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Straps and $acts?.
? Three negroes who were to have been
hanged at Arkadelphia, Arkansas, last
Friday, have been granted respite until the
supreme court shall have had opportunity
to review the case. The men are convicted
of murdering Joe Horton, a colored
boarding house keeper, who had made
himself obnoxious to them by affiliating
with the Democratic party.
? A Memphis dispatch of Friday gives
the names of several persons composing a
St. Louis firm, the manipulators of the
bagging trust, and savs they have been
indicted by the grand jury of that city,
charged with conspiring to obtain control
of all bagging material and advance
prices to double what they were before.
Requisition papers will be applied for at
once and the indidted men will be brought
to Memphis for trial.'
? At Keytesville, Mo., on the 26th in
? j? ?_ ~e
stant. James xaxmuuge, sun ui
late A. A. Talmadge, general manager of
the Wabash Railway, was convicted of
murder in the second degree for killing
* a telegraph operator named C. P. Tidd,
one year ago, and was sentenced to
twenty-one years in the penitentiary.
The homicide was the result of a quarrel
over orders for the train of which young
Talmadge was conductor.
n/ ? Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, the ex-confedA
erate leader, is living quietly at the Palace
hotel, San Francisco. His hair and beard
are snow white, but his eyes are dark and
have the gleam of his fighting days. He
is particular about his dress?that is, that
it should be always neat?and he still bears
himself as a soldier. Gen. Johnston is the
last of the officers of the confederacy to bear
the ftili rank of general. He was a classmate
at West Point with Gen. Sherman,
whom he still speaks of as "Tecump."
? Gen. Greely says in his annual report
that during the past year about 76 per cent,
of the weather predictions proved successful.
This is a fair showing, and yet the
margin of dout' is large. There is a law
in the progress.on of storm centres, and
with all the stations under the control of
the chief signal office, experience and observations
are destined to reduce materially
this-field of doubt in the official forecasts.
There were last year 503 false cold wave
signals sent out in a total of 1,743. Eleven
hundred cities and towns receive daily
weather indications by telegraph.
\V ?There was a circus at Chestertown,
A Maryland, one day last week, and with it
f x were seven elephants. Their car was run
alongside a locomotive. One of the elephants
put his trunk out through a crevice
in the car, reached over to the tender
of the locomotive, lifted the lid of the
water tank and helped nimself. The other
six elephants did the same, and in a
short time the tank was dry. The train
hands did not see the performance, and
only when the engineer tried to start the
engine did he find that the water was
con o.
o
? Late advices from Hayti state that
never before has Port au Prince passed
such a night as that of September 28. The
night, to Degin with, was dreadfully dark,
the heavens being a mass of black clouds,
with an occasional flash of lightning. Revolution
was abroad. Firing commenced at
7.30 P. M., and the cannons and Gatling
guns of the palace did dreadful execution,
as did also the shots from the big guns on
Fort Alexander, which crashed clear
through buildings, destroying everything
and everybody with which they came in
contact. The firing lasted up to 6 A. M. of
the 29th. These advices say that as far as
had been ascertained, 300 persons were
killed and over 500 wounded, including
many women and children. Among the
notable persons killed were Gen. Seide
Telemaque, Charles Brono and Ducasse.
? Cardinal Lavigerie is hard at work on
his plans to put a stop to African slavery.
His work has the sanction of the Pope and
he is meeting with considerable success.
The plan of the modern Peter the Hermit
is not confined to raising mcftiey for Jellaby
funds or saving the souls of heathen Africans.
It includes the raising of a volunteer
corps which is to fight the slave traders
of the Dark Continent with carnal weapons.
Moved by Cardinal Lavigerie's eloquent
appeal, about a score of chivalrous
young Belgians have already formed the
nucleus of this new Salvation Army. M
de Brazza, in a recent interview, however,
remarked that even several hundred such
volunteers would do less to sweep away
slavery in Africa than might be effected by
developing commerce.
? The phenomenal development of the
State of Georgia is strongly set forth in the
annual report of the comptroller-general
just issued. The report shows that the
property of the State, exclusive of railroads,
has increased $102,769,912 in ten years,
while the railroad property has increased
$19,437,998, or 212 per cent, during the same
period, making an aggregate increase of
all taxable property in the State of $122,207,910,
or 53 per cent. Compared with
1879 there is an increase of 12 per cent, in
farming lands, 75 per cent, in city and town
property, 393 per cent, in cotton manufactoriesj
97 per cent in iron works, 102 per
cent invested in mining, 69 per cent, in
farming implements, and 61 per cent, in
bank stock. In farm products there was
an increase of 93 per cent, compared with
last year. The colored people are prospering,
too, the value of property owned
by them subject to taxation being $9,631,271,
an increase over 1879 of $4,449,873, or
85 per cent, in eight years. Considering
the condition of affairs in Georgia under
carpet-bag rule, this showing of ten years
of Democratic administration is most gratifying.
?Something will have to be done to relieve
the United States Supreme Court of
its overweight of business. Litigation
grows with the growth of the country,
whilst the means of disposing of it stands
still. The Washington Capital, in calling
attention to this matter, says: The docket
of the Supreme Court already contains
1,200 cases, 900 being brought forward
from the last term." There is work
enough for the Court if it should sit steadily
for four years and dispose of a case
every day. This engorgement defeats the
end of justice. Matters of the utmost
importance are constantly delayed, and
the judges of the Supreme Court are overworked.
There is no remedy except to
put a further limitation upon the cases that
may be tried in the Court of last resort or
to establish Courts of inferior jurisdiction,
whose judgment shall be a finality in
cases which do not involve issues of the
first importance. The failure of Congress
to afford some measure of relief deserves
unreserved censure.
? The annual report of Governor West,
of Utah, has been made public. In the
course of his remarks on the Mormon
question the Governor says: Nothing can
justify the despotism of the Mormon political
system to the people who have known
and appreciated the blessings of free government.
The unity of Church and State
is perfect and indissoluble, it is based on
the complete and absolute control of the
priesthood, wielding a supreme power, exercised
and yielded to as emanating immediately
from God, in all things secular as
well as spiritual. The word of the priesthood
is to the Mormon people the command
of God, not only in matters of faith and
morals, but in all civil, political and commercial
affairs. This priesthood not only
rules the Church, but governs the State.
