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VOL XLV NO, <14 NEWBERRY. S. O.. TUESDAY. AUGUST 11. 1908 TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR TAYLOR FOUND GUILTY. / Young Parricide Found Guilty of Manslaughter?Sentenced to Seven Years. I Simon Taylor, the young white man who last year killed his father in Hie lower section of Saluda county and whose trial occupied Thursday and Kridav of this week, was found guilty of manslaughter with recommendation to mercy. The jury was. out a comparatively short lime. ! Judge DeVore sentenced Taylor to k seven years' hard labor, either on the I chaingang or in the State penitenh tiary. No motion for a new trial was I made and it is not likely that appeal J will be taken. INDICTED AFTER A DECADE. 1 White Man in Saluda Accused of Killing Negro Ten Years Saluda, August 8.?Quite a sensation has been sprung in this county by the solicitor handing out an indictment charging Pope H. Ilavird, J while, with murder, anil the grand jury returning a true bill, t Some ten years ago a negro named Tom Scurry, living with Ilavird, very suddenly and very mysteriously disappeared and he has never been seen or heard of since. Recently a rumor gained currency that Ilavird split Scurry's head open with an axe while they were splitting rails, and covered the body with brush and logs and burned it. This rumor, coining to it lie ears of Solicitor Timmcrman, caused him to make an investigation on the quiet, with the result that he was satisfied that there was enough out an indictment for murder, and the grand jury evidently think there in the report to justify him in handing trial of the case. A bench warrant has been issued for Ilavird and he is expected to be apprehended at once. 11 seems thai several now claim t<\ have known of Ilavird's killing the negro at the time it was done, but they have kept it a secret all these years, until recently, when there was a falling out among them, and Ilavird and the parlies who say they have known of the murder all the time began to whisper it to first cue and then to another, until the report gained general circulation. The reason they assign for TTavird's killing the negro is '!>:;! ITavird's ))., ?! was burned j;?id hr> charred Scurry with it. and. getting a good chance, put him out of 1i.>; v*a*. for doing it. Ilavird is the young white man who was shot a few years ago by John Yp.rbrough in such a manner as that one of his arms had to be amputated. CAMDEN FIRE CASE DECIDED. Judge Gary Renders an Important Opinion As To Supplying Companies. Columbia, August fi.-?Judge Ernest Gary has just rendered a most important decision along new lines. There are several cities in the Slate where the water supply is furnished by sep' arale and private corporations. The contracts in the various cities may I differ, and in that way there may be [? a difference between the case jusl decided and the legal stains in oilier cities. Judge Gary has rendered a decision that a private (itizen may sue a water supplying company for not having a proper water supply in case of fire. 1 Judge Gary, in his opinion, stales that this view of the liability of the corporation to the individual citizen is new, and not usual, but the issue appears lo be new in this Stale and may eventually have lo go through the supreme court. Dickert Sligh. Married July ">, 1008. at 7.00 p. m., at the Newberry circuit parsony age, Mr. Yancv Dickert and Miss Annie Sligh. liev. A. 11. P>est officiating. 1. . REPORT OF CROP CONDITION. Bui can of Statistics of Agricultur; Department Issues a Bulletin Concerning Farming Situation. Y\ ashington, Aug. 7.?The crop r< porting hoard of 1 In* bureau of sts tisties of (lie depart men! of agricu line in a bill lei in issued today show thai (lie condition of corn on An; 1 was 82..") per cent, of a normal, ; compared with 82.8 last month, 82, on An?. 1, 1007, and 815.1, the 1< year average on An jr. I. The eond lion in the Southern Stales was: 1008 .10-year T('vas 78 "?8 Ceorgia K<) 8(? Kentucky 8.{ 8") Tennessee 81 84 Alabama 87 81 North Carolina .. . .!)| 87 Arkansas 7!) Mississippi 8(? 80 South Atlantic .. ..8!) 8(i. Democratic Campaign Committee. Chairman Norman E. Mack, of tl Democratic national committee, ai nounccd the appointment of a finam committee for the Democratic can paigu with Closes C. Wet more, of H Louis, as chairman, and John V). 