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Straps and |actis. |
? On account of the big coal strike and
the consequent scarcity of coal, the Chicago, j
Burliugton and Quiucy railroad has been en-1
deavoring to substitute coal oil as a fuel for j
the engines of its fast mail trains. An acci-1
dent occurred last Thursday night which will |
no doubt put an end to the experiment. The
oil in the reservoir was scattered over the
engineer and fireman. The engineer was so
badly burned that it is not thought that he
can recover, and the fireman is also 111 a cm-1
ical condition.
? Queen Victoria has been on the British
throne 57 years. During that time her jieo- j
pie have paid her $110,275,000 as salary, and !
$48,676,705 for the support of her residences j
and stables. Her direct expenses are $1,800,000
a year, while $1,300,000 is allowed for j
the support of her children. The queen is j
sa?d to have saved and invested between!
$30,000,000 and $40,000,000, and in the event j
of a revolution, her children would inherit!
enough to enable them to still live pretty
comfortably in the world.
? The children of the late Jay Gould no
longer claim New York as their residence.
The reason is because they do not want to
pay their share of taxes in support of the
government. When Jay Gould was alive,
he paid taxes on $500,000 worth of personal
property ; but when he died, in his will he
devised $10,000,000. The tax assessors
thought that as Mr. Gould had fixed the figures
himself, $10,000,000 must he somewhere
about the right valuation, and, therefore,
settled down squarely on that sum. The
taxes on $10,000,000 is $1S0,000 a year.
Mr. George Gould, who has control of the
property, thinks that is too much money to j
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De paia Dy one iarnny. neceuuy eacw mem-1
ber of the family has made an affidavit that j
they are no longer residents of New York,:
but that they live in Tarrytown. That is j
how they have managed to escape their just i
taxes.
? The Populistic State central committee I
of Arkansas decided ou last Friday that j
delegates to the State convention, which I
convenes in Little Rock, on July 19, shall j
march overland, instead of going by rail-1
roads. On July 9 delegates will start from
various counties in the interior of the State
and proceed across the country in wagons,
on horseback and on foot, directing their
course toward Little Rock. At different
places along the route, the procession will |
be swelled by delegations from the adjacent;
counties, and at a number of towns stops j
will be made and speeches delivered by j
speakers of that belief. The several delega- j
tions are requested by the committee to j
bring as mauy other Populists along with j
them, as possible. In short, the entire Pop-1
ulist party of Arkansas is invited to fall in i
and march to Little Rock.
? A Portland, Ore., special says: "A company
has been organized here to use up the :
surplus supply of horses which now exists in |
the Northwest, and at the same time make j
it profitable for raising good American
horses, thus furnishing auother source of
demand for the mongrel herd. It is proposed
bv tbe company to bring the horses to
abattoirs, a site for which has been chosen
near this city, and there kill them. The
flesh will be rendered of its oil, and the residue,
with the bones and hoofs, will be made
into a fertilizer. The hides, that have always
a market value, will be salted, and the
hair will be used in upholstery work. A
portion of the meat will be compressed for
use as a chicken food. It is estimated that
in Oregon, Washington, Montana, Nevada
and Idaho, there arc at present two millions
of half-breed wild horses, for which no market
can now be found."
? Stickle Hollow coal mines, near Uniontown,
Pa., were the scene of a bloody battle I
lasUThursday between deputy sheriffs and
striking miners. Some 4,000 or more miners
had been on a strike in the neighborhood
for several weeks. One mine was still running
and operated by about one hundred j
men. For about a week, the strikers had i
beeu considering the advisabity of closing |
this mine down also, and they set last Thurs- j
day as the day on which to make the effort. |
Heariug of the matter, the mine owners1
applied to the sheriff for help.. The sheriff !
sent a force of To deputies, armed with Win- j
chesters. The miners came, about 1,500!
strong, about 200 of them having various j
kinds of fire arms. The miners advanced ;
upon the position held by the deputies, and j
when they got within fifty yards, the depu-1
ties commenced firing. The miners held j
their ground and returned the fire until they j
exhausted their ammunition. Then they
retreated. During the battle five strikers
were killed and eight were wounded. Three
of the deputies were wounded, but none j
were killed. As the result of the battle,
great excitement was stirred up throughout!
the coal region, and further trouble is con- i
stautly expected.
? Upon the imprisonment of Coxey and
Brown, the Commonweal army, which is now j
encamped at Highlands, Mil., found itself
practically without a leader. Jesse Coxey,
the son of the "general," is naturally looked !
upon as the individual upon whom the responsibility
of leadership falls; but on ac-!
count of his youth, he is not regarded as;
equal to the emergency. Notwithstanding
this, however, the army has not yet been j
broken up. There have been only a few de-1
sertions, and the men seem determined to;
stick together. During several days last
week, their supply of food was run down to
bread and water. They endured the situation
without a murmur. Last Thursday,
citizens of Washington became cognizant of
the situation, and they went out to the
camp with great loads of provisions. When
the supply wagons reached the camp and
their contents became known, the hungry
men bespoke their gratitude in a succession
of cheers. The Commonwcalers generally
say that they propose to stick together until
Coxey and Drown are released from prison.
What they will do then will depend entirely
upon their leaders. Of the Western contingent,
many divisions have been disbanded, I
but still quite a number are pushing on to i
Washington, with the same determination
that has characterized the movement all
along.
? Speaking of a recent tariff speech deliv-l
ered by Senator Teller, the Washington correspondent
of the Atlanta Constitution says: I
"Even the ultra gold men admit that the j
Colorado senator probed the situation to the
very quick, and that there was no escape
from the inexorable logic of his reasoning, i
Summed up, Mr. Tellers's speech was a dec-:
laration, which went unchallenged, that tariff
legislation, no more than the unconditional
repeal of the silver-purchase act, would bring
prosperity from out of the financial abyss
into which the country has been plunged :
that only world-wide remedies would meet
the situation, and that the danger of revolution
against the continued encroachments of
the money power was imminent all over the
world. Although Mr. Teller did not declare ;
it in exact words, it was easily understood on j
all sides that his eloquent denunciation was
hurled against the demonetization of silver :
his speeech fairly glistened with the infercn-1
tial, hut no less significant, assertion that the
present financial distress, both at home and
abroad, was attributed wholly to the demonetization
of silver and could only be relieved
by establishing the double standard. The i
repeal of the Sherman act and the formation
of a new tariff bill were neither specifics1
nor palliatives for the present financial suffering."
? A party of prominent New Yorkers i
went over to Pennsylvania one day last week ,
to take a look at a newly purchased coal!
mine. The main shaft is a thousand feet
deep, and they decided to descend to the'
bottom. One load got down all right, but
on the next load, the car, which contained
about a half a dozen of the party, stopped
about one hundred feet from the surface and
would neither go up or down. When they
were made to realize that the stoppage was
the result of a bursted steam pipe, of course
they began to get scared. The stoppage of
the big fan used to force gas out of the re-'
cesses of the mine for ten minutes, means a)
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bursted, the information was at once telephoned
to the hundreds of men working in
the various galleries. These managed to
. quickly make their escape by means of ladders.
Many of the New Yorkers, however,
were fat and unused to climbing. With a
thousand feet of perpendicular between
them and safety, ami the only means of escape
up a ladder, they were in a sad predicament.