The Governor says that ne has no religious
controversy with the Mormon people with
polygamy left out of the question, but he
declares that the local civil government of
; the Mormons is as theoretical as that of
the ancient Hebrews. Pending the settlement
of the question of admitting Utah
into the Union, the Governor recommends
the appointment by Congress of a committee
with full authority to make a complete
and thorough investigation of the civil as
well as religious conditions heretofore and
now prevailing in the Territory. Justice
to the whole country, the Governor says,
as well as to the Mormon and Non-Mormon
people, requires such investigation to
be made.
? Daniel Hand, an aged and wealthy resident
of Guilford, Conn., has given to the
American Missionary Association of NewYork
city, the sum of $1,000,000, to be held
in trust by the association, and the interest
to be devoted to the education of the colored
people in the old slave States of the
South. Mr. Hand, the donor, was a grocer
in Charleston, before the civil war, and be-1
ing of Northern sentiments, was forced to
fly to the North, leaving all of his property,
about $130,000, in charge of his confi- j
clential clerk, Mr. G. W. Williams, who
used the property profitably during the
war and by investing in Southern pine
lands, became rich. Mr. Hand's counsel j
advised him to seek a settlement with Mr.
Williams. Mr. Williams came to New
Haven and honorably paid up the original ,
sum and interest, amounting to $048,000. j
This amount, with the accrued interest, j
forms the great bulk of the sum now re-!
turned to the South by Mr. Hand.
?hc farhi'iUe (Shquiw.
YORKVILLE, H. C. :
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31,1888.
DANGER IN APATHY.
We make this, our last appeal to the
Democratic voters before the election,
which takes place on Tuesday next?a contest
in which our people are not deeply interested
by reason of the comparative safety
of the State ticket?but one which
should awaken in them determined zeal in
their efforts to secure the success of the national
Democratic party. It will not do to
conclude that because Richardson and the
State ticket will be elected, by a light vote,
simply because there is no opposition, that
the State may likewise give a majority for
Cleveland. The Republicans have a full
ticket in the field, and it should not be too
readily conceded that they are idle. When
too late, we might discover that they were
thoroughly organized and bore off the
prize while the Democracy was dreaming
in fancied security. No Democrat nor
white man should stay away from the polls
next Tuesday, but at any cost of time or
trouble, all should turn out and vote the
straight Democratic ticket from coroner to
president, and thus make sure of what
might go by default. There should be no
chances in this election. Should the electoral
vote of South Carolina be lost to the
Democracy, it might involve the loss of a
Democratic President. To avert this calamity,
earnest work is demanded, on
Tuesday next, of every Democratic voter.
York county has never proved recreant in
the past, and in this campaign, no less important
in its consequences than any that
have preceded it, let it be said that every
one of her sons did his full duty.
CONGRESSMAN HEMPHILL.
The following telegram from New York,
under date of last Saturday, was received
by G. W. S. Hart, Esq., of this place, on
that day:
To G. W. S. Hart: Mr. Hemphill intended
to return to South Carolina, but his
services in canvassing New York are very
necessary. Please explain to his *constituents
that the national committee prevents
his return to them. Calvin S. Price.
From this it will be seen that Mr. Hemphill's
services are considered almost indispensable
in prosecuting the Democratic
canvass in the North; and while his constituents
of the Fifth Congressional district
are gratified and feel honored by the high
position he has taken, they will remember
him at the polls on Tuesday next. True,
his ringing voice and stirring appeals, if at
only one place in each county of his district,
on the eve of the election, would
have exerted a magical influence in awakening
the people to a true realization of
the situation; but as the Democratic banner
will not be permitted to trail in the
Fifth district, his time is better employed
at the North.
The newspapers report that he has made
a successful campaigning tour in New Jersey,
speaking in various parts of the State,
and at Camden, meeting a large audience
to which he spoke for nearly two hours on
the tariff. Having made the tour of New
Jersey, to which State he was assigned by
the National Committee, he was about to
start for home, when he was prevailed
upon to accept an assignment to return to
New York, in which State he had made
several speeches before visiting New Jersey.
Believing that he can do more good
for the party in the doubtful States than
by returning home, he consented to sacrifice
his personal inclinations for his party
during the remainder of the campaign.
Senator Gorman says Mr. Hemphill is one
of the most valuable men among all of the
Southern speakers.
But while Mr. Hemphill's constituents
may be proud of his extended reputation
as a public speaker, they have no less cause
of congratulation on the brilliant record he
has already made as a member of Congress.
He has not only attained a high position as
a Representative, thus early in his Congressional
career acquiring a distinction
seldom gained by men much his senior
and of longer public service, but he is ever
mindful of his duties and obligations to
his people at home. To his close attention
are the people of the Fifth district indebted
for the greatly increased mail facilities
which they now enjoy, and in many other
ways he has shown his willingness and
readiness to serve them in his capacity as
Congressman. Let his services meet their
due recognition by a rousing vote next
Tuesday!
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMKMDMENTS.
Two proposed amendments to the Constitution
will be voted upon by the people
of the State at the general election on November
G. The first of these amendments
is submitted by authority of a joint resolution
of the General Assembly, which was
approved December 19,1887, and relates to
the Court of Probate. It proposes to amend
Article IV of the Constitution, so that Section
20 shall read as follows:
"A Court of Probate shall be established
in each county, with jurisdiction in all
matters testamentary and of administration
in business pertaining to minors, and
the allotment of dower, in cases of idiocy
and lunacyy and persons non compos mentis.
The judge of said Court shall be elected by
the qualified electors of the respective
oniintips for a tf?rin of four vears."
The only change sought by this proposed
amendment is to extend the term of the
probate judge from two to four years. So
that the election of the probate judge, if
the amendment be adopted, will take place
hereafter every four years, instead of every
two years as at present. To this change
we see no reason why objection should
be urged. Clerks and sheriffs are elected
for four year terms, and there is no reason
why the probate judge should not be elected
for an equal term.
