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BY E. B. MUEEA T^??HW?oirUMN. J. G. CLINKSCALES, Editor. ' ~^TruBt ;es of District No. 17 request us to announce that the public schools will close Friday 29th inst. Don't forget that Christmas is gone and the work of another year lies before you. What can yon do ? Are you doing it ? ; - ' The meeting of the Association will -?ie hj?d it Hunter's Spring. .Would it not be well for. some one .of pur teachers to demonstrate to the Association the use of the Beading Chart, in teaching little children to read? We hate not seen the light of Mr. Burriss'a countenance since his return from the Land of Flowers. Since he has stolen from us one of our best teachers, he must himself be one of the best work era daring the year 1888. It is gratifying to know that many of our schools ran up to the 23d of last month with flying colors. Some dwin? dled considerably as the Christmas holi? days approached. All the teachers seemed to bt> in earnest in their efforts to induce the children to hold out bravely to the end of the session; but many of them found themselves on Thursday and Friday, the 22d and 23d of December, with but a handful of pupiis. When our people learn the importance of regu? lar and faithful attendance upon school duties, the public sehools will accomplish a great deal more than is possible so long as there is so much indifference to this matter. Why /or a very frivolous excuse . keep a child at homo one or two weeks after school begins, and then Btop him ten days before the close of the session ? Does common sense not teach the people that such a course is not business, that it is unjust,and damaging to the child? Besides it is unfair to the teacher. If one does not send his child promptly and regularly to school, he has no right to complain if the advancement of the child does not measure up to what he expected. TRINITY SCHOOL This is the first school that has ever been placed solely, in charge of Miss Bet tie Smith. The new teacher, having been assistant some time at Lebanon under a systematic worker, starts off in her new field of labor -with considerable "'- advantage over many other young teach* ere. We are glad to know that the ma? chinery of*that school moves smoothly. A very comfortable house, good desks, good blackboards and a progressive teach? er, that school dese.res the success it is enjoying. high shoals. One of the smallest, neatest, best equipped and best managed schools in the County is that under the control of Miss Lizzie H. Anderson in No. 11. It has seldom been our pleasure to find children better- posted. They have one very^great advantage over many other children?their teacher has time to give them alTthe attention they need. The mistake that some teachers and some patrons make in concluding that a very small number of pupils means an insig? nificant school is inexcusable. The largest schools are not always the best by a great deal. ??> Said one of the moat in? telligent gentlemen of our acquaintance a few days ago to us: "I wish Uie teacher of my children had only half the number of pupils and would charge double the tuition fees. She is the best teacher I ever saw, but has too many pupils.*' That gentleman, no doubt, expressed the {> wish of many other patrons. But let us back to High Shoals. Suffice- it to say that Miss Anderson is doingan admirable work there. She is an active member of the Association, and will be an earnest v reader of the good books in the Library. :?.'? " teachers' library. We are glad to announce that the first lot of books ordered for the Teachers' Library are now in this office. Those teachers who have paid in their dollar can call or send for any one of the books before ub. Another lot is ordered and ?will be here this week. We are more than pleased with the books in hand, and are fully confident that our teachers will find many valuable and helpful sugges? tions in them. We are particularly well pleased with Tate's "Philosophy of Edu? cation," "School Devices" by Shaw & Donnell, Payne's ''Lectures on Educa? tion," "Lectures on Teaching" by J. G. Fitch, and "Talks on Teaching" by T. m Parker. Those of our teachers who are accus? tomed to read the Teachers' Institute and Practical Teacher are familiar with Dr. Parker's striking way of putting things and his peculiar level-headednes3 on any question pertaining to school room work. All these books mentioned, besides others, are very fine and brim full of suggestions. Here is food for ns as teachers; let us appropriate it and grow stronger during the year 1888. smith's chapel school. Miss Nettie Miller has made a fine start at Smith's Chapel. Her school is not large, but large enongh. Miss Nettie has won the hearts of her pupils and the confidence and respect of her patrons. She is fond of teaching, and furnished sufficient evidence of effort to do thor? ough work. Her pupils were prompt and attentive, showing that the teacher had not been neglectful of the small matters that go very far toward making a teacher a success or a failure. So much fur the teacher and pupils?how about the patrons? Well, the patrons have taken a step in the right direction. They have made the bouse somewhat comfort? able by recovering it and stopping a few cracks for which they had no particular use just at this season. For this piece of good work they deserve commendation. But what a pity they stopped before they arranged writing desks or made a black? board! The house is passable, but the patrons are inexcusable fur omitting these .two most important essentials. A school house with no blackboard and no desks is unfinished. The good people in the Y & CO. neighborhood of this school will surely appreciate their opportunities now that they have a good teacher, and provide for her such things as are absolutely in? dispensable. Blackboards and desks she must have. If the people will not pro* vide them, we must insist that the trustees provide them and shorten the school term. We shall Bee how much in earnest these good people are about the education of their children. BISHOP'S BRANCH. The 23rd of December last was spent most delightfully with the pupils and patrons of Bishop's Branch. By special invitation of tho teacher, Miss Olivia Newton, we went to witness the closing exercises of the school. We would not speak flattering words, we would not give undue praise, and we do hope we may not be misunderstood when we say that the Bishop's Branch School is presided over in a manner that would do credit to an older head than Miss Newton's and to a woman of far more experience. In the forenoon we witnessed the