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THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C., THU] 1 MARCH 2, 1893. VOL. LVm. NO. 5. A HOR RIBLE SIGH HENRY SMITH, A NEGRO FIE] ^ TORTURED TO DEATH. Red Hot Irons Thrust Under I Feet,KoHedUp and Down 1 Stomach," Back and Arms-I Eye Ball? Burnt Out-Cook to a Crisp. PARIS- Tex., Feb. 24.-Her . Smith, the negro who ravish and murdered Myrtle Vance, th< year old g?rl of this city Thard nigbt'last week, has expiated 1 terrible crime. His wae perhaps the most hor . bia death ever inflicted upon human being. ThoEo'who witness ^ - it will never forget the scene in i its indescribable horrors. 1 language can correctly descri the fearful retribution visited u on the monster who committed crime that has no parallel in hi . tory. When the train pulled up the Texas and Pacific depot fro 15,000 to 20,000 peopie were the v to take charg?-of him, and evei . ;; preparation liad been made ;f receive him. . ? ; As the cr?wd eurrounde tl train Hon. H. B. Birmingham < this city, who was with the escoi made a brie:: address in which I said that twenty.five citizens ha charge of Henry Smith and t merely citizens wished to surrende the prisoner au4 believe you wi! do what isxight. We cannot if w would resist the.thousands a?sen bled here., * ^ ' Smith was then taken to a wago and placed ina chair on top of box and firm ly lashed to it. He wa then driven to the public squar and, around it and throubg th principal streets and then to ai openjfleld near the Texas and Pa ci fie depot. Here a scaffold ten feet higl had teen erected. Around thi there was a surging' mass-o ; humanity for nearly 100 yards ii ?nWflr??TPcf?ph. - _ ,_?? A cold, drizzling rain- was falling that froze as it fell- The cowering -shivering wretch, whose face wai a picture of agony and terror, wai taken from the wagon and forcee Eup the steps, where he was pinionec to a stake. Hi? coat and shirt were torn of him piece by piece and throwi among the crowd, where thej were eagerly seized aa relics. When stripped to the waisi Henry Vanc*-,the father of Smith's victim, his son and two uncles oi the child, gathered around him. They thon began to thrust red hot irons under his feet. Every contortion of his bod> e^ery groan that escaped his lips brought forth shouts of approval. Vainly he begged for mercy, Vainly ife protested that he did not kn^w that it was Vauce'e child.' . The red hot irons burned into his flesh deeper and deeper and he uttered terrible cries, cries that told of untold suffering. Finally the irons were rolled up and down the stomach, back and arms. The crowd gazed on the terrible scene with a horrible fascination, as the. slow process of torture proceeded. - JThe climax was reached when the irons were thrust into his eyes, burning the balls away. Then 'hey were thrust into his throat, and still he lived and writhed and suffered. When the relatives had glutted their vengeance a great mass of combustible material was placed under the scaffold, oil was poured over Smith, the platform and the fuel and the match applied. For a time he was enveloped in a dense volume of smoke. As this passed away and the flames rose up ward Smith was seen amid the fire B way i rig back and forth. In a little while he became still and all thought him dead. The fire burned the ropes that bound him and be fell upon the burning platform. Then he began io toss and roll about as the flames rolled and hissed aroud him. It seemed imposseble that any thing coule have lived for a moment in what was almost a fnrnace. His pants were bnroed entirely away and the flesh on his body seemed cooked to crisp, and his feet and hands were burned to a coal. After a lapse of ten minutes, to the surprise of all, with a des perate struggle he pulled himself up by the railing of the burni: scaffold, stood up erect, passed I hands .over his face and the jumped off the scaffold and roll out of the fire below. Men on the ground thrust hi into the burning mass; Again ' rolled out and was again thrust to roll out again. A rope was tied around his ne? and he was dragged in - and he until life was finally extinct, at the process of