University of South Carolina Libraries
POUT MILL TIM ES DEMOCRATIC 'UBLJSHKD EVERY WlCDmv'SDAY B. W. BRADFORD. Onus of Subscription: One year ,. $1.00 Six months f?> Throe months -G Correspondence on rum nt subjects Is invited, l>ut no responsibility is assumed for ihe views of correspondents. Anonymous communications \siil not be published in these > oiumns. Port MtU 'Phono (with Ion;; distance onnectlonw) No. 28. WEDNESDAY, SEPT'Mli'li !?. l'JO-'i. AN ERA OF BIG THINGS. We ore living today in an era of big things, gigantic corporations, vast business enterprises and immense undertakings. They are so great that upon a sober thought one is staggered by their inagniude. And tho tendency is to in rease rather than diminish. A hundred years ago the man vho hud a few hundreds or thonstndo was accounted wealthy by lis less fortunate neighbors, while today the millionaire is such a ommon person that he fails to attract any attention. And why is it so? It is because America is a land of freedom, where the possibilities are open to every man and woman. .Brains nnd energy, coupled with honesty, are the things that count. This is a country of vast resources. Our Inuds are rich in minerals, the soil is fertile, and our forests abound with the finest timber in the world. Here, we are as one people, with one object. We do not count un on the honor of an ancient name or the possession of an estate that Jtfts been handed down from father to son for generations. We depend solely upon the result of outown toil and our business sagacity. We do not copy tho idoas of others. Wo set the pice for the world, and the world follow? it. We never let an opportunity for improvement pass us by. 'Good enough" is a word not known-in the American vocabulary. We have no use for it. It is is a relic of a bygone time and pthe.r cpuntries. It has no place with us. A few years ago America was * an infant nation. Today she is the mightiest giant in the world. The tjmo is near at hand when she will become the ewayer of the destinies of nil nations, when kings and emperors will tremble at tho American frown. Yes, this is an nge of great things and America leads the van. Criminal Statistics. ^Jr. Thos. .T. Lamotte.of Columbia, has gathered some interesting priminnl statistics from the tile-? of the Nows and Courier for the first six months of the present year. ()mittingall deaths from accidents, he fiipls that for the first three months of the year there were 10 suicides and 3d homicides. From the tirst of April to the 30th of June, 11 suicides and <?i! homicides were recorded, making the total for six months 110. The criminal record of tho last quarter over the first shows an increase of ol) per petit. Mr. Lnmotte also finds that there is n great increase over tho reeord of a similar nature for previous years. This is the reeord of South Carolina for a period of s x months, n convincing proof of a strong spirit, of lawlessness and of flit* untnll VnllWk l?lnOi\-l nnnn Lit ,..w ........ ^..IVUU ?.l? man life. ? ? Business is Business. The Anderson Intelligencer pertinently and forcibly sets it forth in tliiH way: "When a business juan receives a statement from a wholesale house?and he reviews many?he sometimes finds on the statemont that unless paid by a certain date a sight draft will be fit awn for tho amount due, and no excuses are made for sending the Statement. The business man has to move about and pay up the bill hut when the business man sends out statements to those owing him in an effort to raise money to pay his bill, what takes place many limps? Tho person receiving tho Statement takes it. as an insult and grows exceedingly hot. The person who dops lids should engage in business, and in a short time he would get oyer his foolishness. The ending out of statements and collecting of accounts is one of the most important parts of business and thoqe who neglect it will soon* er or later become short of money. Comptroller (general .lones will in \\ few days complete his report pn the banks of this State, national, fc^tnte and private, whioh will phow the condition of every bnnk gi , in the State up to December ill, kl902. This will be the first report of the kind ever compiled and will lie of especial interest to tinancier$. There are 133 lmnks in the Slate of which 18 are national- Corr~ . .*? - N f HORRIBLE WRECK THURSDAY, Passenger Train on Old 3C's Falls Through a Trestle Near Yorkvillc and Five Men Are Killed and a Large Number Wounded. Westbound passenger train No I 15, on the old Three ("s railroad, now operated hy the .Southern. Thursday morning broke through the Fishing creek trestle, 3 miles east of Yorkvillo. and the engine I with three cars plunged 45 feet to the bed of the little stream, killing ; live men and injuring a number of others. The cause of the wreck is thought to have been the rotten condition of the trestle timbers. Engineer Henry iirickman. Lireman Fred Khyne and three negro passengers were instantly killed. Conductor Ed Turner suffered a l.w.l..... I. ...I I.... .....I \\T T vll. .. .1 i /1 ? m r 11 niiuuMn ?i J i?i ?i . J . ? ->1?i ? i 11 ter, of 11 iekory G rove. mul Julius Johnston, of I lock (1 ill, worn scriously injured. Marvin !l. Morrow, of IMuckshurg, T. C. Hicks, oT Lancaster, and IT A. Willis, ol lOdgemoor, sutl'crcd broken bones, j while a dozen or 111010 other p rI sons wore less seriously injur; d. The trestle that went down was about 4ft0 feet long and l-"? feet h il;h at t he highest point, and is said to be the original structure 'erected when the road was built in 1S8S. The e .tiro structure | went down except two benches at the west end and four at the east. Upon approaching the wreck no semblance of the train was to be seen, except the badly disfigured | shell of the first.class coa-di stickj ing upright and perilously balanced on the dohris, all t he balance j being literally reduced to fragments. The locomotive fell at right angles with the lino of the I trestle, and no part of it appeared 1 to have escaped destruction. | A number of Fort Mill people visuea nit' wri'CK nun an say it , seemed a miracle that any of the ; passengers ??i* crew escaped injury. I Tlio wounded passengers weio taken to Hock Hill and Vorkville | on special trains and arc beiic_i j eared for at the hospitals. Predicted War in 1798 It Came. The late Sir Walter Besant, in I tln? history of London, quotes the ! following romarkalde prophecy i made by an Kn<xlishman, Col. (loo. Hansel in 179S: "Should I live," he wrote, "to a ^jood old ai;e 1 am j confident 1 should hear of the Northern and Southern powers of America wa^bii* war with each other, whence one party will solicit assistance from France and the other from Great Britain. "It will then depend on the judgment of those men who at that period may be at the head of the French and British councils ] whether tliey will int??rfon* in ; Americau disputes. In my lunn!