The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, September 19, 1894, Image 1
VOL. XLIX. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1894. NO. 6. |j
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|p BOODLE HUNTERsT
\ THAT IS ABOUT WHAT THE GRAND
ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC IS.
They Complain About the Hard Requirement?,
and Crlt-'clae Congress and the
South for their Attitude on the Pension
jawriuiii
L Pittssukg, Ta., Sept. 12 ?The deleBl
gates to the National Encampment of
V the G. A. R. got down to a solid busiH
ness basis this morning. While 200,000
Hf persons have left the city since the last
H old soldier passed in review yesterday,
Hf there are still 200,000 strangers in town,
B a majority of whom will stay until Satn
urday and Sunday, while some remain
V even longer. The national encampgjfc.
merit opened this morning in the new
M Grand Opera House. The commanderW
in-chief and delegates were welcomed
f on behalf of the Citizens Executive
Board by Chairman Daniel C. Ripley
rand, also, by W. C. Quincy, chairman
~ of the committee on invitations and
reception. Governor Patterson welcomed
them on behalf of the State of
PonTxwrtr-ani** while M&vor McKeuna
t of Pittsburg and Mayor Kennedy of
Allegheny performed the same pleasant
duty on behalf of their respective
k cities.
f The serious business of the encampment
proper then began. The election
for Commander-in-Chi if wiil not be
held until tomorrow. Since the withdrawal
of Judge Chas. D. Long of
Michigan, the opinion Is rapidly growing
that Col. T. N. Walker of Indiana
wiilj secure the coveted honor. The
selection of the next encampment city
has also been deferred until tomorrow.
"While surface indications are that
Louisville will have a walk oyer, it is
hinted that St. Paul has been doing
good work in a quiet but very effective
way.
Hn The claims of Louisville for the locam
I tion of the G. A. E. encampment of
1895 were presented to the national
MBLconvention by Henry Watterson this
H thfe mojjdng_Jjjistas^on as welcom
ing addresses were concluded a motion
to suspend the rules and give an audiI
ence to the Kentucky orator was adoptI
led with enthusiasm. He received a
HB cordial reception. The speaker retired
HS amid a storm of applause. Then the
M K doors were closed and the encampment
Wwentinto secret session to hear the adwf
dress of Commander-in-Chief Adams
| and associate national officers. Ia the
^sentatioa of Watterson at the opensession,the
supporters of Louisville
wmj^ a big march on St. Paul and the
locates of the latter are considerably
^K..io(TTOnMflH TTerarnfnr* if; has been
I Jk
B the practice to defer nomination of the
next encampment to the second or
closing day of the convention.
"When Henry Waiterson was intro[
duced to present the plea of Louisville
BL^or the next encampment, the silverHKRongued
escort of the "Star Eyed God
?dess"wasin his best mood. Among
his audience, from pit to gallery, laughter
alternated with applause and when
in a pathetic moment, he allowed a
few tears to-course down his cheeks,
H there was- a lachrymose response that
would have been appropriate to a funore
his preparation had been
reached, the success of the leading city
I of the Blue Grass State was secured,
R and the orator retired amid such an
^B| ovation as a national encampment has
rarely bestowed even upon one of its
Hr iavorite sons.
Close attention was paid by the dele*
HB gates to the report of the Commander
in-Chief and frequent references that
I It contained to the attitude of the congress
and of the people of the Soath
toward Union Soldiers and patriotic
movements originating in the North
were heartily applauded.
When the report of the committee on
pensions was read, cheers punctuated
every paragraph. It was signed by
comrades H. & Taintor, A. M. Waener
and J. N. Walker, cnairman, and
reads as follows:
"Your committee would respectfully
reiterate the sentiments and renew the
recommendations touching the rights
pf the Union veteran and the duties of
pe government towards him, embodied
in our report submitted to the
twenty-seventh national encampment.
After the adoption of that report by
the national encampment there was a
r change in the action of tne i'ension
^Department in its rules for the suspension
of the payment without heariDg,
pd many of those whose pension had
Been suspended under that unfair rule
nave been restored to the rolls. Your
committee is, however, of the opioion
that there is still just cause for complaint
in the technical rulings and requirements
of the Tension Department
which work unfavorable to the applicant
and result in unjust discrimination
against his interests that doubts
areuniustly decided adversely to the
claimant, which under any reasonable
r and liberal construction should have
been decided in his favor.
"Order 229, from the Department of
the Interior Bureau of Tensions issued
June 19,1893, is especially obnoxious as
establishing needless and hard requirements
in the preparation and forward
ing of testimony in support or claims.
We insist that evidence very often procured
after years of effort and
at great expense of time and
money on tne part of tne applicant
should not be thrown out
rfor mere lack of form or want of compliance
with any purely technical or
arbitrary rules and we urge that this
order be so modified as to provide
that all evidence presented be fairly
examined.
Your committee feels constrained
to call the attention of the National
Encampment to the fact that a large
part of the appropriation made by tne
Fifty-second Congress for the payment
ot pensions for the year ending J une
30,1894, was unused and turned back
RB into the Treasury, wnne nunareas or
thousands of unadjacated claims re&
mained pending in the pension bureau.
K At the same time, credit is claimed on
behalf of Congress and the adminis'.ration
upon the grounds that the immeH
diate appropriations have been reduced,
yet it appears the only reducWr
lion has been made by the cutting the
appropriations for pension; that
^ Union soldiers alone feel the effect of
B the spirit of economy. It is a signili?
cant fact that while a period of sevenA
teen years elapsed between the ending
of our war with Mexico and the close
of 'he war of the t ntonjet tne amount
now expended for tie pensioning of
the soldiers of the Mexican war is increasing,
while the amount expended
for pensions to Union veterans is diminishing.
We feci compelled to say
that there is evidently on the part of
feflr both the administrative and legislative
Hr departments a feeling of hostility to
H our worthy and suffering comrades, the
V wards of the nation, who bore the
heats and burden of the battle, a feel
ing which certainly should not exist in
a country saved by their devotion.
^ "While the Grand Army of llepublic
B>- Is pledged to purity in public affairs
? * ">nl tK<ii.ofnra ax?mnathi7.fl and CO
J AilU WUIj UiiCi Vi.V4.v, ?
