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NTOL.. x V. IIAN NI NG., S. C.q WEDNESDAY,~ SEPTE:\IBER13,19.N20 A TALE OF H 1ORROR. A Terrible Story that Comes from Gharleston. AFLOAT WITH A MANiAC. One of the.Survivors Tells of Cast ing Lots and Sucking the Bicod of One Com panion The British steaner Woodrutl, Cap tain Milburn. arrived at Charleston from Hamburg Saturday, August 31. two handred and fifty miles south of Charleston the Woodruff picked up; Maurice Anderson and Goodmund Thomasen, survivors of the Norwegian bark Drot, wrecked August 15, off the Florida coast. The Dret was bound from Pascagoula to Buenos Ayres. An derson is a raving maniac and his coin panion is shockiogly mutilated from bites of th. crazcd man. Thomasen tells a dreadful story. The captain of the Drot and seven seamen were swept overboard and lost in the recent West Indian hurricane. The mate and seven other men put to sea on a raft made from decking. The raft parted soon after, and the mate and one man were separated from the others. The mate's companion was landed at Philadelphia by the German steamer Titania on Au gust 22. He stated that the mate com mitted suicide. Of the six men on the other part of the raft one became craz ed from exposure and jumped into the sea. Two others exhausted from suffer ing fell'overboard and were lost. An derson, Thomasen and a German sea man, drew lots as to which one would be eaten, as none of them had had a ;routhful since they took to the raft. The lot fell to the German. He was killed and the blood was sucked from his veins by the two survivors. Soon after Anderson lost his reason and sav agely attacked his only companion. Thomasen's breast and face were bitten in several places, chunks of good size, being torn out. Both men are now at the city hospital and the Norwegian consul has taken the case in hand. Thomasen is a native of Stevanger, Norway. Thomasen is a mere lad. le is a Nor wegian, 17 years of age, and this trip out from his own country was his first. He is a pale boy, thin and white, and his bones yestcrday showed out from under the sheets of his cot. He could barely talk above a whisper, though he nodded pleasantly when a reporter went to his ide to talk. On .the lips of the lad there are two thick, black scabs, the remnants of ugly sores doubt less made from contact with the biting of the human flesh. There are no bruises on hisif ace and the uleers over his body have been covered with deep smelling drugs. What might have been flesh has disarp ared from the boy's legs, and he looks no larger than a straw. The physicians are encouraged at his condition, and they will bring him through. Andersen is an older man. lie is about 35 years old. His chin is cover ed with a soft growth . of stubby hair, and whiskers sprout from the sides of his face. His eyes are deep set and hollow and-they burn red like coals of fire. The man appears conscious, Ile cannot speak English, but he shook his head knowingly as he gave his hand to the reporter. His eyes roamed about an he was stl so wa hth ol barely lift his arm. His general con-. dition, however, is good, and there is the same encouragement at his steady improvement. During the day many sailors called at the hospital. Some of them could speak the language of the sufferers and they seemed anxious to hear from the survivors the story of the disaster. Andersen said Wednesday to an in terpreter, who was assisting the repor ter, that made straws from splinters picked from the raft. It had been agreed that the man who got the longer stick should die. He was a German, or an Austrian, and he made no objection when he got the straw that killed, lie seemed anxious, however, for a quick death, and his companions were eager for his blood. There was a heavy piece of iron on the raft. How it gotI there the sailors are unable to tell, but it came in handy, accordling to the story Wednesday, for it was used to knoek the victim in the head. lie laid flat on the raft. While one man stood ready to brain him, another was stand ing by with a huge knife to rip for his heart the moment the iron landed on the unfortunate's head. The German shut his eyes. The iron was raised high to fall with a terrible blow, and as it landed the knife was driven deep into the heart. Then the comrades on the raft feil over, placed their lips close to the wound, and sucked in the blood. Once the men at the hospital told Wednesday that after the blow was landed on the head the knife was jabbed into the victim's heart. Again they told that the weapon went into the throat instead. At times they said the man was a German: again they said he was from Austria. While the raft was drifting about at the will of the waves the water poured over to add to the suffering of the crew. Almost the entire timne the men were waist deep and more in the water, which surged on unceasingly and swept with it small sharks and fish and little demons from the sea. When the sharks would come by they jumped fiercely for the prey, but strange luck saved the| creatures on the raft. When the two companions died the bodies wecre held on the craft fi,r a time, but they soon began to give forth r' sickening, deadly scent and they were ,ast over. The shares hanging about, hungry and wild, were there and as the forms splashed on the waves they were lifted up and eaten by the fighting, .strug gling tribe.