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/ Edfefield Advertiser. Oldest Paper in South Carolina, _EDGEFIELD, S. C._ i -Disappointment, avers the New foxle Times, Is the black sheep of th? Hope family. t Unfortunately Dame Fortune, re marks the New York Times, has an sid maid sister-in-law. The law won't make a man good, ant, argues* the Boston Post, it may prevent ftfw? from being a nuisance. Nearly any woman, announces the Dallas News, caa be happy at home lor an hour or two if sthe has some? thing loose to put on. From Vienna Consul-General Denby ?rites: "The? Austrians probabjy use i higher average quality of tea than toy other people in the world,\ except, perhaps, the Russians, and these two nations prepare ahelr tea for drinking In a more intelligent way than others." According to a Turkish newspaper Ik 1876, William E. Gladstone was barn in 1796. For father he had a Bul garian. His gluttony for gold made bim yellow. Ho was; of medium hight, his whiskers were cropped close to i his face, and "as a sign of his satanic spirit his forehead and upper fore head were bare. His evil temper has made his hair fall off, so that fir o m a .distance he might be taken for quite bald.", i Sarai delivery of mails in Germany 2s to he hastened, wherever the con dition of roads will permit, by the use of motor bicycles and automobiles. This, observes the Philadelphia Rec . . i ferd, Is an innova ion in the public in ? terest which is likely to be adopted elsewhere, especially where popula- j lion is fairly dense and the rapid transit of mail matter a of consequently greatly importance. Such a regulation . would give*a great impetus to the con struction of motors intended for ser .See rather than display -- . Says the Toledo Blade: At the same time the 1 Dominion subsidizes the the bull ding of a transcontinental and Hudson Bay railroad it is engaged in deepening the Welland Channel so steamers fitted for the deep sea traf fic can go direct from the lakes to foreign ports. While impracticable plans are waved aside, thorough sur veys arid estim?tes are obtained for the digging of a waterway from Georg ian Bay to Lake Ontario, a far seeing j;; eensideration of r.he completed settle Ornent of the No.thwest and of the possible crowding of the pre?3nt lanes cf traffic. It is .not always dissipation that is meant by the phrase, "the pace that MUs/* insists the Philadelphia Led ger. Diversion that is morally innocu ous may come in time to deplete one's store of physical vitality and nervous energy almost as seriously as flagrant persistence in vicious courses.. People who are "in society" may pretend that they can turn night into day, haming the candle at both' ends in their protracted festivities, with no fear of the arrival of a day of reckon ing, hut nature with severe impartial ity arraigns at length not merely the hardened roue or debauchee, but the person whose "recreation" has been of sn entirely innocent nature and yet excessive in amount. It looks as f?ougn society" would soon have to come to Stn understanding regarding the num ber of engagements its devotees are expected to keep within twenty-four 2ionrs. Societies for the preven tion of cruelty hsrre been formed, but What organization is there to prevent cruelty to society? v, . To preserve discipline at West Point, a few years ago Congress pass ed a severe law against hazing and provided that cadets found guilty of -the practice shouLi be expelled. Now, laments the New York World, Con jgress with the approval of a tender hearted Secretary of War proposes to authorize "liaimless hazing," so that three cadets under sentence of dismissal can be reinstated. Ultimate ly, of course, the Military Academy will he reformed. It has been going through the proceus for six or seven years, and Congress ls still at it. At the start Congress was outraged by the brutality of the young gentlemen in course of training to be officers of the United States Anny. It investiga ted and fulminated and legislated against the culprit!. But the first time the superintendent of the Mlliary Aca demy un de rook to execute the law and dismiss a party of hazers, who had heen convicted of violating the regula tions, a stream of representatives and senators started for the White House to secure Mr. Roosevelt's clemency lu ?behalf of various cadets from their districts. Even since then pretty much everybody concerned, except Col. .Scott, has made a farce of the law. lt Nicaraguans would provide a grandstand, charge a moderate admis sion and advertise their battles as sports, suggests the Philadelphia .Ledger, they might get up some in ? terest. I Horrors of Slave* Gr own \ Cocoa * _,",." va * Ey Joseph Eurtt ?S have traveled for hundreds of miles along the ancient slave route through the Portuguese colony of Angola, and have seen shackles, skeletons and corpses, and I know that slavery includes, and must include, every crime, lt would be easy to give stories illustrating them all-false witness, theft, adultery ?;nd murder. These so-called "contract laborers" are gathered from various districts of Angola, but some come from the far distant regions of the Congo. One must travel through these dreary plains and uplands to realize the sufferings of a slave who walks a thousand miles or more to the port from which he is shipped to San Thome. There are bitter, dewy nights, when the cold forces him so close to the log fire that he burns himself-I have seen the pink scars on his brown body and his ankles are chafed by the heavy wooden shackles that secure him for the night. There are days, with the merciless sun overhead, when his sore feet toil "in immeasurable sand"-ill-fed, thirsty, fevered, in his heart a dull despair that saps Hs life, and before his imagination the vague terror of the ignorant facing the unknown. 