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Jtoajus and ,|acts. ? Youug-Man-Afraid-of-his-Horse, prominent in the Indian uprising of 1876, and recently head chief of the entire Sioux tribe, died suddenly at New Castle, Wyoming, last Saturday. ? Dr. Warren Holt, au employe of the pension department, was dismissed by Commissioner Raum on the 3rd of last March, for saying that the department had allowed pensions for baldness. Democratic investigation has substantiated the truth of the statement made by Dr. Holt, and last week Secretary Smith signed an order reinstating him to his former position. ? A Sandoval, Illinois, carpenter employed two Negroes one day last week to help him build a house. The whites of the vicinity do not allow Negroes to work in the neighborhood, and gathering in a mob, they made threats of lynching them. The matter was fioftHy compromised on an agreement that the Negroes should leave town as soon as the work they had contracted to perform was completed. ? The directors of the World's Fair have come to the conclusion that it does not pay to keep the gates open on Sunday, and last Friday passed an almost unanimous resolution requiring that hereafter they be closed. The resolution excepted last Sunday, and provided that on that day a portion of the receipts should be devoted to the benefit of the sulFerers from the receht destruction of the big cold storage building, where a dozen firemen were killed. ? Near Mount Vernon, N. Y., last Saturday, two drunken men got into a fight on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. They were both frenzied with whisky and anger. A fast express approached. They did not pay any attention to it. The engineer sounded his whistle and put cd brakes, but the men continued their struggle. It was impossible to stop the train, and both men were struck. One was hurled down an embankment and the other was ground under the wheels. ? It is said that H. C. Frick is about to sever his connection with the Carnegie Steel and Iron compauy. The paper which prints the information says that Frick's ac. tion in precipitating the great strike at Homestead last year, has caused serious difficulties between himself and Mr. Carnegie, and that the only way to secure harmony in the firm is through the retirement of Frick. In other words, he is to be made a scapegoat in the interest of the business, but he will take out several millions of dollars that | Carnegie will find difficult to replace. C. M. | Schwab is mentioned as Mr. Frick's sue- j cessor. ? Two detectives attempted to arrest a Navajo Indian |at Albuquerque, N. M., last Saturday, on the charge of trying to wreck a passenger train. The Indian resisted and the detectives shot him. A band of angry Navajoes surrounded the detectives for the purpose of revenge. The detectives took refuge in the store of a man named J. W. Bennett. Bennett volunteered to go to the j telegraph office for the purpose of asking aid. While on the way he was seriously shot in the head by the Indians. Troops, however, arrived in a short time, and the Indians were dispersed. For a time the situation appeared to be very serious. ? F. H. Fletcher, of Piedmont, S. C., went to Chester, Pa., last week to buy some "green goods," having been lured there by a circular from a New York swindler. Fletcher paid the swindler $500 and received in return a large roll of what he took to be counterfeit money. On examination, however, he found that there was one good bill in the roll, and the balance was only a wad of paper cut to the size of currency. He complained to the police. After working on j the case for a short time, they arrested a j man named Charles Walters, together with j his wife. In the rooms of the guilty pair, the police found a considerable quantity of green goods pharaphernalia. ? The French and Siamese governments have a quarrel which it is thought may lead to war. The trouble is over a boundary line. The French claim as the boundary to one of their provinces, a river which the Sia- j mese say runs through the very heart of their territory. France is the stronger nation and does not seem disposed to parley with the Siamese. On last Thursday the commander of a French gunboat gave notice of his intention to steam up the Meinam river, on which Bangkok, the capital of the Siamese empire is situated, and immediately set about putting his intention into execution. The boat was fired on by Siamese forts. The boat returned the fire, killing twenty m Siamese and wounding fourteen others. After they had succeeded in forcing the passage, the French apologized to the Siamese and said they had acted under a misconstruction of orders. They did not offer to go back down the river, however. The Siamese accepted the apology and at last! accounts there had been no more fighting, | but the relations between the two countries were exceedingly strained. ? The New York Times, which is opposed to free coinage, argues its case as follows: In 1873 the total product of silver in the United States was less than 28,000,000 ounces. In 1892, twenty years later, the product was more than twice that amount, j or 58,000,000 ounces. The increase in pro-! duction was not uniform, but was nearly' continuous, and has been unbroken and rapid for the past eleven years. In the twen-! ty years since 1873, the total production has been 708,000,000 ounces. Now, with ex-1 ception of 1873 and 1874, there has not been i a year in all these twenty, when silver has j commanded an average of $1.29 an ounce, j or what the silver men say is the bare cost I of production. It has fallen almost steadily : from $1.32 in 1873, to 87$ cents in 1892.; A simple comparison of the "commercial | value" and the "coining value" of the silver product of the United States, as given by 1 the director of the mint, shows that, if silver really has cost $1.29 an ouuce, it has been produced in these twenty years at a total loss of over $171,000,000, and while the mar- j ket value has sunk one-third below the al-1 leged cost, the cost has more than doubled. I ? Attorney General Smith, of Indiana, re-1 cently astonished the bar of his State by a i notable departure from the practice of pub-! lie prosecutors, says the Atlanta Constitu-' tion: A poor girl had been convicted of child murder and had appealed to the su-1 preme court, where it was the duty of the ! attorney general to conduct the side of the prosecution. When he submitted his brief, Mr. Smith remarked that an examination of, the record had caused him to doubt the' defendant's guilt, and that he did not be- j lieve that the law required him to attempt to strengthen the evidence in the case by ' any argument which ho might be able to make. He requested the court to assume the responsibility of affirming or reversing the judgment of the lower court, declaring that it was not his duty to assert some theory consistent with the guilt of the accused and ' then contend for a conviction when he was inclined to believe that the case did not 1 warrant it. The court reversed the judgment from below, and now the complaint is j made that the attorney general did not do , his duty. It is an interesting question, but it strikes us that when a prosecuting officer doubts the guilt of a defendant, he should I not be required to advance arguments and theories designed to secure a conviction. Attorney General Smith acted in the best! interest of justice. ? Henry C. Meyers and a woman who | passes for his wife, have just been arrested in Detroit, Mich., at the instance of Superintendent Byrnes, of the New York police, for a series of the most horrible crimes that! have come to light during this generation.1 Myers is a physician and graduated from a Chicago medical college in 1878. He immediately began his awful career, which has just I come to an end. The story is as follows : In ; 1879 Myers married a pleasant little German woman. Her life was insured for $3,000. She died within six months, and Myers! collected the money. It now develops that he poisoned her. He next prevailed upon a friend to insure his life for $5,000, that of his wife for $2,000, and a young son for ?2? 