The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, November 24, 1897, Image 1

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? " " "" " ' I' VOL. LII. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 24, 1897. NO. 16. -? ? I REPUBLICANS' DUTY. BgLER DEMANDS THAT THEY &ARRY OUT PLEDGES. 1 ( _______ Bp. Alive?If tfca Party Docrn't ' IKt Democracy Will Win in tfc? ] |KpaJgn? Senator's Letter. KThe Washington Post: By letters to the Post of Au- ] Bpd 25, two important events 1 Kipp?ned, (1) the elections of | BKber 2, and, (2) the English re \ H to now promise to reopen the J ia mints to the coinage of silver as 1 I inducement to interna tioral bimefcS CD. < I As to the elections, they prove reasonable clearness that the RaKcan party permanently acquies- I Kn "the existing gold standard" 1 ?ves up struggle fcr bimetalHbat party will be defeated in the i Bfrsional elections of 1S98, and in < klential election of 19CC. The < Bonometallists will then take J Bon of all branches of the na- 1 kvernment, and a free coinage 1 fc silver made the tender for J i^Wnub-ic and private, domestic * Bgn. -will pass boih houses of s and be signed by President h? New York city being in the Tammany Hall, that orfjani rill unite with the national icy in the demand for free image, and it is not within the possibility that the rural Re. Dimetaliists will srive votes upon a single gold standard . to place the State of New HHL um;& m uio mcpuvubiu Here may be infatuated individuals < Ktio think, in view of the elections of 1 HE Kst Tuesday in Iowa, Ohio, Kentucky, s pd Nebraska, that the western Be- ' dblican States can be kept in lice if < Mature party platforms shall complete 1 BSy yield to gold, and give up the ef 1 Rort to remonetize silver, but the wis- 1 Kkv <er and safe' view is to assume that with C Br the issue so framed the 3e publican B party will meet with overwhelming t H political disaster inflicted by a solid 1 HB south and a west almost solid, aided } Pby Tammany Hall and the free silver Democracy of the Empire State. This comes very near being a country of free voters, and cor elections come very near being honest transactions, and an intelligent people, with their, votes freely cast and honestly counted, will never adopt or submit to the permanent demonetization of silver and the fixed ascendency of the single gold standard prescribed by England. So the pathway of safety is ODly in one direction. Mr. McKinley was ejected only ? because his platform and his previous utterances promised efforts to secure I bimetallism. We lost the United -t States senate because those promises 1 were not sufficiently in earnest, and i were distrusted by many Republican ? voters. We did not promise to estab * lish bimetallism i< we could, beliving * it to be a bad thing, but because we t believed it to be a good thing. If we now faithlessly abandon the pursuit a > r of that good thing we doom ourselves t to political annihilation. So there is ' s>vw?y?% Tift fn O +A t . WU1TC U^OU bU U0 MUb IV kV & HHRgether the independent nations of the 1 (feestern 1 eaoisphereand to anite tben t B one grand and irresistable demand 1 P^for the money of the ages, Gca's ( pr money, as Secretary John Sherman 1 devotionally and reverently called it; ( jj^ silver and gold, joined together at a 1 H fixed ratio as the basis of all paper 1 R money and credits, and as the world's < time honored measure of the world's f B vames, 2. But the recent English refusal to : agree to help bimetallism by promis { |P ing to reopen the India mints will be 2 rcinrrcu i>u txn uruviug ua?ii uxo lurci u.a t tional agreement is an impossibility. < Since the ref usal there have been writ- f ten innumerable articles pronouncing 1 "the doom of silver;" saying that * "silver is a dead issue," and jeering at j all Republicans who still believe that ? the pledges of their platform of 1896 s and prior thereto are yet living and J binding promises. It is impossible to J avoid the continued comparison of 1 these prophets to those who, in 1852, < in perfect accordance with the plat * forms of the two great political par s ties, proclaimed the doom and death * of the anti slavery agitation, yet in 10 < I short years saw slavery doomed and s dead on American soil and the world t * over. 1 Z Even a British ministry has been j known to change its mind. Lord Salisbury very emphatically declared ' that he would not arbitrate the vital ' questions in the Venezuelan contro } versy, yet with true wisdom and states | Iuianamp, anu wim no impairment ui British prestige, he changed h:s mind ; ":hen he realized that one British : ueclaration could not doom or kill a ' "> great living subject; namely, the ' Monroe dactrine. It is true that the present answer of Lord Salisbury is disappointing. It is contrary to previous ministerial as sertions upon which bimetallism every < where had the"right confidently tore- ( IjJ*J Ail bJLLW iCHlt-i VUV XJ^UUV/U XUU^O j of October 4 of Lord Aldenham and Mr. , H. R. Grenfell, there is brought out ; in vivid colors the Eaglish promise. ] On March 17, 1896, the house of com- i mons unanimously declared that the , bsst interests of the country had been } injured by silver's demonetization in , 1873, and urged the government to do , all in their power to secure an inter < national agreement. In the debate j the chancellor of the excheauer /"Sir . W, E. H. Beach) promised that the , ^governments would obey this iDj-ms j MRon. The first lord of the treasury (Mr. ( A. J, Balfour) made the same promise in many words, among them these. ' "We will reopen the India mints: We will en^a^e that thsy shall be ' kept open, and we shall therefore provide for a free coinage of silver within | tl.e limits of the British Empire for a population greater in number than the population of Germany, France, and i America put put together." These were strong and apparently words. Thev were the basis and the hope of tne movement for bimetallism, which began with the nomination of Mr. McKinley upon a platform pledging him to inaugurate such a movement. Tne three steps thus far taken.have been as follows: First, the action of congress last win- ! ter, and the missioa to Europe of the ' :r^f envoys, Messrs. Wolcott. Paine, and Stevenson second, the prompt and will- i 1 - - -?? *t-V%o l?i?oriAh minictvo l JXlg ttlsfcll/XA Wi WLIW A AVMVM MilJiidMJ i%. taken even when their people were -.