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VOL. XI. THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE Short Items of State News Conveniently Grouped for Times Readers. There have been 225 cars of cantaloupes shipped from Blackville, Barnwell county, this season. The police of Columbia have notified, those merchants having slot machines that they can be op. crated no longer. Application has been made to; the secretary of state for n elim-tei for the Col 11 mbin and Georgetown Steamboat Company. At the meeting of the State Teachers' Association, held . at Hock Hill last week, President Geo. 11. Cromer of Newberry College was elected president of the association. W. L. Harris received his c inmission as postmaster at Charleston Thursday and was formally sworn in by George I. Cunningham, who laid aside the office to become United States marshal. The opening sales of tobacco for the present season were made in Marion Wednesday. The sales amounted to over 110,000 pounds. The prices realized were satisfactory to the farmers. Camden was visited by a disastrous tire on Wednesday morning of last week, caused by the explosion of a kerosene lamp, which destroyed all 1 lie principal plan s of business in the heart of the city. The loss is estimated at $100,000, The board of trustees of Win j C\itIahto Imu.i llw? f..l r t"" V V?vv?v*l till I'M lowing teachers to till the existing vacancies: Miss Lumpkin, of Co'utnbia, teacher of elocution; Mies liarbot, of Charleston, assistant music teacher; Miss Rosa, of Aaheville, assistant in English; Miss Evans, of Marion, assistant in history. Fire destroyed one of the business blocks in Sununerville Saturday morning, burning cloven stores and two dwel.iuge. The same block was destroyed by tire ten years ago, and the present conflagration follows closely the lire winch wiped out. another part of the business section of the little city six mouths ago. After 30 Years, Escaped Convict Caught. Hollis Truesdell, an aged negro man who has lived in this township for the past two years and who has recently been employed ns a driver by Dr. D. G. Thompson, wns arrested by Policeman Nivens vesterdav mot nine. For several weeks Inteiulnut MeEllianey and Policeman Ni veils have had the man under surveillance, believing that he was an escaped prisoner from the penitentiary in Columbia. In the book issued by the State prison authorities giving the names and descriptions of the escaped prisoners there a p. pears the name Hollis Truesdell. Thinking that the negro living here and known by that name was this man, Intendanl McEihaney recently began corresponding with Mr. I. It. McPadden, at (iartonin, N. 0., who, it was learned, knew Hollis Tiuesdell at the time he was sent to the penitentiary. Monday night Mr. McFadden came to Fort Mill and Tuesday morning accompanied Officer Nivena t<> the | home of Trneedell and at once identified liiin as the escaped prisoner. Hence the nrrest. HolliB Trnesdell was convicted in Chester in the spring of 1^72 or. the charge of grand larceny and was given a penitentiary sentence of ighteen months. After serving four months lie escaped and has since been at large. When told why ho was arrested, Tunsdell admitted that he was once a prisoner at the penitentiary, b;:t said that ho had been pardoned, i He was taken to Columbia by Officer Nivens, who will receive a rewurd of $50. i . CD ' Jlv JL F<J Campaign Meeting at Chester. The reporter for The Times attended the State campaign meeting held in Chester Saturday. 'J'he meeting was an orderly one and was attended l>y perhaps as many as SiX") people. Most of the candidates for the minor State offices spoke during the- morning hours ( and all were recorded a respectful hearing, interspersed with more or less applause. The candidates for governor were * ! 1 x i I ? * * wit) UlSl lilt' speaK. iMr, AUFell wilt; : Hio first of tlio number to present . liis claims to the voters for con biilerntion, and he closed amid some applause. Then came I)r. Timmeiman, who explained the issues as he saw them. Dr. Tinimoitnan would doubtless make a safe, conservative governor, but the coti'-ensns if opinion at the meeting was that, litis making a 1? sing light. ('ol. -Tim Tillman was the next candidate up for gubernatorial l honors. His speech war. not different to the ones lie has made at | the other campaign meetings, ? :c- I c.ept his reference to newspaper) slanders and the Gall'iiey incident. Concerning the former lie said:; "They may crucify me upon a cross of slander, hut God in lleav , en knows it is a.