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Scraps and |acts. ? The Russian government hus borrowed $15,000,000 from a New York syndicate at 4 per cent., pledging the Wladikawkas railway system as security. Under the contract all the money is to be spent with American shipbuilders, iron and steel and other manufacturers. Not a dollar of it will go to Russia. ? Commissioner of Agriculture Stevens, of Georgia, says the department, has sold, on a reasonable estimate, 1, 000,000 more fertilizer tags this year than last. "This indicates," said the commissioner, "that the farmers are planting every available piece of ground they have in cotton. In a few days they will be plowing up the oat fields where the crop appears to be injured, and will plaut it in cotton." ? Says a Frankfort, Ky., dispatch of last Friday: The committee appointed by the Republican legislative caucus to arrange for a convention of the Republicans of Kentucky, Virginia, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama and North and South Carolina, to inaugurate a movement against the election laws now in force in these states, organized tonight. Senator N. T. Howard, of Butler county, was elected chairman. The Kentucky state convention this month at Louisville, will issue an address, calling a convention for this purpose at Nashville. ? A dispatch of February 28 tells of hot fighting at Colenso on the day before. A force of Boers held their trenches against repeated assaults by the British and were at length forced to surrender on account of continued bombardment with lyddite. When the British advanced they found the trenches full of dead and wounded, many of the wounded being yellow from the fumes of lyddite. Over 100 prisoners were taken. The Boer women had remained in the trenches until ahnnj. t.hrpfl hours before the surrender, when they went away. In one of the trenches was found two women, one dead and the other fatally wounded. Before the latter died, she said that her husband had kept her with him because she was an excellent shot. She was only 19 years of age. ? Says a Topeka, Kansas, dispatch of Saturday : At the close of business in the Capitol counting room 'last night, the subscriptions for the Sheldon edition, beginning with the edition of March 13, passed the 100,000 mark, with a basketful of letters uuopened. Today au express wagon hauled to the Capitol office a load of letters which will require the services of a dozen extra clerks tomorrow morning to open and put on the mailing list. It is thought the rush has only commenced. This venture in a business way is surpassing the fondest hopes of the origiuators, and to handle it The Capitol needs the facilities of the largest metropolitan daily uewspaper in the Uuited States. Subscriptions are coming in from every civilized quarter of the globe. The mails have appalled the postal authorities. ? Washington special to Baltimore Sun: Such members of the national Democratic committee as are in Washington are disgusted and indignant at the outrageously extortionate rates of the Kansas City hotels for the period of the Democratic national convention. There has always been more or less complaiut in counectiou with hotel charges for national conventions; but the Kansas City people, in the charges which they are quoting for applicants for accommodations, have gone to a leugth which is almost incredible. For instance, a single room without bath, is put at $30 per day, and with bath $36 per day. With a uaivette which is excruciating, it is said this room may be occupied by either six persons or one person. Those who know the area of the average siugle room in a hotel can have a lively appreciation of how pleasant it will be for six people to sleep and breathe in such a space in the intense heat of Kansas City in July. ? The United States court of claims has at last handed down the decision by which the glory of Dewey's victory is to be reduced to an estimate in cold mathematics. It was on a suit for the money due the admiral and his men for sinking the Spanish fleet, and? mirable dictu?the admiral was turned down and the splendor of his conquest partially dimmed. His contention was that the forces agaiust which he was engaged were superior to his own. If the contention could be sustained, the bonus that he and his men would receive would be twice as large as it would be otherwise. The court has decided that the mines and land batteries of the enemy could not be included in estimating the relative strength of the two forces engaged, consequently the hero of Manila bay gets $9,500 instead of $19,000 and the men under him get $100 each instead of $200. Thus passes the glory of the world ! ? Washington Star, Thursday: me Democrats in the house were disturbed this