? f * ISSUED TWICE-A-WEEK?WEDKTESDAY AND FRIDAY. l. m. grist & sons, Publishers. } % ^[amtln jfteirspper: Jfor the promotion of the political, Social, J^ricutturat and Commercial Interests of the South. cesw?18' VOLUME 41. YORKVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1895. NUMBER 05. FROM WALL STRE VIA THE PRI BY AUHTIN Copyright, 1895, by the Author. UJtLA-ritiK IV. The Eastward Ho was a hint of a project we had frequently talked over as a possible speculation. Here we see how men are led on step by step from bad to worse when onoe they set out on the Primrose Way. We resolved to tell Irving in a general way that we were going to Europe to make some money and would pay him and his two fellows their percentage. Then we could apparently work with impunity, for of oourse if we committed a forgery in Europe and were recognized as Americans?as probably we would be?the foreign police would report the case to the New York police ?that is, to Irving. Edwin James and Brea had dropped out of our lives for good, but as my readers will be curious to know of their fate in after times I will relate it in this chapter. The $6,000 we gave James eased up matters for a time. Practice he had nnnfl hnt managed to hold on in the hope of realizing on the Brea will matter, but getting deeper and deeper in debt. Brea helped him all he con Id, as his presence was essential if the old ladj departed and the forged will was produced. One night, four years later, Brea's mother-in-law had a more than usually furious outbreak of temper and fell to beating the three daughters still living with her. Before it was over sinhad attacked and seriously injured tineldest, and- then flew to her room in a passion. Not appearing at breakfast the next morning her daughter went to hn room, but ehe was not there and tinbed was undisturbed. Going to tinroom that served for office and library, they found the door as usual locked Bursting it open the poor old mai.'..found their mother huddled in a corner oi me room ueau. The genuine will was destroyed, an<: the family lawyer, James, immediatel; after the funeral produced and rea<. "the last will and testament" of tin dead woman. The four sisters and u host of poor relations were present at the reading. When Sarah, Brea's wife, heard her name read as chief heir of the vast estate, she was stunned, but if she was stunned the rest of the family v. were paralyzed. Legacies were left to many, small in amount, save in the case of the other three sisters, who were to have a certain tenement and land in Harlem and $8,000 a year for life out of the estate. None of those present thought for a moment of questioning either the genuineness of the will or the validity of the testaments save only a poor relation, a nephew, whose name was down for $500. He was indignant with the old lady and loudly declared that he would not put up with it. The next day he employed a briefless lawyer, one that had wit and brass enough and who had his way to ruake in the world and was determined to make it Without waiting for the will to be probated or having legal authority to do so Brea and his wife, the very day after the funeral, moved into the house and took possession. But' before the week was out he had persuaded the three old maids that they would be happier if away from the scene of their parent's death, so he had them installed in their own house at Harlem, he remaining in undisturbed possession, waiting only for the will to be probated in order to take possession of upward of $200,000 , in cash and bonds still in the custody of the old lady's bank. He had full possession of the house, and with entire conii dence waited to be put in legal possession of alL But little did he dream that at that moment there was one poor torn sheet of foolscap in the library, casually thrust in a book, lying completely at his mercy to destroy if he could only have known it, which was going to tear all his wealth from his grasp and drive him forth a foiled plotter to become an adventurer and ultimately to perish a miserable outcast Brea then attempted negotiations with the attorney. Cautious as he was, ho said enough to convince the lawyer that > for some reason he did not waut the castto come before the courts. Still the attorney was half inclined to join hands with Brea. In tho meantime Ezra (this was the name of tho man of law) hud acquired great power over tho sisters, and they all looked to him both as champion and protector. Ho resolved t:i ? be protector to one at least, paying assiduous court to Jane, the youngest. Although past 80, and without