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"BYTCLINKSOALES & LANGSTON., ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1900. VOLliME XXXYI-NO 16 Need a. NEW HAT ? Few men don't. If carefulness in buying is needed any where it's in Hat buying. Perhaps the shape you've seen on somebody else and admired wouldn't look so well as some other shape. We have the "other" shape?we've every want able shape. Come here and try on all the correct Hats, and you are sure to find the one best suited to you, and find it'll cost you less here than anywhere else, too. Hats from 50c. to $3.00, and at every price between. Evans' $3.50 Shoes for Men. It has been our aim to maintain the highest possible standard in these Shoes?to sell a Shoe unexcelled for the price. That wo have been successful in doing this is proven by the increasing demand for Evans' $3.50 Shoes. These Shoes are well known by most of the men in this towD, and for style, workmanship and service they can't be beat. Better s^ive Evans5 8B3.50 8HOE6 A_ TRIAL . Evans & Co, THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. WHITE FRONT. If you want to have tho best Garden you ever had in your life, try our HI New Seed this year. L - ORR DRUG C When you are buying a Vehicle that life depends on at times, buy a good one. If you don't know what maker to choose from, buy from a reliaU* dealer whose word is his reputation. I have a splendid assortment of light-speeding WAGONS, FAMILY CARRIAGES, FANCY TRAPS, And are made by the best manufacturers, at prices that will surprise you. Come to see me. JOSi J. FEET WELL. SOME BARGAINS ! I HAVE ? FEW PUftOS. Gi the very highest grade and latest styles, TO 00 AT COST FOB A FEW DAYS. This Is an opportunity of a life-time. . . n,r'lU" hnvo tl"> latest'improved ball-bearing RlBW HfWlHfi SE V?I EG H> ? m NE* fur $80. Vibrator Standard Muohine only $28.00. ?K?aMS tUSAP. , H. I*. WIE.ELIS, / South Main Street, Anderson, 8- ^ Court Proceedings. Aftet we closed our report of the Couit proceedings last Wednesday morning, the following cases were dis posed of: Oscar Childress, charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, plead guilty, and was Eenteiired te six months on the chain gang or tine of $ J. B. McCrider plead guilty to breach of trust and larceny, and was sentenced to nine months on tuts chain gang. The case against Luther Strickland, charged with bigamy, was nol prossed. In the case of Hubert Given, Pink Patson, J. C. Holliday and Hamp Kinard, charged with gambling, the two latter named plead guilty and were sentenced to three months on the chain gaug or a fine of $30 encb. Given and Patson's case was trans ferred to the contingent docket. The Grand Jury reported a number of true bills and for good and sufficient reasons tho cases were continued until the next term of Court iu Juno. Tho Solicitor announced that ho had no other bills of indictment. Judge He net then delivered the following charge to the Grand Jury, and announced that the Court would hear tueir present ment as soon as they were ready to make it : judge ?enet's charge. Miv Foreman and Gentlemen of the Grand Jury: You are now at liberty to devote your time and attention to tho other business that properly comes before you as Grand Jurors. You will endeavor before filing your linal pre sentment at this term to look into the condition of tho Jail and tho Prior House nnd as far as you can will ex amine tho public offices nnd the con duct of public officials. It will bo im possible no doubt to overtake all of that work satisfactorily at this term and it will be advisable to appoint special committees, or a committee, to attend to these matters, but at the summer term yon will be able to make a fuller report us to these importaut matters. But 1 wish to bring to your attention again tho stockade scandal to which 1 referred in my opening charge on Monday morning. At that tir.io so far as tho Court is concerned it was a matter of rumor and report and the Daily Mail editorial without any substantial charge and without the names of any parties implicated. Since then the case of the State vs. Newell, charged with murder, has been tried, and during the progress of the trial of 4bat case it was developed from the testimony of witnesses on tho stand that the deceased, Will Hull, had been killed while in Newell's stockade. To the astonishment of the Court it was shown that he was not there as a con vict, but was there under a so-called contract to laboron the farm. It seems that he was charged by Newell with violation of a labor contract; that New ell swore out a warrant for his arrest before Magistrate J. J. Gilmer; that the magistrate issued the warrant, placed it in the hands of Newell as a deputy, and that Newell thus deputized and accompanied by a sheriff's consta ble, Dillingham, went to the home of Will Hull and arrested him. It ap pears that iney did not tuke him ro jail, and so far as the testimony shows that was the end of the process of the law. Instead of being taken to jail, as he ought to have been, under the war rant of arrest, by some strange proce dure he was taken to