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fffltfevitte inquirer. YORKYILLE, S. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1894. ? The New York syndicate which bought the recent $50,000,000 issue of bonds at $117, has already disposed of nearly its whole purchase at prices ranging up to $120. Really, we do not see why the bonds should become more valuable in the hands of a syndicate than they were in the hands of the government. ? In conversation the other day, Governor Tillman suggested September as the best time of holding the proposed constitutional convention. By that time, he says, there will be a restoration of better feeling, and the convention could be made up of non-partisan men who would not be smarting under political prejudices. The convention will probably be made up of 124 delegates, and Senator Irby has suggested the advisability of an agreement by which representation from the various counties may be apportioned between the factions on the basis of the vote cast in one of the primaries. ? Mr. Roddey's plan to increase the price of cotton is for each farmer to place in his hands one bale out of every five produced, and which will be withdrawn from market. Any farmer who falls into this Wall street trap should be sent to the insane asylum. When charges and expenses are paid, there won't be enough of that fifth bale to wad a gun with. Mr. Roddey's proposition, as it appears to us, carries fraud on its face.?Piedmont Headlight. The Columbia Register heads the above paragraph "Rough on Roddey." We are satisfied that The Register used the words only for the sake of the alliteration. The slur is not rough at all, for Gantt is well i v... m.n.uWu Thft nrohabilitv is UJ tlvijuuuj. t ? that he has never read Roddey's plan, and what he knows about it, can best be measur- ? ed by what he cares. However, as suggested elsewhere in this issue, if the plan should prove a failure, it will be due to just such ' slurs as this. , t c ? In discussing the Roddey idea for the ? control of cotton, the Aiken Recorder says : E "The plan is based on the belief that if a a certain amount of the crop is held back, the E price will rise," and that paper goes on to * ask "if this belief is not a mistaken one ?" I The Recorder, like many other papers, has a based its doubts on a false premise. From c the interview in another column, it seems 1 that Mr. Roddey's plan has for its object the * elimination of all unnecessary middle men, I all speculators, and the establishment of a c free and uninterrupted operation of the laws 8 of supply and demand. He wants to put * the producer of cotton in direct contact with the manufacturer, and secure to him a privi- v lege that is only his right?that of naming the 8 price of his product. In our opinion, if the r Recorder and other papers will take the 8 trouble to fully understand Mr. Roddey's 8 plans, they will not find so many objections. 1 Mr. Roddey has studied this question not J only from the position of the Southern pro- J ducer; but also from the position of the 1 Northern speculator, and it looks as if he s should know, by this time, pretty well what * he is talking about. ( ? Iu a supplement we herewith hand our i readers a pretty full synopsis of Governor < Tillman's fourth and last message to the legislature. The message throughout is characteristic of Governor Tillman ; but, in s our opinion, some portions of it are entirely discreditable. We refer particularly to the governor's reierence 10 me recent eiecuuu. Everybody knows, or should know, that ( this election was, to say the least of it, very * unfair, and in ruany respects fraudulent. The governor knows this as well as the rest < of us. If he did not believe it, he would not i have sought to offer any defense ; nor would ' he have attempted to besmirch those who J opposed the constitutional convention, with charges of corruption, malice or envy. The ] sincerity of his statement that the courts are < open to those who believe there has been 1 fraud, is best illustrated by the facts. Dr. Pope went to Aiken and other places and procured what he claims is reliable evidence J of fraud. He then went before the State , board and protested against the tabulation , of the vote. Next he went before the legislature, asserted his ability to prove fraud, > and petitioned an investigation of his 1 _ - charges. The petition, in which even the j humblest citizen has the right to respectful } treatment, was treated with contempt, and i the doctor was thus denied recourse to each and every remedy the governor declared < was open. We do notfcelieve that Dr. Pope was elected, and we are glad that he was 1 not; because of all the politicians in the ( State, he is one of the most bitter and vindictive. But that is not the question. The recent election may have been one of 1 the fairest that has been held since the lie-1 construction period. At the same time, there may have been an "irregularity" of at least two thousand votes against theoppo-j, nents of the constitutional convention, and !; there should have been an investigation to j: determine whether or not the voice of the : people in this matter is really expressed in the result. If there has been cheating and fraud ever since reconstruction, where is it to stop ? If there were irregularities in the recent election, and there is no investi gation, and they should be tenfold more i glaring in the election two years from now, i what assurance have we that there will be j an investigation then ? What we need more | than anything else now is honest elections. | < Fraudulent elections have been the cause of. nine-tenths of the South American revolu- ' tions, and unless they are eliminated from j South Carolina politics, they will eventually !, bring trouble in this State also. BY WAY OF EXPLANATION. It is not likely that the Roddvy plan of organization in the interest of cotton will ever l>e | adopted in full by the cotton producers of the ' South. Upon its face the plan appears to be; plausible; but its feasibility is so doubtful that ; it is hardly probable that any really serious at- ' tempt will ever lie made to carry it out.?York-: ville Enquirer. The above detached paragraph from an j editorial in last week's Exquirkr, headed, "Mr. Roddey and His Plan" has been going! the rounds of the piess. Taken with the balance of the editorial, the paragraph ex-1 ^TCsses just what we intended ; but taken j alone, we do not care to have it accredited | as our views. The cotton produced in the South since i 1S7G, has sold for $5,G89,5G3,107, of which $3,S55,29o,240 came from abroad. The total amount for which the cotton sold is*| equal to one-half of all the money, metal and paper, in existence, including every civil-' ized and half-civilized country in the world, or equal to nearly one-fourth of the assessed valuation of all the property, real and per-! sonal, in the United States. It amounts to only $2,000,000,000 less than the total in-' crease in the assessed valuation of all the property in the United States from 1880 to 1890. From these figures, and they are official, it is clear that the cotton producers create from I one-half to two-thirds of the wealth of the i whole country. The assessed valuation of! all the property in all the Cotton States, put together, is not as great as that in the State of New York alone, and from this fact it vould seem that the cotton producers do; iot get anything like a fair share of the vealth they produce. That the cotton producers have created the iroportiou of wealth stated there can lie no loubt. It is shown by the actual figures; ind that they have not got it now is equally ; lertnin. Then it follows that it must have >een absorbed by middle men, speculators, i nanufacturers and others. This has been : he case and it has been perfectly legitimate; I >ut here arises a question as to whether these J niddle men. speculators, innnuinciurers mm i >thers. have been getting more than their hare ; and if so, what is the remedy ? It has more than once been suggested that 1 f the farmers of the South could organize or the control of