Straps and Jacts. ;
? Representative Gibson, of Tenoes- '
see, on Tuesday, introduced a bill to <
reward the patriotism of volunteers by i
granting them extra pay on discharge.
These enlisted men who have served
only in the United States shall receive
two months' additional pay, and each
officer one month additional pay;
those men and officers who have served
or shall serve abroad, are to receive
four and t wo months' pay respectively.
Those already mustered out are to receive
one-half of the amouuts named.
? Ex-Queen Liliuokalani has sent to
the United States senate a protest
against the appropriation of the crowu
lands of Hawaii by the United States.
In it she says: "I earnestly and respectfully
protest against the assertion !
of the ownership of the Uuited States
of America of the so-called Hawaiiau
crown lands, amounting to about
1,000,000 acres, and which are my
property, and I especially protest
against such assertion of ownership
as a takiog of the property without
due process of law and without just
or other compensation.
? At a meeting of the Women's
Board of Foreign Missions of the
Presbyterian church, in New York
city, a few days ago, Eugene Young,
a grandson of Brigham Young, made
a speech in which he urged that every
effort be made to prevent the seating
in congress of B. H. Roberts, recently
elected,from Utah, and who, according
to Young, is a three or four-ply Mormon.
Young said that polygamy is
not dead in Utah, or even sleeping.
It is growing every day, and congress
should turu Roberts out as an earnest
that it does not propose to tolerate any
violation of the covenant Utah entered
iuto as a condition precedent to her
admission to the Union.
? Senator Butler, of North Carolina,
on last Monday, gave notice of an
amendment he will introduce to the
pension appropriation bill, pensioning
ex-Confederate soldiers. The amendment
is as fodows: "That from and
after the passage of this bill every peu
sion law now on the statute books
shall apply to every invalid soldier,
widow, minor child, dependent relative,
the army nurses and all other
pensioners who may be able to prove
their claim under the present pension
laws, without regard to whether said
soldier was eulisted in the Federal or
Confederate service of the Civil war
of 1861-65, provided that those enlisted
in the Confederate service shall not
draw any back pensions prior to the
passage of this bill; but their claim under
existiug laws shall begin and become
operative with the passage of
this bill."
? Grip is epidemic in New York,
and the New York board of health,
on the theory that the disease is a contagious
one, has taken steps to prevent
its spread. The board of health, on
last Monday, issued the following important
bulletin in regard to the nature
of the disease: "Influenza is au
infectious and contagious disease due
to the influenza bacillus. In cases of
influenza or grip this organism is present
in all the secretions of the nose,
throat and bronchial tubes. The disease
is transmitted from person to person
through the taking in of these organisms,
either from direct contact or
after the secretions have been dried
and pulverized and inhaled in the form
of dust. The disease cannot be produced
by auy other cause than the influenza
bacillus. There are many
catarrhal affections of the respiratory
tract which are improperly called grip,
and the distinction between these aud
true grip is extremely difficult and often
impossible in the milder forms.
Grip, however, is a much more serious
offiw?finn nrodunes much greater de
pression, and is followed by much more
tedious convalescence."
? In a speech made recently by th?
governor of Texas, he said : "In conversation
with the governor of Georgia,
a few years ago, illustrating the progress
which his own state had made in
manufactures, he spoke to me of his
own little town of not exceeding 2,500
inhabitants. There was not a single
man within its limits, not a citizen,
whose estate reached the sum of
$25,000. They were getting poorer,
while other cities in the state were
becoming richer and more densely
populated. The people of this little
city got together and determined to
build a factory. They didn't want to
build an expensive one. They didn't
propose to put up buildings three or
four stories high ; but a plain, simple
one-story building. Stock was issued
ouly to those who lived within that
community and to none other. No
man was permitted to take more than
$1,000 worth of stock. They began in
this small way, and in less than five
years they were exporting from their
village more than $1,000,000 worth of
cotton fabrics every year, and now
there isn't a single idle boy or girl
within that community, my friends.
Young men are not studying law nor
J!.: U..4 41 ?
meuiCltie; uut UICJ arc caiuiug u
living."
? General Shafter appeared before
the war investigating cotninittee last
Tuesday afternoon and told his story
of Sautiago. He said his first orders
were to organize a strong reeonnoisauce
force of about 5,000 to 8,000 to
go to Santa Clara province and get into
communication with Gomez; but not
to bring on a general engagement.
