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Memorial Park Is Dedica The South's Chief tal Prop Fairview, ^ Ky., Special.-Among j the trees which haye grown up about the birthplace of JefTsrson Davis) since the year, .early in the nineteenth oentury, when the Davis family re moved to Mississippi, the Jefferson Davis memorial park was simply ded icated Thursday. Northeasts across the State is Hodgeriville, near which Abraham Lincoln was born eight months after his great opponent. Pairview is still a tiuy town rimmed with forests and sloping gently to ward the- grass grown battlefields of Tennessee. In September, 19J)7, when- the gray .grown and enfiladed ranks of ' Ken tucky's famous "orphan- brigade" met in Glasgow, Ky., at the grave of Joseph H. Lewis, their commander, former Governor "Bolivar Buckner, of Kentucky broached the plan of the Jefferson Davis Monument Associa tion. Subscriptions were started, the women of the South aiding nobly, and -when all but $4,000 had been raised to purchase seventeen acres at Fair view*, General Bennett H. 'Young, commanding the Kentucky division, United Confederate Yeterans, ad vanced that sum and made the mon ument possible. Oratory, music and flowers made today notable. A basket dinner and a barbecue were provided by the peo ple of Todd and Christian counties, which share equally the Town of Fairview and when CeL VT. A. Mil ton, of Louisville, 'as chairman in the absence of General Young, who was detained in Chicago, opened the meeting, the homestead; of the Davis' was crowded. General Young, a prominent Louisville lawyer, wrote the chief address of the day, and it was read by Colonel Milton. He a* MANY PERSONS ARE INJI? Sylvania, Ga., Special.-A half dozen persons, probably more, were injured in a terrific cyclone that pass ed over the lower part of Screven county at "4. o'clock Thursday after noon and, while no -life has yet been lost because of its passage, many per sons escaped by seeming miracles, houses falling about and upon them without inflicting fatal hajuries. The cyclone came from the direc tion of Dover and disappeared from there in a notheasterly direction. It completely wrecked the home of Stephen Thomson, a. white ; farmer, arid buried .under its ruins the farmer and his wile. An act of heroism followed, when the older of their sons after working valiantly despite his injuries, managed to extricate himself from the fallen timbers and debris of the house and then rescued the other members of the family in TRAIN TOPPLES INTO CR] Birmingham, Ala., Special.-Eight persons were injured, none fatally, this afternoon when a combination freight and passenger train oil the Short creek division of the Southern Railway toppled into Black creek; near Maxine, Ala. The injured are: E. Y. Lambeth, ' engineer; G. R. "Woodall, brakeman; H. C. Collins brakeman, and George Rutledge, fireman, and four negro passengers. The train ran upon a fill, support ing the approach to the trestle, which HEALTH CONFERENCE DI Washington, Special-Leporsy, tu beirculosis and the pollution of streams formed the principal themes of discussion Friday at the twenty fourth annual meeting of the confer ence of State and provinciid boards of health of North America. Wtih regard to leprosy, Dr. 'W. C. THE PHILADELPHIA TRAM lr"hi]adelphia, Sendai.-" Tte strike . han been settled. The men receive 22 cents an hour, beginning Saturday morning, and ten hours will 'consti tute a, day's work." This statement from C. 0. Pratt, chairman of the executive committee of the Amalgamation of Street Rail way Employes, the leader of the striking mortomen and conductors followed by the ? deportation of the 450 strike-breakers, who c?aae hen from New York, ends the shrike ol the employes of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company. The mee agreed to accept 2<2 cents an hour in PATRICKS APPEAL IFOR, i New York, Special.-Albert T Patrick's appeal for liberty cr dea ti was denied by the app?late divisior of the Supreme Court in Brooklvr Friday. Patrick had appealed to thal court for a hearing on a writ of hab eas corpus, which he bad cbtainec from an individual justice of the Su preme Court, ordering the prosecut ing officers to show cause why ?a should not be released from prison oi put to death for the murder of Wil MISS GARWOOD'S MARRIA Paris, By Cable.