regu? lar exercises?the regular daily pro? gramme of studies and recitations. Things moved like clock-work, moved indeed at the Bound of the bell, and the recitations gave evidence of great pains? taking and patience. "Let us have'sys? tem" is one of the nottoes of that achool, and system they have. Outside the city of Anderson and the town of William? ston, we have not in the County a school house so well equipped with blackboards and other school apparatus. Blackboards are almost innumerable, and some of our teachers may wonder when they learn that a number of them were made by Miss Newton's own bands. Buying the paints already mixed, which may be done at any well kept drug store, she painted the walls of the school room to suit her own taste and convenience. Why may not others do likewise ? We like that ros? trum, that organ in the corner, that can? non ball to be used as a globe, those numerous blackboards, that comfortable fireplace and still more comfortable stove. The people of Bishop's Branch are not asleep. The house is nicely finished in? side, but, unfortunately, leaks very badly. At the conclusion of the exercises on December 23rd, a subscription was taken for the purpose of recovering the house. A sufficient amount was raised to put a nice neat covering on the building and preserve it from decay. Some subscribed money, while others subscribed boards or work. Their object is to cover the house and preserve the property, and they get about it iu eurncst. We were specially pleased with the declamation of the four young men who spoke. They spoke with unusual free? dom and* ease, evincing a great deal of care and training on the part of the teacher.. Let it not be forgotten that she is a "woman teacher." Those young men have in them the elements of orato? ry. Miss Newton has not left them wholly untouched. Miss Newton misses no meetings of Institutes or Associations, and is a hearty subscriber to the Library Fund. Larger' Harvests on Smaller Fields, M; y farmers do not understand bow to rec 're their fields and increase their harvests. I do not intend to go into a long and labored scientific exposition of the means and methods required to ac? complish this, but propose to give some plain, practical advice to govern the far rner who may determine to adopt, as a rule of action, smaller fields and larger harvests. 1st. Begin 'by laying off one half of the land you have usually cultivated and secure it from stock by a good fence. When this is done realize that your great object is to make that half of your farm produce more the first year than the whole did the last year. Now go earn? estly and industriously to work to make this result certain. 2d. Gather together in one common mass everything which may help to form a valuable compost. To prevent waste place your material for the compost heap in a ditch dug for the purpose, and into it dump all the scrapings from your woodyard, stable, cow and sheep lots, and in fact, every other available sub? stance. Keep this up until.your ditch is nearly filled, when you should prepare a similar receptacle for the future accumu? lations. The compost mass should be kept sufficiently-moist to promote fermen? tation ; cover it so as to protect it from the sun, and also secured it from the rains. 3d. If you raise cotton to any extent, see to it that all the . seed, except those required for the next year's planting, are returned to the soil by which they were produced. Avoid the folly of -filing to the oil mills unless you are <-ul!iut>uiiy near to substitute the cotton -erd meal or cake for the whole seed, and in such quantities as will give you the advantage in the exchange. 4tb. Turn over all of the laud in the fall which you intend to cultivate the following year, being careful to cover all the vegetable accumulations that are on the surface. 5th. Apply your compost and other fertilizers (if the compost heaps are not sufficient) early in the year so that when the time for planting comes you may put in your seed with the assurauce that your land is possessed of more than double the producing power of the last year, and you will be likely to realize a greater harvest from half the land, half the labor and half the expense involved in the production of last year's crop. 6th. Continue to increase the fertility of your land, from year to year, for five years, and at the end of this period you can estimate your farm at $100 per acre, instead of ?5 or $10, which was its in? trinsic and commercial value when ypu adopted as a rule of action, "Smaller Gelds and larger harvests." You may also congratulate yourself that you have increased your harvests at much less labor and expense, having had abundant opportunity to improve your buildings and pay greater attention to your domes? tic animals, fowls, etc.?Southern Culti? vator. ? How to got nlong r. oil in '.be world hire a man with an jui*?er or drill to bore one for you. CHRISTMAS IS OVER And Arp Tells How tlio Children Spent It. Christmas is over at last and every? thing cleaned up but the smell of the crackers. Those chaps would slip one in the fireplace or the grate every now and then just to see us jump and bear the maternal ancester threaten and scbld. No more crackers now for a year. No roman candles nor rockets nor fizgigs, no kerosene fireballs to throw around. The show is over. The Christmas tree was soon unloaded of its pretty things and has been removed. It was a pretty tree with its lighted candles and its popcorn festoons and its freight of dolls and toys and pretty books. Everybody got some? thing nice and was happy. I got a nice silk cap to cover my defenseless head and I'm happy too?so it is all right and no loss on our side. It cost some money, for Christmas in its last analysis is the paternal pocketbook, bei it is no loss, the happiness is worth the money. "Two tigers shot this morning." I was looking over the leaves of an old diary, one that I kept during the war, and that was the memorandum made just 26 years ago. "Two tigers 'hot this morn? ing.'