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_. IN THE LOCAL FIELD. '! J Mr. W. F. H m is spent Thursday of lust week in Rock Hill. Misses Mary Gulp ami Lulu Wolfe spent Friday with friends in Rock Hill. Miss Florence Thornwell re- j turner! from Cedar Springs, S. C., Friday mottling. Dr. J. B. Mack attended the Biblical institute at Davidson College, N. C , Thursday and Friday. Miss Mary Thornwell left Thursday morning for a month's visit to ] relatives and friends in Greenville. The members of St. James colored church have bought a hell for their church atul will install it 1 at once. After a short visit to relatives in Rock Hill, Miss Estelle Massey returned to Fort Mill Thursday. Mr. J. E. Ardrey spent several days of the past week in Charlotte, at the home of his sister, Mrs. W. A. Watson. *r._ o > tj ? mis. o. a. c.pps ana cimaren left Friday morning for a short visit to the family of Rev. A. Finch, at Blackstocks. Mrs. Peter Garrison, of Nowport, S. C., returned home Friday morning, after a short visit to the family of Dr. J. H.Thornwell. The Times office is indebted to Congressman Fin ley for a largo offi ce map, issued by tlie General J .and Offi oe of the government. Since returning from Winthrop College two weeks ago, Miss Louise McMurray has been ill at the home of her father, Mr. J. H. McM u r ray. Mrs. W. E. Cunningham and Miss Annie Ardrey, of the Provi* j deuce neighborhood, were guests | at the home of Dr. J. L. Sprat! Thursday. At present the Southern Rail- ' way is operating only six passenger trains daily on this division of j the system. Last winter ten pas- | senger trains passed through Fort Mill daily. Capt. J. N. King, the contractor who built the approaches to the county river bridge, is a candidate for the Legislature from Greenville county. Capt. King is well known in this community. During the pr:st week the Western Union Telegraph Companyhad a force of workman engaged in Fort Mill in replacing its old j polls with new ones and otherwise , iiiiurovimr the For some time there has been a dearth of preaching at the Presbyterian and Baptist churches, j occasioned by Dr. Thornwrll being confined indoors with a broken ankle and the latter church being without a pastor. The tent under which the Christian Scientists have been conducting a protracted meeting on Ar- ! drey hill for several days was ' blown down and so badly damaged Thursday morning that it is doubtful whether it can be re- j paired. George Funderburk, a one- i legged negro man who mnkos a! support for himself by dyeing and j cleaning old clothing, went down ! to Rock Hill a few days ago, got drunk and was disorderly. Mayor Waters gave him thirty days on the chain truiicr Mr. Geary Thompson hade hie Fort Mill friends good-bye Friday morning and boarded the train for Graham, N. C. After eroding a month with relatives in that town. ! Mr. Thompson will probably go on the road as a salesman for a large grocory house. The following persons have been drawn from this township to serve on the petit jury during the approaching term of the court of general sessions, which convenes j at Yorkville on the 14th instant: 1 J. P. Crowder, C. H. Graham, Boyce Bennett, R. F. Torrence. All of these gentlemen live outside the town. Mr. S. L. Meacham has been informed that the application he made to the town council of Pineville some ti.ne ago for a franchise to builu and operate a telephone syetem in that town has been acted upon favorably. He applied for a 25-year franchise, but the council ! granted it for only 10 years. Would Put Fort Mill in North Carolina. Tii last week's Tiint h there r-p peared a news item stating that an effort was being made at Campobello, Spartanburg county, to create a new county in that sec- , tion of the State. Apropos the subject, a communication was pub- ; belied in the Spartanburg Herald , of the 22nd ultimo from the pen of Mr. .T. 15. Cleveland, a lending citizen of Spartanburg, in which the suggestion is made that '"for good business