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- ^>.#-r?wnn('- ? *bt- Bil l ' 1 - nM^-^ , . : * .V? ?trr - * 10ii i *"*"*l<^"M^rMTT7Tl>,Ta^ Aj^^mSLhEX OF IPOPTJLA-Ii EVENTS.'. * v >ft ?r^ . nLv* 1 <v* - \.,#f* * f*> n?* -%h <.i . ? J**4* t7 /ffN f? "f ^fMA:.,?^' a? ^ . j. ? ^ j. I.-* * ^w * *** ' 1 ' ' m\ ** VOLUME- XV. 10jn T7H77 il/l{P! GREENVILLE. SOUTH CAROLINA. APRIL M. 1909. NO. 47. ' ' O. F. TOWN ES. EDITOR. J. 0. BAILEY, Pro'r. and Associate Editor. * , *" SoascaiPTfoa Two Dollars per annum. Adtsktiiiiiiiiti Inserted at the rates of wns dollar per square of twejre Minion lines <thts slsod typo) or less for the tlrat insertion, fifty cents each for the second and third insertions, and twouty-five cents for suhsoquont Insertions. Yearly oontraots will he mnde. All adrertisements must have the number of loeertlons marked on them, or they will be inserted till ordered out, and charged for. Uuleu ordered otherwise, Adrertisstuanls will Invariably be " displayed." Obituary notioes, and all matters inuring to ds the benefit of any one, are rogarded as Advertisements. Sr. Mudd at Home. The Nefr York Herald has a letter written from a correspond* ent, who gives an interesting ac count of a visit to Charles County, aMaryland, And an alleged interview with Dr. Mudd, lately ro1 eased from tlie Dry Tortugas.? Alter describing tho country through which he passed as a terra ,*j_ ,_! 1 1 ,1 qnue suiiaoiy Beiecrea Hy Booth as the route of Lis flight, lie relates Lis approach to the domicile of Dr. Mudd, where the as jpect of the country became beanfciftiL yet secluded, and -proceeds: We knodked for admission at the same door that B? oth did after liis six hours' ride?it -took us right?and were promptly answered by a pale and serious-looking gentleman, who, in answer to our enquiry if ho were Dr. Mudd, rejdiod, That's my name." It was gratifying, after so long a journey, to find the man yon sought directly on hand and apparently prepared to furnish you with the amplest stores of information regarding his connection with Booth, &c. Having stated the object of our visit?that the Herald lelt an interest in learning 6ome particulars of bis cxpcrionco in the Dry Tortugas, and his recollections of the assassination conspirators? his face .grew oxtremoly serious, nud ho -answered that of all things he wished to avoid it was newspaper y\ii I kl ioit o o'imtKf Iwwioiica *!?* ??? USWUBU iiuiiiiiij, was ever printed in connection with his name tliat did not misrepresent him. *' A burned child dreads the fire," he exclaimed, " atid I have Tcason to ho suspicious of eve;}' one. It was in this way Booth came to my honse, representing Jhimsolf as being on n journey front .Richmond to Washington, and that his horse foil on hi in, fracturing his leg and otherwise injuring him. Six months or so from now, ~wl?cn my mind is inoro settled, and when I understand what changes have taken place in public opinions regarding me, I shall "be prepared to speak freely and fully on these matters you aro anxious to know about. At present, for tho reason stated, I would rather not say anything." Having, however, convinced tho Doctor that it was with no motive to misrepresent his statement that We paid him this visit, and that between Booth's case and ours there was no analogy, ho invited us to pass the evening at his house and postponed our return to Washington till the morning. Left alone for awhile in the parlor, an ample, square apartment, witli folding doors separating it from the dining room, we began to feel an i'-resistible inclination to imag t>? two strangers on horseback riding up to the (ioor in the dim gray of an April morning, the younger of the two lifting the othei from liis saddle, and both liko evil etars crossing the threshold of an innocent ana happy household tc blast its peace forever. D r Mudd s return disturbed our rev ?ries. The doctor says he is thirty-five years of age; married in I860: bnilt tho house in which he now lives after bis marriage; owned a well stocked farm ot ab??nt thirty acres, and was in tho enjoyment of a pretty extensive practice up to the time of his arrest in 1865. Tiie world went well and smoothly with hint provious to that unhappy ^ ent. Iiis house was furnished with ail the comforts of a country fentlera la's residence Ho had is liors s and his hounds, and in the sporting Season was foremost At every fox hunt, and everv manly outdoor sport. Ho ha(f a ro butt health and a vigorous athletic frame in thoso days, but it is very different with him now. Above the middle height, with a rodish uioustaqhe and chin whisker, high forehead and ftNVDlN1^ "'9 4ppearmc?r indicates a man 01 culm and alow reflect ion v pentlo in (nanncca and of a very d<?iup*tic turn. He eaysiie was "Gotn with in a few miles of tlrSs Louse, and Los lived all bis lilo in the country. His whole desire now is to be allowed to spend the balance V( Lis dqo'i tinietiy in the boSojn jf Lis family. In Ji;8 sunken lustroless eve. pftni(Hip8 and Cold, ashy complexion, one' can send the words "Dry Tortugas" witli a terrible significance. In tlio jn iino of bis years, looking prematurely old and careworn, tliero are few, indeed, who Comu gaze oil. the wreck and ravage in tlie face of this man before them, without feeling a sentiment of symfiatby and cjimniscration " I tarn pninn lirmin ? ooi,i ?i.? I sorrowfully, " to find nothing left uio but uiy iimfoe and family.