Newell's stock ade, where it seems that Newell bad some iS convicts at work on his farm. So, gentlemen, hero was a poor negro taken from his wife and children under a pretext of arrest. The machinery of the law was used to seize him, take him from his home and put him iu a* convict's stockade ind work him like a convict without process of law. He was under no sentence of the Court, he had not been tried, , The testimony showed that he was guarded like a convict, made to labor like a convict and treated in all respects like a con vict. And indeed the manner of his death would seem to indicate that it was in an effort to leave this convict camp that ho was shot as a felon might be shot in endeavoring to escupo tho sentence of tho law. Gentlemen, this is a serious matter, and I charge you that it is your duty to make a thorough investigation of this case. You will bring before you tho magistrate that issued the warrant and the constables that executed it. You have the power to send for persons and papers and you will only be doing your duty in making n thorough investigation aud reporting upon this treatment of Will Hull. I hold in my hand a printed form of contract entitled: "State of South Carolina, County of Anderson, contract and agreement for labor on farm." Let me read it to you. "This contract and agreement for labor on farm, made and entered into this day between-landlord, party of the first part, and-laborer, party of the second part, witnesseth : "That I,-, laborer, of the second part,-do hereby biud over and hire myself to-to do and perform gen eral farm work under the supervision of said-or his agents, for the period of- months, commencing -'and ending , and as pay for the said services I am to receive the sura of $-per month, together with my board and fudging, which wages, less -or any advances made to me from time to time, and lost time at-per day, is to be paid by mo at the expira tion of above time. I agree at all times to be subject to the orders and commands of said- or his agents, perform all work required of me. -? or his agents, shall have the right to mse euch force as he or his agents may deem necessary to require me to remain on his farm and perform good and satisfactory -services. He shall have tbe right to lock me up for safe keeping, work me under the rules and regulations of his farm, and if I should leave his farm or' run away be shall have the right to offer and pay n re ward of not exceeding $25 for m ~ cap ture and return, together with tho ex penses of same, which amount so ad vanced, together with any other in debtedness I may owe -*? at the exni ratiss of above time, I agree to work ont under all rules and regulations of this contract at same wages as above, commencing'-and ending "The said?? shall have the right to transfer bia interest in this contract to any other party, and I agreo to con tinue work for said assignee same as for the original party of the first part. . ** I-?f, landlord, party of the first part, hereby agree with and hire the said-for tho above time, and pay wages as above set forth and otherwise fnihil my part of above agreement. "Witness our hands and seals this, the-day-, 180?. -(Seal.) "Wituess Mr. Foreman nod Gentlemen of the Grand Jury: This so-called printed coutract, printed here in Anderson, is another fnct for you to consider in this important investigation. It would be interesting to know whose legal acu men it was that was able to frame such a paper for such a purpose. Was he a member of the bar? It would bo in teresting to know his name. Listen, gentlemen, to some of tho terms of this contract: "I ngree at all times to bo subject to tho orders and commands of said landlord or bis agents, he ahull have a right to use such force as ho or his agents may deem necessary to re quire ino (o remain on his t?rm and perform good und satisfactory servi ces." - Here, gentlemeu, is an attempt under a pretense of legal authority to give the landlord nud his agents tho power to punish the poor laborer who is in duced or forced to sign such a contract. And it is currently reported that the lash is freely applied under this pro vision of the contract. Listen again?"He shall hove the right to lock me up for sate keeping." Here tho poor laborer gives tho land lord the power to imprison him. Again "ho shall have the right to work mc under tho rules nud regula tions of his farm." What is this, gen tlemen, but a cunning device whereby a poor laborer subjects himself to the treatment of State convict camps. Again?"And if I should leave his farm or run away ho shall have the right to otter and pay a reward of not exceeding $23 for my capture and re turn, together with the expenses of same, which amount so advanced, to-. gether with any indebtedness I may owo-at tho expira tion of above time, I agree to work out under nil the rules and regulations of this contract at same wages as above." Mr. Foreman and Geutlemeu, if this were a statute providing for tho cap ture and return of runaway slaves or escaped felons it would not be ditlicult to understand, but this is one of the terms and conditions in u so-called