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Scraps and 4-acts. ? At the recent meeting of the NewYork State Medical association, Dr. Crothers, of Connecticut, read a paper in which he said he had learned by careful inquiry that from 6 to 10 per cent, of the doctors in the country are victims of the opium habit and that the percentage is increasing. ? The cotton convention at Atlanta fizzled out. On the last day, when D. A. Tompkins, of Charlotte, and John Barnett, of Oregon, invited speakers, went to the coliseum to deliver their addresses, they found nobody there but the janitor. The president, L. F. Livingston, was out at the fair grounds. Thp snpakprs had rnms all the wav from Dallas, Texas, to address the convention. ? A special dispatch to the Baltimore Sun from Raleigh, N. C., says: Money is being raised by the Daughters of the Confederacy and by camps of veterans in aid of Mrs. Stonewall Jackson, who is needy, in very poor health and almost blind, at her home at Charlotte. She is said to be suffering from an incurable disease. One chapter of the daughters has already raised $700 for her. ? An interesting incident in connection with the Elandslaagte fight is reported from Durban, Natal. When the fire of the British guns became too hot, eight Boers ran forward out ot cover and, standing together, coolly opened fire at the Imperial Light Horse with the evident purpose of drawing the latter's fire while their comrades retired. Seven out of the eight were killed. ? Rev. G. E. Morrison was hanged at Vernon, Texas, last Friday, for wife murder. It seems that Morrison bad been married 17 years. In 1897 he mat in lv anc?c Pitv Mo a Miss Whit-1 tlesey, a former sweetheart who was still unmarried, and who was possessed of a large fortune, $10,000 of which was in cash. Scheming to get the fortune, he told Miss Whittlesey, his first love, that his wife had been dead for a number of years, and that be had abandoned the pulpit aud established a prosperous cattle ranch in Texas. It was arranged that the two former lovers should be married. Morrisou went back to Texas and gave his wife a dose of strychnine. Then he went to Topeka. On his returu he was arrested, and all the facts were developed at the trial. Miss Whittlesey was the principal witness against him. On the scaffold, Morrison claimed that he was innoceut, and said that the fact would come out in the course of time. ? Major Dick, chairman of the Republican executive committee of Ohio, has hit Jones, the "Golden Rule" Independent candidate, a pretty hard lick. Jones is a millionaire, having made his money by the invention of an improved pump used in oil wells. Major Dick writes him as follows: "In your letter you admit that you are - * 1 ?1 1 one oi tne so-canea 'privuegeu ciass, for you subscribe your name 'S. M. Jones, president Acme Sucker Rod Compauy.' This is to protect monopoly. By virture of a privilege that you own exclusively, you exact from every family in the state of Ohio, who uses oil, an additional revenue. The poor people of the states have made you rich ; yet you prate about and seek to make political capital by your love of the poor. Why not give up your protected patent and thus practice and not simply preach your doctrine ? No more transparent humbug was ever offered to the people than the peculiar notions which you are advocating in the present campaign.'' ? The situation iQ Basutoland is an interesting phase of the South African troubles. About 2,500 Orange Free State soldiers are said to be on the north side of the Caledon, looking across the river iuto Basutoland. They can plainly see the chief town Maseru, the seat of British rule. The British resident commissioner brings his spyglass to bear daily upon the Boer camp and reports what he sees by telegraph to Cape Town. Fully half of the more important Basuto settlements are on or near the Free State border, and the Boers are watching them all. They are trying hard, according to the British resident, to induce the quarter of a million Basutos to side with them. They would not dream of attacking the British at Maseru, only a mile or two away, for the Basutos might resent the invasion and cast their lot with the British, where, politically, tney seem to belong, as their country is a part of Cape Colony. The Boer leaders are eager to get away to the east, where their comrades are fighting every day ; but they dare not leave, because, if the Basutos should decide to take the field against them, all the south part of the Free State, with the women, children and cattle of the absent burghers, would be at the mercy of the blacks. ? Secretary Hester's weekly Cotton Exchange statement, of last Friday, shows a decrease iu the movement into sight as compared with the seven days ending the same date last year, in round figures, of 163,000; a decrease under the same days year before last of 167,000. For the 57 days of the season that have elapsed, the aggregate is behind the 57 days of last year 346,000, aud behind the same days year before last 146,000. The total movement for the 57 days from September 1 to date, is 2,612,441, against 2,95S,S32 last year, aud 2,758,748 year before last. The movement since September 1st shows receipts at all United States ports of 1,770,156, aguiust 2,177,621 last year. Interior stocks iu excess of those held at the close of the commercial year 341,815 against 399,768 last year, aud 317,346 year before - ?:n Q.