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Scraps and Jarts. ? So far as working purposes are concerned, the fiscal year of the government closed last Saturday, with a surplus of substantially S87.000.000. one of the largest net balances ever shown. In the fiscal year 1902 there was a surplus of $91,287,575. but that was the largest since 1890. There has been a tremendous increase In receipts in the year just closing, while the expenditures have been only about S 10.000,000 In excess of the last year. The largest [ Increase In receipts has been from customs, although internal revenue has shown a big gain. The receipts from the different sources this fiscal year have been as follows. Customs, $333,230,126; internal revenue, $270,309,388; miscellaneous, $61,766,619. There has been no year in the history of the country in which the receipts from customs came within many millions of the present year. The receipts last year held the record" up to that time, and this year's Income from that source Is about $33,000,000 in excess of last year. Internal revenue receipts likewise break all records, except during the Spanish war, when special taxes were being collected. ? High Point, N. C., special of June 28, to the Charlotte Chronicle: What is considered to be the largest number of suits ever instituted against the Southern Railway company in this part of the country at one time, have their beginning in High Point today. There are 181 cases and the majority of them are actions to penalize the road for delays with incident damages. Col. Wescott Roberson represents the railway company and E. D. Steele has been employed by the Merchants' *? ? ~ ??/! ?V*o Vnrth Oar C laim tissuuiaiiuil tuiu lire >1V> ollna Case Workers' association. The cases will be heard before Justices of the Peace A. J. Dodaniead and J. M. Sechrest. Such action is brought embodying a number of cases, by reason of the fact that changes made by the last general assembly of North Carolina would preclude such damages at a period later than the immediate docket of the court that is in action or pending. This institution of so many actions has created a marked sensation and the proceedings will attract wide attention throughout the entire area. ? George B. Cortelyou, secretary of the treasury, bids fair to make himself the most popular head the treasuryhas ever had, especially with that class of Americans who make more or less frequent trips abroad. There is lots of red tape in connection with the customs laws and heretofore all persons returning home from foreign ports have been subjected to not a little Inconvenience and, not infrequently, indignities at the hands of the New York customs authorities. Mr. Cortelyou is preparing regulations which will have for their purpose the loosening of the red tape Under the new secretary's rules returning tourists will be allowed to bring in articles of any nature they please without pay ing duty on them, provided their value does not exceed J100 and are for personal use. It is alleged that in times past it has not been an infrequent occurrence for returning Americans to be held up for hours on the steamship piers and see their baggage roughly and carelessly overhauled by not too particular customs officials much to the damage of the baggage and considerable ruffling of the owners' temper, all of which has served to make* the customs service and officials very unpopular with transatlantic travelers. Mr. Cortelyou aims to make the service more popular. ? In a decision rendered last Saturday, Judge Pritchard continued the injunction whereby he restrained the corporation commission of North Carolina from putting the state's new rate law on July 1. The matter had been under argument for several days by counsel of the Southern, Atlantic ^ * T ? **of 1_ COJISI lilt', ntauuaiu aim uuivi roads. The argument of the railroads was based principally upon the allegation that the new rate amounts to a practical confiscation of the property of the railroads for the reason that the railroads hardly being able to make both ends meet under existing rates could operate under the new rates only at a loss. The counsel for the corporation commission disputed the figures submitted by the railroads, claiming that the railroads had plenty of opportunity for sufficient profit to pay fair dividends. It was argued that all the railroads were overcapitalized, and that their earnings were far out of proportion to their real cost. It was claimed also that the railroads had no right to ask for rates that would provide fur damage suits as damage suits were intended by way of punishment and should operate as such. For the state to allow the railroads to collect from the public, money with which to pay damage suits was equivalent to taking away the punishment feature. Judge Pritchard appointed a referee to take testimony in the case. ? The Atlanta Georgian thus summarizes the inaugural speech of Hoke Smith: Firm and definite as are the reforms for which he stands, clear and distinct as are the demands for the regulation of corporate wealth, unflinching as the call for the establishment of racial superiority and vigorous as the demand for the purity of elections and the reform of politics, they are yet voiced in a conservatism which does not ignore the just claims of either corporations, races or existing systems. To suppress lobbying, to destroy free passes, to put money out of politics and chicanery out of elections, to fix the franchise standard to the permanent rule of the white man, to regulate the primaries by law, to regulate railroads and public service companies, to amend the railroad commissions law and to increase the power of the commission, to establish a legal control of rates of freight and transportation, to purify educational boards of politics, und to establish education upon a sound and lofty basis, to encoutage agriculture, and to train the children of Georgia to meet the responsibilities of life, asking the help of GikI in the discharge of his own solemn. high responsibilities?these make up in outline the measure of a noble and statesmanlike inaugural, whose separate phases we shall later unH in ii&iihto-iiii,n consider. ? The jury in the case of William (J. Loving, charged with the murder of Theodore Kstes, on iast Saturday, returned a verdict of "not guilty," after remaining out only forty-five minutes. The verdict is said to have been based upon "insanity." An hour or two after the publication of the verdict counsel for Judge I?ving gave out the following: "Within half an hour after the rendition of the verdict by the jury and the adjournment of court counsel for Judge