Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-09-03
LOCAL LACONICS.

From this date until January 1st,
1908 for 64 cents.
Bought BY the Plaintiffs.
At the suit Of H. j. Forsdick and
others, Sheriff Brown on yesterday sold
the personal property belonging to the
Magnolia Mines company. The prop
erty was bid in for the plaintiffs for
$500.
They Turn Out at Night.
A farmer from the Bethel country
says that the principal trouble that he
and his neighbors experience from the
turning out of cattle in the fall comes
in the night time. There are people
who will keep their cattle up in day
time: but let them out and count on
their getting back before daylight In
the morning.
Bethel Road Tax Election.
The people of Bethel township are
voting today on the question Of levy
ing a two mill tax on the road ques-
ton. Information over the phone this
morning was to the effect that only ten
votes had been polled up to 11.30
o'clock, and 1t was thought that they
were all for the tax. II there was any
opposition. the fact was not known.
Reprisved for Thirty Days.
Mr.. w. s. Peters, who went to Vir-
ginia last week, accompanied by Thos.
F. McDow, Esq, for the purpose of
looking after the interests Of his BROTH
er. George A. Peters, condemned to be
hanged on September 20, for the muir
der Of Joseph Easter, the Dunkard
preacher, returned last Sunday morn
ing AS the result Of the efforts he and
Mr.. mellow. assisted by friends and
attorneys in Virginia, made. the gov
ernor Of Virginia was induced to grant
a reprieve for thirty days, and the hope
Of the defense is that certain newly
discovered evidence tending to show
that the murderous shot was fired by
some one other than the condemned
man may be sufficient to warrant the
supreme court in granting new trial
Mr.. Peters is also hopeful that the
governor may see proper to commute
the pending death sentence to life i'm
prisonment.
Old Ebenezer.
Charlotte Observer: Down in York
county, S. c.. about two and one-half
miles west Of Rock Hill, is old Ebene-
zer church. Ebenezer was, before the
days of railroads and Is still, the CEN
tire of a prosperous and intelligent
neighborhood, and has been so for q
long time. 1t is now perhaps fifteen
years ago that the hundredth ami
versary Of the building Of the
church was celebrated. At Eben-
ezer there is also a big school
at which many have been educated.
The church has always had very fipe
preachers and the school has always
been we'll conducted. The first Sunday
in September and the first Sunday in
May there is always communion ser
vice. More than 600 people attend
services on these two communion
days Only one communion service
has ever been missed in a hundred
years and that was not fully missed,
but was postponed on account Of the
sickness of the pastor. The Rev. ]. w.
Thornwell Is now pastor Of old Eben-
ezer. He and his congregation are In
such delightful accord that II he needs
money for any church. charity or other
beneficent work all he has to do Is to
say the word to his people assembled
or put the word out quietly amongst
them and the sum is raised. Yesterday
was communion day at the church. 1t
may be taken for granted that there
was a big attendance.
The Public Weigher Question:
Rock Hill Record: The Record be-
lieves that the present agitation for a
public cotton weigher is ill-advised,
and opinion seems to be very generally
against the scheme. 1t appears that no
one will be benefited by 1t, except
possibly the man who would get the
office. There are so many disadvanta-
ges connected with the proposed plan
that II will probably find few support
ers. In the first place 1t would destroy
all competition in the local market,
and this would prove disc 1vantage
to the producer. 1t would likewise have
the effect Of driving cotton away from
Rock Hill. 1t has had the same effect
in other places where there Is pub
lie cotton weigher There are farmers
selling cotton in Rock Hill now who
used to sell in Lancaster and Charlotte.
They could not stand the treatment ac-
corded them by the public weighers at
those places. Under the competitive
system now prevailing here, II the far
mer does not like one buyers weights
he goes to another buyer. With a
public weigher he would have no
choice. Again, with public weigher,
1t might happen that many sellers are
In town on the same day, and one can
readily realize how much time would
be lost by them in waiting for one man
to do all the weighing. The cotton
buyers here are about unanimous In
favor Of the competitive system, even
though under 1t the buyer pays for the
weighing, while under the public
weigher system the seller would do
the paying. But the buyers here agree
that they are against any system
which will drive cotton away from
Rock HILL They want to see more of
1t come here. There seems to be no
good reason why there should be any
change in Rock Hill. 1t Is most evi-
dent that there Is "a niger in the
wood pile"
- Paris, August 81: A dispatch to
the Matin from Tangier, says the Sit