Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Suppler For the Enterprise. Van Wyck Items. Master Klwyn Stephenson, sot of Mr. J. K. H. Stephenson, fel from his father's barn ami was painfully hurt by knocking hit ankle out of place. Kev. John K. Walker, of Spar tanburg, assisted the pastor o Van Wyck church in a series o meetings last week. Misses Annie and l.evie Sulli van, of New (hit. arn visitimr \lio. Blanche MoCiuirt ami attending the meeting at Van Wyck church Rev. ,J. A. Campbell, of For Mill, preached an able sermon t< a largo congregation in Vat Wyck church last Sunday morn ing. Mr. Frank Milholland, of Les lies, visited Mr. \V. .1. Crenshav and attended the Van Wye! meeting recently. Miss Nora Patterson, the ae complished daughter of Dr. R. M Patterson, of Cary, N. C., is visit ing her aunt, Mrs. .1. F. 11. Steph enson. Miss,. Patterson needs n< introduction1 to the Van W\vcl people. She was our organist i few months ago and we are glai to see her back again and at he place in the church as our organ ist. A goodj^jfcny of the Van^JJycl boys went down to the Fort Lawi piuiiiu* Mr.C.A. Heck ham has the fines cotton farm in this township. Hi has twenty-five acres in one lieh that will make him thirty bales Hili. Dooi.itilk. Dry ('reek Dots, The rains of last Friday nigh di?l great good to the crops ii these parts, which are looking their best. Old corn is now safe Mr. .1. A. t'authen has 'Jo acre: of cotton that will average a bah to the acre, and his line cane cro] referred to in this correspondence before, is ready to grind. Mr. H. A. (iainer has the finest corn crop we have seen. Mr G. Willie t'authen also has a tint crop. Your dotter went fishing the other day and caught a cat am, had a line pot of soup. Do not think that the one ti<l made the pot of soup. Sever/ of my friends were with nio>-.l S. Williams, .I. A. ('autheiwr an 1). B. Crenshaw?who tl/d th fishing and I did the coofcing. / New seats have be?-n placed ii New Hope church, greatly to tic comfort of the public. I hiring our protracted meetinj the pastor, 1 * v. S. N. Watson was aldy assisted by Uev. .1. II Boldndge Th? preaching wa good and' III were added to tin church, j besides 'J restorations. Your.' dotter went down t< Black dack and heard Senatoi Tillman's able defense of the dis pensarty Saturday. ?\H ork on the II. M. .lohnsoi buildi ng i* making good progress T'? t'ur* Constipation fnrpvrr. Take Oascnrets Candv Cailiariic lOe or 2JSC If C. (- (' 'in! to euro, tlruKKists refund money . i / i nent to the L CLEXSON STILL IN BAD LUCK. 1 The Trustees Fail to Elect a Prcsi. dent, and Lightning Strikes The Cattle Karnand Destroys it With 3 its Valuable Contents. ? Calhoun, August 5.?Special: The board of trustees met at Clem. son last night, all tin? members being present except Col. Morris, f The business of chief importance to be attended to was the election of a president, but alter holding two sessions the board adjourned, 3 leaving the place vacant. A com: mittee, consisting of Governor Ellerbe, Messrs Donaldson and Wannamaker, was appointed to ' look fur a suitable man for presii dent, and report to a meeting to i bo held on September 15. The board elected l'assed Assistant Kngitieer George McKlroy, professor of mechanical and electric . al engineering, vice 1'rof. Tonip; kins, resigned. The committee ? above named is also to select a v man to till the place resigned l>v Mr. Thomas Wright. 