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AIKEN S> C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, ISSO.
VOLUME 5.r—NUMBER 44.
ereon is making
in the land since
Europe, and his
i straight to the mar*
ifTair* in the follow-
tray:
Uie party, as represent-
fessionul leaders, is, in
lars, no bettor tiian the
kpeu and
lave got
rhd all the
fcrds into tiie
ne managers of
■ anyt^ing except
iprinciple or
leTf betweeh them
iir ambition. The
tnerhtiU^ of political
Ignited amtes 1ms not
worthvhepding or
coiniHjscd a sentence
isaUieinhered. How to
|make money without working for it,
and how to get oi ( lice quick and easy,
doth possess them only. Your aver-
[age (Congressman rarefy knows when
iis soul is his own, or wljetHer ha has
.soul. At Washington it is the beg-
Ear cukhoirieback tvbo i# in the sad-
miPfilUlieDl
apouhirs in
produced a tin
^studying, or
rorthy to lie
f/UTTtS'a’S CHBfJKEKE® CAREr.ii.
His Nomadic Hiator}’ as Itelated by
His Brothers in Michigan.
Jveu’ York World.
DfcfRorr, Mich. Aug.—In the town
of Clinton, Mich., lives Charles J.aud
Straight Into lH. D. Cutting, the only l*rothers of
h a Noble j Editor Cutting, who is now figuring
Dcmocrai ic j ag an inter-national ciiaracter. The
elder, Charles, is the village clerk and
express agent, and the younger is
President of the Michigan Bee Keep
ers’ Association. They went there
in the COs and have ’leen respected
citizens ever since. They tell the fol
lowing story of their brother’s life:
August Cutting was born in the lit
tle town of Hudson, N. Y., in 1839.
After a few years in the public
schools, at an early age lie went into
the village newspaper office, the Star,
to learn the trade of a printer. In
those days a printer’s education in the
art was not considered complete until
he had travelled from place to place
as a “jour.” Young Cutting rounded
out his apprenticeship iu the usuul
way, and the roving habits he con
tracted then have clung to him more
or less through his career. He work
ed in various newspaper offices in the
East, and was on the Albany Evening
Journal for several years. In ISoS,
about the time the family moved to
Michigan, Cutting was employed on
the Cleveland Leader. Growing tired
of the place ho drifted South. The
war came on, communicatioi^ietween
f o t w7
NO FEAB OF MEXICO.
lie,
l\v\<
lown ruthlessly the
’of freedom and free-
gallop aroubeLtlie lit-
Jilr which he has construc-
df out of tlie wreck of the
Jeffersonian system,
inot say, as I am made to
At tljre President is a party to
desecration which is go-
or that lie was wanting in
pd courage. On the con-
one man amongst a
fhom I have epcoun-
[tioiml Capital who is
to emancipate our
'itafenoble surround
ed whilst I
Ii atllmes ill advised
ami''unfortunate in
hoi-*? In my judge-
[v in advance of those
is not a man of
LLo IsNa extent
, a mSu of vvinci-1
ho iUxsh beVievt^Vn
tn utoro thn.i
il« it xne
le question of
H and given it a
irtion which do m t
he has been steadily
rail'd gaining, and I am not
to say, or wiUiug to say, that
fistraiiap^is u failure. If it
i T e to the Democratic hopes
isstofi, for upon its success
^future and the fate of the,
party. Tiie President
kor wrong, but, right or
ist work out his salva-
io u^Ljttitioset
the North and South was cut”ofT and
the family lost all trace of his where
abouts. Finally they heard that he
was in Nashville, where he had joined
an independent home company form
ed to protect the city. When Nash
ville was taken by Federal forces Cut
ting returned North. From this epi
sode iu his career has arisen the vari
ous stories that he was in the Confed
erate service and deserted it, that he
belonged to a Union Missouri regi
ment, and deserted to the enemy, etc.
After his return North Cutting
worked in Cincinnati at his trade,
thence con^jjaJtoJ^g.troit wherglke
stayed a short fTme/aiuiiy of jbireJki
printers of the city still retain a dim
recollection of him. From Detroit he
went to Pcrrysburg, O., thence to To
ledo. At Toledo he married. The
marriage proved an unhappy one
and the /uiyple separated, a
divorce being sdn^^ntly obtained.
