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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. T Cit ti ll Wm m M H i iii ii ii I #. I i i a 11^ if i ?ESON, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 12. 1898. i I IM- If VOLUME XXXHI-NO. 29. Carrying out our business policy to never carry over Goods from season to season, we began Tuesday to sell our entire Stock of Clothing AT 26 FEB CENT DISCOUNT. We are not going to waste words about it. Only this : Every Suit and Overcoat in our entire Stock, whether for man or boy, comes under this edict. You get our $ 5.00 Suits, 25 per cent off, $ 3.75 7.50 Suits, 25 per cent off, 5.63 10.00 Suits, 25 per cent off, 7.50 1250 Suits, 25 per cent off, 9.38 15.00 Suits, 25 per cent off, 11.25 Testifies to our appreciation of your patronage in the past, and demonstrates our determination to handle more dollars during 1898 than ever before. Fall in the swim and come on. If our figures don't catch you, then you are a wild bird, indeed. SPOT CASH DOES THE WORK. Yours always truly, STATE NEWS. - Small pox is reported at Beau fort and Orangcburg. - There are now .sixty three graded ! schools in South Carolina. - Three homicides occurred in Greenwood Count}' last week. All negroes. - Nellie Logan, colored, died at her home near Westminster on the 1st j inst, aged 112 years. - A little uesro child was killed at Vcrdery Tuesday by being knocked in the head with a rock by another little negro. - A mad dog created a commotion j in Abbeville last Wednesday and bit j a man in a crowded store before it was killed. - There are twenty-two cases of small pox in the pest-house in Green ville, and eleven of them arc conva lescing rapidly. - Father McManus, the Charleston Catholic priest who was charged with entering a sanctuary and disturbing religious worship, has been acquitted. - Mr. Wm. M. Campbell, living near Seneca, k?led recently two Berk shire hogs, eighteen month old. which netted respectively 57(i and 101 pounds. * - Col. William Aiken Kelly, for sixteen years city assessor of Charles ton, and a gallant Confederate soldier, died at his home in Charleston last Thursday. - An unknown negro man was kill ed by a train on the South Carolina and Georgia Railroad one night last week near St. Georges. Ho was ap parently walking on thc track, when a night westbound freight struck him. severing his head from his body. - Richland county is now without a board of control. Chairman Robert son and Dr. Hopkins had their resig nations before the State Board of con trol last Friday. It is understood that these two gentlemen resigned on account of the State Board of Control interfering with the management of the county dispensaries. - A Greenwood man contributes this story to current small pox litera tur?. In 1867 his family lived in Kdgeiicld District. A stray cat came ti? his house, broken out with pustules and in a short while his family took small pox. Ile is sure that the cat brought them the disease, a? they had no other opportunity to contract it. - We had thought that Governor Ellcrbe could not surprise us any more, but for a white man, a white Democratic Governor of South Caro lina, to appoint a negro constable and authorize him by commission to search white people s houses, we must con fess weare surprised. Did Gov. W. EE. Ellerbe do that? Yes, he did that. - Saluda Ad coca tc. - Thc statistical table in the min utes of the South Carolina Baptist convention shows a total white mem bership of 92,593; an increase during the year of 5,304 by baptism, 712 by restoration : monies raised for all pur poses, $195,632.27; total value of church property, ?1,048,057: number of churches. 896; Sunday schools. GT>7 with 4.670 teachers and officers. 40,338 pupils, and contributions amounting to $4.604.85. - Mr. John AV. Berry and his brother were in town last Saturday. In the afternoon during that heavy gale that was blowing, they were sit ting in their buggy near the Blue Front, when a dead tree fell with a crash across the buggy. Strange to say. while the buggy, hind wheel, back and dash board were smashed to j smithereens the gentlemen escaped unhurt except a few bruises. Thc escape from sudden death '.vas mirac ulous.