The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, November 14, 1905, Image 2
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of More or Less Interest Con
densed Throughtout the World.
The prince and princess of Wales
have reached Bombay, India.
The soutihern conference on quar
tantine and immigration met in Chat
tanooga last week.
It is rumored that Archbishop
Francis :Bourne of Westminster, Eng
'land, will be made a cardinal.
- .After a conference of government
attorneys it was -decided to push the
prosecution of the,beef trust cases.
A test vote in the French senate
-seemed to indicate that the bill sep
arating churdhi and state will be pass
ed.
- General Trepoff has been removed
as governor-general of St. Petersburg,
and Premier <Witte promises universal
suffrage.
Chairman tTI. P. Shionts, in a speech
to the hardware dealers' convention,
told what he had done on the Panama
canal.
Sailors and troops at Kronstadt mu
tineered and -after pillaging shoPs
started several fires before being over
whelmed by loyal troops.
'hie Alabama Commercial and In
Idustrial association, in convention at
Decatur, declared against the presi
dent's rate-regulation plan.
The anorning after their wedding
'Randolph C. Johnson, and his bride,
of Perquimans county, North Caro
lina, were found dead in their bed.
Rear Admiral Prince Louis of Bat
tenberg was welcomed to New York,
and the combined *Anglo-American
fleet foined in commemorating King
Edward's birthday.
Wlliam R. Hearst, who is contest
ing the election of George B. Mc
CIe!lan as mayor of New York, com
pelled ithe election board to receive
&1ae .8,ooo ballot boxes.
A float in honor of President
'Roosevelt's peace efforts was con
spicuotrs in the parade incident -to the
inauguration of Walter Vaughn Mor
gan as lord mayor of London.
Col. and Mrs. James R. Branch
parents of Midshipman Branch, who
'( died after a fight at Annapolis, urged
the president and Secreitary Bona
parte to thorougibly investigate the
cause.
President Hegemnan of the Metro
polIitan Life Insurance company, de
clar"ed in effect before 'the legisla
'bye .investigating committee that his
company had increased i,ooo times in
value in 35 years.
"ABSURD PIECE SPITE WORK."
Says Mr. Cheatam of the Cotton As.
sociation As to Report of Sec
retary Agriculture.
New York, November rI.-Richard
Ch'eath'am, o~f Atlanta, Georgia, sec
retary of the Southern Cotton asso
ciation and who uncovered 'the dis
closures being made in 'the govern
'-ment cotton crop reports whereby of
ficials and speculators were using ad
vance information to bull or bear the
c,otton market, is quot'ed by the Her
eld as having last night severely crit
icised the replort of the cotton crop is
sued yesterday from Washington in
which the condition of the crop No
vember 1st was stat,ed to be 68.8.
Absurd Spite Work.
Mr. Cheatham, w(ho is stopping in
the city, said among other things:
"The mnos't 'absurd piece of spite
work ever attempted was the issuing
of the crop report Friday by Mr. Wil
son, the secretary of agriculture. In
this report 'he announced the condi
tion' at 68.8. Now there is no sane
man whoi ever saw a cotton stalk w1ho
does n'ot know that on November !
and 'November 10 it i's not only far
'beyond the fruiting or Ibearing stage,
but in nearly every case is entirely
void of foliage of every kind. It has
passed far beyond the increasing
stage. Its condition, so far as con
ditions are recognized in *ieports, is
'the same as on October 1 p'reviously.
For. Secretary Wilson 'to make a re
port 'on 'condition' of November 1 is
'to assist in the operation 'of the 'bear
speculators to 'hanmmer down the price
'of cotton.
"Shame, Shame, Shame!"
"I say to Mr. Wilson, 'Shame!
Sihame! Shame!' on 'him and the men
who assisted him in this attempt at
ste work against the cotton produc
ers of. the south. It is a final effor't
to 'get even,' and the attoptr will re
s in sure iscomfiture for t:he de
partment of agriculture before the
session of the next congress is far
advanced. That there will be an in
vestigation of this .department by
congress and an uncovering of mat
ters now concealed by wh'ich all pre
vious disclosures will pale into in
significance, I do not for an instant
doubt."
