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EiTAILISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., HUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1900. HORRIBLE TORTURE. A CKESCUIC1) MI4ioNARY IELAIES UIC ExvEltitENUi. Brutally Treatedl--7wico sentenced to Death-Saved by t he Presence or Little Childron. Pao Ting Fu, Nov. 22.-When the story of the period of blood and mns sacro in China is told, few of its chap. tors will be as brilliant as the narra tive of the Groon party, who wero found almost dead by the allied ex pedition. The tale of their hardship and abuse and almost miraculous preservation has leaked out to the world by piece meal, but its details of suffering and cruelty were told for the first time by Miss Ureig. Mr. and Mrs. Groon, members of the British-Chinoso Inland mission, with their two childron, a boy and a girl, aged 5 and 3 years, and Miss Greig, an assistant, were stationed at Huai Lu, a small town 120 m;los south of this place. During tha first week of July news of mrssacros of missionaries were received in Pao Ting Fu and also news of the de struction of the mission at Shun Ti Fuh, Chan Chi and Shor. Yi and of the moving of the troops from the Shan Si provinco toward Tien THin to attack the foreigners. On hearing of the affairs, the little party moved away to the mountains on the advice of a mandarin, to go into hiding. Some friendly Chinese showed the party a small cave, whore they re mained secreted for two days and three nights, suffering the utmost discomforts, their hiding place being only about Gx4, with water dripping from the roof. On the third day their servants discovered them and led them to a farm house, where the entire party lived in one small room for a month. On Aug. 13 the Boxers discovered their hiding place, from which their host had made a tunnel to a cave a short distance away. The boxers demanded that the little band be given up to them. On hearing of their host being beaten and tortured, Mr. Green determined to give him self up and do what he could to save his wife and little ones and Miss Oreig. As the missionary appeared at the mouth of the cave he was im mediately shot in the face with a charge of fine pellets. Wounded and bleeding, he pleaded for the women and children, but to no avail. The Boxers ordered them from the tun nel and the frightened women came forth, expecting death or worse. Knives and swords were held over their heads and all their possessions were taken from them except their clothing. They were then made to march to Huai Lu, their former home. Here they were met by the mandarin upon whose advice they had gone into hiding. The man boat and abused Mr. Green and reproached him for not coming to him for ad vice and protoct ion. The mandarin then said he would send the party to Cheng Ting Fu. The party started on their journey. About three miles out they were overtaken by the Box ers who had originally captured them and on reaching Uheng Tfing Fu were refused admission to the city because of the escort. They were carried through-' the country to Pao Ting Fu. Loaded with abuse, mis treated and sufiering, the place lit terally swarming with Boxers de manding their lives, the hapless pris oners were esotdto the ~ymno the chief magistrate, Tring Yuen, who refused to receive them. Then occurred a strange incident. The chief Boxer himself pleaded for 'the prisoners, Hie expressed sorrow at seeing the condition of the pris oaers and said he would send them to Tien Tsin. He also provided them with suflicient money to assure food :on the journey. That morning they -were taken to a boat, but found nei ther troops nor passports. They 'wore in fact in the hands of the Box ers who took them some thirty miles 'down the river and on Wednesday afternoon landed them in a marsh and informed thom that Ting Yuan had ordered that they should be put 'to death and their bodies disposed of. At this time the children were un. -doubtedly the means of saving the entire party, for the samo Boxor who bad previously interceded for them and had evidently conceived a groat friendliness for the little ones, cried and told Mr. Groon they must try to reach Tien Tsin alone. As night fell, Mr. Green, almost helploss from his wounds, made his way, accompaniod by his party, to a house and was told by the owner that a friend of his would take them to Tien Tsin. Thon ho left ostonsi bly to got a boat and mako arrange. monts for their escape. Afoter a while the villager returned bringing a largo party of Boxers. The mob burst in the doors of the but and unmerci fully beat with swords and staves Mr Green, the women and