| Jtoaps a?d ,farts.
? The monthly statement of the treasury
department, issued on May 3, shows that
the circulation of gold and silver coins and
certificates, United States and national bank
notes, on May 1, was $1,613,572,244, an increase
during the month of $1,930,724, making
the circulation per capita $24.74, based
upon an estimated population of 65,285,000.
? Chas. Emory Smith, United States minister
to Russia, has returned to this country.
In an interview with a reporter a few days
ago, in regard to the situation in Russia, he
said that it was in no wise exaggerated.
The ravages of famine had been felt in its
severest forms everywhere. He believed,
however, that the worst was over, and that
the survivors would be free from famine and
disease. Some suffering, of course, he said,
would follow, but with the outside aid Russia
was receiving, he thought, with economy,
the people would be able to tide over until
the annual harvest.
? The house committee on postoffices and
postroads has authorized the chairman,
Mr. Henderson, to report the postal fractional
note bill, which authorizes the postmaster
general to issue fractional notes in the sum
of $1 and fractions thereof, to be furnished
to the postmasters throughout the country
and sold at face value, payable to the bearer
at any postoffice in the United States at any
time within six months from issue, after
which the note is to be cancelled. If not redeemed
within the time mentioned, the holdpr
mav obtain the amount of the note by
forwarding it to the postmaster general for
payment. The committee has also authorized
Mr. Patterson, of Ohio, to report to the
house a hill appropriating $100,000 for an
experimental free mail delivery system in
the rural districts of the United States.
? The Southern Baptist convention met in
Atlanta, Ga., last Friday with about 1,500
delegates in attendance. Rev. Dr. J. B.
Hawthorne welcomed the body to Atlanta,
and Governor W. J. Northen to Georgia.
Judge Jonathan Harralson, of Selma, Ala.,
was re-elected president. Joshua Levering,
of Maryland; W. T. Northen, of Georgia;
James P. Eagle, of Arkansas; and L. L.
Foster, of Texas; were elected vice-presidents.
This is the mission centenial year,
and the Southern Baptists intend to break
all records and contribute $1,000,000. Hon
Joshua Levering started the fund on Saturday
with an individual contribution of
$5,000, and in a few minutes the amount was
raised to $20,000 by members of the convention.
An important question before the convention
is the reduction of representation,
as the body is now considered unweildy.
The convention will probably finish its work
this week.
? Miss Lucinda Q. Gore, of Lackharabad,
India, is a school teacher. Not long ago she
was standing at her blackboard, when, turning
around, she saw in the doorway the glaring
eyes of a tiger. With a woman's instinct
she seized a broom and drove it in the tiger's
face, brush foremost. One of the straws entered
the tiger's eyes and he drew back with
a howl of pain to make a spring, when she
- slammed the door in his face. The door was
heavy but the supports were frail. While
the tiger banged the door with his head,
Miss Gore lowered the largest of the little
fellows out of the window to alarm the
neighborhood. When the brave little fellow
was safely off, Miss Gore took her broom and
went back to defend the door, which the tiger
was still assaulting. At length?and it
seemed ages?there were shots, cheers and a
terrible cry. Then the door opened; the
crowd rushed in. , Miss Gore did not then
faint, nor afterward.
? The republic of Venezuela, in South
America, is engaged in a bloody civil war
similar to that through which the republic
of Chili passed recently. The war has been
in progress for several weeks now, and as
the result of a number of bloody battles,
has developed into formidable proportions.
President Palacio is the constitutional ruler
of the country, and his rival, General Cresho,
is the leader of the revolutionists. So far,
Cresho has been everywhere successful, and
Palacia is greatly alarmed for his continuance
in power and even for his life. Palacio has
possession of Cresho's son, and threatens that
when the general comes within three miles
of Caracas, the capital, the young man will
ifeBM
General Cresho does not propose to be intimidated
by it. He says that he intends to
capture Caracas, and should his son be put
to death, he will flay Palacio alive and stretch
him on a bed of coals on the plaza in front of
the capitol.
?A Chicago dispatch of Saturday, says
that rainstorms without parallel in recent
years, are prevailing throughout the Western
country, and the amount of damage is
enormous. Traffic on the Rock Island road,
between Joliet and the Mississippi river, has
been suspended owing to numerous washouts
along that portion of the-iine, with the result
that the entire system is tied up. At Joliet,
hundreds of families have had to quit their
homes and go to the bluffs, fearful that the
middle of the city would be suddenly immersed.
Many factories at this place have
from three to nine feet of water in them. A
dispatch from Greenville, Miss., says that
the Mississippi river passed its highest previous
record on last Friday night. At this
this point the guage read 43 J feet and was
still rising, with a probability of going 6 to 8
inches higher. The levees are thought to be
in good condition all along the line, and although
no immediate danger of breaks are
apprehended, the people of the entire levee
districts have been summoned out to keep a
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the danger is over.
? Now that the Russian famine is on the decline,
and the weather is beginning to modv
erate, the foreign correspondents are again
talking of the probability of an early war.
A dispatch to the London Standard from
Sebastapol says : "The preparations for war
in Russia have never been more active than
now. There is a continuous movement of
troops to the western frontiers of the country,
and the calling out of the successive categories
of reserves in the interior has commenced.
The reserves will be forwarded to
various points of concentration, whence
they can in the easiest manner reinforce the
regulars in the Polish garrisons on the Austrian
and German frontiers. The naval
transport preparations are nearly completed."
Suggestions that Russia is preparing to attack
Germany or Austria are very common
in the papers, but as yet there has been
very little evidence of any such intention.
Of course Russia, like all the other European
countries, is prepared to fight at a moment's
notice, but at the same time it is not likely
that she is going to participate in a war just
for the fun of the thing.
? There died in Brooklyn township, last
Thursday, a young man who has been apparently
grossly misused, says a Cleveland,
O., dispatch of last Sunday. He was Louis
L. Garfield, a grand nephew of the assassinated
president, Eleven years ago, while
living at Bryan, 0., he was tried and convicted
of shooting a man, chiefly on the testimony
of a woman who now lives at St.
Louis. He protested his innocence but
could not prove it. Six years ago he was
released from the penitentiary, and remained
in obscurity until a short time ago, when
newspaper dispatches were published in all
parts of the country saying that he had left
his home with the avowed purpose of shooting
the St. Louis woman. At the time of
this publication, Garfield was ill with consumption
at the home of his brother in Brooklyn
township, fully cognizant of his approaching
end. Before death came, Garfield
called his relatives about him, and again declared
his innocence of the shooting, declaring,
moreover, that after six years of effort
he had found proof that the St. Louis woman
perjured herself in the case, receiving therefor
the sum of $200. Garfield, at the time of
his death, was only 37 years old.
? A bloody collision occurred in Chicago
last Monday between the police and 2001
striking iron workers on the World's Fair!
grounds. The iron workers had quit work j
on a demand for shorter hours and higher;
wages. The bridge construction company j
for which they had been working sent to j
Pittsburg, Baltimore and New York for
more men. The imported men began to ar-!
rive by the carload on Monday morning. |
The strikers got a hold on the first car load j
before the cantractors had a chance at them
and managed to get them to take part in the
strike also. The next two carloads were
rushed into the grounds before the strikers
had a chance to explain the situation. The
strikers, however, surrounded them and began
to argue the matter. The mob soon
swelled to a thousand or more men, and
finally grew very much excited over the situation.
