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Scraps and .facts. ? A dispatch from Hawaii is to the effect that Minister Hatch has agreed with President Dole upon the terms of a treaty, wherehy Hawaii is to he annexed to the United States. The dispatch also says that President McKinley has issued a call for a special session of the senate, to assemble in Washington on September 6. This statement is not confirmed in Washington ; but the understanding is that official circles in Washington admit that annexation is on foot, and that the treaty will be ratified early upon the assembling of the next session of rnncrPftM. vw"*o ? Charlotte Smith, p.. Ident of the Woman's Rescue league of New York, has on foot a scheme by which she hopes to compel marriageable bachelors to marry. She is trying to interest labor organizations on the ground that the labor question is involved. This she gets at with statistics showing the number of women who are doing men's work in various vocations at less than men's wages. If the men would marry the women and take care of them, the price <">f labor would have to go up. There is in Mrs. Smith's scheme quite a number of other socialogical points that seems to be worthy of serious consideration and the matter has begun to attract a great deal of attention. ? A Raleigh, N. C., special says : Some northern capitalists are now in this section prospecting for a site for a silk manpfactory. A New Jersey firm of silk manufacturers, only a month or two ago, located a mill at Greensboro, N. C., which will employ several hundred hands. Thus a new new field of labor is being opened up for southern white labor, the lower rates at which it can be obtained and more pacific character of that class of help, being one of the incentives to silk mill building in this Bection. The silk mill at Petersburg, Va., has just put in an electric plant, and recently was increased, but the rush of orders of late has been so great that it is found necessary to run on double time. ? Hypnotism has come in collision with the court of California, where a judge refused to allow a hypnotist to testify that he had put an alleged mur derer UDder his influence, ana tnat while in that condition the prisoner had denied that he had committed the crime. The court took this stand because it. said that the law did not recognize hypnotism. Because of this denial an appeal was taken and the supreme court has just upheld the position of the trial judge, although one member said he did not quite agree with his fellows in their attitude on hypnotism. Aside from this position as regards the science, it is bard to see how the testimony of the hypnotist could affect the case. As the lay understand it, a hypnotic subject can be made to say or do anything the hypnotist commauds him. That being the case, a confession or denial could be drawn out at the will of the hypnotist. At any rate, the court was quite right in refusing to allow the latter to testify. ? Secretary Hester's anuual report, issued on September 1, shows receipts of cotton at all United States ports for the year of 6,829,100 bales, against 5,420,246 last year; overland 940,482 against 873,465; southern consumption taken direct, 988,382 against 863,635, making the cotton crop of the United States for 1896-97 amount to 8,757,964 bales, against 7,157,246 last year, and 9,901,251 the year before. Altogether the southern mills took 1,042,671 bales; an increase of 138,000. Mr. Hester makes the actual cotton crop of Texas, including Indian territory, 2,247,554. His report on the different states is as follows : North Carolina 500,000 ; South Carolina 800,000; Georgia 1,300,000; Alabama 1,019,000; Florida 60,000 ; Mississippi 1,226,000 ; Louisiana 575,000; Arkansas 700,000; Tennessee 330,000; Texas 2,248,000. Total crop 8,758,000. North Carolina above includes Kentucky and Virgin t> . Ill j ieUUC?9CC IHUIUUCD VManuuja , Missouri includes Kansas aud Utah ; Texas includes Indian territory. ? Herman W. Yaulreuden, formerly private secretary to Secretary Carlisle,, and Dennis County, a former clerk in the inter-state com me ce commission, were arrested in Washington last Monday, on the charge of embezzling $15,700 from a number of citizens. The two conducted a large bucket shop here up to a lew mouths ago, and included amoug their patrous a number of the most prominent citizens. About the last of Juue of this year they failed, aud it is now alleged that they turned large sums of money deposited with them to be used in deals to their own use. Amoug those who it is alleged were swindled in this manner are Joseph Wilkins and Frederick Emerich, leading merchants, and Dr. McMertv, a physician, each of whom claims to have lost sums approximating $5,000. This is all that is known of the case at present; but the two men are held by the police awaiting a further investigation. VanSenden is from Paducah, Ky. ? T. W. Evans, the famous American dentist, who for the past 40 years has been the dental operator iu Paris of most of the crowned heads of Europe and many celebrities, returned to this country last week on the French liner La