reasons" the small section of South Carolina, composing the township of Fort Mill, in York county, and the Indian | lands, in Lancaster county, which puts into North Carolina, extending within 12 miles of Charlotte, be annexed to North Carolina, and per contra, the county of l\>lk. for the same reasons (business and geographical), he annex*, d to Spartanburg eounty. Since learning of the proposition to annex Fort Mill township to North Carolina, The TiniOH has made incjuiry of a number of citi /.ens as to what they think of it. Nearly everyone feels that it is a matter too remote to consider seriously. One or two persons who were interrogated upon the subject, however, expressed themselves as heartily in favor of it. In each instance these persons were native North Carolinians. It is hard I v worth while to kmv exept for the sayiiilt, thai the people of this township would express their disapproval of the proposition in no uncertan tones. South Carolina is good enough for South ] Carolinians. Thursday Evening's Storm. Thursday evening from S..'l3 to 10 o'clock Fort Mill was visittdhy the most severe wind and thunder storm which this section has experienced since the menioiable cyclone of May, 15)01, which did so much damage in the lower part of the township. Early in the J evening it became npparent, from j tlie ominous-looking clouds which hung near the earth, thut a storm ' was imminent, and those who hap- I pened to be on the streets were j soon hastening homeward. By 8.30 o'clock intense darkness had settled upon the town; the thunder began to roll, each succeeding peal increasing in intensity; and the lightning, awe inspiring in brilliancy, flu-lied almost continuously. Such an electrical display is seldom seen in this section. Many persons became thoroughly frightened in the belief that the town was in the grasp of a cyclone, or something worse. Finally the fury of the storui began to abate, ' and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, that their lives had beon j spared and their homes left intact. ; The only damage resulting from ; the storm, aside from many boughs j being twisted from shade trees by the wind, occurred at the spinning ; mill of the Fort Mill Mfg. Com- j pnny, where a bolt of lightning struck and completely demoli.-hed a pole of the American Telephone Company, then entered the spinning mill and set fire to n i?iln nf waste yarn. The fire was quickly extinguished, however, by the time- j ly work of the night watchman. W. B. Meacham, Secretary-Treasurer. ^ Since the statement was pub- I belied in these columns last week to the etfect that Mr. J. M. Spratt had been elected secretary and treasu- j rer of the Fort Mill Mfg. Com- ! pany, he has decided not to accept the position. For some time Mr. Sprat t's health has been impaired.! and he did not care to further en- j danger it by undertaking the du- | ties incident to the place. II is decision in the matter necessitated the appointment of another secre tary and treasurer by the president of the company. This time the position was offered to Mr. W. li. Meacham, who accepted it. La'er on the appointment will be ratified by the board of directors. Mr. Meacham will continue to act as cashier of the Savings Bank, but will be assisted by Mr. Spratt in the future. . Ret* Tho Times and Homo 9 1 ami Farm a year, Try them. [ Negro Insanity Increasing. Physicians in the lower part of the Stateare grt ally coneerned over what they believe to be the alarming increase of insntiity anions the negroes. Years a no this" disease was almost unknown to the colored population, but it appears to be spreading. According to rati- , mates made by Dr. liabeock, superintundenl of the State lunatic asylum, this condition now i.s worse than ever la-fore. May reasons are assigno 1, but il is the opinion of the hadiin; j> 11ysicians that the common use of opiates and blind t iger whiskey is in a large measure responsible. Ten years np> the suieide of a negro was such a rare i ecurrenee that it