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WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, JAN. 2, 1901.
NEW BBRIES, NO. 1M.-VOIiU?IH ML-NO. 1.
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The Bright Retrospect of an Oconeo Man.
The Columbia State of Sunday,
December 23, contained the follow
ing regarding Col. Robt. A. Thomp
son, Oooneo's senior member in the
House of Representatives :
"There was in the oity this week a
man who, for many reasons, is the
moat remarkable member of the re
cently eleoted General Assembly.
Col, R. A. Thompson, of Walhalla,
will bo the oldest member of the
House, so far as oan be learned. In
faot there will bo a remarkably large
number of vory young mon in the
house this time.
"Another distinotion whioh Col.
Thompson will have is that ho is the
only member of tho House, and one
of the half dozen living men, who
oan wak up to the marble tablet in
Ibo State House, commemorating the j
signing of the Ordinance of Seces
sion, and say 4My name is written
there.*
"It was just 40 years ago this
month that the Convention of Seces
sion met in Columbia-just 40 years
last Thursday since the ordinance
was ratified and South Carolina
struck boldly for independence. Col.
Thompson was the next youngest
man in that convention. Hon. R.
C. Logan, of Clarendon, who died
last year, was the youngest. Tho
other survivors of that immortal con
vention aro : Henry Molver, Chief
Justice State Supreme Court ; Jas.
H. Carlisle, D. D., President of Wof
ford Collego ; Col. J. D. Pope, Dean
of the Law Department South Caro
lina Collego ; Chancellor Wm. D.
Johnson, of Marlboro, who, with
Inglis, Wardlaw and Carroll, sat]
upon the chancery benoh ; Rev. Wm.
H. Campbell, D. D., of Asheville,
N. C., artd Capt. John H. Kinslor, of
Lover, this county, who took a Rich
land company to the war. Tho con
vention was composed of mon of
mature agc, and as that was 40 years
ago, all but these few have passed
away. Those who havo died since
the memorial tablet in the S tato j
House was erected two yoars ago,
aro Hon. R. C. Logan, of Clarendon ;
Wm. Porohor Miles, of Louisiana,
former President of South Carolina
College, and Leonidas W. Spratt, of
Jacksonville, Fla.
"Col. Thompson has still another
distinction, he has been in the news
paper business nearly half a century;
A few years ago ho retired, but for
46 years ho was editor of Tho Koo
wee Courier, ono of tho most repre
sentativo county papers in South
Carolina. It must be the mountain
air of beautiful Walhalla that keeps
him so halo and keeps his intellect so
young and vigorous-for tho Colonel
ls a Presbyterian older and repro
sents a prohibition county.
"Col. Thompson was looking
around for a plaoe to stop during the
Legislature. Ho said ho hoped ho
would not be forced into the predica
ment (then custom) of Col. William
Sloan and otbor legislators from Old
Pendleton District before tho war.
They carno to Columbia through the
country with a retinue of servants
and camped out in tho northorn
suburbs of the oity-in Cottontown.
Here in their tented quarters they
fpent the time, enjoying life to the
fullest. (Note.-Wouldn't tho oily
jBt?satimjtztt?
?sively t>y.
J BC N 1 G- M T *
a., S. O.
tongued lobbyist of to-day be dis
comfited if he had to approach a leg
islator in a tent, where whisperings
would bo unseemly and where se
orots would be found out ?)
"In commenting upon Columbia,
the development of the hotel busi
ness and the miraole of great publio
carriers flying from Walhalla to
Charleston in a day, in commenting
upon these vast changes, Col. Thomp
son said that the first visit he ever
made to Columbia was via stage
coach from Laurens. The route lay
through Newberry and Lexington
'counties and the approach to tho
oity was over Broad river bridge,
whore it now is, two miles above
town. Tho stage stopped at an inn
just about where tho post office now
is. This inn was a two-story franje
affair with about a dozen roo mn, and
kept by a man named Caldwell.
