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OL. XIV. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1899. NO. 24
RETURN OF LIQUOR.
The Covernor Makes a Positive
Statement About It.
THE INSTRUCTIONS IN FULL.
When it Is Seized According to
Linstructions He Will Entertain
No Proposition for its
Return.
The Columbia correspondent of the
News aud Courier says nearly every day
a bundle of letters goes to the execu
tive office asking for the return of
liquor seized by the State constables.
This has been particularly the case dur.
ing the rush of Christmas business.
Governor Ellerhe announced Wednes
day that hereafter people will save
themselves a great deal of trouble and
annoyance in not w riting for the return
of liquor seized in compliance with the
instructions to the constables. If the
liquor intoned for personal use is seized
under the intructions it will go to the
State, and Governor Ellerbe says he
will not entertain applications for its
return. Liquor shipped into the State
in conformity with the law and regula
tions will not be interfered with, and if
it is the constables are liable to get into
trouble.
In order that the general public cain
understand the rules governing the con
stables the instructions have been ob
tained and are given in full, together
with amendments agreed upon Wed
nesday. They are as followss:
L_ 1. Constables appointed under the
dispensary law will act only under the
law.
2. They have the right to exercise
all the duties and powers conferred
upon them by the dispensary law.
3. Constables de tecting persons open
ly, or in the act of violating any of the
provisions of the dispensary law, may
arrest and carry the party before a mag
istrate for a warrant.
4. They are to seize any wagon, cart,
boat, or any other conveyance, together
with the horses, mules, or any other
animals, discovered transporting liquor
in the night time.
5. They rju..t obtain warrants from
magistrates for the arrest of any per
sons who violate the dispensary law,
and such \ jolations can only be proved
by witnesses. The warrant must be
based on an affidavit.
6. They have the right at any time
during the day or night "we, to enter
upon lots or open places. tres, etc.. to
make search for contraband liquors with
out a warrant, but should never search
private houses or apartments without a
search warrant, issued by a magistrate.
Under Section 22 of the dispensary law
all places can be searched when a com
mon nuisance is maintained, and ai ar
rest and search warrant should be issued
as provided in that section, and such
action should - be taken as is therein
prescribed.
7. Constables cannot seize liquors,
wines or beers imported by citizens of
this State for personal use. Suich
liquors are not requi ed to hav.e certiti
cates showing analysis. W hen liquors
come into this State marked for person
al use, if it is consigned to a known
blind tiger, or the constables have
proof or strong suspicious circumstances
that they are for sale. they can seize
and hold for tw~nty-four hours for in
vestigation, but no liquors must be
taken from the railroad while they are
in transit. W he n seizures are made
upon suspicion they must be made
after the liquors have arrived at their
place of consiginment-their destination
-or have pasar d into the hands of the
consignee. Of course constables must
exercise sound judgment and be careful
about seizing liquors marked f r per
sonal use.
8. When constables have a well
founded suspicion that persons are cor.
ducting blind tigers they should watch
them diligently, so as to make it diffi
cult and cangerous for them to sell, and
frequent raids should be made upon
them, a: d all liquors found should be
seized. If constables are satisfied that
liquors are illegally sold in any place,
and suspect that liquors are kept else
where and brought to the place in small
quabtities, separate search warrants
should be taken out and the suspected
places searched.
L9. All contraband liquors seized must
be disposed of as airected in Section 31
ol the dispensacy law.
L10. Persons having contraband liq
uors in possession violate the law, and
may be indicted and the liquors contis
cated.
gi1. All liquors shipped c. o. d. or
order notify, or bill of lading with
draft attaecd, or is in any w ay to be
paid for in the State, should be seized.
Lu12. Liquors found in any express offiee
r-depot, at destiuation, consigned to a
fictitious party, or intended for other
than the consignee, should be seized.
If there is good reason for believius
that a package of liquor is for other
person than the consignee, it may be
seized and deposited in a dispensary,
or with the sheriff for thirty days, or
until investigation is made, and if, upon
investigation, it is found to be a lawful
hipment, it must be released.
[J13. Liquora being shipped concealed,
or bearing mi:,leading marks for the
purpose of disguisin~g the contents of
the package, munst be seized. When
parties club together anid order liquor,
to be divided or distributed between
them, it must be seized. Persons can
only order for themselves, and in their
own name. and may not use the name
of a firm or company.
14. Upon complaint being made by
citizens of any conmmunity that soft
drinks containing alcohol are being
sold, or if a constable be satisfied that
the soft drinks contain alcohol he shall
glize and ship the same to the S:a-e
commissioner.
15. Contraband goods, which for any
reason are not shippped to the State
commissioner at once, should be turned
orer to the sheriff of the county; or. if
more convenient, may by stored in a dis
pensary and left in charge of the dis
penser until ready to ship.
L16. Contraband liquoxs must be
shipped by freight if the quantity is
considerable, but small packages may
be sent by express. Railroai or ex
press receipts must be taken for every
mitininer. A report of he seizure mut
be made to the clerk in the executive
)uiee, giving any information obtained
hat will be needed by him if applica
ion is made for the release of the
goods. All packages must be plainly
marked. so that they can be identified.
