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Straps and Jacts. ? Secretary Hester's weekly New Orleans Cotton Exchange statement, issued last Friday, shows for the 24 days of October a decrease under last year of 130.000 bales and a decrease under the same period year before last of 232,000. For the 54 days of the season that have elapsed the aggregate is ahead of the same days of last year 482,000 bales, and ahead of the same days year before last 153,000. The amount brought into sight during the past week has been 446,728 bales, against 568,496 for the same seven days last year, 485,620 year before last. The movement since September 1, shows receipts at all United States ports to have been 1,945,186, against 1,528,002 last year. Overland across the Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers to northern mills and Canada, 116,961, against 116,119 last year; interior stocks in excess or tnose neia at tne ciose ui the commercial year 431,115, against 314,351 last year and southern mill takings 344,500, against 309,300 last year. ? A dispatch of October 24, from Missoula, Montana tells of the hold-up of a passenger train of the Northern Pacific railroad, near that place, the night before. The train included mail, baggage and express cars and nine passenger coaches. The engineer slowed up in answer to a signal, and when a man who was creeping forward over the tender ordered him to stop instantly, he opened the throttle as if to proceed ahead. The robber fired and the engineer fell dead. Shortly afterward the safe of the express car was blown open. The passengers and train men were so frightened that they were unable to do anything. The first reports were to the effect that there were seven or eight robbers connected in the hold up; but afterward the train people have concluded that there was only one. The railroad company has offered a reward of 55,000 for the arrest of the man who murdered the engineer, whose name was Dan O'Neill. ? Thp rnrrpsnondent of the London Daily Mail, who is with the force under Colonel Swayne, says that the Mad Mullah's original idea to hold and fortify Muduga, where he would command the only wells available and compel Colonel Swayne to attack him at enormous disadvantage was a good one, but it was spoiled by an unexpected drought and terrible heat which dried up the wells and killed the Mullah's live stock and ponies by the thousand. Finally, in the beginning of October, it. was reported that the Mullah's forces were scattered and that the Mullah himself had only a few riflemen left with him. It was then that Colonel Swayne decided to advance on the chance that a decisive engagement would result in the Mullah's capture. A dispatch to the London Daily Mail from Simila, India, reports that Colonel Swayne and his forces are continuing their march from Bohotle to Berbera, Somaliland, East Africa, and that they are not pursued. ? Says a Chicago dispatch to the Bal timore Sun: With the larger part of his brains removed by an operation, John Doly, an employe of Armour & Co., Is at the Provident hospital, not only with fair prospects of recovery, but with his mental faculties entirely unimpaired. Daly was working on the fourth floor of one of the Armour buildings in the stock yards on October 10. A fellow-employe threw a rivet to Daly, who, in reaching for it, lost his balance and fell to the ground, fracturing his skull. He was taken to the hospital in a patrol wagon, where, as his brain protruded, it was thought he would die. An operation was performed, removing a large part of the cerebellum. "There is no doubt about Daly's recovery," said Dr. H. D. Anderson, who performed the operation. "He has been growing better every day. He walks about the hospital, laughing, joking and with ap jiaiciiuy as uiuiii intcnigein-c ?o v?vt. He seems able to think consistently and to be in no way affected because part of his brain is gone." ? Attorney General Knox has decided that if the United States should accept the offer of the new Panama Canal company submitted last spring, for the sale of the canal for $40,000,000, it would receive through the parties in interest, a valid and unincumbered title to the property. This decision was arrived at after a thorough and exhaustive investigation of the situation in Paris, first by Special Attorney Charles W. Russell, and later by the attorney general himself. The attorney general formally submitted the opinion to President Roosevelt on Saturday. It makes about 300 pages. The history and nature of French companies of the kind in question are explained at length in the opinion. They are said to be altogether different from our corporations, out to oe easily understood 11 looaed upon as private partnerships, which is their essential character. The opinion says they are in some respects regulated by law, but that these regulations do not change the essential character of the concerns as partnerships, do not establish any tie between them and the government, or any obligations frpm them to the government, and do not forbid the exercise of the liberty to dispose of their property as freely as an individual disposes of his, if no special law forbids, and if he is solvent and not under some particular contractual or other like obligations to retain the property. The new Panama company is quite solvent and there is no law forbidding it to sell. The powers of the general meeting of stockholders of that company are discussed and it is held to have derived from the partnership