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J0-* \ \ f V L^nflru ^ dll •Vllt The Farmers’andMerchants* Bank, OF AIKEN, 8. C. Every accommodation extended to customers, consisten with safe, conservative Banking. Accents of small merchants and farmers a spe- i ciaity. W? take care of our customers. Correspordence invited, or call in to see us] when you want loans on Warehouse receipts.) „ • , - — - •« - - - The Farmers* and Merchants Bank. OF AIKEN, S. C. CAPITAL STOCK $50,000. President, J. P. McNair. Vice President, IL W. McCreary. - Cashier, B. Monroe Weeks. YOUR ACCOUNT SOLICITED. WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS. Arthur P. Ford, Editor and Proprietor AIKEN, S. C„ MONDAY. DECEMBER IT. 1900. 12,546,000 BALES Is Government Report of This Season’s Cotton Crop. MARKET BADLY SMASHED Price for Mar';h and January Broke to Lowest Point That Has Been Reached Slice Last August. Great Surprise Created. The crop reporting board of the bureau of statistics of the de partment of agriculture at Washing ton, from reports of the correspond ents and agents of the bureau in con junction with the recent report by the bureau in conjunction with the re cent report by the bureau of the cen sus of the quantity of cotton ginned, estimates that the total production of cotton in the United States for the year 19(M>-(>7 will amount to 6,001- 726,000 pounds (not including linters), equivalent to 12,546,000 bales of 506 pounds gross weight. The estimated production of 500 pound bales by states is as follows: Virginia .... . 13,000 North Carolina . . . 337,000 South Carolina . . . 875,000 Georgia Florida .... . 54,(XH Alabama .... .1,252,000 Mississippi .... Louisiana .... . 930,000 Texas Arkansas -. . . . . 791,000 Tennessee .... . 260,000 Missouri Oklahoma . . . . oou.000 Indian Territory. . . 405,000 Sensational Break Follows. A New York dispatch says: The government estimate of the cotton crop of 1906 placing the yield at 12, 564,000 bales of 500 pounds, gross weight, proved much more bearish than the trade had expected and caused a sensational drop in prices, accompanied by active and exciting trading in -he cotton market. The market had opened easy Tuesday morning before the report w’as is sued under scattering liquidation, and o» rumors that the figures vlould prove bearish. Before the report was published January sold off to 9.85 and March 10 05, after which January broke to 9.40 and March to 9.53, or 70 to 73 points net lower, of the lowest price reached since last August. There was a recovery of about 13 points in the late session, but the market closed steady at a decline of 63 to 64 points. MRS. BIRDSONG FOUND GUILTY. Mississippi Jury Disappointed Public With Unexpected Verdict. In one of the saddest courtroom scenes on reooid in the state of Mis sissippi, Mrs. Angie Birdsong was found guilty at Hazlehurst Tuesday of manslaughter for killing Dr. Tbos. Butler and was recommended to the mercy of the court by \e jury which tried the case. After the verdict, while the young defendant sat crying with a young child in her arms, a deputy approach ed to take her to jail. When he lift ed (he child from its mother, the lit tle one sobbed in fear, “Mamma, don’t • let him have me.” Among those whose eyes filled with tears at the seme of the verdict was the district attorney whose conduct of the case secured a conviction where the great majority of those in terested looked for either an acquittal cr a mistrial. The minimum penalty for man slaughter in Mississippi is a fine of $500. An appeal will be taken. Mrs. Birdsong, 22 years of age and a mem l»er of a leading Mississippi family, in November, 1905, shot and killed Dr. Thos. Butler, also prominently re lated. She alleged that he had boasted of illicit relations with her and that his boasts were untrue. The tragedy occurred in Monticello, Miss. APPLY FOR RE-ENLISTMENT. Six Discharged Negro Soldiers Call Upon Secretary Taft. The immediate result of the memo randum of Secretary Taft to the mili tary secretary, signed Tuesday, out lining the procedure to be followed by enlisted men of the twenty-fifth infantry, colored, who were discharg ed without honor, was the visit Wed nesday to the war department of six of the discharged men n ho applied for re-enlistment, declaring that they were innocent of all complicity in