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Straps and .facts. J ? Secretary Hester's statement ol 1 the world's visible supply of cotton, 1 issued last Friday, shows t be total visi- < ble to be 3,215,150 bales, against 3, ' 499,734 last week, and 5,198,879 last J year. Of this the total of American 1 cotton is 2,625,150 bales, against 2,SOI, 734 last week, and 4,028,897 last year, aud all other kiuds, including Egyptian, Brazilian, Indian, etc., 690,000 bales, against 698,000 last week aud 1,170,000 last year. Of the world's visible supply there is now afloat and held in Great Britain aud Continental : Europe 1,880,000 bales, against 3,010, 000 last year ; iu Higypi io/,uuu, against 248,000 i?i India, 320,000, against 660,- j 000; and iu the United States 948,000 bales, against 1,281,000. ? A dispatch of Saturday from * Ponce, Puerto Rico, tells of the execution there on that day of five murderers by means of the garrote. The five men had been convicted of the murder of Prudencio Mendez, after criminally assaulting the wife and t daughters of their victim aud making i them dance about the body of their murdered father. The garrote is a yoke arrangement fitting around the ( neck and being tightened by means of * a screw. All of the victims, but one, I went to their deaths quietly. The one r who resisted was only subdued by the t combiued efforts of four or five meu. Some of the citizens of Ponce censure the Americau authorities for permit- s . ting the continued use of the garrote, , which they hold to be barbarous. < ? If Russia and Japan are not eugaged in a serious scrap before many more weeks have passed, it will be be 1 cause things do not turn out as tbey > are now promising. There is not a | great deal of telegraphic news from the Orient. Just why is not exactly clear. Every steamer irom japan, however, brings news of serious tension between Japan and Russia. Russia is constantly stepping ou Japan's toes; but sbe is doing it iu such a mild, easy way as to warrant no armed protest. The Japanese are said to be very much stirred up and consider war as inevitable. They don't think it will be long coming either. Ae. cording to the reports by steamer, Russia is constantly massing troops at points convenient to Japau,and Japan is doing all she can to perfect the war < footing of her army. Both govern- . ments have their navies ready for im- , mediate business. ? The Louisville Courier-Journal . prints a circumstantial story based upon evidence said to have been given J to the attorneys for the prosecution by I Wharton Golden, W. H. Culton, H. ] Youtsey and others. The story gives ' the name of the man suspected of hav- . ing fired the shot that killed Senator Goebel. He is a Clay county feudist. He is supposed to be in the mountains 1 and has not yet been arrested. The t story follows Golden's testimony as to the plan to cause a riot in the legislature during which Democratic mem- j bers were to have been killed tells of the purchase of a well known Ciucinuati house of 25 steel bullets, smoke- 1 less powder cartridges, the procuring 1 of a 38-calibre rifle with which the < shooting is said to have been done, the ] weapon being returned an hour after- ( ward, aud the payment of $1,600 in advance to the assassin. After the *: 1"^ Jo eoi/1 fKoim ' SLIUUlJIJg IUC a?3aociu 19 oaiu iv iiuti. been escorted to the mountain by a number of armed men. ? Manchester, England, Guardian : Tbere are fresh accounts of the great revival of Mohamedanis n in Central Africa. A Turkish journal announces with pride that both the Sultan of Wadai and the Sultan Kabah of Bornu 1 have acknowledged Abdul Hamid as their suzerain, and havfr raised the Ottoman flag in their territories. Some 1 weeks-ago it was said that the Sultan j Rabah had been defeated by the French . in the country to the south of Lake . Chad, and bad been put to flight. There is yet no confirmation of this 1 news, and it is very difficult to discov- * er what is really taking place in the \ heart of Africa. But the raising of the j Ottomau flag has been reported from t other quarters and there are widespread rumors of the activity of the Sheikh El Senoussi and his "holy 1 war" against the infidel. Secret era- < bassies are said to have been sent out ? to Tripoli, and even to Constantinople, f to arrange a plan of campaign with ( the Sublime Port. . ? The Colorado river is again play- ( ing havoc with the cities, towns, crops , and cattle along its hank. After being swelled by the raius of a week, on last 1 Saturday the river broke the great 1 dam at Austiu and swept away in a few 1 hours property that cost more than ? $1,500,000. The dam was the base of j a reservoir 30 miles long and 60 feet deep. It was here that the city of Austin got its water, light and power. The tremendous body of water went * down the valley in a great flood, several i miles wide, sweeping everything before t it. As many as fifty people are re- ^ ported dead, and thousands of cattle i have been seen