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Scraps and Jacts. ? Secretary Long has undertaken to < have a hronze tablet cast at the Wash- ' ington navy yard and erected at Santi * ago, Cuba, at a point to be designated < by General Wood, in commemoration 1 of the services of the late Frederick ? W. Kamsden, who, while British consul ^ at Santiago, during the Spanish-Amer ican war, rendered valuable services to the United States in protecting American interests there during the siege and who died while at his post of duty. The tablet will bear an artistic inscrip tion, recounting the services of the de ceased. ? The city government of Chicago i raised something of a muss last, ween ; when it invited the Spanish minister J at Washington to come to Chicago to to help celebrate the destruction of the Spanish fleet in Manila bay by Admiral = Dewey. The minister replied to the invitation stating that he felt sure that it had been sent him by mistake, and Mayor Harrison, seeing the blunder that bad beeu made, hastened to assure the minister that such was really the D case. The Chicago committee says rj that similar invitations were sent out to the diplomatic representatives of all a the principal European governments, 1 and there was no thought of giving I offense to the Spanish minister. s ? Says an Austin, Texas, dispatch of v the 17th instant: Political circles here D were greatly surprised today by the . announcement that Senator Chilton had withdrawn from the United States 1 senatorial race, leaving Congressman ' Bailey a clear field. Senator Chilton's p withdrawal is based upon ill health s and an inability to make a canvass of ]( the state. Yesterday, Congressman Bailey carried Travis county, in which the state capital is located, in the race 1 for senator by about 1,200 majority. 8 Primaries held within the last week ji or two in about a dozen counties had t ?" " * *? mi given Uaiiey a leaa in me race. 1 ue j, announcement of Senator Chilton's jj withdrawal was made today by his campaign manager. ? Notwithstanding the tremendous ^ row that was raised over the matter I just, after the war with Spain, an As- S sociated Press dispatch reports that t the subsistence department of the army ^ finds itself compelled to fall back agaiu on canned roast beef for use in the Philippines. The army is scattered D among about 150 different posts, and ^ it is impracticable to furnish them all a with fresh refrigerated beef for the g reason that this ration cannot be got- g ten to them in good condition. It is Q found that canned roast beef is the only satisfactory substitute, and an order has been given to Chicago packers for 100,000 cans to be delivered at once, and 50,000 cans more to follow fc monthly. v ? A Manila dispatch of Sunday says (j that last week was the bloodiest of the . war siuce the first day's fighting. Au- 1 thentic reports, mostly official, show a 1 total of 378 Filipinos killed, 12 officers ^ and 244 men captured and many more t wounded. The number of wounded is r hardly guessable; but .with such a death list it is necessarily large, and as . the Filipinos have no hospital facilities it is reasonable to assume that many of I the wounded will die. The American i loss during the week was 9 killed and t 16 wounded. It develops that General t Pio del Pilar, who was thought to have been killed, is still alive and active. With 300 men, a few nights ago, he f occupied the American garrison of e /.Amnnnioo n t Qon \Ti nrnol fnr C I LI 1 CC tuuu |;au IV/O uv tjau imguvt ivi v three hours. The Americans had no casualties. If Pilar had any killed or wounded he carried them off. ? "Black and White," of London, in its issue of last Saturday, contaius ' the following statement : "A letter from a nurse in one of the hospitals throws new light od an unpleasant feature of the war. The writer states that some 500 Boers were forced by the medical authorities, for sanitary reasons, to bathe in the river behind the hospital. Many objected, especially two who refused to strip. They were forced to do so, and it was found that they were women in men's clothes. It seems that a number of the dead found ou the field have been women in similar disguise, and worse than all, it is the women who have been guilty of the atrocities often referred to in the telegrams from the front, such as killing the wounded. Thus history repeats itself. On the northwest frontier of India it is the women who creep out to kill and despoil the wounded after battle." ? Washington Post: Secretary Wilson, recognizing the fact that the extension of the rural free delivery service of the postoffice department opens up opportunities for extending the work of the weather bureau to the agricultural classes, has directed the chief of the weather bureau to take