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THE TILJJMAN CA ISE, pa ,r ia~ z, ag 1 -te~ who bu "~ to suoress the two thousanc -rue whiea 'ave come Lnto h Withi. less than one hundlred var'd m where N. G. Gonzales had worke, for ten years he was shot down by T1i man and there was no attempt violence against him. He has spen five months in jail without any Gov've uor's Guards or an" protecti on \\I a1 ever. Tillman -oes around now wthL a much protection anda safet y asaiy p son in South Carolina.,. Because the Stale forsoot bi 1 pub.h articles ahout liars, thieves and erimi nais. as does any other reut ale , per, the defence'thinks that it is (I' to prejudice the peoipi of ichlan1 County against .iame; 11. Tillbnan "Suspicion always haunts thi- gilt mind. The th e doth fear e., :h bus an ofticer." Because the St te ha: declined just tribute to Mr. Gtge r Rembert and Col. P. H. Nelson A, set no reason why the affidavit of Mr Rembert should have any force. Gen Bellinger, in conclusion, state briefly the reason why the chang should not be granted. He 'made powerful argument and was eagerLi heard by the hundreds of people it the Court room. MR. THUIMOND'S ARGUNENT. Solicitor J. W. Thurmond followei for the State and began his argumen by bringing to the attention of th Court what was necessary for th granting of a change of venue. Wh, do they ask for this change? First. Because there are only 1.'. white jurors out of 4,.000 voters. Tiin certainly should not be surieien grounds-for the chang. Because 1r. W. . Libbes had mad a statement that 'he was opposed t( Tillman, and because he is count: auditor the change should be grant ed Mr. Thurmond showed that tie Sulli van case, which had been referred LO was not at all similar. The next point refuted was tha because a few citizens had subscribe( to a monument fund. This shoul not wrap public opinion in such a man ner as. to prevent the defendant fron obtaining a fair and impartial trial. Severa7 cases were referred to it which it had been decided that news paper editorials should not be sufticien grounds for a change of venue. . It is well established that when th prejudice is contined to one locality: change of venue cannot be granted. Solicitor Thurmond spoke for fort minutes and made a forcible argument bringing out many points of law whie had not been touched upon by hi associates. At the conclusion of Solicitor Thur mond's argument Ex-Judge 0. W Buchanan, -who is connectd with th cpamtfor the defence, arose and ad - dressed the Court. A TIRADE AGAINST THE PREsS. Judge Buchanan said that he ha not expected to say anything in th case, but he was so impressed with th treatment of the defendant by th newspapers that he was compelled t have a few words to say. Hie bega in an impassioned manner, saying tha at one time the press of the countr was regarded with respect and hono! but now it was allied with the grea force of money. With the great sweel ing wave of the war there camne wha is known as "commercialism." No' we have '"newspaper oratory and news paper bawling.'' Judge Buchanan bitterly denounce the State as a paper which lashec slashed and beat men to fury-.. A ma of to-day dares not uitter his imdeper dent opionion unless he is ridiculed b the newspapers of the country. Dm ing the whole argument M1r. Buchanal showed much feeling and his speec1 created a riutter among those present Be said that "the State" was tryim the attorneys for the defence, but thu he had lived a free man and would di one. He did not propose to be tyranmi ed by the newspapers. Continuing. h said: "Don't von know that you ca go to any one on the street and ass 'Bill, how about this caseY' and he wi. reply: 'Oh you can't-get a fair tria here; these newspapers down _th street have been inflaming the mi of the people so that a Lair .trial impossible.' He said that this con: m iunity had been so saturated an' poisoned by the newspapers that man, had been forced to sign ailidavits to the prosecution for fear that if the. did not do so their families would sul fer on account of the pressure brough to bear by "the State." Every bus: ness man in the State is unaer th domination of the mighty newspapern * Judge Buchanan, continuing. sais that the' ministers'of the Gospel ha gone so far as to be lashed by this tienc and thepoor fellows have been mad -to come here and swear that there no prejudice in Richland against th accused. The newspapers were assert ing so much power that they now ari leading the fountain of justice. A mnai - is tried these days by the newspaper and is either acquitted or condemnet before the case comes to trial. Ex-Judge Buchanan continued li speech against the press for three quarters of an hour, when aJudg Townsend interrupted him, sayini that there was only tifteen minute left to his side and that he suppose< Col George W. Croft would say some thing. The Court then took a reces until 4 o'clock. Ex-Judge Buchanan's speech tool up all of the time of the defence excep twenty minutes, and, although Co Croft offered to allow the other sid another speech if his time was extend ed, the offer was refused. but as matter of fact he took up thirty-tivt minutes and was stopped by th( Judge. COL CROFI'S ARoD'3ENT. Col Croft argued chiefly on the lav of the question and declared that th( pnly thing to be consider'ed is whethe: there is a reasonable dotubt thal a fair trial cannot be had. To sa) that this appeal is a slur upon thE people is a narrow and contractet view, when it is a constitutiona. right. - He held the p)eople her< to be as pure and as good as an.1 others, but they are no better. The asking of the change is not onl3 not unreasonable. but it is but natura that it should be. Before this cast arose no man had been so traducer and slandered as this defendant. lb was denounced as a debauche, liar coward and of no r-epute so far as tht public press is concernfed. lie d well with much emphasis upon th is phtas< of the case, and went on to say that the infiuence of the State had beet used to saturate the minds of the peo ple with poison