floating down the river. Many houses have also been r washed uway. The Brazos and other 1 streams are aiso mgu out 01 meir i banks, and thousands of acres of t corn and cotton will have to be replanted. Railroad transportation has been interrupted by the washing away of bridges, and altogether the entire Colorado valley is in almost as 1 bad fix as last year. 8 ? Los Angeles Times : It is now told that A. Y. Pearson, who, a short 8 time ago, purchased the Pbteuix, Ari- c zona, ostrich farm, intends to consoli- a date the industry iu the Uuited States j. within the Salt River valley. Pear- ' son's company is supposed to owu all the ostriches in the United States, 1 with the exception of those at Pasade- ? nu and small lots at San Antonio, Tex., c and Jacksonville, Fla., with reference rj to the occasional birds traveling with f circuses. The ostriches on the Phoenix ^ farm now numbers about 220. To this will be added purchases made in Cali- * . fornia and elsewhere until the total 1 number this summer will approximate v 800. Mr. Pearson has purchased 320 ^ acres of land uiue miles from the city D on the Yuma road, to whicb be will ^ move the birds. He has gone iuto the industry for feathers and eggs and will c not encourage visitors. Properly t treated, he believes the birds will do g welter in the Salt River valley than in iny other portion of the Union, and ;aya there will be large profits in his undertaking, for each bird, he esliuutes, will produce $30 worth of feath;rs in a year. The "infant industry" aas decided advantages from the fact :hat on South American feathers there s an import duty of 50 per cent. <fhc <|orlunllf (Bnquivrr. YORKVILLE, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, APRIL11,1900. ? Candidate Dewey seems to be geting it where he gave it to the Spansh fleet at Manila. ? ? ? ? The cotton mill boom continues .hroughout the entire south. There is iromise that before a great while there vill be enough mills to manufacture ill the cotton the south can raise. ? It will be well for ginners to pay itrict attention to the standard bale jotice that is being sent out by the savannah Cotton exchange. The colon buyers, especially the exporters, ire growing very much in earnest ibout the standard bale, and they propose to establish it if possible. ? Our Texas friends in the valleys )f the Colorado and Brazos are cerainly meeting with hard luck ; but fortunately it is not too late for them .0 seed again. However much our people in this section would like to see mother short cotton crop, they do not .. < ~ ...... J? in cnnh a ftisns. A UIIb IU aco XV i VUUWM It. wmvm , :rous manner as is threatened in Texas. ? As the result of the capture of 3ronje, Lord Roberts immediately be;ame the hero of the hour throughout England ; but it was only for the hour t seems. Since the British hosts have pecorne hung up at Bloeiufontein, the British public has commenced togrumple again, and there is not a little complaint against the commander-iu chief. That is the way such things usually ?o; but really it is not light to expect oo much of Lord Roberts. The task bat- has been cut out for him is anyhiug but a light one. ? The first of the big 16-inch guns peing constructed at Watervliet arsenil for coast defense purposes, was practically completed last Saturday. \lthough Italy has a guu of 17J inchjs calibre, the largest ever made; Prance one of 16* inches, England pne of 16J inches, this one of Auieri;ab manufacture is fully 30 per cent, nore powerful than either of the pthers. The gun is 49 feet, 6 inches ong, and weighs, without the carriage, 252,000 pounds. The diameter at the preech is 6 feet and 2 inches, and the heoretical range 21 miles. It cost to puild it about $,200,000 and each shot ivill cost the government SSG5. ? Cecil Rhodes was the most popuar man in England when he went ;here for trial on account of his conlection with the Jameson raid ; but it s not that way now. Since his recent irrival, Mr. Rhodes has been as quiet is possible. This is on account of the ivell-kuown fact that public sentiment s strongly against him. Although, low that they are in it, Englishmen ire not inclined to stop the war until he job is completed, there is no doubt >f the fact that they have already gotten much more than they bargained or, and they are very generally of ipinion that Rhodes is responsible for he whole trouble. He is blamed not inly for bringing the war on ; but fur i&ving deceived the British governnent as to the extent of the undertakng. It is said that Rhodes is feeling ceenly the force of this sentiment igainst himself, and compluins that he s receiving no credit whatever for his 'ffort in saving Kimberly from the Boers. He holds that had it not been or his success in keeping up the spirt of the troops and people by feeding he town at his own expense, the Boers vould have certainly been successful; >ut still the people are not inclined to ecollect> anything in connection with he matter except that he expressed lis mind a