Champagne, from Havre. He came over with the body of his wife, which is to be interred iu Woodland cemetery, Philadelphia. Dr. Evans is now 75 years of age, and is said to be worth $35,000,000. About $5,000,000 of this property is in New York city real estate, the remaiuder in Paris and elsewhere. This fortune has been gathered since Dr. Evans first weut to Paris from Philadelphia in the forties. During the empire of Napoleon III his fame as a dentist was world wide. In that capacity he served Napoleon, the Empress Eugenie and all the monarchs of Europe except Queen Victoria and the present sultan of Turkey. Victoria's children and the present czar of Russia, when a child, were his patients. Dr. Evans has orders and decorations innumerable, and it was in his carrage that the Empress Eugenie escaped from Paris after the battle of Sedan. ?hc Uorfevilte ?nquirer. YORKVILLE, S. C.: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,1897. -The Enquirer is the only paper in the state?the city dailies not excepted? which succeeded in getting up full returns from its county on the night of the election, and, furthermore, it was the first paper in the state to publish the fact that McLaurin was elected on the first ballot. ? The only counties.in which McLaurin failed to get a majority, were Aiken, Colleton, Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg and Union, and each of these gave hiin s big vote. Irby only carried the countj of Laurens. The other counties mentioned were carried by Evans. ? Colonel L. P. Youmuns has been in Yorkville this week. In a literary conversation with some friends, a day or twc ago, he called their attention to a new word which, though coming into common use, is not yet to be found in the dictionary. It is the word "deflate." H< explained that it meant the opposite oi inflate, and was used principally by th< bicycle people ; but just as good an illustration of its meaning can be fouud by it* application to the condition of Messrs Evans and Irby after the senatorial primary of last Tuesday. o _i /.rmfomnnraries sav, OOVUIill \Jl WUl VVuvv>4.rv. w . Mr. Mr. Laurin says, and a number of subscribers who have kindly taken it upon themselves to write us letters, saj that the report of the Yorkville meeting as published in The Enquirer, was the most complete aud satisfactory report o] any one of the senatorial campaign meetings published by any paper in the state, Although we consider this a high compliment well calculated to "made us proud," we shall strive not to be spoiled by it, and promise to continue in the discharge of our duty to our readers just as carefully and as conscientiously as before, ? Though there are many who believt that McLaurin is the best fitted man ir the state for the position of United State: senator, it does not necessarily follow that this is the reason of his overwhelming election. There were many votes cast for him as a protest against Evans and Irby, who have long since forfeited the confidence of the people. But, all th( same, The Enquirer hopes and believes that future events will full justifly the work of last Tuesday, and we franklj confess hero that we shall not be at all surprised if, within the next few years, Mr. McLaurin developes into a national figure of the size and quality of the intellectual giants which South Carolina used to send to the senate iu days gone by Time will show, however. ? For the consolation and comfort of the Conservatives who have voted for Mr. McLaurin in the primary election, we make the following extract from a communication iu the Columbia Register, signed by Mr. J. P. Gibson, of Bennettsville, who has been the editor of the Pee Dee Advocate until recently : One of the worst and most damaging charges against McLaurin is his insincerity and faithlessness to his friend, ex-Governor Evans, whom he promised to support last year, but whom he says he voted against. McLaurin, on the day of the primary, came into my office, and we together prepared our uckbib. j. ??>? to induce him to vote for Earle ; but be said that he must vote for Evans, and lie arranged an Evans ticket and told me that ho intended to vote it, and I have always believed that he voted for Evans; but Evans was defeated, and now he (MoLaurin) says he voted for Earle. Mr. Gibson certainly knows what he is talking about, and he would never dare to concoct such a story. Moreover, he has always been the devoted friend and admirer of McLaurin since the latter entered public life, supporting him in every campaign until the present, and working zealously in his behalf as an editor and as a citizen. Ingratitude and selfishness are not uufrequently found among public men, and we are not surprised that McLaurin has developed along this line, for we regard him in the light of a pluperfect politician, hardly equaled in the history of South Carolina.?Greenville Mountaineer. Although the campaign is now over the foregoing seems to The Enquire* to be still worthy of more or less attention, not so much because of the attack on the character of Mr. McLaurin; bul because of a certain moral that may be drawn from it. The