Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Straps and |arts. ? The postal laws prohibit placing written messages in merchandise packages or letters on which less than 2 cents an ounce has been paid, and the provisions of this statute admit ot no waiver of the penalty provided. During the last fiscal year postofflce inspectors collected $59,065 for such violations. In thousands of cases a short note or memorandum was placed inside a package of merchandise on which postage was paid at 1 cent an ounce, while the written matter made it necessary that 2 cents an ounce should have been paid. Finding that in a great number of cases the offense was due to ignorance of the law, and that the collection of the fine usually works a hardship to the very poor, especially where written messages are made in returning coupons, tags and certificates for premiums, Postmaster General Meyer has directed that proper notices be placed in postofflces warning the public against the practice. ? Cincinnati, Ohio, July 24: "If we must have another Republican president, I am in favor of William H Taft." said Senator Benjamin Ryan Tillman of South Carolina. "Taft is honest, capable, and is of large enough mental calibre to administer the Job. I like him personally and believe he would make an excellent president for a Republican. He has a much stronger individuality than has appeared so far, and should he occupy the chair he would be sure enough president. My itinerary covers a wide territory, and to every place I go 1 find a distinct sentiment favorable to his candidacy. But William J. Bryan may be the Democratic nominee again, and the fact that he is quite as honest. capable and intellectual as Mr. Taft, should not be lost sight of by the country- Bryan will give any Republican standard bearer a fierce battle, and I think he would beat several ol them; particularly if the Republicans named Fairbanks, I would look for Bryan to go in with a sweep." ? Barber. N. C., July 23; Tom Hoskins of Marlainsville, Va., and his companion, both colored, came to a sad end here today. According tc Hoskins' story they got off train 35 here last night and walked up the Midland track about half a mile', where they both sat down on the railroad track and fell asleep. About 1.30 this morning a heavy freight train cut his companion all to pieces, severing every limb from his body; and also cut ofl both of Hoskins' legs, one above the knee, the other below. Being left in this fix, three trains passed over his body in the darkness and did not see him. About 5.30 this morning the engineer of a freight train running towards Winston-Salem saw Hoskins waving one of his amputated legs In the air and stopped his train to meet the horrible sight. Hoskins, who displayed wonderful nerve, asked for a doctor and Dr. Chenault of Cleveland, was called to attend him, but he had lost too much blood to hold out long. He held his wonde:ful nerve to the last and died about 8 30 this morning. ? Atlanta. Ga. July 25* Georgia's pro hibition bill, now pending before the lower house, will be made the special order of business for Tuesday, July 30, and a final vote will be taken that day. This agreement was reached in the house today following the filibustering ractics of the minority, which ended at 11 o'clock last night after nearly fourteen hours of exciting manoeuvres, when adjournment was precipitated by a personal encounter between two prominent members of the house. The order, which was adopted by unanimous consent, practically cuts off all further filibustering on the floor of the house, !it provides that the bill shall be placed on its third reading immediately after reading the journal next Tuesday, that both sides shall be given equal time for discussing the bill and the amendments that may be submitted; that all amendments shall be on the speaker's desk by 2.30 o'clock and that the vote shall be taken at 4 o'clock without further motion or debate. It further provides that the galleries shall be kept cleared of all visitors during the pendency of the bill. With a majority of nearly four-fifths favoring the bill, which has already been passed by the senate and with Governor Smith pledged to sign the bill when it shall be passed, prohibition in Georgia appears to be a foregone conclusion. ? Charlotte, N. C., July 24: The state sprung a surprise on the defense in the trial of Zeke Lewis in Union court today, when in offering rebuttal testimony counsel produced a letter received by Sheriff Bogan of Anson county, threatening him with summary venge ance If he testified against any member of the mob at the trial. The letter was received May 28 and was signed "The Crowd that Killed J. V. Johnson." and threatened the sheriff with death if he revealed the names of any man he recognized at the jail. The letter stated that there were 342 men in the mob, and though there might be some fools among them at least 275 were settled men who knew what they were talking about and would do as they said. The defense hotly objected to the admission of this letter, but the court admitted it for the jury to consider, as bearing on the conduct and evidence of Sheriff Bogan, and it was read to the jury and put in evidence. Sheriff Bogan was called and swore positively to his identification of Lewis as the ringleader of the mob. declaring that he talked to him twice the night of the lynching in the jail and had known him for years. Lewis, he said, was not disguised and there could be no mistake in identity. The state here rested and the argument began. The case will go to the jury tomorrow. ? New York World: One of Eturke Cockran's "original ideas"?that the governors of states should be members of boards of directors of corporations licensed by the states?was enacted into law in the state of Illinois more than fifty years ago through the efforts of Stephen A. Douglas. The gov ernor of that state is an ex-offlclo director of the Illinois Central Railroad company, but of much more importance than this is the fact that that corporation has been obligated from the first to pay into the state treasury 7 per cent of its gross receipts. If the people of this country had fully appreciated the Importance of the principle which Mr. Douglas established in the case of one of the first of the land-grant railroads, they would have saved themselves a great deal of money, a prodigious growth of scandal and an incredible amount of agitation and demagogy. Mr. Douglas' instinct in the matter of the Illinois Central was unerring. He did not have to wait for instructions from European Socialists or from Far Western Populists. Valuable rights nnd property were to be conferred upon a corporation, and by his honesty and foresight these were to be paid for ly not in a lump sum and not in bribe money, but annually forever by means oj of a percentage of its gross earnings. b( If the principle thus laid down had b< been generally adopted at the time and D i adhered to scrupulously until the pres- pi , ent day, how many shameful chapters ni of crime and corruption would never el have been written, and how many b( years of struggle and expostulation R would have been avoided? This was hi Democratic doctrine applied to a modern problem. It was simple. It was m honest. It was effective. If it had el been adopted in all the states and ot municipalities during the last half rt century we should not now hear much fr about national, state and city owner- st ship. The Illinois Central Railroad hi company has paid tens of millions into ic the state treasury for privileges which other corporations have gained for qi nothing?or for a little bribe money? ct [ and it has prospered nevertheless. m ht 1 $hr \|orkrillf (Enquirer. Y. ^ tc ec YORKV1LLE, S. C.: p< FKIDAV, JULY 2(5, 1907. ? is The Columbia state mentions the fact that the Missouri legislature has passed a law authorizing owners of farms to register trade-marks. The idea is a good one, and might be fol- ?