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HOWLED DOWN.
Tillman and Talbert Unable to Speak at
the Edgefield Meeting.
Columbia, July 3.?There was
nu old time howling down meeting
today nt Edgefield, tlio
home of Col. Jim Tillman and Congressman
Jasper Talbert, candidates
for governor. Tillman's followers
would not let Talbert speak
and Talbert's friends would't hear
Tillman. Other candidates were
silenced.
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Auci jLiiiujaii iwui waited imriy
minutes, while sweltering men in
a frenzy of excitement screamed
"Tillman1' and "Talbert" at each
other, a crowd dashed on to the
stand, placed a crown of flowers on
his head and bore him awny on
their shoulders. Then Talbert's
men carried him awny in a like
manner.
It was the rowdiest meeting held
In this Stale since 1802.
The New Pistol Law.
The new pistol law which went
into effect on the 1st instant, nnd
to which reference is made elsewhere
in these columns, is as
follows:
"Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of South
Carolina, Thnt from and after the
first day of July 15)02, it shall be
unlawful for any one to carry
about the person, whether concealed
or not, any pistol loss than
twenty inches long or throe pounds
in weight, and it shall be unlawful
for any person, firm or corporation
to manufacture, sell or otfer
for sale, or transport for sale or
use into this State, any pistol of
less weight und length. Any violation
of this section shall be punished
by u lino of not more than
$100 or imprisonment for not more
than thirty days, and in case of a
sale by a person, firm or corporation
the sum of $100 shall be forfeited
to and for the use of the
school fund of the county wherein
the violation takes place, to be
recorded as other fines and forfeitures;
provided this act shall
not apply to peace officers in the
actual discharge of their duties,
or to the carrying or keeping of
pistols by persons while on their
own premises.1'
Jones' Democracy Questioned.
Thursday morning Governor
Jeff Davis, of Arkansas, forwarded
the following letter to President
Roosevelt:
"I desire. Mr. President, to say
in behalf of the people of Arkansas,
with all due deference and respect
to yourself and your power
of appointment, if you contemplate
appointing Senator Jas. K. Jones
10 me Panama commission as a
Democrat from Arkansas as an
honor to our State, we would like
to have an opportunity to protest
against tlio proposed honor. He
lias been repudiated here toy the
Democracy, and by his recent utterance
and actions has put himself
beyond the party line, but if
you desire to appoint him as a
Republican pure and simple, of
course we can raise no objection,
though if you appoint him as a
Democrat we would like to be
heard."
Tickets for All Railroads.
A special committee of agents
representing the differont passenger
associations is devising a form
of ticket which can be used on all
the railroads of the country. A
final report is expected at a joint
meeting of the passenger associa
tion on September 1. One of the
forms submitted for a genera! J
ticket, good on all roads, consists
of a strip of thin pasteboard about
six feet long. But something les-t
cumbersome will be adopted.
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SOUTH CAROLINA LEADS.
In Enlargement and Improvement of Cotton
Mills She Outstrips all Other Slates.
During the post three months
the announcements of the undertaking
of new cotton mills and the
enlargement of established mills
in the South have been more noted
than in any other three months
since the Southern textilo indus- !
try received its great impetus more
than a decade ago. The revived
activity of this year will result in
the great advance of the industry
and the completion of the numerous
plans made during recent
months will give tho South a more
prominent position tlian ever.
The Manufacturer's Record publishes
a table giving the names of
the mills, their location and the
extent of the new equipment by
States.
South Carolina leads all other
States in the addition of spindles
during the months of April, May
and June. The figures are: Alabama,
84,1)20; Arkansas, 5-4,500
Mississippi, 15,000; North Carolina,
123,4 48; South Carolina, 171,
760; Tennessee, 26,000. This Stnte
also exceeds in the number of
looms, being 5,414, North Carolina
following with 4,1)90.
Don't Want to Give up Fort Mill.
Commenting upon the proposition
of Mr. John 13. Cleveland, of
Spartanburg, to exchange Fort
Mill and Indian Land townships,
in this State, for Polk county, in
North Carolina, so as to form a
new county in South Carolina, the
Yorkville Yeoman says, in part:
"We, of these parts, speaking
particularly of York county, do
not want to give up Fort Mill
township, and we know that Fort
Mill does not want to go to North
Carolina, with all due regard for
our sister State. There are historical
reasons why Fort Mill and
Indian Land should be retained ns
a part of this State, a suggestion
of which is given in the latter
name. If Mr. Cleveland will refer
to the map of South Carolina made
by Cook and Mouzjn in 1772, after
these surveyors had run the
lawful line between the colonies,
he will see that when tliev r>nmn
directly west from the Great Pee
Dee river and reached the old Camden
and Salisbury road they were
in the vicinity of a reservation of
114,000 acres that had been set
apart to the Catawba Indians.
