Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BY 0LINKfSCA??58 & MN?STON. Wst> ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 21,1902. VOLUME XXYVTT-vn AQ ufert je* 4. --- IF YOU i At some Stores this means absolutely nothing at all. Th ev will tell von when Vou ask for von? money that it is simply advertising, and they could not give money back, as it would ruin them. At other Stores it means that if you ask for your money you are shown something else, and if you still insist it is given you, but only after a long argument, and then with a frown that makes you feel mighty bad. . . -i Here, it means just your money back, and without a word. No frowns, no bad feelings. It is handed you with as much pleasure-as when j ou exchanged it for the Goods. It might, aa some Clothiers say, ruin us if every custom er came back for his money. BUT THEY DO NOT COME BACK ??ti'X brr, And ask for it-at /east not many. Somehow our Clothes and the moderate Prices we ask for them please the trade so well that they do not want their money-they prefer the Goods. This is the way it should be at every Store, but you know there's as much difference in Stores as there is in men. If ] you have not already found this out you will-pretty soon. If you want to buy Reliable Clothes! Clothes that if not found ao represented you Can get your money back, this is the Store fdr you. Where you can get more for your money than you can find at any Credit Store in this or any other town. The Clothes, Shoes, Hats, Furnishings We sell are the best to be had for the prices asked. It will nay you to get acquainted with us, and it may pay us to get "on showing terms" with yon. B.O.Evan ANDERSON, S. C. The Spot Gash Clothiers i STATE HEWS. - TLo Clemson College baseball i team has won nine out of twelve gamea played. ? -Mn. D. J. Brook, ot Effingham, Florence county, was thrown from her buggy and killed. - The Laurens dispensary has boen closed, pending an investigation of an apparent shortage of $1,800. - The president has appointed Charles E. Carman postmaster at Aiken in place ?f W. G. Chaffee re moved. rr The corner stone of the new As sociate Reformed Presbyterian Church was laid in Columbia Wednesday afternoon. - Henry Halloman was shot and killed by his brother-in-law. H. H. Brown, in a drunken quarrel near Greenville. - A line of steamers is soon to be established on the Congaree and San tee rivers oonneoting Columba and Georgetown. - Rev. Waddy H. Hudson, a Pres byterian missionary to China, is visit ing his father, W. A. Hudson, in Greenville after au absenoe of eight years. - Jasper Sharpe, a young mtn of Lexington County, attempted to com mit suioide at the Grant House in Co lumbia, but the doctors managed to save his life. - A Confederate monument, to cost $20,000, is to be erected during this year on the public square in Marion. The .money for the purpose has practically all been raised. - Governor M?Sweeney has receiv ed for the iiret time an application for a pardon from a municipal oourt. He has referred the matter to the at torney general for his opinion. - Lancaster county pays into the State treasury for taxes about $10, ??0, and receives ?6,300 pension mon ey and $6,000 dispensary money, thus coming out ahead of the game. - J. H. McMillan of Finger*ille, Spartanburg county, had his hand and arm lacerated in a gin on Tuesday afternoon and died from the effects on Wednesday. He was 55 and a wealthy farmor. - Drs. R. L. Branyon, and H. L. Todd, of Charleston, and Dr. Luxem burger, of Greenville, have been drop I ed by the State Dental association for unethical condnot in advertising the business. - A son of John P. Harvey, of Monck's Corner, rode out with gun and rod for a little sport. In dis mounting and hitching his mule his gun was discharged and the top of his head blown off. - The friends of Chief Justice Mc iver everywhere will be glad to learn that there has been no change for the worse in his condition since his re turn from Baltimore some weeks ago. - Miss Annie Carroll, who was in jured by falling off the Charleston and Seashore railroad oompany's wharf at Mt. Pleasant, has been given a verdie', for $9,000 in a suit for dam ages brought in Orangeburg county. - Tho oity counoil of Charleston has oloosd a contract for a new sys tem of waterworks, subject to the : ratification by the citizens at an elec tion to be held in SO days. The cost of the new plant is to be $1,250,000. - A swindler, claiming to bo a member of a large firm in Philadel phia, has swindled several farmers near Lake City out of their straw berry crop, giving them in exohange bogus oheoks on a New Jersey bank. - Representative Lever has been assured that the house committee will favorably report his bill for $25,000 for a monument to Gen. Thomas Sum ter, the revolutionary hero. It will bc ereoted in the city of Sumter. - George Washington, an old fash ioned "white folks" negro convicted of rape in 1876. has been pardoned by .the governor who discovered