Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, January 10, 1911, Image 2

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Scraps and facts. ? The Carnegie Trust company of New York, capitalized at $1,500,000 is in trouble, and in the hands of the New York state bank examiner. This is the third bank that has gone down as the result of disclosures in connection with the doings of Joseph G. Robin, banker and promoter, now under indictment. Robin was president of the Northern Bank of New York, and was caught with a shortage of several hundred thousand dollars wasted in accordance with the most approved methods of modern high finance. It is claimed in the dispatches from New York that the failure of the Carnegie Trust company win noi uatr i?u.? i?ireaching effect in a financial way. ? Wheeling, W. Va., January 8: Facing a situation which no other state in the Union will face this winter, the legislature of West Virginia, will convene at Charleston, on Wednesday. The solution of the political complication which, by the death of United States Senator Stephen B. Elkins, now involves the selection of two senators falls wholly to the Democratic party. Five candidates active and receptive, were in line to succeed Senator Nathan B. Scott, Republican, but since Mr. Elkins's death two others have been put forward for one or the other of the vacancies. One of these candidates is J. H. Holt of Huntington, Democratic nominee for governor in 1900: the other is Dr. A. S. Orim of St. Mary's. It is known that none of the seven men mentioned has received the pledges of thirty-nine legislators, the number required to nominate in the Democratic caucus. There is a disposition to hold the caucus as early as possible, for a prolonged series of ballots is deemed inevitable, and the legislature has alloted but forty-five days to its session. ? l ne programme iur uic ouuiucm Commercial congress which will he held in Atlanta on March 8, 9 and 10, has been comnleted and has just been issued by (5. Grosvenor Da we of Washington, managing director of the congress. President Taft heads the list of invited speakers, most of whom have accepted. In addition to President Taft it includes Roosevelt. Woodrow Wilson, governor-elect of New Jersey; Ambassador Jusserand of Prance; Jas. Wilson, secretary of agriculture; Secretary of War Dickinson; Mayor Gaynor of New York; Ambassador Bryce of England; Ambassador ae lieBaira of Mexico; Geo. Westinghouse, Pittsburg; Geo. W. Perkins. New York; Hon. John Barrett, Washington, D. C.; Senator Duncan U. Fletcher, Florida; Senator Elihu Root, New York; E. W. Robertson, Columbia, S. C.; Leland Hume, Nashville, Tenn.: Edward Hines, Chicago; Gov. Joseph M. Brown of Georgia, and Gen. Julian S. Carr of North Carolina. Subject relating to the commercial development of the south will be discussed. This congress is expected to be the most important yet held. ? The secretary of the navy, Von L. a r i? A rvraHt' cmV>Q rrflCQl'nP' WC.VCI , id JII a |/I vn.? vmvwowwv'o I mess with Governor Donaghev of Arkansas. in connection with the christening of the battleship Arkansas. The custom with reference to the christening of a battleship named after a state, has heretofore been to refer the matter to the governor of the state concerned and request him to appoint a sponsor. In this case the secretary took it upon himself to appoint as sponsor the daughter of an Arkansas congressman. Immediately afterward the governor named a snonsor. The secretary of the navy claimed that he had notified the governor as to the situation in plenty of time and had made his appointment only after the governor had shown by his neglect that he was going to give no attention to the matter. Governor Donaghev has written the secretary in effect that he believes his part of this story, and not only tells Mr. ATever in unmistakable terms what he thinks of him: but gives him to understand that while the state of Arkansas had been Intending to show its patriotism by making a rich gift of plate, etc.. it will take no cognizance of the occasion whatever. ? Rev. Dr. Dubois H. Loux, pastor of the Center Congregational church of Meriden, Conn., who has embraced Socialism and has written a novel presenting his theories of dealing with present day social problems, read his resignation as pastor at the morning service last Sundav. In th's letter he said: "If you will understand my terms. I hold it without ouestion that organized Christianity today is dissolute. It is playing fact and loose with the principles for which Christ died. It dare not be true. A church today is a social organization with religious and moral tendencies. It must require doctrines that are congenial and undfstnrbing. Out of its necessities it feels that it must keep its ear to the ground - u - r i * u :? to mare sure trie wuriu ui ?ran it 10 not offended in it. For this reason, to he true to my ministry. I must stand outside the pale of pastorate, that I may voice my protest purely. I have counted the cost. The doors of the churches will be closed to me. Our colleges could not afford to welcome me into a professor's chair. B"s'ness doors are closed. For two months, while occupying the pulpit. I have been testing the fact. T am still knocking for some door to onen where I mav supnort my family doing an honest work while sneaking the message of an honest minister and if necessary I can 'dig.'" | ? Four of the international aviators who were with Moisant at New Orleans when he fell to his death have sent to the Associated Press a signed statement of their findings in an examination of his machine, made on the spot immediately after the accident. Rene Simon. Rene Barrier. Garros and Audemars all declare that the evidence shows that Moisant had shut off the T\r\T\'c>r tViot ovorv ctav nnrl nrmtrnl was intact and that nobody will ever know why his "wonderful and admired airmanship" met defeat. But on one thins: they are emnhatic?that Moisant's mechanicians Gershpach and Ferlet. had taken every precaution, and that his death was in no way due to any omission of theirs. Albert Filoux's statement recently published that Moisant's Bleriot had been too often broken and repaired, and that it was over weighted with gasoline when he went up for the Michaelin prize, they deny as an unfounded imputation of neglect. Filonx was the mechanic who made the Paris-London flight with Moisant, and in a personal letter to a New York newspaper man received at New Orleans. Garros writes for his fellows, supplementing the statement to the Associated Press in part as follows: "An incrimination of carelessness causing death is a professional dishonor for these boys who are known in France among the best men who ever worked on aviation fields. What was printed about them made them so sorry that they cried when they talked to us about it. They deserve nothing but praise for the way they prepared Moisant's machine, spending a whole day's time changing every bolt and even* wire of the controls for new ones." ? Washington, January 10: There will be forty-two more representatives in the sixty-second congress than there are in the sixty-first. The reapportionment bill. prepared by Representative Crumpacker, chairman of the house committee on census, provides that the membership of the next house will be -LIS. The momhorch it? io 901 vnrla of population as fixed by the new bill is 211,800. Py setting this ratio none of the states will lose any of its representatives. It was declared today that this will avert the fight which has been threatened over the bill. If this apportionment stands the following gains will be made by various states: New York. 6; Pennslyvania. 