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VP r~..< VOL)I. XlII. - - N \t{;1 S, (' I W 1)NI; I)AY ' SEPTEMB IIER 9 --NO 10 HUNG FOR FORGERY. CELEBRATED CASE IN SOU-H CARO LINA SEVENTY YEARS AGO. The Story of Al. x Moore- I la C ime, Tri al, Corvic'lor, SertEnce and Fx cutlox in Marion County-Prominent Men En gaged :h= the Legal Battle. About seventy years ago there came to Marion ayoug Irishman named Al e xander,Moore. a man of some accuire. ments, but was supposed t^ be disso lute and intemperate. He settled down as a school tee cer in the com munity now known as Hymarsville. e smali hamlet in what is now Fiorence co unty. but thei: a part of th-e territory of Marion. In this community lived Messrs Josiah R Harrell. Wm Fryer, Henry Culpepper. Larry Cain and Al tx ander Campbell. All of these were well to do farmers, and had employed Moore as a teacher. There was no trouble until the sum mer of 1830, when Moore, it is sup posed, demanded a settlement for his service. For some unexplained reason he was not paid the money due, and tc recoup himself be uttered a series of forgeries. The first was mace on the 10th of July, and until the 16th there were uttered and published nine coun terfeit notes purportirg to be drawn by the parties above name d. One each of the Fryer, Harrell and Culpepper counterfeit notes were pass ed to William Hannah. The ecuater feitnotes of Campte!l and Cain and one of the Harrell counterfeits were transferred to Godbold ard Harring ton, one counterfeit to Charles McKay, one to Thomas Evans and one tc Scrunton, three of the assignees being merchants of Marion. Hannah and Fryer came to Marion, and on the 1S.h of July they swore out a warrant before J C Beliuie, a justice of the qaorum by Hannah on the nothes traced to him and F;yer for two notes forged as to his signature. Moore being then in Marion at the boarding house of J H Allison, he was arrested by the Sheriff and placed in prison. At the O.tober term of the court of sessions for Marion cnu-nty, the solici tor gave cut four indictments against Moore. The grand j ry, of which Jas. McPnerson was foreman, fcund true bills on all of the four indictments. He was tried for counterfeiting the notes of William Fryer. The other cases were continued. The first case resulted in a verdict of not guilty, and he was then immediately placed on trial on the second indictment. The scene wes impressive. A for eigner away from I iadred and friends to rely only for aid upon strangers, arraigned for an c ffence wholly inad adequate to the punishment of deatn, a prosecution pressed by men who justly owed the debts for which the notes were counterfeited and as there was no doubt that he commited the crime, for which he was about to climb the bitter stairs of-despair, it was no wonder that the spectators looked upon him with pity and compassion Tbere.was too, a strong display of le gal talent. The jadge, already distin guisbed as an hole jurist, a man of dignified presence, was David John son, subsequently on the chancery beech and governor cf the State. The solicitor was Sohn May rant, an able lawyer of the Sumter bar. The coun sel for the defence, who, it is thought, gave their service gratuitously, were Col. C. D Dudly, a man remarkable for the care he be,towed upon the preparation of his cases, and David R Mitenell, a mnembtr of cong ras, able and eloquent who had no superior on the northern circuit as a jury lawyer. He was arraigned for nis crime in the impressive formulas of the court, and plead not guilty. The jury was formed for the trial, and consisted of the following persons: John D. Johnes, foreman; Willis Finklea, Jesse Proctor, Noah R igers, John Rass, William Baker, Alexander Mc Rae, Job Smith, Jobn R-ce, Neibi Mc~ormac, Hugh Cjurttnay and Thomas Page. They brought in a verdict of guilty, and a mnemcrandum written on the margin cf a leaf of the court j ournal tells his fate: ".12 Nov., 1830, at about tbe hour of 12, the prisoner was execauted by S. Bingham, sheriff." The trial of Moore and his sentence excited a very deep interest among the villagers and the people of the surrounding country. They busied themselves in getting up petitions foi pardon, to be transmitted to the gover ~nor at that time, Hon. Stephen D. Mil ler, but otstacles arcse from the con duct of Moore. He had made threats against D. kR. Wi)iams, thle ferme> gcvernor, and the common peopl4 were under the impression that Gover nor Williams indiucedi Governor Mit chell to re.fuse tbe pardon. Whet these means failed there was an i-t tempt to rescue him from prison The f ree masons either em plop ed some~ of their own number er other p arson: outside the order to c ff~r a bribe to the guard, whicn consisted, at the time o the attempt, of Allen Hall and Jame: Lambert, two of the privates of cavalry comnpany detailed for- iat pur pose. Moore, after his conviction, ha< been placedI in irons and chained t< the fboor of his cell in trison. Hal was found su~ceptible, arnd agreed t< assist a party of men in making th4 attempt of liberating Moore, who wa; a brother of the order. Accordingly choosina- their opportunity. then penetrated the prison by the ai< of Hall and had actually succeeded ir freeing him from his irons and hla< conducte.i him to the lower flbor, an< to the front door, when they encoun tered Limbert, a very strong an< determined man. Here an altercati-mn ensued bat weer Limbert and the rescuers, and it wau soon perceived tuat force had to be used to accomplish their purpose, foi Limbert had refused to let the part3 go out of the prison. A crisis wa: reached, which was broken by Moore who positively re'used to go out b3 violence. Whether his refusal wa: dictated by fear of personal harm, oi from a n'obe, chtivalaic courage, wor thy of a Ba3 ard, to save harwhss ha~ friends cr the life of Lambert, tht result was that he was kfc to hi: doom-a doom hsrd to realize in a civ iliz ed country-consigned himn to a fel on's death, a victim to Draconian lav that had descended to us from thi middle ages. Ahateful cornservatLsm has alway beei the bane of our people. We d Riot doen our minds to tile law of pro gress, 'pnd so this law remained in ou statute'xoks ior fifteen y ears af te