%- excited ovsr the passage of a rigid car:ff bearing severely upon products of the French republic; tiiird, Lord Salis r bury's declaration that at present the government will not now agree to fui?gigi fill its promise to open the India i |4fe Like many other stout ministerial, declaration that o' Lord Salisbury is subject to reconsideration aid reversal, and he invited * continual discussion of the subject, which, with digni Lv and wisdom, the French ambassa dor and our ambassador and envoys decided not to immediately, pursue. Equally with Lord Salisbury possibly they desired lo be enlightened by pub lie sentiment. Or possibly, as Secretary Sherman has charged the English aamistr?- wit a na^iris* aciea m oaa Faith about the seals of Behringseathey thought he might like the opportunity 3f also charging them with bad faith in revoking the promise to open the [naia mints, which charge our ambassador, Col. Hay, and our envoys very wisely omitted to make, reserving that opportunity for their official superiors. It was the proper privilege of the English ministry, in considering a *reat question like the present one, to vacillate somewhat At first they were undoubtedly inclined to listen favorably to the French and American proposals, and induced the Bank >f Eagland to promise to contribute to emonetization the holding of a por ion of its reserve in silver bullion, as :he bank law allows. But the sooney power of England was iroused and expressed its dis ibbrobation. The ~ potent Mr. Robert Benson tried to convince the ministry, by impressive facts, that the ^.mericjm movement was not in earnest, and that Secretary Gage's proposed method of currency reform and he selfconstitufced currency reform commission were conceived in hostilli;y to the remonetiz:;tion of silver, and ! ;hat President McKinley was not sin- , ;erely in favor of an international ! igreement The council of adminis ration or India advised against reining the India mints. This was lot the voice of the people of India, suffering from plague and starvation, pvith the value of their immense ac :umulations of silver ornaments and noney cut down more than half by he heavy hand of their government, it was the voice of the money power >f London; but it had its weight So we got the negative decision for he present. Perhaps Lord Salisbury vill be instructed by new events. Ai eady one by-election to parliament las been lost on this issue. The bimeallists of the world are aroused, and he third step of the new movement, i step backward indeed, so far is likey at any moment to be reversed and i forward st9p taken in the interest of he prosperity and happiness of the vhoie great empire of Great Britain tnd of the civilized world beside, tlany debtor nations of the world canlot pay Great Britain what they owe ler, interest and principal, in gold, j !t will be part of wisdom for the em- ; )ire id aia m remoneusiuK siuvcr. [?he words of Mr. Justice Joseph P. Bradley in the legal-tender cases are ucid and powerful. "But the creditor nterest will lose some of its gold. Is rold the one thing needful? Is it vorse f.-r the creditor to lose a little >y depreciation than everything oy the >ankruptcy of his debtor?" At aU events, the duty i3 clear of til Bepublicans who desire the coninuance in power of their party, and vho do not propose to bolt tneii party "DKimo. /ittUUi UI? iVOXlOW JlLLCJ y\s Viuv ^ allism and devise ways and means for ulfilling them. Only those who were lever at heart for bimetalT~~m will stop >n account of tiie British ministry's 1 emporsry negative. The people of the ivhole Western hemisphere, by im : nense majorities, are m favor of tne < emonetization of silver. They need j >nly to be aroused and organized by he powerful influence of the United States. A Pan-American remonetiza- ( ion congress may be held and a united ( equest of ail the governments 01 , tforth and South America may be . presented. to the European p3wers. It vill go heeded. Cnina and representaives of the people of India will join n the request. It will be heeded even >y England. For myself I desire to >e guided by the councils of Janator Wolcott, after he has iubmitted to the President the ? /W.TTAT.O XT M Wrtlrtrttt "cporu Ui bUO CXI > O. 1U.L, ttuja/vsvi, las given means, time, and exhaustng labor to this great work thus far. j )tners might possibly have done it, ( >ut no one came forward to do it. As- , ociating the inspiring name of the ( riendly republic of France with that ( )f the great American republic, he has loked the British ministry whether , iiey were sincere in their explicit and . id qualified promises of filarch 17, | 1897 to reopen and to keep open tne > india mints in aid of international binetallism, and the ministry have said ;hat they are not now prepared to do ' t. It was worth much more than all . t has r?nst_ not to let the nromise itand unchallenged, but to thus put j iis question and get this answer. ' Che answer wiLl not stick. Lord Salis jury will not kill the goose that lay he golden egg. , . William E. Chasdlek. November 9,1897. Great Softerlcg la Oaba, A letter was received Thursday from Uapt. Charlson of the 4 masted schoon- ' ir Clara E. Randall of Portland, Me., now in port at Mantanzas, Cuba, which tells of the great distress and suffering in Cuba. The schooner left Philadelphia witii a cargo of coal, nbout a month ago, and the letter ; was written by Capt. Charleson scon ifter the vessel arrived there, two weeks ago. Capt. Charleson says that Matanzas is filled with fever stricken and dying soldiers and that hundreds of pacificos are dying every week. It is no uncommon sight on the streets to see men lying in the gutter in their last agonies and to see the death carts slowly creeping about, , sjatheing up their loads of bodies, liie people seem to be helpless in their ' misery and not only is yellow fever playing havoc with them, but ihey a to, nf ctowo Hrtn KTT ' Capt Charlesoa said that he has not : been ashore very mudh since his arrival, for fear of catching the fever, and he intends to get his vessel unloaded and away as soon as possible, ilantanzas, which was once one of the ' busiest ports on the island, is now al most deserted, he says, and everywhere there is death and pestilence. An Awful Prairie Fire, A special from Esq ma, Tex., says: A. terrible prairie fire passed through Lubbock, Hale and Crosby couuties Tuesday, doing great damage to the ranges. It oriednated east of Crosbv county, burned eastward through Crosby, before a severe west winu, until 11 reached a po:nt north of Emma, when a .norther arose, bringing the fire south in its awful fury. At least iOO square miles of territory were burned over. Cattle suffered and macy were burned-to death. North of Eoama 3,000 sheep were burned in one ffocfc and many farmers lost their winter feed. % A NOBLE LIFE WORK. MRS. M. A. SNOWDEN'S DEVOTION TO THE LOST CAUSE. Tho Coalrd&.