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f- . FIRE PUMP FAILS jptt And the Town of Newberry Suffers From Big Fire THE LOSS IS HEAVY The Damage Is Estimated to be Over Two Hundred Thousand Dollars. Laurens Fire Department Went to the Rescue Before Being Ask ea. M*njr Stores and Dwelling Houses Burned. i Newberry was hard hit by the fire fiend on last Friday morning. Ten stores, twenty-two residences and two churches were completely destroyed and many other buildings were damaged by the fire and water. A break-down in one of the pump: at the reeovolr made the fight against the flames a hard one, as they had gained good headway when the pressure in its full strength was turned on after the break at the pump-house was repaired. The exact extent of the damage is not yet known, but Insurance agents who are investigating the loss, estimate it at from $185,000 to $210,000. The fire started in the three-story frame store building occupied by the furniture store of R. C. Williams. The alarm was turned in at 11:45 o'clock and the fire department responded quickly. The water pressure at first was excellent, and the fight looked as if it were won, when the pressure suddenly went down, because of the breaking of a pump at the reservoir The flames spread rapidly and the firemen fought the flames with great nerve, but were handicapped by weak pressure. The mayors of Columbia, Laurens. Clinton, Charleston, Greenville and 8partanburg were telegraphed to send help if needed, but with the aid of the Laurens department, who >../! l.?? I ?? *--?? * -- hmu icii. uauimm, ueiorw me mayoi received the message, the flamw were conquered. The following are the losses: Residences Burned. J. A. West tenant, $2,000. J. F. Todd, $3,000. - S. J. Wooten. Col. O. L. Shumpert,, $6,000, insurance, $3,000. 8. P. Boozer, O. L. Shumpert, $2,000. J. E. Norwood, $2,000, Insurance $1,000. B. M. Dennis, owner, $2,000. W. H. Day, vacant, $2,000. W. H. Day, occupied by J. P Shealy, $2,000. E. H. Leslie, $3,000. A>ex Singleton, $1,600. J. A. Burton, vacant, $3,000. H. H. Klnard, occupied by Mist' Holland, $7,000, insurance, $1,600. O. F. Long, $4,000, insu -ance $2,060. B. L. Jones, owned by J. A. Simpson, $2,000. Dr. Van Smith. $3,000. B. F. Qoggans, $3,000. Mrs. F. F. Blease, $4,000, insurance $1,000. Presbyterian Parsonage, Rev. J. L. Williamson, $2,500, Insurance $1,600Avellelgh Presbpterian Church $9000, insurance $4,700. Seeder Church $1,500, insurance. $1,000. Cottage belonging to Col. O. L Schumpert $1,000. Three cottages belonging to Henry Klnard $1,000. Two negro cottages of B. F. Goggans, $400. Barn and stables of L. W. Floyd. $600. F. N. Martin's barn and cottages $1,000. Dr. J. M. Klbler, outhouses only. 200. A. Crane Jones, outhouros, $600. 8. B. Aull, damage, $600. H to res Burned. Cromer & McGraw, grocers, owned by Copeland Bros. Paul Johnston, owned by Copeland Bros. 7acant store owned by Copeland Bros., $5,000. R. C. Williams, furniture, building owned by R. Herman Wright, $2,600 Shelley St Summer, double brick, two story building owned by R. C Williams, $6,000. Shelly & Summer carried a stock about $12,000. E. C. Sonnenbery, baker, owned by himself, $1,200. J. H. McCullough, drugs, two story frame owned by himself $3,500. A. C. Thomason, grocery owned by 11. L. Oantt, $2,000. Racket Store, Ray Watte, building owned by Geo. S. Mower. The Livingston-Lomlnick Company, building owned by Geo. S. Mower, double store, $2,600 damage. Salter Art Gallery, Salter Art and arlety Store owned by H. E. Todd, Anderson, $2,000. HntAl ITpaHAPIPV 41 AAA rlomo<ro EASTER HAT BURNS. Cigarette I>e8troy8 Headgear on a Ladies Hat In Street. At Atlanta, a thirty dollar Easter hat on the head of Miss Celeste Manton caught fire Thursday afternoon while Whitehall street was crowded with shoppers. The hat was destroyed, the young woman lost much hair, was scorched about the neck and face and there was a panic In the shopping district.. A young man checked the conflagration by throwing his overcoat over the young woman's head. In the wreck of the hat was found the stub of a cltarette that had been dropped from an upper story window and had caused the Are. CHEROKEE HOMICIDES. l The First Man Hang There Was a \k White Man. The Oajffney Ledger says: "about forty homicides have occurred in Cherokee county since its organize- | Hon ten years ago, and it's a fact \ worthy of note that the first person \ to pay the death penalty was a white i man who was a native of the county, i This Is not saying that others should i not hare been convicted but It's a | healthy sign that the juries of the ? county have arrived at the point where they are showing a proper regard for the rights of Its cltlsess. Surely this will be alesaon and will ; ^^^a^flowof blood ln^ls^r^ ( ...? # MAY BE KNOCKED OUT) Laborers Contract Law To Bo Reviewed by the Courts. I It is Bald