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? George Dunnaway was tried in the
criminal court of Lebanon, Tennessee, on
.Thursday of last week, on several charges,
and wast found guilty of murder in the first
degree, of rape, and on two charges of shooting
with intent to kill. He was sentenced
to two life terms, and two terms of eight and
ten years in the penitentiary. It is not
stated which sentence he is to serve first.
? For the past ten years, says a Birmingham,
Ala., letter, two families, one named
Wright and the other Johnson, have lived
near each other in Blount county, about ten
miles from * Blountsville. Mr. and Mrs.
Wright had five daughters about grown, and
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson had five sons who had
attained their majority. The families were
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the two eldest Johnson boys married two of
the Wright girls. Shortly afterward Mrs.
Johnson and Mr. Wright died about the
same time, postponing temporarily the marriage
of another of the Johnson boys to
another daughter of the Wrights. A short
time since Mr. Johnson, Sr., was married
to Mrs. Wright, and one of the two remaining
boys married the youngest Wright girl
and the marriage was a double one. A fewweeks
ago the remaining Johnson boy was
married to the last Wright girl.
? Here is an incident that is calculated to
excite sympathy throughout the world for
poor down trodden Poland. The people of
that country lost their liberty in 1792, and
have been ground under the heel of oppression
ever since. A dispatch from Warsaw,
the capital, tells how the centennial is to be
observed. This year, throughout Poland, is
to be regarded as a year of the deepest
mourning. The women of Poland, from the
highest to the lowest, from the princess to the
peasant woman, will wear nothing but black
during 1892. All the large dry goods firms
in Warsaw, Wilna, Lemberg and Cracowhave
sent back_to Vienna and other cities,
according to previous understandings, the
goods they have had in stock, and have received
black materials instead. Bonnets,
gloves, dresses, furs and jewelry are to be
black. Thus will the Poles commemorate
the year 1792, when they lost their independence.
? According to the latest reports, the probability
of war with Chili has about blown
over. The two governments have come to a
better understanding with each other, and it
is understood that in case an amicable arT?Ti?w?TTif>nt,
rAnnot be aerreed upon directly
between Senor Montt, the Chilian minister
at Washington, and Mr. Blaine, the matter
will be referred for arbitration. As is no
doubt understood by our readers, the United
States government claims that the attack on
the Baltimore's sailors was a direct insult
to the American flag. The Chilians claim
that no such construction should be put on
the affair. They say it occurred in a low
dive in one of the worst quarters of Valparaiso,
and was nothing more than a drunken
row. If this representation can be proven
as a fact, the United States should make no
claims for indemnity or other reparation, but
after so much fuss has been made about the
matter, it is rather likely that Chili will be
forced to pay the fiddler.
? On March 4, 1890, Mrs. Jefferson Davis
agreed to write two volumes of memoirs of
her husband, to be published by Robert Belford
for six years. According to contract,
Belford was to give Mrs. Davis 12$ per cent,
on the retail price of the books sold, and
Edward Lange was to stand security in the
sum of $10,000 for the faithtui carrying out
of the contract on the part of Belford. The
book was published last March, and three
months afterward Belford made a statement
showing that $4,001 was credited to Mrs.
Davis. A few weeks ago, Mrs. Davis entered
a complaint in the superior court of New
York alleging that Belford was insolvent,
and asking for a judgment for $4,001 against
him. She also asked for an injunction restraining
him from assigning the contract,
and for $10,000 damages against Lange. The
defendants put in a demurrer to the complaint
on the ground that the plaintiff had improperly
joined the causes of action, and on this
technicality the case was, on last Thursday,
decided against Mrs. Davis.
? The United States troops, the Texas
rangers and the Mexican soldiers, are still
having a lively time of chasing Catarino
Garza, the Mexican filibuster. The papers
have been having a good deal to say about
Garza during the past week, but owing to
the fact that the telegraph lines have been
pretty badly out of repair, there is little that
' is satisfactory. Garza, at last accounts, was
on the American side of the border, and had
had several skirmishes with the United
States soldiers. A good many shots were
exchanged, and several of the outlaws are
reported wounded, but nobody was killed.
It was stated last week that a force of about
300 Mexican soldiers had murdered their
general and went over to Garza, but the
statement is emphatically denied. The
United States government is concentrating a
large force of regular troops along the border,
for the purpose of preventing Garza's
making Texas soil a base of operations.
Fears are entertained in Mexico that the
trouble will soon develop into a very serious
one. It is believed that there is a large discontented
element of the population that is
ready to rise up and join Garza for the overthrow
of the Diaz government.
? Mercantile failures for the year 1891, as
reported by the mercantile agency of R. G.
Dunn & Co., are *12,273 in the United States,
against 10,906 in 1890. Failures in 1891 are
greater in number than in any previous year
since the record has been kept by this agency,
running back to 1857. The amount of liabilities,
however, is almost precisely the same as
the previous year, amounting to $189,000,000.
The amount lost, therefore, does not exceed
that of the previous year, while the average
of liabilities of failure is $15,471 in 1891,
against $17,406 in 1890. The distribution of
loss in geographical sections shows that the
liabilities of failure in the Eastern States in
the year just closed were $19,000,000 against
$27,000,000 last year. In the middle States
the liabilities were $67,000,000 against $75,000,000
in 1890. In the Southern States a
marked increase in liabilities is noted, as they
amounted last year to $45,000,000 against
$27,000,000 in 1890. In the Western States
there is a decline of $2,000,000 in liabilities,
which amounted, in the year just closed, to
$48,000,000 against $50,000,000 in the year
previous, while on the Pacific coast, in 1891,
the liabilities amounted to $9,000,000 as
against $7,000,000 in 1890.
? The following from St. Louis, Mo., dated
December 25, tells how Christmas was spent
in that city: With but one exception the
day here was without deviation from the
usual rule, but the exception cited is a notable
one. It is no less than carrying to 4,000
needy children gladness in a practical way.
The week preceding today the St. Louis
Sunday-school Superintendent union, with
the aid of the press, raised a fund of $4,000
in cash, supplemented by over 2,000 pounds
of candy and 5,000 oranges. The money
was invested in shoes and stockings, and today
4,000 children were given each a new I
pair of shoes and a pair of stockings. The
presentation was at Grand Music hall and
was accomplished by aid of investigation
tickets signed by known reputable citizens
certifying that the bearer was in need of the
articles presented. Before 9 a. m. the children
began to gather at the hall, though its
doors were not opened until 11. At that
time over 150 volunteer shoe fitters began
the work of distribution, and at 5 p. m. 4,000
children had each a new pair of shoes, a
new pair of stockings, and half a pound of
candy and an orange. During the work of
distribution and fitting each little one, a I
concert by local talent assisted in maintain- j
ing order. Tonight a classical concert, to
which admission is charged, is given in aid
of the shoe fund.
