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^VI IP % % PP 11 I IM M MW * i I? i I ? I-1 .- ~ - =-= 9 BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1898. VOLUME XXXIII-NO. 29. Carrying out our business policy to never carry over Creeds from season to season, we began Tuesday to sell our entire Stock o AT 25 PER CENT DISCOUNT. We are not going to waste words about it. Only this : Every Suit and Overcoat in our entire Stock, whether for man or boy, comes under this edict. You get our $ 5.00 Suits, 25 per cent off, $ 3.75 7.50 Suits, 25 per cent off, 5.63 , 10.00 Suits, 25 per cent off, 7.50 1250 Suits, 25 per cent off, 9.38 15.00 Suits, 25 per cent off, 1125 No Goods taken out on approval. Testifies to our appreciation of your patronage in the past, and demonstrates our determination to handle more dollars during 1898 than ever before. Fall in the swim and come on. If our ngures don't catch you, then you are a wild bird, indeed. Yours always truly, SPOT CASH DOES THE WORK. STATE NEWS. - Small pox is reported at Beau fort and Orangcburg. - There arc now sixty three graded schools in South Carolina. - Three homicides occurred in Greenwood County last week. All negroes. - Nellie Logan, colored, died at her home near Westminster on the 1st inst, aged 112 years. _ - A little negro child was killed at Verdery Tuesday by being knocked in the head with a rock by another little negro. - A mad dog created a commotion in Abbeville last Wednesday and bit a man in a crowded store before it was killed. - There are twenty-two cases of small pox in the pest-house in Green ville, and eleven of thom are conva lescing rapidly. - Father McManus, the Charleston Catholic priest who was charged with entering a sanctuary and disturbing religious worship, has been acquitted. - Mr. Wm. M. Campbell, living near Seneca, killed recently two Berk shire hogs, eighteen month old. which netted respectively 576 aud 101 pounds. s - Col. William Aiken Kelly, for sixteen years city assessor of Charles ton, and a gallant Confederate soldier, died at his hame in Charleston last Thursday. - An unknown negro man was kill ed by a train on the South Carolina and Georgia Railroad one night last week near St. Georges. He was ap parently walking on thc track, when a night westbound freight struck him, severing his head from his body. - Richland county is now without a board of control. Chairman Robert son and Dr. Hopkins had their resig nations before thc State Board of con trol last Friday. It is understood that these two gentlemen resigned on account of the State Board of Control interfering with the management of the county dispensaries. - A Greenwood man contributes this story to current small pox litera ture. In 1S67 his family lived in Edgeficld District. A stray eat came to his house, broken out with pustules and in a short while his family took small pox. Ile is sure that the cat brought them thc disease, as they had no other opportunity to contract it. - Wc had thought that Governor Ellerbe could not surprise us any more, but for a white man, a white Democratic Governor of South Caro lina, to appoint a negro constable and authorize him by commission to search white people's houses, we must con fess weare surprised. Did Gov. W. H. Ellerbe do that? Yes, he did that. -Sa huht Advocate. - The statistical table in the min utes of the South Carolina Baptist convention shows a total white mem bership of 92,593; an increase during the year of 5,HOI by baptism, 712 by restoration : monies raised for all pur poses, $195,632.27; total value of church property, ?1,048.057: number of churches. SOU; Sunday schools. 667 with 4.670 teachers and officers. 40*338 pupils, and contributions amounting to S4.604.85. - Mr. John W. Berry and his brother were in town last Saturday. In the afternoon during that heavy gale that was blowing, they were sit ting in their buggy near the Blue Front, when a dead tree fell with a j crash across the buggy. Strange to j say. while thc buggy, hind wheel, j back and dash board were smashed to ; smithereens thc gentlemen escaped unhurt except a few bruises. Thc j escape front sudden death was mirac ulous.