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The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-10
No Old Rarhcrs.

''Nevcr saw a real old blrber, did
you1" quoth the knight Of the razor
'Do you know why} In shaving a Gus
toner the barber has to bend over, thus
throwing the whole weight Of his body
on one leg. Before the barber gets old
that leg gives out, and he has to seek
some other employment, as nobody has
invented a contrivance that permits the
barber to shave while sitting down -
Milwaukee Sentinel
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-10
A New Lease.

''Miss Clara he said, ''can I speak
with your father for a moment before I
go2'
"Certainly, Mr.. Sampson, replied the
girl, blushing, and with a wildly throb-
bing heart she sought the old man.
ooh, papa" she began later, as the
front door closed, "what did Mr.. Samp-
son want9
"Tm his landlord you know. 1 let him
his bachelor apartments, and he wants
another three years lease. ."-LNew York
Sun.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-10
A Remarkable Weather Change,

Travellers through the Hoosac tuunel
recently experienced a curious change
in weather. On entering the eastern
end Of the tunnel, the travellers left the
country on which rain was pouring and
which was devoid of every vestige of
snow. On leaving the tunnel, the
travellers saw with astonishment a driv-
ing snowstorm and a snow-covered
ground. i Boston Cult1yator.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-10
Twilight Land

a"Fo W. Arc III w N4''t -'- am
C0'ake' y-ereak.
l'eTA'aS chairs u every AAai
sway and SWING "Nd @l+eaN'
H,ra arr tl,.. lit,,o twinkle fc.-t
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y, ,.r..,, ,.-~.. - f.,,f r-t.t
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v..r,. f.,- s..--. .r.-s tsp .l.-.e
ha' aFr IN" st"' ''@ "' '"ti@"' '@''f
hark, nh, bark.
Gail the sweet names whore it'} t'aHdt
W aiuns IN Il" dark,
Cinderella ami little l'"-tnps
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-10
Couldn't Understand Women.

The car had just stopped at the Priests
Of Pallas hall, aad large, geniai-faced,
ioyial kind Of a man assisted a lady to
aight. As the car started again ho
rather earnestly remarked: "Now,
there goes my wife to hear Rev. Sam
Jones tell her faults Then, after an
impressive pause: ''Yct when I try to
tell her of them there Is terrible
racket I cant understand women. -
Kansas City Times.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-10
Roses and Lilies.

Roses for youth with its mad ambition,
Lilies for hopes that bloom into peace,
Roses for work with its promised fruitiOn,
tilies when toll and striving cease;
Waxen trumpet and velvet nest,
The rose or the lily, which IS bestz
Lilies when days slip in dreamy fashion,
Roses when moments are glad and gay,
Roses for hearts in the maelstrom of passion,
Lilies for breasts that are quiet for aye
Snowy trumpet and crimson nest,
The rose or the lily, which is best?
Emma G.. D0wd, in Youths Companion.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-10
Got AWAY From Him.

Landlady (whos, attention las been
distracted for a momenO Why, where
is Mr. Dumley 2 thought he was car
wing the duck
Mr. DumleY (from under the table,
It's all right, Mrs. Hendricks; I'm after
the duck. New York Sun
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-10
A Forward Young Man.

A young lady in Geneva vas
heard to say, II think Mr.. - is very
forward"
"Why?' asked a friend
why, he had the impudence ce to pro-
pose to me IN leap year|-LGeneva
Courier
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-10
Unfortunate Results.

She: 81 hear that you have lost
your valuable little dog Mr.. Sissy"
He: " Ya'as, in a railroad accident.
was saved but the dawg was killed. !"
She (shockedl: "What PITY
Epoch.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-03-07
Correspondence Of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM GROVER.

GROVER, N. c., March Sit has been
sometime Since this part of the vineyard
has been reported through the columns OF
the ENQUIRER. Health is generally good
through this section. The farmers have
taken advantage of the mild and balmy
weather this week in turning land, sowing
oats and ditching. They expect to planta
large corn crop this season.
l understand that some of our energetic
merchants are talking of rebuilding again;
while others will not attempt to do any
thing in the line of building until a law
suit is settled, which is now pending in
the circuit court of Cleveland.
The free public schools will close in this
district the last of March. We are pleased
to see chronicled in the columns of the
ENQUIRER and other papers the passage
of the Blair educational bill in the U. S.
Senate, and hope that the House will treat
this great and important bill in the same
manner and hat it will receive the Presi-
dents signature and become a law.
The voters of this part of the county
have decided to hold a meeting at Pine
Grove School House, March 18th, 1888, att
P. NJ, to select candidates to be put before
the next primary election in York county.
All who are interested in the selection of
good men will come out on that day and
take part. INDEX.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-03-07
THE INTERNAL REVENUE.

