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Straps and facts. ? United States officials, says a Washington dispatch, are looking for the next big scene in the Mexican drama to be staged at Mexico City. Huerta is to quit soon and turn over the government to Foreign Minister Carbajal. It is hoped that there will be found some peaceable way to transfer the Mexican government to the Constitutionalists so as to avert a military conquest of the capital. Carranza has announced that he will not deal with Carbajal. It is thought ihat he would be waling to treat with Curbajal as a leader of a faction and not as the government head. Administration officials at Washington believe that hostilities in Mexico have almost ended and all hope for a conference between Huerta's peace envoys and representatives of the Constitutionalists, as planned by the mediators. ? Two hundred and thirty persons were reported executed in Mexico City Thursday night by Huerta, according to news from the south received oy constitutionalists at Saltillo, Saturday. One hundred and seventy of these were said to have been put to death in the federal penitentiary and sixty outside the prison of Santiago Tialtellallo. Most of the victims, it is asserted, were officials. lighting is reported within the federal district, the constitutionalists having attacked Cochimiloo. San Pablo and the other small towns in the immediate vicinity of the capital, and Huerta has been advised that Paschua will be attacked shortly. Constitutionalists are reported to be attacking the federal garrisons at Esperanza, Maltrata and Orizaba. Gen. Pena Esperanza with two strong columns has gone to reinforce Mexico City, it was said. Huerta, it is reported, intercepted a mesage from Gen. Obregon stating that the latter would capture Guadalajara before July 10, and had sent a rescue force, which had arrived within about thirty miles of the city when it was taken. ? Congress on last Friday appropriated $200,000 for the relief of sufferers frr?m the Salem. Mass.. fire. The house in spite of vigorous opposition led by Chairman Fitzgerald, of the Appropriations committee, accepted by a vote) of 161 to 66 a senate amendment to the sundry civil bill to provide the money. The president had urged the appropriation in a special message and the Massachusetts delegation had been pressing for action for a week. Representative Fitzgerald told the house that while the sympthy of everyone went out to the destitute people of Salem, it was no part of the Federal functions to appropriate money for them. "If congress initiates the policy of making such appropriations," he said, "then whenever there is a flood in the Mississippi and the Great Yazoo Delta is overflowed, whenever fire, or other disaster or catastrophe affects any people of the United States, we may expect the state governments and localities to come to the Federal treasury as the easiest place to get money to take care of the destitute and helpless." Mr. Fitzgerald called attention to the refusal of congress to appropriate for victims of floods in the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys and other irreat disasters which left thousands of people homeless. ? Washington, July 13: Convinced that his talks with J. P. Morgan, Henry Ford and other leading business men have done much to show the country that the Democratic administration is the friend, not the enemy of honest business. President Wilson today planned further conferences. He invited S. R. Bertron, head of a New York banking house, to call at the White House Wednesday to discuss conditions and his antitrust programme. Mr. Wilson also will see a delegation of Kansas City, Mo., business men Wednesday, and other leaders in the business world are expected to call within the next few weeks. Letters received from men who already have talked with the president, have greatly encouraged him. President Wilson is not disturbed by adverse results of the referendum conducted last week by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States on his anti-trust programme. He believes the question sent out by the chamber referred /-? PlovtAn anti Iliurr iv iitv vmj WM trust bill as it passed the house and that therefore the replies do not bear directly on the present situation since the Clayton bill has been materially changed by the senate committee. ? St. Paul, Minn., July 11: A somewhat listless session of the National Education was suddenly enlivened today when Dr. J. H. Francis, superintendent of schools of Los Angeles, Cal. vigorously attacked the present school system. He denounced the "inefficiency of the average teacher," and characterized as soul wreckers "certain powerful interests that are blocking all forms of educational progress." These interests were "civic, religious and political," he said. Criticism of his "sensationalism" was uttered by many leading educators, but the storms of applause which interrupted him at every sentence were indicative of the general attitude of the delegates. "Our public schools of today," said Doctor Francis, "are namby-pamby places to ?fA Knoonoo it ic tho puctnm wnivn wc ucwauov *v ?u wv vMw?v..., and some of us become good citizens in spite of them. The purpose of education is to make us scholarly enough so that we may separate ourselves from the common herd. Teachers who train a child to believe that he cannot be respectable unless he is a professional man are a menace to society. We are dragging out the souls of our boys and girls telling them to learn so many pages a day of matter that meant nothing to them in practical life." The hall rang with applause when Doctor Francis shouted: "Blessings on the girl who refuses to study algebra?a study that has caused many girls to lose their souls." ? Washington. July 11: An administration-approved plan for a more autonomous Philippine government as another step towards independence was laid before congress today when Representative Jones of Virginia, introduced a bill covering the subject. Mr. Jones is chairman of the house insular committee and his measure, declaring the purpose of the United States as to the future political status of the Filipino, was the fruit of a long series of conferences with President Wilson, Secretary Garrison. Manuel Quezon, Philippine resident commissioner to the United States, and Democratic members of the insular committee, all of whom informally have approved it. Supporters of the measure do not expect it to get favorable action by congress at this session. President Wilson has examined the bill no rufnllv on/1 Coorot War Garrison strongly favors its enactment. It is designed to carry out declarations of the Baltimore platform toward the Philppines. The bill makes no attempt to fix a date for Philippine independence. Its preamble recites tha. it never was the intention of the people of the United States in the incipiency of the war with Spain to make it a war of conquest or territorial agrandizement. It asserts that it always has been their purpose to recognize the independence of the Philippine islands "as soon as a stable government could be established therein." It declares it to be desirable to place in the hands of the Filipinos as large control of their domestic affairs as consistent with the exercise, in the meantime, of the right of sovereignty by the United States. ? Washington, July 12: Trust legislation to complete