Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Scraps and .facts. ? The Piatt amendment was accepted by the Cuban constitutional convention last Tuesday by a vote of 15 to 14. The actual vote was on accepting the majority report of the committee on relations, which embodies the amendment with explanations of certain clauses. The Radicals made a hard fight at the last moment, and Senores Portuondo, Gomez and Tamayc bitterly arraigned the conservatives. Senor Tamayor was particularly vindictive and declared that everybody who voted in favor of the Piatt amendment was a traitor to his country, and the convention compelled him to retract this. ? A leading feature of the suffrage clause offered to the proposed new constitution of Alabama by ex-Governor Jones, last Tuesday, is that which denies the right to vote of "any person who shall hereafter be guilty and convicted of selling his own vote or buying or barterng the vote of another, in any legal election or in any primary, caucus or convention held to nominate persons or public officers or to elect delegates to any primary, or convention. or who shall make or aid in mak ing any false count, certificates or returns as to the result of such election, primary, caucus or convention or who shall hereafter carry concealed weapons, and be convicted thereof." ? News and Courier: Second Assistant Postmaster General Shallenberger, it is noted, has incurred the enmity ol the "star route" mail contractors by requiring that they shall reside in territory contiguous to the routes for which they contract. The ruling is ir accordance with law; but the practice has been to permit a ring of contractors in the large cities to farm out the routes to sub-contractors, and sc make a large profit without themselves rendering any service. Finding themselves deprived of this privilege, the contractors, it is said, contemplate getting even by securing Mr. Shallenberger's dismissal from office at the expiration of his present term. ? Dr. Willoughby Gardner, a British surgeon, argues in favor of a liberal sugar ration for soldiers. Just in proportion as the races become great sugar eaters, he says, they excel in stature. The Americans and English surpass all other peoples as sugar eaters, and they have in late years made the most surprising gains in stature. They are the tallest of white races. In Great Britain during the last fifteen years, the consumption of sugars per capita has trebled, and it is Dr. Gardner's opinion that the increased height and weight, ol-./* tviQ imnmvod health of the English people In the last half century have been due to the Increased consumption of sugar. This, the New York Mall and Express thinks, accounts for that modern phenomenon, the "tall girl." She Is everywhere in evidence in this country and in England. She is much taller than her mother. She is the product of much candy and ice cream. ? The Boer General Schoeman and his daughter have been killed and his wife and two others have been badly injured by the explosion of a shell, says a Pretoria dispatch. General Schoeman, his family and some friends were examining a 4.7 inch lyddite shell which they kept in the house as a curiosity, when the shell exploded, killing the general on the spot and mortally wounding his daughter and severely injuring his wife and two other persons. General Schoeman was a great Krugerite. He led the commando of Colesburg and surrendered on the occupation of Pretoria. He was afterwards captured by the Boers and released when the British occupied Barberton. The general then went on a peace mission, and was retaken by the Boers, and was again released when the British took Piettersburg. Since that time General Schoeman has resided in Pretoria. ? Swift punishment is-being meted out to train robbers in the states of Ooahuila and Durango, Mexico, according to an El Paso. Texas, dispatch of May 28. In those states the highwaymen became so bold that they would stop Mexican Central freight trains, break open cars and load their wagons with whatever freight they wanted and drive away to the mountains. The late "Diamond Dick," an ex-Texas Ranger, was employed by the Mexican Central road to capture the robbers. "Diamond Dick" killed several of them, but was not able, single-handed, to cope with the situation. Recently the railroad officials appealed to President Diaz for relief, and he ordered soldiers to exterminate the robbers. The soldiers were empowered to act as sheriff, judge, Jlfry and executioner. Last Saturday. near Yermo, four out of a band of eight robbers were captured while in the act of robbing a freight train. The soldiers, who had been concealed in a freight car