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ery 01 AmtyiCil tuu years uciuic inv; aiuvui of Columbus. The vessel is seventy-eight: feet in length from stem to stern, and is manned by twelve seamen under the com-1 maud of Captain Anderson, a native of Norway, but for several years a citizen of the United States. The vessel is to be taken to Chicago by way of the Hudson river and Erie canal. It is propelled by ten oars and one sail. ? Chicago society, says an exchange, is: much shocked at the coolness with which the Infanta recently received their recent efforts at politeness. In their excessive eagerness, the ardent Westerners offended and annoyed the royal personage. Big fat alder- j men, whiskey merchants and pork packers hung around the Infanta and insisted on j shaking hands with her whenever they came j near her at any of the many social func-1 tions given in her honor. She got so tired of being "pestered" by the various commit-! tees appointed by the well-meaning Chica- j goans, that she soon snubbed the whole lot j and confined herself entirely to her own | party and her "official escort, Commander Davis. As she is no louger the guest of the nation, she is free to do as she pleases, and she proposes to have a great time of it. ? The most remarkable long distance! horse-race in the history of the world, commenced on Tuesday of last week. The . start was Chadron, Nebraska, and the goal is to be the World's Fair grounds at Chicago, Illinois, a distance of one thousand miles. Twenty five racers, including one woman, were at the start, and by the terms of the' agreement the entire distance must be trav-! eled on the same horse on which the rider started. The rider who first gets to Chica- j go with a horse in fairly good condition, j is to receive one thousand dollars in cash. | The route to be followed has been fully prescribed, and each rider is expected to tele-' graph his whereabouts at the various main ! stations along the road. Among the riders; are many of the most notorious and toughest cowboys of the West. It is calculated that the winner will make the distance in about twenty days. ? In his weather predictions for June, Mr. ( Hicks, the St. Louis prophet says: "From the 21st to the 25th inclusive, we will pass | the turning poiut in our trip around the sun, j and start for shorter days aud longer nights, j It will be natural to expect some heavy storms, with rain and much lightning and j thunder, say about the 23d to 25th. Cooler : weather will succeed these storms, aud re- j gions that are short of moisture at the end of ? - ?- ? ^ -.211 Un??/v /\ A/vnfAn/1 ii'ItL corinno I fetalis audi ^acts. | ? Pension Commissioner Lochren is starting out on his work of reform in great style. Ex-commissiouer Haum estimated that $1S5,-! 000,000 would be required for pensions for the j year ending July 1, 1S94, but congress only s appropriated $105,000,000. Commissioner Lochren now says that he will not need that amount, and that he will have a surplus of about $0,000,000 on hand at the close of the i fiscal year instead of the deficit of $25,000-1 000 estimated by Raurn. After the rolls are j thoroughly purged, it is thought, the annual appropriation will be still further reduced. ? The most unique vessel that has been i seen in modern times, arrived in New York . harbor last week. It was from Norway and is a counterpart of the old Viking ship, used by the Norsemen in their supposed discov- i " * ;? i -A l.?r?~ *1.? ?l I lilts peiiUU Will IIUVC IUV1U1UCUU nun ovwvuo drought. Reactionary disturbances are central on the 29th with equinox of the Mercury on the same day. These combined causes are sure to result in a warm wave, and some very active electrical storms, with local rains during the two or three last days of June.j The month will close with very cool weather j advancing from the west, which condition j will prevail in most parts in the opening days j of July. ? Messrs. Drexel, Morgan & Co's reorgan-! ization plan has not yet been carried into complete effect. The re-organizers already had in their hands a majority of the securities of the Richmond Terminal company when the plan was proposed, but several branches of other portions of the system objecting to the original plan, caused friction. Securityholders of the Georgia Pacific company refused to accept the plan, and have I received another proposition Under which they will" probably deposit their holdings. The original plan has also been amended so far as it relates to the Columbia and Greenville road. At first this road was only to receive preferred stock in the new company for its bonds. The reorganizers, however, > have now agreed that the first mortgage j bonds of the road will receive an equal j amount of new first mortgage bonds, and the | second bonds will receive 125 per cent, in J preferred stock. As to whether their last proposition will be accepted, has not yet j been decided. ? Robbers got on the Northern Pacific I train at Wardena, N. I)., last Saturday morning and went partially through one of the sleepers, says a United Press dispatch. The porter was quite badly clubbed about the head and told to keep still. Three passengers were awakened and robbed of $-10 and 3 gold watches. When Judge Leech, of Minneapolis, was reached, he was awakened from a sound sleep and told to give up his money and watch "pretty d d quick." Only half awake he replied : "I don't want anything to do with you; so get out of here, you d d robber." The fellow had his gun at the judge's head, but he got up, and the fellow backed down the aisle, followed by the judge. Some one pulled the bell rope, and the man jumped off. It is j thought there was two or three meu in the ! gang. They were partly masked. Judge' Leech said if he had been fully awake lie j would never have dared to do what he at-1 tempted to, as he was unarmed. ? An interesting case, involving an ex- j _/ ?i. J ? 11 rvii pense 01 many uiousnius ui uuuurs iu v. unn P. Huntington, the well known New York I millionaire, has just been decided by the New York department of buildings. About1 two years ago Mr. Huntington decided upon the erection of a magnificent mansion on Fifth avenue. The plans were duly prepar-1 ed by the architects and placed on file in accordance with the law. It was discover-1 ed that through a miscalculation, an expensive bay window would project into the street a slight fraction beyond the building line. Objection was at once filed, but Mr. Huntington and the architects believing that the encroachment was so slight that the objectors would not.be sustained by the authorities, went on with the work. After two years the building was completed, and last week the department of buildings being unwilling to allow the slight infringement to stand as a precedent, ordered the bay window to coipe down. Mr. Huntington is mad. ? From Tomsk, the capital of Western Siberia, comes the most interesting narrative of the ingenuity displayed by a prisoner in making his escape from a solitary confinement cell in one of the local prisons. It seems that this prisoner, who had been confined for the last eleven years, having been convicted of murder, continued without an instrument of any kind, to loosen two large sandstones, each cue a yard long and two j feet thick and wide, and then on one evening, drew hoth of them into a cell and escaped , through an opening. An examination of the stones and mortar shows that the latter was : gradually washed away, thus loosening the stones. The theory is that the prisoner saved some of the drinking water which was given him each day, and by spurting it from his mouth against the seams, and at the same time working on the mortar with his nails, j gradually succeeded in removing it, layer by layer. It is estimated that at least eight or nine years were necessary for the completion ( of so gigantic a task, and it is only a man who : had to serve twenty years, as this prisoner had who would have undertaken it. ? One of the most remarkable criminal; trials of the present decade has been in progress at New Bedford, Mass.. during the past ten days. On the 4tli