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Scraps autl Jacts. ? A Washington dispatch of Friday says: "The three battleships which have just been contracted for have been consigued to the builders as follows : The Ohio to the Union Iron works, of San Francisco; the Missouri to the Newport News company ; the Maine to Cramp & Sons, of Philadelphia. The ships are to be built in 33 months. Formal notices of awards were sent out today to the successful bidders." ? Baltimore Sun : The Engineering and Mining Journal keeps an account of the gold brought from the Klondike region, the result of last winter's work, and finds the Canadian authorities t. ?i,;?c h.it 54 ono.-i Ull YC CUIICI/ICU i uj aiwvs v.. ?uv , - , , 000 of gold, and expect to collect on $3,000,000 more that has already been mined. About all the gold produced was in Canadian territory. Some gold is brought out secretly, no doubt. Iu the final clean-up for the year The Journal expects to see $9,000,000 of gold produced. The average earnings of the year were about $450 per man, which is not much, in view of the fact that it costs $15 a day to live. Most of the Klondikers have been living ou money they took with them. ? Orders were issued from the war department on Monday for the disposition of the five regiments of regular cavalry now at Camp WikofF, in command of Major General Wheeler. Three of them are to be sent to a camp hereafter to be designated, within 100 miles of Huntsville, Ala. The Second regiment is to go to South Dakota, to relieve the Eighth regiment, with headquarters at Fort Meade, and the Ninth is to be distributed throughout Arizona and New Mexico, to relieve the Seventh, now stationed in those territories. The Seventh and Eighth upou being relieved will joiu the three regiments from Montauk at the camp which ma# be selected in the vicinity of Huntsville. Its location will depend upon the recommendation of a board of army officers uow in the south eneaeed in inspecting camp sites. Major General Wheeler will have command of the cavalry, which is to form part of the army of occupation for Cuba and Porto Rico. ? A crowd of about 700 people besieged the house of General Toral at Vigo, Spain, last Friday, demanding that the troops which arrived there on the day before from Santiago de Cuba on board the Spanish steamer Leon XIII be immediately landed. They proceeded to the quays, cheering the troops, and were with difficulty dispersed by soldiers of the garrison. Afterward a crowd of about 1,500 people returned to the quays, und when they saw the soldiers landing barefooted and nearly naked, they became infuriated aud surrounded General Toral's house, hooting and hissiug and . stoning the building. Eventually, the Spanish general succeeded in escaping to the Leon XIII. On learning that, the mob gathered on the dock and stoned the steamer for half an hour, smashing the cabin windows. Thfti . ? -Leon XXII. was f" To J? P.?, fue place where she Vfas moored. ? Secretary Hester's New Orleans Cotton Exchange statement, issued last Friday, shows that the amount brought into sight for the week ending on that day was 159,840 bales against 244,622 for the seven days ending September 16 last year, and 312,206 year before last. This brings the total amount for the 16 days of the newseason to 263,502, against 405,910 last year. Ttie statement snows receipts at all United States ports since September 1 of 176,950 bales, against 262,479 for the same time last year. Southern mill takings were 56,162, against 54,376 last year. Foreign exports for the 16 days have been 70,736, against 49,927. Including amounts left in stocks at ports and interior towns and the number of bales brought into sight thus far for the new crop, the supply to date is 531,068, against 522,464 for the same period last year. , ? New York Voice: Bishop Chas. H. Fowler, of the Methodist Episcopal church, speaking before the Wesleyan Methodist conference in England, is reported by the New York Christian Advocate to have said : "We are sure that you will rejoice to have me say, from personal knowledge, that an ex- 1 emplary Christian and a Methodist i communicant occupies the White House, a man who is more anxious to , please God than to please any other being in the universe. We know his integrity and honor ; we believe in his personal religious experience. God bless William McKinley, the honored president of the United States of America!" Either Bishop Fowler or : the "Discipline" is sadly wrong; for William McKinley has been receiving rent for saloon property, sets wine before his guests, drinks wine at public dinuers, is controlled by a party organization that is "managed in the interest of the liquor