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Scraps and iacts. ? Mail that left Melbourne, Australia, on October 14, reached New York last Saturday, having made the trip across the Pacific and across the North American continent, in 25 days. This is the fastest time on record. It is expected that the mail will be delivered at the London postofflce on November 16. ? In making excavations for the foundations for a new Federal building at Helena. Montana, last Saturday, the Chicago Construction company ran upon a rich gold vein that shows free milling ore that will yield $20 a ton. By the terms of the contract all minerals discovered on the property, belong to the government. The find is considered to be very important, as the vein is evidently a continuation of one on which is located the mine that Colonel Thomas Crouse, a few years ago, sold to the Rothchilds for $2,500,000. ? New York dispatch 13th: As soon as a new trunnion hook can be received from the Bethlehem Steel 'Company, work will be resumed at the United states arsenal in Watervliet on the new 16-inch gun which is to be made for Fort Hemilton, in New York harbor. J This gun will be the largest ever made in the world. It is to be a breechloader and the breech will be so constructed that a child can open and fire it. The gun will shoot 21 miles; but in order to do so the shot will reach an altitude as great as that of Pike's Peak, which is 14,000 feet. After the hook has been placed in it, the gun is to have another jacket shrunk on it. Military men the world over are much interested in the mechanism of this gun, as it will be an innovation for coast defense. ? Says a Washington special to the Baltimore Sun: Army officers consider it as probable that the ornate swords worn in the service at no distant day will be discarded as a part of a soldier's equipment. The sword is believed to be of little use in these days of long distance fighting and serves now little other purpose than as an emblem of authority. British officers in the South African campaign have found the sword often hampered them in battle, and there have been few, if any, occasions where it was used as a weapon of attack or defense. Handto-hand encounters are thought to have pased away with the advent of smokeless powder and modern small arms. Cavalry may continue to use the sword; but there are so few reasons for retaining it as an implement of warfare that It is regarded as likely to be the next arm rejected as obsolete. ? New York Times, 11th: A young woman has just been inoculated with virus from a cow suffering from tuberculosis by Dr. George D. Barney, of Brooklyn. The solution of bovine tubercule bacilli was injected on each side of the woman's neck just above the clavicle, the quantity of the injection being about one and one-half drams. The woman was Miss Emma H. King, of Brooklyn. She offered to submit to the experiment, it was said in order that the medical profession might know whether or not Professor Koch's theory that the bovine tubercule bacilli cannot infect human beings was correct. The cow from which the virus was taken was inoculated with virus of a consumptive person some time ago by Dr. Barney. Dr. Barney said he was also anxious to prove that) the persons suffering from consumption in its early stages can be cured by the * * ~* ? n /I /vf tV)D I innaiauon ui <x Luiupvuuu v* v**v phenol-group. Should Miss King be stricken with consumption as a result of the experiment she will undergo the inhalation treatment. ? The dally papers are giving a considerable amount of space to an attempted insurance swindle, the details of which are developing. On Thursday of last week, the dead body of a ipan was found in a bed in a hotel at Jeffersonvllle, Indiana. When the face became sufficiently advertised, the hotel people received a telegram from Little Rock, Arkansas, signed by Mrs. Newell C. Rathbun. It stated that the body was that of her husband and directed that it be shipped to Little Rock. The body was shipped, and when the coffin was opened, Mrs. Rathbun identified the body as "her darling." Other people who knew "her darling," said there was a mistake, and further investigation aroused grave suspicions. After it had become known that Rathbun's life was insured for $4,000 there commenced a search for him and he was finally arrested in Louisville. Later it came out that the dead man was Charles Goodman, and Rathbun was accused of murdering the man with opium or some other poison. As yet there is no proof to sustain this charge. Rathbun has made an alleged confession in which he acknowledges an attempt to swindle the insurance company, and implicates his wife whom he married for the express purpose of carrying out the scheme. He maintains, however, that Goodman died from natural causes ana tnac no murder was committed. ? Asheville Gazette: Right In front of one of the most aristocratic residences on the Blltmore road, which is inhabited by a family who say they are just as aristocratic as people can be and live, the electric company put up a sign which read, "the electric cars will stop here." "No they won't?not if we know it." said the aristocratic daughters of this aristocratic house: "this place is no bloomin' street car station for the bloomin' common people to get on and off at," and they straightway tore down the sign. Then one day these daughters of the house wanted to come to town in a hurry, so they walked haughtily out to where the sign had been and wig-wagged to the conductor to stop: but the base plebeian flunkey of a grinding corporation signalled "full speed ahead" with out batting an eye. Therefore the daughters had to