Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i ". '?' ---~- *--M--?-;-' .' ._^^^^ ~ <m?:mWirnr?r\ A -WT r>?T7iV?mir;ni<r Y?T/\T? C?A inAC . 37/YT TT M TT. YT.T_"Ki\ 1/1 THs fimffi Educativa! and i Cpf Operativo ttnlon of Ajaeyica, j -^--,-; j. I QQND.VOTEDtBY vi. ??. 6TB?CLINQ. Commutation* intended for?bla? ?dpat- tin oat Should be a?drftt?ud lo . Strlbllttg, Po?dlotori? B. C. "" f Observatio?s in Paragraphs. -; Thew ie going to wnsto in Houth Carolina enough wild leapadcza clover to produte wool ftnd mutton sniilcient to supply ?very inhabitant of tho State with this class of food and clothing! The worthless d(>gs and their owners nie standing KUSVJ", keeping hack thia important indoBtrj - Our southeastern', cotton States spend enough each ye?ir for mules and guano to msko tho .-country', rich. ..If-, fanners would only try they could raise their ow? mules, and grow their fertilizers in their own soi/, which cab be done! Good authority figures it out that Sooth Carolina 'farmers'' pay ii tribut? tb the fertilizer trust ot eyer.:; two million dollars force profits each: year. ~ Prof. Harper,director of the South Carolins.Experiment Station, ls ?ts?lf- j made man. Ho worked- out his own expenses aa'.he went through}', coll?ge. Tkjsmau isBureiy capable c*advising the South Carolina youth? how to pre- j ?iare themselves for their life's work. Vj^t?ey^take his advice! > -?.^Prof. C; L. Newman^assistant di* I rector of the i5outh Carolina - Experi ment' Station, is tho recognized best authority, on cowpeas und some-other leguuiens in the United >St?tos.? i?o grew last- 'season at Clemson over: .eighty di?eyewS^rietie?'of cowpeas.'j The Hand of Providence Is In lt. Have you. thought out . what might have happeno^/if tho Southern fcottosr?.j grojtvers had known 40 years bac^the power. and ? value of thbir present knowledgo and posaessiona of tb is glorious cotton belt? ff the destinies of this larjd of tho South had been left entirely to tho greedy man, : he no. doubt .would have prevented tho spread of tho : knowledge of tbs nee?ulne&? of thisvala?blo staple, cotton, by holding prices too high* ; thus' killing the goose that was to keep on laying the golden i eggs.:"-.v >'?.: A: .. ? TtL-was .the overpr?daetion of ?, nineties that gave th? world the eheaj est staple to clotho thesr nakednee with that, was ever.1 known.. Thi that period* extended s ts usoio a ff reaJJ extent;i?wvJkn0ckiss ot*r^ ?ss^vuier; ccaipetitiv? staples and thus Set ia tho gowing demand of ^t???sy ;thot- now callB for Over three million more balea now than ?coasamption called for twelve years back. Lt Vf ill bo seen at opeo by the close observer thu* it was .tho cbeap cotton, of the' nineties: that ihade it psssibfe for the South to : coin ?n?li' a vAst for* tune Out :Of our record crop of ?.0Q4-.05',: If all this wiadoni . and^orsef gb$bad been left'to man ^witb?uif tho interven tion: ofrsi . ^isa^r^yld?nco ..tho.j?rea?i?tJ S. greedy niau would have Bqnand?r?d I tho glorious prospecta of the South tp day. Groat Statesmen nsight have seen t^e great bendite to be derived, from the jMi'?ap crops of tho past, but no poworof niau contd have ever enforced ibo people to make tho eUefl?**?? of such cheap crops Xor their benefit in tature; youie. t Then ic is not ?trange that the lessons of organised oonipen; ot action among jfarmers has hot como until new, when til? harvest ie ripe and tho tim? is at hand when Southern farmers con reap the rewards of their many years of patient labor,- andi long snireriug. AH theeo obligations have, boen paid, and th? troi?l ot tho times ve bringing iu every day prosperity to ou^'wbple peo ple in ret ni u. ' .