r* > k **/ .A - '. V . ? The Fort Mill Times. DEMOCRATIC T B. W. BRADFORD, - Ed. and Prop. c One year 51.00 T Six months ' 50 Thr?x? months 25 0 ??????????????? j. On iiiipilnntion to the publisher, ad- r vertlelnn rates are made known to ? those Interested. f Entered at the postofflcent Fort Mill, ^ 8. 0.. n? second class matter. ' ^ THURSDAY APRIL 23. 1908. -iu - - ?J?...J 1 The Present List of Office-Seekers. J1 a A few weeks ago there were ^ 6even or eight candidates out for s the United States senate to sue- a ceed the late Senator Latimer, a but Messrs. Dargan, McCullough c; find Hf?ndprsr?n navp withdrawn I S and this leaves at present Messrs. a 0. B. Martin, John Gary Evans, a George Johnstone, E. D. Smith d and D. C. Heyward. From expressions in the State press, it a appears to be the opinion that the race is between ex-Governor a Evans and ex-Governor Hey ward, 0 but Mr. Martin seems to object to the promulgation of this opinion, and doubtless the other can- ? didates do also, but they do not t express themselves as freely as t does Mr. Martin. The withdrawal of Mr. Feath- v stone from the race for governor J" leaves Mr. C. L. Blease, senator t from Newberry, the only candi- r date against Governor Ansel. Mr. Blease was always a stalwart,^ State dispensary supporter and ^ since that institution's abolition, a he has come out on extended | local option platform. Gov. Ansel, on the other hand, announces his platform this year to be re- J stricted local option, favoring a 1 law making the entire State pro- J hibition with the right to coun- f tie? to exempt themselves by r majority vote and sell whiskey through county dispensaries. The office of State Superin- c tendent of Education is the only c one of the State offices for which ? there are as yet several candi- ^ dates. Mr. Martin being no k longer an aspirpnt for this place, * the way is open for a new man. County Superintendent of Education E. C. Elmore, of Spartanburg; County Superintendent S. It. Mellichamp, of Orangeburg, and Prof. J. E. Swearingen, of j Cedar Springs Institute, have announced their candidacy. The office of railroad commis sioneris always contested for. *' Commissioner Caughman's term ? expires and he is a candidate for * re-election. So far it is known ? that he will have opposition from Mr. J. II. Summersett, of Co- c lumbia; Maj. Fishburne, of ? Charleston; Maj. II. W. Richardson, of Columbia; "Cansler," of ' Tirzah, and perhaps others. \y It appears now that the other State olficials will not have any c opositions. However, the cam- ? paign has just started and the 1 J election is yet four months off, J but the entries for State offices } close in June. Two Helpless Classes. t We are entirely in accord with ^ Charity and Children in its sym- f pathy for the candidate, says the J Charlotte Observer. He is ill- t used. He is the victim of every i species of beggar and is held up ? at every turn. Everybody who f wants money on any pretext t whatsoever presents a subscrip- c tion paper to him, more frequent- i Itr f Vin?> /\f - * wuaii vjlucti wise III tlie prt'SUIlCt! ^ ensary law, and was sentenced o pay a fine of $100 or serve hree months on the chaingang. Press Massey was convicted of 'iolating the dispensary law and ecommended to the mercy of he court. The sentence was four nonts or $125. J. M. McCorkle, charged with issault and battery with intent o kill, was convicted of simple issault and sentenced to pay a ine of $20 or go to jail for tweny days. The fine was paid. Andrew Witherspoon, charged! vith mnrder, consented to be ried by a jury of eleven men, it lot being practicable to obtain a : ull panel at the time. The jury I eturned a verdict of not guilty. ] In the case of Ollie Barron and ^oster Wise, charged with lar- ! :eny, the jury returned a ver- j lict of not guilty as to Wise and juilty as to Barron. Barron was , entenced to two years in the i State penitentiary or upon the! lublic works of the county. Gad Dover and Andy Spencer, :harged with violation of the lispensary law, plead guilty as :harged and were each sentenced i 0 pay a fine of $100 or be conined at hard labor for three nonths. Dover paid his fine, :ash. In the case of J. E. Jackson md Thomas Christenbury, charg;d with assault and battery with ntent to kill, the jury returned 1 verdict of not guilty. Fiedman Huey, tried on the fiarge of violating the dispen- i iary law, was acquitted. Lum Parham plead guilty of cceping a gambling place and of violating the dispensary law. There were quite a number >f the most prominent