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Vr f / ' / She ..fort diliU ? } \PUBLISH 7T> W EDNT!f DAYS. Wm. E. BEASPOP.D. t- ub ;:>ription pricjj. ... *1 p r year. Oirrespondenoo oil current snhj-els is invited. but we do in?t ayree to publish communications ? <uitaiuinjf more than SUM) words, and no responsibility is assumed fertile views oi eorrespaidoni s. As an advert isin;: medium ' >r t'har-, lotto, Pineville, Port Mill, and Knelt Hill business houses The Times is misur- j passed. Ru;-es made known on applie.itinn to the publisher. Local Teleplione No. JAM ADY IWl. Tito jjjoml feeling and kindly spirit Hint prevail in the General Asseiidty is the most noticeable feature of the pr? s tit session, savs t lie ( \i! 11 ill ilia e< irresi?r?i:di?iit ??F t News and Courier. Kvery out' is well disposed; 1 here seems to be no spo did axes to grind: no one seems t be playing politics to any considerable extent; the demagogue is not so ui'.ieh in evidence us hereto- 1 fore; no especial radical legislation has yet. been pr posed; sotue few are playing fur p< sitiou in the.' name of politi s, but generally ( speaking there has not, in a decade, been such an easy-going, go >d- i liatured body of good men in Co i lit'nbia. It is not saying anything ' to the disparagement of other Assemblies, and it is 11 >t keeping lip > th<? old-fashioned and hackneyed i expressions on the snnc line to say ? that this (i moral Assembly has 1 better material than has been here : in years. The tendency of the < limes seems to ho for good and 1 experienced moil to route to the ' (Jouoral Assembly and serve their State. No olio his yet heard the appeal to the old-Iime argument of > country against town or thai pro- I posed legislation wjih in tin? interest of the poor man. I p to tliis ' time measures have had to stand on their own bottom, and the hope is that none of tho young nun who ? have such bright prospects will either appeal to the country vs. the 1 town or the poor-man argument. -4 The New Oil l-'lnds In Texas. % _____ T xas Ins been regarded for inme years as one of the coming States in the petroleum industry. Bays tin' New York Sun. The discoveries in the neighborhood of ' Jieaumont, the county seat of Jefferson county, where one well is ' said to be flowing t d.Oo ) barrels of oil a dav, are the latest and largest \ tind and are situated nearer the sea than any other wells in the conn try except in California. lleau- 1 inont is a bustling town and an ' important lumber market about do 1 miles from Lake Sabine in the extreme southeast, corner of the ' i mate. Largo sums have been spent todeepen Sabine l'nss, which ' connects the lake with the gulf; and if the new oil Isold fultils its promise, only short pii>o lines will be required to connect it with refineries and shipping facilities on ' the lake shores. T xas has been known as a source of petroleum for more than thirty years, but it was not t ill 1S;>7 that the production became important. In IS'It the city of <\>rsicana sunk an artesian well for a ' supply of water and at feet struck an oil vein. In this neeidontal manner l!i large (.\?rsiranu ! tield wnu discovered. 1? was main- ' ly this tield that increased the output of Texas from el) barrels in ( IS'.).*) to C.C.Otk) barrels in tSt>7. and ' 55(1,000 barrels in I SIM. There lias ' been very little diminution of the 1 tlow from the more important ' wells and the quality of the oil 1 compares favorably with that of ' Pennsylvania. * All the discoveries thes farmade Tw^nTneoastern part of the State, I I extending from I'orsicnnn, ahout 'I 50 iniles southeast of Dallas, in ' mi irregular line to near the sen in N Jefferson county. The territory ia largo nn<l other important (lis 1 i coveries are almost certain to he I made in it. Supplying ns we do a * large part af the world with petro- 4 leu in, the new indications that ' Texas will develop into one of the 1 great oil States arc gratifying. v - * Yesterday nl tJ.oO o'clock n. ni. Victoria, Queen of Knglnnd and j. Ireland and Jfchnpress of India, died ??t * 'owes. Isle of Wight. r L Efi l*ev. I>. t"'sr?ts?M> Passua Away. Y ?r!:viil(> Yeoman. Ah ipiietly as a babe falls into sweet. and natural sieep lias Kov. Pou<dass Harrison entered into the i last earthly rest 1he srperation of tin* present today from tin; j^rent! tomorrow of eternity. The end eatne yesterday | Thursday | morn- ' ino nt alout '.t oYlock. This had been looked for by friends and rel- ! atives alike, and while there is <lei pest sorrow there is no surprise. ' The evening shadows of old a??e had been leni;tlienini? slowly until finally the ni^it lias fallen, and tin* servant of the Lord litis j^one to; his reward on !iit^h. Yorkviile has for many years been the home of .Mr. Harrison, | sillli.kiifilt til liici 11 11?? ? 