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Jtoaps and ^arte. ? In the supreme court of Georgia, last Saturday, Judge Marshall J. Clarke rendered a decision affecting the celebrated case of Stephen A. Ryan, who has been in jail for contempt of court for failure to produce certain money believed to be in his possession. Ryan's attorneys have been fighting to get the case before a jury, and based their claim on a decision of the supreme court on another branch of the case. The judge's decision takes a different view of the situation and there will be no jury. Ryan has been in jail since July, 1891. ? The grand jury of Alleghaney county, Pa., is disposed to do its duty without fear fiiun* T.oof wppIt it fnnnd trufe bills against the advisory committee of the Homestead strikers, charging them with treason. They also found true bills against the officials of the Carnegie company, charging them with murder, riot and conspiracy. The cases will be tried before a jury, and now here is a chance for justice. If the strikers are guilty of any crime whatever, the Carnegie officials are guilty of a still greater one. If the jury can be kept beyond the influence of the gold of the wealthy steel barons, it is altogether likely that the trial will have a most wholsome effect on the differences between labor and capital. ? New York city was filled with great crowds of visitors from all parts of the country on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, of last week. The occasion was the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America, which, according to the New York legislature, happened on October 12,1792. On Monday there was an immense parade of school children. Tuesday was naval day, and the parade of a grand armada, composed ofvessels representing the various nations of the world, was the feature. Wednesday was the anniversary day proper, and the visiting soldiers were at the head of the procession to the number of 35,000. A statue of Columbus, presented to New York by citizens of Italy, was unveiled in Central park, ana addresses were made by a half dozen prominent Italians and New Yorkers. ? More than 100,000 citizens qualified for voting in New York city on Tuesday of last week. It was the first day of registration, and the number of names recorded was larger than any previous first day in the city's history. George F. Parker, auditor of the Democratic National committee, called at the registry office at Sixth avenue during the morning and inquired if that was the place at which ex-President Cleveland, whose house is at 12 "West 51st street, should register. He was told that it was. Parker left, saying that Cleveland would be there in the afternoon. There was some talk among the board of inspectors about Cleveland's not being entitled to register, as he had never actually lived at West 51st street, but it was understood among the board that no obstacle would be put in Cleveland's way. The ex-president, however, did not appear at the registry place. Cleveland appeared there at 6.15 the next evening and registered. A young man who had never voted, had just given in his name with the remark that this was his first vote, and he was going to vote for Grover Cleveland. Cleveland overheard him as he entered, and a handshaking followed between him and the young man. ? One by one they come over. There seems to be a regular stampede of the brains and character that has hitherto stuck to the Republican party, over into the Democratic camp. Prof. Albert R. Leeds, of the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N. Y., is the latest convert to the principles represented by Grover Cleveland. He has alwavs ud to this time been a Republican and has never voted any other ticket, but the Harrison administration has been too much for him. He says that the future safety and development of the country rests in the carrying out of the principles of the Democratic party. In announcing his change of political faith, Prof. Leeds said: "I am for Cleveland and Democracy. Allow me to say in the beginning, however, that I have no personal feelings against Mr. Harrison. However, I am for Cleveland, whose record while in office was beyond reproach. But my real reasons for changing my politics are my convictions. It is not possible for me to be faithful to those convictions and vote with the Republicans this fall. I am iu full accord with the Democratic platform and desire to support it." ? Last Thursday night was one of the wildest excitement in Coffeyville, Kansas. Every male citizen was under arms until broad daylight, Friday morning. Detective Dodge, of the Wells-Fargo Express company ?* fViqf q KaHv nf f?p5nprr ai it nai ivuj nuvu vumv m w?j r does were leaving that point for Coffey ville, with the avowed intention of sacking it in revenge for killing the Dalton gang. At once the alarm was given, and men were placed around the town with instructions to halt every one who approached, or kill any one who refused to stop when told. The night passed under an intense nervous strain, but the only incident was the rapid tiring of a revolver by some unknown person about 4 o'clock Friday morning in the southern part of the town. The shooting is supposed to have been done by some joker to frighten the people. Other cities in the State were .asked for help Thursday night, and they responded promptly with offers of men, but later in the night they were told to stay at home as the people at Coffeyville believed themselves able to cope with any baud of outlaws that might come foward. As the day wore on, Friday morning dispatches were sent to towns along the line of railroad in Indian Territory and it was learned that there were no indications of unusual bodies ? 5- ' 1 j ...v.^1^ OI men. lb IS UUW Utncvcu uiat tuc nuviv tbing was a fake, got up by some man who signed Dodge's name to the dispatch. A letter received by Kloeher, and signed "A Member of the Dalton Gang," is also believed to have been written as a scare. ? Says the New York Sun: "The new movement for the Jewish colonization of Palestine, which was recently described in The Sun, has received the approval of a number of our Jewish-American contemporaries. Even The Jewish Tidings, which formerly spoke of it with levity, is now disposed to give it favor, and assures us that it is attracting the attention and consideration of the Jewish people everywhere. There are Jewish capitalists who stand ready to furnish the means of carrying out the colonization project that has been devised; there are several millions of Russian Jews who are anxious to return to the country of their forefathers; the Turkish government has within a short time given proof that it is now desirous of encouraging the formation of Jewish settlements in Palestine; and there is some reason to believe that next year, after the completion of the railroad between Acre and Damascus, we shall see the beginning of an important Jewish movement toward Palestine from Russia, Poland, Turkey in Europe and the Baltic states. Under the prosrvonnlinof ftf PalostinA hv .TpwS. a pCVUJ VI bUV |/w^/uug V4 A ? number of important enterprises have been undertaken there by organized companies, and the value of farming and town property is advancing. There has been a report in Jerusalem that a daily newspaper printed in three languages ? French, Hebrew, and Arabic?will soon be established there. We would suggest that it ought to have a page in the English language for the instruction of Americans. ? The story of a horrible crime and the equally horrible retribution which followed it, comes from Alabama. In Monroe county, on the 14th instant, an inoffensive old white man, Richard L. Johnson, and his accomplished daughter, Jeannette, were brutally , murdered and their bodies burned for the concealment of the crime. When the affair became known, the indignation of the outraged citizens, white and black, amounted to a frenzy. They immediately set to work to ferret out the fiends in human shape who had committed the