1 have before me a photograph, taken by a friend of mine, of a young slave lying dead. They, found him in one of the little grass huts such as the na tives use in the dry season when traveling. The large shackle, the staff he had used to aid his painful steps, the lean, shrunk limbs, from which the prom inent joints protrude, make a striking picture of what slavery means. This is only one ease. It Is Impossible to say what proportion of natives actually reach the plan tations. A slaver once admitted ':hat he did well if six out of ten rived through the march from the far interior-sometimes only three survived; and though now slavery is carried on with less open cruelty, it is probable that, for the 4,752 landed in San Thome and Principe in the year 1901, as many more were raided or betrayed-or, in other words, for every laborer that reached the cocoa plantations in that year, one other died o? despair, sick ness or violence. And these are but the things that one can see. The results of the suspense ander, which the people live it is impossible to estimate-the distress of losing friends, the separation of children from parents, the fear of being caught while working in the fileds. The vague sense of overshadowing evil numbs them. Districts once well peopled are now almost depopulated. English, German and. other firms of cocoa manufacturers have now ex pressedi their disapproval in the most practical terms, namely, that they will not buy slave-grown produce. Now let the United States do her share and demand that the raw cocoa used in her factories shall be grown by free labor.-Leslie's Weekly. The Temptation of The State University l Ey Henry S. Pritchett I XV URING its fifty years of history the state university has also J .^^^ ? suffered, as to its standards and ideals, from the same causes ? ? which have affected other universities-the prevailing Amer 112 lean superficiality and the rage for numbers. ? In this matter the state institutions have sometimes found themselves under stronger temptations than even the privately endowed colleges. The strongest appeal to the legislator has hitherto been on the score of numbers. When the members of the legislature has been told that the state university, or the state school of agriculture and mechanic arts, was overcrowded by. the hundreds of students which thronged its halls, he has not generally given any thought to the methods by which these students were brought tlher?; still less has he appreciated that in many cases they were ob tained by the .rankest advertisin0' and by openly robbing the high schools. For the; purpos'i of impressing -he legislature, a student has been a student, whether he happened to be studying elementary arithmtic in the sub-freshman classes or scientific agriculture in the college. The registration lists of stu dents intsome of these colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts remind one of the inventory of the Kansai; farmer, who, in advertisement of an auc tion sale, announced thirty-two head of stock. When the stock came to be sold, the thirty-two head were found to embrace two horses, one mule, one cow, and twenty-eight hens. No institution which approaches a legislature i with such an argument can reasonably object when the politicians seek to ? play tho fame game with the college.-The Atlantic. j ? ft*?T-v White Slave Dealers Ey flora Elatch De Forest URELY no greater proof is necessary to convince us that me opinion and the Influence of women are not reflected in the S"CF man-made laws of today than the present law bearing on the traffickers in white slaves. ?5> ' A lenient Judge could, if he wished, let off the offender H with the scandalously small punishment of one year in jail ^-fwvX" Sf or fle may miP036 a fine of DUt $1,000. This horrible crime, ^C?X?X^?