-a:? Hcmo Was Foucded by j Her and Xhronsh Her Efforts Has Been j Sapportc?l. September 10th. 1S97, Mrs. Mary i Amarinchia Sno^den celebrated her | 78:h biithdaj. Mrs. Snowden is the daughter of Joseph Yates, and the widow of William Snowden, M. D., of Charleston, S. 0. In her ever hospitable home in the city that first sounded the tocsin of ihe Confederate war. Mrs. Snowden still lives, and though for some months she has been confined to her room, and perhaps may never again go about doing good and relieving suffering, yet when the Master calis she will be cheerfully ready, and her works will live after her. It is peculiarly fitting that a pen ana ink sketch of Mrs. Snowden's life should be framed in a paper, in her own home, that is true to the sacred past, for she is a Confederate woman of Confederate women, and no woman living or dead has exceeded her in effort or accomplishment for 'the cause" while it lasted for the principle ?3 it lives in the persons of Confedgra'e veterans and their children for the memories that to her are sacred and of life a part. During the war Mrs, Snowden assisted by her eqially devoted sister, Mrs. Isabella rfnowden, ?ave her entire time to the service of the hospitals and to nursing the sick and wounded whenever found, ministering even with Godlike charity to those T <mdr2 soldiers of the union army who were laying waste the homes of those she loved, desecrating the graves of her dead, and making life a thing to dread tor tae women or the South. Mrs. Snowden's whole life has bsen lived unselfishly. She was Lhe inspiration and prime worker of the Calhoun Monument association that had accumulated some $75,000 before the war to build a monument to th6 greatest, purest and most liberal statesman America bad produced since Washington, and it was Mrs. SnowSen who sewed into her skirts the sejurities when Sherman burnt Columbia, and preserved the means that enabled th8 Calhoun Monument Associa ion to erect the imposing monument I Jiatnow adorns Marion Square in front of the South Carolina Military Academy, known as the Citadel. The war ended, and Mrs. Snowden ind her sister, boih widows, turned to nend their grief by continuing to live 'or others. A brave Mary lander by ;he name of Charles E. Rodman, who lad been paraljzsd from his waist lown by being entombed under the 'ailing rampart of Battery Wagener tfas the first object of their solicitude, md they took him to their home and ninistered unto him until he was re noved to St. Philip's Church Home ^Episcopal), where he lived until of aecessity removed to the hospital to and his brave life. Then the cry came ip from the penniless, wounded and .lon/xnt- CS^nrowiiarAtA , vat UiguVdJI bWUVW jrans. '"Who will aid us to educate jut children ?" and who but the wiawedSnowden sisters answered, "We will." A large and coacmodius building, occupying a most advantageous position on Broad street, the principal ;ast and west street of tne city, and running back same hundreds of feet ,o Chalmers street, was obtained for ?1,800 a year, and the sisters' Snow len mortgaged the home over tneir heads, a ad the only protection for Mrs. M. A. Snowaen's two young children, to sec-are the first year's ren;aL As I ana not writing a History of the Confederate Home, I will only write of it as its institution, growth, maintenance and good work is part of me life, if not the whole life, of Mrs. SI. A. Snowden, assisted by her untiring if less aggressive sister. Mrs. Snowien went to ,warm hearted, sympathetic Biltimore to learn how similar eleemosynary institutions were mantn /-vKt-oin oiH fj.rtm thrtsa who were well to do and svmpathizsd with the ruined South. Visiting a home for widows in that city, she was offered by one of the dependent inmates $1?the very first voluntary iffer to me cause,?and declining, because of .the necessities of tne givir, was asked if she rej 3cted the wido w's mite, replying chat she would grate fully accept it then as th3 seed corn, blessed of God, for her enterprise, rhe incident got into the papers, and was read in Europe by the helplessly ill daughter (Hiss Louise) of the great philanthropist, Hon. W. W. Corcoran *nd after the daughter's death the father sent Mrs. M. ?u snowaen $L,uyu and thus the Confederate Home of Charleston, S. C., the first of its kind, was started to shelter and care for the "mothers,'widows and daughters of Confederate soldiers," and to educate the daughters in the faith their brave fathers Had fought for and their womanly mothers had suffered for. It was in 1867 that the home took sliaps and being and if_educating aaugniers 01 110 Die m?u aiiu women, to become self-helping, self respecting working women in the world is a good work, tnen Mary Araminthia Snow den's name should be illuminated by history,'and live in song and story, and in the hearts of grateful people for some fifteen hundred girls of the State have been educated in the Home for the mothers, widows and daughters of confederate soldiers, and Mrs. M. A. Snowden by her untiring effort has caused the establishment, sup port and partial endowment of tins borne. Mr. W. W, Corcoran, after a visit to trie home, gave it an additional amount of $5,000 and a generous Baltimore woman has given it through Mrs. Snowdec, $20,000. Surely if to care for sick ana wounded Confederate soldiers for four years, and for thosi dearer to them than life, their mothers, wives and daughters for thirty years, is entitled to "well done, thou eriir?rt ftr.fi faithful SPrvATit." tnen does Mrs. Mary Araminthia Snowden stand second to no other Confederate woman, and chapters of daughters of the Confederacy should be named for her in every state of the iate Confederate States. For a high spirited, dauntless woman, full of life and hu man frailties, to live a long, useful and unselfish life for others, and those' others endeared to her only by their humanity, is Christ like, and Mary Araminttiia Snowden's cross will burgeon into the crown promised of Him. O M /Atr-rl A ?