"Those were the days when tho
planters who raised tobacco resorted
to a curious expedient to get their
cropvto market. They would pack
the tobacco in hugo tierces or casks,
strongly bound and mounted upon an
axlo. A tongue would be attached
and tho farmer, riding astride thc
lead horse, would drive his barrel
wngon to market, sometimes 250
miles. There he would sell tobacco,
barrel and all, unhitch his team and
ride back homo."
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When tho stomach is tired out it must
have a rest, but wo can't live without
food. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure "digests
what you oat" so that you can eat all tho
good food you want wliile it is restoring
tho digestivo organs to health. It is tho
only preparation that digests all kinds of
food. J. W. Boll.
New York Hotels.
The two famous Mills hotels in
Now York, ono costing $500,000, tho
mother $1,000,000, aro making money,
although they ohargo only 20 conts a
day ior lodging, bath and use of
! office. Meals aro 16- cen'ts each and
they are good and abundant. The
cost per day is only 05 conts. Tho
Waldorf-Astoria cost $12,000,000,
and is said to bo tho finest hotel in
tho world. They also mako money.
In it thoro aro 40 large, finely fur
nished public rooms and about 1,1100
chambers. They employ 1,400 ser
vants, or about one for each guest.
A millionaire has a'suite of rooms in
the building whioh, with meals served
in his private dining room, cost $200
daily. So it seems that ono may
livo well kt 05 conta a day at tho
Mills hotels, or ho nay pay $50 to
100 a day at tho Waldorf-Astoria,
if ho desires.
A TEXAS WONDER.
Hall's ta-cat Discovery for Kidney and
Bladder Trouble.
Ono small bottle of Hali's Qreat Dis
covery cures all kidney and bladder trou
bles, removes gravel, oures diabetes,
seminal omissions, weak and lame backs,
rheumatism and all irregularities of the
kidneys and bladder in both mon and
women. Regulates bladder troubles in
ohildren. If not sold by your druggist,
will be sont by mail on receipt of $1.00.
Ono small bottle is two months' treat
ment, and will eure any oase above men
turned. Dr. E. W. Hall, sole manufac
turer, P. O. Box 020, St. Louis, Mo.
Send for testimonials. Sold by all
druggists._
St. Louis, February 27, 10OO.~-Thle is
to cortlfy that I have used ono bottle of
Tho Texas Wonder, Hall's Great Discov
ery, for kidney and rheumatic troubles,
'and cheerfully recommend it to others.
Mrs. M. Rortoll, 9,080 Olive street,
STOLE HER OWN 80N.
WK? ol Samuel Miller, Son ol Former United
States Attorney General, Plays Kidnapper.
Indianapolis, Ind., December 27,
Mrs. Samuel Miller, wife of the son
of the Ex-United States Attorney
General, who caused a sensation here
yesterday by kidnapping her son,
Sidney Miller, aged seven, was looated
by reporters at 8 a. m. to-day at
Lawrence, Ind. At that hour Mr.
Miller was trying to prov?nt her leav
ing on the 4.25 a. m. Big Four east
bound train.
Five years ago Samuel Miller and
wifo, with their son, moved to New
York and lived in the fashionable
apartment house, Rutland, near Cen
tral Park. The oouplo finally sepa
rated, Miller returning to Indianapolis
with the boy. The other desired
possession of the child and seoured
him yesterday. She drove to Law
renoo, an outlying station, to take the
train. Thorn she was found this
morning, the boy recovered and
and brought baok to the home of his
grandfather, W. H. II. Miller.
The most effect!vo little livor pills made
are DeWitt's Little Early Risers. Thoy
never gripe J. W. Boll.
The Phosphate Royalty.
Colonel Yance, phosphate commis
sioner, is preparing his report for
presentation to the Legislature.
The royalty this year will not be
as great as last on account of the
shut-down of the three largest con
sumers of Carolina Rook. Last year
at this time there was on hand only
18,000 tons of rook, while this yoar
there is at least 70,000 tons left. It
is almost impossible for the rainers
to get vessels for shipment of the
rook, and as a result the royalty this
year *will be about $25,000 compared
with $80,000 last year. Had all the
rook mined been consumed tho roy
alty would have exceeded that of
last year by several thousand dollars.