a case of blaokmail on the part of the negro woman who. secured Washington's arrest. - Interest seems to be growing in the annual State summer school at Rock Hill and the attendance will probably be larger than it has been. State Superintendent of Education MoMahan has made further snnounoe ment in regard to somo special fea tures. - Proceedings have been brought before the State Supreme Court to disbar John T. Duncan, of Columbia, from practicing in the State Courts. The charge seems to be that Mr. Dem ean borrowed money for a client on a title that was worthless, the aot being considered entirely unprofessional. - A party of revenue offioers con sisting of Be venue . Collector E. A. Aiken, of Greenville, and'Deputy Marshals Corbin and McKinney, of Pickens, recently made a big haul in Oconee County, destroying three distillery outfits with the necessary accompaniments and arresting two distillery operators. - By an act of the last Legislature, approved February 26, the oounty boards of control hold their meetings monthly, and the dispensers are re quired to report their profits monthly, instead of quarterly as heretofore. The profits are then equally divided between the oity and county, and are turned over on the fourth Monday in the month following; - Some of the citizens of Barnwell and Hampton counties desire to es tablish a new oounty to, be known as Allendale, with the oounty seat at the town of Allendale. The petition has been filed with the governor and as scon as he looks over it, an elec tion will be ordered, provided the petition is presented under the con stitutional requirements. GENERAL SEWS. -Lewie Nixon, the new leader cf Tammany Hall, New York, has re signed and quit politics. - The New England Union will give further assistance to the strikers and looked out operators of Augusta. - An inch of snow fell at Milwau kee, Wis., on Saturday. 10thinst., and the thermometer was below freezing pOiut. - Distributing Cl?rk Barrows in tho U. S. census office has been found short $7.500 which h* lost i? specula tions. - The smallpox continues to be troublesome at Charlotte. There are 65 people in the pest house and house of detention. - The estimated decrease in the option acreage of the South this year is four ?nd a half per cent.- compared with last year. -18,000 subscribers from Arkan sas, Mississippi, Alabama and Ten* nesBec have presented Admiral Sohley with a handsome silver service. - Commissioner of Agrioulture O. B. Stevens says Georgia's peach crop will be less than one-half as large as it was last year. The fruit is falling off. - An engine and 12 oars ran away down a mountain near Saginaw, wes tern North Carolina, and William Bur ton, engineer in oharge, was instantly killed. * - A dispatch from Naples says Mount Vesuvius shows signs of activ ity. Lava is flowing from the crater on the Pompeii side, while hot cinders are thrown up from time to time. - Twenty-nine persons were killed outright and 300 others injured some of whom will die-by the explo sion of a naphtha car in-the railroad yards at Sheraden, near Pittsburg, Pa. - There aro three States whioh have co debt. Iowa, Nebraska and Illinois. There are three others which have almost no debt, California, Mon tana and Nevada. AU six are in tho west. - Sarah Ann Crandall died recent- j ly at her home in Green, N. Y., hav ing lived a complete reolueo in her house for 40 years. Nono of her neighbors had seen her faoe in that period. - A negro in jail at Decatur, Tenn., boasted that he had killed two white men and declared that he intended to kill two more. A mob took him from the jail and administered a drastic preventive. - In a difficulty between whites and blaoks from Beaumont, Texas, on May 11th, one negro was killed, several whites and blaoks wounded and a number of others who jumped from the train are believed to have been injured. - The Atlantic Coast Line files in the six States through whioh it runs the merger agreement with the Plant system. With its leased lines this system now controls 5,000 miles of railway. It will issue $80,000,000 of 4 per cent, bonds. - Barnum and Bailey's Ci rou s was the cause of a serious riot in Bexlera. Franoe, on May 11th: The crowd could not be accommodated in the tent and those who wore unable to enter began to stone the circus employees, five of whom were injured. - On Monday, 12th inst., there was a very heavy hailstorm in Madison oounty, Ga., about 7 miles from Athens, extending from Bethaven church about three miles. Hail fell as large as guinea eggs? and covered the ground to the depth of a foot, oom ?letely destroying all crops and the mit. - President Stuyvesant Fish of the IllijioiB Central railroad, has bought 10,000 acres of land near Jackson, Miss., and will establish there a model farm cn which ho expects white farm ers to & H tie. The land will beoleared in 80 aoie tracts and turned over to men who are known to be true to the interests of the company. . - In the oil fields near Austin', Texas, the