that the Law is Productive of Peonage and Fails to Provide Equal Penalties. A case is now pending in the United States Court at Charleston that is of much interest to the farmers of South Carolina, aud the final disposi- ' tion of the case is being watched with great interest. The case is in reference to tue labor contract law of *thls State. About a month ago two negroes v.ere sentenced to terms of imprisonment in the Charleston county jail for the violation of this i?w. meir attorneys obtained a writ of habeas corpus from Judge Braw- , ley, alleging that these men were un- , lawfully detained and deprived of , their liberties in violation of the constitution of the United States. , The principal ground of attack on j the law seems to be that the labor contract law violates that provision t of the federal constitution which forbids class legislation: thus, it is , claimed. If the volation of a contract to buy goods or obtain advances in , money which are to be paid for in la- , bor is to be penalized and punished ' as a crime then other contracts must be likewise penalized and punished. In other words, the claim is made ( that the lobor contract law of this State provides punishment for the nonpayment of advances made under the labor law, or the noncompliance : with the terms of a labor contract, a: strictly civil contract, and falls to provide punishment for other civil 1 contracts when violated. It is said some of our best lawyers think the , law unconstitutional and that the United States Court will so declare It. When the question first came up before Judge Brawley he postponed a final dcislon until Mr. Lyon, the Attorney-General of the State, could be heard. Last Monday was set for the hearing, but it did not come up. it will be heard some time this week. The case was brought by Messre Logan and Grace, two Charleston lawyers. They allege that the State law is class legislation and a form of peonage, and, therefore, in conflict wnn.ine leaerai constitution. A few days ago, on instructions from Attorney General Bonaparte, United States District Atorney Cochran filed u petition to be permitted to intervene in behalf of the government and Judge Brawley granted the motion, which makes the government a party to the suit. Pending a final decision of the case, Judge Brawley is understood to have discharged the two Charleston negroes from Jail until the case could be fully heard and finally decided, and the magistrates over the State have held up all prosecutions for violating the labor contract law pending Judge Brawley's decision. The Federal authorities seem to regard the law somewhat as a system of peonage The labor contract law was enacted several years ago and at first provided that any laborer violating a written contract should be punished criminally by fine or imprisonment .n the case of the State against Williams the supreme court of this State declared the law unconstitutional, >ecause punishment was provided against only the laborer and not the farmer in case of a violation of the :ontiact to perform farm labor. The legislature at its next session amended the law so that either the farmer or laborer vinlnHnc a i??n_ tract should be punished by fine or Imprisonment. In this shape the law stood for some time. A few years ago the law was again amended so that a verbal contract was made punishable, if violated, provided such contract was witnessed by two disinterested witnesses. This law has been attacked several times in the state supreme court but without success. . In the case of the state against Chapman its constitutionally was directly up held. Again in the case of the state against Easterlln, wherein the law was attacked upon the ground that while it did In a sense allow imprisonment for debt, yet the constitution did not forbid imprisonment for deht in case of fraud, and that the violation of such a contract, after obtaining advances against future labor, was a species of fraud. This law is a good one, and has been very helpful in retaining lal>or on the farms, but in some cases it has been abused. It seems to us that some such law is absolutely essential to the successful management of our farms under our present labor conditions, nnd should it be declared unconstitutional it will cause considerable trouble to our farmers by disorganizing their plans and in manycases demoralizing the labor. Without some such law our farmers would be at the mercy of those who they may have hired to work on their farms. PURE HORSE SENSE. Animal RunR Away and Then Summons the Doctor. The existence of what is termed pure horse sense was demonstrated recently in Washington, D. C., by the horse owned by J. H. Wudeman. The animal became unmanageable while being driven and ran away, throwing the owner to the ground, where he ianaea in an unconscious condition. f Then the horse walked up to the | door of