BfeL operate with any and all proper eiToros
H * at economy, to the end that all public
B burdens may be reduced to the minimum,
we view with extreme regrets
that talse economy which shaves and
J - pares to the quick at the expense of J
i
;Or
honor, justice and patriotism. We insist
upon an honest, patriotic construction
and administration of existing
pension laws and that every just claim
shall be speedily settled so that whatever
is found due shall be paid while
the applicant is alive to receive it. We
are confidett that the loyal sentiments
of the country will condemn a policy
that attempts to recuperate the public
treasury at the expense largely of the
slender purses of our disabled heroes,
widows and orphans,"
/TlVx. a/3 yv-P TXT O O
?110 ctUUfulUlX U1 Llic icyum n uj
moved and seconded by a dozen voices
from the body of the house. Commander
Adams waited a moment as
though in expectation of a speech
either in support or dissent. Not a delegate
rose. The motion was put and
the report was adopted with a. deafening
shout. Again the order of business
recurred to the location of the
next encampment and the invitation
of St. Paul was presented in eloquent
addresses by ex-Commander- in-'Jhief
Judge John P. Il9a and Col. J. N.
Davidson, but an overwhelming majority
of the delegates were stili under
the spell of the "Star-Eyed <Goddess"
and her old Kentucky home sjid when
the question was put the viva voce vote
in lavor of Louisville was so overwhelming
that the opposition instead
of demanding a call of the roll, bowed
acquiescence and gracefully retired
from the field.
The Headlight Dimmed.
Spartanburg, Sept. 12.?This has
been an off day with the Gantt family.
Col. T. Larry Gantt, editor o? the
Headlight, got into a discussion with
two men from the country. These men
said they had always been for Tillman
until the oast two weeks.and since they
were convinced that Tillmanism meant
Tnla thoTT mnnM naTOr VAt.A t.hat.
ticket again. Gantt told them that
they were d?d traitors. Gantt was
very much under the influence of liquor
and became boisterous. Mart
Floyd was standing near, and told the
men to talk to him (Gantt) whereupon
Gantt made at him with his fist. Floyd
then administered two stinging blows
on Gantt's head and he fell off the sidewalk
into the street. Friends interferred^nd
it was thought that everything
wSs-oxfir. Half an hour later
Gaatt's two grown sons accosted Floyd
at the Windsor Hotel and demanded
satisfaction. Floyd told them they
could get it Thereupon the elder
Gantt, Jesse, struck him, and the other
Gantt drew a pistol and demanded fair
play. Floyd's brother came in and
" ' I
graDDea tae pisioi. xue meu iuuguo
for some time, and John Floyd and
Mart succeeded in taking a pistol each ?
from the Gantts and clubbed them un- ;
mercifully with them. It is feared
that one of the Gantts will lose ah eye. !
The Floyas are not hurt, -except that '
each has a sprained finger.
a card. !
To the Editor of the Headlig'it:
I wish to state through your columns ;
that I was alone to blame in the difficulties
that occurred last Tueslay af- '
ternoon,and deeply regret the unfortunate
occurrence. I have seen Mayor
Calvert and assumed entire responsi- 1
bility for the disturbance, and asked
that any cases made against other parties
be dismissed, as I aggravated the
assaults. I also desire to apologize to
those gentlemen whom I offeaded, hav- ,
ing already seen as many I could
ana cenaerca a personal apuiugj.
As to the difficulties of my sons, I
have only to say that like t;be brave
boys they are, they defended their
father, knowing that he wa3.in the
wrong. For this they have respect of
every .-true man. Respectfully,
T. L. Gantt.
Carpenter Escapes Banking.
Columbia, S.C., Sept. 12.?Governor
Tillman this raornin? commuted the
sentence of William Carpenter, (.he famous
Ejgefield murderer from death
by hanging to life imprisonment in the
penitentiary. All remember the fa
mous murder case. The killing of
young Preston Younce by Murrell and
Carpenter, who met him in the public
highway and filled his body full of
lead. That was in 1889. Murrell was
captured after an exciting chase by a
posse from Columbia, brought to the
city, bound hand ana roor, ana nnauy
tried in Edgefield. He was found
guilty of murder and sentenced by the
presiding Judge to be hanged. Governor
Richardson pardoned him, for reasons
sufficient, and in the face of a petition
upon which was the name of
B. JR. Tillman, who was then nothing
more than a private citizen of Edgefield
county.
Did he think then that he would
have to pass upon the sentence of Mur- ;
rell's fellow murderer? Carpenter es. ;
caped into Georgia and lor several
years lived in the swamps of that State |
and eluded arrest. His first arrest and :
the trouble Governor Tillman had in
getting him away from Governor Norihen's
jurisdiction are well remembera/J
TTq roaa hrrtnorhf-. hmfc inallv. and
tried in Edgefield, and found guilty of
murder, with recommendation of mer- <
cy. Under such a verdict there was
nothing for the presiding judge to do
but to sentence him to be hanged, i
which was done. In such a form the 1
matter was brought to the Governor's
attention. Thea'ffidavit of nine jurors
was submitted in which t hey stated
that they thought that a recommendation
to merey would save Carpenter's
life, and it was for that reason that
they found such a verdict. It seems
that after thejuiy had baen out for
some time, the judge sent ior the foreman
and asked if the j ary were hesitating
about a matter ot law or fact. The
foremaa said a matter of law, and in
the collcquy which followed the judge
was understood to say that a recommendation
to mercy woulcl save Carpenter's
neck. So such a verdict was
found,under this understanding by the
jury.
After Twelve Years.
Columbia, Sept. 12.?Go rernor Tillman
yesterday granted a pardon to
Pleasant Miller, an old negco, who was
convicted of arson in Juue, 18S2?
twelve years ago?in Abbeville county
and sentenced by Judge Pressley to life
imprisonment in the penitentiary. It
appears that the old fellow is innocent
of the crime for which he has been a
Drisoner all these vears. Governor
Tillman based his action 011 an affidavit
duly witnessed, signed by F. W. Kqox,
stating that he was present at the trial
of Miller, and that the conviction was
based entirely upon circumstantial
evidence; that at the trial a measure
was introduced by one Sam Adams, a
witness for the State, purporting to be
a measure of the defendant's track:
that the measure was after wards compared
with Pleasant Miller's tracks and
that the measure did not lit, but was
very much longer, that the said Sam
Adams thereupon cut o:I about two
inches of the said measu::e, so as to
make.it correspond to what was known
to be pleasant Miller's trask; that the
measure was produced at "he trial and
sworn to be the measure of the tracks
seen around the burned building. Furthermore,
that the prosecutor tried to
get him (Knox) to testify ttat they were
Pleasant Miller's tracks, b it that he refused
to do so, that neither he, the defendant,
nor his attorney knew these
facts at the trial, and that he (Isrnox)
was not called upon to testify for the
defendant.?State <
THE JUSTICES' AT WORK.