^ therefore, of forcing innocent girls into a lite which statis tics show leads to death in five years on an average-this crime ls considered by our law makers of today less than murder, less than manslaughter, less than larceny, less than theft. But our men law makers go one step further than this. The law further provides that "no conviction shall be had under this section upon the testi mony of a female." So If the mother or sister of the girl that has been wrong ed rises up to accuse the guilty, her testimony is swept aside by men as of no account. And yet men say that we are well protected under, the present laws and 'that they can preserve the purity of the home without our active public help. 1 .N ?SViwyw , . The.. ^rtrr-s^SQ ? Value of Thoughtful Habits \ k - k * Ey Clayton Sedgwick Cooper N the last analysis, perhaps the most abiding benefit of col X lege life is that influence which is crystallized into habit dur + lng these formative days. The college man may forget bis * college enthusiasms and his emotions. Much of the "college * spirit," whatever that may be, of undergraduate days evap ?-:~??l<*'t"M** orates in contact with the practical and serious world. Hab *M~:'*t*;"i~?t Its of 'hese early daysl however, are persistent and usually J********* permanent in after life. These Bible studies now tised by I students are arranged with a view to assist college men in the formation of habits of daily study and meditation. As a reminder of the things that, are most morth while, this habit has become valued by thousands of students. I was greatly impressed to find that one of the most representa tive leaders In an Institution in the Middle West was rising at five o'cock in the morning in order to spend an hour a day In thpughtfu meditation and study relative to one of these student courses. His room-mate said to me: "I attri bute the splendid equilibrum and balanced judgment of this busy man to this thoughtful habit which he has practiced for more than two years."-From The Century. I Things We Should Copy. As Col. Roosevelt has Just said, tie new industrial and factory world brings astounding economic problems. We may yet have even to compele .with the Eastern world in the factory and industrialisms, and we cannot af ford, through prejudice, not to adopt their most valuable economics in foocs abd in dO.tb.ittg. especially when tfcfcse have points greyly better than ours Phases of Lent. Keeping Lent ought to have som? effect on the high cost ct" living. The 'high cost of flying certainly .has a de clfled effect on keep?ag Lent. Ask the pawnbrokers.-Philadelphia North American. Tiro sudden demand fer popular edA ueaito'n* in China is shown by the fact that the school attendance in oae in taste, healthfulness and comfort.-- . province has increased 8008 percent T"lp in the. New York Press. j -ic five years. UNCLE Sffl.-HT MONEY IS "-Cmloon by \ Conditions Sound, Verdict Interviews Gathered Here surance That Stock Cannot Halt Wa POSTM?STEK-GENERAL P GREAT GROWT New York City.-Emphasizing the basic soundness of the prosperity of the United States, despite the depres sion of stock prices through artificial courses, the Herald prints interviews with leading bankers and business men of the country. In a special cable from ' Carlsbad Jules S. Bache expresses the belief that the recent market depression was caused by "disappointed railroad veterans" as a protest against the new railroad law. Henry G. Ickel heimer agrees-with Mr. Sache that intrinsic values have been enhanced rather than depressed, and John F. Carroll ioins Mr. Bache looking for ward for results that will benefit the country. Postmaster-General Hitchcock sees In the reduction of the deficit of the Postofilce Department to the extent of $10,000,000, involving an immensely increased volume of postal business, an indisputable evidence of the fun damental strength of the nation's finances. He also points optimisti cally to the hopeful outlook and bountiful crops in thc West and Northwest. FILL STORAGE HOUSES \ Never Such Quantities Laid by For Fi ' Merest and Expenses Piling Meet Next Winter Frond ^wrf ' . ? New York City.-Butter and eggs are now stored in the warehouses of New York and vicinity in greater quantities than ever before at this time of year. Last year's figures on storage and prices made high records, un to that time, but they aro exceed ed by the totals of the present month. Butter is now higher than it has be-m in July of any other-year since the Civil War times. The figures were contained in a re-1 port completed from twenty-nine of j the thirty-two food warehouses in the metropolitan district. This report shows that 2,234,000 C-ISCF, each con taining thirty dozens of eggs, arc now in stora.se, while a year ago the total was 1,911,000 cases. Never before has the total in t?cese warehouses ex ceeded 2,000,000 cases in July. Receipts of eggs have not been greatly in excess of those of last year, so some.of the dealers infer that a speculative movement has something to do with the conditions. The re ceipts for the last two months have been 2,417,000 cases, while in the same two months of last year 2,300, 000 cases were received. The storage of eggs began in April. ? The best grades of eggs going into storage are quoted at twenty-three cents a dozen In car lots. They are Western eggs, and two years ago sim ilar grades were sold at eighteen cents. Fresh Eastern eggs, which are now quoted at twenty-four to twenty-seven cents a dozen in the wholesale markets, were sold for twenty-five cents a year ago. All the egg prices will be increased, the dealers say, by the warehouse expenses, interest charges and profit when the eggs are taken from the warehouses for consumption next fall and winter. . The total amount of butter now in storage in the metropolitan district warehouses is placed at 83,820,000 pounds. A year ago the total was 23,788,000 pounds. The receipts of butter in the last two months have amounted to 570,000 tubs of sixty pounds each; last year's total re'ceipts in the two months was 520,000 tubs. The best grades of butter, called "specials/' were quoted at twenty-' nine and a quarter cents wholesale, which is- two and three-quarter cents a pound more than a year ago. Two Boy Wild Berry Tickers of Maine Earn $120. West Paris, Me.