Loving were called on by two of the jury who stated that they liad been appointed a committee re pre sentlng the entire Jury to convey to Judge Loving and his wife and daughter the information that while they believed that Miss Loving's statement on the witness stand of what she had told her father was a true account of what she had communicated to him. yet not for a moment did the Jury entertain the opinion that an actual assault had been committed by the deceased upon the young lady, but on the contrary they were all fully satistied beyond all doubt that no actual assault had been committed, but that there had been an attempted assault. Counsel for Judge Loving upon being interviewed in this connection said: 'The conclusion of the jury to the effect that no assault was committed [ was absolutely correct.'" The underj standing is that Miss Elizabeth Loving has been sent on a visit to relatives in a distant state, to avoid the unpleasant notoriety she has acquired at home. <Tltr \!wlu'illr (Inquirer. YORKVILLE, S. C.i TUESDAY, JULY 2 1907. Judge Loving was acquitted, as was foreseen, but there are some victories as bad as defeat. His daughter is disgraced by her own testimony and the bi'snd of Cain is upon him. We don't * ?jo Know DUl wnui me iair ui ra>i?> .? preferable to that of either of the survivors.?Charlotte Observer. Probably there is not so much occasion for concern about" Loving, his daughter or Estes, as of the law. What of the law? Almost every mall brings news of the increased cost of printing material of all kinds, especially paper, and because it is so very difficult for the printers to raise prices to meet this increased cost many of them are beginning to feel the pressure. The competition Is keener among newspaper publishers and printers probably than it is in any other business, and there is less possibility of combination even to escape actual destruction. In the matter of trying to "do it for less" the average printer is incorrigible. They are constantly talking of Mr. J. Calvin Hemphill, editor of the News and Courier as a candidate for the United States senate. The matter comes up in almost every gathering of which Mr. Hemphill is a member, and in a good many of which he is not a member. He likes to joke about it himself on occasion, as in Charleston recently when he told the editors of the press association that no newspaper man had any business in politics unless he be an aspirant for the United States senate. The remark was received as a fine, pointed Joke and appreciated as such. At Jamestown last Friday, as Mr. Hemphill entered the reviewing stand, somebody i?formed him thut the crowd had taken him for Senator Tillman. The story is that he promptly closed one eye, assumed a pose of stolid, important indifference and played the part nicely, until it was whispered to him that Editor Waring, Mayor lihett and Speaker Whaley had definitely decided that he must go to the United States senate to succeed Senator Latimer and then he opened the closed eye. As to whether Mr. Hemphill has any idea of running for the United States senate or not, he is having lots of fun out of his prospective candidacy. Whil.k there is no good reason to suppose that the conviction of Mills, who killed Deal, is more than a temporary sop to the law, still it is gratifying to know that it is a Cherokee jury has been able at last, to rise above the sentimental fog that has wrought so much injustice along the same line and recorded a verdict in accordance with law. We are not going to claim that we believe that Deal has been altogether blameless, for that is a matter of which we have no knowledge. It does not appear to us that Mills was altogether without provocation, either. But it does not seem to us that the case was one calculated to give a reasonable excuse for murder. It is easy to see that there is a ground for difference of opinion in the matter as to whether or not the jury did what it should have done. But we think it did the proper thing, and as the result of Its verdict, even though that verdict may be eventually turned down, or a maudlin sentiment may eventually be triumphant in the secur ing of a pardon, the law has gained something. Take it as it is, or even suppose Mills has been acquitted, what individual or what principle, if you please, is the better off for that horrible murder? As to Immigration. The more one thinks of the suggestions recently thrown out by Mr. P. H. Gadsden as to the lines experience seems to have shown that the people of this state should pursue with regard to immigration, the more thoroughly he is likely to be convinced of the correctness of Mr. Gadsden's conclusions. While the greatest demand for immigrants has come from those who most sorely feel the need of efficient and reliable day labor, now that we have tried it and seen that we have made a mistake, it is very easy to ap- ! predate that we have made a wrong start and must, if we would accomplish anything practicable, proceed along new lines. There are thousands and thousands of acres of lands in this state that are of but very little value for the reason that no one can be found to cultivate them, and there is no question of the fact that in different parts of Europe there are thousands of good agricultural families who would be admirably suited to these lands if they could only be comfortably settled thereon. Among the foreigners who are constantly coming to this country, are I many that are undesirable; but the records as far back as the history of the country goes show that these undesirables are not inclined among the agricultural classes. The habits and characteristics of tillers of the soil are very much the same the world over, and everywhere the tillers of the soil are among the most valuable citizens of the respective countries to which they belong. While it is natural that our people should be more or less suspicious of new-comers, we do not think there is any good ground for alarm in cornier tlon with any immigrants who maybe brought here through our state department of immigration. On the contrary. we believe that every agricultural family that can be induced to locate here and become permanent settlers will add just that much to the general welfare of the community, and make it that much easier for those who are already here. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. Inconvenient Schedules?The Bailes's Bridge Gone?Cotton Banks. Editor of The Yorkvllle Enquirer: Taking advantage of your invitation to your subscribers to express their Ideas, etc., through your paper, I write to say In behalf of our people over here In eastern York, northern Lancaster, and southwest Mecklenburg, or Fort Mill, Pinevllle, Pleasant Valley, etc., that while you and Col. R. W. Hunt are adjusting or rather readjusting schedules on the Charleston division of the Southern, that you consider our case, or condition over here. As you know under the present arrangement or schedule, we can get to Yorkvllle all right in the morning. and there you drop us, without any way to get home or back until next day at 10.03. The evening train on your road not getting to Rock HU1 until ten the last train on our road has passed north, one about one hour before. Many of our people will have to attend court in Yorkvllle in two weeks and quite a number would have attended the monument unveiling recently, and many more want to attend the Woodmen celebration on July 4th, had we a convenient schedule. Won't Yorkville co-operate with us in arranging so we can make the trip over there and return the same day? I believe we would all be largely benefited by this arrangement. Will you kindly remind our commissioners that Eailes's bridge is gone, having been washed away several weeks since, and that we are sadly in need or a new one. c*ne ui our rural routes is seriously jeopardized by the absence of this bridge. The route I refer to extends into North Carolina and when we come to competition with Mecklenburg county in roads and bridges we are simply not in it. We are having an abundance of rain and corn is looking well, but cotton is small and quite thin on the land. Wheat and oats were right good, but not much were harvested. As to your cotton bank, cotton is certainly the finest banking material in existence. Most of us commence banking or living on it, before It is planted. If it is good to bank on before being planted it should be better after. The trouble is the farmer banks on it too much before it Is raised and the other fellow after. J. W. Ardrey. Fort Mill, June 28, 1907. MERE-MENTION. A bill prohibiting the making, selling and smoking of cigarettes has been introduced In the senate of Georgia.... Letter carriers of Butte, Mont., are on a strike, claiming that they cannot live on the wages which the government pays for the service Two thousand ice wagon drivers and handlers in New York are on a strike, demanding recognition of their unions and shorter hours A coal miner near Wllkesbarre, Pa., last week had his leg badly crushed in an accident and amputated the injured member with his pocket knife Four Pullman cars of the New York Central's Montreal Express, jumped the track at Fonda, N. Y., Friday. No lives were lost The American Bankers' association has filed a complaint with the interstate commerce commission In which it seeks to have the commls slon restrain the express companies from engaging in the "banking" business Dr. Hopoff, a prominent physician of Odessa, Russia, was assassinated last Friday. The assassin escaped Italian peasants in the south of Italy are abandoning their crops and are causing serious disturbances in the province of Terrara.... E. H. Harriman, the railroad magnate, was arrested at the Yale-Harvard boat races at New London, Conn., Thursday. because of breaking a rule against following the racers Birmingham, Ala., was visited by a $250,000 lire last Friday morning. The cause of the fire is said to have been a cigar stump carelessly thrown in a pile of rubbish. A bill providing for county police has been introduced In the legislature of Georgia and will be pushed vigorously Van Cline Holmes, a New York broker, is suing Thos. W. Law son for the $5,000 reward offered by the latter to any person who could prove that the stock market scheme as outlined in "Friday, the 13th" was not practicable A Madrid correspondent says that King Carlos of Portugal is to abdicate his throne in favor of his father, the Duke of Oporto F. C. Whitney, an automobilist, finished a run of 3,000 miles through France and Italy one day last week, covering the distance in seven days. His average running speed was fifty miles an hour Enrice Alfano, who was arrested in New York several weeks ago in the raids of police searching for concealed weapon carriers, has been transported to Naples, Italy, to ano ornlnut t lin an CI IIIUI uri VIIUI grn u^dinok v??x^ camorra. (the Italian Black Hand), of which Alfano was the head Lieutenant Graotz of the Prussian ariny, will soon make an attempt to cross the continent of Africa, from east to west, in an automobile. The lieutenant thinks he can make the trip In six weeks William K. Wllleox, postmaster of New York city, has resided to accept the chairmanship of the public utilities commission of the ilrst district, created by the recent session of the legislature of New York The postmaster general has issued a fraud order against the Siloam Springs Colonization company of Kansas City, Mo., which was preparing to work a lottery scheme Comptroller Metz of New York city, offered $29,000,000 of city bonds for sale last Friday, hut only received offerings for $2,252,400 worth of the securities... .The interest disbursements of railroad, mining, lighting, industrial and other corporations throughout the country in July, will approximate $215.000,000 John 1>. Rockefeller. II. II. Rogers and other high Standard nil officials and stockholders will have to appear in the Cnited States district court at Chicago to testify in the cases against the Standard Oil company Peter Morad of Philadelphia, took a drink of whisky fron\ a bottle given him by Leo L. King of Rochester, N. Y., last week and died in a short time. King had two bottles of whisky, one of which was poisoned and with wh he intended to commit suicide. He gave Morad the wrong bottle Harry Vaughan, IOdw. Raymond and George Ryan, were hanged at Jeffer son. Mo., last Thursday. They killed a prison guard in attempting to escape jail Wheat sold at $1.03J a bushel in the Chicago wheat pit Thursday Many of the streets of New York city are becoming exceedingly filthy because of a strike of the street sweepers Sixty-five persons were arrested in Pittsburg, Pa., one day lust week for spitting on the j st reels. LOCAL AFFAIRS. ^ t NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ? Jno. R. Dickson, Capt.?Requests reg- v ular members of Co. "L" to call at York Drug Store Thursday to vote for second lieutenant. Strauss-Smith Co.?Announce a summer slaughter sale, beginning July f 4, and continuing ten days. They offer discounts of 10 to 60 per cent e on all goods In stock. c W. M. Kennedy, Agent?Has a few t bushels of Lookout Mountain seed Irish potatoes. York Drug Store?Invites its friends to f rrmke it headuuarters on Thursday, w July 4th 1} 'Yorkvllle Hardware Co.?Sells Clauss, Shumate