? The importance of care in legislation
finds another illustration in the discovery
that two important constitutional amendments
adopted at the recent session of the
Georgia legislature for submission to the people
are, perhaps, fatally defective. These
bills were to change the constitution so as
to limit the sessions of the legislature to fifty
days, and providing for biennial sessions of
the legislature. The point made against
these bills is that they provide for amendments
to the wrong article of the constitution,
and an investigation of tho original
bills shows that the errors were made. Both
bills provide for the amendment of article 2
of the constitution, which is in no way germane
to the subject matter of the bills. It
is evident that article 3 was meant, but the
original bills contain the words "article two."
The judiciary committee of both house and
senate passed over the error. The bills were
read three times in each house and the error
was not detected, and the bills were duly
sigued in the usual way. The only article
in the constitution referring to the length
of sessions of the legislature and the time
they shall be held, is article 3. The question
whether this error, purely technical, as it
evidently is, must invalidate the acts and
prevent the submission of the amendments
to the people will be passed upon by the
attorney general. The governor is of the
the opinion that the errors will have that
effect, as it appears on the surface to amend
sections of the constitution which do not exist.
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YORKYILLE, s7c.:
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1892.
? February has twenty-nine days this
year, and among other privileges that custom
accords to the young ladies, is that of
taking the young men out to entertainments,
etc., and paying all the bills.
? According to Mr. John C. Bailey, late
editor of the Greenville Mountaineer, there
a of ftio nroBont time onlv three editors in
this State who are conducting the same papers
they were associated with in 1860.
These are Hugh Wilson, of the Abbeville
Press and Banner, L. M. Grist, of the Yorkville
Enquirer, and T. B. Crews, of the
Laurensvillc Herald.
? Clemson college cannot be opened in
February. The trustees are entirely out of
funds, and as the result the work has been
stopped. "It will be a great disappointment
to those people all over the State who intended
to send their sons there," says the governor.
But, under the circumstances, it can't
be helped. The legislature, whether wisely
or unwisely, decided not to levy the $65,000
additional tax on the people, and it is not
likely that work can be resumed on the college
before spring. It will likely be opened
by February of next year, however.
? In the last issue of the Greenville Enterprise
and Mountaineer, is announced the sale
of the paper to Colonel James A. Hoyt, and
the retirement of Mr. John C. Bailey as editor.
For the past thirty-two years Editor Bailey
has been making one of the best county papers
in the State, and we are sorry to lose
him from among the few of his day and
time that are left. However, The Enterprise
and Mountaineer will not be the loser. Un
der the management 01 Colonel xioyt, an
experienced printer and an able journalist,
the paper will be kept up to its present high
standard, and will continue to hold a position
of honor on our exchange table.
THE ENQUIRER FOR 1892.
We want 2,000 subscribers to The Enquirer
this year. Our subscription list lacks
only 400 of that number at the present time,
and there is little reason why these 400
should not be returned before the expiration
of the club competition on the second Monday
in March. A good family newspaper is
a necessity. The Enquirer is a good family
newspaper, and therefore The Enquirer
is a necessity. As a luxury or a necessity,
the subscription price is so low ($1.75 in
clubs) that even the stringency of the times
is no excuse for not making the outlay. So
let all the old subscribers who have not yet
renewed their subscriptions give their names
to some one of our numerous club-makers,
and whether the remaining 400 comes in or
no, we will promise that each and every
subscriber shall have reason to congratulate
himself on having The Enquirer as a weekly
visitor during 1892.
THE YEAR 1892.
Since the last issue of The Enquirer the
year 1891 has been numbered with the past,
and we are now fairly launched upon the
year 1892. Many of our people enter upon
the new year downcast and discouraged.
They have failed to realize the promises of
1891, and are not inclined to trust to those of
1892. To these we desire to say a word.
Last year was a bad one, it cannot be denied,
and few there be, if any, who have escaped
its withering effects. Disaster and defeat
have been the fate of many of the best
laid plans and calculations, and the whole
country enters upon 1892 in worse financial
shape than it entered upon 1891.
But still there is no need to be discouraged.
Such years as the past are the exceptions and
are not likely to be repeated close together.
The proper spirit with which to meet financal
disaster, is increased determination, energy
and perseverence. Economize within
the limits of actual needs, and make every
blow tell in the reparation of all losses.
Push and vim command the same premium
that they have always commanded, and
whatever may be the difficulties in the way
are bound to be successful in tho end.
There have been years since the war nearly
as bad as last year. If they were not
quite as bad, people thought they were at
the time and the effect was the same.
Eighteen hundred and eighty-one was a fearfully
trying year, and a large portion of our
population thought the country was ruined.
But it wasn't, by long odds. Everybody
went to work with renewed energy, such as
they had never put forth before, and with
hard work and good seasons, by the end of
1882, much of the damage was repaired.
Not only this, it can be truthfully said that
the trials of those two years were the making
of some of the best citizens that York
county now boasts of.
There is another element of discouragement
about which we have as yet said nothing.
We refer to the low prices of cotton.
On this point, we say, base all of your calculations
on those low prices If you desiro
to cultivate cotton, do it w thin an expense
warranted by the present ow prices, or not
at all. If you do this, y u can't possibly
come out behind, and you may make a good
thing. But corn and meat are a great deal
higher than cotton just now, and, therefore,
would advise, "raise corn and meat." These
products will come in handy next fall, no
matter what may be the price of cotton.
POSTMASTER GENERAL'S REPORT.
We nave received a copy 01 me minimi report
of the postmaster general for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1801. The book contains
184 pages, and treating of every detail
in the postal system, from the methods of
handling the mails in the great cities of the
country down to the hoist routes in the rural
districts, is intensely interesting from cover
to cover.
Our people probably derive more direct
benefit from the post office department than
from any other branch of the government,
and consequently the developments of this
department are, and should be, of special interest.
It seems to be the whole idea of the
department to extend the mail facilities of
the government to such a degree as to give
the very best advantage to individual citizens,
and among other things, the postmaster general
is especially solicitous of inaugurating a
free delivery system along the star routes of
the country.
These star routes, for die year ending June
30,1891, numbered throughout the whole i
country, 16,410, aggregating a distance of
237,480 miles; and during the year 1S91 the
mail riders rode a distance of 99,087,594 :
miles in carrying the mails.
This feature of the postal system is probably
more expensive than any other, the
business on scarcely a single route amounting
to enough to pay the contractor. Hut the
postal system, and especially the star route
feature, is not run for the revenue there is in
it, but rather for the convenience of the people
along the routes. If this fact was better
understood, our people could havfc still better
postal facilitities than they now enjoy.
Whenever a sufficient number of people are
to be served, the department is always willing
to establish a new mail route and from
| almost anywhere, and there are several sections
of this county that could greatly improve
their present facilities if they would
only take it upon themselves to do it. To
such sections we would recommend that they
cannot begin any earlier in securing the desired
facilities.
