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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-19
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION.

Fen Thursday FAST, according to appointment,
the applicants for beneficiary cadetship IN the
Citadel were examined. The board consisted OF
G. w. S. Hart, chairman, Rev. j. c. Galloway
and James A. Watson, MIR. Watson taking the
place of J. Steele Brice, who was appointed as
one of the committee, but was absent. DR.. w.
G. White was the medical examiner. Each OF
the applicants stood his physical examination,
at least so far as to be allowed to stand the
examination as to his attachments.
The examination was commenced shortly
after 10 o'clock, and the last Of the boys con-
Guided his work at 1 p. NJ. The following was
the method of examination A list of printed
questions was given to each Of the boys. Each
was required to assume a name. TIL assumed
name and the true name of each boy was writ
ten on a slip of paper, by himself, and placed in
a small envelope and sealed. The answers to
each question were be in writing. The papers
handed in by the several applicants were mark
ed by 1Oths, the maximum being 80. mo
Good' received an aggregate Of 35.S for his
paper; emo. Brown" 3D.; "Amos Sanders
30. s ;"Joe JONES'" 3O.7 "Banks," 2S.9; III. A.
D. W.,"27.1;"J. B. Scott - 24.4 and "Luttrell,"
Oil. The small envelopes were then opened,
and these names were found to have been as
sumed, in the order named, by j. +. McElwee,
w. r. Dunlap, Frank f. Crawford, Robert &.
Moore, IT. B. Kell, r. w. Clawson, Dr., j.
Claude Bell and Morton E.. Starr.
A mispelled word on the printed list, which
the boys were told to find if they could, was not
discovered by any one of them. "Seceded'
was spelt "seceeded." Chill was spelt Chile.
Some of the boys thought the latter was the
mispelled word, but Chile is a modern way of
spelling Chilli.
The board spent nearly six hours in EXAM
lining the papers handed in, and in marking
the same. The three boys first named will be
certified by the board as having passed a salts
factory examination, physical and otherwise.
Their order of merit is, of course, the order i'll
which thay aro named above.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-19
Correspondence Of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM ROCK HILL.

Rock HILL, September 19.-We are
still having rain. Our people are all in
doors. The cotton is being badly dam
aged, the seeds ~sprouting in the bolls and
the bolls falling off the stalks. OF corn,
the little that was planted is almost worth
less. The creeks were never known to be
so full as they have recently been, and the
crops on the low lands are almost a total
failure.
On Thursday night last the safe Of V.
B. McFadden, of this place, was burglar
lied, and its contents, consisting of be-
tween S75 and 500, carried off. The iron
chest which contained the money, was
afterwards found where it had been con-
cealed under the steps of a school house
on johnson street. The chest, when found,
was devoid of all funds and in a dilapi-
dated condition. Mr.. McFadden had a
warrant issued for Ellwood McNeely, but
before he could be secured he escaped.
McNeely had been in the employment OF
Mr.. McFadden a year or so ago.
A bale of cotton was brought to this
place on last Friday baled in old carpet.
This shows that our people do not believe
in the cotton bagging trust. HAL.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-19

from Coronado and the three towns nam
ed-all within a radius Of three miles of
each other-managed to keep alive and
keep up a bitter war, among the later
battles of which was the removal OF the
county records to Farmer City from Leoti
and their recapture by the sheriff and his
posse. The solution of the trouble comes
about in the consolidation of the three
towns. The two hundred or more houses
in Coronado and Farmer City were re-
moved during the week just passed (the
work having been completed last Satur-
day. and soon there will be nothing to
show that there ever were such places
as Farmer City and Coronado, and the
strife has ended.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-19
THE GAME LAW.

Already inquiries are made by sportsmen
as to when the State game law will permit the
legal shooting of certain species of game. For
the information of the public we copy the
following from the Columbia Register:
The following schedule of the dates between
which game may be killed in South Carolina,
will be of interest to sportsmen generally. 1t
also gives the counties in which exceptions are
made:
Deer-For the counties of Clarendon, George
town, Colleton, Williamsburg, Marlboro, Ker-
shaw, Horny, Darlington, Marion end Berkeley,
from the first Of August to the first of Febru-
airy for the rest of the State, including Charles
ton county, from the lst of September to the
1st of February.
Turkeys, partidges, quail, woodcocks, pleas
ants-From the lst of November to the lst of
April.
Doves-From the lst of August to the 1st of
March.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-19
A NEW