Numerous papers have Cut
ting once resided at (.•lintoir'^—
learned his trudQ~-4h£re^ Such was
i rlot y ,l ° cane. In 1S05 ho piiM a visit
i to his mother and brothers iu Clinton,
remaining perhaps a week. This, and
his brief sojourn iu Detroit, constitute
the only claim Michigan has upon
Cutting for friendship.
After his visit at Clinton Cutting
turned his steps to the growing West
as a fitting field for his energy. He
.was located at Kansas City for a few
years, and in partnership, with a man
mod Williams published the Daily
’ na
’/Tii
mes. Cutting married again at
Kansas City and
with him since,
wife has lived
in El
of
Geus. Schofield and Chandler Bold—
What Sheridan Thought
JYete York Star.
The possibility of a war with Mex
ico lias aroused a good deal of feeling
in New York. Yesterday a promi
nent member of the Maritime Ex
change, who is currently reported to
be an autliority upon naval affairs,
held an animated conversation with a
veteran of’47in aBroadway restaurant.
“Why, sir,” he exclaimed, “we should
think twice before we grapple with
those greasers. What preparation
have we? Look at our coast defenses
or rather, don’t look at them, for they
are not there to look at. Look at our
navy—what’s left of it! Not a single
ironclad of the first-class among the
whole of tiiem! Why, there is noth
ing to peeveut the Mexican navy
steaming into New York harbor to
morrow and blow ingthe island ofMan-
hattan into the heart of Westchester
county!”
The veteran suggested torpedoed,
but the maritime man laughed. “Tor
pedoes! Fiddlesticks! All the Mexi
can would have to do would be to
send a number of dummy ships
across our torpedo line. These would
be blown up, and the harbor would
be free for the men-of-war to enter,”
Commodore Chandler w r as fanning
himself with a prodigious palm leaf
in his headquarters at the Navy Yard
Brooklyn, when the foregoing con
versation was repeated to him.
“Oh, my!” and the Commodore
smiled. “Do you know anything
about the Mexican navy which the
Maritime Exchange man talks so
glibly about? This book contains all
the navies of the world worth speaking
about, and Mexico is not among them.
Still they have some cruisers—either
three or four, I have forgotten which
They are small affairs, but each of
then is armed with three modern
breech-loading steel rifles. I met
two of them off tiie Pacific coast last
year. If there were more of them
they might be worth discussing, but
as it is they amouut to nothing.”
“But have we any vessels of the
first rate at all,Commodore—-not scows
but meu-of-w'ar?”
“Humph!” said the Commodore.
“There is the Chicago, now building < >made by Diaz in 1877, when ho took
and observation teaches me that for
raw,poorly disciplined troops they are
a positive detriment; for well disci
plined, superior troops only a small
advantage; but for steady, good ordi
nary soldiers a decided advantage.
Now, I doubt if the Mexicans come
within this latter category. The rea
son for this seeming anomaly is plain
to every miiitarV man. A sharp
shooter can handle cartridges nearly
as quickly as a magazine gun
can push them into place; while a
raw man would muke a greater uless
of a magazine gun than he would of
loading a single-shot breechloader.”
“What do you believe would be the
result of war between the nations?”
“Let them tackle us and find out,”
replied the General, grimly.
When Gen. Grant made his tour of
Mexico five years ago, he was accom
panied by Gen. Sheridan. In conversa
tion with army officers and other gen
tlemen, after their return, both Gen
erals expressed surprise at the efficien
cy of the Mexican army. They made
full notes of everything they saw, in
cluding the topography of the country,
the roads, situations of towns and for
tifications. The Mexican government
treated the visitors with every mark of
respect, and wherever the soldiers
were stationed reviews were held. In
tire City of Mexico the military dis
play was a most imposing one, and
was the subject of frequent references
by Gen. Grant and Gen. Sheridan.
The latter was heard to say one daj’
that it would take 400,000 of our troops
to march to the City of Mexico. The ef
ficieucy of the Mexican army, he said,
was admirable,butthey lacked officers.
With officers of equal ability, Gen.
