Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE LEDGER. Thurlow S. Carter, EDITOR AND MANAGER. <srr? SATl*Kl>AY MAY 5, 1000. " CONDITION OF THE CHOI'S | IN SOUTHERN STATES. I I Tnv.ic 11 *ic Siiwlnmad Sinvora 1 .ncu. t es Because of Excessive Kains. Hood Stand of Cotton. Washington, May 1.?The weekly summary of crop conditions issued hy the weather bureau is us follows: "The most unfavorable features of the week ending April 30, were the excessive rains in the Southern States and the unseasonably low temperatures over the central and southern plateau and Pacific coast regions. A large part of Texas, including the region of the great flootI of dune-July, 1800, has received from two to more than seven inches of rain, washing out and inundating crops to a great extent over the central and southern portions of the State. East ward of tho Mississippi river, corn planting and preparations have progressed rapidly. In Texas and portions ot Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama much replanting will bo necessary as a result of overflows. Further improvement is gener ally reported in the condition of winter wheat. All reports indibate that spring wheat is coming up finely and making excellent growth. Except where damaged by excessive rains in Texas, the general outlook for oats is excellent. C'r<<p is heading in the Soi thern States, while some of tho early sown has been harvested in Florida. In the central and onstern | o> 9 tions of the cotton belt cotton planting has progressed under more favorable conditions than in tho previous week, and good stands are quite generally re ported. Planting is well advanced over tho northern portion of the cotton belt and the early planted is being cultivated over the southern portions. Great damage has been caused by tho heavy rains in central southern Texas where much repi anting win i>e necessary. In many portions of Texas the hulk of the crop is yet to he planted, and seed is reported scarce. Much replanting also remains to be done in Arkansas. South Carolina. Cotton planting is practically finished in the eastern counties, and it is coming up quickly to good stands. Some cotton is largo enough to plow and is being chopped. Fields are becoming grassy. In the central and western counties lands for cotton are not all prepared, and from two-thirds to one-half of the crop ^ remains to he planted In places iL' __._-.l- . mis woi K was nareiy begun before the rains of the previous week, but luts been resumed and is being hurried. Itch on liiinuiii cured in minute" by VVoolford's rt-intary Lotion. This nevf r fails. Hold by J F Mackey A Co., iirmtsi.d, Lancat?r, HO. Mr Milton Kcid, of Atlanta, Ga, organized a National Union at this place last night with about 50 charter members. This is said to bo one of the best bene Hciary assessments orders in this country. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Haio Always Bought Bear. the " Signature of /<CCCCA*V Ex-SheritF W II Hood of Chester 11 Killed l>v Liyrhtninjr. ~ O Special to the State. ( Chester, May 3.? Ex-SherilF \V Ilurvoy Hood was struck hy lights ninu this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock and instantly killed. lie wasrid. in<X his horse from tho tield to the ; ' farm houso to <jet. out of tho rain ic when the stroke befell him. I Lis , J horse was also killed. Wheu < found he was I vine beside his 1 ; ?= . ~~ i" dead horse, foot in stirrup, horribly mangled about faee and J head. lie met an awful death and :l the scene at his homo when the j * sad news of so sudden a bereave 11 moot was broken to his loved!1 ones was pathetic in the extrema. i1 lie leaves a devoted wife, three I daughters and one son. ] Sneriff Hood was a most popular citizen. He was sherilT of 1 Chester county for twelve years from 1SS4 to 1890 and made a most faithful and eilicient public officer. He was a candidate for re-election to this office at the ap- i proaehing primary, lie was in 1 the tifty eighth year of his age. | ASSASSINATION. P ? r ! Culton Testifies Against \ outsoy j and 15 11 Burton. 11 Frankfort, Ivy, May 2. ? \V III' Culton, State Auditor Sweeney's " clerk, indicted as accessory to the * Goebel murder, testified in the hearing of the motion for hail in his case this afternoon and gave 1 some sensational testimony. Colton's testimony followed after the motions for hail in the cases of Powers, Davis, Youtsoy, Whitta ker and Comhs had heen over ruled. An order was entered transferring the prosecutions against them to Georgetown for trial on a change of venue. "Henry Youtsoy told mo that Goehel would he killed. 