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Jwaps and ^atts. ? One of Stockton's belles who had heard of the skirt dance fad, says the San Francisco Chronicle, thought she would astonish her friends; and so undertook to practice the art of high kicking in private until such time as she should become sufficiently adept to appear in public. She was successful beyond her wildest expectations. Taking the gas chandelier in her room as the target, she was soon able to reach it with her dainty foot. But while practicing the other day her slipper and stocking caught on the burner and she was unable to extricate herself. So there she hung in a position neither agreeable nor graceful. Her screams brought her mother and her aunt to the rescue. ? An attempt was made last Wednesday night to assassinate John McDonnough, the mayor of Savannah. The mayor has been extremely severe on evil doers recently and they desire to resort to assassination as a ? jj - e 1-;? T +y,Q means 01 geuing riu uj mm. uaic uu night in question, two negroes called at his home with an alleged message to the effect that his presence was desired at police headquarters. Mr. McDonnongh did not believe the story and did not go out. Next day one of the negroes was arrested, and he confessed that he had been given $50 for his efforts to get the mayor out of his house. Though the principals are unknown, it is believed that they were lying outside, ready to shoot Mr. McDonnough the moment he made his appearance. ? Speculation has commenced as to who will be the People's party candidate for president. The nomination will not be made until July 4, and there will be lots of time for deliberation. The most prominent leaders in the party are General James B. Weaver, of Iowa, once a candidate of the Greenback party; Hon. L. L. Polk, of North Carolina, now president of the National Farmers Alliance; Hon. Ignatius Donnelly, of Minnesota; Senator Leland Stanford, of California; Grand Master T. V. Powderly, of the Knights of Labor; and Hon. Anson Streeter, of Illinois, late F. M. B. A. candidate for United States senator. Jerry Simpson thinks that Weaver or Donnelly is most likely to be the nominee for president, and has no doubt that Polk will be the nominee for vice president. ? Senator Hill is nowadays a very busy man, says the New York Herald. Besides the time and attention he gives to his senatorial duties, he devotes some of his talents incidentally to his presidential boom. One would think that all this was enough to keep him busy twenty-four hours in a day. - - "? - j.'.jj. 1 It would De lor an ordinary muiviuimi, um the great capacity of the Elmira statesman for public service can be judged when, while discharging his senatorial duties, and managing his boom, he is caught modestly officiating as the governor of the State of New York. A gentleman last week went to Albany to ask a political favor of the governor. He called on Senator Hill, who was detained in that city for a few days, and told him the object of his intended visit to Mr. Flower. The senator promised that the favor would be granted and talked about the next election. On leaving, the visitor said : "Had I not better see the governor about this, senator?" "If you have never seen the capitol," responded the senator, "I would advise you to visit it. "You will find it a very interesting building." This is not a fable but it teaches just the same. Mr. Flower may not like the moral, but he must join in admiring the capacity which the ex-governor shows for public service. ? At Batesville, Ark., a recent shooting affray brought to notice a woman known as "Sorrel Sue." She always appeared in public riding a sorrel horse. It was because she belonged to a gang who stole horses, says the Spokane Spokesman. A surgeon who was summoned to attend one of her ad 1 1 ^ ir* fKo rn\L' mirers wuo uou uccu nuuuucu <u >.uv .v.., mistook his way and wandered into Sue's cabin. Before he could be hustled out he saw things which roused his suspicions. These he reported to Sheriff Timcoe, who, with a posse, managed to surround the den of horse thieves, capturing Sue and two of her gang. He found that Sue had applied the means of bleaching her own hair to that of her horses. When the posse entered they found a horse, enveloped in a jacket made of coa^s, being treated to a sulphur The appliances were very ingenious, and worked very well. A black or bay horse would be stolen and run into the bleachery. After its color was changed and its mane and tail trimmed, the disguise became so pronounced that without any great risk the animal could be taken in daylight through the very district from which it had been stolen. It wus Sue's business to not only superintend the bleaching, but also to ride the animal out of the country. ? At the Industrial convention in St. Louis last week, Miss Francis Willard, president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, made a strong effort to get Woman suffrage * and prohibition planks incorporated in the platform. She was unsuccessful and left the convention. Later, she was asked by a reporter: "What will the Prohibitionists do now?" She replied: "You may just put this down as what I think they will do: On the 29th of June, in the city of St. Louis, will be held a national convention of the prohibition party, delegates to which will be sent from every State and territory in the Union with a fair intersprinkling of women among the delegates, and that convention will send out a platform, a heart of oak in every plank, sound on economic principles, treating of government ownership of all highways and means of communication, also of monetary reform, ownership of land, prohibition and woman suffrage. The platform will mean what it says and says what it means. Candidates will be chosen for president and vice-president, and we will have the spectacle presented of two tickets in the field among the divided reform forces who seek the people's good. The Prohibitionists," said Miss Willard earnestly, "would have been willing and glad to meet the People's party half way, and the method we had in view was that the St. Louis National Industrial conference would put into its platform a woman suffrage plank, and a plank for the suppression of the liquor traffic." ? Rev. W. W. Wadsworth, pastor of a Methodist church in Augusta, Ga., is a preacher of the most sensational stripe. For several months he has been in the habit of scoring everything that does not suit his taste, and it is a dull Sunday when he fails to get up a new sensation. Recently the Augusta Chronicle contained a very strong and logical editorial on charity, and the editorial was at once recognized as an emphatic protest against Mr. Wadsworth's methods. Although the preacher was not mentioned in the editorial, the fact that it was intended for him was so patent that even the dullest could not fail to see it. The matter wagged along for a week or two and everybody got to talking, so that Mr. Wadsworth finally thought there was nothing left for him but to answer the editorial. Now it happened that the writer, Mr. Charles J. Bayne, was a member of Mr. Wadsworth's church, and this fact suited the preacher's plans to perfection. On Sunday of last week he launched a sermon especially directed at Mr. Bayne, making such pointed fun of the editor that the congregation could not restrain its merriment, and actually broke out into frequent laughter. Mr. Bayne sat quietly in his seat until the pastor was through, and then he arose to defend himself. He did this so well that the congregation began to applaud, and the preacher coming somewhat to his senses, administered a rebuke *o the unseemly conduct in the sanctuary Mr. Bayne then sat down, but not before le had announced that he would reply to the \ readier next day in a poem. And sure enough, next day the poem was forthcoming. It was a most scathing satire, directed at the preacher, and was eagerly read by the whole city. The unanimous opinion is that the preacher has caught a tartar, and if he is wise, he will let Mr. Bayne alone. ? As has been stated, Marie Nivins Blaine was