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r and Jwte. ? The government of Spain, through the State department at Washington, has officially tendered to the United States, as a gift, the reproduced flagship of Columbus, the Santa Maria, now somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico enroute to this country to participate in the great naval review and form a part of the Spanish exhibit at Chicago. The ceremonies of presentation will take place at some date to be hereafter named, near the close of the exposition, and it is the intention to take the Santa Maria to Washington for permanent exhibition. ? It has been rumored that the president year ana oo*,*/1 me yeur uciuic lasx. ? Secretary Hoke Smith, on last Saturday, rendered his first land decision. It was in a case of the Southern Pacific Railroad company, and involved the question of the right of that company to land within its granted limits, and the limits of a grant to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad company, basing its claim on the ground that the latter company never complied with the requirements of its grant in the matter of locating its road, and the forfeiture of its grant in 1886. The secretary holds, however, that the Southern Pacific company had acquired no title to tho lands in question under its grant. This decision operates to open these lands, aggregating many thousands of acres in Southern California, to settlement and entry. The commissioner of the general land office was accordingly directed to take such steps as may be necessary to restore them to the public domain. ? Speaker Crisp, says Frank Leslie's Weekly, has undoubtedly justified the expectation of his supporters by his course as a presiding officer of the house. Elected under conditions of great excitement and entering upon his duties under adverse circumstances, he seems to have silenced the criticisms of his adversaries, and the close of the session found him one of the most popular speakers who have ever occupied the presiding chair. He has been a really strong personality?quite as strong as Speaker Reed was, but along different lines. One Republican newspaper says of him: "He has shown himself to be a man of exceptionally souud judgment, of a judicial temperament, and a clear sense of fairness." The main secret of his popularity is probably found in the fact that he was always accessible to members of the house, without distinction of! party or class, whereas in the past most speakers have isolated themselves from the great body of members and bestowed their favors upon a few select favorites. ? An interesting feature connected with the Chicago exposition will be a great long distance race from Omaha, Neb., to Chicago, and participated in by more than 300 cowboys. The distance on a bee line is 800 miles, and the prizes aggregate $10,000, in cash the first arrival to receive $5,000, the sec-"~u" $3,000, and the third and fourth $1,000 each. The start is to be made on the morning of May 1st, at sunrise, on the firing of a signal gun. Under the conditions every pony is to be branded and photographed, together with i ' i __ * ?< ms riaer, so as 10 prevtrui/ an puaaiunicji vi cheating. The riders will be allowed to go as they please, and as it is required that they ride the same horse over the entire distance, it is likely that they will be very careful of their mounts. Interviews with some of the riders show that the more conservative of them intend to begin the journey deliberately, and accomplishing from thirty-five to forty miles a day, saving their horse's strength for the final dash of 150 miles or thereabouts, when the race will develop its most interesting features. ? William Harmau, a resident of Titusville, Pa., is reported to have committed suicide a few days ago as the result of the melancholy conviction that he was his own grandfather. He left the following singular letter: "I married a widow who had a grown-up daughter. My father visited our house very often, fell in love with my step-tiaugnter ana marrieu her. So my father became my son-in-law and my step-daughter my mother, because she was my father's wife. Sometime afterward my wife had a son ; he was my father's brother-in-law and my uncle, for he was the brother of my stepmother. My father's wife, i. e., my step-daughter, also had a son ; he was, of course, my brother, and in the meantime my grandchild, for he was the son of my daughter. My wife was my grandmother, because she was my mother's mother. I was my wife's husband and grandchild at the same time. And as the husband of a person's grandmother is his grandfather, I was my own grandfather." ? Colonel Elliott F. Sheppard, the well known editor of the New York Mail and Express, died at h>a home in New York on last Friday afternoon. Colonel Sheppard suspicioned that he was suffering from a stone in the bladder, and applied to the doctors to remove it. They engaged to come to his home on Friday afternoon, and having previously arranged all the appliances for the very particular surgical operation, met the colonel at the appointed hour. It was necessary to put Colonel Sheppard under the influence of ether. The colonel stripped himself and irot on the operating table, and the administration of the ether was commenced. It worked very nicely at first, but presently there was a difficulty in his breathing. The doctors became alarmed and at once resorted to the use of restoratives. Their efforts were without avail, and in a few minutes Colonel Sheppard was dead. Colonel Sheppard was GO years of age, a lawyer by profession, and a genuine colonel, having been appointed to that rank during the war. ? Major Sucrow a Itussiau, who has just been set at liberty from the New York Insane asylum, says that he got there for telling the truth about himself, and got out by telling a lie. He has been a man of means, but sometime ago found it necessary to do something to make a living, and became interested in a hair tonic, warranted to produce a luxuriant growth on the baldest head. Thinking that a crop grown on the - ~ T\ ..1,1 bald summit 01 cnauncey wuuiu. uu the best advertisement in America for his tonic, he made up a neat package and went to see Mr. Depew. It was just after Mr. Sage's dynamite adventure, and Mr. Depew, seeing the package, and hearing his foreign accent, excused himself, promising to see him later, and had him arrested. Sucrow's story as to his life and the wonderful virtues of his hair tonic seemed to the police and physicians so wild that he was adjudged insane and sent to the asylum, and there he was kept as long as he insisted on the truth of his story. Finally Sucrow changed his tactics; he went to the asylum authorities and said that his belonging to a wealthy Russian family was an hallucination that he had been laboring under, and that his idea of a hair tonic was a delusion ; that as a matter of fact he was an ordinary Russian mechanic, and wanted to get out and go to work. The doctors were sent for; he told them the same story and was at once considered sane and discharged. But, he says, the story which I told to secure my discharge was the only lie I had told in the wholo matter. ? Further information relative to last Thursday's cyclone in Richland parish, Miss., has been received. The storm struck the vicini ty of Archibald, on the line of the New Orleans and Northwestern railway, at 3.30 p. m. It barely missed that town. All the buildings on W. A. Broughton's plantation wore destroyed. Mr. Sarle's place shared the same fate ; two men and one child were killed there and a number wounded, all col intends to appoint Win. C. Whitney as min:_4 i _ T7> 1 1 IVUU^n.. Pnnni!. l&iei IU JCiUglULlU. iUl . lllbUCJ niuav uiuuowick, Ga., last Saturday, and a newspaper reporter asked him if the story was true. | He replied : "It is not true that Mr. Cleveland is holding open for me the English mission. It is, perhaps, well that I should state, once for all, that in November last, while in New York, Mr. Cleveland asked for an expression of my wish or willingness as to holding office under his administration, in a letter which I shall always prize more highly than I could any office, and that I then reiterated, what he and my other friends had previously known, namely : that I ccuid not accept any office." ? Following is the New Orleans cotton crop statement from September 1, 1392, to March 24, 1893, inclusive: Port receipts 4,473,926 bales, against 6,408,025 and 6,143,061; overland to mills and Canada, 75 i,799, against 1,084,077; interior stocks in