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Scraps autl |acts. ? The Hawaiian annexation treaty! was signed by the president on Wednesday, and is now under consideration by the senate. The probability that it will be duly ratified is strong, though much surprise has been created by a protest from Japan against such action. ? Senator Pettigrew on last Tuesay proposed an amendment to the tariff bill, providing that in the event it should develop that the price of auy commodity was controlled by a trust, then such commodity should be placed nn the free list. The senator held that up to the holding of the St. Louis convention, the Republican platform contained a plank to this effect and he could see no reason why the principle should be abandoned. The proposition was discussed at length and finally defeated by a vote of 35 to 32. ? The cities of Allegheny, Pa., and Baltimore, Md.,' are having a considerable quarrel on account of Mrs. Sansoni, the leper, whose case was reported recently. Mrs. Sansoni went from Allegheny to Baltimore, and the Baltimore officials having decided to send her back, are preparing a special car for her transportation. It will be a steel freight car, fitted up as comfortably as possible, and is to be sealed until it reaches its destination. Both the Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio Railroad companies have made a protest against carrying the car; but the Baltimore officials claim they will have to haul it. The state board of health, it is claimed, has stated that the case properly belongs to Allegheny. ? Meagre particulars have reached this country by late steamers of a disaster which befell the fishermen of Chusan archipelago, off the coast of China. On May 6, when all, or at least, most of the fishing boats were out on the fishiug banks, a terrible gale sprung up. Of the several hundred boats out at the lime, very few returned, and it estimated that some 500 men lost their lives. The storm was one of those sudden ones for which the coast of China is noted, and the fishermen had no chance to seek shelter. Their light boats were smashed to atoms and they were left to fight a hopeless battle with the merciless waves. The storm swept over the entire archipelago, which extends across the mouth of Hanchow bay on the eastern coast of China. Several large junks were lost, in which scores perished. ? The late Barney Barnatto, whose death has just beeu reported, was about 45 years of age. His real name was Barnett Isaacs. He went to South Africa about 25 years ago with a trick donkey which he exhibited for a livelihood. Shortly afterward he began to trade in diamonds, and in a little time accumulated enough money to enable him to buy shares in the mines. When the gold fever broke out he had money to invest and was fortunate enough to iuvest in properties of the right kind. In 1895 there was a remarkable boom in the mining stock he controlled, and his fortune grew by leaps aud bounds until he was said to be worth $500,000,000, aud the richest man in the world. This, however, was exaggerated, as the probability is that his fortune was never greater than $150,000,000. The bottom fell out of the gold mine boom a few years ago, and since that time Barnatto's wealth has dwindled somewhat, though his estate is still worth more than $50,000,000. The story that he committed suicide is now denied and it is claimed that be accidentally fell overboard. ^ ^ ~ PunL'a^ci) QQCAniotinn ? liiC UCUl^ia uaUttVio cwcvv>unv? convened at Warnt Springs, Ga., last Wednesday. Eighty members answered to their names. During the morning meeting several resolutions were brought up. The most important of these was ihe report of the chairman of the legislative committee, J. A. McCord, of Atlanta. * The committee suggests that a new banking law, calculated to throw a greater safeguard around hauking in the state, the depositor and the stockholders. It suggests that a fiue of ?5,000 or not less than one year in the peniteutiary be the penalty for receiving deposits in au insolvent bank. It proposes to improve on the present order of the bauk examiner, giving the state officers more authority. The resolution has been tabled until the next meeting, which will be at Tybee island. Many resolutions have been adopted, oue to eliminate finauces from politics and suggesting that a committee of financiers be appointed who will decide the money question. The bankers say that lots of money is being borrowed and that after the adjournment of cougress that the promises of prosperity will come. ? The "air ship" mystery of two months' staudiug has been solved by Captain Joseph O'Donuell, of Chicago, an expert in pyrotechnics, who has confessed that he was the author of the floating red and green lights which hundreds of sober citizens were ready to swear were the signal lights of an air ship passing over the lake to the north of the city. Nothing was further from the inteution of