attracted univeral attention. Nowadays such an occurrence is uunot iced. There are probably more insane negroes in the State institu ion at Columbia than ever hi fore in its history. They are sent in from all sections of South Carolina, the majority going from towns and cities. J u Charleston crazy negroes are picked up almost every day. and while many of them are ielcased after terms in the hospital, a considerable number develop such violent svmiitomH Unit fi.mot necessary la ship tlirm la Columbia. It is seldom that the asylum negroes arc cured, anil many of them die after violent sulFering. The State autliorities give the nogroes the most humane treatment, yet it dues nut seem possible wholly to restore their minds. Blight Falling on Cuba. Charles M. IYpp?r, St. Louis World's Fair commissioner to Cuba, returned to this country one day last, week and gave out the following newspaper interview, in which he says that conditions on the island are growing worse: "The industrial conditions are bad, and are growing worse. The big sugar plantations are doing almost nothing toward next year's crop, and this throws a large number of people out of work. I have been on many of the plantations and have found them all alike. Commercial circles in Havana are 1 undergoing a distressing crisis, though but little is said of it pub- : licly. The difficulties of the new government have been increased enormously by the economic situation. President Palma is cutting down expenses by the wholesale, ] abolishing oliices and reducing salaries, and it may be that they will be able to keep the ordinary cost of administration within their llll'rilllit Pllt (Iui( nr\t t.(1... real trouble, which is the depression in the sugar industry. The country people are patient, and there is little disorder, yet one o' the first measures found necessary was to increase the rural guard, with the intention of putting (-Jen. Maximo Gomez at the head of it. There is intense pride among Cubans of all clas s in maintaining order, and they will sustain President Palmn in wh .lever ho does.'" ? Want and Misery in Texas. A late dispatch from Dallas,! Tex., says that the county judge of Zapatta county lias issued a statement concerning destitution nnd drought in which he says: ''Zapatta county is in such a condition that it is no exaggeration to say that it will rt-quiie years to build it up to the point which existed ten years ago. The county has been suffering from n gradually increasiiiLr drought for the lust eight years. Live slock has been wiped out of ox.Btenco, and tlie few that remain, unless we have heavy and continuous rains inside of a month, will die. "The people are leaving the] county as fast as possible, but it is simply impossible for the great majority to do so on account of the lack of transportation. Carlizo, when the last census was, taken, had 750 inhabitants. Now .'3(X> would be a high estimate. "I have been for the last two months issuing rations to 15,1)00 people in different sections of the county and have enough on hand for about ten days more. When thU is* tiinit , (iod only knows what we will (Id. Men come in from ranches 25 and fit) in hs distant on foot to take hack to tin ir staivnio families a couple of pecks of corn and a few pounds of rice and beans. "Only those who are on the spot can realize the misery and want prevailing. It is hard for us to lie continually appealing for help, hut the exigency neci ssitates it." Peculiar Potato Growth. Mr. K. Ij. Robinson, wlio lives a few miles west of Yoikville, left at The ^ toman olliee a few da\s a-.n> a peculiar potato growth, says that paper. The vino is of the Ked I Hiss variety, and Mr. Robinson statis has not been coveted in tiny way. liiu al e\ory ptaee win ie there is a leaf sit in there is nl.-o n Hlllltl 1 potato Jlllll {' ..III llio "t'Vl's" llf t'Hl'll |>(il 'ltd JJl'OWS il I'l'W very small 1. av? s. There mo n ilo/.i ii in* more pol'it.?cs nil 111.- part nf the viiif brought t<> this tiliit'r. 