Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, April 25, 1900, Image 2
Scraps and Jacts.
? Secretary Long has undertaken to <
have a hronze tablet cast at the Wash- '
ington navy yard and erected at Santi *
ago, Cuba, at a point to be designated <
by General Wood, in commemoration 1
of the services of the late Frederick ?
W. Kamsden, who, while British consul ^
at Santiago, during the Spanish-Amer
ican war, rendered valuable services to
the United States in protecting American
interests there during the siege and who
died while at his post of duty.
The tablet will bear an artistic inscrip
tion, recounting the services of the de
ceased.
? The city government of Chicago i
raised something of a muss last, ween ;
when it invited the Spanish minister J
at Washington to come to Chicago to
to help celebrate the destruction of the
Spanish fleet in Manila bay by Admiral =
Dewey. The minister replied to the
invitation stating that he felt sure that
it had been sent him by mistake, and
Mayor Harrison, seeing the blunder that
bad beeu made, hastened to assure
the minister that such was really the D
case. The Chicago committee says rj
that similar invitations were sent out
to the diplomatic representatives of all a
the principal European governments, 1
and there was no thought of giving I
offense to the Spanish minister. s
? Says an Austin, Texas, dispatch of v
the 17th instant: Political circles here D
were greatly surprised today by the .
announcement that Senator Chilton
had withdrawn from the United States 1
senatorial race, leaving Congressman '
Bailey a clear field. Senator Chilton's p
withdrawal is based upon ill health s
and an inability to make a canvass of ](
the state. Yesterday, Congressman
Bailey carried Travis county, in which
the state capital is located, in the race 1
for senator by about 1,200 majority. 8
Primaries held within the last week ji
or two in about a dozen counties had t
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given Uaiiey a leaa in me race. 1 ue j,
announcement of Senator Chilton's jj
withdrawal was made today by his
campaign manager.
? Notwithstanding the tremendous ^
row that was raised over the matter I
just, after the war with Spain, an As- S
sociated Press dispatch reports that t
the subsistence department of the army ^
finds itself compelled to fall back agaiu
on canned roast beef for use in the
Philippines. The army is scattered D
among about 150 different posts, and ^
it is impracticable to furnish them all a
with fresh refrigerated beef for the g
reason that this ration cannot be got- g
ten to them in good condition. It is Q
found that canned roast beef is the
only satisfactory substitute, and an order
has been given to Chicago packers
for 100,000 cans to be delivered at
once, and 50,000 cans more to follow fc
monthly. v
? A Manila dispatch of Sunday says (j
that last week was the bloodiest of the .
war siuce the first day's fighting. Au- 1
thentic reports, mostly official, show a 1
total of 378 Filipinos killed, 12 officers ^
and 244 men captured and many more t
wounded. The number of wounded is r
hardly guessable; but .with such a
death list it is necessarily large, and as .
the Filipinos have no hospital facilities
it is reasonable to assume that many of I
the wounded will die. The American i
loss during the week was 9 killed and t
16 wounded. It develops that General t
Pio del Pilar, who was thought to have
been killed, is still alive and active.
With 300 men, a few nights ago, he f
occupied the American garrison of e
/.Amnnnioo n t Qon \Ti nrnol fnr C
I LI 1 CC tuuu |;au IV/O uv tjau imguvt ivi v
three hours. The Americans had no
casualties. If Pilar had any killed or
wounded he carried them off.
? "Black and White," of London,
in its issue of last Saturday, contaius
' the following statement : "A letter
from a nurse in one of the hospitals
throws new light od an unpleasant
feature of the war. The writer states
that some 500 Boers were forced by
the medical authorities, for sanitary
reasons, to bathe in the river behind
the hospital. Many objected, especially
two who refused to strip. They
were forced to do so, and it was found
that they were women in men's clothes.
It seems that a number of the dead
found ou the field have been women in
similar disguise, and worse than all, it
is the women who have been guilty of
the atrocities often referred to in the
telegrams from the front, such as killing
the wounded. Thus history repeats
itself. On the northwest frontier
of India it is the women who creep
out to kill and despoil the wounded
after battle."
? Washington Post: Secretary Wilson,
recognizing the fact that the extension
of the rural free delivery service
of the postoffice department opens
up opportunities for extending the
work of the weather bureau to the agricultural
classes, has directed the
chief of the weather bureau to take advantage
of this system for the purpose
of more completely furnishing the
farmers aud residents of rural sections
with the dailv weather forecast and
cold wave aud frost warnings. The
secretary believes that much benefit
would accrue to these districts if the
weather predictions aud warnings are
furnished them regularly aud promptly,
and it is his desire that the plan be
put in operation as soon as possible.
