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The iVlarll>oro, Democra ??DO THOU, GREAT LIBERTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY FOR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." VOL.. BENNETTSVILLE, S C., FRIDAY. APRIL 7, 1905. NO.#;?: A SHARP REPLY By A. B. Williams to the Slan ders of Bishop Potter ABOUT THE SOUTH. The Editor Challenges the Slanderans New York Bishop to a Show of Hand? ar to the Moral Condi tion of His Diocese and the South Generally. Bishop Potter of New York is one of tho pet superstitions of Ibis c un try. He is part of the general New York superstition. Because New York ls big, most of us as ume tbat any man who becomes prominent tbere must* be a very large aud great man In deed. We persistently folget that as many fakirs, bumbugs aud light weights rattle and swell ure und in large places in New York as anywhere else In the wurld. As fur Blshi p Put ter, he has 3ald and done as many silly things ?.8 any old gentleman we know of. A recent experience of his Indi cates that his manners are as bad as bis morals In sume respects are de fective, his judgment ls bad ard his arrcgance extreme. Some time ogo he undertook to di-cuss thu divorce qu s tion in a New York newspaper. As we recollect, be lluui.dered around the subject a gocd deal and failed abso lutely to make any definite suggestion or lo indicate any c li?rent pulley fi r his chuicu or for hgisla'lon. I i the courbe of his somewhat tl.ibby and cha otic remarks, however, he .?aid that the absolute abolition of divorce would not do. Ile added: "We have an ex ample of what would result from such a measure in South Carolina, where the law does not recognize lt. Pro Birdiing divorce is monly putting concubinage at a premium." This dues not impress us as a high or a church manlike view. Certainly concubinage is not at a premium anywhere in South Carolina. The editor of the Columbia (S. C.) State wrote Bi&hop Potter a very re upectful letter, pointing out to him that he had done the homes and peo ple of the State serious Injustice, re ferrlng him to the bishop and clergy Of hlB own ohurch in that State for evidence aud asking him to make oare ?ul?mqQfry Irita !th? TaatS^mrxhoir "take such steps as equity ann justice may dictate." In reply the editor received a most insolent letter from Bishop Potter, in directly denying that he had used the language attributed to him and de scribing thc editor's letter and ar ticle on the subject by .1 udge Benet, enclosed with it, as ' equally unwar ranted and impertluent." The editor of the State replied with another respectful letter, lu a perfect ly proper and deferential way, taking off the bishop's iiide. Hep .?nted out that the offensive paragraph bad been published prominently, that Bishop Potter had uot seen lit to make any denial or currectluu of un uutragcouM and shameful slander against the peo ple of a whole State aud tuat his de nial suggested in his own letter was as evasive as discuuriouus. A lew days hiter Bishop Putter printed in the. New York Glube a brief 3t.> cement on the subject, in which be sain he had no apology to make to South Carolir a and ext? nded his slander lu the people of the whole South, lie is quoted as Baying: "Ho had simply remarked that in view of the pievahnce of unset gena tlon in the South, ibo 'pose' ut lof. y and superior virtue on the part of its people any where had in it an element equally comic and pathetic." An accusation like this cannot h. sustained or disproved by statistics or amdavits. lt can be considered only in the light of general and oiivious facts. Virtue ls net a thing of sections or of countries. Ti.o good are good and the Dad are bad every whese ai d wherever human nature is, the alTic tionB and passions ot men and wornt ti ?tray in forbidden paths. One thing, however, ls certain and pam. That 1B that the moral t tit: is Infinitely eleanor and thc social standards are infinitely higher In South Carolina than in Bishup Potter's diocese. Cer tainly a woman divorced in m her hus band and married to another man in side of twenty four hours would not be received In respectable soeioiy any where In the South. Yet a woman who did that very thing is a leader of New York's most exalted society. Nobodj knows the secret aun?is of vice; bu> every observer who has mei arid known the people of New York and any Southern State knows that In tr.e South vastly less Huh is talked ann written than in New York. The natu ri*,, arid Inevitable presutiip.lon is that lives in the South -.(ire vt ry mueh oleanor. The woo?e'h wh^sec ind tic t and nvenation are so distinctly lund ana d as to Justify dotinite criticism is tabooed in every Southern State. Bish op Potter cannot say thal that ls ti.e case even in the highest arri theorot l cally most exclusive society uf his own community. It would be Interesting to know where Bishop Potter got his I m pres slons of the morals of the pt opie of the South and how he would go about justifying himself tor ciroulutu g such a cruel and Inlurlotis charge as that concubinage and miscegenation are. eneral in this part of the country Tho truth is that mbeegenatlon in lt? legal sense is impossible anywhere In the SoiKh because lt ls foroldaen and severely punishable hy law. We rio not hesitate to say that the charg that these vices aro general or evt n widespread In the South is falt?, and in making that assertion we will rio better than Bishop Potter. We will offer good evidence to