ARGUMENTS BEGUN IN THE DISPEN- 1
r> m r\\r rsncync*
. OMMT v^nocoThe
Soprtim Court at List Getting Hold
ot the Most Momentous Matter In the ,
State?The Attorneys Against the S:ate
Pressing the Lw of Stare Decisis.
Columbia, S. C., Sept. 13.?It was ex- .
actly 11 o'clock yesterday morning
when the three Justices of the Supreme
Court solemnly 51ed Into the court
room and took their seats. They wore
the black gowns which tradition says
all Judges must wear. Chief Justice
Mclver took the center of the three |
arranged for the Judges. Jus
tice Pope took the seat on the right of i
the Chief Justice, the one formerly occupied
by Justice McGowan. Justice
Gary took the seat on the left formerly ;
occupied by Justice Pope. Justice
Gary did not seem ill at ease in his position
and a stranger walking in could
not have told but that every member of
the honorable court had been there for j
years. t
The Chief Justice announced the <
court ready for business. The court 1
room was fairly well filled with visitors i
and among the number were several i
lawyers outside the city. Bssides these ]
were a number of saloon men and one c
or two prohibitionists. t
Everybody knows that the court has *
been called in exira session for the purpose
of passing on the constitutionality c
of the Dispensary law. The constitu- 1
tionality of the law is involved in two l
cases?what is known as the Aiken case i
and what is Known as tne unaneatuu j
injunction case. The titlesof the cases i
are "The State ex relatione J. V* George c
and G. T. Polley, relators, against the 1
City Council of the City of Aiken, re- f
spondent,"' and "Theodore Melchers and i
F. W. Jessen, complainants, petitioners e
against W. T. C. Bates, Treasurer of t
the State of South Carolina, and D. E. J
Traxler defendants." r
There are some points of difference t
in each case but the case3 are to be \
heard at the same time and the court i
will dispose of them about the same t
time but notlikely in the same decision, c
The attorneys representing the State t
in both cases are Attorney General a
Buchanan and R. W. Boyd ot Darling- i
i-rm for tha citv of Aiken. G. W. Croft; a
and for Meichers andJesaen, J. P. K. d
Bryan and H. A. M. Smith of Charles- s
ton. All these were present yesterday i
morning except Mr. Smith, who is in d
Tennessee on business and could not t
get here. Mr. Bryan explained to the t
court Mr. Smith's absence and asked v
that the latter be allowed to file his ar- c
gument witbin a certain time. Tbe i
court conferred on this a few seconds t
and answered that Mr. Smith could file ?
the argument within ten days. The \
Chief Justice, however, announced that c
the court might reach a decision within l
ten days. This was the only indication
given during the day that tbe court r
proposes to hurry the cases. I
The proceedings were opened by At- a
torney Croft reading the records of the fc
Aiken case. Attorney Bryan followed a
by reading the petition for the injunc- r
Lion. In response to this petition At- s
torney General Buchanan submitted c
the following formal answer: e
W. T. C. Bates and D. H. Traxler, 1
upon whom has been served a rule re- t
~~whv fr.hfl \
UUUlUg uugrn uv wuv <* vrb*%?ww ?
writ of injunction prayed for by the r
petitioners herein should not be grant- t
ed, respectfully make return to said r
rule, and for causes show: t
1. That the respondent, W. T. C. i
Bates, is the duly elected and qualitied s
Treasurer of the State of South Caro- i
lina, and the respondent, D. H. Traxler
is State Commissioner duly appointed c
under the Act of the General Assembly t
of the said State, entitled "An Act to "t
prohibit the manufacture and sale of s
intoxicating liquors as a beverage a
within this State, except as herein pro- i
vided" and continue in said office un- t
der the provisions of an Act of the 5
3aid General Assembly entitled "An ?
Act to declare the law in reference to,
and further regulate the use, sale, con- t
sumption, transportation aad disposi- s
tion of alcoholic liquids or liquors with a
in the State of South Carolina and to
police the same," approved Dacember,
23,1993, and now in force in this State.
2. That the acts of respondents, both
those done and performed, complained ,
of and objected to by petitioners herein E
are each and all required of respondents a
by the said last mentioned Act, and t
have been performed and will be per- formed
by them and each of them in a
the faithful discharge of their sworn t
duties as officers of the State as afore- r
said, ^
8. That they deny the unconstitution- \
ality, invalidity and nullity of said r
Acts, in the particulars specified in the g
petition herein or in any other particu- i
Lar; and, on the contrary allege that the ?
- - - ? 1
said Acts were pas3ea oy tue u-auerai j
Assembly in the legitimate exercise of c
its constitutional power of legislation t
and with the purpose and in the sincere j
desire to minify the evils of the sale of (
liquor within the borders of this State. r
4. They deny that petitioners, or those ]
united with them, have suffered iDjuries (
or are about to suffer injuries from the t
operation of the said Act of 1893; and, t
on the contrary, allege that the opera- t
tion of the said Act has conferred and g
will continue to confer great benefits (
npon them, and upon all the law abld- ?
mg citizens of the State, in the way of
rescuing the people, and especially its t
youth, from the corrupting and demor- ?
alizing influences of the liquor saloon. ^
That petitioners complain as taxpayers j
but that on their own showing, the ^
moneys th9 disbursement of which c
they seek to restrain are not the pro- ?
ceeds of taxation but derived from the ?
sale ot liquors by the State. t
5. The respondents further ans wering i
the rule herein, allege that the writ of j
injunction prayed for should not issue (
tor tnat petitioners aiie^e aueuiai
Irreparable in juries to themselves beyond
those suffered by the people at
large, nor do they" allege in what respect
they have been or are likely to be
injured by the operation of the said
Act.
6. The respondents further answering
the rule herein, allege that the writ of
injunction prayed for should not issue,
for that they are officers of the State
and should not, at the instance of private
citizens, be restrainea in the discharge
of their public and official duties
on the alleged ground of the unconstitutionality
of the law requiring their
action.