4: Oklahoma and California. 3 each: New Jersey. Illinois'. Massachusetts. Texas and Washington 2 each: Alabama. Colorado. Florida. Georgia. Idaho. Louisiana. Michigan. Minnesota. Montana. North Dakota. Ohio. Oregon, Rhode Island. South Dakota. I'tah and West Virginia 1 each. The basis of this apportionment is one congressman to every 211.800 people or majority fraction. The forty-two additional congressmen will be about equally divided between Democratic and Republican states, so that the reapportionment will have but little effect on the Democratic majority secured in the November elections. The apportionment by states follows: Alabama. 10; Arkansas. 7: California, 11: Colorado. 4: Connecticut. 5: Delaware. 1: Florida. 4: Georgia. 12: Tdaho, 2: Illinois. 27; Indiana. 13; Iowa, 11; Kansas. 8; Kentucky, 11; Louisiana, r< 8; Maine. 4; Maryland, 6; Massachu- hi setts, 16; Michigan, 13; Minnesota, . 10: Mississippi, 8; Missouri, 18; Montana. 2: Nebraska. 6: Nevada, 1; New Hampshire, 2; New Jersey, 12; New York. 43; North Carolina, 10; North Dakota, 3: Ohio, 22; Oklahoma, 8; " Oregon. 3; Pennsylvania, 36; Rhode h Island, 3: South Carolina, 7; South a; Dakota. 3: Tennessee, 10: Texas, 18; I'tah. 2: Vermont, 2; Virginia, 10; ' Washington. 5: West Virginia, 6: n Wisconsin. 11; Wyoming, 1. si \\ IThr \torhvillc inquirer. J 1 Entered at the Postofflce in Yorkville w as Mail Matter of the Second Class, ii ?? w ?? il YORKVILLE, S. C.: k TUESDAY, JANUARY 10,1911. y n A marriage license law would lessen t< such need as there might l>e for a di- t! vorce law. a d After all we sometimes think that t] editing a newspaper is very much like n sailing an air ship. n ti The general assembly convened to- a day at noon, and now there are forty n days of interest and suspense as to a what will be done. n ? fi The Yorkville Enquirer says mar- r riage is easy in this state, but di- ? vorce is impossible. Tell it to Judge Sease.?Anderson Daily Mail. . But we were only referring to The Constitution. w a TV,?i\Tnii keens on reminding ^ us that we cannot borrow money with- Sl out good collateral. It just will not n understand that there are some things ^ that we would like to forget. _ si Let us have a marriage license law, 8 even if it be necessary to pay the license fees out of the county treasuries. a There should be some official record a of marriages as well as births and n deaths. n . y The boy who raises a hundred bush- g els of corn on an acre this year will n win a place among the "prominent e folks." Jerry Moore won more honor last year than any man in the state, g not excepting Governor Blease. r m SI All the larger towns in the state [ with the exception of Spartanburg, are [ grumbling over the census figures handed out yesterday. Spartanburg is L well pleased; but Greenville says her figures are nothing like correct. Anderson is also kicking. s< w The fight against allowing Mr. Lori- sl mer of Illinois to hold his seat in the ir United States senate has grown good b . and warm and it is probable that the tl matter may take up the remainder of cl the present session. Senators Bever- ci idge and Owen are the leaders of the c opposition to Lorimer. a g ? ?i 111 nlooon nnt n 1 ne corn ciuo uu.vs >? m iiivaot u forget that this should be the hundred w bushel year. There will be no complaint in York county if some boy beats the cj record of Jerry Moore: but there will it be lots of honor for the boy who makes S one hundred bushels. Let this be the " hundred bushel year. a - h We hope that the bill introduced two a years ago to increase the salaries of g state officers will be revised and pass- d ed. The expenses of the state are a heavy enough; but it will be better to 11 retrench elsewhere, and pay the state a officers salaries sufficient to enable b them to live decently. Now is just as c' 61 good a time to start as there will be. p Andrew Carnegie says that the ai world's peace may be maintained forever, if the larger nations will demand that disputes be settled by arbitration, n and punish recalcitrant nations by stopping their mail. The idea is that ^ now-a-days no nation can get along without mail communication with oth- a: ?r uations; and although the proposed ?j expedient may seem simple enough it would likely prove quite as effective as g Mr. Carnegie thinks. P _ s< h There should be very little trouble s' about refunding the township bonds; a but we sincerely hope there will be no delay, else the townships interested ci may be compelled to go on paying 7 b per cent interest when they should not a have to pay more than 4j per cent or u possibly less. The advice of Mr. W. J J. Roddey of Rock H?ll wouia ne very T valuable in getting the best conditions o for Catawba and Ebenezer townships, tl and Mr. S. M. McXeel or Mr. O. E. p Wilkins of Yorkville, could do the same thing for York township. j, F Secretary of State McCown recom- . mends the passage of a law to require ^ all enrolled acts to be typewritten in o duplicate so that the original may be ' 0i bound in permanent form and to ob- ^ viate the errors that result from copy- c ing. This is a good idea. Notwithstanding the modern improvement in " s< our methods of writing, both as to tj speed and legibility, the general assembly has held to the old way, and u lots of trouble has resulted from the '' work of incompetent clerks in the en- tr grossing department. All acts should be typewritten. fs< Speaker Cannon has at last come in 11 for full vindication at the hands of j| the same congress, which turned him Ct down so hadly last spring. It will he tl remembered that he was overruled on c'< a point of order as the result of a !('j combination of insurgent Republicans and Democrats. The ciuestion at issue h; then was the appointment of the rules j?' committee by a committee elected by jf, the house instead of by the speaker, a I The insurgents had made a big fuss over the matter, and the Democrats chimed in of course, to add to the discord. When the speaker was forced to rule, he boldly stood his ground and ?r went down with living colors. Tester- pi day the tables ware turned on tlu* in- *o surg* nts. A regular Republican this time raised the same quest inn as be- r: fore, and the insurgents, of course, had hi to stand as tiiev stood before. Hut le conditions otherwise have changed. The Democrats will control the next t" house l>v a big majority and it is a question of whose ox is gored. They w did not care to put themselves on rec- h? ord against the right of their speaker of to exercise the same powers that Mr. f' ei Cannon has been exercising. Mr. Can- t)l non ruled as he had ruled before. A hi ?gular Republican appealed to the ouse and the Democrats voting with te regulars sustained the speaker. Some of the papers are laying it on >. H. Hand, state superintendent of igh school work, for saying that there re too many institutions of higher Llucation in South Carolina. We do ot fully agree with Mr. Hand In this tatement; but we have no quarrel dth him either for thinking or saying hat he did. As we understand him, e is driving at the idea that there is eed for more and better high school ork in the high schools and less of it i the colleges. In other words