against the defendant. He referred continually to the fact ~-lat Gonzales was spoken of as a martyr and Tillman as a mnurderet and assassin, Hie referred to an edi tor'ial written by the Rev l~r Evans in the State calling Trillman a miurderet and assassin. PublIicat ions from othe'r papers continually added tire to the flames of prejudice. rThe whole comn mtunity was stirred up: its chief men in commercial life. its preacher's. its women and evetn its child ren. Thee were all made to believe that Gonza:les died for t he h~onor of the count ry, w hile every' man that knows that his attacks on Tilmtan were aci uai ed by the deepest venom. The-y ha~d been swept away fromI the mloorinig of their conservatism. lie nevecr had been so surprised iu his lift- as when the press of the city askedi to publ~1sh tihe alt avis in this ce before they were Submitted to the Ccurt, oh because ; t he State's alttornev refused to Mllow it were the han d'01 the pess ted1 i t710 1'u ald h' 114 cts" to the editol a "ME Nh 11c'd whm E 2WMs - r sena remarkej that he had kept re ith the aIjdavits for three days y ,a ad never hstened to such able r '4et aud ih was convinced that a change of venue should be grant- sc lie e. itered u pon no statement of s reasons and. merely making the brif an nuncenf~ tt said he was ready sg Ihear s--estions as to the county in w hieh to try it. TH'E "SEEDY TIUAL" CLAIM. Mr. Nelson said Tillman was anx- hi ious fur a speedy trial and only two Si counties were now available-Edge- w field and Saluda. ti Mr. ThurLond spoke of the incon- tz veniences of Saluda. and suggested C( either Kershaw .r Lexington. As to ol a speedy trial he said Edgefield Court oU would Ie held the first Monday in August: Saluda the third, Camden S the first Mooday in September and it Lexington the third. r Mr. Crawford expressed serious t objcetions to Saluda because it was oractically the home of the defendant, SE being the county of which George D. J Tillman was the father, and the State T I would not have an equal show of fair- E ness there with the defendant. c Col Croft ridiculed the idea that -1 (Gorge 1). Tiiman'is work in behalf of S, 'aluda would alfect the judgment of ai the ocople. He made light of the P, ifteen miles of rocky road the wit- C eses would have to travel to get to T the Court 1ouse from the nearest h lralroad station, and mentioned four t, * or five "hotels and boarding houses" P; people could stop at. LET THE STATE IIAVE A CHANCE. Mr. Bellinger declared that it would be wrong to take the case to Saluda, al because it would be taking it to a I county where the State would be at a great disadvantage. le declared that b the defence could not pretend that they wanted a speedy trial, because a they had a chance during the last Court, when the State-agreed to ac cept any affidavits absent witnesses might make. DISPENSARY FUND FOR SCHOOLS. ' p a The Corm ptroller-General Has Issiuedj His Warrants for Same. a1 The com-troller general has issued p warrants aggregating SSO.000 which fC . will be paid to the several counties in r( a the State as their part of the dispen- a sary profits. This money was set p, aside by the board of directors some time ago and represents the profits of e ethe State dispensary for the tirst half Sof the year. Following isthe amount d each county will'j receive, includling ti Sthe "detlaency fund'' paid to several v counties enumerated below:p .A bbe ville, $2,468.08: Aiken, $2,- . - 419.93: A nderson. 82,831.26: Bamberg, e L .81,063.40: Barnwell, $1,6MS.82: Beau- a Sfort. 81.787.82: iserkeley, S2,373.06: k Charleston. $3,359.85: Cherokee, $',- ti 2oa.50: Chester. .l384.06: Chester- si tield .81,948.11I: Clarendon, 81,672. 53: se SColleton, 82.472.56; Darlingrton, $1,- bh -55$. 73: D~orchester, .SS66. 55: Edge- ft - field. $2,:m4.36i: Fairfield $1,491.81: F lorence, $1,;13. h': Georgetown, S1, 0.3:'58: Greenville. $:3.3t;$.47: Green wo~od. 81,096.28S: Uampton, $1,57S.S0: t( H orry, 84.518.55: Kershaw, .81,267.14; ii Lancaster, $2,520.02: Laurens, $2,- it 01O6.67: Lee, .82,256.90: Lexington, 81, - a' 76.0; Marion, $2,842.35: Marlboro, 01 e 1,3.'. 83: Newberry, $1,822.24: Oco- 01 1nee, 82,1:32.77: Orangeberg, $3,304.28: b Pickens, 81,360.29: Richland, $1,- tl 979.63: Saluda, $1,973.21: Spartan- la burg, $4,066.71: Sumter, $1,662.55: el Union, $1,546.11: Williamsburg S1,- W 679.2:3; York -S2,428.91. ti -Before making the apportionment K the comptroller general complied with t3 the requirement that each school dis- Pi trict must receive at least $75 per I0 annum from the constitutional 3 mill t) tax, and if in any county the funds be ti too meagre to run each school dis- ol trict up to that amount, then the ti deiiciency must be made up out of the 01 dispensary funds. After such detici- m encies have been met the remainder n' of the dispensary fund is to be divided tI among the counties on the pro rata of tl school enrollment in those counties. fC There was no deficiency in Ander- tU son, Beaufort, Cherokee, Chester. tI Darlington, IDorchester. Georgetown, ai Newberry, Richiand. Spartanburg, w Sumter and Union counties. Hiorry it received over $3,000 to make up the ti deficiency in that county where there tC are many school districts. The defici- ti ency was as follows:n Abbeville, $285.50; Aiken, $279.04: M1 Bamberg, 8100.50; Barnwell, .S101; pf Berkeley, $1,019.14: Chesterfield, bi 818.04: Clarendon, 8:364.21: Colleton, s1 1,027.19: Edgetield, $948.73: Fair- hi ield. $1 13.42: Florence, $16: Green- cr ville, $77.40: Greenwood, $15.72: la Hampton, $424: Hlorry 83,118: Ker- pl shaw. $25: Lancaster. Sq69.50: Laur ens, $120.50: Lee, $1,2(;1.56: Lexing ton. $246.64: Marion $700.95: Mari b'ro. $151.43: Oconee, $889.62: Or- 'E angeburg, $48.24: Pickens, $271.44: te Saluda, $G44.28: Williamsburg ti 234.89: York, $36.09.w ti IAdv-ice ot'a Succes.;ful Belle. nlC rules, my dear, one could lay down *' resfor the charming of the other lii sex,"' said an old but very successful p~ belle to a debutante who in spite of a of beautiful face is, it must be admitted, of