The respondents having mide full re- I
turns to the rule herein pray that the J
same may be discharged with costs. 1
Attorney General .Buchanan arose i
and asked permission of the court to ]
attack the decision of the court in the ]
case of McCullough vs Brown et al., on i
WHlCtl tne isyz law was ueuiareu uu- j
constitutional, Permission was grant- i
ed and without that permission a great ]
deal of the argument prepared in both <
cases would have been useless. <
Chief Justice Mclver stated that no 1
limit on the time for arguments would <
be fixed. <
Attorney General Buchanan an- 1
dounced that the attorneys had agreed ]
that Mr. Croft should cpen the argu- ;
ments; Mr. Boyd follow him, Mr. Bry- <
an next and the Attorney General
last.
All the preliminaries having been
disposed of the attorneys were ready to
begin arguments about 12:15 o'clock
and Mr. Croft arose and began. It Is
well enough here to state that the court
adjourned at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon
after having heard the argument
of Mr. Croft and part of that of Attorney
Boyd. The latter will conclude
this morning and will be followed by
Bryan and Buchanan. All the arguments
will be concluded this afternoon.
REBUKED BY O'FERP.ALL.
Invitation of Alro-American Press Asao
elation Declined.
Richmond, Ya.,Sept. 12?la answer
to an Invitation to address the AfroAmerican
Press Association, Governor
O'Ferrall today wrote as follows:
Governor's Office,
Ricnmcnd, Va? Sept. 12,1894.
Messrs. JohD Mitchell, W. Calvin Chase,
John C. Daney and Others, Committee
of Afro American Press Association,
City:
Dear Sirs: In response to your inviation
to address or attend the conven;ion
of the Afro-American Press Association,
now in session in this city, I
jeg to say I would not think of acceptng
an invitation to address any contention
or assembly that endorses, as
four convention did last evening, the
;ourse of Ida Wells in her slander of
;he people and civil authorities of the
south.
I condemn lynch law as much as any
me, and as long as I am Governor of
Virginia every man, whether white or
)lack,whatever the charge against him
nay be, shall have a trial by judge and
ury li x nave to ex^ix an luo puwoi
fiven m9 by the Constitution and laws
>f Virginia, and should any ca3e of
ynchiaj? occur I shall endeavor to enforce
the law against the lynchers, but
t strikes me that the action of your
invention in endorsing the misrepresentations
and slanderous utterances of
da Wells is calculated to do harm
ather than good, and intensify rather
han mollify the spirit of violence
vhichso frequently manifests itself
tot only in Virginia, but throughout
he South, when a certain crime is
:ommitted. The brutes who commit
his crime, too horrible to mention, and
ire summarily dealt with, seem to elict
sympathy from Ida Wells and her
upporters, as though they were murlered
innocents, while not a word of
ympathy is expressed for their vlctms,
who have suffered more than
leath. I believe that if your convenion
would condemn the crime which
las caused the lynchings in the South
roth rare exceptions, and the leaders
?f the colored people would frown upon
t and cry out against it, and not exert
heir energies and devote their time to
i denunciation of the lynchings, there
vould be fewer outrages, and if so,
:ertainly fewer instances of mob vio
ence.
I do not know, but it looks very
nuch to me as though the work of Da
iVells was a deep laid scheme to check
is far as may be the progress of the
South, and every good citizen, white
md colored, should feel an interest in
ef uting her villificatioas rather .than
auctioning them, as your convention
lid last evening. She and her supportsrs
certainly stirred up a feeling against
ler race which did not exist prior to
ler crusade. The p so pie of the South,
vho have labored so assiduously for
learly a generation now to recuperate
tna build up their waste places, will
lot take kindly to the effort which
his woman and her followers are
naking to bring reproach upon their
lection, and create the impression that
t is a land of lawlessness and disorder.
1 have a most friendly feeling for the
:olored people. They have my sympahies
in all their struggles and lauda>le
undertakings, as I think I have
hown in my private and public life,
ind I was indeed deeply pained when I
ead this morning that your conveu
ion, composed of representatives or
'our race, had struck the South a blow
rhich she does not deserve.
While I thank you for your invltaion,
I must decline, under the circumtances,
to address your convention or
ttend its sessions. JEtsspectfully,
Charles O'Ferral
Enthusiasm Over Gordon.
Pittsburg, Sept. 12.?Well on towards
last midnight that, which to the
aembers of the Union Veteran Legion
ittending the encampment, and the
'ittsburg members of the organization
pas, perhaps, the most remarkable
cene since'the close of the rebellion,
ook plac9, when Gen. John B. Jcrdon,
me of the leading commanders of the
Confederate army, appeared before a
ra3t number of Federal soldiers and
aised his voice for the obliteration of
ectionalism and a united America.
Co say that the old Union soldiers
eere responsive to Senator Gordon's
)lea gives no adequate idea of the reiprocal
feeling manifested by the
hunderous cheers and hearty hand
rrasDs with which the ex-Confederate
Jeneral was received. It was regular
neeting night of the Union Veteran
liegion ana the hall was thronged.
x0D. Gordon was the first member of
he Confederate army to ever enter the
lall. A great crowd gave three very
le^rty cheers. Gen. A. L. Pearson, in
t happy remark, introduced the rebel
xsneral, whom many present had met
it the surrender of Appomatox.
General Gordon said: "I and all right
hinking men of any section, would
ilwavs admire men who fought."
Darning to the Union flags which cov;red
the speaker's stand, he delivered a
rery eloquent apostrophe, pledging his
levotion and that of the ex-Confederites
of tne South to that banner and
ill that it symbolizes. He addressed
,he soldiers as comrades and coontrynen,
and every time the Gsneral, in
lis calm, deliberate tones used these
mdearing terms, the audience was visbly
affected. At the end of his elojuent
address three tremendous cheers
were giyen. Corporal Tanner respond;d
in an address of no les3 fervid elojuence,
pledging the respect and admiration
of all real Union soldiers who
:ought and suffered,and for such loyal,
patriotic men and soldiers as were represented
by Gen. Gordon. Corporal
ranner's remarks were deliveted most
earnestly and eloquently, seated in a
;halr, the recent amputation of his
imbs preventing him from standing
)n his feet.
Swift Jast:ce.
