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THE NEWS- AND HERALD. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY ?BY? N ? WS AND HERALD COMPAMY. TERMS. IJi ADVANCE: One Year, ... 81.50 SlxMoiitttx, - - .75 WINTNSBORO, S. C. Wednesday, March 23, - 1895. rmim-hw*?r in w nr n n-i? ? ?rr.t? ? -m mi+m r tc PROCTOR'S STATEMENT. Senator Proctor, of Vermont, who has just returned from Cnba, made a public statement to the Senate on Thursday. He went to Cuba with the opinion thatjtbe newspapers had exaggerated the condition of affairs there. He *ias returned convinced that there has been no exaggeration. What Senator Proctor ba3 to say may become important in influencing Congress. While Proctor went in no official easacitv. he is a Senator and his character is known by his fellow-members of Congress, and it is natural that . his testimony as to the treatment of the insurgents by the Spaniards will carry great weight with Congress. The Senator praises Genera! Lee. He says of Lee: "Besides his ability, high character and courage he possesses the important requisites of unfailing tact and courtesy, aud withal his military education and training and his soldierly qualities are invaluable adjuncts in the equipment of our representative in a country 60 completely under military rules as Cuba." It should be gratifying to the Sooth that the fitness of General Lee lor this position and his conduct have been so warmly recognized by the whole country in every section of it. Senator Proctor reports that the reconcentrados have been driven to the towns, and in many instances where any dis- * - ->!?!- A nr. position Ml UXSUUCV VUC uiuti VI "Weyler was shown, their homes were burned, "with no notice to the iumates" and the inmates had to flee with sach clothing as they might kare on, and their stoek and other belongings were appropriated by the guerillas. When they reached the towns, they were allowed to build huts of palai leaves in the suburbs and vacant piaces, and "left to live if they could." The huts have no flooring and no furniture, and few of these unfortunate people have sufficient clothi ug. In these circumstances, of course, sanitary conditions are impossible, and they are dying by the thousands. Senator Proctor says: "Conditions are unmentionable in this respect", referring to their sanitary condition. He sums it up: "Torn from their homes, with foul earth, foul water and foul food, or none, what wonder that one-half have died, and that onequarter of the living are so diseased - - a ** tiiat taey can not oe sarea. - -weauis in the streets are not uncommon." Little children are victims of disease. How long will the United States allow this condition of things to continue? The crowding together of these people, forcing them from their homes, burning and stealing thsir property, and failing to provide for them is not civilized warfare. The Spaniards can not conquer the insurgents by force of arms, and they are engaged in a brutal system of starving their wives and children to death. THE OUTLOOK FOB WAR. We may not have a war with Spain, but it is evident that thi administration believes that there is great daDger of it. Our own opinion is that only a backdown by Spain will prevent it. That Mr. McKinley knows in substance, at least, what will^be the find Jlig VX. I lie WlUl VUU^UUJ 4UIV ?ux V.V strnction of the Maine we hare not much doubt. His 'knowledge of this is the only satisfactory explanation we can find for the vigorous activity in the preparations for war. Presidents do not ask for an appropriation of so large a sum of money as $50,000,000, and that it bo made at once, without good reasons. It shows that McKinlev thinks that there is a pressing need for it. And this large sum of money is being used for defense. The amount of preparations made during the last two weeks it wonderful. Two battle ships hare been purchased, and {negotiations are pending for the purchase of more. It is likely that the San Martino, belonging to the Argentine Republic, will be bought as well the General O'Higgins. Preparations for war in both the navy and war departments continue without any let-up. Contracts in all branches of the department are being made daily by various bureaus. The naval board of ordinance has contracted for 4,500,00 pounds of brown powder, probably the largest single order ever given. The number of battle ships now together off the Atlantic