the administration's legislative programme will be undertaken in earnest in the senate this week, and Democrats and Republicans alike are straining at the least to get at the task and complete it as speedily as thorough consideration of the proposed measures to supplement the Sherman law and regulate issuance of railroad securities will permit. Administration leaders have estimated that it will require at least five or six weeks to pass the three trust bills before them, the Clayton bill to supplement the Sherman act, the bill creating .an interstate trade commission and the measure giving the interstate commerce commission authority to regulate the issuance of securities by common carriers. Republican senators think it will require more than six weeks if the three measures are considered separately. Some Democrats also hold this view, and there is a rapidly growing sentiment in favor of consolidating the three bills into one measure. This may be done before the debate proceeds very far. As planned at present the interstate trade commission bill already before the senate will be disposed of first. The judiciary committee expects to report the revised Clayton bill by Tuesday or Wednesday, while the interstate commerce committee hopes to have the railroad securities bill ready to report at the same time. These committees have been working night and day since the senate adjourned Thursday night to whip the legislation into shape. Many changes have been made in both these measures as they passed the house, changes which will necessitate conference action after they pass the senate, but administration leaders in the house have kept in touch with the action of the senate committees and also with the pulse of the business public and predict that little time will be taken when the conferees are appointed. 31 lit ^UotkviUe (Snouirer. <o ? Entered at the Postofflce In Yorkvllle as Mall Matter of the Second Class. YORKVILLE, 8. C.t TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1914 We can see absolutely no reason why congress should not as readily appropriate from $300,000 to $500,000 for the Bethel, Ebenezer and Catawba hail sufTerers, as $200,000 for the Salem, Mass., fire sufferers. The hail sufferers have easily lost more than one million dollars and the loss was certainly as much an act of Providence as was the Salem fire loss. Why don't those candidates emphasize the Torrens system of the registration of land titles? The matter is never heard of now except when one occasionally picks up the written platform of some of the candidates. The Torrens system proposition can be made the subject of some real hot campaigning, if the candidates will only do it. Government Seeds. Seeds sent out by the agricultural department at Washington are as good as any that are to be had and generally better than most seeds. We make this statement mainly because of talk that has ben so common during the past week in connection with the proposition to secure seeds from the government. Seeds being difficult to get elsewhere when as a last resort there is suggestion of the agricultural department at Washington it is common to hear the remark, "Oh, those seeds are no good? not worth planting." This is an old gag that has been common for a good many years, and there is a reason for it. Tho fres Histrihntinn of Reeds bv the government for several generations past has been a source of great annoyance to the old established seed houses cutting down their business, and often interfering with profits. As a result people do not care to paygood money for that which they can get free of charge, and as seeds were free hundreds and thousands of gardners throughout the country had come to look to the government alone for their supplies. Banding together a good many years ago to put a stop to free seed distribution by the government, the seedsmen of the country devoted their energies mainly along three distinct lines. In the first place they brought all possible pressure on their congressmen through seed dealers and people who could be influenced by seed dealers. Next they started a campaign of ridicule and protest in the newspapers and at the same time they inaugurated a campaign of slander against the quality of the seeds distributed. The Enquirer has received many a press clipping from private seed houses knocking government seeds, with requests to publish; but no such clipping has ever been published in this paper. The writer hereof has planted government seeds year after year and has met with tine success. He knows of scores of cases of others who have done likewise. It is quite probable that government seeds are scarce and hard to get just at this time because it is so late in the season; but no one need fear that seeds sent out by the government are not as good as any other seeds to be had. County Disbursements. We are printing today for the first time for several years a statement of the disbursements of the ordinary county fund. This publication is in obedience to a provision that was incorporated in the supply bill at the last session of the general assembly and which contemplates the publication of the information in the newspaper that will give it the greatest amount of publicity. The principal value of this publication is to show where the public funds go to, who gets them, what for and in what amount, the theory being that a careful scrutiny of the county's finan cial transactions on the part of the taxpayers will tend to insure the closest economy in all kinds of expenditures. We have summed up all the items of expenditure on account of the chaingang, and iind that they amount in the aggregate to $ 10.1S4.H9 for the six months; but as to how much of that amount may include items that properly belong in 1913, there is of course nothing to show. It is very evident, however, that if this is a half year's expense then the total expense of the chaingang for a whole year must be close to $30,369.78. It is also noted that some of the largest payments were for additions to the plant. The amount paid out for printing and advertising during the six months was $1,128.83. Of this amount $296.44 went to Ij. M. Grist's Sons for a bill covering the entire year of 1913? $125.94 for job printing and stationery and $170.50 for advertising. The other accounts are: Herald Publishing company, $ 142.50 for advertising; Fort Mill Times $114.25, mainly for advertising: Rock Hill Record, $164.50, mainly for advertising; York Publishing company, $00, mainly for advertising; London Printery, $133.X4, for job printing and stationery; miscellaneous foreign printers and publishers, $178.69 for blank books, printing and stationery. Kxcept in the case of L. M, Grist's Sons whose bill includes all the public advertising that was done at the instance of the county during the year 1013, and all the job printing that the lirm did for the county during the year, the other bills cover a period of from six to nine months down to July 1. It has not been practicable within the limited time available to assemble the various items of expense connected with the different departments of the government, the amounts paid for the county home, for drugs, for physicans, for fuel, for postage, for salaries, for current expenses, and the like; but those who are interested may easily pick out these items and add them up. ? ? MERE-MENTION Pour persons died as the