--News and Courier. Poisoned Birds. Tourists traveling in Italy are warn ed against eating small birds served with polenta or otherwise. A number of eases of poisoning after eating such brids led at last to investigations which showed that the birds had been handled carelessly by persons who took off their feathers for milliners and used arsenic THE WEATHER AND CROPS. Weekly Review of United States Weather Bureau for this State. The following is the weekly bulletin of the condition of the weather and crops of the State for the past week, issued Wednesday by Director Bauer of the South Carolina section of the Unit ed States weather bureau. The temperature, during the week ending Septemder 4, 1899, averaged about normal, having been cooler than usual during the first I art and warmer than usual during the last part of the week. At a few places only did the temperature rise above 90 degrees, while the lowest minima for the nAnth were recorded on August 30th. The rains for the week were general. heavy, and continuous, except over the northeastern portion of the State, where showers only occurred. The rain fall for the week averaged from half an inch at Cheraw to six and one half inches at Charleston. The dronght was (fceetually broken. Cotton did not receive much, if any, becefit from the rains. except possibly very late cotton that will now put on a toperop. As an t i. ce of the rain rust las increated and open cotton has beeame stained, and some blown to the ground, sprouting and rotting in the bolls is al so qjic gertral. Fairweather is need ed f 'r gathtring cotton. Picking was retardod by the wet weather. The yield pess eshave not improved and con tinue poor. Sea-island cotton is open ing rapidly and is being picked -as it opens. Blight and shedding continue. The rains came in time to help late corn, which is now veiy pron ising where not being destroyed by army worms which infest nearly every county in the western portion of the State. But little fodder could be saved during the week. Early rice harvest is well under way, and stacked rice suffered somewhat from the heavy rains, which, however, were very beneficial on late rice. Peas and peavine for forage, as well as sugar cane, sweet potatoes, sorghum, and peanuts. were materially improved by the wet weather. Grass for hay is making rapid growth, but in the west ern counties suffers from army worms. The week afforded but little opportuni ty for saving hay. 3uch land was sown and resown to turnips. In the trucking districts, cabbage and straw berry plants were set out. WANTED HIM POISONED. A Wife Wanted Her Husband Put Out of the Wav. An uglv story comes from Darlington in which a wife is accused of trying to poison her husband. James R Kelley. who was pardoned out of the peniten tiary last January. has had his wife in dicted for trying to put him out of the way. Kelley was sent to the peniten tiary for shooting a detective, or dis pensary constable, named Jenkins in March, 189%.to serve three years. Dur ina the incarceration his wife left his ome to live with a man named Arthur Atkinson. When Kelley returned from the penitentiary he went to his ome and has lived there with his chil ren ever since. Last M1onday M1rs. Kelley gave her son, Riosser Kelly who lives -ith his father, a powder to put in the old man's whiskey the next time he got drunk and promised to give the boy 50 f or doing it. Atkinson also prom ised to give the boy a new bicycle if he would sweeten Kelley's liquor with the powdr. Instead of doing as he was told. Rosser gave the powder to his father, who broug~ht it to town and gave it to M1agistrate Dargan to have analyz ci. The analysis proved that the pow 4r contaiaed three grains of strych ine, and a warrant was issued for the ar rest of Atkinson and M1rs. Lou Kelley. The sheriff has sent for them, but as they live in Kelleytown, the "-dark orner" of Darlington county, and as the Kelley family up there is a pretty esperate one. itila likely that the con stable will have trouble in arresting them.-The State. Merited Success. Special attention is called to the larce advertisement of the Columbia Business College, which appears in another column of this paper. There is no school in the country that turns out more successful graduates, or is more progressive, more alive to the demands of the times or that has a bet ter business or shorthand course. No young man or lady who is thinking of attending a business college should fail to send for one of their catalogues. The college make; a specialty of seur ing good positions for its graduates and it often has more balls than it can fill. Every graduate of the college and many prominent business men of Columbia endorse the school as one of the very best. A postal addressed to Priof. W. H. Newberry, the president will bring full particulars. A Queer Case. A dispat ch from Sycamore, Ill.,- says: Lyle Smith. son of Deputy Sheriff Frank Smith, died here, aged 30 years, He was born with imperfect valves of the heart. so that the venuous and ar terial blood were not separated. This caused his complexion to be very sus eepible to the changes of the weather. In pleasant weather he was of a fair color, but whcn a storm was approach ing he would begin to show signs of changing before~ it was visible, and gradually became a blue color, the ne vous blood predomiating. Physicians had studied his ease aid predicted his early death. A Fish Story. A V1.v r late, In 1., ian sa s that while tishing he tied his line about his ankle and went to sleek an the bank of the river. A twenty-one pound carp which seized the hook pulled the man otf the lank into the river. He was resc just in time and the fish land The Smith Family. Four thousand of the Smith family held areunion at Peacock, N. .J.. recent ly' All of them trace their ancestry toa certain .John Smith who anie to that part of the country as a boy 1630 years ago. Whether he was a relative of John Smith of the Pocahontas love affir is not known. 