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Straps and .facts. ? Says a Charlotte, N. C., dispatch of March 14: The Southern railway has lost thousands of dollars recently on account of cars being broken open and robbed of merchandise in transit while the trains were yet in this city. Last night the police of the city succeeded in locating and arresting two negroes, who are thought to be leaders of the gang of thieves. In the possession of one of these negroes, John Harris, were 48 quarts bottles of corn whisky. Ernest Crawford, the other negro under arrest, had numer# ous articles concealed in his home that had been taken from cars passing through Charlotte. It is conservatively estimated that the Southern has lost fifty thousand dollars by car thieves within the city limits of Charlotte in/>o fha flrat of last December. ? St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Justice B. Nathan of Alton, received a letter yesterday from Mrs. H. T. Robinson, of Richmond, Mo., containing his photograph, which the sender inclosed to the postmaster at Alton, directing him to deliver the letter to the original, of the photograph. Mrs. Robinson wanted to ascertain the relatives of a Mrs. Elizabeth Tunnbridge Jepson, who died at Richmond, Mo., and was burled on her birthday, Christmas day. Mrs. Jepson and Justice Nathan were born in Kent, England. She had frequently spoken to friends of her fellow townsman in Alton, but her friends could not recall his name, and Mrs. Robinson depended upon the postmaster at Alton to deliver the letter to the original of the photograph. Mrs. Jepson left an estate to her blood relatives in England. Justice Nathan was asked to supply their names and addresses, which he readily did. ? Field Marshal Oyama, whose brilliant strategy has electrified the military world, has been the brain of Japan's fighting arms for many years. For a long time prior to the Chino-Japanese war he had been minister of marine and war. He made all the plans for that quick, decisive struggle, both military and naval, and when the right moment came took the field in person, capturing Port Arthur and Wei-hai-Wei, and ended the war in short order. As chief of the general A m AUA* *(rMA Ko oloA sum m iumu suivc iiiai muc uc cum/ made all the plans for the present war, and in July last, after the forces of Kuroki. Oku, Nodzu and Nogi had taken respective positions, he again took the field as commander in chief. He was in personal command when Kuropatkin was beaten at Llao-Yang, stopped that general at the Sha river, when the Russians attempted an offensive movement for the relief of Port Arthur, and has now crowned a wonderful campaign by the decisive victory of Mukden, where Kuropatkln's huge army seems to be all but annihilated. Marshal Oyama is 60 years old. ? Harbin, toward which Marshal Oyama is pushing the fleeing Russians, is practically the geographical center of Manchuria. It is located on the Sungarl river at the point where m Mllnrov Haflanta II1C A imiooivct iaii iciiiniuv??w%? southward to Mukden and Port Arthur, and Is surrounded on all sides for hundreds of miles with a rich agricultural country. Within a dozen years the city practically has been built up by the Russian government, through the agency of the Manchurian Railway company, and within five years the population has Increased from 10,000 to 65,000. Great areas of mineral, timber and grazing land are In the Immediate vicinity of the city, the leading industry of which is the manufacture of flour. Much of this product Is turned Into bread to feed the czar's troops. Hence it will be seen that should the Russians be compelled to abandon Harbin their food supply would be menaced. Harbin is about 400 miles from Vladivostok and 600 from Port Arthur. It has schools, banks and excellent administrative buildings. In fact, the structures in the place are said to have cost about 116,000,000. It is believed that the Japanese would open the city to general commerce. ? Charlotte Chronicle, Wednesday: As the result of a bitter personal quarrel, Earl Carpenter shot and killed A. M. Kale at Hardin, 15 miles north of Gastonla, on the Carolina & North-Western railway this afternoon at 12.30 o'clock. Before the fatal bullet was fired. Kale shot Carpenter, who is in an unconscious condition and expected to die. Coroner W. M. Davis was notified and left immediately for the scene of the tragedy. Kale was the superintendent of the Nims Manufacturing company, at Mount Holly, and was about 35 years old. Carpenter is a son of O. D. Carpenter, the owner of the Hardin cotton mill, and is about 21 years of age. The two men quarreled over the employment of mill help, and when they met in the public road near Hardin, a fight ensued. After Kale fired his revolver, he was shot several times by Carpenter, the bullets taking effect in the head and other places. Death resulted immediately. Carpenter was removed from the scene of the homicide