This plau was checked by the appearauce
of Cervera's ileet in southern
waters. Geueral Shafter was then instructed
to prepare a siege on the port
of Mariel and make a strong entrenched
camp on high ground where the
bulk of the American army was to be
quartered preparatory to the geueral
campaign. This plan was again checked
by the report of Cervera being bottled
up in Santiago, and Geueral
Shafter was ordered to prepare an expedition
to siege Santiago. The expedition
that left Tampa, he said, was
supplied with 60 days' rations, and he
was told to load six months' supplies, it
he could ; but time did not permit, fie
claimed that the landing near Santiago,
and the subsequent operations were
as successful as could have been hoped
for, and although some mistakes were
made, he was not inclined to waste
any vain regrets over them. If he had
the thing to do over again perhaps he
would do some things differently ; but j
as it. was he had done the best he could
and was willing to take all responsibility
for that which was right along
with that which is being subjected to
criticism.
3flte \|otIuuUf (Enquirer.
YOItKVILLE, S. C.:
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24,1898.
? The Columbia Record observes
that America has never had a "permanent
issue." What has become of
the tariff?
? The "new leaf" can be turned
more profitably now than after the
first day of January. And the probability
is, too, that it will lie better.
? Speaking ofRowell concern,
The Enquirer gets frequent propositions
from it, whereby it offers to
"reciprocate" in the matter of advertising.
But somehow we do not
see our way clear to swap a genuine
article for a fraud.
? There is no probability that Seuator
Butler's proposition to pension
Confederate soldiers will become a
law ; but it will test the sincerity of
the sentiments to which President
McKinley has recently been giving
uttereuce.
? Next year being an off year in
politics, ought to be a good year to
develop business and general prosperity.
Let each and every one of us do
all we can to contribute to this end,
uot neglecting in the meantime our
duty to our fellow men and to
Christianity.
? Representative Bailey has introduced
a resolution questioning the
right of General Wheeler to holding
a seat in congress and a commission in
the army at the same time. The general
is a wonderful fine fellow and a
great soldier; but be ought not to
violate the constitution.
? A Democratic representative said
the other day that instead of increasing
the army expenditures something
like $50,000,000 a year, it would be
better to spend that amount annually
on the navy. "For," he concluded,
"with the best navy of the world in
in our possession, it would be impossible
for any foreign country to land
a brigade on our shores." That sounds
sensible. With a big navy iu our possession,
we can protect ourselves; but
if we maintain a large army, we will
always be wanting to fight.
? Some of the Grand Army of the
Republic posts in the north are passing
resolutions endorsing the recent
proposition of President McKinley
looking to Federal assistance in caring
for the graves of Confederate dead.
An occasional individual is publishing
a dissenting letter in aenuucmuuu ui
those who sought to destroy the government
; but, of course, there are still
thousands of people throughout the
north who do not yet know what the
war was about.
? If there is a publication on the
face of the earth which we regard as
totally unreliable, it is the American
Newspaper Directory, as printed by
George P. Rowel 1. We are at a loss
to know why any newspaper should
seek to advertise in that book. Even
if it were reliable, why should country
printers throw their money away advertising
for business, which Rowell,
more than any other man, may have
labored to injure.?Abbeville Press
and Banner.
It is people who have not got much
respectability who are always concerned
about proving that they are eminently
respectable, and who are less
particular about the means they employ.
The business of Geo. P. Rowell
& Co. is principally to prove large circulation
and standing where very little
circulation or standing exists, and as
there are more newspapers that stand
in need of such concerns as Geo. P.
Rowell & Co. than there are that do
not, such concerns are always assured
of a healthy support. Rowell & Co.
will swear to almost any kind of a
statemeut that one of their patrons
will make to them, and it is possible
that there are some people who, not
understanding the inwardness of the
situation, may be influenced tbereny.
THE CONFEDERATE REUNION.
It is a long time until the 10th of
May?the date of the annual reunion
of the U. C. V. in Charleston ; but the
occasion is to be a big one, there is
much work to be done, and no time
should be lost in making necessary
preparations.
The Enquirer has never had a
representative at one of these big reunions
; but through those who have
attended, we have managed to keep up
with them pretty closely. According
to our understanding of the matter,
the only reunion at which the proper
spirit prevailed in the entertaining
city was the one held at Richmond.