The impossibilry Of two trains passing each
other on the same track has been so often
demonstrated by actual experiment, that rail-
road men are beginning to accept the apothegm
as a settled fact and now the Richmond and
Danville management have solved another
problem in railroad science, which is neither
more nor less than the running of broad gauge
cars on a narrow gauge track. Recently sever
al broad gauge freight cars have arrived here
on the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Rail-
road, laden with freight, the trucks having
been changed at Chester, to obviate the labor
of transferring freight to the narrow gauge
cars, we suppose. The plan seems to work
satisfactorily. There is now a daily freight
train on the road, going north passing this
place at G. Us A. NJ, and going south passing here
of II Sc D NJ
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-19
CHURCH NOTICES.

Presbyterian-Rev. T. r. English, Pastor.
Sunday-school at F. NJ.
Episcopal-Rev. Theo. D. Bratton, Rector.
Sunday-school at 4.3O P. M.
Baptist-Rev. R. G.. Patrick, Pastor. Ser
vices next Sunday at II A. NJ. Sunday-school
at a 80 P. NJ. Prayer-meeting tomorrow even
ing at 7.30 o'clock.
Methodist Episcopal-Rev. w. w. Daniel,
Pastor. Services next Sunday at 1870 A. NJ.
and s P. M. Sunday-school at M. Prayer
meeting this evening at s P. M.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian-Rev. j.
C. Galloway, Pastor. Services next Sunday at
Tirzah at II A. NJ. by Rev. L. A. Johnson.
Services at Yorkville atSP. NJ. Sunday. school
Of = ID NJ
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-19
LIKES THE OUT

Capt. w. G. Gibbons, the railroad contractor,
is so we'll pleased with the South, since his res
idence here of more than a year, that he has de-
termined to make his future home in this Sec
ton, and to this end has advertised in the Cor
ming, N. Y, papers, his property in that town
for sale. Capt. Gibbons is highly pleased with
Yorkville and will probably buy property in
this place. Men of his enterprise and energy
will always find a welcome in our midst.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-19
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

H. A. D. Nicely, County Treasurer-TaXes for
1878.
Geo. n. Schorb-Enameled Ware. -,
w. L. Roddey, Rock Hill, S. Gland Land J!
Land y!
n. W. Hardin, Attorney, Black'sS. C.-Notice.
W. C. Latimer-New Goods, New Goods.
Lowry & Starr-Ivory Black Carriage Paint.
Withers Adickes--Still the Goods Come and
Go at the Adickes's.-
Hunter & Oates-Our Buyer has returned with
aSuperb lot Of Goods.
John c.. Kuykendal-The Old Story.
Mrs. Mollie f. Observation-Disclosures One
Priced Millinery Store.
C. T.. Spencer, Executor Est. B. T.. Wheeler,
Deceased-Buggies and Wagons for Sale;
A.. Y. Cartwright & Co.-An Intimation OF
What you may Expect.
J. M. Morrow, Hickory Grove, s. Gland at
PriYata Sale.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-19

