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Scraps and .facts. ? One of the arguments in college debatiug societies in favor of co-education, is that the girls will exercise such agentle and refiuing influence over the boys. At Wesleyan college, in Ohio, the other day, the juniors and seniors got into a fight over class hats and class colors. The girl seniors and girl juniors rushed . to the aid of their respective classes and began to pull each other's hair out. In view of this information, the refinement argument appears to be a little hazy just at present?at Wesleyan at least. ? "If you tell on me, I will kill you." is the motto of the Georgia moonshiner. One night last week, Joseph Crumpton and his daughter Sallie, were standing up before a window in Crumpton's house. Suddeuly a rifle ball crashed through the window. It struck flr-nmnton in the side. Dassed throueh his body and lodged in the heart of the young lady. The young lady died with scarcely a groan. The father lingered for some time and also died. It developed shortly afterward that Crumpton had reported Andrew Wilborn for running a moonshine still and it is credited that Wilborn committed the murder. Wilborn has not been seen since. ? An Asheville dispatch of Wednesday says: Edgar W. Nye, the "Bill" Nye of the world of humor, whose writings have made the world laugh, is seriously ill at his home at Buck Shoals, eight miles south of Asheville. About two weeks ago Mr. Nye was taken ill and since that time the trouble has been slowly progressing until now his condition is very serious. He is suffering from a stroke of apoplexy. Misses Winnie and Bessie Nye, his daughters, arrived at Asheville today, and took a train to Arden, -1? 1 ~? ?.~ *u? \T..n I line nearest statiuu tu iuc njc iwidence. Tonight Mr. Nye is much worse and it is thought he can live only a few hours. ? The house seems to be disposed to rather rub it into Secretary Morton, of the agricultural department. It will be remembered that Morton tried to put a stop to the time honored custom of distributing seeds through congressmen. The law requires the secretary to distribute "rare and uncommon seeds" and Morton was disposed to claim that this kind had about run out. The house has increased the appropriation for seed from $130,000 a year, to $150,000, and made it mandatory upon the secretary to make the distribution. The secretary in his report, made several recommendations looking to what he considered improvements in the service ; but congress has refused to accept any of them, giving the secretary a direct slap in the face. ? According to the treasuary estimate the American cotton crop of last year amounted to 3,769,381,000 pouuds, of which amount 2,628,000,000 pounds were exported to Europe. Of tbe total European exports England took 1,485,451,00 pounds, or more than half. According to the English estimates the value of the total English consumption of raw cotton was ?33,000,000, or over $150,000,000, representing at least the average earnings of 500,000 laborers for a year of 300 working days, and the support of about 2,500,000 people, including the dependents of these laborers, but not merchants, factors, railroad employes or others whose livelihood depends on handling the trade and feeding and clothiug the labor engaged in it. ? A frightful catastrophe, which was attended by a great loss of life, occurred in Troy, N. Y., last Monday. Tbe great collar factory of J. Stetheimer & Co., which employes 300 girls, caught fire at about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. The building is five stories high, and the fire originated in the lower story. A boy lighted the gas aud threw the burning match into a pile of scrap cambric, and within a few minutes the room was in a blaze. The employes did not pay much attention to the matter at first, and when they realized that the fire was beyond control, it was too late for all of them to save themselves. Five girls jumped out of fourth story windows. Four of these were killed and one was caught . in the net by the fireman. A large number tried to reach the streets by running down the narrow stairway. They were in a pauic and not less than 20 of them were killed. The total number of deaths is estimated as being between 30 and 40. ? Compulsory education does not seem to work very satisfactorily in New York. Mrs. Josephine, Hines of Spring Valley, is a respectable widow with two children. Some ago time one of the children fell ill and the other had