31ORGANS MEN. An Ohio Town Stampeded by a False Alarm. A TALE OF THE CIVIL WAR. Two Parties cf Home Guards Frighten Each Other. After All Morgan Failed to Put in an Appearance. c had becn alarmed so often that summer by false reports of lawless raid ers invading Ohio that we had come to look upon every new rumor with suspi cion. in fact. as a huge joke, invented for the express purpose of frightening timid women and children. Hense, the scare lines in the sensational dailies announcing Morgan's movements after he had actually invaded the State were regarded with considerable scepticism, people doubting the statements of his whereabouts. I was teachiiig in llookstown, a little Penns',ivania town some three miles back from the Ohio river, at that time. I boarded witb my aunt, and on that never-to-be-forgotten Sunday accompa nied the family to church as usual. The day was warm and sultry, but in spite of the heat and the uneasiness fairly well filled at the opening of the morning service. The devotional ex ercises were over, and Parson Darwin had just reached his "secondly," when "Hardy" Davis, the village blacksmith, appeared at the open door without hat or coat, and, rushing up the long aisle. beckoned to the minister to lean down over the front of the high pulpit. The parson obeyed in a dignified way, turn in- his ear to catch the excited whisper. le nodded confusedly, as the smith still tarried, and then, at the big man's impatient gesture, said: "I am informed that the raider Mor gan and his men are at Smith's Ferry prisoners, I presume. "Shades of stupidity!- shouted the irate blacksmith. "I tell you he is there with his army, and all who don't want to become prisoners in his hands had better make ready to defend their homes. Let every man who can find a gun, pitchfork or axe report at the blacksmith shop immediately. Un hitch the horses from buggies, carriages and wgons, without . mioute's delay. The panic-stricken congregation rushed to the door, like a crowd of un disciplined school children trying to escape froa a burning building, not halting even when the pastor raised his voice above the din, in a most pathetic prayer for their safety and the preser vation of their homes, The work of dismantling the houses began at once. Best things were se creted in unheard-of places, treasures were buried, and horses, cattle, and even poultry were driven down to rav ines that promised them protcction while the town was being piliaged. Johnny was sent post-haste to the hollow with "Brindle,- many charges concerning her safety ringing in his ears, while across his shoulders siung a brace of quacking Muscovies, tbe boy's own valued possession. Ujnder Aunt Kate's direction, Lydia and I packed the family heirlooms, hiding boxe~s and bundles in queer, out of-the-way corners, while the best sil ver and valuable trinkets were buried under the unionbed, our digging being done in tunnel-fashion by aid of the new-fangled post-digger. "Oh. mother, don't let us begin to take carpets up,' Lydia pleaded, as, coming in from one of our hasty trips to the saw mill, we encountered her mother down on her knees. "Do you think I'm going to have those cut-throats tramping the roses out of my good parlor Brussels" asked Aunt Kate, as she gave the refractory carpet a vicious jerk. 'No, indeed; I wove many a web of flannel to pay for it, and I consider it a real work of ne essity to lift it, Sunday and all as it is. Just then Joe returned from his long tramp, whistling " Yankee Doodle" at the top of his voice. " Joseph Addison Blake, you wicked, wicked boy," his mother exclaimed sternly, grasping his arm and shaking him vigorously. 'Whistling on the Sabbath day, and 'Yankee Doodle' at that! What will become of you?' "I forgot, mother; indeed I did, see ing people rushing about worse than 1 ever saw them on week days," Joe an swered, scarcely knowing whether to laugh or cry. - Pretty time to miake such a mis take, and an army of cut-throats march ing on the town ready to burn your home, and maybe shoot you down in your tracks, she added, looking at me a if suspicious of my loyalty. " I'll ive you a chance to work off your ex tra spirits. Get right down there and pull those tacks out, and be careful not to break them oli, and do not tear the arpet, either.' "I can't see the difference" began Joe rebelliously, still smarting under what he considered his n'other's injus tice; but she would not allow him to talk back. Suddenly the loud clanging of the church bell brought us to a realization of our utter helplessnes in the hands of an unprincipled uob, such as 3Morgan's band had been picturdc. Women and children flocked into the str'-ets, ring ing thcir hands and crying and begging their neighbors to flee with them to the hills or valleys or ravines-anywhere to hide until the lawless raiders. havins satisfied their greed by ransacking the village, should have taken their de pat ture. Three horsemen, lads from the neigh borhood, rode past at brcakneck speed, shouting, ''-They are coming up Cam ron's lane at full tilt. Get in and bolt youir doors 'juickly. - llow do you know where the troop ers are when the lane is out of sight?' asked some one on the sidewalk. "-It is guessw('rk, I'll wager.' "Not a bit of it,~' was the reply. "The dust rising above them like a cloud settles the point of their where abouts." Nearer and nearer came the tramp of horses' feet, until, through the cloud of dust they were making, a squad of' horsemen galloped past, and on-on out of hearing. But they were our own village boys- fiecing no doubt from an overwhelming foe. On, n, .cafm thenvaryen sweep ing through the bared village like a whirlwind. Far down