granted a divorce from her husband at Deadwood, South Dakota, recently. Since the divorce was granted as well as before, the papers all over the country have been representing that young Blaine's parents, especially his mother, was entirely responsible lor the estrangement between the illmated couple. All the while, until last Monday, Mr. Blaine, the father, has been very quiet about the matter, and has permitted all manner of publications to be made without offering any defense. He has at last, however, come out with what he represents as a full history of the whole affair, and if his story is true, and, really there is little reason to doubt it, it is the young woman who is responsible for the whole trouble. According to Mr. Blaine's story, Miss Nivins was a young adventuress, on the make, and she schemed to capture young Blane in order to better her own condition in the world. Young Blaine was 18 years of age, and the youug woman was 21 ( when she came to Augusta, Me., aud got acquainted with him. The marriage took place secretly, iu less than a week, and all the arrangements, marriage license, preacher, 1 and everything else down to the smallest detail, was arrauged by the woman herself. After the marriage came to the knowledge of Mr. Blaine, he claims that he offered to provide for the young people by giving them a house and $2,500 a year, on condition that they would remain at home. Young Blaine desired to accept the proposition, but his wife, being of a restless disposition, wanted to run about at her own sweet will. Young Blaine soon realized that the marriage meant that he must humor his wife's every whim, and he grew tired of it. Mrs. Blaine, Sr., did all she could to make the young people happy, but Mrs. Blaine, Jr., proposed to have things her way or not at all. The result was a separation and finally divorce. In conclusion, Mr. Blaine lays the whole trouble to his son's disobedience, for which, however, he thinks the scheming womau is responsible. $lte fjotlu'iUe (JNqnirfr. YORKVILLE, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1892. ? The free coinage advocates do not take any stock in the story that Great Britain has consented to take part in an international silver conference. They say the "goldbugs" of Wall street, seeing that the passage of the free coinage act is inevitable, have started the international conference talk with a view to staving off the issues as long as possible. , ? Larry Gantt, one of the brightest of Georgia journalists, has become an editorial writer on the Columbia Register. Mr. Gantt is a native of South Carolina. He has been engaged in newspaper work in Georgia for about twenty years, and has been accustomed to "hold bis own with the best of 'em." It is very likely that he will make The Register "hum." ? Ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio, says that he is not a candidate for the second place on the Democratic ticket, and will not accept the nomination if offered to him. When asked as to the head of the ticket, he gave it as his opinion that if it became apparent that neither Cleveland or Hill can be nominated, the convention will look to the West for a candidate, but did not express himself as to the probability of Ohio's carrying off the prize. ? The State mentions as a remarkable coincidence, the fact that two candidates for mayor were summoned on a Columbia jury one day last week. Really, we fail to see anything especially noteworthy in the circumstance. From the number of announcements for that office in the Columbia papers during the past mouth or six weeks, we had begun to wonder whether it would be possible to get up a jury without including a candidate for mayor. ? "The toniest metropolitan weekly is printed no' better than The Yorkvij.le Enquirer," says the Augusta Chronicle of the 19th ultimo, and on the 27th, the same paper says that "The Yorkville Enquirer is one of the best edited week lies in the world." Evidently, The Chronicle thinks a great deal of The Enquir^**. i and we frankly confess that we highly j preciate its opinion, especially as it touches | so pointedly on the very two features in which we are striving to excel. But friend, aren't you rather lavish with your praise? ? The Enquirer has received, with the compliments of the Fort Mill Mounment association, a photographic view of the Confederate monument unveiled at Fort Mill on December 22. The view was made at the most interesting stage of the ceremonies? just after the veil was removed from the monument?and presents what may be justly termed one of the most impressive scenes ever witnessed in York county. There is the monument, the maimed veterans who unveiled it, nearly all of the citizens of Fort Mill township who erected it, the speakers who delivered the add resses, the little girls who represented the respective Confederate States, and in fact, all who were present on the aupicious occasion. The association has our most sincere thanks for the picture, and also the assurance that it shall be one of the most highly appreciated of our sanctum decorations. ? When the anti-Tillman call came out last week, followed hard after by the "Straightout" address, it really seemed that the indications for an immediate rise in the political thermometer were unmistakable. But from the developments of the past week, wo are not inclined to believe that the threatened upheavel is so close at hand. Greenville, Laurens, Orangeburg, Fairfield and Edgefield counties have taken steps to send delegates to the proposed March convention, but as a general thing over the State, the call has not met with the immediate response that the signers evidently expected. Just what the hitch is, we are unprepared to say. Maybe Tillman is stronger than was supposed, and maybe the people are considering the question of bread more important than politics. If this be their judgment, it is at le ist a favorable sign. ? The Democrats members of the house met in conference 1 st Wednesday night for the purpose of con. ulering the practicability of agreeing upon some unanimous course on the silver question. The Democratic senators had also been invited, but Senator But-1 ler was the only one who was present. After j some little discussion, the anti-silver men, I who are in the minority, were asked if they would be bound by the caucus proceedings. They refused to be so bound, and the conference, of course, came to nothing, and the matter was left where it has been all the while. It is generally believed that when the free coinage bill comes up it will be easily passed through both the house and senate, and will be vetoed by the president. The free silver men, however, are very anxious to bring the matter to that stage at the present session, as the question is undoubtedly one of the most important that is now before the people of the country. j ? "Uneasy lies the head that wears a ! crown," and rather less uneasy lies the i head whose owner possesses millions of dolj lars. At least that is what matters seem to ! be coming to in New York nowadays. Since j the recent attempt of the cranky dynamiter, Norcross, to blow up Russell Sage, New York millionaires have all begun to live in I constaut dread of similar experiences, and | in many instances their homes are partaking | of the appearance of garrisoned castles. In addition to the usual retinue of household i servants, of late it has become fashionable' for millionaires to employ a number of "men i j at hrms," whose business it is to watch | I ; I their residences night and day. The home I 'of John I). Rockefeller, the Standard Oil! millionaire, is constantly watched by these ! armed guards, and at any hour, night or i I day, from three to four men may be seen sitting around the doorsteps, or lounging! about within easy call. These men wear! uniforms similar to those of the regular po-' lice, and remain on duty eight hours at a] time, when they are relieved by others. Mr. j Rockefeller employs from 12 to 16 men with i this business of standing guard as their sole 1 duty, and it is stated that every other millionaire in the city of New York, who is