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PUBLISHED THREE TD FLATLY DENIED ?7 -?- tS> & A Reader of the State Ask and Light Is Giren Him. cy^^ ABOUT SOME CHARGES \ Made Against The State and Messrs. A. S. Gonzales and Wm. ?. Gon? zeles, Publisher and Editor of That Journal, by Mr. John T. Dun can, of Columbia. The following statement, which *e clip from The State will be read with interest: The South Carolina political cam paign is about half over. In most of the Counties visited, John T. Duncan, an entry for the Guberna torial nomination, has spoken, part of the burden of his speech being an attack on The State and "Gonzales." It appears the attempt is made, in more or less incoherent utteran ces, to connect "Gonzeles" with the Seminole Company; to induce the public to believe that "Gonxales" ad vocated the removal of the Asylum from Columbia so that he and as sociates might buy the Asylum prop erty, worth $2,000,000, for $600, 000. and alleging with more or less directness that "Gowzailes" proposed or planned to sell to South Carolina for theuse of the Asylum, his farm in Richland County for $200 an acre ?when land' as good could be .got by Duncan for $10. It is alleged also that there were meetings at night which were conspiracies for robbing the people, in which "Gonzales" took coaspieious part. Neither The State nor "Gonzales" had-anything to do with the disbarr ment of Duncan by the Supreme Court. Nor are they responsible for the rules of the party governing en tries in the Democratic primary. Un derstanding Duncan's condition, and assuming that it was known to the people of the State, these attacks caused neither concern nor bitter ness. Even in this day, one may be "arm'd so strong in honesty" that such allegations from such sources pass by "as the idle "wind." It was thought that all respectable people ? would understand. ^ ?* t But obe reader of The'^t?te, T. C. Covington, of Bennettsville, stands forth in all South Carolina, asking for proof of The State's integrity; he thinks it due The State's readers to know whether those who assume to lead can be vindicated. As Mr. Covington seems concerned he shall not be denied, and those assailed say to him. 1st: Neither The State nor "Gon zales" had relations, near or remote, with the Seminole Company. 2nd: The State advocated the re moval of the Asylum from the city limits of Columbia, suggesting a bond issue to pay for a new modern plant, and holding that the judicious sale of the Columbia property would furnish money for retiring those bonds. It was supposed by The State that this property would be placed in the hands of the sinking fund commission to be sold gradually to the best advantage of the taxpayers. Neither "Gonzales", nor, so far as he is informed, any of his "asso ciates" has ever contemplated pur chasing the property or any part of it. 3rd: Neither The State nor "Gon zales" has any property in the vi cinity of the Asylum to be benefitted by its removal; on the contrary re moving the Asylum from Columbia and opening to improvemnt and set tlement several (hundred acres of land within and immediately out of the city, as advocated by The State would have retarded for years every other suburban development about Columbia. In several of these su burban developments the owners of The State are financially interested. The removal of the Asylum which was urged by The State for the sake ?as The State saw it?of bettering the condition of the unfortunate in sane, and improving a large section of the city, would have caused direct financial loss to The State's owners, with no financial return. 4th: If $600.000 or any other sum was offered for Asylum property (a point on which they have no infor mation) neither The State nor "Gon zales" bad the most remote connec tion with, or interest in. such offer. 6th: The "Gonzales" farm was not, directly or indirectly, offered to, or suggested by its owner for, occu !>ancy by the Asylum. It has never been on the market. 