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i'cry xv,.i. |i Pithy Points flalherfrt for U:e.Pcru#a! ct' Tfnie.% Iv^iid^rc. Misses Lama Dell nad Lena Smith, of Chnrlotto, visited Miss Mabel Ardi>y last week. Dead lh'? advertisement of Mr. 3 ~\V. E. Grifliu which appears in another colutnn of this issue. Messrs. "Win. Orr, and T. O. Flowers, of Rock LI ill, aro spend- I ing the week with relatives in Fort Mill, Mrs. Yv\ J. Cnvoney and children, of Hock Hill, wer the guests * of her sister, Mrs. A. II. Ivirabrell, . during tho past week. Mrs. Iiliza Fulwood is seriously ] ill at her home in this place. Mrs. Fulwood is probably the oldent woman now living in this community. \ I Asa result of a brerk in the engine of tho Fort AIi 11 Manufacturing company, no work is bbing done in either tho spinning or wonvo rooms this morning. A number of young huiieH ami gentlemen came over from Rock ) Hill to attend tho dance given in the town hall by a number of young people of Fort Mill Friday evening. The Fort Mill friends of Mr. O. W. Potts, who was a candidate- ;' for tho Legislature in Lancaster county, will learn with re gret that he was defeated in vestordav's w V primary. Mr. L. L. Worrela bay returned to Fort Mill and is again tun ployed ! as weave room boss at the upper j mill. Mr. Worrels has been in the i service of the Riverside Company at Danville, Vu., for mon than a year. j Lieut. W. W. Boyce, of the' Yorkville military company, attended the drill of the Fort Mill Ligh Infantry last Thursday evening and complimented the compa- j ny very highly upon the progress which it is making. The voters of this county made : ? i ttii i a in is in tv u in inn eiuciiu^ jcianor Ilull to tho Legislature. He possesses the quf^^itions necessary to mnko a go^^Wpivoenintivi end deserved to b^Moctod, for lie has dono n great of work for the j party. After an absence of several | weeks as superintendent < f a cotton mill in Randlomnn, N. 0., Mr.! A. It. Mc-Elhnney returned to his I home in Fort Mill last wo<k. It is understood that Mr. McElhaney will accept a similar position with a mill in Georgia in the near future. The Primary Eiectiot. J. S. Price, State senator. Beamgnard, do Loach, EVlor, and Hailo, representatives. Logan, shoriff. Tato and Wylio in second pr maty for clerk of court. Culp and Gordon in s-'cond primary for county supervisor. Louthian, coroner. Carroll, county super in tondoH of education. Nccly, troasuror. Williams, auditor. Stanton and Wilkcrson. couity commissioners. For years it has been n custom 1 in South Cnrolina to hold Democratic primaries on the las Tuesday in August of every otlnr year to nominate the party'scamidntes. j Yesterday was primary dayof this year. In Fort Mill the davbecmn 1 ah others have for the past nonth, bright and hot, and the ho:t oontinuod during the ontir. day, except for a few minntee Kle in the afternoon, when a five-ninnte j rain came and temporarily cooled the atmosphere. Tim polls opened at 8 a m., in accordance with the rules of the Democratic party, and closed at 4 p. ra. In the oarly morning hours i Vl nva trita fi of on/1 if el ? ??? ? 1 ...v - v> .Itau (ft Div J Oil Willi Ul VUl^TH j depositing their ballots, nost. of, whom were from the mills aid the I country. At 12 o'clock. In vevor. I it became evident that unleo vot- j ing bccamo more regular nt two- i thirds of those whose names ppear , on the Deni icrntio club roil rould cast their ballots. This app dieitsioti proved to be correct, fr out of the loO Democrats enrolled only 21)1 took the trouble t > go ? the polls and vote, which inntrialy reduced the usual number >fvo?et? as. 1 ;h prt : > ncl i fact , iclt ? bespeak- L -. in: <*. - * in the t.oh lion of our mud :< oifiel i!s the; should obtain. Tin* result of the election i:i Fort Mill wns ns follow.5: MAii, TH Kirr. United Suites Senator.? 