward offered by the treasurer, there is not one chance in ten thousand that these robbers will be apprehended. ? The weather bureau's crop summary for the week ending last Tuesday relates to cotton as follows: "A quite general deterioration in the con dition of cotton is indicated, although improvement is reported from limited areas, principally in the central districts. Rust and shedding continue very generally prevalent. Drought proved detrimental in Tennessee, and drought and heat in Oklahoma and Texas, although rains, too late to be beneficial, have fallen recently over a large part of the last named states, where boll weevils are destroying practically all new fruit, except in the north central counties. Damage by boll weevils in Louisiana is restricted to a few small areas. Cotton is opening rapidly throughout the cotton belt and picking is general except in the extreme northern portion." ? That Japan is preparing for a long war is evidenced by information which comes from a reliable source that the government is now busily engaged in preparing the territorial army for active service. The territorial army may be likened to the old-time general levy in the United States, and while it naturally will not be as effective as the army now in the field it means that next year Japan will be able again to put in the field more men than Russia is maintaining. The questions relating to the arming and mobilization of these men have already been worked out by the general staff, and should the necessity arise for sending another half million men to Manchuria, the men and their equipments will be ready. Opinion is divided here as to the outlook for peace. In some quarters it is believed Russia will ask for terms when Port Arthur falls and Kuropatkin is crushed. Others, and it must be said the latter are those better equipped to form a trustworthyopinion, believe at least another campaign will have to be fought before the czar will be willing to acknowledge himself beaten. ? New York Democrats say they are at work upon a more elaborate plan of organization up in this state than the party has had at any previous time in twenty years. This work is being done under the direction of Mr. William S. Rodie, who has as his aid Representative Francis Burton Harrison. The intention is to have ten or twelve men working in each of the 5,000 election districts in the state, which means a force of over 50,000. About $200 will be expended on an average in each of these election districts for printing, for meetings, and for taking two careful canvasses. The total expenses of the New York campaign, as mapped out by the Democrats, will be approximately $1,000,000. The first canvass is now well under way. The second canvass will be made simultaneously in nil the elpction districts of the state 'luring the closing week of October. By the early days of November the Democratic leaders will have a line on what each election district can be relied upon to do. ? The Imperial Valley is suffering from a plague of watermelons, says a Los Angeles, California dispatch. The domestic melon has escaped and is running wild over the ranches, the rank vines choking out wheat, barley and other crops, causing heavy losses on the great ranches. When the Im perial Canal brought water three years ago to a vast area of desert country some of the ranchers planted small patches of melons for family use. The seeds of these melons were scattered wide by the flooding of the lands in the progress of Irrigation, and they took root and bore fruit, most of which rotted on the vines, leaving large quantities of new seeds to float away to new territory. These melons have gone back to the wild state. While retaining the color and markings of the domestic melons, they have become the little, wild fruit from which the domestic melon was first bred, ranging in size rrom an appie iu a cocoar.ut. Though exceedingly small these wild melons are red, juicy and sweet as honey, excelling, if possible, the flavor of the garden melon. Bands of Yuma, Seri and Cocopah Indians have encamped in the region and are feasting upon the melons. They do not destroy the vines, but rather spread the plague by spreading the seed. Site fforlu'iUc (Snquircr. ? 7ORKVILLE, S. C.t FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9,1904. Mobi.ey and Earle are conducting their campaign principally through the newspapers. Mobley is publishing an endorsement from his friends and neighbors in Fairfield and Earle through his friends, is urging representation fbr the Piedmont. It is nip and tuck as to which will win. The Associated Press story that the members of the South Carolina regi ,5 ??? t.niihla i-in nfpftlint Of memo iiclva ?.