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Scraps and ^acts.
. ? At AsheviJIe, N. C., Wednesday, the
United States court pave Ed Hunt a
verdict for $8,500 dan.ages, against
George W. Vanderbilt. Several years
ago Hunt was a traveling salesman,
and while at Asheville he got his leg
broken by a piece of stone blown out
an excavatiou that was being made for
Vanderbilt. He brought suit for damages
to the amount of $20,000. The
case has just been concluded with the
result above stated. Mr. Hunt is well
satisfied with the verdict, and only
hopes that the case will not go to the
supreme court. Mr. Hunt now holds
* * * In Pnl nmKia
a pOSll/lOU as saicauiau >u uumu.u.u.
? Colonel R. R. Hemphill, of Abbeville,
has corrected the abduction story
published in the Charlotte Observer.
In The Observer of Wednesday he
writes as follows: "The story you
published in Sunday's Observer about
the abduction of Miss McQuiston, a
student of the Due West Female college,
in Nashville, while on her way
to ber home in Arkansas, is without
foundation. The young lady is my
niece. She expected to meet her father
at the Maxwell house in Nashville
Friday morning. He did not reach the
city, she took the first train for Memphis,
and reached home Saturday evening
at 6 o'clock. She knows nothing
about the story, and the only unusual
incident of her trip home was her disappointment
at not meeting ber father."
? A correspondent at Daytonia, Fla.,
gives the thrilling experiences of a boy
bicycle rider there racing with a mad
horse. Joe Brown, living down there,
has a horse that was run into by a
wheelman once and ever since, whenever
he sees a rider, he invariably
pursues him with mad fury. The other
night this youngster was riding
down the beach, when the horse perceived
him, and at once set out in pursuit.
The cyclist heard the hoof beats
and knowing the savage temper of the
horse put on his best licks. For half
an hour the race continued on the
smooth beach, the horse gradually
Graining. His savage neighs made
the boy half sick, and he came oigh
dropping from his wheel in exhaustion.
Nearer and nearer the horse came,
and the boy gave himself up for lost.
Perceiving a lot of timbers in the beach
ahead of him he drove his wheel to a
tree and managed to scramble up as
the furious animal reached the spot.
The boy's wheel was wrecked, as the
maddened beast trod on it and beat it
out of shape. For over two hours he
was besieged there, when some people
living near by, attracted by the horse's
actions, came along and drove the
animal off.
? The next issue of The National
Review, says a London cablegram of
Tuesday, will contain an article announcing
an. important bimetallic development
at the hands of the United
States monetary commission, consisting
of Senator Edward 0. Woleott,
former Vice President Adlai* Stevenson,
and General Charles Jackson
Paine, which will arrive here in a few
days. The commissiou, according to
The National Review, will present to
the present British government a joint
statement from France and the United
States declaring their desire to terminate
the disastrous experiments inaugurated
in 1873, and claiming our
good will and active concurrence.
The National Review adds: "We are
able to announce that England's reply
will be that the government is
willing to reopen the Indian mints, to
make a further substantial coutribu
tion to the rehabitation of silver by
extending its use iu England, by increasing
the legal tender of silver,
making silver the basis of notes, empowering
the Bank of England to use
its silver reserve, and that material assistance
aud strong moral support will
1? n/?t ibn TTnitaH
ue givcu iu iuc wujcvt vutw?
States and France have in view."
? Indications point to a decided
falling off in the number of immigrants
landing upon our shores during
the present fiscal year. Up to this
time only 195,000 immigrants have
entered our ports, whereas for the corresponding
months of the year preceding,
something like 325,000 immigrants
landed upon our shores. One
reason for this marked diminution is,
of course, fouud in the stringency ol
our immigration laws. Within the
past few years these immigration laws
have undergone decided modification,
and the result is not only that thousands
of pauper immigrants are yearly
sent back to Europe, but that thousands
are deterred from crossing the
water. In view of this explanation it
is evident that while the number ol
our foreign immigrants has fallen off
considerably during the past year, the
loss has been restricted almost exclusively
to illiterate and pauper immigrants.
