The Lancaster ledger. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, January 21, 1905, Image 2
T**e LEDGES.
TMIRLUW S. CARTER,
EDITOR AND MANAGER.
<88UK1> WKDNKSDAY AN D 8ATITItl>AY
SATURDAY, .TANUAUY 21st, 1904.
ML- KUBHUJUPTION
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very gratifying and speaks well
/or its management. ? Batesburg
Advocate.
Blessed few editors lmvo any
hsnk, and about tho same con I e
said of their bank accounts. It
would bo gratifying to us if we
had a bank, whether it male any
showing at all or not. Wo would
attend to its management.?Chester
Lantern.
The Lancaster Ledger quotes
Mr Jno A. Bridge*, of lieath
Spring, as saying, "I am going to
reduce the acreage in cotton on
my farm this your 25 per cent, and
will use only lmlf the amount of
fertilizer I used last year."
Twelve acres to the plow i> what
Mr. Bridges has heretofore planted
but this year ho proposes to
plant only nioe.
Mr. Bridges is a successful
farmer; ho is also progressive.
When he decides upon a plan he
has a good reason therefor. It is
not uifiiculi to fathom his reason
for the reduction of his cotton
acreugo this your. It will give
hiui opportunity to raise more of
other things and at the same time
gives him the cotton ho ruiseB
more us a surplus, out of w hich ho
will have to spend a great deal
less, and which will cost him much
less for production.
Clearly something needs to bo
done to relieve the situation and
raise the price of cotton, and wo
can think of no bettor plan where
by it may be successfully done
than by the one Mi Bridges proposes
to follow. If there could be
a general agreementiauiong the
farmers of the cotton growing
states to adopt this plan they
wuold unquestionably experience
some vory gratifying results within
a very few yours.
The individual farmer who
raises his supplies at home and
cotton as a surplus, is much bettor
off than one who raises cotton
exclusively and expends it all in
the purchase of supplies.?Kershaw
Era.
The record of the comptroller
general's offico diows that there
were reported from the first of
March, 1904, to the first of December,
1904, 274 fires in this
State, the value of property involved,
amounting to $416,806,214.
The record shows the cause
or origin of the fires to be as follows.
Nine were reported as incendiary.
Eleven suspected incendiary.
Nine from lamps exploding.
Twenty-one carelessness.
Twelve rats and matches.
Thirty-five defective flues.
Three defective electric wires.
Three from lightning.
Jb'ivc accidental.
Two from gas jets.
Ten, sparks from engine.
One hundred and fifty unknown.
AM AGEI) LADY DIES OF FIUOIIT.
Manning, Jan. 18.?Mrs. Hannah
Levi, widow of the late Moses
Levi, died suddenly last night,
aged 74. A few nights ago she
nebcived a fright from a thief entering
the Levi mansion and stealing
$75 and other valuables. Seeing
tho thief as ho escaped, she
never got over the shock. Todav
hor daughter-in-law, Mrs Louis
Levi, formerly Miss D. Ansona
of ^Chicago, who has been ill some
time, died also. The double funeral
will tuke place in Sumter
Friday.
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[For The Ledger.
TilK LBGISLA rURbi
Editor or Ledger: ? A number
of new bills are now before the
Genera1 Assembly conveyiug
every conceivable aud imaginary
subject.
The following are some of the
measures: Bill to require a uniform
price for cotton seed and
cow pens in me ouuo Kiueu.
Mill to require all persons bo
fore taking u lien on tho crops of
another for advances to first obtain
tho consent of tho land owner.-This
bill ought to bo killed.
Tho seed cotton bill prohibits the
sale, without a license, of seed
cotton between August 15th and
December 20th. Tho licenso to
bo fro n $1.00 to $500 nnd granted
by tho County Board of Commissioners,
upon the recommendation
of a certain number of citizens
residing in tho sumo township
with the applicant. Tbero
is opposition to the bill, but we
hope to pass it.
The tneusuro to require all commeicial
fertilizers to bo branded
with tho number of pounds of
constituent parts was unfavorably
reported by the committee on
agriculture. But tho measure
will be brought before tho House
for consideration.
The trespass bill dispmses with
tho requirement to post four notices
and advertising in a newspuper
against trespass anil before hunting,
fishing, etc , on tha lauds of
another tho consent of the landown
or or proprietor must first he obtained.
The road law is now being prepared.
\Ve are trying to give
Lancaster county a satisfactory
law. 1 favor a general roa 1 fund,
n township fund, working the
roads by contract, abolish" road
overseers, etc.
There is a bill to re-circuit the
State and providing for two additional
circuits. The bill will
probably pass.