little to freely to the miliary authorities. ? A Shanghai cable of April 7, iudi:ates a strong probability of early rouble with China. There is in China in auti-foreign society known as the Boxers. This society has been giving i great deal of trouble of late, espe:ially in the provinces of Shau Tung md Pe-Chi-li. The foreign residents lave beeu so terrorized that the sit union has become unbearable. The soiety holds the missionaries in the ;reatest antipathy, and these people, >f course, are in the greatest danger. L"he dispatch referred to says that a ew days ago the British, American, Jerman and French ministers gave the Chinese government to understand hat unless the Boxers are suppressed vilbiu the next two mouths, these towers will land troops and take the aatter iu hand themselves. The state lepartmeut at Washington is not inlined to give out much information on he subject ; hut admits that Mr. Cottier, the United States minister at l'e kin, has authority to avail-himself of such force as might be necessary to protect American citizens aud their property. It is claimed, however, that the United States is not actiug jointly with the other nations in the matter; hut independently. As to the probable necessity of landing a large force for the suppression of the Boxers, the administration claims to have no information. [ ? "At the request of the New York World," it is noted, "Senator Turley has suggested the following 12 names of distinguished southerners for Miss Helen Gould's temple of fame : Jefferson Davis, Henry Clay, John C.Calhoun, John Sevier, Sergeant S. Prentiss, Alexander H. Stevens, William L. Yancey, Nathaniel Macon, Samuel Houston, Stonewall Jackson, Ambrose H. Sevier and W. C. C. Claibourne." The list is well enough as far as il goes, adds The News and Courier; hut it will strike most people that any roll of "distinguished" southerners that did not include, among others, the names of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, the Lees and Johnstons, Hayne and Preston and McDuffie, A. P. Hill and Ben Hill, Toombs and the Cobbs and Grant, Thomas, Scott and Farragut, would scarcely be complete. The Yorkvii.le Enquirer tries to acquit the (Greenville News of the charce of being a Republican newspaper; but if ever an advocate had a bad case or a newspaper was wading in deep water, the posinf AUKAI< wnnlH 1?Q / AinfArfiihlo side the present predicament of Thk Enquirer. For instance Thk Enquirer says: "The News or any other paper has a right to advocate whatever measures it sees lit without forfeiting claims to Democracy; but if the next Democratic national convention again declares for free silver and Bryan, and The News fails to swallow both, we will be unable to see upon what grounds it will be able to base its future loyalty." Now let it be said to the credit of The News, to its intelligence first, that it does not doubt that Bryan and the Chicago platform will be sustained by the Democratic convention, and to its honesty, it has never intimated that it would support either. The Chicago Elatform is Democracy, until repudiated y the Democrats. No newspaper which openly allirms that it prefers both the Republican platform and the Republican candidates to the Democratic platform and candidates, has any right, legal, moral or sentimental to call itself a Democratic newspaper. It may be a good paper, it may be ably edited, it may be honest, it may be valuable, it may be sincere, it may be far superior in all respects to all other papers; but it cannot be a Democratic paper.?Spartanburg Herald. The Herald is somewhat mistaken in what it has to say. The Enquirer does not seek to acquit The News of auything. The editor of that paper has stated clearly in bis editorial columns thai he is not a Republican, and we have not seen any other utterance of his thut would warrant us in going behind that statement. If loyalty to free coiuage of silver is the test of Democracy, then there was a time, even after the proposition had been endorsed by the Democratic platform, when The Columbia State was under indictment, and the quality of the News and Courier's Democracy is doubtful even to this day. As we see it, the Democratic party went before the couutry on the free silver issue four years ago and was defeated. It does uot follow, however, that because this was the leading issue four years ago, it must ever remain so until free silver wius. That is not the history of parties or platforms. Upon the defeat of the party by the natjpn four years ago, it devolved upon the party to examine itself thoroughly in order to discover wherein it was not acceptable, and to endeavor to make itself more acceptable. So far as we are concerned, we believe as strongly iu free coiuage now as we did four years ago, and we hope to see it again made the leading issue; but we have no quarrel with those Democrats who think otherwise, for we have studied the question enough to recoguize that there are two sides to it. If, however, after a full and free