Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, January 17, 1911, Image 2
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? That barges of the Carnegie Steel ca
company are soon to partly restore the in
supremacy of the Mississippi river In bl
the great water trade of years ago is
Information which has been received in ?(
New Orleans. It is stated on good au- y,
thority that the company is building tl;
several steel barges to put into the _
trade. They will soon be placed on the
river to carry steel rails from Pittsburg
to this point for distribution. If
enough interest can be awakened in E
the northern trade, the navigation of
the two great streams, the Ohio and 1
the Mississippi, will be re-established. ?
With the California-Atlantic steamship
line already in operation from San
Francisco to this point, the opening of
the Panama canal would mean an un- 4
Hrr>t<-on wntpr route from Pittsburg, ?
Pa., to San Francisco, with the barges J
in operation. \
? The rebuilding of Messina in durable
masonry was inaugurated Monday when
the cornerstone of the group of
public buildings to be erected by the
municipality was laid by Signor Sacchi,
minister of public works; Signor
Cluffelli, minister of posts and tele- _
graphs and other members of the government.
The ceremony was witnessed
by a great assemblage and aroused tc
much enthusiasm and new hope for
the future. The temperature was B
spring-like, the sun was bright and
the city was more gay than it had been
since it was devastated by the earthquake
of December, 1908. The minis- 1,1
ters visited the temporary wooden qi
structures that were put up for the 's
housing of the homeless thousands following
the calamity and were especially
pleased to note how well the
buildings erected by subscriptions from ?
America were preserved. The new H
city will be built of stone and con- 's
crete. The ministers go from Messina
to Reggie, where there will be a similar
ceremony formally opening the work
of reconstruction. gc
? Aggregating almost J3,500,000,000, O
the total value of the foreign trade of ^
the United States during the year fc
which ended December 31, 1910, was
greater than that of any year ever be- tj.
fore, and left a balance in favor of the
country* of over $300,000,000. They exceeded
the former high record of 1907 a,
by about $80,000,000. This great total
is the value of the combined exports g(
and imports of the country as com- ^
puted by the bureau of statistics of the e(i
department of commerce and labor. ?
m
Besides this new record, another record
was broken during 1910 in the
value of imports from abroad. They
amounted to $1,562,807,622. The exports
during the year were larger than
in any year except those of 1907, the g(
total being $1,864,411,270, compared b
with $1,923,426,892 in 1907. The balance
of trade in favor of the United
es
States in its dealings with foreign na- dj
tions Increased almost $50,000,000 over
the 1909 balance. The excess of exports
over Imports for the year was
$301,603,648, compared with $252,677,921 *C
in 1909.
I V*J
? A measure providing: for a limited js
parcels post on rural free delivery jf
routes was reported favorably to the ta
senate from the committee on postof- tjflees
and post roads last Friday. The
report was presented by Senator Burrows,
and was the unanimous action bi
of the committee. The measure was sj
that recommended by Postmaster Gen- r(
eral Hitchcock, after he had made an
exhaustive study of the parcels post
problem as applied to rural free deliv- a,
ery routes. It provides, in substance, h<
that for one year, beginning April 1, hi
1911, the postmaster general may au- tfc
thorize postmasters and carriers on it
such rural routes as he shall select, b{
to accept for delivery by carrier, at ra
such rates of postage as he shall de- p]
termine, packages not to exceed eleven
pounds in weight, containing no mail
matter of the first class, ana no maun r
that is declared by law to be unmailable.
The results of this experiment s
the postmaster general is directed to
report to congress at its next session. a
Postmaster General Hitchcock and the ti
experts of the postofflce department
who have investigated the subject, m
earnestly favor the establishment of
the parcels post system on rural free p;
delivery routes. In a discussion of the w
subject Friday, Mr. Hitchcock pointed C?
out the immense value of such a ser- tj
vice to business interests and to the aj
people of the country, particularly tr
those who reside in rural districts.
? Pekin, January 16: Reports from
Harbin say Chinese there are vigor- w
ously opposing the summary disposi- .
tion of the bodies of those who have
died from the bubonic plague. The If
authorities do not dare to burn the c<
bodies, the people desiring that they w,
remain intact so that their ancestors .
may recognize them in the future life. iK
They also oppose the burning of houses tl
though some of them contain the bod- a!
ies of entire families. Some of the
corpses have remained in the city for
days, but they are now being taken to tc
the open country, where trenches for a
their burial have been prepared. It h)
is reported that the Russians in Harbin '
are not concerning themselves with the al
Chinese section, although they are ct
dealing drastically with the Chinese k,
within the Russian city. The Chinese
newspapers are raising an outcry and 1
bringing forward serious charges of w
persecution and burial alive. Members ai
of the legations, who constantly rec- jr
ommended measures to the government,
are suggesting a censorship of the L
press. The plague is of a very virulent si
type. Deaths usually occur within 48 ft
hours and not more than one per cent
of the cases have ended in recovery.
Dr. G. E. Mesney, a French physician
who gave himself up to the work of 1T]
combating the disease, died heroically.
When he realized he was attacked by J<
the plague, he isolated himself in his w
room in a hotel, drafted his will and tl
wrote farewell letters. He begged his
friends not to notify his wife of his !
illness, and died alone. All the doctors u:
recognized the hopelessness of attend- si
ing to those stricken, and they are devoting
their energies to fighting the
spread of the contamination. 11
? Millions of pounds of butter, eggs, a!
cheese and poultry held in the cold oi
storage warehouses, says a Chicago p
dispatch, will he thrown on the market ,
before May 1 and a general tumbling of
food prices is expected at once, accord- tl
ing to commission merchants. Numer- a
ous Chicago commission men are said
to be facing failure as a result of their
efforts to maintain an artificial price
on the necessities of life. The inability o
further to hold this price is said to oe u
due to a combination of circumstances,
chief of which are the open winter of
1911 and the bumper crops of 1910. a
Three commission men failed in the ri
last week as a result of holding great 81
quantities of butter, which they purchased
and were unable to market for ol
more than 27 or 2S cents per pound, si
While the wholesale prices of butter
and eggs have dropped decidedly within
the last few weeks there has as yet
been no decline in the retail prices. ?
Much of the produce which is to be o
unloaded on a falling market has been p
in the warehouse for as long as five
years. By means of cold storage com- 81
mission men have been able to main- \\
tain an artificial price not only to the S(
consumer, but to the producer, it is .{
said. No public warehouse report is.
ever made here and the exact amount j 1'
of produce in the hands of the Chicago j tl
firms can not be estimated. Thirty-two j
warehouses are known to have 44,000,000
pounds of butter, eggs and poultry. w
Men familiar with the market say ft
would be Impossible to say whether
was only a small percentage of the
itire amount. The increased sale of
eomargarlne is given as an added
iuse for the situation, the comission
men now find themselves facg
thousands of consumers who, unae
to pay the price at which butter
is been held, have become users of
eomargarine. Butter is six cents a
jund lower wholesale than it was a
?ar ago, and is selling at the lowest
?urt'S in several veais.
