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\ . ' tTvltS , ' i?09aWS VOL XLIV NO. 79. NEWBERRY. S. C.. FRIDAY' AUGUST 30. 1907. TWICE A WEETC. 1K1.KO A YEAR HAVOC RAISED BY | THE BOLL WEEVIL E. D. SMITH REPORTS UPON CONDITIONS IN WEST. Advises Farmers to Hold?Says 16 O.ents is Least Fanners in Southwest Will Consider. To the Editor of The State: On August 10th I left South Carolina for a tour of the western cotton states. There has been and i? considerable speculation as to the probable yield of this crop. My opportunity for observation and information as to Mississippi was limited, f will visit that state tlunnjr the early part of September. I-rf'nisiana crop us certainly extremely short. From Vieksburg immediately on the Mississippi river for several miles in the interior the crop is practically a complete failure. From the Ouohiata river to the Red river the crop will average 50 per cent, of a normal yield. From Shreveport to Alexandria the boll weevil has destroyed the crop up and down the Red itiver valley?the most fertile region in Louisiana. There are tens of thousands of acres that are abandoned; "of a seed planted, and othor thousands planted and abandoned and the balance making very little. 1 wish those who are disposed to think the weevil does little harm could see the work of destruction he has caused in Louisiana. Tn Texas the weevil and drought have put beyond possibility anything like an average yield. The people of Louisiana and Texas won't talk of any tiling less than If) <rt?uls per pound for this crop. Jndgin8" by the size of the audiences and the character and occupations of the men composing them, T think it safe to predict that there will be a terrific fight for 15 cents if the buyers seem disposed seriously to oppose it. The conditions here are very much like those that obtained in the states east of the Mississippi last year. Last year we had poor crops and these Western States good ones. The priccs were good?fine indeed for these states that made the larger yields and ^ the n^nilt of their fine crops and big prices was an almost unlimited extension of credit. Now the terrible crop failure puts bankers and merchants who extended credit to the planter in the same boat with flic planter. For if there is hot a biu price obtained they stand to lose their advances; so there is a very unanimous sentiment among planterand business men for 15 cents cotton. Of course it all depends on the wisdom of the owners and their ability to exercise their wisdom as tc whether the crop will bring this pric< or not. O.ie of the worst features of the etop outlook is the poor corn crop I've been speaking to the farmer? here of the Williamston plan. I be lieve it would succeed here bettei than in the Eastern States. I leave today for Oklahoma, when T wil make a three days' can\ass and on the ? ftth leave for Columbia so a.to be ift the county presidents' meet jng on the 30th. IT have had a strenuous campaign speaking three times a day and trav cling da\ a.id night. There is a 'jrrat I if.ving growth in sentiment as to oui work and practical demonstration o! appreciating it. , Fi. I). Smith. Monroe, La.. Aug. 25, M)07. Taking no Chances. Ci'l ^(>ol"'t appointed a young law M6r to defend a Georgia darky, bill *jJafter the prisoner had looked tin I lawyer over lie said: No, Mister Jedge, I reckon not He las time I got, in de penitentiarj I had a man dat look des lak him t( defend me, so des leave him out d? case en gimme ton years!"?Atlant,' -Constitution. \ . ki:ij*s kiss it is called oscula A tion diplomaticns. And it probablj a tastes just an it sounds. MURDERER KILLS MAJEtSHAL. g Oobon Simms Killed Georgia Marshal Who Was Hunting the Former's Kinsman. "W Thomasville, Ga., Au^. 28.?Kugene (.Wgell, marshal of Cairo, was shot a and killed early this morning by Cohen Simms, a negro, near Moccasin Gap, Fla. Simms went to Tallahassee and surrendered to the officers. \\ Cargell was at the head of a posse that had located Charles Williams, a the murderer of Sheriff T.vus of Gra- Tl dy county, who had found conceal- N ment in tlie house of Sunms, his uncle, w As the posse stormed the house tli Simms tired, killing Cargell. Sheriff ai High! left here this morning with a d< posse in two automobiles to continue ei the pursuit of Williams. c< Lynching Feared. 