By the proper spirit, we mean the
spirit of genuine hospitality, with no
thought of the almighty dollar on the
part of those charged with the duty
of entertainment. In Richmond, they
say, it seemed as if every man, woman
I
and child of the city was disposed to t
look upon the visiting Confederates as C
especial guests of themselves as indi- .
viduals. In New Orleans, in Nash- "
ville, and especially in Atlanta, the t
Confederates were looked upon as so a
many lambs to be fleeced, and in mauy n
instances they were so treated. In the a
coming reunion in Charleston, we are 8
confidently looking forward to a repe- ?
tition of the Richmond experience, ex- a
cept on a larger scale. t
Whatever may be the feeling in
South Carolina against Charleston politically,
socially, Charleston is the c
leading city in the United States, ana
a city of which every South Carolinian
has a right to be proud. We are not f
referring especially to the exclusive
set in uppertendom. There is such a
set there, and it stands head and ?
shoulders over anything of the kind B
in Philadelphia or Boston ; but it is to c
the city as a whole we refer. In no f
city in the country is the ordinary vis- 9
itor treated with more consideration *
and courtesy, and when a man or wo- j
man goes to Charleston under circum- v
stances that places him or her in a po a
sition of being a guest of the city, f
there is but little possibility of the ^
slightest ground for disappointment.
Now this re-union is to be a tre- (
mendous affair. It has been estima- t
ted that during its progress the city t
may have as many as 20,000 guests, a
The population of the city is not much e
over 60,000, and 20,000 guests will *
make a pretty full house. Such a "
throng will tax even the hospitality of t
a city like Charleston ; but we have 1
no fears. She will acquit herself with <
credit to herself and the state, aud the fi
Confederates will not see another such
time of it until they again reunite in i
Charleston.'. v
While Charleston is not asking for g
outside assistance?while the people I
there are determined to prove equal *
to the occasion?somehow we cannot {
help feeling that the whole state should i
take a hand. It is not fair to drive a
willing horse too freely, and as the occasion
promises to be one in which the
whole state can take the greatest pride,
it follows that each town and county
will feel all the better satisGed after it
is over if each has contributed a share.
Charleston will accept the assistance
not in a spirit- of selGshness; but in
that spirit of hospitality which is going
to enable her to accomplish so much
on her own responsibility.
McKINLEY IN GREY.
Charleston Will Provide a Suit For the
President.
News and Courier, Wednesday.
It is just as well, perhaps, that President
McKinley did not delay his
departure from the south. When he
was at Macon on Monday, he was
decorated with a Confederate Gag,
which he wore on his coat all day.
When he passed the Confederate monument
iu that city, a Confederate
veteran waved a Confederate Gag at
him, while the son of a Confederate
veteran waved the Stars and Stripes,
and we are told that "the incident
seemed to appeal to the president."
When the president reached Augusta
he was greeted by "a company of uniformed
veterans of the Confederacy,
with their battle-scarred Gags waving
with the Stars and Stripes," and we
are satisGed that if he had stopped iu
Columbia long enough, the patriotic
people of that town would have Gtted
him to a full suit of Confederate grey.
It was getting warm for him for a fact,
and there is no telling what would
have happened but for the special railroad
schedule on which his train was i
run.
When the president comes to Char- ,
leston next May, if the president's i
tailor will be good enough to send the ?
president's measure, a full suit of the t
right color will be waiting for him. \
And all the Confederate veterans from ^
all the Confederate states will be here
to see him and houor him. (
The cloth for the president's suit of ]
Confederate grey, which he will wear ?
for the first time at the Confederate l
reunion in Charleston next May?that t
is if we can catch him?ought to be t
made of South Carolina grown wool, \
woven on an old-fashioned loom aud
cut according to the style of "the brave |
days of old." In such attire the pres- ]
ident would look well, and with his ^
Macon badge and other Confederate (
souvenirs, he would be able to go right I
into the fraternal spirit of the great i
occasion. ?
HOLIDAY RECESS. c
Congress Adjourned Wednesday Until Jan- *
uary 4.
Correspondent Atlanta Journal.
