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||, RAILROAD EAQE Built Last year in this State and the 'United States. OUE STATE FHOWS UP LAMELY. The Railroads Now Have Nearly Thirty Million Dollars Worth of Property in South Carolina. It would seem that nearly the entire surface of the United States is by this time a net work of railroads, but the statistics show that there was more mileage in new roads last year than at any other time since 1887, when the construction was more than twice as much as last year. South Carolina shows but a small percentage of the conscruction, the to tal being but 27.68 miles. However, if the roads projected are built in 1904 s State will show up better in next yeir's statistical reports. The roads constructed last year were: Bennett ville and Cheraw--Kollocks to Bennet' sville, 14 miles. Carolin' Western-Extension to Smithville, 1.75 miles. Charlotte, Monroe and Columbia Hamberg Junction to Jefferson, 11 Edgmoor and Marietta-Extension , . to Lando, .93 miles. The Railway Age gives the following list of roads projected (not including the projected line to Saluda court house, 14 miles): Alcolu-Extension to Motts, 6.rahies. W.D. W ,Ajderman, vice president, CaroIna, and Western-Smithville -Tillman, 16 miles; under construc on. H. B. Horton, auditor, Hamp Charlotte, Monroe. and Columbia eierson, S. C., to Monroe, N. 0., 25 dleas Wm. Moncure, president and eeral manager, Raleigh, N. C. Cesterield and Lancaster-Ruby ti lynchs River, 17 miles; surveyed. A.H. Page. general nianager, Cheraw. % 5: French Broad and Souchern -Tox - way, N. C., to a connection with the Southern railway in Oconee county, S , 8 ..50 miles. John S. Verner, Co bimbla. Hampton and Branchville-Maul dinton t) St. George, 18 miles. W. 0. Mauldin, geiieral superintendent, Hampton. Mount Pleasant and Geo**etown Mount Pleapnt to McClellansville. 65 iles. W."G. Miller, president, Sum .tunt Pleasant Southern-South port to 3ibsonville, projected. Pee Doe River-M1ars Bluff to Ran kins Mills, 30 mile. W. L. Rankin, Mars E'iff. Saluda River Lumber Co.--Green-. ille to Davenport, 23 miles; to bel Vlna, Knoxville and Western, R. E. -Jonson, president, Greenville. Spartanburg god Union-Spartan burg to Union. 30 miles; incorporated. Tennessee, Georgia and South Car Solina-Anderson, S. 0., to Charleston, >Tenn., 209 mile. W. B. Frink, presi SKr dent, B1ae Ridge, Ga. Union and Glenn Springs-Buffalo to Murphys Shores, 4 miles. George M. Wright, general manager, U~nion. The South Carolina end of the Ten nessee, Georgia and South Carolina will be considerably less than 200 miles in length, as recorded by The Age. .The Spartanburg and Union line is supposed to be a projected elec tric line. Oklahoma stands first of all the States and territories with 633 miles, an Louisiana is second with 456 miles to her credit. There are eight L States and territories showing over 200 miles each, as follows: Oklahoma, 653 miles; Louisian'a, 456 miles; Texas, 357 miles; Indian Territory, 319 miles; Arkansas, 263 mile: Penn sylvania, 245 miles; Missouri, 243 miles, and Iowa, 240 miles. The following table shows track laid -by years since 1886: Year Miles. 1387 ............... .....12,983i 188.. ................ .. .. 7,1061 1889..... .. ..... .. ...... .. 5,2301 1890...... .. .. .. ....... .. 5,67j 1891.. .......... ........ .. 4,283 - 1892 .................. .... 4,192 1893......... ............. 2,635 1894... .............. 1,949 1895...................... 1,803 89.... ..................... 1,848 :1897....-.................. 1',880 .898.. .... ......... .. .....3,083 1899................ ...... 4,588 390... ...... ...... ...... 5,222 191o ................... 4 ,47 1.902..................... 5,648 :905...................... 5,786 In ,Cannada 839.22 miles of new 'road were built last year on 27 lines, *sand incomplete returns from Mexico show 341.43 miles of track laid on 12 lines. * The Railway Age gives the follow ing as the summary in each of several States last year: No. States. lines. Miles. Alabama........... 15' 121.83 Alaska............... 1 10.00 Arizona............. 7 117.52 Arkansas. ........ .. 15 263.59 California.. ... ..... 12 159.49 Colorado.. .. .... .... 6 43.62 'Florida............. 9 116.77 L eorgia............. 12 147.50 Idaho............... 2 16.00 Illinois. ...........14 183.79 Indiana.......... 1'10 62.35 Indian Territory. 14 319.12 Iowa ......... .....5 240.05 Kansas.............. 3 19.64 Kentucky........... 12 80.48 *Louisiana........... 20 436.20 Mai.. ..... ........ 2 18.00; Mihgn......21 161.981 innesota .. . .......4 198.19j Mississippi... 10 130.40 Missouri..11 242.67 Montana........... 2 71.00 Nevada...... ....... 1 16.00 New Jersey .......... 2 2.12 New Mexico... .....6 192.77 New York ........... 6 45.10 North Carolina ......9 112 60 North Dakota....... 