The second proposed amendment is submitted
by a joint resolution of the General
Assembly which was approved December
19,1887, and proposes to strike out Section
2 of Article 10 of the Constitution. The
section proposed to be stricken out is as
follows:
"There shall be elected biennially, in
each county, by the qualified electors thereof,
one school commissioner, the said commissioners
to constitute a Shite board of
j education, of which the State Superintendent
shall, by virtue of his office, be chair
man; the powers, duties and compensation
of the members of said board shall be determined
by law."
The effect of the adoption of this amendment
will be to give the Legislature the
entire control of the manner of appointing
the school commissioners, and of the duties
and compensation of the State Board of
Education. These changes render the matter
one of great importance. The proposition
is almost unanimously opposed by the
press, on the ground that it would hike
away from the people to that extent their
inalieniable right to elect or choose their
own officers to serve them. One proposed
object to be attained by the adoption of the
amendment is to secure greater efficiency
bv subiectiner candidates or annlicants for
the position of school commissioner to competitive
examination, by an official hereafter
to be designated, and let the appointment
depend upon the shown competency
of the applicant. It is also claimed
that the administration of the public school
system could be much improved generally
if the commissioners were appointed
instead of being elected. We doubt the
expediency of the proposed amendment,
however, and incline to the opinion that
in the ease of the second proposed amendment,
it will be best to let "well enough
alone."
In an article opposing this amendment,
the Greenville Enterprise and Mountaineer
says:
But the main reason upon which we urge
the people to vote against this amendment,
is. that it has cropped out that the
proposed change is nothing but an insiduous
attempt on the part of some to destroy,
at no distant period, the entire public
school system of the State. This is reason
enough for every man who wishes well to
the children of the State to vote "No" as
to the change in the school commissionership.
OUR ROCKHILlT EDITION.
The Enquirer of last week, portraying
in its double-sheet edition the growth and
enterprise of one of York's most prosperous
towns, was the subject of much comment
and encomium. The Charleston
News and Courier of Saturday, referring to
the issue, says:
The Yorkville Enquirer, which has
always taken a leading position among the
weekly newspapers of the State, has taken
a new lease of life. It has secured a new
and improved press, new type and new
material in general. It has dounled its size,
now issuing a full size eight-page paper.
The first issue of the enlarged paper is
most creditable. It contains an illustrated
sketch of the flourishing town of Itock
Hill. All of the most important buildings
of that growing little city are portrayed,
as are many of the leading citizens. The
pictures are well executed and they make
a fine appearance in the paper. All con
nected with The Enquirer may well feel
proud of its enlarged and improved issue.
It is a credit to York county and to the
newspaper profession.
With full appreciation of our cotemporary's
complimentary allusions to our efforts,
we would correct an error into which
it has unconsciously fallen. Our eightpage
edition of last week was only temporary
and to accommodate the mass of
matter necessary to give the variety we
desired to print. Eight mammoth pages
of The Enquirer every week would be
too much of a good thing.
Quoting liberally from the sketch of
Rock Hill, the Charleston World of Saturday
accompanies the same with the following
editorial comments:
Our last night's mail brought in a copy
of The Yorkville Enquirer containing
a descriptive sketch of Rock Hill, which
is the first installment of a series of articles
in which that enterprising paper proposes,
from time to time, to show up the agricultural,
mercantile, manufacturing, educational
and general progress of York county,
which tne Enquirer properly claims
to be "one of the most progressivQ&nd enlightened
counties in the SoutnW' The
issue before us is a double sheet,' handsomely
printed on book paper and copiously
illustrated, and in every way reflects
undoubted credit upon the energetic and
wideawake publisher.
The Enquirer is pursuing the right
policy in thus advertising to the world the
material and general advantages of its own
county, and its wisdom, patriotism and enterprise
in this direction ought to be emulated
by every other county paper in South
Carolina.
One by one, The World wishes to pay its
respects to the progressive towns of the
State; it only hopes that all may be prepared
to set forth so gratifying an exhibit
as Rock Hill has done through the enterprise
of The Yorkville Enquirer.
The Charlotte Chronicle of Thursday
says:
This week's issue of The Yorkville
Enquirer is a double sheet, the extra occasion
being an iUffljfcratod description of
the lively little noghboring town on the
south?Rock Hill. Thearticle is complete,
well written and entertaining, and tne illustrations
are good.
The Gallows.?Ephriam Mays, colored,
who, with Louise and Chainey Burt,
was convicted at the last term of Edgefield,
S. C., Court, of the murder of Jake
Burt, was hanged at Edgefield last Friday.
The doomed man ascended the scaffold
with steady step and met his fate with
calmness and composure. The trap was
sprung at thirty minutes past 12, and he
was pronounced dead by the doctors in attendance
in seventeen minutes thereafter,
death resulting from a partly broken neck
and strangulation.
Hugh Blackburn, colored, was hanged at
Toledo, Arkansas, on Friday, for the murder
of another negro known as "Big Six."
The latter whipped Blackburn in a dicegame
quarrel. The next day Blackburn
waylaid "Big Six" and killed him with a
shot-gun. Blackburn was a desperate
character*
On the same day Ben. F. Carter was
hanged at Rawlins, Wyoming. At his request,
the newspaper "reporters were not
present at the execution. Carter walked to
the scaffold unsupported. His last words
were, "I am going to leave you. Will see
you again. Good-bye." His neck was
broken by the fall, and death was instantaneous.
Who Can* Vote ??Answering this question
of a correspondent, the News and Courier
says:
The law is as follows:
In order to vote on Tuesday, November
fi, for State and county officers, or for electors
for President and Vice President and
for Congressmen, or for both, it is necessary
that the person offering to vote shall have
registered as a voter at the precinct, and
shall exhibit his certificate of registration
to the managers of election.
There is no other qualification. All who
are registered and who exhibit their certificate
of registration can vote for all officers
who are to be elected.
Temporary absence from the State does
not deprive a person of the right to vote, if
he has been duly registered.
No one can vote "the Federal ticket"
who is qualified to vote the State and county
ticket.
A Model Newspaper.?The Constitution
is in receipt of a copy of The Yorkville,
S. C., Enquirer, which is a model
of a weekly paper. Capt. L. M. Grist is
the proprietor. It shows up the latent re
LV.iGL on/1 lia?j o ii'rifp.
