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Scraps anil .facts. ? Eugene L. Sturgis was convicted In the New York district court last week of offering a bribe of 5200 for an appointment as rural delivery carrier. He was sentenced to pay a fine of $200 and to go to prison for one year. The bribe was offered to a government officer. ? Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Reynolds was licked out at the hands of a show man recently. TJie ?hii?mnn imDorted four elephants and declared their value at $2,300. The appraisers put the value of the animals at $4,000 and the government confiscated them on account of the undervaluation. Pending further Investigation the feeding: of the elephants became a problem, and the assistant treasurer finally decided to turn them back into the hands of the show man. ? Another wreck occurred last Saturday morning in the yards of the Southern railway at Danville, Va., resulting in the Instant death of two men and the injuring of a number of others, one of whom will die. The dead are: George C. Kinney of Thomasville, N. C., was the engineer. Unknown man, probably a tramp, whose body was mangled and burned beyond recognition. Train No. 34 crashed Into a freight train standing on the track. Fire broke out in the freight wreck, but was soon brought under control by the Danville fire department. Four freight cars were burned. Ford, the negro fireman, will probably die. The names of the other injured have not been secured, dui iuciuucu postal clerks on 34 and a number of passengers, who were shaken and bruised but are not considered as being serious. No. 34 is opposite No. 33. on which President Spencer was recently killed near Lynchburg. Engineer Kinney was a brother of the engineer on the train which ran into President Spencer's car and who had a remarkable escape from death. ? The secretary of the treasury has issued the following open letter to the banking institutions of the country: "A very marked scarcity of small bills is noticeable everywhere and the treasury is powerless to relieve. In the absence of legislation allowing national banks to issue a large proportion ol their circulation in denominations ol $5, the banks themselves must be relied upon to alleviate the strain as far as possible. There are in circulation nearly $15,000,000 in silver certificates of the denomination of $10. Many of these are doubtless packed away In the vaults of various banking institutions and held as reserve. Permit me respectively to ask that each institution, state and national, search the money in Its vaults and send these $10 silver certificates to the treasury They will be promptly converted into ones and twos to the very great reliel of the country. It is the only remedy Let no bank complain of conditions until it has literally searched Its own vaults and contributed as far as possible to the relief of the situation." ? Philadelphia Record: The last ol the unidentified portraits of Revolutionary heroes, which hang In Independence Hall was a few days ago after nearly six years of anxious work, proved to be that of a South Carolina captain by the name ol William Smith. Smith's chief clairr to distinction ties in tho fact that, al though but eighteen years of age al the outbreak of the Revolution Ik promptly organized a company and joined with a body of Georgian troops in making a successful attack against the British garrison at Fort Anderson The picture was one of many painted by James Sharpless, the English portrait painter, during a visit to this city about 1794. The youthful appearance of the subject was the most puzzling feature, as it was supposed that all the sitters to the artist were old men. The identification was finally accomplished through an engrav ing made of Captain Smith about 1810 by Savage. Once the-name had beer secured it was comparatively easy tc trace the career of the distinguished southerner, and the years of search have at last been fully rewarded. The portrait was properly tagged. ? Marion% N. C., special of Decembei 9. to Charlotte Observer. The explosion of two cases of dynamite in one of the tunnels on the construction work of the South and Western railway Friday night, resulting In the death of one white man, five negroes and one Indian and .serious iniurv to seven others, deserves more than a passing notice. The explosion occurred about two hundred feet from the point of the tunnel and about the same distance from the end where the air drills were being operated. One of the men was ordered to open up the dynamite and while hammering the lid of one of the cases it suddenly exploded with territic results. The men working on a horizontal line with the explosion were all killed and horribly mangled. Only a few small fragments of the man who caused the explosion were found. One man was hurled entirely out of the tunnel Those working above a horizontal with the explosive were not killed, bul were injured, some severely. Every man in the tunnel was more or less injured. A mule standing hitched tc a car near the explosion was blown with the car, through the portal ol the tunnel, and down the side of tht mountain. The car was a complett wreck, but the mule came out with out a scratch and after disentangling Itself from the wreck, returned to the tunnel, but after sniffing the odor ol the explosion and viewing the scent of death for a few minutes kicked uj. its heels and made a bee line for fht stable. The Indian was sent last nighi to Whittier for interment. ? Secretary Hester's weekly cottor statement issued last Friday shows: For the seven days of December ar increase over last year of 172,000 and an increase over the same period yeat before last of 83.000. For the ninetyeight days of the season that have elapsed, the aggregate is ahead the same days of last year 412,000 and behind the same days year before las! 307.000. The amount brought intc sight during the past week has beer 591,448 bales against 419.616 for the same seven days last year, and 508,658 ! "???? loot TV*n mAonmnnt clnnn j rai uctuir iaoi. i lie IIIVV vnivii? "?"vv September 1 shows receipts at all I'nited States ports to be 4,717,049 aKainst 4,302,780 last year. Overland across the Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers to northern mills and Canada 343,366 against 304,781 last year, interior stock in excess of those held at the close of the commercial year 481,434 against 539.343 last year; southern mill takings 789,000 against 774,126 last year. The total movement since September 1 is 6,322,849 against 5,921,030 last year. Foreign