The miners worked like beavers to
save the New Yorkers, and although there
were several explosions, finally succeeded in
getting all of them?those at the bottom as I
well as those in the car?safely up the lad-i
der. Several of the New Yorkers were as'
helpless as babies on the ladders, and fainted
as soon as they got out. Some of them did i
sonic very earnest praying while the danger
was on, and all agreed that they would never
go down into a coal mine again. They also
opened their pocket books liberally to the
men who worked so hard to save their lives.
? The Pan American Bimetalie league, in
session in Washington last week, on Thursday,
adopted the report of the committee on
resolutions. The report declares that the
league is unalterably opposed to the further
issue of interest bearing bonds ; that before
casting their votes for congressmen, the
members of the league will require assurances
of adherence to the free coinage of
silver and gold at 1(! to 1, and a pledge that
if a bill providing for such coinage is passed
by congress and vetoed by the president,
they will work for and vote to pass the bill
over the president's veto ; that if the election
of the president is thrown into the house,
they will vote only for the person in favor of
free coinage; denounce the present system
of national banks as the monumental monopoly
of the nineteenth century ; recommend
the enactment of a system of currency that
will ensure a per capita circulation of $o0,
to be made up by the free coinage of silver
and gold at 16 to 1, and the issue of treasury
notes; assert that the discontinuance of
the issuance of silver money and the depletion
of the treasury by bond issues is burdeusome
on the masses; declare that it is
the duty of the secretary of the treasury to
coin the bullion now in the treasury and to
pay interest on the public debt with silver ;
and demand the issue of $4o0,000,000 of noil
interest bearing notes of small denominations.
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YORKVILLE, S. C.:
WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1894.
? The general assembly of the Southern
Presbyterian church has decided that when
a minister is dismissed from one presbytery
to another, he is still a member and has all
the rights and privileges of the presbytery
from which he has been dismissed, until received
by the presbytery to which he has
decided to go. Dr. Woodrow, is, therefore,
still a member of Charleston presbytery.
? Distasteful as may be the work, the
charges of the Columbia Register's special
correspondent demand a thorough investigation
of the condition of the public charity in
Beaufort. For the honor of the hitherto always
noble Red Cross organization, it is
to be hoped that an investigation will develop
nothing wrong ; but even if it should be
found that the worst evil is incapacity, it
seems bad indeed that the suffering people
of Beaufort should be forced to bear this
additional misfortune.
? "The Populistic income tax" is the way
Senator Hill puts it. The income tax is
Populistic only in that it is endorsed by the
Populists. It is also strictly Democratic.
But whether Populistic or Democratic, it is
right. What could be more just than to
make the citizens of any country pay taxes
in proportion to the benefits they receive
from the government, and what is a better
measure of these benefits than the annual
incomes of the people?
? After Judge Simonton decided that the
railroads in the hands of receivers are liable
for taxes as assessed by the State, the railroads
attempted to fight the matter further
by claiming exemption from the lo per cent,
penalty. The State, however, at once
brought suit to enforce the collection of penalties
also. Judge Simonton has decided in
favor of the State again. He says the rail
roads must pay the penalty on all unpaid
balances, but docs not require them to pay
the costs of the sheriffs, for the reason that
lie holds the various properties were already
in the hands of the courts and were no longer
subject to executions.
? The "A. 1\ A."?American Protective
association?an anti-Roman Catholic organization,
is making an aggressive fight throughout
the United States against the Catholics.
In Missouri, the Democrats have taken
sides with the Catholics by incorporating in
their party platform a plank denouncing the
A. P. A. In Palatka, Fla., last Sunday,
Earnest Wolf shot and dangerously wounded
John Kane in the head. The only published
cause of the difficulty is that Kane is
a Catholic and that Wolf is an A. P. A. The
A. P. A. is organizing local lodges throughout
the country, and as the result the bitterness
against the Roman Catholics seems to
be on the increase everywhere.
? The investigation of the senatorial bribery
case seems to prove at least one important
fact. That is, that after all, the Wilson
bill promises to afford some relief from the
prevailing high rates of taxation. Senator
Hunton was offered $2o,fi00 for his vote, and
Senator Kyle was offered $14,000. That
makes $09,000 for two votes. How much
was offered to other senators, or whether any
other senator really accepted a bribe, of
course we do not know ; l?nt that is not the
question. Some individual or corporation
was enabled to pay ?311,000 for two votes,
and still have a margin of profit in the goods
for which they tried to secure protection.
Failing to secure the protection for themselves,
the prospective profits obviously remain
with the people, and there is proof
conclusive that the tarilf bill carries with it
at least some elements of good.
? Representative Knloe. of Tennessee, introduced
in the house last Wednesday, a bill
providing for the repeal of the civil service
law and all amendments thereto. Though
in theory the law is a good one, we don't
know but what its repeal would be a good
idea. Fight years ago the Democrats observed
the law strictly, and as the result got
cleaned out of ohiee, largely through the influence
of Republican oflieeholders who
should have been fired. When the Republicans
got in again, they paid but little attention
to the law, firing Democrats and
putting in Republicans whenever they saw
fit to do so. The Democrats are still observing
the law almost as strictly as before,
and as they should so long as it is on the
statute books. In order to give those who
would obey the law an equal showing with
those who have persistently ignored it, perhaps
it would be better to wipe it out entirely.
?
? We have received from a sub-Alliance
in this county, a set of resolutions endorsing
the candidacy oftJovernor Tillman for
the Fnitcd States senate, and the candidacy
of Jlon. T. .1. Strait for re-election to congress
from the Fifth district. We have also received
resolutions endorsing other candidates
for congress and various other positions.
For any organization to pass resolu
tion, endorsing tno eanuiuaies hi us cnoice,
is meet ami proper, if the organization
sees lit. Tiik Kxijl'lKKlt is not a political
paper, and its management studiously avoids
anything that has the appearance of an editorial
endorsement of any individual for
oflice. This especial privilege that we do
not take ourselves, we are unwilling to give
gratuitously to others. When it eouies to
publications looking to the advancement of
personal interest, the expense should be
borne by the individual or the friends of the
individual receiving the benefit. That is a
plain business proposition, and as such we
propose to act on it. Communications of
this nature may he published in our advertising
columns at regular rates, or elsewhero
| at rates to lie furnished on application.
When the communications are published'
; elsewhere in the paper, except in the adver-;
tising col inn ns, however, we shall reserve
the right to mark them so as to indicate their
I nature.
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l ?The narlisan nanersof the Cleveland and
I anti-Cleveland factions of the Democratic J |
party, are howling about the significance of ,
the recent Democratic convention held at
. Montgomery, Ala. Some claim that the ]
nomination of Win. ('. Dates, an out-spoken
Cleveland man, for governor, must be taken
as an endorsement of the administration;
i while others show that it is an endorsement i
1
of Senator John T. Morgan, an out-spoken
, anti-Cleveland man. for re-election, and slaps j
the administration right in the face. There is |
nothing in either argument, and Alabama
deserves credit that such is the ease. It is a
bad state of affairs when any State will elect
to oflice any individual because lie is a
supporter of someone else. We have 110 1
idea that either Morgan or Dates were endorsed
because of their attitude toward Mr. !