The conditions will bo greatly im
proved, however, the first of noxt
year by the opening up of one mill
in Port Royal and two in Savannah.
The royalty derived from phosphate
goes to the payment of the State
publio debt. There is plenty of rock
on hand for foreign markets, but
freight rates have boen so high ship
ments have been greatly reduoed.
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, I
LUCAS COUNTY, J HH<
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that ho is
tho senior partner of the Arm of F. J.
Cheney ?fe Co., doing business in the City
of Toledo, County and State aforesaid,
and that said Arm will pay tho sum of
Ono Hundred Dollars for oaoh and
every casu of Catarrh that cannot be
ourod by tho uso of Hall's Catarrh Curo.
FUANK J. Cn ENE Y.
Sworn to before mo and subscribed in
my presence, this 0th day of Docombor,
D. 1880.
j A. W. GLEASON,
I -~ * Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and act? directly on the blood and mu
cous surfaces of tho system. Sond for
testimonials, froe.
F. J. CHENEY ?fe Co., Tolodo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 7f>o.
Hall's Family Pills aro tho best.
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A Remarkable Case.
The oaso of A. J. Dont, a young
man formerly of this oity, is a sad
one, though it possesses some remark
able features. Ho is addicted to the
morphine, cocaine, whiskoy and ciga
rette habits to an extent that is won
derful oven to the.medical profession.
It is asserted that he takes 10 grains
of morphine, 100 grains of cooaine,
1? pints of whiskey, 1.75 grains of
atropine and 100 oigaruttos daily.
His mind is little affected, but he
roalir.es himself that ho must be
ourcd or death will soon claim him.
He is a son of the lato Sheriff Dent.
His own story is that in 1805 he was
injured in a wreok on tho Texas and
Paoifio railroad, in Texas, and had
13 ribs broken, his heart knocked
five and one-half inches out of place,
one arm broken, and his palate and
throat torn open. He lay in a hos
pital for two or three months under
opiates, and it was thus that ho con
tracted tho terrible habit. Ile has a
wife and two ohildron and made his
way baok to his former home penni
less. Some of his friends are sub
scribing tc a fund to give him the
Keely treatment, and arrangements
will doubtless bu made to oare for
his wife and ohildron in the mean
time,-Columbia Record.
Fatal Brawl In Kentucky.
A Middlesboro, Ky., dispatch says
that Frank Davis, "Buok" Chadwoll,
Ktttopp Morgan and Riohard Davis
quarreled at a dance at Walnut Hills,
fifteen miles from here, and apitohed
battle ensued. Fifty shots were
fired. Frank Davis was killed, Mor
gan and Diok Davie were wounded
mortally and Chadwell was wounded
slightly.
A White Man Marred ? Nogro83.
The Atlanta Journal, December
27, says: Within two hours after
they were married Charles Johnson,
a white maq thirty years of age, and
Eleanor Moody, a bright mulatto
woman nineteen years of age, occu
pied cells at p?lice barracks, having
been arrested by Officer Harper, of
tho union depot just as they were
preparing to leave the city for Cuba,
whore tboy wore intending td* live.
Both of tbe people say they are from
Home.
Johnson takes his arrest calmly
and sayB he has done nothing against
the law. He says be prooured a
license- and was married by a Justice
of the Peaoe on Marietta street in
Cook's distriot.
The woman says that she married
Johnson to be rid of him, as he had
made her life a burden for the last
six months, insisting on the marriage.
She says she is willing to leave him
and never see hiin again if she could
only be rolen sod.
The oharge against both parties is
suspicious. The deteotive depart
ment was notified to look out for a
couple, and this morning when a
cabman called on Officer narper and
told him that he had hauled a white
man and a negro girl in his oab in
search of . a preacher that they might
bo married, the officer thought this
was perhaps the couple the doteotivoa
had been notified to look out for, and
arrested them.