exports for the week have been 303,580 against 233,157 last year, making the total thus far for the season 3.194,108 against 2.678.231 last year. The total takings of American mills, north, south and Canada, thus far for the season have been 1,623,017 against 1,728,976 last year. Stocks at the seaboard and the twenty-nine leading southern Interior j centres have Increased during the week 121,104 bales against an Increase during the corresponding period last season of 28,468. Including stocks left over at ports and interior ! towns from the last crop ana me num, ber of bales brought Into sight thus ! far from the new emit, the supply to , date is (K630.619 against 6.365,591 for the same period last year. ?hr ^(orki'iUf inquirer. , TORKVILLE, S. C.i TUESDAY, DECEMBER II. IU06. It is said that Rev. C. W. Creighton proposes to institute proceedings in the state courts against the people who have been moving against him in the South Carolina conference.. He will charge criminal libel. T.hje Progressive Farmer, In its issue of December 6, reproduced The Enquirer's recent editorial on the relations between the hunter and the land owner and invites discussion of the points suggested. The main point in the editorial was that while game of all kinds may be under the protection of the state; the right of the hunter to go on lands of another must ' necessarily be controlled by the owner 1 of the land. 1 The president is said to be anxious for the passage of the resolution call1 ing upon him to furnish the information upon which he acted in the case of the negro battalion at Brownsville, : Texas. It would seem that the president could very well afTord to rest 1 the entire case on the showing that has already been published by the secretary of war and which appears on the first page of today's issue of ' The Enquirer. The action of the house in putting 1 an end to the simplified spelling fool1 ishness is very gratifying; but not es ! pecially surprising. Of all the fooiisn things that Mr. Roosevelt has done 1 since he has been before the public, none has been more foolish than this effort to dictate to the people how cer1 ialr. words should be spelled. But the 1 country, it seems, is hardly ready for the establishment of a new epoch in literature with nothing to recommend f it further than that its birth would . have to be dated from the Rooseveltian . period. i Now comes the information that the i Southern's No. 97 is not to be discont tinued; but that the Southern railroad i has merely decided not to ask for any ignore suboidioe. The eituatlon is just t this. In consideration of the subsidy j it has been receiving the Southern unI dertook to make a schedule that was , fixed by the postmaster general, subt mitting to fines in case of failure. It is now claimed that the fines have I been so frequent and heavy as to con. sume all the profits, and the subsidy , will not be asked for again. No. 97 , will continue in two sections; but the > schedule will be several hours later I than heretofore. The Road Question. While there is no question of the I fact that the subject of good roads is i a matter of very grave concern to a , large majority of the peopl6 of this I country, especially with all who have { occasion to come In practical contact ( with the hardships of the situation, it will be no harm perhaps to admit that all of us are more or less remiss in our duties in this regard. When in traveling we come across 1 a particularly rough or muddy piece 1 of road, a piece of road that could have been avoided by a little work at the ! proper time or that could be remedied 1 by a little work now, we are inclined to get hot under the collar and throw 1 the blame at the county supervisor, the county board of commissioners, 1 the road overseers and everybody else ( except ourselves, the really responsible ! delinquents. ! To tell the right plain truth, there 1 never has been a time when the roads ' of this county have received anything like the attention that is naturally re! quired to put them in proper condil H,.n -jn^ thfliF upfl nnt rono 1 v I n fp that attention now. But at the same time, It is just as well to admit for the sake of frankness, that there has been 1 more good. Intelligent road work in York county during the past fifteen ' years than ever before, and that the 1 roads, taken as a whole are probably r as good as they have ever been at this ' season. However, while we believe this > to be a true statement of the situation, . we do not want to be understood for a f moment as asserting that the condl: tions of the roads of this county?any ! of them?are of the slightest credit to the overseers, the county commis: sioners, or the people at 'arge, includs ing every citizen of the county. 1 There has been a good deal of talk ; about the chaingang, about its ex? pense, and about its alleged general i inefficiency. We have heard such talk ? from various sources, and it is the exception rather than the rule when anyi body has anything to say in defense of the chaingang. Our own impression { is that this view is both right and I wrong. That the chaingang costs a . great deal of money, there is no ques. tion; but that it is worse than useless , we are not prepared to agree. On the . contrary we believe it comes pretty nearly giving value received for all it ; costs. But the trouble Is tnut many i people expect everything of the chain, gang, and the more they expect of i the chaingang the less they are inI clined to do themselves. ( Now, while we do not want to be [ understood as entering into a defense i of the chaingang system, or of undertaking to argue whether better results can be accomplished by the contract system, we do want to call attention to a few facts. The chaingang has done more or less work in every township of the county. It has never done as much work in any township as the people Immediately interested desired; but still candor compels the admission that practically every road upon which the chaingang has ever worked is the better for the work that has been done. Of course there may be rea sonable grounds for criticism of much of the work. It is quite possible that the same labor and expense. In many instances may have been applied to better advantage: but still the fact remains that much good work has been done. The first piece of really creditable, permanent work that was done by the chaingang probably, was on the Charlotte road for several miles out of Yorkville. That was about ten years ago. The Charlotte road has since gotten in bad condition again; ' but even