Dr. H. Wells Woodward and t rang the electric push button bell un- , til the doctor came out and went to ( the aid of the injured man. , While the doctor was making a , preliminary examination of Mr. , Wurdeman, the horse stood quietly j and even after the driver had been y taken into the doctor's office to have \ a laceration of the forehead sewed up, the horse remained waiting. "I thought at first the horse was coming in to superintend the operation," Dr. Woodward says. "It was j the most remarkable thing I ever heard of, and had I not personally witnessed the whole affair, I say frankly I would not have believed it. Dr. Woodward and a maid were r brought to the door by the persis- r tent ringing of the bell. Opening t the glass doors they saw the horse Y standing on the porch rubbing its p nose vigorously on the nicle>-plated s ilgn. When the m&id screamed, the r horse stuck his head in the vestibule r is though looking for someone. Good Man Gone. " Bishop Jno. C. Oranberry of the u Southern Methodist church, died sud- c lenly at his home. Ashlapd, Va., on t< act Monday, aged 76 years. * a LOST AT SEA. I Fishing Party of Six Left Charleston Saturday and ARE STILL MISSING. The Six Men Who Composed the Par* ty Were Operatives at the Bag Factory, and Five of Them Left Families, and Naturally There la Much Anxiety Among Their Families. There is a great fear in Charleston that six men have been drowned off the bar. A party of six operatives of the Rayal Bag and Yarn Factory lert Charleston Saturday afternoon an a fishing: trip, over the bar, and none of them have returned. It is feared that their boat capsized and the men were drowned.. The men started down the harbor in two small cat-rigged boats shortly before dark on Saturday afternoon. They were to return to the city on 3unday afternoon. Morris Island was the destination of the party and It is not known whether they ever reached the fishing place or whether they suffered some mishap in returning at the scheduled time. Saturday afternoon was calm and pleasant weather, but early Sunday morning the wind set in from the northeast, blowing a stiff gale which continued all Sunday night and again Monday night, reaching velocities as high as 50 miles an hour and with a very rough sea, it is possible that the boats may have been swamped or swept out to sea and the entire party drowned. It is possible that the boats may have been driven into some of the lit- i lie creeks or perhaps the men are all safe in charge of the keeper of Morris Island lighthouse, waiting for better weather conditions to attempt to come back to the city. | It is, of course, possible that the * entire party is safe if not at the lighthouse, at some other point along the neighl>oring islands, but it is strange that one of the number at least has not taken the land route to reach the ' city and convey the news of the party. The following are the names of -1 ~ tuuoc nuu tumpubua (tie party: fat Grayson, Dick Webb, George Miles, John Meyer, J. C. Edwards, Will Hyatt. All of the men, with the ex ceptlon of Mr. Haytt, are married men with children, and, as might be expected, there is much excitement and trouble in the village of the Royal bag and yarn factory. They Are Found. The parties reported loss as sea from Charleston has l?een found and are now safe and sound at home, l'hey were found on Morris Island and carried to the city in a wagon that had gone to search for them. TEXAS CAMPHOR FAItMS. Latest Addition to the National Re .sources in That State. Camphor farms are the latest addition to the resources of Texas. The Government now has two farms In operation in the State, which hid fair to becoming centers for the production of the much needed article. Practically the entire supply of camphor for the world now comes from Formosa and is controlled by Japan. Camphor is one of the ingrediments needed in modern warfare and is used In the manufacture of explosives used in high power guns. Now that the Japanese government has control of the world's output, it is not' certain that it could be had at times when it would be most needed. In order to provide for the future the United States has started two farms in Texas. The plan of cultivation will be different than that employed in Formosa. In that Island the plants are allowed to grow for a time. Then they are \ ut down after they have become trees and ground to pulp and the camphor extracted. ' In Texas the camphor seeds will be sown like wheat. When the small shoots have grown to the height of four or five feet they will be cut a foot from the ground and the camphor extracted. This gives a quicker return in the crop and a better grade of camphor. This process can be repeated from year to year until a new held is developed. At the present time one acre of camphor will yield $450 a year. The price will fall when the cultivation becomes