more dead than alive, and it was said this afternoon that he could not survive. The dead man is survived by a widow and several children. He had been engaged in the mill business for a number of years and was well known throughout this section. He had many acquaintances in Charlotte, where he had visited often. Both men were prominent in Gaston county. ? Montgomery. Ala., dispatch of March 15: The reports received from all parts of the cotton belt are so encouraging that the feeling among the leaders in the cotton price movement amounts almost to jubilation. E. D. Smith of Magnolia, S. C., financial agent of the cotton association, who is in the city for a couple of days, said today that he was getting reports from his associates which indicated the best of conditions all along the line. Commissioner of Agriculture R. R. Poole talked with Commissioner of Agriculture Stevens of Georgia over the long distance phone today and was told that the farmers of Georgia are standing firm and will be in at the last with every promise kept. Governor Vardaman of Mississippi, was called up by Commissioner Poole and related the best of conditions in his territory. Mr. Smith said today that he had reports from Texas and the Indian Territory to the effect that where planting is In progress there is not only 25 per cent reduction in acreage, but more. "In fact," said Mr. Smith, "the trouble seems to be that they are cut down much more than one-fourth in many localities." There is much congratulation over the fact that on yesterday there was a determined search by the dealers to meet spot deliveries for March and only 1,500 bales could be found in the country. South Carolina has begun preparation for planting and is meeting all the requirements and Georgia and Mlssissipp' are fol lowing suit. (The ^orkrillr (fnquirrr. YORKVILLE, S C.t FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1905. If the editor of the Barnwell Sentinel is up in history, he does not need to be reminded that there is "money in farming." The publicans of old used to be quite successful with the tax crops. It is said that a plan of President Castro of Venezuela, to attack New Orleans and invade the Mississippi valley with 30,000 troops has become public. President Castro is a fighter all right; but if he has any regard for the length of his military career, he had better postpone his proposed enterprise for a while yet. Columbia correspondents call attention to the fact that although the resolution under which the dispensary investigation committee was created, provided that the proceedings of the committee shall be public, at least two secret sessions have already been held. We hope that there is some mistake about this. Unless the committee obeys the law itself, its labors will [ command neither confidence or respect. Thb Newberry Observer suggests that with the two extra judges, the courts will now be able to waste more I time than ever. It is too late to quarrel about the matter now. It has been too late for several years. Those who were bent on creating the new places had no idea of giving up the agitation until they were successful. We be???~ fViot ci half dozen I neve, iivwctci, ? Judges like Hon. R. C. Watts could do all the business that is required and | have enough vacation to make them lazy. Thf question of substituting cotton for jute bagging Is being agitated again, and the farmers of the south will do well to insist on the change. There is no reason why we should send money to India for burlap at {whatever price. If we make nothing out of the matter except to keep at home the money that would otherwise go away for jute, the use of cotton bagging would be profitable. There would be more in it than this however. Bagging sufficient to cover the southern cotton crop would necessarily consume enough cotton to have some effect on the price. Russia is hard up agtlnst the proposition of finding more money with which to continue the war with Japan. Heretofore she has been getting her money from France, principally. In all France has loaned her between two and a half and three billion dollars. She needs (125.000,000 more immediately. A French syndicate that has been negotiating previous loans has had the proposed new loan under consideration: but since the battle of Mukden, Frenchmen have not been so eager to invest in Russian securities. Where Russia will turn next nobody spcms to know, and no matter how anxious the czar may be to continue the war, he cannot make much headway without plenty of money. The affairs of the Equitable Life Assurance society have been engaging public interest to a very considerable extent for some weeks past, largely no doubt, as the result of the sensational writings of Thorras W. Lawson. The Equitable company was originally incorporated with a capital of 5100,000, and that is the pair value of Its stock today. James H. Hyde, the president of the company owns a majority of the stock, just