%1 .-ii JclSl. OUUllicni uj1ii iuiviij^o uvi,vti, against 2SS,810 last year. Foreign exports for the week have been 201,344, against 304,351 last year, making the total thus far for the season 1,158, 019, against 1,221,082 last year. The total takings of Americau mills, north and south and Canada, thus far for the season, have been 639,072, against 493,639 lust year. Stocks at the seaboard and 29 leading southern interior ceutres, have increased during the week 40,871 bales against an increase during the corresponding period last season of 144,890. Including stocks left over at ports and interior towns from the last crop, and the num- j her of bales brought into sight thus far. for the new crop, the supply to date is 3,231,339 against 3,225,038 for the same period last year. <?lic forkviUe (Enquirer. YOItKVILLE, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, NOV'R 1, 1899. ? A Berlin dispatch reports the desire of Emperor William to add fortyeight big battleships to the German navy between the years 1901 and 1917, at a cost of 212,500,000 marks, or something less than $53,425,000. The information is given out unofficially by high officials who take great care to explain that the idea has no reference to present political conditions; but that the necessity for a stronger navy is occasioned by the colonial interests of the empire. ? The war that is being waged by dispensary employes through the newspapers is getting very tiresome. We fear that they will so distract attention from the main issue that the members of the general assembly will not make the investigation that it is their duty to make. Much of what the belligerents are throwing at each other is calculated to disgust decent people with the whole business ; but still it must not be forgotten that the state is charged with the matter of straightening the muddle out properly, aud if we have any representatives of real ability, they will not suffer themselves to be thrown into a pauic even by a situation like this. The remedy, we still believe, is to be found in new men rather than in a new system. ? The remark is made by the Raleigh News and Observer that "South Carolina is the only state in the Union that has a model divorce law. It has enacted the Bible cause and steadfastly refused to add any other." The News and Observer is mistaken. South Carolina is the only state in the Union that has no divorce I law. The marriage ties cannot he broken in this state for any cause whatever. Our moralists rise superior to the Bible and do not consider it as a safe guide in such matters. Efforts may have been made to "enact the Bible cause," but the innovation has been looked upon as a device of Satan. There is not many people in this world who can improve on the Holy Scriptures; but among those few our law-makers are conspicuous.?Columbia State. Really, we are unable to fiud an authority for the exquisite sarcasm to be found in the charge that "our moralists do not regard the Bible as a safe guide in such matters." In Mark x, we read : "2 And the Pharasees came to Him and asked Him. Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. 3 And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you? 4. And they said Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. 5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. 6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh : so they are no more twain, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God has joined together let no man put uconnrlnr " So far as we are able to see, there is no need for comment, except that, recognizing the above as law, South Carolina law-makers have governed themselves accordingly. ? The Washington Star publishes a long story about the Philippine question that is based on alleged information secured from a senator who has the confidence of the administration. In brief, the story is to the effect that when the Philippines first came within the power of the United States, the administration did not think much of them. The president was rather inclined to leave the Filipinos to take advantage of the situation and work out their own salvation. From the first there was a strong commercial element in this country which insisted upon the importance of the Philippines as constituting the key to the situation in Asia. Upon these destruction of the Sautiago fleet, the people began to argue that no longer being able to hold the Philippines, Spain would sell them to Germany, which