more general in Texas. Til A NSPORT N KG ROES. Is Florida Governor's Solution of the Race Problem. In discussing the race question. Gov. ltrownard, of Florida, In his message says that while no question has arisen to cause any disturbance, ret it is apparent that the relations Itpt WPPH t hp twn r ? poo la haenmIr* or more strained and acute. In offering i solution of the problem, Governor 0 lirownard says: ? "I recommend a resolution to con- ^ ?ress to purchase territory, either lomestic or foreign, and provide ? means to purchase the property of he negroes at reasonable prices and e o transport the negroes to the territory purchased by the United States r he United States to form a govern- * nent for tiiem of the negro race; to ?! prevent foreign invasion, and prevent 1 vhite people from living among them ? n the territory, and to prevent ne- e iroes from migrating hack to the b Jnlted States." b c SPINSTER# DEFEAT BILL b * ?? * itay Single If They Wish and Wont ti ci , Be Taxed. d The bill to tax spinsters and batthelors at Fort Dodge, la., -which was eferred to a special committee, has >een defeated by the spinsters, led d y Miss Jessie Cameron, matron of a ^ irivate school. For five days the piasters made the lives of the comnitteemen so miserable that they It eported adversely to the mayor. ^ The entire unmaried woman's poplatlon of the place was organized * y Miss Cameion and waged contin- Is al warfare against the bill. C. J. ? irawford, chairman of the commitse, said he was so abused that he w ras forced to beat a retreat. k V 1 CURES AF u _ RHEUMACIDE has c had failed. Rheumacide Johns Hopkins Hospital, t of Salem, Va., and D. H. remariiAc an#i tk? . ? ---wwiwk* WKW kilV 1IWIWI3 Almost a Miracle In This Case Dillon. S. C. Aui Bobbitt Chemical Company: Gentlemen:?In September. IfW. I took matism in a very bad form (inflammatory), month after the disease started I had to g my work and go to bed. It continued to worse until my arms and hands were drawn, so much so that I could not use My legs were drawn back till my feet toi ,ny hips. I was as helpless as a baby for i IS months. The muscles of my arms am were hard and shriveled up. I suffered many times over. Was treated by six difl physicians in McColi. Dillon and Mariot none of them could do me any good, until P. F.wing. of Dillon, came to see me. Hi me to try your RHEL'MACIDE. He got m bottle of the medicine and I began to ta and before the first bottle was used up I I to get better. I used I'A bottles and was pletely cured. That was years ago an health has been excellent ever since, had no symptoms of rheumatism. Wll further that I began to walk in about six after I began to take RHEUMACIDE wit aid of crutches: in about three months a began to take it I could walk as good as body, and went back to work again. Yours truly. JAMES WILK KILLED BY TRAIN Jut Just How No One Seems To Know Exactly. t Seems that the Deceased Was With Some Convivial Friends and Was Drinking. On last Thursday morning Coronir Rlckenbaker held an Inquest over ha dead body of William Duumeye* t negro, who died the day before rom injuires received Saturday light a?" " >nu uu me ouuiuoni ivailvay between Jamison and St.Mathews. Just how Dunmeyer met his leath is not known. It is said he was irunk when he left Orangeburg on :he night of the accident, and the ihances are that he fell from the :raln in passing from one car to an>ther. Another negro man who was with Dunmeyer Testified at the Inquest :hat they boarded the train at Rowasville, that he paid his fare to Orangeburg, while the dead m?n. l)unueyer, paid his fare to St. Matthews. Says Dunmeyer gave the conductor H and received 35 cents in change, rhis witness said that both he and Dunmeyer left the train at Orangeaurg, but that Dunmeyer again got aboard the train and started for St. Matthews, where he had intended gong The other witnesses were I)rs. Liowman and Shecut, who operated >n the negro Sunday morning week ago, and the coroner, who heard his statements as given to the doctors. Drs. Lowman and Shecut testified .hat the negro was brought to them at 10:40 a. m. Sunday morning week ago by Dr. D. Moorer, a colored physician, who aBked them to operate; :hat the coroner was also present and asked them to take the negro's statenent before operating. They testified that the negro told hem he had been put off the train 'jst above Jamison by the conductor, and that he fell and the train crushMi his hand. Said he did not know vhy he was put off. This was about sight o'clock on the Saturday night le was hurt, and he said he lay by he track in his injured condition for leverai nours, then dragged himself o Jamison, where he aroused some tegroes and they sent him to Orange>urg on the mixed train, reaching lere early in the morning. Dra. Lowman and Shecut testified hat when brought to them they ound the right hand badly