After some jeering and threats they
rushed upon the newcomers to accomplish
by violence what they had failed in argument. |
About this time several patrol wagons full of
policemen arrived on the scene, and a hand
to hand fight ensued. A score or so of the
strikers received bruises on their heads by
policemen's clubs, but no one was seriously
injured. Quiet was restored after awhile
and a number of the strikers were arrested.
? "Great oaks from little acorns grow,"
finds another illustration, this time in the
new State of Washington. Four years ago
Miss Lena Woodard, of Thorn Creek, sowed
the seed of one head of barley. The crop
she harvested with a pair of shears and
sowed it the next year, a second time harvesting
it with her shears. Her father cut the
third crop with his scythe, getting enough
barley to sow forty acres last spring, which
averaged forty bushels to an acre when
threshed, making a total yield of 1,600 bushels
of barley from one head in four years.
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YORKVILLE, S. C.:
WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1892.
? W. C. Benet and W. J. Talbert, both
prominent leaders of the "dominant element"
in this State, have been interviewed
by the Columbia correspondent of The News
and Courier as to the probable choice of the
South Carolina Democracy for a presidential
candidate. They are both satisfied that it is
neither Cleveland nor Hill. Personally, Mr.
Benet is in favor of Cleveland, but does not
think he could carry the State of New York,
and, therefore, in his opinion, if is better to
nominate Campbell or some other hard fighting
Western man. Mr. Talbert also expressed
admiration for Cleveland, and hoped
that he would "get right on the silver question"
before the assembling of he Chicago
convention. He also, however, .vas in favor
of a Western man with sound doctrines,
who "could make a winning race." He said
also that he believe^ Cleveland would be the
nominee.
? We have been asked several times recently
as to the progress of the phosphate
miners in the Coosaw territory, since the
question of perpetual lease, etc., has been
settled. We have seen no statement in the
papers that give any definite information^,
and are unable to answer the question.
There are now four companies at work in
the formerly disputed territory, and a correspondent
of the Columbia Register suggests
that within a few years the royalties
will amount to a sum "sufficient to pay all
the State taxes." We scarcely look for anything
of this kind, but have no doubt that
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amount to a great deal more than formerly.
This information, however, will only be correctly
developed upon the submission of the
monthly reports of the various companies
now engaged in mining the rock.
? Rev. Thomas Dixon, formerly of Cleveland
county, N. C., but now of New York,
has gotten himself into a somewhat ugly
scrape by what looks to be a disreputable
attempt to increase his popularity with his
new found friends at the North, at the expense
of his native South. In a recent interview
with a reporter of the New York
Press, he was represented to have made a
number of statements severely reflecting on
the people of the South. The interview was
noticed and criticised in several of the most
influential Southern papers, and Dixon, perceiving
hfe mistake, entered ? a^mai. Wa
claimed that lie liad not given expression to
the sentiments attributed to him, but had
been misrepresented by the reporter, who
had framed his article to conform to the sentiments
of the readers of The Press. This
denial was published in the Atlanta Constitution
and the North Carolina State Chronicle,
and readers of those papers wrote to The
Press reporter asking if the charge of misrepresentation
was true. The reporter
promptly published an emphatic denial, and
in justification calls attention to the fact that
Mr. Dixon has never complained to The
Press, the paper in which the interview was
Dublished. but has only sought to set himself
straight in the South. In other words, he
made it appear very clearly that Mr. Dixon
has two sets of opinions on the same subject;
one set for Northern and the other for Southern
consumption. ?
? Mention was made last week of the appointment
of Ira B. Jones, speaker of the
house, and Lieutenant Governor Gary to sit
in the supreme court in certain cases in
which Associate Justices McGowan and Pope
are disqualified. The governor was harshly
criticised on account of the appointments,
which are claimed to be a violation of section
26, article 1 of the constitution, which
provides that "the legislative, executive and
judicial departments of the government shall
forever be kept separate and distinct from
each other, and no person or persons exercising
the functions of one department, shall
assume to discharge the duties of any other."
Upon investigation of the matter, Mr. Jones
decided that he was ineligible, and sent in his
resignation to the governor. Mr. Gary does
not think that the provision of the constitution
referred to disqualifies him, and is sustained
in his opinion by Attorney General
McLaurin. The attorneys in the case, however,
hold that Mr. Gary is ineligible, and
have decided to ask the supreme court for
an interpretation of the section of the constitution
bearing on the poiut. Opinions of the
lawyers differ. Some think the case comes
clearly under the section of the constitution
that has been quoted; others, including the
attorney general, that the appointment of
the gentlemen for a specified case makes no
difference. Another opinion is that so soon
as Mr. Jones or Mr. Gary?both being members
of the legislature?are sworn into office
as even temporary judges, their offices, as
members of the legislature, become vacant.
The whole question, however, is quite interesting,
and the decision of the supreme court
will be awaited with considerable curiosity.
Polk on the Birmingham Meeting.?
The address issued by the secret meeting of
the Farmers' Alliance at Birmingham, Ala.,
is published on the fourth page of this issue.
President Polk is now in Atlanta, and on
last Friday he was "interviewed" by a re-.
porter of the Atlanta Constitution. The report
of the interview is as follows :
President Polk seems highly pleased with
the result of the meeting. He was found
puffing away at a cigar and reading the
newspaper accounts of the meeting with
evident pleasure in the lobby of the Markham.
lie was in cheerful spirits and now
and then glanced up to speak to some gentleman
wearing the badge of the Southern
Baptists.
"Yes," said he, "we've got the politicians
guessing, sure. But the Alliance understands
it. Why, when the call for the meeting
was issued, the politicians did not understand
it. They don't understand it now."
"What was the cause of the meeting ?"
Mr. Polk was asked.
"That is set forth in the address issued.
That covers it all."
"Why, the address is a sort of chestnut
that all the people have heard before.. It's
old Alliance doctrine."
"I thought so ?," Colonel Polk began in
a tone which indicated that the Alliance
president had forgotten it; but he checked
himself.
"I'll tell you one thing," he went on, "the
meeting was not held in the interest of either
the Democratic, Republican or Third parties.
Put that down. If you interview me,
put down what I say, and I want that down.
"Young fellow, if you don't put down
what I say, you'll hear from me ; I'll write
a card. I'll exercise the right of a freeman."
"Colonel Polk, was the attitude of the
Alliance toward the Third party responsible
for the Birmingham meeting?"
"The Birmingham meeting was a perfectly
legitimate Alliance meeting. What was the
real cause of the meeting is nobody's busi- '
ness, and I don't propose to give it up to the
partisan press."
"But the people are interested, colonel?
they are wondering."
"I'm not responsible for that. We are not
running the Alliance in the interest of the
Third party, or any other party."
"Have sub-Alliances any right to endorse
the People's party?" Colonel Polk was
asked.
"I won't answer that question ; that may
come before me for official decision. I won't
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any local matters whatever."
Colonel Polk says he knows very little
about the growth of the Third party in the
South.
MERE-MENTION.