-Sui ml a Ad coca ft. - Mrs. .laney Moore, who went to Nebraska 2S years ago. returned to Seneca last Tuesday to visit relatives and friends. Mrs. Moore i< SS years . old. She traveled 1,300 miles and j was four days on the road. She met j two brothers and one sister at Seneca. Her brothers, A. .J. Sanders and J. B. Sanders, are respectively S2 and SO ; years old. Her sister, .Mrs. Niccy : Burkett, is about 70 years old. They j were all together at Mr. Tom Burkett's j at Seneca on Friday, December Hist. - Return Correspondent ol' honra: ? \ ( 'mirier. ? i - A special dispatch to the Colum- { 1 bia Register from Spartanburg. under 1 date of the 7th inst., says : ".Just as j has been expected wc have developed j a case of small pox-not one of our ' :.' very own, but au escaped case from 1 Greenville. A negro confined in the * Greenville pest-house jumped out of 1 one ol* the windows last, night and i boarded the early morning train, get- : ?* ting off here. He went to a relative's J home. Thomas Boinar. who lives on ' the Howard Gap road. Ile was all :l broken out. and Hr. Harvey, one of a the colored physicians here, was sent ? j; for. Ile at once recognized the dis- ! j case and notified the city authorities. | ' The ease was pronounced genuine j r small pox and immediately quaran- a tined." I v - For some time mail has been , \ taken from the lock boxes at the post- ; j nlhce in Florence. Last Friday night i Postmaster McKenzie stationed him- ! ^ self inside after the mail had been distributed and waited. About 10 j j' . 'clock a white man named Andrew j ( Welch came in, unlocked one of the boxes and reached around and took a letter belonging to .Johnsons & \\ ells, ivhich had a small check in it. as was f' ifterwards ascertained. Mr. McKcn-j " /.ie cam.it and caught Welch and ramed him in I'r. Coving's drugstore, ivhcrc Welch pulled his pistol, but '. Mr. McKenzie got thc drop on him, :! JO lo- turned his pistol and shot him self through thc pit <.!' thc stomach. ;i Ile died in aboul om- hoir.-. I le prc- .ii Heat Sugar in America. Thu agricultural experiment station in .Missouri (ines not encourage the fanners of that State to go into the cultivation of the sugar beets, but the tests of the College of Agriculture in Cornell University are very encourag ing to the farmers of New York. Tests of beets from 272 plats in twen ty-two Counties give an average of very close to seventeen tons of beets tc the acre and of 1G per cent, of sugar in thc beets. Both of these re sults are high. Thirteen to fifteen per cent, of sugar is common and the yield is usually twelve to fourteen tons to the acre, though with careful cultivation it has frequently "run a good deal above twenty tons. Test plats and laboratory experi ments probably give better results than general field culture and factory work. The experiments are in no sense decisive except for half a dozen Counties. Of the 272 plats from which beets were tested 234 were in six Counties: as to the other sixteen Counties it cannot be said that enough is yet known to warrant the opinion that sugar beet raising would pay in them. Sixteen per cent, of sugar from sev enteen tons of beets gives a little more than l?.OOO pounds of sugar to the acre. Four dollars and a half a ton for thc beets at seventeen tons to the acre would be a little more than l.| cents a pound for thc sugar in the beets. A factory getting its beets at this price would be a profitable con 2ern. while thc farmer who got $76.50 au acre for his gross crop would bc on the high road to prosperity. Three dollars a ton would bc a very high al lowance for his expenses, and it would leave him a net .profit of ?25.50 per icre. That compares very favorably with seventy cents a bushel for four teen bushels of wheat per acre, thc 20sts of cultivation to bc deducted Prom these gross receipts of $9.80. How favorable thc above figures are may be appreciated from thc fact that in the past season in thc "Watsonville Factory, California. 86,351 tons of beets yielded 10.885 tons of sugar, or 13.3 per cent, of thc weight of the beets, while the results of another very large run were only 12.5 per ?ent. of sugar. Vet the factory pays ?4 a ton for beets and is apparently prosperous. At a recent meeting in Ogden, Utah, of gentlemen who pro posed to go into the beet sugar manu facture a stockholder in thc factory at Lehi said that for thc past two years that factory had paid dividends of 57? per cent, annually, and in his opinion the factory at Ogden could make more money than thc factory at Lehi. But thc last season was a bad 3ne for the farmers near thc Lehi fac tory. A dispatch from Alvarado. Cal., says that from 6,000 acres the Farmers would harvest only 45,000 cons of beets instead of thc 80,000 that they expected. This is only 7j tous to the acre instead of more than 13 tons. But thc farmers were none the less determined to raise beets next year: for beets they were sure of $4 a ton; even on the