this event. '~ & 8 the legislat ar broke the shackles of;the law by tak ngaway the death c nalty, and forg ing is no .unsedb fine and imn prisnment. aitheuch still classed by a decision of our court, as It lony. Moore bote his fate with heroic cour age, and at is execution addressed th assembly of spe ctat'rs with wanly centimerts. It is related th-at at the last mcment he requested Hall, the same man concerned in the attemptsd escape, to adjust the fatal cap. He was hung near 5f rot on the pres ent site of the court Ituse, tee south. ern end of which wcu!d have been equi distant from the old c >urt house and the prison, and a grave was the-e dun to receive his remains, but obj-c tion being made, his body was carri-d to a field belonging to the late .. L Scarborough. east of the town, and there interred. The muses dwelt within the pre cincts of the court at that period and i':spired the assistant clerk to embroi der his j )urnal with the following verses fouud in the court journal for October term, 1S33: "November the 12th bout the hour of one. By the sheritffof Marion execution was done. On the body of Moore-unfortunate Moore Who has landed, long since, on eternity's shore. le died, it is true, by the hands of the state. A law most severe, most severe was his fate. Years will round and time will efface The sympathy strong, which was felt in his case. But no law can redress, time cannot restore Salvation, if lost by the unfortunate Moore. "Oh, how much depends on lite's brittle thread, Etercal are things that relate to the dead." Marion Star. Won'. Baul Origtnal PNckages I he Florida Central and Peninsular railroad has j ined the other roads in their refusal to baul uncised bottles of whiskey for "o p." stores. The circalar to this effect was obtainable for the first time Tu'slay. It reads: To Agents and Conrections: Please refer to circular C. . , No 469, effective August 28 b, 1397, and be advised that notice is hereby given that on and after September 20.1, 1897. shipments of spiritous or malt liquors, when not packed in cases or casks, will not be accepted by this comp any for transportation. Issued Sepember IS:h, 1S97, by W. H Pleasants, C. F. A. Effctive September 23th, 1597. N, S Pennington, Traffic Manager. The Colutabia State says the Florida Central and Peninsular was one of the few roads in the State that was expected to haul gocds for the "o. p." people. It has been freely talked that the Southern and Coast Line only re fusea to haul goods loose in box cars for fear of lesng the business of the dispensary. The Florida Central and Peninsular can have no such fe as, for it gets few it any of the dispensary shipments. It has been said that the only influence the State has over the railroads is the fact that no papers can relieve a road of liabilities fcr damage to goods it handles The "o. p." pea ple assert that the State has some mys terious power ov r the roads which it is using to compel them to cease hand ling their goods I- has geen charged that the State has threatened the roads with costly litigations unless they ha rassed the original package business. The goods can still be sent if each bot tle is packed separately in a wooden box. Convicts in Cotton Fields. All the available convict labor from the penitentiary at Raleigh has bt en sent to the three state armns, say s a Weldon dispatch The convicts brought to the state farm near thi~ city are to ass'st in pickiog out the cotton, over 50,000 acres of which the state has under cultivatio-1 on this one farm alone. A btut 1 000) con vic~s will be at woi k in tue white fivlds at this farm, and the state expects to harvest o"nr 25,000 bales of the staple, as the river bottom land on the Ranche is above the average in cotton producing in this state. On the farms o wnred and worked by the state over 2.000O con victs are errp!oyed at present. Unlike Georgia and some other Southern States, North Carolina does not let out its convicts to private persons or cororations. They are uniformly well treated-so well treated, in fac', tbat in several cases e x convic's have com mitted some crime t> get back-. Such a case occurred last week, and when the culprit (who stole a hammer or some article which- constituted petty larceny cnl3) was sentenced to the county chain-gang for thirty days, instead of to the penitentiary for three to five years, as he expected, he ex pressed his disappointment. Good for Man and Beast. The prevalence of hog cholera has recently been traced by Dr Wyman, of Ciemson College, South Carolina, to arnimals being forced to drink stag nant water In proof of this the Char leston News and Courier adds: "We have been informed by Mr. A. S. E n erson, of Charleston, who has a farm at Chicora, in Berkeley county, that he has tested this question thoroughly and has fully establishe d the fact that good drinking water insures the health of his stock. It is well known that -unacclimated' cattle usually sicken and die when brought into the io-v country and some other par:s of the state and tu-ned out to range. Mr. E nerson has imported a number of fine stock from tne northern sta'es and has kept them in perfect health year after year by simply confining them .o ranges where they cutd get no surface water to drink and supply ing them with water from the artesian well on his farm. His observati n is that cows and hortes are as liable as human beings to malarial fever or country fever, sa:1 that the cause is the same in all em es-ti~e drin k .ng of foul water - Bimetalem int Eogiand. A dispatch from Londoa says a high British official, who was a par tcipent in the negotiatious b t ween the United States bimiti lia comnmis sioners and the B:itish cabinet, said today to a representative of the Asso ciated Press: "I fear the bankers will frighten the geveruin eat iato reced ing from their stand for bi'netallisn IThey have forgottn that parliament u'animously resolved measures to se care a stabe par of excaange bet een gold and silver, and Sir Tiehael icks Beach, the chancellor of the exche quer, pledged himself to di all in his power to carry the resolution into ef feet, The English public have for gotten also that ten of the fourteen memters of the agricultural cammis