* lowed in this state. It is calculated to stimulate the Dride of the individual in e> , his own efforts at excellence. , % es i Fixdino that theie has not been J" much of a kick at the increase in the , si price of thread from 5 cents to 6 cents a spool, the thread trust has decided i upon still further advances, and news Ul i comes out from New York to the ef> feet that within a short time the price i will be raised to 10 cents a spool. ta . The Charleston News and Courier m I does not sympathize with the idea of ! licensing the blind tigers of Charleston . i by means of periodical fines. It is 8 unable to see that the tiger retailer is ; any less guilty of violation of the law VN , because of the fact that he may buy his supplies of the county dispensary. 1,1 , And as we see it, this is a correct m i view of the situation. yi rc th Quite a number of South Carolina ell i towns are in a quandary as to how to er answer the applications of the Public U] : Service corporation for perpetual franchises. It seems to us that they might , find easy solution of the puzzle by al- ^ lowing the franchise, conditional on . I the agreement by the Public Service Corporation to pay 5, 6, or 7 per cent tfl i on annual gross receipts. ( tii It is a difficult matter to lose War- sj, ing's senatorial candidate. At an en- .. tertainment of the army officers by the officers of the national guard, in pl Charleston the other night, after sev- pi eral toasts had been drunk, the candl- ? > Pi , date for the seat of the junior senator was proposed and Major Hemphill was asked to define his position. In reply qi the witty intended victim suggested , that the toast he drank "in silence." , cl On the proposition as to whether 2J cents a mile is fair compensation for cr.rrying passengers, there is plenty ^ of room for the court to decide either way. And after all, that is the real issue in the North Carolina rate case. pt In the meantime, however, the state authorities are proceeding on the assumption that the question Involves ^ the right of the state to manage its internal affairs in accordance with the i notion of its administrative and judl- ^ cial officers. _ re til I The Southern Christian Advocate se has reproduced without credit, the very g.c interesting and instructive summary sj, i of the work of the Young People's aI Missionary Movement convention at fe j Asheville, recently prepared for The ^ Enquirer by Rev. J. S. Grier of Shai ron. We think the failure of the Advocate to credit this article must have |e been the result of an oversight, as we V( feel quite confident our contemporary ()I would not intentionally take that pI which belongs to another. m It was expected that there would be jj a vote in the house on the prohibition pi bill now pending in the Georgia legis- ol . lature on Wednesday; but the vote did not materialize. The opponents of the st bill, though numbering only 30 to 139, 0f , manage to filibuster the situation jjj through the day with the understand, ing that the measure could not come pt up again for a week. The prohibition tii bill was the special order. The only th other business that could take Drece- a derice was a motion to reconsider a , vote on a bill just disposed of and this h< was the way the filibuster started, ht The tactics of delay were kept up until to a late hour at night, the ladies from fo various churches furnishing the pro- er hibition members with refreshments, bj Along about the latter part of the day's si I session, one member called another a L* i liar and there was a inixup on the pi floor. Nobody was hurt. There was af talk Wednesday night to the effect that I the committee on rules would bring 'n a rule continuing the bill as a special ui ( order; but no information has been re- 1,1 t reived as to whether this has been 's done. The opponents of the bill, rec- a ognizing that their case is hopeless, ^ claim that they have no objection to a* prohibition provided the law does not bt go into effect until January 1. 1909, a' : instead of January 1. 190S. To put the eI i law into effect at once, they claim, will I" mean great financial loss to people engaged in the liquor business. w Registration. "j The people of this county have al- in most ceased to pay any attention to c? registration and are in danger of going to sleep over the one thing upon which rj most depends the perpetuation of their tf right of self-government. There are numbers and numbers of ^ otherwise qualified voters in all parts of York county who are unable to vote i! on the most important questions that l(] can come up from time to time, for the simole reason that they have no regis i tration certificates. te i In the case of some of these, the trouble arises from the fact that they ' have never been registered. In the i case of others, registration certificates |a i are regarded as of such trivial im- m portance that they are laid away care- Tl lessly and cannot be found when they aie wanted. The owners of such cer- f(, tiflcates are disfranchised as effectual- m as if they had never been registered. J At different elections It has devel)ed that many certificates carry num rs that do not correspond with num- j ?rs on the books. For instance John oe goes to the polls with a certificate roperly made out in his name and 1 umbered 25: but the managers of the ection find that according to their toks the holder of No. 25 is Richard 1 oe. and John Doe, through no fault of is own, is not allowed to vote. It has not been an unusual thing for B unicinn 1 school district and srenerai ections to go by default because thel*" herwise qualified voters were not gistered. These elections occur quite F equently and there is absolutely no >nse in kicks from people who may j ive lost them through their own negct. That everybody who Is otherwise f jalified should possess a registration Ttlflcate and keep it within reach, is ore important than that they should ? ive a gun. Our advice to every individual In ork county who is otherwise entitled ^ i vote, is to go hunt up his reglstraon certificate the same as if an lmlrtant election were pending?an ^ ection involving heavy taxes, a bond sue, or the choice of an undesirable tizen for office. If the certificate j mnot be found, then by all means go i the supervisors at their next regular eeting on the first Monday of the p onth and get another. If the correct;ss of the certificate has never pass1 an actual test, then go to the su;rvisors and have It verified. This registration matter is very im- p >rtant. Under the laws as they stand t >w a man who Is not a qualified voter hardly to be regarded as a citizen. s ?