In accordance with the secretary's directions,
the weather bureau is now
arranging with the postofiice department
so that wherever possible carriers
bearing the rural mails will be furnished
with cards containing the latest forecast
and warnings, a copy of which
will be given to each farmer on the
routes.
? Senator Chandler, Rep., of New
Hampshire, has introduced a bill for
the prevention of the denial or abridg- o
meat of the right ot united states cit- ~
izens to vote on account of color ; and 8
it was referred to the committee on
privileges and elections. It declares
void and inoperative any requirement
of any qualification for suffrage prescribed
by any state in its constitution
or laws w hich directly or indirectly by
express words or by auy device or subterfuge
is made to apply to colored citizens
and not to white citizens. Section
2 makes it the duty of election officers
to allow such colored citizens, if
otherwise qualified, to register aud
vote, despite the disqualification imposed
by- the state. Section 3 gives
the citizen the right of action for $500
damages against a registration officer
.vho refuses to register him, and the w
jflicer is also subject to a fine of $1,000 a
?nd six months' imprisonment for each
offence. Section 4 provides like penal- ^
ies for election officers who refuse to ^
tccept ballots of colored citizens. Pro- *
:eedings under the hill are to be had a
n United States courts and the United a
states district attorneys are charged tl
vith their prosecution. S(
ifliu mvviuiiu
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YOItKVILLE, S. C.:
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1900. si
? The efforts of the Washington ad- V
ainistration to make the sultan of j*
Turkey pay the $100,000 that he has
ckuowledged to be due on account of c,
he destruction of the property of a
Lmerican missionaries in Armenia, ti
ome j'ears ago, are being watched o
rith great interest by European diplo- "
aats. There is hardly a government P
it Europe that has not claims against Q
he sultan, and that individual figures h
a international commercial reports as ti
iretty hard papers. The principal rea- it
on why European nations have negected
to take the sultan by the throat c<
it
,nd make him pay, is a fear of raising a
he Eastern question and precipitating ?
;eneral war. No one understands the tt
ealousies of the various European na- w
' ? n t li pnltan an/1 t tl tl t tl
1UUS UCblCl luau LlJO ouunu, uUV. VMM*
Ddividual seems to take a special de- w
ight iD making promises fhat he has tj
10 intention of fulfilling. European ft
liplomats believe the slick Turk is g
laying the same game with the United tl
Itates, and the question of greatest inerest
with the diplomats is, will the ^
Jniled States back down as the Eu- jopean
nations have done, or will they w
oake the sultan pay up. The state w
lepartrneut at Washington is not doing S
, great deal of talking ; but there is a Cl
;rowing impression that unless Turkey "
;ets down to business iu pretty short ^
irder there is going to be trouble. rf
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SENATOR MORGAN. a
Although the white people of Ala- ?
tama weut very wild a few years ago ^
inder the preaching of that notorious
lemagogue Kolb, recent developments v
n connection with the campaign be- h
ween Morgan and Johnstone, for the H
Jnited States senate, have shown that ^
heir good judgment has been entirely
cstored. p
Able, learned, patriotic and exper- t(
enced as he is, it would be difficult to a
>oint out the peer of Senator Morgan ei
n the United States senate or among
he statesmen of his generation. Although
a Democrat in his political t
iffiliation, he is too broad, able and
mtriotic to be bound by such consid;rations
as mere party expediency, and ei
m all questions affecting the welfare u
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>f the nation, he takes a national
P
dew, based upon his own sound judgnent,
regardless of the criticisms of 0
hose who are influenced more directly
>y what they consider to be their own tl
>ersonal political interests. That Sen- ^
itor Morgan should become the forenost
champion of the Nicaragua canal f(
>roject or annexation of the Philip- n:
>ine islands, for instance, is about as p
latural as that some representative of
mailer calibre should devote bis en- ^
ire thought, time and talents to securng
cheap notoriety in the hope of ((
trengthening himself among the more d
gnorant rabble at home. h
But the very greatness of Morgan's s<
?road ideas raised up for him a host 01
>f enemies. Especially has he aroused ?.'
mtagonisra an account of his cham- tj
)ionship of the Nicaragua canal, for h
ilthough advantageous as this canal V
>romises to be to the country at large s<
ind especially to the south, there are |(
>owerful aggregations of influence '
ind wealth which look upon it as por- j
ending their ruin. These hostile sj
orces include individuals and corpor- g
itions more largely interested in trans- V
:ontinental railroad traffic and the
:ontinued prosperty of northeastern ^
)orts at the expense of the ports on
he southeast and on the gulf. For ;t
easons that it is unnecessary to ex- a:
)lain, no man of promiueuce can af- tl
'ord to autagouize directly aud out- a
ight such a manifest improvement as ^
his canal, and hostile influences, thereore,
are compelled to act by indirec- a
ion and deceit.
