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Scraps and $uts. ? A special dispatch from Chicago to the New York Heiald says: "Chicago has 8,000 families who are actually starving to death. It has 10,000 wives, husbands aud children begging for bread?begging for a pittance of food to keep body and soul together?huddled into single rooms and freezing in the blizzard that visited the city. It has a mightier cry for pity than it had at the close of the World's Fair. ? Representative C. S. Hartraan of Montana, raised a big laugh in the house a few days ago at the expense of New York. It will be remembered that the courts of Gotham are now engaged in the investigation of a big scandal which developed at a dinner recently given by brothers named Seeley, to some of the wealthiest and most prominent society men of the * * - Ji r City. A teatUre OI Hie uiuuer reiencu to was the indecent exposure of women. Mr. Hartman'8 joke came in while the Indian appropriation bill was under discussion, and the laugh was at a motion offered in much seriousness to "appropriate $1,000,000,000 for the education and civilization of the Seeley savages of the Manhattan reservation." ? Philadelphia, Pa., experienced the most destructive fire last Tuesday morning that has occurred in the city in a whole generation. The fire originated in a bakery that was located in the cellar of a big umbrella factory, and spread so rapidly as to be beyond control almost before the alarm could be given. In all, some 60 buildings were either completely destroyed or damaged to such an extent as to be almost worthless. The big store of John Wannamaker caught as many as a half dozen times; but each time the flames wereextiuquished and the damage was not considerable. The entire loss by the fire aggregates $1,500,000. It is reported in Thursday's dispatches, that at prayermeeting Wednesday night, Mr. Wannamaker announced that as a practical expression of bis thankfulness, he proposes to erect in the city of Philadelphia a $100,000 church. ? Dunne the Civil war, when the Union armies were marching through the southern states, all mules, horses, wagODs, corn, bacon, coffee, sugar, molasses, lard, etc., were confiscated, and in nearly every case the United States has since been importuned to pay for these supplies taken, the owners finding small difficulty in making declaration before the court of claims that they were at all times loyal to the Union, says the Washington Post. The most remarkable thing about these claims, which are daily coming before congress, or being referred to that body, is the price at which the supplies are charged up to the government by its loyal citizens. Mules, especially were high priced in war times, being rated at $250, while the corn to feed them was considered by those who had it to be worth a dollar a bushel. Bacon was 50 cents a pound, sugar 30 cents, lard 75 cents, and molasses $48 a barrel. The almost invariable rule of the court of claims is to scale these prices down to about onethird of the amount asked. ? Here are a few of the items of cost which Mrs. Bradley Martin will have to settle for on the occasion of a grand fancy dress ball which she and her daughter, the Countess of Cranen, are to give next month to the 400 at the Uninl U7ol/Wf Vow Vr>rl- nitv ' Bull ' . room $1,000; state apartments and other rooms, $2,500; buffet supper, $6,000; regular supper, miduight to 5 a. m., $12,000; cotillion favors, $20,000'; floral decorations, $15,000. Here are some of the items which the guests will have to pay to enjoy such a luxurious hospitality : Four hundred carriages, $2,800 ; 600 men's costumes, $50,000; 600 women's costumes, $120,000; cosmetics, hair dressers, flowers and incidentals, $25,000. Of course nobody not possessed of diamonds will be present, consequently the value of the jewels worn will not "enter into the expenses of the affair. A leading jeweller, who Icdows the "400" jewels, says that from $2,000,000 to $5,000,000 worth will be worn. ? The cold wave touched its lowest point in this city yesterday, and today there was a noticeable rise in the temperature, says a Washington dispatch of the 27th. The Potomac river is frozen over and will be closed to navigation soon. Then skaters will have the rare luxury of being able to travel from Washington to Alexandria on ice. Snow began early in the afternoon and is falling steady. The cold wave that has gone over the United States during the past several days is one of the severest, considering both the low temperatures that prevailed in many places and the vast extent of the area covered, that has been recorded by the weather bureau in its 30 years of existence. The south today had an unusual experience. Throughout Texas. Louisiana, Mississippi, Al abama and a large portion of Georgia, a fall of snow from one to three inches in depth is reported to the weather bureau. The cold snap has had a marked effect on the winter hegira to the south, and the trains to Florida