burning went ( until his body was literally crem ted. It was one of the most horrib deaths ever suffered by a huma being. Hundreds turned away i horror at the awful spectacl while thousands gazed on wit evident satisfaction and mar with demonstrations of delight. Everything wiis orderly au showed skillful arrangement. Uj on the request.of Mayor Cate an Sheriff Hammond, everv saloon i the city chosed and remained e until after the -execution. Everj body was prepared. for what wa coming and everything was don with coolness and. deliberatioi All knew what would be done an consera vat ive speeches wero mad to the crowd to let their passion subside. Vengeance had fallen upo? Smith. After it was over the ' gr?a throng quietly and peacibly die persed. Buring the execution ther came near being a.bloody tragedy A Cowboy District Attorney. Everybody in the Panbaudl* knows Lorenzo Dow Miller. Bette than that, everybody likes him an< admires him. Dow lives at Pan handle City and is District Atter noy,-and rules over tweuty-nin< counties. He is a genius. Born in Texas, ho went to tb( Panhandle years ago, when the Indians were stilt in the county His capital, -consisted ol an un usual jimount of romp--r? sense sa?^B?^ hoofer . t_on thej-r" !.iS as a~ p? ? '.cd.' ly*~7~ r.i-e wsv from Losrvalley to ?.a i .? ??: ii s i strip. Around his camp fire at night he pored over au old volume of Blackstone. Before very long he bought some more books. Honest, sober, and industrious, he made friends as fast RS the prairie grass grows in the spring or a yearling runs in a stampede. He astonished the world one day by announcing his candidacy* for District Attorney. He astonished the world on the day after the elec tion by having beaten W. H. Wbodmau, his opponent. From that time Dow has gone on until he is invincible in his district. One of his arguments, made before a Greer county jury before the vernacular of the ranch had given way to the polish of the effete East, was as follows. "Gentlemen of the jury, look at that prisoner. His phiz is dead tough. He's a thief and a sneak thief that. Look at those knots on the back of his head. They are the bumps of cussedness. How ? came to know is, I travelled with a circus once and got on to the racket. Now I want to give you a confiden tial stiff and drop a few points into your system. If you turn that feller loose the bars of every ranch in the county will be down before Sunday night ; and some fine steers will be lost. He let the case go and the man got two years. You must know Miller to ap preciate him. You must hear him tell how he bluffed a Judge out of fining him for contempt by threat ening to attach the aforesaid Judge as a witness in Hansford county and thus compel him to go 200 miles across the country in the snow.-GalvestonDaily News. And yet there should be no re gret. It is not the thing, but the lesson that counts in the sum of seeing. Not the love but the hav ing loved ; not the hopp, but the hoping; not the joy, but the joy ousness that is the vital thing. Love, hope, joy-these are of worth HB they make us. If they have made us, that is all we need ask. Then there should be no re gret. There is pathos because these great things have passed and have not left us great.-Leslie W. Sprague. People with delicate stomachs find Ayer's Sarsaparilla agreeable to the "taste, and therefore, prefer it as a blood purifier to any other. This is one reason for its great popularity as a spring and family medicine. Safe, certain, and palat able.. Judge Charlton Gives His Views on the Dispensary Law. g MR.' EDITOR: YOU asked my views oh the Dispensary law re cently enacted. The responses io your requests have been so numer ous and elaborate pro and con, that at this date I do not think I can add anything new on the subject. I think the law sound in consti tutional principles and well adapt ed to this crisis in the legislation on the subject in our State. It is" the nearest approach to prohibi tion without interfering with; the personal rights of the citizen that could be enacted. It does not pro hibit the use .of intoxicants, ibut places a premium on good charac ter and g?od behavior on