This was a square territory with
the corners pointing almost diroctly
north, east, south and west. If
they continued their western course
to the Catawba river and thence up
that htream to the uoint where the
generally westerly direction of the
boundary was to be resumed, it
would divide this reservation, lying
on both sides of the river, throwing
a little more than half on the southwest
side, into South Carolina.
Clearly this would not have been
wise. To run around the southern
and western sides of the reservation
and put it all into North Carolina
would hnve made a line fur
more erratic than the present one.
What they did was to make the
line due north, from where the line
west from tlia Pee Dee touched the
Camden and Salisbury road, to
the northeastern point of the Indian
reservation and then follow
the reservation lino back to the
river. This today forms the line
between North Carolina and Fort
Mill and Indian Lnnd townships,
in South Carolina.
"Where the old Catawba chieftain,
Haglar, and his predecessors,
the faithful allies of the colonists
in their war agninst the Creeks,
the Cherokees, the Yemasees, and
against Britain, once roamed the
territory as the proud sovereigns
of this domain of 240square miles,
the white man has chiseled him
and his posterity down to a bnre
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tract of a few hundred acres and
au annuity, and added to the State
two of her host townships."
Philanthropy of Charlotte Printers.
Charlotte Observer.
The labor unions of this city are
giving practical consideration to
the cause of education. At a recent
meeting of Charlotte Typographical
Union, No. II.'IS, it was decided
to ho loot a mill operative, a girl
under ten years of age, and educate
her. To her mother will he paid
the same wages that the girl would
have received had she remained in
the mill, and this money will mote
than suffice for the child's schooling.
The union will adopt this
plan for permanent use, and hop?>s
to be able to draw on its tienum-v
continually for the education of
one or two girls.
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The Mecklenburg Primary
Considerable interest was felt in
Fort Mill township over the outcome
of t!io Democratic primary
election held in Mecklenburg
county, N. C., Saturday, and genoral
satisfaction was expressed
when it became known that the
"regulars'' had defeated the 6ocalled
"insurgents."
In the list of candidates appeared
the name of Mr. June Russell,
who otfered for re-election to
the office of clerk of the superior
court, and who is well known hereabouts,
having been a citizen of
Pineville for a number of years.
The opposition to Mr. Russell
seems to have amounted to little,
as he was re nominated almost
unanimously. Mr. Russell's friends
wore gratified over the result of
the election in Pineville township,
where he received every vote cast,
which fact disproves the old saying
that "a prophet is not without
honor save in his own country."
Mr. \V. C. Dowd, editor of the
Charlotte News, and a candidate
for the Congressional nomination,
carried thu county over Mr. W. C.
Maxwell. The result of the Mecklenburg
primary does not insure
Mr. Dowd the nomination, however,
as there are several other
counties in the district to be heard
from.
Long Distance Service Discontinued.
Differences lmve arisen between
the Charlotte Telephone Company
and the Fort Mill Telephone Company
which resulted in the discontinuance
of the lon^ distance
service of the companies between
Fort Mill and Charlotte and intermediate
points on the 2ml instant.
Mr. S. L. Meacham, proprietor
and manager of the local company,
stated to The Times yesterday
morninir that lie conKl ?? ? ilw.
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exorbitant rates which the Charlotte
company asked fur the use
of its lines, and that ho was
compelled for the present to discontinue
all long distance service
north of Fort Mill.
The use of the lines between
Fort Mill and ltock Hill is still
open to the public,however, and the
service will not be affected by the
action of the Charlotte company.
Contributing to Charlotte Streets.
The Charlotte Observer of Saturday
says that only one man showed
true patriotism in that city Friday,
the Fourth. Ho was from Fort
Mill, and he grew mellow and sentimental
early in the day. When
ho ran out of his eont nnd tried to
make a *pceoh not far from the
square tho police came along and
gonily led him to tho station.
When he waked up at fi o'cl ck in
tho evening he found that the authorities
had estimated his sentimental
outburst to be worth just
$10. lie gave bond for that
amount and left for home.
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WEDNESDAY, .ILLY 9, 1902.
DISPENSARY QUALIFIEOLY INDORSED
liy the Rev. Mr. Wright. Pastor of the
Fort Mill Methodist Church.
1 ii the courseuf hissermou mI tin*
Methodist church Sunday evening;
the pastor, Il? v. NY. A. Wright,
referred to the establishment of u
dispensary in Kort Mill a matter
which is being agitated liy a number
??f persons who are of opinion
that the legalized sale of whiskey
in the town would be preferable to
the conditions which now exist.