6th: As a member of the Execu tive Committee of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce the Editor of The State voted authority to the President of the Commercial body to quietly obtain optioms on lands suitable for the location of the Asy lum plant, said options to be held at cost by the Chamber of Commerce for the benefit of South Carolina, and to protect the State from exhor bitant charges for land, should the Legislature decide to remove the Asylum out of the city and locate near Columbia. If anything derogatory to the hon esty, character and unselfishness of] The State and "Gonzales," alleged I or insinuated by Duncan, is true, its) truth can be readily substantiated. I Now if this simple declaration fail to convince, or the indisposition on the part of The State and "Gonzales" &ES A WEEK. HANGED HIMSELF IN SHED. William Fulmer, Aged Aiken Fai mer, Commits Suicide. Mr. William Fulmer, an old and respected farmer of the Shiloh sec tion, of Aiken County, committed 'icide Sunday night by hanging "^qelf in the buggy shed of one of n eighbors. For some time he' ^.een in a melancholy state of | mtud and only recently, it is report ed, made an unsuccessful attempt to kill himself. Saturday night, after i a long ruin storm, he left his home and wantered offLto some unknown | place. Sunday he spent the day with .Mr. Jchn Busbee, who lives several miles from Mr. Fulmer, and towards night he complained of Reeling bad. Say [ ing that he was going to the home of another of hia neighbors, he left the house alone,* and until found dead, was not heard of again. Monday morning, some one going | to Mr. Busbee's shed to feed, found Mr. Fulmer hanging over the rear of the buggy with, a driving rein looped around his neck. Judging from the surroundings he had run the line over the rafter above, loop ed it around his neck and jumped off. ^\ Mr. Fulmer was somewhat feeble-j minded and had, at one time been an inmate of the State Hospital at Co lumbia. His family is a prominent one in that section and they have the sympathy of many frieqds. FORTUNE COMES rUNSOUGHT. A Train Nurse is QivW Fifty Thons; and Doitji^s.. Despite the unexpeifted bestowed upon her of a fortune** fifty thous-| and dollars, Mrs. J-?>? Hollins, a trained nurse of Altaiicr* announced Monday that she had^my. intentten of.] giving up he^wxjrk ."ajaf?ng the sick. Mrs. Hollins' benefactor^s Dr. Her bert H. Wyming, ?1 p^Q^toeivt 'phy sician, of Los Angeles, 1:Gal.,jsvhom she met a little more than three years ago in Savanmalu Ga., imme diately following her Jfctetiiatlon as a nurse. Asf^* The doctor wrote Majraraew days ago that he had d,ej|jped. <?o make her a present of gjjpSiOOO''an<\ the J money would reajj? her in a. few days. MrsY Hollins admitied that Dr. Wymiagjh^s^c^eryJike^ble sonj, Harry, wit<j^g?^ctor wishes her to | marry, ^^^pjj'-.? ? Jjfer. *'He;$?k always liked me "and; has) of ten ^Mb^^teW--m^-^t^I had better marry Harry and he would make me wealthy, hut I never had any idea that he would give me so much money." KILLED FOR HIS MONEY. Found Dead on a Pile of Fodder in | His Stable. H. F. Zacharay, aged 50, amiser, was found murdered on a pile of I fodder in a stable on his premises! in the suburbs of Roanoke, Va., on Monday. Two pistol bullets were found in the head. The police are looking for Mack Vaden, a negro suspected of the crime. The purpose of the killing was dobbery, and it is J believed the slayer (got a big sum of money. More than $600 in cur rency was found sewed in secret pockets in a second pair of trous ers worn by Zacharay. TRI KD TO GET AWAY. Young Man Probably Fatally Injur ed by a Leap. At Chicago John Olowski, aged twenty-five, was probably fatally injured last night when he jumped out of a rear window of the second floor of a building at S48 Milwau kee avamue. The police learned that Olowski had gone to the office of | Mme. Zoro. After having his "for tune told" he refused to pay the fee. Mme. Zoro then locked him in the room While she went iu search of a policeman. In the meantime Olo-j wski opened the window and jumped into the alley. Had Close Gall. Mr. Reece Young, of Clinton, had a close call recently. He lay down beneath an oak to take a nap. A thunder storm approached and as he arose and walked away, the lightning struck the tree, tearing it adl to pieces and splintering the very root on which his head rested. Lost Life in Surf. At Gulfport, Miss., Mrs. . jseph Dellorens, age 20 years, wife of the Spanish consul at Gulfport, was drowned and several other members of the yachting party of which she was one. were barely rescued, while in surf bathing at Ship Island near Gulfport Tuesday. to present documentary proof be mis interpreted, the following course of I proceedure is suggested: If Mr. Covington or any other doubter will secuhe the appointment by any Justice of the Supreme Court, by any Circuit Judge or by any white Ministerial Union of any city in South Carolina, or a