walk to the nearest station and wait for the next car. The father of the family, coming home, was carried by and had to walk back from the next station, and reached the house exceedingly mad. On learning what had been done, he waxed madder. He said he was as anxious to be aristocratic as anybody: but he would be everlastingly dad gummed if he would pay car fare and then walk home. The daughters finally went to the office of the street car superintendent to have him discipline the conductor. When they came away they had the superintendent's promise to put back the sign. The conductor is still on his run. ? Lieutenant F. P. Allison, of the United States navy, who arrived at Victoria, British Columbia, last Wednesday on board the steamer "Empress of China," on the way home from Manila, gives some interesting details of the recent massacre of the members of the Ninth infantry at Samar. Lieutenant Allison says the natives had grown to like the colored troops, who had been stationed there and \\hen the Ninth arrived it was thought by the Anieni'aii uuups mm tuc smuc menu" ly feeling would be shown to them and the guard was not as strictly kept as It otherwise would have been. The night before the ambuscade the president came to Capt. Connell and before the padre declared that it would take 100 more bomres (native laborers) to do certain pioneer work. He did not have the men and begged the indulgence of the army captain. Honest and true in the legitimate discharge of his duty. Captain Connell said: "Do the best you can. Get any native who will work, but clear away the underbrush." Just after daybreak the natives with bolos to cut underbrush, began coming into camp. Then the massacre began. The last underbrush man killed the sentry, the church bell rang, the soldiers went to breakfast below the floor that held the arms. The insurgents divided. Half went up stairs and shot down and the other half went in the mess room and murdered the unarmed soldiers by force of numbers. Not one of the survivors turned his back upon the scene of carving until all was lost, their officers fell, their comrades slaughtered and a terrible vengeance executed upon the enemy, when they saved themselves and their wounded mates. Captain Connell apparently was awakened In his quarters by the attackers pouring In. He was alone, so he jumped from the window down in his guards, but they had been slaughtered and he was struck down by many bolos almost as soon as he struck the ground. Not satisfied with killing him, the assassins hacked his body and severed the head, upon which they piled paper and sticks of wood, setting them on fire to render the face unrecognizable. She \|orlu*iUr inquirer. TORKVIIX^'^S. C.r^ ^ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1901. Since the recent overwhelming Republican victory In Nebraska, Mr. Bryan's fusion methods in that state have been denounced as more corrupt than even Croker's methods in New York city. There Is some justice In this denunciation. If the Populists uphold one set of principles and the Democrats another, fusion necessarily eliminates the alleged principles of both parties and narrows the struggle down to a purely selfish grab for public office. Walter Wellman writes to the Chicago Record-Herald that there has been a semi-official announcement to the effect that no more Negroes are to be invited to dine at the White House. As to just how much importance is to be attached to this announcement we are unable to say; but it is to be hoped that as the result of the discussion of the Booker Washington Incident, reasonable or otherwise, the president has come to the conclusion that there cannot be and should not be such a thing I as social equality or tne races. The determination to place The Ledger on a strictly cash-in-advance system will do away with the unpleasantness of sending duns to our subscribers. It will also do away with a few dead heads, that we have been forced to carry every year, and will put all on an equal footing. So hereafter no name will be placed on our list without the cash accompanies the order, and all names will be dropped upon expiration of subscriptions.? Gaffney Ledger. We are glad to see this announcement in The Ledger, and our respect for that paper will increase in proportion to the manner in which it lives up to its determination. Whatever may be the apparent status of a newspaper, its real standing is seldom out of proportion to its actual merit. The importance and influence of a newspaper is determined not by the number of copies circulated; but by the number going to actual bona fide subscribers. By actual bona fide subscribers we mean people who buy the paper because they want it, and because they think it worth the price asked for it. Under the idea that the mere matter of distribution counts for everything, too many publishers make the mistake of forcing their papers upon people who do not appreciate it, and of trying to collect from alleged subscribers against whom they have no moral claim. Such conditions are invariably followed by a tendency upon the part of the publisher to look upon a large portion of the public as being composed of deadbeats and scoundrels, while that portion of the public, with much better reason, is brought to look upon the publisher as a persistent mendicant against whom there should be some protection. Under Its new arrangement, if it adheres to it, The Ledger will find that It will not be called upon to distribute as many papers as it has been distributing. It will be found that rpany of the people who have been on its list do not want the paper bad enough to pay the price of subscription; but at the