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w THE FORT MILL TIMES. DEMOCRATICPUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS, The TIMES COMPANY. Subscription price $1 per yt*ir, OoWMppUdWlOfl on current subjects is inviieu, gui wo no nut ?m?? m puuusu communion linus containing mora than BOO words, uiul no responsibility is assumed for t)u* views of eorvewpombiuts. As an advertisiiiK niuclium for Charlotte, Pineville, Fort Mill, and Rook )fill business bouses TheTiumsis unsurpassed. Hates made known on applica' lion to t)m publisher. local Telephone No. 20. JANUARY 22, l'.H)2. Bryan as a Money-Maker. Charlotte Observer. The Philadelphia Record remarks: "Mr. Bryan not only talks "money,' but he makes money out of his talk," and to prove this assertion quotes the following from a recent issue of the Hartford Times: "William J. Bryan is on a lecturing tour in Now England. His prices to tho public are 25 cents and 50 cuts to the hearer according to the excellence of the seat. In Now Haven l??t night some hOO persons bought Heats and Mr. Bryan must have been benefitted j 10 the extent of $250 or more by his stay in that city. He will probably realize as much more by giying the same talk at the same prices in Holyoke tomorrow night. 11 is really a fine thing to be able to travel about the country and take in from $500 to $1,000 a week in the way of 'gate money.' This is a privilege that was never enjoyed by Thomas Jefferson or An- 1 drew Jackson, to whom Mr. Bryan so frequently refers in his lectures." Mr. Bryan has reduoed the occu- 1 pat ion of running for president to a practical working basis, and the i above figures and those in regard ( to the earnings of The Commoner 1 go u good way toward explaining 1 why the Nebraska!) is not discouraged by defeat. But as long as ' people are willing to nut un cash i to hear him, Mr. Bryan is merely i acting tlio part of a shrewd bijsi ii?'hh man in placing a monetary 1 value on his speeches. He is doubtless, however, making more 1 toil) than history these days. I ' J St* re's One on Rock Hill, Some weeks ago, when smallpox first appeared in Fort Mill, our 1 contemporary, the Rock Hill Jour- ] nal, lost no time in giving a humorpun account of the situation here, but wo have failed to find in The Journal anything concerning the > following story, which has appeared recently in several of our ] exchanges: 1 A negro who claimed to have I come from Columbia recently up- I pearcd in the council chamber of I Rock Hill ntul informed ihe chief of police that he had a good oase i of smallpox and a<ked to be cared i for at the city pest house. The ] chief was considerably frustrated and with a few remarks, "which < being summed up and boded down I might well be expressed by the word 'nit' in bold face black type," ' made the fellow got out at once. < He claimed to have relatives near Rock Hill and told the chief that i he had money to pay the expense ofhiH keeping. As the pest house i js no longer in use, the chief sent < him forth and ho has not since I been seen. i i The State Supreme Court has i rendered a unanimous decision 1 sustaining Circuit Judge Gary's!1 opinion that the jury laws of the , f>tate nre unconstitutional. null Hiul void, in that they are special 1 and not general laws as required by the constitution. This is n warning to the General AHseinbly to avoid in the future the dangers of | Special legislation, and no doubt wiii r n... 1. * ? Iiivntimc IIIC vyorK Of lilt* preaent session. Thp editor of one of our exchanges says that all of hia clelitiquant subscribers will receive a statement of their accounts within ' n few d iy?, and he EXPECTS to hear from each and nil of them. Well, brother, we hope that you may. We've tried thin "statement'' business too, and we are now won- i1 dering what to do with the trunk full of "expects" that we have on hand as a reward for our trouble. ' t The Washington Poet remarks that, "The dead man who waa ap- 1 pointed postmaster down in South Carolina waa not one of Mr. Mc- | .gam in's followers. However, the N ator of she commercial Democi racy has quite a number of dead m I AN OLD DOCUMENT. Negroes gs ''Proper Goods" Once Sold In ftoston. The CharleHton News and Conrier has brought to li^ht a docu iir'in Willi WHICH II publishes for the especial edification of the Springfield Republican, ' the Hartford Courant und the Boston newspapers. It is as follows; "Knowall men by those presence that I Soth Iugersoll Brown of Boston in the County of Essex and Commouwealth of Massac husetts, Free holder for and in consideration of the full and dust Sum of Fifty pounds good and Lawful money paid to me in hand by Cyrus