day of August, 1SS>2, Andrew J. Borden, a wealthy real estate and mill owner aud his wife, were found dead in their home at Fall River, Mass. The body of the husband was lying in a room down stairs and the wife up stairs. Both bodies had been brutally hacked with some sharp weapon, presumably a hatchet, and the room was bespattered with blood. Living in the house also was Lizzie Borden, daughter of the murdered man, and step-daughter i of the murdered woman. The murder occurred about 11 o'clock in the morning. Lizzie had been in or about the house all day,: luit nloims tn hlive hnnti nut, in lilt; baril Sit the time of the murder. She hud been ironing, .she claims, in the room in which her father was sitting, and her iron getting too hot, she went to the barn a short distance away, to get some article that she wanted. When she returned she found her father had been murdered, and subsequent search by ' people she at once summoned to the scene, j disclosed the body of her murdered step- j t mother also. A careful search of the prem- t ises tailed to unearth the weapon with which 1 <. the murder was committed, hut somehow j suspicion attached to Lizzie aud she was arrested. She had on a blue dress before the 1 murder and the same dress afterward, but t there was no sign of blood oa it, or any of the j i rest of her clothing, except her white under- ! skirt, upon which there was a small blood t spot. The State authorities at once put dc-j tectives to work to develop any possible clue, j and several thousand dollars were spent in I hunting up testimony. Finally the trial j 1 commenced about a week ago, and for an en- j? tire week the State did all in its power to ( make out a case against the accused without j ( success. There was absolutely no evidence . against her, and though i; is the general belief that she will not be found guilty, in s the opinion of criminal experts throughout the country she will still be an object of j s suspicion. Aiiogeiner, u- is uiie ui mc must i remarkable cases on record. I She fJaehvtUc <?uqtum'.' YOK^VILLE, S. C.: 1 WEDNESDAYTJUNE 21,1893. ? The Atlanta Constitution, which is easily the greatest of Southern newspapers, celebrated its twenty-fifth birthday last Sunday 8 by issuing a forty page edition. Y-?? C ? Whether he carries it out or not, Gov- 1 ernor Tillman's suggestion as to the appoint- r ment of secret agents to enforce the dispen- 1 sary law, is a good one. Even the honest I man with a clear conscience is afraid of a ^ secret enemy, and the bare suggestion of secret agents is enough to furnish a consider-1 able check to the boldest would-be violator j of the law. If the governor should make public all the constable appointments, and cause if. to be given out that there were as f many more working in secret, for a time at least, the result would be the same as if the c statement were really true. However, we * would not suggest anything of this kind. It J would be dishonorable. t ? The Columbia Register asserts that Gov- t ernor Tillman was insulted with hisses and i groans by political opponents in Greenville, ? even on the occasion of his recent trip to 1 meet the Jeff Davis funeral train. The | Greenville News denounces the statement as , an unqualified falsehood, and calls upon t (Jovernor Tillman and prominent Reformers t of Greenville, to state whether or not the f story is a baseless slander. We do not pre- y tend to say whether we believe the story, J but we confess that it at least makes some s impression upon us. If it is true, it is not 1 creditable to the guilty parties; if it is not 1 true, the position of The Register in the ^ matter is, to say the least of it, unenviable. THE LIQUOR QUESTION. The feature of the last issue of "The Lever," a prohibition paper published at Rock- i ford, 111., is a cartoon on the South Carolina \ dispensary. 1 In the foreground of the picture stands Governor Tillman, wearing a barkeeper's ^ apron and holding in one hand a bottle of lager beer, and in the other a bottle of rye t whisky. He is posed as though waiting for 1 a customer and ready to pass over the conn- 1 ter whatever kind of liquor may be desired. On the right, kneeling before a small fire, is the shadowy form of a half frozen woman, ( evidently the wife or mother of a drunktord, ? and behind her is a file of striped convicts t being marched to the penitentiary under ^ guard. To the left lies a drunken wretch J over whom bends a sneak thief in the act of ( stealing his valuables, and behind this is 4 depicted a murder that is being enacted in a c gambling hell. In the shadowy gloom beyond is a long row "of gibbets, on which a 8 number of victims are still hanging. Twining around overhead and forming a scalloped border to the gruesome picture, are two gi- ^ gantic serpents, and the constitution of the c State is represented as festooned in their j folds. Underneath the picture is the following which, the cartoonist, says, must be added 1 to the governor's official oath : "As gover- ^ nor of South Carolina, I do solemnly swear ^ that in my added labors in the State control t of the sale of liquors, to use the purest li- i quors possible in wrecking manhood, making widows and orphans, devastating homes, 1 causing sorrow and degradation, producing j pauperism and driving the manhood of my 11 State to the gallows or behind the prison ' t bars." I All this sounds well enough when applied I to the liquor business generally, but as ap- 1 plied especially to South Carolina, it is bosh. j1 There is no doubt that the liquor business # is every bit as black as the cartoonist seeks I to paint it, but if South Carolina is guilty of t all that is charged, every State in the Union ^ that permits the sale of liquor in its borders,!; no matter how, is equally to be condemned. Clothed with power to have your will, there t is no difference between doing a thing yourself and allowing some one else to do it, I except that you can generally do it your- * in a more satisfactory manner. Take it as we may, the liquor question is J hard to manage, and if we expect to sell liquor, either as private individuals or as a government, in such a manner as to get rid of the i evil results inseparable from such traffic, we 1 are very great fools. There is no doubt in |1 our minds that the dispensary plan furnishes j as good a way to deal with fiqour as can he ' ( devised, except by doing away with the ] traffic entirely, and if the temperance people and our law makers have any other idea in ' getting control of the liquor traffic than to j eventually blot it out altogether, all we have ;. to say is may God help our future. I, THE GERMAN ELECTIONS. t The most important news that is now |1 being published in the papers comes from ! Germany, and relates to the great political ' struggle that is going on in that country. J An exciting general election took place 011 Thursday, and it was undoubtedly the most; important that has ever occurred in the empire. The main overshadowing question was whether or not the German people are willing to pay the price necessary to keep their j 1 country armed as the "strong man" ready '. for the next probable struggle with their j' traditional enemy and great neighbor, j ] France. ' I Iu March next, the law under which the Is present immense standing army of the Ger- < man empire is maintained, expires. It de-,1 volves upon the government to make pro- j vision for a new army. Recognizing the growing, if not the overshadowing, power of|, its surrounding neighbors, it is the policy i of the German government to increase rather ;1 than diminish its present army. With a view to providing for the future, 1 Chancellor Caprivi introduced in the rcieh.. 