>le opinion it would ho better for both eonntvies to settle the matter between themselves. "I will be so bold as to offer an other opinion: We should "ive up Canada and Nova Scotia to the i Americans, provided we could 1 make this sacrifice the found it ion of an alliance offensive and d 'fen I sivo with the I'nited States. Then we never should be obliged to send the prime of the British army to I die in the West India Islands. "I anxiously hope and trust that i T shall live to see the day when an | alliance, offensive and defensive, will be formed between the two countries, as* Great Britain and I America may together defy the united powers of all liurope." Youth's Companion. ?- ? A New Methodist Paper. The Methodists of S >uth Carolina are to have another religion* weekly, the annulments beiny perfected at Greenwood a few day.* a^o by Ilov. C. W. Crei^hlon, now at Cokosbury, and prominent men in other parts of the State. Tin new paper will be known as tin i "Christian Appeal." The pipei will be published at Greenwood and will lie printed by the Green| wood Index. Tlio first issue ol the new paper will prnlmhya ppeni I sometime next November. It ij Hinted that the move has been in contemplation for Home time and that the work has been going on quietly but with much progress 5 The editor of the new paper, ami the only man whose name is given out so far, is regarded as one ol the best preachers in the South Carolina conference. i Mr. W. M. Vandiver was at the Southern station thin morning ]and, in conversation with norm friends, remarked that he van tin , | tlrst engine that ever pulled r mail train on the old Charlotte II Columbia and Augusta railroad ; This was the (>th of November , 1830, and the train was run fron ; Columbia twenty miles in this*di I rection. Noarly fifty-throe yean i since that day, yet M Vnndive ' i iH erect and enjoying life, thong! 1 ho has long since quit railroad ' ing.? Charlotte Chrouice. w The Krap,'Jorgenscn. t )n sendim; "til the new I\i:ilt ritles t?i ih" vat ions military companies throu^lrit the S ate, (J.mi Frost instruct.? tit" captains t > sec tuit tlnil tlf new >4tins tire Sum >t in <4"(><l order, iiis letter rends, in part, as follows: '*1 deem it advisable to call vottr j attention to to s've'al sail'mit points connected with this rillc. The first is: That it is :d)solnteiy 1 neeesaary to keep tins rill" oiled when not in use; second, that von should keep the ri tie in t he armory where it ran receive the atP-nti >n ; of the coniinandin.j ( Hieer as \vi il as t he nrtnorer. '" These rides are now and of the :latest pattern and I di sire t<> say that your company in t r fettir* will stand or fall from tin* tn-tivc i>;i 1; 1;,. largely in iii-iMrliui:'" \v i 111 11: ? manner in which bis <-.v riiu*i:l pmpct t v is preserved. IN!iMiiI) rs of l!i ' 1 (??*n 1 ml!i ry o mpany wo a I ! d(? \vi II to careful I ly note I In' iil)i>vc farts. dtiscini'tion of tiii: kkaos. Till' mm is lighter limn tin* old . Spi inmieid iiii<I i ; far sti; ei i >r. It lias a strap thai servos as n cushion ! for thr shoulder, as well its for slinmn?j over tin' shoulder when on a march. The calibre is .'FJ. ii luis a mMLrii'/aiu) l int holds live ear . tridijes. which can be thrown into position by a slight nn vein r,1 T a le\or. Single cartridm s em abo li- tired, wliiie the ainmuniti m in : the magazine is kept in reserve, ho that the mm is practically a sixshootlcr and can !? tired ainio-t ' .as rapidly as a rev dwr. 1'V near s of :i simple little tl:ro\v-otV, tie trigger imi be thrown out > that ! the mm cannot !) nccidi nt.allv 1 <1 i.