communication of Mr. Gibson, to which The Mountaineer refers, and from which it makes an extract, was noted by us immediately upon its appearance in the Columbia Register, and, we confess, it received more than usual consideration. If we had believed the story, wo could not, in justice to our readers, have refrained from pointing out at once the probable truth of the most damaging charge that has yet been raised against Mr. McLaurin?the charge of being a deliberate liar. Rut we did not believe the story and we will give some reasons why. Though sorry to confess it, we know that there is connected with the newspa- ; per profession, a great many disreputable ' persons. They include men who are j 1 smart, bright and quick ; but utterly de1 void of principle, and who look upon | public men as their choicest and' most ( profitable prey. A common practice among them is to join the crowd in the applause of a popular candidate. For instance, they publish nice things to please ' the people, and, incidentally, the candi: date. And then, when its all over and the 1 candidate gets there, it is not an unusual thing for them to put a very high estimate on their supposed services and demand compensation on their own terms. Very often these terms amount to the levy of blackmail, and wheu the candidate re- ( fuses to be blackmailed, it is not surprising that the shyster journalist should stoop to anything, even to deliberate lying, to ' blast the reputation and standing of bis \ intended victim. During a long experience in the newsi paper business, a large number of these kind of journalists have come under our . observation. We have seen them in poli itics, business and other vocations. Upi on reading the communication of Mr. Gibson in The Register, from the circum; stantial account he gave, it dawned upon us that he was probably a journalist of the kind described. We could not say posi' lively yet, for we are not possessed of the ' facts; but when the same communication reappeared in The Register, with the 1 word "advertisement" over it, indicating that it was paid for at so much a line, we were convinced, to a moral certainty, that the whole thing was a diabolical concoctiou of rascality, which easily took place as the leader of all the infamous lies that were introduced in the campaign. For instance, take Gibson's story on its merits. He says he run bis paper in the interest of McLaurin. If he did that, he was all the while deliberately deceiving - his subscribers, for they had reason to suppose that the paper was being ruu in their interest. And if be lied to his subscribers for Mr. McLaurin, is it surprising that he would lie to the people ' of the whole state against him, especially after Mr. McLaurin had refused to pay an assessed price for his previous lying ? , And then again, as to The Mountaineer's r suggestion as to ingratitude, etc. We do ; not like that much. Mr. McLaurin is f under obligations for his election ; but it j is not to any individual or any news> paper. It is to the whole state. Though f many of the newspapers supported him earnestly, he does not owe one of them a , thing. They are not supposed to have j been actuated in the matter so much on j i account of consideration for him, as for I their subscribers, and this being the case, ' * no matter how much service any of them i might have been the means of rendering, , the bill is settled. So let us not hold Mr. McLaurin to too strict account just yet. * He is in a very conspicuous position, 1 \yhere he is easily watched, and let jus ' ? watch him. If he develops "ingratitude" to individuals or newspapers, let us pay ] no attention to it; but if he should finally i * develop ingratitude to the whole people, i or if he should commit any of those ; ' crimes so freely predicted by his oppo- j 5 nents on the stump, let us take him down. ' In the meantime, however, let us give ' him a chance and see if he will not do all j that we are expecting of him. 1 I TILLMAN IN NEW YORK. ' I He Talks Politics to Patriots of America at Albany. < Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, of I South Carolina, speaking here today 1 at a gathering of the "Patriots of ' America," dwelt caustically upon state 1 politics, says an Albany, N. Y., dis- ! patch of Monday. Some of his re- ' marks were as follows: ( "Notwithstanding the fact that the , two political machines in this state ^ went back on Bryan, the Republicans , fighting him with all the money they ] , could commaud, and the Democracy stabbing him in the back, there were t 551,000 Democrats who stood up and i said by their votes we want Mr. Bryau, ] and where there are a half a million of Democrats and loyal men who love their liberty, I cannot consider it an 1 enemy's country, and therefore I come 1 i here to epcourage you who flung your 1 i banners to the breeze to continue your , agitation and fight for your liberty, J which you will gain iu the year 1900. "Your goberument is not American, , it is not Democratic or Republican. . i It is English. For the last twelve or , fifteeu years you have had first one , boss and then another, and