-Sui ml a Adrocufe. - Mrs. .laney Moore, who went to Nebraska 1^ years airo, returned to Seneca last Tuesday tn visit relatives and friends. Mrs. Moore i< SS years old. She traveled 1,300 miles and1 was four days on the road. Sin.1 met two brothers and one sister at Seneca, i Her brothers, A. J. Sandersand .?. B. : Sanders, are respectively S2 and SO years old. Her sister, Mrs. Niccy Burkett, is about 70 years old. They were all together at Mr. Tom Burkett"s at Seneca on Friday. December 31st. -Return Correspondent of Koeicee \ ( 'mirier. - A special dispatch to the Colum- j bia Rcrjisliyr from Spartanburg, under date of thc 7th inst., says : ".Just as ? has been expected we have developed I a ease nf small pox-lint one of our very own, but au escaped case from ? Greenville. A negro confined in thc j Greenville pest-house jumped out of one ol' th<- windows last night am! boarded the early morning train, get ting nil here. He went to a relative's borne. Thomas Bomar. who lives un the Howard Gap road. Ile was all broken out. and Dr. Harvey, one of I the colored physicians here, was sent ? for. He at once recognized the dis-I ease and notified thc city authorities. | Thc case was pronounced genuine j small pox and immediately quaran tined." I - For some time mail has been taken from the lock boxes at thc post office in Florence. Last Friday night Postmaster McKenzie stationed him- ! self inside after the mail had been distributed and waited. About 10 j o'clock a white man named Andrew j Welch came in, unlocked one of thc boxes and reached around and took a letter belonging to .Johnsons ec Wells, which had a small check in it. as was afterwards ascertained. Mr. Mc Ken-j /.ie cann- out and caughl ^ elch and carried him in Dr. Coving - di n;-.'si ore. where Welch pulled his pi s toi, hui ' Mr. McKenzie gol the drop on him. : ??o lie turned his pistol and shot him self through thc pil of thc stomach. I lc died i;i about OHO llOUf. He ? 1*0 ferrcd 'lcm h io disgrace. Heal Sugar in America. The agricultural experiment station in Missouri dues not encourage thc farmers of that State to go into thc cultivation of the sugar I ?oct.-, but thc tests of thc College of Agriculture in Cornell ?'Diversity are very encourag ing to the farmers of New York. Tests of beets from 272 plats in twen ty-two Counties give an average of very close to seventeen tons of beets tc thc acre and of 10 per cent, of sugar in thc beets. Both of these re sults are high. Thirteen to fifteen per cent, of sugar is common and the yield is usually twelve to fourteen tons to the acre, though with careful cultivation it has frequently -run a good deal above twenty tons. Test plats and laboratory experi ments probably give better results than general field culture and factory work. The experiments . arc in no sense decisive except for half a dozen Counties. Of the 272 plats from which beets were tested 234 were in six Counties: as to thc other sixteen Counties it cannot be said that enough is yet known to warrant the opinion that sugar beet raising would pay in them. Sixteen per cent, of sugar from sev enteen tons of beets gives a little more than (?.000 pounds of sugar to thc acre. Four dollars and a half a ton for the beets at seventeen tons to the acre would be a little more than 1! cents a pound for thc sugar in the beets. A factory getting its beets at this price would bc a profitable con cern, while the farmer who got $76.50 an acre for his gross crop would bc on the high road to prosperity. Three dollars a ton would bc a very high al lowance for his expenses, and it would leave him a net .profit of ?25.50 per acre. That compares very favorably with seventy cents a bushel for four teen bushels of wheat per acre, the costs of cultivation to be deducted from these gross receipts of $11.80. How favorable thc above figures are may be appreciated from thc fact that in the past season in thc Watsonville factory, California. SU,351 tons of beets yielded 10.885 tons of sugar, or 13.3 per cent, of the weight of the beets, while the results of another very large run were only 12.5 per cent, of sugar. Yet the factory pays s I a ton for beets and is apparently prosperous. At a recent meeting in Ogden. Utah, of gentlemen who pro posed to go into the beet sugar manu facture a stockholder in the factory at J.chi said that for the past two years that factory had paid dividends of 37-j per cent, annually, and in his opinion the factory at Ogden could make more money than thc factory at Lehi. But the last season was a bad one for the farmers near the Lehi fac tory. A dispatch from Alvarado, Cal., says that from O'.OOO acres thc farmers would harvest only 45,000 tons of beets instead of thc SO,0U0 that they expected. This is only 7-] tons to the acre instead of more than 13 tons. But thc farmers were none the less determined tn raise beets next year; for beets they were sure of ?4 a