And so it was that such a bitter c<
ight was instituted against Senator 11
dorgan throughout Alabama. Money
u aounuunce was iurnisneu oy uie u
memies of the Nicaragua canal, news- [|
>apers were subsidized and hundreds b
>f poisouous lies were published 1>
igaiust Senator Morgan and in the inerest
of Governor Johnstone. The s
act that Senator Morgan is an expanionist
was used for all it was worth, ri
md while the seuator continued in
.Vashington attending to the business if
?f his people, his enemies apparently ?
nade great headway in their poisonous Cl
vork. At length the matter began to (l
ook so serious that Senator Morgan,
ipon the advice of his closest friends, (i
ook a short vacation, went to Ala- >'?
>ama, and laid his case before the 'l
>eople face to face. In ljis usual mau- u
y manner, without the slightest atempt
at equivocation or evasion, he e<
rankly stated his position on various u
natters, denounced as lies the lies that oi
lad been told against him, and told $
hy he had been thinking and acting
s he had.
At one time, it really looked as if
enator Morgan was going to be de?ated,
and judging from the utternces
of the subsidized newspapers
fter his visit home, one would have
hought that visit had only served to
pal his doom ; but great and gratifyig
was the surprise that developed
ut of the result of the recent prilaries.
Morgan defeated Governor
ohnstone, even in his own county,
nd carried also every other county in
le state. He will go back to the sente
by a practically unanimous vote.
It has beeu pretty well understood
II ulong that Morgan is a great man,
nd the primaries prove that he repreints
a great constituency.
MERE-MENTION.
It is stated that 3,500,000 famine
jtferers are now receiving relief in
ndia. The Southern Agricultural
i'orks, a large furm implement manuicturing
company, of Atlanta, have
een placed in the bauds of a receiver.
There is a split in the Republiliti
party of Tennessee, and the probbility
is that there will be two state
ckets.-'The business failures throughut
the United Slates last week numered
161, as compared with 152 the
revious week and 187 the same week
year ago, 224 in 1898, 216 in 1897,
nd 240 in 1896. Senator Davis
as introduced a bill for the appropriaon
of $25,000 for the purpose of pay)g
the expense of a delegation from
le United States to the International
onference to be held in Mexico in the
iterest of the unification of the North
nd South American republics.
ecil Rhodes has left Englaud to ream
to South Africa. A young
'Oman named Mary Dinsejumped from
ae Brooklyn bridge last Friday and
'as picked up alive. The army
jorgauization bill, to be reported by
ae senate committee on military aflirs,
will confer the rauk of lieutenant
etieral on the senior major gene^l and
ae rank of major general on the adjuint
general. Ex-Congressman Colan,
of Kentucky, who recently killed
Ithelbert Seratt and Luther W.
ietnaree, at Frankfort, was tried last
reek and acquitted. A French
arship, which appeared last week off'
t. Heleua, where Boer prisoners are
juiiuuu, uuumcu ujuiu ut icoo vatuu
lent and speculation. Up to date,
19 Chinumen and G6 Filipinos have
ied in Manila of bubonic plague.
'he Frauklin county, Ky., grand jury
as iudicted Governor Taylor as an
ccessory before the fact, to the murder
f Governor Goebel. Taylor was in
Washington at the time, and from there
e went to New York. It is stated
lat he has requested Governor Rooseelt
to deny any demand that might
e made for a requisition. General
iius Rivera demands that the United
tales set a time limit for the evacuaon
of Cuba, and he is gathering a
rong following. A London disatch
says it is now an established fact
lat at oue time the Boers had 105,000
len in the field, and that at the preset
time they have no less than 80,000.
WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.
.ooks Like tlie Brltlnh Forces Are Yet at a
Standstill.
Although the censorship with refernce
to British operations have been
nrelaxed during the past two weeks,
tore so even than during several weeks
reviously, there is no reason to believe
lat there has been any more fighting
n an extensive scale.
There have been reports to the effect
iat General Roberts has commenced
is advance toward Pretoria; but nulerous
more reliable indications point
ie other way. The army at Bloemintein
is still waiting on horses, amlunition,
winter clothes, artillery and
robably other reinforcements.