at j all conspicuous, employs from two to a . dozen guards. But notwithstanding even this, who wouldn't be a millionaire ? i 1 ? i l ? Governor Tillman and Governor Nor- < then, of Georgia, have been having some rather spicy correspondence. It is all about 1 a requisition. Louis S. Mellichampe, of , Aiken, bought $5,000 worth of guano from , an Augusta firm, on credit, and when the bill became due, he failed to come to time. The Augusta firm appealed to Governor Northen to make a requisition on Governor Tillman for Mellichampe, claiming that the latter's offense was not in his mere refusal < to pay for the goods, but in the criminal manner in which he got possession of them. When Mellichampe heard of the proposed requisition, he asked Governor Tillman to . hear both sides of the question before lion- ] oring it. The governor granted the heariffg, : and, as a result, refused to give Mellichampe up, stating as a principal reason that the alleged offender was not a citizen of Georgia, ' and that he did not run away from Georgia to South Carolina to avoid trial. Governor , Northen replied that if a man does not want to be tried away from home and friends, he should not go away from home and friends to commit crime. Governor Tillman has not replied to Governor Northen's last retort, but still refuses to give Mellichampe up, and all that Mellichampe will have to do to avoid accounting to the Augusta firm, is to keep out of Georgia. Governor Tillman takes the ground that the whole matter involves imprisonment for debt, which, though forbidden by the constitution of- both States, is often resorted -to on one pretext or another in Georgia. 1 RIOTING IN BERLIN. The German empire seems to be on the verge of a political upheaval that threatens dire consequences for existing institutions. Many do not think that the situation is nearly so serious, buti,he events of the past week lend color to the statement. In Berlin, and throughout Germany, there are thousands of idle tradesmen and other laborers. Their idleness is enforced, being brought about by taxes and other burdens of state that make it impossible for their wouldbe employers to successfully conduct their respective businesses. These workmen cannot starve, or at least they don't desire to do so without a struggle, and in hopes of improving their situation, they have been holding monster mass meetings. At one of these mass meetings last Thursday, over three thousand workmen being present, it was decided to lay the condition of the people directly before the emperor. No sooner was the idea suggested, than it was taken up with fierce enthusiasm. All the concourse of workmen formed into line and took up a march in the direction of the emperor's castle. On the way they commenced singing the Marseillaise hymn, the national hymn of hostile France, and soon the whole city of Berlin was in an uproar. Slowly and steadily, and in good order, the column of starving workmen, including numbers of women, continued their march until within a short distance of the castle, where thov waw mpt, hv a detachment of police and soldiery. The soldiers and police, coming from an opposite direction, ordered the workmen to give way. The workmen refused, and the soldiery charged. Though unarmed, except their bare hands, the workmen withstood the first assault and also a second, but were presently compelled to disperse, leaving many of their number, badly wounded, in the hands of the police. Instead, however, of quieting the disturbance, the show of force only added fuel to the flame, and next day the discontented workmen were joined by thousands of others, and again the procession marched to the castle. This time the emperor, who is represented as having stood at a window on the day before and laughed at the struggling workmen being beaten by the police, mounted a horse and rode, almost unattended, in the crowd. He was received with shouts by the rioters, and for a time the demonstration was somewhat quieted down. Later, however, some of the mob began to break into the butcher shops and bakeries, and again the police came out to put down the disturbance. All day Saturday, thousands of workmen paraded the streets of the city and had frequent conflicts with the police, who at first used the flat sides of their swords, but finding this of no avail, began to strike to kill and maim. At last, many of the rioters were put under lock and key, and the actual fighting began to subside, and from the more recent reports, the excitement in Berlin, as well as other populous centres throughout the empire, has somewhat cooled down. Though the young emperor is not directly responsible for the riots, there is no doubt that some of his recent utterances have contributed a great deal to the prevailing discontent. In a speech 011 Tuesday of last week, he is quoted as giving utterance to something like this: "I go my way, and my way is right. All who criticise the government are enemies of the State. My advice to those who don't like my way, is to shake the dust of Germany from off their feet." There are a great many people in Germany who do not like the the egotistic and headstrong young emperor's way, and at the same time they do not desire to shake the dust of the "Faderland" of!' their feet. Hence the riots. NATIONAL TH1B1) PARTY CALL. The Third party has at last been formally and actually launched 011 the political sea. It is the outgrowth of the Industrial conference held at St. Louis last week. Three minutes after the Industrial organization, the platform of which is printed 011 the first page of this issue, adjourned, General Weaver took the chair and called to order a mass meeting to set the machinery of the new party in motion. As the result of this - ? it... /v.ii : 11 ....... . 1 IllUSS llll't'lliij; i m; iuuu>\ui^ van wuo i?uvu . j "The National Committee of the People's party of the United States, acting in conjunction with the following: C. H. Van Wyck, i of Nebraska; C'. W. Macunc, Texas; M.J. Branch, Georgia; J. H. Powers, Nebraska; K. M. Humphrey, Texas; L. I). Laurent, Louisiana; Marion Cannon, California; T., H. McGuire, New York; J. H. Williams,/' Kansas; L. L. Polk, North Carolina; Piercu Hackett, Missouri; M. M. Garrett, Illinois I John Seitz, Ohio ; Mary E. Lease, Kansas Anna L. Diggs, District of Columbia; Anns, Dobbs, Texas; A. P. Parksen, Florida, ant BenTerrill, Texas, re]>resentivc, of a certaii meeting of members of various organizations^ of this country, held in the city of St. Louis, Mo., on the 24th day of February, 1892, respectfully submit to the people of the United States the preamble and platform of the conference of said labor organizations of our nation, held on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th days of February, 1892, in the city of St. Louis: [Here is inserted the platform printed on the first page of this issue. ] "We urge that all citizens who support those demands shall meet on the last Saturday in March, next, in their respective towns and villages, and hold public meetings and ratify those demands, and take steps to organize, preparatory to electing delegates to the National convention, and we call upon all duly qualified voters of the United States, who are in favor of these principles and of nominating candidates for president and vice-president on the above platform, to send delegates to the convention of the People's party, to be held in Omaha, Nebraska, July 4, 1892, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. "The executive committee of the People's party in each State is charged with the duty of promulgating this call and of fixing the time, place and method by which said delegates shall be chosen. The basis of repre sentation shall be four delegates from each congressional district and eight delegates from each State at large, making the total number 1,770. We call upon all citizens of the United States to help us to make our principle triumphant. We believe that if voters neglect their duty this year, it may be impossible in any future canvass to protect the rights of the people and save the free institutions of our