Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' Otfces Up-Stalrs In ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ -a/ .Jl V >iL jl^ ^ J* O tlmo en credit. Bank fiulldlaj. _____ Dcn'l Lock fcr Mora. Twins: STRICTLY CASH. democracy, .iustice, truth. ^ yp prorep|jy. 14rTH YEAR. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 190(3. NUMRFR 50 j PLOWING WITH STEAM POWER. Promises to Revolutionize Farming; De- | Parture From Old Methods. More attention is tiding paid to farming iti Spartanburg county along scientific lines and advanced methods at present than ever before in the history of the county, for many of the farmers, like men in the commercial world, are departing from Mucient methods and are adopting progressive customs, realizing that if they would be successful in farming they must keep abreast of the times. Plowing by steam and pulling stum{M from the fields is now the order of the day, for it lias been found that a steam plow will perform the work of twenty-five hands and mules, and a machine that will do as much as five men in lese than half the time. A.'13. Groce, of Wellford, is t lie | , first farmer lit Spartanburg to use ( the steam plow, and E. L. Arch- r. , of Cherokee Springs, has the dis- | tinction of owning the only ma- , chine in the county for pulling , slumps. both of these gentlemen , are perfectly satisfied with their ( investments. Mr. Archer declares | that he would not. be without his stump puller for three times the | motley lie paid for it. It cost him ] ?70 and it will pull a stump from ( the ground in ten minutes. It , would take three men fully an | hour to dig up an average size | . stump. , The introduction of the steam , plow in Spartanburg county by Mr. . (Jroce promises to revolutionize | fanning. The style of plow that | is being operated by Mr. Groce is , the Cast steam traction engine plow, twenty-five horse-power. It | has a set of gang disc plows, not \ unlike the old harrow. The discs | are 24 inches in diameter, arranged < diagonally behind each other, in a V shape, and they cut a swath of j 12 feel at a clip and from nine to ( twelve inches deep. Elliott Groce, son of Mr. Groce, is in charge of the outfit. He can plow on a 5 per coot grade and work easily on h three per cent grade. It is possible to cultivate a still deeper hillside hy plowing ( in downward curves. Tho machine , travels two and one-half miles per hour ami the plow works porfectly. Five men are needed to operate! the plow, one being a hand to look out for rocks and stumps that the engineer might not see. Mr. Groce figures that the operation of the plow costs him SLO a day, and that it takes the place of about twenty-live negroes and tnules plowing the old way. If it were not for stoppage for wood and water tbe plow would take the place of about thirty-five band plows. He says he is going to rig up souie sort of apparatus to prevent these stops. The outfit cost the owner $3,0?0 and he regards it the best investment lie has ever made. He has had men to eouie all the way from (.ieorgin, North Carolina, and the lower part of South Carolina to see the plow, and is always glad to allow tho visitors the implement. Mrs. Campbell Met Terrible Death. V titru runi* wi \f;n rni..,..a dny morning of h horrible death which occurred in the. Gold Hill section of the township early Tuesday morning. Mrs. Mat tie Campbell, vife of Alex Campbell, a teuaut on the plantation of W. 11. Windle, was the victim. Mrs. Campbell often suffered from epileptic spells, and while standing before an open lire place, was stricken with one of these attacks ami fell forward into the fire. The woman was alone at the time and ht*r awful plight was not discovered until ataentiou was attracted to the house by the smell of burning cloth, A sickening sight met the gaze of parties who entered the bouse. On the hearth lay the body of Mrs. Campbell. All of her clothing and hair had been burned and the body with tlte exception of one foot, was literally roasted. A hole was also burned in the boor and had not the lire been discovered just when it was, the entire building would soon have been ablaze. Mrs. Campbell was 3S years of age, and was a Miss Crump, of Union county, before marriage. Her husband is a hard working man and the people of Gold Hill deeply aympathize with him in his sudden and sad loss. L> t i THIS IS CAMPAIGN YEAR. ^reparations Being Made to Get the Machinery in Working Order. Gen. Wi lie Jones, cbairninn of he State Democratic exectuive committee, has stated that the Mimpaiirn incident to party prinaries will soon commence. He expects to call the executive coinmttee together about the 4th of \p ril iu order to take up any metiers which