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* FO RT MILL TIM F,S DEMOCRATIC PUBLIFHSD EVERY WEDNESDAY B. W. BRADFORD. Termf of Subscription: (?ne y?-ni J1.00 Six months .50 Three months 2T> Coriespondem-e 011 ( um-nt subjects is Invited, but no responsibility l- assumed for the views of correspondents. A nun . nous communications will not be published In those columns. On application to the publisher, mlvertls'.iiK tatcs arc made known to those interested. Foi t Mill "Phone (with long distance connections) No. 26. . FKHHUAUY n luo;> With the Lawmakers. Columbia. l4'eb. 10.?Since my nst letter, the general assembly Imfc settled down It) work in dead earnest, antl a g ea deal of btisibas been disposer! of. The session is Hearing its close, much to the delight of its home-loving members. A vast amount of work, however, js yet to be done, and many bills will have to go over to the next session. The Marshall child labor bill, I wliirh has occupied (he attention ] of the house for the past week, passed on Friday hy a majority of b. and only awaits the signature ! ?>f the governor to heroine law. Tlie York delegation voted solidly for the hill. The resolution which pnased the ! senate extending the time for the payment of taxra until April 1st, without penalty, wuh defeated in the house by a large majority, the York delegation voting against the extension. Mr. Morgan's road bill pu'ting: the commutation tax at not under i one dollar and not over three dollars. or not under two days or not over six days labor on the public highways lind leaving it to the hoard of county commissioners to i fix, was substituted for Mr. Kaile's ' road bill which pub the commutation tax at $3. This is what the York delegating' ask?-d for and they feel that they have won a victory. Mr. Beamgnard's bill to restore the old order of collecting taxes i was rejected. A resolution submitting to the people as to whether or not they want biennial sessions of the legislature passed the senate, and a similar resolution bv Mr. lieHin f;uHid lius been offered in the louse, and the indications are that it will pass. Mr. Haile, by request, has introduced a bill to allow industrial ocminuuitieH of f>0 inhabitants a special constable. This bill, if passed, will relieve somewhat the situation at the Catawba Power Company's dam, where everything "damnable" runs riot. The excitement incident to the terrible tragedy which o< curred 011 January 16th in front of the capitol and under the shadow of the beautiful monument erected to our Confederate dead, by which Edi- J tor Gonzales met his death at the | hands of Col James il. Tillman, | has about subsided. Col. Tidmati is still in Hichlaml county jail, but will probably be released on buil in a few days. Catawba. No Tax-Paying Extension. Til the Senate Wednesday the ITydriek resolution to extend the! time of paying taxes until march Slat was adopted after a long de- | b de by a vote cf 24 to 8. Senators Briee, Herndon, Hough and Blake argue/1 against the hill. Senators Hydrick, Mower, (t. W. Hagsdale and Sheppard spoke in favor of it. They held that the law is impracticable for auditors and treasureis ?_ -? - l - a ? - ? ' iu cniry ouij uesiues iney poinied out tliht the general law provided for a cumulative penalty, while the supply hill made a Hat penalty of ten per cent. There wan some doubt, it was held, which of these penalties applied, and since it was a legislative mistake it should he temedied. Senator Sheppard said he could see no harm to result, ami besides there were were a great many people who had actually been unable to pay their taxes. Mr. Brice tried to get in an amend ment making the lime March lnt instead of .'HhI, hut but the chorus of nos whs so strong that no count was demanded. In the house the extension hill was killed after a long debate, thus nullifying the action of the senate and thus finally disposing of this question for the present. In noting the recent death of M'tj. A. II. While, of Hock Hill, the Winnsborough News and Herald says; ' Maj. Wh ile was a promiuent eitU"i?, having a national reputation for his erecting u monument at Fort Mill to the memory of faithful slaves." Our esteemed contemporary is mistaken in regard to the monument referred to. That was erected by Cnpt. Hain't. White, of Fort Mill, the father of Mr., Leroy Springs, of this place.? LaucaaUn lieview, jaffigftvv Ik Sr-ith Carolina's Struggle In 1S76. We do not deny that there in a ! deploiable lack of law and ordei ! and the requirements of eivilizat ion ! in Home parts of the South; hut , I there are others. We rend in the' ; newspapers of members of the j Colorado legislature hitt ing at their , places with hiioe revolvers decorating their desks nnd surrounded by i miards prepared to resist hy vio- ! lenc.