1 told him that it must not ho done. 1 told Gov Bradley what Youtsey said,and Bradley said: "My God, this must not he done." Yout- I sey afterwards said thoro was j nothing in it." The witness told of another! conversation with Youtsey, who) came with Burton of Breckinridge I I county. "Youtsey said he had j the greatest scheme yet; that Goehel could he shot from the secretary of State's oflico and no- j body would ever know who did it.,' "At a meeting in Powers' office I presided, and the question j of providing hoarding places for | contest witnesses was discussed. : B B Barton palled out a hundfi.l of cartridges and said: "A few of J these turned loose in the proper place would soon settle this contest.' " * AtVLSKS TAYI.OH. , Frankfort, May 3. ? Culton i resumed his testimony today. He 1 said that Gov Taylor authorized him to ?jiye Youtsey any amount 1 of money lie desired if ho would leave Kentucky. BIG FlilCSIIKT IN GKOGKTOWN. Ten Thousand Acres of Kico in; Great Danger. ('or. Greenville New*. l'lantorsville, May 2?The highest freshet for three years has been <1 >ing damage hero for ten days, and unless it runs olF prftty soon the 10,200 acres of rice planted in this county (Georgetown) up to the 1st of May will bo seriously damaged. Kverything is under water and work has l>een suspended. It is again raining now. Inn th* _ S9 JM Rim i<w Hiw AIwiji BottfTrf mis T1MK TI11CUK WAS A FIGHT. )ne Candidato Calls Another a Liar, and (Jets a Genteel Licking. Ashhurn, Ga, May 1. ?.Fudge A' N Spence, of the Albany cir uit, running for re-election, and I K Donaldson, who is a candL late for the place, engaged in a oint debate at this place today. Ill till! I'Olll'Sl! I?f till! Donaldson said Spencer lied, and i red-hot list light resulted. Donildson was pretty badly used up ind Spence escaped without dam?ge. There may bo further developments. BISHOP CAPERS CHOSEN. Distinguished Ex Confederate General to Preach Louisville Sermon. All South Carolina veterans? ndeed all the veterans of the Confederate army?will be delighted :o kuow that Bish p Ellison Papers of the diocese of South Carolina, the distinguished exJon federate general, who is now ino of the most eloquent and forceful divines in the country, tias been selected to deliver the memorial sermon at tho Confed erato reunion at Louisville, Ky, r?n Snmluf -f nnn '? Hon flnrilnn commanding tho U C V, has notified the bishop of his appointment and the latter has accepted the duty. ?The State. NINETY THOUSAND SUBSCRIBED. Tho Exposition in Charleston Assured and Chaiter Will Soon ho Asked For. Special to The State. Charleston, May I.?The subscriptions to the capital ^stock of the South Carolina inter-Stuto and West Indian exposition are growing. The total amount subscribed up to noon today amounted to more than $1)0,000. There are a number of lists out, whitch will swell the sum considerably, when they are returned, The exposition has now been ,i?.u.i * - *4* mm vi y urt iucu it | Mill. ;\I1 application for a charter for the company the capital stock to he $250,000, will ho applied for in course of the next few days. When tho charter has been received, books of subscription to the capital stock will bo opened in and out of Charleston. The project is being well received on all sides, and it is reasonably certain that it will umv? ? a cess, financially as well as otherwise. Maj.tl. C Hemphill and other members leave here next week to bring the project to the attention of congress. York for Prohibition. Cor. (ireenviile News. Yorkville, May 3?The chances aro that if a good, strong, clean man offers as a candidate for governor on the prohibition platform he will carry York county by a comfortable majority. York has no dispensary and has never I 1 1* fiKioiwn uio dispensary law, with ti e State as heu<l bar keeper. Her citizens take no stock in the dispensurv Inw "is the best solution of the whiskey problem." It is very likely that three or moro delegates will be sent from this county to the'proposed prohibition conference to lie hold at Columbia. Dr. K. Detchou'a Autt Diuretic. May be worth to you more than $100 if you havw a chi d who sons bedding from incontenenoe of water during sleep. Cures old and young alike. It arrest* the trouble at once. $1. Ho d by J K Maoaey A Co, Druggist, Lau aster, 8 C. AN AWE INSPIRING . j SPECTACLE. The Approuching Total Eclipse of ' the Sun a Grand Scene Which is Witnessed but Once In a Lifetime. [Written by Piof \V K Rreixile of Wimhrnp College for the Kock Hill Hcrabl ] The attention of the seicntilic world is for the present directed vw u uui kun nuiji wi iiniuiiy running from New Orleans to Norfolk. In this path on the 28th of May instead of tho refulgent sun, the source of all our activity and hope, there will he seen suspended in the heavens a huge black ball, causing nature to cease her activity and hope to give place to misgivings. The phenomenon of a