All the Georgia couuties have held their
Democratic conventions, and the Atlanta
Constitution claims that as the result, 153
delegates to the -State convention are for
Hill, SO for Cleveland, and 11 doubtful.
Elijah Sherman, a convicted murderer,
committed suicide in the Savannah,
Ga., jail last Thursday by butting his brains
out against the walls of his cell. A
large crowd gathered at Cleburne, Texas,
last Thursday, to hear a political discussion
between Governor Hogg and Judge George
Clark, gubernatorial candidates. In the
afternoon, a part of the grand stand fell
down, carrying with it a hundred men and
women. There were two deaths, and many
limbs were broken. Ex-Senator John
J. Ingalls has re-entered politics in Kansas,
and is being received with open arms by the
Republicans. He denies the charge that he
"sulked" after his recent defeat, but claims
that he was ostracised by the other political
leaders. He has given no intimation as to
his new political ambition, but will probably
go to the Minneapolis convention at the
head of the Kansas delegation. The
Richmond Cotton Factory, ten miles from
Augusta, Ga., failed last week with liabilities
of $50,000. The company was organized
two years ago with a capital of $100,000.
The immense slaughter house establishment
of Schwarzchild & Sulzberger,
extensive meat dealers of New York city, was
burned last Friday night. The loss amounts
to $1,000,000. Ohio and Michigan
have both turned in mammoth petitions
against the opening of the World's Fair on
Sundays, and in each case the petitions show
up several hundred thousand more names
thon the eensus returns of the respective
States. The California express on the
Santa Fe railroad, fell through a bridge
last Thursday. Eight people were killed
and quite a number were injured. Rev.
Sam Small, the well-known Georgia evangelist
and politician, has become a member of
the Alliance, and it is thought that he
intends to become a candidate for congress.
Dr. Leslie E. Keely, the wealthy
proprietor of the bi-chloride of gold cure
for drunkenness, is beiug annoyed by
threatening letters, sent by a woman who
charges that his remedy caused the death of
her husband. The woman tells Dr. Keely
that unless he pays her $1,000, she will blow
him up with dynamite. French Canadians
are emigrating to the New England
States at the rate of 1,000 a week. A
meeting of representative men in the leather
trade, was held in New York last Saturday
for the purpose of taking steps to curtail
the leather supply for a few months in order
that the price of that commodity might be
raised. A dispatch of Sunday from
Omaha, says that the State of Nebraska is
covered with snow to a depth of sixteen
inches. The two Democratic factions
in Louisiana are reported to have gotten together
and agreed on a delegation to the
Chicago convention. The Mississippi
river is sixteen feet above low water at New
Orleans. The levees are reported as being
severely strained, but are holding out
well. At San Francisco, last Sunday, a
drunkard, crazed by liquor, committed suicide
by jumping into the furnace of a steamboat.
A report from Louisville, Ky., is
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horses have been killed by buffalo gnats in
the western part of that State during the
past few weeks. The Iowa delegates to
the national Democratic convention, have
been instructed to present the name of Horace
Boise for the presidential nomination.
The Weather and the Crops.?The
weather and crop bulletin issued from Washington
for the week ending last Saturday,
has the following from the Southern States :
North Carolina?Temperature and sunshine
above the average ; rain needed; farm
work well in hand; cotton planted, some
coming up; bad stand of corn, peanuts being
planted ; transplanting tobacco; wheat
and oats good.
South Carolina?Lack of rain; average
temperature and excessive sunshine combined
have injured most crops ; cotton dying,
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small grain suffering for rain ; drought fearful
on truck farms.
Georgia?No rain, except a few local showers
; seven weeks drought in western and
southern counties ; abundant heat and little
cloudiness in all sections; oats and cotton
have suffered severely from want of rain ;
crops still in good condition in northern sections,
but permauently injured in the south.
Florida?Slight excess in temperature aud
sunshine, but rainfall decidedly deficient.
Light scattering showers occurred during
the week, mostly in the southern portion
near the coast, but they afforded but little
relief from the severe drought, which continues
generally throughout the State.
Alabama?Rainfall below the average;
temperature near normal, and sunshine in
abundance. All crops need rain in sbuth
portion; oats badly damaged by dry weather;
young cotton much retarded by cool
nights and dry weather in southeast portion ;
farmers making good progress in planting all
over the State.
Mississippi?Rainfall below, with average
temperature and sunshine; conditions fivorable
and all crops improving; cultivation
progressing well; cotton sprouting well;
oats good.
Louisiana?Rainfall below and temperature
and sunshine above the average ; conditions
most favorable for crops ; farmers busy
in fields the entire week; cotton planting
nearly finished and early cotton being
scraped; plows running in corn and cane
fields keeping down down grass; all the
crops growing rapidly ; steady improvement
in stubble cane.
Complexion' of the State Convention.?The
News and Courier has prepared
a table showing the Alliance strength of the
various counties in the coming State convention.
It is as follows:
Dole- Nongates.
Alliance. Alliance.
Abbeville 12 1(1 2
Aiken s f? 2
Anderson 12 11 1
Barnwell 12 S 4
Beaufort 10 (i 4
Berkeley 14 7 7
Charleston is .. is
Chester.. S S
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Clarendon x x
Colleton 10 s 2
Darlington x 7 1
Edgefield 12 10 :>
Fairfield X 7 1
Florenee X 0 2
Georgetown d 0
Greenville 12 0 :?
Hampton 0 4 2
Horry 0 4 2
Kershaw 0 f> 1
Lancaster 0 0
Laurens X 0 2
Lexington 0 f> 1
Marion x 7 1
Marlboro S X
Newberry s 7 1
Oconee d d
Orangeburg 12 10 2
Pickens d o
Richland 12 X 4
Spartanburg 14 .. 14
Sumter 12 S I
Union X X
Williamsburg x d 2
York 10 x 2
Totals ."122 2-12 KS
The Alliance people will hold a caucus in i
Agricultural 1 fall on the evening of May 17 |
for the purpose of taking steps "to protect
the interest of the Alliance in national pol- j
itics."
? The railroad commission having recently
been informed that the railroads entering
Charleston are in the habit of running .Sunday
excursions to and from that city during
the summer, have taken occasion to inform,
the railroads that the practice is a violation ,
of the law and must be discontinued.
NO THIRD PARTY FOR TILLMAN. |i
He Thinks that it is Fraught "With Danger
and Ruin to the South.
The following interview with Governor
Tillman, reported by the Columbia correspondent
of the Atlanta Constitution, appeared
in that paper on Tuesday of last week.
There is considerable sound sense in the
views expressed, and they are worth the j
careful consideration of the whole people of
whatever shade of opinion, though, of course,
it is impossible that they should meet with
anything like unanimous endorsement.