17. When any team is seized for
transporting liquor at night, or any li
quors or personal property is seized,
under search warrant or otherwise, the
constable seizing same shall have an in
ventary and appraisement made by
three sworn appraisers, providing the
property is worth more that fifty dol
lars. The constable will then publish
a notice for three weeks in three public
places. describing the articles, etc., and
requiring any person claiming them to
appear and make claim within thirty
days from the date of the first publica
tion of the notice. It no claim is made
within thirty days, the constable or
other officer can sell the same, without
further advertisement to the highest
bidder. In giving the notice for the
three weeks the constable should
state in same that if the property is not
claimed within thirty days and bond
iled with the State board the property
will be sold, giving place where it will be
sold, and when sold. The bill for keep
of team may be paid from the proceeds,
and the balance remitted -> the State
Treasurer. A complete statement
showing gross proceeds, expenses and
the sum remitted, most be mailed to the
clerk in the executive office.
18. Constables may enter any ex
press, or other cars, or boats, in the
State, for the purpose of searching for
contraband liquors, and may examine
the books and way bills of the trans
portation companies. Constables may
use teams or horses in order to pursue
and capturo teams or persons transport
ing liquor when they could not succeed
otherwise, but should not use teams to
drive over the country in search of
work. Only when reasonably sure of
acconplishing goed work may the ex
pense of teams be incurred.
19. It is the duty of all sheriffs,
magistrates and magistrates' constables
to enforce the dispensary law (see Sec
tion 29.) and they are entitled to half
the value of the contraband liquor they
seize; but when the State constables
get them to serve warrants, or merely
to assist them in arrests or searches,
the3 are not entitled to this commis
siou and it will not be allowed.
20. The proprietor, and his aids and
assibtants, in any establishment where
liquors are sold contrary to law, may
be arrested and prosecuted.
21. Constables will study ' law
and enforce its various provisijns with
22. Constables will report daily to
their immediate superior, who is re
quired to examine the same and forward
to the executive office.
23. Constables must be courteous to
all, but will refrain from talking un
necessarily about their official plans and
business to the public. They owe no
apology or explanation to anyone for
oing their duty.
24. Constables will refrain from the
use of liquors to excess, on pain of ex
pulsion.
25. When constables get a case
0tgeinst violators of the dispensary law
they should see that the witnesses are
bound over and urge the proupt hear
ng of the case, especially if they are
itnesses themselves, so that if they
re called away the case will have been
isposed of and they will not have to
etumn to attend the trial. When it
an be done, cases should be brought
within the jurisdiction of the magis
rate and finally disposed of. Atten
ance on the Circuit Court by consta
les is expensive and takes much of
their time.
It will be well to note Section 13, to
ut it out and paste it up, as there is
ery much more trouble from evasion
>f this section than all of the others
> mbined.
It is announced that the rules may
may be changed at any time but the
resent ultimatum is that where there
re violations of the dispensary law, as
romulgated in the rules to cornetables,
he liquor will be seized and kept, and
here is no use to bother to ask for its
eturn. If liquor is ordered in copart
ership, as is prohibited in Rule 13. it
ay be considered as gone. If a wrong
ame is given, as is prohibited, it is
nother case of contributing to the
State treasury, and so en.
This is no New Year ultimatum
either, but it is to go into immediate
ffect. ___________
Could Not Happen Here.
Charles W. Swan and Mrs. Isabella
Brown were married in Manchester,
Va., Tuesday night under most unusual
onditions. It was the second time the
same couple embarked on the matri
monial sea as husband and wife, and
followed two suits for divorce, a convic
tion of bigamy and a pardon, and to
further complicate the situation there
is another woman in Manchester who
bears Swan's name, and is the mother
f his family of grown children. Swan,
ight years ago, after his wife had been
enied a divorce, applied for one him
self and was granted a legal separation,
which might, after five years, be per
fected into a permanent divorce. At
he end of five years, and without bring
ng further proceedings, Swan followed
rs. Brown to North Carolina, married
er and brought her to live near his old
ome. After many months his first
sife prosecuted him and he was finally
onvicted of bigamy and given three
ears. The governor pardoned him the
wxt day and the wedding was the se
uel. _________
Gov. Russell's Surprises.
A sensation was created in Raleigh.
. '., Wednesday by the announce
nent that J. M. NMewborne, the Fusion
superintendent of the penitentiary, had
eignted and Capt. W. H. Day, a Dem
oratic lawyer, had been named by Gov
rnor Russell as his successor. Mr.
M ew borne'sresignation takes effect Jan.
lt. Not even the most intimate friends
f the interested parties knew of the
ontemplated change in management.
Capt. Day has accepted the position,
and Wednesday announced that he
would fill all the subordinate offices
with Democrats,. He has already ap
pointed R. J. Tillery of Halifax county
as manager of the State farms and F.
B. Arendell of Raleigh manager of the
central prison.- Governor Russells
political friends are severely criticising
him for appointing Democrats to office
Only two weeks ago he appointed a
Democrat as adjiutant general of the
State. and since then he has made the
boards of directors for several of the in
IN A BAD FIX.