a few shares over half. The company's surplus now amounts to more than 580,000,000. and Its assets to over 5400.000,000. James B. Hyde has absolute control of the property, through directors named and elected by himself. Policy holders do not like the situation and they are clamoring for mutuallzation of the company. Hyde will have nothing of the kind, and it is said that he has threatened that if the agitation Is not stopped, he will put the 580,000.000 surplus In the pockets of himself and associate owners of the 5100.000 capital stock, reinsure the policy holders in other companies, and let the Equitable pass out of existence. As to whether this can be done, is not established to a legal certainty; but the probabilities are all In this direction. James H. Hyde, the president of the company is only 28 years of age, and is drawing a salary of $100,000 a year. ? By utilizing the vermiform dppendix to introduce quinine solution directly into the intestines, surgeons at Washington barracks hospital believe they have found a sure method of curing tropical dysentery, the scourge of the American army in the Philippines. The new treatment is remarkable in many respects, notably in the curious use made of the appendix. This organ Is reached by means of an incision In the walls of the abdomen. It is then drawn out through the incision. Thus exposed the tissue Is allowed to heal about It. This process completed, the next step Is to Inject through the appendix Into the large Intestine a solution of quinine, flushing the lower Intestines with a germicidal and healing stream, without affecting the stomach or Interfering with Its functions. The treatment has been employed successfully In the case of Sergeant Mould, of the engineer corps, who Is recovering in the barracks hospital here from a severe attack of dysentery, contracted while In the Philippines. EVANS FOR GOVERNOR. Chairman of Dispensary Board Has Candidacy Under Consideration. Chairman H. H. Evans, of the state board of control, said tonight that he was sick and tired of newspapers making unwarranted and Improper slurs nhnnt him and the dispensary, and he was going: to see if there was any way to stop it or have the proof produced. He says that he asked his counsel, Mr. William Elliott, Jr., to bring both criminal -and civil action against the New Sentinel of Barnwell, and its editor, O. Marshall Moore, and he is going to press the case or have the proper explanations made. Some time ago this article appeared in the Barnwell Sentinel, and it is presumably on this that Chairman Evans wishes his attorney to bring a suit or have full retractions made. Said the Sentinel: "Is Evans to rule South Carolina with a salary of $400, when many a poor devil with $600 or $700 has to scratch for hungry mouths? Te economists, if ye will, tell us how a man can give box parties, keep daughters at college and be drawn around the streets of Rock Hill in a coach and pair on the pitiful sum of $400 per annum. There is something . rotten in the state of South Carolina, and it reeks from Cblumbia to Barnwell." Mr. Evans says that if the editor had Inquired in Newberry he would have learned that there is money to be made in successful farming, and that he was holding cotton and corn, as good farmers are doing. He said he had a bundle of letters from friends and others asking him to run for governor, but he had not decided to do so, but had the matter under consideration. His family did not wish him to enter the race and he was afraid of the expense. The suggestion is made that there is considerable pressure being brought to have the board revoke or practically nullify the recent decision to bottle here the cheaper grade of case goods. The board has decided that it will not buy case goods, except a few high grade brands?say half a dozen. The pressure is to have the board revoke the order or ignore it and leave the resolution on the record. The board announces that the resolution was adopted to stick and must hold, and that the order will be executed in spirit and reality, and no dollar liquor will Ka Krtiio-ht /?Q QAfl hut will be uriraiici uv wvu0>*v T ?? bottled In bulk.?Columbia special of Tuesday to News and Courier. ? ^ - WAR IN THE EAST. Russian Army Still In Retreat Toward Harbin. The news of the past few days from the scene of war In the East, leaves the status of the Russian army In considerable doubt. During the retreat of the Russians from Mukden to Tie Pass thousands were killed or captured together with | their arms, ammunition and supplies. A large body of Russians, something like one-fourth of the grand army that retreated from Mukden, reached Tie Pass in safetv. and was re-organized. It was learned, however, that the Japanese were getting behind Tie Pass in large numbers, and fearing that he would be surrounded, Gen. Kuropatkin has continued his retreat. There Is much interest in military circles everywhere, as to where the the Russians