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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.
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Insertions. Yearly oontraots will he mnde.
All adrertisements must have the number
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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,