<Thr \|orknlle tfnqttirrr.
ntered at the Postofflce In Yorkville
is Mall Matter of the Second Class.
YORKVILLE. S. C.j
TUESDAY, JANUARY 17,1911.
If the international corn show is not
? be held in the capitul of the state
iat beats the world raising corn,
here should it be held?
We are inclined to think that the
meral assembly this session has more
alns and patriotism in it than for
jite a while, and we believe that there
going to be less small politics.
In connection with the conviction of
iat fellow Jones for manslaughter at
rangeburg last Friday, tne iaci uiai
on. R. W. Memminger was presiding
not without significance. When
jdge Memminger is on the bench,
istice hangs like a plummet.
The Yorkvllle Enquirer seems to be
imewhat hurt over the re-election of
ounty Attorney W. B. Wilson, Jr., of
ock Hill. Maybe that paper will soon
arn that some things are even too big
ir it.?Rock Hill Herald.
Wonder what the Herald thinks it is
linking about?
It will be remembered that people
gued that the repeal of the lien law
ould reduce the yield of cotton in
juth Carolina, yet last year, the very
st year after the repeal went into
feet, South Carolina produced 50.000
ore bales of cotton than she did the
>ar before.
Comptroller General Jones has ex essed
the opinion that there are
ore than a million acres of land in
Mith fnrnlina that are not on the tax
>oks. We have no idea as to the facts
xm which the comptroller bases his
itimate; but we are not inclined to
spute the assertion.
It is proposed to amend the high
hool law so as to give the towns of
500 population, and over, equal admtages
with the smaller towns. It
argued that the present law is manestly
unjust for the reason that it
ixes larger aggregations of wealth for
le benefit of smaller aggregations.
We do not see any need why the
ill referring to the county home
lould go beyond the understanding
ached at the conference on the first
Wednesday after tne nrst monuay m
tnuary. The idea then was to give
jthority for the sale of all the county
jme farm with the exception of one
andred acres. We do not understand
lat it was the intention of the majory
of those present to throw down the
irs to the questions that might be
tised by authority to sell the whole
ace.
This paragraph is from the Houston
ost:
"In an editorial on the legislature, a
ntence was written: 'Whatever might
uid to make the law more certain in
le punishment of crime would evoke
full measure of public commendaon.'
The powers in the composing
>om that sit in judgment upon the
ork of this department changed 'comendation'
to 'condemnation.'"
Although expressing our fullest symithy
for the Post in its troubles,
hich are common to even the most
ireful of newspapers, we are somemes
inclined to inquire whether after
1 the sentence was not nearer the
uth as the compositor fixed it.
Dispatches from Chicago and elsehere,
seem to intimate that the era of
igh prices for foodstuffs is at an end.
) a nutshell, the proposition is that
>mmission men have been putting
utter, eggs, chickens and other foods
t cold storage, and holding them off
le market in such systematic manner
3 to enable the purchase of supplies
om producers at a lower price and
> sell to consumers at a higher price,
t a result the quantity of stored stuff
as accumulated beyond any reasonble
hope of demand, and the available
tpital to keep up the game having
. en exhausted, the great deal must
jllapse with the result that consumers
ill at last get their due. If the facts
re as stated, the result predicted is
tevitable. But the poor consumer!
et us see how soon he realizes a conjmmation
so devoutly to be wished
>r.
From a careful reading of the testilony
given in the trial of John J.
jnes for the killing of Abe Pearlstine.
e have arrived at the conclusion that
le outcome was abstract justice about
s nearly as the same can be meas
red. There is no good reason, it
;ems to us, why the killing should
ave occurred; but when we try to fix
ie blame we are inclined to lay about
3 much of it on one of the parties as
[i the other. If the two men had been
roperly considerate of each other,
ley could have probably adjusted
leir differences without a listicuff even,
ud without the loss of any self resect.
The tragedy and all its pitiable
jnsequenccs have been the result of
bstinacy on the part of both parties,
nd that is about all there is to it.
he verdict of the jury is about right
ud the sentence of the court is about
ght. The general result, if allowed to
land, will help the cause of law and
rder in Orangeburg county and in the
tate.
Senator Carlisle of Spartanburg, has
otten through a bill that allows the
wners of farms to register the same
y name and prevent infringement on
uch registration. There are those
ho think that there is a romantic
mtiment in this idea that is more or
ss foolish; but we do not agree with
lem. We think the idea is good. If
le nouse allows senator carnsu- s i>iii
) go through as we hope it will, we
ould like to see every York county
irm registered. The thing strikes us
as being very practical and calculate!
to bring practical results. Rivalry h
the productiveness, convenience ani
beauty of farms is calculated to con
tribute to the glory of the county ani
state and the naming of farms is cal
culated to promote this rivalry. O
course, it is understood that the bil
KAntomnlalP nnv onmDUlsio
UVVO Ituv VVi>lbitt|/.uv? a
about the matter. It merely seeks t
allow those who desire to register th
names of their farms to do so, and I
they make those names of value t
protect them in the enjoyment of tha
which they themselves have created.
The Late L. M. Grist.
Last Sunday was an anniversar
that the publishers of The Enquirer ar
loath to allow to go by without som
mention?the anniversary of the deat
of the late Capt. L. M. Grist, wh
passed away on January 15, 1903, eigh
years ago.
The life of Captain Grist was no
flawless by any means, but living a
he did during a most trying period i
the history of his country?in a perio
the duties and responsibilities c
which were illuminated by few prece
dents of value outside of the eterns
principle that holds aloft righteousnes
and truth as the only safe guide, h
measured well up to the highest stand
ards that were attained by the best c
his fellows.
In his public career, Capt. Grist wa
confronted by many problems tha
were well calculated to try the boldes
heart?where to do right threatene
danger of bodily harm and financia
ruin?where his conception of the dut
of the hour brought him in direct an
tagonism to the plans of others wh
were as honest and as patriotic as he
but from which duty his conscienc
would not allow him to deviate.
Captain Grist lived to have man;
of the people who had honestly an
patriotically differed with him, tell hir
that they were wrong and that h
was right. He lived to see his view
and conduct vindicated in things 1
which he had followed the dictates o
an honest conscience; but about th
correctness of which he could not b
absolutely sure until vindicated b
results.
That he made mistakes, there is n
doubt. He lived to see some of ther
and to acknowledge them, a thing h
was ever willing to do when convince!
that he was wrong, for the rule of hi
life was not personal triumph or gain
hut rather the furtherance of the prin
ciples of eternal right.