total solar eclipse is the most impressive in the whole range of nature. Those who have witnessed such an event tell us that it is worth a trip around the world. For any locality it is as rare.as impressive. On the average a place has but one overy 300 years. London has not seen one since 1715, the one previous to this was in 1 140 ; tho intervals being 575 years. With us along the track of the coming eclipse, it is the phenomenon of a lifetime. Wo should make the most of it. L" - ? in*viy duo uus seen a small cloud flying ucross the sky, and the ac company in g shadow passing over fields. The difTorence botween a solar eclipse und u cloud shadow is that in the former we havo the shadow-producing be dy, fho moon, far beyond the limits of our atmosphere, and thoshadow large. Not every time, however, the moon passes between an observer and tho sun is there a total eclipse. If we notice we shall find tho apparent size of the moon about *'eqnal to that of the sun. In fiet during a part of the month the apparent diameter of tho moon is ihtin thuf nf !?? aw.-v vu?i? v.??%v \f? ta$kj piiii, Will HJ^ the remainder it is greater. The chief reason of this is because our satellite is nearer us at times than at others. If it is further away than a certain distance it seems smaller than the sun, and though it passes before that luminaly it is too small to entirely cover it, and the nearest a total eclipse the observer sees is the moon pro* jected inside the circumference of the sun, thus leaving a ring of light, and giving rise to an annular eclipse. If, however, it is nearer than this distance it seems larger than the sun, and will totally hide that bony when it nasses in front of it Th?it. nor. tion of the earth that seta the two bodies in this position will ex perienceu total solar eclipse. Annular eclipses are more frequent tan total. Evidently the duration of totality depends upon tho amount by which the moon's diameter exceeds tho sun's. If the two aro the same, totality lasts but a moment and tho track i is only a line. When the sun and moon are in the most favorable positions to make a solar eclipse, tho cross I section of the moon's shadow where it strikes the earth is only 108 miles in diameter. The widest track of totality is then about that distance. That c f tho coming eclipse is 55 miles. Tho longest possible duration of totali ty at one point is less than eight minutes. Ours along the central line will ho in our state about u minute and a half. This central line runs about four miles to the southeast of Lancaster and two miles to the northwest of Winnaboro. All of York county, with .the exception of the southeast corner, is without tho limits of totality. Kock Hill is barely on the edge. Draw u lino through tho town running northeast and southwest. All on the southeast side will see tho sun I totally obscured ; all on the south, east sido will see at tho time of greatest obscuration a narrow rim of light on tho north sido of the sun, tho width of the rim depending upon the .distance of tho ob? server from ?our lino. At Lancaster, tho nearest accessible point on the central line,>tho moon touches the western edge of the I ?..t.ok .. ... . ?.:.i nuu Jit i ii hi ) in in muii 11 y lis jut 8:45, and the in ion is clear of tho sun's eastern edgo at 10:03. Wo sec that tho moon takes two hours and twenty eight rain' utes to pass tho sun at Lancaster, though .totality lasts only one ' minute and llrrty-two seconds. 'l ho first and last contacts will take place at Rock Hill within a few seconds of those for Lancaster, and the timo of greatest obscura tion will be tit 8:45. If the observer should bo on the central line he will have but a minute ard a half of totality. Rut what ti minute and a half! If he will take his position on a high hill with Hn extended view to the southwest, ho will see just before tho beginning of totality the approach of a shadow fringed with a peculiar yellow light.. It* velocity will bo appalling, more than forty times that of the fast est modern express train. Only fifteen minutes before it will have been at New Orleans, eight min utes more and it will bo at Nor folk,?one thousand miles ir twenty mil ntes! This deej shadow pounces upon the observe! ?a strange sight, ghastly, por tentous. Plants go to sleep, ani nmls are frightened, and tnankim is dumb. If tie observer looki where the sun should bo ho wil see behind the great black ball c?1 the moon the red prominences ol the sun and, extending far beyoiu these, the Corona, a soft, trans parent light,?a vcrita.ilo solai gossamer. Many will remember th< eclipse of August S, 1SC9 whict was total in North Carolina Langley tells an incident of it: A party was stationed in Ken tueky to observe it. The negrooi of tho neighborhood col Jectei about tho camp and asked how much was it to see tho show. ()i being told that thev miirht see i for nothing, they expressed : very low opinion of such u chen| entertainment. As the hour up protiched for the performance t< begin, the trees in the vi initr o. the camp were full of blacks wh< kept up a great noise about th( ipiuliiy of the show until neai the total phase. 