Cleveland. If they were, it would certainly
detract from the much higher honor of having
been selected because they are enjoying :
the confidence of their fellow citizens more
fully than any of their respective compcti- !
tors.
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restored to membership in the Second Prcs- ,
byteriau church in that city. So says the
general assembly of the Southern Presbvtc- <
rian church, in session at Nashville, Tenn.
Miss Means is employed in the central telephone
office in Columbia. Her duties require
that she work on Sunday. About a
year ago the session of her church tried her
on the charge of violating the Sabbath and
found her guilty. Miss Means was repre- 1
sen ted by Prof. J. Wm. Flinn, and the '
church by Rev. G. A. Blackburn. The case ,
was carried up to Charleston presbytery and ,
the church was sustained. Prof. Flinn then
appealed to the South Carolina synod, which i
overruled Charleston presbytery. Then Rev.
Mr. Blackburn appealed to the general as- 1
sembly, The highest court of the denomina- j
tion. After able argument on both sides, ,
the general assembly, by a vote of 77 to 48, .
decided to sustain Miss Means. Miss Means !
is now entitled to reinstatement in the See- ]
ond Presbyterian church or a letter of dis- '
mission to any other church.
TUB BRIBERY INVESTIGATION. |
The senate committee, charged with the '
investigation of the alleged attempt on the j
part of Charles W. Butt/, to bribe Senators
Hunton and Kyle to vote against the (
tariff bill, and the alleged action on the ;
part of the sugar trust in contributing $500,- ]
000 to the Democratic campaign fund, two 1
j years ago, on condition that the interests of '<
J the trust would not he interfered with in the 1
sugar schedule, commenced its work last (
week, and is still busily engaged in the j
matter. i
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In regard to the Jiuttz. matter, the investigation
of the committee developed that on
or about the 1st of April last, at the home of
Senator llunton, in Virginia, Uuttz proposed
to pay Eppa Hunton, Jr., a contingent fee
of $2"?,000, on condition that he would, "by
argument," induce his father, Senator Hunton,
to vote against the tariiT hill. Eppa
Hunton resented the proposition with indignation
and told his father about it at the first
opportunity. Senator Hunton immediately
l told some of his fellow senators, and that
was how the matter became known. It was
also developed to the satisfaction of the committee,
that in March last lluttz approached
Senator Kyle, of South Dakota, with a proposition
to the effect that if he would vote
against the impending tariff' measure, he
would be paid the sum of of $14,000. lluttz
further assured Senator Kyle that the money *
was in the hands of certain New York par- 1
ties, and would he immediately forthcoming j
after the vote was cast.
The committee fully exonerated both Sen- j
ators Kyle and Hunton from any willingness i
to accept the offered bribes, and at the same <
time stated that both of the senators were (
in positions to have accepted the money had j
they so desired. j
In the sugar trust investigation, but little t
has as vet been developed. The investiga- (
tion was instituted altogether on the state-1
ments of certain newspaper correspondents |1
in their respective papers. The correspond-'
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| cuts, upon examination, admitted that they
I made the statements attributed to them ; hut
declined most positively to tell where they
got their information. Kaeh of them claimed
to have gotten his news from authentic!
sources, and had published it with the consent!
of their authorities : but on condition that un-j
der no circumstances would they reveal any j
I names. The committee is doubtful as to
: its authority to compel the correspondents to
j testify under the circumstances, and as the
correspondents avow their willingness to undergo
punishment themselves rather than
J give the desired information, it seems that
all hopes of any further testimony from this
; source is rather slim. !
Iu the main, the sugar trust seandle is to
j the ellect that President Cleveland and See|
retary Carlisle have participated in a conference
in which it was agreed that in consider-;
ation of the subscription of the. sugar trust to
the Democratic campaign fund two years
' ago, the interests of the trust in the tariU'bill
should be fully protected. Further, that1
i
I liourke Cochran, a niember of the ways and
; means committee of the house, was also an
j attorney of the sugar trust, and, as such,
! drew up the sugar schedule according to his
; own notion of what the sugar people wanted,
and did what he could to get the bill through
the house. I
! While the newspaper correspondents have j
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1101 as yei given win names 01 uieu iniunii- , c
ants, thcv have thrown a great deal of light j1
i on the subject, and if the matter is pushed 1
with the energy that its importance demands, (
there is every reason to believe that before
j long some of the developments will be most
startling.
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TUB FltillT FOIl STATU BANKS. s
The light for the repeal of the Id per cent. |
! tax on the issues of State banks, was com- j
me need on the floor of the house last Satur- ,
j day, and it is still in progress. The occasion j?
[of the light is a favorable report on Mr. 1
; 15 raw ley's bill to suspend the tax on the (
, clearinghouse certificates issued during the li- (s
nancial stringency last summer. The com- .
i mittic reported the bill favorably, on eondi- i,
tion that it would be so amended as to provide : <
for the repeal of the State bank tax, and this t
| brought up the whole question.
Congressman Springer opened the debate
in a prepared speech against the bill, lie .
said that if there was no other argument (
j against the Slate hank currency, its very 1
inconvenience would be sufficient. There <
are now 4-1 States in the Cnioii. Soon there . '
will be IS. There are ft,odd banks in the ,
I'nion, and if all the States should provide .
for the issuance of State currency, there .
would be ft,Odd different kinds of money. (
This number would be confusing and em- j t
barrassing in the extreme to all engaged s
' f
i in business, and under no circumstances |1
i should ii dc permmeu.
Mr. Lawson, ofllcorgia, spoke in favor of .
unconditional repeal. Coin, lie said, is the |
only safe basis for a banking system. Notes 1 s
I should be issued on nothing else. The pow- 1
or that controls money controls trade and
I commerce, and this power is too great to be j
I vested in private corporations like national *
j banks. A State banking system can be i
! devised which will possess the confidence off |
the entire I'rion, and tbiTsooner this is done j(
! the better for all the people. The treasury s
(itself is no more than a banking institution,
land it is now in the power of the national |c
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banks to destroy the stability of the treasuury.
The people should he entitled to the
benefit of their own money, and the government
should cut loose from the national
banks at onee. The people should not he
required to submit to the. intolerant, arbitrary
dictatorship of organized capital. Of
course they should he released without*
bloodshed ; hut they should he released. In
conclusion. Mr. Lawson said that private
banks wen; safer than national banks: farther,
they were Democratic, endorsed by the
Democratic platform, and all Democrats
were pledged to their re-establishment.
The discussion of the question will probably
continue for several weeks, but as to
whether the Democrats will finally redeem
their pledge to repeal the 10 per cent, tax on
the issue of State banks, seems to be involved
in considerable doubt.
CHARGES AGAINST THE RED CROSS.
During the last ten days there have been
afloat stories of gross abuses in the distribution
of relief to the.sufferers from the August
storm around Beaufort. A special correspondent
of the Columbia Register visited
Bluflton township and Hilton Head island,
in Beaufort township, last week, and if his
stories are true, there is little reason to doubt
that Miss Clara Barton and the sd-called
charitable Red Cross organizations are humbugs.
