Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of More of Less Interest Con densed Outside the State. Five lives have been L- l( :III wards of s5.ooo.ooo xi rth of 1)roper ty destroyed by the iiou,d which has devastated many parts of "lichigan during the past several days. Elijah W. Campbell. division super intendent of the Texas and Pacitic railway, was accidently killed in the railroad's yard at Dallas. Texas. on Tuesday. being caught between two moving cars and crushed to death. Gen. William H. Payne, counsel for the Southern railway. a distin guishe Confederate ficer and coi mander of the famous Black Horse Cavalry at the first battle of Bull Run. died at his apartments in \Vashing ton on Tuesday. aged 73 years. He lived for many years at \\'arrenton. Va., an( practiced law in the \'irginia courts. He became a briadier gener al in 1864. commandin. a brigade un der Gen'eral 1:itzughli, Lee. Returns fit ni the Arkansas pimry s1ow that Govern,r jeffers-n Divi-": will be entitled t,, enough delegates in the state convention to assure his election. Judge \\'ond. his opponent. has conceded that on the face of the returns he has not enough counties to win the nomination. but lie will ap peal to the state convention and con test the vote as returned in a number of counties. Four men were drowned on Tues day in Lake Calumet, near Chicago. by the capsizing of their boats while hunting ducks. Walter Mc'eal was shot and killed near Pearson, Ga., early Tuesday morning. by Henry Cook, his father in-law. The killing was the end of a quarrel that had been nursed by the men for some time. While at work in Marx peanut fac tory, in Norfolk. Va., on Monday. Henry Felton accidentally fell into a rapidly revolving fly-wheel and before his plight was discovered, about half an hour afterwards, the man's body I had been torn into fragments. Fel ton was at work alone In an upper story and the continuous po-inding of his body on the floor attracted the at tention of other' occupants of the building, who found the man's re mains. According to a dispatch received from Hamburg, there were 90 killed, including 13 white persons. in the cyclone whlch caused ruin through out the island of Reunion March 21 and 22. Mr. Gillett of Massachussetts made. an uncalled for speech in congress on Monday on the negro question, as serting that he did not believe it fair or wise for the democrats oi the south to say that they intend forever to ievent the negro from participating in' government. J. C. Cole. policeman and deputy sheriff at Battelle, Ala., was killed on Tuesday by his ten-year-old son. The boy had been fighting with other boys and his father whipped him for -it. The child afterwards secured the parent's pistol and blew his father's head off. It is reported from East St. Louis, Il., that W. T. Scott, a negro candi date for president, has announced that preparations have been completed for a national convention for the nomina tion of a negro candidate for presi dent. The convention will be held in St. Louis on July 6, the date set for the national democratic convention. The name of the new party is the "National Civil Liberal Party," and a platform will be adopted which, Scott says, will call for government ownership of transportation facilities and a pension list for former slaves. The national house committee on ways and means has taken unfavor able action on the 'bill before the house prohibiting the inclusion of coupons in packages of tobacco. Fourteen negro wagon drivers of the Richmond Baggage Transfer company, Richmond, Va., have notifi ed the company that they would not work with a single white man who had been employed as driver. The company discharged the whole negro force and employed white drivers. The South Dakota democratic con vention instructed its delegates to the national democratic convention to support William Randolph Hearst "first, last, and all the time for the SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Items of More of Less Interest Con densed in the State. Gr(.und h a- been br'-kenf the library building at the C,niie M:lax well. orphanage. Grcem*n-od. being erected as a miei,rial to . P. . - Kis,ick by Nlr. .cKissick's mother. H!ampton'*s birthday was appropri-! ately celebrated in Greenville and Laurens on l-nday. At about three o'clock on Sunday morning the lady operator in the Gree.iwood telephone excltange tired three shots at s'me one who pitu nd ed on the