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Straps and ^acts. ? The United States court at New Orleans has rendered a decision, which if sustained i by the supreme court, will be of far reaching consequence to the railroads. Heretofore points that have very strong competition have been getting very low rates. In' fact, the roads have been bringing their i freight a distance of hundreds of miles at less than would be charged for the same | freight delivered at many towns along the I line a much shorter distance from the start-] ing point. The court says this is unjust dis- i criminatiou, and that all freight charges! should be on the same basis at so much a mile. If the decision is sustained, the result j will be that the smaller towns can no longer ; be taxed for the benclit ot the large cities. ; ? "It is believed at present," said Dr. Hyde, at the medical congress at Washington, "that | there are about 92 lepers now alive in this country. There are actually two in Florida, j and usually one to three in Illinois, and the same number in New York. One is known I in Texas, two in Idaho, two in Pensylvania j and four in South Carolina. There are probably more than three score lepers in Louisiana and less than half that in the States of the Northwest. This suggested an approximate estimate of between 75 and 100 cases of leprosy, but competent observers have estimated that the total number is between 90 and 150. Enough lepers are now sheltered upon the soil to offer a menace to the welfare | of its inhabitants and to propose a problem ! in State and sanitary science which I believe the general government alone can rightly solve. ? Rev. Andrew Jackson Potter announces himself as a candidate for sheriff and tax collector of Tom Green county, Texas. This is the man who some years ago arose in the pulpit at Uvalde, Texas, where the toughs had been in the habit of rotten-egging and running out of town every minister of the gospel that attempted to preach to them, and with a big six-shooter in each hand, mildly remarked that if there was any flopeared, swallow-mouthed galoot in the congregation who imagined himself man enough to put him out of that pulpit, he would be glad to have him present himself right then and lake hot medicine, "otherwise he had better keep his bazoo closed, and he wanted it further understood that by the help of God and those two forty-fives in his hands, he proposed to preach to that people that day without interruption. There seems little doubt that he will be elected sheriff. ? The statement of the cotton crop movement from September 1 to May 31,' inclusive, issued on June 1 by the New Orleans cotton exchange, is as loliows: rort receipts, 5,794,055 bales against 4,809,445 last year and 6,925,97S year before last; overland to mills, 824,067, against S50,984 and 1,205,250 year before last; interior stocks in excess of September 1st, 50,226, against 83,456 and 172,813; Southern mill takings, exclusive of consumption at Southern outports, 638,8S7, ugainst 617,302 last and 557,169 year before last. Crop brought in sight at the close of May, 7,307,235 against 6,421,197 and 8,861,218 ; crop brought into sight for May 205,849, including correction, against 148,655 and 195,353 year before last; corrections to overland embrace 70,473 bales, and include 65,015 bales at other points. Of the latter number 3,025 bales have been deducted from port receipts, aud transferred to overland. ? The repeal of the tax on the issue of State banks is still under discussion in the house, and so many members have expressed a desire to speak that it is not likely that a vote will be taken before the close of the week. The Washington correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution has the following to say of the measure: "While the advocates of this bill express confidence that it will pass, figures show that its fate is extremely doubtful, with the chances against its passage. Having polled the house, I find of the full membership of 356 there are but 140 who can be courted upon for it. Some of these will necessarily be absent. Thus you might count on only about 125 votes for it. If a number of its oppouents are absent and not paired, or if 50 or 60 of them simply do not vote at all, it could pass. Otherwise the bill will be defeated by 50 majority. Certainly, after a close poll of the house, the prospects, to an unprejudiced mind, would seem rather dark for the passage of the bill." ? The Philadelphia Times sees tiie future supremacy of the South, and comments as follows: "With the South exporting $12,000,000 of cotton manufactures and enlarging its facilities, especially to supply the coarser fabrics, it begins to look as if New England's supremacy was doomed. Conditions of the late depression compelled close economy and the introduction of labor-saving appliances. Location, cheap freights! and fuel have imparted a new importance. The records show that Southern factories j increased their consumption last year 18,0001 bales, while Northern spinners fell away to | the extent of 265,000. The Southern mill, with free raw material, has an advantage j New Eugland factories never can gain, aud,; whether it be in the fine or coarse grades, j the Southern product is rapidly assuming an j importance aud development that threatens J seriously the ultra-protection centers of the ' North." ? There is a man in Chicago who pays! $18,000 a year for the privilege of keeping a cow. He is a sane man, a business man, a man of family, and generally respected in the community. His poor relatives declare ' hirn a freak, and his neighbors shrug their j shoulders and murmur things about rich, men's whims. The way of it is that be pos-! sesses a valuable building lot in a choice; residence portion of the city, and, having j nothing else to do with it, he put a nice little : fence around it and quartered therein hist pet Jersey cow. The cow was an artistic i cow and harmonized well with the green 1 turf and lilac bushes, so people rather ad-1 mired the arrangement. One day a man , came along who thought he would like to! build a house on that particular lot, so he! in, n#l nt\ t It a ftirnnp nml him :i snot ! cash offer of $300,000 for the land. His oiler : was refused, decisively and politely. "liut,"i remonstrated a relative, aghast, "that would j pay you $18,000 a year! Why on earth did you refuse it?" The rich man lit a cigar ' and turned a protesting face on his accuser, i "Yes," he assented in a puzzled way, "but what would I have done with my cow ?" ? Until recently, Thomas II. Heed has been a straightout goldhug. Now there is reason to believe that he hopes some day to be pres- i ident. The following from his pen in the i last number of the London Fortnight lieview, shows that though somewhat oil' on the tariff question, he is coming around to common sense on silver: "We recognize1 the great increase in the burden of our gold , obligations payable abroad, because of the vast subsidence of prices; we recognize that j falling silver, by lowering the eastern exchanges, favors our competitors in Asia, who I sell similar produce, wheat and cotton, in the markets of Europe. It is, therefore, j evidently important for debtor nations, on | which list we stand lirst, to raise the price of silver and thereby reduce that bounty on exports which Asia now enjoys. This can be done best by agreement with other nations favorable to silver, and by such a scale of high tariff against those nations which reject monetary agreements as will insure us a favorable balance of trade. In short, a higher price for silver, by reducing Asiatic "vnnri? tr? V.iir/ino will increase ours : add ? ~I~? lo this a higher tariff and we can keep our! gold at home, or at least, if sold, it will quickly cotne hack again." ? In view of the continued gold export movement, the amount of gold coin of the United States becomes a matter of interest. The official treasury estimate of the gold stock in the Tinted States on June 1 places it at $055,000,000. The abstract condition of national banks by States May 4, completed Saturday, gives the amount of gold coin, treasury certificates, and