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?\ ' WPENINGS|i i General Interest ; jW ?m Parts of ilit State. Jf kfiKER AND FULLER HELD. Charges Them With Murder 1 of J. E. Liddell. j? ,>enville, Social.?The jury of J st into the killing ol' J. K. Lid- | 'JjjL j the real estate operator whose t /Y wr>..? t'oilllil (Mirist ninii Pvu i.? (,suburb. nought in a verdict find. i lint " v ie deceased came to his th frorr wounds inflicted by Jess r and 'oe Barker." These two ^itc- i irn i ime near being lynched v Saturday afternoon and a mob ? only In Id back by prompt action jmrdcriii.1 out the militia and later Jjiluug lue prisoners away in autois Fnller is now in Spartanfc jail Am^'Harkcr is held in unn?. V>w that the coroner's jury has Wed the crime upon tliese two 1 it has come to light thnt Fuller \rested through the evidence of L ^jier Odd Fellow of Liddell to W MTuller had confessed the crime, ^ same time implicating Joe a viuj ivaruii nnsi^lll'll 1UI lilt? v jrr.is that Liddell was employed ^ axe Butler Real Kstate & lx>an P ite^i#which held a niort-;a$re over Ful fer's mother's furniture. It is probP ibla that the men will be tried at E'.lte 1 January term of sessions court, ionveneing on the ldtli. TRAIN STRIKES MAIL CARRIER Only Woman Holding Position in L South Carolina and One of Three } in u. s. Spartnnburg, Special.?Miss Mvra / Flicks, the only woman mail carrier ^ 31 South Carolina, and one of the * >nly three such in the United States, was fatally injured Christmas Day, p when she was struck by a Carolina, niinehfield and Ohio train in Ruther? Ford county. N. C. Miss Hicks is the :arrier on the rural free delivery Bl route between Cherokee, this eounty, ind Hick8ville, N, C. Later?She ^ irill recover. ) Penitentiary Making Money. Columbia. Special. ? A greater ^ quantity of cotton this year than isual, will enable Superintendent f jriffith of the penitentiary to make i record-breaking financial report to 1 'he legislature. The report will ihow a surplus and net profit for 1 She year's business of $80,000. which :he superintendent has on hand to ^ ".urn into the State treasury. It is fl|?i!$clv that about a third of the WJ Vint will be used to put up a * |cm brick stockade for the Pewsure and Reid farms, which adI each other and which together located partly jn Sumter and ?ly in Kershaw county. Big Timber Deal. I linstree, Special.?One of the - Ksi iransiers oi real estate ever I 1c in Williamsburg county was wuraniated here last week by J. I), t land, real estate broker, in a sale 2,900 acres of timber lands, for^ Wy the property of the estate of Miel Z. Martjn, deceased, 'to the ? ^yrd Lumber company of Greeley^ or $60,000. These lands | vast jrrowth of larpre, ThemW pjne, which has I land tbleed and stands in a ton to^ uninterrupted ^ str*?r?W*,ny years. It is proba valuable body of long I | rec/the Carolinasj ac^pight White Plague. Won, Special.?The doctors Jp-onntv are preparing to make ^pmined fight against tubereut jff At the laat meeting of tlie r JFnty Medieal Society a temporary k Hi-tuberculosis league was formed *" Hh Dr. R. H. Timmerman of Bates& w, president, and Dr. 0. Frank ^trts of Lexington, secretary. Foundation Day, Jan. 14th. Hlumbia, Special.?The program H;he exercises of Foundation day Hie University of South Carolina, pR-H?ary 14, 1910, has been announcH This date every year is cele SB^PeCby the whole of the university Hau^ees, the faculty, the aluinPyy students?in memory of * . trial Ition of the crent iiwtifn- I P by IVater and Sewerage. Special.?Tliis city lias bonds for water and sew^jjBunting to $100,000. The H bonds will bear date of 1910, and will be payable ?ith privilege of vi nf < ^0 vears, the inter'|9e nt cent, payable K JK ^ally.' \ i>.will be begun |K<v ? ,' Rnapp. hea 1 of the farmers demonstration wi!l hold a n leting at GreenAttomoi File Appeal. Hcmhia. Spc. I.?An appeal \ A Supreme Court I case <>f lY Jones, who wds Id with Uu i ling of his wif? I' I itv. . ie ease was tried Vebnuii'. Mm of Court anu Mkdietir.ent < ii. ged that Jones | darmcr of Union >[ to his wife. Ji res. .lu Ige Memmingei in the rase. Thi >tf ,u n.