advantage of this system for the purpose of more completely furnishing the farmers aud residents of rural sections with the dailv weather forecast and cold wave aud frost warnings. The secretary believes that much benefit would accrue to these districts if the weather predictions aud warnings are furnished them regularly aud promptly, and it is his desire that the plan be put in operation as soon as possible. In accordance with the secretary's directions, the weather bureau is now arranging with the postofiice department so that wherever possible carriers bearing the rural mails will be furnished with cards containing the latest forecast and warnings, a copy of which will be given to each farmer on the routes. ? Senator Chandler, Rep., of New Hampshire, has introduced a bill for the prevention of the denial or abridg- o meat of the right ot united states cit- ~ izens to vote on account of color ; and 8 it was referred to the committee on privileges and elections. It declares void and inoperative any requirement of any qualification for suffrage prescribed by any state in its constitution or laws w hich directly or indirectly by express words or by auy device or subterfuge is made to apply to colored citizens and not to white citizens. Section 2 makes it the duty of election officers to allow such colored citizens, if otherwise qualified, to register aud vote, despite the disqualification imposed by- the state. Section 3 gives the citizen the right of action for $500 damages against a registration officer .vho refuses to register him, and the w jflicer is also subject to a fine of $1,000 a ?nd six months' imprisonment for each offence. Section 4 provides like penal- ^ ies for election officers who refuse to ^ tccept ballots of colored citizens. Pro- * :eedings under the hill are to be had a n United States courts and the United a states district attorneys are charged tl vith their prosecution. S( ifliu mvviuiiu a YOItKVILLE, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1900. si ? The efforts of the Washington ad- V ainistration to make the sultan of j* Turkey pay the $100,000 that he has ckuowledged to be due on account of c, he destruction of the property of a Lmerican missionaries in Armenia, ti ome j'ears ago, are being watched o rith great interest by European diplo- " aats. There is hardly a government P it Europe that has not claims against Q he sultan, and that individual figures h a international commercial reports as ti iretty hard papers. The principal rea- it on why European nations have negected to take the sultan by the throat c< it ,nd make him pay, is a fear of raising a he Eastern question and precipitating ? ;eneral war. No one understands the tt ealousies of the various European na- w ' ? n t li pnltan an/1 t tl tl t tl 1UUS UCblCl luau LlJO ouunu, uUV. VMM* Ddividual seems to take a special de- w ight iD making promises fhat he has tj 10 intention of fulfilling. European ft liplomats believe the slick Turk is g laying the same game with the United tl Itates, and the question of greatest inerest with the diplomats is, will the ^ Jniled States back down as the Eu- jopean nations have done, or will they w oake the sultan pay up. The state w lepartrneut at Washington is not doing S , great deal of talking ; but there is a Cl ;rowing impression that unless Turkey " ;ets down to business iu pretty short ^ irder there is going to be trouble. rf ?^ h SENATOR MORGAN. a Although the white people of Ala- ? tama weut very wild a few years ago ^ inder the preaching of that notorious lemagogue Kolb, recent developments v n connection with the campaign be- h ween Morgan and Johnstone, for the H Jnited States senate, have shown that ^ heir good judgment has been entirely cstored. p Able, learned, patriotic and exper- t( enced as he is, it would be difficult to a >oint out the peer of Senator Morgan ei n the United States senate or among he statesmen of his generation. Although a Democrat in his political t iffiliation, he is too broad, able and mtriotic to be bound by such consid;rations as mere party expediency, and ei m all questions affecting the welfare u . IT >f the nation, he takes a national P dew, based upon his own sound judgnent, regardless of the criticisms of 0 hose who are influenced more directly >y what they consider to be their own tl >ersonal political interests. That Sen- ^ itor Morgan should become the forenost champion of the Nicaragua canal f( >roject or annexation of the Philip- n: >ine islands, for instance, is about as p latural as that some representative of mailer calibre should devote bis en- ^ ire thought, time and talents to securng cheap notoriety in the hope of (( trengthening himself among the more d gnorant rabble at home. h But the very greatness of Morgan's s< ?road ideas raised