-? f it io KallOTTfiH lai o? kjuvrvuwxx IUXUXWU, i wuj the hrst memorial association in t&e Sauth, 1856, and wiUi singular propriety, it adopted the anniversary of Stonevrell J ackson's deaih, May 10th, as its memoiiai day, and since 1866 this day has oeen observed in Charleston dv tne ladies memorial association and the citizens generally, and now that the Stats bas made it a legal holiday, only the selfish money lover and those who were faint hearted in war and would forget in peac?, fail to observe the day. The first general monument to the Confederate dead was unveiled in the soldier's plot io beautiful Magnolia cemetery. South Carolina's own Wade Hampton de livered the address, and it is not saying IUJ luuuu ty amiux i>uau mivuuw Conefderate soldier, clutching his fiag to his breast, as he grasps his rill a with the other hand, shows i*s Munich birth, and is the most truth telling and t spirited monument in the South, if j not in the United States, as it stands [guarding the graves of .some eight ! hundred Confederate dead, many of I whose bodies were removed from the ! graves of Gettysburg's battlefield, j Mrs. Snowden is the president of the j L. M. A., and as long as she is strong enough to sit in a carnage will attend the solemn, and with us always impressive, ceremony of love and admiration, ana will see to it, as she has done for thirty one years, that each and eviry grave has its evergreen cross and wreath. As Wade Hampton must ever be our typical South Carolina Confederate soldier, so must Mary Arminthia Snowdan remain the type of the South Carolina Confederate wo man, fearless and faithful. James G. Holmes in the Charleston Post. COTTON CROPS AND PRICES. jams lot or? sting Figures Concerning the Great Staple. The last issue of Bradstreet's coni. - _ i t ^ i ~ J tains a very interesting article Dtibeu on a report of the S. Blaisden, Jr., company, of Chicopee, Mass., showing ine cotton crops of the last fiftytwo years, and the highest and lowest prices each year. Tne cotton crop did not reach 1,000,000 bales until 1830. In 1822 it was only 435,000 bales. The largest crop before tne war was that of 1859-60. It was 4.861,000 bales, or nearly twice as large as any cotton crop from 1865 to 1869. It was not until 1878-that the South produced a larger crop of cotton than it had produced prior to the war, the crop that cfiar rpfttthinor 5 074- 155 halps. The crop of'1830 was the first to go beyond 6,000,000 bales, and the 7,000,000 mark was passed for the first time in 13S7. The crop raised in 1891 ran up to 9,000,000 bales, and that of 1894 was almost 10.000,000 bales. The present crop will be the greatest on record. A comparison of prices is interesting, In 1825 the price of cotton went to 13 cents a pound. It then declined for several years and was as low as 7 cents in 1831 and 1832. In 1835 it rose to 15 cents. Ia 1843 4445 the average price w&s 5 cents, and that low figure was touched again in 1848. Cotton then went up rapidly and 11 cents was the lowest price in 185C. During the war the price went a vay up. of course. In 1864 it touched the highest point. $1.90 a pound, in New York. The lowest price that year was 72 cents. Tae price then fell steadily and in 1870 2o| cents was the top r otch. The highest price in 1880 was + m 2.- J 1 1A 1C 1? ?0+ uezr-s, aau lllb iuwcsl iu ?o iu ceuts: in 1890 the highest price was 12+ cents and the lowest 9 3 16 cents. Ia 1S95 the highest price was 9 3 16 cents and the lowest 5 9 16 cents. The following: table shows the highest and the lowest prices for the last twentyfire years: Highest. Lowest. 187 1 2*1 1 4 14 3-4 187 2 27 3-8 18 5-8 187 3 21 3-8 13 6-8 187 4 18 7-8 14 3-4 187 5 17 1-8 13 1-16 1870 13 3-8 10 7-8 1877 13 5-16 10 13.16 1S7S 12 3-16 8 13-16 1879 13 3-4 9 1-4 18S0 13 1-4 10 15-15 1SS1 13 10 7-16 18S2 13 1-1G 10 1-4 188 3 11 1-8 10 * 188 4 11 15-16 9 3-4 188 5 11 1-2 9 3-10 188 6 9 9-16 8 13.10 188 7 11 7-10 9 7-16* 188 8 11 3-8 9 5-8 1S89 11 1-2 9 3-4 189 0 12 3-4 9 3-16 189 1 9 1-2 7 3-4 189 2 10 611-16 189 3 9 15-10 7 1-4 - ^ - y-w V * S* t A 1/* 189 J ?5 D-IO O J-xv 1S95 9 3-8 5 9-16 1890 8 7-8 7 1-16 This year the market opened on September 1 at 7 1-16 cents, and since that time has declined about $8,75 on each 500?pound bale. A year ago cotton was worth 7i cents, but then there was a prospect or only an 8,750,000 crop. It is certain that this year's crop will exceed 10,000.000 bales, and cotton is worth only 51-16 cents. There is a /AM frtmnawc -til i h OCA vox jr piarn icoouu iv/i taxrnutw am figures.?Atlanta Journal. \ Cotton Packing. The new method of packing cotton in the shape of cylindrical bales has bean the subject of considerable discussion among cotton mill men, who are directly interested in the subject. Col. Or, of the Piedmont Mills, in this State, in an article in the Manufacturers' Record, opposes the new system of packibg on the ground that tne cotton is pressed into such a condition as to make it difficult and more costly to handle at the milL He also points out the great loss it would entail to the farmers and owners of ginneries in the South by reason of the fact that their plants could no longer be utilized for packing cotton. The Arkwright club, composed of treasurers and managers of New Eagland mills, on the oth r hand, are very mucn dissatisfied with the present sjstem of baling. They insist upon a Katfer srcstftm and will cicft r>ref??rftTice to cotton baled cylindricaily or in some better way than it is now pack ed. They do not insist on any partic ular farm, but want improved meth ods. The New Eoglanders are an important factor in the business, and should cotton manufacturers generally demand a ctiange it will have to come, provided it costs no more than the one now in vogue. But wiih cot ton selling for five cents the farmers cannot and will not incur further expense.?Columbia Register. Haana's Close Call. The official returns of the Ohio election have at last been declared, showing that the Republicans have a majority of five on joint ballot- The probabilities are that Hanna will be elected senator, but it is by no means certain. Three of the five Republicans ?