The present publishers of The En
quirer have no hesitation in confessini
that consideration of the life of th
late Capt. Grist is a source of pride t
them; they believe in the principle
he sought to teach them, and they con
tinue to try to uphold those principle!
to the best of their humble ability
feeling at all time that if this paper re
mains worthy of its founder, it wil
never be unworthy of the people fo
whom it is published.
More People For South Carolina.
If there is one thing more than an
other that South Carolina can do to he
material advantages just now, it is t
join in with the railroads in that pro
posed campaign to secure home builder
from the middle west, and we sincere
ly hope that the general assembly wil
be able to give this subject intelligen
consideration at its present session.
Tt has been nroDosed that Sout!
Carolina put up $10,000 a year for th
next three years to be used togethe
with $25,000 a year contributed by th
railroads for the purpose of thorough
ly advertising the advantages of thi
state where that advertising will d
the most good, and it is believed tha
as the result of this advertisement w
can secure large reinforcements o
good American citizens to help us in
work in which we are making splen
did progress, but in which as yet w
have only scraped the surface for th
reason that the situation calls for th
help of many hundred times mor
hands than are now available.
As to why the middle west peopl
have not drifted down this way o
'their own accord it is hardly wort
while to try to explain. All our peo
pie are more or less familiar with tha'
and those who understand that under
stand equally well that the old condi
iinna nn lfineer exist. that there is n
longer any reason why we do not wan
these people and that there is no long
er any reason why they would no
want to come. The only thing that re
mains is to acquaint them with condi
tions that now exist in this countr
with regard to the cheapness and pro
ductiveness of our lands, the rapi
strides we are making in the im
provement of our educational facili
ties, and our growing regard for an
loyalty to law and order.
The advantages South Carolina ca
secure from the acquirement of a ma
terial addition to her population fror
the middle west are manifolc
In the first place these people are gen
erally intelligent, energetic, God fear
ing folks, who make good citizen!
They are industrious and economic*
and know how to conserve the result
of their labors. They do not knoi
anything about raising cotton; bu
they can learn if they want to. How
ever, there is more or less doubt as t
whether cotton would interest then
for the reason that with their meth
ods applied to a soil and climate lik
ours they could produce more wealt
from the crops to which they are ac
customed tnan tney can irom conoi
But this is not to be understood a
suggesting what they will do. The
will do very much like the rest of u
except many of them will do better an
show us how to do better, certainl
much better than we were doing up t
a few years ago.
And can we get them? That will I
easy. Our lands have increased i
value during the past few years up t
{25 and $30 an acre. Many of the mid
die west farms with improvement!
range in value from $150 to $200 a
acre. When the children grow up i
that part of the country it is frequent
ly the case that they cannot get farm
of their own for love or money. The
have to move. The census return
compared with ten years ago show thi
they have been moving, and they hav
been moving to other sections tha
ours. They have been helping to ad
to the progress and wealth of section
that did not offer them anything lilt
the advantages our section offers. 1
they had only known, they would hav
come down this way.
This matter of advertising the re
sources of the state is one that is de
manding immediate attention. W
I need to look after it and look after i
now. If we sit quiet other states ar
going to take advantage of the sensa
tion youth Carolina has been creatin
l>y her remarkable progress during th
past few years, and get these people t
come to them on the argument tha
they will be right next to the grea
3 state of South Carolina, and all
a once we will be brought to realize wh
[1 might have been if we had only be
. up and doing and had not slept ov
d our opportunities.
f Even the Heathen Are Beating Ui
II Editor Clarence Poe, of the Pr
n gressive Farmer, who is making a to
o through Asia furnishes some astonis
e ing figures in the .last issue of his p
If per as to Japan's educational progre
o Although Japan's war taxes alone (
li account of her struggles with Chi
and Russia and her present enormo
I military expenditure) amount to t
times the average tax rate in the sou
Mr. Poe points out that the peo]
s gladly tax themselves enough to pi
vide for nearly every boy and girl
e the empire, even those on the fam
^ Mr. Poe says:
"These brown Mongolian farm ch
t dren, whose land we opened to civi
zation but fifty years ago, and wh(
we thought of but yesterday as bac
ward heathen?they are getting, as
8 general proposition, just twice as mu
n schooling as is furnished in our sout
d ern rural districts: their parents a
f providing, in their zeal for their ch
' dren's welfare, just twice as good ed
- cational facilities as we are giving o
il southern farm boys and girls who be
8 in their veins the blood of a ra
which has carried the flag of hum
e progress for a thousand years, a
- whom we are expecting to continue
if be leaders in civilization and enligl
enment.
"In other words, so Dr. Matsui tc
3 me (and I went today to the Japane
t national department of education
^ verify the fact), the Japanese fai
boys and girls are getting ten montl
a schooling a year, while the southe
il farm boy or girl is getting only five
y six months?and when I was in
southern school fifteen years ago r
nearly so much as that! Do you wo
o der that I avoided telling the Japane
; educational officer just how our pr
e vision for fa' n boys and girls coi
pares with J> ,an's and that I also ne
lected to tell him how we compare
y the matter of utilizing school adva
(j tages. when he showed me that of i
the children between 6 and 14 in i
11 the empire of Japan the school atten
? ance is 98 per cent?98 out of every 1
s children of "school age" attendi
n school, and in several provinces
11 ? 4 r\f\ mUl? ..^vn
. out or every iui?. inuiy-nvc jc?
'* ago the average school attendance
e Japan was only 28, and In 1893 or
e 59, but by the time of the war wi
Russia it had passed 90, and since th
' has been climbing straight and stead
toward the amazing maximum itse
o the official figures showing a gain ol
n per cent a year?94 per cent, then
then 96, and then 97, and now 98, a:
e the leaders are now ambitious for 99
d 100, as they told me today.
s "And then in the matter of compi
. sory attendance: when this officer
' an 'Inferior race* showed me that J
- pan is so intent upon educating eve
boy and girl in her borders that s
compels attendance on the pub
schools for eight years, I didn't tell hi
S that in civilized America, the great e
e lightened nation so long held up to hi
0 as a model, demagogues and othei
on one pretext or anotner, have defea
8 ed almost every effort for effectl
- compulsory education laws, in t
south at least, and if a boy's parer
r are indifferent to his future, the sta
' does not compel them to give him
" fighting chance in life?for its o\
11 sake and for the boy's.
r "With these facts before me, as
have said, I did not make any vai
. glorious boasts of the great educatio
al progress of our southern states the
last twenty years; all the proud r
ports I have heard at educational n
- lies and conferences seemed someht
r to collapse like punctured gas-bai
However much progress we have mat
0 these brown Japanese 'brethren' ha
- beaten us."
