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VOL. Xlii. MAN1(~S. -C., WlEDN ESDAYS NOVEMBER2I S7 N.8 REPUBLICANS 1-1Y, CHANDLER DEMANDS THAT THEY CARRY OUT PLECGES Iimetallism Alive- l the Par'y. Doesn't Secure I; Demecracy Will Wi in te t Nx campaign- Senator's L tter. Editor of The Washington Pos : Since my letters to t.e Post of Au gust 12 and 25. two important events have happ-ned, () the elections of { NovE mber 2, and. (2) the Egish re fusal to now promise to reopen the India mints to the coinase of s-: er as an inducement tc internatioral bimet allism. 1. As to the elections, they prove with reasonable clearn'ss that the Re publican party permanently acquies ces in "the erxsting gola stantard and gives up th. struggle fcr bimetal lism that party will be dereited in the congressional elhciots of 169S. and in the presidential ekectin of 19!0. The silver monometallists will then take possession of all brat-chts of the na tional government, and a free coinage bill, with silver made the tender for all debts, public and private, domestic and foreign, will pass both houses of congress and be signed by President Bryan. Greater New York city being in the hands of Tammany Hall, that organi zition will unite with the national Demccracy in the demand for free silver coinage, and it is not within the bonds of possibility that the rural R t publican bimetaliists will give votes enough upon a single geld standard platform to place the State of New York back in the Republican column. There may be infatuated individuals who think, in view of the elections of last Tueaay in Iowa, Ohio, Kentucky, and Nebraska, that the western Re publican States can be kept in line if future party platforms shall complete ly yiela to gold, and give up the ef fort to remonetize silver, but the wis er and safer view is to assume that with the issue so Iramed the Republican party will meet with overwhelming political disaster inflicted by a solid south and a west almost solia, aided by Tammany Hall and the free silver Democracy of the Empire State. This comes very near being a country of free voters, and our elections come very near being honest transactions. and an intelligent people, with their votes freely cast and honestly counted, will never adopt or submit to the per manent demonetization of silver and the fixed ascendency of the single gold amandard prescribed by England. So the pathway of safety is only in one di rection. Mr. McKinley was elected only because his platform and his previous utterances promised efforts to secure bimetallism. We lost the United States senate because those promises were not sufficiently in earnest, and were distrusted by many Republican voters. We did not promise to estab lish bimetallism it we could, bellying it to be abad thing, but because we believed it to be a good thing. If we now faithlessly abandon the pursuit of that good thing we doom ourselves 1 to political annihilation. So there is no course open to us but to bring to gether the independent nations of the western 1 e nisphere and to unite tie n - in one grand and irresistable demand for the money of the ages, Gcd's money, as Secretary John Sherman devotionally and reverently called it; silver and gold, j ,ined together at a fixed ratio as the basis of all paper money and credits, and as the worla's time-honored measure of the world's values. 2. But the recent English refusal to agree to help bimetallismn by promis ing to reopen the India mints will be rexerred to as proving taat the interna tional agreement is an impossibility. Since the refusal there have been writ ten innumneracle arties pronouncing '-the doom of silver;" saving that "silver is a dead issue," and jeering at aliRepublicans who still believe that the pledges of their platform of 1896 and prior thereto are yet living anid binding promises. It is impossible to avoid the continued comparison of 3 these prophets to those who, in 1852. in pernect accordance with the plat forms of the two great political par ties, proclaimed the doom and death of the anti slavery agitation, yet in 10 short years saw slavery doomed and dead on American soil and the world over. Even a British ministry has been known to change its mind. Lord Ralisbury very emphatically declared thxat he would not arbitrate the vital questions in the Venezuelan contro -versy, yet with true wisdom and states marnship, and -with no impairment of British prestige. he changed his mind hen he realized that one Btitish ueclaration could not doom or kill a great living subject; namely, the Monroe dactrine. It is true that the present answer of Lord Salisbury is disappoirnting. It is contrary to previous ministerial as sertions upon which bimetallists every where had the right confidently to re ply. In the letter to the London Times of October 4of Lord Aldenham and Mr. H. R. Grenfell, there is brought out in vivid colors the English promise. On March 17, 1S8, the house of com. mons unanimously declared that the best interests of the country had been injured by silver's demonetizttion in 1873, and urged the government to do all in their power to secure an inter national agreement. In the debate the chancellor of the exchequer (Sir W. E. H. Beach) promised that tne governments -would obey this ir j u-: tion. The first lord of the treasury (Mir. A. J, Balfoum) made the same proisse in many -words, among them these. "We -will reonen the India mints: We will engage that they shall be kept open, and we shall therefore pro-i vide for a free coinage of silver withn the limits of the British Emnpire for a population greater in number than thie population of Germany, France, andi America put put togetner." These were strcng and apparently2 sincere words. They were the basis and the hope