->neti+iiti?er thfl rnn-inrif'Tr will nntmm rait themselves as to their choice for senator, while Hanna claims that all the other Republicans are positively pledged him. If this be true, he will have a majority of two, even if the three independents do not vote fori him.?Columbia Agister. J " V " THE TURNER MURDER. THETESTIMONY GIVEN TA THE CORONERS INQUEST. The Jury Find that the Deceased was Murdered by Cocstabl) Xeivbsld and That Constable Bowie .Was Accessary to I*. The following is the testimony taken at the coroner's inquest over the remains of Mr. Turner, who was shot and killed recently by State Constable Newbold. Lsst week we published a full account of the killing, and now we publish the testimony so as our readers can be in possesion of all the facts: State of South Carolina, County of Spartanburg. This is to certify that we, the undercio-noH ana yaair.a in SnoMcnVmrer county and believe the death of J. Henry Turner is of such a nature that it should be investigated by the coroner of the county. J. W. Harris, (L. S ) S C. Gentry, (L SJ The State in re the dead body of Henry J. Turner. 7 W. C. BRUCE. duly sworn, sajs: 1 live at Mr. Henry Turner's, in Spartanburg county. I was here in the bed iast night at 12 o'clock. I left here this morning in company with J. Henry Turner about 4 o'clock. We had started to the de* Wa Tearst- An tn Stfttron'o ormvA the colored folks1 church. seen a light at back of church, and seen two men coming, walking up together. They were behind us. They came on about 350 yards; one of them ran around in front of us and sa73, "Hold up;" jumped in front with pistols in his nana and did not give me time to hold up until he fired, i I was driving; I checked horse or mule immediately after thft mmmnnd fcn halt.- tha mule jumped and I could not tell wiiat position deceased was ia when pistol fired. There were no weapons in our buzgy or on our persons except a Docket knife, and that was in our pocket. There was not a word spoken after the command to halt until the pistol fired. After the pistol fired he said hold on till I search the buggy. After the command to stop I had never got the mule entirely stopped until pistol fired; mule had not advanced more than three or four fset Tnere was not a particle of resistance offered before or after the shooting. The one that done the shooting ordered the other to search the buggy. He was * - 1 4.L A.1- ^ X. J.J *.! _ S10V7, ana me uutJ Limb u. u me suuuuug done it himself. I don't know them personally, but th^y say it was a fellow by the name of New bold; he told me I had better get him to a doctor, and told Howie to go with me; he went with me; I carried him to Dr. D aan at Spartan burg. Deceased never spoke after he was snot. This occurred between 4 and 5 o'clock: in the morning. He told Dr. Dean who it was that did the shooting. He made no apologies orasertion that would even ?ive a man room to believe that he was sorry of it. After the shooting he staried back up the road toward the church. Shooting took place about 250 yards below church opposite brickyard. H8 gave no reason for wanting to seared the buggy until after tne shot. When I first saw him he was between the chureh and the road. He never spoke until he followed the buggy, than ran around and fired. Had no cause for firing pistols, from appsarancss nor from speech. When 1 saw them following us I never spoke to them or made any reply to him when he ordered us to stop. Deceased was on the left side of the buggy. Tne man who did the shooting was just in front of the buggy about the lefinand. wagon wneei tracir. He had a pistol in eacn iiand when he came to the buggy. I could see by the pistol and I know thai he fired both of the shots at the buggy. There was no talking, everything was quiet except the reports ot the pistoJs and carnmand to halt. I would know either one of them if they were before me. Howie told me to say it was done accidentally. I never told him anything. He just said it would keep his folks from getting mafl. xne curtains or me buggy were up all the while. Tne deceased Had started to Columbia. I have nevar known deceased to haul, handle or even drink whiskey. I said thaf there was nothing about the bug gy that would lead to suspicion. His general character has been good. He * - ?- - > is a quiet, saoer, vjlu-juswu*u ncaibcu man, sinca my acquaintance with him. W. C. Bruce, (L S ) W. 0, BRUCE, recalled, says: I do not remember seeing any one except the two men that did the shooting. Is there a man that did the shooting or come to the buggy ? There is. Where is he. There he stands (pointing to Howie) I met no one that I know of. W. C. Bruce, (L. S.) NATHAN BAXilARD, COLORED, ' * T ? ^2. rt L duly sworn, says: uive at opanuuburg, I was coming up the road this morning towards Steven's grove. As I came up the road near the church there were two men standing on the road: I went about 10 or 15 steps further, met two men in a buggy, one of them was J. Henry Turner. I heard a gunshot and thought that they were shooting, at me. No one spoke until after pistol shot. After pistol shot he (Newbold) said it was the wrong man. 1 know it was a man by the name of Newbold I know him when I see him. 1 A -G MAS? T Viaov/3 him c? O TT V>Q If LCI" [JidbUl UICU x uwaiuuxui k>v?j uuik. They was oft* to the left hand side of the road right at the buggy, Howie was about 15 steps from them when pistol fired. The mule was in a slow gait of a tret. I could have heard any words spoken before or after shooting. They both went off together up the roadafjerthe shooting. 