and other southern points are heavily loaded with passengers. The New York and Florida limited which passed through here yesterday evening over the Southern railway and the Florida Central aud Peninsular railroad, had over 100 passengers to Florida, besides others to intermediate points, while the Southern's two other daily trains were filled. ? The estimates by states and territories of area, product and value of the principal cereal crops of the United States for 189G, made by the statistician of the department of agriculture, are as follows: Corn?area 81,027,000; product 2,2S3,S75,000; value $491,007,000 ; yield per acre 28.2 bushels ; farm price per bushel 21.5 cents. "VViuter wheat?area 22,794,000; pro duct 267,934,000; yield per acre 11.8 bushels. Spring wheat?area 11,825,000; product 159,750,000; yield per acre 13.5 bushels. Total wheat area 34,619,000; product 427,684,000; value $310,603,000; yield per acre 12.4 bushels; farm price per bushel 72.6 centq. Oats?area 27,566,000; product 707,346,000 ; value $132,485,000; yield per acre 25.7 bushels ;.farm price per bushel 18.7 cents. Rye?area 1,831,000; product 24,369,000 ; value $9,961,000; yield per acre 13.3 bushels ; farm price per bushel 40.9 cents. Barley?area 2,951,000; product 69,695,000; value $22,491,000; yield per acre 23.6 bushels ; farm price per bushel 32.3 cents. Buckwheat?area 755,000; product 14,090,000; value $5,522,000; yield per acre 18.7 bushels; farm price per bushel 39.2 cents. Potatoes?area 2,761,000; product 252,235,000; value $72,182,000; yield per acre 11.1 bushels; farm price per bushel 28.6 cents. Hay?area 43,260,000; product 59, 282,000 tons; value $388,146,000; yield per acre 1.37 tons; larm price $6.55 per ton. Tobacco?area 595,000 ; product 403,004,000 pounds; value $24,258,000; yield per acre 678 pounds; farm price 6 cents per pound* $lu llorlnuUe (Snquitw. YOItKVILLE, 8. C.: SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1897. ? The News and Courier jokingly remarks that the bill to punish the use of profane or indecent language at religious meetings, is aimed at Sam Jones. ? "Hob McGregor" is the name of the next continued story to be published in The Enquirer. It is a tale of love and adventure in the mountains of Tennessee, and will prove of lively interest from start to finish. ? An agitation has been commenced in Gaston county, N. CM looking to the removal of the county seat from Dallas to Gastonia. The legislature will be petitioned to authorize an election on the question. ? Leading Republicans are now beginning to as-ert that they are not bound by the "mistake" in the Republican platform. By mistake, they mean the pledge to use all possible means to secure international agreement. ? Mr. Witherspoon's bill looking to the creation of a board of three non-applicants in each township to pass uon pension claims seems, to be on the right line. For such boards to easily determine who are and who are not entitled, under the law, to pensions, will be an easy matter, while for a county board of only half dozen members to get along without making numerous mistakes, is manifestly impossible. ? If Mr. Patton's, redisricting bill should become a law, Congressmen Strait and Wilson would be in the same congressional district, and one of them would necessarily have to step down and out. But the friends of these congressmen- need not give themselves special alarm, for while the bill is not without merit, it will meet with too much opposition to become a law. ? "Governor Ellerbe," says the Columbia Evening News, "has saved himself much annoyance by making the appointments all over the state on the recommendations of the representatives from each county. If a real bad man should slip in in any of the counties where the same representatives appear before their constituents for re-election and are called to account for an improper appointment, they cannot point to the executive mansion and say the "big boss" done it. Governor Ellerbe lacks a great deal of being the biggest fool that has occupied those old quarters." ? The Johnston, S. C., Monitor records the death of Pat Ronan. Pat was a tramp printer, and his face was familiar in nearly every printing office in the state. His wanderings commenced shortly after the war, and since that time he has been tramping from one printing office to an other, principally in South Carolina. He would work a day, and sometimes a week ; but that was enough for him, no matter what was his pay or his treatment, it would only be a short time until he would be ready to move on again, and beseemed to make it a rule to visit each printing office in the state at least once a year. Although well known to most of the printers, it was his invariable custom, of late years, to introduce himself as Theophilus Oleomargarine, and by this name he insisted upon being called. Ronan was a strange character in many respects ; but was always good natnred and good humored, and to all appearances was perfectly content