drill in the No 6 well at a depth of 142 feet dropped into a lake of liquid asphalt, which is so thick and heavy that further drilling is al most impossible. The heavy blaok matter oozed up into the well for quite a distance. An expert pro nounces it tho finest kind of liquid asphalt. There is but one other place that it is found, and that is in Trini dad. - Congress established a precedent by appropriating two hundred thous and dollars for the relief of the suffer- ? oro at Martinique. For the first time in American history a direot appro priation ho j been made to a foreign people. Co?gress on several other occasions, such as the Irish famines in 1847 and 1880 and the famine in ! India in 1890, has taken steps to re lieve distress in other countries, such as authorizing the navy department to lend vessels to carry food and cloth ing, but never before by appropriating money for the purchase of supplies. - To reach the new gold fields of Thunder Mountain, in Idaho, it has been necessary to cover sixty miles of tbe 140-mile journey by night, wbon the snow is frozen, on snow shoes. Even in the dosing weeks of winter, when the snow wis fourteen feet deep, the arrivals at the main namp num bered fifty a day. Hereafter, unless ?herd shall be a heavy 'snowfall, the trail will be kept open for paok hor ses, and the 2,000 to 3.OOO persons who are there will be able to buy ne cessaries at lower prices. Recently flour, sugar, and salt sold for $3 a pound, while the wages Kt the mills were only $4 a day. Fresh deer meat, however, brought only eighteen cents a pound. FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. From Our Oicn Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 19,1903. One of the strongest proofs M the genuineness of the belief of the Demo crats that the next House will be D?mocratie is the earnestness with which Democratic members of the present House are discussing tho ques tion ol who Bhallbe elected Speaker and talking up the claims of n number of gentlemen for that honor. Repre sentative Richardson, of Teuu., the Democratic leader in the House, natu rally Ima the first call, but that does not mean that it is considered certain he will be nominated, ns shown by the discussion of several other names. It is, of cours?, nothing like a contest at this stage of the game-merely a dis- | cussion of fitness and availability. But I these discussions would not bo going on if the Democrats were not confident of winning in this year's Congressional election. Another thing that adds to this confidence is the large number of Republicans who admit privately that they regard Democratic control of the next House probable. The general dissatisfaction over trusts and the tariff- closely related questions-and ! over the Philippine policy of the Re ! publicans seem to justify Democratic j confidence. Senatorial pull lauded a juicy plum when Clarence Hale, brother of Sena j tor Hale, was nominated by Mr. Roose velt to be V. S. District Judge for tlie District of Maine. When Y's other men in Maine who would have liked this position heard that Senator Hale's brother was after it they kept quiet, as they knew the Senator could control the support of the entire State delega tion, and he did. George G. Boardman, late private in the Twentieth Infantry, was an inter esting witness before the Senate Phil ippine Committee this week. He said oar soldiers were much discouraged on account of the kind of food issued to them, and that officers did' not object to the men going into the houses of natives and taking food when they were hungry; and while on the same subject he said: "The whole tendency of the army was to make the men any thing bul pleasant toward the natives. They ueeef the gun to shoot with rather than to preach the gospel with." Senator Hanna got what he asked for in the case of his friend Rathbone, who was convicted of complicity in the Coban postal frauds, although to give it to him Mr. Roosevelt had to order his chum, Gen. Leonard Wood, to do what he knew would not be agreeable to him. This case is remarkable in more than ono respect. Mr. Roose I velt knew that it would necessarily j make a lot of talk for him to order j Gea. Wood to amend a Cuban law leBS than a week before the surrender of American authority on the island, and nothing but pressure of the strongest sort would have caused him to do so. The amended law gives the Cuban Court of Appeals authority to give Rathbone a new hearing cud an oppor tunity to introduce new testimony. It is expected that testimony will be pro duced that would not have been con sidered safe during American occupa tion and that Rathbone's lawyers will be able to "convince" the court to give him an acquittal. There is a political aspect to the ease, too. It has given Mr. Roosevelt amore comprehensive idea thar, he had before of the strength that Hanna can control. It has not made him love Hanna more, but it has added to his fear of him as a rival for the Republican