Sheridan thought that the Mexican
troops would prove as formidable an
enemy as the United States could en-
feounter. After the last revolution,
which ended iu the overthrow of
Lerdo, Gen. Diaz immediately began
a system of rigid army discipline,
which has resulted in bringing the
Mexican regulars' up to a remarkably
tine standing. In commenting upon
this subject a prominent army officer
well acquainted with Mexican milita
ry affairs said that the troops of the sis
ter republic are hardier andean stand
much more fatigue than ours. As an
illustration of this he cited the march
COLUMBIA. 8. C.
CUTTING IN JAIL.
MUUDURa IN BOGKFiKJbD.
PUVAJL IN DUKAXCB VILIC.
^-^Atlanta, which
trial
•md many
put
it Chester; fourteen guns, 4,500 tons
displacement. She could be got
roadyin a vtry short time. Then there’s
went on hor
, ^ is of the second
rate, but sn*-iai 3 eight gu
modern improvements.”
“What other vessels are there
which Could be immediately
active service?”
The Commodore took up a naval
guide and ran over its pages, ticking
oil the serviceable boats with a blue
pencil and keeping up a running fire
of comments all the while.
“The Boston, eight guns, 3,000 tons
displacement; she is now in Chester
almost completed. The Trenton, ten
guns, 3,900 tons; on her way home
from the Asiatic station. The Lan
caster, also ten guns, 3,250 tons;
cruising in the 8outh Atlantic.
4,000 troops seventy-four miles iu one
day, These soldiers were infantry.
Mexican soldiers are said to be as
tough as their mustangs and capable
of more endurance.
Where Will it End,
hr/micle August lUh.
be mills in Au-
locitl o«>;i’!HMS.
s a deplorable one. Four
orkers are divorced from
s of support. Bix thous
and thrown out to find a
piecarious \j s ^ ence> does not mat-
ter ju?>t noiv ,j io . g ^ ()r w j 10
to dame. V u ^hall R0 t, stop to con
sider these tl • Ifc is enoUffh for
us to know the bu8iueS8 of the
town is serious tbreatened and the
elfare of one-/.
. _ sixth of our population
[Brooklyn, fourteen guns, 3,000 t«M^Wj , Jf 0 P ard y/ it is enough to know
“~^her way to China, The the clothing which
n guns; now the can buy will not be
d that the comfort and the
ch settled occupation
lied. It is
1
A New State Liauk Personal and Po
litical Mention.
Augusta Chronicle.
Columbia, S. C. August 12.—A
State bank will bo organized here in
a few days. A charter has been ob
tained and several of the incorpora
tors met yesterday and discussed the
matter. They subscribed $24,000.
Among the prominent gentlemen
present were Governor Sheppard and
Judge A. C. Haskell. The bank is
authorized to commence business on
a capital of $20,000, lint it will not go
into active operation until $50,060 has
been subscribed, this will be done in a
few days, as several wealthy gentle
men have already signified their In
tention to become stockholders.
Judge Haskell, who is the money
spirit iu the enterprise, says that a
bank organized under the State law
has many "advantages over the na
tional banks. It is a fact that the
State banks in Charleston do a much
larger business than the national
banks. Foreign capital has been offer
ed tiie incorporators, but they prefer
to make the bank a home institution
and want all the stock taken here.
Judge Haskell will devote his time to
the banking business, and his repu
tation is a guarantee of its complete
success, The charter of this bank
authorizes it to establish branches
throughout the State, and this will be
done as soon as business justifies.
The question of the hour is who are
the three men on the State ticket that
Capt. Till man claims to have been
nominated by the “farmers’ move
ment?” There were several farmers
on it, but none, so far as known, who
have expressed their full sympathy
with Mr- Tillman’s views.
Several of the counties have pre
pared. regular little catechisms for
their cafididates for the Legislature
and the aforesaid candidates ara stu
dying these questions carefully. They
will have a hard time to please all
their constituents.
Yesterday n^orning a servant
brought a vessel of boiling hot water
into a room at Comptroller General
Stoney’s house, and left it to attend
to some other duties. Captain Sto-
uey’s two-year-old child was near
enough to reach the vessel and taking
hold of it, turned it over and the boil
ing water scalded it so badly that it
died from the effects last night. Cap
tain and Mrs Stoney’s friends deeply
sympathize with them in their severe
affliction.
Governor Sheppard refused to grant
the petition for the romoval of J. W.