a failure as far as popularity goes. (A\rdent adorers she has, but of temn- of per ate admnirers and men friends she ha's noue.) " One could lay down uls nehundred and three of them; se al ood ru~les too. But there are two ex t h-at 1'd remember if I were you, and be you can afford to let the others take care of themselves. The first is, E when talking to a man never 'run i down' another woman. The second - and even if you forget the first, pleaseb remember the second--is never praise le lol Negroes Excited. Itn legro lynchings in twvo northern states within a month have aroused the colored people of Chicago to tre mendous pitch ofi excitement andl pro- in test. The burning of a negro at the ne stake near Wilmington. D)el., has es- fai perially aroused them andi added to Sa te recent. killing sf David Wyt a t abh 1:eleviile, 111., has brought the agita- pu tion1 again st mob vimlence to an acute H stfge. At tile Quinn Chapel meeting 'cel o0 cnoore citizens last night violent mi speeches were made against lynchings an and color-ed men were urged to arm sid tem'selvyes and protect their race ini a CARLUSLE FITTIlW SCHOD ood Iaince to FiJucate *u' I'ny and GSIrls, -.he Iamberg Herald says the .ue of the Carl;is Fitting Schot ! just been i:sued. We desire t e smeC of the inure imperta ats as given here, VroIf. . .eridan. for the p-st two years l aster of the institution, has be tained. The Board acted wisely -of. Sheridan ib not only a success I teacher and disciplinarian but als representative of the parents whos ns and daughters are his students ajoying the esteem and close friend ip of every student, be makes eat contribution not only to the ir llectual but also to the moral man )od of the students. In his depart ent of mathematics and scienc will still be assisted by Miss Pe ephens, who has been associate ith Prof. Sheridan since his connet !)n with the school. We do not hes te to say that no happier selectio uld have been made. The selectio Miss Stephens has the endorsemen the whole body of students as we that of the community abroat e fills her place in the girls' boarc g department and in the schoo ow with entire satisfaction. I e departments of English and hih ry, and of Latin and Greek, we ot rve that Prof. W. C. Owen and Prol Clifton Redmon have been elected hese young men are graduates c offord College. No higher tribut uld be paid than that paid by Di Ls. H.-Carlisle and President 1t. 2 >yder, of Wofford College. The *e well equipped by training and ex rience, having taken at Woffor )lege the normal course for teachen hey bring with them ability, youn ,e and enthusiasm which will ad! tought to tihe faculty. In the dc rtment of music Miss Jennie Wai ster, a gradLate of Columbi emale College and a student of musi the Chicago school, has been elect I. She comes most highly educate id e ndorsed. Mrs. Josephine Beach, the poupla id efficient matron of the girl; yarding department, has been retair in her position. She is quite a dition to the school, and the inst ition is quite fortunate to have h( rvices. The Carlisle Fitting Schot fers three courses -in her curricu im: A preparative for the Frest an class; a preparative for the S( 2omoie class, and a preparative ft successful entering on business lift his last course is prepared for thos ung men and women who canno ord a college course. We have here in our midst the or rtunity offered to our young peopl r a thorough education at a mos asonable cost. We understand tha student in all departments can spen year here at the low cost of $10" Lying for board, tuition and all fee. o the young people of our town, th, lucation is offered for the sum < 15. When we consider the advar iges otfered: a fine library, two fin bating societies, the associationi i class-room with teachers, and wit Jung men and young women from a .rts of middle and lower South Ca: ia, we esteem it an opportunit joyed by but few communities. W e glad that there is a bright ouw ok for the niext session. Now, k ec people of P~:Lamberg give this in; itution her patronage, then will ti: hool occupy a warmer place in the. ~arts. The school deserves it, there re it claims it. A Poor E'xcuse. The Charleston Post says: "Sen: r Platt of New York sticks h ~ad out of his mole burrow for iute to squeak that the Democral e originally responsible for the pos lice scandals, because several of tla licials implicated in them were firn rought into the department durn xe administration of President Clevi d, notable among them being ti1 xief of all the rascals, A. WV. Macher ho was made some sort of a clerki ie department, from which la ounted rapidly to a place of authorj -and opportunity under the Rt iblican administration which fo wed Cleveland. Even if it we: -ue that the scandal had its starti e Cleveland regime, Senator Platt' arge is a confession that it he Jen the Republicans six years to g( the trail of it. What sort of ac inistration is thaty" Senator Plat1 >doubt, thinks a poor excuse is bet r than none, but his efforts to mak e renegade Democrats who vote r McKinley for the sake of otik e scapegoats .for Republican racal. won't do. In the first piace Mache id his ilk ceased to be Democral hen they voted for Mocialey, an is hardly the fair thing to clas :em as Democrats when they are dE cted helping the Republicans lou :e United States treasury. We ar >t at all surprised at the outcome ( achen rascality. He sold out fu If, and Senator Platt should no ame him for trying to get hi are. But we must protest agains s being charged up to the Demc acy. lHe may be a follower of th mented Grover, but that does nc ove him a D~emocrat by any means A Beautiful Tribute. Agree or disagree as yoiu may witi illiam J. Bryan on his potitica nets, you cannot withhold admira >l for his wonderful eloquence an' >rd imagery. What is more beau u than this: "If Jesus had lef thing but the Darables. His nam< )uld have been imperishable hi erature; if lie had bequeathed t< eity nothing but the simpolicit: His speech and the irresistible logil His argument, Hie wvould have rmanent place among