Presidential nomina tion. There ia a reason other than pensions that may cause Eugene F. Ware, of Kanvus, who took charge of the Pen sion Burean this week, to wish he had not become Commissioner of Pensions. Some years ago, when he published his first book of poems, under the pseu donym of "Ironquill," Mr. Ware con tracted with a clipping bureau to fur nish him everything that appeared in the newspapers concerning that nome and the book. He got a lot of clip pings for a time and then they ceased, when he was appointed Commissioner of Pensions they began to come in again by thousands. Ho protested that he didn't want them, but the clip ping bureau produced a perpetual con tract and he could not get away from it. Now his weekly bills for clippings are more than his salary as Commis sioner of Pensions, and his only hope is that the newspapers will stop print ing things about "ironquill" and his poem. Representative Cushman's vigorous attack on the House rules is being strongly endorsed on the Pacific Coast. He has received hundreds of letters from his constituents in the State of Washington, commending the attack and telling him to keep it up, and Rep resentative Woods, of California, said of it this week: "I have a resolution from the Iron Trades Council of San Francisco, commending Mr. Cushman for speaking and enlightening the peo ?le of this country. The resolution urther requests the California dele gation to endeavor to bring about a revision of the ralea. Revision is really becoming quito an issue out on the Pacific Coast." The House bosses are in a fair way to learn that Democrats are not the only kickers against their tyranny under the present rules. Op position to those rules should be one of the issues of this year's Congressional campaign. . I Senator Hoar cannot refrain from having a little f nn with his Republican | colleagues occasionally. While the Senate was discussing the legislation authorizing the sending of a minister to the Republic of Cuba, he asked inno cently, aa though he was hearing about j it for the first time: "Is the American , flag to be hauled down in Cubaf ' "Oh, yea," replied 8enator Cnllom.- "it will come down on the 20th of this month." "Indeed!" sarcastically remarked Mr. ! Hoar; "I thought that the flag never came down where it was once hauled up." Although there has been mach talk this week about the probability of the Philippine bill being voted upon next weak, it wna based upon nothing solid. No agreement bas been reached, and it will surprise nobody if the debate continues the rest of this mouth, or even longer. Visit of a Former Pastor. Belton, S. C., May 20. Dr. Chas. Manly, who was for seven teen years pastor of the First Baptist Church at this place, but who has been pastor of the. First Church in Lexiug ton. Mo., for the past three years, vis ited friends here last Saturday and Sunday, accompanied by Mrs. Manly and two daughters, and it is useless to say their visit was a aourco of much pleasure to this whole community. Dr. Manly occupied the pulpit of the First Church Sunday morning, preaching one of those able, eloquent and persua sive sermons that is so characteristic of him. His text was tho 12th verso of the 00th Psalm: "So teach us to num ber our days that we may apply our hearts uuto wisdom," and by This re marks proved conclusively tho wisdom of livivg such a lite, urging the unsnved to accept the Savior at once, and plead ed with them not to servo the world, sin tlc sh and tho devil until old age had laid hold upon them and then bring a feeble, tottering old body, hardly worth having, to the feet of Jesus, but serve Him in the vigor and prime of life, when that service could be so much more effectively rendered. Dr. Manly referred very touchingly to some of his former members, who havo died since be left us, and who were the very pillars of the old First Church. The scene around the altar, after the services, was very touching, indeed, as nearly every one in tho house (which wa? almost "chock full") came forward with tears in their eyes to once more grasp the hand ot this venerable man of God and receive from him some word of solid^coinfort aud advice, such, it seems, ns our own Dr. Manly could ut ter. The day WPS ono long to bo re membered, and we humbly pray the pleasure of being spured tho privilege of many more such days with Dr. Manly with us, nnd our prayers go with him nnd his family to their far away home, that his useful lifo may bo lengthened that tho name of our HervenlyFather may thereby bethe more glorified. C. Thc Baptist Convention. The Southern Baptist Convention in Asheville was attended by a larger number ot delegates and visitors than any meeting in the past. The correct ed list of the secretary, showed 1,008 delegatespreBent. Besides these there were nt leaBt> 1,000 women present to attend the meetings of tho Woman's Auxiliary Societies. The reports from the various de nominational boards Bhow that more work has been done since May, 1001, than