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fftapis and 4fatts.
? There have been five deaths in the cabinet
household of president Harrison within
the year. First were two children of Mr.
Blaine. Then came the tragic death of the
-wife and daughter of Secretary Tracy in
the fatal fire that destroyed their home.
The fifth, a cabinet minister?Secretary
Windom.
?- At the close of the fiscal year 1890 Ohio
had 57,087 pensioners; New York, 50,206;
Pennsylvania, 49,578; Indiana, 47,798; Illinois,
38,943 ; Michigan, 26,853; Missouri,
23,749; Iowa, 23,189; Kansas, 22,321; Massachusetts,
- 21,897; Wisconsin, 16,788;
Maine, 15,924, and Kentucky, 15,909. The
number in none of the rest of the States
comes up to five figures.
? The new apportionment bill, just passed
both houses of congress, increases the representation
in the house of reDresentatives by
twenty-four members. The gains are as follows:
Nebraska, 8; Illinois, Minnesota,
Pennsylvania and Texas, each 2; Alabama,
Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New
Jersey, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin,
each 1. By this arrangement the number of
electors for president and vice president in
1892 will be 444. 4
?-The New Orleans correspondent of The
Nb# Y6rk Times, says that the monthly
drawings of the Louisiana Lottery will soon
be discontinued, and the company will look
to ita daily drawings, which scoop up about
$10,000ftom the poorer class every day as
its source' of revenue. This same correspondent
also charges that capital prizes are
never drawn except by dupes of the lottery,
who have hitherto received $500 for their
affidavit. In-some cases as much as $2,000
have been paid for affidavits, but now $250
is the price.
? President Harrison has signed the reciprocity
treaty recently negotiated between
th'is country and the United States of Brazil.
By the provisions of the treaty, Amer
iean ports are to be opened to Brazilian coffee,
tea, sugar molasses and hides, and the
products of American forms and factories
are to be admitted into Brazilian ports free
of duty. The agreement goes into effect on
the 1st of April next, and in the meantime
it is understood that this government is negotiating
similar treaties with Cuba and Venezuela.
? An estimate of the secretary of war, sent
in to congress to supply a deficiency in the
quartermaster's department of the army,
shows that the recent Indian campaign has
cos|jthe government nearly $2,000,000. The
rou)P anm asked for is $1,300,000, and the
priilBpal items include $935,016 for transportation
of troops and supplies; $187,702 for
1 . ; ? t? fit
extra ttouung ana camp equippagc iu m
the troops for a winter campaign; $70,0001?>
replace broken down horees, and $87,000
& cover the difference in the cost of
studies' in the field and at the post at which
they wcre to have been delivered by contract;
?'Says The Shelby Aurora of last week:
Rev. J. P. Austin, late editor of The Asheville
Methodist and now pastor at Lincolnton,
preached two good sermons in Shelby
Sunday, as the Methodist pastor here is dangerously
ill in Cheraw, S. C. In his sermon
he ridiculed the Darwinian idea of man's
descent from a monkey by saying "Our
father who art up in a tree." This caused a
smile to arise among some of the audience.
It is said the late Dean Burgon had this idea
when he cried, "O, ye men of science! Give
me back my ancestors in the Garden of Eden,
and you may have yours in the zoological
gardens." It is also quoted that a colored
preacher exclaimed in stentorian voice, "Son
of God or gorillas!"
? Mrs. Catherine McKnight hanged herself
in. New York city last week. She was
a famous spy during the war, and has quite
a record. When about 18 years old she
eloped with her first husband and followed
him to the army. He was captured and confined
in Libby prison to be tried as a spy.
She then became a spy herself, and managed
to gain access to her husband, aiding him to
escape by changing clothes with him. He
was re-captured, however, and she was sentenced
to be shot, but managed to make her
escfcpe before the time set for her execution,
the husband dying in the meantime. After
the wrap the woman iqarried four other husbands.
Three of them were noted criminals
and she was released from each by divorce.
?The Kepublicansoi unio are trying 10
prevent Calvin S. Brice, Democratic senatorelect
from that State, from taking his seat.
They.set forth that the constitution of Ohio
require* that senators from that State must
be residents, and hold that Mr. Brice is a
citizen of the 8tate of New York. The matter
came up in the Ohio legislature on Monday
of last week, on a resolution introduced
by the Republicans, and looking to a thorough
discussion of the matter. It seems to
be pretty well established that Mr. Brice
cannot claim citizenship in Ohio, and what is
to be done about the matter remains to be
developed. Whatever is to be done, how
ever, will be dictated by the Democrats of.
the legislature, as they are in a majority.
? The steering committee of the senate Republicans
has agreed to consider the eight
hourbill, the copyright bill, the Nicaragua
canal bill, the Paddock pure food bill, the
Conger lard bill, the bankruptcy bill, the
Inter-State commerce bill, and the Pacific
railroad refunding bill. All these measures
will have to give way for the appropriation
bills, and it is more than doubtful whether
they will .all be considered. The commercial
bodies of the country are making a strong
appeal for the Torrey bankruptcy bill; but
as there is no lobby interest behind, there is
great danger that it will go over with the mass
of neglected legislation which has been
shoved aside in the vain effort to pass the
force bill.
? It has been charged that Judge Peffer,
United States senator-elect from Kansas,
would be as bitter a sectionalist as was Ingalls.
But the following does not sound like
it. It is what he has to say on the race
question : "The race issue is for the Southern
people to settle among thejnselves. If we
had it in Kansas we would resent interferance
from outside. It is not a Northern or
Western issue, and the people who are face
with its difficulties should be let alone in their
methods of dealing with it. I have lived
in a Southern community, and I know what
the problem is. Let it alone, and the two
races will come to an agreement far more
satisfactory, intellectually, morally, and in
every other way, than any that can be forced
by Federal legislation or Northern lecturing."
? A test vote on free coinage was taken in
the house of representatives last Friday.
The question came up on an amendment to
the sundry appropriations bill, providing for
the free coinage of silver. A point of order
was made that the amendment was not germane
to the bill and the point was sustained
by the speaker. Mr. Bland appealed from
the decision, and on a vote's being taken the
amendment was lost, 184 to 127. Seven
Democrats voted with the Republicans, as
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I0110WS : Anenew, 01 Jiaesacnuscus; muauen
and Yaux,.of Pennsylvania; and Spinola,
Dunphy, Wiley and Clancey, of New York.
Eleven Republicans voted with the Democrats.
It is admitted, however, as a matter
of fact, that the ruling of the chair was correct,
but the occasion was taken advantage
of by the Democrats to test the strength of
the bill. The advocates of free coinage are
still hopeful and believe that the measure
would pass on a direct vote.
? A special dispatch from Gastonia, N. C.,
relates a wonderful story of a negro preacher
who, it is said, can repeat the entire Bible
from Genesis to Revelation. The negro's
name is Alex. McCallum, and up to nine!
years ago he was a field hand. He attended
a big camp meeting in Cumberland county,!
and shortly afterward went into a long
trance. On his recovery, though totally illiterate,
he declared his ability to read the
Bible without the aid of human instruction,
and actually proved his ability to do so. The
first line of any given chapter may be read
in his hearing and he will go ahead and repeat
the entire chapter. The correspondent
accounts for the mystery with the theory
that the negro is gifted with an abnormal
memory, and having always been a close
listener to the reading of the Scriptures, has;
remembered all he heard. The negro is described
as a half-witted fellow, and it is said
that he cannot read a single line in any other
book except the Bible.