-Harold Webster and Archie Snow, of West Paris, aged seventeen and eighteen respectively, have earned $12 6 picking wild ber ries. Snow declares he will use. his share of the money to help pay for a college course. This has been an un usually favorable season for berries and they are abundant and of large size. The boys sold the fruit to near by summer resorts and became very popular with the large number of va cationists. _ _._ Women in Day's News. A German baron said two rich, ti tle-hunting New York girls had pro posed marriage to him. Mrs. Clifford B. Harmon accompan ies her husband .in ten-minute aero plane flights at Garden City course, L. I. The University of Illinois conferred on Mrs. Ella Flagg Young the degree of Doctor of Laws at the commence ment exercises. Announcement of the betrothal of A. Murray Young-and Marion Story's widow, both of New York .City, was 1 ruadean Paris. J ON MB. BULL EVERY TIME." V. A. Rogers, in the New York Herald. is United : of. Business len and Abroad Reflect As Market Manipulation ive of Progress. OINTS TO H OF POSTAL BUSINESS One of the most desperate attempts on record to influence the stock mar ket was perpetrated by the publica tion in a malicious report, from an apparently authenticated source, that Germany had repudiated the Monroe Doctrine and intended to do as she pleased in South and Central Ameri can affairs. Fortunately, the absolute falsity of tb 2 report was so speedily and so au thoritatively exposed that but little damage was done-, but it is quite pos sible that the Federal authorities will proceed against those responsible for thi3 last rash and stop-at-nothing ef fort at stock jobbing, with its mis chievous possibility of stirring up en mity between two friendly nations. Washington bankers believe that the temporary depression of securi ties is duo to a misinterpretation of the Government's attitude toward the railroads. Western capitalists declare that crop prospects, even with a possible wheat shortage, are most encourag ing. Paul Morton's opinion that this is no longer a one crop country has found wide approval. mm BUTTER AND EGGS lture Use at This Time of the Year Up-Big Charges For Users to se thc Highest of Prices. The phenomenon of increased quantities of butter and eggs in stor age with higher prices in thc market is causing much talk among the wholesale dealers on the west side. The explanation offered by some of their number is that Western pack ing companies made contracts earlier in the year to take the butter and eggs from the farmers at high prices, and so they were comnelled to main tain prices to ri'otect themselves from.! losses. If the current receipts of thc products were nov.- offered for imme diate consumption prices woukl drop, and so most of the eggs and butler coming here of late has gone into storage. One of thc wholesale dealers said that the packing companies may nlso have as an object in keeping up prices of butter that people may get the habit of using oleomargarine as a substitute. While butter was at its highest retail prices last winter much more oleomargarine was sold than ever before in this country. Dealers said that they do not seo any reason for expecting a reduction this year in the cost of living in the items of butter and eggs. STATE FAIRS IX 1010. Iowa-Des Moines, August 25 September 2. Nebraska-Lincoln, September 5-9. Ohio-Columbus, September 5-9. Minnesota-Hamllne, Septem ber 5-10. Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Sep tember 12-16. Indiana-Indianapolis, Sep tember 1'2-lG. New York-Syracuse, Septem ber 12-17. Kansas-Toceka, September 12-16. Michigan-Detroit, September 19-23. Oklahoma - Oklahoma City, September 27-October 9. Illinois - Springfield, Septem ber 30-October 5. Missouri - Sedalia, October 1-7. I ' Terras-Dallas, October 15-30. j / 1-1 Governor of Floridn Suggests Pension For Mother of Thirteen. Pensacola, Fla.