Instead of operating to our
detriment, therefore, the stringency ol
our immigration laws has operated to
national benefit. There is still room
for improvement, however, as the
country is not yet free from the contaminating
influences of European
pauperism and illiteracy.
? It seems that old Horace Boies has
been misrepresented somewhat. It
may be true that he has expressed
doubts as to the eventual success ol
16 to 1; but he has ne^er yet said that
16 to 1 is wrong. Here is an extract
from his recent and much misrepresented
letter: "I know, too, that a
demand for a perpetual gold standard
that four short years ago no political
r\a*t%7 in thic notimi dared t.O make '
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that even in our last campaign was
smothered under the serious plea that
a return to the use of both metals as
standard money should come through
the united action of nations over whose
financial policies we have no control
is already brazenly heralded by a venal
press and openly and selfishly asserted
by millions of selfish men asau accomplished
fact, from which there is
no appeal, no hope of relief. And 1
know, also, that the curse of a mon
strous crime is upon us today; that
here in this land of the free its victim
is a prostrate nation, whose granaries
> are bursting with food, while millions
i of men, gaunt with hunger, go forth
, from homes where famine reigns, and
i wander up and down its streets pleading
for work they cannot obtain, begging
for bread they cannot earn, because
everywhere the wheels of industry
are clogged, and all the arteries
of trade are congested by this hypo
t critical cry for gold, for gold enough
i to sustain the monetary system of all
the nations, a cry that cannot be favorably
answered, that those who utter it
do not want it answered because to
give to the world what they ask would
cheapen that which they already
have."
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?hc ^orfevitle (Enquirer.
YORK.VILLE, 8. C.:
SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1897.
? "And what are you going to do about
it?" asked Tweed.
? By a vote of '29 to 23 the senate has
restored cotton bagging and ties to the
free list. This is another victory for
McLaurin.
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? Suppose a man should subscribe to a
pledge to support the constitution of the
state, and it should afterward develop
that this man was, to his own pecuniary
benefit, ignoring the constitution. Then
suppose again, such a man should, under
. the lash of criticism, sign a statement intended
to reflect upon the veracity of the
individual supposed to have applied the
i lash, would the inference be that he had
signed the pledge referred to under a misapprehension,
or would a more plausible
explanation be that he placed his name
to the veracity statement in the hope
of breaking the force of the criticism ?
' ?Here is what Horace Boies thinks of
the gold standard : "There are no words
I
in the English language at my common
command that express my utter abhorrence
of a financial policy that I believe
i was designed to enrich a limited few at
the expense of the toiling millions of the
wnriA that is doubling the value of a
single form of property and catting in
twain the price of every species of the
earthly possessions of men ; that is reducing
the laborer to a serf, the debtor to a
slave, the world to contending classes that
forbid the long continued existence of
republics like our own."
? So it seems that the town council purposes
to take the law and the evidence as
to holding two offices and receiving compensation,
etc., published in The Enquirer
of Wednesday, as a joke. They
have not even seen fit to censure the article
as a "fabrication,"-or "unbecoming."
They seem inclined to ignore the
whole matter and continue on in the even
tenor of their way. If this be true, the
presumptiou, then, is that they have been
aware of the facts all the time, and the
matter of two offices and free water compensation
is not the result of a little mistake
; but the development of a deliberate
purpose.
? Sometime ago, The Enquirer intimated
that the charges against Gaston and
Scruggs, of Beckroge trunk fame, were
really trivial, and on account of this suggestion
there was more or less criticism?
mostly adverse. We did not know anything
about the men personally, and do
i not know anything about them yet. The
developments, however, as published in
the papers, seemed to show that while
they had been indiscreet, they were guilty
of nothing criminal, and it was upon this
that our suggestion was based. We note
by the papers that both cases have been
thrown out by tho grand jury, and ac;
cordingly it would appear that, alter all,
our suggestion was not far from right.
? Were the belief among the Conservatives
strong that Mr. McLaurin will first,
, last and all the time stand firmly by Senator
B. R. Tillinan, he would, in our
opinion, receive no considerable Conr
servative support in the approaching primary.