to stay at home to help its mother. The officer who looks after truant children went to investigate the matter, and would take no excuse. He insisted that the well child should go to school. Mrs. Hines protested, and the officer, after abusing her brutally, arrested her and dragged her through the streets to the office of a magistrate.There the woman demanded the privilege of consulting a lawyer. This caused the judge to propose a compromies, and he offered to dismiss the case, provided Mrs. Hiues would agree to send the children to school. Although the children were still sick, aud a physician stood ready to certify to the fact, the woman was frightened into siuninir the renuired Dledtre. It would seem that there must be something wrong with the civilization of a country in which cases of this kiud are allowed to happen. ? The senatorial contest in Kentucky shows up a pretty condition of affairs. The race is between Blackburn, free silver Democrat, and Hunter, gold standard Republican. The Democrats and Republicans are evenly divided on joint ballot; but among the Republicans there are three free silver men, and among the Democrats five gold standard men. The gold standard men persist in casting their votes for LOCAL AFFAIRS, t c INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ^ am M. <fe L. Geo. Grist?Fire insurance I in companies aggregating assets of $26,- c 000,000. t National Collection Agency, Wasbiugton, D. C.?Judgments for sale. Jeo. T. Scborb?Who is the agent for the I sale of the National typewriter, and 1 which he sells for ?60, claims that it is t the equal of machines which are sold for 8 $100. He proposes to guarantee this statement with hard cash. I. C. Strauss?Is offering special prices s for this week on blankers, quilts, gloves c and heavy underwear. s Jrist Cousins?Claim that a sure remedy g for worry is to buy a Monarch bicycle. They sell bicycles at prices ranging [ from $80 to $100. They give you the 1 prices at which you can buy sundry i proprietary and family medicines from them. f teg. M. Grist?Will receive subscriptions rnirf hflvfl aont to vou anv newsnaner or v different individuals who are not can- J didates. Tbe free silver Republicans refuse to vote for Hunter. There have been several times since the contest S opened when, if all the Democrats bad voted for Blackburn, he would have j been elected ; but they refused to take advantage of the opportunity. The ( 26th ballot was taken on Wednesday. It resulted, Blackburn 60; Hunter 60; scattering 8 ; necessary to a choice 66. The probability is that Blackburn will j [finally be defeated, as there is no doubt of the fact that the administration is bringing to bear all its infiueuce ( to make tbe bolting Democrats stand to the rack. The result will be the end of the influence of gold standard men in the Democratic politics of Kentucky. as I She \|orkriUc (Enquirer. YORKVILLE, 8. C.: I f FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1896. [ = I ? The Mississippi Populists met in Jack- 1 son last Wednesday and elected 18 dele- * gates to the St. Louis convention. A resolution endorsing Senator Tillman's re- < cent speech was introduced ; but it appeared that the resolution was not likely to receive a very unanimous vote, and it ( [ was withdrawn. Resolutions were adopted calling for the abolition of national banks, advocating free silver at a ratio of j 16 to 1, and denouncing the Demociatic party of Mississippi. ii ? We are probably not far wrong in stating that there has been more work on the four miles of the King's Mountain road, C just above Yorkville during the past three months than all the rest of the c roads in the county during the past year, t! Not only this, the work has been honest, h persistent, and so far as was realized up to a short time since, intelligent. Just what the real trouble has been, we are unable to say. If the loose dirt had been j. rolled and packed into place, possibly p the result would not have been so bad ; t but we are inclined to think that there is c only one way to make a road good, and 8 that is to macadamize it. Macadam is ? r expensive, it is true; but when it is done ^ it is done, and from all reports, even a I few hundred yards of first-class macada- v tnizing would have been worth far more v than all the work that has yet been done. ^ However, one thing is certain. Some new system will have to be adopted and t that quickly. There is no doubt of t-a ti fact that the work as now conducted is d doing more