poor yield of last season this would bc S30 an acre on a :ertaiuty, but they would, of course, bave a right to expect something a rood deal better than the minimum production. Even with a moderately i)Oor yield they could scarcely lose and night make a little. From Los Alamitos 30,000 tons of jcets yielded 14.5 percent, in sugar, thc crop being 10.1 tons to thc acre, iud the receipts ol' the farmers, $3S, /cry nearly, to thc acre. Herc the yield ul' sugar to the acre on Dearly ?,000 acres was 3,300 pounds. Thc records of the Belgian beet ingar production for nine years show m increase of more than 56 per cent, u thc acreage: the yield of beets per icre ranged from 10.4 to 15.6 tuns, ind averaged 12.8; the percentage of sugar in thc beets varied from 11.0 to 13.2. and the yield of sugar per acre iveraged 3.105 pounds.-Journal of Conmurra.'. A Horror In Mast Tennessee. KX'OXVII.I.K, TEXX., .January 6.-A qiccial from Greenville, Tenn., says: The most horrible and shocking crime vliich this little town has ever seen vas thc extermination of thc entire ami ly of Capt. A. \V. Carter, an ex c?derai ollieer. last night, the hour lot being known. Capt. (.'arter, while temporarily in laue, brained his aged wife with an ixe and then with the same weapon nflicted wounds upon his daughter vhich caused her death to-day. Af or commiting this terrible deed Capt, 'arter with an old revolver shot linn ell'. The only other inmate of Mic louse was Walter Gass, aged 1 I years. The boy was asleep un-stairs. but .bout 3 o'clock this morning was wakened by groans, and upon inves igation found thc terrible state of af airs as above related. The young adv was in a dying condition and lever recovered. The boy gave the larm and to-day thc town has been vi ld. Capt. Carter's mind has for the .ast three years been unbalanced, auscd by the death of a daughter, le was considered one of the best it ?zens of Greene County. At thc ?me of his death he was commander f Burnside Post, No. 8. G. A. ll. ' Ie was captain of a company of cav Iry in the 1st Tennessee Volunteers. -- - Cot h ra n ?MeCravy. a youngman rom Laurens, has through thc instru icntality ol' Senator Tillman, procured position as conductor on one of thc , aide car 'ines ol' Washington. i>. C., i a salary of ?60 a month. Wooion an* hoing trained in agricul ire hy tSic Stale of Minnesota, which has 1 i-i opi ned n school for the purpose that il].oinmoditto sixty students. Colton Hillls South and East. i 1 submit the impression gained by: few weeks study of manufacturing ii the South, its advantages and disad vantages and prospects for thc future, but wish tn say at the start that my investigations were not so thorough u> to detail as could be wished. Still, a fair idea of conditions was obtained aud the conclusions will be found. 1 think, to be fairly correct. I reasoned before I started that the main point to be considered was thc efficiency of the Southern operative. Was he equal to the Northern op erative, or likely to develop equal skill? If he is not equal or incapable of reaching thc same degree of skill as our operatives, then Southern compe tition does not amount to much, ex cept temporarily, but if the Southern mill help is of as good material as our help herc, there is no reason why the South snould not take un any line of cotton manufacturing and make a suc cess of it, and at a lower cost than would be possible at thc North. Now, as far as my observation went, the Southern operative was doing about as much work as ours herc, and doing as good work. I have seen no better running mills anywhere than some of those visited in thc South. And when got at in detail, it was found they had no more help than would be the case in a well regulated mill here. Thc speeds of the various machines were fully as high as usual herc. In appearance they compared well with our help in the North, except in the case of some of the older mills, while I found that the newer mills were getting thc best of their help and compelling them to struggle along with thc poorest operatives I had ever seen, either North or South. I have examined mills where every thing compared well with thc North, where the managers would claim that Southern help was the best in the world; and in the same town I have visited a mill where disorder reigned, and mismanagement was apparent, and where I was told that the South ern operative was lazy and shiftless, and would never be any good. But I judged from all this that with proper handling, the same results as to skill and efficiency would be ob tained