may require the at ten C 11. _ t. . - _ t * * ? ,iuii hi. me com miiiee ueiore me neeting of the Democratic clubs. The meeting of the clubs will e held on the last Saturday in April, the 28th, and the county ^inventions, made up of delegates lelect* d at the club meetings, will issemhle on the 7th day of May to dect delegates to the State contention, a county executive coinnittee and a member from each ounty of the State Democratic executive committee. On account if the lack of fuctionnli ni in the ast few years there has not been nuch interest in organizing party nachinery. but it is probable that here will lie more care observed lum usual in delecting officers ??f he party for t??c next two years. The State Democratic, con veil ion will bo hold on Lite loth of May, that being the third Tuesluy. It is not. known what matters ivill come before tlie convention his year. After the meeting of die convention the new State exfcutive committee will make ?v "alignments for the State campaign along Iities decided tip hi by llio convent ion. The itinery will lie mapped out by the executive committee. The party constitution says that there shall he one or more clubs in each ward or township and that the cluhs shall meet on the fourth Saturday in April in State election years, the county conventions the tirst Monday in May and the State convention the third Wednesday in May. The qualifications for voting in the State primaries are that the person who desires to vote must have been a resident of the State twelve months and of the county sixty days, who must pledge himself t.? abide by the result of the ptimaries, and his name must be on the eltib list at least five days before the first primary. Victory Ahead for the Farmer. The Manning Times, which is published in the heart of the tStnte^s heaviest cotton producing section, rejoices in the fact that the outlook for those holding cotton is becoming brighter. The port receipts, it says, are growing less, and the demand for the raw material getting stronger. One of the most favorable signs for higher prices, to our mind, is the scarcity of the staple on the markets; buyers are everywhere anxious to buy, but they cannot buy, for the simple reason that those who are holding intend to continue the fight if it takes all summer. The mills are now running on what may be termed a hand-to-mouth existence; they are using up the stock as fast as it gets to them, and now as the port receipts grow less, the mill untltt)u vn liat noAuoonrilo l*A u???lli\i' w t'|/a J Ui Iiox 1I\ VV rjntx 4 U J UU r-j I I I fl I I I ~ I . and the demand for manufactured goods pressing, it will be a physical impossibility for prices to remain an they are now. This cotton condition is no longer in a speculative condition?it is now, and must bo regulated and ruled by the laws of Hiipply and demand, and such being ihe case, with a growing demand, and the factories short on stock, the indications are a realization soon of the pncr asked for by the Southern Cotton Associat ion. Greensboro Wife-Slayer Gjilty. At 9:o0 Friday morning thf Greensboro jury in the case against Dr. J. II Matthews, returned a ver diet of gttilly of murder in tlit second degree and Judge Forguaoi ?A.. 4 I.I A - 4lA _ ?1 nvni (.fiict'u ll l ill lo ~\J years HI llHI't Irthor in lli? State penilentiary Judge Ferguson finished reading the evidence and gave the cast to the jury Thursday night. Tin defendant appealed. Dr. Matthews on December 1 1906, killed his wife, who was il at that time by injecting niorphint into her arm while kneeling at tie: bedside, in the pretense of offering h prayer for his wife's recovery. 'Phone 14 when you want anythinf good to eat. WEHa VE IT, AT CAMP DOUGLAS. Bruial Treatment of Confederate Prison oners in a Yankee Camp. Ail old war 801141-book contains the following clipping from tlit Richmond Examiner: "Among the prisoners brought up by the ting of truce boat on last Monday, were some from the west, who have been confined at Camp Don.-las, at Chicago. The very sight of the poor fellows itenough to strike pity to the heart. We wish the government could hear their tales of suffering and -l: 1 - ? ? UISIICBS, 111)'1 WO Hope t Ht they will take some step to lay tlioii grievances before the authoriiiet: liere. "Camp Douglas is worse than the Hole of Calcutta. Not satisfied with putting our men to death hy suffering and torture, the yankec demons have taken to poisoning them! The little things such as l>ies and cakes, that our prisoners would buy out of iheir few remainiiif.r cents, liml killed a number ol our men, and on m investigation being ordered and the food analyzed, poison was plainly detected. and its presence admitted by the yankee