deed. Four negroes, between the ages of 18 and 20, were suspected and arrested by cool headed citizens. On the way to jail, the negroes confessed that they had committed the murder?they having gone to the house of the Johnson's for the purpose of robbery and outrage. The citizens who had made the arrest took the prisoners to jail, but the news of the confession flew over the country like wildfire, and the incensed people came to Monroeville, the county seat, from a radius of twenty miles. The sheriff was overpowered, and the four negroes were taken out of the jail. The object of the mob was to carry them back to the scene of the crime and burn them at the stake. The mob grew in numbers as it proceeded, and at last the pressure of the excitement became so great that it was impossible to proceed further. They were too impatient for vengeance, and at an out of the way place they halted, dismounted, took the four negroes to the side of the road and shot them to death, the whole mob firing on them. The names I of the victims were Jim Packer, Joe Packer, I Mose Johnson and Burrell Jones. * ihc Infertile (?n<jitim. YORKVILLE, S. C.: n.nn.tnnn I TT <~l /imATirtn in 1 OftO YYEDiNtiSDAI, ULTUttfill i?, io3?. ? Mrs. Mary E. Lease, the woman Third party leader, is reported to have gone over to Harrison. A special of Saturday from Topeka, Kan., says that in an interview, Mrs. Lease expressed herself as highly indignant over her treatment during her recent trip through the South, and declares that if it be true that a vote for Weaver is the same as a vote for Cleveland, then Third paity people should by all means vote for Harrison. Every Southern State, she says, will go for Cleveland, and, therefore, at this late day she indicates her preference for Harrison. Her expressed wishes have caused great consternation not only among the members of her own party, but among the Kansas Dem, ocrats. ? The Southern Alliance Farmer, lately published in Atlanta, is no more. It went under on Tuesday of last week, being forced to the wall by suits for back wages brought by its employes. The Southern Alliance Farmer was originally established as the organ of the Farmers' Alliance, and at one time had a circulation of 50,000, but as is the case with all organs, its control became the ambition of scheming politicians and its wreck was the natural consequence. The Third party people got control a few months j ago. From the day of the change, the circulation began to fall off, and the paper has 1 been steadily sinking money. When the collapse came, the good Will was a positive incumbrance, and the outfit was not worth 1 enough to pay the debts. ? There has been some bad feeling over ? the selection of an orator to deliver the < dedicatory oration at the Chicago World's 1 Fair next Friday. The first selection j was Congressman W. T. C. Breckenridge, j of Kentucky. Mr. Breckenridge had vot- , ed against the appropriation for the fair, ' and some of the Chicago papers raised a < howl of prejudice against him by the state- ' I mont tKof hia Cdlppfinn had onlv been in UiCUV VUMV M?W wv.ww?.v?. ??? v - _ tended as a bribe for his vote. Disgraceful as the affair appeared to be, it really looks now as if it were so, and Mr. Breckeuridge very properly declined to deliver the address. Senator Daniel, of Virginia, was next invited, but unwilling to cast a slur on Breckenridge, he refused. Henry Watterson was next offered the "honor," and has accepted. ? Congressman McCreary, who has spent two months in visiting the doubtful States in the interest of the Democracy, was in Washington last Wednesday. He says that the South is more solid than ever, and that this solidity has even been intensified by the canvass of Weaver and the trip of the Republican emissary, Chris Magee, to Alabama. The Alliance folks in the South, he says, see that there is no chance of electing a ' Third party candidate, and as Cleveland tlinm nn flip tariff ftr.d ill ODDOSi tion to the force bill, while Harrison is opposed to them in everything, it is but natu- j ral that they will vote almost solidly for Cleveland. "The whole outlook, continued Mr. McCreary, "is favorable to Mr. Cleve- J land, and I am not uneasy about the result. . I feel confident that he will carry New York j by not less than 30,000 or 40,000 majority, i and from personal observation in Indiana, I < would say that the State will surely go Dem- j cratic." 1 + i < ? A representative of The Exquirkr at- ( tended a public meeting in the town of Rock Hill last week. It was a meeting of the cit- ( izens, and the matter at issue was one of very ^ great importance?the changing of the char- < ter of the town and involving increased ex- 1 penditures. If all Rock Hill meetings are ' like this one, and we believe they are, there 1 is nothing surprising about the remarkable j prosperity of the town. The whole secret ? lies in the one word?unanimity. To be i sure there was difference of opinion, and < sometimes very grave differences. But these ' differences were each thoroughly discussed, , and their settlement left to the majority. When the majority spoke, the matter was . settled. Some member of the minority?no ; matter how close the division?invariably i moved that "the resolution be made unani- \ mous" and the thing was done. It seemed ] that every member of the meeting was on i the lookout for ideas, aud whenever a good idea was suggested, no matter where it came from, it was adopted. Such a spirit as this is irresistible anywhere, in anything, j ? The census bureau, on last Friday, issued \ a bulletin on the cotton industry in the ( United States. The bulletin shows remarkable i growth throughout the whole country, and i especially in the South, where there has been ' ' 4l._ nntlnn I a marKcu aumuuu iu mc uumuci <_>i , mills established and put in successful opera tion. The maguitude of the movement is j demonstrated in the fact that the consump- , tion of raw cotton in the South in 1890, exceeded the consumption of 1880 by 166,308,889 pounds, while in New England, the chief site of cotton manufacture in America, the excess of consumption in 1890 over that of 1880, was only 173,317,834 pounds. The number of pounds of raw cot ton used in the United States in 18S0, was 7."0,343,981, and ' in 1890, 1,117,947,716, an increase of 48.99 per cent. The bulletin shows a large increase in the number of mills, number of employes, *rages paid, capital invested, value of products, and the number of spindles and looms. Three or four more such decades of progress, and then America will be the centre of the cotton manufacturing industry of the world, and the South will be the centre of the cotton manufacturing of America. A WHOLESOME LESSON. At this time last year, the outlook ahead of our people was extremely blue. The crops had failed, everybody was in debt, nobody could pay, and it looked as if it would take not less than five years for the country to catch up again. Now things are wonderj fully different. Not withstanding a very light cotton crop, extraordinary low prices and a I considerable amount of back debts, Vork | county is today in a better condition than it ! has been in within the past five years. There will bo more clear money in the cotton crop this year at 7A cents a pound, than any other cotton crop that has ever j before been sold at 10 cents. And why is ' this? The reason is not hard to find. This j ! year our people have lived at home, econo- j I mixed, raised more hog and hominy, and j come nearer to the always-to-he-desired basis j of cotton as a surplus than ever before. .! Their cotton has been raised cheaper, and in | many cases every pound of it has been clear j money. Previous to last year, about $7-r> to thoi plow was the average amount advanced on! liens; this year the average was reduced j below SoO, and next year, it begins look as j if it will be possible to abolish the lien law altogether. Taking conditions as they are, it looks as if it is safe to predict that if the hard work and careful economy