*- It was at Center vi lie not far from Manasses, General Joe Johnston's army was in winter quarters there, aud the winter was a cold and bitter one, and the days were long and weary. There was a company from Louisiana called the Tigers, and the name fitted them well, for they were a wild, untamed and untama? ble set of rongb, restless and determined men. They were brave and reckless. The first battle of Manasses had given them a taste for fighting and they wanted more. This winter quarter business did not agree with them at all, and their officers found it impossible to restrain them, or keep them in military disci? pline. They ransacked the naborhood at their pleasure and committed many out? rages upon the rights of person and property. On one occasion two of them resisted arrest and struck their officers and a regular mutiny seemed impending. This state of things had to be bold dealt with, and so they were overpowered and a courtmartial ordered at once by General Johnston. Their crime was committed one evening. They were tried next day and convicted and con? demned, and the Lext morning were shot. Blindfolded and kneeling, they faced the minnie rifles and received the fatal bul? lets without a murmur or a prayer. Twel<"> men fired at each, but only six of the guns were loaded, and not a man of the twelve knew whether there was a ball in his gun or not. They are not allowed to know, for the guns are loaded by others so that no one man could say that he had killed bis comrade. Speedy justice that. How unlike our civil tribunals, where weeks and months and years elapse before even a murderer is at the end of his rope. What a con? trast. These men were shot, not for mur? der or any outrageous crime, but for striking a man. This was part of the war?a very small part?and excited orjly a passing notice. What a blessing is peace. What a slavery is war. How many heartaches there were for home and kindred during that long winter wben snow and sleet was our daily visi? tor. Shut up in our little tents it was a constant effort to keep warm?that is to keep a healthy equilibrium, for it was too warm inside and too cold without. The best we could do was to scorch one side and then scorch the other, and ever and anon go out and tramp around to stir up the blood. But we had company, lots of it, for the soldiers were sociable and let? ters from home were common property, and the news went round the camp fires as soon as it arrived. I never think of that winter with its long lingering days and its lack of comforts, but what I am grateful for present liberty and peace, and the endearing joys of" home. We had a little tent about twelve feet square, with cots for four. A little cbiniDey built of turf that we spaded up in squares and nicely laid in broken joints?one upon another and a little fire place racks for andirons and a piece of an old wagon tire for an arch. Witb such a chimney we felt rich and consequential, for but few of the ter's had such stylish ones. We bad whei straw or hay upon the ground, and four camp stools to sit upon, and a camp table and candle stick and candles, a wash pan and bucket, and this was all of our furniture. It was enough for a soldier?enough for the horrid busi? ness of war?erjough for them who had no abiding place aud were liable at any moment to have to "pick up their tents like the Arabs And Bllently atonl away." The prophet Elisha had no more than we had, for the Shuuamite woman said "let us build for him a little chamber and eet therein a bed, and a stool, and a table, and a candle stick.'* I reckon that was a very fine turnout in that day for it pleased the prophet very much?so much that he wanted to do some great thing for the woman, and said, "Thou hast been very careful for me?what shall I do for thee?" I wonder how many prophets would be content with such furniture now. Sometimes unwelcome visitors would stay too long and keep us up when we wanted to go to bed. On such occasions, Tip?the faithful Tij.?would put an old sack on a pole and lay it over the top of the chimney and smoke us out. The tent would get full to suffocation, and our uuwelcome visitors would abuse our chimney and be forced to 1 jtire. Then Tip would remove the sack and the tent j be all right again in a little while. That was Tip's secret and wc never told on I him. I do hope they will not have a war in Europe. How pitiless it is for us to dis? cuss the effect of such a war upon our trade?our business, our cotton and wheat and bacon and beef?just as though the war would bo all right if we prospered by it. No account taken of wounds aud deaths and -broken hearts and the crushing grief of mothers and children made widows and orphans and nothing left but poverty. Surely, surely, there is no necessity for nations to go to war any more. But it does look like the devil gets loose sometimes and the beat of us feel like a little fighting would be a rd'ef, rDEKSON, S. C, TH Now, who can help getting mad when Governor Larrabee, of Iowa, tells the reporter that all that surplus of sixty millions in the treasury, ought to be divided out among the States that were not in the rebellion. "The south is not entitled to a dollar of it," said he. Oh, my country 1 Here we have been paying that pension money for northern soldiers for twenty-two years, and have never complained. Our conquerors taxed our cotton just after the war and took from us thirty million dollars on that account, and their own courts have decided it an illegal exaction, and yet they won't pay it back. Notwithstanding the decision of their highest tribunal, we are about as far off from getting that money back as the French arc from getting their spolia? tion bill. There is no greater rascal than a government about paying moral obligations. The doctrine is that might makes right. What does Governor Lar? rabee keep on bating ua for? He smites us on one cheek and we turn and let.him smite us on the other, and still he is not happy. I wonder if he would take that sixty millions and not give us a cent. I want to see him. I wish be would send me his photograph. I would like to have a phrenologist examine his head. There is something wrong about that man. If he was a Christian gentleman or a respectable Jew he would say: "Oh, well, those people down South thought they were right and they are just as pa? triotic as we are, and they have suffered enough, and now let us all tote fair and divide. Let us pay that cotton tax out ofthat money the first thing, and let us begin now to pension their soldiers just like we pension ours. In fact we ought to pay them something for their Blaves if we could. England paid for hers when they were set free, and Gladstone, that great and good man, got three hundred thousand dollars for his and our South? ern brethren are just as good as Glad? stone." That is the way he would talk if he had a great big heart. I tell you there is obliged to be another world just to make things square if nothing else. Larrabee has got to feel mean sooner or later. I would like to hear St. Peter interview him when he knocks at the gate. Poor Larrabee. I wouldu't swap places with you for all that sixty mil? lions to boot. You forget that Virginia and the Carolinas and Georgia