cuorniug with a vague premonition of something strange and uncanny. As a rule, perhaps, members of the house are not superstitious; but the croaking of a raven over the chamber door, or the beating of the black clouds of discord are thiugs calculated to excite the imagination. A thing as startling and strange as this happened this morning to Representative Richardson, of Tennessee, who is chairman of the Democratic congressional committee. When his mail was delivered to him, the first letter on top of the pack was from W. J. Bryan, and the next, immediately under it, was from Grover Cleveland. When this strange circumstance was disclosed to the Democrats on the floor, there were many and varied expressions. Some thought they saw in it sigus of harmony; others found in it sigus of impending evil. The voice of Cleveland seems always ominous to Democrats, and the coming of the two letters together was discussed as a harbinger, or something or other?sure! ? The inquiry of the senate committee on privileges and elections into the bribery charges against Senator Clark, of Montana, has not yet been completed ; but at the same time it has developed one of the most remarkable scandals that has been before the country for many a day. There is no doubt of the fact that Clark spent$125,000 with members of the Montana legislature to secure his election. That fact is admitted and the amount may be a great deal more. But it seems that this is not the whole of the case. For years thel-e has been a bitter enmity between Clark and Marcus Dally, another multi-millionaire. Everything Clark fovors Dally opposes and vice versa. While Clark was spending thousands to secure his election, Dally was spending thousands to defeat him. Votes were for sale either way, and it seems that about all there is of this case is that Clark got there first with the most money. What the senate commirfpA i?s {mine* to do has not vet de o O ~ V veloped. It may find that the charges of bribery against CI ark have uot been proven. ?hc f|orkviUc <S?q[?irirr. YOItKVILLE, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7,1900. ? There is no need to worry at the repeated threats of the Republicans to inaugurate a campaign against the suffrage laws of the various southern states. In tbo first place, bad the Fourteenth and Fifteenth ameudments not been made during a period of high sectional feeling, they would never have been made at all. Since the amendments were adopted, the people of the north have not shown any more inclination toward their observance than the people of the south, and now that the cuuutry as a whole is being called upon to deal with various inferior peoples with reference to their respective intellectual condi tion, the constitution is daily Decoming more inconvenient. We don't think that threats of interference with our suffrage laws are to be taken as more than bluster. ? The Georgia commissioner of agriculture intimates a probability that many Georgia farmers will plow up their oat crops, which are not promising well and plaut cotton. We have heard the same thing suggested in this section. Oats generally are not promising well. In many instances the crop appears to have been injured. The injuries are not so serious as would have, under ordinary circumstances, suggest&d the plowing up of the crop for the purpose of substituting cotton. But the present prospect of 8 cents cotton next fall is calculated to make many a well meaning farmer contem plate fairly good stands of oats with "malice aforethought." The situation is really dangerous, and we desire to offer one piece of advice. Let every man in the country resolve that if he should really plow up his oat crop, be will re-plant the land in corn. ? Ordinarily one does not like to hear of a famine anywhere ; but. in this, as in other things, circumstances alter cases. The anticipated cotton famine in England does not make the people of this section feel badly. Southern spinners are selling their products at this time from 1G cents to 37 cents a pound, according to size and fineness of yarn, etc. The margin of profit is greater than has ever been known in the history of the cotton industry. If they had it to do, they could easily pay 12 cents a pound for raw cottqn, and from there on up to 15 cents and probably more. But as a rule, southern mills are well stocked with raw material and do not have to pay any such prices. We have no information as to the margin of profit that is realized by British spinners; but we have no idea that the deadline has yet been reached, and we think it likely that they will raise the price of raw material still higher before they conclude to 6hut down their mills. The prospective famine is not likely to cause much discomfort in this