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Scraps and ^arts. ? The strike of the Interborough street car employes of New York, was brought to a sudden ending last week. It seems that the leaders of the local , organisation had undertaken a little too much. They made demands on their employers In violation of previous agreements, and the national or'ganisatlon failed to sustain them. On the contrary they were deprived of their charter and the striking employes lost their places. Only a few hundred of the 5,000 strikers got their old places back again. The Incident . is claimed as a victory for organised labor, In that the national organisation Is unwilling to support demands which it considers unwarranted and unjust ? The long-drawn out Chadwick trial came to a close In the Federal court gt Cleveland, O., last Saturday night with a verdict of guilty. There were a number of counts In the Indictm#nt against Mrs. Chadwick; but the verdict of guilty relates principally to the charge of conspiracy to procure certification of checks drawn by her on a National bank In which she had no funds. She had a spell of hysteria on the announcement of the verdict. Her counsel gave notice of a motion for a new trial and the Judge said he would set a day for hearing argument. The verdict of guilty covered seven counts in the Indictment and the maximum sentence allowed by the law is $10,000 fine or two years' imprisonment or both fine and imprisonment In each case. ? A silent Investigation is going on in the postofllce department, says a Washington dispatch. Postmaster General Cortelyou has experts at work and the Investigation made by former Fourth Assistant Postmaster Bristow Is to be duplicated. Chief Inspector Vlckery is at the head of the inquiry. Mr. Cortelyou will proceed, In his own way, to find out If any grafters are left in the department. The conviction of Machen and Beavers furnished much Information as to the methods by which the service was made profitable to those on the inside. President Roosevelt Is understood to have told Cortelyou to purge the department if Irregularities exist. It is understood that Cortelyou will institute a general, but silent system of decapitation, and clean out the department without noise or publicity. ? Field Marshal Oyama sent the following report to Tokio from Mukden last Sunday: "Prisoners, spoils and the enemy's estimated casualties against all our forces In the Shakhe direction following, but the prisoners, guns and spoils are increasing momentarily. The prisoners number over 40,000, including Gen. Nachmoss. The killed and wounded are estimated at 90,000. The enemy's dead left on the held number 26,500. The spoils include two flags, about 60 guns, 60,000 rifles, 160 ammunition wagons, 1,000 carts, 200,000 shells. 26,000,000 rounds of small arms ammunition, 76,000 bushels of cereals, 275,000 bushels of fodder, 45 miles of light railway outfit. 2,000 horses, 23 cart loads of maps, 1,000 cart loads of clothing and accoutre ^ AAA AAA nt KcOdH 7K_ men IS, 1,VVV,VW lauvuo Vk . wV 000 tons of fuel and 60 tons of hay, and besides tools, tents, bullocks, telegraph <$ wire and poles, timber, beds, stoves and numerous other property. No re^ port from the Sinking direction has been received. The battle has been officially named the battle of Mukden." ? Says a St. Petersburg dispatch of March IS: The immediate answer of the Russian government to the defeat at Mukden is the announcement that a new army will be raised and the forces In the far east reorganized; that Vice Admiral Rojestvensky will be ordered to sail on and try- conclusions with Togo, and that the war will be prosecuted to the bitter end. This Is the present temper of Emperor Nicholas and his dominant advisers, voiced In a firm official announcement that the position of Russia is unchanged, and that the Initiative for peace can come only from Japan. Should the Island empire choose to tender ^moderate" terms and recognize its adversary as the power in the far east, peace could easily be arranged; but the voice of her diplomacy in various parts of the world indicates that she is not ready to do this, and the Russian government with the full magnitude of the disaster at Mukden still undetermined, but with the 1905 campaign seemingly already hopelessly compromised, retreat to Harbin Inevitable and Vladivostok practically lost, declares that the time has not yet come when Russia can be forced to humble herself. ? Secretary Hester's weekly cotton statement. Issued last Friday, shows for the ten days of March an increase over last year of 142,000 bales and an Increase over the same period year before last of 65,000. For the 191 days of the season that have elapsed the aggregate Is ahead of the same days last year 1,018,000 and ahead of the same days year before last 842,OOo The amount brought Into sight during the past week has been 226,082 bales, against 114,159 for the same seven days last year and 187,147 year before last. The movement since September 1 shows receipts at all United States ports to be 7,314,806, against 6,521,035 last year. Overland across the Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac river to northern mills and Canada 737,938, against 821,780 last year: Interior stocks In excess of those held at the close of the commercial year 509.999, against 291,988 last year: southern mills' takings 1,361,000, against 1,280,860 last year. The total movement since September 1 is 9,923,743, against 8,905,663 last year. Foreign exports for the week have been 131,629 against 42.051 last year, making the total thus far for the season 5,887,071, against 5,033,109 last year. The total takings of American mills, north, south and Canada thus far for the season have been Z.95Z.428, against s.nv.vtv iusi jcm. Stocks at the seaboard and the twenty-nine leadhig southern Interior centres have decreased during the week 10,692 bales, Vgainst a decrease during the corresponding period last season of 24,756. Including stocks left over at ports and Interior towns from the last crop and the number of bales brought into sight thus far from the new crop the supply to date Is 10,085,710, against 9,073,462 for the same period last year. ? The executive committee of the missionary board of the United Brethren in Christ, says a Huntingdon, Ind., dispatch to the Indianapolis News, i has dropped from the rolls of the church Daniel Fllckinger Wilberforce, a native African, who was brought to this country as a child and after being educated was returned by the board