Scraps and /acts.
? Minneapolis. Minn., July 23: Minnesota
presents the unusual speetaele
of a state with its treasury tilled to
nvertlowiiitj. *f the reeonimemlations
of Governor Eberhart are followed all
taxes will lie abrogated for the year
1911, as there will be plenty of money
coining in tnmugn ortiimiry collections,
together with the surplus of almost
$2,000,000. to keep the state machinery
moving. The unusual amount of money
on hand and which will continue to
pour in is due largely to the settlement
of cases in a manner highly profitable
to the state. The largest of
these are lumber cases, the gross earnings
tax, the Kennedy inheritance tax
cases and others. With the money
constantly piling up the state officials
have been holding secret conferences
for a month to devise some way to
dispose of the fund, and the proposition
to abrogate the taxes, thus distributing
the surplus among the taxpayers.
seems to find most favor.
? Ridgeway, Va.. July 25: The assassination
last night of former Mayor
A. H. Bousman. aged 55, who was
killed by the explosion of a stick of
dynamite hurled under the hammock
in which he was sleeping in his front
yard, has aroused ami mysnnea ine
inhabitants of this village and the
surrounding country. The crime, unprecedented
in this section of the
country, had apparently been carefully
planned by its perpetrator whose
identity the authorities or members
of the victim's family have been unable
even to guess at. The dynamite
which tore the body of former Mayor
Pousman to pieces was thrown from
the street in front of his home about
10 o'clock at night. The charge of
dynamite in th? bomb must have been
a heavy one because the body of Mr.
Pousman was badly torn to pieces. A
bit of fuse of the bomb was today
found on the roof of the Pousman
residence where it had been blown
by the force of the explosion. On the
sides of houses sixty feet away blood
had been spattered and bits of llesh
adhered to the walls. Pits of the
body also were found on the roof of
an adjoining house. The assassinated
man is survived by a wife and son
of 12 years, both of whom are prostrated
by the murder.
? The Memphis, Tenn., Commercial
Appeal of yesterday puts the following
summary of cotton crop conditions:
"The week gives mixed and rather uncertain
returns from the cotton fields.
Considerable improvement attendant
upon dry weather is shown in Alabama.
Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas,
while northern Louisiana is round
- ? t rn, A
ing into a state or rair promise, xuc
Carolinas anil Georgia suffered from
heavy rains early in the week, so that
little cultivation was done on the later
days, while Texas and Oklahoma, without
rain, are approaching a time when
the crop may suffer. In fact, some loss
has already been sustained in southern
and southwestern Texas. In the central
and eastern states the crop is being
"laid by" in a rather poor condition.
some of the fields still being very
grassy. Ten days without rain would
permit of a rather considerable improvement,
but the crop has received
much less work than it would have
gotten with normal weather. The plant
remains small and seems late. It has
put on little fruit, and in many places
has not begun to bloom freely. Estimates
on condition seldom run higher
than 75 per cent, and are often below
this. There are limited districts in
all the valley and Atlantic states,
however, that give a good account."
? Washington, July 22: Cotton, copper,
illuminating oil. wheat?these erticles
in the order named, formed the
most important articles exported from
the United States during the fiscal year
just closed. The value of the cotton
exported was $450,000,000; of the copper
$S3,500,000: of the illuminating oil $62,500,000,
and of the wheat $47,000,000.
Other articles of export ranked in
value as follows: Flour, lard, tobacco,
lumber, upper leather, corn, bituminous
coal and lubricating oil. In nearly
all of the articles of natural production
there was a marked decline in the
exports of 1010 as compared with previous
years, while in certain manufactures
the figures for the year are larger
than for any previous year and the
total for all manufactures probably
will exceed that of any earlier year.
The bureau of statistics, which has
given out these figures, has n?>t yet
completed the total value of the manufactures
exported. The falling off is
nu>st marked in corn, wheat, flour and
meats, wheat falling from $101,000,000
In 1X92, the high year, to $47,000,000 in
1910; corn from $85,000,000 in 1900 to
$25,500,000 in 1910; flour from $75,000 000
in 1X93 to $46,500,000 in 1910: lard
from $60,000,000 in 19n6 to $43,000,000
in 1910; bacon from $46,000,000 in 1S9X
to $18,500,000 in 1910; fresh beef from
$32,000,000 in 1901 to $7,750,000 in 1910.
and cattle from $42,000,000 in 1904 to
$12,000,000 last year.
? There is no room in this country
for a pessimist." declared Richard H.
E<liii<>mls. editor of the Manufacturers'
Keeord. in an interview at Atlantic
City, X. J., Sunday. "Stocks may
rise and fall." he continued, "so-called
authorities In this country and
abroad may at times grow pessimistic
about the outlook for business expansion.
but any man who has any real
knowledge of the inherent strength
of the material interests of this country
must necessarily be a 'bull' on the
United States. No man can study the
natural resources of the United States
in comparison with the known resources
of other countries, and for
that matter of the world, without being
amazed at the marvelous possibilities
given by nature to our land.
We have heard so much about conservation
in the last few years and
about waste of natural resources that
a good many people have been laboring
under the impression that we are
rapidly exhausting the resources on
which our great material development
has been founded, <>n the contrary.
we have only scratched the
surface. We have scarcely commenced
to do the real work of American
development. As a country, we have
geographically the most strategic po
siiioii 111 ini> wiinu; our naiurai resources
an* so measureless that il is
well nigh impossible to comprehend
what the future is to bring forth.
? Frankfort, K.v? July 1'nless
eonviets or prisoners eoiilineil in jail
tan prove lieyotul any shadow of a
doubt that they are iniioeeiit of the
c rime with whic h they are charged and
have been convicted, they will not be
pardoned in the future by tjov. Willsoii,
unless on condition that they may be
returned to the penitentiary or jail
without trial if it can be proved bv
reputable citi/.en.s that they have violated
the conditions of tin- pardon
or any of the laws of the state,
c mo <?f the conditions of the pardons
in all eases is that those
who are benefited by executive clemency
will not drink, and if married will
support their families. At the next
meeting of the governors' conference
his system of pardoning imprisoned
men will be brought up before the conference
and discussed. Not long ago |
Gov. Wills*ui pardoned a man \vh?> was
reported to him to he dying of ronsuniption.
After he was out it was not
expected that he would live hut a few
days, hut as soon as he left the prison
he hegan to improve in health, and it
was learned that his emaciated condition
was caused hy his eating soap.
Gov. Willson studied the pardon and
came to the conclusion that there
should he a change in conditions of
pardon. He began to place certain
conditions in the pardons, hut has 1 c< n
severely criticised for it, so he referri d
the. i|uestion to Attorney General
limit hilt. Attorney General I tf at hitt
replied in writing that he had the
tight to conditionally pardon prisoners.
ITlie llnr);vill: <?itquirrr.
Entered at the I'ostofflce in Yorkville
as Mail Matter of the Second Class.
YORKVILIF. S. C.t
TUESDAY. JULY 20. 191ft.
Minni.E-of-the-rmd politicians are
liable to get run over l?y automobiles.
OEnwitA's (log tax will probably
raise $100,000. doing to the (logs for
money.
It ?t noticeable that none of the gubernatorial
candidates arc taking hand
primaries.
Christmas is only five months away.
You might just as well begin to save
tip now.
