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i2> VOLI. XV. MANNING. S. C.., WEDNESDAY, NO0VEMIIBE R 8q 189NO2. A NL Gi I' OF TER0R. A Disastrous Hurricane Visits'the Town of.Florerce. ALL BUSINESS SUSPENDED. A CreatMany Hcuses.>Unroofed, and the Pecple Iept'Up All Night on the Watch. Florence. S. C.. was vi'itd-by a ter rible hurricane Monday riight of last week, during which,-many- building, were either unroofed or movcd from their-.foundations, a large amount -h fencing blown dtwn and the trees ba'1lI twisted and broken. Nca lv eveq stor and residence in the city suffntred wore or less damaged from water. The weather Monday was cxcecdinglb murky; the rain fell in torren,s and the wind blew at a terrific rate. Busincsz was suspended almost entirely, for it was practically impossible to get any where through the blitding sheets of rain that were-being driven by-a forty mile wind. Towards evening the wind grew fast ter and the rain fell thicker so that be fore sundown very nearly all the storcs closed for the evening and the men folks hurried home to make themnelve comfortable for the night. They were disappointed, however. for very nearlb every one was up throughout the night sweeping the waterout of their homes. for there few that it did not get the ful> effect of the heavy rain that fell throughout tLe night. Between 11 and 2 o'clock the wind seemed to have reached its height. which was very nearly 70 miles an hou while the rain seemed to be coming down in sheets. L Towards morning the storm had pass ed over and by 10 o'clock had spent it. fury. A walk over the city Tuesday showed that the First. Methodist church had been damaged mome than any othei buildiag, fkr the roof was lyiag in tht street and the interior of the building badly damaged. The court house was patly unroofed and also badly damaged from rain. One of the buildings at the Coast Line shops was unroofed. The electric light plant had a larg( portion of its roof torn off. The kitchen of the Rev. J E. Wilson was twisted from its foundation. ' Besides this several small buildings in the suburbs were completely demol ished. The-Electric Light'company suffered heavy from destruction of their wires. blowing down the poles, etc. The telephone companics tuffered the same, as did also the Western Uni on company. All of last night and part of Tuesdav Fiorence was cut off from telegraphic communication fron. all points north. east aid west of the eity. TheoLt- xlre that was in work ing order was b wcen Florence aLd Charleston. The trees are badly damaged and many of them wtere strippe d of theit foliage, and the street s today were fill ed with limbs of trees, feneing. signs and pieces of roefimng -Nas and Cou nr. THFeSTORM ELSEWHERE. Damage te Wilmington/tN. C., and its Seashore Resorts. A dispatch from Wilmington, N. C, authrit'ative reports from Wrightsvilk and Carolina beaches say that the stormn which reached the height of its fury at 5 o'clock Monday- morning has wrought great havoc to property at these points. No loss of life is reported. At Wrightsville there arc sixty odd cottages, and of this number fifteen are a total loss is estimated at from $20,000 to $25,000. The trestle of the Wil mington Seacoast Railroad and its track aggregatlr'g in extent about three miler isa wreck and the daumaze is conserva tiely estimated at from $40. 000 to $50, 000. At Wrightsville Sounds on thi mainland, about otne milc this side of the beach, considerable da mag e was also done and this is estimated at severai thousand dollars. The two large sum mer hotels on the beaeh were not de sroyed, br~t were damaged to somue ex te-t. At Carolina Beach, near the mouth of the river, there are about twenty-fiv< ottages, boat and club houses, and also a large hotel. A bout eighteen oi these totally destroped and the remain ing-badly damaged. The loss is plac at from $12 000 to $15,t000. BotI beaches were fortunaely deserted or, account of the .season. A special from Southp'ort says that there was considerable damiage along the witer front there by the storm. but no loss of life reportai. A small pas senger steamer and a tug, the Alexan der Jones, were ba ctied. No othet news or damage to sbigping has reach ed here. The Clyde steamer New York, Capt Ingam, arrived from New York Tuies day afternoon. She encountered thi store off Frying Pan light ship, but rode it out with only sli~ght damage to her sargo of general merchandise. The damage in Wiimington along the( wharves by reason of the high tide iui morning wti approximate a bout $2,000.. The maximum velcity of the wind here was estimated at from 75 to 90 miles per hour. THE'BLOW IN CHARLESTON. One Child Killed by a Falling House. A Fifty-Eight Mile Wind. The Carribeanu storm passed by Charleston at 2 o'clock Tuesday morn g, sending the barometer down to 29.07 and producing a wind velocity of 58 miles an hour a few hours previous. The wind attained a velocity of 50) miles at 9) o'clock last nigbt and in creased in force until the 58 mile was reached, at which it blew for some time. Ee~eral small framue houses were blown down, among which was a negro house on Coning strcee. where a 5 year old child was ki!!eli ar'.d several other people were woun:ed by tlie fahing timber. Si-tes, t:n and tiles were loosened and torn off :oofs and hurlea into the streets. fences and trees were blown down, shutters were wrenched off telphn telegaph and electric wires were ciawaged and much other propjtertv was damaged. The shipping intert:,ts in port were not hurt, special preparations having been made in the way of putting out additional anchors and hawsers. Auxiety is felt for the larec fleet of vcs-els, which sailed from Charleston Saturday and Sur -. The verdict of the eoroner's jury a inquest over Alonzo Boyd, the Negro boy killed in the falling of the house on Coming street. was that *the deceased canme to his death by misfortune or ac eident, as a result of the falling of a house and the act of God," etc. Damage at Virginia Beach. A dispatch from Norfvlk says the storm in that sceion was vcry severe Monday nizht. .About I o'clock that urorniiii the wind increased in velocity to .7S iniles an hour. Very little da age was done in Norfolk. but at Vir inia Beach tishing nets, pounds. uoard walks. fencing. etc., was washed ;wny. The loss there is estimated at :10.