^ t The Railroad Rate Controversy. o The conflict between the state courts i! ' North Carolina and the United t tates court is very well calculated to t ccite widespread interest; but if the H>ple who are giving the matter clos- C (t attention would do themselves the t ost credit, they will not lose sight of d le main issue, the real justice of the ii tuation. A The light, as is now pretty generally v iderstood, had its origin in an effort ij t the part of the North Carolina leg- b lature to reduce the charge that the t illroads may make for the transpor- a ttlon of passengers to 2J cents per lie, and the issue was joined through il claim on the part of the railroads, o le Southern leading, that this rate p impossible and practically amounts 1 i a confiscation of railroad property s ithout due process of law. s That there are two sides to the t jestion is obvious. If three cents a E ile is too much, that is If the charge p elds too great a profit to the rail- v iads, it should be reduced. Of course, le railroads are not going to make e ly voluntary reductions. They nev- ti do anything of that kind. It is now n liversally conceded that this is a u oper subject for legislative enact- v ent and in passing the rate law, the f orth Carolina legislature was entire- t within its rights. c As to whether the maximum fixed in o le rate law under consideration Is too t w is a proper subject for investiga- s jn, for while a public corporation tould not be allowed to extort from n ie public, it is equally uwust that the It lblic should extort from ^H>ublic cor- p >rauon. ?. The main contention before Judge d ritchard at the original hearing on t >tition for an injunction was over the t lestion as to whether or not 21 cents Ji mile was a fair compensation for t trrying passengers. The railroads v aim that it is impossible for them to n ty operating expenses at the rate alwed by the law, and representatives o the state on the other hand claim a le rate allows a big profit on all ac- f al investment and legitimate ex- o nses. h Because neither side was able to up- f )ld its contention before the court g ith conclusive evidence, Judge a ritchard appointed a commission to c ke testimony and report its finding p the court in the fall. He withheld a s decision pending the filing of this t port and ordered that In the meanrne the railroad might continue to t 11 tickets at the old rate, provided it t ive to each purchaser a memorandum g lowing the excess over the new rate v id promising to make good the dif- 0 rence in case the final finding should t ! against it. a All this looks fair and it is fair. But it seems that the North Carolina p gislature had anticipated the inter- n ;ntion of the Federal courts and in p der to circumvent that intervention a ovided that violation of the rate law c. lould be deemed a misdemeanor and ?: mle the nunishment so heavy for in- i. vidual offences as to put It In the a nver of the state to run the offender a it of business in short order. t It was the effort on the part of the 0 ate to enforce the penal provisions v the law that brought about the con- v ict of jurisdiction last week. t Judge Pritchard held that the penal ^ ovisions of the law were unconstltu- 0 anal in that they, in effect deprived a le railroad corporations the right of ^ hearing in the courts. s It is not at all difficult to corapre- t md the justice of Judge Pritchard's >lding. For a legislature to attempt punish an individual or corporation s r trying to find out whether it is ^ ititled to certain rights guaranteed (i f the constitution is absurd. There t iould.be no need of an appeal to the t nlted States court to establisli this dnt. No state court could hardly t ford to go on record as holding othwise. But after all, everything depends ^ ion the final adjudication of this ^ alter. As to whether 2J cents a mile ( not enough to allow the railroads reasonable profit, we do not know. ^ 'e are quite sure that it would not ter paying for operating expenses, ftterments, improvements, etc., yield so the legal rate of interest 011 the itire capitalization, including bonds, eferred and common stock, and ;ither would 5 cents a mile. That nts may furnish a very liberal pro- . n tion of a proper and just income is ,. ?t at all improbable. But we have I tluif u hfll I lie teslillionv is all 1' i there will be .so much conflict and \ infusion in connection with it all, lat it will be a very difficult matter ir the court to decide what is really ght, anil we are quite sure also that le losing side will consider itself as " tving heen very unjustly treated. As we see it, however, there has s -en no harm done up to this time, ulge Pritchard has not gone beyond ie bounds of his jurisdiction, and lere is no occasion yet to kick about > ederal interference with state affairs. II this may come later; but there is t reason to get excited over the mat- 11 r in the meantime. s arned Burned. I, The barn of Mr. J. Frank Ashe of s ct'onnellsville, was destroyed by fire st Wednesday afternoon, the fire iginating from a bolt of lightning. f< lie barn was a large one, well filled n ith provender and the loss was quite avy. Mr. Ashe, however, had a comrtablc insurance policy in the Far- r ers' Mutual. it LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Ilss Mildred Hobbs?Offers three rooms of her cottage on Congress street for rent. ). E. Boney, Agent?Reminds you that fire Is likely at any time to destroy your property and tells you to insure in the Farmers' Mutual. t. W. Hunt Dlv. Pass. Agent?An- c nounces a popular priced daylight excursion to run from Gaftney to Charleston next Tuesday, July 30th. liss Rosa Lindsay?Says her studio t will be closed until further notice. \ Julnn Wallace?Wants a buyer for a j new top buggy and two barrels of cylinder oil at bargain prices, inquirer Office?Will pay reward for s return of handbag lost between i Yorkvllle and Philadelphia church. t I. G. Black, D. D. S.?Offers his professional services to the people of I Hickory Grove and Sharon and surrounding country, lev. Jas. Boyce, Pres.?Gives information relative to Due West Female college. 