A Distressing State of Affairs in
Beaufort County.
CROPS RUINED BY STORMS.
At the Request of Prominent
Citizens Governor Ellerbe
Asks for Aid for the
Suff rers.
Some time ago Governor Ellerbe re
ceived information of suffering on the
sea islands of Beaufort county. From
information received Wednesday he
has been apprised that storms have
ruined the crops inland and that there
is much distress and suffering in por
tions of Beaufort county.
He has decided to ask for contribu
tions for the relief of these worthy and
unfortunate people, and those who dc
sire to aid them may send their contri
butions to Gov. Ellerbe or to the gen
tlemen who apprised the governor of the
situation. Their communication is ap
pended:
Bluffton, Dec. 2. 189S.
To His Excellency Governor W. H. E.l
lerbe, Columbia.
Dear Sir: In the face of the dire and
general distress now depressing and op
pressing the people throughout the
township of Bluffton, Yemassee and
Hilton Head, in Beaufort county.
caused by two cyclonic storms within a
month of each other, the first on the
28th of August and the second on the
second of October past, we deem it
proper to submit to the executive a
statement of their present condition
and solicit such assistance as the ne
cessities of the case indicate and re
quire.
Previous to the first cyclone the er >ps
promised an ample, prosperous harvest.
but swept by the tempest and unprece
dented flood the larger portion wa, de
stroyed, houses blown down, all the
bridges swept away and forests wrecked
roads blockaded by fallen trees and
the entire township naiued. devasta
ted.
The second storm con.,ummated the
desolation and the destrut-tion is so pre
dominant and general as to be the rule
and not the exception.
The other townships in the county
suffered to a limited extnt, but the
three townships about which we write
are ent'rely wrecked.
The rice and pea crops are destroyed;
a one-half corn crop, one-half of it rot
ten, has been gathered and a minimuni
of storm cotton. valued at scarce one
cent per pound in the seed. while the
potato crop has been alniost a failure
from the flood, fresh and salt water that
submerged the townships.
On the Savannah and New rivers in
Yemassee and Bluffton townships there
has been planted this year between
5,000 and 6.000 acres of rice with the
promised yield of about 250,000 bush
els, worth $250,000, and the cyclones
have left only about 12,000 or 15.000
bushels of damaged rice, while the rice
mizls themselves, trunks, banks, flats
and boats have been to a lar e extent
destroyed.
The rice harvest had commenced and
ito that time at least 100,000 in cash
had been expended on the production
>f the crop, all of which has been en
gulfed by the cyclonic flood.
The people are disheartened by the.
esolation around them, their houses,
fences and fields presenting a deplora
le picture and discouraging prospects,
with the want of necessities of life
taring them in the face, while there is
no work or enterprise offering to give
them employment.
In addition to this general calamity
very family has suffered and are still
smfering with malarial fever, the se
uence of the flood and exposure.
The people need subsistence, cloth
ing, medicine and indulgence in the
payment of their taxes.
They, the people, have no money,
and unless the payment of taxes is ex
ended for them in Bluffton, Yemassee
and Hilton Head townships, the little
that is left by the storms will have to
be sold and sacrificed, thereby disa
lying them to cultivate a crop the en
suing year.
The real condition of the people in
these townships is such as to deruand in
ur humble opinion your official atten
ion and interposition, and we feel con
fident if one with authority is commis
sioned to investigate the matter his re
port will prove of such a character as to
ender imperative, and .iustify the peo
ple in the appeals to the public as well
s to the State for needed considcration
nd assistance. In the village of Bluff
on many houses were blown down with
a number of the best d wellings unroofed
nd fences prostrated.
These townships have been laid waste
by four terrific cyelones within the past
ive years, and the people, while eon
fronting the inevitable and br-avely
truggling to surmount their troubles.
feel reluctantly constrained by their
resent necessitous condition to solicit
ublic aid and assistance.
Respectfully suhbmitted by
J. G. Verdier,
31enuber eleet.
F. T. Hardee.
Robt Crosby.
C. S. Pritchard,
.J. S. P'adh.-tt.
R. 0. ley nolds.
W. N. Barn~es,
31auistrate.
C'. A. Verdier,
G. G. Verdier,
WV. RA. 3. \erdier.
.J. 31eLer.
C. J. Coleoek,
31ember House of R epresenitative&.
A Terrible Avalanche.
Part of Red Rock mountain. accr
ing to a dispatch from Airolo. (a village
of Switzerland. canton of Tieino) h asi
fallen into Airolo, destroying a hotel
and several houses. The scene of the
disaster presents a terrible specacle,
the debris of the avalanche covering a
square mile. The hotel, with eight
houses and 12 other buildings was
swept into a great heap of match wood.
A new terror was added by the out
break of fire amid the ruins. Three
dead bodies have been recovered. It
is estimated that the damage will reach
WANDERED AWAY.
The Rev. W. A. Kelly Has Gone None
Knows Where.
To the Editor of The State:
My husband. the Rev. Wm. Aiken
Kelly. laboring under temporary mental
aberration has left the city of Charles
ton and wandering I know not where.