are some of the old thirteen that fought, bled and died for all the liberty you have got. Where was Iowa then ? A howling wil? derness that belonged to old Virginia. She gave it to your folks for nothiug, and now you assume to be bigger and better than your revolutionary fathers. But you are not the first conceited boy that tried to run over his daddy and run him off the track. Well, you will not get any more of that money than we do ; I'll bot on that; and we will get that cotton-tax back too. See if we don't. The South is looming up, and she will coma to the front in a few years. She is solid, and always will be as long as the Larrabees and Shermans and Forakers run the slander mills of the north. Bill Akp. Hidden Treasure Lands its Finders lu the Penitentiary. Washington, December 29.?The President has a number of applications for pardon for all sorts of cases and com? ing from all sections of the country awaiting his action, and he hopes to get them all off his bands before Congress reassembles. One of the most curious of these is the applications of two young men convicted six months ago in Tennessee of passing counterfeit coin. The history of the case is a peculiar one. Some time ago these two young men, who are brothere, bought a piece of land which had forty years before been in the possession of a man of miserly tendencies, and who had the reputation of being a counterfeiter. On the miner's death vague rumors circulat? ed about hidden boards of money depos? ited by the old man, but although search was made nothing of the kind was to be found. These stories had well nigh been forgottou when the land came into the possession of its present owners. One day last spring one of the young men, while walking over his farm, saw two or three bright glittering objects half concealed under a large projecting rock. Picking them up he was surprised and delighted to find that they were gold coins. He searched around carefully and soon discovered whence they had fallen. Wedged under the rock was a parcel of the coins wrapped up in an old newspa? per giving an account of President Polk's inauguration. Tho coins amounted in value to between ?400 and $500, and the two brothers, delighted with their find, began to put it to good use in paying their debts. Some of the money got into one of the local banks, and it was then, for the first time, that any suspicion of the genuineness of the coin was awaken? ed. In order to make sure specimens were sent down to the New Orleans mint and were returned stamped "Counter? feit." The brothers redeemed as* much of the n easy tbey had paid out as they could fiud, but unfortunately for them not all that was placed in circulation. During the summer some stray pieces of the coin drifted back to the town where these young men lived, and it was at once euspected that they were trying to reissue the "queer." They were tried and convicted and eentenced to the penitentiary, where they are now serving tbelr term3. They have sent a petition through the Congressman of their district to the President asking for a remission of their sentence, and it is quite likely that they will get their freedom as a New Year's gift. ? He who marries a pretty face only U like a buyer of rveap furniture?the varnish that caught the eye will not endure the fireside blaze. ? Nellie Andrews, the pretty daugh? ter of George Andrews, of Columbus, Ohio, hanged herself on Chrietmaa Eve, because her lover, Dwight B. Porter, jilted her. She was worth SJ15.000. ? One of President Cleveland's favor? ite dishes is pickled sheep's tongues, eaten just before he goes to bed. This Is almost as dainty as Don Bain's dish of smoked squirrel liven eaten while in a hot bath, URSDAY MORNING THE BLACK LYNCHERS. Result of the Coroner'* Inquest nt Central. Special to the News and Courier. Greenville, January 4?The coro? ner's ioque3t over the dead body of Man zeo Waldrop, alias Manz Gooden, the white man who was lynched by negroes near Central, Pickeiis County, last Fri? day night, adjourned this afternoon. The facts of the lynching, as developed in the course of the long and tedious investigation conducted by, Solicitor James L. Orr, conlrra3 in every particu? lar the version a/ready telegraphed to the News and Comer from here, which was the first and the only accurate account of the occurrence yet sent out. Col. Orr went to Central yesterday morning and the inquest was resumed at 10 o'clock this' morning. It lasted all yesterday, and to day resulted in the identification of all the ringleaders in the lynching, with ample proof, it is believed, to convict them in Court. The evidence developed the following story: tbe crime and the victim. The itegro girl, whose death from the effects of a criminal assault originated the trouble, was the daughter of Cato Sherman, and aged about thirteen years. The assault was committed last Thurs? day and the girl died on Friday. In the coroner's* inquest instituted on Friday afternoon by Trial Justice B. D. Garvin, acting coroner, it was shown by a physi? cian's affidavit that the feloneous assault had caused death, and suspicion was directed to Manz Waldrop. He was brought into the Courtroom and an eight year old Bister of the deceased girl pointed him out as the man who bad committed the crime. Lula Sherman had confessed the commission of the crime befori ahe died, but did not iden? tify her assd laut. On his part Waldrop stoutly denied any knowledge of the affair. Tbo inquest was finished at 10 o'clock on End ay night. Waldrop was placed in charge of Constables D. E. Garvin and paylard Eaton to be com? mitted to jail. Garvin was a regular officer, and h{ claims that Eaton volun? teered to accompany him, while Eaton alleges be wai pressed to go. an unheeded warning. It was show^ by the testimony of six reputable rneu4bat the constables were warned not to (art to Fickens with the prisoner that light. Deep feeling had been aroused already, and cooler beads feared that sich a proceeding would tempt the nejroes to violence. Some witnesses testified also that Acting Con? stable Eaton, who was drinking that night, was bea d to declare that "Wal? drop ought to >e hanged anyhow, that the rope with waich he was to bo hung would break h i neck before morning, and that be woujd tie the rope to hang him if he could fcet three negroes to help him." % In spite of tjfcee prudent warnings, however, the consh.bles started to Pick ens about midnigHt Friday night. Gar: vin was driving a Joule to a buggy and bad the prisoner on the Beat beside him, while Eaton startej off walking, remark iDg that he would ifelk as far as the rail? road