?mtps and darts. J
?
? The Republican National commit- '
tee meets in St. Louis tonight for the 1
purpose of preparing the temporary *
roll of the convention, which meets t
next Tuesday. (
? Most of the Massachusetts cotton J
mills are running on two-thirds time
and many of the managers are of the *
opinion that before the summer is over, ~
they may have to close up entirely.
They attribute this state of affairs
mainly to the political disturbance.
? The filled cheese bill has passed
the senate and is expected to become
a law before congress adjourns. Filled
cheese is made of skim milk and hog
tyid other fats. It cannot be distinguished
from other cheese bv taste:
but is decidedly more unwholesome.
The bill provides that such cheese
must be stamped as such, and that :
manufacturers must be taxed $250 and
wholesalers $200. The principal object
of the bill is to protect manufact
urers of the pure article. :
? Postmaster General Wilson has
turned over to the department of jus- t
tice the case of the Seaboard Air-Line c
railroad, recommending the prosecution
of officials of that road if, in the
opinion of the attorney general, such s
action is advisable. The papers in 0
the case submitted to the department
of justice allege that the Seaboard
Air-Line is guilty of an attempt to i
defraud the government by padding 1
the mails during the month of March t
last, during which month the test a
weighing of mail matter over that s
line was made in order to form an c
estimate of the amount of matter car
"? * J 1 J LI -
nea Dy me roau, wuicu wuuiu euauie
the postoffice department to make a c
four years' contract for sach service, t
and fix the rate of compensation.
? Frederic C. Pen field, United States Q
diplomatic agent and consul general
at Cairo, sends a forecast of the Egyp- *
tian cotton crop for 1896-7 to the I
state department. He says that, inspired
by the high prices realized by
the cotton crop of 1895 6, Egyptian c
planters have increased the area this c
spring to the maximum limit permit- I
ted by the country's irrigation facili- s
ties. Exact figures are not procura- (
ble, but it is estimated that the in- .
crease of acreage is from 5 to 8 per
cent., and that this season's area ap- r
proximates 1,150,000 acres. The *
greatest percentage of increase is in
the provinces south of Cairo. Conservative
forecasters believe the crop will 5
yield 750,000 bales of 750 pounds? 8
being the equivalent of 1,125,000 c
American bales, and the largest ever 1
raised in the Nile valley. Predicated c
on the yearly increase of shipments to t
America, it is probable that the United .(
States will buy 65,000 bales, equal to
about 100,000 bales of American
weight, of the next Egyptian crop. 0
? Senator Benjamin K. Tillman, 01 *
South Carolina, is booked to speak to
the free silver Democrats of Chicago, .
July 4, at Edison park, Chicago. The f
County Democracy Marching club c
gives its annual picnic that day. The a
Record says: "Vice President R. E. f
Burke and his friends have no doubt 8
that Senator Tillman will accept the j
invitation to speak. They admit that
for some time it has been known in .
the inner circle of silver men that Mr. c
Tillman has been anxious to appear r
before a Chicago crowd. 'Tillman I
will draw 5,000 people to the picnic,'
said Mr. Burke. 'He is a great talker,
and he would tell the boys things 8
about silver that they never dreamed \
of before. He will be at the picnic all i
right and he will make a speech. c
Why, the gold members of the March- ^
ing club will be with him because he j
will make the money just flow into
the treasury of the organization.
There will not be any kicking.'" c
? The number of victims who per- 8
ished in the recent stampede at Mos- t
1 ^ t A /*AA mi i.
cow has been nxea at 3,ouu. mat
such a multitude as this should have
perished in the open air, without any s
thought of self-destruction, is almost a
incredible. Bent upon having a good i
time, the tragedy was simply the re- t
suit of excessive indulgence and was c
even more fatal than a battle between
hostile armies. The Buffalo Courier, _
in speaking of the number killed, 11
makes a comparison with certain well- 1
known engagements of the late war. i
The highest number of Union men a
killed was 3,070, at Gettysburg, where s
14,479 were wounded. The number ^
of Confederates killed in the same
battle was 2,592. At Spottsylvania,
the Union killed were 2,725 ; in the a
Wilderness, the number was 2,246 ; at 8
Antietam, 2,108; at Chancellorsville,
1,606 ; at Chickamauga, 1,656 ; at Cold t
Harbor, 1,844; at Fredericksburg, v
1,484; at Manassas, 1,747; at Shilob,
1,254; in the assault ou Petersburg,
1,688. This does not include those t
who died of their wounds. S
? It has been learned here on undis- 0
putable authority, says a Key West, ^
Fla., dispatch, of Sunday, that Maceo
has an army of 20,000 men, and they
aro Qtrnnorlv fortified in the mountains C
of Pinar del Rio, the Spaniards having 1
utterly failed to drive them from their 8
strongholds. Maceo has eight can- r
uons, two of which were captured s
from the "trocba" on his recent at- c
tack, when it was reported that he F
was repulsed. The report that Maceo
has four companies of women soldiers
has been confirmed. The Cuban wo s
men have such a dread of Spanish 1
brutality, that many of them prefer 8
fighting on the battlefields beside their 1
husbands and brothers to being thrown b
into the forts at the Spaniards' mercy.
