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Straps and .farts.
? Dispatches of the past few days
report great devastation along the
water courses of Tennessee, Alabama
and Mississippi ou accouut of the recent
tioods. Considerable loss of life
has occurred, aud iu a number of
instauces railroad traffic was entirely
suspended. The money loss foots up
many thousands of dollars. At last
accounts the swollen rivers and other
streams were receding from the flooded
districts.
? A London newspaper thus discusses
the results of the Boer.' war:
"Meanwhile the war goes on?this war
at once a blunder and a crime, the offspring
of conceit, incompetence and
arrogance on the part of the translated
Birmingham town councillor. We
raked this country for troops; we have
exhausted the colouies; we are using
Indians and Kaffirs; we have collected a
force numberiug all told uearly 300,000
men. Yet, at the end of six months'
warfare against 40,000 peasants, we
have not been able to place a foot on
the soil of the Transvaal. Our casualties
in killed, wounded, and prisoners
and sick have amouuted to about 30,000.
The war to the present has cost
us ?00,000,000. We are to double our
army, increase our navy, have a modified
form of conscription, and have incurred
the hatred and contempt of the
whole world.
? Let the Puerto Ricans possess their
souls in patience. They will doubtless
find themselves living in one of the
T1' '* 1 I ..nntKnr
unuea oiuies uciuic auuvuu u?.v?v.v
has passed. The Springfield Republican
explains: "This congress or the
next can do its utmost to put the stamp
of colony or dependency or vassal state,
forever ineligible to American statehood.
upon Hawaii or Puerto Rico or
the Philippines, and the succeeding
congress can sweep any or all of them
into the Union, giving to each equal or
greater representation in the United
States senate than is held by New York
or Massachusetts, as congress has a
mind to divide them up. Let the land
grabbers work as they will to plant the
recent acquisitions into the position of
colonies, the next cougress can tip over
all their efforts. Ouly a constitutional
amendment will avail them, and that
will not be obtained in a hurry."
? Collier's Weekly : The following
statement of an official of the exchequer
shows that the cost of the pending
war in South Africa will not only
eclipse the expenditures for the Crimean
war ; but will probably make it
the costliest of all Victorian wars :
Taking the estimate of $300,000,000
as well within the limit of probability,
we find that for a period of nine
months this war will cost us at the rate
of over $760 a minute, or $5,600 an
hour, night and day. Thus, for the
purposes of our South African war
aloue, we are speuding at the rate of
considerably over $1,500,000 every
week, in addition to our normal expenditure
of $235,000,000 a year in
maintaining our army and fleet, and a
further $250,000,000 a year in discharge
of liabilities for wars in the
past. We thus find ourselves in the
strange position of spending on war
aloue the stupendous sum of $760,000,000
a year, or something like $200,
WU,UUO more luuu oui iumi igvcuuv
for the year.
? Says a dispatch from Lahore,
India: That Great Britaiu's attitude
toward Afghanistan in connection with
Russian designs on Herat does not
meet with approval at Cabul (the capital
of Afghanistan) is proved by an
autograph letter published with the
ameer's consent, in which, after referring
to the various rumors, he adds:
"Now, when Afghanistan is overwhelmed
on all sides, the British government
does not seem to lake auy interest,
but enjoys the pride of aloofness
aud reserve. Whenever I have suggested
a check to Russian aggression I
have had no response from the govern
ment of Iudia except the suggestion
that Afghanistan might consent to
the construction of railways aud telegraphs.
This is impossible, as the Afghans
cousider that such a step would
mean their ruin. Notwithstanding all
these troubles, I have proved for the
the past 21 years the firm ally of Great
Britain. But now, at the last moment,
I must inform my powerful ally, the
government of Iudia, that the present
is the time for deeds and not for talk."