will attempt to make their next stand; but too little is known of the situation to warrant a satisfactory guess along this line. It is reported that dashes are occuring dally between detachments of Russians ana Japanese ana me nuasians claim more or less success. The distance between Tie Pass and Harbin, the next town on the way to Vladivostok in which it is possible for the Russians to fortify themselves, is three hundred miles. The Russians still have control of the railroad; but how close the Japs may be to them, is not known. The evacuation of Tie Pass by the Russians leaves a large scope of country in control of the Japanese, and increases the disadvantages under which the Russians must labor if they undertake another campaign at the present time. ? The most daring robbery recorded in the city's history was the sandbagging of Mr. W. L. Go.wan and the rifling of his pockets of $15 by an unknown thief last night about 8.30 o'clock on north Liberty street, about a block from east Main, says a Spartanburg dispatch of Wednesday. Mr. Gowan had started home from his green grocery, 61 east Main street, for the night, carrying in his large leather purse three five dollar bills, along with some express receipts and other papers. He passed a pedestrian, a tall man enveloped In a long black overcoat, who appeared In the act or tying his shoe string. Just as he walked by Mr. Gowan received a blow in the back of the head, which felled him and rendered him unconscious, during which time the highwayman "went through" his pockets. A little negro boy reported to the police that a man was lying dead on north Liberty street, and when tne officers arrived Mr. Gowan had regained consciousness, and was lying on the sidewalk, with his head resting against a telephone post. There was a large knot raised on his head, about the base of the brain; but he was not seriously injured. Further down the street the purse, the papers and receipts were found, scattered about. The police have been working on the case, but so far, there have been no developments. ? At a meeting last Tuesday of the directors of the Union Cotton mills and Buffalo Cotton mills of Union, it was voluntarily decided to reduce working time to ten hours a day. This action was taken on the belief that there will be increased and better production. The Union mill is capitalized at )1,100,000 and has 69,500 spindles, while the Buffalo mill has a capital stock of {600,000, with 40,000 spindles. LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Mrs. S. M. McNeel, For Com.?Invites the public to attend a rummage sale, which Is to be held by the D. A. R., In the court house, beginning next Wednesday morning. Opera House?Announces the appearance of the Davls-Diiscoll Stock Co., on next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Yorkville Business College?Will open next Tuesday ana every young person is Invited be present W. B. Moore, Captain?Gives notice of Jasper Light Infantry drills for this Friday and next Friday nights. [ Jas. M. Starr, Sec. and Treas.?Publishes a list of York township farmers who will reduce cotton acreage. S. H. Love, McConnellsville?Offers to sell vlneless bunch yam potato seed at $1 per bushel, f. o. b. R. C. Guy, Chester?Asks all parties having claims against estate of Jas. A. Watson, deceased, to send same to him. T. W. Boyd, Supervisor?Calls on road overseers to put the roads In a good, traveling condition. T. W. Boyd, Supervisor?Gives notice that on April 6, the county board of commissioners will elect a county physician for two years. J. Q. Wray?Offers some first aids to the economical by offering some low prices on seasonable goods. Carroll Bros.?Are selling Columbia fertilizers and ask you to see them before buying. ? P. C. Black, Agent?Calls your attention to the good features of the Security Life and Annuity Co. Foushee Cash Store?Announces a special bargain sale of emproldery remnants for next Monday at 9 a. m. Sam M. Grist. Special Agent?Wants every man who thinks of buying life Insurance to send him his name and age. Jas. M. Starr?Says that Macmurphy & Oo.'s fertilizer Is the best crop insurance. York Furniture Co.?Offers some bargains In medium priced mattings. They say they will save you money on all kinds of furniture, etc. Star Drug Store?Has a full supply of anti-ferment and will supply the country merchants who desire It. Yorkvllle Buggy Co.?Has a full line of buggies, wagons, mowers, rakes, grain drills, disc harrows, etc. Strauss-Smith Co.?Gives an outline of what you may expect to find at Its store during the present spring season. T. W. Speck?Has a nice line of lamps and Invites you to come and see his exhibit. THE GOLD WATCH CONTEST. The total number of coupons sent In to Sheriff Brown In the gold watch contest since last Tuesday is 955, divided among eight candidates. The voting now stands as follows: Bessie Adams 14 Sudle Allison 9 Isabel Arrowood 17 BenJ. Black 380 Margaret