sion signed a repor: recommending bmetali sm as a pailistice for the ag ricultural depreeni~ in England. Tne puolic and the nesapers seem to think the govern.ment is initenced merely by csire to secure the good will of the United States, when it is attempting to carry out the declared nn- poicnf parliament." EU N TIHE RA1ILRO.1 D. '^I3INA'. PACKAGE ISSUE IN COU AT A ilANTA. The S cthern Rail',-.. ketoses to Haul BtuthethAlx \ t !ckarte Lig-ior-The Firm reeky to C. myp 31 it to do so. Tilllmar/s wii clv celebrated South Carolina dispensary law inured in a vwry important h'-ring before J dge Newman of the United States circuit court in Atlanta on Tutsdav. The hear ing was on a bill brought by Biuthenth al , Bickart, thro"$h their attorneys, Glenn, Siation & Pnillips, to compel the Soutbern railroad to bring whiskey into South Carclina. The bill prayed that Judge Newman grant an order forcing toe road t. carry the whiskey as regu!sr f :ight. Conspiracy or col hision was charged asaimst Governor E:lrbe of South Carolina and Tratffic Manager OuQ o' the Southern road in the bill )f 1t plaintitis. Attorney General b. rb r>f this State was there to represent and defend the governor. Judge Newma declined to grant any orderin the case at present, but tock the matter under co nsideration. Olginal packages were the immedi ate cause of the trouble which Judge Newman was cal'ed upon to at j ist. Since Judge Simcnton's original package d:cision, liquor dealers in Atlanta r av<, been shipping great quantities of whiskey to South Car.> lina. housing it in stores and disposing of it in original packages The Scuth era railroad has been hauling this freight, buton Sept 16. it issued an or derdec icio freight not picked secure ly encugh to prevent damage from brea-ace and x:ct packed in such manner as to answer all the r: q ire ments of the original package law. This slTu. cff much of the freght which had been shipped from Atlanta not encastd. Bluthenthal & Bickart, Atlanta whiskey dealers, tad estab'ished ag-n ces n the towns in South Carolina ard were hit harder by this decision of the roads than any other whisk-y house in the country. They estab iished these agencies on the strength of Judge Simonton's decision and af ter the Southern road had accepted shipments of uncased gocds. As the Southern road is the only medium by which they can reach their South Car olina agencies they feel that they have a gri-vance. The general belief is that the whiskey men have no case. Some time last month the dispensa ry constables of South Caroliaa seizel a consignmient of whiskey which had been sent to that state by Bluthenthal & Bickart over the S: uthern railroad. They claimed that the whiskey was not the regulation original package kind which Judge Simonton in his ruling made it legal to sell. Bluthenthal & Bickart immediately brought a bill of inj nction against the constables to restrain them from seizing the whiskey. the bill came up before Judge Simontoa for a hear ing and that federal court j idge at once issued an order restraining the constabulary from interfering with or se'zigg the whiskey of Bluthenthal & Bickart. On September 16.h, J. M. Culp, traf fic manager of the Southern railway, issued an orderi n a circular, refus ing to haul any consignment of whis key, not properly packer: in criginal pactages and which was not safely and secarely icc>.sed in packages that wou'd prevent bres k ae. The circnlar st:.t cut the whiskey of Blutbet~thal and B.kart and they filed the mandatory bill he-rd We dnesday,askiog that the road be re strained from carrying its circular into e ifect. Messrs. Glenn & Slaton argued the ase for the whiskey firm, while Cal onel Albert Howell appeared for the railroad. Mr. Glenn argued that there was collusion between Gover nor Ellerbe and the otfi::ials of the Suthern road, which, he ssi.1, was thle real reason of the refusal of the~ road to carry the whiskey for the whiskey firm. Mr. Howell claimed that the road had refused to carry the whiskey in the shape in whica it was presented for shipment beesu -e of its perishable1 nature and because of a danger ofa violation of the dispensary law, He! said that some of the whiskey was not in original packages and that it would have been a breachiof the law to car ry it. He claimed that the whiskey when tendered to his road as freight, was not properly packed and that the lose glass bottles ania jugs would have teen easily broken. Mr. Howell further argued that the Souhern was not in a position of re f asal to carry the whiskey cof the plain tiff. He exolained that the road would carry all legal freight, but that it would not cirry whiskey that was not in original packages and that was not prcperly packed so that it would not break. He said that the road by car rying whiskey not in original pack sges would lay itself liable to prosecu tion for violation of the law and that by carrying loose bottles and jags would lay itself liable to a suit for damage on the shippers' part for breakng and destroy ing whiskey bot tes. He said that when the plaintiffs ofered as freight whiskey that was properly pack<:d and was of the kind which Judge Simonton ruled was le gal freight, the road would cheerfully ca ry it . It was toe con tenion of the attor ntys for the plaintiff that this was not the real reason for the reeusal. Taey alleged that Biuthenthal & Bickart had starej. a contract with every bill of lading releasing the roadi from all respomiallity for breakage or loss ex cpt by non-nauling. This bill of the plainuiffs alleges toat a conispiracy exists between Governor E lerbe and the oflicials o& the Sa atheru road. It is further charged in the bill that the governor threatened the road that he wuld tiarass its charter and injare its business by damnaging legislation if the officials did not agree to pass an order to refuse any more freight made up of original packages of whiskey fromn other states. It is claimed that tho governer took .h~s extreme meas ursto keep the diap~esry live. Attorney Geutra1l Ber~er said that the charge of e->nspiracy is not true. He said that the state authorities of South Carolina were not trying to ove rrun the federal ciurts. H e claim ed that Bluthentbal & Bickart