section. ? We would be glad to see newspaper argument in this state rise above the plane of epithet. For instance, there are a number of newspapers which seem to think that the application of the epithet "Republican" to a Democrat, is more effective in its results than would be the explosion of half a tou of lyddite. As yet we have not noted the application of the epi thet to Congressman Wilson on account of his vote for the Republican Porto Ricau bill the other day. If voting with the Republicans makes a man a Republican, then Mr. Wilson is certainly a Republican. Had it been Mr. McLaurin, who would have voted the same way as Mr. Wilson under the circumstances, the Columbia State would have been out with its favorite epithet next day; but as The State happens to be as friendly to Mr. Wilson as it is hostile to Mr. McLaurin, it had nothing to say, thus exemplifying the high motive which forms its rule of action. The Greenville News does not take much stock in Mr. Wilson; but then, as a rule, The News is rather too hightoned to stoop to epithets, and it never attacks a man in acts that it knows to be right. In refusing to hold to au untenable position the other day, simply because the majority of his party was so inclined, Mr. Wilson showed that he is a man who is disposed to do his own thiuking, and that is the kind South Carolina wants in congress. They are the only kind < who are capable of doing auy good. ' SENSE VS. POLITICS. Deplorable as the fact inay seem, it is a fact all the same, that the tendency in human nature to cut off one's nose to spite one's face is almost irresistible. A capital illustration of this fact has several times been furnished of late by the action of the Democrats in congress; but at no time has the illustration been more striking than duriug the consideration of the Porto Rican tariff question last week. The original proposition of the Republicans was to treat Porto Rico, so far a.s taxation is concerned, tne same as any other portion of the United States, aud this proposition was so just that it did not awaken the slightest antagonism from the Democrats. But it frightened large interests in this country. Just what these interests were cannot be said with certainty ; but it is probable that they included the sugar trust and the American Tobacco company and other monopolies that would be put to the inconvenience of making changes in their business if Porto Rican products were admitted to the Uuited States free of duty. Anyhow, the Republican party was inclined to change its policy, and determine upon a tariff tax on Porto Rican products exported to the United States. Of course it is understood that the object of the tax was "prolect-ion" for the interests referred to; but it naturally followed that there would also have to be a Puerto Rican tax on American products applying for admission to that country. This was necessary under pretence or semblance of making even justice. But still the proposition was so manifestly unjust as to afford the Democrats every desired opportunity for successful assault against the Republicans, and this opportunity the Democrats were not slow to avail themselves of. The whole country was aroused and the Republican leaders soon realized that they had stirred up a hornet's nest of the most dangerous character. But it was to late to retreat, and to have suffered defeat would have been disas * ? ?? ? V* ** ?>n mr mtoencfa AT Q n It liuua lU IUD pal tj iutC/itaK]| J.UU1JJ Republicans were wisely kicking out of harness, and to keep the party together, the leaders had to abandon their scheme by reducing the proposed tax, fixing a time limit of- only two years, and promising that the president would come forward with his message recommending that all the proceeds go to Puerto Rico. Of course, the Democrats had no intimation of the president's proposed message. Otherwise they may have been more fully prepared as to what was best to do; but as it was, they made a mistake. At least this is our judgment. Although manifestly a trick, the message was along the right line. It is lull of justice and common sense, and upou its merits there can be no reasonable objection to it. The natual tendency of the Democrats is to oppose everything Republican, just as the Reformers in the South Carolina legislature used to oppose eyerytbing emanating from the Conservatives. They gave way to their natural tendency in this case and voted almost solidly against the bill to carry out the president's recommendation. In our opinion, the Democrats lost last Friday the finest opportunity they have had in a year to make capital for their party. Making capital, of course, nobody will deny, is what both sides are after. The position of the Democrats with reference to the original