1 J. W. White?Offers a number of lo- { cal stocks for sale Including Tavora s and York Cotton mill. National Bank and Victor Oil mill stock. . rorkville Hardware Co.?Has leather belting 1 to 4 Inches wide and can- ^ vas belting 2 to 10 inches wide, also ? belt lacings. rork Drug Store?Talks about paints, y oils, varnishes, glass, putty, etc., and ' wants to talk prices to you before ( you buy. * . Q. Wray?Reminds you of his July clearance sale and quotes prices that r are calculated to Interest buyers. Jatlonal Union Bank, Rock Hill?Says J that It Is only the fool who rails at 1 fate. The wise man puts his money r In bank and draws Interest on It. The Oakland Dairy people are ship- t ilng ice cream to all parts of the coun- t ry. The Presbyterians of Rock Hill have ubscrlbed $5,000 for the support of he Presbyterian college of South CarUna at Clinton. They are very much n earnest over the proposition that here should be a first-class denomlnaIonal college in this state. July 30 is the date of the Clemson :"ar Picnic at Sharon. The error In lie advertisement published last Tuesday making the date July 22 was made n tills office, and Is not chargeable to itessrs. Shannon & Hope, whose name k-as signed to the advertisement. It s the Sharon people generally and the iand people particularly, who expect o see that the guests of the occasion re properly entertained. If people would consult their best nterest, they must distribute public ffice on the basis of the efficiency, calacity and .character of the candidate, ""his Is the only way to get the best ervice. Offices of honor and trust hould be filled with more care than hose to which salaries are attached. Jut it is very important that the peo le study the character of the men k'ho ask for office. Although we have seen no publlshd statement to that efTect, it is being alked that Capt. Clay, the recent comnandant at Clemson, was frequently inder the Influence of liquor, and that tas one reason why he could not en.iioninllno If ihla ?tnrv 1m true. hen the commandant should have been ompelled to resign long ago. Anybody uglit to have foreseen the coming of he recent development. But the thing < hould be investigated. 1 Mr. J. B. Peg ram has recovered the v nonogram pin advertised for in the ist issue of The Enquirer. It was 1 >icked up on East Liberty street by r laster H. M. Devinney who unable to s ecipher the ownership as indicated by he momogram. quietly decided to hold 3 he pin until he saw an advertisement n The Enquirer. He told Mr. Pegram hat he was quite sure that if the pin ras of special value, the advertlsenent would soon appear. The idea of making a fixed per cent f gross income, payable In perpetuity, basis of the granting of a public 5 ranchise of whatever kind is a good v ne. The common American practice las been to look upon the price of a ranchise of whatever kind as so much raft, the legitimate perquisite of the * uthorlty by which the franchise Is onferred. The other plan is the beter calculated to divide the benefits of c , franchise among the people who conribute to its value. It is a well known fact, familiar to he older generation, that previous to " wenty-flve or thirty years ago congreational singing was the almost uniersal rule at all the churches throughut this section and especially was this he case with the country churches, and n who are familiar with the then ex- | ? sting conditions have pleasant recol- 1 actions of the grand and inspiring lanner in which the old, familiar 'salms and hymns were rendered on ^ 11 occasions of public worship at such hurches as Bethany, Bethel, Sharon, ^ Imyrna, Bethesda, Bullock's Creek, "lint Hill, Ebenezer, Neely's Creek, nd others that might be mentioned, u nd while it is a fact that congrega- ( ional singing still prevails with many f these churches to a large extent, ^ ery few of them have as many lndlidual good singers as formerly, ^ he singing, in large measure, being v elogated to choirs usually, consisting v f from ten to twenty-five members, g nd while these choirs generally render ( ine music it is not so pleasing and Inpiling as when the entire congrega- ( ion took part. The Bethany congre- t ation has a well trained and efficient _ hoir; but it does not monopolize the ( inging, only leads it: and while t t is a fact that there are not so many t ne voices as there were previous to ? he dismissal of a number of members j. o Crowder*s Creek, Clover, Yorkville, c nd other churches during the past fif- c een or twenty years, still there are tiany more than in the average church. t nd the singing compares most favora- j ly with other days. The writer was f t Bethany yesterday and learned that j lie annual singing school was in sesion and had been for several days, 'here are thirty to thirty-five pupils , nd they are putting in. the better part ^ f each day and they are being aught by. Mr. Long of the Pineville ectlon, a teacher of twenty-eight ears' experience and one who is pro- jj on need by s< me of the Bethany peoile, and they are competent critics, as x ieing in many respects most capable, 'lie class is necessarily making fine i ngress. Tiie school will close on next Vednesday. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? Why don't you turn your sewing nachines by electric power? ? Let everybody come to hear the peakers at the meeting in the court ouse tomorrow afternoon. ? The new schedule on the C. & W., while not quite as satisfactory s the old "seven and eight" arrangement. seems to be giving very good ntisfaction. ? The commissioners of public works ave ordered the cieaing out of the tandpipe, and Supt. Barnwell proposes a carry out the order during the next ew days. That a cleaning is badly ceded is quite probable. ? The proposition of Mr. I. H. Moris to furnish stovewood already cut t i lengths for the stove will no doubt S >rove acceptable to most of the York,'ille people. It is not only difficult to i jet stovewood at times; but even more ] lifficult to have It cut up. i ? If the people of Yorkvllle would >nly put to work all the power that j hey are paying for, and allowing to < fo 10 wasw, ine lown wuuiu ensuy ire- i some the most Important Industrial sentre of the Piedmont. ] ? All this electric power going: to , vaste In Yorkville and so few people < rylng to take advantage of It. Why lp at Clover, Messrs. John and G. W. | <nox are actually running their blackimlth shop with electricity. There are < icores of ways by which electricity can >e" used in Yorkville, and every one of ] hese different ways will be to the ( irofit of the users. ^ THE CLEMSON CAR. J. C*. Strlbbling, with the Clemson < ar to be at Yorkville on July 29 and , Sharon on July 30, writes from Kerihaw under date of July 23, as follows: | Owing to the lack of orders from , leadquarters Clemson's institute car . \as left at Cheraw and Dr. Bracket ind Col. Daniel were sent ahead to ad- < iress the people here at Kershaw, vhlle Prof. Harper and Daggett re- ] nalned with the car to see if they ' :ould not get It moved forward to El- 1 fin, the next stop. ' The attendance today was good, but j lot so large as the one at Pageland on resterday. These meetings are growng in size as the car advances. If ' he people could know what they are ] nisslng by not turning out at these s nestings these gatherings would be j reble the size we usually And. The people do not understand genual ly what the objects of these instt- 1 utes are, nor the trying times these ( nstitute