Blaine 2 Ella Carroll 14,620 E. P. Castles 517 Florence Cody 55 Emma Creasman 177 Bessie Farls 26 Mattie Ford 1#3 T. R. Qettys 2 Ava Greene 15 Nettle Green 312 J. F. Gorrell 80 Nannie Grist 726 J. Hamilton : 22 Posy C. Hardin 26 F. M. Howell 4 Wllmoth Jackson 761 L. W. Jenkins 12 Mrs. J. T. Jones 21 J. T. Jones 11 W A. Kennedy 14 Pearle Langford 43 Blanche Love 304 Lillian Mllholen 2 Clara Mitchell ?7 Ella Neely 43 Ida Ormand 12 Minnie Palmer 16,888 J. K. Roach 6 J. G. Shannon 7 Bessie Shurley 2 Belle Smith 2,491 Llda Smith 672 W. H. Stevenson 563 Susie White 4 J. H. Wltherspoon 17 Edna Wright 17 NOTE AND COMMENT. The recent advance in the price of cotton seed has brought large quantities to the various markets in this county. Most of the farmers are exchanging seed for meal. The New York bears are beginning to feel as the Russians felt in Port Arthur and If the growers continue to play the role of the Japanese as successfully as they have been doing, the bears will soon be making a break for Tie Pass. The speculators are not alone In their opposition to high priced cotton. The entire Wall street Interests are with them. The financial world very well understands that 10 cents for the balance of the crop now In the hands of the farmers, would pay off southern Indebtedness, and leave the farmers with money to lend. The struggle really Involves financial supremacy. Shortly after the war the late T. S. Jefferys offered some shares of the Equitable Life Assurance society In Yorkvllle at 75 cents on the dollar. Mr. Jefferys was at that time local agent of the society and his offerings were in pursuance of an effort to popularize that institution in the south. The stock was offered quite freely but there were no purchasers. Shares which could have been bought then for $75 each are now worth $80,000 each and can be sold more readily for $80,000 now than for $75 then. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? Davls-Drlscoll Stock company Is billed to play an engagement In Yorkvllle next week, beginning with "Reddy, the Mall Girl" on Monday night. The company carries 12 performers and has been meeting with good success wherever it has been. ? i ne i orn e-ouon mius nave deemed to discontinue night work. The management finds It difficult to get ^nough hands to keep the machinery turning all the time, especially at night, and it finds also that the products turned out at night are Inferior in quality. ? There will be a change of schedule on the Carolina and North-Western railroad next Monday, affecting only the freight trains, which will thereafter be operated tri-weekly instead of daily. The trains will' run on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Going south the trains will pass Yorkvllleat 6.35 a. m., and going north they will pass at 7.28 p. m. ? The King's Mountain Chapter D. i A. R., is making preparations for quite i a novel sale to be held In the court house next Wednesday. The offerings i are to consist of "rummage"?various ] articles contributed by members of 1 the D. A. R. and others. Many of the articles will have more or less actual i value, and the value of others will be i fixed by the purchasers. The sale will be & very unique affair and people generally will find interest In looking over the articles to be offered. ABOUT PEOPLE. The condition of Mr. W. Thompson Jackson is critical. Mrs. A. H. Louthlan is visiting relatives in Charlotte. Miss Annis O'Leary is visiting Miss Alma Walker at Cameron. Supervisor Boyd has been quite sick with grippe for several days. Mrs. Will T. Moore of Blacksburg is the guest of Mrs. S. R. Moore. Miss Mary Patterson Lyles of Chester. Is the guest of Miss Mamie Moore. Mrs. J. W. Campbell and Miss Mattie Caldwell of Clover are visiting Mrs. A. Y. Cartwrlght Miss Carrie Beard, manager of the Western Union telegraph office, has been quite sick with grippe for several days. ?? tt a# Qnn A ntnnln IX1I D. ill. 11. iUCllO V4 ftMUi M?wuav| Texas, arrived In Yorkvllle yesterday to spend several months with Mrs. M. C. Willis. Miss Annie Witherspoon, who has been spending the past several months in Rock Hill, returned to Yorkvllle Wednesday. Prof. I. H. Lippard is here this week organizing the Yorkvllle Business college, which he expects to open next Tuesday. Miss Laura Eve Parish left last night for Greensboro, N. C., to take a spe-1 clal course In voice at the Greensboro Normal college. Mrs. L. W. Perrln, accompanied by Mrs. J. K. Alston, left for her home In Abbeville yesterday. Mrs. Alston will be away several weeks. Mr. John A. Barron has been desperately 111 during the past few days. He was believed to be dying Wednesday night; but was better Thursday. Mrs. J. J. Smith of Clover, Is the guest of her sister, Mra. T. C. Dunlap. Rev. Dr. J. L. Stokes has been elected chaplain of the Jasper Light Infantry, vice Rev. J. C. Johnes, resigned. Rev. P. H. Wardlaw. chairman of the synod committee on home missions will preach In the