the long street we heard shouting, screaming, then, above the der;fening roar of the horses' hoofs, the firing of muskets. The next moment the horsemen thundered past, and even through the blinding dust we could see it was a company of our own men, neighbors from the Ridge district, who like the Hookstown youths had gone out to stop the progress of the guerrillas. In the distance they had mistaken the first squad for the enemy, and had given chase. while it was quite evident that the Hookstown boys, re turning the compliment, were fleeing from them. The mistake was both an noying and ridiculous, but at that time scarcely mirth-provoking, since in ad dition to the duel likely to occur be fore it could be rectified, the blunder had left the road to the river entirely unguarded, and the town wholly at the mercy of the raiders. The horsemen galloped on, deaf to the shouts from the sidewalk, and if a trio of laggards had not brought up the rear far enough behind the racers to hear what the villagers were screaming, it is quite probable there would have been bloodshed between the friendly squads before they discovered their mistake. But the laggards were not long in overtaking the hind riders, whose white flag soon brought the run aways ahead of them to a standstill. Half an hour later the would-be-troop ers came thurdering back, looking crestfallen. There was no halting in the town, however, the report that the raiders were coming up the valley leav ing no time for the exchange of jokes. The remainder of the afternoon proved quite as exciting as the fore noon, had been, as rumors of all sorts regarding the movements of the raiders were in circulation. Ominous reports of a desperate battle in progress came with the shadows of night, and a sigh glow shining through the darkness in the direction of the river, gave credence to the story that Glasgow was ablaze, having been pillaged and fired by the raiders. It lacked but half an hour to mid night, and we were trying to get a i:ttle rest, watching in turns while the others slept, when suddenly, out of the silent darkness, the noise of horses' feet was heard. Nearer and nearer came the march-like tread, reasuring in its regu larity; a few horsemen rode by in a leis urely way, and then down in the vil lage cheer after cheer rent the air. 4Morgan must be captured," cried Joe, picking up his cap for another race down town. It was all true enough; Morgan had surrendered to Gen. Shackelford, with out a battle, early in the afternoon. The capture had taken place far off in C>lumbiana county, Ohio, fully 15 miles from our town. All our excite ment and alarm had been groundless, that "Glasgow fire" was only the reflec tion of a bonfire kindled by a lot of boys to celebrate the capture of Mor gan. The Hookstown men had waited hours, after the truth was known, to catch a glimpse of the prisoners, who were now well on their way to the mili tary prison at Columbus.-Belle V. Chisolm in N. Y. Evening Post. Assassination in Lexington. Wednesday night about 8 o'clock, Albert Swygert, colored who lived a few hundred yards from the residence of Col. D. T. Barre, in Hollow Creek township, Lexington county was shot and instantly killed by some one-at present unknown. He had just fin ished eating supper and pushed his chair back, and while attempting to light his pipe he was shot with a shot gun through the window of his dining room. An alarm was raised and in a few minutes Col. Barre and quite a rowd assembled. The colonel would not let the body be touched during the ight, and Thursiay morning he sent for the coroner to hold an inquest, which is in progress now. There is no :lue as to who the guilty party it. ie killed anotner Negro a few years ago about a mile from his home, at a barbecue, and was tried and acquitted. Married Five Sisters. Bill Mercer, of Raccoon Creek, Va., is probably the happiest mortal in the ounty. H~e has secured his fifth mar riage license and wines and other deli ucleis for the feast that is to follow. Mr. Mercer has just passed his fiftieth ear. and was married to his first wife when uii zeteen. She was Miss Jennie offat. and her four successors have een her sisters. Ada, Catherine, Mis ouri, and finally Anna. She is twenty ix and good looking. There is but ne more of the Moffat girls left, and he is now twenty. The parents of the irls miade no objections to their daugh ers marrying Mercer. Consumption arried off most of the Mrs. Mercers. r. Merceris the father of eight chil ren. Mercer declares that he just imply fell in love with the Moffat family. __________ Gave Them Beri-Beri. The Rev. Peter Macqueen, who has een saying things about Gen. Otis ince his ret'trn from the Philippines, eclares that the Eagan canned roast eef found its way to the firing lines t Manila. lie says: "In the Philip ines the men can not eat it. The cans actually explode. Filipino prisoners f war were confined in the Spanish ungeons, old and damp, and fed on anned beef. It was not long until hey began dying of beri-beri. Four r five died eaeh day until 250 out of 500 were dead.' The Leading Names. British census reports of family names give for England and Wales 258t.o0; Smiths, 242.100 Joneses and Williams, Taylor, Davies and Brown following in order. For Scotland, Smith leads, followed by McDonald, Brown, Thompson, Robertson, Stewart nd Campbell. Murphy is ahead in Ireland, there being (2,000 of the-n; then come Kelley. 55,900; Sullivan, 43.600: Walsh, 41,73.0; Smith, 37,uO00; (Brien. 