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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-05-30
WAITS FROM WARREN.
Good Stands of Cotton-Pease Scarce and
High-Antioch Sunday School.

Good Stands of Cotton-Pease Scarce and
High-Antioch Sunday School.
Correspondence Of the Yorkville Enquirer.
WARREN, May 26.-The good rains
of last week caused many long faces
to resume their former shape and coun-
tenance; but they are beginning to
lengthen again as the weather remains
cool and unsettled. The cool nights
prevent the crops from coming up as
they would do with warmer weather.
Although think everybody in this
section has very good stand of cot.
ton now, nothing seems to thrive so
we'll as the grass, and if we have much
wet weather, crops will soon get in
bad condition. A great deal of corn
was planted this week. The heart.
worm has done considerable damage
to the early planted corn in some
places. -.
The rain came in good time for small
grain, and while some fear that the
bloom was washed off by the heavy
rains which would prevent the head
from filling out, everybody seems to
be very we'll pleased with the prospect
and are expecting good harvest:
Early sown fall oats are ripening and
will soon do to feed. They will be
very acceptable as the farmers are all
buying corn.
Pease are scarce in this section, and
as they are selling very high, it is not
likely that there will be as many sown
and planted as there should and would
be, if seed was more plentiful.
The blackberry crop, which for the
last two years has been a failure, prom
ises to be good this year.
Owing to the busy season, only a
few went from this place to Charlotte
on the 21st. Those who did 60 seem
to be highly pleased with the trip.
The Sunday school at Antioch, with
Mr.. S. M. Roach as superintendent,
continues to grow both in number and
interest, although the enrolment is
not as large as it should be. The
school is divided into five classes. Fol
lowing is list of the classes and
teachers: Senior class, J. K. Scog-
gins; Mrs. Emma Kidd, assistant
teacher. intermediate class, S. E. Nc
Faddep. Bible Reading class, j. B.
Davis. Illustrated Lesson Paper, Mrs.
Agnes Isom. Our Little People, Mrs.
w. S. Percival.
We are glad to see THE ENQUIRER
publishing such serials as "Robert
Hardy's Seven Days." In His Steps"
etc. If the people were furnished
with enough of this sort of reading
matter, it would practically stop the
reading of so many ten cents novels,
with which the country is being
flooded.
With the exception of few chilis
the health of the community is very
good. S. K. j.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-05-30

The boom that followed the Cuban
war is now on decline. Cotton
yarns, which are. a good index, is
worth less by from 8 to 5 cents pound
than when the boom was at its height
But there is no need to be taking on
encouragement at this time. The
South African war adds much to the
present depression, and the early end
ing of that war, especially under con-
ditions favorable to England, will start
a new boom to which the late Ameri'
can boom was hardly circumstance.
About the only thing that can prevent
is the breaking out of more trouble in
another place.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-05-30
ABOUT PEOPLE.

Mr.. R. A. Dobson returned last Sat-
urday from Greenville, where he has
been taking a postgraduate course in
Furman university. Mr.. Dobson is
one of the recently appointed census
enumerators for York township.
Mr.. NJ. L. White, "Corncracker," af-
ter spending several days as the guest
of DR.. A. Y. Cartwright and Messrs.
Jno. F. and w. S. Gordon, left yester-
day for his home near Polkville, N.
C. Mr.. White is soliciting agent and
correspondent for the Charlotte OBJ
server.
Rev. w. G. Neville, of Yorkyille,
and Mr.. C. E. Graham, of Greenville,
have been selected by the general as
sembly to represent South Carolina on
the committee charged with working
up the $l,OOO,OOO twentieth century
educational fund that the Presbyter-
ians propose to raise.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-05-30