up for him a host 01 >f enemies. Especially has he aroused ?.' mtagonisra an account of his cham- tj )ionship of the Nicaragua canal, for h ilthough advantageous as this canal V >romises to be to the country at large s< ind especially to the south, there are |( >owerful aggregations of influence ' ind wealth which look upon it as por- j ending their ruin. These hostile sj orces include individuals and corpor- g itions more largely interested in trans- V :ontinental railroad traffic and the :ontinued prosperty of northeastern ^ )orts at the expense of the ports on he southeast and on the gulf. For ;t easons that it is unnecessary to ex- a: )lain, no man of promiueuce can af- tl 'ord to autagouize directly aud out- a ight such a manifest improvement as ^ his canal, and hostile influences, thereore, are compelled to act by indirec- a ion and deceit. And so it was that such a bitter c< ight was instituted against Senator 11 dorgan throughout Alabama. Money u aounuunce was iurnisneu oy uie u memies of the Nicaragua canal, news- [| >apers were subsidized and hundreds b >f poisouous lies were published 1> igaiust Senator Morgan and in the inerest of Governor Johnstone. The s act that Senator Morgan is an expanionist was used for all it was worth, ri md while the seuator continued in .Vashington attending to the business if ?f his people, his enemies apparently ? nade great headway in their poisonous Cl vork. At length the matter began to (l ook so serious that Senator Morgan, ipon the advice of his closest friends, (i ook a short vacation, went to Ala- >'? >ama, and laid his case before the 'l >eople face to face. In ljis usual mau- u y manner, without the slightest atempt at equivocation or evasion, he e< rankly stated his position on various u natters, denounced as lies the lies that oi lad been told against him, and told $ hy he had been thinking and acting s he had. At one time, it really looked as if enator Morgan was going to be de?ated, and judging from the utternces of the subsidized newspapers fter his visit home, one would have hought that visit had only served to pal his doom ; but great and gratifyig was the surprise that developed ut of the result of the recent prilaries. Morgan defeated Governor ohnstone, even in his own county, nd carried also every other county in le state. He will go back to the sente by a practically unanimous vote. It has beeu pretty well understood II ulong that Morgan is a great man, nd the primaries prove that he repreints a great constituency. MERE-MENTION. It is stated that 3,500,000 famine jtferers are now receiving relief in ndia. The Southern Agricultural i'orks, a large furm implement manuicturing company, of Atlanta, have een placed in the bauds of a receiver. There is a split in the Republiliti party of Tennessee, and the probbility is that there will be two state ckets.-'The business failures throughut the United Slates last week numered 161, as compared with 152 the revious week and 187 the same week year ago, 224 in 1898, 216 in 1897, nd 240 in 1896. Senator Davis as introduced a bill for the appropriaon of $25,000 for the purpose of pay)g the expense of a delegation from le United States to the International onference to be held in Mexico in the iterest of the unification of the North nd South American republics. ecil Rhodes has left Englaud to ream to South Africa. A young 'Oman named Mary Dinsejumped from ae Brooklyn bridge last Friday and 'as picked up alive. The army jorgauization bill, to be reported by ae senate committee on military aflirs, will confer the rauk of lieutenant etieral on the senior major gene^l and ae rank of major general on the adjuint general. Ex-Congressman Colan, of Kentucky, who recently killed Ithelbert Seratt and Luther W. ietnaree, at Frankfort, was tried last reek and acquitted. A French arship, which appeared last week off' t. Heleua, where Boer prisoners are juiiuuu, uuumcu ujuiu ut icoo vatuu lent and speculation. Up to date, 19 Chinumen and G6 Filipinos have ied in Manila of bubonic plague. 'he Frauklin county, Ky., grand jury as iudicted Governor Taylor as an ccessory before the fact, to the murder f Governor Goebel. Taylor was in Washington at the time, and from there e went to New York. It is stated lat he has requested Governor Rooseelt to deny any demand that might e made for a requisition. General iius Rivera demands that the United tales set a time limit for the evacuaon of Cuba, and he is gathering a rong following. A London disatch says it is now an established fact lat at oue time the Boers had 105,000 len in the field, and that at the preset time they have no less than 80,000. WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. .ooks Like tlie Brltlnh Forces Are Yet at a Standstill. Although the censorship with refernce