1 I f.? !??? lnic lived f.?r considerable periods at oilier places, notably in Lancaster eountv and at Fort .Mid, in this county. The last few years were spent quietly lieie in Vorkville. (>ur information is that his first years in this sort ion were spent in association with the late Rev. Robert l<alimn in school teaching. lie was a erad'.iate of I Davidson colleire and had for Jiltv years been a minister of the oospel and a member of Rethel presbytery, having had during this time clrir^n of ;onie of the htr?jj-\st ehtirehes. I)urinj: the last few years, on account >f the eneroaehnuMits of n^e, he lias not been fitted for continuous letive work and sueli as lie has lone lias been speeial work for the [iresbyteiy. Mad lie lived he wouhl have been NO years of nj^e next Monday. For a while lie served York county as school eommisdoner, for which work he showed himself well qualified. Mr. Harrison married Miss Anrelia Fatlerson, of Liberty Hill. Kershaw county, and she survives him. T<> them a number of chil1 ren were born, two of whom survive Mrs. Fred Minis,of Fort Mill, mid Mr. NY. l.\ Harrison, of Yorkvi lie. ? ? Convict Camp in Had Condition. Tile report made by the Mecklenburg ^rand jury in Charlotte last Friday eoiitains sensational matter in reference to conditions in one of the county convict camps. : The report says. "We find Standi convict camp i:i lmd condition. There are thirty-six men in chains; sixteen trusties, two women and three water boys, one about nine y? ars old, and we would recommend that ho be lioiiiul out. The' prison quarters are too muuII, as imst of tli.> prisoners are more or ess diseased. The hunks or I?? ? 1m in* too small f<>r the men to lie full length on. Wo also found the lrinkinjj watt r and cooking water rery muddy and unlit for use. The amp |ires nts an unsightly appenrinee, and we fear would hare a lendeney to lower instead of raising the ? it i/.enshi p of the men in outineun nt. We found them eating their no als with sticks, pieces if hark, etc., instead of spoons." .... Would Help n Dep'eted lie.isury. In a lono editorial uruino the 'stahlishmeut of a dispensary ia I lock 11 ill. The 11 era Id says, in part: "We favor the establishment of i dispensary in ilock llill, how?ver, not for the sake of selling ivhirtky, hut as the only means we <ee within our reneh of eoutrolling its sale. That way may not he as tTeetive as ini^ht he desired, hut ivi111 a dispt usury in our eity, tiie uirdeu of hunting down and punshim; the timers wotdd more larjjjey fall upon the Slate than upon his eity, with its depleted treasury. 1 We know there are people in Kock I I ill who d I s-i ! .>!< vvitli nu :>i ,.nf pinions in this respect, hut they inve not investigated the facta as ve linvc boon called upon to do. iYe fell assured that we are, an a natter of morals even, right in our xnsition. It is better to accept i iven an objectionable method of ontrolling an evil than it is to urn that evil loose upon the coin- i nunity. untrammelled and with i vide open jaws, to devour whom- ; loover it will. ' Dutl Between St holt arid Knott. J pari anbury Homlil. 1 A duei was lately fought in Tex- > t oy An* ne -hott and John S. ' Knott. Knott was shot ami Sehott was not. In this case it was hotter to he Sehott tlian lyjiott. There was a rumor that Knott was not shot an 1 Sehott avows that ho shot Knott, which proves either that the shot Sehott shot, at Knott was not shot, or that Knott was shot notwithstanding. Circumstantial evidence in not always good. It may be made to appear when the trial 'comes that the shot Sehott shot, fliot Knott, or, as aceidents with (ire arms are frequent, it may he possible that the shot Sehott shot, shot Sehott hiimolf, when the whoh alTair would resolve itself into its original element and Sehott would bo shot and Knott would bo not. Wo think, howovor, that tlio allot Solicit allot, shot not Schott nor Knott. Anyway, it is hard to toll who wan ah-.it and who was not. MJ.