Captaiu O'Donnell, he declares, than to cause the stir he did. He produced red and green lights that looked like glowing switch lanterns swung below the clouds at intervals of a few minutes for more than two hours, utterly oblivious of the fact that the city roofs were covered with gaping citizens. Captain O'Donnell lives iu wumeue, ana sent up the lights while experimenting. The lights can be seen, the inventor says, for nearly 35 'oiles, which accounts for the fact that the citizens of Kenosha on the north, and of Hammond on the south, were given a chance to speculate on the nature of the queer fiery visitor flashing above their horizon. ? A Parisian newspaper states that since the war in Cuba began Spain has sent to that island 10 generals, 561 commissioned officers, 6,185 non-commissioned officers, and 179,174 men. making all told an army of 185,963 soldiers. Up to the end of January the Spanish army had lost men wounded iu battle to the number of 40 commissioned officers, 401 non-commissioned officers, aod 7,631 men. Dead on battlefield or from the effects of their wounds, 1 general, 12 commissioned officers, 107 nou-commissioned officers and 10,475 men. Killed by yellow fever, 1 general, 30 commis sioned officers, 287 non-commissioned officers and 10,475 soldiers. Killed by ordinary sickness or accidents, 2 generals, 24 commissioned and 89 non-commissioned officers. Notwithstanding the silence of official reports in regard to the number of soldiers that have died from the effects of ordinary sickness or accidents, it is bellieved that over 10,000 soldiers have perished. The ocean liners and transport ships have taken hack to Spain over 20,000 sick and crippled soldiers, many of whom died en route or after having reached home. The losses of the Spanish army during the last two years of war in Cuba must be over 45,000 men. She ^(orkvilU (Enquirer. YORKVILLE, S. C.: SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1897. ? There is no occasion for surprise in the refusal of the United States senate to go to trial. What criminal would submit even to arraignment if he could help himseirr ? State Superintendent of Education Mayfield is being boomed as a fit man to succeed Craighead as president of Clemson college. It is not unlikely that there are to be found dozens of men in the state with as much experience and as many other qualifications, and men also who have just as strong claims upon the position. ? Senator Tillman, on Tuesday, gave notice of an amendment he will offer to the tariff bill'providing for a head tax of $100 on all immigrants to the United States. The amendment also makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by fine and imprisonment, for any person to enter the United States for the purpose of engaging in trade or manual labor without intending to become a citizen. These provision are modified by a proviso to the effect that "they shall only remain in effect until silver shall be admitted to our mints for coinage at the ratio of 10 to 1, on the same condition with gold." ? Just now, while we think of it, it is not out of place to call attention to the fact that the members of the county board of commissioners are entitled to especial appreciation for the careful and painstaking work tbey have been doing in connection with this Catawba river bridge matter. There is not a man on the board who is not worth considerably more than a dollar a day at home; yet this is all they get for the days which they give to the service of the county. No one, therefore, would even suggest that a money consideration has anything to do with their careful and painstaking work. They have been putting a great deal of time on the bridge matter; but that is right and proper. The amount of money and the interests involved are too great be disposed of lightly. Taken all in all, it can be said of them that they are truly faithful servants, earnestly trying to do what they consider best for their fellowcitizens of the county generally. ? Sugar King Claus Spreckles, is out with Sugar Kings Haveineyer and Searles, and is doing some interesting talking. He says that he has quit Havemej'er and Searles, for the reason that he does not like their methods, and goes on to make some comments on the present sugar schedule. The Sugar Trust, says Spreckles, undoubtedly has control of the senate, and will make millions as the result of pending legislation. For instance, he claims that, at the present time, the trust has on hand raw sugar to the amount of between GOO,000 and 700,000 tons. The proposed tariff amounts to between $16 and $18 a ton, and as no more sugar can be produced before January, the trust has a monopoly. "Now," concludes Spreckles, "if the senators mean this for a revenue bill alone, they should impose an internal revenue tax upon all sugar refined between now and January 1,1898. Then this bonus of $10 or $18 a ton would go into the United States treasury, instead