to his old tribe as a missionary. It is charged by the board that after a service of twenty-five years as a missionary the negro minister has been lured back to heathenism, has become chief of his old tribe of devil worship ^ k & pers, and has contracted plural marriages in the wilds of Africa. Nearly fifty years ago Daniel Kumler Flicklnger, then secretary of -che missionary board of the church was In West Africa on mission work. While visiting a congregational missionary announcement was made that a male child had been born in the negro village. The host of Dr. Fllckinger christened the baby Daniel Fllckinger Wllberforce. Twelve years later the boy had been! brought to America by a returning missionary. Dr. Fllckinger accidentally discovered his namesake at work at the mls8lona y house In New York. Dr. Fllckinger* took the lad to Dayton, O. The boy was sent to school, then through high school, and later to a medical college at Cleveland. He married a negress at Dayton. Later the two went to Africa to do missionary work among the old tribe from which Wllberforce came. Later the mission- j ary and family returned to this coun- I try and Wllberforce lectured throughout th? fAntral states. His chil dren, two sons and two daughters, attended Central college here. Two sons are still In this country, one at Otterbeln college and the other in the Dayton high school. Wllberforce returned to Africa. The board has been Informed of his relapse to heathenism, of accompanying plural marriages, and of his becoming chief of the tribe. The venerable Dr. Flicklnger Is much depressed over the backsliding of his protege, but sanctions the action of the board. ?hr ^orkvitlf (fnquim. YORKVILLE, S. C.t , TUESDAY, MARCH 14,1905. Although Russia ma ' not be aware of the fact there Is a v?ry general Impression throughout the world that It Is about time for her to quit. She is no doubt more powerful than Japan; but she Is not powerful enough to overcome the terrible disadvantage she sufTers by reason of the long distance that separates ner from her base of supplies. The disposition of people to take sides in any kind of an old fight Is abundantly illustrated In the widespread Interest In the Russo-Japanese war. Nearly all the people of this section are partisans of one side or the other; but most of the sympathy Is with the Japs. The almost inconceivable energy and endurance of these people and their splendid courage have compelled general admiration. A St. Petersburg dispatch reports the receipt by the czar of General Kuropatkln's resignation. The general, It Is understood, assumes all responsibility for his defeat at Mukden. It Is very well known that he did not want to fight, because he believed himself to be so overwhelmingly outnumbered that he did not have a reasonable chance of success. His generals,however, kept clamoring for a fight and he yielded to them. His resignation was accepted. It la 8tated. and now the czar is puzzled to find a successor In whom the troops will have equal confidence, for In spite of General Kuropatkin's reverses it is understood that his troops still have implicit confidence in him. A rumor gained currency recently to the effect that the president was about to set up a new iron-clad policy as the result of which no man who has held an appointive Federal office for as long a period as eight years might expect re-appolntment. As might have been expected, the alarming news spread like wildfire, and last week, according to dispatches, Washington was literally overrun with office-holders and their friends, and with office-seekers. The office-holders were there in the interest of their own Jobs and the office-seekers thought the situation furnished them the opportunity for which they had so long been waiting. The matter became so serious that it was deemed necessary to discuss it in cahlnet meetine. and it was finally de elded to give out a statement to the effect that the government was not Inclined to make changes on account of length of service so long as such service continues satisfactory. There Is now a movement on foot to have the United States pension all daughters of soldiers of the Revolution. There are only a few more than 300 of these women now living, and It Is pointed out that It would take but a comparatively small sum for this great government to provide them with a neat pension for tfie balance of their lives, which at best cannot be long. This proposition at first appeals to the sympathy of the people who read it, but a little study of the proposition, remarks the Anderson Intelligencer, will convince one of the danger that lies beneath the surface. If it Is established as a precedent that the daughters of all soldiers are to be pensioned, the next thing that we will hear of will be the proposition to pension the daughters of the War of 1812, and then those of the Indian wars and the Mexican war, then the daughters of the war between the states, and finally the daughters of the Spanish-American war soldiers. There is no telling to what extent this will proceed If It starts. The daughters of Revolutionary soldiers may richly deserve help in many Instances, but where in the world is this business to stop? Accounting for the large volume of privilege tax tags paid for as compared with last year, the Greenville Herald calls attention to the fact that cotton seed meal, used as cow food now has to pay tax the same as when used for fertilizers. This is since June 1, 1904. Previous to then large quantities of meal were sold for cow food and used as fertilizers. As, many as 40,000 tons of cotton seed meal have been sold for cow food during a year, and of this there was no record. All of this meal now counts as fertilizers no matter whether it is to be so used or not. It is quite certain that much of it is used as cow food. The Herald also suggests that it Is to the interest of the fertilizer companies to make it appear that the farmers are using as much fertilizers as usual. If the farmers in one section believe that the farmers in another section are using large quantities of fertilizers they will use large quantities of fertilisers also. The sale of tax tags Is considered as a good indication of the use of fertilizers and as tax tags unused this year are good for use next year, there is very little loss in purchasing them ahead. It is only a matter of interest on the money, and loss may be more than offset by the profits on increased sales occasioned by the deception. The Herald also calls attention to the fact that the