Mr. Wright was quoted to the reporter
as being unqualifiedly in
favor of a dispensary. The following
interveiw best presents bis
view of the matter, however:
"You ask me for my attitude on
the dispensary question. 1 am
very decided; I have always stood
on tho side of Christianity and
morality; on the side of the women
and children, and that means
against. tho sale of whiskey in any
6hnpe or form. Every time the
question has boon brought before
tho people, I have gladly east my
ballot against it. Lint the great disregaul
for the law. and 11 le way
whiskey agents have boon boating
around taking orders for a dollar's
worth or less, and the tremendous
amount of the vile stutV landed at
our express oflice and hauled
through the country for local eonsumption,
has canst d me to view the
matter from a somewhat different
standpoint to that of many people.
Worse than all this, 1 am informed
that most of tho stuff smuggled
into the community is a vile decoction
composed of ether and
other deadly drugs known to n n
(ler the consumer a nervous wreck,
ending in the worst form of insanity.
Witness the report of Dr.
Babcock, superintendent of the
insane asylum at Columbia, in
which he directs attention to the
increase of this form of insanity
among the negroes and poorer
class of whites; the lax vigilance
of our officers and the cold indifference
of the more intelligent
class. All this makes the future
look dark and the situation more
alarming. For these and other
reasons patent to any observant
eye, I am ready to catch at a straw,
and shall therefore do nothing in
opposition to a dispensaiy being
established in our midst (as 1 in
dicated in my seruiou Sunday
evening), if it will in any way
bring leliof.
"The revenue on whiskey i-< $1.30
per gallon, besides local license,
house rent, clerk hire, etc. How
then, in the name of common
sense, can the dealers sell it for
$1.50 per gallon? It is explained
in the fact that 25 cents worth of
certain chemicals will make five
gallons of "knock-Vm-out" stuff.
The government must know of the
fraud, and it should be prohibited
under the severest punishment.
It is nothing short of wholesale
murder of the weak and ignorant.
If for no higher reason, society
demands their protection. 1 am
bitterly opposed to the dispensary
for many strong reasons, but if
whiskey is to flow around us like a
river, lot it flow in a legitimate
channel. The degrading influence
of the dispensary upon the morals
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cji our young people could hardly
be any worse than to have the
railroad station stocked with it,
and to have negroes slipping it in
under cover of night, in flasks,
jugs and kegs. Away with it; let
us rise in our just indignation and
banish it from the town."
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The annual session of the State
Summer school is now in full blast
at Winthrt p college. The attendance
this year is larger than in
previous years, which shows that
the popularity of the school is
growing each session. State Superintendent
of Kd neat ion McManan
is in charge and is being assisted
by President 1). Li. Johnson,
ot VVinthrop college.
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FORT MILL MELANGE.
Minor Happenings In and A boot Town
Told in Paragrahs.
Miss Lena Smith, of Charlotte,
in the must of Miss Mary Ardrey.
Misses Fllie and Cnrrie Parks
spent Friday with friends in JLock
llill.
Miss Alien Hedge path, of Chester,
is visiting her sister, Mrs.
J < \ Warron.
Mrs. W. I*. Menchain has been
ill for several days, but is now
eonvaleseent.
For I Mill township was the recipient
of another seasonable rain
Monday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hayes and
children, of Pincville, N. C., spent
yesterday at the home of Air YY??
It. 1 had ford.
A nuinljor of friends of the
family enjoyed an ieocrenin supper
at the home of Mr. W. II. Parks
Sat unlay evening.
Hon. \V. P. Wilson, of Rock
Hill, spent a part of yesterday
in Fort Mill prosecuting his candidacy
for Congress.
There will lie preaching at, the
Presbyterian church next Sunday
morning at It o'clock by the pastor,
Dr. J. H. Thornwell.
After spending some time with
their sister, Mrs. Ij. N. Culp,
Misses Lou and Mat Pong returned
to Hieklins Wednesday.
Miss Carrie Fa win returned to
her home in ltoek Hill Monday
morning, after a short visit at the
home of Dr. J. If. Thornwell.
The teachers and pupils of the
Methodist church enj >yed the
pleasures of a picnic at the rock
spring in the grounds of the old
White homestead Friday.
1 Mrs. Leroy Springs and little
son Elliott returned to Lancaster
I yesterday morning, after a short
vi.-it ut the home of Mrs. Splines'
parents, Capt. unci Mrs. 5S. E.
White.
Mr. Win. Orr and daughter,
Mies Matnie, came up from Hot k
Hill Monday evening and are at
the bedside of Mr. Orr's mother,
Mrs. Eliza Fulwood, who is critically
ill.
Fred Unrgate, white, em ploy t d
at the 1 ivory stable of W T. Iloaglatid,
was fined $.'{ by lutendant
MeElhnmy for engaging in a fight
with Monk McKee, colored, SSutur
tiny night.
