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1 TO THINE OWN SELF BK TRUE AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAT, THOU CANS'T NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANT MAN. BT JA TN RS, CHELOlt. SMITH St STECK. WALHALLA. SOUTH CAROLINA, JAN. 28, 1901. NEW SERIES, NO. 147._VOLUME LIL--NO? 4. On January ls in my business, and BAUKNIGHT. TO OUR FRI] our partnership um cessors to O. W. B friends a contin?an for all increased pr< Phone 47. BURNED AT THE STAKE. Horrible Fate of a Negro In Leavenworth, Kansas. Leavenworth, Kan., January 15. Fred Alexander, the negro who on Saturday evening attempted to assault Minn Eva Roth, and who was supposed to have assaulted and killed Pearl Forbes in this city, in November last, was taken from the Sheriff's guard by a mob to-day and burned at the stake at the sceno of his crimes, half a dozen blocks from the centre of the city. Probably 8,000 people witnessed the lynching. Tho negro was taken from his cell at the State penitentiary at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Fifty deputy mar shals surrounded him and Deputy Sheriffs Stance, Myers and Thomas Brown SRt in the hack on cither side of him. Fifty buggies and wagon? followed the hack. At 4th and Olive streets the police in the hack following thc one in which Alexander wan con cealed jumped out and chased seve ral negroes. In the excitement the prisoner's hack was frantically driven to the county jail, where he was locked in a coll just as the mob reached tho doors. Tho jail doors were then locked. The crowd first attempted to gain admission by peaceful means, but Sheriff Everhardy refused to deliver the negro. Then tho crowd pushed its way to the side door and using one man as a battering ram, the door wai forced from its hinges. Then the crowd surgod into the corridor by the uarrow doorway. A huge iron bar battered the iron door of the cell room. The door was finally bent sufficiently for tho men to climb over it. Several gained an entrance in this manner. Meantime the crowd had pushed down the side gate of the stockade and a yelling pack appeared in the jail yard. The hinges of the side door, made of heavy iron, were cut off with sledge hammers and chisels and thc door of the cell room broken down. A man with sharp eyes spied a shapeless mass crouched down in one corner of the dark cell. Five minutes' work and tho heavy look on the cell had been broken off. A yell of terror issued from the cell. Strong men filled tho corridors with hysterical laughter. Outside the crowd was yelling itself hoarse. Then into the cell rushed those who were nearest the door. The mob issued forth in a moment dragging the negro by the coat col lar. Ho bad been struck over the head with a hammer, but was still conscious. The men fought to get at him and infuriated struck sav agely at him. Up the hill into the Court House yard they dragged him. "Confess before wo harm you," said they. "I am innocont. I am dying for for what another man did. I seo lots of my friends hero ; they know that I did not do it. If I had been guilty I would have said so at the Penitentiary and would have stayed there for life. The warden told mo so. The policemen told me so. Would not I have told them if I was guilty ?" "You lio," they cried, and one hugo fellow struck Alexander in the forehead with his fist threo times. He spoke with the resignation of a man who sees before him only cer tain death. A move was mado for a largo cot tonwood tree in a corner of tho Court House yard. "My God, men," cried the negro iii his agony, "I have told you that I am innocent. I can't tell you any more. I did not do it." "He lies; burn him," cried the mob. "Take him where he committed the murdor," suggested one. Immediately the crowd, carrying the negro, who was thrown into a wacoi! pnahed on t/>?vnrds 4th ?trool. At a quarter past 6 o'clock Alexan der waa brought to the exact spot where Pearl Forbes, the murdered 7--1- ? 