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JUDGE BENET-BISHOP POTTER. Ccamuent of a Religious Paper on Their Controversy. Columbia, March 26.-The Living Church, one of the most important church papers in the country, and with a large general circulation, has an excellent editorial in support of ^Judge Benet's article relative to the divorce Question, In the course of the editorial the Living Church says: "We are glad to call attention to the 'open letter* from Judge Eenet, of South Carolina, printed in this issue, and addressed to the bishop of New York. Bishop Potter's unfortunate remarks therein alluded to had not previously came to our attention; but if the bishop was rightly quoted we can only charitably assume that his manifold activities do not leave him sufficient leisure #to read the period? ical literature of the day as extensive? ly ais might be useful to one who has occasion to express opinions upon current questions therein discussed. "The State- of South Carolina stands firmly as a. living witness to the un? truth of each and every argument ?hat may be adduced in favor of absolute divorce. Nowhere is home life more sacr L more beautiful or more large? ly ?_ -duonding in happiness of the fam? ily. Will any maintain that there is more happiness even to the individ? uals immediately concerned, in those homes that have been broken up by divorce in other states than will be found in the homes of South Carolina? "Are the children made fatherless or motherless by civil decree better prepared for lives of purity and use? fulness than those whose homes are protected as sacred and inviolable by civil enactment? Which contain great? er menaces to our civilization and to the security of our future-San Fran? cisco, Seattle, Kansas City, with their regular round of one divorce to every four marriages, or Charleston and Co? lumbia with every home protected in? violably by the State? So far from be? ing a *horrible example' of the result of a commonwealth in which divorce is tmkhown, we are quite ready that South Carolina.and her experience and history should >?^he final test by rhich the argr At for the re-mar of divorcar should stand or TO ES V ITE ALL NATIONS. Roosevelt Win, Issue Proc >n Inviting Foreign Nations Jamestown Exposition. to The Daily Item. ton, March 27.--President today promised Senator >f Virginia, and Gen. Fitzhugh sident of the .Jamestown Ex that he would issue an exec roclamation inviting foreign its- to participate in the ex [ON OF CONGRESS. ?veli Says He Will Call Together to Con RaOroad Rates. _; I ton, March 30.-The presi a number of senators and >f congress this morning ?ted to call an extrordi \n of congress for consider-, inroad rate legislation on or. ?ber 15th. rOSTOCK ISOLATED. ir tween Harbin and Russia's )rt Cut by Japanese. ireh 30.-It is reported itersburg that the railroad rbin an<| Vladivostock has y the - Japanese. Also that lege guns captured at Port re been sent direct Vladivos pass, about 130 miles Lrbin is reported to have ited by Rusians after fht, LN KILLS HUSBAND. That She Had Ample Prov for Slaying the Brute. March 30.-Michael No |years old, was murdered by his wife, 20 years old, at ^g house in which they lived The murder was commit? ine man slept, and was the le brutality of the husband, |r in the evening knocked with a bottle. Since the irrival here from Austria ago fights have been fre? it is alleged by the man's it she earn money by lead shame. CRIME IN NEW YORK. Girls Assaulted and Koh? at Their Lodgings. Irk March 30.-Margaret Annie Williams, two young Mauchchunk, Pensylvania, ?were looking for employ assaulted and robbed at lgs, No. 4 Commerce street, [were most brutally treated, idley and Joseph Patterson, lodging in the same house, arrested on suspicion. NEWS IN TKE STATE CiPi??l. WHITE MAN TO BE EXECUTED IN' COLLETOX. Seaboard Extensions in Up-Cmmtry Baltimore Capitab'sts Purchased Columbia Street Hallway. What Schools are Colleges. By W. BL McCaw. Columbia, March 29.-R. A. Ad? ams, the Coller?n murderer of his knisman, Henry Jacques, whom he shot in a road near Cottageville as the result of a family fued which had be? gr?n to be fought out in the court, is to be resentenced at Walterboro to? day. The supreme court has passed unfavorably upon his appeal for a new trial and he will hang in a short time, as it is improbable that the governor will interfere. Adams, it will be re? membered, escaped from the Colleton jail after the supreme court passed upon h^s case, but was captured in a spectacular .manner, by Sheriff Owens and a posse after the governor had offered, a reward of $1,000. He was surrounded in his home, to which he had come only half an hour before the arrival of the