1 also went on off and know nothing more. Nathan Ballard, (L. S) DE GEOEGE E. DEAN. sworn, savs: I live st Spartanburg, am a practicing physician and surgeon. I was dialled this morning about 15 minutes of 6 o'clock to see deceased. I examined him found, him dead. I have since made thorough examination of the body. I found a large raised wound made by some blunt instrument, about tMo inches to the left of the centre at the junction of his neck and bsdy. I probing that wound found that diagonally and almost on a horizontal line through the spinal column, lodging about three-quarters of an inch underneath of the skin at the back of the neck and one inch to the right of the middle line. I found bullet located where described at the bottom of wound. I would say it was a 44 or 48 tail, I am fully satisfied j that ball was the cause of his death. I i would say that deceased was leaning I forward from position and the range of ball. There was a man by the name of Brace and a man who called himself Howie came with deceased. He told me that a Mr. Newbold did the shooting. Howie said he was seme distance, about 250 yards from them, when shooting took place. He just i-- J J.l~ ~ 4, -F-+.V buutu ui&i< Lucy v/cx:c wa.u;u..iu?; iw whiskey. I will just sad that i advised the young man to bring hiai home at once as he was already dead. He (Ho *ie acted very nicely. 1 can say further tbat J. Henry Turner was a quiet, good citizen. I notified the sheriff. Dr. Geo. R. Dean, (L. S) s T. HOWIE, sworn, saysj^My nome is in North uaronna. nave oeen on xne constabulary force for three years until 03t. 1, 1897. Since Opt. 1 IVe been at Chester most of the time, Lsst night Nov. 9, 1897. we -were on a raid, campedneai the water works. It must have been four miles from camp ground to the church. We came there about 9 o'clock, stayed till 4 this morn in?, then we went back of church and built up a fire. Mr. Newbold had off his shoes. We did not hear the buggy until it was in front of the chnrch. He told me to run and showed me which way to go. I run round church until I was near the road. I seen no sign of whiskty about the buggy unless it was in cans. I seen they had not seen me. I stepped in the road be hind them and stood to listen for the cans. By that time Mr. Newbold had on his shoes. He came on round and told me to run on, and I ran about 50 yards. I could not hear any cans. I stopped and looked for Mr. Newbold. I could not see him. I thought he had gone back to the fire. I started back to the fire, got to church heard him hollow, 4'hold up there," he was a State officer and wanted to search the bu^er and iust at that time he hollowed something else like 'holer and the pistol fired. He fired two shots right close together. He called me then and said, 'come on." Did the man in the buggy make any reply when he said hold up? I heard none^ I started to run to him down the road from the church. I ran down. Had to stop aha walk before I got to bim. When I got to ; them Mr- Newbold was at the side of ' the buggy. Asked him what was the matter. Then asked him if he was shot I heard nc reniv until after .a match was struck. Mr. Newbold asked the boy if he was-drinking. The boy told nim he was not. This question was asked before the match was struck. Soon as Newbold seen he was shot he burst into crying and asKed who he was, and said he would not have shot the old gentleman for anything. He started to get in the buggy himself, then said he had to get his overcoat. I told him never mind that I could find a-dcctor quicker than he couicL I got in tne boy's seat; ne m my lap, and we went to Spartanburg to Dr. Dean. I don't remember, but as well as I remember, the doctor said that he was already dead. He drew several breaths after we got to Dr. Dean's house. I never seen any weapons about the buggy. Nor I never Heard any words of resistance. Did you tell the boy to say that ii was an accident? No, sir, I did not I nevar told hirr. anything to say. I told him that I would say that it was an accident. Would you have ?L*ed those shots an f n rt TlrtT UliU -A VUV VUVIAUi0M4UW?) wvw*Mg -*W?. hearing no signs of resistance? I do not know whether I would or not. The church door was not locked. I seen no one except two men in the buggy, myself and NewbolcL It was 350 yards from church to where shooting taken plac3. He ran across the road behind me when he told me to run down the road. S. T. Howie (L S.) We, the jurors of inquest in the case of the State vs. the dead body of J. Henry Turner, fiad' that he came to his death by a gunshot wound in the hand of one W. H. Neivbold and that S. T. Howie was an accessory to the murder. George W. Turner, Foreman. H. H. Turner, W. A. Hendrix, W. J. Eabanks, J. W. Wingo, S. D. Hendrix, B. AL High, W. L. Cnapman. E P. High, J. B. Seay, _ - . E. BeJcher, J. C. Ryosrson. A Tramp Killed. A white man, whose name is not known, was run over by aS. C. &G-a. passenger train last night at the foot of Green street, near the Union shed and instantly killed. When the train stopped the victim was found under the trucks with his right arm and right leg severed from his body and his head was horribiv cut and crush ecL Just how the accident occurred is not known, but it is the theory of the railroad people that he collided with the rear coach while walking down the track and while the train, was being backed into the depot, the fact that his front teeth were knocked out of his head going to support the idea that his face first struck the bumpers of the rear coach. The body was so badly mangled that it is doubtful "whether the dead man can be reconized. It is surmised, however, from his dress that he is a tramp.?Oolum bia Register. A Lesson for Yonng Man. Young men who have come to the conclusion that a living cannot be made on the farm should take courage from the experience of Mr. James Barton's maiden daughters. Three of them in numbers live with their aged father, who is now entirely helpless, and this year they have made and gathered six bales of cotton, besides an abundance of corn to do them another year.?Excepting 18 day's laoorr which they hired, they did all of the work themselves, at the same