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? *_ ... < ?hc .govt ittiU Sinus. PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS. Win. R I RADFORD. Subscription price ... $1 per year. i Correspondence on current subjects is Invited, l?nl wo do not agree to publish communications containing more than .<00 words, and no rcsjionsibility is assumed for the views of correspondents. As an advertising medium for Charlotte, Piiiovillo, Fort Mill, and Rock Hill hu-incss houses The Times is unsnr- ' I Kissed. Hates made known on applicai m to the publisher. Local 1'olephone No. 20. JANUARY 2, 1W1. According' to u son of Senator I Pettigrew, who has recently re 1 lu ncd from South Africa, where he served as a scout in lite lioer army, the British soldiers arc afraid of the Boers and their officers have to force them to tight by placing batteries of Maxim guns in their rear and threatening to lire if they do not advance and Hirl.t. Y Ollllir lVlticrruu* filun kiiv'u ilio stoiies alleging 1 lint the Boers (lid not pay and properly treat Americans and others who volun leered to tight for them are absolutely without foundation; that the j: party he wont and returned with, I consisting of 21 Americans, were paid $10 a week in gold for the' whole time and that the pay included the time consumed in roil ruing to the I'uited States. < Record of iijoo. The Inst year of the century was . n rernaakahle one for breaking the < record in many strange things. Milwaukee furnishes one in a man who married his mother-in-law. i Minneapolis nearly matches this with a man who married his step 1 daughter. Chicago reports a man ' and woman marrying after fifteen 1 minutes' acquaintance. Marriages i heing so quickly arranged it is not ' surpr sing that more marriage ( licenses were issued injthe month ( of June in Chicago than ever be- ' fore in one month -2.1 eO or 7.~> tier 1 duy. St. Louis nearly matched ' this with 50 divorces in one day.*}' San Francisco doesn't claim so 1 many divorces, but she divorced ' one couple in exactly 20 minutes ' from the time the complaint was 1 tiled. W. ?T. Bryan made .'JO speeches in one (lay. Mrs.Reeves, 1 in the insane asylum at Kahuna- ' y.o< \ Mich., talked herself to death ' ??i ]it uii'or 28, Tin* Burlington 1 road made a run of two and four- 1 tenths miles in one minute and ( twenty seconds?IdO miles an hour. ' The largest lumber deal of the ' year was a sale by a Wisconsin ' dealer of 4'>,000,000 feet.for which he received SI,000,000. 1 -? ?- I $.250 Bounty for Soldiers. General MacArthur has recom- ' mended the payment of a bounty \ i $250 to every h ddier in the 1 Phi.ippines who re-enlists for an- ( other term, says the Now York ( World. And so anxious are the 1 111**11 t'? return homo that no certainty in felt that oven thin liberal 1 bonus will suffice to keep our ! standing army in Asia up to the <50,000 mark, at which (Jen. Ma Arthur has said it must be maintained. The terms of the ^reat majority of all our soldiers out there expire on June 150 next, and if they can not be persuaded to re- 1 ends! the necessity for oulUtinu ' new men to take their places will have to he faced. Almost simultaneous announce- 1 ment is made that the British >joveminent has been forced to mnili- 1 ply by four the per diem pay of mounted troops in South Africa 1 o ider t > le *ruit their constantly j' . .deling ranks. It is thus made ' % plain ili .t to keep (>0,0(H) Aineti- 1 an troops in Asia and 210,(KM) | British troops in Africa, in warn i which tho commanders in each I ease have declared to he over, ex- 1 cept as to guerrilla and hush- | whacking operations, bounties and , greatly increased pay for the pri- > vate soldiers are neeessary. ' ? -? ?