result of excessive heat in St. Louis, Saturday. The government kiosk registered 109 degrees C. G. Pearse of Milwaukee, Wis., has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the National r>nl has iiiuucauon society. uanmiiu, ? secured the meeting of the association for next year Charles K. Field, editor of Sunset Magazine, and three other men have been arrested in San Francisco, charged with disclosing military secrets of the United States through publication of an illustrated article in regard to Panama canal for- J titications Judge Kendrick J. Haw-j kins of the Dublin, Ga., circuit, and) former editor of the Dublin Times, dropped dead at his home in Macon, Ga., Saturday... .Lady Hardinge, wife of the Viceroy of India, died in a London hospital Saturday, aged 46. The dead noble-woman was one of the favorites of Queen Mother Alexandria, of England... .Unitarian ministers and laymen from all parts of the United States are in annual conference at Isle of Shoals, N. H., the conference to last two. weeks Dr. Harvey W. Wylie, of pure food fame has been elected president of the National Mouth Hygiene association The Marietta, Columbus and Cleveland railroad has been placed in the hands of a receiver. ....Leon Dejean, a negro, died in New Orleans as the result of Bubonic plague, last week. Two negroes and one white man have died from the disease in New Orleans, since June 27 Be cause he was aemeu a ugai, ?u?." Inghoyt, a patient in a Hustings, N. Y., hospital, jumped out of a window in the fourth story of the building, killing himself instantly Seeing that a Trenton, N. J., traffic policeman was off his post last week, William Altsizer a 6-year-old boy, donned his miniature policeman's costume, and for more than two hours calmly directed traffic in the policeman's stead Lieutenant-Governor Theodore G. Bilbo of Mississippi, has been acquitted on the charge of soliciting and accepting a bribe Fred Boalt, Mexican correspondent of the Cleveland, Ohio, Press, has been ordered deported by the war department. Boalt was guilty of sending sensational and untrue dispatches from Mexico The French chamber of deputies, by a vote of 461 to 35, has appropriated money to cover expenses of French official representation at the Panama-Pacific exposition... .The Alton Steele company of Illinois, capitalized at $1,000,000, has been placed in the hands of a receiver The Federal government has purchased 15,575 acres of forest lands in North Carolina. Two thousand Bibb county, Ga., voters cast votes for W. J. Mosely for Democratic executive committeeman last week not knowing that Mosely had been dead ten years Jamaica ginger has been placed under the ban in Kansas, the supreme court of that state holding that any druggist who sells it may be prosecuted for violation of the prohibition law The Pennsylvania railroad has placed an order for 81 engines and 1,000 steel box cars. Judas Iscariot and Saul of Tarsus, negroes with the surname of Kent, are in jail at Anniston, Ala., charged with murder..Last Friday night was the coldest in the 44 years' history of the Mobile, Ala., weather bureau. A fountain in the city was completely frozen over Lee Walke, of Sceven, Ga., drank a small bottle of cologne in order to get the alcohol in it. He is dead Dr. W. A. Winters and his wife, Mrs. Byrd Winters, charged with conspiracy in connection with the disappearance of the doctor's nine-yearold daughter, have been released at New Castle, Ind., because of lack of evidence Samuel Gompers, the labor leader, has declared war against Representative J. Hampton Moore of Pennsylvania, and will seek to defeat Moore because the latter opposed a measure Gompers was interested in... A German aviator last week attained an altitude of 21,450 feet. The highest previous altitude was attained by a Frenchman, who reached a height of is san feet ahnve the earth After being on a strike for five weeks, 4,000 of the 10,000 employes of the Westinghouse companies of Pittsburgh, Pa,, voted to return to work yesterday. The remainder are expected to give up the contention during the next few days. The police of Berlin last week raided a house occupied by Servian students and secured documentary evidence which proved the existence of a plot to assasinate the German emperor Empress, the largest female elephant ever captured, died in the zoological gardens, Philadelphia, last week. Empress had lived in Philadelphia during the past 38 years The clipper ship Edward Sewell, which sailed from Philadelphia in October, for Seattle, Wash., and last reported March 23, and since given up as lost, last week reached Hawaii. The vessel was badly damaged by storms at sea. The municipal council of Paris, France, last week, announced the issuance of $44,400,000 4 per cent bonds. In one day the issue was over-subscribed more than forty times....H. J. Gamsman, a New York inventor of an attachment for a camera, was last week paid $300,000 for his invention by the Eastman company of Rochester, N. Y A SDanish company pro poses to build an aerial railway across the whirlpool rapids at Niagara. The span across the gorge is to be 1,180 feet, the longest of its kind in the world The government of China is preparing to tloat another loan of $100,000,000 The Georgia senate has'killed the proposed Hixon eugenics marriage law. The bill provided for mental and physical examinations before a marriage could be contracted... The total tax receipts of the state of Iowa for the year ending June 3, were $11,524,770.80. After paying all claims the state still has a cash balance of $757,860.82 New Orleans rat killers killed more than 50,000 rats during last week. The army surgeons are well satisfied with the Bubonic plague situation in that city....The fight against the hookworm is to be carried on throughout the world. For a time the fight will center in Egypt, under the direction of Lord Kitchener The "dead letter" office of the postofvice department at Washington, has been abolished Associate Justice of the United States supreme court, died at Atlantic City. N. J., Sunday, of heart disease, aged 70 years. He was appointed to the supreme court bench from Tennessee, by President Taft in 1909. Judge Lurton was the fourth ex-Confederate to be appointed to the supreme court Four persons were Kiiieu unu eieiucru umers more or less Injured in an automobile accident in the vicinity of Philadelphia, Sunday. ? At Edgefield last Saturday Mr. C. D. Fortner tried to make Mr. W. L Witherspoon, a fellow candidate for railroad commissioner, say whether he intended to vote for Smith or Blease but Mr. Witherspoon would not say. ? The Columbia State of this morning. quotes Comptroller General Jones as saying that arrangements have been made to borrow $350,000 from the Palmetto National bank at 3i per cent, for the use of the state. The arrangement was made by Messrs. Jones and Carter, subject to the approval of the governor. ? The News and Courier reports Irby on John G. Richards and M. L. Smith at Edgefield last Saturday as follows: "It is amusing to us to hear Mr. Richards get up all of a sudden and say that he is for Blease because the present governor is close to the people," declared \\\ C. Irby, Jr., who said further that Mr. Richards had known Governor Blease for ten years, and if he were just finding out now that Blease was the friend of the people, he was too ignorant to he governor, and if. on the other