'I'ln y iim ill! colored fjreen by exp isim to tin; si.n. Thi; plant was ex tu irn.'Iy prmluetive. Mr. linbiii.snii says till' fonts wel'e loaded willi potatoes, all shit pel) anil of "nod size. Cave: a Woman's Life. To have \i*n up would have meant deith for Mis. Lois t'la^-j. of Dorchester, Mass. l''- r years she had einliiriil untold mi.c!\ ft.mi a severe luii^j troiilile and nlistilia'O eOllLlll. "(Mien." the writes, "I could scarcely breathe and sometimes could not speak. All doctors and remedies fail.ii until I used Dr. Kind's New Dis covery for Consumption and was completely cured " Suiferers from Coughs, Colds, Thr. at and Liiiilt : Trouble need 1 liis ^tand tvinody. f*?i it never disappoints. Ciin- is mmranti id I?y Tin s. I>. Mmieliniii. f)Oe and $I.OO. Trial bullion livi'. Announcements, County Supervisor. I hereby announce inysdf a candidate fur I In; olliee of County Suiiorvisor, subject to t hi! result of tho Democrat i<; primary election. '1' (!. CUL1\ For Representative. Wo aronuthori/.ed to announce ,T. R. HA1LE as it candidate for ro election to tho IIouho of Represent at iv?V, subject to tho action of tho Democratic party in tho primary. A. OL!V A HARNESS, SADDLE, L(>E REPAIRING. ^ Prioo.s reasonable ami all work quanta total to bo first class. Shop Olio iloor below Ardroys ilrii^- store. DR. J. L. SPRATT, SURGEON DENTIST. Oflico. in Bank building, Main Street, Fort Mill, S. O. Aftor Dooeinbor l.ollice will be closed every Monday. Thrills vlVIftlv f'lclt I R. XVX. LONDON^ ROCIv IIILL, S. (\ JOB PRINTING, i \Viu(lirop Scholarship and Entrance Examinations. Tho examinations for the award of vacant scholarships in Winthrop Col logo and for tho admission of new students will bo hold at the Comity Court House oil Friday, July lltli, at !) a. in. Applicants must not be less than fifteen years of ago. When scholarships are Vacated after July ! 1 th. they will bouwarded to those making the highest average at this examination. The next session will open September 17. 1902. For further information and a catalogue address, 1>. 15. .lOHNSON, Ko -k Hill, S. C. S Will is IF WL CAN '% SEWING }\ I ORGANS, PI $ At H ALF ! ^ Tlictv is no secret iilxtu (lH cxpclls t < t (S< * 11 tluvso ^ ^ h Wilson, and we ait* not fR alone for n living, wr can Spk in the middle. VVc urn o vx very I" st makes, as it. is i fR anytIuiil; should :p? wron; Ssfe the peddlers can never l>< $ QTO CUA3 u| is always worth it-> face vi here to hack it up It's I lacltiin nts and needles foi L. ?J. 3VIi ^ ('l'lloue ^ W .WW. w . t New Goods. : t? ^ ^ ^ ^ *>*%. ^ t % % ^ V %, a* \>-$> St, We have just receive Luces, Insertions, ISml Silk Kihhous, Allove Lawns. Also our thir Blue Organdie?t lie 10 UMERE Twenty-five 20-ineh I IK* bi^est bargain we will not quote the pr you to come to our stor GOLLJ Twenty-iive dozen C emits. - ' pot r rll Fine Chinaware, Glas COST YOi; N< MIXjLJS db 1 Willi fiich 50 cfiils worth of goi a coupon, which, if returned in Mil articles mentioned iiho e. To begin than at other places, but as an addili age we give you coup nis free. Our o of our store as a trailing place, am undertaking. It pays to trade with ? MILLS & Wh SELL ALMOST KVEIlYTil SEWING MAl'IlINK I5AUGAIN.? One second ha ad Wheeler & Wilson sowing machine, in condition anil i cn jMiliii' of doing first class work, is | | offored for sale at a bargain. Apply at ! i no i lines oiriee.. I'OK GOOD WHISKIES, WINES, L UltANDIES, ETC.J CAM ON Oil WHITE TO AV. If. IIOOV KK, CMRMITTK. N C. | to write for our iilili 1 . . plying Tor patent: it may be worth money. Wu promptly obtain U. S. ami Foreign PATENTS ?n<I TRADE MARKS o return EN- I TIRE Attorney1* fee. Hcnd model, sketch or pn"to and ire send an | MMEDIATE I FREE report on patentability. We give the i? " legal rervioo and ail vice, and our charges are. moderate. Try us. SWIFT & CO., Patent Lawyers, Qtp. U.S. Patent OfTtce^ashlngton, D.C. 'V- 7 A}FORD TO SELL ? IA01IIN KS, I AN'OS .... | PRICE? ^ t if. 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