now It is much better than when the chaingang first began operations on It. The road from here to Rock Hill has many bad places in it. There are frequent gullies and long stretches of mud perhaps, but let the candid, competent man who was acquainted with conditions six or seven years ago compare those conditions with the conditions as they exist now and give his verdict. It will be in favor of the chaingang. It will be the same with reference to certain roads leading into Rock Hill, roads in Bethel township. King's Mountain township, Bethesda township, in fact wherever the chaingang has worked. But the chaingang cannot do it all. That is a simple proposition in common sense. And the question just now should be, not so much what the chaingang is doing as, what are the road overseers and road hands doing? There is the real crux of the situation. Say that the chaingang really does cost some $10,000 or $12,000 a year, can we expect to keep in repair and maintain between 800 and 900 mites of road at such a small expense? And this is not all. A still more important question is this: Are the road overseers and road hands doing their duty as thoroughly as the chaingang? There are or ought to be as many as 6,000 people in York county who are subject to road duty of not less tnan four days each, and If these did their duty each mile of road In the county could get an average of a full month's work during the year. That would come pretty near giving us good roads. While we are not willing to assent to the proposition that the chaingang is worse than useless, we are almost willing to subscribe to the proposition that with a few honorable exceptions, the road overseers are generally neglecting their duty. There are road sections in the county where not a single road hand has struck a lick of work for years, and it is a fact that the road law is each year becoming more and more a dead letter. It has been suggested that the chaingang is responsible for this?that instead of fixing their roads themselves, everybody is waiting for the chaingang, and if this be true, then we yield that the chaingang is really worse than useless. But in all seriousness, the road hands can do lots if they will. The mere. cleaning out of ditches and throwing of the dirt to the centre of the road and so directing the drainage as to guard against the water from adjoining fields, and preventing the washing of gullies in the roads will help things wonderfully. If along with proper direction of the drainage the road hands will fill up the holes and gullies that have already made travel so ditficult, the situation will be very much Improved. And it is a fact that even under present conditions. all the people eligible to road duty could do all that would be necessary in less than four days. That the chaingang and all the balance of the road working system is <?ipn to critleism will have to be freely admitted; but at the same time it will be just as well for all of us to remember that if we would have good roads we must either pull off our coats or go down into our pockets, and if we decline to yield to either alternative, we will continue to pay the bills all the satne, the important difference being that the expense of neglect will be assessed in the shape of penalties. REPORT OF THE GINNERS. Census Bureau Puts Figures at 10,025,445 Bales. The census bureau on yesterday issued a bulletin showing the total amount of cotton of the crop of 1906 ginned to Dec. 1, to have been 10,026,445 bales, counting round bales as half bales. The total number of ginneries in operation is given as 28,211. This is compared with the figures of 1905, when the report showed 8,689,663 bales ginned and 28,609 active ginneries. By states the cotton ginned and the number of ginneries were as follows: Bales. Ginneries. Alabama 1,019,473 3,593 Arkansas 570,398 2,293 Florida 50,300 207 Georgia 1,391,496 4,545 Indian Territory .. 287,136 534 Kentucky 983 3 Louisiana 670,896 2,030 Mississippi 1.018,272 3,699 Missouri 28,604 79 North Carolina .... 490,141 2,719 Oklahoma 276,613 368 Snnfh r"?n>ltnH 770.244 3.104 Tennessee 183.557 682 Texas 3,266,545 4,176 Virginia 10,187 116 The statistics of this report include 41,516 sea island bales for 1906 and 81,695 for 1905. The sea island cotton for 1906 is distributed by states as follows: Florida, 19,159; Georgia, 17,190: South Carolina,*5,167. Internal Revenue Receipts.?Notwithstanding the fact, says a Washington dispatch, that the internal revenue bureau will operate for six months of this fiscal year under the free alcohol act, Commissioner Yerkes predicts that the total revenues will aggregate $260,000,00. He announced in his annual report that the receipts for the year ended June 30, were $249,102,738. This was an excess of almost $15,000,000 over the collections of the preceding year. The largest amount of revenue was derived from distilled spirits, fermented liquors and tobaccos. Dealing with round numbers, the tax collected from spirits reached nearly $137,000,000; on liquors a little over $54,500,000, and on tobacco a little less than $48,500,000. The commissioner says that if a law is enacted urovidinsr a charge of 20 cents a stamp to rectifiers or wholesale dealers for use on packages sent out by them a revenue of over $750,000 would be derived. He also wants a charge of 25 cents a gallon imposed upon all brandy withdrawn for fortification purposes. He estimates that this would produce about $1,000,000 per annum. Illinois ranks first in the payment of taxes, with New York second, and Indiana. Kentucky Pennsylvania, and Ohio following in the order named. The smallest amounts come from Idaho. Maine, Mississippi, Nevada, North Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming. He reports an increase in the amount of tobacco and snuff manufactured and in the production of beer. ? Mr. Wallace Lawson, a farmer of Union county, who lives several miles from the court house, was held up and robbed last Friday night while on his way home from town. The robbers tied him, gagged him and relieved him of $27 in cash. They left him in the road, where he remained until a late hour before he could get relief. The sheriff has since been looking out for the highwaymen. LOCAL, AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. J. E. Mendenhall?Solicits your shoe repairing. Located In the Allison block, next to National bank. S. W. Ionian?Offers several mules, harrows, wagons, etc., for sale. H. H. Beard, Agent?Serves notice on patrons as to express and telegram deliveries during the holidays. Mrs. Foushee?Publishes