of tne movement for bimetallism, which began with the f nomination of Mr. McKinley up~on a platform pledging him to iuuru.e such a movement. Tne three ste ps thus far taken have been as follows: First, the action of congress last win ter, and the mission to Eirope of tie envoys, Messrs. Wolcott, Pairee, and Stevenson second, the prompt a will ing action of the French ministry taken even when their people wer" excited over the passage of arngid car:r bearing severely upon products of th~e French republic; third, Lord Salis bury's declarauon that at present the government will not now agree to fui tUIl its prom:se to open i~he India< mints. TLike man other stout ministerial - d-clarations. that of Lord Salisbury is sut ject to rconsideration and rever sal, and he invited a continual discus sion of the subject, wh-ch, with digni ty and wisdom, the F:ench ambassa dcr ard our anbassadicr and envoysi decided not t.) immediately, pursue. Equally with Lord Salisbury pcssibly they desired to beenlightentd by pub sentiment. Or possibly, as Secre tarv Sherman has charted the Eiglisb ministrT with having acted in bad faith about thesesls of Behring sea they thought he might like the opportunity 1 of also charging them with bad faith in revoking the promise to open the India mints. whico charge our ambas sacor, Col. R1av, and our envoys very wisely omitted to make, reserving that opocriunity for their cificial superiors. It was the proper privilege of the English ministry, in considering a great qiestion like the present one, to vacillate somewhat. At ti:st they were undcubtedly inclined to listen favorably to the French and Ameri can proposals, and induced the Bank of E >gland to promise to contribute to remunetization the holding of a por tion of its reserve in silver bullion, as the bank law allows But the money power of England was aroused and expressed its dis abbrobation. The potent Mr. Robert Benson tried to convince the ministry, by impressive facts, that the American movement was not in earn est, and that Secretary Gage's pro posed method of currency reform and the selfconstituted currency reform commission were conceived in hostilli tv to the remonetizationof silver, and that President McKinley was not sin cerely in favor of an international agreement. The council of adminis tration or India advis-d against re op-niag the India mints This was not the voice of the people of India, suffering from plague and starvation, with the value of their immense ac cumulations of silver ornaments and money cut down more than half by the heavy hand of their government. It was the voice of the money power of London; but it had its weight. So we got the negative decision for the present. Perhaps L rd Salisbury will be instructed by new events. Al ready one by-election to parliament has been lost on this issue. The bime tallists of the world are aroused. and the third step of the ne v movement, . step backward indeed, so far is like ly at any moment to be reversedi and ; forward step taken in the interest of he prosperity and happiness of the whole great empire of Great Britain nd of the civilized world beside. Zany debtor nations of the world can aot pay Great Britain what they owe er, interest and prindipal, in gold. [t will be part of wisdom for the em ire to aid in remonetLizing silver. lhe words of Mr. Justice Joseph P. Bradley in the legal-tender cases are Lucid and powerful "But the creditor interest will lose some of its gold. Is old the one thing needful? Is it ~orse for the creditor to lose a little ay depreciation than everything oy tae ankruptcy of his debtor?" At all events, the duty is clear of L1 Republicans who desire the con inuance in power of their party, and who co not propose to bolt tneii psrty dlatform. R:new the pledges to bime allism and devise ways and means for uifilling them. Only those who were ever at heart for bimetallism will stop n ac:ount of the British ministry's emporary negative. The people of the whole Western hemisphere, by nn mense majorities, are in favor of tae remonetizition of silver. They need anly to be aroused and organ-z ui by he powerful intiaence of the United states. A Pan-American remonetiza ;ion congress may be held and a united request of all the governments of North and South America may be resented to the Eitropean p~wers. It kill go heeded. Cniina and representa ives of the people of Iudia will join n the request. It will oe heeded even ~y England. For myself I desire to ye guded by the counciis of senator Wolcott, after he has submitted to thec President the eport of the envoys. Mr. Wolcott as given means, time, and exhaust og labor to this great work thus tar. )tners might possibly have done it, yut no one came forward to do it. As ~ociating the inspiring name of tne riendly republic of France with that >f the great American republic, he has uked the British ministry whether laey were sincere in their explicit and isqualified promises of March 17, L97 to reopen and to keep open tae ndia mints in aid of interzsational bi netailismn, and the ministry have said hat they are not ntow prepared to do t. It was worth much more than all t has cost, not to let the promise stand unchallenged, but to thus put his question and get this answer. 