Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-03-19

shot at few doves and lark or two.
Carried it to kill birds. Loaded with
4, 6, or shot. Went on to Heath
Springs Left gun in store loaded.
Afterwards w. ]. Hammond brought
in two cartridges and said he had
taken them out Of my gun. l TOOK
the cartridges; went in and talked
with w. G. Bowers. Looked and saw
Mellow was coming down the street
towards me. I turned and walked
with my gun ahead Of McDow 10
avoid him. AS l walked l put the
cartridges in my gun. Turned down
Pearl street. Case submitted to jury
without argument. Counsel for de-
fense proposed to the state to SUBJ
NIT the case without argument. The
solicitor agreed, stating that 1t was
not his custom to do so but would In
this case. His honor Judge Dantzler
charged the jury at length, after
which they retired, and after delio-
Grating fifteen minutes returned into
court with a verdict of mot guilty.
The case was finished before eleven
o'clock. After the verdict in the
Bridges case, the case against Rufus
Jones for violating dispensary law
was called. Rufus pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to three months
or pay a fine Of $780, This wound
up the business Of the sessions court
and the Jurors for the first week were
discharged.
eAsToN.
Gastonia Gazette, March Is: Mr.. W.
F. Marshall and family leave tomor-
row for Raleigh where they will re-
side in the future. Mr.. Marshall is
the associate editor of the Progress
i've Farmer and was formerly editor
of The Gazette. Their departure Is
matter of regret to their friends
here. His many friends were glad
to see Rev. DR.. j. c. Galloway on th2
streets yesterday. He had been con-
fined to his home for the past ten
days. 1t is DIR. Galloway's intention
as soon as he is physically able, To
spend some time with relatives in Due
West, S. Geo.. .Gastonians, and es-
pecially that portion representing the
business interests of the town. Will
learn with pleasure that Mr.. c. M.
Nolen, at present Southern express
agent and for eleven years depot
agent here, was last night appointed
to the Gastonia agency Of the South
ern and c. & NV. railways to sue
ceed Mr.. /. P. Caldwell, resigned. Mr..
Nolen took charge Of the local offices
to-day AT her home near Mount
Holly Tuesday, Mrs. Fannie Smith,
wife of Mr.. James Smith, died of
pneumonia, aged about forty years.
Mr.. Smith is himself desperately Ill
with the same disease at this writing
Funeral services were held In the
Presbyterian church at Belmont We'd
nesday and interment was made In
the Smith family graveyard. BESIDES
husband and two children, deceased
leaves two brothers, Messrs. Newton
and Tom Allison, and one sister, Mrs
Laura Warren. ..... Rev. DR.. j. U.
Kennedy, who has been supplying
the pulpit Of the A. r. P. church for
some weeks, will return to his home
at Allegheny, Pa after the fourtn
Sabbath of the present month to re-
sumo his pastoral work. Rev. DR..
Kennedy has greatly endeared him
self to the Gastonia congregation and
to the town as well. He Is an excel
lent preacher and has been heard
here with great pleasure by members
of all denominations. He has been
in the south for the past two months
and during that time has gained
steadily in strength and flesh. He is
heavier now, he says, than he has
been at any time since he completed
his sophomore year at college. Rev.
A. T. Lindsay, of Pisgah, will fill the
pulpit Of the Gastonia church on the
fifth Sabbath Of March. Rev. Oliver
Johnson, Of Leslie, S. c., will con-
duct protracted services In this
church including the third Sabbath in
April. -. Fridays Yorkville Is. c.
ENQUIRER contains a lengthy interview
with Mr.. L. T. Nichols, general man.
ager Of the Carolina & North-Wes-
tern railway, in the course Of which
that gentleman bemoans the recent
act of the North Carolina legislature
in reducing the passenger rate to
two-and-a-quarter-c fiat basis. He
takes a very pesslmistic view OF the
situation and 1t cannot be gainsaid
that there is good ground for the
statement that the operation Of this
new rate law will work a hardship
on the Carolina & Northwestern as
we'll as on other short lines. The
trend Of Mr.. Nichols statement may
be epitomized in his assertion that
1--WE are up against a hard PROPOSE
ton and one that we can hardly see
light ahead in" This road-which
by the way, is of great value to quite
large section Of the country and one
we could Ill afford to do without-has
had a struggle for existence and its
fight for life, it would seem, will be
more strenuous than ever. In recent
years, according to Mr.. Nichols.
though the increase in the amount of
business has grown rapidly and stead
lily it has been more than offset by the
increase in cost Of operation. Last
years increase in earnings over that
of the previous year was $4,000 but
during the same period the expense
account increased $4,000. The most
regrettable fact stated by Mr.. Nichols
is that trains Nos. Z and 8, extra pas
sengers put on each summer to ac-
commodate the heavy travel to the
mountains will not, because Of the
reduction in fares, be put on this sum-
mer. These trains are a great con-
venience and it is to be hoped that
the management will be able, before
the simmer Opens to figure out that