do,r f4,r admittance. but who fled when t.k! that he w uld very probable get shtit. Arraingements are being made for the mbervance -f the. 2001 :anmiver sarv tf ii f1-undati-m ..f St. James church. at G-.,Se Creek. Charleso-n county. ol April 17. Th church is Pne of the ldest landlmarks in the 1< wer part ..f the state. The grand lodge Knights of H 1onor wil! me;t in C-4lumbia on Aril 20 The Daunghters -f the C,:niceracy al, the .ch'lchildren f C.k-. mbia decorated Wade Hamcpi'n t mb with choice :. -wer , QnM d:nay. the anniiversaLry .f H-Iamtri n'sr~ deathI. Robert Stephenson Sim) n. 1f Charlestn. who won the cfnipeti tive examination held in Coltumbia for the West Point cadetship. has lost the cadetship on account of having used an improper name to avoid newspaper noteriety. as he says. Senator Tillman has written that he will give the appointment to the first alternate. W. Gibbes Lykes. of Co lumbia. Dr. Hext M. Perry. president of the Greenville Society for the Pre vention of Cruelty of Animals. re ports a shocking case, in Greenwood. to Governor Heyward. It seems that some miscreant poured turpentine on a dog and set fire to it. The dog ran around the strees in Greenwood until it died. The residence of Mr. William Grov esnor, of Providence. R. I., at Aiken, was robbed on Monday night before the family retired, articles to the value of about $8oo being taken. This is the second time Aiken has been visited by burglars in a short period. It is thought the burglary of Mr. Grovesnor's residence was con ducted while the family were on the porch listening to a band of negro ser enaders. The Clemson college encampment be held in Anderson May 5-9 inclu sive. The cadets will leave the cam pIs on May 4 and march to Anderi son. A negro woman was burned to death at her home in Darlington a_,;.ntv. She was subject to fits and it is thought that dturing one of these her clothing caught nire. There is a shortage of S5oo in the accounts oft the Hamptotn coutnty dis-I penser. The dispenser says his safej was robbed. The police of Aiken have captured four negroeswvho they feel quite sure, are the parties who robbed the resi dence of Mr. William Grovesnor on Monday night. Three of them had entertained the family with music in the open air while the fourth, it is presumed, slipped in the house and stole the jewelry and other articles, to the amount of about $8oo. The Times and Herald, the two afternoon -papers heretofore publish ed in Florence, have combined, and will be held in Anderson May 5-9 inclu Hartwell M. Ayer. Last Friday night while playing in ter home at Inman, in Spartanburg county, a little nine-year-old negro girl acidentally ran against an open knife in the hand of one of her broth ers. The blade penetrated her stom ach, inflicting injuries from which she died. DEATH OF JAPAN'S BAGLEY. The "First Heroic Death" of the War With Russia-Lieut. Kaji mura Fumio. Edward T. Hayden, writing from Tokio, under recent date, says: Japan is still smiling contentedly over the death of her Ensign Bagley. It is Japan's way of mourning over Sub Liet. Kajimura Fumio's heroic end before Port Arthur--her nirst noted son to fall in battle with the Russians. Even the young man's father, when the news of the wvar's "first heroic in hi,. bed Sick h. wed J.v. .ir lc cncern wa it en h1 i . lr -..::. :a lieenam ~in the ay. I.. e h... to ee re anl amlilleati, 1 th1il., ann'iunceenet that his br ther ha.! hie: a:.utlytt fo r the emp)err. i et. Funi ',. death wa- enugh t rini the ,'mile -f satisfactionu to the lip. a heric nat1,i,n. The son of a samurai. lie (lied; a: a samurai i aud, striving to tight his country's enemy as he lay mortally wounded. Licut. Funio was killed during the !lrst attack on the Russian strong hold. Throughout the battle he had charge of an eight-inch gun on the battleship Katsuse. Toward the close of the one-sided contest he trained his gun in the "Bayai." and a great clumnn if black smoke. as though the Rusians were ,n fire. shortly fk,l 1"wing liis sh'it. showed that his ainm had w,rked hav,c ant-ng the enemy.. 1i wa- preparing an- ther thut whelp :lhell-pres.