country. The voters must protect themselves ; they can expect no one else to defend them. In the name of the rights of the people, the homes of the land, and the welfare of all future generations, we call upon all honest men to come to our support in this gfeat contest. [Signed.] H. E. Taubeneck, Chairman. Robert Schilling, Secretary National Committee People's Party. For the committee appointed by the mass convention. Ben Terrell, Texas. M. M. Lcucks, South Dakota. MEREMFiNTIOX. The total visible supply of cotton for the world is 4,720,872 bales, of which 4,448,372 bales are American, against 3,548,317 and 2,878,214 respectively last year. John Robinson, a negro desperado, committed a murderous assault on Mr. Carrie, a merchant at Shaw's station, Miss., last Thursday night, and on Saturday he was captured by a mob and hanged to a railroad trestle. Lillie| Johnson, the companion of Alice Mitchell, the Memphis murderess, has been admitted to bail in the sum of 110,000 on the ground that her health is being impaired by confinement in jail. A young woman named Leppers was burned to death by lynchers af Menin, Austria, last Thursday, for murdering her husband. It is stated Great Britain has agreed to join the United States, Germany and France, in calling an international bimetalic conference ori condition that she will not be pledged to abide the result. Dr. Ta!mage's big tabernacle at Brooklyn, is to be sold under foreclosure proceedings by the contractor who built it. He recently obtained a judgment on the building for $52,216. About 178 negroes from the Southwest are stranded in New York city on their way to Liberia. They are out of money and in a deplorable condition. They believe, however, in the representations of a smart negro who got their money, that the vessel that is to take them away will sail on March 10. Two British steamships? the Forest Queen and the Loughbrow?collided in the North sea, off the coast of Yorkshire, England, last Friday. A big hole was knocked in the Forest Queen, and she sank with all on board save the captain, who managed to get to the other vessel. Fiftytwo lives were lost. The Manufacturer's Record, of Baltimore, has changed hands. Jay Gould and his daughter, Miss Helen, are on a visit to Asheville, N. C. The United States supreme court rendered a decision last Monday sustaining the constitutionality of the McKinley tariff act. Senator David B. Hill has been invited to deliver an address in Charlotte.on the 20th of May, the occasion of. the celebration of the Mecklenburg declaration of independence. The Chinese government is still struggling with the rebels in the northern part of the empire. The scene of hostilities, however, is far removed from any of the missionary stations. TILLMAN AT NEWBERRY. He Delivers an Address but Makes no Reference to State Politics. By invitation of the County Alliance, Governor Tillman delivered an address in the Newberry opera house last Saturday. There . i . -,i were about yuu peopie present., una tut ernor being quite weak from recent illriess, spoke rather briefly, making no mention whatever of State politics. His address was well received and was met with frequent applause from his audience. He is reported in the Columbia Register as follows: Mr. Chairman, Fellow Citizens of Newberry county: I am always glad to respond to any call from the citizens of any county to confer with them on any topic affecting the public welfare. Your invitation is to discuss the agricultural outlook and the condition of the farming interest and kindred interests bearing on it. Agriculture is the basis of all wealth, the foundation on which society rests. Advice is something of which every one has a superabundance, and is willing to give on all occasions, but which few ever take. We are confronted by a condition which is blue, indeed. Never in all my recollection, since 1865, have we been face to face with a prospect so gloomy. Before the war every plantation was. self-sustaining. Our farmers bought very httle of the necessaries of life, and cotton wa3 a surplus crop. From causes which I will point out, we have reversed the order of things. We have changed the economy of the farm and in a large measure depend on one crop to buy everything we are compelled to have. The present condition of overproduction?too much cotton?was predicted by me, seven years ago in a speech at Bennettsville. and I set to work to bring about some change as far as discussion would do it. What has produced this revolution ? I say in soberness and truth that by every measure in cur power we have driven our people to the culture of cotton alone. How ? One of the greatest causes was the enactment of the lien law. The enactment of this law placed credit on the crop before it is planted. It placed the man of character and the man witiiout it on the same plane. The honest and the dishonest, the intelligent and ignorant, the industrious and the lazy, were all placed on the same level. It placed the value of the crop in the hands of those who did the buying, and all went to planting cotton because debts were payable in cotton. The legislature is largely responsible for the condition of cotton. The effect has been to make cotton the crop to buy everything else with, and this, together with the rental system, brought about the enactment of the stock law. The people said we can't make money out of stock, so why keep up the fences, and so the stock law came. .Stock raising disappeared and people turned their attention more and more to cotton. Other ills have followed the culture of cotton. Une is ttie increased use 01 ieruuzers. Every year we pay over $3,000,000. Tliere is no rotation of crops and no attempt to preserve the land. We kill grass nine months in the year and then buy Northern hay. Foreseeing this condition of affairs, I, with others, endeavored to put on foot Cleinson college, where our young men could leurn something of diversified farming. To put us on the right road appears a plain case. We need no convention to do it. Whether the present price of cotton is due to speculation or legislation, we cannot afford to raise it at the present price. When a man knows he loses money by raising cotton and does not propose to raise food, he has only nimsclf to blame for his condition. But the cry is we are in debt, what are we to do? How will you get out of debt by raising a crop on which you lose one cent a pound? If our people don't undertake to raise meat and bread, starvation is before us. I believe the low price of cotton is influenced by two causes: the demonetization of silver and the conduct of our financial affairs in the interest of Wall street. We arc systematically and persistently robbed for the benefit of manufacturing industries and money sharks of the North. The cry goes up from millions of homes, give us relief or we perish ! The Alliance lists sprung up and spread like fire. The farmers stand together and ask relief. If it goes too far and touches on agrarianism, centralism or paternalism as has been charged, 1 am afraid the rainbow of promise will disappear from our skies. If wc are men and stand shoulder to shoulder nud vote for measures of relief, if wc don't get all we ask, we shall get some measure of relief. Wc must not quarrel about means. We want a currency which does not centre at New York, to be let out from there by men who can let it out or withhold it as their interests dictate. We want a currency scattered broadcast. We want it?millions of us?and we demand it in no uncertain tones. The Democratic party in congress seems paralyzed. It is divided in quarreling. There come in the questions of local interests. The interests of Massachusetts, South Carolina and Nebraska are not alike. Whether party alignments will in the future divide the country from nor :h west to southeast instead of along Mason and Dixon's line and the Ohio river, those on each side demanding what the other don't want, I don't know; something of the sort is likely to happen. But we who are confronted by the Republican party with its attempts to force upon us negro supremacy and the force bill, have