would thus become the paramount power in China. Still the president was reluctant to determine upon an aggressive policy in the East. When he sent the American Peace commissioners to Paris, it was with instructions to insist upon the retention of only one of the Philippine islands to be used as a naval base. Then the commercial element began to argue that the other islands would be purchased or otherwise acquired by Germany and the other powers, and at last the president was persuaded to acquire title to all of Spain's possessions in the Pacific ocean. All this sounds very plausible, and it seems to be corroborated by more recent developments. It is now pretty geuerally believed that had Otis prosecuted the Filipino war with proper vigor at the right time, he could have brought it to a close within a few weeks. There is good reason to believe that this could be accomplished even now within a month, liut as a matter of fact everything poiuts to the conclusion that the administration is only using the Filipino hostilities as a pretext to get into that quarter a power.*! 1 army and a powerful fleet, the real purpose of which is to prepare X this country for more important operations against rather more formidable foes. When we consider the size of our army in the Philippines, and the presence there of our most powerful war vessels, along with the fact that the American and British fleets are more than a match for those of all i the other nations combined, it is quite easy to believe that this country is i looking forward to developments much more important than anything that could be expected of the Philippines. Everything indicates that even now tl>n TTiiiiorl fitotoo onvernmpnl in mflk. ! tUC UUIVVU UUUVVO gV T Wi Xkuviuv aw ? ? ing its arrangements to be on hand to supervise Russia and Germany's threatened partition of China. THOSE WI NTHHOP SCHOLARSHIPS. The Gaflhey Ledger, which charges that girls are being persuaded to violate their contracts with other institutions aud go to Winthrop, has found itself in what most sensitive people would consider very hot water, and in 1 its last issue it devotes considerable 1 space to an effort to lower the temperature of its bath. Nearly half of what it had to say, is devoted to the remarks 1 that were made last week by The Enquirer, and we reproduce this portion as follows : Now, we thought we had done with this, and so stated when we printed the article from the Columbia State, containing Professor Johnson's explanation. But lest our esteemed contemporaries quoted above should think they have put us to silence and to shame, we shall raise our feeble voice one time more. As regards the mostof what The Yorkville Enquirer has to say, we have no reply to make. We note with pleasure its loftiness of tone in attributing some vague impossibilities to "reliable, self-respecting newspapers," for we remember that in no very distant past we had occasion to read some pungent lessons to The Enquirer on subjects having a decided bearing on reliability and self-respect, and we are glad to see that our labor was not altogether in vain. But The Enquirer is not justifiable in distorting what we said into an attack upon Prof. Johnson. We were particular not to say that he was persuading pupils to violate their contracts with other colleges. What we did say was, "pupils are being persuaded," and we did not say by whom. We are abundautly able to make good this assertion in the face of the whole world. When it it is remembered that Winthrop has a number of officers and attaches, and hosts of political friends and servants, that assertion cannot, except by the most violent and malicious distortion, be construed into a personal attack upon Prof. Johnson. The Enquirer calls for facts, names 1 and dates to justify what it is pleased to consider one insignificant transaction 1 "magnified into a charge of wholesale persuasion of pupils to violate their contracts." We have already given one fact, < and if they must come, we can give others; i we can also give dates approximately?accurately if necessary?names we will not i give at this time because we have too high . a regard for the feelings of high-toned, ( sensitive young ladies to drag their names before the public in order to gratify the , morbid curiosity or tub xorkvii^lk , Enquirer or anybody else. We happen , to know that as many as three young ladies made contracts with Limestone for the session and cancelled them for the purpose of going to Winthrop. One of these contracts was carried so far that the father , had sent a check covering the expenses of half the session, and had written : that his daughter had left home for Lime- J stone; but would stop a dayor two to visit \ friends at Winthrop. The visit ended, 1 she went to Limestone and annulled her contract and returned to Winthrop. We have it from good authority that while she I was on her vjsit to Winthrop, a place in the dormitory was promised her if