cotton seed oil mills, most of which belong to the fertilizer companies, have raised the price of cotton seed from $11.00 to $16.00 a ton, without Justification so far as any advance in the price of oil is concerned and suggests that the real object of the raise is to Induce the farmers to sell their seed instead of use them as fertilizer. Just how much there is in the suggestions of the Herald, we do not know; but it is evident that the writer of the article has a pretty good idea of the situation. BATTLE OF MUKDEN. Russian* Defeated by the Japanese With Terrible Loss. After twelve days of bloody fighting, surpassing In desperation even the battle of Liao Tang, the battle of Mukden was ended last Friday by the retreat of the Russians toward the north and the occupation of the city by the Japanese. The Russians had been occupying Mukden since their terrible- defeat at Liao Yang, receiving re-inforcements and entrenching themselves against an expected assault from the south, the Japanese having in the meantime established their lines along the Hun river, which flows from east to west a few miles south of the walled city. The exact strength' of the contending armies at the beginning of the fight is not known; but reasonably accurate approximations place Kuropatkin's army at 300.800 Infantry, 26,700 cavalry and 1,368 guns. The total Japanese force is not given with so much deflniteness; but it seems that 700,000 men is not an unfair estimation. The disposition of the forces was along the Hun river, the Russians being along the north bank with their centre at Mukden and the Japanese on the south bank with sufficient force to confront the Russians in equal force wherever they were massed and men to spare to overlap the extreme ends in formidable flanking movements. The Japanese plan of battle Included a direct front attack on Mukdjen across the Hun river, and efforts also to throw considerable forces across the river at as many points as possible along the whole line of battle. The Russians sought to prevent the enemy crossing the river at any point and this was the main object of the fighting during the first ten days of the battle. Another point of all absorbing importance was the effort on the part of the Japanese to push their turning movements around the extreme ends of the Russian lines. The Immediate purpose was to crumple the Russian lines back on Mukden from either side, and the secondary purpose, of no less moment to the Russians, was to get considerable forces to the north of Mukden In a position to tear up the railroad track leading to Tie Pass, at which Is located the Important wall city of Tlellng, where It was understood the Russians Intended to retreat and reform in case of defeat. The battle progressed fiercely from its beginning, both sides fighting with heroic courage. Although outnumbered nearly everywhere the Russians held their ground with admirable tenacity. The Japs hurled themselves forward without faltering, and the most that can be said is that It was a matter of numbers and endurance. This condition of affairs continued for nearly ten days, with the advantage for the most part on the side of the Japs, largely because of their superior numbers, which were discounted to some extent by the better positions held by the Russians. During the eleventh day the Hun river froze over and ceased to be the barrier on which the Russians had been relying. The Japs were able to hurl themselves across at all points along the line, and this fact marked the beginning of the end. Another natural phenomenon came to their relief. There arose a terrible dust storm peculiar to that region. The wind blew a hurricane from the south carrying great clouds of yellow dust against the backs of the Japanese and Into the faces of the Russians, and making it Impossible for the Russians to see their advancing foe further than a few yards, while the view of the Japanese was practically unobscured. Under these conditions whole regiments of Russians were literally mowed down by infantry Are and machine guns until flesh and blood could no longer stand the slaughter. General Kuropatkln Is said to have exposed himself In a most fearless manner. He seemed to be everywhere exhorting and directing his troops, and the soldiers did their utmost to stand their ground. But It was no use. In the face of the storm and such overwhelming numbers there was nothing left but to die to no purpose or flee, and they chose the latter. Arrangements for retreat had been perfected beforehand, and while the infantry was still engaged along the lines to the east and west of Mukden the artillery was hushed up and loaded on the trains. Then the Russians gathered up as many of their wounded as possible, set fire to their stores In Mukden and commenced a retreat to the north. Large forces of Japanese had succeeded In getting behind the city almost to the railroad, and the departing trains had to run a gauntlet of artillery fire. Disorganized detachments of retreating Russians, unable to get out of the way of the swiftly following Japanese were literally mowed off the earth or compelled to surrender. One report has It that two whole Russian army corps were annihilated to the southwest of Mukden, and in the case of two or three corps there is yet no word as to what may have been their fate. While some reports have It that Kuropatkln has gotten to Tiellng with about half of his army or perhaps 200,000 men, this Is still a matter of doubt. It Is known that the Japanese were north of Mukden In large force as early as last Friday, and It Is not improbable that they have cut off and captured or annihilated whole divisions that were supposed to have escaped. The understanding Is that the Russians will try to make another stand at Tie Pass or Tiellng if they can muster sufficient strength. Otherwise they will continue on to Harbin. The Japanese are now around Tie Pass In large nuTnbers and are prepared to push on to Harbin and Vladivostok, while the Russians are waiting for the second big army that is being promised from home. LOCAL AFFAIRS. ' NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Sam M. Grist, Special Agent?Wants you to know that life Insurance Is the one asset of a man's estate fhat does not shrink in value when he dies. T. W. Speck, The Jeweler?Tells you that he can sell you any kind of a clock you want from a cheap alarm clock to a high-priced fancy timepiece. R. L. Campbell. Acting Secretary? Publishes a list of Bethel township farmers who have agreed to hold given