bill was as sound as the decalogue, and that of the Republicans absolutely untenable. The president's message and the new bill were merely makeshifts 1 to correct a fearful mistake. In other words, they were both part of a trick. The trick, too, was dishonest, so far as the Republicans were concerned; j hut still the whole proposition, on its face, was full of sound justice and there was every reason why the Dem- t ocrats should have supported it to a s man. There was no reason, other than j party antagonism, why the Democrats should have voted against it, and they { should have upheld it; but they did 1 not see it that way and that is where 1 they allowed themselves to he hood- 1 winked. REPUBLICANS ARE SLICK. j They Hedge Their Puerto Itlcau Position by MexiiN of a Shrewd Trick. There was another very sensational i change iu the Puerto Rican situation t last Friday. The passage of the hill i imposing upon Puerto Rico a tariff sys- t tern different from the balance of the i United States, raised a wave of indig- <. nation throughout the couutry, and 1 the Republicans were not slow to see that they had made a mistake. Put 1 on Friday they managed, by a shrewd 1 trick, to soften the bitterness of the r feeliug their unjust action had aroused. I There was au all night conference c in the Republican camp, Thursday c night. The Democrats learned of it v afterward ; but they had uoiulimatiou 4 uulil Friday morning, when they were i more or less astonished at an unex- a pected message from the president. The message read as follows: t "Since the evacuation of Puerto Ri- t co by the Spanish forces on the 18th a day of October, 1898, the United Slates t has collected on products coming from 1 that island to the ports of the Uuited t States, the duties fixed by the Diugley t act aud amounting to ?2,095,455.88, il and will continue to collect under said t law until cougress shall otherwise di- v rect. Although I had the power, aud having in mind the ber' interests of 1 the people of the island, used it to I modify duties on goods and products v entering into Puerto Rico, I did not lave the power to remit or modify iuties on Puerto Rican products comng into the ports of the United States, [n view of the pressing necessity for remediate revenue in Puerto Rico for conducting the government there and ! -- ?*? ?* :? -r or ine rAieumou 01 puuno cuuuauuu, ind in view also of the provisional legislation just inaugurated by the house of representatives, and for the purpose of making the principle embodied in that legislation applicable to the immediate past as well as to the immediate future, I recommend that the above sum so collected and the same hereafter collected under existing law, shall, without waiting for the enactment of the general legislation now pending, be appropriated for the use and benefit of the island." All the Republicans had previously been warned to be in their scats, and to them, of course, the message was oo surprise. There was consternation an the Democratic side. Mr. Richardson, the Democratic leader, remarked 'I hope the recommendation will meet with favor on that side of the house," meaning, of course, the Republican side. Mr. Cannon, who was in charge of he Republican arrangements retorted, "I'll see if it meets with favor on your side." Then he requested unanimous consent for the immediate consideration of a bill to put into force the recimmendation of the president. Mr. Richardson stood hesitating and Mr. Dannon chafed him with, "Better do t at once before you chauge your mind. Mr. Richardson then asked cow much time would be allowed for lebate, and when told 20 minutes on a side, remarked that he thought the Republicans might be depended upon .0 continue the same way of thinking for 40 minutes, and assented to immeliate consideration. Mr. Cannon then ntroduced the following : "Be it enacted, etc., that the sum of ?2,095,455 being the amount of customs evenue received on importations by ihe United States from Puerto Rico since the evacuation of Puerto Rico by ,be Spanish forces on October 18,1898, :o January 1, 1900, together with any further customs revenue collected on asportations from Puerto Rico since January 1, 1900, or that shall hereafter be collected uuder existing laws, shall be placed at the disposal of the president, to be used for the government and benefit of Puerto Rico until rtherwise provided by law; abd the evenues herein referred to, already jollected and to be collected, under ixistiug law, are hereby appropriated "or the purposes herein specified out of iny moneys in the treasury not othervise appropriated." Mr Cannon had but a few words to lay in support of the bill. He thought .he reasons set forth by the president vere entirely satisfactory, and he oblerved