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Scraps and ^acts. ? The statement that France has dispatched two warships to Venezuela was somewhat premature. Under pressure, President Castro has decided to submit the cable dispute to his supreme court and be governed by the decision of that body. The United States government has quite a serious dispute with Venezuela, the old asphalt quarrel not having been settled yet The Venezuelan government has not yet answered the last note of Minister Bowen, and the government at Washington intimates that unless there is a favorable answer pretty soon there will be trouble. / ? Says a New York dispatch of March 22: A plan for the gradual admission of the policy-holders of the Equitable Assurance society of the United States to a share in the control of its affairs was adopted by the directors of that society yesterday. The plan provides for an amendment to the society's charter so that 28 of its 62 directors shall at the expiration of four years have been electea Dy uie poucy holders and the remaining 24 by the stockholders. Under the new plan seven of the thirteen directors annually elected will be chosen by the v policy-holders and six by the stockholders. The new method of control will thereafter become effective after four years. ? Says a London dispatch of Monday; The report of the commissioners sent out by the British government to Investigate the cotton growing possibilities In East Africa is published this evening In the form of a White paper. It says: "Unless difficulties which at present are thought to be insuperable can be removed, cotton cultivation in East Africa will never be undertaken on any considerable scale." First among the difficulties the commissioners place labor, on account of the apathy of the natives and their disinclination for work. The total area devoted to cotton growing under European supervision can scarcely exceed a few thousand acres. The commissioners' opinion Is that, the only solution of the difficulty is Indentured labor from India or China. ? Congregational ministers representing Boston and various sections of New England, have forwarded to the American board of commissioners for foreign missions a protest against the ' ' acceptance by the board of a gift of 1100.000 from John D. Rockefeller. The petition which was prepared by a committee, chosen at a meeting of the clergymen, protests against the acceptance of the gift on the ground that the Standard Oil company, of which Mr. Rockefeller is the head, "stands before the public under repeated and recent formidable indictments lh specific t?pmB.fftr methods which are morally! iniquitous and socially destructive" and that the "acceptance of such a gift Involves the constituents of the board in a relation implying honor toward the donor and subjects the board to the charge of ignoring the moral issues involved." ? Scores of people were killed and hundreds were Injured by the explosion of the boiler of the Grover Shoe factory at Brockton, Masa, last Monday. The explosion occurred shortly after the 400 employes of the factory bad gathered at their work. Fire followed the explosion, and the panic stricken operatives crowded the stairways and jumped from the windows in their efforts to escape. Hundreds of people were Imprisoned alive under the wreckage, and burned to death while friends on the outside were trying to rescue them. In all fifty-five bodies were recovered, most of them mutilated beyond recognition. Two hundred and fifty-five employes, all more or less Injured escaped with their lives, and about fifty are still included among the missing. Many of these may nave Deen ourneu iu usucs. iuc property loss amounts to about $250,000. ? Columbia Record: The press dispatches nearly every day contain some more or less lengthy statements about the Panama commission and its work, or non-work it may be more accurately said. These dispatches relate to the health of the canal zone, a most important matter, and there is a great deal said about the disagreements of doctors as to what steps ought to be taken or what have not been. They tell, also, about possible changes In the official staff of the commission and so on ad infinitum. What the people of the country want is actual digging to begin. It will take a long time at best to complete the work. The Washington Post hit the real situation very cleverly in a cartoon printed the other day. The picture represented a wheelbarrow filled with shovels and picks, i at the sight of which the Panama commission went Into hysterics. We wonder, after all, whether some special interests concerned are not responsible for the continued delays even in preliminary arrangements. Is the railroad trust entirely disinterested, for Instance? ? Dispatches of the past few days from correspondents with the Russian forces indicate that the retreat toward Harbin continues with the Japanese still in steady but not very vigorous pursuit. One correspondent, wiring from a point 180 miles north of Tie Pass on Tuesday, said that the rear guard of the Russian army was then about 80 miles south, moving along as rapidly as it could under the circumstances. Because the Japanese have apparently lost some of their energy, the