? Charles Meirs, an ex-United States soldier,
is a sharp rascal. At Savannah, Ga.,
the other day, he gave himself up to the police
as an escaped prisoner from the military 1
prison at Fort Leavenworth. Although the J
authorities were puzzled at such conduct, i
they took him in charge, and it turns out I
that he has been making use of them for the
furtherance of his own purposes He had
really been a deserter, but served out his
term. Then he became a sailor, and growing
tired of that occupation wanted to quit.
The only way to break his contract was to
desert, but he did not care to do that on account
of a considerable sum of money that
was due him by the captain of the vessel.
So he conceived the idea of turning himself
over to the police as a United States prisoner,
and after the captain had given him his
wages and clothes and sailed away, he told
the whole story and demanded freedom.
? The pension bill, which passed the senate
on Thursday, appropriates the net sum
of $133,173,085 for pensions, and enough
more for fees salaries and other expenditures
to increase the amount to $135,000,000, or
$100,000,000 more than the annual appropriation
for pensions when Gen. Garfield, as
chairman of the committee on appropriations,
declared that "we may reasonably expect
that the expenditures for pensions will hereafter
speedily decrease, unless our legislation
should be unwarantably extravagant."
"As the expenditures have increased to the
extent of $100,000,000 a year," says the
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the inference is plain that the pension legislation
has been unwarrantably extravagant,
according to the Garfield standard. But it
is not at all probable that even the $135,000,000
will be enough, as Mr. Allison, during the
debate, admitted to Mr. McPherson that
there might be a deficiency of six, eight or
ten millions. That it will be much greater
than the highest sum mentioned by Allison,
is more than a possibility. It is a strong
probability."
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1891.
NO. 1., VOLUME 3V.
The Yorkville Enquirer completed
its thirty-sixth year last Wednesday, and today
enters upon volume thirty-seven.
All the time that has been lost by the fire
of the 23rd of November, 1890, has been
made good, and to-day we throw in two
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addition to this we begin the publication of
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increasing interest to its close.
' As is our custom, all old subscribers who
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Though we are confident that no such
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the great model county newspaper of the
South.
FARMERS' ALLIANCE COUNCIL.
The council of State presidents of the
National Farmers' Alliance convened in
Washington on Wednesday of last week and
was called to order by President Polk. The
respective presidents of nearly all the States
were present, andSoutti L'a ronna was represented
by President J. Wm. Stokes, E. T.
Stackhouse, J. L. M. Irby and G. W. Shell,
the latter three, however, participating in the
council only as visitors.
The committe on silver legislation submitted
the following report, which was adopted
and submitted to the house committee on
coinage:
Resolved, That we regard it a high duty
enjoined upon congress by the constitution
to provide for the unlimited coinage of both
the precious metals, gold and silver, to the
end that the people of the several States may
be provided with a circulating medium. We
express our surprise and indignation that
this duty has been sd long delayed and neglected,
contrary, as we h.lieve, not only to
the duty we have mentioned, but to the best
interests of the masses of our people, who are
suffering the pangs of poverty and stagnation
of business caused by the waut of a sufficient
circulating medium. We believe and
charge that such delay and neglect has been
occasioned by an undue influence iu our
government policies by those whose interests
it is to contract the currency and subserve
monopolies and money lenders.
We, therefore, urge upon congress the demand
heretofore mhde by the National Fanners'
Alliance and Industrial Union for free
and unlimited coinage of silver upon the
same terms and conditions that gold is now
coined. We express our earnest condemnation
of the exercise of arbitary power which
prevented the fair consideration of the free
coinage bill at the last session of congress,
and in this connection we give expression to
the hope that, {he free coinage bill, which
passed the senate during the present session
and is now being considered in the committee
on coinage, weights and measures of the
house, shall not be suppressed, but shall be
speedily reported back to the house and enacted
into law. With proper respect and
deference to our representatives 011 the committee
in the house, we say that any efforts :
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prevent action thereon by the house in the j
few remaining days of this congress will j
merit, and will receive still further condem- j
nation by the farmers and laborers of this j
country. We have waited many years for!
the simple justice of having both precious
metals restored to free coinage, and hereby
declare our determination to press the fight j
on this line "until this relief is accorded to:
the laboring and producing masses of our
nation, and to hold responsible the men, j
irrespective of party, who obstruct in any ,
way the legislative enactment of this just
measure so strongly demanded by the laboring
classes of all parties.
A resolution looking to the betterment of
the agricultural and commercial industries!
of the country was also adopted and submitted
to the house as follows:
Whereas, of the three great industries of,
the United States?the agricultural, the
commercial and manufacturing?the first two
are in the most depressed state; therefore,
with a view to the betterment of their condition,
be it
Resolved, That the legislative committee
of the National Farmers' and Industrial Union
be requested to prepare a bill, for presentation
to the present or the following congress,
containing a provision that all vessels built,.
owned and manned by citizens of the United
States, that carry full outgoing cargoes, to
be determined oh by the tonnage of the
vessels, two-thirds of which at least shall
consist of home agricultural products, shall
be allowed to enter and discharge their returning
cargoes, provided said cargoes shall
consist of manufactured products, at any
port of the United States free of all customs
duty.
That we are persuaded that such a measure
properly carried out in detail will not
only build up the shipping interest of the
country, but result in creating a foreign
market for the surplus agricultural products
of the United States.
T. S. Adams, president of the State Alliance
of Louisiana, introduced a resolution,
which was adopted, urging congress to enact
a law in accordance with the memorial
I adoDted bv the Ocala conference in opposi
tion to the Louisiana State lottery.
The report of the committee on plans
makes a few changes. In addition to the
various Alliance organizations already in
existence, it contemplates the formation of
congressional district Alliances in each State
and territory.
Each congressional district is to have a
lecturer. The State legislative committee is
hereafter to be composed of the State president,
State Executive board, State lecturer,
and the lecturers of each congresssional district.
The congressional legislative committee
is to consist of the president of the
congressional district Alliance, its lecturer
and the president of each county Alliance.
The county legislative council is to be
composed of the county president and the
president of each surbordinate Alliance.
The committee on plans also reported a
resolution, which was passed, instructing the
president-of the council to appoint a national
legislative sub-committee of three members
to formulate bills to be presented to
congress, in accordance with the demands of
the Ocala meeting. These demands Include
the sub-treasury proposition, the land loan
proposition, free coinage of silver, and a bill
with respect to the Louisiana lottery.
This sub-committee of three is to be a
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garded as the action of the whole council.
The committee has not yet been appointed.
Congress will be urged to take action upon
the sub-treasury bill at its present session.
One hundred thousand copies of each bill
agreed upon by the sub-committee are to be
printed for distribution among Alliance organizations
throughout the country.
The following is a standing national legislative
committee appointed to formulate
bills based upon the demands of the Ocala
conference: L. L. Polk, president of council;
A. E. Cole, of Michigan, and U. S. Hall, of
Missouri.