with his lot. It hits been generally understood among the printers of the state that Pat was wanted by the authorities somewhere for some dark crime; but this was a mistake. That ho had a cloud on his life is true; but that he was a fugitive from justice is not. We are ablo to publish for the first time, on documentary evidence, an authoritative statement of the facts. During a drunken spree, just about the breaking out of the war, it was Pat's misfortune to kill a fellcrwman. lie was tried for murder, con victed of manslaughter and sentenced t( a long term of imprisonment. This happened in Charleston, and shortly after ward a large number of Charlestonianf signed a petition asking for the pardor of Ronan on condition that he would enter the army, behave himself properlj and serve during the war. The pardor was duly signed by Governor Pickens and Ronan carried out his part of the con tract. So far as we know, this killing it the only serious crime that has ever beer laid to Ronan's account, and although w< have no positive iuformation to that effect it is our opinion that it was this whict made him such a restless wanderer from pillar to post in afterlife. ? A number of northern preachersmost notably, Rev. Dr. William Rains ford of New York?are 9tirred up on account of a fancy dress ball that is to b< given by Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Martin or February 10. It is reported that the suit of $200,000 is to be spent upon the enter tainment, and the good preacher insisU that the display of such extravagance bj rich people in hard times like this, is cal culated to be of even greater harm to society than was the great anarchistic riot in Chicago a few years ago. But the preacher is mistaken in his view. Tha anybody should have money to waste ir such an extravagant manner, while thou sands of other people who are just as de serving are in actual want, looks bad and is bad. But since these people hav< this wealth, and it is theirs, perhaps aftei all these is no danger in their being al lowed to spend it. The more they turr loose in their extravagance, the larger the number of people who will be benefitted, and if they don't spend their money ir extravagance, they are not likely tospenc it at all. ? The New York World, which is i strong anti-silver paper, seems to thin! that the silver men are in control ir the Benate. That fact, it claims, ha developed within the past few days Thers was pending a bill introducer by Senator Wolcott and providing fo the international monetary conferenci that is promised by the Republicai platform. The bill is unsatisfactory t< the silver senators tor tne reason ma they consider it a mere "make-believe.' Even should it become a law it wil insure no positive results, and for tha reason the silver people take no stocl in it. But the silver senators have se about amending the bill iu a way tha is alarming to the gold advocates. Sen ator Cannon of Utah, wants to fix Ne* York as the city in which the proposec conference must be held, and be als< stipulates that the ratio adopted mus' be between 15 to 1 and 16 to 1. Senato Stewart of Nevada, has handed up ai amendment in which he provides that i the conference fails to reach an agreement then, within one month after its adjourn ment, the secretary of the treasury shal open the mints to the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver. In de fense of bis amendment, Senator Cannon remarked : "We may as well try to gal vanize into life the mummy of the firei Pharoah, as to try to secure free coinagt by international agreement if we wait foi Europe to take the initiative." Th< whole discussion is said to have deepenec the general feeling of uneasiness that ii prevalent among the gold standard sena tors. Not a Good Law.?Judging froa the general unanimous desire to chaug? the county government, law it cannoi be giving satisfaction. Members tel me that the law is a failure in a great many ways, and especially in the ides of having one member on the boarc from each of the townships of th< county. It has been argued in this way : In former years there were onlj three commissioners who had pe schemes and political ambitions. Nov in manv counties there are from 15 t< 22 township chairmen, many of whon have ambitions, most of whom hav< pet schemes and a great many are will ing to appropriate money for one sec tion of a county, if, in return, they car get what they waut. The large board! are more liable to spend money thar the smaller boards were, and the de sire now seems to be to get rid of tb< large boards. Whether anything is t< be done this session to chauge the la\t is doubtful ; but about a fourth of th< proposed legislation is relative t( changing the road and couuty law Mr. Livingston has au idea that it wil be better to leave the matter to t commission, to report in advance o the nextsession, and this may be done, Some of the bills now under consider ation may be adopted to relieve th.