excess of September 1st, 270,985 against 360,275; Southern mills takings, 474,729, against 459,408; crop brought into sight during 205 days to date 2,971,439, against 8,311,875 and 7,794,754 year before last; crop brought in sight for the week, 61,763, against 73,063 last, and S5,740 the year before last; crop brought into sight for the first twenty-four days of March 225,050, against 354,921 last _ _ .I r?r? t ii ored. All the buildings on the Pruitt place were demolished and two negro children j killed. The residence of T. A. Archibald ' and J. Archibald were totally wrecked, a with all of the outbuildings. Other houses ^ badly damaged were those of W. A. Mc- a: Yeigh, I). Bothy, L. M. Montgomery, ti j E. S. Archibald, J. J. Archibald and W. c, j K. Spencer. Miles of fencing and thousands of trees were prostrated. The storm passed from southwest to northeast, and followed the track of the New Orleans *( and Northwestern railway for a consid- j p erable distance, shutting off traffic over' a over the road bcyoud Archibald's for several p hours. Dozens of people were slightly in- ^ jured and bruised, of which no account was , taken. The above only recounts the damage in the vicinity of Archibald. In the remote a places east and west, it is thought incalcu- si lable destruction was wrought. o fltc fotfeviltc J YORKVILLE, S. C.: P WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1893. ? Good roads, says au exchange, will in- s< crease the value of a farm, shorten the dis- 1( tance to market, save time, wagons, harness, ^ enlarge the territory which contributes to 2 the home market, quicken social communica- ^ tions, and add to the wealth of the individu- ^ al, the town, the city, the State, the county, SJ the United States, North America, the West- ^ em Continent, in fact the whole world; and ? who can say "for sure" that the builders of a *1 good road upon the face of this earth will not be rewarded in heaven ? Such a chance is worth taking anyway. P ? . ir ? Columbia is preparing to hold a great spring carnival on Wednesday and Thurs- ti 1 1" J 10 e?ftflirinff. fi uay, iuay 11 aim io, ivi uic u. ing crowds of visitors from all parts of the s< State into the city. It is only conditionally o that we would like to see the affair a success. During the last State fair the crowds were a far larger than the city could accommodate, is and even chairs in some of the hotel offices a' rented at 25 cents a night. Unless visitors is are assured of better treatment than this, we p would advise them to remain at home, where o: comfort, convenience and safety may be had a: at more reasonable cost. p ? a ? "How do you expect a man to pay his e debts without raising cotton ?" is a frequent n question; but there is not much sense in it. ft As a rule, it was by raising cotton that the s, debts were contracted, and to raise more cotton usually means to raise more debts. n If those people who got into debt by raising S| cotton and buying their needed supplies of Ci corn, meat and flour, will only reverse the a; [ process, raise their corn, meat and flour and u buy such cotton as they are unable to do n without, we guarantee that they will not C( I tt fmi'or rlohte hilt thp SflfinPr fret I. UUIJ Uiu^v ?V..V. v. v~, c- - U rid oi' those they have already made. n ? 0 ? We are told that Rev. R. A. Yonguc, the Q, Methodist pastor at Hickory Grove, recently endorsed The Enquirer from his pulpit as ' a paper that should be found in every home. He said that the paper was honest, and clean, and withal just such a journal as any father might read with profit to himself and give to his wife and daughters, assured a that every portion of it is fit for their peru- j? sal. It is just such a paper as the reverend p gentleman describes that we are earnestly A endeavoring to make, and we assure him 0 that the high compliment that he has seen fit to pass on The Enquirer, finds a respon- j sive echo in the heart of every worker who jr is engaged in making it. si ? The remarkable story told by [Matt By- b ers, the negro prisoner, in another column, S demands a searching investigation. As P soon as The Enquirer got hold of the story, the details were laid before a reliable oj gentlemen of Hickory Grove, and he promised to fiud out whether or not the other A negroes implicated are still iu the neighbor- s' hood. By this time he has carried out his rl promise, and if the negroes are there, they jj are no doubt under arrest. If they have left g the country, the governor should at ouce be h requested to offer a reward for each of them, b There seems to be no reason whatever to 01 doubt that Bradford was murdered, and ?' that Matt Byers and his three accomplices are the murderers. n? Mr. Martin, a Democratic member of the y New York assembly, has introduced a bill fr making it a misdemeanor to misrepresent 0 - - - .i i. M the circulation ot newspapers or omer pun- ^ licatious for the purpose of securing advertising. The bill is a step in the right direc- ^ tion, but it does not go far enough in that it ^ fails to specify what shall be considered a h bona fide circulation. New papers want ti to count every copy they print aud send si out, no matter how, or to whom, while es- " tablished journals insist that only such pa: pers as are sent to bona fide subscribers y I should be counted. By bona fide subscrib- t( | ers are meant those who subscribe and pay fc : for their papers. We hold to this last view. w i If an individual does not think enough of a ^ I newspaper to subscribe for it and pay for it, jj ! he does not think enough of it to read it, and ^ : those people who do not even pay for their n newspapers arc worth very little indeed to u I those who advertise for their trade. a! | ? Cotton has dropped half a cent a pound & | in the past few days. This will be a source ^ j of surprise to those who had based great y hopes on the resumption of work by the Man- ;s Chester spindles, and now many will ask It j why is it that if the great strike affected n j the price of cotton at all, now that the strike t( is settled, cotton does not go up? The exI planation is this. The sharp speculators have all along been considering the ManChester incident in their calculations, and 1{ have discounted it completely. In fact, ii they have overdone the thing and laid in ^ such heavy stocks of cotton as to keep the ?* supply well ahead of the demand. If the Manchester strike had not taken place, the ft price of cotton would no doubt, at this time, tc | be one or two cents higher, but the treinen- c< ; dous reduction in the consumption caused by the strike, has had the effect of reducing j ^ the staple to a drug 011 the market. ^ - - 4 st ? The Manchester, England, cotton strike, a: which has been keeping 15,000,000 spindles 5! idle during the past five months, came to a ft close on last Friday and the operatives went ^ to work 011 Monday. This has been one of t, j the most remarkable strikes 011 record. The J j{i j master spinners wanted to make a reduction J of 5 per cent, in wages. The operatives re- J g i fused to accept the reduction and the mills i u j shut down. Both sides were obstinate and c< j each side quietly waited for the other side to "j ! give in. There was 110 rioting on the Lv part of the spinners and no attempt 11 j 011 the part of the mill owners to supplant U the striking employees with other labor. T | Several conferences were held with a view r: , to bringing about a compromise without sue- ^ cess. Last week the spinners proposed to . the mill owners that they split the difference jj j and agree to a reduction of 2J per cent, in- p stead of 5 per cent. The proposition was i*i considered at length and at last the mill jll owners agreed to commence work again if the! n. CI spinners would accept a reduction of seven j pence a pound on their wages. The spin- (] uers agreed and good feeling is once more ci restored. The amount accepted by the C spinnersjis only one pence a pound less than pi | they demanded of their employees. j tl COTTON AS A SURPLUS. ^ Tiie Exqi'IRKu has never advised its ?] muer friends not to raise eotton. We know j mt sueh advice would be silly ; but so long k 3 we are able to write a line, we shall eon- > nue to urge, beg and implore our friends to c< ?ase making cotton their principal crop and J rise it only as a surplus. J* This country once had a monopoly in cot- (j )n and the price was away up. It was then p ossiblc to plant great plantations in cotton t< lone, and the business would handsomely ft ay for all supplies, labor, stock, implements, s< read and meat. But