~000. The three riasted schooner Kate Darhneten was wrceked on O)ean View Beach, having been d:iven high and d-y at 1 a. n. by the wind. In ,assirg through the Capes Monday sight shc was run into and badly e.pplcd by an unknown steamer. Her anchor would not hold. The Darling ton was retuining from Atlantic City, wh(re she had conveyed a eargo of lumber. The ides were unusually hih. _ STATE THANKSGIVING. Gov. M. B. McSwneney Issues His Proclamation to the People. Gov. McSweeney Wednesday issued the following Thanksgiving proclama don: The people of this State have been iburdantly blessed during the past year. Gratitude is one of the Chris ian virtues. We should give thanks at all times. 'Men too often forget the goodness of God. There should not Only be gratitude in our hearts, but ,here are times when we should give visible evidence and audible express on to that gratitude. We have been remarkably free from pestilence and ,courge. We have been permitted to .Iant and to garner. The rains have onie and the earth has yielded her fruits and we have been allowed to en joy the labor of our hands. We have made progress in manufacturing the roduct of our fields and our forests. It has long been customary to take one iay out of the three hundred and sixty tive when we shall cease from the toils >f our labor and render thanks to the Giver of all good for the many bless ngs we receive. To the end, there fore, that we may, with thankful acar:s show appreciation of the tender care of our Heavenly Father. 1, M. B. MleSweLey, governor of South Caroli ca, in conformity to the proclamation of the president of the United States, lo hereby appoint and set apart Thurs lay, the 30th day of No-:ember, 1S99, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer to ,e kept and observed by ail the people .f this Statt. Let all public Oficecs be closed and ill private business and labor of every zind cease and let the people assemble in their accustomed plaes of worship and render thanks with grateful hearts to their Creator and Preserver for the olessings of life and liberty and happi ess which they daily receive. Let he people on this day also remember he fatherless and not forget that the poor and the needy yo.u have with you la ays, and that a ecare told by Him who :ade the great saerifice for us that it is more blessed to give than to receive, and by our own deeds of charity prove :he sincerity of our gratitude. U. testimony whereof, I have here unto set my hand arnd caused the great seal of the State of South Carolina to be affixed. Done at the Capitol, in the city'of Columbia. this 31st day of Oct obr, A. D). 1899. M. B. McSvtney. B: the governor: M1. Rt aCoper, Secretary of state. SAd for Freight. The ad-;crtisemnent in The Green ille %ews f or the sale of a number of inlaimed freight packages containing ,ehool charts, school books and school ~urniturc consigned to W. W. Tutwiler, calls the adventures of that smooth .i:z:n in working cfi on unsuspecting tnd innocent school truatoes qiantities f public tehool paraphernalba at what .ere said to bc exorbitant prices, and the charge that Superintenemit of Ed .cation W. D. May dield was t sufici ntly watchful to spoil his game. Noth irg could be l.:arned here yest.erday ~but these pa.:kages nor where Mr. utwiler hatt gone. All that wa <nown at the freight office was that the packages were shipped here from 'reenwood and Ninety-Six, where they remained unclaimed for six months. \r. Tutwiler apparently did not think ai goods worth the freight charges and is probably in some other State seeking ew worlds to conquer.-Greenville News. Two Schooners Wrecked. Advices from Morehead City, N. C., say: The three-masted schooner Tbares S. Davis, Somers Point, N. J., froum Savan nah for Pniladelphlia, lum t r iaden. is ashore at Bogae inlet.25 miles west of 3Morchead Cityv. The yes -el abd cargo are a total wreck. The crew of ciatht men were all saved. The vessel was commanded by Capt. John W. Adams of Pimiladelphia. lHe is now at 3Norehead with his crew. The bre e masted schooner Thomas L James f Kcyy port N. J., is also ashore at Bo ue inlet. She is lumber laden, from Savannah for Philadelphia. The cargo and vessel are in bad condition. The crew of eignt were all saved. Capt. Pierce reports the worst storm ever seen on this. east. Lost at Sea. The t.co-mnasted schooner Stonewall, Capt. Milliken. from W~Xiliniggan to Si llotte N. C.. w ithI a cargo of mner chaudi'e, v~as caucht in the recent sorim af er she had entered Shallotte iver and wa blow a out to sea. Ves sel' cargo, v~ith crcew. supplosed to be lst. Two miasted setboonier Lee, Capt. Willim-ton, bound from Shallotte with argo of naval stor.e and produce given up as lost. The little tuig Woodward of the Cape Fear quarantine station and a small launch, talso -belonging to the governmcnt, were broken loose thae mnmiingo-annd sunk in the storm. ALL BUT ONE LOST. The Sole Survivor of a Wrecked Steamer Reaches Charleston. ON