In Maceo's recent attack on the trocha,
these amazons took part aud d
fought fiercely, using machetes on the s
Spaniards. The attack was made t
north of San Marcas and General j(
Bermudez crossed into Habana province
with 1,500 men.
? Primary elections and mass meet- F
ings were held in quite a number of P
Georgia counties last Saturday for the 0
selection of delegates to the State o
Democratic convention, which meets t:
in Macon on June 25. Though quite i
a number of gold delegates were elect- j,
ed, the general result was unquestionably
a free silver victory. Both sides ^
had been claiming Fulton, the county
in which Atlanta is situated; but the
claims of the gold men were unfoun- P
ded. Every ward in the city aud
every precinct in the county, went for v
silver. It was a genuine landslide, a o
free silver cyclone. The result was t
;he same in Macon and Columbus. 1
[n Augusta there was a compromise ]
ind the delegation was elected one- !
lalf for silver and one-half for gold.
Ill but a few of the counties declared ,
'or Crisp for senator, and that he will {
ret the Democratic nomination is now
jonsidered a certainty. Captain Evan
?. Howell, of the Atlanta Constitu- 1
ion, will head the Fulton county <
lelegation to the State convention. <
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YORKVTLLE, 8. C.:
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10,1896.
? Candidates for State offices must file
hoir pledges and pay their assessments on
>r before June 22, and county candidates
nust file their pledges and pay their asessments
on or before the day of the first
tounty compaign meeting.
? The story to the effect that there are
bur companies of Cuban women serving
inder Maceo sounds plausible enough;
>ut as to whether it is literally true, we
ire somewhat doubtful. There have been
oine wonderful tales from Cuba by way (
>f Key West recently. '
? PonHirlafou fnr offlcftS Will. HO
loubt, be incliued to kick at the idea of
>eing assessed by the county executive
jommittees; that is, unless they should
irst be confronted with the injustice in- ,
rolved in allowing these expenses to be <
mid by the county candidates. <
? ? I
? There Mas a slump in the price of j
otton last week. Some of the Gold stan- '
lard papers blame it on the action of the '
ieutucky Democrats in declaring for
ilverjbut the bears on the New York '
Cotton Exchange, who managed to bring
t about, say that it is the result of the j
efreshing rains with which the cotton ]
>elt has just been blessed. i
<
? Mr. W. D. Evans, who has a six j
'ear's job as railroad commissioner, has (
.nnounced himself as a candidate for ]
ongress against John L. MoLaurin.
though appreciating the full force of the s
ild saying that "a bird in hand is worth 1
wo in the bush," it may be suggested that '
t would certainly look more becomiug on ^
ho nart. of MY. Evans if he would come ,
v r%"" v "" 1
mt of his bombproof and tackle his op>onent
on more equal terms.
? ?
? Boies and Stevenson are the favorites
or the Chicago nomination with the
hances rather in favor of Boies. Stevenon
has been too slow in coming out flatooted
for freo coinage, and the only
erious objection to Boies is the fact that
le is such a recent convert to Democracy.
This, however, does not count for a great
leal, for it is generally conceded that the
>resent issue is rather greater than either
>arty. It appeals rather to the pocket.
? The long delayed departure, of Generil
Fitzhugh Lee for Cuba is explained
vith the statement that negotiations were
n progress looking to the free admission
?f the general into the insurgent camps.
Che Spanish officials were at first unwiling
to agree to such an arrangement;
>ut it is thought that they have at last |
onsented, and General Lee will be en- |
hied to make to the president a report |
hat will lul ly cover me wnoie Miutmuu.
? McKinley continues to observe a
brewd silence on the financial question,
nd as it is practically settled that he is to
>e the Republican nominee for president,
ie is being claimed alike by the Gold
Standard people and Free Silverites. But
he Free Silverites have rather the best of
t. They have unearthed an old letter
hat Major McKinley wrote to an Ohio
Ulianceman in 1890. In that letter,
mong other things, Major McKinley
aid : "I am in favor of all the silver proInct
of the United States for money cirulating
medium. I would have silver
nd gold alike." How the major may
tand now, of course, is another matter ;
tut there can be no doubt that at one
imo and that only a short while back, he
i-as rather inclined to favor silver.
? E. J. Watson, of the Columbia State,
elegraphed his paper from Augusta on
Sunday, that Senator Tillman and Gov
rnor Evans were in tlie ciiy, presumaDiy
o confer with Major Gary and Mr. Rhind
vith reference to the charge recently
nadc by the Raltimore correspondent of
he New York Times. Mr. Watson asked
lenator Tillman if it was his intention to
eply to the charges. Senator Tillman
aid "no ; he did not have to notice every
harge that was made by lying corres ondents
of newspapers," but if the
harges were presented in form, by reponsible
parties, he would answer them,
teforring to tho Chicago convention,
lenator Tillman said it would bo for
6 to 1 all right, and tho "bust" would be
y the Goldbugs.