had re etedly violated tce law, even as construed by Jadge Simonton, and tnat they so.ld whiskey to minors in that State. He said that the whiskey im shipted large quanities of wh.s key into ~south Carolina that did not appear to have been in original pack aes. Mr. Barber took nso active parL in the hearing. He was here to repre setthe governor and to see what the plairntitY would charge aca-nst Gover nor Ellerbe. According to Att:hney General Barber the main right at is sue is the definition of or:ginal pack ages. He contends that an eriginal package of whiskey is th packa te in which the whiskey is first packed at the factory or distillery. The defend erts in this case say that Bluthenthial M Bckart have bee': sending whisk:y to Sruth Carolina drat was bottled at. their store hern and that was not in the packages sent out from the fac tcrv. Julge Newman's decision in the hearing Thursday will be awaited i h interest. The matter is one of nation al impcrtance, and the decision will materially aftect the dispensary case. Attorrey Geofral Barber says that the dispensary law has been a very troublb some and costly sta'u'e -At lanta Constitution. A POLL TAX PROBLEM. A Refusal to Pay it not Punishabe by Im prta meant. There are 7C0 delir auent poll tax owers in R:chland county, and in the last day or two some trouble as to the magstrates' powers in collecting the lax has arisen. Comptroller General Norton has been carsulted and hss given his opinion. The same trouble that exists here obtains in every other county of the State. Ger e-al Norton "The confusion which has arisen in Richlard county over the colle tion of delinquent p1ll taxes is but natu ral when the methods neretofore in ue are remembered. It should be known t'at each an nual session of the general assembly makes specific p.irpose, State. county and schools, including poll taxes, and provides specifically how these specific taxes are to be collected and applied. - E ich session of the genm:r l assem bly since sorewhere about 1855 made the non payment of poll tax a misde mf anor, u . to the seison of 1S96, when this clause was left out of the supply act. Tne non payment of p11l tax for 1895 96 and 1897, accordingly, is not a misdemeanor and the delin quent poll tax payer cannot be in dicted as heretofore for misdemeanor. "It is true that in the criminal stat rtes of South Carolina, Chapter XX[., section 377, there will be found su:h a p:rov'sion, but a careful review of the statutes and this section (377) will show that this material was taken from Acts of 1892, page 43, and has reference to poll taxes of 1592 93 only and is of force only for that specific fiscal year. The Constitution, which went into force Jan. 1, 1896, made the non payment of poll tax to disfran chise the voter. 'Accordingly, the general assembly of 1896, the first sessicn under the new Constitution, left out of the supply bill the clause tnaking the non-pay ment of poll tax a misdemeanor, and the session of 1897 did the same thing. The results are that trial j istices or magistrates cannot try cr imprison poll tax payers for non-payment of poll taxes for the fiscal years 1896 (ncluding November and December. 1895) and 1897, as there is no authori ty of law for such action. 'It is the duty of ccu ity treasurers to issue executions for delinq fent poll tax payers as well as for all delinquent real and personal property. When the treasurer thus issues suca execa tiins and delivers the same to the sher if, the sheriff can.place said executions in tbe hands of magistrates and author iz i them to collect the same with le g al ccst thereon. The cst is $t100 for the treasurer and such costs as the la w allows the sherttff in all matters of ext cution for taxes. In other words, there is no legal difference bet ween the enforcement of an execution for the collection of a poll tax and for real and personal property so far as costs are concerned, and the issuing, returning and setting for same. The penalty for the non payment of poll taxes now is dis'ranchisement-the delinquent cannot legally v~te. "In Richland county the treasurer has issued tlie execu'.ions, as we learn, and he or the sheriff gave the mnagis trates a list of these executiorns which they have been collecting with legal costs. No warrants h -.ve been issued, as we learn, but e xecations issued as above and costs folio wed legally. "Any delinquent poll taxpayer for 194 95 and previous years can be in dicted for non payment of poll tax, but not for 1896 and 1897. "The decision of the supreme court, 1897, in reference to treasurers' costs of $1.00 apply only where warrant has issued on affidavit of treasurer, but does not affect cases of executions issued by treasurer for non-payment of poll-tax. 'Ur.der the acts of 1896 and 1897, warrants cannot be issaed by magis trates, but executions can be issued by county treasurers; therefore this de cision of the supreme court does not affect or concern the issuing of execu tions or costs to treasurers or sheritfs there for." oua' Inde pmdence at H and. President Ethan Allen of the Cuban League of the United States today is sued the following address to the members of the league: "A year of patriotic work is about to end in grandest results. L tst spring nearly every governor of this republic, at our request, backe d by the legislature of his state. spoke for Cu ban inde pendence. Many hundreds of thous ands of citizens, responding to the ap peal of this league, have made it man ifest that public opinion is on the side of the Cuban insurgents and hostile to their oppressors. Now the hour of eancipation for Cuba is at hand. The commanding voice of the nation has at last reached the executive. Though the deli y has been n~u.:h too long, still the retribution at hand will excuse past delioq iency. Oar minis ter in Spain with a patriotic president behind nim, will do that which shall end the murder, plunder and maediae val tyranny in Cuba, allowing its en try into sovereign states. The nation is ready with guns, if necessary. E ' ery member of this league should be alert to uphold the presteet in such policy. Let all, when the momernt comes, say to him: ' All divsions end at Ine water's edge.' Deserted H!s Wife. Same months ago, J. E. G wathney, climing to be from near Statesville, took up quarters in the Pleasant Val ley, S 0 , neighborhood, and courted and married miss Martha Norman, of te same community. L4ist dusjdat we' k, after having been married t vc months, G satt:ney disappeart di, arnd nas not brea seen since. Mr. Nei mn, father of Mrs. G. sathaey, wss in he city yesterday hunting the "miss ing link." Gsvathney is a tall fellow, has a sandy mustache, and is caoss Leyed.