-eharm'd. riio penelrntint: i >r< < (if till' mill is 1 relit lulO'.IS. S > tll.'l i an ordin ny tree would furnish a iitm 11 very litll-' protect ion wiiii.iiu mile. TIm' hnyotu I is of na entirely now pal tern. 11 is in th I u on I' a da^Lp'r, and htsideH it- u-e o:i tlio end of tlio yiiu, serves lis a short sword, a pi k or spade. n bread knife, a meat axe in I act for as many purposes as a vv man's hairpin. These i^uns of course require a ma' I deal of eare Jo keep liieni in t order to pass iaspeet ion. They j are furnished by the' I'nited Stat miveriiinent and evi ry man is n sponsible for bis trim p, |(js eostimundiiu; officer, who is responsible to the Slate, and the latter in turn to the war departnn nt." Fort Mill's First Bale. Duriiur the pas! we -k several hales of new crop cotton have been sold to t n' loeal buyers, and judi:iut; from repotts from snrlb 111 111 1 1 11 < r -.I* 'I 1. .tic l!i.? / ii ' in ^ ' ' ? - ? ?? - ? ' I dm will hi' on in lull I?:ji-1 in about Ifii days. Wry Utile picking has been done in the immediate \i in ity, l)ii! over in Phnsant \ alley and 11 arris mi the cot ton is opening rapidly, and, as usual, will lie sold | on this market when gathered. The lirst hale to reaeli Fori Mill this season was from the Pleasant Valley firm of Mr. W 1 . I larris, which eaine in la d Wo Iiiesday afternoon. It was not of. 1 | I'ered for sale, however, until the following day, when it was bought l>V Messrs. Mills A Vniiuo. The bile weighed 5'JS pounds, was > I classed good mi Idiiiig, nicl at the 1 ! selling pi ice?12 I-2 cents nolt ! M r. 11 arris $(>(>.0 ). On the same day Messrs. (). W. Potts and dohn Kell, two other i rominent farmers of the Pleasant \ alley sect ion bioudit in mwmiI new crop bales. 'I hose were sold to Mr. T. 15. !?elk. the purchase or iee tti>i it<r l.'* I ' n I ? A Novel Advertisement, Robert lioygns, the widely and i j well-known hIu oinaker, Ii ih pasted the following unique notice i: i n number of eon.sj icuous ]>1;n*? ! about town: I "Fort Mill, S. (\ " I luive opened up a boot ami shoe hospital over Aidrey's drily store. Also Innso inilinry guods neatly repaired. "R. I'oyyus. 4,'ln dm! we trust' ail others 1 rash." Tribute of fiespac!. Whereas, it pleas d Almighty God, on the 17t!i day <>f 'July, to ' call from time to eternity, T. (I. Culp, Iiitemhint of the town of Fort Mill, therefore be it res >lved b That in the death of Air. ('ulp, the town has lo>t a frithful oliieer, the Slate an honored citizen, and ' tin' church a zealous m? mber. 1 J. M. Spuatt, \j A. Harkis, Members Town Council Ft. M ? ? i The president is aaid to favoi the catididney of Secretary Root s for president in 1J>0S. Hut then r the president may favor his own i rcnomi nation about that time - , Such tilings have been known be ' fore, ami are not surprising. A Toy's Wild Ride For Lif:. With tnnii y around oxpo tini? Itiill Jodie, .miuI a son ridiinr f<>. !if?*, IS inil?*s, t > l:< t Dr. Kinn's? Now >y I n* ('oasuniption, <.Min'i:; :111(i ( olds, W. II. Iit'own, <>l JjI'I'SVllIt', 1ml.. flldllV?>(l r,Mill's .ml; aiios fi annst lniKi: imt (i> is wonil.M l'ul im <1 cino l; ivo in? imil n lit I m:i(1 finai fin oil him. i!i- writes: '1 now sU- p soundly every ni^iit Like ni:ii vi'loas f tire*. of (Jonsninp I on. i ?t'oMr1111 is. I oii^ns. \ Oiils and (nip prove U s malt-bless merit tor all L'hroat ami Lung trouble . <innrn111?I bottles "?(>. and .Vl.Oh Trial hollies 1'rt e ul till drugs ores. (' !'unl>ia Miil'ere ] a very <. i.