MERE-MENTION.
[j The owners of the Bagley Ray pea
orchards, including 50,000 trees, ne
1 Americus, Ga., have decided to cut t
trees down and plant the ground
h cotton, because they have found th
although they are able to produce fi
fruit in immense quantities they a
r unable to get the fruit on the market
e a profit A fire, the orgin of whi
. has not been ascertained, destroy
thousands of pension records in the c
8 fice of the United States pension age
o cy in the pension building at Washin
t ton, last Friday A Savannah di
patch says that the turpentine mark
last Friday reached 82 cents a gallc
the highest price on record. Rosin
a also at the highest price it has reach
. in the history of the market... .Lar
numbers of negro laborers have be
e run out of the neighborhood of As
e burn, Ga., by posting of notices war
e ing them that if they remained th
would be lynched. The farmers ha
tried to assure the negroes that th
would be protected; but these assu
e ances have failed to reassure
,f Frank Caffyn, a Wright aviator, h
h opened a training school for flying
Augusta, Ga The Southern Paci
- railroad is having a lot of trouble wi
in K/v TVia n n a m
[ auuw in uic oiviiaiJ. nit oiiun
are said to be higher than they ha
been for twenty years The Was
" ington general assembly is considerii
0 the abolition of the death penalty f
t murder and treason Mrs. Lau
Farnsworth Schenck is on trial
Wheeling, W. Va., charged with poi
oning her husband, John O. Schenc
- The grand jury investigating t
. failure of the Northern Bank of N(
York city, of which John G. Robin w
y president, is proving so vigorous in 1
- work, that several of Robin's co-c
d ficers have asked the prosecuting a
torney to be allowed to turn stat<
evidence, in a effort to save ther
* selves Two soldiers, members
d Co. E, Seventeenth infantry, have be
indicted at Atlanta, Ga., on charges
assisting prisoners to escape from t
n Fulton county jail ten days ago
- Two men were killed by the collapse
n a building at Norfolk, Va., Saturda
1 ....Five Southern Pacific trains a
stormbound on the Sierra mountains
" California by the worst snow storm
- many years A deadlock of the N<
3> York legislature is probable as a res>
| of the selection of John F. Sheehan
Charles Murphy, the Tammany leadi
3 as a successor to United States Sen
n tor Depew The Republican a
Democratic members of the West VI
ginia senate are deadlocked over t
" organization of that body... .Studer
o of Georgetown and George Washingt
universities to the number of 1
have served notice on the faculti
that they will not attend medical le
6 tnrno If attPnrlPfl hv thp nptrrn cliwlor
h of Howard university The battl
ship Arkansas, having a displaceme
of 26,000 tons and carrying twelve 1
1* inch guns, was launched at Camdf
a N. J., Saturday. The Arkansas is t
y most powerful vessel of the Drea
nought class yet built Six perso
were killed in a New York Centi
d railway wreck at Batavia, N. Y., Fi
y day morning Franz Lovinski, i
0 aged Polish Canadian farmer, w
killed Friday night and his log cat
robbed of $10,000 in cash, which
e was known to have in his possessio:
n ? *
o Why Schemers Use the Mails.?T
. postmaster general is quoted as sayi
that within a few years more th
s' $100,000,000 has been taken frauduler
n ly from the people through the m
n chinery of the postofflce, and the spre
of the rural free delivery system. T1
is an enormous amount, but the a
8 thorities declare that it is far belt
y the actual sum and possibly represer
is less than one-half of the total amou
lost?lost through the rascality of t
few and the blind credulity of t
e many. The whole nation would rise
n indignant protest if our postal authc
j itien attempted to emulate those
Russia by reading the private corre
18 pondence of our citizens. The schei
e ers know tnis, ana take advantage
[f it. This done, the rest is easy.?Chrl
tian Herald,
e m
? The supreme court of the Unit
- State has dismissed for want of jurl
diction the appeal to the court of
Wash Hunter from his conviction
manslaughter in South Carolina. Hu
ter was sentenced to the penitentia
e for eight years. He was accused
. having killed Elbert F. Copeland ne
their homes in Laurens county, in 191
s while the two were playing at carc
e Hunter entered a plea of self-defeni
o The case was brought to the suprer
court on the claim that several tec
nival errors were committed during t
t trial.
at LOCAL AFFAIRS, ?
at . t!
en NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. II
er Dr. G. H. Davies?Will be In Yorkvllle >'
on Februaiy 11 and 13, and will be ?
pleased to supply you with eye- J1
I &1&SS6S.
G. W. Hill, M. D., Chairman?Gives k
?" notice of a special tax election to be
ur held at Catawba Junction, district P
h- No. 46, on January 25.
_ McD. Arledge, Charlotte?Gives addl- 8
tional information about the Palmer e
dS* lot, which he offers for sale, and J
on says to apply to C. E. Spencer, Esq. 8
na Loan & Savings and First National t
Banks?Will be closed Thursday, 8
us January 19, Lee's birthday.
en Congaree Fertilizer Co., Columbia? t
th, Invites the attention of farmers to I
3je the fertilizers It is making, using t
_ the best materials and mixed with 8
?" the greatest care. Sold by York t
in Supply company.
ns, J. W. Dobson?Offers for rent a part
of the \V. B. Moore store room, opnnslte
l/ian and Savinas Bank.
'1- A. Rose?Has found a sum of money |;
H- which owner may have by proving
)m property and paying costs.
k" W. R. Carroll?Has a limited supply 1
a of pure, home-grown Appier seed c
ch oats, and wants you see him for
h- fertilizers. T
Lre Thomson Co.?Continues its underwear
and white goods sale all of I
u* this week, and wants you to rememur
ber that it is offering you goods of x
tar quality at very low prices.
ce Sam M. Grist?Is prepared to insure J
a" farm animals against death from
na any cause. h
to Star Drug Store?Wants your pre- _
scrlption business and will give the
very best drugs and chemicals, and
)ld gjve you close prices. a
!Se York Supply Co.?Sells a drag harrow j,
}? that users say is the best, and also
sells other farm tools. 11
York Drug Store?Tells you to use c
rn Dr. Hess' poultry pan-a-cea if you
or would make your hens lay lots of
a eggs and keep them in good condi- F
lot tion.
n" J. L. Williams & Co.?Offer specials
;se in ladies' underskirts, petticoats. 1
Queen Cotton low shoes for ladles, ii
National Union Bank, Rock Hill? t
Explains that the gateway to busiIn
ness success is ever open to those
n" who have ready money, and saving n
a{{ is the way to have money ahead. ji
a . Loan and Savings Bank?Calls your n
attention to the fart that a bank acou
count is a beacon light that will 1
guide you through financial storms.