he ants the high schools to do high school ork, and colleges to do college work, n<l ill thin wre think he is rieht. Rut hen it comes to criticising Mr. Hand do severely, we advise our brethren of tie press to go slow. There is not an bier, more earnest or more zealous ducational worker in South Carolina ban Mr. Hand, and when he makes a tatement about educational matters, t is pretty safe to assume that he nows what he is talking about. Hello, Anderson Daily Mail! That ou. Carpenter? Wo have something ice to tell, and because we know you o be sympathetic, we would just a litle rather tell it to you than to almost nybody else. We had a call last Friay from a most excellent citizen of his county, who explained that his lother appreciated The Enquirer so luch that she felt like she wanted o do something more than subscribe nd he put down several names of eighbors and people 011 the plantation nd paid for them. By the afternoon lail of that day there came a letter rom a wealthy citizen of York, who esides in another county, a gentlelan, who after a long career of honord usefulness, has retired from active iterest in business affairs except here he can help make lighter, easier nd more pleasant the burdens of his ?llows. In that letter there were ome pleasant words of encouragelent, the names and addresses of a ozen friends, all gentlemen of more or ?ss prominence in their respective pheres, and a check in amount exactly ufflcient to pay for a year's subscripion for each of those dozen gentlemen, t regular club rates. And Carpenter, 11 of these people insist that we do ot make any hullabaloo about this latter; but we just cannot help telling ou this much. Don't you think that is reat? We think it is fine, one of the lost pleasant of the many pleasant xperiences we have had in quite a hile. Ring off. Central; we've got to et busy trying to keep The Enquirer p to the high standard that is being et for it by these snlendid people. CHEAPNESS OF HUMAN LIFE. .egal Proceedings That Seem Little Short of Farcical. R. M. Bateman. indicted as accessry to the murder of Eddie Bossard, ho was shot to death at the railway :ation in Sumter on Christmas evenig by J. W. Harper, has been granted ail. According to the story told by le witnesses at the inquest, Bateman laimed to have been insulted by a olored hackman named Bossard 011 hristmas morning. That evening he nd Harper went to the station toether. Harper approached Eddie iossard, a brother of the man with horn Bateman said he had the difliulty, and demanded to know why he ad insulted Bateman. The boy dislaimed having done so. Thereupon, was testified, Harper cursed the nero and shot him with a pistol, inicting a mortal wound. This man Harper has not yet been pprehended, although it is stated that e has employed an attorney and has nnounced through the latter that he ill surrender himself in due time, iving as his reason for delaying to 0 so the fact that he is a "poor man nd fears that he might have to stay 1 jail." Passing over the fact that no man ble to hire a lawyer would seem to e warranted in coming to such a conlusion in South Carolina at the presnt time, the situation which is here resented is truly amazing. According to the testimony adduced t the inquest, the killing of Bossard as apparently unprovoked, but, aside om that, are men who shoot others own in South Carolina, to be perlitted to consult their own conven nees as to when and how they shall eliver themselves into the hands of le law? When a grave crime is committed nd the offender escapes, the otlicers f the law owe it to the public to how that they have exhausted all leir resources to apprehend the fuitive. Has that been done in the resent instance? It would not seem j when, as it appears, the manslayer as been in communication with a imirn ?f ttm nnnrt nn.1 vn? imounces his intention of remaining t large until he is ready for trial. Hut there is still another side to this use, and it invites attention. As has een printed, Bateman, indicted as an ccossory to the crime with which larper stands charged as principal, as granted bail Thursday night by ustice Eugene Gary, of the state jpreme court, in the sum of $3,000. his action was taken over the protest f the solicitor of the circuit in which le alleged murder occurred. Suplementary to these proceedings, we uote the following from the Mailing correspondence of the Sumter ;em, published in that newspaper last riday afternoon: "Judge John S. Wilson, of the 3rd tdieial circuit, heard a motion on [onday for bail for R. M. Bateman f Sumter, charged with complicity i the murder of Bossard. the young alored hack driver. Solicitor Philip [. Stoll. for the state, and Capt. \V. . Davis for the defendant. The judge jquested additional affidavits, so the lotion was withdrawn for tho time > as to allow the counsel to obtain icm." Were these additional affidavits obtined? If so, why was the motion ot renewed before Judge Wilson? If ot. why was application made afresh i Justice Gary? Moreover, while we would not as rt that Bateman was not entitled to nil. since facts may have been premted to the court of which we are ot informed, we have read tlie testitony as given at the inquest, and in s light tind as a matter of ordinary immon sense, we venture the opinion lat either Bateman. the alleged ae?ssory, was not entitled to hail at all. r else his hail should have been fixed t a lower sum than that of the mempr of the bar who is charged with aving shot down a fellow townsman t Pranehville a few weeks ago, fol wlng a quarrel, and who was reused from custody by Justice Gary ls<> in the sum of $3,000 bail. All this is the aftermath of a Christ tas day killing?and the end is not et!?News and Courier. ? I'ensaeola, Fla., January 8: Alftst exhausted from hunger and exnsure. the result of being buffeted long ut sea in a small boat. John ougherty. engaged in work on the .-tension of the Florida Fast Coast illway. near Sand Key. was brought ere tonight "n the Dutch steamer ordrecht. Dougherty was picked ui> r the steamer last Thursday. Ae>rding to his story he was tryinp to i cross a small channel when otie of Is oars broke. lie was unable to ake any progress against the tide iih the other and was carried to sea fore he could attract the attention ' his fellow-workmen. After twenty>ur hours he gave up hope of res-1 ie. but the next morniiiR he sighted j ie big steamer bearing down upon in and his rescue quickly followed. | LOCAL AFFAIRS, ?