convict him of falsehood if he is willing to dare the issue. We will put on the stand the Protestant Episcopal clergy of the whole South, from bishops to d-ac ns. They live among the pe iple and know them and have ample opportunity for knowing their life. Wo may assume -nd liv ole I that some of them, at least, are men who are not afraid to tell the truth in any circumstances or at any o ?st. For New York, we will take the com > ined evidence of the clergy, the courts and the newspapers. Like the editor of the State, we Invite Bishop Potter to take the evidence, or join us in taking it. If lt su?.tali s bis accusations, we will con ft as with shame, but frankly, that be ls right. If they contradict bim, will he be willing to confess that he bas circulated an outrageous and Infamous scandal and slander? We do nob care whether he attributes lt to ignorance, reoklessnoss or malice or to a misture of the throe. If he evades a simple and honest test like this, be will stand convicted of having dis graced himself by a wholesale Blan der unworthy of a gentleman and of having brought Bb am? and injury upon his own church, so far as his jurisdic tion extends.-Richmond News Load SOME PLAIN TALK Fruin a Northerner on tho Shackling of 1'roaldrnt Davis. "o the Editor of the Publio Ledger: So many letters have appeared in th.e newspapers lately, pro and con, regarding tho treatment of ex-Presl a? nt Jefferson Davis while a captive that 1 am surprised ono salient fea ture has hitherto esceped comment, ind I rely upon your liberal journal io print what I now desire to place aefore the fair mluded people of \merlca bearing upon tho manacling if th", distinguished prisoner of war. The Roman conqueror loaded his oap ,lve Kings with chains (some times if gold; but still chains) to grace his rlumph. We must go back 2,000 cars or near lt, to the day when the allant British Prince Caraotaous, in chains, graced a triumph in Rome, ile; pat.ra only saved herself by the sp from glorifying in chains, the rlumph of Octavius. But thia ls an leut blitory. In modern times, cruel ,nd vindictive as were the British to be fallen Hon, Napoleon and although hey, in their terror of him, condemn d him to a living death yet he was lever put in chains'. It -remained for the Dnlted Stat>s if A met lea, through their duly consti lUted authorities, to do a thins un irccedented In modern times, th* baining, like a convict, of the lead r of a brave cause, whose rights or eronga are not now In question. Tho irutal treatment of he aged and In Irmed statesmen i soldier by a rired blacksmith (c. ..ired sergeant, r general-it doesn't matter which, 0 my argument) was a deed which hould have brought then, and should iring now, the blush of shame to ev y tnan north- of Mason and Dixon's 1 ne, who countenanced, or who oontenatc.es. this outrage against he amenities of honorable warfare, nd against the courtesy due to a oldler, statesment and a gentleman, nd through him to a brave, though onquered people. JAMES P. DAVIDSON. Philadelphia March 22, 1005. A Bride Kills Huraell. Because her husband told ber he ctected her flirting with a former dmlror, Mrs. James Gabion, a bride f three hours, shot herself at Hunt tigton. "W. Va., Tuesday. The o u le were married, and about midnight rent to the home prepared by tbe room. Gallion twitted his wife . out the attention paid her during he wedding ceremony by au old weetbeart of hers. She resente.i htsj pleasantries, and In a tit of an ;er leaped from her bed and, rustling io a dressing c .se drawer, seized Gal lon's rev tiver. Not thinking she s as serious, Ga lion v at ohed ber as she daced the mt zz'.e of tho weapon b i ath her he art. The bullet tor* a earful w und In tho woman's side, .nd the Hash from the gun set Are to er lltmsy robo. Mrs. Gallion, who vas ab ut 20 years old, died as she vas being taken to a hospital. Demil} Dllosloil. Three men were killed outright and mother so badly Injured that he died i few hours later by an explosion at ;he Schaghticoke powder mills near Troy, N. Y., Tuesday. The men kill .d wore James While and Charles Col jurn of ila/.irdsvllle, Cinn., and limes Sprague and Albert Bartlett, he latter being new employes. Tito nen were at work in the corning mill .?hen the explosion occurred and dbe .;?use is not known. The bodies of luee of the victims were blown to rag men ts. The fourth victim, White was found 300 feet away, alive but he ?jUld no; recover. <?iive> Up ttl?) Dight. Henrv L. Woodward, an attorney ?f New V'urk city, and Charles A rJrouz, a traveling sa osman for the National Supply company of Tolodo 0:ilo, committed suicide in thel rooms at the H?henden hotel at. Cleveland, Ohio, sometime during Tuesday night of last week. Tho bodies of both men were found Wed nestiav afternoon. The coroner verdict In each case gives despondency over domestic*, and business troubles as the cause of the suicides. Both men had used a pistol and had sent a bullet Into their heads In almost the same spot, death In each oise hoing Instantan?' us. May Aa Wrll Quit. The Washington Pest believes that t'-e American peoplo are In earnest and that if the present Republican -.dministration docs not smash the trusts that lt will Itself be smashed at the next national eleotlon. The C lumb'a Stato says If that ba true, the G O. P. might as well go out of business right now. The trusts were not horn to dlo by tho hand of tho paity which gave them birth and which has ever after protcoted its off