time waiting upon ana nursiag meiriaine, and another invalid member of their household?Lancaster Enterprise. Burned to Death. Three half grown children lost their lives in the burning of an old frame house a mile from White Oik, Ala., Sunday night. Their parents, Louis Brown and wife, went to church, leaving their children, aged 12, 8 and 6 years, locked in the house supposed"* ~ J iy lor ineir own saieiy, uu;? ms uiu j building caught fire soon after the parents left and when they returned they found it a heap of ashes. In the j center of the mass of embers, the bones of the children were found in a1 heap; showing that they had huddled j together in their fear and agony. i PARDONED BY THE GOVERNOR. Two State Constables Convic'ed of Manslaughter Set at liberty. While the whole State is in more or less of a stir ovsr the killing of Farmer Turner by State Detective Newbold and about the flight Tuesday of Newbold. Got. Ellerbe stepped in Tuesday and granted a full pardon to Liquor Constables J. H. Buice and J. A. jtfay, who killed John T. Sims in the "Dark Comer" section of Spartanburg county, on December 18, 1896, nearly one year ago. Strange enough it happens that the killing took place in identically the same county as that i-:vu if- m, Ill WLUULL III r, JL umci VY C-O roii^u. The constables were put on trial in Spartanburg coanty in June last, and both of them were convicted of manslaughter, the sentence of the court being two years in the State prison in each case. Crawford, the otner constable who was present at the time of the kill in?, was also cnarged with murder, but his case was noi prossed by the solicitor. After the conviction the attorneys representing the constables at tiie trial gave notice of an appeal to the State Supreme Court, and pending that appeal the two men were ?J AW 'MliAv* V? n TTA Uaovi /Mit reieascu. UU UUUU, xucjr uaic uccu uui ever since. The clerk of the supreme court has within the last few days, it is understood, been notified that the appeal has been abandoned. Sims was a moonshiner; the raid in which he was killed'was the last upon which the constables ventured in the "Dark Corner" section of that State. The scene of the killing was about A V?olf TYiilofl Clguoauu <9 iXAAI. U1UVW AAVUU NX kW*. H) in Spartanburg county. It seems that the constables came in and one of them was leaning over smelling a jug when the victim appeared with a rifle levelled upon Him. The rifle was knocked up and the fight ensued. Buice and May shot frequently at Sims, and Sims and one of ine constables clinched and fell out of the door. Though already wounded several times in the fi'ht, Sims got up and tried to run across: the yard. Another of the constables clinched him and they struggled o a the ground. Sims' wife and children being gathered around and screaming all the time. Several more shots were fired, and when it was all over Sims was a dead man. These additional statements were made yesterday by a man who was in that section at the time. Another coincidence about these pardons is that Lawyer Thomason of Spartanburg who is connected with the Newboid case, figures in the matter also. It may be mentioned, too, that the governor acted upon the applications for pardon without the usual references of the papers to-the >- ^ s J 12^:4 1 presiding juage uau suiiunur, ue su stated Tuesday afternoon in response to an inquiry. ' " Mr. Tnomason' was the attorney assisting the solicitor iii the prosecution of the men. He wrote the following letter to the governor, and upon it Governor Ellerbe based his action in part, it being supported however, by ? i - i" r i a large nunaoer or -petitions lor mo pardon from several counties: 4'I assisted the solicitor in the prdsecution of the defendants, May and Buice, and in my opinion they would not have been convicted if they had not been State constables, and I will state farther that I replied to the argument made on the part of the defendants for a new trial, and I believed, after hearing the argument made on the part of the attorneys for the defendants, that the presiding judge would grant their motion for a new trial. I thought then that he ought to grant it, and I still think that he ougni 10 nave granted u. ^ "W. & Thomason." A petition was present signed by the clerk of the court, judge of probate, master, county auditor, county superintendent of education,and Magistrate Ganter of Spartanburg county. The following is the form of the petition signed by several hundred people fur.m A ikon nnnVitu To his Excellency^7 Gov. Wm. H. Ellerbe: % We, the undersigned citiz of Aiken county,- hereby petition you to pardon Mr. John A. May, who was convicted of manslaughter at the June term of the sessions court for Spartanburg county, and sentenced to serve a ferm of two years in the State nenitentiarv. We submit to vonr ex cellency's consideration, the factthat from what we have heard of Mr. May, he has always borne a reputation for peace and good order, that his reputation in the community in which he lives and in Aiken county foi peace and good order, moral character, sobriety, and industry has always been good, and that we never have heard of his ever having been-engaged in any disorderly conduct, and. in our opinion we do hot think that be would commit an act like the one with which he is charged unless he was compelled to do so to protect his own life';. "And, therefore, we humbly petition you to grant him a full pardon, <itc; The sheriff, county supervisor, clerk of court, auditor, treasurer, Representative Cosh man, master, and other officials of Aiken county were among the signers of the petition. A similar petition, not so numerous lv signed, however, was presented from Cherokee cousty. A like petition was presented in May's behalf by the citizens of Graniteville in Aiken county. Six pages of foolscap pap?r covered with signatures, two to the line, are attached. Jurors W. S. Foster, J. E. Brcckman, Taylor Smith, W. K. Barnett, E. B. Lochman, W. C. Berry and R. n Patcort ciorviiar! fViic npriHfVn ; <lYour petitioners respectfully show that they'were jurors in the trial of the State vs. J. H. Buice and J. A. May for the killing of John Sims. We respectfully ask