In reply to my question as to whether he
thought a Democratic president would be
elected, and if the Third party would affect
the probable result, Governor Tillman said :
"The political situation in the United
States at this time is somewhat similar to the
condition of affaire just preceding the assembling
of the Democratic convention in
Charleston in 1860. Then, as now, an overwhelming
majority of the people of the
country were adherents of the Democratic
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slavery. Today the Democratic party is divided
on the question of finances, silver and
the tariff. The Charleston convention failed
to agree, and two sets of candidates were
put into the field. The result is history. In
'92 there is danger of a repetition of the
same blunder. The South and West, grown
weary and disgusted with the cowardice and
division among the Democrats in congress,
are thinking of a third party as a means of
relief. It must be borne in mind that the
third party idea looks to an alliance of the
agricultural and producing States as against
the manufacturing States, and of the borrowing
or debtor Slates as against the creditor
States. But there is a discordant element
and apparently wn insuperable barrier to a
cordial and lasting uuion by reason of sectional
prejudice. The farmers of the Northwest
have hitherto been the blackest of
black Republicans, and so far as I can discover,
there is little or no change toward the
South among them on that question. The
interest of the two sections are identical, and
in time they may work harmoniously together,
but I think it will take a few more turns
of the screw by Wall street and New England
to effect it. The financial ideas and
the tariff policy advocated by the Northwestern
Third party men, appeal very strongly
to the Southern farmers, but what have
we to gain if we go with them ; what will we
risk should we desert and split the Democratic
party ? An examination of the representation
in the electoral college shows that
east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio
and Potomac rivers, the creditor and manufacturing
portion of the United States, there
are enough electoral votes to choose the
president, lacking only seven votes. That
section of the country has since dominated
and now dominates the government. The
rest of us are hewers of wood and drawers
of water. Robbed by the tariff. Robbed
by the demonetization of silver. Robbed by
the financial policy of Wall street, which
governs at Washington.
"Wisconsin and Maryland are the only
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Democrats and Republicans would not unite
to defeat what are known as the Ocala demands,
and I believe they would do it. Now
in the last election, notwithstanding the tidal
wave which resulted in an overwhelming
Democratic majority in congress, the Republicans
carried California, Colorado, Idaho,
Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming,
Washington and Oregon with thirtyseven
electoral votes, and I know no reason
why the Democratic or Third party can
hope this year to change that vote.
"We find ourselves confronted with this
condition then. The Democrats from the
creditor and manufacturing States are Democrats
as far as local self-government and
States' rights are concerned, hut they are
opposed to free coinage of silver, they are
opposed to increase of the currency, and to
any change in our financial policy. While
the third party Republicans in the Northwest
are in favor of these things, but as
Senator Peffer says, they will 'vote with the
Republicans on all other questions?in other
words, they hate the Southern white men
and love the negro.
"It appears to me then a very plain case.
Southern Democrats cannot fool with a
tl\ird nariv.without, crron* ?J
will be taken absolutely without benefit.
There is no possibility that I can see short of
a miracle, of a third party electing a president.
But it is beyond question that if the
white Democrats of the South divide on
national politics, the negro will be brought
in as a factor to control the result. Once
enrolled and used in national elections, he
will henceforth be a factor in State elections.
What that means every thinking man can
understand."
"What course then, ought the Southern
people to pursue ?" I asked.
"The Southern States are like Ireland.
We pay tribute to our conquerors in an ever
increasing pension roll. But just us Ireland,
under Parnell, by persistent, unrelenting agitation
and appeal to the reason and justice
of the English people bids fair to soon obtain
all reasonable rights and redress of
grievances, we may hope, by pursuing a similar
course, to get relief, but it will be in and
by the Democratic party, if it comes soon, and
I am almost persuaded to say if it ever comes.
Our policy should be to control me democratic
National convention, in conjunction
with the Northwestern Democrats, and make
the fight on a platform of principle, with a
clean, brave candidate. There should be no
dodging in the platform, no straddling, no
'glittering generalities,' but an emphatic
demand for an increased currency, free
coinage, railroad control, income tax and
tariff reform, etc.?a platform which will
command the support of the Alliance, while
it will not drive conservative Democrats in
New York, Indiana, New Jersey, Connecticut
and Maryland into the Republican
camp."
"Why do you mention these States particularly
?"
"Well, the South, without Maryland, has
only 14S electoral votes?75 short of a
majority. In past contests these States have
been more frequently Democratic than Republican,
whereas the Nortlnvesten States
have been almost invariably Republican. It
will not be good policy to drive away these
staunch friends who have stood by us against
the force bill and other radical deviltry,
while running after an ignus fatuus in the
Northwest. In other words, we must not
turn loose the birds we have until we catch
those in the bush."
"Well, governor, do you think the Alliance
will support a candidate who docs not stand
on the Ocala platform."
"Alliance Democrats will support the Democratic
nominee. And if the platform gives
promise of financial relief, I think the candidate
would carry every Southern State.
If the national Domocracy surrenders to Wall
street, then I don't know what will happen."
"Then you are opposed to the nomination
oi Cleveland ?"
"I am, most emphatically. It would be
the greatest misfortune that could happen to
us at this time, and would he an impetus to
Third partyism in the South that I dread to
contemplate."
"Would his nomination result in a Third
party in South Carolina?"
"I do not know. It would depend upon
the platform. But a Wall street candidate
and a Wall street platform would he more
than our people would stand."
"Then you advise the Alliance of Georgia
to stand by the Democratic party."
"I advise the Alliance everywhere to do
so. Our policy should be to control the
national Democratic nominating convention,
force the light on the lines I have indicated,
and put up the best man we can find who
believes in it and is in sympathy with the
masses."
Wiikkk Eahi.k Stands.?Since the Tillmanities
of this county and State have been
and are jubilating over the recent public political
utterances of Colonel Joseph II.
Earlc, and as The Advance has taken occasion
to criticise him, we are glad to be able to
say, on our own account, and in justice to
liini, that when lie was in Sumter last week
he talked freely to his friends. lie said that
so far as his being a Tillnianite, as has been
charged, he is farther from being one now
than lie has ever been. He was opposed to
the March convention two years ago, as irregular
and undemocratic, and was opposed j
to the March convention this year as much
as he was then, and was opposed to it upon
the further ground that he did not believe in
imitating Tillman and his gang. His other
public utterances were only expressions of
opinion as to the political situation in the
State and the policy to be pursued. Colonel
Karle said he is not in the least in sympathy
with Tillman and is still a stalwart
Straightout?and a far better Straight out
than many in the State who have heen condemning
him.?Sumter Advance.
THAT BLAIRSV1LLE MISUNDERSTANDING.
Dr. Saye Makes Reply to the Communication
of Mr. Rlggins.
Editor of The Enquirer : In my reply
to Mr. Riggins's first communication, I made
two statements. First, that at the reorganization
of the Blairsville Democratic club,
there were present sixteen Anti-Tillman and
twelve Tillman men, and asked "If in fact
an attempt was made by the Antis to capture
the club, how it was twelve men out voted
sixteen?" Second, that Mr. Riggins had
charged "a class of men?his neighbors and
friends, good citizens and loyal Democrats?
with not being honest and sincere." There
was no attempt nor intention to enter into a
political discussion, but simply to correct two
palpable misstatement!! of facts. Mr. Riggins's
own admission w:;ll prove that I neither
begged the question nor was my letter
unfair or misleading. Here is his language:
"I freely admit that when the Broad River
or Sharon contingent arrived early in the
mrnninrr +Vio Ai-.tia tvnro ill tllA msiiflritv in
CTViJlujjj vuv ^UUU II V>v ??W J ^
the proportion he states."