same time it will find that its revenue will not be reduced a dollar and its standing and influence will be Increased not only in its own estimation; but in the estimation of the public. Our ill-tempered: but always puzzling contemporary, the Columbia State, has one on The Enquirer. We thought we had a joke on it; but we will have to confess that we were mistaken. The reason of our inquiry about The State's failure to print Mr. Dooley's letter last Sunday was the fact that the production was devoted to the Booker Washington dining incident and contained a good deal of biting ridicule of the southern people. Knowing as we do that The State has a habit of quietly side-tracking certain matters of really important news that does not meet its approval, and about which it would rather not have its readers know, and remembering also the enthusiastic editorial tributes that our contemporary had paid to "Mr. Dooley" from time to time, we saw what appeared to us quite a humorous significance in the omission of the Sunday letter. But in its issue of Thursday, The State snappingly calls our attention to the fact that Mr. Dooley's letter was published in its isue of Monday, "having been left over from Sunday as the result of the foreman's oversight." Along with this explanation, our contemporary accuses us of "monumental inpertience," "intentional false misrepresentation" and a desire to do it injury. The "impertinence" suggestion is certainly fine?as good as anything we have seen lately. As to intentional misrepresentation, we feel sure that The State does not believe that charge will hold. When the letter failed to come out in Sunday's paper, we assumed that, as a matter of course, it had been suppressed and we overlooked it Monday. And really we hope The State does not believe we have any desire to injure it. In the first place, we have no power to do anything of the kind, and in the second place, even if we did have such power, we would not think of putting It to such a use. We bear no malice whatever against our strange and wonderful contemporary. On the contrary we are ever inclined to grieve over its curious vagaries and hope that in the course of time it will become entirely rational. Commenting on what we had to say about the recent report of the commissioner of navigation, showing such a material increase in our coasting trade against no appreciable increase of tonnage engaged in carrying foreign rreignts, xne jNews tuu ^uunci . *. marks: "Curious, isn't it that one of our higher cost and higher wages ships cannot possibly "compete" with a foreign ship in carying freight from New York to Liverpool, or Breman or Havre, but can carry the same freight the same distance from New York to Galveston for "far less" rates than the foreign ship can carry it. And this statement of conditions?its own statement of them?suggests no better conclusion to The Enquirer than that the government should subsidize the ship owners to enable them to "get a fair start in the freight carrying business." We are not going to believe that The News and Courier is so dull as not to be able to understand what we said. We prefer to believe that it is determined not to understand. Whether under the American flag or a foreign flag, a ship that would undertake a voyage from New York to Galveston or from New York to Bremen with a half cargo would, upon reaching her destination report a loss to her owners. By keeping the foreigners out of our coasting trade, we have been enabled to build up a magnificent freight service that is at once economical to shpipers and profitable to shipowners. Even if we should now throw down all restrictions and allow foreigners to come in on equal terms, it would probably be a long time before they could gain a profitable foothold for the simple reason that they would have to make too many trips with half cargoes. Of necesity, they would have to sink a great deal of money before they could stand a reasonable show against our established business. The same conditions apply to the ocean carrying trade. With the aid of subsidies from their respective governments, foreigners nave been able to monopolize this traffic. As new beginners, we are barred from competition for the reason that individual shipowners and corporations are unable to stand the loss incident to the large number of voyages that will have to be made with half cargoes, while the business is being developed to the point at which a natural and legitimate profit will be realized. We got ahead of the foreigners in the coasting trade by keeping them out. They got ahead of us in the foreign trade by means of subsidies. There is no way by which they can enter out coasting trade without our consent, and as matters now stand, there is but little hope of our ever being able to catch up with them on the high seas except by means of subsidies. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. GoucnlvN-Rarron. Mr m n OnnutlM. editor of the Co lumbia State, and Miss Lucie Barron, who recently resigned the position of state librarian, were married at the home of the bride in Manning, last Thursday morning. After the Elder*. Says a Charleston dispatch: A committee of leading citizens of Higgin's Ferry, Saluda county, last Friday visited two Mormon elders who have been preaching thereabouts and warned them to leave within a limited time. Four of their converts were told that the community would hold them personally responsible for the presence of the elders, and that summary proceedings would be taken if these notices were disregarded. Citizens of adjoining townships make common cause with the anti-Mormon agitators and (promise in the county papers to assist in any measure necessary to expel the elders or worse. Beat HI* Son to Death. Sumter special to The News and Courier: One of the most brutal and inexplicable crimes ever committed in this county was reported to the sheriff late Saturday evening. Nelson Shaw, a Negro, who runs a small country store, near Scarborough's Mill, f<pur miles from this city, whipped NathanTXftllUmo a Mflorn Knv 11 VOQfQ fllfl to death Saturday morning:, for stealing a can of sardines. The boy was the child of a woman living with Shaw and the boy himself had been required to work In the store. The coroner held an inquest yesterday and the testimony of numerous witnesses showed conclusively that Shaw had whipped the boy for hours in a most brutal and inhuman manner. The body of the boy was itself a most horrible testimony of the brutality of Shaw. It was a mass of bruised and lacerated flesh from head to heels, and more than two hundred bleeding whip marks being counted on it. Shaw has confessed that he beat the boy and the proof is positive that the boy was killed by him. Shaw is in jail, but has employed the best legal talent to defend him and it is reported that he will be released on bond. He has a thousand or more dollars worth of property and will spend it all to save his neck. The Negroes living in the neighborhood in which the crime was committed, were very much worked up Saturday and Sunday, and it was deemed advisable to keep Shaw in jail and not permit him to attend the infinoot no V>a /loci roH r\ /1a ?5T Judge Clarke, of the Federal court, sitting at Nashville, has just decided a curious case in favor of N. N. Gonchenour, a Democratic county chairman, who was accused of trying to defraud the government. Gouchenour needed funds with which to pay campaign expenses. He proposed to a number of fourth-class postmasters that if they would contribute $10 each, he would mail at their offices enough matter to more than make good the sum. Fourth class postmasters receive for their pay their entire cancellation up to a certain sum and percentages of the balance. Under the proposed arrangement it was possible for them to make the subscriptions asked for without having to pay out any actual cash. Gouchenour demurred to the indictments on the ground that he had a right to mail matter on which postage had been paid and the judge sustained the demurrer. The cuse has been appealed to the United States court of appeals. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. John Smith?Has a cow that he found trespassing on his premises at the York Cotton mills. He wants to find the owner. T. F. McDow, Attorney?Offers the D. J. Glenn , Sr., "home place," in Bethel township, for sale. It consists of 227 acres. W. I. Witherspoon?Wants to recover a gold ring which he lost recently. M. C. Willis, Mayor?Publishes an ordinance relating to the firing of firecrackers, Roman candles, etc., in the town of Yorkville, and the fines for violation thereof. Mary J. Hunter, Clerk of Board?Gives notice of annual meeting of the board of county commissioners, to be held Wednesday, December 11th. J. Q. Wray?Informs the ladies of the arrival of his second lot of dress goods, and tells about new dress trimmings. He is offering Barker 111. U1aaaU(m? ?* O a/ml ft n vorfl IllIIIB LMCa.1111115 at O tciua a J v. J. M. Heath & Co.?On the fourth page of this issue quote a large number oI low prices on a large line of goods. They give prices on clothing, shoes, hats, etc., and have' something especially interesting to say to the ladies in regard to new millinery that has Just been opened up for inspection. J. M. Heath & Co., by J. L. Williams Manager?Call on all who owe them for merchandise and guano to come up at once and pay what they owe I They say that they mean everybodj who owes them. York Drug Store?Has just received 10( pounds of Lowney's candles, which it says is the best. -It has the name or every piece. T. W. Speck?Invites you to see hirr for Chinaware before you buy. H< has just what you want and at th< lowest prices. H. C. Strauss & Co.?Tell of a greai slaughter of sale of dry goods, including clothing, underwear, shoes blankets, quilts, millinery, etc. Tliej claim to be making the biggest cut ir prices that has ever been made by s Yorkville mercantile house. You wil find their page advertisement interesting reading. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? There was a large, audience at th< opera house Tuesday night to witness the amateur presentation of the pop ular drama, "Among the Breakers," bj the "Bon Ton" Dramatic club." Th< members of the club participating ii the presentation were Captain H. D Wolff, Dr. J. L. Hanahan, Mr. Illioi Johnson, Major D. M. Bernard, Capt W. S. Schneider, Mr. W. P. Harrison Miss Huldah McNeel, Miss Rose Llnd say; Miss Blanche Lindsay and Misi Daisy Hart. The piece was well pre sented and the large, good natured au dience was thoroughly delighted witl the entertainment. POWER OF THE CATAWBA. Dr. W. Gill Wylle, of New York, wh< spent yesterday in this city, left foi New York last night. He told an Ob server reporter that there had beei some delay, owing to swollen streams in completing the power plant on th< Catawba river at India Hook, 18 milei from this city, and that, from this rea son, his company?the Catawba Elec trie company?would not be ready t< transmit power until next fall. Hi stated that he had proposed, througl the chamber of commerce, to bring t< Charlotte, next fall, 2,500 horse-power to be sold in a block or in a wholesali way at between $16 and $17 per horsi power. Dr. Wylie thihks his compan: will have 4,500 horse-power to dlsposi of; but he does not expect to sell mor< than 2,500 of this here.?Charlotte Ob server. It would be worth the while of thi Catawba Electric company to Invest! gate the question of selling power ii Yorkville. It is probable that some thing like 1,000 horse-power can be sol( in Yorkville at the price quoted, oi maybe a little higher. OUT PEOPLE. sCaptaln J. W. Ardrey, of Fort Mill was in Yorkville yesterday. ^ Miss Kittie Blair, of Blairsville. i.