the part of the citizen in order to obtain the article from the dispenser Thiaki think, will stimulate .gpod conduct on the part of persons purchasing and using intoxicants. The change of the law from -the license system, which law gave to citizens the privilege of selling liquors, affects the busiuesc. of many engaged in the wholesale and retail trade ; this I regret, but the closing of saloons and remov ing that temptation from . the-old und young is the compensation to the public. A" majority of the* people -.adi quite. a large vote of the prohibi tionists in the State wishechthe sa loons closed, that convenience, the bar, removed, but total prohibition bas been demonstrated a failure itt ill the States where it has been enacted into law, and it would-be folly to attempt it in South Caro lina. There is no such law as the Dis pensary act in any State of the United States. I believe the law is wisely constructed, that it rests >n principles of justice, equity, ind a spirit of ch >'tf: T favor a fair trial and * niniteration of it ir . I ' . . :. Efflorescence in ? .... W.-: lowr f-i?fo ..V / petit iou was ??uiu member of the Pittsburgh bar that is unique. Mrs; Mary - Camel vanted a divorce from Peter Jamel, and the petition says: "She was married to Camel in ireland in 1845, and shortly there after with anticipations bright, 1 they- left down-trodden Ireland ' ind set sail for the land of the 1 free aud the home of the brave ; ( that from the time >Qf their union ] they lived together joyous and ' Free, and no fugitive cloud of { idvergity dimmed the vision of ' their connubial ' felicity until 1 Nov. lo, 1851, when Peter deserted ( the sacred hearth of his family ; that said Peter has gone glimmer- i iug with the things that were and ] no hope lingers of his return: 1 also how vain are all things here ) below, how false and yet how fair ! " ] The petition did the business 1 and Mr. Powers secured a divorce for his client-Pittsburgh Dispach. i Nothing Mean About Him. ' - i "Robert," remarked the wife of ( a penurious man, "I am ou my , death bed, I have tried to be a good , and faithful wife, and have but one favor to ask of you before I die." "What is that. Margaret?" 1 "You know I was born and rear- 1 ad in Cleveland. It was there I ' first met you and the happiest 1 hours of our wedded life were 1 passed there. You remember this, 1 Robert?" . 1 "Yes," uneasily. 1 "My relatives are buried there, 1 and when I am gone I wish to rest 1 beside them. Will you grant me 1 this one fayor?" "There will be considerable ex- < pense attached to it," musingly: ? "Oh, Robert ! I will never r*st i easy in my grave anywhere eise." ? "Well, Maggie, I'll tell you what I'll do. I don't want to be mean about the thing. I'll bury you here first, and then if I notice any , signs of restlessness on your part, I'll take you to. Cleveland after wards. Had Judge Simon ton rendered his decision in the railroad cases before the vacancy on the United States Supreme Bench had been filled he would have stood an ex cellent chance for the vacancy, as we have no doubt but that Presi dent Harrison and other leading Republican's agree with him fully on the question of the rights 'of the State as defined in his decision on the railroad question.-Times and Democrat. NEW ROAD LAW. . . . -v -------- REGULATION FOR WORKING TH? . COUNTRY ROADS Of the State of South Carolina, The Old and New Law-Changes Made hythe Legislature That Are Now in Force. Sec. 1085. Any person liable to road duty who fails io appear and work without justifiable excuse, after being duly warned for twelve hours, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and. on conviction before a trial justice, shall be fined ciot less than $5 no more than $10, ar be imprisoned not less than five nor more than ten days. Sec. 10861 On any extraordinary occasion when any highways shall be suddenly obstructed by storm or otherwise, pp.as to require imme-. iiate . labor io \ rtffcwve such ob struction,. irfeallSbe the duty of ?j the overseer to^cafl' out a sufficient i ?lumber of hands to remove the obstruction. If any person shall, < in such case, perform more days', j labor than is required by law for ^ the year, he (hall be pajd for any i auch overplus, at the rate of $1 < per day, by the county commise 1 ?ioners, upon the certificate of the , overseer t? that effect." . i r. Sec. 1088. The overseer shall .