spring with a Jealous and fostering caro. Mother and child are mutually dependent. ItohOrtl Kejciatore? Detter-. Arthur* R. Whittier, a young man belonging to a prominent family at Jacksonville, li'ta., pleaded guilty In the federal court Wednesday to taking $500 from a registered lotter Wbitner was employed In the Jacksonville post ?nico as night registry clerk, and tho larceny was committed last summer' He was given a Ben tonco of ono years, imprisonment. HE HELD THE ML Some Anecdotes of tho Boyhood and College Life of Judge Prince, of tho Ninth Circuit. What a Citizen Said nurina * Torin of Court in Barnwell. And now, ''May lt please Your Honor. " Well, thos?. of us who knew him in bis younger days are not sur prised that lt is now "Judge Prince." The Judge always had a judicial mind and declared when a ohlld that he In tended to be a lawyer. How he con ceived that idea so early in life I can't Imagine. He was born eight miles from a Court House, and 1 have no Idea he was ever inside of one before he was seventeen years of age. But i lawyer be is, and no other mau low s his profession better than be. I know Judge Prince, I think, al most as well as lils wife dees. We were born within a mile of each other -the Judge and I. We played to {ether from our Infancy. We hunted together, fished together, went swiin ning in the sime "hole," and bad >ur backs blistered more than once. Together we egjoyed all th.? sports of ;be very live country bjy. Wich our ni,ob baskets and the blue back r.p.d er we started to school the hame oay; ind, on the same day, and from the ame hacd, we received our diplomas in the ramo platform. Since Judge Prince's election to the fudgeshtp I have recalled many imudng Incidents of cur boyhood lajs. The future Julge bad a high entre of honor and would Oght for the ight, or what he Ojuceivtd to be lght, anywhere and at any time. 1 yonder If he remembers kn.icking that 1 ellow in tho face who pullet, hi? pants 1 gainst the calf of bis legs after be iad stood before the blazing Are until 1 he cloth was hot enough to "burn 1 adV" In those days the boys wore \ antaloons, not these abominable hing8 called kneebrltohes. And ' diat great fires wo had with the Uro 1 lace extending almost- across the end < f the house. We warmed our bis- I ults and meat by sticking them on I harponed sticks aud holding in front 5 f the ire, or over red-hot coals. J )oes Prince remember pubing his 1 aeat out of the ashes when it t-1 pped ' fl* tbe stick? Future Judges and ? eaohers had to have their lunch, 1 shes or no ashes. They had been ' aught at home that hickory ashes 1 rere good for horses, and the young ! udge argued that they might be < ood for two-legged an?mala as well t guess they were. In one of our tish lug escapades (ind t &m Dot sure but that we ran nfl ! without pc.mission "th??tlmc, as the ? bream was swollen) we wore scated n a treu that leaned over the st?eam c nd not more than four or five f. et i bove the water. Cattisu were biting 1 ivenouBly and we were c atch!na them I tepidly. Suddenly som jibing carried ? he end of Prluce.'s pole underneath 1 he water and tugged at it vlolously. ? ?h6 young Judge bad no Idea of sur- ( er.dering that polo without a protest. < lo he threw lilmst-lf .- gainst il wltn f s much determination as he liss ever 1 sam (toted in tue defence of a client. < itter a brief struggle there appeared 1 hove the water a thining, twiting, truggling eel. Thao v,a? our th-.- < el and must be "borung" sui e. S3 'riuco drew tho snake-like thing to ! dm and caught it In his hand., > x- 1 lectlng me t*j free tbe 1'ook from 1 -, ' aoui? and htrlng lt. Ile bad scarce 1 y t?ken h<-ld of the s.ipp ry thing I isfore it Ht), ralid itself from the book 1 nd began to slip throagn his hands. 1 .'hat m? ant tnai lu two a- oonda the ' reat pr 2? would be back In the 1 /ator. Wnat did the youthful Nim- i od, the future Jud^e, co? Friends ' ?d fellow citizens, tie just nail d thai ' el with his troth, and, with me < bing wrlmli g end twisting ab ul ' Is bead and face, ran < ff that t.oe 1 ut lulu the ploughed gr und where 1 ie could dispatou him. Prince said ! ie didn't mind hoi lng the thing In '< ils teeth, but he didn't like tho taste I t left in his mouih. But the vic cry vas won-the eel was ours, and I hink made a heap lighter the hogg- ; ng we got for going to thc creek vlthont permlss'ou. ? No, Prince's college mates are not 1 lurpribed that he ls Jucigeand they lave no fear that the honor and d'g i illy of the Slate will s lifer at his lands. In college be was a blgh .oned gentleman who despised little neannesses of whatever kl-id and iherUhed high ideals. lll> class itanding was always Ura*-cla- s, and ils ltterary society work was supeib. Indeed, I doubt whether W. ll nd has ?vcr given to the world a bli mg? r or nore persistent debater. With him, io discuss any question with his poer* was a delight. Manning Smith used LO say that Prince would discuss with my body the question: Which ls the lop side of a battcroake? and give his opponent cindee of the bides. Last year Prince was appointed ipeclal Judge fora term of Court at barnwell. The Judge, had t vo or bhreo bumps on his bald head, not judi as would annoy or delight phre uologists, but bannies? little things the physicians call "wens." With lome friends the Judge was sitting [me afternoon in tho office of his hotel. An ardent admirer from the country, armed with a bottle of "Fuss X," walked bi and leaned against thc