1,1 Tallahassee, Fla., Aug. 28.?Gov. s* Broward tonight ordered the Bloxham Rifles here to hold themselves in readiness for orders from Sheriff v< Ilopkins. Tt is feared that an at- 01 tempt will he made to lynch Cohen Simms, the negro who surrendered ^ here today after killing Marshal Car- -1 yell of Cairo, Ga. A mob is reported tonight to he mavching on Tallahassee to get the ' negro. The sheriff is expected back from the scene at any moment. The Unruly Office Boy. To evolve a scheme for the management of the olTice hoy would be no easy matter. It's a safe proposition, however, never to give more than two j' days' notice of discharge, writes * Montague Glass in Success Magazine, i, In that short period he may contrive (j to do more damage to yonr'Tifttc^ fur- ^ niture and injury to your credit and jgood will than can be repaired in a j*, year. An attorney in moderate practice, of the writer's acquaintance, in- . formed his boy that lie would dispense with his services at the end of i the week, and went to lunch, rather ^ i proud of his own temerity. He was * a married man. During his absence ? . the hoy discovered that electric light ' bulbs screwed in and out of their 11 > sockets, with corollary that when a !. bulb so removed fell to the floor it [ exploded in a most fascinating man- * [ ncr. ! Moreover, the impact of such a bulb v against the wall of the office build- i s iag opposite produced an explosion twice as intense as a mere dropping i, on the floor. A succession of them j ( sounded like a pistol fi?ht of frontier t, * da vs. v I he adjoining streets <rivw clogged u and traffic was suspended, while the i ! crowd waited for the bodies of the f victims to bo carried out. Instead ,i * the office boy appeared unruffled and v debonair, although none too gently t propelled by the attorney in moderate ? ? practice, a trifle breathless and red , . in the face. ' Many boys, however, are more lit- v era! than Hamlet's grav?digger: The n writer once entered an office occupied <: only by a small youngster, whose hair 1 j rose mistily above his broad collar I likw a cloud on Fujiyama. s "Is Mr. Smith in?" he was asked. ' "No, sir; lie is not. sir," lie re- ^ plied in a scared treble. "Do you expect him in soon?" "Xo, sir; I do not, sir." was the * answer. < p 1 We both remained silent. \ I'o iell you the truth, mister," lie < proffered, in a sudden burst of confi- I dence, "you have made a mistake. ; His office is next door." ( Tho "Dandy Horse." t The father of the bicycle tribe, the i ? "dandy horse," was invented in 1818 1 by Baron von Draise of Paris. Tt con- i . sisted of two wheels about thirty < r inches in diameter running one in the i > wake of the other and connected by < ) ' am <T wood, upon which, half i way from each end, was a saddle or < nerch. It was propelled by i kicking the ground with the right i - and left foot alternately. It was ) f from sueli a crude affair that tlnj modern bicye'.o was slowly evolved. ' I . ISTORICAL SKETCH CO. G., 13TH. S. C. ? ITH A ROLL OF THE OFFI CERS AND MEMBERS. nd Address By Dr. D. M. Orosao At Annual Reunion at Prosperity. rritten by J. F. I'. Crosson. The political campaign of 18(50 wn period of extraordinary excitomen lie election took place 011 the Oth c oveinher. And when that night tli ires flashed all over the Union tlu iq Republican ticket had trinmphc id that Abraham Lincoln was prcs Mil. tlu? feeling was intensified se1 el.v. This election was the sigiu >r action by the Secessionists, invention was called ant! South Ca ina passed the Ordinance of Seee 011 011 the 20th day >!' Deceinbe W>0, Jormally dissolving her conne on with the Union by a unanimoi jte. And the war seemed to be gatl ing its strength. The position taken by Presidei "rh.:ina:i thai neither he nor C01 less had any right lo coerce a sta ito submission was but a little oil ( e troubled surface. During the wi Union men desired, and, perhaji ied to (M.nipromise, as parties boi orth and South loved the Union . arlv that only sacrifices of strean f blood could satisfy their affection ? t>ec its dissolution, bill these effor 1'lie lo naught. When Lincoln was inaugurated, 0 rtrd by a military processii / I'U'.'i the X-ation's Capitol, ar \? :i! -very turn passed in its man t!:e White House, old CivMt. Wi SiftJT'U-. '' Th?"k ? ie trillion is safe vet. wa* an onv i?r blood-.