The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, November 24, 1897, Image 1
VOL. Xlii. MAN1(~S. -C., WlEDN ESDAYS NOVEMBER2I S7 N.8
REPUBLICANS 1-1Y,
CHANDLER DEMANDS THAT THEY
CARRY OUT PLECGES
Iimetallism Alive- l the Par'y. Doesn't
Secure I; Demecracy Will Wi in te t
Nx campaign- Senator's L tter.
Editor of The Washington Pos :
Since my letters to t.e Post of Au
gust 12 and 25. two important events
have happ-ned, () the elections of {
NovE mber 2, and. (2) the Egish re
fusal to now promise to reopen the
India mints to the coinase of s-: er as
an inducement tc internatioral bimet
allism.
1. As to the elections, they prove
with reasonable clearn'ss that the Re
publican party permanently acquies
ces in "the erxsting gola stantard
and gives up th. struggle fcr bimetal
lism that party will be dereited in the
congressional elhciots of 169S. and in
the presidential ekectin of 19!0. The
silver monometallists will then take
possession of all brat-chts of the na
tional government, and a free coinage
bill, with silver made the tender for
all debts, public and private, domestic
and foreign, will pass both houses of
congress and be signed by President
Bryan.
Greater New York city being in the
hands of Tammany Hall, that organi
zition will unite with the national
Demccracy in the demand for free
silver coinage, and it is not within the
bonds of possibility that the rural R t
publican bimetaliists will give votes
enough upon a single geld standard
platform to place the State of New
York back in the Republican column.
There may be infatuated individuals
who think, in view of the elections of
last Tueaay in Iowa, Ohio, Kentucky,
and Nebraska, that the western Re
publican States can be kept in line if
future party platforms shall complete
ly yiela to gold, and give up the ef
fort to remonetize silver, but the wis
er and safer view is to assume that with
the issue so Iramed the Republican
party will meet with overwhelming
political disaster inflicted by a solid
south and a west almost solia, aided
by Tammany Hall and the free silver
Democracy of the Empire State. This
comes very near being a country of
free voters, and our elections come
very near being honest transactions.
and an intelligent people, with their
votes freely cast and honestly counted,
will never adopt or submit to the per
manent demonetization of silver and
the fixed ascendency of the single gold
amandard prescribed by England. So
the pathway of safety is only in one di
rection. Mr. McKinley was elected only
because his platform and his previous
utterances promised efforts to secure
bimetallism. We lost the United
States senate because those promises
were not sufficiently in earnest, and
were distrusted by many Republican
voters. We did not promise to estab
lish bimetallism it we could, bellying
it to be abad thing, but because we
believed it to be a good thing. If we
now faithlessly abandon the pursuit
of that good thing we doom ourselves 1
to political annihilation. So there is
no course open to us but to bring to
gether the independent nations of the
western 1 e nisphere and to unite tie n
- in one grand and irresistable demand
for the money of the ages, Gcd's
money, as Secretary John Sherman
devotionally and reverently called it;
silver and gold, j ,ined together at a
fixed ratio as the basis of all paper
money and credits, and as the worla's
time-honored measure of the world's
values.
2. But the recent English refusal to
agree to help bimetallismn by promis
ing to reopen the India mints will be
rexerred to as proving taat the interna
tional agreement is an impossibility.
Since the refusal there have been writ
ten innumneracle arties pronouncing
'-the doom of silver;" saving that
"silver is a dead issue," and jeering at
aliRepublicans who still believe that
the pledges of their platform of 1896
and prior thereto are yet living anid
binding promises. It is impossible to
avoid the continued comparison of 3
these prophets to those who, in 1852.
in pernect accordance with the plat
forms of the two great political par
ties, proclaimed the doom and death
of the anti slavery agitation, yet in 10
short years saw slavery doomed and
dead on American soil and the world
over.
Even a British ministry has been
known to change its mind. Lord
Ralisbury very emphatically declared
thxat he would not arbitrate the vital
questions in the Venezuelan contro
-versy, yet with true wisdom and states
marnship, and -with no impairment of
British prestige. he changed his mind
hen he realized that one Btitish
ueclaration could not doom or kill a
great living subject; namely, the
Monroe dactrine.
It is true that the present answer of
Lord Salisbury is disappoirnting. It
is contrary to previous ministerial as
sertions upon which bimetallists every
where had the right confidently to re
ply. In the letter to the London Times
of October 4of Lord Aldenham and Mr.
H. R. Grenfell, there is brought out
in vivid colors the English promise.
On March 17, 1S8, the house of com.
mons unanimously declared that the
best interests of the country had been
injured by silver's demonetizttion in
1873, and urged the government to do
all in their power to secure an inter
national agreement. In the debate
the chancellor of the exchequer (Sir
W. E. H. Beach) promised that tne
governments -would obey this ir j u-:
tion. The first lord of the treasury (Mir.
A. J, Balfoum) made the same proisse
in many -words, among them these.
"We -will reonen the India mints:
We will engage that they shall be
kept open, and we shall therefore pro-i
vide for a free coinage of silver withn
the limits of the British Emnpire for a
population greater in number than thie
population of Germany, France, andi
America put put togetner."
These were strcng and apparently2
sincere words. They were the basis
and the hope of tne movement for
bimetallism, which began with the f
nomination of Mr. McKinley up~on a
platform pledging him to iuuru.e
such a movement. Tne three ste ps
thus far taken have been as follows:
First, the action of congress last win
ter, and the mission to Eirope of tie
envoys, Messrs. Wolcott, Pairee, and
Stevenson second, the prompt a will
ing action of the French ministry
taken even when their people wer"
excited over the passage of arngid car:r
bearing severely upon products of th~e
French republic; third, Lord Salis
bury's declarauon that at present the
government will not now agree to fui
tUIl its prom:se to open i~he India<
mints.