coast is the greatest naval display made since the civil war, and considering their superiority over the ships of those da> s nothing like it has ever been known in this country. We do not want war, but we have to confess that the events of the past few weeks are leading towards it. The country is waking up to the condition of Cuba. Popular senti ment is in favor of stopping the cruelties of the Spaniards. The Maine may altogether disappear from tbe question of war or peace. England's affairs are not as serene as they might be, and she feels the need of drawing closer to her kin folks on this side of the Atlantic. Russia is her dangerous riyal, and Great Britain may need an alliance with the United States to keep the hand of Russia off her territory. The truth is that the whole world is aflame with thr. tenings of war. We do not know whether to congratulate Columbia or not npon her prospects for bonded wuicooases. It is very doubtful whether it will do the farmers any good. Generally the best thing a farmer can do i9 to sell his cotton jnst as fast as he can pick it aad have it ginned and packed. Nine times out of ten the farmer who holds his cotton for higher prices and borrows money on it, loses money by the operation. The average farmer needs money to pay debU when his cotton is ready for the market., Mr. McKixlet, we believe, is a strict Methodist. He spent last Sanday ^ac the White Honse consulting with members of the cabinet ana navy and army official*. A good Methodist would not spend Snndav that way unless it was a matter of necessitf. England is collecting a powerful fleet off the coast of China. Great Britain may have some war on her hands.) Wars and ramors of war. the cheapness of hitman life. * A- iU Mr. Editor: j>o (louut me %iva\, number of murders throughout oar fair State within the last few months has caused [much excitement and nneasiness among its inhabitants. The younger generation stand in awe of the cheapness of human life, while the older are made to reflect more seriously than ever before, and in their dreams of the greatnes of our asd wheti they shall hare passed anray and entered that Heaven of Rest they hear the blood of the iDnocent crying out from the gronud against the brutal outrages of the present day. In thinking over thejconditions now existing in reference to the worth of a human soul, theg writer has at times grown serious?il indeed one may lay aside prejudice long enough to become serious?and has found himself of?ime8 btruggling with the great problem of relationship between two separato and distinct races, and at times determined to raise a voicethough feeble as it may be?in behalf of the downtrodden, poverty-ridden, negro, who is now, and seems ever destined to remain a ''hewer of wood and a drawer." Bat at the moment when the voice is ready to sound, and the will set in &s d?teraynation i* be heard above the tumultuous uproar of humanity, tb?re rises before that determined will the contempt for, and the prejudice against, that inferior race, which is so great that it stands as an insurmountable barter to human sympathy, and .realizing tbe impossibility of reaching its heights and beiugf so feeble as not to attempt to storm it, the will that should be unconquerable, falls helplessly into an nn?outh mass of nothing when it first began to live. To say that the situation is perilous and then voluntarily fall back into a dream of peace, when there is no peace, and cry lo here! or lo there! W9 find measured out to man his just deserts by a land that is above all nands while murder and superstition are allowed to walk hand in hand over the graves of their murdered ^victims, and while the incendiary is allowed to flourish his torch in the face of law, and make lest of independant personality, is only to trifle with a matter that secures vour safetv. and my safety, and to tempt an" all wise God to hurl the thunderbolts of his wrath upon a nation that prides itself upon having its laws founded upon His laws. You may speak of the relation of oar nation with Spain, the great insult that has been hurled into our faces, by an infuriated Spanish Government; you may cry out against the great brutality of Spain, and shed tears over the loss of the Maine and pray for the souls of the departed men upon her deck, you may picture upon the sheets ot our uewsp&pers the butchery ot Weyler. and post upon every page of your New Yourk World the Spaniard with his hands red with ha man gore, his military bcots decorated with the scalps of *en, and his ?re:it sword clinched between his teeth, with the blood dropping so freely that one may smell the foul odor of it, bnt you dare not picture the murderer in Williamsburg county, with his wife in one hand and his torch in the other. There is not a man in Williamsbnrg county that had the bravery to say to bis fellow citizens, "Here, ray fello w citizens, I will not allow all of you * * *'* ?