-vhed casting its shadow !; i>re it. Lincoln's inaugural address deelu ig that 110 state could lawfully wit raw from the Union (though d vowing his intention to interfe fiith slavery in the south), proelaii d it would be his duty to hold, c npy and possess the places and pi ertv belonging to the federal gfi rnment in tiie south, that is. t oris, arsenals, etc., which had lie ei/.ed by I he Secessionists, was hallenge to war. The excitement ran very high a oluii'teer companies were formed a Irilled and then sent to availal M)ints. And when after a blood 1< ombardment rtf thirty-four I101 '"ort Sumter surrendered, it show hat the war had fairly begun a k-as uopn us, in all ils fury. At I lorth the stars an stripes were wr ng a-: from the govenrnient of Tic orts and a forest of rnast-heads on t loean. The call for thousands of v inteers was filled and hastened heir destination. A mob in Bal 11 ore attacked one of these compr es, and this was the first blood sli n the war. At the south the peo] rere fully as enthusiastic. The st; md the bars were fling lo the bre< >11 every hand, cheered and intensiii >y the presenting of flags by f lands and hurrahs for home, fire-si md native land. This excitement 1 ligli lill the flames even over-i liese stone hills and showed that he horrors of a civil war were ii| is, ami that it was (0 be 110 chih day. After several companies had bi 'ormed and had left the county flu vas still a call for more voluntec 'apt. Lester said, ''Boys, we v 'orm a company and I will go w rou." Soon co. "(}" was formed, )bl men told their sons Los would only lead I hem where hoi md duty called. They honored integrity and bravery then as world does today, and have never 1 reason to change, for Col. Lester >nly another name for chivalry, d ing, bravery and honor. His heart 11 ?r failed him at duty's call. The company was soon formed n officered and left Prosperity on With of August, 1801, for the camp nstruction at Lightwoodknot Sprii lear Columbia, and was there pla< in the 13th Hegiment, S. (.'. V.. un the brave Col, Edwards of Spart ; burg, S. C. After a short time they ! at i left the camp of instruction and went ill , i sea-coast, doing some picket sh I rtl"' Ji'nard duty. Several incidents l: happened here that would he delight- ai 1'u! to rehearse. al I hey lett the coast for the active i" =<? hi of the war in Virginia about the m last week in April, 1802, and after P< a short slay in Richmond went on to ti ft statioin near Fredericksburg, where of wo arrived about the 4th day of May, w ig w,u'? there was still frost on the , la,"l?and the memorable incident O happened of the guard (T. 1). K.) cc |(} waking the Colonels of two regiments w wade into the water to give him tho w (l countersign. Also, Lieut. Fellers and al wptad were taken prisoners on the out- fi J < -m. ( \ ery sick, that saved myself cm | from eapturc by letting F. Moss go li ^ 'M '"-v |dace.) lint a short time was ni r Allowed us to ivmain he-re before we I. s_ ?P the line of march back to- u wards Richmond. After several hard si 1 marchings, we camped on the Chick- n ahominy not far from Mechanics- v * ville. ami were held in readiness for a the seven days lighting around the w (Capitol of the Confederacy. Though i< in hearing distance, we did not got in r 'be battle ot Fair Oaks on the last o day of May. nor in that of (initios' t< Mils mi (lie 27th of dune, but were in n the engagement a! ('old llarbor on ii " the evening of (lie same day where tin- p Union Corps were diven from their v positions with heaw loss. ||lv; is. '''bis battle cut olV (Jon. M.: lellan's v ts supplies on the York River, forcing 1 him to seek a new Inise on ilie dames v >s- River, causing him to fi?bt the bat- 1 >n "f Savage Station on the 20th of " i?l Jpne. filendale on June :50th, and n i 7'ilvern Mill July 1st, which we. af- ' a hard march, reached just afler id | ?jjj''k and "gave a yell to let them ' pt, know that South Carolina was in", 1 ! but in t.he morning the enemy were ' all gone toward Harrison's Landing ' Lr on the James river. ( h- Soon after the seven days' fighl ' is- and MoClellan's retreat down the ' re James river, the Southern army ! ii- turned towards the Potomac and ic- perhaps Washington. Jackson lead- ! o- ing the head of the army attacked - *'en. Lanks at ( edar Mount am on lie August 0th, 1 S(>2, a->,l .,.,ied him. ' en <>L1 comrades will reniomber by the 1 a stampede at night. I (Jen. Lee was pressing heavily upon ml j Pope's army trying to reach Richnd mond lrom this side causing him to >le retreat northward from every posi ss lion. And soon followed the forced ! irsjmaches of Stonewall Jackson, which ed j resulted in one of the most bloody nd | battles of this campaign, Second he Manassas, near the old battle ground iv-[of Hull Run, on t.he 201 h and Mill of es, j August, 1S02. in which our company lie suffered severly. Indeed, Con. Pope's ol- army was defeated and reeled back to towards the Potomac and WashingIti-jton, but we kept up the line of march m- j to Ox Hill, or, as the aYnkees call il, ied | ( hantelly," where we had a short [>lo but bloody fight two days after the irs tight at'Second Manassas. T.he Yan?ze , kee Cenerals Kearney and Stevens led | were killed there. And no doubt our air men fired into us in the disorder of ide the fray. I do not remember any of an our number killed here, but some an were badly wounded. From this point all I our army pushed on to Frederick >on j ( ily, Md., across the river Potomac. 