< il low a man working one day, an?L ; also furnish a horse, plough or cart_ two days' labor ; and one working himself for one day and furnish-a ing a wagon and two horses, mules . ornxen, three days' labor. Sec. 1089. All able-bodied male ?itizens (except such as are ex empt by law) between the ages of 15 ?nd 50, are required to perform ? ?ach year not less than six nor ' nore than twelve days' labor on the public roads under the diree- j ?ioupf the overseer. * 9-"." IQOC? TOOAWA_ftnd__8tu- " i-.-' :?r.-/>. ; ur.H-1 'r-?ms ?. . . . :.)-? ?xs \: trier.. ;u.-' #?x*b?i :r::..KV;?*x!y.. % ..." .:>.. ti. <iy~ J.y~- UK. V'ZT''. . '. repairing the sam^, :. . ; tc ihall seem necessary, making just ?ompen^&n therefor, should the jame be demanded ; and any per ion who hinders, forbids or op ooses an overseer in using such kimber, etc., shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor. Provided, that no overseer shall cut any timber trees reserved by the owner in clearing ois lands or fields, around the jprings, or about tba dwelling louse, nor cut any rail timber ?vhen other timber may be pro mred at or near the place. Sec. 1093. For the purposes of road duty, the residence of any person who has a family shall be beld to be where his family resides, I and the residence of any other } person shall be held to be where he boards. J Sec. 1094. All public roads lead-f ing directly from any part of thelf State to Charleston, Georgetown|f Columbia, Camden, Hamburg, oifjP Cheraw, shall be thirty feet widejjfa and all other roads shall be clearecjf twenty feet wide. THE NEW HOAD LAW. f& Sec. 1. The county commission^ srs are hereby authorized and rcjja [juired to divide the public roacjj of the county, into highway difp tricts of such size as they ma^?n leem advantageous, and appoirrlc an overseer for each district, ai [It assign such hands to each distritan< as they may see proper, having jhe ? zard to the importance of the rand I and the residence of the handsoubli ?ssigned. tef be Sec. 2. Every person so appoijj*1 ?d overseer, unless exempt fin*? road duty, stall be requiredjvme 3erve as hereinafter provided, {. xh< anyvperson refusing or neglectiji/ort] to serve when appointed shall |f 0f feit to the county the sum[nan.( twenty-five dollars. The terniD(] | office of such oversee-s shalLjgtui two years from date of appa ment, but no overseer shall be To ; quired to servo two terms in )o!or, cession, and shall be exempt t-he sc road duty for two years ittpewer diately succeeding such term, tself Sec. 3. The county commise Tne ers shall furnish such overseer ver9 . a list of all persons liable to re?r B? duty who are assigned to work r the highway district over wj ru ch overseer is appointed, a: shall be his duty to warn out j hands and at the times and pj The designated by the county combinks sionors, and at such times atjhe ma The] housa u this each] to tr OUgl .weather ma county commi?sioL ? ir?; all persons liabl ty to work upon the put -'not-lees 1 han six no ian t-weive days in each yeal thoura of- actual- work t< .d?yg' work under thii be the duty 01 T 3eer;tp;keep a list of th* er bis control and note i of actual work which r form e. and to return ^commissioners after ordered by them a "under his control the number of *BBB actually, worked. |??keep a list of such ee or fail to work, ^'return to the county ra with his certificate ereto as to the correct return. e county.commission rect the times of work er; and the place in fiijBtrj6t at which the work and the overseers i n shall proceed to work ?er his charge thor ? goes, arching the center, with drains on )..to convey the water, tak oj>rotect such drains from ? He may make the road wide, and shail protect* Te drains from interfer Scultivatibn. ^The county, commisaion ^proyide 'such overseers number.of picks and ;as they may see proper, verseere shall be respon se custody of the same, warned tb work the road g such working tools as sers may direct;- .