--Charlotte Observer. WORDS OF WISI)OM BYDEPUTY COMPTROLLER CF CUR F.EN.Y COFFIN An ril 4tic Currency the I'ressing Need of ihn Scuh ar(d Would R-11*ve New YVrk Hanks-Cause of High Iter Deputy Coamptroilcr of the Curren cy Coffin, in discussing recent ad vance in money ra es in New York said: "one of the recent sharp advarces in rates of interest on demand loans in New York is no doubt du, to spec u!ative manipulation of the stock market, but I think the impulse to this uoward turn has bren given by the hesvy withdrawal from New Yolk of funds for the legitimate purpose of moving the cotton crop now coming to market. As a resident of Sauth Carolina, familisr with the move ment of this crop, I have for years ob served its effect upon national bank statemetts, as well as on the money market in New York during the month of Sep'ember. A: a rule the rates of interest advance about this time, and ia some years have approached the dan;er line, ard while the movement of wheat and other grain c'oos had contributed to this effect, still I think the movement of the cotton crop has been the main factor for this reason. The average value of the cotton yield is about $30J,C0,000 and it ia practically maket ci between Oci. 1 atd March 1, or within a period of five nmonths, but it is peculiar in this re spec', that oUly r.b.>at o-e ninth the entire crop, w n this is 9,000,000 bales, remains in tue section where it is growa. O. the remainiog eight nintt s about 2 000.(00 bales are shipped north, where it is manufac tured, while about two-thirds of the entire crop are expoi tLe fro:a the Unit ed Sates. The rapid removal of so large a pr - portion of this great product within so short a period of time req tires a large amount of actual currency, for most of tre cotton is paid for in inte rior towns at the south with spot cash. As the cotton-growing region is not densely populated, tt.e accumulation of banking capital there is not sufli cient to provide the enormous amount of money needed for a few months to move the crop, and for this reason southern banks have to borrow large ly from banks in othe.' sections during this crop period. Th. s is re flected in national bank reports for the past few years by tae following figures, sho w ing the amount of money borrowed by national banks in the distinctly cotton States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Missis sippi, Louisiana. Arkansas and Texas at dates in each year approximating Oct. 1 and March 1: Oc.ober 5, 1997..........$ 6.395,000 February 14, 1888......... 1,783,000 October 4, 1888..:......... 8,938,000 February-26, 18S9 ......... 1,731,000 September 30, 1S89........ 9,257,00U February 28, 1890......... 2,181,000 Oc:ober 2, 189J........... 14,534,000 14' br uary 26, 1891.......... 5,548,000 Septem her 25, 1891........ 15,553,000 March 1, 1892............. 3,621,000 S-sptemoer 3U, 1892........ 1U.549,000 March 6, 1893.............. 4,725,000 O:tober 3, 1S93............ 12.351,000 February 2, 184......... 1,941,000 0.:tober 2, 1894 ......... 11,111,000 March 5, 1895............ 2,761,000 Septem ber 2S, 1895.......10,803,000 Fieoruary 28, 1896.........4016,000 October.6, 1896............ 11,098,000 March 9, 1897............1385,U00 When the borrowing of the Sate banks ila these States are added to those of the national banks, and it is understood that most of this money is barro wed from Ne w York, it can be seen ho w potent a factor the cotton crop movement must be in affe.:ting interest rates in Ne w York. These figures, I think, too, show how vital an interest bankers, mer chants and farmers in the cotton gro w ing S:ates have in a currency which would be elastic, If any pian could be devisel under which the southern banks could issue addiuional currenc7, equal to one-four..h of their cal~ital stock, during the cotton season it would be a godsend to that section. For it would tnable the banks there to furnish the money needed without outside aid, and free from the cost of interest now paid on borrowed money, and nadional banks in 'ill other sec. tions having the same.privilege. The result would be to make money more abundant and cheaper, and to relieve the Ne w York market of the annual strain now put upon it, 0.1 0.:to~er 6t-1, 1836. the crpitai stock of the nattenat banks in the eight States namned was about $38,000, - 000. Gaulu they have issueda curren cy to the extent of one-fourtn of ithis amount, they culd themselves have furnished anout $9,5J0,000 of the $11, 000,000 they were compelled uzcner existingcrcumstar~c s to bormoy out side. I2 my opinion, therefore, the catton gro Nng s udi has a xore vi t interest in de:sui g a ranh c arre:.cy which is elIaatie, as w ei as tA-e, than any others--e"io_ of the UnideiSates. A a.>r:Lo:e o'.. A dispatch to The State frou Sam ter say s ?nursd ay about 3.5) o'e cck William Anderson, an emp'oye at Mr. Eigar Skinner's gin house, met with a Lorrible dea'.h. lie was stand ing in front of thie gia, wvhich was ruaag at a high rate of spetd. Stooping do-.vn Le r,:acaed his left arm uncerneath the rapidly revolviag saws, and in soi~e way his sleeve was caught Oy tne teth cf the saws. In au instant the unfortu iate man was jerked up to the front of the gin and aeid fast white his arm was cut into shreds. As so-u as possible tue uia chinery was stopped ann Anderson was extricated, Out the deacly sa ws nad done their worki. Mt~dic~d aid was summoned at once, but before a phy sician could reaen him death relieved nina of his sui:ring. A jury of in quest was empanelled anu a verdic: rndered in: coardance with the ab~sve. Ric:-ntly the pa sengers on board ~he Uieeping car of the night express leaving. Vienna for Carlsbad were chloroformred without their knowk dje by