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Scraps aud f act*. ? No extraordinary* salon of congress will be held nt spring for a revision of the tariff That has been decided definitely, i question of an extraordinary sessionext fall is in abeyance. Preslden Roosevelt announced this decla to several of his callers last Safiay. The president said he had jlndoned any idea of convening conjs In the spring, as it did not stj practicable to hold a session fiariff revision at that time. He jicated, however, that he might cd session for next fall, although n&olute determination of that poiAs yet been reached. f * ?*?j-i~? The principle"1 wueuuim the senate durfhe present week Is the taking of f ote on the Philippine civil govfnt bill next Friday at 3 o'clock. MM remains the unfinished buBirfof the senate until that date, an/will have preference over all othc^tions in the matter of debate ea/^ after two o'clock. Many Demod senators are opposed to the billtlthe best information obUkiaa&le q there will be no gen -1 erairdebttl>^ .Philippine questions4 tb? passage of the V1 *L T?cluB,on- They I will **otf 9ttorta to eaourlng a modlicat\iv n?lon? which they I* aJlally/obnoxious. giving LDpnf' fcn ? k?n<* I ^rfflll^u^*P"Varllla, who befor?'t>efT^Bter^ ot Panama to Wjpbin/a* tbe principal engin-1 0f Jama canal, gives an unanthoslten ,ew relative to thel betidi^ canal at sea level. AcBunau-Varilla, the con- I 4^E^cJthe canal at sea level is I Jssihle,l>ut it must ulti-l JnateP constructed, as are oth- j ttr coF* between oceans, like the /gtraJ Bosphorus between thel J Blacr1^ the Aegean sea. He. /; howfinkt would be a great /~ "er?r n 8ea 'eve' P'4111 /' JfFflt would cost 3100,000.00' I i jjj^Wuire twjfe as much time," g; h .Tie ledfplan will be amply m simL^tf tra?c reaches 40,-1 a o18 to say> seven I tL IV* traffic In the first / will lead by ex- I / UjfTW secure ways to an j ?f a ??a lev?l passage." i / llgton. December 9: The re/ Jwhe cotimtesioner of internal, f rr^0WB tbat tie cigarette habit / It tiling, and during the / ~i/*ar bwo hundred million w leads sttes, ;ntly I by the % to ning :tlve used lors, port 1 on > the mlsthe veet >ver pere flfrhis lion lour jriJigSjljffl gone Mgjipiii;' ^^^MTTountles mates are Roosevelt 2,546,169. ever given States, 1 400.000 in tof McKln" with the "w^*ISli$^^?v shows a CT[tefl@lp^^^B^^gKi.'i:-:^^^^^^poclall8t vote. WfefflSMfflEflMBaKjtffla^^ party that lf^'l?%S?Boate this year lncrease of j r"" t*ie ^>op* nwli^BiinKmP'*3proBH^'fa strongest in his HMt where he received in^BrSnMrf^r^jB^M^ >'j^yo.elve3 most of his 4^B and west, but only In South Caro;-:^^?te is given as: 13,r each of the pres''"M to given as follows: Parker osoc.) 392.857; 248,411; Watson and Corregan, (Soc. The electoral vote will ftooeeyelt and 140 for ParT. Bbckwlth, president of the SbkBSmhIII"*' Clt'*en'* National Bank of ^MwBrTi!Wffi^Pn, Ohio, has turned over to the ^nffip^l/' authorities a written statemmmtw itfjfc circumstances under I pemBap^^echi he*Svas Induced to lend Mrs. L. Chadwick sums of money MBftKH^^^^fcregatlpg more than the bank's capstock. The statement is to the that Mr* Chadwick showed ^P^^^S^Bnlm a paper slgnsd by Andrew CarJjjjmnegle, and .acknowledging that Carnegieneld In,tr(ist for Mrs. Chadwick securities'to the value of $10,246,000. There fveno also certain notes signed f:'W 'iy Mr- <-'?niagle and payable to Mrs.[| PChadwlc^. lirs. Chadwick put up tne note? as security for the loans she wanted, and promised to turn over to the president and cashier of the bank the management of a >5,000,000 estate. The understanding was that Beckwith and Spear,\hls cashier, were to get >10,000 a year the estate. us wherT paid The' trifsteesh^^^^^^^Jged 000 estate waff^^^^^^Bnmenced on July 1, 1903; date arrived, the transn^^^^uabeeship had to be postponed-l^mT-white until the trustee then in ch&rae, could get matters In shape to turn over. The alleged estate was entirely fictitious. ? Dispatches of the past few days I tell of the complete destruction of the i Russian fleet in Port Arthur as the result of furious bombardment by the Japanese. The terrible assaults by the 1 Japanese on the forts guarding Port ; Arthur finally yielded a point of vant- l age from which the ships in the har- ] bor could be bombarded, and the Jap- 1 anese lost no time in carrying out < the work of destruction. Some of the c Russian ships were completely de- 1 stroyed. In the case of otters the < Russians foreseeing the resqtykopened t tfc* seacocks and allowed- tl?b.-ships ( to sink beyond the reach of the Ja- \ panese shells. Now that the ^hips in \ the harbor have been destroyed, there > is no longer any fear from the Japan- 1 ese because of the coming of the Bui- i tic fleet. The Baltic fleet combined i with what was left of the Port Arthur 1 fleet would have been too strong for ] \ the Japanese fleet; but the Japanese consider that they are very well able to take charge of the Baltic fleet on Its arrival provided It Is not accompanied by the Black Sea fleet. It is reported that the czar has offered to remit the remainder of the big debt that Turkey owes Russia, If the sultan will permit the Black Sea fleet to pass the Dardanelles; but it is claimed that the sultan has assured Great Britain that he will do nothing of the kind. She \lorkvtlk (Inquirer. TORKVILLE, 8. C.t TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13,1904. When It comes to dealing with the state dispensary, some of the avowed opponents of that Institution are "Just as easy." Cotton growers must organize If they would protect themselves: but * * ? *??* If thalr or tney snouia rcmcmuci . ....... ? ganlzation is to be a success It must be under the direction of true and tried business men. Southern towns that are so anxious for a visit from President Roosevelt would do well to remember Charleston. After partaking of the hospitalities of that city, the president went back to Washington and appointed a negro collector. A Washington dispatch says that Senator Latimer has given up all hope of the passage of his good roads bill at the present session of congress, but really nobody has ever expected the bill to pass at any time. The idea is all right; but congress is not going to appropriate so much money for such direct practical benefit. President Harvie Jordan, of the Southern Cotton Growers' Protective association has Issued a call for mass meetings to be held on December 17 in every county of the cotton growing states east of the Mississippi river for the purpose of formulating plans to hold back from the market between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 bales of cotton until the price reaches 10 cents a pound. Superintendent of Education Martin has created quite a big stir with his recommendation for the abolition of the Citadel. The Charleston people, of course, do not want anything of the kind and ttie proposition will be opposed by all the Citadel graduates of the state. As we see it there is Just as good reason for the continuance of the Citadel as there is for the South Carolina college, and if one is to be abolished, it will be Ju3t as well to abolish both, and look to Clemson to continue the work they are doing. The raising 01 me si'umem sentatlon question, It is said, has for Its principal object the diversion of northern public attention from the trust question. Just what the truth Is, can only be surmised; bat it is claimed that the president is really in earnest In his professions of hostility to lawbreaklng trusts, and he Intends to convince the country of his sincerity. Southern representation has suggested itself to old line schemer s as an Issue that Is likely to overshadow Interest In the trust question. Dispatches of the past few days, however, seem to Indicate that the president refuses to be side-tracked and the probability Is that no serious effort will be made at this session of congress to reduce southern representation. - ?