gold clearing house certificates held by national banks of j the United States as follows: New Yoik, $8o,707,000: Illinois, $20,000,000; Pennsylvania, $20,047,000; Massachusetts, $11,050,000; Ohio, $7,000,000; Minnesota, $4,1 ldj000 : Wisconsin, $8,895,000 ; Indiana. $8,800,000 ; Missouri, $8,450,000: California. $8,825,000; Kansas, $1,105,000; South Dakota. $298,000; Arkansas, $100,000; Idaho. $l$4,000; Nevada, $52,000; Tennessee, $780,000; Maine, $020,000; Michigan. $2,020,000; Florida, $04,000; Louisiana,$488,000: Kentucky, $098,000: Utah, $555,000; Wyoming. $220,000; Texas, $1,140,000: New Mexico, $20,000; Arizona, $88,000; Oklahoma, $50,000; Montana, $1,112,000; Nebraska, $2,12:1,000: South Carolina, $108,000; North Dakota. $222,000; Connecticut, $2,217,000: New Hampshire, $804,000; District of Columbia, $1,200,000; Indian Territory, $88,400; Iowa, 1 $2,140,000: Vermont, $472,000: New Jersey, j $1,841,000, Alabama, $407,000; Mississippi, $77,000; Virginia, $">12,000: Maryland, $2,480,000; Washington $2,522,000; Colorado, $2,GOO,000; Oregon, $1,400,000Rhode Island, $710,000; Georgia, $888,000; North Carolina, $204,00: West Virginia, $585,000: Delaware, $186,000. ? General John Hewston, a Californian, was arrested in London last Friday on the charge of having caused the death of a man named George Burton. Burton was a musician, and he, with several others, blocked the road along which General Hewston was ?/-, nnoe Ifowctfin tried to fret, the ".""ft l" F"-" men to let him by, but tliey refused and provoked a quarrel. During the.quarrel, I lewston stuck the end of his umbrella in Burton's eye. Burton fell to the ground and soon afterward expired. Hewston was committed to prison without bail, and is in danger of having to undergo serious penalties. ?lie fjovkviUe (?nquim\ YOKKVILLE, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1894. ? Bourkc Cockran denies emphatically that he ever said that an oflicial, high iu the present administration, had stated that the Democratic parly is under obligation to the sugar trust on account of heavy contributions to campaign funds. Further, lie claims that if the sugar trust ever made any contributions to the Democratic campaign fund, he is not aware of it. ? The monument to the private soldiers nnd sailors of the Confederacy, at Richmoud, Va., was unveiled last Wednesday with appropriate ceremonies. The address of the day was delivered by Rev. Mr. Cave, of St. Louis, and<he number of visitors present is estimated at 25,000. South Carolina was represented by several companies of State troops, including a detachment of Citadel cadets. ? "A statement from Miss Clara Rarton, of the Red Cross society," says the Greenville News, "proves conclusively that all the charges of discrimination in favor of Negroes and Republicans in the distribution of the relief of the hurricane sufferers are false. The society was formally and officially notified that the people on the mainland, which included nearly all the whites, could take care of themselves, and was requested to confiue its work to the islands." ? Secretary Carlisle will soon find it necessary to make another issueof bonds, and the free silver Democrats and Populists are preparing to resist such action to the uttermost. In furtherance of this purpose*Congressman Talbert has ready for introduction a joint resolution which reads as follows: "The secretary of the treasury is hereby enjoined front a further issue of bonds, and all laws and parts of laws whatsoever on the statute books or in appropriation bills, giving him authority to do so, either directly or indirectly, by implication, inference or otherwise, are hereby repealed." Coupled with the joint resolution is the following mandate : "The secretary of the treasury is hereby directed, in order to meet the pressing need of the treasury for money, to at once coin the silver seigniorage in the treasury and turn it into available treasury cash." Congressman Bailey, of Texas, also basin soak a resolution calculated to accomplish the same purpose, and the probability is that when the bond matter comes up again, there will be a lively fight before an equitable settlement is reached. -- ? ? Senator" McPhcrson has been caught in a rather shady transaction. Not long ago he purchased one thousand shares of sugar certificates, and afterward transferred them to his son. Later he wrote a telegram for 500 shares more, aud on the last purchase realized a profit of $1,500. To the investigating committee he explained that he made the first purchase without thinking. After reflection, however, he came to the conclusion that probably in view of his position in the senate, lie should not have made the purchase, and promptly transferred the shares to his son. Before he had decided that it might not be altogether right, he wrote a telegram for 500 shares more and left it on a table in his room. A servant forwarded the telegram without his knowledge, and as soon as he learned of it, he at once ordered the shares sold without waiting for the profit consequent upon an inevitable rise. He cleared $1,500 by the "accident," and this, of course, he put in his pocket. Iteally, as a matter of justice, it seems that he should have given the money to the servant who made the "mistake." ? ? 4 - ? In its investigation of the charges of bribery in the sugar trust scandal, the senate has gone oil" on a tangent, and is endeavoring to force the newspaper men who let the cat out of the bag, to give away the sources of their confidential information. This, more !????? .iiiftliinir clirvtvc ? <1 iuftrtct t ii m nil the part of the senate to shirk the whole question and let the bribery business drop. If the newspaper men are of the right kind of stuff?and the investigating committee evidently believes they are, otherwise it would not push them?they will suffer any punishment rather than violate the confidence that it was necessary to give in order to get the information they have secured. Therefore, it seems pretty clear that an attempt to push the investigation in that direction is rather in the nature of a hedge. If the committee really wants to find out something about the bribery business, let it commence by putting on their oath the men who are charged with guilt. If they make denial, then it will devolve upon those who talked to the newspapers to back up their statements, and the whole thing will come out as clear as day. This thing of trying to unravel the scandal backwards is disgusting. THE IjYNTIIINII (IF JEFF CRAWFORD. In connection with the complete, comprehensive, and, we believe, absolutely correct story of the lynching of Jeff Crawford, pub * ' -? i 1 islied elsewhere in mis issue, eouoriai comment is hardly necessary. Just a little common sense, applied to the cold facts in this ease, is calculated to develop in the minds of most thinking people the why, and wherefore, of the tragedy. Take the facts: A horrible crime was committed in a civilized community. The revolting details were calculated to freeze the very blood. Alarmed for the safety of themselves, their wives and their children, with such a fiend at large in their midst, the outraged citizens at once began a search for the murderer. Several suspicious characters were arrested and, notwithstanding the frenzy of excitement, turned loose. At length an absolutely convincing web of circumstantial evidence was wound about the guilty wretch who --I 'I? Y??l i in-Ill in flit* rmiiimiiiu in*.- muni* i. .iim .. neighborhood )i:i<l a shadow of doubt. The provocation was almost sutlicicnl to justify lynching on the spot. I>itt there was 110 lynching then. With a forbearance that is a credit to the highest civilization of the nineteenth century, the people turned the prisoner over to the proper authorities in order that recognized law might take its course. In due time the trial came on. The defendant had the advantage of counsel and all the witnesses that he desired to summon. The State made out a case that was abso lutely remarkable for its completeness and :' strength. The defense was so weak as to fail to even throw doubt on the most trivial . statement of the least important prosecuting witness. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and there was a notice of a motion for a new trial, on the ground of alleged incom-1 potency of a witness whose testimony, though 1 ! ruled competent by the court, was really of doubtful importance to the case. For this i the execution of the sentence was to have : been delayed a year, and it was this that j tried the hitherto patient people beyond the j limits of human endurance. j There is nothing the matter with the law. j( ; It is as perfect as it should be, and even its j ; delay is recognized as a wise provision that j1 lis calculated to more faithfully guard the j liberty of the people. But it should be re-!1 I me inhered that these wise provisions?even j' ! the sacred right of appeal?is susceptible of I' I abuse. By taking advantage of blindfolded | justice, lawyers are enabled to sometimes, j commit great wrongs in the name of the law. ' ! When this is done, the logical consequence is | an appeal to the lower court of .Judge Lynch. 1 So far as we are able to account for it, the case of JefT Crawford is explained. Lynch law is a terrible thing. In no case is it absolutely justifiable. In all cases it is is wrong. Mob violence under the most ag- ' gravatiug circumstances tends to mob vio- j lence under circumstances less aggravating. The result is a menace to life, libertv and ' peaceful security in whole communities. It j is indeed a serious question for consideration. I' | But where lies the responsibility? Some r j answer, with the lynchers; others say with j , the machinery of the courts; and still others j I make a scapegoat of lawyers, who labor to]' j defeat the ends of justice. There is some I * I reason in all of the answers, and the only r j remedy lies in a general strengthening of ' weak places all around. TROUBLE IN COLORADO. 1 The State of Colorado is on the verge of a ( | civil war. If bloodshed has not commenced, ' j the chances are that it will before the close 1 I nf f tip wppk. c For a number of weeks past, several J j ! thousand miners at Cripple Creek mines, j I near Colorado Springs, have been on a strike. (The mine owners were driven away from " ! their property at the beginning of the ( ! trouble, and, ever since, the striking miners ? , have been holding things down to suit i , themselves. s President Calderson, of the Victor Miners' c union, is the leader of the strikers. The J i mine owners have sworn out warrants for j the arrest of Calderson ; but he refuses either 1 ; to be arrested or to give up the mines, and t . thousands of well-armed strikers, thoroughly i , organized and more or less drilled in milita- ( | ry tactics, stand behind him, sworn to obey : 1 his orders to the last. i Governor Waite and the Populists arc on 1 j the side of Calderson and the strikers, and 1 the governor refuses to call out the militia ' i or allow it to be used in getting possession ] I of the mines. Waitc and Calderson went to ( Colorado Springs last Saturday for the pur- ( pose of having a conference with the mine ! owners. The sheriff tried to arrest Culder[ son, but the governor claimed that the man 1 , was his guest and managed to get him < ; away to a place of safety. < The sheriff has at last succeeded in collect- , j ing something over 1,500 deputies, including ( I whole companies made up of the wealthiest i mine and landowners in the State. This ; immense posse, accompanied by train loads j of provisions and munitions of war, on last j ! Sunday, started for Cripple Creek for the ( purpose of retaking the mines. With the j strong feeling prevailing throughout the State, the personal interest and strong de- 1 i termination existing on both sides, along ? j with the partial paralysis of the machinery j of the law, a bloody battle, followed by civil i j war, seems to be imminent. , LETTER FROM THE BLACKJACKS. I The Lynching of Crawford?Destroyed by Fire? ( Condition of the Crops?Democratic Club ltc- I organized?Personal Mention. t Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. j Warren's, June 4.?Like Washington, ( ! we "Blackjackers" are not jealous of others' i j victories. When the news reached here Sunday that Jeff Crawford had been lynched ' j Friday night, there was great rejoicing, even * after we had made three unsuccessful at- J I tempts. It is to be hoped he made a full 1 confession, and we will anxiously await j j | Wednesday's KxtiriRKR to get the full de- . j tails. ! Mr. P. A. Workman, who runs a small ! store at this place, had the misfortune to lose > 1 it by fire on last Friday night. We have i | been unable to learn the loss, but hear he j < had it insured. The building was the prop-!, 1 erty of Dr. J. B. Johnson, of Rock Hill, and j r was insured. We are needing rain badly. Crops and gardens are beginning to suffer. Corn is H I looking very well; but the cool nights have i t I greatly retarded the growth of cotton. It:; ! has grown but little if any in the past two '. | weeks. The wheat crop is about all bar- [ vested and is only moderate. Oats are short! but generally well headed. Our Democratic club met Saturday even-; j ing, May ii(>, and elected S. M. Roach, presi dent; It. I). Sealy, vice-president: aim u. Hsilin, secretary and treasurer. J. L. Moore,! _ it. D. Sealy and W. G. Duncan, committee! ion registration. We think John (Jury Evans ! is the choice of the majority of our club for governor. Mr. J. It. Logan, of Kings Mountain, was down Saturday and Sunday on a visit to his family. , Mr. It. E. (Irillin and wife are both seriously ill. MERE MENTION. j The White Sulphur springs property in Virginia, was bought last week by Julian T. | Burke, of Alexandria, for the sum of$2(i">,-' 000. An epidemic of small pox has! broken out at Abingdon, Ya. The 'police captured a lot of dynamite in the,' hands of strikers at Burlington, Iowa, last I' Saturday. The strikers intended to use the i1 dynamite for the purpose of destroying the | property of their employers. The story : that .1,000 Coal Creek Tennessee miners have i ( gone out on a strike is denied. Ninety-1 j live miles of the Northern l'acilie railroad . I track between Horse Plains, Montana, and n Hope. Idaho, were under water last Satur- j day, Sunday and Monday, the result of an | unprecedented freshet along the water') courses. Through a technical error, W. C. P. Breckinridge has slipped up iu his , effort to file an appeal in his scandal case. , On account of the big coal strike ] throughout Iowa, the railroads have been!, forced to cease running regular trains, and I many factories are mixing corn with their ] fuel. About a dozen lives were lost and ;, a great deal of property was destroyed by a , freshet in Pueblo, California, last Thursday, i i i Downed the Trial Justin1. j , ? (iovernor Tillman has removed from j i office Trial Justice Milan, of Charleston, and t appointed in his stead Chief Constable Gail-j' lard. When the dispensary law went into L effect, the saloon keepers had paid the State L for six months of unexpired license. The ; legislature passed an act to refund this mon- L ey, provided that the barkeepers would h 1 > ....t ..;,d..tn>1 (Iw. I. UWIKU Otllll lllill' IIH'\ live \ivmivu ???v j , dispensary law. Anions I hose win signed | the oath, was Vincent Chiceo. the Charleston " Italian. Previously Chiceo had been i charged with violation of the dispensary j' law, hut upon a trial had been found "not < guilty." After the dispensary law was de- j i dared unconstitutional. Chiceo thought there , was no longer any danger, and said that he ; < had been selling liquor all the while. <!ov-;j ernor Til I man brought charges of perjury against him, and claims that he made out j< a prima laeie ease. Nevertheless, after a j preliminary hearing, the Italian was dis-j i missed. It was for this reason that the gov-j j ernor thought that Trial Justice Milan was j < unworthy to hold the olliec, and accordingly i ; cut oil' lus head. jl . ? . I.j ncIiing Near Lancaster. ! | ? Hardy Hill, a colored man, was taken ! i by force from the Lancaster jail last Sunday I morning hetweeen 1 and 2 o'clock, by a . mol) of _' "> men, carried to a point aliont : lliree miles away, and lynched. A coroner's I jury returned a verdict to the ellect that the: I deceased was shot to death hy parties un- ' 'known. Two or three days before, (Jill as- | saultcd Mrs. James A ("lark, who lives ji | with her hushand about fourteen miles from the court house, and inllcted what are sup-: I j posed to he mortal wounds. j i ME STATE VS. JEFF CRAWFORD. n inn: i.xscws teii it i n l e la it nix its i i' the case. BAD RESULTS OF THE LAW'S DELAY. Outriigod Citizens Undertake to Lubricate the Uusly Cog in the Wheels of Justice, and Themselves Kxecute the Penally Already Indicated by the Jury und Prescribed by a Itcgularly Constituted Judge. Jefferson (.'rawford, colored, has paid the death penalty for the murder of Ihivid L'incknoy Itlackburn. Though the settlement was made within a few hours of the Lime prescribed by Judge Watts, at the recent term of the court, it was not exactly in accordance with the law Judge Watts represents. The execution was presided over by that grim monster known as ''Judge Lynch." Last Frid.'iy night was the occasion of a ^reat deal of excitement in Yorkville. By 12 o'clock, nearly the whole population had retired to bed, and throughout the town everything seemed to he, as usual, calm and dill. Presently, however, the streets began to echo with the hoofbeats of what seemed to be scores of horses coming in from different quarters, and a little later there was a ;reat commotion at the jail. Now thoroughy aroused, many of the citizens who lived even as far away as a half mile, could distinctly hear the noise, and during its coniuatice, they listened with absorbing interest. At first but little could be henrd. A little ater there was some quiet conversation, conducted in a tone of voice scarcely louder ban the ordinary. Then the voices arose to i pitch of unmistakable excitement. "Folow me, boys?" was heard high above everybingelse. There was a crash of snapping imbers, several pistol shots, loud yells, a iricf scullle, and then the rumble and roar }f many feet rushing up the stairway to the .bird floor of the jail. About this time a ight appeared. "Out with that light," somebody cried in a tone of authority, and lie light was gone. For the space of a ninute or two, the blows of a hammer resounded from the third story. The noise lied away for an instant, and down the steps came a voice asking for a light. "There oust be 110 light!" was returned from the street, and the blows of the hammer were resumed with redoubled speed. "Up here with hat crowbar," was the next demand, and ifter a while came the question, "Who has hnsc nndlooks?" Within a few minutes more a long procession wus slowly moving through the darkness along the street leadng away from the jail. The noise of the mob now grew louder than before. There were several pistol- shots, much loud talk, mil some little yelling. Iu this way the irocession continued to a point just east )f the Chester and Lenoir depot, where here was a halt. For perhaps 20 minutes he din here was something like bedlam. Afer a while there was a pistol, shot and presmtly the crowd began to disperse in many Liferent directions, until everything grew }uiet. It was now about 2 o'clock on Saturlay morning. WHAT DAYLICIIT IiKVKALKD. The half naked body of a tall slender Nc510, suspended to the limb of a large red )ak tree, was the ghastly sight witnessed by iundred.s of curious citizens of Yorkville ,vhen Saturday morning's sun lit up the scene of the previous night's proceedings. I'he body was that of Jeff Ciawford, the nurdorer of I). 1\ Blackburn. Around his ieck was one end of a new hemp rope, tied n a noose with a skillfully fashioned hangnan's knot, which fitted close under his left jar. The other end of the rope was securely listened to a limb, perhaps 20 feet abwe he ground and about 1"> feet from the base of lie tree. I11 the front part of the Negro's hroat was a slight gash that had evidently jeen produced by a knife, and a charred hole hrough the lower portion of his ragged shirt showed where a pistol bullet had entered his side. His hands were tightly tied behind his lack with a jute cord, and from an iron inndcufr, trailing nearly to the ground, was lie chain with which he had been fastened to lie dungeon floor. He was cold and stiff and lad evidently been dead for several hours. A number of Yorkville Negroes were loitjring about the scene of the execution the lext morning for some hours after daylight. Fliey said that they had been there ever iinec 1 o'clock and witnessed the lynching, [low many men were there, or who they ,vere, they did not know. Crawford talked 1 great deal in answer to questions, they said, md they supposed he made a confession; nit they were too far off to hear with any listinetness what he had to say. AS* Till*!' I> l i's i I'd The above is the story of the lynching as night have been gathered by any curious tnd observant individual who may have jeen knocking around Vorkville during last Saturday, Realizing, however, that the eaders of Tiik Hnqi'IKKU would not he satisfied with such a story?though it is the nost complete that has yet been published? he reporter put himself to considerable rouble to get more accurate details, and iftera vain search of nearly a day, found a nan who, "though I was not a participant, I lan tell you all about it; but you must not use iny name." This was the man above all jthers that the reporter wanted to talk to, aid after assuring him that the whole Exit'I it Kit staff would suffer being hanged from die same limb before any member of it would reveal his identity, got the story as follows: ' I don't know how many there was in the :rowd. It looked tome like the street was rull from the l'resbyterinn church to the jail, mil the number is estimated all the way from 75 to 200. I have no doubt that 200 is pretty near the right figure. They came from all about, and all of them were not from the "Blackjacks" by a long odds. Everything had been previously arranged, mid about eight or ten went to the jail to see what they could do about getting in without having to break the doors. Sheriff Crawford and Deputy Sheriff Love were sitting in the vestibule of the jail, and the front gate was locked with a strong chain. The spokesman of the advance party told the sheriff [hat they had a prisoner for him. Sherill I'rawford and Mr. Love began to ask questions which betrayed their suspicions to the main crowd, and then the men began to slip up !|l""jr<iili. ftf t|)p pdl,y At a given signal everybody began to pull and also to yell. The fence came down, and before the sheriff could make up his mind whether or not he aught to shoot, he and Love were in the hands of not less than a dozen men. Both :>f them scuttled a little bit, but soon guveTT up as a bad job. In the meantime a big crowd rushed up stairs and broke open the first door with a hammer and cold chisel. The inner door was only bolted from the outside, and to get it open was no trouble. The iron door to the corridors was also opened without a great deal of diflieuUy, though it had to be prized a little with 7i crowbar. Jell' Crawford was found in the ilungeon, handcuffed and chained to a staple in the floor. The staple was rather strong, and the Negro was gotten loose by breaking one of the links in his chain. "Crawford was scared almost to death and commenced begging for his life; but nobody paid any attention to that, lie was taken ilown stairs as quickly as possible, and. nflcr some delay, the doors behind were fastened with locks that had been provided lor the purpose "beforehand. When all the men came down, those who bail been holding Sheriff Crawford and Mr. Love, turned [hem loose and joined the crowd outside. Jeff Crawford was put on a mule, lie rode l short distance: but as he was going up [lie hill, he manured to throw himself to Lhe ground. The crowd then made him walk up as far the court liou.se. where they put him in a buggy and carried him to the tree that had been previously selected. "On the road from the jail, nearly every Dody who could get close enough, asked him ill kinds of questions. To some of the I questions he simply answered "yes," and "no": but in so ninny words he said that he had killed Mr. Blackburn. He was terribly frightened and trembled like a leaf. Among other things, he said he knew he was going to die, and he did not want to die with a lie j 011 his lips. 