the orator: the world; if lHe had given to tha >rld nothing but the commandmen [hou shalt love thy neighbor as thy .f," enforced as it was by His ow: ampie, this one gift would havy en sutlicient to outweigh all thi alth of the world; if lHe had left m ord but the Sermon on the Mount would have made liis natal da) irthy of the perpetual celebration t all of these added to the match s majesty of a perfect life and thi ;pi ring i nfluence of an all-pervad i n 'e, are turning the eyes or an ever reasing number to the path Ilt d from the manger to the cross. Fatal Famuily Figh t. A t Knoxville, Tenn., Friday nigh1 the home of Alexander Beattie, ro shoemaker, four inembers of hit nily were shot, three fatally. Whxer muel and Warren, two sons, agei )ut 20J, engaged in a guarrel, each lied a pistol and lired at the other th were fatally wounded, each re ving a bullet in the abdomen. The ther of the boys ran into the house :i vas accidentally shot in the lest e. She will die. A daughter, hear her mother's screams, also ran in THE RAIhROADS. Vast State Board of 'A' ixtAs Pil 'I ERE WAS SOM E INCREASE e iVi Atwr1 UepreqefntatiVes' ol the a Diswreent Railroadti 1 Were nlezrd. The State board of assessors of rail- c road property have about completed their work. After hearing protests from the representatives of the rail road companies, the board fixed tl e c following increases over the a-isess- d ments of last year: SOUTHERN RAILWAY. G 2I Atlanta and Charlotte Air a t Line...... ... ...... .. 8249,980 1 Ashville and Spartanburg.... 48,000 Charlotte Columbia & Augusta 89,375 y Spartanburg, Union & Colum bia .... ........ .. Total ...............$455,135 South Carolina & Georgia decreased.. ..........111,300 f Net increase.... ...... 343,835 V e sEABOARD AIR LINE. - Chesterfield & Kershaw......$ 54.900 . Florida Central and Peninsu Y lar.... ..............259,625 - Gecrgia, Carolina & Northern 340,367 3 Paliretto............... 28,000 Sot t i Bound Extension..... U.120 i 1 Total increase......... . .. 19.012 t. IINDEPENDENT LINES. c Carolina-Northern. ..... ...$ 1,948 c a Chesterfield & Lancaster.... 9,000 N C Hampton & Branchville...... 1,000 Northeastern (Clarendon).... 300 M Blue Ridge........ ......21,970 ] r p Total............... 34,818 r Union Station company.. 10,000 v ATLATTIC COAST LINE. S Ashley River...........$ 4.000 r Ciarleston & Savannah...... 85,250 11 Cheraw &. Darlington.. .. ... 39.520 - C. & D. )Gibson branch)...... 18,135 C. & D. (Salisburg branch).... 11,100 - Florence R R (Latta branch). 19.780 r iGreen Pond, Walterboro & Branchville............ 21.000 e 1-artsville............... 2.500 t MIanchester& A ugust-a (Luck now branch)....'.. ....4. 120 - Northeastorn............... 152,550 ( a Wilmington, Columbia & Au- f t gusta................155,940 a d Total.. .............8513.895 a It will be seen that the Southern Y and the Coast Line have been increas- t S ed 850,000 while the Seaboard alone a f has been increased 8720,000 and either i of the roads first named has three I e times tihe mileage of. the Seaboard, n although it is a fact that nearly all of h the track of the Seaboard is main line.i 11 OTHER AssFssMENTs. y Tihe Southern Express cornpany's as e sessmnent has been increased from $34 r a mile to) $85. The total is $244, 715. 1, a great increase over last year. 1 - The Pulhnan company was increases e from $80 to 100 a mile for every mile r of track trav-eled in this State by its Scars. . The WXestern Un ion's assessment is one of the few not dletlinitely tixed, but~ the Postal has beca assissed at S6i0 a t Smile. 's The return of the Southern Bell 1 a Telephone company of .699,000 for its i a property, in this State was accepted. Tihe American Telephone aid Tele e graph company was put up f rom $34 ta mile to $100 a mile. gThe board had fixed the assessment1 - of the Augusta and Aiken Eiectric e Railroad company at $6,000 a mile, ' but this was reduced to $3,500 a mile.2 " Comptroller General Jones things the e cross country electric roads should be assessed with liberality in orde1- that the building of others may be encour Vaged. The Greenville traction corn- 2 e pany has not been acted upona finally. ] 0 The Gordon Telephone company of 1 s Charleston returned its prc-pert~y at I S $12,000: the board increase:1 this to t 864.500, but after hearing pritests re duced to 8:35.000. SThe South Carolina Long Distance - company of tis city was left at $16, S336i. The board originally :ixed the Sassessment at $33,000.] e The Island Telephone company oft -Charleston had been assessed at $10, S720, but this was reduced to *6,000. s~ s The following other local 'phone t 3 companies were assessed at the tigures l s named: Chesterfield, increase from t $150 to $1,000: Greenwood from $1,950 ( Sto 8:3,750: Ninety-Six from $:300 to s e $500: Laurens $ 1.250: Orangeburg and 1 'I St Matthews .8800: Glenn Springs $300; a r Blacksburg $1,000; Manning 8900; c t People's Telephone company $5,345; s Aiken $1,000: Liberty $150; Lancas- a tter 8600. d Ate a Live Black Snake. e .A Morristown, N. J., dispatch says: Bicyclists passing along the iliberna rian turnpike near IBeach Glen recent Sly saw a man sitting beside the roadt I holding a three-foot squirming black . snake in his hands. Suddenly they I were horritied to st e him lift the snake f; .to his mouth and take a bite of it. This c She ate with apparent satisfaction and t, then picked up a handful of grass t which he also chewed vigorously. af ter o which he took another bite of the rep- ci tile. The authorities at Rockaway b wvere notilied and the man was taken u into custody. When captured, only si thle head of the snake remained. The p man gave his name as R. 0. Granby, e; and said that he had just finished his ri -dinner of snake and grass. Then he k went on to explain that h~e was a fol- a lower of Mrs. .Llavatsky and believed y in the theory of rein-carnation, lie tI said he wIs the reincarnation it of a hog, thus accounting for his fond- se ness for snakes and grass. The man t( said he distinctly remembered when is he was in the form of a hog some~ l thousands of years ago, and that he ni was one of the herd of swine men tioned in tihe Bible, which were drowned in the sea at Gadara, be cause thle devils that had beeni cast ti out of thle demoniac entered the swine. L A tight curdThursa 'morning Skes county, Ga. There were three a omore persons on each side and ap number of shots were exchanged. Cap- h ain King was killed and onie or twU others seriously wounded. Deput yt Sheriff Smith was knocked dlown wtih fe a hloe by Russell .1 ones. King was s shot by .John Rhodes, who was arrest- o01 ed and committed to jail. Thbe trouble of was the result of an old feud between be neighbrs. Jtis is T1E STATE. lie F.