crushed ind were forced to amputate. At hat time there was no evidence of nternal injuries and the negro did tot seem to suffer except from his nangled hand. Was in a dazed conlition and they could get very little iut of him. Visited him afterwards md when they found his condition erious, they reported it to the Southrn railway officials. They performd the post mortem examination and ound liver and stomach in bad conlition from effects of what looked to ie a terrible blow. May have been aused by negro falling heavily on ross ties, or some other hard matter loroner Rickenbaker's testimony as o the post mortem statement differd from that of the doctors' In that ie claimed the negro said he was jected from the moving train. The Southern Railway was not epresented at the Inquest. Nor were ny of the train crew present. Paries who saw Dnnmever th? nlaht r?f he accident at the depot as the train n which he was riding says Dunmeyr was drunk. None of these parties sstifled at the inquest. The Jury rought in a verdict that Dunmeyer ame to his death by wounds caused y some train on the Southern Railray. If a* stated above, Dunmeyer ras drunk, no doubt he fell from the rain while it was in motion and revived the injuries that caused his eath. Some paper says it seems that the rouble between Nicaragua and Honuras was started over one solitary jule. The Washington Post says if her name was Maude, the affair iay as well be transferred to the >mic supplements where it belongs nyway." Not in the face of the ist dispatches from the front, rhich reports a battle in hich over one thousand roan were illed. Nothing comic about that. ' ' T ^ TER THE DO lured thousands of cases of R cured John F. Eline and ol he greatest hospital in the w< Olmstead, the Norfolk. Va., c< had given up hope. Rheums of rheumatism she ha< ' ia Hughes, of Atkins, Va.," There is a reason why It if,." cal science, and while p ivKrow of the blood, it operaf< badiy most delicate stomach. ',!s /?\ M 1 Wet L ^2 d m, ,Has.l SWEEPS ALL P< davs A purely vegetable rem< ?t?|?f cures by removing the cause. ( any Sample bottle and booklet fret es. B0BB1TT CHEMIC SOLD A GIKL. Driven From Home and Sold by Her 1 Father. The Armenia colony in Worchester Mbhs., is aroused over the sale of | Mayrien Hegosian, aged 14 years, by i her father to Asadoor Shadbeglan. The marriage was performed by an Armenian priest, but he was told that the girl was 18 years old, as the marriage license showed. According to the story told, the home relations of the 0irl had become unpleasant, owing to the presecnce of a stepmother. The child was ordered to leave the home and never return. The father took the matter philosophically. He determined to get all he could out of the girl while he had her. so he arranged a sale and the child was sold to Shadbeglan, a groceryman. When the story was learned by the more influential members of the Armenian colony, they were incensed nnti cu'nro mil worronta for tKo no??_ ties concerned. They will move to have the marriage annulled, if such a thing is possible. TlllKl) OF LIFE A Woman in Yirginiu Takes Poison to Knd Her l>ays. At Danville, Va., lurs. George W. t Trent, a middle aged lady, and wife of a local jeweler, attempted suicide at the home of her sister, Mrs. Geo. W. Sheldon Thursday night, by taking laudanum. She was found by her sister n an unconscious condition and when revived begged the doctors to let her die, declaring that if she recovered this time she would kill herself later on. The woman is in a critical condition. Domestic troubles are said to be the cause of the attemp at suicide. The woman and her husband have been seperated for the past several weeks. Narrowed Down. The New York Press, a republican paper has its own ideas on the 1908 presidential campaign and in mak ing them public makes a very interesting showing. The Press says that one of the list of posihilities for the republican nomination for president ( next year going the rounds of the ( newspapers is: Theodore Roosevelt of New York. Charles E. Hughes of New York. Elihu Root of New York. George R. Cortelyou of New York. William H. Taft of Ohio. ] Joseph B. Foraker of Ohio. \ Leslie M. Shaw of Iowa. Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois. Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana. Albert B. Cummings of Iowa. < Robert M. LaFolIette of Wiscon- i sin. < W V Cpnn# nf MncnnrhiKiottn i Philander C. Knox of Pennsyl- i vania. 1 Hut in the opinion of the Press "a little blue penciling for obvious rea- 1 sons shows how excessively the list ] has been padded." The Press adds: < "These are to be stricken out for i reasons that are self-evident: \ Roosevelt?For ho will not touch t it. t Root?Because he could not carry New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Indi- c ana. Illinois, nor a single state, with 1 the posible exception of Iowa, west of t the Mississippi river. t Cortelyou?Same reason. j f Knox?Same reason. 