and knowledge o f the affair at Browns ville. CASH FOR NATION’S WARDS. Indian Appropriation Bill Calls for About Eight Millicns. The Indian aprcpriaDon bill for 1908, carrying about $ s-C •fl.OCO, was agree 1 upon Thursday by tin* house committee on Indian arf\ ! **s. The ap propriation for the Indian ■; in l?07 was $9,105,000. The estimates submit ted by the bureau r f T n ij in affairs for the year 190s ag y eg ue .I $7.97>t,OGO, or abfiut S-TJ.COO loss than the bill as amefmed. POLICE WATCH PRIESTS The Catholic Prelates and Vicars In France Summoned to Court fer In fraction of New Law, A Paris special says: Thursday was marked by the to'al absence of any of the sensational or dramatic invi- dents anticipated in alaimist quar ters in connection with the execution of the law of separation of church and state. The parish priests everywhere cel ebrated mass in the presence of un usually large congregations, but the actions of the authorities were con fined to noting infractions ot the law and citing the priests and vicars to appear before justices of the peace. Everywhere legal notices have been served for the evacuation of the ec clesiastical residences, the seminaries, etc. Several of these buildings were abandoned without further ado, but a majority of the prelates, while fully prepared to go, announced that they would not depart except under du ress. The net result of the uncompromis ing attitude assumed by the Vatican in this conflict with the French gov ernment, seems to be that the clergy will lose Its pensions, 38.300 of which have been granted and gazetted since the beginning of this year, that .all aspirants to the priesthood will be compelled to perform military service, and that the taking over of the episco pal mansions, rectories, seminaries, etc., by the state department and the commons will occur immediaely in stead of in December, 1907. / CRIME LAID TO SON-IN-LAW. Charles Hardy Jailed for Alleged As sassination of Brooks. Charles Hardy was arrested three miles west of Chipley, Oa., at the home of Henry Kimbrough, Thursday morning at 11 o’clock, on the charge of murdering his father-in-law, Chas. H. Brooks, whose assassination a week ago. caused such a great sensation in that section. Brooks was shot while seated be fore a fire at his home, his slayer standing on the outside and firing through the window/ pane. The coro ner’s jury, which had bean investigat ing the case, returned a verdict Wed nesday night, holding that the shot was fired by Hardy. When he learn ed of the verdict Hacdy left Chipley hurriedly. A posse was farmed soon Thursday morning and started in pur suit of him. and ne was captured a few hours later. The capture was made by Henry Kimbrough, whose wife is a first cousin of Hardy. There were rewards for Hardy’s arrest ag gregating $1,500, and one theory is that Kimbrough surrendered him in order that this fund could be used in defraying the expenses of the trial. This Is simply conjecture, but If It is true the situation is a most curi ous one. The governor offered five hundred dollars reward, which was supplemented by the people of Chip- ley. . •On account of the excited condi tions at Chipley, Hardy was carried to the Troup county jail at I.aGrange, by Sheriff Hulling. Hardy was later removed to Columbus. It is reported that Hardy, who is a farmer, was in sore financial straits. Mr. -Brooks, his father-in-law, was well to do, possessing in the neighborhood of $100,000 worth of property. A day or two before the killing Har ry went to the county seat at Hamil ton. and examined the property rec ords. If the coroner’s verdict should he substantiated the only motive that has been suggested for Hardy’s deed was that by the death of his father- in law his (Hardy’s) wife could come Into possession of her share of the estate. FOR MOST GIGANTIC WARSHIP Secretary of Navy Bonaparte Submits Plans to Congress. Congress received from Secretary Bonaparte Thursday the draft of the plans of the big battleship provided for at the last session. The plan selected bj the navy de partment was one prepared by the construction bureau, embodying many novel features. ROOSEVELT BOWS TO CONGRESS. President Yields to Knock-Out Blow Given Freak Spelling. President Roosevelt will withdraw- his simplified spelling order to the public printer, and hereafter all doc