A resolution was adopted providing for
the formation of an Allianee press bureau oi;
information at Washington, to be under the
supervision of a national president.
Before the adjournment of the council, on
Friday, Frank McGrath, president of the
Kansas State Alliance, arose to a question of
privilege. He referred to a letter purporting
to have been written by Congressman Turner,
of Kansas, to him, in which the former
is alleged to say in effect that in case Senator
Ingalls could not be re-elected the senator
from Kansas, and the time came when
the Alliance could not agree uj>ou a candidate
forsenatob, that he (Turner) would like
to have his name considered, and that he
could, in case his election was secured, place
as much as $5,000 toward paying the expenses.
McGrath said his enemies and po
litical rivals had made this letter a pretext
for bitter warfare upon him, which had continued
notwithstanding the fact that he had
been exonerated by the State board of trustees
of the State Alliance of Kansas. He thought,
therefore, that the matter should be investigated
by council, and he requested the
president to appoint a committee to make
a thorough investigation of the matter and
report the result to council. In accordance
with the above request, President Polk appointed
A. E. Cole, of Michigan ; Elias Carr,
of North Carolina, and Samuel Houston, of
Virginia, a committee to make an investigation.
The committee subsequently reported
entirely exonerating McGrath.
RAILROAD KINGS TRAVELING SOUTH.
Jay Gould, John H. Inman, Sidney Dillon
and other railroad magnates, are making a
tour of the South. Their purpose is not
known, but the newspapers seem to think
that another big railroad deal, the nature of
which no definite idea can be had, is imminent.
The party passed throught Knoxville
last Thursday, Chattanooga on Friday, and
was entertained in Atlanta on Saturday and
Sunday, leaving for Savannah on Monday.
While in Knoxville, Mr. Gould was interviewed
on current railroad, financial and
other topics, by a representative of The Atlanta
Constitution. Asked if he thought the
railroads of the country would ever be
brought under one management, he said:
"No, it is too big an undertaking. Owners
of some roads think they are worth more
than others. Then the stock of dividendpaying
roads is scattered. People have different
ideas and it is hard to get them together."
"What do you think of government control
of telegraphs ?"
"It always costs more to do work for the
government than for private parties. Political
parties change, and those who are in
office, knowing that it is of uncertain tenure,
do the best they can for themselves. There
is always a good deal of red tape. Work by
government telegraphs costs more than that
by private companies. The English service
is the best government system. For the continent
of Europe it costs two or three times
as much to telegraph as with us, and it is
slower. The Western Union is th? most efficient
service in the world."
"What do you think of the quantity and
the prop# form of currency ?"
"As to the sufficiency of currency, we are
now increasing it at the rate of about $5,000,000
a month by the operation of the silver
bill. We are beginning to feel it, and in the
course of a few months will feel it much
more. The coinage amounts to $50,000,000
or $00,000,000 of silver, and about $30,000,000
of gold. What created the stringency here
was the fact that people got scared and didn't
know how far congress might might go towards
free coinage; and they hoarded gold
in safe deposit vaults, savings institutions,
and trust companies began to lay by a supply
of gold very much larger than in ordinary
times. I should not wonder if a $100,000,000
were laid away, and that made
matters excessively close. Now that confidence
is restored, that money has come out,
and you will notice that money in New York
is a drug. It is offered at 2 or 3 per cent.,
any quantity of it. Under our modern ways
of transacting commercial business, 90 per
cent, of it is done in checks and hills of exchange.
They don't use specie except to
settle balances. In olden times they used to
lug around silver to pay debts.
"They still do that in Mexico. While
there I saw them carting around silver to
pay their debts.. Here we draw a check and
get it certified. Not even currency figures
in the great mass of exchanges. Take your
cotton crop. What an infinitesimal proportion
of that is ever handled through gold or
silver. It is all done with checks and hills
of exchange. Mr. Inman, who does the lar
gest cotton business, win umi you nuu ne
only wants enough currency for pocket
money."
"What (lo you consider a safe per capita of
currency ?"
"I don't see how to regulate it per capita.
We have not reached that blessed state where
every man can have forty dollars in his pocket.
Men who employ thousands of men
like those who control railroads, must have
more money."
' If it were left to you to say how much
money ought to he in circulation, how would
you get at it ?"
"If the total sum of the transactions increased
nor 10 per cent. 1 think the currency
ought to he increased in order to keep up
| confidence,"
"What do you consider the proper form
of money ?"
"Treasury notes based on gold and silver
are the best. I consider the government
good anyhow, and with the guaranty of the
government, plus collateral to the same
amount, you have the best currency. As to
gold and silver, I think the coinage should
he kept in the proper ratio bet ween the
j metals. Enough of each should he coined
I to keep them on a par. Not enough silver
should he coined to drive out gold.
"What, do you think of the tariff question
?"
"I believe in protection, but not extreme
protection. I think we should give protection
to our own manufactures, to balance the
difference in the cost of material and the j
cost of labor. In other words, to develope'
our own manufactures, because when we do
that, we develope a home market for agricultural
products. No matter how much
grain you raise, if there is no market for it,
we are no better off. The large industries
growing up on this side of the water make
great home markets, but we should not
make our tariff so high that we should force
great nations like England to retaliate, liecause
they are our greatest customers of
agricultural products. England is a great
customer for our corn, cotton, petroleum,
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ducts. We must not make our tariff so high
as to discriminate. She must pay for our
agricultural products largely in her manufactures.
A nation will soon become bankrupt
if it buys more than it sells. If a man
spends more money than his income, he will
soon have to call in the sheriff, and what is
true of men is true of nations.
' What do you think of the force bill ?"
"I believe in home rule. Loeal matters
should be left to the people to regulate at
home. In New York we are great sticklers
for home rule; in the city, I mean. We go
on the theory that local people with local
sentiments can tell what is best for their
prosperity, better than people at a distance.
I am sorry to see any legislation in the North
or South that is extreme. The war is over
and I think it should be forgotten, and we
should look ahead to the future. We want
to develop our country and our age and make
it the grandest of all the countries and all
the ages that ever existed. We should work
to that end, and not upon what has hapjUfjpr
ed in the past."
"What do you think of immigration ?"
"I would like to see immigration confined j
to respectable people, to people who have |
some means to support and care for them-1
selves?those who would have something at
stake in the country which they adopt as
their home. If they have some property in"m'o'I
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behave themselves and make good citizens.
I think immigration should be restricted as.
to that.
"Criminals and bad characters ought not
to come here and be citizens immediately,
with votes equal to those who are born in
the country and have grown up here, whose
whole associations and whole love is their
country."
MERE-MENTION.