*?? vawvsv*^. v.. ? contact with negro officers at Manassas has been emphatically denied in behalf of both regiments. So far as is known the South Carolina soldiers have not been in a position to salute negro officers. The Chinese have sent an army of 50,000 men into Manchuria under General Ma. and the presence of these troops is a source of no little uneasiness to the powers that are interested in holding the present quarrel down to Russia and Japan. It is feared that in undertaking to assert authority over that portion of Manchuria that has been reconquered from Russia by the Japs the Chinese may bring about complications that will make necessary the interference of the other powers. The Manufacturer's Record calls attention to the fact that Instead of coming to South Carolina and taking off his hat to General M. C. Butler, as he promised to do if the price of cotton remained up to 10 or 12 cents during the past season, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is in New England trying to make it square with the manufacturers who took his advice and waited for cheaper cotton, instead of taking the staple at a price that ensured a profit when they had the opportunity to do so. The first of the September elections which are generally taken as straws to show which way political sentiment is drifting was held in Vermont last Tuesday. The result was the election of the Republican candidate for governor by a plurality of about 31,000 votes. This shows losses for both the Democrats and Republicans as compared with four years ago; but heavier losses for the Democrats. The Republicans are undertaking to gain comfort from the returns; but the Democrats attach no significance to the situation, as Vermont is overwhelmingly Republican anyway and there is no possible hope in getting reasonable showing for the Democrats in such a state. The Defeated Candidate. A citizen of Spartanburg offers, through the News and Courier, the following good advice to defeated candidates: "All is not lost. Friends are left. Neighbors will still be kind and helpful. The wide world is open before you. There is much manly, honorable work outside of public offices. There are clean dollars to be gained by individual, unaided effort that will put you under obligation to no one. Hold up your heads, walk forth like free. Independent men, and with greater honors and more enlarged success and attain a higher manhood in a private station then you could have possibly achieved in the office you sought and failed to get." That is all sound and to the point. A' enoAQoo <C nroforflhlp to dp VI vuuiar, OUVW0O v.w. feat, and the man who succeeds will feel better than the one who is defeated. But all could not be elected, and the defeated candidate is still entitled to consideration at the hands of his fellow citizens. He wanted the office it is true, and placed himself in a position to be accepted or refused. There were hundreds of others who would have been glad to get these same offices: but who dared not ask for them. The man who wants an office and puts himself in a position to be elected or defeated, is certainly entitled to more consideration than the man who desires the office, but who at the same time is unwilling to risk the judgment of his fellow citizens. T.hk Right of Sblf-Govbrnmbnt. ?Senator Tillman has expressed himself on the Brice bill, and naturally enough he is against it. In an interview at Spartanburg he is quoted as saying that as an attack on the dispensary the original Brice bill is "an underhanded attempt at assassination," and no "honest man can support it." Reckless use of words has always heen the senator's stock in trade, and he has not rid himself of the habit. The Briee bill, however, is growing in popularity for the reason that the majority of the good people of South Carolina adhere to its basic principle ?local self-government. Dispensary or no dispensary, it is right for every ; county to say whether or not whisky j shall be sold In its borders.?Green- : ville Mountaineer. THIRD BATTLE OF MANASSAS. ' Soldiers at Play Where They Used to Fight. i When all the militia reached the ! battlefield of Manassas Monday, there were in the neighborhood of 26,000 men spread over two Virginia counties. A large number of regulars had already been located on the field, and they had done most of the expert work necessary to the proper location of camps, etc.: but still the newly arriving militia saw a little of something that was pretty nearly akin to war times. The Southern railroad, having to operate hundreds of trains on the occasion found difficulty in placing all the men just at the point where they were to be unloaded at the right time, and as a consequence there was more or less confusion. On top of this, also the commissary department lacked a great deal of efficient organization, and many of the men were pretty hungry before they could get anything to eat. It is reported that the First South Carolina regiment, or a part of it raided a supply establishment and cleaned up everything in sight. It is also stated that the government will settle with the owner for the damage occasioned in the raid and will deduct the amount of the bill from the wages of the soldiers. As soon as matters were gotten straightened out somewhat after the arrival of the militia, there was a lot of practice drilling during Monday, and IIIC tc?uiai liiauvcuvcio ucgau mviiuu; night at about midnight. According to the prearranged game, General Bell