( visiting her sister, Mrs. A. M. Grist. VMlss Pearl Whlsonant, of Wilkin IVnio xMsltlne- her sister. Mrs. J. P White, of Yorkvllle. ' Mr. J. E. Duval Is down from Shelby nutting In an electrical outfit for till Victor Cotton Oil company. Rev. W. G. Neville has accepted at Invitation to preach to the students ai Converse college tomorrow, Sunday. NJrtrs. W. S. Wllkerson, of Hlckorj Grove, spent Thursday and Friday lr Yorkvllle, the guest of her sister, Mrs E. A. Crawford. Inspector J. K. Van Valkenburg, 01 the Mergenthaler Linotype Co., New York, paid The Enquirer a visit yesterday. "VCards were received In YorkvllU Tuesday announcing the marriage ol Miss Jennie Harrison Watson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Moon Watson, of Newbern, to Mr. Thomai Lee Craig, of Gastonla, which will take place Wednesday evening, Novembei 26th, at 6 o'clock, in the Centenarj Methodist church, at Newbern. >iMr. J. W. McElhaney, of Fort Mill was in Yorkvllle Thursday night and yesterday morning having come ovei with Treasurer Neely. Asked aboul the statement of Fort Mill crop conditions as published in the Charlotte Observer, Mr. McElhaney said that he thought the picture .was slightly overdrawn. "We have not made very good crops, It Is true," he said, "and the yield on deep sandy lands has been very poor; but taking the township over, I think cotton will average about half of an average crop. The corn crop, of course, is very short." X "SNAKES IN CABBAGE." 41y story, to the effect that snakes fiave recently been found in cabbages shipped from Wautauga county, N. C.p has been going the round to the very great injury of cabbage producers and dealers. The story came to Yorkvll'e about a month ago, and for a week or more had a noticeable effect on the retail cabbage trade, especially among the Negroes. The North Carolina papers are still discussing the subject quite seriously, as will be noted from the following in tne last issue of the Lenoir Topic: The following is from the Newton Enterprise: "The cabbage snake is not an entire myth. Mrs. Caroline Yoder, of this place, found one in a head of Wautauga cabbage last Saturday. A man who saw it tells us that it was about the size of a fish worm and was spotted." And this from the Whutauga Democrat: "The fabrication that is now going the rounds of the press to the effect that our mountain cabbage are infested by a snake, and a green snake at that, is, to be sure, a monstrous outrage, and is a very great draw back to many of our farmers who have fine lots of this toothsome product that re main unsold. It appears to us that if ir there is any such poison reptues in our G cabbage, that some of our people would N have been poisoned ere this; but de- a spite the fact that we have enquired tc diligently, we have been unable to find o any man who, up to the time of this tf scare, had ever heard of such a thing, g We are told of a lie to the effect that nr people have been poisoned in Wautau- P ga, but that our people are diligent in la keeping ljt a secret. Now, if necessary we can get physicians' certificates from s< different parts of the county, showing la that a greater falsehood was never put in circulation. We are indeed glad to 13 know that the merchants of Lenoir s< are doing all they can to locate his 0 snakeship, which, so far, they have w been unable to do, and we trust that c they may soon succeed in finding it a y mere fabrication, which it evidently is, y and again proceed to buy our staple j* product." 11 i We- are with The Democrat. Tell p i your man that if he desires to get rid of his snakeship that The Topic will pay him five dollars for it. V OOTBALL. /[\ The footflail game between the K. M. ^ ' M. A. team, of Torkville, and the N. C. j M. A. team, of Red Springs, N. C., an- r nounced for Wednesday afternoon, did ^ not take place until Thursday after, noon. The postponement was on ac1 count of the failure of the N. C. M. A. ! boys to arrive Wednesday afternoon in ^ r time to conclude the game before dark. There was only a small number of peo- ^ ' pie out to see the game; but those pres- 9 [ ent enjoyed it thoroughly, the more so ^ because of the fact that the K. M. M. Q i A. boys won a decided victory over the ; visitors. The score was 11 to 5. The following running criticism of the t game was prepared for The Enquirer 1 by a disinterested expert: "The close game does not Indicate c , evenly matched teams, as the K. M. M. 1 i A.'s were superior in all essentials, and a ' with a little more head work should 1 have won by a wider margin. The N. c C. M. A. boys were a husky lot, as to e build; but their knowledge of football c > was very elementary, making their at- * 3 tempts at advancing the ball Ineffect- r . ive. Both teams indulged largely in c f straight football. The mass plays of f the K. M. M. A.'s gained them two i touch downs and snould have been re- I . sorted to oftener. The game was tedi- t i ously slow, the sparring for wind be- j . ing apparent. The halves were 15 and ] , 20 minutes. K. M. M. A. won the toss 1 - and chose the south goal with a strong ^ 3 wind behind them. K. M. M. A. kick- 2 . ed off and the N. C. M. A. secured the ( - ball on its 15-yard line, and advanced J i it slowly