* in wl NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. bi W. C. Spencer, Exer.?Calls on the ^ debtors and creditors of J. W. Mar- la tin, deceased, to make settlement |S with him. aj L. M. Grist's Sons?Offer for sale, in sj( sets, barn records as prepared by nJ Mr. Bun Brydges. McD. Arledge, Charlotte?Gives addi- st tional details as to the Palmer lot on jr East Liberty street. gg R. J. Herndon?Talks about fine ei pianos, including the high grade We- gc ser and Janssen instruments. Yorkville Buggy Co.?Is overstocked "tj. with farm wagons, and will make ,j. I special prices to reduce stock. | Clover Drug Co.?Extends its thanks tc and best wisnes to customers ana p( friends, and will continue to give the Jj. best service possible. b. First National Bank, Yorkville?Publishes its statement of condition at w the close of business January 7. It w shows resources of $324,863.11. Ul I. \V. Johnson?Wants you to call on him for coffees, teas, snowdrift, pure cj leaf lard, and other groceries. . J. L. Williams & Co.?Offer a variety e{ of January specials. Including new q.' spring suits, pants, boys' suits, la- jj, dies' oxfords, etc. T. W. Speck?Has just received a big a shipment of white china and Eng- e? lish decorated porcelain and invites you to see it. in , Yorkville Hardware Co.?Carries a ta line of shears and scissors in all the sizes and shapes, pocket knives, ra- j_ zors, etc. tv National Union Bank. Rock Hill? pJ Suggests a good resolution for you w to make and keep. It will make you te ' comfortable in old age. Thomson Co.?Tells you to do your a, shopping at Thomson's during 1911, n( and gives prices on a variety of sea- fe sonable goods. York Furniture Co.?Is showing some- fC thing new in sewing machines, and in especially wants the ladies to come and see its advantages as compared with old style machines. J. Q. Wray?Again wants you to remember he has moved, and talks ^ about heavy underwear, blankets, etc. w Thos. F. McDow?Gives notice that cl his office in the McNeel building will be open while he Is attending r., the legislature. W. E. Ferguson?Asks you to phone h< i him when you need groceries of the y( best qualities. * J. C. Wilborn?Has a number of desirable tracts of land for sale, and invites attention to them in today's S< issue. tfc Kirkpatrick-Pelk Co.?Will commence tli a special white goods and muslin underwear sale at its store on next OI Tuesday morning. te The weather man at Washington n< claims that he has discovered another j cold wave up in Alaska, and that it th will spread over the south during to- cc i night and tomorrow. cc The attention of The Enquirer has ^ been called to the fact that there are w two petitions in circulation for the ap- te pointment of supervisor for York township, one for Mr. A. L. Black m mentioned in the last issue of The En- ct quirer, and the other for Mr. J. W. Mc- jo Farland. There is no question of the qualifications of either of these gen- se tleman, and both petitions are being r? extensively sir id. jjj Elsewhere in today's Issue Prof. L. to A. Niven of Winthrop college, con- ci tributes an interesting and instructive ef fe article on insect and fungous pests, OI and tells how to fight them. The w reading of this article is well worth th while, especially since Prof. Niven Pl stands ready to further explain any- w thing that does not appear perfectly fe plain, and to go into further details with any who may be interested. When the county commissioners j0 some twenty-three years ago found It of necessary to levy 9J mills to pay past due interest on the York township bonds, it made the people catch their tl< breath and try to whistle. But even er with this extraordinary levy the total levy, state, county, school and munici- th pal went up to only about 22, and now- fii a-davs that is considered quite an or- TJ dinary figure. But it is a plenty. th" We did not cut out so many names ta last Friday as is usual on the slaugh- cu ter day of the first week in January. ^ There were hardly more than 250 in all, and of these more than 150 are M back. The subscription list of The Enquirer is considerably larger than g, at this time last year and it is grow- vi ing. There have been more than enough new subscriptions since Novemher 15 to counterbalance the usual loss of the first week in January. fe . bf ABOUT PEOPLE. "1 Mr. B. P. Barron of Yorkville, left ri: last week to enter Clemson college, th Miss Helen Heath of Charlotte, Is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Heath in Yorkville. Miss Annie Thurston of Pittsburg, ja Pa., has arrived in Yorkville to spend co the winter. br Miss Jessie M. Baber of Yorkville, ti< is visiting her sister, Mrs. R. A. Burris, to in Charleston. su Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Fewell of York- m ville No. 7, entertained last Friday w< evening in honor of their guests. Misses m Elverie and Myrtle Barron of Shelby. Mrs. D. E. Finley and sons. Mas- gr ters Robert, States and John, and J11 daughter. Miss Margaret, of Yorkville, left last week to spend the winter in th Washington, D. C. to ? th BOYS' CORN CLUB. as Prof. L. A. Niven of Wlnthrop col- c0 lege, writes that the college authorities want another meeting of the Boys' jn Corn club of York county to be held at hs the college during the month of Jan- ar re uary. ql The special object of this proposed meeting will be to enter into as thor- th ough a discussion of seed selection as ^ possible, and give the members some re valuable pointers on this important m subject. er Although the date of the proposed ?,j meeting has not yet been announced, pe all the boys of the county who expect a'" to join the corn club this year will do well to look out for further announce- cj| ments and make it a point to be at the of opening meeting at Winthrop, Already The Enquirer is advised, some valuable contributions have been ov made to this year's premium list, and ai1 there is good reason to believe that the su list of prizes will include cash and re useful articles that will be well worth vii working for. ov ar ? all TO TEST SEED CORN. bu Seed corn testing as a school exer P11 oise. especially in the rural districts, mi is recommended in a bulletin issued co bv the United States department of th agriculture for the following reasons: su < ??,i ml r MM, II I Ul 111 " 11 v, ^ (ill CI 1114 unci- ^ esting study in seed germination and plant growth; second, the extended clj use of a good method has vast eco- p0 nomic value in improving the produc- ha tiveness of American agriculture, and, do third, the teaching of It in the rural "F school exerts a strong influence to- da ward increasing the confidence of pa- ho rents in permanent worth of good *\a ? c,a school work. m{ The only materials needed are a an shallow wooden tray, a small hand- sip ful of carpet tacks, a few yards of th< wrapping twine, sand enough to fill on the tray, (or several of them), they can su: easily be suwed from an empty soap cla or cracker box. When finished it pa lould be about one and one-half nt ehes deep Inside, fifteen inches ai Ide and twenty-three inches long, he it any of these dimensions may be st tried slightly. This tray is divided al to small squares by a checker-board th cing of twine across the top. It cl convenient to have these squares )out one and one-half Inches on a fa de. ten of them in a row across the m irrow way of the tray and fifteen w le other way. The lacing with w ring should not be done until the si ay has been loosely filled with dry tf md heaped up a little above its top ti Ige. Then the sand should be a< raped off with a yardstick or other raight edge even with the top of ri le tray. After lacing with the string a< le tray is ready for planting. w Have the children arrange the ears n< i be tested in rows of ten to corres- ? and with the rows of squares across w le tray. These rows of ears should .P* i kept in a dry, warm place on the 01 jor, on corn racks or on shelves, e) here it can be certain that they P' ill not be disturbed or displaced 91 ritil the test is finished. a' When ready to begin the test, two a.i lildren can work to the best advan- t" ige, one to handle the Individual a; irs and the other to plant the tray. Q' he first takes up ear No. 1 In the aI rst row, and, with the point of a tf scket knife applied to the edge of ol kernel removes five kernels from P1 ich ear, passes them to the second P' upil and carefully