- No money, no provision?, no crops in tho ground,.and no clear way before inc where to derive the menu? of support in my present tmtWbled condition.'' 'JLlwjre was no deception here. In tho scanty furniture of the house and in the palo sad.countenance of tho speaker, there was Vv'Idphc^ "en.ougli of poor hhd filtered fortune. It was now evening and growing rupiidy dark. A big firo blazed on the ample'hearth, and Mrs. Mndd, an intelligentrnnd handsome lady, with one of her children, joined the Doctor and ourselves in the conversation over the events of that memorable April moruing nftcr the assassination. "Did yon see Booth, Mrs. Mudd ?*' we enquired with a feeling of intense interest to hear her reply. " Yes," she replied : u I saw himself and Harold after thov entered fins parlor. Booth stretched himself out on that sola there and Harold stooped down to whisper somet ing to him." M low did Booth look?'* " Very bad. Ho seemed as though ho had been drinking verv hard ; his eyes w. ie red and swollen, and his hair in disorder." "Did ho appear to suffer much ?*' " Not after ho laid down on tho eow. hi iacc it seemed us it hardly anything was wrong with him then r 44 What kind of a fracture did Booth sustain wo enquired, ad dressing the Doctor. 44 Well," said he, 44 alter ho was laid down on the sofa and having told me his leg was traetured by his horse falling on him during the journey up from Richmond, I took a knife and split the leg of his boot rdown Jo the instep, slipped it off and the sock with it; I then felt carefully with both hands down along his log, but at first could discover nothing like crepitation till, after a second investigation, I found on the outside, near ti e ankle, something that felt like indurated flesh, and then for tho first timo I concluded that ! it was a direct and clean fracture of tho bone. I then improvised out of pasteboard a sort of box that adhered close j enough to tho leg to keep it rigid ( ly straight below the knee, withI out at all interfering with the flexnre of the leg. A low cut. shoe . was substituted for the leather k I A. J L - * /? _ 1 I ! uoor, una nciwcen nvo ana six , o'clock in the morning Booth and . his companion started off for a I point on the river below." i. "How did Booth's horao look > after his long ride ?" wo inquired. 44The boy, after putting him no . in the stable," the Doctor replied, 44 reported that his back under , neath the forward .part of the sadI die whs raw ana bloody. This - circumstance tallied with Booth's i, account that he had been riding - all day previous fr< nr Richmond, ; and no suspicion arose in my moid , for one instant that the man whose leg I was attending to was any thing inore than what he repro - sented himself" 1 44 You knew Booth before, Doctor I" I 44 Yes," replied ^he D?>ctor. 441 i was first introduced to Booth in ; November, 1864, at the church yonder; spoke a lew words to him, and never saw him afterwards ! until a little while before Christmas, when I happened to be in i Washington making a few purchases, and waiting for some I friends from Baltimore who proinisyd to moot tpe at the Ponpsvlra-' nisi House and cotno out here and spend the holidays, j was walking post the National Hotel at tlie time, when a person tapped me on the shoulder, and, on turning round, I discovered it was the gentleman I was introduced to at tho church about six weeks previously. lie asked ino aside for a moment, and said he desired an introduction to John II. Surralt, with whom ho presumed I was acquainted. I said that I was. burratt and I became almost necessarily acquainted from tho fact of his living on tho road I traveled so often on my way to \V<ashir>glon, and having the only tavern on 'he way that I cared to visit. Booth and I Walked along the avenue three or four blocks, when we suddenly came across Surratt and Weichnian, and all tour having become acquainted, we adjourned to the National Hotel and had a round of drinks.? The witnesses in my caso swore that Booth and I moved to a corner of the room and were engaged for an hour or so in 6ecret consultation. That was a barefaced lie. The whole four of us were in loud ai d open conversation all the time we were together, and when wo separated we four never met again." V*4 Vou told the .soldiers, Doctor, tho course the fugitives pursued after leaving your house?" (* I did. I told them the route that Booth told me he intended to take; hut Booth, it seems, changed his mind after quilting here and ive.it another way. This was natural enouglf; yet I was straightway licensed of seeking to set tho soldiers astray, and it was urged against me as proof positive of implication in tho conspiracy." 