1 s, Then moved westward and crossed ' back again into Virginia. Then down en the Shenandoah river a few miles to t'lOi Harper's Ferry . the uarrison of rs. which. - 12.001) siroiig, with its nil j vast supplies were .-'it-rendered on the ith , morning of the 1 11, of September. for J 1^(12. All of you that were there reter | member the heavy cannonade over nor; us and the shouts as Con. A. P. Hill his, wen,t out to receive the white flag the j sent to him for terms of capitulation. iad | On the evening of 10th of SeptemisJ her, we crossed the Potomac again at ar-1 Shepherd's Town and were in the cv'j| battle of Sharpsburg and held that j flank whilst the great batle of Annul , tietam was fought on our left 17th of! the j September, when Oeti. Lee's army re-j of j crossed the Potomac on the next day. !}? * [ Our part of the army covered the re-' led j treat up the Shenandoah valley. Wo' rler J next confront the Union army after an- crossing the Mountains in and ound Fredericksburg, Va., under 11 10 command of Burnsides, whore a ' inuuinary Imttle was fomilit on the 5th of December, 18(52. The Union 'i my was do fen led with a loss of ' tout 11,000 men. Our company was this en?ra?rement and after the oney fell hack across the river held the (" Dsition around Frederickshurjr, un- s 1 sent for picket duty to Moss Nock 11 l the Hapahannock river, for t>ho * inter. f A'bout the end of January, 1803, * en. Burnside wjis relieved of his ^ >m ma ml of the Yankee army and " as superceded hy (Jen. Jno. [looker, ' ho moved his army about 20 miles 11 liove Fredericksburg: and thought by 1 kkiit**- a new route to Richmond to ' impel (Jen. Lee to tijrht in< the open 1 old away from the works he had ' ado in the winter. This forced (Jen. ' ee to naive the most of his forces p the rivor to moot him, which re- ! lito*l in the "Tcwl and bloody euyaire- ' lent around Ohancellorsville, the boa- 1 iest of which was fouuht on the 2d 1 nd :$d of May. '(>:}. In these battles 1 e inflicted a terrible loss on the Un- ' >n army and Hooker was forced to ' e-cross the Rappahannock oil the nth | I M'a.v. The North felt this disas- ' i'r very much, for Hooker's army was ' early double that ('on federal es and,! I was the fairest contest of actual j1 owers ol lli two armies duriny the I tar. The 1'nion loss was over 17,001)1( ill. wounded and missing, whilst ours fas comparatively lijrhler. It was in 1 hose battles that the famous Stone- 1 tall .Jackson was mortally wounded. 1 hrou.irh mistake, in the darkness by ' ne ol his own men. No doubt many >f you call lo mind the volley that in- ' lie ted this tearful loss on our cause. ' (Jen. I am; now recruited his army 'roin every source possible to 70.000, villi the object of earryinir the war nto the enemy's country. We aeeordnirly moved up I he river and made lemonstralion in that direction. Our olor-benrer ?ave me first notice of he disaster that was soon to follow m this march when the promise of he beauty an<l booty as our woitchtvord was echoed alon?r the line. The I'nion army fell back to Washington tvhere (icn. Meade succeeded to its oniinand. We crossed the Potomac lbove Harper's Ferry and pushed north np the Cumberland valley, tvliich .uavc us ihe grandest bat lie of j I be war, that of ( Jet lysbury, the lirst | ihree days of .July. Then we witness-1 "d the saendiyious and unsuccessful [ diaries of our men lo take the' heights the following two days. You j remember with horror Ihe havoc and' slaughter made on our company by i riue shell on their unsuccessful charge j lo take the height, the terrific ean-j nonadinjj: the hardships incurred on | Ihe trip. This was the first positive downward stop in the fate of the Confederacy. Our army was repulsed and lost about :i(),000 men killed ,.voutided and missinjr. The retreat was dreadful. The attack on fion. Heath's: Brigade and l*i??*lit around the barn, I tin1 perilions escapes from cavalrv attacks and a>miiuscadcs and the re-1 crossing of the Potomac at Falling! Water are incidents you are familiar ! with, and were, perhaps, the direct'| and most exhausti.iof t!ie war. } Our arinv retreated up the valley crossing the mountain and took posi-? tion on Ihe south side of ihe Rapida::. ; The northern anniy followed up and confronted us on the north side. In ' this situation the two armies remain-i ed for t bo remainder <>! V>'! without ' anything "I importance lo mar ' h" dull routine of camp life. In til-* iicyinni;m the csmnpaivM) "I ivti|, (icn. I . S. (Irani was made coinniander-in-chicl ?.l ;ill tin* I'nion armies. 