Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-09-01
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The Second Primary.


yarne Wilson for congress. The Spar
tanburg vote was 2,811 for Wilson, and
b, 1926 for Johnson. Johnson's majority
in the district was slightly over $500.
They Got Sleepy.
The reason there was no report of
the vote for state candidates at Bull
locks Creek in the last issue Of THE
ENQUIRER, was because there was no
count. After counting the vote for
county candidates, the managers de-
cided to go home and leave the count
of the state box until next morning.
Mrs. N. C. Butler Dead:
Mrs. Butler, wife df Major General
M. c. Butler, died at Old Point Com
fort, Va, last Tuesday afternoon, OF
acute neuramia. She went to Old
Point three or four days ago. Mrs.
Butler was 6S years Of age and the
daughter of Governor Pickens, war
governor of South Carolina. The body
was taken to Edgefield, s. c., for in
terment.
Keep the Record Straight.
Greenville News: We think the Lau-
rens Advertiser is in error in saying
the "carpet-baggers and scalawags'
put into the constitution the New Eng
land public school and 2-mill tax" The
constitution Of 1868 simply directed the
LEGISLATURE to provide for public
schools. The 2-mill tax was put into
the constitution by an amendment vo-
ted by the Democrats at the polls and
ratified by a Democratic legislature, af-
ter the carpet-baggers and scalawags
had been driven from power. The con-
stitution of 1895 raised the tax from 2
Ito mills.
The Drouth In South Carolina.
Says a Columbia special Of August 25,
to the Atlanta Constitution: South
Carolina crops have suffered disas7
trously from the present hot spell COM
bined with drought. Recently few
local showers have fallen over very
limited areas, but otherwise there has
been no rain in August. Some farmers
estimate the cotton yield has been re-
duced 40 per cent; but only allowing a
loss Of 12 per cent on an average yield
on the acreage planted, the loss will be
1OO, 900 bales, or $4,5O0,0 900. The loss on
other crops, sugar cane, late crops and
hay, will make the total over $1,000, 600.
Unless there are general rains within
a very few days the drought will be-
come a disaster Cotton fields are as
white as they generally are late In
September; but over half the bolls
that are showing the white are unma-
tured, being burst open by the heat,
and the lint Is without value. Many Of
the plants are drying up and falling
Off, and no more blossoms are coming.
Nothing can save the farmers from the
loss already sustained; but rams woulu
start the plants to blossoming again
and late frosts would permit the new
bolls formed to mature.
Death of Colonel John B. Patrick. X
Says an Anderson special Of Thurs
day to the Greenville News: Never has
such a gloom Of sadness been thrown
over this entire city as when it was
stated that Col. John B. Patrick, for
years one Of Anderson's most promi-
nent and most respected citizens, had
dropped dead at his home as he was
dressing about o'clock. Colonel Pat
rick was born in Barnwell county,
March %, 1882, Of an English and Ger
man descent. He was reared on a
farm and educated in country schools.
When 18 he taught school, the next
year going to the Citadel, where he
graduated in 1855 as lieutenant. He
then became a tutor in Furman uni
yerslty, where he remained three years,
during this time keeping up his classical
studies. He was the assistant profess
sor Of mathematics in the Citadel in
1868, being later promoted to full pro-
fessorship, which he held until the
close Of the war. Col. Patrick started
a private school in Greenville in 1856
and was there made principal Of the
preparatory department in Furman.
He remained in charge of this depart
ment for three years. In 1870 he or
ganized in Greenville, what was known
as the peabody High school," and
some years later converted 1t into the
Greenville Military Institute. In 1887
Col. Patrick moved his school to this
city, changing the name to the Patrick
Military Institute. Col. Patrick mar
ried Miss Louisa Goodlett, of Green1>
Vile, in 1859, and has eight children, six
of whom with his wife, survive him.
The deceased joined the Baptist church
when only 1S years old, and was one OF
Gods own noblemen-a truly conse-
Grated Christian man. He was dea-
con 80 years. Words are Inadequate
to describe the true worth and nobility
of such a character. His gentlemanly
and godly example will go down in the
ages in the noble lives Of many young
men who have been under mis- guid-|
ance, whose lives were so ennobled and
benefited by the teachings and train
ing of this Christlike man, who fol-
lowed in his Masters footsteps, and
has now gone to receive his crown and
the loving words, "Well done, thou
good and faithful servant"