she < would enter Winthrop instead of Lime- i stone. We have no right to assert that < any other inducements were offered, but reserve the right to infer what we please. This young lady had no scholarship in ( Winthrop, and the dormitories are sup- | posed to have all been taken in June, or ( before the 200 pupils were refused ad mission for lack of dormitory room?except such as were reserved for those who might t win scholarships. This all took place after the opening of the session. A few days later another young lady annulled her engagement at Limestone and went 1 to Winthrop. We do not know any of the particulars of this case except that both ! had engaged rooms at Limestone early in i the fall, and the rooms had been reserved for them. i Had we not been absolutely sure of 1 our ground, we would, of course, not | have been so severe on The Ledger. | We would have assumed that possibly , it was mistaken rather than malignant; but if abundant evidence of our I position is not to be found above, then 1 Alfred Jingle was certainly free from 1 the guile of the hypocrite. "We were particular," explains The < Ledger, "not to say that Professor Johnson was persuading pupils to vio- 1 late their contracts with other colleges." Yes, that fact is very clear ; | but it seems to us that The Ledger , should have been as particular to say > that Professor Johnson was not committing this offence. Then there would have been no ground for any alleged misunderstanding. And The Ledger has "too high a re- , gard for the feelings of high toned, sen- i sitive young ladies" [who it alleges are guilty of preach of promise] "to drag 1 their names before the public." That is certainly good. Jingle could not have done better. Unable to secure himself behind real skirts, even his artful mind would have hardly decerned the equal security of imaginary 1 ones. We note the new cases of bad faith which The Ledger charges against these anonynons young ladies; but in this instance no complicity on the part of any of Winthrop's management is alleged. If the cases cited, however, are really based on fact, it is probable i that this second bubble may be punctured as easily as was the first. For I instance, suppose a young lady who i desires to go to Winthrop is unable to c find a vacancy. She is obliged to go ? somewhere else, temporarily at least; but if she afterward learns of a vacancy it is not unnatural that she should pack her truuk and take advantage of it. VVe do not say that this is the case. As a matter of fact, we have no information whatever; but it might serve as a plausible explanation as to why some of The Ledger's young ladies "have violated their contracts." Notwithstanding the only inference that could be put on its original assertion, The Ledger disclaims that it intended any attack on President John 3on. Its disclaimer has to be accepted without question. We are not in the least interested in any quarrel between The Ledger, or Limestone and President Johnson, or Winthrop; but we want the facts. The representations of President Johnson to the governor, quoted by The Ledger, imply that there is not now enough room at Winthrop, and that there should be a new dormitory. If what President Johnson says is true, and we believe it is, then a new dormitary is necessary. If what The Ledger says is true, and we don't believe it is, then President Johnson or some one else is trying to deceive the general assembly into making an appropriation for an additional dormitory that is not really needed. If there is anybody at Winthrop who is guilty of such deception, then be or she should be exposed ; and if The Ledger will give us facts?real facts? we will take pleasure in helping it with the work. fVio nK 11 n tnm Q of which Thp O..J? t.uc.uwwu.t, ?.v Ledger professes to be alarmed, aod the fear of which, it alleges, impelled it to make its most recent explanations, are interesting. Our past experience has taught us that ignoring of its effrontery is the only method by which it can be put to silence ; but the idea that it could experience shame hus never occurred to us before. If it is really making progress in this direction, we beg it to accept our congratulations. Wireless Telegraph. Columbia correspondence News aod Courier: Major Benjamiu Sloan, professor of applied mathematics and physics at the South Carolina college, recently bought a set of the Marconi wireless telegraph instruments. The instruments consist of a transmitter, or sending instrument, and a receiver, and are very simple in their construction. The cost of the instruments is $40; but persons acquainted with the construction and cost of manufacturing telegraph instruments, say the real cost of the manufacturing of the Marconi instruments cannot exceed $5. The transmitter looks like the ordinary telegraph relay, except that the induction coil is about eight times greater in size. The key and transmitting coil, or relay, are built on one base. The