WRECK 22 HOURS. The Lumber-Laden Steamer G. L Colwell and All Aboard Except Captain Gaskill, Lost in Storm. Another tale of shipwreck and suf fering comnes from Charleston. The steamer Navahoc. Capt. Staples, arriv ed there Wednesday morning from New Yrk. Monday she encountered the gale, stood out to sea and hove to for I hours. Tuesday, about 50 miles east of Charleston lightship she rescued Capt. John Gaskill, sole survivor of the crew of the steamer George L. Colwell, of Detroit, bound for New York from Fernandina, Fla., with a cargo of lui ber. Capt. Gaskill was clinging to a piece o' wreckage of his lost vessel to which he had clung for 2" hours. Capt. Staples and his officers dis played care and skill in rescuing Capt. Gaskill. At first a skiff was lowered with a picked crew: this was smashed against the iron hull of the steamer and the crew st-'uggled manfully in the angry sea until hauled in by life- lines. Capt. Staples steamed near the vcck age, a line was thrown to Capt. Gas kill, who made it fast around his waist and was hauled aboard. He had been badly bruised. le was kindly cared for on board and is now in St. Francis Xavier infirmary here progressing favor ably. The following particu'ars of the wreck we elip from the News and Cour ier: Twenty-four hours overdue and con siderably shaken up by an encounter with the Carribbean Sea hurricane, the stanch Clyde steamship Navahoe, Capt Staples, came into port Wednesday. Hardly had the gang plank been secur ed when the captain, accompanied by a pale-looking stranger, came ashore and a carriage was called to take the sick man to St Francis Infirmary. "That man," Capt Staples said to inquiries, is the captain cf the steamship Geo. L Colwell, wrecked off this port Monday mornin&, and we picked him up fifty niles east of here Tueslay afternoon. He was cut ar d bruised by shifting lum ber and stuff before the vessel was wrecked ind is otherwise badly shaken up, so he gees to the repair shop for a bit. I think be will come out as good as new, but he was pretty shaky when we hauled him aboard. "We bad a dusty time of it our selves," oontinued .tbe captain, when urged to give fui ther particulars. "You see, we came out of New York Satur day afternoon and caught bad weather right along When off this coast we ot into the very teeth of the hurricane and lay-to for eighteen hours, going to sea probably fifty miles. Monday was a hard day and the night was worse. Tuesday morning the seas were running very high and the wind was terrific. At about 12 30 o'clock I went up on the ridge, after being below a short time, ad the mate said: "We are passing a ot of wreckage.' 'Keep a sharp look ut, then,' I repliel, 'for we may find some poor fellow afloat on it.' With the words scarcely out of my mouth, I toy)k p the glasses and, sweeping the water n all sides, discovered a man on a raft bout half a mile to the eastward. The whistle was blown and even at that dis ance we could see, through the glasses he frantic signs of joy made by the one mariner. "I ordered out a boat as soon as we ame near to the tiny raft, but it was stove in before it could be lowered into he water. Then I decided to move the Navahoe up to the raft and ware round o windward, taking great care not to ollide with the frail support which up. eld the shipwrecked man. A rone was inally gotten to the man on the raft nd with difficulty he was pulled up on he Navahoe's deck. - lie managad to ell us his name and the fate of his hip, the Geo. L. Colwell, and then ave out. for he had clutig to a few panks for nearly twenty-four hours and iad not had food or rest for nearl) wice that length of time. We did what we could to make him comfort ble on the Navahoe and he will stop at he Infirmary here until he is himself gain." THE stRTIVoR S STORY. Capt. Gaskill was lying in a little white bed at St. Francis Iafirmary when a Reporter calkcd and asked for a stor3 f the wreck. "We sailed from Fernandina, Fla., Saturday morning," he said, "with a argo of 400,000O feet of pine lumber. ad, with variable winds, was off Char eston, say fourteen miles, heading east nd north for Cape Rbmain, at about 2 clock Mouday morning, when the heavy blow struck us, but the weather had been bad Sunday afternoon. The ~quall was northwst, veering to north eat. and the cross seas were fearful. The' ship strained and behaved badly from midnight and at 2 o'clock the engines were working miserably. A little later the terrible rolling had thrown ashes and coal about s' much that the pumps became choked. 1 had put out the cornucopia drag and then the anchor, with forty fathoms of chain, but neither helped us at all, and when, a little later, the engines stop ped, we wallowed in the trough of the sea. Two gangs were working with buckets and a acek pump, but the wa ter gained on us rapidly. At about 4 o'clock the Colwell was so low in the water that a heavy sea swung it almost over anct dumped the decked load of lumber. With it went the after drek house and smoke stack. There were nine men in the after house and we never even so much as heard-a cry as they went to their grave beneath the seething waters. After relieving her self of the deck load the Colwell ri.ghted and plunged on for a time, one minute high on a wave, then down in the valley, with the boiling foam above us. It must have been two hours later that a great crash came. Louder to us than ver was the horrible roar of the ocean. and the Colwell split in two about amid ships. There were only five men then sb ard arnd we were thrown violently into the sea. Half crazed as I was al ready, I had still the instinct to strike ou ndr fo m-ething floating. I