'he ans wer will not stick. Lrd Sahis aury will not kill the goose that lay he golden ege. WILuAt E. CH~A3DLER. November 9, 1897. Great Sansering in Caba. A letter was received Thursday from Japt. Charison of the 4 masted schoon r Clara E. Randall of Por tland, Me., aow in port at Mantanzas, Cuba, which tells of the great distress and ~uffering in Cuba. The schooner leftt hiladelphia wita a cargo of coal, bout a month ago, and the letter was written by Capt. Charleson soon tfter the vessel arrived there, two weeks ago. CapL. Charleson says hat Matanzis is filled with fever tricken and dying soldiers and that ~undreds of pacificos are dying every eek. It is no uncommon sight on be streets to see men lying in the gut er in their last agonies and to see the eath carts slowly creeping ab ut, atheine up their loads of bodies. Lne people seem to be helpless in their nisery and not only is yello w fever layinzg havoc with then, buat they[ re dying of starvation by scares. apt. Charleson said that he has no. yeen ashore very much since is ar-i -iva], for fear of catching ite fever,, kd he intends to get his vessel un oaded and away as soon as possible. dantarzas, which was once one of the yusiest ports on the eked is now ai nost deserted, he says, and every where there is death and pestilence. A n Awful Prairie FIre. A special from Esama, Tex., says: . tern-ble prairie fire passed inrough ubbock, Hale and Crosby counties L'esday, doing great damage to the< ranges. L originated east of CrosbyJ :unty, burned eastward through rossy, beore a severe west wino, ,.til ai reached a yont north of Emma, nen? a noirtner ar-one. cringing the re uth in its aw ul !u-y. At ihat: Wet iquare miles of territor-y wer ej >urneu over. Cat'.le sutieed and nary were bured to death. Norra : >f E nina 3,000 sheep were burned in 1 yne .tick and many farmers lost their :xnter feed.1 A N OBLE LIFE 0 K, MRS. M. A. SNCWDEN' DEVOTiON T THE LOST CAUSE. The CUnfeI. e Hme reas F- ded : Her andi Through Her Es r H' 'ei Su porte.. September 1t, 37. Ms Ma-. A'mari thi Saoru ce ,rated he 78;a birthda.c siMrs. Snowdenr1" is _Y dauenter of~ J^s p Y", and "h' kidow of Wiiamt Sno: cn , !4. ll oei Charlest n, . .. I' :Er eve; h)i7rtar)le honie l^ th ci:v that tics sounded tie toa 3 br- nfedrait war, Mr. Sow: S l! hves, a~ut though for some monet-'s -he has bre: contined L* bcer rco2, ard perhap! may never again go about doing' gor* and relieving suffering, yet when the Master calls she w:!i e c heerful ready. and her works will live a'te: ner. It is peculiarilv fing that a per and ink sketch of Mrs. Sao'den's lift should Le framed in a pap r, in he own bome, that is true to the sacred past, for she is a Cafederate woinat of Confederate women, and no waaar living or deid has exceeded her it effrt or sccomplisbment for "the cause" while it lasted for the principe as it lives in the persons of Confedcr a e veterans and their children for th memories that t her are sacred and of life a part. Daring the war Mrs. Snowden assisted by her ci tally de voted sister, Mrs. Isabella Suo eden, save her entire time to the ser'vice c the hospitals and to nursing the sich and wounded wherever found, minis tering even with G Aiike c naity tc those vandal soldiers of the union army who were laying waste the hoines of those she loved, desecrating the graves of her dead, and making life a thing to dread for the women of the South. Mrs. Snowvder's whole life has been lived unseldshly. She was th inspiration and prime worker of the Calhoun Monument association hat had accumulated some $75 iU be Fore the war to buidd a monument to he greatest, parest and most liberal stattsman America had produced since Washington, and it was Mrs. Snow len who sewed into her skirts the se :rities wnen Sherm to burnt Caium ai:, arid preserved the means that en ibled the Calhoun Monument Associa tion to erect the imp'sing monument that now adorns Mariou Si ire in ront of the South Carolina nliitary cademy, known a; the Citadel. The war ended, and Mrs. Snowden td her sister. both widows, turned t. nend their grief by continuing to live or others. A brave Marylander by he name of Charles E. Rdman, who gad been paralyzed from his waist Iown by being entombed under the ailing rampart of Battery Wagener. was the first object o: their soliiitude, td they took nim to their home and niaistered unto him uatti he was re noved to St. Philip's Uaurch Hbme Episcopal), where he lived until of iecessity removed to the hospital to iad his brave life. Then the cry came ip from the penniless, -woaade.t and most disheartened Confedera:e vet rans. Who will aid us to educate >ur children?" and who but the wi >wed Snowden sister.s answered, "We viil." A large and comm dius buik .ng, occupying a most advantageous position on Broad street, the principal :ast and west street of tne city, ann running back some hundren of feet .0 Chalmers street, was obtained for $,800O a year, and the sisters' Sanoif .en morigagd the home over their eadJs, acid thle only protection for srs. M. A. Snos'cen'a two yo'ung ~hidren, to secure tcie is yeai's ren a!. As I am not writing a nistory of ne Confederate Htnne, I will only rite of itas its institution, grow in, nantenance and good work is part or ne life, if not the whole life, ot Mrs. E. A. Snowden, assisted oy ner untir .n if less aggr.ssive sister. Mrs. Sno w len went to warm hearted, sympa ;etic Baltimore to learn no w siniar leemosynary institutions were man aged, and to obtain aid froai tinos wno were well to do anid sympathiz ed with the ruined South. \':ain a iome for wido ws in teat city, she was tfered by one of the dependient iu nates St-the very tirst voluntary arfer to tne cause,-and -declining, be :ause of the necessities of the gtver, was asked if she rej ected the wi-do s's nite, replying that soe would grate ully accept it then as the sted corn. lessed of God, for her enterprise. 