that day is over. The ? onanza enjoyed by the people of the South ^ ttractcd the attention of the whole world to j ich an extent that the increased production d f cotton was stimulated everywhere. The n jsult has been that the production of cot- ? hi, once a monopoly, has now become more ^ eneral. ^ There is a handsome profit in cotton even at cents a pound, but we have very little guarntce that the coming crop is going to bring nything like that figure. Last year's crop, a lough comparatively small, was amply suf- ? cient to supply the demand, and there is a 0 ig surplus still on hand to bo added to the ? oming crop. The indications are that the p] oming crop will be a heavy one, and the t< rice is sure to fall again to the ruinous fig- ri res of '91 and '92. ^ This is not mere empty speculation. It is v ased on facts and figures. During the sea)n of 1891-92 when American cotton was at p ninformnrlr Vincirlnc immp.nsfi nuan ties of Egyptian cotton used in England, i( 7,739 bales were actually imported into the s' fnitcd States and manufactured by our " Torthern mills ; and worse still, during the ime year, 13,000 bales were imported from sj eru, and also a considerable quantity from o irazil. How much was imported from lese countries the past year we are unable ? d say, but wo have reason to believe that :ie quantity has been sufficiently large to ^ revent the increase of price which wo light have otherwise reasonably expected, g An increase of price under existing condi- r< ons can only serve to stimulate the produe- ? on of cotton elsewhere, and it is easy to ? ;e that the future tendency of prices can nly bo down, down, down. p From some points of view this is a deplor- li ble state of affairs, but taken altogether it q ; not as bad as it looks. Though splendidly dapted to the production of cotton, cotton 11 i not the only crop which this county can v roduce. Indeed, a properly managed farm ffers as good returns in this county today ti s it ever has in the past. It is possible to I roduce almost everything that is needed on r' farm at a less cost than if it were bought ? veil with cotton for which the producer ^ light receive 20 cents a pound. Let every n inner devote himself to doing this and his A access is assured. Try it this way: Raise everything you eed?all your supplies, meat, bread and :oek?enough for immediate use and to c irry you into the next year, and then raise 11 of the cotton you can. Don't use cotton M loney to buy anything you can raise. The c< lan who is willing to give twelve pounds of Dtton for a bushel of corn, is on the road to ? aukruptcy at a galloping pace, while the ^ lan who goes in for raising corn, wheat, ats, clover, grass, pigs, sheep and cattle, d nd as much cotton as he can attend to over 1 nd above these things, will pay his debts, a an a bank accouut and soon be an indeendent citizen. ? o MERE MENTION. J The Delaware legislature has enacted ft law disfranchising all citizens who neg- Ii ;ct to pay poll tax. Mrs. Jeannette b lammond, a notorious divorced woman of e: .tlanta, has been arrested as an accomplice e> f Lewis Redwine in the Gate City National tl ank shortage. It is alleged that she has tl 35,000 of the bank's money in her posses- tl on. There is no perceptible falling off h i the number of office seekers who are be- if eging the White House. Estimates ci om North Carolina indicate that there will n e no reduction of the cotton crop of that ci tate The California legislature has assed a law making it a misdemeanor for a ewspaper to misrepresent its circulation. wo Mexican editors fought a duel in the City f Mexico last Thursday. One was severcr and the other slightly wounded. mother destructive cyclone swept over Mis- Cl ssippi and Tennessee last Thursday leaving lin in its wake. Several towns were wiped el ut, but no deaths are reported. Car- r< IV Uormo woe olr>r?trnr>ntpd nt Sine if ing, New York, last Friday, for poisoning I ^ is wife. It has been necessary to T irgely increase the force of clerks in the K [lice of the fourth assistant postmaster gen- e: ral in order to keep up with the large nura- h er of applications for postoflice appointments *c lat are flowing in daily. While workleu were engaged in making excavations ^ >r a new building at Durango, Mexico, last fc Wednesday, about five feet below the sur- ^ ice, they came upon a box containing $100,- s< 00 in old Spanish gold coin. Mrs. laine will sell her house in Washington to U Irs. U. S. Grant and the Blaine family is oing to London. Will Fry, a seventeen *r ear old school boy of Louisville, Ky., com- h fitted suicide last Wednesday by laying his y ead on a railroad track and allowing a c' ain to run over it. The only cause as- o: gued for the deed is on account of his hav- tl lg been jilted by a pretty school girl. h he town of Purvis, Miss., fifteen miles from a leridian, was destroyed by incendiaries last Wednesday night. The story is that the ^ )rches were applied by negroes in revenge | a' >r the arrest of a negro preacher. Ed- ei ard Embry, of Summer Duck, Ya., is 105 1? ? _?.i _ ?:.i 5.' ears 01 age unu is .^mu iu uu u?u vmtov j emocrat in the United .States. George i r( [ughes, an employe in the electric power c< ouse of Richmond, Ya., was killed by F inning against a live electric wire last Sat- " rday. Another revolution is reported s' 3 being in progress iu Hayti. The visile supply of cotton of the world is 4,009,35 bales against 5,574,229 bales at the same w ate last year. An earthquake shock U isting thirty seconds occurred at Helena, [ontana, last Saturday. No serious damage i reported. The mayor of Moscow, ^ :ussia, was shot in the abdomen last Wedesday by a political assassin. Reports as i tbe etlect of the wound conflict, as the overnment desires to suppress the news c< om the public. It is understood as a fact that Drexel, Mor- ti an & Co. have undertaken to reorganize the ai ichmond Terminal system. $500,000 u; i gold was taken from the sub-treasury in 'ew York last Wednesday for shipment to p' lurope. This was the first shipment of the tc ind since March 11. John W. Mackay, tl le California millionaire, who was shot by y crank in San Francisco recently, is thought ci ) be in a dangerous condition, and his re- Ii :>very is considered doubtful. Ex-Con- gi ressman Thomas E. Watson is reported to ol ave said in an interview the other day that j lere is room for only two great parties in j la lis country, and if the Democratic party tl ands on its platform, it is good enough for nybody. By a vote of 31 to 19 the s( linncsota senate has passed a bill extending sc ill suffrage to women in all elections. tc icrpont Morgan, of Drexel, Morgan & Co., I if 'ew York bankers, went to Europe 011 last j Wednesday, and it is rumored that the ob-1 m set of his mission is to negotiate a loan of ' 50,000,000 in gold for the United States! ai overnment to meet the deficit in the treas- la ry. Secretary Carlisle refuses to deny or I Diifirm the rumor. Influenza has re fa ppeared virulently throughout the south- di rn part of Russia. Some time ago it tl as claimed that if Cleveland was elected, fc ic works of the Carnegie Steel company at tl Imnefifeud. Pa.. would have to shut down, ai 7 lie latest information now has it that ar- T mgemcuts are being made to double their | m ipacity. Nancy Garrison, a colored c< oinan living at Holly Springs, Miss., is said el > have hair eight feet long. Judge! hi [enry A. Robinson, of Detroit, has been apointed statistician of the department of ag- culture to succeed J. R. Dodge, the statis- to ciau who has been issuing government crop | sc ports for many years. The Conimer- j pi al National banks of Nashville, Tennessee, at it h a capital of $1,000,000, failed last Sutur-! in ay. Last Saturday was a day of sui- j h; des. Green Renfroe, a young man of d< olumbus, Cia., blew his brains out with a M istol. His aged mother was prostrated by to le shock and died a few minutes later. 