- ' While The Enquirer Is anxious to see the South Carolina dispensary abolished, it is frank enough to admit that It sees but little promise of such a consummation In the Immediate future. The dispensary, in the opinion of The Enquirer, Is the most firmly established institution in the state. There is lots of talk, it is true; but the people who have been getting the motorl'il lionofit rut t of the dis pensary, have become strongly entrenched In their position and they are not going to give up without a fight. There is good reason to believe that the dispensary board Is a most powerful factor in the shaping of the legislation of the state, and to loosen Its grip without a general upheaval falling little short of a revolution will be well nigh impossible. The case of T. B. Lee. Jr., plaintiff in error against H. S. Robinson, defendant in error, was r.rgued before the United States supreme court last Wednesday. W. H. Lyles for the plalntlfT. and D. W. Robinson, for the defendant. This case involves the validity of the Blue Ridge script. The sheriff of Fairfield county levied on lands belonging to Lee. under a tax execution. Lee tendered part money and part Blue Ridge bond script, which the sheriff refused to accept. H. S. Robinson took the land under the sheriff's deed. The matter was gotten before Judge Simonton and he decided the question on a technicality in favor of the sheriff. Now, it is thought that the matter Is squarely before the supreme court on Its merits. The outside Impression is that the suit is really a friendly one as between Lee and Robinson, both sides being desirous of having the validity of the bond script upheld; but Mr. vVm. Elliott has been allowed to intervene against validity. On Its face the bond script is receivable for taxes and if the supreme court upholds its validity, the 3tate will lose a large sum of money. The Columbia State has been reluctantly forced to admit by indirection, tt least, that The Enquirer is a repu:able newspaper, and while we are all puffed up at the compliment that has peen wrung from our good friend in Columbia, we shall not forget to make lue acknowledgement of the kind ofIces of the Newberry Observer. It ?ame about in this way. It occurred o the Spartanburg Journal that the State formorly the mont /igihint vedette on the outposts, had >egun to nod, and under the impression that the Journal was, more than lalf right. Thk ExqI'IKKR sought to issist itt the awakening. Only the ?entlest of means were employed but :he result was something of a surprise, in that for their trouble the Journal and The Enquirer found turned on themselves that waspish sting which their most trusted vedette had formerly been accustomed to employ only against the enemy. Verily it began to look as if there was treachery: but the idea was rather too horrible to be entertained, and the nodding offender In view of past valiant services, was dismissed with a lecture. Then, sorrowfully we relate It, the unrepentant offender defiantly declared the existence of a truce with the Richland Distillery division of the enemy's forces, and when The Enquires showed It that this was equivalent to an understanding with the commander in chief, it became sulky and refused to say more. This sulky spell continued until yesterday when, after explaining that the Newberry Observer, a "reputable" paper considered its position of doubtful tenabillty it again proceeded forthwith to try to obscure itself under another cloud of dust. But this reputabillty business. That's good isn't it? We are not surprised at any paper in the state, much iooq ?h# Wewherrv Observer, being able to appreciate The Enquirer's logic; but if It were not restrained by proprieties it has never been known to violate, it would be rich to have from the Newberry Observer a full expression as to what it thinks of the endorsement It has Just received at the hands of the Columbia State. The Cotton Situation. There is no question of the fact that the cotton producers of the south have within the past ten years, learned more about the conditions that affect the value of their great money crop than they ever knew before; but the problem as to how to turn that knowledge to practical account remains to be solved. The most important fact that has been developed in connection with the ruling price for cotton, is that a small crop brings more money in the aggregate than a large one, and with this fact established, it would seem that there is no need to look further for a correct basis of action. By way of illustration, we will call attention to the fact that if legitimate requirements call for eleven million bales, and the south raises only ten million bales, there is no reasonable limit to the market price. We had a demonstration of this last year when there was a Jump from 9 cents to 16 cents, with bright prospects of 20 cents. We are now confronted with the other side of the situation. Ten days ago, It looked as if the production promised only a few hundred thousand bales in excess of consumption, and the price stood reasonably firm at about 9 cents. Then came the government report indicating that the production was a million bales in excess of probable consumption, and prices went tumbling toward 7 cents with no guarantee that they would stop at that point. In this state of facts, and we do not think anybody will seriously question their approximate correctness, the only thing that stands in the way of a complete remedy to the misfortune that is constantly bearing down on the south is ability to apply- that remedy. And in view of the repeated costly lessons we have had along this line, there should no longer be any serious difficulties in the way of developing this ability. The dispatches of a few days ago told of a proposition that has Just been made by Alabama farmers to Durn a million bales of cotton. They argue that with a million bales of