-astrotis lir ensly Monday ntorshnj. tlie pr< petty damage being Csli mated at al> u' ',UbO. IVnrfcl C:Jr -.' yz.i: ludriddeii, alone an t destitute. Such. i i In; f was t he coud lion < 1" an old soldier by name of .1. .1. !luven-. \ rsailtes. < ). For years lie was troubled with Ki In y ili-i a-e and n illier doctors nor medicines gave liim relief. At length lie II led " Fleet tie ttiers. li pit him on Itis Icet in sin rl order an ! now lie leal; lies: "I'm < n tint road to complete reci'V. ry.v lJest on earth 'for Livi-r and Kidney troubles and all forms i 1 Stomach and iiow* I complaints. ( )nly 50c. (i iiarantet .I by all d; u joists, -In ian !olins on. tin* load; llil! young una \vno was so dangerous ly injured in tin* Fishing l'r?iL A..,.,.! ..r 'i n.,.. ..11 .. very eriiiral e 11.lit ion. ii iwvvt r. the attending p!i\ ri.riiir.H are more 11<?pr f u 1 ot In - lerovery. i uli1 CT/L CviiTc. II'IH woi ld-wide fame f >r marvellous euros It surpass au\ other salve, lotion, ointment < : biliu for Cuts, Corns, I funis, I ho. Is. I"? i, a ;, Sol i H, < "nappi I i i u up. Skin l irupi ions; it.i dhbl -1 rl il.->. (hire gu iranteot!. Only 21)e :i! .ail drug stores. l{rv. Martin lb Hard n. of Min nenpdis, Minn., has ueet p'eil a fill I to the Second I Tesl y lei ia:i clnm-ii of Chariots . M. V.'hit Is Life? In tin last analysis nobody knows, hut we do know that it iiin < r striet law. Abuse that law, even slightly, pain results, li uvular living means derunginenl of tin j organs, re-nSt i ng in Cunstipati< n lleadaehe or Liver trouble. lb, King's New Life fills quickly u adjusts I his. It's gent !e, yet thorough. ()nly 2oe at all drug shun s. I The Turn s has made ;ir rnngnients whereby we ran ofl'ri t ii is p ip,-'- an I the 11 nine and , I\irm for Sl.'J") a y< ar. AN OKHiN ANt'K. Fixing (lie Levy nn?l Li-oviding f >" tin ("olleetioa of Properly 'faxes iu sin Tuwu of Fort Mill, t . C. IV il u.-ilaiM'-il 1) .' i lie intendanf iomI wardens of ih.? town of lor; Mill.S. t\, ami by au!h >rity of tin- -11110 Son. 1 'I'lia; two mills 011 tho dollar i lvivhv lovioil 01 all ;a\al>lo property \\ it bin t ii < < >vj> nto linti's of Fort Mill S. 011 Jumrt 1, 1 1 ?;!, 1 ami the sumo is han-by ma<l'' ! >r ordinary pur p.Kl s. Sec 2. That said taxes shall bo ami boeonio duo and payable 011 1110 1st da;. t?f Oi'tob-r, lIMJ, at lb* o'.lioo of .). .1, Sprat f, so.nvtary and . a 011. r. an 1 lit treasutvr's b o!;s shall l o opm on that data for the ml - c ion'tif idia . -.an I the sain ? may b paid up to ami tap!Iinn the lath day of October, 1 a ) ;;f . wliich data said taxes may l?o pain i; li lfi per ooiit p naliy added until the 1st day of Novomb >r, 11' I, Sop. "> Tbat on and aftor Novoinbot 1st, H?executions will bo issued foi all'dtdiu | a !i - for t li full amount <>| taxes duo 'nor vri, h tho 1> prcoui ] tonally and all ousts, in 'India;* bat dollar oust for every oxeeatiou issued by 1 ho treasurer. Doao mid ratified in oonnoil tvssom I bled this Nth day of September, l!);'.'?. T. S. Kan; '.'.TiiirK, Attest: Intendnnt, I. M. Srr.vtt, Son. ami 'I roas. DO YOU READ; I('so, 1 can furnish you with tin following t'imum! literature: Broadway Magazine 1 "< Aitisioo's .. B't MeUlure's ,, K>( Century ,, :t."? Black Cat ,, (>">< Leslie's I'opnlur Monthly 1U< Borihner's 2.*>< Bmart Set !2o? ] Straml 1' ?