Washington, December 21.?Congress
adjourned for the holidays this
afternoon, and will not meet again for f
two weeks. This leaves only two
months for the present congress to pass i
appropriation bills, increase the army, .
ratify the treaty, aud settle upon some i
plau for the construction of the Nicaraguau
canal. Considering the amount
of work to be done this is a very limited
period, and it will be an exceeding- g
ly difficult thing to enact the laws
which seem now to be imperative. t
The haste with which many will ^
have to be put through at the end of .
the session has brought up the ques- <.
tiou of changing the date of couvening
congress; This question has been g
agitated in the past; out never ueiure .
has congress itself seen the importance ^
of making some change as it does now.
Scarcely once since congress reassem- t
hied have the Republicans been able to y
muster a quorum had the Democrats c
absented themselves. Many congress- ?
men do not attempt to attend to their j
congressional duties before the holi- (]
days. Many agaiu do not even come
to Washington until after New Year's. I
The committees do a considerable
amouut of work, or rather they have ii
done so this session, because the mem- g
hers realize bow little time there will I<
be left.to them after the holidays. As a
a rule, however, even the committees, t<
such ones as the appropriations and c
the ways and means, do not take up si
beir bills until tbey return after
/bristmas.
The first month of (be short session
3 practically thrown away, whereas,
f the date for convening was fixed for
he first of the New Year, almost twice
s much work could be accomplished,
auch money saved to the government,
ud often the necessity of calling extra
essions would be done away with. If
ongress had more time this very quesion
would be taken up at this session,
,od a constitutional amendment framed
o be presented to the states.
PRICE OF BRITISH FRIENDSHIP.
>f Courte, Great Britain Wants More Than
She Will Give.
There in need therefore, that the
*MV,W 7 ? j >eople
of both countries should clear
heir minds of this international cant.
iVe are deeply anxious that England
tnd the United States should be
igreed ; but we are still more deeply
inxious that they should find agree eut
upon a solid basis. Let us be
rank. Let us put aside hypocrisy and
ay outright that we expect mutual
;ain in material interests from this
eapproachment of the two countries.
In alliance is not possible; an alliance
vould gall like a fetter, almost as soon
ls it was forged. But we can have a
ree working agreement to help each
ther where help is possible. This
;ind of agreement, indeed, is at preset
in force. For the American comnissioners
in Paris are making their
>argain?whether they realize it or
lot?under the protecting naval
trength of Englaud. And we shall
txpect, to be quite frank, a material
[uid pro quo for this assistance. We
ball expect the States to deal genermsly
with Canuda in the matter of
arifls ; we shall expect to be remem>ered
when she comes into her kinglom
in the Philippines; above all, we
ihull expect her assistance on the day,
luickly approaching, when the future
>f China shall come up for settlement.
?or the young imperialist has entered
ipon a path where she will require a
itout friend, and lasting friendship
letween nations is to be secured, not
>y the frothy sentimentality of public
ilatforms; but by reciprocal advanages
in their solid material interests.?
London Saturday Review.
LETTER FROM HOUDTOWN.
lum of Money Stolen From Mr. Feemeter?
Still Some Cotton to lie Sold?Marriages.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
Hoodtown, December 22.?On the
light of December 7, some person or
lersons entered Mr. A. E. Feemster's
louse and stole all bis money, except
ibout $4, in oue of his pockets. The
..mnnnlinn tn WHS nil
uuucjfj auiuiiuiiij^ iw v-wv, f* Mw ?...
ogether in a large purse, which being
ound empty the next morning, together
with the fact of the doors being
eft open, furnish the ody clue which
ias yet been had to the theft.
The warm, damp weather of the
>ast few days has not been at all
avorable to the saving of meat. Sevsral
pretty good porkers have been
ilain around here recently.
Wheat sowing has been greatly iuerfered
with by the inclement weatbsr.
However, the greater amount of
he prospective acreage has been sown.
There still remains several bales of
iotton to be picked in this section.
The rise in price will benefit only a
ew, however, as most of the crop has
>eeu marketed about as fast as it could
>e gotton ready.
This week's matrimonial list will
ionsist of but three couples, so far as I
:an learn; all three of the grooms
rom Blairsville and Hoodtown?the
irides from a larger territory. Today,
Hr. J. Walter Bankhead goes to wed
me of Guthriisville's fairest daughters.
)f all three you will probably learn
nore than this scribe can now tell.
Voce.
SMYRNA NOTES.
Correspondence of the YorkVille Enquirer.
Smyrna, December 22.?The wet
veather has interfered considerably
vitb wheat sowing in this section.