replaces the ear i its row. The kernels should be ")l ken in succession (taking only lose of average size) from about an a( ich above the base of the ear to le same distance below its tip, tssing spirally around and length- ol ise of the ear. This insures a fair st of the whole ear, as it sometimes h< ippens that one side or one end of t! l ear is sound, while the others will >t grow. The Illustration shows a w ears with kernels removed in " lis spiral fashion. Full directions e! ir the conduct of the test are given , the bulletin. ^ * ti THE GRIFFINS COMMITTED. ir W. E. Griffin and his son, Harvey riffin. of Fort Mill township, who ere arrested last week on a warrant larging them with the assassination ^ E. P. H. Xivens shortly before hristmas, were given a preliminary tj. jaring before Magistrate McElhaney tr jsterday, and were committed to Jail gj jnding further proceedings. yi The examination was conducted by n( )llcitor J. K. Henry on the part of jr le state, and \V. B. Wilson, Sr., on n( le part of the defense, the solicitor jing present in obedience to a direct ai der from the governor. There was no effort to develop the J? stlmony beyond what might seem T ?cessary to warrant the magistrate in immitting the defendants, and very " ttle was presented that is new except J J lat at least two witnesses testified to " inversations with W. E. Griffin, which SJ mversations might be interpreted as 01 ore or less tangible threats against JP le life of the deceased. One of these tr itnesses. Mr. Warren, a neighbor. C( stifled that on one occasion about a jar ago, about the time of the burn- tv g of Nivens's store; but whether im- ai ediately before or after, the witness >uld not say, \V. E. Griffin had said i him, Mr. Warren, something like r lis: "If Nivens should be shot some ei ' these times, would you come up to ?J e what was the matter?" Witness ?* iplied that he supposed so; but probJly would not be in any big hurry J11 >out it. C. P. Blankenship testified ta i a conversation in which Griffin, dis- ai issing Nivens, had used words to the a! feet that he. Griffin, was on the sc nee, and was about as liable to drop p) 1 one side as on the other; but it ould not matter much considering le fact that he had lived the greater C( irt of his life anyway. Witness ei ated that so far as what was said 81 as concerned, the words of the de- Cl ndant may have been construed to a! ean that he might have been thinkg of moving out of the neighbor- JX >od. These conversations were a 11 ng time removed from the occasion n! the killing of Nivens. There was a ;tle testimony bearing on the where- tc jouts of Harvey Griffin at the time p le fatal shot was fired, but it was lit- je, if any more explicit than that givi at the coroner's inquest. Mr. Wilson argued that there was ithing in the testimony to warrant le commitment of either of the Grif- w is and asked that they be released. U! le solicitor argued the close proxim- n( V of the defendants at the time of PJ e killing, and claimed that this fact, . ken in connection with other clr- Y1 imstances, were fully sufficient to "J arrant the commitment of both de- ~ ndants. After due consideration, Magistrate Yr cElhaney took the solicitor's view the matter and committed both dendants to Jail, whereupon Sheriff F rown brought them back to York,,e" ta As to whether an amount has been . rreed upon. The Enquirer has not ,, arned; but the understanding is that ' e solicitor stated that he would of- . j r no opposition to the granting of f til in a reasonable sum, which sum, course, will have to be fixed by such , the circuit Judges as may have jusdiction or by one of the Judges of e supreme court. "COUNTY ATTORNEY." ,a of Although in The Enquirer's report cc st Friday of the proceedings of the pi iunty board of commissioners only the c* iefest mention was made of the fric- |t an over the selection of "county at- sh rney," the matter has since been the vv ibject of quite a bit of discussion, ore especially because many jjcvjjjic m ere looking for just such a develop- a ent or something akin to it. ,n Because of a situation that has been to owing over a period of a good 00 any years, there has crystallized the minds of a large part of ca e York county public, an idea ps at the position of "county at- 00 rney" is a statutory one and that or e individual holding that position is in >out as much a member of the board i is the supervisor or either of the th unty commissioners. To those who b> e familiar with the history of this co ivelopment, there is nothing surpris- or g about the fact that things should of ive come to be looked upon as they Al e; but nevertheless the common idea w; ferred to as to the status of this to lasi office is quite erroneous. di The county supervisor is elected by fr e people, required to give bond in the be im of $5,000 and is charged with cer- te in duties and responsibilities that as st upon him alone. The county com- sh issioners are appointed by the gov- wi nor, bonded in the sum of $1,000 be ch, and have no powers or responsi- to lities that are not shared by the su- pe rvisor. In other words the duties, of id responsibilities of the supervisor fa e specific and those of the commis- su aners only advisory. The law spe- er fically defines the duty and power dc the supervisor to do certain things, St it in no single place in the law is th ere any warrant for the idea that the as o votes of the commissioners could ur errule the vote of the supervisor on an ly proposition with which either the th pervisor or the board has to deal. ne For instance, section 755 of the Code lei ads as follows: "The county super- bli sor shall have general jurisdiction in er all public highways, roads, bridges in id ferries, and over paupers, and in Ja I matters relating to taxes and disirsements of public funds for county re irposeg." There are other sections In the Code that apparently place ai- ce ost the same responsibility on the mi unty board; but on referring back to po e new county government law, which de perseded the old three-county com- an issioner system, it will be noted that co e governing law is as quoted. The law requires the county com- no issloners to audit and approve sa tims; but because of his greater res- va ngiblltty. and the fact that he alone to s to answer for mistakes or wrong 12! ing, no claim can be paid except hii ion a voucher signed by the super- th< lor. The county treasurer would not ho re to cash a voucher signed only by an th county commissioners, and no an nk would accept as a collateral any de lim that both county commissioners tm iy have approved except on assur- tei ce from the supervisor that he would esi rn the warrant. On the other hand ' b signature of the supervisor and pri e county commissioner would be ne fficient for the approval of any th< ilm, and the treasurer is bound to lat y any voucher that contains the sig- I we itures of the supervisor and the cierl id the seal of the county, even thougl >th commissioners should protest. Ii ich a case the supervisor is answer ile only to the court, and if it be heli lat he should not have paid th aim, he would be liable on his bond. There is no foundation in law o ict for the idea that the county com issioners share equal jurisdiction ith the supervisor, in matters i hieh tile supervisor alone is respon hie. On the contrary, it is clea iroughout the whole law that the du es of the commissioners are merel