fourd a piece of timber and crawled upon it. Once I saw, on the crest of a wave, one of my late cotmradcs, ([ think it was Mate Neilson.) but only for a moment, ai he was gone. Then such a battle as I had for life! Not for all the gold in the universe would I go through such an- experience again. The sea was running mountains high and many times wrestcd from me the drift. I caught it as often, until, spy ing a piece of the steaner deck about six feet square, I swain to it. For near ly twenty four hours I was alone on the sea. and you can judge my joy when I saw the steamtuhip Navalioe bearing down upon me. It was then early Tuesday afternocn. The work of Capt Staples in wearing around to windward and picking me up. aft-r disabling his smail boat, showed both seamanship and humanity." Capt. Gaskill could not recall the nimes of his entire crew, but said there were fourteen. all told, on bard. Neil son was first mate; Charles Oliver, sccond; William Murray. chief en neer: Charles Rockfelk r, assistant engineer; William Mackenzie, steward. All on board were white men and were shipjd in New York, Capt. Gaskill's home is in loboken, N. J., atd he was the only married ian on the ill fated vessel. THE GEO. L. COLWELL. The steamship Geo. L. Colwell was a wooden vessel. bui't in ISS at Bay City, Michigan, and for a long timie used as a freighter on the great lakes. It was bought by the Yellow Pine Lumber Company of New York a short time ago and put in the coastwise business. It was of 447 t ;ns gross and 371 tons net register, and %as loaded when wrecked with 400,000 feet of lumber. It is understoud that the vessel was insured. Five voyages had been made between Fernandina and New York be fore the one which began last Satur dAy. FERTILIZERS GOING UP. How the Trust Will Get: Its Money Back. In view of the fact that the piic, s of all manufactured fertilizers had materi ally advanced recently a Reporter for Phe News and Courier called on Messrs H. M. Tucker& Co., brokers in ferti lizers and fer:ilizer materials, and ob tained the following statement from Mr. 1I. M. Tucker regarding the situa tion: "The probabilities are that there will be a sharp advance in the general prief s of fertilizers. The prices of fer tilizer materials have materially advanc ed and will advance still more, in con sequence of whien the manufacturers of fertil'z2rs will be cmpelled to advance the price of the manufactured article to meet this advance of raw material. The prices of fertilizers have for sev eral years been on a very low basis, but the cost of the material has responded to the g2neral advance in the c)st of raw material in all of the industries, and that will necessitate an additional cost of the manufactured article, as, for instance, phosphate rock is now trom $1.50 to 1.75 per ton higher than it was last year and the sul phurin pyrites is also from $1.25 to $1.50 per ton higher, and the same applies to the cost of all am n iatcd ingredienis, as well as the advance that has been made in the price of labor, and of the gener al running supplies, machinery, etc. necessarily used in the manufacture of fertilizers. This altogether would mean that the cost of manufacture and of material would average ov'er the cost of last year from $2 2S to $2 40, and this will necessitate a proportionate advanein the cost of the manufactur ed article. "The trade may look there fore for a continuel average higher price for fertilizers this year than last ofover $2 per ton. "It is fortuuate for the up-country that the advanced prices of cotton and othcr articl es of production s'iou'd more than comnpen sate for this increased cost in fertiliz ers." LIST OF C ATUALTIES Total Number of Soldiers Who Suf fered During the Year. A recapitulation of the casualties in actions and deaths in the regular and volunteer armies between May 1, 189S, and June 30, 1S99, contained in the annual report of the adjutant general tf the army, shows a grand total of 10, 076 men. The casualty list alone ag gregates 3, 454, of whom 35 officers and 45S enlisted men were killed, arnd 197 *offieers an d 2.764 enlisted men woun ded. The death list, numbering 6.619, was made up of 224 offieers and 6.395 en listed men. 0: this total but 3S fficcrs and 45S enlisted men were killed, the remaind~r of the deaths resulting from various causes including the following: Wounds, 10 omfi.ers and 192 enlisted men; disease, 16-> officers and 5,:344 en listed men; accident, Gi '.fieers an-I 209 men; drownings, 3 officers and 85 men: suicide. 2 officers and 52 men, and mnur ders or homicide 52 enlisted men. In the regilar army the total casuaies in actions and deaths amounted to 4,155 and in the volunteer establshment 5, 921. In the casualty list the regulars had 127 offi-:ers and 1.850 calisted men killed and wounded and the volunteers 105 offieers and 1.36t colisted men kill ed and wounded. In the regular army bet ween A pril '30, 1898, and June 30. 