coutrnct aud agreement to labor on farms in Anderson county. By such terms and conditions it is manifest that poor ignorant negroes are sub jected to a state that is worse than slavery. I doubt if thereever was tuuh a contract framed or devised or con ceived before in any civilized or Chris? tiun community. It is absurd to cull it a contract, it has no binding force. No Court would attempt to enforce it. It is contra bonos'mores, against, the public good, and utterly null aud void. No free mau in this commonwealth nor any other free country can be permit ted, even if ho desired to do no, to bar ter away his liberty nod make himself a mere chattel; aud that is what this contract attempts to do, for the last stipulation in it reads: "The said landlord shall have the right to trans fer his interest in this contract to any other party, and I agree to continue work for said assignee same as for the original party of the first part." So you sec, gentlemen, this stipula tion attempts to provide for the sale and t-anst'er of the poor laborer. The practical result of this so-called con tract when carried into ettect is to re duce the laborer to a position worse than slavery and to subject him to treatment worthy only of Siberian prisons. It is currently reported that not only are men conliued in stockndes in this country under such contracts, but that even women and little babes are also imprisoned there. I call it imprisonment, gentlemen, aud without doubt it is false imprisonment, and whoever as landlord holds in confine ment under such n contract as this is guilty of tho offence of fais j imprison ment and should be sunnnarity and severely punished. It would be inter esting to know if any such contracts are on record in tho clerk's ottice. You should ascertain from the clerk if such papers are on record in this County. You will procure from him a list of the names of the so-called landlords and laborers, parties to such contracts, and report them in your presentment. Mr. Foreman and Gentlemen: As white men liviug in a State whero so large a portion of our population is composed of negroes, it is our duty as representing the law abiding element of ohr population to see that justice is do?tf to that inferior race. There is no doubt that the negro racois inferior to ours in intelligence, in civilization, in moral character. There is no doubt that wo have deprived them practically of political power, and it is best for them that it is so. but wo are all (he more bound to treat them kindly, fair ly and justly. They arc, in fact, our wards, and wo as their guardiuns, must (63 toit that they ace not made tho victims of deceit and fraud, imposi tion and oppression. - The fact that tho negro is ignorant, poor and dependent on the white man is no reason why he should be made tho helpless victim of the white man's greed, deceit and tyranny. Wo must not allow the ne gro's necessity to bo tho hard-hearted white man's opportunity. The white man's burden is a heavy one, and th white man of the Southern States has a larger portion of it tu bear than any other white man. Wo must endeavor to show ourselves worthy of our re sponsibility, and us Grand Jurors aud officers of the Court wo must seo to it that in Anderson County, this prosper ous, enterprising, Christian communi ty, tho negro sUull have justice dime him. You will i here lore, spure no pains to make a thorough investigation of the stockado scandal. Tho oath which you took as Grand Jurors requires you to present all things truly as they come to your knowledge, to tho best of your nnderstanding, so help you God. You I have sworn not only that you will not 1 present anjono for envy, hatred or mauee. bnt that you will leave no one uupresented ior fear, favor, affection, reward or hope of reward, nud I know that in this regard you will do your doty. You will bring this shameful practice to the light of day. Such dis graceful conduct cannot stand day light, but like thoBe fungus growths' that flourish or 'y in dark corners it will perish when exposed to the light of dsT. The editor of The Daily Mail deserves the thanks of all good people for tho editorial article which drew publie attention to this matter. Tho air is filled with reports aud rumors of the most startling character. One hears that there is u stockade in your County without a single convict in it, yet filled with men held there under these so-called contracts fur labor, men who are guurded liko convicts, punished liko convicts and sometimes shot as if they weio felons escaping from prison ana the custody of the law. Representing tho law-abiding, God fearing peoplo of Anderson County, you will ascertain tho uanicsof those so-called landlords who have brought disgrace to your County und put it to n burning shame. You will in person or by committee visit all the stockades in your County and you will report to tho Court tho names of all who are therein confined, the offences for which they are iu prison, and the term of their im - prisonment and the names of those who nvc there cuniined under contract or for any causes. You will do all you can this