It is unite worthy of note that the
anti-Prohibitionists are not worried
about any prohibition candidate other
than Mr. Featherstone.
Tut: banking resources of the south
have more than doubled during the
past nine years. Cotton is largely res
ponsihle for the increase.
JtTWiK Cooke of North Carolina, has
laid down a rule of law to the effect
that the lending of a hot tie of liquor to
a friend is equivalent to a sale.
Tiik man who does something to
make other people happier, wiser and
more comfortable is far more useful
to his fellows than the man who simply
makes money.
Tiik Minnesota state treasury has so
much money on hand that it will not
he necessary to levy state taxes during
the next fiscal year. Minnesota enjoys
biennial sessions of legislature.
Tiik department of agriculture estimates
tha' South Carolina made 5,000,ooo
bushels of wheat this year, and is
calculating on 50,000.000 bushels of
corn. That is beginning to look like
living at home.
Tiik Ohio Republican state convention
is in session today to try to pick
out a gubernatorial candidate to defeat
Governor Harmon. The leaders are all
agreed that the prospects of success
are not encouraging.
Tiik present condition of the whisky
question is the best front a prohibition
standpoint that has been known since
the long fight commenced; but Prohibitionists
will do well to remember
that this condition is in very serious
danger.
Jack Johnson told a New York magistrate
the other day that he gets arrested
for exceeding the automobile
speed limit in different cities, for advertising
purposes. The lodge ought
to have helped his advertising scheme
by sending Jack to the work house for
thirty days.
Kuom the story reproduced from the
New York Herald on another page, it
appears that the tight between the
bulls and the bears has gotten down to
the real thing. This story throws some
interesting side lights on the manner
in which cotton prices are made also.
It seems that lies figure about as much
as supply and demand.
It is quite true that the governor
does not make laws. Laws are made
by the general assembly. But the power
behind both the governor and the
general assembly is the people, and
when the people elect a governor to
carry out a certain policy, the general
assembly does not generally stand in
the way?hardly ever long enough to
hear anything drop.
Tllfi facts that the Columbia State
has published about Mr. I-Vatherstone
with reference to his wise and judicious
efforts to promote prohibition in
South Carolina, only seem to urge his
fitness f<?r the governorship. If the
State really desires to urge Mr.
Featherst one's unsuitableness, let it
give some facts prejudicial to his
character, ami capacity.
It makes tis blush to think that part
of Tennessee was once a part of (,'ood
old safe and sane South Carolina. Hut
thank Heaven it was not the part in
which Ham Patterson was liorn.?
Greenville News.
\VK had no idea that the News was
so very sensitive as to allow its feelings
to l>e affected hv conditions that
existed when North Carolina was a
part of South Carolina. The case is
too much for its and we arc constrained
to refer it to the Daily Mail
Tut Texas Democratic primary has
resulted in the nomination of usear If.
Golipiitt for governor over Gone Johnson
and William I'oimlextcr hy a plurality
that will prohaldy reach tto.'MHi.
Gohiuilt is an anl i-Prohibitioiiist, and
the nth'-r Uvo art' I*r<i)>iIionists. TlxI'!
>liiI iIionists art- largely in tin* majority:
hut as tlx- |tliit'siTity plan <>1 ?tains
in Texas, tlx- Prohibitionists divided
between tlx- t\v<? eatxliilates. and
('<>|i|iiitt eaine in without dill'x ulty. The
proposition to siihiuil to a vote of the
l>eo|de a eoxstitutiotiaI amendment te
|>r<diildt lite sale of whisky in tlx- stale,
en it ie? I l?y al'oiit jx.iumi majority.
Tut: old state dispensary that lx>rrihl
topns. whieh l>red so mueh dehanehery.
eorrnption and fraud has
lieell swept olli of esisteliee save ill six
eollllties. There are people who eoligratulate
themselves that it is gone
forever. They are mistaken, it may
he going. hut it is not jjone. Kaeli
oil" of tlx- eonnty dispensaries is a
eoiilphte eolllltelpart of tlx- old llllehine.
We have not the slightest doiil t
that ea< h and every one of them is as
eorriipt as tie- dead parent. Kaeh one.
we think, also is tlx- huh of a politieal
wheel. The main issue In the present
campaign is n??t local option: Imt
whether or not these county dispensaries
are to remain as the nucleus of
another state-wide system that will
eventually I me more powerful and
more corrupt than th old system wis.
The remaining dispensaries should lie
wiped out.
Tin: story of the farming operations
of Mr. .1. Frank Ashe, as published in
another column will no doubt prove
unite interesting to many readers of
The Kiniuirer. Mr. Ashe is held by
in*'n\* iiiile'i-a lo lie tile best all I
round farmer in York county. While
we arc not prepared to give unreserved
endorsement to this proposition, we
have no hesitation in declaring that he
ranks with th" foremost. His father
before him was a good farmer and
from the beginning of his own career,
lie has held to the belief that there is
i-o limit to the possibilities of which
his acres are capable. He is a believer
in cover crops, both for their direct
and indirect value, and his fields are
s Idom "lying out" for more than a few
weel s at a time. When it is not cotton
or corn, it is peas, burr clover, sorghum
cane. rye. crimson clover or oats.
Then Is something growing all the tin v.
and nothing delights him more than
to watch the development of the various
crops and their effect, the one on
the other, and in the improvement of
his land. With it till, he is making
money, and adding to the value of his
farm every day. We do not think there
is any doiiht, ahout the fact that Mr.
Ashe is working along the right lines,
the lines that will win, and it gives us
pleasure to think of the time when
there will be great crowds of York
county farmers follnwhi" along the
path that he and a few others of his
class are now so plainly blazing out.
That is ugly testimony that Rev. J.
Walter Daniels is bearing against the
city of Columbia; but the most startling
thing about it is that a man of the
standing of Rev. Mr. Daniels should
feel constrained to tell the truth about
the matter. We are prepared to believe
all that Mr. Daniels says, except
we think he may be mistaken, perhaps
in picturing Columbia as being so much
worse than other places. Columbia is
bad enough; but we think that if Mr.
Daniels knew as much about other cities
as he knows about this city, h
would probably not be so emphatic
about placing; Columbia in a class ny
herself. As to whether Rev. Mr. Daniels
undertook to give all the reasons for
this state of affairs, does not appear
from the Lexington dispatch to the Columbia
State, published elsewhere: 1 lit
in our opinion much of the trouble is
traceable to a rotten social system.
The influence of Christianity is undoubtedly
the greatest known power
in conserving morality and right, and
the laws of the land come next; but in
old towns especially, the dominant social
organization is a power greae i
than either of these. It frequently
happens that when influential members
of such organizations go wrong,
they have the power not only to dodge
law; but to escape unquestionable exposure.
This naturally operates not
only to the injury of the inner circle,
but to society as a whole, and weakens
the power of both church and state.
Rut it is a warm subject that Rev.
Mr. Daniels has ripened up, and if he
JHJI.sUf.N II ill K^HHiian IIIIUIUOKMIO,
ho will soon find himself in <*i place
that will test his faith, his courage and
his sincerity to the uttermost.
CRIPPEN ON MONTROSE.
Scotland Yard Thinks London Murderer
Has Been Caught.