and Boker razors at J1 to $3.1)0 and guarantees them. First National Bank?Publishes a list a of its directors and asks you to con- ^ sider how safe the bank is with the r business men who direct Its affairs. r M. W. White?Tells you what makes [ a man happy. Real estate offerings. t Sam M. Grist?Offers his services In , insuring your property against loss by fire. Only fire tested companies ^ represented. J. L. Williams & Co.?Have only lim- j ited supply of oxfords for ladies that they offer at reduced prices. National Union Bank. Rock Hill?So- j licits your savings accounts, on _ which it pays 4 per cent interest, compounded quarterly. I t Mr. J. F. Reid of Rock Hill, lost a ^ mule by lightning last Thursday. The -bridge over Susybole creek was 8 swept away by a freshet a few days c ago. 8 The matter of establishing a Third g Associate Reformed church Is under j consideration in Charlotte. t The annual convention of the Rural * Letter Carrier's association of South ? Carolina is to be held In Greenville tomorrow and Thursday. Congressmen Finley and Johnson are to deliver addresses on the work of organization and the benefits of free delivery. The Charlotte News thinks that as . the result of the recent election whereby the town of Yorkvllle proposes to exempt new manufacturing enterprises , from taxation for a period of five ( years, the town will have many such ( enterprises that it would not have had otherwise. , The colored people of Clover are ar- . ranging for a big time on July 27, the occasion of a celebration under the j auspices of the "F. & A. A. Y. M." , They are advertising a red-hot game , of baseball and plenty of eating in the ( shape of "roast beef, fish, fresh porK , and watermelons." Even the postoffice department has begun to feel the effect of the advanced price of paper and on that account has gotten out a new schedule of prices for the various kinds of writing material It Is selling. Four cents per thousand has been added to the price of stamped envelopes. The war department is taking its own time about the erection of the handsome monument for which congress has provided on King's Mountain battleground. That the monument will be erected In the course of time is quite certain; but the government ( is certainly very deliberate about the matter. It is a good natured, but & reckless, dare-devil crowd that a Southern train ( crew makes when released from responsibility at an out of the way place. , The station at Klngvllle, twenty miles ( below Columbia, is one of the most unspeakably, lonesome railway stations in South Carolina. The passen- , ger crews of the Charleston division . of the Southern have to lay ovei Iflbie every night; but they take it by turni , so that the same crew does not have ( to go through the punishment more ] than one night in five. This applies ( to passenger crews. They amuse themselves In various ways, sometimes hunting where there is very little to , hunt and sometimes fishing. The layover generally includes about eighteen hours, and it is not infrequently that time hangs heavy. One day recently this writer was caught at Klngvllle , for a wait of several hours, and except | for the good fellowship of the train crew would have had a solitary time of , it. There was no boarding house at which a breakfast could be had, and an offer of 50 cents for a cup of coffee was turned down with indifference. The train crew finally extended an invitation that included a first-class break- ! fast of nicely fried fish caught from the lagoons in the nearby swamps the night before, bacon, eggs and other substantial that would have been very acceptable even to a man who was not so hungry. But all this is for the purpose of illustrating the temper of the train crew. One of the men was returning from a short tour into the woods, where he had gone for the purpose of getting a shot at something? he did not care much what?with a new Winchester rifle that he was anxious to try. As he came into sight another member of the party, who had been engaged in wiping the locomotive, picked up a bottle that was lying nearby and holding it out at arm's , length bantered the man with the rifle to shoot. The distance was about forty yards. Almost without a moment's hesitation the rifleman leveled his piece, took careful aim and fired. The bottle was splintered into a score of pieces and the bottle holder went about his business rubbing his hand, where it had been struck by a piece of glass and laughing as though it were all a good joke. It is pretty rough pranks that these fellows call fun: but nineteen out of twenty of the railroad boys are generous, open-hearted men, who are glad of the opportunity to do a kindness and who would not be guilty of anything mean or low under any consideration. FIRST COTTON BLOOMS. The first cotton bloom of the season , was received yesterday, having been sent by Mr. J. C. Bell of Guthriesvllle. It was plucked from the field of R. B. Stokes at Guthriesvllle. Thomas Gordon, colored, of the Guthriesvllle neighborhood, sent a bloom yesterday that was plucked from his field on June 2H. Mr. J. M. Starr of the York Supply Co., this morning sent two blooms that came from Mr. Starr's Chester . county farm, worked by Abe Hampton. The blooms were plucked yesterday. ?- SPECIAL TAX ELECTION. The election on the question of levying a special tax of 3 mills on the dollar for the support of the Yorkville Graded school district Is to be held in Yorkville next Friday afternoon from 12 o'clock to ,r? o'clock. Heretofore, as previously stated, the Yorkville Graded school district included the area within a radius of one mile from the court house; but | as the result of an act passed at the j last session of the general assembly, me district now liiciuues an me area within a radius of two and one-half miles from the court house. All the qualified voters living within two and one-half miles of the court house, who are duly qualified by the possession of registration certificates and tax receipts have a right to vote. Those who have property within the he area specified, but who live with>ut the said area, are not entitled to 'ote. THE NEW LABOR LAW. The first section of the labor law lassed at the recent session of thegenral assembly as the same applies to otton mills went Into effect yesterday. The act Is as follows: "Section 1. Be it enacted by the genmil assembly of the state of South Carolina, That ten hours a day, or 60 lours a week, shall constitute the lours for workng for all operatives and mployees In cotton and woolen manifacturlng establishments engaged In he manufacture of yarns, cloth, hoiery and other products of merchanllse, except