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editorial comment.
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It seems that the caption which
nppoared over the article published
in these columns last week as an
interview from the ltev. Mr.
Wrl.-l.f ~r ii.. \r 11 i? .
II Jdioiui VJL (.(Its IKM11SI
church, aud concerning the advisahility
of a local dispensary, has
not given universal satisfaction.
At least, the congregation that
heard Mr. Wright's sermon Sunday
evening was informed by that
gen Hem an that he had been misunderstood,
aud that The Times
occasioned a part of the misunderstanding.
lie was confident, however,
that The Times did not intentionally
place him ina false position?in
a position which his views,
as published, did not justify?and
that the paper would make amende
honorable in the current number.
The caption to which objection
has been raised read as follows:
"Dispensary Qualitiedly Indorsed
by the llov. Mr. Wright, Pastor of
the Fort Mill Methodist Church.'"!
Now, to make a long story short !
nml 4~ 4~1I 41. ~ 4....41. ? 4 41
<iiiu iu icli uic u III II 111 IIIO KAIllI'
time, the principal objection to the
caption resulted from the inability
of a number of tho membership of
Mr. Wright'schurch to understand
t he meaning of tho word "qualifiedly."
These members claim that the
headlines in question committed
Mr. Wright unreservedly to the
dispensary, which, of course, is not
the ease. Hence that gentleman's
reference to tho matter Sunday
evening. The definition of the
word "qunilfiedly" is not quoted,
for the reason that Tho Times has
not contracted to define this particular
word any more than it has
the thousands of other words it
employs, nor is tho matter dwelt
upon at length, because every
man whoso intellect is not
fathomable with a carpet tack understood
the caption and did not
accuse tho editor of Tho Times |
of writng that which was mislead
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Fusion Still Exists in the West.
June is conspicuously a month
of State conventions in Illinois,
Michigan, Ohio, Nebraska, South
Dakota, Missouri, Vermont, Indiana,
Minnesota, Kansas, Tennessee
and Pennsylvania. A notable feature
of the conventions this year
was that in most of the States beyond
the Mississippi, in tlio region
of what used to be known as the
prairie States, there continue to be
fusions between the Populists and
Democrats, though the Populist
party as such has ceased to exist
since 11)00, and the nocessity of
fusion is now restricted to a very
limited area.
In New England, the South, the
Middle West, on the Pacific ami in
the State3of the Atlantic seaboard
there are no fusions, and there is
110 necessity of any, but tho prac
tice of joint nominations by Democrats
anil Populist still endures in
a few States beyond the Missis
sippi.
The Cotton Crop Outlook.
The breaking of the drought in
Texas has brightened considerably
the cotton crop prospects, says the
Textile Excelsior. The certainty
that the present season will close
with stocks smaller than ever
before makes the news of a heavy
yield this year especially welcome.
Inasmuch as Texas produces a
third of the entire crop, a failure
in that State would indeed be a
calamity.
The world's actual need and the
necessity for replenishing depleted
surplus stocks will afford a market
for a big crop, and, while a heavy
yield would doubtless force values
below existing prices, it is not
probable that cotton will this year
drop below what the planters cali
a "pajing basis." It is to be
hoped that 110 misfortune will reduce
the yield, for n big crop is
needed badly.
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DID LATIMER LIE?
Jolin Gary Evans Charged as Much at
Georges Saturday.
At the campaign meeting hold
at Georges Saturday it looked us if
the difference* between Messrs.
Evans and Latimer would 1),) set;
lied by a resort to muscular power;
but the sheriff of Colleton county
stepped between the two men and
put a stop to the difficulty before
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H OIOW was si rueK.
Ever since the campaign opened
Messrs. Evans ami Latimer have
boon nt outs, and tlie matter which
all but ended in a light came about
in this way: Mr. Evans was tlull
rst speaker, and in his speech
prodded Mr. Latimer in the same
way and on the same matters
which had been brought out at
previous meetings. Mr. Latimer
made about the same refutations.!
and said that the Reformers had
carried Mr. Evans as long as they
could and had dropped him, and
he also made some allusion to
Evans being his "friend,"' to which
Evans replied: ''You never were
my friend; you betrayed me like
a dog."
