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IIP 3 p PJ jps THURLOW S. CARTER, EDITOR AND MANAGER. ls.suCD WKDNKSDAY AND 8ATITKDAY SUBSCRIPTION $1 60 PF.I' YE\R WKDNKSDAY Jl'KY 13, 1904. Another Cleveland. Judge Parker's gold standard telegram has brought upon him much approbation and no censure. Senator Daniel, of Virginia, said that he was a foot taller than bofore ho sent it. Col. GufTey, the Pensylvunia Democratic leader, says: "It is the grandest exhibition of moral courage I have ever seen in a candidate. Parker shows himself a much greater man than thoso who managed his tight." The Washington Post, independent, says it was "a timely display of political courage amount, ing almost to audacity," adding that "it was a bold, courageous stroke, and will do much .to (lis. pel the popular opinion that the party's candidate is without firm convictions upon the issues before thr? pnnntpu " uml rnnnlnilinnr flint "Judge Parker's bold stand on this question has made him many thousand votes stronger than he could possibly have been had he accepted the nomination upon a platform that ignored the money issue." While tho Philadelphia Record says that "silent when there was no occasion for speaking, Judge Parker has spoken tho decisive word because the occasion has arrived. He hps proved himself the man and tho pattiot that his friends knew him to be, aud, rising above personal ambitions, and what was believed to be party expediency, he has stated with absolute clearness his position on the currency question where the silence of the platform invited misconstruction and was liable to compromise him.*' Indeed it was a bravo man who could renounce a presidential nomination rather than preserve a siInn a* Un wa ~ iv/uvg n uili' llJlg^lll lllllt) UUt'll IIH.S interpreted and who last Saturday sent this tebgrara to iho convention which had nominated him: "I regard the gold standard as firmly and irrevocably established, and shall act accordingly if the action of the convention today is ratified by the people. As the platform is silent on the subject, my views should he made known in the convention, and if it proved to ho unsatisfactory to the majority, I request you to decline the nomination for me at once, so that anv>ther may bo nominated before adjournment." Has the Democratic party discovered another Cleveland? It looks a little that way. ? Charlotte Observer. The prospects for a fair price for cotton this fall are anything but good. Spot cotton will not now bring more than tea and a half cents a pound, and the mills are unable to sell their yarn at any price. There is absolutely node mand. The only mills that nre able to run at a profit right now arc those that huve made sales ahead, and they are having trouble with the commission men who under conditions like theso invariably devote themselves to picking flaws and claiming that j;wun ?ic uoi up 10 contract. About the only reasonable hope there is for better prices of cotton is ttn increased demand for cotton goods. This may come about but there is no certainty about it.? Yorkville Enquirer. Tho citizons of Klkins, VV. Va.f gave Henry G. Davis, nominee on the Democratic ticket for vice president, a royal reception on his return from St. Louis. Neither >ld?i Chee Koo, July 11, lumu. ? A European who left Poll Arthur at 5 o'clock Sunday ufternoon reported that the the Jabnnese miido u torpedo attackSunday mor mug, attempting to penetrate in* to the harbor. Tlioy were repulsed without loss to eithor side. The European further reports tlmt on .July 7 severe lighting occured around Port Arthur. The liusHans claim to have driven the Japanese hack on all sides, hut admitted a loss of more than 1,000 killed. Several hundred wounded are said to have arrived at Port Arthur July 8, and it was reported that more were to c one Yin Kow, .July 11.?Japanese ve-.-els have Been oil Kai Clam It is believe i thut tbey are keeping in touch with the advance of the land forces and if the Japan* esc take Ta Tche Kiao, which is understood to bo their objective: it is thought that a landing will be made simultaneous! y at Yin Kow. The fighting at Kai Chou consisted of a series of skirmishes on July 7 and July S, ending with the occupation of tho town by Gen Oku's troops. Jury FaileJ to Agree. Special to Tho Stntn Manning, July 10.?This morning u crowd gathered to hear the expected verdict of acquittal, but to the euprisc of every one it was learned that one juror would not bo convinced. Judge Aldrich told tho jury that he was anxious for a verdict in this case and asked if reconsidering of the case would enable tbem to arrive at a verdict. The foreman and several jurors stated that it would be useless to recousider the case. Tho judgo then ordored a mistrial to bo entered on the docket and adjourned court sine die. Magistrate You mans was released ou bail. EDITOR T. .7. DREW DEAD. Hartsville' July 10.?Mr. T. J Drew died at his homo this after noon at G o'clock. Mr. Drew was formerly of Mail, on and 38 years of age. His wife, daughter of Dr. H