cotton burned, the remainder of the crop would be worth more money, and would bring more money than would the whole crop under existing conditions. The average mind will be slow to grasp the sound sense In this proposition; but that the proposition Is certainly sensible, there Is no reasonable question. It is not only sensible but it is practicable. Say for Instance that a 12,000,000 bale crop is worth 7 cents a pound and that an 11,000.000 bale crop Is worth 12 cents a pound. The price of cotton is now based on a 12,000,000 bale crop. Suppose through organized effort southern farmers and others would go on the market, buy three million bales of cotton at 7 cents and then burn one third of It, the result would be a profit rather than a loss. Three million bales at 7 cents would cost $105,000,000, and two million bales at 12 cents would be worth $120,000,000 a clear profit of $15,000,000. As practicable as this plan is, there are insurmountable difficulties In the way of its execution; but the same end may be attained without resort to such a heroic remedy, if the farmers and business people of the south will Just center upon proper leadership. Nobody is going to pay very much attention to men like Harvie Jordan, for instance. We mean no reflection upon Mr. Jordan; but he is more of a theorizer and notoriety seeker than he Is a business man. Then suppose the south should look to a man like Mr. Frank B. Hayne of New Orleans, who probably did more than anybody else to make cotton bring Its value two years ago, and who very probably started the present era of prosperity in the south. Mr. Hayne is more than a mere speculator. He has proved the fact. He is a broad business man who has the interest of the south at heart, and who is capable, with proper backing. of making the world pay the south for her cotton every cent it is worth. Then let the south form a thorough organization, headed by a leader like this, with power to say when cotton shall be marketed and in what quantity, and how much shall be planted, and not only will the bears of Wall street have to go into other lines of business; but the south will draw from all the world an annual tribute that will be limited only by her own sense of moderation. What to Do With It. The following from the Spartanburg T 1 ? 1 !? JUUl imi ui oaiui uaj 10 an i v|/ij w what The Enquirer had to say about the Brlce bill In Its last issue: The way to abolish the dispensary is to abolish it and the place to start is at the top. Smash the big central dispensary at Columbia and the state board of directors with one fell swoop and then give any county the right to establish a county dispensary, or to issue licenses to private parties to sell whisky on the dispensary plan or to establish prohibition by having neither dispensary nor high license. The privilege of the counties to vote out the dispensary under the Brice bill is heavily handicapped not only by the penalties imposed, but by the fact that the state remains in the whisky business. Every county that votes for prohibition only makes it more difficult to get others to do so as the partnership in the big central distillery becomes smaller and more exclusive and the profit to those who remain greater. The profits of the Spartanburg dispensaries are much greater by reason of the abolishment of the dispensary In the neighboring county of Cherokee. It becomes Just so much harder to get the people of this county to vote out the dispensary. This snows the weakness of the Brice bill. If Greenville county should vote out the dispensary, Spartanburg's profits would be still further Increased and the same effect would be seen If Union and Laurens should vote out the dispensary. Every county that votes It out makes the dispensary Just so much stronger In the remaining counties. Those who are against the dispensary should be in favor of its complete abolishment. The way to cut down a tree is to sever It where It comes out of the ground, not to begin trimming I the top branches. On the general proposition looking to the abolition of the state dispensary, The Enquirer finds no ground for difference with the Journal. We want to see the state dispensary wiped out, root and branch, and It Is fair to say that Senator Brlce is very anxious for the same thing. The senator has said so not only on the York county stump and In newspaper Interviews; but has so declared himself on the floor of the senate. But the Journal must not forget that the dispensary Is too firmly established to admit of its annihilation by a mere move of the hand. There has grown up within the central management a powerful ring that is almost as strong as the legislature Itself. That our contemporary is not insensible of this fact, it gave an Intimation when It spoke of the control of banks, newspapers, etc. This ring is not going to give up without a struggle, and whether It can be made to give up .at all is yet to be developed. Whatever may be said as to the adequacy of the Brice bill In eventually accomplishing the result desired, It must be confessed that this measure is responsible for the first real alarm that has ever been sounded in the dispensary camp. Whether the Journal realizes Its full significance or not, we beg to assure it that the dispensary ring, the people who are making immense fortunes out of the dispensary, directly and indirectly, feel the menace that it is pointing their way. The voters of the state have never had an opportunity to express themselves; but the outlook is that the Brice bill will eventually afford that opportunity. The Journal's argument that the abolition of the dispensary in some of the counties will make it stronger in others, is good as to theory; but is inapplicable as to facts. Our contemporary no doubt thinks that the profits of the Spartanburg dispensary have been materially Increased by reason of the abolition of the Cherokee dispensaries; but we dare say that it is mistaken. Of course, it is not assumed that the consumption of liquor ceased in the abolition of the county dispensaries; but that did not direct the trade to Spartanburg. Cherokee people who are unwilling to do without liquor have very probably transferred their patronage to houses outside the state. People are not going to pay six dollars In Spartanburg ror a gallon of liquor that they can buy In Atlanta for four dollars. Rock Hill, in this county, consumes as much liquor In proportion to the size of the town as Yorkvllle does; but buys very little of It at the dispensary. The Yorkvllle dispensary?county dispensary It is called?does not sell onethird of the liquor that is consumed In York county, and if the .Yorkvllle dispensary were abolished, the Chester dispensary would hardly ever know the difference. Our contemporary understands the proper method of felling a tree. Lopping off a few branches will do no harm. On the contrary such treatment will only contribute to more