traffic," and today stands personally responsible, as commanderin-chief of the United States army, for the continuance of the canteen system, an abominable and often unlawful form of the evil that "can never be , legalized without sin." ? Miss Winnie Davis, the "Daughter of the Confederacy," died at Naragansett Pier, R. I., last Sunday at noon of malarial gastritis, after an illness of several weeks. Miss Davis was born in the Confederate executive mansion at Richmond in 1S63. She was educated principally at home, owing to the trouble surrounding her father and the publicity which attended all movements of the Davis family. Miss Davis attained her maturity at Beauvoir, Miss. She assisted her mother in various ways and took her place in the many social functions of the place. She was her father's constant companion. She assisted him in all his work and much of the time which was required by Mr. Davis in his writings was secured for him by his daughter. Her strong character was marked from youth. She was engaged to a Mr. Wilkerson, of Syracuse, X. Y., but shortly after her father's death the engagement was broken off. While no public explanation of the rupture was given out, it is well-known that it was for the purpose of maintaining her father's name. She received the name "Daughter of the Confederacy" in 1886, when her father made his famous trip through the south. Mr. Davis be ing unable to appear, Miss Winnie was brought before the thousands at the different points along the route and introduced as the "Daughter of the Confederacy." ? Figures as to deaths by lightning have been printed at intervals for years. They all show a very small numher of deaths due to this cause; but usually they have been open to criticism on the score of accuracy. The latest and probably most authoritative contribution to the literature of the subject is that made by the United States weather bureau. It covers a period of four years and shows the average annual number of deaths from lightning to be 196. This is for the whole country. More than that are drowned within a few miles of New York city every year, and we are informed and can easily believe that the number of persons killed by bicycles every year is much greater than of those killed hy ligntniog. n is aisu said, and does not seem improbable, that more deaths are caused by the kick of a horse or the falling of a chimney than by lightning. On the other haod there is much more apprehension of a thunder storm than of any of these other things, and this is largely because it is big and loud and absolutely unavoidable. You may dodge a bicycle or a horse, if you are Iucjty ; but you cannot dodge a thunder storm. Besides, its looks are against it, and that counts for a good deal. ?hc \|orferiUc (Enquirer. YOItKVILLE, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21, 1898. ? I, said The State, with my own little weight, I slew Featherstone. And all the other birds are simply amazed. ? Bryan and Wheeler have been suggested as suitable names for the Democratic presidential ticket in 1Q00 This sounds Drettv well. ? The Prohibitionists lacked organization. If they are wise, they will set about at once making preparations for the next time. ? Even the English sparrow has his good points. An Alabama paper says of him : "A planter near town told us last week that the boll worm was simply ruining his cotton patch^when the sparrow foiuid->?r^rmu, and in thrjift^cjo Ciiere was not a miller nor worm to be seen, while the sparrows were there by the thousands." ? It is still being maintained as a fact that in order to secure the support of certain elements in the second primary, Governor Ellerbe pledged himself to recommend a local option bill to the general assembly. The Columbia Record claims that this fact can be sustained by affidavits, and says that although it has no proof, it has reason to believe that the governor committed his pledge to writing. The thing is interesting and we will watch for further developments. ? The News and Courier says the law requiring those who vote in primaries in Charleston to show registration tickets and poll tax receipts, cut down the vote in the city. Of course, this law should not be made to apply to Charleston and not to the other counties in the state, and one of the tirst things which the next legislature does should bo to repeal it. LOHneSlOU NllOlim UO put 111 ? pniuwn w; cast her full voto whenever occasion demands.?Darlington News. With the suggestion that there should be no discrimination against Charleston in this matter, The Enquirer agrees fully ; but it does not think that the registration requirement should be repealed. The requirement is eminently proper, and