receiving set of instruments is made up as a combination set and all placed on one base. These, too, are simple in con struct ion, the receivi ; relay being an ordinary iglegraph relay of a small -ize. OnThe receiving set is a vibratory bell, which riugs whenever the receiving relay is in action. Major Sloan understands thoroughly the working aud priuciple of the system. The instruments were set up by himself. The battery used is the ordinary dry cell battery, only about ten cells being used. After having worked the instruments successfully for a few days Major Sloan invited a party of Columbia telegraphers, consisting of Manager J. T. Gray, t?hief Operator Chas Boyd and Operator Hale, of the Western Union Telegraph office, to visit bis his laboratory at the South Carolina college and see what they could do with the system. Major Sloan had placed the transmitting instrument in one end of his large laboratory and had running out and up from the rods 011 the large induction coil an ordinary copper wire, about seven feet long. In the lecture room adjoining the laboratory, and about 85 feet from the transmitting instruments, was placed the receiviug instruments, with auother copper wire ruuning about seven feet, the same as that from the transmitting set. These two wires are positively all that is necessary to work the wireless telegreph. There is no connection of any kind between these two vertical wires. The electric wave goes up and out on the transmitting set wire and the signals are caught by the wire on the receiving set. Messrs. Sloan, *" - - J XT 1 * uray ana naie went iu luciauuiaiv/ij, where Mr. Gray successfully transmitted Morse characters to Mr. Boyd in the lecture room. Then Mr. Boyd went to the laboratory and trausmilt d words to Mr. Gray in the lecture room. Mr. Hale also sent and received the Morse characters in the same manner. The words or letters, which coutain dashes and spaces, could not be successfully received, as the bell on the receiver destroys those characters; but words made up of dots only, such as is, sis, sip, pie, ship and other words like Mississippi, etc., were successfully transmitted and received by sound in the Morse characters. The Marconi system employs a register, such as was used in the early days of telegraphy, by which the characters are received and an impression made on paper tape, and it was only as an experiment that this party of gentlemen worked it by SOU 11(1. IMllIUlllgS, W HI IS, uiuiiuimus nor anything else can stop the electric wave after it leaves the transmitting instrument. In the above instance there wasasolid wall between the two rooms. Professor Sloau has ordered a register, and after installing this part of the receiver he will have his system complete and can then receive the signals the same as Professor Marconi does. All who have been so fortunate us to see the system in operation are thoroughly convinced as to the truthfulness of Marconi's claims; but as to :he practicability of its use time can only tell. Until January 1st, Thk Twice a-Wkkk Enquirer, i I led with the latest and most reliable lews, will be furnished from the date if this issue until January 1, 1900, for 14 cents. LOCAL AFFAIRS, a t INDKX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Glenn ?t Allison?Let you know that they . have a few mules and horses on hand, and are making arrangements to han- a die more next season tnau ever before. . Their lines of buggies, wagons and harness are full. g J. J. Hunter?Tells you about the men . and boys hats, underwear and hosiery, umbrellas and overshoes, ladies' capes h and jackets he has on hand. On next ^ Saturday the keys will be tried in the money box. a C. P. Low ranee?Offers you cream of u wheat and Heinz's pork and beans. S. D. Patrick, McConnellsville?Talks u about the great crowds that are crowd- _ ing his store at McConnellsville, and quote prices on a number of articles. t Sam M. Grist?Gives von some informa tion about Oliver chilled plows, Corbin disk harrows, and Hoosier or Champion i disk drills. ? H. C. Strauss?Lets you know that the crockery-ware that he is giving to cash I purchasers has arrived, and he quotes , prices to show you that the crockeryware is an actual free gilt. ? Yorkville Buggy Company?Announces t that it is prepared to furnish buggies with rubber tires or fit old buggies c with them. 8 ABOUT PEOPLE. 1 Rev. VV. G. Neville returned from * synod last Monday night. 8 Miss Ophelia Davidson has been vis- * iting Miss Marie Carroll, at Blairs- 1 ville. 8 W. W. Dixon, Esq., spent a few days last week in Yorkville with his ' family. I Miss Ida Harshaw, of Guthriesville, 1 is visiting Mrs. Johu R. Logan, in r Yorkville. I Constable R. L. Scoggins went down ^ to Columbia last Friday and expects to remain some time. Major James F. Hart left yesterday c for Baltimore on professional business. He will be in his office on Thursday. Dr. George Walker arrived in Yorkville from Baltimore Monday night, haviug been summoned to the bedside 1 of his father Dr. W. M. walker. i GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY. The following petit jurors were drawn yesterday to serve during the second week of the approaching term of the circuit court. They will be required to answer to their names on Monday, November 20. j J. E. Plaxico, Bullock's Creek, i J. R. Spears, Catawba. W. H. Beard, Bethel. 