The great storm occurred in August. As
will be remembeied, the people of South
Carolina immediately responded to the cry
of distress and sent thousands of dollars in
money, provisions and clothes, to the stricken
people. The people of the North, especially
New York, also responded most liberally,
and altogether a most princely relief fund
was quickly donated. Miss Clara Barton, of
the Red Cross society, assumed charge of the
relief work, and with the constant additions
to the funds already raised, there was
reason onthe part of the whole people
of the State, to believe that a blessed mission
of mercy was being accomplished along our
unfortunate coast, and that all of the miserable
sufferers were receiving bread, clothes
and money according to their requirements
and deserts, in proportion to the. amount
that had been supplied.
It is now developing, however, that the
noble charily of the people has been grossly
abused. On May 1C>, Governor Tillman received
a letter from Mr. Thomas R. Heyward,
a prominent citizen of BlufFton township,
setting forth the facts in the case. Mr.
Hey ward stated that there were (5G0 white
people in BlufTton township, and most of
them respectable, hard working men, women
and children, had been rendered almost
destitute by the August storm. All told,
they had not received as much as $300
either in money, clothes or provisions by
way of assistance from all the charity that
tied been contributed; while thousands of
Negroes, many of them worthless loafers,
who were as well ofFafter the storm as before,
had all the while been drawing money
ind provisions in abundance with the
regularity of the sun. Other statements, no
ess startling were made by Mr. Iley ward,
ind Governor Tillman deemed it his duty to
it once lay the matter before the people.
A correspondent of The Register visited
die destitute districts last week, and in his
paper of Friday made some startling statements.
The correspondent says that Mr.
Heyaf-wd's letter is absolutely true, and
there is not a dozen white people in the dis:riet
who are not ready to lay all the blame
for the destitution of the poor whites 011 the
liscrimination of the Red Cross society, and
11 his opinion it would have been much
lietter for the people had the society never
invaded their section.
Among other things, it is charged that
when Miss Barton assumed control of the
listribution of charity in the district, she
lppointed several assistants. One of these
was a man named John McDonald, who is
now known as a doctor. McDonald came to
Beaufort just after the August storm. He
represented that he was 011 his way from
Sew York to Brunswick, (fa., for the purpose
of nursing" yellow fever sufferers, and
said that he was one of those who had escaped
from the steamship City of Savannah,
which was wrecked at the time olftlie coast
ifthis State. He had no money, but being
I "philanthropist" by profession, secured an
lppointment from Miss Barton as agent of
;he Red Cross for the district in which
Blufllon and Hilton Head island are located.
Dr. McDonald's first move after his appointment,
was to create a sub-committee,
which he composed of three Negroes and
me white man, and charged it with the duty
if distributing supplies. The white man
saw that the "distribution" was an abominable
farce, and in self respect resigned. His
place was tilled with a Negro, and from
,hence onward the committee has had its
)wn way.
White people have not been able to get
elief from the committee except by the most
ibject beggary. Many of them still had a
itile left after the storm. This, however,
hey have been forced to sell by piecemeal
II order to get something to eat, and now
hey are destitute. The Negroes, however,
lave been enabled to get all they wanted;
sometimes for nothing, but generally for a
;? 1 ? ?-? il.ni
luminal pnuu wuiuii nu uuuui Kuua :
lockets of McDonald and his committee,
in the district there are quite a number of
w-Xegro soldiers who draw pensions, and
:ven these are allowed to draw supplies
ihead of the destitute whites.
McDonald, shortly after his appointment,
vent to New York and got married. Recently
he bought some land, and is now
juildinga nice house on Hilton Head island,
tnd the members of his black sub-committee,'
)ne of whom is a pension agent, all have
nore cash tiian they have ever been known j
o have before.
It is also charged that Dr. McDonald j
stands in with the notorious Negro politician
dob Smalls. The sub-committee Negroes are
,veil-known political heelers, and there is no
loubt that was it through his influence that
hey were appointed to their present lucraive
position. A year ago it is said that
Emails was very unpopular wit 1 the Negroes
if the section. Now they say that it was
hrough him and the Republican party that
hey have gave gotten all the good things
hat they are now enjoying, and lie is almost
worshipped.
The correspondent says he is not prepared
o state that Miss Rarton is knowingly responsible
for the existing state of affairs ; but.
ill the same, 110 matter who is responsible,
fhis story is anything like true, there is cvilencc
at least of the most flagrant incapaciy
somewhere, and but little, if any, credit
ests upon anybody connected with a system
)f charity that harbors such outrageous
daises.
?
MKKK MKNTION.
The Democrats of Alabama have unmiiin-1
cd Colonel Win. C. dates, a Cleveland man,
is their eanditate for governor, against It. F.
Koil), the l'opulist. The total losses to
IVilliamsport, l'a., on aeeounl of the recent
lood, are estimated at ?3,000,000. The
orner stone of the monument to the Confederate
dead of North Carolina, was laid at
Raleigh last Wednesday. Senator Walsh,
if Georgia, recently introduced in the senate
i hill to punish with 20 years' imprisonment
he obstruction of any train carrying the Cnied
States mail. The Brotherhood of Loconotive
Kngineers adopted resolutions of conlcmnatiou,
and Senator Walsh explained
hat his hill is directed only against highway
way robbers?not organized laborers.
[Ox-Congressman Kitchens, of North Caroling
has left the Democratic party and joined
he Populists. The senate has continued
he nomination of C. .1. Taylor, colored, of
Kansas, to be recorder of deeds for the 1 Mstrict
if Columbia. Queen Victoria celebrated '
icr 75th birthday last Thursday. She has i
iccn on the British throne 57 years
['he banks of Now York now hold ?1,(!01."00
in excess of the requirements of the 25 j
er cent. rule. A mob made an unsuc-j
essl'ul attempt last Saturday to break open |
be Tampa, Fla., jail and lynch Stevenson j
md McNeil, two white men awaiting trial
or murder. The mob was stood oil" by the
dierill'. The world's visible supply of
rot ton last Saturday was 3,447,577 bales,
igainst ."?,4J)(i;S52 bales on the same date
asl year. C. K. Breckenridge, of Arkansas,
has been defeated in the Democratic
irimaries for renominalion to congress. ,
I'he city council of Kl I'aso, Texas, has
lassed an ordinance forbidding women to
vear on the streets what is known as the
'divided skirt." According to a report
ssued by the (Jrcek minister of the interior, j
M>7 people have been killed in Greece rc
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1IJI V(V4
Indents sit Clrinson,
? About 7-i students have left Ck-mson j
ollege on account of the recent lire.
j LOCAL AFFAIRS.
indkx to mow advkktisiomioxts.
May A* May?Have something to say aboutdio
dis, which they claim will promptly euro ;
any kind of bowel trouble. They have
juni itcuiiru iiuiHini kii^lt 101 im .hi.-., i i:ison's
Remedy for indigestion. Also rattle
powders; pci'ima, the groat* remedy for!
eatarrh of the stomueh ; besides a quantity |
of Paris green, which is now in demand j
for killing potato hugs.
John J. 1 Innter- -< Jives a list of nice articles he
lias ,011 hand adapted to the use of the!
ladies, and supplements it with a list ofj
things suitable for men, all of which he is i
offering at fair prices.
II. Strauss?1 las a large line of dress goods and |
Yankee notions, which he wants to close
out in the next '!< days at prices to suit the j
times.