clerk's desk. When Ihe con versatlon lulled the countryman said: "Jedge!" "What is lt, my frlonei?" responded the Ju ge. "Jedge, I laks you." "Well," said the Judge, with some embarrassment, "I thank you for your good opinion of mo. "Yes, Jedge, 1 laks you-yes, slr, I laka your rulinV, but, Jedge. I want to toll you; you air tlie fus Jcrlge 1 uver seed with horns on lila head." Tho members of the bar present enjoyed thc Juke tm uensely, as c 11 the Judgi himself, but when the Judge returned to Anderson he bari I himself dehorned --Alumnus In South ern Christ 1 n Ad?" ct'_ Mina rUildr. d Li o t> ad. Miss Mildred Lee, youngest daugh ter of Gen. Robert Ll. L-e, dieri at New O leans Tuesdav night at the residence of Mrs. William Preston Johnston, while on a visit, lier death was due to appoplexy. A Man Shoots a Girl Five Times and Kills Himself. NEAR CONWAY, S. C. The Man Wanted to Marry tbe Woman and Because She Refused He Shut Her Five Times With a Pistol and Then Shot Himself Also. ? special dispatch to The State from Conway says one of the most aw ful and sickening tragedies which has ever occurred within the borders of this county took place Thursday morning about 7 o'clock, at Ilomowood station, on tho Coast Line railroad, four miles north of Conway. As Boon as tho news reached this placo the correspondent secured a hors J and buggy and went out to the scene a peaceful looking one-roomed board cabin, surrounded by a small clearing, planted in English peas and straw berries, In tbo midst of the pine woods. In the yard, almost In the spot where be foll, lay F. O Sessions, commonly known us "Buddie" Sessions, dead, with a bullet through his brain by his own hand, and on a table within the cabin, was stretched the prostrate form. of Belle Sessions, a young girl i)f 18 or 20 years of age, wounded in live places by the hand of the dead man lying outside. She and her mother, Betsy Sessions, lived together alone In the cabin, whiob ls on tho land of Mr. 3eorge Bray, for whom they worked as i&y laborers. From a'l that can be gathered, Sessions had been persecut ing this woman with his attention for nme time past, having threatened on several occasions to kill ber if she .vould not marry bim, although she was tho mother of two Illegitimate .hildren, the youl ger ol whom ls said :o bc bis child. lt seems that there was another maa in the case, now llv ng in Florida or Georgia, who was ihe favored lover, and who had sent m tickets for ber and her mother to jome and j in him; and they were to lave gone Wednesday, and had their .runks hauled into Conway, but were mable to leave on account of. some nht&Tco'or irreg"j_ -.v.i* th? tickets;'; Phe testimony of "tue mother, at tbe soroner'u Inquest, w<.s that she did not coow where they wero goingo nor who was furnishing the transportation; but :hat her only idea was to get away omewhere in order that the life of 1er obild might be spared. The knowl edge of the throats marl j by tue de ?eased were, mo:e or k.-s, a matter of Mmtnon information, and tm re are omu rumors lo the effeot that they lad even been called lo lue attention )f the > lllclals, who, however, had not ak n any action, thinking that the women were unnecessarily alarmed . v. r int' words. As neither mother nor daughter lave ever been lawfully married, their ii Ur.e b'jie a very unsavory reputation n the o mmuulty and no one would .ave remelted their departure had Shej gotten away on Weene.-<ia,y. Ju->t ?efi're the hour of the tragedy, the m aber went to the home of Mr. Bray LO borrow a pile .fork for her day'.-, work and after she left thc house Ses .ons, who must h ive been cone aled In foe wcods. awaiting Just such an pportunity, went up lo the cabin, mtortd, caught tho girl, who tried to un, pulled her out on the little piazza iud held ber with his left, hand while He pulled his revolver of 38 calibre and emptied every onamber iuto her body it arm's length. After releasing her, me staggered a fen- y eps and fell lu thc yard, whero she was found, with tier two small children crjlng over her, by those who tirst arrived upon the scene, lie then deliberately un breached his pistol, reloaded all the chambers, and, placlag the muzzle Juat behind his right temple, tired the shot which penrtrated the brain, com lng out on the oth^.r side of the head, J JBt above the left ear. Tho woman wa? wounded lu both arms, th?y bel?g broken between tho elbow and should cr, once Just below the leii breast, and twice Just below the right breast. She was attended by Dr. II ko BuriOUghB, ^ the coroner, and Dr. Joseph S. DUB u burry, b th of Cotway, and was still alive at 1 o'clock, though there ls no chance whatever of her recovery. A jury was empaneled, before whom a number of witnesses, were ex amined, both as to tba act ual facts of the tragedy and also as to the caus-. s and events leading up to it. The shots were heard by nevera), all of whom testified to the fact that they immediately surmised what had hap pened upon hearing tho tiring. The verdict of the jury was that tho de ceased came to his death by means of a pistol wouid Indicted hy himsrlf. The wi.inan was conscious when the d ctors reached her, and was able to make a statement concerning the shooting. Upon lier suggestion search was made In the pockets of the deceased which revealed a note he had written, making disposition of what little money ho had, and provid lng for the pavment of eertaln small debts; and which showed, beyond ail question of a doubt, that