- ? Three Men Killed in Abbeville. i A special to Tho State from ( Abb vdle says that until Saturday . i? no i rime had happened in | jyi lie c e.inly to mar the Imp- j istinn-. But there j jst- doa'h llir.'O , ? ? e'V' _ ] loved ones, and nil Abbeville deplores tlie net of violence which carried them into eternity. Saturday night at the old Miller hotel John Dunsby.a United States | deputy mar.-bal, was showing n trick with cards, or as others have 1 said, was gambling, while Win, | Kyle, a bystander, was looking over his rhoulder. Danshy object- ' ed to Kyle's standing behind him ' and demanded that Kyle move away. Although he was fold that no harm was meant. Dansby drew i his pistol and shot Kyle through the abdomen inflicting a wound ; from which the latter died Sunday, j After this shooting Danshy Hed : in the direction of tho cotton mill and was pursued by policemen Johnson and O'Rrieii, who found him on factory hill. At this point the service* of thesheriif, Mr. J. R. Kennedy, were requested by Chief I if lv?lo\? n ml hrd li /if llinen , J W(lx.v. VJ ? I IVI a/Wl II VI I IIV or proceedod lo assist in making the | arrest. When Sheriff Kennedy approached to make the arrest he | received a pistol shot through the ' breast from the hands of Dansby and immediately a fusillade began, ! which resulted in the killing of i Dansby. Sheriff Kennedy was then carried to his home at the jail, where ho soon expired. Ho was a highly esteemed and courageous man, and had been shoriff not quite two weeks. Dansby was a native of Abbeville county, and was years aid. I lis former home was at ' Yerdery. ? > l North Carolina's Scenery. , Representative Bellamy, of North ' Carolina, is widely traveled and 1 cultured and appreciates the beau- 1 ty of his own country, sajs the Washington Post. "1 have trav- < ded," said he. "over a good portion >f Europe, i have looked upon < lie picturesque scenery of Switzer* ' and, grand and inspiring. During ' j die pist summer I spent little, time in my own district, obeying ? the wishes of tho party managers i ;hat 1 speak in the western section :>f the State, and tell them some- ; thing about the conditions in our >wn section of Tar Heeldom. Thus, I had an opportunity to revisit the , nountaiu section of North Caro-! inn, near the Tennessee line, and I convinced myself that there is 10 more beautiful scenery in the: .vorhl than that locality affords. 1 campaigned through the wonder:ul Johns River Valley and visited he Blowing Rock, where you can ook (1 nvn 2,000 feet, and can drop /our coat or your hat and see it Irop a couple of hundred feet, and hen bo whisked back upward?I >vas going to say back upon your lead or your shoulders. But it i . 011109 back to where you are stand- | ng. The people there have more civilization than they'are usually i redited with. The men served in the Union armies during the civil war, and in many sections have steadfastly remained Republicans since that time." Drones and /Vloshhicks. There are many people who do 11?>1 bolieve in tIn* value of atlver'ising. Hiiys the New <M leans States. The country, North and South, is full of drones and mossbacks who ire content to while away their into at the corner grocery and in?vig i against everything. There ire morehants upon whose con tiers the dust of ages has settled ind over whose shelves the indusrious spider has woven his nest u undisturbed repose, who will J ook solemn and wise and tell how ?reat a humbug it is to advertise n the home newspaper. After iwhile the sherilT comes along in lis timid and taking way, closes ip the establishment, and then, for the first time in his life, the merchant gets some advertising ind pays fair rates for it ? at least liis creditors do. Just as there no mosybneks in business who insist, until the sheriff clones them >ul, that, advertising doesn't pay? just as there tnou who believe that railroad* unci hanks and modern improvements are a curse to the ountry- -so we have