That Dr. Hawley Crippeii and his
former stenographer, Ktiul Clara Deneve.
are aboard the Canadian Pacific
steamer Montrose, now on tin- high
seas hound for Montreal, is the firm
belief held by Scotland Yard, says a
London cable of yesterday. The cable
continues:
"Since Crippen and his companion
disappeared more than two weeks ago
from the Hill Drop Crescent residence,
where a mutilated lody, supposed to
be that of Crippen's wife, was found
under the cellar lloor, search has been
made in many countries, special attention
having been given to France and
of the many clues followed to their
ending, that which led the police to the
docks at Antwerp and to pursuit across
the ocean seems to hold out the best
prospects for the capture of the missing
doctor and the Leneve woman.
"Inspector Dew is now aboard the
steamer Luurentic, which left Liverpool
on Saturday last and is due to arrive
at Montreal July :t<t. That is the
date also of the arrival of the Montrose.
but the Scotland Yard otficials are
hopeful that the inspector will reach
Rinioiiski in time to arrest the fugitives.
Inspector Dew knows both Crippen
and the Leneve women personally
and can be depended upon to identify
the couple, no matter under what disguise
they are traveling. According
to one dispatch received here from
Montreal the Canadian Pacific officials
were in receipt of a wireless message
from the Montrose, stating that the
Leneve woman had been found and had
confessed. Another dispatch from
Montreal stated that the company had
been unable to establish couimuuicntion
with tlie steamer.
"The London Kxpress publishes a
circumstantial story of their arrest on
board the Montrose. <m Friday tin*
couple \v?Ti' overheard discussing their
seal"-, according t<> the paper, and the
captain <>r (Ik- steamer iIh-ii cuiiimunicat?*?I
witli Scotland Yard and ?n Saturday
decided t<> attest the couple.
"Crippcit was searched and deprived
of a revolver and cartridges and a pen
knife. He deinandetl to know what offense
he was charged with and was informed
that lie had contravened the
law hy giving an assumed name and
traveling with a woman in the guise of
a hoy. As he was tillable to produce
proofs that his name was Robinson or
that the woman was his wife, he and
the girl were placed tinder arrest in
separate cabins and are being watched
day and night."
? Lexington special of July 24 to the
Columbia State: t'sing for his theme
the "Home and Home Inllueitce." the
lie v. J. Walter Itaniel of Columbia,
presiding elder of tin- Columbia district,
preached a startling sermon in
the Methodist church here litis afternoon.
(hiring the course of his clo<|Ucut
discourse, I >r. Itaniel declared
with feeling that "Columbia, the capital
of the proud state of South Carolina.
is the wickedest city south of
Philadelphia." lb- said that there
were more debauched young men and
young women in and around Columbia
than in any other section of the state.
Hasing his remarks on the parable
whe'c the rich man's son hail left his
home and had wasted his motley in
riotous living. I tr. Haldol drew several
pictures which touched the hearts
of his lienii-rs. lit- said that almost
every tlay young men come his
hone* in (* >1111111 >ia ami acknowledge
that they have left tln-ir htiim-s ami
have lived lives of "shame ami disgrace
ami seek advice." lit- urged Unimportance
of home training the importance
of raising aright the young
men ami young women of the lain), ami
the importance of parents making
their homes so attraetive that their
ehihlren will not want to leave. lie
tleploretl i lie faet that rieli parents often
give their ehihlren large sums of
money am! set them up in business.
"This." lie stiill. "was the worst thing
that eouhl ever happen to j.ny eliihl.
He said that lie did not helieve in endowments
of any kind, whether for
sehoo| or what not. that every eliihl
should make his own mark in life.
"Tetieli the heart and mind and all else ]
that is necessary in life will come." lie
said.
LOCAL AFFAIRS, v,
111
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. s,
Miss Janie McPaddcn, Yorkville vi
No fi?Will appreciate return of V
Kohl Harrett lost at Hethanv, July 2'i.
o o
-J. s.
I'. N. Moore, Captain Com.? Itequests y
members of Co. I.,., to have all j",
equipment in the Armory at li o'clock
Thursday afternoon.
C. P. Cordon. Supervisor?(Jives no- .
lice to land owners to clean trash. ''
trees, rafts, etc.. from streams on
their lands.
W. F. MetJill?Is located at Hickory ??
drove for the practice of dentistry. *
Will be at Sharon Mondays and .V
Fridays.
J. Ij. (luy. Cam<lon, S. C.?OITors sev- y
oral tracts of land for sale and low ii
prices for quick sale. j
J. L. Williams & Co.?Mark all men's n
spring clothes down to a final
closing out price. Reduced prices
on pants. a
Amusc-U Theatre?Will present "The \
Marked Time Table'* and the
"Woing of Miles Stnndish" in tnov- 1
tng pictures tonight.
Thomson Co.?Calls attention to the
fact that its big July sale closes '
next Saturday and quotes attrac- ,
tive prices. ~
Yorkvllle Hardware Co.?Has Keen t(
Kutter food cutters and calls atten- "
lion to the many ways in which it
can and will pay its way in your
kitchen. T
Kirkpatrick-Relk Co.?Will receive r<
orders tomorrow and Thursday for H
made-to-measure clothes by the "
house of strouse & Hros., the high s'
art clothiers. f(
J. Q. Wra.v?Makes special reductions h
on light weight clothing for men. w
New hat styles, low prices on do- ti
mestics. Grocery offerings. d
National Union Rank. Rock Hill? t!
Gives you an idea of how money 1'
will work for you if you will start a o
savings account with it. w
b
Mr. T. Ed Brandon of Clover R. F. s]
I"). No. 2. harvested and threshed out
3It6J bushels of wheat this season.
From ten acres he got a yield of about
twenty-five bushels to the acre.
Mr. R. M. Wallace, president of Ried- f.
mont Democratic club, writes that the p
campaign meeting appointed at Riedmont.
will be held at Smyrna, and that t]
the campaign party will govern itself v
accordingly. a
Arrangements are being made for e
another Farmers' Institute in York- e
ville, under the auspices of the Co- "Y
operative Demonstration work along v
about August 20. Prof. Ira W. Wil- o
Hants will make the principal address d
of the occasion.
The Columbia Record's tlooil Kuans "
party will l>e able to tell sunn- wonder- n
ful stories of South Carolina highways
when it reaches Yorkville on August *
IS. In the lower part of the slate, the '>
party has had frequent experiences of ll
having to have its automobiles dragged ?
out of the mud with teams. 1
Mr. W. E. McGhee, division passen- ^
ger agent of the Southern railroad, was ^
in Yorkville yesterday to make ar- ^
rangements with reference to the j
transportation of the First regiment to
Aiken this week. Mr. McfShec says
that the Southern will run its annual q.
personally conducted excursion from *
Oaffney to the Isle of Palms on August r
22rd. and as usual he is expecting to .
carry a hig crowd. ^
BASEBALL NOTES.
Yorkville's ball team won all three i
games played with the Carhartt team *
at Rock Hill last week.
a
The game on the local grounds yes- j,
terday afternoon was a burlesque, j,
Sharon's team was outclassed in ev- o
ery particular and failed to score p
during the game. One man, who s
claimed to he "Ty Cobb," the famous k
Detroit hitter and base runner, did f
manage to reach third. n
Chester comes to Yorkville this af- c
ternoon for a series of three games, n
and will bring a very strong team, t>
The opening game will be called at f'
4.3fi o'clock. These will he the last V
games played on the local grounds t<
by Yorkville. _
At Clover on Friday and Saturday. ?
the Cloverites will have McAdenville
as opponents.