? The Washington administration is
in right smart of a quandary as to what
to do about that $100,000 that Turkey
has acknowledged to be due to the
United States on account of the de
structiou of the property of some
American missionaries iu Armenia, a
fan- I'onrs aim Minister Straus sue
IV " J -O"'
ceeded iQ obtaining a personal admission
from the sultan that the money is
due, and a promise that it will he paid ;
but that is as far as the Turks seem to
be willing to go. They have a way of
promising, with no intention to perform,
and this kind of business does
not suit the American idea of business.
Although Minister Straus left Constantinople
ostensibly on a vacation, it was
really for the purpose of informing
Presideut McKinley of the situation,
aud for several weeks past the administration
has been giving serious consideration
to the best means of collecting
the money. The plan of bombarding
Smyrna, taking the port and collecting
customs of an amount sufficient
to pay all bills has been considered ;
but practically abaudoued because the
inhabitants of Smyrna are iuuocent of
responsibility for the outrages, and because
also of a fear of trouble with
other European powers. From all reports
it seems to be pretty well settled
that unless Turkey settles up within a
short time, this country will recall its
charge d'alfairs at Constantinople and
hand to Ali Ferrouh Bey, the Turkish
minister here, his passports. Important
developments in the matter are
expected soon."
? The London Drapers' Record
thinks that the Rev. Mr. Sheldon,
during his one week's editorship of the
Topeka Capital, outran the limits of
discretion in refusing to admit advertisements
of corsets into the columns
under his control. The reasons given
for this action are as follows: 1. Mr.
Sheldon believes that tight lacing is
injurious to the health, aud that
women should not wear corsets. 2.
The picture of a woman fittiug on a
corset is not proper for publication.
The Record says: We traverse the
iuference conveyed by reason No. 1
that corsets necessarily mean tight
lacing. Mr. Sheldon's position is
untenable. It is as just to say that
the lighting ot a matcn means me
burning down of houses and loss
of valuable lives, therefore, no matches
should be used, as to premise that
corsets mean tight lacing, therefore,
no corsets should be used. Mr.
Sheldon bases his decision ou an
entirely wrong opinion. Even were
he right about the tight lacing he
would hardly be justified in the action
taken. As for reason No. 2, "That a
picture of a woman fitting on a corset
is not proper for publication," this is a
position which?as a clergyman, and
and, therefore, (we say it with respect)
an extremist in these matters?Mr.
Sheldon is entitled to take. We will
not, therefore, criticise it in detail,
though it would be easy to show that
the principle is unsound. Some
announcements of the kind may be
objectionable; but we know of none
controlled by reputable manufacturers
to which exception can be taken.
Shf ^lorkvitlc (Bitqitircv.
YORKVILLE, S. C.:
SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1900.
? The proposed reunion of the Palmetto
Sharpshooters and the Sixteenth
Michigan, at Louisville, is of especial
interest in this immediate locality.
One company of the Palmetto Sharpshooters?G?was
made up almost entirely
from this county, and many
members of the company are still living.
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"We WOUJd HKe loastt lue uertuu n uat
it takes to make a Democratic paper."?
Yorkvillk Enquirer. The first requisite
and the supreme test, is support of
Democratic nomiuees.?Spartanburg Herald.
Then, with The Herald, it is a question
of men ; not measures. The man
who secures the Democratic nomination
is all that the voter has a right to
demand ! After all, the party is only
a machine, the business of which, is to
apportion out political jobs. In view
of all the finespun sentiment that has
been emanatiug from The Herald of
late, we expected much more of it than
this. We are really disappointed. We
fear that it is willing to accept our
definition of a Democratic or Republican
newspaper ; but we sincerely hope
that it is not willing to comply with
the conditions necessary to qualify it
as either.
HOAR'S FLEA FOR THE FILIPINOS.
Senator Hoar, Republican, of Massachusetts,
the leading anti-expansionist
of his party, made a great speech
in the senate last Tuesday in opposition
to what he is pleased to call imperialism.
The speech, which was
carefully prepared, was about 50,000
words in length ; but was somewhat
abridged in delivery by reason of an
attack of grip from which the senator
was suffering.