-ppessirogs In~ Viraiii faclilan C ilftyour tea'hcr- were present on.1 me opening day of the Anderson I unty summer school on Menday. a Kiss Mattie Boyce. for a number of 1 v ars missionary to Mexico, died at 0 e r hoine in Due West on Monday. t A little daughter of Bailey Strange, farmer who live two miles from ,'oodruf, was killed by lightning on [onday afternoon. Miss Macie .]onston of Fairfield y >unty died in Winnsboro on Tuesday. j he graduated last week at the Due rest Female college. The Richland county grand jury re- a 2se to find indictments in dispensary ises. They threw out six on Mon av. The students of the College of t harleston held a meeting on Tues- t ay and protested against the ad- 2 fission of girls to that institution, a The Charleston grand jury refuse to nd indictments in dispensary cases. Y :ven the notorious Vincent Chicco is r Lfe in their hands. t Samuel J. Willoughby, a well- I nown citizen, was drowned while shing in Muldrow's mill-pond, four iiles from Florence, on Wednesday. Miss Annie Spencer, a teacher in t be Clinton graded school and sister c f President Spencer of the Presby- t arian college, died on Wednesday ; iorning. Mrs. John Hyman of Hyman, 'lorence county, committed suicide ith paris green on Wednesday. She as about tifty years old and in bad ealth. Fred A. Cummings of Spartanburg, graduate of Wofford college in the lass of 1896, has been elected to the hair of English in Hollins institute, ir ginia. Tee case of Reuben Pitts, charged rith murder in the killing of young dward Foster, a pupil, has been ostponed again on account of the ill ess of the defendant, who is in Ashe ille. N. C., being treated for con umption. A FIEND BURNED Lt the Stake by an Infuriated 3ob for the Usual Crime. A dispatch from Wilmington, Dal., ays all is quiet in the community, Dllowing the horrible lynching of eorge White, Helen Bishop's con essed slayer, at an early hour, this acrning. Of the mob of nearly 5,000, hich overpowered the authorities, ,nd stormed the Newcastle county vork house, and dragged from his cell he trembling wretch, and burned him .t the stake, the identity of only one i publicly known. That person is leter Smith, twelve years old, who ell when the work house guards fired ,volley into the ranks of the attack ng mob. The lad was struck by a sullet, which entered his back, and is bought to have penetrated his idneys. At the hospital, where the oy was taken, the physicians state, hat lie is in a serious condi tion. A fter he mob had completed its awful work P vengeance, the body of the negro avisher and murderer was left, chain d to the stake, with tire burning all round it, and the members of the ynching party went home. The rain, vhich began later, extinguished the ire, -and, at daylight, the charred >ody still hung limp in plain sight of he passers by. Pubilc sentiment jere, so far as expressed, appears to ,pprov'e the lynching of White. and t is not believed that there will be ny arrests. White's confession-made ust before the torch was applied to he pile of oil soaked bushes around ui-was the admission of everything .nd more than had been charged ginst him. He is stated to have said: 'I was sent, by Mr. Woodward, to a orn field to try some corn, I saw Mr. Vood ward'sdaughter, and intended to saault her, but a couple of men came long, and I did not disturb her. Then saw the Bishop girl, and I followed er. I seized her, and asked her if she ad any money, and if she would give t to me to let her go. She gave me 60 ent. I again seized her, and she cried: Please don't hurt rne.' "I choked her and accomplished my urpose. Then I asked her if she was oing to tell on me. She said she was. gave her a hack in the throat with 2y knife, and asked her again If she as going to inform on me. She said he was, and then I cut her throat wice again, and left her. After that, went back to Mr. Woodward, and old him there was no good water to rink down there, and he sent me amewhere else. I went back, but soon ft. Then I went back: to the house nd put on a white hat itistead of the ap I-'wore." The negro's confession rendered the lready incensed crowd even more esperate, and some wanted to tear inm limb from limb, before the reach d the scene of his execution. ThE egro begged, piteously, not to be urned,but on mercy was shown; and, though his sufferings were terrible, e remained conscious and rational to ae last. A NEW GAME.-A Southern Kansas Lrer is the inventor of a new game iled "Improved Ping-Pong." It is >he played on a farm in the fall of e year. Tne player gets up at 4 clock in the morning. milks the >ws, feeds the hogs and horses, eats reakfast, then hitches his team to a agon about the size of a box car and 1 arts for the corntield. Here is where v :ng pong comes in. You grab a big lu tr of corn in the left hand with the p ght hand and a contrartion of some g ind you yank the shucks oif the corn si d throw the ear at, the wagon. wi hen the ear of corn strikes thle g irow-board it goes "'ping" and when I hits the bottom of the wagon it b unds "pong" making a very in- b rsting game at 2 1-2c a bushel. It F safe to predict, that like many tr hr Kansas ideas, the game will b ~ver be popular. Pied at Last. The A ugusta Chronicle says "Mat- t~ iew Preston, a negro. died at the imar hospital after the most re arkable exhibition of vitality on re-C rd in this city. On March 27 he wass aunded by another negro in a crap Lme in Ilamburg. He was shot with h pistol, the bullet entering his side, netrating his liver anid perforating s intestines in numerous places. hen brought to the hospital it was ought that he would surely die in a R w hours. H-e was operated on and gi >od the operation well. He was ci erated on again and again, a portion in his intestines removed and it was 10 lieved that he would at last win this - :ht for life, when he died." jo For Boys and Gils, Ir yo'u are good at guessing or an vering, here are a few questions you M wrestle with. You can see any my a white horse, but did you over te a White cn.'