of the past year are followed for live years more, our country ; will not only he entirely out of debt, but independently rich. There is only one great i danger ahead of us. and that is that we may ! forget the wholesome lesson that we have 1 just learned. Should cotton go up to ten cents, there are many who would be disposed to rush headlong into bankruptcy. They forget that even fifteen cents cotton will not buy the corn and bacon that it takes to raise it. They should remember, from this year's experience, that there is more money in seven cents cotton raised as a surplus, than they have ever before been able to get out of an all cotton crop at any price. The wholesome lesson that has been taught this year is this: No matter how little cotton you planted, no matter what may be the circumstances, you planted as much as you should plant next year; and no matter how much hog and hominy you have been raising, you have not been raising quite enough. MERE MENTION. Gerald McCarthy, State botanist of North Carolina, who is quite deaf, was struck and seriously injured by a train at University station on Tuesday of last week. The Wisconsin legislature convened at Milwaukee, Wis., recently, to enact a new election law, the old one having been declared unconstitutional. A "a cake walk," at Minnelula Lake, in Alabama, last Wednesday night, broke up in a row in which two people were killed. Emmett Dalton, the highwayman who was severely wounded at Coffeyville, Kan., in an attempt to rob the banks at that place, will recover from his injuries. Two boilers in an Orona, Maine, paper mill, exploded last Wednesday and destroyed over $300,000 worth of property. Nobody was killed. Pittsburg steel manufacturers have given notice of a reduction of 10 per cent, in the wages of their employes. The reduction goes into effect on January 1st, 1893. Over 800 employes are affected by the reduction. At Burlington, N. C., last Wednesday, burglars disturbed ! J. F. Matthews, who was sleeping in his store. He got his gun and opened fire. The burglars returned the fire and killed him. An arrest has been made of a citizen named Sewell, charged with the crime. Regis- 1 tration of the voters of New York city was ' commenced on last Wednesday, and over 92,000 names were registered on that day. , Johnny Scott, aged eleven years, shot . and killed his brother Charley, aged five years, at Huntingdon, Ind.,last Wednesday. In the absence of the older members of the household, Johnny was playing with an old shot gun that was not supposed to be load- ; ed, and pointing it at his brother, pulled the < trirrcmr- Thf> fipnroda noliticians have ] " 'bbv* 1 ""o? r about finished their fight for Democracy in Georgia, and are now doing campaign work , in Alabama. Crisp, Livingston, Brewster, and Ham are fighting the Republicans and J Third party people of Alabama with won- ' 3erful effect. The yardmen employed 1 by the Big Four railroads, at Columbus, O., 1 went on a strike last Wednesday for an ad- i vance of wages and only ten hours work a ( lay. The strike is quiet and orderly, the . strikers appointing a committee to patrol the ; railroad yards and protect the property of 1 the companies against whom the strike was ( made. The Democrats and Republicans cf New York have united in the nomination of Judge Charles F. Andrews, a Democrat, as a candidate for election to the court ofap- ] peals A freight train ran into a street , car at Kansas City, Mo., last Wednesday, and killed four people. Eight hundred bales of cotton were destroyed by fire in Galveston, Tex., last Wednesday. A "Jack the Ripper" murder is reported ' to have occurred in Glasgow, Scotland, last 1 week. The murderer was captured. C. B. Hasliu recently entered the law office of W. M. Batenhower, at Kernersville, N. C., and after abusing him, shot him in the neck. Haslin then shot himself dead. Ba- 1 tenhower had prosecuted Hasliu for em- i bezzlement. Phil Young, a negro who ; murdered a white man named Walker Glass, on Saturday, the 18th inst., was lynched at Palmyra, Ya., on last Wednesday. A grand exhibit of the different qualities of Florida tobacco was commenced at Pensaco- ' la last Wednesday. It wus the first exhibit 1 of the kind ever held in the State, and visi- < tors were astonished at the extent of the dis- ] pl&y. The official result of the recent Georgia election cannot be declared until tomorrow, but it is not likely that the majority will be much less than the number al- [ ready aunounced?75,000. Mr. Cleveland has contributed $10,000 to the National i campaign fund. There will be four ( electoral tickets in Georgia in November? Democratic, Republican, People's party and J Prohibitionist. The Sixteenth regiment ( cf Pennsylvania troops, which has been on ' guard at Homestead for the past 95 days, J was withdrawn last Thursday. The main- 1 tenance of the troops cost the State $000,- ] 900. The deaths from cholera are not averaging more than five or six a day at preseut. A Missouri Pacific train was held up and robbed at Canery, Mo., last j Thursday night. Canery is only a few miles , Prom Coffeyville, the town in which the re- ' cent fight with the Dalton band of highwaymen occurred. A big Democratic rally was held at Augusta, Ga., last Thursday. It ( is estimated that 20,000 people were present. The Democrats are satisfied that they will beat Watson for congress. The Prince of Wales is in a peck of trouble on account of his failure to attend the funeral of the late Lord Tennyson. Instead of paying his last respects to the deceased poet lau- 1 reate, Wales went to see a horse race. i Iwo freight trains collided near Boston last PVi/inv Unp nf thf> freight cars was loaded ? O - j with race horses in charge of five attendants. Four of the five attendants were killed out- 1 right and the other was fatally wounded. Three horses were also killed. Eleven men were killed or injured by a gas explosion in a Pottsville, Pa., coal mine last Friday. The total visible supply of cotton for the world is 2,907,(581 bales, against 2,355,402 at this time last year. Business ( failures occuring throughout the United States during the past week, numbering 189. The number for the corresponding week of last year was 227. The city of Raleigh is celebrating its centennial year this week, commencing yesterday. Trinity College, the gift of W. Duke, the ( millionaire cigarette manufacturer, was dedicated at Durham, N. C.,last Thursday. Juniper Jaines, a colored man, found $4,000 worth of old Spanish coins last Thursday while digging a hole for a fence post, about three miles from Wrightsville, (Jn. Six miners died suddenly near Greensburg, Pa., 1-nnantlv nftnv flrilllfiflfr from a keif of beer. Poison was suspected, and upon The keg's being opened by a physician for an examination, a dead copper head snake was found in the bottom. Jerome township, in Ohio, is suffering from a plague of diphtheria. All the schools in the township are closed, and it is estimated that there are .100 cases of the disease within a radius of four miles. ? + Sorrn Carolina's Deht.?Governor Tillman and Treasurer llates, of South Caroliua, have been in New York to confer with bankers on the subject of refunding the debt of that State. The bonds authorized to be funded iu new 4 per cents are those known as the Brown consols (or Browns), redeemable July, 1801. On October 31,1891, the amount of these bonds outstanding was $5,393,070.70. Adding the valid Green consols and 50 per cent, of old bonds and stocks (principal and interest) convertible into Browns, or $846,DOT. 12, less $454,892.24 dc * 1 -1 ?1.4 clarcd invalid, tlie total urown cousoi ueui, after the consolidation tinder the act of 1878 has been completed, is estimated at $5,784,691.58. This estimate includes Green consols and old bonds which, while liable to be exchanged for Brown consols, may or may not, in whole or in part, be surrendered by the holders for that purpose. The Browns issued for funding and in exchange from October 81, 1891, to October 8, 1S92, amounted to only $14,915.88. There were outstanding October 81, 1891, $5,898,(176.70, so that the total Browns actually outstanding on October 8 is $5,407,992.08. We have no record of any issuance since that date. The South Carolina legislature will shortly meet to act on a proposed amendment to the law so as to make the rate of interest on the funding issue 44 instead of 4 per cent., as the plan now stands.?.Manufacturers' Record, j ? W. A. Wynne, for several years secretary of the Y. M. C. A. in this State, has re-j signed and gone to Roanoke, Ya., to accept > the general secretaryship at that point. It is announced that Mr. Lewis, of Waco, Tex., will succeed to the position in this State vacated by Mr. Wynne. LOCAL AFFAIRS. foi ? tin INDEX TO.NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. H? r^un..ii \v Hmlilnv. Excputor. Roildevs. H. C.? h? (Jives notice to the debtors and"creditors of Mary G. Roddoy, deceased. 