'he incident got into the papers. and was read in E arope by the helplessiy 11 daugnter (K1iss Luise) of tee great abilanthropist, Hon. W. W. Corcoran td after the daughter's death the ather sent Mrs. M. A. Sniowde-n $I,000 Ld thus the Confederate H>:ne of Jhareston, S. C., the iirst or i'.s kend, was started to shelter anid care for tue mothers, widows and daugnters cf ~onfederate soldiers,".and to educiate he daughters in tae faita their brave athers nad.fouoght Icr and their jvo nanly mothers had suffered for. It was in 1& tat the ucaue tool shp and being and if edu'oatic g tue lauhters of nie men und women .o become self-neipin~g, seit respeca m; ork1;g women ini tue wvorki is a good york, tuen Mary Aramiuthia Sa.ow en's name snouid be iiiuiiated by istory, and live in song anti story, m in the hearts of grateful people 'or somne fifteen nundred girls of the~ sate have been educated. in tace Home 'or the mothers, wido vs an~d daogn ers of confederate soldiers, a ad Mrs. d. A. Suo aden by her uuti' ig if 'rt ias caused th estal~ish.new t ip ort and partial end n~ - of u ime. Mr. W. W. Corcoran, after a vsit o tae home, gave a a add. ivail mnountof A5,000J ara a geeru lai iaore wouaa n'as gveu? 1 trouan trs. Snowdexi, ':,00 Sar;-ly t o ~are for sien sLuu Jene Uj0.der hs darer to 1..1 a n ieter noters, wives .aud usg r niry years, ' is t?ais to -'e doe Lhou good aind fai~hfu' stry:.t, Lnea ies Mrs. Mary aranna aowe tatd secoLnd t' 'nooerG firt w'omtan, a'ou caapir' s of' dauht rs of e Cenifeecy shui -: 'a'e o ir in every stae o. in 'a e Con-' suutess woman, I-us of :-ie aad u ana Iralities, to live a iet e oe~a mld unseisa~ iue for uLLers -a" t" )ner., endleared to aer o0.o. ti~ aumanity, as Carist lIkea 'ay araainttiua Saow-~as cros wil - ;eon into the cru vu prua:sin o .. . :Mrs. Sno'w dea toetaoeae ,he iirst memrzial t'asl~ lal ret, i'ciaidpted the at;.inrry of. bs day nas oeen ooserveu inGar eston Oy tue ladies mzetaurLil ass ca t now tat the Sste has made it a leaf h:liday, only the selfish money love and tr e who were faint hearted i war and would forget in neac?, fail t cberve the cy. The first gener. m-rnmeut to the Confed rate dea I was unrveed in the soldier's plot i beau'tfi' MagLolia cemetery. Scut r own Wade Hampton do ii ergd treaddress, and it is not sayin o1 much to affirm that the brora Uoneiderate soldier, clutching his fia :is breast,ss he grasps his ril t wit 0:e' cther band, shows its Muhnic b . and is the mcst truth telling an spir.iea emowmert in the South, .ot in the United S:ates, as it stand :uarding the graves of some eigt huured Confiderate dead, many c 'w*ose bodies were removed from tb graves of Gettysburg's battlefielt sirs. Snowder is the president of tb L. M. A., and as iose as she is stron coough to sit in a carriage will atten the solenn, and with us always in pressive, e renony of love and adm rNtion, an.d will see to it, as she he done for thirty one years, that ear, and every grave has its evergree cross and wreath. As Wade Ham pto must ever be our typical South Carc lina Confederate soldier, so must Mar Arm.inthia Snowden remain the typ of the South Carolina Confederate w< man, fear'ess and faithful. Jaies C I Holmes in the Caarleston Post. --,TON CROPS AND PR!CES. Som I -teri stlrg Flgares Corcerning t: Great Staple. The last issue of Bradstret's cor tains a very interesting artici base on a report of the S. Blaisden, Jr company, of CWicopee, Mass , shoe ing the cotton crops of the last fift3 two years. and the highest and lowet orices each :ear. Tne cottou cro di aot ra:ch 1.003,000 bales until 1831 In 18:3 it was only 4.5.000 bales. Th 1art'est c-op before tn e war was the of 1859-60. It was 4 851,000 bales, c nearly twica as large as any cotto: crop from' 1863 to 1899 It was no until 1873 that the South produced larger crop of cotton than it had pre duced prior to the war, the crop tna year reaching 5 074 155 bales. The crop of 180 was the i-st to o beyond 6,000.000 bales, and the 7,000 000 mark was passed for the first tim in 1397. The crop raised in 1891 ra up to 9,000.000 bales, and that of 189 was almost 10 000,000 bales. Tn present crop will be the greatest on re cord. A comparison o' prices is interest ing, In 185 the price of cotton wen 1-to 13 cents a pound. It then decline' for several years and was as low as cents in 1S31 and 1832. In 1835 i rose to 15 cents. In 1843 44 45 th average price was 5 cents. an tha low ii.ure was touched again in 1S4i Cottn then went up rapidly and 1 cents was the lowest price in 1850. During the war the price went awa; up, of course. In 1S64 it touched to highest p-aint, $1.90 a pound, in Nev York. The lowest price that year wa 72 cents. Tie nrice then feli steadil and in 1870 25:- cents was the to r otch. The hignest price in 18S0 wa 13. can's, and the lowest 10 15 1 c' tts: in 1890 the highest price wa 12- cents and the lowest 9 3 16 cenu In 1S95 the highest price was 9 3 1 cents and the lowest 5 9 16 cents. The following table shows the highest ant r e lowest p:ices for the last twenty Hiebest. L->west 1871................2 l14 14 0-4 I1872...................:3.5i Y 1 7 ............ ..2t - 1.7......................1:3 N1 :. 1M.....................12 3 1:. 1.....................11 19:.....................11lt1 - 1"'... ..................! 1 ' t 1I ...................1'; 81. 1""..................1 1- ,> i7.......................11 - .......................: 1-27 153.....................11 'l 1 ...................... 1 ; ' 8 3 5i-lt ~ 1'J3.............s1-5 1: 1-1: I terberlat 7 -1t ents 10'. 1inc -1 excee 1009.000 -les and co-t4 I wrtaonl 311I cets 1hrei very lain essonfor 15-mer iu :h ~ures.