agreement ample power to sell as it is proposing to do. The opinion closes as follows: "For the reasons I have given 1 am of opinion that the United States would receive a good, valid and unencumbered title." ? Jack Wills, former representative from this county in the legislature, enjoys the reputation of being a practical joker of no mean capacity, according to a Winchester, Ky., corresponddent. His brother-in-law. George Ballard. a prominent breeder of fine horses and owner of Pinehem Wilkes, a noted pacer, has on his place a pen of highly bred game chickens. While George was showing Jack his favorite rooster and expatiating on his great prowess Jack pretended to regard the bird as a very ordinary chicken, and said he could whip him with a buzzard. A hot argument ensued, resulting in a match ^^ ^ being arranged for between the rooster and a buzzard, which Jack agreed to produce. Jack had a trap set and in a short time his uncommon warrior, a very large buzzard, was brought to him. According to the terms of the contest the rooster was duly equipped with gaffs, and the two birds were linked together by the feet with a yard or so of stout cord. As the rooster braced himself for the onslaught, the buzzard regarded him with stolid indifference, and at the first pass lifted its wings and sailed away, with the rooster squawking in its wake. George ran for a gun, but before he could get back with it the buzzard and the rooster were high in the air, and away out of reach of his fowling piece. The distressing cries of the unfortunate rooster grew fainter and fainter, until finally they were heard no more, and the Ill-mated pair faded away in thither blue. Nothing has since been heard of the birds. 3h.r <(orkrilU (guquim. YORKVILLE, S. C.t WEDNESDAY, OCT'R. 29,1902. A Greenwood special to the Columbia State, tells of the confiscation at Greenwood of a trunk full of dispensary liquors, bought at the dispensary in Columbia and shipped to Greenwood on a baggage check for sale there. Upon the arrival of the trunk at Greenwood, it was seized and shipped back to. Columbia with its contents. Really this looks very curious. If the enter-* prising Greenwood man had been caught selling the cheap adulterated tiger stuff, why of course his stock should have been confiscated; but since his wares were all guaranteed by the state as being "chemically pure and 100 proof," and he had evidently paid the state the full cash price for every bottle, we can see no reasonable ground on which the state has a right to take the stuff back. More than anything else, it looks like a case of downright highway robbery. ? , If we undertake to figure the profit in wheat raising on a basis of western r?r?/>oa fnr- rhp fra in we Will aulckly* find that, the we cannot' produce this crop in competition with the west. The same observation applies with eciual force to corn. It is well, however, not to forget that Chicago prices for wheat and corn do not prevail in this section. Either wheat or corn raised in the west at a selling price of from 25 to 50 cents a bushel is generally worth pretty close to a dollar a bushel by the time it reaches the local retailer. It is fairthen to figure either wheat or corn as being really worth about one dollar a bushel under ordinary circumstances. Of course it is not unusual for Improvident farmers to sell corn at 50 cents in the fall: but they generally buy back at $1 the following spring. Even last year, in the face of the general failure, home-raised wheat cost the producers considerably less than a dollar a bushel, and it is absurd for anybody to claim that they can buy wheat cheaper than they tan raise it. A member of the Georgia legislature has introduced a bill providing' for a police patrol of the rural districts of the state. His idea is to divide, the ""'1 t/Mi-nchino iiitn PAnvpnlPflt vuuiiiico aim iv** iiunti/u >i. vw subdivisions and to put each subdivision in charge of a rural policeman to be designated by the grand jury of the county. The plan goes on to contemplate the more complete organization of the police into squads of half a dozen or more, each squad under the direction of an officer in charge of the subdivision, and all the police of the county under the general charge of the sheriff at the court house. The bill is based on the idea that vagrancy and crime are on the Increase 511 over the state, and the law-abiding, substantial element frequently suffers annoyance and loss at the hands of the criminal; classes, which annoyance and loss might be prevented under such a police scheme as is proposed. The author of the bill also holds out the argument that the country districts would be much more desirable for residence if properly policed, and that the enactment of his idea into law would have the effect of inducing immigration. The whole scheme will probably strike the people of this section as more or less novel, especially since the idea may have never been generally canvassed; but really there is something in the proposition that is worthy of serious consideration. We are not at all sure that the establishment of such a system would not be very desirable in Snuth Carolina. PSDeniallv in the terri tory for a dozen miles or so around the towns in which the state barrooms are located. There has been a considerable amount of speculation of late as to whether the president was behind the alleged movement to reorganize the Republican party in the south on the basis of exclusion of the Negro element. The action of Senator