It is now pretty well established that
- -a ii. .fit- T>
je maiu bireu^iu ui uie jduci iuiucb 1a
isposed to the eastward of Bloemfon?iu,
in the form of a huge crescent, the
>p horn extending to a point nearly
ue north of the town, nud the lower
orn resting on the Orauge river to the
juth. There has been considerable
utpost fighting along the line indicted,
and there have been no indicaous
that the British have been getting
ce best of thife. A large force of Boers
as had a British army penned up in
/epener, on the Basutoland border,
jme 40 miles southeast of Bloemfon;iu,
for a week or more. There has
een considerable fighting and some
eavy losses. The British are now
oing what they can to relieve the beeged
town. Just at this time the
reatest interest seems to center in
/epener.
A considerable force of Irish-AmeriEins
left Catawba recently for the
'ransvaal by way of Lorenzo Marques,
n pretense that they intended to serve
i the Boer Red Cross corps. So soon
s they crossed the Transvaal border
cey let drop the Red Cross pretense
nd' joined the Boer armies as active
ildiers. It is understood that the
ioers have been reinforced from time
j time by other parties from Europe
nd America in a similar manner.
The fact that the situation has been
omparatively quiet for such a long
me indicates that there should be
5iiie n.ore heavy fighting soon, and it
i quite probable that within a few days
lore there will be some developments
iat the censors will be unable to keep
nek, even if they so desire. It may
e another victory for the British ; but
is just as likely that events are
ltiping towards another at least ternorury
triumph for the Boers. There
re 110 indications that the war is very
lpidly drawing to a close.
(ieneral Buller is still in Natal and
i pretty close touch with the Boer
utposts who are keeping him well ociipied.
It is generally believed, howver,
that Buller will soon be relieved
om command, and sent back to
Ingland. It is expected also that
ieneral Kichener will receive a sepa>te
command within a short while if
e has not gotteu it already.
ntil Jiimmry 1st, 1901.
ThkTwice-a-WekkEnquiker, fdl- ,
i with the latest and most reliable
ews, will be furnished from the date
f this issue until January 1, 1901, for ,
1.40.
LO CAJU AFFAIRS.
INDKX TO NKW ADVERTISEMENTS.
II. C. Strauss?Says that he has declared
war on high prices, and that he is gome
to prove himself the leader of low
prices. He announces that, beginning
with tomorrow and continuing for one
week, he?will have a special bargain for
each day.
J. S. Brice?Gives notice that the Yorkvillo
Democratic club will meet in the
courthouse 011 Friday at 4 o'clock p. m.
Jas. M. Starr <fc Co., Leading DruggistsSpeak
of amber and orange cane seed,
improved golden dent, golden beauty
and Mosby corn seed, and have velvet
beans. Tbey make a special olfer in regard
to soda water.
A. Tripp, J. G. Black and Others, Corporators?
Givo notice that the. books of
subscription to the capital stock of the
Blacksburg Spinning and Knitting mills
will be opened at Blacksburg on the
25th day of April.
Lowranco, Williams Sc Co.?Have Bennett
Sloan & Co.'s B. B. Java coffee,
white cap sugar corn, 1,000 pounds of
tobacco, and offer evaporated peaches at
10 cents a pound.
York Brick Works?Have on hand a fewfirst-class
brick for the retail trade, and
have lime for sale.
S. L. Hobbs?Says that in a few days he '
proposes to open "The Parlor Grocery," '
and will sell the choicest groceries, and
will have ice and kerosene at wholesale
and retail.
ABOUT PEOPLE. I
Mr. Mason L. Carroll, of Atlanta, is I
spending his anuual vacation with rel- l
atives and friends in Yorkville. i
J. Leander Parish was in Yorkville .
last week for the first time in about .
three months. He has been suffering
greatly with a carbuncle.
The Enquirer had a pleasant call <
yesterday from Rev. J. W. Little, of
Waxhaw, N. C. Mr. Little is here as ]
a witness in the case of Rev. R. D. |
Perry against the G. C. & N. railroad.
Mr. David W. Barron, of Clay Hill,
has been quite ill for several days.
His condition was so critical on Sun- 1
day that he was hardly expected to <
live through the day. He was some |
Kofror An MnnHuv
Charlotte Observer, Friday : Messrs.
B. N. Moore and Paul McCorkle, of
Yorkville, S. C., who, as stated in The J
Observer last week, will open a cotton
office in Charlotte, have rented rooms I
over the store of VV. I. Henderson & Co.,
on South College street. The firm- to <
be known as Moore & McCorkle?will (
begin business here on August 1st.
The local office will be managed by
Mr. McCorkle, who will move/ his ^
family to Charlotte.
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WITHIN THE TOWN.