ivisory. While there can be no doubt of th ght of the supervisor to secure legs ivlce at the expense of the countj hen he thinks such legal advice i ecessary to the county's interes lere is nothing in the law or else here to warrant a claim that the su ervisor or the board has a right t nploy an attorney to sit with it a ?'ery meeting. In the first place th eople are supposed to elect as thei ipervisor a man who is competent t ttend to the public business as well a ny attorney, and the governor is sup ssed to appoint as the supervisor' ssistants, men who are equally we ualifled. If the supervisor and boar re not so qualified, then it would seer s be their duty to step down and ge jt of the way for men who are com etent, or else go down into thei mckets and themselves pay the attor ey they would have to sit at their el aws with promptings as to how th iisiness of the people should be trans Bted. But getting back to the case in poin ie division of the York county boar r commissioners over the selection c ttorney the other day. Many wh ave not sought to analyze the sltua on, would naturally conclude that th latter was settled; that the supervise ould have to how to the will of th vo commissioners. That, however, i itirely a mistake, for to hold the po tion of attorney of the board, whic In reality the position of attorney c ie supervisor, in spite of the opposi on of the supervisor, is manifest] npossible, both ethically and legally. THREE C'S BONDS. The supervisor and board of com lissloners of York county are con onted with the task of carryin irough this year the biggest flnancls ansaction the county has had occa on to make in the last twenty-flv ?ars. The transaction referred to i sthing more or less than the refund ig of the township bonded indebted ess, amounting to at least $134,40 nd possibly more. The bonded indebtedness referred t that incurred by the townships c ork, Catawba and Ebenezer in aid c ie Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicag lilroad. It may also devolve upo ie York county supervisor to refun ie bonds issued by Cherokee town tip, then in York, but now in Cher tee county. The settlement of thi uestlon, however, will depend upo ie wishes of others more deeply con >rned. The story of this debt runs bac venty-flve years. The details of 1 e more or less familiar to men o >rty or more who have been accus imed to inform themselves as to cur ;nt events; but to the younger gen ation most of it is new. About th ily thing that the average taxpaye ' Catawba, Ebenezer and York town lips between the ages of 21 and 4 riows, is that he has been paying thi ix every year for the past 24 yean fid there has not been much use i iking what it was about for the rea >n that he would have to continue t ly the tax all the same. But the debt Is now coming due an has to be paid. Of course, th lunty could not think of raising th itire amount in cash. There is nail sinking fund that has been ac imulating during a number of year i the result of a law passed throug le efforts of Hon. J. S. Brlce, when h as in the senate: but as that sinkin ind, however much it will help, doe it amount to any considerable par ' the whole debt, new bonds will hav i be issued to pay up the big balance The original debt was $18,000 i herokee township; $75,000 in Yor iwnship; $18,000 in Ebenezer town lip, and $75,000 in Catawba townshij i all the townships except York, th >nds were issued May 1, 1886, an ill fall due on May 1, 1911, right upo 3. The York township bonds wer it issued until April 1, 1887, and wil it fall due until April 1 of next year rt in order to save time, the super sor will no doubt ask the delegatio i the general assembly to at once giv ithority for refunding the whole is le. In the case of those bonds near it due, there is certainly no time t se. Although the original amounts in th fferent townships were as stated, Th nquirer would not like to say jus hat are the amounts due. It is cer tin that they are no more; but up t le time of the preparation of this ar cle there has not been opportunity t icertain exactly. There is no trou e, of course about getting exact in rmation. It is only a matter of care il inquiry and a little more or les dious calculation, but the informatio: e are giving is correct as far as i >es, and close enough to actual fig oil nro lr? o 1 nnrnnQPQ After the bonds had been voted ansued, they were placed in the hand ' the Boston Safe Deposit and Trus >mpany, to be held pending the com etion of the contract of the Massa lusetts and Southern Constructloi impany to build the railroad and pu in running order through the town lips named. By the time the rallroai as completed, or at least before th >nds were delivered, the lawyer itted into the situation and com enced litigation that extended ove number of years, and finally resulte* some sort of a compromise, tha as generally held to have saved th wnships interested the sum of $54, 0. Of this $54,000 a part was included ii inceled bonds and a part in cancele< ist due coupons; but out of the $54, 0 there came of course some $15,00' more of litigation expenses, includ g counsel fees, etc. The first compromise effected wai at involving the $75,000 bonds issue* ' Catawba township between th< iunty commissioners of York count; 1 the one hand and W. K. Blodget Boston, Mass., on the other hand t the time of this compromise, then as in force a Judgment against thi wnship for $5,000 on account of pas le coupons, the interest that accrue* om the date of the issuance of th< inds up to January 1, 1890. By th* rms of the compromise, Mr. Blodget rreed to refund this interest and t< iave the original debt to $00,000. I as agreed that the J15.000 or noncis u surrendered be left with the Bos n Safe and Deposit company for i riod of ten years, and if at the en< that period there had been no de< ult in interest, this sum would b< rrendered to the county commission s for cancellation. Five thousant dlars of the $60,000 was deposited it >uth Carolina as indemnity agains e $5,000 of interest that under th< Teement was to be canceled. Th< iderstanding was that the tota nount saved to Catawba township bj e compromise was $23,966.42. It wai cessary for the commissioners t< IT that year seven mills on the taxae property of the township to pay the terest remaining due along with the terest that would accumulate up t( nuary 1, 1892. The Ebenezer township compromise suited in a total saving of $5,639.94 eluding the cancellation of 20 pei nt of the original debt. The comissioners found it necessary to imse a 6 mill levy to square up past in btedness and start wltn a clean oaiice sheet on January 1, 1S92. This mpromise was effected July 6, 1891. The York township compromise was t effected until September 25, of the me year and it was not quite so adntageous as in the case of the othei ivnships. Mr. Blodgett claimed thai 5,000 of these bonds had passed out ol i possession and he could not rebate e accrued interest on them. He did, wever, rebate the interest that had erued on $50,000 up to January 1, 1889 d 20 per cent of the whole $75.00C bt, leaving $60,000 still due by the ivnship. To square up the accrued invest, the commissioners found it neclary to impose a levy of 9J mills, rhe general conditions of the comomise in the case of York and Ebezer townships were the same as in 5 case of Catawba, it being stipued that $15,000 of the bonds that re to be canceled in the one case and k $4,000 