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VOL XLIII.i NO.9. NEWBERRY. S. U. TUESDAY. T AITARY 30. 190. TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR FOURTH WEEK OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBL MORE THAN 500 BILLS HAV BEEN WRITTEN. About Sixteen Have Passed-Son of the Local Measures Affect.n.,r Newberry. Columbia, January 29.-My letto from Columbia for Friday's pap< was mailed on the midday train c Thursday but in some way did n< reach Newberry until Friday mornir and hence too late for the paper. Fo tunately there was nothing of speci, interest. Some part of it, howeve may be embodied in this letter just i 'eep the record straight. Last week was genuine legislatw weather. Rain and cold all the we and very disagreeable.: Regular pnei -monia weather. But there was r snow in Columbia. All of Tuesday was consumed i the election of judges and trustees ( colleges and directors of the penitei tiary. Chief Justice Pope was - reelecte without opposition. There was son talk on Monday night that he woul be opposed by Ex-Senator George Xower, also of Newberry, but h name was not presented. In this ele tion Messrs. Earhardt and Tayl< voted for Chief Justice Pope an Messrs. Blease and Higgins did n( vote. In the election of a successor c Judge James Aldrich he was oppose -by Senator E. F. Warren of Hamptoi Mr. Warren received 32 votes. Judg Aldrich was reelected. Of the Nev berry delegation all of them voted f< Senator Warren. * ** The only other of the circuit judg< who had opposition was Judge Jk Kiugh who was olpposed by Senat< F. P. McGowan of Laurens. Juds Klugh received 100 votes and Sem~ tor McGowan 41. Messrs. Earhari and Higgins voted for Senator M< Gowan and Messrs. Blease and Ta: for for Judge Kiugh. Mr. L. A. Sease of Newberry we reeeeid a member of the boeard.i trustees of Clemson college by ave handsome vote receiving 169 out 124 votes. Four candidates wei voted for to '9' three 1places. The disse :w e itu!ati'a rIn JAi:Z about the same. Evoyv n.w and the a new b)ill is introduced andz the qua tion is on the calendarI :as a. sp)ei order and will be debated now fro: day to diay, unt il sonwt~ ~ien isok The debate will beg:in tonIiht on ti Morgan bill. Mr. Huntto ofI LexingtonI som~e da: ago int roduced a resolution askir fran it emized st atementi( o; expes< ine.urred by the dispexnsary invest iga in'g (mmtte and Wenesay ~ris Foll ig histe upH h'fe' Si ntrodce statemnent. was spent u something like ?6.O( add1inalfo wichl amfonmf the 'on~ .from~ the bank. teen have 1assed. an -1 changed to an ac and as soon as ra ified and signed will become part the sttuite law of the state. Among these Is the Newberry grad I ed school bill. The only chan-ge in the bill passed last year is to direct that the election shall be ordered by the towi council :11d held at the same time as the city election. the scond Tuesday in December and the terms of trustees expire on the first day of Januarv. The annual school meeting shall be held between the last day of June and the first day of August. And also the proviso that no person shall be eligible or serve as a trustee who is a trustee of any other school or college. There seems also to have beeii some defect in the bill providing for a grad a ed school at Whitmire which was passed at the last session as another o bill has been introduced at this ses sion to amend the law of the last session as to this school. k The ten hour law for factories will not be passed at this session, but Mr. o Taylor has had spread upon the Jour nal of the house a petition from the operatives of the Newberry mill ask n ino for such a law. The petition con tains about 300 names. The bill of Mr. W. E. Johnson of Aiken to prevent strikes and lockouts d has been killed by the senate but Mr. e Taylor of Newberry has introduced d the identical bill in the house. The - vote was rather close in the senate with several senators absm nt. r . The appropriation and supply bills d have not yet been introduced though they have been partly prepared. . . It is probable that the state levy will be placed at 5 mills. Last year f it was 5 1-2 mills. L- The Newberry delegation has not e yet agreed upon the levy for New berry county though it is probable r the levy will be 3 1-2 or 4 mills. The loss of the dispensary profits will make necessary about one mill ad s ditional to raise the same amount of I money. eThe state bar association met last - Iweek. There were in attendance t from Newberry. Hon. Geo. S.