Some of the farmers have sowed all
,he wheat that they intended to sow ;
>ut others are still waiting for suitable
veather.
And there is a good deal of that 5
;euts cotton on hand to be sold yet.
worries the owners very much.
Sometime back they would have glady
taken 5 cents round ; but now that
here has been an advance,- they do
iot know what to do. Cotton is a
vnrrvsnme thine.
^ nThere
was a lively time at Mr. Juius
A. Hope's last Wednesday. Miss
31anchie celebrated her birthday by
jiving a pound party. All the chilireu
of the village almost, to the num>er
of 28, ranging from 2 to 14 years
n age, were present. Mr. Hope came
jome carrying a bag of apples and
mpersonatiug Santa Claus. The chilIren
got after him, and run him till he
ripped and fell, spilling his apples
svery-whieb-a-way. It was both fuuly
and exciting. b. r.
mereSention.
Wall street people who like big
igures, estimate that the recent advance
in the security market values,
las added not less than $25,000,060
o the personal fortune of William
C. Vunderbilt. More thau 100
;irlsof Vassar college are luid up with
iases of grip, and are enveloped iu flanicl
and camphorated oil. The senite
committee on foreign relations has
lecided not to limit the citizenship of
iawaii to whites. The presideut, on
Vednesday, sigued the bill regulatiug
he sittings of United Stales courts iu
loiith Carolina. Two passengers
vere Kitten iu a collision 01 ciecinc cars
it Worcester, Mass., last Weduesday.
The pope of Koine has written
o Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender,
skiug him to put a stop to iiis revoluionary
agitation. Colonel Edward
i. Barrett, national presideut of the
Ions of the American Revolution, was
illed by falling from a window of his
mine at Concord, Mass., last Weduesiny.
He was aged about 40 years.
'rnpoHi-U CoiiHtitulionul Amendment.
Senator Graydou, of Abbeville, will
utroduce, at the next sessiou of the
t-neral assembly, a joint resolution
joking to a vole on a constitutional
mendment so that very small terriuries
cannot hold elections to go into
crlain counties, and to have some retiiction
on such elections.
LOCAL AFFAIRS, it
h;
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
T. G. Culp, County Supervisor?On next ti
Thursday, December 29, will let out a
contract for repairing the bridge over c<
Bullock's creek, near the residence of c<
Allen Crosby. ,
Mrs. T. M. Dobson?Has memorandums 91
for hats and Christmas goods which re- 01
main unpaid, and she wants them all
paid by 12 m., December 30. She wants r<
to pay her debts and wants to be paid nl
by you. She wishes everybody a bappy
Christmas, and she will be happier her- 01
self if those memorandums are paid by
the time she mentions. .
The Ganson Dry Goods Company?Ex- n'
tend the greetings of the season to their
many customers, thank the public for
the liberal trade which they have receiv- u
ed. and tell about some of the things ti
' which they propose to do in the future.
Napoleon Wilson, of Lominack?Has
lost a saddle which he wants to recover. &
THE HOLIDAYS.
As already anuouDced, there will be
uo issue of The Enquirer next Wednesday.
The next issue will he that
for Saturday, December 31, and in the n
meantime, or at least until next Wednesday,
when they will have to go to 81
work again, the printers will enjoy a
holiday. e
The business and editorial offices of 81
q
The Enquirer will not be closed dur- ^
ing the holidays. They never are. a
Under any and all circumstances some- ^
one is always to be found about these
offices to attend to such matters, busi- 1
ness or otherwise, as may require attention,
and people having business D
here that they desire to have attended ^
to, may govern themselves according- c
ly. b
Having said this, we now beg the 8
privilege of taking occasion to exteud c
in nnr fripndfl and natrons, and the 1
vv w%" " I-~ 1 ?
public generally, the compliments of 8
the season. We hope that sometime 0
between uow and tomorrow morning,
old Santa Claus will visit and remember
every one of the little folks, espe- a
cially in this section of the country, c
aud we hope that their papas and ^
mammas, their brothers and sisters, ^
will enjoy to the fullest extent the
joy and happiness that ought always a
to come with the Christmas holidays.