vigorous growth; but If we cut the tap roots we will soon have a dead tree. The county dispensaries are the tap roots of the big central establishment in Columbia. MERE-MENTION. The crop report of the department of agriculture, Issued Saturday, shows the wheat acreage to be 31,155,000 a decrease of 1.6 per cent from last year. ....In the United States circuit court at Mobile, Saturday, Mrs. Malvlna Bodden of Selma, Ala. secured a verdict of $2,111 against the sovereign camp Woodmen of the World, on account of the drowning of her husband in the Carribean sea eighteen months ago. Payment on his policy had been refused by the sovereign camp because there was no proof of his death Hugh McLaughlin, for many years leader of the Democratic party of Kings county, New York, died at his home In Brooklyn, Wednesday, aged seventy-seven years Governor-elect William L. Douglass of Massachusetts, has announced that General Nelson A. Miles will be at the head of his staff. Six schoolboys, none more than fourteen years old, killed a Jewish rabbi in Chicago, Friday, by striking him on the head with a snowball containing a rock..C. L. Mason, awealthy coal dealer of Paducah, Ky., disappeared In St. Louis Nov. 19. He had diamonds and money to the amount of $1,700 on his perpon, and It is believed that he met with foul play Six workmen on a dirt road along the Ohio river near Ashland, Ky., were killed by an explosion of nltro-glycerlne, Saturday The British steamer Secundra, with a cargo of oil and rice, bound from Madras to New York, was wrecked off the coast of Ceylon Saturday, and seven of her crew were lost. The Bethlehem steel corporation, capitalized at $30,000,000, was Incorporated at Trenton, N. J., Saturday, to succeed the United States Ship-building company, now in the hands of a receiver President Hadley of Yale university, has announced his Intention to make a trip through the south early next spring, to meet the Yale nlnmnl n?sof>latlr>ns of Georela. Ala bama, Louisiana and Texas The special grand jury of Lorain county, O., appointed to Investigate the affairs of the defunct Oberlin bank, reported on Saturday that there was not sufficient evidence to indict Mrs. Cassle L. Chadwick, and turned the cases of President Beckwith and Cashier Spear over to the regular grand Jury Mortimer Brooks, a New York millionaire, was accidentally shot on a hunting expedition near Plttsboro, N. C., Friday, ai?d his recovery is doubtful. The engagement of Miss Daisy Letter, daughter of the late Levi Letter of Chicago, and sister of the vicereine of India, to the Earl of Suffolk of Berkshire county, England, wa3 announced Saturday The three masted schooner Montana, on her way from Baltimore to Charleston, stranded at Pea island, N. C., fifty miles north of Cape Hatteras, Saturday night, with one member of her crew of seven frozen to death, and the other six seriously 111 from exposure and exhaustion. The vessel is a total wreck. South Dakota vs. North Carolina. ?Attorney General Gilmer of North Carolina recently filed a motion In the supreme court of the United States in the case of South Dakota vs. the state of North Carolina, Involving bonds of the North Pnroltna. Railroad company held by the former state, and for the payment of which ttie latter state was heid to be. responsible, providing for a postponement of the sale of the bonds in question from January 1 to April 1. Mr, Gilmer stated the object of his motion to be to afford opportunity to the North Carolina legislature to take action for the payment of the claim if so disposed. The court took the motion under advisement. I ROCK HILL AND VICINITY. Ths Death Roll?The New Pip* Organ ?Farmers Holding on to Their Corn ?Slump in Cotton Paralyzaa Business?Theo McGraw Arrested?? President Johnson at His Post Again?Southern Resumes Telephone Service. UorrMDondence of the Yorkrllle knquitei. Rock Hili., Dec. 13.?Nellie May, the fourteen months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Jolly, died Sunday morning of congestion of the brain, after a six weeks' Illness. Yesterday morning at 10 o'clock funeral services were conducted from the home by Rev. W. L. Llngle and the remains were Interred In Laurelwood cemetery. J. N. Clontz, a farmer living In the Adnah neighborhood, and well known In this city, died Friday morning of typhoid fever.' The remains were Interred In the Adnah cemetery Saturday morning after services conducted by his pastor, Rev. W. H. Arlail. The deceased was about forty-three years old and Is survived by his wife and two children, a son and a daughter, both of whom are about grown. He carried a policy for $1,000 In Walnut camp Woodmen of the World, and $1,000 In the Improved Order of Heptasophs. He had been a member of both these orders only a short while, however, and his beneficiaries will not, under the contract, be able to collect over $750 from the former and $600 from the latter lodge. The members of the First Presbyterian church made a move some time ago to raise $2,500, with which to purchase a large pipe organ for the church. The committee appointed to collect the money have about twothirds of the amount in sight and expect to have the entire sum in hand at an early date. City Treasurer C. S. May Is erecting an elegant two-story ten-room residence on Caldwell street, and Mr. O. S. Poe has let a contract for remodeling and enlargement of his residence in Oakland. Although it has been a good many years since the farmers of this section have made a corn crop equal to the crop they have Just gathered, It Is a noticeable fact that but very little corn is being offered for sale on this market by the farmers, many of them, too, have corn enough to do them two years. This indicates that a healthy state of affairs exists in the country and the farmers will not be forced, as they have been in former years, to sell what little surplus corn and other feed stuffs they have at a price very little above the cost of production. The merchants are complaining that the slump in cotton has knocked the bottom out of business and collections. The effect is very noticeable in all lines of business. A member of a large business firm In this city remarked in the hearing of the writer the other day that collections started off so nicely early in the fall that he expected to clean up everything by Dec. 1st, but the house still has a number of accounts due which they are not very hopeful of collecting soon unless there is a reaction In the cotton market. The farmers and cotton men are very much wrought up over the present state of affairs and various plans are being suggested to relieve the pres ent situation and insure better prices next fall, but after the excitement Is all over and planting time comes again, every farmer will, Instead of decreasing his cotton acreage, add a few acres to it as usual, and things will continue to rock along the same old way unless some means other than a