It is a lingering hope that lurks
in their minds that Mr. McLaurin may
one day be useful in the ever contemplated
undoing of Tillman, that impels
many Conservatives to yield him some
meed of favor.?Greenville News.
1 Of all the persistently wrong folks who
have ever come within our observation,
our esteemed contemporary seems to be
one of the most irreconcilable. Had it
not been for the death of the lamented
i Earle, it is not improbable that McLaurin
; might have one day become a formidable
I rival of Tillman. This would not have
beeu because of antipathy to or a desire to
undo Tillman ; but because McLaurin is
' a man of remarkable force of character,
breadth of intellect and, withal, a statesman.
Such men naturally rise toward
the top, and it is out of this inevitable
rising that there would have been the
i rivalry referred to. And it is also on ac
count of these attitudes that "Conserva
> tives," who are really conservative, ad1
mire him?not because of any possible
autagonism to Tillman. If our esteemed
contemporary will just take occasion to
think a little bit and cool off somewhat,
we think it will bring itself to an entirely
different view of things generally, and
that new view will be rather more correct.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Grist Cousins?Can furnish you with vinegar,
fruit jars and rubbers, tea of several
grades, lemons and cottage hams.
T. B. MeClain?Claims that John \V.
Masury's railroad paint is the best that
is sold on this market and gives as a
reason for the claim, 22 years' experience
in the use of paints.
W. B. Moore <fc Co.?Announce that they
have a misses bicycle for sale at a bargain.
It is second-hand but in good order.
O. E. Grist?Will receive subscriptions for
the New York Ledger or will supply
you with single copies at 5 cents each.
PRISONERS IN JAIL.
The following prisoners, all colored, are
in jail awaiting trial at the approaching
term of the court of general sessions on
the charges named:
Clinton Dunlap, housebreaking and
larceny.
.Jotin Anderson, larceny 01 uveauitn..
Pick Brooks, violation of the dispensary
law.
Sherman Sanders, assault and battery.
William McFadden, assault and battery
with intent to kill.
Roland Smith, assault and battery with
intent to kill.
Berry Thompson, assault and battery
with intent to kill.
Walter Montgomery, assault and battery
with intent to kill.
Wade Shannon, assault and battery
with intent to kill.
Besides the foregoing there are also out
on bond quite a number of defendants
whose cases will be taken up or continued
as the court may deem advisable.
HOMING PIGEONS.
Mr. H. H. Beard, express and telegraph
agent at Yorkville, released a flock of
five homing pigeons at the Narrow Gauge
depot last Thursday morning at 5 o'clock,
and this (Saturday) morning at 5 o'clock
will release some 45 more.
The pigeons released Thursday morning
were sent here by C. McClain, of
Trenton, N. J., and those to be released
this morning belong to another party in
the same city. McClain wrote that one
of bis pigeons had made a record of 400
miles a day, and be was trying to get the
record up to 500 miles?the distance from
Trenton to this place.
The 45 pigeons now in charge of Mr.
Beard are only to be released this morning
in the event the weather is fair, and
the instructions also state that conditions
will be more desirable if the wind is
blowing in a northeasterly direction. Mr.
Beard will, therefore, be governed by
these circumstances, whether he will release
the birds this morning or wait for
more favorable conditions.
ABOUT PEOPLE.
Judge Witherspoon returned home last
Wednesday.
Miss Evelyn Parish has returned irom
a two week's visit to Newport.
| J. Robt. Craig, of Gastonia, is visiting
friends in Yorkville.
Mrs. H. Colcock Moore, of Clarksville,
Texas, arrived ih Yorkville yesterday on
a visit.
Mr. R. Lee Kerr, cashier of the Savings
bank, of Rock Hill, was in Yorkville on
Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Bratton have returned
to Yorkville for the summer and
are occupying one of the residences in the
Baptist High school building.
Cadet B. M. Dobson arrived from the
Citadel Thursday night. He has been
standing high in his classes, and in recognition
of his military qualification he has
been appointed a sergehnt.