Pritchard, some time ago, in excluding Negro delegates from the North Carolina State Republican convention, was taken to mean that he was working with the approval of the president, and there have been developments in South Carolina that have also suggested the desire of certain politicians to reorganize the Republican party along different lines. If, however, there was really ever anything of the kind contemplated, it seems evident that the idea has been abandoned. It is now stated as a fact that the appointment of Jones, of Alabama, to a United States judgeship, last spring, was made on the recommendation of Booker Washington, and, furthermore, it is claimed that Washington has more influence with the president than has any other southerner. Just why Mr. John G. Capers was put in charge of the Republican organization in South Carolina, has never been made exactly clear; but it is quite evident that it was not for tl purpose of getting rid of the Negro politics. The only Negro politician i far antagonized by Capers, has bee Deas, and that antagonism has seeme to be , more .in the nature of person than political rivalry. Capers has job that Deas thinks belongs to hir and this is about the only point of di ference in their principles. So far i the Republican leaders of the north a concerned, they care nothing for R publicanism in the south beyond tl matter .of representation at Nation Republican conventions, and it mak< no difference to them whether thei representatives are white or black, i long as they vote as they are desir< to vote. And since it is an incontrove tible fact that the Republican del gates from the south have never faih to stand in the national conventions t the element of their party that was power at the time, it is not very rei sonable to assume that the present ai ministration cares to take any risks regard to the matter. It will be r membered that at the Philadelph convention the question of reducing tl representation of southern Republlcai In proportion to the voting strength i the party at the polls, was suggeste After the scheme had been duly e: plotted, it was suddenly squelched, was assumed that the southern del gates had agreed to vote as they we told. It Is quite probable that the s< called Lilly White movement had tl same underlying object. The thing wi merely intended to serve as a bluff secure the support of the really Repul lican element, and that object havir been attained, the necessity for furth< operations along the same line no loi ger exists. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. The End of Poor Walt. Mr. G. Walt Whitman, well-know throughout the state during the pa dozen years as a candidate for gove nor, died suddenly at Union last Sui day, of appoplexy. He was buried t Monday afternoon. Attacked by a Ball. Spartanburg Herald: On Thursde last, Mr. Bob Jeflferies, who has charj of the pump house of the city wat works, had an experience with a bu The bull was in the lot near the pun house, where Mr. Jeflferies had gone f< a walk. He was followed by a fema terrier belonging to Mr. Leonard Edn< which he had in keeping. The bull d not relish the idea of visitors in the 1c and soon made for Mr. Jeflferies. Tl animal tossed the man up in the al and ivhe'n he fell, the bull attempted gore him, when the terrier seized tl bull) by the nose and held the enragf animal until Mr. Jeflferies arose fro the ground. Mr. Jefferies states thi the dog saved his life. A Tale of Robbery. Spartanburg special of October 25 1 Charlotte Observer: L?u3t night i about 12 o'clock, as John Cantrell, young white man, was returning horr from the city, where during the day 1 had sold a load of cotton, he was he ui> by three men, who seized his horse (bridie., Tne man naa on ms persi 4200) ewery certt of which the nigl waymen took at the point of a piste The holdup occurred at a lonely spi in the road six miles from town. A ter 'the robbery, Mr. Cantrell procee< ed to the Fingerville Cotton mill where he telephoned to Spartanbur notifying the police of the affair. T1 money did not belong to Cantrell, bi to George Brancom, who lives at Me vllle Hill, N. C., for whom Cantrell h?i sold the cotton. The robbers were thri in number and undisguised, but wei evidently strangers to these part Cantrell recognized them as white me but beyond this is unable to give fu thee, facts concerning their identity. B. B. EvaiiM Not Guilty. The trial of Barnard B. Evans for tl murder of J. J. Griffin, in Columbi over a year ago, was taken up In tl Richland sessions last Friday and coi eluded on Saturday. The verdict wt "not guilty." After the prosecutic had presented its case, Evans went c the stand and told a story to the effe that he and Griffin, who were the be: of friends had been drinking whisky t< gether. Griffin was in a morose moc and picked up a pistol belonging 1 Evans, and stated that he intended 1 kill himself. Evans tried to take tl pistol away from Griffin, and durir the struggle the weapon, which was < the self-acting type, was discharge The bullet took effect in Griffin's vital Griffin called for a doctor and Evai tried to get one, succeeding after a d< lay of perhaps a half hour. The test mony of the prosecution did not deve op anything especially damaging to tl defendant. The jury remained o\ only about five minutes before it r< turned with its finding. Dr. Woodrow'v Sermon. Columbia special of Friday to Tl News and Courier: There has been little stir in the Presbyterian sync about the splendid sermon deliver* by Dr. James