< Counlry Newspaper. "It is a fashion. 1 know, anion'; city folk to ridicule tho country paper.'" says a reformed travelling man, "but I have Ken a regular subscriber t > tho L'nionvillo IJaiinor for over thirty years. There's one evening in the week that I look forward to with zest.. That's Monday ni^lit, when I lie;ht my old pipe, put on my slippers and lie back in tho batt-rod rocker for a musiiiL; and dreaming over Tho liunncr. "Yes, there it is. 11 'isn't ehanded a font of typo. I j^uess, in forty years. Same old, quei r jot) type. Same old Washington pr?-s3 still grinds it out, I'll bet, as it did when 1 was a freckled boy and used to hunt; around the front door of the tumbling rookery where snowyhaired Eilitor Moore used to bo pieKing up the tyor inethodi- * cully scratching down tin* fact 1 lint 'Miss Sallio Smith is visiting i friends in our neighboring burg; j or '.John Loft us is preparing to j huilil a new barn. Most of tin } lumber is already on the ground." j "1 turn to the front page tirst, j of course, and here, in my 'Local 1 News,' I ascertain that '.Miss .Mary j Stuart has quite a class of music j pupils here in town and also conducts a class at I'altonsburg. .Miss Stuart has a good quality of musical talent.1 Why, dear mo, dear me! don't it beat ail how things do move! \\ hy, I used to go to the high school in I'nionville with Mary Stuart's mother. And many a time have I hung May baskets with her and then hung over the old white paling gate and held her hand until an ominous raising of an upper window indicated that a parent of Mary's mother desired tlu> daughter's presence within. "And, let's sec! Why, here's something: 'Walter Thomas has been to the city this week, laying in a new stock of goods, l'etor. I'd gel is helping out in The Lmporium during \\ niter's absence." I! issurprismo how some boys" 11 c<iiih> up iu tlu? world in spit of poverty 11 ltd distress. Know who tint Walter Thomas is? \\ < II, sir. he's the grandson of old I'ap Thomas, as We used to call liiiu, who used to live away down then* by the railroad in that little hut of a place, and had a cabbage patch around the house. l)-.\solnte a looking place as you ever saw. "I'ap was sort of half-witted and had a son who I shout I siy was fully three-quarters willed. A peaceable, law-abiding well-dither . he came to be. .Married a bright oirl, really considerably above the average, and here the son's become the leading merchant in I nionville. This I'eter Ki^el is a relation son, maybe?of an old foreigner who settled down in I'uionville and earned a living at cobbling. Said to be of noble birth lie was, and mysterious generally. "I shouldn't know the fares that would greet mo on Main street, 1 suppose now. Most of "em come up since 1 was a boy. 1 wonder who really has made the truest Bueees. the boys w ho stayed at home or those who wore going to conqner the great world outside. There were my school mates who married and settled down in I'nionviJle, and their sons and daughters are today's young n. n and women. ' was going to do such hig things \ \ ( ! . " * f J* ! i i j j when 1 struck the city that I couldn't exactly make up my mind t<> take time to come back and court Susie Williams. I kept put,, tin;; it otf and putting it olT until I should ?40t a little better and a little better position until, first tiling 1 knew. Phil Kerns up and married her and I was left. So, that's how it is, and ble.-s me if 1 don't wonder sometimes as 1 muse over the old thinner if the hoys who stayed to home have made smh a miserable failure of it after all. "So, T read alon^ to ponder ovet the memories that those qdnin items in tli;? '.Local News" cnlv forth. Well, you may poke* fufcj at the country weekly as yon wir. but i fail to see wliv the fact I 4lint 'a resid* nl of ITiionvillc has j lately bought the place of an-, other resident of I niouville, and intends to move into it,' may not he as well worth chronicling in* the local paper ?>f I' niouville as the fact that a dog of a fatuous actress died on the steann r is worth twoeolnmn pictures and a half-column desci i pt.ion i n city dailies. 