discussion of four years, having listened impartially to all that can be said on either side of the question, the party again decides to espouse the cause of free silver, then it seems to us that it becomes the duty of all party newspapers to quietly submit to the majority. If they do not want to do this, then, of course, they have the right of pulling out and becoming independent or goiug to the Republicans. The News did not stand h\? llio Tinrfv fntir vpnrs mrn hilt it. is "J '"v I"" J "tl- I our recollection that the present editor was not responsible for its policy'then. What it might do this year, of course, we do not know ; hut in our opinion it has a right to fight for such principles as it considers Democratic until the meeting of the next national convention, when, if it is good, it will have to accept as its creed the creed of the party. MKKE-MKNTION. General Otis has been relieved of the command of the United States army in the Philippines at his own request. General McArthur will succeed him. He will sail for the United States on May 1. Some 30 iioers escaped from the British military prison at Simonstown last Saturday. It is being demonstrated more clearly every day that-the American force in the Philippines is inadequate for the work at hand. Insurgent bauds continue to rob and murder the peuceiul natives. There is in circulation m Washington an unconfirmed report to the effect that Mrs. Dewey has : withdrawn from the Catholic church and joined the church of her husband, the Episcopal. The grand jury at Frankfort, Ky., is still at work on the i Goebel murder case. The closing fight on the l'uerto Rican tariff bill takes place this week over concurrence iu the senate amendments. #,Governor Stanley, of Kansas, has agreed to issue a proclamation calling upon i every mau, womau and child iu Kan- : sas, to contribute a bushel of corn, or its equivalent, for the benefit of the starving people of India. If the peo pie all answer the appeal, the famine sufferers will be the better off to the extent of 1,500,000 bushels of corn. The railroads have agreed to transport all gifts free. It is estimated that as much as $2,000,000 has been expended in fighting the bubonic plague in Honolulu. A member of the Boer peace commission, now on the way to Europe, said at Port Said last Saturday, that the South Africau war bus only just begun. Admiral and Mrs. Dewey are to be entertaiued in Chicago on April 30. Cold weath er is setting in in South Africa ana me British troops are suffering considerably on account of their thin uniforms. Peck's Sun, for many years past a leading humous weekly of Milwaukee, Wis., has suspended publication. It is stated from Bloemfontein that the British troops at Reddensburg did not surrender until their ammunition was eiftirely exhausted. Hon. Webster Davis, ex-assistant secretary of the interior, who recently resigned his office, and who has jnst returned from a visit to South Africa, addressed a large pro-Boer audience in Washington last Sunday. Mr. Davis paid a high tribute to the valor and heroism of the Boers, and told of what he had actually seen. A large number of senators and representatives listened to his address and the audience generally was appreciative and enthusiastic. BRITISH AND BOERS. Lord Huberts Still at Bloemfontein and Qnlte lluny, According to the dispatches of the past few days, the situation is assuming a very different complexion from that which obtaiued for some days after the capture of Cronje's army and the raising of the siege of Ladysmith. The heavy loss sustained by the British near Bloemfouteiu waterworks recently has already been reported, and last Saturday Lord Roberts sent a disfit a /mnf lira naat Rh(1 [mtuu auiivuuv'iu^ viiv vu|>iw. v - ?? dersburg, about 20 milessoutb of Bloem foutein, of three companies of Royal Irish Fusiliers and two companies of the Ninth regiment of mounted infantry. He said that the Boers, several thousand strong, with five or six pieces of artillery, surrounded his troops and overpowered them. The prisoners taken here and those previously takeu at the Bloemfontein waterworks number nearly 1,000. There has been no definite statement of the number of men Lord Roberts now has with him in aud around Bloemfoutein ; but it is thought to be not less than 100,000. He, however, is still short of horses, and is unable to operate with the swiftness that is uecessary to cope with the active Boer forces. The British have thousands of mules and horses en route to South Africa. Many have already been landed ; but they are not reaching the front at a rate of more than a hundred a day, and that is nothing like sufficient even to meet the death rate of those already there. From various estimates it is thought that the Boers now have about 20,000 men around Bloemfontein. They are north, south, east and west of the town ; but of course are not thinking of an attempt to lay siege. They are confining their efforts to the annoyance of small detachments of the