4* You must have felt seriously agitated on being arrested in connection with tliis matter?" M No, sir. I was just as self possessed as I am* now. They might have hanged meat the time and f should havo iHr???rt lnc? lis composedly us I -siuuko this j>i " What did yon tliink of the military commission)" " Well, it would tnko tno too long to tell you. Suffice it to say that not a man of them 6at on my trial with an unbiased und unprejudiced tnind. Before a word of evidence was heard my caso was prejudged, and I was already condemned on the strength of wi'd rumor and misrepresentation.? Ttic witnesses perjured themselves.' and while I was sitting "here in that dock listening to their monstrous falsehoods, I felt ashamed of my species and lost faith forever in all mankind. That men could stand up in that court and take an oath before Heaven to tell the truth and . the next moment set themselves to work to swear away by downright perjury the life of a fellow man, was a thing that I in my innocence of the world never thought possible. Alter I was convicted and sent away to the Dry Tortugas a confession was got up by Secretary Stanton, purporting to huve been made by mo to Captain Dntton on board t h e | steamer, and was afterwards ap pended to tlit- official report of my trial. This was one of the most infamous dodges practiced against me, and was evidently intended as a justification for the illegality of my conviction. I never made such a confession, and never could have made it, even it I tried." 4i How did they treat yon down thcro to the Dry Tortngas Vy 41 Well, I feel indisposed to say much on that head. If I made disclosures of matters with which I I atn acquainted certain officers in command there might find themselves curiously compromised." " You did good service during the fever plague, Doctor ?" 44 Well, I can say this, that as long as I acted as post physician not a single life was lost. My whole time was devoted to fitrhtinor the spread of tlio disease and investigating its specific nature I found tliut the disease docs not generate the poison which gives rise to the plague. The difference between contagion and infection which I have discovered is, that one generates the poison from which the lever springs and the other docs not. Contagion, such as small pox, measles, &c., generates the poison which spreads the J oomjdaint of yellow fever, typhoid fever, and other such infectious diseases. It requires cunt net with the poison and not with the disease to infect n jKjrson, nhd if a thoti sand cases of fever were removed trout the place of disease, no dnri*> gcr w ate'vor need he apprehended. The fever in the Dry Tot togas was ot the same typo as the typhoid, and the treatment on the expectant plan?that is, \vatchin?f the cuto and tivating tho symptoms as they manifested themselves." " Wore you untrntmncloii in your managetuent of tho biek V' "No, sir; there's wiiero I felt tho awkwardness of ntv position. I was trammeled, and consequently could not act with the iude pendeucc a physician under such ..i i-4 i >> vm vhiiij?uuivv;c5 nimum iiuvci The Doctor talked at considerable length 011 many oilier topics connected with bis imprisonment. In replying to the remarks that bis fe? liners must linvo been greatly exercised fir coming within sight of bis old home and meeting his wife once inore, be said, with visible tremor, that words were entirely inadequate to express the overwhelming emotions that tilled bis mind. It appears* that a few days before bo lelt the Dry lortugas a compan. of the third artillery, who were on board a transport about being shipped to some other point, on seeing the Doctor walking on the parapet, set up three cheers tor the man who periled bis 1 ito tor tbeiu in the heroic ! light with the dread visitation of fever. We talked along till midnight, then retired to a comfortable leather bed, and, rising with the sun in tho morning, started on our homeward journey to Wash- J ingtou. Tho Prince Georgian, speaking of the return of Dr. Mudd, savs: " An aged an devoted mother, overcome with the shock of I.is arrest anJ trial, has since watched and prayed upon a sick bed for his return, until a lew weeks ago, when the slender cord of life could bear no more, and her watching and waiting in this world ceased. -4 4jb? * ? From the Louisville Courier Journal. C Avob n m T\J?OA4I ??? /"I ?la mvi ^uuiu XJ i & cw L i Oil 3 1U1 11/3 UU1U vation?A Valuable Paper. The following instructions for the cultivation of s?