Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-09-11
LOCAL LACONICS.

LOCAL LACONICS.
The Price of Cotton.
The best price paid for cotton in York
vile yesterday was go. On an export
basis the price should be only about 6 5-l6.
The Enquirer Until LIST of January, 1898.
THE SEM1-WEEKLY ENQUIRER will
be sent to any address, from this date un-
til the lst of January, 1898, for GA cents.
Disease Among the Cattle.
Greenville News: A mysterious dis
ease has appeared among the COWS near
Rock Hill and Old Point. Prof. Wyman,
veterinary surgeon at Clemson, has been
requested to proceed to both points and
investigate the matter.
A Mecklenburg Convict.
John Ross, Negro convict who es-
capped from the Mecklenburg chaingang
about two weeks ago, was recaptured in
York vile last Wednesday and taken back
to Mecklenburg. He had been loafing
about this place since his escape.
A Handsome Store Building.
The Ganson Dry Goods company is now
moving into its handsome new store
room, on the corner of Congress and Lib
erty streets. The room is one OF the
largest and best arranged in the upper
part of the state, and it is being filled
with goods from top to bottom and from
end to end. Mr.. NJ. F. Jones, secretary
of the company and manager of the York
Vile branch, will occupy rooms above
the store with his family. :.
New Store.
In another column, Mr.. r. j. Herndon
announces that he has opened general
mercantile business in his handsome new
storeroom. He will carry miscellaneous
assortment of goods including almost ev-
erything tor which there is a market.
Mr.. Herndon does not need any special
introduction to the people of this section,
either as business man or as citizen.
1t is generally known that in either
capacity he is solid and substantial, all
wool and yard wide, and. the public can
depend upon it that at his establishment
honest goods at honest prices will be the
invariable rule.
More Sensible.
The bad precedent recently established
by majority of the town council in CIV
ing up public sidewalk for private con-
venience, has been rectified by little
common sense. Upon suggestion OF war
den Parish, the steps up the side Of the
Nichols building have been torn away
and, instead, a portico has been built from
the second floor so as to extend over the
sidewalk, and this is reached by steps
running up from the gutter on either side.
By this arrangement, the sidewalk is left
free and the entrance to the upper floor is
safer and more convenient. The only
space consumed is that over the gutter.
Looks Like Quibbling.
The present town council says it will
not levy more than 20 cents on the SlOO.
Yes; that is right, for that is the extreme
limit allowed by the charter under which
it is operating. But when the present
town council talks about "inheriting" a
debt fromrRnother town council-whlch
other town council was itself-have we
not reason to believe that if the present
town council should become still another
town council, under another charter, it
will not then consider itself bound by
promises made when it was the present
town concil? Of course, it is not going to
levy more than two mills now. 1t can't.
wycoffJenkins.
Gastonia Gazette, Thursday: Mr.. Rob-
ert Wycoff, of Tirzah, S. c., and Miss
Maggie Jenkins, the charming daughter
of Mr.. Jacob Jenkins, were married yes
terday afternoon at the residence Of the
brides father at Stanley. A number OF
their friends and relatives attended from
Gastonia, and there were in all 60 or 75
spectators of the pretty and impressive
ceremony. Rev. C. Galloway, of Gas
tonia, officiated in his most happy style.
The bride and groom took the Narrow
Guage train here last night for Tirzah.
We congratulate these young people, and
wish them much happiness along life's
pathway together.
Honest, Anyway.
The reason given by Warden Parish
for wanting new charter, is the only
tenable yet advanced. 1t is straightfor-
ward and honest. He wants $1,000 with
which to work on the streets, and purpo-
ses to raise it by increasing the tax levy.
But then, unfortunately for the position
of Warden Parish, he is entirely alone.
Though the method he proposes is the
only way by which the money can be
raised, Intendant Lowry, ard Wardens
Moore and McElwee have said that they
will not agree to any more than the pres
ent levy of two mills, and so Mr. Parish's
scheme won't go.
Who Made the Debt?
Intendant Lowry gives as reason for
the present financial strait of the town,
the fact that, when the present council
came into Office, it inherited debt Of
Sl,4SO Maybe so; but who made that
debt? The administration Of Intendant
O'Leary, few years ago, was devoted
principally to the payment of the debts Of
the former administrations, and when it
went out of Office it left due not exceed
ing $4OO. This was the Goth Of March,
1895. Since that time, with the exception
of Mr.. Moore, who was off last year,
Messrs. Lowry, McElwee and Moore
have continuously been members of the
town council. This is the second term
for Mr.. Parish. So if debt has been in
herited, at least 81 ,0S0 of it was inherited
from majority of the present council.