33,400: Byrne, 33.000; Ryan, 2,000; Connor, 81.200; O'Neil, 29, 100. and Reilly &)000. A Slight Mistake. A Louisville newspaper has been forced to offer an apology to Colonel Phil Thompson for a freak of one of its lynotype machines. The paper's rprt of Colonel Thompsorn's speech t the Lexington convention recently made him say that "at the Louisville onvention in 1896 we nominated a lying devil," when the fact was that e had said they nominated "Alvin Dyll." TO GROW WHEAT. What a Practical Farmer Has to Say About It. GOOD LAND SHOULD BE USED An Article That Should be Read by Every Farmer Who Con templates Planting Wheat. We find the following in the Oconee News on wheat growing, which we com mend to the careful perusal of all our readers, whether they plant ,wheat or nat. It was written by a practical farmer: Certainly the first thing to do- when you make up your mind to sow wheat is to select the best land for that purpose. Red land is without a doubt the best adapted to wheat in this part of the State. Though any of the uplands if properly treated will produce wheat with the possible exception of that which is too deep in sand. It is of prime importance that the land to be sown shall have been well cultivated that year, and if it had been well prepared for the crop that preceded the wheat we do not advise deep plowing for wheat, but if there is any kind of grass or weeds to create a turf when plowing, then we advise a thorough breaking of the soil. Wheat will per haps follow a well cultivated pea crop to the best advantage of any hoed crop and do well after peas are sowed broad east if the pea crop covers the land suffi ciently to keep down grass or weeds. Next to peas we would prefer cotton land to sow in wheat and perhaps nine tenths of the wheat of the country will be sown to cotton land. After deciding upon the land to be sown, the manner of preparing the land will depend upon its condition as indicated above, if it had been well plow ed the winter or spring previous and the present crop kept clear of weeds and grass then you only need to furrow out the old cotton stalks. This should be done, thoroughly spread what ever manure you mean to use over the land, sow the wheat from 45 to 55 pounds to the acre and harrow or plow it in. We have been using the disk and cut-away harrows for ten years and have not put in wheat with any other implement in that time. Cotton seed and horse stable manure have given the best re sults on this farm. Though any kind of manure has proved valuable in in creasing the yield. The main trouble is to get manure enough to go over the amount of land that should be sown in wheat. This is one of the great advan tages of cotton seed, I havc found that in running the cotton seed through ;he farm stables that the manure becomes so well mixed and pulverized that it can be spread over the land as thinly as desired. With the average land and the aver age year 10 bushels of this mixture is perhaps the most profitable quality to be used. The great advantage in the harrow is reducing the cost of the crop. One good six foot cutaway harrow with two good large mules and only a small boy to drive will put in from three to four acres per day. I have in ten years tried four distinct varieties of wheat, the purple straw, early May, learded wheat, and what is known here as the white wheat. The latt r giiing the best results. This white wheat, it makes a taller and laiger straw than the purple straw wheat and the grain is full and plump and makes the best of flour. The purple straw is my next preference, the bearded and the May wheat I do not like at all. The years of 96, 97 and 98 I made an average of 20 bushels to one bushel sown, this year wheat was not so good. Our lands would make from 1-4 or to 1 3 more per acre if they could be sown in the latter part of October or first of November, hut we usually follow a cotton crop with wheat and often finish sowing the latter part of Decembsr. I now give the experiences of some ther farmers in this county. Mr. J. J. Haley of Oakway made 212 bushels this year from 16 bushels sown, and 25 bushels raw cotton seed to the acre. purple straw wheat, plowed up cotton stalks and plowed in wheat with small plows, sowed in November. Mr. W. H. ancock, of Westminister, has for several years made an average of 20 bushels to the acre, app'i homemade manure, uses white whW. .t. Mr. Wil iam Bibb made last yes r U 13 bushels n 40 acres, bearded eat. Mr. L. Asbury Edwards of Oak..y made U73 bushels on 1 3 4 aere.s -i land, i320 worth of cotton seed a- d aid phosphate Mr. A. Bearden, of Oakway, made 100 bushels on ~eight acres this year. All these crops were sown to cotton Lnds and had about the same mode of pre - paring and sowing land, with the ex eption of Mr. Bearden, who plowed in his wheat with a Hancock three-horse plow about 5 inches deep. We do not think wheat will do for a money crop. I know it pays to raise enough for homne supply. I shall not take time to try to prove he profitableness of wheat sowing, it s suflicient to say that in this part of he State, the man who buys flour and makes money farming is an exception o the rule, and that the man who grows is own wheat is a success without ex eption. To succeedl in this line of farmling as in any other, you have got to work. You must rise early and. stick o it late, you must work y ourself. If hc wind blows or the ground is frozen, r ice gets i nthe tub on top of the wheat that is in soak, just go right orn nd break the ice and face the wind and tick to the job until you have got it ixed exactly right. No matter if~ you et some skin off your hands or dry dust n your shoes or mud on your clothing. All of the like is afttr all about the best fertilizer and you will see the truth of his when harvest time comes. Good ctton land or good land after peas will e more profitable in wheat without manure, but is much better with it. I o not advise the buying of commercial fertilizers for wheat, I doubt one year with another it would be profitalde to o so. I soak wheat every year, one ound of blue stone to five bushels of heat over night. The farmers are busy getting out heir cotton, and have no time just now MET HORRIBLE FATE. Seven Members of a New York Party Dies in Alaska. A dispat.