MILL ASSESSMENTS. v
The state board of equalization de- 0
cided this year to lix the assessment or j
ctilton mills and cotton oil mills for ''
taxation at .10 tier cent of their value "
instead of 60 per cent as heretofore.
The aggregate value of all the cotton
mills of the state as determined l?y the ?
state board is $54.010.336, and the as- '
scssed valuation is $27,455,170. The fig- J.
ures in the lirst column below show the
value of York county mills as deter- a
mined by the state board, and the fig- v
ures in the second column show the ?
value as assessed for taxation:
Cotton Oil Mills. p
Highland P'k. Mfg. Co..$40,000 $20,000 n
Victor Cot. Oil Co 40.000 20.000
Clover Cotton < >il and A
Chining Co 25.000 12,500 b
Cotton Mills 1
AraRon Cot. Mills $145,060 $ 72,980 ! '
Arcade Cot. Mills 124.000 67,000 } !
Howling Oreen Knitting
Mills 5.000 2.500 ,
Clover Cot. Mill 2S0.000 140,000 '
Fort Mill Mfg. Co HIS,285 60.118 *
Hamilton - Carhardt
Cotton Mills 200.000 1(10.000
Harris Mfg. Co 21.000 10,500
Highland Park Mfg.
Co 151,500 75.750 ,
l.ockmore Cot. Mills 71.250 .25.625 _
Manchester Cot. Mills 228,500 119,250
Neely Mfg. Co 60.000 20.000 .
Victoria Cot. Mills... 100,000 50.000 ,
Tavora Cot. Mills.. 20,875 15,428
Wymojo Yarn Mills.. 95.920 47.960
York Cot. Mills 152.500 76.250 j,
Cidumbia Water Pow- *(
er Co 250,000 125.000 ?
* p
WITHIN THE TOWN. r
? The week-end crowd last Saturday 8
afternoon was the smallest this sum- v
mcr, because no doubt, of the retarded 11
farm work.
r
The splendid inducements that the n
local dry goods people have been offering
during the past two weeks, have
been bringing lots <>f trade from all ri
directions. Things had gotten so dull e
that it began to look as if there was j
no money in the country; but the dry c
goods people have demonstrated the p
fact that this idea was not correct. p
The attention of the business poo- v
pie of Yorkville is called to the fact d
that they want to take notice of that v
little telephone company that has been g
organized at MeConncllsville. The or- n
gun Cation of this company has arisen h
out of the fact that the MeConncllsville tl
people have long been bottled up with tl
reference to telephonic communication a
with the outside world, and they tire 1?
now trying to help themselves. They a
have liven offered free admission to the h
Chester exehauge and it is their pur- c
pose to I hi i l?] a pole line to Chester hy l?
way of the Itrattoiisville road. They si
are also desirous of a eonneetiou with li
Yorkville. hut have not yet made as g
satisl'aetory arrangements with the tl
I'iedmoiit eoiupany as Chester has of- tl
I'ered. The .Mef niilivllsville people do a ts
good deal of business with Yorkville n
and most of them have a very kindly if
feelini? for this plaee. This proposed tl
phone line will lie an a (treat deal for h
tie- eiiltivatioii <d' the pleasant relations tl
already existing. and will he eapahle f?
of Still further developing hlisilless re- tl
latioiis prolilahle to hotli. It is up to u
the Yorkville people to look into the ci
matter. The MeCounellsville people '
will, there is in> reason to doiiht, do h
their full hest. ii
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ABOUT PEOPLE. '?
II
Miss Caro Stevenson of lllaekstoek h
is the guest of Miss IJeha Cain in (j
Yorkville. tl
Miss Alee Starr, of Yorkville. spent K
several diivs last week with relatives 1'
in Cork Hill. tl
Mrs. J. A. Hoke of I.aneuster, spent "
Sundnv with Iter daughter. Miss Itessie
lliikc. in Yorkville. "
t<
Mr. and Mrs. Claretiee Knykeudal of r(
Itoek Hill, visited Mrs. \Y. P.. Moore, in ,|
Yorkville this week. ,,
Messrs. S. N. .lohnsoti and .!. !.. San- a
ders of Yorkville. went on a trip to it
Itiehmoiui. Va.. last week. h
Mr. Sain Latimer of Columbia is ri
visiting his aunts. Misses Ceorgia and u
Annie Witherspoon in Yorkville.
Misses Winnie Crawford and lies- .(
sic I'egram of Vnrkville are visiting < ,
Miss Louise (!uy in Lowryville. (,l
Miss Mary Ilrooks Ionian, of York- T
ill*? is visiting her aunt. Mrs. Kelly loan,
in Bullock's Creek township.
Mr. John Wallace of Atlanta. tin.,
tent Sunday and yesterday in Yorklie
with ids brother. Mr. W. M.
failure.
Miss Annie Stevens who has IxVn
tending the summer with relatives in
loiiroe, N. C., has returned t her
nme in Yorkville.
Miss Margaret Hudson, <>f Waxltaw.
C.. and Kstelle Hargrave of Charitte,
are the guests of Mrs. W. <?.
,'hite In Yorkville.
Misses Rosa and Margaret clarkson
f Texarkaua. Texas and Miss Esther
prings of Charlotte are the guests of
irs. Thos. K. Mi-Diiw in Yorkville.
Miss Mamie Moore of Yorkville. left.
esterday to attend the marriage of
er brother, .Mr. W. I\ Monro, to Aliss
,eila Rarre, which takes place this
mming in Laurens.
('apt. John I>. MctNmnell <>f McC'otiollsvillo,
was dangerously ill last week
s the result of an attack of acute inigestion,
but the latest information
rem him is to the effect that he is
etter.
Messrs. T.ouis Roth, ,1. P. McMurray,
. A. Tate, Mrs. S. C. Ashe atul Miss
inuie Ashe of Vorkville, and Mr. J. T.
"rawford of McOotinellsville. left yes?rday
afternoon for Spartanburg to go
n the Clinchtield excursion, which left
Spartanburg this morning.
Rock Hill Record: With last
hursday's issue safely before our
readers, Mr. Schwrar. the editor of
a is paper (more intimately known as
the old man,") repaired to the windivept
sand-dunes of Sullivan's Island
r>r a few days' recreation. The saltulen
breezes of the South Atlantic
ill no doubt reintbue bim with the
ecessary energy to carry on the aruoiis
duties of publishing a paper of
he nature of the Record, and during
is absence if the Record is not gotten
ut to suit your ideas file your kicks
ith the business manager and posslly
he will turn the job over to the
kickers" and see what kind of a
heet they will get out.
McCONNELLSVILLE FARMERS.
Although it is not to be claimed that
irm management has reached anyhing
like the high stage of systematic
evelopment of which it is callable,
here is no question of the fact that
underfill progress is being made
long this line and among the many
xceptionall.v able, intelligent and enrgetic
farmers to be found throughout
'ork county, are not a few who are
rorthy to rank with the foremost of
ur local leaders in other lines of eneavor.
The writer has entertained the view
utlined for quite a long while, has
lore than once expressed the same
:lea in the editorial columns of The
Inquirer, and is recurring to it now,
""nttcn ,?C VV'h'lt hi* RflVV 121Mt I'YiflaV flf
ernoon and Saturday morning while
11 a brief visit t<> McConnellsville,
tvelve miles south of Yorkville.