0 borne, of Wyoming. as vice cliairma and a speakers' committee with Jol II. At wood, of Kansas, as chairma and (. Iiamp ( lark, of Missouri, i \ ice chairman. The finance commi tec is made up of 20 members ai the speakers' committee is composc of 27 members. Announcement was also made 1 Chairman Mack Hint Senator Cha A. Culberson, of Texas, had been a] pointed lo succeed David R. Franci of Missouri, as ebainnan of the a< visory committee. Tn making know (lie change Mr. Mack Said: I "Former Governor Francis's a ceptance of a place on the commitfi ( was "sured. 1 did not anticipa ,111a! lie '?mplalcd a stay of at length abroad, but wired him. I j answers that he will be absent : much of the campaign that lie ongl ! not to be chairman, but would 1 jplrased lo be a member of the con | 'lilt lee. Senator Culberson was askc to accept the chairmanship and In accepted." Win. J. Connors, chairman of II Democratic Stale committee, called meeting ol (lie State committee i meet in New York city on August 1 to name the time and pi,ice of tl Democratic State convention. BROKE HIS SON'S BACK. Report Reaches Lake City of a Tr: gedy in Florence County. Lake City, August fi.?News read ed Lake City this afternoon of most deplorable tragedy, which o currcd in I he ITyman section of Flo encc county yesterday afternoon lnr Details are meagre, but it seen that Thomas Summerford, a whi man, living just a few miles froi ITyman, attended the campaign nice ing at ITyman yesterday, and in tl afternoon loaded ullp on booze ar went home and promptly raised row in his family. In the cxcitemei he picked up one of his little bo\ and thrust him against the hanisli with such force that il broke II child s back, from which injury I died in a very few minutes. Tl seen from all reports that Summerford a \erv quiet and peaceable man whe not under (lie influence of whiske which makes the ca.se all the inoi sad. | STRIKING MINERS FIRE INTO TRAI I " j Three Killed and Eleven Injured 1: Fusilade?Situation Consideri ed Grave. I Birmingham, Ala.. An sr. ft. Thn jmcM were instantlv killed and 11 ii .inrod. two of whom will probably di when striking miners fired on a pa sensor train on the Rirmiiuiham Mil oral railroad at Rioelon this mori.ii aboit 2 o'clock. Tli.. dead: Co;;ductor .Toe T. C.dli.w O. ' J Dent, deputy sheriff; Willitrd II,.v Jell, non-union miner. DR. JULIUS D. DREHER. | il Consul to Tahiti is Coining to Sclwood on a Visit. Columbia Stale. 3- It will be of iutorest to the* relai live*s and friends of Dr. and Mrs. Ju1 lius I). Drelie*r to know that they s landed at San Fraeiseo from Tahiti, lt. Society Island, last Friday. They arc j is now at the home of Mrs. Droller al j .8 Seranton, Fa., but in a few days Dr. )- Drohor will leave for Washington, i- then for Selwood, Lexington county, the home of his mother. Later Mrs. s. Dreher will follow him. It will be recalled thai Dr. Drohor was appointed Tinted Slates consul to Tahiti two years ago. lie has been there in the service of the govrontuonl over since and Ihis is his first leave of absiico. I oday Mr. William ('. Dreher and family, consisting of Mrs. Dreher j 1 and William Chase, their little son. will land at New ork from Berlin, ficrmany, where Mr. Dreher is conto. nee!od with the Associated Fross 1- and is the regular correspondent e several important papers and magaii zincs. '! A\ bile Mrs. Drohor is on a visit to her people in Boston, Mr. Dreher "? will work in the olfice of the AssociaI" ted Press for a few weeks when his b wife will rejoin him and together they will go to Selwood. It has been t- five years sine? they were at home. '<1 Later in the summer ' re will b* a familv reunion of 1!? f.im'ly of Mrs. Martha r\ Dreh.*: at Sol wood >.v and -ill of her eight sons will be s* present, anions.' them being SeuerinP" dentent F. S. Dreher of ihis ciry. s? Mrs. Drohor is now 8.") yoiir* .11 and has been ill for several months, but 'n is bettor now. To the Cotton Planters. f0 The following address has, been is1V sued bv President H. lljVYris. of the l(. Sonth Carolina State Farmers' unMt ;<;n: I'o 1 lohlers of Spot Cotton: h> Xow is the time (<> hold, and vicl??rv is vonrs. Farmers, do vom realize thai cotton is scarcer in the ls world lodav than it has been for years? II yon do not, the sooner von realize il I lie more yon will think of n the spots you have on hand, end I lie |o crops yon are growing. Xow roniem14 ber thai il all depends on von to l0 make il bring the minimum price, 1."