cotton, they would have ! he finances of the world in a sling, so to peak. Then what is to hinder? We do lot have to look far for obstacles. No j loubt, if the farmers of the South were j horoughly orgauized into a trust, they could tasily eliminate many of the middle men vho now stand between them and the manifacturer, pay good salaries to their necesary officers, reduce expenses possibly onelalf, and have something to say about the >rice. But right here comes the rub. The dea of such a trust is too vast for the iverage mind, and there are too many aveiues of uncertainty and doubt for those who ire unable to understand. In the event of he success of the trust, thousands of men vho now get their living out of cotton vould be thrown out of employment. Most >f these men are shrewd and calculating, md many of them stand very close to the armers. They are not going to allow the >roposed trust to succeed if they can help it; ind to prevent it, they are going to use >very argument that human ingenuity can levise. No, we do not mean to say that Mr. Kodley's plan, if carried out, would fail to ac:omplish the object sought, for we believe it vould ; but is it possible to educate the 'armers up to the idea agaiust the 10,000 arguments of the interested opposition ? The )lan is plausible ; but it is here that we are :onfronted with the serious question of feasbility. ? Football has taken the place of baseball is America's national game. Baseball is langerous; but football is simply brutal. ncident to it are not only numerous broken ( leads, collar bones aud limbs; but eonsidera- j ?le loss of life. The point of the game is to | Irive the ball from the center of the play;round to the goal line on either side. The lumberofplayersisllon aside. A few years igo the game was played principally with the eet. Now it seems to have developed to he point where everything is fair, and op>osing sides are as vicious and as dangerous is gladiators. Sometimes, to get possession >f the ball, players use their fists, sometimes heir heads as battering rams, and soraeimes, when opportunity offers, an erect >layer will double his knees and come down ra the back of a prostrate player like a eatipult, and with the force that often means or the under man a terra in the hospital. There were a great many games between various colleges and universities throughout j he country last Thursday. One of the nost notable was played at Philadelphia >etween the University of Pennsylvania ind the Harvard teams. During the game, he Harvard team lost five men who were )orne off the field in an insensible condition. ?enusylvania won after a terrible contest, n which a number of men were more or less ;eriously injured. During the past 10 days, ,hree or four footballists have been killed in lifTerent parts of the country. Verily, if >rize-fightingisof even doubtful propriety, it ffould be well to make football playing a japital offense. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. >ynopsl* of the Proceedings of the House and i .Senate. The general assembly of South Carolina j net in annual session in Columbia on Tuesiayoflast week, and is just now getting lown earnestly to work on the business with ..L! AU I 4- < is VWJIUU It 19 tuiJiiuuivvi. Frank B. Gary, of Abbeville, presided iver the temporary organization of the house ind superintended the work of swearing in [he members. Mr. It. M. Carroll nominated [he speaker by simply announcing Mr. Jones. The nomination was seconded by a half lozen members, and Mr. Ira B. Jones, of Lancaster, was re-elected to the speakership without a dissenting voice. J. Walter Gray was elected clerk over Editor George It. Koester, of the Register, by a vote of 110 to 11. Mr. N. M. Stansell was re-elected serjeant-at-arms, and Mr. J. S. Withers was sleeted reading clerk. In the lottery of seats, York county drew first choice, and of course selected the best lo be had. The senate was called to order by I)r. ' Sampson Pope, the clerk, and I)r. Thinner-1 aian, the lieutenant-governor, then took \ charge of the proceedings. The new mem- ] bers were sworn in, and Senator J. K. Har- j rison, of Greenville, was elected president pro j tern. General It. R. Hemphill, of Abbeville,! was elected clerk of the senate over J. A. ; rsligh, of Newberry, and It. M. McCowan, of | Florence. W. H. Stewart,'of ltock Hill, was elected reading clerk, and J. C. Elliott, ofi Lancaster, was elected sergeant at arms. Other officials and attaches of the senate J were appointed by the lieutenant-governor, i The house and senate both received and accepted invitations from Governor Tillman to spend Thursday?Thanksgiving dav?iu Rock Hill. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2M. In thk House.?After the reading of the governor's message, a flood of new bills were introduced. The titles of some of them are as follows: To abolish days of grace; to i ullow country people to retail beef, pork, mutton, etc., in incorporated towns without paying license; to provide for the opening of dispensaries in Pickens county ; to provide for an inspector of illuminating oil: a joint resolution to have the penitentiary authorities to provide 33 convicts for the Winthrop Normal college ; to repeal the section of the revised statutes requiring treasurers to canvass counties for the collection of taxes ; to fix the salaries of trial justices. In the Senate.?After a brief discussion of the question of canvassing the returns! from the recent election, the senate held an j election for committeemen. The most im- j portant committee place?that of chairman of the judiciary committee?was given to Stanyarne Wilson. The chairmanship of' cue nnance comumice?me ue.\i uujiui umt place?was given to 1). E. Finley. Mr. Fin-[ ley was also made a member of the judiciary | committee. Among the new bills introduced was one ! by Mr. Finley to incorporate the Farmers' j Mutual Insurance Company of York county ; a joint resolution by Mr. Morris, to furnish Clemson college with 33 convicts. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER Both houses spent the day in Rock Hill investigating the progress of the work on the Winthrop Industrial and Normal college. friday, november :??. In thk Housk.?Speaker Jones announced the appointments of the committees for the ensuing session : Frank B. Gary, of Abbeville, was made chairman of the ways and means committee, and J. E. Bra/.eale, of Anderson, was made chairman of the judici-; ury committee. The members from York; were given places on the various commit-! tees as follows : Carroll, chairman of the committee on rules and member of the; committee on ways and means. T. R. Carothers, on medical and lunatic asylum committees. \V. X. Elder, chairman of, committee on claims, and member of the committee on education. \V. B. Love, j member of committee on incorporation and penitentiary. After the announcement of the committees, j Speaker Jones said that before adjourning : on Wednesday, Dr. Sampson Rope had left with him a petition, under seal, with the statement that he had been unable to get! the petition presented by a member of the! house. Mr. Jones went on to say that lie; was not positive as to what should he done in such a case, and that he had taken the j matter under advisement. He had found that under rule 31 of the house, no matters could he introduced except by a member. The constitution, under article 1, section *?, j gave the right of petition ; but article 2, section 10, provided that the general assembly should work under such rules as it saw fit: and rule 01, provided that all matters to be considered must have the endorsement ol some member. Section 101 of the old, and lSbof the new statutes, provides that all contests have to come up in the shape ol concurred resolutions. As this was not done, Mr. Jones said, he would not take the authority to introduce the matter. Mr. Karle, ol Pickens, then moved that the petition be read, just to see what was in it, and Mr Weston seconded the proposition ; but the house did not see in it that way and very promptly and vigorously decided that it would not hear the petition read, so that settled the gubernatorial fate of I)r. Pope so far as the legislature was concerned. Among the new bills introduced were the following : To amend section 2 of an act providing for the relief of certain soldiers to reduce the salary of the liquor commissioner from $3,000 to $2,000, and his clerk tc $1,000 ; to authorize York and certain othei counties to borrow money and pledge taxes as security; to organize and regulatt boards of health in incorporated towns and cities ; to fix the per diem of children foi -1 ! Ma/hiI.i1a ll\n fnnc rtf clior. Ul'UWlUg JUl lt'd , iu ir^umio till/ two w* u>.v. iflfs for dieting prisoners ; to prohibit interesi charges of more than 7 per cent. In the Senate.?I)r. Pope's petition was referred to the committee on privileges and elections. The committee submitted a re port "recommending that the petition be dismissed, as in the opinion of the committee, there was no merit in it. When th( question was put, a half dozen senators voted aye and none voted no. So the petitioi was smothered. After the hearing of ? number of committee reports and the intro duction of several new bills, the senate ad journed till Tuesday at noon. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1. In the House.?The senate not being ir session and the committees having reported no bills, the house remained in session onlj one hour and a quarter. A number ol new bills were introduced and among then: were the following: To make railroads refund over charges and pay for lost freight by Mr. Love, to require cotton buyers tc number all bales of cotton bought, with the same number that is put upon bills and books ; by other members, to authorize the removal of gates across public highways; to give one-fourth of dispensary profits tc towns and cities, and the other three-fourtlu to the free school fund. MONDAY, PECEMRER 3. In the House.?Among the new bills introduced were the following : By Mr. Carroll, to amend section 156 of the criminal pro cedure by inserting the words, "trial just ices" after the word master wherever it occurs. By various other members : To repea the law requiring the publication of the county treasurer's annual report; to give county boards of roael commissioners juris diction over private highways that have been in use more than 25 years; to provide for divorce in case of adultery ; to license the sale of liquor; to extend the time for the payment of taxes to March 10, 1895. Wednesday, December 12, was fixed as the day for the election of a United States sena tor to succeed Senator Butler. Yesterday was the day fixed for the inauguration o: Governor-elect Evans. THE RODDEY FLAN. A General Outline, as Prepared for The Knqiiirei l?y Mr. J. T. Iloddey. The "Iiotlcley plan" for the control of cotton has been so garbled and misquoted, thai few people understand what it really is. Ai our request, one day last week, Mr. ltoddej prepared for us the following general out line of his plan, which may be taken as strictly authentic : "First. I think and believe the stock of th< company can be paid in without the farmers bo ing out in reality one cent. This seems absurd but say that in a crop of 8,(XX),000 bales, foi every five bales a farmer grows, he takes stock U the extent of one bale. That would leave a cro} of 0,400,OCX) bales to be marketed; the l,tXX),(XX being set aside as capital stock for the company and taken out of the available supply. Now 1 verily believe that (i,4tX>,(XX> bales of cotton wil bring in value fully as much as 8,0<X),000. Tin difference which has gone to speculators aiu manufacturers will be set aside for you in stoel the tirst year. "In case of a crop failure you have your stool in the company to fallback on, and the comnanj can sell part or all of their cotton, provided tin price is high enough ; but in no ease permit tin market to be llooded with cotton. Let booki of subscription be opened at every town aiu city in the South. "In regard to the management of the company have one general or head office, say in New l or! or New Orleans, with two general directors fron each cotton growing State; have one otlice ii each State, with one director from each countj in that State, and have sub-oillces in all the prin cipal towns and cities in the different States t< control local cotton, all to be controlled by tin general or head olliee; have either a special in surance company organized or the present companies brought to a low rate. "As each locality elects its county officers, thosi officers are responsible to the farmer for his liftl bale, and when sold, the farmer receives the lie proceeds. Let the head olliee make the financia arrangements on the warehouse receipts. Lei them instruct them when to sell certain lots o cotton or hold until a certain price is offered. "Arrange so that incase a farmer wishes to sell say lOorltXi bales, with so much advance on it he might sell or transfer his warehouse receipt to his creditors. "These warehouse receipts could be lnadi transferable, or bills of exchange. We wan to make the cotton crop take care of the price o cotton. We want the cotton gins in each conn ty numbered, and the number of bales ginnei reported weekly to the head olliee. It woult be well if we could control these gins, or at leas if we could have the sympathy and best wislie: of the gin owners. Many farmers may be will ing to have the company handle more than oik bale out of live. So much the better for the pro ducer,*and so much the worse for the professions v.,... "Thenll'airs of the company should he kept a: secretly as possible from the wreckers. The cot ton put in bv the cotton growers, after being de livered to the oflicers of trust in each county will be stored, insured, graded and weighed, atu stock for the amount given him. We conic have warehouses in every convenient distribu ting point as well as in all small towns, and wi could either buy warehouses which are alrcad; built, with stock at a legitimat price, oreouh arrange with warehouse owners to store and in sure at avery low rate; or if not, the companj could soon build their own. The head ollic would also be a bureau of information. \V could let each county and State know the con dition and prospects of the other States. \V could keep all theollicers in every State informei as to the foreign demand." "By way of explanation," says Mr. Rod dey, "I would like Tim ExQLTltKR to stab that the foregoing is only a condensed out line. To give the plan in full would tak a whole side of your paper ; but I will as sure you of this : I have carefully though out every detail, and I am confident of in; ability not only to demonstrate the praetiea bility, hut the feasibility, of every proposi tion that I have suggested. I am for re duced acreage and a dozen other expedi ents that will help contribute to our success but surely no intelligent individual wouh expect to find a full elaboration of this sub ject in a single newspaper article. T bring in all the details would require i book. MKKK MENTION. In his annual report, Secretary of Agricul lure Morton recommended that the free dis trilmlion of seeds by congressmen be dis continued. I)r. R. L. Abernathy president of Rutherford college, died a his home, on Tuesday of last week, age< 72 years. At a meeting of the America! Bimetalic league, held in St. Louis, Mo., las week, resolutions were adopted urging 111011 etary reformers everywhere to make th free and unlimited coinage of silver at a rati< of 1(5 to 1, the paramount political issue. A. Matt. Aubrey, the young man who abou five years ago eloped with the daughter o Chief Justice Fuller, was last week arrestci in Chicago on the charge of forging a checl for $ ")(). It is reported that Senator (human, Brice, Murphy and Smith, hav reached the conclusion that much of there cent disaster to the Democratic party is du to t he position of these .senators on the sugn question, ami they now propose to take th hack track and work for free sugar. J cotton compress and 1,5<>0 bales of cottoi were destroyed by fire at Birmingham, Ala, last Thursday. The total loss was abou $75,000. Princess Bismark, wife of th great Herman minister, died last Wednesday and was buried on Friday. - ? When Hoke Smith, secretary of theintc rior, went into office, he said that he wantc< "to see if he could not do something abou pensions." It seems that he has succeeded The year before he took charge, the pay meat on account of pensions amounted t $150,000,000. The total amount paid to pen sioners last year, was $13!),804,101, or jus $25,205,712.05 less than the. amount appro printed. The number of new pensioner added to the rolls was .'