1 did not know I was going down unil
a few minutes before train time;
ut I had been hearing a good deal of
he splendid fields of corn of Messrs.
. T. Crawford and J. M. Williams,
nd decided that it would probably be
forth while to take a look at them,
he first people T met as I stepped |
rom the train were Messrs. P. M. Buris
and O. L. Sanders, both of whom
isisted that I had never been in Mclonnellsville
before in my life, declined
a accept my declarations to the conrary.
and wound up with hospitable initations
to spend the night with them,
laving in mind, however, an invitaion
from Mr. J. Frank Ashe, which I
ssumed still held good, notwithstandrig
that it was given quite a while
ack, I got around the embarrassment
f having to express a preference by
elling them of it, and Mr. Burris, at
ome little inconvenience to himself,
indl.v took me out to Mr. Ashe's house.
res, he grumbled a little, and I could
ot blame him at all, because he was in
harge of two young ladies, and to take
te meant an extra trip. If I had proosed
to hire a team or borrow one
rom Mr. Sanders. I believe Mr. Burris
rould have been willing; hut when I
old him that 1 understood it was only
mile and I had come prepared to
,-alk, he melted. A neighborly, kindearted
gentleman is Mr. Burris, as
very one who knows him, and that
leans almost everybody, will testify.
Mr. Ashe lives about a mile southrest
of the station, and his home, a
onveniently arranged, neatly painted
ottage of about seven rooms, is
>cated in an ancient grove of oaks, cears,
walnuts, etc., on the eastern edge
f his 250-acre farm. Across the road,
o the north of the house is a big field
f fine corn, east of that a piece of
,'oodland, then a brag cotton patch of
wo acres, to the east a pasture, to
he south, the harn, and seven or eight
ores of orchard sowed in cane, to the
rest, fifteen or twenty acres of peas
howing up beautifully from oats stable,
and beyond that twenty or thirty
cres of cotton, more woodland, more
asture, more peas in stubble land,
lore corn and more cotton.
Mr. Ashe was not at the house when
Ir. Burris set me down at the door:
ut Mrs. Ashe and their daughter. Miss
iillis, made me welcome and enterained
me until Mr. Ashe could be sent
or. He was off at the back side of his
arm somewhere, and when he did
how up, I must confess he looked the
art all right. Suspenders (two) crossd
over a check shirt, holding up a pair
f well worn blue overalls, stout shoes
nd wide-brimmed black hat. The shirt
,as pretty wet about the small of the
ack. There was two or three days
rowth of stubby beard, and no collar,
f course; but the characteristic, good
aturcd smile was in evidence, and
,'ith Mr. Ashe's many friends that
ounts for more even than when he is
iked out for a wedding.
If my unexpected visit was an inonvenience
to Mr. Ashe, I never found
; out. On the contrary he made me
pel as if he were as well pleased at
i.v being there as 1 was. and when I
roposed a walk over the farm, he was
ight in for that too. except that he
eemed more or less doubtful as to I
hether an office man like myself, unsed
to walking except on concrete
aving, would be equal to the rather
ough route he had blocked out in his
lind.
Naturally the first place to which Mr.
,811c took me, was the orchard in the
par of the house. He thought I would
njo.v some fine peaches, and I did, but
was still more interested in the other
rmtents of the orchard. It was waist
igh in sorghum cane, which had
een sowed broadcast and which
as as thick as the hair on a
og's back. A new growth of burr doer
just beginning to show, from the
round underneath, and twenty or
lore pigs of all sizes were running at
lrge in the enclosure. I could not see
iie pigs until later, Mr. Ashe calling
tiem out into the barn lot, showed me
handsome lot of Poland-China and
lerkshires. He thought his orchard
rrangement was about the best that
had been able to arrive at. The orhard
ground needs to be cultivated;
lit does not produce cotton or corn
atisfaetorily. The hoys can get a Rood
viug off the dropping fruit and the
rowing cane without hurting anyIll
ng. Besides shading and nursing
ite young clover that is coming on to
ike its place as it goes of, the cane is
laking a big lot of excellent hay that
i worth a great deal more on the farm
tan anybody would like to pay for it
1 cash. Front the orchard we passed
trough the barn lot where there stood
>ur or five milkers worth from $40
> $t;n each, and down in the barn | astro
was to be seen a Hock of geese busy
ropping the grass. The Hock is small,
lit Mr. Ashe says they are little troule
and no expense and he intends to
u rease their number.
Front the barn lot we crossed the
ad into the big corn Held already reTrod
to. There are about 25 acres
f it. Mr. Ashe explained that it had
een his intention to make it a brag
eld; but had slipped up somewhat
trough his own oversight, lie had
otteii a limited quantity of Marlboro
rolilie seed, just about enough to plant
lie Held. The ground was in as line
>iuliti<m as he had ever seen, and lie
cut ahead and used all his seed, with
0 thought other than that he was sure
1 get a good stand. By reason of the
r?ol weather and cut worms or someting,
there were many skips. He do. s
ot believe in replants much anyway,
nd could not have done any replanting
he had wanted to because it would
ave been ruinous to mix another va
lety f i si'cii. iif pm iih- ik'iii ui-ii
..rkiil: IiiiI mi :i<-<-<>11111 nl' his failure
i pet tin- riplit kind of a .stand did not
se as niueh fertilizer as lie had in ndeil,
and there lie was. I tut it is a
lie Held of corn all the same. Miieh
f it is planted on turned under elover.
he stalks run S, 10 and 12 feet high;
hut few of thorn have less than two '
ears and some have five, six and sev- I
en. The best of it looks as if it ought <
to make fifty bushels to the acre, and '
none of it looks like it ought to run less l
than twenty-five. The whole field, i
however, was badly injured by the i
storm on Monday of last week that was
pretty close kin to a cloudburst. The
water flooded ditches, broke over terraces
and cut ugly slues that are likely
to be in evidence for quite a while, i
Looking at this field from a distance, <
Mr. Ashe was able to point out some i
interesting comparisons as the result i
of corn following cotton and turned
under clover. The boundaries are distinctly
marked ly variations in color,
the clover land corn being a dark green
I and the cotton land corn being appreciably
lighter. The harvest promises
to be in about the same proportion.
r rum me nig corn nem, we crossed
another cotton Held and entered a
woodland pasture, enclosed hy a Rood,
suhstantiai, large mesh wire fence.
Here to my suroris", I found a small
(lock of fine Southdown sheep. "I
bought a ram and two ewes three years
ago," explained Mr. Ashe, "and there
are nine now. I used to raise sheep,
and for one reason and another I got
out of it for a while; but I am not satisfied
to be without them. Mr. Moore
Burr is and I got a ram and two ewes
each, and what we are going to do. I
cannot promise. You know the does
break out among them every once in
a while, and you can't count with any
certainty what you are going to be able
to do. Dogs got amongst Mr. Burris's
yesterday and killed two or three. But
so fur as my experience goes If you can
only keep the dogs away from them the
rest is easy."
Across the sheep pasture, we came
on another ldg cotton field, another
cane field and then another twenty-five
acre cotton field. The sun was now
well down and we started back for
home, cutting across still another big
cotton field, and skirting a third pasture,
the one in which Mr. Ashe keeps
his yearlings. He has about twenty of
these, and he is adding to the herd.