_ 1 XI to stain your nanas wun ntoou pi a negro postmaster, bis b tl be upon me, I will go with my liile asid my torch, and hunt him down for you, while yon remain law abiding citizens." No there was not one that dare do such a thing, but the deed was done, and by whom? By the same man that would not do it, it was done! One soul ushered into eternity without being done by an individual is a matter of small consequence, but that same soul sent into the presence 'of its creator by an individual is something that must be looked into. Do men, those men who perpetrated that awful deed, not realize that they are not guilty of a fraction of a murder, but of the whole? It matters not whether there were five, ten, or three hundred ot them, the murder still remains a unit! Crimt cannot be divided, and the capacity of h?ll for three kundred murderers is as sare as for one ! The Governor offers a reward of five hundred dollars for the murderers. He had jast as well offer a reward of five hundred lashes! The postof&ce department offers an additional fire hundred, and it had as well offer an additional ten years in prison. Does the Governor expect a single man to point out the man or men? Does the postoffice department expect it? No! The offer is mere formality, and why? Why? I say, simply because the deceased was a negro, and met liis death at the hands of a mob! Some one knows who did it. Why then does that some one not peak out? Simply because to thai some one life is worth more than any reward, for "what shall it profit a man tho' be gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Are yon safe under ?uch circrmstances? Am I safe? I tell you of a truth neither you nor I am safe! Send your missionarias to China, send them to Japan, Jo Africa, to the isles of ihe seas, and now I suppose some would even dare send tbem to Spain. Whynotfsend some to Williamsburg, and not only Williamsburg, bat to evety eounty 01 ooam ^aroima, and funer still to every State in onr union, where such crimes are perpetrated? Send your governmental investigating company to the Jsunken Maine, emply divers to search out the misteries of an explosion. Why not send a tew of your governmental committee* down to South Carolina and allow them to accompanied wi h "fire, sword and pen," given nnrses of "sweet liberty" until a foul deed than which there is no greater is known from plot to perfection 'i II. s. J. Incontinence of water stopped immediately by Dr. E. Detchon'? Anti j Diuretic. Cures children and adults J alike. Price $1. Sold bv W. E. Aiken, | druggist, Winnsboro, S*. C. * MOBLEY'S MEETLKG HOUSE. Mr. Douglass Gives Additional Reasons to Prove the Correctness of His Location. Both Mobley's Meeting House and Hill's Meeting House are Marked on Old Maps?Some of A. W. L.'s Argument Turned Against Him. Mr. Editor: I can answer, very satisfactorily, A. TV. L.'s question: "Do aDy of the old maps show two meeting houses, or is the Hill Meeting House on one of more recent date than that marking the Mobley Meeting House?" The maps leferred to in my last communication have both "Mobley's Old ?" '? XL. tt Ft ill Meeting iiouse" anuiue "nuiiuoauuj, House" located on them. I also used the scale of miles on one of these r^aps in measuring distances, and ''Hill's Meeting House" is there located near where W. B. Estes now lives, aud "Mobley's Old MeeiiDg House" is located on this map on the west bank of the southwest fork of Little Hirer, on the road hading from the road just above old Buckhead across.that fork of Little River in the direction of W. L. Rosborough's present residence, and there is not space between the bank of the river and the "Mobley Old Meeting House" for the measurement of even one hunded yards. The old road mentioned by A. W.L., 1 * ' 1 - J 1 Aft /I i nrr irnm wmcn jeu iruui lug iuau imuiu6 Bc.cehead across Little Itiyer by the place where W. L. Rosborough now lives, and entered the