11 admitted my bro the firm name, beg ENDS, GREETING der the firm name c auknight, beginning ce of the liberal pat 3sperity this new c girl, was found and a semi-circle was formed. Alexander was brought up in a wagon with a dozen men. The leader called for silence. The roar ceased and Alexander was shoved forward into full view of tho crowd. A howl went up which was quickly hushed m tho prisoner raised his shackled hands and began to apeak. Twice tlie crowd drowned his tremb ling voice. "You are going to kill me what ever I say," h^ said, "but you men aro wrong. I waut to tell you right now you have got the wrong man. I did not do that and somo day you men beriet will run up against the man who did. I k now it ain't any uso to say BO, for you are going to kill mo, but I didn't do it." Tho men standing behind Alex ander then shoved him from thc wagon and tho roar of the crowd drowned overy other sound. Tho negro wns quickly driven down the embankment to the pile of wood, with his hands still shackled, and there bound to the stake. Many of the crowd carried rails and hoardo. Several seized railroad irons and carried them to the ravine. A railroad iron was planted upright in tho mud. This was made fast to cross irons, ' firmly bound to the upright iron with wiro. Around the improvised stake wood and boards wero piled. To this tho man was dragged and chained in a stand ing position to the upright railroad iron. Chains and irons were wrap ped about .lim and, with his hands still shackled, he was made fast to the post. Coal oil was thou poured over him. Before the match was appied John Forbes, father of the murdered girl, stepped up to Alexander and said : "Aro you guilty of murdering my [laughter?" "I don't know what you have me here for," Baid Alexander. Forbes replied : "For killing rny qirl on this very mot." "Mr. Forbes, if that'B your name, you have tho wrong man," said the negro. "Burn him I Burn him !" cried thc 3rowd. "Gentlemen, you have got lots of time," said Aloynnder. "You are burning an innocent man. You Look advantage of rae. You gavo mo no show. Can I see my mother V" Alexander again asked to seo his mother. Sho was called for, but sho was not in the crowd. Alexander then said : "Will you let mo shako hand3 with all my friends?" "You have no friends in the jrowd, you damned beast," said ono :>f the men in chargo of tho negro. 4If you have anything to say, say it in a hurry." Coal oil was thon applied for the jocond time, while Alexander called to acquaintances in tho orowd and mid *good-byo' to them. Ile talked rationally until John Forbes, tho Father of the murderod girl, lighted ibo match. Again Alexander was iskcd to mako a confession, but he .epliod i hui. ho had nothing to say. As the hames leaped about him Alexander turned a ghastly hue and, ?lasping his hands together, began to iway to and fro, whilo tho crowd /oiled. In five minutes the negro was tanging limp and lifeless by tho .hains that bound him. Aa soon ns lu' crowd saw that lifo was extinct it began to slowly disperso. Hun Iredfl, howovor, staid to tho last. Men kept piling on wood all the Limo until about 7 o'clock, when tho flames wero allowed to die down. From 0 to 8 oclock thero was a con iMUMU -, Rtream of people going from ind to the scene of the burning. Later there was a wild sorainblo to obtain relics. After Alexander's arrest be was tnken before Miss Roth, who identi fied him. Since then a mob has rarrounded tho non?tonH^ry d*y and light. To-day Govornor Stanloy ?rdored two companies of mnlitia to be in readiness to ?tart for Leaven worth at a moment's notioe, 1 tther, John E. Bank inning January 1st : It is with plea >f C. W. & J. E. ] 5 January 1st, 190 ;ronage heretofore 1 entury. 0. Vi J. E, Governor Stanley ordered War den Tomkinson to refuse to turn Alexander over to tho sheriff unless he agreed in writing to protect him. The most soothing, healing and anti 8optio application ever devised is De witt's Witch Hazel Salvo. It relievos at onco and cures piles, sores, ?oKoma and ukin diseases. Hewar? of imitations. J. W. Bell. A Scandal Without Precedent. It is unfortunate for President McKinley that he should fool called upon to take suoh a tender interest in tho sons of two Supremo Court Justices just at the time when the administration is a defendant in a most important case, involving the constitutionality of the Porto Rican legislation and thc policy of imperi alism. One of the Justices who, although a strong Republican, is suspected of an inclination to decide against the administration's contentions, ?H Jus tice Harlan. Mr. McKinley has gone out of his way to make a son of this Justice, who lives in Chicago, United States District Attorney in that city, a highly important place. Concerning the appointment the Springfield Republican says that a leading Chicago lawyer writes : "The appointment just at this time of James S. Harlan, of this oity to be Attorney General ot Porto Rico, is a scandalous performance. It il lustrates well Mr. McKinley's me thods. Mr. Harlan is an attorney of a few years' experience and good personal standing. It does him no injustico to say that there aro fifty men at this bar of his ago and expe rience who aro equally