1899, 917 enlisted men were discharged by sentence of general court-martial and 2 949 enlisted men de' erted Three (dIieers of the regular army who were killed also held commis:,ions in the volunteers forces in which they arc included in the above recapitulation. Witnesses Intimidated. The feudists charged with the murder at Manchester. Clzy county, Ky.. have comparatively easy sailing, as witnesses summoned to appear and testify agrainst them a ill not testify against the warring factions. Mrs. Sarah Collins. chief witness atp-inst James andi Millard Phil pot and AMlxander Fischer, chlarged with the murder of her hauaband, com mitted sticidc by taking poisoin; fear ing, it is claimed. to testify against them. Ozhcr feud eases have been postponed from day to day on account of absence of witnesses. who re-fuse to attend court and testify against the feudists, believing, they say, that their eviuce avinst the warring factions would imperil their lives A BLOODY BATTLE Between the British and Bcers at Ladysmith. THE BRITISH IS WHIPPED. They Lost Arti!lery and Ammu nition by Stampede of Mules in Night March. Fought to the Last. The British war office at London made public the following dispatch from Gen. Wlite describing the operations of Monday: "Ladysmith, Oct. 31, 7,50 p. m -I took out from Ladysmith a.brigade of mounted troops,'.two brigade divisions of the Royal artillery, the Natal-field b.attery and two brigades of infantry, to :econnoitre in force ;the enemy'4 main position to the north, and, if the op portunity shruld offer, to capture the hill behind Farquhar's farm which had, on the previous day been held in strength by the enemy. In connection with.this advance, a column consisting of the Tenth Mountain artillery, four half companies'of,- the Gloucesters and six companies of the Royal Irish Fusil 1ers, the whole-under Lieut Col Charl ton and Maj Adye, deputy assistant ad jutant general, was dispatched at 11 p. m.. on the 29th, to march by night up Bell's Spruit and Seize Nicholson's Nek, or some position near Nicholson's Nek. thus-turning the enemy's right flank. The main advance was success fully carried out, the objective of the attack being found evaeuated and an artillery duel between our field batter ies and the enemy's guns of positions and Maxims, is understood to have caused heavy loss to the enemy. The reconnaissance forced the enemy to fully disclose his position, and, after a strong counter-attack on our right, the infantry brigade and cavalry having been repulsed, the troops were slowly withdrawn to camp, pickets being left on observation. Late in the engage ment the naval e ntingent under Capt Lampton of H. N. S. Powerful, came into action and silenced, with their ex tremely accurate fire, the enemy's guns of position. The circumstanceswhich attended the movements of Lieut Col Carlton's column are not yet fully known, but from reports received the column- ap pears to have carried out the night march unmolested until within two miles of Nicholson's Nek. At this point two boulders rolled from the hill and a few rifle shots stampeded the in fantry ammunition mules. The stam pede spread to the battery mules, which broke loose from their leaders and got away with practically the whole of the gun equipment and the greater portizn of the reeimental small arm ammuni tion. Tie reserve was similarly lost. The infantry battalions, however, fixed bayonets and accompanied by the Der sonnel of the artillery, seized a hill on the left of the road two miles from the Nek. with but little -opposition. There they remained unmolested till dawn, the time being occupled in organizing the defense of the hill and sonstructing stone sangars and walls as cover from fire. At dawn a skirmishing attack on our position was commenced by the enemy, but made no way until 9 30 a m when strong reenforcements enabled them to rush to the attack with great energy. Their fire became very search ing and two companies of the Glouces ters, in an advance position, were or dered to fall back. The enemy then pressed to short range, t1M losses on our side becoming-very numerous. At 3 p in our ammunition was practically exhausted, the position was captured and thc survivors of- the column fell into the enemy's hands. The enemy treated our wounded with- humanity, Gen. Joubert at once dispatching a letter to nme, offering safe conduct to doctors and ambulances to remove the wounded. A medical officer and parties to render first aid to the wounded were dispatched to the scene of action from Ladysmith last night, and the ambu lances at dawn this morning. T be ffant of success of the column was due to, the mistottune of the mules stampeding and the consequent loss of the guns and small arm ammunition reserve. The otlicial list of casualties and prisoners will be reported shortly. The latter are understood to have been sent by rail to Pret,aria. The security of La dysmith is no way af~xted" Imprnsoned for Kissing. From New Haven. Conn., comes the story of the undoing of a Yale fresh man, and the sorrows o.f his sweetheart, and with the story comes proof that the old blue laws of colonial New Eng land have not entirely passed away. Stephen 0- Lawrence, a member of the freshman. class at Yale, was the escort of Miss May Carroll, a pretty young girl of New Haven, to- the theater where they saw Uncle Tom's Cabin. Losing themselves in the story beirng acted before them, they soon grew mel low in disposition and sympathetic in heart, of which they gave evidences later on. After the performnance Law rence took his yovns lady to an ice cream festival. The comb'nation of Uncle Tom's Cabin and ice cream was too much for the young man, and con sequently as he left the festival, it hav ing become necessary to aid her in the adjustment of her wraps, he bent low and touched her ruby lips with his. Being only a freshman, and therefore unskilled in osculation, the young man made such a resounding smack that a nearby policeman was awaken from his slumubers and bore down upon the frightened couple, escorting them to the police stati-an. The following morning the stern old judge, a puritani cal soul, sentenced them each to fifteen days in jail. Haselden's Side. In last wee's issue we published some extracts from letters written to Uutz charging that Hlasdlden received nu merous presents of liquor and beer from hauses