- DR.. J. VIM. Stokes, who first dis
tinguished himself in Congress by Sc
curing the extension of the free dellV-
cry of mail along star routes in South
Carolina, has made another practical
hit that promises to be of no less bene'
fit to his state in another direction.
The Washington letter published today
gives fair idea of the line upon which
the doctor is now working, and almost
every individual who has had more or
less experience in connection with the
transfers of real estate, will be able to
appreciate upon the instant some of
the advantages that promise to accrue.
In the state capitol at Columbia and
also in the state capitol at Raleigh, for
instance, there are great piles of colon
ial documents that have vital bear
ing upon land titles in this state.
These documents, for the most part,
lie heaped in miscellaneous confusion.
There are times when they may de-
termine the rightful ownership Of for
tunes, and numerous are the instances,
no doubt, when investigators have
spent weeks here in unavailing search
of papers that were probably within
arms reach. The systematic compil-
alton and publication of these papers,
therefore, will be of untold practical
value. From the nature OF the work
it properly devolves upon the Federal
government, and it is certainly to be
hoped that Doctor Stokes will succeed
in his efforts. The government has
from time to time spent millions OF
dollars for printing that has not been
to nearly such good purpose as this.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-05-30

was trickery. He illustrated the fact
himself when, referring to a sugges-
tion of March convention by the
Conservatives, he told how "Lulu"
could only be played once during a
night. 1t was Irby who hatched up
the special Reform primary in which
John Gary Evans was given the guber-
material nomination over Ellerbe and
it was he who, having seen this trick
worked once, was instrumental in
amending the party constitution so it
could not be attempted again. 1t was
on account of just such tricks as these
cheating the majority of its rights
that the Reform movement went to
pieces. But surely no reasonable man
would try to apply this provision of
the Democratic constitution to the
Prohibitionists of South Carolina. The
dispensary system has right to exist
as it is only so long as majority OF
the white people of the state give it
their approval. So far as we are
aware, the dispensary is being conduc-
ted more decently and satisfactorily
now than at any time in its previous
history. But still there are thousands
of people throughout the state who be-
lieve that the whisky situation can be
still further improved upon. There
are those who believe that the legal
sale of intoxicating liquors as bev-
erage should be prohibited entirely.
1t was the representatives of these who
suggested the name of Colonel Hoyt
to the voters of the state as their stand
ard bearer. In sense, possibly, Colo
mel Hoyt will be the candidate of
faction but representing the dispensa-
ry law as it now stands, so also will
Governor McSweeney be, and Gary,
and Patterson, be candidates of fac
tions. If each of these gentlemen do
not represent something that is not
represented by some one of the others,
we can see no just reason why they
should be candidates at all. This
anti-factional provision of the Demo
cratic constitution, therefore, applies
as much to one as to the other. Sure.
ly it is not to be construed as opera
ting to keep them all out of the race.
Perhaps it is only intended to operate
against the minority faction. So be
it. Then we will not be able, until af.
ter the primary, to determine who has
violated the constitution. On, there
fore, with the race, gentlemen. May
the best man win, and may the consti-
tutional quibblers take the hindmost.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-05-30

the town funds to advance their own
personal interests.
know of no more efficient or relia-
bic business man in town than the
present intendant, and although it is
reported that he has stated that he de-
sires to retire, still I feel sure that
Mr.. Carroll, if given the merited sup
port of the taxpayers, will continue in
the thankless position he has so ably
filled during the past two years.
He is the proper man because he
has been tried and not found wanting.
He has given the town a clean busi'
ness administration. He has paid a
large proportion of the old debt incur
red by predecessors, and done it with
out increasing taxes. Let us elect Mr..
Carroll on next Tuesday, and also six
aldemen who are in sympathy with
his methods. TAXPAYER.
Let every voter who is registered be
sure that he has his tax receipts and is
in position to vote. TIP.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-05-30
COLONIAL RECORDS.
The Probability Is That the Stokes Bill
Will Become Law.