committee of five persons to inquire into the' charges of Duncan, and if any one of these derogatory allegations against The State and "Gonzales" is substantiated, The State Company will pay five thousand dollars to whomsoever that committee desig nates. A. E. Gonzales. Publisher. Wm. E. Gonzales, Editor. ORANGE? I WOMAN BETRAYS AX EMBEZZLER AND HE IS AR RESTED BY OFFICERS. He Was A Bank Cashier and Had Stolen One Hundred Thousand Dollars. Eluding the police of several cities and private detectr.es for more than two months, J. Howard Lowery, alias James H. Johnson, wanted in Uti ca, N. Y., on a charge of embezzling more than $100,000 from the Utica City National Bank, was betrayed into the hands of a detective at Philadelphia by a woman and tak en to New York state before the lo cal authorities were aware of what was going on. His arrest is the re ward of' patience and perseverance on the part of Daniel J. Kelleher, a detective of the New York office of the American Bankers' Association. Lowery was a note teller in the bank and disappeared last April while an examiner was going over the bank's books. Kelleher, after a long time, got a clue which left to several cities and then to Wilmington, Del. He learn ed that a woman was in correspon dence with tho former teller and he spent many days in Wilmington be fore he learned her address and then kept tabs on her for nearly a week before his vigil was rewarded. On TueBday night as he was standing in an alley near the woman's houBe, he noticed her leave with a suit case in her hands. He followed her to the railroad station and then into a train. Confronting her with the informa tion he had, he forced her to tell Lowery's address in the city. That done, he took the woman back to Wilmington, leaving a guard to Bee that she should not be able to com municate with Lowery. Then he went to Philadelphia with another detective. They stationed themselves near a house on North 160th street, where the'woman said Lowery was living, and were on guard about five hours, when the man they wanted came out. Step ping up to him, Kelleher told him he was under arrest. Lowery was stunned for a moment, but quickly recovered. WJLL BE IN THE RACE. An Emphatic Statement Made by Speaker Cannon. Joseph G. Cannon will not take himself out of the race for the Speakership, of the next House of Representatives. This he made plain near the conclusion1 of his speech at Emporia, Kan., Monday afternoon. He said he would abide by the will of the Republican caucus if the Re publicans control the next Congress, but that no "muckraking magazine" could make him say he would not be a candidate. In other words, he raid, he would not make am effort to win the Speakership; yet the em phasis with which he spoke made it plain that if the Republican caucus should nominate him he would be willing to serve. RUN DOWN AT LAST. Dentist Who Extracted Fortune from His Bride. Charged with swindling a Brook lyn woman out of $13,500 and sever al valuable bonds after marrying her. Dr. Henry B. Keeler, said nn e to have been a prominent G"> han dentist, was arrested in Detroit on Tuesday. Jn company with him. a woman is held at police headquarters' who, it is ailcg-rl. posed i? his sis ter, and assisted in getiing the mon ey. According to (he police the au thoroties of American and Europe have been searching the world for the pair. The doctor was at Detroit for >reatmnet. Two years ago, 'it Ocean Grove he is alleged to have met Mrs. Wilhelniina Lynch, whom he married. POOR, FOOLISH MAX. Accused His Wife of Betraying Him and Suicides. Accusing his wife of bestowing up on him a "Judas kiss" and of insti gating his arrest ;is a fugitive from justice, William Lyons hanged him self with his leather belt and ended his life in his cell in a police sta tion at Washington, D. C, Tuesday. Lyons' alleged offense was the oper ation of a hand-book. He was tak en into custody on an <>!d charge and his arrest had no connection with re cent, raids. Tornado Hits Texas. Two persons were killed, one ser iously injured and property damaged to the extent of between $3,000 and $4,000, as the results of a tornado that blew through one corner of It aly, Texas, at 6.45 o'clock Monday evening. The dead: M. Poach and son, Charles. Poach and his son! were crushed beneo.th the wreckage! of their home. Dispute Ends Sadly. Following a dispute relative t" the settlement of his father's estate, Otis Brown, a prominent young sr> ciety man of Oxford, N. C, on Mon day shot and dangerously wounded his step mother, Mrs .J. S. Brown,1 and then blew out his own brains. rRGr, S. C, THURSDAY,. FIGURES CAUSE ALARM. Among Republicans Because They Help the Sonth. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says because the population figures of a few of the Southern towns, taken under the new census, have shown big increas es over the figures of 1900, leading men in the Republican party have become thoroughly alarmed, and have begun a movement to keep the representation from the Southern States in the 63d Congress from be ing increased. (Two places in Virginia, Lynch burg and Christiansburg, have shown big increases and the same it true of two Georgia towns, Fitz gerald and Hawkinsville. In Texas nearly all of the fifteen or twenty counties, which have had their pop ulation figures made public, show big gains. The same is true of Ok lahoma and Tennessee. It is said that these, being wide ly scattered, indicate that the gen eral growth all over the South has been large; in fact, much greater than any one expected, and that if the same ratio is kept up represen tation, from that section must of necessity be increased. To fore-1 stall such an increase in membership U is proposed to begin the downward movement now. i Efforts made to ascertain whether or not President Taft was interested in the movement failed to disclose anything tending to show that he was cognizant of it, but it is under stood that Congressman Bennett, of New York, and others, who are lead ing in the proposed cut, made hLm acquainted with their plans before te went to Beverly. That the move ment is on in earnest is not denied. IK)PEI) IN POKER GAME. Found Unconscious in u Stag Hotel ' By His Friends. |J. J. Powers and Tom Nowell went to Hamlet, N. C to spend Sunday. They registered at a Stag Hotel, which is kept by Herman Bohman. Monday a freight conductor, a flag man and a yard swilchman awoke in their rooms without money and sick, having no recollection of their night's work-except the memory that they were sitting in a stud poker game in the Stag Hotel with Powers' arid Nowell and Bohman dealing. The case of Engineer S. L. Brown J is worse. Upon his don-appearance 1 at home, one of his^rriends-applied J at the Stag Hotel and was denied ! entrance. W. H. Tant heard of it. and accompanied by J. E. Irenhartl and C. D. Bradshaw, all brother en-! gineers of Brown, forced an entrance j at 11 o'clock and carried the un-j conscious form of the engineer to the waiting automobile of Dr. H. j F. Kinsman, then the machine was. driven to the Brown home and, sev- j sral hours later after hard work, the! sick man was better. The matter was reported to the police and Powers and Nowell are now in the city jail. COTTON BEING RUSHED. The South Being Brained of All Available Cotton. As a result of the scarcity of spot cotton which the so-called July squeeze has brought about in New York, the South is being drained of practically all available cotton. Coastwise shipments from Savannah, New Orleans, Mobile and Galvestou have been heavy for a week or more, and with the jump of July opts >*?s to 16.53 in the New York market Saturday, the highest price recorded since the Sully campaign in 1903, telegraphic orders began to pour in to Memphis, New Orleans, Houston and other spot centers calling for the shipment on special trains of all cotton that could be bought. RUN DOWN BY TRAIN. North Carolinian's Body Is Found Horribly Mangled. The remains of a white man I supposed to have been those of W. M. George, of Charlotte, wer? found on the Southern railway Tuesday by a section foreman a mile and a quarter south of Lexington, N. C. It is thought that the man was beat ing his way on a train and fei'. The head was battered off and portions! of the body scattered for more than 100 yards up the track. On I he clothes <.f th ? man were found a gold watch, smashed flat, a post card signed by W. M. George, a prescrip tion whitten for Mrs. W. M. George by Dr. J. W. Summers of Charlotte, j Shot His Man. Asked to return a borrowed pistol. Tump Ellison, returning at day light, drunk, from drinking and gambling all night, .Monday shot and killed Will Moore, in Newberry County, near the Laureus county line. Both parties are negroes. Saved by Trees. An aeronaut named Andrews fell 100 feet when his balloon burst at Lake Manawa, five miles south of Council Bluffs. Io., but was saved from death by falling into the branches of a large tree. Aside from scratches and bruises he was unhurt. Child Drowned in Tub. Hazel Best, twenty-one month's old was drowned in a water tub at his parents home Tuesday. The child was playing about the tub and lost its balance and fell in. FUJLY S31 , 1910. KILLED AT CROSSING FATAL CRASH OF Til AIX TXTO WAGON NEAR GAFFXEY. Mr. S. W. Wyatt Lost His Life, One j Son Fatally Hull and Another Slightly Hnrt. 