-The hercine o the proposed marriage, which the ma chinery of the State Department a Wasnington, was put into motion i? prevent, is Miss Mabel Gan rood, : wldte-haired woman, who gives Ne\ York as her place of residence. Th prospective groom is Count Bettin di Moise Padba, once a resident o New York, whom Miss Ganwood me in Egypt. The interevention of the State De partaient at Washington was obtain ted at The Birthplace Of n--Memorial Temple osed. serfed that every Southern State should rear a shaft to Jefferson Davis whose character and sufferings he dwelt upon sympathetically. He paid high tribute to. Lincoln, saying that the time had come when men might speak kindly and truly of the past. H? said the message which the united South gave to the world today was one of everlasting peace. Tha plan is to raise $30,000 more with whjtch to build a memorial tem ple to contain all the records of the Confederacy, and to remodel a two story rescidence upon the Davis farm to house the widows of (>nfederate soldiers. Tht/seventen acres which are to enclose the memorial buildings to be erected adjoin the original nine acres which were the remnants of the plantation upon which Samuel Davis, father of the President, set tled when he came from Virginia in 1793. These nine were given by Mr. Davis to Bethel church on the occa sion, June 21, 1SS6, of bis last visit to his first home. To the people of the neighborhood this church stands as a memorial to their neighbor, and to his "pride in his old Kentucky home they ascribe the fancy which led him to call his land along te Mississippi shore of the Gulf, .'Beauvoir." The site of the memorial slopes softly from a splendid grove which crowns its highest point. It is in the heart of Fairney, and the present plan is to place all the records of the Confederacy in the temple to be built within the shadow of the trees. A two story residence is also on the land, and the.inient is to make of this a home for the widows of the Confeder ates whom age has rendered decrept and from whom the years and the wars have taken husbands and sons. RED IN GEORGIA CYCLONE turn. Mrs. Thompson was very ser iously hurt, but the others of the family sustained injuries less grave, though very painfuL Two tenant houses on the place of J. C. Walker were destroyed and their colored occupants injured. Ten ant houses on the places of Thomas Lee and Jol wrecked but places large from their storm's viol? Many of t the cyclone owing to its find places o Ic is stated ance was that of an ordinary whirl wind, such as are frequently seen in summer, though it was very much larger and moved with much greater rapidity. EEK--EIGHT ARE INJURED had been softened by the hard raius. The engine and some of the freight cars got across but the fill gave way under the strain and the passenger coaches were precipitated into the creek and entirely submerged. Train men regard it as remarkable that the negroes were able to get out of the submerged coaches and swim to land. After crossing the trestle, the en gine was overturned, and the men on the locomotive were injured in jump ) ing. [SCUSSE5 MANY DISEASES Woodward, of the District of Colum bia, chairman of the committee on a national leprosa ri uri, reported that" no progress had oeen made toward the establishment of such an institu tion, but he argued that the dictates of humanity have upon the govern ment a most impelling force in this connection. ?IT STRIKE IS NOW SETTLED stead of 25" they had demanded orig inally. The old "swing system" has been abolished ; ten hours will . con stitute a day's work; all employes will be permitted to purchase their uniforms in the open market; all fu ture differences are to be adjusted between the company and a grievance committee chosen by the employes. If, after an investigation by the city controller of the books of the com pany it can be shown that more thaD 22 cents an hour can be paid without crippling the finances of the rapid transit company, then the men will - j insist upon a further advance. LIBERTY OR DEATH DENIED liam Marsh Bice. In support of the writ, Patrick several weeks, ago mad? a sensational personal appeal to the appellate division in which he declar ed that, the commutation of death sen tence to that of life