her card as a professional dressmaker. Over Foushee's old stand. C. E. Spencer, Pres.?Requests meet ni?9 ui luniiniup uiiun aoauuiakiuiio to elect delegates to county convention and for other purposes.. John E. Carroll, Clerk?Calls meeting of Yorkville camp of W. 0. W., for Thursday night to elect officers, etc. York Drug Store?Invites everybody to see its immense stock of holiday goods now on display. Gift articles of all kinds at all prices. Strauss-Smith Co.?Has a big line of heavy goods for winter wear, and says its prices are lowest on thdse goods. First National Bank?Tells you not to wait on success?go ahead and make it for yourself. Bank of Hickory Grove?Gives its best attention to all classes of the banking business. M. W. White?Tells you that printers' Ink will make you money If you use It properly. York Supply Co.?Has all necessary ingredients for fruit cakes, nuts, fruits, etc. Axes and handles. I. W. Johnson?Gives you a pointer as to where to get various kinds of fancy groceries. Star Drug Store?Invites you to visit It for all kinds of articles suitable for gifts for father, mother, sister, brother, etc. Yorkvllle Hardware Co.?Calls atten-[ tion to Lynchburg middle-busters. They say it is the best to be had. Thomson Co.?Announces a special sale of silks for next Thursday? one day only. x W. Adickes Co.?Asks you a question and leaves the answer with you. A full stock of groceries, crockery, glass, and Xmas goods. Produce of various kinds wanted. The concreting of Yorkville's sidewalks did much to Increase real estate valuations, and by all means the work should be continued. There is at least one encouraging thing that can be said of the Bethel township road movement, and that is lhat it is in the nature of a highly creditable start. If the road question has not yet passed from the talk stage to the work stage, It seems high time that the people of this country were entering upon the transition. In accordance with the time honored custom of country newspapers, The Enquirer force will suspend work during a portion of the Christmas holidays. It is our purpose to shut down our machinery on the afternoon of Friday, December 21, and not resume active business operations yntil Wednesday morning, December 26. This means the suspension of the Issue of The Enquirer that would otherwise be due to appear on Tuesday, December 25. All our patrons are respectfully requested to take due notice o this announcement. Both because we have been requested to do so, and because of Its very great Importance to the cotton growers of the county and state and cotton belt, we call special attention to the notice appearing on another page of the meeting of the various township cotton associations in the county, to be held at their respective places of meeting next Saturday, at 1 o'clock In the afternoon. There is very little doubt about it; considerable apathy seems to exist; but is it not because cotton is bringing such a good price? And Is it not well for the farmers to reflect that but for the influence the association has been able to exert upon the market, directly or Indirectly, cotton might now be bringing a few cents lower than it really Is selling for? WITHIN THE TOWN. ? The Neely Manufacturing company has put out a large number of wateroaks in and around its grounds. , ? Jungs, the Chinese laundryman, has moved his place of business to the J. E. Lowry building next to Louis Roth's. ? Mr. R. J. Herndon is laying down material and getting ready for the erection of his proposed new building on the Parish hotel old site. ? Local merchants are beginning to make handsome displays of Christmas goods. They are showing more nice things for Christmas than have been seen in Yorkville for years. ? Mr. F. E. Smith is considering the opening of a street through from West Madison to West Liberty. If he does so. it will make available some thirty or more residence lots, close into Main street. ? The Christmas Bazaar to be held under the auspices of the ladies of the Methodist church is to be next Friday night, December 14, at the residence of Mrs. Louis Roth. Extensive arrangements are being made to make a great success of the occasion. ? Mr. J. E. Mendenhall, the well known deaf mute shoemaker, has moved to Yorkville and opened a shop in the passage way between the First Nutional bank and the store of the Withers Adlckes Co. Mr. Mendenhall formerly lived in the Bowling Green neighborhood, and after working a number of years there as a shoemaker. served a regular apprenticeship at Raleigh. N. C. He is a good workman and is reliable. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mrs. Mary Barrier is in Yorkvllleon a visit to her sister, Mrs. R. E. Heath. Miss Marion I..ogan left last week for Pritchardville, Beaufort county, to teach school. Mr. Ellas Inman is critically ill at his home near Bullock's Creek with pneumonia. Prof. R. J. Herndon is teaching the Highland Park band at Rock Hill and says it is coming on nicely. Mr. Arthur Wray of Cat*wba county. N*. ('., Is with Mr. J. Q. Wray as salesman during the holidays. Mr. John L. Stacy is representing Alpine lodge of Clover, at the Masonic lodge in session at Charleston this week. Information from Mr. C. G. Parish, who was reported critically ill with pneumonia is to the effect that he is much better and that unless complications set in he is on a fair road to recovery. Mr. J. B. Wood of Filbert No. 1, has been having quite a rough time recently with an ugly carbuncle on his upper lip. He reported for duty as a juryman yesterday, looking somewhat the worse for his experience; but is now decidedly on the mend. Mr. J. Leander Parish, who has been in bud health for some time at his home just without the northern corporate limits of Yorkville, does not appear to mend very rapidly. He is suffering from heart trouble. He is able to be up most of the time; but keeps closely in his room. Mr. Parish is far past three score years and ten. Master Walter Carroll of Yorkville was slightly wounded in the arm last Saturday by the accidental discharge of a very light shotgun in the hands of Master Edward Spencer. The two boys were hunting a few miles north of town when the accident occurred. Young Carroll Is getting along nicely and will probably sustain no serious Inconvenience as the result of the *wound. CIRCUIT COURT. When the last issue of The EJpquirer went to press the court had Just concluded the trial of the case of E. B. Mendenhall vs. the Carolina and Northwestern railroad and L. T. Nichols. A statement of the case was printed