Louis Roth?Is out of potatoes, hut can supply !
you with Austin's oat meal, lemons at
cents a dozen, breakfast bacon, and mackerel
at 10 cents for three.
Sam M. Grist?Talks about the mesits of the
Monarch bicycle. /
THE BAXKSOIIGH SCHOOL.
The Bauiks Hialf school will close the first I
session ofinstv^rk in Yorkville next week
with appropriate eominenecment exercises.
The programme will he as follows :
-"^Baccalaureate sermon 011 Sunday, June 3, i
at 8.30 p. m.
Declamations by representatives of the
two societies on Thursday, June 7, at 8.30 p.
m., as follows : Hkk.mkan?Isaac P. Henderson,
W. M. Kennedy, Jr., Harry C. Smith, R.
A. Sherfesec. Riiii.osophiax?Athol Harry
Aliller, W. Lapsley Barron, Howard A.
Caldwell, Frank (1. Dobson.
Annual oration by Rev. B. F. Wilson, president
of Converse college, 011 Friday, June 8,
at 8.30 p. m. Also declamations by representatives
of the two societies as follows : Hkkmkan?Edward
B. McMillan, William D.
Simpson, W. C. Stewart, J. X. Gaston. Phibosom
1 an?Washington Clark, E. M. Wil
liams, William Banks, Jennings K. Owens.
The invitation committee is composed of
W. C.Stewart, William Banks, J.K. Owens.
J. N, Gaston and Win. M. Kennedy, Jr. A.
Talley Moore, W. 1'. McAllister, W. T.
Moore, C. Fred Williams and It. Latta Parish
will act as marshals during the exercises.
CHUIICH NOTICES.
Episcopal?Lay service on next Sunday at
10.30 a. ni. Sunday-school in the afternoon
at 4.30 o'clock.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian?York,
vii.i.E.?Sunday-school at 4 o'clock p. m.
Rev. B. H. Grier is expected to conduct services
next Sunday morning at 10.30 o'clock,
and evening at 8.15.
Trinity Methodist Episcopal?Rev. S. A.
Weber, pastor. Praycr-ineeting this evening
at 8.15 o'clock. Services next Sunday t
morning at 10.30 o'clock, and evening at 8.15. i
Sunday-school at 4 o'clock p. m.
Presbyterian?Rev. W. G. Neville, pastor, i
Sunday-school at 4 o'clock p.m. Services i
Sunday morning at 10.30 o'clock and evening I
at 8.15 o'clock. Prayer-meeting tomorrow 1
afternoon at 5 o'clock.
Baptist?Rev. W. J. Langston, pastor.!
Union.?Services next Sunday morning at j
'o'clock. Yorkvii.i.k? Services on Sunday
|
evening at 8.15. Sunday-school at 4 o'clock I
p. m. Prayer-meeting tomorrow evening i
at 8.15.
DEATH OF 31 IIS. WATERS.
Mrs. Elizabeth Waters died at the home of [
I her son, Auditor \Y. .). waters, 111 y oiKviue,
last Sunday aged about 85 years. Though
she had been suffering for several days with
a bowel affection, her condition was not regarded
as especially serious, and her death
came in the nature of a sudden shock to the
j loving ones who were watching at her bedside.
Mrs. Waters was the widow of the latcj
[ W. K. Waters, and was a sister of the late
: Richard Woods, of Chester. She was a
I native of Chester county, hut for many years
since her marriage has been living in York,
about live miles southeast of Rock Hill. She
was known to her neighbors as a woman of a
most amiable disposition, possessed of the
highest qualities of mind and character, and
for more than sixty years previous to her
death, was an earnest and energetic worker
in the Baptist church.
She leaves five children?two sons and
three daughters. Her remains were interred
at Rock Hill on last Monday.
SUSPICIOUS CH Alt ACTIONS.
Eon Milling, a white man, was arrested on
| last Monday night by Constable W. A. CarI
roll on the charge of having broken into a
store at Grover, 011 the Saturday night pre!
ivous. Milling acknowledges the crime and !
says he was forced to participation in it by a j
| man named John Porter.
Policeman Bryan had quite a scuffle with ,
a suspicious character near the Three ("s
I depot last Monday night, in an attempt toj
I arrest the fellow for carrying a concealed
| weapon. The man made considerable re- j
sistancc and tried to use his pistol. Police- j
mail Bryan finally got him overpowered,
hut afterward decided to release him on |
"suspicion," taking his watch and pistol as
security. The fellow has not heen seen I
[ since.
The watch was on yesterday shown to j
Lon Milling. Milling says it belongs to.
Porter, who forced him to help commit the
burglary at G rover. Porter is a white man
about "> feet 8 inches high, light moustache
and sandy hair, weighs perhaps 1(50 pounds
and is 23 years of age. Some people are
of the opinion that he is the man who
blew open the Three C"s safe.
AFItAII) IT WOULD AFFIX'T HIS LI FX.
Mr. J. 1). (Iwinn, of Clover, tells an atnus-!
ing incident connected with last Wednes-,
day's storm, which seems to he highly
characteristic of the average colored brother:
"Biding on a piece further." said Mr.!
Gwinii, "I came across the little farm of old
'Uncle' George A . The crops had '
been completely destroyed, and near the
house was a small patch in which, judging
from the powdered leaves, there had been
considerable vegetation. Just about the
time I rode up, the old fellow came out of j
his house and I asked :
'"Hello, Uncle George ; what is this?'
"'Hali! hall! hah!' laughed Uncle j
George, seemingly tickled almost to death.
'Hal's my garden.'
" 'And what did you have planted, (
(icorge ?
44 'Oh, 'tutors, an' corn, an' beans, an' on-!
ions, sin' most everything.'
"'Well, Cieorgc, I feel sorry for yon. It
looks to me like you arc about ruined.'
41 Now, Mr. (fwinn, (loan you go en talk |i
dat way. We's all right down here. We'si
doin'just splendid?just splendid I tell you. 1
Kf you go hack en make such a repote as'
dat what you said, it'll all'ec' my lien, an' I j
don't want you to tell dem white folks noth-;
in' hut what we's doin'just splendid."'
The ease of the old Negro is pitiable. At
the same time it presents a certain vein ofj1
humor, and illustrates the manner in which '
a large number of people, including not a !
few whites, look upon the agricultural lien?
as a means of getting credit, with the crops 1
as a practical security, behind which there is |
no moral responsibility whatever.
KTOKMS OF Ii()\<; A<;(>. I
44Biggest hailstorm ever known in this
section !'' That is a common declaration in i
connection with the big deluge of ice de- {]
scribed elsewhere in this issue. But the de-11
duration is not correct. Some young people ! 1
who have not been here very long, and many ' i
who are older, soon forget bygone occur- i
venccs. When we look up the records, j <
however, we find that last Wencsday's storm
was only one among many. !s
Mr. S. A. (Jlenn, of Bethel, remembers i
that on May !>, 1S(!S, there was a terrific hail- <
storm in the "l'oint" section of Bethel town- <
ship. The area covered included only live i
tU.iiiiiitions: hut within a few minutes, all! I
signs of the crops on all of them were com-1
plctcly blotted out. I
Three destructive storms have passed
along the same route followed l?y that ofj
last Wednesday, within the past 40 years.'