# attention. SOOTH CAROLINA'S Pi BEST YI'AR SINCE WAR " Tr Remark. ' L* 'tl: and Develop' 909. ? ?. sta Pop i -0 000. * \Vj * Sir : -i . :r ?n. * les * Bet i ' y mililons of * inj, * dollar ! ' ~t . iar. * Xh * 8,0( >,00 j . bushels of * $ _>, * corn. * phi * 920 0',' r i w enterprises * p,H * Tex' r over $65,- * \>5( * 000,0( * " i * Trt i ake over $1,- * jrj * C00,0( ). * Sw * New era ot uiversified farm- * ya| * ing. * As * More capital invested and * (]u * more employment. * He: * Millions spent for waterpow- * i>e, * er development. * ya * Eestimated wealth, $746,100,- * c * 600. i * Lumber products worth $9,- * sti * 000,000. * Cal * Most of crops show increased * * yields per acre. * * General progress in education. * Co! * Ne Columbia, Special.?The year 1909 has ben the best single year upon all imlutsrial rfnd agricultural lines of ( endeavor that South Carolina has soli had since the war Between the Sec- tlii: tions and the last four years since Xo 190") have been the finest four years pri in this regard in the history of the ha\ State, so far as the study of com- is, parative figures can reveal says The \\*r State. The most noteworthy achiev- niei ments in the past year have been ing evidenced not in the greatly increas- is ! ed value of the cotton crop, which Stsi has been something of moment, but bv the record increase in the value of <>njj the corn crop of the State and in ing what is mo. .? substantial and lasting, firs the increased yields per acre of all die i-tups, wiiii |iussu)iv one or uvo ex- jn ceptions. nor In the industrial field possibly no in State in the Union will show greater advances for tlie year. The most pronounced feature is that the in- I creases for this State during the Bol past four years are uniformly great- is er than the others, in the matter of few the value of the annual products ina and capital invested. ara 2 ' CAMPAIGN A SUCCESS. fat' ed Ninety Thousand Dollars Added? nnc New Building for Female College. cur Greenvile, Special?The Furmsui aft campaign for $1)3,000, in order to se- ser cure $25,000 from the general edu- the cation board, has succeeded, result- cloi ing in the addition of $90,000 to the Coi resources of the institution. Fifty has thousand dollars of this fund goes thr into the construction and equipment ter of the new science hall; $40,000 will son be added to the general endowment, son The success of the campaign means is also the construction of a new $10,- liaj 000 building for Greenvile Female College. ( Lein Law Repeal in Effect. ove Columbia, Special.?The lien law Col repeal went into effect on the 1st. hoi South Carolina fanners ami tenants wai are no longer to have the right to (?ri mortgage that which does not exist On ?the planted crop. 30,1 The act providing for the repeal t" of the law is very brief, being as owi follows: St a "Section 1. Be it enacted by the tho general assembly of the State ot Ha: South Carolina that section 3039, Ma volume, code of laws of South Caro- of lina, 1902, relating to liens for ad- nov vances, be, and the same is hereby repealed. "Sec. 2. That all acts and parts i of acts inconsistent with this act An are hereby repealed. to "Sec. 3. That this act shall take 14 effect on the first day of January, <1>S1 1910: Provided, That all liens taken of before this act takes effect shall he 1~> valid, and may be enforced as now ami provided by law." the Approved the 4th day of March, eha A. D. 1909. nov Smothered by Cotton Seed. j ipw Darlington, Special. ? While at (" work at the plant of the Southern Mo Cotton Oil Company here, R. Rich- *y? ardson, a negro. 