Physically very delicate and a great
sufferer for years, his exceedingly vig
orous mind held to the point of t tmosL
tension in preparing for conference ex
amination has suddenly given away.
Will his many warm friends of the
State assist me with prayer and effort
to recover him? Sorrowfully,
Mrs. Wi. A. Kelly.
The Charleston correspondent of The
State says: "The Rev. Win. Aiken
Kelly, a young minister recently ad
mitted to the M.thodist conference of
this State, has been missing for over
a week ana his friends are very anxious
about him Ile has a church in Sum
ter. Ten days ago he came to this city
accompanied by his wife and child to
spend the Christmas holidays with
friends. The Sunday before Christmas
he preached an excellent sermon at
Bethel church. On the followingTues
day he made an appointment in the
morning to meet his wife and some
friends at a point near the city. He
then left the house at which he was
staying: and has not been seen since.
His wife says that he had worked very
hard preparing for his examination at
the conference of his church and she
thinks that his mind gave way under
the strain and that he has wandered
away. She does not fear foul play but
she is afraid that he is ill somewhere
and unable to communicate with his
friends. Once before, after a period of
hard study, the young minister left
home and was not heard of for four
days. le came to himself then in Au
Z~ta. Ga. The Rev. Mr Kelley is
about 26 years of age. His father was
for years city assessor of this city and
he and his family are widely known and
popular in South Carolina.
Sixty Thousand Gone.
A dispatch from San Antonio, Texas,
says the offic of the Wells Fargo Ex
press Company at that place is out a
money package containing $60,000.
The money was sent there from Hous
ton. It arrived Wed-iebday morning
and was given to C. A. Beeler, the
Wells-Fargo money clerk to hand over.
Beeler started for the depot and was
seen enroute. Four hours after his de
parture his wagon was found five miles
west of the city in a thicket, the horse
almost dead from the effects of hard
d.iving. Inquiry developed the fact
that no delivery had been made. There
was no evidence of a struggle in the
vicinity of where tie vehicle was found.
Bee'er has been in the employ of the
company for niue years and enjoyed
the confidence of all. He spent several
years on the frontier as a cowboy. His
triends stoutly assert that he is the vic
tim of foul play and his wife also in
clines to this belief. Supt. Taft, of
the express company is here investiga
ting. He admits that the loss will
reach the sum stated while rumor near
ly doubles the awoa.
An Important Decision.
The Charlestou correspondent of the
State says Judge Benet Wednesday an
nounced his decision on the motions for
new trial basec' on the claim that one
or more jurors were not 'qualfied elec
tors" in the intent and meaning of the
constitution. On the constitutional
question his honor decided that a
"qualitied elector." and a qualified ju
ror, must be a "registered voter."
T'his was favorable to the movers. But
his honor decided, secondly, that all
parties had due notice and with proper
diligence could have ascertained before
trial whether jurors were qualified.
The objection should have been raised
before trial. And, thirdly, his honor
decided that there was not a sufficiency
of evidence in the certiaicate of the
clerk of the court that the juror's name
did not appear on the registration rolls
filed with him to prove that the juror
was not a registered votr r. The mo
tion for new trial was refused.
A Terrible Tragedy.
Wednesday three of the children of
Charles Hiagerman were playing on the
ice off the north shore of Wells Island,
in the St. Lawrence River, when it
broke arnd they all fell in and were
drowned. A fourth child, who was on
shore, ran to the house and notified her
mother. Mrs. Hlagerman rushed to the
scene and in her endeavors to rescue the
children broke through the ice, and she
too, was drowned. A man who was at
tracted to the scene of the accident dove
into the water and brought up >ner of the
children, but as the man was trying to
climb out on the ice the child slipped
from his grasp and perished. The famn
Jly consisted of Charles Hlagerman, his
wife and nine children. IHagerman,
who had been in Canada, arrived home
an hour af er the drowning to take
Christmas with his family. Hie went
to the riser alone and recovered the
tour bodies.
ihey Speak out.
The following resolution, offered by
Comrade Beasley, formerly of North
Carolina. was unanimously passed at a
mieetlrig of the ('onfederate Veteran
Camp of New Yo k:
Resolved. That the Confederate Vet
eran (Camy of New York condemns in
unmeasured termis the efforts of Sena
tor Butler of North Carolina (wvho is
not a C'onfederate veteran) to debauch
the manhood of the South by seeking to
obtain pensions for ex-Confederate sol
diers from the United States, and that
any similar effort b~y any Southern
member oh' Congress will be abhorrent
to the camp and meet with unqualified
condemn atio(n.
An Experts Opinion.
.Mr. Alfred B. Shepperson. the cot
to exetsy in his leemrber edi
opinions of a few Southern bank cash
iers, a class whose occupation usually
keeps them in their offices at routine
work all day. I am certain that the con
census of opinion among cotton factors
and planters-the people who -are best
informed on the matter-would be that
46 cents per pound for middling cotton
in interior Southern markets would be
more than a cent and a half per pcund
below the averae cst of production.'
BRYAN SPEAKS OUT.
He Opposes a Big Standing Army
and Vassal Colonies.
IS STILL FOR FREE SILVER.
But Thinks forthe Time that Issue
is Overshadowed by Issues
Raised by the Span
ish War.