1 he board decided to ask the State board of health to request surgeon genetal of the army to send an expert RAtlitufV otliritiaor ' " . ? viihiubi I uriu HI 11 j i I l\ i - suggestions as t?? any sanitary ^ changes that may be needed. It c is expected that an engineer will be sent it the rule- are followed, and the request made through the State board of health. r* The cattle burn, including tw*? - large silos, a corn mill and con siderahle machinery, was totally destroyed bv lire about 1 o'clock * this afternoon. The fire was caus11 ed by a stroke of lightning during a severe storm. The Mash struck one end of the building and apf pea red to run over the whole length of the roof, setting it on 1 fire instantly. A large amount of ' provender stored under the roof soon caught fire, and the building was quickly consumed. It cost j abqut four thousand dollars, with out the machinery, and is insured for thirty-five hundred dollarR. I with contends. He's One of Tliein. Col. Irby shows no mercy to politicians. In his Columbia speech he said: ' "Ninety-nine out of everjufciun ulred politicians would like i dog; 50 per cent. \yrfuild steal ( and the other "i0 /per cent, ha better be watcb^vd. He, howevei was appealing to the people asai honest farther. He was no poli tician,"T^l'ied mont Headlight. AlL^his sounds very funny ii I theX'aceof ttie fact tliat Col. Irbi hyis the reputation of being oik ^ f the slickest wire pullers ant f most successful politicians in tin state.? York Yeoman. I. ' I'imir .\ rnr Inn U //(7,. e The annual Sunday school picnic for Van Wyek and Menlali u ! Suinlay school in connection with p| others will come oil August lit. at the grove on Dr. Ni>het\* lohnston place, two and one hall l miles north of \"an Wyck. on the < 'atnden Kiver road. Dr. S. A. Weber of Lancaster and lievs. II. W. Iloone and A. s vv ixi- - i .? . i i ? it i hi >? ii.Miuw \\ in amtress llit* schools Harrison siring hand will furnish fin* nmsic. All art* cordially invited, and don't lor net the well tilled basket, ('nine 1 out and j;ive the children a pleaant day. .1. M. VohKK. ('hairrnan of ('0111. i ?Mrs. \V. S. I.annley is visit injr her brorher, Mr. K. I). Smith at Hlackslntrn. 1 court. fending the appeal.Ilolt/- ( claw wus released on l>ail bond ol i i.tat to. '1'he charges against Ilolt/.-j i i idaw were* first, a short aire <>t 1 $1.(100 ; second. overdrawing his isalary $1.*>0 ; third, drawing a i. I I check lor $7 a-> dispenser to pay ( election manager-. lie was convicted on the fJoond and third counts. Bookkeeper Scruggs tes- j - tiikul.thut the ft rant hne1. j but he could not aeco'utit for its ( disappearance. ^ In the 1'nited States court tflta ; day. Ooey .Jordan, a white boy.lii : years old, Iroin a proininent lain ily of tlx State, was sentenced to | ' two years in the reformatory at | . Washington. I). C. In company , . with a negro man.Thomas Robin- ( son. he broke into the postollice ( at Marietta and stole sixty one . cents. lhe negro was iriven one , II year ai iiard labor in the peniten |, Jtiary at Columbus. Ohio. An in | [dictment is pendiiiir in tlie State | | colitis against .Ionian and Ivobin , son for burglary in breaking into I the store where the postollice is kept. and on completion of their wuimnon. J^*t yi^ourt they"1^!! i?? tried by tne St a t e. :i ii< 1 it i-onvicted tin* penal " ty will l?e live veal's in the State a penitent iary.? Keud-ter. (1 < >n the l."?th of September, anr, other of Massey's mammoth exn cursions will he run from the - mountains to the seashore, and all my friends, both white and it | colored, are invited to take this r trip with me. e, | tf. l\ K. Masskv. 1 CASTOTIIA. "?' 3One / '?/ (' for thr The Southern will -ell round trip tiekets on the 1-th, loth and I Ith in-t. to Washington. Rich ; ' nioiid and Norfolk, for one fare, i 'i >iH1 tiii- i " .I..-. 1 - _ . . ' 'Hi i I I < llll OHM" HI sale. on any o! their trains, in . cliidiiu: 'In' j;reat Vestibule Limited. j! 77/** /.?fth iiirtlli'il." Mr. 