amounts of cotton as suggested by the executive committee of the York County Southern Cotton association. Star Drug Store?Invites your attention to Piedmont spring water, for which it has the agency for Yorkvllle and vicinity. J. Edgar Poag, Broker, Rock Hill? Publishes a long list of real estate offerings which have been listed at his real estate agency. He solicits correspondence from both buyers and sellers of real estate. J. W. H. Good?Offers a reward for the recovery of an overcoat lost on the Plnckney road. J. Q. Wray, The Leader?Publishes a short talk about "Superb" clothes that will tell you something new of "Superb" cloth es. Foushee Cash Store?Announces another special sale of embroideries for Monday, the 20th. Has Just received a full line of boys' shirts.. Olenn & Allison?Call the attention of farmers to the fact that they sell I Daisy corn and Cole cotton planters. Have full line of buggies, etc. Strauss-Smith Co.?Tells you about Its dress goods, shirt, hat and millinery departments, and Invites you to visit Its store. TOWN8HIP A88E880R8. Following Is the list of township assessors for York county as recently ! appointed by the governor, the first named In each board being the chairman, and all of the various chairmen constituting the county board of equalization: York?Jas. L. Moss, M. S. Carroll, R. R. McCorkle. Bethel?L. B. Brown, J. W. Jackson, I. B. Faris. Catawba?W. S. Leslie, John T. Spencer, W. J. Poag. King's Mountain?W. T. McKnlght, John M. Thomasson, W. D. Moore. Bethesda?J. F. Ashe, C. 8. Gordon, B. F. Bennett Broad River?J. W. Quinn, T. S. R. Ward, J. Ed Leech. Fort Mill?C. P. Blankenshlp, Robt. IF. Grler, D. G. Klmbrell. Bullock's Creek?W. B. Good, J. C. Blair, J. T. Burrls. Ebenezer?Wm. Carothers, T. M. Oates, A. A. Barron. Yorkville?W. B. Moore. W. C. Latimer, J. B. Pegram. Rock H4U?John G. Anderson, W. W. j Boyce, J. E. Parker. THE GOLD WATCH CONTE8T. Since the last report 1,027 additional votes have been polled for eight candidates In the gold watch contest The voting now stands as follows: Bessie Adams 14 Sudie Allison 9 Isabel Arrowood 17 BenJ. Black 310 Margaret Blaine 2 Ella Carroll ....' 9490 E. P. Castles 617 Florence Cody 56 Emma Creasman 177 Bessie Farls 26 Mattle Ford 193 T. R. Oettys ... 2 Ava Greene 15 Nettie Green" 312 J. F. Gorrell 80 Nannie Grist 576 J. Hamilton 22 Posy C. Hardin 25 F. M. Howell 4 Wllmoth Jackson 671 L. W. Jenkins 12 Mrs. J. T. Jones 21 J. T. Jones 11 W A. Kennedy 11 Pearle Langford 43 Blanche Love .... 304 Lillian Mllholen 2 Clara Mitchell 67 Ella Neely 43 Ida Ormand 12 Minnie Palmer 12,228 J. K. Roach 5 J. G. Shannon 7 Bessie Shurley 2 Belle Smith 1991 Llda Smith 572 W. H. Stevenson 553 Susie White 4 J. H. Witherspoon 17 Edna Wright 17 WAREHOUSES NECESSARY. Capt. F. H. Weston, chairman of the warehouse committee of the South Carolina Southern Cotton association, is sending out to the various county chairmen copies of the resolutions adopted in Columbia on the 7th and published in The Enqutrhr of last Friday, and enclosing with the same the following explanatory letter: "I have been Instructed to mall you a copy of these resolutions, and I am adding, In the hopes of Impressing you with the great Importance of warehouses to our people, that it seems to me that the permanency and usefulness of our organization will depend upon our succeeding In the establishing of warehouses throughout the state, perfectly convenient to the cotton producer, and educating him up to the point of warehousing his cotton, thereby saving It from the bad effects of exposure. Standard warehouses can be constructed at a maximum cost of $1.25 per bale, which will insure the very lowest rate of Interest; and I am Informed that the warehouses thus constructed can warehouse cotton at 15 cents to 20 cents per month and be very remunerative to the stockholders. "Suppose we have another large crop of cotton in 1905 or some other succeeding year. In order to obtain the price at which the organization agrees to sell cotton, it will be necessary to warehouse a great deal of It. Cotton can be stored In these warehouses and certificates Issued which are negotiable and as good collateral a3 the world affords. On these certificates money can be borrowed at a low rate of interest, enabling the farmer to discharge his pressing obligations and still hold cotton for the prices fixed by the association at the meeting held for the purpose." THE ELECTRIC POWER QUESTION The question of bringing the electric energy of the Catawba Power company to Yorkville Is now taking tangible shape, and the probability is that this very Important matter will be settled within a short time. A delegation of interested Yorkville citizens, accompanied by Mr. M/L. Smith, of the Clover Manufacturing company, went over to Rock Hill last Saturday and had a conference with the management of the power company on the subject. The Yorkville delegation was composed of Mr. W. W. Lewis, president of the York Cotton mills, Mr. G. H. O'Leary, president of the Tavora mills, Mr. T. P. Moore, president of the Neely Manufacturing company, Mr. J. E. Lowry, mayor of Yorkville, and Capt. w. is. moure. The power company submitted a proposition to the effect that If the Yorkvllle and Clover people would agree to take 1,000 horse power, and build the necessary line from Yorkvllle to the power plant, the power company would furnish power at the rate of $20 per horse power per annum for day service, and night service 20 per cent less. The power company agrees to take back the line, which costs $1,000 a mile, and pay for It in power. The plans of the delegation contemplate the use of power at all of the cotton mills mentioned, and also for lighting the town of Yorkvllle and running the pumps at the waterworks. There will also, of course, be some ex tra power for email consumers at a higher rate than is charged to large consumers. V.. . ..This electric power matter is now a question of very great importance. Fuel is growing scarcer and more expensive every year, and power Is becoming a serious problem. The bringing of electric power to Yorkvllle will make practicable the development of many small industries that are now next to impossible, and which will mean much for the progress and prosperity of this locality. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mist' Eva Ross of Gaffney, spent yesterday in Yorkville. Mr. and Mrs. J. Meek Smith of Clover, were in Yorkville yesterday. Dr. R. T. Shumate left last week for Atlanta, where he will remain for the present. **> Tnhn Knot wan down from ClO ver Sunday to see Mr. W. Thompson Jackson. The condition of Mr. W. Thompson Jackson, continues about the same, with some signs of Improvement Mrs. O. E. WUklns left Thursday for a visit to relatives In New Orleans, La., and Meridian, Miss. Mrs. Herbert D. Wolff of Berryvllle, W. Va., Is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Lowry. Dr. W. E. Erwin returned home last week after a week's visit to relatives In Washington, D. C. , Mr. James B. Dickson has returned to Torkvllle after a visit of several days to Washington and New York. Dr. and Mrs. D. J. Brimm and children of Rock H1U, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Herndon from Saturday until Monday evening. Masters Arthur and OHIe Hart arrived at home Sunday morning after a ten days' visit to relatives and friends in Virginia and Washington. Mrs. J. D. Blvens left for her home In Albemarle, N. C., this morning after a visit to Mrs. S. A. McElwee and other relatives and friends In Torkvllle. Following are the delegates from York county camps of Woodmen of the World to the meeting of the head camp in Savannah as > far as they could be ascertained yesterday: Rock Hill?A; J. Evans, W. H. Hope, M. O. Bryant, J. E. Parker. Lesslle?D. P. Lesslle. Fort Mill?A. R. McElhaney. Tlrzah?E. M. Williams. Clover?J. E. Jackson. Filbert?Lesslle L. Smith. Bethany?T. E. McMackln. Hickory Grove?S. B. Lathan. Yorkvllle-pJohn E. Carroll. Lowryville?W. N. Hardin. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? Cotton receipts continue light ? Work on the foundations of the Neely Manufacturing company Is progressing nicely. ? There were lota of people In town last Saturday anu there was a rushing good business at the stores. ? The two new cottages on Wright avenue are nearlng completion and both- of them promise to be quite . handsome. ? From such Information as the reporter has been able to gather the fertilizer sales from Yorkvllle so far this season do not nearly compare with the figures of last year. ? The papers advertised by Mr. W. H. Stewart last Friday, were found In the jjfflce of Probate Judge Williams, where Mr. Stewart had left them. ? Rev. W. B. Lindsay . of Mempnia, Tenn., preached In the Associate Reformed church last Sunday morning and evening. ^The object of his visit was to raise funds to help build a proposed new Associate Reformed church in Memphis, and the congregation here contributed about $60 to the cause. ? The dime reading given under the auspices of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal church at the residence of Mrs. 8. A. Weber, yesterday afternoon, was fairly well attended and very enjoyable. The programme consisted of music, readings and recitations. The receipts from entrance fees amounted to about $3.50. ? The American Carnival company Is coming to Yorkvllle next month. Mr. C. B. Turner, general agent, rriade a contract with the town council yesterday for the week commencing April 17, and made arrangements for the distribution of advertising matter. Mr. Turner says he has quite a number of first class attractions and will j give the people of Yorkvllle as good an aggregation of street shows as they have ever seen. NOTE AND COMMENT. This being an off-year In politics, it is just as well that the road question be brought prominently to the fore. It seems rather difficult to Interest the people in this question In the summer time while the roads are good, and in the winter when the question forces itself upon public attention but little can be done. The thing is for everybody to preach good roads from now on and show their earnestness by their willingness to do. The rain of Saturday night and Sunday has been very acceptable in most parts of the county. The overhanging clouds following the rain and snow of some weeks ago has kept the ground from drying as rapidly as otherwise; but still it was getting hard in places, and most of the farmers were ready for a shower. There has been lots of good work done throughout this whole section during the past two weeks and the farmers everywhere continue busy. That was not a pleasant story that was told about the York county Jail in The Enquirer of last Friday: but as we see it there is nobody to blame much for existing conditions except the people of York county. The various sheriffs have done what they could to keep the jail as clean as possible, and all that can reasonably be expected Is now being done. But in the very nature of the case, it is next to impossible to maintain sanitary conditions up to a standard of average safety. The Jail is not secure and It cannot be made secure by patchwork. What this country needs more than anything else, said Rev. Dr. W. O. Neville to the reporter one day last week. Is more nrst-ciass mgn scnoom. The high schools are too few and far between, and their absence leaves too much primary work for the colleges. Give a boy the advantages afforded by a first-class high school, and even If ho la unable to get to college he has a good chance to make his way In the world. The public common school system Is developing very satisfactorily, Dr. Neville thinks; but there Is much need for better high school opportunities. Mr. J. Edgar Poag today publlsues a long list of real estate offerings Including many valuable properties In York county. Investment seekers will no doubt read the list with great care, and they will do well to remember what Mr. Poag has told them time and time again. That Is that he is a trad * t er. He would have it understood tha' he has made his offers on what he considers, a fair -basis of valuss. If the would-be purchaser, however, thinks the prices asked are a little high, and is willing to pay a lower price he should name it. Mr. Poag claims that he never ignores an offer that Is anywhere within reason. Among the acts passed at the recent session of the general assembly was one providing for the appointment by the governor Of a game warden in each county. The duty of the game warden so appointed will be to report at each term of court all violations of the laws for the protection of game and insectivorous birds. The game wardens have no compensation save exemption from Jury and road duty, and as to whether it will be practicable to secure efficient officials on this basis remains to be seen. In the meantime, however, the governor stands ready to make appointments, and people interested will do well to take the matter up with th?ir respective county delegations. . In a short tims the emblems pf the Southern Cotton