Monday was another unusually good (
day for the dry goods merchants. (
There were a large number of people
in town from the country.
The drinking water furnished by the
town last week was very muddy, on ^
account of the recent rains. Artesian ^
water is not affected by the rains.
The usual prayer meeting at Trinity ,
church this evening at 8 o'clock, will |
be followed by another tomorrow even- (
ing, and still another on Friday even- j
ing, preparatory to revival services ,
which will probably be continued j
throughout next week, y {
The cotton seed oil null to be erec- j
ted by Messrs. W. R. Carroll, M. L. j
Carroll, E. B. Beard and others will ,
probably be located on East Madison
street, opposite the York Brick works.
The matter of side tracks from the ,
two railroads is now under considera- <
tion. !
There was somewhat of a smallpox ,
scare in Yorkville last Monday occasioned
by a rather long ranged rumor.
The story was that a woman named (
T.il Whifnkor u'hn hurt hfpn to Char- i
lotte, contracted the disease in that ?
city, and running away to avoid the <
pest house, came to her home five ,
miles north of this place. The local
health authorities have investigated
the matter to their satisfaction and ar- (
rived at the conclusion that there is j
not the slightest occasion for alarm.
They say that the woman has not had y
the smallpox. (
CENSUS ENUMERATORS.
Mr. T. J. Cunningham, supervisor of
the census for the Fifth district, has j
commissioned enumerators to collect (
census statistics in York county as fol- j
lows: {
Bethel?F. E. Clinton, I. B. Faris. ^
Betbesda?J. M. Love, J. L. Moore,
W. N. Elder. a
Broad River?N. M. McGill, J. Sam (
Kennedy. g
Bullock's Creek?W. O. Blair, W. j
N. Hardin. fi
Catawba?J. W. Oates, R. L. Spen- t
cer, J. W. Marshall. c
Ebenezer?B. Frank Massey, John ?
A. Shurley. (
Fort Mill?J. D. Spratt, Samuel F. j
Massey.
King's Mountain?I). M. Ford, Jr., e
T. E. McMackin. )
York?R. R. McCorkle, R. A. Dob- f
son, Joseph R. Witherspoou. c
The foregoing information was fur- c
nished by Mr. Cunningham over the f
telephone, and such errors as there
may possibly be in the initials are due t
to indistinct hearing on our part. c
Captain J. Wilson Marshall will take j.
t.hft npnsim nf tho nifv nf T?nnlr TT111
w. ? 7 Li
and Mr. J. R. Wilherspoon will take c
Yorkville. Mr. McCorkle will work v
on the east side of the Carolina and t
North-Western railroad in York town- v
ship, and Mr. Dobson on the west side. s
Mr. Cunningham did not attempt to g
designate the territory of the other t
enumerators for feHr of getting the in- e
formation confused in transmission. v
HARVEY SMITH DEAD.
A telephone message to The En- a
QUIRER yesterday morning announced n
the death of Captain J. Harvy Smith, *
which occurred in Chester, at about S c'
o'clock Monday night, after a week's 1
illness, with inflamntion of the bladder. 1
A Chester special to the Columbia
State of yesterday morning gives additional
particulars as follows :
His sudden death was a shock to the ^
citizens of this city. He was in the ^
70th year of bis age, and leaves a c
vidoAv, three sons and two daughters,
he oldest child being Mrs. Eugene G.
Hester, of Winston, N. C. The debased
was a native of York county ;
>ut has spent nearly all of his life in
Chester. Two sisters survive him,
Mrs. It. M. Cross and Mrs. D. W.
steed man, of Landsford, this county.
Captain Smith has been in active busi
aess here for the past 50 years. He
ivas for a long time the senior member
if the firm of Smith & Melton, merchants
and cotton buyers. This firm
lid an immense and most profitable
susiness throughout this section in the
seventies and eighties. Captain Smith
enjoyed the confidence and esteem of a
arge circle of friends. He was kindaearted
almost to a fault, and was a
most devoted father and husband. His
first wife was a Miss Nicholson, of this
;ounty, the mother of Mrs. Hester,
Angus M. and Arthur P..Smith. The
ieepest sympathy is felt here for these
children, his widow and her two small
ihildren, Mary and Lewis. Captain
Smith was one of the wealthiest and
xiost influential citizen of this city.
.
THE CATAWBA BRIDGE.
From and after October 15 next, uness
unforeseen accidents occur, the
ravel between Fort Mill township and
the balance of York county, which is
now over ferries and fords, will be
principally over a first-class steel
bridge. The bridge was let by the
county board of commissioners yesterlay
for $7,650. yC
Yesterday being the ddy set for the
letting of the contract, bridge men
from all parts of the country began to
arrive in Yorkville on Monday, and
when the board met in the office of
the supervisor yesterday morning,
were there present representatives from
aearly all of the leading bridge com
panies of the northeast and middle
northwest, including a few from the
jlber side of the Mississippi river.