1 J. C. MeCarley, Bullock's Creek. J. H. Bank head, Bullock's Creek. ' F. P. Gienn, Ebenezer. E. P. Neely, Catawba. 1 R. H. Cornwall, Catawba. J. R. London, Catawba. < H. F. Horton, York, t Z. M. Neil, King's Mountain. J. F. Reid, Catawba, t A. F. Ruff, Catawba. \ J. J. J. Robinson, Broad River. , W. W. Castles Broad River, c W. N. Ashe, Jr., Bethesda. t E. L. Garrison, Ebenezer. R. B. Biggers Bethel. H. \V. Thomson, Bullock's Creek. James Caldwell, Broad River. ' E. W. Kiinbrell, Fort Mill. J. W. Snider, York. \ J. W. McFarland York. ? W. W. While, Catawba. 2 J. T. Smith, Broad River. t S. T. Frew, Catawba. T. W. Seoggins, Bethesda. J W. A. Garrison, Catawba. s R.A.Brown, Bullock's Creek. J. C. Lilly King's Mountain. 1 B. E. Mangrum, Fort Mill. v W. N. Wallace, Bethel. E. D. Darwin Broad River. 1 Jeff D. Whitesides, Broad River, f M. A. Gwinn, Bullock's Creek. W. A. Sherrer, York. ^ * t> VISIT OF MUNDAY. "Yorkville is to be condoled with upon a recent visit -from Joe Munday, . who has promised to come again. He is a so-called Baptist evangelist, and is c a dead match of Tom Leitch. All t of us have sorrows aDd afflictions.'"? j Greenville Mountaineer. t As to whether Munday and Leitch t are two of a kind, we are not prepar- t ed to argue ; but from what he have s heard of Munday, he is a slick citizen. c Possessed of an easy flow of gab, c plenty of impudence, a full stock of v questionable anecdotes, and traveling t about under the "reverence labels," he fc finds but little difficulty in securing 8 audiences wherever he goes, and York- d yille was not an exception. t Munday's Yorkville audience was A quite a study. It was composed of people representing all kinds of tastes, a and though much of the stuff that c was served up was of a most question- r able character, it was generally swal- I lowed without a grimace. In many e cases, however, nausea set in after- (j ward, and the victims promised them- t selves not to be caught in a like man- t ner again. p But Munday did a thriving business I here, especially in the matter of col- t lections. For instance, after an "en- s tertaining" talk, he would call for the h dollars, next for the half dollars, and I then carry around bis hat for the quar- v ters, nicklesand dimes. It was neces- t sary for him to make from one to two c "swipes," as he expressed it, of the > contents of the hat to his pockets on each bench of generous contributors, c Yes, Monday is quite a success in bis R line. If he is as successful everywhere e as be was at Yorkville, be ought to be a getting rich pretty rapidly. He was I; undoubtedly the most fetching visitor ti the town has yet had in the "for men t< only" line. c Baptists here say that Munday is no ii longei connected with their denomina- h lion. According to them he was ex- e eluded by one of the churches at s: Knoxville, Tenn., some ten years ago, a and has not siuce been taken back, o The Baptists who are acquainted with G Munday's record refuse to have any- c thing to do with him. q . si WITHIX THE TOWX. C A local dealer informs Thk En- t< QUIRER that the price of cheese will c soon be advanced to twenty or twen h ty-five cents a pound. Whether the n advance is to be attributed directly to tl the cheese trust or to a legitimate de- it crease in the supply, does not clearly si appear. A The prowling tigers were quite II numerous on the streets of Yorkville u last Saturday night. Some were so 01 nxious to sell that they offered to cut he price. Chief of Police Love has to listen o all kinds of complaints. On Monday , white man came to hint with this ale of woe : "Last Saturday night I ;ave a Negro a dollar and a quart botle and sent him for some whisky. He ia* not brought hack either the whis;y or the dollar, and I want you to rresihim." The complainant wasunlable to name or point out the alleged inlruslworlhy dealer and the chief deided that the case was rather beyond lis jurisdiction. Aunther somewhat amusing liquor ncident occurred uear the "court louse" corner on Monday afternoon. ^ country Negro was passing along vith a bottle of whisky in his pocket, leveral town Negroes who saw the cmpting bottle crowded about, aud me of them seized it. There followed i scuffle, during which the Negroes ook turns at holding the owner of the vhisky while the others helped tbeiuelves. The country Negro pulled ofl' lis coat foi u fight; but at uuuut this ime Chief Love appeared oo the scene tud stopped the row. There is but little bay beiDg offered n Yorkville this fall, and most of that >eing offered is of inferior