, a
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. p
The following members of the county
board of commissioners were in atten- v
dance on the special meeting held last v
Tuesday : Supervisor Culp, Messrs. "
Wilkersou, Ashe, Stanton, Gwin, Mc- t,
Knight and Moss. c
The principal object of the meeting
was to make recommendation as to the
tax levy for next year, which wus done a
as follows : For ordinary county pur- t
poses, 4J mills; 0., C. and C. railroad 0
bonds in Catawba township, 2J mills ; 0
in Ebenezer township, 1} mills; in c
York township, 3? mills. j,
D. 0. Potts, intendant of Fort Mill,
appeared before the board with the
information that the town had huilt a
guardhouse at a cost of $450, and asked 11
that the county share a portion of the f
expense, with the understanding that c]
it should be entitled to certain privileges
in the keeping of state and r
county prisoners, etc. The board de- n
cided that it was unable to make an j
appropriation without especial permiR- ^
sion from the general assembly ; but "
agreed to endorse Intendant Pott's re- v
quest to an amount not exceeding v
$125.
A petition from citizens of Bethel .J
township asking for the use of the t
chaingang in the work of changing the
approach of the Wright's Ferry road d
to Beaverdam creek, was considered ; b
T
U nma fn nnQtnnnft the *
UUU 1V *T OO UVVIUVU wv -
matter until the January meeting of s
the board, when some definite purpose j
with regard to the cbaingang will be (
announced. t
An allowance of $5 per month was 1
voted for the relief and maintainance
c
of VV. M. Sutton, an indigent ex-Con- ^
federate soldier of Fort Mill township. a
Upon a petition from citizens of i
Bethel township, it was ordered that a v
public road be opened from a point
near the residence of Mr. W. T. Nich- 0
ols, to a point near the residence of ^
Mr. Lee Barnett. Messrs. D. G. Stan- |j
too, I. B. Faris and W. E. Adams were
appointed special commissioners to 0
take charge of the matter. h
PRISONERS IN JAIL.
There are fifteen prisoners in jail at v
the present time, including three women
and twelve men. Two of the C
women are serving sentences for gam- '
hliug, and the other is waiting trial as a
accessory to murder. The men pnsoners
are confined on various charges. 0
The reporter visited the jail Tburs- ti
day night, and by the kiudn'ess of the
sheriff, was permitted to go up stairs. 81
It wa9 quite early ; but as there were ?
no lights the prisoners had all retired.
They are fastened in their cells nowa- n
days every evening immediately after a
supper.
Although the errand of the reporter
was of a different nature, he took ad- "
vantage of the opportunity to have a
short talk with Frank Castles and ^
Amzi Dunovant, who are awaiting
execution of the death sentence on
T
January 6 on account of their conviclion
of the murder of old Ben Goore.
"Do you feel like talking?" the re- w
porter asked.
"Oh ! yes, we like to talk," they N
both replied.
"Well, now, Amzi," the reporter con- C(
tinued, addressing that individual, "I
am going to ask you a question, and I \y
am going to print your answer in the 'p
papers, unless you don't want me to ; tt|
and, of course, you answer just as you p,
like. Understand ?"
Amzi said he understood, and there- m
porter continued : fo
"I heard what you said in the court- tt
house about your reasous for killing ui
old Ben Goore, and I want to know if tc
was relly because you were afraid of <
im ?" i
"Yes, sir; I told nothing but the ]
nth. We went to his house on ac
sunt of Aunt Ibby. She said she j
)uld not stand him any louger and '
le wanted us to kill him. We were <
nly goiog to scare him and take his
jots away from him. We were all
fraid of him ; but Aunt Ibby was the
nly one who wanted to kill him."
Next the reporter asked the men
ow they were passing the time.
"We ore trying to make peace with
od," Frank replied, and Amzi said
lat what be was trying to do so also.
"Do you sleep all. right at night?"
SKea me reporter aner a pause.
"We have been, up until two or
aree nights ago; but we have not
een resting well since," Amzi replied.
"And what is the matter asked the
Bporter ?
"The chinches been bothering us,"
aid Frank.
The reporter then asked the prisonrs
if they chewed tobacco. Amzi
aid be did not; but Frank said be did.
o dividing bis supply with Frank, who
ccepted it gratefully, the reporter
ade the prisoners good night.
Duriog bis visit, the reporter learned
hat all the prisoners are very much
isturbed by a "haunt" that has been
aanifestiug its presence by a tremenous
shaking of the iron grating which
loses the end of the cell corridor. To
tumor them, Sberitf Ltgao, who is
omething of a Sullivan in strength,
aught hold of the grating aud shook
t with all his might. The vibration
eemed to effect the entire upper story
if the jail, and the sheriff asked : ^
"Was it something like that?"