? President Cleveland sent the general
leficioncy bill backs to the house last
iaturday with a veto. He objected to
he bill in quite a number of of particu*rs,
but specified only two. One was
n appropriation to pay a bill that tho
resident is satisfied has already been
laid, and tho other was an appropriation <
f something over $1,000,000 an account s
f what is known as the French spoila- f
ion claims. It seems that during the 1
{evolutionary war, this country entered 1
uto an offensive and defensive allianco !
/ith France. Subsequently, France and {
ireat Britain were involved in war, and (
he United States failed to come up to her
art of tho contract, Franco undertook (
a get even by seizing American vessels ]
/horevcr she found thorn. Some 1,500 j
r more vessels were thus seized previous j
ol799. Tho United States eventually i
bristled up and the seizures were stopped.
By treaty, it was agreed that the United
States claims should be offset by those of
France. The claims of the United States
were an account of damages to individual
shipowners and these shipowners have
ever since been trying to get the government
to re-imburse them. Several bills
io pay the claims have been passed by
congress; but they have been vetoed by
iifferent presidents. President Cleveland
holds that most of those claims are
unjust, and for that reason vetoed the
bill. Congress is anxious to adjourn and
accepted the veto by 170 to 39. The matter,
however, will no doubt come up
again hereafter.
? On the first page of this issue, we publish
from the Baltimore correspondence
of the New York Times, quite an elaborate
story of the refunding of the bond debt
of this State some time back. The story
seems to be based on the court record,
and the writer is evidently familiar with
his subject. Some exceedingly grave
charges are made, and they involve men
in whom a large number of our people
have implicit confidence. The charges
are not necessarily true, of course; but
they appear to be rather too full and explicit
to be deserving of dismissal without
another thought. On the contrary, the
matter seems to have reached such a stage
as to require a thorough and straightforward
explanation on the part of those
who are familiar with the facts, and such
amlonolinn ahmilH hft forthcominor with
Dut delay.
CAMPAIGN AND PRIMARY.
The State Executive Committee Makes
Rules For Their Government.
The State Democratic Executive
jommittee met in Columbia last Friday
night for the purpose of arranging
details as to the party campaign and
the primary election. AH but about
i half dozen of the committeemen
were present, and York was repreiented
by J. S. Brice, Esq.
The schedule of campaign meetings
bad been arranged beforehand and
was agreed upon with but few changes.
Meetings are to be held in every
county in the State, beginning with
Manning on Monday, June 22, and
winding up with Abbeville on Wedneslay,
August 19. The York meetiog
s to be held on Saturday, July 18,
ind the primary election is to take
slace on Tuesday, August 25.
At the instance of Mr. Brice, no
Appointments were made for July 30
md 31, the days appointed for the
jampmeeting at Tirzah.
After some discussion on the ques;ion
of assessing Federal officials and
candidates lor omce, otaie auu reueral,
the matter was referred to a
committee, whose report was adopted
is follows, with the understanding
that no county may assess candidates
for State offices, and that one-half of
;he assessments be returned to defeated
candidates:
United States Senators, Governor
ind Congressmen $100 each ; Secretary
)f State, Comptroller General, Attorney
General, Superintendent of Education,
Superintendent of the Penitentiary,
Superintendent of Asylum,
State Treasurer, Railroad Commissioner,
Liquor Commissioner, United
States District Attorney, United States
Marshal, and Collector of the Port of
Charleston, $75 each ; Adjutant General,
Solicitors and State Chemist, $50
each ; Lieutenant Governor, Collector
ef the Port of Beaufort and Assistant
District United States Attorney, $25
each ; counties, $5 for each Representative
and $10 for Senator. Money to
lee paid on filing pledges, except as to
those who do not enter the primary
[those who hold office now).
Tko ?*1/1 miIdo for tho crnvprnmAnt. nf
Alio WIU iu'vo .v. ?v j,-.- ?
primary elections were adopted with
t>ut few changes. There is a slight
change in the prescribed oath. The
sath used to require the voter to abide
the result. Now it requires him to
support the nominees. It reads as
follows:
"I do solemnly swear that I am
July qualified to vote at this election,
iccording to the rules of the .Democratic
party, and that I have not voted
sefore at this election, and pledge myself
to support the nominees of the
party."
Candidates for United States senator
ire to be voted for directly and not
through candidates for representatives.
Bach candidate for the legislature will,
course, be pledged to support the
choice of the party for senator as expressed
at the ballot box. At each
precinct there are to be two boxes.
[n,one the voter will cast his ballot
for United States senator and State
officers, aud in the other he will cast
(lis ballot for congressman, solicitor
ind county officers.
An effort was made to put congressnen
and solicitors on the same footing
with State officers in the matter of asiessments.
The matter was dropped,
aowever, and notwithstanding the fact
,hat candidates for congress and solictor
are assessed by the State executive
jommittee, they may also be assessed
jy the county executive committees.
The committee expressed itself as
mnnsed to nlumoine in the Drimary,
rr a x n ?
iod provided that no vote that does
iot contain the names of the full num>er
of candidates for the house to which
he county is entitled, shall be counted.
(Tor Per?onaI Uae.