ton; even on the poor yield of last j season this would bc *30 an acre on a certainty, but they would, of course, have a right to expect something a good deal better than thc minimum production. Even with a moderately poor yield they could scarcely lose and might make a little. From Los Aiamitos 30,000 tons of beets yielded 14.5 per cent, in sugar, the crop being IO. I tons to thc acre, and the receipts of the farmers. $3S5 very nearly, to thc acre. Here the yield of sugar to thc acre on nearly 3,000 acres was 3,300 pounds. The records of thc Belgian beet sugar production for nine years show an increase nf more than 56 per cent, in the acreage: the yield of beets per acre ranged from 10.4 to 15.0 tuns, and averaged 12.8; the percentage of sugar in thc beets varied from Ll.il to 13.2. and the yield of sugar per acre averaged 3.4H5 pounds.-Journal nf ('"lilli" n r. A Horror In Mast Tennessee. Kx'oxvu.r.K, TEXX.. January 6.-A special from (? reen ville, Tenn., says: The most horrible and shocking crime which this little town has ever seen was thc extermination of the entire family of Capt. A. W. Carter, an ex Fcdcral olHcer. last night, the hour not being known. Capt. ('arter, while temporarily in saue, brained his aged wife with an axe and then with the sanie weapon inflicted wounds upon his daughter which caused her death, to-day. Af ter commiting tlii^ terrible deed Capt, Carter with an obi revolver shot him self. The only other inmate of the house was Walter (?ass,aged 1 I years. Thc ?iny was asleep up-stairs. but about ii o'clock this morning was awakened by groans, and upon inves tigation lound the terrible state of af fairs as above related. The young lady was in a dying condition and never recovered. The boy gave the alarm ami to-day thc town has been wild. Capt. Carter's mind has for the past three years been unbalanced, caused by the death of a daughter. Ile was considered one of the best citizens of Greene County. At thc time of his death lu; was commander of Murnside Post. No. S. < ?. A. R. Ile was captain ol' a company of cav alry in the 1st Tennessee Volunteers. Cothran McCravy. a youngman from Laurens, has through thc instru mentality ?d' Senator Tillman, procured :i position as conductor on one of thc i;able car lines of Washington, i'. C. :it a >ala? y nf slid a mont h. Woman urn lining trained in agrien 1 Lnro liy the Ntulo of Minnesota, which has in.--! of tened a school for Hie jnirposo Unit v iii aeooniujodHto .sixty student;?. Cotton Mills Sont!) and East. 1 submit the impression gained by a few weeks study of manufacturing in the South, its advantages and disad vantages and prospects for the future, but wish tn say at the start that my investigations were not so thorough us to detail as could be wished. Still, a fair idea of conditions was obtained aud thc conclusions will be found. ? think, to be fairly correct. I reasoned before I started that the main point to be considered was thc efficiency of the Southern operative. Was he equal to the Northern op erative, or likely to develop equal skill? If he is not equal or incapable of reaching thc same degree of skill as our operatives, then Southern compe tition does not amount to much, ex cept temporarily, but if the Southern mill help is of as good material as our help herc, there is no reason why the South snould not take up any linc of cotton manufacturing and make a suc cess of it, and at a lower cost than would be possible afc the North. Now, as far as my observation went, the Southern operative was doing about as much work as ours here, and doing as good work. I have seen no better running mills anywhere than some of those visited in the South. And when got at in detail, it was found they had no more help than would be the case in a well regulated mill here. The speeds of the various machines were fully as high as usual herc. In appearance they compared well with our help in the North, except in the case of some of the older mills, while I found that the newer mills were getting the best of their help and compelling them to struggle along with the poorest operatives I hud ever seen, cither North or South. I nave examined mills where every thing compared well with thc North, where the managers would claim that Southern help was the best in the world: and in the same town I have visite'' a mill where disorder reigned, and L. ^management was apparent, and wht.i I was told that the South ern operative was lazy and shiftless, and would never bc any good. But I judged from all this that with proper handling, thc same result^ as to skill and efficiency would bc ob tained there, as with us here. When it is argued that the Southern operative will never equal the North ern operative, it is proper to ask why not? Thc material wc are getting in our Northern mills at present embraces nearly all nationalities, a large num ber of which are ignorant of our lan guage and without any previous ex perience in a cotton mill. Now why should they make better operatives than the native Americans of the South, the descendants of those splen did fighters of the Confederate army? I think a little reflection will satisfy any one that they should bc better than the average material we get here or are likely to get in thc future. The wages in thc South arc 2") to 35 per cent, below the average prices paid in the North for the same amount of work, but it is expected by many of us in thc North that this is but tem porary, and within a few years wages will have reached thc level of New England wages. The conditions arc against this theory. To begin with, there is an abundance of white labor subsisting on farms where the income is very small, to whom thc present wages of a cotton mill seem large. They have to labor in competition with the colored race whom they despise, while in thc cotton mills they aro free from their competition and presence. Their living expenses and wants arc small, as compared with thc Northern operatives, and thc mild climate they are in means a saving in fuel and win ter clothing, all of which goes far to ward making their present wages satis factory. Again, they arc too far apart for any united action. Thc cotton mills arc scattered over a vast ex tent of territory, many of them in very isolated districts. Communication is slow and difficult except, of course, at the large towns where several mills arc located, but the tendency is toward building the mills out on thc cotton fields rather than in large centres, and thc mills usually own their own villages, so thc chances for any strong organization is very remote. Newspapers arc scarce and expen sive, and as education is very limited, they do not circulate very extensively, sn that t!ic operatives ol' one factory arc not apt to be very well informed as to conditions in other places. Next in value to low wages is the advantage of long hours. The usual week in thc South is supposed to be (ill hours, though as a matter of fact they get in about OS hours. Now 10 hours more per week than Massachusetts means about 17 per cent, more tirr? in which machinery is turning oft" finished product. This means lower cost for manufacturing and larger number of pounds to get a profit from, and when you consider that many of thc mills arc running night and day you will sec their op portunities for making a profit are good indeed. There seems to be no movement to ward shorter hours or any other fac tory legislation and may not for years to come, as all classes feel that cotton mills are a blessing and should be fos tered, and the Legislature which at tempts to (.ass hills interfering with prc.-cut conditions will raise a storm ol' indignation. Thc prices of cotton at those mills, in most cases, is but. a trifle lower than at l'a ll Uiver, probably one eighth of a cen!, per pound, though in localities far more fa*? orablc other mills may do better than this, lu I some localities taxes are remitted for J a tenn of years, in others thc valua ; tion is put so low so that thc taxes are merely nominal. Thc climate ?>'' thc Piedmout dis trict is well adapted. 1 should judge, for cotton spinning, Lut fm- weaving will probably not compare with Fall River or New Bedford, but as artifi cial humidity is used in tin: latter places most of thc time, all that is necessary is tn use it in the South all the time. I will say here that in most of the weave rooms I visited, they were not running their humidifiers, as the weather conditions were all right for good results. This would be unusual in New England this time of the year, where every weave room has air moistening going on every day. There are some disadvantages against them, though they are slight when put against low wages and long hours. Thc principal one is high rate of interest, which is twice as high as in New England. The distance from the machinery and supplies is another which causes supply bills to be high. This briefly is the view of an observer liable to be mistaken in some of his conclusions, where only a few weeks were spent in investigation, though I firmly believe that short as the time was, it still was long cuough to allow correct conclus ions. I see no other reason why the South should confine itself to coarse numbers and short cotton. They can very soon train their help to fine spinning and fancy weaving,for which they have thc same advantages as on coarse goods, viz., low wages and long hours. It took New Bedford but a few years to teach its operatives how to handle fine goods, and the South need not usc a much longer period to get the same results. Cotton manufacturing has a great future in the South, and the advant ages of that section should not be un derrated.