education or accorupiisnmenis, sne was warm hoarted and extremely sentimental, and a thrill went through her tender heart when it became evident that Ezra's attention pointed at her. She quickly made him a hero and invested the thin shanked, narrow chested, waspish attorney with a thousand tender attri butes, and when, after one month's acquaintance, she found herself alone with him in the poky little parlor, and h:asking her to be his wife, her woman's heart overflowed, and telliyg him she v had loved him from the first hour they met she threw herself into his arms, crying sho was the happiest and most favored woman in the world. In the midst of the happy lovers' talk she ran to theshelf, took down a book, and opening it revealed a soiled sheet of paper and asked her lover what it was. His love had ?. given him a gift indeed. His trained eye recognized it at once as a draft of a sET TO NEWGATE. MROSE WAY. BIDWELL. 1 new will in the handwriting of the do| ceased mother and dated the very night of her death. It was a rongh draft, but across the bottom was drawn the bold. < masculine signature of the old lady There were no signatures of witnesses, but Ezra was lawyer enough to know itwould stand, and that it revoked all previous wills. Calling in the two elder sisters, he read the will to their amazed ears, and then and there wrote out a full statement as to the circumstance under which it was found. All four attached their signatures to the document, 1 and when Ezra kissed his love a tender good night and went home he hardly felt the paving stones under his feet, for he had carefully tucked away in the inside pocket of his vest, just over his 1 heart, the little soiled piece of paper : which told him in unmistakable terms ' that his fortune was made, and tho wedding ceremony once over that it was 1 beyond all chance of change. ' Before the discovery of the new will, while it was believed that Mrs. Brea . was an heiress and her credit good, she and her husband had made use of the fact, and had incurred debts to a large amount. Brea got his wife to indorse his note for $10,000, and he borrowed that sum from the bankers, but as soon as ? the true state of the case was known his creditors became clamorous and had him arrested on civil suits. Unable to give bonds, he was locked up in Ludlow < Street jail, and there he remained six months, until, acting upon Ezra's ad- , vice, the sisters agreed to pay all his debts and give him and his wife $1,000 each if they would live west of Chicago. This they were forced to accept and went to Montana. Brea opened a saloon at Butte City, but he never recovered his spirits again. He became his own best customer, and that of course meant ruin, but what, after all, killed him was the knowledge that he had been for more than a score of days in full posses siou of that old house and had spent ' scores of hours alone in the old library ' and yet had not discovered and destroy- 1 ed the new will lying there at his mercy, i The sheriff soon sold out his saloon, J fphile his wife eloped with his best iriend. Ruined in pocket, health and 1 character, poor old Brea was left bare to ( every storm that blew. One morning, as ( the sun was rising over the town, sur- 1 prising half a dozen belated gamblers in 1 Ned Wright's saloon as they were getting up to leave, they found lying across ' the threshold the body of a man, rag- ( ged, emaciated, forlorn. It was Brea. f As soon as James had read the will 5 he insisted upon having $5,000 from s Brea at once, and he got the money. * But when that thunderbolt of the new 5 will fell on the two men James sadly 1 recognized that fortune and he would 1 shake hands no more, so far as this ( world is concerned, and be resolved to { chance returning to London before the \ whole of the $5,000 he had from Brea i was gone. To London he went He lived ( a few years in extreme poverty, driven 1 to all manner of miserable shifts, and at last died. ' This man died who ought to have J been buried in Westminster abbey, so ' adding one more brilliant name to the long line of illustrious lord chancellors I from Thomas a Becket and Cardinal 1 Wolsey down, but he, hating his own I soul, took the first step in wrongdoing, ' and instead of resting in the mighty abbey and bequeathing his dust as a i precious legacy to succeeding genera- i tions perished forlorn and alone and s was buried in a pauper's grave. We all landed in Liverpool in the 1 highest spirits and at once took the < train for Loudon, enjoying the novelty j of everything. Therefore, after completing certain < preparations