the only objection to it is that it does not apply to the whole state. Even with the most stringent legal restrictions, there will always be more or less fraud in primary elections; but a law requiring that all voters must be provided with registration certificates before they will be allowed to vote, will be calculated to reduce fraud to a minimum. Unless a man is registered, don't let him vote at all, and until he swears that he is in fuli sympathy with the party, don't let him participate in the party primary. ? The cloven foot is beginning to show itself in Utah. The state, it will be remembered, was not admitted to the Union until after it had adopted a constitution prohibiting polygamy. Although largely in the majority as to wealth and voters, the Mormons subsided politically at about the time of the adoption of the constitution and allowed the "gentiles" to run things. Now it develops that nearly every office in the state, judicial or administrative, is either filled by Mormons or Mormon sympathizers. The old-time Mormons are living opeulv with their former wives, and as many new ones as they have since seen fit to take unto themselves, and officials wink at the violations of the law. This information comes out in a recent report issued by the state presbytery in the form of an hddress to the "Presbyterians of the United States." The address states that since Utah was admitted to statehood, in January, 18%, more than 2,000 cases of polygamy have come to the public notice, and only one case has been punished. Exercising a predominating influence in all the aflairs of state, the Mormons are making it a practice to boycott and run away all who venture to protest against their proceedings. It is claimed that the Mormons not only have complete control in Utah ; but that they also have the balance of power, politically, in Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona and parts of Colorado. The state presbytery is very much alarmed at the situation generally, and warns the Presbyterian church in the United Slates that Mormonism has only been sleeping during the past few years; "but that there is now opening a long struggle, the outcome of which can, at this time, be only a matter of conjecture." THE YORK COTTON MILLS. On another page is an interesting story of the establishment, operation and success of the York Cotton mills, Vorbvillp S C A portion of this story has previously been published in The Enquirer, and that portion of it relating to the remarkable feat of declaring a dividend of 35 per cent, as the result of the first year's operations, created quite a sensation throughout the country. While that feat, however, is something for the management, the stockholders and the community to be proud of, studied in the light of the facts, there is really no occasion for surprise. The principal elements of success under the circumstances, were an up-to-date plant, efficient operations properly superintended, and the right kind of business management to dispose of the product to the best advantage. In the present case, it will be noted, all of these elements were combined, and the eminently satisfactory results followed as. a matter of course. In addition to these things, there was another favorable circumstance that was on the side of the management of the mill. The yarn market was unusually good last year, prices were rising all the while, and the management comprehended the situation sufficiently to refrain from taking large orders, thus continuing in a position to take advantage of every rise. However, while there is no question of the correctness of the splendid record already reported, it would hardly be fair to expect a repetition of last vear's achievement next year. The achievement may be exceeded ; but of that there can he no certaiuty. Few enterprises ever pay such dividends as this two years in succession. It is not often that the same favorable conditions contiuue unbroken for so long a period ; hut still, the prospects for continued success seem to be the brightest possible, and it will take serious reverses iudeed to reduce the earnings of this mill below a figure that should be satisfactory to any reasonable investor. MERE-MENTION. The president is finding considerable difficulty in getting commissioners to investigate the war department. The Gran Antila arrived at New York front Havana last Saturday. This is the first Spanish vessel to touch at an American port since the breaking out of the war. Rev. John Hall, D. D., pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church, N. Y., and one of the most noted divines in the United | - ' * i ] ( States, died suddenly last, oauiruuyi morning in Bangor, County