Russians are now taking their time and proceeding more leisurely. Their route, however, is strewn with the carcasses of dead horses and other animals, broken down on the march. The main body of the Japanese army is concentrating at Tie Pass; but a large force is marching toward Harbin on roads that parallel those being followed by the Russians. It is stated that the Vladivostok garrison, or at least a large part of it, is being brought back to Harbin, and fresh troops from European Russia are concentrating there. The Japanese now claim that 175,000 Russians were killed, wounded or captured during the battle of Mukden and the retreat. They place their own losses at 50,000. It is stated that the Japanese government has chartered forty steamers to be used in transporting the Russian prisoners to Japan. General Kuropatkin's offer to serve as a oorps commander under General Linevitch has been accepted, and the defeated general will continue with the army. There Is more or less fighting going on between the opposing armies all the while, and another big battle may commence at any time. ?he ifmfevitle inquirer. YORKVILLE, S. C.i FRIDAY, MARCH 24,1905. Dispatchbs from St. Petersburg persist in the claim that official circles are inclining strongly toward peace overtures. It is commonly understood that the principal basis of pieace, so far sis Japan is concerned, will be the relinquishment by the [ Russians to all claim to Manchurian territory heretofore in dispute. H'tRViE Jordan says that if the farmers will Just stand pat for thirty days longer the fight is won, and we believe him. There is no doubt of the fact that they 'have accomplished lots so far, and if they whip the bears out in this battle they will have things pretty much their own way hereafter. If, however, the farmers allow their lines to be broken before the enemy is definitely whipped, they may expect nothing short of figurative massacre, and it Is going to be a difficult matter to get up another movement like this one has been. The large port receipts being recorded each week continue to give concern to those Interested In the success of the present widespread holding movement but Hon. Harvle Jordan, president of the Southern Cotton association, Insists that these reports are deceptive. Much of the cotton that finds its way to the ports, he says, is sent there for warehousing to be at market when the time comes to sell. An effort will be made through Mr. W. P. Brown to have reports specify when port cotton is actually sold for consumption. Mr. Jordan's contention is borne out by circumstances. Such heavy port receipts as are being indicated would necessarily pull down prices if the cotton were going into consumption. The Gaffney Ledger of Tuesday reproduces the following from the Blacksburg correspondence of the Columbia State and makes quite a vig OrOUS protest againsi uie wiwuuiuia tion of the alleged plana of Mr. Jenkins. Mr. B. O. Jenkins, whose distillery was closed about a year ago for being too near Antioch church in this township, Is preparing to remove his plant. He will locate it near the King's Mountain battle ground In this (Cherokee) county, and will soon begin the manufacture of whisky. The Ledger explains that the state board did not revoke Mr. Jenkins's permit; but merely ruled that he should move away from the church, and although Cherokee recently voted to abolish the sale of whisky within the limits of the county, It is claimed that this vote had reference to dispensaries only and not to distilleries. It is hard to know what to think about such proceedings. Everybody understands how rotten everything connected with the liquor business is; but how are the people- to help themselves? Is it the purpose of the state board to permit the operation of this distillery In order to punish the people of Cherokee for voting out dispensaries, or do they merely want to discourage other counties from trying to get free of the liquor business? Who is the real boss on the whisky question anyway, the people, or the individuals who constitute the state board of dispensary directors? The Spartanburg Journal, which was recently singing out so vigorously for the abolition of the whole dispensary machine, is doing all it knows to prevent the removal of the dispensaries from Spartanburg county. It insists that liquor selling in the dispensaries is preferable to liquor selling by the tigers and it is unwilling to give up the dispensaries until some high license system Is provided. The Journal. we think is badly mistaken on this question. In the first place, it is not impossible to abolish liquor altogether; but from a strictly economic standpoint, the tigers are preferable to the dispensaries. Say for instance the Spartanburg dispensaries sell $200,000 worth of liquor a year. We have not the exact figures at hand; but use these by way of illustration. That would mean a profit of about $24.000? half to the city and half to the county. For this profit the county would have to send away $176,000 never to come back to Spartanburg again. Now, we do not believe it is too much to say that the liquor for which the county paid the state $176,000 can be bought from private dealers in equal quantity and quality