-Mower. SCol. iGeorge Johnstone. Col. Walter - Hunt, Hon. F. H. Dominick. Dr. Geo. B. Cromer. Through the kindness of a friend I had the pleasure of attend TinZ the banquet at the Columbia hotel. [t wvas a most delightful affair. Night sessions will begin this wveek eiand no doubt there will be some in Iteresting debates. The dispensary investigating comn amittee will resonme its work again this week under the powers given in the iact passed at this session. ii jAttniey General V. X. (Gunter has esufficieni ly improved to be moved to the home of his father at Ratesburg. State Treasurer JTennings leaves this s wee forn Bltimore to obtainl hospital treatment. Assistant Ad.ntant Gien '5 eral J1. B. Patriek has gone to his h l,o at Anderson on aecount of his ehealth nol SeereOtary of Staie Chint ehas hoop? i n]a h(alth for' somel( timel. * *4. j ' *' * ~ ; . '' *1 ene 1 the inls! ittin i-th elf. -make an aipV)Cprioin n .0 " put np an exhibit by the staie at the GEN. JOSEPH WHEELER DEAl Last Hours of the Famous CavaIr Leader-Ill Only One Week A Sketch of His Career. Genleral Joe Wheeler's la.st figI has terminiiiated atal. tie Ifamt (ld1t i r S0(11,Sneem11,nh 1:. in at 5 :5 ." 'cl)oe( I( n Thursday eein at the home r his sister. Mrs. Sterlin Smith. 17 Coiumbia Heights. Brooklyn. to an a tack o)f pnemniiionia. wvhich filowed severe (co(ld by which lie was prostre ted while atteldin dinner in Manlia tan on Thursday nioght before. Tli ()1d quickly developed iito pleuris: bit it was not until Sunday th Ieumonia set in. The disease mad rapid progress. and on Wednesda evening all hopes of saving the p tient's life were practically abai oned. Dr. MeCorkle, the attending ph) sician, and Dr. Janeway, who wo called in consultation, remained at th old hero's bedside until almost th close of his fight. Although extremely weak, Generf Wheeler remained cheerful and cor scions until half an hour or so b< fore death. He passed away as if i slumber. Around his bedside wer g,rouped his son. Major Jos. Wheele: Jr., U. S. A., his four daughters. Mn W. J. Harris. and Misses Anna H Lucille and Carrie Wheeler, his si4 ter. Mrs. Smith and his nephew. Stei ling Smith. Less than an hoar before his deat G-eneral Wheeler, in a faint but sti clear voice, asked for his daughte Lucille. and when she bent over hii he whispered a few parting w6rds i her ear. In spite of the gloomy foreboding of the doctors on Wednesday th members of General Wheeler's far ilv cherished a faint hope until nea the end that he would pull througl and all of them believed he would a least survive a day or two more. General Joseph Wheeler .ranke high among brilliant leaders devel op)ed by the civil war. When he sm rendered as lieutenant general in th service of the Confederacy he wa only 29 years old, yet was senic eavalry ofticer of the Confederat army. Thirty-years later, as major get eral of volunteers. United States arm lie was leading American cavalr against the Spaniards in Cuba. For accepting a commission froi President McKinley he was severel criticised by Southerners of the ''ur reconstructed'?' type. . In the Alabama. Constitutional cor 'ention in 1901 ani'effort was made t deny htim courtesies of the floor. Some southern newsp apers con mnenting unfavorably on his acceptin (0omra'desh]ip with men who ha foug'ht against the south. It is probable, however, that Get eral W\heeler' s repiutation was er hanced amlong~ so utlhern peop1le i general. Just as his popularity w~ increased among~ no rtherners by hi )atriot ie act in at th~e outset of th Spanish-Americani war. In his hist service lhe sho(wed ihi une *ah he.necaaiy u . lelIe as colonel of the 1.9th Ala aIma iintry. As Commander. of a y bria(e hIe made his mark at Shiloh. bIII Wilelel' s sIperiIs percive quily that his was the temperament fI a successful avalry officer, and he was transferred to that arm of the s service in I862 an(d particilpated in I k hattles of, Perrvville and Grand Riv f er. went raidling throngh Western I .) Tennessee., and took part in other en - gagemoents f General Bragg's Ken-l t a tuckv campaign. Ie had charge of <l - the cavalry at Murfreesboro. and had -earned. by that time the reputation of e being a dashing and absolutely fear less leader of mounted men. He t was made brigadier general on Octo e ber 30. 