harm than good. v , , a ? According to The Enquirer's way ^ O of looking at it, there is just as little excuse now for white men to join the Republican p party as there ever has been, and at the a same time there would be just as much d danger to the State if the Republicans ll should succeed in again getting the as- ^ cendency. The first and main ambition tj of any kind of a politician is success? h election to office. After he gets that, he next casts out his lines for everything f procurable without giving offense to his nonstitnents. It is the fear of his constitu- a onto only that serves to keep him straight. In Radical times, on account of the ignor- v ance of the voters, the political leaders tl knew that there was but little danger in tl being called down, no matter what they d did, and that accounts for the great lengths ^ they wentiu their rascality. It is not difficult to see how, if the Republican party y should agaiu get in the ascendency, the tl same condition would prevail today, and under the circumstances, we cannot see ^ how any right thinking white man could ^ be induced to ally himself with the Re- ^ publicans. It it surely not good government that he would be after, for anybody can see that the Republican party, in the only shape in which it can possibly exist in this State, is incapable of good government. ? ine ireiier resojunuii iu i n?u the recent bond issue came up in the li senate last Tuesday as a special order. Under the rules, the resolution only had " the right of way during the morning t] hour, until 2 o'clock, when, if not acted c upon, it would have to go to the bottom p of the calender. Senator Hill got the tl floor and began speaking on the reso- ? lution. Presently it became apparent to ^ the senators that Hill was only killing ' time, and Senator Stewart asked permis- tj sion to ask a question. Hill declined to p yield. Then Senator Tillman tried to b interrupt. Hill said that it was only a c' few minutes until 2 o'clock, and he did , ' ti not care to be interrupted. Promptly at ^ 2 o'clock there was a rap from the chair, and Hill stormed with the remark that he was sorry to close right in the middle of a sentence. Senator Hoar moved that ? the military academy bill, which was the next in order, be laid aside in order ? to allow Senator Hill to finish his remark. "Oh!" said Hill, "this resolution has gone to the calendar, and I a will finish my remarks upon it some- n other day." Senator Tillman gave vent jjj to a long drawn shrill whistle that was taken to mean that Hill's purposeto talk t, the resolution to death was fully under- V stood by the senators. The fact is the whole thing was perfectly clear. There ^ was reason to believe that the senate ^ would have voted for the resolution, and t, Senator Hill was determined that it should o< have no opportunity to do so. a magazine you want. * t N. M. Propst, Agent?Publishes a testi- \ monial with regard to the cure of rheu- i matism by the use of the electropoise. i N. H. McCorkle, Judge of ProbateGives notice that James. H. Riddle has 1 applied for letters of administration on a the estate of Charles T. Williams, de- g ceased. 5. A. McElwee?Wants all the Turkeys and Chickens he can buy on next Monday, 24th instant. 1 A LIBRARY PARTY. 8 The Westbrook Chautauqua circle de- A >arted somewhat from the usual pro- ( f ram me at its last meeting, and in addiion to the regular exercises of the even- 1 ng included, as a special feature, a library 1 >arty. Each member was dressed to I epresent the title of some book or literary 1 >roduction of an American author and * vere as follows: c Mr. R. Sydney Davidson ; "The Present { Crisis." Miss Maggie Glenn(; "The Last Leaf." ' Prof. F. W. Gregg; "Mosses from an ] )ld Manse." j ui noiooWort. "Tho T.airmlichter." ' 1U100 JUOWJ A.AIII > | ? ... t 0 Miss Huldah McNeel; "Buttons." 1 Rev. Robert A. Lee; "Emerson's e Sssays." Miss Jennie Hart; "One Hundred Days n Europe." Mrs. C. G. Parish : "Under the Palms." Rev. W. A. Pitts; "Leaves of Grass." Miss Mary Hart; "Not Like Other rirls." Dr. M. W. White; "Views Afoot." After the exercises of the evening were oncluded, the members all repaired to he studio of Photographer Moore and iad a photograph taken of the group Jircle. HE WILL SERVE 30 DAYS. Whiteman Hardy, a 20-year old Negro ioy, who has quite a vagaband and deslerate character generally, was committed o the chain gang last Saturday on the omplaint of his father, Jim Hardy. The tory of the father was about as follows: "Whiteman had not been working for -?