-miably frtm a tort truck him in the smtall of the back. passel thnili the bidv. fell on the deck in frit ..f him. and explded. showerinZ the entire gun crew with :t a i f teel. \\'hie the air wa: :til !!.led wit bits if the sheil Lieut. Sonoda. whose p)llsi was cliose by. rushed up and;: caught Funmi as he was falling on the deck. The sieil had all but cit its victim in two. but he was still con cies. and as Licut. Sonoda and a m11elber of the crew started to carry himi towar-i the iospital he protested: "This devil of a Russian animal." he said. "Don't take my shoes off. I want to fight again." Still protesting and struggling weakly with his comrades, he was taken to the hospital. The surgeons bent over him. "Don't," he ordered. "Look after the others. 'My wound is slight. I iave to go to my post-don't take off my shoes." And with a protest on his lips at being kept from his post he died. Both Ensign Bagley's heroic death ind his family prominence made his ame known throughout America in the Spanish-American war. It is the ;arne with Lieut. Fumio. COOKS AND TEACHERS Can't Be Kept in Northwestern Ne braska, Because Cowboys Will Marry Them. Kansas City Journal. According to reliable reports from the cattle country of Northwestern Nebraska. that region has superior in ducements to young women who might become susceptible to offers of matrinony. Col. Sam M\oses, a cattle baron of Cherry County. Neb., who owns a ranch of severa' thousand acres near Valentine, was in Kansas City last night, on his way home frout a visit to Texas. "I employ several cooks on my ranches," said Col. MIoses, "antd being decidedly opposed to male cooks, I have from tinme to time imported wo men cooks from thte cities as well as from rtural towns in the thickly set ted sections of the country; but I can never keep a woman cook longer than a few weeks. Every time I bring in a new woman cook some towboy comes along and marries her. Then I send for another one, and the same result is certain. "This is also true of school teach er:s in our country. Bright young women come out there and are engag ed to teach th3e district school. They start in with great enthusiasm. A lit tie later in the school term we ob serve that their thoughts seem to stray far away from their school room duties. We used to wonder what it meant, but now we wonder no longer, for we know they are going to marry a cowboy and quit teaching school. And so it goes, year after year. "The only way I can account for this is that thte cattle country is pop ulated mostly by men, and that the majority of them are young fellows who have come out from the farms of the eastern states. It takes a vast bunch of men to handle the cattle in dustry, and the place being compara tively new aand lacking in many of tie attributes that go to make up do mestic surroundings, the number of women is necessarily limited. "Therefore I am speaking seriously when I say that the cattle country of Nebraska and South Dakota really of fers inducements to young women who would care to marry cattlemen. I do not at this moment know of any eattle barons looking for wives, but it must be remembered that the hired I Seed S Adam's Early * Hickory King + Golden Dent ? Snow Flake ( Pearl or Cat" + German Mille . Early Amber Onion Sets! $ When You Buy S Know They A Wm. E. PELI Reliable Prescril Newberr +e+e+@+O+O+O+@+4 likelv to be the owner of the brand ing iron tomtrrow, figuratively speaking; so some of these young wo men are building better than they know when they take a Cherry court ty cowboy for a husband. Even if Mr. Cowboy never does become al magnate, he will always make a good living, and his wife, unless she is a stickler for theatres and city society, may find life well worth the living, even though she may dwell ten miles from her nearest neighbor. The cowboy's wife may depend upon at least two visits a year to Omaha, Kansas City. Sioux City or some other metropolis, and she most al ways goes with a well filled purse. "Outside of the young women whol have been reared in the cattle country! -and there are few-there are just three classes that enter into the mat rimonial race. There are the school teachers, the cooks and the visitors who come out from the east to spend a summer with relatives. It is -a not able fact that at least half of the young women visitors to Cherry county do not return to their homes.1 ntil they go back with 'Mrs.' attach Fd to their names. THE TRUTH AT LAST. Vindication of President Davis' Char acter Begining to Find Its Way to Public Press. It's a wearv stretch of lane that has! no turning. but that sooner or later,.in support of the ancient adage. it will deflect. would seem to be incontrovert able, since now at the long last the vindication oi even President .Jeffer son Davis' character is begining to find its way into the public press. In the March Pilgrim there is an article by Landon Knight entitled "The True Jefferson Davis" that we trust will prove the entering wedge in this respect. But whether it does or not, it is at least something that northern readers are given a chance by one of their own magazines to learn the truth about a man who has been so maligned. The following from the article in question will give an idea of its scope and tone: "The people of Texas, learning of Mr. Davis' losses, offered to give him an extensive stockfarm in that state, but this he also refused. Upon the Gulf of Mexico at the little sta tion of Beauvoir, Mr. Davis owned a tract of land which he conceived woutld support his family. and there, far from the strife of the busy world, he resolved to spend the declining years of his life. However, retire ment at best could only be partial, for a nan loved and venerated as Mr. Davis throughout the south, and Beauvoir accordingly became the shrine of the public men who sought the counsel of its sage. But with the modesty characteristic of the man he refused to advise any one upon measures of national itnport, since by the action of congress he was forever disfranchised. He would not ask par don, sincerely believing that he had done no wrong, and when the people of Mississippi would have elected him to the United States senate he declin ed the honor in words which should be persu by all who kenow the man Timef Corn! 0 Corn! Corn'! ,orn! r'all Millet! 0 Corn! 0 eeds of Us, You re The Best. 1AM & SON, >tion Druggist, y,S. G as he was, during this period of his life: 'The franchise is yours here, and congress can but refuse you ad mission and your exclusion will be a test quectivn,' ran the invitation, to w.hich Mr. Davis replied: "I remain ed in prison two years and hoped in vain for a trial, and now scenes of in sult and violence, producing aliena tion between the sections, would be the only result of another test. I am too old to serve you as I once did and too enfeebled by suffering to main tain your cause.' Any word that might. serve to still further increase that alienation never passed the lips of the gentle, kindly old man, who, still the idol of his people, preferred to all honors the quiet life among the pines, where amidst his flowers he played with his children and their little friends, and far into the night, sur rounded by his books, he worked asid uously upon his only defense, "The Rise and Fall of the Confeder ate States of America.' The con cluding paragraph of that book, written in the gray dawn of a% summer morning after a night of continuous labor, should -be read by every one who would under stand the motives that actuated Jef ferson Davis in the great part that he played in the world's history. ":'In asserting the right of seces sion it has-not been my wish to incite to its exercise. I recognize the fact that the war showed it to be imprac ticable, but this did not prove it to be wrong; and now that it may not be again attempted. and the union may promote the general welfare, it is needful that the whole truth should be known so that crimination and re crimiation may forever ceas~e, and then on the basis of fraternity and faithful regard for the rights of the state there may be written on the arch of the union 'Esto per petua.' It is the voice of the soul in defeat, yet strong and conscious of its own in'~tegrity, recognizing the inevitable and praying for peace and the per petuation of that union which Jeffer son Davis still loved." Jayson: "It is strange, isn't it?" Jinmpson: "Er--what is strange?" Jayson: "Why, that the oldest in habitant is always a man-never a woman." "Willie," said his mother, "I wisb you would run across the street and see how old Mrs. Brown is this morn ing." A few minutes later Willie returned and reported: "Mrs. Brown says it's none of your business howv old she Bedridden, alone,. and destitute. Such, in brief was the condition of an old soldier by name of J. J. Havens, Versailles, 0. For years he was troubled with Kidney lisease and neither doctors nor medcines gave him relief. At length he tritd Electric Bitter. It put him on his feet in short order and now he testi fies. "I'm on the road to complete recovery." Best on earth for Liver and Kidney troubles and all forms of Stomach and Bowel Complaints. Only Soc. Guaranteed by W. E. Pelham & Son, druggists.