"When cattle got down so low in price,
I quit fending with them," he said, "but
mm* if i? 1 tin a 11 c tn l.u?h lih*.. it iu
going: to be worth while again, and I am
giving them more attention." The
yearling pasture is surrounded by a
good, strong barbed wire fence, and every
night the cattle are driven into a
pen, where their accumulated droppings
are more easily available for use
whenever desired.
Passing through a field of pea- "
on oats stubble, Mr. Ashe mentioned
the interesting circumstance that the
oats recently taken off were sown last
September in growing cotton. After cotton
picking was commenced, but before
it was half over, the oats were put in
three furrows to the row, and the yield
was about the heaviest that was made
on the place.
When we got back from our somewhat
strenuous walk, we found supper
ready, and from the unusually bountiful
spread, notwithstanding the short
time in which there had been to prepare
it, I could not help feeling that the
ladies were making honored company
of me. They had lots of good things,
including delightful country cured ham,
and a lot of tempting extras, and practically
everything produced on the
farm, except the coffee, sugar, salt and
pepper. That I enjoyed it all goes
without saying; but I could not help
feeling that if Mr. Ashe lives that way
all the time, or most of the time, it is
up to him to cultivate a large measure
of sympathy for the people who have
to depend altogether upon the grocery
stores.
After a good night's rest and breakfast
at sunrise, Mr. Ashe had a little
mare hooked to a buggy and he took
a drive down the big road past the
farms of the "Lindsay boys," Mrs. Wm.
Ashe, John Love and others. The
Lindsay boys, sons of the late Andy
Lindsay, are Mr. Ashe's near neighbors,
and he says, with good reason too,
so it appeared, that they are the "prettiest"
farmers in the country. Their
corn and cotton rows run as straight
and even as if each one was according
to accurate measure, and all their crops
are perfectly clean. Mr. John Love's
crops are also fine.
One of the most interesting things
that was called to my attention was the
way Mr. Ashe has reclaimed a piece of
practically worthless bottom on the
farm of his sister-in-law, Mrs. William
Ashe. Mr. Ashe has been supervising
filiu farm uiiwo th? t \ f hist lirnfh
er, Mr. Win. Ashe, some nine years
ago. The branch was running along
the surface of the ground over a long
stretch of bottom, and the whole thing
was a big swamp. There were places
where a man could stand on an apparently
solid spot, and with his weight
shake the underlying mass of jelly-like
mud for a distance of ten feet in every
direction. Hundreds of dollars had
been spent during previous years in an
effort to secure adequate drainage
without success. After studying the
situation carefully and finding that
there was plenty of fall a short distance,
from the lower end, Mr. Ashe
cut a short ditch, removed rafts and
logs and left tne action of the water
to do the rest. Now the bed of the
stream is full eight feet below the surface
of the field, and the former worthless
bottom is producing enough corn
to supply the entire farm. Mr. Ashe
thinks, and so do I, that this is a most
capital, practical illustration of the
value of the law which requires people
to clean logs, rafts, etc., out of streams
during the month of August.
Driving 011 back to McConnellsville.
we took Sir. J. M. Williams in the buggy
with us and went out to take a look
at his prize corn field. He has about
seven acres within a quarter of a mile
of the station that promises not less
than HO bushels to the acre. Mr. Williams
put his laud in good shape,
planted an ordinary gourd -ed variety
and put on about 700 pounds of fertilizers
in two applications. This corn is
now all but made. A drought would
hurt it some, hut not badly.
I only got a glimpse of Mr. J. T.
Crawford's tine patch. We heard the
train coming while we were looking at
Mr. Williams's corn and had to hurry
back to tlie station. Mr. Crawford has
twenty acres right in the centre of the
village. He planted Marlborough Prolific.
put 1.200 pounds of S - 3 - ft to the
acre in two applications and 300 pounds
i>r nitrate 01 soaa as ne iaia u uy. air.
('. J. Hughes. the county demonstration
agent. who has seen all the best
crops in the county, says that in his
opinion, Mr. Crawford is ahead of everybody.
He had no idea that the yield
from this field will be less than l.ROfl '
bushels and will not be surprised at 200
<>r 300 bushels more. Mr. Crawford has
very little to say, except that he thinks
it is the best corn that he has ever 1
grown.
The McConnellsville farmers have no 1
complaint about the seasons they have
1 ecu having. Rain has been coming
about as needed and generally tile
crops are clean and in fine condition.
With tin- exception of tin- cloudburst
on Monday of last week, the seasons
hav been better than if they had beep
made to order. " 1
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LOCAL LACONICS. 1
Until January 1, 1911. i
We will send The Yorkville Knquircr '
from this date till January 1, 1911, I
for NX cents.
Picnic at Bethany.
The picnic under the auspices of |
the Ladies Society, at liethany, last i
Saturday, was a splendid success. The I
attendance was good ami two games i
of ball, ltethany vs. King's Creek, and !
liethany vs. clover, added much to <
the enjoyment of the day. ltethany
won both games. I
Fire Near Hero.
The barn of Mr. R. L. Ferguson, near
Hero, in the ltethany neighborhood. (
was destroyed by lire last Thursday .
night between s and !i o'clock. The |
origin of He- tire is unknown, one tine |
mule was burned to death in (lie barn f
ami two others were injured, one of
iliein so badly that it may die. All the |
other contents of the larn were do- ;
slroyod. (
Cleveland Springs Hotel.
Shelby Highlander: From a Shelby y
commercial tourist, who met Mr. John |
A. liar win last week in Athens. Ha.. I
learned : ii.it i lie ntuv piirointtjei, ?n. ,
I>;ii*\viit. will no; lliis year inprove tin* "k
Cleveland Springs property, which is
Iwn inila-M cast i?f Shelby. Nn hotel J
will l>c huilt tliis ycar, hut next year
will see a splendid costly and modern ^
hostelry. e?|tuil to any summer resort .
in the south. It will he a llrst-elass '
and stylish hotel that will eater to the
host travel, and no money will he spared
in its building and e^uipim-nt. Mr.
Ilarw in is anxious to get the iuterurl an c
electric railway via Cleveland Springs, t
and it will pay him well to aid this c
Miterprise. The liuiltlitifc of a nice ho- s'
:cl with all modern improvements at P
['leveland Springs will attract many <<
visitors anil add much to Shelby's a
<i ospei ity. The Highlander wishes Mr. in
Hnrwin much success in the improve- hi
in -nt of this famous resort. ai
II
hi
MERE-MEN TION. tt
Henry Gentry, a negro, was bum- n
ml at the stake tit Melton, Tex., Fri- "
ilay night t?y a mob of 1,000 men, wo- l'
men ami children. Gentry had at- "
tempted to enter the home of a widow "
and later in resisting arrest, had shot
(.'unstable James Mitchell to death. He "
was later wounded by a posse and tak- 1V
en to Helton, where the mob took J'
charge of him and burned him to
death Eleven thousand volts of "
electricity passed through the body
of Michael Foley at Porchester, X. Y.,
Friday, and although very seriously
injured the man will probably recover.