101 en IVck, a well known son of a prominent tizen of Buford, committed suicide by takig morphine. Steven Brilton, a well-to-do itizen of Petersburg, shot himself in the j I reast with a pistol and died instantly. icw York banks now hold $9,243,000 in ex?ss of the 25 per cent. rule. Miss ulia Force, who is confined in the Atlanta ^ lil for killing her iwo sisters, is reported ) be very ill audit is feared that she may ie before her ease comes to trial. The iritish house of commons, by a vote of 27(5 1 ) 229, has passed a bill providing that in lture members shall receive pay for their jrvices. Fourth Assistant Postmaster feneral Maxwell is confronted with about 1 ,000 resignations, and is filling the vacan ies at the rate of from thirty to titty a \ ay. Tom Watson was fined last Fri- 1 ay for striking and drawing a pistol on a ulroad agent at Thomson, Ga. It is iven out as a fact that President Cleveland .j as decided to call an extra session of conress in September, to take action 011 the iriff and other matters of pressing impormce. The Three C's to Be Sold.?In pursunce of a decree obtained from the United tates circuit court by the Finance Company ^ f Pennsylvania, and the Boston State Deosit and Trust company, the Charleston, Cincinnati & Chicago railroad will be sold at ^ be United States custom house in Clnyleson, on the 2nd day of May, proximo. The ] oad has interests in this State, North Carona, Tennessee and Kentucky, all of which ,'ill be disposed of on the same day. It is 1 nderstood that the most probable purchaer of the road is the Finance Company of Pennsylvania. The gentlemen composing this corporation, 1 ; is said, propose to buy the line as it now , tands and then complete it as it was origi- J ally projected, making it a direct line by be shortest route across the mountains 1 0 the West. They assert that they have in ight the money necessary for the completion u f this great railway project. No one will question the fact that the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago road in ;s present shape is a property of very little aluo to any one. As matters now stand, j be road extends from Camden, in this State, 1 o Marion, North Carolina. Then, after a s ap of many miles, about forty miles of the ( oad has been constructed in Tennessee and j Kentucky. The main branch of the road, j s it is now completed, is that which runs < om Marion to Camden. s This line runs through a territory in which < ; comes in direct competition with another ( ne about every twenty miles, and couseuently, unless it is still further extended,can I'arcely hope ever to build up a paying busless. Should the road bo built across the lountains and thereby be developed into fhat it was originally projected tq be, an air ne between Charleston and Chicago, its fuure would probably be a most brilliant one. t would be a gigantic undertaking, but the esult would doubtless justify an enormous 1 utlay of time and money. The road would hen be made the medium for handling the ulk of the direct trade for Europe, which lust inevitably soon set toward the South ] .tlantic seaboard. ] York County Do Likewise.?We men- j ioned the other day the growth of the j anning industry of the South and how j luch profit it had brought to this section, e a Mississippi the industry is in great favor *ith the farmers in consequence of the sue- 1 ess met with at several points. t At Crystal Springs, for instance, the can- i ery started the farmers to raising vegeta- i les; and now that town has become one of ? lie great fruit i nd vegetable raising centers f the South, shipping some ten carloads a ^ ay, besides what is used by the cannery. t 'he fanners there are doing as well as in < ny portion of the South. i It is an easy matter to understand how reat an encouragement like this gave to t tlier Mississippi towns to do likewise. < lacon will have a cannery in operation by , une 1st, when it will be able to take all the ? uits ar d vegetables that can be brought in. j t is now making contracts for tomatoes and eans, and offering such terms that the farmrs can make $47.50 an acre by growing vegtables, which is a great deal better than ] ley can do with cotton. It is to be hoped lat these canneries, increasing as they do ] le acreage in fruits and vegetables, will ave a disposition to check the "all-cotton" ] lea, so prevalent in Mississippi and other Dtton States of the South, by showing how ] luch better the farmers can do with other tops.?New Orleans Times Democrat. t BLACKSBURiT BUDGET. Iu 11 icipal Election?Death of Mrs. Frances j Duncan?Mr. David Guston's l.arge Barn Burned. j orrcspondenco of the Yorkvllle Enquirer. Blacksburg, March 28.?Our municipal lection passed off quietly on yesterday, and c jsulted in the choice of J. D. Kennedy as i itendaut, and W. B. Sherer, Joseph Black, [. M. Freeman and (J. A. Parker as wardens. ? his will make the fourth term for Intendant I Kennedy and Warden Sherer, and is another xpression of the confidence that our citizens 1 ave in them. Neither is Mr. Black a uov- i :c in aldermanic dignities, as he has served c efore in that capacity, and has also wielded ic gavel as intendant with commendable ] >rce during the infancy of our town. a r Ti 1 T>~~1 4-^v . Lessrs. rreemau uuu x uiner, anii<ju^u iu ^ irve their first term, have much to recom- v lend them as earnest, progressive and intelgent business men. c Mrs. Frances Duncan died at her residence f 1 this place on the 22d instant of cerebral s emorrhage, after a brief illness, aged 77 ^ ears, and was buried at New Prospect liurcli, Spartanburg county, near the place f her birth. She was a devoted member of le Baptist church for the greater part of j er life, an affectionate friend, and a liberal c nd kind neighbor. j Mr. David Gaston's large and valuable ^ arn, on his plantation about seven miles j bove here, was burned a few nights since, ^ utailing a loss of four or five hundred dolus on Mr. Gaston. Mr. D. D. Gaston and i [r. Cabot Colton. who had the place * mted, also lost several hundred dollars in > arn. fodder, wagons, farm implements, etc. { ortuuately, Mr. Colton discovered the fire c i time to remove all the live stock from the .able. t Dr. Wm. Anderson and family, and Mrs. [. F. Anderson, leave this afternoon for a ^ eek's visit to Fort Hill, S. C., and to j j, ainesvillc and Atlanta, Ga. w. A. UUULD NOTES. o Increase in the Cotton Acreage?Pros- j pects of a Good Fruit Crop?The Big Factory at I.ockliart .Shoals. jrrespondencc of the Yorkvillc Enquirer. Gould, March 27.?Our farmers are gctng along tolerably well with their work, r nd with favorable weather a good deal of E plaud corn will be planted this week. The lands have pretty well all been a lowed, but most of the guano yet remains f > be put in. There will be no increase in j le cotton acreage in this neighborhood this (] ear, and I do not think there will be any in- c ease in the use of commercial fertilizers. v istead of selling their cotton seed as a t] reat many others have done this year, most f our farmers have used them for manure. In a conversation the other day, one of our irgest and most successful farmers, told me ^ lat ho intended to i ncrease his corn ncreage. Spring oats, or rather oats which were ^ >wn in February, are looking line. Tlie fall I1 )winfjj was badly damaged by the hard win- c ;r, but in most cases will make a ball'crop, a not more. n Wheat is generally a good stand, and is li ow making an encouraging show. J Peach trees are unusually full of blooms I ad in good condition, and unless killed ii iter, there will be a good crop. fi Work is being rapidly pushed on the big .ctory at Lockhart Shoals. Over one bunred hands are now employed in clearing oil' o le grounds and laying down the materials ii ir the buildings. The engine for making r ic bricks lias been placed on the grounds, p id work will be commenced in a few days, h lie site of the proposed factory is only four ilea from this place, and when the mill is y mipleted, it will no doubt Ik; a great ben- cj it to tbis whole section, furnishing a mar- p et for our cotton and other produce, h. h ? The Norse Creek section of Dunkirk f< twiiship, Greenville county, had a mad dog :arc last Thursday. A mangy hound up- c ,'ared in the neighborhood, and in its vicious v tacks on other dogs and all animals cross- tl g its path, displayed unmistakable signs of s< ydrophobia. After it had bitten fourteen jgs in the neighborhood, it was killed by 1 t. J. E. Knight. Five of the dogs known si i have been bitten were killed by their a vners. v LOCAL AFFAIRS. sta aft IN'DKX TO NEW AI>V10ItTISEMKNTS. C0I L J. Hcriulon?Lets it be known that he is still lav selling and offering to sell pianos and |g organs, and guarantee them for five vears. T' lie sells the Knabe, Chase and ^Veser pianos. Ho is also prepared to time pianos. mi1 V. J. Roddcy, Manager of the Equitable Life wii Insurance Society, Itoek 11 ill?Says that v "None are so blind as those who won't see" that it is their duty to insure their tn< lives. At fiddle A. Carroll?Offer their 100 percent, flour ...c for $2.75 per sack. They also offer N. 0. molascs at wholesale prices by the barrel. mi They have received a carload of