John Shatter was killed in a prize fight
at Seattle, Washington, last Saturday night
by Wm. Doyle. A resolution Mas introduced
in the Colorado legislature last Saturday
to boycott the Chicago Exposition, on
account of the action of the Chicago board
of trade in petitioning congress not to pass
the free coinage bill. The Atlantic Cotton
Mill company, of Lawrence, Mass., has
voluntarily increased the pay of its weavers
from 5 to 10 per cent. The United States
census reports show that Alabama produced
3,378,484 tons of coal in 1889. Coal mining
was commenced in that State in 1853, and
the total production of the year 1880 did not
exceed 325,000 tons. Resolutions endorsing
the Force bill M*ere adopted in the
Pennsylvania legislature last week, but M ere
vetoed by Governor Pattison. ; State Geologist
Spencer, and Treasurer Tom Hardeman,
of Georgia, engaged in a disgraceful
fisticuff in Atlanta on Monday of lust week
over a personal misunderstanding. The
thermometer registered 40? below zero in
different portions of the north u'est last
M'eek. The world's total visible supply
of cotton is 3,534,680 hales. A story
comes from Indiana to the effect that in
Mitchell county of that State there is au ell
and healthy negro who has been in bed for
tueuty-seveu years. He took his bed in 1863
in a fit of sulks over the sale of a farm by his
mother, and says he never intends to get up
again. Different expedients have been tried
I to make the obstinate fellou' get up, but
] M'ithout avail. Even on being told that the
house was ou fire he lay perfectly still as
though he were resigned to a roasting. He
is described as failing in health and will probably
not live a great while longer. Green"
Jackson, colored, was lynched in Greenville,
Miss., last Thursday, for the murder of the
town marshal of Leland, Miss., on January
20. The Indiana senate has passed an
act that is calculated to completely crush out
all attempts at forming trusts and combines
in that State. The bill provides that all
trusts, pools, contracts and combinations to
control the prices of productions, shall be
considered conspiracies to defraud the people,
and any person being a member of such
an organization shall be subject to a fine
of $50,000 and imprisonment from two to
five years. Governor Boyd has beeu
recognized at last as the duly elected governor
of Nebraska and delivered his message to
the legislature on last Thursday. The
mercantile agency of R. G. Dun & Co. report
the business failures throughout the country
for last week as 261 against 265 for the cor"
' ' mU~
responding week 01 lasr yenr. me
Pullman ear shops at St. Louis were destroyed
by fire on Thursday. The loss is
estimated at $250,000, and 400 men are
thrown out of employment. Congress
has passed a resolution expressing its sympathy
with the Jews of Russia in their harsh
treatment at the hands of the Russian government.
The Kansas legislature has
under a consideration a bill which provides
for the taxation of mortgages and bonds,
and that no court can render judgment on a
.mortgage unless it is stamped "assessed" by
! the proper official. There are now 1,102,390
pension claims pending in the office
of the pension commissioner. The Arkansas
State treasury is so nearly empty that
! there is not enough money on hand to pay
I off the legislature. Nine children were
' burned to death in an orphan asylum in
I Moscow, Russia, last Wednesday. A
suit has been filed in the land office at
' Washington by individuals living in Illinois,
! who claim ownership to a part of Capital
' Square at Washington. The claimants are
j descendants of the late Dr. Samuel Hugo,
I and the claim is based on an old land war'
rant from the general assembly of Maryland,
| dated April 15, 1788. A* dastardly attempt
to assassinate Mayor Larkin Smith,
i of Lula, Ga., was made on Monday night of
last week. Some one crept to his window
; shortly after midnight and discharged the
; contents of a shot-gun at him while in bed. j
i The loud took effect in his leg, and will not j
. prove fatul. There is no clue to the would-j
, be assassin. Seventeen miners were
j drowned in a mine at Jeanville, Penn., last
I Wednesday. The accident was caused by
\ drilling a hole into an old worked out shaft
i in which a large quantity of water was confined.
The Kansas legislature has re
fured to endorse the Conger lard bi ll. The
| Wisconsin legislature has repealed the law
; in that State providing for compulsory edu- j
'cation. A serious revolution is underi
j full headway in Chilli. Citizens have risen
i against the government and quite a number i
! of bloody conflicts have taken place during
I the past three weeks. Six men, four
I colored ami two white, were killed by a boil-!
j er explosion in Tattnall county. (Ja., hist
j Thursday. The boiler of a locomotive
! exploded in the railroad yards at Marietta,
Ga., last Friday. Large pieces of iron were
i thrown through the Jdoors and windows of
i a hotel, but strange to say, no one was
: hurt. A brother of Rev. Sam P. Jones.
' 1 * '? ?a 2ii . r*.. i\.:
WHO was inea Ul v urtt-rcviiir, viii., iii?. in(lay
for the murder of a negro a few months
I ago, has been acquitted. The lcgisla'
tare of South Dakota took its twenty-ninth
! ballot for senator last Monday, and still 110
change. The senatorial deadlock in
Illinois also continues unchanged. As will
! be remembered, in this contest, the Itcpuhli[
cans and Democrats are evenly matched, and
three members of the Farmers' Mutual Ben1
efit Association hold the balance of power.
So far, over sixty ballots have been taken
with the same result. The Farmers' Mutual
i men have made a proposition to the Rcpuh'
licaiis, submitting the names of three men,
A Strceter, Jno. I\ Steele and H. 1'. Moore,
{as their candidates. Kither that may be
1 agreed upon will be elected ; but if the Rc|
publicans cannot make choice between the
three, then it is understood that the F. M. B,
A., men will hold on indefinitely. It is
said that Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer,
proposes to donate all the rich gifts.
, lie has received from the various crowned
heads of Europe to be used for the benefit of
the poor of London. The value of the gifts,
which consists of pearls of rare value, gold
.cups and kindred articles, amounts in the
aggregate to about $500,000. A rcsolu'
tion was passed in the lower house of con!
gross last Monday providing that each representative
shall have a private secretary at a
j salary of Slot) u month.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
IXDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
H. A. D. Neely, County Treasurer?Notice to
Tft X" PftyorSf
Dowry tfe Starr?Ts Your Wife LostEvery
Family Should Have?All Those Who.
Mrs. T. M. Dobson?Dobson's Racket.
M. A H. C. Strauss?Down, Down With the
Prices.
Win. C. Latimer?Five Thousand Pairs of Shoes
to be Sold at About the Cost of Material
for Cash.
A. Y. Cartwright A Co.?Great Clearance Sale !
DEATH.
George Glenn Riddle, infant son of Mr. J.
H. Riddle, died last Monday morning of congestion
of the brain. The little babe was
aged seven months and ten days, and was the
joy of the household. The funeral services
were held at the residence of Mrs. M. J.
C'Jark, on yesterday, by Rev. T. R. English,
and were both beautiful and impressive.
After the services, the remains were accompanied
to the cemetery by a large number of
friends of the bereaved father.
TEMPERANCE LECTURES.
Wo nro romiostod to announce, that com
" ~ M,v - 1 mencing
next Friday night, Col. Lou J.
Beauchamp, the well-known temperance lecturer,
working under the auspices of the
Grand Lodge of Good Templars in South
Carolina, will deliver a series of temperance
lectures in the court house at this place.
He is expected to be in Yorkville four days
and will deliver a lecture each night during
his stay. On Sunday night he will conduct
a union gospel temperance service.
ACCIDENT TO A MTVISTER.
The many friends in this county of Rev.
W. Meek McElwee, of Rockbridge Baths,
Va., will learn with regret that he is now
suffering from the result of serious injuries
recently sustained by a fall. The accident
occurred on the 17th ultimo. While depositing
letters in the box at the post office, he was
holding his horse's bridle reins over his right
arm. The horse suddenly jerked back, and
Mr. McElwee was violently thrown down
on a hard plank floor. The shock proi
i ? ~ i* xi ? i r/l%. rt
(Iliceu concussion UI me spine uiiu iui a muc
he partially lost the use of his limbs. He is
gradually getting better, and hopes to be
able to resume his pastoral labors within a
week or two more.