In the United States circuit court
it Charleston, last Thursday, Judge
Simontou handed down a decision in
vhich he declares the provision of the
imended dispensary law unconstitutional,
that claimed for the State the
*ight to analyze all liquors shipped
nto the State. The Stale will appeal
.he case to the United States supreme
:ourt. In the meantime, the law
stands as it was before the recent
amendment was passed. Individuals
nay order liquor from another State
n any quantity desired for their own
personal use, and constables who seize
t are liable to punishment for contempt
of court.
Changed to Aiken.
Judge Benet has ordered a change
>f venue in the case of the Broxton
Bridge lynchers from Barnwell to
liken county. The trial cannot take
)lace before the fourth week in this
nonth.
LOCAL AFFAIRS
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
L. M. Grist?Offers two new Corbin dis
harrows for sale.
J. M. Starr?Can furnish you with fru
jars, cool beverages, the snuff your wil
wants and fill prescriptions accurately.
T. M. Dobson <fe Co.?Give you a list c
articles upon which they quote prices.
Grist Cousins?Talks about tubular Bic
gletrees, repairs for mowers, fruit jai
and glassware.
J. W. Dobson?Is ready to sell you frui
jars, lamps, burners and chimneyt
(.nrtllflrH'a aolf onH BWRAt snuffs. Dfiarl
ine, gold duat, hardware, glasswan
tinware, crockery and potware.
P. A. Abernathy?Haa Iwhite Mountai
and Arctic icecream freezers and is sell
ing ice at one cent a pound. He is prt
pared to do roofing and repair tinwan
W. E. Ferguson?Offers you Neversli
canopeners, Royal baking powde;
hamlets, fresh hams and will sell yo
2,400 matches for 12 cents?one ha
cent per hundred.
W. B. Moore A Co.?Publish a letter froi
a purchaser of one of Rife's bydraulii
engines, praising it in high termi
Moore A Co., can also furnish you wit
fruit jars, jelly tumblers, grain cradle
molasses mills, and evaporators and a
most anything else you want.
H. C. Strauss?Offers to give a nice brona
clock to persons who purchase of hii
goods to the amount of $25. He quot<
prices at which some of his goods ai
offered.
D. E. Finley, Assignee?Gives notice 1
the creditors of Kennedy Brothers
Barron, and James R. Kennedy, W. Ik
Kennedy and Walter T. Barron to me<
at bis office tomorrow.
THEY SHOULD PAY.
At the recent meeting of the State ei
ecutive committee last Friday, the que;
tion as to whether or not it would t
proper for county executive committe<
to assess State officers was discusse(
The committee passed a resolution to tb
effect that such candidates should not b
assessed. Mr. Brice, however, spoke oi
in the meeting and gave the commitU
to understand that if bis committee sa
fit to assess these candidates, it woul
certainly do so. The expense of the Stal
meeting, including music, stand for tt
speakers and carriage hire, is almost i
great as that ol the entire county can:
paign, and to make the county candidaU
foot the bills for a meeting at which the
haven't even the privilege of occupyin
the speaker's stand, is unjust. "Yes,
continued Mr. Brice; "we'll certainly ai
sess State candidates if we see fit, and
they don't pay, we'll refuse to tabulat
their votes."
The matter of assessing candidates fc
State officers was informally discussed t
a recent meeting of the county executiv
committee, and the sentiment of the com
mittee seemed to be decidedly in favor <
requiring these candidates to pay thei
proportionate shares of the necessar
campaign expenses.
WORK FOR THE COURT.
The probability is that the work of th
approaching term of the court of geners
sessions will be unusually light.
There are only two prisoners in ja:
awaiting trial, and not more than four o
five cases on the sessions docket tba
come over from the last court. The trie
justices have a few cases to send up, an
the clerk of the court has a number c
bills of indictment that were prepared s
the last term of the court, but not give
out to the grand jury. They do not ic
volve matters of special important
however.
It was tho understanding sometim
back that M. R. Reese, charged with th
murder of Charles T. Williams, t
Blacksburg, would be tried at this terr
of the court. Major James F. Hart, wh
is counsel for Reese, was not to be foun
yesterday, and the reporter was unabl
to get any definite information on tb
subject.
With all the business actually in sigh
it is not likely that the court will contir
ue in session more than two days, anc
even it the Reese case is tried, thei
seems to be no need why the Bessio
should last more than a week.
GOOD AND LAWFUL MEN.