Furman, a Trial Justice of Barnwell
ooimly. • Ho. was requested to do so on
the ground that Mr. Furman was too
old to discharge the duties of the of
fice, hut the petition did not show that
Mr. Furman vas inefficient.
Mr. N. G. Go«/Hies, the resident
correspondent of the-News and Cour
ier, has gone to Flat Bock, North
Carolina to enjoy a summer vaca
tion.
Work of the Conveution.
Georgetown Enquirer.
The ticket selected by the Demo
cratic State Convention will give gen
eral /SatUifactiou. It represents, to a
great extent, the “now deal” idea and
yet its composition is such that con
servative people need feel no appre-
lension for the safety of the State and
tions. The most remarkable
he ticket is that it should
How He Looks and What He Thinks
of His Case—The Sentence.
Correspondent of the New York
World who saw Editor Cutting in the
Mexican jail at El Paso del Norte on
Sunday says:
The prisoner was found In the open
court of the prison in his shirt sleeves
enjoying the cool evening preparatory
to spending a hot, uncomfortable night
in his cell. The only visible change
in his looks since his incarcera
tion is a slight tinge of gray In his
hair. He is enjoying good health,
and since the extra allowance for his
support has been made be manages to
live very fairly. He takes his present
predicament calmly, and has the ut
most confidence that something will
turn up to succor him. His theory is
t mt diplomatic relations will cease on
Monday, and, in that case, Mexico
will back down. Booncr than go to
war it will grant him a pardon, he
thinks.
Outsiders do not take such a san
guine view of affairs. They say that
Cutting is a doomed man. Should the
United States take the final step and
declare war, Cutting undoubtedly
will be the first man to
be put to the bayonet.
On the other hand, if the goverument
does not interfere and the prisoner is
compelled to serve out the sen-
teuee imposed on him, he will never
live to see it’s expiration, as no Ameri
can can do the work that will be im
posed on Cutting, on the allowance
for food of five cents a day. That lip
will be pardoned is generally disbeliev
ed, as the Mexicans have got their
backs up.
In passing sentence upon Cutting,
the Mexican District Judge at Paso
delNorte used the following language:
“It is the decree of this court that tiie
defendant, A K Cutting, bo condemn
ed to serve the State of Chihuhua at
hard labor on public works for the
period of one year,and in addition pay
to tiie treasurer of the State the sum of
$G00, and, in the event of failure tp
pay this fine, that the said A-. K.
Cutting oe held to serve out an addi
tional 100 days at hard labor on pub
lic works of the State. It is further
more decreed that the said A. K. Cut
ting be held responsible to a civil suit
for damages to Emigdio Medina, the
party injured by the illegal publication
by defendant, should the said Medina
desire to institute such a suit. In re
gard to tiie application of the prosecut
ing attorney, asking that the court
recommend that the United States
Consul at this point be withdrawn on
account of offensive officiousness, the
court holds that it is a matter of such
importance as to be entirely beyond its
scope, and the application is therefore
respectfully referred to the Supreme
Court of Chihuahua for action.”
As soon as the virdict became
known on the American side the ex
citement became intense, every one
seeming to understand that a crisis was
rapidly jpproaching. Places were
opened for iho enrollment of minute-
men, nearly^yv-ery able-bodied man
in the community volunteering. On
the Mexican side the excitement is
equally intense.
One Humlretl ami Twelve Men Killed The Hluhwaymun of the Rockies on
In Twelve Years.
News and Courier'.
Edoefielp, August 9.—Mr. M. L.
Bonham relieved his brother, Solici
tor It. G. Bonham, of the duty of con
ducting the cases that came up to-day
and disposed of thocases against John
Holmes, colored, indicted for com
pound larceny, verdict, guilty; and
George Washington and Benj. Adams,
both colored, for highway roberryand
larceny. The last two prisoners were
represented by Mr. O. Sheppard
which is sufficient in itself to say that
that the verdict was “not guilty.”
The case of the State against R. L.
Jones, whit,e for murder, was set for
to-day and called, but on account of
the absence of five of the jurors who
were drawn to serve this week, it was
impossible to proceed with It until
five;additIonal names could be drawn
and the persons drawn brought here
Tiie case, therefore, had to go over
until to-morrow.