IF A MISTAKE, PLEASE CORRECT.
As stated elsewhere, all unrenewed subscriptions
that would have expired on the first
of January, had it not been for the fire, are
out this week, and will be discontinued until
further orders. Among the papers which
are to be discontinued are some about the
dates of which we are uncertain. These are
in cases where we have been unable to obtain
an old address label, and such papers
are uniformly dated January 1. If there
is any mistake, and your paper is discontinued
before the expiration of the time to
which you have paid, plea.se correct the matter
at once by sending in an old .address label?a
yellow one?or otherwise informing
lis as to how many issues are yet due you.
FOR SELLING "WHISKY.
Sam Allison, colored, was before Intendant
Withers last Monday for selliug whisky.
He put up as a plea that the transaction was
purely a matter of accommodation. He had
been given the money with which to buy the
whisky, and after making the purchase, turned
it over to the party fc-r whom he bought
it without profit. He, however, refused to
tell where he made the purchase. The fact
that whisky had been sold was clearly established,
and Intendant Withers held that
as the law had been violated, until Allison
could point out the guilty party, he must
bear the consequences. He was accordingly
given a choice between paying a fine of $25,
going 1o jail for 15 days, or working 12 days
on the streets. He chose the latter alternative
and was put under bond to work out
his sentence.
ABOUT PEOPLE.
Mi's. A. W. Ingold left Yorkville on Monday
last on a visit to her daughter, Mrs. Sallie
Randlemail, at Randlemun, N. C.
Mr. John H. Sizelan, formerly superintendent
of the Caroline, Buggy Factory, of
Yorkville, has removed to Rock Hill to take
the superintendency of the Holler & Anderson
Buggy Factory, at that place.
Mr. Frank Wilson, of Manning, spent a
few days in Yorkville, the past week, as the
guest of his brother-in-law, Mr. Walter T.
Barren.
" ? A A
i>ir. 1UOIT13 AU.IUllt,Ul Ultucaivnu, xvmi.,
arrived in Yorkville last Friday, and is now
employed in the paint shop of the Carolina
Buggy Factory under his father, who is foreman
of that departmen t.
TO COLORED TEACHERS.
We are in receipt of a circular from L. M.
Dunton, president of Claflin University, at
Orangeburg, informing the colored teachers
throughout the State that by reason of a
special appropriation of the Peabody educational
fund, he is enabled to offer them the
advantages of Claflin University for three
months free of charge. A class for the instruction
of teachers ii? the theory and practiced
f teaching was formed on Tuesday of
last week, and will l>e continued for three
months from that date. The teachers are
also offered the additional advantage of en- j
tering any of the classes at the University
either for advance or review, and are promised
Iward at the low rate of $4 per month, j
Books may be either purchased or rented I
from the University book store.
SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONFERENCE. j
Rev. G. H. Waddell, chairman of the exec-}
utive committee of the M. E. Sunday-school,
conference of'York county, has issued a call j
for a meeting of the committee to be held in
Trinity church on the 25th instant. The oh-,
ject of the meeting is to arrange and agree
upon a programme for the next annual meeting
of the conference, which is to be held in
Yorkville on a date also to be appointed by
the executive committee.
The executive committee of the conference
is composed as follows: Rev. G. H.
Waddell, chairman ; If. C. Strauss, secretary
; F. A. Gilbert, F. Ilapperlield, Sr., J. G. j
Anderson, J. A. Smit h, W. S. Wilkerson, Dr. j
E. L. Glenn. Ex-oflicio members, Revs. J.!
W. Humbert, A. S. Leslie, Dr. A. M. Chreitz-1
berg, E. (>. Watson, J. L. Harley, J. N. Isom,!
E. G. Price.
THE FILE IS GROWING COMPLETE. I
When we tirst undertook the work of re-1
..i??iw. niuu Tiik Evoimkkw. !
Milling I "V ?? WIV.I v/. ? .... 7f
we confess that it was with but the faintest
hopes of success. The probability of being
I able to secure a complete file of the past1
few years, of course, was good : but to go
back twenty-five years, and even further,
'seemed altogether out of the question.
We are very much gratified, however, toj
I find that we have been mistaken. It seems
! that there are more copies of the old paper
| in existence than we had reason to believe,
and our numerous friends have been sending
them in so rapidly that we are truly astonished.
Up to the present time, we have re;
ceived from different sources more than a
i thousand copies, and, as we announced last
: week, have been enabled to complete from
these a lile of all the papers destroyed by
the (ire, with the exception of the years
j 1855. J870 and 1871.
And we are pleased to report that we are
making splendid progress in the work of
again collecting together these last two years.
! Week before last Sheriff Crawford sent in a
j few issues of the year 1870. lie was followed
the next week by Mr. Joseph W.
Templeton with eight copies of various is!sues
in 1871, and this week it gives us additional
pleasure to acknowledge the receipt
, of still other issues of the same years.
On last Saturday. Misses Agnes Cody and
Florence Price, of Yorkville, brought in
copies of the issues of July 14 and September
15. 1870. and May 18. 1871.
Hut Mrs. J. M. M. Cain, of the Reersheba
, neighborhood, has overwhelmed us with the
biggest installment of all. She sends the 1
following dates, most of them in a remarka- i
bly good Btate of preservation: January 6
and 13, February 24, March 31, April 7, '
May 5 and 12, June 16, October 27 and No- j
vember 10, 1870; March 23,'April 6 and 13,
May 4 and 25, July 13, August 31, Novem- j
ber 2, 9, and 23, 1871. In all twenty
copies?ten of each year. ]
In addition to the above, last Monday's <
express brought the rarest of rare gifts. We '
refer to a complete volume of The Yorkville
Compiler for the year 1840. It is a
present from Mrs. John A. Brown, who lives ^
near Rock Hill, and was given to her husband,
Mr. John A. Brown, in the year 1841, [
by John E. Grist, the publisher. It whs on 1
the first issue of this volume, which by the
way, was Volume 1, No. 1, that the present
proprietor of The Enquirer commenced to <
learn the printer's trade. 1
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CHURCH NOTICES. :
Episcopal?Rev. K. S. Nelson, rector. ]
Services next Sunday at 11 a. m. Sunday- ,
school at 3.30 p. m. ]
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J. '
C. Galloway, pastor. Yorkville?Services .
next Sunday at 11 o'clock a. m. and 7 o'clock (
p. m. Sunday-school at 3.30 p. m.
Trinity Methodist Episcopal?Rev. G. H.
Waddell, pastor. Prayer-meeting this even- j
ing at 7.15 o'clock. Sendees next Sunday at
11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sunday-school at 3 p. m. '
Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, D. D., (
pastor. Prayer-meeting to-morrow afternoon (
at 4 o'clock. Services next Sunday at 11
o'clock a. m. and 7 o'clock p. m. Sunday- ,
school at 3 p. m. ]
Baptist?Rev. Robert G. Patrick, pastor. '
Union?Services next Sunday at 11 o'clock (
a. m. Sunday-school at 10 o'clock a. m. (
Yorkville?Prayer-meeting to-morrow even- .
ing at 7.15. Sunday-school at 10 o'clock a. m. ,
Services Sunday evening at 7.15.