-> unjustifiable as t when lhey pinioned to the cro s; the lonely Xaxarenef In justitier.tion ?>f his couduct at GatVney i lip riMW) u li?tt ir f mm ii?.? T*. ? \ 1 % Weber, of Yorkville, in which lie 1 was adin mit bed "not to take too; seriously the charge of falsehood mailo against you at tho campaign I meeting yesterday." Ho paid his] respects to Editor Gonzales of Tho State by saying tliat Gonztles was a Cuban-American and that if Gonzales thought lie was a coward he desired to recall to theeditor's mem ory an incident which occurred in 1800. Then he stated that he had extended nil invitation to Mr. Gonzales to visit Georgia in that year, but the invitation was declined with thanks.' Col. Tillman's speech ended amid long applause. Col. Talbert was next introduced and was greeted with cheers and applause. lie dwelt upon his proposition to appropriate to the negro schools only that part of the school liiiul which is collected from them by taxation. He was | willing to be judged by bis record and did not want the ofliee unless he deserved it. Applause. The last speaker of the day was Cnpt. lleywnrd, who receive I an ovation. The hour was now so lute that he hesitated to speak. However, he discn.-sed the issues and was ^iven close attention. ? Champion Jaffrlas Wins Agsln. After li ;htin<; a bdtle of eitrht rounds in San Francisco that was fraught with brilliant nnd courageous work. Dob Fdziimmons Friday ni?jht foifeitod ].'? last claim upon the heavy weight championship of the world, lie was knocked to the floor by James Jeffries and counted out after he had so badly punished the chnm pion that it vvas a f rnro-ie conclusion anions tiie spectators that the Cornishmun ninst win. Weeding fioin a number of gashes in the face, apparently weakening, niul clearly uimhle to cops with Fit/simmons' superior skill, Jeffries delivered two lucky punches ns Fitzsimmons paused in his lighting to speak to him. and turned the tide. The battle was | Inicf, but noteworthy, and will live in pug'listio history. Fitz 11 ied once to rise i'roin ihe mat, but sat down again in help, h ssuoss and heard himself counted out, where but a moment before he had apparently all the belter of I the tight. * \ " MI] v JL JL -is >UT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA Cclton Facts From thu Census. Tlu> census bulletin on cotton manufactures is full of intensely interesting facts about the colt on mil! industry, which has recently shown such wonderful develop- i uient. The census figures are in elusive of the year 1DOO. The report under the head of labor 1 iiiiH Hub timely conclusion: "The change has not yet per ceptibly a fleeted the South. 'There the labor conditions are different. The industry is growing al a won dcrful rate. The help employed is chiefly local. Whole families in tint region enter the factories, because in no other way can the demand for labor be satisfied. Con ojuenlly the changes in the J proportion of men, worn* n and ehiUi'ren employed are largely f. rtuiioiis. lhmghly speaking there were three times ns many mui, twieo ns many women and and) nearly three times as many children einph yed in Southern mills in HUH) there were in IShO. The numerical increase was :2S.nl l men, 17,1-15 women and 15,1 >211 children. Manufacturers took whom they couh! get for opera tivts in the new mills. The employment of children was not a matt* r of choice, hut of necessity ami, eeotiomically, is a losing tather than a profitable system; for more than the savins!1 in the w . ' <lol!;ir - :?:icl cents of their vva^t'8 i.-;: lest svlit'i! tin.' (jimntilv ami quality of tin ii* work ?