took about half the force and disposed it with a view to holding Thoroughfare Gap, while General Grant, with the other half of the force sought to drive General Bell back. General Bell's army is known as the "Browns" and General Grant's as the "Blues." There was a hard night and day's campaigning Tuesday morning and Tuesday, and before 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the two forces were peppering away at each other in lively rate both with small arms and artillery; but owing to confusion in lines and errors it was necessary to call off the game for a new start, and as to which side got the best of it the 1 umpires have hardly been able to figure out. The casualties are estimated to have been about 1,800 on each side; but the most severe probably was the wounding of one man in the lung by the 'wad from a blank cartridge. On Thursday morning the positions of the respective forces were reversed with the general result very much the same as on the day preceding. MATTERS IN GAFFNEY. Dispensary Election Petition Contains 1,200 Names?Capt. Ross Making a Good Thing of His Tin Mine. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. Gaffnby, September 9.?About 1,200 of the qualified voters of Cherokee county have up to this time signed the petition addressed to the county supervisor asking that an election be ordered at which the voters shall have the privilege of saying whether or not ; they desire to put the state, Including I themselves, out or tne wnisxy dusiness. There are not less than 2,500 : voters in the county. The emasculated > Brice bill provides that one-fourth the qualified voters shall sign a petition asking for an election before one shall be ordered, therefore, there can be little doubt of the fact that the election will be ordered, and at an early day. I have talked with several leading citizens of Gaffney during the past day or two relative to the proposed election, and each of them expressed the opinion that a large majority of the votes would be "no dispensary." Gaffney seems to be thoroughly convinced that "the dispensary law is the best solution of the whisky problem"?Nit! While the voters recognize that the principle in- i volved in the J-mill tax feature is tyrannical some of them claim that many of the property owners would vote to close the dispensaries in the county even though the whisky ring ( had made the penalty 1-mill and even more. It is thought that the election will be ordered during the next thirty days. 1 Captain Ross has recently shipped ( his second carload of tin ore to England to be smelted. There were about ! twenty tons and the net value, after I deducting all expenses, will be $500 , the ton, His net profit on the mine so far, notwithstanding the fact that no machinery has been employed in connection with the mining, and only i the crudest methods employed, is said to be about $20,000. There are a comparatively large number of York county people in Gaffney and they take a lively interest in happenings over there, and each seems to have a favorite in the primary election to come off Tuesday. Sam M. Grist. i ROCK HILL AND VICINITY. * The Proposed Library?Opening of the Graded School?Miscreants Rock a Train?Improvements at Ogden. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. * Rock Hill. September 9.?The mat- j ter of organizing a public library in Rock Hill is still being agitated. Those interested are working hard to decide on some plan and devise ways and means of carrying out the work. At , a meeting held Wednesday afternoon, it was decided to appoint a committee of four from each ward to canvass the '> city for the purpose of securing new members. The association will meet , again on the 21st Instant. Major A. H. Greene, the genial and 1 popular proprietor of the Carolina hotel, has been in very poor health for the past month. He left Wednesday evening, accompanied by Dr. T. A. Crawford for Baltimore, to enter Johns Hopkin's hospital for treatment. His condition is such as to cause much anxiety on the part of his many friends here, but it is hoped that he will be benefitted by his trip to Baltimore. A protracted meeting has been in progress at St. John's Methodist church since Monday. The pastor, Rev. W. T. Duncan, is being assisted in the work by the Rev. Peter Stokes. The services are well attended and much interest is manifested. The graded school opened for an other session's work Thursday morning. The entire faculty answered the roil call and quite a number of chil- I dren were also present. It is expect- i ed that the attendance will be larger ! this year than it has been any year in ' the past history of this flourishing < school. The improvements on the I building have not been completed yet, . and the fifth and sixth grades will occupy a vacant house near the school . building for a while. The mill schools i which are run in connection with the I graded school, also opened Thursday. < The fire alarm was sounded about 12 o'clock Thursday, caused by the explosion of a gasoline stove in the stove room of Mrs. Philip Taylor's residence on East Main