>rghum have been furnished us bv Messrs. Lewis WiJbelm <fc Johnson, of Ihis city, and will bo of groat interest | to persons who contemplate the cultivation of sorghum this year. There is no longer any doubt of the fact that sugar can be made successfully and profitably by the new piocess, and we advise farm era to give the following a careful perusal: When wc assert that a superior article of sirup and a fair article of sugar can be made from sorghum canes we know that we have all kmds of prejudices and objections to meet. We can only meet these objections and overcome these prejudices by the assistance of farmers who are willing to give sorghum a fun* trial. To do this they must begin by procuring and planting pure seed. This fact need not be urged upon those who have planted pure seed and made a gallon of line sirup to t >ur or live gallons ot green juice, wlrile it taken troin seven to ten gallon** of jnico of hybridized cancs to make one gallon of very ordinary sirup. There is no other remedy "for this falling oil' than the planting pure, well matured 6eed. In order to procure good seed the cane must he carefully cultivated tor the seed alone, and not for the sirup, by allowing the seed to mature and dry on the stalk iu the Held. A year ago we paid aR high as sixty iivo cents per pound for seed to distribute gratuitously to farmers. Last summer we had the seed cultivated by careful farmers. Wo aro prepared to till orders tor pure seed at cost price. We do this, hoping to remove the prejudices and make the cultivation of sorghum a success. In planting, we advise fanners to avoid, as much as possible, black, mucky sods ; it planted upon bottom lands at all, it should bo dry, sandy soil. Very rich soil of any kind is not favorable to the production of light sinus. Good land, not foul with weeds, should be planted ip drills. As much of tua esse should J)0 ai k i lowed to stand as the ground will < hear. Of this fanners Inust judge for themselves. A large over- ( grown stalk is not the best for sir- i np or sugar, but the medium or even small stalks are better than ibe large, rank cane often seen on ricb soil. It the soil is not good < or is foul 'he seed should be planted in bills. Sorghum while growing requires very close attention until it is well started, and tlren it will leave weeds and everything else in the back ground. The seed should bo prepared first by cleaning and then by pouring water over it until" covered two or threo inches Jn the vessel. If well stirred, the light chaffy seeds will rise to the surface, which should be removed. The vessel should then bo set in a warm place until the hull of the seed shows a disposition to burst, then tho seed should be spread out until nearly djy, and in this condition should be placed in tho ground. If this plan is strictly observed every seed will grow.? If planted in drills one seed in a hill is 8uilicient. If planted in hills two to five seed are all that is needed. The ground should be well pulverized. 1 he best way is to throw two furrows together and plant tho seed on the ridge. It should be covered as lightly as possible, and the cane will appear in a tew days. It will require careful nursing lor a short time, but it will soon become strong and will overcome all obstacles. It should not be " thinned " too much. Let us much grow as the ground wi 1 support. ? The best varieties of cane for sirup are the old fashioned Chi* nesc, or black top, and the red top, or Liberian cane. Tho riv st successful for producing sugar, so far as yet demonstrated, is tho Oomccauna, or black Imphcc, or African variety. These few bints will suffice tor the present, but before the cutting | season we will publish a pamphlet containing minute directions for ; harvesting the cane and manufacturing the sirup, so that where I t))at*n io cnivni* imtni'iillu too uv> V 10 ou^m tiUt 111 I4il J C III U V have tho heicfit of it. We will also give directions how to make the skimmings and waste .profitable. In short, wp will bliow how to make sorghum the must profit| able crop in the country. ' Lkwis W il.u elm ifc Johnson, 73 Second sr., Louisvide, Ivy. A Yankee Joke. In tho village of lived a man who had once been a judge of the county, und well known ull over it by tho name ot Judge It . lie kept a store and a saw-mill, and was always sure to have the hest of the bargain on his side, by which lie had gained an ample fortune, and some did not hesitate to call him the biggest ra-cal in the world, lie was very conceited withal, and use! to brag of his business capacity whenever any one was near to listen. One rainy day, as quite a number were seated round tlie stove, he began, as usual, to tell of his great-bargains, and at last wound up with the expression? "Nobody has ever cheated me, | nor they can't neither." " Judge," said an old man of the company, u I've cheated you more than you over did me." u IIow so?" said the Judge. "If you'll promise you won't go to law ahout it, nor do anything, 1 11 tell you, or else I won't; you aro too much of a law charac ter for me." " Lot's hear," cried half a dozen voices at once. " I'll promise," said the judge, " and treat in the Qrgain if you have." u Well, do you remember the wagon you robbed nio of?" ' I never robbed you of a wagon ; I only got the beat of the bar pain," said the judge. 