Joselihine Mnnzelhi l? *'
the young Italian girl who killed the
slayer of her father in New Orleans
several weeks ago, was 011 Friday acquitted
of the charge of manslaughter
in a preliminary examination
Bonds valued at $70,000 have myster- S
lously disappeared from a safety de- u
posit box belonging to the Kusso-Chi- '
nese bank of New York during the t<
past few days. None of the bank em- s
ployes are missing and there is no clue c
to the missing securities.. . .Leon But- b
ler, a street car motorman of Pitts- r
burg, Pa., on Friday ran over and
killetl his ll-year-ohl son who was r
playing in the streets. ... Willis Coun- a
selnian, a Chicago broker, has been a
adjudged in contempt of court and ^
sentenced to serve three months in 1
prison. The man obtained a divorce v
by claiming that his wife had desert- c
ed him, when she was really in an in- 1
sane asylum. He later married and P
the court has set aside the divorce '
proceedings Harold Cramer, 70 *'
years old, and a reputed millionaire,
was in a Pittsburg, Pa., police court 1
Friday charged with being a suspicious '
person. Twelve girls, ranging in age 1
from 12 to 16 years, appeared against 1
him. Cramer was fined $25 and warn- ^
ed to leave the city for all time I
Jesse Hill, aged 20, is under arrest at
Walnut Hill, Ark., charged with the
assassination of his brother-in-law, A. 11
W. Shirey, a millionaire, last March. u
A Cincinnati, O., woman was a
operated on Friday for ecshineoccus, a R
disease sometimes caused by close as- P
sociation with dogs. Its development c
is due to a germ found only in the in- c
testines of dogs, being eventually lodg- J1
ed in the human system through con- *
stant association with the( animal. *
The growth removed from the region v
of the woman's liver was the size of a "
man's hat Mollie Gaston, a negro
woman, stabbed her husband's paramour.
Hattie Brown, to death in Charlotte,
Saturday night. The woman was
arrested... .August Ropke, the assis- '
tjint Uflproinrv * * *
- unu uuimneeper oi me
Fidelity Trust company, one of the
strongest financial institutions of
Louisville, Ivy-, is still in jail at Louisville,
being unable to furnish bail in
the sum of $25,000. It is stated that
his stealings will probably total $1,140,000
Theodore Douglas Robinson,
a nephew of ex-presldeat
Roosevelt, is running for congress
from the Twenty-seventh district of
New York Carl Ixiose and Giuseppe
Cambaro were electrocuted at
Sing Sing prison, New York yesterday.
Loose killed his daughter and Cambaro
murdered his brother Leibus
Brjiski is in the Tombs prison, New
York, having been arrested on a warrant
from Belgium, charged with burtlaiy.
He entered a vault and stole
bonds and. silver to the value of 150,000
francs. He will probably be extradited
to Belgium for trial A
year ago Lieutenant Robt. R. Fletcher,
U. S. A., stationed at the Presidio,
California, was 25 years of age, weighed
1G5 pounds and measured 31 inches
around the waist, and was six feet tall.
Today he weighs 210 pounds, measures
42 inches around the waist and is 6
feet 4 inches tall Joseph Bush,
said to be the leader of the mob that
lynched Etherington at Newark, Ohio,
two weeks ago, has been arrested and
placed in jail in that city The
strike of 12,000 workmen of the
Northeastern railroad of England,
has been settled. The estimate of the
loss occasioned by the strike is $6,000,000
Revenue officers found a
60-gallon still and 600 gallons of beer
under the home of Chas. Pernell, a
recent candidate for sheriff, in Cleburne
county, Ala., Friday.Two
thousand bales of cotton were shipped
from Columbus, Ga.. warehouses, to
New Yorl: last week by fast freight.
The value of the cotton was $160,000.
Walter Hall, teller of the
Greenwich bank of New York city, is
missing, and the bank otHcers are trying
to locate the whereabouts of $35,000
or more Frank Nix, a negro
was sentenced to seven years in prison
at Buchanan, Ga.", Friday, for deadly
assault on the sheriff in trying to escape
from jail, and an additional seventeen
years on a plea of guilty to the
charge of burglary Madame Mathilde
Franck, the wife of an English
journalist will compete in the proposed
New York to Chicago aeroplane
race Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth, a
society leader and noted horsewoman
of Genesee, N. Y., recently covered
213.3 miles in 15 hours and 17 minutes
on horseback. She used twenty horses
in relays and probably broke the
world's record for long distance riding
The government at Rnlti
more on Friday Hied suits to dissolve ti
the "bath tub trust," the annual out- a
put of which totals $100,000,000
The forest tires in Minnesota, Michi- a
gan and Manitoba are still raging, t
Several towns have been practically s
destroyed, several lives have been lost 1
and the property loss will run into b
the millions. .. .Senor Antonio Maura, b
former prime minister of Spain, was b
shot in the leg by an anarchist, as he f
alighted from a train at Barcelona, a
Friday night... .Jacob Schiff, a New <>
York banker, and a party of friends, b
who were making a tour of Alaska. b
have been forced to abandon the trip v
on account of the prevalence of mosquitoes
?in the interior... .The Stand- tl
ard Nitrogen company of New York, J1
organized with a capital of $10,000,000, 3
formed to manufacture fertilizers for
agricultural purposes by producing 11
bacteria which were to absorb nitrogen
from the air, has been forced into d
bankruptcy.... Eight persons, six of
them under 16 years of age and one
a girl, were drowned in New York and
vicinity Sunday Twenty-live per- '
sons, after vainly fighting fire on a f"
big gasoline yacht following an explo- ''
sion, were compelled to jump over- *
board into the Nanticoke river, an
arm of Chesapeake bay, Sunday, in Cl
order to save their lives. All of the a
party were rescued Wm. J. Bryan. "
who has been advocating a local option
plank in the Nebraska state a
Democratic platform, goes into the 11
platform convention today, over- n
whelmingly defeated, unless he can ?
change the complexion of the conven- P
tion by a speech that he will make B
advocating local option before the a
convention Nine persons were *j
more or less liuit in a collision of s'
electric cars on the Williamsburg c<
bridge, New York. Sunday Five at
firemen were buried under falling
walls in Cincinnati, O.. Sunday, fol- NV
lowing an explosion of natural gas. u
All of (hem were seriously injured. The a
property loss was $2;"i0,00ft -Jj
it is reported in a dispatch from To- H
kio. that the Japanese steamer Tetsurie-Maru.
sank off Chimin, Korea, "
Saturday night, and of tlie 246 per- r<
sons on board only forty were saved.
A war department hoard itives- ti
tigating the gun explosion at Fortress
Monroe last Thursday, hy which
twelve men were killed and a number <;
Injured, found that the explosion was \\
caused by a failure of the automatic pi
safety device on the tiring mec hanism w
to work properly There were gi
nine deaths and hundreds of prostra- es
lions in New York Sunday from heat pi
More than 10(1 persons were it
killed and over 1.000 were injured by st
i hurricane which swept over north- tl
?rn Italy Sunday. The property loss w
s in excess of $5.000.000 Na- |><
ional banks to the number of f>90.
representing every state in the union,
lave applied to the post office department
to be designated as postal
saving^ bank depositories. The re are
=ix applications from South Carolina.
.....Mayor Oaynor of New York, cut n<
he expenses of one department of the
ity government $500,000 during the
lrst six months of his administration,
mil at the same time got better work
mil more of it from the department.