5 129.76 Oio..............10 132.69 Oklahoma.......... 13 653.32 Oregon.............. 7 31.50 Pennsylvania. .. ..... 32 245 18 S uth Carolina... ...4 27.68 Tennessee........... 6 102.48 Texas............ 20 356.68 Utab..............5 120.52 Vermont....... ....1 5.00 Virginia..... ......9 45.17 Washington......... 12 116.13 West V irigina . .....24 165.80 W!sconsin...... ....10 86.73 Wyoming....... ....1 3.00 Total in 43 States and Territories .. .. .. 401 5,785.98 The report of the comptroller gen eral shows that last year the railroads returned for taxation 3.005 miles of track in this State, and that the total value of all railroad property in the State was $29,467,716.-The State. FINAL COTTON REPORT. The Census Department Makes a Comparison With Other Ye:.rs. The liral report of ,.he censuc bureau on cotton ginning, showing the total cotton production for 1903, gives the following: Number of commercial bales, in. cluding linters. 10,399,558, againsi 11,275,105 for -1902. The following table distributes the crop, exclusive of linters, in the United States: 10,205,073 commercial bales; 9,359,472 square bales; 770,208 round bales; 75,393 sea island bales. The total crop reducedio a common basis as to size of bales is an equiv alent of 9,851,129 500-pound bales as against 10,630,945 F10-pound bales in 1902. The number of bales, counting round as half bales, including linters, was 10,014,454, against 10,784.473; the equivalent bales of a 500 pound stand ard, including liners, were 10,045,610, against 10.287,168 in 1902. The square bales, upland crop, re ported from ginneriEs which aggregat ed 9.359,472, shows a decrease of 633, 193 from 1902: the round bales, up land crop, reported from ginneries were 770.208, a decrease of 211,056: the bales of sea island cotton reported from gioneries were 73,393, a decrease of 29,560; and the baks of linters re ported from cotton seed oil mills were 194,485, a decrease of 1,738. Tbts3 statistics were collected through a canvass of the individual ginneries of the cotton States.by 631 local agents, who found that .30.218 ginneries had been operated for the .c MPof 1903, compared with 30,948 Jjthe final canvass for this crop where ginners had not finished gin ing they were requestedsto prepare careful estimates of the quantity of cotton which remained to be ~ginned at their establishments. Their esti mates, amounting to 75,401 commer cial bales have been included in the totals of the above table. The distribution of the crop, ex clusive of the linters, by States and territories, giving the tooal commer cial bales, follows:. Alabama, 1,023,959;' Arkansas, 741, 236; Florida, 58,572; Georgia 1,329, 278; Indian Territory, 312,776: Kan sas, 75; Kentucky, 644; Louisiana, 858,568; 3Iissis;ippi, 1,439,296; Mis sourI, 39,283; North Carolina, 555.330: Oklahoma, 204,957; South Carolina; 814,351; Tennessee, 250.437; Texas, 2,562632; Virginia, 13,681. The complete annual report on cot ton ginning will be published about May 1. A Popular Loan. The American Graphophone Com pany of which the Columbia Phono graph Company is the sole salesagent, recently offered to its stockhold ers $500,000 of 6 per cent. coupon notes running from one to fi"'e years. The offer was not only subscribed for in full, but substantially over-subscrib ed. If anything wer: needed to de monstrat the faith of the stockholders in the integrity of the management of the business, the avidity witl which these notes have been taakej would be quite suffcient. ~The busij ness has increased so tremendously o i late, that more capital was needed, despite the fact that the earnings o the Company are largely in excessoi one half million dollars per annum, with a prospect of their reaching the one million mark in the course of another year or two. In the mean time, the number of sales depots Is increasing every month and the plant at Bridgeport Is being extended by additional construction and new ma chinery added as rapidly as space can be provided for it. Kills Himself. Henry Madison Mann, an eleven year-old boy, son of T. C. Mann, prominent citizen of A bbeville, sho himself through the heart. The 1 became exasperated, it is said, cause of the release of a pet bird tha he kept in a cage. it is stated. h entered his room and locked the doo A moment later the report of a pis attracted the attention of the famil Mrs. Mann, the lad's mother, rush to the room. Henry opened the d for her, stepped back and fell to t floor dead. THE Atlanta Constitution says stead of a bill to raise the saa the president, what the coub mands is the limitation of his te of offce to one term. The turni the presidency into a clossal ss hsecoame a nasty natinal - XARY PERSIONS REJECTED. Because the County Returns Have Been Made Out Wrong. The State pension board, after a four days' session, has adjourned, hav ing disposed finally of all pension mat ters