-Mr. and Mrs. T. Barberi, of this city, have received from Governor Gilchrist a handsome spoon bearing the seal of the State of Florida. * Married nineteen years ago, the wife Is now only thirty-seven, but Mr. and Mrs. Barberi arc the parents of thirteen children. Six of the chil dren are twins. Governor Gilchrist suggested that the Legislature pass an act allowing the parents a pen sion. Minor Mention. A new Danish Cabinet was formed, with Klaus Bernstein as Premier. A record breakingnumber of Amer ican travelers have urriv2d in London. Pressure was brought to bear on the State Department to stop thc war in Nicaragua. The social season is dull and the opera is suffering from lack of pat ronage in London. Charles Ki Hamilton, announced that he "was tSrough" with the bi plane and was having au^ aenoplane IN OLD SOUTH CAROLINA Cream of the News Gathered From AU Sections of the Commonwealth For Our Many Beaders. . C?nvfct Died After Whipping. Thursday afternoon W. H. Wood ward, superintendent of gang No. 2 of the Aiken county ehaingang, was brought to Aiken and lodged in jail, charged with the murder of James Mitchell, a convict who died at the camp several weeks ago. The war rant on which Woodward was arrest ed, was sworn out by Anderson High tower, father-in-law of James Mitch ell. At the time of Mitchell's death the jury of inquest rendered a verdict to the effect that Mitchell came to his death from being compelled to work while sick. The inquest was not en tirely satisfactory to all parties con cerned, and Coroner Johnson reopen ed the inquest, and rc empaneled the jury, which rendered the same ver-, diet a second time. Mitchell was seut to the gaug for a short term. After working a few hours he is alleged to have been whipped. After striking him a few times, it is said, Mitchell told Mr. Woodward that he w*^, sick. This was the first time JVft Woodward knew of his being sick, mi states, and he immediately sent him to the camp. He remained too sick to work that day, and the night of the following day Dr. W. S. Kubanks was sent for to administer to him. That was Sat urday night, and he died about 3 o'clock Sunday morning. Third Cotton Mill foi- Newberry. The building of a third cotton mill in Newberry is an assured fact. Sub scriptions are being taken and the enterprise is backed up by some of the best and most influential busi ness men in the city. It is hoped to get a mill of at least $400.000 capi tal and to break dirt hy the first of Sep druber. Large blocks of stock are being taken by home people which insures its local popularity. Machins for Making Bottle?. Machine-made bottles, an absolute ly new departure in the glass blowing industry, are being turned out by the Carolina Glass company, at Columbia. A large order for machine-made bot tles, which are said to be better than the hand-blown ones in that Lhcy are of a un if onn thickness throughout and ?%o not vary in their holding ca pacity, has been recently bocked by the company. Higher Price for Convict Labor. Following a series of meetings of the directorate of the State prison the labor of 300 convicts was let to John M. Graham under a new con tract which will net the State more than $1,500 in addition to previous years results. The labor is worth $000 per year. The price paid per man i> higher under the new contract. John Graham held a contract for twenty years until this winter. ' 'Never Again," Cay Insurance Agent In accordance with the suggestion of President Cofield Friday the mem bers of the South Carolina Fire In surance Association of Agents at Co luml.ia. parsed resolutions to the ef fect that they will not again sign the contract not to accept more than 15 per cent commission from any com pany and that the members who have signed this agreement will disregard the same hereafter. Clemson College Institutes. The Clemson college authoritios will hold two farmers' institutes ini Newberry county, one at Keitl'? grove July 27; the other at Young's1 grove July 28._ First Eegiment Goes to Aiken. The First Regiment, National Guard of South Carolina, will go intd camp at Aiken on July 29 for teri days. Successful Meeting Hardware Men After one of thc most successful conventions in its history, the sixth annual meeting of the Retail Hard? ware Association of the Carolinas adjourned Thursday at Charleston after selecting Asheville as thc next place of meeting and electing tin followinsr officers: President. W. H. Smith, of Gaffrfey; vice president, A. L. Phipps, Dur ham; second vice president, M. Bon noitt, Darlington; third vice presi dent, 0ti3 Green, Asheville, secre tary and treasurer, T. W. Dixon; an*, delegates to the national conve-iticn next year M. Bonncit and T. W. Dixon The^State Ezcunion Over C., C. & O. After a conference of officials of the C., C. & O., on the matter of the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce excursion over that road, it w?as given out by Mr. Mandel, traveling passen ger agent, that the dates chosen for the excursion are July 26, 27 and 28. The train will leave Spartanburg at 8:30 o'clock on the morning of the 2G, arp'i returning will arrive in Spar tanburg at 7:30 o'clock on the evening of the'2Sth. $2,000,000 Cotton Case Dismissed. In fewer words perhaps than it has taken the Supreme Court to tell of much less important cases, that' tribunal, in an opinion being handed down by Justice Eugene B. Gray, dis misses the appeal of W. G. Mullina in the now famous cotton tare, ease involving nearly $2.000,000. Tho court says:,"The facts are set out in the order' of his honor the circuit judge whish is affirmed for the