11 left Sbeiman in charge of i lie western army and transferred his iioad<|iiai.ers to (die army of the Potomac, and superceded (ion. Meade iii command. Cntil the mouth of May Lee's army was still uuardim; the line of the Rnpidan. (irant's army crossed the Rapidan on May 4th, and met the Confederates in the stubborn bloody battle of the Wilderness. The combat lasted the greater part of three days, without decided victory on either side, flrant then tried his tfl.mk movement on Richmond, but Lee moved on and planted his army round SpotUdyvunia C. 11., behind arth works. You know the bloody sequel in tli*? l.uht ol (all day ami all night at bloody I>vMid. Again Loo tuuk hu land ait North Anna, and wo, bringt?g up t-ho rear, did not got into tho ngagement. A repetition of thisutne movement brought up both arlios on tho line ot the Chickahominy. lore Grant's army mot a decided remise in tho second battle of Cold iarbor. Ibis over-land oampaigu listed from the 1st of May, until the uiddlo of June, 18(54, and ended with ,IV s army in the strong entrenchnents around Richmond. This movenont on the'Uoulcdorale Capital cost ho Union army a groat sacrifice o? nen over (50,000-but with all our iardships, wo di,l not lose one third d' that number. Having failed so nr. the \ ankee general tluvw his "ices against Petersburg (?? capture I before too strongly fortified. We cached the city on tho 1 Sth of June, 8(54, during the assault which was epuksed, and both armies sal down or a long protracted siege, which a 'ted from Juno. 18(5-1, to April, lS(5f>. hiring (his time, several severe and mportant battles and skirmishes ook place. The singular and trenendoiis "mine." charged with an immense <|ua111ity ol' powder, was ! irod and exploded on the ;i()lh day >1 -July, 18(5-1. which carried tin? earthworks into I he air and killed and buicd ami mangled many men. A stormin?' column then advanced to press hromjh to Pele'*burg, but were driv'n back with great slaughter. TIumo wore several skirmishes and lights? I hat of Jones' farm, where we captured caisson and horse?during tho period to stop foraying parties and cavalry raids, though not attended with so much blood shod, were horrid scenes of privation, suffering from cold and hard marching, but was attended by only one gratifying scenc, and that was the capture of ;},f)00 of the enemy's hooves driven into our linos and rationed out to our men. | I he military situation at t.he open* ing of the campaign of 18(5.") was gloomy indeed? simjiy d< Operate, The men were worn out and diminished with the I at igiies and causalities "1 'I piot i acted scige and no source for recruiting the army, which the enemy were doing daily in immense numbers. The only formidable army of the south now consisted of Lee's veterans still lying behind the earthen parapets around Petersburg and Richmond. I hi> army was reduced lo 1,-ss than -10,000. whiht the enemy had been recruited to over an 100,000 strong, fresh troops from nearly every quarter of the globe. On the 2f,th of March, (leu. Lo.! captured Fort Steadmaii, but our men were soon driven from out of it. On April 1st. I SO."), General Sheridan and Warren assailed our right flank and defeated our forces at Kivo Porks. An attack was then made along the whole line in front of Pete:\-burg ?'!i the 2nd of April. The line was carried at several points and during the night (ion. Lee abandoned Petersburg and Richmond. I will always : T 'mber the flurry along the '>; *.i-t-works and will feel it more keenly. perhaps, for being placed on vidette between two lines of sharpYou remember the retreat and mute of the morning of the 3d of! April, '(if), end the li-.-ht at the South Side Railroad the -amo evening: also the slamt'i-i!-. from there and the ! ' aier-i on ih.> A pponiat i<>\, and ' danyei- a:.(I privat i * > r i - ni< 'hat, eomor.-rV retreat. (Jen. I.e.- with a ' r i'-tnred ami dem<>i :ilied iirmv retreated westw,"?'i|, a.ul a hot pursuit wa> bey mi I '.i.-iet victorious forces. Several partial engagement< were 1 fought during this long race. At last, ihe Confederate armv win ) completely surix>undcd- at Appom&tI ' H-. whore (I 'ii. Leo snrrenderj c.l on the f)th of April, IS(?.*>. We v!'i"!:->i' < ir a'lns on the line of ' '"' " 'he 12t.li dav of April, and -'aried homeward that | vening with hopeful, but. sad I heart-; for "our cause" was ! ?sl? (Continued on Page 'A.)