BDUni?) (H llic cniui'ii) <uiu mi" ?
up of Rock Hill, a flourishing town in
\ork county. This is written by Mr. W.
Dave Grist. Mr. Grist was once connected
with this paper, and is an excellent young
man. The chapter on Rock Hill shows
him to he a writer of no mean talent, and
his friends in Atlanta wish him unbounded
success in his new field.?[Atlanta Constitution.
? The sentence of Annie Fraser, whc
was sentenced to be hanged in Berkeley
county on the 80th of November, has been
commuted to five years' imprisonment in
the penitentiary.
'X*
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
C. E. Spencer, Executor?Land for Rent.
, John W. Lawrence, Administrator of the estate
of Andrew Jackson, deceased?Application
for Discharge.
J. Oscar Moore?Administrator's Notice, estate
of Joseph P. Moore, deceased.
C. E. Spencer, Attorney at Law?Farm Loans.
Jos. F. Wallace, C. C. Pis?Notice to Creditors
of Wm. S. Pratt, deceased.
Lowry ?fc Starr?Cigars, Cigarettes and Tobacco.
i . W. C. Latimer?November the 1st.
M. ?fe H. c. Strauss?Winter is Close at Hand.
H. F. Adickes?Grand Central, etc.
Withers Adickes?Yes, We Need Money.
Walter B. Moore & Co.?A Chance Offered.
1 A. Y. Cartwright <fc Co.?The New York Racket
Store Fires another Volley of low
prices into the Enemy.
Robert Black and others?Notice to Trespassers.
UNTIL JANUARY 1st, 1880.
t The Enquirer will be furnished from
this date until January 1st, 1889, for 40
"Cents. /
BRANCHING OUT.
Messrs. Latta Bros., of this place, are ex.
tending their cotton business the present
season, having placed Mr. Paul G. McCorkle
to represent them as a buyer in the
Gastonia, N. C., market.
| . NEW MAIL ROUTE. V
I The post office department has establish!
ed a new mail route in this county from
Hickory Grove to Black's, via Darwin,
which last named office is five miles south
of Black's.
SAD ANpvSUDDEN DEATH. *
, The many friends here of J. Stanyarne
Wilson, Esq., will regret to learn of the
death of his wife?the bride of less than a
year?which occurred suddenly at their
home in Spartanburg on Friday last. She
was Miss LoulieGray Burriss, of Virginia,
a lady of many fine endowments.
CHARLESTON'S GALA WEEK.
Excursion tickets will be sold by the
Three C's Railroad to Charleston during
(Jala Week at reduced prices. Tickets will
be on sale from Monday, the 19th of November,
to Friday, the 23rd, good to return
until Monday the 2Gth. The following are
1 the rates from the stations named: Yorkville,
$4.40: Tirzah, $4.30: Rock Hill, $4.20:
| Catawba Junction, $4.00.
SUPERVISORS OF ELECTIONS. X
The following supervisors in York county
for the Republicans, were appointed in
the United States Circuit Court at Charles;
ton last Thursday, upon the recommendation
of Chief Supervisor Poinier: Joseph
Black, C. C. Crawford, R. E. Gathun, Sam1
uel Fewell, A. F. Hall, J. II. Lucas, Alex,
ander Torrence, J. R. Faris, A. B. Askew.
The following is a list of the Democratic
supervisors, which we republish for general
information: J. F. McGill, R. B. Riddle,
J. C. Blair, D. D. Gaston, W. I). Camp, W.
T.' Plexico, W. M. Faulkner, E. F. Bell,
W. J. Boyd, J. W. Ardrey, J. N. McDill,
N. B. Bratton, A. J. Hoffman, Wifi. Steele,
R. A. Parish, Davidson Simril, E. D.
Thompson, J. M. Mcllwain.
farmers' association. /
Pursuant to the call for a State Convention
of the Farmers' Association, to be
held in Columbia during the week of qne
State Fair, Iredell Jones, President of jhe
York County Association, has issued Ahe
following notice for a County Convention,
to be held in Yorkville, on Saturday,/November
10 :
i The State Executive Committee of the
Farmers' Association, has ordered a Convention
to be held at Columbia, on November
14,1888. York county is entitled to a
representation of five members. For tae
purpose of electing these delegates, and also
for the purpose of taking into considertion
any other matters looking to the interest
of agriculture, the Farmers' Association
of York County will meet at Yorkville
on the 10th of November, Saturday,
at 12 o'clock M. Each club will be entitled
to 10 delegates.
Iredell Jones, President.
church* notices.
i Episcopal?Sunday-school at 3.30 P. M.
! Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J
J. C. Galloway, Pastor. Services next/
Sunday at 11 A. M. Sunday-school at 3.36
P. M.
Methodist Episcopal?Rev. \V. "VV. Daniel,
Pastor. Services next Sunday at 1
A. M. and 7 P. M. Sunday-school at
3.30 P.M. Prayer-meeting this evening
. at 7 o'clock. \
! Baptist?Rev. R. G. Patrick, Pastok
Services at Union next Sunday at 11 A. M.^
and in Yorkville at 7 P. M. Sunday-school
' at 3.30 P. M. Prayer-meeting to-morrow
evening at 7 o'clock.
! Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, Pastor.
Services next Friday at 7 P. M., Saturday
at 11 A. M. and 7 P. M. Communion
services on Sunday at 11 A. M. The
pastor will be assisted by Rev. M. R. Kirkpatrick.
Services Sunday evening at 7
: o'clock. Sunday-school at 3.30 P. M.
Prayer-meeting to-morrow afternoon at 4
o'clock.
personal mention. y
W'aptain AV. L. Roddey, of Rock Hill,
came over to Yorkville last week on the
Three C's to transact an hour's business.
The Captain remarks with pleasure the
spirit of progress that is being infused
along the line of the road, and besides a
number of new buildings going up, notices
several newly painted and otherwise improved
residences, that have been landmarks
of dilapidation for years.
Miss Fannie Robertson returned home
last week from an extended visit to friends
and relatives in Virginia.
a--Mrs. L. W. Perrin, of Abbeville, and
the eldest daughter of the late Hon. K. G
McCaw, is in Yorkville visiting friends
and relatives.