-h from Sealtle, Wash., says Otto Thews. of Primrose, Iowa, who has arrived there from Copper river., Alaska, brings news confirming the re ported deaths of seven members of the scientific prospecting company of New York. The doad are: Earnhardt, Mil ler, Allerman, Schultz, Peter Scigel, Butner and Baumgartner. George Hooker, another member of the party got out alive, but is badly cripled with scurvy, which carried away the majority of his companions. Baumgartner went out hunting and was never seen again. The most af fecting case was that of Butner, who was driven insane by his sufferings. His weak companions had to strap him down but even then they could not re strain him. One morning Thews, whose camp was near, found Butner sitting out in tMe snow with his clothes -nd hat off. The thermometer 45 de grees below zero. Butner was taken inside, but he died in a few hours. Thews also brings a gruesome story in connection with the finding of the remains of a jeweler named Smith, who perished last November on Valdez glacier. Every exposed portion of the body had been eaten by ravens. NO MORE BEER PRIVILEGES. They Will All Be Abolished Novem ber 1. If there is one feature of the dispen sary system which has caused more trouble than another it has been the beer dispensaries. Two-thirds of the time of the monthly meetings of the board of control are taken up with set tling matters connected with these dis pensaries. The board has decided to abolish them altogether and the new,"arrange ment will go into effect November 1. Thereafter consumers will have to get their beer from regular dispensers. Lit tle inconvenien cc will result as plans are being arranged which will make the purchase and delivery, of beer as con venient-as it now is. After a full discussion of the whole matter Saturday morning, the board adopted the following resolution, which was introduced by Mr. L. J. Williams: "Resolved, That all beer dispensa ries are hereby ordered closed and the terms of office of such dispensers are declared to be vacant; this order to be come effective on November 1, 1899. "Resolved, further, That semi-ster ilized or family beer be supplied to con sumers through the regular county dis pensaries, and that breweries usually seeking business with the dispensary are requested to submit bids to the State board of control at the October meeting, proposing to supply such beer bottled and in crates and in sach quan tities as may be necessary to be ship ped to various county dispensaries di rect, and at such times as it may be or dered out by the board. "And it is further resolved, That the board at the October meeting designate such dispensaries as it is deemed pra dent to require to handle such beer, and that they be required to handle such beer business by November 1." Experiment Station Work, The eleventh bulletin on "Experi ment Station Work" is now in press and will soon be issued by the United States department of agriculture as farmers' bulletin No. 103. Twelve subjects are discussed. The first calls attention to the danger from excessive irrigation and gives the remedy. The second treats of the cross-pollination of plums, and the third of close rott pruning of trees. These are followed by articles on "The Oxeye Daisy," "Poisoning by WIld Cherry Loaves," "Preserving Eggs in Waterglass," "The Period of estation in Cows," "The Long Clam," "Silage for Horses and Hogs," "Coin mere al Butter Cultures Used in Con nection with Pasteurized Cream," and the "Stave Silo." The last mentioned article says that the stave silo is the most practical and successful silo which can be constructed and gives sugges tions regarding the construction of such silos, together with four illustra tions showing sections of the silo and general appearance of the completed structure. Copies may be obtained on application to the secretary of agricul ture. She Was Particular. Miss Jennie Wyatt, about 20 years ld, was caught in the current opposite 3 hotel at Atlantic Beach Wednesday nd was being carried out to sea. A ~olored man, a stalwart fellow, named 3rey. and a strong swimmer, was first :0 reach her side. However, Miss Wyatt saw a white swimmer within a ecw strokes of her, refused the assist mne of Grey and waited until the other nan reached her side. Miss Wyatt :hrew her arms around her rescuer. and ithin a fe~v minutes was brought ishore. When she reached the beach he fell to the ground from exhaustion. 