T>- ~ ?-II A
11. XJL JJU miug
Ureen special to the Dispatch says:
Near Bowling Green yesterday, at the
aouae of J udson Carter and in the abjence
of the family, Carter's little girl,
Moselle, seven years old, was criminal;y
assaulted, by Mosss Christopher, a
legro boy, who lives with Carter, and
ias been in his employment for a
lumber of years. The condition of the
little girl is critical; she will probably
lie. A large crowd, though terribly
sxcited, permitted the iiend to be conveyed
quietly to jail, through deferance
to the law. Christopher was iniicted
this morning, arraigned, put on
trial and today convicted, the jury imposing
the death penalty. Judge E. C.
Moncure sentenced him to be hanged
on the 14th of November.
SOME ENGLISH SNOBS
COMES OVER HERE TO INVESTIGATE
THE LYNCHING REPORTS.
What Governor O'Ferral, of Virginia,
and Governor Northern, ot Georgia, Has
to Say to Thorn?They Were Treated
Tost About Right.
Richmond, VaM Sspt. 10.?The following;
appears in the Evening State
here this aiternoon:
Governor 0 Terr all received last night
the fallow in? telegram from the New
York World:
New York, Sept. 9.?To Governor
Charles T. OTerrall, Esq.:
An English committee has been sent
here to investigae and denounce Southem
lynchings. Will you please telegraph
us what you think of Eoglish
meddling with our aftairs."
The Governor-reply:
Common wealiS?5f Virginia, Governor's
office,
Richmond, Va? Sept. 9th, 1894.
To the World, New York:
Things have come to a pretty pass in
this country wnen we are to have a lot
of English moralists sticking their noses
into our national affairs. It is the
quientescence of brass and .impudence.
They had better sweep in front of their
own doors before seeking to regulate
us. We might as well investigate Eogliah
affairs in India, her White Chapel
muderes, her Jack the Ripper'e slashings,
the Maybrick trial and her alleged
injustice an- cruelty to this woman, her
rapacious colonial policy in Africa and
the degrading effects upon the Chinese
resulting from the opium war. What do
they propose to do in case they find that
the law is not administered here accord
log to meir measr jjeciare war agamat
m, or open the vials of their wrath upon
oar beads? What Information do
they seek? Do they want to know that
the white,people in the South have
lvEche.d negroes whose miserable lusts
led them to the commission of the black
crimes of rape upon white women. If
so, they need not investigate, for such
is the fact. Do they desire to know that
this has been done by infuriated communities
lor the protection of their white
women and to save the victims ot these
fiends from the humiliation of testifying
In courts? If so, this is the fact. Do
they want to know whether there was
any doubt as to the guilt of the men
lynched? If so, for the satisfatioa of
their yearning souls, they could have ascertained
without encountering the
perils of a sea trip, tbat their guilt was
clear in every instance. If they had
desiretrto learn whether these lynchings
were permitted or countenanced by the
civil authorities, they could have learned
through the regular channels of corresDondencftthat
in ever? case the civil au
thorities were either without knowledge
or were overpowered. In Virginia, the
authorities ia every case have asserted
all thejr p^wer to suppress the lynching
spirit 3$d%Ithin the last few months I
have protected from violence with military,
at heavy expense to the State,
thiee negroes who were charged with
outraging white women, They had fair
trials, were convicted and executed.
While lynch law is to be condemned,
and every effort has heen made ami
will be made to suppress it in the South,
without the advice of those would.be
philanthropists, who have taken so much
upon themselve, lynching will surely
cease when the crime of rape ceases.
Thwo ovmnat.hhttr. "Rnclifthmeo mi^ht
fiad missionary work among the negroes
of the South In warning them against
the consequences of the forcible gratification
of theirjdevifish lasts.
(Signed) Charles T. O'Ferrall.
Governor of Virginia.
got. northen's reply.
Atlanta, Sept. 10.?This morning
the following telegram fron She New
York World was received by Governor
W. J. Northen: uAn English committee
has been sent here to investigate and
denounce Southern lynchings. Will
you please telegaph us what you think
of English meddling with our affairs ?"
In reply to this query, Governor Northen,
this morning, wired the following
reply:
To the World New York:
Say to tne "English committee" who
have come to this ceuntry "to investigate
and .denounce lynchings at the
South," that I am in position to know
that they have received tneit information
from irresponsible sources, and
that the English people have declined
and refused to be properly informed
about our laws and tbe conduct or our
government. The Eaglisb papers to
my knowledge have declined time and
again to publish statements made to
them in defense of the South by Ea
Klisnmen, woo am iiuw rtsatueuus ui wo
South. Under these conditions we do
not want any farther outside hypocrical
cant upon false ideas of our goverment.
The people of this State are
quiet able to administer their own affairs
and they are doing it in full justice
to the negro, as our laws and our
conduct will attest. We have already
endured more outside interference in
our local matters than we will submissively
tolerate in the future. Let
these kindly disposed Englishment return
to their own country and prevent
by law the inhuman sale of virtuous
girl3 to lustful men in high places, hang
all such demons as Jack the Ripper,
punish, as it deserves, the barbarous
wholesale slaughter of negroes in
Africa by Englishmen who go there to
steal their gold; supply the necessities
to prevent bread and labor riots and
strikes, which are wholly unknown to
the people of the South; feed and give
employment to the poor, as do the people
of my section; give to the oppressed
Irishmen the rights humanity demands,
and when they shall have pulled the
beam out of their o wn eyes, then they
may, with better grace, appoint themselves
a committee to hunt for the
moat that may be in our eyes.
While wo Have trrpornlariHpS at the
South and negroes are sometimes
lynched, they are never slaughtered by
wholesale as Englishmen sometimes
destroyed them. I send you by mall
tbe law and record of my own State on
these matters and 1 challenge not only
the English committee on lynchings at
the South, but the civilized world, to
show a better. Why come with this investigation
to denounce the South just
prior to a Congressional election, wnen
we have just had a negro lynched in
Kansas April 2, another in Ohio on the
Sabbath, April 15th, and when white
Poles and Hungarians have recently
been brutally butchered in Michigan
and Pennsylvania and negroes ruu out
of Franklin Park, N. J., in herds? We
challenge investigation by all persons
who have the right to investigate these
nhorcrpQ hut. an?a at.tflmnf. linnn thft T>arfc
of Englishmen tainted by their own
national crimes to arraign us for trial
must be considered a gross impertinence.
W. J.liORTHEN.
Governor of Georgia.
WHAT OTHER GOVERNOR SAY.