^.-The many friends Mr. Win. Rose, of
Columbia, were pleased to meet him here
this week, he having come up on a business
visit.
j Mr. A. E. Willis and family, of Lynchburg,
Va., spent a few days of last week in
Yorkville, the guests of his brother, Mr.
31. C. Willis.
I VMr. J. Eugene Lowry and bride, of
Washington, arrived here yesterday on a
visit to Mr. Lowry's parents. 9yMrs.
Thornwell, widow of the late Dr. J.
H. Thornwell, is visiting the family of
Judge Witherspoon.
We were pleased to receive a call this
morning from Mr. W. S. Killingsworth,
traveling agent and correspondent of the
Charleston World and Sunday Budget.
i RAILROAD NOTES.
On Thursday last the railroad commissioners
inspected the track of the Three C's
Railroad between Yorkville and Hickory
Grove, and pronounced it in proper condi
tion for public use. On Saturday a special
freight train moved 175 bales of cotton
from Gickory Grove. Trains are scheduled
to Hickory Grove, commencing last Monday,
us follows:
| Train 151, first-class, leaves Yorkvilleat
. 8 A. M. ; arrives at Sharon at 8.25 ; Hickory
Grove, at 8.50. Train 150, first-class,
leaves Hickory Grove at 9 A. M.; arrives
at Sharon at 9.21 ; Yorkville, 9.42.
', Train 139, third class, leaves Yorkville at
4 I'.^r.; arrives at Sharon at 4.30; Hickory
Grove at 5. Train 13(1, third class, leaves
Hickory Grove at 5.30 P. M.; arrives at
Sharon at 0; Yorkvilleat G.30.
The above trains are daily except Sun\
day. Our information is that trains 152
, and 153, daily, will not be run to Hickory
t Grove for the present.
A through mail pouch is now brought
here from Charleston daily in charge of the
conductors.
Capt. Gibbons has about completed the
work of grading the depot grounds here.
The grounds around the depot are to be
macadamized and graveled, the work on
which will be commenced this week.
' Mr. R. Haskell Dobson has taken a position
on the road as baggage master.
Mr. I. I). Witherspoon, Jr., has been appointed
assistant agent at the depot here.
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not to be so large.
To remove any expectations that may .
j have arisen in the minds of some of
our readers by the coincidence of our re!
cent announcement of an intended enlarge|
ment of Tiie Enquirer and the publica
tion of a double-sheet number last week,
it may be proper to explain that our en
lavement does not contemplate sucli huge !
; dimensions. The enlargement of the pa-1
! per will not take place until the first of I
i next January, when the increase in size of
| sheet will admit an additional amount of
! matter equal to about six columns of the J
| present length. In the meantime, or after j
the enlargement, should circumstances;
render it necessary, we will issue six or j
eight page eoi^ions.
BUILDING NOTKS.
Work is progressing rapidly on Mr.
Walter B. Moore's new residence, on Main
street, north of Col. W. B. Wilson's, and as
the building approaches completion it presents
a beautiful exterior of modern design.
Mr. J. W. P. Hope has remodeled his
old store house near the depot and converted
it into a warehouse.
Capt. J. It. Lindsay is building a brick
addition of thirty feet to the brick store ;
i house on Main street, occupied by Mr. J.
j W. Dobson. This addition will replace
j the wooden portion of the same house destroyed
by the fire of the 17th of last June.
The growing business of Mr. Geo. II.
O'l^eary demands more warehouse space,
to meet which he has erected in rear of
i his store a neat and commodious two-story
building 2(5x60 feet.
Miss Sue Watson, of Bethel, is building
a neat four-room cottage on Cleveland
street, and intends to occupy the same
j when completed.
Work has commenced on Mr. S. M.
McNeel's new store building, on Main
street, near the C. & L. depot.
Mr. D. A. A. Watson, of Clay Ilill, has
purchased a lot on College street with the
intention of buildihcr a neat residence and
1 becoming a citizen of Yorkville.
CIRCUIT COURT.
! The third term for the year of the Circuit
Court of York county, his Honor Judge
i Hudson presiding, convened at 10 A. M.
last Monday. All the officers of the court
j were present, and a notable event in the
preliminary proceeding was the prompt
ness with which jurors, witnesses and othjers
answered to the call of their names."
j/The following petit jurors, drawn to serve
' this week of the term were present: M. J.
Wallace, John Neeland, It. A. Matthews,
J. V. McFadden, Thos. K. Sherer, E. N.
Davidson, J. B. Oates, J. E. Whitesides,
j J. N. Isom, R. B. Riddle, Kelly Inman,
i Perry Ferguson, J. A. Thomas, R. R.
Love, A. R. Kimbrell, O. J. Gwin, Ervin
Gordon, T. M. Grant, J. M. Caldwell, W.
N. Elder, J. L. Stacy, T. 0. Flowers, J. P.
Duncan, Wm. Choate, J. C. Lock, D. M.
; Wallace, J. R. Davidson, T. C. Spratt, T.
I W. Boyd, J. W. Brown, R. G. Whitesides,
I A. C.TfrcKnight, W. Thompson Jackson.
Mr. Stacy was excused, on his own
I petition, and of the names drawn under
; the venire, E. B. Mobley, R. D. Dempsey
| and D. A. Stephenson were not found.
To complete the panel, the Court ordered
that the jury commissioner draw four additional
names from the seven-mile box.
The following names were drawn: John
Lynn, John R. Ashe, Frank E. Smith, W.
.J. Briant.
/ The grand jurors answered to their
names as follows: J. Wilson Marshall,
foreman, J. A. Withers, R. J. Hagins, S.