'Yes,' I killed Mr. Blackburn' he said. 'I shot him firstT then cat his throat and I heat him with a stick.' Somebody asked why it was necessary to do all that, land Crawford replied that Mr. Blackburn was the hardest man to kill that he had 'ever seen. Then somebody asked Crawford if he did not also kill those two Ncigroes: and he said that he did, hot I do ! not know what Negroes were meant. I I - 1 :.i ,.r i i. ill ?i HllllK someuuiiy sum unc ui uinu ? us miii ii 1 near Catawba Jmiction. "When the crowd got to the tree down | by the depot, a rope was tied to the limb I and Crawford was put in a buggy. They j gave him five minutes in which to pray and i confess. He prayed awhile and also repeatI ed some of what I related above, along with 'a good deal more; but I did not hear it all. He said that be had gotten $-17 from Mr. Blackburn, and I have heard people say that he gave the money to bis sister; but it he said anything of the kind, I did not hear him. After the crowd thought he had had time enough?the rope having already been fixed around his neck?the buggy was drawn from underneath. The Negro's hands had not been tied properly, so lie grabbed the rope and supported the weight otF his neck. The buggy was rolled under him again, bis hands were securely tied, and the next time be came down with a thump, followed by contortions until everything became still. "Just before the Negro was banged, a man ran up and struck him in the neck with a I knife, but the blade evidently did not go I very deep, as he did not bleed much. When the fellow was really dead, another man came up with the remark, 'D?n you : that is the way you did my friend l'ink Blackburn,' and tired a shot from a revolver into his left side. In a little while afterward the crowd left, some going one way and some another; but most of them down the Chester road." THK IMH'KST. The body of Crawford was left hanging to the tree until about 10 o'clock, the sheriff not caring to cut it down until he could get instructions from the proper authorities. Finally, Trial Justice Carroll, acting coroner, summoned a jury of inquest. Dr. George Walker made a post mortem examination, the body was placed in a cheap pine coffin and interred in the Potter's field. The jury of inquest was composed as follows: I. 13. Gordon, foreman ; W. B. Moore, W. L. Thomasson, T. W. Clawson, T. M. Fayssjux, G. M. Lowrance, G. T. Saudi fer, A. Rose, J. It. Witherspoon, It. A. Irwin, I. T. 1'arish, F. A. Gossman. Only two witnesses were examined. They were Sheriff Crawford and Or. George Walker. Sheriff Crawford, being sworn, testified as follows: "Between half past 12 and 1 o'clock, myself and Deputy P. W. Dove were standing in the porch of the jail in this county. Seven or eight men came up and called for me, saying they wanted to deliver a prisoner. 'Who is the prisoner?' I asked, and they replied "a Negro.' I then asked who they were, and they gave a name with which I am not familiar. 'From what part of the county ?' I asked. 'From above,' they replied. 'What is the prisoner charged with?' 'Stealing,' they said. About this time I saw a good many other people coming up to the gate, and I told them their story was too thin. Then they told me that they came for Jefl Crawford. I told them I could not deliver him?that I was bound to protect him. At this they attempted to open the gate. I ordered them to stop. They moved back ; but in a few minutes again came forward. The gate was fastened with a chain, and finding that they could not get it open, they pulled i the fence down and rushing in, grabbed me and my deputy, P. W. Love. Next they demanded the keys; but I told them that they could not get them. At this some one said 'follow ine,' and rushed up stairs to the prison proper. A crowd followed. I heard thein knocking upstairs, and, in about l-"> or 20 minutes, they came back with Jefl' Crawi .ford, and passed out of the jail. Myself and Love were still being held. Wheu they got down, they gave me two keys, and after all were out, those who had been holding myself and Love, turned us loose. We got a lantern, went up stairs and found that the prison doors had been broken open and relocked with other locks. Jeff Crawford had been chained to a staple, and the chain was fastened with a small lock. The lock had been broken and Jeff Crawford was gone. I saw the Negro who was hanged. That was Jeff Crawford. I do not know any of the parties who came into the jail last night. From my observation I would say that there j were at least 75 men in the jail and in the | road in front of it." i Or. George Walker, on being sworn, testij fled as follows : "I am a practicing physician and live in Yorkville. I was called | this morning to examine the dead body of | Jell'Crawford. I found the hody suspended ! from si limb by si rope. After tlie body was cut down, I msole tin examination of it. I found n bullet wound in the side ol the abdomen. It was a superficial wound, not sulli ciont to produce death. I found a slight cut in the front part of the neck. It was nol serious. His neck was broken from I Ik | ell'ect of the rope. This was the cause oi i his death." | After short deliberation, the jury returned la verdict to the effect that the deceased came to his death by hanging, at the hands of some person or persons unknown to the jury. history of crawford's ('itimf. The history of the crime with whicl j Crawford was charged, and for which he j suffered death at the hands of the mob, ha.i been twice published in The Knqi'IKKU, and | is still fresh in the public mind. In connec i tion with the lynching, however, and tc j make the story complete, it will be wortl , while to publish it again. On the morning of the :24th of last Decent | her, the body of I). I*. Blackburn, a respect I able hard-working white man, was found I lying dead in a clump of woods about thret I miles from his home, in the southeaster! I part of Bethcsda township. In the dead | man's head were two bullet holes, his jugu lar vein had been severed, his nose had beer i slashed, evidently with a razor, and his head and face badly mutilated with a bludgeon His pockets had been gone through and emptied of all their contents. Lying neai : by was a 38 calibre revolver containing twe I empty cartridge shells, which, from tin ' ""1 ?1 clmtvoil oviili-iu-c o | UU1UM ..I U V 11(4111 .r\ ...V... w. x having recently heen lired, and also near tin spot, were signs indicating where two mule: had been hitched, and where one ofthem had broken its bridle and gotten away. Leading ; oil from the bloody little patch into sonu .I plowed ground, as if following the loosi .jtnule, were the footprints of a man. Tria ! Justice O. li. Sanders summoned a jury, ami Iafter a careful and thorough invcstigatioi I decided to commit Jell'Crawford for trial I'oi i the crime. The murder was so brutal and fiendish ii . its nature, and the circumstances developed j at the. inquest pointed so strongly to tin j guilt of Crawford, that many citizens wanted to lynch the Negro on the spot. Messrs. (> J L. Sanders, It. I>. Scaly, Dr. \V. M. Love and other prominent citizens present, how ever, begged and plead with the outraged people, and finally succeeded in dissuading j them from their purpose. It was decided that they would let the law take its course and in charge of Mr. Walter If. Moore and j Dr. W. B. livers, JeM'Crawlord was brought 4*to Yorkville and committed to jail. TIIIKD AND CONVICTKD. The case was tried at the last term of the court of general sessions before Judge It. (', Watts. Mr. 10. A. Trescott, of Hlacksburg. i represented the defendant: Messrs. Fin ley & I Brice and W. ('. Hough represented the | State, and the jury was composed as follows : 1 J. W. Thomson, foreman : S. If. Bippey, D. j W. McCarter, J. M. Seagle, L. B. Brown, W. | B. White, Jas. K. Kennedy, II. 10. Jackson, J. I W. V. Dickson, 11. J. Caldwell, T. L. Boyd and J. W. McKeown. 1 " ill../ I ?..