The board of jury commissioners m<
in the office of the clerk of the court o
yesterday and drew the venire of pet
jurors to serve during the approachin
term of the court of general sessioni
Court will convene on Monday, June 2!
his honor, Judge Earnest Gary, presidinf
The jurors drawn are as follows:
R. A. Clinton, Bethe
R. W. Wbitesides, Broad Rivei
A. R. Kimbrell, Catawb:
J. G. Anderson, Catawb:
B. J. Gold, Cheroke<
J. M. Nichols, Bethe
W. B. Gauldin, York
T. A. Matthews, Ebenezei
Ben Galloway, col King's Mountair
B. M. Faris, Fort Mil
A. M. Bridges, Cheroke:
T. A. Brown, King's Mountair
J. B. Pegram, York
D. D. Dover, Cheroke:
F. D. Davison, Bethesd:
John JI. Barry, Ebenezei
W. T. Barron, York
R. T. Allison, York
W. E. Sledge Fort Mil
J. F. Carson, York
D. D. Gaston Cherokee
T. M. Grant, Bullock's Creek
R. Y. Williamson, Fort Mill
J. W. Gladden, Bethesd*
John E. Allen, Catawbf
J. J. Henry, King's Mountain
E. L. Cornwell, Catawbs
J. H. Hayes, Catawbs
S. H. Epps, Sr., Fort Mill
W. J. Moorhead, Broad Rivei
j R. M. Allison, Broad Rivei
R. A. Jackson, Ebenezei
C. W. Blackwelder, Fort Mil]
R. R. McCorkle York
Albert Whisonant, Cherokee
J. S. Stultz. Catawbs
THE McGILL RE-UNION.
Pursuant to the recently published call
representatives of the McGill family me
at Bethany church last Saturday for th
purpose of commencing arrangement
for the proposed re-union to be held ii
the fall.
There was present Esquire Tom Mc
Gill, Messrs. J. N. McGill, W. M. Mc
Gill, J. L. McGill, J. A. McGill, W. M
Whitesides, John Caldwell, Lee A. Mc
Gill, Rev. R. M. Stevenson, Rev. J. F
Knox, Rev. B. H. Grier, and a represen
tofinfl nfTtii' Pvnur nun
William McGill, tho descendants c
whom propose to re-unite, was the fathe
of eleven children, of whom nine hat
issue. Of these nine, all were represen
ted at the meeting save three, viz: Mrs
Eineline McGill Glenn, Mrs. Elizabetl
McGill McElwee, Mrs. Martha McGil
Adams.
Upon motion, Rev. R. M. Stevensoj
was called to tho chair and Mr. W. M
McGill was chosen as secretary.
It was unanimously agreed that the re
union should be held. Smyrna churcl
was selected as the place, and Wednesday
September 2, at II o'clock a in., the time
Tho readiug of the roll of the family
living and dead, was decided upon as ai
appropriate introduction to the exercise:
of the day, and to prepare this roll, a com
mittee of three, consisting of W. M. Ken
nedy, J. P. Knox and J. L. McGill wa
aypointed.
Rev. Dr. E. E. Boyce and Rev. R. M
Stevenson were elected to prepare an his
torical sketch, to bdread on the occasion.
Mr. T. R. McGill, of Charlotte, will be
asked to read an original poem, and Rt.
k Rev. Ellison Capers, whose mother was
Susana McGill, is to be requested to deit
liver an address on such subject or sub6
jects as he may select. In the event Bishop
Capers is unable to accept the invitation,
Rev. J. C. Galloway, of Gastonia,
l- will be requested to take his place,
"s Mr. W. M. Faulkneir was elected as a
committee of one on music, and Rev. J.
3) P. Knox and Messrs. W. M. McGill and
I- W. M. Whitesides were elected as a oom\
mittee on general programme.
Before the meeting adjourned, it was
" definitel> decided that the exercises
throughout be public, and that they be
). made the occasion of a big basket picnic
P to which all the surrounding country will
r' be invited,
u
if *
ABOUT PEOPLE.
n T- T
" IV1I5JM JCJiSlo uuug La viotuu^ x ciavi t oo
and friends in Lancaster,
h Miss Sadie Dunlap is visiting in Chars,
lotte and Davidson, N. C.
1- Prof. A. R. Banks, left Monday to attend
the commencement at Davidson this
? week.
}8 Mrs. W. F. Swaringen, of Lancaster,
:e visited the family of Mr. M. J. Long
last week.
Prof. J. B. Allison, of the Blacksburg
[ Graded school, is at home in Yorkville
3t for the summer vacation.
Mr. Bert Bryant, of Rock Hill, spent
several days in Yorkville this week with
his sister, Mrs. F. A. Gosman.
i- General Leroy F. Youmans, of Cols'
umbia, has been in Yorkville several
>e days this week on professional business.
3s Miss Christine Ruff and Miss Nellie
1. Sprunt, of Rock Hill, are in Yorkville,
te the guests of Mrs. C. M. Kuykendal.
ie Miss Annie Lou Abel, of Lowrysville,
it is visiting Miss Rosa Steele and other
;e friends and relatives in Yorkville.
w Mr. Wilden Swaringen, of Lancaster,
d who has been visiting Mr. Richard Long,
le returned to his home on Tuesday,
ie Mr. Paul Bratton and family, of
is Charleston, are in Yorkville, for the
i- summer, with Mr. W. B. Steele's family.
38 Misses Louise Ratchford and Vessie
y Rainey returned home last week from
g Columbia, where they have been at
" school.
3- Misses Maggie, Claude and Lise Moore
if and Alice Spencer are at Davidson col;e
lege attending the commencement exercises.