1 AAA lUUliin n fnu? KAiir?: aftop t lin nnli. i11 ,V?UU, >T IV ill 11 a U uvuig iliivt vuv j/v?? , ties were signed, the friend, whose name was Gildersleeve, died. Within two months Meyers married the widow. The son died | shortly afterward, and later, Mrs. Meyers j died also, dfeth having been poisoned.j Meyers col leered the money. Next the fiend j went to New York and talked a man named Brant into a scheme to swindle insurance companies. The idea was that Brant should { have his life insured in favor of Meyers, and 1 then make out as if dead. Myers prepared i a drug for Brant to produce the semblance of death. Brunt took the drug, nud instead , of the semblance, it produced the real arti-1 cle. Within an hour he was a corpse.1 Meyers soon had the money in his pocket, j Next the fiend found a woman who was his equal in fiendishness. They worked togeth-1 er. The woman would first marry her victim, and after persuading him to insure his life in her favor, would poison him. Meyers : worked the same way, marrying and poison- j ing several women. Tliey worked the scheme I once too often. A few weeks ago, the wo- j man, who was passing for a widowed sister j of Meyers, married, insured and poisoned ; a man named Bnuin in New York. The physician of the insurance company saw! Baum after his death, and becoming sus- j picious, made an examination. The case; was given over to Superintendent Byrnes,, of the New York police. Meyers and the woman fled immediately after securing their money, but they were traced to Detroit and arrested. Superintendent Byrnes has definite proof against the pair for at least a dozen murders, and thinks that they are guilty of as many more. $hc IforltviUc tfoquim. YORKVILLE, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, JULY It), 1893. ? Nothing that South Carolina has done since the war has attracted such widespread interest and attention from the outside world as her attempt to assume control of the liquor business. All the great papers of the North, East, South and West, condemn this State severely. The reason is plain. If South Carolina is successful in her efforts to control the liquor business in the way she has blocked out, other States will .<ioon follow suit, and all over the land the greatest evil of the age will be under government control. ? The State is supposed to have a monopoly of the business of taking human life for certain violations of the law. This authority is assumed for the reason that no individual can be intrusted with it. In a like manner, and for the same reason, why has the State not the right to assume control of the business of retailing spirituous and intoxicating liquors ? The delegation of this privilege to individuals, so far, has certainly not resulted to the best interest of society, and so long as it carries with it the temptation and opportunity to make big'money at a small outlay, it never will. ? The delegates to the annual meeting of the State Farmers' Alliance, are expected to meet at Clemson college next Wednesday, and from there they will go to Walhalla, where the annual meeting will be held, probably on Thursday and Friday. The most important business that is likely to come up is the election of a president, and the most prominent candidates who have so far been mentioned in connection with the position, are as follows: M. L?. Donaldson, of Greenville ; I). K. Norris, of Pendleton: J. W. Bowden, editor of The Cotton Plant; Senator Magill, of Kershaw; Senator Evans, of Marlboro. ? An argument which calls the liquor business a legitimate one, and in the same breath si dpcradinir one. strikes us as exceedingly queer. However, we often hear of the State being "degraded to the position of a barkeeper," and monopolizing a "legitimate business" to the hurt and financial ruin of her own citizens. If the whisky business is a degrading one, it can hardly he legitimate. If illegitimate, it is a bad policy to put it under the control of degraded men, and it seems to follow that the State which permits its citizens to degrade themselves by engaging in an illegitimate business, would do better to engage in, and control that illegitimate business herself. ? The immediate object of the approaching extra session of congress, according to the president, is "to repeal the Sherman law." Whether or not that will be done, the prophets most worthy of belief can only say, "wait and see." But whatever may be done with the silver question, ccAgress is not going to adjourn without also discussing the tariff, and from the present outlook, it is likely that the extra session will run on into the regular December session, and the body will not finally adjourn for several months. It seems to be the general opinion that Crisp will be re-elected speaker, practically without opposition, and J. L. Wilson, of West Virginia, is prominently spoken of for the position of chairman of the committee on ways and means. ? Rev. David Ramsey, pastor of the Citadel Square Baptist church, Charleston, devoted his last Sunday's sermon to a defense of the dispensary. He took the position that, after all, the dispensary plan is the best possible solution of the liquor question next to absolute prohibition, and to sustain his ground, he took some statistics from the police records, showing the number of drunken offenders during the first fifteen days of July for each year since 1887. The record j is as follows : 1S87, 11 white and 8 colored, j total, 19; 1889, 2"> white and 17 colored, total 42; 1890, 14 white and ! "> colored, j total 29 ; 1S93, "> white and 1 colored, total ; (j. These figures, of course, include the VnnrMi of .Tnlv of each year. Mr. Rnmsev says Christian people should he opposed to dispensaries, hut they should prefer them to saloons. ? EXCITIXU TIMES IX CHARLESTON. The State dispensary constables have commenced a war on the Charleston liquor dealers. Kver since the new law went into j effect, the constables have been engaged in j getting information and working up testi- j monv against the keepers of the "blind! tigers" in the city, and on last Saturday j they brought things to a focus. The operations of the State constables are ! being conducted under the direct supervision j of Assistant Attorney (Jeneral Buchanan,! and to all appearances seem to be regular and deliberate. Having secured what they considered sufficient evidence, K. 11. l'epper, W. T. Jolly and M. J. Chappell?three dispensary constables?went before Trial Justice K. F. Milan and made complaint to him that Vincent Chiceo, an Italian, was selling liquor iu violation of the dispensary law. | The trial justice, on last Thursday, issued a ! warrant for Chicco's arrest. As the next step, Assistant Attorney CJen- j oral Buchanan made complaint against Chic-; co to his honor Judge Jaiucs F. Izlar, and asked for a temporary injunction restraining | the Italian or his agents from further violu- j tion of the law. Judge Izlar signed an order , requiring the arrest of Chicco, and providing for the seizure of all the personal property j found upon his premises, the ollicers to hold j the same in safe keeping pending the final i judgment of the court. Armed with these papers, the constables, j seventeen in number, proceeded to Chicco's place of business, formerly conducted as a regular saloon, and proceeded to arrest the ! proprietor and seize the goods. Behind the1 bar, the officers found no intoxicants except1 a little wine and beer. Not satisfied with this, they proceeded to search the house.: They cume to a locked door and knoektd for admittance. They were told that Chic-j co's sick wife was inside and they could not | come in. They said that unless the door! was opened they would break it down. The j door was opened and the odicers went in. They found Chiceo's wife sick, as claimed, I hut they also found about one hundred dollars' worth of intoxicating liquors, which they seized and transferred to a dray outside. While the raid on the establishment was going on. hundreds of people gathered on the street in front of the door. They hooted and jeered at the ollicers and even threatened violence. Several photographers were present with kodaks. They took snap shots at the constables and afterwards distributed their pictures ov<;r the city in order *1...