Postmaster General Wannaraaker proclaims
that he will appreciate any and all
criticisms of the workings of the postal system,
no matter where the shortcoming may
be. The system in geueral, we admit, is
perfect almost beyond comprehension, bul
there is at least one flagrant abuse that
should be corrected. We refer to the practice
of speculative bidders beating down the
price of carrying the star mails until those
who do the actual work can scarcely make a
living at it. From one point of view, this
might be called business, but surely such a
practice is not in conformity with the policy
of our government. The government, if no
one else, should be willing to pay a fair price
for honest work, and should be above the
practice of trying to get the labor of any
man for less than actual cost. As a remedy,
we recommend that the bidding system, as
it applies to star routes, be abolished, and
that the government fix upon a fair compensation,
on the basis of the number of miles
traveled, and such other consideration as
may be entitled to recognition, and select
the carrier upon the application of the citizens
living along the respective routes to be
served. This arrangement, it strikes us,
would be eminently just and equitable to
all parties concerned.
THE COMING CAMPAIGN.
It was a hot political campaign that South
Carolina passed through summer before last;
but unless all signs fail, the campaign of next*
summer will be two-fold hotter. In view of
all the facts in the case, it will be reasonable
to expect even something akin to the memorable
campaign of 1876. Governor Tillman
was elected on issues made by himself, and
in many instances representatives were elected
to help him carry out whatever undertaking
he thought fit. After the discussion of
the various measures recommended, in every
instance, save three, the representatives
have decided not to adopt them. Now the
question comes back to the popular jury
which is to decide whether it is Governor
Tillman or their representatives who have
endeavored to uphold the best interests of
the State.
Under the circumstances, the fight may be
expected to be very bitter. Governor Tillman
has already shown, time and again, that
he knows how to take care of himself on the
stump, and, notoriously intolerant of any
difference of opinion, those who opposed
him in the legislature will have to answer
for it next summer. But the coming fight
will differ in some respects from the last one.
In the last campaign neither side was willing
to make any concessions, and the people
were in about the same humor. During the
past two years, the people have learned
more politics than during any previous two
years in the history of the State, and in the
coming campaign they will be better than
ever qualified to weigh all issues on their
merits.
In the coming campaign the whole political
history of the past two years will be thoroughly
discussed. The present administration
will be called upon to defend what it has
done and what it hasn't done, and it is safe
to promise that whoever secures the vindication
of the people will be entitled to it.
Among the recommendations made to the
legislature, and which failed of passage, are
the following, all of which were introduced
in the shape of bills and voted down. Some
are obviously wise, and others are unwise.
All of them, and more, are likely to be ventilated
in the coming campaign.
1. To have the counties divided into square
school districts not more than thirty-six, nor
less than sixteen, square miles, with one
white aud one colored school in each.
2. To have school trustees elected by the
residents of the school district.
3. To make the poll tax $3.
4. To provide for having the State publish
the school books.
5. To require each county to support its
own patients in the lunatic asylum.
6. To call a constitutional convention.
7. The enactment of a new railroad law
similar to that of Georgia.
8. To inaugurate a new system of county
government, consisting of township supervisors
appointed by the governor and a county
supervisor elected by the people.
9. To require banks to deposit with the
State treasurer bonds to the amount of their
average deposits, and to require said banks
to invest 20 per cent, of their capital iu State
bonds.
10. To require insurance agents doing
busiuess in this State to deposit $25,000 in
State bonds with the State treasurer as a
guarantee of solvency.
11. To require a re-assessment of lands in
1892.
12. To require auditors to stamp all notes
for taxation.
13. To appropriate $05,000 to enable
Clemson college to be ready for opening at
the appointed time iu February next.
14. To grant the governor the right to
removo sheriffs and other officers for neglect
of duty.
15. To amend the criminal law by having
jurors drawn in open court in the presence
of the judge; to prohit a judge from continuing
a case a second time except under
extraordinary circumstances; to require
judges to disbar an attorney for taking a frivolous
appeal.
16. To repeal the law of 1890, as to medical
examiners, and to restore the law previously
in force.
17. To appropriate $15,000 to enable the
State to make an exhibit at the World's fair.
18. To re-arrange the congressional districts.
19. To require liquor license fees to be
paid into the county treasuries.
The following three recommendations became
laws; though the third will, no doubt,
furnish considerable campaign material.
1. To provide for an industrial school for
girls.
2. To re-apportion representation in the
house of representatives.
3. To put the phosphate interests of the
State in the hands of the governor, attorney
general, comptroller general and two other
persons appointed by the governor.
Converse College Burned.?Converse
College, the magnificent female seminary of
Spartanburg, was destroyed by fire last Saturday
night. The fire broke out between 11
and 12 o'clock from the furnace room, and
though the alarm was given at once, on account
of a lack of water the fire department
was unable to check the flames until the
main wing was entirely destroyed.
There were about a hundred students
asleep in the building at time the alarm
was given, but they all managed to get out
without any accidents. Many of the young
ladies, however, lost their trunks, and only
succeeded in saving what clothing they had
on at the time. They were taken to the
homes of the different citizens, and everything
that was possible, was done for their
comfort. It is said that all during the terrible
ordeal, the young ladies were cool and
collected, and comported themselves admir
ably.
The main building, together with most of
the furniture that it contained, is a total
loss. The annex built last summer at a cost
of $20,000, and situated only twenty feet
from the main building, by some rcmarkafreak
of fortune, escaped. The estimated
loss on the building and furniture is between
$100,000 and $125,000. The building was
insured for about $-10,000, and the furniture
for about $7,000, making the actual loss in
the neighborhood of $50,000.
The work of rebuilding the burned structure
will commence at once, and by next October
will probably be completed. In the meantime,
the young ladies who have herei.ofore
had their quarters in the college, will he
boarded among the various hospitable: families
of the city.
But one serious accident is reported during
the conflagration. Robert Dawkins, a negro
fireman, fell from the second story of the
burning building, but fortunately ho was
caught on a mattress and his injuries will not
prove fatal.
At a mass meeting of the citizens of Spartanburg
held Monday night, the sum of
$20,000 for the purpose of rebuilding the
college was raised by private subscriptions
in less than an hour. Mr. I). E. Converse
headed the list with $2,500, and other citizens
came in with amounts ranging fron $600
down. The exercises of the college will be
resumed next Monday.
MERE-MENTION.
The State of Nebraska is preparing to send
a train load of corn to the famine sufferers
of Russia. The miiler's organization of Minnesota
has, so far, raised a million and six
hundred thousand pounds of flour for same
purpose. According to a decision in
contested election cases in the New York
court of appeals last week, the senate and
house are both Democratic. Speaker
Crisp is suffering with bronchitis anc. grip.
He is too ill to attend to his duties in the
house at present. Pennsylvania Republicans
are bringing out candidates for delegates
to their State convention as supporters
of Blaine or Harrison, for the presidential
nomumuuil. ^Yll huiuuusl; uunci iuuiury
at Constable Hook, N. J., and belonging
to the Standard Oil company, was burned
last Thursday. Loss $1,000,000. The
president has appointed Judson C. Clements,
of Georgia, as inter-State commerce commissioner.