Woodrow. It has been question of whether to print or not i print, and as yet the issue is n< whether to approve or not to approv The history of the incident is that i the report of the committee of public: tion, offered by the Rev. H. R. Murcl ison, of Anderson, S. C., a recommei dation was offered calling upon tl Rev. Dr. WOodrow for a copy of h sermon preached on Tuesday evenir by him as the retiring moderator, to I sent to the committee of publicatic in Richmond, Va. It was considen by many members of the synod as most masterly discourse and as calci lated to be of very rich results for tl cause of the church. Other membe: considered some statements in the se mon as open to criticism, not becau! of any suspicion of heresy in doctrini but for other reasons, and they wei disposed to believe that the publicatic of the sermon would not be so much edification as others seemed to thin Not a few others voted against the re: olution because the proposal was witl out precedent and might be establish* as a precedent. Sermons preached t other retiring moderators have mat pleasant impressions upon the sync and the publication of these sermoi was never called for. Because of th quite a number voted against the pn position to publish the sermon of th year. No proposition was offered \ approve or disapprove of the sermo It was simply a question of the ej le pedency of publishing It. The vote In was quite close. It was taken when 30 many members had left the church and m the number of members present was ;d rather smaller than at other hours of al the day. The vote on the motion to a publish was 39 to 37. n, f- MERE-MENTION, is Premier Combs, of France, has called re a conference of miners and operators e- to settle the French coal strike. He is ie following the exartiple recently set by al President Roosevelt.. ..Havana, Cuba, es has passed a whole; year without hav3e Jng a single case of yellow fever so The British government has given out id contracts for the construction of three r- warships to be known as scouts and to e- be capable of steaming 25 miles an ;d hour.. ..Bradstreet's Commercial agen>y cy reports that the world's supply of in sugar promises to be about 10 per cent. less this year than it was last Booker Washington has invited President Roosevelt to visit Tuskegee instie tnte Thp nresident Dromised to take 'a the matter under consideration ie There were 82,000 men at work in the 13 anthracite regions on Friday and the output of coal during the day was d- about 100,000 tons as against 75,000 tons the day before The engineers of It the Georgian railroad have secured a e- concession of higher wages as the rere suit of a threat to strike....Elizabeth Cady Stanton, famous throughout the ie United States for her lifelong advocacy 13 of woman's suffrage, died in New York to last Sunday aged 87 years.. ..Generals t>- Botha and Delarey have abandoned their proposed tour of the United er States A falling off in the regis1_ tration of Ohio, as compared with two years ago, shows a lack of interest in the election to be held- next Tuesday. The cholera is spreading in the Philippines quite rapidly A Brussels physician claims to have diBcovergt ed the serum of whooping cough, by ? the aid of which he iB enabled to cure r1_ the disease within ten days. The usum al course of whooping cough is from six or eight weeks...v..The custom rev enues of the Philippines Archipelago for the seven months ending July 31, iy 1902, amounted to $5,064,931.71, nearly 'e double the sum received during the er same period of 1899 Colonial Secretary Chamberlain, of Great Britain, 1b ip arranging to visit South Africa for the or purpose of studying conditions at close le range A considerable section of iy Brunswick, Ga., is under water as the result of heavy rains and a strong ' northeast wind from the sea The ie Siberian wheat harvest is reported to lr' be very poor A naval battle is exto pected within the next few days beie tween the gunboats of the Colorhbian ?c* government and the gunboats of the m Revolutionary forcea, American gunners are manning the guns on both sides and the result of the issue is interesting.. Wu Ting Fang, Chinese to minister to the United States, lias been summoned to at once return to China a and become a minister of commerce. ie The anthracite; strike commission ie in nnu- fairlv down to work. The pro 'd ceedings are public.-.'...It is announced 8 that General S. M. 1?. Young will suc>n ceed General Miles.aff lieutenant general of the army upon the retirement of Miles next August...'..King Leopold, of Belgium, has announced his intention f- to visit the World's Fair at St. Louis. s. X^OCKHART LINKLETS. ie Mr. Smith (iettliiK Better?Mnrrlngre of Mr. Kenxlor an<l MUn Nrhon. Correspondence of the Torkrille Enquirer. idLockhart, October 27.?It was currently reported last week that Mr. Marion Smith's foot would have to be ams. putated, but from a private letter we ' are informed that he is doing finely and will soon be on foot again. It will be remembered that he was a salesman in Lockhart store, from which place he ie accepted a like position with a firm in a- Columbia, at which place he had a seie vere attack of erysipelas. He is now 1_ at the home of his father, in the King's IS Creek section. m VMr. John Keasler, of Lockhart, and >n \ttoa Mnrn Nelson nf the Bullock's c* Creek section, were married on the 14th 3* instant. Rev. J. B. Swann officiating. )" Mr. and Mrs. Keasler are now residents ,(* of Lockhart. , j t0 Miss Alice Riggins is