week, butas it is manifestly impossible to finish tho investigation this week 1 shall order a special session ' of tho Court of General Sessions to he I held on Thursday, the 7th day of j March, on ?hic!? day you as Umud Jurors will convene as a Grand Jury and make a final presentment of this matter. You have the power tosend I for persons and papers and to compel the attendance or witnesses and to ex amine them, and I trust to you and all I law-abiding people iu your County to unite iu an effort to* root out this I shameful practice and to remove this j blu-k blot from the good name of An derson County. On Friday at noon Judge Heuet was notified that the Grand Jury was ready to make their presentment and he promptly convened the Court for that purpose. The following presentment was then read : GUAM) .WHY'S I'Ur.SKNTMKNT. To the Honorable \V. C. lionet, Pre siding Judge: The Grand Jury begs herewith to make its presentment as follows: Wo have passed upon all the bills left for our consideration by the So licitor. Owing to the importance of certain matters brought to our attention by the. Court we have been unable to ex amine the County Poor House and .tail, and in order to facilitate our in vestigations we have appointed several committees whose duty it shall be to make investigations and report to us nt a later session. We have made special investigation of the labor con tract system which prevails to a large extent iu this County and have found on record a number of contracts iu which laborers have agreed to work under guard and to be locked up at night, receiving tho same treatment practically as convicts. Uni* informa tion is that these contracts are not confined to those places where convicts are worked and where stockades exist, but have, in some instances, been exe cuted to landowners who do not work convicts. To what extent the provis ions of these contracts have been en forced we have so far been unable to ascertain. If enforced strictly they have led to a violation of the law which should at once be ended. To tho end, therefore, that a full investi gation may be made and that the law may be vindicated wo have appointed a committee consisting of K. A. Sulli van, J. 11. Levcrett, J. S. McFall, J. T. Milford aud E. B. Hall and nsk that your honor give them full powev to swear aud examine witnesses, to com pel the production of such papers as may bo necessary, with tho pnvilego of visiting without hindrance the stockades in this county, nnd of havinc access to aud conferring with all labor ers who are or are suspected of being restrained of their liberty under these contracts, which committee shall make a full investigation and report tho same, together with tho evidence taken, at tho special session of the Court which is ordered to be held ou March 7 next. Wo further present that we have made a partial examination of the books and accounts of Magistrate J. J. G ilmer, of the City of Andeison, and have found that gross irregularities exist in his oflice aud that certain war runts issued by him have not been en tered upon Iiis books or returned to his office aud that relatives or ngents of the prosecutor have been deputized to servo such warrants and in that various items of cost collected by him in crimi nal cases have not been turned over to the county or accounted for ns provid ed by law. Wo havo instructed the above mentioned committee to make complete tho examination of his books and accounts nnd of all matters per taining to his oflice and to furnish the same to tho Court at such time as the Court may order. Numerous complaints have beeu made to us of a system of lending money upon chattel mortgages that prevails in this city in which poor aud ignorant people havo been compelled to pay extortionate rates of interest, but so tar we havo found nothing criminal in tho transactions, and the only redress of tho parties seeming to bu nn avoidance of tho contracts upon the civil side of the court. We have, however, submitted tho investigation of this matter to the same committee that has been charged with the inves tigations of tho other matters above referred to. Tho following committee has been appointed to visit the Poor House and Jtttl: Edward Whitten, II. 11. Gray aud J. W. Palmer. Tho committee first above named havo been charged with the duty of examining the books aud offices of the county officers and to make their re port with refeveuce thereto at the Juin; term of tho Court'. We. would recom mend that said committee be allowed to eanpioy au expert, to aid them in all the investigations that they have been charged with making. Tho followiug committee has been appointed to inspect tho County chain gang: J. N. McAllister, Tt M King, James A. Shirley. While tho Grand Jury has no power to enforce tho re> ommeudution we beg leave to suggest thut it would bo to the pub1 ic interest that all warrants issued oyt hu magistrates in the city of An derson should bo served by the sheriff or one of the deputies. In regard to the labor contracts in the County we have been iuformed that tho impression has gone nbroad that tho work of this Grand Jury