Mr. W. R. Carroll left last Thursday
for Chewsville, Md., to spend a few weeks
with the family of his father-in-law, Mr.
B. A. Betts. Mrs. Carroll, who has been
in Chewsville since May, will return with ,
him.
Mrs. J. W. Humbert and Mrs. T. S. Jefferys
are attending the meeting of the
Woman's Missionary society of the South
Carolina conference at Anderson. They
expect to return next Tuesday.
Master Bolton aud Miss Luella Smith,
of Knoxville, Tenn., arrived in Yorkville
on Thursday, having been called to ,
the bedside of their grandmother, Mrs. (
Nancy J. Smith, who recently received a
stroke of paralysis.
YORKVILLE GRADED SCHOOLS.
At a meeting of the board of trustees of
the Yorkville Graded schools, held in the
office of W. W. Lewis, chairman, on ,
Thursday morning, Mr. W. E. Dendy, of i
Greer's, S. C., was elected superinten- i
dent, and Mr. James B. Kennedy, of
I Yorkville, was elected assistant super- ,
intendent.
Mr. Dendy is a native of Walhalla,
S. C. He was educated at the North
Georgia Agricultural college at Dahlonega,
and, after graduation, studied law.
Then he became a schoolteacher, and for
three years past has held a position in the
high school at Greer's. He is only '28
years of age, unmarried and comes highly
recommended.
Mr. Kennedy is also a young man. He
was graduated from Erskine college, Due
West, in 1892, and has studied law ; but for
the most part has been engaged in school
teaching. He is a man of exemplary
character, high intellectual attainments,
and his choice will, no doubt, give general
satisfaction.
The matter of selecting a music teacher
was postponed uutil the 12th instant.
There is to be no salary'connected with
this position. The graded school authorities
will merely furnished a room in the
school building, and allow the teacher all
that may be received from tuition.
THESE GET GRADES.
The names of the applicants to teacu in
the public schools of the county, who
successfully passed the recent examination,
together with their postoflices and
the class of certificate awarded to each,
are as follows:
First Uradk?Miss Ollie Elder, Uuthriesville;
Miss May Crosby, Sharon ; Miss
Eula Dobson, Yorkville; Miss Bessie
Faris, Belmont; Miss Luta Fewell, Old
Point; Mr. C. E. Dobson, Yorkville; Mr.
J. J. Brown, Carp; Miss Annie Thomasson,
Yorkville ; Mr. J. G'. Brown, Carp.
Skcond Uradk, Class A?Miss Bessie
Pattou, Catawba; Mr. \V. D. Thomasson,
Yorkville; Mr. Howard Caldwell, Yorkville;
Mr. C. F. Scoggins, Warren; Mr.
W. C. Seagle, Newport; Mr. B. F. White,
Hickory Grove; Miss Ida Ormand, Clover;
Miss Ella Allison, Hickory Grove.
Skcond Uradk, Class A?colored?
Eucinda White, Guthiiesville ; Lizzie A.
Orr, Lowrysville; Eunice O. Jones, McConnellsville;
Nannie Hill, Warren ; J.
M. Barber, Blackstock. Class B.?Ona
Crawford, Smith's Turnout; Eliza Hall,
Rock Hill ; Ada L. Cureton, Rock Hill;
Jessie Dodd, Rock Hill; Edith L.
Thompson, Yorkville; Missouri Crockett,
Rock Hill; Sallie M. Cawley, Rock
Hill; Elizabeth Mason, Rock Hill; Annie
White, Fort Mill; Maggio E. Crawford,
Smith's Turnout; Annie L. Burt,
Yorkville; Henrietta Crawford, Smith's
Turnout; J. C. Hood, Roddey; Emma
Simpson, Newport; T. L. Loatley, Fort
Mill ; J. E. Lindsay, Fort Mill; J. W. Erwin,
Guthriesville; Newton M. Wilson,
Warren, L. A. Giles, Lowrysville ; J. F.