According to the Associated Press
report, the most effective part of the
speech was a fancied roll call of some
distinguished American statesmen, beginning
with Washington, and ending
with McKinley on the question of retaining
the Philippines. Along with
each name was a sentence giving a
reason for the vote supposed to have
been cast, and every vote was in the
negative except that of Aaron Burr,
who approved the proposition and explained,
"You are repeating my buccaneering
expedition down the Mississippi.
I am to be vindicated at last."
Upon the call of the name of William
KcKinley, the reply was :
"There lias been a cloud before my
vision for a moment; but I see clearly
now. I go back to what I said two years
ago: Forcible annexation is criminal
aggression. Governments derive their
just powers from the consent of the governed,
not some of them ; but all of them.
I will stand with the fathers ol the repub1
lie. I will stand with the founders of the
Republican party. No."
This souuds pretty well as a purely
imaginative sentiment to put iu another
man's mouth ; but the sentiment
applied to the facts makes Seuator
Hoar's good Brother McKinley appear
quite ridiculous. For instance,
what juggling is these with the "con>
sent of the governed." It has never
been disputed that it is only the Tagals,
of the Philippines, who object to
the government of the Uuited States.
All the other tribes object mosl seriously
to the government of the Tagals.
If the United States had never gone
to the Philippines, there certaiuly
would have been some governing without
the consent of the governed, and
if the United States withdraw now,
our Declaration of Independence will
get some rude violence upon these
i islands, where we have undertaken
to establish our ideas of liberty. So
we are unable to sec how Mr. McKinley
could base his "no" vote upon any
such reasons.
And then there is unomer nine macuracy
in Mr. Hoar's roll call. Aaron
Burr has long since been vindicated,
and his vindication came from no less
a statesman than Thomas Jefferson.
Burr saw the possibilities of the great
Southwestern territory aud sought to
establish an empire there. Whether
he wanted that empire for himself, or
whether he merely wanted to start a
row that would result in its annexation
to the United States, has never
been made exactly clear. But the
historical fact remains that very shortly
afterward Jefferson, against the
j protest of such men as Senator Hoar,
acquired by purchase the territory that
Burr had sought previously to acquire
by conquest. And having purchased
the Philippines from virtually the
same power that sold us the BurrJeffersoD
territory, if there is any material
difference in the title, we would
be glad to have it pointed out.
However mixed he is as to facts,
sentiments and principles, Seuator
Hoar's fiual recommendations are such
as do not admit of reasonable objection,
for after all, they are tantamount
to ownership and control, and that is
all that is necessary. Here is what he
proposes:
"Require all foreign governments to
j keep out of these islands."
"Offer the Filipinos our help in maintaining
ordor until they have a reasonable
opportunity to establish a government of
their own.
"Aid them by advice, if they desire it,
to set up a free and independent government.
"Invite all the great Powers of Europe
to unite in an agreement that their independence
shall not be interfered with.
that TTnitoH Will An
force the same doctriue as applicable to
the Philippines, that we declared as to
Mexico ana Hayti, and the South American
republics.
"Then, in a not distant future, leave
them to work out their own salvation, as
every nation on earth, from the beginning
of time, has wrought out its own salvation."
The principal objection to the above
is that while it sounds as kind and
beneficent as the oft quoted sentiment
from the declaratiou of independence,
it will prove no more acceptable to
the Tagals who want to rule their
neighbors in Luzon. Congressman
Cummings, Democrat, of New York,
gave expresssion to the more sensible
idea a few days ago, and in doing so
elicited the applause of Democrats
and Republicans alike. He said that
after the last sign of armed resistance
had been put down in the Philippines,
further proceedings could be considered
with more propriety.
THE GRAND JURY.
From the manner in which the grand
jury has started out this year, the public
has reason to look for some unusually
good work by that body before
the present members give place to
their successors.
The most striking feature of the
grand jury's work, was the intelligent
discrimination with which it threw out
a number of trivial cases which really
had no business in the court. In this
way, the term of the sessions was shortened
at least two days, and possibly
three, without the slightest hiudrance
to the proper administration of justice.