curtailment in production is resorted to. The wood famine in this city has been partially relieved since the farmers have finished gathering the crops and are hauling some wood. Constable J. F. Wingate, went to Shelby, N. C., last Friday and returned Friday night with Theo McGraw, who was wanted- by the authorities here for shooting and seriously wounding young Walter Adklns last summer, while he and several other young men from this city were fishing near the railroad bridge on Catawba river. The shooting took place in the night time. McGraw escaped immediately afterward and nothing was heard 6t him until he was located in Shelby a few weeks ago. He was given a preliminary hearing before Magistrate T. C. Beckham, Saturday on a warrant taken out by Adklns charging him with assault and battery with intent to kill and with highway robbery. P. D. Barron, Esq., represented the defense, and W. M. Dunlap, Esq., the prosecution. The state failed to make out a case as to highway robbery; but the defendant was bound over to court on the former charge. A $600 bond was required, which I understand, will be furnished. Counter warrants were taken out by McGraw for the three prosecuting witnesses, Reuben and Frank Adklns and Will Wentz, charging them with carrying unlawful weapons and discharging firearms on the public highway. It developed in the testimony against McGraw that the pistol used by him was taken from one of the three named above, and that McGraw had no pistol of his own. These warrants have not been served yet. McGraw claims that he was assaulted by the other members of the party and he used the pistol In selfdefense. The testimony of the prosecution was to the effect that McGraw commenced firing into the party without cause or provocation, and that Adkins was shot while lying asleep on the ground. Andy Hall, colored, of this city. Is said to have the largest hog that has ever been raised in this part of the country. Several responsible citizens who have seen the hog, say they have never seen anything to equal it, and that it will weigh between seven and eight hundred gross. President D. B. Johnson of Wlnthrop college, returned to the city last Friday night .entirely' recovered from his recent illness, and is again discharging his duties at Winthrop, much to the delight of the faculty and students of that institution and his Innumerable friends in the city. In response to numerous requests ' ' - ?- <~ 1 nl.ik or,a hnol. irom Hie i>uuniieruiai tiuu cuiu ?v? ness men of the city, the officials of the Southern railway, ordered the authorities to resume the use of the local telephone at the passenger depot In this city, and they accordingly had a "phone put In several days ago. The use of the telephone at the depot was discontinued some time ago on the ground that it had become a nuisance to the employes at the depot. The public generally was very much Inconvenienced by the removal of the 'phone from the depot and numerous complaints were lodged with the officials of the road In regard to the matter until the service was resumed. FIFTH DISTRICT WATER POWER. Congressman Finley is Trying to Secure Its Exploitation. Correspondence of the Yorkrille Enquirer. Washington, D. C., December 8, 1904.?The Fifth Congressional District of South Carolina, which includes the counties of Cherokee, York, Chesterfield, Fairfield, Chester, Lancaster and Kershaw, is rich in undeveloped natural resources, and the attention of capital is being directed toward that section. All Information toncerning the potentials of this region is eagerly sought for. Congressman Finley In a letter to the geological survey has called attention to the splendid opportunities for water power development afforded by the Fifth District, which he represents. <He thinks that not less than 200,000 horse power can be developed on Its numerous streams, and urges that more detailed Information concerning the flow of the streams and topography of their drainage areas Is essential. He requests that an investigation be made of the water power of Broad river, between Alston, Fairfield county, South Carolina, and the North Carolina line, and a like Investigation of the power of Catawba and Wateree rivers between Camden, South Carolina, and the North Carolina line. The Hydrographlc branch of fhe geological survey is engaged in collecting data on this important subject, and is giving particular attention to several portions of the Fifth District. Guaging stations are now being maintained on Broad river at Alston, on the Catawba and Wateree rivers near Camden, South Carolina, Catawba, South Carolina, and at Morganton. North Carolina. A profile of Catawba river has been made for a short portion In North Carolina, extending from Marion to Connelly's Springs. Appreciating the value and importance of the river surveys, the hydrographers will extend their work ' next season to cover the important valleys in this district. NOTE8 FROM HOODTOWN. Personal Mention?The Slump In Cotton?Good Prices for Corn?Mr. Ingraham's Farewell. Correspondence ot the Yorkville Enquirer. SHARon,. R. F. D. No. 1, Dec. 9.?The Hoodtown school opened Monday the 28th ult., with Miss Bessie Shurley of Ebenezer as teacher. The enrollment at present is about thirty pupils. Mrs. W. L. Plexico of Clay Hill, visited relatives here last week. She was accompanied by her daughter, Miss May me, and son, Master Paul. We regret to learn that the latter and j their other little boy are quite sick now at their home. The slump in the price of cotton came like an earthquake shock to a great many of the farmers. While many were not expecting any great rise in price until after Christmas, they thought it improbable that it would be much lower, so were caught napping. But little grain has been sown. The acreage or wheat is less tnan usuai almost nil here, while but little oats has been sown, owing to inclement weather lately, and the rush of work earlier in the season. With cotton at ?|om 9 to 10 cents, but little attenon will be paid to small grain. The large crop of corn this year will mean lots of hog and hominy. Quite a number of good porkers have been slain recently. Mr. John E. Plexico killed two a few days ago which netted 310 pounds each. Your correspondent killed one which netted 326. Rev. P. B. Ingraham preached his farewell sermon last Sunday at Shady Grove church. His subject was Paul's farewell to the church at Thessalonica, During his four years pastorate here Mr. Ingraham has made a record for zeal and untiring energy in his work of which he might well be proud. Almost everybody, regardless of denominational lines, will regret that he must leave this work. Vocb. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Safes in the express office and postofflce at McColl were blown open Friday night, and $76 secured. The burglars made their escape. ? In the Richland court of general sessions Friday, M. L. Tribble, Esq., of Anderson, secured a verdict of $1,500 against the Western Union Telegraph company, for mental anguish caused by the failure of the defendant company to deliver a telegram announcing the death of the plaintiffs sister within a reasonable time, and in time for the plaintiff to attend the funeral. The plaintiff sued for $2,000. ? The railroad commission-has made public its finding in the case of Che Charleston freight bureau and other commercial bodies of the state against the Southern railroad, seeking a reduction of freight rates. Quite a lot of testimony was taken during several months past. The commission decides In favor of the railroad, holding that there is no discrimination against Charleston and that freight rates average lower in this state than in the states of Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia. ? A Greenville policeman had a funny experience the other night in connection with the arrest of a negro he found loafing around the station, under what seemed to be suspicious looking circumstances. The negro submitted quietly, and the officer found a pistol on his person. The pistol, the negro explained, belonged to a corpse and it developed that the negro had come In from Honea Path with a corpse and was waiting to change cars. The policeman decided that if he held the negro he would be troubled with the care of the corpse, so he decldel to let the negro, pistol, corpse and all go. Tti/^nro da art* loaf fi IpH ATI opinion against the city of Greenville in an important case involving the authority of the city council in controlling the erection of new buildings. The ordinance provides that no citizen may erect a new building' without having obtained the consent of the city council. Mrs. Mary Evans asked permission to erect a building and neighbors protested on the ground that the proposed building was Intended for the occupancy of negroes and would be a nuisance. They also claimed that adjoining property would be endangered from flre. After hearing all the testimony the judge signed an order favoring the right of Mrs. Evans to erect the building. The case will be appealed to the supreme court. ? All the evidence in connection with the murder of the Hughes family at Trenton last Friday morning, indicates that Ben B. Hughes, the husband and father, murdered Mrs. Hughes and her two daughters, fired the house and then committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. His body was found in the hallway of the house, fully dressed, with a pistol beside his right hand. There was no evidence of robbery about the premises. The theory Is that the unfortunate man was ! probably financially embarrassed, and that the slump in the price of cot * %_ _ _i J? rolnH ton cauBea nm aneauj ucinciucu ........ to give way. No further efforts are being made by the community to place the responsibility of the terrible crime outside of the home. ? Columbia correspondence News and Courier: The proposed reduction In congress is a topic here whenever there is a meeting of congressmen or prospective congressmen In Columbia. Although it has been stated that there Is no danger of any such bill passing, there is always a possibility, and should such be the case there would be a redistricting of the entire state, and all of the seven districts would have to be made larger. This would seriously affect the calculations of many who hope some day to be congressmen, and the general hope is expressed by , these that the bill will not pass. The large majority of people, however, who do not let politics worry them, have scarcely given the matter more than a passing thought, and most of them could not tell how this state would be affected. They are absolutely indifferent as to the result, especially since they realize that the representatives are absolutely powerless. A new phase has been placed on the situation, however, by .the statement that the southern Republican leaders will ask that no reduction be made. This, it is said, will be the case in South Carolina and the reason given is that they still hope for a split In the Democratic party in this state, and should this be the case they would want as many districts as possible. Just how much there Is In this no Democrat pretends to know, but the statement Is given for what It is worth. Poor Fatherless Derelict.?A great deal has been said about the gold mine In Columbia, known as the Richland Distillery company. It has been suggested that this corporation pays dividends every Saturday night; that It does a two-mllllon dollar business and that half of the aggregate sales are profits. All sorts of wild suggestions and reports have been published about the stockholders of this company. It may be none of the business of this correspondent to mix up In the contention, but a direct question has been asked of the bureau and on that account an effort Is made to answer it. There Is no stock In the corporation In the name of any citizen of Columbia, or If there Is It Is for so small an amount that It amounts to nothing. The stock of the company Is owned by three distillery firms, who own and control oth?-i ilIsillItTles antl by some of the officers of the corporation. Whut Is more to the point is that the Richland Distillery company has never paid a dividend to Its stockholders i since it has been in operation. There is an accumulation In the value of the 1 stock in the shape of stock on hand ' and obligations, but up to the present < no dividends have been paid on a < share of stock In the Richland distil- 1 lery.?Columbia Cor. News and Cour- c ler. LOCAL, AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTI8EMENT8. D. W. Wallace?Wants to buy a few Indian game hens, ducks, turkeys and rabbits. Will meet sellers at Mr. Adlckes' store Friday. R, J. Hemdon?Guarantees every Instrument he sells?nothing cheap but the price. First National Bank?Tells you its rates on bank money orders, and asks, "Why pay more?" W. O. Gattis & Co., Gastonla, N. C.