Will Become a Law.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 25.-It
looks now as if Congressman Stokes is
going to secure the passage of his
bill to preserve and publish the co.
lonial records and historical archives
of the states and territories of the
United States. He has been devoting
bis energies in behalf of this bill for
quite awhile. 1t provides for the
creation of discreet commission to
decide what records are worthy of be-
ing put in permanent form, and pro-
vides for a sufficient appropriation.
Senator Tillman cooperating, man'
aged to get the bill through the SEN
ate, and DR.. Stokes has secured a ia
vorable report from the house library
committee. A large number of mem
bers have indicated their approval OF
the bill, and the speaker today init.
mated TO DR.. Stokes that he is inclined
to recognize him in order that he
might move the substitution of the
senate for the house bill.
This is very important matter and
is far.reaching in its prospective ben
eft to the historical students all over
the country. 1t is also of far reaching
import to lawyers interested in titles
and other causes. q
Its value to legislators is very great.
Under present conditions investigators
have to travel round from state capi-
tol to state capitol and to the national
capitol. At the national capitol it
involves a search from bureau to bu-
reau, from department to department,
and from all these to the congressional
library. When one goes to state
capitol, there are no facilities for ex-
aminations-no indexes, no helps. In
most cases it involves search through
dusty manuscripts without in many
cases even consecutive arrangement of
pages. Even where the documents
have been printed, in most cases there
is only one copy eXtant, which IS ac-
cessible only in the state capitol, and
if one volume should be lost by theft
or fire or otherwise, the loss would be
irreparable. ,
There are large masses of material
Of the utmost value that has not even
been translated from the original
French and Spanish.
This bill looks to the collection and
publication of these records with
out duplication, in Il separate aIcove
at the congressional library to which
students of history or Of legal or legls.
lative causes, may repair with full
assurances that here will be found
everything that is in existence on the
given subject, with uniform editing,
indexing and all the helps that have
been approved by the best skilled in
such work.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-05-30

- 1t has developed that the failure
of Price, Mccormick & Co., was
caused principally by the individual
speculations of Theodore H. Price, the
senior member of the firm. Price has
been quite a high roller for several
months past, and as the result of his
operations the other members of his
firm will sustain heavy losses. He is
the same man who, some years ago,
managed to get a large lot of cotton
from J. W. P. Hope & Co., of York
vile, under false pretenses. He, with
the firm with which he was connected
at the time-Hubbard, Price & Co.
was afterward made to pay back the
money to the Exchange Bank of York
vile.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-05-30
Wednesday, May 30, 1900.

reassured by the returning light. One
lady who had been so much interested
that she prepared for herself piece of
smoked glass, offered the use of it to
another lady who appeared to be rath-
er nervous, and was met with the re-
ply: mo, no, l don't want to see it,"
"You'll never have the opportunity OF
seeing another" warned the first lady.
~ hope not" the second lady replied,
II did not want TO see this one."
One of the most learned groups of
all was gathered in the court house
yard. Each member of it had piece
of smoked glass, varying in size from
playing card to half section of
show window. There were in the
group probably as many as half doz-
en- candidates. One of these was par
ticularly intent upon the spectacle,
and accosting him, another party ask
ed: "Not looking for votes up there
are your" eyes, replied the candid
ate, 81 have just caught the eye of the
man in the moon and be is for me-"
Quite large party left here early
Monday morning on the South Carroll.
ma and Georgia Extension train for a
point three miles below Lancaster, and
calculated to be on the exact centre of
totality. The same train carried the
Winthrop girls. One gentleman of the
party reports that the sight was we'll
worth the trip. For the space of about
40 seconds he was able to look full at
the eclipse with the naked eye, and
without discomfort. 1t was beauti-
full sight. The appearance was of
great black ball surrounded by red
light similar to that of sunset; but
with brilliant rays of gold and silver
radiating in all directions. After the
eclipse was over, the shadow could be
plainly discerned as it moved eastward.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-05-30
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