1.ill T.i-Mviilinir for mi annual increase , ?"lri ? r in the army expenditure of :?Ifi,0( >0,000. Hundreds of thousands of Hermans, already considering the tax burdensome, arose with all their might against the passage of the . new law. The question was fought bitterly , for a period of about six months, and al- , though the government consented to a number of large reductions in the bill, in tlie;i final vote it was defeated. I'nder a government like (Jermany, the emperor is supposed to submit quietly to the will of the people as expressed in the reiehstag, or federal assembly, being altogether without partisan interest in any measure j hat may l>c considered. In tliis ease, how ver, the emperor did not occupy such a po-! itiou. From the first lie maintained that % i he very existence of the empire depended ipon the passage of the bill, and all through he long struggle exerted himself to his lit-! nost to carry the measure. Upon the failure of the reiehstug to pass; he bill, the emperor, as lie had a right to do, m May fith, dissolved that body, and appealed to the people. The reichstag had >een elected for five years and had only i icrved two years of the term. The action ?f the emperor in dissolving the body at the , ime he did, may therefore be taken as an j ndication of the tremendous interest at! itake. Under the law, when a reichstag is dis-j solved, a new one must be elected within ! avo months. The period since May Gth has I peen taken up by exceedingly lively earn- j laigning on the part of both the government j mil the people, and the interest in last rhursday's election inav be easily imagined. The electron was duly held, but with inde:isive results. Throughout the empire there ire 397 election districts. The anti-army \in fnr>?i/\n nnn-inrl 107 nf them bv a small najority, but in the other 200 districts new Sections will he required on account of the nultiplicity of candidates and parties. The1 ndications seem to he that the government vill he successful, hut nothing definite can >e known until the final election, which will :ome oflf during the early part of next month. The final result of the election is of the greatest importance to all Europe. Should he people decide to support the emperor, hat means a great increase in the standing irmy of Germany, and other countries must ollow suit. Should the voters, however, lecide to let the new bill fall through, Gernany will soon degenerate into a second ate power, and after a time become an easy >rey to those of her neighbors?France and lussia?who have long desired to wollup lcr up. . ? ? ? CLEVELAND IS A MAX. It' Would Kiitlu-r br Right than President, and Will nut Ho Controlled l?y Anybody. The following is from the New York Herild of last Wednesday : Mr. Cleveland's party of the famous little iinner party of the Victoria, at which Mr. sheehan's nose was tweaked, so to speak,1 s quite interesting. This is the way it is re-1 mated by an intimate friend of the president, | md it is the first time it has been made pubic in its details. Mr. Whitney had urged i ipon Air. Cleveland the importance of meet- j ng the surly leaders of the Democratic or-1 ionization with a view to harmony. The ex-1 ^resident was unwilling at first; lie insisted hat the fight at Chicago had settled the question of personalities, and there was no j uorc reason why he should go to New York ! u\d make overtures to Mr. Hill's friends I han he should go to the followers of any de-! eated candidate in any other State. If they j ,vere Democrats, it was their business to sup-' lort the ticket. Finally, however, Air. Whitley's argument prevailed, and Air. Cleveland : started from Buzzard's Bay to meet the sulen leaders. When Air. Cleveland met Air. iVhitney, prior to dinner, lie looked at him vitli a curious smile. "Well, Whitney, have you got your dinner eady ?" "Yes. everything is ready." "Who will be there tonight?" "Murphy, Sheehan, Croker," and Air. tVhitney named the invited guests. There vas a moment of silence and then Air. Whitley laughed. "I saw Sheehan at the Hoffman today," he ;aid, "and he says he intends to read the riot ict to you tonight." "I have heard that he intends to do somcliing of that sort," said Air. Cleveland, quiety, "and I have come to New York so that ic may have the opportunity." "When the dinner was ready, Air. Sheehan urned to Air. Cleveland and said there was i matter of business to be discussed. Air. Cleveland expressed his willingness to hear my thing that might be said. Air. Sheehan old him that the gentleman then present vere the leaders and representatives of the democratic organization in the State of New fork, and they wanted to come to a definite Miderstanding with him. lie could not be i .i . i At ,_.i i.:?. 1 fiecieu UII1CSS lliey hllJ)[)Ui iuu nun, ini<_i mvj lid not intend to take any chances this time. "Well, what do you gentlemen want?" isked Mr. Cleveland. "We want pledges from you," said Mr. Sheehan. "We want to know what you are joiug to do if elected. We want you to; jive us promises that will satisfy us that the irganization will be properly recognized if! ,'ou become president again." Mr. Cleveland doubled up his huge lists, md smote the table. "Gentlemen," lie said, speaking slowly and j vith almost painful distinctness, "I will not jo into the White House pledged to you or; o any one else. T will make no secret prom- j ses; I'll be d?d if I will." "What are you going to do, then ?" inquired dr. Sheehan, cynically. Again the big fists whacked the table. "I'll tell you what I'm going to do," said dr. Cleveland, as he rose to his feet, "I inend to address a letter to the public, in which shall withdraw from the ticket. I will write hat letter before I sleep tonight and give it to he press. I intend to explain my situation | md repeat what you have said to me. I will j ell the voters I cannot give such pledges, j md, unless I do, you will not support the ' democratic ticket which means the loss of the state of New York, and defeat. T will tell the otcrs I do not want to stand in the way of democratic victory. That is what I shall do. Then, gentlemen, you can pick a candidate to ! ;uit you, and if he is the proper candidate of he party, I will vote for him." There was a pause. "Hut I'll tell you one thing, Mr. Sheehan," :aid dir. Cleveland, as he turned to the now ucathlcss lieutenant governor, "in my opin011, public opinion will snow you and your irganization out of sight within a week." dir. Croker leaped to his feet. "This must stop. dir. Sheehan ; I agree ,vith Mr. Cleveland, lie cannot make any j lledgcs, and it is not right to ask him for hem." So the dinner party separated. "I'll tell you what it is," said the ex-presilent, as he told the story, "those fellows got lold of Whitney and rattled him." The gentleman who saw the president a *r /,! 1 :ew wccks ago, says air. vievciaim, muw hinks it was a groat mistake not to have nl-1 owed tlu* anti-Tainmanyites to nominate an ndependent candidate. lie is confident that such a ticket would have been victorons, tnd would have resulted in a political condi:ion in the State, less einharrassingthan that which now confronts him. '*! am satisfied," said the informant, "that the next local election will result in Republican success, and it seems to me about the liest thing than can happen." "Is that Mr. Cleveland's idea, too?" "I won't suv that: in fact, I don't know." siikll wants to kbtiuk. A reporter of the The News called upon ; Congressman Shell, at the residence of \V. I). Melts, on Whitner street, (ireenville, last Thursday. Congressman Shell, says the reporter, is in line health, and seems to have little care or (rouble, judging from his personal appearance. The reporter opened up cm politics as a matter of course. The captain smiled pleasantly, but remarked : "You remember, I announced in January I hat I was out of politics. 