which required skill and I considerable business knowledge, we departed to execute this new and of I course last shuffle for fortune. < After we saw George off to Paris on i the train Mac and I walked up and down the platform outside of the station star gazing. Mac, with his brillian- < scholarship, elegant speech, logical force ; and fiery enthusiasm, made a most fas- | cinatiug companion. j The study of mankind is man, the old | proverb says; but, like many other prov- , erbs, there is a full measure of unreality in it. It takes a good amount of arrogance and conceit for one to fancy he is j n it is as large as the rest, there is , not as many bolls by one-half. Mr. Ess Miller, one of our young . Partners, but au energetic aud intern- | *eut one, says that he used guano; jut not as much as usual. One of his | neighbors, who has better cotton laud < lhau his, did not use a pouud. Now Mr. Miller says the neighbor lias a iarge weed, butscarely any bolls on it; ' while his cotton is fairly well boiled. | Mr. Miller says he is satisfied thatgu- ' itio pays, aud that the present short Age in the crop is in proportion to the shortage iu guano. I Mr. Sam Clinton says cotton crops ' will be short in his section ; but corn | jrops are fine and there has been an Abundance of'roughness" saved. ] Dr. Campbell says he considers the . rimson clover crop, one of our best , forage crops. His idea is that the crop | hould be followed first by corn and then by wheat, aud then cotton. The ; :lover, the doctor says, leaves too j much amonia iu the land to suit cot- ( ton. Dr. Campbell has several very tine cows ; but one that from her appearince and qualities as a milk and but- | ler cow, would stand a chance for the ( premium at a cattle fair. Dr. Camp- < bell says she is from imported stock And is across of the Jersey with the ( Short Horn. ( Dr. Campbell not only takes an uterest in cows and hogs, but he is | pute a chicken fancier, and assisted , \\' Afrc Cnmrtlu'll ht* cuo/'ooil j in i raising a great many. They are of f :he game variety, ami he must have several hundred oil his different walks. I asked the doctor if the rholera ever attacked them. He replied that he was not troubled with that' disease. From investigating the lisease carefully by examining the uodies of chickens that had died with rholera, he says he was satisfied that :.hey had all the symptoms of having lied of phosphorus poison?that is, jtilarged liver with inhumation of the mucous membrane of the bowels. He used as a remedy, salts and magnesi* mixed with their food, and put a few spoonsful of turpentine in the trough where they drank. This remedy, when taken in time, is a sure cure, ind if given as a precaution, will prevent the disease, especially should it je used in the spring when guano is ?eing scattered about, and the fowls ire likely to get insects and worms :hat may have the phosphorus poison 311 them. Mrs. John Simril and her mother, Mrs. Bigger, came very near having a serious smash-up a few days ago, which, fortunately, resulted in no very serious damage. They started over to see a sick neighbor, and after they had gotten into the buggy, the mule started oli' very briskly. They tried to stop him ; but he would pay no attention to the lines. They then noticed that the line had caught in the ring of the saddle, and was not curbing the animal at all. The mule got faster and faster. At last Mrs. Bigger attempted to get out and try to stop the old mule. In doing so, she fell and bruised herself considerably, but not seriously. After awhile the mule stopped of its own accord, and the party returned home, grateful that the mishap had been no worse. Some persons in this section are having chills ; but we hear of no very serious illness. Mr. J. L. Barnett had a fine mule to die last week. Rev. Sparrow, who preaches at Union, on the other side of the Hue, had the misfortune to lose a very valuable cow some days ago. Mr. Moore Warren also had a fine cow to die. Miss Ida Ferguson has returned to Lenoir college, Hickory, N. C., where she will graduate this terra. Mr. Lem Campbell and Mr. James Barron have returned to Fort Mill, where they are attending school. Through an oversight of Mr. Barron, the name of Miss Lonie Cook was omitted from the roll of honor of Forest Hill, published in your paper of the 13th instant. Her standing, we are requested to say, is 96. There was a delightful party at Mr. G. C. Ormand's on Thursday evening last. The young ladies and gentlemen of the vicinity enjoyed it hugely. The party was given in honor of Miss Docia Orraund, of King's