to trap the bandits, lined up the prisoners and riddled them with bullets. ? Jake McDowell, aged about 16 years, was on Monday shot and killed by his father. Mack McDowell, at their home near Marietta, this county, according to a Rutherford. N. C., dispatch to the Charlotte Observer. The father claims that the shooting was in self-defence. It is said that the dead hoy had driven his brother from the field in which they were working and beaten him until he was almost unconscious. Later, when they met at their home a second attack was made upon the boy by Jake, when a third brother interfered. When this occurred. Jake demanded that his father give him his pistol: that he intended to kill the brother who had interfered. The father refused to let him have the weapon, whereupon Jake secured an axe and followed his father, declaring that he would split his head open if he did not give him the pistol. The father, fearing that the son would fulfill his threat, pulled the pistol and fired one shot at him. the ball taking effect in the right lung. While the father was gone after a physician to attend his son he was arrested and brought here to jail. He says he saved his life by taking that of his son. Mack McDowell is about 45 years old and a farmer. ? New York Times: On Monday last we published a very interesting and pathetic story from Indianapolis about a Negro, who when steam was accidentally turned into the big boiler in which he and a companion were working, nobly gave the other man a chance to escape first, and in consequence of the delay was himself fatally burned. The tale was one of a kind we are glad to publish, and as it came through the regular Associated Press channels, the possibility that it was false or inaccurate did not occur to us?then. The next day, however, Mr. Joseph B. Gilder sent us a letter expressing his appreciation of the Negro's heroism and inclosing a contribution to serve as the nucleus for a monument fund. His example was followed by several other generous readers of The Times. Thereupon the duty to investigate" was borne in on us, and we investigated, with the lamentable result of learning on undisputable Indianapolis authority, including the testimony of the man who was saved, that, except for the fact that an accident of the sort described did occur, the story was a "yellow journal fake," rashly accepted by the Associated Press agent, and that the monument scheme would have to be abandoned. When the steam was turned into the boiler, the two men in it rushed for the manhole, each for himself, and had it not been for the desperate struggle which [ each made to get out first, both could i easily have escaped in safety. There > was no discussion as to the superior right to life possessed by a married man, no display of self-sacrifice?noth ing, in short, except new and needless i proof that poor humanity, when con1 fronted by sudden and terrible peril, sometimes fails to demonstrate its > higher possibilities. So yesterday we returned the contributions we had re ceived to the donors, with sincere re grets that we had excited their emotions without cause. I _ <Thc (6?quite. YORKVILLE, S. C.t SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1901. The supreme court of the United States says we have expanded, and it must be so. i There is said to be a movement on : foot to induce Governor McSweeney to , appoint General Hampton to fill out . Senator McLaurin's unexpired term. ' We would like to know of Senator . Tillman whether he is loyal to the plank of the Democratic platform that i declares against government by injuncI tion, and if so, why it is he permitted ; the injunction provision in his dlspen l-?. t# Un to nnf Invol tn this sm y icl >v. xi he io mvt> m* w I plank, we would like to know why he should condemn anyone else for repu, diating any other plank. And Senator Tillman, like a spoilt child, tells the people of South Carolina that unless they do as he says he wont play. We had not thought of it seriously before; but the commonwealth of South Carolina got along very well before the great Benjamin made his appearance on the scene, and we have an Idea that it would continue to worry along even if it should now be deprived of his services. "If McLaurin is to be allowed to change his politics Ave times In ten years, it looks as if he should accord Teller the right to change once in 30 years." spitefully declared Senator Tillman at Gaffney. But the fact is that neither McLaurin or Teller have changed at all. Both stand where they have always stood; the former for free speech and free thought in South Carolina, and the latter for the political equality of the Negro. At present