1 want to reaffirm what I then said; I am out of politics. It is strange that this cannot be understood." There was something of a pathetic tone to his voice as he said : ii* t i* "I wautcM to retiit iroin punne me quieuy, carrying with me the kind feeling and good will of my fellow citizens: I wanted to retin gracefully and peacefully. Hot it seems that 1 am not understood, so I say to yon tonight 1 am no longer in politics and I wish this understood." The reporter asked him if he had seen the two contradictory statements published 1 in the Columbia Journal, interviews with two Tilmanites, one atlirming that he was a true blue Tilhnanite and the other that lawns a traitor and would be bounced out of the Reform party, lie replied that he had not seen the articles, and in consequence could not express any opinion in regard to them. ' What about the bitter attack of The Register?" asked the reporter. He smiled pleasantly, thought a moment, and replied : ' Well, to tell the truth, I am not advised j as to the motives of The Register in making a gratuitous attack on me." Hesitating a moment, Captain Shell raised his hand and with quick utterance, said : "I am today as much wedded to the Reform movement as I was in 1888 when I was elected president of the Farmers'association. No man can deny this. When I had the, management of the Reform movement I con-' sidcred it in a strong and healthy condition. To those who have charge of the movement : I wish great success. It does seem strange ' that my loyalty to a party which I had con- j siderable part in building up should be doubted at this late day. But these doubts can exist only in the minds of those who are embittered by jealousy. I have tried to do my duty in congress, fairly and conscientious ly, and now I am out of politics." Captain Shell seemed to feel relieved by ! the idea of being out of the political arena, { and he will evidently enjoy observing the1 making and breaking of slates and the tussle j for place and power. Captain Shell was given a drive over the j city in about the handsomest landau in I town by prominent citizens who have been well known as supporters of his, and many | of them gathered around him in the streets j or called upon him. IT IS A BONANZA. The Business of Manufacturing Cotton When Properly Managed. Correspondence of the Yorkvillc Enquirer. Pacolkt Mills, June 15.?There has been considerable talk within the past year concerning the cotton mill business in Yorkville, and being heartily interested in the | scheme of organization, also believing that ''stirring the tire will increase the llames," I wish to submit the following in the hope that what may be said in my humble why will not only he read with interest but will be thought over by some of our conservative business men. There is no question as to the feasibility of such a business. With one good man at the head of an enterprise, success is certain. This has been proven splendidly right here. Pacolet Mills, formerly Trough Shoals, is in the southeastern part of Spartanburg county, one and three-quarters of a mile from Pacolet depot, on the Spartanburg and Union railroad, and directly on Pacolet river. Ten years ago Captain John II. Montgomery, than whom, there is no better cotton mill man in the South, noting the fine water pow- j er afforded by the river as it poured through j its "trough" of rocks, conceived the idea of; establishing a gigantic mill plant at this place, and how well he has succeeded no j one will question. The great work is here, | a monument to his pluck, good judgment and business principles. With nothing to begin the work, save a fine business policy, he commenced, and soon had the subscription of a sufficient size to commence building operations. Without going into details as to the length of time in building, which was short, I will say the mill was completed, machinery placed, cotton spun and weaved into cloth ready for shipment within two years after the site was purchased. There are now two immense mills, Nos. 1 and 2. -I n J X i I 4'rxrsf i>l 111 i>0. l is iour stones mgu sum > * * met | long by 75 feet wide. The mill is operated j by four turbine wheels of 825 horse power, and contains 20,140 spindles. It consumes 38 bales of cotton daily, and requires 700 persons to operate its machinery and do the work inside the walls. Mill No. 2 is just completed at a cost of $400,000. It is about 500 yards down the I river, in which there is a hill of 28 feet, i The two mills now represent a capital of; $750,000, a good bit of which is a surplus [ outside of the yearly dividend of 11 per cent, i The stock is quoted at $1(55. The pay roll! of mill No. 1 amounts to $13,000 monthly, j and when No. 2. gets started up, the monthly ' pay roll will be $18,000. As a paying investment, Pacolet mills are a i success. At a meeting of the stockholders, | no sooner was a proposition to build No. 2 submitted than it met with approval and ; work was at once commenced. The proper ! appreciation of the magnitude of the work I and of the surroundings cannot be formed without a visit to the place and an insight into j the affairs generally. Miss PeGrafFenreid's article, the "Georgia Cracker," will not apply to Pacolet. In morals the place will compare with any town in the South. President Montgomery has brought this about by his high moral tone and kindly tact. The place is up to the times. The Richmond and Danville railroad company has a track from Pacolet depot, passing mills Nos. 1 and 2,' right to the company store. In this store there are six salesmen under the management of Mr. Victor M. Montgomery, (once a cadet at the King's Mountain Military school, York-1 ville) who are kept busy filling the wants of the 3,000 people who work in and about the factory. The place has a telegraph office, a flourishing school of 200 pupils (children of mill operatives) and two churches built j by the company. Also a splendid hotel. The dull roarings of the little mountain stream and the shrill whistle of the factory | pipes, were too monotonous for the young! men of the'town, and a cornet band has been organized to soon enliven the citizens j during the dull summer evenings. It is wonderful to think that where aj dozen years ago stood an old corn mill, sur- j rounded by a wilderness of hillsides, now stands a little city of 3,000, and a plant representing a million dollars. What was once , an almost impassable road, is now converted into a splendid terrace and beautiful drives, and where was once an almost impenetrable i wilderness, stands the pretty "White City" ! of Pacolet mills. R. J. JIkrndon. LETTER FROM UNION COUNTY. In Charge of (lie I'ostoltlce?Six Feel of Snake? Treed a Bear? Flection for Representative? i Condition of the Crops?Other Notes. Corrcs|Kjndenco of the Yorkville Kmjulrer. Etta Jank, June 17.?Mr. R. W. Harris,) the new appointee, is now neatly ensconsed i in the post office at Union. (ieorge Petty killed a snake, of the coachwhip species, last Thursday, that measured six feet nine inches in length. One of our neigbor hoys at SVilkinsville; came running to the house hist Thursday to get a gun, as he thought he had found a bear ina brier thicket. Of course no one could think of such a thing being true, and all tried to dissuade him by telling him it was imagination : but he wouldn't listen to anything of the sort, and a crowd followed him . to the spot, only to find that it was some I buzzards, dissecting a carcass they had | found, lie can't stand bear now. There will be an election in this county this summer to fill the vancaney occasioned j by the resignation of It. W. Harris, who was, elected to tie.' legislature last fall, and who recently resigned to take charge of the postoflice. We had a great deal of rain in the last two weeks and crops are getting grassy. Corn on low bottom lands is being drowned out. Wheat has been harvested, and most of the stubble has been sown in peas or planted in corn. Farm work is now resumed with a rush. Farmers expect to finish up and be ready to I go out visiting by (lie time visiting time! comes. Tin-: Fniji ikkk will probably have a cotton bloom to speak of in its next issue, but it will not come in from this neighborhood, until the week after. The Tatikersly Monumental association is: soliciting subscriptions to build a $500 mon-! ument to the memory of Professor J. M. Tankersly, late of (iaflhcy male and female | seminary. In last week's letter to Till-: ftNijl'lKKlt,; I am made to say that wagons from Lock-1 hart Shoals are coming into this section for fuel, instead of feed. This was 110 doubt 011 account of my illegible writing. Miss Peonle Whisonant has returned home from Clifford seminary to spend vacation. J. Calhoun McDowell, fomierly of Western York, is now postmaster at Dicey, Texas, having