to the Democrats that their ittitude on the bill would serve as a est as to whether the tears they had jeen shedding over the starving Puerto Ricans were of the crocodile variety. Concluding: "Now come aud vote br this bill, every man of you." Mr. Bailey, who is perhaps the readest speaker on the Democratic side, answered Mr. Cannon. He objected :o the bill on the ground that it put he expenditure of the Porto Rican evenues absolutely within the discieion of the president, and he was not .villiog to give such a power to any >ne man. He thought it would be more proper to leave the disposition of he Puerto Rican revenues to congress. But the whole line of procedure Dad been distinctly marked. The ReDublicans had the advantage and were .boroughly aware of that fact. Had he Democrats refused unanimous consent for the consideration of the bill, ben the Republicans would have sadiled upon them responsibility for withloldingfrom Puerto Rico the relief that ,he Democrats had all along been dniminu' that Puerto Rico was entitled -o. Having given uuanimous consent 'or consideration, there was no other vay for it than that the Democrats should swallow such bill as the Kfcpubican majority might dictate. The bill passed by a vote of 162 to 107. Thirteen Democrats, Mr. ^Viliod, of South Carolina, among them, roted against the bill. Mr. Undervood, of Alabama, explained that he foted for the bill only that he might iave the right to move for a reconsidsration. THE BRITISH AND THE BOERS. 'rogreHH of Operations In South African War. Since the capture of General Cronje ind his army and the relief of Ladyimith, there has been a dearth of news Irom South Africa . At least there las been no definite information as to .vhat has become of the Transvaal irmy under Joubert. Everything is eft to presumption, and the general relief is that the Boers have arranged o take up their next position within /he borders of the Transvaal, and nake their stand at Laing's Nek aud Majuba Hill. It is quite probable that he British are already in touch with /hese positions and fighting has comnenced. It is probable also that Geu?ral French is confronting Boer armies n the Orange Free State, and news of nore bloody fighting is to be expected n the next batch of telegrams from the litfereut British armies. The followug account of the relief of Ladysmith :omes from Durban under date of March 2 : Correspondents who have returned lere from Ladysmith say that the reief came quite unexpectedly. At loon on Tuesday the firing of General 3uller's army seemed to recede instead ?f approach, and the garrison was ionsequently depressed. Everybody vas startled to hear the garrison's L7 auns firiuir. It had not been used ii ch of late owing to the diminishing itnmunition. On hurrying out it was found that he Boers were tryiug to remove the >ig gun ou Bulwana by the ereetion of i derrick. This proved that somehiug extraordinary was happening. The other garrison guus then directed heir firing ou Bulwana withthe result hat the Boers were compelled toabanlon the attempt with the derrick. Laer ou they placed the gun on a wagon vhich capsized in a donga. During the afternoon, wheuever the Joers were seen approuching, the iritish resumed the shelling of Bulvana. About 4 o'clock a terrific thun derstorm broke over the town, just after a message had heen heliographed from-Wagon hill that the Boers were in full retreat. Other officers said they believed they could descry British cavalry ; but most people supposed that the wish was father to the thought. As soon as the storm ceased the British guns reopened on Bulwana, gradually concentrating the fire on the left driving the Boers before then with the object of preventing the enemy from hampering any British appoach. An hour later a party of British horseman could be seen crossing the flat, below Bulwana, at a distance of some miles, it is impossible to describe the excitement and enthusiasm smong the troops that followed. Most of the towns people bad been driven into the houses by the storm and did not learn the good news until later. The storm broke again at 7 o'clock in the evening and continued until 2 o'clock the next morning. It must have seriously hampered the retreating Boers. The British gunners kept a sharp watch to prevent any further attempt to remove the Bulwana gun. The British nayal guu was fired at intervals through the night and in the morning a force was sent out to look after the gun and to occupy Bulwana. Lord Dundonnald'8 force went after the retreating Boers, while 4,000 of the best men of the garrison went toward Elandsloogte with the hope of being able to cut off the enemy. MUST FlttHT TO THE LAST. Kruger Issues n Stirring Appeal to the Transvaal Burgers. Says a Londou dispatch of