The names of the different representatives
are as follows:
M. M. Hewett, Chattanooga; H. T.
Sinnatt, Nashville; J. It. DeLong,
Chattanooga; George H. Crafts, Atlanta;
VV. E. Robertson, Roanoke;
Finegal C. Black, Charlotte; C. C.
Morrison, Chattanooga ; O. J. Cope,
Chatlanooga ; O. W. Childs, St. Louis,
A. W. Curry, Atlanta ; S. D. Brady,
Chattanooga ; Howard Brady, Chattanooga;
J. N. King, Niuety-Six; Robt.
VV. Curtis, Hickory; W. T. Young,
Nashville.
For the benefit of the bidders, carefully
prepared specifications had been
gotten up by the county board of com
missioners,. and they are still to be
leen in the office of the supervisor ;
hut the following is about all that is
nf especial interest to the general public.
The bridge is to be of steel on
steel piers. The bridge proper is to
he 363 feet long and to consist of three
spans of 120 feet each. The roadway
is to be 12 feet wide. There are to be
four piers, one on either side of the
river and two in the water. The piers
ire to be steel cylinders, filled with
joncrete. The approaches are to be of
tvood. That on the east side will be
200 feet in length, and that on the
svfest side 140 feet in length. The
work under the contract is to be completed
October 15 next.
In all, 12 bids were submitted, one
>f them by the Spratt Machine Co., of
Fort Mill, for the approaches only.
The highest bid was made by the
Canton Bridge Co., of Canion, Ohio,
ivbich proposed to build the bridge
done far $8,500, or bridge with approaches
for $9,372. The contract for
.he bridge was awarded to Mr. George
EI. Crafts, of Atlanta, Ga., for $7,650,
ind the contract for the approaches
vas awarded to Mr. George N. King,
)f Newberry, S. C., for $595.
YORKVILLE'S CHARTER.
In conversation with the reporter
ast Saturday, a member of the town
:ouncil gave fully the reason for callng
an election on the town charter
juestion at this time. His explanation
vas about as follows:
"The present charter, as you are
iware, expires with the adjournment
>f the next session of the general asembly.
A new council elected under
t now, therefore, can only serve for
ibout nine months before it will have
o take steps looking to a renewal of
lorporate authority, and holding an
dection for a new council. Under the
:ircumstances, it has been decided that
t is better to let the people of the town
iccept incorporation under the general
ict, and settle the matter once for all.
rVith the new charter adopted, we can
>roceed witn toe election 01 a new
:ouncil to serve for two*years instead
f nine months, and there will be no
urther complications.
"So far as the tax limit of 10 mills iu
he general incorporation act is con:emed,
I am of opinion that it is too
ligli, and I am satisfied that the other
nembers of the couucil are of the same
(pinion ; but we do not see any other
vay for it than to go on with the elecion,
after which, under the act of 1899,
ve may proceed to reduce the limit to
ome other figure to be agreed upon,
lo far as I am coucerned, I would say
hat the present 3 mill limit is high
nough. If the people should aftervard
decide that they need a higher
irait there will be nothing to prevent
iiutiici aiuciivuiicui in iijc rauiu
oanuer the last amendment was made.
think it will be much better for the
{ualitied voters to retain to themselves ;
he right of fixing the tax limit rather
han leave such a matter open to the
liscretion of the town council."
The views expressed by the member
f the council are sound and reasonable.
As to whether, proceeding under i
he act of 1S99, the people of Yorkville :
an now adopt the new charter or re- <
new the present charter as it stands
for a period of say 30 years, there may
he some room for doubt; but whether
ibis he the case or not, it is certain
that under the act referred to, they
cuu, after they get under it, amend the
general incorporation uct in any manner
they may see fit, and they will he
wise to reduce the tax limit to a figure
very much lower than that prescribed
in the act.
CIRCUIT COURT.
OwiDg to the indisposition of Judge
Aldrich, the work of the court of com
mon pleas has been cut considerably
shorter than was indicated by the
length of the calendar.
Calendar 1 was called last Saturday,
and with the consent of attorneys on
both sides all cases were continued except
the case of Rev. R. D. Perry vs.
the G. C. & N. Railroad company.
This case would have been contiuued
also had.not Major Hart, of counsel
for plaiuliff, represented that plain tiff'
is lying at the point of death with
small probability that he will live until
the fall term of the court.