now at Converse' Commercial college; of Spartanburg, ie- attending a session of that institute. Ig v^The young men whom Prof. Herndon has selected from the Lockhart band to play this week at the State Fair, are s* Messrs. Moffatt Ross, alto; H. E. Cran-1 18 ford, tenor; H. C. Cranford, bass drum, s" and Gill Cranford, snare drum. They expect to be joined at Union by other expert players and will go to Columbia this evening. They will put up at the Carolina hotel. Mr. Irvin Blair and family, who have been at this place for several years, have moved to Whitmire. to work in ie the cotton mill that is just starting at a that place. ?d Gorman Predicts Democratic Cona trol.?Senator Gorman, who seldom to appears in the role of a political prophet et, talks more confidently of Demoe. cratic success in the coming congressln ional elections than he has for years. He professes to believe that the Deml ocrats will control the new house of i- representatives, and that two and ie probably three Democratic congressis ional candidates in Maryland will be ig elected. >e He said today that he expected to see his old friend Fred Talbott pull id through in the second district, Major a Denny's election in the fourth, he said, i- seemed assured, and both Mr. Gorman ie and Governor Smith profess to think rs James Ellegood, the anti-bribe candir date, will be elected in the first dis3e trict.?Baltimore letter to New Orleans e; Times-Democrat. ? TV.** T3V>l1aRol_ "? VvIIcil lUllC V/UOCl VCI , X lie a miwuv* to phia North American thus bunchea k some information wfiich had previously ' gotten down to these ends of the earth s" in only a fragmentary sort of way: "In l- Ohio Tom Johnson declares that Sena;<j tors Hanna and Foraker ought to be in the penitentiary, and Senator Hanna )y replies that Johnson is the most unmitjgated demagogue and hypocrite in the >d United States. In New York they are 1S more explicit. Ex-Senator Hill accus." es Governor Odell, of New York, of hav18 ing a money interest in certain state > contracts, and Odell retorts that Hill is wrongfully accepted $7,000 from the to state while serving as United States senator." And yet there are people who " complain that this campaign lacks c- spirit. . LOCAL AFSPAIJEtSL NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. J. R. Comer?Has lost a purse containg $55 dollars. $10 Confederate bill, a note for $25 and other papers. He offers a liberal reward for the return of the property. W. B. Moore, Captain?Issues an order to members of the Jasper Light Infantry to assemble at the armory on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights for drill preparatory to inspection. W. Brown Wylie, C. C. .C. Pis.?Gives notice of sale of landrf on the first Monday in December, (salesday) in the case of Alexander G. Black et al, plaintiffs, against Wm. J. Neely et al, defendants. T. W. Speck, The Jeweler?Has more to say in- regard to the good qualities of the plated tableware which he has in stock, and which is branded with the name "T. W. Speck." C. P. Lowrance & Co.?Want you to know that they have a barrel, of. very fine pickles, which they are selllhg at 10 cents the dozen. They also, have fresh oatmeal. P. C/> ?ottanflnn JUD. iU. OLO.il IX. V>V. L/ttU JUUI at^UVIVll to the merits of their liver regulator, which sells for 25 cents a box and is guaranteed. They also say that they have an excellent cough medicine. They have bluestone for wheat. W. M. Kennedy, Agent?Has - received a barrel of new crop N. O. molasses, choice fruits, etc. He wants, you to see him for blank books, stationery, etc., and also to see his samples for tailor-made clothing. < : J. M. Heath & Co.?Talk about their fifth shipment of millinery this season and describe numerous things they have in stock that will interest the ladies. H. C. Strauss & Co.?Tell you about their stock of clothing for men and boys and call especial attention to their ability to furnish tailor made clothing to measure. They say they can sell you clothing that will fit and are fit to wear. Riddle & Carroll?Have received a shipmen of new crop N. O. molasses of the best quality and can give you close prices. They also offer a small quantity of Ceylon and Formosa tea at 50 cents a pound. They tell you about the merits of wheatena. " J' GENTLEMEN OF THE The following petit Jurors were drawn yesterday to serve during the first week of the next term of the circuit court, which convenes in Yorkville on: Monday, November 17, his honor Judge James Aldrich presiding: R. L. Davinney York.*-' J. L. McGill King's Mountain.? R. A. White Bullock's Creek.? J. N. C. Ferguson.King's Mountain^, Lee Warren Fort Mill.? R. E. Griffin Bethesda^. J. M. Russell Broad River.?. J. R. Mickle Bullock's Creek? W. W. Shlllinglaw Catawba? J. B. H. Jackson..King's Mountain? W. M. Neweon ..Bethesdar* ; J. W. Smith York.F. A. Thomas King's Mountain.? W. R. Burgess Bullockls Creek? J. R. Barron ..Catawba?. S. L. Davidson Bullock"s Creek.? . R. D_ Hope............Broad Rivera* R. L. A. Smith .Broad River.^ J. N. McDill Broad Rive?!?, P. B. Neil.... ,.... York. W. T. Feemster....Bullock's Creek.?' J. E. Thomas ...York. ? J. A. McFadden Ebenezer E. P. Steele Ebenezer*?, E. R. Shannon Bullock's Creek.?R. J. Nicholson Catawba.?. E. B. Price King's Mountain.