-1-ata'.o:r-ai CoL9.1 P8c1::.1 in th shae ofc~ii -1ca bae h-1 Thieya the marjet opnsedable di time new dendot $8,75 acin otteac c0s-ion al. coto year men, coto ase wrtly 7icntste bun the the I this Setain tartici thesya' cronwi wours onlecor1-, cses the is vyey pa ieson t garousnd thes I itiores-tnaei Jioutand o costt ohn atekig. H The nue eat loss pcit g odoe til to be sharer afclndi ownes fai tes n the ljc Soft bynsiean ofi beasind aforkng cotton.mn whi aredrectliterebcopted tesuc Col. a:r, oanagerPe oNt Milai this Stteon n rter hind ae Manu fcurer~ts' Rcd, oppose the pnese sysem of bacir' oThe ground tha in coto s resend wiltov suc a cn diuconto mae ci dictand or i cost y o- adle a t misl Hw als< ptiut or' ut wrant iloitud meni tail toie farmersand wers of a gin nries~ao in the 'yro of ath( fac that their plants ould~ nrle ersM and manage it Ni hvE.glat mu. dissatife ita the pomresena sy se of bolin voThey insit upn :~ cte system an will ceiv te prerc ocotton aed illntindricalry or it some.ette -aytha i: is owpac ula fam but want imprthed 0' eh toj. Tne Nt w eglaners re an i ieau a aag itnl ave t th one' now inogue t w~i h 'cnn pas.-Clmi.JI Reitr. .Zi Ht Q ~ an?a'. o re atl. tV~ Thceu o ia returns o te Ohie el tine ae matit beenwo deaed, snowh in the ide1pulias ohoave a m hir-uiti~sa a. s.taawll: dr THE TURNER MURI)ER. 0 THE TE3TIMONY GIVEN TA THE COR d ONERS INQUEST. d 1 The Jliy Find that the Deceamd wi Murdered by Corstabl, Newbald and That Constable Howle Was Acces'ary to i . h h The following is the testimony tak d en at the coroner's inquest over the .f remains of Mr. Turner. who was shot s arnd kiliei recently by State Cnstable t Newbold. LssL week we published a f full account of the killing, and now e we publish the testimony so as our i. readers can be in possession of all the e facts: g State of Suth Carolina, County of di. Spartanburg. L- This is to certif : that we, the under signed citz ins, reside in Spartanburg s county and believe the ' death of J. h Henry Turner is of such a nature that n it should be investigated by the coron a er of the cout.ty. p- J. W. Harris, (L. S ) y S C. Gentry, (L S.) a The State i:a re the dead body of > Henry J. Turner. . W. C. BRU0E. duly sworn. say s: I live at Mr. Henry Turner's, in Spartanburg county. I was here in th bid last night at 12 o'clock. I left here this morning in t company with J. Henry Turner about 4 o'clcek. We had started to the de pot. We went on to Steven's grove. the colored folks' church. seen a lizht at back of church, and seea two men coming, walking up together. They were behind us. They came on about 350 yards; one of theam ran around in froe-t of us and sa:s, -.Hold up;" a.zmped in front with pistols in his nand and did not give me time to hold up until ha fired. I was driving; I cnecked horse or mule immediately r after the command t: nalt: the mule j nped and I could not t.l what po. sitiou deceased w1s is when pistol lied. Therd were no veapons in our tuggy or on our perss except a rocket knife, and that was in our pccket. There was not a word spoken after the command to hait unatil the pistol fired. After the pistol fired he said hold on till I search the buggy. After the conmand to stop I had never got the mule entireiv stopped until b pistol fired; mule had not advanced more than three or four feet. Taere was not a particle of resistance offered before or after the shooting. The one that done the shooting ordered the other to search the buggy. He was - slow, and the one that did tne snooting done it himself. I don't knofv them e personally, but they say it was a fel iow by tree name of Newoold; he told ae I had better get him to a doctor, and told Howie to go with me; he went with me; I carried him to Dr. Dean at Spartanburg. Deceased never spoke after he was snot. Tnis occur red between 4 and 5 o'clock in the s morning. He told Dr. Dean who it s was that did the shoo.ing. He made no apologies or assertion that would even give a myan room to believe that he was sorry of it. After the shooting he started back up the road toward the church. Siiooting nook place about 250 yards below church opposite brickyard. He gave no reason for wanting to searca tae buggy until after the shot. When I first saw him he was between the c.ureh and the road. He never spoke until he fol jowed the buggy, than ran around and fired. Had no cause for firing pistois, from appearances nor from apeech. When I saw them following us I never spoke to thiem or made any reply tO him when ne ordered us to G stop. Deceased was on the lef t side of 1 the buggy. Tne man who did the snooting was just in front of the buggy abcut tne leftnand wagon whcel track. He had a pistol in eacn hand when he camne to the Duggy. -I could see by the pistol and I kno y that ile fired boith of ;ne shots at tne buggy. Tnere was no raiing, everything was quiet except the re ports ot the pistoJs and cammand to hait. I would know either one of them..f they were oefore me. Howie told me to say it was done accidental ly. I. never told him anything. He justs.aid it would keep his folks from getting mad. The curtains of the ouggy were up all the while. Tne deceas:d nad started to Columbia. I have nevar known deceased to haul, handle or even drinh whiskey. I saed tthat there was nothing about the bug gy that wouhidlead to suspicion. ?iis 2 jgeneral character has been good. He s is a quiet, sober, Christian nearted -]man, since my acquaintance with I nim.W. C. Bruce, (L 8 ) s C. URUCE, arecalled, says: I[ do not remember see e ing any one except the t wo men that did the shooting. jIs there a man that did the shooting ,or come to the buggy -' There is. s Where is he. -1There ho stands (pointing to Hc vie) I met no one that i know of. -W. C. Bruce, (L.