to British operations have been nrelaxed during the past two weeks, tore so even than during several weeks reviously, there is no reason to believe lat there has been any more fighting n an extensive scale. There have been reports to the effect iat General Roberts has commenced is advance toward Pretoria; but nulerous more reliable indications point ie other way. The army at Bloemintein is still waiting on horses, amlunition, winter clothes, artillery and robably other reinforcements. It is now pretty well established that - -a ii. .fit- T> je maiu bireu^iu ui uie jduci iuiucb 1a isposed to the eastward of Bloemfon?iu, in the form of a huge crescent, the >p horn extending to a point nearly ue north of the town, nud the lower orn resting on the Orauge river to the juth. There has been considerable utpost fighting along the line indicted, and there have been no indicaous that the British have been getting ce best of thife. A large force of Boers as had a British army penned up in /epener, on the Basutoland border, jme 40 miles southeast of Bloemfon;iu, for a week or more. There has een considerable fighting and some eavy losses. The British are now oing what they can to relieve the beeged town. Just at this time the reatest interest seems to center in /epener. A considerable force of Irish-AmeriEins left Catawba recently for the 'ransvaal by way of Lorenzo Marques, n pretense that they intended to serve i the Boer Red Cross corps. So soon s they crossed the Transvaal border cey let drop the Red Cross pretense nd' joined the Boer armies as active ildiers. It is understood that the ioers have been reinforced from time j time by other parties from Europe nd America in a similar manner. The fact that the situation has been omparatively quiet for such a long me indicates that there should be 5iiie n.ore heavy fighting soon, and it i quite probable that within a few days lore there will be some developments iat the censors will be unable to keep nek, even if they so desire. It may e another victory for the British ; but is just as likely that events are ltiping towards another at least ternorury triumph for the Boers. There re 110 indications that the war is very lpidly drawing to a close. (ieneral Buller is still in Natal and i pretty close touch with the Boer utposts who are keeping him well ociipied. It is generally believed, howver, that Buller will soon be relieved om command, and sent back to Ingland. It is expected also that ieneral Kichener will receive a sepa>te command within a short while if e has not gotteu it already. ntil Jiimmry 1st, 1901. ThkTwice-a-WekkEnquiker, fdl- , i with the latest and most reliable ews, will be furnished from the date f this issue until January 1, 1901, for , 1.40. LO CAJU AFFAIRS. INDKX TO NKW ADVERTISEMENTS. II. C. Strauss?Says that he has declared war on high prices, and that he is gome to prove himself the leader of low prices. He announces that, beginning with tomorrow and continuing for one week, he?will have a special bargain for each day. J. S. Brice?Gives notice that the Yorkvillo Democratic club will meet in the courthouse 011 Friday at 4 o'clock p. m. Jas. M. Starr <fc Co., Leading DruggistsSpeak of amber and orange cane seed, improved golden dent, golden beauty and Mosby corn seed, and have velvet beans. Tbey make a special olfer in regard to soda water. A. Tripp, J. G. Black and Others, Corporators? Givo notice that the. books of subscription to the capital stock of the Blacksburg Spinning and Knitting mills will be opened at Blacksburg on the 25th day of April. Lowranco, Williams Sc Co.?Have Bennett Sloan & Co.'s B. B. Java coffee, white cap sugar corn, 1,000 pounds of tobacco, and offer evaporated peaches at 10 cents a pound. York Brick Works?Have on hand a fewfirst-class brick for the retail trade, and have lime for sale. S. L. Hobbs?Says that in a few days he ' proposes to open "The Parlor Grocery," ' and will sell the choicest groceries, and will have ice and kerosene at wholesale and retail. ABOUT PEOPLE. I Mr. Mason L. Carroll, of Atlanta, is I spending his anuual vacation with rel- l atives and friends in Yorkville. i J. Leander Parish was in Yorkville . last week for the first time in about . three months. He has been suffering greatly with a carbuncle. The Enquirer had a pleasant call < yesterday from Rev. J. W. Little, of Waxhaw, N. C. Mr. Little is here as ] a witness in the case of Rev. R. D. | Perry against the G. C. & N. railroad. Mr. David W. Barron, of Clay Hill, has been quite ill for several days. His condition was so critical on Sun- 1 day that he was hardly expected to < live through the day. He was some | Kofror An MnnHuv Charlotte Observer, Friday : Messrs. B. N. Moore and Paul McCorkle, of Yorkville, S. C., who, as stated in The J Observer last week, will