South Carolina virtually has no choice in the settlement of public questions, as the vote of one senator kills the other?Wm. J. Bryan. What drivel to come from a man who has twice been the Democratic candidate for president of the United States. It was because South Carolina had two representatives in the United States senate instead of only one, that she was enabled to secure to this nation Porto Rico and the Philippines islands, and at the same brilliant stroke, place the United States in her rightful position as the foremost commercial power of the world. Still more, the vote that accomplished all this was made with the aDDroval of Mr. Bryan, and it is because of this vote that Senator Tillman is now claiming that "If McLaurin is a Democrat I am not!" Senator John T. Morgan, of Alabama, has the reputation of being one of the ablest and most patriotic statesmen in America. Of all the men living today, he has the right to be called the "Father of Democracy." He was with McLaurin in every vote that the senator cast against the party bosses. Only a few months ago he was before the Democratic primaries for re-election, and there was a bitter fight against him on the ground that he was < a Republican. It was said at the time that the big trans-continental railroad lines spent big money in their efforts to defeat him because of his efforts in behalf of the Nicaraugua canal. His opponents denounced him as a Republican, and the candidate who sought his office was a man who had been 1 elected governor by Democratic votes. Senator Morgan carried every county in the state. The opinion, therefore, < that such a man as this entertains of John L. McLaurin as a statesman and a Democrat, ought to be of especial weight. It is published in another column as given in an interview with the Washington correspondent of the Chicago Record-Herald. The Content Deepen*. At last the great fight for the freedom of political thought in South Carolina is on, and it is exactly along the lines that have been anticipated by those who have been watching develnnmon + a ei'nna Hov TnV\n T. TVfr*T.5?11 ? rin defied the party bosses in behalf of his constituents and the best interests of the United States, and voted for the ratification of the treaty of peace with Spain. The peace treaty, it will be remembered, was made a party question by the leaders of the Democratic party, not on the ground of patriotic service to the American people, but purely for the purpose of obstructing the plans of the Republican party. There being no immediate danger in sight, Senator i McLaurin had, for the sake of harmony, joined in the move; but suddenly there developed a new war that , threatened disastrous complications, and the junior senator, moved by a high sense of duty, asserted his inde- ' pendence of his fellow partizans and cast his vote for the American people. Here began a new era In American history with changing political conditions, and while most of his colleagues held to their policy of clogging the wheels of progress, Senator McLaurin boldly continued onward in his efforts to conserve to the Democratic party and nation, all that they had won as the result of a successful war. Let us not forget that the Spanish war was a Democratic war But while he did great service to the Democratic party and the country, Senator McLaurin incurred the undying hatred of the party associates whose bossism he had defied. Then and there his political death was decreed, and the subsequent efforts of Senator Jones to pledge him against his honest convictions by means of the party caucus, was one of the first stages of the plot that was hatched. Senator Tillman's efforts to have him rebuked by the South Carolina legislature was another step in the same direction, and the sensational incident at Gaffney was the desperate climax of this exceedingly selfish game. To ascribe motives to other people is easy; but to prove them is impossible except by inference. Every intelligent man in South Crolina knows that as the result of the upheaval that commenced along about 1890, the principles of the Democratic party have been so changed that neither Jefferson, Jackson or Lincoln?whom Senator Tillman calls a Democrat?would recognize them were they alive today. Senator Tillman said the other day that if to be a Bryan Democrat was Populism, then he is a Populist. It is known that on this basis the senator is flirting with the populists of the Northwest for the "Democratic" nomination for the presidency, and it is well known by all^who think that even should these Populistic principles win, the result would be disastrous to South Carolina and the South, and here is the secret