?!),0S5, and the mini her dropped was 37,085. The estimate fo the year 1 S!)5 is $140,000,000. The annua expenditure is still growing a little; bu nothing like it grew before Mr. Smith tool | charge. j LOCAL AFFAIRS. ; 1 IN'DKX TO NKW AUVK11TIKKMKNTS. ! III. C. Strauss?Announces a big drop in the f prices of linscys, and small .overcoats from :14 to .'HI, are reduced in price one-half. Corkscrew suits for this week are reduced one-half in price, f .1. .J. Hunter?Reminds you that his clearance sale is in progress and lag bargains are bc1 ing offered. ' W. J. Waters, County Auditor?Publishes his I appointments for the assessment of personal property. Look and see when he will be at the place most convenient for you. ' i Crist Cousins?Say they do not depend on the location of the railroad depot in order to UllillllU lIIUlll IW UU ui(Oiui.iv>| ?%.-* vf iviuuv^u of which they quote prices on some of the goods they have to sell. ' George T. Sehorb?Can supply you with a tele, phone, a Lester piano, a Wilcox it White organ, or a typewriter, at prices to suit the hard times. ' The Rock Hill Ruggy Company?Announce ' that Sain M. Grist, their agent in Yorkville, ; has now on exhibit several of their buggies which he is authorized to sell at prices corresponding with other articles. 1 James M. Starr?Tells about the dissolution ol the firm of Lowry A* Starr, that he will conj tinuc the drug business and that thoso in, debtcd to Lowry A Starr must pay what j they owe them. ' T. M. Dobson A Co.?Tell you that Dobson's Racket is the only one in Yorkville, give the prices on a number of articles, and tell I. you that they wish to exchange goods for ' 50 hushcls of corn. Samuel Hunt, President?(lives notice that a 5 special meeting of the Ohio River and I Charleston Railway company will bo held at Rlaeksburg, on the 18th of December. " Ohio River and Charleston Railway Company? i New passenger and freight schedules which took effect on December 1. THESE GOT PLACES. York is better represented in Columbia t this year than usual. In the distribution ol patronage, people up this way were remem bered as follcfws : J. R. Witherspoon, of Yorkville, doorkeeper of the house, at $5 a day. 1 W. H. Stewart, of Rock Hill, reading clerk of the senate, nt $5 a day. C W. II. Edwards, of Yorkville, clerk of the i house committee on claims, at $5 a day, i J. E. Beamguard, of Clover, clerk of the ! senate committee on finance, at $5 day. ' Master Luther Ashe, son of Mr. J. C. Ashe, l' of McConnellsville, page, at $2.50. CHURCH NOTICES. 1 Episcopal?Rev. Robert A. Lee, minister, > Lay services on Sunday morning next at 11 o'clock, in the absence of the minister. Sunday-school in the afternoon at 3.25 o'clock, Trinity Methodist Episcopal?Rev. S. A, Weber, pastor. Prayer-meeting this even. ing at 7 o'clock. Sunday-school at 3 p. m, . Services next Sunday morning at 11 and I evening at 7 o'clock. ! Presbyterian?Rev. W. G. Neville, pastor. ! Sunday-school at 3 o'clock p. m. Services , on Sunday-morning at 11 o'clock, and in 5 the evening at 7 o'clock. Monthly concert > of prayer for missions tomorrow afternoon ; at 4 o'clock. Associate Reformed Presbyterian?Rev. ! Boyce H. Grief, pastor. Tihzah.? Services r on next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, f Yorkville.?Sunday-school at 3.30 o'clock p. m. Prayer-meeting this evening at 3.3C o'clock. Baptist?Rev. W. J. Langs ton, pastor. r Yorkville?Sunday-school at 10 a. m. Services Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, and evening at 7 o'clock. Prayer-meeting this j evening at 7 o'clock, conducted by Rev. R, t II. Graves, of Canton, China. The public is , cordially invited to be present this evening, ! AUCTION SALES. There were no sales by the sheriff on lasl ; Monday, salesday for December. The sales ' by the clerk were as follows ; r Under foreclosure, at the suit of A. If J Pollock, plaintiff, against A. J. Huskey, de J fendant, 10 acres of land near Blacksburg. Bought by R. W. Hutson, attorney, for $50 1 Under foreclosure, at the suit of J. Miltoi: I Stewart, plaintiff, against Sarah It. Fairis : and others, defendant, 111 acres of land . situated about 11 miles east of Yorkville r Bought by J. M. Stewart, for $500. ; Under foreclosure, at the suit of Marthn i H. Melts, plaintiff, against Dawson B. White * defendant, 75 acres of land in King's Moun , tain township, on a branch of Clark's Fork ^ Bought by Mrs. M. H. Metts for $150. 1 Under foreclosure, at the suit of W. E [ Adams, executor, plaintiff, against John and > James Neeland, defendants, two tracts o; 3 land. The first tract, containing 95 acres and known as the homestead of Daniel g Nichols, deceased, was bought by W. E i Adams, executor, for $210. The second I tract, containing 75 acres, and known as the t John Neeland home place, was bought bj f W. E. Adams, executor, for $225. , Under foreclosure, at the suit of John ^ Nichols, plaintiff, against A. J. Martin and thers, defendants, two tracts of land. The ? first containing 120 acres and bounded bj f lands of Caldwell, Fulton and others, wae j I bought by C. K. Spencer, attorney, for $150 1 i The second, containing 136 acres, and bound 1J by lands of Seals, Hambright road, etc. - was bought by C. E. Spencer, attorney, foi ! *r>01 Uucler foreclosure at the suit of W. L ^ I Roddey, plaintiff, against John McElwee and - others, defendants, the J. N. McElwee home " tract. The tract was sold in three parcels a: it follows: (1.) 254J acres; bought by E. 11 \ Riley, for $8 an acre. (2.) 217A acres; boughi e by W. B. Wilson for $1.05 an acre. (3. l' 231J acres, bought by W. L. Koddey foi . $1.50 an acre. e ltODDKY ON COTTON. ^ Mr. John T. Koddey has not yet givei e up his scheme for the organization of a gi 1 gantic cotton trust for the protection of the . j farmers of the South. On the contrary, he e I seems to be more enthusiastic than ever. - representative of Thk Enqi'irkr saw bin c! in Rock Hill last Thursday. Since the " | Atlanta meeting, he has been suffering i from the effects of an attack of the grip . and he deemed it advisable not to return te - New York until he should recover. But he - was still at work. During the 10 days pre * vious, lie had received nearly a bushel o j letters and telegrams from all parts of the South, and to give them all proper attention 0 has kept him busy. Asked by the repre [i sentative of Thk Enquirkr how he wa.( | getting along with his plan, Mr. Koddcj j said : I "Very nicely, indeed ! Of course, I an -! meeting with opposition here and there ?