TLike man other stout ministerial -
d-clarations. that of Lord Salisbury is
sut ject to rconsideration and rever
sal, and he invited a continual discus
sion of the subject, wh-ch, with digni
ty and wisdom, the F:ench ambassa
dcr ard our anbassadicr and envoysi
decided not t.) immediately, pursue.
Equally with Lord Salisbury pcssibly
they desired to beenlightentd by pub
sentiment. Or possibly, as Secre
tarv Sherman has charted the Eiglisb
ministrT with having acted in bad
faith about thesesls of Behring sea they
thought he might like the opportunity 1
of also charging them with bad faith
in revoking the promise to open the
India mints. whico charge our ambas
sacor, Col. R1av, and our envoys very
wisely omitted to make, reserving that
opocriunity for their cificial superiors.
It was the proper privilege of the
English ministry, in considering a
great qiestion like the present one, to
vacillate somewhat. At ti:st they
were undcubtedly inclined to listen
favorably to the French and Ameri
can proposals, and induced the Bank
of E >gland to promise to contribute to
remunetization the holding of a por
tion of its reserve in silver bullion, as
the bank law allows But the
money power of England was
aroused and expressed its dis
abbrobation. The potent Mr.
Robert Benson tried to convince the
ministry, by impressive facts, that the
American movement was not in earn
est, and that Secretary Gage's pro
posed method of currency reform and
the selfconstituted currency reform
commission were conceived in hostilli
tv to the remonetizationof silver, and
that President McKinley was not sin
cerely in favor of an international
agreement. The council of adminis
tration or India advis-d against re
op-niag the India mints This was
not the voice of the people of India,
suffering from plague and starvation,
with the value of their immense ac
cumulations of silver ornaments and
money cut down more than half by
the heavy hand of their government.
It was the voice of the money power
of London; but it had its weight.
So we got the negative decision for
the present. Perhaps L rd Salisbury
will be instructed by new events. Al
ready one by-election to parliament
has been lost on this issue. The bime
tallists of the world are aroused. and
the third step of the ne v movement,
. step backward indeed, so far is like
ly at any moment to be reversedi and
; forward step taken in the interest of
he prosperity and happiness of the
whole great empire of Great Britain
nd of the civilized world beside.
Zany debtor nations of the world can
aot pay Great Britain what they owe
er, interest and prindipal, in gold.
[t will be part of wisdom for the em
ire to aid in remonetLizing silver.
lhe words of Mr. Justice Joseph P.
Bradley in the legal-tender cases are
Lucid and powerful "But the creditor
interest will lose some of its gold. Is
old the one thing needful? Is it
~orse for the creditor to lose a little
ay depreciation than everything oy tae
ankruptcy of his debtor?"
At all events, the duty is clear of
L1 Republicans who desire the con
inuance in power of their party, and
who co not propose to bolt tneii psrty
dlatform. R:new the pledges to bime
allism and devise ways and means for
uifilling them. Only those who were
ever at heart for bimetallism will stop
n ac:ount of the British ministry's
emporary negative. The people of the
whole Western hemisphere, by nn
mense majorities, are in favor of tae
remonetizition of silver. They need
anly to be aroused and organ-z ui by
he powerful intiaence of the United
states. A Pan-American remonetiza
;ion congress may be held and a united
request of all the governments of
North and South America may be
resented to the Eitropean p~wers. It
kill go heeded. Cniina and representa
ives of the people of Iudia will join
n the request. It will oe heeded even
~y England. For myself I desire to
ye guded by the counciis of
senator Wolcott, after he has
submitted to thec President the
eport of the envoys. Mr. Wolcott
as given means, time, and exhaust
og labor to this great work thus tar.
)tners might possibly have done it,
yut no one came forward to do it. As
~ociating the inspiring name of tne
riendly republic of France with that
>f the great American republic, he has
uked the British ministry whether
laey were sincere in their explicit and
isqualified promises of March 17,
L97 to reopen and to keep open tae
ndia mints in aid of interzsational bi
netailismn, and the ministry have said
hat they are not ntow prepared to do
t. It was worth much more than all
t has cost, not to let the promise
stand unchallenged, but to thus put
his question and get this answer.
'he ans wer will not stick. Lrd Sahis
aury will not kill the goose that lay
he golden ege.
WILuAt E. CH~A3DLER.
November 9, 1897.
Great Sansering in Caba.
A letter was received Thursday from
Japt. Charison of the 4 masted schoon
r Clara E. Randall of Por tland, Me.,
aow in port at Mantanzas, Cuba,
which tells of the great distress and
~uffering in Cuba. The schooner leftt
hiladelphia wita a cargo of coal,
bout a month ago, and the letter
was written by Capt. Charleson soon
tfter the vessel arrived there, two
weeks ago. CapL. Charleson says
hat Matanzis is filled with fever
tricken and dying soldiers and that
~undreds of pacificos are dying every
eek. It is no uncommon sight on
be streets to see men lying in the gut
er in their last agonies and to see the
eath carts slowly creeping ab ut,
atheine up their loads of bodies.
Lne people seem to be helpless in their
nisery and not only is yello w fever
layinzg havoc with then, buat they[
re dying of starvation by scares.
apt. Charleson said that he has no.
yeen ashore very much since is ar-i
-iva], for fear of catching ite fever,,
kd he intends to get his vessel un
oaded and away as soon as possible.
dantarzas, which was once one of the
yusiest ports on the eked is now ai
nost deserted, he says, and every
where there is death and pestilence.
A n Awful Prairie FIre.
A special from Esama, Tex., says:
. tern-ble prairie fire passed inrough
ubbock, Hale and Crosby counties
L'esday, doing great damage to the<
ranges. L originated east of CrosbyJ
:unty, burned eastward through
rossy, beore a severe west wino,
,.til ai reached a yont north of Emma,
nen? a noirtner ar-one. cringing the
re uth in its aw ul !u-y. At ihat:
Wet iquare miles of territor-y wer ej
>urneu over. Cat'.le sutieed and
nary were bured to death. Norra :
>f E nina 3,000 sheep were burned in 1
yne .tick and many farmers lost their
:xnter feed.1
A N OBLE LIFE 0 K,
MRS. M. A. SNCWDEN' DEVOTiON T
THE LOST CAUSE.