'A most distressing accident oc curred at Beaver Dam Church, three miles south of Gaffney, Monday, when No. 37, the Southern's vesti bule limited, ran into a tesm of mules and wagomi at tfhe railway crossing, near the church. The wag on was occupied by S. W. Wyatt and bis two sons, Hamlet and Luther. The father was killed instantly. Luther, the eldest son, was fatally injured, and the other boy was only slightly hurt. Both mules were kill ed and the wagon was torn into kin dling wood. Both of the boys were taken into Ijpartanburg on the train and an inquest is being held over the dead man. The crossing where the accident occured is near an abrupt curve, where the engineer could not pos sibly see any distance in front of his train. It is said by some that the engineer did not whistle nor rfriig the bell for the crossing. Frag ments of the mules were carried a distance of five hundred yards. Wyatt was an inlustrious and hard work in-s- man and leaves a large fam i'y. Luther was then taken to the hos at Spartanburg Monday immediate ly, after the fearful accident. He went to sleep at 8 o'clock and was perfectlly conscious at the time. He is 30 years of age. His injuries are as follows: Three broken ribs, upper teeth kwockel-r^ut, skull frac tured in three places.^lower lip cut off and is supposed to be internally injured. Physicians do not believe there is any hope for him. ? 0 0 <| LANDLORD SHOOTS BOARDER. Alleged that Victim Resented Insult to His Wife. Because he remonstrated with his landlord for having, as he claimed slapped Mrs. Lawson's face, James H. .Law^pn, a boarder, was shot and killed 'n a^Boston, Mass., boarding houde Monday night. James F. Gar rell, the proprietor of the house, was arrested and charged with murder. Lawson, who was 2S years old, and hailed from Nashville, Tenn., had been stopping at the house with his wife for several weeks. Sunday a quarrel took place between Farreli I end Mrs. Lawson, in which Farreli is said to have struck the woman. Monday night when Lawson spoke to Farreli about the matter. Farreli it is alleged, drew a revolver and fired two shots at Lawson, lK>th of which took effect, killing him in stantly. HAVE NARROW ESCAPE. Family Just Vacated Porch When Lightning Struck. A peculiar freak of lightning is reported from Belvedere, in Aikeu county. At the home of Walter Har ris, a well-known citizen at that place, the family were sitting on the front porch, when a small thunder storm came up. As the storm ap proached, the family got up from the porch and went into the house. Just as they were closing the door the lightning struck a tree in the front yard. The bolt ran from the tree to the porch, and knocked over the chairs, which had been vacated only a moment before. Had the lighting been a moment earlier, they would have been struck. The es cape was a very narrow one. Attack on Depot Master. Sympathizers with the strikers made a demonstration in front of the tenth street union station at Niagara Falls. X. Y., Tuesday night. Two men wero assaulted. The men injured are depot master Smith, who was beaten-and is in charge of a doctor, and a conductor named Lew all, who came in on a train about 9 o'clock. lie was si ruck in the face and knocked down. 20c Cotton Says Hudson. Twenty cent cotton this tali was predicted Tuesday by State Commis sioner of Agriculture Thos. G. Hud son, who addressed the Farmer's Union at Union City. Gu. He pre dicted that there would be only half a crop, and that this, combined with business conditions and a holding movement by farmers throughout the South, would reduce the high price. Prise Fighting Killed. Prize fighting in Los Angeles is at an end. Without a dissenting vote in the city council Monday in structed the city attorney to prepare an ordinance to prevent boxing exhi bitions and sparring contests. The ordinance will be presented at the next meeting of the council and its passage is virtually certain. Xegro Girl to Teach Whites. The appointment of Mary Malison a girl of negro and Indian blood, as teacher in a primary school at Eliz