* and bio alshed t he attempts of a cirtaui faction of Republic.lis claiming to be uietnbersof I tie same ! body to enter the halls. The situation is curiously like that in South Carolina in lMTti Democrats and Republicans each , claimed to have a majority of the , house and each organized under its j own speaker. On a certain day the I Democratic members inarched to J the state house, headed by Col. J. L. j ! Orr. now the'respected and staid president of one of the largest cot- j ton mills in the state, who knocked aside the door keeper and led his cohorts in. The rival bodiesoc- j copied the small hall, the speakers ! silting side by side, two ni^litsand I three (lays, as we recollect. The United Slates troops were a? the front door, and while they would not eject the Democratic claimants they refused toyive per- j mission for any of them to no out and return. Consequently, these legislators were kept locked in the I chamber for the time indicated, alonir with t heir Republican opponents, everybody armed to the! teeth, and expecting trouble to! break loose each minute. A member j from each house addressing and recognized by his own speaker and speakiuo at the top of hi* Voice was a common incident of this nerve- 1 racking period. Reporters and others who had the rinht to no in and out of the j chamber freely smnnuled the Win Chester lilies, the barrels thrust , down their trousers' lens ?"d the i butts under their waistcoats, for 1 the Democrats, each of whom had an average of three revolvers, he- j sides the *fiui wrapped in his blanket or overcoat, and probably the republicans were equaly well ; provided. What a dramatic moment it was for the 70-odd wearv and red-eved ; while men who had been expecting during ail the hoars id' a long night to engage at any inotnent in a li_:ht in a locked hall with their Republican and negro opponent 8 rein forced by hundreds of deputy sergeants at arms, when the murky and chilly dawn of the December morning was suddenly cut by the sharp, familiar rebel yell. Roth factions adjourned to the windows and looked out on a line ?r i <i yj i i nun in, 111 ft i ly ui i iit'in v^uu federate veterans, double quicking in swift cadence up the steep hill from the special train that had brought them in. Those were the advance guard of 7,000 of the same kind who arrived before noon? clattering in on horseback at full speed, singly and by squads, tumbling hurriedly from regular and special trains, eager to tight anybody for Wade Hampton and white rule. But that was twenty-six years ago, and the tight was for a principle, and involved the very life of the State. This affair in Colorado is a mere squabble over a I'nited States senatorship, probably with a good deal of boodle involved in it. So far as morality and respectability and civilization of the trans actions are concerned, South Carolina appears to have very much the better of it.?A. B. Wil- j liams in Richmond News. ? - Tillman to Apply For Ball. A Charleston despatch of the i 7th inst. snvs that CnmrrcsNiiiioi- i I elect Geo. VV. Croft, of Aiken. ' Tillman's Ihw partner, Htid P. H. ; , Nelson, n leading criminal lawyer ! of Columbia, attorneys for the ?< | ; cnned, will ask next Thursday llmt | J amen H. Tihtnan, charged with | ; the killing of N. G. Gonzales, be | released on bail. They served i notice of their intended action on Attorney General (}u uter and S,?. lieitor Thurmond this nfternoo 1. Tliey will appear before Chief | Justice Y. S. Pope at chambers I next Thursday in obedience to a writ of habeas corpus and will ap- j ply for Tillman's release on bond. j A Slight Calldown. The Wnxhaw Enterprise of last week, after noting our litile item ; about the prediction of a snow in j I winter for every fog in AugiiHt.i says that the editor of that paper J has been informed by one of his most responsible citizens that there were no fogs at all in August. ; The Times would not have the Enterprise editor believe tliat the gentleman we referred to as having made tiie prediction had any : reference whatever as to what was doing in the fog line at WhxIihw last August. ? Mr. J. W. Dens and family moved here lust week from Hock Hill. X Mrs Sutton Gets Judgement. Tlit* cast* of Mis .las. H. Sutton against the ('ntnwlm Power Conn puny for $10,000 damages 1?? Inntl came up for trial in tin* court of common pleas at Yorkvilie on I'licstlay of last wet k. The jury on Friday brought in a vertlict ft?r the plaintitr in the sum of $f?0O, whereupon I he defendant company served no. ice of an app' al. The case was commenced on Thursday afternoon, on the following complain : That on and before the 18th day of A pi iI, IfK)l, the defendant herein be^aii the construction of a dam from the east, hank of Catawba river, about f ree hundred yards above plaintiff's lands, for tlie purpose of impending