many m?n in ' Louisiana today who will seriously ontend that it is folly for the State to spend money in having iter resources and attractions made known at the pjreat marts and expod'io is wh re m. n most do con.Tcca'e /' SOLDIERS or THE CONFEDERACY. , The following article is one of a series that will appear in The Times giving n synopsis of the war record ( of members of the Fort Mill Camp . of Confederate Veterans. Records will be published in ti e order in which they are handed in. ? When the war between the States began, I was staying in Gaston county, North Carolina, and a! brother of mine, who had a mili- : tary education, was teaching school 1 in the same neighborhood. He | closed his school and began raising : a company of volnnteeis for the Confederacy. I placed my name on his list. We were organized into a company, with B. F. Briggs, captain, Leroy Stowe, first lieu- j tenant, E. B. White, second lieu- j tenant, and Isaac Holland, third , lieutenant About the first of June, 1801, we were sent to Raleigh, N. C., mid formed into tlio Sixth North Carolina regiment, with eleven other companies, ours being Corn pnny M. Col. Lee, Lieut.-Col. j Love and Maj. Rriggs were the j fin-Id officers. The number of the ! regiment was afterwards changed j to tin* Sixteenth, on account of ; ten regiments of State troops be- , ing numbered before the volun- 1 teers. . After drilling in Raleigh about1 Tour weeks we were sent to Rich- : mend, Va. From tlicr * we] were I ordered to northwest Virginia, to! Staunton by railroad, then through i the mountains to ro-inforce Gen. [iarnelt. liefoi o renehingJGarnett ; he was defeated and killed, and we ; met his wounded in wagons return- i ing over the lonely roads. At Kdrny we heard an exaggerat- j nd account of [the first battle of Manassas, and thought the war aver and we had missed all the fun. j We remained in that jmrt of Yir- i ginia until winter without fighting. Wo then returned to Manassas Junction, where the main army! VVllU niifl i%n cue/1 1 lw? f ' l"? ?*? ?>} i* <vt J^/mppv \i iiiv iiVJl* Wi III'' winter in the defenses on Hull | Hun river. On March 8, 1SG2, we broke up winter quarters and . marched to Yorktown, by way of ? Fredericksburg, to meet MeClel- I Inn's Peninsular Campaign. After 1 staying about three weeks at York- i town, the Yankee gunboats passed 1 our batteries and made the posi- s I ion untenable. We then fell back , to Williamsburg, where a battle i was fought on May 5. Our brig- 1 ade, under Gen. Hampton, was sent 1 the night before to meet a force of J the enemy, landing at West Point, j which we held in check till Gen. Johnson's army got by. i On May .SI, 1 was in my that , severe battle, Seven Pines, and got near the Yankee guns, it being sodaik and smaky that I could t see nothing but tire Hash. The ' ?nemy's infantry had gone back, ' hut none of uh knew it. Darkness put iin end to the fight. The next fighting was at the 1 battle of MechanicHville, June 20. . 1 the beginning of the "seven days' i light." Very little wus gained; j A. P. Hill rushed in too soon, be- i fore Jackson got in position. The next day we pushed across j Beaver Dam creek and took part in the great battle and victory of i (1 nines' Mil. J urn* 2S, wo rested I on the battle ground, burying our t (load, etc. On the 2t)th we inarched l around to Frasior's Farm to intercept MeClellan's retreat. There a severe battle was fought. After;, heavy loss MrOlellan got through 1 to Malvern Hill. In this great i battle, Malvern Hill, our division was held in reserve. The enemy , got away down the river and we ^ went back in camp, near Kich- , inond. After resting some weeks 1 we were sent with Jackson to the j neighborhood of Orange Court- ) house to meet the enemy under ( Gen. Pope. On August 'J, the ? hot lost d'ty of tho war, Jackson \ started early to give him a blow. ? After inarching about lo miles we . fought the sharp little battle of 1 Cedar Run and drove them about , 2 miles. We coul 1 hear reinforco- < moats coming in ail night. Jack- 1 son did all he expected to do and i withdrew m xt morning without , any more fighting. 