Mr. S. A. McKlwce remembers one that occurred
on tlie 7th of June, 1858. It gathered
in the vicinity of King's mountain and
went down Allison creek, destroying all the
crops in its path. At the point where the
C. C. it A. railroad crosses Catawba river, j
the hailstones were piled up in great drifts;
many feet deep, and for days after t he j
storm, people from Chester came up on the!
trains and carried hack supplies of ice. Mr. [
Itefinus Turner remembers another storm
that occurred in 18(15, and Mr. J. R. lloguel
speaks or another that passed over the same
route about the 14th of July, 188(i. Roth of
the last named storms destroyed crops, but
the damage was not so widespread as in the
case of the first.
Probably the worst storm that has occur- j
red in the recent history of York county, is
that which swept a portion of Bullock's
Creek township, on the loth of May, 18o9.
We find the record in the files of Thk KxQt'iRKlt.
The storm gathered around King's
mountain and came down Bullock's creek on
the wings of a cyclone. The wind destroyed
almost everything in its path, and as if completing
the fearful work, the hail beat what
was left into the ground. Kail fences were
literally swept from the plantations they surrounded,
great trees were torn up by the
roots and carried long distances, and the
forests that were left were tangled and matted
with an almost impenetrable mass of
debris. One log cabin, occupied by seven
persons, was blown down and an old lady
named Mrs. Nelly Alberson was killed.
Dead cattle and work animals were left lying
around promiscuously. Cotton was destroyed
like that last Wednesday, and the growing
wheat and oats, of which up to that time
there were splendid crops, presented the appearance
of stubble fields. And the hail!
The like of it was never heard of.before,
and it has not been seen since. The stones
were from the size of a guinea egg down,
and one writer says that as he rode along
on a horse 1(1 hands high, he could stoop
and rrriib nn the ice hv the handful without
getting down. In drifts, the hail was 10
feet deep, and five days after the storm,
in many places, it measured from 21 to 3
feet on a level.
YOllKYILLK IS WORKING.
The effort on the part of the people of
Yorkville to secure the holding of terms of
the United States court in this place is now
well underway. Senator Butler has introduced
in the senate a bill to amend sections
1 and 4 of the act regulating the sittings of
Federal courts in this State. The bill has
been read twice in the senate and is now in
the hands of the judiciary committee of that
body. It reads as follows:
"Section 1. That there shall be five regular
terms of the circuit court of the United
States for the district of South Carolina in each
year as follows: In the city of Greenville,
on the first Monday in February and on the
first Monday in August; in the city of
Charleston on the first Monday in April; in
the city of Columbia on the first Monday in
November; and in Yorkville, in the county
of York, on the first Monday in June. And
that the cases upon the calendar of said
court not disposed of at any term, may be
called and disposed of by trial or otherwise
at the succeeding term thereof.
"Section 2. That the regular terms of the
district court in the western dhtrict of
Kniith f'firnlinn nil nil he held in each vear.
in the city of Greenville, on the first Monday
in February and on the first Monday in
August; and in Yorkville, in the county of
York, on the first Monday in June."
At a public meeting held on Tuesday of
last week, it was decided to employ Hon. J.
J. Hemphill, of Chester, as an attorney to
do what he can to keep the bill moving
through the senate, and Messrs. James H.
Riddle, W. Adickes and George H. O'Leary
were apointcd on a committee to raise funds
for the purpose of paying Mr. Hemphill for
his services. The meeting wus of the opinion
that the South Carolina delegation in the
house could have no objection to helping the
bill through that body, and Messrs. James F.
Hart, I). E. Finlev, J. S. Bricc, W. W. Lewis
and J. R. Witherspoon were appointed on a
committee to interest the delegation in the
matter. With the work now underway in
connection with that which has already been
done, there is reason to hope that before the
close of the present session of congress,
Yorkvillc will have secured the coveted
prize.
ABOUT PEOPLE.
Miss Hulda McNeel leaves tomorrow for
a visit to friends in Spartanburg.
We are glad to note that Dr. Griffith is
able to be on the streets again.
Dr. Charles F. Dunlap returned home on
Friday last, from Eagle Lake, Tex.
I'rof. W. W. Dixon left Yorkvillc last Saturday,
on a visit to relatives at Woodward's, i
^ ^ T /
Mrs. Loroy Springs, of Lancaster, is in !
Yorkvillc, visiting the family of Mr. B. N.!
Moore.
Mrs. I). W. Hicks and children, of Henrietta,
N. C., are visiting relatives and friends
in Yorkville.
Mrs. X. 1'. Wade and daughter, Miss Anna,
of Kershaw county, are visiting the fam-;
ily ofJIr. W. Jr. Propst.
Mrs. It. J. Withers and daughters, Misses
(ieorgiaand Iva, spent last Sunday with relatives
and friends at Lowrysville.
Mr. Pomeroy Brown, oflfeath Springs, S.J
C'., spent last Sunday with friends in Yorkville,
the guest of Dr. Jas. jr. Starr.
Miss Nellie JIcKlreath, of Campbell, Tex., |
is expected to arrive in Yorkville today, on a !
visit to the family of Captain L. Jr. Grist.
Jlr. and Jlrs. (J. W. S. Hart returned home j
last week after a visit to relatives on Wad-1
malaw island, near Charleston.
Mr. T. L. Balfour, of Koek Hill, has re-!,
cently been employed in the painting depart-:
ment of the Carolina Buggy company.
Jliss Wilmarth Jackson, of Kbenezer, is
spending a few days with the family of Jfr.
P. A. Gilbert, in Yorkville.
Dr. John F. Lindsay returned home on
Saturday night last, from the annual meeting
of the Presbyterian general assembly
which met at Nashville, Tenn.
Mr. Bobt. C. Moore, bookkeeper of the '
Jlillfort eotton mills, of Fort Mill, spent)
Sunday and Monday with his father's family!
in this place.
Mrs. W. (i. White, accompanied by her
sister, Jliss Annie Howard, will leave in a
few days to visit relatives in New Haven,
Conn. They will visit other Northern cities j'
before thev return to Yorkville.
. I
WORK OF SAFK HLOWFKS.
Put 110 trust in your iron safe, for surely I
there is a burglar who can open it as easily '
us you. Dodoes not know your combina-.
tion, nor does lie want to know it. It is loo 1
slow and tedious, and he has one that serves!1
his purpose just as well. With bis little 'I
drill, some dynamite and a short piece of |s
fuse, he can speedily blow oil' the door, ap-j
propriate the contents of your safe, and 1
when you wake uj>, he has gone silently on !1
liis way. !'
The safe in the ticket olliec of the Three 1
L"s depot was blown open by burglars last;'
Monday night. When Agent Uobhs went I'
there yesterday morning, he found the '
heavy safe door lying flat on the floor, all the j
inner drawers pulled out and rilled, and the 1
railroad short in its cash account to the tune i *
jf pretty nearly $ "><). j;
8o far as we know, this is the first ease of '
safe-blowing that has ever occurred in York- (
rillc, and it must he confessed that the job | f
tvas most skillfully done. The safe is a large |:
me, standing nearly 5 feet high. The door1'
s 25 inches wide and 40 inches long. About j'
mlf way between the combination disk and ; '
he bolt handle, there was a small hole, no i;
argcr than an ordinary slate pencil. Through !
his the dynamite had been introduced into J t
he receptacle which contains the lock on the 11
aside, and when the explosion occurred, the | (
outer iron casing was torn apart from the I
rest of the thick door, and the lock and holts ;
were within easy reach of the burglar's crowbar
and other tools. Whether or not the
door was entirely blown otl'by the explosion,
of course, nobody knows but the burglars
themselves: but it is certainly very clear
that after the explosion, the remaining obstacles
between the thieves and valuables
were of very little consequence.