Presbyterian church Sunday morning and evening. Several members of the family of Rev. W. C. Ewart have been sick during the past ten days. Master John Knox, the youngest child. Is seriously 111, and for several days his condition has been a source of much anxiety. Mrs. M. C. Tray wick of Gastonla, spent Wednesday and yesterday In Yorkvllle with her mother, Mrs. Mary Campbell, who is 111 with pneumonia at Dr. A. Y. Cartwright's. Mrs. Campbell's condition Is somewhat Improved today. ANNUAL PREMIUM CONTE8T. j The annual competition for the premiums offered by The Enquirer for the largest clubs of subscribers, and i for smaller clubs, which has been In progress since the 15th or octODer iaai, came to a close last Wednesday evening at 6 o'clock, and resulted in a manner highly satisfactory to all concerned. Mr. Q. M. Carroll is easily the winner of the first premium, a handsome Babcock top buggy, retailed by Messrs. Glenn & Allison at $85, and represented by them to be the best vehicle of the kind to be had anywhere in this section at the price. Mr. Carroll returned and paid for 155 names. The second premium, one of the best top buggies manufactured by the Yorkvllle Buggy company, and which retails at $65, goes to Miss Mary Alexander of Yorkville, for 103 names. The clubs of the following numbered between 76 and 100 each; J. K. Allison, Harry Miller. The following ranged from 50 to 75: John L. Clark, G. W. Knox, James D. Grist, J. H. Sherrer, Wm. McG. Bailey. The following ranged from 30 to 40: T. C. Castles, Miss Sallie McConnell, James Blggers, G. L. Suggs. The following ranged from 20 to 30: J. H. Bigham, J. D. Good. J. Webb Moore, Miss Floride Bo wen, J. K. Scoggins, Jos. M. Whitesides, W. S. Leslie, A. W. McFarland. The following ranged from 15 to 20: L. B. McGill, E. W. Pursley, W. P. Boyd, W. H. Crook, Miss Ethel Carroll. R. S. Riddle, J. S. Plexlco, (Tirzah). The following: ranged from 10 to 15: S. S. Farls, A. D. Dorsett, T. E. Love, Mrs. F. E. Smith, R. E. McClure, Mrs. T. C. Barnett, T. J. Hopper, W. S. Peters, Sidney Sherrer, Miss Jennie Russell, W. B. Flanagan. The following ranged from 3 to 10: E. L. Pressley, W. H. Bird, Miss Lucie Hood, J. J. Smith, W. E. Gettys, W. J. Caveny, A. L. Purcell, J. M. Costner, G. A. Gettys, R. B. Black, Mrs. E. C. Gladden, Gist Flnley, S. L. Caldwell, Bennie Barron, W. H. Moore, Mrs. J. B. Ford, Miss Georgia Albright, Miss Isabelle Arrowood, B. B. Ferguson, W. P. Epps, J. S. Plexlco, (Sharon), John M. Craig. The total number of names returned by all of the clubmakers between October 15 last and Wednesday was 1,453, which easily breaks all previous records In the history of these contests. These figures do not Include 47 names stricken from the list because of failure to pay or to make satisfactory arrangements with the clubmakers; but added to 367 names that have come in from other sources, principally from surrounding counties and the west, swell the total circulation of The Enquirer to 1,820 copies per issue. LOCAL LACONICS. Born in 1824. In the sketch of Mr. Samuel Blair, on the first page of today's paper it is stated that the old gentleman was born on March 15. 1825. This is an error. The correct date of Mr. Blair's birth is 1824, and it was his 81st instead of his 80th birthday that he celebrated last Wednesday. Death of W. F. Thomas. Mr. D. E. Thomas of Filbert, has received news of the death of his brother, Mr. Wm. Fleming Thomas at Mollno, Miss., on Jan. 29. The deceased was a native of the Sharon neighborhood of York county, having been born there In 1828. He went to the war In company K, Seventeenth regiment, and although he made a good soldier, served the entire four years without a scratch. He went west about 20 years ago. He leaves a widow; but no children. Bullock's Creek Townshio Farmers. The Bullock's Creek Township Southern Cotton association met last Saturday and endorsed the recent action of the county executive committee. Quite a quantity of cotton was pledged to be withheld from the market. and a resolution was adopted recommending that no more sales be made before August 1st. next. 8ui? For $40,000. Messrs. Flnley & Jennings, Mr. P. D. Barron and Mr. W. B. McCaw are suing the Phoenix Bridge company for $40,000 damages on account of the killing of Prank B. Ayers at Catawba River bridge, between Fort Mill and Rock Hill on January 8. The plaintiff Is Mrs. Hattle V. Ayers, widow of the deceased, who is suing as administratrix. More Power In Charlotte. Fort Mill Times: The Catawba Pow er company has found It necessary to double Its construction force in Charlotte. The power plant at the new Highland Park mill Is being connected with the central station and two additional generators of 1,200 horsepower each are being installed at the dam. This gives a total of six generators and 7.200 horse-power at the dam. Marriage In Fort Mill. Fort Mill Times: Miss Annie Clawson and Mr. B. F. Bennett were happily married Wednesday evening aj, 7.30 o'clock at the home of Mr. W. L. Jenkins, on Church street. The ceremony was performed by the bride's pastor, Rev. J. C. Chandler. A reception was tendered the happy couple Thursday at the home of the groom's mother. Mrs. Sallle Bennett, two miles north of Fort Mill. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett have the best wishes of numerous relatives and friends In this section. 8ounds Pleasant, Anyway. Charlotte Chronicle, Wednesday: Mr. W. S. Lee, Jr., vice president and general manager of the Catawba Power company. Informed a Chronicle reporter today that. In all probability, work on building an electric transmission line between the dam on the Catawba and Yorkville would begin within the next two or three weeks. A number of manufacturing enterprises In and around Yorkville desire to make use of electric power, and the expense of erecting the line will be borne by Yorkville people. Everything has been settled except some of the minor details. and It Is expected to have the line completed before the farmers are through planting their crops. Fort Mill Cotton Growers. The Fort Mill Township 8outhem Cotton association met In the Fort Mill town hall last Saturday. The committee on acreage reported that a recanvass of the township disclosed an average reduction of 28 per cent in acreage and 23 per cent In fertilizers. The resolutions adopted by the county executive committee on March 3 were endorsed. Messrs. J. M. Spratt, r>. ax. rutin anu xj. u. ivittiuicu "tit appointed as a board of directors to look into tne matter of erecting a warehouse. The membership question was discussed and it was decided those who reduce 25 per cent and those who are planting less than fifteen acres are eligible to membership. Capt. J. W. Ardrey was elected president of the association, vice Dr. T. S. Kirkpatrlck, who resigned because of other business engagements on Saturday afternoons. MERE-MENTION. Nineteen persons lost their lives, forty were injured, several fatally, and more than two hundred persons are homeless, as the result of a tenement house fire in New York city Tuesday night The district attorney's office has begun an investigation to place the blame for the great loss of life One person perished, several were injured, and property valued at $500,000 was destroyed in Los Angeles, Cal., $200,000 in Santa Barbara, and $20,000 worth in Ixrng Beach, California by a wind and rain storm which swept the Pacific coast Tuesday and Tuesday night Senator Bacon of Georgia is seriously ill at his hotel in Washington, D. C M. J. Pnrlra TTnlfoH Qtafpa nnnoill at flt Thomas, Ontario, is desperately ill 1 with pneumonia,.. .Peter V. McGraw of New Jersey, eastern representative of the publicity department of the Louisiana Purchase exposition, has been appointed to the position of fourth assistant postmaster general vice L. H. Bristow, resigned James B. Frazler, governor of Tennessee, has 1 been nominated by the Democratic caucus of that state to succeed the late Senator Bate in the United States senate... .Two persons lost their lives, and several farmhouses were wrecked by a waterspout and hall storm 1 which swept over Burnett county, 1 Texas, Wednesday, causing the water in the Red river and the surrounding creeks to rise fourteen feet in five minutes A million lottery tickets , were found among the baggage of the Norwegian steamer, Hiram, on its arrival at Mobile, Ala., from British Honduras, yesterday. General W. C. Cabell, a Confederate veteran has been notified to appear at the custom office on a charge of conspiracy to Import < lottery tickets in violation of the ] Federal laws Daniel J. Sully I has been discharged from bankruptcy i and it is understood that he will now i undertake to manipulate the bull side < of the market again. ? H. H. Evans as a Monet-Makrr.? The many friends of Col. Herbert H. Evans of Newberry, chairman of the state dispensary board of directors and president of the Farmers' Oil mill, will be gratified to know that the colonel will take legal action against those newspapers and others who have aspersed the colonel's character and looked with sly?ptlcal eye on the colonel's great capacity for money-mak- ( ing. The colonel would have it known < and his friends would have it known * and spread abroad to the discomfiture 1 of the slanderous and envious persons c aforesaid that Colonel Evans is the a owner of a very prosperous farm and r makes thereon plenty of money where- 1 with to live in good style and com- * fort. Away with those who would & stoop to insinuate or Intimate that the t colonel's cash Income proceeds from any other source than from his farm. May they be promptly served with summons to answer in heavy damages for damages to the reputation and character of the chairman of the dispensary hoard.?Spartanburg Journal, i 80UTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? Hon. John L. McLaurin Is to deliver an address to the farmers