1862. and covered th'e retreat y of Bragg's army southward. At the -age of 27 reckless courage had won ( -- for him a major general's commission. ] He commanded the Confederate cav- I alry at. Chattanooga and Chickamau s ga. After Chickamauga, where, as ( e usual. his dash and valor were con e spicuous. he fell on General Rose cran's line and severed it, destroy- I I ing 1,300 wagons. and damaged I - Federal property valued at $3.000,000. This career of brilliant raiding, how a ever. suffered a check, and he was e driven back into Northern Alabama. -, It was due largely to General . Wheeler's skill and fearlessness as a cavalry leader that the Confederate - forces, under General Braxton Bragg, 1 were able to retreat in good order and almost unmolested after Missionary h Ridge and Lookout Mountain. 1 General Wheeler's most famous ex r ploit, perhaps, was performed in op a posing General William T. Sherman's a advance on Atlanta. Scarcely a day passed without a skirmish, which was s almost a battle, and the Union troops e never knew at what hour or place - "Fighting Joe" might be expected t r with his furious onslaughts of car alry. In one of his attacks on General Stoneman's forces he succeeded in d capturing the General himself and several other famous officers. .In August, 1864, General Wheeler e led a successfuld raid in Sherman's srear northward as far as the Ken-t r tucky line. Subsequently he opposed c Sherman 's advance on Savannah, andt in February. 1865, was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. ~He continued in command of the c avalry division of Johnson's army until it surrendered in April 1863. Gen. Wheeler received the thanks 14 of the Confederate government for his skill and gallantry in battle. I He was wounded three times and sixteen horses were shot under him. 1 Eight of his staff were killed and thirtv-two wVounde(d. -After the war General 'Wheeler beC came a lawyer and cotton planter, at( li Wheeler. Alabama. Hie served asi rep)resentative for the 8th Alabama t d (istriet, 1881 to 1890. was reelected to the 56th co4 ngress. but resigned(. nGeneral Wheeler was an indefati s gable woriker' and~ made a reputation e member. 1 of congress onl the democratic 'id when1 he resUined. FromI1l 1996 '-'Q8) heC was regent of the Smith - onaniitutiion andl w'as a memr i~ 4 i m . n1he ea a d c i jen . fte ate *Giv t\ . nks!' e bo thr tey \1 o'.'' From 4 . hus 4 4 4'--"4 .4 -t til6 a Ttlne. 19(0j. he omand- efl ,d a brigadle in the Philippine Islands. By direction of lie president he nade an inspection of the Island of inam on Februarv S to 12. 1900. On June 6. 1900. he was commis ioned brigadier "eneral of the United states army and assigned to the com nand of the department of the lakes. 'Te remained in the airmy until Sep ember 10, 1900. when he resigned. General Wheeler was a member of he Society of the Colonial War, Sons )f the American Revolution, Society >f the War of 1812, Society of San ;iago and Naval and Military Or ler. Spanish-American War. Was Luthor of "An Account of the Ken ucky Campaign," 1862: "Cavalry [actics.'' 1863: "Military History of labama," "History of the Santiago ,ampaign," 1898; "History of Cuba, 896 to 1899," 1899; "History of the affect Upon Civilization of the Wars >f the Nineteenth Century," and also ight volumes of Congressional ;peeches, 1883 to 1898. He wrote monographs upon the ives of Admiral Dewey, William Nfc (inley, Stonewall Jackson and Theo lore Roosevelt. He was a frequent ontributor to magazines. It was while General Wheeler was it Montauk Point, where the army -eturned from Cuba, that his second on. Thomas H. Wheeler, naval cadet, vas drowned while bathing with ieutenant Newton D. Kirkpatrick, of he 1st cavalry. He has another son nd three daughters. Funeral Procession In New York. New York, January 28.