The CUnfeI. e Hme reas F- ded :
Her andi Through Her Es r H' 'ei
Su porte..
September 1t, 37. Ms Ma-.
A'mari thi Saoru ce ,rated he
78;a birthda.c siMrs. Snowdenr1" is _Y
dauenter of~ J^s p Y", and "h'
kidow of Wiiamt Sno: cn , !4. ll
oei Charlest n, . .. I' :Er eve;
h)i7rtar)le honie l^ th ci:v that tics
sounded tie toa 3 br- nfedrait
war, Mr. Sow: S l! hves, a~ut
though for some monet-'s -he has bre:
contined L* bcer rco2, ard perhap!
may never again go about doing' gor*
and relieving suffering, yet when the
Master calls she w:!i e c heerful
ready. and her works will live a'te:
ner. It is peculiarilv fing that a per
and ink sketch of Mrs. Sao'den's lift
should Le framed in a pap r, in he
own bome, that is true to the sacred
past, for she is a Cafederate woinat
of Confederate women, and no waaar
living or deid has exceeded her it
effrt or sccomplisbment for "the
cause" while it lasted for the principe
as it lives in the persons of Confedcr
a e veterans and their children for th
memories that t her are sacred and
of life a part. Daring the war Mrs.
Snowden assisted by her ci tally de
voted sister, Mrs. Isabella Suo eden,
save her entire time to the ser'vice c
the hospitals and to nursing the sich
and wounded wherever found, minis
tering even with G Aiike c naity tc
those vandal soldiers of the union
army who were laying waste the
hoines of those she loved, desecrating
the graves of her dead, and making
life a thing to dread for the women of
the South. Mrs. Snowvder's whole life
has been lived unseldshly. She was
th inspiration and prime worker of
the Calhoun Monument association
hat had accumulated some $75 iU be
Fore the war to buidd a monument to
he greatest, parest and most liberal
stattsman America had produced since
Washington, and it was Mrs. Snow
len who sewed into her skirts the se
:rities wnen Sherm to burnt Caium
ai:, arid preserved the means that en
ibled the Calhoun Monument Associa
tion to erect the imp'sing monument
that now adorns Mariou Si ire in
ront of the South Carolina nliitary
cademy, known a; the Citadel.
The war ended, and Mrs. Snowden
td her sister. both widows, turned t.
nend their grief by continuing to live
or others. A brave Marylander by
he name of Charles E. Rdman, who
gad been paralyzed from his waist
Iown by being entombed under the
ailing rampart of Battery Wagener.
was the first object o: their soliiitude,
td they took nim to their home and
niaistered unto him uatti he was re
noved to St. Philip's Uaurch Hbme
Episcopal), where he lived until of
iecessity removed to the hospital to
iad his brave life. Then the cry came
ip from the penniless, -woaade.t and
most disheartened Confedera:e vet
rans. Who will aid us to educate
>ur children?" and who but the wi
>wed Snowden sister.s answered, "We
viil." A large and comm dius buik
.ng, occupying a most advantageous
position on Broad street, the principal
:ast and west street of tne city, ann
running back some hundren of feet
.0 Chalmers street, was obtained for
$,800O a year, and the sisters' Sanoif
.en morigagd the home over their
eadJs, acid thle only protection for
srs. M. A. Snos'cen'a two yo'ung
~hidren, to secure tcie is yeai's ren
a!. As I am not writing a nistory of
ne Confederate Htnne, I will only
rite of itas its institution, grow in,
nantenance and good work is part or
ne life, if not the whole life, ot Mrs.
E. A. Snowden, assisted oy ner untir
.n if less aggr.ssive sister. Mrs. Sno w
len went to warm hearted, sympa
;etic Baltimore to learn no w siniar
leemosynary institutions were man
aged, and to obtain aid froai tinos
wno were well to do anid sympathiz ed
with the ruined South. \':ain a
iome for wido ws in teat city, she was
tfered by one of the dependient iu
nates St-the very tirst voluntary
arfer to tne cause,-and -declining, be
:ause of the necessities of the gtver,
was asked if she rej ected the wi-do s's
nite, replying that soe would grate
ully accept it then as the sted corn.
lessed of God, for her enterprise.
'he incident got into the papers. and
was read in E arope by the helplessiy
11 daugnter (K1iss Luise) of tee great
abilanthropist, Hon. W. W. Corcoran
td after the daughter's death the
ather sent Mrs. M. A. Sniowde-n $I,000
Ld thus the Confederate H>:ne of
Jhareston, S. C., the iirst or i'.s kend,
was started to shelter anid care for tue
mothers, widows and daugnters cf
~onfederate soldiers,".and to educiate
he daughters in tae faita their brave
athers nad.fouoght Icr and their jvo
nanly mothers had suffered for.
It was in 1& tat the ucaue tool
shp and being and if edu'oatic g tue
lauhters of nie men und women
.o become self-neipin~g, seit respeca m;
ork1;g women ini tue wvorki is a good
york, tuen Mary Aramiuthia Sa.ow
en's name snouid be iiiuiiated by
istory, and live in song anti story,
m in the hearts of grateful people
'or somne fifteen nundred girls of the~
sate have been educated. in tace Home
'or the mothers, wido vs an~d daogn
ers of confederate soldiers, a ad Mrs.
d. A. Suo aden by her uuti' ig if 'rt
ias caused th estal~ish.new t ip
ort and partial end n~ - of u
ime.