street. The fire department responded promptly, but its services were hardly needed as the neighbors had about extinguished the flame by the time it arrived. The damage to the building is not very great. The north bound local passenger train due here at 6.20 p. m., was rocked Tuesday evening between Pineville and Charlotte, just after dark. One passenger was hit and slightly injur ea. miss cessie Minmsn 01 una was on board the train. The farmers of this section are quite busy pulling fodder and saving other feed stuffs. Cotton picking Is also in progress. Several bales of new cotton have already been sold on this market. The tendency seems to be to pick and market the staple as fast as it opens this fall. Considerable interest is excited over the special primary at this place today. and the regular second primary on next Tuesday. There will very likely be a fairly good vote cast at both elections. Rock Hill merchants are busy receiving and opening up new goods these days in anticipation of a good trade this fall. E. S. Workman of the Ogden section is very ill with typhoid fever. Mr. J. W. Scoggins, residing in the same section,- also has typhoid fever. Mr. W. H. Dunlap of Ogden has recently had his handsome residence painted which adds very materially to the comfort and appearance of the building. Mr. W. S. Percival has about completed a new residence for his mother, Mrs. Isabella Percival. The children's day picnic at Antloch church on last Saturday was largely attended and was quite an enjoyable occasion. The church was beautifully Hor>nrnt??d. Th??rp was an abundance of good things to eat, as there always is at such gatherings in that neighborhood. In addition to very interesting speeches by M. B. Jennings, Esq., of Yorkville, Hon. J. C. Wilborn of Rock Hill, and the pastor, Rev. W. H. Aria II, a beautiful program was carried out by the children of the Sunday school, who were trained and rehearsed for the occasion by Miss Posy Hardin, principal of the Ogden school, and other ladies of the neighborhood. 80UTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Two white men were arrested in Richland county last week on the charge of having voted twice in the primary election. ? Ex-Governor Evans who has just returned from New York tells the Spartanburg Journal that there is good reason to hope that the Democrats will carry the state. ? During an altercation in one of the beer dispensaries at Greenville last Tuesday, Emery Granby struck Otto Mace in the head with a beer bottle. Concussion of the brain developed and Mace died on Thursday. ? Wateree Messenger: Some people in Camden are perpetrating a high crime against this community, whether through thoughtlessness or viciousness. A number of dogs, very much valued by their owners, have been poisoned within the past few nights. This act deserves condemnation even should it eo no further, but throwing poisoned food into the yards It might be picked up by some little child, not old enough to discriminate against such food, who would eat it and be killed. ? Carolina Spartan: Stealing is the order of the day. Mitch Thomson, a driver for the wholesale house of Fielder & Brown has been a regular customer at their store. He has systematically taken out goods, which were turned over to a female friend, who in turn supplied" a small negro store In the country. He has been caught in his mercantile operations. Last Tuesday night while Marvin M. Boyd was down town waiting for election returns, his house was robbed. Every trunk, room closet and drawer was searched. All valuable silverware was carried away. His loss is $200 to $300. His family was absent In Landrum. ? Anderson Intelligencer: The immigration bureau, under the energetic and intelligent direction of Commissioner Watson, is just getting started In its good work. Last week we chronicled the sale, through his efforts, of 10,000 acres of land in Lexington county to a colony of Scandinavian truck farmers, who will bring $130,000 to invest in South Carolina. Last week Commissioner Watson closed a trade with the representative of another colony of Scandinavians who purchased 25,000 acres of land in Aiken county. This last deal represents over $200,000. These Scandlna vians are an Intelligent, industrious people, and we would be more than pleased to see several thousand more of them settle in South Carolina, MERE-MENTION. As a result of the coroner's Inquest over the body of Mrs. Samuel McCue of Charlottesville, Va., who was thought to have been killed by a burglar last Sunday night, Samuel McCue. the husband of the woman, was arrested Wednesday on the charge of her premeditated murder Ex-Governor Bob Taylor of Tennessee was married to Miss Mary St. John of Chilhowie, Va., Wednesday. This is Gov. Taylor's third marriage Two men were killed, three injured and thirty-five cars demolished in a freight wreck which occurred on the Horseshoe curve of the Pennsylvania railroad near Altoona, Penn., Wednesday. Robbers entered the postofflce of Greenville, Tenn., Wednesday, blew open the safe with nltro-glycerine, and secured $50 in cash and $150 in stamps... .Five white men were con victea 01 Deing participants in me muu which attempted to lynch Roy Seals, a negro murderer, at Danville, Va., several weeks ago, and were fined $50 and one day's imprisonment Six masked men entered the office of the High Valley Trading company at Lansdale, Pa., Tuesday, and beat and gagged four employes, then blew open a safe and escaped with $800....An army of 4,000 revolutionists were defeated and driven over the Brazilian frontier by the government troops under General Varquez Tuesday.. .James Archer, the most famous English portrait painter, died in London Tuesday. ...A party of bandits held up a caravan near Tangier, Morocco, Tuesday, and secured nearly $30,000 in money Burglars blew open the safe in the Yadkin, North Carolina, county treasurer's office Wednesday night, and secured between $4,000 and $8,000 Durham White Stevens of Ohio, has been appointed legal advisor to the Korean empire, and will leave for that country October 2 The Vermont state election Tuesday, was a sweeping victory for the Republicans. C. M. Daniels of the New York Athletic club, broke all known swim 1 ? 1 OOA xrr-. rHc miiiK rtrcurus uy ?\\ imiiiiiig jmuIn two minutes .forty-four and one-fifth seconds, in the Olympic championship swim at St. Louis Wednesday The great stock yard strike was officially declared off last night by President Michael J. Donnelly of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of America... .The American Cotton company, owning 200 cotton ginning and compress plants has been placed in the hands of receivers. LOCAL AFFAIRS, i ? NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. e Robt. C. and J. Lean Adams?Give no- r tlce that they have sold out their f branch store, known as the Clover j Drug Co., to Dr. I. J. Campbell and 1 A. M. Barnett. J. E. Lowry, Mayor?Publishes an or- f dlnance relating to the manufacture j of brick, etc., In the town of York- ( vllle. ? J. P. White, Pres. Board of Health? i Publishes a health rule relating to , the digging of pits within the town J limits of Yorkvllle. First National Bank?Prints a statement of the condition of its business at the close of business September 6th, 1904. Opera House?The Delmar Vaudeville , company will be presented tomorrow evening. Seats are now on , sale. , Ferguson & Clinton?Have a fresh supply of choice hams that are < sweet and juicy. ( Strauss-Smith Co.?Tell its friends and customers that their buyers ( are in the northern markets buying > new goods for the fall and winter j trade. Riddle & Carroll?Call your attention , to the fact that they have a car- j load of the best quality of fertill- , zers for wheat and oats. I Loan and Savings Bank?Tells you what to consider when selecting a , bank. It solicits your busines. , Foushee Cash Store?Advertises a , special "lucky 9" sale of school sup- { piles beginning at 9 o'clock next s Monday morning. BROWN AND PLEXICO. The special primary held today to ( determine whether Mr. Hugh G. Brown I or Mr. S. S. Plexlco should go into the second race for sheriff with Capt. , E. A. Crawford, resulted in favor of Mr. Brown. The figures from the va- ' rious precincts which were easily col- j leeted by telephone within an hour ninoo nf tho noils were as 11 follows: * " " i: it c I I ^ ' 0 o 1 o 1 x PRECINCTS. ! H r ' I w i ? .. U M , l K 03 1 Bethel ~ 45 3 Bethany 134 3 Blairsvllle 5 58 Bullock's Creek 1 40 Clover 165 14 Coates's Tavern 2 28 Piedmont' 25 7 Ebenezer 5 27 , Fort Mill 122 46 Forest Hill 12 3 Hickory Grove 48 61 McConnellsville 13 28 Newport 11 13 Ogden 26 15 Rock Hill No. 1 13 302 : Rock Hill No. 2 14 203 Sharon 13 55 Smyrna 65 2 J Tlrzah 26 9 Yorkville No. 1 234 42 Yorkville No. 2 130 44 Total ||1109|1003 ! THE SECOND PRIMARY. There is conflicting opinion as to , the probable size of the vote In the I second primary of next Tuesday, some 1 thinking- it will be small while others 1 think it will not fall very far short i of the vote in the first primary. The ? history of second primaries up to this ' time, however, is large polls. < The second race for railroad com- I mlssioner is to be between Mobley and 1 Earle. According to the official re- ( turns, the vote received by each in | the first primary was as follows Mobley 23,213 Earle 21.221 j The second races for county offices | are to be between Tate and Wylie for j clerk, Hunter and Williams for auditor 1 and Crawford and Brown for sheriff. ] The vote for Tate and Wylie in the first primary was: . Tate 1,159 1 Wylie 995 1 For Hunter and Williams the vote | stood: 1 Hunter 1,424 1 Williams 1,274 ( For Crawford and Brown the vote J stood: i Crawford 708 Brown 565 | This is the second second race be- ; tween Messrs. Tate and Wylie. In the ] first primary of four years ago Tate re- 1 ceived 744 votes and Wylie received ' 1.136. In the second primary Tate , received 1.452 and Wylie received i 1,502. I DEATH OF MRS. R. L. FERGUSON, j Mrs. Rhoda L. Ferguson died at the ' home of her son. Mr. W. E. Ferguson j In Yorkville last Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock, after a long and tedious j