of the great fight that is now on between Senators Tillman and McLaurin. Senator McLaurin is in the arena for the restoration of true Democracy on a basis of principles that look to the upbuilding of the agricultural, commercial and manufacturing Interests of the South, and Senator Tillman is working A - 13 IU lui llicr Bit Clig U1CI1 lllv i UI/U..W..V. theories that are promising him a "light in the West." Elsewhere in this issue, is Senator Tillman's manifesto, setting forth his excuses for being willing to subject the state of South Carolina to the demoralization of a campaign which has no use at this time except to further his own personal political schemes. There is also published the views of Senator Jones, in support of Senator Tillman, and against Senator McLaurin, and as in fhe light of all that has been said and done up to this time, these do not seem to require any further comment or explanation at the present, they are left to the.- careful consideration of those of our readers who care Jto try to % study out the situation for themselves. ?OCK HILL HAPPENINGS. Uaiunge to the Catawba Bridge? Other Note* of Importance. Correspondence o( the Yorkville Enauirer. Rock Hill, May 30.?Mr. Crafts, the Atlanta contractor, who built the Catawba river bridge at Sutton's ferry, was in town today with Mr. J. F. Gordon, the county supervisor. They had been out to examine the condition of the bridge'since the great freshet. Mr. crait minus one ui me oicci yi^ia, that is about a foot out of plumb, will have to be removed from its place and another substituted. Being filled with concrete it could not be lifted, without much expense, so as to remove the foreign substance that may be under it. He says it will be cheaper to throw it down and put in another than to straighten it up. Another of the piers is also slightly out of plumb; but he is of the opinion that it can be put back in place with but little cost. Mr. Crafts thinks it will cost $2,000 to put the bridge in condition and do the work properly. Supervisor Gordon wants to replace the trestles washed away, with the labor of the chaingang; but the smallpox case at the camp will render this out of the question unless he waits a long time. He wi.U have to wait about three months for the new pier anyway. The graded school commencement exercises attracted a crowded house last night. The graduates are Misses Eva Beach, Anna Cherry, Azilee Huey, Ida Huey, Julia Mobley, Brownlee Neely, Mamie Reid, May Sadler, Masters O'Neal Craig and Julian Johnson. A number of tots, viz.: Carrie Sadler, Vivian Strong, Catherine Roddey, Evelyn Frew, Margaret Ruff, Ed Poag, Jr., Halcott Poag, Rosa Strait and Douglass Tompkins pleased the audience greatly with their String and Woodwind orchestra?the instruments being toys?accompanying the Iredell orchestra, which was present and rendered fine music. It was under the direction of Prof. Strong, director of music in Winthrop, who is to leave Winthrop next week, much to the regret of the people of Rock Hill. Banks ltawls, a young son of Mr. J. B. Rawls, who lives four miles south east of town, died tnis afternoon, fie took sick about 10 o'clock this morning and in six hours he was dead. I have not been able to learn particulars, but suspect it was heart disease, with which I understand the child was afflicted. The sixth annual ball of the Rock Hill German club will be quite a swell affair. A number of the Winthrop girls will stay in the city* to attend. The college management would rather they would go to their homes; but papa and mamma are willing, and that is all the authority they feel they need consult. Winthrop's commencement will attract to this city a number of visitors next week. For the information of your readers who may expect to attend the annual concert and reception Tuesday night, perhaps it will be well for them to know that admission will only be by card. They must make application to either Prof. Kinard or Prof. Abbe, before 3 o'clock Monday afternoon or thev will Vie barred the nrivi lege of attending the public concert given in this public institution. And then, too, in applying they must say for whom the ticket is to be issued. The Anti-Blind Tiger association was organized yesterday. It is proposed to run the troublesome animals out of the town before you can say Jack Robinson. The initiation fee is $1, and all the white folks who are not patrons, as well as those who are, are expected to be members, and to stop their bad habits. All the women in town are to be invited into the fold of members, each to pay her little $1. The executive committee, as elected, is as follows: W. L. Roddey, F. H. Barber, Rev. W. E. Thayer, J. R. Barron, W. H. Wylie, W. F. Moncrieff, A. S. Rogers, J. G. Anderson, George Beach, George D. Holler, B. N, Craig. O. S. Poe, Tom L. Johnston, J. M. Charlotte, Foster Wood, W. G. Reid, U. C. Partlow, J. J. Waters, Wade B. Roddey, A. Freidheim, I. Simpson, W. J. Caveny, C. P. Black, E. W. Comer, W. A. Fewell. Each one of these gentlemen is expected to catch a tiger, and will do so if it is blind in both eyes and lame in all four feet. A committee of ladies will be selected to solicit members. There is nothing like enterprise, and we are up-to-date. Your paper is a dandy and the publisher who gets ahead of you must be a "whizzer." No doubt about that. k RESIGNATIONS RETURNED. Governor McSweeney Acts With Good Sonne. By Telegraph to Yorkville Enquirer. Columbia, May 31.?Governor McSweeney has declined to accept the resignations of Senators Tillman and McLaurin on the ground that the people do not want political turmoil and excitement during an off-year, and that it would be wrong to tear the state up without good cause, which does not exist. To be exact, the governor writes Tillman and McLaurin in part as follows: "I respectfully return your resignations that you may have more time for serious consideration of the effects upon the people of this state of this action on your part." August Kohn. LOCKHART LINKLETS. Death of Mr. John Parks?The Band Buys a Set of New Instruments. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. Lockhart, May 29.?Died, on Sunday, May 26, Mr. John Parks, aged 26 years. The deceased had been confined to his bed for about five months with that dreaded disease, consumption, which disease was superinduced by measles. He was a native of York county and had only been married about six months. His remains were buried at the "God's Acre," at Bullock's Creek. The deceased appeared to be prepared for the visit of the King of Terrors. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. S. Grier, on Sunday afternoon, at the home of his parents. Mr. Win. Ross went last week to Spartanburg, as a representative of the Hines lodge of K. of P., to the state lodge, which convened at the city above named. 1-? T* TT~ TirUU fVito rrui. a. ?j. nciuuuii 10 ?alh uo kino week teaching the Lockhart Cornet band. The train on the Lockhart branch of the Southern railway, leaves this place now an hour earlier, on account of a change of schedule on the main line. Broad river was higher last week than it has been in the history of Lockhart cotton mill. Old residents tell us that It has not been so high since 1886. No damage resulted, as all the property belonging to the cotton mill that is movable, was above the high water mark. The teachers of the Lockhart Baptist Sunday school will give a free ice cream entertainment to the pupils belonging to that school on Saturday evening, June 8th. The Lockhart Cornet band contemplates running an excursion to Columbia at an early day. By the way, in the near future 'without the act of legislation) they expect to write the name of the organization thus: "Lockhart Silver Cornet Band." Since writing the above, the band has ordered a $1,000 set of silver gold-trimmed instruments, thus fulfilling my prediction of a letter that I wrote to The Enquirer some weeks ago, but they purpose to bear same name. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. .ucLanrln at Home. The following Bennettsville' special to the Charlotte Observer, tells of the reception of Senator McLaurin after his arrival from Gaffney: Two hundred and fifty of the citizens of Bennettsville, Senator McLaurin's home, marched to the senator's residence, called him from his bed. and the object of the visit was announced by T. W. Bouchier, Esq., in a beautiful speech. The senator stood on his front norch and in pathetic and patriotic strains of eloquence spoke of his unbounded appreciation of this evidence of the endorsement of his home people. The senator said that he was in the fight Iu siay, a.nu liiui mere wcie 01511a ui dodging by Tillman: but that he intended to hold him to the agreement. The senator said that he only wanted Tillman in this race, and that he would give the people a clean, decent, hightoned campaign, or if Tillman preferred he could throw as much mud as Mr. Tillman wanted. Senator McLaurin said that the senate was too small for both Tillman and himself, and that he wanted to meet Senator Tillman in every county in South Carolina. Such men as Captain P. L. Breeden, C. E. Exum, H. W. Carroll and many such prominent business men, led the crowd Bennettsville will be almost solid for McLaurin. and the citizens, through Mr. Bouchier, pledged Senator McLaurin their