* Tho null I'Vl'l >uuu\ iiii^ui r\aut> nival. A 4.JW cursing and jeering from the crowd continued as long as the officers were in the house, and a large portion of the mob followed the procession to the office of Trial Justice Milan. Vincent Chicco, the proprietor of the raided establishment, was beside himself with rage. He raved and cursed like a madman, and at the office of the trial justice, he began to apply insulting epithets to It. H. Pepper, one of the constables. There was a great crowd of people in the office of the trial justice. Pepper stood the abuse for a time, but at last swearing that h% would stand it no longer, he drew his revolver and tried to shoot the Italiau. The crowd scattered like magic. Somebody caught Pepper's hand and prevented him from firing. When quiet was in some measure restored, Mr. Clement Bissell appeared for Chicco, and suggested that on account of the excited condition of the crowd and for fear of bloodshed, it would be better to postpone the preliminary hearing until Monday. The trial justice agreed, and the hearing was postponed. The trial justice fixed Chicco's bail at $500, and Mr. W. K. Brown immediately put up the desired sum. After his release, Chicco swore out a warrant against Pepper charging him with assault and attempting to draw a deadly weapon. Pepper did not attempt to hide himself, but for some reason lie was not ar rested. After the Chicco incident, the oflicers went to several other places in the city in search of liquors, hut the proprietors having already profited by Chicco's experience, had removed their stuffs to places of secrecy, and no more was found. The proprietors, however, were arrested on warrants already sworn out, and will also have to answer to the charge of violation of the dispensary law. The case against Chicco came up before Trial Justice Milan on Monday. Assistant Attorney General Buchanan wanted to amend the warrant so as to include Joe Sanders, Chicco's assistant. Chicco's attorney objected and the case was continued over until yesterday. The officers made several other arrests on Monday. The accused were released on $500 bonds each. Pepper, the constable who attempted to shoot Chicco,. has been bound over for trial at the court of general sessions on the charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. ROCK HILL HAPPENINGS. Introduction of a New Correspondent?Iinprcsslons of Kock Hill?Hasehnll?Work on the Industrial School?Other Notes. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. Rock Hill, July 18.?Introductions are usually awkward, and a salutatory is quite above the ken of a newspaper note writer. So, after venturing one assertion, which is that I, with this number, become the Kock Hill correspondent of The Enquirer, and one explanatory opinion, which is that a compiler of news notes is popularly supposed to have very few opinions of his own, or at least to advance very few in his enterprising compositions. After so much, it would become me modestly to muster my notes. But it happens this week, as possibly it may happen again, that I have very few notes to muster. Iu such cases, the alternate of a news monger is usually, properly, a short letter. But while his business is to chronicle facts and not his private opinions, the kind public appreciates the fact that the person may have opinions, but only politely forbears to pester its mighty ear with them. And also, since the public admires a nicely ' - ;iI performed teat, 11 tne newsmonger win cleverly push his opinions in behind his facts, so that they will not be recognized as only his opinions, and insinuate one or two apologetic bows into his paragraph, in case his boldness should be discovered ; J say, if he will do these things well, even a news note writer may aspire to express some of his own opinions. A stranger visiting a city usually receives some bad impressions before the good ones, which city afterwards captivates him and makes him feel a larger man, when on registering at a hotel, he adds the name of his town. A visitor will be impressed with the wickedness of a Chicago or a New Orleans at first, and afterwards learn that there are many good people there. This certainly does not apply to my impressions on lately coming to Rock Hill, except as to the. weather. My first impression was necessarily of the heat, for it has been a constant candidate for attention here for the past week. On Main street the thermometer has been registering 100?, though the store-rooms there are nbout the coolest places in town. The heat and need of rain has not added any impetus to business, the soda-fountains, telegraph offices, railroads and factories being for the time the most brisk institutions about town. A feature about Rock Hill which a newcomer will be pardoned for mentioning, is its modesty. To nearly every person, the center of the world lies very close in his own neighborhood, and an enterprising town which has gotten itself on a ' boom," is nearly always an ideal of self-importance. Rut while Rock Hill is being generally recognized as the most progressive and growing town in upper South Carolina, if not the whole State, several of the citizens to whom I have spoken have expressed themselves modestly, saying, that Rock Hill, while advancing steadily, is yet doing no more than it ought; and that there is no "boom." In this time of financial stress, when the outlook is gloomy nearly every way you turn, it does one good to see an enterprising town winning success by turning its energies toward that which seems to he the only bright solution of our country's future; namely, manufactories. The baseball game between Yorkville and Rock Hill, as is known, resulted in the victory of the latter. Rut the Yorkville boys proved such worthy opponents to the local team, that it will probably take another contest to settle the laurels lor the season. It is thought the Associate Reformed l'resbyterians, and also the Lutherans, will organize churches here at no distant day. The former now have preaching in the building of the Methodist church. This will give our city evangelical churches of six different persuasions. On Saturday afternoon, the ('. and A. train brought up thirty-six convicts to labor on the proposed Woman's Industrial school. On last Wednesday, Mr. John A. Xeely and .Miss Bessie Kee, both of this place, were married at the I'resln tcrian church by Itev. Alexander Sprunt. Mr. (ieorge Neely has just left for Clemson college. On last week Messrs. H. M. and W. M. J Hinlap went to the same place. Miss Amelia Ragsgale, of Lancaster, has been visiting at .Mrs. Kate Morrison's. Misses Lottie and Rena Chafee, of Lancaster, are visiting Mrs. W. 15. Dunlap. Miss Annie (Jill, of Chester, is visiting Mrs. \V. (J. lleid. Miss Blanche Scoff, of Salisbury, N. is visiting the family of Mr. (5eo. Heed. Several citizens have visited the World's Fair, and their enthusiastic accounts of the great wonder will probably develop in others going. Misses Fannie and Alma Boyd, of Spartanburg, are visiting at Mrs. J. B. Johnson's. Kock Hill is glad to have so many fair visitors, and wishes it could entertain them with cooler weather. I)r. Clarence Kuykendal, of Yorkville, was in town Saturday. v. i. M. ? Donaldson Defeated. ? At a meeting of the (Jreenvillc County Alliance, held last week, Hugh M. Barter defeated M. L. Donaldson for re-election for president. John It. Harrison, a personal and political opponent of Donaldson, was elected to represent the county in the State Alliance meeting to be held this week. BLACKSBURG BUDGET. ! it: p Tin* Wi'hIIht?liiirjjliirs <'i?|>tur?-il In t? ? . ., The Hlarksliinx' New* AkhIii oii Its I-YH V Dt'atli of Alonzo Mercer. ^ Corres|K)iiili.