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svr ..... m .'j^^PPPf A QUEER YEAR" Up to Tbis Time We Hare Had Some Most Remarkable Weather. YEAR WITHOUT SUMMER ? Arc We Going to Have * Repct'tion of the Tear That Had Oold Weather in Every Monti) and Had Rig Snow Storms in the Month of Jane. The Augusta Herald says the seasons so far this year have been most peculiar. After a winter of rather disagreeable weather spring apparently opened up early, and during March and the first half of April the weather was most pleasant, with absence of rain and the usual 'March winds the distinguishing feature. Then came a return of cold weather. During the latter part of April there was a heavy snowfall which extended well into Georgia, and frost which reached into Florida. And Bince that time the weather has been cool. Only a few days ago a heavy snowstorm was reported from the West, and within the past week overcoatB were worn on the streets of Augusta. Surely most remarkable weather! Rut it is not without precedent. The year 1816 was a year that must have been similar to the weather as we have had it up to this time. It was referred to for years afterwards as "the year without a summer," and so cold was it at times in some sections that almost all crops were a failure, and the year was called by the irreverent the year i of "eighteen hundred and starved to i ^eath." i A gentleman in Thomasville has a copy of an old Virginia paper, pub lished shortly after the war, which contains the weather conditions of the year 1816 that was copied from the Boston Globe, and which is of interest now. This seems to be the account of a pnrty who had personal knowledge of that abnormal summer. and who had collected some data in regard to it. He says: "While every one 16 speaking of the present season as being remark- ' able in Its characteristics, I have gathered for your readers some re- 1 liable facts of the year 1816, known as the 'year without a Bummer.' Few persons now living can recollect it, 1 but it was the coldest ever known through Europe and America. The following is a brief abstract of the weather during each month of the year: January was mild, so much so aB to render fires almost needless in parlors. December previous was very cold. "February was not very cold; with the exception of a few days it was mild, like its predecessor. "March was cold and boisterous during the first part of it; the remainder was mild. A great freshet on the Ohio and Kentucky rivers caused a great Iobb of property. "April began warm, but grew colder as the month advanced, and ended with snow and ice and a temperature more like winter than spring. "May was more remarkable for 1 frowns than smiles. Buds and fruits were frozen; Ice formed half an inch thick; corn killed, and fields again and again replanted until deemed too late. "June was the coldest ever knowin this latitude. Frost, ice and snowwere common. Almost every green thing was killed. Fruit nearly all ; destroyed Snnw fell to the Honih of ten inches in Vermont, several in Maine, three in the interior of New York, and also in Massachusetts. Considerable datpage was done at j New OrleanB in consequence of the rapid rise in the river. The suburbs were covered with water, and 1 the roads were only passable with 1 boats. 1 "July was accompanied by frost and ice. On the 5th ico was formed of the thickness of a common window glass througout New England, New York and some parts of Pennsylvania, fndian corn was nearly all destroyed; some favorably situated fields escaped. This was true of some of the hill farms of Massachusetts. "August was more cheerless, if possible, than the summer months already passed. Ice was formed half an inch thick. Indian corn was so frozen that the greater part of it was cut down and dried for fodder. Almost every green thing was destroyed, both in this country and in Europe. Papers received from England state 'that it would be remembered by the present generation that the X^ar 1816 was a year in which there was no summer.' Very little corn ripened in the New England and Middle States. Farmers supplied themselves from corn produced in 1815 for the seed of the spring of 1817. It sold at from $4 to $5 a bushel. "Septemebr furnished about two weeks of the mildest weather of the season. Soon after the middle it became very cold and frosty; ice < formed a quarter of an inch thick. "October produced more than its ! share of cold weather; frost and ice ) were common. "November was cold and bluster- 1 L CAUSES MANY WRECKS VESSELS IiOST AND SEVERAL MEN DROWNED. Th? Diiuuter Was Caused by Heavy Fog* Along the Coast of British Am eric*. A dispatch from Halifax, N. S., says thick fog and a quickly bom southwesterly gale are Baid to have rAauliail (m L /v n< I *? ?