Now as to my statement that he had
charged the opposition with not being honest
and sincere. To convict him I quote
his own language: "If evidence was heretosore
wanting to show that the opponents to
the present administration are not honest
and sincere in their profession to be in full
sympathy with the farmers, it was abundantly
furnished at our precinct meeting last
Saturday." Is this language capable of any
other construction than that given it by me ?
As to anything he might say affecting "my
style and attitude," I would suggest the necessity
and propriety of a radical change in
his own before attempting that of others.
I have written the above, Mr. Editor, in the
hope that it might be the means, in the future,
of keeping my friend from indulging
his sublime genius for blundering.
J. II. Save.
Blairsville, May 9.
WILDS OF NORTHWESTERN YORK.
"X" Gives the Readers of The Enquirer the
Benefit of Recent Explorations In an IjitprPMMnc
Territory.
Yorkville, May 10.?In company with
Mr. John R. Logan, I left Yorkville on the
afternoon of the 5th instant, to go to Logan &
Hinson's saw mill, now located near the
King's Mountain battle ground. We left the
main King's Mountain road, taking the left
at Mart Hall's, and went in by the Old
Walker place, over a rough country road.
The crops along this route look exceedingly
well. There is a good stand of corn and
cotton, and Mr. Logan pronounced the oats
and wheat to be the best he had seen since
1884.
We came back across the battle ground,
in by Oates's. The crops here are also very
fine. Green fields of wheat and oats are to
be seen on every hand. We noticed some
fields of wheat in the boot, and oats headed
out. The majority, however, is not so forward.
Logan & Hinson's mil!, is located in a place
known as "Brown's hole," so called in honor
of Colonel Wm. J. Brown, the owner of the
land. No better location could have been
nLAoan in VioonUnn Tf. 5q nn.QV ftf flPCfiSS !
1/ilUOUli lit l/UV OVrVl'lvrj** .tv ?w wkwj -V. ? ? ? ? J
a crystal spring of pure water is convenient,
and when the mill was placed here, eighteen
months ago, the hills around were covered
with lofty pines that have since been converted
into lumber. Mr. Hinson has the
management of the mill. lie has sawed
about one million feet of lumber, for which
they get from 80 cents to $1.00, delivered at
Grover, N. C., their shipping point. They
will move this week to Fairview, a plantation
they have purchased, the same being
well timbered with native forest pine. The
lands here, if cleared, would produce corn,
wheat and oats without any fertilizer. They
are less broken than the Turkey creek hills,
and it is a wonder to me that they have not
been settled years ago.
I went up to the battle ground to see the
monument. As I approached it, I noticed
that a dove was sitting on its top. It looked
strange to see one of the descendants of that
messenger of peace that brought the olive
branch to Noah, sitting in the place where
more than one hundred years ago the Ameri/win.
Vnoln nn/J f Diiiii-U wv? vttiuvU 1
and howled amid the roar of musketry and
carnage of battle; but there it sat like an
angel of peace, looking sadly down at the
grave of Patrick Ferguson, whose silver
whistle once caused the hills to resound as he
cheered his men on to death, until he too fell.
I wondered, as I looked at his grave, whether
he was buried by his own troops or the
Americans. I don't think that history says.
It is probable that he was buried by the
Americans, as the British troops were captured,
unless his troops obtaiued special permission
to bury him. His own country has
allowed him to lie neglected, and the only
stone that marks his resting place is a rude
r\nr\ r\lnnn/l tlmrn l?r thn (ronnrnilQ fne that, he
UHC |>JCVVtU VUUV UJ Wi*v vmw .?W |
once so gallantly fought.
The battle ground that was cleared off at
the time of the Centennial, is now grown up
with oak and hickory to the height of fifteen
feet. The monuments and grounds being
familiar to most of your readers, I will not
stop to describe them.
All the settlements in this section are located
on the creek. The back country is
yet almost as primitive as it was when
Christopher Columbus first laid eyes on the
land of strange new beauty. I saw one
giant pine. It stands on a spur of King's
Mountain. It measures 14 feet around, aud
Mr. Logan estimated it to be at least 120
feet high. If it could talk, no doubt it could
tell us all about the battle of King's Mountain,
and maybe long before that time it
would tell of the little Indian boy that bent
it down and rode it for a horse as boys of today
are accustomed to ride little saplings.
Among the settloments on the creek that
I visited, is one known as the "Stone House."
This is a house built entirely of rock, taken
from the hill sides around. The faces of the
rock are turned outward, making a smooth
surface. The house was built in 1800 by
one Henry Houser. The walls are about
2i feet thick and the inside is plastered.
Mr. Sherer now occupies the house. His
wile says it is tnc cooiesc nouse m summer
and warmest in winter she has ever
lived in. There are six large rooms in the
house, all furnished in nice style. The
structure sits on a hill that overlooks the
fertile valley of King's creek. It bids fair
to stand us a monument to the skill and
energy of Henry Houser and Jane, his wife,
for many generations.
Mr. Gill Hambright, Dr. Fred and others,
own fine lands in this vicinity. The average
yield of corn is forty bushels to the acre.
Hinson's mill is a lonely place in one respect.
There is not a woman anywhere near
it. The only sign we saw ot this gender was
what sonic love sick rustic had scribbled
on a rock near the monument. It said,
"Sweetness has gone." I know the fellow
that wrote this had a lump in his throat as
big as a watermelon, and an aching void in
his heart. There is not even a hen at the
mill, and Johnnie Thomasson calls the lonely
rooster Robinson Crusoe. He certainly looks
like one
"Who treads alone some barnyard all deserted,
Who's cocks are lied, whose hens are dead
or oil'to market started.
Coop that rooster, for he's weary,
Hound the yard lie's drooping dreary,
Coop him?pen him?it is best,
For there's not a lien to save him,
And there's not a cock to crave him,
>' , l..,t cr,,x:. Ililll ?
Coop liim, Ilinson; let him rest.
X.
Hoc and Hominy.?The News and Courier,
on Wednesday, published special reports
from nearly every county in the State
in regard to the reduction of the acreage,
and the result is very gratifying. There is
a considerable reduction in the cotton aereago
planted in every section. The reduction
varies from 5 to 50 per cent., and taken as a
whole, will probable average about -5 per
cent. Reports from every county indicate
the largest crops of wheat, oats, corn, etc.,
within the recollection of the present generation,
and in many instances the acreage in
these crops is fully double that of last year.
There is also evidence of a more lively interest
in the raising of cattle, hogs, etc., and
there is every reason to hope that the State
will he on a better footing next year than
for a long time. The indications are that an
unusually large percent, of the receipts from
the cotton crop will be clear money to the
producer, available for paying debts or investment,
and the provision men of the
northwest are given very little encouragement,
so far as their calculations on South
Carolina are concerned. In general, the
reports from the growing grain arc very satisfactory.
and so far every indication points
to good crops and prosperous seasons.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Dr. J. C. Aver <fc Co., Lowell, Mass.?The Fact.
Fourth Page.
Sam M. Grist, Sole Agent?Useful Implements.
Fourth Page.
W. Brown Wylie, C. C. C. Pis., AdministratorAdministrator's
Notice.
W. Brown Wylie, C. C. C. Pis.?Clerk's Sale.
R. L. Bell, Due West, S. C.?Wanted.
M. & II. C. Strauss?Our Goods and Prices.
Beard & Inman?Another Large Lot of Those
Popular Dress Shirts.