mechanics, engineers, flrenen, watchmen, teamsters, yard em loyees and clerical force. All conracts for longer hours of work other han herein provided in said manufacuring establishments shall be, and the ame are hereby, declared null and roid; and any person entering Into or snforcing such contracts shall be leemed guilty of a misdemeanor, in ach and every instance, and on coniction in a court of competent Jurlsllction shall be fined a sum of money lot less than $25 nor more than $100, >r imprisonment not exceeding 30 days: 'rovlded, That nothing herein conalned shall be construed as forbldllng or preventing any such manuacturlng company from making up ost time, to the extent of 60 hours per innum, where such lost time has been :aused by accident or other unavoldLble cause. "Sec. 2. That the hours of labor ihall remain as they now are until fuly 1, 1907, when they shall be reluced to 62. On the first day of Janiary, 1908, and from and after that late, the hours of labor shall not, ex:eed 60 hours per week." DIVIDEND TIME. Yorkville corporations have declared semi-annual dividends during the past days amounting to $10,300, and here are others to pass on the matter )f dividends shortly. The directors of the York Cotton mills on last Friday declared a divllend of 3J per cent, amounting In the iggregate to $5,200. The Neely Manufacturing company leclared a dividend of 3J per cent, aggregating $2,100. The directors of the Tavora mill lave not yet held their meeting. The mill is understood to be making mon;y; but as to whether or not a dividend will be declared at this time remains to be decided. The First National bank yesterday paid a dividend of 3 per cent or $1,500 jn Its capital stock. The Loan and Savings Bank on yesterday sent out checks to stockholders representing a dividend of 3 per cent, and these checks were accompanied by a handsomely printed statement, showing deposits on that lay to be $200,586.30, loans and dlsounts $196,868.07, and a surplus of 123,000, the last item representing the clear profit of the last three and a half years after paying out to the stockholders two semi-annual dividends of 3 per cent each year. MILLS IS CONVICTED. The Jury in the case of W. H. Mills, tried at GafTney during the latter part yf last week for the murder of Frank H. Deal at Blacksburg recently, took the papers at 3.40 Saturday afternoon ind arter remaining oui mini minutes, returned with a verdict of guilty with recommendation to the mercy ol ihe court. The defense admitted the killing md In justification set up the allegation that the deceased had betrayed Ills family. This was the effect of the testimony of Mills. He claimed nc Dther motive, except that he sought tc make It appear that he had been trying to control himself until his angry passions were re-aroused as the result of an interview with Deal. Mrs Mills did not go on the stand. She was in town however, having put ir her appearance after the defense had failed to secure a postponement on the ground that her presence could not be had. The prosecution argued thai even if the deceased were guilty ol the offense charged by the defendant the fact did not mitigate the gravity of the killing from murder to manslaughter, because to have made tlw killing manslaughter it should have been perpetrated by the defendant immediately upon his getting Informatlor of the alleged offense complained of The testimony of the defendant represented him to have been in possessior of knowledge of the alleged offense foi some time before the killing. Upon the publication of the verdict counsel for the defendant gave notlct of a motion for a new trial. The punishment for murder is death. When there is a recommendation to mercy as In the present Instance, the punishment is life imprisonment. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? The Wlnthrop and Clemson college examinations for York county applicants take place In Yorkville nexi Friday. ? Mr. O. E. Wllkins has moved his family into nis nancisome new noun on the corner of Wright avenue anc Madison street. ? A horse belonging to Messrs. Bar ron Bros., fractured its skull last Saturday by running against the lror fence at the court house. For a whllt it seemed that the animal would die but now it appears to be getting alonf very nicely. ? The pastors of the Baptist, Methodist. Associate Reformed and Presbyterian churches are arranging for a series of union meetings to be held or Sunday night, beginning next Sundaj and continuing until the first of September. ? Three men were taken from a Carolina and North-Western excursion train at the Yorkville station lasl Saturday afternoon and put in the lockup. It seems that the train was crowded with people from up the roa'l and after a day in Chester they were pretty well filled with liquor. On the way back home they got to fighting The situation looked serious at Lowryville and the railroad authorities ol Chester were so advised. Chief Love went to the depot in response to a telegraphic request, and assisted b> Deputy Sheriff Qulnn, he made three ?vnxr? u-oru tf itrreain. i iic in ..v.v .. the lockup and were quite boisterous ? Mr. R. C. Alleln, cashier of tht First National bank of Yorkvllle, or yesterday showed The Enquirer one of the new ten dollar gold certificates just issued under the so-called Aldrich bill. It Is a beautiful note, the principal feature of the front being a vignette of Michael Hillegos, the first secretary of the treasury for the Colonies, chosen July 29, 1775. The back Is in orange, and there is some orange >n the front. Mr. Alleln said that It liad occurred to him to distribute the notes on the occasion of the Woodmen rally on the Fourth as an advertisement; but because the government is >nly fairly started in lite work of printing, he could only get ten specimens at this time and that would not je enough to go round. ABOUT PEOPLE. ci Mrs. R E. Gillespie is visiting rel- h< atives at Gulf, N. C. ? Mr. Paul R. Bratton, Is spending a al few days in Yorkvllle. Cf Mr. D. Wyatt Neville of Clinton, is fa spending a few days In Yorkvllle. w Miss Minnie Massey of Rock Mill, Is rt the guest of Mrs. Horace H. Beard. h< Cadet Wheeler Willis Is al home from the S. C. M. A., for the summer, ai Mr. Frank C. Dobson of Columbia, fr is up for a few days' visit to his fath- ai er, Mr. T. M. Dobson. Ir Mrs. S. R. Moore and daughter. Miss m Mamie, returned yesterday from a visit to Charlotte and Chester. Mr. U. M. Pursley, manager of the Catawba Lumber company at DeKalb, ^ was in Yorkville on business. Messrs. L. W. Bradley and Andral Ferguson, left Saturday night for a ^ visit to the Jamestown exposition. Mr. Arch Jackson and family of * Magnolia, Ala., are visiting Mr. Jack- 8? c< son's parents and other relatives in Yorkville. Cadet Baxter Riddle has returned to 01 his home at Bowling Green, from the South Carolina Military academy at r? Charleston. F Mr. E. C. Secrest of Lancaster, district deputy grand master, paid an of- g flcial visit to the Yorkville Masonic k: lodge last night. Rock Hill Record: W. M. Dunlap, ^ Esq., is taking a summer course at the University of Virginia. He will o' return to Rock Hill about Slept. 