children. The Boxers decided to take their cap tives to a village one milo away aind devised the moans of transporting and torturing them at the same time. Mr. Green's left hand was bound to his lof( foot; Mrs. Green and Miss Greig were tied hands to feet, left hand to left foot and right hand to right foot, and the little girl was treated the same way. Spear han dles were then thrust under their arms and they were carried to their destination. In the village of Sinan they were examined as to their identity. Their story was laughed at and a deputa tion was sent to Pao Ting F u to as certain the truth and dtermine the fate of the captives. On the third day the deputation returned from Pao Ting Fu and the-captives were told that Ting Yuen had previously ordered their death and .now repeat ed the seutence. Providentially the civil section had heard'of the defeat. of the Boxers at Taku a0d elsewhere and ordered the prisoners to be kept alive to be used as hostages. BRYAN WILL TRY AGAIN. "I Shall Continue To Defend the Princli0eme of the ohleago Platform."--"I believe They Will Ultimnately Triumph." Mexico, Mo., Nov. 23.-In a letter received here today from W. J. Bryan he says: "Still believing in the principles set forth in the Chicago platform, I shall continue to defend them, be. lieving the American people will yet see the necessity. frt lie ropudiatiois of Republicanism." This statement is the third made by Mr. Bryan since election indicating that he intends to continue in the political field just as he had been. Shrewd politicians are now of the opinion that Mr. Bryan expects again to be a candidate for the presidency. That his candidacy will bring on a great fight in tile party in which Mr. Bryan will he opposed by many of his strongest supporters in the past is shown by the deliberate st atement of Hon. J. KC. Jones, national Demo cratic chairman,, yesterday that he did not consider 'it at all probable that Mr. Bryan would be nominated. The statement of Mr. Bryan printed above is thought to mean that he is still in the field. Bers the Ihe Kind You Hiave Aiway 80Boght Sigiature of The Rtuie of Three. Three things to govern-Temper, tongue and conduct. Three things to love-Courage gentleness and affection. Three things to hate--Cruelty arrogance and ingratitude. Three things to delight in-Frank ness, freedom and beauty. Three things to wish for-Health, friends and a cheerful spirit. Three things to. avoid-Idleness. loquacity and flippant jesting. Three things to fight for-Honor, country,and home. Three things to 'admire --Intel lectual power, dignity and graceful ness. Three things to think ab'out--Lif e, death and eternity.-Ex. (From the Indianapolis Press.) Watts; "A man can't really be a gentleman on less than $10,000 a year." Potts; "And when he has that much he does't have to be a geontle man-" Un NAUGU Uut P ricae Never such a turn loose of merchandise before in Newberry. The stock must be turned into mo ney. Any reasonable price on anything will be ac cepted. Don't wait until you hear your neighbor speaking of the good things she purchased at MIMNAUGH'S. Come at once! Clip this ad. out and bring it with you for we fill them to a "T." I have done more to knock out high prices and put high class mer chandise within the reach of all than any store that has done business in Newberry. Dress Goods and' Silks! What a stock for a Newberry house to show! Swell dainty stuff. The newest of the new, at prices that will save you money. Black and Colored Dress Goods! we put on sale 100 pieces Dress Goods that are worth 35c., 40c., and 50c. for any of them. Your choice 25c. yd. Ask to see them. Big Cape and Jacket Sale! S S!! 100 Capes for this cut price sale 90c. worth $1.50 .10 " " " " " " $1.25 " 0e have tho groatest Shoo department i the 100 " " " " " " $1.50 " $2.25 up-country. If yon willt Ftylish and nobby foot. 200 Plush Capes to be sold regardless of cost. wear come and teo us. The hot thot pricos that 34 Ladies' Jackets, latest styles, $2.25 worth $3.50 1 at pouring out means many a wounded fooling 72 "9 " " $3.10 " $5.0() tho part of the merchants arid of those who hiy 59 t " " " $5.00 "1 $6.50 18 " " " $5.98 " $8.50 before coming to If I don't save you from 15c. to 25c. on every dollar's worth it won't be my fault. If you come MIMNAUGH'S and look, anid don't think I am savimg you money,.50ps hlrnsSosfo hssl O.wI 5 don't buy, but by all meansq don't buy until y~ouI ~ ( '" "hte ult come and look. 5.w thS. 20 pes. Red Twill Flannel for this sale los w'th 25c.50pr.Mi'Soefrtisal,100wt$.2 30 balls (box) Ball Thread only 14ec. per box.20 " " " " " $l() SA) 54 pos. fancy Oil Cloth, just the kind the other .O "Woe'ovi (ly ho ,jsttin ii stores sell for 25c., our price 18c. yard. 100 doz. Ladies' Rbd Vests for tiis sale 12Ac. each. ohrsoe s o 12 o,Mmag' .150 pes. 36-inch Bleaching, without dressing, only rc$.