support. MERE-MENTION. Fred Rochelie, a black Negro, was burned at Bartow, Fla., last Thursday at noon for having assaulted and murdered Mrs. Rena Taggart, a respectable white woman An oil gusher of mighty proportions is reported to have been "brought in" near New Orleans within the past few days The Alabama constitutional convention is discussing the question of dividing the public school fund between the races in proportion to tne amount paid in by each. nrlilgeN 1h Dead. Our Blacksburg correspondent, "W. A.," sends the following under date of May 30: "Mr. L>. F. Bridges, who was shot here on Saturday last by A. G. Mintz, died from the effects of the wound, Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The fatal wound was In the abdomen, the bowels being perforated in several places. An operation for his relief was performed by Drs. Darwin, Caldwell and Ramseur, which probably prolonged his life for a day or two. He was buried yesterday at New Hope church, near Earle's station, with Masonic honors. Mintz is rtill in the county jail, and getting along very nicely with his wound." ? The South Carolina Interstate and West Indian exposition commissioners for this county will meet in Yorkville next Wednesday. LOCAL AFFw&XRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. W. W. Lewis, Trustee?Gives notice of sale of the Sutro Cotton mill and its lands and appurtenances, under a mortgage, to take place in front of the Sutro Cotton mill office on July 2. J. R. Lindsay?Says that he has secured the agencies of several strong insurance companies and is ready to write all kinds of fire insurance. He can be reached by telephone at the York cotton mills or by messages left at Dr. Cartwright's office. H. C. Strauss, Secretary?Gives notice of the election of teachers for the graded school to take place on June 13th. Four teachers are to be elected. Geo. W. S. Hart, Chairman?Gives notice of a meetine of the Qualified vo ters of the Yorkvllle school district, on June 13th, at 11 a. m., and also gives notice of an election to take place on the same day. T. W. Speck?Says he is no\v able to fill orders for engraved invitations and cards. The Enquirer?Calls your attention to the serial soon to appear in these columns. The story Is entitled "The Gunmaker of Moscow," and was written by Sylvanus Cobb. Yorkvllle Buggy Co.?Says they have recently received the first carload of binders ever shipped to Yorkvllle, and say that if you want the best, you had better buy a Deering binder. H. C. Strauss & Co.?Talk to you in regard to table linens, quilts, and towels. They say that they have the best stocks of these goods to be found in Yorkvllle. Sam M. Grist?Says perhaps you think you can better afford to carry your own insurance than to have a company with millions to carry it for you; but says you may find out differently some time when you have a fire. W. O. Rawls?Says he has bath tubs, and can furnish you with any and everything in this line. I. W. Johnson, The Grocer?Calls your attention to his line of flavoring extracts, and says he has the best assortment In Yorkvllle. He also tells you about Middleton's teas and snowflake crackers. J. Q. Wray?Advertises a job lot of ladies' shirt waists, gives some interesting prices and say he thinks they will interest the ladies. T. W. Speck?Says that he will give you good work and low prices on all kinds of jewelry repair work. York Drug Store?Calls your attention to its having all of the June magazines and says it will keep an up-todate supply in the future. Riddle & Carroll?Tell you that they have received one carload of binders and will get another in a few days, and request parties who bought McCormick binders to haul them out at once. They have a carload of corn. THE APPOINTMENT OFF. Senator John L. McLaurin is not to be in Yorkvllle next Monday in accordance with the original announcement, and the meeting appointed for that time may be considered off. So far as The Enquirer knows there nas oeen no airecx communicauun iruiu the senator on account of the appointment since he left Gaffney, and in the absence of further advice what he said then is to be taken as governing the appointment. Although the developments at Gaffney would not necessarily interfere with an appointment like this, it is reasonable to assume that on account of the new and remarkable situation there brought about, the plans of Senator McLaurin have been considerably changed; but that he will soon appear before the voters of York county, either in joint debate, or in a calm, dispassionate discussion of the vital issues he represents, it is to be taken as a matter of course. The anxiety of the senator, however, to talk