Woman-Responded to by Frank @. O'Neill.
Lancaster and York-The Red and White
Roses will hereafter blossom closer together.
Responded to by Col j. D. Wylie.
A bumper to the bands of steel that unite US
with progress and prosperity abroad. Re
sponded to by Col. Frank Coke.
Our Thrifty Sister, Rock Hill-9ork~ rejolces
in her enterprise, intelligence and energy.
Responded to by Capt. Iredell Jones.
In responding to "Camden," Mr.. Clark closed
with a complimentary ~allusion to Col. Averilrs
admirable management as superintendent OF
the railroad system under his control, and calls
were made for that gentleman, who made a
few remarks, combining himself to the subject
of the work under his management and out
lining the practical benefits which the people
may derive from the railroad system under his
direction.
Mr.. w. l.. Arthur, of Camden, by request,
favored the company with a song.
Col. A.. Coward, an invited guest, was called
upon for a speech, and he responded, address
ing the company in a speech embodying many
practical suggestions as to the advantages to DC
derived from the development of our section
by the railroad now being opened.
This address, which was highly commended,
closed the scenes around the festal board.
There were several invited guests at the ban
quet besides the special eXcursionists, among
whom it is not inappropriate to mention here
the following, who were conspicuous in the
practical work of constructing the road now
rapidly approaching completion to Blacks
Maj. j. F. Jones, superintendent of the west
ern division Col. J. E. Allen, Capt. M. G.
Lewis, A.. S. Smith, w. G. Gibbons, Alexander
Lewis, f. G. Power, J. B.. Walker, S. B. Mos
by, l.. lie Lassier, w. +. Robertson, Ed. Hart
Colcock Moore.
The closing feature of the occasion was the
grand ball given in Bratton's Hall, which
commenced Immediately after the adjourn
ment from the banquet room. The hall was
decorated in handsome style, the walls bear
ing the assuring word, "Welcome" supple
mented with ''Three C's," and here was as
sembled, with those Of Yorkville, representa-
tives of the beauty and chivalry of Charlotte
Charleston, Columbia, Winnsboro, Chester
Camden, Lancaster, Rock Hill and Ebenezer
who until carly this morning, enjoyed them
selves in the mazes of the dance.
What had been intended for a mere recep'
ton of our friends connected with us by the
rails of steel now being laid, proved a celebra
ton in fact, and was unanimously pronoun'
ced q grand success. For this termination
much credit is due to the various committee:
having the enterprise in charge. That it may
result in the mutual welfare, prosperity ant
happiness of the different sections now brough
in close community, is the concluding sentl
ment we propose on the suspicious occasion.
At $50 this morning the train bore our guests
away, leaving with us many pleasant recollec
tons of their visit.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-19
PARDONED.

Governor Richardson has pardoncd Robert
C.. Bishop, who was tried before Judge Hudson
as the March ea1 term S;s l llss, Of the eSs s e OF wi gsn9 tha
murder at Blacks, oil the 23d of November,
1885, of Arthur NJ. Turner, the town marshal.
The jury convicted Bishop of manslaughter
and he was sentenced to three years imprison-
ment in the penitentiary at hard labor.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-19
X ENTERPRISES AT BLACKS.

Notice is given in our advertising columns
that books of subscription to the capital stock
of the Magnetic Iron and Steel Ore Mining
Company, an enterprise to be inaugurated
at Blacks, in this county, will be opened on
the Oath instant. The capital stock we learn,
will be secured without difficulty.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-19

On the 18th, Atlanta, Ga, went through
an exciting primary election in which the
old question of prohibition figured largely:
Democratic candidates for the Legislature.
Five candidates were in the feld-three
anti and two .Prohibitionists. The three
antis-Howell, Venable and O'Neill-were
nominated by majorities from 400 to 600.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-19
COLLEGE.

The Shelby Aurora is authority for the
statement that Mr.. Augustus Mintz, OF Black's,
whom our readers will remember in connec-
ton with his romantic marriage with Miss
Florence Little, will enter Wake Forest, N. G.,
College as a student.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-19
Caution to Mothers.

Every mother is cautioned against giving her
child laudanum or paregoric it creates an IN
natural craving for stimulants which kills the
mind or the child. Acker's Baby Scooter IS
specially prepared to benefit children AID cure
their pains. It is harmless and conains no
Opium or Morphine. Sold by MAY
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-19

gpetial Notites.
Preaching at Allison Creek.

There will be preaching at Allison Creek
Church on the Fifth Sunday, the 3oth day of
September, instant, by Rev. J. NJ. McLain.
Services will commenced II o'clock A. NJ.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-19
YELLOW FEVER SUFFERERS.

The sum of 800 was forwarded from this
place by Intendant Hart, on Monday last, to
Jacksonville, Florida, for the relief of the yell
low fever sufferers in that plague-stricken city.
The Intendant acknowledges voluntary contri-
buttons as follows:
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-19
GENERAL POLITICAL NOTES.