It invites your account. r
L[s Yorkvllle Hardware Co.?Says that n
}n Lynchburg turn plows are reeog- c
"y nized everywhere as the plow that a
lasts longest, runs lightest and goes t
deepest with the least effort. r
' J J. C. Wllbora?Makes additional of- r
;'* ferings of York county real estate, t
gg Including several desirable farms. s
nd
or There it a case of smallpox out in t
? - - ?. *,_.a
il- Beersheba neignbornooa. me pauem of
Is a negro under the care of Dr. B. N. r
a" Miller,
ry
he Thursday is the anniversary of the c
lie birth of Robert E. Lee. This anniver- '
'm sary will be observed in many schools
Ini throughout the state. J
rs, Dr. J. H. Saye has introduced a joint h
it- resolution instructing the attorney
general to accept the verdict of the
its JurT 'n the merger case, without furite
ther litigation. There will be some t
a debate on the subject before it is fi- "5
vn nally and definitely settled, however, a
I Senator Stewart has introduced a 1
n- bill to empower the county board of s
^ commissioners of York county to sell a
e. all or a part of the county home farm, s
il- and purchase a new site and to erect
)W suitable buildings. He has also Intro- f
2f8 t
je' duced a bill proposing certain amend- j
ve ments to the road law. o
The Enquirer is advised that there f
has been an almost complete subsl- [j
dence of the opposition to vaccination r
of the school children and it has been t
he suggested to us that if the physicians *
in will -only get busy in their respective t
at bailiwicks, the whole country can be
vaccinated in a little while. a
at Now boys, you farmer boys, you want
ch to be sure to go over to Winthrop next y
Saturday to the first meeting of the b
n_ Boys' Corn club. If you have no mon- J1
g- ey, ask your fathers, and they will jj
ST furnish the railroad fare. But be sure f:
'6t
on/1 orrv Tho fr in will hp worth while.
>n, "*" " *- ? b
is and what you will learn in connection t
ed with the demonstration work will be f
ge worth while. ti
en . -i
h- There is a growing sentiment in fa- ^
n- vor of the importation of the finest t
e>' breeds of milk cattle. Since the es- v
VG
ey tablishment of the creamery at York- 9
r- ville, a few months ago, the farmers P
have begun to learn more about milk f
aa and butter than they ever knew before,
at a
flC and one of the things that impresses ^
th them most is that thoroughbred cattle b
*8 are the best and the cheapest. s
Special attention is called to the ad- J1
ng vertisement in this issue of the Con- ^
or garee Fertilizer company of Columbia, c
Mr. Paul R. Bratton, formerly of York- v
a. ville, and for many years the traveling P
k. representative of the Macmurphy com- v
pany, is general manager of this com- ti
?w
as pany> and course, will see to it that
Its his former fellow citizens of York will
if- have no cause to complain of the character
of goods he sell them. f
n. Maybe Cherokee township might n
of be able to get off a little more of York; b
en but we do not believe It. That portion l
of York which went to Cherokee orig- t
,, inally has been sorry ever since, and
of we do not believe that anybody who r
^ kept out of the scrape then is going e
0f into it now. It is not generally known 1
in by the way; but it is a fact that Cher- h
;w okee is not and never has been a con- p
stitutional county. It lacks consideraer>
bly of having the necessary area. But J
a- this fact is not of very much import- s
n(* ance, except as indicating the way A
he that things are sometimes done. P
its The weather man seems to have s
?n been pretty badly mixed about that V
cold wave that he gave us to underc.
stand was due in these parts last week, n
its On the contrary, during Wednesday, o
e* Thursday, Friday and Saturday, we s
2. l.^d to contend with a warm wave in- '
>n, stead. "Beautiful weather this," was r
he a common remark. People talked that tl
jj" way because of the resemblance to S
al early spring, and forgetting for the mori
ment how uncomfortable they were t
an wearing heavy winter underclothes in t
,jn a temperature that seemed to belong h
he to south Florida. The weather really a
1- might have been beautiful if the peo- t
pie had been properly cioineu ior u. ?
he Just where has not been definitely lo- h
cated; but it is not difficult to believe 1
ail .
it- that there was a cold wave on some- h
a- where, and since this locality had been n
a.^ robbed of such chill as seemed neces- P
lis
u_ sary to keep the season seasonable for s
>w concentration elsewhere, the locality t
ds that did get the benefit of it must have o
^ had cold weather right. e
he Speaking of town building and all t'
in that sort of thing, the farmer in the b
)T'{ country- has just about as much to do g
,g_ along that line as has the dweller in
n- the town. Say, you farmer friend, no t<
f
OI matter who you are, don't you Know n *
1 to be a fact that you hear more nice
things about those farmers who have u
ed painted their homes and outbuildings,
is- and whose surroundings carry unmis- "
takable evidence of order and system?
n_ There are some homes that you know *
ry of where there is pretty shrubbery in ^
?* the yards, where there are lots of pret- P
ty rosebushes and potted plants, c
js' Where out in the yard or lawn, under 81
3e. the trees are rustic benches, or maybe c
ne plain carpentered benches or benches
h- bought from the furniture store. If
he you are an individual of a certain bent 11
of mind, you might attempt witty H
ings at some of these things, thi
hese people like to stay In the shac
etter than in the sun, etc.; but evf
' you are of this bent of mind, don
ou know that in ninety-nine cai
ut of a hundred, the people who 11'
ere are folks of the best energy ar
itelligence that we have?folks wl
now how to rest as well as worl
Veil, it is so, and these are not tl
eople to attempt any would-be wit o
!uch wit rebounds on the folks wl
;et it off. These are the people to 1
mulated?the people to pattern aft
ust as every man knows and feels th
uch folks have a little higher niche
he estimation of everybody, every ms
hould be able to see that there is i
etter way of uplifting himself ths
y folloing their example. The pei
>le in the country have fully as mu<
o do in the uplifting line, and there
.8 much personal benefit to them as
he case of the people in town.
ABOUT PEOPLE.
Mrs. F. M. Satterwhite of Yorkvil:
s visiting friends in Greenville.
Miss Ellse Latimer of Yorkville, h
aken a position in Mr. J. C. Wllborr
ifflce.
Miss Barnette Miller of Yorkville
D. No. 6, left this morning to ent
jinwood college.
Mrs. Edgar Nlsbet of Van Wyck,
isiting her parents, Dr. and Mrs. ]
r. Walker in Yorkville.
Miss Mary Randleman of Rockin,
lam, N. C., is visiting her aunt, Mi
Jrooks Inman in Yorkville.
Miss Zula Stephenson of Yorkvil]
nd Miss Minnie Plexlco of Sharon, le
ist Friday for Yawhannah, Georg
own county, where they expect to tal
harge of schools.