will extend to the avoidance of labor con trasts generally, and we deem it, therefore, proper to say that tho pur pose of the Grand Jury is only to cor rect those wrougsthat exist, und in the discharge of that duty w? hopti .o have the co-operation of all the :,ood citi zeusof the County, aud ac the same time we recognize thut tho labor con tract system constitutes a most impor tant factor iu uur County's develop ment aud tho influence of the Grand Jury will bo firmly sot against any avoidaucu of just und equitable cou ' tracts. j in conclusion wo beg to extend our ' thanks to your Honor und to the So licitor for your courtesies to us aud the aid you havo given u8 in our investiga tion?. Respectfully submitted, It. A. Sullivan, Foreman. Feb. 15, 1001. After the reading of the present ment Ol the Grand Jury in Court Judge Hi-net issued the following order : l ue State of South Carolina, County ol Anderson, in General Session? : The Grand Jury of Anderson County having reported in its presentment of date Feb. 1.1, mm, gr?w inegu Inritics exist in the ollico of Magistrate J. J. Gilmer. and that he lias collected tines and costs which lie has not paid over to the County Treasurer: Now. it is ordered that t he said J. J. Gilmer do show cause before this Court at its special session on March 7. P.Mil, why lie should not lu* prosecuted tor mal feasance in otlice. That a certitied copy of thh order bo served ou J. J, (iHmei1 b> the sheriff, when same is furnished him by tho clerk, who shall do so forthwith. W. C. Bkxkt. Presiding Judge. Feb. 10, lt)01. ? m * ? ? ? GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. ? A cotton mill is among the possi bilities for Central. ? Delaware has declined to abolish tho whipping post and pillory. ? The appropriation for the Indians from the Federal Treasury will be near $10,000,000. ? A national prohibition conference has been called at Ilutlulo, N. V., in August next. ? It is said that Kngland's new king hits cancer of the throat andean not live many years. ? Marconi has succeeded in trans mitting perfect messages by his wire less telegraphy to the distance of 200 miles. ? Smallpox is said to be in nearly every county in Mississippi. This plngue.is very nearly a national epidem ic now. ? Frank Klufsky, aged sixty-eight years, of Cleveland, Ohio, moody over money loss, refused to eat and died from starvation. ? It is said that the sugar trust has perfected plans to control all the sugar plantations of Hawaii by combining them in ti trust. ? It is reported that a lot of Penn sylvania women lynched a man the other day for beating his wife. Served the brute right, too. ? By nn enabling net of tho Legisla ture the school children of New Hamp shire are to decide by their votes in June next what shall be the State flower. ? A bill has been introduced in tho Kansas legislature providing for the dispensnry system liko the one in this SUUe except that it eliminates the pro lit feature. ? The Arkansas Legislature has de cided upon the apple blossom as the State tlower. The Arkansas Federa tion of Women's Clubs wanted the passion tlower chosen. ? The legal rate of interest in Can ada is now five per cent., the reduction from six per cent, having been made by a statute of the Dominion which went into effect January 1. ? The close of the present session will end the term of Congressman White, the oaly negro in Congress, and it is generally conceded that it will be a long time before another is elected. ? In tho value of the aggregate pro duction of metals during the last year, Montana heads the list with $50,000,000. Colorado comes second, with $17,000, 000. Arizona was third and California l'on rlli. ? Chief Justice Blccklcy, of Geor gia, though he is 70 years old, has en tered the University of Georgia as a student to learn a little more about mathematics. Hois puzzling the pro fessors no little with his problems. ? The United States supreme court has declared the legacy tax, imposed by the war revenue law, to be uncon stitutional, and under this decision tho sum of $102,722 collected from tho Cor nelius Vanderbilt estate, has been re funded. ? In Richmond, Va., the wards are not designated by numbers, as is tho the case in other American cities, but bynames of statesmen: Clay, Monroe, Madison Jefferson, Marshal' and Jack son. Clay ward is the largest, in Rich mond in voting population. ? .Several members of a church in Kut/.tmvn, Fa., having fallen far be hind with their fair dues, the board of trustees has decided that in future the bell shall not be tolled for a funeral in any family which has not paid up its indebtedness, an i year in advance besides. ? Mr. MeClellan, of Now York, com paring the cost of the soldier in Euro pean armies with tho cost to the Unit ed States says, including tho cost of pensions, etc., each United States sol dier involved an expense of $2,828, while ?. German soldier costs $227 and a French soldier $2:12. ? Practical jokes havo a way of imi tating the boomerang, as Charles Day, of Marshall, Mich., has discovered to his discomfort and discomfiture. Mr. I Day was sitting in a barber shop get I ting his hair cat. find when tho idea I struck him that it would bo real funny to touch tho barber's hand with tho lighted end of a cigarette and seo him jump. Tho harbor was just rubbing some bay ruin on Day's head and tho cigarette ignited the alcoholic mixture, which blazed up like a torchlight pro cession. ' In four seconds there wasn't a hair left on Day's cranium nud he has ! sworn ell* on practical jokes. STATE NEWS. ? Greenville has been granted an other beer dispensary. ? Landrum is to havo a hoisery mill with a capital stock of .