-< considered." An important table shows the .. onsumption for l'.KiO in South | Carolina to have been 185,0-1 bales; in 1 St>0 to have been 15.'CM-i bales ami in 1SS0 to have been ! (121 bales. j It will be surprising to note how I the consumption of cotton has j overtaken the pr* duction in South ! Carolina. According to the New i York Ckronicl the crop in South I Carolina, 1809-1000, was 200,810 bales, against a consumption of | 41)5,021 bales. It appears that the crop in South Carolina needed to be supplemented by almost exactly 100,CG(),0CO pounds, drawn from I other Slates, to supply its spintu'i'H; that the Noitli Carolina crop was deficient more than .31,000,000 pounds; thai Alabama made use at home of two thirds of its crop; that the great cotton-growing Slate of Georgia (onsumed more than one fifth of its crop; and I hat even i Virginia, which had made less progress in the industry than the States further South, consumed more than one-twelfth of its crop. At tlie present rate of progress it will not he long before the entire cotton supply of the States along the Atlantic seaboard will be taken at homo. More than half of it was taken dining the census year here reportid; f >r of the 1,2<>0, 000,000 pounds raised by the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Ala-' ban a, their own mills took (551,-. 000,000 pounds. ? Senatorial Vote !n Char'scidn. In flic race for the United States Senate, says the News and Con rier, the Charleston vote will be even more divided than in the gubernatorial contest. There arc- six good men who are seeking the best office within the gift of the t 3in i? j >v m il iiie.>e gentlemen spoke In re two wet ks ago they nil devch petl more or lews strength, and it is simply a ijftiulile to any w!io will lead in Charleston on the iL:st primary. There is no straw | to show in which direction the .political gale in sweeping. Tin race is open -much more so than that for governor and for the betting people it is a case of pay your money and lake y< ur pick. After tiw> fust primnry it may be ; easy enough to figure on the vote 1 when it is known \%l>nt en miniates ; will make the second race. At the present time, however, it is idle 1 speculation. - -jj. WKONKSDAY, Jl'LY :!(), l!Mh! Would-Be Congressmen Here. The congressional cnmliihitcs in this d'strirt cnme to Fort Mill Sut ?> 1 ' 1 1 uiudj (u mi ii'" mi uiih (U'KI II 1111*1*1 j iuj^ in Confederate park. The fuel that the meeting wna to be hold wuh not generally known through j nut.the township and only about a hundred voters were presold,. The eni ipaiou this year bids! fair to be one of the spieient ever | held in this district and the voters are looking for#?i;ai with interest to (lie outcome of the eloetioii. J here are font eaiuliduti b for tin position 1). K, L< in ley, ol \ oi k \iile, the iucumhent; T. .1. Strait, of I .arte.inter, ex eongr .-sinnn: \V. 15. Wil.xon, a loailiti-T lawyer ol Rock 11 ill, and Col. J. T. Fl*of Kershaw, adjutant gem nil. They are from diiferetit seetionn of th" district and are all well known i throughout tin1 community. 1 )r. Strait. Indd fli - ' M r. Fin ley wiw elected and claims that four yours n?n he predicted the treachery of Senator MrJ,iurin to the Democratic patty, mid the people owe him a lasting tril?ute for his past services. lie claimed that Mr. Fltiley 1 ingh d at liis prediction whon made in the court house at Yorkvillo. Mr. W ilson was a firm be l e vel in expansion and talked up tin* Philippines. lie said that the cotton crop was the all important question in the Soiiili and pre dieted that it would ultimately ! reach fifteen million hales, and an i outlet was nee. s?ry in the Mast. Genera! Floyd was the farmer I candidate and of course la-lit vrd ! in rotation in o!lice; that is, from j a lower office to a higher one, but not io'atiou out of oflice. Congressman Finley was the next speaker, and it could be seen at once that lie had the crowd, lie replied to Dr. Straits statement that ho laugh d at his prediction concerning McLaurin and referred to one of Strait's speeches and claimed that Strait helped to make McLaurin. lie sai-l his name was , "Strait," hut that was about all. Mr. Finh-y reviewed Ids past I term, in office and referred to the number of rural delivery routes lie had established and the appropriations he had secured for the district. The meeting was orderly and much interest was displayed in the speech of each of the candidates. President Kartzug Resigns President Ilenry S. llartzog, of Clemson College, on Friday rendered his resignation to Col. Simpson, president of the board of trustees of t! at institution, to take effect Jit once. President Ilarlzog's resignation was brought about by bis accepting the presidency of the Slate I Hi versity at Fuyelt -ville, Ark. lie will leave Clems hi as soon us he can arrange "to got away, as his services are much needed at I'uyetteville. The Arkansas Fniversity lias more than 1 .