1. R. Tillman, -J ilt. Governor.? JEcSveenoy, 1 IToyt, 120; C-ary, I: FaltorsoM, (?; Whitman,!. Lieut, governor.?Sloan, 32; llloase, 12, Winkler, 10S; Livingston, 57; Tillman, 72. Secretary of State.?Cooper, 27'.'. Attorney-general.?Lellingor, 2<!2. State treasurer.?Tim merman, ?^7: leanings, 07. Comptroller general, Derham, 71: Brooker, 2tf. Supt. education.?McMaliati, 222; Capers. 01. Adjntant-general.?Floyd, 270: Ror.se, 11. Railroad commissioner.?W. I>. Evans, 70; Wharton, S:?: 11, 1). Evans, 1; May (hid. (VI; lYttigrew, 7.; Rorry, 17: Etlieredge, 1. ri iI'vtv TII i: 1*1 Congress.?Finloy, 151; Strait. 123. Solicitor, sixth circuit.?Henry, 110; Hough, 17; Mellow, Its. Stutc senator.?IJrio , 220. Hoc,so of Representatives.?iloanittaartl," 10i*.; d^Loneh, 210: Rider, 102; Flailo, 258; Hull, ISO; Johnson, 11"-?; McI)i!!, 32. SheriiT.?Crawford. 202; Logan, S3. Clerk of court.?Hunter, 10; Stewart, 1.70; Tate. 3,7; V.'ylie, 01. County snpervis.ur.?Ashe, 20; P.nvd, 3; Dulp. 21.7; (lor.lon, 2 8; 1 eeh, I !; Whitesides, 1. Coroner.?Loutliiaa, 170; Isjwranoe, 18; Love, 88. Countsnpt. of education.?Causlcr* 170; Carroll. 110. Treasurer.?Nejly, 713. Auditor.?Kovce, 221; Williams, 01. County commissioners.?Stanton, 2S8; Wilkersou, 23-3. M MiTSTUATK. Mills. 104; Massoy, 01; Wolf-, 83. Mills recommended tor appointment COTTON* Wt'.lOHKK. Sinvtho, (>2; Shannon, H>3. Shannon elected. The- result of the election lieM throughout the county yosterduy was telephoned The Times from Yorkville this morning and is at follows: STATE TICKET. Governor.?McSwcenoy, 1,281; Hoyt, 1,150; Gary, -MO; Patterson, 118; Whit man, 1. COCXTY TICKET. Congress.?Finloy, 2,100; Strait, 8G Solicitor, sixth circuit.?llenry, 1,410 Hough, 421; Mellow, 1,3:5*,. State Senator.?Price, 2,070. TTouso of Representatives.?Ream guard, 1,8.73; (leLmch, 2,302*. Kid r, 1,0.'* Hailo, 1,Hull, 1,<?:>!' ; .I<>hn< 1,J"! iloU'll, 1,1(57. Sheriff.?Crawford, 1,1 II; Lo,;an 1,710. Clerk of court.?Hunter; 501; Slow art, 711: Tate, 711: Wvlie, 1.13(5. County .sujHwisor.?Ashe, 510; iJoyrl, 520; Culp, 533; Cordon, (>3: Leech, 3 1 Whitesirles, 435. Coroner.?I/mthian, 1,57(5; Lnwranoo, 810; lv)ve, 1,2??:?. County supt. of education.?Cansler, 1,331; Carroll, 1,02*. Treasurer.?N r?ly, 8,0'CI. Auditor.?W. \V Koyee, 1,513; Wil liams, 1 County Cora v.' ssipuera.?Stanton, 2,007: Wilkerson, 2,075. Total vote in county, 3,327. At the National Cap.'tai. Regular oorreppotulonco. WashIN<*T<>N, Au^us! 27,1000.? Although members or the rulmin istrntion admit that the situntior in China has grown more critica sinco tho taking of Pekin and rescue of the foreigners by the allie: army, Mr. Mclvinley would nol forego his vote-hunting junket t< tho G. A. It. encampment in Chi cngo. Reports from Central Chuf fee and Minister Conner on tin continued fighting in and around Pokin were received this week, but were not made public. One reason for the suppression of these reports is that they show that it is the Chinese government, and not a mob, which has been and is making war on the foreigner;', and for some reason of his own Mr. MeKinley insists upon acting < n the theory that tire ( liineso government is friendly, nit hough in re fusing In JI ung Chang's ro<|u<st for tho appointmont of a commissioner to negotiate lornis of peace practically euid that he doubted whether