-j-1 .max ? ?.mi-' ,Vj Henry Grady's Tribute. Cotton is K?ug with the cotton farmer only when homo grown grain is Queen, with other homo grown aupplies noting as maids or honor behind tho throne 'whore this King presides! ' * Tho cotton larmer that conf?rmate tho edicts of king cotton aa above Btated can now enjoy in its fullness Henry Grady's tribute to King cotton written ?yearn back. Thia tribute by Henry Grady-owe of tho South's greatest oratora-is the best'ever made and was pointed out by Grady a .quarter of- a century; before the Southern farmer carno to realize these facts. Grady said: "What a wy al plant it isl The worid waits in attendance ca ita grew th ? ; Th o shower that falls whis-. peringee the leaves is heard around the earth. The sun-that shines on it is temn<irt?d by ins prayers of all people. Tho frost that chills'it, and the dew that descends from ?the stars is notodj S3id tho trospaes of a little green worm on its leaf ie moro te England than tho advance of .tho Kussiae army on h?r Asian ontposts. It is. gold from tho instant it puts forth US tiny shoot. Its libro ia enrrout io every bank, and when losing its fleece to tho sun it floats a annoy banner that jglonfles tho floJd-'o'f the humble faimer; that man IR marshaled andor a flag that will compel the allegiance of the world, and a subsidy from every, nation on earth.. It is the heritage that .God gave to thia people forever as their own, when He arched our skice, ?atan li8hed oaonjonntnine, girt na. about with the j,*?;ean,K loosed the ?'. breezeB, tempered the sunshine, and measured ! -the raia.- Oura^nd esr children's for*. \ ever. As princely^.' talent as ever came; from His hand t? mortal steward ship/' 1 ..ISSI Strength of The Farmer*' Unions. __The Maimers',tJnion'? vgrowth'in Iu tium ora arzias!been "nnpreccaehted? It ::?^,G?g?bsiie?^?e?s^thss. ? year" ugo ?od ?ow has a membership of over 100,000. . Thi^ . comprises S.000 local unions and at the headquarters, Shaw nee, Okla,, it ia reported that applica tions for new unions average ten/a day, ' v <,: < --?' Tho toiai number oilocals .termed in tho B?y?ial State? thus far amounts to S.GOSV distributed, as follows; Texas* ?,8J2; Oklahoma- and Indian Territor ies ?r?llhsas. l,?00;>Iioaisjano, vi?Oj^G?sr?tf a^ Mis-. vsoar?; ??^TenneBsee, 03, South Caro-. lina, 115; North Carolina, 10: Mississip pi, 131; Kentucky, 8; Virginia, 8; Ore gon.-1; New Mexico, 3; Florida, 8. Hie Comp trailer-General's Annual Report. Columbio,' Jan. 27.-Tho annual re port of tho comptroller-general to tho legislatura embraces eom? interesting facto an$ ligures on tho condition of j State finances. Tho total revenue for 1U03 ia estimated at ?1,818,000, aa against a total expenditure of i?tUSSd?,-. 884, leaving un apparent excesa of $~x2t,28S-. Bt?l lt Viii be oocesaary for the State to borrow thia year not lcSc than $800,000 in Order to meet current expenses until the fall taxes como in, among thc items now duo being a deft- ! cienoy of $19.447 to the ?tato hospital for the Lagune and some ?0,000 due on special elections. Tho expenses for 1000 aie estimated at $1,232.684. Tho revenue from taxe? based upon the present assessment of 8220,000,000 would on a levy of 0? mill*, realiza. $1,105.000, and as there is au additional $121,000 available from di rect and indirect eourcos through cor poration license fees and the like, the. total estimated revenue will bo $1, 270,000, which is $23,016 ia excess of the Estimated expenailureB. The comptrollerrgo'u?ral estimates that a total of $70,000,000. to $140,000, 000 will be added to .the tax values 'through th? .campaign ho has' started to place* property On r. basis of 100 per cent, instead of a basis of 00 per cent, and through the efforts ho is making to reorganise . the assessment system eu as to get property on the booka at its true market value without diser?tniha ?ion. Still as these values will not bo lefinitely. known until tho State board Of equaljzation finished ita work uV tho 1 latter part of the year he suggests that tho appropriations be made as usual 1 and some competent authority bo pro* vided to lix tberleviea afterward. I. Theoresent State levy ia mille, it being "raised half a mill by i the . last legislature in the hope of getting the Slate on a cash basis. . _ , .;>..?- ?-- ? 