Sholes of Boston uforosaid. Mariner, havo sold and by their presence Sell, Convey anil Confirm to Sd Sholes his heirs j Kxoters and Administrators a Certain Negro man by the Name of Cato Frye being my property (roods and Estate, and do try these presence Deliver the Sd Oato to the Sd Sholes to have and to hold : as his proppor Goods or Estate | or to Dispose of at his pleasure and I do warrant the said Cato Frye free and ch ar from the Lawful Claims of any person or persons whatever, in witness whereof L have hereunto Set my hand and Seal this twenty seventh day of april in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & eighty Hix and in the tenth year of American independence. Seth L Brown. "Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of Elias Richardson, Nathan Miles." As wid ho Been, in the tenth year of American independence (and of the promulgation of (he doctrine that all men "are horn free and equal") public sentiment in Massachusetts had not yet decreed that "floods" of the "Negro Man" variety should be shipped south C. O. 1). at the owner's earliest convenience in order to avoid scandal. That policy developed later?after the '"Goods" were found to be unprofitable in large quantities in a section where agriculture could never become the j leading industry. Our Charleston contemporary made good use of its oppoluiiity, but over looked one point. It should have wound up its merry gibes with the request that Massachusetts papers would please copy. The youth of Now England know nothing about the Hartford convention, but it is less important to keep from them the transaction > in the "Sd Cato."?Orangeburg l11 mes-Democrat. How Two Convicts Won Their Freedom. Tho State. It is not often that a convict behaves himself in such a manner as to get those who are in charge of liim exert themselves to procure his relenso. Lawrence Powell, however, is one of the exceptions. He was convicted of manslaughter | in 1897 in Beaufort county and ientenced to five years in the State prison. His term would expire in April next. He killed his man at a negro hot supper row in ft freefor-all light. Soon after being sent to prison | Powell was sent with other <*011- j victs to the farm of Mr. W. H Harden, Jr., in Chester county, and has been there ever since. | Now that the convicts have to be 1 sent hack to the prison, Mr. Harden writes the governor telling liiii) that Powell has been a re- i markablo prisoner; that lie has not only conducted himself in a splendid manner, but line aided in recapturing escaped convicts, has guarded the other convicts, and that the writer feels that such fidelity as he has displayed, though wearing the stripe.-, ought to he rewarded. The letter was shown Attorney General Bellinger, who was solicitor when Powell was convicted, and he at once recommended executive clemency. The governor thereupon issued a coinmutation to date. It is understood that Powell will be retained by Mr. Harden as an overseer oil his farm. The governor acted in another unusual case yesterday. Jt seems that some time ago Wm. T. Low ry was convicted in York county of the violation of the dispensary law. Solicitor Henry writes that Lowry was convicted in his absence, at a term of court when the woods were being shelled for violators of the dispoasary law. The defendant's absence was due to i hia ignorance of court customs, having never been in court, not even as a witness, in his life. The soiipitor says that lie has ascertained that Lowry bought the liquor he had ot the request of a neighbor, who stated that he wanted it for his wife who was sick. The solicitor accordingly urged a full pardon, and this the governor granted. - - -* * ? A new po8totftce has been established at Clurkgop, Chester couuty, * I THROUGHOUT SOUTH CAROLINA. Short Items of State News Conveniently Grouped for Times Readers. Capt. li. G. Pierson, ono of Sumter's sturdiest nnd most beP nevolent citizens, died at his home in that city Saturday niuht, after : 11 t* l I. ? Illl llllil HS OI Bl'VCrill WOUKS. Two small children of Mike Thompson, colored, were killed by n freight train on the Atlantic I Coast Line railroad near Barnwell late last Wi dno-day afternoon. The appointment of Mr, David Aiken as postmaster at Greenwood a few days ago was an unexpected announcement to the people of that town. Mr. Aiken died several weeks aoo. There was nothing startling in the proceedings of the general iis8emhly last week except the fact that of the ld(> Lilts introduced a score were directed against corpor. g . ..i 1 .. __ ..a . it. . auons, particularly againsts me trusts. Sidney Miller, a young colored boy, who completed u term on the