coing. or desiring to do, busi ness with the State Board of Control and that he shared these with his friends and neighbors. In reply to this ebarmze Haselden pnblishes a letter signedi by thirty-five of his neighbors in Marion county certifying to his high character ano speaking of him in the CONFEDFRATE RECORDS. Colonel Thomas Wants Certain Infor mation About Them. Col. John P. Thomas is working dili gently towards getting up the Confeder ate records of this State, without the financial support of the State and that is all the more reason why he should be given the data he so earnestly asks for. It is a burning shame th:at tie record of this State in the late war is not yet complete, and Col. Thomas shows why it is so difficult to com plete the records. He makes this state ment. Columbia, November 1, 1899. In response to the circular letter of the undersigned calling for corrections and amendments to "River's Ac.ount of the Raising of Troops in South Car olina for State and Confederate Ser vice, 1861-65," to be handed in or re ported by November 1, 1399, the follow ing survivors have responded being one half of the number called upon: Orr's regiment rifl..s, Sergt Major Hemphill. Fifth regiment, Col Asbury Coward. Twenty-fourth regiment, Col Ellison Capers. Twentieth -regiment, A. S. Salley, Jr. Watie's artillery, Sergt Bridges. 'Twenty-sixth regiment, Col J. H. Hudson. Eighteenth-regiment, Col W. H. Wal lace. Fifth cavalry, Col:Zimmerman Da vis. Lucas battalion, Major J. J. Luzas. Second artillery, Capt T. K. Legare. German Artillery, Capt Theo Mel chers. St Helena Mounted .Rflemen and Palmetto Battalion Artillery, Lieut T. G. White. Second cavalry, Adjt. J. W. Moore. Eighth regiment, Major T. E. Lucas. First regiment regular3, Col Wm Butler. Fourth cavalry, Col Wm Stokes. Seventh regiment, Capt J. H. Brooks. Second foreign battalion, Lieut Col F. H. Brooks. Hampton Legion, Lieut S. E. Welch, acting adjutant. Palmetto Sharpshooters and.5th regi ment, Col Joseph Walker, Sixth and 9th regiments,-Major J. L. Coker. First cavalry-and 7th cavalry, Lieut W. G. Hinson. Twenty-first regiment,-. Fourteenth,.. regiment,- Col J. N. Brown. Charleston battallion and 27th regi ment, Col Julius A. Blake. Historic matter, Col Ed McCrady and Capt W. A.-Courtenay. The time for additional responses is hereby extended to D. cember 1 next. The foundation of the hi-tory of the part taken by- South Carolina in the war between the States, 1S61-65. rests upon the complete and accurate a count of the raising of troops in the State for State and Confederate service. The duty of s-irviviug offi-ers and men to make the record as full as pos sible is a self-evident proposition. Hence it is urged upon former com manding officers, living, to whom Riv ers' pamphlet was sent, and who have not thus far responed, to make answer by December 1 next. John P. Thomas, State Historian of Confederate Records. HESTER'S C0 lTON STATEMENT. The Crop Half Million Bales Behind Last Year. Secretary Hester's New Orleans cot ton exchange statement issued Thurs day covers the monthly movement to October 31. Compared with last year, the month is behiud in round figures 549 000 bales and behind year bef ire last 152,000. The amount brought into sight for the two months of Septem ber and October shows a decrease of 396 320 under last year, a decrease of 109,16U under the year before last. The movement from the first of Sep tember to Octocer 31st showvs receipts at all United States delivery ports 1. 916,3S5, against 2,414 060 last year; net overland movement by railroads across the Mississippi, Ohio and Poto mac rivers, 299,430, against 192,791 last year; southern mill takings, exclu sive of quantity consumed at s ,uthern outports, 269,863, against 245.463 last year; interior stocks in excess of those held at the commencement of the sea son, 3t'6,491, against 396.174 last year and 311,750 same tiwe in 1896. These make the total amnounit of the crop brought into sight during the two months ending Oct. 31st, 2,8->2,160, against 3,243,491 last year. Forei.gn exports for the first twro months of the season have been 1,242, 89S, showing a decrease under last sea son of 177,946. Stocks at the seaboard and the 29 leading southern interior markets at the close of Oatober were 1,473,6S1, against 1,523,871 the same date last year. Including ports and interior towns left over from the previous season and the number of bales of the current crop brought into sight during the two months, the supply has been 3,471,067, against 3,516.057 last year. Up to this date last year 23 Si per cent, of the cotton crop had been mar keted, and for the same months in 1897 the percentage of the crop br~ught into sight was 26 44, and for the same time in~1896 the percentage marketed was 36. Sound Advice. The prices of fertilizers are rising. So arc all other prices. A big cottou rop will surely be sold at a low price and cheap cotton with everything else :ear will mean ruin for the South in 1900. Let farmers learn. The drought has been a blessing to them. It cut own the cotton crop and brought bet ter prices. Heced the lesson. Sow abundantly of wheat and oats. Wheat is a cash crop now. Make some meat t home, make plenty of corn, begin he year's work with the firm purpose to make cotton the surplus crop. An ther great cottmn acreage will be smi idal and will check the prowerity we re only beginning to feel.-Greenville News. Infant Burned to a Crisp. The home of Rev. W. A. MacDonald bout seven miles from Coiquitt, was1 ~lestroyed by filue early WXednesd3ay. orning. Oae of the infant childreni ef in the house was burncd to a crispn. THE FAMER'S WIFE. A Word for the Housekeepers of the Country. At the late convention of wheat growers in Greenwood, Mr. C. H. Jor dan made a touching and appropriate plea for the farmer's wife. 