THE YORKVILLE GRADED SCHOOLS.
The following is the roll of honor of the
white school for the month of January, 1891; ;
Room No. 1, Miss Davidson?First Grade?
Fannie Riddle, 91; Ellen Summit, 91; Wilma
O'Farrell, 91; Lizzie Lowiy r 90: Annie Latta '
Wilson, 90; Louise Lowry, 60; Lillie Parish, 90; i
Lizzie Hunter, 90 ; Bertie Smith, 91; John Ashe,
90; Harry Spann, 90; Lindsay Hunter, 91: Chas.
< Jnforth. 91; Tom Ensrlish. 91: Chas. Crossley, 90. 1
Second Grade, 1st lHvision?Ethel Latimer, fll;
Annie Parish, 92: Lula Murphy, 92; Jett'erys
Ashe, 92; Jas. Parish, 92; Fred Wadded, 91.
Room JSo.2, Miss ilannahan?Second Grade,
Second Division?Annie Owen, 92; Julia Smith,
91; Cora Briggs, 90.
Third Grade?Mary Galloway, 96; Sallie Goforth,
90.
Room No. 3, Miss Wilson?Fourth Grade,
Second Division?Maggie Ferguson, 90.
Fourth Grade, First Division?Julia Galloway,
9(5; Mattie Johnson, 93; Maud Gardner, 93;
Rose Hunter, 93; Sammie Parish, 92; Lula McC'lain,
92; Mary Hunter, 90; Frank Hart, 90;
Alice Woods, 90.
Room No. 4, Miss Gist?Fifth Grade?Annie
Wallace, 93; Brainerd Dobson, 90.
Sixth Grade?Mary Gardner, 93; Iva Withers,
92; Amelia Kennedy, 90.
Room No. 3, W. W. Lewis?Seventh GradeAnnie
Watson, 92. *
Eighth Grade?None.
Ninth Grade?None.?
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THE PUBLIC SCHOOL FUND.
The public school fund for York county
for the present scholastic year, after deducting
all expenses, amounts to #10,831.02.
The school commissioner has apportioned
this sum among the various school districts
in proportion to the average attendance in
each as follows:
School Dis- Average Atten- Net Apportrict.
dance. tionment.
No. 1 200 9 357 25
No. 2 : 318 553 75
No. 3 270 409 70
No. 4 170 295 71
No. 5 830 1,444 15
No. 6 400 810 15
No. 7 371 M5 90
No. 8 491 852 40
No. 9 247 428 05
No. 10 589 1,024 65
No. 11 237 412 05
No. 12 525 912 75
No. 13 210 301 25
No. 14 72 125 75
No. 15 39 67 00
No. 10 07 110 75
No. 17 172 298 95
Nu. 18 90 107 75 '
No. 19 39 07 77
No. V() 45 76 95
No. 21 101 176 35
No. 22 :. 108 188 80
No. 23 62 107 25 i
No. 24 119 205 25
No. 25 77 134 30
No. 20 218 379 90
No. 27 34 57 90
No. 28 51 87 90
Total, 5,994 $10,831 02
LOCAL LACONICS.
? Mr. R. K. Seahorn, of Hickory Grove, is
the most successful turuip grower this year.
He sends us a turnip of his own raising that
weighs 12J pounds.
? The Richmond and Danville authorities
are making such repairs 011 the recently j
burned depot at this place as will make the |
building available for the storage of heavy 1
freigh't.
? In the case of Elizabeth J. Simpson vs. I
Wm. J. Cherry and others, the supreme!
court has rendered a decission modifying the
judgment of the court below and remanding;
the case for a new trial.
? Edward Byers, colored, was arrested by
Marshall Wilson last Sunday for selling'
whisky without a license. On a hearing be-1
fore Commissioner Hart, he was bound over |
to appear before Commissioner Pride on the j
25th of February.
? A charter has been issued for the Holler1
& Anderson Buggy company, of Rock Hill.
The capital stock is $20,000, and the incorporators
are A. I). Holler, J. I). Anderson, A. E. j
Holler and W. J. Roddey.
? The aggregate rainfall during the past j
five weeks is unprecedented for the same i
period of any one season for several years, j
7 innliiw luminal 1 (59 inches !
11 U11IUUIIIO lu I.1U IIJVUVW
during the first live weeks of last year,
? "We acknowledge the receipt of a well
written news letter from Blairsville signed
"Tigler." The letter, however, contains no !
signature, and we beg to inform the writer t
that it is necessary that we have his, (ori
her) name. Not for publication, but as aj
guarantee of good faith.
? Letters from Mr. G. 1). O'Leary and his
physicians, say that he is getting along as (
well as could be hoped for. The lymph is;
being injected every day, and its effectsj
seem to be attended with the best results.'?
Mr. O'Leary\s appetite is improving, and he
seems to be growing stronger.
? Judge Simonton has signed an order requiring
all persons claiming to hold bonds of,
the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago railroad,
secured by mortgage, to make proof of
the same, and to report the number, date, j
amount and character of the said bonds on or
before rules day in May next.
? Mrs. C. G. Parish is meeting with
splendid success in the hotel business. She
opened the Parish house on the 29th of last
i December, and during the month of January,
which among hotel people is considered the
dullest of the winter season, she entertained
over 200 guests, not including a large number
of servants. The drummers on the road j
j say that Yorkville now has one of the best
hotels in the upper portion of the State, and j
most of them are beginning to make this
town their objective point for Sunday.
JENKINS' RIFLES.
At the meeting of the Jenkins Rifles last
Wednesday night, the llth of April next was
agreed upon as the date on which the Wali
lace troop Hag is to be received. Xo change
' was made as to the non-commissioned officers,
and the prize drill matter was arranged as
| follows:
That the company be divided into two!
platoons, Nos. 1 and 2. Xo. 1 to be under
; command of Lieutenant Parish, and Xo. 2,
under Lieutenant Bell. Both platoons will
begin at once practicing in competition for
prizes to be awarded at some future date.
The prizes are to be two in number, and are
to consist of appropriate medals or some- (
thing else that may be deemed more suitable, j
The commandant of the winning platoon is
1 to receive one of the prizes, and the best j
i drilled member of the company is to be
I awarded the other.
The members of the respective platoons j
ivere determined by lot and the two divisions
are composed as follows:
1st Platoon.?Seigeant M. C. Willii,
Sergeant M. "W. Wmts^CharJes R. May.
Grreehe" Sandiffefp Clarence'TJTenn, Sergeant8
R. H. Dobson, Corporal A. G. Hart, Corporal
Paul T. Gordon, James B. Allison, Quay
McElwee. , >-t
2nd Platoon.?J. W. Clawson, J. F. ,
Hart, James F. Glenn, Illion Johnson, T. W.
Clawson, T. F. McDow, Corporal C. R. Sim- ,
nons, Corporal W. C. Gist, E. B. Beard,
Robert S. Withers, Clarence Lowrance. ,
It is understood that the young men are
:aking great interest in the drill, and it is to i
>e hoped that the. people of the town will {
contribute their hearty co-operation in raakng
it a genuine success.