1 After Cedur Run. the rommis < 0 % * $ V lllKOI.D RELI 1 _ ^ WE AGAIN Til TTOMERS FOR T 4 PATRONAGE IN 9 SOLICIT A CO I f THEIR TRADE IN ? WE ARE IN ; V MEET ALL LEG 2 COMPETITION, ( ? ON TIME WIIERI DESIRE SUCII AC i WE HAVE ON n oSUPPLY OF NE 0 ORLEANS MOLAS WISHING YOY $ PROSPEROUS NE 1 T. B. 1 i _ 0 % 0"THE OLD REL1 1 S I 0 * 1 lary onicer ot our regiment, (.'apt. tCineaid, came to Company M muting for snme'one to Jho vcom nissary sergeant. I wan on picket it the time, hut some of my friends old hiiu that I would ; suit Jiim. So when 1 came in he told mo to ;ive up my gun and help him to S3ue rations. Therefore 1 had no liore lighting to do. From that >u, in all the great campaigns the egiment was in. I was with it performing the duties pertaining to hat office. In "(>1 the oiliee of regimental ommissary was abolished and the vliole duly put upon the sergeant, villi a raise of salary to per nontli. It is not necessary to go over all he movements of the iegiment .11 ?i..* i .i - * ? " - ' II nil. Iim < IIU< ti 111 -*'1 f'l' 'lllllllU.X, ih they are well known. A. S. White. Reorgan'z ilton* Cost Money. Louisville Courier-Journal. The Interstate Commereo Commission 11 announcing a decision last week in efereuee to certain rates charged to Lynchburg, Danville and other cities, nude a statement which must have tarrowod the feelings of the storkholdirs of the old roads belonging to the Southern Railway sys cm. '1 lie Comlii.-siou in its decision, which was igainst tin' Southern Railway, asserted hat the $1 20,tHK>,000 of common stock n that road had never had anything uiid upon it, and finally, "that it d<H's tot rest in the whim of a Itcorguiiiy.ilion (Joinmittce in Wall Street to imjoso a tax u{M>n the whole Southern jountry." As the Southern Railway's common dock was issued in exchange for the docks of tin' old Richmond Terminal lystem, the shares were paid for and rery dearly at that, as any of the old ?toekholders would hear witness. When he reorganization wusatTecteditwasin he darkest jn'riod of railroad depres?iou and the most that was expected in he new company was to save the duirges on the old bonds. Most of these Kinds were assessed and the stocks were ill heavily taxed. The Richmond Terminal shareholders had to pay $10 a diarc and tin' East Tennessee common itockholdcrs $7.20 per sham, and give i|? 10 |H?r e?nt of their stockholdings, rhe burden was s<? heavy and the ^onth<rn Railway eoimnon stin k ottered in ixchangc a pj tea red so valnoless that miny holders would not pay the assess incuts and threw the burden on the re.lrgauizat ion committee. The rates complained of by the citizens of Danville may have been too ugh, luit any man who has owned stock n a reorganized euro prat ion will bear estimoiiy that the process is a costly me. The common stock of big indnsrial synilieates whose constituent cointanies were bought out at high prices is frequently given away to the pron.oers. but in the case of hankrupt rail onds the reorganized shares, however worthless thoy may be, luive cos: the irigiual stockholders a great deal of money. \ i 1 ? I O O O IABLE STORE."!! o ~ o o ANK OUR CUS-J! HEIR LIBERAL J [ THE PAST AND < < S'TINUANCK OF# TIIE FUTURE. J ^ POSITION TO Y ITIMATE CASH )r will sell <> 3 our friends ^ commodation. t hand a big w crop new i ;ses. j j a happy and? w year, > E L Iv. | ABLE STORE."