**. R. A. Minter Bethesda. C. W. Pursiey King's Mountain... J. S. Stuitz Catawba.? J. L. Dabbs Catawba.? S. H. Epps. Fort Mill J. F. Currence King's Mountain..? J. L. Garrison Catawba, r j. n. oparrow.. ..King s Mountain.? P. M. Moore Bethesda??? v: ABOUT PEOPLE. * Miss Mattle Caldwell, of Clover, is visiting the family of Dr. A. Y. Cart wright. Cadets Hammond and Miller, of the K. M. M. A., are spending this, week in Columbia. ? Mr. Jeff D. Whitesides is critically ill at his home at Hickory Groye with pneumonia. /_V Geo. W. S. Hart, ;E$q., went down to Lancaster on Monday. He expects to return today. & Mr. E. R. McElwee, of Columbia, arrived in Yorkville on Sunday afternoon* on a short visit to the family of Mr. S. A. McElwee. * $ Misses Nannie Grist, Josie Camp and1, Lilla Herndon, of Winthrop college, came up Saturday afternoon to spenda few days with relatives In Yorkville. Mr. George L. Riddle and grandson, "Waster Robt. Saye Riddle, of Zeno, were in Yorkville yesterday. This is Mr. Riddle's first visit.'to Yorkville since his recent illness. ; Captaip J.-.ft. King, ; the well-known? contractor who built' the approaches to the Catawba river bridge In this-countysome three years ago, died in Greenville last Monday, aged 58 years. . Invitations are out for the marriage of Mr. Samuel L.. Meacham, of Fort Mill, to Miss Bessie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Boyd, of Pineville N. C. The marriage is to take place on Thursday evening, November 13, at 8 o'clock. Mr. John S. Jones R. F. D. carrier on route No. 5 has been peculiarly unfortunate in his work so far. He lost a. horse during the summer from colic, and the loss of a second horse on Monday afternoon by drowning will make a serious hole in a $600 salary. ^Lancaster special to Charlotte Observer: Thurlow S. Carter, editor of the Lancaster Ledger, has issued cards of invitation to the marriage of his sister, Miss Addie Kershaw, to Mr. James Thomas Thomasson, on Wednesday afternoon, November 5, at 4 o'clock, at the First Methodist church. The prospective bride is one of Lancaster's most attractive and deservedly popular young ladies. Mr. Thomasson is the accommodating manager of the Bedford telephone lines and is a young man of high character. v / CLOSE CALL AT DRY FORK. Mr. John S. Jones, carrier on R. F. D. Kouie ino. o, naa u imnuw eatape nvm death at the Dry Fork ford about five miles west of Yorkville, last Monday afternoon. As it was, he lost his horse and left his buggy and mail pouch in the swollen stream. Dry Fork ford is but some fifty yards south of the Southern trestle, and about half way between the residences of Messrs. R. A. Gllflllen and Ross Love, perhaps half a mile apart. The approaches to the ford are narrow, and are bordered on either side by dense undergrowth, while the ford itself is deep and treacherous, especially when the ordinary small flow of water in the creek happens to be swollen by rains. Mr. Jones was pretty well acquainted with the situation, and after calculating his chances concluded he could cross. The water proved too swift, however, carrying the horse below the landing against a steep bank. The ani mal made a desperate struggle to get out; but was pulled back by the buggy. Mr. Jones first tried to guide the horse to safety, and falling, in this, undertook to cut the harness. During the attempt be nearly drowned. He swam to the bank; but returned again to help the struggling animal and tried to guide It down the swift current to a place of safety. At a point about a hundred yards, below the ford, another creek comes In and here the buggy ran i against an overhanging obstruction 1 forcing the horse under water and hold- j ing it there untir it was drowned. { Unable to do anything further, Mr. < Jones secured the assistance of Mr. ' Ross Love and others, and after the j water had gone down somewhat, the i horse and buggy were dragged out of 1 - - - - < the creek by means of ropes and trace k chains. The mailbag, which had been securely strapped to the buggy, was recovered. HEARD, THOUGHT AND SEEN. tv The narrow escape, of Mr. J. S. Jones at "Dry Fork" ford on Monday afternoon, argues the necessity of a bridge at that place. JLir The yarn market is looking upward somewhat to the very considerable encouragement of the local mill men. The spinners have been having an anxious time of it during the past 12 or 15 months, and it is to be hoped that the present advance will continue at least long enough to enable them to catch their breath. t'->' Treasurer Neely came in Saturday night after a tour through Bethesda, Bullock's Creek and King's Mountain townships. His collections for the week were disappointing, nothing like sufficient to justify all the trouble he is taking in making the round of the county. He reports that there seems to be but little cotton in the country. Some few large farmers still have their entire crops; but generally the cotton has been sold. There is but little left in the fields. *3T The corn yield from the County Home farm breaks all records/ ', The crop that was worked by the chalngang has been harvested, and it amounts to 987 bushels. This amount comes off. of about 25 or 30 acres including 12 acres of upland. The crop worked by Mr. Gaulden, for the County Home, will yield about 1,000 bushels. It is calculated that the entire crop will be nearly enough for both the county home and the chaingang next year. Because of this corn crop, the cash 1 mitiav nn nrrnnrrt of the chainerang 1 next year ought to be reduced something like $1,000. tV From such information as is obtainable, the reporter's investiga-v tions include many inquiries, thereseems to be no good reason to believe that a large crop of wheat will be sown in this section this fall.: Some farmers have already sown wheat; but, as a rule, they have been content with but small acreage. From questions on the subjects, it appears that the most serious damper to sowing was the failure of last year. Just as the heavy harvest of the previous year stimulated heavier sowing In the fall following, the failure of the last harvest seems to have discourage sowing this fall. Then another drawback is a scarcity of seed. If seed wheat were plentiful, there is no doubt that much of it would be sown; s but as only a comparatively few far- < mers have a supply, and they are ' "generally asking $1.25 a bushel, the de- 1 mand Is not heavy. The reporter has \ heard of a number of farmers who calculated on sowjng more or less wheat , during November; but, as a rule, they | are counting on putting in only a few j acres each. . But few new drills are > being sold this fall. '> ; s NEELY AT IT AGAIN. f There was reason to believe that when , John G. Neely, the erstwhile insurance ( - ? a ?A?. ? 41 rmfhine^ Hytrin, wan i cicnocu livm JUL, 0 I more would be heard, from him In this ( section; but it seems that this was a ( mistake. 'Sheriff Logan is in receipt of, a copy of the Wadesboro, N. C, Courier of October 24th, containing a warm . article in defense of Neely and in de- * nunciation of the people of York coun-: ty. The article is signed "A. T. Car-ter," and dated at "Rock Hill, October ?, 1902." As no one of the county of-i fleers happbns to be acquainted' with; the alleged writer of the letter, they areO doubtful, as to whether there is any', such man in Rock Hill or el&ewhere,; and are generally of the opinion that the remarkable composition is the work of Neely himself. It is known that at the time of his arrest, Neely was about to marry a respectable lady of means in the Wadesboro neighborhood, and it is believed that his object is to secure reinstatement in the lady's good opin- } ion. Because the facts are already so fresh in the public mind, it is not worth while to point out the ingenious perversions of truth contained in the letter; but still, as a matter of curious interest, this wonderful document *" ~ A - ? ? T mao a oa is entiueu 10 repruuuL-iiuu. it ico.ua ?? follows: "To the Editor of the Courier: "The greatest scandal and the most vindictive and malicious persecution of innoeency that has ever disgraced any civilized state has just closed in York County, S. C. In the name of the State against Jno. G. Neely, the defendant insurance agent, who was held for everything that was low down, mean and dirty, every word of which was clearly proven to be infamously false and a lie out of the' whole cloth and the perpetrators of this damnable deed will go down to their graves in shame and derision, and every respectable citizen today stands with stricken and appalling disgust at such an outrage and crime as has been committed on one of its respectable, true and tried citizens and fellowman. There never has Deen such an inhuman crime committed since the creation of mankind. Charged first for the taking and carrying away of some four or five thousand dollars in money, but this was proven right at the start, to be a most outrageous lie and dropped as a hot coal of fire. "2nd. Next was for doing a fraudulent business and misappropriation. This was also proven to be another no-' torious lie. ^ "3rd. Next was for writing members or applicants over age. This was found to be true in one' instance by about eight months, but the members acknowledge that he was to blame as it was his mistake and turned the policy he held back to be considered which was refused. "4th. Next was for obtaining money from a son and daughter for a policy upon the life Qf their father and had tired of the expense of keeping it up and wanted their money back and for violation of contract provisions, which proved to be false by the contract itself, as it contained no stipulations as was I claimed, but the jury found a verdict I )f guilty for violation of contract for I lot giving proper notice of resignation I md yet the defendant worked, and for 1 learly two weeks, by request of the ^ company, in training his successor and lpon all evidence and contrary to all aw the defendant Jno. G. NCely was convicted as above stated and'was sen:enced to pay a fine of fifty dollars or ie imprisoned for thirty days. An apseal was taken from this decision to :he circuit Judge who set aside the verJict of the magistrate's court and Jury ind ordered them to appear before hJm md show why such a verdict should lave been rendered. "I am sixty-six years old, and have >een in almost every kind of business, ind have associated with almost all 'lasses of people?good, bad and.lndif,'ererit: but I must say that this is one ;lass I thank God I never knew, and lope that no country or state will be 'ound to support any such ghouls very ong. The Almighty knows to suffer nich, is, and can only be an imposition, ?ven upon uncivilized Negroes that mrse our land today, for above all r ;lse deliver me froip a white frame that carries in it a black, niggardly heart. \ pure Negro is bad enough to 6tirik, a wl?l+a air In wlfVi a Mocrno'fl hpf) rt jutstinks a billy goat and Is lower than the Negro himself. I have already said I am sixty-six years old. I have been i ruling elder In the house of God 31 pears, and I have known Mr. John y ever since he was born, and all of his people, and do solemnly assert this Is the first blot or stigma that has ever 3talned the name of his family or Its filstory to my