crossing, but they wouldn't get any farther than that. He afterwards got up on the rear axle of the buggy and rode that way. meeting the lxnchers. When the party reached a point about three-quarters of ajnile' from Central, they saw a crowd of&egroes, apparently about fifteen or twenty in number. Gar? vin, guessing their 'object, turned the buggy around and 'drove rapidly back towards Central. He had gone but a short distance when one of the negroes ran in front, and catching the mule by the bridle stopped jhim, while others dragged the prisoner from the buggy, Garvin threatening, begging and warn? ing them by turns, it the approach of the negroes Eaton had stepped down from the buggy, and then Garvin drove away back to Central ne remained. shooting waldroj in the head. The gang of negrojs now proceeded with Waldrop to alfcoint about three hundred yards from wiere he had been secured. He was then shot three times in the head with a pfttol. All this oc? curred near the residente of Dr. Clayton, one of the best known citizens in Pick ens County. Attracted^ by the noise of the prisoner being digged away, and then by the shots, br. Clayton, Dr. Folger, also a prominent citizen, and Mr. Payne, came upon the negroes. As they did so all the negroes recreated a short distance. One who halted nearest by them exclaimed: "Loot out! gentle? men ; clear the way I" %e white men found Waldrop lying byjthe road with three wounds in his head; He said be had been shot; that he was going to dio, and would be dead in ten' minutes. At this the negro, who was standing near said: "That's - lie;?you haven't been shot." the victim denies Hfe guilt. Among the first questions asked Wal drow was as to his guilt hr innocence of the crime charged to hinT~In the same breath with the aosertioh that he was going to die he declared Before God that he was innocent, repeating the declara? tion with emphasis. Dr. Folger and Clayton asked him to sit i p so they could examine his wounds, wbi;h they found were not serious, the Ullets having glanced and only grazed tie skull. Waldrop then stood up and regaining confidence, asked the meh if he might not go back to Central with them, adding that he wanted toJee his people again before he died. The few white people who had come up then tried to persuade the negroes not toj do anything further, and they started off, Waldrop going before. At this mop several of the negroes ran by themj caught the prisoner again and carried him eft' about a hundred yards. u waldrop left to iii8 fate. The white men went back to their homes and Waldrop was left to hh fate, no further attempt beiog made to rescue him. The next morning hh body was found hanging to a tree not fer from the roadside. A rope had bceu rpu through a fork and tied on the oth<r side to a sapling, and the body was hanging with tbo fect touching the. gronni and the hands not lied. When Col. Orr went to Central to \, JANUARY 12, 188 begin the inquest he started with the determination to ferret the affair to the bottom. IDENTIFYING THE LYNCHERS. The first witness to give a clue to the identity of the lynching party was a negro named Jim Berry Crawford, whom Dr. Clayton had seen standing on the sidewalk as he went out of his house. Crawford testified that the men who took Waldrop out of the buggy were Cato Sherman, the father of the negro girl who died; John Reese, Foster Knox Henry Bolton. Another negro, Andrew Crooks, also seen standing near at the time, swore that at the end of the inquest over Lula Sherman, Harrison Hey ward, Cato Sherman, Foster Knox and John Reese, all negroes, had made a plot to kill Waldrop. Lucas Ganlt, also colored, swore that on Friday night, after the hanging, Bill Williams and Harrison Heyward had told him they helped bang the man and that Henry Bolton had shot him. Iu accordance with this evidence the jury, late this afternoon, rendered the follow? ing verdict: THE VERDICT. "The jury finds that Manz Waldrop alias Manz Gooden, came to his death on Friday last, 30th of December, 1887, by hanging with a rope, and that William C. Williams, Foster Knox, Cato Sher? man, Henry Bolton, John Reese and Harrison Heyward were guilty thereof, and that R. Gaylard Eaton was an acces? sory before the fact to the killing. All these negroes have been captured except Foster Knox, who left before the coroner's inquest was begun. They will be sent to morrow to jail at Pickens. PUBLIC OPINION AT CENTRAL. While the excitement at Centrai is cooling down, there is still much feeling over the affair, manifesting itself most strongly in the demand for the convic? tion of the guilty parties. Indignation is warm against Eaton, the white man, who is believed to have been concerned in causing the negroes to act as they did. The universal sentiment about Central is that lynching would never have occur? red had not the white men urged the negroes on to it. As to the guilt of the unfortunate vic? tim, Waldrop, a poor half witted fellow, opinions are about equally divided. It is by no means certain that be commit? ted the crime for which he suffered sum? marily. WHAT SOLICITOR ORR SAYS. Solicitor Orr returned at a late hour to night from Central. He was shown the above statement and corroborated it in all particulars. "This is the first case of lynching that has occurred in my circuit since my official term began," he said, "and I have made up my mind to prosecute it to the best of my ability." It is probable that Eaton, the white man, will be tried first, when the cases come up, as they probably will, at the coming terra of the Court in Pickens, beginning on the third Monday in this month. South Carolina's Progress. The Charleston News and Courier of Monday publishes a detailed review of the progress of South Carolina during the last year. The review shows that the total value of agricultural, manufacturing and mineral products of the State were over $101,000 000, against $22,000,000 in 1880. The increase in the value of man? ufactures in the same period is over $15,000,000 or 91 per cent., and of the live stock $7,500,000 or 61 per cent. Cotton still gives one-half of the State's agricultural revenue, but, while the acreage has trebled 6ince 1870, the average yield per acre has increased only one third, which is probably duo to the mul? tiplication of small farms. In manufactures one-fourth of the whole increase is in cotton. Lumber and flour and other milling make up one half of the remainder. There are now in the State 300 manufacturing concern?, employing over 35,000 perdone. Fruit crops are developing rapidly, as h also the mining of kaolin and granite. The product of the phosphate