M. Fewell, J. A. Patrick, L. J. Massey,
J. T. Summerford, J. L. Martin, J. K.
Carothers, J. P. Moore, Kirk Shannon,
W. P. Crook, John Funk, L. L. Smith, J.
M. Seagle, Lewis Bolin, J. W. Betts.
His Honor declined to formally charge
i + oninrl ini.tr r> twl Tiniwlintr tlioir llfMoll
| lilt: giuuu jui jf , ?i.u
on a number of indictments handed up by
i. tho Solicitor, the continued docket was
called. A number of these cases were passed
over, and in the following, on motion of
the Solicitor, nolle prosequi was ordered:
State vs. J. B. Johnson, carrying concealed
weapon ; State vs. J. H. Brown, petit lar!
ceny. Marshall Moses, one of a number of
; defendants tried at the last term on the
I charge of riot. This defendant, a white
I youth, pleaded guilty, and in extenuation
| said he was present at the disturbance at
| the instance of his father. He was fined
j So and the unpaid costs of the prosecution,
| or one month in the county jail. The fine
i and costs were paid. State vs. Joseph Best
alias Joseph Swann, colored; assault and
battery with intent to kill, and carrying
concealed weapon. The cases went to trial
, in the absence of the defendant, and the
jury returned a verdict of guilty.
I The following other cases were disposed
( of on Monday and yesterday:
State vs. J. Powell Brown, colored;
! grand larceny. Nolle prosequi.
I State vs. Joshua Hill; carrying a concealed
weapon. Nolle prosequi.
! State vs. L. Burgess Garvin; violating
labor contract* Nolle prosequi.
I ^5tate vs. Francis Cloud, colored; assault
; and battery of a high and aggravated nature.
Verdict, not guilty.
State vs. Slimuel B. Brady and Nancy
Harris; adultery. Continued.
State vs. Robert Crawford, colored; grand
larceny. Pleaded guilty. Sentenced to
I one year in the penitentiary.
State vs. Andrew Glover, colored; larceny
of live stock. Verdict, guilty. Sentpnporl
t<> one vear in the nenitentiarv.
j Most of the session of yesterday was
consumed in the trial of Anabel Jones,
j colored, charged with administering pois{
011 on the loth of last May, by which the
members of Capt. Withers Adickes' fami'
ly and two boarders and otber members
of his household were seriously poisoned,
j We published the leading facts in the case
at the time. Circumstances caused suspicion
to fall upon Anabel Jones, the theory
being that she attempted to poison Capt.
Adickes' cook, and she was arrested, and
after a preliminary examination before |
i Trial Justice Bell, committed to jail for j
I trial. The offense charged was defined by
the Court to be a misdemeanor, and for j
! such she was put upon her trial. Col. W. \
II. Wilson appeared for the defence, and j
I the Solicitor was assisted in the prosecution !
j by W. L. McDonald, Esq. The jury took ;
1 the case at 5.30 P. M., and on the conven,
ing of Court at 10 this morning rendered a
j verdict of guilty. She was sentenced to :
i the extreme penalty of the law?ten years
j in the penitentiary.
i As there are four cases yet to be tried for :
1 capital crimes, besides a number of minor j
offences, the Sessions docket will probably
, occupy all of the present week.
j ?The Rev. R. A. Webb, pastor of West!
minster church of Charleston, was married
in Columbia on Tuesday evening of last
week to Miss Roberta Beck, a niece of Gen.
R. N. Richbourg, of Columbia. The bridal
couple will spend some time in Tennessee
and will return to Charleston about November.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
/ letter from rock hill.
Rock Hill, October 2!).?The last issue
of Tiik Enquirer was looked forward to
with considerable interest by our citizens, j
as it was known that it would contain a
sketch of our town, giving a history of her
past and present, and predicting for her a
bright future, and the demand for the
extra papers showed conclusively that the
enterprise was appreciated. Your correspondent,
in his rounds for news, heard the
following expressions from different citi- :
zens:
Capt. \V. L. Roddey said: "I am highly
pleased with the edition. It is all we could
desire, and shows that The Exqui her has
the interest of the whole county at heart."
Capt. A. E. Hutchison, president of the
Rock Hill Cotton Factory Co., said: "I
had no idea that such a paper could be
issued from a press' in upper South Carolina.
It shows the progress of the times."
W. M. Frew, merchant, said: "The paper
certainly sets forth our town and county
in a true light, and The Enquirer
should be thanked for its enterprise."
Peter Garrison, Esq., said : "The issue
far exceeded my expectation. It certainly i
shows enterprise."
R. T. Fewell, merchant, said: "Nothing
could have done our town more good. It
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sei? hiitii if it: prugressiveness 01 ner people
truthfully and without exaggeration."
Maj. A. H. White said: "It is a good i
paper, and will certainly do much good for j
the increased progress of our town, and
clearly sets forth the enterprise of the citizens."
Rev. J. Q. Adams, pastor of the Baptist |
church, said: "It was the best thing ever ;
gotten up to boom our town. The print is I
excellent and the place written up in good j
style and taste."
Jno.lt. London, President of the Stan-'
dard Cotton Co., said: "A good enterprise,
and paper nicely gotten up."
Others of our citizens also spoke in complimentary
terms of the paper, the neat- :
ness of its appearance and the nappy style
in which the sketch was written.
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Friedheim have
the sympathy of our entire community in !
the loss of their little daughter, whose j
death occurred on Saturday night, after a j
short sickness, aged J months. The re- j
mains were taken to Charlotte, N. C., to be ,
laid at rest by the side of a little brother j
who had gone liefore.
Mr. John T. ltoddey lias completed his !
contract in North Carolina on the Roanoke j
and Southern Railroad, and his force, un- I
der command of Air. S. J. Kimball, arrived
here last week.
Work was begun to-day on the side track
of the Three C's Railroad, which will connect
the main line with the site of the depot.
I learn that work will soon commence on
a large brick depot.
Rev. F. (J- llickson,of Yorkville, preached
his celebrated sermon on temperance
in the Presbyterian church last night to a
large and attentive congregation.
Rt.-Rev. W. B. W. Howe, bishop of the
diocese of South Carolina^ will make his
annum visitation to tne episcopal enurcti
at this place to-morrow.
liev. E. N. Joyner preached his last sermon
as their rector to the Episcopal congregation
here on yesterday morning. In
the afternoon lie lectured to the children.
Fred. H. London, agent of the Southern
Express Company, at this place, tendered
Tiis resignation, to take effect on November
rwt, and the same has been accepted. As
vat it is not known who his successor will
be\ as there are a number of applicants for
thaplace. Mr. London has been connected i
wit 1 the office for seventeen years.