Upon the call of the clerk Monday
morning, the second week jurors answered
to their names as follows: W.
H. Stewart, T. W. Clawson, R. H. Peacock,
J. M. Williford, VV. O. Harsbaw,
J. R. Howe, VV. P. Draffin, J. N. Steele,
VV. M. White, J. C. Blair, S. M. Roach,
VV. T. Massey, M. L. Thomasson, D.
S. Russel, R. A. Clinton, J. K. Scoggins,
Dave Sims, VV. VV. Gregg, J. N.
McGill, J. D. Boyd, J. H. Wylie, R.
M. Pursley, P. B. Love, T. M. Whisonant,
J. D. Smith, VV. H. Chambers,
N. B. Campbell, VV. A Oates, J. D.
Clark, J. C. Wylie, VV. T. Allen, VV.
E. Adams, Jr.
Jury No. 1 was organized as follows:
J. H. Wylie, R. A. Clinton, J.
K. Scoggins, J. N. Steele, J. D. Boyd,
N. B. Campbell, J. D. Smith, David
Sims, M. L. Thomasson, J. M. Williford,
T. M. Whisonant.
All the other jurors were discharged
from further service at this term, and
as the witnesses in the Perry case had
not yet arrived, court was adjourned
until Tuesday morning.
The trains of Monday brought a
large number of witnesses from Catawba
Junction and different points along
the Seaboard Air Line, and when
court convened yesterday morning
both sides were ready to proceed.
Messrs. James F. & John R. Hart, of
Yorkville, and Messrs. Johnstone &
Welch, of Newberry, appeared for the
plaintiff, and Messrs. J. L. Glenn, of
Chester, and W. B. McCaw, of Yorkville,
appeared for the defendant.
The complaint alleges as the princi
pal cause of action that while the
plaintiff was riding on one of the defendant's
trains on November 15,1898,
he snstained, through the negligence
and carelessness of the defendant,such
serious spinal and other injuries as to
incapacitate him from making a living
as a minister of the gospel, etc. The
manner in which the defendant is alleged
to have indicted the alleged injuries
is, of course,* set forth in full detail.
The answer sets forth that the
train on which the plaintiff alleges he
was injured was not a regular passenger
train ; that the plaintiff was fully
aware of the accommodations he could
expect; that at the time he alleges he
was injured he was not occupying one
of the permanent seats intended for
passengers; but a chair that was not
fastened to the floor of the car; that
if he was injured, as he alleges, he was
guilty of contributory negligence and
that the railroad is not responsible.
The preliminary skirmish yesterday
morning, was on a motion by delendant
to strike out from the complaint
one of the paragraphs setting forth
in effect that the plaintiff is a minister
of the gospel, dependent upon his labors
in that vocation for the support of
himself and invalid wife and minor
children, one of which is an iuvalid.
Mr. Glenn argued that as the action
was for compensatory damages, the
number and condition of the members
of the plaintiff's family had nothing
to do with the issues involved. If the
plaintiff were entitled to recover at
all, he was entitled to recover as much
as a single man with no one dependant
upon him, as he would be with a large
family. Mr. Johnstone held that inasmuch
as the defeudant had elected to
object to the whole paragraph and not
a part, that if the objection were sus- 1
tained it would have to be sustained
as a whole. Then he proceeded to
show that the plaintiff was asking for
damages on his own personal account
because he having been deprived by
the railroad company of his ability to
pursue his vocation as a minister of
ihe gospel, had thu9 been prevented
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Johnstone went on to argue the relevancy
of the balance of the paragraph.
His honor overruled the defendant's '
objection to the pa-agraph in question ,,
on the ground laid down by Mr. John- '
stone, viz: That under the objection, <
the paragraph must stand or fall as a <
whole, and as a portion of it was clearly
relevant and material it would all (
have to stand.
After the ruling of his honor there J
was a somewhat humorous development.
Mr. Johnstoue annouuced in j
a benevolent manner that in order to ,
avoid possible dillatoriousness hereaf- (
tor, the plaintifl reserved the right to |
thereafter allow the defendant to r
change the objectionable paragraph as f
he might see fit. Mr. Glenn promptly 1
protested that this offer had a string *
tied to it; that if the plaintiff should i
see an advantage in allowing the g
change he would permit it, and other- t
wise he would not. Upou this Mr.
Johnslone passed the Jiaper to Mr.
Glenn and told him to take his pencil
and indicate desired changes.
At this point the reporter had to
leave the courtroom. The plaintiff
had not yet begun to muke out his
case; hut judging from what has gone
before and from intimations of probable
testimony, in connection with the
acknowledged ability of counsel on
either side, the indications are that *
further developments are likely to
prove quite interesting.