The New York Herald reports that the
WAYS and means committee have agreed
upon the internal revenue reduction which
will be reported to the full committee
early next week and considered with the
tariff bill.
They effect a total reduction of about
s24, 600, 900 or S25, 600, 900. The tobacco
tax, except on cigars and cigarettes, is re-
pealed, reducing revenue about $4,000, 600.
Licenses abolished will make a further re-
duction of between" 81, 600, 900 and $5,0OO,-
900.
There is no reduction IN spirits Of any
kind. The manufacturers of fruit branr
dies are allowed to place their product in
bonded warehouses and take warehouse
receipts for the same time as the whisky
distillers now have. Some extreme pen
alties have been lessened.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-03-07
Correspondence Of the Yorkville Enquirer.
NETTER FROM ROCK HILL.

y ROCK HILL, March 5.-The Steam Fire
Engine Company No. 2 gave a festival on
Friday night last at Roddey's hall. 1t
was a most enjoyable OCCASION. One of the
most interesting features was the balloting
for the most popular fire insurance compa-
ny represented in Rock Hill. There were
seventeen companies entered, all repre-
sented at this place. The German-Amer-
lean Insurance Company of New York, of
which Mr.. Fred. H. London is agent, re-
ceived the largest number of votes. The
proceeds were quite satisfactory, and will
be used in the purchase Of uniforms Tor
the company.
The agent of the Southern Express Com
pany at this place was notified by the
agent at Newton, N. c., that there was a
valise in the Newton office addressed to
John Heffner and shipped from Rock Hill
by John LoWrance. Both of these per-
sons were suspected as being the men who
committed the recent burglaries in and
around the residence of MI. D.. 7: Less
lise was ordered to be returned to the ex-
press Office here. A search warrant was
issued by Trial Justice Whyte, and the
valise, on being opened, was found to con-
tain clothing and other articles belonging
to a colored man named Jim Douglass,
who was present and identified the goods.
LoWrance is now in the Charlotte jail for
an offence committed near Newton. He
was sent to Charlotte, for safe keeping.
Heffner is still at large. Both are white
men.
kDr. Theodore DuBose, who has been
practising his profession at this place for
several years, left last Friday for Sewanee,
Tenn, where he has received the position
of resident physician Of the university.
DIR. DuBose was a valued citizen, and our
community regretted to see him leave.
He made many friends during his resi-
dence here.
Work will be started at this place to-
morrow on the line connecting the Charles
ton, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad track
with that of the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta. The switch or connecting track
will start from a point near the base ball
ground, run through the factory yard, and
connect with the c., c.. & A. on the White
street crossing.
Mr.. A. r. Eskridge, contractor from
this place to Ebenezer, has put a force of
hands to work on that portion of the road.
HAL.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-03-07
.he Murkrille @nqnirer.
YORKVILLE, $. c. :
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1888.
THE STOCK OF COTTON.

Bradstreet's of last Saturday publishes
special reports from over 1,40O %uncounted
interior towns in the South showing that
at 674 towns there were 1872, 900 bales of cot
ton on February %. At 72O towns there
were no stocks. The total quantity of
cotton (crop 1ss7-ss) in sight February %
was about 6,171,OOO bales. Adding the
cotton reported at towns back of the
regularly reported supply points, there are
G, 1864, 900 bales of the 1SS7-SS crop in sight,
or 14O, 900 bales in excess of the Cotton
Worlds estimate of the total 1888 crop,
and GA, 1000 bales in excess of the Agricul-
tural Bureaus estimate Of the total crop,
exclusive of stocks on plantations back of
the ], 400 towns reported.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-03-07
THE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN.