Monticello and Chester road above VF. B, Estes' present residence, was a neighborhood i road in my boyhood days, witb gates on it, and was not a public road like the road leading from old Buckhead by W. L. RoEborough's present residence. A. YV. L , in his statement to the effect that Samuel H. Stevenson passed the Mobley Oid Meeting Honse in 3812, daily, going to school, leaves.the inferenc; to be drawn that he passed mPiMincr hOUSe at the DlaCe I mi? ? A where W. B. Estes now lives. If A. W. L. had really known where Samuel H. bievenson Jived during- his boyhood and school days, he would not have presented '.hi* statement as evidence of the location of the "Mobley Old Meeting House" at or near the present residence ot W. B. Estes. I knew the mother of Samuel H. Stevenson wheu I wa? a boy. She then lived within less than a quarter of a mile of my father's house, and the old Stevenson place, 'where Samuel fl. Stevenson and her other children were raised and spent their school days, was about three-quarters of a mile from where Mrs. R. M. Stevenson now lives, down her spring branch, and about half a mile from the northeast fork of Little River. From that point, I have no doubt, Mr. Samuel H' Stevenson went to school with the other children of the then neighbors, to "old Billy'* Yongue near the place where I locate the "Mobley Old Meeting House," but he arrived at school before he got within two mi:es of the J t r -cmi W T* Ola muses nm puwc, >? jjwi U II, Eetes now lives. He did not own any land where he died, until 1836. A. W. L. asks us to infer because Moses Hill, as he savs, married a Mobley, that the old Moses Hill place was "formerly in possession of the Mobleys." The records in the Clerk's office do not show that this place once belonged to the Mobleys or either of them, bat it seem3 from my examination, tha<, part of it was embraced in a grant of two hundred acre^ made on tbe 6th day of December, 1790, by his Excellency Governor Charles Pinckney to James Bailer, and bv him conveyed to Moses Hill on the 18'h day of Juue, 1798, and that the other part of this place was embraced in the grant of 640 acres made on the first day ot Angnsr, 1785, tr> Thomas Colville. If this be true, then certainly none of the Mobleys owned this land in 17S0, when the Mobley Meeting House is presumed to have stood on lands granted to one of the Mobleyd. A- VY. L. certainly is laboringunder a misapprehension of the location ot tbe Waogh lands, on which John Wangh is presumed to have lived. Waugh certainly did not own any ot the lands on tbe southwest fork of Little River, which belonged to "old Tii mv" "YVmone. and ore which the Mobley Old Meeting House stood. The records in the Clerk's office show that -hese lands, as I bave stated in my former communication, came by conveyances, from the Mobleys to Francis Coleman, from him to John Means, acd afier John Means' death, in tbe partition sale, to " jld Billy" Yongae. A tract of land, which wa3 embraced in the grant to Jacob Brown made the 5th day of March, 1787, lying on the upper part or about the head of Wangh branch, and adjoining the Mobley or B:;ily Yongue lands, was conveyed on the 11th day of August, 1790, by the execntots of Jacob Brown to John Meant, and a part thereof was on the same day conveyed by John Means to John Wangh, who conveyed the same tract to Isaac Means on the 21st day of November, A. D. 1817. Previous to 1790, John Wau^h seems to have lived on the head waters of Wateree Creek with bis father, Samuel Waugh, to whom the tract of 150 acres on which he lived wa* granted by bis Excellency Charles Grenvllle .Montague on the;.6th day or ^eoruary, 1773. So that, a* the mound referred to by A. W. L., must hare been used, for defensive purposes, if at alJ, before 1790, I do not see why it should be called "Waugh's Fort." Samuel Waugh devised in bis will in 179-4 tbe above mentioned tract on the head waters of Wateree Creek to John Wans:h, his son, and John Waugh, by deed dated Sth day of December, 1810, conveyed it to Robert Lachan, and it now belongs to one of his descendants, lying southeast of Blackstock The location of Wagoner's fori has no bearing on the question of the location of the Mobley Meeting House, as A. W. L. seems to think, bat according to mv understanding of tbe location ot Wagoner's Fort, it "was equally as near where I contend the Mobley Meeting House was located in 1780, as the old Hill