corn and th< a carload of wheat bran. nu jOtiis Roth?During court, will furnish meals, .... nniu lnticlioy nnd sandwiches, and on next Saturday will receive n consignment of or( roeshiicfand bunch lish. ser V. II. Edwards, School Commissioner?Gives > notice that an examination of teachers of . . the free public schools will take placo at v Yorkvilla on the 21st day of April, 1893. at r. K.?Offers cotton factory stock for sale. ha II. Barncs-?Request.s that persons who have clocks, wutches and jewelry, which require repairs, to bring or send them to him at 011 YorkYillo during the term of court. T. R. Lindsay, Insurance Agent?Tells about the business Unit the Travelers Insuranco company has done within the past two months, and calls attention to the fact that ho is prepared to issue insurance against loss by to\ windstorms, cyclones and tornadoes. ;n inman Brothers?Call attention to their russet ... and Blucher shoes, their stocks of hats for 1111 summer wear, and boy's suits. en Liowry A Starr?Advertise a full line of stationery, which they proposo to sell at reason- u able prices. M. A II. C. Strauss?Arc offering ladies' dress ye: fjoods, embroideries and laces, gents', Sh joys' and children's ready-made clothing, cai hats, shoes, slippers, etc. IV. M. Houston. A Co.?Offer two Wheeler A ^0( Wilson sewing machines for sale, either ste for cash oron the installment plan. They BC} also call attention to their stocks of white rpi goods and shoes. IV. C. Latimer?Tells about his grand array of ye new dress goods and millinery. Mi May A May?Offer to sell for 5 cents, sufficient rje coloring matter, of six different colors, to stain three dozen Easter eggs. an IV. N. Ashe, Jr., McConnellsville?Proposes to coi loan to his neighbors an acurate terrace ho level. th V, M. Grist?Has something to say about the J merits of the "Rapid Writer" fountain pen. to of SENI) A WRITTEN COMPLAINT. cal After avc have received the price of a tri rear's subscription to The Enquirer, the sh' nost important thing with us is that the Sh subscriber regularly gets his paper. We can inly contract to send the paper to the sub- eit scriber's postoflice. After that the respon- wi sibility is with his postmaster. We have re- Yc jeived a number of verbal complaints from ph subscribers at a certain postoflice in this aa jounty, to the effect that their postmaster be Iocs not deliver their papers promptly, but wi )ften lends them out to others and frepiently they do not get them at all. When a UP subscriber fails to get his paper for any rea- tw son, we urgently request that he at once send is a written complaint. If the fault is ours, tin ,ve will correct it at once ; and if the fault is fai lie postmaster's, we will refer the matter to an lie fourth assistant postmaster general. In C's jithcr case, rest assured that the matter will ic investigated. bis CHURCH NOTICES. Episcopal?Lay services next Sunday at LI a. m., and Sunday-school immediate- Wl y afterward. ra< Prcshvfprbin?Rev. T. R. English. D. D., so> mstor. Services next Sunday at 11 o'clock Pa i. m., and 7.30 o'clock p. m. Sunday-school it 4 o'clock p. in. Prayer-meeting tomorrow ivening at 4 o'clock. tin Baptist?Rev. W. J. Langston, pastor. eri Union?Services neNt Sunday at 11 o'clock i. m. Yorkville?Services Sunday even- ?f ng at 7.45 o'clock. Prayer-meeting toinor- "Sl ow evening at 7.45 o'clock. Sunday-school P? it 3.30 o'clock p. m. WI Trinity Methodist Episcopal?Rev. S. A. to tVeber, D. D., pastor. Services next Sunday sti it 11 o'clock a. m., and 7.30 o'clock p. m. SC1 Sunday-school at 3 o'clock p. m. Prayer- un neeting this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. de r. C. Galloway, pastor. Yorkville?Pray- ha a-meeting this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Ser- va dees Sunday morning at 11. o'clock and thi Sunday evening at 7.30. Sunday-school at 1.30 o'clock p. m. ' rai . ph ABOUT PEOPLE. tin Mr. Robert J. Latta, of the Atlantic Coast lai Ane, is in town. on Mrs. J. M. Heath, of Lancaster, is visiting col lire. B. N. Moore. en Mr. John J. Hunter, returned home from US( Sew York last Friday. Ev Miss Pearl Crosby, of Blacksburg, visited de Hiss Fannie Barnes last Saturday. Mr. John R. Schorl) returned homo yes- Pr< erday from a visit to relatives iu Orange- n0 >urg. an Miss Bertie Brice, of Fairfield, is visiting ad riends in Yorkville, the guest of Mrs. D. E. lac Tinley. Pr( Mrs. A. Springs Withers and children left wc ,-esterday on a two months' visit to relatives th< n Charleston. ag Miss Ethel and Master W. Asbury Hope tin ire visiting their uncle, Mr. John A. Darwin, tin n Charleston. so, Mr. J. F. Glenn left for Charlotte last an Saturday to take a position as salesman with Hessrs. Long, Tate& Johnson. Mr. W. A. Hunsuckcr, of Carthage, N. C., ias recently been employed in the wood jjj vorking department of the Carolina Buggy ^ sorapany. Charles Murphy, of Yorkville, and J. y 3ratton Mendenhall, of Guthriesville, have or? ecured positions as penitentiary guards, and rC( >otli lelt ior coiumuiu iaso mummy iu cmci mv lpon their new duties. coi Mr. C. M. Parrott visited frieuds at Maid- dii in, N. C., last week, and a correspondent aci rom that place writes that he was enthu- Br iastic over the splendid prospects of the Hi growing wheat crops of the vicinity. sai an WATERWORKS. gc Assisted by Intendant Moore, Warden po fefl'erys, Mr. T. B. McClain and a number of by >ther gentlemen, General E. M. Law, on his ast Wednesday afternoon, made a survey of co1 he streets of Yorkville to be occupied by yc; he proposed waterworks system, with a loi dew to ascertaining levels and distances. sci From the springs opposite the King's Mountain Military School building, which are wn ixpectcd to furnish the water supply, to the Le S'arrow Guage depot, the distance is 7,400 of ect, and from the jail to the Three C's ini lepot, the distance is 8,300 feet, or a total to if 10,700 feet, a few yards more than his wo miles. nei From the supply spring to the highest Bu :nob in the immediate vicinity, the distance Th s 900 feet, and the elevation of this knob is rej ust 33 feet greater than the street level at it, he court house corner, and forty-seven feet He greater than the street level at the Narrow cui iuage depot. 1 The McClain and Nichols buildings, on the roc :ourt house corner, are each 43 feet in mo ifeight, or just ten feet higher than the pro- he >osed site of the standpipc, and it is clear pie hat but little artificial elevation will be bei equired to give all the gravity pressure that ' nay be needed. coc riM.? ?l? . .lint, .it llio eni-inrrs instill I Mi Jt 11VJ \UUIIUU Ul nu?i nv i..~ M|<. .?e. . matter of doubt, and the question Temaius At or future settlement. Intendant Moore and >Ir. McClain have furnished all the available ' lata to several waterworks contractors, and goi xpect to get some delinitc propositions as to tlu rhat they are -willing to do within a few did lays. giv tlu SOMEWHAT INVOLVED. hoi Recently the two barkeepers at Blacks- to mrg, asked the county commissioners to re- ^ unci one-half of the amount that they had aid into the county treasury for liquor li- g]jj ~n Hi.it dc llidv u-prn nnlv to he tnl uuhca, "?j vv,. .llowed the privilege of selling liquor for six ? aonths, they should only be charged for ha< lalf a year's license. On last Friday, Mr. nio . Steefe Brice, clerk of the board, wrote Th Lttorney-General Townsend for an opinion wh 11 reference to the matter and received the W] allowing: Ge Columbia, S. C., March 25, 1893. Ho Mr. J. Steele Brice: Dear Sir: Your letter! bin f the 24th instant, making inquiry concern- gjv ng the demand of the liquor dealers for a! did epayincnt to them of one-half the money gm aid by them to the county commissioners, he: as been received. do1 I regre-i that I am not allowed to give am ou an official opinion in such matters. This Th uestion does not come within the duties of 1 rcscribed for me as attorney-general, ana of cncc, whatever I might say would not be sea flicial, and, as a consequence, of no binding on aree on anyone. the I am not opposed to assisting you, how- rail ver, in anyway that I can, but my opinion Bu, fould not be worth any more than that of the lie counsel of the board, and perhaps not Tin o much. pec The dispensary law went into effect on the 'J 3th of January. I'p to that time commis- eve ioners could not receive less than $100, if Mc ny at all was offered, and of course they Ma i'ouUI not be justified, under any circum- the nces, in refunding any part of it. On and jt er the 13th day of January, the county ti nmisioncrs were authorized, under the1 si v, to take one half of the amount. That $50. Now, if on and after the 13th of tiuary, parties paid to the county comssioners $100, it must have heen done tl Ih the intention to claim a license for the b; ioIc year in violation of the law, and if so, tl ?y can't ask that it be returned tc them. . any rate, I am of opinion that it p iuld he much safer for the county com- p* ssioners that the matter be passed on by p i legislature. If these parties paid too ich, intending and contemplating no y ong, I feel sure that the legislature would C) ler it refunded to them on a proper repre- j] itatiou of the facts. 