before it. The board i sued the following statement Saturday: "A great number of applications were disapproved on account of the careless manner in which the papers were prepared by the pension com missioners and ccunty beards in cer tain counties, and their being improp erly filled out has resulted in tue dis approval of those who may have bee 1 meritorious and otherwise would have been approved by the board. This Is particularly the ease in the wounded classes, the physicians of many of the boards failing .to give definite descrip tions of the wounds and diseases of the applicants. Unless the applica tions are entirely and properly filled out, the State board cannot pass them, although they are in full sympathy with the needy Confederate veteran and widow, who in many in stances are the victimsof this careless and irregular work. "The clerk of the State pension board has been instructed to return all applications that may come in from the various counties, as they gen erally do up to the day of payment, as neither the clerk nor the comptroller general, who is ex-onicio member of the board, nor any single member of the board has any right to add these applications to the approved lists. 1t is earnestly hoped therefore that the pension department will not be the recipient of the usual belated applica tions and appeals for corrections of errors on which the applicants were disapproved, for as stated above, the work of the State pension board of 1904, with the exception of approving the payrolls for the clerks of court, is entirely finished." The State says It is impossible to say when Qgpension fund will be disbursed as Mere is a large amount of clerical work to be done before send ing out the money. Every energy will be used to pay it out a little earlier than last year, which was the 28t]of April. Owing to the illness of Dr. P. E Griffin, physician of the boaid, Dr. William 'Se4on of the Richland county board, acted as his subsditute. The Oeuiocranuc Party. This is the year for a complete re organization of the Democratic party. The State executive committee called the state convention to meet in Co lumbia on the third Wednesday in, May, as required by the constitution of the Democratic party. This con vention is composed of delegates from t the various counties, selected on the I first Monday in May by the county convention, eagh county being enti tled to a num ' r of delegates double - t.be number crepresentatives in tbe I generai 'assembly. The. local clu~ t meet on the toiiith Saturday in A ptil 1 to organize and lect delegates tp the t county convention, each -club being|I entitled to one delegate for each twen- I ty-five members or fraction thereof. I Each county convention elects a mem- l. ber of the state executive- committee. The state convention elects a member I of the national executive committee I and delegates to the national conven- C tion at St. Louis. Tbe Columbia I Record says there is some talk as to C who will be elected as the "big four"I to the national convention. Senator|I Tillman and Gen. Wille Jones are t suggested. It is not certain whether i Governor Heyward will allow his name to go before the convention. Each congressional district selects two a members. Gen Wilie Jones will pro- a bably stand for re-election as chair- t man of the state Democratic execu- Ic tive comnmitte. Ex-Governor M. B.C McSweney will probably preside as chairman of the convention. It seemsI to be the policy to select someone who I is not a candidate for offce, and Gov. McSweeney having large experi ence as a presiding cificer, it is argued( by his friends, qualities him for the 1 position._________ Bryan Deprecates War. C Wmn. J. Bryan delivered an address before the People's church in the Hyperlon theater at New Haven, Conn., Sunday afternoon on . "The snow ancomman0 my in the.Philippmnes, was con rgied' as major general on Friday by 45 to 16, five democratic senators vot ing for him and two republicans I aainst him. . Twixt Devil And Deep Sea. The Washington correspondent o he Atlanta Constitution says it is re -ognized in Washington that the Re >ublicans are "betwixt the devil an he blue deep sea" in the light of th isclosures brought out in the coursi ,f the Smoot investigation. Will thi lepublican party, through its repre entation in the Senate. cater to tb< ast growing wave of popular indigna ion toward the Mormon church an( epudiate the deal made with thal hurch by Perry S. Heath for the Re. )ublican national organization, or wil: t stand by that deal and permit the dormon apostle to retain his seat it be Senate'. That is the problem which faces th( lepublican leaders. In the light o: he sensational revelations concerning he continuence of polygamous rela Ions on the part of the dominating nfluences of the Mormon church, that roblem has become an Issue )ver. hadowing