*n?'e of tin* Yorkvllle Kmiuirer. Blacksbirc, July 18.?The monotony j n und discomfort of the hot weather for the ii past two weeks, has to some extent been re- a lieved by refreshing showers of rain which e have gladdened the hearts of suffering humanity and imparted a brightened and grate-1 h ful look to vegetation. i y The burglary in our town on the night of c the 8th instant, which I reported in last y week's Enqx ikkk, was committed by an or- c ganized band of Negroes from Charlotte, j b After the robbing of the houses, one of them h boarded a freight train for that city. He was j tl seen by Mr. Kiehard Jackins, night operator!si at tho Richmond and uanvuie depot, una n the agent at Charlotte advised of liis actions, j t< Soon after his arrival in Charlotte the Negro b presented a ten dollar bill to the agent to j get changed. Ho was arrested on suspicion, tl and when our chief of police, J. C. Duncan, v arrived and charged him with the robbery 11 here, he confessed all, implicating five.or six s other Negroes. His name is McLaughley; p the chief of the gang was Charles Smith, | s colored, and they had committed a number i 0 of robberies in Charlotte. Upon this latter confession, Chief Duncan was forced to leave t him in his cell at Charlotte to be first tried c by the law of North Carolina. Four other d negroes whom McLaughley implicated in the g thefts, have since been arrested and lodged in jail, while the ringleader, Smith, is still at large. I regret to say that Mr. Sumner did not recover any of the forty dollars stolen from him, the negro having made way with most of it before he was arrested. 1 The Blacksburg News, after a suspension of several weeks, necessitated by some C changes made in its business department, made its reappearance last week, in very d handsome style, brimful of bright and re- f freshing reading matter. Major John F. c Jones has leased the printing and publishing 0 plant of the Blacksburg News company for c three years, and employed Mr. J. P. Bab- 3 biugton as managing editor of The News, v Under their joint control, our people, of J both town and country, are assured a good d paper, which will be a help to our entire v section. v Alonzo Mercer, son of \V. H. Mercer, of h our town, died this morning about 9 o'clock, of heart trouble. Deformed and sull'ering in ii his body from childhood, he, however, pos- I sessed a good mind and an amiable disposition. He bore his sad afiliction with a hero- p ic patience, and always cheerful and bright, a was uniformly polite and courteous to all. He is now released from earthly sorrow and a pain, and will be forever at rest, in a land of t joy and peace. His sorrowing parents and a family have the sympathy of all our people, r w. a. 1 . . a LETTER FROM UNION COUNTY. ? | The Etta June Mail?Confederate Survivors (Jontemplate a Trip to Virginia's Ilattletields? Ilig Alliance IMenlc?Other Notes. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. 1 Etta Jane, July 15.?Mr. Leroy Brown, contractor on the the mail route from Hick- c ory Grove to this place, came here last Thursday to employ a sub-contractor to r carry it for the remainder of his contract t term, to July 1, 18915. Sam Lee has taken c I it C?.. i<l\0 nnnnrn |< I 11 1U1 [JC1 auuuiu, I The <Jry weather lias done, and is still. c doing, considerable damage to the crops. Corn especially is wilting for. want of rain. f The Survivors' Association of Confederate veterans of this county, have formed a coun- I ty association with 309 members, divided among the different arms of the military ser- i r vice as follows: Artillery 29, cavalry 57, in- ! ^ fantry 222, navy 1; including 25 commission- j ed officers, 27 non-commissioned officers, and c 257 privates. The commissioned officers are 11 1 brigadier general, 1 lieutenant colonel | of cavalry, 2 majors, 1 chaplain, 1 regiment- i a al surgeon, 0 captains, 4 first lieutenants, 5 ! second lieutenants, 3 third lieutenants, and 1 j adjutant. The non-commissioned officers! are : 1 color sergeant, 1 quartermaster ser- j c geant, 12 field sergeants and 13 corporals.1 f The officers of the association are I. G. 3Ie-: f Kissick, president; James T. Douglass, vice it president; James L. Strain, secretary and I p treasurer; Rev. A. A. James, ehaplaiu. j1 The first annual meeting will Le held Au- c gust 7. The association proposes to take an > p excursion to Virginia this summer, and j r spend ten or liflccn days in looking over j s some of the old battlefields and visiting the I g different places of interest. Should our ex- j li pectation be realized, I will try and give | li the readers of The Enquirer a full account! 1 of the trip, and note any change made in t the appearance of the country from the days n of 1SG1 to '<>5 until now. Next Friday is the 1 j day set to meet the railroad authorities to t ! make an agreement as to the time, etc. We s i have proposed to furnish 1,000 men at $3 r i each for the round trip. Several York and li I Spartanburg county men have agreed to go t i with us. i r | Yesterday there was a grand rally of the i b j Alliance forces at Kelton. There was a big ; li i picnic; a base ball and a good time generally, j c 1500 or 2000 people were present. Speeches | n were made by T. L. Gantt, editor of Died- 1 mont Headlight; Judge Hill, of Spartan- jii burg; Messrs. G. Walter Whitman and G. d ; B. Fowler, candidates for the legislature to , c , fill the vacancy occasioned by the promotion t j of R. W. Harris to the postmastership at h i I'nion ; Capt. J. R. Jefferics, State senator, f ' and Stauyarne Wilson. ! I All of the speeches, of which I have co- j e i pious extracts, were listened to with interest; t : by the fanning classes generally. Many of s , the young men took an interest in the base- n ' ball game, while the ubiquitous ('lipid was y on the ground putting in some effective t work. A splendid dinner was served, and ) q every thing passed off in the most pleasant r and happy style, except that the weather < . i was excessively hot. Several York county j v men were there. j il i Work is still progressing at Lockhart , Shoals, and a factory will soon be in operai tion there. Sicma. fi ADDRESS Til ALLIANTKMKN. ' 1 County I.erturor Thompson I'r^cs the Brethren , r to Eternal Vlicllnnrt1. ! V I Correspondence of tin: Yorkville Enquirer. f At a meeting at the County Alliance, held j' on the 7th instant, it was thought advisable,'' that some action should he taken to cncour-10 age the various subs in each township to;a unite and hold a public meeting. After,0 some discussion, it was decided to leave the | work to the county lecture board. The 1 0 county lecture board met in Yorkville on the i1 loth instant, and after a full discussion of!* the matter, passed a resolution instructing j v the county lecturer to issue an address, set- f ting forth the advisability of the subs hold- j *s ing said meetings, having the. address pub-1 s jlished in the Yokkvii.i.k Kntjukku and!? Rock JI ill Herald. j c Til K ADltKKSS. !? { Dear Brothers?The county lecture board p has made it incumbent upon me to issue you an address, setting forth the the necessity of s the sub-Alliances in each township uniting, J j, holding public, meetings and securing competent speakers to address you. 3Iy brethren,'p ! the necessity of these meetings to carry out the object of our order as an educational or-1 ganization is apparent. One of the principal j, objects of our order is to enlighten and edu- , cate the masses in the science of political | economy. At last, the financial question,!