*? a lnnu Hmo nnfl so far as I know HO tut u IV/Kf, Vlti.W} ? ie has not been working for anybody else. Ie said to me that he intended to go to rork, and asked me for the money with rhieh to buy a pair of shoes. The only noney I had was a $5 bill. I borrowed 1.50 and gave it to Hardy. He said, he /ould not wear 81.50 shoes, and demanded he 85. I told him that if he would not ake what I gave him, he would have to [o without. At that he grabbed my k'atch, which was hanging up in the house nd said that if I did not give him the 85, i ie would keep the watch. We tried to f ;et the watch from him : but he seized the ;un and said that he would shoot the first iereon that came within reach. I had him rrested as soon as I could, and es I can't o anything with him, I want the law to ake care of him." Upon hearing this story, Magistrate /'arroll decided Whiteman was entitled to be full limit of the law, and sentenced im to the chain gang for 30 days. SAYS REESE WILL SURRENDER. Major James F. Hart went up the O. R. nd C. road last Friday evening and re- ? urned to Yorkville on Monday morning. J Vhen the fact became known, the public 8 ,as not slow to jump at the conclusion l; bat the trip had some connection with f be case of M. R. Reese, charged in a ver- J ict of the coroner's jury with the mur- c er of Charles T. Williams, at Blacks- r urg, recently. A reporter for The En- J ? tt.. ? V UIRER saw major nan- in ij 10 w>uw esterday and asked him in regard to } lie matter. ^ "Yes," replied Major Hart, "I have ( een communicated with in behalf of \ Ir. Reese and have agreed to represent r im. I will probably also represent Mrs. j mderson and Dan Luckie." e "Will Reese give himself up ?" t "At the proper time, he will." t "Before the next com t ?" v "Whenever I tell him to do so; and fl roin all I know now, yes." "Why did he not surrender at once?" r "I do not care to answer that question; " nit I can assure you that it will be satis- ? ictorily answered in due time. I would ( ike to say, however, that notwithstand- ii ng all that has been published in the 1: ewspapers, the public has but a faint d itimation of the real truth in regard to lie matter. I prefer to try my side of the v nse in the courts rather than in the news- a apers and, therefore, I would like to ask ii lie public to suspend judgment until it ^ ets the facts." r As has already been stated, Mr. X. W. t fjir/iiii nf Rliifkslinrtr. has been retain- J il by a brother of ttie deceased to assist s le State in tins prosecution, and the re- ' orter has heard a rumor that he is una- j le to verify, to the elfect that other able q innsel has been, or will be, retained by a le prosecution. The outlook is that the J ial will be one of the most notable that j as taken place in this county for years. f a ABOUT THE COURT HOUSE. { Sheriff Crawford has not been about his jffloe much for the past week or so ; but f e is busy. He has on hand a big batch " f executions for delinquent taxes; and i serving a large number of them per- ^ onally. li Matters in the offices of Clerk Wylie p nd Judge McCorkle are rocking along a bout as usual. Both are busy with rou- Jj tie work and are always to be found in g uring business hours. t Yesterday was the last day for taking q ix returns without the penalty. Auditor ? Waters informed the reporter that the stums are about as close up as usual. c yhen he started, he had about 10,500 a lauks, and of these all have been used 1; ut about 1,000. The total number of re- u jrns usually run somewhere between 9,- p X) and 10,000. There has not been such v rush this year as heretofore. Mr. Wa- r ere has made it a point to be in Yorkville w >n salesdays, and as a result the returns I' vere made more evenly. The office has )een crowded a little during the last three 0 >r four days; but not longer than two or ? hree hours at a time. 0 Treasurer Neely is busy too. Mostpeo- ? >le think that when he gets his taxes colected, he has nothing more to do until lext year ; but there is not a busier man r< ibout the court house. He can't sleep well o inless he has every paper and account " vhere he can lay his hands on them with- (j >ut a moment's delay, and his book- in p uch shape as to show up just how he h tands at any time. These matters, in 1 sonnection with his other duties, give a dm plenty to do, as the result he is seldom tj die. . f, School Commissioner Snurley went into v >fflce with the prevalent idea that there 8[ vas not much