workers are having. The general idea Is that these patrl- ' >tic efforts by these professors are i lothlng more than a picnic or a grand ] loliday Junket over the state at the itate's expense. One man while in ipecting the car stated that he would 1 Ike to go around on such a trip when >very man on the car offered him his 1 ob. The people generally seem to , hink that these lecturers get extra " )ay for this extra Institute work and hat this whole work Is performed at ' i large expense to the taxpayers of the | itate, when the fact Is the cars have . jeen furnished free of charge by the Southern railway and are hauled by ! he railroads free of charge. And In- i itead of these professors getting about , >5 per day and board, as some think, hese patriotic workers for the up- ' )ullding of the state's Industries are 1 tot paid one dollar for all this work. These institute workers have to do his arduous work free, but they have ; o pay their own laundry bills and they tlso pav their hack hire and many >ther bills that all other Institutions md firms pay for their traveling men. . The meeting was held today In the rrove In from of the Benton hotel and vas presided over by the Hon. L. C. | lough, who Introduced Dr. Bracket < is the first speaker. Dr. Bracket's lecure was unusually good and so well md plainly stated that most any pracical farmer could understand and appelate his address. Col. Daniel simply overdid himself I oday and notwithstanding the fact hat he was suffering with sore throat ind hoarseness, he made the best ipeech we ever heard him make and ' he audience went wild over his good < jits In his jokes that gave zest to his ( 'plendld arguments in behalf of inlustrlal education. 1 I BASEBALL NOTES. ' The second teams of Yorkvllle and | Chester played a twelve Inning game it McConnellsvllle Tuesday afternoon ( l*L n C* f A , villi a ov-v/i t ui u iv v. Yorkvllle and Rock Hill second earns played a game on the local dianond Wednesday afternoon, with a icore of 9 to 0 In favor of Yorkvllle. Second teams representing Clover ind Yorkvllle are scheduled for a game >n the local diamond this afternoon. Wlnnsboro News and Herald: The lome team took two out of three games 'rom Yorkvllle on the Mt. Zlon dlanond on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. All of the games were snappy 'xhlbitions of amateur ball, and the tecond was particularly Interesting, vhen Wlnnsboro won out In the ninth >y a score of 5 to 4. In the first game Desportes and Riddle were fairly well natched In the box, the odds being ilightly in favor of the home pitcher; >ut Riddle had little support, and in he end the score stood 5 to 0 In favor if Wlnnsboro. Ketchln caught a speedy mil over first In the third Isslng, vhlch looked very much like a hit, and kVlllis for Yorkvllle caught a pretty >ne over third. McDonald held down lis field well, and Maxwell played a ast game on third. Both Elliott and 3aines caught pretty games, allowing rery little base stealing. In the sec?nd game the visitors were leading unit the ninth, when two runs scored by i? i?? ~ *???? '??? a/I fKa Kalonpo In lit; i it ii 11 c iraiu iuiiicu me mu.>m..wv ... avor of Winnsboro. Sidney Smith wirled for Winnsboro and Love for forkvllle. The hitting' was somewhat leavier on each side than the day beore, but there were scarcely any rooden plays on either side, and runs neant hard work. There were pretty louble plays on each side. In the lecond inning Brown stopped up a fast tne on short, and handled the ball ipeedily enough to cut off one runner it second and another at third. HernIon held down short well for Yorkvllie. The third of the series went to YorkMlle by a score of 4 to 2. The game vas played on -wet grounds, but. in ipite of this fact, was a fast, interestng exhibition. Riddle pitched a tine fame for Yurkville. Davis toed the dank for Winnsboro, and pitched prety well in his old form, striking out lumbers of men, but the visitors were ucky enough to bunch their hits in he fourth, and to run in two men in he sixth as well, which won them the fame. No one quite understands just low that sixth Inning did come out, but certain it is that when the game was called on account of darkness in the ighth that the official score stood 4 o 2 in favor of Yorkvilie. Brown and >avis both hit well in all three games or the locals. In the second game Jrown found Love's delivery for three afeties, while the visiting pitchers complained that Davis landed on the __ s lew tangled spil DUll as eusny aa lie lid upon the old fashioned out-curve. ABOUT PEOPLE. Dr. M. VV. White left today for a few 1 lays' visit to Riverside. Misses Mary and Louise Dobson are 1 isiting relatives and friends in King's ' fountain, N. C. Mrs. J. W. McFarland and children, 1 ire visiting relatives and friends at f "crest City, N. C. Miss Elizabeth Lowry is spending * his week at Lowryvllle, the guest of v diss Bessie Lowry. ' Miss Eugenia Walker of Chester, is 4 he guest of Miss Mary Scott of York- f ille R. F. D. No. 3. a Miss Annie Roach of Rock Hill, is 4 n Yorkville on a visit to Misses Jen- s lie and Kate Russell. ? Miss Clara Smythe of Fort Mill, is J -isiting her sister, Mrs. J. C. Burge on s forkville R. F. D. No. 3. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Erwln of * tntreville, are visiting Rev. John A. ' .lcMurray's family at Sharon. Mrs. S. R. Moore and daughter Miss ' damie, returned from White Diamond * Jthia Springs on Thursday. Mrs. I. M. Purdyfield and son, Mas- 8 cr Billy, of Duncans, are guests of 1 ,liases Willie and Lee Williams. Miss Mary and Master John Randle- tl man of Danville, Va., are guests of a Misses Mozelle and Mary Brooks In- e man. tl Mr. Thos. Turner of Odenville, Ala., tl spent yesterday in Yorkville, with his C war-time comrade, Mr. W. H. McCton- s nell. a Mrs. W. W. Lewis and family and c Miss Rita Beard, are spending ten a lays at the White Diamond Llthia y Springs. a Mrs. Jas. F. Thomson left this morn- w ng on a visit to relatives at Due West. t< Mr. Jas. F. Thomson has gone to d Jreer's on business. b Mrs. S. C. Ashe and children, and r: Rev. and Mrs. D. J. Brlmm and chil- c iren, are spending a few days' at the b White Diamond Lithla Springs. a Mr. J. E. Audlgler of Little .Rock, 1 Ark., Is on a visit to his uncle, Mr. tl Jos. A. Smith of R. F. D. No. 1, and w uner lumuvtra in tuia vitiiiujr. Rock Hill Herald: The many friends ? n this city of Mr. James Land will -egret to learn that he Is confined to lis home near Yorkville with typhoid p 'ever. J Mrs. D. E. Flnley, Mrs. a. M. Mc- [' Veel, Mrs. W. B. Moore and Miss Rosa d Lindsay left this morning to spend a o >veek or ten days at Blowing Rock, ^ V. C. p Mrs. Mattle Matthews and Miss Lily a Belle Neely of Old Point, and Miss d Lottie Belle Slmrll of Yorkville, are ^ spending a few days with friends In t Monroe, N. C. t Miss Rebecca Carson who has been ? visiting In Yorkville, the guest of the g family of Hon. D. E. Flnley, returned t] to her home in Spartanburg last Wed- P lesday. She was accompanied by Master Gist Flnley, who contemplates ?olng from Spartanburg on a trip to the mountains. c Charlotte Observer: Dr. W. Gill Wylle of New York, was at the Selwyn yesterday. When asked by an Observer man concerning the rumor about ti tils bringing certain patients to St. Pe- q ter's hospital, he said: "No, I expect n to spend two months of next winter ? south. If I can make arrangements to suit, and would be at Augusta, Ga., o r most of the time, but would spend J Jome days here. I would look after ? special cases here and at Augusta." j, f LOCAL LACONICS. 