II. c. Strauss-Says for you to seize op-
portunities while they are within your
reach, and says that TO serve the people
is his privilege and to give them more
value for their money than anyone else
is his delight. He quotes prices on quite
number of useful articles.
S. L, Hobbs e Co., Parlor Grocery-Say
that you will find a complete line of
staple and fancy groceries in their store.
They mention few of the many eata-
bles which they have in stock, and ask
you to remember their line of cigars and
tobacco.
Jas. NJ. Starr & Co., Leading Druggists
Tell you that this is the season to paint
your buggy or wagon, and say that one
brush and one man can do the work.
lion paint and brush for 80 cents. Also
speak of their machine oil for threshers
and engines, at 35 cents gallon, cash.
York Implement Co.-Have recently re-
ceived a few Hoosier disk drills and
ask you to come and see about one. 1t
is time, labor and money saver.
John +. Carroll, County Superintendent
of Education-Asks the teachers who
expect to attend the county summer
school, beginning in Yorkv Vile on June
II, to please let him know at once.
John Z. Carroll, County Superintendent
of Education-Gives notice that the
regular teachers examination will he
held in the York courthouse on Friday,
June Is, commencing at O'Clock a. m.
John i. CarrOll-Announces himself as q
candidate for denomination for the Of
flee of county superintendent of educa-
tion for York county.
II. A. d. Neely-Is announced as can
didate for recommendation for reap
pointment as treasurer of York county.
J. R. Haile-Is announced as candidate
for the house Of representatives.
Found-A good pistol, the owner of which
can recover his property by giving a
description of same and paying for this
advertisement.
City Barber Shop, w. H. Adams, Prop
Says for you to come to him when you
want a first class shave.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-05-30
CHANGES IN THE CHARTER.
More Important Than Ever That the Voters
Guard Their Interests.

More Important Than Ever Ihat the voters
Guard Their Interests.
Editor of The Enquirer:
1t is not my purpose to alarm any
body but to put the people who pay
the taxes on guard as to their interests
in the election of mayor and six
aldermen on June5. The new charter
that will be effective with the election
of the new council. IS broad and lib
eral. 1t is so liberal that it gives the
council authority to levy ten mills
instead of five, as under the present
charter. 1t also provides that the
council shall serve two years instead OF
one, as heretofore. If the term Of of.
flee of q council was only six months
-one composed of business men and
tax payers Of good moral character,
would be preferable to one that was
not; but when it comes to two years, it
seems to me that simple intimation
of the danger of having the affairs of
the town in the hands of set of men
who are liable TO collect all the taxes
the law will allow, and spend more
even than the full limit will provide,
should be all that is necessary.
Fortunately for the tax payers, it is
not necessary now to consult the Ne
groes of the town as to who shall COM
pose the council. 1t is not necessary
that a candidate shall be popular )"
but any man who is supported by the
united taxpayers can be elected. Let
us see to it that a progressive, wide
awake, but conservative council, COM
posed of successful business men is
elected on next Tuesday. Let US lay
aside all personal prejudices and unite
on set of men whom we know will
give the town clean and satisfactory
government during the next two years,
and who will not incur one dollar OF
unnecessary expense, or attemptto use
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-05-30
What the astronomers may ha

- What the astronomers may have
learned by the eclipse of last Monday
has not yet developed. 1t is fact,
however, that no previous total eclipse
of the sun in all the past was observed
under more favorable conditions. The
entire path of the shadow through the
southwestern part of the United States
was covered with scientific men from
all parts of the world. They had
every known appliance, and also the
advantage of being able to telegraph
from one to another from west to east
the special features that called fol
further investigation. in North Atrl'
ca there was another long line of as
tronomers, and these had the advan'
tage of cable news from the United
States of the coming of the shadow
Thus the new astronomical data Sc
cured must have been very great.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-05-30
LOCAL LACONICS.
Until January LIST, 1901.