The Chicago correspondent of the New
York Herald writes that Melville w.
Fuller, who argued the claims Of Chicago
before the Democratic National Commit
tee, gives as the reason why June 5th was
selected as the date for holding the Demo
cratic Convention, is that the Convention
might be able to show Congress that it
cannot dictate to the President as to what
he should do in the matter of the tariff.
The correspondent says:
"a platform will be adopted in conso-
nance with the Presidents tariff message,
and this will give the cue to Congress.
Should Congress see fit to pass a tariff bill
that did not meet the Presidents views,
he would be under no obligation to sign it
in view of the impending declaration OF
st. Louis Convention.
GAIL this goes to show that Mr.. Cleve-
land is greater than the Democratic party,
having the rank and file of his party at
his back and the independent thinking
men of the country as we'll.
"Western Democrats are disposed to pay
small attention to Randall and German,
for it has become virtually a settled fact
that should the Republican National Con-
v~ention adopt a protection platform, as
Mr.. Depew says it will, and run their can
didate upon it, the detection to Cleveland
would be sufficient to turn more than one
Republican State from him.
."Already the Democrats are claiming
Wisconsin and Michigan with some show
of reason, and there is room for Illinois,
too. There are thousands of western Re-
publicans who would rather vote their
own ticket, but in case the Republican
Convention follows the advice of Messrs.
Blaine and Depew, the country will be as
tonished to find that when the material
prosperity ofthe country is concerned party
ties will bind but lightly"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-03-07

against the granting of licenses to applt-
cants for saloon powers. In case the COM
missioners decline to grant the petition,
a result that is expected, they will appeal
and carry the matterto the Supreme Court
of the State.
- Congressman Springer gives the fol-
lowing as the method by which a minority
may prevent surplus reduction: There
may be 80, 1000 voters in a Congressional
district. A thousand of these may be in.
terested in a protected industry. Political
parties are nearly evenly divided; The
voters employed in protected industries
frequently hold the balance of power;
Candidates for Congress are admonished
that unless they pledge themselves to sus-
tain the protective tariffs, they will lose
the votes of those engaged in such indus
tries. It frequently happens that the can
didates of both parties are therefore
pledged to maintain protective taxation.
Thus, the minority may continually rule
the majority through the law-making
power.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-03-07
road company, which without such author
iZatiOn could not do so, is embraced with

road company, which without such author
iZation could not do so, is embraced with
in a general title to incorporate the rail-
road, because a railroad is a highway,
the building of which is as much within
the general scope of the corporate powers
of a county as the construction Of other
highways, Legislative authority being ne
cessary to legalize a tax for the latter,)
and the authority to subscribe was merely
in furtherance of the object of the act.
A township not being a corporation, the
present act goes a step further and creates
a corporation with the sole power and Tor
to the stock of another corporation. That
further step renders it obnoxious to Article
9 section 80. constitution South Carolina,
in that it relates to the creation of two
separate and distinct corporations, only
one being mentioned in the title.
But as this conclusion will doubtless be
co~ntroverted, let us see whether, II not
obnoxious to that provision of the consti-
tuition, the act not rendered void by Artl-
Gle 8, section 8, constitution Of South Caro-
olina, which authorizes the legislature to
vest the corporate authorities oftoWnshlps,
&C.. with power to assess and collect x
for corporate purposes. All the authorl-
ties agree that townships, &C., by reason
of this provision of the constitution may
not be vested with power to assess and
collect taxes for any other than a corporate
purpose. Townships in this State have no
corporate purpose, no corporate existence.
The act under consideration does not pur-
port to give N~inety-Six township any cor
porate existence or purpose, except to sub
failed to subscribe, it would have been as
lifa1occ &c If it2So6 NOT hoan. rafprrp6 To nv
description I tns act! BY the act it does
not become such a township as may be
vested with power to subscribe to the rail
road company. It is not a township with
in the meaning of Article 8, Section s of
the constitution of South Carolina. And
the purpose is not a corporate purpose
within the meaning Of that constitutional
provision. Weightman VS.. Clark, 103,
United States supreme court, 256, is anal
ogous.
1t is ordered, decreed and adjudged that
the acts of the legislature, entitled respect
lively, can act to charter the Greenville
and Port Royal Railroad Company" and
"An act to amend an act entitled San act
to charter the Greenville and Port Royal
Railroad Company" are unconstitutional
and void so far as they purport to author
fze townships to subscribe to the capital
stock of said railroad company; and, also
so far as it purports to Incorporate any
township or townships; that the tax as
sessed, levied and collected to pay the
interest on the bonds issued in behalf of
the township of Ninety-Six was illegal;
and, 1 do certify that the taxes hereinafter
enumerated; upon a trial upon the merits,
were found to have been illegally and
wrongfully collected and ought to be re-
funded to the persons named respectively.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-03-07
THE OUTLOOK IN CONGRESS-.