Although every individual citizen is
supposed to fully comprehend the
powers and duties of a grand juror,
and although every presiding judge
makes it a special point to explain
anew those powers and duties, it is a
curious fact that it is only occasionally
that there is empaneled a grand jury
that is fully capable of comprehending
the tremendous responsibility of its
position.
Not in a quasi manner, but actually,
the office of grand juror is the highest
and most resposible under our form
of government. Neither the judge on
the bench or the other officers of the
court are exempt from his inquiry, and
it is his duty and right to exercise
proper supervision even over the private
life of every citizen, who, in any
manner, transcends either the common
or statute laws. It is his especial duty
to inquire into the conduct, capacity,
aud even motives, of all officials
charged with the administration of civil
affairs. In short, he is the one great
bulwark between law and order ou the
one side and anarchy on the other. A
proper appreciation and discharge of
his duties tend to conserve law and order.
while a neclect of them tends to
auarchy.
Although theoretically the right
thiug, in its practical working, our
present system of selecting grand jurors
is really a dangerous thing. A
matter of such moment should not be
left to chauce. The law provides otherwise,
and really a certain amount of
discrimination is generally used ; but
still, even in a country like ours, where
a majority of the citizenship is of such
exceptional character, there should be
no possibility of clothing with the power
aud respousbility that rests in the
oflice of grand juror, uny citizen who
who is not of irreproachable character
and above the average of intelligence.
But for a good many years past
York has had exceptionally good juries,
both grand and petit, and the
tendency seems to be to raise rather
than lower the standard. From the
manner in which the present grand
jury has started out, we anticipate
hearing more from it at succeeding
terms of the court, and we believe that
one result of its labors is likely to be
still further emphasis on the high du-|
ties which fall within the province of
that body.
MERB-MKNTIUN.
A dispatch from St. Helena says that
the Boer prisoners were lauded there
last Sunday. The city of Chicago
has imposed a tax of $5 a year on telegraph
poles. The new Philip
pines commission sailed from San Francisco
last Tuesday on the transport
Hancock. Mafeking is still holding
out against the besieging Boers.
Andrew Carnegie has just donated $3,000,000
to the Pittsburg Pa., library.
The Populists of Nebraska have
agreed to support Bryan no matter
who is nominated for vice president.
The rainfall in Southeastern Mississippi,
from last Sunday at noon to
Tuesday at noon, was 13J inches.
The British government has published
a telegram from Lord Roberts severely
criticising Generals Buller and Warren
for incompetency in .connection with
the operations around Ladysmith,
especially in the conduct of the battle
of Spion Kop. The United States
supreme court has decided the revenue
stamp matter in favor of the express
companies. It is the customer instead
of the express companies who has to
pay the tax. The result of the
Cuban census has been announced as
follows: The total population of Cuba
is 1,572,797, including 815,205 males
and 757,592 females. There are 447,372
white males and 462,926 white females
of native birth. The foreign
whites number 115,760 males and 26,459
females. There are 11,898 male
Negroes and 122,740 female Negroes.
The mixed races number 125,500 males
and 145,305 females. Representative
Leary, of New York, introduced
a bill on Thursday for the repeal of
tha war revenue tax. A bill has
been introduced in the senate to give
General Longstreet a pension of $50 a
month for his services in the Mexican
war.
The Strike In Fort Mill.
Fort Mill Times: Until Suuday
evening the strike of the telegraph
operators on the Southern railway was
known to Fort Mill only through the
newspaper reports of it. But those
who wished to transact business at the
dei)ot in this place Sunday night and
Monday, were able to observe that
there was a strike in pi ogress, and
that Fort Mill was feeling the effects
of it. Mr. L. E. Ligon, who was operator
aud agent at this place until Sunday
evening, closed his office immedidietely
after the northbound train
passed and refused to transact any
business for the railway company,
stating as his reason for refusing to
act for the company that he was a
member of the order of Railway Telegraphers,
and that upon a just grievance
against his former employees he
had been ordered to quit their service.