for less than $150,000. Now suppose the sale of liquor in Spartanburg county were prohibited by law, it would not be unreasonable to assume that purchases would be cut down at least one-half. We will admit that "prohibition cannot be enforced;" but we claim that it can at least be "half enforced." All right then. Where the county is now sending away $176,000 of its annual income for liquor, under prohibition it will not send away more than $75,000. If these figures are anywhere near correct, and we believe they are, certainly, in correct proportion, with the dispensary wiped out, Spartanburg county would realize an annual saving of not less than $100,000. This, remember, is after all the people who are really determined to have whisky have had more than they need. Of course, with the so-called dispensary profits wiped out, the city and county will have to re-arrange their revenues somewhat; but It would be difficult to hit upon any possible method of taxation qpore onerous or destructive than that from which comes Its present comparative pittance. MERE-MENTION. An Oakland, California, bank messenger was held up and robbed of $10,000 by two highwaymen near Berkley, California, Tuesday A freight train on the Rock Island Pacific railroad ran Into an open switch at Potter. Indian Territory, Tuesday, killing two persons and injuring several Two men were killed, and several injured In a rear-end collision between two freight trains on the Atlanta, Knoxvllle and Northern railroad near Jelllco, Tennessee, Tuesday. Jules Verne, the French novelist, is desperately 111 at Amiens, France. Andrew M. Grlscom, son of the millionaire, W. M. Grlscom, of Philadelphia, committed suicide by Jumping overboard from a steamer on a woo crr\ I n cr to 17!llPAnp fin last Sunday A car loaded with dynamite caught fire from hot boxes and exploded at Kenner, Louisiana, on the Illinois Central railroad Tuesday. One man was killed, two are missing and are thought to have been killed, and several buildings were demolished by the explosion Three persons were killed, numbers were Injured, and houses and trees were blown down by a wind-storm which passed through Randolph county, Alabama, Tuesday. Eight persons were killed bylightning at Rockmllls, Alabama, last "Tuesday Baron Von Hammerstein, Prussian minister of the interior, died in Berlin, Monday General Kuropatkln has been appointed commander of the First Manchurlan army, the position formerly held by General Llnevitch who superseded him Nine persons, six of whom were soldiers and three policemen, were injured, probably fatally, by the explosion of a bomb thrown Into the street by a striker, at Warsaw, Russia, Wednesday Dr. Elmer H. Capen, president of Tufts college at Worchester, Mass., for the past twenty years, died at his home In that city Wednesday, aged 67 years Vice President Fairbanks was the guest of honor at a banquet given by the Tarheel club of Greensboro, N. C., Wednesday night Six men were drown ^d by the capsizing of a ferryboat In which they were attempting to cross the Monongahela river at Charlerol, Pa., Thursday The president has appointed Truman H. Newberry of Detroit, Mich., to succeed Charles Hi Darling, as assistant secfetary of the navy President Roosevelt has approved the sentence />Aiirt martial In thp pjme of Midshipman Arrowood of North Carolina, who was recently convicted of desertion from the navy. The sentence was dismissal from the navy and forfeiture*of all rights of citizenship Thirty persons were Injured In a wreck on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad near West Lincoln, Neb., Thursday. No one was killed In a battle between fifteen French soldiers and twenty Greek marines at Candla, Island of Crete, Wednesday, six Greeks and two Frenchmen were killed. No political significance attaches to the fight A relief fund of $14,000 has been raised for the benefit of the families of the victims of the Brockton, Mass., explosion and fire. SgUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Mr. A. E. Gonzales of the Columbia State, has become the purchaser or ine sparianourg neraiu, ? James L. Tribble, Esq., formerly law partner of the late James L. Orr, died at his home In Anderson last Tuesday, aged 56 years. ? Mr. E. D. Smith, president of the South Carolina branch of the Southern Cotton association, says if the people of Charleston will help him he will make Charleston the greatest cotton port of the South Atlantic. ? Vincent Chicco, the well known blind tiger who sought the Charleston primary nomination fdr member of the legislature was defeated in the election last Tuesday. He received 565 votes in Charleston. A. Vander Horst got the nomination. W. Turner Logan was nominated for solicitor. ? Columbia special of March 22: Compulsory vaccination will now be enforced in every county in the state. The state board of health at its meeting this morning, passed a resolution, which in a general way meets the requirements of the act passed at the last session of the legislature, and the attorney general has been instructed to draw up a skeleton ordinance, which will be sent to all towns and cities requiring compulsory vaccination. The board has pushed its campaign throughout the state and over $800 has been spent this year in vaccinating the people of the state. The board will now appoint agents in each county who shall see that those people living in unincorporated villages are vaccinated and there is a heavy penalty attached to those who do not comply with the law. A commission of five cents is given the agent and a nominal charge of ten cents is made in each case. ? Columbia special of Tuesday to the News and Courier: Mr. F. W. McDonald, a Scotch Immigrant, who has recently purchased a farm in the lower part of the county, was held up by two negroes last night and beaten and robbed. Mr. McDonald came to the city this morning in rather bad shape and because of his ignorance of the laws and customs of this country, went to the city hall first, and was afterwards sent to a mmrfstrnlc's nfflpp. where he had war rants sworn out for one of the negroes, whom he suspects. Afterwards he went back and had the warrants withdrawn, stating that he would have the warrants issued by the magistrate at Eastover. According to his story McDonald was on his way home last night from a nearby store and was stopped in the road by two negroes. One of them grabbed him and the other searched his clothes. Only a few cents were found on his person and the negroes attacked him with their fists and a stick, beating him up severely and tearing nearly all of his clothes off. McDonald came to this country last year and having a little money bought a small tract of land in the lower part of the county and started life. He is a young man about 22 years old, and said this morning that the negroes in that section have an intense prejudice against him, the idea being prevalent that he was the forerunner of hundreds of others tbat would gradually take possession of all of the land and run them out of the country. He is satisfied that it was not so much a desire for robbery as it was spite, that induced the attack last night. McDonald says, however, that he will stick it out, and he is satisfied with his little tract of land, as he has no one to look out for except himself. However, he carried a shotgun back when he left today. LOCAL, AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. John A. Latta?Is in the market for cow peas. J. A.?Wants a position to learn the work of salesman. A. Ed Burns, R. F. D. 1?Wants to sell a good milch cow with young calf. J. Q. Wray, The Leader?Calls the attention of good dressers to a big line of Majestic shirts, whlph sell for $1 each. He says they are the best shirt value obtainable. He will sell 30 lbs. of rice for 31 on Monday and Tuesday next. Jas. M. Starr?Says he has a full supply of all kinds of fertilizers on hand and is ready to make immediate delivery on your wagons. Louis Roth?Has roasted coffee in cans. Also choice mackerel. Foushee Cash Store?Gives notice of a special sale of remnants beginning at 9 o'clock next Monday morning. And makes a special offer to customers buying |2 worth of goods. Star Drug Store?Wants you to use Landreth's seeds in planting your garden. It also tells you to feed Fleck's condition powders to horses, mules, cows, etc. Sam M. Grist, Special Agent?Wants you to know that paying for life insurance in the Mutual Benefit is bet ter than putting your money In a bank. The Strauss-Smith Co.?Has a few of those $15 Druid sewing machines, which are sold under positive guarantee. It Is also showing full lines of clothing, pants, hats, dress goods, etc. D. E. Boney, Agent?Again calls your attention to the special offer of the Farmers' Mutual Life Insurance company which expires on April 1. J. Edgar Poag, Broker?Gives some advice as to how to build up towns . and communities. He also gives a list of some valuable real estate he has on his list. Carroll Bros.?Say that they are selling as good buggies as were ever put together, and will make you very Interesting prices If you want to buy anything on wheela / , THE GOLD WATCH C0NTE8T. There have been 826 coupons returned In the gold watch contest since Tuesday. The voting now stands as follows: Bessie Adams 14 Sudle Allison 9 Isabel Arrowood 17 BenJ. Black 440 Margaret Blaine 2 Ella Carroll 21.540 E. P. Castles 517 Florence Cody 55 Emma Creasman 177 Bessie Farls 26 Mattle Ford 193 T. R. Gettys 2 Ava Greene 15 Nettie Green 312 J. F. Gorrell 80 Nannie Grist 1.140 J. Hamilton 22 Posy C. Hardin 26 F. M. Howell 4 Wtlmoth Jackson 851 L. W. Jenkins 12 Mrs. J. T. Jones 21 J. T. Jones 11 W A. Kennedy II Pearle Langford 43 Blanche Love 304 Lillian Mllholen 2 Clara Mitchell 67 Ella Neely 43 Ida Ormand 12 Minnie Palmer 25,420 J. K. Roach 5 .T. G. Shannon 7 Bessie Shurley 2 Belle Smith 2930 Llda Smith 572 W. H. Stevenson 563 Susie White 4 J. H. Wltherspoon 17 Edna Wright ..._ 17 WITHIN THE TOWN. ? The county board of education meets In Yorkvllle today. ? Business has been fairly good this week, considering the fact that the farmers arc so closely engaged with their farming operations. ? Tf the electric Dower Is brought to Yorkville, It Is "probable that the town will undertake to manage the sale of electric lights. About this, however, there Is nothing definite. ? Messrs. J. J. Keller & Co., have commenced the work of putting a glass and Iron front In the StraussSmith store room. The brick work of the old front Is being taken out and the Improvement will be pushed as rapidly as possible. ? Brick laying has been commenced In dead earnest on the plant of the Neely Manufacturing company's building, the first having been laid on last Wednesday. Messrs. Keller & Co., have arranged to push the work without delay. ? There Is a growing confidence In the steadily enhancing value of Yorkville real estate. There have been but few transfers of late In the town; but from many Infallible Indications there Is a feeling that the business outlook generally Is better than It has ever been. It is a noticeable fact also that there are more would-be buyers of real-estate than there are sellers. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mr. L. S. Davidson of Kershaw, was In Yorkville on business Thursday. Messrs. J. N. Lipscomb and D. C. Ross of GafTney, spent Tuesday In Yorkville. Mrs. R. M, Bratton and Miss Ella Love of McConnellsvllle, spent yesterday In Yorkville. There Is reason- to believe that Mr. W. Thompson Jackson has passed the crisis In his fever and Is now on the mend. His condition has been growing more hopeful every day since Tuesday and his physicians are very much encouraged. Replying to an inquiry over the telephone this morning, Miss Bessie Bar ron said that there is no appreciable change in the critical condition of her uncle, Mr. John A. Barron. Dr. John I. Barron is steadily getting better. . Little Eula, the three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smith, has recovered from a most dangerous illness with pneumonia and complications following that dreadful disease. The sufferer hovered between life and death for several days; but is now in J a fair way to recover her strength. New Era: The Cherokee bar last week presented Mr. Harry McCaw with an elegant fountain pen as an evidence of the esteem in which he is held by them. This was Mr. McCaw's last appearance in Cherokee as court stenographer, that county having been placed in another circuit by the recent act. Baptist Courier: Dr. J. D. Hugglns has resigned his churches in the Santee association. The field is composed of four churches, with the parsonage at Paxvllle. and is one of the best in the state. Bro. Huggins has been called to the field occupied by Bro. M. W. Gordon, in York association. At the inter-society oratorical contest at Fur man University last Thursday even- < Ing, Mr. S. E. Boney of YorkvlUe, was i awarded first place and Mr. D. W. i Smoak of Colleton, second place. Mr Boney will, therefore, represent Purman at the state oratorical contest at Greenwood next month. i A DARKEY PHIL080PHER. "An' look yer, white folks, whar yo' gwlne mek co'n?" A professional gentleman of YorkvlUe gave the reporter this rather Interesting story of which the foregoing question Is the key note. The story Is a true one and It Is published for what lt^ Is worth, without apologies. "I was sitting In my office talking business with an old negro?one of those old slavery negroes, who learned lots of good hard sense In the days of his master, and who has not rorgotten It yet A young white farmer of my acquaintance came In also on business, and because the acreage reduction question Is foremost In my mind, I asked him: " 'How much cotton to the plow this year?' "Twenty acres," the young man replied. "Looking at things as I do I confess that the reply knocked the props from under me; but before I could give expression to my astonishment, my attention was attracted to the old negro. His eyes opened until I thought of a j^air of saucers, and his face was a study. After a pause, ^he sputtered out. " 'An' look yer, white folks, whar yo' gwlne mek co'n?' "The effect of the question was startling. The old negro's manner was respectful, but he was in deadly earnest and while I was struck with the propriety of his question, I was unable to suppress my amusement. The young white man was evidently nettled, and seemed lost for a reply. As If doubtful as to whether he had heard aright, the old negro repeated: " 'White folks, did yo' say yo* gwlne plant twenty acres ob cotton to de plow ?' " 'That's what I said,' shortly reiterated the young man, turning on his heel to leave. "Then the old negro began to show that he was tickled. He laughed a loud haw-haw-haw, and said: " 'White folks dat must be mighty po' lan' yo' got, dat you have to work twenty acres to the plow. Dls nigger don't work but ten acres, an' I bet he mek more cotton en yo'. Why white folks dls nigger gwlne to put In 10 acres of cotton en 10 acres of co'n, en on dem 10 acres of cotton he's gwlne to mek 10 bales, en while yo' Is workln' In dq hot ob de sun tryln' to mek 10 bales on yo' id acres, dls nigger Is shape, not by the receipts from tne county associations; but from private contributions. It might be well for the county association to resort to the same means to put its operations on a strictly business basis, for unless it does get on a business basis Its work will necessarily be hampered. The Enquirer will gladly contribute $5 on the first subscription paper that may be started for this purpose, and bind Itself to pay $2 on every $100 that may afterward be raised in the county until the fund aggregates $1,000. "The