44 Well I made up nr?y inind to have it back, and?" 44 You never did," interrupted the cute judge. 4* Yes, 1 did, and interest, too." u How sol" thundered the tiow enraged judge. 44 Well, you see, judge, I sold you one day a very nice pine log, and bargained with yon for a lot more. Well, that log I stole off y.?ur pi e down by the mill the night be tore, and the next day 1 sold it to you. Yue next night i * * drew it back borne and sold it to you the next day; and so 1 kept on till you had bought your own log ot me twenty seven times." "That's a liel" exclaimed tho infuriated judgo, running to bis book and examining bis log Recount ; 44 you never sold me twenty-seven logs of tho same measurement." 1 * 44 I know it," said tho vender in logs ; 44 by drawing it back and forth the end wore off, and as it wore I kept cntting the end off, until it was only ten feet .long? just fourteen feet shorter than it was tho first time I brought it? and when it got so short i drew it home and worked it up into shingles, and tho next week you bought the shingles, and I conc'uoed I had got tho worth of my wagon back, and stowed away iu my pocket-book." The exclamation of. the judge ,i_ a ?i._ -i - nun uii'nuuu 111 UIU HIIOUC Ol lilt) bystanders, and the log-drawer found the door without tho promised treat. A nitrxKF.N inat? in Pink Hill, Mo, killed his nearest friend one day last week and wounded a bystander. T.io tragedy sobered him and ho ran home, where ho fortified himself in a barn.? Through a chink he shot dead one of the party that camo to arre6t him, and was himself shot dead the ne.vt instant. An honest fanner writes to the chairman of an agricultural hoc ety: u Gentlemen, please put ine down on your list of cattle for a bull." A citizen of Louisiana recently, to prevent his arrest, shot the sheriff whilst reading the warrant, and llicn cut his own throat. Cork-trees are being raised in Florida from seeds produced from Portugal. The Spanish forces in arms on the Island of Cuba are said to number 70,000 men. Chicago is overrun with rats; her rat population being estimated at 10,000 to tbo acre. A lace dress which coat $0,000 iti g"ld at Brussels, ajipeared at a recent reception in Now York. The Norfolk Virginian claim* 040,000 acres of "Oy6tor rocks" in Virginia, yielding annually $10,000,000. Sparrows are carefully protected i i Mississippi, that they may feed on the cotton worms a few months hence. Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. IIoaud tub Minutes.?Try what you can make of the broken fragments of time. Glean up its golden dust? tho?o raspings and parings of precious duialion, those leavings of days and remnant hours which so many sweep out into the waste existence. Perhaps, if you be a miser of moments, if you he frugal and hoaid up old minutes and half hours and unexpected holidays, your careful gleaning may eke out a long end useful life, and you may die nt lust, richer in existence than multitudes whoso lime is all their own. It is a fact not generally known perhaps that Washington drew his last breath in the last year in the last hour of tlu Inst day of the last weak, in the last month of the year, and in the last year of the century. lie died on Saturday nitfhl, twelve o'clock, Deceuiler 31st, 1709. Death or a Valuadlk Citizex.?Mr. William Downs Byrd, an old and prominent citizen of Ibis District, died at his residence, on tbo Enoreo River, on Wednesday morning last, after a brief illness, lfe was one of the purest men that ever lived in Laurens. He leaves a family and mnny friends to mourn their loss.?Laureneville Herald. Death or a Coi.ttmbiar.?A despatch was received here yesterday, annonncing the death in Kufaula, Alabama, of a native of Columbia ?an honest, patriotic, and hardworking young man?J. Nut. Montieth. lie leaves a wife, child, mother, and two brothers to mourn his loss. The remains, wo are informed, will be brought to Columbia for interment.? Columbia Pkatnix. The Augusta Chronicle ami Sentinel calls the attention of planters and others to the fact that the cotton tax was not rcpenb-d, hut only suspended so far as the crop of lt>6S was concerned, ai"l s*v? t'm- it n '' t?. I,ar this foot in mind when " yituLihg " ths new eroo,