there, as with us here. When it is argued that the Southern operative will never equal the North ern operative, it is proper to ask why not? The material wc are getting in our Northern mills at present embraces nearly all nationalities, a large num ber of which are ignorant of our lan guage and without any previous ex perience in a cotton mill. Now why should they make better operatives than thc native Americans of the South, the desccudants of those splen did fighters of thc Confederate army? I think a little reflection will satisfy auy one that they should bc better than thc average material we get here or are likely to get in thc future. The wages in thc South are 25 to 35 per cent, below the average prices paid in the North for thc same amount of work, but it is expected by many of us in thc North that this is but tem porary, and within a few years wages will have reached thc level of New England wages. The conditions are against this theory. To begin with, there is an abundance of white labor subsisting on farms where the income is very small, to whom thc present wages of a cotton mill seem large. They have to labor in competition with the colored race whom they despise, while in the cotton mills they are free from tlic\r competition and presence. Their living expenses and wants arc small, as compared with the Northern operatives, and thc mild climate they are in means a saving in fuel and wiu tcr clothing, all of which goes far to ward making their present wages satis factory. Again, they arc too far apart for any united action. The cotton mills are scattered over a vast ex tent of territory, mauy of them in very isolated districts. Communication is slow and difficult except, of course, at the large towns where several mills arc located, but the tendency is toward building the mills out on the cotton fields rather than in large centres, and the mills usually own their own villages, so thc chances for any strong organization is very remote. Newspapers arc scarce and expen sive, and as education is very limited, they do not circulate very extensively, so that the operatives of one factory are not apt to be very well informed as tu conditions in other place's. Next in value tn low wages is the advantage of long hours. The usual week in the South is supposed to be GO hours, though as a matter id' fact they get in about GS hours. Now 10 hours more per week than Massachusetts means about 17 per cent, more time in which machinery is turning off finished product. This means lower cost for manufacturing and larger number of pounds to get a profit from, and when you consider that many of the mills are running night and day you will see their op portunities for making a profit are good indeed. There seems to be no movement to ward shorter hours or any other fac tory legislation and may not for years to come, as all classes feel that cotton mills are a blessing and should be fos tered, and the Legislature which at tempts tu pass bills interfering with present conditions will raise a storm nf indignation. The pi ices (d' COttOll at these mills, in most cases, is but a trille lower than at Fall Uiver, probably onc dglitli of a cent per pound, though in localities far more favorable other mills ? may du bettor than this. In , ' some localities taxes are remitted for a term of years, in others die valua ! tion is put so low so that the taxes arc merely nominal. The climate of thc Picuniout dis trict is well adapted. ? should judge, for cotton spinning, but for weaving will probably not compare with Fall Uiver or New Bedford, but as artifi cial humidity is used in the latter places most of thc time, all that is necessary is to use it in thc South all the time. I will say here that in most of the weave rooms I visited, they were not running their humidifiers, as the weather conditions were all right for good results. This would bc unusual in New England this time of the year, where every weave room has air moistening going on every day. There are some disadvantages against them, though they are slight when put against low wages and long hours. Thc principal one is high rate of interest, which is twice as high as in New England. The distance from the machinery and supplies is another which causes supply bills to be high. This briefly is the view of an observer liable to be mistaken in some of his conclusions, where only a few weeks were spent in investigation, though I firmly believe that short as the time was, it still was long enough to allow correct conclus ions. I see no other reason why the South should confine itself to coarse numbers and short cotton. They can very soon train their help to fine spinning and fancy weaving.for which they have thc same advantages as on coarse goods, viz., low wages and long hours. It took New Bedford but a few years to teach its operatives how to handle fine goods, and the South need not usc a much longer period to get the same results. Cotton manufacturing has a great future in the South, and the advant ages of that section should not be un derrated.