be went t< tlio house with tho fully formed pur p SJ of killing both her and himself In her statement the woman dc dared that Se slo.'is bad on forme occasions threatened not only to kill her, but also to mako an end of his own life, and that she had seen notes which ho had written In such expecta Hon. He said in thc note he left that be had steed her Hes Just as long as he could; and It w.is brought out In the testimony that some time ago he had met lier lu the public road, and at the point of a pistol, forced from her a promise of marriage undo threat of Immediate death-a promis which she had no intention of carry lng out Tue scene was certainly a patheilo and bizirre one, with the body of tue 1 deceasud lying on somy boards, hts face sheltered from the burning sun by an improvised shelter of pine tops; a few feet: away the quilts upon wbioh she had been laid; on the other hide of the houSJ tue fire around the black iron waohpot. fr. m wi ich water was being carried to the ph \ alelaos dress lng the wounds; the jury hearing the testimony seated upon the woodpile, surrounded by the u- uai orowd of gap ing, staring spectators, many of whom had gone out from Conway In bu glee and on wheels; add to this he repeated moan of the mother. "Ob, I tust wanted to getaway to save her life." WILL GIVE TJ8 TROUBLE. What an BnRllahman Saya About the Vtotorlous Japaaeia. "Even if Japan be victorious In its conflict with Russia, I can see nothing ahead of the masses of people of that race but & long period of tribulation," said Mr. JP. Rawdon, of London, Eng land, who ls at the New Willard and who has lived in Japan for many years, says The Washington Post. "It must not ba supposed that be cause the Japanese have displayed ex- 1 traordlnary military prowe&s that they 1 eDjoy good economic conditions, or J that there has been any great Improve- ( ment in the status of the common peo- \ plo since the abolition of tba feudal - system, some thirty-five years ago. x Tho masses still subsist on meals cost- ' lng from 2 to 6 cents, and the man i over there who ls able to eat a 50- 1 sent dinner is a grandee of the first c magnitude. Any very great chango 9 for the better ls Impossible In a oouu- c try that has only 148,000 square miles, 1 ind a population of at least 46,000, )00. Add to this that there is only t il per cent of arable land in Japan, C md It is obvious that for the multi- a Aide there ls no escape from the grind ng poverty and from long hours or I joorly paid toll. Modern methods 1 topled from the East have brought to 0 Tapan mftny newly established Indus- * .rles, but the poor people who crowd d heir factories work for wages that 0 he meanest laborer lo England or the t] Jnited States would scorn. C "Now with the inoroaslng hardships S hat the war entails, thousands cf Jap- v .nese after Ita close will wish to bet- w er their,condition by coming to the cl Jnited States, and I have not the I] lightest doubt but that they are going C o prove a source of trouble to your Y leople If ionie legislation of a restrio Ive ohar^aoter is not adopted. Wher- h ver they come they will work for h maller wages than Americans or any ti thor ^.blto mon, and this will beget r( n /^\i?atlon^v^aB was had in Cali- ? ?xa r ^^hjnese, and prob la ibiy r# iiu m uiie s&me'?xoiuoioii." i? " -:- rt Died fur Oc?er?. At New York fireman Samuel Lillie Q vas killed and several other tliemab tl ?ere injured by a cave-in in the sub- a] vay at the Ooe-hundred and Sixty- n light street statloo, which was burn- ?j id Thursday. Lillie and four others s tad beeu sent into the tunnel to wet j, lown the smouldering embers of the u Ire when a portion of the roof fell and A rushed Lillie. Tho others were only lightly hurt. Lillie lost his lifo lo u laving the life of one of his compan ons. B >th Lillie and a fireman nam- i td Cavanaugh, who were working side >y side, saw the cave-in as is started, t huh were directly underneath the ailing mass and both would have been f, irusbed had not Lillie thrown his vbole weight against his companion, ? )usulng (Javanaugh out of the way usc as the mass fell. Lillie w.ui crush ?d to death in an instant. & Will Do Good Work. ? Mr. A. S. Salley, Jr., was Wednea b lay chosen as clerk of the South Car- u illna Historical commissioner af tor a * competitive eiamlnatlon, In which a mmber entered. This ellice waa oreat r1 id at the last session of the legislature ind provides a salary of 81,000 a year w vt the last meeting of the commission tJ m account of the number of appll ;anta it was deolded to place tbe mat ier on a competitive basis and Mr. aalley was cbofien after a careful ex- J; imlnation of the pupers. Mr. Salley aaa been for some time the historical , ?dltor of the News and Courier and is .veli known throughout tho state, his c tbillty being unquestioned. Georgia Railroads Mer ?od, C Announcement was officially made t in Waycroas that the Wadley and s Mount Vernon railroad, the Douglas, t Augusta & Qulf railroad and the ? delila, Pino Bloom & Valdosta rail roads had passed Into now hands and 1 lhat tho management will be changed c In a short time. The purchasers of 1 the roads aro J. E. Wadloy. J. S. 1 Hidey and G. G. Parker, all of Way *. oross, and they have associated with i them woaltby parties from Augusta, i Douglas and other points along the s lines. It ls stated that the new own ers will at once proceed to build a line from Augusta, Ga., and connect with some point on tho Gulf of