Mountain, NT. C. Mr. James Stanton, who for the past year or two has been in business in Selraa, Ala., has returned home. He is now busy having repairs done on his plantation. Work on the Foretst Hill lithia spring, had been stopped until a pump ran be had to draw off the water that rushes in so rapidly that the workmen eould not fix in the pipe. Mr. George L. Riddle has had an expert from Pennsylvania fixing the new machinery in his mill. They will start to grind today. Messrs. Stanton, Riddle & Co., will Bend speciraeus of ore from their gold mine to Atlanta to the expostion. There was a large attendance at the Jebate at Forest Hill on Friday evening last. The debaters acquitted themselves with great credit. The society meets every two weeks at 8 o'clock on Friday evening. The school at Forest Hill is now small, and will likely be so until the cotton picking is over. x. CONDENSED FROM THE HERALD. Various Items, All of Which Are of More or Less Interest to Somebody. Rev. Dr. J. H. Thorn well is thought to he getting better slowly. Mr. Cloud Hickliu, who has been suffering a great deal lately with a carbuncle is better. Many tobacco chewers in Rock Hill ire using tobacco grown and manufactured within the incorporate limits. Rev. J. \V. 0. Johnson, of Charleston, is to take charge of the Church of Our Saviour, in Rock Hill, about the Lst of October. The large barn of Captain S. E. iVbi.o. ........ \r:ii ....... A vv uilc, wttj i'uiu mm, waa ucauuvcu by fire, on Monday night of last week. The origiu of the fire is unknown. President Johnson has nominated Mr. R. B. Cunningham for the position of secretary and treasurer of the Wintbrop Normal aud Industrial colege. A mule fell with Mr. John Shillingavv, uear Rock Hill, last Thursday. Mr. Shillinglaw's left shoulder blade was fractured and one of his ribs on His right side was broken. Rev. W. M. Anderson, formerly of Rock Hill, hut more recently pastor of i church at Jackson, Tenn., has accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian church of Dallas, lex. Rev. J. E. Herring, of Walterboro, lias been invited to the pastorate of ihe Baptist churches at Fort Mill and Datawba. He will preach at Fort Mill in the morning, and iu Rock Hill an the eveniug of the fifth Sunday in ibis month. While trying to catch a hog in his aarn recently, Mr. Walter Sturgis slipped and fell. The hog turned on liim, and with its long tusks, ripped a seven inch gash iu his right arm and band. The wound had to be sewed jp ; but Mr. Sturgis is uow getting tlong all right. ROCK 11 ILL HAPPENINGS. Work on the Cotton Mill-Mr. Cuveny In the Grocery Business?OH for College. .'orrespondcnce of the Yorkville Enquirer. Rock Hill, September 24.?The ,vork on the uew cotton mills at this )lace is being pushed as rapidly as lossible ; but the contractors have not iearly so many laborers as t liev require. The Methodist church has been iinmproved by repairs. >Ir. W. J. Cuveny has bought out he "Lindsay Racket," and is now conlucting a grocery at the old stand. Mr. V. B. McFadden is conducting legotiations looking to the establishlient of an ice factory at this place. Mr. J. H. Blake has gone to Furman iniversity, and Mr. M. J. Hall has jone to the Banks High school. Messrs. Geo. W. Witherspoou, Lad Moblcy, Joseph Rawlinsou and James S. White left last Monday to enter the South Carolina college. Mr. Frank Sawyer, of Johnson, S. C., is clerking for the Johnson Drug Emporium, i Misses Fay and Daisy Griffith, of Charlotte, N. C., will attend the Wiuthrop college. Mr. S. J. Kimbrell leaves today on a business trip to Kentucky. c. SHARON SHAVIXUS. Lots of Sickness? Improvements?Personal Mention?Sacramental Meeting. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. Sharon, September 23.?There is a good deal of sickness in this section. Mr. James Shillinglaw . is quite sick, and two of Mr. Andy Shilliuglaw's children have fever. Mr. S. A. Mitchell is down with malarial fever. Mr. Sam Warlick, who has been quite ill with typhoid fever for sometime past, is improving. Messrs. Ratchford, Sims & Co., are adding 30 feet to their store house. Mr. R. R. Plexico is adding too rooms to his dwelling, and Mr. S. S. Plexico has just finished some extensive im- : provemenis. i Mr. M. M. Ross at home visiting friends and relatives before going over to the seminary. Miss R. Alice Ross is at home again, i School opens at this place this morn- i ing under the management of Mr. R. D. Douglass, of Blackstocks. i This hot, dry weather is opening cotton very fast. The crop is very < light and will not amount to more than half of an average yield. The corn < crop is very fine, and the people seem < to have assurance of plenty to eat. < A sacramental meeting begins at ' Sharon A. R. P. church ou next Fri- I day. A. E. 1 UNDERGROUND JERUSALEM. 