China had a government. The pretence of regret on the part of officials that circumstances continued fighting -have made it impossible to withdraw the American troops from C i.ir.a is fnieir.d. 1'ho War Department has been forwarding supplies from the first on the under, b.ml if' t' 11oops would In in (' inn :'! w i ter, A letter received in \Vashington : from ex Senator J. i?. Henderson, who win pro von ted by sickness i'ivmi attending the Liberty C'onI gress nt Indianapolis, over which it had been expected he would preside, contains food for careful I thought.. J'ur instance, the fob j lowing quotation therefrom: "Our government is rapidly changing its form. The United States is no longer a renublie. Two w irs?n?o against tho Philii>pines, tho other against China- are being waged by the President will*.out any constitutional sanction. Tho Uuesinn Mmperor claims no greater power than that which is exercised,almost without proh'tM, by an American President. The war with the Philippiunes is worse than useless. It is wholly without any purpose less criminal than tho pampering of army contractors and tho enrichment of hungry otheials fivm the toil of labor. The islands can not he colonized or occupied by Ameri icans. And American law. equally , with American prejudice, already forbids American citizenship to ! their inhabitants. If they are not to be incorporated us States, they must be governed as colonies, ami this reduces them t?? slavery and ( ourselves to forms of despotism, i hi I ho case of China, American troops, without pretence of law, arc to bo placed under tho com niar.d of the Gorman Kuipcror, i who openly proclaims against the : Chinese the war of Israel against: tho Amalekite." Representative Wheeler,of Ken- 1 tacky, said of the Presidential outlook in that State: "Bryan and Stov ensou will carry the State, of 1 coin so, by 1111 old t ine majority, t land our State ticket will pub1 through rnfoly. Wo will not only | hold our own in tho Congressional districts, but 1 think wc will gain one and maybe two districts. When the Republicans talk about carry- I ing Kentuc ky they base their hope i . upon tho narrow margin bet ween Goebel and Taylor. They overiook tiu 1 HI 11 '1 I ill 11 UU'l 111 il I III Tllll contort the volo was n<>t brought lout in llio heavy Uemocrutie. so tion of the Statu. Keprosentative Clayton, of Ala: bama. who was in Washing! *i 11 week. said: "t have truv? led | . the country considerably since ti Kansas City convention, and !: , iind the people everywhere North.1 East, West, and South, inu roste l ' ' only in one question that of in.- I poiialisin. It no ais to be iiup< 8, siblo to get them to think riho.il anything else. In the light of my j experience 1 am convinced thai the man who insists that iinpetial ism is not the paramount issue 1 1" this campaign in either an igno, ramus or a knave." Criticism of its policy in Cuba n. i.i -1 i > ii *. ?iiu h ucmai irom the administration that it is interfering or intending t > intcrforo with 1 tho making of a constitution by t!u! Cubans, find tlit* statement that 1 the decision of whether t i. con' slituti< n in satisfactory aft :r it is made will come from Congress and not Mr. Mcl\inlry. If this turn4 ^ out to bo ivuo, it will mean that } the administration has been fi C". enod into changing some -i' its plans. ? -***? ? Items c>f btafe IS?W5. Tn tlie Greenville priz? wheat contest the largest yield from one acre of land was within a fraction of 70 bushels, lnado by a boy und r tweny years of age. Tbr next highest prize went to a l.ady Between tivo and six 1 nndivd nunlmnl tAv?fi ? ? * , Miiwiin iiavu iJfl'Ii H '." 