Orr, Lowrysville ; R. E. Jones, McConnellsville;
John M. Miller, Sharon ; A. B.
TAMl>!nn LVonfOn
uciimiisi ?? oiioii.
One of the papers, No. 54, containing no
name, is entitled to a second grade, "Class
B" certificate.
' THE BICYCLE CLUB.
The Yorkville Bicycle club met on the
Garrison green last Tuesday N afternoon,
the president?Mr. G. H. O'Leary?in the
chair, and Mr. W. M. Propst, secretary,
keeping the record. About 30 members
were present.
Upon the suggesion of the committee
appointed to look .into the matter, yellow
and black were adopted as the colors of
the club.
The committee on by-laws submitted a
carefully prepared report, which, upon
discussion, was adopted. It is provided
that the club be under the government of
an executive committee consisting of nine
members, and including the president,
two vice presidents and secretary and
treasurer. The annual dues were fixed
at 50 cents each for grown people, and
25 cents for boys and girls under 14 years
of age. New members may be admitted
by the executive committee upon payment
of dues and signing of by-la r-s.
Dr. Kuykendal, as chairman, submitted
the report of the committee appointed
at the last meeting to go before the
council in behalf of the proposed bicycle
ordinance. The doctor was somewhat
humorous in his remarks, saying that the
experience of the committee was rather
stormy in the first portion of its interview;
but during a calm that followed
the storm, the council was duly impressed
with the reasonableness of the request
preferred, and kindly ordained it to be
the law of the town.
President O'Leary made a suggestion
to the effect that the club direct its ener
dies toward the securing of better roads
outside of the town, and signified his willingness
to make a contribution for the
purpose.
It was decided that meetiugs of the club
be held every Friday afternoon from the
first of May to the first of September, and
that from the first of September to the
first of May, it would go into winter quarters.
ANOTHER MEETING.
The town council held another meeting
last Tuesday night. It was not the regular
time for meeting, nor had the reporter
been invited ; but he was there. According
to adjournment, as already stated, the
next meeting was to have been held on
the 2d instant.
The reporter happened along by the
courthouse, saw a light in the council
chamber, and strolled through the corridor.
It was early in the evening. Intendant
Lowry and Warden McElwee were
in the chamber. Upon noting this the
reporter concluded that there was to be
a meeting later on. He did not say anything,
but continued his stroll. Warden
McElwee had seen the reporter, and
presently Intendant Lowry called after
him by name. The reporter answered,
turned back and was informed that there
would be a meeting of the council during
the evening. The reporter expressed his
thanks for the information, and gave assurance
that he would be there.
After awhile Wardens Moore and Parish
came along. Clerk Love was sick and
unable to be present, so it was decided
to go on without him, and the proceedings
were opened with a nonchalant suggestion
from Intendant Lowry to "pull off
your hats and lets get to business."
The occasion for the meeting on Tuesday
evening instead of Friday evening,
according to appointment, was explained
as being because Warden McElwee would
be absent from Wednesday until Saturday.
Warden Moore, of the committee on
licenses, made a verbal report. He said
that he bad written to Columbia for a
copy of the license schedule in vogue in
that city and had procured the same. He
suggested, however, that it would probably
not be worth while to consider the
question at this time ; but it would be better
to jrst hang the information on tile for
future reference." In the meantime the
fixing up of the streets is the most important
question before the council and he
thought it would be better to bend every
effort in that direction.
No action was taken upon the report;
but, instead, the council drifted into an informal
discussion of the subject of street
improvement. It was suggested that
with what money there was 011 hand, and
the street tax which would come in from
the 1st to the 15th of July, and the borrowing
of $500 in anticipation of the tax
levy, as much as $1,000 could be raised for
street improvement, and although 110
"final result" developed, it seemed to be
the concensus of opinion that the best
thing to be done with this money, under
the circumstances, would be to invest it
in crushed rock, to be applied to the
streets as far as possible now, and the
balance kept upon hand for future use.