* Any hand may compound ?.???.?"i nv wv --s* ? . - ._ .. i.n ?no.--.vf -ct.'-;*ra as jimers shall be expended by them tc the improvement of the road rthe district where the moneys Tire derived. 5ec. 10. It shall be the duty of tl county commissioners to en force the provisions of this act, fi for any neglect or refusal they jill be deemed guilty of a mis iaeanor, and shail e?ch be pun isd by a fine pf-not less than $'.nor more than $50 dollars for ah one, by way of refusal or gleet. Some of the very papers and )ple in this State who are now >ilant over the fact that Judges ff and Simonton have given ttos rights a black eye, ' are lost thrown into spasms when Alliance talk of Government ?orship of railroads and tele ph lines. Oh I ye hypocrites. ?es and Democrat. rov. Northen, of Georgia, who a very large and successful oer, says he has not planted cotton in six years, and did intend to do so until it brought ir price. Let- other farmers >w Gov. Northern's example our section of the country will be?in a more prosperous con >u. : is the duty of the State to i by the sheriffs and see thal ines imposed by Judges Goff Simonton are paid out of the ic funds. If these men are fined for simply doing their i duty the State should see they are held harmless. s and Democrat. B cheapest dress made by h, the.Parisiau milliner, even cotton, does not cost less one hundred and fifty dollars, this he calls. his "pauvrette ne"-the poor girl's dress. make the hair grow a natural prevent baldness, and keep alp healthy, Hall's Hair Re was invented, and ha? proved successful. business failures in 1892 fewer in number than any ince 1886. re are said to be about two nd varieties of apples raised country. only man on earth who twice before he speaks ip a who stutters. How Whales Feed. The great Greenland whale ha no teeth; its baleen plates, o whalebone, taking their plac( Along the centrentf the pal?t runs a strong ridge, and on eacl side of this there is a wide depres ?iou along which the " plates ar< inserted. These are long and fiat hanging fre?, and are placee transversely-that ' is, across thc mouth-with their sides parallel and near each' either. The base and outer edge of thifc plates are of solid whalebone, but the inner edges are fringed, filling up the interior ofthe' mouth, and acting as; a strainer for trie food, which con sists of the small swimming mollusks and meduse, or jelly fishes. This whale rarely, if ever, swallows anything larger thad a herring, shoals of these creatures being entangled in* the fibres of the baleen, the water which does not escape from the mouth being expelled by the blow-holes. Though the cavity, of this whale's mouth is big enough to contain a ship's long boat, the gullet is not larger than a man's fist. The lower jaw has neither bale?n. nor teeth, but has large, ""fleshy lips, within which the upp'ef'is received when the ??o?th is closed. While the Greenland whale has no teeth the sperm whale ha's them-in graet quantities on the lower jaw, and uses them, too, when occasion requires. On the other hand, the narwhale very seldom develops nore than one, the left' upper janine. It makes up for the lack )f numbers by the extraodinary growth attained by this one tooth. '.t grows out and right forward, n a line* with the body, until it lecomes a veritable tusk, some imes reaching the lenth of ten Bet.' 'Apropos of tusks, the elep ?^fi!MiV..v; Ih'itf. ?'????? .\ - j '*? Vi ^iWart gt : A oape \JOCL man gives some val ble hints ou the care of poultry : "I have just experimented with letting hen, and have found a y to in breaking them of the bit, in the winter at least. I v-en't patented my ide? : those 0 wish to try it can do so, and Icome. I made half a dozen )wsballs then so?ken them in ter. In the morning they were id ice. I "shaped teem as near 5 an egg as possible, and then ced them under the setting 1 She smiled. I stood by and watched her. ) . cuddled the ice eggs under and clucked softly to them. In ut ten minutes she appeared get uneasy. She arose and itched the darlings together shook herself, then, evidently stied, settled down again, ti