uments of the executive departments will again be printed in the old-fash ioned style. Representative Landis of the joint committee on spelling had a. confer ence Thursday with the president, when Mr. Roosevelt said he did not wish to have spelling overshadow matters of great importance, and ex pressed a willingness to revoke his order for the new spelling. SIXTY MILLIONS ADDED. Total Stock of the Great Northern Is Now $2"O.OCO.OOO. At a meeting of the directors of the Great Northern railway held In New York Wednesday it was voted to au thorize an increase of $60,000,000 in the company’s preferred stock and to give stcckhollders the opportunity of subscribing therefor at par. NO FREAK SPELLING Will Be Allowed in .Official Government Documents. HOUSE GOES ON RECORD By Decisive Vote of 142 to 25 Mem- bsrs Put Pet Hobby of Roose velt Under Ban—Debate Mirth Provoking. A Washington special says: Ths house of representatives Wednesday went on record in opposition to tha new spelling as recommended by tha president. By a ovte of 142 to 25 the following was adopted as a substi tute to the item reported by the ap propriations committee on the leg islative, executive judicial approprl- atien bill. “No money appropriated in this acH shall be used In connection with prin ting documents authorized by law or ordered by congress or either branoh thereof unless the same shall con form to the orthography recognized and used generally In accepted dic tionaries of the English language.” For hours during the session the debate on simplified spelling held the attention of the house and a score or more members took part In the dis cussion. Representative Crumpacker of Indi ana, made a point of order against the original paragraph in the bill which provided that public documents should be spelled as Webster’s or oth er generally accepted dictionaries spells them. Representative Bingham of Penn sylvania, in charge of the bill, then offered the amendment, which was adopted. During the discussion Mr. Sullivan of Massachusetts remarked that if the president, by “imperial ukase,” could chanee the spelling of 200 words of the English language he would hav© the authority to change 30,000 words, or every word in our language. If this could be done, he thought a new court language might be es tablished by executive decree for the American empire. “We got along very well with the English language until the reign of the present president of the United States,” said Mr. Sullivan. Mr. Crumpacker of Indiana said the house was not responsible for an order of the executive on the question of simplified spelling. He was of the opinion that legislation would retard progress and reform in spelling. Mr. Lacey of Iowa asked Mr. Crum- packer if the thought the public prin ter would have the discretion to spell the word ’Crumpacuer” with a T'..” and Mr. Crumpacker replied that he thought he would. Representative Grosvenor of Ohio wanted to know whr.t existing law the paragraph changed, and insisted that there was no iaw as to spelling ex cept as to the commonly accepted way. While Mr. Grosvenor was discuss ing the amendment, Mr Towne of New York asked him whether the item re ferred to was not “on page 23, be ginning with the line 23?” "Yes, I believe so,” replied Mr. Grosvenor. "Then, is that not a double skldoo, and if so, does it rot of necessity go out?” ^ “Oh, that’s an oM story!” replied Mr. Grosvenor, amid laughter. The great confusion resulting from the government’s double standard of spelling has made it necessary for the joint committee on printing to take immedite action, an 1 Senator Platt and Representative Landis of the com mittee are at. work on a resolution designed to strengthen the tangle at once. Even if the house and senate both pass the legislative hill, with a clause declaring for old fashioned spelling, the measure will not become effective until the beginning of the new year and meantime there would be no well defined policy as to spell ing. MRS. BIRDSONG HAS £RIENDS. Prominent Men Offer to Go On Her Bond for Any Amount. A special from Hazlehurt, Miss., says- Powerful influences are being moved to save Mrs Annie Birdsong, convicted of manslaughter, for killing Dr. Butler. Leading business men. state and county officials and members of tlm olergv are signing a petition to the court to grant