to stand by the Democratic party of the nation to prevent that iniquity from being fastened upon us. There is not and cannot be reasonable and just antagonism between the Alliance and any other class. Our interests are still identical. Unless the farmer prospers, all classes will go by the board like those who plow. There is no antagonism except among those who are allied with the banking interests. There are no disputes and differences in the Alliance as to means. I beg my brethren to remember that while we' may differ as to means, we must not fight because we want to go to the same end by different roads. I feel that I need not say it here, for I don't believe the Third party has or can have yet any strength here. If the Democratic party don't give relief this year and next, it will be time enough to cast about to see what can be done. But now we must stand together, against force bill legislation, shoulder to shoulder, for God and home and native land. Don't Let Them Swindle You.?Quite recently, says a Johnston correspondent of the Columbia State, two of our most prominent and well-to-do farmers have been led into a transaction that will cost them $125 each in cash, beside the wear and tear in their reserve fund. Some days ago two welldressed and respectable-looking men called on Mr. J. r. YVrignt, wno resides miawuy between Johnston and Edgefield, and persuaded him to take the agency in Pickens township for a certain portable wire picket fence, rfianufactured by Mclntire, Fletcher & Co., of Danville, Va. They stated to Mr. Wright that he had been recommended to them by Captain A. P. Butler, who had consented to become one of their agents. They presented a duly authenticated contract to which was attached a note payable next fall after Mr. Wright had received $250 worth of the alleged wire fencing. Mr. Wright signed the note reluctantly after he had been assured that it would not be detached from the contract and would not be presented to him until he had been supplied with the wire. A day or two later Mr. Wright learned that his note had been sold to Ramsey & Bland at Edgefield at a slight discount. He learned later that there was no such firm in Danville, Va., as Mclntire, Fletcher & Co., and he learned also that the wire fence manufactory that was to be started in Augusta by Mr. Russell (as the swindlers stated) was only a myth, and worst of all, his attorney informed him that he would be compelled to pay the note. Subsequently it was ascertained that Mr. G. M. Smith had also been victimized in the same way by the same parties, and it is hinted that there will be a conflict of authority in Pickens township as to who is entitled to represent the said wire fence manufactory that was known not to exist anywhere. The swindlers are stout men, one of them dark complected and appareptly about forty years of age. Any information that will lead to their whereabouts or that will bring back the lost lucre will be thankfully received at the headquarters of the wire fence agency in Pickens township. And perhaps there are many others in this county who have been victimized by these oily tongued, slippery scamps. Prohirition in the Primary.?The Good Templars of this place, at their last meeting, adopted a resolution to request and urge upon the Democratic party the privilege of allowing the question of prohibition and license to be voted upon in the primary. They wish the question to be made a separate and distinct issue, and not in anyway involve any other issue. Each candidate for the legislature will, of course, be requested to pledge himself to be governed in his vote on this question in the legislature by the result of the vote in the primary. No fair minded person can object to this plan. It eliminates the question entirely from politics. No candidate is asked what his views are on this subject; whether he favors barrooms or is a prohibitionist; it is i cirr.nlv asked that the uconle be given an ""TV i ? ? opportunity to express their preference, and then, a majority having decided the question that the legislative delegation, when this question is introduced in the legislature, will vote in accordance with the expressed wishes of their constituents. Should this plan be adopted in every county in the State, there need not then be any fight in the legislature. The people would have already spoken and it would be either to drop the question if the vote had gone for license; or if prohibition had won, create an act establishing prohibition in the State. We think the plan feasible and unobjectionable, and decidedly the simplest way of settling this question.?Manning Times. As to "Views."?There is a fool negro in North Carolina who proposes to run for congress on the platform that the general government should pay for the slaves it set free. And there are fool white men who will vote for him because of his alleged "views." If some demagogue should run in this State on a platform promising to give every man, woman and child all the money that they want, he would be popular because of his "views." It will be found in nine cases out of ten that politicians' "views" are simply baits to catch unwary voters. His promises are formed with the express purpose to get votes. The only "views" and the only promises that are worth a fig in a candidate, are character and capacity. If he is lacking in these, or either of them, all "views" and all his promises should go for naught. A candidate can promise anything; but the one that promises most is generally able to perform the least. To vote for legislators, for instance, because of their "views," is like labeling a block of wood and sending it to Columbia. The only safe and sensible way to vote is to vote for men of character and capacity, who, because of these qualities, are able to exercise some influence and will exercise it for the good of the State and the people.? Newberry Observer. Tom It kid Sustained.?A Washington dispatch of Monday says : The power of the speaker of the house to count a quorum, as was done in the Fifty-first congress, was unanimously affirmed by the supreme court of the United States today in an opinion de livered by Justice Brewer in the case ortne United States vs. Ballin, Joseph & Co., appealed from the New York circuit court. This case involved the validity of the law passed May 9, 1891, and known as the worsted classification act. When it was before the house for action, 138 votes were recorded for the passage of the hill. Whereupon the speaker proceeded to make a quorum hy counting seventy-four representatives present, hut not voting, "pursuant to a rule adopted hy the house for such cases." This rule was valid, said Justice Brewer. "It is within the competency of the legislature to i enact any rule, not forbidden hy the constitution or against natural justice, to secure the presence of a quorum, and when that quorum is present it is there for the purpose of doing business." The act was held to he valid, and the decision of the lower court reversed. Sokkj.y Bkskt.?Over in Anderson, on Sunday of last week, the Baptist minister | had a discouraging experience with the | Prince of Darkness. He had taken his text land entered into the discussion, but just as j tm; attention of his audience became interI the electric liirhts went out and all were in utter darkness. The preacher kept hiJposition and equilibrium until two lamps fr/ni the Sunday-school annex could he lighted and placed in position, ile then began just where he left off and again secured {he undivided attention of the audience, when it was discovered that one of the lumps that had been suspended by a cord was in ; the act of falling. The sexton got to it in time to catch it just as it gave way. The lights were again out except one lamp. The preacher announced that the choir would sing the closing hymn. In the midst of this hymn the lever by which the air is pumped into the organ gave way, and the music all stopped short. At this stage the preacher stepped forward and pronounced the benediction. ? Lancaster Ledger : Mr. II. E. Coll'ey, of Jacksonham, exhibited on the streets yesterday, a violin of his own make. It was ! made entirely of maple and the work was done principally with a pocket knife and sand paper. About a month ago Mr. Cofley ! cut the tree down and sawed out his pieces. It is made in about twenty-eight dillerent pieces, and is put together with glue. It has every appearance of a store-bought violin, ; except that it is not stained or painted, and ; its tone is fully as sweet as any at l'ayseur's. j It is certainly a neat piece of work and is a | very high commendation of the mechanical j ingenuity of its maker. Mr. Co Hey said the I hard times caused him to undertake the job. He wanted a violin and couldn't spare the | money to buy it. LOCAL AFFAIRS. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Jos. F. Wallace, Assignee?Bid for Goods Wanted. J. L. Carroll?Sale of the Carson Land. Riddle it Carroll?Of All Seasons. J. F. Wallace and C'. E. Spencer?Residences for Rent. Louis Roth?Switzer Cheese and Oysters. Lowry & Starr?Have Them Coming?Imperial Egg Food?Our Stock?Octagon Soap. M. & H. C. Strauss?Our Winter Stock is Large. J. S. Brice, Clerk?Notice to Road Overseers. Kennedy Bros. <k Barron?Closing Out. T. M. Dobson, Manager?Did You Ever Stop and Think. Win. C. Latimer?The Coming Season Promises to be One of the Most Intersting and Attractive Ever Known in lashionable Dress-Fabrics and Dress-Making. JUDGE JAMES ALDRICH. Judge James Aldrich will preside at the approaching term of court for this county, so look out jurors and witnesses. His honor has already made for himself the reputation /\n Kft Knnpll Ul UUlLTg 11JC BlliUlcai JUUgc vu vuv wvmv.j and he will not tolerate the slightest trifling with the time of the court. Speaking of him in Fairfield, the Winnsboro correspondent of Columbia State says: "The judge has been exceedingly strict in the enforcement of the law concerning the attendance of witnesses. He has issued a number of bench warrants and has committed several witnesses to jail for violation of this law. THERE IS CORN ON KING'S CREEK. Mr. Jno. B. Whitesides, of Hickory Grove, was in Yorkville last Monday, and speaking of the progress of farm work in his section, said that as much plowing has already been done as is usually done up to the 10th of April. Asked about the condition of the fartners generally, he said that most of them in his immediate section failed to make enough corn on their bottom lands to do them last year, and are having to buy. "But there is plenty of corn up on King's creek," he continued. "I believe the farmers on King's creek alone made enough corn last year to supply the whole western half of the county." FELL FROM A TRESTLE. A horse belonging to Rev. F. C. Hickson, of Gastonia, but which was in the care of a colored man near the eastern limits of Yorkville, got out of its stable last Saturday night and tried to make its way to Gastonia. * ~ 1 *11 _ !i il.? A lew miles norm 01 xorKvme it iw* mc railroad, and on reaching Allison creek attempted to cross on the trestle. A portion of the feat was accomplished very nicely, "but before going very far the animal slipped and fell to the ground, a distance of about thirty feet. It was found next morning lying under the trestle, still alive, and though considerably bruised, no bones were broken. Our informant thinks the horse will entirely recover from the effects of the fall. ross's monthly. We have received the first number of ! Ross's Monthly, a new literary venture just launched in Yorkville. The magazine consists of thirty-two pages, printed on a good [ quality of book paper, and is filled with original articles and choice selections. It has the distinction of being the only one of its kind in the State, and proposes to serve, up to its readers a character of literature that is at once wholesome, entertaining and elevating. The number before us partakes very decidedly of these characteristics, and to say the least of the Monthly, it is well worthy to live. The publisher, Mr. M. M. Ross, of Yorkville, is an estimable young gentleman with some experience in journalism, and for whom we take it upon ourselves to bespeak the patronage of the literary public. church'notices. Episcopal?Sunday-school at 10.30 a. m. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J. C. Galloway, pastor. Yorkville?Services next Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Sunday-school at 3.30 p. m. Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, D. D., pastor. Prayer-meeting tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. Services next Sunday at 11 o'clock a. m. and 7.30 o'clock p. m. Sundayschool at 3 o'clock p. m. Trinity Methodist Episcopal?Rev. R. E. Stackhouse, pastor. Prayer-meeting this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Services next Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Sundayschool at 3 o'clock 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. ra. Yorkville?Prayer-meeting tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. Services Sunday evening at 7.30 o'clock. Sunday-school at 10 o'clock a. m. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mrs. Ernest Beard left for Macon, Ga., last Monday, where she will remain tuitil the latter part of April. Rev. John A. Porter and family have recently moved into one of Mr. W. H. Quiun's houses on King's Mountain street. Mrs. Wm. Walker, who has been visiting her son, Dr. Miles Walker, of Union county, returned home last Monday. Mr. Charles Dunlap, who has been in Baltimore attending lectures on dental surgery at the University of Maryland, returned home last Monday. Messrs. R. T. Riggins and W. N. Elder left for Columbia yesterday, the former to attend a meeting of the State Democratic Executive committee, and the latter to attend a meeting of the State Alliance Lecture board. Mr. A. S. Withers, of Yorkville, left for Rock Hill on Monday, to instruct Colonel C. J. Pride, the recently appointed postmaster, in the business of the office. Mr. Withers will probably remain in Rock Hill for a month or more. THE YORKVILLE POSTOFFICE. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier, in a special of Monday, says : "In Mr. Hemphill's mail yesterday he received one of the largest petitions ever presented at the postollice department from the State of South Carolina. It is in behalf of the appointment of Miss Maggie Moore as post! master at Yorkville, to succeed her father, I who is growing old and about to retire from the postal service. His commission will expire within the next few months, and the friends of his daughter are earnestly at work. The petition contains 1,824 signatures, 921 white and 908 colored persons. Mr. Hemphill added to the petition his hearty endorsement and placed it on file with the postmaster general." There is only one essential point omitted in the above paragraph. The petition was not only one of the largest ever sent from South Carolina, but it was signed more unanimously than any other ever circulated in this section. A CROP THAT WILL PAY. One of the best paying small crops for this section that we have heard of recently, if it were only given proper attention, is celery. Most of the celery used in the United States, if we are correctly informed, comes from Kalamazoo, Mich., from which place millions of bunches are annually shipped thousands of miles in every direction. Much of the Kalamazoo celery comes down South, and is used not only in the hotels but in private families even of this immediate section. Including express, it costs between four and five cents a bunch, and when it is considered ! that it can be raised here for less than a cent ! a bunch, it is easy to sec where the profit is. Xo doubt many have tried to raise celery in this section and have pronounced the experiment a failure. Hut it isn't; for our attention has just been called to a very successful practical demonstration of the fact, i Mr. T. M. Dobson, of Yorkvillc, has been cultivating celery, for his own table, for the past six or seven years, and he has never failed to secure a good crop. Not only has lie produced celery in abundance, but those who are capable of judging, pronounce