of into the hands of the Sugar Trust." ? Senator McLaurin made a speech on Thursday, in which he made perfectly clear his position in regard to Protection and Democracy. We would be glad to reproduce the speech in full, if we had the space, for it is well worth reading. However, such publication is not necessary for the especial enlightenment of our readers. Mr. McLaurin stands just where The Enquirer has already said he stood?for the protection of the best interest of the people of the south. Though the article ill Tim Kx(ju i it Kit ol* a few weeks ago was written entirely upon our own motion, wo could not even now, with Mr. McLaurin's full speech before us, give a better or more correct synopsis of his position. First, last and all the time, be is a Democrat; his idea of Democracy being included in "equal rights to all?special privileges to none." After a careful review of the actual facts and figures of history, he sums up the tariff situation as follows; "Here we find that two disastrous panics came under the lowest tariffs since 1816, aud also that two terrible panics came under the highest tariffs we ever had. This pmves that panics come under low tariffs and high tariffs. But no man liv ing or dead ever heard of or witnessed a panic when the people had plenty of money." EVANS FOR THE SENATE. Reported that He Cannot Again Enlist the Support of Tillman. Senator Tillman refuses to interfere in the coming primary to decide the South Carolina seuatorial contest, says the Washington correspondent of The News aud Courier. As stated iu these dispatches be may have a friendly feeliug for ex-Governor John Gary Evans; but he has informed the exgovernor and his friends that he proposes to keep hands off in the senatorial race. Further developments concerning John Gary Evans's recent consultation here with Senator Tillman have leaked out. It is said tlmt the ex-governor and some of his political friends held a consultation in the Hotel Jerome, at Columbia, and the result was uot favorable to Johu Gary Evans's senatorial prospects. The consultation wa^ supposed to be strictly secret, but it was evident that the cx-governor could not consolidate the forces assembled, although all of those present were supposed to ? J ri _/ oe dis inenas. oome ui me geuncmen who supported him in his race against the late Senator Earle refused to commit themselves to him again, on the ground that they do not believe be can win. Several reasons were given for this belief. It was claimed that a fight among the Reformers would be of no advantage at this time to the Reform party, or to the state administration, which would undoubtedly be against the ex-governor. Another reason assigned was the fact that many Reformers who had heretofore supported the ex-governor would not now feel inclined to antagonize Governor Ellerbe, but would prefer to have his appointment ratified. Those who took the position, however, finally agreed to support the ex-governor in the race, provided he could get Senator Tillman to take an active part in the fight, and "draw the lines as of old." The ex-governor Hurried to Washington to obtain the active support of Senator Tillman. The senator having declined to come to the rescue of his young friend, the query among Palmetto politicians is, will the exgovernor's friends who participated in the Columbia caucus stand by him without Senator Tillman in charge of the fight ? Hampton and McLaurin.?Here is the story of a visit of interest equally to the friends of a famous Georgia Confederate general and to those of a famous South Carolina Confederate general, says a Washington dispatch of Tuesday to the Atlanta Constitution : This mnrnincr General Wade Hamp ton went to the Capitol and called on Senator McLaurin. General Hampton aud the new seuator had not spoken in some years, I am told ; but the general called to thank McLaurin for his visit with other South Carolinians to the White House in his behalf. The two lunched together in the senate restauraut and the old exsenator, who was so popular as a member of that body, was given a right royal welcome by his former associates. Then be and Senator McLuuriu called on Secretary Bliss.and the secretary confirmed the plan suggested by the president the other day which was that General Hampton need fear no alarm about his bold on the commissionersbip of railroads, certainly not until he returns from the trip he is preparing. The Georgia end of the story is that General Longstreet will remain at Gainesville, in the meantime the salary of the office going to his old comrade in arms. Georgia Republicans here are uot at all pleased at the turn the case hus taken. MERE-MENTION. They have begun to report the first cotton bloom out in Alabama. Ellis Island, the government immigration station in New York harbor, was burned a few days ago. Many Mexican cities were shaken up by earthquake shocks last Wednesday. Stewart T. Woodford, of New York, has been