quality ? irincipally crab grass. The liverynen are payiug as high as 40 cents a lundred pounds for hay of a quality vhich last year was considered high at 10 cents. But few peavines are being dFered. I.OCAL LACONICS, louth Carolina Hlntory. Out of more tban 9,000 pupils iu the jublic schools of York county, only beween six and seven hundred are studyng the history of South Carolina. Celery Crop a Partial Failure. Mr. 0. Henry Smith reports that his selery crop has suffered during the last season on account of the hot dry veather; but that he will still have nougb to supply the local markets, fe has no celery ready for use yet; >nt expects to have a supply by Thanksgiving day. lis Fair Exhibit. Rock Hill Heruld : The Kerr-Kim lull Live Slock company will send town to Columbia next week fifty odd lead of fine horses for exhibition at he state fair. The shipment will emtrace a number of tine trotters, sad Hers and roadsters. It is probable hat no other stable iu the stale will nuke such an exhibit, itaking Heavily on Wheat and OatM. The Enquirer's correspondent at Vurren, writes under date of October !8 : "The Blackjack people will eitlir make or break on small grain next 'ear. There has been more small grain own this fall than for 12 or 13 years, f next year proves to he a good grain ear we will be belter prepared to ake 41 or 5 cents for cotton, tban we lave been heretofore Most of the lottou has been gathered. It does not imouut to more than half a crop.1' 'rogrettfi of the Bidding. rnt_ * il ...:n i? i 1 u:J i iiml nitre win ue suixie mem uiu ling for the contracts to carry mails in the star routes in this section may le taken as a fact. Already some >roposa!s have gone forward, and as he time will not he out until Novem>er 30, it is safe to say that there will le other bids. As has already been tated, each bid should be on the basis if present requirements, and tbe bidler should also state tbe amount at vbich he will be willing to deliver nail in boxes between postoffices along lis proposed route. Although it is not i settled fact, it is very likely that tbe lepartment will give the preference to hose bids which include free delivery. In Seen by One of Them. Abbeville Medium : York county is . tramping ground for the promoters if all kinds of schemes. If they can't un politics they take to religion. The atest is that Rev. Joe Munday preachd at the court house there last Sunlay. He is a Baptist evangelist. At he conclusion of his sermon a collecion was taken up to raise money to tay for furniture in his new house at jenoir. He recently lost bis home in he west and has returned to his native tate. He lectured Monday night, his lis subject being "There's a Bran New iaby in Town." A small admission ras charged. Evangelist Munday is he right man for York county where lovel proceedings are in order. to Confidence In Otis. The reporter has been advised of the af n 1 nt f icinl tnn frAm uuiruiD a iwi/vi niiucu 11 VUJ Jaaila by a young man who volunteerd at the oubreak of the Spanish war nd who wa9 afterwards sent to the 'hilippines. The young man referred o is knowu to his friends as a highoned gentleman of considerable edualion, with ability to discriminate even a matters of large importance. He as been several times promoted since ntering the service and is thoroughly atisfied with his present occupation nd with his future prospects. Much f his letter is devoted to a criticism of leneral Otis, in whom he has little onfidcnce. He says that Otis's head uarters at Manila are coustautly beieged by members of the Catholic lergy, and ibut there is good reason 3 believe that the priests are the real ommandersof the Philippines. This, e says, accounts fur much that has ot been done. He is of the opiuion J iiat any good general, Wheeler, for i islauce, who would take hold of the < | luatiou as the representative of the 1 merican people, rather than the * ,oman Catholic clergy, would clear j p the whole situation in very short j rder. i THE NEW YORK COTTON MARKET. Mr.ilHmfii Rlordan Thinks the Indications Promise an Advance. In a letter published on Monday, Mr. James Kiordan, of New York, gives the following review of the cotton situation as he sees it: Business on the Cotton Exchange has undergone a further contraction this week, aud the market has been rather dull. The fact that the weather has contiuued warm aud favorable has iucreased the coutideuce of the believers in low nrices and their selling to getber with the closing out of those bulls whose patience had become exhausted, and backed up by the indifference of Europe to the ridiculously light receipts, was amply sufficient to take care of the demand, and prices show little change from last Saturday. Differences between the months have uarro wed sharply as the result of heavy buying by shorts in the near positions, who fear that the local stock might be much sought after and received ou contract, owing to the relative cheapness of this