surgeons! The authorities tried to exculpate themselves by laying it to an old Irish woman who was permitted to peddle e kkt s among the prisoners. "The death of our men at Camp Douglas has been appalling. Out prisoner estimates that in tin short space of three months then were over Bevon hundred and fifty I deaths. This was caused by a combination of causes?the I iw, wet ! and marshy situation of the camp being half in water; the tilth ami vermin of tin place, and the lonjj and desolate confinement of om men. In fact, s oile of our prison era who came up by the last ll?ig of truce had I og.i.shed ore foi m arly t wo ye-rs, and their deject ed, sorrow-sl: i,:ken and emancia ted faces bore testimony of'mo.t than they told of their suffering "The suffering to which oui brave men have been subjected bj the demons is enough to melt tin heart of tears, liven in tlie coh winter, when our prisoners wer? taken tIn re fi in the west? in mid winter?they were thrown ititt prison, Willi nothing more than pallet of wet straw as a bed, am without a partiele of clothing t protect tliein from the cold am piercing blasts?and anyone win 1 knows anything of western life knows how fearfully they sweej ! j over the prairies, luali the colt our men lay exposed to the storm cold and shivering an i benumbed A cold storm came and the resul was that twenty-live or thirty o our men actually froze to death We have this on reliable authorin and the story is substantially eon firmed, in every particular, by ai account which we published soim i time since from the Chicago Times ''Oil their way from tho wcs our prisoners were still objects o persecution and malignity of tin ' yauket-s, and were made to Iravo two live-long days without a mor : sel of food! They left at Camj Douglas about two thousand pris oners, who we: to be ox?. hanged I and were leavi :g in bodies of fou . and live hund.' d. It was hoped bj our men that tuey would soon b? out of tin* clut lies of the deuioni who have lorded over tliem with i ' tyranny and cruelty worse that that of all the dark ages."?Sump i South. t The Possibilities of Texas. i 1 The possibilities of the Stab ? of Texas are enormous, according to the Charleston News and Con 1 rier. That paper says that for sev eral years the cotton of that Stab averaged about 3,0u0,0l)0 bales i y -ar, but in 1(.I05 it did not n<; g regale more tiian about 2,400,00( ? ales. It is expected that Texai t will grow tliis year 4,000,000, o more than tin; yield of the entin ? world outride of the United States i It is estimated that if all the avail I ahle cotton lands in Texas shouU . bo put under cultivation it woulc j bo pvartioable for that State t< . grow 15.0t)0,000 or 20,000 bales o i cotton a year or about twice tin number to supply the wants o , the manufacturing world. 1 - " A LIVELY TUSSLE r with tliat. old enemy of the rare, Con Ktipation, often ends in Appendicitis * To avoid all serio is trouble with Stoni aeh' Liver and Bowels, take Dr. King' - New Life Pills. fJ y perfectly rtgnlat* 5 these organs, wit iout pain or disoom fort, 25c. at Ardrey's drugstore. THE 1906 LEGISLATURE. A Rock Hill Reader Expresses His Hows of the Proceedings. I Editor Times: Our legislature , has adjourned, alter a general I wonl-puding over the dispensary I question. Out of.the eleven hun' dred I ills and anieiultnents intro1 ; dueed there were but few of interi est to the general public. The compulsory school bill was ' one of importance to a large ina1 jority of the people. However, j like a great many other bills of i especial interest to the common ; class, it tnili (I ti> become ii law. It seems (11 ;it tliiJ gre; test. lib- i ji'ctiun to this bill becoming a Ihw \ 1 is that the negro will bo benefit-| ted and would increase the tiixesi of the white people. This should not stand in the way any longer, from the fact that the nogroes are schooling their children at present and hi n very great tie ;.-uiv the while people pay for it. Tlnne' foie, to a very great extent such a law would bo of more benefit to the poor white children than to any other, and especially so for all such people as are at present so indifferent about schooling their children. This law would have solved the whole question of the .darshal Law and have a much belter etfeet Our legislature seems to be very careful about touching up >u class ' legislation, especially anything thai tends to help the common man. If 1 am not mistaken over half of what they do is class work in some way. This 1 think is due to having too uitiny professional men in the house. They are too apt to forget that nine-tenths of the people of our State are labor: ing people of some kurl nod certainly deserve the attention of