to the people is very great. He has no particular desire to discuss personalities and will not do so unless forced by his opponent. "It makes no difference what I think of Senator Tillman or what he thinks of me," he claims; "but the question which concerns the people is, which one of us represents issues that promise the greatest advancement of the public welfare." REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. The records in the office of the auditor show the following transfers of real estate during the month of May: CATAWBA. M. H. Sandifer to Susie F. Sandifer; house and lot. Consideration $500. V. B. McFadden to V. G. McMcFadden; three acres of land. $90. W. J. Caveny to John Boyd Creighton; one lot. Consideration $375. A. F. Hand to M. D. Hand. Lot at $575. L. A. Williams to A. L. R. Poe; lot $400. W. L. Roddey & Co., to Warren H. Hart; lot at $50. R. Lee Kerr to Jackson Vaughn; lot at $350. Rock Hill Land and Town Site Co., to Eliza R. Mills: lot at $400. EBENEZER. F. H. Brown to Mrs. M. E. Massey; 350 acres of land. Consideration $2,275. Same land conveyed by Wylie, clerk of the court. Consideration nominal. Marion W. Woodward to Ada B. O'Brien; one lot and building. Consideration $2,000. A. R. Banks to Samuel Freidheim; two lots at $1,550. FORT MILL. Joseph Johnson to Sam Parks; one lot at $2.25. W. R. Bradford to Samuel W. Parks; one lot at $300. Mrs. Alice Bradford and children to W. R. Bradford; one lot at $400. W. Brown Wylie, clerk, to J. T. Boyd; lot of $29 acres. Nominal. KING'S MOUNTAIN. Isaac T. Faris to Mattie Jenkins; one lot at $75. YORK. Adolphus Rice to Caroline Williams; a lot and building at $70. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mr. W. W. Boyce has moved his family to Rock Hill. Mr. W. H. Hicklin, of Guthriesville, was in Yorkville Wednesday. Mr. Cal G. Parish, of Gaffney, was a visitor to xorKVine on xnursaay. Mr. N. B. Bratton, of Guthriesville, was a visitor to Yorkville Thursday. Mrs. E. C. Hanahan and Miss Rita Beard, are visiting relatives in Columbia. Mrs. H. H. Beard returned Thursday , after a visit to relatives and friends in North Carolina. Agent Culp has moved his family into the Bratton house on East Liberty street, recently vacated by Mr. W. W. Boyce. Mr. R. B. Riddle and son, John Albert, of Zeno, spent Wednesday and Thursday in Yorkville with relatives i and friends. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Dendy, of Pickens. are spending sometime in York- ; ville, the guests of Mrs. Dendy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Latimer. Mr. Roland M. Patrick, of York, grad- < uated at the head of his class at Davidson, and Mr. J. W. McConnell, also of York, delivered the second best oration. i Dr. John I. Barron returned home on Thursday from Manning, where he visited relatives after going before the f state medical board In Columbia. Dr. Barron safely passed the state examination. Drs. A. Y. Cartwrlght, E. A. Law and W. M. Kennedy will leave Monday to attend the meeting of the State Dental Asso., which meets at the Isle of Palms, Charleston. The two latter go to stand an examination before. the examining board, and Dr. Cartwrlght to attend the association meetings. Dr. Cartwright's office will be closed during his absence. The party expects to return not later than Friday. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? Doi-ia Annpo pnmnnnv nlnved In the opera house last Wednesday night to a small, but appreciative audience. The music was fine, the comedians were unusually good, and the specialties were enjoyable. It was a clean ^ show, well worth the price of admission, and the only pity was that the patronage was no better. # ? At a meeting of the town council, last Thursday night, W. W. Lewis, Esq., tendered his resignation as town attorney. He had served a year, and thought he was entitled to turn the work over to someone else. The council accepted the resignation with much regret, and elected Mr. Frank P. Mc- . Cain as Mr. Lewis's sucessor. ? ? On account of the death of the little child of Captain and Mrs. Robert Stephenson, the reception contemplated in connection with the commencement exercise of the King's Mountain Military Academy, will not be held. The other exercises will he beld as originally announced. They Include a sermon in the Presbyterian church tomorrow by Rev. W. G. Neville; public drill on the parade ground at 10 o'clock Tuesday morn- i ing, and an oration Wednesday morning by Rev. J. C. Johnes. ? Francis Roundtree, Infant daughter of Captain and Mrs. Robert T. Stephenson, died last Thursday morning at about 10 o'clock of a complication of troubles Incident to teething. The little sufferer had been ill about two weeks and wasted away steadily and surely until the end came as stated. The funeral took pla?e yesterday morning. Had the child lived until next Monday, she would have been aged just ' one year. ? Captain J. R. Lindsay announces that he is again in the fire insurance . business with his office at the York Cotton mills. The captain hardly needs introduction in this line, for it is pretty well understood that he is no novice, . ? having in times past conducted the largest agency that has ever existed in Yorkville.