posse. As he was at? tempting to escape from-a back win? dow the sheriff fired a load of buck? shot at him, but Adams saw the of? ficer in the moonlight preparing to fire and he dodged behind the win? dow. Further resistance would likely have resulted in the death of mem? bers of his family and he surrendered. He has been here in the penitentiary since. The Seaboard is preparing to make Important upcountry connections in immediate future,1 principally for the purpose of getting; at the cotton mill shipments, it is presumed, although of course all of this Piedmont section is rich in all kinds of buisness and is rapidly developing and broadening. The extension of the Greenville, Knox? ville and Greenwood road from Green? ville to Greenwood as to tap the Sea? board at the latter place, is to begin within 90 days and the guarantee to the lo clastockholders who are to put up $100.000, is that it will be com? pleted in three years. Nothing is to be paid by the local stockholders until the road is completed. This will give the local stockholders who are to put mills in ' Greenville, Anderson and Laurens counties. Then on the north? ern end of the State a connection is being surveyed from a point on the Seaboard near Carlisle ove*r to Union, and it is thought that^y connecting with the old Glenn Springs and Spar? tanburg road that the line will be ext?nd?d on by the Buffalo mills to Spartanburg. When these two projects are completed the Seaboard will have tapped the principal milf centres of the country. The Mercantile Trust Company of Baltimore has acquired a controlling interest in the Columbia street rail? way. There will be no change in the management for the present, it is stated, Mr. E. W. Robertson retain? ing the presidency, and local men will be still represented on the board. The newowners own similar lines in Spartanburg, Charleston, Augusta, Richmond, Jacksonville and else? where. A white man whose name appears to be D. Pesatta, died in a mysterious sort of a way at Spartanburg yester? day, and the coroner's inquest has been unable to throw any light on the matter. Pesatta was in the picture enlarging business, but dressed well and seememd to be a quiet man. He came to Spartanburg on March 4 and has been drunk almost continuously since. He was found in an. unconscious condition in his room with a blackeye and died as a result of this wound. He said that he had been in a fight with an unknown man who struck him af? ter a quarrel about a'picture he had sold him. There is a feeling among the cot? ton buyers here that the mills in this tate win suffer from shortage of cot? ton m April. According to carefully gathered figures the mills in this state will need about 250,000 bales of cot? ton within the next thirty dsya. There is said to be already such a shortage in Georgia and Alabama with the re? sult that prices are better in both these states than they are in South Carolina. The situation is expected to force up the price here in April to 9 1-2 or 10 cents. Much cotton has been warehoused throughout the state in anticipation of higher prices but it is thought there is a still larger quan? tity being: held on the farms. , Attorney General Gunter rendered an option today of much interest to the school people. He decides that the state board of education has authority to say what constitutes a college with? in the meaning of section 1200 of the State school law exempting candidates for certificates to teach in the public schools of the state from the examina? tion by the county boards. This section exempts those who produce a full di? ploma from any chartered college or university of this satte." The state board has decided upon the list of colleges it will recognize: South Car? olina College, Wcfford, Furman, Newberry College, Chicora College, Converse, Winthrop, Clemson, Charles? ton College, Presbyterian College for Women, Lander Female College, Presbyterian Colloge of South Carol! ? na, Due West Female College, Lime j stone Female College. Greenville Fe j male College, Erskine College, South j Carolina Military Academy, Columbia ! Female College and these colored col ( leges: Claflin College, the State Col ! ored College at Orangeburg, Benedict i Institute, Avery Normal college and Allen University. The good sense of the opinion is manifest when it is re? membered tht any school may be chartered as a college if it it willing to pay a few dollars for the charter fee. Columbia, March 30.