The Southern cotton association in
its bulletin of the crop issued 'on Oc
tober 31 estimated the crop for 1905
at 9,446,341 bales, a smaller pr6duc
tion than yesterday's estimate of 68.8
would promise.
RECALLS TIMES OF 1876.
Editor Wiliams, of Richmond, in a
Reminiscent Mood.
Tue'sday, November 7th, was the
twenty-ninth anniversary of t,he end
of Radical government in South Caro
lina. Editor -A. B. .Williams, of 'the
Richmond News-Leader, makes some
interesting reminiscent remarks in
oonnection with the event. He says:
This is the twenty-ninth annivers
ary of the final overtfhrow of the last
o,f the rep.ublican reconstruction gov
ernmenTrs in he south. It is hard to
realize that we have many thousands
of voters who were not born then and
that -the -majority of the voters in the
country could not vote on that 'day
of portent, of dread and anxiety and
hope. It alt seems so fresh, vivid and
near to those wIho participated in the
events of that -time. Those who were
e in one of the three southern states
-South Caroolina, Florida and Louis
iana-which were 'the fiercest and
most fearful batlegrounds, cannot un
derstand and never will understand
what that seventih of November
meant. Its apporach was almost like
the coming of the day of judgment,
The white people felt that it marked
the culmination. and would tell the re
sult -of their final and supreme effort.
They staked everything on ie is
sue. IThey violated law with the
knowledge that if they were bea:cen
banishment, persecution and oppress
ion intensified would come to them.
They gave what money they hlad and
Uhir time and labor 'with reckless
podigality. For weeks and months
the three states were anmed camps.
The republican party in the ~country
was ~fighting for its liife, .wlhile the
democratic party was made desperate
*by the first prospect and hope of vic
tory in twenty years. In the southern
states it was a death grapple .for su
premacy between -dhie two races.
In South Carolina 'there was no
sleep anywhere the night 'before. The
lws 'had been -framed by 'the 'republi
can governments to make fraud easy.
The day was to begin everywhere
with a struggle for possession of the
polls. Throught the, country Hamp
ton's Red Shirts rode all night. Men
in companies of fifties ,or hundreds
were transferred from one county or
township 'to another so that they
might be strangers in tihe neighibor
hood in twhich they were -to operate.
There was firing with pistols 'and an
vi cannon, blowing'of horns and yel
ling 'from sunset to daybreak and in
towns fires 'were kindled near
each polling place and heav'ly armed
men kept vigi1 so that they might
make way for the early voters of their
own side who might th-en be off in
he saddle to v'ote eleswhere. Laws
and restrictions 'were thrown to th?e
winds. Even where United States
troops were on guard the ogdadage that
"blood is thicker than water" was
proved triumphant'ly and enlisted men
siped away from barracks and camps
assumed citizens clotrhes and voted
as industriously and frequently as the
most zealous rwhite native. Nobody
knows who carried South Carolina, or
would Ihiave carried it with a fair viote,
and nobody ever 'will know, and we
suppose it 'was 'the same way in the
>ther contested southern states. Un
doubtedly thousands of negroes voted
for Hampton for governor, some be
cause they honestly realized that the
old conditions were destructive, some
from fear, some for affection, some
for money. M'any 'of 'these vo'rers,
wearing the red shirt and mounted,
were escorted to the polls by pro
tecting 'troops of 'wiite men, cast their
ballots amid the curses and execra
tions of people of their own color and 1
returned 'home to encounter ostracismt
and persecution. In the low country
and on the sea islands where the ne
groes outnumbered the whites from
en to forty 'to one negro voters, boys
.d women 'wearing men's clothes r
ing place to the other, snouting and
singing and repeating without hin
drance. Boil parties disregarded the
'-i. 'orh asserted power whe-re they
could. Some of the majorities rolled
up were terrific from one point of
view and albsurd from the other.