3 Ihis is the way it appears to me on a hasconsidcration of the matter. As I stated C( first, I am not writing officially, and hence w ve not made a critical examination of the tl rious authorities which might throw light p the subject. Yours very truly, tl D. A. Townsend. I] DEATH OF J. G. SCHOItB. n Mr. J. George Schorb, a brother of our ^ .vusman, Mr. J. R. Schorb, died at his home e Columbia on last Thursday after a brief a less. The deceased was a native of Neid- ^ veilcr, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, icre he was born on the 16th of June, 1823. tj 5 came to America in 1834, when eleven n nrs of age, and located in the State of Ohio. g! ortly after his arrival he interested the ^ ptain of one of the lake steamers, who ik him iu charge, keeping him on his u :amboat in summer, and sending him to 100I from his residence iu Ohio in winter. ^ lis arrangement continued for several ars, when, at the persuasion of his brother, ^ r. Schorb came South. Iu 1853 he mar- n d Miss Mary Ann Evans, of Dallas, N. C., jj d shortly afterward settled in Fairfield unty as an engineer and miller. His -u me was iu the viciuity of ltocky Mount, on 2 Catawba river, and while there he began employ his spare time iu the publication a comic newspaper, issued monthly and | lied The Moon. The paper was illusited with cuts of his own engraving, and owing decided artistic talent. When ^ erman's army passed through by Rocky f ount, Mr. Schorb's household goods were her destroyed or carried away and he, ^ th his wife and five children, came to >rkville. Shortly afterward he was em- ^ iyed by the proprietor of Thk Enquirer, d he worked in this office until 1870, when removed to Columbia, to take a situation Q th the Presbyterian Publishing company. ^ ; worked for this company continuously to the time of his death, a period of ^ enty-three years. Mr. Schorh's funeral was conducted under e auspices of the Printers' Union from the ^ nily residence, on the corner of Lumber d Gates streets, on last Friday. The offiiting ministers were Rev. Dr. Woodrow, r. Schorb's employer, and Rev. Mr. Elwell, 1 pastor. * SPRING MILLINERY. ^ The trade in spring millinery is now on g th a rush. The two Yorkville establishing?those of Messrs. Latimer and Dobii?have been crowded with orders for the st two weeks, and both are bending every ort to complete promised orders by next j turday, for Easter. The indications are . at the season is to be the busiest for sev- j x\ years. g| And the styles! At last the autocrats e fashion have succeeded in creating a?a? omething"?beyond the newspaper man's ? were of description. In despair, the iter has appealed to the ladies themselves ? help him out. One says: "The damp c aw was placed on a jagged stump and mebody sat down on it and remained there v til it got dry." Another puts it thus: 'he spring stock of straw was thrown un- y r the wagon wheels, and the pieces which ppened to get mashed into the greatest ^ riety of different shapes, were adjudged 2 best and prettiest." The trimming is probably not quite so ? ich of a puzzle. The idea in the first ice is to have as much hat as possible, and 2n the lady who manages to get on it the gest number and variety of different colid ribbons, with the greatest harmony of & lore, has the prettiest bonnet. There is no d to the ribbons and flowers that may be 2(1; neither to their size, quality or price, c 'erything goes, and the only limit is the pth of papa's pocketbook. ? However, the new spring bonnets are 0 etty. Who would dare say that they are j, t? What do men know about such things yway? They have only to pay the bills, ^ mire the bonnets and look pleasant. The a lies have a right to wear anything on their 0 etty little heads that they please, and ^ >uld-he adverse critics can best preserve eir reputation for wisdom^ and general a reeableness by keeping their opinions to emselves. That is the law. In the mean- t] le, those ladies who have not already done 0 may go to the millinery stores and ex- g line the new spring styles. rj tl IT WAS MURDER. V Murder will out. On Tuesday night, o ly 27th, 1890, the body of Robert Brad- h d, white, was run over and cut to pieces ^ a Three C's passenger train, near Hick- ? V Grove. The body was mutilated beyond r( jognition, and was identified only by q mns of the unfortunate man's clothes. A tl roner's jury investigated the matter immc- tl itely afterward and rendered a verdict in ir eordance with a theory to the effect that fe adford having started from Sharon to t< ckory Grove under the influence of liquor, ir ak down on the track in a drunken stupor, d became a victim of the belated posson- ir r train. But such was not the case. The is or fellow was murdered in cold blood ai four negro highwaymen, who placed k ) body on the railroud track in order to ir ver up their crime, and now, after throe tl ars, one of the miserable wretches, unable n; lgcr to carry the burden of his guilty con- ir ence, has come out with the whole story, b Matt Byers, a negro boy 19 years old, it is committed to jail by Trial Justice G. C. s( ech on November 8th, last, ou the charge d housebreaking and larceny. During his w prisonraent he had made vague allusions the Bradford tragedy, and at last told id i fellow prisoners that he aud three other ti groes?Ed McCaw, George McCaw and u rt Byers?killed Bradford for his money. C c story got down "on the ground," and a fc iresentative of The Enquirer hearing of w went down to the jail last Saturday with K puty Sheriff Love for the purpose of se- w ring full details. id Byers was brought out iuto the debtor's ai mi and Mr. Love and The Enquirer r< in proceeded to examine him. At first pi was disposed to deny everything and to ir ad the densest ignorance. After a nuni- g< * of questions lie was asked : ai 'Didn't you tell George Witherspoon, the sc A- that vou and three other negroes killed e^ . Bradford and put his body on the track ?" this the negro hesitated, seemed to grow b; rvous, began to tremble, and then said : tl ' 'Taint no use to lie about it, and I am hi ng to tell you just how it was. I was ki :re but it wasn't me that killed him, and I T [n't git any of the money. They wouldn't ol e me none, because I wouldn't go olf with sc >m. They left next day and I staid at g! me. Ed McCaw and George McCaw went ri Florida, and I don't know where Burt w ers is." ei The negro was plied with a number of C ler questions, and though he tried to N eld himself as much as possible, finally te d a story which in effect was as follows: rc 'George McCaw told us that Mr. Bradford 2i 1 been digging a well au l had right smart sc iney that we could take away from him. 5( ey told inc to go down to the railroad, and ec en Mr. Bradford came along, to whistle. C jen Mr. Bradford came ho was drunk, ra orge asked him to give us some whisky, ra said he did not have any. George told T u he was a liar, and then asked him to lij e us some money. Mr. Bradford said he of n't have any money either. George ar ibbed him by the collar and hit him on the id with a hickory stick and knocked him w ivn. After he fell, George hit him again, je 1 when I got there he was kicking his last. 4 ey searched him and got some money out to [lis pockets. They wouldn't give me any af the money because I did not help them hi rch, and I told them I was going to tell tjiem. After they had searched him hi v nut him on the crossties between the dii J ? _ Is with his head on one of the rails. Burt dc ycrs staid on the side of the road until si< train came along and run over him. ey left ten cents in one of his pockets so qt tple would not know he had been robbed." be There have been no proceedings what- m r in the above case. Ed and George of Caw and Burt Byers arc still at large, and fo tt Byers has never been charged with murder. It is incumbent upon the grand th iry to give the matter a thorough investiga- ( on, and if Matt Byers can be indicted, lie i 1 lould be put 011 trial for murder. J1 ' \ LOCAL LACONICS. j \ ? Yorkville supply merchants will conduct I leir lien business this year on the same I < asis as last?a calculation of three bales to c le mule. 1 ? Rev. Mr. McAlpine will deliver raissionar s f lectures in the Presbyterian church at this lace today at 4 and 8 o'clock p. in. The < tiblic is invited. t ? We have received from our young friend, S i. A. Ilafner, an invitation to an oratorical < in test to be eiven bv the junior class of avidson college, 011 Friday evening, March 1st. ? Mr. J. S. Bricc, clerk of the board of aunty commissioners, advises us that he ( ill advertise for proposals for rebuilding le county court house next week. This is ' rovided the architects are on time with 1 leir plans and specifications. 