It seems that Johnson and the
woman had driven to the home of a
colored Presbyterian minister on th?
South side, whoso name oanuot be
learned, and asked bim to perform
tho ceremony. Tho minister, realiz
ing the. difference iu race, refused
and Johnson Uren ordered the cab
man to drive to the office of a Justice
of tho Peace.
An inquiry at tho Ordinary's office
elioted the information that a mar
riage li con so for Charles Johnson
and Eleanor Moody was issued this
morning about ll o'olook. Bailiff,
Kemp, of Justice Cook's court-, says
that Judge Cook did not perform the
ceremony. Notary Publio Shirley,
in Cook' j distriot, states that he did
not perform tho ceremony. Johnson
says he was proprietor of a skating
rink in Rome.
Bryan Speaks in Lincoln.
Tho Jeffersonian club of Lincoln,
Nob., tondored William J. Bryan a
complimentary banquet last Thurs
day night. Bryan, in response to
tho toast "Principles Livo," said that
wbother or not ho would ever be a
candidate for office again was a ques
tion which muBt bo determined by
events. He would be con Lent to aid
in tho triumphs of principles while
others enjoyed the honors and bor?'
tho responsibilities of publio office
"The presidency," he said, "seemed
desirable because it would have ena
bled him to give offeotive aid to cor
tain reforms, but even a second de
feat didn't lessen his interests in
these reforms. If the Democrats
aro successful in reversing present
tendencies and bringing the govern
ment back to its old foundations
they would rejoice." Ile was confi
dent the Democrats would ultimately
win, "but," he added, "if the trend
toward plutocracy oannot bo oheoked
it is bettor still that wo should be
defeated in a righteous undertaking
than that wo should join hands with
those who are ignoring the alienable
rights of man." Bryan was enthu
siastically applauded.
Bald
Spots
Without hel.i,
a h nhl spot never
grow8 smaller. It
keep? spreading, until at last your
friends say, " H(
1
(ov bald he is get
ting." Not easy to cure an old bald
ness, but easy to stop the first
thinning, essy to check the first
falling out. Ui
ness is madCi
ised in time, bald
wit
poe s
It stops
falling,
promotes
growth, and
takes out all
dandruff.
It always
restores
color to faded or gray hair, all the
dnrk, rich color of early life. You
may depend upon lt every time. It
brings hcAlth to the hair.
81.00 a betti*. All frasfbtev
" I have med your Hair Vigor and am
greatly pleaded Tilth lt. I har? only uaed
ono bottle of it, and yet my li*fr has
stopped falling out and tia? started to
grow again nicely." juuno WITT,
Maren '?8,1899.
nuns WITT.
Canova, S. I)**.
Wr?tm tha Unaior.
If yon do not obtain alt tba benefit* yon
.xpeeted from tbe nie of tbe Vigor, writ?
t?*boctvr?boutit. ? 1 * '
A44r??f, Jin. J. O. AVER. ?
Lowen, MM*.
Subsoribo for the Koowoo Courior,
Terracing Undi.
The main objeot in torraoing land
is to keep the top soil from washing
off. When properly laid off they
also serve as guides to assist in run
ning rows on a level. But torraoing
is only a make-shift at last. It is an
expediency that should be resorted
? to until a better condition could be
eeeurod.
There ls level and rolling land
enough in the Piedmont for our far
mers for>jjieveral generations without
plowing up tho steep hillsides just to
wash away and fill up the streams
and ruin the lowlands, These hill
sides, if already cleared, should be
e?t in Bermuda graos or permitted to
grow up in sedge, old field pines and
such bushes as will prevent washing.
There ia no torraoing that will save
land that is set np on its edge when
it is cultivated every year. So it ie
only the rolling lands that should be
terraced. Very steep hillsides and
lands nearly level do not need it.