Mr. W. W. Corcoran, after a vsit
o tae home, gave a a add. ivail
mnountof A5,000J ara a geeru lai
iaore wouaa n'as gveu? 1 trouan
trs. Snowdexi, ':,00 Sar;-ly t o
~are for sien sLuu Jene Uj0.der
hs darer to 1..1 a n ieter
noters, wives .aud usg r
niry years, ' is t?ais to -'e doe
Lhou good aind fai~hfu' stry:.t, Lnea
ies Mrs. Mary aranna aowe
tatd secoLnd t' 'nooerG firt
w'omtan, a'ou caapir' s of' dauht rs of
e Cenifeecy shui -: 'a'e o
ir in every stae o. in 'a e Con-'
suutess woman, I-us of :-ie aad u
ana Iralities, to live a iet e oe~a
mld unseisa~ iue for uLLers -a" t"
)ner., endleared to aer o0.o. ti~
aumanity, as Carist lIkea 'ay
araainttiua Saow-~as cros wil -
;eon into the cru vu prua:sin o .. .
:Mrs. Sno'w dea toetaoeae
,he iirst memrzial t'asl~ lal
ret, i'ciaidpted the at;.inrry of.
bs day nas oeen ooserveu inGar
eston Oy tue ladies mzetaurLil ass ca
t now tat the Sste has made it a leaf
h:liday, only the selfish money love
and tr e who were faint hearted i
war and would forget in neac?, fail t
cberve the cy. The first gener.
m-rnmeut to the Confed rate dea
I was unrveed in the soldier's plot i
beau'tfi' MagLolia cemetery. Scut
r own Wade Hampton do
ii ergd treaddress, and it is not sayin
o1 much to affirm that the brora
Uoneiderate soldier, clutching his fia
:is breast,ss he grasps his ril t wit
0:e' cther band, shows its Muhnic
b . and is the mcst truth telling an
spir.iea emowmert in the South,
.ot in the United S:ates, as it stand
:uarding the graves of some eigt
huured Confiderate dead, many c
'w*ose bodies were removed from tb
graves of Gettysburg's battlefielt
sirs. Snowder is the president of tb
L. M. A., and as iose as she is stron
coough to sit in a carriage will atten
the solenn, and with us always in
pressive, e renony of love and adm
rNtion, an.d will see to it, as she he
done for thirty one years, that ear,
and every grave has its evergree
cross and wreath. As Wade Ham pto
must ever be our typical South Carc
lina Confederate soldier, so must Mar
Arm.inthia Snowden remain the typ
of the South Carolina Confederate w<
man, fear'ess and faithful. Jaies C
I Holmes in the Caarleston Post.
--,TON CROPS AND PR!CES.
Som I -teri stlrg Flgares Corcerning t:
Great Staple.
The last issue of Bradstret's cor
tains a very interesting artici base
on a report of the S. Blaisden, Jr
company, of CWicopee, Mass , shoe
ing the cotton crops of the last fift3
two years. and the highest and lowet
orices each :ear. Tne cottou cro di
aot ra:ch 1.003,000 bales until 1831
In 18:3 it was only 4.5.000 bales. Th
1art'est c-op before tn e war was the
of 1859-60. It was 4 851,000 bales, c
nearly twica as large as any cotto:
crop from' 1863 to 1899 It was no
until 1873 that the South produced
larger crop of cotton than it had pre
duced prior to the war, the crop tna
year reaching 5 074 155 bales.
The crop of 180 was the i-st to o
beyond 6,000.000 bales, and the 7,000
000 mark was passed for the first tim
in 1397. The crop raised in 1891 ra
up to 9,000.000 bales, and that of 189
was almost 10 000,000 bales. Tn
present crop will be the greatest on re
cord.
A comparison o' prices is interest
ing, In 185 the price of cotton wen
1-to 13 cents a pound. It then decline'
for several years and was as low as
cents in 1S31 and 1832. In 1835 i
rose to 15 cents. In 1843 44 45 th
average price was 5 cents. an tha
low ii.ure was touched again in 1S4i
Cottn then went up rapidly and 1
cents was the lowest price in 1850.
During the war the price went awa;
up, of course. In 1S64 it touched to
highest p-aint, $1.90 a pound, in Nev
York. The lowest price that year wa
72 cents. Tie nrice then feli steadil
and in 1870 25:- cents was the to
r otch. The hignest price in 18S0 wa
13. can's, and the lowest 10 15 1
c' tts: in 1890 the highest price wa
12- cents and the lowest 9 3 16 cenu
In 1S95 the highest price was 9 3 1
cents and the lowest 5 9 16 cents. The
following table shows the highest ant
r e lowest p:ices for the last twenty
Hiebest. L->west
1871................2 l14 14 0-4
I1872...................:3.5i Y
1 7 ............ ..2t -
1.7......................1:3 N1 :.
1M.....................12 3 1:.
1.....................11
19:.....................11lt1 -
1"'... ..................! 1 ' t
1I ...................1'; 81.
1""..................1 1- ,>
i7.......................11 -
.......................: 1-27
153.....................11 'l
1 ...................... 1 ;
' 8 3 5i-lt
~ 1'J3.............s1-5 1: 1-1:
I terberlat 7 -1t ents 10'. 1inc -1
excee 1009.000 -les and co-t4
I wrtaonl 311I cets 1hrei
very lain essonfor 15-mer iu :h
~ures.-1-ata'.o:r-ai
CoL9.1 P8c1::.1
in th shae ofc~ii -1ca bae h-1
Thieya the marjet opnsedable di
time new dendot $8,75 acin otteac
c0s-ion al. coto year men, coto
ase wrtly 7icntste bun the the
I this Setain tartici thesya' cronwi
wours onlecor1-, cses the is
vyey pa ieson t garousnd thes
I itiores-tnaei Jioutand o
costt ohn atekig. H
The nue eat loss pcit g odoe
til to be sharer afclndi ownes fai
tes n the ljc Soft bynsiean ofi
beasind aforkng cotton.mn whi
aredrectliterebcopted tesuc
Col. a:r, oanagerPe oNt Milai
this Stteon n rter hind ae Manu
fcurer~ts' Rcd, oppose the pnese
sysem of bacir' oThe ground tha
in coto s resend wiltov suc a cn
diuconto mae ci dictand or i
cost y o- adle a t misl Hw als<
ptiut or' ut wrant iloitud meni
tail toie farmersand wers of a gin
nries~ao in the 'yro of ath(
fac that their plants ould~ nrle
ersM and manage it Ni hvE.glat
mu. dissatife ita the pomresena
sy se of bolin voThey insit upn :~
cte system an will ceiv te prerc
ocotton aed illntindricalry or it
some.ette -aytha i: is owpac
ula fam but want imprthed 0' eh
toj. Tne Nt w eglaners re an i
ieau a aag itnl ave t
th one' now inogue t w~i h 'cnn
pas.-Clmi.JI Reitr. .Zi
Ht Q ~ an?a'. o re atl. tV~
Thceu o ia returns o te Ohie el
tine ae matit beenwo deaed, snowh
in the ide1pulias ohoave a m
hir-uiti~sa a. s.taawll:
dr THE TURNER MURI)ER.