open a cotton office in Charlotte, have rented rooms I over the store of VV. I. Henderson & Co., on South College street. The firm- to < be known as Moore & McCorkle?will ( begin business here on August 1st. The local office will be managed by Mr. McCorkle, who will move/ his ^ family to Charlotte. i WITHIN THE TOWN. Monday was another unusually good ( day for the dry goods merchants. ( There were a large number of people in town from the country. The drinking water furnished by the town last week was very muddy, on ^ account of the recent rains. Artesian ^ water is not affected by the rains. The usual prayer meeting at Trinity , church this evening at 8 o'clock, will | be followed by another tomorrow even- ( ing, and still another on Friday even- j ing, preparatory to revival services , which will probably be continued j throughout next week, y { The cotton seed oil null to be erec- j ted by Messrs. W. R. Carroll, M. L. j Carroll, E. B. Beard and others will , probably be located on East Madison street, opposite the York Brick works. The matter of side tracks from the , two railroads is now under considera- < tion. ! There was somewhat of a smallpox , scare in Yorkville last Monday occasioned by a rather long ranged rumor. The story was that a woman named ( T.il Whifnkor u'hn hurt hfpn to Char- i lotte, contracted the disease in that ? city, and running away to avoid the < pest house, came to her home five , miles north of this place. The local health authorities have investigated the matter to their satisfaction and ar- ( rived at the conclusion that there is j not the slightest occasion for alarm. They say that the woman has not had y the smallpox. ( CENSUS ENUMERATORS. Mr. T. J. Cunningham, supervisor of the census for the Fifth district, has j commissioned enumerators to collect ( census statistics in York county as fol- j lows: { Bethel?F. E. Clinton, I. B. Faris. ^ Betbesda?J. M. Love, J. L. Moore, W. N. Elder. a Broad River?N. M. McGill, J. Sam ( Kennedy. g Bullock's Creek?W. O. Blair, W. j N. Hardin. fi Catawba?J. W. Oates, R. L. Spen- t cer, J. W. Marshall. c Ebenezer?B. Frank Massey, John ? A. Shurley. ( Fort Mill?J. D. Spratt, Samuel F. j Massey. King's Mountain?I). M. Ford, Jr., e T. E. McMackin. ) York?R. R. McCorkle, R. A. Dob- f son, Joseph R. Witherspoou. c The foregoing information was fur- c nished by Mr. Cunningham over the f telephone, and such errors as there may possibly be in the initials are due t to indistinct hearing on our part. c Captain J. Wilson Marshall will take j. t.hft npnsim nf tho nifv nf T?nnlr TT111 w. ? 7 Li and Mr. J. R. Wilherspoon will take c Yorkville. Mr. McCorkle will work v on the east side of the Carolina and t North-Western railroad in York town- v ship, and Mr. Dobson on the west side. s Mr. Cunningham did not attempt to g designate the territory of the other t enumerators for feHr of getting the in- e formation confused in transmission. v HARVEY SMITH DEAD. A telephone message to The En- a QUIRER yesterday morning announced n the death of Captain J. Harvy Smith, * which occurred in Chester, at about S c' o'clock Monday night, after a week's 1 illness, with inflamntion of the bladder. 1 A Chester special to the Columbia State of yesterday morning gives additional particulars as follows : His sudden death was a shock to the ^ citizens of this city. He was in the ^ 70th year of bis age, and leaves a c vidoAv, three sons and two daughters, he oldest child being Mrs. Eugene G. Hester, of Winston, N. C. The debased was a native of York county ; >ut has spent nearly all of his life in Chester. Two sisters survive him, Mrs. It. M. Cross and Mrs. D. W. steed man, of Landsford, this county. Captain Smith has been in active busi aess here for the past 50 years. He ivas for a long time the senior member if the firm of Smith & Melton, merchants and cotton buyers. This firm lid an immense and most profitable susiness throughout this section in the seventies and eighties. Captain Smith enjoyed the confidence and esteem of a arge circle of friends. He was kindaearted almost to a fault, and was a most devoted father and husband. His first wife was a Miss Nicholson, of this ;ounty, the mother of Mrs. Hester, Angus M. and Arthur P..Smith. The ieepest sympathy is felt here for these children, his widow and her two small ihildren, Mary and Lewis. Captain Smith was one of the wealthiest and xiost influential citizen of this city. . THE CATAWBA BRIDGE. From and after October 15 next, uness unforeseen accidents occur, the ravel between Fort Mill township and the balance of York county, which is now over ferries and fords, will be principally over a first-class steel bridge. The bridge was let by the county board of commissioners yesterlay for $7,650. yC Yesterday being the ddy set for the