* He represents strong companies, knows about every detail of the business, and can give valuable information to all who may be in need of it. In his announcement elsewhere he tells how he may be reached, either by 'phone or upon inquiry at the office of * Dr. A. Y. Cartwright in Yorkville. ? The trustees of the Yorkville graded school, including those elected Tuesday, met on last Wednesday afternoon and re-organized by the re-election of Geo. W. S. Hart as chairman, and the election of Mr. Withers Adickes as secretary and treasurer, vice Mr. H. C. Strauss, who had served in that capac- > ity for quite awhile, and who declined to serve longer. After the organization another meeting was held for the purpose of considering the question of continuing the operation of the school. Prof. B. L. Jones was re-elected superintendent without opposition; but the matter of filling the remaining positions was left until June 13. after due advertisement. The board now consists of Messrs. Geo. W. S. Hart, H. C. Strauss, W. Adickes, A. T. Cartwright, W. D. Glenn, E. B. Beard, O. ' E. Grist, Dr. J. D. McDowell. LOCAL LACONICS. * Picnic at Piedmont. The Enquirer is requested to announce that there will be a picnic at Piedmont springs on Saturday, June 15. The public is invited. <" In the Grass. Reports from different sections of the county indicate that while generally ' good stands of cotton have been secured. the grass is corriing rapidly and promising lots of trouble. The River at Wright's. The threatened renewed freshet in the Catawba river did not materialize ^ on Monday. The highest point reached this time was 11 feet, or considerably less than half the big rise of the week before. Through to Lenoir. The Carolina and North-Western freight train got through to Lenoir on Thursday over the North Fork of the Catawba, and the passenger train got through yesterday. Trains are now running regularly. We Will Send The Enqnlrer For one year to two or more subscribers at $1.75 each, provided the two or more names are returned and paid for when the names are entered. The Enquirer will be sent from this issue to the first of January, 1902, for $1.12 in advance. It Is a Hnmhng. For the benefit of our contemporaries who may have made contracts with the Japanese Pile Cure company, of y 3,614 Market St., Philadelphia, we beg to . say that the said concern is a fraud In that it will not pay its advertising bills. Death of Mr*. T. E. Sherrer. Mrs. Adeline Sherrer, wife of Mr. T. Elzaphan Sherrer, died at her home near Blairsville last Sunday, of appoplexy. She was aged about 61 years. She leaves a husband and six children. The funeral took place at Sharon on Monday afternoon. > Coin of George III. Mr. J. J. Matthews has left at The Enquirer office an interesting copper coin that bears the image and superscription of George III and the date of 1781. He found it in one of his fields near Barrett's mill, nine miles north of Yorkville. For many years previous to the war the field was used as a muster ground. Went to MInnInhIpiiI. In view of the continued wrangle between the people who want the Reese reward and Mr. W. H. Newbold, over the question as to whether the prisoner in the Oxford, Miss., jail is really M. R. Reese, Sheriff Logan is out there to investigate the matter. The sheriff went to Memphis for the reunion and from there he goes on to Oxford. He has no idea that the man in dispute is really Reese; but thinks it worth while to actually go and see. Then the quar- ^ rel will be stopped. The sheriff will not return until next week. " * 1 OBITUARY. Died.?JOHN PARKS, of Lockhart, S. C., was born March 6, 1875. Died May 26, 1901. Was first married to Emily Clark, of Yorkville, who with one nhllH h)m fr> fho ernvp hv three years. He was again married to A Miss Maggie Wade, and just two weeks after this marriage he took sick on October 19, 1900. Has been confined to bed nearly all the time since until death. Deceased was a member of the Methodist church and died in glorious I hope of a happy eternity. He leaves a widow, father, mother, two brothers and six sisters to mourn his loss. J. S. Grier.