-S NATttAN BXLLARD, CoLoiCED, duly sworn, say s: I live at Spartan t burg, I was coming up the road ithis morning towards Steven's grove. As] I came up the road near the churca Sther-e were two mea stanidiug on the -road: I went about 10 or 15 steps~ -further, met two men en a buggy, one] Sof tem was J. Henry Turner. I heard~ Sa gunshot an~d thought that they were Sshooting at me. No one spoke until -af ter pistol shot. AMter pistol sieot he i(Ne wolc said i was the wrong man. - 1Lko w it ras aman by the name ofi N Ne ooid I is now him when I see him. fter pistol fired I Leard himn say hait. STney was oif to the Lf.;f hand srde of t e roa right at ine baggy, H~owie' was aourt 13 steps fromn them when 0ito tired. The mule was in a sloW -si of a tret. I could have heard any - wod sp as before or after shooting. l They both went cif together up thel .ra.d afyr' the shooting. I also wen?t on ci and kno.;v nothing muore. Nathan BIalard, IL. S5) DRi. GEoRlGE R. DEAN. swrsays: I live UL Spartanburg, am a pra~cctie physicias .1nd surg-i n.Iascalled this moraing aocut 13 minute-: of 6 o'clock to see decessd. I exarninedhhim found, himn dead to of tc body. I foundi a larg ried w'ound made b-y une blat in-tument, about tau ic to the lef of ..ne .entre at the jauution of hi Snees- and o '-dy .I probsag that wound0 foun 'd that dUn-onally' and atincst on -O~J .oi..a lin tharou :ne spial -cuiuai, icodging~ about thiree-ouarts uf aa in ude rneathi of the sain a: the bsa of the n-ek anid oneC inch to the rigat of the middle liue. I founed I Lullet located where described at the bottomn of wound. I would say it was -. .H or~ hnS ba T n m fully stiidI that bail was tne cause of his deat>. I would say that deceased was leaning forward from position and the range of ball. There was a man by the name of Brace and a man v-ho called him self Howie came with deceased. He told me that a Mr. Newbold did the shooting. Howie said be was some distarcy, about 250 yards from them. when shooting took place. He just stated that they were watching fo.i whiskey. I will just rdl that I ad vised the young man to bring him home at once as he was already dead. He (Ho sie se.ed very nicely. I can say Iur:iir that J Henry Turner was a qui-t. good citnz . I notified the sher: tf. Dr. Geo. R. Dean, (L. S ) S T. HOWIE, sworn, says: My home is in North Carolina. Have been on the constab ularv force for three years unr:1 0:t. 1. 10S7. Since Oct. 1 I've been at Chester most of the time, List night Nov. ;, 1897. we were on a raid, camp ed near the water works. It must have been four miles from camp around to the churoh. We came there about 9 o'clock, stayed till 4 this morn ing, then Pe went back of cJurch and built up a d -e. Mr. ewbold had ot his shoes. We did not hear the buggy until it was is front of the church. He told me to run and showed me which way to go. I run round church until I was n-ear the roa,. I seen no sign of whiskey about the bu!y un less it was in c as. I seen they had not seen me. I stepped in the road be hind them and stood to listen for the cans. By that time Mr. Newbold had on his shoes. He came on round and E-id me to run on, and I ran about 5s yards. I could not hear auy cons. I stopped and looked for Mr. Newbold. I could not see him. I tnc.ught he had gone back to the ire. I started back to the fire. got to church heard him hollow, "hold up there," he was s State officer and wanted to search the buggy and j-ust at that time he hollowed something else like 'hold and the pistol fired. He ii-ed two shots right close together. ;fi called me then and said, 'come on." Did the man in the buggy make any reply when he said hold up? I heard none. I started to ran to him down tne road from the church. I ran down. Had to stop and walk before I got to him. When I got to them Mr. Newbold was at the side of the buggy. Asked him what was the matter. Then asked him it he was shot. I heard no reply until after .a match was struck. Mr. Newbold ask ed the boy if he was drinking. The boy told him he was not. This ques tion was asked before the match was struck. Soon as Newbold seen he was shot he burst into crying and aszed who he was, and said he would not have shot the old gentleman for any thing. He started to get in the buggy himself, then said he had to get his overcoat. I told him never mind that I could find a doctor quicker than he could. I got in the boy's seat; he in my lap, and we went to Sparianburg to Dr. Dean. I don't remember, but as well as I remember, the doctor said that he was already dead. H3 drew several breaths after we got to Dr. Dean's house. I never seen any wea pons about the buggy. Nor I never neard any words of resistance. Did you tell the boy to say that i was an accident? No, sir, I did not. I never told him anything to say. I told him that I would say that it was an accident. Would you have Iired those shots urd r the circumstances, seeing noi hearing no signs of resistance? I do not kno w whether I would 03 not. The church door was not locked. I seen no one except t wo men in the buggy, myself and New'bold. It was 350 yards from church to where shoot ing taken place. He ran across the road behind me when he told me tc run down the road. S. T. Howie (L S ) We, the jurors of inquett in the case of the State vs. the dead body of J. Henry Turner, tiad toat he came to his death by a gunshot wound in the hand of one W. H. Ne wbold and that S. T. Howie was an accessory to the murder. George W. Turner, Foreman. Hi. H. Turner, W. A. Hendrix, W. J. Eabanks, J. WV. Wingo, S. D. Hendrix, B. M. High, W. L Cuaman. E P. High, J. B. Scay, EI. Belcher, J. C. Rl->berson. A Tram p, K~iled. A waite man, whose name is not known, was run over by a S. C. & Ga. passenger train last night at the foot of Green street, near the Union shed and instantly killed. When the train stopped the vicitim was found under the trucks with his right arm and rightleg smvrd from his body and his head was horribly cut and crush ed. Just how the accident ccurred is not knowo, but it is the tueury of the railroad people tat he ecliid' d with the rear e.ach while1 walking down the track and while tae train was being bacaea into the depot, the fact that his front teehi were knaceked out of his head goin~r to support the idea that his face nrst; struck the bumpers of the rear coach. The body was so badly mangled that it is dcub. ful whether the dead man can oe ree onized. It is surmnised, bo rever, f romn his dress that he is a trarnp.