# ?I? - I VOUlkCU A U 1UC TV1CV.RIU5 1/1 BJA V f O" sels and the loss of eight men at various points along the rocky coast of the Atlantic Wednesday night and early Thursday. While most of the crew of 25 were asleep below decks, the French brigantine Mauve, a fishing vessel, piled up in the fog an Point Blanche, at the entrance of St. Plerr harbor. Miquelon, Thursday morning, and six men on deck were hurled overboard and drowned. The remainding 19 made their way to shore in small boats and rafts. The Mauve is believed to be a total loss. The Norwegian bark Borghild was driven on Castor Ledges, ofT Port Bickerton, N. S., and at once began to go to pieces in the heavy sea. The crew of nine men launched their small boats, but all of them were batered to pieces on the rocks and two of the men were either drowned or hurled to death on the ledges. The remaining seven, clinging to the wreckage of the boats, were rescued by fishermen. Half a mile Inside of Port Nova, N. S., the British steamship Ben Cruachan bound from Baltimore to Chatham, N. B., struck the beach so hard that it is doubtful if she can be saved. Her crew of 26 men were rescued. Captain Boswell, it is said, mistook the Louisbury fog siren for the Scattarie whistle and st< -red a wrong course, landing in the breakers. Several steamers and tugs have gone to the scene of the wreck. "I CAN'T EXPLAIN." Holstlaw, Illinois Senator, Talks Of His Confession. "I'd rather be known as a boodler than a liar," said Senator lwiniel Holstlaw in an interview at his home at Inka, 111., Wednesday, speaking of his confession to accepting a bribe of $2 500 as a legislator. "Maybe," he continued, "I took the money because I saw everyone else doing the same thing?I can't explain." "I made the confession because I could not tell a lie." "I don't know?I don't understand," he said, with a hopeless air answering a question of why he, a man owning property worth a quarter of a million dollars, would accept bribe. "All I want Is to Bink out of sight I knew the indictment charging ma with perjury was a bluff, and it did not frighten n.e. Rut when they asked me whether I was paid for voting for Senator Lorimer, I had to tell the truth." IA daughter of Holstlaw followed the interviewer out of the house. Breaking down, she exclaimed: "To spend years of toil in building a name and then to destroy it at one blow. Oh, how could he do it? My mother is prostrated. We have not said a word to father about the trouble, for it would break his heart. He could not have been in his right mind." BONK IN THROAT KILL8. Negro Man at Biitcshurg Dies in a Peculiar Manner. At Batesburg Wade Brooks, a negro man. who lived on Mr. N. A. Bates' place, died Wednesday under peculiar circumstances. About ten days ago Wade w?s eating a piece of a Guinea fowl, and in some way he got a piece of bone crosswise in his throat. There it remained for a day or two, when a doctor was summoned. The doctor, it is said, took an instrument and pushed the bone down. Instead of relieving the negro it made matters worse. The bone was lodged further down and the man died Wednesday. College Moved. Harbinson college, the colored institution at Abbeville whose main building was burned down by an in cendiary first several months ago, has decided to move to Greenville. ing. Snow fell so as to make good sleighing. "December was mild and comfortable. "The above was a brief summary of the 'cold summer of 1816, as it was called, in order to distinguish it from the cold season. The winter was mild. Frost and ice were common in every month of the year. Very little vegetation matured In the Eastern and Middle States. The sun's rays seemed to be destitute of heat throughout the summer; all nature was clad in a sable hue, and men exhibited no little anxiety concerning the future of this life. "The average wholesale price of flour during that year in the Philidel;ihia market was $18 a barrel. ? The average price of wheat in Eng- i land was 93 shillings a quarter." < " STRUCK BY CYCLONE HIGH WINDS IK) MICH DAMAGE IN AUGUSTA. GA. Street* Were Illocked With Trees and Wires and the City Was in Total Darkness. A dispatch from Augusta says that the entire city has been in darkness since 10.13, every street is congested with uprooted trees and disabled wires; every telephone is out and trolleys are disabhed, as a result of a cyclone lasting about eighteen minutes Thursday night. Bo far no fatalities have been reported, but half a dozen or more residences have been more or lest wrecked, and two or three warehouses blown down. The Casino building, at Lake Viewwhere a night performance was jusl concluding, was completely wrecked but the audience escaped uuiujured Every night enterprise depending on electric power is tied up, and all business uouses and residences using current are in darkness. The entire fire alarm system it disabled. The cyclone passed