? I cents. (| yon can be seared out of your cotton for less than the minimum price 1 do not blame the fellow for scaring von. I would do tlx* same thing if I were in his place, ! but you, the holder of spot cotton, ! have all under hold in this fight, and j I it you give up it is because you have ~ not the nerve to stand the fire of the battle. Lol me say to you. I he holder spots; Hold lo them, for the next y two months is (he most critical period, as both the American spinner [c ""d (ho European spinner are about out of cotton to spin. If you. (he holder of spots, will not sell, there 1C will be many mills that will inivo In ^ close down and not from choice, bill for the want of cotton. Conditions ' are all in your favor, but nerve the back-bone you lack. Xow do not say! ^ yon cannot hold. We have plenty j 10. bonded ware-houses in our Stale and you can pul your col Ion in them j and borrow money on your receipt. J is Let me urge you to do Ihis, and not put -inv cotton on Ihe market until I lie minimum is readier*. (> Let me tell you the Furopcan >nill< 1 are now out <>l cotton ami lliev have contracts sold ahead. They have to conic to America lor cotton rind thev j ^ will have to do lliis now at once. This i is (he situation, so no cause for alarm. ,y I know Ihe bear side of cotton is using the new crop lo bear the market so they may gel yon to sell Ihe remainder of your old crop. The price will now soon go up back to F2 conls, i~ and they think.you will then sell, e. 1 know some of von have said if it s- reaches 12 you would sell. Now the ii- same thing that brines it back to 12! g will of you hold on make it bring the minimum, l"> cents. Now as to (lie conditions of (he I v- 1!)0.S crop. 1 have correspondence from every cotton growing State. There cannot bo a more accurate ae- j count 111 a11 we, tlie Farmers' Union, can got ii|? and reports from nil the States are ol" lliis character. In the first place, too much wet weather in the early sprint; ami there was a poor prcpartion ol' the soil. When the proportion is poorly done yon cannot make an average crop. The rains west of (he Mississippi river continued until July 1st, and the cotton grew to weed loo much and is not fruited well. Now the hot dry weal her has sel in with them and much damage is beinj; done. In other words it is impossible for the West to make anything like an average crop when I hoy have a wet May and June. Such weather fills the cotton plant with too much malaria and it", cannot stand the hot sun without great damage. To prove this look ii"w the plan! is now turning yellow and taeleli vordcs.ll Ju..jl?(!JtV land the leaves dropping front it. This report comes front many of the I States. cauuol now more lhan duplicate the 1007 crop, and rometn ber the shortage of last year's crop 4,000.000 bales, and just remember cotton futures cannot be spun. R. Harris, President, S. C\ State Farmer's Union. J News From St. Paul, i St. Paul, Aug. 10.--T am reipiested jto say that there will ho a picnic at I St. Paul church on Friday, August N. 'lliis picnic is got up by I he good ladies of the nissionary society. Ke- I freshmenls will be served on the grounds and the proceeds will go to the missionary society. There will | be some one present to lecture on ! missions. Everybody come and bring with them well-filled baskets and enjoy the day and help these good ladies along with the good work in which they are engaged. Mr. Kugene Bu/hardt ami brother, of Xi-wiv-ny. visited Mr N. 11. Ki'oler last week. Miss Kuuico llallacre, of Ncwber'".v \ Mrs. I.lla IL d'-inbaugh and family. Miss S.illu* Sligh, of 1 nion, i-* visiting her uncle the l?ev. .). A. Sli-jli. Mr i'ole i s>'. one of t' ( . .iteniiii-;. . gir rds of Columbia. js visitini; Mrs. : Klla Iiodcubaugh and familv. Miss Martha .lohnstoiie, of Newberry, is visit in-; Mrs. Kiln liedeubaugli and family. Miss Mary Willis, of Prosperity, visited her school male. Miss Ula Kay Sligh. last week; Miss Lola Folk, ??f Denmark, is visiting Mrs. Klla Modonhaugli and famih. M (' I-- Sligh, of Columbia, is \;s!i ig Mrs. KMa Bef.hauuh's. Mr. W. L. Kibler is spendiie/ this week with Mr. Kugene Ruzhardl, of Newberry, Miss Km ma Wert.