Terraces should be run on a level,
The only exoeption is where there ie
a sink or low plaoe in the field ; the
terrace at that point might inolinc
upward and bo moated an inch 01
two higher than the adjacent parts
In that oase it is better to make thc
bank higher so as to keep the BUrpim
water from breaking over. In that
way the swag or low place will soor
fill up. ? At the end of terrace*
where they have an outlet into i
ditch or stream, il is well to gi v<
just fall enough to draw off verj
slowly surplus water when the rain
are very heavy. This may preven
the breaking of a terraoe by exc?s
sive water. Torraoing should al
ways be high enough to hold th
surplus water.
About half the terracing doe
more harm than good. A tenan
Home'' time ago was asked by a neigh
bor why he did not stop a oertai
wash that was starting. His repl
was : jUIt's not my land ; I don'
oare if it does wash away." Man
land owners aot in the same waj
If torraboB are not watched an
kept repairod it is much better nevt
to make them. In some fields nearl
level wo have observed three tei
races when there ought to be oni
one and often none at all. We sa
ono run about SOO yards right oh
dividing ridge not long ago. It r<
quircB judgment to lay off terrae*
and constant watchfulness to kee
them up.
Many of the terraces are not lai
off on a level. In the old days dow
in Mexico the peons could lay c
miles of irrigation ditches on a lev
without the aid of instruments, so
is said. But our farmers cannot te
race a ton-aore field oorreotly wit'
out a good instrument. There a
oheap levels on the market, some
which are not satisfactory. <
nourse the best instrument is tl
oivil engineer's transit properly use
and, in the long run, it is the chea
est. If the farmer will oarefully |
over his fields, looate his terraces
any one point, have all his stak
ready, an engineer can mark off se
eral milos of terraces in a day. Th
when th's work is properly done th
will. serve as guides for rows, or
the farmer wishes to plow up his t<
races he can make new ones.paral
to the old ones. The triangle ma
of two pieoos of light scantling ti
will roach 12 to 18 feet will do f
work if properly handled. Bear
mind that if they aro not prope
laid off and thrown up high and ca
fully watohed after every hard ra
it is better not to terraoe at all
Carolina Spartan.
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IIolp is nooded at onoo whon a porso
lifo is in danger. A neglected cough
cold may soon boco mo serious <
should bo stopped at once. Ono Min
Cough Cure quickly euron coughs 1
oolds and tho wornt oases or oro
bronchitis, grippe and other throat 1
lung tronidos. J. W. Bel
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Three Cremated.
In tho village of Sigel, Pa., (
house of John H?riger was buri
last Thursday, and Mrs. Ilarriger t
her two. little (laughtern, aged 1
and seven years, perished. WI
Mrs. Ilarriger arose in the morn
she discovered the house to bo
fire, and oalled hor two sons, >
escaped. Mrs. Harrigor ran
stairs to where hor children w
Blooping, and, catching her th
months-old babe in her arms, th
it from tho window. It sasl?i
no injury. Sho direoted hor at
lion to tho two little daughters, <
wore overcome by tho fire
smoko, and she perished with th
At MoClellanville, between C
teston and Georgetown, they hav
artesian woll whioh is only 08
deep. It is an overflow woll and
water is said to bo oxoollent.
"MILKED" THE BANK FOR 9750,000.
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Milk Producer*' A?oolation Touche? Balli
more Institution for Huge Sum.
Baltimore, Md., Deoombor 28.-?
The Old Town Bank, whioh went
into the hands of a receiver lato yes
terd?y, was surrounded by a orowd
fowling for their money until a late
hour last night.
The bill for a reoelver chargea that
Cashier Theodore F. Wilcox, witb
otit authority and without the knowl
edge of the di roo tor e, allowed the
United Milk Producers' Association
to draw large sams from the bank.
The bank ha? been the depository of
many retail merchants, It has boen
regarded as a safo institution and tho
failure was a surprise. Receiver li.
L. Gill gave a bond of $1,500,000,
indicating a loss of $760,000. The
bank is not national.
A run is being made on the Sav
ing? Bank of Baltimore, the oldest
and moat solid institution bf tho kind
in the oity. The depositors will all
bo satisfied. A* run is also being
maida on the City Savings Bank.