The United States cruiser Charleston,
arrived at San Diego, Cal., from-Honolulu,
last Friday. The San Francisco is
also at the same port, and both vessels arc
awaiting orders from Washington. A
terrible blizzard is reported as raging in Kansas
and Northwestern Missouri, and the
thermometer registers fifteen degrees below
zero. General M. C. Meigs, the noted
engineer and quarter-master general of the
United States military forces during the last
war, died at his residence in Washington last
Saturday morning aged 76 years. Governor
Boies, of Iowa, is very sick with the
grip. During the year 1891 the treasury
department paid $962,930 as bounty on
sugar. A dispatch from San Francisco,
Cal., says that the grip has attacked the
horses. The total visible supply of cotton
for the world is 4,639,355 bales, of which
4,232,055 bales are American, against 3,513,587
bales, and 3,026,087 bales, respectively
last year. Pauline Cecelia Cleveland, a
neice of Horace Greeley, was committed
to a New York insane asylum one day last
week. Tuesday of last week was the
81st .birthday of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone,
England's "grand old man." Roswell
P. Flower was formally inducted into office
as governor of New York last Friday. A
dispatch from Albuquerque, N. M., reports
serious snow blockades on the Saute Fe and
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Atlantic ana I'acinc ruurouus. i?uii.c ui mv
passenger trains have been snowbound for
four days, and the engines are off the track
in the blockade Governor Humphreys,
of Kansns, has appointed ex-Congressman
Perkins as United States senator to fill out
the unexpired term of the late Senator
Plumb. Steve Elkins, recently appointed
secretary of war, assumed charge of his
department on New Year's day. The
Messiah craze is said to have brcken out
anew among the Indians on the Cheyenne
and Arapahoe reservations. No Hears are
entertained of another outbreak. There
were fourteen deaths from grip in New York
city on Tuesday of last week. Governor
Northen, of Georgia, has issued a circular
to the people of the State asking them to
contribute $100,000 for the purpose of displaying
Georgia's resources at the World's
fair. The sales of loose leaf tobacco in
the United States for the year 1891 were
38,600,000 as against 25,000,000 pounds for
the previous year. The output of manufactured
tobacco last year was about 10,000,000
pounds A terrible railroad wreck, resulting
in the death of thirteen people, occurred
on the Hudson River railroad ou
Christmas eve. Newport can boast that
it is the first city in Rhode Island to become
Democratic. The executors of Tilden
propose to contest the validity of the
bequest of $50,000 to Yonkers, and $100,000
to New Lebanon, for the Tilden free libraries.
The president has refused to grant
a pardon to Edward L. Harper, convicted
and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment in
the Ohio penitentiary, for wrecking the Fidelity
National Jbank of Cincinnati. A three
story brick dwelling in Pittsburgh, Penn.,
was blown to atoms last Friday by an explosion
of natural gas. The inmates of the
house were buried in the ruins, and when
rescued they were all found to b3 more or
less seriously burned and bruised, but no one
fofoiiv ininrod The citv :ouncil of
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Charlotte has granted license to the whisky
men and the prohibitionists will carry the
matter to the supremo court for settlement.
On Monday the United States
supreme court rendered a decision upholding
the validity of the South Carolina law requiring
the railroads to pay the cost of the
railroad commission.
SHARON SHAVINGS.
Christmas?Death of Mrs. Mary Klrkpatrick?
Accident to a Brakcman?Changes Among
the Population?Personal?What the Women
can Do?Shot in the Foot.
Correspondence of the Yorkvillc Enqui 'er.
Sharon, January 4.?Christmas passed
off quietly here without any developments
of especial interest. The small toys had a
lively time hunting, but I do not know with
what success they met.
Mrs. Mary Kirkpatrick, of Blairsville,
died suddenly on the night of the 27th ultimo.
When she retired she seemed to be as
well as usual, and next morning she was
found dead. Her death was probably due
to heart disease, as she had been suil'ering
from this malady for several years. She
was a devout Christian woman and will be
missed in the community in which she
lived.
Mr. Wm. Lucas, a brakcman on the Three
C's freight train, met with a pain Ail accident
at this place last Wednesday morning.
While passing the water tank, his foot
struck a projecting timber and his knee
joint was dislocated.
Mr. J. K. Hinton, of Lewis's Turnout,
Chester county, has been spending a few
days with Dr. J. II. Saye.
There have been quite a number of
changes among the inhabitants of this place.
Mrs. Adams has moved into I)r. Saye's
house on Shelby street ; Mr. It. 0. Ross has
moved into his residence; Air. Fowler has
moved to Air. Russell's place just out of
town ; and Air. Russell has moved into town.
Aliss Ella Rainey leaves tod ly for Converse
college, Spartanburg.
Alisses Cora and Alarric Carroll have returned
to Clifford Institute, Union.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Sharon A. R.
P. church, have just completed the work of
putting in a new set of new pews, to take
the plaee of the old ones. They deserve
much credit for their pluck and energy in
overcoming all the difficulties that were in
their way. Their success, however, is not
surprising. The truth is that one lady, when
she sets her mind to it, can accomplish wonders,
and when they go at it as in organized
body, they are more powerful than the levers
of Archimedes. They can move the world.
One of Mr. J. A. Hope's sons had the misfortune
to shoot himself in the foot one day
last week. A. e.
? It. C. Bishop, the well known desperado,
who killed Turner, the chief of police of
Blacksburg, a few years ago, was shot and
killed in Union, on Monday night of last
week, by Thomas Murrah, a tinner. Both
had been drinking, and sometime during the
day had quarreled. That night Bishop approached
Murrah to borrow half a dollar.
j Murrah refused, and the quarrel was rencw.
ed. As the result, Bishop drew a knife that
! housed for sticking beeves, and tried to stab
Murrah. Bystanders interfered and the men
were separated. Murrah went oil', and returning
in about fifteen minutes, shot Bishop
in the breast with a pistol. Bishop died
within a quarter of an hour. Murrah then
i fired the remaining cartridges in his pistol in
the air and gave himself up to the sheriff,
; who put hint in jail. The sympathy of the
town is with Murrah, as Bishop was a desperate
character, and would, very likely, after
the difficulty, have killed Murrah at the
first opportunity.
? The order transferring Superintendent
J. A. Dodson, of the Richmond and Danville,
from Columbia to Atlanta, has been
countermanded, and for the present Mr.
Dodson will remain in Columbia.
TALKING TO THE PAPERS.
Political Points from Tillman, Irby and Shell.
Governor Tillman, with Mrs. Tillman and
the children, spent a portion of last week in
Laurens, the guests of Senator Irby and Congressman
Shell. It was given out that the
visit was a social one, and no doubt it was.
But there is good reason for believing that
it was something more. The "Big Three"
are not likely to meet together for three or
four days for no other purpose than eating
turkey and cranberry sai.cc, drinking red
wine and playing dominoes. They all have
bigger fish to fry than that, and any one
who does not believe that important arrangements
bearing on the comi ag campaign were
not perfected, or at least discussed, is rather
dull of comprehension. As to what these
arrangements are, as yet nobody has the
slightest idea, but it is likely that they will
have before the end of next summer.