place, where W. B. Estes now lives. In the deed of Clement Moblev to Samuel Moblev in 1787, the grant to John "Wagoner is cited aa bearing date ik; 12th day of December, 1770, and the land granted to John Washer is described as follows: "A plantation or tract of land, containing or.c hundred acres, sitnate in Fairfield Conntv, on the head of a braoch called Reedy Branch, waters of Broad River, bounded on all sides by vacant land when granted." This land wa3 subsequently conveyed bySamuel Mobley to John Foote, and by the heirs of John Foote to W. B. Means, who-e lands adjoined lands or J old Billy Yongue and were snbseqnently conveyed to Gov. J. H. Means. In August 1780, Ferguson's Corps of British troops, as appears in the diary of Lieutenant Allaire, while near Cedar Spriugs, in the present County of Spartanburg, received orders from Col. Turnbull to join him at Rocky Mount. Ferguson's Corps forded Broad River at Lyles' Ford on tne loth day of August, 1780, and after marching "seven miles to a Mr. tmmi i fmfir in M ^ I t Coleman's in Mobley's settlement, baited during the heat of the day," until "seven o'clock in the evening," and then "marched two miles to the camp of the New York Volunteers," and on Wednesday, the 16th, Lieut. Allaire says in the above mentioned diary: "Got in motion at nine o'clock in the morning, and marched two miles to Mobloy's Meeting Hoase for convenience of ground. Thursday, 17th. Got in motion at nine o'cloekinthe morning ana mircnea sn ranes 10 a Rebel Col. Wiun'p plantation." Tbe distance of eleven miles, above given in Lieut. Allaire's diary from Lyles' Ford to Mobley's Meeting flou6e would have taken Ferguson's command to tbe site which I have indicated, but ibe distance from Lvles' Ford to the point where VV. B. Estes I now lives would have been greater. Lieut. Allaire says (on loth August): "\Ve got intelligence that Gen. Gates lay within three miles of Camden, with an army of peven thousand men. Col. Turnbull had orders the twelfth to retreat from Rocky Mount." This accounts for changing the direction of the march from the road to Rocky Mount to Col. Winn'* planta- i tion, whieh is known to be the place where Mrs. W. K. Turner now lives. | This noint could have been reached in! six miles from Mobley's Meeting House, where I have located it, bnt not nuder eight miles from the place where W. B. Estes now lives. Every contemporaneous record point3 to my location as correct, and the oldest living member of the Mobley family, who was born and reared on Beaver Creek, has voluntarily informed me that mv location is right, and a granddaughter of the mother of W. B. Woodward, deceased, who was a MobIcy, and died sometime ago, 1 have been reliably informed, says that her grandmother often in her lifetime pointed out the place I have designated, as the site of the Mobley Old Meeting Hous2. A. S. Douglass. Rev. E. Edwards, pastor of the English Baptist Church at Ninersville, Pa., when suffering with rheumatism, was advised to try Chamberlain's Pain Balm. He says: "A few applications ol tbis liniment provea a great service to me. It subdued the inflammation and relieved the pain. Should any sufferer profit by giving Pain Balm a trial it will please me." For tale by McMa?t?r Co., druggists. * " CONVERTED BY WHOLESALE. By Jas. A. Eoyt in Baptist Courier. The New liork Mail and Express tays that during the war two regiments were stationed on opposite sides of a river. A jfiaplain went to work on the men composing the regiment stationed on the north side of the river with a view of converting them. A number of the men reI sponded to his efforts, and he left that regiment and went to continue hi6 missionary work in the regiment on 'the south side of the river. After laboring some time, a longer time than he had done with the other regimeut, he found that he would not be as snc esssful. ODly about a dozen men were baptized from the last regimest. The chaplain had a talk with the colonel and mentioned the fact that so few of the men had been baptized. "How many men did you say were baptized in the other regiment?" the colonel asked the chaplain sharply. "Twenty-four," was the reply from tiic chaplain. The colonel turned quickly around to his orderly with the quick command: 'Detail thirty-five men at once to be baptized by the chaplain. 