Mi.ss Celeste Wilder, a Charlotte
s >eiety young lady, who visited in
Fort Mill some months 11540, is in
London, where she is receiving
considerable attention from the
English nobility.
Mr. Kip Moore came up from
Rock IIill yesterday morning and
spent the day with Mr. J. M. Armstrong.
This morning Mr. Moore
loft for Atlanta, where ho holds a
position with The Constitution
company.
Mr. fl. E. Ardrey loft Friday
night for Georgetown, where he
is thinking of embarking in the
steam laundry business with a
former classmate at the South
Carolina College, Mr. A. A.
Springs.
The roiiif.iiifl of M'ss Kathleen
Moore, tlie 19-year-old daughter of
the late J. Lawrence and Mrs.
M. A. Moore, were interred at the
City cemetery in Uock Hill Saturday.
Alter an illness of several
months of consumption, Miss
Moore died in Union Thursday.
A meeting of the trustees of tho
Pleasant Valley school will be
held Saturday afternoon for the
purpose of electing a principal for
the ensuing session. Quite a
number of applications have been
received for the position and the
trusters will probably experience
no trouble in selecting a thoroughly
efficiont t. ueher.
All local lovers of music will be
interested in the announcement
that a number of young moil of
the town are endeavoring to or
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NO. 10.
Cimizc u stiiug band, to be composed
of six pieces. Messrs. S. L.
Meachntn, Fret! Harris and B. W.
Bradford, all good musicians, are
belling the movement, and it is
said that, the band is ail but as
so red.
Burglars were again active in
Fort Mill Friday night, when the
depot of the Southern Railway
was broken into and two packages
of clothing stolen therefrom. Kntrance
t?? the building was gained
through a window. No arrests
have been made of suspects, and
no clue exists as to the identity of
the guilty parties other than the
statement of a negro man who
claims mat he saw two white
nit'ii standing near the brokon wiudow
striking mntches.
A passenger train consisting of
the engine and one coach and having
on hoard only one passenger,
Dr. W. L. Jones, of New York,
passed through Fort Mill Saturday
morning at 10.15 o'clock bound
for Perrys, a small station a few
miles south of Columbia. Dr.
.Jones arrived in Charlotte too late
to catch the regular morning train
for Perrys. Kather than wait in
Charlotte twelve hours for the next
regular passenger train, Dr. Jones
hired a special train to tuke hiiu to
I Perrys, at a cost of $175.
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Death ot Mrs. Jane Armstrong.
I Mrs. Jane Armstrong, wife of
Mr. \V. II. Armstrong,died in 1 lock
liill Saturday morning, after a
lingering illness of several months.
The remains were brought to Fort
Mill and interred in the town cemetcry
Sunday morning. Mis. Annstrong
was 01 years of age and was
a member of the Methodist church.
She was highly esteem* d by a
wide circle of friends and acquaintances
in this township, from
which she moved to Rock Hill
with her husband about live years
ago.
Mrs. Armstrong was a bister to
M essrs Jioht. and Jas. l.urns and
Mrs. A. S. White, of Fort Mi!!
township, and Mrs. M iry Alexander,
Mrs. J. F, Mosteller and Mrs.
Nancy Cruice, of Chariot to. Sli
was also the mother of Mr. W. C.
Armstrong, of this township, ami
of a number of other hiiih and
daughters who reside in different
sections of the State.
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From Bryan's "Commoner."
Defending the honor of the army
does not consist in protecting the
men who disgrace it.
Now that Mr. Cleveland and Mr.
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ti 111 navo noon liatmoiir/ed again,
wliy not get up a banquet and
hnrmonize Mr. Cleveland and Mr.
Wattcrsoti V
Judas went out and hanged himKeif
and Arnold moved to England.
In thia connection it may be mentioned
as a matter of nowa that
Cleveland attended the Tilden
club.
After proclaiming peace in South
Africa the British proclaimed a
mining tax of 10 per cent. The
OutlauderH stirred up the trouble
beenuBe the Boers levied a miuing
tax of 5 per cent.
Mr. Cleveland has opened tho
doors of his church and members
will tie received either on profession
of faith in him or bv lottor
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from any other orthodox brunch of
the Republican party.
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Pointed Paragraps.
Nothing hurts a self-made martyr
like being ignored.
Much of the milk of human
kindness tastes of the pump.
A man growls, a woman smiles?
and the latter gains her point.
Even the woman of few words is
continually warming them over.
Any pretty woman's jaw is a
tiling of beauty?when it isn't
working.
It is one thing to do a good net
and it is another thing to say nothing
about it.
One of tho greatest pleasures in
life is to b? found in counting tho
money we expect to make.
It isn't tho little a man has but
rather a desire for more {1st puts
him iu the poverty-stricken i lass.