1 Getting Down to the Wall that Ex-luted in < the Time of JoHephun. ( From the London Daily News. j It is now more than a quarter of a i century since Captain (now Major Gen- < eral) Sir Charles Warren carried ou his explorations at Jerusalem for the ( Palestine Exploration Fund, aud which resulted in such brilliant dis- , coveries, revealing to us what was then j known as "Underground Jerusalem." ( That was the remains of the aucient | city, now covered up with the accumu- < lated debris of ages, an accumulation ] that reached in some pluces to a depth of more than 70 feet. Since that time no systematic explorations have been carried on in the Holy City. Herr Baurath vou Schick and other agents of the Palestine Exploration Fund have watched whenever any digging took place?for the foundations of new buildiugs or any other purposes?and if anything of importance turned up it has been faithfully reported in the "Quarterly Statement," published by the fund, and which is now the recognized journal of arohieology in Palestine. For some years back the value of ground at Jerusalem has been increasing, and building, more particularly on the north and west, has been going on outside the walls aud it became advisable to have some explorations made before houses were erected, which would make excavations impossible. ine necessary nrman irom tne suiiau was procured, and I)r. F. J. Bliss be- J gan operations last year. The first ; task he undertook was to trace the line of the aucieut wall on the south- i ern side of Jerusalem. It was known , that the old was about 800 feet to the south of the present one, and that it skirted the brow of the slope which forms one side of the Valley of Hinnom. i Why the builders of the uew wall left , this commanding height undefended is ; a question that is not easily explained. ; It is certain that the older engineers . did not leave this advantageous posi- | lion for an enemy to occupy. Traces . of the old wall were first come upon , when leveling the ground for the En- , glish cemetery. | In 1874 Major Conder, writing from , Jerusalem, recommended that explora- ] lions should be made at this point ; < and Mr. Henry Maudslay at that time ; did sufficient digging to show the j existence of the wall all the way | from the Protestant school to the ] east end of the cemetery. Among other ; things he found that the dining room | of the school had its walls standing on the square pose of one of the ancient | towers; and that in places the rock ou ( which the wall stood was scarped oe- j low to a depth of 30 feet. Mr. Bliss s took up the work at a point where j Mr. Maudslay had left oil, and follow- ] ed the line of wall from the cemetery, j where it runs in a south-easterly direc- . lion for about 230 feet. He also found | deep scarps iu the rock, which must have given great strength to the de- * feuse, and made the battlements to tower with an imposing appearance J over the Hinuom Valley. The stones are of no great size, that is, in com- { purison with some of the masonry at 1 other parts of the walls, such as that 1 of the Jews' Wailing-place, and por- ( lions of the Harara Wall. They have 1 the usual draught around their borders, and t he lower course is bedded on ! the solid rock. Water supply has not been forgot- 1 ten, as numerous cisterns have been 1 come upon. The existence of a gate- 1 way was discovered at this point, and it is here that one interesting point in 1 the explorations presents itself. The < main street of Jerusalem runs from north to south in almost a straight 1 line?it begins at the Damascus Gate on the north, and ends ou the south at < A, Sion Gate, also known as the Bab ami Nabi Daud, or pate of the Prophet David. This is no doubt the original line of a thoroughfare that has existed from the earliest times, and it is assumed that there must have been a similar gate at the end of this maiu street in the older wall. This was one of the points Dr. Bliss was directed to discover. The gate which has been found is uot exactly in the position where the expected gate was supposed toexjst; it is a little too far to the west to be in a line with the main street. Still, it ought to be borne in mind that the present Sion Gate is not quite ut the end of that street, but a little to the west of it; this may indicate that some reasons existed for the deviation in both cases. Here, for