0 H. A. Crawford, Executor, Smith's Turn Out, by S. C.?Wants the debtors to the estate of ('. E. Hemphill, deceased, to make pay- aS ment, and the creditors of the estate to present their claims. Dr. W. Dyers?Otfers to sell his dwelling house and lot in Rock Hill for $825?the cost of ag building tho house?and throw the lot in. J. S. Price, Clerk?Gives notice that the aunual Wl meeting of the board of county commis- jn sioncrs will be hold on the 7th day of November, and notifies creditors to present rel their claims on or before the 1st of Novem- to bcr. fl R. and 1>. Railroad company?Offers special nr inducements to persons who desire to visit Mi the Western States. Miss Unity Ferguson?Proposes to clean and re- V1? pair clothing and make tho old look al- sei most as well as the now. ., Riddle A* Carroll?Want persons who have prom- U1< ised to pay them to do so. They talk like they are in earnest. R. J. Herndon?Desires persons who want either a new or seconu-hand piano or organ to talk to him about tho matter. erW. J. Roddey, Rock Hill, S. C., General Agent of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of tho United States?Has something to say pa about tho merits of tho company he represents. Dowry it Starr?Call attention to samples of H fine seed wheat, and notify tho farmers that i? they have bluestono. They also offer to sell two boxes of Mason's blacking for five cents. They return thanks to persons Sti who havo paid their accounts, and want ev others to come forward and do likewise. ^ T. M. Dobson, Manager of Dobson's Racket? Tnllu nhmit thn lints he wants to sell?ladies' Su hats, rap hats, boys' hats, Alliance lists? together with dozens of other things he p wants to sell. *-' W. M. Houston <fc Co.?Tell about their dress ne goods, millinery, suspenders for five cents Pr and socks for ten cents, and say that every- >( thing they have to sell is marked at "short ?, crop prices," and all the goods are new. 0 ( A. M. Grist, Agent?Offers to sell reliable fountain pens, from which the ink flows continually, but will not blot or blur., > M. A* H. C. Strauss?Tell about their stock of Dry (foods, boots shoes, ready-made ye clothing and hats, and defy competition. FIRE NEAR HICKORY GROVE. lef A store house belonging to Mr. S. W. ve Mitchell, and situated about three miles from 1111 Hickory Grove, was destroyed by fire on last . Sunday morning. Mr. Mitchell was in York- ^ ville on Monday and informs us that his loss by was about $1,000. Besides bagging and ties, S01 and a quantity of other goods, the building contained sixty bushels of wheat, fifty bush- thi els of oats, and six bales of cotton. Mr. ?b Mitchell thinks that the fire was the work of an incendiary, but as yet has no conclusive wc proof. The building was insured for $300. s'c co: LIFE OF COLUMBUS. wi The "Life of Columbus" is the title of a handsome little pamphlet that has been Ch handed to us by Aultman, Miller & Co., the an manufacturers of the famous Buckeye har- of vesting machines, advertised in these col- co: urans. The pamphlet consists of thirty-two A. pages, beautifully illustrated, ana wriiien oy Josiah Hartzell, is of a high order of literary merit. It is intended as an advertisement, but thfe advertising is only incidental, and in dr no way detracts from the interest or merit w< of this most creditable work. Copies of the co pamphlet may be obtained free by address- Ning Aultman, Miller & Co., at Akron, Ohio, or Sam M. Grist, agent, at Yorkville. Ju "THE GOLDEN CAVES." Every newspaper render in America has heard of "M. Quad," and the man-or worn- jt an who cannot read his stories and sketches with interest, is to be pitied. Believiug this, j' next week we intend to commence the pub- !} lication of his latest story?"The Golden \y Caves." It is a story of adventure and -J. treasure seeking in Western gold fields, and \y will prove of absorbing interest throughout. BLook out for the opeuing chapters next j< week, aud don't fail to read them. If you are not a subscriber to The Enquirer, you p 3bould become one. The story will run W about six weeks. p' ? J.' COTTON PICKING EXTRAORDINARY. J' Cotton pickers take off your hats, for lo, here It! are the queens of the fleecy field. The following story comes from Bandana, under date I)! of October 13, and is from one of the most reliable men in uemei lownsnip : "I have just heard of some remarkable cotton picking in this vicinity, and think it an deserves notice in your columns. Mr. J. J. 0f Paris, of this (Bethel) township has five ^y daughters who recently picked 1,165 pounds ^ of cotton in one day. Miss Lula, the eldest, cjj picked 304 pounds: Miss Ela, aged 14, picked 30G pounds: Miss Ella 229, and Misses ^ Sadie and Mary, aged 12 and 10, picked 216 ^y and 110 respectively. During the day, they lost half an hour or more by going to the house to escape a threatened shower. an PRISONERS IN JAIL. a i There are only five prisoners in jail awaiting triul at the approaching term of the ses- tic sions court. Their names and the crimes 811 with which they are charged are as follows: Harvey Williams; housebreaking and lar- P? ceny. Frank King; stealing a horse. Tom Mills ; carrying concealed weapons. e(* wi:? i) . 1, AnaAl\i?nnlr 5 n /lu vt itriO | ed rjiiun uuiiia j iiuuouui^un it* uwj vt^v. Walter Miller ; housebreaking in daytime. an John Spratt, the negro boy who shot J. ^w C. Carter in Fort Mill recently, was released on yesterday. 11 ( In addition to the prisoners mentioned above, there are fifteen United States prisoners in jail serving sentence or awaiting ce be THE EQUITABLE LIFE. S01 Mr. W. J. Roddcy, general agent of the w< Equitable Life Assurance society of the United States, lias an advertisement in another column, and will have something to $'r> say to the readers of The Enquirer each ^ week during the year. Everybody knows w< the old reliable Equitable Life Assurance so- 11,1 ciety, nnd everybody knows Mr. Itoddey. ea He is no less reliable than his company. He c^? does business fair and square, man to man, and stands by every proposition to which he , ru agrees. In his employ he has a large num- tei her of agents, and they are instructed to 1)C work, not against other companies, but for the Equitable. That is Mr. Roddey'snieth '* * 1 : 'PU? ill I It Oil 01 UOlIlg UUS1I1CS3. 1 UC iiutxiuncuicuioiu j Tin: Kniii ihku will bo conducted' under ; Mr. ltoddcy's personal supervision, andj^e those who are interested in insurance, will iU1 do well to watch them up. ')C ye SKIPPED. j 11: J. C. Carter, of Fort Mill, has skipped the j (!