?-Chester Reporter: Will Wylie.
olored, who was paroled several
uonths ago by Oov. Ansel with several
years of a penitentiary sentence \\
ill to serve, furnishes another examle
of misplaced mercy, Wylle was
mvicted of arson while still a youth,
ml sentenced to spend twenty years
the penitentiary. A petition for
is pardon, however, was circulated,
ltd was signed with others by Col.
;. A. Love, whose house it was he
urned. Wylle's > ( uth at the time
te offense was committed, and his
(other's aged and destitute condition
'ere ?the reasons advanced in the petion.
which was granted by Gov.
use I on condition that Wylle would
?turn to his mother and behave hintdf
in the future. A few months ago,
owever, he strayed off up into York
uunty. and soon thereafter broke his
arole by robbing a house. He has
een on the dodge ever since, but
as arrested here Saturday by Mr. A.
). Sanders. He will be turned over
> the York county authorities, and
fter serving his term for his last ofense,
if convicted, will probably have
;> serve out the unserved portion of
Is old sentence.
MECKLENBURG DECLARATION.
The Lowries and Averies, good old
coteh-Irish folk, ht-lil a "clan* renion
the other day at Yorkville. S.
near the hamlet where the first of
he family in this country settled. It
eems to have been a successful ocasion.
Three days were consumed
n speech-making. receptions and
eadlng of papers on the history of
he family. Several states were repesented
Members of the family gave
musical entertainment at the city
uditorium, and the next day they
ad an intra-family baseball game,
t was a unique event, but the Avery
.ho read a history of the family and
laimed that W'eightstili Avery signed
he Mecklenburg Declaration of Indeiendence
was indulging in fiction, not
act. It is possible that the further
laini that Weightstill fought Andrew
ackson is true, as Andrew had pleny
of protoplasm and used it often,
bit Weightstill did not sign any such
hing as the Mecklenburg Declaralon
of Independence, because there
ias none to sign.?Richmond Timcs)ispatch.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch renarks
very pleasantly upon the reinion
hold by the Lowrys and A very*
t Yorkville some days ago. It dls:races
itself, however, by forming the
durals with "le" Instead of "y." Not
ontent with this exhibition, it proeeds
to spell Col. Waightstill Avery's
inme "Weightstill." We only wish
hat the grand old patriot, "WaltUill-on-the-Lord"
by original naming
vere here to rebuke it as it deserves.
?Charlotte Observer.
McCONN ELLSVILLE MATTERS.
'orrmi>??n'J?nr* of the Yorkrille Enquirer.
McConnellsville, July 26.?Any vlslor
into this section who would see the
Ine fields of corn of Messrs. J. M. Wlliams
and J. T. Crawford, and the
tearby orchards of Capt. J. D. McConlell,
would consider this a land of
iromise. And indeed it is so, for the
orn fields are the finest ever seen in
his section and in the orchards, the
rees are breaking down under loads
if luscious peaches and apples.
The McConnellsville baseball t?am
eft yesterday for a trip through Cheser
and Lancaster counties. The teams
.f Chester, Riehburg, Fort Lawn,
leath Springs and Lancaster will be
net on the trip.
Misses Minnie and Kate Bradley of
tussellville, Ark., are visiting their
Lunt, Mrs. W. N. Ashe.
Mr. Henry Mitchell of Rock Hill, was
l visitor in town yesterday, calling on
lis old war comrade, Capt. J. D. McDonnell,
who has been very ill.
While visiting at Capt. McConnell's
ecently, your corresi?ondent was
ihown an interesting and sad war relic
n the roll book of Co. "E," of the Fifth
egiment. The book was carried in the
>reast pocket of J. T. McKnight at the
>attle of Caines's Mill. A bullet pierced
hrough the book and reached the heart
>f the brave soldier.
Mr. Featherstone Not Inconsistent.?
rhe Columbia State has signally failed
o make good its charge of inconsisten y
against Hon. C. C. Featherstone.
The State charged that Mr. Featheritone,
now the prohibition eandidate
or governor, had at one time advoated
local option.
This is true, but it is also true that
dr. Featherstone said at the time that
le favored local option only as a means
o an end?as a step toward complete
itate-wide prohibition.
As The Yorkville Enquirer points
>ut, Mr. Featherstone has always stood
or prohibition, even when favoring
oeal option as the best thing obtainade
at that time.
And as The Enquirer points out, Mr.
'eather.stone, realizes, as others do,
hat the cause of prohibition must go
orward. It cannot stand still. Unless
he whole state is made dry, those
ounties which are now dry may go
lack to selling liquor.
The fight for prohibition has been a
ong and hard one. Mr. Featherstone
vas among the first in the state to advocate
the cause of prohibition, and he
las never wavered and has never been
iiconsisieni.
The State ought to know this as well
is anybody else. Certainly it has falen
down in its attempt to prove Mr.
"eatherstone inconsistent. It has not
leceived anybody, for the record in the
natter is too fresh and too vivid for
inybody to forget it.
At the same time we cannot go as far
s the Yorkville paper, when it charges
he State with upholding local option
imply because it favors the sale of
iquor and wants the sale of liquor to
>e continued. We believe the State
lonestly believes each county should
lave the right to settle this question
or itself, without caring very much
bout the sale of liquor one way or anther.
We believe the State honestly
lelieves this to be a great principle,
iut as we see It, it is a principle not
forth contending for.
Local self-government is a good
hing, in a way, but the will of the inaority
of the intelligent people of the
tate is a much better thing.
And tbat is a part of the platform
poll which Mr. Featherstone is makig
the campaign for governor.?Anerson
Daily Mail.
Gubernatorial Prognostication.?The
Ireenwood Index, usually an accurate
orecaster as to political matters, beeves
from the reports it gets that
'eatherstone will lead the primary for
overnor, with Rlea.se or McLeod a
lose second, with Hyatt, Richards
nd Duncan following In the order
amed. This newspaper does not pre?nd
to be a political prophet, and we
re not informed as to conditions in
ie up-country, but since the campaign
icetings have been held in this part
f the state we have been at some
ains to inquire as to sentiment. From
hat we can gather Featherstone has
lead over any other candidate, but
dchards and McLeod are gaining
:rength. Most of McLeod's vote is
aming from the former Blease vote,
nd it is our -candid opinion that in
lis section of the state at least Blease
ill get a much smaller vote than
sual. his vote going to McLeod. Richrds
is getting some of the Feathcrone
?vote down here, while Mr.
fyatt's candidacy is not making a seous
impression. Not that he does not
lake good speeches and is well re
?ived. but the people generally seem
i have the hlea that this is not his
me to run.?Bamberg Herald.
Greenville Dispensary Election.?
reeiiville is to have an election on
liether or not to re-establish tin- disI'lisary.
We'll bet a bottle of soda
ater it was the morally stunted who
>t up that petition, and that being the
tsc it is proof that prohibition does
rohihit. even in Greenville, because if
did not prohibit, and the morally
iiutcd could get all tliey wanted, and
ie I'rohiliitionists were satistled, why
otild anybody want a dirty old dis nsary
??GafTney Ia'dger.
AT THE CHURCHES.
BAPTIST.
There will be prayer meeting Wedi*sday
evening at 8.30 o'clock.
PRESBYTERIAN.
There will be prayer meeting on
'odnesday evening at 8.30 o'clock.
SSOCIATE REFORM EP PRESBYTERIAN.
There will be prayer meeting on
'ednesday afternoon at f? o'clock.