Mexico. IMoture Agent Bhor. A special from Newton, Mist., says: W. P. Smith, a travelling representa tive of a portrait company, was shot and instantly killed by Ray Tucker, a contractor and builder. Tho tragody occurred In the outskirts of the town. Tu; ker was driving when he met the plotuie agent and assorts that Smith was attempting t? draw a revolter when he (Tucker) tired. A difficulty had arls n br'tween Smith and t ucker over a picture the latter had ordere.) from the agent and which Tucker ro fused to accept on tho gronnd that lt was unsatisfactory. Tuokor was ar rented. Smith lived at Meridian Miss. _ IndiotfMl for lSmhrzzlcrnent. William D. Ball, former postmaster at Orango Park, Fla., 14 miles from Jacksonville, was ludlotod by tho fed eral grand Jury Wednesday for em bezzlement. Fie was oharged with be ing short in his accounts tu thc gov ernment. It also developed last week that ho was short In his accounts as treasurer of. the city of Orange Park. Mordor ?nd Huiolde. At Marshall, 111., William J. Cruse, shot atid killed his brobrtor-ln-law, Krank Livlx, and then co omit ted sui cide. The wife of Cruse had obtain ed a divorce, charging cruelty. Cruse claimed that tbe Livix family In fluenced his wife to leave him. UNDER ARREST. J. Morgan Smith and Wife Found in Cincinnati, Ohio. A SEBIOUS CHARGE. They Are Indicted Jointly in New York With Nan Patterson, Who ls Charged With the Murder of a Gambler by the Name of Caesar Young. Accused of conspiracy, to commit murder, J. Morgan Smith and wife were arrested in Cincinnati, Oiilo, Phursdy on telegraphic request from D,strict Attorney Jerome of New Ycrk city. Nan Patteison, the ac tress who has been twice put on trial for the murder of Caesar Young in New York, is charged in the same jonneetion, new indictments to this ?fleet having been found in Nsw Ycrk Thursday. For a long time the au .horltiea had been unable to locate ?mlth und his wife, the couple having eft New York a few months after .he murder and before the beginning >f the recent mistrial of Nan P;.tter on in which Smith's testimony waa lonsldered almost vital to the prosciu ion, Several weeks ago a New York de ective met Smith in Montreal, lanada, and from that time until the rrcsts this effijer hus awaited a tivo'able time for making the arrest Ie io lowed the couple, part of the Ime as traveling companion over bali f the continent, having made friends rith Smith, who knew him tn be a elective, but believed that the om sr was after some other person. De roit, Cleveland and a number of anadian cities were visited. Finally mith went to Nashville and L mis Hie In the hope of securing a position 1th slime of the bookmakers in those ties, leaving his wife in Cleveland, [e was unsuccessful and came to Inoinuatl, where his wife met him on /edneaday. Mrs. Smith said she bad relatives i Covington, Ky., and she \.~nt with er husband to that city Wednesday J call on these people, who, however, ?fused to see tho visitors and after ards declared that there was no re ktlonship between them. Returning j Oiitulutlcv'.'i, ?Mi. cad - M ra.. Smith jgistered ut M io Grand hotel as II t. Banning and wife. The det otive ad k-. pt in telegraphic com munici ?n with New York and had oeferred n arrest until it was possible to take uth husband ae.d wife, their separa ten som after reaching the United tates on returning from Canada hav lg caused the delay. Wednesday lg ht the detective wired to District . Ito r ney Jerome: "Sm i m and Julia are at the Grand otel. Wire instructions." In reply the district attorney 'bursrlay telegraphed: '"Arrest Smith aud wife as fugl Ives from justice." The district attorney also sent the allowing: New Y'ork, March 30. 'aul Milliken, Culcf ol Police, Clncln natl. Arrest and hold for extradition J forgan Smith, wanted lu New York n a charge of criminal conspiracy, mith will be found at the Granri otel, Fourth street, Cincinnati rbere Detective Aiken may also b jund. Otllcer Quinn leaves today to Stablish Ideuil'.y and procure requis! .on papers. Tue governor's warrant rill follow as soon as it ls possible to rocure lt. W. TUA visits JKHOMK, District Attorney Thc arrest was quietly made and Imith and wife were taken to police leadquarters, where they made no at ampt to deny or conceal their ideotl y although both denied any guilt in lonneetlon with the case. They bowed signs of nervousness and worry rut both husband and wife expressed m Intention to return to New York vlthout requisition. The couple tated that they had expected tu go o New York although tbey bad not anticipated doing so under arrest. Tue detective wno hus bsen follow ng Smith says that Smith went un 1er many aliases in different cities be ore registering in Cincinnati as II. II. buming. At Hamilton, Dot., Smith malted himself Push, at Montreal he rvas known as Adams, ab Detroit it vas Collins and lu Cleveland Robin on. before being locked up, Smith was icarchcd. In bis pocket were found va eld watcii, Some pocket pieces and ll 85 in cash. In bin breast pocket were found two .envelopes sealed. When Lieut. Hoppe took tho envel ?pos, Smith made frantic ot?orts to ?et thom bick but thc two envelopes were retained by the police. A dispatch from New York sajB the ?rand Jury in that city Thurs.iav nanded down indictments against J. Morgan Smith, Julia Smith, lils wife, and Nan Pattorbon, cbaiglng them Jointly wltli comiipiracy. Hie Indict m m.