1 We Will Send The Enquirer ? From this date until January 1st, t I **04. for 84 cents. 9 The Farmers' Institute. The Clemson College Institute car n is due In Yorkville, July 29, and in c Sharon, July 30. J The Filbert Picnic, t Tomorrow Is the date of the Filbert 1 picnic and there Is every reason to ? ook for a large attendance. o The Watch Owners. ? There is no Information yet from the j, watch owners recently advertised for. w Dne watch was found on the Rock HIT. road and the other In Mr. J. C. Blair's ? pasture. Both watches may be had f py payment of expenses after satlsfac- t tory identification. * b Free From Contamination. a In accordance with the requirement M )f law, Supt. Barnwell of the Yorkville ^ water works, recently sent to the state (, poard of health a sample of the Yorkville standpipe water for bacterial ex- J imlnatlon, and has Just received a re- , port from F. L. Parker, Jr., bacterlolo- t fist and chemist of the state board, to T the effect that the water Is "free from ^ contamination." v Jolly Joe Dead. "Jolly Joe," the fat boy who was h with the carnival companies that vis- tc eV?4~ lAAAlUtr OAVWA Hmn O a>A rlloH lieu hub luvatllj ouiiic muc uqv, v*ivm it Hickory, N. C., last Wednesday. ? 'Jolly Joe," whose real name was Melrln Grubb, was a native of Wythe :ounty, Va., and was known as the Virginia giant. He was twenty-seven g pears of age and weighed 600 pounds. His d< ith was due to a complication if diseases, aggravated by heat. C Death of Mrs. J. W. Dickson. Information was received here yes- |, terday of the death in Columbia of fi Mrs. Anna Dickson,- only daughter of & Mr. John R. Schorb of Yorkville, and t( vidow of the late J. Walter Dickson, i The deceased was married to her hus- li iand about twenty-five years ago, and ? las been living away from Yorkville w fince that time; but is still remember- F id by most of the older citizens as a a ady of most lovable character. She c vas about fifty-three years of age h ind leaves several children, all grown, s Indexing the Records. The work of indexing the old "Judg- tl nent records" in the clerk's office Is ll arogressing nicely. The Indexing Is * >elng done In accordance with the new c livision?letter system, and will be o .'try thorough. The work will prob- " ibly be completed within the next two J, .veeks. The old equity records are still a n a sickening mess, never having been P straightened out since the fire of 1891. ? ro put them in proper shape would be n in almost endless job; but it ought to >e done. These records contain the <ey to many land titles, and inability ? :o find some particular record may ? > ? - l?-j ku 1A h iuiiic uaj u?/ot u lanu uuuci 1110 iauu. ? There have been cases already with ^ iuch result. To straighten the records s jut would cost several hundred dol- P ars probably; but it would be money (l veil spent. All the real estate owners J >f the county are either directly or in- s lirectly interested. " e Eclipse of the Moon. U Charlotte Observer, Thursday: Luna 11 ,vas in eclipse last night. It was the b Irst in which she had indulged in sev- ^ >ral moons and from street and from tl liazza during the early part of the 1 light many eyes were bent upon the ^ ihenomenon taking place in the east- w ;rn heavens. Nobody had been thlnkng much about an eclipse and it came ilmost suddenly, but there was noth- ii ng shoddy about it. True it was not ^ r< otal, but it was easily perceptible, be- ^ ng at one time over one-half. And || letter a half eclipse visible to the eye b if the Charlottean and North Caroli- ? lian than a dozen jet black total af- % airs "visible In China, Madagascar si ind the South Sea Islands, visible s' lartly at the North Pole." Lunar and solar eclipses are examples of the few p eally worth while things?out of the a fveryday run?which are to be had ri vithout charge, and the American cit- ^ zen never fails to witness them. The r( ;dge of the moon began to darken a slightly at one minute before 9 o'clock; a| it 4 minutes past 10 the satellite enter- p >d the earth's shadow. At 22 minutes a / II . u . ....II nAOinlutU Is liter II tut* t'tlip.ic VVU3 IIIUSI wiupiv^v ind at 12.41 all was over. It was more j" latisfactory than the eclipses of the r< iun. In that the purt within the shadow ft ihowed plainly as a black surface, B vhile in the case of solar eclipses the u' ci <art eclipsed Is conspicuous only by ts absence from vision. The moon w ast night, according to science, was at A erigee. The phenomenon was visible jjj it Washington and North America tr generally, excepting the northwest. m 9' rhe Williamson Corn. It has not been practical to make a a horough canvass of the county to fine bout the condition of Williamson corr xperiments; but from such Informaion as has been obtainable up to this ime conditions are satisfactory. Mr !. C. Hughes who lives five miles outh of Yorkville on R. F. D. No. 7 nd who made such a pronounced sueess with "the method" last year, has II of his corn planted that way this ear. The crop has been doing fine 11 that could be expected of it unti ,'lthin the past few days It has begur o call for rain. Information yesteray was to the effect that there has een no serious loss yet; but unless aln comes pretty soon there will be a onsiderable falling off. It Is not tc e understood, however, that there Is ny fault on the part of "the method.' 'here is other com on the place, culIvated in accordance with the ole ay, and It Is not really so good as thai ultlvated after the Williamson meth ds. Congressman Finley has follower he Williamson plan exclusively on hit arm near Rock Hill this year. H< repared his ground well, planted hit orn without any manure, left It alorn or several weeks, after It had com< o a good stand, then gave it a gooc eep plowing, leaving the corn thorughly clean on ridges. During th< rst week of this month he went ovei t again and put about 500 or 60( ounds of high grade fertilizer to th< ere, and now he is leaving it to do it: o. The crop has not suffered a daj or rain and it Is getting along splenlldly. People who have seen It saj hat lots of it has three and four shooti o the stalk, and it will average twe hoots all over with more to come. Ii here is no bad luck between now anc athering time, the yield will be largei han ever before in the history of th? ilace. MILITARY AT JAMESTOWN. luartermaster Department Had Every' thing In Readiness For the Coming of the Regiment. Headquarters 1st S. C. N. G., Jamesown, Va., July 24.?Our regiments uartermaster, with