hand, Mr. Richards, knowing this about Blease two years ago, had been afraid to declare for him at that time, then he was too much of a coward to be governor of the state. Mr. Irby charged that both Mr. Richards and M. L. Smith had been cowards politically when they formed a mutual agreement not to go to the state convention as delegates. Mr. Irby said that he had gone there and denounced the enrollment rules, regardless of how it might affect his race for governor." LOCAL AFFAIRS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS T. P. Youngblood, Chairman?Offers reward of $25 for proof to convict party or parties tresspassing in the Union school house. Page five. Gov. Cole Li. Blease?Publishes proclamation relative to relief measure for sufferers from the recent hail storm. Page five. Yorkville Cotton Oil Co.?Gives notice that it will sell ice on Sundays only in case of sickness. Page three. T. B. Glenn, Manager?Says the Tirzah ginnery will do ginning free for sufferers from the recent hail storm. Page three. R. Al. Wallace, Chairman?Gives dates and places at which the registration board will meet parties desiring to register. Page three. Thos. \V. Boyd, Supervisor?On page n olntomonl it f ol'limu an^roved and paid by the board of commissioners for the six months ending June 30th Carroll Bros.?On page 4, tell about an unusual bargain in steel cut Rio coffee, which they offer at six lbs. for $1 and ask you to try it. York Furniture Co.?Offers all of the O'Leary stock of saddles, bridles, harness, whips, etc., at cost. See page four. Thomson Co.?Continues its mid-summer sale all this week. Men's clothing reduced one-third. See page four for further details. First National Bank, Yorkville?Wants you to feel at home with it, and will do all it can to make you feel that way. See page three. McConnell Dry Goods Co.?Asks you to investigate its claims for yourself so you will have no more doubts. Page three. G. W. Sherer?Wants to supply you with the best meats. Pays his respects to those who do not pay their beef bills. Page three. First National Bank, Sharon?Says the way to keep off rainy days is to open a savings account with it. Page three. Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?Tells you that tnere are oniy nve aays 01 us uig sale and invites you to come after its bargains. Page three. Lyric Theatre?Will present the third installment of "Lucille Love, the Girl of Mystery,' tomorrow. Page five. Only two more weeks for enrollment, and those who have not already enrolled should do It now?today. The time for enrollment expires July 28. Those who are not enrolled by that date will not be allowed to vote in the primary. So far not quite $19,000 has been paid out to the contractor^ who are engaged in building the court house. Payments are made on certificates of the architect as the completed work progresses. Enrollment in York county now is about 900 short of the primary election vote of two years ago. The enrollment is still progressing steadily; but as to whether it is going to reach the election figures of two years ago, is more or less doubtful. Th*r? wan not so much coiner to town throughout the county last Friday afternoon as usual. There were fewer farmers in Yorkville, and the same was true of Rock Hill, Fort Mill and other towns and villages in the county. The common explanation is that there were good seasons in the ground generally, and the farmers thought it best to remain at home and plough. WITHIN THE TOWN ? The Xeely cotton mill ball team defeated the Clover team on the former's grounds, Saturday .afternoon, by a score of 6 to 5. The Neely mill team has played fourteen games this season and has won thirteen of them. FOR THE STORM SUFFERERS. The Enquirer begs leave to acknowledge the receipt of the following contributions to be turned over to the committee designated by the governor, 4" (n 4Via ? / *! 1 f Oil lu assiai in me icuvi u? niv UM.?v. v.? from the recent hull storm in York county: Gov. Cole L. Blease, Columbia..? 2.1 00 L. M. Grist's Sons, Yorkville... 2.1 00 PROGRESS OF ENROLLMENT. The total enrollment throughout the county as published in The Enquirer of last Friday, was 2,965. This included reports from all the precincts in the county except Bethany and McConnellsville, which two clubs had not been heard from. The enrollment at Bethany up to yesterday morning was 106. This was 60 short of the total vote of two years ago, which was 166. It is explained, however, that some of the Bethany voters will go to New Zion and others to Filbert, and there are still quite a number to be enrolled at Bethany. COMMUTATION TAXES The time for the collection of commutation road taxes expired on June 30, and on that date the total number of taxpayers together with the amount of money collected in each township stood as follows: Bethel 417 $ 1,251 Bethesda 318 954 Broad River 310 930 Bullock's Creek 460 1,380 Catawba 654 1,962 Ebenezer 423 1,269 Fort Mill 245 735 King's Mountain 562 1,686 York 461 1,383 Total 3,850 $11,550 REPORT OF GRAND JURY. The grand jury finished up its business quickly on Monday, and was discharged during the afternoon, after submitting the following, signed by J. A. Barber, foreman, as its final report: "Having passed on all bills handed us by the solicitor, and returned same with our finding to the court, we beg leave to submit the following: "The chairmen of the committees have been looking after their several departments and will make a final report at the fall term of the court. "We request our representatives from York county to use their influence in having the dispensary law amended, making it a chain gang offet se, without the option of a fine, for violating the dispensary law. "The annual report of the probate judge and public guardian was received by the grand jury and turned over to the committee on county offices. "Thanking your honor and fhe solicitor and other court officials for courtesies shown us, there being no further business, we beg to be discharged." IN THE STORM DISTRICT. The following list of land owners living within three and a half ,.f n>.plf Hill to fhe south. east, west and northwest, who suffered from the hail storm, has been prepared by a gentleman of Rock Hill, at the request of The Enquirer. The gentleman who furnished the list, says that very probably some names have been left out, because for the time being they may have slipped his memory: 13. H. Massey, Rufus Williams, 1. R. dates. J. T. Roddey, Mrs. Kate Hutchison, W. C. Sanders, W. M. Robinson, B. M. Kewell, A. Friedheim & Hro., V. R. McFadden, D. E. Finley, W. V. Slurgis, R. W. Roach, R. L. Kerr, J. E. Bass, J. E. Marshall, Ewell Sturgis, Buford Sturgis, Joe W. Rawlinson, T. C. Rawlinson, W. J. Rawlinson, Jno. A. Black, W. W. Boyce, R. S. Fewell, John M. Fewell, A. B. Fewell, W. L. Plexico, R. A. Barnett, J. E. Burnett, S. W, Barron, T. A. Barron, F. R. Black, J. B. Neely, W. H. Stewart, J. Hope Adams, W. C. Hicklin, W. T. Nichols. E. P. Steele, A. A. Barron estate, Mrs. M. J. Simlril. M. B. Massey, John F. Williams. W. N. Simril, E. H. Garrison. W. J. Miller, W. W. Miller, C. W. Boyd, J. B. Swlnnle, Joe M. Taylor, Andy Jackson. .A CALL FOR HELP. Governor Blease, at the request of the Rock Hill Chamber of Commerce, Bethel Improvement association and different individuals, has issued a proclamation callinp for voluntary aid for the people who suffered so severely