1 ? Fire broke out in the roof of Cherokee ( an, at Blacksburg, 011 last Wednesday 1 lorning, but thanks to a timely discovery, ras quickly extinguished. The loss did not xceed $o00 and this was covered by insur- y nee in companies represented by Dr. W. ( .nderson. ? There has been a noticeablo decrease in 1 ae amount of butter offered on the local 1 larkets during the past month. It has been \ jggested to us that the amount of butter in tie country is as great as usual, but 011 ac- ! ount of the high price of lard, people are ' sing their butter instead. ? Rock Hill Herald: The residence of Mr. l. Brown Ferguson, near Cureton's Ferry, ( ras destroyed by fire on the 9th instant. ! 'he fire originated in the second story at 1 ight, no one knows how, and the family arely escaped with their lives. The loss r ras about $2,000 and there was $1,200 of 1 isurance. ? The spring term of the court of genaral * jssion for York county, will convene in the raded school building in this place on next ( Ionday, Judge Wallace presiding. The ' ounty commissioners have arranged to over the hall, to be used by the court, rith a carpet of jute bagging, and other comirts and conveniences will be provided. , ? York prisoners were disposed of in the fnited States court at Greenville last week s follows: John Wright, for selling liquor, * hree months in York jail; Albert Lowry, jr retailing, three months in jail and a fine f $100; George White, retailing, six jonths in York jail and a fine of $100. 'he jurors were discharged on Wednesday nd the court adjourned sine die on Thursay. ? Clerk of the Court Wylie desires us to nnounce that he has received the necessary lanks upon which maimed ex-Confederate , oldiers may make application for a renewal , f the artificial limbs furnished by the State . nder the acts of 1880 and 1881. No money rill be paid nor no artificial limbs will be jrnished to any except those who received s he benefits of the act referred to. Those ( ?'ho have not previously received the bene- < ts of the act need not apply. ? At last convinced of the practical value f terracing their lands, nearly all the farm- ] rs of this immediate vicinity seem to be oing into the idea at once. General E. M. , /aw, the local surveyor, informs us that he as been engaged in work of this kind regu- , xrly for the past two weeks or more, and , till has not less than a half dozen more . ngagemeuts ahead of him. The idea is a : ood one and we would be pleased to see j 11 of our farmers take it up. ( ? Misses Annie Law, Hattie Bratton, Mary [art and Mrs. S. M. McNeel, have been } anvassing the town of Yorkville for the . urpose of assisting the Confederate Memoial Bazaar of Richmond, Va., in their ef>rts to complete the monument to the pri- , ate soldiers and sailors of the Confedera- * y. The ladies raised the sum of $50, which bey remitted to the treasurer of the Bazaar .{ t Richmond on yesterday. They will be lad to receive subscriptions from any others riio may wish to contribute to the cause. j i ROCK HILL HAPPENINGS. 1 1 (Isslonary Lecture by Rev. Mr. McAIplne? 1 860,000 for the Woman's College?Other 1 Notes. 1 orrespondcnco of the Yorkville Enquirer. ( Rock Hill, March 28.?A large congre- ! ation assembled at the Presbyterian church n Thursday evening last to hear an intensef interesting lecture by Rev. R. E. McAlpine, \ le missionary to Japau. He was licensed y the Alabama presbytery eight years ago, j nd returns to give his experience to interest . ther people in the great Christian work. . .fter prayer by Rev. Mr. Mullen, he was in oduced by Rev. Mr. Sprunt. He began by * iniiinntinr, frnm tho T-Tnlv SoHn UUHUJj lug lujuuvnuu "v,u ?j X" . ares, to "Go into all the world and preach ae gospel." After nineteen hundred years f existence, what has the church to report ? even-eighths of the world in sin and ignomt of the gospel of salvation. What shall ae servants of the King have to say to this? /hat of Japan ? There are two erroneous pinions about Japan. First, Christians < earing of the success of missionary labor; ave drawn optimistic ideas of that land; 1 nd second, anti-Christian people have gone ( lto extravagant ideas about the culture and c jfinement of the Japanese, mistaking these a ualifieations for morality. The fact is that < le Japanese as a nation, while covered with s tie dross of wealth and finery, are steeped f 1 degradation and immorality, the worst ] :ature of all being that they are oblivious j ) sin, or lost to the crime of their own im- f lorality. j In their beautiful land, with all the bless- J lgs that nature has contributed, only man r> i vile. Japan is composed of four main isl- c uds, viz.: Hondo, Yesso, Kinsin and Shi- c oku. In all Japan, inhabited by forty e lillions of people, there are only forty lousand Christians?about one native and s lissionary preacher to every fifty thousand ; lhabitants. For centuries they have im- 1 ibed the religion of Budha. Budhism, in t s original root idea, means salvation from 1 arrow. The belief was imported from In- c ia, and originally was atheistic. It after- r ard came to mean idolatry. i The intelligent people do not consider their a lols as gods, but the ignorant and supersti- t ous worship the graven images as superuat- r ral deities. The idols are scattered over the hiuese and Japanese country, and are t >und in the temple and along the high- q ays and byways. There is a temple in r Joto City, the ancient capital of Japan, in h Inch there are 1,033 idols. The central c lol is called the goddess of mercy, and f round her are arranged 32 other idols rep- g renting various goddesses?such as wealth, t averty, sickness, health, etc. The remain- ( ig 1,000 are simiiar to the images of the a addess of mercy, except that the six hands e ad thirty fingers of each are arranged at ii n?n-ln s\r> fmm t hflQP of mic UIIICIKUU augiv V. v.vu.. ? ,'ery other image. r Mr. MeAlpiue's lecture was supplemented p y stereoscopic pictures, thus teaching g irougli the sense of sight as well as that of v faring. The first picture represented the i; ind of country with effects of earthquakes, p he second was illustrations of mode of life, a .* houses and food, etc. The third repre- h nted social life and immoralities, pleasure e lrdens and drunkenness. The fourth se- I es of pictures showed the wayside shrines a ith the famous temples belonging to the a nperor's household. The fifth showed the b hristian churches and schools built by f orthern Methodist missionary aid. An in- s nsely interesting set of pictures were those a (presenting the great earthquake of the h ith of October, 1891, in which 8,000 per- h ins were killed, 24,000 were injured, and h )0,000 were rendered homeless. After the p irthquake, the missionaries and native hristians organized relief associations sepa- r ite from the government relief work, and i ii .ised about five hundred thousand dollars, it his circumstance aided the cause of re- n jjion in Japan, due mainly to the evidence inn/Ui L-inrtnn?u nn the nurt of mission ies, and great good was accomplished. p At 11 o'clock on Friday, a special lecture as given to the ladies of the city 011 the subct of "Home Life of the Japanese," and at a o'clock p. m. 011 Friday, a lecture was given 11 the children at which several graven im- 1 ;es or idols, brought from Japan, were exbited. | n From this place, the Rev. Mr. McAlpine : v is gone to Fort Mill, Ebcuezer and Bethes- j t! l. His lecture is full of interest and has j r; me much to aid the cause of foreign mis- j tl jnary work. j 0 An election was held yesterday 011 the lestion of subscribing $60,000 in thirty years mds, as a bid for the-location of the Wo- c an's Industrial school. The total number g votes cast was 297. Of these 273 were h r subscription, and 24 were against. F Some time ago it will be remembered n at an attempt was made to wreck the C., n 1. & A passenger train three miles north of *ock Hill. On Saturday, Noah White and Sob Crews, alias White, two white boys, vere arrested and committed to jail charged vith the crime. Rev. J. C. Price, colored, from North Car>lina, will deliver a lecture in Roddey's hall in April 6th. His subject is the race probem. He is a distinguished colored orator, md will attract a large audience. Rose White, a very old colored woman on 1'aptain Hutchinson's plantation, was burned 0 death on the night of the 2Gth of March. She is reported to have been a hundred years >ld. i.. POINTS FROM PI NEVILLE. 