every other now attracting he attention of the national capital. ['he Far Eastern war, the possibility )f conflict in other parts of the world, ther phases of domestic politics--ali hese are compelled to take a back eat for the present, at least, in the urrent discussion. There is no question that the con essions of President Smith have made he profoundest impression upon all ashington. The condition of atfair n Utah may be no surprise to those in the scene: but that there should ave come this revelation of open le ance of the spirit, if not the letter, if the antipolgamy laws on the. part if the leaders of the Mormon church, ias greatly disconcerted those Repub icans who have been contending that ,bere is nothing of substance in the ;moot case, and now they are serious y considering whether the party can, rom political consideration, afford tc tand by Smoot even if it is not shown hat he has been guilty of any illegal >ractices. The fact that In his capacity as one if the apostles OLf the courch he must ollow revelations-Lhe belief In whict s the very foundation of loyalty t ihe church-is regarded by those whc iave been active in the prosecutioE s evidence sufficient to warrant his eing thrown'out of the Senate, their eory being, of course, that witb his greater obligation to hih burch it would be impossible f 2 iim to live up to his oath of officE s Senator. This may or may not )c a fair assumption; but it must bE nsidered from the standpoint oi urishing to the Republican mnajori y in the Senate an excuse for expell ng Senator Smoot should it be deem d a neccessary step to take. It is certain that whatever action 4e Republicans take will be taken pon the grounds of political expedi n -y. - This, and this alone, will gov rn their acts as it has altvays done. 'he length to which the ~epublicar rders stadid ready to go i catering o a sentiment was shown bhen they efused to permit Brigha~ Robert o take his seat in the Hou'se of Reps esentatives. The Smoot case is not n itself similar to the case against loberts, but the impelling force back the two cases is the same-an over rhelming public opinion against ormonism. Whether this is an ltogether honest public b,>nion is utide of the questio:: whetiter there the same basis for It in the Smoot ase as there was In the case of toberts, as a confessed bigamist makes o difference; the important fact is hat the sentiment exists, and that U is fast assuming a national aspect. There can be no question that the ormon church as a whole gave N upport to the Republican natiotL: d State tickets in 1930O, and that his~was given in accordance with a eal whose terms permitted the burch to name its man for the Utah enatorship. That deal was made by Ir. Heath, as secretary of thie Re-~ ublican pational committee. The ~ormons did their part, Tuey not nly delivered Utah to the Republi an ticket, but also Idaho, where they old the balance of power, and were i very material aid in several other tats of the Northwest. When it ame to the election of the Utah enator, Senator Kearns endeavored o prevent the election of Apostle moot, but the deal had been too clear o admit of his being turned down s> g ashe was the man designated by e Mormon church. Now the problem pres mting itself the Republican leaders is whether ey can afford to turn Smoot out and n the risk of earning thereby the re ntment of the church which gave em the power in those States. To ose who are familiar with the re rd of the party, it begirs to look as they are getting ready to take this tep, believmg they will be better ble to s .and against the church than gainst a strong sentiment which per ades all sections of the country The ct that the deal was made by Mr. eath, who is not in good order with be administration, seems to add to e likelihood of its repudiation. As he tide is now running, it seems : st probable that Smoot will have D go. White Man Convicted. The jury entrusted with the case of Valter McMan us, white, charged witb he murder of John Leech, colored, at he Blackmore mine, in Lancaster ounty, last fall, after deliberating bout five hours brought in a verdici .f manslaughter with a recommenda Ion to mercy. McManus claimed thai e shot under apprehension that his Ife was in danger. He also swore thai he negro had cursed him in unendur tle terms the day before. McManus scaped from jail shortly after being ,rested and was at large for severa. nonths, but Sheriff Hunter located rim in Florida and brought him t< stice A SENSATIONAL INCIDENT. f - The Confederate Flag Gives Way tA "Old Glory" at Clemson. An occurrence at Clemson College o unusual and sensational interest i. thus described by an eyewitness: There has just been erected at thE college a flag-pole, eighty-six feet high. Recently one of the boys took up a collection and had a flag, four teen by twenty-one feet, of the "StarE