Suuday night he left for Columbia to
consult with an official of his order
concerning the progress of the strike,
etc. He returned to Fort Mill Monday
evening, however, and was accompanied
by several railroad officials and
two operators, to whom he gave the
keys of the office. The non-union
men who have accepted the positiou
which he vacated are \V. Mishoe, of
Loris, S. C., and S. 0. Sistrunk, of
Due West, S. C., both young men.
Train Dispatcher Williams was oue of
the railway official, who came to Fort
Mill Monday evening, aud he iuformed
the reporter that the strike had occasioned
bis company little inconvenience
and that they had been able
to promptly fill the places of the
strikers. Mr. Ligon, however, does
not agree with him in this statement.
He says that the Southern has been
unable to move its trains on schedule
time since the strike was inaugurated,
and that before it is at an end the company
will re-employ its former operators
and accede to their demands of a
specified number of hours to consti
IUL0 U UUy 3 >YU1IV| Willi ou iuv/1 vuov tu
salaries. Aside from the claims of the
company and the strikers, the facts in
the case seem to justify the statement
that the strikers are making a losing
fight.
Special Term For Barnwell.
A special term of the court of general
sessions will convene in Barnwell
on May 1. That has about been de
termined by the authorities. The object
of the special term is to try a Negro
named George Thomas on the
charge of criminal assault. It seems
that some days ago a young woman
came by rail to Hardeeville and started
for a short walk in the country to visit
her parents. She was waylaid by the
Negro, who intimidated her with a
pistol and assaulted her. A mob got
after the Negro, caught him and made
preparations for a lynching. Influen'
tiul citizens interposed with a promise
that they would use their influence for
a special term of court. Governor
McSweeney is exceedingly anxious
that no lynching shall take place during
his term of office, and to that end
he is endeavoring to have the special
term held as soon as possible. May 1
is fixed as the date for the term to
convene.
New Jim Crow Law.
The new jim crow law went into effect
on the railroads yesterday. From
and after yesterday whites and Negroes
all travel firstclass. The rate is
3 cents a mile for all passengers.
LOCAL AFFAIRS, r
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. J
W. H. Carroll, Intendant?Gives notice of .
an election for a new charter for the >
town of York villa, to be held in the \
court house on Friday, May 11th, 1900,
between 9 o'clock a. in., and 5 p. m. s
W. Brown Wylie, C. C. C. Pleas?Will a
sell at public sale, on the first Monday
in May, a lot in the town of Yorkville, s
in the case of II. H. Beard, plaintiff, ^
against Carrie YV. Beard et al., de- .
fendants. 1
J. H. Riddle and J. B. Pegram?An- t
iiuuuue luai tuu u^iovw4w,v
existing between them under the firm c
name of Riddle & Carroll, has been j
| dissolved by mutual consent.
J. M. Heath & Co.?Review the six weeks '
since their establishment in Yorkville, ?
express their satisfaction with the situation,
announce some attractive lines of
merchandise, and invite the public to n
their picnic table laden with bargains.
WITHIN THE TOWN. i
The Yorkville German club gave a <
delightful german in the Opera bouse I
Tuesday night.
About the only people who have
been in attendance on court this week
were those who had business there. I
Mr. R. H. Cloauinger and Miss Maud '
Parish are to be married at the resi- '
dence of the bride's mother, Mrs. Janie 1
Parish, at 8.45 p. ra., May 2.
Messrs. W. R. Carroll, E. B. Beard '
and M. L. Carroll have applied for a ]
commission to organize the York Oil i
and Fertilizer company, with a capital i
stock of $15,000. The application was (
made to the secretary of state on last 1
Wednesday.
Owing to the condition of Mr. J. B.