abeth, N. J., has aroused the white residents and protests are being sent to the members of the board of ed ucation. LUHE!) BY A RASCAL. Warning to Young Women to Re ware of Strange Men. A special to the News and Courier from Richmond, Va., tells a sad sto ry about a young girl from this State. The dispatch says a young woman, 17 years old, said to be the daughter of a cotton planter near Cowpens, P C, is detained in Rich nond by the police and is under the care of the Associated Charities there, until such time as she is sent for by her parents or earns enough money to buy a ticket back to her home. She wishes to get back as soon as she can, according to her statements. The story the girl is alleged to have told is a pathetic one. According to the police, she went to Richmond in company with a man, whose name the authorities do not divulge. He was a stanger to the young country girl, and they met when on a train, and she was en route to her parent's home, from Spartanburg. She is alleged to have been lured away by smooth and false talk of the stranger. She says he proposed that she go to Richmond, and she followed him, after arriving living as his wife at a boarding nouse there. The man left Friday night, tell ing the girl to come to Petersburg, but the landlady became suspicious and called in a policeman, and the girl was taken to the police station, where arrangements were made for her care. There is no char,?e against the ginl, but the officers are search ing for the man, who will be charg ed with an ugly offense when found. The girl is pretty and unsophisticat ed, and has evidently been imposed upon. THREE CHILDREN BURNED. IxK'ks Her Children in House With Fatal Results. 4* . ?? A negro dwelling on the plan tation of Mr. J. E. Privett, in the Back Swamp section, about six miles north of Florence, was destroyed by fire about 10 o'clock Monday night, in which three children lost their lives and another was so badly burn ed that it will probably die. Mitt Kely, the mother of the children, locked them up in her house and went to church, leaving them in the charge of the oldest girl, ' about 8 years old. Not long after the wo man left, the house was seen to be on fire and assistance was given, but before anything could be done the three children were roasted alive. The oldest child managed to get out of the house and being frightened, ran to a neighbor for as sistance, forgetting about the other four in the house, one of which es caped, after considerable effort, in a horribly burned condition. SOLDIER SHOOTS NEGRO; Shooting Ascribed to Strong Racial Feeling That Had Developed. The authorities at Fort Myer, near Washington, are aiding the Washing ton police in an effort to apprehend a soldier, presumably of the post, who Monday night shot a negro on the bridge leading from Georgetown to the fort. The negro. Wm. D. Smith, is in the hospital in a dying condition. Apparenatly the atack upon the negro was unprovoked. The soldier, who was unknown to the negroe's two companions, first struck the victim with his fist and then fired unon him as he lay prostrate. Then the soldier tied. The shooting is ascribed to strong racial feeling that has developed among some of the soldiers at the fort. MAY HAVE BEEN MURDER. Peculiar Appearance of Corpse Loads Coroner to Hold Inquest. Because of suspicious circumstan ces surrounding the death of B. A. Jackson, a farmer of Cedar CrecK township, near Fayetteville. X. C. reported to the Coronet since the event, July 10, a coroner's in quest was held Tuesday in order to ascer tain the nature of Jackson's death. Evidence was produced that Jackson seven months ago married a widow, Parker, whose children strenously objected to the marriage: that one son. Grover Parker, who recently es caped from the county chaining made threats against his stepfather, who died suddenly, without apparent cause, last Sunday during the pres ence at home of another stepson, who left immediately thereafter. Suspicions of foul play were aroused by the peculiar appearance of the corpse. Bank (lork Gone. Min >r Winchester, collection clerk of the Citizens' First National bank of Albany, Ga.. for several years past, disappeared from his home at that place Friday of last week and all efforts by bank officials and friends to ascertain his whereabouts have been fruitless. Dies of Injuries. Charles L. Register, a young far mer of Warsaw, Duplin county, N. C, who was assaulted Sunday after noon by Walter Way, a young white man of Wilmington, died there Tues day night at the hospital from the injuries received. The difficulty arose over a dispute concerning a 25 cents bottle of whiskey. TWO CENTS PEB COPY DUG UP BONES An Old Cercetary is Dog Into by Ditcfe Diggers in Charleston. SKELETONS ARE FOUND The Bones of a Man of Huge Stat ure Discovered in One of Se*e"?l Coffins tliat Were Found.?In Another Place Several Old <an non Balls Were Dug Up. No one would suppose that there was niu*:.i J.' mystery or any tinge of romance in the work of the Fiardv ditch-diggers '.