())ar Sc. yard.30 r. ais onoa elo rng el 100 dloz. Towels for this sale 4c. each. hto rhuo 10 al 100 " " " " " 8c. "10 pr.Coet'Me'VneS es nl $.0 100 " " " " " 12&c. worth 25c. 100 " Misses' Hose, regular 10c. quality only 5c. p)r.godaan mn' -.(She 100 " " " " 15So. " "' 10c. " '*De,Sly&Co' aie'Fn he 100 White Bed Spireads, special, 75c. worth $1.00 20,$.0,$O)pi. Alo haitu 100 " " " " 08c. " $1.50 rov' c'sWonj'adChlr'sSo. 100 " " " " $1.25 " $2.00Itsvlethtcthsa(hodtecrw . swht heoal oraeth grlteshng Vatmeinth 100.country.uIfsyourwanisstylish4and nobby foo7. 100Me's vecoas oralwwarh Con StorTes ast shoro thae Ismaouigeutmongmnyaoonddso.i The LeaingarryGofds, lothingants anShose houe ofNebeore Cngt Masj. .J. F. .1. (aliw1.n1 ssy1 I)jIt'ir' III, to,ry 11a it Viatt:<lo ("ontrib)jjjl('n (o till, I ftetiry of I ho Wvar or st-c.,pmi. (GIr-oilwood Joillral.) Several years ago IMIIaj. J. F. J Caldwoll wroto a history of tc Gowal'N brigado, in Which he W11 it olficor, from notes taken on t1ho fioh of ation, and ist Soptember Ili wroto for Ithio ( reenvillo News a brio r10viow of Ohe "History of kershiw; Brigado," by Capt. Dickort. Maj Cablwelpl's oxprioco in war and hii scholarly atIainments givo intores to any subject ho Imiay writo upon iad especially to that of the war ii which he wis vIng1gvd. .For tho urvivors of those two fa m1os brigados wio may de"iro t< road thi-i article, it. is reproducod i follows: ''ho - "II istory of K orshaw's BUrig ado," by Capt. D. A. Dickort, o Nowborry, of tho Third Regimoni S. C. V., is at valliablo conltributiol; to tho history of tho War of Soces Sion. That Comm11111and, compossod orig inally of tho "Soconld, Third, Sevonti and JEAghth regimniots of infantry and icrolasod by tho addition of tih Fifteenth infantry and Jame's Bat talion inl 1862, aidlhe Twentiol infantry in l61, wis probably thl( largest, brigado of South Carolinimu ill the Confedorato service; its sor vices extonded over mor torritor3 thall that of ln), other of 0111. troops as it embraced cumpaigns in Vir ginia, MAlir)land, Ponnsylvania, Nortl Carolina, Solith Carolina, Goorgif and T11nneso: it fought uider John ston ind Boillroglrd it BuJIli1,11n( surrondorod with iJohnton lit Or'cons boro; it participated inl almost aill tli4 genoeral en1gagilents of tho Ariy o Northeori Virginia; it, contributo(' largely to the victory at Chicki lillga; it was with Longstroot i Knoxvillo and Boln Station; i wis with Genoral Early ill tho Val loy of the Shoalindoalh in 1861 its membors worm of the bos blood in the South aind theroforo o the best in the world; it ranked witi the very first ill every army in% whii it operited- -honco its history iuns have the groatest intorest and im portanco to ill who caro to knoy about the memoriblo struggle fo Southornindopendieco. The undertaking to write thii account thirty years or moro afte the cloo of the wir was appallingi; di'cilt, and nono but an exception lally earniest anid resoluto man1( wouli halve aittOImplted it, or hainilg begmi wvou1c ld hve persovered to its com] lOtionl. I conifess t hat I awaVlited1 th result, with serions inlisgiving. Be 1 iam gladi to 81ay thl,i1 i y judlge mnt, th 11aluthlor has( porformlod bi self-imposed anId onicols taisk mios credlit,ably bo0th to hiimself and to th b rigaido. The narrativo isi, apparently, a full as no00d10d or desirable. Th th road is praictcally coml)eIte, fror: the orgainiz/ationi of the{ commanIhId t its dissolution: wiithI tihe sinle ex coptioni of the operations11 of the brig ado during tihe last wooik of Jul; 1861. Being in McGowan's b)rigadk along sidle of which it there fought for tihe first 1and( last tim1e1, 1Iciknm that Kershaiw's brnigad1e took part il nont 11id(1 of Jame1s0 ri ver, on th 28thI of that imounthI. Trhat, however wasti an unilm)po.taint action in oi bo0th of numbers engaged anud resulth and1( its omission1 do008 not maiiteriall aiffect t he hiistory'. lIn addlit ion to) comnple rolls o mnen ini the commandlr( anid details c its opeOrations5, thue work contaiins faithfult recon aLof tihe (Contfedeorat soldier's life ill the field, his os perieoncos on tihe rmarch, in battle an' in winter_quarters; it dosci bos well th soldier himself in tihe various phases c his career; it presents b)at tle scenos a only an active anid experience participant can seo or portray themr it aibounds in an1ecdotes lit once entel taining andl illustrative