--olaua bia Register. Young men~ who have coeto1 conclusion to t a :m'rng cano cC :nade ont the far:n~ shoana~ cu age from the experience fM-d~e Barton's maddeu daughtes : teo themi u~nbrs im itu t'r e''c fatr,~ whoi2oC e~elyhtl gatered sixrbal s of cotbsds an aouncaauc" o' car' ' .o .si .u wh ich 'tey hred, he .d a0 ofCn work themsele-, at t' Snne tun waitinupo U na nurie . --e t:?ie, and anto:her' invali - of -i: 'udyni7c T .~ niur,, l orents ke:t an: whe : :yr' a tev found ita hea ofaJ' l ) center of the ms fe:~ : bones of the children werefudi heap; showing that they ha haot da togee i. their sa .nt -'onv. PARONED EY THE G;VinNDR Two s:tt Corstab:.a Coniici or Man slaughter Sat at L b sr!y. While the whole State is in more c less of a stir over the killing of Far. mer Turner by State Detective New E bold and about the ilight Tuesday of Newbold. Gov. Elerbe stepped in Tuesday and granted a full pardon tc Liqior Constables J. H. Buice and J. A. Mfay, who killed John T. Sims in the "Dark Corner" section of Spartan bur, county, on December 18, 1896, nearly one year ago. Strange enough it happens that the killing took place in identically the same county as that in which Mr. Turner was killed. The constables were tut on trial in Spartanburg county in June last, and both of them were convicted of man slaughter, the sentence of the court being two years in the State prison in each case. Cra.viord. the otner con stable who was present at the time of the kilihw, was also charged with rmurder, but his case was not prossed by the solicitor. After the cons lotion the attorneys repre.tig theconsta bles at the trial gave noice of an ap peal to the S:ate Sapreme Court, and pending that appeal the two men were released on bond. They have been ox ever since. The clerk of the supreme court has within the last few days, it is understood, been notided that the appeal has been abandoned. Sims was a moonshiner; the raid in which he was killed was the last upon which the constables ventured in the "Dark Corner" stetion of that State. The scene of the killing was about eight and a half miles from Greer's, in Spartanburg county. It seems that the constables came in and one 01 them was leaning over smelling a jug when the victim appeared with a riff: levelled upon him. Tne rifle was knocked up and the fight ensued. Buice and May shot frequently al Sims, and Sims and one of Lee consta bles clinched and fell out of tne door. ?hough already wounded severs times ia the light, Sims go: up and tried to run scros the yard. Another of the constables clinched him and they struagied oa the ground. Sims wife and chiidren being gathered around and screaming all the time. Several more shots were fired, and when it was all over Sims was a dead man. These additional statements were made yesterday by a man whc was in that section at the time. Another coincidence about thes pardons is t.t Lawyer Thomason of Spartanburz, who is connected with the Newbold case, figures in the mat ter also. It may be mentioned, too that the governor acted upon the ap plications for pardon without thi usual references of the papers to tht presiding jadge and solicitor, he sc stateh Tuesday afternoon in respons= to al inqiry. Mr. Tnomasoa was the attorney as sisting the solicitor in the prosecution of the men. He wrote the followine letter to tL governor, and upon it Governor Ellerbe basel his action in part, it being supported however, by a large nuaiber of petitions for the p rd:oa from several counties: "I assisted the solicitor in the prose cution of the defendants, May anc Buice, and in my opinion they would not have been convicted if they had not been State constables, and I will state farther that I replied to the ar nument made on the part of the de fendants for a neiv trial, and I believ ed, after hearing the argument madi Ion the part of the attorneys for the de fendants, that the presiding judge would grant their motion for a nes' trial. I thought then that he ought tc grant it, and I still think that ht ought to have granted it. "W. S. Thomason." A petition was present signed bl the clerk of the court, judge of pro oate, master, county auditor, counts superintendent of edusation,and Mag istrate Ganter of Spartanburg county. The following is the form of the peti tion signed by several hundred peopi jfrom Aiken county: To his Excellency, Gov. Wim. H. El ierte: We, the undersigned citiz ms of Ai ken county, hereoy petition you tc pardon Mr. John A. May, who was convic'.ed of manslaughter at the June term of the sessions court fo: Spartanburg county, and sentenced tc sera a term of two years in the Stati ipeniterLary. We suosit to yonr er !c lieney's consideratiou, the fact thal from what we have heard of Mr. May, hne has always borne a reputatioa foi pieace an~d good order, that his reputa t on in th community in which he I ins~ antd in Aiken county for peace and good orde:-, moral character, so brey and industry has alnys bee! gocd, and that we uever have iaeard of his evraving ceen engaged in any dis~o:-derly conduct, and in our opia io we do not think that he would commi an act like the one with whicio he is charged unless he was compellec to do so to protect his own life. And. thnercefoe we humbly petition you tc graat hims a full pardon, .ate. The sheriff, county supervisor, clerk of court, auditor, treasurer, Represen . atie Gushmao, master, and other Iliil offi Aiken ccuuty were among A s12nilar peti:ion, not so na-nr2us l y s'ied, howe~ver, was