'he colored man followed the white nan with his burden, ready to lend as istance is needed, and, upon reachhing hore, helpcd to cairry the girl to the imotel. Killed for One Cent. News comies fro)m Georgetown. S. C'., hat on Saturday C'harley Chung. a hinese laundryman, killed a young Negro named .Jas. Porcher. Chunag -aimed that a balance of one cent was lue him for laundry, a quarrel ensued Lrd the Chinaman fired a pistol ball to the Negro's abdomen. If Chung s found guilty of murder he will be the irst C hinamuan ever hanged in S uth arolina. A Number of Lives Lost. An open switch caused a wreck on he Erie railroad at Miller's station. ~a., Wednesday, in which three Mead *ille men were killed and one injured. ~tramp was als> killed and another njured. A westbound freight :rain mad taken sidinig to allow train No. 5, estibuled limited New York-Chicago xpress, to pass. The switch was left pen and the passenger train ran into he rear end of the f:eight at the rate f 60 miles an hour, ploughing through' Yield of Last Year Greatest Recorded but Value Decreased. Secretary Hester's New Orleans cot ton exchange annual report was issued in full Wednesday. He puts the cot crop of 1898-99 at 11,274,840 bales, an increase of 74,S45 over 1S97-98, and says that while Texas, including Iadian Territory, shows an excess of 480,000 bales, and the group of Atlantic States, consisting of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Caro lina, Kentucky and Virginia, increased only 9,000 bales, the group of other Gulf States, consisting of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Missouri have fallen off 414,000. Mr. Hester puts the average commer cial value of the crop at $25.08 per bale against $28.62 last year, $36.76 the year before, and $41.09 in 1895-96, and the total value of the crop at $282, 773,000, against $320,553,000 last year and $320.925,000 the year before. He calls attention to the fact that the money value of the cotton crop just marketed is slightly under that of the 1893 94 crop, which was 3.725,023 bales less. The value of the 1893-94 crop had been $283.118,000. He puts the total spindles in the south at 4,952 092, an increase over last year of 894,848. These included 823.354 now not complete. The net gain in the number of southern mills. has been 53, making the total now 550, and the consumption has been divided as follows: Alabama 132,763 bales, an increase of 31,601; Arkansas 3,182 bales, an increase of 1,288; Georgia 271,807 bales, an increase of 13,190; Kentucky 26,842 bales, an increase of 6S6; Louisiana. 18,025 bales, an in crease of 1,976; Mississippi 19,894 bales, a decrease of 186, Missouri 3,968 bales, an increase of 233; North Caro lina 382,4S7 bales, an increase of 49, 676; South Carolina 413,978. and in crease of 65,824; Tennessee 34,316 bales, a decrease of 2,335; Teyas 16,059 bales, an increase of 1,365; Virginia 46,088 bales, an increase of 4,240. Total con sumption of cotton in the South, 4,399, 399 bales, an increase of 170,079. In reference to the general manufac turing industry of the country and its comparative progress north and south, Mr. Hester says that the year has been an active one for American mills. Low prices for tie raw material and im proved values for manufactured goods have enabled northern spinners to re .over from the depression of the two previous years and the result with a continued improvement in the south, has been the largest consumption of of cotton and the heaviest takings by mills on record. He puts the consump tion of northern mills for the year at 2,190.000 bales which together with that of the South makes an aggreate for the entire country of 3,589,000. In the South, the activity within the year in building new mills has been without parallel. More than 300,000 spindies have been added to mills in operation and there are now being erected in old and new concerns nearly 825,000 spin ples. In addition to this there are projected in every soufhern State cot ton manufactories covering many thou sands of spindles. THE STATE FAIE. Great Interest in the Exhibits is De veloping. It is now only two months before the annual State fair is to be held, and the peopie of the State will be crowding into the most rapidly developing city of the South. The fair comes a week earlier this year, and unless the past amounts to nothing there will be no rain to mar the pleasures of the occa slon. The people in other parts of the State have already begun to manifest an in terest in the comisg exhibition. Sec retary Holloway writes fromn his home at Pomaria that twenty-five stalls for horses from York county and four stalls for horses from Orangeburg county have already been engaged. He also writes that one county-Lexington-is mo'v ing vigorously in the matter of county displays. This year the premiums of fered for the best county displays are worth striving for. and several counties will doubtless enter the lists against Lexington. There are three prizes agregating 8500-first 8230, second 130, and third 8100. So far no steps have been taken to wards getting the Columbia Fair Asso ciation to work on the programme of outside attractions for the week. Last year a late start was made and things, had to be done in a rush. It is to be hoped that this year no time will be thrown away and that the association will get to work early. having its pro ramme fully mapped out and an nounced some weeks in advance of the annual gala occasion. From all parts of the State .nmes information of peo pe who expect -to expect this year's fair week festivities. A Blue Rose. A blue rose is described by the Ger man gardners in Slavonia, Chw'eika and B~it z. who are cultivatting it. Reports :ome of bluc roses th.at grow wild in Servia and a specime~n was sent to them two years agro, with beautiful violet-blue Bowers. They have been experiz ent ng to see whether the clor is retained .iader cultivation or whether it is due o the soil of the moors where it is ouan. If the roses retain. their blue he plants will be for sale in 1901. A Fatal Mistake. The cnre of Cicognol a, Italy. was ~onducting mass at Ceraballo, near enoa, when immiediatelV after drink ng some of thle consecrated wine hel elfl to the t!aor in front cof the altar d died almocst instintly. The cure's sephew had. by mistake, filled the cup romi a ve3sel containing a lhquid used< or cleaning purposes in the church, nd which was a deadly poison.1 A Hint to Delinquents. An exchange published- a long obit ary of a man who had died in the ~omunity, closing