That was a wild night-that sev
enth of November, 1876. Democrats
througlhbout -the country were crazy
with joy for every -return leaping over
the wires showed enormous gains and
indicated the election of MTilden for
president and the redemption of the
South. While bon-fires blazed and
jubilant crowds of democrats were,
shouting themselves hoarse from the
Atlantic to tfHie Pacilfic, just -before the
dawn the subtle brain of one man in
a back -office of the New York Times
building gathered an audacious gleam
of hope from study of the sfigures
-and the famous telegram was sent to
the Republican national chairman urg
ing 'him to. "claim everything"--a tele
gram which brought monthls of acute
crisis and anxiety an-d forced us to the
very brink of civil war. It was not
until February that the question of
the presidency was decided, after one
of the bitterest and most intricate con
tests of nerve and diplomacy the world
-has ever known. Looking back now,
we can feel that the decision was
about -right. ThbIere was so much
fraud and violence everywhere -that
the real justice of the case is a matter
of guess. The plain truth is that no
body was elected, but by the guidance
of Providente the common sense of
the American people worked out a
practical and saving solution of a very
,dangerous and inextricable problem.
It was not until May, two months af
ter Hayes' inauguration, that the final
crash of the reconstruction govern
ments came with the withdrawal of
the federol troops. In :the intervals
the state had been living under dual
governments and in political anarchy,
the peace maintained with thJe strong
hand.
Those times are gone by and we
shall never see -the like again, thank
Heaven.
Thakksgiving Joys.
The Almig'hty Father has blessed
our southland, bountifully, this season.
Our fields 'have yielded their in
crease.
Cotton is King once more, and is
doing Ihis &liest to ma-ke the land simile
under his beneficent -reign.
Let us be glad.
And rejoicing ourselves, do not let
us forget the hundreds of little father
less children gathered into our Or
phanages.
Let us make this year the best they
ever had.
Send good stores of corn, flour, meat,
syrup, eggs and butter.
Send money that an'swer'eth all
ihwings.
In our own plenty, do not let us
forget to spread t.he .table of those
who 'have nothing.
It *was Job wiho said: "If I have
eaten my 'morsel, myself alone 'and the
Fatherless 'have not eaten thereed.,
then let mine arm fall from 'the sihoul
der-blade and mine arm 'be lbroken
from ithe bone."
The Story Of A Philadelphia Dollar.
Printers' Ink.
Twenty-eight years ago a man in
Philadelphia rwh'o had a savings ac
count witihd'rew 'his balance before
moving to New York, leaving a dol
lar to hold 'his 'book. TIhere it lay,
not sleeping-even in PBhiladelphiia.
lhree years ago 'the owner ireceived
notice from the, bank that, as his ac
ount was not active, it would better
be closed up. He 'signified his willing
ness to have it taken off the books.
md upon surrender of his pass-book
received 'a check for $4.50, which rep
resented interest at th.e rate of 350 per
cent. It is commonly demonstrated
that a dollar at ordinary savings-bank
nterest doubles in about twenty years,
ut in 'this case the account was nearly
guadrupled in twenty-five years. In,
:erest is not t'hought to be as good
m advertising argument as it might be
For the savings banks, but 'this in
;tance ought to be worth printing in
;avings publicity.
A woman usually knows flher 'hus
iand is a liar, but she wants 'him to be
ruthful about it.
You can't 'train up' a child in the
vay it should 'go by throwing cold
vater on 'his a'mbition's.
If a girl is all the world to a young
aian b1' ".'turally tresents any attempt
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21 1500 22.95
22 15.35 23.30
23 15.70 23.70
24 16.05 24.10
25 16.45 24.55
26 16.85 2500
27 17,30 2545
28 17.75 2590
29 1825 26.40
30 18.75 2695
31 19.25 27.50
32 19.80 2805
33 20.40 2860
34 21.05 2920
35 21.70 2985
36 2240 30.50
37 2315 31.20
38 23.90 31.95
39 24.75 32 70
40 2560 33.50
41 25.55 34.35
42 27.55 35.25
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46 32.15 3925
47 33.50 40.50
48 34.95 41.75
49 36.50 43.10
50 3815 4450
51 3990 4600
52 41.75 47 60
53 4375 4930
54 45.85 51.15
55 4810 5310
56 5050 5520
57 53 10 57.45
58 5585 5985
59 5880 6245
60 61.95 65.25
61 6530 6816
62 68.92 71.45
63 7380 7495
64 7835 7876
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