- but that is to be expected. Everybody > can't think alike, you know; and, besides 1 the plan is so novel in some of its features | that it is not surprising that a great man} j j people fail to take on to it quickly. Thcj ^ I do not fully understand my propositions yet . | and to get them thoroughly explained, i: e j now tiic greatest itilliculty. However, J 0 J think I am making very gratifying progress "And you really believe in the praeticabili J ty of successfully organizing the fanners o j ; the South ?" Mr. Itoddey was asked. < ; "I certainly do," he replied. "I nmsatisfie< s , of it. It will take a great deal of labor U e I bring about the necessary education; bu i with the proper effort, it can be done. Le ? the farmers of the South once understum e j intelligently that the price of their product \ is controlled absolutely by scheming specula n tors, and that by means of thorough orgatiiza j tion they can control it themselves, and tin 1 1 work will be done. Why, as the situatioi ( ! now stands, every individual who has any 'i thing to do with cotton makes more monej j out of it than the producer. Trace the coursi j. j of the raw material. It goes from the pro 1 [ duccr to the local buyer, then through tin I i hands of the broker, generally, to the mills ' land after being manufactured, goes back t< the producer. The local cotton buyer get: a living out of it. The broker gets a profit t The spinners and the weavers both mak< i- J money, and the manufacturer has dividend: s| for himself and the shareholders. The pro " j ducer has nothing to say either about lixinj j the price of the raw material or the manufac t lured goods; but is gouged both ways am k gets less profit than anybody else. "And you say all this cannot be changed 1 Why not? I admit that legitimate supply and demand will control prices. Nobody but a tool would deny such a proposition. But do you know that under present eondiI tions, legitimate supply and demand has very little to do with the problem? The ' price of cotton is fixed by professional speculators. They buy and sell hundreds of mili lions of bales, on future delivery, and these i operations in imaginary cotton have reached such magnitude that the price of real cot, ton has come to be fixed by them merely as a trifling incident. Shall I prove this? Last year Mr. Ellison, the most eminent authority on cotton, estimated the crop ut , 8,200,000 bales. Everybody believed the j correctness of the estimate, and for a while ! j prices prevailed presumably on that basis, i But, afterward, when the fucts developed j that the crop was only 7,000,000 bales, did "j not the price, instead of going up as it should have done, actually go down? Then where ,; are your laws of supply and demand r x>o . sir; our only liope of escape from the bale> ful iufluencc of the professional speculators, ; is control of the cotton supply by means of thorough organization of the producers of 1 the South. This done, and we can dure the 1 the professionals to hammer at the price. .. Let them once try the experiment of selling i a few millions bales short, and we will certainly have something to say when they are culled upon to deliver." "But, Mr. Roddey, in case you should * succeed in perfecting such an organization as you propose, would not most of the profits go up in expenses?" "Why so? Are there not a half-a-dozen or more cotton buyers in this town, as many ; more in Yorkville, and others scattered about in different sections of the county? ' Don't most of them get good salaries and make enough during the cotton season to live on the entire year? Don't the farmers pay the expenses of these men ? Well, if i we can support a score of cotton buyers in this county under the present arrangement, do you not think we could support half-adozen only if we were organized in a ' trust that would ensure us much better prices than we are now getting? Then again, I hear lots of talk about the enormous ' expense of the warehouses, etc. Does it not strike you that some of this talk is silly? Situated in nearly every town in the coun' try now, there are numerous ready built warehouses. These warehouses were erected aud sustained are with the profits on cotton. They are fit for nothing except for the pur' pose for which they were erected. Now, for instance, Mr. Freidheim lias a warehouse ' over here and charges 25 cents a bale for storing cotton. Suppose wc had our trust organized and should tell him that we would accept his warehouse as stock at a fair ' price ; hut that if he did not see fit to take up the offer, wc would build a warehouse alongside of him and store cotton at 10 ' cents a bale. What do you think he would do?" "All this sounds well enough, Mr. Roddey ; . but it has been suggested that if you should | store a portion of the crop in warehouses, the spinners would know it was there, and i would just simply wait quietly until you . were compelled to unload. Does that not look reasonable?" "At a glance it does ; but the idea has its ' origin in a very superficial view of the 1 whole situation. The moment we get our trust organized, we get rid of a thousand and one expenses, and eliminate altogether " the baleful influence of professional speculators. This done, and the farmer will get as profit on their produce, the money that 1 has heretofore gone to their support. Here ' alone will he experience a considerable ad' vance in prices. The officers of the trust will he in a position to deal directly with the spinners and get rid of a great many 1 commissions there. I have no fears of the > success of the mill men on the "buzzard" racket. The longer they should try to pursue their waiting policy, the scarcer will become goods, and the greater the demand for cotton. Thoroughly organized as we would ' be, our security the very best, and its value f appreciating steadily, we could borrow all 5 the money we wanted at a low rate of inter' est, and I think we could stand the "buz zard" racket about as long as the mills could. ' "But here is something you probably have ! not thought about, Mr. Roddey. Suppose ' you should actually succeed in raising the price of cotton to 10 cents ; would you not 1 stimulate production in Egypt nnd India ' to such an extent that prices would soon ! drop down to four and five cents?" ' "Now listen at that!" exclaimed Mr. Rod' dey, his eyes blazing with indignation. "There is the gist of a hackneyed bear ar' gument that has already cost the South mil> lions of dollars. There is no such a thing ?* - " T A us over production 01 couon. it is uuuu consumption. In the cotton raising States there are thirteen million people. In the ' world there arc thirteen hundred million peo5 pie. We raise only between seven and nine * millions bales of cotton, and the idea of this being enough to supply the world, or even ^ that portion of the world which consumes ) cotton, is simply preposterous. And as to r Egypt and India, that is bosh. India is so thickly populated that she can scarcely more than raise sufficient bread for her own peoi pie, and will never be able to devote any . considerable area to cotton, no matter what ?j the price. The whole cotton area of Egypt > is not half as large as that of South Carolina, L and that country can never influence the i price of cotton. The South is favored by > God in the almost exclusive production ol r this crop, and we need never fear any dan( ger of depression from anywhere outside ol ) the professional sharpers and speculators ol > New Orleans and New York. Thoroughly . organized at home, we can control the situf ation and ever afterward dictate prices to ? the world. , "I notice, Mr. Iloddcy, that an effort has - been made to befoul your plan with the sugdigestion that you are only seeking to land yourself in one of the big ofliees that will become necessary." i "Yes," answered Mr. Hoddey,"I see that ; suggestion; but you are no doubt aware that ! it would be impossible for a man to entei , upon an undertaking of this kind without , subjecting himself to all kinds of dirty at' | tacks on his motives. It is unnecessary foi ' me to waste words in denying such stories, ; Evil disposed persons will, of course, believe i them anyway. The absurdity of this charge I is at once apparent to anyone who has read . i my plan. Individual farmers elect county -! directors, county directors elect State direcfj tors, and State directors elect the officials ol J the proposed trust. As to who will be the II officers, nobody knows. That is a matter to ) i be settled by individual members interested." t "And how will the plan be affected by the tfact that you are a New York cotton 1 broker?" 