-Contrary to all expectations R. A. Adams, the Col leton murderer who was to have been sentenced at Walterboror yesterday for killing his kinsman Henry Jacques, has been granted a new trial by Judge Townsend on after-discovered evi? dence, although the motion was resist? ed by half a dozen lawyers employed to assist Solictor Davis in the prosecu? tion. The motion for a new trial was based upon an affidavit from Mrs. Ruth Adams, daughter of Jacques and wife of the defendant's brother, who said she was influenced by Marfan Jacques and Hogan Dodd to testify falsely at the first trial. There were other affidavits as to threats Jacques is said to have made against Adams. On the recommendation of Solicitor i Wilson Governor Heyward has grant? ed a thirty days' respite to Ned Mack, the Manning murderer who was to hang tomorrow, but who is said to be insane. Judge Klugh telegraphed that he had no recommendation to make. Solicitor Wilson explained that though the murder was brutal and entirely unprovoked and the jury convicted in spite of testimony adduced ,at the trial as to this insanity plea, still there were many good people at Manning who believed that the negro was in- j sane at the time of the killing. The j governor has appointed Superintend? ent Babcock of the Hospital for the Insane as one of the commissioners to pass upon Mack's sanity and has ask? ed Solicitor Wilson to name the other two members of the commission. Comptroller* General Jones has dis? bursed the dispensary school money amounting to $110,0'00 among the sev? eral counties of the state occording to ! enrollment, after making up the de? ficiency amounting to $9,552.53, which represents the amounts the poorer schools fell short of $7?. Anderson withan enrollment of 13,320 (the fourth largest in the state and only 57 behind Charleston) get $4,620.76; Greenville with the next largest en? rollment, 12,338, got the next largest amount $4,279.79, Sumter with 7,128 got $2,472.54. There was no deficiency in any of these counties except Green? ville, which gets $91.84 of the defic? iency fund, due to the fact that there are a number of poor mountain schools in this county. There has been a remarkable increase in sales at the dispensary for the quarter ending the 1st of March, some $220,000 and if this increase, which is said to be due to a diminution of the tiger trade, con? tinues, the increase for the year will be a million dollars over the business of last year, which was the highest of all. In 1903 the gross sales amounted to $2,817,000, just a little more than double those of the first quarter of the present fiscal year, $873,000. The position of clerk to the histor? ical commission, which feature of the new act reorganizing the commission created such a spirited debate in the last legislature because the friends of Col. T. J. Auston of Greenville, who thus lost out, charged that it was load? ed with politics, was filled yesterday by the appointment of Mr. A S. Sal ley, Jr., of Charleston, after a com? petitive examination in which there were seven other applicants. D. G. Jackson, superintendent of the recently established McNally Brick works at Union, has been arrested there charged with^ forging checks at Hendersonville, N. C.. A Henderson ville man recognizing him in Union two weeks ago. The competition which the South? ern railway already has in the electric line between Augusta and Aiken and the several interevning mill towns, and that it is to get between Summer? ville and Charleston by the new inter burban line which is now being built there is to be met by modern motor cars, which will seat 100 passengers. The cars will be quipped with gasoline engines or storage batteries and will be geared to run 75 miles an hour. Columbia, March 31.-On the farm of George Bray, near Conway yester? day, F. O. Sessions entered the cabin occupied by Belle Sessions and her mother, neither of whom have been married, although Belle also has chil drer, one of which is said to be that of ths intruder, and drapging the young woman out on the little piazza after her mother had gone out for some purpose, shot her five times as he held her at arms length. She was wounded three times in the breast and both arms were broken above the el? bow, and she cannot live. Sessions then put a bullet throub his own brain. Sessions had been importuning her to marry him and was enraged with jealousy because she had favored another lover, who lived in Georgia, and to whom she and her mother were preparing to go, he having sent them tickets. The women had moved what little furniture they possessed into Conway preparatory to leaving, but there was a delay about some irregu? larity in the tickets. The wounded woman told of threats Sessions bad made to kill her and commit suicide if she did not stop lying to him and marry him, and said she could produce notes alone the same line. Mr. E. W. Thomas has resigned as ? general manager of the Olympia and j Granby cotton milis here