? How wany dIiereat inds of trees grow in your neighbor cod and what are they good for? 7hy does a horse eat grass back wards Ld a cow Iwrd Why does a hop Inc wind 'n* w:oy a bean vine the Lher? W here shottuld a chimney be oe larizte, at the top or botton, and hy? Can you teil why a horse when .thered with a rope always unravels , while a cotw always twists it into a inky ki ? Ilow old must a grape ine be before it beisinS to bear? Can ou tell -. by h-aves turn upside down ist brf..re a rain: What wood will ear the grearest weight before break ig? 'W:'y are all cow paths crooked nd none st raight? A .odest Request. A: Thursdav's- session of the Na :o::t CoblIred 1mmigration and Com a rial associatif at Montgomery, Lla., the committee on resolutions dopted a resolution recommending he ch::ting of vessels during the ear 1l904. for carrying colonist to the public oI Liberia, Africa. A peti ion to President Roosevelt and the atl rial congress citing tbe wrongs row which the colored race is said to uider was read and adopted. An ap ropriation of one hundred million llais was asked from congress to be zed for securing the transportation f tiose of the race who desired to set ie in Liberia. The petition, it is ex lained, does not recommend a whole ale deportation. Three MentLynched, Three negroes-Gartield 'McCoy. eorge McKinney and Wiley Anett ere taken from jail at Newton, Daka ounty, Ga., and lynched Friday night. he three men were in jail for k;,-.' S. B'ullard, a white tu an, v ho :ii d in to quell a row at a negro dance, ear his house one nigh t last wek. he mob went to the jamk-r-s b;u.c nd told him they had another priou ier to lodge in the jail. When the jail r reached the jail do.r witti the kteys he mob rushed him and soon h-id the loors opened. The three negroes vere taken a mile from town and hung o a tree and riddled with bullets. A ourth negro-in jail for murder the >f another negro was not disturbed. Ill was quiet Saturday. Her Fatther-a Strength. Recently in a Sunday school the teacher was telling her class of small pupils the interesting story of Samson, of whom she spoke as being the stron gest man that ever lived. Little Ethel, a golden haired new re cruit, listened to the story with great interest After the teacher had finished, Ethel held up her chubby hand. "Well, Ethel," asked the teacher, "what is it?" "Samson wusn't as strong as my papa is." "Is your father so strong?" queried the teacher, smiling. "Oh, my papa's offui strong." replied Ethel with emphasis. "Why. I heard mamma say that he had a ellyfant on his hands."--Columbus Journal. Barometers and Dust. When the barometer falls, the air around expands into a larger volume and the air inside the cupboard also expands and forces itself out at every minute crevice. When the barometer rises again, the air inside the cupboard, as well as outside, condenses and shrinks and the air is forced back into the cupboard to equalize the pressure. and along with the air in goes the dust The smaller the crevice, the stronger the jet of air, the farther goes the dirt. Witness the dirt tracks so often seen in imperfectly framed engravings or photographs. Remember, whenever you see the barometer rising, that an additional charge of dust Is entering your cupboard and drawers. Prophetic Dreams. The belief In prophetic dreams Is not ntirely a superstition, according to the results obtained by two members ~f the French Institute. They point out that at night when the senses are it rest the brain is affected particular ly by organic feelings in various parts f the body and that early symptoms >f advancing diseases give a particular lirection to the dreams. A familiar in tance is nIghtmare, which indicates a yspeptic condition. Immoderate drink rs see rats, snakes and insects in their Ireams before the actual outbreak of elirium tremens, and so on. In Her Debt. As a pleasant faced woman passed be corner .Tones touched his hat to her mad remarked feelingly to his com ranion: "Ah, my -boy, I owe a great deal to hat woman." "Your mother?" was the query. "No, my landlady." t Not Dangerous. Biggs-Windig is a nice fellow, hut me is given to exaggerating. Dggs-Yes, hut that fault is counter alanced by one thing?. Bggs-What Is that? Diggs-The general indisposition of r eople to believe him.-Chicago News. e d Won In a Wallc. "Say, how did you get off in the glee lub try-out?" "Made first bass on four bawls." happarel.________ His Conviction. There are two sides to a jaIl. and It's ~asier to get Inside the outside than it s to get outside the inside.-B~altimnore ~ews.1 Grant Got the Worst or it. At a recent meeting of Confederate eterans in Richmond a story was told , 'hich, if true, shows that once at ast Grant lost his characteristic, im rtubablity. While he was mn Vir inia during the civil war an old lady nt her grandson to ask where he p s going. The general answered t< ruttiy: "Tell your grandmother that nl am going to Rtichmnond or Peters.. S Lrg or heaven or hell." The boy came P ak in half an hour and said to the A ederal commander: "My grand- tI other says you can't go to Richmond si cause Gen. Lee is there; you can't 0] Sto Petersburg because Gen. tI cauregard is there, and you can't go ci Sheaven because Gen. Jackson is si ere.' ______t____ st Zolly M. Maynard and Walter S. bids, two prominent citizens of For- D 'th Ga., engaged in a shooting af-w ay Friday afternoon as the result of hich both are dangerously and per ips fatally wounded. It is said that A e trouble orginated over a negro The Laurens Advertiser says: Mr. gt mosevelt in his affection for the ne- .sg -oes should place a score of them in ti: large of the post oilce department T. Washington he would at least not am wer its present standard of honesty te and this notwithstanding the stock be ke of the colored brother and the hen br PUGENT PARAGRAPUS. VUonscious.