by end runs and mass plays, i It attempted an innovation by introducing a line hurdler; but failed, as ' the K. M. M. A. boys soon caught on. j ) The K. M. M. A. circled the ends of r the visitors beautifully, pushing Withj erspoon through for a touch down, ( which Bernard neatly converted into a i goal. For the rest of the half the ball 3 was mostly in N. C. M. A. territory. . The second half was practically a rep) etitlon of the first. The K. M. M. A. i kicked off splendidly an<l they downed J the ball well Into the territory of tTta , visitors. There was slow progress u^ui - the hurdler of the visitors secured the ? ball and by a magnificent run, the best i of the game, scored a touch down right i under the goal posts. The K. M. M. A. soon secured possession and Bernard a made gains by splendid doglng. Three ~ mass plays completed the touch down; but there was no goal, the kick being exceedingly difficult on account of tne I strong opposing wind. The K. M. M. A. played good ball throughout; Bernard winning especial distinction in all points of the game." SIZE OF THE COTTON CROP. The present low price of cotton is at? tributed to various causes, most notable among which are a slack demand for cotton goods and a growing belief that the crop is going to prove one of the largest on record. The slack demand proposition is so obvious as to [ leave no ground for question; but what basis there is for the large crop idea, 4 beyond the off-hand estimates of Neill t and others, has not yet appeared. Messrs. Latham, Alexander & Co., of New York, who are among the most level headed authorities in the cotton trade, do not have a great deal of con- a fldence in the big crop idea. They d reason from such facts as necessarily a ' apply to the case, and in a circular * 7 letter dated November 9, give the fol- s lowing plausible analysis of the sltua- c tlon: ? 5 "The total amount of coton In sight c f from September 1, to November 1, this a . year, was 2,841,613 bales: compared 2 ? with the same period of 1900, It Is 191,- 0 939 bales less; 20,722 bales less than In t ' 1899: 406.878 bales less than In 1898, t J and 120,723 bales less than In 1897. e "If the movement to November 1st t ' should only be 26.44 per cent, of the to- t tal crop this year, as It was In 1897-98, t and which was the smallest ever , known to November 1st, the crop this I year would figure out 10,747,401 bales, j] On the other hand, should it prove to ' be 30 per cent, of the total crop, as it r t was in 1896-97, which was the most . rapid movement, the crop would prove . to be 7,893,329. If the movement thus , far should prove to be an average of ^ the past ten years, which was 30.12 per cent, the crop would figure out 9,435,302 ? i for this year. ^ "In 1898-99 the total crop was 11,274,! 840 bales, the largest ever grown. The i movement to November 1st this year , was 406,878 bales less than it was that year. If the crop is to be as large this year as in 1898-99, the enormous ri i receipts of that year will not have to a be equal from now to the end of the c season, but increased 406,878 bales. 8 "1878-99 the movement of the crop to t< November 1st was 311,230 bales great- t< er than this year. Still, the crop yield- 01 i ed only 8,757,964 bales. "The total crop of cotton this year A cannot well be approximated by a com- 1? parison of the movement to November q 1st with any particular previous year; " but an average of receipts to November d , 1st for the past ten years should repre- f' sent in some degree the probable out- 0 turn of the crop. k "The crop was marketed rapidly dur- H ing October, on account of favorable ti conditions for picking and shipping, w and because cotton was required for v export to fill contracts for October and a November deliveries and shipments h ana to increase depleted stocks or spinners. 5"On October 3d, the government's es- " timatlon of the condition of the crop P was 61.04, next to the lowest estimate s' ever recorded. This estimate has since n been confirmed by the subsequent re ports of commissioners of agriculture 01 of the various cotton states?some of 31 them of recent date. <]. "Our own advices to date, through means of circular telegrams reaching & nearly all the cotton growing coun- f( ties, also confirm the prospective short h; yield of cotton. S( "It is hardly probable that a long ia and disastrous drought in Texas and O the Southwestern states should con- ei tribute to increase the crop, or that a tc notoriously unfavorable rainy season c< i the Carolinas, Florida and parts of eorgia has contributed to the yield, either Is it probable that the favor ble weather of the latter part of Oc)ber could to any considerable extent vercome the injury previously susilned during the greater part of the rowing season, especially when in lany sections our correspondents reort that the crop had already been irgely gathered and marketed. "In view of the foregoing, it does not iem possible that this is to prove the Lrgest cotton crop ever grown. "In our opinion it would be lmposslle to procure from trustworthy aurces of the cotton growing counties f the south information that would arrant the belief that this year's rop would prove as large as last ear's. It may turn out for less. The ear may not be unlike that of 1899300, when excessive estimates made In he autumn exceeded the actual total roductlon by nearly 2,000,000 bales." LOCAL LACONICS. iKarter Granted. The secretary of state has granted a harter to the Home Life Insurance igency society, of Yorkville. Captain . R. Lindsay is president and treasuer, and Mr. James M. Starr, secretary. 