Col. W. J. Bryan returned to Lin
coln, Neb., his home, one day last week
and was tendered a reception at the
Oliver Theatre by the Woman's Bime
tallic League. The house was crowded
and Col. Bryan received an ovation.
He was introduced by Governor Hol
comb, who formally welcomed him
home and complimented him for his
patriotism in enlisting in the army.
After thanking his neighbors for
their cordial welcome and compliment
ing the members of his regiment ard
Col. Vifquain, in whose charge he left
them, he justified his resignation as
follows: "I had five months of peace
in the army and resigned in order to
take part in a fight. I am as much in
terested in the people of the United
States as I am in the people of Cuba,
and unless I am mistaken in judging
we are called upon to meet more im
portant problems in the United States
just now than will confront our army
in Cuba.
"Some of these problems were under
discussion before hostilities began.
Others have been thrust upon us as a
result of the war. Let me improve
this, my first opportunity, to assure you
that my zeal for the reforms advocated
a few months ago has not in the least
abated.
"Vital questions cannot be killed or
burned and we were dealing with vital
questions when the call to arms re
sounded throughout the land.
"The American people have not ac
cepted th3 gold standard as final. It
has wought more injustice in our coun
try during the last twenty-five years
than Spain has wrought in all her colo
nies, and opposition to it will grow
until the gold and silver coinage of the
Constitution is fully restored. The
trusts which now flourish in defiance of
laws are more merciless than Weyler
was and the new trust-the paper money
trust-which is seeking to obtain con
trol of all the paper money in the na
tion, is a greater menace to the coun
try's welfare than any foreign foe.
"There are, however, two new ques
tions which demand immediate atten
tention, because congress is asked to
act upon them at once.
"The -presdent reccommends that the
regular army be permanently increased
to 100,000 men. This question must
be met now or not at all."
Taking up the subject of imperialism
Mr. Bryan said that the president has
misinterpreted the sentiment of the
people. They are opposed to giving
the Philippine Islands back to Spain,
but they have not as yet declared in
favor of embarking upon a colonial poli
cv. So great a charge, he said, could
not be undertaken without more inves
tigation and deliberation than the peo
ple had yet given to the subject.
The principal part of Mr. Bryan's
spech was devoted to the Philippine
:question. In this connection he re
ferred to President McKinley's inquiry:
"Who will haul down the flag?" and
replied: "The flag is a national em
blem an~d is obedient to the national
will. I: was made for the people, not
the peop~le for the flag. When the Am
ican people want the flat raised they
raise it; when they want it hauled down
they haul it down. The flag was raised
upon Canadian so! during the war of
1812. and it was hauled down when
peace was restored. The flag was
planted upon Chapultepec during the
war with Mexico, and it was haiuled
down when the war was over. The
morning papers announce that General
Lee ordered the flag hauled down in
Cuba yesterday because it was raised
too soon. The flag will be raised in
Cuba again on the 1st of January, but
the president declares in his message
that it will be hauled down as soon as a
stable government is established. Who
will deny to the people the right to
haul the flag devan in the Philippines,
if they so desire, ;hen a stable govern
ment is estallished there?
"Our flag stands for an indissolnble
Union of indestructible States. Every
State is represented by a star and every
'erritory sees in the Constitution a star
of hope that will seine day take its
place in the constellation. What is
there in the flag to awaken the zeal or
reflect the aspirations of vassal colonies
which are too good to be cast way, but
not good enough to be admitted to the
sisterhood of States?
"Shall we keep the Philippines and
amend our flau? Shall we add a new
star-the bold~ star, Mars-to indicate
that we have entered upon a career of
conquest? Or shall we borrow the yel
low, which in 1896 was the badge of
gold and greed, and paint Saturn and
his rings, to suggest a carpet-bag gov
ernment with its schemes of spoliation?
Or shall we adorn our flag with a milky
way, composed of a multitude of minor
stars, representing remote and insignifi
cant dependencies?
"No. a thousand times better to haul
down the stars and stripes and substi
tute the flag of an indepcndent republic
than to surrender the doctrines that
give glory to 'Old Glory.' It was the
fag of our fathers in the years that are
gone; it is the flag of a reunited couu
try today, let it be the flag of our nation
in the years that are to come. Its
stripes of red tell of the blood that was
shed to purchase liberty; its stripes of
white proclaim the pure and Heaven
born purposes of a government which
derived its just powers from the con
sent of the governed. The mission of
that flag is to float, not over a conglom
eration of commonwealths, but over
'the land of the free and the home of
the brave,' and to that mission it must
remain 'forever true, forever true.'"
A Sad Huunt.
A dispatch from Florence to The
State says James Willoughby, son of
Mr. T. C. Willoughby of this city, ac
identally shot and killed his little
brother, Rueben, while hunting Tues
day afternoon. The afflicted ones have
the entire sympathy of the communi
NEW PRODUCT OF CORN.
Ground Stalks Make a Superior Forage
for Stock.
The Baltimore Sun says the new corn
products, upon which investigations
have been conducted at the Maiyland
Agricultural Experiment station to de
termine its value as a stock food, has
been given inuch consideration by the
farming community of the State; in
fact, many States have taken up the
subject and are conducting experiments
to ascertain its relative feeding value.