'While we are advocating a revolu tion in our farmfng methods, permit me to make a plea for the farmer's wife. Give her every possible diversion which your limited means will permit. Make the home life attractive and inviting. Every farm in the country shoud-have its garden of bright flowers and varie gated shrubberies. Nothing brightens a room more or is apt to receive the tender care of a woman than flowers. Indulge your wives and daughters, as often as possible, in that greatest of all boons to women-social pleasures. Every neighborhood should have its woman's social club devoted to litera ture, sewing or lovely conversation. Women on the farm should be of the highest order of intelligence." J. H. C., in the Carolina Spartan, says: "Not long since we published some valuable communications about the advantages or danger of a country life for young people. We now want expressions of opinions from the good women, the mistresses of the farm houses, on the social country life they lead or wish to lead. The men on farms have many ways in which they meet their neighbors. Election days, sale days, court week, muster days, tax-pay ing days, market days and other times throw the farmers together. Butit is not so with their good, home-keeping, home-loving wives. Big meetings come on occasionally, and between ser mons the well-filled baskets are brought out and are freely shartd with visiting friends, acquaintances and strangers. The pleasant intercourse enjoyed on such occasions is really close akin to tly more distinctly religious exercises within the church walls. Genial, un selfish interest in the welfare of others is a good field for religious truths to fall in and bear good fruit. Let not tha busy home-keeper think that all the preparation-- she makes for such occa sions is only outside, secular, worldly. In feeding the hungry she may feed herself, and even an unseen divine guest. And, then, country people are seldom cold or distant when a neigh bor's house is singled out for a visit from the angel of affliction. Then the little worries and complaints between people are forgotten, and a sick little child may become a great peace-maker. But, aside from all these, farmers' wives need other occasions of social enjoyment and recreation. We take fot granted you have some musical in struments in your home and that you have good, fresh, attractive reading matter for parents and children. Now what plans have you to share these comforts or luxuries with your friends, whose dinner horn you hear every day? We are not now thinking about "par ties," that tire you for days to prepare for them, and for weeks to recover from them. We mean cheap, simple, restful, healthfal occasions on which young and old may meet and be really and sensibly happy together, go home at proper hours, in proper spirit, com forted. refreshed, strengthened enri.ghed by the flowing together of human hearts and numan sympathies. Orange Blossom Special. Capt. Jack Allison ran an orange blossom special Thursday night- from Trenton, S. C., to Charlotte. He had seren bridal couples on board-at one time-five white and two colored. The white brides were "all pretty and timid," Capt. Allison said. They were spotted as soon as they got aboard, and the rest of the passengers forgot to watch the scenery, so intent were they on watching the newly-married lovers. Capt. Allison has been running on the road for 23 years. and this is the first time he har hauled so many brides and grooms on one train. One couple came from Trenton; two from Columbia; one from Blackstock; two from Chester and one from Rock Hill-all South Carolin ians. -Charlotte Observer. A Fatal Runaway. Miss Sallie White was killed at Hun tersville, 14 miles east of Greenville, on Wednesday afternoon by being thrown fro~n a buggy. She anid Mrs. John White were out driving, and when near the Hu'ntersville store the horse became frightened and ran. Both the ladies were thrown out of the buggy ,about the same time, but Mrs. John White was not seriously injured. SThe acci dent occdrred about 4 o'clock, and Miss White died about midnight from inter nal injuries. No bones were broken. Killed at a Party. A dispatch from Cheraw to the State says the negroes there were considera bly excited Thursday over the murder of a young negro man nemed Ed Sel lers. sThere was a party at a house near town and a large number of negroes who are working on the railroad attend ed. Several of the town darkies went there and a general row was the result. Pistols were drawn and 10 or 15 shots were fired. Ed Sellers was hit in the stomach and died in about an hour after No others were hurt. It has been im possible to locate the person who did the shooting, as there were a number engaged in the flght. Many Wars. We are so busy with watching our own war in the Philippines and the British-B~oer conflict in Africa that probably the greater number of us have overlooked the fact that Belgium is having alittle war of her own in her :lendency, the Congo Free State, that Itaiy~is about to have a brush with Morocco, and that there are revolutions zoing on in Venezuela and Columbia. The mai~kers of guns and ammunition >uehlt to be enjoying a season of great prospenity. A Good Suggestion. Messrs. Ilaselden and Ouzts will kind v retire to the remote recesses of the ack yard where the jimson weeds and >egar lice and cockle burrs are grow ng agrainst the fence, and there eon luet the rcmainder of their controversy, -emaining until it