-, ore baud upon a letter alleged io have be u written by Julia Smith t'. Cet.er Young in which, it is alleg ed, was a threat and a demand for money for the Patterson girl. Th s action ny the grand Jury fol liwed a hearing at thc criminal court building, at wnich Bcveral witnesses, Including the widow of Caesar Youug and Mrs. Young's brother-in-law. Wm. Luce, were examined by Assis tant District Attorney Band, writ conducted tt e recent trial of N;in Pat terson, charged with Casar Young's murder, which resulted in a disagree meut bv the Jury. The arrest or Smith and lils wife at Cincinnati, according to the Now York authorities, will have an imp rtant bearing upon the new trial of the Pat tersqti girl on the charge of mur .cr set for April 10. At a previous tria an attempt was made to pi ove tba the revolver with which Y . ung was shot 'was purc:ia3cd by Smith and ? woman the day before the tragedy oe uirred.| \ 0 UISPJtNSARl P?OFITS Divided Among the Different Fchools of the Rtnto. at Dcflotonolen In aa Counties Made Up and Remainder Divided Ac oordlDg to Enrollment, Comptroller Oeaeral Jones has made an allotment of 9110,000 of dispon fiary profits to the publlo schools of the State. The allotment was mad. after finding- out the deficiency in each county. This deficiency repre sented the amount each aohool in the county fell short of 975 In some counties the 3 mill school tax produo ed revenue Buffldent to pay each school 975, which amount is calcul?t ed to run a school three months. It required $9.552 53 to make up these deficiencies and thc remainder of the profits recently declared by the dispensary were divided among all of the ojuntles. Onesterfield's county superintendent of education having failed to respond with the data nee essary, that county was not included In the distribution but the amount will be made up at subsequent distri butions. The total enrollment in the State is reported is 288.353; and the amount I < :aoh pupil will recel ve from this dis-11 irlbution will be 34 1-2 cents. The iefioiency money was divided as fol ows among the 20 counties reporting ibat tbe 3 mill 3chool tax did not af ord $75 for each and all of the cbools IP these counties: Abbeville, $297.85; Aiken, $76 30; ? imberg, $91.04; Barnwell, $32; merokee, $132 68; Clarendon, $74 82; Jolleton, $491 09; E 'gefield, $460 24; florence, 364 63; Georgetown 8267- 78; Ireenville. $91 84; Hampton, $434; lorry, ?2,094; Kershaw, $128; Lao ister, $739 80; Laurens, $170 70; iee, 8115 90; Lexington, 8282 20; larlnn, 8242; Marlboro, $150 13; O;o ee, 8682 16; Orangeburg, 8210; Pick ns, 8140.16; Saluda, 81,109; Sp^rtan urg, 819 15; Williamsburg, 8949 Tue following table gives in the rst column the names of the counties, i the second the number of pupils nrolled in the publio schools of each, nd in third amount of money eacr> iceived from the fundsof 3100,023 08 ift after deficiencies bad been made bbeville. 8,995 $3,120.17 .lken. 8,414 2,918 63 nderson.13,321 4,620.76 amberg. 4,287 1,487.00 trowell . 7,083 2 456 93 eaufort. 4.033 1,398 95 erkeley . 5,462 1,891 17 harleston.13,378 4,640.52 herokee. 4,491 1,557 82 bester. 6,318 2,191.57 larendpn. 6.227 2.160. ou olleton .'. 7. .":"~~6786T-?'0317.13 m ?arlington. 5 851 2,029 58 81 Orchester. 2.984 1,035.08 ?J Idgetield. 6,117 2.121 85 r ali field. 7 336 2.544 69 lorence. 6 518 2,260 95 eorgetown. 3.356 1,104.12 reenvllle.12 338 4,297.78 reenwood. 7,394 2,564 80 lampton. 5,035 1,740 53 lorry. 6,138 2,129 13 lershaw. 4,679 1,023 04 .ancaster. 6.529 2,264 76 .aurens. 8,007 2 777 45 ,ee. 4 511 1,504.76 .lexington. 6,711 2,348.70 [arion.8,411 2,917.59 larlboro. 5,782 2,005.04 lewberry. 6.989 2.424 33 ioonee. 6 694 2,113.87 ?rangeburg.14,425 5,003 70 'Ickens. 5.279 1,831.16 tlchland. 8,873 3,077 85 aluda.5:3?l 1,869 60 partanburg.15 311 5,311.04 umter. 7,128 2,472 54 Inion. 6,290 2 181.86 7illlamsburg_ 6,165 2.346 6 Tork.10,215 3,543.35 The Mileage Grab. The 8190,000 mileage grab under aken by the bouse of representatives as brought upon the members of con reas widespread condemnation. Wal er Wellman, Washington correspon ent for tbe Chicago Record-Herald, eferring to this attempted grab, says: 'Proceeding upon the assumption that heir constituents' memory is no onger than their own, a majority of lie house of representatives voted ibemselves $190,000 mileage in the sleslng days of the last session, where as one year ago not a single member, vlth the elections following in the an, had the courage tobtand for such in appropriation. To the ordinary congressman it makes a great deal o' llfference In handling public affairs, vhather be ls to come before his peo ple for election In a few short month )r vihetber a c.:uple of years are ti ntervene. The mileage grab ls not a lew question. It has been up several ilmes in congress, but never bas been iucceasful. Nevertheless, had not the icuate Interposed aud removed from [.be general deficiency bill the item In lerted by tbe house, tbe raid upon th? treasury probably would have beet successful this year." Mr. Wellmai ilreots attention to tho fact that tin majority who voted for the mileag k'rab also voted to impeoci Jung Swayne on the oharge of faBiryhn accounts, because be charged the max imum allowance of $10 per day whe! bis aotual expenses were le.s. Mr. Wellman has compiled from the Con gressional Record the names of mom bera who vote 1 for or wer 3 favorabh to the mlleag ' irrab and arranged then by state delegations. Tho Uifc Acornt. il. A Roston dispatch sa? si he Ameri can board of oommls-i e- of foreigi