The thieves entered the ollice by prying
open the front door. They went through all j
the drawers to be found, and took everything
in the way of money except some coppers 1
and two bank checks. Nothing in the ollice
was damaged by the explosion except the
safe, and when the burglars left, they closed
the outer door, which fastened with a spring
lock, just as they had found it.
There is no clue to the identity of the
burglars further than the thoroughness with
which they understood their business. There
is little reason to doubt tbat tliey are proles-;
sionals on a tour through the country, and j
\vc may reasonably expect to hear of them !
again, if not in Yorkvillc, at some other '
point along their route.
TICRKIFIC HAIL STORM.
"I)o you see that reddish glow ahead of
that great black cloud yonder ? That is el-'
ectricity, and it means that the belt over;
which the cloud passes is going to be pelted by i
a terrific hail storm !"
The time was lust Wednesday at about 2 |
o'clock, and tbe speaker was a local obser-1
ver, who, from years of experience, lias be- j
come enabled to quickl) interpret the mean- j
ing of almost any kind of atmospheric phenomena
that relates to the weather. The)
reporter looked in the direction indicated.
At a point, seemingly about four or five miles j
north of Yorkville, was an ominous cloud of
inky blackness. It appeared to be five or
six miles long, from two and a half to three
miles wide, fully a mile from top to hottom.
The front end of the cloud was illuminated J
by a great headlight of electricity, and the I
dense mass moved from west to east with !
the speed of a locomotive.
There was very nine ram in i oiKviue j
during the afternoon, but within a few hours
there came reports which abundantly verified
the predictions of the weather prophet
quoted above. A hail storm had hurst with j
all its fury in the vicinity of the plantation '
of Mr. T. 1'. Whitesides, about seven miles
north of Yorkville, and following Allison
creek toward Wright's old mill, had devastated
the crops for a distance of at least lifteen
miles. A reporter of The Enquirer
was sent over a portion of the track of the
storm 011 last Thursday and Friday, and he
found that but few, if any, of the almost incredible
stories that have been told about it,
were in anywise exaggerated.
Mr. Mason Stowe reports that on his place,
the level ground was completely covered,
and in gullies the hailstones drifted to a
depth of from 2A to 3 feet.
Mr. S. A. McElwee drove up the King's
Mountain road two hours after the storm.
He passed through several puddles of water
standing in the road, and the grinding of the
ice under the wheels of the buggy reminded
him of the dead of winter. The earth
011 both sides of the road was literally covered
with hailstones.
Mr. W. S. Barnwell, who lives about half
way between Yorkville and Clover, reports
that after the storm, the hailstones in his
yard were two inches deep on a level, and
could have been thrown out by the shovel
full.
Mr. 0. It. Turner, who lives about GJ miles
northeast of Yorkville, says that from his
house, a distance of two miles, through the
woods, the hailstones looked to be shoemouth
deep.
Mr. It. B. Youngblood was plowing when
the storm came along. The pelting of the
hailstones frightened his horse, and he had
great difficulty in getting the animal under
control. When he finally got out of the
field, however, and the horse in his stable,
t>'illi of liia linn/la irorn ht'iiiarwl nnil i [1 <r
from numerous cuts inflicted by the sharp
pieces of ice.
Several people report that, even up to last
Saturday, tons of hailstones were still lying
in many of the gullies along Allison creek.
The damage to crops along the path of the
storm is something awful to contemplate.
Great fields of 25 and 50 acres, which at 2
o'clock were literally green with beautiful
standsToTcotton, a half hour later looked as
if they had never been planted. As fur as
the eye could see, there was scarcely a vestige
of anything green. Even the leaves
and stems had been beaten into the earth in
a manner that suggested absolute annihilalation.
Corn was beaten to a frazzle, and
the blades, where not altogether torn
from the stalks, were left hanging in strings.
Wheat and oats were also literally ruined,
fit for no purpose whatever except to reap
and cure for hay.
Among those who live in the path of the
storm and who sustained more or less injury,
are the following: T. 1*. Whitesides, J. M.
Stroup, J. \V. Neil, (Neely place) Jacob
Lockhart, J. C. Beamguard, C. M. l'arrott,
S. T. Davidson, W. D. Moore, Eli Thomas,
J. L. Stacy, J. R. McCartcr. R. S. Brison,
Mrs. Dave Boyd, Mrs. Peyton Currence, Jas.
Turner, G. R. Turner, Braiuard Currence,
S. M. Johnson, H. E. Johnson, G. C. Ormand,
X. B. Campbell, Marshall Campbell,
J. C. Lilly, P. L. Pursley, W. S. Barnwell, I).
W. McCartcr, Marion Robertson, J. W.
Fewell, A. Dale, R. B. Yottngblood, Sam
Youngblood, W. L. Youngblood, W. R. Ilorton,
W. E. Jackson, J. B. Wood, T. X.
Thomasson, Emmet M. Walker, J. R. Wallace,
J. E. Whitesides, Perry Ferguson, L.
T. Woods and D. M. Hall.
A remarkable fact connected with the j
! ; tli-it ennui iiiilnncos nrn rpnnrtpd '
where an occasional farm escaped without
any injury whatever, while the farms all
around it were completely ruined. Most of
the farmers mentioned above commenced the
work of replanting cotton on Thursday, and
by now, provided there lias been no scarcity
of seed, the work has probably been completed
over the whole territory. Where;
wheat and oats were destroyed, in most
cases the land has been replanted in corn. ,
A curious circumstance connected with,
the storm is the fact that it was almost literlily
a shower of ice. Nowhere along the I'
path of the hail cloud was there any rain
worth mentioning. Farmers went back to
plowing within half an hour after the storm
was over, and many of them say that the
ground was not wet more than a half inch
deep.
The duration of the storm at any one place
s dillicult to arrive at. Some say three or
four minutes, and others live or six ; but the
general opinion seems to be in favor of the,
shorter, rather than the longer, time.
As yet we have heard nothing like a careful
estimate of the total damage that was
n llieted. We have no doubt, however,
that the loss will easily run up into]
thousands of dollars, for, living in the path ! i
}f the storm, is a large number of the most :
jnergetic and successful farmers in thej
:ounty.
Later, on the same afternoon, there was L
mother hailstorm, separate and distinct from j
:he one mentioned above. It occurred about I
5 o'clock. Gathering about the pinnacle of.'
King's mountain, it moved down Crowder's,1
;reek at a most rapid rate, and wrought a L
treat deal of damage to the crops in its path. j
Messrs. W. II. Kiddle, J. W. Patrick and G. j
[j. Kiddle sustained more or less damage to ,
heir cotton crops, a portion of which all of j
them have had to replant. ' ,
S'urrow (inStorkholileiV Mi-i'ting.