mines has risen from 125,000 tons in 1880 to 432,000 tons last year. The increase in railroad mileage in two years has been twelve per cent, and more railroads are con? structing and projected than ever before. In conclusion, the review shows that the whole revenue of the State from agricul? ture, manufactures, mines and quarries in 18G0, with slavo labor, was only $54, 455,707, as against $101,682,530 in 1887, with free labor. How to Punish a Hated Woman. A gentleman who was invited out to dine at a Delaware avenue residence lately, says the Buffalo Courier, observed that the chandelier over the dining room table wa3 of a peculiar construction so that there was a light over the head of each guest. The globes were of various colors, some amber, some red and some blue. "What is the object of having the globes of different colors?" the guest asked of his hostess. "Why, you see," said she, "when one gives a dinner or a tea one must invite some people whom one perfectly hates. Now, last Tuesday I gave a supper and I had to invite two u men whom I despise. But I had to invite them or some ot tho young men I wanted wouldn't come. I had my revenge on my fair enemies, however. I placed each of these two women under one of tbo3e pale-liue lights at the table. They're usually considered beautiful women, but under that light they had the most ghastly look you ever saw. They were perfectly scare crows. They seemed to have aged twenty years the minute that they sat down. The men noticed it, of course, but they did not divine what caused it. They were taken quite aback aud awfully glum at first. But finally one of them turned with a sigh aud began talking to a real lovely homely little thing that was sitting under a ruby-colored light. Why, she was perfectly lovely under it. So you see when I want people to look perfectly hideous I put them under the blue lights. It kills everything." ? Women resemble flower?. Tiny shut up when they sleep. 8. JACKSON'S DEATH WOUND. From Wearing of tho flray, by John Enten Coke, of Va. E. B. Treat, Publisher. N. Y. ****** On fire with his great desigrj, Jackson then rode forward in front of the troops toward Chancellorsville, and here and then the bullet struck him which was to terminate his career. Jackson had ridden forward on the turnpike to reconnoitre and ascertain, if possible, in spite of the darkness of the night, the position of the Federal lines. The moon shone, but it was struggling with a bank of clouds, and afforded but a dim light. From the gloomy thickets on each side of the turnpike, looking more weird and sombre in the half light, came the melancholy notes of the whip poorwill. "I think there must have been ten thousand," said General Stuart after? wards. Such was the scene ataid which the events which now are about to be narrated took place. Jackson had advanced with some mem? bers of his staff, about a mile from Chancellorsville, and had reached a point nearly opposite an old dismantled house in the woods near the road, when he reined in his horse, and remaining per? fectly quiet and motionless, listened in? tently for any indications of a movement in the Federal lines. They were scarcely two hundred yards in front of him, and seeing the danger to which he exposed himself one of his staff officers said, "General, don't you think this is the wrong place for you?" He replied quickly, almost impatiently, "the danger is all overl the enemy is routed?go back and tell A. P. Hill to press right on!" The officer obeyed, but had scarcely disappeared when a sudden volley was fired from the Confederate infantry in Jackson's rear, and on the right of the road?evidently directed upon him and his escort. The origin of this fire has never been discovered, and after Jackson's death there was little disposition to investigate an occurrence which occasioned bitter distress to all who by any possibility could have taken part in it. It is probable, however, that some movement of the Federal skirm ishers had provoked the fire ; if this is an error, the troops fired deliberately upon Jackson aud his party, under the impression that they were a body of Federal cavalry reconnoitring. Whatever may have been the origin of this volley, it came, and many of the staff and escort were shot, and fell from their horses. Jackson wheeled to the left and galloped into the woods to get out of range of the bullets; but he bad not gone twenty steps beyond the edge of the turnpike, in the thicket, when one of his brigades drawn up within thirty yards of him fired a volley in their turn, kneeling on the right} knee, as the flash of the guns showed, as though prepared to "guard against cavalry." By this fire Jackson was wounded in three places. He received one ball in his left arm, two inches below the shoulder-joint, shattering the bone and severing the chief artery; a second passed through the same arm between the elbow and the wrist, making its exit through the palm of the hand; and a third ball entered the palm of bis right hand, about the middle, and passing through broke two of the bones. Here, Captain Wilbourn, of his staff, succeeded in catching the reins and checking the animal, who was almost frantic from terror, at the moment when, from loss of blood and exhaustion, Jackson was about to fall from the sad? dle. He was then borne to the field hospital at Wilderness, some five miles distant. Here he lay throughout the next day, Sunday, listening to the thunder of the artillery and the long roll of the musketry from Chancellorsville, where Stuart, who had succeeded him in command, was pressing General Hooker back toward the Rappahannock. His soul must have thrilled at that sound, long so familiar, but he could take no part in the conflict. Lyint faint and pale, in a tent in rear of the "Wilderness Tavern," he seemed to be perfectly resigned, and submitted to the painful probing of his wounds with soldierly patience. It was. obviously necessary to amputate the arm, and one of his Burgeons asked, "If we find the amputation necessary, General, shall it be done at once?" to wBich he replied with alacrity, "Yes, certainly, Dr. McGuire, do for me whatever you think right." The arm wss then taken off, and he slept soundly after the operation, and on waking, begau to converse about the battle. It was about this time that we received the following letfer from General Lee: "I have just received your note informing me that you were wounded. I canuot express my regret at the occurrence. Could I have directed events I should have chosen for the good of the country to have been disabled in your stead. I congratulate you upon the victory which