-"MiUman" in Won/ and Cotton Reporter. ?o-* rn? Terrible Punishment of a Horrible Crime. LITTLE KOCK, Ark., Jan.. S.-A special to the Gazette from Fort Smith. Ark., says: ^ # \ Justice in a more horrible form than was meted out to Henry Smith, at Paris. Tex., was administered by a mob on thc Oklahoma border Friday night to J. Marcus McGcisey and Pal mer Simpson, two Seminole Indians. They were charged with murder, their victim being Mrs. Jackson Simmons, a respectable farmer'v. wife, living in Oklahoma. Thc crime was a most re volting one. and the criminals were punished in a most revolting manner. Mrs. Simmons was outraged and mur dered : the body was horribly mutila ted : the crime resembled in atrocity those perpetrated in the Creek nation by thc famous Buck gang, the mem bers of which were hanged at Fort Smith two years ago. Thc murder and mutilation of Mrs. Simmons so enraged the neighborhood that nearly the entire population turn ed out to hunt down and punish the guilty parties. The trail led the posse to thc home of McGeisey, near Maud, a small town in thc Seminole nation, where McGeisey and Simpson were arrested. After securing their prisoners the mob set fire to McCreisey's house and barn, and did not leave until they saw all of his earthly possessions reduced to ashes. The prisoners were then carried back across thc linc into Oklahoma Territory, and near thc scene of their crime, where they were executed by Judge Lynch's order in thc most hor rible manner that human minds and hands could devise. They were burned at thc stake. The Indians met their doom with thc usual stoicism of their race. Af ter life was extinct the mob allowed thc fires to die out and they hurriedly dispersed to their several homes. No secret was made of the fact that thc Indians had been burned to death and this morning their charred bodies, burned beyond recognition, were found lyiDg in the houses of their funeral pyre. Everybody in the vicinity seems to know that thc Indians were executed for the murder of Mrs. Simmons, but everyone appears to be entirely igno rant of thc individuals who composed the mob. information was received here of thc terrible affair front persons who saw thc charred bodies of the Indians. Great uneasiness exists along thc Oklahoma border, and the impression prevails that much more bloodshed will follow the work of the mob. Hocking Hackward She Broke Her Neck. PACO LET, Jan. 7.-While sittiug in a rocking chair before thc fire laugh ing and talking, with the family irroupcd about, the 14-year-old daugh ter of Mr. J. IL Scott rocked over backward with fatal results. Her neck was broken, and before a physi cian could be called in the young girl, surrounded by the horrified family, died. Thc child was in a merry mood aud nil were enjoying her flow of spirits. She was talking in a lively manner ind rocking back and forth when sud denly the chair toppled over and the child fell to the floor with a thud, lier head struck first and the entire weight of thc body was thrown on thc neck, which broke under thc strain. Peat h was almost immediate. Mr. Scott is a well-known citizen of that place.- 7V:- St,ii,. Counterfeiters ate active in Texas, j lad Austin is Itlooded with bad sliver j I Vi lars. Bead is A Jive. L?L'TLKDUE, GA., Jun. S.-One of ; thc most peculiar cases in history dc , veioped herc to-day when Kev. Robert j Simmons, a well known preacher of I this section, who was alleged to have ? been murdered hist March, appeared ; in town shaking hands with his old j friends, and declaring that a great i mistake had been made. His appear I ance created a sensation, that over ? shadowed the excitement ten months 1 ago when it was reported that Sim mons had been murdered. At that time it was alleged that Simmons had been killed by W. H. Bray, a prominent and influential farmer of this section, who was know? to have shot at him but sufficient evi dence for Bray's arrest could not be secured, and the grand jury did not find a bill. The alleged murder be came one of thc criminal mysteries of Georgia, and every