and storing the watt rs of said river, and also on the west side of said river, at a point a short distance below where the unfinished dam projected into the the same, had built of stone and timber an extensive structure known as a cotfer bain, of a height of about thirty feet, which extend-, eel from the west bank of said river to and beyond the middle thereof one hundred and fifty feet. That owing to the wanton and negligent manner ill which said colter dam was eonsrueled, and without due regard to the rights of plaintiff heieiu, the flood waters of said Catawba river were on or about thesaid 18lh day of April, 1901, and days following, thereby diver ed from their proper channel by the obstructions aforesaid, ami were turned with great force and in great volume upon and neross the land of plaintiff. tearing away protective embankments tearing up and washing oil' the soil and despo-itin x s ind and ot her worthless substances thereon, and rendering a 1 irge part of the same unlit for eultivati >u and of no value whatever, and plailit itf alleged t hat she sustained injury and damage to the v tine of her sn'd laud, and the income and profits aeeurnig therefrom by reason of the negligent and improper construction of the said dam and cotfer (lain, in disregard of her rights and of plaintiff's duty, to the amount of $10,000. The witnesses for the plaintitf were as follows: J. R. Haile. \\\ II.Crook, 0. T Crook. B. N. Faris, S. H. Epps, C. P HI inkeuship, J. B. Fewt'l. ,Jos. Anderson, Win. Adkins, W. M. Boyd, 1). <). Potts, Joe (t. Nivens, Stair Kimbrell, John F. Gordon, I. B. Faris. Lee Hall, A. P. Boyd, Z .ck T. Bniles. The following witnesses were sworn in behaf of the defence; C. K. Creilzhurg, C3. A. Mans, John Ward, S. M. Garrison, W.O. Youngblood, T. M. Martin, W. T. (4n rrisxm li1 H Itnrlmr It I*1 \fiiu sey, W.' II. MeFudd'eu, W. II. Wylie. Gloomy for Liquor Men. The prospects of the liquor dealers in North Carolina are gloomy, uccordimj to the Greensboro Telegram. There never was such n wave of opposition to the tratKc as iH coining up from every quarter of the state. The petition boxes of the i*eneral assembly is full to overflowing with petitions for leujislation against the business. An<i saloon leagues,some statewide in their scope and others township wide, are at work with a decree of zeal that is obliged to brim* results. Newspapers, which have held aloof from the controversy heretofore, have aliened themselves on the side of r-strict ion if not suppression. The moral consience is awakened as it never has been before. There is surely uoinu: to be some decided improvement of the conditions under which strong drink is manufactured ami sold in North Carolina. There is room for such improvement. ? ?Oov. Terrell Wouldn't Visit Roosevelt. Much comment was caused by the fa lure of Governor Tearell, of Georgia, while in Washincton a few days a?jo, to call to pay his re spects to the president of the United States, bein^f the governor of the largest state in the South. The governor before leaving Atlanta is quoted as having stated that he would not have time to call at the White Hons-', but lie had time to go to tin? wardepartment. winch is only a block from the executive mansion, and also remained over to attend the Gridiron Club dinner. It is whispered thai the real reason of the governor's refusal to go to the White House was to show his disapproval of the president's alleged fondness to entertain negroes and also to show his disapproval, and the disapproval by the people of the state of Georgi ? oi the president's general southern policy respecting negro appointments to local positions. Friendship improves hnppi.:*??s and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief, ' I I ABREAS v > ; Bargains are | change. AVe are :; to move our Avin spring goods, you 1 SZO" ^ All 30, 35 aiK | All 25c Cashi I All 12 1-2 Caf I All 8, 10 and 4 r A big bargain ? if wc have a : i your boy, and von ? the amount of 811 1j BOYS' sir : > * Those suits m > Ask to see on I hoys' waists or sli * See our line cent discount on t ^ Get our price > business with all ;! LON a: VCN?V?V v??v? Nearly Forfeits His Life. A runaway almost ending fatally . started a hoiiible ulcer mi the lo^ I of J. B. Orner, Franklin Grove. Hi. For four yearn it defied all doctors and all remedies. But Bueklen's Arnica Salve had no ; t rouble to cure linn. rajua-ly troou I for Hums. Hruisos. Skin Eruptionsand Files. 2oeat Meaeluun's Dili},' Store. No mail is in a position to teach ' other men until after he has burnt his tinkers a few times. Mysterious Ciscumstanco. One was pale and sallow and the other fresh and losy. \\ hence Hie ! difference? She who is blushing with health uses Dr. Kin *s New Life Hills to maintain it. 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