In the other case be held by the th ti Boston Safe Deposit and Trust com- rl 11 pany for a period of ten years, as a si - guarantee that the townships would pt a not default on the interest. th e Now the task of the supervisor after to the general assembly shall have given pi r the necessary authority, and prescrib- is - ed the details, will be to refund all this fo n indebtedness. At present all of these c? n bonds bear 7 per cent Interest. There th - is no reason to doubt that they can be et r refunded at a much Tower rate, say 5 ir - per cent or 4i per cent, and it is quite w y possible that even our York county el banks may be glad to take up the en- fi e tire issue at the last named figures. to il At the same time of the issuance of bi r, the Catawba, Cherokee and Ebenezer s( s township bonds. Broad River township fc t, also issued $24,000. These bonds, how- A - ever, were declared invalid on the rt - ground that their aggregate amount m o exceeded 8 per cent of the then assess- tr it ed valuation of the taxable property in th e the township. It is not expected that O r Broad River will have any more trou- ai o ble on the subject. tl s ol it s WITHIN THE TOWN. A ?The creamery made 172 pounds of n butter last Saturday. ? Mr. C. F. Sherrer has purchased the ~ residence of Mr. T. D. Turner on ^ . Wright avenue. N ? Mr. Harry Foster and family have ai e moved into the cottage on King's Mountain street recently vacated by t, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Barnwell, d ?The qualification of Mr. Thomas F. tc '0 McDow as a member of the general as- st . sembly, creates a vacancy on the board e of trustees of the Yorkvllle graded jj r school. 6 Y 8 ?The census department has not yet i- given out the population of Yorkville. h The most carefully considered estlmates, however, put the figures be- tl y tween 2,500 and 2.700. If ? There is a scarcity of houses In b' Yorkvllle, and some more should be built to accommodate the people who in . desire to come here; but who are una- 01 . ble to do so because of inability to g find suitable residences. to tl ?Owners of milk cows are reminded _ that it is very well to rely on the ree cent statement that there is to be a T 9 cow show In Yorkville soon, and to ai . look forward to the occasion. Mr. A. is . S. Barron has agreed to allow the use ^ 0 of his livery stable for the show, and every effort will be made to ensure the cc o complete success of the undertaking, te Details will be announced later. if fin 0 ?A Spartanburg man registered at hi n the Hotel Shandon this morning as be- pi d ing from the "third largest city in the re " state," and Mr. Horton, the well-known jjj a real estate man tackled him with: al n "But the figures show that Anderson Si " has gained 75 per cent in 10 years, ?* k while Spartanburg has gained only 54 it per cent." The Spartanburg man had 'f to acknowledge the correctness of the ~ claim. ? Manager Bun Brydges of the ^ e Creamery association issued checks tb T this morning for the second month's Si c milk receipts. The aggregate 'n d SJ s amount paid out was some- j thing over $600. Mr. S. T. Ferguson hi " received the largest check this month, P 0 amounting to $31, and Mr. W. R. Carroll came next with $29. The major- to d ity of the checks were in the neigh- Fi | borhood of $"5 or $26. a ? The removal of the Loan and Sav- ^ - ings bank to its handsome new quar- Ef ters, has given Yorkville another in- kl e stltution that is quite acceptable. Mr. M g Luther Baber has gone into the former ja ? banking room with his barber shop, w 0 which he has furnished in first-class o\ til ?. style with a promise of still further Y 11 improvements, in connection wuu uic m ^ barber shop, he proposes to conduct a ai public bath, and to give his customers 0(: e generally every reasonable comfort and ca ? convenience, er " ?Rev. F. M. Satterwhite, who re- in II cently accepted a call to become pas- J:j : tor of the Yorkville and Hickory Grove jn ~ Baptist churches, arrived in Yorkville cc e on last Saturday afternoon accom- Ai - panied by Mrs. Satterwhite, and at " present they are boarding with Mr. D. Cc E. Boney on Wright avenue. Mr. Sat- ot e terwhite conducted services at the ar e Yorkville church on Sunday morning, pe * but owing to the fact that he was quite of o unwell the evening service, which had ar - been announced, was recalled ^ ? ?Mr. E. A. Withers, an aged citizen W( . of the Neely mill settlement, died on in - last Saturday, after a long illness with *s 3 pellagra, and other complications. Mr. " Withers was born in Ireland, seventy \] - years ago; but has been a resident of a Chester during most of his life, until ^ the last few years, when he has been ^ f living in Rock Hill and Yorkville. He D - leaves a widow and five daughters, S " four of whom are married, and also j many relatives in Chester. The inter- je - ment was in Rose Hill cemetery Sun- sa 3 day afternoon after services conducted WJ p pe j: in the Episcopal church by Rev. J. L. pi . Oates. av r ? A negro named John Joiner, was w * arrested and committed to jail Satur- ^ e day on the charge of having perpe- ci, - trated the outrageous assault on Josh w< Smith at the Lockmore mill recently. P( j Suspicion fell on Joiner because of . certain circumstances which seem to th D include the foundation of a case. It by developed that Joiner and Smith had 3 fallen out shortly before, because of d, i Joiner's unwillingness to pay Smith 80 at R cents for slaughtering a hog for him. ca ^ The assault on Smith was committed co I. with a section of J-inch iron pipe, el( 8 which was found near the spot with ? blood on it and which was identified j as having come from the oil mill. It oil ? is alleged also that Joiner himself, at- f'c ? ter the assault, gave out some hints as t * > to what he had done to Smith. th t ? Occasionally there are complaints sh > against The Enquirer for not talking cr' ' up men and things, that the complain- Qn j ants would like to have talked up. The jn( Enquirer is willing to admit that it - very often fails to knock and condemn .m' lal j where It should knock and condemn, e(j i and it may fail sometimes to say pood cr< t of things that deserve to have good I said of them. The first shortcoming is on j probably a matter of prudence. We do 0v r not claim that perfection that does not loi | admit of error. The second short. coming is, we claim, a result of ig- q0 ; norance sometimes, and sometimes in- Sp - ability to see things exactly as others Gr * see them. But one thing is absolutely ? certain, and that is that even if we do '|^c . fail to knock and condemn at all points Fb where knocking and condemnations Gr Or seem to be necessary, under no cir- ^Tr . cumstances are we going to undertake Ge to boost and talk up that which we be- Ne 1 lieve to be rotten, Incapable and gener, ally bad. j > ? The Loan and Savings bank is now comfortably quartered in its new ' home, and that new home is one that Cor 1 would be a credit to any town in the I state. One objection to the old quar- Dii * ters was that they were too cramped on , for the rapidly developing business of ter I the bank, and that was the most seri- H. , ous objection; but plenty of room is Sh 'i""* Anlv utribintr footiirA flhftllt the S bank's new quarters. The furniture 1 and fixtures are modern, handsome, Mr expensive and convenient. The entrance R. from the street is through a handsomely 191 arched vestibule