removed to that State several years ago. Unless other arrangements are made, the ! mail route from this place to Hickory (J rove I will be without a carrier after the 1st of July, j The present sub-contractor only took the contract for one year, which ends July 1, 18t).">. Sic ma. j l.'v.v\i-ii 11 1 v 11 ?Tlw? i-i>i1 iii-lion of till' ! Bank of England's discount rule to :$ per, cent, is an encouraging feature of the geuer-! al business situation, and is having a good J elled in the 1'nited States. Money is plen-1 tiful and low in London, and in other of the | great financial centers of Europe a like con-! dition of things is present or approaching. This situation relieves the strain on this side of the water to a considerable degree, for it lessens the gold exportations. At this moment the prospect is that the gold fund in | the treasury will increase again, and it may ' be around the $100,000,000 mark once more ! when the fiscal year ends three weeks hence.! ?St. Louis (ilobe Democrat. MEKK MENTION. The Highshine distillery, located at Jfarlishurg, Fa., and one of the largest in l'enn-! sylvania, was burned last Friday, together! with 5,000 barrels of whisky. A gov- i eminent powder magazine exploded at j Athens, Greece, last Friday, and killed twenty ollicers and soldiers, besides doing a : great deal of damage to surrounding proper-! ty. Infanta Eululie leaves for Spain on ! the 24lh instant. A. L. Ames, who | was injured in the Ford Theatre disaster, died last Friday night. A vicious roos-! ter attacked a lady in I'niontown, l'a., one | day last week, and stuck one of its spurs into j her head to such a depth that it is doubtful as to whether she will recover. Mrs. Elizabeth Latham died in Atlanta, (?a., one day last week, aged 102 years. The Southern Railway and Steamship association has decided upon a sharp advance in the rates on coal oil shipped in less than car load lots. The reason for the advance is said to be the damage to other goods in the cars. The Mississippi Hoods have not ,-ot nUotnil oiifl flip lovooa nlrmrr the shores J" e still require careful watching. One hundred and fifty-five deaths from cholera, are reported to have occurred, in Mecca, Arabia, within a week recently. Wesley Shaw, at Buchanan, Ga., ordered an old woman believed by Negroes to be a witch, off his land. She followed him to "pick up his tracks." lie, to prevent being bewitched, attempted to cut her "witch vein." Instead, he struck her jugular vein, and she is dying. He is in jail. Thomas R. Robertson has been appointed postmaster at Charlotte, X. C., vice A. Brady, removed. I)r. J. R. Walker, resident physician at Leech Lake, Indian Reservation, in Minnesota, accidentally killed an Indian one day last week and had to call on the troops to save himself from being lynched. Yellow fever has become violently epidemic in Panama and other Central American ports, and rigid quarantine precautions are being enforced along the gulf coast of the United States. Decatur Wilson, of Atlanta, has brought suit against the Atlanta Guano company for $10,000 for alleged damage caused to his crops and fruit trees by the fumes of acid used in the works. Lightning struck a tree near Adrian, Mich., last Thursday, under which six brothers named Wright, were standing. Four of the brothers were instantly killed.- Amanda Toomer, who is said to have been the wealthiest Negress in the country, died at Augusta, Ga., recently. Her estate was worth about $500,000. She was a daughter of the late David Dickson, the well known Georgia farmer. A disastrous storm passed through a portion of Georgia last Thursday. Several houses were blown down in Valdosta and Thomasville. Charles W. Watkins, a well known merchant, was killed at Richmond, Ya., last Friday, by the bursting of an emory wheel in Stokes's Dixie plow works. He was an uncle of Charles H. Watkins, the hardware salesman. Mrs. Stonewall Jackson, who resides in Charlotte, N. C., has been presented with a sprig of ivy from the grave of Martin Luther, which she intends to plant on the grave of her husband. An unknown man jumped off of the Brooklyn bridge last Sunday and was instantly killed. Of the 110,000 Chinese in this country, only 13,179 have registered as required by the Geary act. A Tennessee mob? by mistake, hanged an innocent man named Jim Harris for the crime of a man named Lee Bennett. How thk Dispensary Works.?The big State dispensary continues to be the central point of interest now, says the Columbia Register of last Saturday. People who have come here from the country and visited the place have been surpised at the mammoth size of the business. Stute Commissioner T). H. Traxler arrived yesterday after several week's absence on account of sickness, and is in charge of affairs. Replying to an inquiry by a reporter about his rumored resignation, he said that he never had any intention to resigin and expects to hold on. Operations were going on briskly and everything moved on without a hitch, packing and all. A lot of materials were receivn<i vnt:fnr*lnv nmnnir them the wranners vv4 -?w,,0 jti for the quart and pint flasks. The wrappers are made of very thick paper, and the flasks are pushed into them, fitting tightly. They are then packed in barrels on end and filled with shavings. The barrels are then headed up and the kind of liquor, and the size and number of the bottles, marked on the end. A lot of stencil plates was received yesterday for branding the heads of the barrels. Large as the building is, it is likely to prove too small to accommodate the tremendous business.' More room will be rented, if necessary. Arrangements will be made at once for j lighting the building by electricity for use j whenever it shall be necessary to work at< night. There will probably be an arc light put in the building to burn all night for protection. It is more than likely also that a maimed Confederate soldier, a good man, will be employed as night watchman. Those engaged in the work of bottling are j becoming quite expert and rapid. No orders have come in yet from the j county dispensers. Tick Fori> Theatre Disaster.?The coroner's investigation of the recent Ford : theatre disaster at Washington, continued all; of last week, and at* present, blame for the terrible occurrence seems to rest on Colonel | Ainsworth, chief of the revision record divis- < ion, Contractor George W. Dant, who was | doing the work in the cellar, and the govern-! meut itself. The testimony shows that the building! had, time and again, been declared unsafe, i and notwithstanding this fact, its nse was1 continued. When it was decided to put an ! electric light plant in the cellar, Colonel' Ainsworth drew up the plans and specifica-1 tions, and prepared them more with a view ! to cheapness than anything else. Many responsible contractors had refused to bid on the work at all, for the reason that they could not make any money out of it. It was shown that the bids considered by Colonel Ainsworth ranged from $1)50 to $2,220, and that by George W. Dant, which was the lowest, was the one accepted. The cause of the collapse was the failure of Dant to properly underpin or brace up the foundation, and contractors have testified that it would have been impossible for him to have done so at the price received for the work. Dant, who of course, is innocent of any urniHr?mi 1\* tTiok- clmiices?is! I 11 I V 11 I 1 v/l i 14 1 tl 1 Vllh X/U> 1 ?Vw.. ? ? said to be going crazy over the terrible accident for which he is about to be declared responsible. The verdict of the coroner's jury has not yet been declared, but it will probably fix responsibility upon Ainsworth, Pant and the government. ? Tiik Position ok Soitji Carolina.? South Carolina members of congress recently interviewed by the newspapers on important issues of the day. expressed them-' selves as follows: Washington, IJune 7. I To the Kditorof The World : I would vote for a repeal!of the Sherman sil- j ver law eoii])led with repeal of 111 per cent, tax oil State bank circulation. Not otherwise. I J am in favor of an income tax. lain in favor of repeal of Hi per cent, on State bank circulation, i M. Bi n,Kit, senator, (Hem.) ItKl.ToN, Junei?. To the Kditor of The World : I will oppose the repeal unless silver isreiuonelized. Favor iueonie tax. May favor repeal 111 percent. State bank tax if proper restrictions are proposed in bill. A. ('. I .ATI M Kit, (DOIII.) Lai ukns. June li. To the Kditorof The World : lam opposed to the repeal of the Sherman silver law. 1 fa vol income tax. I favor repeal of the State bank tax. 1 1 IV sin i..i i l linn, ) | " " ? I IjANCA ST Kit, Jlliur li. To the Kditor of The World : Do not favor repeal of Sherman law, unless! the substitute of free and unlimited coinage of! silver. 