These are tho results of tbe failuro of
the American National Bank, the
Old Town Bank, and the dosing of
the Economy Savings Bank.
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Slays Threo Men Before Giving Up.
John Tiger, a full blood Indian, a
ferryman on tho Arkansas river, two
miles south of Eufaula, I. T., went
to Eufaula with bis wife Christmas
afternoon, and, while intoxicated,
met L. B. Roper and threatened to
kill him. Roper immediately struck
Tiger with a board. Tiger went to
his buggy and got a Winchester. He
oame back to kill Roper, but failed
to find him. Garaged, he prooeeded
to fire at every ono he saw, shooting
Jesse Beok through the hips and
k:,,! g him. Ho then killed Dave
Porter, a nephew of Chief of Polio?
Porter, of Eufaula, and a mover,
named Johnston, on bis way to Mis
souri in a covered wagon with his
family. Bud Taylor, aged eighteen,
was shot through the shoulder and
is not expeotod to live. Tiger jumped
on a horse and tried to escapo. He
was chased three miles when he
jumped off- his horse, got behind a
tree and began shooting. Deputy
Marshal Johnson, who returned the
fire, Btruok Tiger in the arm. The'
murderer surrendered and was car
ried baok to Eufaula. Tiger's arm
will have to be amputated. Great
indignation prevails over the free
salo Of liquor and fire arms. J. T.
Smith, who lives two milos south of
Cheo?tah, booame involved in a
quarrel with T. Thompson over the
shooting at Eufaula and began shoot
ing. Thompson was shot in the
chest and oanuot reoover.
Question Answered.
Yes. August Flower still has the larg
est salo of ?.:?y medicine in tho civilized
world. Your mothers and grandmothers
never thought of using anything else for
indigestion sud biliousness. Doctors
wore scarce, and they seldom heard of
appendioltls, nervous prostration or
heart failure, eto. They used August
Flower to oloan out the system and atop
fermentation of undigested food, regu
late the action of tho liver, stimulate
the nervous find ?iganlo action of the
system, and tbat is all thoy took when
feeling dull and bad with headaches and
other nobes, You only need a few doseB
of Green's August Flower, in liquid
form, to make you satisfied there is
nothing serious tho matter with you.
For sale by J, II. Darby, Druggist.
Wants to Remarry Every Decade.
Reading, Pa., Deoombor 28.-C.
Troxel, 30 years old, took out a mar
riage license to-day to remarry his
own wife. Ho is under the impres
sion that every eovon years the body
undergoes metamorphosis, necessi
tating husbands and wives to wed
again. Troxel's wife, however, re
fused to be remarried. They have
been wedded ten years.
If you wish to sow oats in January
or February, take land that will
make ten to fifteen bushels of corn
or five hundred pounds of seed cot
ton and subsoil until it is seven to
ton inches deop, with no day brought
to the top, thon harrow with any
thing that will pulverizo tho soil and
sow any oats that oomo handy and
oovor with a outaway or plow and
you will roap a fair orop in duo
soaaon.
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Aged Couple Tortured by a Negro.
A Mariotta, Ohio, dispatoh says
that Abraham Johnston and wife,
bo'Ji moro than 80 years old, were
bound, tortured and robbin! uuoui
midnight at their home, a short dist
ance below Mariotta, on the Wost
Virginia side, last Wednesday night.
Their assailant, a gigantio negro,
gained entrance to the house steal
thily. After scouring all valuables,
ho loft his victims still bound. Mrs.
Johnson is ni m ont totally paralysed
from tho shook and hor husband is
injured badly, He may not reoover,
IIIHHWMIH siiia
Dispensary Robbed ol $1,800.
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Tho Williamsburg county liquor
dispensary, at Kingstree, is reported
to have been robbed of $1,800 in
cash Wednesday night. P. M.