< situation for the time being.?Colum bia correspondent of The News and Courier, Monday. MERE-MENTION. Prominent stockmen of the Indian Ter ritory say that thousands of cattle have been killed by the present blizzard. The North Carolina Democrats are pretty generally of opinion that as a politics! leader, the days of Marion Butler art numbered. The date of the next annual meet of the United Confederate Veterans, to be held at Nashville, Tenn., ha* been changed to June 22, 23 and 24. The Alabama senate, a few days ago, passed a bill including the provisions o: the South Carolina dispensary law by t vote of 18 to 12. Admiral Buce's blockading fleet is to leave Ilamptor roads for Charleston early next week. rT^I*" 5cj /liutrilinl inrr lnrrrr l HU ui Viuui^u IO ui^viivi.w..h .... ^> sums in charity to thousands of destitute citizens. Arrested by Federal Authorities. Sheriff Ellison of Fairfield, who re cently collected a judgment againsl the Southern railroad by levying on a freight train and thus incidentally de> laying a mail train, has been arrester! by the Federal authorities on tin charge of iuterferring with the trans portation of the United States mails LOCAL AFFAIRS. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Grist Cousins?Talk to you about hardware and the prices at which they sell it. If you want bolts, rasps, knob or padlocks, a pocket knife, grubbing hoe or mattock, garden rake or pick, call on thetn. M. R. Reese?Gives notice that he has made a final settlement with the pro bate iude-e as administrator of the es tate of <5. M. Roberts, deceased, and , that on the 1st of March will apply for a discharge from further liability. ? Ganson Dry Goods Company?Tell you 3 what they are doing ana quote prices of hose of different grades and qualities. > Grist Cousins?Want you to remember i that if you want your phaeton, carriage, buggy or surrey retrimmed, they can have it done for you, and they say it will be well done. They also announce that they will have the upholstering of furniture attended to and have broken furniture repaired. Besides, if you have any caneseat- chair which require new ,r- bottoms, send them in. John F. Jones, Special Master?Gives J notice of the sale at. auction, at Yorki ville, on the 23rd day of March. 1897, of the Reduction Works, and the Acid Plant, at Blacksburg, and sundry parcels of land. , Finley & Brice, Plaintiff's AttorneysPublish a summons to absent defendr ants in the case of W. E. Adams, executor, against A..Y. Cartwright, W. R. Carroll and others. i ! ABOUT PEOPLE. } G. W. S. Hart, Esq., has been confined t to his room for several days with grip. , Mr. J. R. Ashe, who has had quite a severe case of grip is able to be out again. Magistrate Bridges of Cherokee township, took the oath of offlce'on Wednes? day. 5 Representative de Loach was confined : to bis room in Columbia on Sunday and . Monday by illness. Mr. H. P. Stowe of Bethel, has decided to change his residence to Long Shoals, s Lincoln county, N. C. > Mr. H. F. Horton has been down with l the grip for 12 days and is still confined to I his bed. All the other members of his family, who have also been sick, are able to be up. 1 MUNICIPAL BOND ISSUES. 1 Mr. deLoach's bill relating to amend 1 merits to the act to authorize special elec9 tions in incorporated cities and towns for , the purpose of issuing bonds, has been I ordered to a third reading in the house in the following shape: r Section 1. That section 1 of an act enti8 tied "an act to authorize special elections , in any incorporate city or town of this state for the purpose of issuing bonds for > corporate purposes," approved March 9, t A. D. 1896, be amended so as to read as , follows: Section 1. That it shall be the duty of the municipal authorities of any 1 incorporated city or town of this state, t upon the petition of a majority of the freeholders of said city or town, as shown t by its tax books, to order a special elact tion in any such city or town for the purpose of issuing bonds for purchasing, 1 repairing or improving of city or town ball, or park or grounds therefor, markets and guardhouse, enlarging, extending or establishing electric light plants or waI terworks, or sewerage, improvement of j streets and sidewalks or any corporate purpose set forth in said petition : Prot vided, That the aggregate bonded indebtr edness of any city or town shall never exceed 8 per centum of the assessed value 1 of the taxable property therein, and any f bonds heretofore voted upon and issued by any incorporated city or town of this state since the adoption of the constitu tion of the year A. D. 1895 under the proi visions of the act herein decided, are hereby validated and made legal for any 1 of the purposes hereinabove set forth. ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. It gives The Enquirer pleasure to ac' knowledge today the receipt of the finest specimen of the printer's art that has 3 come under its observation in all its long r experience. We refer to a beautiful souvenir book just issued in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the estabI ll-i . .1 TTaMa. Omltl? Jh In.. 113DI11HUI UI but] Dliiuncimi, ouiivuouvwidan type foundry of Philadelphia, the oldest institution of the kind in America. The book consists of 100 pages of the finest book-paper obtainable, aubstantial' ly bound in cloth, superbly illustrated, : and perfectly printed, and contains not 1 only a history of the MacKellar, Smiths A ^ Jordan foundry from its establishment; 1 but also a full story of the development of ' type making from its rudest inception up * to the highest pinnacle of apparent per3 fection that it now occupies. J The story told in the book begins in l 1796, with the efforts of one Archibald r Binny, a Scotch printer, who was the first ) individual to put t^pe founding in Ameri lea upon an independent footing. Binny ? was under obligations to Benjamin Franklin, who loaned him certain tools and appliances brought from France. Withj in a short time Binny formed a partnership with Richard Ronaldson, and during 5 their lives they had the pleasure of put1 ting a stop to the importation of type from abroad. They were succeeded by 5 James Ronaldson. Next came Richard ' Ronaldson ; next Johnson A Smith ; next r L. Johnson ; next Johnson ?fc Co.; next i MacKellar, Smiths A Jordan ; next Mac) Kellar, Smiths A Jordan Co., and now . the American Type Founder's Co., the ] largest institution in their line in the i world. f The senior publisher of The Enquirer has been acquainted with this firm and . its management for more than 40 years, , and with the exception of a very small ' per cent, from other sources, has purI chased from it all the type that has been used on this paper. The small per cent, of type purchased elsewhere has served more than anything else to prove the superiority of the MacKellar, Smiths A Jordan goods, and so lar as we ) are prepared to testify, it is without hesitation that we say that this remarkable ? 5 ?:ll -1 . eSUllMlSnillUIll/ 13 mill illilKUt na iai III mo ' lead now, as it was in 1796. May the esJ tablishment continue to prosper, and would that all the other great American enterprises of whatever character, strive ' to emulate its standard. LOCAL LACONICS. ' From Kbenerer to Tirzuli. 1 The chaingang is now located on the 1 road between Ebenezerand Tirzah, where 1 it is expected to operate during the next few months. Waiting on tlio Weather. Mr. P. A. Aberuathy of Yorkville, has the contract to cover the York Cotton mills building with tin, and will commence work as soon as the weather will permit. ' Fire Near Lowrysvllle. Kock Hill Herald : The house and fur' niture of Mr. J. M. Kirkpatrick, two ' miles west of Lowrysville, was destroyed by lire Monday night about 12 o'clock. Nothing was saved but a little clothing. . Insured in the York County Farmers' Mutual for$850. Mr. Kirkpatrick:s family are residents of this city, but he still runs'his farm on Bullock's creek. On Speaking Terms. The York Cotton mill Is now included among the subscribers to the Bedford telephone service. Connection was completed yesterday. Not Authentic. The statement published elsewhere tc the effect that Mr. Newbold has beer superceded by Mr. Bahr as state detective, goes only for what it may be worth, It has not been verified. Changed Hands. The Daily Sun, publication of which was commenced at Rock Hill nearly two months ago by Mr. J. H. Evans, has changed bands. The new publisher are Messrs. J. W. Hammond and F. J. Terry. Will Visit Wlnthrop Today. The members of the house and senate of the general assembly, will visit Winthrop college, Rock Hill, today, (Saturday). The trip is to be made on t special train, which will leave Columbia at 8.15 a. m., reach Rock Hill at 10.3( a. mM and returning, leave Rock Hi] at 6 p. m. Victim of Grip. Mr. John J. Garvin died at bis home iti Yorkville last Thursday morning of grip, after an illness of about a week. Mr Garvin was in the 76th year of bis age He was a wagon maker by trade; bul during the past few years of his life ha: been' engaged in farming. The funeral services were conducted at the farnilj residence yesterday morning at 11 o'clock For Burglary and Larceny. William Sims, William Hinton, John Seegle and Clinton Dunlap, all colored, were committed to jail on Thursday bj Magistrate Anderson of Ebenezer towuship, on the charge of burglary and larceny. They broke into a store ai Newport during the Christmas holidays. Three of the Negroes, the reporter is informed, have confessed their guilt. Not Yet Reported. The judiciary committees of the senate and house have not yet reported on Mr Love's bill providing for the placing ol railroad and telegraph companies under the supervision and control of the railroad commission. Tiie Enquirer has private information, however, that majority and minority reports will probablj be submitted, and the whole matter will be fought out on the floors of the house and senate. The Clerk Also. In stating the composition of the old jury commission in a recent issue, the reporter inadvertently omitted the clerk of the court. That official was also e member of the commission, and inasmuch as York has been frequently complimented on the high intelligence of the jurors she has been furnishing for various sessions of the circuit court, it is only fair that full credit should be given to all whc are entitled to it. Death of Mrs. Feweli. Rock Hill Sun, Tuesday: The wife ol Dr. W. B. Fewell of Ebenezer, died ol of 10 rvUlrvilr loaf nlcrhfr. Mrs JSUUUUIISIJJO Ob am u vtvvn ??