-., of Newberry, is visit if* Mr. M. F. Counts, family. She will spend sometime in the Fork section, visiting her ex-school pi -pi is. Mrs. Lizzie Boinest is visit In:; her daughter, Mrs. E. O. Counts, of Pros, pei it v, t his week. I he singing class which meets at St. Paul every second and fourth S. :ulay evenings, is re?|u^?te>] (<> meet ne\i Sunday moriiim; ai !) o'clock , before service begins. Let me say again that we meet evei v second and | !onrt h Sunday evening*-Mr. .L ilipp has moved his nieinI bership to St. Paul and will meet with a.- and lead the singing ev.rx lime it ! be jMKsible for him to do so. Mr. ami Mrs. .1. F. iiichnrd><>n, and (Mr. and Mrs. 15. B. Kichardson. will *_ < to Stomp Springs Wedner-day for a lew weeks for their healtii. It. SPECIAL EXCURSION RATES. Ciicatly reduced tares will be in effect between all points on the Southern railway on account Fourth limit July 8fh. 100S. July celebrations. Tickets will be on sale July 2nd. .'bd ami 1th. with final limit July, 8th, 1 DOS. I or details, rates, etc., apply to} Southern Kaihvav Agents or J. C. Lu?k. I )ivison Passamjer Agent. Charleston, S. C. ! J. L. Meek. j Asst. (Jon. Pass. Agent, J Atlanta, Ga. The Farmers' The Work i ADDRESSES TO THE NEWBERRY FARMERS I DELIVERED IN OLD COURT HOUSE SATURDAY. President Harris, of State Farmers' Union, Anil Mr. G. M. D/ivis, 01' Georgia. Address's in the interest of the work i>l I lie Farmers' union of Newberry county wi?re made in ilie old eonrl house on Saturday by Mr. (5. M. Davis, of Marietta, (la., and Presidenl i5. Harris, of I lie Stale Farmers' union. Mr. Davis is now in charge t?f I lie agricultural demonstration work being eondneted in the Stale of tloorgia hv the Failed Stales government. liofore entering upon lliis demonstration work he was for three years Slate leetnrer in Georgia for I he Farmers' union. President Harris and Mr. Davis have made addresses in several connlies in South Carolina along the lines of |i:eir addresses here on Saturday, and I hey will visit other towns and eilies in the State. The meeting in the eonrl house was not largely attended. The addresses were good. President \Y. ('. Brown, of the eonntv union, presided. Mr. Davis was (lie first speaker. He spoke for nearly an hour, and he held the elose attention of everybody present during every minute of his address. He is an attractive and forceful speaker, and if lie should come to Newberry again he would have a much larger audience. lie said that he had come for the purpose of making an effort lo encourage lh<> fanners in organization. If a little lore ginger was put in the union movement, lie said, there would be no seciinii of South Carolina unorganized this time next year. During 1 he period o!' its existence the organization had done remarkably well. I'ho-e who had 11 I .joined, who measured np to the standard set for membership. ought to belong. "Its success means your success," he urged, lie said the union ought lo put two or three good men in the field, goii)from community lo community, celling (lie farmers together and instruct ing them in I ho principles of the union, lie told of the history of the union in his county in Cle.orgia? how it began with his local union, whose membership numbered fifteen, and how the organization had grown until in his county lliere wore thirtytwo local unions and 1.800 members. "If you will go I one or two or three good men, going from community to community, talking the thing up, in season and out of season," he said, "you will arouse an interest you have never had before." Mr. Davis dealt with some of the more important things in which the union was interested. It had started in Texas when (ireshain organized! the first local union among his neighbors. Others heard of it and sent | for him to come and organize them. | Wherever he went he left a union, rin< 1 from that beginning the move-; aient had spread all over the Southern Stall's. When the union was horn co* ton was selling at seven cent - a pound. 