! ?? . * <> i t h - >- - ; R. F. GUIER, DR.VLEU IS *? | t MATS, SMOES, J : 11 PANTS, DRY GOODS, 11 t 1 NOTIONS, DRESS GOODS, J1 1 HARDWARE, 1 i TINWARE, : QLASSWARE, II GROCERIES, ETC., N AND THE 1 BEST LINE OF i i POCKET AND { 1 TABLE CUTLERY 1 l ? < i u IN TOWN. Run Right Here And yon will find nt flu? City Market dining I lie holidays the finest Meats, Oysters, Hothead Cheese, Liverelle, mixed and all pink Sausage an low as the lowest. 1 We served you through the suininer and took no advantage of our monopoly and only ask a share of your patronage during the winter. ! ( SMYTHE & SON. 1 < J. U. Traywick & Co., , DEALERS IN FINE L.1QUOHS j\ * i f \x 1 >i kjs, * No. Ivi East Trade St. CHARLOTTE, - - - N. C. < i NOTICE OF REMOVAL, ETC. To my Friends and the Public: I have moved my livery and feed stable to the stable lately occupied by Thos. Hoagland, where 1 will be glad to see you all t ami s*rve you as iu the }s?Kt. I have received a commission as t Notary Public and am prej>ared tout- ' test deeds, mortgages, etc., and perform mnmiago ceremonies. JOHN MeKLiiANFTY I * r > : t >\ * ' V* y r- ? * 1 v A HAPPY NEW YEAR. We extend to one and all a happy nnd prosperous New Year. Wo appreciate the liberal pat. lounge bestowed upon us in the past and ask a continuance in the future. During the year 11)01 you will find our stock always complete nnd up-to-dite. When in need of anything in the Grocery line givo us a call. A CI TATITWCF jta-i vf m w VII JUIJI THE FORT MILL DRUG - STORE, OPPOSITE THE SAVINGS BANK, [s the place at which you can alvays tinci everything usually kept it a tir.st-elass apothecary shop, t am running a drug store, in ;very sense of the word. I can prescribe for you, till prescriptions, and sell you drugs. I lave had years of exqerience and mi thoroughly acquainted with he drug business. A full line of the best? J1G A RS, C10 A RETT ES, AND owi /IVliNU ani) CHEWING TOBACCO. Evkythisg in STATIONERY. T. B. M EACH AM, M. D. TAX HE it HAN FOB 1901, )kkick ok Covnty Auditor ok York County, South Carolina. Yorkville, s. c., December 1. 1900.. On January 2, 11)1)1, the Auditor of fork county will begin taking returns >f personal property for the fiscal year xnnmeitciug January 1, 11)01. Tlie law equires all persons to return all person il projH'rty in tlieiy i*>ssession on Jauuiry 1, 1001, be fori- the expiration of tho iine allowed, which is February 20, 901, after which time the fifty per sent, penalty will attach to delinquents. All transfers of real estate since last otiiru must be noted, as indicated oil he blank return. All improvements by lew building or otherwise must bo jiven. For the convenience of taxpayers, the inditor will make the followingappoiutiient to take returns: At Fort Mill, Tuesday, Wednesday ind Thursday, the 22d, 23d and 24tli lays of January, 11)01. All males bet ween the ages of !1 and <*>0 years, except ex-Confederate ;oldiers almve the age of fit) years, arc iablo to a $1 poll tax. As (MU'sonal prtqierty is to lie returned inuually. m > returns will be tulton wn* ng, "same as last year," but must bo teniized ami sworn to. Heal estate being assessed only every our years, ean be retumed "sjune as ast year," unless changes have been nade sinee last return, sneli as buying, lolling or improvements. hdich changes ire to be reported to the auditor. W. W. I'.OYCE, County Auditor. Deeeniber 1900. W. IT. IIOOVEK, LIQEOR DEALER, CIURUUTF, iN. C. We look especially after the ship* >lnjt trade and below quote very close ijures. Will be gt>d to have your riders. Terms cash with order. Corn, per gallon. In jug (boxed), fi.jo, $i 75 and $2. Ail firat-cla?9 goods at $1.75 and $2 /ERY OLD. Ryes from $1.60 to $2, $2 50 and *3 50 P" gallon. Cllns from $1 60 to $2, and $2 50. lenuine Imported FUh Gin" at $3 je? gallon. , App'e Brandy, $2.25 per gallon. Reach brandy $2 f,o per g.llon. m No charge f >r jug and br?x 011 above, | ind no charge nt these prices for keg vhe i wanted In *uch quantities. 1 ct US I ave your orders and ob'ige, < \X II H 0 ;| X I r? I