4'When thii came there was a great wail un<! a noise of tumbling as though tin trees had been shaken of theii J fruit, and the boldest did not fee safe until he was tinder his owi bed in his own cabin." One of the most noted o: | nncico*. eclipses is that of Thaler | named after the philosopher wh< j foretold the ) ear when it wonh happen. The Lydiuns and Medei had been at war for five years and a battle was actually in prop ress when the eclipse occurred The spectacle was so impressm that war ceased and a treaty o peace mas made. This was May 28, 585 li C. What an appropriate celobra tion of this event woul I be i peace jubilee held at the time o the coming eclipse. ITSAVKl* HIS LKt; 1* A Oanforth, of I>aGiange Ga, suffered intensely for sii months with a frightful running i - Horu on niH leg, Dill writes tha Hucklen's Arnica Salve wholly cured it in ten days. For Ulcers Wounds, Burns Boils, I'uin 01 Piles dt's the host salve in thi world. Cure guaranteed Onlj 25c. Sold hy Crawford Broi druggist. GANG OF COTTON THIEVES. Seven Negroes Captured Who Dealt in "Spots" in Four Counties. Special to The State. Greenville, May 1.?News was received l>y Sheriff Gil.ienth a few days ago that a gang of cotton thieves had been caught at ilonea I l'ath and that some of them had confessed to stealing two bales from A W McDavid of this county, and Deputy Sheriff W D Wbitmire went down yesterday to see what was in the case, lie found that a local detective and the Honea Path officers had landed a tine collection of rascals, seven negroes having been arrested on plain proof of having stolon and sold tifteeu or more bales of cot ton in Anderson, Greenville, Ahhcvillo and Laurens counties, and ho found that the men who had owned to tno theft of Mr McI David's cotton tilled the meagre 1 descriptions which the officers of i this county had to work on. I The seven negroes arrested were I Charlio Miller, Will Thomas, > Henry Halton, Mump Williams, t Jim Gilliam and George Mattison. ' They gave way when they found I they were caught and confessed to .having organized a gang to i steal cotton nil over the country, and that they had taken one or ' two bales from farmers in several i different sections which they had ?A. .1.4* a ? nwm hi hiiiurt'lii piuces, among them Greenville, Anderson, Beli ton, lloncu Path and Fountain ) Inn. They (teem to have covered a wide range and flourished groat ly for six months. All the seven arc now in tho Anderson jail. I Cases will he hi ought in each ini stance of stca'ing in Anderson I county, and if that county ever f gets through they will l>e sent to f the others. ' Wouuded a Policeman. Special to The State. Laurens, May 2. ? Policeman I Frank Duvall was shot through 1 tllO tlllirh VPiiloPllilU oflnrn/v/.n I... . p,.. j? j utiviuuuii uy Lofton Sullivan, whom tho officer was attempting to arrest for being engaged at tho tune in a difficulty with a colored man on a hack 4 street in tais city. f I*It i VKKTKI) A J ritAOKDV. t Timely information given Mrs x George Longs of Now Sti aitsville, } Ohio, prevented a dreadful trage.. dv and saved two lives. A fright* fill cough had long kept her awake ' every night. She had tried many f remedies and doctors hut steadily ) I grew worse until uriml t<? trv i>r , I King's New Discovery. One hot! tie wholly oured hor, and slio writes this marvelous medicine "! also cured Mr l/in^ of a severe I .attack of Pmicmonia. Such cures t are positive proof of the match-* c less merit of this grand remedy I for curing all throat, chest and I lun?i troubles. Only 50c and 1 *1.00. Kvery bottle guaranteed. I Trial bottles free at Crawford f i Bros Drug Store. LIVERY! I ItfCDV f li wen i . Htyliah T.iver , ? h-ap Llverv, Handsome Turnouts; -diiRle Double or Tandem Team*. Will Bond you anywhere you waul to ro?from Lancaster to any old place on earth. Any number of Kqulpagen furnished * on abort not lee for Weduiitg*, V'unert ale, I'lcuiuaaiid other Pleasure Parfiea. f. literal kind of Turnouia for it fip afternoon dilven?a'ao eaay I IIU riding and gentle Nadole tloraca anything, I" fact, you want in the liivery Line, f all on or 'phone ELLIOTT & I CRAWFORD ? - - uauuasiw, n l/. ? Phone No. 26. r MT A ltd tlon't you foraet that we 3 are atlll Headquarters for Vehlclea of r all kiii<1n?H igx;le*,ferriage*.Wagons * Also HarneM and Saddles? Likewise Horses aud Mulea. K, AC,