to accept the place of general superintendent of the U. !S. Cotton .Duck Trust cf Balti? more, which city he will make his I headquarters. i A novel sait has been fi)ed in the i Richland court here by ex-Liquor j Commissioner P. M. Misson against I J. W. Kelly & Company, a Chattanoo ? ga wholesale whiskey house, and in j the case of a judgment the State dis ? pensary people have been served with j notice that the money due the whiskey people will be attached to satisfy th? ?judgment. The amount sued for is $367.50. Mr. Mixscn alleges that last j March he entered into an agreement j with the defendants whereby he was to represent them before the board here at a salary ot ?100 a mouth and commission of 25 cents a case on pur? chases amounting to more than 2,400 cases, and that the amount sued for represents February's salary and back commissions. Mose Brunson, a ne*?ro suspect in the case of the murder of young Ste? phen Howell on the 21st of December, 1903, bas been picked up by officers near Camden and was brought here this morning for identification. It? will not be known until tomorrow whether he is the man. Howell's body was found in some thick under? brush several miles from the city two weeks after he had disappeared af te:* going out on a trip in a wagon with a strange negro after a load of holly. There was a gash in the top of the head and the bloody ax was found nearby. The negro drove the team home the evening the boys was missed, but told its owner that the boy had gotten off the wagon to go home in another portion of the city. In a letter received here today Secretary Edgar Gardner Murphy olf the Conference for Education in the South advises that the attendance at; the Columbia meeting next monti, will be something over 1,300. So far 245 coming guests have been assigned to homes and it is expected that 100 more will be taken into private homes The remainder will board in private families, at the regular boarding houses or at the hotels. There will be no difficulty in taking care of tho crowd, comfortably. The official an? nouncement has not yet been made bm; information comes from a reliable source today that the railroads have granted a rate of one fare plus 25 cents from all points. This will be formal? ly announced in a few days. PEACE NOT PROBABLE, NOW SAID CZAR'S DETERMINA TION TO CONTINUE WAR FIXED Russian Paper Denies the Report That Negotiations for Peace Have Been Opened. St Petersburg, March 30.-Bussa koye Slovo states that it is able tD state on good authority that the re? ports of peace negotiations have been commenced haye no foundation. The decision to continue the war until a victorious result is obtained is irrevo? cable. The paper also states that the equipping of the fourth squadron will be completed in April St. Petersburg, March 30.-It is stated that tho value of the war mate? rial captured by the Japanese at Muk? den amounis to two million dollars. St. Petersburg, March 30.-The in? ternal troubles of Russia are increas? ing, according to the latest Japanese reports received. Dispatch says a mob of peasants are looting the estate of Princess Jussupoff in the Vonon Zeh district. To add to the general unrest reports from Southern Russia say that cholera is spreading there. Several lo? cal social democrats who are blamed for the disorders, have been arrested. St. Petersburg, March 30.-A tele? gram from Harbin says that the main Japanese army is within 20 miles of the Russian outposts. This seems to in? dicate the resumption of active hostil? ities in the near future. Another dis? patch received says that Japanese proclamations have been received in Harbin stating that the Mikado's army intends to occupy Harbin about the middle of April. St. Petersburg, March 30.-Late tel? egrams from Sitjas, Manchuria, of to? day's date, says the Chinese report the Japanese column, which is probably engaged in carrying out flanking movement has been seen 27 miles northeast of Siepinghai. St. Petersburg, March 31.-Dis? patches form the front today sta:e that the Japanese have made hea-vy reconnaisances against the Russian centre, the object evidently being to develop the Russian position. The be? lief prevails that Gen. Oyama is pre? paring for another general attack and the indications are that the genuine advance of the main army, with wings ?far extended has already begun. St. Petersburg, March 31.-General Kharavitch has been appointed chief of staff to General Linevitch in place of General Sakarahoff who, with Baron Stackleberg has become mem? bers of the committee which will care for the wounded soldiers. - ? ? -- Washington, March 30-Mrs. Roose? velt, with the younger members of the family, and a party of friends, will leave tomorrow for Florida, whence they will board the president's yacht, Sylph, at Jacksonville for a cruise along the Southern coast. Miss Alice Roosevelt will not accompany the party. 