131ahicd"f I can sec much difference in merit between a poodle dog editorial in n city daily and a bin; cabbage just laid on the desk of \e editor1 of a< country weekly. - ? Mr. ?T. W . lhisbiu, who is now with the Fort .Mill Manufacturing Uohipuny. at Fort Mill, has been in Yorkvillc on a visit for several iIiivh. Mr. Ilusb'.n is a line machinist. lie was here with the Sutro mill a short, while, amf showed that he uiiderstot d his trailc thoroughly. There are few jobs iuui una uicir way into a machine, simp that In* can not handle.? \ orkvillo Yeoman ?pnaptlfpiMwraCOBBOFIE. Bend model, .J or ph-.to f ,r fro* rv?f??rton ps.'mitabilltr. Book "HowW A'tnOl.taiu 1VS *nd Vorc>u )'ton to of a Trade 2k iftrk?.*"w A FRE? IWr**5t <rrr <?f?er?d to in* entorp.CfJ Vpatikt uwrr-u or so teirt pka ticl Ql Xj "0,000 PATIN'j PROCURED THP.OUfiH T1 EM. $ A Ml builur?(i ? >nt. ..intul. t vitnd adNioo 1 *Jtl?fulyT> Modcr^to etiarew. (V frC. A. SNOW & CO.* X PATE NT LAWYERS, W V- Opr. U. S. Pctrnt Office. WASHIflSTO* I. 0. C.^v v <><* <+ < V <P i % | o ? 41'he 01 d jrel it * $ . | Always in 0 if ifertiliz $ cow f! ? . ~~l ? \\ e 1 ave on $ i 1 supply (l f loosl f seed mi:al, pei $ standai i> soli* 0 <> s'hate, ] van it a ^ !'otasii, and o 1 lliui! r, i;oth fo s* time. A (f we hi y and s ? \! t.m plus. ol'u stock is ( links an l> ol'u i?1 i $ your inteukst tl i t. 15. i i , j the old rel I ! # i * 4 $> < ( R. F. GUIEB, 7 j DKALKK IX MATS, SHOES, PANTS, DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, DRESS GOODS, HARDWARE, TINWARE, OLASSWARE, GROCERIES, ETC., AND THE BHST LINE OF POCKET AND TABLE CUTLERY IN TOWN. J. U. Tray wick & Co.^i DEALERS IN FINE LIQlJOliS AND WINES, No. 12 East Trado St. CITARLOTTK, - - - N. C. BARBER SHOP. For lirst class tonsoriul work m> to the barber shop of W. R. Cnrotlicrs in the hank build in}?- Hair Cutting, Shaving, ! Shampooing a ml Singeing. Ladies' hair shani)M? led. Job Printing At the 'I'l K, A n ft Wl A A HiilSS UlilUtJ. OLD NEWSPAPERS Folt SALE AT THE TIMES OFFICE. '20 cts. per 100. I X $ I if'? t C? IABLE STORE." 0 t the Lead. * * ;ers, i SED, ETC. t I- ? HANDS A FILE ^ } IIl'LLS, I1()TT(>N a II VIAN SoKl'ELE, T bee, Ann Pirns w ni> Mikiath or A ji'K Prices are 1 fii Cash and on T i * >3el Horses and COMPLETE IN ALL DICES MAKE IT To * l? TRADE \\ IT 11 IS, ^ 0 \ ELK. I 1 (ABLE STORE."" ? 1 t it- & & & c> *z- -W' * * i j ;; I A IIAl'I'V NEW YEAR. Wo extend to one and nil u linppy and prosperous New Year. We appreciate tlie liberal patronage bestowed upon us in the past and ask a continuance in the future. During the your l'JOl you will find our stock always complete and up-to-date. When in need of anything in the Grocery line give us a call. ?a O Jiia ?5 a THE FORT MILL DRi G - STORE, OPPOSITE TilC SAVIXOS PANIC, Is the place at which you can always find everything usually kept at a first-class apothecary shop. I am running a drug store, in every sense of the word. f can prescribe for you. till prescriptions, and sell you drugs. I have had years of experience and am thoroughly acquainted with the drug business. A full lino of the best ? CIO A US, CI O A R ETT ES, and SM( )K IXO and C11 E \\ IN*G TOBACCO Eveytimm; in STATIONERY. T. U. MKACHAM, M. D. p?5S3S/l -n A/\M^nfciA ? p 0 Mm Mr I f 'MSB \\Wv 44 M >3i 4c -^ ?4^ - ? 5^1spE52? It's a of Words to nrjr.li' with the patrons of tho Model isteam laiuudrv. Charlotte. N. C. ?they know full well that washing and ironing of everything cleausible in the line of wearing apparrel is done properly by us. What we want is for you to know it. Hence this advertisement. Will you favor us with a trial order." We will he happy to call for and to deliver anything yon may want 13 laundered. I We make a specialty of laundering window curtains. I d. L. ncfcl.tHNAY, Agent, I l-"ort dill, S. C. AV. IT. 11OO YEll, LIQUOR DEALER, * flllRMUTE, N. C. We look especially after the shipping trade and below quote very close figures. Will l?s glad to have vour order*. Terms cash with order. Corn, per gallon, in jug (boxed), $1.50, $1.75 and $2. All first-class goods at $1.75 and $2 VERV OLD. Ryes from $1.60 to $2, $2 50 and $.? 5? per gallon. (iins from $1 60 to $2, and $2 50. (ienuine Imported Fish Oln" at $i pet gallon. Apple Brandy, $2.25 per gallon. Bench Brandy $2 50 per gallon. No charge for jug nnd box on above, and no charge at these prices for keg when wanted in such i|unntitles. t ct us I ave your orders and oblige, tt . 11. 1101) V i:R L