18 years of age, met ja" death -under a falling pile of cotton *| seed. He was feeding the seed to another part of the mill. The pile stu of seed was about 15 feet in height, "if McMaster Medal Awarded to Mclver Williamson. I Columbia, Special.?The McMaster gold medal has been awarded to oj, Mclver Williamson for originating ^ the Williamson intensive corn cul- j ture method. The presentation ceremony will lie on the University of South Carolina's founders' day, ^ January 14. The medal is the con- ren eeption of Insurance Commissioner F. II. McMaster, who gives it as of- tjlf ten as ins mvuny niKis reason tor aj| awarding to an alumnus of the university "For distinguished services " to mankind." This is the first ,lt,, award. The Horse's Collar Froze. ] Winnsboro, Special?One of the hal most remarkable freaks of the cold snap which has affected the country ( for the past week is that which ?c- '] curred to Ii. M. Rabh, a mail rider ma who goes out from Rockton each pol morning on Wednesday of the week. 1 While making the trip on his route lesi on that day the leather horse col- by lar which was about the neck of . the horse Mr. Rabb was driving of froae still and broke two. dei * *-* . ' * jDl.U. . . v : - TV\ JmSA '.v 'SBsl' V'f*' ** f*' * 4LMEI1U SIAlt OUihfcfr MADE MUCH MONEY uck Farmers of Charleston District Show Profits. Dolumbia, Special.?According to a dement prepared by Commissioner ntson t lie truck farmers of (."barton district made a not profit dur: the past year of over $1,000,000. o gross value of the crop was 800,000, and the number of acres mted was 25,.100. The cost to uluce and ship the truck was $1,? 1.000. riie following is the statement: sb I'oltatoes. .. 7,800 $ 800,000 eet Potatoes.. .. 1.200 8.000 bbage 5.300 530,000 paragus 800 .*{50.000 cumbers .'{.500 550,000 mis 2.500 200.000 is 8'J) 32,000 rious (crops not stimated spcciIcally 3,000 300,000 a wherries 200 40,000 bbage plants. .. 200 500,000 25,300 2,800,000 it of product and ship.. 1,850,000 t profit $1,010,000 Will Solve Drainage Problem. ^olumbin, Special.?A practical at ion of the drainage problems ot s State. Georgia, Florida and rth Carolina, on the same general nciplcs as irrigation problems e been worked out in the West, in the opinion of Commissioner it son, in sight with the announcen? i.i.;..i. ......... i.:.., r....... W....I. ton that the Federal Government sending a man through these four ttes to demonstrate this solution practical tests. Milo H. Williams, :ineer in charge, is the man eomto these States, lie will work t in Florida and be here the inidof next month, llis first work South Carolina will be on a 100e tract of the Cliilds plantation Richland County. Happiest Man in State. Jlackshurg, Special.?Mr. John liver Whisonant. of Oklahoma, visiting his father, who lives a r miles from here. Mr. Wliisnt is 52 years old, and was se|?ted from his father at the age of years, and a year afterward the her heard from what he considerrcliable authority that his wife 1 child were dead. This all ocred in Arkansas. The father erwnr<ls went to tlie army and veil as a Confederate soldier for four years of tlie war. At the se of the war he settled in York intv, married a second wife, and I lived happily ever since. Some ee years ago he received a letfrom a man who proved to he his , whom he thought was dead. The i is now visiting his father, who now an old man, and one of the >piest men in the State. Much Cotton Held Back. \>lumhia, Special.?There are r Do.OOO hales of cotton stored in umhia, in the Standard Wareise Co.'s two houses. In itVi other re houses, located at Greenville, enwood, Newberiy, Anderson and mgeburg, the Standard