you have * no more voice iu your political affairs ; than if you were babies. You had i your Democratic boss, who construct- 1 f ed bis machine, and it was the most t perfect one ever known iu American i politics, but he weighed it down so ' much that the plank flew up, and on ( the other end came up boss, Thomas * ' C. Piatt." ' 1 ' The seuator discussed the money 1 question at some length, and said : 1 "There is where we split, and a great ^ 1 many Democrats went off'. Some ol them climbed up in a roosting place." f This allusion to Senator Hill created j ; loud laughter and applause. t i "You all know that some years ago i it was said that if you did not come i down to the Harlem Bridge with 45,- i 000 majority, New York city would i ir_.. ?1 ? T)0. ? swamp you. JUU myyaya uau a, 1?. . publican majority north of the Harlem ? 1 river. Last year you had a majority * for Bryan in Troy, but New York city ( and Brooklyn got down and wallowed in the McKinley tariff. Tammany may be rotten, but she stands by her J colors and goes down with them, aud ^ the great heart of New York city is throbbing with a determination to say to its corrupt leaders, Whitney aud t others. 'Get you gone ; you are not Democrats. We will vote the Chicago j platform or die.' You cannot afford to go back into the wallow." g LOCAL AFFAIRS. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Dobson's Racket?Announces that Miss Rae and Mrs. Dobson have returned from the fashion centres of the north, and that a fine stock of millinery, dress Joods and notions will arrive in a few ays. If you will take your lamp to Dobson's Racket in good condition, it will be filled with the best, quallity of Red C oil, without any cost to you. A pocketbook has been lost and if you will return it to The Enquirer office with contents, a reward will be paid. Srist Cousins?Have arranged to buy cotton this season, and say that they will deal fairly as to weights and grades, and will pay the highest possible prices. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mr. John F. Oates has taken a position is salesman in the clothing department ?IIa ooioK1 iolimnnf nf .T/iuonh JI IL1C JUCIUOUHID oovauiioumvKv v. v wuv^u Wylie & Co., of Chester. Chester Reporter: Mr. T. A. Carroll, of [jaiuesville, Fla., arrived here Sunday morning to make a visit to his brother, Mr. J. L. Carroll. He moved from York :ounty 25 years ago. Rev. Dr. W. M. Grier, of Due West, arrived in Yorkville this (Friday) morning, ;o assist Rev. B. H. Grier, the pastor, in jervices preparatory to communion at be Associate Reformed church Sunday morning. The Enquirer had a pleasant call on ast Tuesday from Uncle Sam Campbell, he blind Confederate soldier, of Clover. He came down here to visit his friends jenerally, and while here, although not mrolled on the Yorkville club list, was, ay special courtesy, allowed to cast his nallot for the senatorial candidate of his jhoice. 30ME POINTS OF COMPARISON. The present charter of the town of Yorkville limits the tax levy for ordinary purposes to two-mills. Under the proposed new charter, the limit is ten-mills. Under the present charter, the government of the town is entrusted to an "intendant" and lour wardens. Under the proposed new charter the officers consist >f a "mayor" and 9ix aldermen. Under the preseut charter, the term 6f office is one year. Under the proposed new charter, the term is two years. Under the present charter the intendant has power to impose, for violation of ordinances, a fine of not more than $50, or imprisonment, etc., of not more than 30 iays. Under the new charter the fine is limited to $100 and imprisonment to 30 iays. The proposed new charter authorizes ftftimnll fr\ *ho tnUTIl intfl .UtJ CUUIl^ll tv U1VIUV l/uv WW.. M wards. In the present charter there is no such authority. Under the act establishing boards of health, etc., the town has already been divided; but this division would hardly be understood as availible for purposes of government. The present charter expressly provides hat the inteudant and wardens shull <erve without compensation. The proposed new charter is "silent" on that subject. The council has no authority to borrow money under the present charter, nor will it have authority to borrow money under the proposed new charter. *THE FIRST BALE. The first bale of new cotton was sold in Yorkville on Thursday, 2d instant; but rs to -who is entitled to the credit for having sold it, is as difficult to arrive at is it is to determine whether the ben that laid or the hen that hatched the egg is, Lbe mother of the chicken. There are two claimants to the credit of having sold the first bale this year. One is Mr. John F. Williams, of the Fodder neighborhood, and the other is Mr. S. W. Ionian, of the vicinity of Yorkville. and instead of trying to settle the dispute the reporter will only give the facts. Mr. Inman brought a load of seed cotton to Yorkville early Thursday morning md took it to Morrow's gin. As the gin bad not yet been put in operation, there was an hour or so of delay belore things ?ould be gotten in working order. To ?et there first, however, Mr. Inman