'iV U for admission to Winlhrop 1 'olloi/e. Tho dormitory will accommodate only 2(10 or 27<>, consequently some three hundred will have to board , out in private families or main at home. It will he impossible t > completo the new dormitory by next session.? Hock Mill Jteiald. ' A South Carolina cotton mill lins won first prize for cotton goods at the Paris exposition. Tin* Pclzor Manufacturing ('oinpany is the j w nroT of this notable distinction. Tiie mill's exhibit consisted of a full line of its export brands, and it was awarded the grand prize and gold medal for the best cotton goods in it:', class, the can p< *ilioii being open to the world. \ * ''?e ( f .1 'in Oili- ' -n. n pi i .. 11 nt .1 ii r. v. i l;il cd by 11 ?' ii ( . !! "o<:nt y S ,t'i ' v j'. , ; ! I v,.. j, r pencil Ire? on his fn'her'p place,; several miles a hove the city, when the fatal atrok o cuuie. Hie brother WU6 badly allocked. H is curious coiacitlence that about Inyo years ago another son of )1r. Gibson was killed by lightning near the same spot. Work on th * big Olympia cotton . mill in ColtunLia is progressing j rapidly and everything is ncaring completion. Tlte contractors now estimate tliutl the mill building,: the power plant, and nil 11 so con- 1 nocted theroNYith will bo finished; in six weeks. The building is a magnificent 0,110 nml there is perhaps no handf ionior or more sightly cotton mill at ucturo in the whole country than the Olynipia. nt^iuto ujtng ay nunurcds. Tlio unprecedented hot wave which has be-en banging over the State for thejpar' ten days or more has played deadly havoc with the poor negroes living on the sea islands along) the coast. From the best nccountd received in Charleston it appears that* the negroes have been dyling lrotn tVvor, which is primarily tfuused from the heat J and allowed io thrive because the sick can not jget medical attention ' required in sjuch eases. A ( harlehton undertaker who takes care or the island negroes after they nr?|> dend said Saturday j that he was! hardly ahlo to stand the calls wliijch had been made on him for chetap coliitin. lie mnde tlie bold static men t that the island negroes nro dying like sheep, and that when tlioy become ill <>t fever they simply have to wait their turn to die. The sea islands are densely populated with negroes, and in t.ho low swamps, where malaria thrives, the negroes, who are i no more than paupers in time of j sickness, are left to suiter the fierce j heat through the days and nights i ot tiio agonizing fever, and the i crisis is gmorully passed with ; deal h. iu some ol the sections the voo- , doo doctors have been making! more victims for the undertakers. 1 These aro the witch people, and there aro htudreds of tlioni on the islands who believe that a little magic is all-sufficient to heal clit ease. These alleged doctors arc a grent deal worse than the Christian science freaks, and their work for negroes near Charleston has brought ; forth deadly peril. This sununer there 1ms been more fever jjn the sea isl/.mls than for sonic yjars past, and this disease has Men sent thriving 011 by ! tin hot and dry weather. People j who have been around sick rooms with fever patients can best imng- 1 ine the condition of the poor no-1 groes in the hovels who have to I depend on voodooism for relief and ' who have to stay in a serious way 1 without proper attention and without ice. The island neeroes have <VU t!u? i bitterness >f it nil, and tin y simply lie down mill clio when the fever | Birdies them. It has been told that. iii