1. " ei Miss Ada Hayman, who has had y, charge of the millinery department of t( the Yorkville B. & M. Co., the past ^ season, left Saturday for her home in Maryland. k Mrs. Robert Cloplnger and son. Robert, of Winston, N. C., are in Yorkvllle c on a visit to her mother, Mrs. Janie {| Parish, who has been quite ill forsev- w eral days. jj CAPT. SMITH AT RICHMOND. *1 The Richmond News-Leader re- n cently published the following from ^ Capt. J. J. Smith of Clover, in which n this big-hearted old veteran told of the pleasant time he had at the re- * union: H I would ask a small space in Rich- ti mond's most popular city paper to give ti you some outlines of my trip through C and about your beloved city, one that a Is dear to the old boys in gray, and the II boys of 61 and 65, When I planted my tl feet upon the Main street, I recalled C many of the tramps we^had in the city C which will never be forgotten. ti I will now bring up some of the rem- a tnlscences of my visit to the reun- a ion. The warm welcomes that I received from many dear friends of the tl mercantile line and also at Lee Camp, ti where I met many warm shakes of si the dear ladles hands, which dealt out q ice cream and cakes which had no end. p One of my comrades asked me if I o was ready to leave the reception room, p ? I said, no; as long as I have a good w time I would not leave until they put b 1 me out. I also visited the reception o , at the museum, where I was also a , greeted with the same hearty welcome a and It was there I had the pleasure of si meeting the daughters of the two greatest leaders of the Confederacy, Jeff Davis and General Lee. I visited the Crater and breastworks around Petersburg. The same old line , of works were still there and the surroundings recalled to memory the 8 ' hardships and privations of war which c ' we had to undergo while there. v ; I was strolling up the hill to the ! governor's mansion In Richmond and 8 on my way a beautiful young lady 1 came darting down her steps and c ' plucked a flower from her rose bush ' and pinned It on the lapel of my coat p and said, "I do love the boys in the n gray." I returned the compliment by a : saying, "I do love the ladies of Rich- n mond?and everywhere else." I then . i tnmf?H into th#? walk to th? mansion. , So I went to the door and was met by, n as I suppose, the keeper of the man- p ? slon, a snowy capped old servant In a , long spike tailed coat. ? I says, "Can I speak to the govern- n ?r?" |, "Yes, boss, come in; but he is not r > in now." I was disappointed, for I did Want c to give the governor a good, wapm, j( ! rebel shake of the hand from a South j i Carolina soldier boy. r I I then took a street car and was a dumped off at Camp Gordon, the ren- 0 ! dezvous for the old soldiers, and there v t was the free, open, warm hearts of t the people of Richmond bestowing t , their love for the Confederate soldier. _ No one should ever return to his home | and say that he was not kindly cared ? for. My throbbing heart shall ever e . feed my brain and memory of this e best reunion, one that has broken the v i record. ! May God's richest blessing rest up- j . on the people of Richmond and the c city. e J. J. Smith, Company G. Jenkln's- N Palmetto Sharpshooters, Jenkln's Brl- ^ gade, Field's Division, Lognstreet's ^ , Corps, A. N. V. f THE WOODMEN RALLY. If there is anybody in this section, , who Is laboring under the impression j that It Is not going to be worth while \ , to come to Yorkville next Thursday, v r July 4, they must not undertake to lay ( . it against The Enquirer that they were c not told differently In advance, because 1 we really believe it is going to be the * most notable July celebration the town s has ever seen. I Mr. J. Q. Wray who has been the c ^ wheel horse of the committee, has been r working with tremendous energy to e ^ stir things up, and with the hearty I ^ co-operanon or nar. j. vj. wnuurn auu ^ ' J. W. Miller, also of the steering com- j mlttee, assisted by the business and t diversion lovers generally, has sue- c ceeded to a remarkable extent. j Almost everybody is interested now, a and they are all working for all they s * are worth, each trying to outdo the * ' other, especially In the matter of big t trades dlspluy, which will probably be f one of the main features of the oc- e caslon. ? From what Mr. Wray said this g 1 morning, Yorkville alone will have e [ more than thirty floats in the proces- ^ sion, representing various business a houses, social and civic organizations, r and from what The Enquirer has pick- I 1 ed up here and there these floats will j represent labor and expense to the ag- a gregate of hundreds of dollars. Many t of the floats will be designed with es- c ' peclal cleverness, and the procession n alone will be something worth coming t ' miles to see. a A half dozen or more young men ^ have been practicing for the tour^ natnent every afternoon during the past two weeks and they promise to make this event a spectacle that will be both exciting and interesting. There is to be nothing tame about it. There is also to be a bag ? race that will be very laughable, to say | the least of it. r For the benelit of the baseball fans, r ' a game has been arranged between the * ! teams of Yorkvllle and Blacksburg. r Yorkvllle has a good team and so has 0 Blacksburg. r Mr. Wray has Information that quite 1 a number of Woodmen camps are to be here from different parts of the coun- v ty and his information is that practi- a cally all of them are to be represented d 1 by appropriate floats. v The visitors, of course, are expected 1 to bring their dinners, except in cases tl where they are able to make other ar- L rangements. Of course, as is always the case on such occasions, there will h be no unreasonable limit to the hospi- tl tality of the Yorkvllle people; but it u is not practical to entertain all the big w owd that Is expected In prival >mes. 8helter will be provided I ise of need, and it Is Intended that a sundance of pure Ice water shall t invenlent and free. Also, those wl ill to provide for themselves othei ise will have no difficulty In gettln ;freshments at the