-ilMiUmaii' in Wool and Cotton Rejiorter. Terrible Punishment of a Horrible Crime. LITTLE HOCK, Ark., .ian. s.-A special to the Gazette from Fort Smith. Ark., says: Justice in a more horrible form than was meted out to Henry Smith, at Paris, Tex., was administered by a mob on the Oklahoma border Friday night to J. Marcus McGcisey and Pal mer Simpson, two Seminole Indians. They were charged with murder, their victim being Mrs. Jackson Simmons, a respectable farmer's wife, living in Oklahoma. Thc crime was a most re volting one. and the criminals were punished in a most revolting manner. Mrs. Simmons was outraged and mur dered ; the body was horribly mutila ted : the crime resembled in atrocity those perpetrated in the Creek nation by thc famous Buck gang, the mem bers of which were hanged at Fort Smith two years ago. Thc murder and mutilation of Mrs. Simmons so enraged the neighborhood that nearly the entire population turn ed out to hunt down and punish the guilty parties. The trail led the posse to the home of McGcisey, near Maud, a small town in thc Seminole nation, where McCeisey and Simpson were arrested. After securing their prisoners the mob set fire to MeGciseys house and barn, and did not leave until they saw all of his earthly possessions reduced to ashes. Thc prisoners were then carried buck across the linc into Oklahoma Territory, and near the scene of their crime, where they were executed by Judge Lynch's order in the most hor rible manner that human minds and hands could devise. They were burned at thc stake. The Indians met their doom with thc usual stoicism of their race. Af ter life was extinct the mob allowed thc fires to die out and they hurriedly dispersed to their several homes. No secret was made of the fact that the Indians had been burned ti) death and this morning their charred bodies, burned beyond recognition, were found lying in the houses of their funeral pyre. Everybody in the vicinity seems to know that thc Indians were executed for the murder of Mrs. Simmons, but everyone appears to be entirely igno rant of the individuals who composed the mob. Information was received herc of thc terrible affair from persons who saw thc charred bodies of the Indians. Great uneasiness exists along the Oklahoma border, and the impression prevails that much more bloodshed will follow the work of thc mob. Hocking Hackward She Broke Her Neck. PAr<?I.KT, Jan. 7.-While sittiug in a rocking chair before the fire laugh ing and talking, with thc family grouped about, the l-l-year-old daugh ter of Mr. J. I). Scott rocked over backward with fatal results. Her neck was broken, and before a physi cian could be called in the young girl, surrounded by the horrified family, died. Thc child was in a merry mood and all were enjoying her flow of spirits. She was talking in a lively manner and rocking back and forth when sud denly the chair toppled over and the child fell to the floor with a thud. Her head struck first and thc entire weight of the body was thrown on thc neck, which broke under the strain. Meath was almost immediate. }\v. St ott is a well-known citizen of thal place.-Tin Sin/,. Counterfeiters ate active i:i Texas, j aad Austin is Hooded with bad silver j d .'liars. Dead i;-. Alive. l?L'TLEIXiE, GA., Jan. S.-One of thc most peculiar cases in history de veloped hero to-day when Kev. Robert Simmons, a well known preacher of this section, who was alleged to have been murdered last March, appeared in town shaking hands with his old friends, and declaring that a great mistake had been made. His appear ance created a sensation, that over shadowed the excitement ten months ago when it was reported that Sim mons had been murdered. At that time it was alleged that Simmons had been killed ?by W. H. Bray, a prominent and influential farmer of this section, who was know* to have shot at him but sufficient evi dence for Bray's arrest could not be secured, and the grand jury did not find a bill. The alleged murder be came one of thc criminal mysteries