'oo Much Bnitfrlnft. A near-by cotton buyer complains of he amount of bagging that some of he farmers are putting on their coton. The regulations allow only six ards. This buyer says that he has mown cases where as much as 18 or 0 yards have been put on a single iale. He says that so far as he Is conerned, he would not care; but the nllls are kicking and making claims in him for the excess. 3ax Collection*. Treasurer Neely reports that tax Elections in the course of his rounds his year, have not been up to the Lverage so far. At some of his ap>ointments he has collected but a few lollars. As to whether it is altogethtr a scarcity of money, or partly because of the fact that the public has >egun to look upon extensions as the ule rather than the exception, are luestions for speculation. Found. Deputy Sheriff Harshaw has competed the work of serving notices on he jurors drawn to serve at the apiroaching term of court. He found all >ut four, as follows: W. A. Hopper, bethel; T. M. Hughes, Fort Mill, R. C. itatchford. Bullock's Creek; J. A. Withers, Fort Mill. It developed that iV. A. Hopper has left the county; T. VI. Hughes is living in Lancaster; R. 2. Ratchford is in North Carolina, and r. A. Withers is dead. IVheat Sowing. Although it has undoubtedly been the ntention of the farmers of York couny to sow a great deal of wheat this all, and most of them are still deternined to put in heavy crops if they jver get the opportunity, it is a fact hat up to this time the amount of ;eed actually in the ground, is small. :t is largely on account of the unfav>rab!e weather, of course. Because of :he excessive dryness, it has not been jracticable to do much plowing, and mless a good season comes soon, the vheat acreage will not be anything ike what the farmers intend it to be. ImnllnnY Tn Dpthpailn. The whole Southeastern portion of 3ethesda township, and all the coun:ry around Lowrysvllle, Is full of imallpox. The disease has been raging 'or two months or more, and Dr. Svans, of the state board of health, las just visited the Infected section, le was at McConnellsvllle and Low ysville, on Thursday, and upon eximination of some of the patients said here was no doubt of the fact that the llsease was smallpox. In a conversa;lon with Mr. Samuel W. Guy over the elephone, yesterday morning, the reporter learned that there have been probably 200 cases, principally among :he Negroes. The only deatn on ac:ount of the disease, so far reported, s thaj of an old Negro on Mr. John O. Darby's place, near Lowrysvllle. The ^legro was very old and It is not cer:ain but that other complications may lave contributed to his decease. Dr. 2vans was unable to make any rec>mmendatlons. Under the clrcumitances quarantine Is out of the quesion, and the expedient of establishing i smallpox camp seems to be equally mpracticable. Fortunately, however, he disease as It exists, Is in a very nild form, and the people of the lnfeced section are not inclined to feel a rreat deal of alarm over the situation. iV>rt Mill Farmers Hard Hit. Charlotte Ooserver, Thursday: Mr. 5. Plankenshlp, who has been touring he country around Fort Mill, brings in odd report of the cotton crop conlitlons In that section. The land is of i sandy character and this was a bad rear for cotton planted in sandy land, is all the farmers know, but If any ectlon can beat the report that comes if the Fort Mill cotton crop, The Oberver would like to hear from It. Mr. ilankenshlp says he never saw such a rop. One farmer who worked 150 cres, got 15 bales. On another farm of 50 acres it required five acres to make ne bale. But tnis is not all. He says hat Captain S. E. White, one of the est farmers in South Carolina, plantd 1,000 acres in cotton, and he made a ale on every ten acres. This is prety rough on Captain White's reputaion as a farmer, but it shows that ven a man of his means and abilities 3 liable to be floored when his cotton 3 in the sand and the weather is peristently wrong. These conditions, Mr. llankenship says, are not confined to . farm here and there, but are true of he best farms and farmers of Fort Iill township. The corn crop in that ection, he says, is about equally as oor as the cotton crop, with the exeption that in spots there is a good rop. MERE-MENTION. The new Alabama constitution was atified last Tuesday by a majority of bout 30,000 votes. Wholesales fraud is barged; but the election is likely to tand Andrew Carnegie has decided a Increase his already large donation > Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, by $2,30,000....Big forest fires are reported > be raging in Illinois, Missouri and .rkansas Because of his part in isuing money orders payable to a liuor dealer in another city, the postlaster at Lexington, Va., has been inicted for aiding students to unlawully procure whisky The judges f the Schley court have let it be nown that they will give out no inkng of their finding except to the secreiry of the navy, by which official it ill be made public The board of lsitors to the West Point Military cademy recommends that new buildlgs be erected A London dispatch ays that Americans have purchased 000 shares of the Hamburg steamship ne A Washington dispatch reorts that the isthmian canal commislon is in favor of the Nlcarauga jute as opposed to the Panama route. Lady Catharine Carew, who was ne of the guests at the famous Brus?Is ball the night before Waterloo, led at Woodston, England, last Tuesay, aged 104 years The Federal rand jury of the United States court >r the southern district of Mississippi, as indicted a large number of cotton ?ed oil men, directors and other offices, for violation of the trust laws rders have been issued directing sev al companies of the Fifteenth cavalry > sail for the Philippines about De;mber 15 The British steamer At cav.