-An . im )osing military pageant passing teross Brooklyn. Bridge, brief services t St Thomas Episcopal Church in 5th tenue. and an escort across the forth River Ferry to Jersey City, vhere the body was placed on a train o be taken to Washington for inter nent in the National Cemetery, at trlington, marked the funeral in this ity to-day of Brig Gen Joseph Wheel r, cavalry leader of the Confederacy, nId later one of the most prominent iures among the generals of the spanish-American war. The body >f the dead soldier was wrapped in he flags' under which he had- served vith almost equal vigor and disti-ne ion--the Stars and Bars of the Con ~ederate States and the Stars and stripes. Veterans of the Southern Lnd Northern armies mingled to-day n paying tribute to Gen. Wheeler, vith the younger veterans of the uban and Philippine campaigns of 398 and 1899. The route of the uneral cortege was linedl with grieat rowds most of whom stood -with ared heads 'as the procession passed. The funeral took place fromi the ioec of Gen. Wheeler's sister. ifs sterline Smith. ini Brooklyn. where len. Whieeler dlied onl Thursday of meumiaUOl. The body was~ b)orne from le house by eight non-commissioned ieliers of infantry. and placed upon i flag-draped artillery caisson. uadron C and a (dail otf the 2nd at tery of artillery escorte'd the body. md1( on the Maunhattan side oft t he ridge the T1st regiment. New York at ionlal Ouaird, ill full driess urn fom as drawn up1 . The -1 comm Ennande(1 >v' Co W. G. nies- j!erved..1 unider 'ii ele the slt f honoir.Innr. Fro i BrlloEklyni IieC. the1~1 U nac lav across town to Wad-2r f 'Southlern Society. thle Co nfed rate Yeterans association, the So i-ir- fth Wair of 1512. several oilier org011anizations and the personal frien& of the family. Reservations also had been made for the honorary pallbearers, the staf of Genieral Frederick D. Grant, U. S. A.. and the offieers of the escort. The altar of the church was almost hidden beineath the floral offerings, one among them. a wreath. sent by Pres i(lent Roosevelt. The brief services were conducted by the Rev. Ernest Etires. rector of the church, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, who led the way to the chancel. They were followed by the church vestry. Then came the honorary pallbear ers. J. Pierpont Morgan. Col. J. J. Astor. R. T. Wilson, Fitch Smith, Dr. John Wyeth, John McKesson, S. R. Bertron. Dr. William M. Polk, Com mander Parker, U. S. N., Archer Huntington, Gen. J. H. Wilson, Gea. Kent, Senator Clark of Montana, Charles S. Fairchild, Gen. 0. 0. How ard, U. S. A., retired; Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, Dr. R. Ogden Doi-emus and Dr. Parrius. Before the casket had been placed on the pedastals the full vested choir of St. Thomas entered the church singing as a processional hymn, "Lead, Kindly Light." Dr. Stires in his sermon said: "This is one of the great occasions of our lives. For we are met to hon or the memory of a rare man. I do not speak to you of him principally as a citizen, statesman, or soldier, for the mere record of his deeds is far more eloquent than- any piaise of ours could be. It is of the-man I.thi*.. at this hour. Was he entitled to b called great? It is not difficult for you to decide. "He was -distinguished by courage without rashness, by wisdom without pride, by gentleness witout weathess, by patience without heedlessness; and by justice which always leaned to-. ward mercy. He honored man, he trusted man, and to every man he was ready to give his time, his sub stance, his heart. ." The north gives him unstinted ~ honor. The south, even in her grief, is proud of her ever loyal s'on. rA~ba 1 for whose freedom he fought sobs out her grief -across the waves, and the whole world pauses for a moment tp day to declare that this was indeed a mnan. " Let there be little of sadness here. We are not commemorating a defeat; it is the victory of life-the triuimph of a noble character." Following the chureci services the body -was escorted to Jersey City, wxhere it was placed on- board a traim of the Pennsflvania Railroad, which left for Washington shortly after 4 Arrival in~ Washington. Washington. January 28.-The bodyV otf eneral Wheeler arrived here at 10():->5 o 'clock tonight and was tak eni at onice to St. John's church. A de ta(-hmenWt at Spanishi war veterans of - this city formed ani escort from the station and constituted a guard of 1 honor at the casket and will remain unti ih le regular army takes its place Gen. Whe~-eer' C nfe Xderate cavalry 1i.fro Atlata (Ga.. C l. Prather in e1naand arriQ ve~d hereI late tonight to -agIen the:' funer.a!. They will act as Ii:.e n--~1 icideClby jumpi nd I. .\d river at Bilt e i a ner chrc in.hiaep.i on Sunday nighbt.