that a pardon be granted them by your excellency." Another petition from Greenville county was signed by about 130 citi- j z?ns of the county. Among them were 1 --Cb If 4. several county omciais. jolosi ui mc county officials of Greenwood county, and a number of citizens signed a petition asking for the pardon of the two men.?State. Wonderful Lie tie Weapon. The most wonderful weapon ever eraa-n 71-1 fKic rt/lnr.i vTT T Tl tVlP W3T Of 2. COCU Xiju ^ ? revolver is at present is. San Francisco, the property of Theodore Kytka. The weapon comes from Eavaria, and several government; are making bids for it. The pistol wrecked a target in tl e station house daring the test?not only wrecked it. but; pierced three inches of chilled steel at the back of it. All this innocent-looking little weapon requires is that the marksman pull the trigger once, whereupon it empties iself of six loads in two seconds. J THE STATE SCHOOLS. -r.il MARKED INCREASE IN THE TOTAL ENROLLMENT OF FUPILS. Figures by Counties?Th? Belattve Show ins 3laae Dy we wmn sua uoiorea Male and Female Pnpfls. Getting the benefit of the'three mill school tax and the prospect of obtaining considerably longer terms in the public schools of the State has resulted in quite an increase in .this year's enrollment of pupils in the schools. There are this year 25,846 more pupils enrolled in the public schools than last year. Nearly 10,000 of these are white pupils. Another noticeable thing is that while there were scarcely more than 100 more girls than boys last year in the public schools, this year the girls have a little over 1,000 in their favor. Several thousand more colored than white children are still availing themselves of the educational advantages offered by the State. Although the increase is not so larse as was expected this year it is by several thousand the largest in recent years. The following figures speak . * -y$i lor themselves, showing a comparison . r* of the total enrollment by yekry for several years past: 1897 258,188 1896 232,337 1395....? ..223,021 1894.... .........226,766 1893....?.....?? ??. ? ? J223,150 Tne following was the total enroll* _ '% ment for last year by races and sexes: White, 109,159; colored, 123,178; . ? ma!*. 116 091. female. 116 247: nand. total,'23?,337? ~ " This. year's enrollment figures by ^ counties are as follows: White. Colored. Abbeville .. .4,113 4,184 M Aiken.. 3,076 3,65S Anderson.. ... 6,732 3,821 Barnwell.... ......... 5,071 7,804 Beaufort.............. 451 874 Berkeley.............. 1,370 3,328 Charleston. 3,590 7,807 Chester....* * 1,830 4,099 Chesterfield.....*..... 2,420 1,348 Clarendon 1,801 2,955 Colleton.. 3,241 3,^93 -M Darliugton * * . 2,815 3,521 y MUU n .r. Uid?eneia..*....^ a 4^ Fairfield.. * 2778 3,121 ii Florence 2715 Georgetown.... ?? ??XJ9 38OO Greenville **" 1*991 2,231 Hampton...? . * 1 450 ' _ . :~3g Horry...?* ?270 2 037 Kersnaw |>gi0 V.3 Lancaster...... .? a 561 - m Laurens....? J*173 1930 - Lexington?? ? ?72? 3 330 ' ^ Marion. sqsk ir?1 juariuuru.. . o'nSr Newberry............ 2,641 *M Oconee.,......"... . i^gg Orangeburg,.?302 ,'4ok Pickens 3,270 Bichland 2,?? Saluda............... 2,167 2,376 Spartanburg ?'^o7 flnmtpr 2 868 7,024 ouimer.*.*?-. aW tfmon 2,074 2,X? Williamsburg?2,614 3,657 York 4,612 5,629 Totals ..119,027 139,15$ Grand Male. Female, totoi. Abbeville.... 5,701 6,197 11,898 < ?ri Aiken. 3,342 3,387 6,72| *. -Andersftpi 5 S78 .1-175 10,553 |g is if . - sffl Charleston... ||? 3099 5,9^ Chester *,S3U 3*68 . Chesterfield.. Mg 2.345 ^ WM \ Ciaiendon.... 3,310 6,533 1 Colleton 3>|| 108 6,336 DarliDgton... 3.2^ 0>noc I T7I J ?? " * 3 n,ugeneju .... o,ta? Fairfield 2,925 3,247 6,172 Florence.... 2,9*8 2,951 5,899 Georgetown.. 1,873 1,882 3,755 Greenville.?.. 5,921 5,628 11,549 ^ Hampton.... 2.142 2,080 4,222 Horry.***.*.. 2,698 2,416 5,114 Kershaw...., 2,137 2,170 4,307 -M Lancaster.... 2,387 . 2,313 4,700 T a nfifi A 9.K3 8 34? Lexington... 3,179 2.914 6,0& Marion ...... 3,468 3,588 7,056 ^ Marlboro.... 2,488. 2,345 4,033 - Newberry.... 2,914 . 3,654 - 6,568 >*, Oconee-.-. 3,120 2,973 6,093 Oranffebure.? 6,106 5,964 12,070 Pickens....^, 2,494 2,171 4,668 Richland...,. 3,930 4,037 7,967 ^ Saluda 2,329 2,214 4,8^ Spartanburg.. 8,179 7,798 15,977 __ -~T Sumter...... 4,812 5,070 9,882 Union........ 2,247 2,166 4,413 WilliaiusbuM' 3.105 3,166 6,271 York.... ...I ?182 5,059 10,241 Tolak 128,517 129,666 258,183 , A Sensational Sulcld*. ^0 A most sensational suicide occurred \ v in Augusta Thursday morning at 8 :'(? o'clock. William Moody shot him' ? > self through the back of the head while lying in bed in a room at a boarding house. Moody was one of the best known men in town and was most popular. He was head clerk at Levy's book store. When he failed to show up at work this morning. William Levy went to lis boarding . ^-Jf Virtnco owoKttin thft nai lSfl and en tering the room found Moody on the , , bed, his head in a pool of blood. The pistol was grasped in his hand.' He died an hour after the shcoting. The bullet went through hiii head and came out of the other tide. About two months ago Moody riarried Miss Maggi Puryear, a popular and beautiful young lady. The two had a small cmarrel and the wife went to her pa rents' house and spent the night. Thursday morning "when Moody awoke he ended his existence. Coagrmamen WJ11 FLfht It, The Columbia Register says Hp. H. r C. Patton in speaking of the progress of his proposed redistrioting bill in making friends among legislators J said that he had talked with a number 4 of the members who visited the city during the fair and he found them very favorably inclined to it The greatest opposition will come from the present congressmen, and they have enough friends in the legislature tomakeaHvely fight over the pass* age of the bilL The*? gentlemen are certainly "dead against" the bill. . Thousands Muiwired, A special dispatch brings serious news from the "Nigsr region, West Africa. la order to punish the inhabitants of the towr. of Kong, capital of the kingdom of Kong, in the Maudin^o region of Upper Guinea, for their refusal to supply hifi troops with -s provisions, Chief Samory has razed the town and massacL*ed ssveral thou saiid natives.