some clever thieves and robed of all they possessed, the amount stolen amountinlg to some $23,U00 to $30.. lorida was visi'ed by a West India hurricane today. Bu:ness was more or less genera-ly suspend because of the heavy rainfcii and fierce winds. It did cornsiderable da-nage to prop pety throughout the utate and sever al people were kiled A STEADY DECLINE in the Cordition of the Cotton Crop in this Scate. The weather bureau of the depart ment of agriculture, climate and crop, issued for the week ending September 20.b, by Section Director Bauer, reads as fnilows: 'Toe hot, Generally dry weather caused cotton to open very fast, some prematurely, and two thirds of all cot ton is now open with about half of the crop pic': d This applies to the whole State; in the Eastern counties the pro pnrtiun cpn and picked is somewhat rester. Fall reports from every coun it indicate that there has been a stea dv ecline in candition since the first of this month. and that during the past week the decline was due to ex ces ive heat and drouth, which caused the plant to shed youn'. immature bolls. The repcrts also indicate that there will be practically no top crop. That is to say, that coton has either stopped taking on fruit since the mid die of August, or that where it did fruit the boils and squares dropped off. "No blooms were seen during the reek except on moist oottom lands. Over about one-third of the State the Estimated yield of lint per acre will equal an average, and over two-thirds or it will fall short, so that making due allowance for the increased acre- { age, correspondents estimate that the yield will b3 smaller than last 3 ear, and, generaliy,the worst repo-ts cone from the lncdlities of usually heaviest production. In pisces where the plant is s:ill green. rust is very rreva'en', but eauy field; present the appear at ce of having been killed by fros'. "Except over the extreme north wes:ern counties, where corn was olanted late, it was not adv:rsely af fected by the lack of rain and hot weather. The corn crop is now entire ly safe and much of it has been gath ered. Correspondents generally speak' of it as a fair crop, is places, a large one. "The weather continued favorable for harvesting rice, and now there re mains only late Maiy and June plant ings to be cut. Lite rice is not as promising as the early rice, and in portions of Colleton the crop is very poor. Threshing rice is well under way. Peas seem to be fruiting heavily notwithstanding that the leaves near ly all dropped off the vines during the past two weeks. Pea-vine hay is near ly all gathered. "It was too dry for sweet potatoes and over some of the western counties the yield will be short. Early vare ties are yielding well. Scme Plain Talk. Et Governor St John truly said at a recent political meeting that phrases were perverted. We hear much loose talk derisively of our American dollar being "a 43 cent dollar," and that greenbacks are "flat money." Gover nor St. John punctures these expres sions as they are ofteu misintee p eted, thus: "The word 'fiat' simply means law. Therefore 'fla'' money means lawful money. Surely there is noth ing very frightful about lawful mon ey. We hear a great deal of talk now about 43 cent dollars, but the fact is we never had any such dollars. But if the contention of our gold bug friends that we have a 43 cent dollar is correct, then thei e must be a 43 cent government back of the dollar. For remember that the dollar is jast as good as the government makes it. If we have a 43-cent dollar then we have a 43 cent government, and the gov eranment is in the hanas of a 43 cent political party ; I find on one sid, of this silver dollar the head of the god dess of liberty. Is it possible that the goddess of liberty has becom a so dete riorated and debauched under our present financial system as to be wor!.h but 43 cents on tee dollar? On the other s'de of this dollar, I find the in scription, -In God We Trust ' I ask you, good people, have we at last so degenerated as to reduce the value of our trust in God to 43 cents on the dollar? What the people demand, arnd intend to have not later than 1900 is a full, unlimited legal tender, silver dollar, worth 100 cents, in the pay meat of debts, with a 100-cent govern ment back of it, and the government in the hands of a 100 cent political party." _________ The Wil in the Batti.. Judge Coffee has given his decision in the suit over the estate of Jennie Parsons. wife of Capt. Parsons, of the steamship Pacide, which was lost at sea in November, 1875, says a San Francisco dispatch. 'The matter came into court through the n~ing of a will said to have been found in a bottle picked up at sea. The heirs of Capt. Parsons claimed the estate on the round that in la e, when the husband and w-ife were together in a d.saster of any Rind, the husband is presumed to be the survivor. It was sho vn that at the time of the wreck Mrs. Parsons. sh was placed in a lifeo:>at, while her husbarnd remained on toe deck of t e vessel weint do vnr dicst. Tais fact was tatsufi to by N it Ilsndy, quar termnaster of th-: steamship, and the only survivor of the wreck. The judge accepted the evidence and awarded the roerty to the heirs of Mrs Parsons. Sic' was on:-e wtll knoova o2 taenttge as one ot the Manderville Sisters. A Nov :1 r.ownsh!p. There is a tow:nship in D)uphin county, P4., in which there are 254 iohabitahts, acc rding to tin census. is no mirnis:er, no church, no Sauday school, no lawyer, no jastice of the peace, no industrial wora of any kindi and no place where iiquior is sol d. There are three grocery stons and one :chool house. Whent the peo ple want to att: d catc'i th have to crrss the river to lIr y e -aty aud cd :.o Dncnnon. Tee tos-hip is R' Lild There h~s b en bu:; one c-ase in the' criminal cenrt fro-n tha township i-n the last 25 scars. Tnere is nt a-10:ner township like it la the whole United StattS. The Rit ,~suse The Aug~usta Chronicie says the real caue for falliag pric -s for cotton is s:ribed by the kno ving ones, no" 'to bear ar'ticles in a newspaper. bu Nills estimate of the crop. London evidently believes in NtilI mocre than it does in the government report. I sits the English spnnr to get cot~ ton low as poCssiOle. We shati see later on. Oaa C.te in A tIanta. The boar,i of health of A'.lanta an nonced Tfhursday night that Carrie Fleming, a 14 year old girl, who re fugeed Irom Mobile with her father and mother, and who is stopping atla boarding house at No. 119 Aubu rn wavenu ei entring with yellow Lever. BRYAN IN CANADA. He 14 Eothus1asi1caliy Ecc )1v.d by the Pccple. One of the mcst remarkable article= I we have seen in a long while, and at the same time bmr..:cant, is from Whiting Allan, a well known newspa per man, giving an account of an ad dress delivered curine, jubilee week. in Ottawa, Caraxa Mr. Allan slid he had never se'tr such enthusiasm manifested by any American au .ince a; that given by fi.