*w. Fewell was a Miss Alexander and was a sister of Rev. S. C. Alexander of Missouri, and Dr. Brevard Alexander ol Charlotte, N. C. 8be was 66 years old and bad been married to Dr. Fewell 43 years. She leaves six children, A. B., Dr. S. C., W. B., Miss Sadie and Miss Lottie Bell Fewell, and Mrs. W. G. Steele?three sons and three daughters. At Monok'a Corner. Judge Witberspoon left last Thursday morning for Monck's Corner, Berkeley county, where he expects to convene court on next Monday. Berkeley, it will be remembered, is one of those new counties, and it is literally a county in the woods. The courthouse is an old storeroom, the jail is in keeping with it, and for accommodations, the understanding is that judges, solicitors and lawyers have to seek private bouses anywhere within a radius of four or five miles. The Weather. Averaging the statements of a numbei of people .who looked at their private thermometers at daylight yesterday morning, the temperature must have been about 8 degrees above zero. The coldest weather on record in this section, if we remember correctly, was about Christmas day in the early 70's, when the mercury registered 6 degrees below zero, Dispatches to the Columbia State says that at Marietta, Greenville county, on Thursday, the mercury registered 4 degrees below zero. Still Living. Mozelle Kennelle, the mulatto woman who was shot through the right lung by Whiteman Hardy, colored, on last Sat urday nigbt, is still anve. Aiioougc thero was at first good reason to believe that the wound would prove fatal, as the result of skillful attention on the part ol the physician in charge of the case, the woman has not only been kept alive ; but now seems to be in a fair way tc recovery. It is still easily possible, however, that a change for the worse, resulting in death, may occur at almost any time. Down at the Jail. There is an unusually large crowd ol prisoners in jail just now?as many in fact as the upper story of the building will accommodate. But notwithstanding this, things are said to be in a very tidy shape. For their own protection as well as employment, the white prisoners have formulated a strict code of rules providing, above all else, for scrupulous cleanliness. Sessions of court are held regularly, and violators of any of the rules are dealt with summarily. It is not often necessary to administer the same punishment twice for the same offense. Tlie Fight Continues. Chairman Jones of the National democratic executive committee, does not propose to allow the free silver cause to be forgotten. On the contrary, ho proposes to continue the distribution of litorature straight on through until the next general olection. Mr. J. S. Brice, chairman of the County Democratic executive committee, received a circular letter a day or two ago from the national chairman, asking for the names and addresses ot the respective precinct chairmen in the county, and from this circumstance it is reasonable to infer that the same inforinatiou is being collected throughout the entire country. County Commissioners. The county board of commissioners did not quite finish their work on last Tuesday, and adjourned to hold another meeting on next Tuesday. Among the items of business to come up, will be the Pratt claim for damages referred to in The Enquirer of Wednesday, and the selection of a physician for the poorhouse and jail. Bids of a number of physicians were submitted to the board 1 of com missiouers at a previous meeting; I but for some reason no choice was made. The understanding is that each of the bidders will be Hsked to submit a new proposition on the basis of so much a > year for all the sen-ice that may berei quired by the commissioners, and the presumption is that the lowest bidder , will get the appointment. BLACKSBUKG BUDGET. - The Weather?Sketch of Engineer ShiverTo Manufacture Sulphuric Acid. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. tJLACKSBUKU, JHIIuarj aj.?ium ujviuing is decidedly the coldest one we have had this winter. There is plenty of ice, 1 and the temperature feels as if it was " hovering aro und zero. A light snow fell ' on W ednesday, about an inch thick, and 1 but little of it melted yesterday. 