?r Mr. Robert Chandler, who has been in
it Yorkville with the family of Mr. W. B.
e Steele attending the Banks High school,
i- returned to his home at Maysville, S. C.,
>f on Tuesday.
ir Prof. Robt. J. Herndon returned Sat
y urday from a three weeks' trip to Morganton,
N. <7., where he has been engaged
in instructing a cornet band. He also attended
the commencement of Chapel Hill
e university.
l1
LOCAL LACONICS.
'' Until January 1897.
r The Twice-a-Week Enquirer, or
The Weekly Enquirer will be furnishd
ed from this date to January, 1st, 1897,
d for ?1.10.
>f Reduced the Assessment.
it The State board of equalization has ren
duced the tax assessment against the
i- Chester and Lenoir railroad from 83,000 to
82,750 per mile.
Out For the Legislature.
6 W. W. Dixon, Esq., formerly of Yorke
ville, but now of Union, is visiting
lt friends in Yorkville. He is announced
n in the Union Times as a candidate for
0 the legislature from Union county.
d The Public Is Invited.
6 The closing exercises of the York Bap6
tist High school will be held in the school
building on next Friday evening, 12th
.' inst, and beginning promptly at 8.30
o'clock.
' Won't Be There
Joseph C. Sibley, of Pennsylvania, will
not be at the Alliance picnic at Tirzah.
He has made arrangements to speak in
bebalf of free coinage during tne summer,
. but does not feel justified in wasting any
3 time in South Carolina where everybody
is one way.
A Source of Perplexity.
K The question that is most worrying those
who occupy the benches for the weary in
' the court house yard, is why don't sorae'*
body come out for. the legislature? York
should by all means be represented, and
surely there is somebody in the county
[* who is willing to go.
i. Registration Schedule.
The supervisors of registration will be
} at Bullock's Creek today, June 10; at
McConnellsville, Thursday, June 11; at
i." Antioch, Friday, June 12; at Coates's
1. Tavern, Saturday, June 13; at Tirzah,
J; Monday, June 15; at Newport, Tuesday,
!; June 16; at Ebenezer on Wednesday,
June 17.
I. In Better Shape.
A reporter of The Enquirer had oc;
casion to travel over the King's Mountain
[' road a few days ago. Some additional
;* work has been done recently. The road
). has been widened in places and also grav>
eled for considerable distance. The graveling
has wrought a noticeable improvei'
ment, and a little more of it will put the
i! road in firstclass condition.
^ The First Cotton Bloom.
The Enquirer is in receipt of the
first cotton bloom of the season. It was
'[ sent to this office on June 4, by J. P.
*. Blair, Esq., of Blairsville, who said that
it was plucked from the field of Samuel
j* Hughes, a well-to-do colored farmer, on
/ June 2. The first bloom of last year was
sent in by D. C. Glenn, of Bethel, on
June 23.
L York Is Ahead.
it Mr. J. R. Ashe was showing on the
e streets of Yorkville on Monday, a cotton
s bloom that some of his friends had sent
him fro m Kershaw. When told by the
reporter that The Enquirer had received
a bloom from Bullock's Creek
township on the 4th instant, he had no
further remarks to make on the subject.
! About Plumping.
'. The State executive committee says
- there shall be no "plumping" in the primary
election. That is, where a county
if is entitled to four members of the legisr
lature, the voter must vote for that many
1 and no less. The Enquirer has been
- asked as to whether, if a voter should
i. strike out all the names for a given office,
>i would bis ticket be legal. In our opinion,
.1 yes. We can very easily see the justice
of prohibiting the plumping practice;
t but if the voter sees fit to scratch off a
. ticket all the names but one, where there
is only one candidate to be nominated,
- we know of no rule to prevent the counti
ing of his ballot.
, Bicycle Meet on July 0.
Rock Hill correspondence, Columbia
, State; Handsome posters announce the
l fact that thero will be a big bicycle meet at
s Rock Hill, July 6, under the auspices of
- the Rock Hill Athletic association. That
- is not all. Wo want the people of the
s State to know that there will be a .
gathering of the fast riders here that
. day. A letter this morning from Fred
- Schado, the Washington, flyor says
that if not disabled in the race be is to
run in Washington on the 4th, he will
surely be at Rock Hill on the 6th. Will
Dudly, champion of Georgia, will also be
here, as will Ryttenberg, of Sumter, and
the fastest riders of North Carolina. Macon
Dudley, of Americus, Ga., will also run.
The prizes will all be diamonds and will
be worth running for. The meet will be
a big one and open to all comers. The
meet is under the sanction of the L. A. W
LETTER FROM H00DT0WN.
Children's Day Celebration?Personal Mention?Effect
of the Rains.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
TTonnrowM .Tuna 8 ?Plillrlran'o Hav
^ww^.w ? V. VW..M.VU M
will be observed at Shady Grove, on Saturday
before the third Sunday in- this
month, with appropriate services, and
the d^y will be the occasion of a grand
picnic and Sabbath school rally. Quite
an interesting programme has been arranged,
consisting of recitations and appropriate
addresses on Sabbath school
and church work, interspersed with
hymns and select -tunes. Last, but not
least, a good dinner may be expected
and other refreshments will be served on
the grounds. The afternoon will be
given over to the socially inclined young
people and the candidates who wish to
score a few points. The public is cordially
invited to attend with wellfllled
baskets.