T le running of the extra train during
cou *t, over the Three C's Railroad, is certainly
a great convenience to the citizens
aloi g the line of road. Hal.
mereT-mextion.
Hie grand jury of Provo City, Utah, in
sesiion last week, found 234 indictments j
for/offenses against the United States stat- I
utds, chiefly for unlawful cohabitation, |
adjultery and such other offenses as grow
oqt of the practice of polygamy. A
procession of New York city business men,
numbering 40,000, was reviewed by President
Cleveland last Thursday. The
Gastonia (N. C.) Gazette, says: "It may
not be known by some of our readers that
Dan Thornburg, one of the men implicated
in the murder of Lee Aderhold, is in jail.
Deputy Carpenter captured him in a strawstack
two or three weeks ago." Great
numbers of the Cheyenne Indians, in Dakota,
are said to be in a starving condition.
The jute bagging industry at
Salem, Mass., has lieen abandoned, and in
consequence five hundred employees will
be\ thrown out of work. There are -two
mills in that town, and they have decided
to close down on account of the bagging
industry recently introduced in the
South. According to SurgeonAleneral
Moore's report, the regular army of the
United States is composed of 23,841 officers
and enlisted men, of whom 2,240 are colored.
There were 214 deaths during the
year. The Farmers' State Alliance of
Georgia have authorized the starting of an
exchange, with a capital stock of one million
dollars. The exchange is to sell the
farmers all their supplies at cost. It is
saiu u> uc nit? geuerui opinion ox lociii politicians
that the vote of New York city
this election will mount up to 260,000. In
1884 it was 227,000. During the month
of September, 8!),86*) immigrants came toi
this country, against 48,448 in September
of last year. The business failures occurring
throughout the country during last
week number for the United States 222,
Canada 82, total 254, against 224 the previous
week. The agreement between
the Richmond Terminal and the Georgia
Central Railroad has been signed by both
parties. It is claimed that neither it or
the East Tennessee lease can be set
aside. Preparations are being made
in Washington for the celebration of the
Constitutional Centennial in 1889, and
the grand International Celebration in
1892. The first school census taken in
Georgia since 1882 has just been completed.
It gives the total number of children of
school age as 560,281, against 508,722 in
1882, and shows that in the country districts
the boys outnumber the girls, while
in the cities and towns the girls predominate.
For treating friends to whisky at j
Iowa Falls (Iowa) the other day, United I
States Swamp Land Commissioner, W. C.
Torry, was arraigned and lined $100. It is j
said' to have been a political prosecu-!
tion. Chief Frosthead, of the Standing
Rock Agency Indians, Dakota, ate too
much dog for supper the other night and
dreamed the cows were after him. Mr. ,
\V. J. Yates, the veteran editor of the j
Charlotte, N. C., Democrat, died suddenly,
of paralysis of the brain, on Thursday morn- j
ing last. He was aged 61 and had been |
publisher of the Democrat continuously for
85 years/' Henry Jones, a negro, was j
lynched by a mob at Woodland Mill, Ten- ;
nessee, last Friday night. Jones had mur- j
dered a white man in cold blood on Thursday
night. Cob R. F. Hoke, a prominent
lawyer of Lincolnton, X. C., and who serv- j
ed as a captain in the Mexican war and as '
commander of the 28rd X. C. Regiment in 11
the late war, fell suddenly dead from heart
disease in his house on Saturday morning
last. The time of the meeting of the
National Farmers' Alliance has been
changed from January 16th, to the 5th of
December, at Meridian, Miss. Twenty-one
women, in convention at Boston, ;
last Monday, nominated Miss Alice D.
Stockton, of Wheaton, as a candidate of the
Equal Rights party for Governor of Massachusetts.
The candidate is twenty-six
years of aire. A big cave in occurred last
Monday morning over an abandoned mine
near Wilkesbarre, Pa. (>ne dwelling house !
sank in the earth 12 feet. The inmates,1 ]
six in number, were thrown out of bed and*
seriously injured in the wreck. Several?
other buildings were damaged. The cavein
covers an area of three acres. About
100 people will have to vacate their homes
immediately. The Republicans have '
trapped Lord Sackvilie, the English minis- : ;
ter to this country, into writing a letter
committing himself to a preference for the (
election of Cleveland. The letter lias already
proved a boomerang to the Republicans,
and may cause the diplomat to lose
his place and reputation. On Monday 1
last :l(i new cases of yellow fever were reported
at Jacksonville, making a total to 1
date of 4,00") rases and J">2 deaths. J
? Four Mormon emissaries are said to he :
actively at work in the neighborhood of J
Galfney's, in Spartanburg county. 1'
SOUTH CAROLINA NKWS.
? Isaac El ford, a negro, died in Greenville
last Friday, "Whose ago is authentically
traced hack one hundred and twentyfive
years."
? The cases of Mrs. Keese, of Anderson,
charging her with arson and forgery, called
for trial last week before Judge Witherspoon
at Anderson, were continued.
? The Georgia, Carolina and Northern
road is now completed to Chester, and heginning
on November 1st, trains will run
regularly between Monroe and that place.
? Rev. S. P. Fulton, of Clinton, will enter
upon the foreign missions work, under
the direction of the Presbyterian executive
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committee, at Aagoga,Japan. ne\\iu san
from Sun Francisco on the 7th proximo.
? Ben Balling, a son of John Balling, of
Greenvilje, was drowned in Reedy river,
at the Caniperdown falls, near Greenville,
last Friday, he was attempting to cross
a narrow foot log, fell off and was lost in
the deep water below the falls.
? The Charleston World truthfully says :
It is important that no mistake occur in
the voting for Presidential electors. The
misplacing of a single letter in a name will
vitiate the ballot. See that your tickets
are carefully and accurately printed.
? A convention of colored barbers of the
State was held in Greenville the other day.
Thirty-nine were present, from eight counties,
who organized a State Barber's Union
for the "mutual benefit and regulation of
prices and the elevation of the trade.
? On Monday, the comptroller of the
treasury at Washington, declared a third
dividend of 18 per cent, in favor of the
creditors of the National Bank of Sumter,
that failed in August, 1887. This makes 80
per cent, in all paid to the creditors of the
bank on claims amounting to $7"),280.
