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THE FORT MILL TIMES.
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for t)u* views of eorvewpombiuts.
As an advertisiiiK niuclium for Charlotte,
Pineville, Fort Mill, and Rook
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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
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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
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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. '
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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
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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.
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A new po8totftce has been established
at Clurkgop, Chester
couuty,
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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
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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. |
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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
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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.
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