Down, Ireland. The United States commissioners appointed to conclude the terms of peace with Spain sailed last Saturday from New York for Paris. The commission consists of former Secretary of State William R. Day, United States Senators William P. Frye, Cushraan K. Davis and George Gray and Whitelaw Reid. Each commissioner is accompanied on the trip by his wife or other members of the family. General Lawton reports that all but eight of the Spanish prisoners taken at Santiago have been shipped to Spuin. These eight have yellow fever. About one-sixth of the American troops at Santiago are iu the hospital. It is understood that Spain's peace commission will strenuously contend for the retention of the Philippine islands. Thomas F. Bayard, formerly secretary of state iu Cleveland's cabinet, is critically ill at Dedbam, Mass. It is claimed that the assassin of the empress of Austria belongs to a band of anarchists which has headquarters in the United States, and the object of which is to assassinate all the crowned heads of Europe. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius is daily becoming more serious and the people of the surrounding country are becoming greatly alarmed. Captain Allen Capron, of the First artillery, died at his home near Fort Myer, Ya., last Sunday. He was one of the most distinguished officers in the army. President Sustains the Negro.? Paymaster General Sianton has turned over to the president all the papers relating to the recent unpleasauluess growing out of the refusal of a Texus regiment to receive pay from Major Lynch because he is colored. The president has taken no defiuite action beyond expressing approval of General Stanton's course in sending a sharp Hienntr-b to the commanding navmas ter of that department, staling iu effect that as Major Lynch had heen regularly commissioned by the president as an army paymaster, the troops must take their pay from him or else go without pay. Thus the matter stands with the papers before the president. There is the possibility that a new question may arise on the point of insubordination iu refusing to receive pay from paymasters regularly commissioned to make payments. Only One of llie Many. Mr. J. T. Parks, of the Orangeburg Patriot newspaper, will be a candidate for sergeant-at-arms of the seuate, at the next sittiug of that body. Mr. Parks was uext to Colonel Floyd iu the last election for that office. LOC AL AFFAZRS, INDKX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. H. C. Strauss?Tells you in a four columr advertisement about his great opening 011 next Tuesday. G. L. Riddle?Has made recent improve ments on the Champion Mills at Zeno. THE COTTON MARKET. The condition of the cotton marke just at this time is anything but satis factory. Spot cotton in New York ii worth only 5 11-16, just 1-16 abov< the lowest price ever touched before September futures were, on Mon day, quoted at 5.34, only 11 point above the lowest point ever touchet by the future market?5.23 for No vember on November 23, 1894. Local cotton was quite active during the latter part of last week, at price ranging in the neighborhood of 4} Real good cotton is worth a little mori than the price stated; but not mucl real good cotton is being brought in T* * ? ? ? Urtn.Aifon t Kot tKnri XL in CAJJCUlCUj UUVVCVCI, tuuw nivr will be more or less improvement ii qualities during the present week. CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE. According to the reports of soldier at home on furlough from the Firs South Carolina regiment, the rea cause of the trouble which led to thi recent mustering out orders was lacl of harmony between officers and men The men claim that most of th? officers are not only incompetent; bu negligent of their duties. Insteud o providing for the men as they should many of the officers have devotee their time to poker, horse-racing am liquor drinking. The feeling against the officers ha been very bitter. Some of the mei have been outspoken in their opinion: of their lieutenants and captains, ant it is said that mutual confidence ant respect is at a discount. One of the causes of the trouble ha been a disposition on the part of offi cers to treat volunteers as regulars an treated, and as most of the volunteer consider that they are made of just a good material as enters iuto the make up of the officers, this treatment ha not worked smoothly. THE FALL TRADE. Yorkville dry goods and raillinen folks are returning from the northeri markets and gettiug things in shape fo the fall trade. Mrs. T. M. Dobson returned las Saturday, after an absence of thre< weeks in Baltimore and New York She was accompanied by Miss Maggii Glenn aud Miss Bessie Rea. She hai been