2 "Yes," replied Mr. ltoddey, "an attempt - has also been made to use that against me ; - j but what has that got to do with it ? I admit 31 that the average speculator is a slick indii j viduul. It is through my contact with them -1 in New York that I have heen enabled to f | learn this. I do not 'speculate. I merely 3 j deal on commission. Hut that is neither -1 here nor there. Even if the plan should 31 have been suggested hy the devil himself, il , i it is a good one, I see no reason why it j should not he adopted. I also know this: s j My efforts have already made me very un. i popular with the brokers and speculators. I 31 can point out a dozen who cost the South s not less than a hundred million dollars annu ally. They best understand the possibilities I of such an organization and have heen in - dread of it for years. They control our cot1 ton as it is; but if they actually owned it as we do, they would have a trust in less than ? thirty days; and with them you can bet your money it would no longer be a question | of what the buyer would give for cotton;! but a question of what the owner would [ take. Yes, I aui a New York cotton broker ; 1 but I cant' see that that fact has anything to do with my plan. "But so far as this is concerned," concluded Mr. lloddey, "I have seen numerous other unfriendly criticisms of my plan. I am not fond of criticism, of course ; but I know that I would be very foolish to hope to escape it. However, I am perfectly willing to defend every proposition suggested in my plan, and if anyone can suggest a better scheme for the accomplisment of the objects sought than I have outlined, I promise my heartiest support in carrying it to success. ! So far, my own is the only plan that has been placed before the people. The bure discussion of it has operated to advance the price of cotton, and I believe thut its adoption would serve to control the price. These are my honest views. Of course I may possibly be mistaken ; but if I am, I do not think that I am justly liable to unfavorable newspaper criticism, especially in Crttitlj T f ennmo f/\ mn flint if flio nhll'Q. papers friendly to the object sought are not pleased with my plan, they should suggest a better one. They should "put up, or shut up." THESE AUK DELEGATES. Pursuant to the recent call, meetings were held in the various townships last Saturday to elect delegates to the county cotton convention, to be held in Yorkville on Saturday next. We have not been able to get the names of all the delegates elected ; but so far as heard from, the convention will be composed as follows : Bethel?J. R. Cook and IT. E. Johnson. Bethesda?P. M. Burris and R. I). Seuly, with Mr. W. II. Moore as alternate to Mr. Sealy. Catawba?T. W. Boyd and A. H. White delegates, with T. M. Allen and W. J. Rawlinson as alternates. Cherokee?R. E. Porter and Dr. John G. Black, delegates. I). 1). Gaston and E. R. Sapoch, alternates. Broad River?It. N. McElwcc. Ebenezer?J. II. Barry and W. J. Miller, with It. G. Garrison and Win. Chont as alternates. King's Mountain?W. J. Davis and D. M. Hall. York?J. W. Neill and B. N. Moore. , By accidental oversight, tho names of the committee appointed to call meetings at Bullock's Creek nnd Blairsville and elect delegates from Bullock's Creek township, was omitted from the list as published last week. Those appointed were as follows: Elias Inman, W. It. Hayes, Wm. Ross, J. C. Blair, J. E. Bankhead, John L. Rainey, T. A. Gwin, J. H. Saye, H. K.Sherrerand John E. Plexico. If these gentlemen will call and hold meetings at Bullock's Creek and Blairsville next Friday at 2 o'clock, they may yet elect delegates. By all means, Bullock's Creek township must be represented in the county convention at Yorkville next Saturday. We have not yet gotten any definite information from Sharon, or Fort Mill; but both will no doubt be represented. Mr. John T. Roddey has been especially invited to be present, and the probability is that he will address the meeting. THANKSGIVING AT ROCK HILL. The South Carolina legislature met in YT?..I- /iAitMi?> TKnra/1 nir Tho monfinnr 1 Ul'ft. UUUlIly libOV & UUIOVIItJ, JL ilV ...vvv..?h, of course, was not a business one, and at the same time its object was not altogether one of pleasure. In response to an invitation from the people of Rock Hill, the members came up to that town to enjoy Thanksgiving, inspect the progress and status of the work on the Winthrop Normal and Industrial college, and have a good time generally. All of these objects, we have every reason to be| lieve, were fully accomplished. As we have had occasion to say before, 1 Rock Hill does not do things by halves. The people over there believe that if a thing is worth doing at all it^s worth doing well, and that is the policy they pursued last Thursday. In the erection of the Winthrop Normal and Industrial college, the trustees have already expended the $00,000 donated by the people of Itock Hill, and the $50,000 appropriated by the Stute. The work has reached tremendous proportions, and to 1 complete it will require about $80,000 more ' money. The enterprising Rock Ilillians conceived the idea that the best way to con' vince the members of the general assembly whether or not the necessary money should he appropriated, was to bring them to Rock Hill and let them see for themselves. That was the occasion of the South Carolina legislature's first visit to York county. The members came up from Columbia to ' j the college grounds, on a special train of five cars, placed at their disposal by the peo' pie of Rock Hill. Along with them was 1 Governor Tillman, attaches of the house and senate, several members of the faculty ! of the South Carolina college, and a number ' of newspaper men. All told, the crowd from Columbia numbered 288. Immfcdiatc' ly upon their arrival, the visitors began an 1 examination of the exterior of the buildings, and when they went inside, Captain Iredell Jones took occasion to extend to them a hearty welcome to Rock Hill. Many of our readers have seen the struct ures as they stand, and most of those who have not, will remember the cut of the main building as printed in The Enquirer about a year ago. The main building, as to external appearances, is now complete; and a great deal of work has also been done in the interior. It has 50 rooms. The big three story L shaped dormitory, with its 150 rooms, is also nearly complete as to the brick work; but still lacks a great deal of completion on the inside. It is to complete these buildings and to erect another dormitory, that the legisla1 ture is asked to make an additional appropriation. While the lawmakers were examining the ' college building, the ladies of Rock I Till and numerous committeemen were engaged in the work of preparing a Thanksgiving lunch ; in Oakland pavilion. Arranged in the pa1 vilion, from end to end, were long tables, . and tbcse were literally loaded with good things calculated to tempt the appetite of a " less hungry crowd. Among other things, . j there were SO turkeys, cranberry sauce by the ! bucketful], bread by the hundred pounds, s and deserts and relishes too numerous to I mention. Tickets of admission having already been distributed by Editor Hull, of The Herald, r and other members of the committee, at ! 2 o'clock the visitors tiled into the pavilion. > The tables were all tilled. There was room for everybody; but none to spare. After , grace, the members fell to and did justice to II the occnsion. A dozen or more committee| men put in their time carving additional i supplies of turkey, and still others saw to ' it that not one of the great crowd of guests I was allowed to lack for proper attention ; or, as "Uncle Miles" put it, "If you don't see what you want, don't ask for it ; but let me ' know privately, and I will get it for you." After all were satisfied, champagne, sherry and claret were served and then came the toasts. ' Captain Iredell Jones presided as toast . master, and as usual, with credit to the occasion. Governor-elect John. Gary Kvans I was to have responded to "South Carolina ' but being absent, Assistant-attorney General Barber served as a splendid substitute. Speaker Jones was to have responded to i "The General Assembly of South Carolina." He was also absent, and Lieutenant Governor Tim merman responded on the part of the senate. Mr. T. \V. Bacot, of Charleston, responded on the part of the house. The next toast was the "Trustees of the Win throp Normal and Industrial college," responded to by Governor Tillman, who said : If it were not for the peculiar position I occupy ; toward the board, it would be better and more ' appropriate that some one else