? In a quarrel a few days ago, between
two brothers, MeCreery Glymph and John
Glymph, white men, of Abbeville county,
.John was killed by MeCreery. John was
the younger, and was too attentive to McCreery's
wife, which she encouraged. The
fratricide went before Judge Witherspoon
at Anderson last Wednesday on a writ of
habeas corpus and was admitted to bail in
a bond of $2,.'j00.
? The Columbia correspondent of the
News and Courier, writing bust Friday
says: "President A. C. Haskell, of the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad,
to-day received.from the Richmond
and Danville headquarters, a statement of
the net earnings of the Charlotte road last
year. They amounted to about one hundred
and four thousand dollars, somewhat
more than enough to pay a 4 per cent,
dividend." The stockholders' meeting was
held in Columbia yesterday.
? The Augusta Chronicle says that the
Carolina wing of the Augusta Exposition
building will be something well worth
study. It is a majestic work. The great
pyramid will be etched along its basic
columns with different colored stones and
minerals. The sides will be paneled in
fine wood and polished cabinet work. Surmounting
the pavilion is a cap piece in
grain, crowning the position like a benediction.
The Carolina men have gotten their
exhibit nearer completion than any other
department in the nail. The Exposition
opens November 8.
? The Senn murder trial in Spartanburg
sessions court attracted much public interest.
David N. Senn and Helena Boland,
of Newberry county, were indicted for the
murder of Mrs. Senn in Spartanburg county.
The three persons had come to Spartanburg
county on a visit, and were returning
home in a wagon. They camped near
Cross Anchor, where Mrs. Senn was taken
suddenly ill and died after a few hours
of suffering. The conditions of the case
were such its to arouse suspicion and cause
the arrest of the parties named. After several
continuances the case went to trial
last week, the jury retiring 011 Saturday
evening. On Sunday morning they returned
the following verdict: "Guilty, but
strongly recommended to mercy." Judge
Kershaw refused a motion for a new trial,
and sentenced both prisoners to be hanged
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uii l^ecemuer i-tui. aii appeal win ue
made to the Governor for commutation to
life imprisonment.
Correspondence of the Yorkrille Enquirer.
LETTER FROM UNION COUNTY.
Etta Jane, October 27.?Last Wednesday
night we had the pleasure of attending
prayer meeting at Wilson's Chapel (Methodist).
Notwithstanding the bad weather,
a goodly number of apparently interested
persons were present. The services were
principally conducted by Rev. A. A. Gilbert,
of the M. E. Church, Messrs. P. S.
Webber, C. C. Roberts, M. C. Dorman, C.
W. Whisonant, J. L. Strain and Rev. S.
I). F. Gaunt, all of whom took part in the
same. The lesson read and discussed was
from Matt., 7th chapter, and from the loth
to the 27th verses, inclusive. Prayer meet- i
ing will be held there every Wednesday I
evening at candle-light* At Abingdon
Creek (Baptist), it is hejtffcqn every Sunday
night. Large and Mg^Flkihnved congregations
generally attend these meetings.
At each of these churches and also at
Salem (Presbyterian) church, Prof. J. F.
Vaughn has been teaching classes in vocal
music, which adds materially to the interest
of worshipers.
Mr. Jonathan Buice came near being
killed in Thicketv creek, at Thomson's
mill, last Wednesday, by a bale of cotton
falling on him. The ford was rough and
he broke out the tongue of his wagon in
trying to cross the creek. In getting the
load of cotton oil1 the broken wagon on
another, he was standing with one foot on
a wheel of each wagon. The mules started
just as he was passing a bale of cotton from
nno rnimtn to the rftherand be was thrown
oft' into the creek, and the bale of cotton
fell 011 him. A negro man, Will Ross,
came near sharing the same fate, at the
same time and place, and in the same way.
Last Thursday morning a cold rain set
in that put the streams up again. Cotton
picking is getting along slowly. It don't
open and it will be late before what little
is made will be gathered.
Our readers will please permit us to take
off our hat and make a graceful bow to
The Exquikeu as it appeared in its last
issue. We congratulate York county 011
having one of the best weekly papers in
the State. The people of Hock hill, too,
may justly be proud of their record. It is
only a question of time, and very short
at that, when Itock Hill will be one of the
first towns in the State. A more business,
intelligent and better looking set of men
can't be found in any town of the same
size in the State than those whose portraits
are connected with its record. When
Hickory Grove dons her municipal robes,
we hope Tiie Exquirer will turn its
eamera obscura upon that maiden town t
and present the pictures of its business ,
men, etc., to the readers. The progressive
towns of Rock Hill, Black's, Fort Mill and
Clover will find in her a worthy sister, and
old mother York may well be proud of all
her daughters. Sigma. 4
Disastrous Fire at Siielry.?A special
dispatch to the Charlotte Chronicle of
yesterday says that the most disastrous fire
In the history of Shelby, X. C., began there
last Monday evening about 7 o'clock.
About that hour the foreman of the Shelby
Aurora, 011 the second floor of the Wray
block, discovered flames issuing from the
lower floor, originating either in the engine
room of the Aurora, or the job printing office
of Babington, Roberts A Co. In a few
moments the centre of the building was j.
wrapped in flames. \
TI10 town i< nttnrlv firo tuuviM.
tus, and although the cry of fire an(f the
sound of hells uuickly drew a large crowd
to the scene of disaster, nothing could save
the block, which was entirely consumed.
The loss on the building owned bv W. '
A. \Vray is estimated at ten thousand dollars,
and that on the stock at twenty thousand
dollars more. The total insurance
will amount to less than ten thousand dollars.
It was a large two-story brick building,
containing four of the most commotlious
store-rooms in town. The southern
room had just been vacated. The next
room was occupied by the Southern Ex- t
press Company and Babington, Roberts & ?
l'o.t wholesale and retail stationers and
printers. The next was rented by Gardner
Quinn, wholesale and retail druggists,
and the last by J). C. Webb A Son,
geheral merchants. One of the upper
floors contained the office of the Aurora,
ind Babington, Roberts & Co., and the rest
were used for storage.
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