a detail of sir oen, arrived here last Sunday at t( 'clock, a. m., after having been or he way twenty-four hours. Everything went smoothly enough or ur trip up here until we reached the Janville and Norfolk division of the Southern. The novelty of the situaion had worn off and we had begun t< Dok forward to several hours of rereshing sleep before rolling into Noroik. But that was not to be. Comared with this division of the Southrn the dinkey line from King's Creel o Ninety-Nine Islands reminds one oi ixty pound rails and rock ballast. Ii 3 ine rougnesi roaa i ever hhkou ?hj est girl's sweetheart on. There wai 10 such thing as sleep. Why. after ? areful arrangement of pillows, th< olting would shake them out of youi fay before you could get your head t( hem. We left Danville at 2 o'clock Ir he morning; but there was no sleep. At Boydton on the way down fronr )anvllle to Norfolk we saw on one sid< f the road the dead body of a negrc nd on the other side his smashed uggy and mangled horse. The outfb ad been struck by a train a shori /hlle before. After unloading our stuff including wo wagons, four mules, blankets toves and other equipment, we wen ree to go sight seeing. The first plac< o which we went was Ocean View fhere there Is no Sunday; but instead rass bands, dancing pavilions, whisk] nd beer saloons without number. Then fere fully 10,000 people around thli lace, enjoying themselves at varloui inds of amusements, including bathng In the surf, cards, pool. etc. On Tuesday our quartermaster and ve of his men went with the Second Kentucky regiment on an excurslor teamer to the Portsmouth navy yard r> Fort Monroe and up to Jamestowr sland. where stands the remains ol he old church tower erected by th< rst English settlers three hundred ears ago. Everything Is In readiness for oui egiment. which Is expected to arriv< ere tomorrow. The water is good and lentiful, and the sun Is hot enough. The exposition Is great so far as w< ave been able to see It, but It would ake a week or two to see it fairly. JUDGE PRITCHARD ACCUSED. laid to Have Been Influenced by Ulterior Motives. r/.ac-V Mffihw writes the Charlottt (bserver from Washington as follows: The conflict in North Carolina reulting from Judge Prltchard's so-callec ijunctlon against the going Into efset of the new rate law continues tc e a source of the keenest interest Ir Vashington and much speculation as a the outcome. The Washlngtor 'Imes this afternoon has a long story a which Judge Prltchard's formei onnection with the Southern railwaj s legal counsel Is reviewed, and ir ,hich It is also stated that Judg< 'ritchard will likely have to undergc n Impeachment trial before the nexl ongress. The Times says: "An Intimation has been received ere that Immediately upon the reasembling of congress In December forral charges will be presented agalnsl he judge who now stands accused bj he North Carolina governor of trying a paralyze the courts of that stat? nd prevent the performance of theli roper functions. It is said that the omplaint will be signed by the state ffleials and members of the Judiciary rho will contend that the circuit udge's action Is In open and gross iolation of his powers, that he has ttempted to override the wishes of the eople, chain the legal machinery ol forth Carolina, and hinder the exectlve power of the state In Its enforcelent of laws. "Assistant Attorney General Russel % watching the situation. He Is ir such with Assistant Attorney General ianford, but It Is expected that the itter, who is sent to the seat of troule by the express order of the presient, Is reporting directly to Oystei lay. It Is pointed out there by contitutional lawyers that If Judge ritchard shoulei be upheld in his connntlnnc thorn ivnilM no I1.9P ant i a short time there would be no cat ar state courts. Through his suspenion of a police court sentence by a . rlt of habeas corpus and the threatning of minor and high state author:Ies with a blanket order of contempt ' they dared to execute the law as lid down by the legislature, Circuit udge Prltchard has practically arroated to himself all executive, legislate and judicial powers of the state 'hey say if his stand is just In the ate case he would have power to act imllarlv in anv other or all cases with hich he cared to meddle." ? Charleston special of July 24: The rrational conduct of the late Rev, Villiam Aiken Kelly, which finally esulted in his suspension from the fethodlst conference' of South Carona, is now ascribed to a disordered rain, according to a statement given ut by the family, showing the result f an autopsy performed here recently. Ir. Kelly's conduct always raised a uspicion that he was not mentally ound and the autopsy performed on tie brain showed abnormal developlent and in the opinion of the attendig physicians, Drs. Joseph Maybank nd T. P. Whaley, the minister was not [ sponsible for many of his acts. The utopsy was performed by Dr. Geo. IcF. Mood several weeks ago and his [port was submitted to Drs. Maybank nd Whaley. The report of the phyIclan who made the autopsy and the tatement of the other physicians will rove very satisfying to the relatives nd many friends of the deceased mlniter, In that the statement gives ;ientific evidence that Mr. Kelly's rain was disordered and he was not sponsible for much that he did. His lends at Aiken, North Augusta, arnweu county ann oiner piacea here Mr. Kelly served will be espeally pleased at the corroborative rtdence of the affection of his mind, hlch caused him to act so strangely, n accident near Galveston, In which e was riding, injuring him about the ead and body. furtv.er aggravated his ouhles and after an illness of several ninths, he died at Knoxvllle on June I. The autopsy was performed three ays later, with the results stated, train struck a dairy wagon in which I MERE-MENTION. i Karl Hau, professor of Roman law In a university at Washington, D. C., i has been condemned to death at Carls. ruhe, Germany, for the murder of his i mother-in-law... .It Is estimated that , the wheat production of Kansas this year will be 71,000,000 bushels An ? explosion In a coal mine in the provi ince of Bungo, Japan, last Saturday. , caused the loss of more than 400 lives. I District Attorney Jerome of New i York, is suing the New York Journal for $100,000 damages on charges of 11 h?l The ore sent lemon mm oranae i crop of California is valued at f 14.l 000,000 The American Midland ? Railway company has been incorpor- tr i ated in Oklahoma, with a capital stock ' of >60,000,000 Major Eugene Cof fin, paymaster, U. S. A., has had his 1 left arm amputated as a result of bet ing Inoculated while handling lnfect ed money The Standard Oil com- ^ I pany is under indictment in Tennessee under 1,524 specific counts More than 20,000 sheep have died In Natrona county, Wyoming, during the past few weeks from an unknown cause.... Dr. Edwin J. Russell, a practicing physician of New York, was assaulted by thugs last Friday afternoon on Lexington avenue, and died Sunday afternoon. Four of his assailants are under