imprisonment made by Governor Higgins constitut ed the imposition of a sentence worse than death. Patrick also attacked the legality of his conviction on the ground of conspiracy. All fhe jus tices of the division concurred. GE TO COUNT CALLED OFF ed through the Rev. John B. Quinn, of the Church of the Ascension, Washington, at the instance of Miss Garwood's sister, Miss Frances A. Garwood, of New York. The State Department transmitted to Ambassa dor Reid at London and later to Am bassador White here the results of its investigation into the record of the count's life in New York'and of his antecendents in Italy, which were ob tained by Baron Mayor des Planches, the Italian ambassador to the United States. I3?587 i306 BALES IN 1908 Increase Over Previous.Year of 19.S Per ''Dent-Crop Remarkable For Its Excellent Spinning Qualities a?d Cloanliness.--MoBt Valuable Ever Grown. Washington, Special-Bulletin 10Q, which has just been issued by tho Bu reau of the Census, consists of a re port on the production of cotton in 1908, prepared under the supervision of Mr. Willim M. Stuart, chief sta tistician for manufactures, by Daniel C. Roper, expert chief pf division. The present report gives the ag gregate .figures for the whole cotton crop. The finally revised figures for the crop of 190S, expressed in equivalent' 500-pound bales and including lint ers, show a total production of 13. 587,306 bales. This represents an in crease over 1907 of 2,211,S45 bales, or 19.4 per cent. It is the third largest crop ever produced, being exceeded only by the crops of 19)4 and 1906, and is 978,751 hales larger than the average crop of the last five years. The production reported for Texas 3,913,0S4 bales, is the second largest recorded, being exceeded only by that of 1906, which was 36S.740 bales larger. This State showed a falling off in 1907 of 44.9 per cent as com pared with 1906, but increased its crop in ?908 by 65.S per cent ovc( 1907. Texas produced 28.8 per cent of the total for the country in 190S; 20.8 per cent in 1907; and, 31.5 per cent in 190G. The corp in 1908 is remakable for its excellent spinning qualities and cleanliness. The grade of this crop is estimated to have averaged strict middling, compared with middling for 1907 and strict low middling for 1906. Measured by its yarn produc ing qualities, the crop of 1908 is be lieved to be the most valuable ever grown. The value of the crop to the glowers is estimated at $681.230,956, of which $c<SS,S14,S2S represents the value of the lint and $92.416.12S the value of the seed. Notwithstanding the fact that the crop was 2,211,845 bales larger than the crop of 1907 und that the spinning qualities of this crop were superior, it has been dis posed of by the growers at approxi mately $20,000,000 less than that of 1907. The estimated quantity of cotton seed produced in 190S is 5,903,S38 tons, "of which 3,669,747 tons were Created by the oil mills, affording pro ducts valued at $S6,092.5S3, and dis tributed as to kind and quantitv as follows; Oil, 146,789,8S0 gallons; ] cake and meal, 1,491,752 tons; hulls, l.,330,2S3 tons, and linters, 165,138, G2S pounds. The world's production of cotton for mill consumption in l^OS is esti mated at U),574,000 bales of 500 .*..??. iuusi, lu mci leuiaiL.uer is pro duced in China and Brazil, while maller quantities are contributed bv Mexico, Peni, Turkey, Persia and .everal other countries. Not less than 9,000,000 persons ore mployed in producing, handling and nanufacturing American cotton, of vhom some 6,000.000 are farmers and tann laborers, 1,000,000 otherwise en gaged with the fibre in this country :ind about 2,000,000 are concerned vrith it in foreign countries. The value of the goods manufactured from the average American cotton !