Thad. E. Horton, of the Atlanta Journal,
the same correspondent who obtained the
famous sub-treasury interview from Governor
Tillman last summer, visited the party at
the residence of Congressman G. W. Shell,
three miles from Laurens, on last Thursday.
All three of the gentlemen talked freely,
I t.hnnph nrobahlv none of them talked just as
Mr. Hortou would have had them talk.
However, what they said will be of interest.
Here is the result of Mr. Horton's interview
with Governor Tillman:
All South Carolina has been "on pins" to
know what Governor Tillman would say
about the late legislature:, when he should
conclude to free, his mind on that interesting
subject. As that body passed one measure,
the anti-free pass bill, which was regarded as
a distinct rebuke to the governor, and rejected
almost every measure bearing the "administration"
label, the public has been prepared
for some caustic criticism at the governor's
hands.
But Governor Tillman is reserving his
general assembly ammunition for the heavy
fire later on. He declined to speak in detail
of the work of the legislature, but he said
that he attributed its failure to carry out
many of the purposes of the Farmers' movement,
on whose platform a majority of its
members were elected, to the fact that in
the political wave of last; year a great deal
of trash and rotten wood has been swept into
the general assembly.
"There were men there," he said, "who
were elected on the Farmers' movement platform,
but who really were not in sympathy
with us. I tolrt the people on me siump
last year that I could do nothing unless they
gave me a legislature to hack me; that, as
governor, I could not carry out the reforms
we aimed at, unless the general assembly
stood by me. The reason more of theso reforms
have not been accomplished is that the
legislature has not stood by me.
"Too many of the members allowed themselves
to be duped by the adroit leaders and
newspapers of the opposition, who industriously
cried out that they were being 'bossed
by Tillman,' with such success that many
of them would vote agiinst every measure
labelled "administration," simply through
fear of being accused of subserviency to
Tillman. In other words, they broke their
promises to the people in order to appear independent.
Governor Tillman did not hesitate, when
I asked him the direct question, "Will you
stand for re-election ?"
"Oh, yes," he said, "I will be a candidate
for governor again in the coming campaign."
The governor said tlat whether the campaign
would be a heated one depended very
much on circumstances. "If the Farmers'
movement forces control the May State convention,
as they can and should, and show
that they are not disintegrating but are
united and determined, I don't think there
will be any fight.
"No, I don't look for any such independent
movement in this campaign as we had in
the last," he said. "T.iat folly will not be
repeated. Those men who were independents,
or Haskellites, las;year, will comeback
into the Democratic fold, as they will be permitted
to do, on taking the oath of fealty to
the party, or they will become out-and-out
Republicans."
Turning to national politics, Governor
Tillman expressed gratification at the election
of Crisp as speake r, "because," he said,
"I regard it as an assiyance that the financial
question will be given equal prominence
with the tariff instead of tariff reforms be
ing the only issue. I believe that fighting
for free silver and tariff reform as kindred
issues and of equal importance, the Democratic
party can win. But let either issue
be shoved aside or subordinated, and defeat
is certain."
As to the presidency, the governor said:
"My leanings are towards a Western man,
, and it seems to me that Boies or Palmer
might likely prove the most available candidate
for the Democracy. Campbell would
have been a strong man for the nomination
but for his defeat by McKinley, which was
brought about, I firmly believe, by his dodging
the silver issue. Had he stood up to the
scratch on that, I doirt know but that he
would have been the best man the Democrats
could have found even though he had
been defeated on it. Cleveland I don't think
stands any chance at all, and it may be that
the impression created by the press that
Hill is a politician of the tricky Tammany
order, would make him unacceptable to the
masses of the party."
Governor Tillman said that lie could not
believe that the third party movement in
Georgia would amount to much. There
was certainly no danger of such a movement
in South Carolina.
INTERVIEW WIT! I SENATOR IRBY.
In answer to a question as to what was to
be done at the meeting of the executive committee
on the 5th instant with those Democrats
who bolted the nomination at the
last State election, Senator Irby is reported
as follows:
"As State chairman lam sorry to say that
the breach in the Democratic party of South
Carolina seems to have been widened since
the election of Governor Tillman, and that
the bitterness is more intense now than it
was a year ago. I see no good reason why
this should be so, and I had hoped that all
differences would be healed. The purpose
of the coming meeting of the executive committee
is to reorganise the Democratic party
.-in the State and to see that the Democracy
does not suffer by tbe breach. I shall recommend
to the executive committee the
adoption of a resolution allowing every white
Democrat, whether he sustained Tillman at
I the last election or not, to vote at the primaI
ries this vear, with the express understand
in<; that every Democrat, wlicu lie presents
himself at the ballot box, be sworn to
I sustain the nominees of the primary clec|
tion. The reform movement forces in South
Carolina are nsmucl in earnest as they have
ever been. Tillman will be a candidate for
re-election, and w 11, I believe, be ovcr'
whelmingly elected, notwithstanning the division
I have already mentioned. Possibly
I ought not to say it, as a senator, but I think
Tillman has satisfied and fully met the exi
pectations of his most sanguine supporters,
j He has made some mistakes, it is true, but
| when we remember that he was taken from
: his farm without ever having held as simj
pie an oftiee as trial justice, it is really won!
derful to me that he hasn't made more bluu-1
| ders. What few he has made have been un-1
important ones." |
Senator Irby wcat on to say that there
will be no independent movement this year,
j Governor Tillman will appoint good Demo'
crats as commissioners of election, and as
| there will be no rocm for any cheating, the J
j Independents will r ot come out. However, I
there may be some opposition from the Republicans.
Senator Irby said that he cxi
peeted to continue us chairman of the Democratic
executive committee until after the
i May convention. He also explained that
; under the new party constitution, .adopted in
, 18SS), two State conventions will bo held
! this year; one in May to elect delegates to
I the National Democratic convention, and
I another in September to nominate a govcrj
nor, State officers and presidential electors.
: The delegates to this last convention will bo
! elected at a primary on the last Tuesday in
I August, at which primary solicitors, con-1
grcssmen, members of the legislature and
county officers will be voted for.
CONUKKSS.MAN SHKI.I,.
Congressman Shell talked about Alliance,
and said that ho believed that many oon|
grcssmen who wore elected last year in opposition
to the Oeala platform would bo loft
at home next year. He thinks that Crisp
did right to appoint Springer as chairman
of the ways and means committee, for it
was well known that had Mills been elected
speaker, he would not have appointed Crisp
to that position. Speaking of the last legislature,
he said that it had fallen far short of
the expectations of the people. Many of the
legislators had been elected on the Farmer's
movement platform and had completely
gone back on it. The call for a constitutional
convention was one of the original demands
; had been before the people, and
was thoroughly endorsed, yet it was defeated
by members who had been elected to carry
it through.