The question whether it was best to try
to gather up the necessary rock about or
blast it from some of the numerous granite
boulders nearby, was canvassed, and
? that thp nnnn
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cil would, in a body, take a trip along the
western outskirts of the town next Monday
tnorniug for the purpose of ascertaini
ng the points at which the most desirable
stone could be had at the least cost.
Warden McElwee described a peculiar
kind of top soil which, he claimed, would
be as good as macadam for use on the
streets, fie had made a pathway across
the street opposite his house with it some
seven years ago. It never got muddy or
turned to dust and would last indefinitely.
He had known portions of the streets to
be fixed up with it and it was the best
street in town. The soil, he said, was to
be had on at least three different tracts of
land, and he suggested that if an acre or
such a matter could be bought at a reasonable
figure, it would be a good investment.
It could not only be used on the streets;
but it might be well to let the people of
the town have as much as they wanted of
it free of charge for use on their side
walks. The suggestion was taken under)
advisement, and Warden Moore was appointed
a committee of one to see what
the desired land could be bought for.
After remaining in session something
over an hour, the council adjourned.
The proceedings were quiet and orderly
and dignified and to all outward appearances
the members were in a good humor.
As to when the next meeting will
be held, the reporter has no information.
"LOCAL LACONICS.
The Eii(|iiirer Until lot of January, 1808.
The Semi-Weekly Enquirer will
be sent to any address, from this date
until the 1st of January, 1898, for $1.00.
Alliance Meeting on July 0.
W. X. Elder, president, requests The
Enquirer to announce that the third
quarterly meeting of the York County
Alliance will be held in Yorkvilleon the
second Friday in July, 9th instant.
A Fine Specimen.
Dr. J. ?. Allison leuai i he e>(jiikkk
office on Thursday morning a cotton
stalk, about 2J feet high and containing
22 squares, ranging in size from buds to
full blooms. It is the finest specimen
that we have seen this season.
Approaching Marriage.
Cards are out for the marriage of Miss
Jeannette Davidson, of Yorkville, to Mr.
W. H. Herndon. The ceremony is to
take place at the residence of the bride's
father, Mr. S. L. Davidson, on the morning
of the 14 instant, at 7 o'clock.
825 or Thirty Days.
The case of Rev. John H. Turner, colored,
charged with carrying concealed
weapons, was tried before Magistrate
Sandifer and a jury yesterday. The jury
returned a verdict of guilty, and Magistrate
Sandifer imposed a sentence of #25
fine or 30 days on the chaingang. J. R.
Hart, Esq., attorney for Turner, promptly
gave notice of an appeal to the court of
general sessions.
The County Commisftoners.
Next Monday, July 5, is the day for the
regular quarterly meeting of the county
board of commissioners. Some of the
papers have said Tuesday ; but they have
it mixed. When the board appoints a
meeting it usually selects a Tuesday; but
the regular meetings prescribed by law are
required to be held on Mondays. The
Catawba river bridge question will probably
be the most important matter to come
up for discussion.
Experience Was Different.
Mr. J. F. Wallace was afiiong the visitors
to the Nashville exposition; but his
experience was different from that recited
in The Enquirer of Wednesday.
He got a first-class boarding house at
reasonable rates, and did not have to pay
more than 50 or 60 cents each for the best
of meals and a like sum for a bed. He
was aware that many of the York veterans
had beeu deceived and gouged ; but
at the same time be saw in Nashville a
great deal that was deserving of being put
down as genuine, wholesouled hospitality.
He enjoyed the trip very much.
Sustains the Congregation.
Bishop Clinton, colored, of the African
Zion Methodist Episcopal church, was in
Yorkville on Tuesday in connection with
the Turner vs. the congregation -op.
The reporter is informed that the k.-sbop
declared that Turner had resign , tl, the
resignation had been accepted in due form,
and that so far as he was concerned that'
settled the matter. The section from the
book of church government quoted by!
Rev. Turner did not apply to the case at!
all, as the provision was only for the:
removal of preachers and bad nothing to
do with resignations, which might be ten-:
dered at anytime. The understanding is'
that Turner has given up the fight except I
that he may try to get his back salary.