York county ehaingang Thursday, was shot, by one of the guards at about t o'clock on the following morning, while prowling in the vicinity. Director Dodge, of the office of public road inquiries, I*. S. Department of Agriculture, has issued a circular calling attention to the Southern Inter-States good roads, convention to be held in Charleston, February 5, <> and 7, next. The formal application for n charter for the lug banking and trust company of Columbia was filed in the office of the secretary of State Saturday, and a commission was immediately issued to the corp rators. The capital stock ia $1.70,000. Arrangements are being perfected by the earnest commit tees for the coming tweiity-fi tli annual convention of the South Carolina Y. M. C. A., which will begin its sessions in Columbia on Saturday evening, February S, and continue in session through Tuesday evening, February 1 I. The Confederate monument, which has just been eroded on Anders m's public, square by the Ladies1 Memorial association, was unveiled Saturd iy with appropriate ceremonies. More than 2,500 poisons witnessed the exercises and the day was a gala one for Anderson. At 10 do ocloek Saturday night a white man named 11 nut was found on Wayne street in Columbia in an unconscious condition, as a result of a blow lie had received on the bead with some blunt instru ment. The limn died at 2 o'clock Sunday morning;. It is supposed tint the motive was robbery. Two of Columbia's hanks, the Loan and Kxehaugre hunk of South Carolina and the Central National ! Ihink, will he eonsolidah d under the name of the Central National hank with a capital of $1100 0)0 and a surplus of over $100,000 making it the strongest hank in Columbia. Friday evening; just before ni^ht a rou^h and tumble linht occurred about one mile east of (JatTuey in ; which a half doz*n or more were eiig?ag;ed. A number of shots were { mod iiii<1 "fS >n" Cobb shot anil k 11 led J'ink Norman. Cobb fled, but was later captured by the sheriff and is now in jail al (inffney. All tlit* parties are white. There is a movement on foot in Charleston to establish a South i Carolina chapter of an organization 1 known as Veterans of the Philippine Insurrection. There are about forty survivors residing in this Slate, and the head men of the association are anxious to tret South Caro ina into the list of the ' States already represented. The Virginia Carolina Chemical Company, against which the At tor- 1 ney General has brought suit al- ' legmg it to l?o a trust and unlawful combi nat ion, has tiled a petition to have the case transferred from the Slate to the I nit eel States Court. The omip-iuy's chief ground is that the State laws a- j I-..- * : e: . i h(UU0l II II.^ICI flit- III CiMlllin Willi tlit* constitution <>f tin* raited States, and so null and void. A DZSr MYSTSItY. It is a mystery why women endure Backache, lleadiiche. Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Melancholy, Fainting and Dizzy Spells when thousands have proved that Electric Bitters will ipiickly cure such troubles. "I suffered for years . with kidney trouble,'' writes Mrs.| Phebe Uherley, of Peterson, la,, "and a lame back pained me so 1 could not dress myself, but Electric Bitters wholly cured me, ana i although years old, I now am > able to do all my housework." It overcomes Constipation, improves Appetite, ^ives perfect health. Only 50c at Menchr.m's drn^ store Ex-President Cleveland will take his annual duck hunt at Oe-jrgetowQ abg it February *2. | tk- 1 ) ' ''>y I * I"'"" Smith Gone to fte Woll. Since the untimely end of that infant industry,the "Anjos Owens Cherry Tree Company," the skeptical buve been predipting the failure of the "father of thein all"? the Smith newspaper onncern, of Mouticello, Fla., which is the first of the "get-rich-quick" schemes to do siarieu. xne napnin ring concerns and other aboitive itifringments on the Smith oopywrigbt have been failing und now comes I he announcement that Smith hag made an assignment. For several weeks he has been alow in making remittances, and, 1 now his agents are being informed ! that they are apt to come out I loser in the matter. Smith's valej dietory is very affecting, and has a "touching" ring about it. He is, or was, tho publisher of the Weekly Constitution and tho Monthly Reporter, notoriously sorry papers, lint t.iey have brought him over 40,000 subscribers through his system of giving employment to agents to do writing at home. Thirty IXays for Stealing Potatoes. A few nightR ago the potato hjll ' of Mr. TT. J. Zinker, of Rock Hill, liiP.'iloil iti liiu iruriljn ?irnc iiiu non CI11C1 CU by a thief and aMo'it a bushel and a half of the tub? ?