-rop is estimated at $2,000.000,000. Of the total quantity of the six leading textile; fibres produced in 1908, 18,042,425,000 pounds, cotton constituted 54 per cent, wool 14.5 per cent, jute 14 per cent, flax 10 per cent, hemp 7 per cent and silk less than one-half of 1 per cent. The relative importance of these fibres has been reversed during the past century. Flax fibre, which was used to a larger extent than ar.y other in 1800, now ranks fourth; and the quantity produced is only about three times what is was then. During this period the production of wool has in creased about four-fold, and of. cot ton over thirty-fold. Big Balloon Race Ends. Indianapolis, Ind., Specif:*L-Three of the nine balloons that started Saturday in the national distance race of the Aero Club of America and the endurance test of the Aero Club of Indiana, entered in the national race, is reported to have dropped to carthy at Shackle Island, Tenn,, at 6 o'clock. Sunday evening, taken on water and sailing off south. The Indiana endurance race was won by Dr. Link a?d R. J. Irvin,*in the Indianapolis. They were in the air 22 hours. The Chicago was second and the Ohio third: France's Token of Love. San Francisco, Cal., Special.-An other manifestation of historic good feeling between France and the Unit ed States was expressed Saturday when Ambassador Jusserand,' on be half of the French government, pre sented to the City of San Francisco a handsome gold medal commemora tive of the restoration of the city from the destruction wrought by the earthquake and fire of 1906. Insane Man Kills Five. Somerville, Masa., Special.-With a maniacal shriek, John Murphy tarted from pig-sticking to man killing in the North Packing and Provision Company's slaughter-house Saturday, and driving his fellow workmen before him, slew five of them and wounded four others. Twc of the wounded were reported latet as dying. According to some of tht workmen, Murphy had been acting peculiarly for some days but he re turned from his dinner Saturday noon sparently in normal condition. Agreements were reached .in the Senate. Monday upon many -section* of the: tariff bill, so that, as the'hour for adjournment approached, the paragraphs relating to agriculture were 'nearly all disposed of. During the afternoon* Mr. Bacon entered up on an extended discussion of the pro posed increase over the rates of the House bill in duties on bacon and hams, lard, fresh beef, etc,, and Mr. Aldrich surprised the Senate by with drawing the committee, amendments, saying he believed the House rates al though below those :of the Dingley law rates, were protective to those in dustries. This action provoked fur ther discussion on the part of Sena tors, who favored. the higher rates. Senator Rayner created consider able amusement by,a humorous de scription of what Senator ! Aldrich; had refered to as "the citadel of pro tection," and Senator Smith, of South Carolina, advocated free tariff or a tariff for revenue only. The most important happenings in the nation's capital Saturday were as follows : President Taft sent a special mes sage to Congress transmitting the final report of Charles E. Magoon, former Provisional Governor of Cuba, and praising the'.latter and Major General Thomas-H.. Barry, who was tn command of trie army of pacifica tion, for their services in the land. Owing to the state of Mrs. Taft's health, the President announced that he had abandoned 'his proposed trip to Alaska during the coming summer but had not yet given up hope of be ing able to attend the Seattle Expo sition. That danger lurks in the transpor tation of those who have died from infectious diseases was made evident at Saturday's.session of the twenty fourth annual meeting of the confer ence of State and provincial boards of North America. The committee appointed to report on the subject found fault wjth. the present system of shipping bodies from one State in to another and. recohnnended that greater care should, in the future, he exercises in this regard' through the aplieation'of measures, which would secure better preparation and the casing of bodies preparatory to i ship ment. Leprosy again was one of the prin cipal topics discussed at the day's session of the conference of State and provincial boards-of ' health of North America, which adopted a resolution urging the establishment by Congress, within the United States, of a hos pital for the treatment of the disease. After devoting the larger portion of the day to listening to a discus sion of the cotton -ffioth schedule, the Senate entered upon, a period of vot UIII. UUMVU,? tu|jiiiu >v tiuiiKsuay were as follows: Taking to task the" other Republi cans in the Senate for violating the party pledge to the people to revise the tariff downward. Senator LaFol lette begun an extended speech which he concluded Thursday, when the