in the hailstorm of the 6th. The proclamation is printed elsewhere in today's issue of The Enquirer, and it has also been sent to the Charleston News and Courier and the Columbia State. The members of the committee des ignated by the governor to take charge of and administer such contributions as may be made under the proclamation, has not yet been advised of their appointment; but they will be notified at once, and it is presumed of course, that all will do the best they can to properly distribute such relief as may be offered. In the meantime such voluntary contributions as may be made through The Enquirer will be acknowledged in the columns of the paper and duly accounted for. ABOUT PEOPLE. Miss Gerald Lowry of Yorkville, is spending the summer abroad. Miss Lizzie Woods of Filbert, is spending some time at Montreat, N. C. Mr. W. G. White, Jr., of Chesterfield, is visiting his parents in Yorkville. Dr. J. E. Thomas of Jefferson, S. C., is spending several days in Yorkville. Mr. Otto Baber of Gastonla, N. C., visueu inenus 111 luiitviuc, jwiciday. Miss Fannie Stroup of Yorkvllle, spent Sunday with friends in Charlotte. Mr. Will Etheridge of Ridge Springs, is the guest of Mr. Jas. H. Beckham's familv in Yorkville. Mrs. H. Li. Summitt of Yorkville, is spending some time at Hendersonville, N. C. Miss Olga Allen of Glbsonville, X. C., is visiting her uncle, Mr. H. C. Allen, in Yorkville. Mr. and Mrs. J. Porter Hollis and son, of Rock Hill, visited relatives in Yorkville, this week. Miss Mell Beard of Charlotte, is visiting the family of Mrs. S. C. Ashe, in Yorkville. Miss Evelyn Gettys of Yorkville No. 4, hsis returned home after a visit to friends in Clover. Mr. P. Wolfe of Chester, a former agent of the C. & N.-W. railway in Yorkville, spent Sunday here. Mr. W. B. Steele of Anderson, is visiting his mother, Mrs. W. B. Steele, Sr., and other relatives in Yorkville. Mrs. R. R. Peoples of Pineville, N. C., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Sue.E. Cain, and other relatives in Yorkville. Miss Helen Darby of Lowryville, is spending some time with her sister, Mrs. J. H. Witherspoon, in Yorkville. Miss Lottie Dunlap of Yorkville R. F. D. No. 3, is the guest of Misses Burrie and Johnsie Stacy, in Clover. ??i? iliinn? or,a Mnctor VIIM3 nuuic mimuii auu Frank McElwee have returned to Yorkville after a visit to relatives in Atlanta. Mrs. H. D. Wolfe and children of Charlottesville, Va., are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Howry, in Yorkville. Miss Banner Quuttlebaum of Aiken, is visiting friends and relatives in Yorkville, the guest of Miss Jessie Baber. Miss Eunice McClain of Hock Hill, who has been visiting her aunt. Mrs. J. A. Sherer, in Yorkville, is now visiting relatives in Clover. Mr. L. A. McGill of King's Mountain, is in Yorkville this week, looking fine notwithstanding the severe illness he underwent some months ago. Mrs. A. Rose of Leesville, accompanied by Master R. A. Beckham, is visiting relatives in Yorkville this week. Mrs. L. B. White of Yorkville, and brother, Mr. L. O. Wilson of Lehi City, Utah, have been visiting Mrs. G. M. Wilson and other relatives and friends In Rock Hill. BETHEL STORM SUFFERERS. ^i?ou a inrfre nml renresenta tive meeting of the members of the Bethel Improvement association at Laney school house, last Saturday afternoon to further consider business tuken up and put under way at the meeting of July 9. The meeting was called to order by Dr. T. N. Dulin, the president, and after prayer by Mr. A. C. Harper, reports of committees were called for. The committee appointed to ascertain the extent of the disaster in Bethel township, and the number of people involved reported as follows: White people affected 568 Colored people affected 803 Acres of cotton affected 4,522 Acres of corn affected 1,647 Bags of fertilizers lost 6,857 Total damage, per cent. On motion it was resolved to ask the general assembly to remit such part of the state and county taxes of the sufferers as may be deemed right and proper. . It was also resolved to take up with the commissioner of agriculture the method of securing seeds from the government for planting. It was resolved also to send copies of the proceedings of the meeting to the representatives of the state and district in congress, asking their aid in securing seed from the government. A resolution was adopted asking the co-operation of other townships in the matter of securing aid. A resolution was adopted providing for the appointment of county and township committees to receive and distribute aid. Upon motion, it was resolved to ask the governor to issue a proclamation, asKing our renow citizens 01 oouin Carolina and of the United States to come to our aid with financial assistance, and to designate a suitable committee to receive and distribute such contributions of money as may be offered. The committee charged with the matter of conferring with the fertilizer companies with reference to such adjustments of losses as may seem right and equitable under the circumstances, not yet having had time to discharge the work assigned to it, was continued until the next regular meeting of the association to be held on the last Thursday in July. on motion the meeting adjourned. SEED FOR PLANTING The campaign that was inaugurated by the Rock Hill Chamber of Commerce to raise money to provide seed for the farms in the hail stricken district has been pushed with wonderful energy and success. Chester raised $213.50, subscribed by the following: S. .M. Jones, $2.r>; K. K. Hatner, $25; Jos. Wylie & Co., $20; M. S. Lewis, $15; T. H. White, $15; Moffatt Grocery Co., $10; L. 1). Childs, $10; J. K. Henry, $10; The Rodman-Brown Co., $10; John Frazer. $10; Lathan Grocery Co., $5; Robert Gajje, $5; R. B. Caldwell, $5; Chester Hardware Co., $5; J. C. Stewart, $5; Hardin Motor Co., $5; J. \V. Dunovunt, $5; J. T. Perkins. $5; G. B. White, $5; J. B. Westhrook, $5; W. J. Simpson. $5; W. J. lOrwin, $2.50; J. 10. Cornwell, $1: T. 10. Whitesides, $1; J. T. Collins. $1: J. A. Barron, $1; R. L. Crook, $1; Joe R. Wylie, $1. The following subscriptions were raised in Rock Hill: Peoples National Bank, $.100; South ern railway, $300; National Union Bank, $250; Chester citzens, $213.50; Chamber of Commerce, $100; Rock Hill Fertilizer Co., $100; Gill & Neely, $75; Roddey-Poe Mercantile Co., $50; T. L. Johnston, $50; Smith-Fewell Co., $50; Rock Hill Grocery Co., $50; Rock Hill Buggy Co., $50; J. M. Cherry, $50; Highland Park Cotton Mills, $50; Aragon Cotton Mill, $50; W. G. Reid & Son, $25; J. H. Milling. $25; Samuel Friedheim, $25; Arcade Cotton Mill. $25; Syleecau Mfg. Co., $25; Rock Hill Furniture Co., $20; Rock Hill Coca Cola Co., $20; Cloud Dry Goods Co., $20; Mrs. F. H. Barber,$25; Mutual Goods Co., $20; Efflrd's, $20; E. H. Johnston, $10; Jas. S. White, $10; Dunlap, Dunlap & Hollis, $10; Diehl-Moore Co. $10; Spencer, Spencer & White, $10; V. B. Blankenship, $10; J. Thompson Brown, $10; R. W. Cranford, $10; Beach-lhrie Co., $10; J. W. O'Neal, $10; The Record, $10; Sims Drug Co., $10; Catawba Fertilizer Co., Lancaster, $10; Jones Motor Co., $10; J. B. S>'tes, $10; J. Alex Williford, $10; Catawba Lumber Co., $10; Williamson Grocery Co., $10; W. H. Hope Mercantile Co., $10; N. B. Williams. $10: G. H. Greene. $10; R. L. Sturgis, $10; Johnson-Powe Drug Co., $10; Rock Hill Drug Co., $10; J. A. Barber, $10; Rock Hill Supply Co., $5; Hugh