is due to your skill and energy." The remaiuing details of Jackson's illnees and death are known. Ho was removed to Guiney's Depot, on the Rich? mond and Fredericksburg Railroad, where he gradually Bank, pneumonia having attacked him. When told that his men on Sunday had advanced upon the enemy shouting "Charge, and re? member Jackson!" he exclaimed, "It was just like them! It was just like them ! They are a noble body of men. The men who live through this war," he added, "will be proud to say 'I was one of the Stonewall Brigade' to their chil? dren." Looking soon afterwards at the Bturap of his arm, he said, "Many people would regard this tw a great misfortune. I regard it as one of the great blessings of my life." He subsequently said, ''I consider these wounds a blessing; they were given me for some good and wise purpose, and I would not part with them if I could." His wife was now with him, and when she announced to him, weeping, his ap? proaching death, he replied with perfect calmness, "Very good, very good ; it is all right." Theso were nearly his last words. He soon afterwards became de? lirious, and was heard to mutter, "Order A. P. Hill to prepare for action !?Paes the infantry to the front!?Tell Major Hawks to send forward provisions for the men!" Then his martial ardor disap VOLUM] peared, a smile diffused itself over his pale features, and he murmured: "Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees!" It was the river of death he was about to pass; and soon after uttering these words he expired. The character and career of the man who thus passed from the arena of his glory, are the property of history. ? Boycotting A Professor. Columbia, January 4.?The South? ern Presbyterian, published and edited by Dr. James Woodrow, late professor in the Columbia Theological Seminary of natural science in its relation to revealed religion, and present professor in the South Carolina University of geology and zoology, will in its issue to morrow contain a column editorial entitled, "The wzr renewed," embodying in greater de? tail the following statements and com? ments : "One of the inducements offered to students in the Theological Seminary is that the lectures of the professors of the South Carolina University are open-to them. Accordingly during the last few months several of theSeminaiy students have been attending Prof. Woodrow's classes, some regularly matriculating as university students and others obtaining permission from the professor to attend regularly as visitors. Their attendance suddenly ceased. After a time one of them reappeared. From the minutes of the New Orleans Presbytery the South? ern Presbyterian now learns the caute of the cessation and 'reappearance, and ascertains that the attendance was for biden by Profs. Tadlock, Girardeau and Herzman. The New Orleans Presbytery, after considering on the 27th of Decem? ber a communication from the faculty of the Seminary relative to that Presbytery's candidate, who, acting under the in? struction of the Presbytery's Assembly correspondent, announced his purpose to attend Prof. Woodrow's lectures contrary to the wishes of the faculty, adopted, by a vote of 18 to 11 resolutions sustaining the faculty and disapproving the action of the Presbytery's correspondent of education." ? j The Presbyterian adds that in October Prof. Woodrow was earnestly requested, in the name of the Seminary students, to take a number of them under his in? struction, either in his study or elsewhere, but peremptorily declined, but subse? quently several of them matriculated at the University in order to attend his lec? tures, and as he could throw no obstacles in the way of such action, they did thereafter attend them. Soon some of the students ceased attending, and Prof. Woodrow learned that the Eev. G. A. Blackburn, Dr. Girardeau's son-in-law and pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church here, had informed several stu? dents that their attendance at Prof. Woodrow's University lectures was in? juring the Seminary by causing outside friends to withhold contributions, and the support of those who persisted in attending would be cut off. Subsequently Dr. Girardeau told one who had been attending that such action was in direct opposition to the will of the entire Church, and that if students were allowed to listen to Prof. Woodrow's lectures the entire effect of the Church's struggle for the last three years would be nullified. The student, regarding this as an official opinion, notified the faculty of his inten tiop of renewing his attendance at the lectures. This announcement was not replied to by the faculty, but they sent the communication already mentioned to the New Orleans Presbytery. ' The Southern Presbyterian expresses regret that Drs. Tadlock and Herzman have shown themselves entitled to a place by Dr. Girardeau's side in the front pank of extremist partisans, and says that it had not thought that they would "be found uniting with their colleague in boycotting a professor who is quietly discharging his duties in the State Uni? versity." It is evident that this new development will tend to keep, open the question of evolution so long fought over. It is a curious fact that even the practical ex? communication of Dr. Woodrow has not kept theological students from seeking his instruction in geology and consequent dicta as to the origin of man.?Special to News and Courier. A Yaltinblo Invention. There is produced annually in the Southern States about three acd a half million tons of cotton seed. The cotton gins fail to remove all the coltou from the seed and it has been .found that the average quantity of cotton left on each ton is 200 pounds. As this would amount annually to over one million bales of 500 pounds each, with a money value of over ten million dollars, it can bo seen that any macbiac to remove this cotton must certainly prove of immense value. The inventors of England and America have exercised their ingenuity, andliave spent thousands of dollars in an effort to devise some machine that would remove this cotton left by the gins, but until the present times all c-ffurts have been in vain. To remove the cotton was not the only object sought. When the cotton is entirely removed it enables cotton seed oil manufacturers to crush the hulls and kernels of the seed together and thereby obtain from each ton of seed about twenty per cent more oil and one hundred per cent more oil cake than they now obtain. A machine to remove the cotton from the seed has recently been patented by Mr. Crawford, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who has built and put in operation a number of them. One of the machines is now in practical operation at 203 Fourteenth street northwest, where Mr. Crawford would take- pleasure in showing it to any one interested. With the cotton saved by the machine and the increased value of the seed, the annual saving effected by the general use of the machine will be about forty million dollars. Every one from the South ought to see a machine that is bound to work such a revolution as this one seems des? tined to do.? Washington Post. ? Lawyer (in court)?Little boy, do you know the nature of an oath ? Little Hoy?Yes, sir; it's something my p,a uses to put up stovepipes with. 3 XXIII.