some of the huts a whole j family would bo ill i.t a time, nnd tlmt their only attention would come from the neighbors who were j inclined to lend assistance. Th- physicians in theso island 1 neighborhoods have done their bii:-t to Rive relief to the negroes, "and pretty much n 11 of t!iin he.a been charily. Kven with charity physicians, however, the sufferers i have not been eared for ns their j ' oouditiou might demand, and with 1 | wierd shouting nnd chanting about ; them have laid down to die, with : : nothing but a voodoo doctor to drive off the ills. I rin i i? ? a.ni5 ( hiss 01 negroes now suffering from the disease brought on by tins liout nro I ho ones who suffered moat n few years ago by the terrible storms which swept up the 1 const. -*) ?- - At the King King ( N. Y.) prison i tli ) lock-step for convicts has been al dished and the miliiary march ' substituted. Exports in penology have long condemned the loekstep because having been once acquired it marks a man for life and proclaims him an ex-convict wherever he may go after leaving prison. Not only does the lock step gait proclaim an ex-convict's antecedents to strangers, hut it. keeps him always in mind of the fact that ho has boon in disgrace and that tho disgraeo is known to all who see him. Since one t/rent 1 purpose of modern penology it* to' give mi ex-convict another clmnce in life, the abolition of the lock steep is looked upon as an act of i humanity. Mr. V'in ley has probably been I renominated for Congress, and Me Sweeney ami Hoyt. will be in the second primary for governor I N 01Ice. The firm of (Jriflin Haile having been dissol ved on January 1st, WOO, and >11 o r standing n< >nnt ; having 1 n .. ;h ' V W li. Jrillin.att |? rsons iu cihred to said firm will make pay 111 oat i . W. M vlOlhiiij. v, as Mill as b*o. \V. IS. (. RIFFIN. . *'11 A CLE A A MVELC Will bt\ made in all S UMMER CI4 Mens' and 2poys Straw 111 its at 5 and 1( Ladies' Hats, choice 1 ' *> ceuta, fornv n: r _ < 1 - ? - ri^urcn ijnv.ns a aua ;> cents. Th< ia tliis lot. Dimity, Swiss, Pique, etc., at 7 1-2 cents. All Slippers at 25 to 50 per cent oil If you need a COOKING STOVE our line ami ^ot our prices. "Wo sell tb the lovest prices. Firuit Jiirs have advanced, but we b L. J. MA A 1 MACT nr\MT? HUMVOl U VI\JD. Those aro words wo seldom want to thi'in with delight. When wo speak of our stock of S admit that it is down to only a few odds thing left that yon eun uso it is yours fc LVDICS' LOW-CU Wo are still making a run on thorn, soo them. MEACHAM P. S. "We luivo with uh now as t Laurinburg, N. C., who would bo pleasi see lier. |\yiNCHE I Factory Loaded SI J "Leader" and "Repeater" I J powder and "Nhw Rival" loac $ Superior to all other brands foi t UNIFORniTY, RELIABIL! $ j STRONG SHO( * Winchester Shells are for sale b' iit a? having them when you buy and yo a r ?*> '{*> "v -y, .101', PRINTING AT TH 1 i ?* ? mmmmumutrn ? SV *? * ' *j ^ 'jj OODS for the next two w? -v. i rly 75 cents to $1.50. e ro nre some 12 1-2 cent go .<1c cnta, formerly 12 1-2 and i ' * it vs ill be to your interest to see e bei 't stoves on the marke1 a'. t till ha ve a few left at old pru ssjey. }\ bear, but in this case we bail UMMEK GOODS, we gladly ? anil ends, and if we have a iy>r half price .'7 r SHOES. , and it will x>ay you to call a! & EPFS. ] saleslady Miss Hattie Curtis, of jd to have her friends call and if t n ISTER^I lotgurTShells. | oaded with Smokeless I led with Black powder. | [ I j ITY AND x 3TING QUALITIES. | / all dealers. Insist upon i II will OPt thp tioct * - 1 r?-fr wwmmml t-NT E IMES OFFICE. I