has stored !)00 bales. >till there are large quantities now ned by farmers scattered over the ite in small ware houses, such as se maintained at Florence, Dillon, rlington, Union, Spartanburg, St. ttliew's, Chester, etc., where lots from 1.000 to 2,000 hales each are v stored. Dispensary and Its Claims. /slumhia. Special. ? Dispensary ditor West has approved claims the amount of $191,4-10.56 against of the counties voting out the pensarv system. The total amount the claims against the boards in counties is $247,184.18. The ount of the claims held up by resolution of tlie commission in rge of the State dispensary is v approximately $50,000. enty-Six Mules Burned in Barn. Ireenwood, Special.?Mr. J. D. ore, a large farmer of this counwho makes his home here snsled a heavy loss by fire, llis large n on his plantation, five or six es above town, was burned, toiler with its contents of feed ffs and twenty-six head of mules. ? loss will likely run over $5,000. PALMETTO LEAFLETS. Iannis Taylor will deliver the anil address to the lawyers of South rolina at the 17th annual meeting the South Carolina Bar Associan in Columbia, January 20 and 21. idward Kvans was shot ami killby Willie Ziegler at a dance in leton county. iVade C. Pinson, convicted in Laus county of manslaughter and itenced io serve 10 years, went to i penitentiary of his own accord er his case had been appealed. \ commission has been issued* to t Virginia-Carolina Lumber Com* iv, or Sumter. The capital stock $75,000. VI rs. Hampton Melbunr, of Wal11a, took carbolic acid by mis;e, thinking the liquid was headic medicine, and died in prreat ?ny after a few hours, die city council of Charleston y increase the salaries of the icemen, firemen and all laborers. Phe town of Red Top, in Charton county, was almost wiped out (lames Monday morning, lohn Stolle, a well-known artist Charleston, aired 73 years, is id at his home. ' { { * s ASTRONOMICAL CALCULATIONS rOR 1910. Heing the Second Affrr liisxrxlili1, or l/'np Vcnr; and Until July 4tb, th lSith Year of the Independence of the United Stutcs. KCI.IPSKS FOIl THE YEAR 19IO. In the year 1910 there will be four eclipseB, two of the Sun and tw of the Moon. I. A total eclipse of the Sun. May 8-9, visible in Taosmania as total ani in Australia as a partial eclipse. II. A total eclipse of the Moon. May 23-24, visible in United States Moon enters total shadow. May 23, 10 h 46 m. P. M. Middle of eclipse, Ma 24, 0 h. 34 m. A. M. Moon leaves total shadow, May 24, 2 b. 22 m. A. M Magnitude of the eclipse, 1.10 of the Moon's diameter. Ill- A partial eclipse of the Sun, November 1. Visible in Siberia, Japa aim ivorea. I iV. A total eclipse of the Moon, November 16. visible In the United States I Moon enters total shadow. November 16, 5 h. 44 m. P. M, Middle of ecllps< November 16, 7 h. 21 m. P. M. Moon leaves total shadov, November 16, 8 1 6S m. P. M. Magnitude of eclipse, 1.13 of the Moon's diameter. REIGNING PLANET. Jupiter is the reigning planet this year. CARDINAL POINTS. Vernal Equinox, entrance of the Sun into Aries, March 21, at 7 o'clock 1 the morning. Summer Solstice, entrance of the Sun into Cancer, June 22, at 3 o'clock i the morning. Autumnal Equinox, entrance of the Sun into Libra, September 23, at o'clock in the afternoon. Winter Solstice, entrance of the Sun into Capricorn, December 22, at 1 o'clock 15 m. at noon. EVENING AND MORNING STARS. Venus will be evening 6tar (setting after the Sun) until February II then morning star (rising before the Sun) until December 5, then evenin; star until the end of the year. Mars will be evening star until September 22, then morning star untl the end of the year. Jupiter will be morning star until April 1, then evening star until Oc tober 15, then morning star until the end of the year. Saturn will be evening star until April 17, then morning star until Oc tober 24, then evening star until the end of the year. THE BEGINNING OF THE SEASONS. Winter Solstice, 1909, beginning of Winter, December 22, 6 h A. M. Vernal Equinox, 1910, beginning of Spring, March 21, 7 h. A. M. Summer Solstice, 1910, beginning of Summer, June 22, 3 h. A. M. Autumnal Equinox, 1910, beginning or Autumn, September 23, 5 h. P. M Winter Solstice, 1910, beginning of Winter, December 22, 0 h. A. M. DURATION OF THK SEASONS. 