A Washington dispatch of Sunday fore
shadows as follows what the two houses OF
Congress are likely to do this week:
The Senate committee on appropriations
intends to call up early in the week the
urgent deficiency bill. 1t is expected that
it will be disposed of without much delay,
but, should attention be called pointedly
to a table of deficiencies during a series OF
recent years embodied in the report, polit-
ical debate may be brought on. ,
The dependent pension bill is diminished
business, having the right of way over ev-
erything but the appropriation OIL: me
differentiation bill, which gave way a
week ago to the pension bill, will be taken
up as soon as the latter is disposed of.
Senator Sherman has stated his purpose
to call up the Anti-Chinese bill as soon as
possible, but is not likely to get an oppor-
tunity this week, unless possibly in the
morning hour.
It is expected that the Senate committee
on finance will take up and report back
favorably the House bill authorizing the
secretary of the treasury to purchase United
States bonds with the treasury surplus,
and an opportunity may possibly be found
during the week to bring it before the
Senate before passage. -,
The Alabama contested election case will
be called up in the House. The indica-
tions are that bitter party strife will be
developed, and that two days will be re-
quired to dispose of it. $50,
One or more Of the various labor bills
now on the calendar are likely to be dis
cussed and acted upon during the week:
The Military Academy appropriation bill
will also be passed without much delay:
Representative Springer, in behalf of the
majority of the committee on Territories,
has prepared a report, which he will pre-
sent to the House, recommending the pas
sage of what is known as the "Omnibus
bill" to enable the people of Dakota, Mon
tana, Washington and New Mexico to
form State governments, and to be admit
ted into the Union on an equality with
the other States.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-03-07
NOTES,

The contractors had fine weather last week
and accomplished a great deal on their work.,
which, however, has been retarded by the rains
since Saturday.
AS to progress below, we learn from Col.
Allen and Mr.. A.. Lewis, who returned Satur-
day from the Camden end Of the line, that the
grading is finished to Lancaster, and the track
is laid and surfaced up to Rollins, twenty-si1
and one-half miles north of Camden, and twelve
miles below Lancaster. The surfacing of the
track being completed, it was the intention to
resume laying iron last Monday. There is now
no doubt about the track being in perfect order
for trains to Lancaster by the lst ofnext month.
Hardeman e. Streeter, the bridge contractors
on that portion of the road below Rock Hill,
have the timber for the ~trestles over Mill Creek,
Waxhaw and No. 10 all framed and ready to
place. They are also making satisfactory pro-
gress with the bridge across Catawba River
The masonry for this structure has been de-
layed by the swollen condition of the river.
new coal burning engine has been received
at Camden for the use of one of the construc-
ton trains.
On Tuesday of last week the Railroad Com
missioners inspected the last sixteen miles OF
the completed track, and finding it in good con-
dition authorized its opening for traffic. A
train prepared to carry both passengers and
freight now runs daily Except on Sundays
between Camden and Rollins, leaving Camden
at 0 A. NJ, and arriving at Rollins at II A. M.
Returning it leaves Rollins at los A. NJ, and
arrives at Camden at LOS P. NJ.
AS to the rumored removal of the Chief En-
gineer's office from Rock Hillt to Johnson City,
Tenn, we learn authoritatively that such re-
moval is not contemplated before next July.
The Johnson City Comet speaks in encoura-
ging terms of the present status of the work
west of Rutherfordton, N. G.. Seven corps of
engineers will soon be on the line, peremptory
instructions having been given that the entire
line must be located by the first of June.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-03-07
MERE-MENTION.