~ Announce that they have become the Yorkvllle correspondents of Yates & Richie, of the N. Y. Stock and Cotton exchanges. Orders will be filled promptly. " ' Chas. M. Gibson, Young's Island, 8. C. ?Is ready to ship all kinds of strong: healthy cabbage plants, grown in the open air. Special prices on large lots. York Furniture Co.?Announces that it is prepared to answer all calls for funeral supplies. Also do embalming under state license No. 56. York Furniture Co.?Tells you that Mastic paint Is guaranteed to be pure lead, zinc and oil. It covers a greater surface and wears better than so-called paints made to sell and not to last. J. F. A. Smith and Others?Warn all I persons not to trespass upon lands I owned or controlled bv them. York Cotton Mills?Wants to buy at J once 1,000 cords pine wood and will i pay highest market price. W. R. Carroll?Has a carload of Ten- j nessee hogs and will fill orders for hogs on foot or cleaned. York Furniture Co.?Is prepared to i show you samples of carpets and ac- I cept orders for carpets ready to lay] down or unfinished. Also calls at-i tention to sewing machines, pictures' and rugs. It will give you close prices on organs or pianos. T. W. Speck, The Jeweler?Gives youj a few pointers on Christmas giving, j and Invites you to come and see hisS stock of goods that contains articles suitable for everybody at all kinds I of prices. Foushee Cash Store?Announces thati it will give every person?one to a! family?that returns Its ad. in to-1 day's paper, and buys a dollar's value in goods a 25 cents souvenir doll.' Also enumerates a long list of holiday goods and quotes prices. Withers Adlckes Co.?Tells you that! Its holiday goods are now in stock' in full force, and tells you about the; many things and good values that ] you can secure by visiting the store. Loan and Savings Bank?Wants you to know that Its customers are its best references. Your business is, solicited, be It large or small. Jas. M. Starr & Co.?Invite you to visIt their store when you are shopping1 for holiday gifts. A large number of; articles suitable for souvenirs are enumerated. | J. M. Heath & Co.?Give notice thatj prices have been cut in half on men's clothing in order to reduce stock before stock taking begins. 8ee their] ad. on the fourth page of this issue.; J. Q. Wray, The Leader?Publishes a; wireless telegram from Santa Claus; appointing his store as his local headquarters for the distribution of, gifts for boys and girls, and then he' tells the boys and girls about the wonderful assortment of goods that will be found on his second floor. See his ad. on the fourth page of this Issue of The Enquirer. Strauss-Smith Co.?Tell you about the bargains they have to offer in men's,, boys' and children's clothing during! the next ten days. They offer a 10 ! per cent, discount from prices that j they say are already low?low be- i cause they bought the clothing at a I big bargain last September. Longman & Martinez, New York?Tell you of the good qualities of their paints, and make some interesting propositions to people who want to paint. See fourth page. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? Treasurer Neely is still waiting for the rush. ? Mr. C. H. Sandifer has purchased the J. B. Pegram house and lot on California street. ? The Loan and Savings bank and the First National Bank are distributing purses and pocket books among their customers. ? The demand for houses is almost as strong among the colored people as among the whites, there being but few vacant cabins, or even shacks in the town. ? Mr. J. C. Wllborn has purchased the A. S. Withers residence on the corner of Congress and Jefferson streets and now occupied by Mr. S. D. Patrick. Mr. Wilborn will move his family to Torkvllle shortly. ? Torkvllle has unsurpassed advantages both as a business and residence town. Its citizenship Is of a high class, its surrounding country Is equal to the best to be found anywhere, and Its railroad facilities are all that could be desired. ? There will be a called meeting of Bethel presbytery In the Presbyterian church Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock to transact the following business If the way be clear: 1. Dissolve the pastoraKrelatlons between Rev. Dr. W. G. Neville and the Torkvllle Presbyterian church. 2. Dissolve the pastoral relations between Rev. M. R. Kirkpatric.k and Concord church. 3. Dismiss Rev. M. R. Klrkpatrlck to South Carolina presbytery. NOTE AND COMMENT. Mr. J. R. Williams of R. F. D. No. 1 Torkvllle, slaughtered two fifteen months old "shoats" last Friday that netted 746 pounds. The Southern railroad Is replacing the Bullock's creek trestle with a steel bridge, between Hickory Grove and Sharon. Cotton receipts have fallen off perceptibly during the past ten days; the holders being very reluctant to sell at prevailing prices. The firewood situation seems to be easing up somewhat, It being less difficult to buy wood now than It was a few weeks ago. Lots of people have taken advantage of the cold snap of the past few days to slaughter their hogs, and large hogs neem to be auite olentiful. Clerk Wylie has not yet received anything from Judge Watts as to the Brlckman verdict. It was expected that the Judge's order would probably reach here yesterday or today. There is a good deal of Interest in the question as to what his honor will probably do. We take pleasure in calling especial attention to the advertisement of Mr. Charles M. Gibson, of Young's Island, in another column. Gardners up this way have for many years appreciated the advantage of getting early cabbage plants from the low country: but the trouble with a majority of them has been lack of imformation as to reliable people from whom to get their supplies. Mr. Gibson is a large truckman with long experience and can be depended upon to deliver exactly what he sells. NEW COTTON MILL. If Yorkville does not get another cotton mill before many more months, it will be because local capital is not willing to take advantage of a most liberal proposition that has Just been made by Mr. Thomas P. Moore, a manufacturer of experience and ability. To a number of representative citizens of Yorkville at a meeting in the parlors of the Commercial Club last night, Mr. Moore proposed that he will subscribe 135,000 to the capital stock of a 360,000 spinning mill If the Yorkville people will subscribe the remaining $25,000. His proposed subscription Is based on the condition that he be elected secretary and treasurer of the corporation at a salary not to exceed $1,500 per annum for the first three years nor to exceea ji.suu per annum thereafter, and that the capital stock of the corporation be not at any time increased beyond $00,000. Mr. Moore's experience has been that small mills pay best In proportion to the capital Invested, and he wants the profits to go to additional dividends rather than enlargement. The proposition was received with much favor by the people to whom It ivas made and all but a few thousand 3f the $25,000 asked for was subscribed promptly. The outlook is that the jalance will be raised within the next , lay or two. Mr. T. P. Moore Is a brother of Mes- 1 Brs. B. N. and W. B. Moore of York-' viile. He has been engaged in the cotton mill business for a number of years past and has been very successful. He Is now desirous of returning to his old home among the people with whom he grew to manhood, and the * terms of his liberal offer furnish the best possible Illustration of his confidence in the situation. HEALTHY GROWTH. As has been stated before, the demand for residence houses In Yorkvllle is fully up with the supply, and } the pressure is so great that it they were only available a doxen or more good houses wtrnld And desirable renters within a week. It has been a long time since this condition of affairs has prevailed before. We are safe in saying that the ... like has certainly not been seen since the early eighties, and possibly not since I860. Many new houses have been built since the last named date, some, of them purely for rent; bat atno time has it been so that homeowners have had such a monopoly aa now. The only way we are able to account for existing conditions Is on the ground of healthy growth. There has been no effort at artificial Inflation. The steady stream of newcomers has gradually tilled up all the houses and cau??d an overflow. There is no use to try to conceal the ^ fact that building houses for rent has not been a paying Investment in the past. There were times at least when householders carried an empty bag, and were unable to get even the legal rate of Interest on their investment. But those conditions do not exist now, 1 Rents have been forced upward by natural laws of supply and demand, and it Is possible to cite Instances of houses that could not have been rented for 16 a month four or Ave years , ago, now readily bringing 112 a month. We are not going to try to urge anyI body to build dwelling houses for rent as an investment. We don't mean to 1 say that we are doubtful about the > wisdom of the proposition, for under present conditions we are not But people who have money know best about this themselves. However, there Is one thing to which we would call attention and that is the subject of more lots. There is lots of farm property in the town of Torkvllle, more than there ; ought to be. There are large solid areas that are mere stumbling blocks , in the way of progress. There should be more streets, for more street! will 1 make more building lots and this mfet! ter is right now worth the' most serious attention of the town council. It ! is the opportunity of half a century [and it should not be neglected. ABOUT PEOPLE. Ed Miss Estelle Davison of the Delpbos | neighborhood, is with the Foushee i Cash Store as saleslady. v ! G. W. 8. Hart, Esq., of Torkvllle. i was last week admitted to practice bef fore the United States court Misses Anna Smith and Ewart Nichols of Beth-Shlloh, visited Rev. and ! Mrs. W. A. Haffner at Bowling Green last week. Miss Norma Vanland Ingham Eas resigned her position as teacher in the Graded school, the resignation to take effect at the end of the present half session. Mr. R. J. Caldwell and family, of I Guthrlesville, have moved into the J. O. Walker residence on King's Mountain street, recently purchased by Mr. Caldwell. Mr. John Hall, who for the past year or more has been living in Washington state, returned to his home about Ave miles north of Torkvllle, about two weeks ago. Mrs. Janie Parish and son. Master Jefferies, have returned to Torkvllle, and are boarding with Mr. John B. Carroll until Mr. Carroll's new residence is ready for occupancy. Mr. Robert O. Darwin of Cherokee, has moved his family into the residence lately occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Geo. M. Lowrance. Mr. Darwin la employed with J. J. Keller A Cfy's construction force. Miss Leila M. Gill has resigned her position as teacher lh the Graded school because of an attack of typhoid fever. She has been seriously 1U for two weeks or more; but Is getting along very nicely. Her mother Is with her at Mr. H. H. Beard's Miss Charlotte Stewart of Atlanta, associate editor of the Southern Woman's Magazine, spent yesterday In Torkvllle. Miss Stewart Is one of the best known half-tone artists In the south, and is Inspecting the art features of the various schools and colleges of the southern states. Dr. J. H. Saye of Sharon, memberelect of the house of representatives, was in Torkvllle on business yesterday. He had no news of any kind to give out; but said that he Is anxious for an opportunity to vote to abolish the state dispensary. He wants to wipe out the big central establishment, root and branch. He recognizes however, that this Is going to be very difficult to do. "I am satisfied," said Dr. Saye, "that all the people of York county want to abolish the count) dispensary Is a chance to vote on It. I am In favor of waiting to see If we cannot wipe the tax provision out of the Brlce bill: but the people don't care anything about that tax. In the first place they don't believe It will ever be collected, and In the second place they will pay It willingly to secure the abolition of the dispensary."" Walter H. Savory of the Mergenthaler Linotype company was in Torkvllle yesterday to take a ??ok at Tms Enquirer's machine. The lergenthaler people lease as well as sell their machines, and they make it their business to keep watch over every machine that goes out of their factory, even after they have relinquished ownership. To all appearances they are as much interested in the subsequent performance of machines that they sell outright as they1 are In the performance of machines that are only leased. Mr. Savory was delighted with what he saw in The Enquirer office. He wao kind enough to say that of aDout eleven thousand machines now In use, he does not believe there Is one with a record of over six months' service, that Is still in better condition than the machine in this office. The Enquirer's machine has been in use more than four years. "CURI0U8 COURT CUSTOMS." A Charlotte lawyer, who was in Yorkville during the recent term of the court, ran across a number of customs and usages that struck him as more or less queer, and he has been telling the newspapers about them. ve following which was no doubt interesting to the people of Charlotte, and which will be no less interesting to the people over this way, Is from the Observer of Sunday: "There are many strange customs and usages prevailing in the courts of the various states of this Union/* said Mr. C. W. Tlllet to a reporter A yesterday, "but I suppose there Is no custom more unique than the one which exists in the courts of South Carolina. This queer custom to which jtgalj I allude requires that the party that wins the verdict of the jury shall give the Jury one dollar. I was In Yorkvllle, 8. C., on Friday, when the big "fl verdict for $66,000 was rendered in the Brlckman case agklnst the Southern Railway Co., and as soon as the rSB jury returned the verdict some one ?aid, 'Give them the dollar! Give them . Mjfli the dollar!' Whereupon one of the ? / I lawyers for the -widow" ran his hand ' in his pocket and pulled out a bright / n sliver dollar, which was placed in the / v-jw hands of the foreman of the Jury. I / was Informed that this was done in / every rase, and when I asked what, it / was intended should be done with the / dollar, one of the South Carolina law- / AH&gx years told me that there was a well- # AH|g|? founded tradition in the law that it i M jj? was to be used in buying drinks for flHSgS the jurors. All I can say is that this flHraa Jury in the Brlckman case were true Sj(Ssgg? to this tradition, for I saw them, after Bfl leaving the court house, go in a body ' aprlrlm