night sessions begam Senators Nel son, Gore and Elkins also addressed the Senate during the day. Almost on the eye of his departure for Europe later nj the month, Samuei Gompers, the labor leader, called on President Taft fdr a conference on labor matters. Afterwards he said he would return to this country in time, either to attend tie annual conven tion of the American Federation of Labor or go to jajl. "I would rather attend the convention," he added. . ?,| . . Five retired ntval. officers have been relieved from active duty by an order issued by the Secretary of the Navy in caraying put the new admin istration policy. . His belief in f^ee religion was ex pressed by President Taft in a speech to a delegation from the Seventh Day tariff bill in the j Senate. The duty Adventists who visited him at thc White House. . ?j . . Ther most important happenings in the nation's capital Friday were as follows :. Making reply to the bitter attack made upon him JThursda}' night by Senator Penrose ?because of his ab sence at a session, at which he was ex-1 pee ted to finish his uncompleted speech on the cotton schedule of the tariff bill, Senator LaFollette sug-1 gested that the Senator from Pennsyl vania might render greater service if he would account for the way he spends his own ;time when absent fromt the Senate. Mr. LaFollette then completed his speech. Another night session was; held by the Senate. . Vice Admiral lj<riu made a, pilgrim age to the tomb of George Washing ton at Mount Vernon and placed there a wreath, of red and whit? roses, a tribute from Japan to the first great American. A severe blow to \ the proposed lakes to gulf deep waterway project, it was intimated, would be the re port of the board of army engineers, which is expected to recommend to Congress unfavorable action on the matter of deepening the Mississippi channel from St; Louis to the gulf. William H Harr, of the District of Columbia,, was appointed by Pres ident Taft to be an Assistant Attor ney General of the United States. . ? .' .? Denouncing the pending tariff bill as giving the manufacturer an undue advantage over the American work ingman,. Senator Smith, of South Carolina, unequivocally expressed his faith in a free trade policy in an ex tended speech, while the cotton schedule was under consideration in the Senate Xfonday. DISCUSS MANY DISEASES I State and Territorial Health Officers Meet With United States Pnhlic Health and Marine Hospital Ser vice and Study Methods of Fight ing Disease. Washingtoin, Special-An interest ing development of discussion of rabies at the annual conference of State' and Territorial health affairs ?with the United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, was the fact that the disease frequently is contracted from the bites of 'skunks,' wolves and other wild animals. Drs. Godfrey, of Arizona, and Brumby, of Texas, described the dan ger from the bites of skunks and other wild animals in the Territories and declared that wolf bites frequent ly conveyed the infection of rabies. Dr. Kerr declared that public opin ion was becoming rapidly educated to the necessity of muzzling dogs as the only certain way of overcoming the disease. The general conclusion of the conference was that it was quite as reasonable to require the muzzling of degs as it was to pro Iftbit the free roaming of cattle and horses in the streets. Of leprosy Surgeon Genoral Wy man voiced the feeling that this dis ease was one which concerned all the States collectively. He pointed to the fact that the United States was tke-first government to make provis ion, for a thorough investigation of leprosy. His remarks had reference to the leprosy institution in Hawaii. From reports made by the dele gates, it appeared that the United States was remarkably free from lep rosy, as compared with many foreign countries. That other causes than that of in fected water supply must be fouud to explain the continued prevalence of typhoid fever in different com munities apeared to be the general sentiment of the conference. Dr. Lumsden, of the Hygenic L-abratory, states that approximately 10 per cent of all cases of the disease in Wash ington during a period of investiga tion were believed to have been due to milk. The necessity of a thorough study of the disease throughout the country was emphasized. The surprising prevalence of the "hook worm disease" in the South was shown by Dr. Charles W. Stiles, who said it was due to unsanitary t| conditions and the resultant pollution of the soil. He said that 27 per cent of. i:he children in a large section of the South had the disease in such an apparent from that it could be detect ed without a microscope. Child la it- . with proper sanitary facilities, and of teaching the country doctors how to treat he disease. Pellagra, the disease which has made its appearance in this country only in recent years, was discussed. Dr.