she got up once more, this * with evident concern-some g was wroiig surely-rperaps weather was .'getting cold. She wet aed chilly, but with great Bverance she sat down again, again got up-this time for . She walked ou t of the box then turned and looked in, ihe had enough, told a friend of mine this new My friend, being a large ;ry man, immediately set bur boys to. work making balls. ll signs fail"-except pimples ?lotcb.es. These never fail to ite an impure condition of ood, which may be thoroughly jed and renewed by the use er's Sarsaparilla. The most lious and economical of purifiers. remove grease, place a piece tting paper over the place iply a hot flat-iron. -Why. do they speak of ige as a lottery I a-I suppose because the enerally draw the prizes. j moves in a world of her w so?" i wrears a crinoline." -I hear that you are' very bly inclined, . e-Yes ; I. always give my '''.suitors to ray younger 3en.t-Does love cool after ;e? ma-Cool? It freezes solid. Master's Sale. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, EDGEFIELD COUNTY. Court Common Pleas. . JACOB B. HALTIWANGEE, et al. against ADDIE HALTIWANGER, et al. "PURSUANT to the decree in this cause, I will offer for sale at pub lic outcry before the court-house, town of Edgefield and State of South Caro lina, on the first Monday in March, 1893, (bein? the 6th day of said month) between the legal hours of sale, the following described realty, to wit : Tract No. 6, containing sixty (60) acres, more or less, lying, situate, and being in Edgefield county and State of South Carolina, and bounded on the north, by Tract No. 8; east, by lands of W. H. B?hl ware; south, by lands of W. H. Boulware; and west, by Tract No. 7. The said tract being the share of William Haltiwanger in the sub division of the lands of Sarah Halti wanger, deceased, as appears by a plat made by B. F. Reynolds oh the 4th of October, 1892. TEEMS OF SALE : Cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. W. F. ROATH, Master E. C. Master's Sale. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF EDGEFIELD. Court Common Pleas. S. S. KIRKLAND, et ah, Plaintiffs, against THE CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND GAP AND CHIC AGO RAILROAD COMPANY, et al., Defendants. PURSUANT to the judgment of fore closure in this case, I will offer for sale at public outcry before the Court House, town of Edgefield, and State of South Carolina, on the first Monday in March, 1893, (being the 6th day of said month) between the le gal hours of sale, the following de scribed mortgaged property, to wit; : All of the Edgefield Branch Rail road running from Edgefield to Tren ton in said county, its road bed, and rights of way, its franches, and char ter privileges, its trestles and culverts, and depots, and all property belonging to the said Edgefield Branch Railroad Company. Terms of Sale : Cash. W. F. ROATH, Master E. C. WM. SCHWEIGERT, The Je^v%reller% Corner Broad and McIntosh Streets. E. R. Schneider, IMPORTEES OF FINE Wines, Liquors and Cigars, AND I; KALK RS IN t Bourbon Rve and Corn Whiskey. 6oi and. *4o2 Broad, ?treet. HiGHEST PRICES. BEST WEIGHTS. HIP OR HAUL YOUR COTTON -TO RANSTON & STOVALL, Fireproof Warehousemen. 3 9 REYITOLDS ST?UET, , AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. They have had long experience, are liberal, progressive, active guarantee quick sales and prompt returns. We will make full cash advances on all consignments. /ranston & S to vail, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. 3iieral ? Repair ? Shops, EDGEFIELD, S. C, B, COURTNEY, PR PR. have opened General Repair Shops at Edgefield, S. C., where I e pleased to receive the patronage of the public in the line of al Repairs and Overhauling, such as : igons, Carriages, Buggies, Road Vehicles, of all Kinds. im Engines, Mowers, Reapers, Gins - MANUFACTURER OF - i, ForoitoTB ill House lislii Material. fact anything and all things in the way of Machinery that may ipairs will receive the most careful and conscientious attention bauds. All work guaranteed and done at shorty notice. Give ial. Prices Low and Stricty Cash. . B. COURTNEY Near Depot, OFIELDC. H., . - S.C.