Player, the dispenser, ?B. alleged - to
have discovered the loss next morn
ing. This ia tho largest losa by rob
bery incurred by. a county dispen
sary since the inauguration1 of the
dispensary. H. P. Crum, liquor
Commissioner, dispatched an inspec
tor to Kingstree.
It is remarkable that the indem*
nity bonds of the dispenser expired
Dooombor 1st and that the State
may suffer a total loss. Tho rather
large amount of oash on hand repre
sents the Christmas sales. A special
from Kingstree says that the people
there demand the resignation of the
County Board of Control, the dis
penser and all others connected with
the dispensary at Kingstree.
A number of country stores and
railroad depots have been visited by
burglars this winter, and the safe
oraoking looks like the work of ex
perts. Diok & S alley, of Bailey's
station, have inoreased to $1,000
their offer of a reward for the oap
ture of the burglars who robbed
their store of $7,500 in gold last Fri
day night.
J. CO N S U M P T IO Ki v.. V
Death ol Senator Mauldin.
Major Wm. H. Mauldin died at
his home at Hampton at 11.50
o'clock last Wednesday. Ho had
been ill for a few weeks with fever.
Major Mauldin was 62 years of age
and was a son of B. Frank Mauldin,
of Anderson. In 1876 he assisicd
largely in the victory for Hampton
and the white people and in the
establishment of Hampton county.
He was from the first one of the
foremost men of the county in busi
ness and publio affairs. He was one.
of the lumber kings of Uu tate, In
1804 he was sent to the St - ~ nate
and was re-eleoted in '08. Ho has
been for several years a trustee of
Clemson College. Thus Major Maul
din literally died in harness in the
service of the State and county. He
was a deacon in the Baptist ohuroh
for fifteen years. The widow sur
vives with five ohildren : Major W.
C. Mauldin, Joab Mauldin, Mrs. L.
M. Boper, Mrs. Lightsoy and Miss
Helen Mauldin.
Preacher's Salary Too Small.
Rev. Jas. A. Dunoan, pastor of
Centenary Methodist Episcopal
ohuroh, the largest congregation in
Chattanooga, Tennessee, numbering
1,200, has asked to be released on
account ol! salary being only $2,500,
whereas Dr. Monk, former pastor,
received $8,750. The last Rolston
conforonoe exohanged Knoxville and
Chattanooga pulpits, oooupied re
spectively by Duncan and Monk.
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Pupils in Schools In the State.
The report of the State Superin
tendent of Eduoation shows a total
enrollment as follows :
White boys, 60,948 ; white girls,
68,846 ; total whito enrollment, 127,
289.
Negro girls, 82,74p 5 negro boys,
72,864 ; total colorea enrollment,
165,602.
Total, both races, 282,891.
Total average attendance, 164,209.
Tho Georgia Houue of Representa
tives has, at last, passed a bill pro
viding for the acceptance by the
State of the Confederate home that
was built by popular subscription
raised in 1889 by the late Henry W.
Grady. The homo cost originally
$45,000, and the idea was to present
it to tho State simply on oondition
that the State should maintain it for
the benefit of the veterans. The
matter has been fought over in nearly
every session of the Legislature from
1889 until now. Tho acooptanoe
bill oarries an annual appropriation
of $15,000 for maintainanoe.
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The oity of Marion was visited by
a destructivo fire Christmas night.
Carelessness in shooting fire oraokere
is assigned as the oausu. Four stores
and contents were burned. Loss
about $12,000 ; partially Insured.
Tho fertilizer business ls reported
the heaviest in tho history of thc
department, amounting to 292,152
tons, The inspection tax amounts
to $78,088.08.
Congress has ratified tho oanal
treaty. The. canal is to be open tc
all nations and not fortified?
Gen. Wade Hampton, at the age
of 88, is still able to engage in a deer
hunt,
mau iij
Freo Mair Delivery.,
Home arid Farm congratulates Us
ooustituenoy ?n the prosp*nt of im
proved mail fao?Htio? for rural cora
munitie?. Ten years ago we began '
to eall for the extension of the freo
delivery system to the farming com
munity. The benefits will not be ,
fully recognized until they ar/*, ex
perienced, buJt enough has been done
to demonstrate tho valuo of tho sys
topa. In his report tho Postmaster
G oneral says :
?We aro now carrying the post
office to the door of 81,000,000 of
people massed in towns and eitles.