Then Latimer brought up the
bond deal, and said that Evans had
been charged in the last campaign
with getting a $15,000 rakeotl' therefrom.
Evans corrected him by
saying that it had only been ru- j
tnored, and some reference was}
iimm: iu mi anonymous circular j
in connection with the matter.
Mr. Evans added that he lmrl denied
the accusation at the time;
denounced it as a lie: he now denounces
it as such and the man
who repeats it is a liar.
At this point .Mr. Latimer appeared
as if he had reached the
point where endurance ceased to
be a virtue; hence the enactment
of tho little tragedy.
The meeting proceeded without
incident until after fecesi, when
the party went to the hotel to get
dinner. Mr. Latimer then walked ;
into the hotel and procoeded to;
Mr. Evans' room and said, "Mr. j
Evans, 1 wish to have a word with .
yon," to which Mr.- Evans replied,
"No sir, you cannot talk to me,"
and walked down stairs and went
out and dined with a frioud.
Reunion cf York County Veterans.
The annual reunion cf the veterans
of the York Regiment, 1'. C.
V., will be held at Mt. Gallant,
formerly the residence of Col.
Cadwnllader Jones, about 1 miles
from Rock Hill, on Wednesday,
the, 30th instant. Mr. Samuel
Friedheim has kindly offered the
premises for the purpose set forth.
All veterans of York county, together
with their families and
friends, are expected to attend and
enjoy the day in happy coinmuni
u-iiiiuii iiuu reunion wim each otiiev.
It is the request of the management
that nl1 who attend the reunion
hIuiII come with f. 11 baskets,
in the way of contributions to
the general enjoyment and pleasure
of the occasion.
A com m it tee on arrangements
has been appointed by Catawba
Camp, with Capt. L. M. Davis, of
ltock Hill, r.s chairman. This
committee is charged with the
1 management of all details connected
with the entertainment,and the
chairman will gladly furnish any
information desired in regard
theioto.
It is the desire of the management
that the reunion shall be
purely social and entirely free
from political influences or soliciting
agencies. To this end it is
expected that there will be no
set speeches, but only such public
talks as the occasion seems to require,
and that its general features
will he likened to the delightful
and successful reunion at the
dam of the Catawba Power Company
in 1901. 1
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)KT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA
DISPENSARY Oft NO DISPENSARY.
lhc Legal Way to UrJer an Election to
Determine t!;c Matter.
Nowadays one hoars sundry opinions
expressed in Fort Mill as to
the lo^al way to proceed in determining
whether the town shall
hnvo an election to establish a <lispeusnry.
Some aroof opinion that
the election can not be ordeivcl except
by a petition signed by onefourth
of the freehold'us of the
town, while others contend that it
is iioi'PKBnru lr< u.?#> inn ?!..?
? - - - > <?* j % V III v? 'Mil y til'*
signatures of one-fourth of the
< I moI i I it (1 voters. From the following
act of the Legislature, approved
February 271 h, 15)02, it is
obvious that the latter contention
is correct:
"That any county, town or city
wherein the sale of alcoholic |
liquors was prohibited by lawprior
to July 1, 1MW, may secure
the establishment of a dispensary
within its borders in the f< '.lowing
manner: Upon petition signed by
one-foil.th of the qualified voters
of sueli county, town or city wishing
n dispensary therein beinu
tiled with the county sup ervisor or
town or eity council, respectively,
they shall order an election sub
mitt 11s_r the question of dispensary
or no dispensary to the qualified
voters of such county, town or
city, which election shall be conducted
ns other special elections;
ami if a majority of the ballots
cast be found and declared to
bo for a dispensary, then a dispensary
may be established in said
county, town or city."
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An Editor Visits " the Dim."