The following letters, in addition to
those above have been received by The
World:
Governor William Flshback, of Arkansas,
says:
That cowardly assassins who seek the
protection of the mob to commit murder
infest every country is to be deplored,
but as long as human nature remains
as it is the efforts of the better
class of people to suppress them can
only be embarrassed by the officious intermeddling
of outsiders. This is true
even when the interance comes from
our nearest neighbors,to whom we are
bound by ties of political relationship
i but that England, a foreign country
i mm a Trrk J rtii ? n nn iVi nv\ A f
j Oiiu uuc ? uuu.j. yaya xcoo oxxau uuo-idilu
as much money per capita for the education
of its people as the United States
pays, should assume the role of a missinary
to teaci us our duty, can but excite
ridicule as well as resentment. If
its committee is really sincere in its efforts
to suppress lynching, it must be
sadly wanting' in common sense not to
have learned this much, of human nature.
My advice to the committee, if
it is indeed in earnest and is honest, is
to go home.
The reply from Governor Matthews,
of Indiana, is as follows:
The visit of the English committee
to investigate and denounce southern
lynching is certainly a remarkable and
singular procedure. It should be regarded
as a meddlesome interference,
wholly unwarranted, and not deserving
of even courteous or tolerant treatmeat
by our people. It is a good opportunity
to let Eaglandor other countries
understand that we can and will
manage our internal affairs without interference
on their part.
_ The governor of South Dakota, Hon.
(J. H. aheldon, writes as follows:
We have no need for English committee
in the country when the purpose
is to give peculiar emphasis to
the English ida of English superioity.
We deprecate lynchings. Punishment
for crime doej not require such means.
We can, however, tafce care of our own
affairs without the aid of E nglish Pharisees.
If I were the Governor of a State
which they propose to investigate they
would get sc;mt courtesy.
Governor Altgeld, of the state of II- ,
linois, says:
Answering your telegram, I will say
there are outrages committed in the
south in violation of law, and there are
outrages committed in Ireland in the
the name of the law. Pos-r (
sibly the English committee can do
some good in the south. If it does
then the southern people should return ;
the compliment and send a committee
to Ireland to stop the outrages there.
Hon. W. A. McCorkle, governor of
West Virginia, sends the following:
T rpcmrri t.ha Rpnriinc nf an "English
committee asa.pieceof intermeddling
with our affairs not to be excused. The
south is always, in a proper case, ready (
and willing to give full hearing of its
affairs a competent tribunal, but cer- j
tainly it does not require an English (
committee in that light.
From away out in Utah, the follow- (
ing protest is entered by Gfivernor Caleb
W. West:
The coming of the English committe
for the purpose named is presumptuous
effrontery. We are fully capable
of managing our own affairs without (
interference from any quarter, and are
entirely willing to permit full occupation
to our English cousins in attending
to their own business. I am firmly
opposed to all lynching, and willing to
indorse all proper efforts to stop it. I
heartly commend the energetic and
vigorous action of the Tennessee autho- ,
ricies to that end, <
FTon. Elias Carr. who aroverns the
Tarheel state, says:
North Carolinians are a law-abiding
people, and hence opposed to lynching.
We believe that the law is adequate if
promptly administered. The sovereign
states are competent to cope with the
question without the officious intermeddling
of a foreign power.
This is the way Governor Reynolds,
of Delaware, puts it:
I have entire faith in the power of
American laws and American courts
to protect the liberties of oar citizens.
We are amply able in this grand coun-v
try to take care of ourselves.
Governor Stone, of Mississippi, says:
The coming of the Eaglish committee,
of which j cu speak, to invstigate
lynchings in f-he United Statesis an exhibition
cf superb cheek, but I am sure
1 do not object if the committee shall
be guided by a genuine desire to know
and tell tbe truth.
Govern ot Shortridge of North Dakota
Js short and pointed when he says:
Lynching Is wrong under all circumtances
in any country?north or south.
The Eaglish had better attend to their
own business. America will not tolerate
foreigners meddling' with our
home affairs.
AMATT^finAfi Cn1?TAAfA? .
vlcjjuu o jjurciuui, ojt1vcoloi. iouuujer,
says:
The Englished are running the present
national administration as to its
financial policy,and arethus emboldened
to further impudence. It is all wrang,
but just now the English appear to
be running our government.
Swept the State.
Augusta, Sept. 11.?The Republicans
regard the results of the state election
as the biggest victory they have
achieved since the birth of the Republican
party. The total vote for governor,
which two years ago was 130,000,
was reduced from 15,000 to 20,000. The
Republicans claim that Cleaver's vote
v:ill reach nearly 70,000. In every one
of the 16 counties of the state, Democracy
was defeated. Waldo county
elected their whole county ticket for
? v.firof Hma In mnnr voura "P.trerv
UUO UJLOU UiU'V AU tHWUj JMf
city in the state has probably ?one RepublicaD,
which is something phenominal.
The returns so far indicate that
Johnson (Democrat) will not get over
35,000 votes against 55,000 cast for him
two years ago, and this may be reduced
hy later returns. The Republicans
have carried both branches of the legislature,
electing a solid senate. In the
house of representatives, which consists
of 151 members?and which twp
years ago stood 107 Republicans and 44
Democrats?the Republicans, it is believed,
have elected 110 members, while
the remainder who have been elected
are Democrats and Populists. Among
the Republicans elected to the house Is
Lew Powers, of Houlton, who will be
the next speaker.
Accused of Murder.
Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 13.?Walter
A. Holt, a young man from Macon,
Ga., was arrested here today on a charge
of murdering G. M. Beard, a prominent
attorney o? Frankling, Texas, on September
24, 1893, who was found with
his head erased in. Holt claims that
he had just arrived in Franklin the day
the murder was committed and was at
the house of his uncle, Thomas Simmons,
when the murder took place.
Holt's leaving Franklin five days after
4-Ksn anoni/iiAr? Vlfl
tuc ill UlU^i 1/flUOCU OUO^IWIVU UUVi uv
was traced to Macon, Ga., to various
points in Florida and finally to Jacksonville
by Macon detectives. He was
arrested by Constable Land on information
furnished by Datective Ford of
Macon and Land refuses to give up bis
prisoner until Ford divides tbe reward
by the murdered man's widow. Holt
is still in jail, but is willing to go to
Texas without a requisition. He will
probably be released on a writ of habeas
corpus. He was preparing to start for
Texas when arrested, having already
bought a ticket.
A SUBSTITUTE FOR COTTON.
