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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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. ^
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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