< country. Carter is the white man who was | mi shot in the abdomen by John Spratt, colored, a few Sundays ago. After receiviug the j wound he was carried home. His body j swelled up as tight as a drum, and for some- ^ thing over two weeks his life apparently ^ hung on a thread. It was clear that lie was the aggressor in the affray in which he was . . , nil wounded, and he became advised of the fact . I'll that if he recovered he would surely be pros-1 ecuted. He lay perfectly quiet, concealing I all evidence of the improvement in his con- j ditioii. Last Friday morning lie had disap- ^ peared. It is supposed that he left on the , C? ('. A. train for parts unknown. We . tn are informed that there were three warrants ^ out for him?two from North Carolina, for ' to offences committed in that State, and the |. to other for his outrage against Solomon and John Spratt. Pa . to SHOT IN THE COKEHEAD. Ill Mr. John Dunovant, of this county, died 1 dc at his home at lirattonsville, on last Satur-j on day afternoon. An inquest was held over nn his body by trial justice (). I/. Sanders, and on a jury composed of the following: W. X.! fn Kliler, W. K. Wilson, J. It. Mendcnhall, J. O. Moore, F. Williams, F. M. Sandil'er, W. j th X. Ashe, Jr., S. II. Love, W. H. Ificklin, D. j an (J. Crawford, K.J. Morrow and I'. W. Wyatt. j Y< Only one witness, Dr. W. M. Love, the in; attending physician, was examined. lie Ai testified to having been called to Mr. Dunn- is vant's bedside on Saturday, the Nth inst., in and found Mr. Dunovant suffering from a et pistol shot wound in the forehead, lie probed r the ball, dressed the wound, and gave e patient every attention. Mr. Dunovant gered until Friday, the 14th instant, when died. The jury returned a verdict of eatli from a pistol shot wound inflicted the hands of parties unknown to us, ainst the peace aud dignity of the State." The circumstances under which Mr. Dunant received the wound are reported about follows: On Friday night, the 7th inst., he, th others, went to a house on a back street Chester and sought admission, which was !used. The party on the outside attempted batter down the door. A pistol shot, ed through the door from the inside, struck r. Dunovant in the forehead. The police sited the house next day and found it derted. So far as we have been able to learn, ere has been no further investigation. CHURCH NOTICES. Baptist?Sunday-school at 10 a. in. Pray meeting tomorrow evening at 7.30. . Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, D. D., stor. Sunday school at 4 o'clock p. m. Episcopal?Lay services next Sunday at a. m., and Sunday-school immediateafter ward. Trinity Methodist Episcopal?Rev. R. E. ackhouse, pastor. Prayer-meeting this ening at 7.30. Services Sunday morning 11 o'clock, and Sunday evening at 7.30. nday-school at 4 o'clock p. m. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J. Galloway, pastor. Tirzah?Services xt Sunday at/11.30 a.m. Yorkvillk? ayer-meeting tomorrow evening at 7.45 dock. Services Sunday evening at 7.30 dock. Sunday-school at 4 o'clock p. m. TO BRITISH* COLUMBIA. Mr. George H. Berry, for the past fifteen ars a citizen of Yorkville, and since 1889 ler in the Exchange bank at this place, t yesterday, with his family, for Vancour, British Columbia, which place he will ilrn liio fnlnro linmp It was with feelings of considerable regret at Mr. Berry's many friends told him good e on Monday and yesterday. They were rry to lose him. Mr. Berry came to Yorkle as a stranger and established himself in e bakery business. Though quiet and untrusive in manner, he soon gave evidence an exceptionally fine character and sterling irth as a citizen, and at once gaining the icere respect of all with whom he came in atact, the best wishes of our whole people 11 follow him to his new home. Mr. Berry goes to Vancouver by way of licago, St. Paul, and Winnepeg. When he rives there, he expects to enter the service the Vancouver Gurney Cab and Delivery mpany, as assistant to his brother, Mr. H. Berry, who is manager. PETIT JURORS-SECOND WEEK. The following is the list of petit jurors awn yesterday to serve during the second ;ek of the approaching term of the circuit urt: E. Byers, Betliesda. M. Soagle, Ebenezer. W. Gladden, Betliesda. lian Avery, Ebenezer. . H. Crook, Fort Mill. M. Walker, King's Mountain. A. Matthews, Ebenezer. B. Heath, Catawba. . M. Matthews, King's Mountain. B. Withers, Fort Mill. L. Glenn, Bethel. G. Garrison, Ebonezor. W. Betts, Catawba. A. A. Watson, York. T. Pegrani, King's Mountain. . L. Beamguard, King's Mountain. M. Russell, Bullock's Creek. A. Hayes, Catawba. in. Caldwell, Cherokee. F. .Scoggins, Broad River. Gntuwhft. Xiii ii? mai ivt B. Fulton, Cherokee. II. B. Jenkins, York. hn G. Allen, Catawba. P. Giles, Catawba. . B. Black, King's Mountain. R. Wilson, Fort Mill. R. Byers, Cherokee. M. Caldwell, Broad River. . C. Hutchison, Catawba. E. Boney, Catawba. A. Fulp, Fort Mill. T. Gillespie, Ebenezer. Ij. Newell, Fort Mill. M. Johnson, Bethel. S. Wilson Bethesda. WANTS TO BE A CITY. Realizing the rapid growth of the town' d fully equal to the situation, the citizens Rock Hill held a mass meeting on last eduesday afternoon for the purpose of conlering the advisability of applying for a .y charter. There were present in the meeting about irty-five or forty leading citizens. Capt. . L. Roddey was called to the chair, and r. E. M. Thomson acted as secretary, le object of the meeting was explained, d after a full discussion of the proposition, -esolution was adopted requiring the chair appoint a committee to work in conjuucm with the town council, in drawing up a itable charter to be submitted to the next jislature. All the provisions of the prosed charter were left to the discretion ol e committee, except it was stipulated that e tax for general purposes should be limitto live mills; that the city shall bo dividinto four wards, be governed by a mayor d six aldermen?one from each ward and o at large?and that a majority of the ard, including the mayor, shall constitute juorum. The mayor is to have a salary. TEX PER CENT. The question of counsel fees in the rent. tmvnsliin bond compromise cases has en before the county commissioners for me weeks. The attorneys in the cases ire Messrs. C. E. Spencer, W. B. McCaw, E. Finley and Wilson & Wilson. The attorneys asked for pay out of the 4,000 saved by the compromise. Messrs. ilson & Wilson thought their services ire worth 0 per cent, of that amount, d Messrs. Finley, McCaw, and Spencer ch put in a claim for per cent., the total lims aggregating 14 per cent., or $7,560. After considering the mutter during seve! meetings, the commissioners on yesrday decided to allow the lawyers 10 r cent., or $5,400 for their fee, and leave to them as to how much each shall receive. This allowance we believe is just and fair, is neither too much nor too little, but as per cent., the amount claimed, will not ry readily "go into" ten per cent., the lount awarded, it is likely that there will a quarrel. And a quarrel between lawimp is nersonallv interested, st think of* it! It will shake up the woods, intlemcn, you had better compromise this itter. AX IMPORTANT INDUSTRY. "The Hock Hill Machine Works. Crcighn, Shcrfesee & Co., proprietors." This is e heading of a modest little advertisement at has been running in Thk Eniji'IKKK for e past two years or more. Those who are teresled have had occasion to make inqtii s, and most of them have hud dealings til the Hock Hill Machine Works. Hut e general public, we presume, lias not en troubled a great deal us to the extent this enterprise. Investigation would cerinly surprise the curious. A reprcsenta c of Thk Enqi iuku was over in Rock ill one day last week, and took occasion call at the machine works. He was usnished not a little. Instead of a little rcir shop, such as we would natuully expect find in this section, he ran upon a full edged foundry, employing probably 11 i/.en or more skilled workmen, and turning t numerous light and heavy castings of alost every description, and making repairs 1 every imaginable piece of machinery nn a sewing machine to a rock crusher. Mr. Shcrfesee informed Thk KxqnitKit at the machine works arc already doing 1 extensive business with all sections of urk county, and a great deal with adjoing States, receiving some orders even from rkansas and Texas. Next year he says it very likely that they will commence buildg steam engines and other large maeliiny from tin; ground up. We wish all success to this most import ant industry. A few years ago there was . an idea that such work as the Machine company is now doing, was out of the question in this section. Now, however, that enterprising men have had the business foresight to make the experiment, such ideas are easily shown to be ridiculous, and the profit of the venture, as well as the convenience to our people, is already apparent. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mrs. James Smith is visiting at Charlotte. J. S. Brice, Esq., returned from Due West yesterday. Mrs. John C. McClain visited friends in Charlotte last week. Miss Annie Corkill, of Chester, is visiting friends and relatives in this place. Mr. R. S. Galloway, of The Associate Reformed Presbyterian, was in town last Friday. Misses Mamie Augurs and Bessie Smith, of Chester, have been visiting Mrs. W. C. Latimer. Miss Annie Jones, of Cuthriesville, spent several days last week with friends in Yorkvillfi Mr. James Bowen and family, of Wilmington, N. C., are visiting relatives and friends in Yorkville. W. Waddy Thomson, Esq., returned home from Union, C. H., last Friday, where he had been for several days on professional business. Rev. T. R. English and Mr. George H. O'Leary, are attending the South Carolina Presbyterian synod, which convened at Abbeville yesterday. SOMETHING SHOULD BE DONE. Lying in jail, suffering from a relapse of typhoid fever and almost at the point of death, is the condition of Marshall Wheeler, a colored man. Wheeler was convieted at the United States court at Greenville of selling liquor without license and sentenced to six months in jail. Five or six weeks agp he was taken down with typhoid fever, and after a long illness became convalescent. Last week he took a relapse and his condition is now extremely critical. Sheriff Crawford has been doing everything in his power for the helpless sufferer, and is willing to share any responsibility that will enntrihnte to the comfort and safety of the prisoner, but the sheriffs hands are tied. He can do nothing but keep the poor fellow in jail and minister to his wants as best he can. Mrs. W. B. Moore, on yesterday, took it upon herself to carry around for signatures a petition to the president for Wheeler's pardon. This action was most humane and altogether worthy of Mrs. Moore. But this method of relief is too slow. Before the necessary red tape can be complied with, the poor fellow's case will have been removed to the Higher Court. Something should be done at once. Surely an appeal to the president is not the helpless negro's only hope in such a desperate strait. CAUSE OF THE RISE. Cotton took a big rise about two weeks ago, running up from 7 to 8 cents in five or six days. Then it took a tumble, and went back down to about 1\. The rise thoroughly demoralized the market, and as it was never fully justified by the New York or Liverpool prices, there has been a great deal of speculation as to the cause of it. A local buyer offers an explanation as follows: "A large cotton concern that does a good deal of buyiugin this section, had chartered a vessel and sold enough cotton to Liverpool to fill it. The vessel was due to sail on a certain day, and the cotton concern was still short of the cotton. They bad to load the vessel or sustain a heavy loss. Cotton was steadily going up, and it was necessary to act quick. The concern instructed its numerous buyers to "buy cotton; buy as cheap | as you can, but buy cotton." Obeying these instructions, the buyers tried to buy it all. Other buyers followed close in behind the buying concern, and unloading on it whenever they had more than they could carry, the price went a "whooping" on up until it was higher than New York. As soon as the chartered vessel was loaded, prices went down and things resumed their normal state." As to whether or not this explanation is the correct one, of course cannot be said with absolute certainty, but in view of all the circumstances, it is about as reasonable as any other. A FIRST CLASS COMPANY. The theatre loving people of Yorkville ?; ?.. ? ?? ?? ? luof it/nolr liv flip were given u. iuic u?v i?o* .v ? Cosmopolitan Theatre company, which played in the opera house on Tuursday, Friday and Saturday nights to delighted audiences. On Thursday they presented the "Gullcy Slaveon Friday, "Little Ferret," and on Saturday, the "Old Homestead." To say that the people of Yorkville were pleased with the company, would be putting it rather mildly. All of the members are professional actors of fine ability, and each part in every play was sustained in a manner that is decidedly unusual in the companies visiting this place. The leading lady is Miss Lilian Pearce, of Columbia. In the "Galley Slave" sho took the part of Cicily lllaine; Lillian Westbrook in "Little Ferret," and the street sweeper in the "Old Homestead," and in each of these parts, especially the first two, completely captured her audiences by the rare power of her acting. Miss Pearce is a daughter of Colonel S. A. Pearce, of Columbia. Miss Margaret Paul, who plays Little Ferret, came in for a fair divide of the honors, and Miss Blanche Morgan, as "Aunt Mary," was "too ridiculous for anything." Mr. H. N. Morgan is a first class all round man, and was equally at himself as the villain in the "Galley Slave," and "Little Ferret," and as the whole-souled hig hearted farmer, Josh Whiteomb, in the "Old Homestead." Mr. Lawrence Russell is the funny man of the company and his appearance was j the signal for hursts of laughter. All the members of the company made friends, and wc tread on local toes in omitting special mention of each one. However, in the language of Uncle Josh, we will say | to the company that "If you ever agaiu come within twenty miles of Yorkville, don't stop, but come over." LOCAL LACONICS. ? Mr. K. M. Avery, aged .'to years, a son of ; of Col. J. W. Avery, formerly of Yorkville, died at Xorfork, Ya., 011 Thursday of last ! week. j ?The total taxable property 01 iontcouu-i | ty, this year, amounts to $0,(540,011. Lust year it was $5,195,80(5. The increase amounts ' to $444,205. J ?The Rock Hill schools will celebrate' J Columbus day next Friday. W. Waddy j ' Thomson, Esq., of Yorkville, will deliver the! j address of the occasion. , ? The county commissioners, on yesterday,; : awarded the contract for building the bridge . over Buffalo creek, at Moore's mill, in Cher- j . okee township, to Mr. David Cline for $450. j j ? We have heard of a fanner in this section 1 who, this year, raised 100 bushels of Irish potatoes at a cost of $25, and sold them in Richmond for $75, clearing $50 on the transac- j 1 tion. ! ? Mr. Samuel M. Scott, of Sharon, brought j to this office last Friday the largest pear 'that we have ever seen. It weighed one j pound and nine ounces. The pear came from the orchard of Misses Mary and Eliza <?il-j ( fillen, of Sharon. Mr. Scott was unable to ; inform us as to the variety. ? There has been a story to the elfect that i Rev. Dr. English, of Yorkville, was going to Montgomery, Ala. Rv some means the story got into some of the church papers. .We have learned that the story was published without any foundation whatever. Dr. English has no idea of going to Montgom- sh ery. ?ei ? Special attention is called to the adver- 13 tisement of the Yorkville Lodge of I.'O. G. ^ T., in another column. The lodge desires to give an entertainment on next Friday night <ja for the purpose of raising some much need- sh ed funds. They will no doubt give a good an entertainment. It won't cost much to at- ne tend, and those who go out will not only en- ~ joy themselves, but will be contributing just ^ so much to the promotion of a highly im- Qn portant work. th ? Rev. B. P. Reid, of Bethesda, preached at pr Cheraw recently by invitation. The sequel pe is now out. At a meeting of the congregation held on Sunday of last week, Mr. Reid was unanimously called to the pulpit at i *8 Cheraw. We have not learned as to wnetner he will accept the call, but we are sure that ^ if he does, the Presbyterians of this county, er and especially of the Bethesda congregation, H