The Sugar Bset Recommended to Oar
Farmers.
Columbia, September 10.?Governor
Tillman did not bother himself today
with politics. He did incidentally asfc
about the report of the Murray conference,
which he says was unfounded,but
he spent most of the time answering
an accumulation of mail. Among the
letters was one from Mr. E. F. Ferguson,
of Chicago, which was given
prompt attention and whicfc he hopes
will amount to something. If Mr.
Furgeson is not able to do anything
vm am rt nvm a avs a ttt V* /\ Unn f ka
may uc surnc uuc c:ac wuu uoa ouc
quisite capital will be able to see
things as he does and develop the beet
sugar industry in this State. The entering
wedge has been given. Will It
amount to anything?
The letter from Mr. Ferguson reads
as follows:
874 West Pole Street. )
Chicago, III., Sept. 4,1894.)
Governor Tillman, Columbia, S. C.?
My Dear Sir: From a careful examination
of the formation and soil of South
Carolina as given in a book published
by the State Board of Agriculture of
South Carolina, 1 believe yo-i have one
of the best States in the Union for the
cultivation of the sugar bees and the
manufacture of beet sugar. It is a fact
that the cultivation of the sugar beet
under the scientific method necessary
to its success increases the productiveness
of the ground for other crops. It
is also a particularly hardy plant, adjusting
itself without difiisulcy to conditions
of soil and climate with extreme
tenacity of life and succeeding
where manv other agricultural products
would under the sams conditions
be a total failure. Tne sugar beet
would average in most parts of your
State fifteen tons per acre and would
?flll fnr SU rifi tin SSn a fcnn at f.hfl fatitorv.
Factories could be established on your
navigable rivers and railroad lines and
located so as to be convenient to the
largest number of beet sugar producers.
I write you became I have been
deeply interested in your Administration
and the able manner in which you
have conducted It and because I like
your State and want to see it prosper.
How is your State Board of Agriculture
formed? Do you appoint it?
Could you secuie me a position to experiment
with raising sugar beet in
your State? I know the introduction
of sugar baet culture and the manufacture
of beet sugar woull be of the
utmost value to your State,and I would
be pleased to have your personal views
In relation to the same. Take your
coast counties from Beaufort to Horry;
then the next tier from Barnwell to
Marlboro; then the next from Aiken to
Chesterfield; and next Elgefield to
Lancaster; all possess the soil sutable
to sugar beet culture and would produce
the.best results, making from S5G
to $60 per acre clear profit, and a sure
crop, no danger of failure. If you can
inaugurate this new source of wealth
it will be a fitting crown to your Administration.
Will you kindly let me
hear from you? I will furnish you
satisfactory references ii! there is a
chance for busind&s.
Respectfully yours,
R. H. Ferguson.
Governor Tillmaa replied as follows:
Columbia, September 10,1894.
R. H. Ferguson, Chicago, 111.?My
Dear Sir: Your letter of September 4
has been received. In reply I would
say that experiments in the cultivation
of the various varieties of beets, including
the sugar beets, have been
made in this State time and time
again, and there is no doubt whatever
asto our soil and climate being well
suited to beet culture. The difficulty
which I forsee in developing tbe sugar
industry here will be lack of capital to
manufacture the beet and tbe sugar.
The production of theN beet in paying
quantities will be easy. The skilled
labor, confined mainly to superintendence,
can be easily obtained in Europe.
The question 13, who will furnish the
machinery to make up the product.
I am particularly interested in developing
the production of any new crop
that will take the place of cotton in
our agriculture. and will be glad to
haye you give me, if you are familiar
with the subject, estimates on tbe cost
of a plant to manufacture beets into
sugar. We have large areas of very
fertile, cheap lands now devoted to
CJtton culture. Our-farmers can supply
all the beets at prices as cheap as
they can be produced anywhere in the
world. The time is propritious for
enlisting their support to any new agricultural
production which promises
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yrout, <45 cubtuu <*u yicacuo pnuco jaoiuo
Lone. We have no State Board of Agriculture
at this time, be t you might
correspond with the director of the experimental
station located at Clemson
College, but as I have already told you,
if somebody will buy the sugar beet at
the prices you name our farmers will
contract to cultivate them according
to the instructions and to deliver any
quanity.
I shall be glad to hear from you further
on this important subject.
Respectfully,
B. JR. Tillman.
A Qtuutly Dlacovcryi
Eicemond, Va., Sept. 12.?A Bristol,
Tenru, special to the Dispatch says:
Charles Eector and a boy named Morris
in exploring a cave near Seven Mile
Ford, Va., thirty miles east of this
place, yesterday discovered two skeletons
forty feet below the surface. The
cave had been long Knotfn, but no one
had ever attempted to explore it because
of its great depth. The Morris
boy was let down by a rope. When the
find was reported a party of citizens
went to the cave to investigate further.
In all ten skeletons were taken out,and
were adjudged to be the bones of men,
women and children. One skeleton
was found in a sitting position, with
the skull reclining on the arms, which
were folded across the knees. Thus far
there is but one way to account for the
charnel house. Old citizens say that
many years ago there was an inn kept
near this cave by a man named Allen
and that occasionally pec pie who stopped
there had mysteriously disappeared,
and were never again heard of. The
supposition is that they were killed
in'this inn, robbed of their valuables
and then consigned to the cave.
Mnrdered by a Boy.
Connellsville. Pa., Sept. 13.?Yesterday
Bernard Toker, a German farmer
was shot dead and his wife mortally
wounded-by Frank Morris, a sixteenyear-old
boy. Morris is a son of the
man from whom Toker purchased his
little farm. The woman is badly shot
and cannot recover. The scene of the
tragedy is Reich Hill, five miles distant
from Conneilsville in the mountain*.
The probable motive of the crime was
robbery. While Toker was building a
wall in the cellar, crawling along on his
hands and knees, the boy shot him in
the back of his head, the bullet coming
out at his forehead. The murderer ransacked
his yictim's pockets, securing a
f?w dollars in cash and his silver watch.
Morris then searched the house and
tried to conceal his crime by setting
fire to the building. Mrs. Toker arrived
home at that moment and was fired on
by the murderer without warning. The
woman fell and the boy lied.
... ..
WTiS!!
REPUBLICAN RALLY.
STATE COMMITTEE CALL THEM TO
THE FRONT- . ^
An Address Issued Wednesday?Congrezsionsl
Candidates to be Pot Oat. Elee
Hons to be Contested All Alone the
Line.