Kennedy Bros. <k Barron?Josh Berry.
Riddle & Carroll?To Merchants.
CHURCH NOTICES.
Episcopal?Sunday-school at 10.30 a. m.
Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, D. D.,
pastor. Services next Sunday at 10.30
o'clock a. ra. and 8.15 o'clock p. m. Sundayschool
at 4 o'clock p. m.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J.
C. Galloway, pastor. Yorkville?Services
next Sunday at 10.30 a. m. and 8.15 p. m.
Sunday-schopl at 3.30 p. m.
Trinity Methodist Episcopal?Rev. R. E.
Stackhouse, pastor. Prayer-meeting this
evening at 8.15 o'clock. Services next Sunday
at 10.30 o'clock a. m. and 8.15 o'clock
p. m. Sunday-school at 4 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. m.
XT" ? ? T>?~f AmAPPAW OVPn.
I UKK V lLiL.ii,?i i Jl_y ci -lutcmig uuiuu..v .. v .
ing at 8.15 o'clock. Services Sunday evening
at 8.15 o'clock. Sunday-school at 9.30
o'clock a. m.
ABOUT PEOPLE.
Captain Joseph G. Wardlaw, of Cliflon,
was in Yorkvillelast week.
Mr. Paul T. Gordon left yesterday, on a
visit to relatives in New York city.
Miss Mary Clark returned to the Salem,
(N. C.) Female academy on Monday last.
Mr. John C. McClain has been confined
to his bed for several days with neuralgia.
Mr. D. E. Finley left for Columbia last
Monday to attend a meeting of the sinking
fund commission.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Long, of Spartanburg,
visited friends and relatives in Yorkville
this week.
Mr. T. G. Matthews, of Hartsville,' Darlington
county, who has been visiting friends
and relatives at Clover, returned home yesterday.
Mrs. Henry Robertson, of Broad Run,
Va., is visitiug her numerous friends in
Yorkville, and is the guest of her mother,
Mrs. C. J. Robertson.
DEATH OF JAMES L. CLAHK.
Mr. James L. Clark, a well-known citizen
of Yorkville, died in this place last Friday
in the 70th year of his age. Mr. Clark was
a native of Gaston county, N. C., and came
to Yorkville in the year 1852. He was a
tanner by trade, but on locating in this place
he engaged in the liquor business, which he
continued for several years, and later he became
a member of the firm of Carroll, Clark
& Co., dealers in groceries and general merchandise.
On the withdrawal of Mr. Carroll,
the firm was continued in the name of
Clark Brothers composed of R. Frank Clark
as senior, and James L. Clark as junior member.
This firm was continued until January
1, 1884, when it was succeeded by Riddle &
Pegram. Messrs. Clark Brothers retired in
that year, and since that time Mr. James L.
Clark has been engaged in no active business.
For a year past he has been in very poor
health, and a few days before his death the
fact developed that he was suffering from
Bright's disease, of which he died. His funeral
services were conducted at the Presbyterian
church, and the interment was under
the auspices of the Yorkville lodge of A. F.
M., of which he had been a member for forty
years. He was never married, and although
it is known that he died possessed of
considerable property, it is understood that
he left no will providing for tis disposition.
VUTERS SHOULD KN'ROLLi.
Here is a matter that is very important
to the Democratic voters of York township.
Our attention has been called'to it by Mr.
J. S. Brice, precinct chairman, and it is that
all Democratic voters who expect to take
part in the August primary for delegates to
the nominating convention, must enroll
their names on the club rolls as required by
the constitution. So far, only about 80
names have been enrolled, and the total
Democratic vote at this box is in the neighborhood
of six hundred. The section of the
State constitution requiring the enrollment
of the voters is as follows:
Article VI. The State nominating convention
for the nomination of governor, lieutenant
governor and other State officers in 1892,
and thereafter, and for electors for president
and vice president in the same year, and every
presidential year thereafter, shall be
composed of delegate from each county iu
the numerical proportion to which such
county is entitled in both branches of the
general assembly; said delegates are to be
chosen by primary elections to be held on
the last Tuesday in August of each election
year, the delegates to be elected to receive a
majority of the votes cast. At this election
only white Democrats shall be allowed to
vote, except negroes who voted for General
Hampton in 1876 and who have voted the
Democratic ticket continuously since may be
allowed to vote. The club rolls of the party
shall constitute the registry list, and be open
to inspection by any member of the party,
and the election under this clause shall be
held and regulated under the act of the
general assembly of this State approved
December 22nd, 1888, and any subsequent
acts of the legislature of this State.
Second primaries, when necessary, shall be
held two weeks later.
It will be very well for the Democratic
voters all over the county to give this matter
their early attention.
TEACHERS' CONVENTION.
The York County Teachers' association
convened iu its seventh semi-annual meeting,
in the graded school building, at this
place, on last Thursday evening, and was
called to order by the president, Prof. A.
! R. Banks, of the Rock Hill graded school,
i The exercises were opened with prayer by
| the Rev. R. E. Stackhousc, after which the
roll was called by the secretary, and the
following members answered to their names :
I Mrs. M. J. Burnett, Miss M. C. Squires,
; Miss Black, Rudolph Brandt, Miss Mollie
I Templeton, W. R. Walker, H. E. Hood,
J. H. Wilson, Miss Wilmuth Jackson,
Miss Anna l'oag, W. W. Dixon, Miss
I Florrie Allison, Miss Minnie Holloway, Miss
1 Essie Stewart, Miss Kate Ratchford, Miss
j Lillie Ratchford, Miss E. J. Roach, Miss
j Willie McFadden, Miss Belle Bailey, Miss
: Julia Richardson, A. R. Banks, R. B. Cun]
ningham, School Commissioner James Cans|
ler, Miss Lila Peck, Miss Mattie Ingold, Miss
j Louise Sherfesee, Miss Maggie Gist, J. A.
| Tate, J. E. Carroll, Mrs. Ida Meek, W. W.
Lewis, Miss Lucy Belk, I). E. McConnell,
Miss M. E. Lackey.
After the call of the roll, the teachers were
welcomed to Yorkvillc in a short address
I by T. F. McI)ow, Esq., and the address was
! gracefully responded to in behalf of the association
by W. W. Dixon. Both speakers
! were greeted with liberal applause.
In pursuance of the programme, the first
| paper of the evening was read by Mr. Rudolph
Brandt, on the following subject:
"Boys and girls leave school too early, seekj
ing a place behind the cash counter, the
i office desk, and the typewriter. What
j course adopted by teachers and boards
would do most to lessen this evil?" The
! paper was very elaborate, quite lengthy,
j and its conclusions were well received by the
I association.
On Friday morning Miss Essie Stewart
read an excellent paper on the subject:
. "Spelling a fine art: how can it best be ob|
tained The paper elicited considerable
; discussion, which, upon invitation of the
j association, was joined in by several visitors
j to the meeting.
In the next paper, W. W. Lewis demonstrated
the simjdest methods of teaching
fractions. This demonstration began with
the definition of the word, and pursued the
subject through all of its phases. His treatment
of the subject was very interesting,
and no doubt highly profitable to the members
of the association.