over into South Carolina touching Aiken, Orangeburg and other places. HEATS TIIK HECORD. Englishman Flies Across English Channel and Hack. A Dover, England, dispatch says the Hon. Charier Stewart Roll J. captain in the London section of the army motor reserve, driving a Wright biplane, vindicated Anglo-Saxon aeronautics by crossing the English channel twice Wednesday evening without alighting. He made the round trip between Dover and Calais in ninetv minutes ."While two Frenchmen, Louis Bleriot and Count de Lesseps, have crossed the channel in an aeroplane, it remained for an Englishman, in an American machine, to perform the double feat. The distance across between the two points named is 21 miles, so that ills over water flight of 4 2 miles without a stop establishes a new record. Capt. Rolls left Dover at 6.30 o'clock. The atmospheric conditions were excellent. He lost no time in manoeuvres, but after describing a circle, headed toward the coast of France. In anticipation of the flight, torpedo boats steamed at full speed across the Straits, but the pace of the aeroplane was swifter. SMOKE CREATES PANIC. In the Subway Five Hundred Feet Beneath the Street. Five hundred hysterical women, screaming children and panic-stricken men fought their way through a dense smoke in the Mott avenue subway station in the Bronx, New York city, early Thursday, striving to escape. Only one elevator was available to take them to the street, which is 65 feet above the subway level at this point, and the crush to reach this exit or the five flights of stairs which led to the surface Increased the panic. Fifteen persons were overcome by smoke and two men were injured seriously enough to require hospital treatment. Fire in an automatic pumping station caused the smoke. The damage was nominal. AUTO BURST INTO FLAMKS. Valuable Car of Lancaster Man Destroyed by Fire. At Lancaster the automobile of Mr. Chas. B. Skipper was practically des^oyed by fire Thursday afternoon. Mr." Skipper had just lighted the pilot light when flames burst from beneath the car. He had present;? of,mind enough to push the car out of his carage, which was very close to his home, and turn a stream of water on the car from the yaru hose. Otherwise, it is probable that his home would have been destroyed. The car is covered by insurance. This is the second automobile that has been destroyed by fire at Lai caster in the past six months Itequisition Ri'fused. Governor Ansel Tuesday issued bis decision on Governor Patterson's requisition for Shop Pearlstine of Denmark, indicted in Charleston, Tenn., for embezzlement, refusing requisition and stating t.he legal ground at length. A few months ago Givernor Patterson of Tennessee disallowed Governor Ansel's requisition of C. J. Hebert, wanted for trial here in connection with the Seminole swindle. Shot Self and Wife. At Jefferson, Ind., with the words "I don't believe you lovo me any more," William Boatman, a former employe of the American Car and Foundry company, walked up to his wife and shot her three times andthen killed himself. Snow In Pittsburg. At Pittsburg. Pa., snow fell Tuesday. The temperature was 29 degrees, the cold* st May 31 In the re:ords of the local weather bureau. CHURCH GROWTH Larger in Proportion Than the Increase in the Population. INCREASE VERY GREAT , There Are Many More Women Than % Men Included.?In the Larger 1 Cities Catholics More Than IK>uble Protestants, but the Latter Is Said to be Greatly Understated. Church growth in the United > States has been greater than the it crease in population between the years 1900 and 1906, according to , the special census report on the cen: sub of religious bodies for 1906. In , the principle cities of the country. . the growth both in the nunibtr of ; religious organizations and commuuI Ities was greater in the years meu tioned than the increase in population, while in the area outside the i principle cities to the rate of in crease in the number of new chur, ches established was approximately the same as the rate of population increase, although in the number of communicants the increase in the outside area, as in the cities, was i In excess of that in population. Out of every 1.000 people in the 160 principle cities of the country? that is, those which had a population of more than 25,000?there were 4 69 church members while for the area outside these cities there were 3 64, and for the entire country there were 391. As compared to 1890 the report shows a gain of ninety communicants in each 1,000 of population for the principal cities and a gain of fifty-one outBide of them. Female members in 1906 outnumbered the male members by 3 2 per cent in continental United States, while in the principle cities the excess of female members was proportionately less, being 960,526, or 23.5 per cent. The aggregate number of 32,936,4 45 communicants or members of all religious denomination in continental United States was reported. Of this grand total the various Protestant bodies reported 20,287,743, and the Roman Catholic Church 12,era i A > V I & , X 1 ?