-s were stolen. Suspecting the guilt of one Pink Nelson, colored, ho had hiB house searched, when the potntoes were found one recovered. Nelson was taken before Magistrate Nunnery, who sent him to the chaingang for dO days. When his term expires additional charges of theft wdl be preferred against him, goods that hud been stolen at other times having been found in his house when it was searched. Assassinations Heralded by a Comet. Kncke's comet has heralded the death by Hssasainatiop of three presidents of the United States. President Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1805; Kncke's comet appeared Jan. 25, 1805, and was visible five mouths. President Garfield was the victim of the assassin's onslaught on July 2, 1881. and died Sept. 19; Kncke's comet appealed Aug. 20. 1881, and was visible to the naked eye. President McKinley was attacked on Sept. 0 and died on Sept. 14, 1901; Kncke's cornet appeared on Aug, 15, 1901, and was visible for several weeks. BLOWN TO ATOMS. The old idea that the body sometimes needs a powerful, drastic, purgative pi J has been exploded; for Dr. King's New Life Pills, which are perfectly harmless, gently stimulate liver and bowels to expels poisonous matter, cleanse tlie system and absolutely cure Constipation and Sick Headache. < )idy 25c at Meacham's drug store. A KEY TO EXAMINATIONS. A new book has just been pnbj lished containing the C^noHtions and Answers of overy public School Examination in (jepr^ia, wince 18?SS. Fourteen years work. Will he sent, postpaid, on receipt of One Dollar. Descriptive circulars sent free. 13. S. Holden, Publisher, Box 27. Ellijay, Gn. TOWN IREASURKR'S KEPOHT ? The following is the report of the treasurer of the town of tort Mill (S. O.) for the year ending January 14, 1902: RECEIPTS. Prom former treasurer . $ 47.29 Street tax collections . . . 307.00 Borrowed from Savings JJauk . 250.00 Half lot, cemetery . . . 5-00 Lumber sold .80 Licenses collected . . . 12,50 Town hall rents .... 15,24 Pines 281.90 Property tax 494.18 r.418,41 DISBVKSEMEJJTS. Managers of eleetion ... $ 8.00 Telephone messages . . -35 bninher bought .... 43.}2 Feeding prisoners. . . , 3,50 Paper and stamps , . . ,80 Praygge, dead dogs . . . ,30 B. \V. Bradford, advertising , 20,00 Pitching H.00 Notes. ^iivitn/M Hniilf ,uii,l 9SO 01 1 Interest on notes, . , . 8.87 Printing 4.80 Two rooK hammers . . . 2.05 Prisoners to chainKanft . , 2.20 Repairs ou crusher . . . 14.82 \V. ,T. Cherry, attorney . , 25.00 Wood and tixing pump . , 1,25 Aueouuts?A. Q. Jones ($1.20), h. J. MftWtey ($11.15), A. A. Young ($17.40), Hughe* <fc Young (.05), Mill* & Young (.77), T. B. Bolk ($21.04), J. W, MoElhauoy ($101.00), W. E. Hprntt ($l.."K)), Sprat t Machine Co. ($21.$0), R. F. tirier ($212), W, T. Hougland ($7.00), A. A, hrudford ($1.85) 100.54 Interest on tqwq bonds . . 28.00 Salary of police officer* . . 865.85 Work on streets .... 275.85 lutendant's fees .... 04.00 Ira. G. Sinytffe, treasurer's commission , . . . 24.10 J. M. Sprat t, treasurer's commission. , , . . . 45.10 Am't paid on town hall floor . 25.00 Balance on hand .... 2.52 $1,418.41 J, M. SPliATT, Treasurer. I . 3" ' \ r?hr' ,.>V ________ 1 Vftll UIIAP A crrcnt. m.1 Af!t TUU WEOE aneo. Tue.v aoaiiun tiyiro is no .remedy to cquui ) j??Sk ' 5^ . pa am eas^ c and a sure vray to tr Throat in order to and insure healthy take halt" ci glassfull it a teaspoonful of JVSexicai Li unr'. rritli th{? r*rfrl? t' ? thn Then l>atho th?? ??utsi'!<? ?>t' fijputuud alter (loin ; iliisso jyuuud tlio It is a l'OSITi 25c.. COc. aud 6 IT MAY BE YOU ISM ?nn Mustans ami you t "OLIPAY PRESENT le Lamp of J The lamp that doesn't flaro to use bad lonpruAKO ; tin* la you pet it and stays poo.l ; tin lnglv part with, onee you hav rbc JMcw . Other lamps tnuy be ofTore they may l>e, in some respecti uess, there's only one. -he Bnre the lamp offered you is i 00 it { every lamp has it. (3t Old Lnnips 1 Wa can till every lump wnti want a pew lamp or ihu*. an tabed, o rase mounted or othe ed fmo a New Rochest nend vou literature on the mi it? We are SPECIALISTS in th LamP-4* Consul THE ROCHESTER LAMP GO TTTTHl JA II II'- I Jke Your Dollar lyinent of laundry work left in re, but we strive as well for your atioQ. Our aim is to wash * ulean, iron shirts, collars and 0 your liking (we mean by that id or domestic finish), and gener afford yon the best satisfaction ?s cornine'isurate with good work, till chesJi. The perfect work Model Strain Tmundrv. Charlotte, all the time at short prices has ie. favor of good dressers, mjouttt in v,lo Wednesday evening. Tip. I,. JlgEUHANEY. AdF.NT Fort Mill, S. 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