1 favor a graduated ineoine tax and a repeal of; tax 011 State hanks. T. J. Sthait, (Allianee-Dem.) Senator Irby (Dent.) is on record as op-j posed to the repeal of the Sherman act. i Representative Talhert answered from his j home in I'arksville ?ts follows: "1 was elected to congress as an Alliaueej Democrat standing on the Alliance platform. I shall continue to stand on that platform and i advocate its demands. You and all others can j judge for yourselves." Congressman 15 raw ley says : "I favor the repeal of the Sherman law and the State hank tax. 1 am in inclined to favor an income tax." LOCAL AFFAIRS, j <1 INDEX. TO NEW A OVERT IS KM KXTS. : Sam M. < Irist, agent for the sale of Monarch hi- j cycles?"The Monarch is the king of e hikes." j. W. ('. Latimer?Otters to furnish tailor-made garments on order, and announces that Ins grand summer closing out sale will com-' j inencc tomorrow. Lowry A* Starr?Want to furnish you with j means to destroy Hies, have fruit jars, and j ] rubbers for them, fruit powders, paint for i T painting your buggy, rut proof harness oil, | . oil for engines and machinery, rum and ' ^ (ptinine hair lotion, peruna, wax toothache cure and a cure for corns. ? W. J. Hoddey, Agent? Publishesa letter return- ( ing thanks for prompt settlement of a policy in the Equitable Life Assurance society. 11 W. M. Houston A Co.?Have received a new lot ^ of ladies' slippers and shoes and shoes for gentlemen, including a bargain lot of shoes ? recently purchased at auction for less than they are worth. T. M. Dobson, of Dobson's Racket?Publishes a t list of useful articles which he otters at low ; i prices. W. II. MeCorkle, Probate Judge?(lives notice ? that \V. Brown Wylio has applied for let- ( ters of administration on the estateof William Watson, ]>. t\, deceased. > Rebecca J. Davidson, Executrix?(lives notice t to the debtors and creditors of K. N. Davidson, deceased. t W. B. Moore, Inteiulant?The town council gives j notice that the ordinance against unlicensed dogs running at large on the streets, will be ^ rigidly enforced on and after the first day of r July. Inman Brothers?Call attention to their stock ot t light summer clothing and that they will sell straw hats at reduced prices. Withers Adiekes Company?'Toll about lighting 1 . flies, their seeds of various kinds, Hour of : all sorts, meats, fish, coffees, sugars, cow feed etc J CHURCH NOTICES. Episcopal?Lay services next Sunday at 10.30 a. m., and Sunday-school immediate- i ly afterward. Baptist?Rev. W. J. Lnngston, pastor. ] Yorkvii.lk?Sunday-school at 4 p. m. Prayer-meeting tomorrow evening at 8.30 j o'clock. Trinity Methodist Episcopal?Rev. S. A. j Weber, pastor. Services next Sunday evening at 8.15 p. m. Sunday-school at 5 { o'clock p. m. Prayer-meeting this evening at 8.15 o'clock. j Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J. C. Galloway, pastor. Tirzah?Services < next Sunday at 11 a. m. Yorkvili.e?Services at 8.30 o'clock p. m. Sunday-school at , 4 o'clock p. m. I Presbyterian?Rev. T. R. English, D. I)., pastor. Services next Sunday at 10.30 a. m. Immediately after the services a con- ( gregational meeting will be held. Sunday- { school at 5 o'clock p. m. Prayer-meeting tomorrow afternoQn at 5 o'clock. 1 BOUND FOR NEW JERSEY. Twenty-one pigeons, sent to this place by the Trenton; N. J., Homing club, were released at the Narrow Guage depot at 5.20 o'clock last Sunday morning by Assistant Express Agent Speck. Upon their release the pigeons arose in the air and three times described a circle of about 400 yards in diameter. Finally satisfied as to their bearings, they struck out in a bee line somewhat east of north, and were ( soon out of sight. Within a few hours, two | of the pigeons returned and lighted on the roof ofthe Carolina Buggy company building, ^ and on Sunday night one of these was captured by a small boy. The other remained about the buggy factory and depot all day Sunday and Monday, and at last accounts was still in the vicinity. The remainder of the flock has not been heard from since its departure, but it is presumed that it arrived ^ safely nt its destination on Monday evening. A flock of thirteen pigeons from Philadelphia was released here ahout two years ago, and starting at sunrise, they all reached ^ Philadelphia on the afternoon of the same day. CAN YORKVILLE HAVE ONE ? The fact that the county board of control i has about decided to permit the establish- < mentofa dispensary in Yorkville, despite the fact that under the law such action seems to . be clearly forbidden, has excited not a little f interest. Some individuals hold that York- ] ville is unquestionably exempted from the provisions of the law, and others conteud . . ... ,i that the question is invoiveii in so mucn doubt that if a dispensary should be established here, nobody would ever make a fuss ^ about it. Lancaster county is situated very much like York in the matter of dry towns, and an individual who recently wrote to the at- , torney general for a construction of the law ^ in that county, received an opinion that j will be of interest in thfc section. It is as follows: "You ask ray opinion as to whether it is j imperative 011 county boards of control to ' establish dispensaries at the county seats, before they can establish them 'in other 1 towns-in the county?' There is no compul- 1 sion about it, and the boards may use their discretion, subject to the supervision of the I State board. In some cases there are pro- 1 hibitory laws as to the county seats, and in , such cases the board could not establish a ] dispensary at the county seat; but this must not prevent their establishing one in any ' other county where the sale of liquor is not prohibited. ' 1 A GOOD MAX GONE. Captain Robert II. Glenn died at his home , on the outskirts of Yorkville, last Friday ( night, of apoplexy, after an illness of five days. He was in the 64th year of his age. Captain Glenn was a native of the Bethel j section of York county, and came from an , old and honored ancestry. In early life he < learned the carpenter trade, and*in connec- 1 tion with that vocation, up to the breaking 1 out of the war, sustained himself as a farmer. < Always prominent, and a recognized leader among his fellowmen, he became captain of I the Catawba Light Infantry, a volunteer < company made up from the Clay Hill section j i of this county. When the State called for j ] troops in 1S61, he, together with almost 11 every member of his company, volunteered j 1 their services, and hurried to Charleston, I leaving here the 13th of April 1861?the 11 second day of the bombardment of Fort I Sumter?and arriving at the scene of hostili- 1 ties two days later. ] Upon the disbanding of the State troops s when the Confederacy was organized, Cap- < tain Glenn returned home and remained j' .... . ? . , , until .November following, wnen ne was ] again mustered into services as captain of 11 Company H, 18th regiment of South Caroli- ( na volunteers. As commander of this com-:( panv, he served until the close of the war, j( making a splendid record as a gallant soldier, |1 and winning the everlasting respect and es- 1 teem of all the soldiers who served under his command. , ( After the close of the war, Captain Glenn returned to his home in the Clay 1 Till section, J and the next year, 18(>(>, offered himself . 7 7 . j as a candidate for the ollice of sheriff, j Besides himself, there were four other can- ! 