Until january LIST, 1901.
THE TwICE.A. WEEK. ENQUIRER, fill-
ed with the latest and most reliable
news, will be furnished from the date
of this issue until January 1, 1901, for
$1.2O.
Rain In Fort Mill.
Reports from Fort Mill township in
dicate that while that section has been
blessed with fairly good seasons, there
has not been so much rain as in the
central, western and northern portions
of the county.
The Catawba Bridge.
The successful bidders for the Ca
tawba bridge contracts have filed their
bonds all right; but as yet have done
no work at the river. 1t will be some
weeks yet before they will begin to
lay down material for the bridge.
Pension Payments.
UP to yesterday at noon, Clerk of
the Court Wylie had paid out to vet
erans and widows of veterans entitled
to pensions, the sum of $2,700. The
veterans and widows are still applying
to the clerk in steady stream.
Big Money on Small Crop.
Mr.. A. W. Smoak, the well-known
4 ,fa 70 nf
that he has sold $3.50 worth of straw
berries so far for this season. Mr..
Smoak, by the way, is one of those
farmers who seldom comes to town
without bringing something to sell.
Daily Trains on 8. C. & G. Ex.
Mr.. S. B. Lumpkin, general passen-
ger agent of the South Carolina and
Georgia extension railroad, writes to
THE ENQUIRER that on and after next
Sunday, June 8, his road "will oper.
ate daily trains, and will sell round
trip tickets on Sundays at one first
class fare for the round trip with final
limit on day of sale.
Incendiaries at winnsboro.
A private letter received here from
Winnsboro yesterday morning indi-
Gates serious trouble with Negro incen-
diaries. The cause of the trouble is
not indicated. The letter, however,
refers to vague threats on the part of
the Negroes, and relates how, on last
Saturday, Negro was caught at the
house of DR.. Buchanan with gallon
of gasoline. He had attempted to
burn the house; but was put in Jail.
Monday morning another suspicious
fire originated at the rear of MIR. Q. d.
Willifords store, and before the fire
engine could be steamed up, a two
story brick building and two 9TH
er buildings were burned. While
the fire was in progress, another alarm
was sounded, and it developed that a
Negro, after having robbed an old
man who was living alone, set the
house on fire and escaped. At last
accounts, 7 o'clock Monday morning,
a posse was in pursuit of the incen.
diary and robber, and the understand
ing was that if he should be captured,
a lynching would speedily follow.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-05-30
WITHIN THE TOWN.

There have been no sales of cotton
in Yorkvile for a week or more. As
the result of the furry in New York,
however, there has been a decline
in the price that would be paid. About
81 cents is now the top of the local
market.
The Yorkville baseball team has ac-
cepted an invitation to play the Rock
Hill boys on Wednesday,, June g..
Rock Hill, of course, may be expected
to put up good game. The York
vile boys will give the best they have
in shop.
The Sunday trains on the South
Carolina and Georgia Extension rail-
road means Sunday mails. Those in
terested may take it that, as a matter
of course, the mail will be opened.
The postal regulations provide that
postmasters are not required to open
mails on Sundays during hours of
worship or after o'clock in the after
noon.
For several weeks past, and espec-
tally since the calling of the town elec-
tion, there has been growing inter-
est in municipal politics in regard
to the personnel of the next town
council. The situation is one that is
peculiar-peculiar to Yorkville. In sur
rounding towns-Rock Hill, Gafney,
Chester, etc.-the people seem to enter
tain an intelligent recognition of the ad-
vantages of open and aboveboard party
government. In any of the towns
named, long before date so near the
election, candidates would have been
publicly announced. issues discussed,
and voters would be in position TO
intelligently express their preference
with regard to men and measures.
Not so in Yorkville. Although there
are here two pretty we'll defined par
ties, representing different standards,
policies and principles, such thing as
fair and square stand up and vote it
out fight has not occurred more than
once or twice in years. The practice
all along has been a kind of hesi-
tating, compromising policy, dreading
to put all to the issue, gain or lose.
For weeks the present council has been
criticised on the quiet by friends of the
opposite faction, and the opposite fac
ton has been criticised by friends Of
the present council. Some of the criti-
cisms are justified and some are not;
but told in all seriousness to people too
innocent to suspect motives and with
out sufficient energy to attempt an an
alysis of the situation, whether justi-
fed or not, the criticisms have their in
huence just the same. But this is
not all. Without organization, only
such as can be accomplished by care
full picking out of those who may be
deemed safe conservators Of The Sc
cret, represent ltives of both parties or
interests involved are even now cam
vassing for tickets to be proposed at
town mass meeting. The usual meth
cd of preparing these tickets is COM
se-constituting them with
majority that can be depended upon
to uphold certain agreed policy or
leader through thick and thin, aud
giving the minority faction representa-
ton in order to further disarm the
half organized opposition. The next
step is town mass meeting to which
everybody is called but which is at
tended only by a few citizens that
have no previous intimation Of what is
up, and quite number who have been
summoned as retainers of the respec-