well qualified for the position, and there are hun dreds of such men throughout the country. There can bo no possible explanation of his appointment, 'un requested,' just nov., except that the vote of his father, as a Justice of tho Supremo Court, is desired by the ad ministration in the ponding cases iffeoting its colonial policy." Another Justice of the Supreme Court, whoso inclination to side with "he administration in regard to tho new possessions is less doubtful, is Mr. McKenna, of California. The New York Times says that Senator Pettigrew had objected to the con firmation of young Harlan on tho ?core of property, and, furthermore : "At the same time it is asserted that ho will also ask tho Senate to consider the propriety of the selec tion of a son of Associate Justice McKenna, tc be made a Captain and inspector General in Porto Rico, ile had been r- First Lieutenant, laving been graduated from the mili tary academy. Just before his pro notion Lieutenant Colonel R. B. Harrison was discharged from the post of Inspector General of Porto [{?co because there was no longer *ny need for his services. Yet, im nediateiy after his dismissal by tele graph from a post that army officers mite in saying he had filled admira bly, two officers were assigned to the jame service, Captain McKenna bo ng ono of them. Thoso who com nent upon the changos do not ques ,ion the competency of tho War De partment to judge of tho necessity >r desirability of funking changes, >ut it is considered unfortunate that n making the changes it was con lidered important to put a son of a TuBtico of tho Supreme Court in a jompetent officer's place. Of course if Justice Harlan is dis posed to decido against Mr. MoKin ey ou constitutional grounds, but ,akes refugo in tho fact of the ap pointment of his ' on, to tako part in .ho decision, tho administration will mcceed in reducing by ono tho num ber of Justices who will stand for !ir Republic against tho Empire. We regard the manner in which ,ho President is plainly attempting ,o infiuenoe tho Supremo Court in .his case as probably tho most scan dalous and shocking incident in our political history. We beliovo that, ibsolutcly no such . udent has ever :omo to the publio .lowlodgo in tho ?vholo history of t". > Supremo Court. -Hartford Daily irnos. night, as a partner , is C. W. & J. E. sure we announce BAUKNIGHT, suc 1. We ask of our jestowed, and wish r. BAUKNIGHT. BAUKNIGHT. Big Oil Geyser. Beaumont, Texas, January 16. Tho excitement over the mammoth oil well inoreases with each hour. There bas been no indication that tho flow of oil from the Geyser is diminishing, nor is there any change in the character of the fluid. Cap tain Lucas, upon whose land the well is located, is making preparations for an attempt to stop the immense flow and it will be made tomorrow. All of the machine shops have buen at work on the machinery for the effort and the result is awaited with lively interest. Tho activity in real estate trans actions has subsided somewhat. The town continues to fill up and the streets suggest a great holiday event. Physicians are becoming real estate men. The lumber industry is forgotten in the wild rush for oil lands. Tho business of the district court, in the middle of the session, has been discontinued and the court is idle. Throngs of people frequent the streets until lato at night and everything is oil. Tho Standard Oil company bas scores of representa tives here. City property without oil prospects has increased fivo fold in value. A lot near tho business center, which could have been bought last week for $5,000 now is unpurchasable at $20,000. George T\ Craig, of Craig Oil Company, Toledo, O., arrived here last night from Pittsburg, Pa. He estimates the well's output at from three to fivo thousand barrels a day. He says the excitement exceeds any thing ho ever saw. Tho California oil field has several representatives hero and other oil centers are repre sented. The city council this after noon met in special session and granted a franchise over tho streets for a gas and oil pipe lino company, for tho purpose ot transferring oil and gas. HKTTKK THAN GOLD .Mi Mi. Dallas, Texas, January 16. Efforts will bo made this afternoon to place a heavy mechanical device on Lucas oil well. More than 50 men and 20 teams are being used. Captain Lucas believes it will bo mccessful. Tho city council of (Beaumont has granted a municipal franchise for a gas and oil pipe line. The town is crowded so that it oan lot accomodate the people. Special trains were to-day put on the Sabine Pass railroad to carry passengers to Port Arthur and Sabine Pass for hotel accommodations. The excite ment is so general that the district jourt has been forced to adjourn and tuspend operations until tho oil and real estate fever subsides. Two itrong syndicates have been formed n Dallas to push operations pros pecting for oil in Southeastern Pexas. Pepsin preparations often fail to ro iovo indigestion because they can digost >nly albuminous foods. There is one preparation that digests all classes of ooo, and that is Koool Dyspepsia Cure, [t cures the worst casos of indigestion md gives instant relief, for it digests vhat you oat. J. W. Dell. Engine Kills Two Sisters. Columbia, January 15.