took a sample of the cotton before the bale was packjed, and sold it to Mr. John M. Hope [qr 8 cents a pound. The bale was afler;erward taken from the gin and delivered. It weighed 448 pounds. While Mr. Ionian's cotton was still in ;he gin, Mr. Williams came into town with a bale that bad been ginned and packed the morning before. It weighed 155 pounds, and was brought by Mr. B. N". Moore for cems a poimu. The first bale in 1895 was sold on Sep,ember 5 at 8 cents, and the first bale of 890 was sold on August 19 by Mr. S. W. [ntnan at the same price. NOT SETTLED YET. Mr. C. T. Crook, of Fort Mill township, ,vas in Yorkville last Thursday with elecion returns from Fort Mill box, and vhile here had something to say to the eporter about the proposed bridge over Jatawba river. "Dead !" he exclaimed good naturedly, n answer to a question from the reporter. 'No, the bridge is not dead. It's just vhere the commissioners left it at the last neetingotthe board. It's just hung up i little; that's all. "And how do you make that?" "Well," explained Mr. Crook, "You enow the commissioners at first decided o appropriate $9,000 for the building of. a iridge across Catawba river at Harris's Ferry. Then they reconsidered so much )f their action as applied to location, and eft that question open. Then, with the tppropriation still pending, they resolved | o submit to the people in the primary ho other day, the question as to whether )r not the appropriation be made. That ,vas the last action taken, and naturally jeople have all along had the right to an i jilicial notice that the election would be j leld. Maybe it was because of the fact i hat the board afterward realized that it i iad no authority in the matter, that the i jotice of an election was not issued ; but f so, that does not settle it, for there is to doubt of the board's authority to make i he appropriation, and as a legal act can- i lot be superseded by an illegal one, it I bllows, as a matter of course, that the i iriginal appropriation is still pending. ( "Then what do you look for next ?" i "Well, I can't see anything else for it < han that the board will either have to go I jack on what it has done, or build the jridge at Neely's ferry.' You see it is just i his way. The board has decided to build I . bridge across Catawba river. That ac- I ion still stands. It has reconsidered the i ction whereby it selected a location at ' larris's ferry. That action still stands. ] .'hen what else is there to be done but to t ;o back on everything or build the bridge i at Neely's ferry, where it will not only i accommodate the most people; but where it will cost at least $2,000 less than at any other point along the river?" "But what about the reported with- i drawal of the petition ?" < "I can't see that that has anything to do I with it. The commissioners have inquired into the whole matter on its merits, and when they decided to build the bridge, the petition became a back pumber. I cannot see it in any other way than that the bridge matter is still unfinished business." OUTLOOK FOR WINTHROP. President D. B. Johnson; of Winthrop college, was in Rock Hill yesterday, says the Columbia Register, of Thursday, and spoke very encouragingly of the state's "pet." He said a great many more applications had been received than there ( was room for, and, naturally, the pros- 1 pects of a large attendance were better I than ever before. Speaking of the scholarship examina- 1 tions held on August 13, he said the papers bad been sent in and were being ex- 1 amined and the applicants will be noti- ! fied at once. Out of 124 scholarships in the various counties, there are only 25 vacancies. 1 Mr. Johnson says that at the next ses- ' sion students will be allowed to board in private families under certain conditions, which will be strictly enforced. Students 1 will be allowed to board outside of the college with relatives or at bouses where ' teachers are located. This will cut down i the attendance ; but it is thought best by the authorities not to have students board- i ing outside of the college. President Johnson said that the college 1 was putting up a model dairy. All the milk and butter used will, therefore, be fresh, wholesome and pure. This will be a great saving of expense as well as an insurance of healtbfulness. Most, if not all, of the graduates of the last session have received positions. President Johnson willingly will give all information that may be asked and will assist all graduates in securing positions as far as is in his power. DEATH OF DR. BRATTON. ( Dr. J. Rufus Bratton died at his home in Yorkville, last Wednesday afternoon, , aged 76 yean? 10 months and 19 days. His , death was not due to any special disease^; j but rather to the general breaking down 1 incident to old age. ( Dr. Bratton wasa native of York county, , h?vin?r been born at Brattonsville, ten , miles south of Yorkville. He was raised ' on a farm, received a careful and thor- , ough education?academic, collegiate and medical?and settled in Yorkville about j the year 1846. With the exception of eight years residence in London, on- j