nominated as minister to Spain. The sultan has arranged to increase the Turkish army to 700,000 men. The universal postal congress, which has been in session in Washington for sometime past, has adjourned to hold its next meeting in Rome, Italy, in February, 1003. General John B. Gordon is seriously ill at his i....no ..ou.. Atluiitn Boston sailors are on a strike l'or $25 a month. Over 1,000 American riflemen sailed from NewYork last Thursday for Europe to take part in an international rille shoot to begin at Nuremburg, Germany, on July 4. A thief and a murderer is what Representative Sulzer, of New York, called General Weyler, in a speech delivered in the house last Thursday. Thunder storms of extraordinary severity, accompanied by unusual electric displays and heavy rain, occurred at several points in Ohio Wednesday and Thursday night. Several peoplo were killed by lightning, bridges were washed away, reservoir dams broken, and at Dingers, W. Va., a landslide was caused, which took a train of 20 freight cars with it. "Horseshoe Robinson." For two subscribers to Tim Enquirer for one year and the payment of $3.50, we will give to the person returning the names, a paper-bound copy of the wellknown local story of "Horseshoe Robinson," written by Hon. John P. Kennedy. LOCAL AFFAIRS. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. The Ganson Dry Goods Company?Is J still cutting prices and offering special inducements to buyers, preparatory to removing to the new store in the Nichols building. T. B. McClain?Announces that he is prefmred to furnish ice to consumers at a ower price than others can buy at the factory. T. B. McClain?Talks to you about Masury's Railroad paint. Grist Cousins?Can supply you with Magnolia hams at 12} cents a pound, fresh cream cheese at 15 cents, corn starch, flavoring extracts, Royal baking powder, coffee, etc., and Buckeye mower and rake. They wish to buy 100 dozen eggs and sell a second-hand 4-passetiger surrey. -T a Shnrlov. Snnprintendent of Educa tion?Has on band and for sale at cost, all the books authorized to be used in the public school of York county. He also requests all the schools trustees of York county to meet him at Yorkville on salesday in July. JULY WEATHER. The following is from our Chester weather prophet under date of June 16: "I send you predictions for July, as indicated by the signs that appear from time to time. Yon may publish, if you wish, whether they suit the Chester Bulletin or not. Probably The Bulletin can tell us why the water in wells 50 or 60 feet deep, and less, get& down lower when the wind blows strongly from the east or northeast, and why it rises in the same wells when the wind blows several days from the north or northwest. Probably The Bulletin overlooked that the predictions for June call for rain more or less from the 1st to the 14th. I said the weather would be somewhat stormy, and I think such has been the case. The outlook for July, as I see it, is as follows: "From 1 to 3, warm and windy. From 4 to 8, some appearance of rain. From 9 to 14, thunder clouds and heavy showers. From 15 to 20, hot and dry. From 21 to 25, changeable with strong appearances of rain. From 26 to 31, local showers." ABOUT PEOPLE. Mayor B. M. Spratt, of Chester, was in Yorkville on Thursday. Mr. R. A. Dobson relumed from Furman university yesterday. , Mr. C. Eldred Dobson, returned home on Wednesday, from Wofford college. Miss Belle Kennedy attended commencement exercises at Due West this week. Mrs. Sallie Logan, of Bethesda town ship, is in Yorkville visiting the family of her son, Sheriff John R. Logan. Messrs. D. P. Leslie and J. Wylie Roddey, of Leslie's and Roddey's respectively, were in Yorkville on Thursday. Mr. Wm. M. Kennedy and bis sister, Miss Amelia, returned from Due West, on Thursday, where they have been in college. Correspondence Gaffney Ledger: We were glad to meet Hon. D. E. Finley, of Yorkville, at Gaffney during court week. He has a host of friends in Cherokee county who are always glad to see him. He will go down in history as the first lawyer to win a murder case in the Cherokee county court. . AFTER REESE. Sheriff Logan left Yorkville last Monday to investigate the Reese mystery at Lexington, Tenn. The same parties who created a sensation by telegraphing in February that they had captured Reese, have, by letter, been presisting in their claims ever since. Among other things the letters claimed that the man in custody auswered descriptions to a dot, including the bullet to be felt in the back of the (neck, etc. Tt was also claimed that the man had in his pocket a cabinet-sized photograph of Mrs. Anderson, which was identical with the cut published some time back in The Enquirer. From the letters and other circumstances there was foundation for a theory to the effect that the Lexington man, whoever he was, was down with rheumatism nnH was heini? nursed in a farm bouse some distance from the town. It is