and Bar" made, and the afternoon of March 12 at 6:3o, while the college band played "Dixie" and amid the cheers of the uncovered tive hundred Clemson boys, the flag of the Confeder acy was raised. It was lowered after dark and the cormpanies marched to the pole from reveille this morning, and again the flag was raised amid the cheers of the Clemson corps. It stayed until 9'clock, when the commandant, who is a Northerner. ordered it taken down. The boys had it down and hid before his orders could be obeyed. Immediately after release from quarters at the morning inspection. however, all of the boys went to the flag pole and were raising the flag for the third time. The com mandant came out of his omflee, caught hold of the rope and ordered 1r lower ed. But in spite of his protestations and his placing one boy under arrest, the flag was raised. The flag floated proudly till after church, when the commandant made a speech in which lie said among other things: "Boys, I don't blame you for honorino the flag your fathers and grandfathers fought for. Three cheers for the flag of the Southern Confeder acy." (Three cheers were given with a vim in which the minister, the fac ulty and the ladies joined heartily. Continuing he said: "But the South proved that there was only one flag in 1898. Boys, there's no use talking, we have the greatest flag on the face of the earth to day. And now I want the band to play Dixie while we lower the Stars and Bars, and then to play the Star Spangled Banner while we raise the Stars and Stripes." So while the band played "Dixie" and while the boys stood with un covered heads sending forth cheer upon cheer. the flag of our fathers was lowered and the flag of our forefathers and our flag was raised. Three rous ing cheers were given for "Old Glory" and then three for the commandant. WILL DODGE IT. The Republicans Mraid to Vote on the 1ornion Question Now. A dispatch from Washington says the Republican leaders in the Senate are taking no chances of having to wind up the Smoot investigation and vote on the Mormon apostle's right to his seat at this session of Congress. They made up, their minds it would not be good policy, politically, to set tle the case prior to the presidential election, but evidence against the Mor mon hierachy, which includes Smoot, piled up with a rapidity that astonish ed and disconcerted the Republicans. Only relatively unimportant details were left for investigation and it was found that new witnesses would have to be called to testify as to these. . To allow time t'o get these witness es from Utah the hearings' before the congressional zommitte on privileges and elections were adjourned for ten days or two weeks, the Republicans counting on being able to wind up in the session of Congress by April 15, and certainly by May 1. But the Democrats have shown a disposition to resist the; early adjournment pro gram by insisting on a prolonged de bate on the postoffce appropriation bill. This opened a prospect that the Smoot hearing would be completed before the session of Congress could be brought to a close. A hastly ad journment, with the case ready for settlement would be a practical admis sion of the Republicans that they were running from it. So the Republicans adopted tactics calcdlated to offset the Democratic move to prolong the session. They failed to send out the summons for the 40 or 50 additional witnesses required in the Smoot- case. The Democrats have just discovered this and are angry about it. They are anxious to keep partisanship out of Smoot case as long as possible, but they now feel disposed to raise a rowr in the Senate over what they regard as the inexcusable delay of the Republicans. E pidemic of Suicides. Three professors of the Ohio Uni versity have committed suicide in less tban a year. Tney are Profs. E. A. Eggers, F. C. Clark and C. W. Mesloh. Tue epidemic of suicides began on April 8, 1903, when Ernest August Eggers, head of the departmo" of German, shot himself thro. h the head, when confined to his zoom by achte rheumatism. On Ssp:.. 19, 1903, Prof. Frederick 'Conyvi .: Clark, at the head of the depar' ment of econo mics and socology, v.asked into a pas ture on the cam pu and sent two bul lets into his .rain. On Tuesday, March 16, 1934, Prof. Charles Walter Mesloh. as--miant professor of Ger manic la g uages, died at bome on the campus trom some drug taken with suicidal intent, having just a week before attempted to kill himself. Prof. Eggers killed himself because he could not endure the pain of rheu matism. Prof. Clark shot himself be cause he had lost all of his own and his parents' money in wildcat specula tion, and Prof. Mes'oh ended bis life as the result of a nervous state, Ibrought on through worry because he had not been promoted to the chair heldl by Prof. Egrs. LEFT WIFE AT HOTEL And Then Went Out