LOCAL LACONICS.
Growing Weather.
Farmers report the unusually rapid
growth of all crops that are up, and
that the grass is coming aloug with
other things. Generally farm work is
not as forward as it ought to be.
The Chalngang. y?_
There are now 31 convicts on the
chaingang. This is the largest number
at any one time since the establishment
of that institution, except for
a few day during last fall when there
were 35.
Stockholdean Meeting.
The meeting of the stockholders of
the Carolina and North-Western railroad
was held in Chester yesterday ;
but up to the time at which it was necessary
for The Enquirer to go to
press, it was impracticable to get any
information as to what was done.
Never Looked So Well.
Farmers who were in Yorkville from
different sections of the county, say
that wheat is looking as well as they
have ever seen at this season of the
year. Oats that were thought to have
been ruined by the winter freezes are
also looking much better than was
thought possible. /
Knitting Mill at Blackftbarg.
uoiumnm correspondence JNews and
Courier, Saturday : A commission for
a charier was today issued to the
Biacksburg Spinning and Knitting
mill, of Biacksburg. Tbe capital stock
of the company is to be $15,000. The
corporators names are : A. H. Pollock,
J. G. Black, J. Meier, J. W. Duff, A.
Tripp aud J. F. Whisonant.
Skipped Out. vj^
Jim Grant and ^hers, who were
presented by the grand jury for keeping
a disorderly house in the Bethany
section, have left that part of the
country. They skipped out as soon
as they got wind of the grand jury's
action, and the respectable people of
the neighborhood are in hopes that tbe
community will not again be called
upon to submit to such a nuisance.Death
of a Remarkable Dwarf, y/
Rock Hill Herald: Mr. Stella 'Cogsdale,
son of Mr. C. M. and Mrs. F. E.
Cogsdale, died at his home on Wilson
street, Wednesday, of pneumonia.
The deceased was 22 years of age and
was about 52 inches in height and
weighed about 65 pounds. He was a
very dignified, manly little- creature,
had fine sense and excellent judgment,
aud stood high in the esteem of all
who knew him. His remains were
interred in Laurelwood cemetery
Thursday. The family came from
Eastern North Carolina. J
Catawba on the Rampage. I
The Catawba river was 16 feel above
common water at Wright's Ferry last
Thursday. The reporter gets the information
from Supervisor Culp, who
was engaged along the river on that
day. At Sutton's Ferry, where the
proposed bridge is to be located, the
river was 13 feet above the ordinary
level. This was within 11 feet of the
proposed bridge. According to Mr.
Culp's information, 19 feet is the record
at Wright's, and on the same scale
16 feet would be the record at Sutton's.
When Mr. Culp crossed the river on
Monday, the water bad gone down
considerably and was almost within
ordinary limits.
Serloui Stabbing Affray.
Rock Hill Herald, Saturday : Thursday
night at Lesslie, two young men,
Walter White and John Wherry, became
involved in an altercation, in
which young Wherry was very painfully
cut in the left arm and left side
by a knife in the hands of young
White. Dr. Wideman attended the
sufferer and dressed his wounds. The
difficulty occurred not far from the
new Hopewell church, where the
young men bad been'attending prayer
meeting. Walter White is a son of
Mr. Joe White, and John Wherry is a
son of Mr. W. C. Wherry. The trouble
is very much regretted in tne community.
Id the Intereet of Flub.
The Bamberg grand jury, in its final
report to the court the other day, had
the following to say with regard to the
fish laws : "It has come to our knowledge
that the fish laws of the state are
almost if not entirely disregarded.
The wholesale destruction of the fish
as they run up the streams to spawn
and increase, by wire traps, nets, seines
and dynamite, if not stopped, will result
in the final extermination of the
valuable fish in our waters. We resommend,
therefore, that your honor
charge those whose duty it is to a strict
enforcement of the law."
[)ur Swollen Klvern.
The weather bureau at Charleston,
;ent out the following on Sunday:
rhe Congaree, at Columbia, is 4 feet
ibove the danger liue, and has risen
5 feet during the past 24 hours. The
Wateree, at Camden, and Pee Dee, at
Jheraw, are receding slowly. The
ower streams in South Carolina are
ising slowly, and will continue to rise
luring the next five days. The streams
it Camden, Cheraw and Columbia will
ecede rapidly Monday, Tuesday and
iVeduesday. The streams at Smith's
dills and St. Stephen's will reach danger
lines and possible 2 to 4 feet above
>y Friday or Saturday next.