hotels, boardlr suses, restaurants and lunch tables. It is going to be a big day. Thei re to be lots and lots of people hei om all parts of the county and th? re to see enough, and have enoug inocent pleasure and enjoyment i iake them all glad that they came. KAINIT IN THE PIEDMONT. Volntt nno nf tho mnill Pfjstlv pportant ingredients of commerci >rtlllzers, very likely exists In unto uantltles among the foot hills of tl ledmont, according to Mr. L. B. D< er, formerly head of the big wholi lie machinery and plumbing supplii Jncern of the L. B. Dozler com par f this city, says the Columbia Re< rd. Mr. Dozler recently went to Gaffm nd Blacksburg. as the result of re] jsentatlcns made to him by Dr. j . Lee and other expert mineralogis nd geologists, and what he found t ersonal investigation surprised ar ratified him, although he alreac new something in a general way i te immense and practically untoucl J mineral resources of the Cherok< ills. Mr. Dozler is very much pleasi ver the prospects, not only for ka It, baukrite, thorium and other mil rals, and Is satisfied that before mat ears some great fortunes are golr ) be dug from the Cherokee slope ie is still pursuing his Investigation ut Is naturally not very communlci ve as to his plans or as to the exa (cation of the prospects in which 1 i Interested. Mr. Dozler" s explorations among '1 herokee hills were undertaken wii ie primary purpose of ascertainir 'hether the coal deposits, of whl< id I cations had been found, were su ciently extensive and of such qualii s would make it commercially pra< cably to develop them. He has tu 0 reason to doubt the existence i workable coal beds there, he says, ar dll continue his prospecting in tl eighborhood. The immense value that a mine ood steam coal at Blacksburg wou ave may readily be recognized wh< : Is remembered that Blacksburg 1 the very heart of the Piedmont te: lie district?only a few miles fro 'harlotte, the Lowell of the sout nd is the junction point of the ma ne of the Southern railway and lie Southern's line from Kingvllle, f? to Marion, N. C.,?the old Thr !*??and that, furthermore, the loi ransmontane line of the New Sou nd Western road now building, w Iso pass Blacksburg. Pro/?Mrallv all tho kainit used tie United States?and vast quant ies are annually put into the grout tralght. to say nothing of the great uantltlea used In factories?Is Ir orted from Germany, being broug ver by shiploads, loose In the hoi Tobably one-third the sailing vessf rhlch make the port of Chariest* ring kainit cargoes. The product!* f the product In this country is b s a drop in the bucket. A conside ble deposit would therefore be ource of great riches. IRON IN YORK. The address of Hon. Walter Hazai rator of the day of the occasion touth Carolina day at Jamestow onslsted mainly of an Industrial r lew of this state from its earllt ettlement up to the present tin 'he address was prepared with gre are and was quite lengthy. To r roduce It would require considerat lore than a page of The Bnqulr* nd It is not practicable to spare t ecessary space; but the followii Istorical information about early ir nanufacture In this locality Is wor Hinting again: "From the time of the first sett) nent until 1860, the south devoted I riore attention to manufacturing th 9 generally supposed. At the begi ling of the nineteenth century, just he world was entering the age of m hlnery, its industrial interests equi ed, if they did not exceed, those few England. In the southern col lies iron-making became an impoi nt industry even before the beglnni f the eighteenth century. Iron wor "oro hnllt In Smith Carolina as eai is the year 1773. At the beginning he Revolution the state offered llbei tremiums to those who would esta Ish iron works, and In York and a olnlng counties a number of furna< ind rolling mills and a nail mill w< istabllshed. Small quantities of ir vere made in Catalan forges along t Jiedmont slope prior to and during t tevolutlonary war. Such a forge w perated at the falls of the Reedy ri ir, In the centre of the city of Gree iile, on the spot where the Camp< town cotton mill now stands, and ti litlon says that gun barrels w? orged on the same spot from the lr here made. During that war TVlllk 1111, the father of the late Gen. D. illl, of the Confederate army, operat i forge and a small blast furnace Ullson creek, and made iron from t rery pure ores found there. The vorks were destroyed by Lord Cor vallls on his march to Charlotte, ?. A small blast furnace was erect >n King's creek, near Blacksburg, 822, and In 1824 Stroup began t rection of works on Broad river. 826 these works were bought a lubsequently operated by the Kini fountain Iron company, with J100.C apital, a portion of which was I rested in slaves as operatives a nechanics. This company In 18 erected a blast furnace, which was i >laced by a larger one In 1837. 832 a rolling mill was built by Jraham & Co., in Union county. 830 they cast guns?six and nl tounders?for the state of South Ca (Una. quantities of round shot a ilso grade and canister. In 1837 t Cing's Mountain Iron company bu l second blast furnace, and In t ame year the Magnetic Iron compar vlth a capital of $250,000, built nn Pmo/I H VPP nP Ilfl UI\CC I UIU, VII VIVMU he present town of Blacksburg, to urnaces, a rolling mill, nail factoi tc. This company graded and opt .ted a tramway five miles long ransport ores, limestone, charcoal a upplles. About 1837 a furnace w rected by the South Carolina Man acturing company near old Cowpe lattlefleld. This company also bu ,nd operated a mill to roll Iron and ia.il factory at Hurricane Shoals, 'acolet river, now the site of the CI! on cotton mills. During the civil w he works spoken of above were opt .ted to their utmost capacity, castl ilasts. shot and shell. At the clc f the war the emancipation of t laves and the depreciation In val if Confederate securities. In whl hey had largely Invested, bankrupt .11 the companies. The supply of cha oal was exhausted and the busint las abandoned. LOCAL LACONICS. Ve Will Send The Enquirer From this date until January 1 908, for 98 cents. tpecial Excursion Rates. The Carolina and North-Weste allroad Is to operate special excursl ates between Mortimer, N. C., a .'hester, S. C., on July 3, 4 and 5. T ound trip fare to and from all polr n the line will be one and one-thl ound trip. "he Picnic at Clover. rne Junior uraer commiuee m er lias completed arrangements 1 most delightful celebration Thur ay, and the Information Is that the rill be a large crowd in attendam 'he Clover people know how to tre heir visitors. .et Us Hope So. Gaffney Ledger: An election w eld In Yorkvllle last Wednesday < le question of the exemption of mai facturing enterprises of all characte hich hereafter may be erected Le Yorkville from taxation for a period in of five years. A dispatch says there ,n was not much Interest manifested and >e only 38 votes were cast. 24 In favor of 10 exemption and 14 against It. Those r- 24 deserve credit. In future years they [g should be known as the saviors of ig Yorkville, for by their action they have done much to encourage the esre tabllshment of enterprises, re Wreck on the C. & N.