Dr. B. ?. Feemster bad the most severe
nervous attack last Thursday that he has
had for several months ; but he is considerably
better at this writing.
Miss Lula Dowdle and Mr. Sam G.
Bankhead spent Saturday night and Sunday
with friends at Filbert.
Mr. J. T. Plexico paid a flying visit to
relatives at Gaffney on Saturday evening.
Miss Addle Sherer, of Blairsville, spent
Saturday evening and Sunday at this
place, the guest of Mrs. Dr. Hood.
Mr. J. Newman Smith's genial face is
often seen on our village streets of late.
The steady, hard rains of Wednesday
-I- ~ ./-^nlAivmnl ?n Iko
UVCU1UJ5 wort? a iivviu^ wuipiomouv w vuo
nice season we have had, and the ground
was so thoroughly soaked that but little
work was done last week. The late planted
cotton is coining up to a good stand
at last, and all are beginning work this
morning bright and early, valiantly going
out to meet the foe?grass?which is
springing up in sufficient force to soon
choke out the young crops. Voce.
MERE-MENTION.
A dispatch from Toledo, Ohio, says that
the bicycle factories there have closed
down and others are following suit, with
a view to maintaining the price of standard
machines at flOO. Fitzhugb Lee
met with a rousing reception in Cnba and
is becoming quite a favorite. It is
practically settled that congress will adjourn
this week, probably today. A
dynamite bomb thrown into a religious
procession at Barcelona, Spain, last Sunday
killed six "persons and wounded 24
others. The ways and means committee
has adversely reported the senate
bond bill 13 to 2. Vice President Stevenson
delivered the commencement oration
at the North Carolina university last
Thursday. At Raleigh, a newspaper man
sought to interview him on the financial
question ; but he said he would rather not
be questioned. Quite a number of
windowglass factories which have been
shut down for some time, have been
started up again with increased capacity
on account of the recent cyclones.
Sioux Citv. Iowa, and several Minnesota
towns, were badly shaken up by a cyclone
last Sunday. The vicinity of Columbus.
Neb., has been delnged by a cloudburst.
The New York Times, as the
result of a telegraphic inquiry covering a
large portion of the Union, ascertains that
Boies is in the lead for the Democratic
presidential nomination.
Straight Rrom the Shoulder.?
The Register publishes today from
the New York Times a long dispatch
from Baltimore, giving an alleged
history of the refundipg transaction.
It will be seen that grave charges are
preferred against Tillman, Bates and
Evans, with some show of proof. To
let those charges go uncontradicted
will injure South Carolina's credit
abroad and will bring her government
into disrepute. If they are not refuted,
Northern capitalists will accept
silence as tantamount to a confession
of guilt, and will fight shy of sending
capit&l for investment'into a Stale
whose government they believe is corrupt.
The Register does not believe
that there was the least crookedness
about the South Carolina bond deal
and has repeatedly said so, but must
remain silent hereafter if the men
against whom the charges are made
choose to allow them to go uncontradicted.
Specific accusations require
specific refutation, and the people of
South Carolina have a right to expect
Tillman, Bates and Evens to make
such refutation.?Columbia Register,
Saturday.
The Governor Will Reply.?The
publication in the New York Times of
the alleged inner transactions in the
bond deal created a great deal of comment
yesterday. Gov. Evans, when
asked to make a statement, said that
he and Dr. Bates would prepare one
and give every circumstance of the
transaction, holding back nothing and
extenuating nothing. This reply will
be sent to the New York Times, but
will be published simultaneously in
daily papers of the State.
The Governor will have an article
over bis own signature and Dr. Bates
will do likewise, both together giving
a complete history of the minutest details
of the deal.
Gov. Evans did not care to be quoted
before bis formal statement was
made, but he remarked that "evidence"
was stated in the article which
really was not given at the trial of
the suit in reference to the commissions.
He said that no one counected
with the State government bad made
" ' * * ? - ? i* t * k f
a cent out or tne iransuciiou uui iu?
the specific charges iu the articles
would be fully answered.?Columbia
Register, Sunday.
Murder in Caldwell.?A most
dastardly murder was committed in '
Caldwell county, N. C., last Thursday <
night. The victims were Dallas Bow- i
man and Walter Moore. They were i
asleep iu a log cabin. Duriug the i
night the cabin was wrecked by dyna- .
mite and both men were horribly I
mangled. A man named Simon Gragg I
has been arrested on the charge of I
having committed the crime and is in I
jail at Lenoir. Great excitement pre- I
vails and the authorities refuse to I
make public the evidence against .
Gragg for fear of a lynching. ]
POLITICAL NEWS NOTES.
? It is the intention of the Gold
Standard people to, if possible, make
Senator Hill temporary chairman of
the Chicago convention.
? Most of the newspapers seem to
be of the opinion that if T. B. Reed
fails to get the Republican nomination
for president?and that he will get it,
there is little probability?he will
withdraw from public life.
? For sometime past it has been ^
claimed that Texas would go for Gold
Standard. State primaries were held
last Monday aud the result was a free
silver landside almost equal to that of
Georgia.