Gets There With Honey.
Rock Hill Herald: Mr. H. M. Simpson,
of Catawba Junction, is a very successful
"all-around" farmer; but bis bee
farm is proportionately the best investment
he has yet made. His apiary contains
about 100 hives at his home at
Catawba, and another of 50 hives at his
place on Fishing creek. Last year he
obtained 3,000 pounds of delicious honey,
which finds a ready sale at 12J cents per
pound. Mr. Simpson bis a patent machine
for separating the honey from the
comb, extracting every drop of the syrup
and leaving the comb intact, not a cell
being broken. Wheu replaced in the
hive the bees eommei ce to refill them
immediately.
Was For Last Ye. <r.
The ?25 salary recently voted by the
town council for Mr. T. W. Clawson as
health officer, was for alleged services last
year, while that gentleman was also a
member of the b )ard of health. From a
member of the former council, the reporter
learns that the question was brought
up before the former council went out of
office; but was killed on a tie vote, the
vote of the intendant to pay the amount,
making the tie. In the present council
the proposition is said to have been to
pay Health Officer Clawson $40. Wardens
Parish and Pegram were both oppo
sed to the proposition on me grounu mac
the services were not worth that sum.
Family, however, Warden Parish suggested
that the amount should not be
more than $25. Warden Pegram did not
vote for this sum. As to whether or not
Warden Parish voted for it, our informant
is unable to say. It is a fact, bowever,
that the council agreed to pay the
sum of $25, and it is presumed that the
amount has been paid.
CHAT FROM CHEROKEE.
The Proponed Cowpens Slonumeut?Annual
Piculc of the itiittovh Hund?Flat
at Hotvell'n?Other Notes.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
Etta Jane, June jo.?Those who have
taken an interest in it are very sanguine
that the Cowpens battle ground park is
yet to be a reality. It should be so. Not
only for the sake of Cherokee county, but
for all the other counties of the state as
well, for all did their part in common
with North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee
in making it one of the most renowned
battlefields of the Revolution ;
and consequently our state and national
pride should'actuate us to have it preserved
that future generations may'venerate
the gallant deeds done there which
culminated in the independence of Anier
ica. York, Union and Spartanburg counties
ought especially to feel an interest
and pride in this matter, as they are the
maternal ancestors of the new county of
Cherokee, within whose limits this srcred
spot lies.
I regret that I am unable to attend the
annual picnic of the Antioch band, on the
King's Mountain battleground, on the 3rd
of July, to which I have been so kindly
invited. The occasion, I am sure, will be
a very pleasant one, and we hope those
who do attend will have all the pleasure
it has in store for them.
The grass is pushing our farmers so
now that they must necessarily forget
many pleasures which otherwise they
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King's Mountain and Cowpen's stand
side by side in the galaxy of Revolutionary
battlefields. They will ever be remembered
as the cradles of liberties, and
lam proud to know that our people appreciate
them as such and show their .
loyalty by repairing there annually to
celebrate Independence day.
News i-eached here yesterday morning
that Robt. W. Harris, postmaster at Union,
had suicided by taking an overdose
of morphine. I know no reason for his
rash act.
The public is greatly disappointed now
that the Hat at Howell's ferry is sunk,
and travel is partially suspended over that
route. We hope soon to see it replaced
by a new and safe one. For several weeks
it has been dangerous, but fortunately no
accident has occurred.
We have intensely hot weather at present,
and many farmers have their entire
crops to work over before they can lay
them by. Our corn is beginning to tassel
out. On good land, where it has been
well and regularly worked, it is good.
Heavy rains poured down last Sabbath
night and the creeks and river were up
some yesterday.
Rev. W. R. Owings will preach at Salem
next Sabbath, July 4.
Children's Day will be observed at Salem,
July 20. Extensive preparations are,
being made for a grand time, to which
we extend an invitation to The Enquirer
to attend. Sioma.
CAN DO ANYTHING.
The Town Council Recognizee No Limitations.?Could
Pat a Bell and Lantern
on the Writer of the Communication If
It Wanted To.