100 YEARS OLD. A frame houso can bs kept In good order far 100 years if painted with the JJ. & M. Paint about onco in ten to fifteen yearH.' Thlols because thoX,. <fc M. Zinc, bardens the X. & M. White tsad and giyas the paint extraordinary Ufo, ; It also makes lt coyer au enormous Har* face, so that vihur/galions L. <fc M. anti three gallons Linseed OU will paint, a' moderate alz?d house. Ii. coals abont $1.20 per gallon ? ^.Janae?S, B Arron, President Manchester Cotton .Milts, Hock Hill, 8. Cy wrlt?fi v '".Twenty-two years agni painted mj r^idence with Lv 'S!,; T* ?oeks .bett*?; Than a great ' r?any bo?a?a painted three years ago .? h. & M.'eoals about 20 per gallon., , -Soven gallons at 81.20 per gallon, or $8.40 will paint a n>ode>ate steed, house and lt takea teven gallons of Other mixed: . oaintat/Si zn BL^?^??rw??r'Dwanee Ijlnaeed Oil sold to you as paint costa you 8U>0 a gallon. It only costa you CO cents a gallon, when yon buy lt fresh from the baritel anil mlx it with h. <fc M.: . !'/vJi.^-M.'febataabb'ut'f 1.20agallon. : Sold by?F?J?,Oiraytod. Anderson, S; C.* ; R, K. Hortdn.;Lowndesvilles g.;Ot T. C. Jackson,- Iva^tsiC?.; W. W- GrlfiV, Pel-, zcr, IS. O ? F, I? hopper, BeltOn,-C?ro. ?TATE NEWS. - There will bc * grand raliy of tho Knights of Pythias io Columbia February li). - D. F. Amos, a well known mer chant of Marion, committed suicide by swallowing morphine. - Andrew Thorap?Qn, a negro of Greouvilto, has been eeuteneod lb hang for tho usual crime. - Mr*. Stonewall Jackson has boen invited to go to Wiunsboro and prc* sent the vaier?'8 of fairfield with crosses of honor. ' -W.'B. Wisc, who conducts a laundry in Sumter* hasbeoo arrested on tho ohorgo of defrauding a citizen of Dublin, Ga., out of $40. - Tho Aiken-Augusta trolloy lino is to be extended lo Columbia aud it is stated that oars will bo running over iho lino in less time than a year. -- Pryor Scruggs,, a young man who is confined in. jail at Guituey, charged with criminal assault, it is said, has made throe unsuccessful attempts to end hit* lifo. -- Tho citizens of Greer have start* od a movement to erect a mon union t to the late Policeman Foster, who, .whiio iq; tho dieoharge of Ilia duty, was shot down in thc street. - Tho Columbia Record says that Ellis G. Graydon, of tho Greenwood bar, is also a candidate for thc judge ship of the now federal district hero after to be formed in South Oaro liqa. ' John Steppe aocidontally shot and instantly killed, S?m Whinier at Union. Tho boy? VV.TO huntiog when Steppe's gun went off accidentally, killing Whitner, who was walking be hind. . ' V- J. C. Holstein, ono oV the State Constables, was shot by Wade Coth ran, of MoGormiok, and ho died in in tho Augusta hospital from the wound* The trouble was tho outcome of ? law suit. -- Henry Sloan, colored, was . shot, and killed by Ed Payne also-colored at Woodruff, Tho shooting resulted' from a quarrel, between Sloan and, Payne over forty dents, and Pay no : has disappeared. ! -- A little negro hoy- returning fiotn school in Greenville attempted to.cioBB a track at the Southern yards anV,; was run over by an engine and killed!. = He had an/umb???l? over hiss1 which obscured hi? view. - PcopVo".'pf South Carolina insist up?tfaupply?ng Speaker Cannon with wearing apparel. The latest contri bution to tho Rpeak?r's wardrobe is a pair of white yarn socks, the gift, of "Keoweo Courier force, of Walhalla; Bu ; V. The annual meeting of tho South Carolina LivxrScook Association will beheld in Columbia on February 8th and 9th. The object of th? asBobi?r lion is to create increased interest in tho live stock industry sud every citi zen of the State will be directly or indirectly bor'euted in its auooesa. - Thc board cf Uusteoa of the South Carolina College, at its recent meeting in Columbia decided to abol ish intercollegiate football. It was ?tated that tho action was taken with-, out any outside influence, being deem ed for tho beat interests of the insti tution. - Reuben Dorkins, past middle life aud owuer cf a thousand acres of land, was arrested hy constables at his homo in Greenville County on tho charge of