The R. T. Jones case is the worst on
the calendar, and isexciting great in
terest. The interest manifested in it
is unprecedented for Edgefield, as
they generally give such frequent oc
currences as murder no more thought
or concern than they would a common
place incident, such as a street fight.
Just for curiosity Mr. 8. McG. Sim-
kins, a young lawyer of the Edge-
fl.-Id Bar and your correspondent
went over the Sessions docket for the
past twelve years to see how many
cold-blooded murders had been com
mitted in this county and brought to
trial during that time, and the result
arrived
at shows
one hundred and
twelve, distributed as follows:
1874
16
1881
8
1875....
4
1882
5
1876
4
1883 •
5
1877....
12
1884.
5
1878....
14
1885
15
1879
3
1886
14
1880....
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Canvass Before the Nomination,
Columbia Record.
When the Republican party had
sufficient life In this State to make the
result of an election doubtful, and to
render it necessary that voters should
be won over from that party to vote
for the Democratic nominees, it wag
right and proper to carry on a vigo
rous campaign between the time
when the nominations were made and
tiie time when the election was to
take place. The speeches were made
and arguments put forth to convince
Republican voters that the best inter
ests of the country and of themaelves
required that they should abandon
that party and vote the ticket presen
ted by the Democrats. Now, ho\v«
ever, this necessity does not exist.
The Republican party has been so
badly beaten and demoralized, the
exposure of the abominable abuses
has been so damaging that it cannot
get support of a sufficient number of
voters in South Carolina to enable it
to make a fight with even a slight
hope of success. The campaign after
the nominations are made will he of no
practical use. Wecau carry the election
without making a single new convert
r• v ^ 1 at nnrtv Indeed it begins to
His Way to Albany's Walls.
Eew York World.
Chicago, Aug. 6.—Col. Claude
Duval, of the Rocky Mountains, is in
one of the dungeons at the Central
police station. He was brought here
to-day by United States Marshal W.
Si. Desmond. To-morrow he will
taken to Albany penitentiary, New
York. He is under a life sentence
for robbing the United Slates mall.
Marion Gamble Is bis name in private
life, and be is 20 years of age. He is
not a particularly attractive individ
ual shackled in a close cell, but when
his chains were removed 4hi,s evening
and he told the story of his first high
way adventures, the while blowing
little puffs of blue smoke from a ciga
rette in a nonchalant way, there was
a strange facination about him.
“I’m an Illinois boy,” said he “and
I struck out for the West and landed
in the mountains when I was sixteen.
I knocked about roundin' up and cut
ting out cattle for ranchmen for a
while, and then I got tired of work
and went to Wyoming Territory. I
got married there, and I’ve a wife and
a 6-year-old baby somewhere. They
don’t know where I am, and it’s just ao
well as they don’t, but that’s none of
your business.
“I got poor and my lines were hard.
One night in July, 1882, Tom Sheldon
the traitor, Frank Wiley and me were
settin’ in a drinkin’ place In Deer
Lodge, vffien a wealthy stockman
came in. I forget his name, but we
found out that he had $25,000, and
that he was gain’ to take the stage
coach tor some point across the rocky
divide on Thursday. We set out on
our horses and waited near the divide
for Thursday and the coach. Along
about noon the old coach came a creak
in’ up the pass. When it readied the
little clump of bushes where we wei»
tetherin’ our horses we rushed out and
ordered the driver to hold up. Hr
was an eld stager and knew his busi
ness. He just dropped his lines and
held up. Wiley held the horses, and
Sheldon and me ordered the passen
gers out. I stood ’om all in a line ex
cept the women folks. I don’t believ*
in robbln’ women. They were most
scared to death, andtho coach full o<
shootin’ irons at that.
“We only got about $4,000 In Jewel#
and money, for the stock man vjlgm’t
in thechach. He had got drunk4nd
missed connection and he never got
tired bloivin’ about the good luck
whiskey uta^ht him. He talked
about it so much that now he’s tbo
worst drunkardUL-Dger Lodge./ ~
mlssiu’ him wasn’t the elriy bad fi
had. While I was searcl
flyer my mask fell off,
fled me when I was
wards. By the,
name was PenroJ
clothin’ drummer i
United States offle
from the Wells-Fs
a durned lie,"
His profits on^
mated varlot
$200,000.
There
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