illness. j Mrs. Ferguson was the second daughter of the late John E. Grist. ] She was born in Yorkville on January < 15, 1842, and in 1859 was married to 1 John G. Ferguson, a former highly es- ' teemed citizen of this place, who died ' in the early '90's, after a well spent 1 and useful life. ' ( Mrs. Ferguson was a woman of fine 1 Intelligence, strong character, lots of ( energy, and very industrious. She < was a practical Christian in her daily ' walk, a never failing friend in need, and had hosts of friends who appreciated her at her true worth, and who will miss her most sorely. , She leaves eight living children, three sons and five daughters, all married. The sons are Messrs. W. E. ' J. M. and L. G. Ferguson, and the i daughters are Mrs. T. N. Thomasson, Mrs. D. C. Clark, Mrs. R. F. Smith, ( Mrs. I,ewis G. Grist and Mrs. R. B. McClain. Funeral services were commenced at the residence by the Rev. W. E. Hurt, ; of the Baptist church, of which the ' deceased was a member, and concluded at the Yorkville cemetery, where the interment took place. A large 1 concourse of friends and relatives followed the coffin to the grave and re-,| j mained until after the preacher's nnai benediction. NOTE AND COMMENT. PeopJe Tiving on the Lincoln road are complaining loudly of the condition of the Fishing Creek hill. The road is sloughing off in a deep ditch on the side and is threatening danger. Mr. C. H. Smith is showing some very fine white corn that has been developed from a yellow variety during the course of several years. Each of the stalks he exhibited had two ears, and he says some have four. An analysis of the vote in the Fifth congressional district shows that while Congressman Finley gets a good divide of the town vote his strength at the country boxes in purely agricultural sections is overwhelming. The Presbyterial High school at Bethany, Prof. J. D. Huggins principal, opened last Monday with a good attendance. The prospects of the school, under the exceptional management of Prof. Huggins, continue to grow brighter and brighter. The Enquirer is very much disap pointed at Major Hart's inability to ret off to Manassas. We have no ioubt that our readers are disappolnt;d and we are quite sure that the najor is in the same class. His proessional engagements have been mch however, that he has found it mpossible to go. The people along Catawba river 'rom the dam to the North Carolina ine have suffered considerably from :hllls and fever since early in the lummer. Some of them have found t desirable to move out from the riv;r to higher ground. There is a comnon impression that the back water s the cause of the trouble. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? ousiness aim proiessionai men are ixpected to go to school next Monday. ? The Delmar Vaudeville company ivlll be at the opera house tomorrow light. ? Of course all the children will be out next Monday, and as many as can will bring their parents along. ? Everybody is expected at the graded school next Monday morning. The new teachers would like to know for whom they are to work. ? It will be ten days or two weeks yet before the cotton market begins to get busy. A few straggling bales of cotton are coming in; but cotton is .opening slowly. ? Of seven men standing at the court house corner Wednesday, three declared themselves for Mobley for railroad commissioner and three declared themselves for Earle. The seventh remained non-committal. ? The children start to school next Monday and the superintendent and trustees hope to see the patrons of the school generally present on the opening day. A good start will give lots of encouragement to all concerned. ?Mr. Glenn Allison has handed The Enquirer a copy of the Pioneer and South Carolina Whig, published in Yorkvllle in 1832 by N. M. Folkes. This particular copy is dated July 7, and the greater part of It devoted to the reproduction of a speech by Mr. McDuffle of South Carolina, "on the bill proposing the reduction of duties on Imports." ? The Brown-Plexlco election has proven quite interesting at the Yorkvllle boxes today, the voting being quite as heavy as could have been expected under the circumstances. The country people came In, voted and returned to their homes. The employes - XI xr^?l. UI11 Iranir LIL LUC I VI IV V^UIIUH mill luicu ivi; nearly their full strength. They were brought to the polls In hacks hired for the purpose by friends of the respective candidates. THE CATAWBA DAM CASE. The county board of commissioners Is still wrestling with the problem of building a bridge over the mouth of Allison creek, where that stream empties into Catawba river, and it will have to be confessed that the question presents difficulties. Previous to the building of the dam of the Catawba Power company, the county had a very good bridge over Allison creek. It was, however, subject to overflow in times of high water either in the creek or river. The building of the dam backed water from the river up the creek and made the bridge useless, at any time, and here is the trouble. The power company concedes that is in a large measure