of tile generi subject; it sketches fairly and truth: full many of the (distinguished morr bers of the command; and it is as I re fronm exaggeration, suppression< fact and vaingloriousness as any mi itary history T halvn ever ea I AL A JPL'#A A. 8 hard to tlecify portions of the book m1oro lotoworthy than others, but I 11M) boron p)articularly imipreso<iio by the accounlit of the battle and cam paign of (h ckfiel)atga, that of the caipaign in iaiit Tonnoiissee, that of the cailpaign in the Valloy of Virginia in 180 1, and most of all by the descrip tion of tho brilliant fighting, woful blundorinig and disastrous panic at Fishr's Hill on the 19th of Octo ber, 1861. Tho anuthor maintains a celar an1d decided line of thought, throughout tho volume; but he is at the slinme timuo frank and just. In. doel, the admirable tenpor exhibited from li-t to last is one of its most inarked and commendable features. The author bestows liberal praiso on other commands, and does not iesitato to exposo the shortcotnings ofr his own. Ito has evidently striven hard 'to tell tho truth concerning men and occurrences, and I think he has siticedod as, very, very few wrlitors havo. The volumo presents a wide range of narr at ivo and discussion, ombrae ing accounts of the causes of seces sion, the general scopo of the wi,r and its roslits, and military opera tions in which Kcrshaw's brigado did not participate; but I cannot say that. theso portions at all detract from the iierit of the work. On the con trary, the y will, to the general reader, provo both interesting and srviCeORN, iinsmuch as they con tain important history not by any means universally known, and also relievo (he strain of purely military narrativo. I imagino that, during the long winter nights now near at hand, by many a South Carolina firesido, in the the town and in the country, the porusal of this gallant sol(livr's stirring story of the terrible four years of the Southern Con fodoracy will not only beguile many an holir of otherwisO unprofitablo tvacauc,, but wIll refresh many a memnory and inform many a mind concerning the valor, the fortitude, the patriotism and the .3acrifices of our peol)lc, and stimulate the old to continue and the young to imitate the example of devotion to principle set by our men and women in those tryiing times. Tho volume deserves a place in r evory household in South Carolina. J. F. .CA.nWELL. roonwood, S. C., Sept. 27, 1900. l'O'Ui.ATION liV COUNTIEs OF T111 'A.MCTTO STAT. Inicrease, or 11.-1 l'or Centai I.. Ton Year,. Po,lto of Towna, Not, Yet An WVashiington, Nov. 23.--Thle pop tulation of South Carolina, as ofli cially announced todlay, is 1 ,340,.316, against 1,1 I51,149 in I1890t. This is tan increase since 1890) of 189,167, or S10.4' per cent. Tlhe p)opulation in .1880 was 995, 5 77, showing an increase of 155,572, or 15.6 per cent, from 1880 to .1890. The population by towns will not be ready for somne (lays. T1hie popiulation by counties fol lows: A bbhl 11........................33,-100) 'Aiken..............................3,032 'i Amidersomi......................... 55,728 , li'mberg.......................... 729i v irnwell......................... 35,504 lBa ~~fort ......................3,9 tlerk eley .......................... 30,454 Ch arleston............88,006 Cherokee....,..................... 21 359 UhCiester ..........................2,I6 t Chester field ... ................... 20,40 t Clarendon.........,.............. 28,8 4 Colleton ...........................3,452 D'larl in gton....,.....................,88 D)orchester.......................1,2(4 I Id gellld ......................... 5 -478 if lfleid........................... 29,425 F !lorence ............ .............. 28,474 Georgetown ..,...................22,86 Oreen ville- -.--................... 3,4.0 Grcen wood........................ 28,347~ I f[am pt on-----.--.................... 23 738 e liorry...---...................... 3,34 Kersh aw------...................... 24 6f 6 I ancaste e.............,...........-,311 1Laurte --.-................7,3M2 LexlIng ton u......................27214 MarIon--.---.-- ............ 35,181 Marlboro -.-......................,639) Now berry-........................0,162 Ocon.. ..........,..................23,31 -Orangeburg........................ 59,63 Pickens.....,..................... .19,375 -Rlchland.........................45,589 eSaluda ....................18,900 Spartanburg ......................65,60 fSummer ............................51,237 .- Un ion..... ........................ 25,501 Williamsburg..................... 1,685 sYork .............................,6n81