with the state unt that "a long procession of people ollowed the remnains to their last roast g place." The famuily read the notice nd discovered the supp~osed error I nd asked the editor to make a cor -ection in the word "roasting," but he aid he could not do it until seven< AN UJhUl LUOUn. Story of a Bloody Fightand Many Wounds. FOUR HUMAN BRUTES Who Would No 'Doudt Shake'the Faith of the New England ers in the Negro. The Yorkville correspondent of the News and Courier says if a delegation of those New Emglanders who seem to have such implicit confidence in the virtue, honor and humanity of the or dinary Southern Negro had been in Yorkville last Monday afternoon it is very probable that their faith would have been shaken, to say the least. It is more than probable that they would have admitted that there were at least three that were brutes, pure and simple, that is if they are as honest as they profess to be. Thg reader may judge by the following story whether or net the fore going observations are justified: Lizzie Adams, a Negro woman of doubtful character, lives in a shanty on the outskirts of town, where whiskey of the blind tiger variety is supposed to be sold, and gambling is reported as being the favorite pastime. On Monday af ternoon Lizzie had a visitor, Will Jones, a Negro, when Adam McKinney, Alph Massy and another Negro "just dropped in." They talked pleasantly at first, but presently became abusive. McKinney applied an epithet to Jones that called out the -remark: "Adam, I ought to kill you for that." Mckinney replied: "Do it, and then talk about it," and he at once advanced on Jones with a knife in his hand, threw his other arm around Jone's neck and stabbed him. Massy undertook to separate them, and Mckinney got hold of Massey and raked his knife through Massey's shoulder. While McKinney and Massey were struggling Jones fgot his pistol. In the meantime Massey had broken away, crying: "Send for the doctor; I am killed." He got out of the house, and Jones fired at McKinney twice, one ball taking effect in the left shoul der and the other in the head. While Jones was firing McKinney rushed up on him, slashing him with his knife. They clinched and fell to the floor, where McKinney continued to haek until satisfied. He then got up and left, leaving Jones where he had fallen. He went outside the house, which then had the appearance of a slaughter pen, swore and stormed for a time and then went away. The knife used was a large one, hav ing a blade 2i to 3 inches long. Jone's pistol was a cheap one, of 32-calibre, not calculated to do a great deal. of ex ecution. The wound of Af Massey, which commenced near the point of the left shoulder blade, extended round to about the front of the left arm, a dis tance of about eight inches and reached to all bones in its course. He walked nearly a mile down to the Court House, where he met Dr. W. G. White, who took him in his buggy, carried him to his office, where he and Dr. McDowell dressed the wound. Twenty odd stitch es were necessary to close the gap. The Negrero was very weak from loss of bloon, but is reported as being on the road to recovery. W~ill Jone's wounds, which are more numerous than'those of Massey, were dressed at the house of Lizzie Adams by Dr. M. J. Walker. One wound pen etrated his lungs and another almost severed his head. It is the opinion of the doctors that his chances for recov ery are rather slim, but so far he is get ting along apparently about as well as a ordinary human being would with a aut finger. McKinney was captured on the prem ises of Mr. W. B. do Loach, by Police men Love and Rose. He was lodged in ail, where Dr. Walker cut a bullet out >f his shoulder. He has a wound on his head, but it has more of the appear ance of having been made by a blud eon than a bullet, but it is possible hat it was made by a bullet, as one hat was slightly flattened was found on he floor of the house where the fight ocurred. The prisoner is apparently n as go.od condition as before the bat le. The Atlanta Sensation. A sensi-official agency declares that he statement recently made by Charles . Bentheim at Atlanta, Ga., to the ffect that Alvin Florschuetz, when United States vice consul at Sonneberg, sed the seals, letter heads, etc., of the :onsuliate for years before the Dreyfuis ise came up for the transmission to the erman war office of French military ecrets is pure invention. It is also aid that Bentheim was never employ d in the offices of the German staff of ermany as he has claimed. Texas Cotton Crop. The Galveston News published a re ort Thursday of the cotton crop of Tex s and the territories made up of 385 eports of an average date of Septem er 3, covering 1:34 Texas councies, and 3 points in the Indian and Oklahoma erritories. These reports indicate a lecrease in the yield of Texas of 36.8 er cent and for Texas and the territo ies of 37.5 per cent. Drouth caused 2ost of the loss. Priest Marries His Nurse. Father Charles Brady, a priest of the Iatholic church, was taken sick in uincy, Ill., three weeks ago, and was used back to health by Miss Addie winn, a Protestant nurse. It is an ounced that Father Brady and the urse were mairied in St. Louis a few ays ago by a Protestant minister. he marriage means the retirement of he priest from the church. Father rady, who is wealthy, was educated or the priesthood at Rome. Georgia Cotton Crop. Commissioner of Agriculture 0. B. tevens, who returned to Atlanta hursday after an inspection of the rops throughout Middle and South ~eorgia, states that cotton will be at east half a million bales short and that n order to realize 75 per cent of the ~rop of 1899, conditions will have to