3un in Winter Signs, S9 d. 1 h. Tropical Year, 2G5 d. G h. 3un in Spring Signs, 92 d. 20 h. Sun North Equator, 186 d. 10 h. Sun in Summer Signs, 93 d. 14 h. Sun South Equator, 178 d. 20 h. Sun in Autumn Signs, 89 d. 19 h. Difference, 7 d. 14 b. FIXED AND MOVABLE FEASTS OR CHURCH DAYS. New Year's I)av January 1. Whit Sunday (Pentecost), May 15. C . Paul, January 25. Trinity Sunday, May 22. S> inday, January 23. Corpus Christi, May 26. Si lay, January 30 St. Barnabas, June 11. B '. M., February 2. St. John the Baptist, June 24. Ci lunday, February 6. Saints Peter and Paul, June 29. S! February 8. St.. James, July 25. A (Lent begins), Feb- Transfiguration, August 6. St. Bartholomew, August 24. Q inday, February 13. St. Matthew, September 21. St bruary 14. Michaelmas (St. John and Angels) M *, March G. September 29. St /, March 17. ! St. Luke, October 18. Ps irch 20. ] Saints Simon and .Tude, October 28. G< rch 25. i Thanksgiving Day, November 24. Ei 4arch 27. ! Advent Sunday, November 27. Lc *11 3. St. Andrew, November 30. St 23. St. Thomas, December 21. St >. Christmas Day, December 25. Sa I James, May 1. St. Stephen, December 25. R< May 1. St. John the Evangelist, December 2 6 As Thursday, May 5. Holy Innocents, December 28. CHRONOLOGICAL CYCLES FOR 1?1<>. Dou B Julian Period 662 Golden Number 11 Roman Indication Epact (Moon's age, Jan. 1).... 19 Year Jewish Era, Oct. 3 567 Solar Cycle 15 Mohammedan Era, Jan 13 132: Age of the word (Mosaic), 5903. I HALLEY'S COVET APPEARS. It seems that l)r. Wolf, of Heidelberg, was the first astronomer to photo graph the reappearance of Halley's Comet in 1909. His telegram stated tha he found It Sunday, September 12, just within the confines of the constella I tion Gemini, near the boundary of Orion; and that it was of the sixteenti magnitude. By some this is believed to have been the "Star of Bethlehem.' Its reappearing* since the thirteenth century seem to have been coinciden with many disastrous events, which has tended to increase the superstitiou: belief in the malign influence of comets. This comet should be an intereatinj celestial object well into 1910, rising at first before the Sun, on May 8, abou 2 p. m. It will pass near Pollux in Gemini June 9, after its conjunction witl tha Sun, when it ought to be at its greatc-st brilliancy as an evening star setting about 2 hours 30 minutes after the Sua, at about the close of eveninj twilight. rA HAPPY" NEW~"YEARJ. 1 \ Dy /\nna ff. Pratt. li prom Ore&pn^ to Texaj, Jrom^ \j Florida "fo Maine, 2J The h tea fan h Neu-vearY 6rcctin0f Ij is/ arej\yin& UKc [he btrdf+.\ \ yl i |j Atxd vf vc can tvmember* }f : | All mcir meaning, till December' \ i) ft \jejha\\J[\\> [he dayj vHth kiruljy j , J and Wjviri&, lhaugfrb- ' \ n Jf14^ vx>ni?. "j ^ 'J ' <f?- # C * y ?l#> npimw - ^ . ?' . .-^..,1 ! -II'?W. I ^ l*fik TRiE;j> REiwfEis. j V9| FOR THE GRIP. ? 1|e1WW&jjc5MS1s:; Br rru n&l p**" mm ?fiiUMt of I'eruna is sold by your local dm gist. IJuy u bottle today. Photographing a Musk Ox at Cl< VA l'u Range. c-.CounI had come to hunt musk ox, and resolved to let 110 opportunity for securing trophies escape me. At the foot of the mountain twenty-one Hogs wot cut loose. They did not sec the game and Tushu, springing forward like a deer, led three ol tlieui to the trail above where the animals ad turned. Here the three dogs took the scent and instantly the ? whole pat< were behind them. As on former occasions, the round-up was made at s high elevation. The Eski# mos, far fcheud of me, were shouting, ''Hurry \.o! Hurry up!'' long be4 fore 1 readied them, and urging me on. When 1 finally gained the inonn' tain top 1 took a position at close Y ramre. On? birr fnllmr uu??aI/>.