- -NO. 27. OXE YEAR AT THE SOUTH. A "Wonderful Kecord of rrogrces and Pros-1 perlty. Baltimore, December 29.?The Man' ufaclurera' Record will publish this week its annual review of the industrial growth of the South for 1887, which is in many respects the most remarkable year in the history of that section, as more was ac? complished for the progress and prosper? ity of the whole South than ever before' in the same length of time. From Maryland to Texas the progress jj was remarkable, covering almost the en-' tire range of industry, and there is scarcely a single line of manufacturing ? or mining business in which the number of new enterprises reported during 1887 : is not more than twice as large as in 1886. Of the fourteen Southern States there are only four in which the capital invested in new enterprises was not double _lhs amount invested last year. While the number of new furnace companies increased from 28, in 1886, to 29 in 1S87, the number of machine shops and foundries increased from 68 to 103, and miscellaneous iron works, rolling mills, pipe works, &c, from 56 to 71; bo that the increase of enterprises to -eon^_ sume pig iron was much greater than of furnaces to produce it. Agricultural implement factories in- ! creased from 11 to 25, flour mills 92 to : 135, furniture factories 23 to 55, gas works 24 to 35, water works 42 to 88, carriage and wagon factories 1G to 44, electric light works 34 to 83, mining and quarrying en-. terprises 174 to 562, cotton mills 9 to 77, wood-working concerns 448 to 726, ice factories 50 to 96, canning factories 13 to 82, brick works 53 to 169, cotton com? presses 13 to 36, cotton seed oil mills 4 to 18, natural gas companies 21 to 53, and miscellaneous enterprises 419 to 913. The total number of 18S7 was 3,480 against 1,575 in 188G. The amount of capital, including the capital slock of incorporated companies organized during 1887, was: Alabama ?47,982,000, Arkansas ?24,406,000, Flori? da ?2,786,000, Georgia ?15,361,000, Ken- J tucky $40,053,000, Louisiana $8,218,000, Maryland ?15,187,000, Mississippi $4, 771,000, North Carolina $9,767,000, South \ Carolina $3,895,000, Tennessee $35,861*- _ 000, Texas $16,430,000, Virginia $23,255,- \ 000/ West Virginia ?8,766,000. Total $256,298,000, against ?129,226,000 in : 1886. In cotton manufacturing there has been great activity and seventy-seven new 1 mills have been projected, many, of them being now under construction, which is the largest number of new mills ever reported in one year. Cotton mills are reported as having largely oversold their production, and many old mills are being enlarged to meet the demand for their goods. The increasing diversification of South- I ern industries is illustrated in the fact that Alabama alone secured during the year the location of five large car-build ing plants, two at Decatnr and one each \ at Birmingham, Anniston and Gadsden. The Anniston works will cost $1,000,000, | employ 1,000 mechanics, and will turn out twenty complete cars a day, from freight to passenger, parlor and sleeping >j cars. The entire work, from making the wheels to upholstering, is to be done inT~~j| these shops. Ono of the car plants at Decatur is being built by the Louisville and Nashville Road, and the other will: be the large works now at Urbana, Ohio, which are to be removed to Decatur, In the building of rolling mills, pipe works,, machine shops and foundries. the same jj activity is seen, while furniture factories, agricultural implement works, flour mills, gas and electric works, canning factories, wood-working establishments, &c, are.' being started all over the South. -~-I How to Xoke it Rain. The remarkable powers and adaptabil? ity of the electric current to the uses of society have been further demonstrated-^ by an invention which has at least the charm of novelty. This is nothing more nor less than a patent to open the win-' dows of heaven at the will of man, and, Michael Cabill, M. D., of this city, is the< inventor. "I expect to see the sagebush deserts of Nebraska and Nevada under cultiva? tion, and affording pasturage for thous? ands of cattle in a few years," began the. doctor. "Should the government adop$.J my patent, by its uso there need not be[ an acre of waste land on the whole con*?' tinent." "By what extraordinary means do yon. intend to lap the clouds, and interfere" w:th the laws of nature?" queried the reporter. "Simply by a condenser or captiv< balloon, and an electric cable, placedl wherever the rain is required. I have; long believed that rain could be produces! by artificial means, and I have worked a? this hobby of mine for several years? ever since I left college, in fact. Yon see, first of all, vapor, as it ?8cen?3a^ receives heat from the sola rays, which) also impels it upward until restricted bjr? the cold. The vesicles, or dewdrops,, being crowded together, become electrifi? ed and float on the air at an altitude of from 3,000 to 5,000 feet, and all that I required then to produce rain is to int^j cept these vesicles by artificiaLme&Jfl What I have invented is a condenser of peculiar shape and construction, and connected with the earth by an electric cable. Whenever the vesicles cogb in contact with the condenser or current; they are broken up, and the water forced to the ground with great rapidity " The rain will be produced by the same Ian that causes condensation on a windqJ pane. The surface of the glass is cover-j ed with microscopic points, and on becoming chilled, the layer of air next it falls, allowing the vapor to flow on to the points, and thence to the ground.-'' "You will require a gigantic ballocx f jr such a purpose," was suggested, ? "Oh, no. A condenser of about feet in diameter will bring down eg thing like 25,000,000 gallons a dayj| much as would irrigate almost hall this Stale. The volume of water csi preserved or formed into riven, .wh ever may be desired.'-'?San FranHi Chronicle. I ?? _ A lifit 1 ?-?h .->. H^fsTof' on a rock.