understood that Reese was subject to rheumatism, and everything except an indefinite assertion to the effect that the man had been seen in the vicinity in January, seemed to indicate that the Lexington people had the right man. Rut, after all, the sheriff has had his long journey for nothing. Having seen the mysterious suspect, he has telegraphed back to Yorkville that the Lexington people are mistaken. The sheriff expected to return home last night. THE CATAWBA BRIDGE. The county board of commissioners met at Neely's ferry, on Catawba river, last Wednesday, in pursuance of the recently adopted resolution, for the purpose of examining the various sites that have been suggested as the best for the location of the proposed bridge, and for the purpose of getting information on the subject generally. All of the members of the board were present, as were also a large delegation of Fort Mill township people advocating the Neely's ferry location, a delegation from the town of Fort Mill advocating the Harris's ferry location, a delegation from Rock Hill, also favoring the latter place, a young bridge engineer named Allen, and Editor Hull, of the Rock Hill Herald, and a representative of The Enquirer. The Neely's ferry location was examined first. The point at which the Neely's ferry advocates desire to locate the bridge, is about fifty yards below the ferry landings on either side. On the west side of the river, there is a granite bluff which rises perpendicularly to a height of perhaps JO feet above the ordinary water level, and the foot of it is washed by the current. The distance to the opposite bank of the river is 390 feet, and 155 feet further on there is a ridge, the top of which is in the neighborhood of 15 feet above water level. Between the blulf unci the opposite bank, several largo rocks project out of the water, and other rocks, slightly submerged, are to be seen extending almost the entire way across. That there is a good rock bottom all along, there is no question. The top of the bluff referred to forms a shelf some 15 or 20 feet wide, and extending back to a wooded promontory, which is very probably granite underneath, and which slopes sharply upward to a height of not less than 50 or GO feet in a distance of say GO yards. The sides of this promontory slope too rapidly to permit the passuge of a wheeled vehicle in their present shape; but the construction of a fairly good wagon road to the top of the ridge seems to be easily practicable, though just exactly at what expense, the reporter does not care to risk an estimate. While the majority of the crowd was standing on the top of the blutT listening to Engineer Allen telling of the tons and tons of gunpowder that would be required to blast down the bluff and a road to the top of the ridge, Commissioners McKnight, Or win, Stanton, Ashe and Wilkersou, followed by the representative of The Enquirer, reconnoitered the prospect up through the woods. The commissioners referred to made a thorough examination of almost every consideration that seemed to enter into the problem by which they were confronted. They bad but little to say, and what they did say was not about the advantages; but rather the disadvantages. None of them expressed themselves definitely; but from all he could gather, the reporter formed the impression that while they were not especially pleased with the prospect, all of them bad seen good roads constructed under as many, or even more, disadvantages. The opposite side of the river did not appear to receive much attention from the majority of the board. The proposed landing was in plain view, only 390 feet away. All looker! at it carefully from the top of the bluff and quietly kept their own counsel. From Neely's ferry, the commissioners and the crowd went down to Harris's ferry?some 011 one side of the river and some on the other. The distance by water, so the river men all say, is not less than two miles. By the road down the east bank, the distance is in the neighborhood of four miles; and by the road on the west bank, it is about two miles-anda-half. The reporter was with the party that went down the west side, and reached the point of destination considerably in advance of the party that went down the east side. At Harris's ferry, there is another granite bluff similar to that at Neely's ferry, except that it is not so high, and it is situated ou the opposite or east side of the river. Here the width of the stream is 540 feet. From the edge of the river to the foot of the bluff on the east side, the distance is 108 feet, and from the edge of the river on the other side, to the top of a 10-foot rise above the level bottom land, is 144 feet. The distance from the bluff to the rise referred to, over river and all, is 792 feet. Beyond the rise at the west side landing is a wide stretch of low level, alluvial bottom that is not more than 7 or 8 feet above ordinary water. Then the stream from bank to bank is wide