tario, he continued a citizen of Yorkville ( up to the time of bis death. Anything like a complete sketch of Dr. , Bratton's life is too large an undertaking for a mere newspaper article. He was a maq with an interesting history, and the story would be one remarkable for love j of fellow-man, love of country, careful, | painstaking labor, high moral and physical courage, upright business dealings < and indomitable energy. But the story is too long to admit of details. There was 1 one incident connected with the doctor's life, Jbowever, which is of international importance. ' When the ignorant Negroes, under the lead of scoundrelly carpetbaggers, began ' to overrun the state after the war, Dr. Bratton was one of those who became convinced, and who acted upon the conviction, that the only defense-which could be secured for home and fireside, was ' through the Ku-Klux organization, and 1 with this he became directly or indirect- 1 ly connected. Upon the declaration of 1 martial law, and when it developed that verdicts and sentences were only a matter of form with the courts, Dr. Bratton ' went to Canada and secured the protec- 1 tion or me rsruisu governm?ut. n. i?to reward was offered by the United States 1 authorities for his capture, and in the J hope of securing this reward, two Ainer- ' ican detectives managed to kidnap the doctor in his Canadian home and bring him into the United States. As soon as ' the facts developed, there followed be- 1 tween the United States and Great Britain ' a sharp diplomatic correspondence of a ' very threatening nature, especially on the part of the government of the latter ' country, and as the result of this corres- 1 poudence, Dr. Brattou was uncondition- I ally released. The United States government afterward agreed to let its alleged < grievance against Dr. Bratton drop, and < in 1879, after an absence of eight years, I he returned to his home in Yorkville. . Immediately upon the outbreak of, the s war, Dr. Bratton volunteered his services, t and for four years did duty as a surgeon 1 on many battlefields and in the Confeder- i ate hospitals. Here he distinguished him- ? self for his patriotism, ardor, courage and t skill, and won considerable distinction 1 on the various surgical corps with which ? he was connected. ? Since the war. Dr. Bratton has been a ( hard worker. He has devoted himself 1 closely to the practice of his profession, and at the same time made good progress ? in retrieving the heavy loss he sustained I by the emancipation of the slaves. But c all his practice has not been for money, i The strong love that he has always borne t his fellow mau has become kuown to f hundreds. His ear has always been open i to the cry of the distressed, and with that" t spirit which does not let the left hand ' know what the right hand doeth, he has t given,,in his own way, hundreds of dol- I lars and weeks of labor in the cause of q Christian charity. In manner he was t frank and open, even to apparent gruff- s ness; but this apparent gruffness was of u the kind that is always indicative of sincere J honesty and nobility of soul, and beneath a u ?ii tt?oa o onnuiutonf, t pnrlArnoss t itnd sympathy which could but reveal to t Lhose who knew the doctor well, that he A was a practical Christian. Strong and vigorous up to a very short I time tack, when the doctor began to fail, it it was with great" rapidity. His life, b though wonderfully correct, had been an s unusoally active one, and when the worn ii tut machinery began to give way. it f seemed to give way all at once. But the e 2nd was calm and peaceful and death v brought r o terrors. h Dr. Bratton was one of the most promi- 1< nent Masons in the country, and had risen ft ;o the ?=2d degree. He was a member of C :he i'r jsbyteriau church at this place, e ind his t'uueral services in this church on c rhur-,day morning were conducted by h Rev. W. G. Neville, the pastor. The iu- si erment took place at Bethesda cemetery b Uongside of members of the family who b have been previously interred there during the past hundred or more years. The burial service was under the auspices of tbe'Yorrkville lodge of free Masons, assisted by delegations of members of the order from Rock Hill, Chester and other towns. LOCAL LACONICS. The Enquirer Until 1st of January, 1898. The Semi-Weekly Enquirer will be sent to any address, from this date until the 1st of January, 1898, for 68 cents. Mistake In the Name. ?- * ? 