1 don't propose to let any one-horse regiment get ahead of us in that wav. We've got a reputation to sustain." This reminds me of a story that was told bv the late General John Biatton, which he regarded as a good joke on the Presbyterians. In the summer of aaa a > r* _ ^^ 1500, doc long airer me siege ux ouifolk, in which Jenkins' brigade bore the brant of the hardships and privations incident to tbe siege, tbe brigade was stationed at Petersburg, where it bad an easy time compared with any of its previous experiences. Each reeriment had a chaplain except the Sixth, which wa3 then under Bratton's command, and for some reason he had set his head upon securing the services of Wm. E Boggs, a recent graduate of the Columbia Theological Seminary, who is now the distinguished president of the University of Georgia. Mr. Boggs was from Fairfield County, and was regarded as unusually bright and promising. Col. Bratton had made application to the professors in the Seminary askiDg ihat Mr. Boggs be sent to his regiment prior to graduation, bat this was refused and the application was suspended, though the officials in Columbia were notified that the position would be kept open for Mr. Boggs. Several montns eiapsea, ana me requestor Col. Bratton was not heeded, bat Mr. Boggs was assigned to other work in the vicinity of hie home. In the meantime a widespread religions interest sprung up among the soldiers of Jenkins' brigade, and the chaplains were holding nightly meetings, which proved very successful, and hundreds of men connected themselves with the three denominations represented by the respective chaplains, namely, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Baptist. The preponderance of converts joined the Baptists, however, and it was not an uncommon sigh?for large numbers to be immersed in the canal, hardly the soldier's camp. These immersions were witnessed generally by the officers aud men of the entire brigade, and Col. Bratton observed that a con siderible number of the Sixth had gone|down into the wa!etr with the Baptist Chaplain. He resolved to use this tact in order to hasten the coming of Mr. Boggs, and accordingly he , wrote to ?ne ot the Seminajy professors a very pointed note, which read about a-> follows: "Why don't you ; pemi Boggs? If yon delay much longer the Baptists will have tha list , oue of my men in the canal before he can get bere." The result was that , * ?.. rtomo r\y\ i? yyi mor\ \ a fro] \r it'. H -XL I .LI Vg ? O V^aiuv^ V/4.J giUiiu\/V4i??v^ J % within a week or so he was duly installed as chaplain of the gallant Sixth to the great joy of its beloved com- ( mander. The n^w chaplain was cor- , dially received by the other preachers, and it was only a short :ime until he , became one of the mos-t popular and useful chaplains in the arrny. Food, undigested, i* poison. Digested, it is life and strength. Millions of us suffer from indiarestioi , but . we often don't know it. We think it is something else. Even doctors often mistake the symptoms. '< Pale, thin people, who are over- i worked, who ueed stren?:th, who seem 1 in want of proper food, should take 1 Shaker Digestive Cordial. It is as- '> tonishing what food will do, when 1 properiy digested. i I' \?*i'l make % on strong, revive you, ' refresh yuu. suatum >ou, lu-ike you 1 fat, restore your color, make muscle, < brain fibre, courage, endurance, ensr- < gv; increa-e your power to throw off ( disease and keep you healthy and < hannv. i Indigestion does just the opposite, but indigestion can be cured and pre- j vented with Shaker Digestive Cordial. ' Sold by dru?gi*ts. Trial bottle 10 ' cent?. J j 3DTF0RD FENCHJXGS. V The beautiful spring weather of the past few days has caused the trees to put forth their tender buds and the air to be perfumed with the blossomi of the early spring flowers. It almost seems that we can hear the srrase grow and see the bud* swell. Not many days ago all [nature seemed dead. It was not dead but only asleep, waiting for the little ray of sunshine to awaken it. All the farmers seem to tfave learned a lesson from natare aud have awakened too. All kind of work is going on. Fertilizers are being put in and the ground being thoronghlv f j jt _ iu. ? ! prepareu xur uju reucpuua uj. tuc seed. The recent rains hare caused ihe oats to look much better and the gardens to grow. Mr. Will Gladden had the misfortune to lose a mule mot long since. In some way the mules got together in the stalls and one got a limb broken. We were very sorry to hear of our