* ; which .the Alliance has been persistently j ^ pushing to the front, but which for various j reasons jiolitical leaders have managed to \ keep in the background, has loomed up as! the great issue of the day. Congress will 11 soon be. called upon to consider and set- C ; tie this intricate question. To you, as cotton producers, and to the | South depending for her prosperity on the in value of that staple, the silver issue is the j greatest and most important of all issues. jj It now becomes you as self protectors, as lovers of these sunny plains, the most (Jod- i ^ 1 favored but man-cursed country on the face ! ! of the globe, not only to take sides, but to ; so understand this question that when your 1 j i lniiuenee is cast, it may oe in me ihu'itsi oi justice uiul ibr the upbuilding of the country p I and the general welfare of all the people. ! ( j Again, my brethren, it is apparent that J j, while you hold the principles of your order j(; ! as near to your hearts as ever, many of you n have become careless and negligent about' at-1 s ! tending the monthly meetings of your subs., j, ; It is never safe to sleep in the presence of a p vigilant and watchful enemy. It is true j I that the Alliance of York county neither n teaches nor holds to any political doctrine, j ! except what it believes to be pure Jefferson-1 it ian .Democracy. The Democratic party is j t? j now in full possession of the national and 1 : State governments, but at the same time our j a | people are completely divided in their opin-1 si m as to what constitutes the principles of lire JcHcrsoniun Democracy. Now we do ; ot need any discussion to widen the breach.j i'e must discuss measures: not men. Let1 s examine closely our principles. It will j lengthen our convictions, dispel carelessess with energy, and give us new life and iterest in the cause of truth and justice: nd mark it, brethren, victory will crown our Herts. I need not call your attention to what you ave accomplished in the past. I feel that ou have not forgotten the social and ('man-' ial benefits you have derived, nor have! ou failed to observe the moulding of politial sentiment that has been brought about y your agitation of these principles. You s ave caused every class of people to think as 1 hey have never thought before. While many < parched for the truth, others sought to re- , ite it, and where envy and prejudice failed , i is?u* ,,4:11 w J UUIIUIIUIU l"l."U?uil, inc ngiii. id nuu uuiinii^ rightly. ( Again, my brethren, we have many sympa- ( lii/ers, strong advocates of our principles, ' ,'ho are not members of our order. We can- i ot permit their presence in our secret ses- , ions, hut at public meetings, all people may articipate in our discussions. Therefore, in electing our speakers, we need not restrict urselvcs to the membership of the Alliance. ( ly brethren, good seed have been sown and ( be plants are growing beautifully, but tares ontinuc to spring up, and so long as they o, we must continue to cultivate. Let the ' reat work of education move onward. 1 Yours fraternally, K. 1). Thompson, < County Lecturer. j LETTER FROM L0WRYSY1LLE. ii I)i*tress for Want of Rain?Personal antl Other I blatters. ] orrespondcncc of the Yorkville Enquirer. ( Lowkysvii.i.e, July 18.?Our section is | istressingly in need of rain, it having been ( rom three to six weeks since rain of any onsequence fell in three-fourths of the area 1 f Chester county. As a result, the upland 1 orn will be almost a complete failure. ] lost of the bottom corn was destroyed by ; ret weather in May and the first days of , une. The cotton crop is also serionsly lamaged where no rain has fallen since it ras cleaned of grass. The drought is the rorst this section has experienced in a num- , ?er of years. I Rev. Mr. Curry and family left this morn- , ng for a two weeks' visit to relatives in forth Carolina. 1 A number of young men of this place are < repariug to go to Catawba river today for 1 , fish fry. ] One of our citizens has been searching for ( , suitable name for a late arrival. The rouble did not arrisc from the same cause s that given by your McConnellsville cor- 1 cspondent, but from the fact that this was so. 10. Various names were proposed, ! mong them "Just Enough," "Too Many," itc., but finally there was a compromise on 'William Donum." w. o. o. ' ? ?> LETTER FROM RLAIRSY1LLE. 'he Crops Need Haiti?Poor Prosper!* fur Water- : unions?Personal. 'orrespondenee of the Yorkville Enquirer. , Ri.aiusvii.lk, July 17.?Another week has j lassed and we have had no rain to revive | he wilted cotton and restore tne parcnea orn to its natural color. Farmers are quite due on account of the gloomy prospect for a rop. The melon crop promises to be almost a ailure on account of the dry weather. Miss Kittie Blair is visiting relative} at jowrysvillc. Mrs. W. L. Kirkpatrick and W. K. Turicr, of Winnsboro, are visiting the family of >Ir. J. C. Kirkpatrick. Miss Maggie and Mr. Erskiue Youngblood, if Mecklenburg county, N. C., visited rela- i ives near this place last week. The young folks are anticipating a pleasnt time at the picnic tomorrow. W. O. s. ? - ? ME UK MENTION. 1 James Corbett, white, and Peter Jackson, olored, have signed articles of agreement or a prize fight to take place in June, 1894, . or $10,000 a side. The fight is to take place lefore the club offering them the largest nirse. The British authorities claim hat the object of India's suspension of free oinage was to prevent a further fall in the 1 irice of the silver rupee. The value of the upec is regulated by the market price of ilver. All efforts looking to the reor[unization of the Georgia Central railroad : lave been abandoned. Arrangements lave been perfected for the annexation of Vest End, an important suburb of Atlanta, o the city proper. It will increase the popilation of the city about 10 per cent. The Mo rid a Agricultural college has conferred he degree of L. L. I). on Hon. Hoke Smith, ecretary of the interior. Bourke Cochan, of New York, is expected to lead the ight for the repeal of the Sherman law on he floor of the house. The German eichstag has passed the famous "army bill" iy a majority of eleven votes. Work ias ceased on the Nicaragua canal, on ucount of the failure of the company to raise (loncv. A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch of Friday, says that all the plate glass factories n the I'nited States have indefinitely shut i own. Superintendent Porter, of the ensus bureau, lias tendered his resignation j o take effect on July 81. The resignation as been accepted. The loss of life by he burning of the cold storage building in n Chicago last week, at first reported at eight-; en, has since been ascertained to be only welve. All of the victims were firemen j avc one, and he was an electric line-, jan. The arbitration court in Paris, 1 diicli has been try ing the difference between ! i lie I'nited States and Great Britain on the n uestion of ownership of seals in the Bell- | ing sea, has adjourned. The decision of the i ourt will not be forthcoming for several ,-eeks yet, but it is generally believed that \' : will lie in favor of the I'nited States. 'j - ? Mu. Si,Kill's Ykksion.?The following! roin E. Brooks Sligh, to the Charleston i Jews and Courier, dated Washington, July j 2, explains itself: j The dispatch from here relative to my arest on Saturday, July 1, which appeared in : our paper Sunday, July 2, was substantial-:1 y correct with the exception that T was not 1 behind prison bars." I took a buggy after j Hiving the warrant was served on me and , | rove to police headquarters, and when I . ppeared before Judge Miller, was released n my own bond. When the case was called for trial some !1 ays later, Judge Miller promptly dimissed j1 lie case with a reprimand to the prosecution (i o the effect that his court was not one to he iscd by anyone to vent their spleen and , icrsonal grudges against another. I had , nine parties here arrested last April tor ' toaling certain goods of mine, and succeed- j' d in recovering them. They afterwards, laitned that I had left them there of my JI \vn accord, and out of this grew my arrest j < 31* "perjury,"' more than two months after t is alleged to have occurred. As you published the beginning of this j' nit, I trust you will do me the kindness and !' list ice to give space in your columns to this,' i lie result of it. as everyone here understands j t, but they do not in South Carolina. I ? ? ? The average gate receipts at the World's ;, "air are now about $100,000 a day. This j' verage for the entire period of the fair Is louhl make a total sum of $0,000f000. The 1 stimated cost of the exposition up to the i rinding up of affairs, is $22,000,000, and i mless there should be a large increase in i | ttendance, the shortage will be enormous, I. otwithstanding the various amounts re-1 cived for privileges, concessions, etc. The ( flicials of the fair, however, are not (lis- 1 ouraged. The attendance at the Centcn-1' ial exhibition of 1 S7<?. during the last two t lonths, was more than double that of the j ntire period which went before, and it is be-1. leved that when the railroads reduce their ntes, the people will begin to flock to J( 'hicago in a way that