running a bliud tiger. They captured a good deal of boozo, besides measures, drinking glasses and other paraphernalia of a regular rum shop. ' -Magistrate T. E. Stribling, of Seneoa, sent in his resignation to Governor Heywnrd and gave a very peculiar reason. Ho declares that ho has tried lo do his duty faithfully but he and Senator J. R. Eurie are politically opposed to each other and he wanta to got oat of his job as mag istrate, v -- For tho first time, the students of thc Greenville Female College are io have a college magazined There will soon appear the initial number of "Iaaquena," a highly creditable pub lication, which will be attractively printed and bound. Morchants of Greenville have aided tho project by subscribing liberally to advertising apace,. - Robert Henry Nof?so, ago 17, son of late . Perry Noffse, who was a moat highly esteemed citizen, was ar rested at Cross Hill, hiB home, aud* carried before the United Slates coui missioner at Abbeville charged with breaking into aud robbing the Cross Hill post?nico a lew weeks ago. Tho commissioner committed yoting No Uso. - There has boon presented to tho governor a strong petition signed by about all the white people , in and around Rantowles, in Colleton Coun ty, asking for relief from an intoler able situation. Thc petition asserts that the dispensary has degenerated into a wholesale tiger supply house, tho negroes hauling tuc stuff off in Wagons and retailing it about the com munity. The potition states that drunken negroes hang about the sta tion, H wearing boisterously and using obsoeoe .language, en*d making it un safe for women getting off and on trains.'::'.' v V :^~ The/Greenville grand jury , t?aB asked for the; prosecution of all of those who were4n any way oODoerned in the irregularities in tb a supervisor's ?office, The resolution sneoifioally di recte the solicitor to Dring , indict monts against the following persona: J. Q. and A. A. Speegle, cierta of the board of countycomn?iasionersj.F. M, Mo?ee, magistrate; A. Cbokaey, magis trate's oona?able?15; R. Smith, blaok smith; the Rev. B. B Talley, steward of the county home;. T. J> Thaokston. janitor of the courthouse, Dr. W, J, Bramlett, jail physician; J. Wv But* BOU, T. 1\ Neavcs and A. J. WU I ia ut ri, county oomuiissiouers; J. N. King, bridge contractor; T. B. Miller, convict guurd. UENEUAJ, BEWS? - II. C. Reese, an Atlanta, Ga , man, was found dead ia a room in a Ntw York hotel. -1 A mob of 300 men at Hopkins* ville. Ky., lynched Ernest Baker for tho usual crime. - An Atlanta man has been offer ed tho position of chief cook to hor majesty, tho queen of England. - Wages iu Porto Bioo have in creased thrcofold since the Spanish days, and 30 per cent of tho children are in tho public ?choblo, which are au American innovation. - Two brothers met this week in Chicago, after sixty year's separation, although they had all that time been living within two blocks of each other. Neither was aware of tho relationship until revealed by chance. -- The will of Marshall Field, pro bated in Chioago, after dispensing be quests amounting to $17,572,000 pro vides that tho great bulk of the es tate shall bo kept in trust fur his grandsons and their descendants. - Judge Thomas H. Paynter, who has been oleotcd to tho United States. Scnato from Kentucky, was raised a poor boy on a farm in thc mountains of his State. Now he is acoounted one of the richest and ablest men of thc Statu. - A member of tho tho Chatham ar..illory of Savannah, enjoys the dis tinction of being thc only soldier who ever made application for a. pension on tho ground that "a horse sneezed in his face." Ho alleges injury to his eyeB on that account. - Andrew Paul, marshal at Girard, Pa., woiku for tho glory of working. i H?B salary is $1 yearly and bo pays 50 cents each New Year's to tho man who swears him in. This leaveB him a half dollar to .show for his labor. He is rociuircd to'furoish a bond in the sum ot ?1,000. .