in any previous year's history ol the denomination. By an enthusiastic vote it was decided to undertake a !arger work this year than ever before. The American Baptist Education So ciety had paid for endowment of schools and colleges $07,035; the col leges thus helped had themselves raised $213,042, making a total increase ic endowment of $281,807 in one year. The home mission board whoso work is CUL tined to the Southern States, South Carolina not included, reported the receipt of $08,030 for the year's work, which is an increase of $12,00C over last year. The board employs 674 missionaries; the baptisms for the yeal were 8,100. The year was closed with $5,000 in the treasury. The foreign mission board brought in the best report in its history. In spite of foreign wars the work has been unusually prosperous. Twenty new missionaries have been sent ont and several others are ready to go. During the year there have been 1,489 conver sions* and baptisms, thc largest numbc: ever reported. The receipts for the year were ?178,489-as against $150,08S lasl year, a net gain of $17,856. This board also was able to report all debts paid and a balance of $5,000 in the treasury. It was by a very hearty vote that the Conven?an decided to raise $200,000 another year for foreign mis sions. Equally gratifying reports come from the Theological Seminary and tho Sunday School Board. I Dr. J. D. Chapman, of Anderson, j was elected seminary trustee tor South I Carolina, and Rev. Lewis M. Roper j vice president of the foreign mission j board from South Carolina. It is acknowledged generally that the best convention reporter is Rev. V. t. Masters, of Beech Island. He hae written a nine page report for the Bap tist Courier which appeared in last week's issue. It is accurate, compre hensive, and sparkling with interest ing touches from tiret to last. "Who Burned Columbia?" Col. J. G. Gibbs bas published a com plete history of the Burn Inc of Colu m bU\, by the army of General Sherman. He 1 has given not only an account of wbat be ! witnessed, In person, but bas given a I synopsis of the investigation by Com I mlttee appointed by the City Counoil ol I Columbio, also the report of Gilmore Sims, Dr. Trozevant, Hon. Alfred Huger, Ex-Mavor Stanley, M. H. Berry, O. Z. Bates, Capt. Brooks and many other prominent oitlcens of the place, "./boa also given the testimony of Genera. Sher tuan himself, before a United States Commissioner, in . case where English parties claimed damages for property de? o troy od, also that of General Howard and other prominent United 8tate* officers, with an account of Historian Nichols, a staff officer of General Sherman, with statement of General Hazen. Besides he gives the letters and statements of one whom we nil loved, honored and believed ! In-Wade'Hsmpton. I The Author, having kindly given the i profits of this Interesting publication to ! the "Daughters of the Confederacy," they [ appeal to their friends to ?ld them by ! suDscrlption*. Price 50 and 75 erato. Order of E. H. Aull. Publisher, Newber ry, 8. C., or J. G. Gibbs, Columbia, S. C. Low Rate? to Charleston. On each Tuesday and Thursday during the month nf May, the Rlue Rldg-3 Rail way Co. will sell tickets from Anderson to Charleston and return at rate of $3.70 for the round trip. Tickets limited three days from date of. sale. For further in ormation call on or wrUe to R. T. Thorn ton, ticket agent, Anderson. Tornado Wipes Oat a Town ia Tf!ss. Houiiton, Tex., May 10.-The latest reporta from Goliad state that 08 per sons were killed and 108 injured by the tornado which passed over that city yesterday afternoon. The prop erty loss in the city and surrounding country will probably reach $200,000. The storm swept tho city from end to end and demolished 150 store* f?n,\ r08;.. i deuces, many of which cannot be re paired. There is only one telegraph wire working iu Goliad nnd owing to the crush of otlicial business it in impos sible to obtain a list of the dead aud in hired. The tornado was preceded by a ter rific downpour of hail lasting only a few minutes. Tho hailstorm drove the people into their houses where they were caught like rats in a trap and tho death-dealing wind came upon them in terrific force, leveling everything in ita path. The tornado swept an area of 250 yards wide for a distance of a mile and a half. Houses collapsed as if built of cardboard, covering the dead and injured with debris, which ne cessr.rily means the work of rescue slow. Riot in a Suburb of Atlanta. Atlanta, Qa., May 17.