claim," remarked Senator Brice the other day, "that there are no bar-rooms in the state is all buncombe. Why this hotel privilege is nothing but the old time bar-room. The holders of hotel privileges buy whisky where they please and sell it to whom they please, to be drunk on the premises or otherwise, between sunup and sundown, or sundown and I sunup. It is the old bar-room pure and simple. And the beer privilege Is worse. Any time you pass one gwine to be slttin' In shade or thlnkln' of hog and de hominey and de possum an' taters what are comin' next fall. "Then the old darkey again broke Into a haw-haw-haw that seemed to give him as much pleasure as if he were at present enjoying the good things he had described in anticipation of next fall. My young white friend seemed to realize that the old negro had the best of it. and was so vexed that he stepped off In a huff." NOTE AND COMMENT. It it a matter of very considerable doubt in the minds of most of the farmers of the county as to whether it would be possible to raise as much cotton as was raised last year even if were desirable to do so. The labor is not to be had. It would hardly be available with a certainty of ten cents cotton, and but few people are going to the limit with probable prices involved in so much doubt as now exists. Regardless of the large per centage of unsold cotton on hand, there seems to be fully as much actual cash In circulation throughout this section as there was two years ago at least, and while a few people may be growing more or less impatient at the tardiness of the cotton market, the majority seem perfectly content to wait. It is generally believed that the shorts of Wall street will have to make deliveries between the 1st and 15th of April, and if they are not called to time by then, delivery day cannot be postponed longer than May, because by then, many mills will either have to get cotton or shut down. So far as we are able to gather the Interests of the Tork County Southern Cotton association are being pushed with as much vigor as are tne interests of any other county association in the state and about as much is being accomplished. Still the organization is nothing like what it should be, and that is largely because of lack of funds. Some of the members have contributed the 25 cents initiation fee; but large numbers have failed to do so. Even if all should contribute, the aggregate fund raised would hardly be sufficient to pay for the actual work necessary to be done. It is all right to expect people to give of their time and commodities in a work of this kind without money and without price; but the experience of all time has shown that such service is not to be relied upon and it is not most effective. This is necessarily the case where a few have to do all and the many do nothing. The state association has gotten itself in pretty good of these establishments in Columbia or elsewhere, you can see a mob of whites and blacks ranged up against the ( counters drinking beer under conditions of equality that are disgusting." The ladies of the King's Mountain Chapter of the D. A. R. have occasion to congratulate themselves on the result of their rummage sale, whlch^jftk f" commenced in the court house Wednesday morning and which was , brought to a close Thursday morning , by the complete exhaustion of the ac- ( cumulated stock. The net result of the sale was between $25 and $30, a ( larger amount than was really expect- ( ed but that was not all. It developed ( that there was a real demand for just such goods as they had accumulated, , ~^ ttia foault nf their efforts thin ITS auu aa wi>? iv?#u*v w*. ?? ?.? that some people had no further use for were transferred to other people who found them useful. While most of the articles were sold at less than their real value, every transaction was squarely on Its merits. The underdertaking was conducted along strictly business lines. LOCAL LACONIC8. Taylor's Creek Bridge. The county board of commissioners has not yet been able to settle the Taylor's creek bridge matter. The site of the proposed bridge Is five or six miles south of Rock Hill. Messrs. Ralney and Lumpkin visited the place recently. Supervisor Boyd was sick, and could not be present The commissioners, however, are of the opinion that it would be useless to construct a bridge except It be raised high above the stream, and this Involves so much expense as to make them hesitate. The matter has been under consideration for several years. Death of James T. Nivens. Fort Mill Times: Mr. James T. Nivens, a well known farmer and horseman of the upper section of the township, died Wednesday morning at the * ?A? Ml* T Q Vlvpnfl [luiric Ui in nun, mi. uvv .... after an Illness of several months. Mr. Nlvens was an old Confederate soldier and a pensioner. During the first year of the Civil war he saw service with the 18th S. C., regiment, but was later transferred to the 1st S. C. cavalry. He was 67 years of age. Funeral services Thursday morning were conducted by Rev. J. C. Chandler of this place, and the burial took place at Flint Hill Baptist church. Benefit of the 8treet Shows. Fort Mill Times: The announcement of the visit to Fort Mill in the near future of the street carnival