< Collier" a Weekly l')i Vanity Fair Id; Ladies' Home Journal 10i American Boy 1 Judge 1 Hi I'nck i 10( Niekle Magazine 0> , Mousey Id A rg< >sy 10 Also several weekly newspa pcrs for sale. iri.. 1EC UPetrclcs At Artfroif's Drug Store to oun delinquents' Those owitie us tnoucy will d< i us a favor 1 >y ttlinn up at once , We ne? tl the money iluc uh. am don't want to he j ut of? until th . last one to lie paid. THE TIMES. i in ? Hp s a aiu 'i ' H'l V1 TZ.'t: 1TW7J iSC* ?7 r? *TT ;' ? H V<W^ Wl Jefferson ? m.nw trr--T^a? t:.;-??,*.-? ->& J~\K tiwu. i^.rJQ n?W>^ ? F ^ * T t'? I l y [ or ishs lali nave Oill'tS. [)o YOU AVfi!!'i i i #? i ? / your city in end:' II your Ii b:\[ hero, win Iiilrsi styles to choose wo have the latest sty] hi si year's stylos, but t ,w?'\ O., 5 ! /tr i ' vf 1*1 5 \?X1V' I 111 .4.1. ? i > l.'y. ' H 111 ( i' iii(: is(i11 1.1 <i t ha with it. Conic er.rly will oat hist the soas< door you will Ihul one aiul iip-1 o-daie li;u*s o! in Fort :-VM. And Hi tli.d 1ao nricas arc n^s J. * r\. i i 1 a Oifi - i<en^ Vw^ ? VU W. W JL ~r~ ? " T.,VV." r. ? C *.' - v > ??* ?- 1* m, e A. S: Wo \vant to In . this fall The Timos ^ ill do ; ( . *? . r \" 1 L' ... \ } ES V;, i-y ~ V. a : | I u lu;c_fSi * Miih ,> that :r. nut 1 ..ml 011 linen fi'w-h from i * i trio; iN. i'., are rus. siaiu^. ink slain-. frui stains, ami .; ia 1 !v so. in,, from overheated irons. That ' is what \vo sar;iealarly jtuard amiiasf. ; fit -!;losliawl ->, i::? uuenlatn- white j ia> wliito can l>o, or : ? sir. m:.; of color as when you lxinjjh: ir til* originally of a color j>a!i 'i*n'. your washable apparel is , returned el an, well wasiad, well1 , iron . ?1. {shipment mad from Fort Mill every j Thursday morning and laundry ret urm-d r a", uv.k y n.nrniii s l?y I lJ. !.. a A i.llAM.Y. Agent. S?-ITT3?; I7& A THf Ah ORDEU ! an J get the 15 EST W lIJSKiKS, : W 5 N E S, . :! HHANDIES, Etc., It tin* nrsl n^v limbic prieo. MAHK. A. TEr.TUR, Manager, THIS CiOCKD SALOON, cm i a l< > rn:, >;. c\ No. 2^ V,' Trado BoJ5i 'Plioncp. f v -- V -V. ^ *?. X V W X i ' it T : . n . f ! ijorti.n ' "t itul'.iitv. V(irf.'.'oli*'liiC $ : ' UiAuE-tVilfiKS : ; ' I C.f.r ) Patent Cif:ce\ > V(A Sti:NG'fON D. C. I t ble - Store rtr^W-IX i;*V* BBFa ^ TV T,T?KlUi.U?MBaMi * niia V>7 4 Madison&' -7 -^ rf?" J o ' i.r.'.rr'Wi-wiianBflnwM no equals in these > be riant up with so, cojiu1 and select revor, have all the. from. When we say j es, we do not mean lo mean the styles for ember, every Jefter? is a 11 ronsj; guarantee a id i)uv early?they ? %> i I >n. On our second of i he most complete i lotlung* ever shown n i tn<i J il \ " t \i if nil i li V ? > V ({<!( > V M 11 till ir> lit. ; Mo Store i I? jt oprfetoy. Ik Clothing with vou 1 : , .our Job Printing. ' \ DO YOU DRINK? i f So, Try Our QLC GORMAN CORN WHISKY <: u:tr;iu!i-c<l :) (o r> yours old. Mi!: 1 :nui Mellow. Always the Same. 2.50 per (lalion. '1 i:< .'u* ami Mailt)rders Promptly Filled \Y. N OHM AN, I A Pot h 'l hones 1'. O. Pox 55. I CHARLOTTE, tl. 0. J. U. Traywlc'i & Co., DFAI.F.ItS IN FIXE LIQIJOHS AND MINES, No. PI Fast Trade St. CHARLOTTE. - - - N.^C. "\y TKFSPASS NOTICE. A 11 l i r ii art hrrrliv wsiriiod-.ifjilnat'. huiitV !;>hing, or <>therwise trespnssin;* upon ilie laiuls of tho undersigned, under penalty of the law. W. FI. WINDLE. I .fOl . ..^ ^sxrgTKfgrrmrri 'iwn?? [j Nothing lias ever equalled it. jj Nothing can ever surpass it. | Or. ling's i \ New Wiscevery ^ A Perfect For All Throat and Cure: Lung Troubles. i J L. 1, I. !. f.:u T.UI .Ul.. r ^ muiicy Uttv-tv u ifc u*!'*# F( )R GOOD WHISKIES, WINES, BRANDIES, ETC., CALL ON OR WRITE TO W. U. ILOOVER, I'll IKl.OTTfi, N. . V