1'ill one pur- * . o-c wa- uppermost in the minds i f its originators lo get a reasonable pr.i for their copon And thai 1o'ay was the chiefest subject with I ho | union. The South produced practically the whole cotton crop of the world. Kngland and continental Kurope had spent millions in seeking a new source of supply, but had failed . to find it. The South had a moiiopolv of col ton production, but conditions had come about which had pt-aclically taken the pricing of cot- j ton out of the hands of the Southern p' .tph . The union wanted to elimi- I rale some of these conditions, and get the fixing of 11 io price of cotton right here at home. Thai was one feature and one of the main features ( I Union and t Has in View i>!' the organization. How was that result to be accomplished? When he said hold cotton a Clinic would spread over the faces of the farmers, ho said. Ho attacked the credit system as having* as much as anything else |o do with the inability of | lie farmer to hold cotton. "Stop extravagant buying, and if need he, live on sorgum and molasses lor a year and get out of debt, and then you won't have |?. ?rive anv liens," he urged. "Co |o raising more corn. Cut down the acreago von put in cotton, and by rotation of ''tops and practical, systematic culture. make on the same area of land, where yon have been making a half bale, a whole bale of cotton. In o| hei words, cut your cotton acreago halt in two?it is not necessary to cut your production half in two by doing so -and put the other half in corn. I)o this and stop extravagant purchasing and you will got out of debt.'' These were things, he said, the uni<?n was Irving to accomplish through its medium of education. Mr. Davis said there were ten new counties in (icorgia which he had been through, and in every one of them new court houses had either been erected or were in process of consi ruction. and in not one of them would the court house and jail cost loss than ff,0,000. ]|,, ,0 soft good public buildings. They worn indications that the people wore public spirited. Hut he had gone out in the county and seen tumble-down school houses that were not worth * >0. II we put more money in school houses and secured better teachers, he said, the counlrv would be better Off. Mr. Davis said lie had nothing lo say about the present system of education. but we were spending a good deal o| money in scientific agricultural education that didn't amount lo mui'h. We needed a readjustment of our educational system so as to leach the boys and girl* how lo do things, as well as how to think. The per capita deposit of the Iowa farmers in the Iowa banks was $1,200. If one went to Iowa he w ould see I lie girls sitting on I lie bind >r-'. with glo\v> on t heir hands an I an umbrella i l.eiu. driving lnv?e m:inifiho , ami I he m.i>'eal click of Hie binder Would he heard as it eut l-wii Ih . -olden grain If one went I I heir homes, these same girls could idk oil any subject, an I could show .' 'on lli.'.r college < 1 i p I : i n .* -. ?i cal education had been joined with leaching the boys ami t he ..'iris how lo do things. The hoys and giils of this country needed to be taught how lo I hi nk, and they needed at tho same time to be taught how to farm, and how to raise chickens, and howto make butter. Mr. Davis said five per cent, of tho bo s who went from the countify to Hie towns succeeded. Ninety-five per cent, failed, lie wanted lo see rural society made just as enticing as the society of the towns, and then ho. wanted the education of the children o| larmers in include teaching them how to .1.. t him:- ou the farm. It. might not a Iu ay- be uecesvarv for a "i:m to work with his hands, liul they needed to know how to do things on " e lariii. No man needed more ed'ion than the farmers, becau-e in hi-- mlerci.ur-e wit h nalur he touched I he entire range of ? ienec. ffe ou'.rhl to be a chemist ; he ought to k-io-.v geology; lie ought to he a bolans-l ?,|i-d he ought to be the best in'* 1 "'Cf! man in the world on these subjects. The best fertiliser a man ever ploughed into his field was brains. The average yield of corn pei act e in Iowa when the campaign legan to teach the people the beef. ufMiods of corn rai-inr w.a ? or/} bi-hel- per acre. In 1007 f j,,. *-,-ers'.ge 1 :eld v* a - 17.0 bushels t?. racre. Mr. I'.ivi- compared two vichK of col Ion " Georgia, 180 yards apart?where '"? land v. a - the same, and the same aiv.unt of fertilizer- used. Tie said