Allen, $5; W. J. Cherry, $5; J. M. Ivy, $5; A. E. Hutchison, $5; Mrs. Mary C. Barber, $5; R. M. Dondon, $5; Joe W. Simpson, $5; Ruff Jewelry Co., $5; Patterson's 5 and 10 cent Store, $5: E. E. Poag, $5; H. R. McFadden. $5; Standard Drug Co., $5; Phillips Drug Co., $5; Pride Ratterree, $5; J. T. Fain, $5; Ed Fewell, $5; J. N. Stewart, $5; W. A Hunsucker, $5; P. B. Wells, $5; W. A. Douglas, $5; E. B. Patton, $2.50; M. D. Anderson, $2.50; W. S. Lesslte, $2; Harry L Schlesinger, (Atlanta), $2; I. T. Stone, $2; J. H Rudislll, $1: Kershaw Oil Mill. $25; Lancaster Cotton Oil Co., $25; John T. Stevens, Kershaw, $25; H. F. Bookout, $10; Hattie T. White, $10; Universal Filf & Supply Co. (Charlotte), $5; Geo. J. Vroman, $2; O L. Derrick, $5; Rev. W. J. Nelson, $5; Dr. J. E. W. Haile, $5: Chester News, $3; A. D. Gilchrist, $2; Colie W. Roberts, $2; J. M. Yandle $1. Total, $2,480.50. GENERAL SESSIONS The summer term of the court of general sessions convened yesterday morning in the temporary court room of the Rose hotel building, his honor, .Tnde-P Ernest Moore of Lancaster, pre siding. Solicitor Henry was absent attending the funeral of a relative. The state was represented by J. C. McLure of Chester. Upon organization of the court, Judge Moore made the usual charge to the grand jury in regard to the powers of that body and the great influence for good they have on the county. As is usually the case at the summer term, the number of cases to be tried are few. Only a few prisoners, all but one of whom are negroes, were in jail, and all their cases were disposed of during yesterday morning's session. Judge Moore excused the following jurors: J. T. Crawford, J. E. Oates, R. J. White, W. L. Isom, H. P. Jackson, T. H. Merritt. During yesterday morning, the grand jury passed on all bills presented them by the acting-solicitor, and after making their final presentment, were excused vesterdav afternoon. The fol lowing true bills were returned: Press iVIassey, abandonment of wife. James Ingram, Gammie Reld, Wm. Franklin, I3elton Dunlap, larceny. Frank Garrison, larceny. J. E. Turney and Thad Turney, murder?two indictments. J. E. W. Haile, mal practice. Geo. Barnes, assault with intent to ravish. i The first case taken up yesterday morning was that of the State vs. Press Massey, charged with the aban- j donment of his wife. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and his honor sentenced the defendant to one year , and placed him under a $300 bond on his promise to support his wife in future, the jail sentence to be suspended during the defendant's compliance with the bond. Frank Garrison, a white boy of Rock j Hill, not quite 11 years old, plead guil- j ty to the theft of 85 cents, and was sentenced to the reformatory for white i boys at Florence for a period of one i year. i James Ingram, Wm. Franklin and j Belton Dunlap, negro boys under 14 i years of age, plead guilty to stealing i $45 from H. Finch, a merchant of Rock i Hill. They were sentenced to serve 5 years in the reformatory at Lexington. Gammie Reid, 12 years of age, was indicted with the three boys in the , above named charge. He plead not guilty. The jury, however, returned a < verdict of guilty, and Gammie was ' sentenced to live years in the reforma- . turv fnr nnlnrprl vmiths A special venire of eight jurors was drawn yesterday afternoon but only six were served. They are: J. D. Clark, W. B. Burns, H. T. Williams, Quinn Wallace, R. W. Lowry, G. W. Brown. , The ttrst case taken up this morning was that of the state vs. Dr. J. E. W. ] Haile of Rock Hill, charged with mal ( practice. Messrs. Dunlap & Dunlap and Thos. , F. McDow represent the defendant and j Solicitor Henry, the prosecution. There , was a good deal of legal sparring , among counsel preliminary to the < opening of the case, especially as to ] the number of challenges to which the defense was entitled. Counsel for the defense claimed the right to ten chal- i lenges while the state contended that j five was the legal number. Judge Moore sustained the contention of the ] state. < It is quite likely that the jury will ] be engaged in this trial the entire day. < The trial of J. E. Turney and Thad ] E. Turney, indicted for the murder of , Pink Dover, and J. K. Wells, has been ,< set for tomorrow morning Thos. F. McDow, Esq., represents the defen- 1 dants, while John R. Hart, Esq., has been retained to assist the state. 1 , < IIX inc. nniL uio i niu i. A representative of The Enquirer : made an extended automobile trip ' through a considerable portion of the , recently swept hail district, lust Sat- i urday afternoon, to look over the situation and gather such information as : might be available as to the outlook, ] the route extending through a portion 1 of Ebenezer township and winding up ! at Rock F J The main road between Yorkville i and Rock Hill, almost the entire dis- | tance and especially between Tirzah church and Rock Hill, is in an unusu- ? ally bad condition. The clay surfac- 1 ing has been washed from most of the ; roads, especially on the steeper grades, , makinir traveling tedious and difficult < and sorely trying to the automobile j tires. This condition of the roads is \ the work not only of the rain thiit fell | with the hail storm of the night of the * 6th; but of the heavier downpour that j followed on the night of the 7th. But f few of the roads leading into the main 1 road were in a condition to be travel- 1 ed by automobile, and extended explo- ( ration was impracticable. . Already farmers have gone bravely to work repairing damages as far as j they could. Some were patching up 1 broken terraces, and others were plow- 1 ing in cotton fields that showed only [ straight, limbless stems, that seemed ] to show but little promise of budding i another leaf. In the case of hundreds * and hundreds of acres of this cotton, t the surface had been beaten and wash- t ed almost to an unbroken level and 1 there was little else than the stripped j cotton stalks, from six to ten inches s high to show the direction of the rows, t About the only thing green to be 1 lnii li'oon t hu Pot a? f!<irriu/\n place and Ruck Hill, except of course, r the badly blasted trees, were several li patches of alfalfa. These covered the earth in line form. The alfalfa was * close cropped, whether from the hail or the mowing machine, it was not (| practicable to learn, but there was no > apparent injury to the soil or the per- d feet stand. The apparent evidence was that if there is any crop that can withstand a hail storm, that crop is alfalfa; but when the circumstance was afterward mentioned to Mr. John T. Roddey in Rock Hill, that gentleman said that he knew of alfalfa patches that were literally wiped off the earth so completely that it was impossible to tell that anything had been planted there. Throughout the district where the cotton crop appears to have been completely wiped out, the corn patches show varying aspects. There are to be seen some patches where the corn was only IS or 20 inches high. The stalks had been stripped of leaves; but were already beginning to show signs of recovery. The same was true of other corn still further advanced, almost to the tasseling stage, and although all of it is apparently ruined beyond any possibility of hope, there are experienced farmers who sav that if it con tinues to receive proper cultivation, it will yet make some forage and possibly a