-A South ern Railway shifting engine ran lown this morning two young ladies, Misses Leonora and Flora Daniels, ivho have been working in one of ,ho cotton mills helping to support a widowed mother. Tho girls wore on ,he main line track Watching the in coming Seaboard Air Lino vestibule. f\s it was yet dark, Engineer Dix lid not discover them until he was within a few feet of them. He ap plied the brakes and reversed his mgine, but without avail. Leonora, ibout sixteen years of age, was killed, and though her body was practically severed, she lived for two hours and talked in perfect con sciousness about the accident. Her lister was struck and knocked from tho track. Her jaw was broken and ihe had some bad injuries about her '.ead. Siie was seriously injured, >ut will probably reoovcr. Quality and not quantity makes De Witt's Little Early Hi sers such valuable Ittlo liver pills. J. W. Dell. TILLMAN AT OMAHA. The Senator Gives Hit Own Story of tho Jackson Day Banquet. The papers have had a great deal to say about Senator Tillman's re oent visit to Omaha and his alleged quarrel with Mr. Bryan. The Wash* ington correspondent of The News and Courier sends his paper the following under date of last Thurs day : Senator Tillman has returned to Washington fren: attendance at the Jefferson Club Banquet, held in Omaha, Nebraska, last Monday night. lu view of the conflicting statements sent out relative to the strained rela tions between Senator Tillman and the Democratic leader, William Jen nings Bryan, the South Carolina Senator, with characteristic frank uess, disposed of the reports in this way: "I have filed no plea for politioal separation from Mr. Bryan," said the Senator, when interviewed on the subject this afternoon at the Capitol. "My relations with Mr. Bryan are not strained in the least and I had a very plain talk with him on the poli tical situation. I told him, as I told the people at the Jefferson banquet, that it is too early to commit myself to any candidate or any specific plat form which might be binding in 1904. I don't think I was misunder stood on that subject, for I have a wny of trying to expresB myself clearly when I have anything to say. I don't believe the gentlemen at tbe banquet in Omaha misunderstood me and I don't believe Mr. Bryan misunderstood me. In faot, he seemed to he impressed with my views on the subject from the fact that when ho reached Chicago he slated there that he intended to take his place as a private in the Demo cratic ranks and fight for the princi ples of tho party as long as he lives. WI cannot," said the Senator, "be responsible for the imaginary state ments which newspaper reporters make concerning my attitude toward Mr. Brynn in the future I do not regret going to Omaha, as some of the newspapers have stated. On tho contrary I am glad I went, as I had a royal good time. I could ;iot have received a greater ovation than that which was given me at the banquet at Omaha. I gave them my ideas of Democracy right from the shoulder, and they whooped it up for me in great shape. I set them crazy when I pitched into Cleveland. I wish you could have heard them shout when I toro him to pieces, and the rest of the gang who worship at tho Cleve land shrine, who want to reorganize the Democratic party, but who go to thc polls on election days and vote tho Republican ticket. I did not pose as a leader of the Democratic party, but I told them that I did represent thc sentiment of the Demo cratic party of South Carolina. I told them I had been elected to the Governorship, onco to the United States Senate and had been endorsed for re-election for another torm in the Senate without opposition, and my commission would be duo in a few weoks. Representing the Demo cracy of South Carolina I told them that it would be premature for the Democratic party to commit itself to any man or platform at this stago of the game, but I assured