RAILROAD EARNINGS.
The tabulated statement of the earnings
if the railroads in the State during the
month of November, 1890, as compared with
Lhe same month of the previous year, has
ust been published. According to the statement,
the total earnings of all the roads is
1819,481.41 for November, against $817,121.47
for November, 1889. The total increase
in passenger earnings of all the roads
is $15,971.93. The freight earnings show a
lecrease of $17,701.20, but there is an in
crease of 6,800 tons in the total tonnage carried.
There are thirty-five railroads in the
State, and of these thirteen show an aggregate
decrease of $38,811.26 in their earnings
for the month. The other twenty-two show
an aggregate increase of $30,671.21. The
Cheraw and Chester road earned $2,487.86?
an increase of $467.23 over November of last
year. The Chester and Lenoir earned $7,223.83?an
increase of $258.28. The Three
C'8 earned $16,224.53?an increase of $3,850.37,
or 29.03 per cent. The Atlanta and
Charlotte Air-Line earned $157,931.58?an
increase of $17,092.50. The Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta road earned $74,440.54?
an increase of $3,207.59.
Murder in Greenville.?A special dispatch
from Greenville, dated last Saturday,
tells the story of the cowardly murder of
Major W. A. Williams, familiarly known
as "Dixie" Williams, of that city. He was
shot through the heart and killed by James
B. Williams at a few minutes after 12 o'clock
Saturday morning.
TlfMll mnr/1urar VL'Ofn
Major miliums uuu ma uiuiuuvi
playing a game of card9 in a private room
opposite the Mansion House. They disputed
about the game and Major Williams
drew his knife. J. B. Williams said: "I am
unarmed." Major Williams then threw the
knife on the table and said : "Then I'll
fight you on the muscle." Major Williams
began pulling off his coat, and just as he had
laid it on a table and turned to face his opponent,
J. B. Williams suddenly drew a revolver
and shot him. Major Williams fell
forward on his face, and was found a few
minutes later dead. The murderer escaped
and has not been captured. He is the same
man who was in a serious cutting affVay at
Spartanburg some time ago in which a man
named Pateet, was cut all to pieces. Major
Williams was the son-in-law of Judge Hudson,
and was a well known member of the
Greenville bar. He had represented that
county in the legislature, and was prominent
in military circles. He was a Royal
Arch Mason and Knight of Pythias. The
tragedy was an awful shock to the community,
and thousands of the dead man's friends
all over the State will receive the news with
sadness. The coroner's inquest was held
to-day, and the verdict of the jury was that
the murder was felonious.
F. M. Simons was arrested Saturday night
as an accessory after the fact. He is charged
with aiding the murder to escape, but denies
the charge. He will probably furnish
bond.
The relatives of Major Williams have offered
a reward of $600 for the arrest of the
murderer, aud Governor Tillman has been
requested to increase the reward to soineui,?
41 oon
Fought to the Death.?A dispatch
from Memphis, Tennessee, dated on Tuesday
of last week, tells of a singular duel, fought
some days before, near Houston, Miss.:
The dead bodies of two men, lying within
a few feet of each other, each with a Winchester
rifle by his side, were found this
morning. One of the men had a bullet hole
in -his forehead, from which oozed a clotted
mass of blood and brains; the other had a
dark blotch on his shirt front, where the
current of his life-blood had settled and
congealed.
The bodies are those of two men named
Phillpot and Wash Leader, the latter one of
the oldest settlers of Chickasaw county. So
tar as known there was no witness to the
encounter which resulted in death to both.
It is not known that there had been pre
vious ill-feeling between the men. The position
in which the bodies lay when discovered,
and the fact that there was an empty
shell in the chamber of each rifle, show that
each died by the hand of the other, perhaps
at the same instant.
The carcass of a hog near by affords the
only suggestion as to the cause of the tragedy.
The animal had been killed by a bullet
from a Winchester rifle. Perhaps the men
quarreled over the ownership of it and settled
the matter as the surroundings now indicate*
The killing occurred upon a trail in the
woods of a remote district of the county,
and the result of the coroner's investigation
is not yet known, if, indeed, any has been
made, neither is it known when the encounter
took place, though the bodies were stiff,
cold, the faces blanched, the hair matted by
rain and the clothing wet and clinging closely
to the limbs, indicating that they had
lain exposed to the elements for a considerable
time.
Sam Jones is-Game.?The Rev. Sam P.
Jones, the Georgia evangelist, is true grit.
He has oflen made the assertion that he
would fight. But everybody thought it was
bluff. Mayor John J. Ward, of Palestine,
Texas, evidently thought the same. At any
rate he attempted to cane Mr. Jones in that
city on Tuesday of last week and he came
to grief. The first blow of the cane across
the Rev. Sam's shoulders and he turned upon
his assailant like a tiger, wrenched the cane
from his hands, and literally wore him out,
both men fighting all the while, offensive
and defensive. When they were parted, both
men were bleeding freely, and Jones, still
holding to the cane, turned away from the
thoroughly chastised mayor with the significant
remark, "I always did despise a coward
!"
The cause of the trouble?but it is no use
to go into details. Here is the long and
short of the whole story, as dictated by Jones 1
himself in a characteristic telegram to his
friends in Georgia:
' The one-gallus mayor of Palestine tried i
to cane your Uncle Jones this morning at j
the depot. I wrenched the cane from liisj
hand and wore him out. I am a little (lis-1
figured but still in the ring. I criticised his;
official career last November. It needed
criticising. Sam. P. Jones.*' i
On the evening after the occurrence, the
citizens of Palestine assembled in mass-meet- j
ing, denounced the conduct of the mayor j
and unanimously passed resolutions demanding
his resignation.
The mayor claims that he made the attack
on Jones not on account of any criticism of
his official conduct, but on account of the lutter's
' insulting language regarding his pri- j
vate life and habits before his wife and chil- i
dren."
He Holds on to Life.?The friends of
Senator nearsi, ui vaiuurmu, uuw ?cvn >.,
pecting him to die momentarily for .some
time past. It is possible that he may not
die after all. The doctors pronounced his
case incurable a week ago. hut Hearst has yet <
to give up the ghost. Within twenty-four,
hours after the physicians had issued that
bulletin, the dying senator wagered with Congressman
Clunie that he would get well. If
he does, he will repeat a former experience.1
At Tombstone, a dozen years ago, his physicians
said he could not live. Hearst called
them liars, turned them out of the house and
in a week or two was out himself.
? Columbia Register: The comptroller general
has issued a circular advising sherills
and treasurers that 110 execution can issue
against taxpayers who have failed to pay
their taxes up to February 1, the limit allowed
by the legislature. The comptroller
general holds that by the act of 1889 there
are eighteen days of grace. I'p to the 18th,
therefore, taxpayers can pay their taxes
with 1"> per cent, penalty without execution.
The comptroller general is acting on the
advice of the attorney general.
. LETTER FROM UNION COUNTY.
Progress of Farm Work?Comity Commissioners
Want Better Roads?A Suggestion to
the Legislature?Reminiscence of Army
B Life With a Practical Aj plication.