Speaking of the next campaign, Congressman
Shell said it would be the liveliest that
this State has ever seen. He went on :
These issues that have been neglected will
be brought before the people again, and I give
it as my opinion that many ot tnose men
who were elected on the Tillman platform,
but who forgot their promises to the people,
will be left at home. Tillman will
be a candidate and will be re-elected. I
think the opposition will try to get a
man to run against him out of our
own ranks. Tillman is as strong as he ever
was. The apparent defections are the natural
result of many wolves in sheep's clothing
crowding into the flock. Some of the fellows
who joined us with the hope of "getting
something,' and who have been disappointed,
are, of course, sore. But when Tillman goes
before the people, as he will do, and explains
his course in detail, he will be stronger than
ever.
LETTER PROM FORT MILL.
Holiday Tournament?A Tittle Mishap?Policeman
McDowell Dead?Some Remarks
to "A Farmer."
Correspondence of the Yorkvlllc Enquirer.
Fort Mill, January 4.?In this first issue
of The Enquirer for the year 1891,1 wish
the paper, its editors, printers, subscribers
and readers a happy new year.
The young people of Pineville and Fort
Mill enlivened up the holiday season with
a grand tournament at this place on New
Year's day. It was participated in by Dr.
Roan, E. B. Bell and Miss Annie Bell Roan,
of Pineville, and Messrs. W. B. Ardrey, E.
Massey, Wilson Marshall, J. E. Marshall,
and Fred Marshall, of this place. There were
two prizes. The first was won by Mr. ireu
Marshall, who caught eight out of nine rings.
The second prize was won by Mr. W. B.
Ardrey; but the most remarkable feature of
the tournament was the splendid riding of
Miss Annie Roan. She is only 11 years of
age, but at full speed caught two out of the
nine rings.
Professor J. A. Boyd met with a serious
accident 011 last Monday afternoon. He was
mixing some feed for his cow while she was
eating out of the box. While he was bending
over, thus engaged, the cow flirted her
head, and one of her horns struck Mr. Boyd
just under the eye. The wound is very
painful, but 110 lasting injury is likely to
result.
Mr. J. D. Johnson, an estimable citizen of
this community, died of grip on the 28th
ultimo, aged 72 years.
Policeman McDowell, whose accidental
wounding with his own pistol, was mentioned
last week, died last Saturday. Shortly
after he was wounded, inflammation set iu,
and the physicians having the case in charge?
Drs. Massey, Mack and Kilpatrick?decided
that an amputation of his leg was the only
possible chance for recovery. This course
was decided on, and last Saturday the amputation
was attempted. McDowell was put
under the influence of chloroform and the
leg was cut off, but the unfortunate man
died under the operation. His death was
quite a shock to all his friends and acquaintances,
but when the ball was found there
was left no room for any doubt as to the
cause of it. It seems that the bullet entered
the lower calf, ranged up to the knee socket,
and penetrated the thigh bone at its least
protected point?that is, just above the lower
I extremity. From there it ranged on to the
I upper joint, and when tound it had dropped
back to a point just below where it entered.
. The wound was of such a nature as to cause
! death, 110 matter what may have been done.
I Mr. McDowell leaves a family.
A letter in last week's Enquirer from "A
Farmer" of Gold Hill demands my attention.
"A Farmer" brings me to task for creating
the impression, as he says, that Mr. J. H.
Coltharp was the only farmer in his section.
Now that is not exactly fair. It is true that I
[did not mention others, but my neglect
I should not be considered as a slight. I acJ
knowledge that every one of those he mentions
are good fanners?away above the
average. I knew this all the time, and
would have been glad to write about them,
I U/..1 T 1.nA nnn Jnfnrmntinn n? tr> Hp.tsiils. T !
1JUU. A 11UU Mil J liilviUJHw.vu ?
had such information in Mr. Coltharp's case,
and that is why lie received more prominent
mention. Is that satisfactory, friend Farmer?
By the way, your invitation makes
my mouth water. Will Mr. B. M. Faris,
back it up ? If he will, I will pretend blindness
and come over to have my eyes opened.
And, another thing, friend Farmer. Suppose
you try your hand again. We all like
to hear from the model farmers of the Gold
Hill section, and you seem to be well qualified
to take care of them. I notice that a
considerable portion of your last week's letter
has been copied in the daily papers. Let
us hear from you again. c.
LETTER FROM'UNION COUNTY.
Matters of More or Less Interest Along the
Broad River Border.
Correspondence of the Yorkvillc Enquirer.
Etta Jane, January 2.?With the advent
of the New Year, I again greet the readers
of The Enquirer with another contribution
to its columns. While I make no promises
for the future or apologize for the past,
I desire that The Enquirer may long hold
the grasp upon the public that it has had for
the 37 years of it existence.
Christmas has come and gone and left the
usual traces behind it?weddings, sociables,
drunks and frolics, etc. One, either, or all,
dot the memory of some, while the grip has
prevented many from partaking of either.
Several weddings iu this county during the
holiday season might be mentioned iu this
letter, but as I can't speak of all of them, I
will say that those nearest me were Mr. John
R. McCulloch and Miss Lizzie McKcown ;
Professor Edward Byers and Miss Sallic
Mogress, to whom, with all the others happily
united, we say:
"May clouds and storms now disappear,
And winds and tempests cease,
While sweetly o'er each gladdened heart
Expands the how of peace."
Mr. William R. Hughes, of Uoudeysville,
died yesterday from pneumonia, superinduced
after a spell of la grippe.
Several of our farmers have begun preparations
for another crop. The general idea
now is more corn and less cotton. Whether
this sentiment will outlive the "hankerings"
to rnise the tleecy steeple, is yei 10 oe seuu.
Miss Sallie Bighum expects to begin her
school here next Monday.
Mr. J. C. L. Rhyne, of Gastonia, N. C.,
was in our neighborhood last week.
The North I'acolet Sunday school conven|
lion met at El Bethel on the 27th ultimo.
The following officers were elected for the
I present year: President, J. L. Strain; vicepresident,
C. t\ lloberts: secretary, Davis
Jeffries; treasurer, John A. Harris.
While your correspondent was prevented
j by sickness from attending the convention, I
| yet he is pleased to say that from all reports
it came up to the high standard of efficiency
and good work that has marked the two
years of its life.
Miss Mildred and Master Jimmie Strain,
arc both in bed from grip.
We arc glad to note that the friends and
I patrons of Broad River academy Sundayschool,
together with other Sunday-school
workers, had an enjoyable time of it at the
| Christmas tree last Saturday, 2Gth ultimo.
I The young folks were all made happy and
the old ones were made to feel that a good
work had been accomplished in their midst.
Even your correspondent, who was detained
at home, was the beneficiary of a treat for
i which his heartfelt thanks are returned to
i the donors.
If there is only one section within its
limits of which York county might feel
proud of its people and their prosperity,
that section is "Western York." skjma.
i ?The attorney general has been asked to
eonlrue the anti-free pass act as it applies to
the railroad colnmission. lie gives it as his
opinion that the law does not repeal section
14">4 of the act of 1SS2, which provides that
the commissioners shall be transported free
of charge when in the performance of their
official duties. They are not entitled to ride
free except on official business, however.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Wm. C. Latimer?Pull Off Your Coat and Roll
up Your Sleeves.