to do. For a month or two le tried to run the office with two days g vork a week. He soon learned, however, a bat even six days are hardly enough, b /ery often he has to remain in his office a n vhole week at a time, and when he is not [j it his office, he is generally visiting the tchools. e tl PRAISE SERVICE. JJ The special praise service in the Pres- 9( )yterian church last night, under the a luspices of the Ladies' Missionary society d vas largely attended by members of all *s ienominations. * The exerciSes were opened by the sing- j ng of the hymn, "Praise Him," and the h -eading of the 148th Psalm. Then, after tl >rayer, Rev. W. G. Neville read the ^ eports from the three missionary socie- ?j ies, showing what has been accomplished n luring the past year. The reports were n niitfl rrftditahlfi. U Next, followed the singing of the hymn, J* 'Go Ye Into All the World," etc., after a, vhich Mr. T. F. McDow read an interest- h ng selection on the subject of "How tl Mission Work Was Begun," and, later, j* >n another selection from Dr. Vance's " idmirable "Church Portraits." This was ^ followed by a letter from Miss Ella n Davidson, read by Mr. W. B. McCaw, ai ind then came an entertaining address rom Rev. Alexander Sprunt, of Rock Hill. At the close of the service, a col- tc ection was taken up, and quite a respect- tl ible sum, which will go to help make up s< be salary of Miss Davidson, the church's p nissiouary in China, was realized. The entire proceedings are well worth sj >ublishing in full, could we spare the G ipace. Under the circumstances, the P< eaders will have to be content with the w nteresting letter of Miss Davidson which, s somewhat on the same line as the one aJ published not long ago and is as follows: fc bi L miss ella c. davidson. j^j Hanochow, China, December 30,1895. in To the Ladies' Foreign Missionary Sociity: My Very Dear Friends?Mrs. " jindsav's kind letter of October 28th cached me by the last mail, so you will lt ee it has been a long time since I have leard from Yorkville. It gave me great m deasure to hear frotn you, and I found tt nyself much cheered and helped by Mrs. . jindsay's letter. I wrote a letter to the burch some weeks ago, which I hope nay reach Mr. Neville uy the New Year. Is the year of 1895 is drawing to a close, la ve are all doubtless taking retrospective fa 'iews, and I feel sure that in the light of Jod's word and by the enlightening inluences of the Spirit, we can each say that P' ?od has dealt with us tenderly, lovingly, tx visely. He has perhaps found it necessa- Si y to send some chastenings to some of is. Let us remember that "whom the jord loveth he ehasteneth, and scourgeth very son whom he reeeiveth." Then, oo, we know that if we love him, all d hings, whether jovous or grievous, are forking together for our good?our eter- p lal good, conformity into the image of mr Saviour. Truly, we, the "King's Daughters," are B nost blessed, and may we, each onG, be 'glorious within" and be given such fullless of the Spirit that we may be enabled 111 n say with Paul "I live, yet not I; but fr 'hrist liveth in me." I hope you may w lave had a happy, pleasant Xinas. I tb lave never spent such a blessed Xmas , lay. Christ was most consciously present . nth me, and as you know, he can fill the 111 leart with that joy, peace and gladness te rhieh the world can neither give nor take m .way. I have been given kind, lov- cj ng friends in my far away home, and rhen I went down to breakfast on ^ vines morning I found in the dining oom some pleasant tokens of remem- te irance from each one of the compound, titer breakfast I went over to the girl's g, chool, and we enjoyed very much our Homing service of Bible reading, prayer nd praise. I had promised the girls a "< loliday, and yielding to their urgent re- th [uest, I took all who wished to go out for walk. Our home is on the principal street j if the city ; but we are so near to the part levastated by the rebels during the Tai- y ling rebellion, that we can easily get away Si rom the crowds, and have a quiet, pleas- m ,nt walk. Our girls all have unbound f eet, ana 11 is u great pleasure 10 mem in ? >e taken out occasionally. At night we lad our usual Wednesday night service i?r the heathen women, and God saw fit ol m this occasion to give us an unusually Si arge and most attentive audience. We ame with our hearts full of gratitude to f lim. I have written of some women who lave become interested through the word cc reached at these meetings, and who ure to t present candidates for baptism. I am bl low much interested in several women n( lear us who are beginning to show the . reatest interest in the gospel. I was at le heir home on Friday, and in reply to my J?