-Four white men and three negroes are dead and five white men wounded and an entire block of buildings burned, as a result of a conflict here this morning between the police and some blackB. Will Richardson, who ls believed to have been half Indian and half negro, the owner of a atore in* a suburb, brought ou tho trouble by re sisting arrest and defying the ofOoers of Fulton Couuty and Atlanta. The fight between tho ofticora and ne groes occurred In Pittsburg, n negro set tlement directly a;>uth of tue city limits on McDaniel street, which is thickly set tled with small negro bouses. As*soon aa information of tho light between the negroes aud the ofllcers reached the city, wagon louds of policemen with Winches ters hurried to the scene of action and Gov. Candler ordered out a detachment of ?tate militia. The shouting ended with five hundred or more shots that were poured into the body of Milton Risby, a negro who sought freedom by way of a large sewer running tbrougb the neighborhood. The efforta of the officers thereafter was directed towards controlling the temper of the white men who were walking the streets of the suburb with guns upon their shoulders and piBtols in their hands. Late yesterday former Po'Iceman Ker lln wa9 waylaid on the McPherson rotd by fivo negroes. At midnight County Policeman Golden heard that Kerlln's five assailants were located in a house on McDaniel street. He secured a wai rant for their arrest and, accompanied by two officers and a number of Kerlin's neigh bors, iucludlng Owen Heard, started Tor the hiding place of the negroes. AB the officers approached the inmates opened fire and Owen Heard foll to the ground. The house was at once surrounded by a posse and daylight was awaited before making another advance. Early this morning the poises demand ed the surrender of tue negroes, but were met Instead by a volley of shots. One of the shots killed Officer Battle. The at- . tacking party retreated., some distance and from behind trees and poles com menced firing into the house. In a few moments, King, a negro, ran out and gave himself un to the officer*. Inside the house Richardson had an 11 unobstructed view in three directions, i ' One block away, PoMoeman Tom Grant, of the Atlanta foreo, who was among those summoned to the scene, stepped from his shelter to fire into the house. A shot ra Dg out from the besieged hon** and Grant fell to the ground dead. The officers to whom King delivered himself, at the point of a Winchester, forced him to go to the rear of tho houae and fire lt. As soon as the flames were discovered, the officers stepped out from their shelters. A shot from the house inotantly killed Officer Edward Crabtree. An instant later there waa a third shot and County Policeman Ozburn fell dead. The shooting had by thia time attracted hundreds of people and nearly every man who came to the scene carried & rifler Shooting Into the house became general, citizens and officers firing together. Desperado Richardson had been lost sight of. The bouee burned rapidly and a number of the inmates were seen to run - into a nearby store, to a woodshed and to a barn in the next lot. Orders were quickly given to fire every building into which the negroes had been seen to enter and in a few minutes several buildings were burning. The main sewer, which runs through this part of the city, was utilized by two negroes as a possible avenue of escape, but to no avail. The crowd had in creased until 2,000 armed people aur rounded the burning area. Soon from the mouth of the sewer Milton Risby, a negro, was seen to emerge. A shout wont up and the fleeing negro started over a vacant lot for liberty, pursued by the crowd. Shot after shot rang out and in a minute or two be fell dead. The pursuing party quickly surrounded bim and filled bis body with lead. He was literally ahot to pieoeB A crowd of enraged citizens had hur riedly completed this work whea another negro was seen coming out of the sewer. He also made a run tor life and managed to get into the back yard of a neighbor ing home where, surrounded by several head of cattle and hogs, he was shot to fragments. The fire, which had been started by the attacking party, spread rapidly and soon the entire block of buildings, composed entirely of negro houses, waa destroyed. The police were busy arresting the few negroes to be found in the violnity. The police had great difficulty in getting out of the crowd of enraged people with the colored men. A mob of 2,000 surged around the patrol wagon end cried fe the life of the men under arrest. The officers, throwing their men into the bot tom bf the wagon, drew their revolvers and, giving the driver ordora to drive aa fast aa he ooqld, forced their woy through the crowd and twenty minutes later, lodged their prisoners in safety in the Fulton couuty jail. In a burned woodshed in the rear of Richardoqnla store waa found a skull and near it trie ateel barrel of a rifle. It la believed that the skull represented all that was left of the negro who did the shooting._ A Card of Thanks. Mr. Editor: 1 desire, through the columns of your paper, to thank the people of the Orr Mills for the kindness shown my wife during^or sickness and death. I cannot find w$fij$B to express my heartfelt thanks for th? kindness shown mo and my family. It has been truly said that tho best people on earth live at the Orr Mills.. May God bless and reward each and every one of them. James L. Kny.