0 THE TE3TIMONY GIVEN TA THE COR
d ONERS INQUEST.
d
1 The Jliy Find that the Deceamd wi
Murdered by Corstabl, Newbald and
That Constable Howle Was Acces'ary
to i .
h
h The following is the testimony tak
d en at the coroner's inquest over the
.f remains of Mr. Turner. who was shot
s arnd kiliei recently by State Cnstable
t Newbold. LssL week we published a
f full account of the killing, and now
e we publish the testimony so as our
i. readers can be in possession of all the
e facts:
g State of Suth Carolina, County of
di. Spartanburg.
L- This is to certif : that we, the under
signed citz ins, reside in Spartanburg
s county and believe the ' death of J.
h Henry Turner is of such a nature that
n it should be investigated by the coron
a er of the cout.ty.
p- J. W. Harris, (L. S )
y S C. Gentry, (L S.)
a The State i:a re the dead body of
> Henry J. Turner.
. W. C. BRU0E.
duly sworn. say s: I live at Mr. Henry
Turner's, in Spartanburg county. I
was here in th bid last night at 12
o'clock. I left here this morning in
t company with J. Henry Turner about
4 o'clcek. We had started to the de
pot. We went on to Steven's grove.
the colored folks' church. seen a lizht
at back of church, and seea two men
coming, walking up together. They
were behind us. They came on about
350 yards; one of theam ran around in
froe-t of us and sa:s, -.Hold up;"
a.zmped in front with pistols in his
nand and did not give me time to hold
up until ha fired. I was driving; I
cnecked horse or mule immediately
r after the command t: nalt: the mule
j nped and I could not t.l what po.
sitiou deceased w1s is when pistol
lied. Therd were no veapons in our
tuggy or on our perss except a
rocket knife, and that was in our
pccket. There was not a word spoken
after the command to hait unatil the
pistol fired. After the pistol fired he
said hold on till I search the buggy.
After the conmand to stop I had never
got the mule entireiv stopped until
b pistol fired; mule had not advanced
more than three or four feet. Taere
was not a particle of resistance offered
before or after the shooting. The one
that done the shooting ordered the
other to search the buggy. He was
- slow, and the one that did tne snooting
done it himself. I don't knofv them
e personally, but they say it was a fel
iow by tree name of Newoold; he told
ae I had better get him to a doctor,
and told Howie to go with me; he
went with me; I carried him to Dr.
Dean at Spartanburg. Deceased never
spoke after he was snot. Tnis occur
red between 4 and 5 o'clock in the
s morning. He told Dr. Dean who it
s was that did the shoo.ing. He made
no apologies or assertion that would
even give a myan room to believe that
he was sorry of it. After the shooting
he started back up the road toward
the church. Siiooting nook place
about 250 yards below church opposite
brickyard. He gave no reason for
wanting to searca tae buggy until
after the shot. When I first saw him
he was between the c.ureh and the
road. He never spoke until he fol
jowed the buggy, than ran around
and fired. Had no cause for firing
pistois, from appearances nor from
apeech. When I saw them following
us I never spoke to thiem or made any
reply tO him when ne ordered us to
G stop. Deceased was on the lef t side of
1 the buggy. Tne man who did the
snooting was just in front of the buggy
abcut tne leftnand wagon whcel track.
He had a pistol in eacn hand when he
camne to the Duggy. -I could see by the
pistol and I kno y that ile fired boith of
;ne shots at tne buggy. Tnere was no
raiing, everything was quiet except
the re ports ot the pistoJs and cammand
to hait. I would know either one of
them..f they were oefore me. Howie
told me to say it was done accidental
ly. I. never told him anything. He
justs.aid it would keep his folks from
getting mad. The curtains of the
ouggy were up all the while. Tne
deceas:d nad started to Columbia. I
have nevar known deceased to haul,
handle or even drinh whiskey. I saed
tthat there was nothing about the bug
gy that wouhidlead to suspicion. ?iis
2 jgeneral character has been good. He
s is a quiet, sober, Christian nearted
-]man, since my acquaintance with
I nim.W. C. Bruce, (L 8 )
s C. URUCE,
arecalled, says: I[ do not remember see
e ing any one except the t wo men that
did the shooting.
jIs there a man that did the shooting
,or come to the buggy
-' There is.
s Where is he.
-1There ho stands (pointing to Hc vie)
I met no one that i know of.
-W. C. Bruce, (L.-S
NATttAN BXLLARD, CoLoiCED,
duly sworn, say s: I live at Spartan
t burg, I was coming up the road ithis
morning towards Steven's grove. As]
I came up the road near the churca
Sther-e were two mea stanidiug on the
-road: I went about 10 or 15 steps~
-further, met two men en a buggy, one]
Sof tem was J. Henry Turner. I heard~
Sa gunshot an~d thought that they were
Sshooting at me. No one spoke until
-af ter pistol shot. AMter pistol sieot he
i(Ne wolc said i was the wrong man.
- 1Lko w it ras aman by the name ofi
N Ne ooid I is now him when I see him.
fter pistol fired I Leard himn say hait.