will swell the gate [1 eceipts beyond all danger of a shortage. It . i j [omlHiti- in (irvcnvllli' County. ? W. T. Toncy and James W. Cox got ( ito a friendly scuflle near (ireer's station, ' ticenville county, last Friday, which ended l a row. Toncy drew a knife and severed i 'ox's jugular vein, killing him within a few t 4?... lJ.Ntl. i.'aw, ?),/> cmic nC uiih. I tantial farmers. A quart of whisky figured } { 1 the seullle and was no doubt the cause of lie tragedy. . . J t lif; Fire at Marion. ; j ? The Marion Cotton mill, together with ' j s contents, consisting of MOO bales of cot- i . in and a lot of maeliinery, was burned on | 'ue^day of last week. The loss is estimated j1 t about *10.000, but is fully covered by in-!s uranoc. j t LOCAL AFF-AXRS. 1 m _ IN1)F,X TO NKW A I) V BRTLSKM KNTS. tev. James Atkins?Ashevillo Female College. >V. J. Koddey, manager of Kquitable Life?Insurance better than property, f. 11. Barnes?A Business Oportunity. iVithers Adickes Company?tlroceries and Hardware, etc. iOitis Both?It is too hot to hake bread and rolls. <?o to Roth's for them. AM5. deLoach, Plaintiff's Attorney?Summons j to absent defendants in the ease of J. \V.! Rhyne, plaintiff, against J. B. Ross and j others, defendants. THK YOHVILLi: GRADl.l) SCHOOLS. The trustees of the Yorkville graded j ichools submitted their annual report, to a ! ntblie meeting of citizens held in the graded school building last Thursday, in compliance ; kVith the law. In the afternoon the qualified voters of the town held an election on the j piestion of continuing the special tax levy : of two mills for school purposes. The total lumber of votes cast at this election was 28,' ill of which were in favor of a continuance I of the levy. CAIN'S SPRING PICNIC. The outlook is that there will be a big time at Cain's Spring next Saturday. Senator Butler writes to the committee that he has an engagement at Anderson on the 21st, but if he can possibly get to Cain's Spring by the 22d, he will be there. "I have," he says, ,:a great many things to say to the people of South Carolina, and I do not know j of any people to whom I would rather say j them than the patriotic citizens of York county." Congressman Strait writes that! he will be present, unless providentially hin-1 tiered. Senator Irby has not been heard j from. Mr. Hemphill says, "I want to be' there, and will go unless called off by other engagements." General E. M. Law was unable to say certainly whether he would be present or not. Messrs. T. F. McDow, W. N. Elder, J. C. Wilborn and E. D. Thompson are all expected to make short addresses. THE CLOVER COTTON MILLS. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Clover Manufacturing company, was held at Clover last Thursday, all the stock being represented but a few shares. The management made a good showing and declared an annual dividend of 8 per cent., half being payable on October 1, and the balance on January 1, next. It \yas shown that the demands for yarns at this time are very limited, and sales can only be made at close margins. A new board of directors was elected as follows: J. W. Neil, W. B. Smith, J. iS. McKenzie, T. P. Whitesides, S. M. McNeel, Geo. L. Riddle, J. J. Wilson, John H. Craig and O. A. Hamlin. At a subsequent meeting, the board elected J. W. Neil president, and M. L. Smith, secretary nn/1 tfnnmipni< TKo u f rw?Lr V? rvl rl n ru nueaoil a tillU ucaouicii Alii/ oifUUi\iiviuvit7 |/uwuuu Ml resolution authorizing the managers, if they thought such a step expedient, to purchase a stock of goods and conduct a mercantile business in the name of the company. CHURCH NOTICES. Presbyterian?Sunday-school at 5 o'clock p. m. Episcopal?Lay services next Sunday at 10.30 a. in., and Sunday-school immediately afterward. Baptist?Rev. W. J. Langstou, pastor. Yorkvillk?Services next Sunday at 10.30 o'clock a. m. Sunday-school at 4 o'clock p. in. Prayer-meeting tomorrow evening at 8.30 o'clock. Trinity Methodist Episcopal?Rev. S. A. Weber, pastor. Services next Sunday morning at 10.30, and evening at 8.30 o'clock. Sunday-school at 5 o'clock p. m. Prayermeeting this evening at 8.30 o'clock. ? Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. J. C. Galloway, pastor. Tirzah?Services next Sunday at 11 a. m. Yorkville?Services at 8.30 o'clock p. m. Sunday-school at 4.30 o'clock p. m. Prayer-meeting tomorrow evening at 8.30 o'clock. DISPENSARY FOR BLACKSBURG. Blacksburg is to have a dispensary. So says the county board of control, and unless the law says no, a dispensary will soon be established in the town. The county board of control met in jthe office of Messrs. Finley and Brice last Monday. All the members were present. Mr. W. F. Dye, of Blacksburg, read the following letter from headquarters on the establishment of a dispensary in York county. State ok South Carolina, I Executive Chamreh, j Columbia, July 11,181)3.?Win. F. Dye, Esq., Blacksburg, S. C. Dear Sir: Replying to your letter of yesterday, Governor Tillman di-, rects me to say : "Each dispenser is an inde- j pendont olficer and deals directly with the State | commissioner and county hoard of control, lie i is in no sense an assistant, and keeps his own | hooks as though thero was no other officer in j the county of a liko character." lie [the governor,] asks that the county boards ho sure of a majority petitiou and then go ahead, regardless of [ threats. Very respectfully, D. H. Tompkins, Private Secretary. After discussing the ubove letter, the; board decided to establish a dispensary at Blacksburg, and to appoint Mr. Albert Whisonant as dispenser. Under the law, Mr. Whisonant will be required to give a bond in the sum of $3,000 for the faithful discharge of his duties under the law, and kw will \\n icaund nci cnntl l\S this bond has been filed and approved. A number of unimportant details were informally discussed and the board adjourned. IX FAVOR OF THE BOND ISHl'E. 0 In the case of John J. Hunter, plaintiff, j against the town council of Yorkville, defendants, involving the validity of the pro- j posed issue of bonds for the purpose of erect- i ing a system of waterworks, Judge Wither- j spoon filed n decision on last Friday in | which he dismisses the complaint and holds that the proposed issue of bonds will be valid. The points raised by the plaiutifF were two: 1st. Because the issue of bonds for the ! construction of waterwork is not a corporate purpose?not one of the purposes for I which the town of Yorkville was incorpora- j ted : and 2nd, because the proposed issue of flO.OOO would be in excess of the constitu-' tional limit under the admitted facts. The charter of the town expressly gives the council authority to provide for a water, supply, provides for the issuance of bonds, and his honor is of opinion that on this point there is no question whatever. The! corporate purpose in the first place is clear, j and the provision for carrying out that pur-1 pose is equally plain. On the other point, j the decisiou reads as follows: "Secondly. Would the issue violate article : ) section 17 of the constitution limiting is-j sues to 8 per cent. It appears from the pleadings, that the said county of York,' n which York township lies, lias a bonded ndebtedness of not less than $15,000, and the said township of York, in which is1 the town of Yorkville, has a bonded indebtedness of $75,000, and the taxable property, eal and personal, within the said county of i'ork, is now only $0,553,070, und the said taxable property within the said township, s now only $S89,295, and so it is claimed by lie plaintiff that the placing of a bonded inlebtedness of $1(>,000 on the town of York-) nlle, will subject the inhabitants of the said j ;own, and their property, to liability for a greater bonded indebtedness than 8 per ;eut. thereof, and thus will be in excess of lie constitutional limit. "The only suggestion made at the argument n support of the plaintiffs proposition, was i hat a political subdivision could, under the ! ^instruction contended for by the defendant,1 ax itself out of existence. But the subdivisions are enumerated in the constitution,! ind there are only four, so that the argu-1 nent for the plaintiff, upon this