of Sumter county on the first Monday In y April. ?Vincent Chicco, the Charleston blind tiger king, is a candidate for the legislature to fill a vacancy in the Charleston delegation. ? Comptroller General Jones has been temporarily restrained from the collection of the corporation tax by Associate Justice C. A. Woods until the question shall be heard by the full court. ? Chester special of March 16 to Columbia State: The Chester chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, at their meeting this week arranged the programme for the exercises of laying the corner stone of the Confederate monument here on the n in ui April. juage rv imam n. Brawley of Charleston, a native of Chester, will deliver the principal address. Rev. Dr. J. 8. Clifton of Orangeburg. also a Chester county man, has been Invited to attend and make an address in the afternoon. Judge Brawley was a member of the Sixth regiment. South Carolina Infantry. Dr. Clifton of the First regiment of cavalry. , ? In a lengthy discussion filed by Chief Justice Pope last Wednesday, the decision of the lower court which sustained a demurrer in the damage suits brought against the Charleston News and Courier and the Charleston Post by Augustus M. Flood for referring to him as a colored man In his suit against the Charleston Street railway is reversed and the case goes back for trial on its merits. In the lower court the defendants demurred on the ground that to refer to a man as a colored man could not injure his social position If It was not a fact The reference to Flood as a colored man was an error both newspapers fell into In the rush of work and each apologized promptly. ? This tribute from the Oaffney ^ Ledger to Solicitor J. K. Henry will be fully appreciated by the solicitor's thousands of friends and admirers throughout his circuit: "On account of the redlstrictlng of the state at the last session of the legislature, the recent court was the last one at which Solicitor J. K. Henry will appear In this county as the state's official prosecuting attorney. We are not trying to throw bouquets, but we are A constrained to add that there are few more able and conscientious prose cuiing omcera in wum orvmia. no are sorry to lose Mr. Henry, but slncerely trust that the guiding hand of Providence will throw him In our midst frequently. Mr. Henry will be % succeeded In his official role In this county by Mr. Thos. Sease, of Spartanburg. who will represent the new ~ seventh judicial circuit, composed of Spartanburg, Union and Cherokee. Mr. Sease is a good prosecuting attorney, a clever gentleman and an all around good fellow. We welcome him and trust he will make It so warm for the criminals that they will be sorry that ' the change was ever made." AT TMB CHcHCHKS. A CHURCH OP THE GOOD SHEPHERD. Sunday Services?Lay services at 11 o'clock in the morning, and meeting of congregation and vestry immediately after service. Sunday school at 3.30 p. m. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN. Sunday Services?Morning service at 11 o'clock and evening service at 7.30 o'clock by Rev. F. H. Ward law. Sunday school at 3.30 p. m. ASSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN. RBV. W. C. WART, PASTOR. Sunday Sbrvicw.?Sabbath school at 10 a. m. Morning service at 11 o'clock and evening service at 7.30 o'clock. y TRINITY METHODIST EPISCOPAL. RBV. J. L. BTOtCBS, D. D., PASTOR. Sunday Sbrvicbs?Services Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Sunday school at 3.30 p.m. Evening services at 7.80 o'clock. BAPTIST. RBV. W. a. HURT, PASTOR. Sunday Sbrvicbs?Sunday school in the morning at 10 o'clock. Services each first and third Sunday at 11 o'clock in the morning and at 7.30 in the evening. ggMial ffoiiffg. See Prof. Lippard Tuesday afternoon If interested In the Business College. Yorkville Circuit. Services at Philadelphia at 11 a. m., and at King's Mountain Chapel at 3 p. m., Sunday, 19th. It 8ervices at 8haron. Because of the illness of Rev. J. S. drier the pastor, with grippe, there will be no services at Sharon A. R. ' P. church Sunday. v Bethany Ladies Aid 8o?iety. The Bethany Ladles Aid society is called to meet at Bethany, Sabbath, March 19, instant, immediately after the preaching service. A full attendance of the membership is requested' is there will be a special matter of lnilvldual Interest considered. By order jf the President and Secretary. Letter to W B Williams, Yorkvllle, 8 C. f Dear Sir: If you paint two houses ilike with two different paints, and ? >ne takes twice as much paint as the >ther, you know which paint to buy ifter that?so far as go-far goes? lon't you? One of these paints is Devoe; the >ther Is any average paint. The worst ire worse than that; the better are lot much better; no other paint than Devoe is anywhere near Devoe In goar. Devoe is go further; the rest are ro-short go-middling and go-threeluarters. Yoyra truly ? F W Devoe & Co P. S?J. J. KELLER & CO., sell our alnt.