STney was oif to the Lf.;f hand srde of
t e roa right at ine baggy, H~owie'
was aourt 13 steps fromn them when
0ito tired. The mule was in a sloW
-si of a tret. I could have heard any
- wod sp as before or after shooting.
l They both went cif together up thel
.ra.d afyr' the shooting. I also wen?t
on ci and kno.;v nothing muore.
Nathan BIalard, IL. S5)
DRi. GEoRlGE R. DEAN.
swrsays: I live UL Spartanburg,
am a pra~cctie physicias .1nd surg-i
n.Iascalled this moraing aocut
13 minute-: of 6 o'clock to see decessd.
I exarninedhhim found, himn dead
to of tc body. I foundi a larg
ried w'ound made b-y une blat
in-tument, about tau ic to the
lef of ..ne .entre at the jauution of hi
Snees- and o '-dy .I probsag that wound0
foun 'd that dUn-onally' and atincst on
-O~J .oi..a lin tharou :ne spial
-cuiuai, icodging~ about thiree-ouarts
uf aa in ude rneathi of the sain a:
the bsa of the n-ek anid oneC inch to
the rigat of the middle liue. I founed
I Lullet located where described at the
bottomn of wound. I would say it was
-. .H or~ hnS ba T n m fully stiidI
that bail was tne cause of his deat>. I
would say that deceased was leaning
forward from position and the range
of ball. There was a man by the name
of Brace and a man v-ho called him
self Howie came with deceased. He
told me that a Mr. Newbold did the
shooting. Howie said be was some
distarcy, about 250 yards from them.
when shooting took place. He just
stated that they were watching fo.i
whiskey. I will just rdl that I ad
vised the young man to bring him
home at once as he was already dead.
He (Ho sie se.ed very nicely. I can
say Iur:iir that J Henry Turner was
a qui-t. good citnz . I notified the
sher: tf.
Dr. Geo. R. Dean, (L. S )
S T. HOWIE,
sworn, says: My home is in North
Carolina. Have been on the constab
ularv force for three years unr:1 0:t.
1. 10S7. Since Oct. 1 I've been at
Chester most of the time, List night
Nov. ;, 1897. we were on a raid, camp
ed near the water works. It must
have been four miles from camp
around to the churoh. We came there
about 9 o'clock, stayed till 4 this morn
ing, then Pe went back of cJurch and
built up a d -e. Mr. ewbold had ot
his shoes. We did not hear the buggy
until it was is front of the church.
He told me to run and showed me
which way to go. I run round church
until I was n-ear the roa,. I seen no
sign of whiskey about the bu!y un
less it was in c as. I seen they had
not seen me. I stepped in the road
be hind them and stood to listen for
the cans. By that time Mr. Newbold
had on his shoes. He came on round
and E-id me to run on, and I ran
about 5s yards. I could not hear auy
cons. I stopped and looked for Mr.
Newbold. I could not see him. I
tnc.ught he had gone back to the ire.
I started back to the fire. got to church
heard him hollow, "hold up there,"
he was s State officer and wanted to
search the buggy and j-ust at that time
he hollowed something else like 'hold
and the pistol fired. He ii-ed two
shots right close together. ;fi called
me then and said, 'come on."
Did the man in the buggy make
any reply when he said hold up?
I heard none. I started to ran to
him down tne road from the church.
I ran down. Had to stop and walk
before I got to him. When I got to
them Mr. Newbold was at the side of
the buggy. Asked him what was the
matter. Then asked him it he was
shot. I heard no reply until after .a
match was struck. Mr. Newbold ask
ed the boy if he was drinking. The
boy told him he was not. This ques
tion was asked before the match was
struck. Soon as Newbold seen he was
shot he burst into crying and aszed
who he was, and said he would not
have shot the old gentleman for any
thing. He started to get in the buggy
himself, then said he had to get his
overcoat. I told him never mind that
I could find a doctor quicker than he
could. I got in the boy's seat; he in
my lap, and we went to Sparianburg
to Dr. Dean. I don't remember, but
as well as I remember, the doctor said
that he was already dead. H3 drew
several breaths after we got to Dr.
Dean's house. I never seen any wea
pons about the buggy. Nor I never
neard any words of resistance.
Did you tell the boy to say that i
was an accident?
No, sir, I did not. I never told him
anything to say. I told him that I
would say that it was an accident.
Would you have Iired those shots
urd r the circumstances, seeing noi
hearing no signs of resistance?
I do not kno w whether I would 03
not. The church door was not locked.
I seen no one except t wo men in the
buggy, myself and New'bold. It was
350 yards from church to where shoot
ing taken place. He ran across the
road behind me when he told me tc
run down the road.
S. T. Howie (L S )
We, the jurors of inquett in the case
of the State vs. the dead body of J.
Henry Turner, tiad toat he came to
his death by a gunshot wound in the
hand of one W. H. Ne wbold and that
S. T. Howie was an accessory to the
murder.
George W. Turner, Foreman.
Hi. H. Turner,
W. A. Hendrix,
W. J. Eabanks,
J. WV. Wingo,
S. D. Hendrix,
B. M. High,
W. L Cuaman.
E P. High,
J. B. Scay,
EI. Belcher,
J. C. Rl->berson.
A Tram p, K~iled.
A waite man, whose name is not
known, was run over by a S. C. & Ga.
passenger train last night at the foot
of Green street, near the Union shed
and instantly killed. When the train
stopped the vicitim was found under
the trucks with his right arm and
rightleg smvrd from his body and
his head was horribly cut and crush
ed. Just how the accident ccurred
is not knowo, but it is the tueury of
the railroad people tat he ecliid' d
with the rear e.ach while1 walking
down the track and while tae train
was being bacaea into the depot, the
fact that his front teehi were knaceked
out of his head goin~r to support the
idea that his face nrst; struck the
bumpers of the rear coach. The body
was so badly mangled that it is dcub.
ful whether the dead man can oe ree
onized. It is surmnised, bo rever, f romn
his dress that he is a trarnp.--olaua
bia Register.