Pegram's health, the firm of Riddle &
Pegram has been dissolved, and from
now on will be conducted as formerly 1
in the name of J. H. Riddle. The patrons
of this wellknown house will be
in nowise inconvenienced by this
change ; but will be accorded the same
courteous treatment and the same
accommodations as heretofore.
Mr. S. L. Hobbs has rented the store
room that has been occupied until recently
by Mr. J. J. Hunter, and is arranging
to open within the next few
dflvs an establishment that is to be
known as the "Parlor Grocery." A
choice stock of goods have already
been purchased, and Mr. Hobbs proposes
to give some further information
on the subject through The Enquirer
later on.
ABOUT PEOPLE.
Dr. C. F. Williams left Thursday for
a short visit to Baltimore and Washington.
Mr. Clarence Glenn came down from
Henrietta, N. C., yesterday morning
to visit relatives and friends.
Mrs. L. Geo. Grist and daughter,
Miss Mamie Lee, visited relatives and
friends in Gaston county this week.
Dr. R. A. Bratton, of Yorkville, has
been re-elected as a membar of the
state board of health from the Fifth
district.
Lieutenant James B. Allison, recently
promoted from second to first lieutenant,
has been transferred from the
Seventh to the Sixth infantry.
Mr. M. F. Jones has a situation with
the Union Cloak and Suit company, of
New York, aud will travel principally
in Pennsylvania.
Mr. Ctiarles Christman, formerly a
resideut of Yorkville, but who went to
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SpartanDurg wim ois Droiuer wune sun
a youth, was in Yorkville on Wednesday
visiting his old friends. Although
not enjoying the best of health just
uow, Mr. Christman has otherwise been
well treated by Dame Fortune. As he
grew up to manhood he became a telegraph
operator and was for a long time
located at Gaflfney City, where he married
a Miss Lipscomb. He lived economically
and saved enough money
with which to begio merchandising in
a moderate way, and by a lucky stroke
he invested in a lot that was afterwards
very much desired by the Spartan Cotton
mills. In partnership with his
brother he had already built up a large
business. His brother, Fritz, known
to his Yorkville playmates as Feedee,
died some time back, and a few weeks
ago Charlie sold out his store and property
to the Spartan mills for a large
sum. Mr. Christman is worth some
$25,000 or $30,000, and has in trust for
bis brother's son about $20,000 more.
Mr. Christman is not enjoying good
health just at this time; but he hopes,
with the rest he now proposes to take,
to become bis former self agaiu.
THE COUNTY HOME.
From their report, published elsewhere,
it is evident that the grand jury
is of opinion that there shall be some
changes in the manner in which the
county home is being conducted. Said
one of the members of that body to the
iryuiic. uu .
"In my opinioo, the county can do
a great deal more with the county
home than it is doing. The institution
is not run on the right methods. The
idea of a great, big farm, like that?
backed by, you might say, $5,000,000
or $6,000,000 capital?and unable to i
feed 25 or 30 paupers, except with
bought provisions out of a grocery
store, why the thing is absurd.
"Here we are, each year, hiring
labor with which to work cotton, planting
10 acres of corn, where we ought 1
to have hundreds; no milk or butter
to speak of; but a small portion of the
farm sown down in small grain ; only
about 1,000 pounds of bomeraised meat,
where there should be 10,000. i
"It occurs to me, that the poorhouse (
farm should be the model farm of the
county. There should be on it at least '
a dozen cows, of the finest breeds to be '
bad, and there should be no end of
chickens, ducks, and poultry, along
with enough fine hogs to obviate the
lecessity of buying a pound of meat.
have often beard our county borne
ield up as self-supporling and returnng
an income to the county treasury.
Vhile, as a matter fact, I believe we
ire able to make a better showing
ilong this line than any county in the
tate, still, from the best information I
tave been able to obtain, that alleged
come is all moonshine, and, instead,
he county is not only out the interest
in the capital it has invested in the
Farm ; but has to pay money out of the
reasury each year to keep the con:ern
running.