"Heap harder than that," answered
.11 three of the Negro womeu in a
horus, and Matt Byers shouted from
lis cell, "Another big shake up along
he main line."
The sheriff was somewhat amused,
md as he turned away, he remarked:
'Well, I think if you have as healthy
i haunt as that up here, he will be
iretty apt to slay uulil bis time is out."
AS me party was leaving, wo vnv
vomeu gambling convicts?both of
vhom are local characters?shouted,
Mr. please put it in the paper
bat we will be dowu on the ground
lext Tuesday week."
All the spare tobacco the reporter
tad was exhausted duriug the visit,
tod he was impressed with the fact
hat probably nowhere else will some
f the scraps from tomorrow's Christ as
diuners, be appreciated more tbormghly
than in the upper story of the
ail.
ABOUT PEOPLE.
Railroad Commissioner Wilborn was
n Yorkville yesterday.
Mr. Pelham Morrow has been down
rom Gastonia during the past few
lays.
The condition of Mr. Walter T. Baron
shows but little signs of improvelent.
Mr. J. H. Riddle is still ^uite ill.
ie is able to sit up a little at times;
iut does not seem to mend rapidly.
Superintendent Dendy, of the Yorkille
graded schools, leaves today for a
isit to his home in Oconee county.
Mrs. D. W. Hicks and children left
ast Thursday afternoon to visit friends
n Cleveland and Rutherford couuies,
N. C.
Mr. Herod Neil has changed his
aind about renting the Boyd house;
ut instead has decided to rent the C.
f. Dickson honse on East Jefferson
treet.
Dr. C. F. Williams came down from
ialtiinore last Saturday to spend the
/hristmas holidays. He has been putin?
in most of bis time shooting par
ridges.
Treasurer Neely has not been espeially
busy during the past week.; but
ie will get down to it between now
nd next Saturday, which is, virtually,
he last day for the payment of taxes
without the penalty.
Master Dunn O'Farrell, who lives
n the outskirts of Yorkville, reports
hat this season he has trapped 51 rabits.
He sells most of them to the
ttle boys of Yorkville.
Mr. Walter 0. Hobbs left Yorkville
n Wednesday for Tampa, Fla., where
e goes to enter the mercantile busiess
with his brother. Mr. Hobbs has
osts of friends all over this county
/ho regret to see him leave.
Mr. and Mrs. John McMillan, of
Jedarville, O., arrived in Yorkville
ist Wednesday night. They were
ccompanied by Mr. McMillan's mothr,
Mrs. Hugh McMillan. They will
pend several weeks visiting the family
f Mr. James Gordon and other relaives
near Fodder.
Dr. W. M. Walker appeared to be
till better yesterday than be was last
unday. He enjoys his pipe somewhat,
and uuless some unlocked for
amplications arise, there is still every
eason to hope that he will get up
gain.
LOCAL LACONICS,
oly a Week.
The Yorkville graded schools susended
their exercises yesterday with
ie intention of resuming them on
..r...or.r 0 1800
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0 the Clabmukern.
Now is the time for the elubmakers
ir The Enquirer to get in their best
'ork. The right move at the right
me always counts.
ew I'aper.
The Enquirer is in receipt of a
jpy of The Reporter, a new paper 1
tut is being published at Fort Mill
y J. E. Laudie and J. R. Manguui. '
he paper is eight pages and is offered !
1 the rate of $1 per annum.
ualilng Hlit Work. !
Mr. T. Baxter McClain has already i
ade a large purchase of machiuery I
ir his proposed cottou mill, and al- I
lough somewhat delayed by recent ]
avoidable hitches, he still has reason <
i believe that he will be spinning J?
cotton before the spring months have
advanced very far.
Price of Cotton.
The price of cotton was not quite so
good yesterday as on last Monday and
Tuesday. There was but little cotton
on the market, and the reporter was
informed that the best would not have
brought more than 6} cents. Up to
the time The Enquirer went to press,
none had been sold at that price. Cotton
seed is bringing 12 cents?SO
pounds to the bushel. In some of the
markets buyers reckon 32 pounds to
the bushel and pay a little more.
Perfectly Helplesii.