our law-makers as much so any other ' class, llowevei, I fear that this will always be the case if our legi latum is made up of professional men. It is piain facts f(, 11.? m.nn iln.t T i i I nun i is the target at which the Mtiti dispensaryites are shoot iter, * and not so much at the dispensary ' after all. ileyond a doubt Tillman as a politician excelis any man South Carolina has ever had. He invariably has the luek ' . turning down every little politician that ! taekles him openly. Tillman's name will never iro down in the .' his'orv of South Carolina as a p ilitieian. Sam L. .Iohnstox. i toe It Hill, S. C , March ) i Liquor in South Carolina. ' The effort in South Carolina to , uet rid of the dispensary liquor law f was a failure, though it was report el throughout the country that ^ it had been repealed. One house of the Legislature voted to do , away with it; the uthe" refused. , Senator Tillman was originally responsioie tor tins method of I dealing with the liquor qu slion. I it tit! to his effort is atti iliutecl the failure of the recent attempt to I abolish it and substitute some . other system. 11 is now said that i Mr. Tillman will make his next . campaign for re election to the Semite tut this issue, which will In* i a rather remarkehle thing. It is f ti >t usual to make senatorial cam ^ paiglis e?i purely State questions, j, With considerahle unanimity , the press of Sc.th Carolina con, (leniriHthe dispensary system. 1 is charged with being an obstacle to any serious tempei auce reform; it is deiiouneed as a dangerous political machine and the breeding place of corruption. In ail prob( ability this is all true. Lint if the t people are as strongly opposed to the system as the newspapers its days may lie considered as iniinB bered. There are other and better ways nt dealing with the 1 i<]nor que itiuu. , We hli<>uId advise South Carolina H to study some of thent. Peunsylr vnniu's high license system is . worth examining among others.-? Philadelphia Press. ? ? _ , T!ie hoy who saves his money j some day owns a f irm or heeuines a hanker, tho merchant, the proj. fessionnl man. The hoy who never saves a cent makes the man who j. "earns his bread by the sweat of his br ?w;" who never owns a home or enjoys t!ie luxuries of life. He always has a kick coming, and . never lets a elianc* to kick go by. . Everything goes wrong with him ?when he is a man. Parents H should use every possible means to make graduates of economy of the boys and girls. 1T?U? 1?1 UWfW? 1 MTWKWIIW ^WW? ? SLNATOR B- R. TI1LMAN. A Brief Sketch of t'tc Distinguished Senator Before Littering I'ublic Life. ! The f tll'Hvii lt concern inn Senntor 1>. K. Tillman be f. ire Ins entry ! into p lilies am! public life will be i read with inter' w : | His father died when he was hut twa years old. ?'i;t ho hud an j j uncle who took an inter* st in him I j as he j,jrew up, ami bequeathed to J nun nis lar^e nut! well chosen li I hr.M'y. Ft n the time that I;. re| reived it. Mr. Tillman became n ! Bind lit. hiiiI it is said that lio is now mm <>f tin* h? st rend men in | Connives. Not lon^ njo> lie w is I compelled to take morphine to ease pain in Ins throat, u? i which several operations worn ' ifoiined. and wliile under the influence of the driiL: he lay hank 1:1 his l)ed and repeated line after line and s'anv.i after stanza from I?vrou. Keats, Sh dh y. T< nnvs.ui. Shakesoeare and otnnr Foolish p>> -is? j stanzas whie' lie had not mail for perhaps t won ty years. Mr. T1 i 111 in 11 1 never had th** advantage of a eol lejje education. lie was fourteen years of nee when the war between the States br ike ont. and was sent to an aeademy to pr? pare for eolloee. but an .* bscess lormed in the I back of his left eye and entirely deatmy-'d it. At the am* of si vcn, t?--??u he enlisted in the artillery corps at Atlanta, but was never ! able to o,, t?? the front on account : of his illness. As soon as lie re| 00verect his health he took charm' [ of his mother's lar^e estate, a faun ' of (I >0 acres, and this he tnauaecd I until lie was elecied tJovernor in ISh!). He married at twenty and his fellow student of his f irm and all his affairs was hi- yoiin^ wife. There are several children, the I oldest son I it-i 5.:r his priva e sec reMary. Mr. ''illnian did not hold I any office until he was elected Governor of S 1111It Carolina. Five ; years prior to that he was seine ly known outside of his immediate secti hi. The iir.-i public si eeeli hever ;n ide was at a ?