market. January closed today at 7.13 7.14, against 7.13 last Saturday, while the more distant months show a small decline. That the speculation is less active than it recently has been is regarded ' by many as a sign of warning to those who are long. The claim is that the bulls have played all their cards?reduced crop estimates, very light receipts, good business and heavy buying for the general public?and the refusal of the market to advance indicates that these cards have been played for all they are worth. To me the situation seems to have resolved itself for the moment into one of patient waiting between the southerner, with bis crop to market, and the foreign spinner wtio must nave mis cotton 10 spiu. The confidence shown on both sides is great. He witi win ultimately who has correctly gauged the size of the crop, aud in the meantime it is a questiou of who gets frightened first. There can be no doubt that if the European consumers believe that the present movement of supplies was, even in a measure, an indication of what we are finally to get, they would long ago have bought everything in sight. But they have not believed this, and do not believe it yet. I do not see how they can much longer ignore the meagreuess of receipts, aud if the present movement coutinues on anyfhiug like its present scale 1 believe (bey will abaudon their idea of getting cotton cheaper aud buy it at such prices us they can. American mills have already bought largely. The open weather in the south is undoubtedly helping the bears every day it continues. Concerning how much it is adding to the crop there is great diversity of opinion. The market seems to tue to be duplicating its action between 6 aud 6$ ceuls, aud I expect to M see it curry the parallel still further aud follow the preseul stagnation with a very sharp advauce. THE BRITISH AND THE BOERS. All Intercut Still Centered on Development* at LadyimUb. There was a decided lull in the news fro u South Africa from Friday until MiUr.M o n a in KutnK nf Hia. iTiuuuajr, wucu a uvn vowu v* v.w patches, some of tbein dated at various points in South Africa on that day, was published. The retreat of the British from Glencoe and Elandslaate after battles at those two points, toward Ladysmitb, was reported in the last issue of The Enquirer. The dispatches of Monday do not indicate that there bad been any important new developments up to that time; but represent the situation as about the same as it was already known to be. The British forces in and around Ludysmiib on Monday numbered about 12,000 men under command of General Sir George Stewart White, ami the Boer forces that were getting in position arouud (lie tovyn, in four columns, were estimated as numbering about 17,000 men. General Joubert himself was in command, and the dispatch stated that President Kruger had come down as far as Glencoe to be close at band during the progress of the decisive battle or series of battles that were expected to occur within a short while. The retreat of the British forces from Glencoe to Ladysmitb, a distance of about 40 miles, seems to have been made with but little interference from the Boers; but at the same time the march was very trying on the British. They were on the road for six day, and during that time were constantly underarms. Heavy rains were falling and the muddy roads made the marching a continual torture. So far as is known, there is no change in the situation at Kimberley. The town is still surrounded by Boers ^fn f Q b~P if. PlfllPT YVLIU SCC111 UCbUIUiUvu ?,v vu?v .- -by siege or assault. The strength of the British force in the town is not known. After firing a few shells several days ago the Boers demanded that the town surrender; but this demand was refused. The British claim that there is in the town provisions sufficient for nine months. It is also stated that the mines are still working and that Cecil Rhodes is having a great time eutertaining bis friends. Mafekiug, about 200 miles north of Kimberley, is also besieged by the Boers. The British attempted a sortie a few days ago; but ran against a strong liue of Boers with machine guus, and had to go back into the towu, leaving several men killed and wouuded. It is claimed that Mafekiug also has provisions sufficieut to last nine months. A dispatch to the London Standard states that the Boers captured 1,500 mules from the British ; but give no particulars as to where the capture^ was effected or under what circum-T stances. If the story of the capture is true, it of very great importance. THE BATTLE IS ON. A London dispatch of 11.50 a. ra., Monday, announced that filing on Lady smith had commenced at 5.20 a. in. The Boer9 opened with 40 pound-, ;rs ; but alter a few shots ceased firing. It was stated that their guus were silenced by the British artillery; but same dispatch said that the Boer inautry was still advanciug. The Britsh had lost about 100 men during the norning and the Boer loss was also