and Blew Ont His Brains. D. Paul Hughes, secretary of the Dupuesne Mining Company, director of the Pittsburg State Bank, promi nent in Pennsylvania tinancial mat ters and well known in New York, blew out his brains on the shore of N~abone Lake, near the INorfork & Western Depot, Norfork, Va., Wed nesday, Hughes registered at the At lanta Hotel ten days ago with a wo man supposed to be wife, and gave the name of D. P. Hayes. Some of his mail came in that name. The woman says she knows very little of Hughes. At the inquest Wed nesday afternon she said she knew nothing that could have caused him to take his life. She was unmoved, and stated that Hughes might have another wife living somewhere. Without a tremor (r any indication of nervousness, she cntered the jury room, led by Coroner Kight, passed through the crowd ana out to the Morgue. She spent a moment before tne body and returned to the. -jury. There was ho trace of emotion upon her couatenance. She took the oath and replic-d to the questiuns of the Coroner in tones as ciear and distinct as though uttercd by ure who never had suffered a parg of :-orrow. She stated that she me t her hus band In Baltimore -.out two weeks ago: but she is from the soatbern part of New Jersey, but was visiting in Baltimore. She said she knew noth ing of the man save that he gave his name as Hughes; that he came from Pittsburg, and that he had a mother there. Hughes had been drinking for the past week or more, and Colonel David son, of the Atlantic Hotel, said he frequently warned the unfortunate man that he must keep sober around the hotel or remain in his room. Hughes always had plenty of money. He received numerous letters evpry day, and cashed money. Papers showing that Hughes was a Mason and a Pnythian were found In his effects at the hotel. Toe statement found on the body was.:produced at the inquest: "My body-I give to the first medi cal Institute that may care for it for the purpose of dissection. I do -this in the interest o' science. I am going on a long exploring expedition, and may ba help Peary find the North Pole." A COLD WINTER. November, De cember, January 'and February Were Below the Normal. The Columbia Record says accord Ing to Section D'rector J. W. Bauer the winter owed us 200 degress, it be ing that many below the u' 1 mark for the winter months. 7 o'clock Sunday tlesiTd~e equator and put an ofileial end to winter, according to the astronomers. in common parlance winter did not end until midnight last night. At all events, the winter has been the cold est that has ever been experienced by Columbia since the establishment of the weather bureau here. The winter has been remarkable, not so much for exceptionally low temperatures on only a few scattered days, but for continuous cold, broken only by warm spells now and the~n, of only a few days' duration. The months of November, December, January and February have all been below the nor mal. There have been several low temper atures recorded, and in November all records for weather in that particular month were broken. February was marked by a light snowfall, and in both January and February there were different days in which sleet fell and icles hung from the trees and. houses. Up to March the de i3ency was 249 degrees, but this month was a little better and about 49 of these have been knocked off. The normal for the months of Dagember, January and February complied from the records of the bureau since its establishment in 1889 are as follows: December...... .. ..............48 January......... .. .. .. .. ..... ...46 February.. ..... ....... .... ....48 As a matter of fact the actual mean temperature was: December...................42 January................. .... 42 February................. ....44 This shows how each month fell be hind and the intense, continued cold which this section of the country has had. A Peculiar Accident. Lieutenant Barton E. Gardiner, U. S. A., on furlough from his company in Arizona and a passenger on the east bound Southern Pacific train, going to visi't his mother in Massachusetts, met with a peculiar accident Thurs day as the train was nearing the de pot in Flatoma, Texas. He was seat ed in a chair car and was asleep. He' awoke as the brakeman called out the name of the station, jumped from the window and fell under the cars, both legs cut off. Immediate attention was given him and lie is resting well. Gardiner said when he heard the brakeman announce the station he dreamed his captain commanded a charge and it was this which caused the accident. Rewards Offered. A reward of $200 was offered Satur day by Gov. Heyward for the arrest and conviction of the murderers of John W. Meetze, the young farmer of Lexington county killed on the 19th of February. A reward of $100 was offered for the parties who burned the barn of Sam Berry in Orangeburg Feb. 23.