should respond to this toast. As governor of South Carolina, I j am ex-oflieio president of the board of trustees ; of the Winthrop Normal and Industrial college, and therefore my connection with the school inun official capacity will be severed after this meeting. I may, therefore, with propriety, give expression to such views as would otherwise be in bad taste. I The toast says the trustees have been indefatigable in their great work. Coining as it does from j the committee who arranged this reception, this is a compliment which we, as trustees, must be glad to accept. Hut their opinion is of small moment compared with that ol these gentlemen who | represent the people of the State. If they are satisfied with our work and consider that wo have acted wisely in what we have done, it will bo a matter of great pride and gratification to us, I can only, in the briefest possible way, explain ivliv wo hiivn laid the fmmdntionn ofthis cnltecrr j so broad and so deep. Every State in the South which has done ayy| thing in the line of Normal and Industrial train ing l'or women, has made the mistake of buildi ing on too small a scale, and each and all oftheii femalo colleges have been crowded frotn the beginning and have lacked accommodation. Wt nave been educating men in this State at the State's expense for 100 years. We have spent all told more than $1,000,000 for the erection oi malo colleges. It costs upward of $100,000 annually to support these colleges, and when at bust the State decided to right the great wrong to our women in founding this school. I, for one, was unwilling that we should build in a niggardly spirit and erect a small pinchbeck. Cheap John establishment. that would have reflected no credit on the State or those connected with it. We are no! building for to-day or to-morrow, or for nexl year, but for all time, and this is the only female college in the State to bo supported by public taxation. It is the one college in the State tc which there has hitherto been no opposition and I confidently express the hope that none will arise now. We owe our women a debt for the long neglect in affording them educational advantages We might be said to even owe them interest or that dent; so let me say that if we are to cut anywhere?and I acknowledge there is now need for economy?let us cut the share of the men and not that of the women. They have done without so long already. Let me remind yoi at this point that the larger proportioi of what you see done here has cos! South Carolina nothing. Thus far she htu only given $50,000, and that grand building which lias excited your admiration is duo to tin generosity and pluck of Rock llill. [Applause/ As I am leaving the board of trustees, I desin to bear witness to the justness of the praise con veyed in the opening line of this toast?"thej have been indefatigable in their devotion to tin interest of tlie college"?and this praise iscspe cially due the local trustees, Messrs. Roddey Crawford and Elder. I will say here that if there be any who are disposed to find fault or criticisi the magnitude of the undertaking and the ex pense that will necessarily be incurred beforo i will be completed, I stand ready and now pub ly assume my full share of the blame. Th< board has always been harmonious, and then has practically been no difference of opin ion among us in forming our plans; bu I am more to blame than any one else if we are worthy of blame. In conclu sion, I feel that we have planned wiselj and well, and that time will so prove. Tin Girl's school is one thing we all unite in pushing to completion, and I l'cel every assurance that ii will be completed and put into operation at ai early day without material change in the plans [Applause.] The toast to the honor of Robert C. Win throp was given standing, and in silence In the absence of Dr. Woodrow, Prof. F Horton Colcock, of the South Carolinu col lege, responded to "The Schools of th< State." W. B. Wilson, Esq., responded t< "Rock Hill," in a most happy manner, whiel elicited enthusiastic applause. F. II. Wes ton, representative from Richland, respond ed to "Woman," and Representative Mc Sweeney, of Hampton, responded to "Th< Press." The speaking over, the representatives all left the hall, thoroughly pleased with th< entertainment, and most of them then wen to take a look at the factories, homes am business houses of the energetic and progrcs sive people by whom they had been s< handsomely entertained. Before the trait left for Columbia, a number of representa tives met in the parlor and passed resolu tions returning hearty thanks for the whole souled and hospitable treatment by the peo pie of Rock Hill. Though the work of the various commit tees is deserving of especial compliment, i would hardly be fair to give all the credi to the actual members. On an occasioi like this, every individual citizen of Rocl Hill seems disposed to constitute himself; committee of one on hospitality, and eacl plays his part to perfection. That is th way it was last Thursday. LOCAL LACONICS. Netted 275 Pounds. ? Mrs. Gardner and Miss Sarah E. Walk er, who reside about five miles north of York ville. report having recently killed a 10 months-old pig that netted 275pounds. Humeri to I)entti. ? A little daughter of Mr. Bean Garrison of Fort Mill township, died last Saturday While playing in the yard about three week ago, her clothing caught fire, and her deatl was caused by the burns she sustained. i To Meet Next Tuesday. ? ltev. B. P. Reid, of Kershaw, state* clerk, has telegraphed Thk Enquirer t< announce that Bethel presbytery will mee in Chester on next Tuesday, December 11 at 7.30 p. m. Business of importance is oi ;hand. , I School ComniUtrioner Hanks. ? During the absence of Captain W. II Edward* in Columbia, 1'rot. A. it. Dames, 1 acting as hi* substitute in the ofliec of schoo commissioner. Prof. Banks will he found ii the office every afternoon after 3 o'clock an< 1 on Saturdays. [ IJaptixt Convention. ? The South Carolina Baptist conventioi ; held its annual meeting in Chester las week, adjourning on Sunday night. The pro ceedings of the convention were interestinj and sucessful. The next meeting of th< convention is to be held in Greenville. Named Win. Kinger. ? Wm. Ringer, according to the Colum bia Register, is the name of the Negro con vict who was shot near Bowling Green las week. He was originally from Newbern county and escaped from the penitentiary ii 1890. At last accounts it was thought tha he would die. Home Kufsed Orangcx. ? Miss Belle C'repps, of Yorkville, ha: sent Thk Enquirkr a home-raised orange | It is of the dwarf variety, and from a busl I that is two years old and about two feet high ' To he seen in the branches of the tree n | this time, are buds, blooms and green am I ripe fruit. I The Uptown Depot. ? The uptown depot of the Chester am Lenoir railroad is now open for business Passenger trains are still stopping at tin old depot; but Mr. Beard advises us tha they will not do so any more after Decembe 31. Freight, however, will he deliveret at the old depot, as heretofore, upon request Committed Suicide. ? Mrs. Holman, formerly of this county committed suicide at Cherry ville, N. C., las Thursday, by hanging. She leaves threi children. She was the daughter of Mr. J. M Caldwell, of York township. It is under stood that she has been in bad health for som< j time and it was probably that this causet I her to take the rasti step. The Only Oik* of tin* Kind. ? Mr. J. A. Ratteree, of Bethel, left a this ofiice last Monday, a very peouliai rabbit skin. The back is a beautiful reddisl brown, and the sides gradually lighten dowi to a fringe of silver white. Mr. Ratterei caught the rabbit from which the skin wai ; taken, with his dogs, on Thanksgiving day | in Bethel township. I . Heavy Lokk to Mr. Hoyil. ? ltoek Hill Herald: The gin house anc machinery of Mr. \V. S. Boyd, of Catawbi township, together with a number of bale: of lint cotton and cotton in the seed, wen destroyed by lire Thursday night. Tin orgin of the lire is not known, but is be | lieved to have been caused by a spark lorn i the engine. The loss is said to be aboti $1,(500, with no insurance. Compliment to l-'lnlcy. ? Columbia correspondent of The Newt and Courier: Senator Finley, of York, is t tower of strength in the senate this year His independent honesty and fearless eon sistency ever since he began his career as t "Reformer," have placed him high up ii the regard of ail factions, and there is i large clement of substantial but inexperi enced men in the senate who, "when in doubt," take Finley's advice. j /ion Conference. ; ? The annual State conference of the ; African Zion M. K. church, met in Yorkville 1 last Wednesday, and continued in session until last Monday night. There were present 95 preachers and 5 lay delegates. Bishop i I. C. Clinton, of Lancaster, presided. The business transacted was purely of a routine i nature. Special excursions over the (). R. ?fc J C. railroad were quite a feature of the occa sion. On Sunday there were between 500 ' and 1,000 visiting Negroes in Yorkville. . IiiterrHtiiig Services. I ? The Winnsboro News and Herald of | December 1, contains an interesting account > of the dedication of New Lebanon church, in l'lurrield county, recently. 