^1 ucmccu tiic i/ai kjjp ujcjCEMBER and the 1ST DAY OP JANUARY of any year, inclusive, Sundays excepted. Section 2. That it shall be unlawful to fire or explode any fire-cracker of a length greater than THREE INCHES, within the incorporate limits of the said town. Section 3. That no person shall shoot or fire any Roman Candle or Sky-rocket, other than in a perpendicular or vertical direction, and only during such time as is specified in Section 1 of this ordinance; nor shall any person shoot or fire such Roman Candle or Sky-rocket, at, or toward, any person within the incorporate limits of said town. Section 4. Any person violating this ordinance, or any provision thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than FIVE DOLLARS nor more than FIFTY DOLLARS, or imprisonment not less than TEN DAYS nor more than THIRTY DAYS. . Done and ratified in council this, the 14th day of November, 1901. Attest: M. C. WILLIS, Mayor. P. W. Love, Clerk of Council. s2t lantlc left New Orleans last Wednesday for Cape Town with a cargo of 1,000 horses for the use of the British army. ..- Judge O'Neil, an American lawyer, Is trying to'secure the release of Aguinaldo on habeas corpus proceedings. Aguinaldo is only nominally a i prisoner; but it is not thought that the war department will be willing for his release Captain Hart's troops attacked 400 Filipinos at Buean, in Batangas province, southern Luzon, a few days ago, killing 16, wounding five and putting the rest to night. | The Late Dk. McCain.?The recent death of Dr. A. A. McCain has brought to life the fact that he at one time was a student in the Atlanta Medical col'ege, and he is said to have been a graduate of that school. It was during the fall of 1894 and the winter and spring of 1895 that he was a pupil in the school, and it is said that he graduated with the class of 1895. He had an exceedingly remarkable career. He always signed himself Gen. Ariuero iwcuain, pna is saia 10 nave been a graduate of Oxford college and to hold several diplomas from the Royal College of surgeons In England. Dr. McCain was a captain and surgeon In the United States army during the war with Spain, surgeon general with the rank of major general in the army of General Isador Jamlnez during the expedition in 1899 against President Hereaux, dictator of San Domingo. He was also the man who negotiated the loan of 1,000,000 francs from the French government which made the expedition possible. Dr. McCain was at one time "the power behind the throne" In San Domingo; but shortly afterwards was, however, suddenly banished from the island.?Atlanta Journal, Tuesday. AT THE CHURCHES. BAPTIST. Sunday Services?Sunday school In the morning at 10 o'clock. Prayer meeting on Sunday fnornlng, Immediately after Sunday school. TRINTY METHODIST EPISCOPAL. rev. a. n. brun80n, pastor. Sunday Services?Morning service at 11 o'clock. Sunday school in the afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. Evening ser~ a n on i_ ? vice tti i.ov u ciock. 1HE CHURCH OP THE GOOD SHEPHERD. rev. J. c. JOHNB8, PASTOR. Sunday Services?No service Sunday Sunday school at 4 o'clock. ASSOCIATE REFORMED. Sunday Services?Sunday school In the morning at 10 o'clock. PRESBYTERIAN. REV. W. O. NEVILLE, PASTOR. Sunday Services.?Rev. A. J. McKelway of Charlotte, will conduct services at 11 o'clock a. m. and 7.30 p.m. Sunday school at 4 p. m. Special Notices. Preaching at Ram ah. Rev. J. P. Marlon will preach at Ramah next Sunday, November 17, at 11 o'clock a. m. w.s.2t Quarterly Conference. , The Fourth Quarterly Conference of York circuit will be held at St. Paul church on November 23, 1901. J. M. Shell, P. C. Clover, S. C., November 11, 1901. ; .. ? November 13 w.s. 4t $he gorkuille dfotton $RarM. Corrected Semi-Weekly by Meaara. Lattn Broa. Yorkville, November 15, 2 p. m.? The local market stands: Middling 74 Fully Middling 7i Good Middling 71 Fully Good Middling 7| Latta Bros. LOST WITHIN the past few days, a PLAIN GOLD RING. I am willing to pay the finder more than Its commercial value for Its recovery. W. I. WITHERSPOON. Dec. 16 w.s. 2t COME AND SETTLE. ALL our MERCHANDISE and GUANO ACCOUNTS and NOTES were DUE NOVEMBER 1. That date has gone by, while we have been waiting patiently. We now insist on a settlement, and would like it understood that this notice is intended for all who owe us, without exception. J. M. HEATH & CO. J. L. Williams, Manager. Dec. 16 s 3t NOTICE Of Annual Meeting of County Commissioners. NOTICE is hereby given that the County Commissioners of York county, will hold their ANNUAL MEETING at the office of the Supervisor, at York Court House, on WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11TH, 1901. All persons holding claims against York county are hereby notified to present the same, itemized and sworn to in the form prescribed by law, before the Supervisor or the undersigned Clerk of the Board. Claims not presented and filed during the year they are contracted, or the subsequent year, they are forever barred. No Notary Public, Magistrate or other officer authorized to administer oaths can make any charge for swear- . ing parties to county claims. MARY J. HUNTER, Clerk of the Board. December 16 s 4t AN ORDINANCE. BE it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the town of Yorkville, S. C., in council assembled and by authority of the same: Section 1. That after the passage of this ordinance, 't shall be unlawful for any person t<- shoot or explode any firecracker or cannon-cracker within the incorporate limits of the said town, AVO&nt KotnfAnn 4K/v Pi A V ATI