* uestioti if they ever prayed to God, one uj f them replied, "We do not yet undertand how to pray; but we are constantly q liking about Jesus." I told them to . ome to my class on Sunday afternoon, frl nd that I would explain to them as cleary as I could about prayer. They came, bo nd I think I have never seen them or the wj ther women who were present, seem to sten so attentively and intelligently to ar! rhat was being said. At the close of the J ueeting I taught them a short prayer, mi hich I trust God may bear and answer, tt i is very hard for these poor women to tt nderstand the true idea of prayer. We u anstantly see women in their homes or n the street, counting their beads and " lying over and overagain "O-me-do-veh, -me-do-veh." O-me-do-veh is the name c< f a certain idol, and their only idea of p rayer, is in this meaningless way to call s is name over and over again. I think I must tell you how God has n aponHv hourri nnr nrauora onrl intArnnuorl n behalf of two ot our girls. Kroe-Kyin p as, when a mere child, engaged to a boy 01 ving in some country place at some istance from Hangehow, and was taken w ) the home of his parents, who treated al er in a most cruet and inhuman manner, 'be mother in the meantime, had become Christian and a member of our church, nd hearing of the cruel way in which her augbter was treated, she took her away B om the family of tbe boy to whom she as engaged, and put her in our girls' ^hool, giving to the person in charge of ae school the right of saying to whom C be should be married. kroe-Kym has rown up to be a fine looking, most u ttractive young woman, and, best of all, , as the love of God in her heart. She is " ow studying part of the day, and the ft emainder of her time is given to teaching g be younger children. 1( It was always the intention of the moth- l r to break Kroe-Kym's engagement to be son of these cruel people; but there al re re difficulties in the way, and while she tl as waiting for a "more convenient seasn," she was taken sick and died in the q arly part of the summer. As you . oubtless know, an engagement in China i almost as binding as marriage, and " fter the mother's death we felt very a nxious about the girl's future, for we n id not think her stepfather, who is a tj eatben, would hesitate to give her into _ le hands of these cruel people, or to sell ~ er to some one else. We prayed very tl arnestly for her release and did what we cl 3uld to bring it about; but it seemed a a, lost difficult matter to arrange. I have ,i ot time to go into details, bui for several lonthsa woman living near here, and " Iroe-Kym's elder sister, have been mak- w ig plans to deceive us and get Kroe-Kym lc way, either to sell her or make us redeem q er. God permitted us to find out leir wicked schemes, and we told them '(hair nnf ma Ira nut ft rtftnAr fftllPfil ng Kroe-Kym's engagement, that we b ould take their case to the officials, jr bis frightened them so much that they ai iade us out the most satisfactory papers, nd this Christian girl is thus saved from fe in a home, where she would probably ave never had an opportunity of hearing B le gospel i Kroe-Kym is to be engaged ) a young man, who is now studying ,c leology with Messrs. Stuart and Hua* >n. You will pray, I am sure, that since 01 od has so graciously delivered her, that tr e may greatly use her for his honor and to lory. The case of the other girl, Sen-tsi, 8t jows in even a more striking way, how .. od bears and answers prayers and how " owerful he is to make the devices of vl ieked men the means by which be M rants deliverance. It is late, however, ir id so I shall not have time to tell you Cl :>out it tonight as I had intended. I am sure you each pray for me and ?r the work. You know nothing can a' 3 accomplished, but by the power of p od. It would give me great pleasure to ear from any of you at auy time. May ? od richly bless you. Your friend in F ve, and in Christ's service. w Ella C. Davidson. . fc ABOUT PEOPLE. tt %r- TT T T? TT A/WA{n a ft At* a Ifl ig again. Messrs. Whisonant ?fe Castles, an enterrising firm of our little city, have irchased the "E. S. Thomson place," i the Yorkville road. Sad, indeed, shall be the news to many, iat Mr. Hence Broome is dangerously 1 at the home of his son, and is not cpected