? The annual meeting of the stockholders (
>f the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Guagcj
It ail road company, will be held at Dallas, X. j
on Thursday, 7th day of June. |<
LOCAL LACONICS.
They 4>o from West to Hast.
? An old wciitlier observer calls our attention
to it as a remarkable fact that nearly
all hailstorms in this section go from west
to east, and that a storm from north to
south, though occurring occasionally, is
something very unusual.
SiileMiliiy for J oik*.
? Next .Monday is salesday for June. By
reference to our advertising columns, it will
he seen that several nieces of properly will
be ottered by the clerk. The advertisement
of the sale of the Jones mill property, by
United States Marshal Hunter, has been
withdrawn.
IlfcuiiHc he whh ? Democrat.
? Charlotte Observer: Hob Nelson, the
Negro who was killed at Pineville a couple
of weeks ago, was a Democrat. The Negroes
in that town would not allow him to be hurried
in their cemetery on account of his
political faith, so he was buried in the white
cemetery.
"Our I toy*" Coming.
? We are requested to announce that the
"Our Hoys'' minstrel club, of Rock Hill, will
give an entertainment in the court house on
next Monday night. From what we hear,
the entertainment is well worth going to see,
and as one-half of the net proceeds go to the
fund now being collected lor tne purpose 01
buying a town clock, it is to be hoped that a
large crowd will be present.
Inquettt Near HlalrHville.
? Sam Carter, aged 70 years, who lived
on Mr. J. S. Moore's plantation, three miles
from Blairsville, was found dead in a field
last Saturday. He was as well as usual
when he went to work in the morning, and
Trial Justice Blair summoned a jury to inquire
into the cause of his death. Dr. W.
I). Hope stated that the trouble was due to
heart disease, and the jury found a verdict
in accordance with the statement.
Bitten by a Battler.
? Lizzie Bolin, an eight year old girl who
lives on Mr. Robert 31. Whitesides's place,
near Hickory Grove, was bitten on the foot,
011 Tuesday of last week, by a rattlesnake.
The wound was poulticed with a chicken,
split open alive for the purpose, and was
afterward treated liberally with soda. There
was a slight swelling of the foot, but otherwise
the little girl experienced no considerable
inconvenience. Mr. Whitesides killed
the snake. It was a sure enough rattlesnake
with one rattle and a button.
The Money Will lie Paid.
? Since JudgeSimonton's recent decision,
the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta, and
the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line railroads,
have decided to come down with their unpaid
taxes. Of course there is no other
way for it now. At the request of Mr. A.
B. Andrews, Treasurer Xeely went to Columbia
on yesterday for the purpose of receiving
the money. The amount due by the
A. & C. road is $3,677.71; and the amount
due by the C. C. & A. is $5,694.25. In State,
county and railroad taxes the treasurer's
books will show up a sudden addition of
$9,371.96.
Fire on the Narrow tiuugp.
? Quite a serious lire occurred on the ^
northbound Narrow Guage freight train lust
Friday morning. Conductor Ross was in
charge of the train. Between Dallas and
Lincolnton he noticed a considerable volume
of smoke issuing from a box car, which contained
twenty-two bales of cotton. He at
once stopped the train and called out all
hands to fight fire. After about three hours
hard work, the fire was gotten sufficiently %
under control to allow the train to proceed.
Twelve bales of the cotton were almost
completely destroyed. The balance was not
so badly damaged. 4
Preparing for the Cadets.
? At a meeting of the citizens, held in the
court house on Tuesday night of last week, a
committee of thirteen, with W. B. Moore,
Esq., as chairman, was appointed to make the
necessary arrangements for the entertainment
of citadel cadets during their encampmeut
in Yorkville. The general committee
has divided into sub-committees, and these
are now at work on the various details in
the proposed entertainment. The cadets
will arrive in ltock Hill, on Saturday, the
lfith of June, and in Yorkville on Tuesday,
the 19th. The programme for their amusement
has not yet been decided upon, but
will be published later. Rev. Dr. Lathgn, of
Due West, has been invited to deliver the
address of the occasion.
Still lliinning the Pump. ?
? Blind Sam Campbell, the old Confederate
veteran who got. his eyes shot out in the
war, is still supplying the Narrow Guage
engines with water at Clover, but he is not
pumping by hand now. Of late he has
come to the conclusion that the work is gettidg
too hard for his advancing years, and he
has procured a windmill. Now he sits about,
whittles out puzzles and other objects that
his ingenuity enables him to fashion from
wood, talks with his friends, and makes it certain
that the wind mill properly discharges
the duty that he has imposed upon it. The
old fellow seems to be getting quite feeble
now, but continues to go about his daily
duties with that cheerful patience that has
always characterized bis daily walks. His
numerous friends and acquaintances will be
glad to know that he has succeeded in shilling
off tlie hardest part of his work on the
wind.
A Pretty Tough Snttke Story.
? Here is a pretty tough snake story. It
comes to us second-handed. Our informant
vouches for the truth of it; but at the same
time we would have it understood that we i
are not responsible. One day last week Mr. fl
Sam Lauthridge, who lives near Philadelphia 1
church, sent a little Negro under his house ->
to get the eggs from a hen's nest. Shortly
after his disappearance under the house the
little Negro gave a yell, and with all possible
speed crawled backward. Hanging to his
head was a writhing and twisting snake
about two and a half feet in length. Just as
he got from under the house, the boy seized
the snake with a frantic snatch and threw it *
violently to the ground, where it was quickly
dispatched by Mr. Lauthridge. A careful
examination showed that the boy had not
been bitten at all ; but entangled in the thick
wool, was one of the fangs of the snake
which had evidently been pulled out as the
boy snatched the reptile from his head. The
snake is said to have been a "spreading"
adder.
FORT MILL MATTERS.
By l'rivutc Subscription?Sunday-School Picnic?
Narrow Encapc from Death.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
Four Mill, May 28.?Our graded school ?
closed about one week ago. The Fort Mill
graded school will hereafter be run by private
subscriptions and tuition fees, in lieu of
the specjal tax levied heretofore.
The Fort Mill Presbyterian Sunday-school
and the Philadelphia Sunday-school, live
miles north nre rennrfed to huve bod
nut picnics during the past week.
Saturday afternoon, while the Rev. S. M.
Hughes and Mrs. M. M. Durham, of Black- stock,
S. C., were crossing Dinkins's ferry, a
serious accident, which came near being
fatal, occurred. The llat left the shore hefore
the hind wheels of the buggy with, Mrs.
Durham in it, were on. In the excitement,
the horse was cut loose and the entire buggy,
save the shafts, sank, Mrs. Durham in
the meanwhile having been rescued. Nothing
was broken, and the damages consisted
of the loss of from $~)0 to $00 worth of valuables,
together with a wetting and a fright
for Mrs. Durham. Scuihk.
Will n<> to New York.
? Columbia Register: Coventor Tillman
lias accepted an invitation to speak before
the National Temperance convention, which ?
meets on Staten Island, New York, on June
1th. The convention is in honor of Neul
Dow, the great prohibitionist of Maine.
Governor Tillman has been asked to speak
an the subject of "What its Advocates Expect
from the State Agency I'lan,'' or the
lispensary law.