British, and the way they are succeeding not only attests their wonderful mobility ; but it also indicates that their present leaders, whoever they be, are well up to their business. Dispatches published Monday indicate that Lord Roberts has either drawn the lines still tighter on the censorship, or that the Boers have succeeded in cutting all the telegraph wires leadiug out of Bloemfontein. The latter development seems to be entirely probable, and there is reason to believe too, that the Boers may succeed in effectually cutting Robert's line of communication to the south. In this event the British will be in a bad way, for it is understood that several thousand Free Staters who had given up their rifles, have beeu rearmed and assured that the oaths they took not to further participate in the war, are not binding for the reason that tbey were given under compulsion. In his dispatch, telling of the Red dersberg affair, Lord Roberts said he had sent General Gatacre to the scene with a strong force ; but as yet, it has not developed whether General Gatacre licked the Boers or the Boers ] licked him. General Buller is still in Natal, with a large force of Boers con- ! fronting him at no great distance i away, and it is stated that he is in no hurry to move forward until he gets j more mules and horses. I T11K CASE UE COLONF' NKAL. < Trial Commenced In Columbia on Moil- i day. j The case against Colonel Neal, the ( ex-superintendent of the penitentiary, I charged with malfeasance in office, was I called on Monday, says a Columbia dispatch to the Greenville News. Mr. ' Boggs moved for a change of venue, 1 aud aflidavits, which have already f been published, were rend. The mo- < tion was argued by Mr. Boggs utid op- ' posed by Attorney General Bellinger 1 and Acting Solicitor McMastcr. After * a lull presentation, Judge Beuet held ? that all of the aflidavits submitted iu 1 ? - --? 'V.I XT. .1 A.#..11., slafns.t f iiivur ui V'Ui, wt?r? iuiuiijr uoiww i ve in tliuL the makers of them said they < had received "information" which led ' them to believe that Colonel Neal could t not secure a fair trial. Judge Benet ) said that this was not suflicieut in that i it gave the court no grounds or facts upon which to judge the matter. He, < therefore, dismissed from consideration all allidavils except that of Colouel ( Nea! himself. He said that Colonel 1 Neal declared that he could not get a j fair trial; hut that he did uot state t suflicieut grounds for his belief. No t court, he said, would entertain a mo- t lion for a change of venue unless suf- 1 ficicnt grounds were stated, and Col- s onel Neal only expresses his belief thut c he will uot have a fair trial in Rich- I land. s Jurors, the judge continued, could c be placed ou their voir dire, which f would be a protection, and if the ver- i diet was not warrauted by the testi- c mony he would set it aside ; but he an- s ticipated uo such disregard of oaths. ' Solicitor Thurmond wusto have had charge of the case in the main ; but he was sick and had to go home, and Mr. I John McMaster is acting as solicitor. Mr. Bellinger stated that McMasier would have to go over the case with him, and for that reason the Iriul was adjourned until the afternoon. At the afternoon session Mr. Nelson appeared us associate counsel, having . been employed with Mr. Blease for the defence. The drawing of the jury was held to ' he illegal, Mr. Nelson contending that the board that drew it was not the proper board. Judge Benet over ruiea ine oujecnuii. j Mr. Boggs then held that the indictment was defective because it alleged no specific duty for the superintendent of the peuiteutary. This was ulso overruled. The defence wanted the case started tomorrow afternoon ; but the drawing of the jury was entered upon. The slate exhausted its five objections and the panel was exhausted, wheu 11 jurors had been sworn. Seven jurors will be preseuted tomorrow. Of the 11 jurors, six are farmers, one a clerk, one , a traveling man, one a motorman, one a merchaut and one a job printer. SENATORS DIFFER. Colleagues Who Do Not Think Alike, and Are Even Unfriendly. W. E. Curtis In Chicago Record. We have scriptural authority for believing that houses that are divided among themselves cannot stand, and therefore, we may look for falls iu the United Slutes senate, where the divis- i ion of opinion among colleagues was never so great as it is today. In the stale of Indiuna, for example, Mr. Fair i hanks and Mr. Beveridge, and iu the i state of Illinois, Mr. Cullom and Mr. i Mason, do not agree ou scarcely any I topic; but they are not half as bad us some of the other senators. In New Hampshire the Hon. William E. Chand- ' ler has beeu trying to get his colleague, < Dr. Galliuger, indicted and sent to the I peuiteutary for violating the statutes of i the United Stales. Mr. Frye, of Maine, ] and Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts, are i the redhottest expansionists in Wash- ' ingtou, while their colleagues are the < strongest