and sluggish. In taking across five men in a little bateau, the boatman does not find it necessary to go 20 feet above a bee line to strike a given point on the opposite bank. The estimated depth of the river is from 4 to 10 feet, and the bottom is principally mud and sand. The commissioners and others look in every detail of the situation and talked it over thoroughly among themselves. One of the commissioners did some rough figuring like this: "If 792 feet of bridge and approaches at Harris's ferry can be built lor 89,000; then leaving out of consideration the difference between rock and earth bottoms, the 540 feet of bridge arid approaches at Neely's ferry, ought to be built for 86,137. In speaking of the low bottoms between the proposed bridge landing on the west side of Harris's ferry, nf the nconlfi in the neighborhood said they had known the water to be over them deep enough to swim a horse. Others who had been living right there for years, said that the water did not get over the bottoms oftener than ouce in five years, while Neely's ferry advocates claimed that when the water got high enough to fiood the proposed east side landing at the upper site, the west side landing at the lower site could only be reached with a fiat boat, and so on. All of this, however, was in the nature of side remarks. There was no quarrel and all parties appeared to be in the utmost good humor. After the members of the board had seen all they wanted to see and learned all that it was practicable to learn, at the call of the supervisor, they withdrew from the crowd and assembled in the shade of a clump of trees growing on the north side of the rock which forms the proposed Harris's ferry abutment. Here the proceedings were opened by Mr. Wilkerson, who stated that notwithstanding all that he had seen, he was still very much undecided as to how to vote, and, therefore, he moved that further action be suspended until the next regular meeting of the board, on Monday, July 5. Mr. Brice seconded the motion, saying that had Mr. Wilkerson not done so, he would have made just such a motion himself. It was his desire to vote on this matter intelligently and correctly, and this he felt sure that he was unable to do at that particular time. Mr. Stanton was also for postponement, if for nothing else, to get estimates as to the cost of building a road to the proposed approach at Neely's ferry. Mri Culp said that he had been informed by bridge men that bridge material was ?10 a ton cheaper now than had ever been known before. This was because of the collapse of the trust not long before. The probability was that the trust might succeed in a reorganization at an early day, and, if so, prices would go up. For this reason the bridge men suggested that delay was to be avoided. Major White suggested that the advice .->? ti,n t.rwifrr.rnon mitrht nossiblv be due to over-anxiety to begin work. Mr. Gwin inquired into the parliamentary status of the bridge resolution, and the inquiry developed the fact that the board is now committed to an appropriation of #>,000 for the purpose of buildiDg a bridge at some site still to be agreed upon. Mr. Nims thought that the board 'had already given enough investigation to. the matter to warrant final action, and he thought that if the board was going to build a bridge, that then was the time to say so. As the result of further discussion, it developed that rights of way had not been secured to and from the proposed bridge at either location, and finally action was taken as follows: Further consideration was postponed until the first Monday in July, and a committee, consisting of C. T. Crook and W. H. Windle, and J. W. Ardrey and John M. Spratt, representing the two proposed locations respectively, with the privilege of calling in a fifth man as arbiter, was appoiuted to secure rights of way to the respective locations, and also properly guaranteed estimates as to the cost of building roads to the respective approaches, etc. It is understood that all of the papers banded in by this committee must be executed in due form by responsible parties. There being no further business, the board adjourned, and shortly afterward, about 1 o'clock p. in., all the members of the big crowd scattered for their respective homes. IA/UAJU unLWn tvwi Looking For Hia Return. Contractor Evans bas written to bis foreman here from Nashville, that be will return to Yorkville this week. The Enquirer Until 1st of January, 1808. The Semi-Weekly Enquirer will be sent to any address, from this date until the 1st of January, 1898, for $1.02. First Shipment Ready. The York Cotton mills have 5,000 pound of yarn ready for shipment to Philadelphia. This will complete onethird of the first contract taken by the mills. Mistake of S<0. There was a mistake of $10 in the round trip rate from Yorkville to Toronto, as published in The Enquirer of Wednesday. Instead of $16.10 the amount is $26.10. Yellow Melons. Tbey