*aihn ...i? of farmers at Fennetlsv.lle, 1 IS So, wiien he was t liiiiy-einht years old. Hut the speech nit ranted the attention of the whole State, brought j hill) into immediate prominence. I and since the 1 lie has been a conj spicuoiis f|our? in S'.utli Carolina affairs and 111 leading politician of the Slate. Little and I?i? "llailcs" in (iold Hill Gold Hill. March IhOli. Fditor 'rimes: \\e u'.ndd It.' please J id write you a letter, !mt your cor espo t lents tip le*re ami writ" it ail ii-e mate \?in . ,0 we will jtist talk s niie if we don't say nothinm We have had a few spring days, if the Itlne birds and tnr le doves tell the truth, But it is eold now. and we are not mueh surprised, for we have a little "llaile" through here every day and sometimes a bij*i?er < ne tin Sunday. Now, this Sunday llaile is of a fussy, blustery nature and his room would la* m>?(l company. Now, our weekday llaile is just the opposite, lie ever e >m< t smilino and is just the llaile for us. for lie invariably ihiiics us iii' w's i { soi1ic kind. liotllj inIIy !n* wave over tin- land id' the fand home i.f the biave. The farmers lira i^ettin^ a lot of advice about what to plant, at we I presume that they wid ) a our advice as tl.ey have been doin^j. Most all our iieiold) as wont to Ciiailotte last week. Mayhc their cm>ks arc sick. Id elans of (Johl Hill still say, "this mornini;," and "this evening."' The new ii-stc have it. '"this forenoon," (his afternoon, etc. Splinter. Assistant Attorney (Jeneral You| mans has rend-red an important opinion in which lie holds that a county w hicli Iris voted out its dispell -try under the lirice act, hut whose cl ction had been declared mill and void I?y the State honid of c.;iivassers, is not buried from at once tl'.iinj* into another election. The opinion rcfars t > the \\ illii.msbui? election. The coim1........ i .1 i i... 4 .1 i: nmi i n?-|-n irn 1.1 'i? l ill* C1 iM J hmi.sm lies Inn! been voted out, but the Slate t> reversed tliin. HfV. A. Ii. Stout;!), former pnntor of Flint Hill Haptist church, but now a rBait!eii I of Pineville, was the recipient of many nice baskets from uiemliftrK of the Flint llill congre^ation. on Feb. 28, the oceiiHiofi being ilie celebration of bi: 81th birthday. Colleton Comity (Murderer iV.ust Hnng. It. A. Ailnuis, tlio Collototi county farmer \vh ? killed his kiu6inau, Henry ?lactjut'H, whom ho shot down in tin* held lifter looking him up with n shot oim for tlmt purpose, is finally to hang for his i-riiu?\ tlio supremo court having ou Tliur.-day reversed the action of dudgo Townsond in granting Atlinns u new trial ou after-discovered evivlouco The after-discovered evidence consisted mostly "f alfidaI vits to show that one of the women I wiliii'CWMC - ' n < %-?i; iv*i 111 m i*.uunice with signs she received from u relative oT Jm Mues in the court room, being in!iuiulatcd to do this by threats from the Jacques side of the house. | The supreme court finds that Judge Towusend was altogether iu the wrong iu granting such a mo lion, from which the State appealed. it being "conclusively setthd" that the judge luul no jurisdiction since the supreme court, had already passed upon Adam's appeal au i iilfirme l the death senteuee of the court hi low. The supreme court al mi? could have grant"'! leave to apply for such u new t i d. Hie Story ot a Letter. The story is told that an Anderson man last summer addressed a i letter to himself at Cape Town, j Africa. The envelope bore tlie rei quest that it be forwarded to Sydney. N.-w South Wales, if not de, livered at (nipe Town, and if not delivered at Sydney to he returned I to the sender at Greenville, S. C. The letter started on its long journey on August Kith. It was received at Cape Town on September 2* and forwarded from there to Sydney, reaching the latter place on October lib Not being claimed at Sidney it was started back to (I reen vi 1 le. It reachod Seattle, Washington, February I. of this year, and reached Greenville on hYhruarv *.? 1 mwl warded from (.iret-nvillc to the "Winr in Anderson on February 25. Tim letter had been trnvoliutr a 1111 It* ?ivit hix months, and had. been t?i a number of different planus. T 10 envelope bore several poultifliee stamps wliieli were illeg- , iblt*, but still intact and iti good shape. The cost of carrying the letter on its long j lurney was only 15 cents, -CMTIIIEmm** iuu.TF ? IM? Sl'lvlNti draws nearer and nearer. Von will commence soon to buy your Faster (Molhing. We can suit you, both in styles and prices. Have you seen the now spring cuts ? They're beauts. 'y n f TllHUtlMLR BROS, C< me and see the prettiest lino of (Jt'iil h While Vests ever shown in town, price s from $1 10 to $2.00. See our Stetson Hats for $ t o<> and $5.00; also the Jackson Huts , for $11.00. They are in the latest styles. A few nice Lace Curtains that we will close out at bargains. We solicit your trade. Watch this space each week. IM'KUIANY&CO