"I wish you would see if you can't
do something to put a stop to the indiscriminate
firing of firecrackers on the
streets," said a greatly disturbed citi
zen to the reporter, a few days ago.
' It is gotten so that it is positively
dangerous for a lady or an inexperienced
man to drive a horse through
the streets." But the reporter can't
do anything. He has nothing whatever
to do with the matter.
Another Big Mill.
Gastonia Gazette: Gastonia is ?oon
to have another cottou mill. It will
be a 5,000-spindle yarn mill and the
capital stock to start with will be
$80,000, of which about $70,000 is now
iu sight. Mr. R. P. RankiD, of Lowell,
has the matter in band. His coadjutors
are Messrs. George Gray,* John
F. Love and T. L. Craig, of Gastonia.
The mill will be built on grounds offered
by Mr. Craig, north of the Southern
railway and about a quarter of a mile
east of the Modena.
MeLanrln In ft tend of Tillman.
It was Senator McLaurin, instead of
Seuator Tillmau, who introduced in the
senate the bill to allow Mrs. J. K.
Alston, the widow of the late colonel
of the First regimeut of 8outh Carolina
volunteers, a pension of $50 per
month. The Washingtou correspondent
of The News and Courier, who
is responsible for the misstatement
about the matter, made a correction
in The News and Courier of Wednesday.
It is likely that the bill will pass
congress without much difficulty.
Saultary Dues.
It is a fact that on account of the
fact that the town council and the
board of Health have neglected to enforce
the law with reference to waterclosets
in private residences, some
people have declined to pay any sanitary
dues and are not now paying
them. It is a fact that if one does
not pay, collection cannot lawfully be
made from another, aiid although it is
no business of ours as to what action
anyone may see tit to take in the light
of this information, after we have
published the fact, our duty is discharged.
The Income Tax.
The Greenville News says that the
income tax law, approved March 5,
1897, is a dead letter so far as Greenville
county is concerned. The law
provides for a tax ou incomes of
from $2,500 a year up, and there is
only one income returned in the whole
county. There are at least five such
incomes returned in York county. We
know of two in Yorkville; two in Rock
Hill, and oue in Fort Mill. However,
we agree with The News that the law
is practically a dead letter. Such a
tax, if levied at all, should start much
closer to the bottom and be graduated
upward.
Killed on the Track.
Gastonia Gazette: A white man
was instantly killed on the track between
King's Mountain and Grover by
the Southern's passenger No. 12, Tuesday
afternoon. Mr. Ed Long of our
town was on the train at the time.
Hearing the death signal whistled and
feeling the sudden jerk of the air
brakes, he followed the conductor out
of the car and saw a man's body lying
motionless on the track about half a
car's length to the rear. Mr. Long
says the odor of whisky was perceptible
by the time they got out of the car. *
They ran to the man; but he was already
dead. The account of the engineer
is that he saw the man some
distance ahead walking along beside
the track, not speciully in danger; but
he kept bis eye on the man as he was
coming toward the train. When about
20 paces away, to the horror of the
engiueer, the man stepped right up on
the track as if inviting death from the
flying engine before his eyes. It was
too late for the engineer to save the
man; but he sounded the signal and
stopped the train almost instantly. On
the dead man's person were found a
broken flask aud a letter directed to
E. P. Randall, Earls, N. 0. It is
thought that he belonged to a family
employed at one of the King's Moun
tain mills.
The Catawba Indiana.
Columbia State : Niue miles east of
Rock Hill is the Iudian reservation on
which are located half a dozen full*
blooded and about 75 half-breed Catawba
Indians. For several years the
state has beeu appropriating $800 for
the support of these Indians. This
year $200 was asked for school purposes.
Of the $1,000, the agent's fees
amounted to nearly 10 per cent. Following
is the annual slatemeut of Mr.
J. H. Hayes,agent: "January 1,1897.
Received from A. E. Smith, former
agent, $23.99 ; appropriation from the
3late, $800. Total, $823 99. Paid to
Indians, $(547.29; to Dr. T. J. Orr for
services, $75 ; agent's fees, $75. Total
Jisbursements, $797.29. Balance on
baud January 1,1898, $18.75; received
from the state," $800. Total, $826.70.
Paid to Indiaus, $636.50; to Dr. T. J.
Orr for medical services, $68.75; funjral
expenses (three deaths), $35;