1-. i. O 1 11 WAS IVJ H^JSUHLC OAliUOlOf iuotvau vi Magistrate Sandifer, who sentenced this Negro for stealing a watermelon from Betbesda cemetery recently. Not so Good as was Thought, The reporter has seen quite a number of farmers from different sections of the . county during the past few days and most of them insist that crops are uot nearly so good as they were generally believed to be two weeks ago. Big Watermelon. , James McAliley writes to The Enquirer to say that the Zeno man who reported a 54-pound watermelon some weeks ago will have to take a back seat. Joe Feemster, he says, has two melons, one of whfch weighs 57 pounds and the other 58 pounds. Broke Her Arm. Little Mozelle, the five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Inman, of Yorkville, bad the misfortune last Sunday, to break both bones of one of her arms by falling down the stairsteps. The wound was dressed by Dr. Miles Walker, and the little sufferer is getting along as well as can be expected. The Price of Cotton. Although the first bale has been sold, the price of cotton has not yet settled to a definite basis. The reporter is instructed to quote the Yorkville market today at from 7 to7J cents; but this, of course, is subject to fluctuation. But the outlook is that this market is going to be quite lively this season.' The buyers here undercton/i f hair hnainem. and thev can be de peuded upon to make things move. Round Trip at One Fare. General Passenger Agent G. F. Harper, of the Carolina and North-Western rail- * road, has authorized the sale of round trip tickets to Clover, on the occasion of the bicycle races next Wednesday, at one fare. The price of a ticket from Yorkville and return, for instance, will be 35 cents. The time of the races has been so arranged as to enable visitors to go up on the northbound freight train and return on the evening passenger train. The Case of Vfhltui. The case of Whitus, the Chester "original package" man, recently cited to appear before Judge Witherspoon to show cause why be should not be punished for contempt of court, iu the violation of the injunction issued against him by Judge rownsend some time ago, was argued in Yorkville yesterday. Solicitor Henry appeared for the state, and P. H. Nelson, Esq., of Columbia, appeared for the defense. After bearing the argument on both sides, Judge Witherspoon took the papers in the case and will render his decision after careful consideration. Rock Hill's New Methodist Church. The Herald: The new Methodistchurch will be built on the old site of the Holler fc Anderson building, at the corner of Main and Caldwell street. It will have two entries on Main street and two on . Csldwell street. A Sunday school room will be connected with the rear of the church building with entrance on Caldwell street. The lot will have a frontage of 854 feet and run back 140 feet. The church people exchanged the old church site with Mrs. Rhea and Henry Toole for the lot on which they will build. That Heavy Hailstorm. In conversation with a reporter for the Spartanburg Herald, Mr. J. Q. LittlC gave some additional information about the I hailstorm mentioned by our Blacksburg. correspondent on Wednesday. He said ihat the country above Gaffney and at Shelby, N. C., had been visited by a great hailstorm which did considerable damage, rbd storm started at Latimers, a town 11 miles above Shelby, where it blew down ind destroyed the Masonic hall and sevsrai other buildings. The storm then . auie down to Settleineyer's ferry on tne Broad river, and in its track caine within four miles of Gaffney. The storm did jreat damage to corn and cotton crops, death of Mrs. K. H. McCully. , / Gastouia GazetteMrs. R. H. McCully lied at her home near Bowling Green at >ne o'clock last Saturday afternoon. She iad not been well for several months and had been coufined to her room for fiv$ or iiz weeks. The deceased was 55 years of ige, and was the youngest sister of Messrs. Newton and John Wilsou. The funeral services were conducted at the home last Sunday morning by Rev. D. S. McAliser, and the intermeut took place at old Bethel, where this good woman bad been i member forlil years. A husband, a sou md daughter are left to mourn the irre)arable loss. Trouble at Tirzah. Chester Bulletin : Chief of Police Arch jteele, of Tirzah, was in the city Saturday :o consult an attorney. It seems that the ibief had some trouble in an official ca>acity with two parties in Tirzah and that hese parties are prosecuting him on the ground that his election as an officer was llegal and that he has no le.val authority 0 enforce order in the town of Tirzah. The point is a very nice one. The voters bat elected the officials, which elected dr. Steele, were not registered, as retired by the law governing municipals ies in this state. Mr. Steele held a conultation with Paul Hemphill, Esq., Satirday, and employed bim to defend him. dr. Hemphill advised him to go ahead ,nd discharge his duty as a sworn officer; hat the mistake of the council could not >e Steele's mistake. 1 Letter From Reese. Blacksburg correspondence of Gaffney jedger: Talk of the famous Reese-Luckj-Anderson case was revived here week iefore last by the taking of testimony by 4 pecial referee G. W. S. Hart, of Yorkville n a suit brought by Daniel Luckie for the lrfldosure of a mortgage. After the refer nee, it developed that the party against - bom the mortgage was to be foreclosed,? ad, about three weeks before, received a jtter front Reese. It was of the most ofensive character, postmarked Atlanta, la., and dated two days boforo its delivry. Ever since Reese and Luckie's esape from the York county jail, several ere have maintained that it would be Imply a question of time before one or oth would be caught. This belief has een strengthened by the above stated