The Kev. James lioyce, editor of
The Associate Reformed Presbyterian,
gives the following* editorial
account of a recent visit to the dam
of the Catawba Power Company:
"After an interesting drive over
good loads through scenes of varied
attractiveness we came to the
blulf overlooking the river. Here
the Catawba river flows through a
narrow pass between steep bills of
solid rock. (Ireat strong walls of
granite quarried from these liils are
being built, and soon the mighty
power of this river will be converted
into electric currents, which will
be conveyed to Charlotte, Fori Mill,
Rock Hill .'linl probably other nearby
towns for operating cotton mills
and other factories. What wonders
are being accomplished in the
mechanical world and how amazingly
oar country is being transformed
into a manufacturing community.
'"Wo witnessed some operations
that were instructive. The great
work will cost nearly if not quite
one million dollars. In order that
it may stand tirni before the tremendous
force of the great waters
the walls must ho planted solidly
on bed rock. So they dig deep and
lay the first course in hydraulic cement
on the solid granite bed.
And above high-water mark Ihe
walls must be solidly joined to tho
solid granite of the hills and be so
braced that the pressure of the
water will only make tho wall hold
the stronger. We saw them digging
into the hill to find this solid
backing."
Hub Evans Whipped John L.
ITub II. Evans, tho director of
the State dispcnsaiy who whipped
the editor of the Greenville News
a few days ago, has the reputation
of having knocked John L. Sullivan
out in a barroom row. He
was in a saloon some years ago
when Sullivan walked in. The
pugilist had boon drinking and was
in one of his characteristic moods.
Several men were lined up at the
bar, among whom was Evans.
Without a word Sullivan gave one
sweep with his right arm and
knocked down nil of the drinkers
with the exception of Evans. The
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, WEDNESDAY, Jl'LY Hi, li?02
dispensary director was at the end
of tlu? counter mill beyond roach
of tho fighter s arm.
Whoa Evans did not fall with
the others Sullivan looked surprised
and made a lunge at him.
Evans swung his right fist at Sullivans
jaw and John L. went down
i in a heap. Friends rushed in to
| prevent further hostilities, and
Evans was asked if ho knew Human
he had struck. lie did not.
"Why, that's John L.Sullivan,
the prize lighh-r," he was told.
The story is that Evans reached
in his pocket for his pistol and
I waueu icr another attack. The
affair was peacefully s?*ttlic?\vevcr,
and later in the evening tintwo
men drank a bottle of wine.
Dr. Daniel "Got in Wrong."
The Winnsboro correspondent
! of The State says that Dr. \V. \Y.
Daniel, president of the Columbia
Fmualo College, delivered a strong
and able address on '"Christian
Kducatiou" to the Columbia dis-'
triet conference of the Methodist;
ehmvh in \\ innsboro Friday night.
Cnfortunately for Dr. Daniel and
the cause he represented, lmwevt r.
i the address was ended with an attack
upon State colleges. The
sentiments expressed did not meet
with any sympathetic response by
the conference. This displeasure
was shown by the citing on the
part of some of the members instances
of Cliristian ininisteis bei
ing educated in State institutions.
The address 11ms hoen greatly e:ilicised?not
by outsiders anymore
than by the members of the conferenencc.
OM residents of Fort Mill will
recall the fact that Dr. Daniel was
pastor of the Methodist church in
this town about fifteen years ago.
He was one of the most popular
pastors the church has ever had,
and many persons will doubtless
be surprised to learn that he lias
gone out of his way to attack the
State colleges.
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South Carolinians Wanted for the Navy.
Uncle Sam wiil soon call upon
South Carolina to aid him in re
cruitiim the 3.000 men tlmt mm.
prise tlio addition to the enlisted
branch of the service authorized
by Congress in the recent naval
appropriation law. Instructions
have been issued to hmsign 1). (1.
llanrahan, now stationed at the
Brooklyn navy yard, to make a
tour of the South this summer
with a recruiting party to make
enlistments. Knsij^n llanrahan
expects to reach Columbia about
the latter part of this month and
will spend at least a week in the
capital city, whore he will open a
recruiting station.
Throughout the Stale.
Duncan Ferguson. Jr., representing
Ferguson A* Dare, of Pittsburg,
Ph., is optioning with tlie
view to liie purchase mid development
of copper deposits nenr
York vi lie.