< and, wishiig to photograph him, 1, n frivine: my rfie to Tukshn instructions t> kill th?v animnl if i atj. tempted to attipv'K me, 1 approacteU J, very near vithi my camera. At the ' instant that I made the exposure, less than a dozen feet away, the infuriated bull broke from the ranks and with lowered head charged me. I had no further business in that immediate vicinity and proceeded to ostaba lisli a sprinting record in the opposite direction. While I am not an n aspirant for athletic honors, I have always been sorrv there was no one ^ present with a stop watch to time 2 that effort. Turkish heroad l.nk.gv that effort. Tuksbu held his fire much longer than I thought necessary. Perhaps he was interested in I my performance. Presently, howj ever, he did fire and the beast dropped at my heels.?Harry Whitney, II in January Outing. ~ Racing in a Blazing Car. Of the surmounting of hazards other than those presented in speed battles, there can be no better illustration than the bravado and nervi displayed by Foxhall Keene in th? 1908 race when, with his car a mass of Hames. he rushed down the trad near l.ocust drove in a vain effor to overtake the car ahead. Severa miles down the track from the poin named, while he was whirling alonj at a furious pace, his machine tool fire and the (lames, fanned hv th flight of the ear, increased in in tensity as the automobile sped alonf A mile and a half farther oil, th rear of the car was enveloped i tlames and the machine resemble nothing so much as a blazing tore I shot through snace. The driver an his mechanic could not he discerne in the living fireball by persons a Ion;, side the track. The heat must hav been maddening. And yet Keen kept on. The flames lapped close and closer to his seat until they ble across his head and forced him t stop, a short distance beyond Loom Grove, just as he was on the poii of overtaking the ear ahead. Alt lump his face and hands were badly burin no sooner was the lire extinguish* and his car put into temporary ru ning shape, than he jumped to h place again and was off like a flas ' His burns pained him greatly, b he refused to heed them until he h satisfied himself that the trophy v 5 beyond his reach.?George J. Na' 8 an, in January Outing. So. l-'l 1 I 3 Time at the Pole. At the north pole time Is nothi and if one were residing at !.. north pole It would be unneceas t to wind one's watch. You are ways at 12 o'clock and can't w 1 ! out of the hotel without wall south. All times of day meet at * pole, at the meeting place of all ? meridians. A man sitting with t Invisible mathematical point r i under him would be In all twt , four hours at once. Or a twenty ir S watch placed cn the pole coult lunuu iv y/uiui. iu nir v.ui rrv i iiui every part of the world. There to ho something: of an approximate to this In the extreme north of > way, where the degrees of longl squeeze In, until recent days. i tains of (Norwegian coasting sol era will tell yon how Ineonver e It was to change between the : of Holland at Bergen and tha Crete at the North Cape, while rect local time was maintained. v i eral vNorwurlan time he-ame t:? penstole.?T or^ou Chronicle. PRACffCAiT Examiner?What Is meant, "r' Smoothly, theologically speaking uy A Necessity and Free Will? Candidate?Well, where a a .JB gives (because he belongs to fho church himself, that is Free "V1H. *j But where he gives because his belongs, that la N?c?ssit7.-A|ba .