1 tie services in connection with the dedication were conducted by Rev. \V. (J. Neville, of Yorkville, and judging from the reports of the exercises, this popular minister seems to stand very high with the people of Fairfield. The ' dedicatory services were attended by aniont ster congregation from the surrounding | country. ' New Telephone. ' ?Mr. George T. Sehorb, of Yorkville, ? has gone into the "hello" business. He t has taken the agency for the Phenix tele[ phone, u splendid new instrument, adiniraj bly adapted both to short and long distance ' talking, and is now prepared to furnish and j put up telephones for all who wish to avail ! themselves of the convenience. He has a . pair of his new instruments in operation M between his dwelling and his place of busi11 ness. I J Tribute to Mrn. McMullen. ' ? The ladies of the Presbyterian church, i of Goldsboro, N. C., have recently put in a [ handsome memorial window of Mrs. Nettie i i Johnston McMullen. Rev. J. C'. McMullen ^ spent all his ministry in Bethel presbytery, j excepting the five years lie was pastor A 1. _ /l.t 1 1 . t 1. \T ! .1 ? oi uic uoiusuoro cnurcn. many menus throughout this section hold him itnd his wife in affectionate remembrunce, and will he gratified to learn of this loving tribute paid to her memory. At the time of her death she was a member of the Rock Hill Presbyterian church. Mr. McMullen is now laboring successfully in Midway, Kentucky. Who 1h the Owner? ? Mrs. S. B. Helrner, of Kendallville, Ind., has sent to Prof. A. R. Banks, of Yorkville, a curious relic of the late war and commissioned him to find the owner. The relic is in the shape of a beautiful composition on the Lord's prayer. It is printed on a thick * . piece of blue satin, and in every respect is a , rare literary curiosity. The composition is dated, Charleston, S. C., July 4th, 1823. It was taken from some Charleston home by a brother of Mrs. Helrner, during the war, and the lady now desires to return it to its original owner. A Change in the Climate. ? "There is going to be lots of wheat in this county next year," said Mr. VV. H. Moore, of Guthriesville, last Monday. "For years past," he continued, "many of our farmers have beeir sowing their wheat on ? poor, worn out land, and declaring that owt ing to a change in the climate or something, j our section is no longer suitable to the production of grain. This year the people in our neighborhood are sowiug their wheat on the very best land they have, and if we have no bad luck, I think I can promise that next year they will be of the opinion that there has been a change in the climate." Almost a Murder. ? A difficulty that amounted almost to a a murder, occurred at the 0. R. and C. railroad depot, in Yorkville, last Sunday night. 1 Charles Nichols, a Negro man, was standing talking to a Negro womau. About 10 1 o'clock, as the Lancaster excursion train was v about to move off, a Negro on the train a jumped down, and with an oath, said that 1 he did not intend to go back to Lancaster e until he had bursted some York Negro's head. He emphasized the remark by striking Nichols in the face with a stone, and completed bis work with brass knucks. - Nichols was left in an insensible condition, * and at last accounts his fiual recovery was i. i _?:ii ti,? iJWU il UJUIU'I U1 UUUUl, ? IIU ilHIIUUIUUS Lancaster Negro made his escape without molestation. ' j He H'us in the Wreck. ? Mr. J. W. Carr, who came up to Yorks ville from Bamberg last Friday, was one of i the passengers who came so near being killed in the wreck on the South Carolina railroad, near Kingsville, lust Thursday night. "The ' train consisted of engine, tender and two 3 cars," said Mr. Carr, yesterday. "There t- were about 40 people aboard. When we i got within a few hundred yards of Kingville, 11 there was a sudden crash, a heavy jolt, and the curs rolled over on their sides down a steep grade. Everybody got out safely and ' nobody was hurt but the engineer, who was ? slightly scratched about the face. Investigation showed that the accident was caused by 1 a misplaced switch. The tender jumped clear over the engine, and the cars rushing forward, caught tire and were completely j consumed." 1 ABOUT PEOPLE. Mr. J. H. Barnes's family left Yorkville ? on Monday last for Waycross, Ga., where * Mr. Barnes intends to locate. Misses Fannie and Laura Parish and Miss Hattie Banks visited friends in Rock Hill this week. t Rev. W. G. Neville filled the pulpit of Zion Presbyterian church at Lowrysvillc, on Sun^ day night last. Mr. Paul G. McCorkle, spent Sunday with relatives in Yorkville. Mrs. R. B. Hannahan, ofWinnsboro, S. C., 3 is in Yorkville, visiting the family of her father, Dr. J. R. Bratton. i Miss Lona Parker and Miss Dorsey, of Chester, visited the family of Mr. E. B. t Beard in this place, last week. 1 Prof. J. F. McElwee, of Anderson, spent several days in Yorkville last week with his father's family. 1 Misses Mary and Nannie Aiken, of Cokes - bury, S. C., are in Yorkville, visiting the 2 family of Rev. W. G. Neville. ' ROCK HILL HAPPENINGS. 1 Hack to the Normal?IutcreHtlng Debate?Operations on the College Almost Suspended?Other Notes. ' | Correspondence of the Yorkville Kuqulrer. 1 Rock Hill, December 3.?Our city lias 2 settled down to everyday life again after its . "big day" last Thursday ; but pleasant . recollections of the occasion will linger long 3 in the hearts of the many who exerted themj selves to make everything pleasant for our distinguished guests, and all are gratified over the good words being spoken for Rock Hill from so many different sources. 1 The debate, which came off, as announced, r last Wednesday evening, was well attended, i and the authorities of the High school have } every reason to feel proud of the handsome ^ manner in which all the young gentlemen, chosen to represent the two literary societies 9 of this institution, acquitted themselves, i The question for debate was: "Resolved, that women should be granted the right of suffrage." On the affirmative were Messrs. j T. F. Haney and W. G. Perry, representing the Kupheuiian society, while the negative 1 -i : j U? T A Was CIIU11I|MUIICU uy iuca?io. a. a. iihiiv 3 and H. M. Dnnlap from the Nestorinn. 2 Not only did the debaters give evidence of e careful preparation in the speeches delivered . j on the first round; but also on the reply j they showed themselves remarkably quick t j at seeing and attacking points of argument advanced by their opponents, and the ease i with which they expressed themselves in | these impromptu remarks, wotdd have ' | done credit to speakers of far wider ex* i' perienee. The replies, in short, formed by J far the spiciest part of the debate. The I committee selected to decide on the merits of the debate was composed of the following gentlemen : Mr. K. K. Pong, Mr. 1J. M. Sulli* 1 van, and Mr. Smith, principal of Ebenezer 1 academy. They decided that |the Kupho minus had won in the contest. Mr. K. Paulson