it equal in flavor to the best Kalamazoo, and it has a decided advantage over the foreign article in that it is always fresh and crisp. Mr. Dobson informed us that one year he realized more than sixteen dollars off' of a patch about fifty feet square, retailing it to families in town at 10 cents a hunch, and this was in addition to a considerable quantity that he gave away from the same bed. There is no reason why celery should not be raised here for market, and at a big profit. Of course, to be successful, experience will be required, but' the inducements are such as to make it worth anybody's while to study the matter up. EVASIVE EMIGRANT AGJ3NTS. Our Rock Hill correspondent has more than once referred to the large numbers of negroes that are, from time to time, boarding the trains for the West at that place. Others are beginning to remark about the matter, and from different quarters-of the county, we are hearing that the emigration fever among the negroes is becoming quite serious. In view of the act of the last legislature practically prohibiting the business of emi1" x- nAAnlp grauou agents iu hub nmw;, uiuuj ? are at a loss to account for the agitation of the negroes. We cannot account for it certainly, but we heard what seems to be a rather plausible explanation one day last week. Our informant says that there are a number of white men traveling through the county whose business is ostensibly to solicit subscriptions to a certain Northern newspaper, the name of which he has been unable to learn. While so engaged, after taking a subscription and a note for the payment of the same, Mississippi and Arkansas are pictured to the colored brother's imagination in glowing colors, and the way to get to that wonderful land is represented as being so easy, that the victim is at once iufused with a desire to go. The subscription to the paper is a mere pretext, and in many instances the canvassers have taken the notes of subscribers who are unable to read. LOCAL LACONICS. ? The "Mikado Minstrels," an organization of young men of Yorkville, are rehearsing for an entertainment which they propose giving in the opera house at an early day. ? The supreme court has affirmed the judgment of the circuit court in the case of Charleston, Cincinnati and Charleston railroad, vs. M. Elizabeth Leech, Mary Y. Leech and others. ? The secretary of state, last Monday, issued a charter to the South Carolina Sulphuric Acid company, which proposes to do business at Blacksburg. The directors are Thomas Gautier, T. H. B. Hasse, and John F. Jones. ? George Etters, a white man, was committed to jail by United States Commissioner Pride last Monday for violation of the internal revenue laws. Deputy Marshall Broome, of Hickory Grove, caught him distilling whisky up on King's creek. ? Mr. W. H. Taylor, formerly of Newport, ---4. ? flio natrium U'QG PT. out IIOW UIl iliuiuic ui mv t*ojiuui, ? amined by a commission de lunatico inquirendo last week, and it was decided that he was too non compos mentis to sign papers making certain disposition of his property. ? The secretary of state has issued a commission to the promoters of the new cotton factory to be erected at Fort Mill. The mill is to be called the "Kanawha," after the Indian name given to Thomas Spratt, the first white settler of Fort Mill township. The capital stock is to be $50,000 in shares of $100 each. ? ? Since last week, Treasurer Neely has had time to add up the total tax collections. They amount to $85,321.02 uncontested, and $1,792.34 paid under protest. The railroad taxes contested and uncollected, amount to about $19,000, and the total delinquency, exclusive of the above, is in the neighborhood of $2,000. ? A letter from Mr. Julius A. Hope, of Smyrna, announces that there is no longer any doubt about the establishment of a postoffice at that place. Mr. Hope also informs us that Superintendent Tripp has put up a telegraph office as well, and Smyrna is now in full communication with the outside world, both by mail and telegraph. MORE ABOUT IRISH POTATOES. We took occasion yesterday to have another short talk with Mr. W. J. Gordon on the Irish potato question, with a view to securing further iuformatiou on certain points that the readers of his recent interview have been inquiring about. One reader complains that he has from time to time experienced great difficulty in getting a good stand, and on this point Mr. Gordon says: "Of course there are a number of causes that will prevent a good stand, but the most important details to look after is the quality of the soil and thorough pulverization. These matters properly attended to, then look after the cutting of the potatoes. Some people just slice them up every which way, and plant the pieces. They should be very careful to leave two or three eyes to each piece, and cut so as to leave the eyes as near the center of the pieces as possible. One eye will do, but two or more eyes are better. If you plant early, cover lightly; if you plant later, cover a little deeper. By following this plan your potatoes are not liable to rot." Another question was as to the relative value of Northern and domestic seed. Mr. Gordon says: "I would rather have the domestic seed, but with the variety and quality the same, the only difference in favor of the domestic potato is that it will mature earlier. There is nothing in the idea that you should get new seed every year. You can use the same seed year after year, and if you will only pay attention to the selection of the best specimens, the quality of the potato will steadily improve." "How much seed are required to plant a given area V" "You should plant at the rate of about twelve or fourteen bushels to the acre." "Well, about the second crop; is it as irMrwI ns the first?" ft" ? "Yes, ami better. I might say that the main thing in planting the first crop is to get ready for the second. It is always better in the South, and not only that, it is very little trouble to prepare for it. Just as soon as you dig the first crop, you go right ahead on the same land and plant the second. I don't know of anything else that will produce two such prolific crops the same year." From Governor Tillman's Standpoint. ?Governor Tillman, who had been suffering for several days from another attack of grip, was asked by the Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier, on Tuesday of last week, what he thought of the "Thirteen" call for a March convention. He is quoted as saying: "This is a free country aud has been such since the emancipation of the people in the last campaign, and I am glad to see that there can he virtue in a 'March convention' called by somebody besides Shell. I shall welcome | opposition and court discussion conducted ! on a decent plane, hut if, its seems probable, ! it will he another case of 'Peter's wife's mother' sung to a different tune, I shall not ' object. The people are doing their own thiuki ing, and when the time comes will do their own voting. I was made chief executive by them and am ready to retire whenever they see proper to give me notice. I shall , pursue the even tenor of my way and try to ' do my duty as I see it, without bothering j about any action the Bourbons may take." Governor Tillman was asked what he i thought of General Karle's letter, which had j occasioned so much talk. He replied : "I have read General Karle's letter with a : great deal of pleasure. It fully justifies my i estimate of the man formed during and since ; our memorable canvass. Whether his judg! ment as to the popular feeling towards myself is correct or not, his catholicity of spirit and generous praise of a successful opponent | must command the admiration of every one. His letter is a remarkable contribution to the campaign literature which is now so plentiful." REUNION OP FIRST SETTLERS. Blacksburg Sixteen Years Ago and Blacksburg Now?The Wonderful Growth of the Town Reviewed. Blacksburg News, February '?