Young men~ who have coeto1
conclusion to t a :m'rng cano cC
:nade ont the far:n~ shoana~ cu
age from the experience fM-d~e
Barton's maddeu daughtes : teo
themi u~nbrs im itu t'r e''c
fatr,~ whoi2oC e~elyhtl
gatered sixrbal s of cotbsds
an aouncaauc" o' car' ' .o .si .u
wh ich 'tey hred, he .d a0 ofCn
work themsele-, at t' Snne tun
waitinupo U na nurie . --e t:?ie,
and anto:her' invali - of -i:
'udyni7c T .~ niur,, l
orents ke:t an: whe : :yr' a
tev found ita hea ofaJ' l )
center of the ms fe:~ :
bones of the children werefudi
heap; showing that they ha haot da
togee i. their sa .nt -'onv.
PARONED EY THE G;VinNDR
Two s:tt Corstab:.a Coniici or Man
slaughter Sat at L b sr!y.
While the whole State is in more c
less of a stir over the killing of Far.
mer Turner by State Detective New
E bold and about the ilight Tuesday of
Newbold. Gov. Elerbe stepped in
Tuesday and granted a full pardon tc
Liqior Constables J. H. Buice and J.
A. Mfay, who killed John T. Sims in
the "Dark Corner" section of Spartan
bur, county, on December 18, 1896,
nearly one year ago. Strange enough
it happens that the killing took place
in identically the same county as that
in which Mr. Turner was killed.
The constables were tut on trial in
Spartanburg county in June last, and
both of them were convicted of man
slaughter, the sentence of the court
being two years in the State prison in
each case. Cra.viord. the otner con
stable who was present at the time of
the kilihw, was also charged with
rmurder, but his case was not prossed
by the solicitor. After the cons lotion
the attorneys repre.tig theconsta
bles at the trial gave noice of an ap
peal to the S:ate Sapreme Court, and
pending that appeal the two men were
released on bond. They have been ox
ever since. The clerk of the supreme
court has within the last few days,
it is understood, been notided that the
appeal has been abandoned.
Sims was a moonshiner; the raid in
which he was killed was the last upon
which the constables ventured in the
"Dark Corner" stetion of that State.
The scene of the killing was about
eight and a half miles from Greer's,
in Spartanburg county. It seems that
the constables came in and one 01
them was leaning over smelling a jug
when the victim appeared with a riff:
levelled upon him. Tne rifle was
knocked up and the fight ensued.
Buice and May shot frequently al
Sims, and Sims and one of Lee consta
bles clinched and fell out of tne door.
?hough already wounded severs
times ia the light, Sims go: up and
tried to run scros the yard. Another
of the constables clinched him and
they struagied oa the ground. Sims
wife and chiidren being gathered
around and screaming all the time.
Several more shots were fired, and
when it was all over Sims was a dead
man. These additional statements
were made yesterday by a man whc
was in that section at the time.
Another coincidence about thes
pardons is t.t Lawyer Thomason of
Spartanburz, who is connected with
the Newbold case, figures in the mat
ter also. It may be mentioned, too
that the governor acted upon the ap
plications for pardon without thi
usual references of the papers to tht
presiding jadge and solicitor, he sc
stateh Tuesday afternoon in respons=
to al inqiry.
Mr. Tnomasoa was the attorney as
sisting the solicitor in the prosecution
of the men. He wrote the followine
letter to tL governor, and upon it
Governor Ellerbe basel his action in
part, it being supported however, by
a large nuaiber of petitions for the
p rd:oa from several counties:
"I assisted the solicitor in the prose
cution of the defendants, May anc
Buice, and in my opinion they would
not have been convicted if they had
not been State constables, and I will
state farther that I replied to the ar
nument made on the part of the de
fendants for a neiv trial, and I believ
ed, after hearing the argument madi
Ion the part of the attorneys for the de
fendants, that the presiding judge
would grant their motion for a nes'
trial. I thought then that he ought tc
grant it, and I still think that ht
ought to have granted it.
"W. S. Thomason."
A petition was present signed bl
the clerk of the court, judge of pro
oate, master, county auditor, counts
superintendent of edusation,and Mag
istrate Ganter of Spartanburg county.
The following is the form of the peti
tion signed by several hundred peopi
jfrom Aiken county:
To his Excellency, Gov. Wim. H. El
ierte:
We, the undersigned citiz ms of Ai
ken county, hereoy petition you tc
pardon Mr. John A. May, who was
convic'.ed of manslaughter at the
June term of the sessions court fo:
Spartanburg county, and sentenced tc
sera a term of two years in the Stati
ipeniterLary. We suosit to yonr er
!c lieney's consideratiou, the fact thal
from what we have heard of Mr. May,
hne has always borne a reputatioa foi
pieace an~d good order, that his reputa
t on in th community in which he
I ins~ antd in Aiken county for peace
and good orde:-, moral character, so
brey and industry has alnys bee!
gocd, and that we uever have iaeard of
his evraving ceen engaged in any
dis~o:-derly conduct, and in our opia
io we do not think that he would
commi an act like the one with whicio
he is charged unless he was compellec
to do so to protect his own life. And.
thnercefoe we humbly petition you tc
graat hims a full pardon, .ate.
The sheriff, county supervisor, clerk
of court, auditor, treasurer, Represen
. atie Gushmao, master, and other
Iliil offi Aiken ccuuty were among
A s12nilar peti:ion, not so na-nr2us
l y s'ied, howe~ver, was presented
:rom'Gneroke e-: ty A like peti
tion wa "presented in May's behalf by
the c.itie of G'raaiteville in Aiken
cony Si ae of foo~scap pap
coveed i~ cintrs, two to th
. . -Ian WA. U.B rr ndR
' oonrs resecful ivshow
~JiZ~ S e uy . of
ls~ ic "o,
THE STATE SCHOOLS.
MARKED INCREASE IN THE TOTAL
ENROLLMENT OF FUPiLS.
F.gures by Counties-The Belative Show
irg Made by the White and Colored
Mle and Female Pupils.