pretty good yield of grain. In Rock Hill, Messrs. C. L. Cobb, T. L. Johnston, W. B. Byers, J. T. Roddey, J. B. Johnson and numerous others to whom the representative talked, were still talking of relief measures. They had been telegraphing from Maine to Mexico trying to get Irish potato seed; but without much success. Thiy had located some sorghum and a few peas; but hardly enough to be worth while, and Dr. Johnson had gotten hold of a quantity of golden dent corn over in Marlboro county, which he had ordered shipped to him at once. Three of the Southern railway's farm demonstration agents were working in the vicinity together with Mr. McKeown, the local man, and all were giving such advice and encouragement as they could. While everybody seemed to think that the main reliance would be on corn, sorghum, soja beans and the like, there was much strong talk in favor of Irish potatoes. It was still a problem as to where the old seed were to come from, but one of the Southern railway's demonstration agents urges that if there is no other way for it that there is some chance to utilize new potatoes by cutting them, drying them in the sun for some time, and sprouting them in wet straw before planting. He says he has often known new potatoes to be made available for seed in this way. While the concensus of opinion in Rock Hill seemed to.be that the first and most important consideration is seeds, still it is recognized that relief measures must go beyond that. There are hundreds of people who are with out anytmng to eat, and negro iaDor, of course, is demoralized. While past experience has demonstrated the great difficulty of affording practical relief under such circumstances, there is a feeling that organized effort is necessary and that strong appeals should be made to the country for aid. The action of congress in appropriating $200,000 for the Salem, Mass., fire sufferers is discussed, and while many are honestly of opinion that government aid in such cases is of doubtful wisdom, still the people are unanimous in their belief that hail sufferers in Ebenezer and Catawba townships have as strong if not stronger claims on government aid than the Salem fire sufferers. Quite a number of Rock Hill's business houses have been hard hit by the storm, especially through the financial ruin of farmers who were being supplied by them. The statement was made Saturday afternoon that a single concern has $18,000 worth of fertilizers in the hail stricken district, and others of course have put out larger quanti Hps of supplies to people who have been deprived of all reasonable hope of paying their accounts. Some of the farmers say that the i tremendous rain which followed hard after the hailstorm did more real damage than the hail itself. The top soil was washed off and carried away clean i down to the subsoil making damage that cannot be repaired except in the i course of years, and some really conservative business men estimate that the damage of this kind amounts in the aggregate to not far short of half a million dollars. LOCAL LACONICS Sutton Springs School. The summer term of the Sutton Spring school began yesterday morning with an enrollment of about ttf:een pupils. Prof. T. W. Cooley is n charge. Miss Ruth Ferguson is to Leach the school this fall. Lancaster Man Secures Bail. D. Reece Williams, Esq., of Lancaster, appeared before Judge Moore in Yorkville this morning and petitioned for bail for George Roberts, held for the killing of Richard Love in Lancaster county, last Tuesday. The attor ney read the testimony taken at the Inquest, and Solicitor Henry making no objection to the motion, his honor ; ordered Roberts released on a bond of 53,000. j The Haskell Convention. I A reader has asked The Enquirer for the names of the York county dele- I ?ates to the Haskell convention of : 1890. Upon looking the matter up, the < record shows that York was represent ?d by only two delegates?Messrs. A. I E. Hutchison and Iredell Jones. Ac- < wording to the report published in The Enquirer at the time the name of Sen- I itor E. D. Smith leads the list of the Sumter delegation. 1 \ Work of the Storm. I Mr. W M. Setzer, who owns the Jim i Bigger old place, 13 miles north-east s >f Yorkville, is in Yorkville on the : iury. He said that there was still ' plenty of ice in his neighborhood on t Sunday, and people who saw it thought it might be there for a day or two onger. He saw hail stones himself on Sunday that had been gathered up by . ihe bag full, six days after the storm. nu .. U.. t 1 rxA \/t w 1 1 iir nan nwi uinj ucjjwujcu iui. oci ser's crops, but killed a number of guineas, chickens and ducks for him. He says that if the up-rooted trees on lis place are taken care of, they will serve the needs of the place for firewood for several years. A negro, on lis place, reported having seen a large snake that was killed by the hail. Free School Books, Etc. Superintendent of Education Carroll said yesterday chat the school terms in :he hail stricken districts, will not be shortened on account of the recent calamity. Funds can be obtained from >ther sources to make up any deficiency that may be caused by any remission of school taxes the general assembly might see proper to order. He went on to say that he is now trying to >erfect arrangements to provide free school books for children whose parents have suffered from the storm, and n this connection, too, he would like >eopIe who may have secondhand looks to spare, to know that he will nulertake to place them where they will do good and receive due apprecia:ion. Hail Stricken Cotton. <)n the 3d day of July, 1903, a heavy tailstorm swept through a portion of Jethel township, and stripped the coton of leaves to the ground, leaving lothing but the broken, battered and skinned stalks. The facts were pubished in The Enquirer at the time. Mr. 5am J. Clinton of Clover, was in the itricken territory. He worked his crop >ut, and made some cotton. He was s ailed up on the telephone last Friday d vening for definite information about n he matter. He said that he made c ibout one-fourth a crop. Several of ^ lis neighbors made a half crop. He s laid that one year after that, in the c >arly part of August, hail cut his corn t top all to pieces. The corn was tas- e teling and was stripped of leaves and d ven tassels. He worked it out and e nade a fairly good crop of corn, almost is much as he would have made if the c itorm had not struck him. ll Death of Mrs. N. E. Plexico. Mrs. Nancy Kmily Plexico, widow of v he late It. M. Plexico, and third f laughter of the late John and Itachel 1 lot till, died at the home of her t a tighter, Mrs. J. N. Quinn, at J Smyrna, last Saturday evening, death resulting from cancer, Mrs. Plexico was more than seventy years of age, and was born on Clark's Fork, near 1 the place where she died. All her ? life had been spent in the Smyrna section of York county. Since early childhood, a member of the Smyrna A. K. P. church, she was widely known to a large number of relatives, friends and acquaintances, as a Godfearing woman of beuutiful life ami Christian character. The deceased g was the relict of the late Robert M. J Plexico, whom she married more than forty years ago. She is surviv- w ed by an older sister, Mrs. W. M. * Kennedy of Yorkville, and a brother, Mr. J. C. McGill of King's Creek. The following children survive: Messrs. M. K., Yorkville; J. E.. 4 