Monday : "A special to The Times from Lourenzo Marques, dated Sunday, February 4th, says persistent reports continue to arrive that the Transvaal republic has opened negotiations looking to the securing of peace. On the other haud, it is asserted the Boers will make a stand at Glencoe and Laing's Nek and that in the meantime entrenchments at Pretoria are being extended in anticipation of a siege. A conference between the Boers' presidents, it is added, and the general commanding the Boers in Northern i\ aim, was uurneuiy unangcu vu &ceipt of the news of General CroDje's surrender. Until Thursday night the confirmation of the surrender was withheld from the public. President Kruger sent a fervid religious appeal, with orders that it should be read by all of the officers to the burghers, urging them to stand fast and strive in the name of the Lord, for unless they had faith in Him cowardice would set in and their position would be hopeless the moment tbey turned their backs on the enemy. Their past victories, he declared, showed that the Lord was ou their side. The presideut beseeched the burghers not to bring destruction on their progeny. Continuing, the special says that a high authority in Bloemfoutein declares that in the event of a repulse of the Free State forces, the latter will retire towards the Trausvaal and unite with their brethren there, maintaining the struggle to the last. "The Boer casualties at Colenso during the week ended February 25tb, are reported to be 31 men killed and 130 wounded. General Buller's casualties, from February 14 to February 27, were, killed 72; wounded 708; missing 24; total 804. ? T>_: 4 :~U MA?tAMn?MAnf in mul/tnrv 1UC JDlllllSlJ gUVCIUIUCUU lO arrangements to send forward some 50,000 more reinforcement during the next few weeks. Free Trade For Puerto Rico.? There has been another significant change in the Puerto Rico situation. On Monday, Senator Cushraan K. Davis offered an amendment to the bill which recently passed the house, providing, that the tax provision of the constitution apply to the island, and that there be absolute free trade between Puerto Rico and the United States. The bill also provides that imports into Puerto Rico from foreign countries be subject to the same duties as are imports into the United States. From this amendment, it is to be taken that the Republicans do not consider that the constitution can be made to apply to islands dependencies of the United States except by a special act of congress. Farmers' Bonded Warehouse. Spartanburg farmers are arranging to organize among themselves a joint stock company for the purpose of establishing bonded warehouses, in which they can store their cotton, borrow money on it, and hold it against an advance in prices. A meeting to that end was held recently. It was explained that the farmers of Laurens have such a warehouse and that it is paying divideds to its owners. It was stated that one Sparlauburg farmer who needed money, but preferred not to sell because he believed the price would get better, carried his cotton to Laurens, put in in the warehouse, borrowed money on the receipts, paid bis . debts and afterward sold his cotton for $8 a bale more than he could have realized at the time the money was borrowed. The Spartanburg propo- 1 sition is to organize a joint stock company with a capital of $20,000 divided into shares of $25 each, in order that oil iho formers of the eountv. larere and small, may be interested in the enterprise. It is stated tbattbe move- 1 ment is growing in popularity and there seems to be every reasou to believe that it will be a go. Firflt Itegimeiit Officer*. Adjutant and Inspector General j Floyd, on Friday last, issued the special order No. 10, relative to the recent . election for field otlicers of slate mili- 1 tia, from which the following is an ex- 1 tract: In compliance with General < Order No. 8, an election for field offi- < cers of the various regiments and bat- , talions of this state was held on the ( 17th day of February, and the following officers are hereby declared elected ( and will resume command upon receipt of their commissions together with a J copy of this order. First Regiment South Carolina Volunteer Infantry? Colonel, J. O. Boyd, Greenville; lieutenaut colonel, H. Fay Gaffuey, Gaff ney; major Second Battalion, J. S. Cockran, Abbeville; major, Third Battalion, J. H. Marion, Chester, S. C. LOCAL AFFAIRS. I. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 1 Thos. W. Speck, The Jeweler?Speaks to *r' you about watch repairing, and says ho th guarantees his work. wj Yorkville Buggy Co.?Tell you about the man who hid defects with putty and be paint. ec York Implement Co.?Talk about the Hoosier corn drill and the Buckeye ot binders. C. W. F.Spencer,Special Referee?Notice * to creditors in the matter of the Ganson su Dry Goods company. Yorkville Buggy Co.?Are sole agents for 14 ircoKKorrr TTollfimlflr Oo.'fi CgIg brated semi-paste paints. . W. M. Kennedy, Agent?Has fresh seed . f>otatoes and garden seed. Also has a in ot of samples for men's clothing. ?