them that I would rather go down to defeat again four years boneo than accept the leadership of or surrender my principles to such a party and to such a leadership at that Cloveland crowd. "You should have seen that crowd Bhout and yell when I uttered these sentiments," continued tho Senator enthusiastically. "Why," ho added, "they jumped up and shouted and yelled like wild Indians. Then some fellow proposed that tho whole com pany join in singing 'Dixie' in my honor. They got stuck on the words-as a matter of faot they didn't know thom-so they compro mised by singing 'America.' " The merited reputation for curing piles, Bores and skin diseases acquired b> DoWitt'8 Witch Hazol Salvo, has led to tho making of worthless counterfeits. Ho suro to got only Dewitt's Salvo. J. W. Dell. Senator Pritchard, of North Caro lina, has introduced a bill appropri ating *f>,000,000 for tho purchase of not exceeding 2,000,000 acres of land in tho Appalachian mountains in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, for a national forest reserve, to he known as the Appnlachain National Park. I CONSUMPTION! Iowa a Groat Corn Growing Stat?. From many points of view the State of Iowa is one of the greatest States in the Union. Her broad and fertile aores annually produce, mil lions of wealth and in many of the industries she far outranks many older States. Taking as a basis the various government reports recently submitted the editor of .the Daven? port Demoorat has compiled the fol lowing statistical review which will prove very interesting reading and ls well worth preserving : There are States in this blessed Union with a larger population than Iowa has yet attained. There are States with more territory within their borders ; with larger oities with richer bed of coal and ire but there is not a State with richer soil, aore for aore ; not one whose people show a higher average of in-1 < telligence ; not ono that better provea 11 its worth year after year. Corn is the most valuable grain j j grown in this country. It repre Bents more money, not only last year, but nearly always than wheat or cot ton. Last season's orop is put down by the National / grioultural Depart ment at 305,859,948 bushels. This heats Illinois, the second State in the production of this staple, by more than 41,000,000 bushels. The total yield is not quite the best of it, the meat in the marrow being the number of bushels pro duced on eaoh aore. Nebraska, for instance, cultivated 40,518 more acres of the grain than Iowa did ; but the yield was 95,000,000 bushels less. Kansas tilled 570,000 more teres than Iowa, but Kansas gath ared a orop of 142,000,000 bushels im n lier. Iowa had as many acres in corn as New Jersey produced bushels. ' The ?ix New England States combined i:ul a corn crop of less than 7,000, )00 bushels, so small an item that Iowa would not feel tho lo3s of it. The country's total of corn last year (vas 2,105,102,510 bushels and Iowa produced one-seventh of it. This great surplus of oom will not t>e exported in any large quantity in its raw state, but it will be converted nto live stock, into beef and meats >f all kinds, and these products will ;o to the ends of the earth. In fact Iowa is ono of tho chief exporting States in the Union. Iowa grows almost as much wheat is Texas, which is five times larger; ts many oats as Illinois, within a few )ushels, and stands a close second in >ats among all the States. In the pield of corn, oats and wheat com plied Iowa is first. When it comes ,o feeding tho world the average [owa aore does more than any other tere in the United States.-Iowa 3ity Daily Republic, January ll. - $500 Reward. Wo will pay the above reward for any ..iso of liver complaint, dyspepsia, sick ?oadaobo, indigestion, constipation or .ost i veness wo cannot euro with Li vori tn, .he up-to-date little livor pill, when the lire.ct ions are strictly complied with. They are purely vegetable and never fail o give satisfaction. 