letting of the contract, bridge men from all parts of the country began to arrive in Yorkville on Monday, and when the board met in the office of the supervisor yesterday morning, were there present representatives from aearly all of the leading bridge com panies of the northeast and middle northwest, including a few from the jlber side of the Mississippi river. The names of the different representatives are as follows: M. M. Hewett, Chattanooga; H. T. Sinnatt, Nashville; J. It. DeLong, Chattanooga; George H. Crafts, Atlanta; VV. E. Robertson, Roanoke; Finegal C. Black, Charlotte; C. C. Morrison, Chattanooga ; O. J. Cope, Chatlanooga ; O. W. Childs, St. Louis, A. W. Curry, Atlanta ; S. D. Brady, Chattanooga ; Howard Brady, Chattanooga; J. N. King, Niuety-Six; Robt. VV. Curtis, Hickory; W. T. Young, Nashville. For the benefit of the bidders, carefully prepared specifications had been gotten up by the county board of com missioners,. and they are still to be leen in the office of the supervisor ; hut the following is about all that is nf especial interest to the general public. The bridge is to be of steel on steel piers. The bridge proper is to he 363 feet long and to consist of three spans of 120 feet each. The roadway is to be 12 feet wide. There are to be four piers, one on either side of the river and two in the water. The piers ire to be steel cylinders, filled with joncrete. The approaches are to be of tvood. That on the east side will be 200 feet in length, and that on the svfest side 140 feet in length. The work under the contract is to be completed October 15 next. In all, 12 bids were submitted, one >f them by the Spratt Machine Co., of Fort Mill, for the approaches only. The highest bid was made by the Canton Bridge Co., of Canion, Ohio, ivbich proposed to build the bridge done far $8,500, or bridge with approaches for $9,372. The contract for .he bridge was awarded to Mr. George EI. Crafts, of Atlanta, Ga., for $7,650, ind the contract for the approaches vas awarded to Mr. George N. King, )f Newberry, S. C., for $595. YORKVILLE'S CHARTER. In conversation with the reporter ast Saturday, a member of the town :ouncil gave fully the reason for callng an election on the town charter juestion at this time. His explanation vas about as follows: "The present charter, as you are iware, expires with the adjournment >f the next session of the general asembly. A new council elected under t now, therefore, can only serve for ibout nine months before it will have o take steps looking to a renewal of lorporate authority, and holding an dection for a new council. Under the :ircumstances, it has been decided that t is better to let the people of the town iccept incorporation under the general ict, and settle the matter once for all. rVith the new charter adopted, we can >roceed witn toe election 01 a new :ouncil to serve for two*years instead f nine months, and there will be no urther complications. "So far as the tax limit of 10 mills iu he general incorporation act is con:emed, I am of opinion that it is too ligli, and I am satisfied that the other nembers of the couucil are of the same (pinion ; but we do not see any other vay for it than to go on with the elecion, after which, under the act of 1899, ve may proceed to reduce the limit to ome other figure to be agreed upon, lo far as I am coucerned, I would say hat the present 3 mill limit is high nough. If the people should aftervard decide that they need a higher irait there will be nothing to prevent iiutiici aiuciivuiicui in iijc rauiu oanuer the last amendment was made. think it will be much better for the {ualitied voters to retain to themselves ; he right of fixing the tax limit rather han leave such a matter open to the liscretion of the town council." The views expressed by the member f the council are sound and reasonable. As to whether, proceeding under i he act of 1S99, the people of Yorkville : an now adopt the new charter or re- < new the present charter as it stands for a period of say 30 years, there may he some room for doubt; but whether ibis he the case or not, it is certain that under the act referred to, they cuu, after they get under it, amend the general incorporation uct in any manner they may see fit, and they will he wise to reduce the tax limit to a figure very much lower than that prescribed in the act. CIRCUIT COURT. OwiDg to the indisposition of Judge Aldrich, the work of the court of com mon pleas has been cut considerably shorter than was indicated by the length of the calendar. Calendar 1 was called last Saturday, and with the consent of attorneys on both sides all cases were continued except the case of Rev. R. D. Perry vs. the G. C. & N. Railroad company. This case would have been contiuued also had.not Major Hart, of counsel for