theory, falls o the ground. The suggestion of the de-1 endants is much stronger in support of their view, that if the plaintiff is correct, and the smallest subdivision should make an issue up o the limit, the larger subdivision would be j excluded from the right to make any issue j at all. ' "My conclusion upon this point is that the proposed issue would not violute the constitution limiting the bonded indebtedness to eight per cent." ABOUT PEOPLE. Mrs.T. M. Fayssoux isquite ill. } Mr. \V. M. Allison is quite sick. Miss tirace MeElwee is visiting friends in Fort Mill. | Cadet J. B. Allison is home from the Citadel academy. Mr. N. B. Bratton, of <Juthriesville, is at1 Cleveland Springs. Mrs. B. X. Moore and son, Master Paul,! are visiting in Charlotte. Mr. K. Sidney McConnell, of Charlotte, is on a vist to relatives in Yorkville. ! Mrs. John F. Oates and children are visit-1 ing relatives in the Bethany section. j Miss Bessie McConnell, visited relatives j and friends nt Ix>wrysville, last week. %Mrs. I). W. Hicks and son, Master Duke, j of Henrietta, X. C., are visiting in Yorkville.! General and Mrs. E. M. Law, and little son ! Robert, are visiting Mr. J. B. Law, at Darlington. Miss Minnie Palmer, of Charlotte, X. C., , is in Yorkville, visiting Mrs. R. E. Montgomery. Miss Ella Melton returned to Yorkville yesterday, after a two weeks' visit to rela- ! tives in Atlanta. | We received a pleasant call on last Friday j from Mrs. J. C. Blair and daughter, Miss j Bettie, of Blairsville. Mrs. S. M. McXeel, Miss Mamie Hughes, | Miss lluldii McNeel and Prof. John I). Mc- I ; Neel, are at Cleveland Springs. i ] Mr. Charles K. May, of Ramburg, is in \ ( Yorkville, having been summoned to the | bedside of his father, who is dangerously ill. ] We received a pleasant call yesterday j, from Mr. W. P. Greusling, the traveling rep- j resentative of the Kentucky Wagon compa- j ny,of Louisville, Ky. < Mr. John A. Neely and wife arrived in , Yorkville last Wednesday afternoon, aceom- , panied by Miss Kate Neely and Miss Kee, and Messrs. Gaston and McFadden, of Rock Hill, and were given an elegant supper and reception at the residence of the groom's father, Mr. H. A. D. Neely. < ? i THE I. O. G. T. , The Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars for South Carolina, ' is to meet in Yorkville on Tuesday next, and 1 continue in session until Wednesday after- j noon. During their stay here, the delegates f of the lodges will be entertained at the homes of the citizens as follows : I DELEGATES. HOST. ( Bass, \V. L Rev. L. A. Johnson. , Berry. T. N Br. J. F. Lindsay. Hetheu, S. A Rev. I)r. S. A. Weber, i Booker, Miss I/ena A Mrs. M. J. Clark. Branson, Joel K S. K. Moore. Brown, Rev. II. B latin Parish. , Bond, Miss Jessie T. S. Jetterys. Bristow, C. M J. M. Hope?Parish Hotel. I Chaffin. Mrs. Robert Miss M. E. McPheeters. | Chllds, Mrs. L. D Dr. J. H. Bratton?Thee C's Hotel. Chllds, L. D Dr. J. K. Bratton?Three C's Hotel. ; Chreltzberg, Rev. II. F W. B. Wylle. Clements, It. E Dr. A. Y. Cartwrfght. Creech, J. C R.L.Clark. ( ('ornweli, Miss May T. S. Jetferys. , Covington, C. K Mrs. Emma MeClaln. Crockett, Miss Mamie T. W. Clawson. Curtis, Rev. F. 0. S Rev. F. C. Hlckson*. ; Darby, Mrs. K. E Withers Adlekes. ' Davis, I). D I. D. Wltherspoon. Davis, Miss Kstelle W. J. Waters. Drake, Miss Annie R. E. Montgomery. Drew, T.J Dr. John May, Sr. i Durham, Mrs. M. M Sam M. Grist. Edwards, J. E Mrs. R. L. Ferguson. ' Ellzy, C. C Dr. J. F. Lindsay. Everett, J. C W. C. Gist. Flowers. Miss A. G Sam M. Grist. Gerald, Miss Mosele Geo. H.O'Leary. Graham, Wm M. C. Willis. Guess, Miss Ida A. S. Withers. Hair, J. C Mrs. C. J. Robertson. Hnmmet, Mrs. B. J Geo. H. O'Leary. Hamer, Miss May Mrs. Mary Mason. Harmon, A. F Dr. A. Y. Cartwrlght. Harmon, Miss Florle L. M. Grist. Hines, W. It I. M. Hope?Parish Hotel. Hoyt, Miss S W. J. Waters. Hurst, C. M Mrs. Emma McClain. Jenkins, E. J J. W. Dobson. Jenkins, Mrs. E. J J. W. Dobson. Jennings. R. H Rev. Dr. S. A. Weber. Jones, Miss Hattie John R. Warren. Kershaw, Z. F J. W. McFarland. Lindsay, Jos W. B. Wylle. Lindsay, W. B W.M. Kennedy. Livingston, Mrs. Knox Sam M. Grist. Manning. L. A Mrs. R. L. Ferguson. McCall, Alex W. E. Ferguson. McCullougb, J. G Rev. L. A. Johnson. McGee, A. II Mrs. C. J. Robertson. McDaniels, Wm W. W. Jenkins. Mcllwain, H. G 1.1). Wltherspoon. Mlllhouse, Mrs. J. H. E Miss M. E. McPheeters. Mobley, J. 1) J. H. Withers. Perrv, Rev. J. W Rev. F. C. Hlekson. Phillips, J.F G. W.S. Hart. Poole, Misses Sophlcand Minnie Alonzo Rose. Porter, Miss C. L R. E. Montgomery. Rhame, E. II W. C. Latimer. ? f II U'Ithnra I KOWCI1, A. ? ?. Httly, Rev. J. I. Dr. J. M. Ktarr. Hlifer, Mint) Heulnli T. W. Clnwson. Smith, I)r. W. C M. C. Willis. , Snider, Rev. W. J Latin Parish. ' Stephens, Dr. I.. C Dr. John May, Sr. ! Strong, T. t' J. W. McFarlaiul. Tarrant, J. W L A. Tate. Tate, Rev. W. T J. A. Tate. Timmons, C. K S. R. Moore. ( Tlminons, Miss Lena John R. Warren. Timmons, Miss Ida Mrs. M. J. Clark, i Thomson, James Rev. W. J. Langston. Thompson, Miss Helle A. S. Withers. Turner, J. H W. E. Ferguson. < Turk, A. F W. W. Jenkins. , Watson, Rev. K.O Dr. J.M.Starr. Watson, MissS. E L. M. Grist. , Wilder, R. K G. W. S. Hart. Woods, Miss Mamie H. H. Beard. Witherow, Prof. W. II W. C. Ijitlmer. Yates, D. S Rev. W. J. langston. ( The following delegates will be entevtained by the local lodge at the Three C's Hotel: , Askln.R. V. Kilpatrlck. S. ('. , Black, A. Clifford Meflard. Miss Ida Copeland, S. Moore, S. F. i (Covington, H. K. Manotte, Geo. Covington, Mrs. Roht. McLaurin, Milton J Dixon, II. W. Rhodes, T.N. 1 Dantzler, G. D. Rhame, W, T. i Fletcher, A. M. and F. M. Strong, Mrs. R. M. Green, John L. Smith, C. A. ' Green, S. A. Traxler, Miss Ellen ] Grant, J. M. Wakefield, R. S. Judy, H. J. Woodluim, C. W. 1 Jones, D. D. Wise, P. B. John, I), s. - 1 LOCAL LACONICS. < Annual Settlement. ? Comptroller General Ellerbee is ex- ' pected in Yorkville today for the purpose of ' having his annual settlement with the various county officials. I Asheville Female College. ] ? In another column is an advertisement < of the Asheville Female college. The in stitution has been established for fifty years,! and has the reputation of being one of the j1 finest schools for girls in the South. Another Itig Turnip. ' ? Mr. John Pursley, of Zadok, has sent ' to this office a mammoth turnip which is a j good match for that recently brought in by , Mr. J. J. Gauldeu. It is a fraction over 8 I inches in diameter, 25 inches in circurafer- * ence, and weighs 5 pounds. ' I'rotractcd Meeting at Clover. ? A protracted meeting was commenced ? iu the Baptist church at Clover on Monday ; night, and will probably be continued until t Suuday night. The pastor, Rev. W. J. Langston, is being assisted by Rev. G. ?S. j1 Dougherty, of Newberry county. Picnic ?t Fairview. < J ? We are requested to announce that there will be a picnic at Fairview academy f ou the 28th of July, under the auspices of Miss Muttie Dorsett's school. The committee of arrangements consists of Messrs. E. It. Faulkner, C. C. 1'ursley, Campbell Love, ] C. C. Beamguard. Information fur tin* Teacher*. ? We are requested toaunounce that the twenty-second annual meeting of the State Teachers' association will be held at Spartanburg on August, 2, 3, and 4. For further : information, address S. Lander, chairman,) Williamston, S. C., or L. W. Dick, secretary, I Bossard, S. C. ! A Monthly Shortage of 93,000. ! ? Shelby Review : Mr. S. B. Lumpkin,' for the Three C's railroad, appeared before the railroad commission at Raleigh last week, and urged that the assessment of $5,000 per ; mile be reduced to $3,000, and made aflida-' vit that the railroad's expenses exceeded its earnings $3,000 monthly. Kighty Years of Age. ? The New Orleans Times-Democrat of; July 9, contains a column sketch, together i with a number of portraits, of Mr. Robert C. Kerr, the venerable sales reporter of the New Orleans Cotton exchange, the occasion being the old gentleman's 80th birthday. .Mr. Jverr is a native or ..uecmeuuurg county, N. CM and about tlie year 1834 worked in t Vorkvillc as a jouruevmau printer. In his | long life he has been through quite a series ' fj of adventures, and has been connected with s the. New Orleans Cotton exchange since c 18(57. Mr. Kerr will be pleasantly reinem- j c berod by many visitors from this county to ; j he New Orleans Cotton exposition of sever- , .1 years ago. I ire Tln-ro any Survivor* in York ? The State: On the 12th of July, 1848, 'ompany II from Hiehland couuty, in the uninw.ni iifrivcil iii Columbia via he South Carolina railroad on their return rom the Mexican war. There are about en of the company living : two in Columbia, wo in the country, and about six scattered rom York county, South Carolina, to Louis- M ana. " t'orkvUli- vm. Hmk Hill. ? Lovers of baseball are centering consid:rable interest in the "l'olka Dots," of Rock lill, and the "Juveniles," of Yorkville. The fuveniles defeated the l'olka Dots in York,'ille on the Fourth of July, and the l'olka Jots defeated the Juveniles in Rock Ilill ast Wednesday. The understanding is that ^ he two clubs will play the "rub" game in * forkville next Friday. fork Iioy? at C'1?