1 Random Chat by a Reverend Contributor. V...-,.., rl.nnn r\t T],n Vni-Irrllla lvnrlllippp l'lneville, March 24.?We are moving on n the even tenor of our way, not disurbed in the least by that office the governnent should give us, so that Cleveland has >ur admiration whether he remembers how nuch we sacrificed for his election or not. Terily, sir, wo are happy. Recently it has been my privilege to talk vith one of our oldest citizens of the "good old lays gone by." We were seated in the old lomestead, built eighty years ago; but the ,vork was honest work, and today it stands is a monument to "faithful workmen." Let ne give you a leaf from the talk we had. Eighty-five years ago the workmen were busy juildiug seven houses in this section. It ,ook time in those days to build houses. Surely this is a fast age. I visited my friend Baxter F. recently, and together we looked >ver his substantial, neat dwelling. Think >f it. It is an eight room dwelling, painted nside and out complete, and was finished in light weeks. But the house of eighty-five ^ears ago, of which I speak, was seven years n construction. Every plank had to be got >ut with a whipsaw, every nail home-made, >o that when the workmen worked up all :he material on hand at one house, they went >n to another until the whole was completed. . ? My dear old friend wandered down to the jpriug. How cool it looked as it bubbled ip through the cleft in the rocks, winding iown the hill and emptying itself in the valey below. I stood there thinking if what ny friend was telling me, for where my feet itood was the foundation of the "still" of ^ears ago, where hundreds of gallons of ivhisky and brandy were distilled. Yes, there was the foundation distinctly marked jut?the very rocks that formed the foundation were there. Every rock had its history, "ould they have spoken and told us the history of those gallons! Thank God, it is )ver, and may the time soon come when the vhole miserable business shall be as this one. But the times are changing to be sure. He who owned that still was one of the most lonored and respected citizens of our neighjorhood. Nay, he was the peer of any; a " - ? -!_* ? J ii :* nemoer 01 me jegisuuure, uuu, >vcn, n sounds strange these days to say so?a deacou )f the Baptist church. The times are better; but- since the old State has gone into the barroom business >ve may have history repeating itself. But* Mice more let me refer to my dear old friend. For some time we sat on the shelving rocks ihatting of the past. It was to me no ordiaary story, for he was living over the days )f hi3 young manhood, and these memories .vere sacred to him. But I must confess .vhen the old gentleman lingered on one part of the history, it was realness sure mough. That word or so about the "redleaded gal as pretty as a rose," and I saw, >r fancied I saw?(was it all fancy ?) a blush iteal over his dear old face as he confessed to ne: "I loved her sir, but I could never get ;he fortitude to tell her so." Memory is iweet. Who is he that does not live it all )ver? Well, I have written too much, and fou must pardon me. I turn away from the pa3t to the busy present, and add this word. It was a grand * ;hing they did in Washington when the old jhieftain was honored. The government honjred itself in honoring Hampton. Unsolici;ed, he has been tendered a position, and the senate, by its action confirming the nomina;ion without reference to a committee, has aandsomely. endorsed genuine worth. It svas a magnificent thing rightly done. They cvho had been intimately associated with him for years knew him. I wonder what man )f those who pushed the old soldier into \ corner forever, will be honored as he has been? Not one sir; not one. We wait for another appointment, and the signs are very plain when he shall receive his due. Genuine worth will not down it the mere bidding of the majority. No brighter, worthier man will be honored ay President Cleveland than Hemphill, and lis old district will delight in knowing that fudge John J. has been complimented. I have been wondering if "we newspaper" nen will get anything. Correspondent. LETTER FROM FODDER. Progress of Farm Work?Sow Clover?A Chapter on Cranks?Terraciug?Other Notes. Jorrespondence of the Vorkvtlle Enquirer. Fodder, March 28.?Although we have rnd only a limited time for the prosecution >f farm work, yet a great deal has been aclomplished. While the ground has been too vet for plowing, the farmers have been busy ilearing land, cutting and piling corn stalks, iprouting, ditching, etc., and getting their ields ready for the plow. This is right. STo farmer should ever enter a field with his ilow until all briers, bushes, logs, etc.?in act everything calculated to hinder the jrogrcss of the plow?has been removed. Says some one, "Everybody knows that." Phen the greater the shame if everybody loesn't practice it. I've frequently observ;d men plowing over and around rock piles ind through bushes and briers. Pardon another word about clover. A mall farmer of our section went to Yorkrille a short while ago and spent a five dolar bill for clover seed. The farmer in quesion has had experience with clover and :nows what he is doing. Others have sown ilover in this section this spring who have lever done so before. The raising of clover n York county is no longer an experiment, md the man who will give it a fair trial will >e able to fill his barn with the choicest and oost nutritious of hay at a small cost. Just a thought on this line. It was just iefore taking the representative of The Entuirer to his clover field, that Dr. Black emarked, "My friends and neighbors around iere call me a crank." Well, the modern rank can find some consolation in the relection that in all ages men of original, pro;ressive, and aggressive ideas, have been reated as cranks. For instance, Bunyan, lolumbus, Fulton, Morse, Darwin, Field, ,nd a host of others. So if you are a crank, specially on the subject of practical farmtig, speak out. Again, the crank has the comforting assuance that if his words and example are not iroperly appreciated here, that after he has ;one to the "undiscovered country," then he fill be lionized, cannonized and immortalised ; that his name will be inscribed on the lages of history and embalmed in poetry, nd the sculptured monument that marks lis honored tomb will speak in silent but loquent language of his imperishable deeds. )on't fear the charge of crankism. There is certain phase of crankism that is pardonble?even commendable. The farmer has een called a "clodhopper," and many of hem merit the appellation. Every farmer hould own a good two-horse turning plow nd a good harrow. With these he can put is still'lands in excellent condition, and if e doesn't do this he deserves to be a "clodopper," both by reputation and a guilty ractice. I notice that several of our farmers are teracing their fields on an extensive scale, and 1 a scientific manner. This, in my opinion, i the correct way to render farming lands on-transferable. a /vi?ant /inol r\f aonn kno lmar? n ^ivuv uvai u? wiu nuo ucun piauvcu. Wheat, where it was well manured and roperly sown, is looking well. I notice splendid stands of spring oats. Messrs. Meek and Fred Williams, students t Huutersville, N. C., High school, made a ying visit to their home at this place on 'hursday and returned on Monday. John Hobbs, a son of Mr. W. P. Hobbs, let with a painful accident one day last ,'eek. He was drivinc a vminir mnl? tn "O ? J o *v he buggy. The auitnal got frightened and an away. John was thrown violently from lie buggy and painfully, though not scriusly, hurt. \V. Ess Ghee. ? The Columbia Register of yesterday ontains a dispatch to the effect that Conressmen Strait, Latimer and McLaurin ave been classed at Washington as Third 'artyites, and as such can have but little or o voice in the distribution of Federal paton age in this State.