plaiuliff, represented that plain tiff' is lying at the point of death with small probability that he will live until the fall term of the court. Upon the call of the clerk Monday morning, the second week jurors answered to their names as follows: W. H. Stewart, T. W. Clawson, R. H. Peacock, J. M. Williford, VV. O. Harsbaw, J. R. Howe, VV. P. Draffin, J. N. Steele, VV. M. White, J. C. Blair, S. M. Roach, VV. T. Massey, M. L. Thomasson, D. S. Russel, R. A. Clinton, J. K. Scoggins, Dave Sims, VV. VV. Gregg, J. N. McGill, J. D. Boyd, J. H. Wylie, R. M. Pursley, P. B. Love, T. M. Whisonant, J. D. Smith, VV. H. Chambers, N. B. Campbell, VV. A Oates, J. D. Clark, J. C. Wylie, VV. T. Allen, VV. E. Adams, Jr. Jury No. 1 was organized as follows: J. H. Wylie, R. A. Clinton, J. K. Scoggins, J. N. Steele, J. D. Boyd, N. B. Campbell, J. D. Smith, David Sims, M. L. Thomasson, J. M. Williford, T. M. Whisonant. All the other jurors were discharged from further service at this term, and as the witnesses in the Perry case had not yet arrived, court was adjourned until Tuesday morning. The trains of Monday brought a large number of witnesses from Catawba Junction and different points along the Seaboard Air Line, and when court convened yesterday morning both sides were ready to proceed. Messrs. James F. & John R. Hart, of Yorkville, and Messrs. Johnstone & Welch, of Newberry, appeared for the plaintiff, and Messrs. J. L. Glenn, of Chester, and W. B. McCaw, of Yorkville, appeared for the defendant. The complaint alleges as the princi pal cause of action that while the plaintiff was riding on one of the defendant's trains on November 15,1898, he snstained, through the negligence and carelessness of the defendant,such serious spinal and other injuries as to incapacitate him from making a living as a minister of the gospel, etc. The manner in which the defendant is alleged to have indicted the alleged injuries is, of course,* set forth in full detail. The answer sets forth that the train on which the plaintiff alleges he was injured was not a regular passenger train ; that the plaintiff was fully aware of the accommodations he could expect; that at the time he alleges he was injured he was not occupying one of the permanent seats intended for passengers; but a chair that was not fastened to the floor of the car; that if he was injured, as he alleges, he was guilty of contributory negligence and that the railroad is not responsible. The preliminary skirmish yesterday morning, was on a motion by delendant to strike out from the complaint one of the paragraphs setting forth in effect that the plaintiff is a minister of the gospel, dependent upon his labors in that vocation for the support of himself and invalid wife and minor children, one of which is an iuvalid. Mr. Glenn argued that as the action was for compensatory damages, the number and condition of the members of the plaintiff's family had nothing to do with the issues involved. If the plaintiff were entitled to recover at all, he was entitled to recover as much as a single man with no one dependant upon him, as he would be with a large family. Mr. Johnstone held that inasmuch as the defeudant had elected to object to the whole paragraph and not a part, that if the objection were sus- 1 tained it would have to be sustained as a whole. Then he proceeded to show that the plaintiff was asking for damages on his own personal account because he having been deprived by the railroad company of his ability to pursue his vocation as a minister of ihe gospel, had thu9 been prevented r~ ~ nimnAHlSnnr KSmoolf AT r II UUI 1U1 UJC1 SU|/|;UI llli^ IIIUJSVIII A-A. . Johnstone went on to argue the relevancy of the balance of the paragraph. His honor overruled the defendant's ' objection to the pa-agraph in question ,, on the ground laid down by Mr. John- ' stone, viz: That under the objection, < the paragraph must stand or fall as a < whole, and as a portion of it was clearly relevant and material it would all ( have to stand. After the ruling of his honor there J was a somewhat humorous development. Mr. Johnstoue annouuced in j a benevolent manner that in order to , avoid possible dillatoriousness hereaf- ( tor, the plaintifl reserved the right to | thereafter allow the defendant to r change the objectionable paragraph as f he might see fit. Mr. Glenn promptly 1 protested that this offer had a string * tied to it; that if the plaintiff should i see an advantage in allowing the g change he would permit it, and other- t wise he would not. Upou this Mr. Johnslone passed the Jiaper to Mr. Glenn and told him to take his pencil and indicate desired changes. At this point the reporter had to leave the courtroom. The plaintiff had not yet begun to muke out his case; hut judging from what has gone before and from intimations of probable testimony, in connection with the acknowledged ability of counsel on either side, the indications are that * further developments are likely to prove quite interesting. LOCAL LACONICS. Growing Weather. Farmers report the unusually rapid growth of all crops that are up, and that the grass is coming aloug with other things. Generally farm work is not as forward as it ought to be. The Chalngang. y?