will be very much disappointed. j? ? Mr. R. G. Graham, of Fort Mill, leaves c on next Monday for a prospecting tour ~ through Arkansas and Texas. He says that he has a hankering after the West, and de- ^ sires to go out there and see as to whether or gt not it is a better country than this. If it is he better he will stay, and if not so good, he se will come back. Should Mr. Graham exer- ?1' cise the shrewdness with which he is crediCO ted, we predict that he will soon return. In ^ all his trip he will not find a country that is as desirable to live in as Fort Mill township. _ ? A pleasant incident of the Cosmopolitan th Theatre company's stay in Yorkville last bj week, was the visit of a large party of ladies and gentlemen from Blacksburg on Thursday m night. The party came down on a special train, in charge of Capt. J. M. McArtby,. jn and filled up forty or fifty reserved seats, su Among the party was Mr. F. B. Alvord, the pi popular manager of Cherokee Inn, Mrs. John F. Jones, Mrs. McArthy, Mr. and Mrs. 8e G. C. Nutting, W. B. de Loach, Esq., Mes- ^ srs. I. W., G. M. and George Moore, and ^ quite a number of others. The special train _ left for Blacksburg immediately after the lu close of the performance. ? ly ? We have received a copy of the nine- 'u teenth annual edition of Latham, Alexander 0 01 A Co's "Cotton Movement and Fluctuations." p} The volume is published in most attractive cr style, and contains a mass of statistical and vi other information of great value to those in- fo terested in the staple. One of the features ^ of the volume is a "Centennial Sketch of the .? Cotton Trade of the United States," written ?] expressly for this edition by Mr. Thomas Elli- gt son, of Liverpool, the well known English ar statistician. The book also contains much p< original matter, and many special articles relating to the cotton crop, and is an inval- ^ uable contribution to the commercial history re of the country. ROCK HILL HAPPENINGS. vi sp The Town Turned Into a City?Progress at ly Oakland?The High School Dormitory? Chautauqua Circle?Cotton?The First gl] Presbyterian Church. al Correspondence of the Yorkvllle Enquirer. Rock Hill, October 18.?Rock Hill has hi at last taken the step that has been contem- w plated for some time, and she is soon to be le that in name which she has long been in hi many essential respects?a city. On last fo Wednesday afternoon an enthusiastic meet- hi ing of her citizens was held, when it was unanimously decided that the change from se town to city government should be made, di and a committee was appointed to take the th requisite steps for the change. * ai The growth of our beautiful suburb, Oak- Si land, is very steady, and those who own ec building lots out- there may well feel confi- s\ dent that their property will be ere long in ai; the principal business portion of our rapidly 01 growing little city. Three splendid houses are now in process of erection, those of Messrs. H. Wylie, W. J. Cherry, and W. H. Stewart, all of which will be occupied by their owners in the next month or so. ?? rlnrmifnrv hnildinc beloncriner to the r! ?"v J O ? c Presbyterian high school, is about ready for the occupants, and the furniture, consisting of neat oak chamber suits, is now being put ai in place. The boys, who have been board- rt ing around among the teachers and friends dl of the school, will move into their nice new quarters in a few days. ^ Rock Hill is preparing to enter into the celebration of the 21st with her accustomed M spirit. The programme arranged is an at- u] tractive one, and will be participated in very tb generally by different bodies of citizens as lc well as by the pupils of the Graded and High tb schools. v< About two weeks ago a small number of b< ladies and gentlemen met and organized a in local circle of the "C. L. S. C." The officers B of the circle are: President, L.W.Dick; m vice-president, Miss Lizzie Sherfesse; secre- . tary, R. B. Cunningham. There will be reg- j,, ular meetings of the Chautauqua circle.every ^ other Monday night, and these will be held e] at the homes of the different members. g, Cotton came into town very freely last Sl week, Rock Hill holding her place as a leading market for the "fleecy staple" raised in p, this section. Saturday seemed to he a very ^ busy day among the merchants. jn The pulpit of the First Presbyterian church 0j was filled last Sunday morning by Rev. Alex- 0f ander Sprunt, and at night by Rev. Luther w Oates, a son of York county, who is now pastor of a church in Delaware, and is on a short ^ visit to his old home. Mr. Sprunt has not given a positive answer as to whether or not he will accept the call extended by the n< church here, but since his recent visit to ai T-TSll ?J,n Prochvtoriilim llllVG StrOllC ivuun. Jim, u?. ^ c> i hopes that he will soon enter upon the field of labor opened up to him in this place. ; McGONXELLSVILLE MATTERS. as What the Farmers Are Doing?The School ^ Thinks Jackson Greater Than I?ee?Per- .. sonal. 11 Correspondence of the Yorkvllle Enquirer. / McConnkllsville, October 17.?The far- m mers are busy picking und ginning cotton around here. The school at this place has been indulg- " ing in debates. It discussed such important 'J1 questions as "Should we have woman suffrage ?" and "Which was the greatest gener- *? al, Stonewall Jackson, or Robert K. Lee ?" It J1' was decided that we should not have woman suffrage, and that Jackson was the greater e' general. jU.1 Miss Mamie McConnell, who has been: 111 very sick with typhoid fever, is able to be *r out, much to the joy of her friends. j Misses Sallie and Mattie McConnclI, who spent last week in Chester, have returned Pl home. ca Mr. J. M. Moore, of this place, has taken n< charge of a school at Heath Springs, S. t'. | JJJ What the Governor's Did.?In its re-1 ^ port of the centennial celebration in New :J York, on Monday of hist week, the New i u York World tells the following: j j1.1 (iovernor Tillman, of South Carolina, was with Vice President Morton and Governor 11 Flower on the ofiicihl reviewing stand, and j .nf of course the old familiar story about the j 11 famous remarks of the governor of North ; Carolina to the governor of South Carolina, i "It's a long time between drinks." had to be j 1& * ' 1 M1'- ? J '?? inn fioitAU thoM !?t) (Id : Of 101(1. I UC DOUUi VUIUIIHU .1.^.1^. ....... .......... some new remarks about the yarn. It was ' til quite lute in the day and the three men were | 01 tired. (Jovernor Flower was listening to all: sa that was being said, and when Tillman tin-1 P* ished his comments, (Jovernor Flower said, hi with a grim sort of smile: "Well, governor, j if the vice president were not here it is quite j ,r? probablo that the governor of New York ; an would say something to you now." The governoV from New York gave a wink jS just then that meant much. I ,jj Yiee President Morton took in the situa- l>i tion and intimated that something might be I'r said to him, too. A few minutes later their ^ carriages were ordered and they rode up i ; town. They went together, and the gov- in ornor from New York probably took the j jjj place of the absent governor from North jt, Carolina. ; tli t t > ? Dr. L. J. Corbctt, for the past six years i so the junior member of the lunatic asylum hi corps of physicians, has sent in his resigna- j tion to take effect on November 1. It is un-! derstood that I)r. Corbett's reason for re- hi signing is altogether personal and of no in- la terest. tn SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. J - The books of the comptroller general ow that the total assessed value of the al estate and personal property in the State $166,210,960, against $168,262,669 for the evious year. - A colored woman was killed on the South irolina railroad, near Branchville, on Tuesy night of last week. It is thought that e was trying to steal a ride on a bumper, d was jolted off as the train was passing ar a switch. - The Turner case, in Spartanburg, comes . > again this winter. It is believed that the Tense