<>.>'J students. 1>..^..| .1: ii r r?ir mniu ;i 111 ^ ill*" I p; : 11' of those who may possibly kii | coed aMk. Ihiit/.o^. It is said that < tiie B"ii{iiiiciit ainon.4 the members J of tho hoard in k!ron^Iy cmilril| iziiu; upon Prof. Sloan, of the i South Carolina College, for the | place. He would he an ideal man i for the place if he would accept, ; which ia exceedingly <1 >ub fill. Col. Simpson has ealh-d a meet1 ino of the hoard of trustees to he : held August 12 to i lect Preside ill I Haitzou's sucecB-or. -< ?' Diet. week the statement wan ; made in these columns that the ; hooks of the Democratic club roll ! VL" i i 1 Ka h?l? iinw ? to.". .? ? ? .11 WW v.wtn iv.i Mfi v i;n\iu; I 11U primary fiction. This was a mi.sluko. The rules < f the parly pre s<*riho that the mils mu.-t l>o kept open until fiv?. ilnys Ivfore the primary. Il FORT WILL MFUNRE. Minor Happenings In and Ahout Town Told in Paragrnhs. Mr H. W. Wnlfo sfHMil Sunday ' with tvlativoH in liork Hill. Mr. li. M. Spratt returned to Chester Monday morninir, after a cl . " * v unii iw in.ii i\ <*> iii r??n .Will. Mr. \\ mi. ( \?l>!e,? } China (Jrove, N. C? is spending a few (lays at ' tin' homo of his sister, Mi-. \V. L. i Hall. .Mrs. ( . It. ('raven and children, ' of Hook 11:11. wriv ouesls at t!>?v home i i Mrs Downs, Mr- (.'raven's { tnotln r, Sunday in. 1 Monday. ftev nu extended visit to liov sister, M rs. .1. Warren, Miss Alice 1!t\l_'ep:ilh returned to her ' homo in Chester Wednesday inurn: ii?^. The Times is informed that j Prof. .1. A. Lloyd is considering an oiler to teach the public school at Piiieville. LVof. 15-yd hi now liv intr at 11 uutcrsville. N. C. 'i lie Tunes is pleased to null uniee t he candidacy of M r. \V. 1*1. Adams, .11.. of llethrl township. ft a* j t!ic ol'ice of county auditor. Mr. ! Adams was in I'ort Mill \ 'stetday ; prosecuting his canvass. Some valuable work is being done on the streets < f the town l.y a force of hands un lor the silver | vision ui Oi'icer Xivens. 1 he im ! provemenls a: e particularly n j1 :? ?? ' able on M i n itn. 1 lio itli h!i? el--. ! While in 1 ivn Monday nfterj noon, County Supervisor ?T. I'* j Gordon amlu;ii/.od The Times to I announce his candidacy for re {election. Mr. Gordon thinks his i chanei H of success 'food. After a shot! visit at. tlic home : of his father. Dr. J. 11 Thornwcll, Prof. K. K. Thornwcll left yesterday tn< rnino for Lancaster, where he will spend some time with friends. This fall 1'iof.Thornwell will loach school at Mayosvillo. The doors of Gold 111II Academy were swuno open Monday morning and the fall term of the school was heouii. with Prof, daekson Hamilton, principal, and Misses Cammie (Took and Mason Harris assistant ! aiders. Tiie enroll nient of pupils is up to that of past ytais. The tiiht annual reunion of the Parks family of this section was held at the old White mansion, the home of Mr. A. 1L Parks, Satur day. The reunion was held on the 85th birthday <>f Air. Jos. Parka, Sr., tin* oldest surviving member of tli<? family. Mr. Parks lias more than 75 children, grand ohil dreu and great grand children, neai ly all of whom wore present. Dr. Leon L. Campbell, of Knergy. this county, sp *nt Wednesday I of last wi ok in town, the guest, of | Dr. D. (J. Thompson. Dr. (kunpi bell recently graduated from the medical department of the University of Ijouisvdle. lie will locate at Leslie, and his many friends here hope that he will succeed in building up a large and luer.lt :Ve J TaCtiee. Mr and Mrs. Leave Leonard, of Lex'ngton, N. , are gnosis at the Inane of Mr. .1. 11. Sutton in this I o\v iirtln j). Ah. mil ,M rs. Leonard ' were married in C'iiurlottu Siturliny. having t^rmo to that oily on an excursion train. Mr. Leonard ! was n son of Iholi'o David Loon arc!, who wns fclierili of Davie i county, N. a few years n<jo. ; Mrs Leonard wns Miss Sadie lJelh* j Elliott. Tin- Times was pleased to re J eeive a call Saturday afternoon | from Mr. J. J. Hull, editor of the 1 Uoek Hill Herald, who came to ; town to r? port for Iiih pap- r the up -ec-hes of 1 lie congressional can cliclates. Mr. Hall is a veteran n*",v?