Other papers read at the morning session
of Friday were "How to teach reading," by
Miss Lila Peck; "How to teach Geography,"
by Miss Maggie Gist; and "Areschool examinations
advisable ?" by Mrs. M. J. Barnctt.
All three of these papers showed evidence of
much thought and careful preparation.
Among the questions found in the query
box at the close of the morning session was
the following poser: "Why don't young professors
and school commissioners marry?"
It has not been satisfactorily answered.
Owing to the threatening weather, only a
few teachers ventured out on Friday night,
and the exercises were dispensed with.
On Saturday morning a paper on how to
best teach English composition, was read by
Miss Lucy Belk, and a paper "Should exhibitions
or other similar entertainments be
encouraged in our schools?" prepared by
Miss Kate Ratchford, was read by W. W.
Dixon.
The members appointed to prepare the
other papers provided in the programme
were not present, and the subjects of the
respective papers were discussed in a more
or less superficial manner by the other members.
Officers for the ensuing year were elected
as follows : President, W. \V. Lewis; first
vice president, J. H. Wilson ; second vice
president, Miss Emma Roach ; secretary and
treasurer, R. B. Cunningham.
On motion, it was agreed that the committee
on time and place of the next meeting,
and the committee on programme, should
be allowed to submit their reports at some
future time.
This business having been disposed of, no
motion of School Commissioner Cansler, seconded
by W. W. Lewis, it was resolved that
the association take steps to secure and forward
to Miss Ella Davidson, a former valued
member, but now a missionary in China,
some appropriate token of the esteem in
which her former labors as a teacher are
held by her old co-workers. J. H. Wilson,
Miss Julia Richardson, and Miss Louise Sherfesee
were appointed a committee to carry
out the purpose of the resolution.
Before adjournment the association passed
resolutions of thanks as follows: To the
people of Yorkville for their hospitality; to
the respective officers of the association for
their efficient services; to School Commissioner
Cansler for his continued manifestations
of deen interest in the welfare of the associ
ation; and to the papers of the county for
such encouragement as has been received
through them. The association adjourned
sine die at 1 o'clock p. m. on Saturday.
LOCAL LACONICS.
? Judge Witherspoon left for Georgetown
last Friday and opened court at that place
on Monday. He will be absent from the
Sixth circuit for about six weeks.
? A call meeting of Yorkville Lodge, No.
213, I. 0. G. T., will be held this evening at
8.30 o'clock to install the recently elected <
officers and to transact any other business
that may come before the lodge.
? The Richmond and Danville railroad has
made reduced rates for the benefit of those
who wish to attend the Mecklenburg Declaration
celebration on the 20th of May.
Round trip tickets will be on sale from May
17th to 19th, good until May 22. The rate
from Yorkville will be $2.00 for individuals,
and $1.60 for members of the military.
? News from Nashville, Tenn., indicates
that Van Zandt, Messrs. Whitaker & Parish's
race horse, is keeping up the reputation that
he made at Memphis. He won the third
race of last Thursday, making a distance of
nine furlongs in one minute and fifty-five
md ?no-half seannda.
? Captain Parish, of the Jenkins Rifles,
has received orders from the office of the
adintnnt and insnector treneral. to have his
*""V c O ,
company in readiness for inspection this
afternoon. The inspecting officer?whether
General Farley or his assistant?will probably
arrive by way of the Narrow Gauge,
and the inspection will take place about 5
o'clock.
? In another column Mr. R. L. Bell, of
Due West, offers his services as a school
teacher in York county during the summer
months. Mr. Bell is a young man of excellent
character, a graduate of Erskine college,
and now a student in the theological
seminary at Due West. He has had experience
as a teacher, is thoroughly competent,
and the community that secures his services
will make a good bargain.
? There has been quite an epidemic of
marriages among the colored population of
Yorkville during the past few weeks. It is
supposed to have been brought about through
the influence of the colored, preachers, who,
using the recent charge of Judge Aldrich
to the York grand jury as a very persuasive
argument, have induced a number
of the colored folks to look upon submission
to the marriage ceremony as more desirable
than a term in the penitentiary.
? Deputy Sheriff Love on yesterday arrested
Andy Wright and Hugh Jackson, colored,
of the Sharon neighborhood, on the charge
of gambiing, and Weuzel Shubert, white,'
who lives on the outskirts of Yorkville, on
the charge of selling liquor without license.
Both of these parties were presented for
the respective offenses with which they
are charged by the grand jury, at the recent
term of the circuit court, and the warrants
on which they were arrested were issued
from the bench under instructions of Judge
Aldrich. Wright and Jackson have been
committed to jail, and Shubert has given
bond for his appearance at the next term
of court. There are several other bench
warrants in the hands of the sheriff, but he
has not yet been able to serve them.
? Dr. Win. M. Walker informs tfs that the
people of Union county have demonstrated
the practicability of a "third party" in
that section. His son, Dr. Miles J. Walker,
recently sent him some nondescript specimens
of the poultry family, which, according
to his notion, shows that the Third
party monstrosity is not only possible, but
an actual fact. The birds referred to are
evidently a cross between a guinea and a
turkey, and partake very largely of the characteristics
of both. The resemblance to the
Third party comes in not only through the
rather doubtful origin of the bird, but is also
apparent in its very speckled markings, and
its evident uncertainty as to its exact status
in the barn yard.
HEV. W. W. OltR.
As has been stated, Rev. W. W. Orr,
evangelist of the First Presbytery of the
Associate Reformed Presbyterian church, is
expected to commence a series of meetings
in Yorkvillc tomorrow evening. He has
just closed a meeting near l'ineville, X. C.,
and the correspondent of the Charlotte Observer
writes to that paper under date of
last Thursday as follows:
The Orr-Sharon meeting closed last night,
and the services were well attended from
the first and great interest manifested. Toward
the close, the people for five or six
1 miles around were aroused to an extent
that has never been known in this neighj
borhood before. At almost every service
the building, one of the largest country
churches in this county, was crowded even
to standing room, and many were not able
to get inside at all. There were about fifty
converts and a number of backsliders reclaimed.
Something of a sensation was caused last
night by Mr. Orr announcing that there
were several persons who desired to publicly
confess their besetting sins and to declare
their purpose to forsake them and to lead
a new life. Several persons went forward to
to the rostrum and were introduced to the
congregation, when they, or the preacher
for them, would make a statement. Among
them was a Mr. Long, who, the preacher
stated, was running a barroom, and that he
had determined to quit the business, not by
selling out his stock, but by knocking the
heads out of the barrels and pouring it out.
The preacher said some veiy striking and
original things. Among them was the following:
"This church is the temple of the
living God, and the members of it the temples
of the Holy Ghost, and it would be no
more of a desecration or disgrace to move
out the seats and have a dance in the body
of the church and put up a barroom in the
vestibule, than for a church member to go to
Charlotte and fill himself up with whisky
and wallow in the gutter, or for a young
lady member to go into a ballroom and allow
some licentious young man to put his arms
around her and make a fool of her by spining
her around over the floor.
ROCK HILL HAPPENINGS.
Delightful German?Decorati ng the Graye??
A Sad Accident?Mad Teg Scare.
Correspondence of the Yorkville i Inquirer.