responsible for the situation and is willing to pay a part of the expense of a new bridge. The commissioners are not disposed to ask the. power company to assume all the expense of correcting the situation It has brought about; but are in doubt els to just how much of the expense should be assumed by the county. rr*1 ?"">0 ItnAaK r>r\ *"? Q I r\ CX V a f I n n XI1C IIIO.ll.CI nao UIWI >.v<uivv._..... the greater part of last Wednesday, and there were present a number of citizens from both sides of the-creek asking that . something be done. They represented that they were being very much inconvenienced. Some from the north side of the creek testified that the absence of the bridge caused them to travel from two to five miles out of the way to reach Rock Hill, and some from the south side represented that they were being inconvenienced in getting to and from their plantations, etc. Others complained because of the difficulty of getting to and from church, and one man estimated that the value of some of the land in the vicinity is being affected at the rate of $2 an acre. The power company, through Mr. W. H. Wylle, ofTers to pay threefourths the cost of a first-class wooden bridge provided the county will pay the other fourth and keep the bridge up afterward. For want of a full meeting of the board, Capt. E. A. Crawford being absent In the interest of his candidacy for sheriff, it was iecided to postpone a final determination until next Wednesday, when it is understood that the board will submit a proposition for the acceptance or rejection. of the power company, [f the power cbmpany accepts such proposition then the bridge will be built forthwith; otherwise the probability is that the matter will have to be settled in the courts. Among the people especially concerned who came before the board in regard to the matter were the following: G. L. Suggs, W. O. Youngblood, I. W. Lilly, T. M. Martin, J. B. Bigger, R. H. Hawkins, C. C. Blalock, D. C. Boyd, Wm. Boyd, Campbell Harper, r nfnoJ T T ITorla M FariS. S. S. Fari"s,"jT W. Simrll", ~A. A." Barron, 9. W. Barron, W. W. Auten. "What we are after," said Mr. J. W. Simril, discussing the matter In the presence of the reporter "Is a bridge. We are not concerned as to who shall build it. Of course, we understand that there are some equities in the matter; but with these we have nothing to do. It Is not within our power to settle them. We want to get across the creek, and we are looking to the county board of commissioners to proride the means. Whether the power company builds or the county builds 3r they build jointly, is not for us to iecide. But we do want a bridge." ABOUT PEOPLE. Miss Minnie Wilson of Rock Hill, is risking Miss Helen Lowry. Miss Marie Crosby of Sharon, is the gtuest of Mrs. W. R. Carroll. Miss Lilly Sadler of Rock Hill, Is risiting Miss Marian Logan. Mr. Raymond McClain of Camden, spent several days in Yorkville this ?veek. Mr. J. B. Pegram has returned from several days' stay at Cleveland Springs. Mrs. Fannie Morrow of Gastonia, is the guest of Mr. D. T. Woods and .'amily. Mr. H. F. Adickes of Raleigh, N. C.. s in Yorkville on account of the criteal illness of his mother. Mr. W. H. Herndon returned yesterday from a pleasant visit to rela? 3 in lives cilia intrnuo m ? nbi.i.?. Mr. Starr M. Mason of Charleston, s in Yorkville on a visit to his mother, Mrs. Mary S. Mason and other relitives. Messrs. W. O. Harshaw and Dan VIoore of the Delphos neighborhood, lave positions with the Strauss-Smith ompany. The following young gentlemen of fork county have won scholarships at Jlemson: W. J. Roach, T. G. Hope, L. 3. Brandon, E. A. Crawford. Mrs. Mary W. Adlckes Is critically 11 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. IV. B. Moore. The end has been exacted at almost any moment during leveral days past. Mrs. Adlckes is the vidow of the late H. F. Adlckes, fornerly of Yorkville, and is now 83 'e;Ws of age. "Rev. Oliver Johnson of South Carilina has been presented by Mrs. Adeline McGuiggan of this city, widiw of Arthur J. McGuiggan, with a 10 note which was Issued In 1853 by he Planters' bank of Fairfield, at Ylnnsboro, S. C.," says the Washingon Post. "This note, which Mrs. Mc Guiggan has had for 43 years, bears the signature of Henry Laurens Elliott. as cashier. The note was of special interest to Mr. Johnson, because his wife, formerly Miss Christine Elliott of Winnsboro, is the youngest child of the man, now 20 years dead, whose autograph appears on It The note was paid to Mr. McGuiggan, who was a newspaper man, for work done on the old Charleston Mercury. After the fall of Fort Sumter Mr. McGuiggan went to Richmond where he 1 a it ri i a TM??A?Ak worneu uii me niuiiiuuitu and it was in that city, in August, 1861, that he gave the note, along with some other currency of that day, to his wife, who had been a Ho wed by special passport from Gen, Scott of the .United States army to go from this city to visit her husband at Richmond. Of the currency given to her. by her husband at that time, Mrs. McGuiggan still has a $5 note Issued by the Bank of Wilmington, N. C.. in 