( John E. Carroll, Superintendent of Edu- ? cation?Wants teachers to call on him ap for a copy of the new teachers' register, ABOUT PEOPLE. w Mr. W. Y. White, of Chester, was in tr Yorkville last Saturday. er Mr. W. A. Corkill, of Chester, was iu Yorkville yesterday on business. Mrs. J. M. Steadman left on Monday night for a short visit to her parents at te Batesburg. Her mother is quite unwell. Mr. J. R. Culp, of Chester, has sueceeded Mr. B. W. Cauthen, as agent 01 for the Carolina and North-Western m railroad at Yorkville. th Mr. B. D. Springs, of Charlotte, was p| iu Yorkville on Monday. He has been w gelling so many letters of inquiry on the sheep question that he threatens to send them to The Enquirer for reply. ? Mr. Joseph Wylie, of Chester, who hi has been confined to his home for the hi past two months or more, is able to be gj out again. He is still very feeble; but is able to walk to his place of business . without assistance. Dr. George Walker, of Baltimore; er Mr. Lamarline Strauss, of Staunton, hi Ya.; Miss Norma Slrauss, of Charles ai ton; Mrs. Mary Walker, who has been p| visiting her sister at Wildwood, Fla.; g Miss Alma Walker, of Converse Col- . lege ; and Rev. G. H. Waddell, of Co- 1,1 lumbiia, reached Yorkville last Monday m morning to be present at the funeral of at Mrs. H. C. Strauss. ti< tb WITHIN THE TOWN. le It was a large crowd that was in m town Monday and it was a sober and |Q well-behaved crowd. yC ga So far 13 arc lights have been in ^ stalled in Yorkville. Five more are to be installed within the next few . days. " The price of cotton continues stead- y. ily upward. Several bales" were sold ^ on this market Monday at 10 cents for ^ summer*deIiveYy. The price yester- p, day ranged from 9J to 10 cents. go The subject of Rev. B. H. Grier's sermon last Sunday was, "What Would t Jesus Do?" Iu general terms Mr. Grier endorsed Chas. M. Sheldon's story as calculated to do good rather than harm; but he thought that the ^ question Christians should ask them* selves is, "What Would Jesus Have Me to Do." nt Soliciting Agent Izard, of the South- V ern, was in Yorkville on Monday. Speaking of the general complaint m about schedules on the Southern, he m says that there is absolutely no ground p| for it, especially between Charlotte and cc Columbia. Since the Florida business ^ of the Southern has grown so heavy, gt there have been special traius between Columbia and Charlotte running both ^ ways on exact schedule time. Those specials, he says, do not carry mail f0 clerks or postal cars; but tbey carry fe mail, and the only reason the Yorkville g8 people don't get their mail from Co- U| lumbia regularly, is because it is not w nnf nn t Ko train in t.hwt- nif.V. P"V vu V..V ? """" ""V ' Ct < BRUTAL MURDER. tb A brutal murder occurred on Mr. w' Ed McFarland's plantation, about two miles south of Yorkville, last Mon- co day afternoon, at about 3 o'clock. m Fred'Stewart, a Negro, deliberately shot and killed his wife, Emeline, and ot fled. ? 0E It appears that the pair had been ^ living together on unpleasant terms ^ for a while. The woman was in a delicate condition, and during one of the m quarrels between the pair, Stewart cb kicked his wife in the stomach. Emi- ^ line left and returned to the house of her father, where she continued until ^ Monday. Stewart went in during the 101 afternoon and sought to get his wife to bj return to him. She refused on the 80 ground of previous cruel treatment, and when the fellow became satisfied that his wife meant what she said, he m( whipped out his revolver and shot her. et< The bullet entered at the left breast, ^ penetrating the heart and producing c0 death within a few moments. Imme- Pr diately upon the commission of the by dastardly dead, Stewart struck for the an woods. r0 Upon receiving news of the murder, th Sheriff Logan, accompanied by Chief t,c of Police Love and others, hastened to the scene with his dogs. He worked on the trail of the fugitive murderer for several hours without success, and lK " j ? !. ? .. . i i te< nnany nan to give it up as a uau juu. ^ Coroner Brian held an inquest over the dead body during the afternoon, , w 1 and the facts of the killing were developed about as stated. The verdict S.CI was in accordance with them. , of TO CATCH MUSKRATS. Mr. \V. E. Good, who lives in Bui- sic lock's Creek township of this county, igi jn Broad River, gave the reporter some pa interesting information on Monday El