1 didates in the Held, viz: E. A. Crawford,; < John J. Wylie, Elias Kirkpatrick and David L G. Wallace. The only issue was personal 1 popularity, hut the following campaign was ] a spirited one. The election resulted in the !' choice of Captain Glenn by a slight purality,1 ] Captain E. A. Crawford, the present sheriff,11 following close behind within fifty or seven-|, ty-five votes. J < Captain Glenn served as sheriff from 18t>(>! j to 1888, a period of 22 years, and was over- , whehningly chosen in live subsequent elec tions. His record in public life was phenome-' ] nal. From the first he was an uncompromis- J < ing Democrat, and until the day of his death, j< he never abandoned a single principle of his ?. creed or swerved a hair's breadth in his | j loyalty to his party. During radical times ] iin. Uoinil.iio.iiw illil -ill fhov cnnlil to defeat! i him. They put up against him as candi-1 j dates some of their strongest and most in- ] (luential leaders, but so great was his per-; ( sonal popularity, even among the Negroes, < that one after another lie overwhelmingly > snowed his opponents under. In 18S8, j though certain that he could continue in j i in oflice if he so desired, he voluntarily t retired and declined re-election. . t In 181)0, Captain Glenn became a candi- |t late for the lower house of the legislature, ; vas elected, served one term, and then re- j. ired to private life to take no further inter- ' st in politics. He settled on his farm and t emained there until the time of his death, i The funeral services took place in the < 'resbyterian church at Yorkville 011 last ; Saturday afternoon and were conducted by 1 lev. T. M. Howry, assisted by Rev. \V. G. ? Seville. An immense crowd of people from I lie town and surrounding country were in 1 ittendance, and a marked feature of the on- I ;asion was the presence of an unusually 11 arge number of Negroes, who came to pay 1 heir last respects to their lifelong friend tnd benefactor. ' < The death of Captain Glenn removes from 1 ' he stage one of whom it may be truly said, 1 'he was a good man." Always charitable 1 dike in speech and action : always ready to; lo even his enemies substantial service ; al- < vays devoted to his family, his fellow men . < ind his country, he leaves behind a record hat is worthy of emulation. Though it: 1 night be said that even before his death his ( vork was completed, his memory will long 1 emain a sweet treasure in the hearts of; < housands of his fellow men. At the time of his death, Captain Glenn |' lad his life insured for the benefit of his fam- ' ly for $7,000, of which $2,000 was in the Knights, and $5,000 in the Legion of Honor. ' ABOUT PEOPLE. Mr. P. G. McCorkle spent Sunday in Yorkdlle. Miss Kate Moore visited friends in Rock 1 dill last week. Miss Edith Tall lell for her home in Bnltinore bust Thursday. Mrs. \V. G. White has returned home rom a visit to Fort Mill. Mrs. II. J. Herndon and son, Master Robbie, ire visiting in Union county. Mr. Fred Black has returned home from he Huntersville High school. Miss Lucy Thomson, of Blacksburg, is in k'orkville visiting Miss Alberta Thomson. j Mr. O. K. Grist is attending the commence- j nent exercises of the schools at Due West i .his week. John C. McFadden, Esq., clerk of the court of Chester county, is in town on official business. Mr. Alonzo Tanner, of Cowpens, spent ast Sunday in Yorkville with the family of Mr. F. A. Gilbert. Senator Finley is still very ill. His physician now pronounces his case to be one of .yhoid fever. Miss Annie Watson has returned home xora near Atlanta, Ga., where she has been ittending school. 1 Mrs. H. F. Robertson, of Broad Run, Va., irrived in Yorkville last week on a visit to relatives and friends. Miss Jessie Latimer returned home last Saturday from Chambersburg, Pa., where she has been attending school. Miss Faye Griffith, of Yorkville, who has seen attending school at Lenoir, N. C., re:urned home last Saturday. Mr. C. R. Simmons, of Henrietta, N. C., las been spending several days in Yorkville with relatives and friends. Professor W. L. Law, of the Patrick Mili lary Institute, Anderson, S. C., returned to ais home in Yorkville last Saturday, where le will spend his vacation. Mr. Samuel \V. Watson, who is engaged in photography in Chester, gave The Enquirer a call on Monday. He returned to Chester on yesterday. Miss Emma Kennedy, a student at the Winthrop Training School, in Columbia, arrived at her home in Yorkville on last Satur3ay. Professor W. L. Weber, of Millsops college, Jackson, Miss., and family, are spending the summer with the family of Rev. S. A. Weber, Professor Weber's father. LOCAL LACONICS, riicy Were Fine. ? Mrs. C. H. Smith, who lives five miles south of Yorkville, has the thanks of The Enquirer for a basket of luscious peuches, he finest we have seen this year. Karewell Seriuon. ? Rev. B. P. Ileid will preach his farewell sermon at Bethesda, next Sunday, and (luring die following week will enter upon his new field at Kershaw." I'ome in Second. ? King David, a young horso belonging to Messrs. Whittaker and Parish, of Yorkville, same in second in a four-and-a-half furlong ( race on the St. Louis track last Thursday. I kViiy it Wan Not I'liblifdicd. ? The Enquirer received a news letter j from McConnellsville yesterday." There was j 10 name signed to it and we have 110 idea 1 rt'ho is the author. We cannot identify comnunications by the handwriting. < Illicit Obliged to You, Senator. ? We have received from the department; if the interior, through the kindness of Sen- j itor Butler, a copy of Part I of the Compen- , lium of the Eleventh Census. It is a large I volume of nearly a thousand puges, and is j levoted exclusively to population statistics. \ Good I'uper. , ? Our contemporary, the Columbia Regster, has been receiving a number of pretty loiupliments recently. They are all deserved. There is no doubt in our mind that L'ral Gordon, of Georgia, is commander. The next meeting will be held at Birmingham, Ala., and very low rates have been arranged to visit the World's Fair. The next meeting of this Camp will he held in the armory at 11 o'cloek, on July .'hi, at which meeting delegates will be elected to attend the Birmingham convention. All Confederates are invited to be present and join the association. Miss Perdon Smith, of York, Pa., is visiting Miss Helen Rutr. Captain and Mrs. W. L. Roddey, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Roddey, Mrs. W. C. Whitner and Miss A. L. Roddey, letl last Thursday to visit the World's Fair. Miss Morgan, of Mississippi, is spenping sometime at Major T. C. Beckham's. Mrs. 1). B. Banta, of New York, is visiting Mrs. M. J. Morrison. Mr. and Mrs. R. Lee Kerr have returned from their bridal trip to Baltimore, Washington, New York and other Northern points. l.. - - ?? X Still Hunt fur Bliiul Tiger*. ? Governor Tillman does not purpose to give out any information about the appointment of State constables to enforce the dispensary law. He says they will he appointed in due time, but one half of them will never be known to any but the State commissioner and himself. They will be engaged in all sorts of occupations, and will not be required to make arrests or raise a row that would give them away. They will simply be required to move around and inform on those who are selling liquor illegally. ihe editorial department of The Register is I setter now than it has ever been before. L'oinpliiiU'iitary to Dr. EugliHli. ? Rev. Dr. English will preach his I farewell sermon next Sunday, and the resi-1 lent pastors of the town have decided to j dose their churches during the morning |< hour, and together with their congregations,I ittend the Presbyterian church. Lice oil Cotton. ? Several farmers in the vicinity of York- , rille complain of serious damage to their |, {rowing cotton by lice. One of them in- : forms us that this is very early for the ap- j pearance of this enemy to the plants in this i section, and says that he anticipates consid-1 arable damage if the pest is at all general. Work on I lie Court llnuxe. ? Work on the new court house is now f progressing rapidly under the supervision )f Mr. W. E. Spratt, of