-W. -y Lincolnton special of June 29, to the :h Charlotte Observer: The Carolina and to North-Western northbound freight train No. 60 was wrecked two miles north of here this afternoon at three o'clock. The train consisted of ten 1(j cars and In rounding a sharp curve aj nve or tnem were derailed and tne U track was badly torn up. The only ie cause that is assigned for the wreck )m Is that the train was running too fast around the sharp bend. No one was eg hurt. Two wrecking forces were set ,y to work getting the wreck cleared up c_ and by midnight tonight the track was cleared enough to let the south,y bound passenger train and an excurf> slon from Bdgemont, above Lenoir, R- to Chester, pass. It was at first 'y thought that the passenger train id would be detoured by Statesvllle and ly Charlotte, but the wrecking forces made good progress and Ihe train was le held. i- CLOVER CULLINQ3. i iy Some Recent Improvements?Mill ig s. Changes Its Pay Day to Thursday. I'orrMpondfnce of tb? Yurinrillt Enquirer. ct C'lovpr, July 2.?The second story ie recently added to the Smith building ie over the store of the Clover Drug th company and the Bank of Clover, is now occupied by the Clover Cotton Jr Manufacturing company, Dr. I. J. ty Campbell and Dr. P. A. Pressly as ofc flees. The first named occupying the ^ entire front extending over the drug-' ,d store and the bank and the offices of ie the physician and dentist being in the rear. ^ Since taking charge about three ?n monins pgo, ur. w yne nas rnaue exIs tensive and tasteful improvements In ^ the store room of the Clover Drug < store, and It now presents a handsome In and inviting: appearance. The walls have been calcimined, the celling ^ painted, handsome glass cases ig substituted for all the shelving, all the th old counters taken out and up-to-date show cases substituted, and last, but |n not least, a handsome and convenient I- prescription cabinet substituted for the ld old one. It has been the custom of the Clover ht Cotton Manufacturing company for Id. years to settle with Its operatives ev^ ery other Saturday. * Recently the 5n management has changed pay-day to ut Thursday of each alternate week. The r" change is giving general satisfaction to a everybody concerned as It does away with the rush and worry incident to pay-day Saturdays under the old arrangements. The mill now has a full supply of competent help. ? Mrs. C. A. Dorsett has caused the n' old building recently purchased by her e~ from Mr. M. L. Ford nearly opposite !St her dwelling on Main street to be torn ie' down and moved away, thus greatly at improving the appearance of that sectlon. 1 y Mr. M. L. Ford has recently com^ pieted an enlargement of his warehouse on King's Mountain street ng on The handsome new residence of Mr. ,th H. P. Jackson on King's Mountain street is now nearly completed. I Miss Lizzie Matthews has recently ;ar had some Improvements made to her an home that add greatly to the apn" pearance, convenience and comfort of the building. il- The bridge across Beaver Dam creek on the Armstrong's Ford road, near the residence of Mr. A. E. Slfford ng In Bethel township, was condemned by ks the county commissioners last fall by rj* the posting of a notice to the effect re! that it was not safe. The bridge was ,b- In an unsafe condition when posted -d- and is more unsafe now, as no effort ^ has been made to repair it. There is a great deal of travel over the road, he and the people are at a loss to :^e understand why the commissioners r?LS lv_ continue to neglect it. Many of those u- familiar with its condition avoid it >r- when going that way by crossing at the ford, but eyerybody does not know on It is dangerous. It is probable that im some of these days there will be an acH' cldent there followed by a suit and a pd ^ verdict for damages, and the county will be forced to come across for ise something like the worth of a bridge and still not have one until it is built ^ by paying out another like sum. in ? ' he ? Linn Creek. Mo., Revllie: Judge *jj Fox, of the supreme court, killed a g'S turkey in southeast Missouri the day 100 after the hunting season closed. When n" his attention was called to the viola72 tion of the law he went before the e- grand jury and made a complaint, In telling how he had made a wonderfully long shot and did not expect to ne kill the turkey, but instructed the Juir rors it was their duty to Indict him, n<| especially as it was his duty to know ljt the law, and his oversight was therehe fore the more inexcusable. When he *y. afterward Inquired why he was not a* fined for the misdemeanor he was Inar ur formed that the jury did not believe ry, he could have killed a turkey as far !r~ as he claimed to have shot, to nd as ? Robert Ricaud and Kenneth u* Matheson, the two young men of Bennettsvllle, who attacked Jennings a K. Owens of that place for reporting on their vandalism against the Bennettsville Confederate monument in the ar (r_ Columbia State, were on last Saturday ng fined $100 each by the Bennettsvllle town council. It appears that the tig Ue young men had drawn straws to see ch which should attack Owens, and the ed lot fell to Ricaud. Matheson stood tr" by and watched the fight. At the ?ss trial, Owens plead self-defence and relied upon the testimony of the other two defendants to vindicate his plea. The fine was the limit. st, If Thaw Weue In South Carolina. ?The public is again reminded of hj Harry Thaw, the slayer of Stanford on White, by the anniversary of the nd killing. And all these tvelve months he he has lain in Jail, not being allowed bail, though he could furnish bond for r(j a million. In South Carolina life would have been out on a two or three thousand dollar bond before his victim was cold in his grave. It is a more serious , " thing to kill a man In New York.? Newberry Observer. sre . . .. $he Cotton Parhel. Yorkvllle, July 2.?Cotton 11 to 13. New York, July 1.?Cotton, spot as closed steady; middling uplands 13.25; 3n middling gulf 13.50; sales 20,300. Futures opened firm and closed steady. July 12.00; Aug. 11.97; Sept. 11.62; rs Oct. 11.75; Nov. 11.72; Dec. 11.76; Jan. in 11.87; Feb. 11.91; March 11.97.