arrest Fourteen persons are dangerously ill near Frankfort, Ky., as a result of eating ice cream Four Italians, one woman and three men, lmplicated in the kidnapping and murder of the Lamana child near New Orleans, f a few weeks ago, have been sentenced 1 to prison for life Pittsburg, Pa., r is suing the trolley lines of that city > for >684,000 back bills in connection with its street cleaning contracts.... Two negroes were lynched and four persons were killed in pistol duels In Dake county, Tennessee, Sunday The dead as the result of the Pere Marquette wreck last week, now number thirty-five Simon MaI zer, fifty years old, of Pittsburg, Pa., killed himself last Saturday by loud . talking, according to the report of the 1 coroner's physician... .W. H. Kelly, a c department store proprietor, has been ) fined >150 by a York, Pa., Judge, for , selling obscene literature The Russian minister of marine has order- ^ , ed the Baltic shipyards to prepare for ? the prompt construction of a number > of 22,000 ton battleships The gen etal staff of the Italian army haa recommended the appropriation of $60,000,000 for defenses on the frontier.... French exports to the United States during the fiscal year 1907, amounted to 1129,044,567 Jabez Wolffe, an amateur swimmer of London, attempted to swim the English channel on Monday. He covered twenty-one miles of the distance and had to give it up The battleship Georgia is again engaged in target practice off the New England coast The American Union Coal company of Pennsylvania, Is suing the Pennsylvania railroad for $300,000 damages alleging unlawful * discrimination in favor of competitors, Three convicts attacked a guard at the Palmer Brick works, near Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday in an effort to escape. The convicts were armed with revolvers. The guard killed two and the third escaped, but shortly returned jb and surrendered There were seven deaths and sixteen prostrations from the heat in St. Louis, Mo., Tuesday.... Jas. B. Duke, president of the American Tobacco company and Mrs, Wm. Inman of Atlanta, Ga, were married in New York, Tuesday afternoon...... A young woman is confined in the Massachusetts general hospital at Boston, suffering from leprosy Chas, Warner, sixty years old, of New York, went crazy Tuesday, and shot a young . woman to death and fatally wounded * u~ ~* ui~ sua.J I d IJICI (JJIcLlll, I11B UCBl IMCUU I are eighty cases of typhoid fever at , (he New Jersey state hospital for the insane at Trenton Under the new military law of Russia, only seventyr cwo hours are to be consumed In deal> ing with victims of the drum-head T | court martial from the beginning of the trial until execution Chicago r University students are chagrined over , learning that the beauty who has j queered it" over them for three years is a mulatto, & sister of '"Mushmouth" , Johnson, a notorious negro gambler of j Chicago There are 10,000 sufferers from the famine in the district of St. Elizabeth, Jamaica An Armenian blackmailing society of New York, has marked ten of their rich countrymen for death unless they pay . 110,000 each for immunity. They have already murdered one victim An American named Duryea, is under arJ rest at Bilboa, Spain, on a charge of trying to pass counterfeit United States ' money. He had $50,000 of the spurious I paper The legislature of Alabama ' has passed a child labor law, making w ? the minimum age limit twelve years 1 and sixty hours a week A dlsJ charged housekeeper of Ullkjaer, Den1 mark, on Monday hanged three of her . employer's children, three of her own r and then committed suicide by hang' ing General Metzinger, comman- , i der-in-chief, and several of the gener5 al staff of the French army have re> signed because they disapproved a k pzoposea reuucuun 01 ine siauuiug > army of France The state of Misl sissinpi has hied suits against the Standard Oil company for 11,480,000 ' damages for violation of the state's anti-trust laws Miss Irene Kauff' man of Pittsburg, Pa., lost her life at ' Long Branch, N. J., Tuesday, by * - drinking carbolic acid, mistaking it ^ " foi something else... .Police Commis sioner Bingham of New York, admits ! his inability to cope with the flood of crime in that city and demands 1,400 > extra policemen... .Two burglars loot1 ed a New York musical Instrument ' store Tuesday night and carried away 1400 worth of band instruments. SOUTH CAROLINA NEW8. ? Columbia special to the News and " I Courier: Complaint has become so i general throughout the state that the I registration books in the various counties have not been revised In many years, with the result that there is general confusion In the matter of petitions for dispensary elections, that Governor Ansel today issued a circular i letter to all registration boards calling upon them, to at once perform their 1 duties under section 187 of the code I which requires them to revise the lists at least ten days before each election. l According to reports so far received no board has performed this duty in the past ten years. After quoting the t law the governor says in his letter: i "The salary paid being an annual salt ary and the act requiring that this work be done, it is the duty of the different county boards to revise the lists as provided in section 187, and the re- 4 vision provided for in said section is as much their duty as any other duty i they have to perform. When you accepted the office it then became your duty to carry out all the requirements of the law. Your attention is now especially called to this part of your duty in order that you may perform r the same." ? Washington special of July 24, to to News and Courier: It has been rumored here for several days that Clemson college might lose its commandant hereafter, that all guns and military equipment, the property of the Federal government, might be called in, and that lastly, the Federal ap- ^ propriation which the college is now receiving annually might be wlth; drawn. These rumors first came to the knowledge of this correspondent several days ago through people coming from South Carolina. As they stated i 11, Lapi. uay, uie luimcr t-uiiiiiittiiuaiu at Clemson, became dissatisfied with the way things were going there, especially because of the fact that the night before the last commencement several members of the graduating class acted in a way that did not suit him. He thereupon demanded of the faculty of the college that the diplomas of the members of the class be withheld. This the faculty declined to do. With this In mind the News and Courier correspondent today went to the war department and saw Adjt Gen. ^ Ainsworth concerning the matter. It was learned that Capt. Clay, after his detachment from Clemson. made a report of the department in which he recommended that action be taken looking to the calling in of all-government property, etc., and abandoning the military feature of this college. Gen. Ainsworth, in the absence of both Secretary Taft and Assistant Secretary Oliver, absent on vacations, will prob