to live. Mr. Broome is an old, ue and brave Confederate soldier. He as color bearer for the Seventeenth S. C. * giment, and from first to last, noted for s bravery and heroism. On last Saturday morning, a novel ? ene was witnessed at Howell's ferry, was the Fowler Bros shipping 19 bales ' cotton to Lockhart on a fiat. The loadg and management of the flat was under r. Lancaster, the efficient gentleman ** om Spartanburg county, who has had large of rafting the lumber down the ver, through the summer. Everything ent through without a hitch, and so the -st of the many loads has gone to the -eat Lockhart mills. Some folks would like to hear who the ndidates are for supervisor of registrant Your correspondent accepts, without a urmur, the explanation of the editor to e "mixture of letters" in last week's N'quibeb. But we feel that we owe t. M. C." an apology for breaking in i his interesting letter, and this we :tend to the gentleman, hoping such a % istake shall not occur again. To the ntelligent compositor," we would say: :t's all right, old boy. We know you ive no grudge against us (except for riting a fable), and further, we know 'to r is human, etc.' 'Go your way and sin more.' " Your correspondent has heard a great al of complaint in this section about the egularity of getting mail, etc. The The first snow of the season began to tic 11 on Monday morning at 7 o'clock and intinued for 14 hours. It is impossible ni tell now how much fell, as the wind th ew all day and it was drifted so it could E: >t be measured with any accuracy. I "1 ar that the sudden change will cause a or eat deal of sickness, as so many are just ea ) from measles. m Mr. S. A. Hotchkiss, of New Haven, "i mn., spent Saturday in town with "I lends. . ha Mrs. Janie A. Moore left for Greens- wi iro, N. C., on the 15th instant, where she er ill reside for awhile. A host of friends no e sad at her departure. Mrs. Mollie Scott, the teacher in the pri- de ary department of the graded school or in mr. vy . r. xxurrutuu is uui n^am u?ui ? .. irious illness. si Rev. B. H. Grier left last night for a tl sit to Newberry. tl Colonel R. M. Wallace, of Sumter, is in ci orkville. bi Prof. R. J. Herndon returned home last eek from Newton, N. C. Miss Essie Hntcbkiss, of New Haven, unn., is visiting Mrs. W. G. White. ^ Judge Witherspoon and Stenographer ieCaw left last Saturday for Winnsboro, here court convened Monday. We are glad to report that Mr. J. Alburis Ratchford is improving slowly after a roke of paralysis. O Mr. H. F. Adickes, Jr., of Hendersonille, N. C., visited friends in Yorkville ft) lis week. ol Misses Helen and Martha Riddle, of ti eno, are visiting the family of Captain H . M. Grist. ti Messrs. Black Wilson, (Jr., and Kirk b< [cDonald of Rock Hill, visited friends la i Yorkville this week. F Mr. S. B. Moore, of Richmond, Va., w >ent Monday and Tuesday in Yorkville, in le guest of his brother Mr. Cicero Moore, w Rev. W. G. Neville returned yesterday 8i mrning from Walhalla, where he went ai i attend the funeral of his aunt, Mrs. R. . Hunter, who died on Monday and was lii jried on Wednesday. ai Miss Mary Gardner returned home on hi st Friday, after an extended visit to the ui mily of Mr. Sumter Lowry, in Florida. The Enquirer was favored with a ti leasant call on Saturday from Mrs. Re- e< jcca Saye, of Rodmans, and Mrs. Jos. d< lye, of Sharon. e< ??? ir - FORT MILL MATTERS. eath of Mrs. S. P. Blankenshlp?Recen h. Marriages?Other Notes. rt Jrrespondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. to Fort Mill, February 19.?Mrs. Annette is lankenship, aged 44, and the wife of gi !r. S. P. Blankensbip, died at her home ai jar Flint Hill church on the 14th instant, in oni the effects of measles. Her remains ere interred In Flint Hill cemetery, on pi ie loth. One of the largest funeral pro- pi issions that Flint Hill has ever seen, was oi attendance. She was a refined and indigent Christian lady and a consistent tb ember of Steel Creek Presbyterian ill lurch, and loved and respected by all e> ho knew her. A host of friends mouru tr jrloss. To the bereaved family we ex- w nd our sympathy. re Miss Sallie Coltharp and Mr. Wm. hi nith were united in the holy bonds of edlock, on the 12th instant, at the sc line of the bride's mother, Mrs. Col- It iarp. Rev. A. L. Stough, officiating. of At the home of the bride's father, Mr. in X. Newell, on the 16th instant, Miss M inanda Newell and Mr. W. E. Fry, of fr ilisbury, N. C., were joined together in ct