1 g Tho Kind Yon Have Ahvays Bought, an*l Tillich lias fe in use for over 30 years. lias "borne the signiere and has been made ur.der lils ? sonai supervision since its infai r* ' ~~-^*~""> AI?owno one to deceive you in t Ali Counterfeits, Imitations and "?Just-as-good" are Experiments that trifle with and CD Ganger the healt? Infants and Cnildren-Experience against Experim? 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Arrives ic Train 35 Florence to Augusta w 64 Columbia to Wilmington w *57 Gibson to Sumter > u " 52 Charleston to Columbia and Greenville Leaves u 46 Orangeburg to Charleston (Tuesd^jThursd'yjSaturd'y) " M 53 Greenville and Columbia to Charleston ** u 32 Augusta to Florence u " *56 Sumter to Gibson to ?* 47 Charleston to Crangeburg (Tuesd^Thursd'yjSaturd'y) " " 55 Wilmington to Columbia " " 78 Sumter to Bishopville . Leaves " 77 Bishopville to Sumter Arrives 5 15 am 8 10 am 9 20 an? 9 30 am 9 25 am 6 30 pm 6 30 pm 6 50 pm 8 20 pm 9 30 pm 9 50 am 6 00 pm Freight Trains carrying Passengers. Train *24 Sumter to Hartsville " *19 Sumter to Robbins . " *11 Florence to Sumter " *12 Sumter to Florence M *20 Robbins to Sumter . " *25 Hartsville to Sumter Leaves 6 30 am Leaves 10 00 am Arrives ? 50 pm Leaves 2 P-0 pm Arrives 8 00 pm Arrives 7 40 pm Northwestern Eailway. Train *70 Camden to Sumter " *71 Sumter to Camden " *68 Camden to Sumter 44 *72 Wilson Mill to Sumter " *73 Sumter to WilsonMill " *69 Sumter to Camden Trains marked * daily except Sunday ; all other trains daily. For further information, apply to Arrives 9 00 ai? Leaves 9 SS ansi " 5 -?5 pm "Arrives 12 30 pm Leaves 3 00 -pm " 6 25 pm J. T. CHINA, Ticket A?ent A. C! L TRYING TO SAVE HIS NECK. Marion Parr, the Confessed Murderer, May Yet Escape Gallows. Columbia, March 30.-Am effort is to be made in the eleventh hour to save young Marion Parr, the cotton mill operative, who is to hang here on the 14th for murder. He has confessed his guilt.. As a result of a tearful con? ference hfs mother had with the gov? ernor today there is to be a conference at Parr's attorneys office this after? noon with a view of taking the mat? ter up with Solicitor Timmerman, who will be asked to recommend a lunacy commission, as was done last night in the case of Ned Mack. FIRE IN SUBWAY. One Fireman Killed by Falling Bricks in Tunnel. New York, March 30.-The fire in the subway at One Hundred and Sixty eighth street, which followed the ex? plosion yesterday, was extinguished this morning. It has been burning since yesterday morning, the firemen being unable to get streams of water on the fire, which was under the sur? face 110 feet, until this morning when they succeeded in flooding the tunnel at that point. Loosened by heat several tons of brick from the roof of the tunnel fell this morning and crushed to death Fireman Samuel L. Lilly. Many other fiermen who were with Lilly escaped I injury. New York, March 28.-On the mo? tion of counsel for Nan Patterson Re? corder Goff this morning directed that the third trial of the woman for the murder of Caesar Young begin April 10th. Paris, March 28-The Echo De Par? is prints a dispatch from St. Peters? burg which says that there is a ru? mor current that Gen. Xogi has roach? ed Kirim NAN PATTERSON'S TRIAL. Two Arrests Made in Cincinnati in Connection With the Case, the Case. New oYrk, March 31.-Assistant District Attorney Rand received a dispatch this morning to the effect that Governor Higgins has signed the extradition papers for , J. Morgan Smith and his wife who were arrested in Cincinnati yesterday and who are : wanted in New York in connection j with the murder trial of Nan Patter? son. Detective McNaught left imme I diately for Columbus, where the gov ! ernor of Ohio's signature will be ob* ? tained. He will proceed to Cincinnati j where it is hoped Smith and his wife I will come back to New York without j fighting the extradition. A FACT ABOUT THE "BLUES" What is known as the "Blues" is seldom occasioned by actual exist? ing external conditions, but in the great majority of cases by a dis? ordered LIVER._ i THIS IS A FACT which may be demonstra? ted by trying a course of They control and regulate the LIVER* They bring hope and bouyancy to the mind. They bring health and elastic? ity to the body. TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE. Land Surveying I will give prompt attention to all calls for surveying, platting, terracing hill sides draining bottoms, drawing Mortgages Titles, Prcbatinc. ?fee. BANKS H. BOYKIN, D. S^ Oct 19-o Catchall, S. C.