| I A Aegro iiamcu .iDiiii un-fii iiuih, uLiii whose house the body of Blackburn was found on the morning of the 1'ltli, testified that at about 8 o'clock on the night of the L'I'ul, he heard a eoinniotion in the woods near by. | A shot was fired, and as if in deep distress, I somebody said "O Lordy there was auothj er shot, followed by the sound of blows as it with a club, and then everything was quiet. Lock was afraid to go out to see what was , the matter until next morning, when he gave I the alarm which resulted in the finding of j the body as elsewhere related. By a little f ' V I - o ?r , 1 IIU> , I ur o Ul il^U, UIIU iI IIV|MIVtT I of the defendant, it was proven that at about sundown on the night of the murder, Mr. Blackburn and .Jell' Crawford, mounted two " of Mr. Blackburn's mules?Bob and Kit? and rode in the direction of the fatal wood. Another witness testified to seeing two Si mounted men go in the same direction. He j j could swear that they were riding mules; j but it was getting dark and he could not say . j for certain whether they were white or black. ; < Hher witnesses testified that t lie shoes, taken | from the feet of Jeff Crawford on the day of \\ j his capture, exactly fitted and corresponded i i with a certain peculiar mark in the tracks on j ,j, ! the edge of the wood three miles from the : Negro's house. It was also proven that the pistol found near Blackburn's body was ^ the properly of Crawford; that the Negro j had tried to sell it only a day or two before, j i and had at the lime stated that he only! j had two cartridges. About t) o'clock, or. ; nearly an hour after the killing, a man had y been seen leaving Blackburn's house across a ' plowed field in the direction of Bock Ilill; and 1 next morning an examination of the tracks? J one of which was afterward produced in p ' court?revealed the fatal impression of that small bit of curled leather, which indicated ! with unerring accuracy the trail of Jefr I Crawford. Where it had been thrown through a broken window in Blackburn's; house, was also found the bridle that had ^ 'been broken by the mule at the scene of! the murder, no doubt through fright at the j reports of Crawford's murderous pistol. It i I was also shown that Crawford was arrested ! in his bed late on the morning after the iuur-! I der, and at the time he had in hispocketbook | <>' ! a ? "> bill and about in change. In his defense, Crawford was not able to! strain a single thread of the circumstantial evidence that had been woven around him. j . , He stated that he had left his home at about:' sundown and reached the house of a Negro ' woman in Rock Hill about !) o'clock on the j night of the murder. The Negro woman j( I could not remember the exact time of Craw- j ; ford's arrival, but a Negro man who was 1 ' * 1 4V 1 . . A 1 _..L _ I | mere wneu me ucienuani eiime, aim wnu ; left within live minutes afterwards, stuted I I that the town eloek struck 11 just as he , went into the street. As to the money in I his pocket, he could satisfactorily account P I for the change?that is, that he had received n it for lahor?but he was unable to tell where p | or how he had gotten the $"> bill. In the rest n of his story, even without eHbrt on the part ,! of the prosecuting attorneys, he was badly a I mixed up from start to finish. He hesitated, n ! denied, stammered, and was confused, and a | might have almost been convicted on his own statements without the help of the powerful chain of evidence that the prosecuting attorneys had already brought out in such convincing details. After hearing the testimony, the jury re; mained out long enough to take a vote, and i returned with a verdict of guilty of murder. ? !: Upon the announcement of the verdict, 11 Attorney Treseott gave notice of a motion I ! for arrest of judgment and a new trial. In n ;j arguing the motion, Mr. Treseott held that the testimony of the little negro boy who last' saw Blackburn alive was incompetent, and contended that the prosecution had failed , utterly to connect the footprints near Blackburn's house, where Crawford had a ^ right to be, with those near the scene of the * murder. t Judge Watts overruled Attorney Ties- s cott's motion, and ordeiing Jell" Crawford p to stand up, lectured him as follows : "You have had a fair and impartial trial 011 the charge of having murdered Mr. I). P. 1 Blackburn. The testimony goes to show 1 that it was one of the most diabolical and t fiendish murders ever committed anywhere. . The jury has said that you are guilty of this p crime, and I believe you are. I don't think Q there is the least doubt of it, and if you have been harboring any hope of acquittal, I tell 1 , you now that you may as well abandon it. I ^ do not have any idea that the supreme s court will interfere with your case. Just as s 1 sure as you are standing there, and your f, name is Jell'Crawford, you are going to pay for this murder. That is all I have to say to , you." His honor then proceeded to pro- a , nounce upon the prisoner the death sentence, 1 to be executed between the hours of 11 a. m. tl and 2 p. m. on the 1st day of June. > Attorney Treseott then gave notice of an r appeal. In perfecting the appeal, he incorpo- t< ' rated a technical pretext that his honor had erred in not naming the year in which the sentence was to be executed. Thus was , secured to the defendant, so far as the ? law is concerned, a new lease of life equivalent to about one year. Whether the new * I trial was granted or not, the proceedings n could not have been disposed of, to the point of re-sentence, before the next April v , term of the circuit court. How the people 1 most directly interested in the case tried 1 to act on the finding of the jury and the ' original sentence of the judge, has already ^ j been told. ^ LETTER FROM CLARK'S FORK. 0 II Inillflrrent Prospect* for Crops?Fire on King's ^ 1 Creek?Democratic C'lnii to lie Ite-orguiilze?l. I, C'orresiKUuleMce of the Yorkvillc Kmiuirer. Claiik's Fork, June 1.?The farmers are : r busy cultivating their crops. 1 ' j Corn and cotton are showing the elicet of ' the prevailing cool went her. The cutworms s am iloinir their insidious work, and corn on i " w n * fc lowlands presents u yellow and unhealthy j color. The crop on uplands looks better. Cotton has been injured by light frost, hail 1 and cool weather. The stand is fair on gray ' lands; but on red lands the stalks are few and i far between. ; }' Wheat was injured by the heavy frost of ? , March, but sprang up again with new ener-' \ gy. There is a little rust on the blade now ; J but may extend to the stalk and cause con- f I j siderable damage. i ^ ; A line horse belonging to Mr. John Whis-: 4 mint died suddenly on the road recently. It j1 II is supposed that its death was caused by ^ i excessive fat. I Mr. McC'lain's mill, on King's creek, was1 c >; destroyed by fire last Monday night l( 1 The Democratic elid) of this precinct will . meet Saturday, June 9, at p. m., for the I . purpose of rc-organi/.ing for the summer ic .campaign. *** j1 li 1 s | OLIVE BRANCHES. t i c | Dry Weather?SucceH*f 111 Sunday School l'lcnic? By the Drain or by the Half I'lnt. ' ' Correspondence of the Yorkvllle Enquirer. t |' (H.IVK, June 2.?It is very dry in this ; s , j neighborhood and the crops tire badly in I need of rain. Cotton on red land looks sick- } : ly : but on gray land it is still looking pretty !. , well in spite of the dry, cool weather. J The annual picnic of the New llethel Sun1 l I St..I or,I,it- Thorn I liny M'HUUI tir* 111:114 I4KOV nuuMiuji * , . was sour* lino music by the choir, under tlie 1 5 leadership of Mrs. McManuway. A splendid a I address was delivered by Kev. J. II. Motlatt, \ r of Chester. What the speaker had to say j was in style a clear and forcible and calcula- * . ted to make a lasting impression. Dinner I was abundant and of a superior quality, and I everybody had a delightful day of it. , It looks to me that the liquor elements in our Stale, in lighting each other, have be- a come considerably divided. The element , s , represented by the barkeepers seek to allure t | the people to destruction by tlie dram route. . while Coventor Tillman and the dispensary I board would debauch us by the half pint. May they so weaken eneli other in the light ' that the prohibitionists will have a chance ! ^ . It is believed around here that when Judge c [ '(Jury takes his seat 011 the bench, the half |( : pint business will he resurrected, o. .1. FOIST MlLiT"M ATTKKS. ] Xchs From the CliiirclieM?Lost 11 Ftni* lliihii'-l, 1 t r?