Getting the benefit of the three mill
school tax and the prospect of obtain
ing considerably longer terms in the
public schools of the State has result
ed in quite an increase in this year's
enrollment of pupils in the schools.
There are this year 25,846 more pupils
enrolled in the public schools than
last year. Nearly 10,000 of these are
white pupils. Another noticeable
thing is that while there were scarcely
more than 100 more girls than boys
last year in the public schools, this
year the girls have a little over 1,000
in their favor. Several thousand more
colored . _n white children are still
availing themselves of the education
r: advantages offered by the State.
aiL)tgh the increase is not so large
as wa ex pect d this year it is by sev
eral thousand the largest in recent
years. The following figures speak
f- temselves, sho wing a comparison
of t .e total enrollment by years for
severai years past:
1897..........................258,183
196.................. .......232,337
1895..........................223,021
1894..........................226,766
1893..........................223,150
Tne follo wing was the total enroll
ment for last year by races and sexes:
Waite, 109,159; colored, 123,178;
male, 116,091, female, 116,217; grand
total, 232,337.
Tais year's enrollment figures by
counties are as follows:
White. Colored.
Abbeville.............4,112 4,184
aisen................ 3,076 3.653
Alderson............. 6,732 3,821
Birnwell............. 5,071 7,804
3:aufort.............. 451 874
B.rkelev.............. 1,370 3,328
Uharlesion............ 3,590 7,807
Chester....... . 1,830 4,099
Cnestertield.......... 2,420 1,348
Clarencion............ 1,801 2,955
Colleton.............. 3,241 3,292
Darlington........... 2,815 3,521
Edgefield............. 2,399 5,248
Fairfield ............. 1.706 4,466
Florence.............. 2,778 3,121
Georgetown.......... 1,040 2,715
Greenville............ 7,749 3,800
Hampton...........,. 1,991 2,231
Horry................ 3,664 1,450
Kersnaw.............2,270 2,037
Lancaster............. 2,910 1,790
Laurens............ 3,788 4,561
Lexington............ 4,173 1,920
Marion. ..............3,726 3,330
Marlboro............. 1,898 2,935
Newberry......... 2,641 3,927
Oconee............... 4,855 1,238
Orangeburg...' 4,302 7,768
Pickens.......... 3,270 1,395
Richland............. 2,507 5,460
Saluda............... 2,167 2,376
Spartanburg..........10,526 5,451
umter....., ...... 2.858 7,024
Union..........,.. 2,074 2,339
Williamsburg........2,614 3,657
York.................. 4,612 5,629
Totals..............119,027 139,156
TotalsGrand
Male. Female. total.
Abbevile.... 5,701 6,197 11,898
Aiken.... 3,342 3,387 6,729
Anderson.... 5,378 5,175 10,553
Ban el.... 6,471 6,404 32,875
Beaufor..... 2,129 2,196 4,325
Berkeley .... 2,242 2,456 4,698
Charleston... 5,233 6,164 1,397
jCcester...2,830 3,099 5,929
Chestertied.. 1,938 1,830 3,768
Cla: endon. ... 2,411 2,345 4,756
Colleton...3,223 3,310 6,533
Darlington... 3,228 3,108 6,336
Edgefield.... 3,721 3,926 7,647
Fairfield..2,925 3,247 6,172
Fiorer co .... 2,918 2,951 5,899
Georgetown.. 1,873 1,882 3,755
Greenville... 5,921 5,628 11,549
Hampton .... 2,142 2,080 4,222
SHorry.....4. 2,698 2,416 5,114
kersaw. 2,137 2,170 4,307
Lancaster. 2,387 2,313 4,700
L turens...4,086 4,263 8,349>
Lexington ... 3,179 2.914 6,00,
Marion ... .,..3,468 3,588 7,056
IMarlboro . 2,488 2,345 4,03
Newberry. 2,214 3,654 6,568
Oconee ... .... 3,120 2,973 6,093
Oranebur. 6,106 5,964 12,070
Ficen.....2,494 2,171 4,668
Riclad....3,930 4,037 7,967
3aluda....... 2,329 2,214 4,543
Spartanbarg 8,179 7,798 15,977
Sumter ...... 4,812 5,070 9,882
Union... 2,247 2,166 4,413
Williams burg 3,105 3,166 6,271
York... 5,182 5,059 10,241
Totals... ...123,517 129,666 258,183
A sensational suicide.
A most sensational suicide occurred
in Augusta Thursday morning at 8
o'clock. William Moody shot him
self through the 'bsek of the head
while lying in bed in a room at a
boarding house. Moody was one of
Ithe best known men in t.an and was
Imost popular. He was head clerk at
FL 3vy's book store. When he failed
'tosho u p at work this morning.
William Levy went to his boarding
house to ascertain the cause and, en
tering the room found Moody on the
bed, his head in a pool of blood. The
Ipistol was grasped in his hand. He
died an hout af ter the shooting. The
bullet went through his head and
came cut of the other side. About
t vo months ago Moody married Miss
?gi Paryear, a popular and beauti
ful young ay. 'The two had a small
gnre ad taie wife went to her pa
ret'huse and spent the night.
T2usdy morning when Moody
Caimba Rgite sas r.H.
. m o d seknofteprogress
o f e ropsedredistricting bill in
:aigfriends among legislators
sadta ehad talke d with a number
of te membsrs who visited the city
duin te fair and he found them
yfaoably inclined to it. The
ae ss opposition wlli come from
tue oesent congressmen, and they
have enough frienas in the legislature
to mnke a lively fight over the pass
ages of the bill. These gentlemen are
eemily"ea'd against"' the bill.
,usands Messacred.
A p i a dispatch brings serious
Ie "a s 'r the 'Niger region, West
afia aorder to punish the in
abtants of the town of Kong, capital
ofth kl a of Kong, in the Man
di::'o re in of Up per Guinea, for
1ai eua to supply his troops with
povisons Chief Samory has razed
th tow and massacred several thou