last Friday. The Jury remained out but a short time and returned a verdict for the defendant. The next case was that of S. Q. Sims, plaintiff, vs. the Southern railroad and Charles Russell. This was an action for (2,000 damages for false arrest. On March 3, the plaintiff was arrested by the defendant, Russell, representing the defendant Southern railroad company on the charge of robbing a train. The arrest was effected in the town of Fort Mill at 8.50 p. m? and plaintiff was held until the next evening at 7 o'clock, being denied any opportunity to show In the meantime that he was not the party wanted. The Jury found for the plaintiff in the sum of (1,500. Messrs. Wilson & Wilson for plaintiff; J. E. McDonald for defendant. The next case was that of Callsta Hope and Mary E. Hope, plaintiffs vs. R. D. Hope. This was a suit for (50 rental on a piece of land claimed by the plaintiffs. The real issue involved the title of the land. The Jury found for the defendant. Q. W. S. Hart for plaintiff; John R. Hart for defendant. The business of last week was concluded with the foregoing, and when court convened yesterday morning, the sheriff reported the following fourth week jurors as not found: J. P. Darnell, W. W. Harris, Claude Creighton, Ladd Mobley. The following fourth week jurors answered the call of the clerk: A. J. Berry, C. Hi Williams, H. J. Sheirer, James A. Sherrer, J. B. Wood, A. R. Starnes, J. H. Quinn, J. M. Baker, W. R. Harper, J. M. Caldwell, J. R. Conner, D. D. Branch, R. E. Conrad, J. M. Ferguson, W. W. Whitesldes, D. M. Hall. Geo. P. Jenkins, W. V. Branson, G. G. Allen, B.,M. Fewell, M. C. Gourley, C. La Kennedy, J. A. McGlll, J. A. Harvey, T. M. Allen, J. A. Funk, T. W. Moore, D. M. Benfield. The following were excused by the court: J. B. Pegram, R. B. Riddle, B. B. Whitesldes, W. D. Wolfe. The following additional Jurymen were served from the five mile box to fill out the panel: J. O. Robinson, -J. E. Carroll, T. N. Wood, Raymond Carroll, Truman Youngblood? M. H. Jackson, W. C. l^ind, L. L. Smith, J. E. Gettys. The first case taken up yesterday was that of E. P. Carnes, as administrator of the estate of Ellen Carnes deceased, against the Southern railroad company and D. G. McAllister. McAllister is the engineer. The suit was for damages on account of the filling of Ellen Carnes at the Manchester mill, Rock Hill, by a northbound passenger train on the morning of August 1, 1905. .Mrs. Carnes was killed as she attempted to cross the railroad track ahead of the engine. I The nifLintirr claimed that the defend ants failed to blow their whistle or ring their bell. The defendants claimed to have done both. M. B. Jennings and W. B. McCaw for plaintiff; J. E. McDonald for defendant The argument in this case had not been concluded when The Enquirer went to press. His honor will charge the Jury this afternoon. LOCAL LACONIC8. Leach-Mercer. Gaffney, December 9: Miss Alice Mercer of Gaffney, and Mr. Morgan Leech of Hickory Grove, were married at the home of the bride on the evening of December 5th. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Mercer, and the groom is the son of Mr. Geo. Leech of Hickory Grove. Almost a Hundred. Mrs. Luclnda Wells died at the home of her son, Mr. E. B. Wells, near Henry's Knob, last Saturday in the ninety-eighth year of her age. Mrs. Wells was the widow of the late Robert Wells, who died about twenty years ago, and has since been living with her children. She was the mother of thirteen children, of whom six sur vlve. The oldest child, If living would be seventy-eight years of age. In many respects Mrs. Wells was a remarkable woman. The vitality she showed in her old age was wonderful. Even after she was eighty .years old, she thought little of walking from the home of one child to another, often a distance of seven or eight miles. She was a member of Bethany church, and until within the past two years was a pretty regular attendant going to and from church, a distance of about two miles on foot. Her maiden name was Gladden. The funeral took place at Bethany last Sunday, the services being conducted by the pastor, Rev. R. M. Stephenson. Business Men as Jurors. Judge Prince on yesterday refused to accept the statutory 520 from a Jurymun in lieu of service. While the various Jurymen who, for one reason or another were seeking to be excused from further attendance, Mr. C. L. Kennedy tendered to the clerk the sum of twenty dollars, the fine which the statute assesses against people who refuse or neglect to answer a summons to serve on a jury. Judge Prince immediately desired to know Mr. Kennedy's reason for not desiring to serve. Mr. Kennedy replied that his business interest were such as to demand his attention and he considered it preferable to pay the fine rather than lose the time on the jury. "Well, but you are just the kind of a man we want on the Jury, and I am unwilling to excuse you," Judge Prince replied. Then his honor continued: i? iu hnuirpss men we want, and bus iness men only. If there is a man on this venire who will affirm that he has had no business during the past three years and has none now. I will excuse him at once. We do not want him." Progress of Farm Work. A gentleman who had occasion to make a trip from Yorkvllle to Bullock's Creek a few days ago, says he wits astonished at the amount of fall farm work that had been done. "It j looked," he said, "as if seventy-five per cent of the cotton stalk land has been plowed up." He went on to remark that a number of farmers have first been going over their cotton stalks with smoothing harrows to knock off the dead bolls, leaves and limbs and then following in some cases with "middle busters," and in others with disc plows. He saw one field of about a hundred acres that had been turned over with disc plows, and taken altogether he Is satisfied that the farm work generally Is more advanced than has often been the case In February and March. This gentleman also went on to say that in his opinion crops have been rather better down In thi Bullock's Creek section than In other .ocalltles. Also he noted numerous other evidences of prosperity. lots of newly covered buildings, new outbuildings, better fences and so on. ROCK HILL AND VICINITY. Preaching by Rev. Jamea Graham?Affairs at Winthrop?Man Killed at Bessemer Formerly Lived Near Newport. JurrMpondence of the York rill* Enquirer. Rock Hilx, December 10.?The Rev. James Graham of the Southern Presbyterian mission in China, occupied th** niihnlt of th*> Plrsf Prpshvtprlan church Sunday morning and gave his hearers a most