~ A'oAAo
The Massachusetts Republican State
Convention has nominated Oliver Ames
for reelection as Governor.
The Colorado Democratic State Con-
vention has nominated Hon. II. M. Pat
terson for Governor.
David B. Hill has been renominated
for Governor of New York by reclamation.
He and Cleveland will make a strong team
in the Empire State this fall.
The Republican plurality in the Maine
mously Republican, and the House stands
12S Republicans and % Democrats.
Chairman Brice of the National Dem
ocratic Committee and representative
Democrats from Wisconsin, Michigan, In
diana and Illinois were in secret confer
ence at the Palmer House, Chicago, last
Saturday morning. Chairman Brice ar
rived the same morning from Columbus,
Ohio. He Immediately drove to the
Palmer House, where he entered into a
conference regarding the situation in the
Northwest. The prospects of carrying H.
linois for the Democrats this year are con-
sidered so bright that the national COM
mittee will help the State committee out,
a thing which never occurred before.
A P%ittsburg, Pa, dispatch of the 18th
says: Calvin S. Brice, chairman of the
Democratic national executive committee,
was in the city to-day on his way to the
national encampment at Columbus. OF
the Democratic prospects in the doubtful
States he is reported to have said "There
are not many that come under that head.
We are certain of Cleveland having rous-
ing majorities in New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut, and Indiana. There are pros
pect of his carrying Michigan, with afght-
ing chance in Wisconsin and Ohio. In
addition there are good prospects for US in
Illinois. The newspapers throughout the
country that are making such a bitter
fight against Cleveland are really making
a good sentiment for him, their attacks
acting as a boomerang on themselves"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-19

WIRE GAUZE FOR COTTON BALEs.-A
letter was received at the cotton exchange
yesterday from Tennessee to the effect that
a new kind of wrapper for baled cotton
was about to be placed upon the market.
The new envelope consists of a fine wire
gauZe, which has been, it is claimed, SUBJ
jected to all kinds of tests, including hooks
and compressions, and it has proved equal
to jute bagging in every respect. A great
advantage claimed for it is that it is almost
or quite fre-proof. The correspondent
states that he has built fires under a bale
of cotton encased in this wrapper and
heaped live Goals of fire on top of it, with
out even searching the cotton. The price
of the new material is at present about the
same as that charged for jute bagging un.
der ordinary competition, but it is thought
it might be made considerable lower by
large demand. The matter attracted a
great deal oHattention at the cotton ex-
change yesterday, and much favorable
comment was heard. The board of man
ayers will take under consideration at its
next meeting the ACCESSIBILITY of accepting
cotton when incased in this new envelope.
Nothing definite can be done, however,
until the buyers of Bremen and Liverpool
consent to acceptthe new wrapping.--[NeW
YORK lines, l4tn.
The GALLoWs.-Alexander Goldensen,
who shot and killed a fourteen-year-old
school girl, named Mamie Kelly, on No
vember 10, 1886, was hanged in the coun-
ty jail yard at San Francisco, CAL, at noon
last Friday. No hanging since the days
of the vigilant committee has excited
greater interest on the Pacific coast. His
crime came heal causing a riot and two
attempts were made to lynch him by as
saulting the city Jail, but in each instance
serious disorder was prevented by the
police. Notwithstanding the popular in
dignation against young Goldensen, the
the legal fight in his behalf was prolonged
for nearly two years. The murderer's last
night was passed in drinking, card-playIng
and blasphemy. The only known cause
for his shooting his victim was her refusal
to accept his attentions. Goldensen was
IS years old when he committed the MUIR
der and was a person of vicious habits:
Dock Dargan, colored, who killed Will
G.. Cox, a white youth aged about IS years,
was hanged at BennettsVille, this State, on
Friday morning. The murder was COM
mitted on the 18th of last April. The
condemned man assembled the galloWs at
eighteen minutes to II o'clock and re-
manned perfectly calm. On being asked
by the sheriff if he had anything to say,
he replied that he had nothing to say ex-
cept that he wanted to be hanged at once.
His neck was not broken. He died from
strangulation within twenty minutes and
his body was cut down at 11.2S.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-19

Official returns of the Arkansas State
election give the Democratic majority at
14,9S1.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-19
MERE-MENTION.

Thirteen persons have been lynched in
North Carolina this year.A coroner's
jury sat on a man in Arkansas, killed by a
stone in a brawl, and returned a verdict
saying that "the deceased was rocked to
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of last Saturday, re-
port killing frosts on Wednesday of last
week at several points in Wisconsin and
Illinois.'"Business failures occurring
throughout the country during the last
week number, for the United States 100,
and for Canada q, making a total of PIT,
against 224 the previous week.Less
than fifty years ago there was not a photo
graphic camera in the world to-day there
are $1,000 Photographic establishments, to
say nothing of the thousands of amateur
outfits in the United States. "'''It has
just been learned in San Francisco by
steamer from Hong Kong, that the May
on, an old volcano in the PHILIPPINE ISL
ands, was in a violent state of eruption in
July, and that at least $50 persons were
destroyed by the lava and ashes. There
were fifty new cases of yellow fever and
seven deaths at Jacksonville last Monday.
Total cases to date, 1,045; total deaths, 133.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-19
THE THERMOMETERS RECORD
For the Week Ending September 1S-Obscr-
vations by Mr.. j. r. Schorb.
market Segorts.