kind of antis. It was only ] recently that Senator Hoar used a page < of a popular weekly to prove that the < policy of the administration is wicked and vicious, while Mr. Lodge took another page to prove that it is patriotic and righteous. Senator McComas ' ^ - ? I.; r -ht 1.. ..,1 ana oenaior vveinngion, ui lumjiuuu, , do uot speak as they pass hy. The re ( lation between Mr. Tillman and Mr. McLaurin, of South Carolina, are very 1 little more friendly. Mr. Caffrey, of Louisiana, is a gold standard, anti-ex I pansioD free-trailer, while Mr. McEnry < is a free-silver-expansion-protectionist. ( The two senators from Nebraska are about as differeut as fire and water, , while Messrs. Pettigrew and Kyle, who ' used to go around arm iu arm, have , only an official acquaintance these days. Mr. McBride, of Oregon, believes in a , tariff on Puerto Rican products. Mr. ; Simon from that state is a last ditcher < for free trade. Mr. Ross, of Vermont, ] is an anti-expansionist. Mr. Proctor ; would annex everything within reach : ' and so they go. But there is no state ] in the Union where the harmony be- 1 tween senators is illustrated in such a I beautiful manner asiu Michigan. Mr. Burrows and Mr. McMillan always t ugree on everything, and if tbey bap- , pen accidentally to differ they pilch u penny to see which shall give in. Uncle Sam Owen South Carolina. Washington correspondence of The ^ News and Courier, Friday : Mr. Gantt, ( of Columbia, passed through Washing- 1 ton today on his way to New York, j He stopped over long enough to con- ( fer with Senator Tillman relative to the South Carolina war claims, which Senator Tillman is working so hard to 1 have adjusted. Mr. Gantt brought 1 with him several documents containing f data bearing upon his claims, which < will be utilized by Senator Tillman , when the bill comes before the senate for action. Senator Tillman has made it clear to the treasury officials that in striking a balance between the government of the United Slates and the state 1 of South Carolina, the records show a ( balance in favor South Carolina. In c view of the fact that the accounting of- t ficer of the treasury expressed a desire c for South Carolina to settle her indebtedness to the United States, Senator Tillman contends that now is the proper time to have a general settle- ' ment of these claims, and there is a v substantial balunce due South Carolina J find a large aud growing surplus in tne c United States treasury, aud it is but just that an otlicial settlement should be reached. . t ? Says a Tiffton, Ga., dispatch of e Sunday : The Georgia Saw Mill asso- r uiation, representing some 300 yellow pine mill plants in Georgia, South Car- \ iliua aud Florida, at a meeting held e here yesterday, decided by a practically unamimous vote that on and after May 10 all mills belonging to the mem- n tiers of the association will be run on c iwo-thirds time. This will affect thou- ti lands of operatives, and decrease the t output of yellow piue in this state near- a y one-third. It is understood that the imited supply of yellow pine timber in iight is largely the cause of this action, u \s the association doubtless thinks irices should rule higher in view of the c small supply. It is by no means a se- t( iret that many of the larger mills ouly ^ lave enough standing timber in sight j o last three or four years, while even he most fortunate only report sufficient n sight (o run seven and eight years. P Cotton Seed Oil Mill for Greenville. 0 Greenville News, Saturday : Anew n cottonseed oil mill is to he built about tj mif a mile heyoud the Brandon mill, ust outside the city limits, on the southern railway, and will be connect- P :d with the road by a spur. The capiat stock is to he not less than $15,000 ior more than $50,000. Twenty thouiand dollars has already been subscrib- u id aud the mill will start operations in n ime for the next cotton season with i capacity of 20 tons a day and will Iraw its supply ol seed from a splen- . lid cotton sectiou. Leading farmers n Greenville, Anderson and l'ickeus :ounties, near the proposed site, have ai ubscribed to the stock. on LOCAL AFFAIRS, t INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. C H. C. Strauss?Talks to yon about the ' things desirable to have for Easter and a mentions suits for men and boys, straw , hats, collars, cravats ami dress good for ladies, misses and children. a W. M. Kennedy, Agent?Has amber and { orange cane seed, sugar corn and other seeds. Also has magic food and Bar- 1 ker's horse and cattle powders. ] J. A. Tate?Announces himself as a candidate for the office of clerk of court for 1 York county, subject to the result of the Democratic primary. . York Drug Store, Registered Pharmacist- ' Say for you to drink pure fruit soda | water which they sell. Also say that j they will have ice cream every week 1 day. It. F. Hambright, Executor?Notice to 1 debtors and creditors of the estate of f Gilbert Hambright, deceased. Tas. M. Starr A Co.?Tell you about