11 Taft?Can't get the delegates of r his own State, nor of any worth men- a tioning; might have a few federal officers from the territories. Foraker?President Roosevelt's battle ax will knock him in the head. ^ Cannon?Can't carry the Standard c Oil Trust, the Lumber Trust, the Su- j gar Trust, the Ship Subsidy grafters, nothing else. ' Fairbanks? Frozen stiff. f Cummins?Hasn't any principles . except 'puah myself along." Crane?Never been introduced to il the public." ^ Then this republican paper concludes: "So the host dwindles to: 1 Hughes. e La Follette. a Shaw. c Shaw is a good man, but the pub- ^ lie regards him as too conservative. q It will not vote for a roan who is less radical than Roosevelt. This leaves: J! Hughes. J La Follette. It Plenty and to afcere." U heumatism after all the doct thers, of Baltimore, after th arid, had failed. Rheumacld >ntractor, after they had spei icide cured Mrs. Mary Welbo d endured for 20 years. R1 after the most famous New t cures: Rheumacide is the I towerful enough to sweep all *s by purely natural metho and builds up the entire sys wiadtft D1SONS OUT OF THE ?dy that goes right to tha aaat of tl Your druggist sella and recommend] i If you send five cents for postage t< AL COMPANY. Proorietors. Baltlmc We Have One 25 hone power Taibott, aeoond ha [j been overhauled. This Engine ie ft great bargain for anyone who is in t We arc headquarters for anything ii prompt attention will be given to all ii oare. Write uswhen yon are in the r to get pnarrioes before placing our i Colombia Supply Co., FOUND AT LAST. Kidnapped Twentty-tliree Wars Ago When a Ituby. Having located her son, who was kidnapped 23 years ago from her pioneer home in Nebraska, Mrs. O. W. Norton, left Marshalton, la., a few days ago, for Grand Junction, Col., to Ite welcomed by William Porter, the "baby" she has been searching for so long. Idrs. Norton's son was only four years old when he disappeared. It was shortly after the mother's divorce from her first husband, and the latter was suspected. It develops that neither mother nor child knows who the kidnapper was, and that both have been looking for each other all these years. Ily mere accident information of Mr. Porter's whereabouts and his fruitless search for his mother came to Mrs. Norton through a letter received by a friend. CURES ALL SKIN TROUBLES Sulphur tli* Accepted Remedy for a Hundred Year*. Sulphur is on* of th* greatest r*ni*di*s nature ever gave to man. Every physician known It cures skin and blood troubles. Hancock'* Liquid Sulphur enables you to get th* full benefit in most convenient form. Do not take sulphur 'tablets' or 'wafers' or powered sulphur in molasses Hancock'* Liquid Sulphur is pleasant to take and perfect in its action. Druggists sell It. A well known citizen of Danville, Pa., writes: "I have had an aggravated case of Eczema for over SB years. I have used seven 50-cent bottles of the Liquid and one jar of your Hancock's Liquid Sulphur Ointment, and now I feel as though I had a brand new pair of hands. It has cured m* and I am certain it will cur# anyone if they persist in using Hancock's Liquid Sulphur, according te directions. 'Rutler Edgar.' KKtil.MEXT OF (HANTS Piinifkllu (Vkfnu /I# llwiiSul. /'^L...L,1 - ? Duty in Jumuicu. The Royal West Indian regiment, ioing duty in Jamaica, is a body of giants. Not one man In the entire ?orps is less than six feet in height uid most of them are a few inches more. All .ire negroes and are the [lower of the dusky population. The regiment is more than a fine ooking body of men. It is imimsing. Every member of it feels a pride In >very inch from heel to helmet. The >owerftil men look like 1,200 Gullirers as they move about the streets ind look over the heads of the smaller whites and negroes of the island. When the troops are on patrol luty there is no danger of an out>reak. A raised hand from one of hem had more influence on the mobs hat crowd about those who give out ood to earthquake sufferers, than he leveled rifles of a dozen ordinary nen could have. The reason is oh- . rious. Some sixty years ago two I'ennsyl- 1 'ania farmers went to law with each >ther because one of them had cut lown a chestnut tree on the others and. Recently the heirs of the two armers paid the cost upon the final J lecision of the case. The total cost u n the case was over thirty thousand * lollars in money, to say nothing of he hard feelings the litigation caus-l d among the friends and descend- ~ ,nts of the two farmers. . A similar / ase to this was once fought out by wo farmers in the lower part of this Itate over a small steer. We hope ye have no such obstenate people in JJ Irangeburg County. If you have a iw Bttit with your neighbor let that nd the trouble. ? 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