In the process of the extraction of the
pith, the blades and husk are first re
moved and the stalkP are cut up in
small pieces. After the extraction of
the pith from the stalk the balance is
ground up into meal, which in general
appearance resembles coarse bran. This
ground material is termed the "new
corn product." The new corr product
contains eleven pounds per hundred
more digestible matter and two pounds
per hundred more digestible protein
than the w'iole fodder shredded. Dur
ing the past few years much has been
done in the way of testing methods for
preparing corn fodder for feeding, with
most of the results in favor of some
method o? shredding the stalk. Shred
ding possesses many points which makes
it supericr to the ordinary or old way
of cutting fodder, the principal one of
which is that the shredded fodder is al
most wholly eaten by animals. It is
found that the corn product contains
within one pound as much total digesti
ble matter as wheat bran. but less than
one third as much digestible protein;
consequently the nutritive ratio is
wider. It was further observed that
animals fed with a fattening ration with
the new corn product base made more
gain in live weight and upon less feed
than with a fattening ration of the
bame grain and corn blades. The keep
ing qualities of the new corn product
are as good as linseed meal, cotton seed
meal or wheat bran, and rations made
up with this material can be fed with
less labor and less waste of feed than
when hay and fodder are fed separately,
as ordinarily practiced. The naval de
partwent of the United States govern
ment has conducted extensive experi
ments with corn pith for fse in vessels,
and the results have been so satisfac
tory that it has been adopted and speci
fied for use in the construction of all
new vessels. Its ability to absorb great
quantities of water quickly and thus
swell very rapidly so as to close a hole
be'ore water can enter a vessel is the
chief advantage in its favor.
FOUR MURDERS IN A DAY.
Women and Wine Cause Three of the
Four Murders.
Henry Perry, a well known citizen of
Atlanta, was shot and almost instantly
killed Wednesday in alhouse on Madison
streeet, by John A. lilam. The men
had a de3perate light for a revolver.
which Milam finally secured Florence
Livin -ston, who lived in the place, en
deavored to separate the men. but fail
d. She afterward told the authorities
that she did the killing, and presented -
apistol as the weapon used, but all the
hambers were filled. A passer by
aught Perry as he fell and heard him
say he had been killed by Milam.
Mike Day, 17 years old, a cripple,
hot and instantly killed Frank Fleury
t noon. Day says he discharged the
weapon without looking. Harry Fleu
y, a brother of the dead b'oy, says Day
pointed the pistol directly at the child.
He declares that Day and his brother
ad quarreled several days ago, but Day
says he was friendly with little Fleury.
A year ago Day shot Jack Jones, a boy
is own age, but the wound was not fa
al.
Levi Patterson sh.>t and killed Tom
Fster, who was intoxicated and trying
o pick a quarrel.
Special Officer A. J. Cavender of the
ulton bag and cotton mills, was shot
and perhaps fatally wounded by Jesse
Owen, an employe of the cotton mills.
Owen's relatives were celebrating
hristmas rather hilarously and Caven
er went to arrest Owen, who fired on
im.
TI e police, in the past 48 hours, have
rrested nearly 200 persons on different
harges, which is believed to break the
record here.
The saloons were closed as usual at
10 o'clock Saturday night, and were not
opened today by special order of
M1ayor Collier. Nearly every person
taken in by the police had a bottle on
his person, and as a result the large
vault at Central station is well tilled
with a varied assortment of bottles and
liquors.__________
Major David Hemphill.
The Knoxville Sentinel of Tuesday
printed the following relative to the de
mise of 3Major Hemphill. formerly chief
ua termaster on Gen. Bates' staff, w to
died in that city on Mlonday night:
M\ajor David IHemphill died last night
at 7 :) o'clock at the division hospital.
lis serious illness was of short duration
But little over a week ago he was a fa
miliar figure upon the streets and cir
ulating among the many friends made
since he came to Knioxville. His plans
were that at the hour his life went out,
to be speeding homeward for the holi
days. His home-going has been delay
ed and when his body reaches his place
of birth in South Carolina it will be
but to be consigned t the grave. His
death resulted from a complication of
diseases. All that could be done by
the army surgeons and phiysicians of
this city to save his life was resorted
to, without avail.I
A Drunken Brute.
3Mrs. Winnie Hlearney. aged 28 years
was found badly burned Wednesday
at her home in the tenement building
t 10:2 Detroit street, Cleveland, Ohio.
Her bed was partly burned. She now
lies in St. John's hospital at the point
f death. The cause of the fire was
given by the woman and her husband.
Joseph Hearney, a laborer, as the ex
plosion of a lamp. At an early hour
this morning, however, the police ob
tained from the 9-year-old daughter of
the couple the statement that Hearney
ame home intoxicated and because his
wife would not get out of bed and cook
him a meal, soaked some rags in coal
il, lighted them and threw them on
er bed. The police placed Hearney
uder arrest.
ANABSCONDER ARRESTED.
Former Prominent Georgia Merchant
is Held in California.