May <fc May, Druggists?New Year's Greeting!
M. <ft H. C. Strauss?New Year's Greeting.
Lowry & Starr, Leading Druggists?Seven
Years Ago.
Sam M. & L. Geo. Grist?Have you Placed
Your Insurance for 1892 ?
R. M. Burriss, Master of Anderson county?H.
R. Barmore, executor, against Deveaugh
French and other?Master's Sale of Lands
at Blacksbure.
Georgo T. Schorb?Bargains for 1892.
C. W. Whisonant, T. W. Whisonant?Dissolution
of Copartnership.
J. W. Castles, W. J. Moorhead?Dissolution of
Copartnership.
T. M. Whisonant, J. W. Castles?New Firm.
Beard <fe Inman?It Is.
T. M. Dobson, Manager?Love of Money.
L. D. Childs?Ere<^ea One Thousand Feet of
Iron Fence.
J. S. Brice, Clerk?Discontinuance of a Road.
DEATH OF JOHN CAN8LER.
Mr. John Cansler, father of Mr. James
Cansler, our school commissioner, died at
his home in Catawba county, N. C., last Friday,
shortly after midnight, in the 86th year
of hiS age.
Mr. James Cansler paid his father a holiday
visit last week and found him quite unwell,
suffering from grip. He took his leave
ati Thnrsdav. leaving the old gentleman, as
v" ? 7 o w
he thought, considerably better, but on reaching
Yorkville he was summoned back home
by a telegram announcing his father's death.
The blow, though not unexpected, is a sad
bereavement to the son, aud. in his sorrow
he has the sincere sympathy of a large number
of friends.
TAX COLLECTIONS.
Treasurer Neely is still at the old stand,
though he does not seem to be doing a great
deal of good. The collections last week,
though small, were double that of the previous
week. Up to Monday night they
amounted to $525.87, and of this amount
$247.53 came in on Monday. The total
collections so far amount to $36,017.84, and
the outstanding amount still to be collected
is $72,623.72. The county treasury is getting
very low in funds just now, and the
outstanding taxes would come in very conveniently
if they could only be collected.
But no considerable further amount is likely
to come in before the expiration of the recent
extension?February 20. The trouble is, as
already mentioned, most of the outstanding
amount is in the hands of railroads and other
corporations that can make use of their
money to the last minute, and they are not
likely to pay up so long as they con help it.
AN EFFICIENT OFFICER.
Mr. R. L. Scoggins, who for the past three
years been acting as deputy for Sheriff Crawford,
gave up the position last Friday and
will return to his home near Hickory Grove,
in order to assist in the superintendence ol
his father's plantation. This will be unwelcome
news to Mr. Scoggins's friends in
Yorkville. He has many, and they will give
up daily contact with him with sincere regret.
He will also be missed by Sheriff
Crawford, as well as all the lawyers, who
have long been accustomed to look upon
him as an ideal of perfection in all matters
pertaining to his office. Whenever any duty
was involved requiring firmness, courage
and dispatch, Scoggins was the man and
Scoggins has been regarded as infallible.
The reputation he has made in the position
just resigned, will certainly stand him in
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gooa sieuu uu uuvujju mc.
Sheriff Crawford has selected as Mr. Scoggins's
successor, Mr. P. W. Love, of McConnellsville.
Mr. Love entered upon his new
duties last Saturday, and being a young man
of intelligence, energy and courage, is likely
to fill the office to the satisfaction of all
concerned.
DEATH OF SAMUEL W. JACKSON.
Mr. Samuel W. Jackson, a well known
and highly esteemed citizen of this county,
died at his home near Newport last Friday
night at 10 o'clock.
Mr. Jackson was born in Bethel township,
on the 13th day of January 1823, and at the
time of his death was in the 69th year of
his age. Most of his life has been spent in
farming, though he has also, at intervals, been
engaged in school teaching and merchandising.
He pursued the latter vocation in
Yorkville in 1850 as a member of the firm
of H. G. & S. W. Jackson, and later on his
own account.
He volunteered his services early in the
war and made a fine record as a soldier, being
a member of the company commanded
by Captain R. H. Glenn, which was a part
of the 18th S. C. V.
The funeral service was conducted at
Ebenezer on Sunday, by Rev. Dr. J. H.
Thornwell, who delivered an excellent discourse
from Hebrews iv, 27?"And it is appointed
unto men to die, but after this the
judgment."
Mr. Jackson leaves a wife and nine children,
all of whom are grown. Mrs. Jackson
is the daughter of the late James Jefferys,
of Yorkville.
RINGING OUT THE OLD.
The boys of Yorkville paid their respects
to the departing and coming years last
Thursday night and Friday morning with
the usual ceremonies. They rang out the
old and rang in the new. About ten minutes
before midnight one of the bells, in a sharp,
clear peal, announced that the old year was
dying. Then came an answering peal from
another bell in a different quarter, and then
another, and another from the others. At
intervals of half-a-minute, alternating, they
kept up the solemn knell, until the old year
was dead. The circumstance was full of
weird significance, and no doubt awoke
strange and varied feclyigs in the minds of
all who heard the funeral sound. But before
these feelings were allowed to go too far,
conditions that caused them wero changed.
Just as the last second of 1891 passed away, the
bells ceased their solemn sounds and assumed
a joyous tone. With glad accord, peal after
peal went forth over the town, and the very
air was filled with musical cadence. The
year 1892 was born, and the people were
; to rejoice with exceeding great joy. Though
j perhaps many of the boys who took part in
j the ceremony of "ringing out the old and
, ringing in the new," were prompted purely
from motives of "fun," they carried out the
j idea to perfection, and arc entitled to thanks
J for their trouble.
WHO WILL IT BE ?
On Monday, the 8th day of February, a
$90 buggy will be given to somebody for securing
and paying for the largest club of new
subscribers to The Enquirer for the year
11892. We are sure to give this buggy to somebody,
and the question is, who will it be ?
We are quite sure that there are a great many
I who would like to have it, but have allowed
themselves to be deluded into the idea
J that it was beyond their reach. It is true
| that only one person can carry off this cle|
gaut premium, and it is equally true that it
I cannot be secured without an effort. There
[ still remains more than a month in which to
work for it, and it is possible that the lucky
j club maker lias not yet returned a single
| new name. Somebody will make at least
$90 by working for The Enquirer during
the next thirty days, and perhaps a great
deal more, because under our premium offer
the successful competitor for the buggy will
also have his club counted in competition
for the other premiums offered, and should
i ho be found to have returned and paid for
the largest number of subscribers by the scc!
ond Monday in March, lie will also be en|
titled to the cash premium of $.10?making
j $140 for his club. If the second largest, to
j the cash premium of $30, making $120 for
his club; and the third largest, the cash premium
of $20, making $110 for his club. If
interested persons will read our prospectus,
as published in last week's paper, they will
find that is almost impossible to work for
The Enquirer without being liberally
paid for the service. If you are not in the
fight already, you should not delay longer,
as you may go in now and win; and as
we said before, if you don't win the buggy,
you will not lose your time and labor.