giving especial attention to mil linery, and,.upon the arrival of he purchases, will be able to show somi handsome goods in this line. Mr. H. C. Strauss returned last Fri day. He had been gone about tw< weeks?much longer than usual : bu be did not .waste any time. He in formed the reporter last Sutunluy tha notwithstanding the low price of cot ton, he purchased fully twice as main goods as ever before since he has beer in business. This year also he hai given especial attention to gentlemen'! clothing. Although he has been hand ling clothing for years ; heretofore bu a small proportion of his stocks hai been composed of higher priced goods This year, however, he has arrangei to supply the demands of the trade it this direction to the fullest extent. Mr. Strauss believes that Yorkvillt ought to do a fair share of the Yorlt I county trade this year, and he intend* to be in a position to get his part of it importance of drainage. "That article on the road questior published in The Enquirer not long ago by Mr. W. S. Gordon, was a verj sensible one," remarked a well-knowr gentleman, who i? interested in suet matters, to the reporter yesterday. "This matter of druinage," the gen llemau continued, "is not given the attention to which it is entitled. Mr Gordon seems to appreciate the situa tion fully. He recommends, if yoi remember, that the rows in the culti vated fields be laid off in such a wa\ as not to empty their water into the roads. "It is only a theory, of course, bui I have recollection of a very practica application of it that occurred in this couutry, long years ago. "Up in Bethel township two gentle men had a little disagreement over the location of a country road, in whicl both of them were interested. It it not necessary to mention names; bul I'll refer to one of them as Mr. Smitl and the other as Mr. Jones for conven (ieuce. "The road ran along by Mr. Smith's house, rather too close for his comfort and he wanted to move it to anothei location, about a hundred yards away For some reason, just what it was, ] do not remember now, Mr. Jones ob jecled to the change, and it could uoi he made. There was hard feeling over the matter for years. "Mr. Smith's house was about hal: way up a long watershed, and off t( one side there was quite a depressior between two hills. The old gentlemat took advantage of litis situation tc curry his point with reference tc changing the location of the road. "Without saying a word to anybody about the matter, Mr. Smith went oui one morning, and with a plow ran ? furrow down the side of the hill near ly to the road and in the direction o the depression to which I have just referred. "This act had no significance al first; but as time went on, the scratch made by Mr. Smith's plow developed into a ditch, the ditch developed intc , a gully, and the gully developed into | a chasm which, in a few years, obliter- i ated the entire roadbed for a distance i ! of several hundred yards. "This circumstuuco occurred more than 40 years ago. The location of 1 the road wus changed, of course, and where it originally ran there is now a 1 ravine in which you could almost hide a two-story house. 1 3 "When I read Mr. Gordon's article," 1 J the gentleman coucluded, "I was again ' forcibly reminded of this incident, which took place during my boyhood, 3 and it occurs to me now that if the 1 action of the water can he made to 1 create such tremendous havoc by design, it can also do a great deal of 1 * damage by accident. The matter of ? draining adjoining fields in such a way ' as to keep the water out of the roads 3 is certainly a very important one, and 1 in my opinion is a fit subject for leg' islation." e ? l ABOUT PEOPLE. Mr. R. T. Allison continues to gel along favorably. Mrs. J. F. McElwee returned to 8 Yorkville last Friday, t Dr. T. VV. Campbell, of Energy, was 1 in Yorkville on Monday. B Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Beard are making a short visit t9 friends in Chewsc ville, Md. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. McElwee, of f Charlotte, are visiting the family of t Mr. S. A. McElwee, in Yorkville. f Dr. C. M. Kuykendal is now considered by his physicians to be entireI ly out of immediate danger. Mr. James Harvey Witherspoon, Jr., * left on Wednesday to attend the law school at the University, at Charlottes- , s ville, Va. j Private Philip L. Moore, of Compa3 ny G, First South Carolina volunteers, , returned home last Friday evening from Jacksonville, Fla., on furlough. * He was quite ^ll when he arrived and has since been confined to his bed. s The condition of Dr. Frank Strait, . of Rock Hill, is extremely critical. B The latest information The Enquirer has received from him