'I'. II. Marks is sollinjr the 1 latest work of Ilev. I . I)e\\ i" |< Ta linage, I >. If. entitled The' Karl It 'iirdled." W e have exam i inedthe prospect lis ol the hook j i and found i! intensely interest in^ | i j and beautifully illustrated. It is Ideals with matters observed on a his trip around the world, and I , will interest all lovers of oriental | s customs and historical matters. jc .ancaster Em | DISPENSER HOLTZCLAW S DOOM. | ? i A Fine of $500 or Nine Months in '| the Pcntitentiary. (ireeville. S. Au^. ?The lirst dispensary case tried in the courts in this State which result ed in a conviction was closed lor ( the time by the sentence of K. 1". ; ( ti. llolt/claw, the West Knd ?1 i- ' | penser, to serve nine months at ^ hard labor in the penitentiary or ( pay a line of $."(>(). A motion | was ncnle by tin attorneys for I llolt/claw for a new trial, but after hearing I lie argument ..I tidire Watts declined to hear the ariru ; ment of Solicitor Ansel and re I , I ; fused tin* motion. Sentence was ^ then passed on llolt/claw. The I attorneys for llolt/claw served! 1 * ' notice ol appeal to the supreme' terprise. t'KUKO LAItOK IN Till: MILLS. 1'ln' L\peri merit in Atlanta Provokes u Strike, Wliieli May Involve all the Mills in thai Lily. Atlanta, (ia., August 4.? As he result of t lie employment of wenty-livo neiiro women in the olditiir department of the Fulton $n<? and I'otton Mills this morn nir nvcr l.loo men, women ami hildtvn have jrone on one ol the arrest strikes that lias ever oe tired in t his city. The mills were forced to shut lown their entire plant, which v i 11 ailed lully two thousand leople of the working elapses. A hen the notice \\a- put up that he mills were closed much disinter broke out. and it was the nclination of the strikers at lirst 0 cause tronhle, luit the police cserve force arrived in time to 1 it**! I any disturbance. The local textile union took the tide of the strikers, and sent noice to them to hold out for their iiihts. \\ hen this became known he other employees of the mills, ill white, walked out. Some of hose who ijuit were the oldest fTtti1 *mwr*Tt'1 trriTte employees of? ? the company. Mr. l'.Uas.president of the company. explained that it was only i small all'air and would be ;irranged in a sliort time.alter which the mills would re-open on full lime The strikers, however, are letermincd. and.receiving: the aid I the local unions, will hold out o the last. Several years ajio the aime experiment was tried in working nejrroes with the same osult None of them have ever ..i.m.i.k ...i i -'i i ? .... . ......w_> < < I III I III- IIIIIIS. I IIc>s tin* dillieulty i- arranged to norro\v trouble may he looked lor. Ibimrers in Foul Stable Floors. I ho lloor ol the ideal stable i- a solYd coiif'fi-V. will'J* 1'<M i land cement covering, as 'i* can be kept porlectlv clean by Mushing with water, says 1*'. 11. King in <1 range Homes. The fact not generally understood that the danger nl tainted milk lies in the dust, the excrements, and the urine fir more than in the lood and water given. line Mi.iM'ii uoors, ho they of soil or hill rollt' 1 board*. un> lie svor-t breeders of gei ins, of taints. 4 ami ilisoasos. We may not lie ahle to lay a I'einont lloor. wo may not he ahle to huy lumber. hut in most oases we have some ela\ on the farm, ami it so there is no exonso for not having a very lair stable lloor. 1 >ig out t he top m>iI ami ti II in it least six inches of clay, which has heen workoil thoroughly with water, and ahout one -i\111 coal ashes or line gravel ami straw chopped to about halt an noli length, so a- to form a tough, ulliesive mass. The preliminary nixing can he done with a hoe. ut the working proper should ?e done by tramping thoroughly ither by man or horse. im ivc in i n no pee-. 11 - how la* I? |?t? desired. and then ram t (irmly with a larce wooden Milliner. Sinoolh it oil. using ;i traight edge from peg to pee. in< 1 allow time to dry properly adore using. Such a lloor will land a good deal ol wear, and an l?e kept reasonably clean.