-'But he doesu't real 12S thit he boasta." "Oh, no? li heard him boasting that he doen't boast,"-Puk. "There douca't seem to ba eo many bicycle. as formerly." "No; It's rid ing, inatead of riders, that Is falling D1 riow."-Indiana)cJlis News. Doctor-"Above all things, you niust dismiss every source of trouble and anxiety." Patient-"But, doctor, that's impossible. I've just got a new automobile."-Towin Topics. The man who praises what he Tn tends to purchase and enumerates the faults of what he means to sell Ls honest enough to feel lonesome in this dizzy old world.-Chicago Daily News. "Yes," said the superstitious man "I believe it's lucky to pick up a pin, don't you?" "Not if you pick it up by sitting down upon it," promptly re plied the schoolmaster.-Philadelphia Record. The Purchasing Limit.-Mr. Stein sen (our latest millionaire, after his third fruitless stalk)-"Now, look here, you rascal! If you can't have the brutes tamer, I'm hanged if I don't sack you!"-Punch. The Two Champions.-It is said that the ruat of u lion can be heard farther than the sound made by any -Lher living creature. Next to that cornes the iote of a woman who has found a movuse in her bureau.-Boston Transcript. The Animus.-Mrs. Gossippe--nlow does it coate Mrs. Swagger invited you to -her party? I thou;:ht you were en.nties." Mrs. Sniappe-"We area but she thought I had nothing 1it to wear, and wanted to make me fee, Dad."-Colunmbus state Journal. WHAT IT COSTS TO MARRY. ouly a Five Dollar 15111 as Neeessary to Defray the Expensen la Most i'laces, Marriage is one or the cheapest of luxuries if one reckons only the outlay re.Ld foi the pm) inent op the preach r ,;r magL.L;.LL v.ho IzeerCsIS the ceremony and the cost of the license in such states as require licenses. Any minister, priest or preacher of the Gospel in the United States may sol emnize marriages, and in many states judges for one or more classes oi wourts may officiate. In all save halt a dozen states, too, justices of the peace have the privilege of officiating at the highly important function, says the Chicago Chroinete. In sonie parts of the United States the persoua performing a marriage cer emony must have personal knowledge of the identity, nanes and residence of the parties, and inasmuch as such laws axe enforced in sonie of the western states where young people frequently Irive long distances to be married, the stipulation has on occasion caused more or less ineonienieuce. In -most of the states two witnesses are re ,uired to be present at the solemuniza rion of a marriage, although in some states a single witness is sufficient. rhere is sti:1 in force in P'ennsylvania in .id law which prescribes that 12 writnesses shll3 be present, but this ex iction is seldom i? ever enforced. 1'er kaps the strangest stipulation of all a that which appears in the laws of Lenntessee, and- is to the effect thrat the ralidity of a marriage shall be in no wise affected by 3'e omission of the aaptismaal name of either party in the ,ieee and the use of a nickname in tead, provided the parties can be iden Ified. Any person cotaversant with he conditions prevailing in the mour ein districts of Tennessee will appe date the wisdom of this unique pre riso. Common supposition is to the effect ;hat the fee for performing the mar 'iage ceremony is dependent entirely tpcn the generosity of the bridegroom, md it will, doubtess, therefore, sur )rise many persons to learn that in several states the law has a hand in he matter. In the Old Dominion, for astance,- there is a statute which pro rides that the person solemnizing a narriage Is entitled to a fee of one ollar, and that "any person -exacting greater fee shall forfeit to the party ggrieved $50." In West Virginia it is tipulated that the fee be "at least ne dollar," and the Idaho law says hat "the fee shall be five dollars, or ny other or greater sum voluntarily iven by the parties to such marriage." n 16 states of the union a wedded onple may obtain a more or less elab rate certificate of their marriag some of Them Have. "This article," she said, looking up rom the paper, "says that physician. Imost invariably have no business bility." "So?" he replied, absent-mindedly. "That's what it says," she asserted. They are too easy-going in a busi eas way, and really don't know how a get a proper return for their serv rs.. There is no class, it says, that so much imposed upon. Do you hink it's true ?" "Well," he replied, thoughtfully, some of them may lack business bility, but others have enough to take the average good. Do you re 1ember that you asked Dr. Pills to ine with us last month?" "Yes. What of it?" "Hie's charged it up in his bill as a rofessional call."