ft f - r. - cas, a little son,bin parents, three brothers and a sister survive him there. Four years he has been editor and proprietor of the Darlington Counry Messengor and one of the most useful, progressive and highly esteemed citi/.en of Hartsville. A new kind of manufacturing enterprise is to be started ut Whitmire, its object being the manufacture of handkerchiefs. Candidate Parker, went to church (Episcopal) Sunday morning, and assisted in taking up the collection. A passenger train on the Erie railroad Suuday ran into an excursion train, by which seventeen persons were killed and fifty injured, some of them seriously. A negro was lynched in Houston, Miss., for attempted assault on a white woman Sunday. The czar has issued a ukase callinp for 447,000 recruits. With the .laps putting up the fight that they are now, it will take more than a ukase to get this many rocrnits into the field. ? Atlanta Journal. ?Fivo good second-hand sewing machines at a bargain, for cash or on time. J. R. Mackorell. MPIXJIAIi NOTICE I For ShIo ! Subject to prior sulo and withdrawal, Pifty (50) Shares (or any part thereof) of the Lancaster Cotton Mills 7 por cent Preferred otoek, at $00. per share, NET. Henry \V. Thomson, 58 Morgan Square, Spartanburg, S. C. July 4, 1904. lm. Fiddling lias Been J. By* rum's Undoing. Chester Man in Toxas Brags of Friend's Fiddling, and Texas Officer Gets a Murderer after 10 years. The State, 11th. Fiddling has found out Jack Byrnui, tho Chester man with numerous aliases, who is wanted in two States for murder. Sheriff Lowler, the Texas Sheriff who mot the governor's private score tary early yesterday morning, to have a requisition honored for Byrum's transfer to Texas has given an interesting account of how after 1G years of liberty Byrum's reputation for being a fine fiddler found him out. At midnight Saturday Socre tary Norment was called up on the long distance phone from Chester by Sheriff J. B. Lowler of Canton, Vanzandt county, Texas, with request that ho givo him an audience that night after the arrival of the 2 o'clock train, and passed upon requisition pa pers held by him for an escaped murderer. The request wnsgranted and the Texan arrived at tho mansion at about the time appointed. Sheriff Lowler is a typical Texan in appearance and in general characteristic, and told an interesting story concormng his mission, lie came for one Jack By rum, alias LaFayetto Jackson, alias John Wyatt,alia8 Joseph Watson. By lum in ISSShad killed a man carving him up numerously and scientifically with a Bowie Knifo He escaped and for 16 years was not heard from. Ilis reputation as a fiddler was what led at last to his capture. In Texas, among other things j "native and to the manor born j i& an annual "Fiddlers' cohtest'"*| nn<l before he slew his man By rum had for several years, captured the prizes in the "break-down-all round fiddling" class. Last year during the progress of this grtat musical event, Sheriff Lowler who attended, remarked to a man sitting by him that the laet per^ former was the fiuest break-down fiddler that ho had ever heard. The stranger quietly remarked that he was a good one, but there was 0110 in his State "who could give him strings and resin and then beat him." Tho Texas Sheriff knew his business and by shrewd questioning revealed tho iiuuontity of tho former prize tiddler, the escaped imirdrror. Replying to the sheriff's question tho stranger said ho was from Chester, S. C., and knew his fiddle well. Acting upon this clue Sheriff Lowlor pegan his man hunt and Oil Saturday morning ho confronted his victim and quondam friend in Chester jail. CONFESSED LOUISIANA KILLING By rum stoutly denied his identity hut Sheriff Lowlor know his man. At last Byrum admitted that ho had killed a man in Louis iana, but had beeen tried and acquitted. This scaled his fate, for SheriffLowler drew from his pock et a letter from the Sheriff of Montgomery county, Louisiana asking for Bynim'o arrest, urd requested his victim to read it. By rum did so and bad no more to say. Tho Progress says that the Union ice factory is turning out about forty tons daily, and that besides supplying the local users, four hundred tons have been ship, ped from that point to different parts of the State. Tho Valdosta Times refers to Grover Cleveland as tho great fixed star of tho Democratic parly. Bryan was a meteor of gas, which sjon burned out.?Savannah Press. I A WORD r ak is wh we art st iters and our aim interest of every giving him or her money, No quot approve oi such, five advertisemei ami at l-*2tlie va nonsensical talk will say that we cuiough to live oil ami itwillbehac that we will mak oi our competitor which can not be Remember our of shoes, which a THE II! Every pair guai solid leather coui pair prove to the it.-UfvW pair. The the Douglas line, bakl-licaded eagl he soars. Our si board, like some SPECIL DRIVE 01 For the cash w we want to irr.L\ line arrives, so fi reduced prices be written gnarantc Bros Clothing, ? 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