velvet beans and says that they are super- 1 ior to cow pease for feed. Also speaks ? of Perfecto Sarsaparilla at 75 cents a J bottle. s ABOUT PEOPLE. ( Rev. W. G. Neville went down to ( Kershaw on Monday. Mrs. John A. Black, of Rock Hill, is visiting Mrs. Geo. T. Sehorb. Miss N. Ophelia Davidson is visiting J relatives and friends in Charlotte. Mrs. J. F. Isoid, of Rock Hill, has ( been spending several days with Mrs: VV. O. Rawls. ' Miss Rose Hunter has leturued from ' Spartanburg, where she has been taking a special course in stenography. Mrs. G. M. Low ranee returned home 1 last Saturday after an extended visit to , her duughter, Mrs. Crowell, in Albe- : marie, N. C. Mrs. Donald Rice, of Denmark, and ' Miss Pearl Whisouaut, of Wilkinsville, ( are visiting in Yorkville, the guests of ' Mrs. J. P. White. j Mr. Pelham Morrow came down from Gastonia lust Thursday morning. He ' said he was feeling better than for quite , awhile. He was looking much better than when on his previous visit. Spartanburg Herald, Sunday : Dr. DeFoix Wilson will leave the city on Tuesday for New York. From that J city he will sail for Europe. He will 1 crnriA ?{* months. Durine his ah 5ence Dr. L- J. Blake will attend to bis ( practice. He will go to England first ' and spend three months in hospital ' work in London. From that city he J will go to Vienna and stay the same period of time iu a hospital of that jity. On his return to America be will visit the great exposition iu Paris. COTTONSEED SHIPMENTS. . ] The cottonseed shipments from < Vork county since the first day of last September, amount to nearly 4,000 tons. This estimate is based upon ( oeurly complete statistics gathered by < The Enquirer over the telephone , lines from the various railrond stations ^ luring the past few days. The result if our inquiries has been as follows, the figures representing tons of seed : { Bowling Green 30 i Clover 210 Filbert 130 ( Yorkville 770 ( jiuthriesville 150 i McConnellsvillo 60 Smyrna 00 . Hickory Grove 240 1 Sharon 740 I Firzab 380 1 Newport 120 , Bock Ilill (Southern) 440 Leslio 420 ? The above actual figures show ship- 1 neuts of 3,750 tons of seed. The figires do not include the shipments over f he South Carolina aud Georgia Ex- 1 ension from Hock Hill, the shipments i rom Roddey's, Catawba Junction or i tlarmony. It is quite probable that t here has been other shipments that 1 lave not been included, in the aggre- J jate footing up a thousand or more } ,ods. When it is retnemnerea, now- ? iver, that the cottonseed crop was un- t lsually short last year, there is war- 1 ant to add at least 20 per cent, to the j igures given without danger of over- c iBtimating the average annual ship- f nents. t THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN. t The Democratic Executive commit- t ee has been called to meet in the ? :ourt house at Yorkville next Satur- , lay, for the purpose of setting the mil in motion for the next political t iampaign, now about to begin. ^ The priucipal duties of the execuive committee will be to issue a call s or the next county convention, which ^ vill meet in Yorkville on the first , douday in May, ascertain the number f delegates to which each precinct ^ vill be entitled, and agree upon a ^ chedule of assessments on candidates r o pay the expenses of the campaign, j tc. There will be, of course, other ^ outine duties to perform. There will be only one county coneution this year. It will, among oth- a r things, elect a new county executive ommittee and a new county chairaan, and select delegates to the state onvention to be held in Columbia for he purpose of selecting delegates to n he Democratic national convention, ^ nd making such changes in the party 11 oustitulion as may be deemed advisble, etc. ^ tl Thp rmmtv ekpcutive committee, of ourse, will have a good deal of work J 3 do during the summer,, and it will ' ave to hold, several meeting during lie progress..of the county cauipaigu. ts duties, however, are for the most Cl c< art of a routine nature, involving lore or less time and labor. In view f the fact that there will probably be ^ othing to fight in the way of opposion to the regular Democracy as dow [instituted, there is no reason to ex- P ect anything else than plain sailing. u li, THE COMING ECLIPSE. e< Most adults in this sectiou have wit- a essed partial eclipses of the sun and sc loon ; but very few have witnessed sc ital eclipses of either body. The to- pi il eclipse, therefore, of May 28, will is e an uuusual sight. The line of to- fr ilily passes directly over this county, a ud for the space of two minutes al- of lost total darkness will prevail in ai iroad opeu day. A pretty good idea if what may be expeeted to occur is o be gathered from the following deicription of an eclipse that was witleased iu Southern France. The deicription is by Prof. J. Russell Hind, >f the Royal Astrouomical society of ^ondou, and has been furnished to The tfews and Courier by Dr. J. H. Carisle, of WoHbrd college. Duriug the