CoLUiiBiA.S. C., Sept. 13.?The Bspublican
corpse in South Carolina has
began to show signs of life again. It
has had a good long and peaceful slumber,
and, as soon as it gets thoroughly
awakened, will doubtless fall off into
another death-like swoon, it will be so
much surprised at itself. . %
But to be 3erious, the Republicans
are on the move now, and getting ready
for the part they are to play In the - y
coming November general election.
The following address, issued yeste^^ ..
day by the State Republican committee,
shows wk is being done, and is entirely
self-exjianatory. ?
Headquarters of the SSate Republican
executive Committee.
Columbia, S, C., Sept 11,1894.
To the Republicans of Sou^i Carolina:
A political struggle of far-reaching
and widespread importance is now in
progress. Vermont and Maine have al
ready spoken in such grand Kepablican
majorities as have not been known
since the days of Abraham Lincoln.
This Democratic.party, in full posses- ..<2
sion of every department of the govern- .
ment for the first time since 1880, has
demonstrated its incapacity to successfnlv
administer the government. " " ^
Eyer^hiug seems to indicate that
the next House of Representatives will
be largely Republican, and that the
landslide of this November will be bat tne
prelude to the Republican cyclone
of 1896. Although illegally disfranchised
by the registration and election laws
of this State, the Republicans of South
Carolina cannot afford to remain inactive
and indifferent in this great straggle.
Pabllc sentiment is crystalizing
against tnese infamous registration
and election laws, and whether they
are legally decreed to be unconstitutional
or not, a Republican Hoaiie of
Repressntatives would not heritate to -./&
unseat and send home in disgrace those
whose only claim to election is based v>|s
on tne suppression of the right to vote
of a large majority of the citizsns of
the State.
The Republicans at this election
should record an earnest and vigorous
partes; against their illegal disfranchisement.
Candidates for Congress
should bs nominated in every Concessional
district, ana all Republicans
should attempt to cast their voten for
representatives in Congress. A record
snouia DSKepcorau woo are rejeccea
under the operation of the registration
law, which svill serve as a basis to contest
that law before the next National
House of Representatives. - -Sgs
Congressional committees should at
once arrange for Congressional conventions
to nominate candidates for Congress,
not waiting for a call to be issued
for a Stat9 convention. yM
Congressional conventions will b3 constituted
as follows: '
. First District, 31 delegates?Beaufort
county, 6; Berkeley, 2; Charleston, 13; '"~;M
Colietoa, 3; Georgetown, 4; Williams- ?a|
Second District, 27 delegates?Hampton,
4; Barnwell, 8; Aiken, 6; Eigefleld,
Third District, 27 delegates? Abbeville,
9; Newberry, 6; Anderson, 7; Ocone6,3;
Picfcees, 3.
Fourth District, 35 delegates?Grreanville,
9; Laurens, 6; Fairfield, 5; Spartanburg,
7; Union,4; Richland, 4.
Fifth District, 25 delegates?York, - -4^
7; Chester, 5; Lancaster, 3; Spartanburg,
2; Cne3terfield, 3; Kershaw, 4; * ::,"M
Union,-!.
csixcn uiSuTic, zi ueiegates?jiarendon,
4; Darlington, 5; Florence, 4; Marl- ?^ --^sIb
boro, 4; Marion, 5; Horry, 3; William* 3IS
burg, 2. ?3?s
Seventh District, 29 delegates? Berkeley,
4; Colleton, 4; Lexington, 4;
Richmond, 2; Sumter, 7; Orangeburg, 8.
E. A. Webster, Chairman.
Attest: J. H. Johnson, Secretary.
A Texas Outrage. S^^^sjkI
Waco, Sept. 11.?James H. Johnson,
who, three weeks ago, married Emma
Cooley, a pretty girl of 15, livea with
his wife and her sister, Miss EFa Cooley,
in a tent on the Mosley plantation,
on the JBrazos river, seven miles belo w
Waco. The family is engaged in cotton
picking and are in camp for that purpose.
At an early hour two men calle'd
Johnson out and, dragging him away,
beat him into a condition of helplessness.
They then went after the women
and one of them caught Mrs. Johnson
ana outraged ner uoar me utmo. miao
Eva Cooley escaped by running and
hiding under a culvert, where she remained
until daylight. Johnson managed
to get to Waco, and returned with
three officers, who arrested C. F. Ely
and J. W.Vernon, two young tenant
farmers who were also engaged in picking
cotton on the Mosley plantation. .^1
Both men were very drunk when ar- ??
rested. James H. Johnson, his wife,
and Miss Eva Cooley all three identified
Ely and Vernon as their assailants.
The men were locked up for grand jury
investigation, that body being in session.
On the big plantations below
Waco hundreds of families are in tents
?JlVsZX*4J? Wl/UUUj UUVk WUV WU.V4.UHW -*
spread consternation down the Brazos
valley. The pickers will all move together
in groups for protection.
Hot Campaign.
Frankfort, Ky? Sept. 12.?The
contest for the Congressional nomination
in the Ashland district has reached
that degree of intensity wbere adjectives
fail to describe it. The utmost good nature
has characterized proceedings here,
though all parties have been active and
all claim everything in sight. The sensation
of the pasl twenty-four hours was
the speech Monday night of Rev. B. L.
McRead7 of Grace Episcopal Church.
He has been a lifelong friend and admirer
cf Colonel Breckinridge, but savs .
that he can follow him no longer. He
deoccaced his cause before a political
meeting in burning language. He said
in substance that ne had' heard Colonel
Breckinridge speak at the unveiling of
the monument erected to the Confederate
Tr?fr?ns at T.PTincrfrin. When he
pointed to the newly made grave of bis
svite, ana paying her memory a touching
tribute, said all his hopes laid buried.
"According to his own confession,"
said the minister, "he was then carrying
on his shameless intercouse with the
Pollard woman.
Loat Over a Million.
New Yokk, Sept. 11.?It is intimated
ttet the Louisville and Nashville report
to be submitted to the stockholders
at the annual meeting will show
that the losses sustained by the company
in its effort to control the South
Powlino Roilrno/1 hov* hMn rharmd to
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profit and loss. The amount has been
variously stated. The exact amount,
however, is not far from $1200,000.
The resort will also show that the floating
indebtedness of the company has
been reduced.to less than #1,250,000,
. all ol which is carried on time.