* C. E. Williams, of South Carolina read a paper, showin?: its prevalence in the South. Dr. H. F. Harris, of Georgia, said that the disease occur red chiefly in the fall and spring, that it probablv was due to eating corn bread made from, unripe or mouldy corn, and that its. most prominent symptom Avas insanity. Surgeon General Wyman stated that the ser vice was cont?mplating sending an expert on the subject to several for eign countries to study pellagra, with a view of adopting measures in this country for its elimination. Pires Three Shots at Wife. Charlotte, Special.-For the past few days the town has been agog with the stories afloat concerning the sudden departure from the city of Mrs. Dennis Hurley, who left Charl lotte Saturday night for the home of her mother, Mrs. W. T. Jordan;, in New York. Prior to her departure sh."1 told her friends that her life was in danger should she spend it, with h?r husband. She also stated that Mr. Hurley had fired at her three time?; Saturday morning, and that, under the influence of whiskey, his aim was bad, otherwise he would have killed her. Strike Causes Rioting. Philadelphia, Pa., Special-The at tempt of the " Philadelphia . Rapid Transit Company to operate its cars Wednesday i?th. strike breakers, im ported from other cities, resulted in the first serious rioting which has oc curred since the strike of the street car men began on May 29. In the Kensington district, where many mills are located, the. feeling ran high. Indicted For Criminal Irregularity. Detroit, Mich.. Special.-The $1, 500,000 failure of the Detroit brokci age firm of Cameron Currie & Co., last July, resulted in the indictment of Louis H. Case, managing partner, Herbert P.. Page, Robert L. Edwards, Ernest Kreeatke and William H. Stritzskit, clerks, and William Rowley and Frederick T. Dolson, telegrpah operators, employed by thc defunct firm, on charges of criminal irregular ity. ._ Fire at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, N. C., Spacial. -Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity experienced a beaw loss Wednesday when their chapter house was totally consumed by fire. No members of the frater nity were in the house when the fire broke out all being at the afternoon dance at Commons Hall. The IIOUHO was valued at .$3,000 with, insurance of $1,000. The house was Inuit about fifteen years ago. Immediately nf tar i the fire "about twenty of thu memburs, (both alumni and native, met and plan I oed for rebuilding. PALMETTO I News Notes From All Paris ci Carolinians Bedare Por Better Roads. Cheraw, Special.-The following resolutions were unanimously adopt ed at the meeting of the Rural Lot ter Carriers' association for the coun ties of Chesterfield and Marlboro, held in Cheraw Monday: / "Resolved, 1st, That we, the mem bers of the Rural Letter Carriers' association of Chesterfield and Marl boro counties, do respectfully ask our legislators of above named counties to do all that they can to enact a eompulsory education law to compel the white children of the State of South Carolina to go to school four or five months in every year. . "Resolved, 2nd, That we heartily indorse the building of an official pub lic road from Maine to Florida, and we earnestly and respectfully re quest our patrons and the public generally to exert their every effovt and influence toward encouraging promoters of above named road to build it through our beloved counties. Resolved,- 3rd, That we, the Rural Letter Carriers' association of Ches terfield and Marlboro counties, earn estly request our senators and repre sentatives to investigate the feasi bility of abolishing the State farcis and put the State convicts to work on the public roads of the State, al lowing each county their pro rata proportion. "Resolvod 4th, That we earnestly request that all the rural letter car riers' associations of South Carolina endorse the above resolutions and use their influence to have them en acted into law." Teachers Chosen in Conway. Conway, Special.