eclipse of 1842 nearly ,he whole population of some of the principal cities of soutbern France and Italy, which were upon the central ine, turned out to view the rare phe lomenon oi a loiai deprivation 01 tue iuu's light in the day time. At Paris Mr. Bailey says, "there was an unusuil shout, which made the welkiD riug," it the conclusion of the eclipse; and M. Arago, who observed at Perpiguan, lays: "Nearly 20,000 persons covered the terraces, ramparts and other eminences about the place and that in astounding shout from the multitide announcing the extinction and 'eappearance of the sun's ruys. At Milao, Padua, etc., the excitement was equally great. "Long live the astronimeis!" was the cry when the rosecolored Haines burst forth on the bright ground of t he corona, during the total jbscuratiou. Two hundred years previously many of the inhabitants of Paris hid themselves in caves on the mere announcement of an eclipse of [he sun, which was total in that city, [n July, 1842, in the south of France, horses attached to vehicles came to a decided stand, and no exertions of the drivers, though backed by the whip, could induce them to proceed until the >uu had again appeared. Cattle in the fields congregated together immediately after darkness came on, as if in apprehension of an attack. Dogs in particular appear to have been senjeusible of some unuatual event, howling piteously during the deprivation of the sun's rays, or hastily seeking some |)lace of safely. * * * The birds o the trees, near Lodi, suddenly ceased jinging at the momeut when the total obscuration came on. * * * At Milan Che bees quitted their hives in sreat numbers soon after sunrise ; but returned to them in baste immediately [be last rays of the sun bad vanished. WITHIN THE TOWN. Court couvenes next Monday. The Lenten season, according to Rev. J. C. Johnes, comes to a close next Sundav evening at 6 o'clock. Certain pointers that have developed ecently, indicate the probability of he organization of a golf club soon. Several young ladies are interested in he idea, and that fact ought to give pretty good assurauce. After retailing a considerable portion )f the stock of merchandise belonging ,o the bankrupt estate of J. J. Hunter, Mr. B. N. Moore, trustee, has disposed )f the balance to Mr. D. J. McCarley, )f Chester. Mr. McCarley will take he goods to Chester. Since the change of schedule bringng the southbound Carolina . and Sorth-Western passenger train to iforkville 20 minutes later than fornerly, the local mail is not distributed it night any more; but is left over unil next morning. Charlie Herbert, a Negro man aged ibout 25 years, died in the county jail yesterday morning from causes which tave not at this writing been deternined. The Negro was lying about he streets of Yorkville Monday, apjarently drunk, and Chief of Police Liove locked him in the calaboose. Yhen he was turned out yesterday norning he went off and lay down by he roadside. The officers subsequeuty picked him up and took him to the ail with a view to making him more !om fort able. Physicians were sent or ; but the Negro died within a short ime after their arrival. ai . 1 ne L/'nanone wuserver, ui ouuunj, ells of the performance of Faust byhe Labadie company on Saturday light. The company had a fairly ;ood audience only, and The Observer .ttributes the small attendance largely o the growing observance of Lent. ?he Lenten season, it thinks, is oberved much more generally in tbe oulh than was the case a few years ack. Many people here attributed he smallness of tbe company's audinee at this place to the same cause, iccording to The Observer, Mr. Labaie has decided to go to Raleigh and emain there until the expiration of ient, before attempting another perjrmance. The children of the Episcopal church re looking forward with pleasant anicipation to the annual easter egg unt, to take place at the residence of Ir. A. S. Withers next Saturday afjrnoou. The easter egg hunt, origiated here by Mrs. Withers several ears ago, has become an established istiiution of the Episcopal Sunday 3hool, and always proves a most en>yable occasion. Many children of tie town participated in the event last ear, and they will, of course, be welome to participate next Saturday. !ach of the participants will be expecid to contribute a small sum?about 5 jnts?for the privilege. All the pro?eds, however, will go to the church, ome very pretty prizes have been repared for those who shall prove to e the best hunters. Tbe electric light bug is here. He ut in his appearance immediately pou the installation of the first arc ' 4 1 ~C ?,,? Ko Ima h pta gni, niiUj ui uuuioc, u? uuw rer since. The electric light bug is horrible looking insect. He looks unewhat like a baby terrapin, and is imelimes two iuches or more long by retty nearly the same breadth ; but he perfectly harmless. Where becomes om nobody seems to know ; but it is fact that he follows the appearance ' the electric arc lights wherever they e installed. The climate makes no