young friend's loss. Mrs. Sarah Hall, of Winnsboro, is spending awhile at her country home. Mrs. A. M. Jackson and little Susie have been visiting her parents at Mountain Gap. Rev. and Mrs. H. K. Ezell and family spent a few days at Mi ford last week. Miss Sallfe Douglass has been quite ill, but hear that she is thought to be improving. Mr. W. S. Hail has been kept in doors for a few days by an attack of lagrippe, hot i9 able to be out agdn. Mis9 Kathleen Hall is visi ting relatives in Chester. c. s p. March 18, 1898. Belief in Six Hour*. Distressing Kidney and Blander disease relieved in six hour* by "New Great South American Kindet Cure." It is a great surprise on account of its exceeding promptness in relieving pain in bladderj kidneys and back, in male or female. Relieves reieution of water almost immediately. If you want quick relief and cure this is the remedy. Sold by W. E. Aiken, druggist, Winnaboro, S. C. * STKOTHER NEWS. Not very long ago the correspondents frora Strother counted one, two, three, four, and now they are all silent. Our little town (?) coe? on the even tanor of its way, and there is little to report. From the amount of guano our farmers are hauling it seems that thay are content with five-eent cotton. Despite the nnmerons warnings the Hsnal acreage will be put in the fleecy staple. Little Maggie Stewart, granddaughter of Capt. Clowner, has been seriously sick for weeks. With real sorrow we have ju3t learned of a painful accident which befell one of Mr. Jno. D. Blair's twias. Little "Tiny" was as usual with his father who was superintending his hands They (the darkeys) were hauling manure, and the dear little boy wa3 painfully hurt with the proverbial "pitchfork " The death of Mrs. Florence Yarborough Trapp was inexpressibly sad. The bride of a few montks snatched from a living husband, sisters and friends. Pneumonia (the verv word sounds like a death koell) developed rapidly and soon did its latal work. Mr. Mayfield is quite indisposed, una friends fear his case will prove to be serious. The Maine disaster seems to be the all-absorbing topic. President McKinley and his cabinet certainly deserve great credit for the calmness and self-control they h*ve exhibited during a trying ordeal. Some sensational papers would delight in kindling a terrible conflagration, but we trust war will be obviated. The destruction of the Maine may have been caused by an accident, and in that event Spain cannot be held accountable. Perhaps some fiendish Cuban occasioned the fearful loss of life hoping thereby to bring on war between the United States and Spain. Granting that some fanatical Spaniard caused the dreadful loss of life! Ah, how we remember bow many innocent suffered for poor Wilkes Booth's mistaken patriotism. The killing of : President Lincoln was the act of a madman, and poor Mrs. Snrratt met an ignominious death. The only circumstance which could juRtify a war would be the undieputable proof that the Spanish Government connived at the placing ot explosives in the harbor , of Havana to destroy onr vessels. The murder of that colored postmaster in Williamsburg County was ; simply inhuman. Such acts should : cause all South Carolinians serious < thongbts. Nothing could justify the murder of an infant and the mutila- i tian of helpless girls. No words could i express oar detestation of such atro- i cious inhuman acts. It may not be very pleasant to have a colored postmaster, but the men who went at mid- " night to mnrder are poltroons. The Broxton Bridge horror is indelibly impressed upon our minds, yet that heinous crime pales into lasignmcance wuen contrasted with the deviltry of killing a helpless infant and maiming females. Talk of tonahawks in the hantls of Indians! Babies were icalped by savages, but we claim to be civilized. We trnst there are few who will be so shocked on account of soma epithet- bestowed upon those midnight Under some circum* stauce* it .? ju*t<tiab:e to call a "spade o spade." C. A s. March 12, 1898. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercnry, " a* mercury will surely destroy the nf>n?e of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it . Ihroiigh tne mucous surfaces, such sriicles should never be used except r>n prescriptions from reputable pbvrician?, as 'he damage thev will do is i "nroldto the good you can possibly ii :ve from them. 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