Correspondence of The Yorkvllle Enquirer.
Etta Jane, February $.?Mud, mud,
mud, and still raining. The past few days
have been beyond doubt as jiittle adapted to
our outdoor work as any weather we have
had in a number of years, and our farmers
are very much behind with their work, particularly
in sowing oats. Wheat and oats
sown last fall are looking -well, yet the acreage
in both these crops is far bplow the
acreage of former years. .... ^
Our county^mmi?ioaeiw;ajre calling for
better roads,an<| imperative) y demand twelve
full days' work by each road hand. -Should
they enforce their order to theletter, we will
have many needed improvements in our
highway system.' But like all or most of its
predecessors, it will exist dhore in print than
in highways and ditches..
Our legislators might materially improve
the road law and give it h more equitable
bearing by making<Vewer exemptions, and
more liabilities $o road duty.
Mr. and Mrs.^. W. LotsiVich left for their
Tennessee home last Week." We numbered
them among our viery best citistens, bpth in
church and State, and their places in these
ranks will be hard to fill.
Rev. Mr. Robinson is expected to preach
nt Salem next Sunday. 15th instant.
I am glad to learn that our former pastor,
Rev. R. P. Smith, and his family, are pleasantly
situated in their 'Blackstock home.
There are no better people on earth than
those among whom they have cast their
lot?the people of Blackstock.
Our friends and relatives in the West to
whom we send The Enquires regularly
have written us that we know>dwt little of
the pleasure it gives them to read this paper
from their old home. It brings them back
to the place of their childhood around1 which
so many pleasant recollections cluster. There
is scarcely a family in York or Union counties
(to say nothing of other counties) that is
not immediately or remotely represented
beyond the Mississippi river, and .if* wc
could properly appreciate^* hat # treat The
Enquirer is to our frieffds, we we?Id never
fail to send it'io them after readtagit ourselves.
Or,. so fhras that is oonehned, j|t is
a very poor friend/thaii is UotvWTdrth the
price of the paper; and< it mightoe mailed
directly from the,, office. . During tttefijrst
year of the war I took Tta ENQUOtssffchd
it scarcely ever failed to find its way to our
camp. And when it did come, every York
man felt that a royal visitor was in camp.
The paper was read and. re-read until it was
literally worn out. "There is no place like
home." SIGMA.
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The Cause op Wet Cotton Explained.?The
Liverpool Cotton Association is
inclined to kick on account of the large
quantity of damp cotton that has been shipped
this year, and laat week addressed a
communication to the New York Exchange
reques ting that rules be mode to prevent the
further shipment of the staple in this condition.
The New York Exchange returned
the following sarcastic but richly deserved
answer:
"The committee are surprised that such ,
a communication as that referred to them .
should emanate from such a source as the
Liverpool Cotton Association. The cause of
damp cotton and exceptional loss in weight
is something to be easily accounted for. For
a long period of the present picking season
the weather was wet, so much so that
moisture not only thoroughly impregnated
the fibre, but seriously reduced the quality
or grotde of the crop. Neither the cotton
exchanges of America nor the growers of
cotton, can frame any rules that will prevent
rain from wetting cotton that has not yet
been picked.
"It is the belief of this committee that the
world in general is obliged to take them as
they find them. If the cotton is a poor one,
a sandy or wet one, that is the article that
has got to be traded in for the time being.
"Under the circumstances, and believing
that there can be no rules formulated that
will alter the workings of nature on the
plant that grows in the open air, your committee
herewith beg to return the communication
from the Liverpool Cotton Association,
with the recommendation that rio attempt
be made to formulate any such rules
as are suggested."
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? Ann Robinson, a colored woman who
lived near Greenwood, was killed by light
ning on Wednesday two weeks ago.
? A movement is on foot to get up ' big
military encampment in Columbia on tt 3 occasion
of the coming centennial celebration
in May.
? Hon. John J. Hemphill was in Chester
last week. He came from Washington to
attend the Aineral of his uncle, Mr. Robert
N. Hemphill.
? The Charleston News and Courier reports
that the receipts of cotton at Charleston
are 100,000 bales in excess of the number
received up to the same date in 1800.
? The Columbia Register says that Governor
Tillman lost a fine horse last week. It
was choked to death in its stall by the slipping
oflf its halter.
? Including the mm of $5,000 in town
bonds voted to the graded school in that
place last Wednesday, the town of Newberry
has given $15,000 to her schools.
? Judge Izlar has rendered a decision in
which it is held that a sheriff", selling lands
for the non-payment of taxes, can make good
titles. The case has been appealed.
? The Charleston grand jury has found
"no bill" against E. B. Legare, the young
man who accidentally killed, a negro in
Berkeley county a few weeks ago.
? Deputy Marshal William C. Haynes, of
Greensboro, X. C., was arrested in Spartanburg
last week on the charge of having stolen
$281 from the government.
? Mr. Charles A. Calvo, Jr., proprietor of
The Columbia Register, announces that he
has arranged for a material improvement in
the telegraphic news service of his paper,
and that hereafter The Register will ftirnish
its readers with all the New York Associated
Press reports.
? A primary election will be held in Union
county on April 10 for the purpose of nominating
Democratic candidates to serve out
the unexpired terms of Representative Robert
Little, deceased, and Capt. Thomas Comer,
supervisor of registration, also deceased.
? It is said that the people of Georgetown
want to lynch W. G. Hall for the murder of
a negro in that county week before last.
Hall is now in jail in Columbia, aud his case
will probably be continued until the next
term of the court in order to let the excitement
subside.
? Hon. J. C. Coit, president of the Alliance
Exchange, holds that, the Exchange cannot
legally subscribe the funds it has on hand
to the purpose of establishing a State bank.
The Exchange was chartered under the Genoral
Incorporation Act of December 23,188tl,
and'that act provides "That no part of the
capital stock or any of the funds of such
corporation shall, at any time during the
continuance of this charter, be used or employed
directly or indirectly in banking operations."
The Indian Pow Wow.?The delegation
of recently hostile Indian chiefs, composed
of John Grass. Hollow Horn, Bear,
American Horse, Two Strikes, Humph,
Young-Man-Afndd-of-His Horse, and others,
are now in Washington, holding a conference
with Secretary Noble. The chiefs declare
that their people do not want to be driven
back to savage life, but want fair treatment.
They complain that too few Indians get
places at the agencies, ami say that most of
the fat offices are given to relatives or pets of
the agents.
They say that the recent destruction of
their property at Pine Ridge has retarded
their material progress at least fifteen years,
and they want their losses made good. They
They all protested that they had heen peaceful
all the while, and Hollow Horn and Bear
declared that there was only one Indian at
Wounded Knee who wanted to fight. That
Indian fired his gun, and the stddiers fired
on men and squaws.
The Indians are all opposed to the agencies
being placed in charge of the military,
hut prefer that they remain us they are, in
charge of civilians.
Secretary Noble has given tin" Indians no
1 definite answer to their requests, but informed
them that the government had fulfilled
all its treaty stipulations. He also advised
them to think over what had been
done, and to educate their children and let
them decide that they could obtain nothing
from the United States by force.
? Representative Geary, of California, on
Monday, introduced in the house a bill
providing for the free coinage of silver produced
in the United States.