was to the effect 3 that on Monday it was believed that 3 he would not survive 48 hours longer. Charlotte Observer, Suuday : Mrs. s S. E. White, of Fort Mill, S. C., who has been in Coucord for some weeks with her father, Mr. W. R. Allison, who is in very feeble health, went . home yesterday for a stay of a day or 5 two. Augusta Chronicle : Th6 following r young men of York county left last wppk for Clemson colleere : Claude B. t McFadden and Rembert Barrett, of g Rock Hill; John H. Roddey, Johu Getty9, Thomas Spencer and Johu g Spencer, of Roddey's. Columbia Record, Saturday : Attor3 ney General Barber was in his office * this morning looking just as happy r and pleasant as if nothing had hap e pened to him. Mr. Barber, after his term of office is out, will return to Chester; but it is not improbable that he will form a copartnership in Colum3 bia for the practice of law. t . CONFEDERATE PENSIONS. 1 As the result of the recent call of * Chairman Jones, the townships which f were derelict in the matter of pension 1 boards, have completed their respect3 ive organizations, and the various 3 boards are now composed as follows, * the first name in each case being that 1 of the chairman : 3 Bethel?D. J. Glenn, Jr., J. A. Camp* bell, J. J. Brandon. ' Bethesda?W. N. Elder, John L. 1 Starr, T. T. Davidson. Broad River?W. S. Wilkerson, E. J P. Castles, J. N. McDill. : Bullock's Creek?John L. Rainey, 3 A. B. Crosby, 0. J. Gwin. Catawba?Iredell Jones', L. M. Davis, J. P. Westbrooks. , Ebenezer?Perry Martin, T. J. Roach, r Dandy Massey. ' Fort Mill?Kirk Shannon, W. A. ( Fisher, J. M. Armstrong. I King's Mountain?John M. Thom- 1 asson, Felix Quinn, James Robinson. ] York?J. F. Wallace, W. P. Hobbs, ? 5 A. E. Gettys. 1 The chairmen of the respective town- ( ' ship boards met in the court house < ( last Saturday and organized the coun- i ty board by the election of Captain < f Iredell Jones, chairman, and Joseph < F. Wallace, Esq., as secretary. I The desirability of electing a physi- ] t cian from the town of Yorkville was < I agreed upon. Mr. John L. Rainey s nominated W. G. White, and as there < were no further nomiuations he wasse- i lected. I Mr. Wallace explained that it will i be unnecessary for those whose names < are now on the pension rolls to make i ^ new applications. Except where the i i beneficiaries have died or moved out of the county, the names will be carried on without change. Due notice will be given, at the proper time, of the date upon which applications will be ' received. r i LOCAL LACONICS. j Until January 1st, 1899, For CO CentH. I Tiie Twice-a-Week Enquirer, filled , t with the best and most reliable up-to-date r news, will be furnished from the date ol , this issue UIIIII January, iw, iui uv cciu^. J For Sergeant at Arum. ( Messrs. J. R. Witherspoon and W. J. ' Waters, of Yorkville, and O. J. Gwin, , ' of Olive, are candidates for sergeant- i ' at-arms of the state senate. j Hecauxe All Are Iluxy. ) Sheriff Logan reports that he has 1 not been receiving any prisoners for ' the past week or more. It is propably , ^ because the otherwise would-be offen- j 1 ders have employment in the cotton i ' field. < f Mr. Wallace linn Charge, t People who desire any information ' whatever about Confederate pensions t for York county, should apply to Mr .J. j i F. Wallace. Mr. Wallace is secretary , [ of the county board. He knows the t ? people and knows his business. It ( gives him the greatest pleasure to look after this matter for the old soldiers, and he will look after it properly. It'* ? Good ItuAlne**. People who own mowers and run them for the public, are making good money. Messrs. R. C. Jackson and brother, of Clover, made a machine pay for itself last year, and this year expect to get as much out of it as they did last year. End of Hydor Wylle. Rock Hill Herald, Saturday : Hyder Wylie, a well known colored man, committed suicide Wednesday by drinking a quantity or snenac ana wood alcohol. He had been on a 3pree and ended the debauch, as he had before threatened to do, in the manner stated. He Hit the Grit. Charlotte Observer: Two factory operatives at Fort Mill, S. C., had a fight Friday night. One got cut iu the face. He bound a cloth around his head and jumped on the train and came to Charlotte. His salutation to the doctor attending him was : "Well, you see, I hit the grit." Now Improvement*. Mr. G. L. Riddle has just added some important improvements to the Champion roller mills at Zeno. The improvements were completed last week with the result that the capacity of the mills has been considerably increased, and the quality of the product, already superior, is now equal to the best commercial grades. Except when he is up with or ahead of the best, Mr. Riddle is not entirely satisfied; but for a time now he will he able to continue very well pleased. Tlie U. C. D. Mrs. Hugh Buist, of Rock Hill, first vice president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, was in Yorkville last Thursday, and at the residence of Judge Witherspoon commenced the organization of a local chapter. Another meeting of the chapter is to be held at the residence of Major James F. Hart next Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock for the purpose of completing the organization by enrolling new members and electing officers, etc. A r.