.Josh Ashley proposes to abolish
tho Immigration Bureau and introduces
a bill to this effect.
Senator Blease of Newberry introduced
a Resolution requiring a
searching investigation of the
Dispensary from the comencoment
of the system to the present. Tho
resolution provides for tha ap
pointment-of throo memborsofthe
House ami two members of the
Senate. The investigation would
be of more practical benotit if
three good Pinkerton Detectives
wore employed.
Adjutant and Inspector General
Frost recommends the establishment
of a State armory. A bill
to accomplish this end has been
introduced. Armory to cost $0000.
Some of the other measures are
as follows:
Bill to sell certain Stato lands,
make seduction a crime. Abolishing
the Citadel, Execution oi
criminals in the penitentiary,
Prohibiting child marriage, Re
ducing tho hunting season,Compul
sory education, Requiring the
sheriff to called delinquent taxes
without costs.
To assess property at its actual
value, an?l two hundred or more
other bills conveying every
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Lijwugiii, uccu, wind UUU UCllOO Ol
tbo people of South Carolina.
A concurrent resolution introduced
by Senator VVarren has been
udopted to hold the election on
Thursday, Junuary 2G: Two circuit
judges, to succeed Judges,
JCrnest Gary and D. A. Townsend:
a superintendent of the penitent
tiary, to succeed Capt. D. J. Grif.
fith; three members of the board
of directors of the nenitflntiari/
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to succeed John G. Mobley, A.
K. Sanders and M. O. How I and;
one trustee of the colored college
at Orangeburg, to succeed Cole L
Blease, resigned.
J. Harry Fester.
Jlioy 10, 1905.
John Clegg Charged '
ftith Son's Harder.
Verdict of Coroner's Jury in the
Greenwood Mystery. ? Father
in .1 ail A.wailing Trial.
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Special to 1 ho Slate.
Greenwood, dany 18. ? The
coroner's jury which adjourned
Monday to uieot again today to
finish hearing the evidonco in the
mutter of Scott Clegg, whose death
was reported Monday, brought in
a verdict this uftornoon that he
came to his death from a gunshot
wound at the hands of his own
father John Clegg. The verdict
was expected in viow of developments
after Monday's hearing.
[ The unfortunate tragedy has been
the topic of conversation ever
since it happened. Ry some
sympathy is expressed for the
father, because of the fact that it
has been shown clearly that he
was drunk at the time, in fact, he
saemed as phrased by some to bo
4'perfectly crazed." Whether he
caused the death of his son by
diunken carelessness or by the
impulse of a sudden blind way of
drunken passion will be for a jury
to decide.
John Clegg was at once arrested
and is in the county jail to bo
tried for the murder of his own
son. The testimony heard by the
jury Monday, given by Clegg and
his son, was to the elFect that the
hoy was shot while they were on
their way to Greenwood, and that
they did not know who did it.
I'he jury heard from other witness
C6 that the little boy said Sunday
uight after thoy had arrived here,
that his father had shot his brother,
and that this was said in the
presence of the father. The little
boy's changed testimony today
was in substance that his
father pulled out the pistol to
shoot at something on the read
and then (his dead brother and
himself) caught hold of th* pistol
and in some way bis brother was
shot. Witnesses living along the
road testified that thoy saw Clegg
undheard his awful cursing. Ono
man, W. P. Rhodes, repeated
his oaths, but could not swear
whether it waa directed at the hoy
or at the horse. All ot the testimony
showed that John Clogg
was as wild and frenzied as a man
could bo made by whiskey, and
that as a result of this awful stute
he caused the death of one of hie
own children. The boy's mother
has been dead for several years.
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3UU0WI1, trumpaihcr.
President Will Have Nothing tc
do With Scheme. Will Not
, Sign a Bill to Reduce Southern
Representatives.
(By W. W. Price.)
' Speciul to The Record.
Washington, D. C , Jan 17.?
Representative Crumpacker, ol
I Indiana, the leader in congresa ol
> the agitation in favor of reducing
' the representation of the South in
eongress, has been informed by
I the president that it will be use?
less to proceed along that lino
eithei in this congress or the
' next as he opposes anything of
that sort. This will settle tor
years to come, probubly forever,
any serious party effort to cut
down the representation of the
South. Crumpacker and others,
to satisfy their constituents and
to save their political skins, may
agitate the matter ut the next
session and make some speeches,
but the majority of the ^publicans
of the house and senate will
be glad to escape bother about the
matter,and fall back upon tha atti
tnde of the president.
The inauguration of Governor
Hoyward will take place on Wednesday,
Jan 25.
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