have a big joke on Mr. Stewart, of Tirzah. He planted some seeds that were given to him by a neighbor not long ago, and sometime afterward invited some friends to come and take a look at bis "watermelons." The friends were considerably puzzled at first; but, after careful investigation, finally diagnosed the plants as pumpkins. Eastern York Crops. Though the farmers out on the Thorn's Ferry road seem to be well along with their work, crops are not so good as are reported down in the direction of Plnck- t ney ferry. But this should not be taken to mean that the Eastern York crops are especially sorry. The reporter has seen worse crops at this season of the year many a time. Colored Excursionists. " There was a colored excursion from I Chester in Yorkville last Wednesday, and the excursionists were entertained throughout the day by the Yorkville Negroes. In the afternoon there was a game of baseball which resulted in the defeat of the Chester club by a score of 28 to 10. Domh Not Ua? Guano. The reporter overheard Dr. Barnett, of the Neely's ferry neigbboihood, say the other day that be had not used a dust of guano in 20 years. He does not plant a great deal of cotton; but seldom makes less than a half-bale to the acre. He raises a great many cattle and sheep and depends upon them for all the manure he uses under bis various crops. Caught a Carrier Plgeou. Fort Mill Times: A carrier pigeon was caught here in Mr. Tom Hoaglaud's livery stable on last Wednesday. It is supposed to be a Homer, a species of carrier. There is a brass ring on one leg and a , silver ring on the other with T2620, and on one wring it has 2620 in red ink. It was slightly hurt when caught and was kept by Mr. T. A. Mills for a couple of days; but when released, it would not leave and is still here. A-Fort Mill View. ' Referring to the recent speech of C. T. Crook before the county commissioners on the bridge question, the Fort Mill Times remarks: "Many facts were brought out in the case which were hitherto unknown, and, in our opinion, after the board has made an inspection of the new site and carefully considered all the points which certainly favor the location, we believe that the bridge will go to Neely's ferry." To Stop a Cockfight. Columbia State, Wednesday: Yesterday Governor Ellerbe received an appeal from citizens of Fort Mill. The appeal sets forth that at an early date cockfights and other gambling attractions were to take place near that town, and the governor was asked to interfere in some way. Governor Ellerbe has notified the author ities that all such events are violations of the law and tbat tbey will be expected to enforce tbe laws of the state. Remarkable Meteor. * Yorkville people who happened to be sitting up last Wednesday night, and who were looking toward the south, saw passing across the heavens a meteor that was of comet proportions. The unheralded vistor looked like a great sky rocket, which lit up the whole course of its path and burst into a half dozen sections, which went in different directions and seemed to fall almost to the earth. It was a strangely grand sight which frightened some aud delighted others. Tho News notes that the wonderful meteor was also seen in Greenville. No Pensions Till August. Columbia Register: Comptroller*General Norton states that he cannot have the pension lists ready before August 1. That is the earliest possible time at which the lists can be arranged aud prepared. Tho county lists have to be sent back almost daily for correction ; but the number has been materially increased. In this connection it may be stated that the pension fund is $100,000, but is provided for by the appropriation ; and the contemplated deficiency will have no effect on the pensioners. They will get their money as soon as the lists are properly made out. The TIrzah Dispensary. A reporter for The E.vquirer was at Tirzah on Wednesday and was told that Judge Simonton's original package decision does not seem to have caused any decrease in the number of visitors to tho dispensary. The patronage of the insti tution, however, is not so brisk as at other seasons of tbe year, on account of the scarcity of money, a municipal ordinance against "drinking in public" is a great inconvenience to many thirsty people from a distance, and unless this ordinance is suspended during the coming encampment, the outlook is that the town will have to build a new guardhouse to accommodate its prisoners. Race With a Dog. Mr. Tom Thomasson reports an exciting race with a big yellow dog last Wednesday. The incident occurred on the King's Mountain road. Mr. Thomasson was riding a wheel^ The dog ran out of a yard as though he were after meat. There was a mile of good level road, slightly down grade ahead, and Mr. Thomasson decided to run for it. The dog accepted the challenge, aud for a minute or two the situation was interesting. In faci, people working in the fields along the road stopped to look at the