has been the cause for considerable argument by our people, especially the merchants, as to the advisability of having such a show visit the town. There are some who contend that such shows are veritable business paralysers and that nine times In ten they injure a town by carrying oft money which otherwise would be spent at home. On the other hand some claim that the town will be benefitted thereby, as many people who would otherwise stay away will be attracted here by the show and will spend money with our business houses. Electric Power From Catawba. As the result of the conference between representatives of the Clover Manufacturing company, Tavora Cotton mill, Neely Manufacturing company and the town of Yorkville on the on hand and Mr. W. S. Lee, Jr., vice president of the Catawba Power company on the other hand, In the rooms of the Commercial club last Tuesday afternoon, the representatives of the cotton mills and the town submitted to Mr. Lee a proposition looking to the bringing of the power to YorkvlUe and Clover. The proposition was virtually an acceptance of the terms offered by Mr. Lee on behalf of the Catawba Power company, and although he did not feel authorized to close, he, on his departure left the Impression that the power company would accept. One of the conditions of the proposed deal is that the Yorkvllle and Clover people must secure the right of way for the line from the power company to their plants and construct the said line In accordance with specifications to be furnished by the power company. The power company agrees to refund the entire cost of construction, except a part of the cost of right of way In power. The task of getting the right of way will devolve upon the Yorkvllle and Clover people entirely. They, however, anticipate but little trouble, reasoning that not only will the building of the line work no injury or Inconvenience to the properties which it will cross; but all of these properties will derive much benefit from the fact that they will thereafter be conveniently located with reference to Inexhaustible power that may be 11,1 * - 4 ? ?? f (vln_ I Ulllizeu a.1 ailjr llllic iui wnun Binning, sawing, pumping, manufacturing plants or other purposes for which it may be required. BULLOCK'S CREEK TOWNSHIP. The Farmers and Reduction?Work on the Roads?Personal Mention. Correspondence of the ferkrille Enquirer. Sharon, R. F. D. No. 1.?Our farmers are busy preparing their lands and hauling fertilizers. Everybody down this way seems to be in favor of the acreage and fertilizer reduction propositions. Mr. Walter Sherrer and family moved to Gastonla last week. Owing to the illness of Rev. J. S. Grler last Sunday, a number of members of his congregation in this neighborhood went to hear Mr. Arlall at Shady Grove. County Commissioner Rainey is doing some goM work for the roads and bridges of this vicinity. Mr. Walter Latham is building a large barn. The pupils of the Blairsvllle school are making an effort to secure a 11- [ brary. Mr. Beauregard Hill is recovering from a severe attack of grip. Mrs. Hill and other members of the family ' have been sick with the malady, but ' are getting better. Should Be Generous.?With farm- < Ing such a profitable business around i Newberry as the Hon. Hub Evans J says it is, his assistance should be | had in showing the farmers how they 1 can succeed despite the low price of < cotton. He should let the secret out ! for the benefit of his farmer friends , in other sections, for surely a system i that insures such fine returns cannot 1 be local in its application.?Fairfield News and Herald. < ROCK HILL ANO VICINITY. harden Work Commencing?The Tel* phono Situation?Carrier For Og* dan No. 1?Mr. John A. Naaly Goaa Into Buainasa For Himeolf?Win* throp Student Haa Narrow Eaoapa? Other No tea. <J 'Jorrwpondeoce of tha Torxrilla Enquirer. Rock Hill. March 24.?Judging Prom the start that Is being brade there will be an abundance of early .vegetables raised In Rock HIU this year Doubtless there are a larger number jf garden* cultivated hi Hock Hill than can be found in any other city of the same size and population. The ^ weather Is rarely e ver so favorable for preparing gardens in the month of March as it has been this year, and gardeners have been busy the fiast j* two weeks planting early vegetables and preparing their garden spots ind truck patches for future planting. The people residing at the various cotton mills in the city also devote considerable time and attention to gardening and many of them And the time it takes them to prepare and cultivate their gardens very profitably spent. Since the Rock Hill Telephone company raised their rates, quite a number of subscribers have had their 'phones taken out and others say they will discontinue the service the first of April. 