interesting talk on "A Day's Work in China." Instead of an ordinary missionary talk upon generalities of the work he took his audience with him into the everyday'life of a missionary . from the time he arises until he sleeps. It was extremely 'interesting. Mrs. Graham who Is with her husband here talked to the ladies of the church Friday afternoon and to the "Covenanters," the church organization for the young people of both sexes, from ten to seventeen years, Sunday afternoon. Both Mr. and Mrs. Graham are known here where they have visited before. Mrs. Graham is a sister of Mrs. Alexander Sprunt of Charleston, and they leave here Monday morning for that city, where they will spend the winter. The joint celebration of "Winthrop" and "Curry" literary societies of Winthrop college will be held In the college auditorium Monday evening1. An Interesting programme will be presented. Miss Mary W. Blodgett, one of the secretaries of the Young Women's Christian association, whose home is In Atlanta has been Invited to spend a week at Winthrop college. She will be there this week and, beginning Tuesday and continuing through Friday, will each afternoon talk to the Y. W. C. A. about "The Women of the Bible." 8. W. Bagley, a young man who was reared In the vicinity of Rock Hill, K\r Vfr T W Millar nf Vownnrt nnrl who lived here until a few months ago, was killed at Bessemer City, N. C. He attempted to cross the track in front of a train which was slowing down and fell In front of the engine. He was horribly mangled and killed Instantly. He was a young man of good habits and a member of Tlrzah Associate Reformed Presbyterian church. He was an orphan. From this state he went to Bessemer City to clerk for Dr. D. A. Garrison. The remains were sent t^ Richburg In Chester county, where a brother of the leceased lives. , A marriage of much Interest here, where the prospective groom was born and reared and where the prospective bride Is known as a student of Wlnthrrp. Is that of Miss Martha Caroline Gibson of Newberry, who on Wednesday evening, the 19th, will be wedded to Mr. Cecil Latta Reld. Mr. Reld, who is a son of the late Sam L. Reld, one of the most popular men, who ever lived in Rock Hill, Is a graduate of Clemson college and has since his graduation been civil engineering in Virginia and the north. He is now located near Fredericksburg, Va. MORE HOCUS POCUS. Is State Board Trying to Make Showing For State at Expense of Counties? Beaufort county's dispensary profits will not be as large this year as they were last. The state board of control have sent out new price lists, which went into effect December first, and which raised the cost price to the county, on the cheap grades, without raising the selling price. The state board fixes all prices and profits, and it Is difficult to see why it has reduced the county's share. Heretofore the profit at the Beaufort dispensary has been about 22 per cent, and this new order reduces it to about 17 per cent. In other words the county, and the towns in the county, will get less tjian three-fourths the profits heretofore received. This reduction In profits applies only to X and XX corn, rye and gin, but as these are by far the largest sellers in this county the effect will be to cause the loss stated. No explanation of this move has been made by the state board that we have heard of. It is suggested that the board is in a tight place about that school fund and wants to make a good showing before the legislature meets. For one of the effects has been to make It appear that the state's profits have been enormously increased this month. It works this way; the state board charges each dispensary what it sees fit, and credits up its profits on each shipment as it goes out of the warehouse in Columbia; now it sends down notice, not only that It will raise the cost price after December first, but also that the county dispensaries must pay back to the state the advance on all goods now on hand. Ah a result the diSDensary in the town of Beaufort Is charged up with some 1140, being the amount of goods on hand December 1st that had been arbitrarily advanced by the board. They send out a retroactive Invoice?charge another profit on goods already charged up. By this move they deliberately put their hands Into the profits credited to the towns and counties of the state, and appropriate what they chose. Who Is to get this $140 already taken away from us and the fourth of our future profits? It Is to go to paying off those robbers who have been selling the state poor liquor at enormous prices, and whose accounts this state board was authorised to refuse to pay? Some explanation from the state board Is In order.?Beaufort Gazette. MERE-MENTION. The will of Samuel Spencer was admitted to probate In Washington last Friday. The estate Is valued at less than $100,000 and Is divided between the widow and three children The death of the shah of Persia was reported a few days ago; but afterward the report was contradicted. It is understood, however, that the shah is In the last stages of a fatal disease and the end cannot be far off The weekly bank statement issued by the New York banks last Saturday showed a deficit of $6,072,771 under the legal reserve Orthodox Jews of New York have protested against Christmas exercises In the public schools The battleship Vermont was successfully tested off Boston last Saturday, making the required average of eighteen knots an hour S. W. Bagley, a well known young man of Bessemer City, N. C., was run over and killed by the Southern's No. 12 last Saturday Former United States Senator Brown of Utah was shot and probably fatally wounded In a Washington hotel last Saturday by Mrs. Anna M. Bradley of Salt Lake city. Mrs. Bradley claims that Brown Is the father of her two children and she shot him because he refused to marry her. She has been divorced from her husband. Brown's wife died recently. Chester Gillette, who was recently convicted at Herkimer, N. Y., of the murder of Grace Brown, has been sentenced to death In the electric chair, during the week commencing January 28 Senator Lodge has introduced a resolution calling for International Investigation of the reputed Belgian jatrocltes In the Congo Free states The Postal Telegraph company has sent out a notice to the effect that no more franks will be honored after January 1 next. 80UTH CAROLINA NEW8. I ? Andrew Carnegie ha* donated 1 15.000 to Richard Carroll's Industrial ' school. 