The task before us is the more oom- ;
plicated work of carrying the post
oftloe to the door of abput 21,000,000,
soattered over 1,000,000 square miles
of territory. Its magnitude is not to '
be under-estimated* England, Franco
and Germany make rural free deliv
ery, their postmen going on foot,
But England contains 50,867 square
miles, France 204,002 and Germany
208,880. We are already covering
with rural delivery a larger area than
England,'all effeotcd within the past,
two years. By the end of the cur
rent fisoal year wo sh ali roach one
sixth of the 21,000,000 to be served.
What has already been substantially
accomplished is oertainly oapable of
six-fold expansion.
"On July 1, 1899, there were 891
rural delivery routes in operation.
Within the fisoal year, under an
appropriation of $450,000, this num
ber was increased to 1,214. On July
1, 1900, the appropriation of $1,760,
000 became available, and on Novem
ber 16 2,614 routes had been located
and established, 61,979 miles in aggre
gate length, oovering 66,842 square
miles, divided among 44 States and
Territories, and serving a population
of 1,801,624. The number of appli
cations pending at that date and
awaiting aotion or under investiga
tion was more than 2,100-nearly
enough to double the existing servioe
and every day brings more. The
clono of the present fisoal year will
seo about 4,800 routes in operation,
carrying tl)e mail dail/ to tho doora
of not less than 8,600,000 residents
of the rural districts.
"The actual results whore tho ex
periment has been tried are emi
nently encouraging. Perhaps the
most' interesting and instructivo of
all the tests thus far made is that
whioh was applied to Carroll county,
Md. Instead of a fragmentary under
taking, it was determined to extend
a complete service, ooveriug the
entire county, and accompanied by
all the measures of retrenchment, on
the one band, and of full facilities on
tho other, whioh would give a fair
illustration of what was practicable.
Carroll county oovors 468 square
miles. The experiment began by the
disconVi nuance of 68 of the 94 fourth
class postoffioes in the territory and
of 88 star routes, and by the substitu
tion of a freo delivery service with four
complete postal wagons and 26 rural
letter carriers in their own convey
anees. So radical an innovation, natur
ally at the outset, exoitcd some antag
onism. But tho service proved so sat
isfactory and tho advantages of uni
versal delivery were so great that the
opposition speedily subsided, and
there is now an undivided sentiment
of cordial approval and support."
It is years now since this subject
was first agitated. Now the Post?
master General says, and says truly,
"It oannot be abandoned when it has
been onco established, and it oannot
be maintained without being ex
tended.'.'
Free rural delivery in the begin
ning met with the same opposition
aroused when cheap letter postage
was proposed, but tho very argu
ments against it were a confession of
its jnstioe and ne oe RB i ty, and already
it has vindicated itself.
Thero is no reason why dwellers in
oities should have free deliveries four
times a day within half an hour's
walk of tho postoffioe, whereas farm
ers and dwellers in the country,
denied free delivery, have to give a
day or a half a day to getting their
mail from the office.-Home and
Farm.
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Many porsons have had the exporienoo
of Mr. Peter Sherman, of North Slrat*
ford, N. H., who says, "For years I suf
forod torture from chronic indigestion,
but Kodol DysnopBia Curo made a well
man of me." It digosts what you eat
I and is a certain euro for dyspepsia and
evory form of stomach trouble.. It gives
relief at once oven in tho worst oases,
and cm?' t help but do you good.
J. W. Bell;
The residence of Capt. W. C.
Humphreys, of Greenville, was par
tially destroyed by fire last Thurs
day morning. It is supposed the
j fire was caused by a defective flue.
I It was one of tho handsomest resi
dences in the eity. Tho damage ia
estimated at $2,600 y fully covered
by insuranoo,