-viper "inn and is acquainted ; with the kind <>f matter it takes to | make a weekly pnper interesting, ' and wo were pleased to hear him I say that he considers Tin? Times one of the last pipers iu York I county. / s. N<>. I'd. An Uninteresting Game of Bisebatl. The Fort Mill has. hill club all hut mot defeat it the frame with the Pineville team Saturday afternoon, the score at the end <>f the ninth ending, when it became necessary to call the ??anie on account, of darkness, standing 1 and Mi. The home hoys attributed their inability to win the ?iiino to the absence of two or three of their best players, as well a< to the fact that their pitcher, Mr. Walter Hoover, had to retire from the trame before it was ltn11' over, he having been struck iti the faee while at hat w to a l>all from the haml of tin* opposing pitcher. An ?ther tyanie will he played between tin' 1'iueville club ami the home team in h'ort Mill Saturday a f lentojo if th % ^jroutida can be secured. Cheap Excursion to Savannah. Rock Hill IleraM. W alnut (.'.imp. Woodmen of the W orld, are making preparations for a hi^ time on their excursion to S.:\ .iin in. ( i., i?:i Wednesday, j "August Id. There will lie only a jlimitid number of tiekels Hold? three hundred so as t > oive everyone ample| ipportunity of enj >yin^ the trip. I In y will also have ' sp eiat eoaehes for the ladies. Tile fare for the round trip will only he All Woodmen and their friends should avail themselve i of this opportunity of visitj i:n; the historic old city of Savannah. Dj the Dying Never Weep? ! '"1 have stood hy the bedside of 1 hundreds of living people," said i an oil physician at Topelca re e? ntly.and I have yet to see a dying person shed a tear. No matter what the gri? f of the bystandcra may he, the stricken person will show no sign of overp ?wering emotion. 1 have seen a circle of agonised children around a dying tuolhci a mother who in liealih would have ban touched to the quiek hy signs of grief in a child ? yet she rep jsod as calm and unemotional as though she lias heim made of stone. There is some .strange nod inexplicable psychoI i ii i-i I logical ciiaugu wnien accompann s tlia act of dissolution. If is woil known to all physicians that pain disappears aa tin; ? nil approaches. And nat ure seems to have anange I it so that mental peace shall nl o at'end our last lingering moments. Kansas City Journal. From Bryan's "Commoner." The president, is still pulling exclamatory shaeklca upon the vvi ists of t he trusts. By all means get together, hut let it lie done on Democratic principles, not np in appetite for ofttc". Two days before the president told what he was going to do to the trusts Congre.-s adjourned withI out having doic a thing to tlmm Ivten (1. But liberie says that he | intends to have a vindication, and : ir> fliiiu-i'M jir<< llml li<> ... i 11 ? ? . ... ...... w . .. . . ? m ?? I I I * i ; t j if Mr. tlmmtfn pull holds out. If tin' popo wauls to enjoy a ! jolly Hiiiiini r In* should ivnd liwit set of H'a sevclt books and roi.> pare what they say with what t i , author is now saying. Newport 'society'' 11nfl just o\ P'rien -i ll Jh<' delightful turill of a dinner at which a monkey was lie' uuest of honor. The monkey ft-;. . perfectly at homo. The coal miners, freight hand lers. dock lab >rers, steel mill met and boiler makers will not be abl to retire to the seaeoast ami p iform their labors in (lie cool o ; I lirri'Zl'S I I'. 'Ml I In* OCl'MH . It is nil ritflit to kill tho fnl!.* ! call upon tin* return of tin* ; r ><l t'n1, I?nt t lie prodigal asks too nine i w 111*11 lie dew.main m steady \.r> f i <11?*t at tin* expense of nil the live : stock on the premises. An Indiana houioernt roniplni , because tin* pnrty (lid not Lew u hio campaign fund in 1 ?<> nt >1 i'.KJO and hlnnw s the editor of the The Cominoner f?>r it. Wed, wu | eoiii 1 have collected ns inueli finis the trusts MS the committee c 11; I : IS.?2 if we had hoen willing n. i iiiort^n^e the party to the iru.-Ui | us it was mortgaged in