1 ? Mr. Fraser Lyon returned to Abbeville yesterday from an extended trip to the west. ? James Morrison, a logger at a saw ( mill near Dillon, was instantly killed , last Saturday by the bursting of a ( saw. His hand was cut off and his , chest was laid open. j ? a natrm nnmpil Joe Webster was i shot and killed in Gaffney last Sat- I urday by the wife of another negro ? name Plnck Estes. The shooting was ? done with a single barrel shot gun. I ? Washington special to News and 1 Courier: According to the report of 1 Assistant Postmaster General DeGraw, 1 who has charge of the rural free de- 1 livery mall service, at the close of the ' fiscal year, June 30, 1906, there were 1 in operation in South Carolina 569 1 routes and 93 cases 'pending for the 1 establishment of this service through- j out the state. Of the existing routes only four had a three times a week service, and no routes were discontinued during the fiscal year. There were 91 new routes established during this period and 121 cases were referred to agents for investigation as to the desirability of and necessity for being established. . ? Columbia special of Saturday, to Augusta Chronicle: An interesting civil suit, involving a clash between two local financial cliques, the one headed by President W. A. Clark of the Carolina bank, and the other led by President E. W. Robertson of the .National Lean and Exchange bank, came to a pause today after being on trial over a week and after the Jury had been out all night and half of today. The plaintiffs were Messrs. W. A. Clark. W. H. Lyles and W. G. r>hiMn n?rt of a syndicate which con trols a large block of preferred stock in the street car company at the time It was sold to the Robertson coterie and the defendant was the Columbia Trust company, controlled by the Robertson crowd and through which the street car outfit was purchased. The plaintiffs sued for $18,000, which they claimed was promised them as a guarantee of deferred dividends on an issue of $100,000, $69,000 of which the Syndicate controlled. The trust company gained a majority in another way. and afterward bought the syndicate stock at the price then being paid for such stock. There was lots of talk about secret agreement about the $18,000, and much bitterness engendered, the lawyers taking turns at "roasting" each other's clients. The Jury brought In a verdict today of $2,876.31. The fight is to be kept up. ? Columbia Record. Saturday: Comptroller Ceneral Jones has received a letter from Auditor Burrlss of Anderson county, saying that Senator Latimer, in spite of repeated invitations, refuses to pay any Income tax. Auditor Burriss incloses a letter that he received from Senator Latimer. Mr. Latimer takes the position that the state cannot tax his salary as a United States senator, and says that he and Senator Tillman have consulted lawyers, who have advised them to this effect. Mr. Latimer also says that his income, exclusive of his salary as senator. docs not amount to $2,500 a year. Sj? far the only South Carolina con gfessmen who had made returns for the income tax are: Messrs. Aiken and Johnstone, though both may have considerable Incomes outside of their salaries. The late Attorney General Youmans decided, in the case of District Attorney Capers, that Federal office holders are not liable to the state income tax$>n their salaries from the Federal government. Assistant Attorney General Ray has also made a similar decision in regard to the congressmen. The Idea seems to be that the state cannot tax the Incomes paid by the Federal government to its office hojders, and on the other hand the Federal government cannot tax the incomes of state offices, though each rr^ty tax the incomes of its own officials. There are other good lawyers, however, who hold to a different opinion, and say that the state can tax the lnpomes of all citizens of the state, regardless of the source of the Incojnes. It is likely that a test case will be made to settle the matter, probably with the case of Senator Latimer. ? Columbia correspondence of the News and Courier: When Governor Heyward returns from his visit to his Colleton plantation this week an appointment of the successor to Attorney General Youmans will likely be announced. The position as assistant attorney general is not an office under the law. and there is now no attorney general. Mr. J. Fraser Lyon, who has been in the west for some weeks, but was expected to return to his home In Abbeville yesterday. The term for which Attorney General Gunter was eierted. which Mr. Youmans was fill Ing, does not expire until next month, and It will be necessary for an attorney general to be appointed by the governor to fill out that unexpired term. The annual report of the office Is ^et to be written and sent to the legislature, and Mr. Lyon had requested Mr. Youmans to make the appointments for the engrossing department, for which there are any number of applications. These applications are 1 doubtless most of all interested in the selection of the attorney general. It 1 is presumed that Mr. Lyon has been west on business connected with the work of the investigating committee, ( but he left without telling the public his plans, and It is not at all Impos- ( slble that he was on personal business. , It was understood that the committee would hold another and final meeting this month to wind up Its work and formulate the report of its investigations before the meeting of the , general assembly. The work of the committee was very closely followed by the newspapers, and the public is thoroughly conversant with the re- ( suits, and it Is after all not probable i that all the committee could agree on any report, except the simple transmittal of the evidence. This, it is presumed, is in such shape that it can be turned over to the public printer t at any time by the official stenogra pher, and a portion of It has already been published, the report of the early sessions at Spartanburg and Sumter. ? Charleston special of Sunday to the i Columbia State: It is rumored In railroad circles here that the Southern railway and the Seaboard Air Line have come to an agreement by which 1 the former will turn over its line to " Charleston, formerly the old South j Carolina railroad, enabling the Seaboard Air Line to enter Charleston, ^ which has been planned for some time. The story seems Improbable in a way, but it Is being persistently circulated I and there may be some foundation for t. The plans of the Seaboard Air Line as generally understood, were to >ulld a direct line to Charleston from LugofT, near Camden, but the acquliltlon of the Southern railway route A'ould be preferable, It Is said, to