is completed. If it s never completed they will oblige us >y continuing to remain all the same. i.t the present time we regret to have o announce that they fatigue us. U-eenville News. KILL THEIR UNCLE Result of Inquest Over the Body of a-Murdered:Man. A MYSTERIOUS FAMILY FEUD. Two .Brothers and a Cousin, All Named Johnson, Were Engaged in the Killing. Another murder is reported from the uppeir part, of Greenville County. The killing took place between 3 and 4 o'clock, on Tuesday, Oct. 31, within a few hundred yards of Marydell, where there is a country store and postofce, and the victim was Jesse W. Johnson, an elderly man, who was shot in the breast by his nephew, George Johnson, with whom he had been on disagreeable terms for quite a while. George eame to Marydell badly used up in a battered condition, which led to an investigation, and the facts were-revealed that ho-had shot his uncle, who died in a few min utes. An inquest over the body re sulted in a verdict that he came to his death by a ;'istol shot from the hands of George Johnson, and that Marshall and Avery Johnson were aseessories thereto, all of -them being nephews of of the deceased. George and Marshall are sons of Oliyer Johnson and Avery is the son of John Johnson. Two -other brothers of the ideeessed M. M. and D. N. Johnsons testifed-at the inquest. The origin of-the trouble was not brought-out-in the testimony and still remains in doubt. A, eitinea of the neighborhood met the yozg men en the way to their unole's house and George said they were going to set tle the difficulty with him, which the neighbors knew existed. Another story is that George-said-he was-going toset-' tle with his uncle for work done, but there was no evidence on these-points. M.. M. Johnson, one of the deceased's brothers, saw part of the difficulty, and swore that Marshall and his brother were fighting at the Johnson saw mill or near ithere, Geoige made a grab at the deceased by the arm, and he caught George, who dewa-pistol.andfired-the fatal shot. Avery Johnson claimed-the-pistol af terwards, when all three of the ne phews went away from the place where the shooting had occurred, which was within 50 yards of the deceased's home. Avery took no part in fight and Jesse Johnson had a rock in his hand, but did not use it, nor did he hit George during the altercation with Marshall. George had the pistol in his hand going toward thue deceased-whenM. .M. John son first saw him. D. N. Johnson, another brother of the deceased, saw the fight from a dis tance, and knowing the previous trouble he ran to them. He caught hold of Marshall -and they fell to the ground and he did not know that Jesse was killed until af ter.kis separation from Marshall. Mrs. Aletha Johnson, wife-of the de ceased, testified that George, Avery and Marshall came near to the house and called for their uncle, who went out to them. He was met by Marshall and the others went to the road. Mars shall struck her husband and the othiers came back, George with something in his hand, and struck his uncle in she face, when she heard Marshall, say, "Shoot him quick." The evidence was confined nearly al together to relatives, and the examina tion failed to reveal the case of the trouble. _________ Arbor Day. -The following circalar has been is sued by Mr. MeMahan in reference to arbor day: To the County Superintendents of Ed ucation. The legislature, by an act approved February 16, 1898,.has directed "That the free public schools of this state shall observe. the third Friday in No vember of each year as Arbor Day, and on that day the school officers and teachers shall conduct such exercises and engage in the planting of such shrubs, plants and trees as will impress on the minds of the papils the proper value and.appreciation to be placed on flowers, ornamental shrubbery and shade trees." Until the observance of this day in our schools has become an established custom, it may be overlook ed unless specially brought to the at tention of the teachers. You will, therefore, urge upon all the teachere of your countyto celebrate _the dayfLu their schools. John J. McMahan, State Supt. of Education. Three Men Kilied. A distressing .nccident occurred Thursd.y morning on the Georgetown and Western railroad. The leg train of the Atlantic Coast Lumber eompany loaded with-timber, was backing down to Georgetown, when it struck a oow, which derailed six cars, th'rowing them over the side of the track, killed three colored men and badly injaring three others, besides injuring a fine horse used in loading.,.logs. .The- dead and woundei were carried to Georgetown and taken care of by the lumber eem pany people. Mrirried Nine Times. Wesley James, an old Ncgro, whose home is in Charlotte, has one -of the most remarkable histories we have ever heard of. He has been married nine times. Eight of his wives are dead, and he now lives with the ninth. He s 75 year Ad and is hale and hearty. His oldest children, twins, are 55 year3 ld, and his youngest, twins also, are 12 months old. James says he is the father of 56 children, and many of them he has not heard from in years. Charlotte News. Bad War Record. The Pennsylvania Republicans are probably sorry that they tried to "work he soldier racket" in their campaign ~or the state treasurership. The man hey nominated for the offlee was the leutenant colonel of the Pennsylvania egiment that want to the Philippines. nstead of having a walk-over, as was robably expected, he finds that he is bliged to defend himself against rtty well substantiated charges of ~owardice and shirking in the face of he enemy. Meantime the Democrat ho is opposing him is talking busi