Mrs. Birdsong bail un til her appeal for a new trial is de cided upon. Local business men say that they will furnish the voung wo man bail without lea vine the court room even if the amount is filhfi.oO:). NAMED BY THF. PRESIDENT. i Nominations Sent to Senate for Three Florida Official Plums. The president Tutsdey sent lo the senate the following Florida non-.iua lions • Register of the land office at Gaines ville, Fla, Henry Chubb. Receiver of public moneys at Gainesville, Fla., Shields Warren. r ~ ^ ^ ^ ^ r Palmetto State News: - ^ V » T » t V WTT'W < Store Burned as Baker Died. J. W. Baker, manager of the Bates- ville cotton mill, died In Atlanta, Ga.. a few days ago. A peculiar incident in connection with Mr. Baker’s death was that at the moment he expired in Atlanta his store was burned in the village of Batesville, which is near Greenville. * • * Goodwin Released on Bond. B. W. Goodwin, who. it will be remembered, shot and killed Eugene Leavell, several months ago, and who has been in the county jail at New berry since the killing, has secured bond and has been released from cus tody. Bail was giajited in the sum of five thousand dollars. * • * No Heyward County. The proposed new county of Hey ward was defeated by 38 votes of the requisite two-thirds of the total num ber of votes cast. All the precinct; showed a total vote cast of 504, of, which the new county received 298. This was the new county Augusta was so anxious to see formed. North Augusta, just across the Savannah being the county seat. Boy Kills Twin Sister. Lisco Coggins, a farmer living at Cedar Springs, near Spartanburg, returned from hunting and placed sis gun, which was loaded, in a corner of the room, in which his twin chil- drein, Hcintish, a boy, and Hattie Lou, a girl aged eight, and a negro girl, about the same age, were at play. The boy picked up the gun and aiming it at his sister and negro child, pulled the trigger. Hattie Lou was instantly killed, the colored girl was mortally' wounded and Heintish was perhaps seriously injured by the recoil of the gun. * 0 ’ * Constable Kills Negro Woman. Constable ®Js>. v d shot and kill' ed Malinda Williams, a negro woman, at her home, ten miles west of New berry. The coroner’s jury returned a verdict of accidental homicide. Floyd went to the woman’s house to collect an installment due on a Bible which she had purchased. The woman refused to pay the amount, it was claimed, and put the book in tlie constable’s buggy. Words passed between them, resulting in Floyd striking her with his whip. The wo man resisted the attack and broke the whip. The constable then drew his pistol, it is stated, and was beat ing her over the head when it was discharged, the ball entering the head at the base of the brain. The woman’s husband was pres ent at the time, and the above ac count is said to be practically his testimony. Bail was at once granted the con stable in the sum of $500. * * * Cashed Forged Express Orders. Leaving behind him a pretty young wife in tears, more or less baggage and several railroad and express of ficials who would give much to lay hands upon him again, 23 years old T. S. Travis, a telegraph operator of itinerant habits, cashed two forged express money orders at Columbia Sunday evening and disappeared af ter “making a night of it” in the red light district, with the proceeds of $86.26. Travis landed in Columbia with lus wife about, a week ago from Eiko, Ga.. and after a few days was given work in the office of the chief dis patcher for the Columbia division of the Southern railway. Mrs. Travis says that her husband is from Senoia, Ga., and that he lias always borne a good reputation, al though be has moved more or loss. According to advices from Elko, Ga., Travis and his wife landed at that place some three weeks ago. They seemed, without funds, but managed to secure board at the hotel. After working Ten days Travis secured of fers of a better position at Columbia. They got cut of Elko by pawning a diamond ring. It now develops that while there Travis purloined a cou ple of express money orders from the book the agent was using, tearing them out near the back of the book. * * * Baby Case in Supreme Court. Before the state supreme court a’ Columbia, the past week, an attorney representing the Salvation Army, ar gued an appeal from the decision of Judge Klugh, who, several months ago, refused to order an unknown white child to be turned over to the Salvation Army. The child is now in the custody ot a negro woman, Emma Robertson, in Columbia, and was found by the Sal vation Army, which proposed to take it from the negro and put it in more suitable surroundings. The woman and a physician, who has the child in charge, refused to give it up, and Judge Klugh sustained their claims to it. The Salvation Army is continuing Disease Land Healtb REVIVO RESTORES VITALITY “Made a Well Man of Me.” H.EVIVO JFLEIVIUXDY produces fine results in 30 daj-H. 