reasons thorein stated." Appeal dis missed. INTERESTING STATE NEWS Column of Current Events Caight in Evsry County From Coast to Mountain- Cap. Another Supreme Judge Needed The supreme , court of South Caro lina may have au additional justice when thc legislature meets next via tor. Before^ this \ can happen, how ever, the people must vote for an amendment to the State constitution in accordance with the joint resolu tion-passed at the last session of the general assembly proposing to ameud section 12 of the constitution. The present membership of the su preme court in this state is: Chief justice, Ira B. Jones, Lancaster; Justices Eug?ne B. Gary, Columbia; C. A, Woods, Maiion, aud D. E. Hy dride, Spartanburg." The salary attached to the position of justice is $3,000 per year. The argument advanced in favor of increasing the number of supreme court justices is to eliminate the mat ter of a divided court. When the court stauds two and two now, either the appeal is lost, or the court must call an en bade session of the circuit judges. Sen. Smith on Cotton Bull Victory. ? That the cotton bulls have won a victory ov?r Attorney General Wiek ersham and that the latter withdrew the indictments against them because he has seen the error of his way, is the opinion of United States Sena tor E. D. Smith. He points out the fact that cotton has climbed a dollar a bale in spite of the closing of mills, curtailment and all other bear influences thus indicating the adverse influence of. governmental interference with tr?de. He predicted that cotton would continue to rise until the prices in October would make the present prices look cheap. Tried to Skin Spartanburg Bank. William S. Clark, of Newport, Tenn., was arrested at Chicago, after unsuccessfully attempting to deposit $40,000 of alleged fradulent cashiers checks-drawn on the Spartanburg .National bank, at the bank of the Illinois Trust and Savings company, at Chicago. The police say they found $17,000 of the?e checks on Clark's person when he was searched. Clark is reported to have made a confession, in which he is 'quoted as saying that he intendecl drawing in-, terest on the check deposits to open, a line of wheat deals. Clark was masquerading under the name of "A. R. Swan." Cclored Convict Suicides. Henry Mars, a colored convict at the State penitentiary, committed suicide Friday by leaping from the third tier in the new prison build ing and fracturing his skull on the cement flooring below. Mars was a"? life termer fer murder, from Abbe ville. ,_ Darlington Hw Mill Fever Too. ;. Thc city of Darlington 'will add another cotton mill. It is proposed to begin with $300.000 anacin a short time double the canacity, having a mill with 40,000 spindles. Every Town Should Do This. A syndicate was organized a year ago at Darlington for the purpose of. guaranteeing to the farmer the best pric3S for cotton sold on the local market. It is a body made up entire ly of the business men of town, and the funds necessary to carry on their work are furnished by them. They engaged a cotton buyer last season, and instructed him to be on the ground nt all times, and see that every bale that was brought to market was taken at the very highest market quo tations. The cotton marketed last year as a result amounted to far mare than thc town had ever receiv-. ed before. Lightning Printed Picture on Back. On the body of Frank Miller, a young farmer, whbf was killed by lightning at Lancaster, was imprinted a perfect picture of the tree under which he was standing when he was killed. The outlines of the tree were perefctly depicted, even to the small est ' branches. Col. C. B. Yeadon of "Sumter,. Major Calder B. Yeadon, command ing the Second battalion of the Sec ond Regiment, National Guard, has been elected lieutenant colonel of the regiment to succeed Col Charles T. Lipscomb, lately promoted to the head of thc regiment. . i $75,000 Canning Factory. 1 Georgetown is tp have something new and something that has been needed for a long time, that is a canning factory. The company has been organized with a capital stock of $75,000, all of which has' been subscribed. New Railroad Through Darlington. A petition has been circulated among the residents and freeholders of Darlington, asking for an election on the question of voting $20.000 worth of bonds to pay for thc right of way through the town for the new railroad', cf which Mr. Bonsai i's the president, coming here from McBee, on the Seaboard Air Lin? Practically every person approached has signed the petition and it now seems election will bc mere formality. Biographies of Secession Signers. Tho South Carolina Confederate Veterans are to meet in the city of Spartanburg in August and the Herald of that city is now making preparations to issue a special edi tion on the "day tbs Convention opens. One feature of this edition is to com prise brief biographical sketches of each of the signers of the Ordinance of Secession , and Mr. J. Frank Fooshc, of Winnsboro, is assisting Editor Hearon, of the Herald, ia gathering the material fer this special number.