-e thousand Cana dians, when Mr. Bryan was discussing bimetallism. "A- Mr. Bryan con cluded," said Mr. Allan, 'there was a cmmotion in one part of the hall, and Sir James Grant., one e the fcr.emost men of the D:rnioion, was seen strid ing toward; the stage. He stepped upon it and begau addressing Bryan. Immediateiy the applause sobsided. end everybocy listened. 'Mr. Bryan.' he bezan. 'x ae Caradi.ns watchea tour 'ur-' e--t~al campa'isn last. year with deo itt- re s' A' this distance it seen:a as if ycu had ahsolutely no chance agains- your distinguished opponer.. and r-hcn the retursn showed that you, deipite the f..ct tl.at! many of the men who had been dis tingguished members of your party had gone over to the enemy, had pnlled 49 per cent. of the votes of seventy millions of pecp'e, we said to our selves, 'here is certainly a c reat man. And now that we have heard you pres ent your cause, we see that you are far more a great man than ever we had thought.' There the audience went wild with cheers for Sir James and for Mr. Bryan. 'I want to tell you,' con tinued Sir James, 'that you are in the rud't of a people not only loyal to the mother county, but loving subjects of the queen. We love the great British empire r.f which we area p;.rt. Natur ally we hav' allowed the statesmen of England to act for us in matters of i cal legislation, and it may be that in doing that we have not been wis'. There has been no taik of bimetallism among us; but I say to you, and I feel that I speak for the great maj rity of this audience. which is one of the most distinguished I have ever seen assem bledin the Dominion, that you have interested us, you have made us think. And it will take a strong man, a very strong man, to combat your argument, and overcome the effect you have made this evening. As a Canadian, I thank you for it.' A Fatal FIre. A special from Chiliccthe. O , says: An entire squa-e in the village of the Bainbridge. ccntaining most of the business houses, several handsome residences and the Methodist church, was entirely destroyed by fire Thurs day afternoon and twa prominent busi ness men lost their lives in an explo sion which occurred in the drug store of W. P. Bearlsley. The fire was start c d in a barn in the rear of Perill Brown's general store by two boys, who were playing with matches. Bearlsley's drug store adjoining was rext ablaze, and with limited means at hand for fighting fire, the flmes became uncontrollable. In the midst of the excitement a terrible explosion occurred in the drug store and Mr. Beardsley, who was inside endeavor ing to save some of his property, lost his life in the ruins. His brother in law, Thomas Higgins, who went to his rescue, was anable to get out and was burned to death, while several others were more or less injured, but none fatally. There was a stiff bre bloving, and the flames getting a fresh start from the burning Oils and chemicals in the wrecked drug store, leapen from house to house until it was evident that the entire town was doomed. A message was sent to Way erly and to the city asking for aid, and both fire departments responded romptly. The Baltimor e and Ohio, Southwestern and Ohio Southern rail roads sent special trains with the en gines, but they did not arrive until almost 4 o'clock, nearly three hours after the first alarm was given. The best that could be done was to prevent the fire being communicated to the other squares. Clvil service Ex imination. The United States civil sarvice com mission has ordered that an e'x imina tion be held by its local board in Co lumnbia on Saturday, Nov. 6, 1897, cmmencing at 9 o'clock a. m , for the grades of clerk and carrier in the post office service. 021y citizens of the United States can be examined. The age limitations for this examination are as follows: Carriers. 21 to 40 years; clerks, 18 years. Na aoplica tion will be accepted for this examina tion unless filed with the ut~dersigned, on the proper blank, before the hour of closing business on Nov. 2. 1897. Applications should te filed promptly in order that t.ms may remain for cor rection if necessary. The cmmissioni takes this opportunity of stating that the examinatior s are op en to all repu table citizens of the United S:ates who may desire to enter the service, with out rezard to race oc to their political or religious atiiiations. Alti such citizens are invited to apply. They shall be examined, graded and certified with entire impartiality and wholly wihout regard to any eonsideration save their etfiaierncy. as sh>:vn by the grades they obtain in the ex amination. Fr applicatioa blanks, full instrut tiocs i::d information relative to toe duties and salaries of the U ifilreot po sitions, spoly to Hunter A G-i'bes, Sr:ary B~ard of Examiners, Phst Wnen tce average man is hurrylag aon' his hands~ plune to the- d-pths of nis trousers pocke"s hithe-rto u~ex 0lrd ad has heId ent dovn to1 on ind di as '*J s'top to inq.r. . thi sudden channge of tornometer mrn'i - on' of- Nau' prak': Btb mise , o this is tz.: 'i n2 of Cthei ~atmaa! equa x,wenn s i e::'l perpe.ndiculaio'-l.'ua then there is a el ';ht devi'io lat eairth's .xis ofroatimu Ter are~~- -4 q iinoxes, vernal and aunt fomter ccrring, ab: Mar' 2 the night or :,yeio-r2d,.; ear. At this ti're the das~v an nisaLs are of tiallngh and Autumn pra p ry begins. 