- Fire in Norfolk, Va., destroyed the compress/building of the Inter national Compress company and 6,000 bales of cotton. Tho body of Jaaob Jacob's who slept in tho compress was found burned beyond rcccgoiuoo. The loss ia estimated at one hundred thousand dollars. - ~ Cornelius Vanderbilt Washing ton, a negro farm hand at Durant, Miss., has caused a furore by sudden ly turning white. ; Ho is 45 years old and was born black. t He had a strange illness and twelve years ago nature began purging his blood of pigment With thc exception of small spots oo bia body his skin ia white. His kinks hair and othe;* Uegro oharaotoristio. remain.' Other. negroes C9ar Durant aro also becoming ipottcd. It ia be lieved they will turn white in tho wimo manner. - Eighteen aro dead and many others injured as thc rcault of a panic in St. Paul's Baptist church (colored) at Philadelphia Sunday night. Some one raised the cry of lire and in thc terriblo rush to reach tho street, eigh teen were crushed to death. Tho lire waa a trifling aifair, being easily ex-* tinguished. - Twins woro born to Mrs. lian Hanson, of Odhkosb, with 17 minutes intervening botweeu them, and yet they woro born on different dayo in diilcrent months and different yoars. Uno was boro at, 11.55 p. m., on juc oomber 31, 1905, and tho other at 12.12 a. m., January 1, 190G. - A plant, nativo to Japan, which: ' ^ furnishes a sort of vegetable leather, is being introduced into the United StatoB. Thc inner bark of thia plant, , after being subjected to a certain pro oeas, becomes as tough au French kid, ?H BO trbnalucont that ono can . see ? ?>l? through it, and as pliablo and soft as \ ' calfskin. . ^ - Capt. John Willis, of Mississip pi, tho largest cotton planter in the world, is dead, aged 88. His plan tation is the most thoroughly equipped ' .' and best fitted plantation in the Unit ed Statoa. It is aa large aaa princi pality of Europe. Capt. Willis waa*' captain of Company A, 1st regiment of Miaaissippi volunteers in thc Mexi can war, commanded by Jefferson Davi3. , - A plant for tho manufacturo of paper from cotton stalks will probably bo established in Atlanta, at an early dato. Plans aro already being pre pared for thc organization of a stool: " company which will put into, operar don tho'reoont discovery of W.H. Croll, of Pino Mountain, hy whioh, tho heretofore useless cotton stalks' can he couverte I into many gradee of papor and heavy bags. - S. B. Clark, of Omaha, who had gone ou a hunt in tho Big Horn moun tains, was missing. Ki s ; friends searched nnd found his body and the bodies of two grizzly beare lying to gether. Tho bears had died of bullet and knife wounds, add Clark had . four broken ribs, a chewed arm and a severe wound at the base of tho brain. A hug from one of the wounded bears probably, had killed him. - In uer action, four ?week? ago against tho Louisville Street; Railway- :'\\'l?h Company, Mies Stella Reacher, of Jef?o rBonville, Ind., on rte; request of j *??$?^?ey, gave the jury a view of -: . her shapely shoulders, fid. the jury I awarded ! her $6,000 for damages aus t tavand, says a apeo'el to the Hew 'T.oirk World. Sipoe then Mias Res? . char has reoeivod .thirty-two letters i from various parts of the Union,* all . t more or leas of a matrimonial onar ?I actor. Miss Resohar is annoyed by V the; notoriety, b?t she will keep the ; .. letters. / w#?r# r, and we hope to merit & contiv^k^?i MM - J| ?iadie^ Jaoko^a, formerly sold for $3,80 $nd $4.00, now going at.Sl.B8? ' ? few Woi>l Blankets leftr which will be c^ i "Ji?ikli:o:i^ i-onfr CloaJt?. ,'?^HHHHR^^- Bed Comforts. - I S6 pm&tm'u teng Ciot?s, formerly soldfor $5.00 ?nd $8.00, ?ow going at $3.48. . A big Iii}? of Bed Comforts to be dosed ont AT COST. I^S^iV^f ^, ^Zl8i.^'F?80lBato^ ' * All Oar WoolG?o?fcto Go at Cut 1 ; l^j '^ "High quality, Low Frices.,> ? . _ ' '?.^v/T ^, ealo at Cit Frieda, inspect onr big Show Window and see tho Cnt Prices. You will be astonished. If Quality and j . gBttSg ' -' "" ' ?' ' '' ." "' nT.y'-'' ".". ;' !"? ?II I Ililli .I.III..Ill''. ?? lilli' Mill ??Ml. I ll ? ' '-^--J- ?"? ? ? - -t1 j,