*uiaoii. ? We have beeu unable to get a reliable ist of the York boys at Clemson, but from he best information at hand, the county is epresented as follows : Leon L. Campbell, < iged 17 years ; Andrew L. Campbell, aged [7 years : Wm. L. Campbell, aged 18 years; (esse B. Ford, aged 1!) years; W. (J. Riggius, iged ? years. The names of others -are nentioned in our Rock Hill letter. Kliciit'/or (.Vmcirrjr. ? The members of Ebenezer church have let on foot a movement to dress up and beuu:ify the old cemetery at that place, and appointed Mr. R. S. McDonnell, of Old Point, to :ake charge of the work. Very little can ie accomplished -without money, and Mr. McConnell requests us to ask those who iave relatives and frieuds buried in the cemetery, to send him whatever amount :hev may see fit. All moneys received by liira will be used according to instructions, rud made to go as far as possible. Ebenezer s one of the oldest cemeteries in the upper part of the State, and the purpose of the r :ongregation to make it a place of freshness ind beauty is deserving of hearty sympathy ind support. S0l:TH CAROLINA NEWS. Ureenvllle KivJolneri. ? The Greenville dispensary has been dosed by injunction, and the issue is now beng argued before Judge Norton. Columbia Will Have a Dixpeimary. ? The State board of control has declared Columbia's dispensary petition to be in compliance with the law, and the first dispensary in the city will commence operations today. Stmontoii for AnHorlale Juntice. ? The friends of Judge Charles H. SimonLon are urging him for appointment to succeed Associate Justice Blutchford, deceased, of the United States supreme court. t'itailel Boy* Not Needed. ? Superintendent Coward, of the citadel academy, has been notified that the graduates of the citadel, who recently tendered their services at Clemson, will not be needed. Kxtra SeMHion In November. ? There is strong talk of an extra session ' i of the legislature to be called in November. A The immediate reason for a long session is to M pass upon the codification of the laws, but, incidently, it is understood that it is desirable l to have the legislature in session to take whatever action that may be rendered nee- * essary by supremo court decisions on the dispensary question. Appeal* to the Supreme Court. ? Attorney General Townsend has given notice that the State will appeal to the su- ^ preme court from Judge Hudson's Darlington decision, i He does not state whether or not he will try to get a decision from the court before its regular session in November. In the meantime, the attorney general will continue to represent the State in all other injunction cases that may come up. CongreHHinan Strait Will be There. ? Columbia Register: Congressman T. J. Strait was in Columbia Saturday on personal - * business. He had nothing to say on public matters. He says there will be a big Alliance meeting at Wylie's Mill, in Chester county, July 20; also a large meeting of Alliancemen and a picnic at Cain's Spring, York county, July 22, at which Senator Butler and ex-Congressman J. J. Hemphill will speak. Short Measure. ? Some of the newspapers claim that according to accurate measurement, the "quart" fiasks of the dispensary are one gill short. The authorities deny the charge of shortage, but as yet the question has not been definitely settled. It is a well-known fact that none of the old hip pocket flasks, used by the saloons, will hold full measure, and unless the dispensary authorities have had the official flasks made to speeiul or- j tier, it is quite likely that they contain short measures. ? \ Herniation in I-auron*. ? School Commissioner Davenport, of Laurens, has resigned and lied to Texas, says a Greenville dispatch of last Friday. A. few days ago he attempted a criminal assault on a young married woman, 1(5 years old, named Fuller. The woman's husband agreed to compromise the matter for $100. Neighbors heard of the transaction and held an indignation meeting, at which a resolution was passed calling on Davenport to resign and leave the State in forty-eight hours. He obeyed orders. [inunction 1)1hiiiUhi'<1. ? Judge Gary, on last Friday, dismissed the temporary injunction in the Columbia lispensary case. After hearing argument he said it was a matter to be left entirely with the county board, and that he had nothing to do -with it. He did not pass an the constitutionality of the law. The iispensary authorities say that they will carefully investigate whether or not any of the respective petitions are signed by a majority jf the freehold voters, and unless they are io signed, the dispensary will not be established. !lM]>tUt MImhIuii Work. ? Kev. T. M. Bailey, corresponding secre,ary of the Baptist executive board of this state, has submitted his report of the opera ations of the board during the past year. He considers the work accomplished as /ery satisfactory. The contributions to the ward for various purposes were as follows: state missions, $11,370.28; Bible and eol3ortage work, $29.32; church buildings, jy children, $272.01; church building by )thers. $5(53.4." : church buildings at mission stations. $9,.119.75; ministerial education, ?2,4i>2.48 : home missions, $4,(550.69 ; 'foreign nissions, $11,197.32; orphanage, $7,763.58. Total, $47,855.49. .ynchliig in Lexington. ? Dub Meetze, a well known desperado, vas lynched by a mob in Lexington county J ast Sunday night. About a year ago Meetze k vas arrested on the charge of horse stealing (AI md forgery. The cases were dropped on ondition that he would leave the State former. He went away sweariug vengeance 1 igainst several of his neighbors. Last week ic returned and tried to persuade his wife to ;o away with him. She refused. She had t md as much of him as she wanted. He ,A vent away. That night he returned, piled itraw up around and on top of the house, ind set it ou fire. The wife and children lad a narrow escape from death. As soon is the neighbors heard of the affair, they ;ollected together and commenced a search or the would-be assassin. They found him >n Sunday night and riddled his l>ody with Juliets. The names of those who participaed in the killiug are not known. Columbia Biirke?*|>?*rs Weaken. ? Wheu the dispensary law went into cfect, many of the Columbia barkeepers still lad large stocks of whisky on hand. Beieving that the law would soon be declured inconstitutional, these barkeepers decided lot to remove their liquors, but to allow hem to remain in their saloons ready for r msiness as soon as they were needed. * The irrest of Chicco, the Charleston barkeeper, md the confiscation of his goods, however, ;eems to have made the Columbia people lervous. One of them asked Governor Tillnan, on Monday, as to whether or not it vas safe to leave his liquors in his saloon. n effect, the governor said : "I believe you 4 ire complying with the law, but at the same t iujv juu iimi ucuer dc careful, a.s the mere ituling of liquor on your premises might ;ive you trouble.'' The barkeeper went truightway and carried his liquor to a place >fsafety. <)thers followed suit, and now the inly place in which liquors are openly dismayed, is at the dispensary.