S. LaFayette Almand, a Georgia
merchant, who is charged with abscond
ing with some forty or fifty thousand
dollars, was arrested in Tulare, Cal.,
last Sunday morning and Monday night
City Detective Hewitt of Atlanta. Ga.,
started for California after the abscon
der.
Almand was a merchant in this state
with headquarters at Convers, Ga., and
did a large business. He had the confi
dence of the business men of the state
and almost unlimited credit. He ap
peared to be flourishing when, about
three weeks ago, he suddenly disap
peared, and when those who had trusted
him examined his affairs they claimed
he had carried with him several thous
and dollars which he ought to have
turned over to them.
Just how many were victimized can
not be said, as all of then decide to
keep quiet and try to catch Almand.
Nor can the exact amount of the modey
alleged to have been taken be named, as
even the victims do not know, but it is
estimated that the amount will be be
tween $40,000 and $50,000.
Almand is a young man, not more
than 30 years of age, and well connect
ed throughout the State. He is mar
ried, and his family has been residing
in Conyers. Last Saturday the sheriff
of Rockdale county went to Atlanta
and saw some of the parties interested
in the capture of Almand. He said he
had received information which led him
to believe Almand wai in a town called
Lures, Cal. No such town could be
found, and it was then discovered that
Lures was meant for Tulare.
A private call was made on Chief of
Police Manly, and he was informed
that Almand was in Tulare, Cal. Sun
day morning a telegram was sent to
that town and Monday a reply was re
ceived stating that Almand was under
arrest.
A special to the Constitution from
Covington says: It develops that the
shortage of S. L. Almand, who left here
a few days ago, will reach a sum vari
ously estimated ac between $15,000 and
$40,000. It is said that his heaviest
reditcrs are the Marietta Guano com
pany, Atlanta; Baldwin Fertilizer com
pany, Port Royal, S. C.; the Southern
Pacific Guano eompany, Atlanta; and
the Gate City Oil company, Atlanta.
He was manager here of the Gate City
ginnery. He dealt heavily in cotton
and cotton seed. He is said to owe
farmers all over this and adjoining
counties for cotton seed.
His plan was to give each man a due
ill on the Gate City Oil company's
blanks, telling them that the company
would dejosit the money in the bank
here in a short time and redeem the
due bills.
NEGROES, ISSUE ANADDRESS.
Lot of Talk About the Suffrage, Lynch
Law and Education.
A Negro council was held in Wash
on several days last week, and just be
ore adjournment Friday night adopted
long address to the American people.
'he address congratulates the council
hat the Negro race everywhere has
grown stronger and stronger in all ele
ments of Christian morality, of thrift
and intelligence. Considerable atten
tion is devoted to the political condi
tions of the Negroes in the South and
the address says that since 1868 there
has been a steady and persistent deter
mination to eliminate them in polisics
f those States. "We are not opposed,"
the address adds, "to legitimateiestric
tion of the suffrage, but we insist that
estrictions shall apply alike to all citi
ens of all States. We are willing to
ccept an educational or property quali
atin, or both. We insist that neither
f these was intended or is conserved by
the new constitutions of Mlississippi.
oth Carolina or Louisiana."
The address calls on congress to re
uce the representation of those States
n that body. The address says the in
rease of mob and lynch law has be
ome a source of reproach at home and
broad and regrets that the president
saw fit to treat with silence this vital
matter in his recent message to con
gress. It speaks of the separate car
law as unjust and appressive. In the
interest of humanity it requests that
the penal institutions of the South be
reformed. The suggestion is made that
a art of the public domain of the South
be devoted to the maintenance of
schools of higher learning and indus
trial training, and for a more effective
maintenabce of the public school sys
tem of those States for each race, share
and share alike. The opinion is ex
pressed that a more general distribu
tion of the Negroes throughout the
States of the Union and new territories
of the republic, in order to reduce the
ongested population of the Southern
States would do much to simplify the
race problem.
A Family Feud.
Another chapter in the Sherman fa2:
ly feud in 31eMiun county Ga.. was
acted Wednesday and as a result
Stewart, a druggist of Decatur. Teun..
is lying at the point of death wiph a
gunshot wound in his abdomen. Stew
rt was driving with Pete Sherman. a
ember of one of the families involved
in the feud. At a point about eight
miles from the city they came upo
Steve Sheimnan, on the other side of the
feud. Accounts differ as to who fired
the first shot. Stewart received two
bhots. one in the leg and the other in
the abdomen from the effects of which
he will die. Sherman was not hu't.
e went to Athens and gave himself
Will Have to Fight Both.
The outlook now is that we will have
to fight both the Cubans and the Fili
inos. We will fight the former in or
der to make them free and the latter in
order to prevent them from becoming1
so. This is the programme of the im
perialists, and it is truly a lovely one
for the contemplation of those who be
ieve that the Declaration of Indepen
dence, which we won our freedom, con
tains a noble and sacred truth in the
assurance to our own people and man
kind that "all governments derive their
lust powers from the consent of the
govmJd.-Atlanta Journal.
LOOKING SERIOUS.
Row Brewing Between Amer!
cans and Cubans in Havana.
SOME STARTLING RUMORS.