_ There are now 31 convicts on the chaingang. This is the largest number at any one time since the establishment of that institution, except for a few day during last fall when there were 35. Stockholdean Meeting. The meeting of the stockholders of the Carolina and North-Western railroad was held in Chester yesterday ; but up to the time at which it was necessary for The Enquirer to go to press, it was impracticable to get any information as to what was done. Never Looked So Well. Farmers who were in Yorkville from different sections of the county, say that wheat is looking as well as they have ever seen at this season of the year. Oats that were thought to have been ruined by the winter freezes are also looking much better than was thought possible. / Knitting Mill at Blackftbarg. uoiumnm correspondence JNews and Courier, Saturday : A commission for a charier was today issued to the Biacksburg Spinning and Knitting mill, of Biacksburg. Tbe capital stock of the company is to be $15,000. The corporators names are : A. H. Pollock, J. G. Black, J. Meier, J. W. Duff, A. Tripp aud J. F. Whisonant. Skipped Out. vj^ Jim Grant and ^hers, who were presented by the grand jury for keeping a disorderly house in the Bethany section, have left that part of the country. They skipped out as soon as they got wind of the grand jury's action, and the respectable people of the neighborhood are in hopes that tbe community will not again be called upon to submit to such a nuisance.Death of a Remarkable Dwarf, y/ Rock Hill Herald: Mr. Stella 'Cogsdale, son of Mr. C. M. and Mrs. F. E. Cogsdale, died at his home on Wilson street, Wednesday, of pneumonia. The deceased was 22 years of age and was about 52 inches in height and weighed about 65 pounds. He was a very dignified, manly little- creature, had fine sense and excellent judgment, aud stood high in the esteem of all who knew him. His remains were interred in Laurelwood cemetery Thursday. The family came from Eastern North Carolina. J Catawba on the Rampage. I The Catawba river was 16 feel above common water at Wright's Ferry last Thursday. The reporter gets the information from Supervisor Culp, who was engaged along the river on that day. At Sutton's Ferry, where the proposed bridge is to be located, the river was 13 feet above the ordinary level. This was within 11 feet of the proposed bridge. According to Mr. Culp's information, 19 feet is the record at Wright's, and on the same scale 16 feet would be the record at Sutton's. When Mr. Culp crossed the river on Monday, the water bad gone down considerably and was almost within ordinary limits. Serloui Stabbing Affray. Rock Hill Herald, Saturday : Thursday night at Lesslie, two young men, Walter White and John Wherry, became involved in an altercation, in which young Wherry was very painfully cut in the left arm and left side by a knife in the hands of young White. Dr. Wideman attended the sufferer and dressed his wounds. The difficulty occurred not far from the new Hopewell church, where the young men bad been'attending prayer meeting. Walter White is a son of Mr. Joe White, and John Wherry is a son of Mr. W. C. Wherry. The trouble is very much regretted in tne community. Id the Intereet of Flub. The Bamberg grand jury, in its final report to the court the other day, had the following to say with regard to the fish laws : "It has come to our knowledge that the fish laws of the state are almost if not entirely disregarded. The wholesale destruction of the fish as they run up the streams to spawn and increase, by wire traps, nets, seines and dynamite, if not stopped, will result in the final extermination of the valuable fish in our waters. We resommend, therefore, that your honor charge those whose duty it is to a strict enforcement of the law." [)ur Swollen Klvern. The weather bureau at Charleston, ;ent out the following on Sunday: rhe Congaree, at Columbia, is 4 feet ibove the danger liue, and has risen 5 feet during the past 24 hours. The Wateree, at Camden, and Pee Dee, at Jheraw, are receding slowly. The ower streams in South Carolina are ising slowly, and will continue to rise luring the next five days. The streams it Camden, Cheraw and Columbia will ecede rapidly Monday, Tuesday and iVeduesday. The streams at Smith's dills and St. Stephen's will reach danger lines and possible 2 to 4 feet above >y Friday or Saturday next.