1856" WRECK ON THE Q. C. & N. Four persons killed outright and thirty-two injured was the result of train No. 41, of the Seaboard Air Line, leaving a trestle three miles north of Ca _iwba Junction, one and one half miles from Van Wyck, at 1 o'clock this morning. The train was in charge of Conductor R. T. West and Engineer Gaston Maers, both of Monroe, and consisted of two day coaches, a mall car, an express car and a sleeper. The news of the wreck reached Yorkvllle early this morning, but nothing definite could be ascertained by telephone or otherwise, and a reporter for The Enquirer hurried to the scene. When he reached there, the dead and injured had been removed to Monroe, N. C., on a relief train that had been hurried forward at once in charge of Drs. Stewart, J. M. Blair and J. A. Monroe of that place. From an eyewitness who was at the scene a short time after the wreck, The Enquirer reporter gleaned the following: Train 41 went through Van Wyck at 12.68 on time, and just before train 19 came in sight, he heard a crash in the direction of the trestle and fearing something was wrong went for a. lantern to hold No. 19 up. No. 19 consisted of an engine and a caboose, and was running sir minutes behind the passenger. When he returned with the lantern, No. 19 had also gone to destruction. On train No. 41 were forty-two people and those killed were: Mrs. Roddey Black of Kentucky. Mrs. ? ? Clayton of Wilmington, N. C. . Edward Roberts, fireman of 41, of Portsmouth, Va. Thirty people on train 41, including the train crews were injured more or less. Those on the sleeper, several in number, and Pullman Conductor Tanner, and Pink Carpenter, porter, escaped with very slight bruises. On train 19, which crashed into No. 519 day coach on train 41, killing Mrs. Clayton and Mrs. Black, Engineer Eld- v ward Barksdale of Monroe, was killed . ' outright, and Fireman Tom Jefferson, colored, was seriously, If not mortally ." injured. Henly Chapman, conductor ' on No. 19, was mortally injured, and Flagman J. W. Duncan, seriously. The injured, so far as' the reporter could learn, are as follows: Mr. T. C. Jerome, Atlanta, Ga., slight. Mrs. T. C. Jerome, Atlanta, Ga., shoulder crushed. Mr. J. C. Clabley, Portsmouth, Va., slight. Mrs. J. C. Clabley, Portsmouth, Va., serious. Mrs. Jerome SUvey, Atlanta, Ga., left leg crushed. W. J. Duncan, flagman on 19, serlI mislv Inlnrpd?mav die. Mrs. Herbert, Maton, Fla., serious. Dr. Banks, Athens, Gai.,- serious? may die. G. H. Davis, Atlanta, slight. W. H. Falrman, Athens, Ga.. slight Train 41 was making good time through Van Wyck, and 96 feet from the end of the trestle, southward, it struck a rail that was minus a fish plate and bolts, leaving a suspicion in the minds of the wrecking crew and Trainmaster Gore of the second division, that an attempt was made to wreck the train. The train after striking this rail, rode the sleepers to the end of the trestle, and then went' t down the right bank or slope and j turned the train completely on' Its '4 1 side. The engine on 41 had the steam j throttle shut, and the air brake lever j thrown in, showing conclusively that Engineer Maers endeavored to stop the' train. On No. 19, both throttle and air brake were wide open, showing that death overtook Engineer Barksdale before he could act. His train rode over the break in the trestle and mounted the passenger coaches, digging its head into day coach No. S19, and Mrs. Black was Instantly killed. She was going to Atlanta, with her husband to give testimony In a railroad case. Those of the passengers who escaped serious injury hurried back to warn the approaching special, but It crashed into the derailed train before any action could be taken. The entire train was completely de molished, the engine or n navnig caught fire, and at 2.07, when the reporter left the scene, engine 654 was still smoking. 4 Waverly Falrman, the railway mall clerk, said that he was sorting mail at his table when the crash came. He was thrown in the air and caught a frame he hung mail bags on, and when his coach tipped over he was thrown into a corner and a forty pound iron box fell on his back. His lamp exploded and set fire to some papers, and after some hard work he succeeded in putting the blaze out. He said he lost many letters, as the windows broke as soon as the car tipped over, and many letters went through. Express Agent Davis of the Southern Express company, was getting some baggage in shape to put oft at the next stop, when he felt the car going over the ties. He tried to brace himself, -J -- I"'""' wont tO the anu us nit? v.ai uppvu v*v* ? floor with a heavy trunk pinning him down. He succeeded in freeing himself when he heard a voice call "For God's sake run?another train is coming." He got out and made for a sorghum . patch on this side of the trestle, when No. 19 crashed into the regular. He returned and saw Mr. J. C. Black looking into the day coach with a lighted match, and it is presumed he saw his wife, because he turned and said, "She's dead!" Mr. Black then began running and arriving at Catawba Junction sent the