--Chicae'o Post. Itis sated theo Uied States~p De :>rth ofux peauontu onthine of~u the~j orimna s tio th world n Ugust a lat foru. t O curn ofal e tobacco ron texpermen atis stte the uten States wil b artget Goferientuest have decided mae oilogasTexs, Texual, jusnt )uhPioito the bigges tobacco exth uientaAbajatdistricte ofrdna del ugos Cua plnwnfas the cing in the THE taco o twe a S expriet atoney inl tha Sothernuate wil stae ened wfthef tomout dexpnded oy gisar Gornmthessae demton ratue pendin tbccor thne grsouri teal ossEasty Teagreuat if:o per300. The cargst conbacut o tel io Curafters"was the nSt inouis T-aSatofany, wich sas assessed istr.e Folk hans tabated a/0 stae enrcieb eislators finhepssg ordcash 21,e. The lares been many-o o R03-IIOANTICCAER I Speculator and Eusband of Ducha End Up as a marine. E~. L. Dwyer, Former Chicago Eilloa. atre, Anxious to Secure His Ae lease from the Navy in Order to Begin Life Over Again. Edward L. Dwyer, once ~a millionaire mine owner, promoter and bold specu lator in wheat, who startled even Chi cago by his d-aring, a-nd who later mar ried a duches worth millions of dol lars. sailed into the Brooklyn navy yard the other day a marine on the United States transport Calgna. Dressed in his natty sailor suit, his face bronzed by the Philippine sun, his muscles hardened by work. Dwyer looked little like a dashing specullatr and husband of a duchess. Dwyer bas been in -he serviceof the United States since July 31, 1900, when pennih-ss, disinhe:ited by his aged wife. tired of wandering. he want to Harrisburg artd enli.sted in the niarine corps. The term of enlistn:eua is three years, but. Dwyer has influences at work in the ravy department. and there is1: doubt that his early dis charge wi!! he secured. Dwt'er first attracted attention in 18), th--: a memi-nhr of the Chicago 4i:rd of trpv-. by purchaling 1.(OO 000 lusheis of wheat fur future delivery without iepocitinz inarirs. While in N-w Yor M' . represei:ti-. west era ma:n.. in:.ee:sts, he nt the lh:'h. d (steilcecia:, whoe bus band had died only a short while be tore. rv'h:- fortune emim2ated a .mo.. h-- w m .tr" thn:Lf 40 y-ears ,4er l.an Dayer, but he won her. and the two were married at Rock idt. .7.rn:' una r- 2'., 1%% The do!- diet n a! . tr the wed ding, leavin. :he bulk of her fortune to her two children. Dwyer receired Dwyer then started on the-r":td to, financial ruin -through speculation, and in May, 1.T. he found himself pen nile:s lie fil!d :i petition in bankrupt cy in New br.ck, with liabilities of $252.055 .nnd no visible assets. But Dwyer within a year had erganized a company with a capital of $1,500.000 to develop silver mines in Zacatecas, Mexico. Apparently this scheme was not successful, and a yea-r later he was again penniless. It. was then that he enlisted and was assigned 'to service in the Philippines. While Dwyer was in the Philippines be looked about him for favorable in vestments and he thinks enterprise there will open the way to fortune. It Is said -ihat the bronzed marine will go back to the islands immediately upon receiving his discharge. REMANS OF MONSTER BIRD. Valuable Discovery Made in Southern Part of Argentine Repubite Larger Than the Dodo. Brief information of the discovery in Patagonia, or rather, .of the south ern part of the Argentine Republic,. of part of the remains of an extinct bird that, in size, outrivals any of the forms known to science, either living - or extinct, has just reached the chief ornithologist of the Smithsonian in stitution, who regards the discovery as one of the first importance. The detalis thus far received are to the effect that a scientific party explor ing along the eastern foothills of the Andes range unearthed from the strata of the tertiary age the skull of what they at first took to be a gigan tic bird of prey, but on subsequent' examination they unearthed other parts that caused them to change their first view and reach the conclu sion that the bird must-.have been a water fowl. The size of this extinct bird, which the discoverers named the "phorarachis,"~ is, according to the reports. something amazing, it having been at least a fourth larger than the "dodo" of Madagascar, a bird now ex tinct, but which until the finding of this Patagonian monster held first place for size in the list of birds liv lng and extinct. The government or nithologists are anxiously awaiting further details of this interesting dia covery.' American Cotton Output. The census bureau report issued.. to-day on the cotton ginned in ther United States shows the crop of 19001 to have been 10,486,148 commerciall bales (bales as marketed) equivalena to 10,123,027 bales of the 500 poundi standard or to 5,061,513,294 pounds. This is an increase of 840,174 com mercial bales, or more -than eight per cent. in excess of the 1899 crop, Texas grew 34 per cent. of the en tire crop of 1900 and one-fourth of the world's crop of that year. Its crop increased 33 per cent. over 1899. the 1900 crop being 3,536,506 commer cial bales and the 1899 crop 2,658,555. East of the Mississippi production decreased. Students Sorry 'rhey Signed. Columbia university' students are rebelling against the retsoltions -in regard to. hazing ihy ygvere made to sign lby rte faclty last spring, says the Ne'w York Waorld. D~uring the weeak. ihe variao'us e'!:nssa, l.::ve' re and decided to pl.:e -:rm:.:e:.i ru 'ier the freshman body because of the car tailmnent of the upper classmen's priv ileges. President Seth Low, in an effort tor forestall a repetition of Last season's' occurrences, has addressed a note to each of the undergraduate body is which he calls attemtion to the spiris - ,ution tiaey signed and aske mnued cooperation. Improvemnent of the Rhi. Germany is spending $3,000,000 ow the iprovcment of the Rhine river by " low Strasburg. Made Him Mad. Judge Gary, of the billion-dollar steeli trust, thinks things have come to a pretty pass when a man cannot build a.. church of his own and have such doe trinle preached in it as he likes. Judge' Gary built a church in Wheaton, Ill.. at acost of 8100.000 which he named: the Gary Memorial Methodist church,. in honor of his parents. Besides paying for the edifice, he contributed $1,200 a' year towards the salary of the pastor,. and held membership in the -congrega tion. Recently the pastor, Rev. Mr.. Flack, preached a sermon in which he :denounced trusts and classed them with labor agitators as being a me nace to Americanism, in addition to saying other things not calculated to. tickle the ears of a trust magnate. To show his disapproval. .J udge Gary has. ser'redI his connection with his own church, and says he is done with Methodism for good. Has it come to the point that the trust magnates must furnish their own religion as well as churches? THE Springfield Republician says : "Mr. Payne has the heartfelt sympa thy of' General Alger, who has been there under somewhat similar cirum tances. General Alger had to resign.