\ho are laying the sewerage pnes in various st.eers in the city of Charleston, says the News and Courier, but mystery and ro mance have a way of turning up where they are least expected, ai>rt only the ether day one of the gangs ran into something that made the negroes who wield the pick and shov el feel nervous and apprehensive of what might follow as the result of Interfering with the long sleep of those who .had passed from earth many years ago. The News and Courier then goes on to relate the following: Ofl Queen street, between Franklin and Logan, just opposite the Medical Col lege, the pick-men found a grave yard about four feet beneath the surface, and being compelled to stick to their work, for-the sewer pipes must be laid, grave yard ox no grave yard, and in spite of the danger of rousing; the wrath of ghosts, they unearth ed before Jong seven coffins. All these were badly decayed and felt apart as soon as an attempt was made to lift them to the surface. Of the bodies that they had once contained only the skeletons were left, and these quickly decomposed on coming in contact with the air. Several of the skeletons were those of children or -mall women, but there' was one especially that filled the laborers with wonder as they looked upon it. It was the skeleton of a man, and such a man! More than six feet four inches tall, with shoulders of wonderful breadth and big bones that made up a frame of remarkable strength, .he must have been well-nigh a giant. ? The negroes looked at the white bones and wondered; and white men who saw the crumbling vestiges of what must have been one of the fin est specimens of physical manhood in the South, were curious to know whether some record of this Hercu les who had been laid to rest in this forgotten cemetery long ago, might not be found somewhere and the his tory of the man brought back to mind. On Ashe street the diggers came across cannon balls that had evi dentally been fired during the Rev olutionary war. They were of a. kind "unknown during the War Be tween the States, and were evidently much more ancient, each of them weighing not more than four or five pounds. In addition to these several smaller grape-shot were unearthed. HUNG TO A LIMB. And Riddled With Bullets for At tacking Ladies. Ending a two days pursuit, a mob during last night took Evan Coh orts, a negro, from Constable C. V. Riggs, in a lower part of Sylvanio county, Ga., strung the negro up to t.he limb of an oak tree a:id jKHired at least f>00 bullets into his l>ody. The negro attacked two white wo men who were driving along a lone ly road Saturday afternoon h a bug gy. The horse became frightened and ran away and took the women out of danger, though the negro pur sued them with a pistol. Constable Riggs captured Roberts and hid him from the mob for twelve hours Short work w;>s made of the negro when his hiding place was found. SENATOR TILLMAN DECLINES. Unable to Accept the Invitation at ' the Present. Senator Tillman is unable now to accept the invitation of the board cf commissioners of Sullivan's Is land to spend some time at the sea shore as the guest of the township lward, and Mrs. Tillman and mem bers of the family, who were also invited, will, of course, not come alone. In aletter to Mr. Wilbur chairman of the board. Senator Till man writes that later in the seasou he may be able to spend a week at the island. Private business he gives as the cause of his inability to ac cept the invitation at present. Sen ator Tillman also expresses his ?hanks for the invitation1. Ruin Came at Last. Reports from the farming coun try between Cheyenue and the Ne braskaline, state that the heaviest rain of the season fell early Monday insuring maturity of crops threaten ed by prolonged drouth. Many Cattle Lost. A stampede of cattle at Columbus, Ga.. preparatory to being loaded on a river steamboat, resulted in the drowning of all but ten of the num ber.