1EGISTERING CROP MORTGAGE
The bill introduced by Represent)
ive Beamguard to provide for the rei
3try of chattel mortgages of crops at
o fix the fee, was referred to the jud
iary committee which has submitt*
najority and minority reports, the mi
ority report being unfavorable and tl
minority report being favorable. T]
ext of the bill is as follows:
Section 1. That it be a sufflcie
egistry and record of any chatt
mortgage in whole or in part coverit
rnn np prnna without rpfprpnne to tl
mount thereof, to enter upon an lnd<
100k to be kept for that purpose 1
egister of mesne conveyances tl
tames of mortgagor and mortgage
he amount and character of the de
ecured, and besides a brief descrij
ion of the other chattel pledged, al
he year in which, and a brief descrl]
ion of the lands on which such cro
re cultivated, the date of the maturii
f the debt and the date of filing sui
nortgage for record.
Sec. 2. That the register of mesi
onveyances shall be entitled to chari
or the indexing and registering ai
uch mortgage a fee of fifteen cents.
Sec. 3. That all Acts and parts
Lets in conflict with this Act a
lereby repealed.
PUBLIC COTTON PLATFORM.
Petitions have been circulab
hroughout the territory surroundii
forkville during the past few da:
sking for the establishment of a pul
ic platform In Yorkville, under tl
upervision of a public cotton weighe
nd these petitions have been general
igned.
As The Enquirer understands tl
ituation, there is no complaint again
he methods of the local buyers or the
airness; but the idea is that the pro]
sition is one that very properly cal
or the services of a responsible midd
nan who will be legally and moral
.rmnd tn ntnnd fnr Maptness and fai
less to both sides in all questlo:
ouchlng weights, checking, etc., ai
yho, perhaps may be in a position
;ive information and advice concern!]
he market.
One argument is that buyers wl
wn cotton platforms and warehous
lave certain advantages in the contr
f the competition that might othe
irise arise from local and transle
iuyers, who do not have these facl
ties, and the establishment of a pul
ic platform presided over by a pu
Ic weigher will make the market mo
ree and open.
The idea of a public platform hi
een growing for several years, i
he instance of the Farmers' Union
ew years ago, a provision for the e;
ablishment of a public platform
forkville was tacked on to a bill th
lad just been gotten through for Che
er. but this provision of the bill wi
withdrawn before the bill received tl
ignature of the governor. Anoth
etition went down to the general ai
embly last year; but it got in too la
or action, and nothing was done.
Most of those behind the movemei
lesire a general bill that will enab
ho sellers at such markets as desire
o avail themselves of It as they migl
ee proper. They are especially asl
ng that such an arrangement be ma<
or York county; but in the belief thi
big majority of the farmers who s?
otton in Yorkville are heartily in fi
or of the proposition, they want
latform and weigher for this mark*
thrui<rh thprp hp no crenoral Dr<
ision for such counties as may desii
o avail themselves of a public syster
WITHIN THE TOWN.
? In his annual report Prof W. 1
land, state instructor of high school
otes that the census of 1910, will d<
ar the high school of the town <
'orkville from further assistance i
he hands of the state.
? The people of Yorkville are aga
eminded of the call that was publisl
d by Mayor Hart in the last issue <
'he Enquirer for the meeting to I
ield in the court house tonight for tl
urpose of organizing a board of trad
? Dr. A. Y. Cartwright has purchase
rlr. W. B. Moore's North Congre
treet residence, occupied by Mr. J.
IcElwee and Mr. J. F. McElwee hi
urchased Dr. S. A. Weber's Chun
treet residence occupied by Mr. H. '
Yilliams.
? The local board of health Is vei
riuch concerned over the developmei
f a case of scarlet fever in the gradt
chool. As soon as the case develope
t was strictly quarantined, the scho
oom was thoroughly fumigated ar
he situation is being watched with tl
reatest care.
? No man loses anything by helpir
o build up his town. There is no be
er way of building up a town than I
laving a straight, legitimate businei
nd sticking to it. The man who a
ends to his own business best, ar
iho will take no unfair advantage ?
lis fellows, is the best town builde
'he thing to consider in town buildir
3 the ability to do things best in tl
lost businesslike, workmanlike ar
rofessional manner. Every hone
ervice is worthy of honest compensi
ion; but there has never been a tin
r a conumon uunug ui unuci mm
very honest worker has not found
o his interest as well as his duty i
e on the lookout for and on h
uard against the fellows who wou
do" him. But the man who attem
3 his own business honestly and faitl
ully, and who stands ready at a
imes to co-operate In every hones
nselfish movement for the benefit <
lie town or community in which 1
ves, is the best town builder there i
? Mrs. Julia Hudson, wife of Mr. V
[. Hudson, died at her home In tl
leely mill village last Saturday i
neumonia and was buried in Rose HI
emetery on Sunday afternoon, tl
ervices being conducted by Rev. J. ]
ates, pastor of the Associate R(
>rmed Presbyterian church, of whic
le deceased was a member. Mr
[udson was born September 15, 185
it Her maiden name was Allen. She was
le married to her husband in 1879, and is
;n survived by her husband and eight
i't children as follows: Amanda, Walter,
se Henry, Bratton, Belle, Charley, Agnes,
ire Myers. The funeral was attended by a
id large concourse of relatives and
10 friends, including many members of
c? the Associate Reformed congregation,
le
JJ; HOMICIDE AT A DANCE.
Qe Jack Stowe dead, Ed Walker lying
sr. at the point of death, and Bob Allison
** badly wounded and a fugitive are some
ln of the results of a big free fight on Mr.
10 Mart Hambright's place near King's
in Mountain battleground at an early
a- hour last Saturday morning. Several
:h other negroes were more or less seriis
ously wounded; but the casualties
in mentioned probably include the most
striking results of the fight.
The trouble did not develop until the
dance had been in progress pretty
nearly all night, and then it started
le, between Bob Allison and Ed Walker,
being precipitated by Allison in a belief
that Walker had been rather too
118 attentive to his, Allison's, wife.
i's Eye witr esses of the affair told the
story to the coroner's jury in exciting
detail and from what they had to say
K- there is no doubt that there were some
er pretty lively doings in and around the
negro house in which the dance occurred
for a space of five or ten minutes;
but a full story of the battle is hardly
worth while.
As soon as the issues were joined beg_
tween Allison and Walker, they went
after each other with pocket knives
"8- and during several minutes slashed
each other frightfully. Presently Alle,
lison picked up a shot gun and fired
two shots in an effort to kill Walker,
but as the result of the first shot one
e" innocent bystander was seriously pepke
pered and as the result of the second
shot, another non-participant, Jack
Stowe was killed.