New cotton mills seem lobe com
ing along rapidly in South C'.iroli
na these dull summer day.*. Moii
day the secretary of stale issued a
eharter to the Apalsche Mills'of
(ireers, in Spartanburg county.
The capital stock is to be $J50,000.
The secretary of state Saturday
issued a commission for another
cotton mill at Ninety-Six. Tie
capital stock will be J'JOO.bOO. A
commission was also issued <m the
same (lay to the K-ishaw Oil Mill
of Kershaw, which is to have a
capital stock of $2o,0U0.
William Hayne Perry, son of the
late ex-Gov. I>. F. Porry and for
six years representative of the
Fourth district in Congress, died
at his home, '"Sans S nin," miles
from Greenville Thursday. Before
his election to Congress Mr. Perry
had served as solicitor of the
western circuit and State senator
from Greenville county. Since
181)1 ho has lived in retirement,
lie was G'J years of age.
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FORT MILL MELANGE.
Minor Happenings In and About Town
Told in Paragralis.
Mr. .1. I j. Watson, ??f (lharlotte,
spent Smnlay in town.
Mr. R. M. London,of Rock Hill,
spent Monday afternoon in town.
Mrs. Ii. F. drier and children
arc visiting relatives at Ilarrisrisburjg,
N. C.
Mr. A. (jr. Fewell, of Rock Hill,
is spending the week with Mr.
das. Thornwoll.
Mr. ilolit. 1 turns is the guest of
his sister, Mrs. .1. F. Most oiler,
in Clmil<>tto. N. (
Miss ltlanehe Smith, of Wax
haw, N. (k, visited friends in town
during the past week.
There an* said to he several eases
of t\phoid fever in the village of
UK- L'ort Mill A1fy*. Company.
llev. 13. A. TTnitsell returned to
town Saturday ni;;hl, after n week's
outing at Cleveland Springs. N. C
Mr. Ij. 13. I.im>"? uncut. of the
Seaboard Air Lint'at Wake Forest,
N. C., spent Monday morning in
town.
Miss Fronde Kennedy, of Clinton,
was a visitor at. tin* hoir.e of
Dr. .1. ii. Tlioimvoll Sunday and
Monday.
Miss Francos Harris r.'lurned
homo Sunday evening, aft? r an
extended visit to !:er sister. Mrs.
L. K. Lioon. in Wake Forest, N.C.
Mrs..!. U. Cunningham, of the
Harrison (N. C.) neighborhood,
and Airs. 11. S. llowie, of Catawba,
N. (\. are the quests of Mrs. 13. li.
Masscy.
After a stay of several weeks as
the ?uest of her sister. Mrs. S.
A. Epps, Miss Maggie Gannon,
of (J reeimhoro, N. C'., loft Monday
aftcinoon for a visit to friotuls in
Boston. AI ass.
An excursion train will be run
from Charlotte to Columbia and
rut urn next Tuesday. The train
is scheduled to reach Fort Mill at
y o'clock and the round trip fare
will be $1.50.
Air. J. K. Williamson, late "enoral
manager of the Fort Mill Mfg.
Company, has moved to Now York
City, where, it is understood, ho
will embark in the business of
selling cotton goods on commission.
The j-eliool which Miss Annie
Carothers has been teaching for
some time at the Pineville ( X. C.)
cotton mill closed Friday afternoon,
and Miss Carothers returned
to her home in this place Monday
morning.
After paying a short visit to
Miss Kitty Kirkputrick, Miss Fame
llarve}', of Pinopolis, Berkeley
county, returned to Rock Hill
Monday morning, where she is attendinis
the State: summer school
for teachers.
Mr. J. W. McElhnncy announces
his candidacy for magistrate of
Fort Mill township in this issue of
The Times. Two years nj^o Mr. Mr
Elhaney voluntarily relinquished
the office, after tilling it ei^ht
successive years.
On account of a protracted mceti
inwhich will he in progress at
Pleasant Hill Methodist church on
the fourth Sunday of the month,
services will be held in the Fort
Mill Methodist church at 11 a. in.
on that day, instead of S p. in.