*i-k<)iutl Mention. I 0 r'orivs|ioiiilcii<v ?il" Tin* YorkvilleKmiuirvr. l-'oUT Mi 1.1., June 4. ? Look out for biey-!' eles! Three new ones in town this week. Fred Nimcs, S. J. Massey and Coon Harris j li are the riders. j li Kvangclist \V. K. IJoggs, of Hlaekstock, S. U 'C., gave the people of Fort Mill a stirring .? sermon in the Presbyterian cnurcn on .nay >, I Both. * j There was one addition to the Fort Mill j Baptist church hy baptism last Sunday c evening. Dr. .1. II. Thorn well will celebrate the or- s jdinance of the Lord's supper on Sunday, j( June loth, at the Fort Mill Presbyterian!,; church. Jtev. W. (J. White, of Bock IlillJ will assist in the preparation preaching at j night, beginning on the Mb (tonight) on Fac- i v tory Hill, and at 11 o'clock a. in. in the J V Presbyterian church. 1 $ Mr. W. K. Spratt lost a line horse last j Friday morning, (ireeu oats was the sup-1 . posed cause. j* Mr. T. B. Meachan, traveling salesman fori ' a Virginia company, was in town last week ; J j visiting his father, Dr. T. B. Meachatn. j LOCAL AFFAIRS. 11 INDF.X TO NKW ADVKKTISKMKXTS. ' [. Strauss?During the next W days, will take an inventory of his stock, and in or- * tier to reduce its size, is offering goods at low prices. mil M. lirist?Tells of the advantages of using Morgan ?V Wright tires on bicycles. I 1111:111 Brothers?Arc tillering extraordinary} bargains in summer clothing for men and I boys. They also call attention to the Mon- ( arch shirts in staples, negligees and per- j , tales, straw hats, umbrellas and jewelry n>r 11H'II. r. W. Lewis, Ksq.?Announces liis readiness to give prompt attention to all legal business entrusted to his care. . (Jib Culp?Is announced as a candidate for the iH-inocratic nomination of county supervisor. ' i'. II. McCorkle, Probate Judge?(lives notice that M. H. Heese has applied for lottery of j , administration on the estate of Wesley; Jenkins, p. e.t deceased, and that Clerk of I Court Wyllo has made a similar aptdica- | tion with regard to the estate of J. W. ( Avery, deceased. I'hisonant A Castles, of Hickory drove?For the next (50 days propose to give some ex tniordinary bargains in dry goods, hats, etc., and don't want you to forget that their . store is headquarters for shoes. ' erguson brothers?Tell about an extra quali- ] ty of table salt, propose to present you with a frying pan, furnish you with the | the best quality of corn meal made from ! i York county corn, and let you know that cheap lard is not always lard, and that a dollar saved is not necessarily one made. V. S. Creighton, Manager of the Rock Hill Machine Works?Lets you know where 1 you can get Walter A. Wood's mowing ] and reaping machinery, together with en-! gines, boilers, saw mills and ginning ma- j chincry. He also tells you whereto get ] broken and wornout machinery repaired and to procure all kinds of castings. I. II. O'Leary, Intendant?An ordinance in-; forms you that the Yorkvillo street and road tax for this year is&.\50 if paid ore- j( vious to the 1st of August. If not paid by j i that date, it will require $ '! to discharge j the obligation. . T. Frew tN: Co.?(Jive the information that j < they are prepared to .supply you with all' kinds of house furnishing goods, at prices which will paralyze competition, lmrch Carroll?Hits a bicycle, with Morgan A j Wright tires which are nearly new, that j he says he will sell cheap, lallard Brothers?Scramble beef, hash and beef:, souse. . HA ILROA D ASHESSM ENTS. The State board of equalization lias comleted its work of re-assessing the railoadsof the State for the year 1894-95. The eport of the hoard shows that in the case of tost of the roads there has been a considerble reduction. The rate of assessment per j lile, on the variout roads in this section, are s follows: 1st Ki. ism. Three C's 8 10,000 8 7,500 (?., C. A N 10,000 11,000 Chester and Cheraw, 4,000 3,000 Chester and Lenoir 4,000 3,000 t'., C. A A., 14,(km) 13,(xx) A. A* C. Air .Line, IS,(xx) 10,000 The above figures are not necessarily final, 'he railroads will have their say at another leeting of the board, to be held on June 9. t is not likely, however, that any very laterial changes will be made in the assessicnts. CHANCES OF A CROP. The opinion of a great many experienced ilunters to the contrary notwithstanding, hose unlucky farmers who had to replant heir cotton on account of the recent hailtorm, still have very good chances of makng a crop. Mr. S. M. Scott has a distinct eeollection of the big hailstorm that occured in Bullock's Creek township in 1859. peaking of the matter to The Enquirer he other day, Mr. Scott said : "The hail destroyed the cotton along its ath completely. It did not leave a sign f anything green, and the farmers had to eplant their cotton. I helped Mr. Richard herrer to replant his crop. We put the eed in on the 23d of Muv, and notwithtauding this, Mr. Sherrer made a pretty iir crop. He was picking cotton about as arly as anybody else, and I think he made bout as much cotton to the acre. And his, too, was without any guano to push lie crop forward like we have uow-a-days. To; those people who were hurt by the ecent storm still have a pretty good chance 0 make a crop." CHURCH NOTICES. Union services at the Methodist church on lundny evening at 8.15 o'clock., Episcopal?Lay service on next Sunday at 0.30 a. 111. Sunday-school in the after0011 at 4.30 o'clock. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Yorkillk?Sunday-school at 4 o'clock p. in j 'irzah?Services next Sunday morning at j 1 o'clock conducted by Rev. B. II. drier. Baptist?Rev. W. J. Langston, pastor. 'orkvillk?Sunday-school at 4 p. m. Services Sunday morning at 10.30 o:clock. 'rayer-meeting tomorrow evening ut 8.15 j 'clock. Trinity Methodist Episcopal?Rev. S. A. J Vebcr, pastor. Prayer-meeting this even-j ng at 8.15 o'clock. Services next Sunday norningat 10.30 o'clock, and evening at 8.15. hinday-school at 4 o'clock p. 111. Presbyterian?Rev. W. U. Neville, pastor, tunday-school at 4 o'clock p. 111. Services Sunday morning at 10.30 o'clock. Monthy concert of prayer for missions tomorrow j ifternoon at 5 o'clock. CKOOK-JOMJS. A handsome little box containing a varied assortment of most delightful wedding cake,: vas an acceptable present received by The | Inquirer last Saturday. The box came rom the table around which the numerous riends of the bride and groom celebrated he marriage of Miss Jennie Jones to Mr; X. Henry Crook. The ceremony took place on last Wedueslay, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John '. Jones, who live 011 Catawba river, about wo miles from Fort Mill, and was perform>d by Rev. J. W. Humbert. Shortly after j icceremony, the bridal party sat down to a! nost sumptuous dinner, and, later in the I lay, at about 5 o'clock, all left for the home j if Mr. Crook. Here the bride and groom! endered a reception, gave a big supper, and ntertuined their happy guests until the wee uia' hours of the morning. Mrs. Crook is the youngest daughter of dr. and Mrs. Jones, beautiful and aeeomilished and loved and esteemed by a large :ircle of friends and acquaintances. Mr. 'rook is a well-to-do energetic and indus-j rious young farmer of admirable character ,nd marked ability. The Enquirer joins j villi hundreds of friends in wishing for the oung couple a future career of uninterrupt(1 happiness and prosperity. AUCTION SALKS. 1 .. M... I ... r?.. 'Plin I JjUSI .UOIllUn U il> Miivami > it'i uuuv. ? i.v, ttendance in town was about as usual for | alesilay at tliis season of year, and the auc-! ion sales were as follows: By the clerk: 1'nder foreclosure, at the suit of F. M. 'arr against M. U. Smith and Eugenia S.! 