16: predicts c::d1 weath unti Octobe Id Us' o'f te'uses to whc- c-rai ,bet !;urandfol the' un=:pistia od Ar ' hs .ixture -shpe soni 5, w:aere they sein to~ think that -'e don't kuow what goad :>r is. It is said that the 1~w grade har car ries from 15 to 20 per cent, of corn flour THE WAR MUST END THIS IS WHAT THE UNITED STATES SAYS TO SPAIN i2 Referonc, to the Cor sl'et Gaing on In Cuba, or She Will Take a Hand and End It. It may be said that Cabin inde peudence is in sight. D:Isptches fro-n Madrid says that Minister Woodford told the D)ike of Tetuan, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, last Sat. urday, in polite but firm language, that the war in Caba must stop and peace be secured before the first of next November. or else the United States Government would do what ever it should then deem most advisa ble to secure certain and lasting peace. Minister Wocdrord notified Spain that peace must be established in Cuba by the first cay of Ncvember. Minister Wocdtcrd did io*,as the rumors have it. present any clai ma for losses alleg d to ha-'e been suffered by American citizens during the war in Cuba. The whole burden of his verbal communi cation was the right of the United States to intervene and the determina tion of the American Government to set according to its own best judgment for the E.tabishrcent of peace in the island s ould Spain fail to end the war by the firs, day of November. 'he tremendous significance of this fact can easily be understood. The United States claims the right to in tervene, and fixes a day on which it will begin a new and independent policy. SPAIN NOT BICKED BY EUROPE. Tne correspondent of the Associated Press at Madrid learns upon high au thirity that the much discussed inter view of Saturday last between the United Sat-s minister to Spain. Gen. S'evart L Woodi-d, and the Span fish miaisaer for foreign affairs, the Duke of T::tuan, was merely prelimi nary. Gen. Woodford represented to the Dake the gravit7 of the condition of Caba, and requested, in behalf of the United S :ates. that Spain would find a method of speedily ending the war and giving j istice to the Cubans. He offered the good offices of the Uni ted States in effecting a settlement of the Cuban troubles, which practically gives Spain an opportunity of grace fully ending the war. If she does not embrace it within a reasonable time notice will be given that the United States must interfere, though Gen. Woodford has not said so yet. Spain cannot expect the aid of European Powers, as the United States-ambassa cors have ascertained that all the Eu -opean countries, except Austria, re cognize that the interests of the Uni ted States justify the latter's interfer ence in Caba, Austria, in this matter, is influenced by the relationship be tween the two dynasties, the Q seen Regent of Spain being an Austrian archduchess; but it is not likely that Austria will take any part in the ques tion beyond possibly making a diplo matic protest against the intervention of the United States. THE SPANIARDS NONPLUSED. A dispatch to the London Standard from San Sebastian says: "Fresh com munications have passed between Uni ted States Minister Woodford and the Duke of Tetuan, confirming the views of the United States as stated by the American minister last Saturday. Both press and public received the intimation of the attitude of the Ame rican Government with surprise and incredulity. Even now most Span iards are loath to believe the United States in earnest in offering in the middle of September mediation,which is certain to be followed in November Iby a declaration that it is too late to Istop American action, because public Iopinion in the United States calls for Ia decisive policy, and because the Cu bans will accept nothing short of in dependenc3. The Soanicrds cannot realize that President McKinley had finally made up his mind before he entrusted Minister Woodford with precise instructions, polite, but clear and pernptory. All this places the Government in a most difficult situa tion, especially as it has not achieved the desired reorganization of the Con servatives and has become involved in equally troublesome conflicts with the Bishops and clergy. It is strange to notice how the Spaniards are al ready discussing whether Sagasta and the LUberals are not likely to come to an understanding with the United States and the Cubans, and failing such a conciliatory course, whether patriotic considerations might induc3 all Conservatives to gather around a strodg -Administration, presided over by Gen. Az::araga or Gen. Campos, to defend Spanish rights." Another Boad Comes in. The S.uth Carolina and Georgia railroad is now the only system of any consequence in this State which has not thrown up the sponge and de clared that no shipment of original p ackages consisting of bottles loose i.n the car will be received. The latest system to j )in the anti 0. P. combina tion is the Charleston and Western Carolina. Its circular which has just been sent out reads as follows: "Counsel having decided that spir ituous a- malt liquors, in bottles, when not packed in cases or cisks, are not in proper shaipping condition, and that umual form of release will not re lieve the comnpany from liability in cise of damage by wreckage, notice is her eby given ih it on and after Sep xi ner 27, 1897, shipments of spiritu c u; or malt liquors in glass, loose, not packed in c ser, kegs or casks, will not be acc- p'.ed by this company fo? :ransporan'on. W. J. CaIG, G.xaneailFreight Agent.'' A~ PXinnlor in Luck. W. F. k -'a, no imnprisned in the on : t1 at m-'n Francisco, e .. b en z"lement, has fall ausr:;a que'-r o a million dol rs. dass Kern, the prisoner's es w:as a prominent mining estr c Motana, died last week t Auti, Ia , leaving property val "ed SLat rU0J, to be equally divided b xiee is two nephews. One of tbo is th prisoner. The other, Lin i l -i-rrn, is a barar in Sioux City, L. N o other- survi'ving relatives are kniown to exist. Tne San Francisco heir was formerly business manager of the California ~Commercial and S:uvenir Magnine. He was5 Acquitted. H. J. iit, engineer of one of the trains that c>!lided near Swansa, in Lng ton county, on October 14, t.., was rec~e itly tried for criminal negligenlce and acqjuitied in the cir ce our iuLexington. Three peo pie were killed in the collision 1:nd a 1n as aargedto Petit's neg