*^0,u00. ? Columbia is to have a horse show this spring. This will be a fashionable allait'. ? Just 'Ml years ago Sherman's incen ??iai icN ui?do things hut in lower Scut"; Carolina. ? The Abbeville Cotton Mills, Ab beville, have declared a semi annual dividend of :i per cent. ? Greenville County pays out more than any other County in the State for jurors and witnesses. ? It is said that John Gary Evans will be one of tho candidates for the toga now worn by McLnurin. ? The Philadelphia Record says thut Smith Carolina is the smartest and the smallest of the Southern States. ? Sam Samuels, colored, was killed at Orangeburg by Policeman Bogard. Ile attacked the officer with a razor. ? There have been a few cases of a mild form of small pox in Clinton re cently , but the disease is not spreading. ? Tho S. C. Press Association will probably take a trip to the Pan-Amer ican Exposition at Buffalo this.summer. ? Associate Justice Eugene B. Gary is much improved in health after spending six weeks in a Baltimore hos pital. ? A movement is on toot to complete the Catholic cathedral iu Charleston. It is an elegant though unfinished building. ? Bobbers broke open a safe in Duke's store in Branchville and secur ed about .*100 in cash and damaged the safe $1R0. ? The old Mills house in Charleston has been sold for $i0,0GO. It will bo opened as a modern hotel in time for the exposition. ? The State Volunteer Fireman's As sociation will hold their annual tiro men's tournament, in May either in Co lumbia or Newberry. ? Ten stores and a hotel were burn ed at Darlington, indicting a loss of $2o,()00 or over, all of which was fairly covered by insurance. ? A county fair is to be held in Ab beville- before tho Charleston exposi tion with the idea of seeding the best exhibits to Charleston. ? Judging from all interior reports tho Sou tli Carolina cotton acrengo for tho present year will bo tho largest in the history of the State. ? There will probably be a number of South Carolinians who will make applications for positions in tho new army provided for by congress. ? A negro paper published in Charleston says there are 10,000 negroes in that city who loaf from choice? they could get work, but do not want it. ? Tho sentiment in favor of com pulsory vaccination is steadily grow ing. If overbody were vaccinated, smallpox could get no foothold in this State. ? A negro attempted to rob a promi nent dressmaker on Main street in Greenville. He grabbed her aud al most threw her into a ditch in the effort to seize her pocketbook. ? Editor Bradford of tho Fort Mill Times is tho defendant in a homicide case. Ho tried to make some noisy negroes hush as they were, disturbing his sick mother. One of tho negroes drew bis pistol aud the editor shot him. ? The woman's department of the South Carolina Interstate aud West Indian Exposition has been organized at Charleston with Mrs. Sarah Calhoun Simomt.s as president, Mrs. G. A. Wag ener,vico president, Mis. W. A. Pringle, treasurer. ? George Thomas, colored, was hanged in Beaufort last Friday for as sault committed last April on Mrs. George Duberly, a prominent white woman. It was the first legal hanging that has ever occurred in Beaufort county for rape. ? Henry Babb and his sons killed Lee Babb, a brother of Henry's, in Greenville county. There bail been bad blood between them about certain land transactions and when Lee Babb was in the woods cutting wood un armed he was approached by his bro ther aud the two sons and shot to death. He leaves a wife and seyen children. ? Adjutant and Inspector General Floyd has issued an order raising the standard for military companies. Com mands not drilling often and regularly ate to bo dropped. General Floyd ex pects the militia to appear several times this year and hopes to make some highly creditable displays. ? A sewing machine repairer who had been in Camden a short while made himself quito obnoxious by abus ing the Confederate soldiers and slan dering Southern women. Saturday night ho was informed that ho would havo to leavo. He was taken to the depot and permitted to leavo without any personal violence being committed. ? A shocking accident is reported from Aikon County. U oppears that tho little son of Mr. W. Q. Jackson went from school to spend the night with tbeson of Mr. Ben Bed. Mr. Red had just returned homo and put his ritlo to ono side when the boys arrived and tho littlo fellows began fooling with tho ritlo which won toff and struck young Jackson, indicting a wound from which ho died in a day or two, The children were neither over 7 years of age.