the present judgment must be suspended, as the "spade" will in time settle the matter. This point would have been cleared by this time, but in tracing the wall eastward difficulties arose with some of the proprietors of fields on the sub ject of remuneration, and Dr. Bliss, merely as a strategical move in the negotiations, started his operations still farther to the east, where he picked up the line of the wall again uear the Pool of Siloam. There he found the wall runs south of the old pool, and turns up in a northerly direction, aud as the Hiunom Valley here meets the Kedrom Valley it is assumed that the wall will continue northward till it joins the portion of the Ophel wall which Warren came upon during his operations; this will then connect it with the old wall of the Temple inclosure at the southeast corner. The Ophel wall is mentioned in II Chronicles, xxvii, 3, where it is said Jotham 'built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and the wall of Ophel he built much." It is also referred to in Nehemiah, iii, 26-7 : "Moreover, the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over against the water gate towards the east, and the tower that lieth out. After them the Tekoites repaired mother piece, over against the great Lower that liefh out, even unto the wall of Ophel." Close to the corner, where the newly discovered wall turns northward, mother gate has been found. As four cr five courses of the draughted masonrv still exist, the details of this irate i 1 --------- 0 can be well made out. Its date may be also determined to within a few years, for Josephus says that at his lime Siloam was outside the walls; but Antonius, a martyr, who wrote about 370 A. D., states that " * * The mountain of Siloa is at the presant :lay Vithin the walls of the city, because the Empress Eudocia herself added these walls to the city." This makes it evident that the portion of the wall with its gates Dr. Bliss has brought to light at Siloam was that built by this errfpress, and its erection may be dated as having taken place within a year or two of the middle of the Fifth century. The remains of the cider wall that existed in the time of Josephus are no doubt still uuder ground, and will require to be sought for in order to make the exploratioa complete at this locality. Butler on Tillman.?Senator Butler was in Columbia last Wednesday, and there was a rumor in circulation to the effect that he had come for the rv 11 aT nolli ^ari nf at* Tillmnn t a puijjuov taiuu^ k^ciiatvi iiuuiuu iy account for the attack that gentleman had made on him in his speech on Monday. Asked about the matter by the reporters, he said : "My consideration for his brother, George D. Tillman, who is a manly man, a gentleman, and always strikes'right out from the shoulder, never hitting below the belt, restrains me from saying a great many things that I could say. I have denounced Ben Tillman to his face as a coward, a liar and a thief, and he did not resent it. If I should kick him now, he would howl like a spaniel and doubtless indict me for assault and battery. You know you ain't keep up with a constitutional liar like he is, and I shall leave him to enjoy all the glory he can gain by it tacking a mau behind his back, when he has no opportunity to reply. His statement- so far as it relates to me is a tissue of falsehoods from begiuuing :o end. Here is oue specimen : He refers to an interview between General Gary and General Roger at EdgeHeld on the day of election. Geueral Ruger was not at Edgefield at all and :he statement is pure fiction. He is equally at fault about the second Republican meeting at Edgefield. His recount of what occurred is a flagrant Misrepresentation of what did occur. But why attempt to follow a man who s so utterly regardless-of the truth i ml 1 in liii? nf Amnnff T nf iiiu icwivictds iu un .-uuicuiciits. jjcl jim go." Controversy Settled. Lancaster Ledger: The cotton .veigher controversy at Kershaw has )eeu settled by the resignation of both contestants. Another election will be aeld ou September 28, and it is agreed :hat both factions will support whoever may be elected. The IiUlgeivay Shortage. The Fairfield grand jury has found a shortage of $58 in the account of Dispenser Lewis, of Ridgewav, and insists .hat the solicitor take immediate steps :o collect the amount, ro Take Them to Atlanta. Senator Tilhnati is iu favor of a proposition to charter a special train tnd take the Clemson cadets and the Wiulhrop girls to the Atlanta exposition. ? Major Joseph C. Cobb, of Liucoluton, lied on the 16th instant, aged 73 years.