In regard to the buggy we are offering, we
desire to say that $90 is not a fictitious value,
but the actual cash price The Holler &
Anderson Buggy company would charge you
for it if you bought it direct from them.
They are selling the buggies at the price
named about as fast as they can turn them
out, and the reason why they are doing it is
because the purchasing public realize that
they are getting the worth of their money,
""vinir a flo'HMmig value. Mr. An
auu UVV |/UJtu^, M
derson, the manager and superintendent, has
notified us that our premium buggy shall
not be second in finish, style and durability
to any that has left their factory. Again we
say, hustle !
church "notices.
Baptist?Rev. Robert G. Patrick, pastor.
Preaching tomorrow night at 7 o'clock and
addresses by visiting ministers on Friday
and Saturday nights at the same hour.
Exercises of the Sunday-school convention
on Friday and Saturday morning and afternoon.
Dedication sermon on Sunday morning
at 11 o'clock, by Rev. R. H. Griffith, D.
D. Preaching on Sunday night by Rev. Dr.
Bailey, at 7 o'clock. Sunday-school at 10
a. m.
Episcopal?Sunday-school at 10.30 a. m.
Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, D. D.,
pastor. Prayer-meeting tomorrow afternoon r
at 4 o'clock. Services next Sunday evening
at 7 o'clock. Sunday-school at 3 p. m.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J.
C. Galloway, pas tot. Tirzah?Services next
Sunday at 11.30 o'clock a. m. Yorkfille?
Sunday-school at 3.30 o'clock p. m. Services
Sunday evening at 7 o'clock.
Trinity Methodist Episcopal?Rev. R. E.
Stackhouse, pastor. Prayer-meeting this
evening at 7 o'clock. Services next Sunday
evening at 7 o'clock. Sunday-school at 3
o'clock p. m.
local Laconics.
? George Sterling, a well-known colored
man about Yorkville, died last Saturday
morning. "
? All of the young ladies who were at
home for the holidays have returned to meir
respective schools.
? As many as a dozen liens were recorded
in the clerk's office last week. The outlook
is that the lien business will begin ealier than
usual this year.
? Mr. M. S. Carroll has received a notice
from the secretary of State informing him of
his reappointment to the office of trial justice
of York township.
? We are requested to announce that the
Ladies' Aid Society of Bethesda church
will give an oyster supper at McConncllsville
, tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock.
? The Fort Mill News, of January 2nd,
> has just come to hand with a full report of
, the recent exercises in connection with the
unveiling of the Confederate monument
[ in that town. Editor Axdrey deserves credit
for the splendid report he makes of the
, occasion, and we are sure that the old veterans
highly appreciate this most creditable
effort.
? We were pleased to receive a visit on
yesterday from our old friend J. George
Schorb, of the Presbyterian Puonsning
house, Columbia. Mr. Schorb was at one
1 f
time a resident of Yorkville, and worked on
The Enquirer. He is spending a few
days with his brother, Mr. John R. Schorb,
of this place, who is quite unwell.
? Mr. Herod Neal, who was in Yorkville
last Monday in the discharge of his duties
as auctioneer, brings a distressing report from
Pacolet Factory in Spartanburg county. He
says that on one day last week fully 1,000
| of the inhabitants in the vicinity of the fao
tory?operatives and others?were down
with the grip. It is a big story, but Mr.
Neal is responsible.
[ ? Jake Wallace, colored, was committed
to jail yesterday by Trial Justice McMackin,
of King's Mountain township, charged with
assault aud battery of a high and aggravated
nature. We have not been able to gather
the details as to Wallace's offense, but understand
that he, with perhaps a half dozen
others, recently paid a white-cap visit to a
negro man and woman in the Clark's Fork
neighborhood.
? Mr. Sep Massey, of Catawba, carries the
brightest face of any merchant that we have
met so far this year. He was in Yorkville
last Monday, and in reply to inquiries in regard
to the condition of bis neighborhood,
said"We are all right down our way. The
farmers in the vicinity of the Junction made
as good crops as usual, and if it were not
for the low prices, would be in tip top shape.
As it was, every one of them paid up all their
accounts, and I have collected every dollar
that I put out." Sometimes it makes a man
feel bad to be lonesome, but we presume
that Mr. Massey's case is rather an exception
to the rule.
SALES-DAY.
Last Monday, sales-day for January, was
cold enough apparently to chill the ardor of
even the most enthusiastic horse trader.
But the ardor of the traders was not chilled.
They were here in force, and having considerbly
more money than on last sales-day,
the business was more lively. Besides the
traders, there was a considerable number of
other people here. Some came to attend the
sales, some came to buy goods, and some
. came purely from force of habit. Taken all
together, they made a big crowd, and the
, merchants of the town sold lots of goods and
made a few collections.
The legal sales before the court house developed
the usual curious interest, but all the
lands that were offered by the clerk and sheriff
were bid off cheap by the attorneys or tho *
parties holding claims against the same.
The sales were as follows :
By the sheriff?
By virtue of a decretal order, at the suit
of Lena Samuels, plaintiff, against J. S. Gour
ley, Lizzie Hetherington unci Mary Gourley,
defendants, a tract of land situated on "Susy
Bole" branch of Turkey creek, and containing
one hundred and thirty-five acres, more
or less. Bid off by B. Lena Samuels for
' $60.00.
By the clerk?
By virtue of a decree made in the case of
W. Brown Wylie, as administrator, against
Q. Esther Kerr and others, defendants, the
undivided half interest iu the house and lot
situated on Main street, in the town of Yorkville,
and occupied by Mrs. N. H. Smith.
Bought by Mrs. N. H. Smith for $200.
By virtue of a decretal order made iu the
case of Ira M. Robinson and others against
J. B. Scott and others, a tract of 190 acres
bounded by lands of J. B. Stephenson, William
Bailey, Kirkpatrick lands, estate of
Thomas Burris, deceased, Ross McKnight
and others. Bought by J. L. Moss at $1
per acre.
By virtue of a decretal order in the case of
D. I). Gaston, plaintiff, against R. A. Johnson,
trustee, two tracts in and near the town
of Blacksburg. The first tract, containing
103 acres, was divided into four lots and sold
as follows, 1). I). Gaston being thejwrchaser:
Lot No. 1, containing 29 acres, $5 per acre;
lot No. 2, containing 29 acres, $4.10 per acre ;
i lot No. 3, containing 24 acres, $3.50 per
; acre ; lot No. 4, containing 23 acres, $3.50 per
acre. The second tract, containing 59 acres,
was divided into three lots and was also
bought by 1). I). Gaston, as follows: Lot
No 1, containing IS acres, at $7 per acre; lot
No. 2, containing 20 acres, at $4 per acre ;
j lot No. 3, containing 21 acres, at $5.15 per
' acre.
By virtue of a decretal order in the case
of Wm. M. Moss against R. A. Johnson,
trustee, a tract of fifty acres, situated in
Cherokee township and known as tract No.
14, on "Map A," of the land formerly belong