>. On Friday evening, the 19th instant, there was a pleasant gathering at the residence of Dr. Wm. Anderson, on Rutherford street. The occasion was the celebration of the 16th. anniversary of the doctor's arrival at what was then known as "Black's Station," and the guests invited to partake of his hospitality consisted only of those who were citizens of the place when he first located here for the practice of his profession. The evening was spent in a most enjoyable manner. The dining-room was tastefully arranged for the occasion, and the supper was all that any one could wish. The table was presided over by the doctor's mother (who came here with him) assisted by his excellent wife, who did much to make the guests remember the evening as one of unusual pleasure and enjoyment. After supper the guests indulged in many happy reminiscences of the past. Of course such an event in itself being merely a pleasant social one, possesses no special significance, but at tbis stage in the history of our town it may be both interesting and profitable to take a retrospective glance at the place as it was sixteen years ago, compare that with the present dimensions, and cast a look forward to its future possibilities. Sixteen years ago, just after the compleniiaflMifl ?nd Atlanta Air Line railroad, and before a regular passenger train was running thereon, the following persons were then citizens of "Black's Station," viz: Dr. J. G. Black, Dr. D. S. Kamseur, John H. Crawford, Joel R. Smith, Ira Hardin, N. W. Hardin, W. A. Baber, Gf. M". Moore, T. "W. Rhyne, D. D. Gaston, T. L. Black, Joseph Black, C. B. Byars, W. A. Jackins and M. F. Duncan, all of whom are now living here. There were twelve dwelling houses, three small stores, a freight depot, a saw mill, and a population of not more than sixty people. There were no churches or school houses. The first sermon preached was by the Rev. L. A. Johnson. He was mainly instrumental in the establishment of the Methodist church here, and is now its pastor. Now there are in the town of Blacksburg seven churches?four white and three colored. Two school buildings well constructed and equipped, with an enrollment for this year of 324 pupils. Two hundred and forty dwelling houses, thirty-two stores?twelve of which are brick buildings?two barber shops, one large brick livery stable, one market, two blacksmith shops, one machine shop, one foundry making brass and iron castings, one large sash and door factory, one planing and wood working mill, two ginneries, two grist mills, two saw mills, one spinning band factory, one tin shop, two shoe and harness shops, one baryti mill (now building,) one brick yard, four hotels?one of which has 87 rooms and is elegantly furnished and equipped with every modern . convenience and comfort; another has 34 large airy, rooms,,fitted with electric bells, etc.; other two while not so large are comfortable and of good reputation. At Blackburg is also situated the machine shops and offices of the Three C's railroad. It also has the Sulphuric Acid Mining and Manufacturing company, with abundant capital. The Magnetic Iron and Steel Ore company, and the Blacksburg Land and Improvement company, and two building and loan associations, which promise much for the future development and growth of our town. The town is well laid out with wide, spacious streets, lighted with electric lights, and in cnnd condition. The town council a handsome council chamber and a town prison, and are contemplating the purchase of a rock crusher for macadamizing purposes. Blacksburg has most excellent future prospects. Its location in the centre of a fine mineral region, mild and healthful climate, and excellent railroad facilities, gives every factor necessary to create a large mining and manufacturing town, aud we have no doubts of the future. A Guest. ROCK HILL HAPPENINGS. What the Farmers are Doing?Numerous Marriages?Increase In the Taxable Property?Other Matters. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. Rock Hill, February 29.?The scarcity of farmers in town for a month or more is an evidence of the fact that all are at ? work with renewed zeal and determination. As a consequence more farm work has already been done than up to the same time for several years past. Instead of hauling out guano and preparing for a big cotton crop, the time has been devoted to sowing oats and preparing for a big corn crop, which is sooner planted and of greater profit. The cry of "hard times" does not seem to diminish the number of weddings. Miss Bessie Moore, daughter of Mr. Alfred Moore, of this place, was married to Mr. Bratton Massey, of the McConnellsville neighborhood, last Wednesday. Rev. J. A. Clifton, of Charleston, officiated. Ou the same day, Mr. Wm. Clifton, of Florence, was married to Miss Cora McClellan, of this place, by Rev. E. O. Watson. On the same day, Mr. J. E. Allen, of the Neely's Creek neighborhood, was married to Miss Emma Hoffman, of Fort Mill, Rev. J. E. McManaway tying the nuptial knot. The question of waterworks is being considered by our citizens, and it is to be hoped thatrSc^will grow into a reality. Nothing would be trf-more benefit to the town than an adequate supply of water. The erection of another cotton mill is also meeting favorable consideration.. The stock of the Standard mill, as well as the Rock Hill cotton factory, has been paid up and both are doing well. The Globe mill is also doing very well, and it will not be a great while before its stock is also paid up. The management has decided to put cn an extra force and run day and night. Colonel C. J. Pride has secured the servi ces ol Mr. \vm. wnyie as assistant in tne post office, and the management of the office will principally devolve on him. Colonel Pride will take charge on Tuesday, on which day Miss B. V. Wood will retire. Mr. H. J. Zinker, foreman of Col. Jones's plantation, had his elbow fractured in a gin belt last Saturday. The board of assessors have about com, pleted their work, which shows $1,362,394 of taxable property this year, against $1,2:22,000 last year, an increase of $140,394, or about 11 per cent. Mr. R. E. Sadler will move to his new house on Johnson street this week. Mr. S. J. Kimbrell will soon give out a contract for the erection of a dwelling on ; Main street, which he will occupy as soou ' as finished. Miss Ruth Allen, of Florence, is visiting I Miss Julia Richardson at this place. | Rev. E. O. Watson preached an able and j forcible sermon on Sunday in the First Prct; byterian church on temperance, and Rev. W. ! M. Anderson will preach another temper' ance sermon next Sunday iu the Methodist ; church. Rev. A. C. Wilkins, of Beaufort, preached i for the Baptist brethren in their church on , Sunday morning, and again iu the Methodist ciiurcn on Sunday night, having beer invited to fill an appointment of Rev. Mr. Anderson in that pulpit. j. The Colored Brother is Restless.?It is reported from Nashville that there is a movement now on foot among the colored people of that city to start emigration to Oklahoma next fall. About a thousand ' names are on the list of those who desire to ! go, and "the indications are that many more : will be added." Recent dispatches from i Oklahoma stated that the colored people ' there are emigrating to Liberia, two hundred having gone to New York in one lot. Recent dispatches from New York announce that the emigrants who have arrived there from Oklahoma are to be shipped to the j South at the expense of the colored residents ; of the city. At this rate it appears that the : colored brother is making no "progress" in any direction, but is simply traveling in a I circle.?News and Courier. Neither Cleveland Nor Hili..?In a recent interview, Henry Watterson is quoted as saying: "The way things have been shaped in New York it would be suicidal for the Democracy to nominate either Cleveland or Hill for the presidency. Senator Hill as a I presidential candidate will encounter difficulties which never presented themselves , during his previous candidacies. He cannot ! carry a single northern State, unless it be I New York, and Mr. Cleveland cannot carry i New York at all. Kentucky will instruct her delegates to vote for John G. Carlisle, j Next to Grover Cleveland he is the most j prominent exponent of tarift' reform."