over a floor of expen- ] sive tiling done in a pretty pattern of J. mosaic work. The counting room Jol proper is cut off with marble paneling at surmounted by bronze lattice work, Ja the cashier's window on one side and i Bu le teller's on the other, and the inteor bordered on the front and south de with a handsome and beautifully dished countering. In the back part of le office is a large fireproof vault, and i the left the private office of the esident. Next behind the bank office a large, handsomely furnished room ir the use of the directors on the ocision of meetings, and still further to ie rear handsome lavatories, closs, etc. All the rooms are well lighted i day time through front and side indows and an elaborate system of ectric chandeliers and single bulbs ^ ^ irnish light at night. Steam radia rs keep a steady, even warmth in the nilding all the time, and water and iwerage add still further to the com>rt and convenience of the quarters, ltogether the furniture and fixtures (present a very considerable outlay of loney; but nothing is more striking tan the judicious wisdom with which ie entire expenditure has been made, f course, Mr. McNeel and his force re proud of their new quarters as ley have a right to be, and the town ' Yorkville is proud of them also, as has a rlcht to be. LOCAL LACONIC8. amages In the Amount of $3,500. At Greensboro, N. C., last Wednesiy. a jury awarded Mrs. Mollie A. unn of Rock Hill, damages In the nount of $3,500 against the Southern illroad, on account of the killing: of ?r son, John W. Nunn. egislators to Visit Winthrop. As chairman of the board of trus:es of Winthrop college, Governor An:1 has extended an Invitation to the ?neral assembly to visit the instituon on January 19. The probability is lat the Invitation will be accepted. ork County's Corn Record. The largest yield of corn ever made l an acre of ground in York county > far as the record goes, was that of ie late R. M. Allison, who in the year 190 made 1611 bushels of merchantale corn and 2 bushels that were unerchantable. On two acres that year, leacre referred to and another adjoinig. Mr. Allison made 298$ bushels, of erchantable and 11 bushels that were ^merchantable. This information is om The Yorkville Enquirer of Ociber, 1890. fter First-Hand Information. Mr. W. S. Bryan of the London Imes, was In Yorkville last Thursday id Friday, on a tour of the state that being made for the purpose of getng information about corn raising in juth Carolina. He secured a lot of ita as to what the people in York >unty are doing, and said that he innrleH to visit Marlboro. Florence and her counties. He did not have a eat deal to say to anybody about is mission; but it developed that his "incipal object is to give English aders of the Times first-hand facts mcerning the wonderful stories that ive been sifting through to them 30ut the extraordinary doings of outh Carolinians in corn raising and ;her lines of usefulness. MERE-MENTION. Five persons escaped from the Fulin county jail at Atlanta, Ga., last eek by sawing a window bar and iding down a blanket rope. All of lem have been recaptured x persons were more or less injured a rear-end collision on the Pennlvania railroad at Jersey City, N. , Friday..^ Eight indictments ive been returned by a New York -and jury charging Jos. G. Robin, a Lyrocket financier, with the theft of 197,000 from the defunct Washlngn Savings bank of New York our men have been indicted by the -and jury at Los Angeles, Cal., on le charge of dynamiting the Times rildlng in that city several months to. Twenty or more persons were illed in the wreck of the office rs. Nelson Swanson killed herself id two children at Virginia, Wis., st Friday, with carbolic acid. The oman had become deranged brooding rer going to a hospital for an opera>n Gas explosions in New ork Friday, destroyed two bulldgs, seriously injured eight firemen, iH pouqoH a nrnnortv In an nf 19 0ft )0 A bomb explosion wreck1 the home of Jas. Marchez in Chligo, Friday. This is the forty-sevith bomb explosion in that city durg the past year, supposedly due to imbling and labor troubles....... idge A. Z. Blair, who is hearg the vote selling cases in Adams lunty, O., replying to the critics of dams county by people and newsipers in Ohio and throughout the luntry, said Saturday that the same inditions probably existed in many her counties throughout the country id state, and that the only remedy fainst such conditions was newspatr publicity Intimate friends Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, e asserting that he will seek the Reiblican presidential nomination in i >12. T. P. Radcliflfe, a 1 ealthy real estate dealer, comitted suicide at Jamaics, Long land, Saturday, because of deession in business affairs Two lung desperadoes. Wm. Mlzzard and Ijot Johnson, held up and robbed hotel office and killed a policeman Duluth, Minn., Friday. They were ter captured by a posse after a isperate battle, twenty miles from uluth ...The body of the late inator Stephen B. Elkins was buried Elkins, W. Va., Saturday .velve Alabama counties will ask the gislature to pass laws allowing the le of whisky in their borders. Six ai.f open saloons and six want dis !nsa;'es The Wright brothers it the ban on high flying by their 'iators at the aviation meeting hich began Saturday During e fiscal year, 1910, the importation articles, classed as luxuries, inading diamonds, wines, laces, art arks, etc., totalled $48,000,000 >stmaster General Hitchcock will ake an effort to have congress pass ws putting an end to the abusQ?of e franking privileges, now enjbyed congressmen, senators and govnment officials Govenapr Glassck of West Virginia, hgs appointed avis Elkins, son of the-Tate U. S. Senor Stephen B. Elkins to fill the vancy caused by the death of his fathThe Democratic legislature will nvene in a few days, however, and ;ct a Democrat. South Carolina Towns,?South Carina's municipalities having a popula?n in excess of 5.000 made an avere increase of 22.9 per cent during e last decade. Statistics of the irteenth census issued yesterday ow the number of these places ineased from 8 in 1900 to 13 in 1910. leir total Increase in population was ly 19.5 per cent of the state's total crease of 175,084 for the decade. Spartanburg. among the cities, ade the most rapid strides in popu:ion increase. Its increase amountto 54.6 per cent. Greenville ineased 32.7 per cent, while Columi grew 24.7 per cent and Charleston ly 5.4 per cent. South Carolina's municipalities of er 5,000 population rank as folvs: Place 1910 1900 arleston 58,833 55,807 lumbia 26,319 21,108 artanburg. . . . 17,517 11,395 eenville 15,741 11,860 iderson 9,654 5,498 mter 8,109 5,673 >ck Hill 7,216 5.485 orence 7,057 4.647 eenwood 6.614 4,824 angeburg. . . . 5.906 4,455 ilon 5,623 5,400 orgetown. . . . 5.530 4.138 wberry 5,028 4,607 DEATHS IN BULLOCK'S CREEK. respond*nce The Yorkvllle Enquirer Sharon R. F. D. No. 1, January 8.? ?d at her home near Bullock's Creek, December 31, 1910, Mrs. Dora Patson Smith, wife of the late Dr. W. Smith, in the 67 year of her age. e leaves one daughter, Mrs. Berta McAliley. tVilliam Boyce, little son of Mr. and s. James B. Dickson of Lockhart F. D. 1, died Thursday, January 5, 11, aged about two years. - ^ VIrs. Mintie McSwaln, wife of Mr. T. McSwain, and daughter of Mr. in Duncan of Sharon R. F. D. 1, died her home at Dockhart, Saturday, nuary 7, 1911, and was burled at Dock's Creek, Monday.