When the smoke of the conflict beS.
gan to clear away it was feared that
not only had Stowe been killed, but
a" Walker was so badly hurt as to be
5- unable to stand on his feet and one or
1(j two other non-combatants had been
. slashed with knives or sprinkled with
shot. Allison considered the situation
&d until he became panicky at what might
a- happen on the arrival of the authoriu
ties, and then made his way across the
state line only a few hundred yards
away.
Sheriff Brown and Deputy Sheriff
nt Quinn spent a part of Saturday and
el Sunday at the scene of the battle in
lg connection with the Investigations that
he were being made by the coroner, and
KX Sheriff Brown did not get back home
3v until an early hour yesterday morning,
he having put himself to considerable
ie pains in an unsuccessful effort to lobt
cate the fleeing Allison.
p. ?
80 OVER IN GAFFNEY.
The people of Gaffney, that thriving
lg little city across the Broad, which has
:h the distinction of being the county seat
of Cherokee county, are very much an?e
noyed at the fact that the census did
iy not put them in the "5,000 class," as
almost every citizen of the "village"
of is absolutely certain that the census
re department has been careless in its figures,
and that they ought at least to
have as much as 5,700 as the enumerators
are alleged to have sent in that
many names; but the census departed
ment sayeth not. But really the matter
might be very easily settled, if the
? census authorities would authorize a
ys new count and station enumerators at
b- the Southern depot at the arrival of an
jje evening irain, me count couiu ue caaily
made in Just a very few mi' utes,
-r' and it is possible that the 5,00i line
ly would be passed.
But Gaffney needn't worry. It has
ue time to grow and there is plenty of
room for it to grow in. There are
scores and scores of building lots, nice
lots too, that are patiently awaiting
the coming of the house builders, and
!{? houses when completed would be greatly
ly pleased to shelter residents. Yes,
y Gaffney has plenty of room to grow,
and if it keeps on growing, possibly
by the time the next census comes
around it will get into the 6,000 class,
which is some better?20 per cent bets
ter?than the "5,000 class."
A representative of The Enquirer
*? was in Gaffney Saturday evening, and
I i while he wasn't quite able to count that
5,700 people they had been claiming, he
did meet some very delightful folks.
II One of the first he met was the new
! clerk of the court, Mr. Tom Caldwell,
?" and from the way he gave out the glad
hand he must have thought our repe
resentative was in Gaffney to locate,
and he was getting in line on his vote
in the next primary. Tom says he is
~ worKing nara ana is geiuug iue mica
a on his work and will soon have every?"
thing working in nice shape. He was
lrJ willing to acknowledge that a good
al portion of the best people of eastern
?" Cherokee originally belonged to York
|*? county and that was one reason why
ne Cherokee was such a progressive county;
but he wasn't willing to say that
all of the good people of eastern Cher16
okee were taken in with the slice off
. of York.
" One gentlemen told me that there
? was a plan on foot in Cherokee county
, ; to take an additional slice off of western
York?a strip including Piedmont
Springs?but when questioned as to
:? who was back of the movement, what
" had been done, what was being done
and other information, he very sudl"
denly seemed to forget that he knew
a any of the details.
il? But going back to Gaflfney and her
5,000 population that isn't, she is cerre
tainly laying the foundations for not
n* only a 6,000 town, but for 10,000 or
more as well. The town is pretty well
torn up just at present with the operlj
ations of the sewer builders, and this
J ' plant will probably be completed within
ls? the next few weeks, and will be ample
2- for the town's needs at least until the
Df taking of the census twenty years
t hence. Then, the town's water supply
Is being enlarged to fit the growing
needs of the community for some years
in to come. On a high hill, probably a
1. mile and a half outside of the corpor~
ation limits, a new standpipe, with a
capacity of 500,000 gallons, is being
)e erected, and this is to be supplied from
16 a bold creek, a mile or more further
east, and at the creek a filter plant
is being built along the most approved
lines of filter construction. The plant
ss is being built by the Greer Filter ManP
ufacturing company, under the personal
supervision of Mr. J. B. Greer, and
18 a few minutes conversation with Mr.
:h Greer will convince even a layman that
r. he thoroughly knows what he is about,
and is going to give Gaffney all that
it is paying for, if not more. Mr.
T Greer told the writer that he made a
it bid on the Yorkville plant for $2,380,
>d which was $20 less than the next low'
est bid, but when he learned that the
a? details as to location, etc., were not
ol completed in Yorkville, he was very
id glad that the job was not awarded to
10 him at his figures, because it was only
a small plant, and he has contracts
ahead <f him in Texas and Montana,
ig and it would not suit him at all to
I. come back to Yorkville for the small
job here The Gaffney plant is to cost
)y something like $30,000.
ss Gaffney, like many other towns in
t- this part of the country, is really bigd
ger than the census figures show up.
The city limits from a given center are
0" one mile each way, and from the busiir.
ness portion of the village the center
lg of corporation is probably one-third of
a mile west. To the east, barely outie
side the limits, there are two or three
id cotton mills, which while enjoying
st practically all the advantages of the
municipal government, the inhabitants
of the mill villages cannot be counted
ie as a part of Gaffney's population. It
;h is just simply up to the city fathers
jt and citizens of Gaffney to get to work
to incorporate the mill villages as a
,0 part of the city, and thus get credit
Is for the population that is really GaffId
ney. With this addition to her territory,
if she just keeps on trying and
improving, in another ten years she
really might hope to be as good a
.11 town as is Yorkville.
it,
3f LOCAL LACONICS.
1C \JI I I I I I ? I IVIVUUVM Via W WIIUi
a. W. E. and Harvey Griffin, recently
y committed to jail to answer to the
charge of having murdered E. P. H.
10 Nevins in Fort Mill township, were on
sf last Friday released on bonds in the
ill sum of $1,000 each.
ie Sentences of York Convicts Commuted,
L,. Governor Ansel on Saturday exer?.
cised executive clemency in the followh
ing cases: Commutation to 18 months
on the chaingang was granted to J. L.
s- Stanley of York, who in November,
8. 1909, commenced service of a two
years sentence for manslaughter.
Commutation to 18 months on the
chaingang was granted In the case of
Charlie White, colored, of York, who
killed a negro named Tillman. White's
15-year-old daughter was surprised
by White In company with Tillman at
the latter's house, under highly suspicious
circumstances. The case was
tried before Judge S. W. G. Shipp in
November, 1909, conviction of manslaughter
was had and a sentence of
two years at hard labor was imposed.