25-cent boxes oon ah] 100 pills, 10-cont bozos contain 40 . ills, o-cent boxes contain 15 pills. Be vare of substitutions and imitations, tant by mail. Stamps taken. Nervita Medical Co., Cor. Clinton and Jackson '.eels, Chicagc, 111. For sale by Dr. J. iV. Boll, Druggist, Walhalla, S. C. Insane Man Fires a Charleston Church. Charleston, S. C., January 10. rVhilo suffering from temporary iberration of the mind, William )'Brien, a well known young man of his city, entered St. Patrick's Catholic church at 1.45 o'olock Tues lay morning, lighted all of the can lies in the altar, and for his own irausemont wont through the cere nonios of high mass. While hold ng mass the curtains and draperies vhioh were suspended about the dtar were ignited and the flames )urned rapidly. While tho ourtains vere burning O'Brien confiscated a diver onp and other articles belong ng to to the church. The bright light and the donso moke in thc church attracted the it t cut ion of a policeman, who forced lis way into the building and extin guished the flames, preventing a erious Are. Young O'Brien was arrested and vhen searched the stolen property vas found in his possession. The young man was committed to ail to await the action of the church uithorities. Members of the O'Brien family tay that he is demented and will be icnt to the lunatic asylum. Flour is worth $46 a sack in Cir de City, Alaska. Thc Texas Legislature has adopted i concurrent resolution inviting Oavid B. Hill, of Now York, to visit \ustin and deliver an address before bat body. The Confederate Reunion. Headquarters United Confederate Veterans, New Orleans, La.-^Gene ral Order No. 249 : 1. The general commanding announces, the d?part mont commanders concurring, that, on account of the urgent request and insistence of "our host," the next an nual meeting and reunion of the United Confederate Veterans, whioh Is to be held in the City of Memphis, renn., will take place on May '28th, 28th and 30th, 1901-Tuesday, Wed nesday and Thursday, respectively. 2. With pride the general com manding also announces that 1,800 samps have now joined tho associa tion, and applications received at these headquarters for papers for >ver 100 more. He urges veterans avery where to send to these head quarters for organization papers for lamps, and join this association so is to assist in cai rying out its benevo lent, praiseworthy and patriotic ob jects. By order of : John B. Gordon, General Commanding. Geo. Moorman, Adjutant General ind Chief of Staff. Such little pills as Dewitt's Little Sarly Risers are very easily taken, and boy aro wonderfully effootive in o lean ? ng tho liver and bowels. J. W. Boll. The Redistricting Congressional Bill. Columbia, S. C., January 16. Representative Weston, of Richland, o-day introduced the following re listrioting bill : Pee Dee District-Marlboro, Ches ertield, Darlington, Marion, Flor ")icc, 1 lorry and Clarendon. Santce District-Georgetown, Wil iamsburg, Charleston, Berkeley and )orchester. Wateree Dint rid-Richland, Fair ield, Kershaw, Sumter, Lancaster) md Lexington. Edisto DiBtriot-Orangeburg, Barn yell, Bamberg, Hampton, Beaufort | md Colleton. Saluda District-Edgefield, Aiken, taluda, Newberry, Greenwood and jaurens. Keowoe District-Abbeville, An-| lemon, Oconee, Dickens and Greon dllo. Catawba District-Spartanburg, Inion, Cherokee, York and Chester. Under this arrangement of ('min ion the population of the several Congressional Districts would bo as ollows : Pee Deo, 195,631 ; Santee, 89,485 ; Wateree, 202,522 ; Edisto, 505,148 ; Saluda, 179,883 ; Keoweo, 85,627 ; Catawba, 202,720. A Wise Measure. A constitutional amendment to orever prohibit polygamy in the Jnited States is beforo Congress, ,nd should be adopted without lelay. We regard Mormanism as me of the vilest things ever sought 0 be introduced among our people, t is simply a work of the arch fiend, , strike nt social purity, and at the cry foundations of our Christian aith. How thinking people who lave any regard for decency and for mr holy Christianity can tolerate he deadly thing even for a moment 1 to us a mystery. It should he uppressed by the strong arm of the aw, and its agents treated as the neraies of God and man. The tri mph of such an unholy oause would ie the greatest conceivable calamity, avolving the ruin of church and Hate, and the utter destruction of ll our social institutions. Away /ith this unholy thing ; it is a stench ti our nostrils, and a menace to our christian civilization.-The Luthe an Visitor. Stunted Hair Does your hair split at the end? Can you Sull out a handful by running your ngers through it? Does it seem dry and lifeless? Give your hair a chance. Peed lt. The roots are not dead ; they are weak because they are starved - that's all. i The best] hair food is If you don't want your hair to die. use Avar's Hair Vigor once a day. Itmakes the hair grow, stops falling, and cures dandruff. It always restores color to gray or faded hair. II.M a betti*. All Arante ..OB? botUo of Ayer's llalr Vigor Ml?. All 4ra?M*. Iyer's Hair stopped my hair from falling out, and . ???Vd I? ?X ?rn? ?Mir. nl?.1?"> .tarted lt to grow again nicely/; JULIUS WITT, March tf, 1899. Canora, 8. Dak. " *_???