King's Creek: J. L., Blacksburg; Victor, Sharon, and Mesdames Belle Jeans, Clinton; J. N. Quinn, Smyrna; Mattie Caldwell, Smyrna. The funeral and interment was at Smyrna, yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock, services being conducted by her pastor, Rev. B. G. Pressly. Rev. Or. J. H. Simpson Dead. Rev. Dr. J. H. Simpson, whose initial illness in the Charlotte Sanitari um, was mentioned last Friday, died at 6.30 o'clock Sunday morning. Dr. Simpson was horn in Chester on August 3, 1834. He was graduated from Erskine college in the class of 1854, and after tcirinu- tho fimruo in the Seminary was licensed to preach in 1856. He served * through the Civil war as chaplain of the Twenty-third regiment. He was superintendent of the A. R. P. orphanage during the time that institution was located at Hickory Grove, and continued in that capacity for some years after the orphanage was removed to Tipton county, Tennessee. This was after he had served more than twentyfive years as pastor of a church at New Lebanon, West Virginia, Dr. Simpson married Miss Elizabeth Moffatt, who died fifteen years ago, and was buried at Purity church, four miles from Chester. The following children survive: Mrs. Hawkins, of Clifton Forge, Va., Mrs. McCormick, of Spottswood, Va., Mr. D. M. Simpson of Chicago, fc Mrs. H. E. McConnell, of Chester. The interment took place at Purity yesterday afternoon, the services being attended by a large concourse of people, including quite a number of ministers of the Associate Reformed church. J. Gilbert Enloe Dead. The dead body of Mr. John Gilbert tfnloo u/?>ll .knnu'n I n riifferont nnrts nf the county, was found in a thicket on the western outskirts of Rock Hill, last Sunday morning. When found, Mr. Enloe's head was resting on a coat for a pillow, and near by was an empty box that had contained morphine, and an empty coca-cola bottle. At the In- ^ quest there was testimony to show that he had left home at about 6 o'clock, Saturday morning, to go take up his regular duties as salesman for W. G. Reid & Son. He stopped at a store near the Wymojo mill, and bought a bottle of coca-cola, saying that he would return the bottle in a few minutes; but nothing more was seen of him until the finding of his dead body. He was known to be an habitual user of morphine, because of a constitutional trouble to which the drug gave temporary relief. As to whether the suicide was intentional is not clear. The deceased was a son of m the late John G. Enloe, once prominent in the political affairs of the county, and was slightly over 50 years of age. He was twice married, his first wife being a daughter of the late Joseph A. Smith. He is survived by his second wife and three small children, and ? three children by his first wife, Mesdames Buford and Elwell Sturgis, and Mr. J. J. Enloe. THE NEWBERRY MEETING Smithites Wear Cotton Blooms and Bleaseites Red Badaes. The candidates for the United B States senatorial nomination spoke W last Friday at Newberry, the home of Governor Blease, and were met by some two thousand or more people, fairly equally divided as between the opposing factions. Especial effort had been made to * make the meeting a notable one, and Senator Smith was driven from his hotel to the speaker's stand astride a bale of linters, followed by a crowd of supporters wearing white cottonblooms. The Bleaseites were out in equal numbers wearing red ribbons on their coats, shirts or hats. The speakers generally were about the same as at other meetings except a that Governor Blease who spoke last, confined himself mainly to a review of his political record in Newberry county, before going as a candidate for the house of representatives when he was little more than a boy. He also referred to the lockout by the Monegan a mills of Greenville, and said that the B trouble was started by the mill management to drive the mill workers out of town so they could not vote in the approaching election. To vote in the primary a voter must have resided at the precinct at which he offers to vote at least sixty days next preceding the primary. If these mill workers are driven out of Greenville and others come in from other towns to take their places then the voters of all concerned both coming and going will be killed. ? The governor was frequently cheered. 9 senator smith reviewed his five and x half years In the senate, telling of he benefits he claims to have conferi on the farmers of the country, and the south in general because of his efforts in behalf of cotton. Messrs. Jennings and Pollock made f their usual speeches and were sublected to frequent Interruptions; but everything passed off good naturedly. There were numerous bouquets of lowers and boxes of fruit for both 3overnor Blease and Senator Smith, md Messrs. Jennings and Pollock each ?ot a box of flowers. Mr Jennings said that numerous oeople had told him that Governor Blease would not carry his own county and expressed grave doubts as to whether the governor would be in the ? second race. Voices from the crowd said "that's right." and others said, "talk's cheap, votes make nomlnaions." At Greenwood. The attendance at the Greenwood ^ meeting was fully as large as that at the Newberry meeting and rather nore noisy. Pollock, being the first speaker, gave way to Senator Smith, the explanation )eing that Smith wanted an early start ro go over into Laurens county where le wanted to investigate the nature ind extent of damage inflicted by the lail storm with a view to taking steps ooking to Federal relief, etc. The senitor made his speech along the usual ines. While he was discussing the arices of cotton, an auditor asked him vhy, while he was it, he did not make jf he price a dollar a pound, "so we could ill go to farming." The senator replied hat if the interrupter would farm as lard as he talks, the price would soon >e a dollar a pound. Governor Please came up while Senitor Smith was speaking, and asked A low came that change in the pro- ^ rramme without his being consulted, le said that his place was after Smith ind he would have his place or not ipeak at all. Pollock agreed to the ar angement. The governor referred to he statements made at Newberry by he other speaker that his color, red. ttood for socialism, anarchy, etc., and lisavowed such implication. He waved l red shirt of the 1876 campaign, and laid that it represented the kind of red lis color stood for. He ridiculed 'mith's proposed visit to Laurens, and aid he was going over there after otes; but would get none except his iwn kind. He said that he had already riven instructions for the issuance of (reclamations for the relief of hail ufferers. Mr. Jennings made about his usual peech, the only new matter being the leclaration to the effect that while a aember of the general assembly Govrnor Please had even voted against V.'iHp Hnmntnn fur thr? lTnitpH Qtntnsi enate. Mr. Jennings the alleged ircumstances of a number of pardons 4 he governor had issued, and in each use commented that it was no woner that the governor was unwilling to xplain his record. Mr. Pollock made his usual speech, ailing the roll of the foreigners who lad applied for enrollment in Charles- ^ on and exhibiting the Republican icket < f the Garfield campaign, upon rhich appears the name of Col. J. P. Jibson, of the governor's staff. Mr. 'ollock was fought by tbe crowd hroughout his speech, as was also Mr. ennings.