YORKVILLE, September l9.--Cotton, sto9.
LIVERPOOL, September I7.-Cotton dull;
uplands, I'D.
steady middling, 10.
NEW YORK, September l7.-Cotton steady !;
uplands, 10 ZIG. Futures closed steady, with
sales of G6, 900 bales, as follows: September,
9.79; October, 9.7S to 9.79; November and De-
cember, 9.75 to $40; January, 9.S2 to 9.s3 Feb
ruary, $50 to 9.9l; March, 9.9S to 900; April,
10. O6 to 1907; May, 1914 to lois June, 1922 to
1923; July, 1O.2S to 1870.
Comparative Cotton Statement.
NEW YORK, September 14.--The following
is the comparative cotton statement for the
,.aal- ap6inp Soptanhar IL 1898.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-06-22
IT WAS CANCER.
NATURE OF THE EMPEROR'S DIS.
EASE ESTABLISHED.
His Larynx FOunl to be AImOu En-.
tireIy Gone.

The post-mortem examination was confined
to dissection of the neck, larynx and lungs.
In the larynx, which was found to have been
destroyed by suppuration, was cavity about
the size of a clenched fist DIR. Mackenzie
states in the report which he prepared at the
command of Emperor William that the dis
ease was, beyond doubt, cancer of the larynx.
He adds that the diagnosis was rendered very
difficult, as the disease attacked the catilags
of the larynx at the outset, and afterward
developed chiefly in the lower part of the
cartilage. The National Zeitung says that
the autopsy proved that the larynx was COM
pletely destroyed by cancer, and that
putrid bronchitis existed. There was
also inflammation OF the finer ramifi-
GATORS on the bronchial tubes,
into which putrescent articles had entered.
The whole larynx was in stHte of srppura-
tion, and presented a soft, lumpy mass with
scarcely any trace of cartilageous structure
remaining. There was nothing to show the
existence of perforation of the walls separ-
ating the trachea and oeSophagus. The
choking sensation from which the emperor
suffered during the last days of his life,
which was attributed to such perforation,
appears to have been really due to collapse
of the larynx, owing to the destruction of
the cartilage. The direct cause of death is
given as paralysis of the lungs. The post
mortem examination occupied one hour.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-06-22
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

THIRTEEN Boston churches are without
pastors.
The Alabama State Treasury contains
S400, 900.
THE largest cable road in the world is at
st. Louis.
A STRANGE disease has appeared among
the Texas cattle.
A BIG fire in Panama destroyed $500, ,0OC
worth of property.
CLAIMS for sidewalk injuries in Detroit
aggregate 100000.
CHRISTIAN science" has driven a Gin
cinnati young man crazy.
THE 10000 Bohemians in Chicago are pre-
pairing to become citizens.
A CAPE Con man, now Bostonian. is a
Director in 81 national banks.
ONE of the men-of-war at the BROOKLYN
Navy Yard is sold for $40 to junk dealer.
EiEx-GovERNoR WILLIAM JOHNSON. of
Kentucky, died at his home in Bardstown at
the age of II.
MR.. WILLARD, the famous American rail-
road tinancier, is organizing an expedition to
the South Pole.
FABTUs w. RTx, a crippled war veteran of
Marblehead, Mass. has inherited a million
from a rich uncle.
.THE English Government think they have
discovered Fenian plot to assassinate Irish
Secretary Balfour.
The New York Worlds editor and pro-
prietor, Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, has entirely lost
the sight of one eye.
LEPRosY is spreading at a dreadful rate in
Russia. Thirty cases have been officially re-
ported in Darpat alone.
The Farmers Alliance, introduced into
Mississippi in March, 1887, has now 1900
lodges and 40, 900 members.
THE next session of the Presbyterian
General Assembly will be held in the Fourth
Avenue Church in New York in 1889.
A FAMINE prevails at Epirus Greece.
Funds have been started at ConstantinonIa
and Athens for the relief of the sufferers.
The municipality Of Berlin contributes an
nually more than 100000 to the mainte-
nance of hospitals and other sanitary institu-
tions.