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Southern Churchman, Richmond, Va., O THE OLDEST PROTESTANT EPIS COPAL CHURCH paper in the Uni ted Statei. All important diocesan and foreign news. Religious miscel lany and interesting and instructive family and children’s departments $2 a year; $1 for 6 months: 50 cent? for 3 months. Trial subscriptions 25 cents for 3 months. To clergy men $1.00 « year. the fight to get possession of the baby, which goes by the name of Richard Allen, and is evidently the child of wealthy parents, as it has costly clothes and everything that might be wanted. < » " S I . a, 1 * . * Rev. Creighton Expelled. Rev. C. W. Creighton has been dis missed from the South Carolina con- feience and expelled from the Meth odist ministry. The trial lasted sixty- three hours, prolonging the session of the conference two days. He has appealed to the general conference. He is editor of the Christian Appeal at GreenvL.G ..6 ..6 ..6 ..6 .... at Greenwood, and has made repeat ed charges of politics and ring rule in (he conference, also alleging that the presiding elders were self-seeking. The charge against him was “false hood and slander.” A committee of thirteen, in secret session, found him guilty. * 0 * Firebug Saved by Sheriff. Charged with the burning of the stable and barn of Mr. P. N. Boo zer, in which seventeen mules, fif teen bales of cotton and a large amount of hay and cotton seed were consumed at an early hour Saturday morning fifteen miles west of New berry, three negroes, Lewis Burton. Ernest Burton and Levi Ebo, ha\e been arrested and lodged in the conn iy jail by Sheriff M. M. Buford. Lewis Burton, it is said, has con fessed to the crime and implicated the two other negroes. No reason is assigned for the crime. Feeling runs high against Lewis Burton, who was captured by the cit izens of the community, and had it not been for the presence of some cool headed men, among them Sheriff Bu ford who pleaded with the crowd to let the law take its course, it is probable that the negro would have been lynched. Much credit is due ihe citizens of the community in al lowing the law to take its course in this case. There are many who think that this burning is the work of an organized band of negroes. This opinion is not shared by all, however, and it is hoped that such is not the case. WILL IT EVER BE PAID? Sugar Refining and Cooperage Com panies Fined $150,000 for Rebating. Fines aggregating $150,006 were im posed by Judge Holt in the Uniied States circuit court In New York Tuesday upon the American Sugar Refining company and the Brooklyn Cooperage company, after the defend ants had pleaded guilty to indictments charging acceptance of rebates on sugar shipments. The sugar refining company was fined $'0.0,jo am* tju* cooperage company $70,000. CONGRESS AFTER LUMBER MEN Investigaticn cf the Prevailing High Prices Ordered by House. Tile Iron>e Thursday adopted a res olution of Mr. MiilT of Kansas, au thorizing the secretory oi commerce and labor io investigate causes of the* bi-.-.h prices of lumber in the various r: :ges cf manufacture and sale. This investigation is to be made with the ar ici.tor object cf ascertaining oetber or i j t ’•■ eient high prices ie the result of trusts. Established 1881. Price 81.50 a Year, in Advance. THE HAGNOUA !NN. AIKEN, SOUTH CAROLINA. FOR THE SEASON OF 1906-1907. A riodern Family Hotel. HEATED WITH HOT WATER FURNACES, AND OPEN FIRE PLACES IN ALL ROOMS. ELECTRIC* LIGHTS, HOT AND COLD BATHS AND ALL MODERN IMPROVEMENTS. CUISINE AND SERVICE THE BEST. I FOR TERMS, ETC., ADDRESS, J HENRY BUSCH, THE MAGNOLIA INN, AIKEN, S. C. Pine Forest inn High Class Rooms en open fires. 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