80 far however, the numbev of 'phonee cut out does not materially affect the company: but there is a great deal "Of kicking being done and the end is not yet The matter of granting a franchise Is still hanging fire, as the city council is not willing to grant such a franchise as the telephone i?ople want and the latter refuse to accept such as the city proposes to give. The new brick store building on Main street whloh has been in prooess of erection for some time, is nearing completion. When completed, it will be a handsome addition to the busi- ^ ness portion of the city. It will be occupied by Messrs. Kuykendal & Cunningham, who are now occupying a part fit the Rock Hill Supply Co's. building. The trouble arising over the appointment of a carrier for the new R F. D. mail route from Ogden has at laBt been settled by the appointment of Mr. J. D. McCants. Mr. McCuits has already received his commission. ^ 5. There were four candidates for the position, viz: W. H. Dunlap, J. B. Roach, J. D. McCantn and M. B. Dunlap. Mr. Roach made the highest mark in the examination by otie or two points. The other three candidates passed a very creditable examination. 'however, and were eligible to ap poinimeni as earner, naa mere Deen no others making a higher point Fro- *' tests were sent In against the appointment of Mr. Roach on the ground that he did not reside within the territory to be supplied by the proposed new route. The postofllco department, on receiving this protest postponed the appointment until tin investigation could be made. This done, It developed that Mr. McCants was the only one of the four applicants who lived In the territory to be supplied by the new route, and his appointment fol- , ^ lowed. As has already been stated in The Enquirer, service will commence on the new route on April 15. Mr. Jno. A. Neely, who has been Ailing the position of book-keeper for the . Roddey Mercantile Co., for a dosen or more years, has bought out the old Lindsay meat market on East Main ' street. This market has recently been run by Messrs. Robertson ? Philips, both of whom Mr. Nteiy will retain in his employ. Mr. Neely has tendered his resignation to the Roddey Mercantile company to take effect as soon as his successor can be chosen. He will then give his personal attention to his new business. Mr. Neely*s worth and ability as a book-keeper is well known and his employers regret to lose the services of one so competent to fill the position; but the confinement and close attention to business the past twelve or fifteen years has, to some extent, impaired Mr. Nee- -s ly's health and he found it necessary to make a change. Miss Elizabeth Mabry, a student at Wlnthrop college, met with an accident at the college Monday afternoon In which her escape from death seems almost miraculous. While leaning nmlnat fho roIHn?r that aiirrnnnHa th? elevator shaft on the third floor of the college, the structure gave way and the young lady plunged down to meet, as all who witnessed the awful accident expected, s'jre and sudden death at the bottom of the shaft, but to the great surprise of all she was picked up uninjured, with the exception of some very painful bruises, none of which are thought to be serlcus. It is thought that she struck some object projecting from the side of the shaft and in this way the force of her fall was somewhat broken before she ? reached the bottom of the shaft Capt. J. D. Cosby, of the Catawba Rifles is making an earnest effort to get his company in shape to pass the *" annual inspection next month. The meetings every Tues'lay evening for practice drill are very well attended and Capt. Cozby hopes to have his company in good shape for the inspection. The Rev. J. C. Johnes will deliver his farewell sermon at the Church of Our Savior Sunday morning and will leave during the first of next week for his new home in California. . ? . 3 The Business Side of It.?Let us for a moment, present the business side of this proposition In cold facts and figures. The world's requirement of American cotton for consumptic i Is about 11,000.000 bales per annum, and an 11,000,000 bale crop will, therefore, sell easily at 10 cents per pound. or idbU.UUU.UUU. A 13,uuu,uuu Daie cruy would furnish not only the world's requirement, but a surplus of 2,000,000 additional. Such a crop, following upon the heels of the present depression, could not be expected to sell for ^ more than 5 cents per pound next fall. This would give for a 13,000,000 bale cron $325,000,000. Add to the cost of producing the extra 2,000,000 bales $25 oer bale,' and we have a sum of expenses incurred in prcducing the surplus of at least $50,000,000 which would be saved to the farmers on the smaller nroduction of 11,000,000 bales and Increase the gross value of the lessercrop to $600,000,000. Now, deduct the total value of the larger crop amounting to $325,000,000 from the gross value of the lesser crop, and you have n net saving of $250,000,000 in favor of reenilatlng the supplv to meet the legitimate demand. These figures are so nlain and simple that any man of orlinary Intelligence should be able to nolv? the problem in favor of decreasing his acreage so as to produce In the aggregate the lesser crop. The nee ^ " ain on an 11,000,000 bale crop, according to the figures given above, would be enough to give $15 per capita for ?very man, woman and child in the MMith, aside from guaranteeing ar abundance of food supply crops to beraised from the acreage heretoforeplanted in cotton. It would also furnish enough money to build 2,500 cotton mills In a single year at an averlge cost of $100,000 for each plant. In nther words, the curtailment of pro