*? V?ajut tK>u?pioi?'iy cu rea nae from dandruff, with which I wss greaUy afflicted. Tho growth nf tay hair since lu UM has been something wonder ful." l.K IA O. OUKKNK, April 13,1899. Mew York, N. T. If you do net obtain aU ?be benefits yon expected from the use of the llslr Vigor, Wilt? the Doctor ?bout lt. Adoren Dit. J. C. AY KU, Lovell, M?l*. ABOUT THE EXPOSITION. What the Comptroller General Says About til* Matter-Col. Thompson Talk?. Columbia, January 16.-There are two vital questions in connection with the ponding appropriation for the Charleston Exposition: First, will it increase the tax levy, and, second, is the amount asked for really neoessary ? The direotoro of the Exposition are all business men, and are only asking for what they deem absolutely necessary, and what they wish the State to expend In erecting a handsome building and taking care of the State's part in the Exposition. It is not a request for more than is deemed necessary. As to the tax question Comptroller General Derham was asked by this correspondent what he thought of the Exposition and the off cot of such an appropriation upon the tax levy, if any, and he qaid : "I think that the Charleston Exposition would be a good thing for the entire State. There ts no other way in whioh the resources and advantages of this State oan be as well and cheaply advertised as by an Exposition held here, or in fact by appropriating money to make a proper exhibit at any Exposition. "South Carolina cnn afford to ereot a building at Charleston and Dxpend $50,000 on the erection of this building and the scouring of proper exhibits. To do this a State levy of five milln, which we have bad lor the past three years, need not be increased. "While other States aro spending rooney to inform people of other States and countries of their resources, and in this way seoure Jesirnble immigrants, South Carolina roust employ the same means to make known her great resouroes and id vantages of soil and climate, or places leas favored by nature will meure the immigrants neoessary to build up their waste places and South Carolina will not make the progress that she should in the next leaade. "Tho Exposition means that thousands will visit Charleston and travel over the railroads of South karolina who otherwise might never iee this State. If at that Exposi tion we have a fine State building ?lled with the exhibits that we can furnish, oomposed of almost every thing that eau be produced from Maine to Mexico, those visitors will gain some idea of the possibilities of South Carolina's soil and climate." COI.. R. A. THOMPSON is what might be called a re markable man. Although he has Dassod the three-scoro and ten years iliotted to man, he is as active and wide-awake as any of the members. For moro than sixty years ho has .cen connected with the newspapers >f the up-country and when the Secession Convention was held he vas a member of the distinguished ..ody. Last summer the people of 3conee county wanted him to be me of the members from that county. [Ie did not like to go into a scrarn )le, but the peoplo told him if he vould run they would do the rest. They did so. Mr. Thompson has cept pretty oloso to publie affairs for nore than sixty years, and he says hat ho is going to support the ippropriation for the Exposition ?v?tlt heartiness, and feels that his )eople will approve of his course, )ecause he is satisfied it is for the ?minnon good of the State.-August ??ohn, iii Nows and Courier. Lynched for Wrecking a Traim. Wayoross, Ga., January 16.-A wreck occurred near Dunnellon, Fla., >n the High Springs division of the IMant System, last night, causing the loath of Engineer Roach, ?\nd thc lerious injury of Mr. Carswell, the nail olerk, of this oity. Conductor Morris and several passengers were ilso injured. The wreck was caused >y tho Hpikes being drawn from a rail. It is supposed that the design ?f tho parties was to rob the train, Dut they failed. Ono of the ring eaders of the gang was discovered ast night and immediately hung. The othors were not oaught at last reports. Negro Assailant Hanged by Mob. Tho first lynching in this State this year occurred in Barnwell coun ty last Monday night. On Monday, near Elko, eight miles from the town of Barnwell, Chas. Lang, a negro, assaulted Mrs. Melvin Hair, wife of a well-known and highly es teemed farmer. The negro was Wttght about l?uue miles irom Black ville and taken to tho home and identified by his victim. He was thon strung up a short way from the bouse and his body riddled with bul lets. There was not a lynching in this Stato last year,