? The Democrats in fifteen Ohio
counties selected delegates to their ^
State convention last Saturday, and
all went for silver. The Democrats
of McKinley's home county are to act
next Saturday, and they will also n
declare for silver.
? The free silver vote in Atlanta
last Saturday was not comprised of
Umom oilW Ktr a hitr
iuo 1 auu irvwvuti wj w w.g
majority. Solid and substantial silver
men went to the polls, voted their ^
views and said nothing. Atlanta
people are in earnest about tbis
question.
? All the big hotels of St. Louis
bave given notice that they will not
entertain colored delegates to the
Republican convention. G. A. Hill,
national committeeman for Tennessee,
is qnoted as saying that unless be can
get satisfactory accommodations for
the colored delegates of his State, he *
will telegraph them to stay at borne.
? The Gold Standard people still
have hopes of exercising some influence
on the Chicago convention. At
the head of several of the free silver
delegations are United States senators
who desire re-election. It is proposed
to send to Chicago large numbers of H
representative gold men from the
States sending these senators, and the
idea is to bave the gold men to use all
the influence for compromise that they
can bring to bear by persuasion,
threats or otherwise.
? Including Georgia's 26, the free
coinage delegates so far elected to the
Chicago convention now number 301. -j
In all there will be 918 delegates in tbe
convention. Of this number 460 will
constitute a majority, and 612 a twothirds
majority. To make up this latter
figure, the Free Silverites are
counting on the following States: Arkansas
16, Californiu 18, Florida 8, , $
Georgia 26, Idaho 6, Illinois 46, Oklahoma
6, Indiana SO, Louisiana 18, Mon
tana 6, Nevada 6, New Mexico 6, North
Carolina 22, Ohio 80, Texas 30, West V
Virginia 9, Wyoming 6, Arizona fe,
Utah 6, Indian Territory 6. If all these
States go for free coinage, there will
then lack but 33 votes of the necessary
two-thirds, and these there seem to be
a possibility of getting from the States
of Maryland and Minnesota.
SOOTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Death of Colonel. L O. McKtsslck.
Colonel I. G. McKissiok, (or many
years one of the leaders of the Union
bar and well known throughout the
State, died at his home in Union, Menday
evening.
The Lancaster and Cheater.
The purchasers of the Cheraw and
Chester railroad have applied for a ,
charter aud propose to reorganize
under the name of the Lancaster and
Chester Railroad company. The capital
stock is to be $50,000 divided into .
1,000 shares.
Elliott Unseated.
Congressman Elliott, of the First
South Carolina district, was unseated
by the house of representatives last
Thursday by a vote of 153 to 33, in
favor of George Washington Murray,
colored. Murray was escorted to his
seat amid great applause from the
Republicans. He is the only Negro
in the bouse. - Union
Candidates.
The candidates for offics in Union
county, as announced in The Times,
are as follows: For clerk of the *
court?J. H. McKissick ; T. H. Gore.
For supervisor?T. J. Betenbaugh,
J. A. Chambers, J. B. T. Scott. For
superintendent of education?D. B.
Fant, M. L. Lemaster, James T.
Fowler, W. Gist Duncan, John P.
Gage. For treasurer?J. H. Bartles,
J. D. Going. For sheriff?J. G.Long, ^
G. T. Hollis.' For auditor?John G.
Farr, J. Frank Bailey, Nat B. Morgan,
J. M. Mobley. For coroner?John G.
Eison. For house of representatives?
W. W. Dixon.
Still a Misdemeanor.
Columbia Register: Treasurer Cunningbam,
of Charleston, has raised an
interesting point as to the penalty in '
connection with poll tax delinquents.
The law of 1894 and 1895 made the
non-payment of poll tax a misdemeanor,
the penalty being a fine or a sentence
to the chain gang. The constitution
and registration law of this
year do not make it a misdemeanor,
but simply takes away the right to *
vote. That law does not go into
effect until registration is completed.
and Mr. CunDiogham wauted to know
whether delinquents this year would
be subject to indictment for a misdemeanor
or not. There seems to be no
doubt in the minds of officials that
delinquents are liable to a fiue or J*
sentence to the chaiu gang as in 1895,
but to have no doubt about it, the
whole matter was referred to the attorney
general.
? Lorenzo Dow McKinney, a promineut
fanner of Scioto county, Ohio,
recently inserted the following adver- y>
tisemeut in the local papers: "Notice?
The funeral sermon of the undersign
ed will be preached at Fallen Timber,
Ohio, on Sunday, June 21, at 2.30 p. m.
L. D. McKiuney." Asked to give bis
reason for having his funeral sermon ?
preached before his death, he said :
"I am not having this done to be /
queer or for notoriety. The Bible I
says that the days of man are threescore
and ten years. 1 have always
3aid that if I lived to be 80 years old
[ would consider myself dead, and a
funeral would naturally follow. 1 will
be 80 years old on June 17, and will
then consider myself as dead, and will '
have my funeral sermon preached on
the first Sunday following, which will
be June 21. Anytime I may live after
June 17 I shall not consider as mine.
[t will only be borrowed time."