The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, September 26, 1890, Image 1
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Worth * *
Lv Augusta 8:25 a in 3:45 p m
Ar McCormick.. .10:40 a m 5:45 pm
“Anderson 1:10 pm 8:15 pm
“ Greenwood . ..11:40 a m 6:50 p m
“Laurens 12*46 p in 8:05 pm
‘•Greenville 2:40 pm 9:25 pm
“ Spartanburg.. .2:40 p m 9:48 p m
“ Henderson ville6:07 pm
“ Asheville 7:00 pm
Ar Hot Springs .. .8:40 p m
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S S CHEROKEE, Capt Bearse.
S 8 SEMINOLE, Capt Platt.
8 8 YEMASSEE, Capt MeKee.
8 8 DELAWARE, Capt Chichester.
South
Lv Hot Springs.
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.7:30 a m
Lv Asheville 9:05 am
“ Henderson ville.9:59 am
“ Spartanburg 3:50 p m 6:46 a m
“Greenville 3*25 pm 7:00 am
“ Laurens 5:25 p m 8:30 a m
“ Greenwood.... .6:50 p m 9:35 am
“Anderson 3:10 pm 8:00 am
“ McCormick 7:57 p ni 10:40 a m
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Will practice in the State and
United States Courts for South Caro
lina. Prompt attention given to col
lections.
CROFT & CHAFEE,
Attomeys-atLaw, Aiken, S. C.
John Gary Evans,
Attorney-at-Law.
\*ill practice in the Counties of
Aiken, EdgeAeld and Barnwell.
0. C. J0BDAN,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
AIKEN, 8. C.
Andrew T. Woodward,
Attorney-at-Law,
Bars well Court House, S. G.
Will practice iu the Courts of Aiken
and Barnwell Counties.
His Sentence Commuted to Imprison-
ment lor Life.
Walter Ashley,
Attorney at Law, Aiken, 8. C.
(Successor to Aldrich & Ashley.)
Practices in all the Courts. Special
attention to office work.
Governor Richardson has commu
ted to imprisonment for life In the
Penitentiary at hard labor the sen
tence of Whitfield Murrell, who was
to have been hanged at Edgefield,
Friday, September 26th, for the mur
der of Preston Yonce. The history of
of the case is familiar to all tiie read
ers of The News and Courier. The
Murrell-Carpenter murder trial, es
cape and recapture has been a cause
eelebre for years.
The commutation is made upon the
following grounds:
1st. That the jury recommended
the prisoner to the mercy of the Gov
ernor, which recommendation,accord-
to an almost invariable precedent,
has been considered as requiring a
commutation of sentence.
2nd. Judge Norton, who tried the
case, writes: “I am constrained upon
the consideration of the youth of the
prisoner to concur in the recommen
dation of the jury that executive
clemancy be extended to him, and
that his sentence be commuted to life
imprisonment. I concur in this re
commendation as an encouragement
to juries to find proper verdicts. Aside
from these considerations I see no
reason for the commutation."
3d. A petition from A. S. Tompkins
and Gary & Evans, attorneys for the
prisoner, setting iorth that “the Cou-*t
under the law cannot take judicial
cognizance of the recommendation to
mercy, in so far as it relates to ti~
judgment of the Court,” that “h
only hope under the law now lies wit
the Governor," and that he is only 18
years old.
4th. A letter from Solicitor Nelson,
who prosecuted the case,saying: “You
will see that a case of murder was
clearly made out against Murrell and
Carpenter—the latter not having yet
been captured since his escape from
the Edgefield jail. The jury saw fit
to commend them to mercy, and I
am frank to say that the law does not
require a commutation on that ground,
but it has been regulated rather by
common usage. I will not presume
to advise you on that point, as it is
not my duty to do so, and, therefore,
leave the matter of the commutation
of sentence entirely to your sound
Judgment." *
5th. A petition signed by ten of the
urymen who convicted Murrell, ask-
ng that the sentence “be commuted
to a lesser penalty, as the jury recom
mended the defendants to at the time
of rendering the verdict.”
6th. An affidavit by W. H. Ouzts,
sherifi'of Edgefield that one of the
jurymen, (S. B. Mavs,) assured him
that his understanding on the jury
was that that the recommendation to
mercy by the jury would have the ef
fect of saving the lives of Murrell and
Carpenter, and that it was made with
that intention.
7th. Petitions signed by neadjr 2,-
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THE SOUTH SINCE 1880.
Gratifying Facts of Oar Recent In
dustrial History.
From the Baltimore Sun.
The progress of the South in the
last ten years is one of the most grat
ifying facts of our reeeut industrial
history. The advance in the assessed
values of real and personal property
in the South, exclusive of Delaware,
Maryland and Missouri, between
1879-80 and 1889-90 figures as presen
ted, they show an aggregate growth
in ten years from $2,164,792,795 to $3,
685,868,273. This expansion of values
—the products of Southern muscle—
has coincided with a reduction of the
aggregate of Southern debts from
$204,035,020 to $170,814,534. The
twelve States here mentioned since
1880 increased their railroad mileage
from 17,808 miles to 38,892 miles, not
to speak of the 2,500 miles now in pro
cess of construction. Cotton mills
have grown from 142 in number to 230,
while the number of spiudles and
looms has been quadrupled. Pro
ducing pig iron at a cost of from $8
to $12 per ton, while in the North
ern States the cost is from $12 to $20
per ton, it is not surprising to find
that the pig fron production of the
South has grown ic the decade from
350,436 tons to 1,780,909 tons. The
lumber production has increased in
the same time from $46,979,062 in an
nual value to $108,378,000. The in-
Mries of the South have never been
®^wersifled as in the period just
Manufacturing on a large
ale has been added to mining, and
*here has been a phenomenal move
ment Southward of Northern facto
ries of various kinds. Yet the cotton
crop suffers no diminution. It will,
in fact, be larger than ever before.
Including cotton seed, the crop
brought her farmers last year over
$400,000,000. The aggregate value of
all Southern products in 1890 is esti
mated at $1,907,598,500. an increase of
$800,000,000 per year since 1880. There
is a hope fora country witli such ca
pacity for growth, provided sectional
patriots in quest of “an issue" can be
induced to suspeud the production of
force bills and other like devices for
destroying peace and order.
Curing Pea Vines.
A correspondent asks for my meth
od of curing pea vines for hay, says
W. J. Northen in the Southern Cul
tivator. If the conditious always re
mained the same, it would be quite an
easy matter to establish a fixed plan
for doing farm work. Indeed, if the
conditious were always the same, a
few years’experience would soon es
tablish a farm policy that every farm
er would recognize and adopt. What
your correspondent then really wants
to know is, not how to save pea vines
when everything is favorable, but
wh^n the weatLifi&.. the labor, the
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October.
A portrait of Speaker Reed, and a
fm 1-page pictvre of the Ways and
Means Committee of the House of
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the McKinley Tariff Bill, are included
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The Savannah News says that the
continous rains of the past ten days are
having a very telling effect on the
rice crop now being harvested. Rice
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