of Georgia, and every effort to find the body of the alleged murdered maa proved futile. About teu days ago, however, the decayed body of a man was found?on thc farm of W. H. Bray buried in a hole. The find created a great stir,, and thc alleged tragedy of ten months ago was quickly recalled. The friends and relatives of the Rev. Robert Sim mons identified the body as that of the missing man and a coroner's jury returned a verdict that the body was that of Rev. Robert Simmons and that death had been produced by a shot fired by W. II. Bray, and that a negro, Henry Jones, who was employed on thc Bray estate, was an accomplice to thc crime. Bray and thc negro were accordingly arrested and incarcerated in the Madi son jail. Bray protested his innocence, but the circumstantial evidence was considered so strong that it was gene rally predicted by the friends of the man alleged to have been murdered that he would t?ang. The friends of Bray, however, were determined to work the case to the bottom, and bj- shrewd detective work located tho Rev. Robert Simmons in Hancock county, where he has been since his mysterious disappearance from Rutledge thc night in March he was alleged to have been murdered by Bray. He was secretly returned to Rutledge last night, and his appear ance on thc streets this morning had the same effect among the negroes as if a dead man had returned to life. They could scarcely believe their eyes. Au order from the court de manding the release of Bray and Jones was quickly secured, and they were liberated from the Madison prison to day. The mystery as to the identity of thc body found has not yet been solv ed, and the developments to-day make that all the more exciting. Whether some person was murdered and placed there for the purpose of riveting sus picion upon Bray or whether it is a murder mystery that has no bearing upon thc Simmons-Bray affair is yet to be cleared. Mr. Bray is a prominent citizen and his friends are indignant that he should have been placed in jail for an alleged crime that developments show was not committed.-Atlanta Journal. Atlanta's Sohlest Guests. Mrs. Jefferson Davis is to be the guest of the United Confederate Vet erans' Association during the reunion in July. She has been invited and has accepted. Miss Winnie Davis and Mrs. Hayes, also the daughter of Mr, Davis, has peen invited and she and her two children will bc here. Thc invitation extended tliese three ladies did not come from any one camp ol' veterans. Kvery camp in the State joined in exteuding a special invitation to the widow and the daughters of the great Confederate chieftain. A special train will be sent to these distin guished guests, and an escort of vet erans will bring them to the city. Thc escort will be composed of vet erans from thc various camps of the State. A lready there are a large num ber of old soldiers who are applicants for positions on this escort. Mrs. Davis and her daughters will be thc ceutral figures in all of thc re ceptions tendered* the veterans and at all of the meetings of the associa tion. Therr will bc a number of re ceptions given in honor of Mrs. Davis, Miss Davis and Mrs. Hayes. Just as many attentions as can be crowded into a few days will be shown them. The coming of Mrs. Davis and her daughters is regarded as the crowning feature of thc reunion. All of thc camps of the veterans are now holding frequent meetings to dis cuss plans for the reunion and perfect arrangements for thc entertaining of the old soldiers that are to come. To-night Camp Walker will hold a meeline and discuss the situation. Thc veterans all over thc State are taking an active interest in thc com ing reunion and are giving valuable aid to thc Fulton County associations. -Athinto Jonnwh - A fruit farm in Missouri, recently described at length in horticultural pa* pers, is said to be the largest fruit farm in tbe world. It contains 2,280 acres, cn which are 100,00o peach trees, <>0,000 apple trees, 2,000 pear trees, and 40 acres of blackberries, besides a large variety of other fruits-. There is a large warehouse, a cannery, with a capacity of 10,000 cars a day, a storage building, which will hold 15,000 barrels of apples : a hotel, saw mill and a number of houses, for the use of managers and tenants. This fruit farm is valued at $250.000 to ?300,000. This is horticulture on a grand scale. - Tia' Xew York Tribune tells of a t!-;i\ elling < .'corgi:', evangelist who is en gaged in the conversion of sinners to a new faith, the outward manifestation of which is laughter. His devotees aie