Lhat will be of value to the farmers an who have sustained damage to their Tt join during the summer on account of co muskrats. The information is to the ha jffecfc that muskrats may he trapped in ow jrdinary rabbit gums. on "Take an ordinary rabbit gum," be; laid Mr. Good, "bait it with corn meal cei lough, the same as for a rabbit, and E> slace it on the creek or river bank in an, he locality where the muskrats have rer shown themselves to he the most plen- inj iful, and that is all you have to do. ma During one winter, three years ago, ing caught 14 muskrats in this way, and e next summer my coru was not oubled. It was evidently because ere was no rats to trouble it. Last inter, I paid no attention to tbe rats cause I did uot tbink there were tough of them to do any harm, and iring the summer they came after me ;ain. This winter my boys have remed the campaign, and so far they ive cauvht seven." Upon inquiry, Mr. Good said that was not practicable to catch the rats the summer time. They will only > into the traps during the winter and ring, while there is no vegetation. 0 farmer, however, says Mr. Good, ho will give proper attention to his ap9 during the winter, need be hotbed by the rats in the summer. ^SHOOTING ACCIDENTS. Two bunting accidents were repord last week. -One resulted iu the lling of an 11-yetfr old boy and the her in the serious wounding of a an. One occurred on Friday and ie other ou Saturday, and both took ace in the same general neighborhood est of Yorkville. On Friday afternoon Claude and eorge Plexico and Ernest Garvin w$re jnting partridges near Sharon. All id guns. The dog pointed and a sine bird flushed. Both the Pleixco >ys fired and young Garvin, who was tout 25 yards away, fell. It develop1 afterward that four shots had struck m in the head, oue behind the ear, lolher in the ear, another in the tern e and the fourth over the temple, e became unconscious within a short roe after he was hit. He was reoved to Sharon as soon as possible, id, Dr. J. H. Saye made an examina3i) of bis wounds. It was found lat at least one of the shots had enred the brain in such a way as to ake death inevitable. The little felw died shortly after 10 o'clock the me night. He was a son of Mr. ee Garvin and was only about 11 ' age. The Plexico boys were aged >out 12 and 14. Mr. J. Butler Thomasson was the ctim of the other accident. He was luting with a party of friends near e residence of Mr. W. J. Stevenson, irds were flushed and Mr. Thomasn, who happened to be in the line of -e, received a charge of shot from the in of Mr. Harry Neil. Mr. Thomasn was struck by some 40 or 50 shot, hich took effect in bis face and left m. One passed through his left eyeill, destroying its sight. The full :tent of Mr. Thomasson's injuries is >t yet definitely known. r - DEATH OF MRS. STRAUSS. Yorkville and community have to ourn the loss of another good woan, who has for years been trying to ay her part in all that seemed to mtribute to the general welfare of oae about her. _ Mrs. Ida Walker rauss, wife of Mr. Henry C. 3trauss, ed at her home here on last Sunday orning at 7 o'clock. Mrs. Strauss had been in poor health r a number of years past. She sufred from a heart affection, which ive rise to other complications that idermined her constitution. There ere short seasons in which she enjoyI comparative relief and comfort ; but ese were not frequent, and they ere never entirely separated from e realization of a condition that >uld only be made bearable by ost perfect Christian resignation. Mrs. Strauss was born in Yorkville i January 18,1854. She was the secid daughter of Mrs. Mary Ellen alker and her late husband, Dr. 'in. M. Walker. She resided in orkville from infancy, became a ember of the Methodist Episcopal lurch in 1870, under the ministry of ev. G. M. Boyd, and was married Mr. Strauss on January 13, 1874. Ithough no children blessed this unn, it was known to have been a most ippy one in every respect, so much that especial sympathy goes out to e husband in bis deep bereavement. The funeral service and the interent took place in the Yorkville cemsry on Monday afternoon. Rev. J. . Steadman, pastor of Trinity church, nducted the service. There was ayer by Rev. Dr. S. A. Weber and mns by Trinity choir. There was unusually large concourse of sorwing friends and acquaintances at e iuoerai, uuu tue uuuosiuu was par* mlarly solemn and impressive. STRICTLY TWO DOLLARS. The time in which annual subscripts to The Enquirer will be accep1 at $1.75 under our present club 'era, expires on March 13, next. On and after the date mentioned, we II, in the case of every new subriber, or reuewal of an old subscripn, require the full subscription price $2.00 per annum. 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