'mill), a tract of land lying on Bullock's reek and containing 529:,' acres, more or j L'ss. Bought by Mr. F. M. Farr for the sum | f ?150. ' Fiidcr foreclosure, at the suit of J. W. Ihync against J. B. Boss, a lot of land in J he town of Blneksburg, and containing *(>,00 square feet. Bought by \V. B. de Loach, j ttorney, for ?50. For partition, at the suit of Kliza J. Shil-j inglaw and others against William (.?. Shilnglaw and others, a tract of laud situated wo miles east of Yorkvillc and containing 12 acres, more or less. Bought by Mrs. I lli/.a J. Shillinglaw for ?791. By the shcritf for taxes, penalties and osts: A tract of land, with the building thereon, ituated in King's Mountain township, and , jvied on as the property of R. L. Frwin. j {ought by .1. S. Brice, attorney, for ?25.50. j A lot and building in the town of York- i ille, levied on as the property of Dinah 1*1--* - 11 1* ? T CJ nUMLiuiu fn? V IlllU* nouglll uy r?. Diia-, auui uv-j } *v/? i 25.50. A building ami two acres in York town-; hip, bounded by lands of J. 10. Lowry and; jvied on as the property of Nancy M. E. ones. Bought by J. F. Glenn for $30.50. One hundred and twenty-eight acres in ( IJroad liiver township, bounded by lands of I. If. R. Jenkins. J. C. Brown and J. R. Kennedy, and levied on as belonging to the stale of II. A. Smith, deceased. Bought by I. S. Briee for $101. Kighty-six acres in Cherokee township, jounded by lands of J. S. Dillingham, Win, Wylieand others, and levied on as the prop irty of Edward Budget. Bought by L. If. McSwnin Ibr $10. ABOUT PEOPLE. Rev. B. B. Reid, of Kershaw, is in town. Judge Witherspoon is holding court in Charleston. Mrs. M. E. Deal, of Blackshurg, was in Yorkville yesterday. Mrs. John Mallard lias returned from a short visit to Rock Hill. Miss Mary Clark is visiting Miss Lizzie <cott, in Charlotte, N. C. I)r. W. M. Walker and Mr. If. C. Strauss, left yesterday for a visit to relatives at I'acolet, S. C. Mr. Jeptha I). Gwinn and wife, of Sharon, visited Mr. J. W. R. Hope's family, in Yorkville, this week. Miss Mary Gardner, of this place, who is attending school in Columbia, is expected to return home today. Mr. John F. Gates has just returned home for a few days after a long insurance trip to the lower part of the State. Mr. I). W. Hicks and family, after a few lay's visit to relatives in Yorkville, left for their home at Henrietta, X. C., on yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Gilbert and their little laughter Bessie, left yesterday for a month's visit to Saugatuck, Conn., where they will be the guest of Rev. Thomas K. Gilbert. Mr. John E. Carroll returned last Friday from the l'eabody Institute at Nashville, Tennessee, from which institution he has been graduated with the degree of L. I. Mrs. Elijah Nix, who dislocated one of her hips last week, by falling from the rear steps of Mr. "Toad" Carroll's residence, near Yorkville, was removed to her home near Blairsville on yesterday. Mr. J. 1*. White, who has been buying cotton in Yorkville during the past season for J. H. Sloan, of Charlotte, left for his home in Gaffney, last Saturday. Between Sept. 1 and June 1, Mr. White handled nearly 4,000 bales of cotton. The following party of young ladies, in charge of Miss Maggie Moore, leaves next Saturday to attend the commencement exercises of Davidson college: Misses Mary Clark, Grace McElwee, Edith Wallace, Annu tn.oiirif Stoivii rt. Milftic SnpnOPl*. Claude Moore. LOCAL LACONICS. ^ Young .Men'* Clirl*tiau A**o<'lMtlnn. ^H| ? A proposition is on foot for the orgaui- 3BM zation of a Young Men's Christian assoeiation in Yorkville. Quite a number of young men have signilicd their willingness to hecome members. Trannferred to Shelby. ? Lou Milling, wlio was recently committed to jail on the charge of having committed a burglar} at Grover, N. C., was, on last Wednesday, transferred to Shelby jail. Milling consented to go without a requisition. Died In Bethel. ? Mr. Joseph S. McKenzie died at his home near Zeno, in Bethel township, 011 last Saturday, at about 2 o'clock, aged 52 years. He was buried at Bethel on Sunday, the funeral services being conducted by Rev. I). S. McAllister. The Wintlirop Normal College. ? Miss Emma Kennedy, of the Winthrop Normal college, Columbia, has sent The Enquirer an invitation to the commencement exercises of that institution. The date of the occasion is Thursday, June 14. Thirty-two young ladies will be graduated. (jetting Mixed. ? Says the Washington correspondent of the Charlotte Observer, of last Sunday : "Representative Strait has been notified of a movement by some of the citizens to secure a public building at Rock Hill, instead of Yorkville, as proposed in Senator Butler's bill. He will look into the matter." Wlione Saddle? ? Night Watchman Alexander found in Yorkvjlle, near the guard house, last Saturday morning, a pretty good riding saddle. He says that it belongs to parties "unknown but to the man who can give an accurate description of it, lie is willing to deliver it up and ask no questions. Dr. Latliuu Accepts. * ? Rev. I)r. Latitat), of Due West, has accepted the invitation to deliver the historical I address in Yorkville, or at King's Mountain |r battle ground, during the encampment of the J PitnileI cadets. So fur as we have been able J to learn, the time and place of the address j' have not yet been finally decided upon. \ The "Our DoyV MlnHtreli*. ? The "Our Hoys'' minstrels, of Rock Hill, gave quite a successful entertaiinent in the court house last Monday night for the benefit of the town clock fund. The receipts at the door footed up $34. The total expenses amounted amounted to $18, and $1G was the sum raised toward the purchase of a clock. They Were Afraid. ? "How many men came up here last night?" was asked of one of the prisouers iu the jail last Saturday. 'Golly ! whitefolks, I can't tell yer," replied the prisoner. "Soon's dey come in," he continued, "dey remarked, 'you damn rascals go to yer cells, an' don't poke yer haids out de do'.' We done 'zactly what dey tole us, an' dat's all I kin tell yer." Died in Spartanburg? Rev. John T. McKlhaney died at his home in Spartanburg last Wednesday aged 70 years. Rev. Mr. McKlhaney was a native ^ of York county. Being blind, he was never engaged iu active ministerial work ; but as a local preacher he has accomplished a great deal of good. He leaves a widow and many friends to mourn his loss. A Correction. ? The notice published last week in re- ^ gard to the educational convention to be held j at Chester, on Friday before the fourth Sunday in June, should have stated that that 1 day would be the 22nd instant, instead of ] the 20th, as it did state, and persons who ex- M peet to attend will therefore govern them- 9 selves accordingly. S Hat Killing by Wholesale. ? Mr. K. B. Carnes informs us of are- fl markable rat killing on Mr. Thomas Hart- 9 ncss' place, ">A miles south of Yorkville, last 1 Monday week. Mr. Carnes and several others went into the corn crib, and after moving about 20 bushels of corn, rousted the rats. Within half an hour they killed exactly To. Many of them were as large as half grown kittens. * Harmony Picnic. ? We are requested to announce that there will be a basket picnic near the residence of the late A. S. Wallace, on Saturday, June 30. It is to under the auspices of Harmony Presbyterian church, and in celebration of Children's day. The committee is now arranging to secure an interesting address for the occasion. Everybody is invited to be present with well tilled baskets. He Put Out tiio Light. ? Night Watchman Alexander had quite an adventure with the lynchers the other night. He says: "About 12 o'clock I saw a mighty big crowd of men coming into town, and as I wanted to see who they were, f I started to light a street lamp. Just as I struck a match, several of them came riding up anu said : 'it?n you ; put out that light.' I heard something like a pistol go 'click, click,' and I didn't ask any more questions. I just put out the light." I>uy. / ? Last Monday was registration day for June. As has heen the cuse on every lirst Monday for the past throe months, there was a large crowd of people in attendance. Supervisor Gordon was busy from moruing until night, and quite a number