the construction of the new road. It Is arfued that the Southern railway has no lirect Interest in Charleston, its terninals being at other ports, which is :he cause of much of Charleston's complaints of discrimination, and it is perhaps true that with the settlenent of the former antagonism which formerly prevailed between these two systems and the Atlantic Coast Line, tnd the adjustment of conflicting interests, the Southern railway may now t>e willing to part with its branch ine to Charleston. Some time ago on i visit oi me iaie rresiaeui oinum if the Southern railway to Charleston tie spoke very assuringly of a proper realization of the geographical and natural advantages of the port of Charleston, and he might have had in mind the present project of the Seaboard Air Line taking over this branch line and making it a part of its system, and erecting new terminals at Charleston. None of the railroad people in authority would have anything to say for publication about the story and, as stated, it is not known how much truth there is in the rumor. ? Greenville, December 6: The eleventh annual convention of the South ibrollna division of the Daughters of the Confederacy adjourned in this city late this afternoon, and tomorrow morning the visitors will begin leaving for their homes. Chester was selected as the next meeting place, but not without a spirited contest Both Columbia and Spartanburg wanted the honor. Mrs. S. Reid Stoney urged Columbia's claims and presented letters from the mayor of that city with resolutions adopted by various commer elal bodies inviting the delegates to Columbia. Mrs. Bostlck urged the claims of Spartanburg- There werev letters from prominent people in Chester asking the Daughters to make that city their next meeting place, and Chester won. The annual election of officers was carried through In less than 40 minutes, resulting in the reelection of the entire list of state officers. Miss Mary Popperhelro, than whom there is no better presiding officer, will again preside over the deliberation!) of the division. Two new ^tate offices were created, and Mrs. C.. E. Graham of the Greenville chapter was chosen as registrar, while Mrs. Keitt of Clemson was elected recorder jf crosses of honor. The ooaventlon voted to establish a three-year scholarship in some woman's college In South Carolina. The scholarship is to be awarded seme girl who is in need of such assistance and is the daughter of Confederate parents. The oollege will be selected- later. Fifty dollars was appropriated by the division toward the Arlington Confederate monument fund. The following is the list of officers: Miss Mary H, Poppenhelm, president. Charleston; Mrs. 8. Held Stoney, first vice president, Columbia; Mrs. W. L. Coleman, second vtoe president, Johnston; Mrs. Julia K. Campbell, third vice president. Chester; Mrs. w. H. Fowler, fourth viae president, Yorkvllle; Mrs. August Kohn, recording secretary, Columbia; Mrs. H. P. Lynch, corresponding secretary, -~? Cheraw; Miss Mary McMiohael, treasurer, Orangeburg; Mrs. F. B. Barnes, auditor, JonesvUle; Mrs. R, D. Wright, chairman historical committee. Newberry; Mrs. C. E. Graham. Oreenvllle, registrar; Mrs. Keltt, Clemson, recorded of crosses of honor, t * 9 ? A tale of heroism seldom surpassed, was brought to Providence, R, L, yesterday by the tug Walter A. Luckenbach. When every other man on board the tug declined to risk his life in an effort to rescue two men on the foundering barge Buena Ventura, which was in tow of the Luckenbach off Montauk Point last Friday, Mitchell B. Bruso, a Greek seaman stepped up to Capt. John Daly and said that he would make the trip alone. In a small boat at the height of a fierce northeast gale, Bruso rowed to the barge and rescued the captain, Olle Owarsond, whom he-found frozen to the topmast and as soon as he had placed the helpless captain on board the tug. without a moment's rest, and covered with a coating of ice from head to foot, put out again and released Seaman Charles Martin, who was frozen to a floating hatch on which he had been carried away from the sinking barge. The two men of a crew of five were the only ones to escape death. The heroism of Bruso was looked upon by his shipmates, as no less remarkable than his escape from death in the little boat which . every moment seemed likely to be swamped by the mountainous seas. The barge from which three men met Honth won hefnre baine converted for the coal carrying trade, a Spanish tramp steamer. She was the first prize of the United States navy, immediately after the war with Spain broke out, the gunboat Nashville capturing her while she was bound for Cuban ports. The Buena Ventura, coal laden, was the last of a tow of three barges which left Norfolk, Va., in tow of the Luckenbach. The other barges, similarly loaded, were the Carrie Clark and the Annie H. Smith. ? Wllkinsvllle, Mass., dispatch to the New York Sun: This entire village, save only St John's Episcopal church, consisting of two or three mills and some thirty dwellings, was sold under the hammer for $4,925 this afternoon by the Slater family of cotton manufacturing fame to J. J. Quinn of Worcester. The place was once one )f the most Important manufacturing villages on the Blackston river. The history of the village dates back to 1815, when Asa Waters of Mlllbury bought water power privileges. He sold them to David Wilkinson of North Providence, R. I., in 1823. Mr. Wilkinson establlsfcd the manufacturing Industry on a somewhat elaborate basis. but In 1832 the property passed Into the control" of the Sutton Manufacturing company. Since the death r?f H. N. Slater, the head of that corporation, it has been in the hands of trustees. The cotton mill has been Idle since 1897. AT TH6 CHURCHES. ? BAPTIST RKV. I. O. MURRAY, PASTOR. Prayer meeting on Thursday at 3 j. m. .. . CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD. The St. Agnes Guild will meet at the church Friday at 3.30 p. m. Service Friday at 4 p. m. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN. REV. E. E. GILLESPIE, PASTOR. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening it 7 o'clock. rRINITY METHODIST EPISCOPAL There will be no prayer meeting to norrow evening. REV. J. L. STOKES, D. D., PASTOR. ASSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN. REV. W. C. EWAJtT, PASTOR. Prayer meeting Wednesday afterloon at 4.30 o'clock. .. |he gorhcilU (fotton jStarket. ? jjteaefc Corrected Semi-Weekly by Mwri, Letts Broe. Vcrkviiae, December 11, 12 m.?The oca: market stands as follows: Cotton 10 to 10|