effort to find the body of tho alleged murdered mau proved futile. About ten days ago, however, the decayed body of a man was found?on the farm of AV. H. Bray buried in a hole. The find created a great stir,, and the alleged tragedy of ten months agu was quickly recalled. Thc friends and relatives of the Rev. Robert Sim mons identified the body as that of the missing mau and a coroner's jury returned a verdict that the body was that of Rev. Robert Simmons and that death had been produced by a shot ?red by W. II. Bray, and that a negro, Henry Jones, who was employed on the Bray estate, was an accomplice to ..he crime. Bray and the negro were accordingly arrested and incarcerated in the Madi son jail. Bray protested his innocence, but the circumstantial evidence was considered so strong that ii: was gene rally predicted by the friends of the mau alleged to have been murdered that he would Jiang. The friends of Bray, however, were determined to work the case to the bottom, and by shrewd detective work located the Rev. Robert Simmons in Hancock county, where he has been since his mysterious disappearance from Rutledge the night in March he tras alleged to have been murdered by Bray, rle was secretly returned to Rutledge last night, and his appear ance on thc streets this morning had the same effect among the negroes as if a dead man had returned to life. They could scarcely believe their eyes. Au order from the court de manding the release of Bray and Jopes was quickly secured, and they were liberated from the Madison prison to day. The mystery as to the identity of thc body found has not yet been solv ed, and the developments to-day make that all the more exciting. Whether some person was murdered and placed there for the purpose of riveting sus picion upon Bray or whether it is a murder mystery that has no bearing upon thc Simmons-Bray affair is yet to be cleared. Mr. Bray is a prominent citizen and his friends are indignant that he should have been placed in jail for an alleged crime that developments show was not committed.-Atlanta Journal. Atlanta's Sohlest Guests. Mrs. Jefferson Davis is to be the guest of the United Confederate Vet erans' Association during thc reunion in July. She has been invited and has accepted. Miss Winnie Davis and Mrs. Hayes, also the daughter of Mr, Davis, has been invited and she and her two children will bc here. The invitation extended these three ladies did not come from any one camp ol' veterans. Every camp in the State joined in expending a special invitation to the widow and thc daughters of the great Confederate chieftain. A special train will bc sent to these distin guished guests, and an escort of vet erans will bring them to the city. The escort will bc composed of vet erans from thc various camps of the State. Already there are a large num ber of old soldiers who arc applicants for positions on this escort. Mrs. Davis and her daughters will be che central figures in all of thc re ceptions tendered thc veterans and at all of the meetings of the associa tion. Therr will bc a number of re ceptions given in honor of Mrs. Davis, Miss Davis and Mrs. Hayes. Just as many attentions as can bc crowded into a few days will be shown them. The coming of Mrs. Davis and her daughters is regarded as the crowning feature of the reunion. All of thc camps of thc veterans are now holding frequent meetings to dis cuss plans for the reunion and perfect arrangements for the entertaining of the old soldiers that are to come. To-night Camp Walker will hold a meeting and discuss thc situation. The veterans all over the State are taking an active interest in thc com ing reunion and are giving valuable aid to the Fulton County associations. -Ailanta .Tovrwtl. - A fruit farm in Missouri, recently described at length in horticultural pa*? pers, is said to be the largest fruit farm in the world. It contains 2,*2S0 acres, cu which are 100,000 peach trees, 00,000 apple trees, "2,000 pear trees, and 40 acres of blackberries, besides a large variety of other fruits. There is a large warehouse, a cannery, with a capacity of 10,000 cans a day, a storage building, which will hold 15,000 barrels of apples : a hotel , saw mill and a number of houses, for the use of managers and tenants. This fruit farm is valued at OOO tn ?300,000. This is horticulture on a grand scale. - Tia? New York Tribune tells of a travelling < ?eorgia evangelist who is en gaged in the conversion of sinners toa new faith, the outward manifestation cf which is laughter, i ?is devotees are called the Holy Laughters.