Commutation to date was granted
Mort Williams of York, sent to the
penitentiary for five years in the
spring or 1906 ror mansiaugruer, w?liams,
a negro, having killed a friend
in an affray. The evidence against him
was circumstantial. Williams has
made an excellent prisoner, having
been a "trusty" from the first. Recently
he pursued, wounded and recaptured
an escaping convict.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? A dispatch from Newberry last
night said that Governor-Elect Blease
was quite ill, having been seized with
a sudden attack of acute indigestion;
but his physician, Dr. Houseal, was
hopeful that he would be able to be at
the inauguration today.
? Spartanburg, January 14: Criminal
court, after a two weeks' session, has
adjourned in this city. Business was
completed a day before adjournment,
but a number of appeal cases were
heard. This has been one of the most
exciting terms of court in the history
of Spartanburg, and an unusually large
amount of business has been transacted.
The city clubs were given an inspection,
one handed a clean bill, while
the other was indicted. The gambling
raid made by officers was Investigated,
and in fact almost everybody in town
was afraid to venture out for fear of
meeting the sheriff with a bench warrant
to appear as a witness against
somebody or something. The town has
been totally cleaned out and freed from
immorality.
? "There were 75 boys in South Carolina
to produce more than 100 bushels
of corn on one acre." This statement
is made in the annual report of Ira
W. Williams, state agent of the United
States farm demonstration work, *
which will be sent to the general assembly
through the state department
of agriculture. Referring to the Boys'
Corn clubs, Mr. Williams says: "This
Boys' Corn club has probably been
more successful in the state, according
to reports, than elsewhere and the record
breakers of the large number of
boys who produced over 100 bushels
are Jerry Moore, who produced 228
bushels and 3 pecks at a cost of 43
r>onta nor hunhel! and Archie Odom.
who produced 177 bushels and 3 pecks
at a cost of 23 cents per bushel. These
records have been invaluable to the
state and have advertised the fertility
of our soils as probably nothing else
could."
? W. B. West, former state dispensary
auditor and former chief feedstuffs
Inspector, but now chief fertilizer
inspector of Clemson college, has
addressed a letter to the department of
agriculture in which he suggests that
the weight and grade of each package
of corn, meal, grits, rye, wheat, barley,
rice, wheat flour, rice flour should be
plainly printed In black on the outside
and that standard weights and measures
of the United States government
should be the standards adopted. "My
reason for making the above suggestion,"
says Mr. West, "is that in the
matter of corn, for instance, there is
now much room for fraud. Many consumers,
both in the city and country,
purchase a 'sack' of com and ask no
questions as to the weight, and I am
informed by reliable merchants that it
is not unusual for a 100-pound sack of
corn to be sold as a 'bushel sack' and
at an advantageous price."
? Columbia Record: Representative
Osborne of Spartanburg has filed In tha^
house the bill drafted by Secretary J.
Porter Hollis of the South Carolina
child labor committee, to repeal all
exemptions to the child labor law.
Under the present law, exemptions are
provided where the children are those
of widowed mothers, or are compelled
to work, and in such cas?~a the commissioner
of labor Is authorized to issue
permits. It is claimed that this privilege
is abused in certain instances,
and children have been imposed upon.
The total number of such children
working in the cotton mills is said to
be about 300. The bill provides that
no children under 12 shall be allowed
to work in any cotton mill. The bill
also provides that in case of night
work the age limit shall be 16, that is,
no person under 16 shall be allowed to
work at night in cotton mills. The
child labor committee will also present,
as a companion bill, one seeking
to require marriage registration so that
the ages of children may be arrived at
with accuracy, as under the present
conditions parents often give incorrect
ages for their children that they
might be employed in the cotton mills.
? Columbia Record: Mr. Charles Augustus
Calvo, Sr., founder and publisher
of the Columbia Register, and
for a number of years state printer,
died in New York Friday, according to
information received by members of
his family in this city. He was in his
63d vear. Funeral arrangements had
not been made, but it was expected that
the body would be brought to Columbia
Sunday. Mr. Calvo was born
in Charleston in 1848, but when very
young, his family moved to Columbia.
He was married in Chester to Miss Angeline
Effle Thompson and has lived in
Columbia until within the past three
or four years. At the time of his death
he was engaged as proof-reader on one
of the magazines in New York. He
was a skilled printer, as well as an
able writer and editor. The Register
was one of the principal journals which
supported the Tillman movement. Mr.
Calvo published it until 1895 or 1896,
when his health failed. The collapse '
of the Register followed. He went to
New York three or four years ago,
where he has been up to the time of
his death. Mr. Calvo was a member of
a number of secret orders, including
the Masons. He was a member of
Trinity church of this city.
? Columbia State: I. W. Bernheim of
Louisville, head of the wealthy whisky
house of I. W. Bernheim & Co., has
sent to the state of South Carolina a
check for $34,700, representing his part
as a stockholder in the Richland Distilling
company of graft against the
state of South Carolina. In addition
to this Bernheim has given a $5,000
cash bond to appear in court at ChesI
ter to testify against other parties implicated
in the wholesale robbery of
the state The check was brouaht to
Columbia yesterday by Thos. B. Felder
of Atlanta, member of the firm of Anderson,
Felder, Roundtree & Wilson,
and has been placed in the state treasury.
The portion of this fund belonging
to the state of South Carolina will
be distributed among the public schools
of the state under the bill introduced
by Mr. Stevenson. The Judgment
against the Richland Distilling company
was $100,000. In addition to the
check from I. W. Bernheim, the real
estate property of this corporation has
been seized by the state of South Caralina
and will be sold at an early date.
Among the other stockholders of this
company are the Blocks of Macon, Ga.,
the Lanahans of Baltimore and J. S.
Farnum of Charleston. The manager
o^ this distillery in the heydey and
glory of the state dispensary was
Briggs M. Wilson, now of Albany, Ga.,
who has given the state of South Caralina
valuable evidence, although in
fear of his life, he has not returned
to this state to testify in any criminal
cases. Wilson is a brother-in-law of
Farnum. It is stated that when Farnum
pleaded guilty in the courts of
Richland county, he also gave the
commission valuable evidence in pushing
this claim.
? Orangeburg special of January 14,
to the Columbia State: The lawyer,
John J. Jones was sentenced today at
2.15 p. m. by Judge Memminger to
serve ten years and one month In the
state penitentiary at such hard labor
as he may be able to perform, for the
killing of Abe Pearlstine at Branchville
on December 15. The court room was
crowded when the sentence was passed.
This morning counsel were heard
in arguments before Judge Memminger
for a new trial in the case. Col. D. O.
Herbert and William C. Wolfe argued
in favor of the motion and tried to
show why a new trial should be
granted. The main point argued for
the new trial was centred on the Ip?
competency of a juror, A. E. Rutland. V
It was argued that this Juror was past
the age limit of jurors in this state
and was not properly registered, therer
by being disqualified as a juror. It
was stated that Mr. Rutland resided in