-At a meeting of the trustees of the Burroughs school Thursday the teachers for tiie next term were elected, and resulted in rhe election of Prof. R. C. Hunter, of Newberry as superintendent and Miss Daisy Pate of Bishopville as prin cipal, and the reelection of all of che other teachers of the school, Misses Grace Langston, of Conway, Margu erite Murphy of Walterboro, Francis Field of Hickory, N. C.; Toccoa Bur ris of Anderson and Agnes Riggs of Sumter. Prof. Hunter was this year principal of the school and Miss Pate has for two years been in charge of the two higher grades. There is yet one vacancy on the board, whieL will be filled at a later meeting. Prof. J. M. Mitchell, of Greenville, who nas been the able superintendent of the school for the past 3*ear, declined to stand for reelection. His decision to loo,- n- * _-, Kj^nuLur r. ri. weston and Col. D. Cardwell. The Confeder ate Home is-just outside of Columbia, in the beautif ul suburbs, near Hyatt's Park. It can be seen from the Hyatt road and is "within easy reach of the car line. The building is one story and has a neat and comfortable ap pearance. The building is substantial, and contains a basement. The house faces south and has a main corridor running north and south ratersected by a narrower hall running almost ar right angle to the larger hall. Tho menu is plain and wholesome, and is changed daily. The commandant is Capt. W. D. Starling, a well known Confederate veteran. The commis sion that had charge of the building of the Home has Col. D. Cardwell for its chairman. Mistrial in Bang Case. Marion, Special.-The jury in the case of John King, alias John B. Stillwell, alias "Pennsylvania Swipes," charged with complicity in the Latta bank robbery, failed to agrea and Judge John S. Wilson or dered a mistrial. The robbery was committed, it is alleged by the State, in 1905, by John F. McCarthy, King, Schaefer and Morgan. Spartanburg Climbing. A dispatch from Washington, says : On July 1 the Spartanburg postoffice will go into the first class, and will rank with her big sisters, Charleston and Columbia. This was the an nouncement made at the postoffice de partment, and is the best possible evi dence of the general growth and pros perity of Spartanburg for the fiscal year that mil end June 30. In ad dition to this it is understood that Postmaster Floyd, will do all in his power to make a still better showing when the first year of his adminis tration ends. Cooking With Electricity. Columbia, Special.-Cooking schools for teaching cooking by electricity have lately come to ho a fail in this city. Incident Hy the fad has bob? made to serve as a first rate adver tising scheme for the people intuy ested in selling electric cooking ap plianc^s. A great many nf tbjse. utensils are being purchased by hui ic: in the city, and thoy aro sahl it? hi more economical than gas or coal Conductor Lear ia in tho Teils. Columbia, Special.-Clunk's T Lear, formerly a conductor un tin Seaboard Air Linc, was jwouglij V the city from NfiW Qf)?aris Sundai muming, j^oay was in charge o Special Am-'iit Minore, of t he Schwan who went to N-.^v Orleans to brim his prjsfmer I?1 Columbia. Lear i charged witji grand Iwwjiy. He wa charged with tho theft of goods ii the value of jj$ in July. 1008, ha left the State and waa only arrostei Wednesday in New Orleans. iAPPENIHOS : the Staie of Interest to South i m General In Honor of DeKalb. ^Camden, Special.