%11 la^ioa inforactpH iu11 aucuuauw vi vuw muivw tM?v?vV?vV is desired. Proper Time to Cat Corn. Id connection with the statement tvith reference to the proper time to begin the harvesting of corn in accordance with the plan that is being pursued by Mr. T. Baxter McClain, the reporter made a mistake that should be corrected. It was said that Mr. McClain commenced harvesting just about the time the fodder was ready to pull. As a matter a fact, he waited until about two weeks after the fodder had ripened. The fodder, ol course, will uot be so good ; but the extra time allows for the more complete maturity of the corn. Gone By Default. The fall bicycle meet, which was in view some weeks back, has been abandoned. Events unforeseen at the time the idea was originally canvassed have knocked ii aside. There was the election for one thing. During the closing weeks the campaign grew so hot as to overshadow everything. The illness of Dr. U. M. ,K.uyiccnaai na> also iuterferred seriously. Then again there is a growing feeling that it is nhont time to get down to busiuess and leave sport and pleasure alone until next summer. The meet may be held yet; but from the present outlook it is not likely. It will certainly not be on the scale that was originally contemplated. Fair Compensation. Appreciating the injustice of the law which fails to provide compensation for members of township pension boards, the veterans and widows in King's Mountain towuship who are drawing peusions have agreed to leave with Clerk of the Court Wylie 10 cents each to help pay the members of the board for their services. The reporter knows of several members of different pension boards who have devoted as much as one week each to getting the affairs of applicants in proper shape. These gentlemen are certainly entitled to pay for their services. They should not be expected to give their time and labor gratutiously. If the state proposes to pension the old soldiers, then let the state do it. Don't exact the amount, or any unfair proportion of it, from those old soldiers who are able to get along without the state's assistance. GOING TO RE INFORCE DEWEY. rite President In Determined That Germany Shall Not Interfere With Peace CommUHioner8. ? j . me navy ueparimeui, auya a ??nauington dispatch of Monday, is rushing preparations for the start of the battleships Oregon and Iowa to Honolulu, *ud orders have been sent to the New York navy yard to have them start on their long voyage by the end of the present month, and aecordirg to the department calculations they should arrive ut their destination by the end jf January. There is little effort now cnude to conceal the fact thut the department will have the ships met at Honolulu by a disputch boat with orders to turn their prows westward to Manila. Battleships of this character are not leeded to keep the Filipino insurgents n order, and their assembling at Manila in conjunction with the dispatch )f heavy reinforcements of troops for :he American land forces, cannot but ie regarded as significant. In well informed circles here it is mid that the real purpose of the presdent in making these preparations is ,o insure the peace commissioners igainst any interference in their work )f disposiug of the future of the Phil ippine inlands according to their best judgment. Not having disclosed his plans respecting the islands outside of Luzon, the seat of the capital of the group, the president still reserves for the American peace commissioners the right to dispose of the remainder of the islands as they may deem best. A long line of curious incidents, to which one of the great European powers has been a party, has beyond question done much to cause a feeling of uneasiness on the part of the administration as tending to show a purpose to interfere in our action in the Philippines, and this has been only slightly diminished by apparently frank disclaimers of an ulterior purpose, because the incidents continue quietly, and in a manner calculated to avoid attracting attention. ' Such, for instance, is the gathering of naval vessels to