knowledge. "This boy's father died when he was 10 or 11 years old, and there never was i more devoted boy to his mother or tender brother to his sisters and brothers, he being the eldest son I have seen him cry many a time because he rould not make the Negroes work like tie wanted them to, and there is not a azy bone in his body He is of a kind, oving disposition, liked by . every body, iccommodating as can be. "I have no doubt but that he has prepared more dead bodies for burial than my man of his age In the state. He is me of the best business men or boys I ?ver knew, and while he is kind hearted, he don't lack courage, and in a good ^ause no more determined spirit can be found. I say now that York county will go down in history and to the day nf Judgment steeped in the most cruel :old-blooded and infamous crime ever ?ommitted by mankind. The inhuman persecution of innocency by the outside lies told on man, - manufactured by outside mallgnants and not connected with the case In any-whatever and published to the world as the tfuth, but thank God as a gentleman said to toe the other day, don't ftet, Neely is all \ right, nobody believes a word of it that I Is any account, and neither do I, but I liave thirty-five hundred dollars in cash that he can get for the asking and he i replied yes, he can get all the money lie wants and a position any moment that he comes or goes for It ( This is ludgment returning to righteousness, rruly, the Word of God is Truth, inieed. I pity his motherless children. What an infamous shameful crime it is! [f there had been anything shown up wrong there would be some excuse for 'uch a crime by an honest mistake; but nothing of this appears as his books ?how that every cent of money , has been "honestly ncounted for, as is the rsse.of all of the work done byhffii In ?very instance. "Jno. G. Neely Is a gentleman In every espect. He married In one of the best famines In South Carolina. His wife was a modest, Christian lady with whom he lived happily for some 17 or 18 years then she died leaving three imall children". May the good Lord alesS them all. No one living or dead would be more-welcome to my humble ibode or to what I have than one of 3am Neely's children or grandchildren. \ny one who says that a drop of dislonest blood ever traced the veins of >ne of them. Is an infernal liar and the ruth is not in him or them." ' . . ' ' " * ' WITHIlf THE TOWlt. ? Sam McKnlght, a colored horse- ^ Jhoer at the "We Fix It Shop," drove ?lghty-8lx shoes In one day recently, rhe work was well done and Mr. Montgomery thinks this feat comes pretty near making a record. ? The receipts of cotton from wagons jp to last Saturday, amounted to 2,800 aales. In addition to sales, several lundred bales have been warehoused. The receipts from wagons up to the ^ tame date last year was 1,738 bales.' ? "Mr. Bob" is deserving of a large ludience at the opera house tonight Wednesday), not only on account of he excellence of the entertainment. hat is provided; but especially on ac:ount of its object?to create a musical lepartment for the graded school. ? By reference to the advertisement n another column, the memheos of $he * rasper Light infantry will see that they ire called to assemble in the armory 'or drill next Monday, Tuesday and fVednesday nights. Captain Moore deilres the men to be impressed wUh. the mportance of a full turn out, especially because the state appropriation is apportioned pn .a basis of the number of nen appearing at inspection. For varous good reasons, there have not been nany drills of late; but with hard hon>st work during Monday, Tuesday and iVednesday night, the company will no ioubt be able to acquit itself creditaily at the annual inspection. ? The ladies in charge of the chrysinthemum show to be held in the court louse next Friday, have completed, as 'ar as possible, all preliminary arrangements. The show is to open early 5Yiday morning, and exhibitors are reluested to be at the court house Thurslay afternoon for the purpose of selectng locations for their exhibits. There vill be present a committee to give l11 desired information and assistance, ind possible confusion in case the natter should be postponed until he next morning, will thus be Lvoided. There seems to have been lome misunderstanding as to the mater of admission. The Enquirer has >een requested to explain that the pur:haser of a ticket will be entitled to go n and out at will, without being retired to pay a second time. The'ladies nave done a great deal of work in connection with the show and accomparvng entertainment, and they have a ight to expect liberal patronage. ? The stories of the proposed improvenent of passenger facilities on the darion and Camden division of the Southern railroad, sounds almost too rood to be true, especially in so far as forkville is concerned. Although sitlated at the intersection of two railoads, one running north and south and he other east and west, this is probacy one of the most effectively bottled owns in the state. It has been so far -ears, with regard to both mail and >assenger service. Except at brief inervals it has been impossible to gfc lorth, south east or west, without beng held up for a long wait within 20 or 5 miles, at Gastonia, Chester, Rock lill or Blacksburg, and it has been the ame returning. During most of the ime since the completion of the preset Southern division, people from the vestern part of the county have been . ible to come to Yorkville, transact >usiness and return the same day; but