missions announces Iht t its irudent lal committee bas accept eu ... : report ol the sub committee recomnn liding ac eeptanoe of tho gift of $100,000 bj John D. Bock-feller, but final actloi In the matter had been postponed tw< weeks. Later prudential commute reported that it had decided to accap thc Rockefeller gift. QoOil Advice. Tbe Washington Pest gives Blshor Potter tblB ti mel v blt of advice: "I; were well, we think, if wo m^y be p' r mltted to milco a suggestion respect mg si dlsttnguishel a pers.m as th Hlrtbop of New York, that Le bowar. u* reckless speaking, that he exercise more control over that unruly mern ir-r, tho tongue. It ill becomes him ti Indulge in such unwarranted fling?." MAINE WAS SUNK Through Mistake Says Qessler Rosseau, the Bomb Maker. REMARKABLE STORY. Rosseau Claim? that He Made the Ex plosive that Destroyed the Battle ship Alaine In Havana Harbor, and that it Was Intended for a Spanish Ship. That the battleship Maine through an error was destroyed by a bomb of his manufacture waa the statement made by Gessler Rosseau in the New Y.rk To m b3 prison. Rofssau waa ?onvicted of having sent explosives to he Cunard line pier, in Naw York In Hay, 1903. He made the following tatement on Tuesday of last week: 'Tor several years, while the Cuban ?atriots were struggling against Wey. r, I watched the contest with deep Qterest and sympathy. I decided to o to Jacksonville and do what! could o assist the revolutionists. I started rum St Louis, where I had been llv g du-lng rho early part of 1897. "Before taking a train for the south ?ot together the material for the onstruciien of two exploding ma rines of tremendous power, so ar mged that they could be wound np nd left in a selected place with the ertainty that they wou d go off with arri ble destruction within a few ours "At New Orleans I rented a room nd put the box?s together, after 'hieb I went to Jacksonville. There b carce acquainted with a party of ubao leadeis who were planning a libustering exped?1 ion. They bad ugaged the Destroyer, a small vessel, j take them tn Cuba, along with a umber of Auatiican and European aventurera, who were anxious to irlke a blow for Cuban freedom. "Several of the leaders of the p>vrty re men now well known and 1 '\ ob mention their names although I ave among my papers a Hst of them Ll. . "I suggested to them that they'use< lips in the harbor of Habana and in .her ports on the coast of the island, hey readily scdz;d upon the Idea, jd when the Destroyer sailed with ie tUloujterers they took my two lacbines with them, "lt was my Intention to goalong i tb the party so as to direct the ork of sinking the Spanish ships, it they dissuaded me, urging that I mid be of greater use in Jacksonville repart ng other machines if the drat roved successful. "It was penned to have some mern ?rs of the revolutionary party Join ie Spanish navy so as to get the lachines aboard. If that failed it as decided to fasten one of the boxes > the hull of a ship under the water ne, for I had constructed my ma lines so they could be exploded un jr the water. "That was late in the fall of 1897. he next spring the Maine waa de coyed. 1 Only one of tho men In the Beoret : the machine ever returned to merlca. 1 saw him sc me time after ie war with Spain had begun. "lie told me he had nothing to do 1th the boxes after reaching Cuba, ut had been told a mistake bad been lade. "The man who had been entrusted Ith the task of destroying a Spanish .sscl attempted to fasten a box dnr :g the night to one of Alfonso's war hips and blundered into blowing up he Maine. "1 was told that the man, immedl tely learning of the error he had aade, committed suicide." Hied in Els Boat. At Charleston Karl Maass, a Ger nan ship carpenter, was found dead n bis boat witn hts head hanging over ,he guuwael in the water Wednesday norning at tho foot of Pinokney ?ireet. lt ls supposed that he died of ?eart disease or apoplexy. Ho hid lot long gone down to the wharf and .utereri bis little gasoline launch of lis own build when he was found iead. Ile bad been complaining of tis heart and it is thought that per ups the exertion proved too great a itrain, causing his death. He bas been u tnls country only two years. He \f s devoted to tho water and his sompanlons were almost entirely sea oen. _ Explosion in ibo Subway. A severe explosion, followed by an mobrcak of tire, winou defied all the fforts of the tlremon to completely xtlngulsh it, occurred Wednesday In XII unfinished s< oblon of the subway it Broadway and One Hundred and sixty-seventh street, New York. The oad at t nu, point ls 125 feet belcw he i-urface. The explosion followed i coll sion between an empby train vhtcli ha i b ea run too far beyond i,e terminal switch aud a flab ear, tn which were 14 Italian laborer?. So one was Injun d Veteran or Garibaldi's Army. Ooh Frederick D. Fuolak, capitalist md distinguished ci liz n, riled at his .eslaence in Louisville, Ky., Wednes tay. Col. DaFuotak waa born In R >me, italy, 65 years ago and was a veteran if Garibaldi's army. Ha was for a long r.tnae c iief engineer of tho LouUrdl? & Nashville railroad and has been onoected with railroad building in nany parts ot the country. He was a oerober of the No* York Yacht club, f tho Old Southern Yacht oJub and if the Philadelphia Yacht, club. Roua<-Volv Wilt a|)n?K. President Rooscvolt will deliver an d.iies. in Brooklyn on May 30 at th? zeroises In connection with the un. veiling ot the statue of Gen- Slooura.