1 Mr. Z. B. Shiver, whose death at this ' place on Sunday night last was announced 1 in The Enquirer of the 27tb, bore an exceptionally fine record as a man, a soldier and an engineer. -He served hia 1 state gallantly and well during the late > war, and when men were needed for places of danger and deeds of daring, Mr. Shiver was always among those t chosen, and ho uever faltered nor be4 trayed the trust imposed in him. As an I engineer, he was one of the best. Steady, ' skillful and reliable, everybody felt as> sured wh en be was sitting in the cab and had control of the engine. As a man, be bad merited and won the implicitconfl> dence and love of his associates in the ' shops and on the road, and during his - brief ill ness, when bis condition grew I critical, they vied with each other in their t watchful and tender administrations to ' all bis wants, a nd nothing they could do 5 for his comfort and health was left undone. On Ttesday, the shops of the O. R. & C. railroad were closed and nearly > all of the officials and employes of the road attended bis burial at Camden, and F he was laid to rest with Masonic honors. ' His old engine, No. & of the road, was handsom ely draped in honor of the dead i engineer, and pulled him for the last time, as he started on his long journey to that . r home whence no traveler returns. En i gineer George Hammereiy pulled toe * throttle for this occasion, and no hand could have done it with more tender or reverent feelings. As a husband and I father, Mr. Shiver was devoted and lov- ? > ing al ways, and bis bereaved wife and : children have the sincere sympathy of i our entire community. Mr. Fred Oliver, president of the Char lotte Oil and Fertilizer Works, was here i a few days ago, and visited the property i on King's Creek reeenty leased from ' Messrs. Allison and Cain for the purpose i of mining quartz rock, to be used in bis new process for making sulphuric acid. W. A. r , m , t r ROOK HILL HAPPENINGS. % ' >> I Mr. Miller Getting Better?The Kew Depot ?Making Arrangements to Entertain F the General Assembly. 1 Correspondence of the Yorkrllle Enquirer. Rock Hill, January 28.?We have no > doubt that the weather is "just the same i here," and will let that suffice for that 1 topic. We are glad to report our sick as improving. Mr. J. H. Miller, about whom ' so much anxiety has been felt, is improv' ing. We hope we are done with grip for the rest of oar natural lives. We don't like any sickness at all; but we must feel r a certain amount of respect for a type of > diseas e that will not enter the system un less we are prepared for it; but we are I disgusted at being attacked by a disease : which see ins to attack careAilly and de) liberately the healthiest; and to show no t pity, neither to strong nor to weak. It is no longer a hope we have in regard to our new depot. It is as much of a cer* tainty as the digging of foundations and i putting up of framing can inakeit. That much has been done; but "thebouse that is a building is not like the bouse that's > built," so we will wait for tne completed structure before making an examination i of it. > President Johnson is making arrange, ments for entertaining the members of i the general assembly next Saturday. i They will be here, in full force, we hope, and we know of no one who can excel Winthrop's chief in arranging and managing such matters. We expect a great i day again. a. s. To Cure the Dispensary.?Seni ator Tillman has introduced in the > United States senate, a bill to meet the > defect in the South Carolina dispensary f law, pointed out by the reeeut decision 1 of the United Stales supreme court. : The bill provides: "That all fer* mented, distilled or other intoxicating liquors or liquids transported iuto any [ slate or territory, or remaining therein for use, consumption, sale or storage therein, shall, upon arrival within the . limits of said state or territory, be subject to the operation and effect of the . laws of such state or territory enacted for the control and policing of the i liquor traffic, absolutely, to the same extent and in the same manner as though such liquors or liquids had been produced in such state or territory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced therein 1 in original packages for private use or otherwise, and such states shall have absolute coutrol of such liquors or liquids within their borders, by whomever produced and for whatever use imported: provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed as 1 affecting the internal revenue laws. i Judge Mackey'e Claim. Judge T. J. Mackey is before the ' legislature with a claim of $3,500 for alleged services in securing the return of the citadel academy building to the state from the Federal government and rent for the time the Federal government had the building in its possession. The judge says he had a written contract whereby he was to receive 33 per cent, of the amount of cash should he recover from the govermnent for rent aud damages, etc. The government paid $77,250, and he claims that for his part he is justly entitled to $25,000; but in order to secure an easy adjustment, he is willing to take $3,500 as settlement in full.