will make a motion for a new trial i the ground of new evidence, but it is not ought that Judge Wallace, who will be the esiding judge, will grant the motion. The ople in Spartanburg are pretty well satisd that Turner is to hang. -Greenville News : Jesse Locke, the six :ar old son of W. C. Locke, of this county, f the champion cotton picker of the State r anvwhere near his age. He picked 110 mnds of cotton a few days ago in bis fatli's field and then did not work all day. e is a bright and active little fellow, and it dotibtful if bis record can be broken in the rath. - State, Friday: Yesterday an unknown ;gro traded a six year old sorrel horse with le ear cropped, to Mr. Cap Williams, the tree dealer, who kept it and secretly noti:d Sergeant Morehead and Officer Thadkim of the police force. The negro reprented the horse as being fifteen years d and said he bought ft from Ed Poag at ock Hill. When he saw the police officers ming he made a break for liberty and esped. The horse is in possession of the pose. o - The Cotton' Plant, the official organ of e State Alliance, was last Wednesday leased r J. W. Bowden, the Third party manager, r a term of years. The board of directors et and issued an address to the public, a >rtion of which states: "The sole cause hich lead to this act by the board, were busess considerations. That is to say, by purfog this course, the directors hope to imove the paper in such a manner that forest in it will serve to make a financial and sneral success in the future assured." The (dress goes on to say that The Cotton Plant ill continue the fight for Alliance principles i warmly in the future as in the past. - Four days of the sessions court in Combia last week were taken up with a highsensational trial. Colonel J. H. Morrow, a " irfman about fifty years of age, was tried r causing the death of Colie Fowler, a young phan girl. The girl died last April under rcumstances that warranted suspicion of iminal practice. Morrow bad been on jry close terms with the girl, and letters und among her effects led to the conclusion iat he was responsible for her terrible misrtune. In the trial, an effort was made to iplicate Dr. Kendall, and a man named layton, and another named Howard. The v lilt, however, was finally fixed on Morrow, id he was sentenced to six years in themitentiary. Notice was given of a motion r a new trial. On a hearing, the motion - * l-J as refused ana tne case was appetueu w le supreme court. Judge 8. W. Melton is presenting the defendant. ? A cowardly attempt at assassination was ade in Glassy Mountain township, Greenlie county, last week. Mrs. Hensley, a re- t ectable white woman, was with her fami, consisting of a son and three daughters, lietly sitting in their home. They were iddenly aroused by the noise of footsteps id voices, followed in a few moments by an tack on the door and windows. The door id a hole knocked through it and an ax as thrown through this hole at Mrs. Hensy. The sharp edge struck her on the fore?ad and face, cutting a gash across her rehead and nearly severing her nose from ;r face. She was also struck on the body /; f several rocks from some source. Her son ized his gun and fired it through the win>w at the miscreants, which frightened tern away. Mrs. Hensley is unconscious, id it is feared her injuries may prove fatal. jveral persons suspected of being implicat1 in the dastardly deed have had warrants vorn out for them, though no reason is asgned for the cowardly and savage attack 1 Mrs. Hensley. GENERAL POLITICAL NOTES. * ? News and Courier: "It is to be noted," lys the Boston Herald, "that four exepublican cabinet ministers are supporting >. Cleveland in tbis campaign?Hugh Mcullocb, Walter Q. Gresham, Carl Schurz id Wayne MacVeagh." This is pretty >ugh on the Republican organs, but they e doing their best. Several of them anpunce, with animation, that Mr. Frederick ouglass has come out for Harrison. ^ ? A Georgia school girl recently saw Tom fatson, the Third party congressman, tear p and throw away a letter. She collected te pieces and pasted them together. The tter is from Sanders, business manager of te People's party paper at Atlanta, and re;als the interesting facts that Watson had sen paying the paper's expenses, and that i Watson's absence Sanders borrowed from uck, the Republican State chuirman, the oncy to pay freight on a car load of paper. ? Tom Watson, says an Augusta dispatch, is practically abandoned all hope of reirning to congress. In the recent State ection, he was the issue in the Tenth concessional district, and the vote, which redted in the defeat of the People's party :ate ticket, by a majority of 1,200 votes, actically decided the event of the Novem;r election. Life long friends of Watson, his own town, voted against him because his teaching the negroes the doctrine race equality. Realizing these things, hen Watson received the news that his strict had gone Democratic, he is said to ive cried like a child. ? The Democratic leaders of New York, do )t regard the reconciliation of Cleveland id Hill as altogether complete yet, and are ranging for a meeting between the two atesmen to take place at an early a day as issible. There is to be a big Democratic iw wow in Tammany Hall on next Tuesly, and it is said that Cleveland has been iked to preside and Hill to make a speech, either, it is understood, has formally acipted the invitation, but the State and Na- ? onal leaders are confident that both will teak at the meeting, and from that time on le little remaining doubt of Democratic harony in New York, will be permanently spelled. ? P2x-Congressman R. T. McDowell is at le Hoffman house, says the New York rorld. He is a prominent Republican of idiana, and at the Minneapolis convention i was at the head of 2,000 shouters and >omers for James G. Blaine. Mr. McDow1 believes that Cleveland will carry Indiana id be elected. Jle said yesterday : ''Harmon's vote in 188S in the congressional disict in which Port Wayne is situated was 800. I do not think it will exceed 3,500at e next election. Mind you, I am a Reiblican, and shall support the Republican 4Vx*? MAtfAKnAK nf Tn^iono Hilt T clitill kliuitiuiu iui ^uvchiui yjk &1iuiuuuf vuv * ? ? ? )t vole for Harrison, neither will a large imber of Republicans of my district. We opose to stay away from the polls. I ould not he surprised if Cleveland carried lien county by 0,000 plurality. The attide of Judge (rreshant in the campaign eatis at least a Republican loss of 10,000 in e State. There is no doubt in my mind that idianu will go for Cleveland, and I would >t he surprised if the majority would go as gh as 10,000. The Bi.kase I'koiiihition Bill.?At the st session of the legislature, Cole L. Bleuse, Newberry, was one of the leaders against c Childs prohibition bill. This time he is i the other side, it is claimed. At any rate, ys The News and Courier, he lias preired the following bill which he will prolmy present: Bo it enacted by the senate and house ofrepsontatives of the State of South Carolina, now et and sitting in general assembly, uml by the ithority of the same: Section 1. That from and alter the 1st day of pril, A. 1>. lStt't, no person shall manufacture r sale, keep for sale, exchange or barter or spouse any intoxicating liquor, wine, beer or tiers lor any purpose wmuover 111 iuis runic, ovidcd nothing contained in this act shall pre- A sit ministers ot' the (Jospeladministering wine m communicants at the altar. V Sec. 2. Any person upon conviction of violat- ^ gthis act shall he punished by a tine of not less an live hundred dollars nor more than one ousand dollars, or imprisoned in the State pen ntiary for a term of not less than live or more an ten years for each offense. See. :t. "That one-half said tine shall be naid to e informant and the other one-half to tho free hools of the county where said conviction is id. * ? Forty thousand dollars worth of fine arses were killed in a freight wreck at Dals, Texas, lust Monday. They were being iken to a fair to run in the races