Reported That Gen. Menocal's
Troops Have Once More
Taken to the Field. In
tense Excitement Pre.
vails.
A dispatch from Havana says start,
ling rumors were flying around thateity
Thursday night and are given credence
by excited crowds thronging the streets.
It was reported that Gen. Marianao
Menocal and his Cuban forces at La
Paya had been asked to take the oath
of allegiance to the United States and
had refused.
The news that Cuban soldiers had re
fused to take the oath of allegiance was
cheered by the crowd and mounted in
surgents scattered through the inn,
telling the people in the street that
Gen. Menocal had withdrawn his troops
from Le Paya and taken to the field.
This story, regardless of its truth or
falsity, is chiefly worthy of-serious at
tention becatime of the.eagerness with
which it was received by the crowds
who insisted upon its truth. They js
ti0d Gen. Menocal's reported sensa
tional action. The situation grows out
of the refusal of Gen. Brooke's permit
for the participation of Cuban troops
in the exercises on evacuation day. The
feeling is intense.
The United States flag was torn down
from many houses in tho lower districts
tonight. Upper class Cubans sent ca
blegrams without number to President.
McKinley today begging him to inter
fere. Cablegrams have been sent
broadcast over the United States asking
for public meetings and appealing to
the common sense and justice of the
American people.
The Cuban leaders here are doing ev
erything possible to prevent an out
burst, but say that if Gen. Brocke's
command is carried out not only. will
they be helpless, but they will think
whatever- happens to have been caused
by what they consider the arbitrary and
unjust action of the United States.
Judge Advocate Charles Gould of the
American commission, cabled to.Presi
dent McKinley -that there is intense
uneasiness in the situation here and ad
vising that the Cubans be permitted tc
participate in the evacuation ceremonies.
The more excitable of the population
of Habana's lower districts are begin
ning to hoot the American soldiers.
The higher class Cubans are bitterly
chagrined and disappointed at the turn
affairs have taken. They hardly know
what to say or do. Their plans were
to have 1,000 picked men, the flower of
the insurgent army, march into Habana
on Jan. 1. The Cuban soldiers eame
into camp at La Paya and Mariana
with the understanding that they were
marching to Habana for evacuation day.
They bought new uuiforms in honor of
the occasion.
The streets cf Habana have bern
most lavishly decorated. The people
intended to meet the insurgent soldiers
t the outskirts and escort them with
music and cheering to the Prado. The
soldiers are the popular ideal of the
people of Habana. The entrance of
he Cuban soldiers into Habana has
been the dream of the people of the un
appy island for 50 years. During the
late war Habana has ever been thbe ob
ective point.
Now Spain has been driven out, but
the Cuban soldier must not enter. The
ubans compromised on the original
plans two days ago. It was said the
soldiers might enter on the second
proximo. Five days of rejoicing was
planned. The people of Hr~bauna plan
ed a great feast for the soldiers. Gen.
Brooke, who is supposed to act under
instructions from Washington, said thi
arrangement could not be carried out.
The developmenats of the next few
ays may mean peace or war between
the United States and Cuba. Habana
itizens say they beg not to be driven
way from the United States.
THERE WILL BE PEACE.
A dispatch from Havana says the
uban patriotic committee, consisting
f 150 leading Cubans, lawyers, doctors
and business men, at a meeting which
lasted until 4 o'clock Friday morning,
ecided to yield without reservatien to
the wishes of Gen. Brooke and Gen.
Ludlow in the matter of postponing the
six days celebration and has approved a
manifesto to the Cuban population of
abana, on the lines of djen. Ludlow's
reply on the subject of the proposed
elebrations, quoting some portions of
it and paraphrasing others. The Cu
an citizens of Ilabana and the Cuban
soldiers outside the city are intensely
ecited, but the patriotic committee
and the military chiefs of the Cubans
hink they can quiet this feeling and
prevent violent incidents.
Embarked at Charleston.
Nearly 3,000 United States troops
sailed from Charleston to Cuba Friday.
The transports Minnewaska and Mani
oba went out on the morning tide and
the Ward line steamier Saratoga went
o sea later in the day. On the first
aaed ship there were Gen. Bates, his
caquartrs. the brigade hospital and
the 0xth regimont of Ohio volunteers
ound for Cit'uegos: the Manitoba
.uit d Gen. Sgetr, his headquarters
nd the twelfth regiment of New York
oluteers, whide the human cargo of
the Saratoga co1.-isted of 4>0 men of
the first regular infantry. In addition
o th-- troops ca -h vessel carried an im
nense quantity ot supp1lies, p-ovisions,
bagiage, lumber. etc. The Saratoga
roes to Ilabana while the Manitoba
~aks Gen. Sanger and his staff to Ma
azas of which city and district he will
ave military charge.
Where, Oh. Where?
The Springfield Republican says:
E-Pension Commissioner Corporal
fanner is in favor of opening the sol
iers' homes to Confederate veterans,
d the St. Paul Pioneer Press is free
:o say that the north went too far in ra[
ifying the 15th amendment and giving
he ballot to the negro! Where is the
,lack man likely to be found when the.
econliainn i complcte?'