association will be distributed throughout the southern states. The emblem bureau, which was established by President Harvie Jordan several days ago, has let a big contract for buttons and stick pins which will be sent all over the south. Everybody who wears one of the emblems will be known as a sympathizer with the movement Inaugurated by the Southern Cotton association. These emblems will be very attractive in design. B. Dixon Armstrong, who is in charge of the bureau, can be communicated with at 1420 Empire building, Atlanta. Ga.. and will send buttons to those who make application. Mr. Jordan says that there Is no better way for the people of the south to show their interest in the moverhent than by wearing one of the emblems, and he advises that all the people who are in sympathy with the work undertaken by the bureau get one as soon as possible. . . A correspondent at OuthriesvUle, sends The Enquirer thirteen privilege tax tags, which he says were taken from a single sack of guano in a carload that arrived at OuthriesvUle last Saturday. He goes on to say that many other sacks in the car had attached from Ave to ten tags .each, and is unable to explain the circumstance except in the possibility that the fertilizer companies either desire to be very liberal toward . Clemson college, or they desire, by the large Use of tags, to create the impression of a large use of fertilizers. While some of the fertilizer companies are very Smooth, no doubt, ?we hardly think that' this incident Is of aiiy importance. Although tho law contemplates the attachment of a privilege tax tag to each sack of fertilizers, as a matter of fact some of the shippers content themselves with merely throwing into the cars as many tags as there are sacks. It Is probable that something of this kind was done in this case. It is Quite certain that (he companies would not attach thirteen tags to one sack if it had to pay 25 cents for each tag, and one tag would be sufficient. It has been called to our attention that the article in the last issue of The Enquirer, comparing agricultu ral methods of today ana inose in vogue in the past, with the old Steele plantation as a text, might very well be taken as a reflection on the former owner of that property. The writer of the article assures us that he had no such Idea in his mind, and we are sat* lsfled that he assures us correctly. As a matter of fact such a reflection would be unjust. While It Is true that the present owners of the property are working a most agreeable and remarkable transformation, we must not lose sight of the fact that along with their excellent methods, they have the advantage of an element that has heretofore been lacking?the necessary cash with which to carry out their plans as they desire. The former owner of the property worked under many disadvantages. Including not only a lack of cash; but years ot agricultural depression, during which many good farmers were forced to acknowledge failure. If anybody has construed the article In question as a reflection we regret it very much, and at the same time we would not have this taken as in any way detracting from the credit for the good work that Is now b*lnor nrosecuted with such enfcrgy and intelligence. LOCAL LACONIC8. Death at the York Mills. Mrs. Susan Miller, wife of Mr. J. L. Miller, died at her home at the York Cotton mills, last Wednesday of pneumonia. Her husband and six children survive. She was a member of the Baptist church, and her remains were burled at Adnah, Thursday, funeral services conducted by Rev. W. E. Hurt. She was 49 years of age. Death of J. M. Clark. Mr. J. M. Clark, a well-known and respected citixen of York townsnlp died at the home of his son-in-law, Mr. George Brown, three miles southwest of Yorkvllle last Saturday night He was found dead in his bed Sunday | morning and it is supposed that his death was due to heart affection. Mr. Clark was about 72 years of age. He leaves six living children as follows: Messrs. Frank, John, Edward and R. L. Clark, Miss Stacy Clark and Mrs. George Brown. The funeral took place at Philadelphia on yesterday. Death of Mrs. J. T. Bigham. Mrs. Lizzie Bigham died at her home at Sharon last Saturday, aged 72 years, the day of her death being the anniversary of her birth. Mrs. Bigham was a native of Chester county, and her maiden name was Bigham, She was married to her husband thirty-nine years ago last December, and leaves two children and seven grandchildren. She was a member of Sharon A. R. P. church from the time of her marriage to the time of her death, ar.d her life record is that of an earnest, sincere, practical Christian. The funeral took place at Sharon on Sunday. the services belnsr conducted by Rev. J. S. Grler. Will Build a Colonial Mansion. Rock Hill Herald: Mr. W. J. Roddey. president of the National-Union bank of this city, contemplates building a colonial mansion on the lot where his present home Is now located on Oakland avenue. Dr. W. W. Fennell, who owns the lot adjoining that of M". Roddey. closed a trade with him Wednesday for the residence now occupied by Mr. Roddey and family, which Is to be removed to the lot owned by Dr. Fennell. Extensive Improvements are to be made on the house after being removed, and when this has been completed It will be a handsome dwelling. The above change, so we hear, la to take place possibly this spring or perhaps in the summer. The plans and specifications for Mr. Roddey's new residence have not been furnished, but we are Informed that it will be a beautiful structure which will be an ornament to Oakland avenue as well as to Rock Hill. . The Power of the Catawba. Yorkvllle special to the News and Courier: Your correspondent Is reliably Informed that parties Interested In the Catawba Power oompany have recently acquired a controlling Interest in what is known as Mountain Islandshoal, located on Catawba river in Oaston county, N. C., twenty-five at thirty miles above the site ofr their present plant in York county, and that a similar plant will be erected there aS poo^ as practicable and that a third plant is to be erected without delay* bt another company in WnlA the Dukes of the American Tobacco company, are Interested on the same stream at( Catawba Falls, which is said to be the most magnificent water power tti the south and one of the best In America, something like 60,000 horse power be ing tne amouni Deuevea 10 oe nvaiw ble, and then the combined power of the three plants Is to be available over a circuit of wires taking In Lancaster, Wlnnsboro, Chester, Yorkvllle, Clover. Oastonia, Dallas, Charlotte, Fort Mill, Bock Hill and back to Lancaster. The combined power of the three plants. If fully developed, will be In the neighborhood of 80,000 horse power and will be sufficient to operate about three times as much machinery as is now In operation In all the towns mentioned. The gentleman from whom yotfr correspondent got ,this information said that he got It direct from Dr. Wylle, and that that gentleman did not so much as intimate that there was any doubt as to the ultimate successful carrying out of the plan outlined. 80UTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? A Darlington Jury on last Friday convicted Bob Small and John Noli, two white men, of the murder of a negro. The victim of the murderers was Frank Scott. They killed the negro on the public highway under the most brutal circumstances and absolutely without Justification. Noll was recommended to the mercy of the court Small was sentenced to be hanged on May 6, and Noll was sentenced to Imprisonment for life In the penitentiary? The city of Anderson is engaged in an effort to make the Western Union Telegraph company pay a license tax the city has seen proper to impose. The lloense tax was paid by the telegraph company for a year or two: but the license ordinance doubled the tax this year, and the telegraph company refused to pay claiming that the amount assessed against it was excessive and unwarranted. The telegraph company has taken the case Into the Federal court on Injunction proceedings and a hearing Is to be had on March 21. ? Charles Thompson, a well-known Illicit whisky dealer of Columbia, was killed by a Seaboard Air Line train about twenty miles north of Columbia last Thursday night. He had had a quantity of whisky shipped to himself at a station on the Seaboard and was transporting It to Columbia with a wagon and team of mules. The team stalled on the railroad track and he I w/i on o nnfAonhlnff fpoln flnH lTCUl IUTTA1U an wav*ui*s tried to wave It down, ""he train waa coming at the rate 01 nxty miles an hour. The engineer saw the signal and applied the emergency brakes; but the train did not stop until It had pass d the crossing. Thompson was struck by some part of the engine and killed, and 'the mules were also killed. ? Columbia special to Augusta Chronicle: The practical certainty Is that the present regiment <of cayalry, which, In the capacity of Individual troops, has for so many years exercised such a restraining influence on the negroes In the lower portion of the state, will be dropped from the organised militia of the state. Adjutant General Frost said today that It would be impossible to keep up these troops in such a condition of equipment as would allow them to pass muster under the new Dick military. law. It will require not less than SSS.OOO to properly equip , this regiment, and to bring It out on encampment would entail great expense. A squadron of four troops, will be retained, consisting of about 300 men, to equip whom will require a trifle over $16,000. What troops will be retained In the service cannot be said until Colonel Esra B. Fuller, now out on inspection, completes his work on the 28th of April. Among the troops likely to be dropped is the historic Light Draggoons of Charleston, though nothing definite along this line will be known until the inspections have been completed. Those troops which passed the best examination will be retained. But these troops which will not be retained in the active militia of the state and which will not, therefore be entitled to the state appropriation, will not be driven out of service. They will be encouraged to maintain their organisation either as cavalry troops or as infantry companies. Their usefulness In protecting their communities has tnn nftan Keen demonstrated. It la quite likely that about a dosen Infantry companies will also be dropped from the active lists, there being now a surplus of infantry and more than it is possible to care for under the new law, which requires so much better equipment and efllelency than formerly. Just what companies will be retained and what dropped will be known at the end of next month. Siting Oberlin Carter.?Simultaneously with the activity In the Greene and Oaynor extradition case, says a Washington dispatch, Federal authorities at Chicago have been pressing the suit against Capt. Oberlln M. Carter. Witnesses have recently been examined by Commissioner Waland, and the case has been set for trial before Judge Kohlsaat at an early date. Horace G. Stone, attorney for Captain Carter, declares revelations will he made by the defense that will astonish the country. The suit of the government Is for the recovery of bonds to the amount of 1286.000. which. It Is alleged, Carter received as the proceeds of the frauds perpetrated against the United States In connection with the operations of Greene and Gaynor, contractors for the Improvement of the Savannah harbor. The bonds, all but 116,000. were given to Carter by his father-in-law, Robert F. Westcott while the captain n-as under arrest for connection with th? frauds before the courtmartlal trial which convicted him. After turning over the last of the bonds Westcott left the country and soon afterwards died. "The Soith Is Breaking."?A Liverpool Englishman sends the New Orleans Times-Democrat the following lines which recently appeared In the Liverpool Dally Post. They seem to Indicate that some folks abroad regard the cotton association movement as being charged with more or less slg nlflcance: Heed not the glamor of the purple Kant, The curtain of the crimson West draw down, The dazzling North regard not in the least. 