the south of the Philippine group, the only explanation of which, coming from native sources, it is true, hut still bearing marks of genuineness, is a purpose of acquiring either by seizure or by some secret compact with the Spanish government the important island of Pulawan. This particular island forms one side of the gateway through which must pass all of the extensive commerce that flows between Australia, Miscronesia and southern China. The passage is narrow, and if the islands cf the Philippine group are to he retained outside of Luzon, this island of Palawan must he kept as forming one side of the gateway. It is gathered that it is the purpose of the president, therefore, to prevent the alienation by Spain of any of the Philippine group, and that these preparations, naval us well as military, are but steps toward the execution of his purpose. With the addition to his fleet of two batteries, Admiral Dewey will have a force only second to that of Great Britain in eastern waters, while ou shore General Otis will have a more numerous army thau any European power save Russia. OFFICIAL FIGURES. What the State Executive Committee Make* of the Kecent Primary. The state executive committee met in Columbia last Friday uigbt and tabulated the vote of the receut primary. The vole for governor by counties was as follows: First Primary. Sec. Primary. n""1* J5SS Abbeville 014 :t? 1,164 | 767 Aiken ra sw i,uk ?*> Anderson 1,141 1,581 1,357 1,898 Ha in be r>; 628 230 502 321) Barnwell 802 259 1,025 701 Beaufort 170 19 79 101 Berkeley 533 225 521 480 Charleston 228 45 439 1,283 Cherokee 657 490 885 870 Chester 743 578 907 694 . Chesterfield 816 286 981 351 Clarendon 809 313 847 532 Colleton 718 211 933 706 Darlington. 652 455 716 797 Dorchester 511 358 589 S25 Edgefield 208 317 601 773 Fairfield 179 351 613 662 Florence 731 236 889 586 Georgetown 133 84 213 287 . Greenville 131 1,195 1,151 1,828 Greenwood 375 142 515 631 Hampton 558 113 797 610 Horrv 252 ' 92 752 907 Kershaw 753 262 869 514 Lancaster 603 1,019 728 1,183 Laurens 1.015 860 1,319 1,220 Lee <522 333 774 146 Lexington 901 389 1,374 770 Marlon 1,535 565 1,415 1,050 Marlboro 852 375 718 390 Kewberry 647 277 899 801 Oconee, 666 441 825 1,011 Orangeburg.... 1,579 787 1,179 852 Pickens 715 331 888 615 Richland 671 261 1,003 554 Saluda 200 203 839 ? 545 Spartanburg... 1,513 1,084 2,191 2,514 Sumter 641 405 718 735 Union 727 282 1,123 569 Williamsburg.. 851 219 815 556 York 1,178 1,021 1,660 1,338 1st Regiment... 50 21 383 138 2d Regiment.... 375 12 283 116 Heavy Battery 62 0 63 11 Total 30.101 17,882 37,723 332171 EUerbe's majority, 1,152. The total vote in the case of the various other offices was as follows: SECRETARY OF STATE. Cooper 38,957 Tompkins 30,492 Cooper's majority 8,465 SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION. McMahan 38,259 Brown 31,849 McMahan's majority 6,410 ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL. Floyd 45,451 Blythe 24,241 Flovd's majority 21,210 railroad commissioner. Garris .. 49,079 Thomas 19,713 Garris's majority 30,2(36 congress?fifth district. Finley 6,301 Barber 5,095 Finley's majority 1,206 W. J. BRYAN, THE MAN. Although He Has No Chance to Fight, He Still Finds Work. Hod. Roland Ellis, chairman of the committee on iuvitation for the Macon carnival, recently went with other Macon gentlemen to Jacksonville to urge Colonel W. J. Bryan to attend the carnival and deliver an address. Colonel Bryan felt that he could not accept the invitation, but he made a strong impression upon the Macon committee. Mr. Ellis says : "He spent the Sunday wheu we were in camp driving about nursing the sick, providing them with dainties and relieving the suffering. Ceaselessly, without dinner and supper, he went, until he was worn out by fatigue. This man, surfeited with the plaudits of his fellows, is leading the life of a hero among the feverstricken commands. His tent is pitched with them, out in the open ; his daily place is by the sickbed, and his nightly occupation is relieving some man's distress. Though clothed in the raimeut of high military authority, he was still the plain American democrat, loving his men and by them beloved." This is a fine tribute to Colonel Bryan, aud places him iu a noble light. 1 He is not our ideal political leader, but the manner in which some news papers have treated bis services in the army, and the reflections they have cast upon his motives in accepting a military commission have been contemptible. Colonel Bryan is doing his duty nobly at the Jacksonville camp, and deserves the handsome words Mr. Ellis has spoken of him. ? It is estimuted that it will be the end of February before the evacuation of Cuba is completed.