"Iu my opinion, the disposition has
ill along been to run the institution
oo cheaply. I believe that modern
nethods would net better results, not
>nly to the paupers, but to the taxjayers."
JOHNSON VS. ROCK HILL.
The Columbia State of Wednesday
publishes the following synopsis of the *
Rock Hill franchise case, prepared
"or that paper by Mr. John S. Reyaolds
of the Colombia bar:
This action was brought by certain
resident taxpayers of the city of Rock
Hill to vacate a franchise to construct
and maintain waterworks, granted by
that city to the Rock Hill Water, Light
and Power company, upon the grounds
jf ultra vires and fraud. The circuit
court, holding that plaintiffs bad failed
to make proper showing for judicial
interference, dismissed the complaint.
The plaintiffs appealed.
The evidence does not show any
fraud in any of the proceedings here
calied in question, nor was any bidding
for the contract either cut off or
chilled as alleged.
Under section 8 of the act to incorporate
the city of Rock Hill, (22 Stat.
374) only corporations were competent
bidders, and so far as the evidence
shows, none sought to bid or did bid
except the Rock Hill Water, Light and
Power company.
The time for receiving bids having
been extended 30 days, plans and specifications
were furnished to all parties r
who applied therefor; but there was
no bid of any corporation except the
Rock Hill Water, Light and Power
company.
Section 8 of the act referred to confers
on the city council of Rock Hill
ample power to grant such franchise
upon submitting the question to the
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done and a majority of the voters sanctioned
the grant.
The fact that after such vote the
city council at after consideration made
certain modifications of the specifications
relating to the franchise and then
without resubmitting such amendments
to the voters accepted the offer of the
defendant company and adopted the ' *
ordinance granting the fanchise, does
not show any act ultra vires. Such
change in mere matter of detail, not
vitally changing the nature and object
of the franchise, was within the large
discretionary powers conferred on the
city council. *
Such an exercise of discretionary
power, made in good faith, ought not
to be interfered with.
Judgment below affirmed. Opinion
by Mr. Justice Jones. Filed April 16.
Messrs. Jas. F. & Jno. R. Hart, W.
J. Cherry for appellants; Mr. I. D.
VVitherspoon for respondents.
CIRCUIT COURT.
In the case of Amy Buchanan,
charged with volation of the dispensary
law, upon which the court was engaged
last Tuesday at noon, the jury
returned a verdict of not guilty.
John Little was convicted of vio- *
lation of the dispensary law., and sentenced
to pay a fine of $100 or spend
three months on the public works.
Walter Gaitber plead guilty of violation
of the dispensary law, and was
sentenced to pay a fine of $100 or
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works of the county.
The case of Sylvester Jone9, charged
with the murder of Ben Jenkins, was
disposed of Tuesday afternoon. The
defendant and the deceased were two
little Negro boy9, aged about 12 years. .
The facts showed that they had quarreled
over stories alleged to have been 9
told about the defendant by the deceased.
The defendant went after the
deceased, who denied that be had been
talking, and they started to the bouse
of a small Negro girl, to get the
straight of the thing. The quarrel,
according to the defendant, developed
into a fight with stones and a knife?
the deceased using stones, and the
knife being used by the defendant.
According to the defendant's story, the
stabbing, which caused the death of
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toe deceased, was uuuc iu bcu-uwcuse,
According to the mother of the deceased,
the defendant slipped up behind
the boy and stabbed him in the
back. After giving the case due consideration
the jury returned a verdict
of not guilty, largely on account of the
" infancy" of the defendant. Mr.
Brice conducted the defense.
Eph Leech was convicted of riding
a horse without the consent of the
owner, and sentenced to pay a fine of
$40 or go to the chaingang for five
months.
In the case of Missouri Fewell and
William Fewell, charged with attempt
to poison, the jury-returned a verdict
of not guilty as to the former, and
guilty as to the latter. William Fewell
was sentenced to the chaingang
for a period of five years. r.
In the cases of Walter Kerr, James
Smith and George King, charged with
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