Editor of The Enquirer :
Please give me your opinion as to
whether or not that portion of Section
7 of the bicycle ordinance published in
The Enquirer of Wednesday, is discrimination.
It reads as follows: "Each
bicycle, when ridden at night, in addition
to such bell, must be furnished
with a lantern, such lantern to be
lighted." It strikes me that if the
town council has authority to require
a bicycle rider to have a lighted lantern
on bis wheel while riding "in the
street between the sidewalks," it also
has authority to impose similar conditions
on buggies, wagons, carriages, wheelbarrows,
carts, etc., and should do so.
Anti-Discrimination. LETTER
FROM H00DT0WN.
Lightning Kills Livestock?Caught a Monster
Carp?Personal and Other Notes.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
Hoodtown, July 1.?During a thunder
shower Tuesday afternoon, lightning
struck a gum tree in Mrs. E. A. Latham's
pasture, a short distance from the bouse, t
and a milk cow standing near was killed.
Also five chickens. The inmates of the
bouse were 'shocked somewhat. The
1 lightning rod on the bouse occupied by
Mr. Walter I. Duncan, on the same plantation,
was struck, and the little Negro
lurse was thrown down on the floor by
:bo shock, though otherwise uninjured.
The farmers are getting along fairly
I' ill with their work. Most of the early
j t rn has been laid by, and some will be
jr'-ady to quit the cotton, too, in a short
I tune. Cotton blooms have been reported
. y quite a number. 1 have not been able
j learn who had the first in the neighborhood.
Wilson McConnell and Will Dowdle,
wo Negro boys living on Mr. Waddy
Thompson's "Beauty Spot" plantation, on
liroad river, happened on good luck on
Tuesday. While playing about in a shallow
pond, they saw a very large fish.
They secured some sticks and killed it,
and it proved to be a carp, which measured
3 feet in length and weighed 13!
pounds. Afterwards another was caught
weighing 14 pounds, though not so long,
besides a number of smaller fish of other
kinds. They had been iu the pond since
early in the spring, when the river was
so high.
As the fruits of Rev. Waddell's sermon
a few weeks ago, a variety of vegetables,
etc., were shipped yesterday from this
neighborhood to the orphanage, including
chickens, corn, etc.
Dr. H. D. Shankle, wife and babe, of
Mill Spring, N. C., visited Dr. W. A.
Hood's family last week.
Yesterday was undoubtedly the hottest
day of the season. The outlook now indicates
a hot summer, in spite of a backward
spring. Malaria has already made
its appearance iu this section.
Voce.
BLACKSBUKG BUDGET.
The Weather?District Conference?Picnic
Today?Other Note#.
Correspondence of the Yorkrille Enauirer.
Blacksburg, July 2.?This month is
ushered in at a pretty high rate of temperature,
which, with the recent rains we
have had, is of great benefit to the crops.
It is what the farmers call "growing
weather," and what they are always
pleased to see. Corn and cotton have
taken on a vigorous growth, are generally
well worked, and the prospects for good
crops are very encouraging. The threshers
are on their yearly rounds, and so far
as I have heard, the yield of small grain
is very good.
The District Conference of the M. E.
I Church South, will be held at Ibis place
next week, beginning on Thursday morning,
the 8tb inst. About 25 lay and clerical
delegates are expected. Bishop Duncan,
of Spartanburg, will preside over
the meeting.
A delightful house and lawn party was
given at the grounds and residence of
Mr. Otis Osborne, on Tuesday evening,
for the benefit of the Methodist church
at this place. The whole place was brilliantly
lighted, ice cream and cake were
served, there was music and singing,
the evening was pleasantly and profitably
spent, and quite a liberal sum was realized
for the church.
There will be a picnic at King's Mountain
Battle Ground tomorrow, in honor of
the Fourth and the heroes who fought and
won that decisive battle. Speeches will
be made by Dr. B. F. Dixon, of King's
Mountain, Hon. D. E. Fiuley, of Yorkville,
and perhaps others.
Mrs. J. R. Smith, who lost her dwe lling