I'robnb'y the longest freight
train that over pnssod over the
Savannah division of Iho Southern
Ilailwny reached Fort Mill from
Charl >t1o Mon lay at I o'clock.
The train consisted of sixty-two
ears, exclusive of tlie cab, and was
hauled by engine No. 'JoO.
Tin; indieations are that the
public will have the opportunity
of witnessing a number of baseball
fannies at home before the sea
son ends. I'p to the present lime
not one game lias boon seen in
Fort Mill during tho year, owing
to the inability of the playeis to
soclire a suitable ground. One of
the young men who will belong to
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N<>. 17.
the home ton hi ii f i or grounds are
secured says tlint a 1 >?'tt?*r team
than tlio town lias yet had can bo
organized, and that little trouble
will be experienced in arranging
games with other clubs.
Mr. Henry Massey, of Tiizali,
spent Sunday in town with relatives.
Mr. Massey has accepted a
position with a cotton Heed oil
company, in whose interest lie exnec.ts
to !?ii on lliu fiMul um.ii tt:?
, ?, ? . 1.x nv.'ll, 1 in
territory extends From IMaeksburg
to ('nindon.
M r. W. d . Stewart reports seei ng
a parrot at largo on his plantation
a Few miles south of town Sunday
morning. The plumage of the bird
was dark green, with an occasional
b:ight red spot, on each wing. An
unsuccessful effort was made to
capture the bird.
The differences which existed
between the Fort Mill Telephone
Company and the Charlotte Telephone
Company, and to which rof
erence was made in these columns
last week, have boon adjusted, and
the long distance service north of
Fort Mill is again open to the
public.
Tlio Times was pieasod to receive
a call yesteiday morning
from Mr. S. M. Mason, the young
gentleman who gave up the superinloiulenry
of the public school in
Fort Mill the lirst of the year to
accept a government position in
the quartermaster's department on
Sullivan's Island. Mr. Mason
in yiaitlllg 1 I II'IIUS 111 IOWI1.
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In Police Circles.
Wallnco Giier, short, black, and
with a face that looked uh if it had
been greased with a meat skin, and
Caleb Sims, another son of ITain,
with a complexion slightly ashy
and a lower lip that hung at half
mast, wore before lutendant Meiilluiney
Saturday, charged with
disturbing the peace of the town.
Sims said Grier was a bluegiuw
nigger. That caused a light. Sims
paid and Grier contributed
John Jones, colored, and not unlike
many of his race, in that ho has
a predilection for taking posessiott
of articles to which no title passe ,
was the guest of the town lroui
Sunday afternoon to Tuesday
morning, being entertained at the
hospitable home of many law
iMVukfrTri?tllrt CalaboOB". John
Jours was employed last wool; at
tho dam of t lit* Catawba J'owt r
Company. He had a partner over
there, another negro man, who was
the proud possessor of a pair of
now shoes that Jones admired vory
much. It may bo that Jones had
borrowed the shoes to wear to
church, a crap game, or while on
duty at a blind tiger, and being in
temporary possession of them became
seized of an uncontrollable
longing to appropriate them to his
own use permanently. At any rate,
Jones' partner gave Jones an opportunity?an
uuintentiofrd opportunity,
likely enough ?to swipe
j the shoos. So Jones took advantage
of tln> opportunity, mid then
mid there did take the shoes unlawfully.
Sunday morning i.e.
wore the shoes to Fort Mill; but
unfoiInnately for Jones, thoafor. said
partner mine to town and detected
the shoos on Jones1 feet,
while the latter was culling tho
buck on Main street. "I)cm1H inv
shoos dat niggalfs wearinY' S'bd
Jones1 partner to Oflieer Nivens,
with the request that Jones tie arrested,
which was done. Joins
squared himself with his partner,
but intend.ml McHihaney said lie
bo thought Jones ought to aecoinniodate
tho county by working on
the chain gang twenty-five d?y-<
for carrying conceahd a pair of
brass knuckles. So Jones ik now
wearing a suit of icw #*1*?iI in '
decoratid with big black stripes.
Corn advanced to $1 inn- bushel during
(lie jm.it week.
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