-On August Iff, 1780, the American army under the command of Gen. Horatio Gates met defeat at the hands of -the-army of Lord Cornwallis. It was the battle of Camden-the most disastrous of the Revc' ion. Among other striking tragedies of that tragic day was the mortal wounding of Baron DeKalb, the Ger man patriot and "citizen of the world," who so nobly espoused the cause of the American colonies. In command of a remnant of Dela ware and Maryland troops and "un aware of the utter rout of the militia, ke was hotly engaged with Rawdon in his front. The staunch old hero wa? in the thick of the fray afoot, his horse having been killed under him. His men were driving ine British be fore them and taking prisoners. , But a heavy pressure ijoraes upon them from the left." Cornwallis recalls Tarleton's cavalry and sends them against DeKalb's gallant remnant. "These tum the scale and the weight of the numbers prevails, but not with out a desperate hand-to-hand strug gle. Bayonets lock and blades meet. The woods ring with the clang of steel. The cry is raised: 'Save the baron DeKalb. ' The bayonets have reached him. DuBuyson, his aide, embraces him, to ward off the thrusts, some of which he receives in his own body. But no mercy is shown. DeKalb lies bleeding from ll wounds. The battle is won and lost." On Friday afternoon 129 years after the conflict, the spot where the dying DeKalb fell was formally mark ed by an imposing granite boulder. The local chapter, D. A. R. with char acteristic patriotism, has patiently labored to mark this historic spot and Friday afternoon saw the re warding of their noble efforts. The monument, a massive granite boulder, firmly set in concrete and rock, bears the following inscription : "Baton DeKalb, mortally wounded on this spot, at battle of Camden, Aug. 16, 1780." The battle ground is eight miles north of Camden, and one mile be yond Gum swamp, and a large num ber of* patriotic citizens drove out and witnessed the exercises. Mr. Bratton DeLoache delivered a stir ring address. Southern Power Company Forms Subsidiary Concern. Chester, Special.-Mr. R. G. Lucas,. I of Charlotte, N. C., attorney fer the Southern Power Company was in the city Friday afternoon, and met the city council with reference to a trans will be known as iu? v/iife?*?*. lower Company. Pays Homage io Johnson. Greenville, Tenn., Special. - The descendants of his old-time neighbors and friends took advantage of the first memorial celebration since the transformation of the private ceme tery into a national instiution, to da honor to the memory of the former distinguished citizen hy organizing the Andrew Johnson "Memorial Asso ciation Monday. The people came from all portions of the vast picturesque, east Tennessee country. The orator of the occasion, Martin W. Littleton, spoke in terms of highest eulogy of the one president who, during his tenn of office, was tried on impeach ment charges. Palmetto Pointers. The Secretary of Stale granted a charter to the Diehl-Moore Shoe Com pany, of Rock Hill. Capital $15,000. At a recent meeting of the board of trustees of the Palmetto Collegiate Institute, Lexington, all of the teach ers were re-elected for another year. The Columbia schools held their closing exercises Thursday evening ia the theatre. Two hundred voices fur nished the music for the occasion. The hoard of trustees of Columbia College has selected the faculty for next year. Several changes have been made. Miss Kate Bijiby suc ceeds Miss J. D. Marlin, of Columbia* in the department of uwntsl andi moral science. Miss Bigby wilt eom?i frois Potter College, 't?rwling Greca* Ky. . At Columbia Messrs. A. M. Kea ?nedy and Hagar Sinkler seut checks, to stockholders in the Seminole Se curities Company, which went imo, the hands of tho vet.-ive is. Tte amount ol claims thai we io declared, valid was about fclSeUKM. Thc cheeks signed aggregated. $3?5?(}QQ, of which $30,000 is uaw a\ allah:-.:. For Building at Lauder. Greenwood. Special, .'v very pie.1.* inii announcement tu connexion with thu late comm cue eme: ii exorcises is that ^uqtjier dc tytorv will bo ad ded lo the co|l?ge. The need of mor? dormitory voca ha- pee feji tor some lime. Tins your the corego hal a huger attendance than eyer before and ?I-.- managua nt ?ound, ii neces sary to i\so the third fi?or sit...ig room and one pf ihr infirmary rooms for dormitory purpose^. ' Greenville Firm a Bankrupt. The following special has been vo ceivpd from Gv-.fuville: "C. D. Stvadley ? Co.. one of the jargest dry goods merchants in Green ville, has -ci" into bankruptcy. Tho papera \v?i? tiled this afternoon be f?te Major IO. M. Bl.V&?, United States Commissioner. Mr. St radie v, proprietor of the firm, is one of the host known merchants in upi.vr Car olina, and has been intimately as sociated wah all enterprises of Greenville for thc past twent.y-ii y ta ra.