1 "The South is Breaking"?forfeit is her crown. For her prepare the trappings of the I dead, i And for yourselves th' habiliments of woe: With Joy-reft mien and grief-bedewed head. "The South is Breaking"?watch her . final throe. Too soon the doom-struck one attains her goal: Hark, how the message?punctuate t with tears? I Rings through a startled world from ( pole to pole, "The South has Broken"?all the fat- 1 uous bears. a. k. l. < THE WELSH REVIVAL Remarkable Religious Awakening Now Engaging tha Attantion of tha World. Editor Yorkvllle Enquirer: A-few word* in regard to tha remarkable revival that la prevailing in Wales will doubtless be of Interest to your readers. This revival la certainly one of the most remarkable religious moyemeqta M modem times. The revival is an- answer to prayer. -Many Welsh Christians. In widely sep; a rated commu^iltigs, / without any oonheArts to pray ?r? an ouifcokHng of Ood's Spirit, and it was evidently in answer to these prayers that the ref^vjjl came. The first indication of the fevtval was seen In a village church An Cardiganshire, where a poor Welsh girl stood up and timidly said. "If no one else will, then I must say that I love the Lord Jesus Christ with all my heart" Tho trembling utterance was. , like a spark of lire In a powder magazine; many rose to testify to their love for Christ. And from this Car*' dlgan village the revival spread from church to ,church, from valley .to val- .. ley, and fropi county to county until the whqle of Wales la now feeling its effects. In live weeks twenty thousand people had Joined the churches, the number now having long passed the thirty-live thousand mark. Throughout the whole country. In stores, in banks, and on railroad trains, men are talking of God and religion. > ' The leader of this revival, so far as there Is'a leader, Is Evan Roberts, who Is described a* * beardless boy, without eloquence and with no Masterful control over men. "God hath chosen the foolish hingi of the world to confound the vies; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty." The meetings are / characterised by absolute orderliness. It is said that when one enters a town where a meeting is in progress he finds a strange quiet: prevailing. The streets are deserted./-He cannot tell In which chapel the meeting is being held by the loafers at the door. But when he enters the chapel he learns wheip the people are. From the floor to the celling he tees a mighty, host, filling aisles, gall tries and oHnging to the pulpit ste{.?. Usually three services are held a day. lasting- from two-to four hours. ,The services are largely mode up of thanksgiving, prayers, hymns, perspnal testimony, confessions, and requests for prayers. If t&f leader is present there will likely boa short sermon. The prayers art wonderfully fervent and pointed. The music Is purely vocal. Pipe organa are untouched; there Is no need for them. These Instruments would only mar the music made by hundreds of voices raised in the grandest hymns of .the ages, the mu^lc rolling from the floor to the galieiy and from the gallery hnob In the flnnr auvnHlnv In hnavnn a mighty thorns of praise. Requests for prayer are not vague. One does not eay, "L. have a very dear friend for whom I desire the prayers of Ood's people," bu< he says, "Pray for so and 80,""giving the name and address of the person to be prayed for. During the meetlnv one man urges the claims of the gospel upon one at his side, 4 and Immediately rises; saying that such and such a one, naming bini, has 1 decided for Christ Immediately Upon that announcement some one .starts a hymn of praise. Any one can take a part in the meetings. But acpordlng to the testimony of all witnesses there is no disorder The revival' is bearing fruit in the lives of the people. Men are paying debts, whei -they cannot be made to do so by le w. The unclean are living chaste Uvea. An intelligent Welsh* man, livlnr In the very midst 01? the revival, ha? this to say of the results of this mo1 ement upon the lives of the nAAnt*' "T iniinr flrinklnr hfiJl been greatly reduced, and a number of tarem are c losing for want of patronage. Arre.tts for drunkenness hare been reduced fully seventy-five per cent In some towns. The theatres have been closed In the middle of the season, and many theatrical troops have abandoned the principality. Clubs and dancing halls have beeq deserted. Quarreling and profanity are heard In the streets no longer, crimes and misdemeanors are rarer, the driver* In the pits and the cartel are more humane." He goes on Jm say that this' reformation has reacabd the most sieged spots In Wales. > A distinguished London editor, who made a special trip to . Wales to see for him-, self, and . who could not possibly be charged with being biased In favor df religion, makes this statement: *Hmoioyers tell me that , the quality of work the miners are putting in has Improved. Waste is less, men go to their dally toll with a new spirit of gladness: in their hearts: In the long dim galleries pf the mines, where onoe the haulers swore at their ponies in. Welsh field- English, terms of blasphemy. there Is now but to be heard the haunting melody of the revival music. V There la less drinking, lew idleness, lets gambling." There have been redent revivals out-' side of Wales, notably in London, Pittsburg find Denver. Every Christ*' lan should pray that this great awakening may continue until it has reach'Hi not only his own church arid community. but untjl the whole world feels Its effects. J. K. Hit JMcConnellsviJlc. 8. C., March .1L MERE-MENTION. Harry Norcross. editor of the 8cin entitle American, died at his home InNew York city Saturday A pas- ' senger train on the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg railroad, was wrecked by spreading r_ils near Butler, Pa., on Saturday. One person was killed and nine Injured Twenty-six persons were killed by a fire-damp explosion In a colliery near Cardiff, Wales, Saturday A bomb believed to have been accidentally dropped by a Terrorist leader. In a hotel in St Petersburg, Saturday, Instantly killed him and three other persons, and wounded several more, William B. Bate, United States senator from Tennessee, died at his hotel In Washington Thursday. aged seventy-eight years. Hs * was a veteran of the Mexican war and a major general In th# Confederate army, and had been In the senate slnoe 1878 In an affray growing out of the feud between the McClaln and Canter families in Weakley county, Tenn., two McCflalns and ohe Canter were killed Saturday, and eeveral persons were injured Colonel Caleb Huse, purchasing agent in Europe for the Confederate army during Jefferson Davis' administration, died at his homein Highland Falls, N. Y.. Sunday, aged seventy-two years The British steamer Saxon Prince, bound for Vla<}? lvostok with a cargo of steel rails waa seised by the Japanese in Tsu straits, Friday, and held as contraband of war. ....The county Jail at Felsenthal, Arkansas, was destroyed by Are Sunday night and one prisoner perished in the flames. ? : News and Courier Enterprise.?It < is understood that the News and Courier company has closed a contract for i new Hoe press, which will print,' vhen occasion demands, twenty-four jagea at once, folding and counting -ach paper at the same time. This leceaaltates the purchase of a far more ixtenslve stereotyping outfit, and in