arriage. Rev. .T. E. Herring, officiating, ri he newly married couple leave today w r their future home in Salisbury, N. C. fii The ordinance of the Lord's supper was g' jserved at the Baptist church on last indav. ca irely adopt a better method of utilizing , le chain gang and a better way of working le road. The system in Mecklenburg innty, N. C., is the best and much could b learnad by a visit over there, w. a. LETTER FROM HICKORY GROVE. rill Teach In the High Scoot?Crashed Under a Wagon?Mr. Moorhead Up Again? The Old Color Bearer of the Seventeenth ?Novel Scene at the Perry-^SUU Talking ? of tho Blacksburg Tragedy?Complaint Abont the Mall. 3rrespondence of the Yorkvllle Enquirer. Hickory Grove, February 16.?Miss [amie Brice, daughter of Senator Brice, f Fairfield county, has accepted a posion as teacher in tho Hickory Grove * iigh school, left vacant by the resignaon of Miss McAuthur. Miss Brice is a .a , sautiful and highly accomplished young dy, and is a graduate of Due West emale college of the class of '93, and ith several year's experience as a teacher i the best schools of the State. We elcome the young lady among us, and ncerely trust her stay may be pleasant id profitable. t Robert White, son of ex-Constable Wil- ^ am White, fell off his wagon Saturday id was run over. Young White was auling lumber, and at the time of the nfortunate occurrence, had on 800 feet of reen pine lumber. The wagon passed enrely over his body, and narrowly miss1 bis head, which would' have caused satb; but as it is, the poor boy, is confin1 to his bed, painfully, and seriously > ijured, and attended by his sympathizig friends. The many friends of Mr. W. J. Mooread will be glad to hear he has about (covered from his measles, and is able i be upaud about the store again, "Wat" a hustler, and a kinder and more conjnial gentlemau cannot Jbe found, so we -eglad to welcome him among the liv owever, me mercurj ucgou w gu gain, and our farmers went to sowing jeir spring oats. The engineer corps of the Ohio River <fc harleston Railroad company arrived ere Saturday night, and under the direcon of Chief Engineer Molesworth, began ^ survey of the proposed route fora branch :>ad from this place to Spartanburg, by be large cotton mills of Cherokee Falls, affney's, Glendale, Clifton, etc. It is lougbt, that, owing to the feasibility and heapness of the route and the immense mount of freight which it promises to ie O. R. & C. road, the owners of the itter will have the road built and work rill be begun on it as soon as the line is ? >cated. Both Engineer Molesworth and General Manager Hunt, of the O. R. <k C. )ad, have been over the route, have tade some calculations as to the pro bale cost of the new road, and its promisig revenue to the main line, and both re very favorably impressed with the nterprise. The crew of United States war ship altimore passed through here Tuesday ^ K ruing on their way from San Francisco ? the Norfolk navy yard. There were Beers and men, about 135, and their ain consisted of seven sleepers belonging i the Southern Pacific. They made a op here of about 20 minutes, and during ie time one of them was promptly interlewed by our enterprising townsman, [r. Joseph Black, who gathered some iteresting facts in regard to a recent. *uise of the Baltimore in Chinese waters r The measles epidemic is somewhat bating in violence and force among our eople. Mr. Hoyle Porter, who was so ill with neumonia last week, is, I am glad to ly, better, and improving. The EnviUirer deserves especial praise ?r calling attention to the condition of ie King's Mountain road under convict hnr onH nnp (Vtnnfv oommiRsioners will lis place; has been sick with measles fof te past week. Her place in the school, owever, has been well filled by Miss essie Meacbam. Jno. Stewart and Rufus Smyer, both * >lored, were fined 81 each by Mayor otts, on Monday, for being drunk on unday. Brother, this is one step in the ght direction. Mr. B. M. Farris, one of Gold Hill's rosperous farmers, lost a very fine mule n Monday. Its death was caused from ounds received in the stable a few days go. Observes. ? BLACKSBURG BUDGET. ranch Road of the Three C'a?Crew of the Baltimore?Think* Something Could Be Learned From Mecklenburg. orrespondence of The Yorkvllle Enquirer. Blacksburo, February 20.?We have een having some real wintry weather lis week. A cold wind Sunday night, a ill of snow Monday uiorning until the round was white, and a very perceptible iwering of the temperature. Yesterday, - 1 * ? ? ? ? /?A ifn