the Spratt Machine ,1 jompanv. The bricks of the second story !' )f the old building have been cleaned oil', j tnd are now being placed in the wings of the j new structure. j It Has Not Iteen Established Yet. ? (Jreenville News: Talk about a flexible i currency ! No currency possible to be devised i jould be as flexible as the dispensary law. ( tn York county the board of control is claim- ' ng that under that law, it can establish dis- j pensaries in towns where the sale of liquor i s forbidden by a special act of the legislate. j; I'lie County CoiiiinlnHioner*. ? The county commissioners held their 11 regular semi-monthly meeting yesterduy. ' rheir principal business was to make ar rangements to borrow the sum of $10,000 with which to prosecute the work 011 the j :ourt house. We are informed that they succeeded in securing the whole amount 11 from a private individual in Yorkville. Kor Ulntui'liing a Religious Meeting. ? Alexander Marion, eolored, was com-!' nitted to iail last Fridav hv Trial Justice J. I Howe, to serve a ten days' sentence for: listurbing a religious meeting. Marion was sometime ago arrested on the eharge of i issault and battery and released on bond, fie failed to appear for trial, and a bench warrant was issued for him. When his! present sentence expires, he will be re-ar- ( ested and held for trial at the approaching J, erm of the sessions court on the original j iharge. < iiKiiiituri'K Cannot In- KriiHi-il. ? After signing petitions for the establish- j ] nent of dispensaries in some portions of the i' Hate, certain individuals nave reconsidered ;, he matter and sought to have their names | ;rascd. The petitioners, of course, objected, j I ind one of the signers wrote to the attorney general on the subject. In reply he suid : ;I beg to say that you cannot require the M'asure of your name from the petition in # r.. oi.M.lmr tlx. tw.t if inn tif !in imtili Ill v. -rr.. ant for the position of county dispenser, rou act in it dual capacity. You not only ecommend tlio applicant as a suitable person for the position of dispenser, but you vote or the dispensary, and you have no more ight to erase your name from the petition linn you have to open the ballot box and f ake out your ballot after you have cast it." Ni?* Work of a Yorkvlllt* Man. Grant Bennett and Pick Bruno, both col>red, were convicted in the sessions court of Berkeley county recently on the charge of wrecking a train on the South Carolina rail-oad, near Lincolnville, in November, 1891. A. fireman was killed in the wreck, and the * dmrge against the prisoners included inur- M ler. They were sentenced to be hanged on Friday, the 1st day of September. It will lie remembered that after the wreck, a great effort was made by the railroad company to discover the perpetrators of the fiendish crime. A half dozen special detectives worked on the case at different times, but had to give it up and confess themselves bafHed. Private Detective R. II. Dobson, of Yorkville, took hold of the case last fall, and in a few weeks succeeded i n landing his prisoners. A BAPTIST HIGH SCHOOL. Yorkville is to have a first-class high school under the auspices of the Baptist denomination. That is the outlook, and at present there is little reason to doubt the early consummation of the idea. Some weeks ago, Rev. W. J. Langston, pastor of the Baptist church at this place, conceived the idea of purchasing the old King's Mountain Military school building, for the purpose of establishing a high grade academy for boys. Mr. Langston is a work- A er, it seems, and 110 sooner did he conceive the idea, than he made an energetic start toward carrying it out. Visiting around 1 among the brethren, after a few hours' talk at Blacksburg, he received substantial encouragement in the shape of subscriptions amounting to near one thousand dollars. This was a good start, and having abundant faith in the progressive and enterprising spirit of his denomination, he proceeded to push the work. As the next step he interested Rev. I)r. R. H. Griffith, Rev. F. O. S. Curtis, Rev. F. C. Hickson, W. F. Boyd, Wm. Dobson, H. K. Johnson, M. L. Thomasson, J. C. Comer, Captain VV. H. Edwards, J. A. Tate, \V. J. Waters and Sam M. Grist, all prominent Baptists, who constituting themselves a committee, on last Monday met at the residence of Mr. Langston, in Yorkville, to see what could be done. As the first step they visited the building, which they found to be considerably out of repair, and as a preliminary, asked the people of Yorkville for a certain anfount of help to put it in proper shape. Dr. A. Y. Cartwright took it upon himself to canvass the town for subscriptions, and up to yesterday afternoon, had raised about fifteen hundred dollars, all of which and as much more as can be gotten, is to be used for repairs. In the meantime, the committee submitted a proposition to the owners of the building. The owners wanted to sell, and the committee wanted to buy. Consequently, there was little difficulty in striking a trade which was practically consummated on yes- ' terday afternoon, the purchase price agreed upon being six thousand dollars. It is the purpose of the purchasers to establish a first-class high school under Baptist control, but entirely non-sectarian in its character. The present idea is to have the school under the auspices of the associations of York, Union, Lancaster and Chester counties, and its projectors, who are quite enthusiastic in their views, fondly believe " that it can easily be developed into the most important institution of the kind in the State. The King's Mountain Military school is an ideal structure for the purpose intended. It orignally cost about $15,000, and though now somewhat out of repair, $2,000 will easily put it back in as good shape as formerly, and the liberality with which the people of Yorkville have set about the work of rehabilitation, should encourage the promoters of the enterprise to believe that it cannot be anything else than a success. ROCK HILL HAPPENINGS. Death of Mr*. Oakiuun?I'rogreK* of the Tobacco Crop?I'ill ted Confederate Veteran*? l'erHonal Note*. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. Rock Hill, June 20.?Mrs. Adeline R. Oakman, the wife of Mr. W. Oakman, died at 8 a. m. on the 19th instant. She had been an invalid for some time and her death was not unexpected. She had three children?Mrs. J. T. Hay, of Camden ; Mrs. Dr. J. A. Keith, of Eastover; and Miss ? Oakman, her youngest daughter. The last two were present at her death. Her body was conveyed to Camden on Sunday, where funeral services were held. Great sympathy is felt in the community for her husband and family. A good deal of interest is now being manifested in the growing crop of tobacco, plant- "* ed by the Tobacco Growers' association. The plant is looking very luxuriaut and is said by experts to be of a very fine quality. All the barns have l>een nearly completed, and the process of curing will begin about the 1st of August. If this experiment is successful, it is expected that a large crop will be planted another year, and from the present outlook, we see no reason why it should not be successful. A meeting was held yesterday morning at the armory to organize a camp of United Confederate Veterans, Captain K. R. Mills in the chair. There were present twentyfour veterans, all of whom joined the organization. The following were elected officers: Commander, Colonel C. Jones; first assistant AAmmnndAti T I"1 DnnL'Kll m Q/iOAn /1 UUUJ UiUUUCI ? AiiajUl A. V. wv,V/fUIUIU J wvvwiixi assistant commander, Captain A. K. Hutchison; third assistant commander, Captain L. M. Davis; adjutant, \V. U. Dunlap ; quartermaster, K. A. Steele; treasurer, E. R. Mills; surgeon, Dr. \\\ J. White; historian, L. Sherfesee. The objects of the organization are social, literary, historical and benevolent. It seeks to unite Confederate veterans into a general association for the purpose of preserving the history of the war, its relies and mementoes, to care for the disabled and needy, protect the widows and orphans. The headquarters of the association are at New Orleans. Gen