citizens | >f the Bowling Green neighbor- ! lood on hand to testify against f lim, arid his conviction was a | 'oregone conclusion. For kecpng a gambling place, the court rnposed a sentence of $100 or hree months, and for violation >f the dispensary law the fine vas $200 or five months. The ines were paid in both cases, fudge Watts advised the prisoner fiat there was still another ndictment pending against him, ind that if he should come be'ore this court again, the senence would be . something un:omfortable. William Hunter the young vhite man, charged with burnng his way out of the Yorkville I fuard house two years ago, dead guilty and was sentenced o serve six months in that part j >f tlm State penitentiary set I ipart tor me criminal insane. Samuel Brown plead guilty to he charge of assault and batery of a high and aggravated lature and was sentenced to, >ay a fine of $40 or be confined >n the public work of York , :ounty for a period of ninety lays. A good part of yesterday was ' aken up with the trial of A1 Villiams for the murder of Jim >ockett in February last, Solic- 1 tor Henry for the prosecution tnd Thos. F. McDow for the deense. The testimony showed ; hat Williams had taken possesion of Crockett's wife, and de:ired to put Crockett out of the j vay. Williams provoked the dificulty and laid in wait for Crockitt to kill him. There was in the filling all the elements of murler, and although Mr. McDow or the defense made as good howing as was possible under he circumstances, Mr. Henry >ut the matter up to the jury in a vay that left no escape for a onviction. The jury remained nit about half an hour and re urned a verdict of guilty with a ecommendarion to mercy. It is ! inderstood that four of the jurors i vere for conviction of murder vithout recommendation. The next case taken up was! hat of Alfred Williams charged vith the murder of Elias White, n Fort Mill township on Februiry 8. Solicitor Henry representd the prosecution and Thos. F. >icUo\y, the defense. The plea vas self-defense. It appeared hat while White was probably lie aggressor, both parties were : nore or less at fault. The jury, lowever, took a lenient view of he matter and returned a verlict of not guilty. The case of the State vs. ' ''' * '* 'T 7-': L " Lawrence Marley, charged with murder, was continued on motion of the defense. The first case taken up this J morning was that of the State 1 vs. Bert Joseph, charged with < violation of the dispensary law. } The jury returned a verdict of ] not guilty. The next case was that of the 5 State vs. Dr. G. W. Hill charged 1 with assault and battery with < intent to kill. This case grew 1 out of the shooting of Mr. Sep < Massey by Dr. Hill at Catawba Junction during the latter part j of December. The papers will ' go to the jury this afternoon. 1 1 the cabbage capital. j Meggetts isn't the biggest , town on the map, and it makes ] no particular pretension to civic < glory, but there is something | doing there or thereabouts all 1 the year around, and N. H. i Blitch does most of it, with C. M. < Gibson pushing him close, and < the Geraty's and the Towles' < whose domain lies chiefly on the opposite side of Wadmalaw sound i but whose enterprise can not be , confined to one island?coming in with a pretty likely share of ] activity. It is mostly in the way of cabbages, but there is right ] smart of potatoes, and there are also beets and peas and beans and cucumbers and other good green stuff that keeps the Americans from becoming a scurvy people. It moves out of i Meggett's during the season of three months, now about reaching its height, at the average j rate of sixty-five carloads a day. Some days they send out eightyfive cars of the stuff. A carload of cabbage is exactly the product of an acre of ground, as ( the planting is reckoned at Meggetts, that is to say, it is two hundred crates of seventy heads , each. The car starts out from Meggetts with five tons of ice ^ in it and that is replenished as needed along the way to its destination. It might be bound for Chicago, or New York or Boston or St. Paul, or any other center of population. Last week two or three carloads were sent to Montreal in Canada. A * Af a A? A 1 ? iuckk^us Liicrt: is a comfortable little frame building in ' which the office of the British . company is located. Th'ere is a telegraph operator in there at the key all day long, and he is , at the end of a leased wire which runs to all the great markets for truck in the United States. 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