Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-04-08

certain that number of other Negroes
are implicated and Deputy Swaringen
will investigate further. Other ar,
rests may follow. Kelly is an escaped
convict, having escaped from the Lam
caster county chaingang last year.
Mr.. J. B. Simms accompanied Deputy
Swaringen to Monroe to make the
arrest. ....".Deputy Marshal Swaringen
arrested Mr.. Jut Ghent, Saturday, on
the charge of passing counterfeit mon
ey. He gave bond for his appearance
at preliminary hearing before Com
missioner B. J. Witherspoon on next
Thursday. There is no doubt OF
Mr.. Clients Innocence and he will be
discharged when the preliminary is
had. last Sunday morning spark
from the chimney set fire to the roof of
Mr.. ]. H. w. Stevens's residence, six
miles east of town, and but for its
timely discovery and the fact that a
number of men were in the vicinity at
the time, it would have been impossi-
BILE to have saved it from burning. A
large hole was burned in the roof. ''''''
Mr.. Joseph Clark has two cats which
have kittens in the same box. Last
Saturday he put nest of young rats
in the box, expecting the cat to devour
them but instead the cats are nursing
the rats and making as much over
them as they do their kittens.
GAST0N-Gastonia Gazette, April
6: Mr.. J. B. Pegram, of Yorkville,
was in town Tuesday TO attend the
Trenton stock kholders' meeting. '''':''''
Mr.. NJ. C. Willis, prominent business
man of Yorkville, and his little daugh-
ter Mary Henley, were guests, Mon
day, of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. P. Culp." "'''.''
Last Sunday morning at 7.3O O'Clock,
at the residence of Esquire A. G.
Stroup, Mr. David Crawford and Miss
Susan Price were united in marriage
by the Squire. They then resumed
their wedding tour to attend Easter
services at Belmont. ......"'A Mecklen-
burg man denies to the Charlotte OBJ,
server that the blackberries have all
been killed. Of course, the berries are
not killed. We are something of q
blackberry expert ourselves, and rise
to remark that it is not even time for
them to bloom yet. Unless something
happens later on, We may expect the
usual crop Of blackberries and taxes
in this year of grace 1899. This is OIL
cial. 1.-The stockholders of the Avon
Cotton mills held their semi.annual
meeting last Tuesday. The usual semi
annual dividend of 5 per cent. was
declared and everything found to he
moving along smoothly. The old off,
GERS were reelected &: Jno. F. Love,
president; G. A. Gray, secretary and
treasurer, and these with Mr.. T. l..
Craig as directors. ..'''.."A gloom was
cast over the entire community of Bel
mont by the death on last Saturday
night of Mr.. w. A. Armstrong. HI
had been sick about three weeks, with
grip. which terminated in menigitis-a
disease of the brain and spinal cords,
in the presence of which modern med
ical science and practice stands almost
helpless. His suffering was intense un-
til he passed into the unconscious state
terminating in death at 10 o'clock on
the night named. Mr.. Armstrong was
At wears of age. .......A large and infu-
entail delegation from Mount Holly
were at the commissioners meeting in
Dallas last Monday urgently pressing
their claims upon the county for
bridge over the Catawba at that place.
We understand that Mecklenburg will
give $4,000 or So, 900, that Mount Hol-
| Iy offers $4,000, and that $4,000 was
wanted from the county. The com.
missioners took no action in the matter.
The Mount Holly promoters claimed
that the county commissioners should
indicate their willingness to appropri-
ate the amount named in order that
they might better press the importance
of the matter upon Mecklenburg.
There is also a considerable sentiment
for the bridge to be located at Rozze's
ferry instead of at Mount Holly, there
being piers already constructed at the
ferry. ......".At their annual meeting
Tuesday, the stockholders of the Tren-
ton Cotton mills adopted vote OF
thanks to the management and had
Just cause for SO doing. Under the adj
mirable management Of Mr.. G. w. Ra-
gan, the secretary and treasurer,
dividend, for the year, Of 80 per Cent.
WAS earned and declared, leaving u
surplus still on hand of $4,000. This,
the gem of Gastonia's mills, has just
rounded up its fifth year. During the
previous four years the dividends de-
clared have amounted to 70 per cent.
of the capital stock, and this fifth div
idend runs the total to 100 per cent.
All of these have been paid in cash.
1t is not only a gratifying, but most
remarkable illustration of suberb busl-
ness management. Mr.. ]. L. Falls was
reelected president; Mr.. G. w. Ragan,
reelected secretary and treasurer, with
the same board of directors, Mr.. L. Z.
Pegram having been elected to succeed
the late II. &. Falls.
PROCLAMATION TO THE FILIPlNOS.