Rock Hill, May 10.?The Rock Hill pleasure
club gave an enjoyable german at Oakland
park Friday night. It was attended by
a large number of young people from this
and surrounding towns. The costumes of
the young ladies present were as follows:
Miss Lillian Jones, dainty costume of pink silk
en train, chiffon trimmings, diamonds.
Miss Sallie Carroll, of Aiken, handsomely attired
in cream silk, diamonds.
Miss LettJe Green, watered silk of snowy
white, en train, natural flowers and diamonds.
Miss Helen Hall, costume of yellow silk, diamonds.
Miss Ella Kirkley, of Kershaw, becoming costume
of light; blue, natural flowers.
Miss Susie Seay, of Rome, <3a., gowned in a
most artistic dress of yellow silk.
^ Miss Mabel Seay, of Rome, Ga., red silk, chifMiss
NetSe* Watson, cream silk, lace trimmings.
Miss Drucie Deihl, blue Henrietta, jet lace trimmings.
Miss Nellie Roach, cream China silk.
Mrs. F. 0. London, blue surah, chilfon trimmings.
Mrs. Chf rles F. Zimmele, black lace, diamonds.
Mrs. J. H. Witherspoon, black serge, lace trimmings.
Mrs. A. H. Green, black Honrietta, lace trimmings.
The following gentlemen weire present; Messrs.
J. C. Greene, J. Hal McLure, H. P. Hunter, J.
F. Hart, W. F. Robertson, C. M. Kuykendal,
R. S. Withers, J. H. Witherspoon. Jos. G. Wardlaw,
S. H. Witherspoon, L. C. Harrison, J. W.
O'Neal, J. H. Steeaman, M. H. Sandifer, J. W.
Steele, Dr. DeFoix Wilron, J. B. Gaston, J. H.
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W. W. Steele, 8. C White, B. C. Dunlap and W.
T. Williams.
The genaan was very gracefully led by Drs.
DeF. Wilson and C. M. Kuykendal and Mr. J.
Hal McLure.
The graves of the Confederate dead buried
in the cemetery at this place will be decorated
by our citizens this evening according
to the usual custom. The stores of the town
will he closed at 3 o'clock, and all of our
people wiil take part in the ceremony. Colonel
A. Coward, of the Citadel, Captain S. E.
White, of Fort Mill, and Mr. W. W. Dixon
have been invited to deliver addresses, but
all of these gentlemen having been forced to
decline through the press of other engagements,
it is not likely that there will be any
speaking. The people will be formed into a
procession at one of the churches and marched
to the cemetery, where the flowers will be
laid on he graves by the ladies and children.
Since the stores have been closing at 7
o'clock, the military boys have been devoting
the remainder of their evenings preparing
for inspection. They are trying to perfect
themselves in the new tactics. and are
making satisfactory progress. The company
will be inspected on Thursday.
Mrs. Frel Mobley, a most estimable lady
of this place, met with a very serious accident
yesterday afternoon. It is not known
exactly how the accident occurred, but it is
thought that she fell from the piazza of the
second story of her home. She was probably
standing on a high chair, arranging some
vines, and losing her balance, fell against the
railing, which broke and let her fall to the
ground a distance of about 18 feet. When
found she was unconscious, and still remains
so, though she is probably a little better this
morning. No one saw her fall, and of
course, it is impossible to state how the accident
occurred.
We had a mad dog scare in town one
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there was a mad dog in town, and soon a
small army collected to extirminate it. It
was finally killed after an exciting chase,
but not until after it had bitten several other
dogs, which have also been killed. I think
it is about time that we have a three dollar
dog tax instead of a three dollar poll tax.
We can certainly get along better in this
vicinity with fewer dogs than we now have.
There was another fire in town yesterday.
It broke out in one of the tenement houses
belonging to the Standard mills, and two
houses were destroyed before the flames
were gotten in check.
Mr. J. W. Thompson, of Abbeville, has
been chosen to succeed Professor A. R.
Banks in the superintendency of the Rock
Hill Graded school, and Miss N. B. Walker,
of Charlotte, has been selected to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Miss
Mattie [ugold, who is preparing for missionary
work.
Mrs. T. H. Stevenson, of Waxhaw, is visiting
relatives in town.
Miss Catharine Squires, of Marvin, N. C.,
is the guest of Mrs. A. R. Kimbrell.
Miss Daisy Hart, of Yorkville, is visiting
the Misses Sherfesee. \
Mrs. J. D. Arthur, of Union, is visiting her
mother, Mrs. J. L. Moore. J.
PICNIC AT CLOVER.
The Young People had a Delightful Time
Last Friday.
CorreHponilence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
Clover, May 9.?A delightful May party
was held here on the academy green last
Friday. The programme was arranged and
carried out by Mrs. S. H. Hay, and was a
complete success.
I will not attempt to describe the decorations
of the platform, but will simply say
that they were loyely. And the flowers!
Oh, the flowers. And the costumes too.
The little girls and the young ladies were"
just simply beautiful. I wish I was competent
to the task of describing such a scene;
but I am not, and will have to leave it
without doing it anything like justice. The
little boys, too, with their sashes and trimmings.,
performed their parts nicely.
Little Pansy Traywick was crowned as
the queen. After the performances at the
staild were concluded, the queen, the faries
and the attendants formed in line, andv
headed by Clover's string band, marched to
the table near by. The crowd all followed
and soon surrounded the table, and such
a table! It was too lovely. It was good.
Everything in abundance and plenty to
have satisfied many more.
After seeing and tasting the good things,
the remainder of the time was spent in music
and social intercourse. The suggestion was
made after enjoying the delightful May queen
party, that we must have a June party.
The young people took up the idea that
they must have some amusements adapted
peculiarly and solely to themselves. A request
was accordingly circulated not to
leave the grounds, that "there would be a
meeting of the citizens, as soon as the preacher
and the old people left." They concluded
after a while that the preacher was not going
to leave soon enough for them and circulated
the word that his horse was sick. The joke
passed from one to another until it got to the
ears of one of the "old people," who innocently
went and told the preacher that his
horse was sick. The preacher, of course,
immediately left the grounds to see about
the matter. We do not know what his
thoughts were when he found it was not
correct, but he soon learned that it was a
joke gotten up by the young people, and
that the old people were made a party to
it innocently.
Let us have the "June Queen" by all
means. Josh.
COME OFFTHE FENCE.
That is "What Clark's Fork Alliance Wauts
all Candidates to Do.
Clark's Fork Alliance No. 1,071, met May
| 7th and passed the following resolutions:
I Resolved, 1. That while the Farmers' Allij
anee is no political organization, yet we deem it
1 proper that those who propose to assume the
1 saered and important position to rule our country
| and nation, to make tree and public declaration
j defining their position as regards the issues within
the Democratic platform.
2nd. We hereby enter our protest unmistak!
ably against fence riders, and submit that any
, candidate who has not enough political backbone
in himself to get down off the fence and let the
public see on which side he is standing, is not
worthy of any office, State or national, or even
| county coroner.
3rd. We request other sub-Alliances to consider
this subject, and after consideration give for
publication their decision, and, if possible, their
cooperation in above resolutions.
.. LOVK, President pro tern.
R. M. \\ ai.i.ai'k, Secretary.