The Michigan supreme court has decid-
ed that two points of the new State liquor
law are unconstitutional."'"."The bust
ness failures occurring throughout the
country during the week ending last Fri
day number, for the United States POP,
Canada AZ total PA against 27O the pre-
vious week.."".."On Thursday morning a
freight train on the Southern Pacific Rail-
road went through a bridge into Hondo
Creek, Medina county, Texas. The cars
fell fifty feet, and two men were kill
ed..'"If ten men in this country"
says the New York World, "should with
draw their capital from railroads, mines
and factories, more than 800, 900 men would
be thrown out Of work, and more than one
million people would suffer by it."'A
cyclone passed over Newton, Kansas, last
Thursday evening, damaging property in
that city to the amount of $50 900. 1.-THE
Republican Senators and Representatives
met on Thursday night to appoint the
Congressional election committee. Rob-
ert Smalls was appointed as the member
for South Carolina. At Bonham, Texas,
last Wednesday, Sheriff Evans and an ILL
nois officer, at Trenton, arrested E. Mum
day, who is wanted at Mt. Carmel, ILL.,, for
robbing the mails. Munday was a postal
clerk, and at various times distracted reg
istered packages from the mails. ION
Friday four Mexican soldiers crossed the
Rio Grande at Eagle Pass to capture a
deserter. They were driven back by a
sheriff's posse, one Mexican being killed
and another wounded. "'An inter-
national convention of women will meet
in Washington on the 25th instant for an
eight days session. 'The deepest well
drilled in the United States is that Of
George Westinghouse, at HomeWood,
near the city of Pittsburg, which on De-
cember l, 1887, had reached a depth Of4,618
feet, when the tools were lost and the drill
ing ACKNOWLEDGMENT swindling indi-
viduals recently took a lot of Confederate
to Mexico and succeeded in dis
posing of it in Guadalajara at all the way
from par to 80 per cent. premium. ."'.The
Senate postofice committee has decided
to report favorably the Spooner Inter-
State telegraph bill. 'The Mexican
secretary Of the treasury has given his
countrymen a surprise. He reports that
the receipts last year were the largest ever
known, while the government expenses
fell $500, 900 below the amount approprl-
ated. .."...The Democrats elected their en-
tire municipal ticket at Lexington, KY,
Saturday, beating the Republicans two
to one. 1t was the first straight-out par
ty fight for many years. During the
past ten years no less than six species OF
North American birds have become. ex-
tinct, and it is claimed that the English
sparrow has been the main cause of their
disappearance.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-03-07
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Jos. F. Wallace, C.. c. Pls.-Personal Property
Exemption.
J. j. Hogue, Shelby, N. C.-The Daisy Churn.
R. H. Glenn, s. y .-Sheriff's sale.
Withers Adickes-Is too busy this week to
change his Advertisement.
J. c.. Jackson & J. w. Neil-Notice OF Dissolu-
ton Gfnaf Of Business Relations in the Sale of
c.. G.. Parish-All Alone.
Lowry & Starr-In the Paint Business.
Hunter 81 Oates-Our Buyer, Mr.. Hunter.
M. Strauss-Why Standing Idle?
w. G.. Latimer-Settle Your Account.
W. B. Moore, Administrator of tho estate of R.
Springs Moore, deceased-Notice to debt
ors and creditors.
VIM. H. Speck-Go to Speck's.
May Il May, Druggists-We Have Them All.
W.. B. Moore & Co.-Blacksmith Tools.
w. Love--Executor's Sale of land of the
estate of Hugh r. Love, deceased.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-03-07
FORT MILL o

Mr.. John L.. Watson, one of the stockholders
in the Fort Mill cotton factory, was in town
last Monday, and had with him samples of the
plaids woven in the new factory at Fort Mill.
The samples are quite creditable, though Mr..
Watson says the goods will be much better af-
ter the machinery is properly broken in. OF
the two hundred looms that will be placed in
the factory. about one hundred and thirty are
now in M&ation.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-03-07
THE COLORED METHODIsTS

Rev. E. NJ. Pinckney, who was appointed
pastor Of the Methodist Episcopal Church at
this place, at the recent session of the Confer
ence at Charleston, has arrived here and en-
tered upon his duties. For the past four years
he has been the Presiding Elder of the Green
vile district, and as a minister he maintains a
high poSiHon in his church.