presented :rom'Gneroke e-: ty A like peti tion wa "presented in May's behalf by the c.itie of G'raaiteville in Aiken cony Si ae of foo~scap pap coveed i~ cintrs, two to th . . -Ian WA. U.B rr ndR ' oonrs resecful ivshow ~JiZ~ S e uy . of ls~ ic "o, THE STATE SCHOOLS. MARKED INCREASE IN THE TOTAL ENROLLMENT OF FUPiLS. F.gures by Counties-The Belative Show irg Made by the White and Colored Mle and Female Pupils. Getting the benefit of the three mill school tax and the prospect of obtain ing considerably longer terms in the public schools of the State has result ed in quite an increase in this year's enrollment of pupils in the schools. There are this year 25,846 more pupils enrolled in the public schools than last year. Nearly 10,000 of these are white pupils. Another noticeable thing is that while there were scarcely more than 100 more girls than boys last year in the public schools, this year the girls have a little over 1,000 in their favor. Several thousand more colored . _n white children are still availing themselves of the education r: advantages offered by the State. aiL)tgh the increase is not so large as wa ex pect d this year it is by sev eral thousand the largest in recent years. The following figures speak f- temselves, sho wing a comparison of t .e total enrollment by years for severai years past: 1897..........................258,183 196.................. .......232,337 1895..........................223,021 1894..........................226,766 1893..........................223,150 Tne follo wing was the total enroll ment for last year by races and sexes: Waite, 109,159; colored, 123,178; male, 116,091, female, 116,217; grand total, 232,337. Tais year's enrollment figures by counties are as follows: White. Colored. Abbeville.............4,112 4,184 aisen................ 3,076 3.653 Alderson............. 6,732 3,821 Birnwell............. 5,071 7,804 3:aufort.............. 451 874 B.rkelev.............. 1,370 3,328 Uharlesion............ 3,590 7,807 Chester....... . 1,830 4,099 Cnestertield.......... 2,420 1,348 Clarencion............ 1,801 2,955 Colleton.............. 3,241 3,292 Darlington........... 2,815 3,521 Edgefield............. 2,399 5,248 Fairfield ............. 1.706 4,466 Florence.............. 2,778 3,121 Georgetown.......... 1,040 2,715 Greenville............ 7,749 3,800 Hampton...........,. 1,991 2,231 Horry................ 3,664 1,450 Kersnaw.............2,270 2,037 Lancaster............. 2,910 1,790 Laurens............ 3,788 4,561 Lexington............ 4,173 1,920 Marion. ..............3,726 3,330 Marlboro............. 1,898 2,935 Newberry......... 2,641 3,927 Oconee............... 4,855 1,238 Orangeburg...' 4,302 7,768 Pickens.......... 3,270 1,395 Richland............. 2,507 5,460 Saluda............... 2,167 2,376 Spartanburg..........10,526 5,451 umter....., ...... 2.858 7,024 Union..........,.. 2,074 2,339 Williamsburg........2,614 3,657 York.................. 4,612 5,629 Totals..............119,027 139,156 TotalsGrand Male. Female. total. Abbevile.... 5,701 6,197 11,898 Aiken.... 3,342 3,387 6,729 Anderson.... 5,378 5,175 10,553 Ban el.... 6,471 6,404 32,875 Beaufor..... 2,129 2,196 4,325 Berkeley .... 2,242 2,456 4,698 Charleston... 5,233 6,164 1,397 jCcester...2,830 3,099 5,929 Chestertied.. 1,938 1,830 3,768 Cla: endon. ... 2,411 2,345 4,756 Colleton...3,223 3,310 6,533 Darlington... 3,228 3,108 6,336 Edgefield.... 3,721 3,926 7,647 Fairfield..2,925 3,247 6,172 Fiorer co .... 2,918 2,951 5,899 Georgetown.. 1,873 1,882 3,755 Greenville... 5,921 5,628 11,549 Hampton .... 2,142 2,080 4,222 SHorry.....4. 2,698 2,416 5,114 kersaw. 2,137 2,170 4,307 Lancaster. 2,387 2,313 4,700 L turens...4,086 4,263 8,349> Lexington ... 3,179 2.914 6,00, Marion ... .,..3,468 3,588 7,056 IMarlboro . 2,488 2,345 4,03 Newberry. 2,214 3,654 6,568 Oconee ... .... 3,120 2,973 6,093 Oranebur. 6,106 5,964 12,070 Ficen.....2,494 2,171 4,668 Riclad....3,930 4,037 7,967 3aluda....... 2,329 2,214 4,543 Spartanbarg 8,179 7,798 15,977 Sumter ...... 4,812 5,070 9,882 Union... 2,247 2,166 4,413 Williams burg 3,105 3,166 6,271 York... 5,182 5,059 10,241 Totals... ...123,517 129,666 258,183 A sensational suicide. A most sensational suicide occurred in Augusta Thursday morning at 8 o'clock. William Moody shot him self through the 'bsek of the head while lying in bed in a room at a boarding house. Moody was one of Ithe best known men in t.an and was Imost popular. He was head clerk at FL 3vy's book store. When he failed 'tosho u p at work this morning. William Levy went to his boarding house to ascertain the cause and, en tering the room found Moody on the bed, his head in a pool of blood. The Ipistol was grasped in his hand. He died an hout af ter the shooting. The bullet went through his head and came cut of the other side. About t vo months ago Moody married Miss ?gi Paryear, a popular and beauti ful young ay. 'The two had a small gnre ad taie wife went to her pa ret'huse and spent the night. T2usdy morning when Moody Caimba Rgite sas r.H. . m o d seknofteprogress o f e ropsedredistricting bill in :aigfriends among legislators sadta ehad talke d with a number of te membsrs who visited the city duin te fair and he found them yfaoably inclined to it. The ae ss opposition wlli come from tue oesent congressmen, and they have enough frienas in the legislature to mnke a lively fight over the pass ages of the bill. These gentlemen are eemily"ea'd against"' the bill. ,usands Messacred. A p i a dispatch brings serious Ie "a s 'r the 'Niger region, West afia aorder to punish the in abtants of the town of Kong, capital ofth kl a of Kong, in the Man di::'o re in of Up per Guinea, for 1ai eua to supply his troops with povisons Chief Samory has razed th tow and massacred several thou