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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
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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
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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.
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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<
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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.
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< 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
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nnany nan to give it up as a uau juu. ^
Coroner Brian held an inquest over
the dead body during the afternoon,
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and the facts of the killing were developed
about as stated. The verdict S.CI
was in accordance with them.
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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.
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- 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.
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