- . For purposes of comparison the census authorities divided the principal cities into four classes, those having in 1900 a population of 300.000 and over, constituting the first class; those of from 100,000 to 300,000 forming the second; those of from 50,000 to 10,000 making the Uiird; those of from 25,000 to 50.000 forming the fourth class. Of the protestant aggregate there were 1,478,145 or 7.3 per cent, in the first class cities; 4.7 per cent in the second; and 7.4 per cent, in the third and fourth classes combined, while 80.6 per cent, were outside the principal cities. Of the Roman Catholic Church's total membership there was 3,375,453 or 27.9 per cent in first class cities; 1,361,132 or 11.3 per cent in the second class; 1.570,944, or 13 per cent in the third and fourth classes combined, with 5,771,613 or 4 8.8 per cent, outside the principal cities. It is seen, therefore, that the number of members of the Roman Catholic Church reported in cities of the first was considerably more than double the number reported by all the Protestant bodies, while outside of the principal cities the number renorted liv the f'nthn11i>c U'OO nnlu o little over one third of the number credited to the Protestants. It is' pointed out in the report that the strength of the Protestant bodies, as compared with the Roman Catholic Church, is greatly understated. Only two of the Protestant bodies reported a majority of their membership in the principal cities, i. e., the Church of Christ, Scientist, 82.6 per cent., and the Protestant Episcopal Church 51.2 per cent; while of the membership of the Jewish congregations, 88.7 per cent are in the principal cities, and of the Eastern Orthodox churches 70.7 per cent. Of the total number of communicants or members reported for the principal cities by all denominations, 6,307,529 or 60 per cent, belonged to the cities showing the largest proportions of Protestant communicants are Memphis, 84.4 per cent; Toledo, 70 per cent; Kansas City, Mo., 66.2 per cent, and Indianapolis, 62.1 per cent. The cities showing the largest percentages of Roman Catholic cdlnmunlcants are Fall River, 86.5 per cent; San Francisco, 81.1 per cent; Maw. Orlniinu 70 7 nne ??? ? York, 76.9 per cent; Providence, 76.5 per cent; St. Louis, 69 per cent; Chicago, 68.2 per cent., and Philadelphia, 51.8 per cent. In the five leading cities the proportion of communicants to population was: New York. 44.7 per cent: Chicago, 40.7; Philadelphia, 3 8.8; Boston, 62.6, and St. Louis, 46.6 per cent. It is stated that, In ' general, cities which have a relatively large Roman Catholic population show a hither percentage of church members than cities in which this body has a comparatively small representation. In Fall River 86.5 per cent of the total number of members reported were Roman Cath- ' KTjT"."' i*"/" \ I FIRES INTO TRAIN SOME VANDAL CAME VERY NEA KILLING YOl'NG LADY. Who Wait a Passenger on the Tra and Near Whom the Bullet H Window. The Augusta Chronicle 6ays Mi Sally Morgan, a resident of Turp Hill, Augusta, Ga., had a close ai narrow escape from instant dea while returning to Augusta Tuesdi nlsht as a passenger on the C. v?. v,. rauroaa, wnen, just as tl train passed the aqueduct near tl Sibbley mill, a pistol bullet crash* t-hrough the window next to whe she was sitting, barely missing h head. The shot came so unexpectcdl the young lady fainted, and it tot the kind assistance of the other pa sengers in the coach, with the a of ice water and handkerchiefs, revive her. Every attention w shown her, but it was sometime b fore she regained complete conBciou ness. At the time the pistol was fire Miss Morgan was resting her elbo on the window sill, and she say owing to the glare of the elctr light she could not tell with ai degree of certainty from which dire tion the bullet came, but thinks was fired from the canal bank. SJ says further, in locating the spo that the shot was fired near whei the Clark assassination took plat sometime ago. "It scared me to death," she sa; at her .home, "and it is a wondt that I am not a total nervous wrecl 1 never was so prostrated in a my life. I am unnerved right no and will never forget the incidei as long as I live. "This is not the first time th; 1 have met with such an occurrenc and the last .happened on the san road, too. At that time some 01 hurled a large stone through tl window glass, just missing me. seems as if the fates are pursuing n: and I feel wary of riding on tl trains in the future." It is believed that the bullet wj fired at close range, as it cut a even .hole through the glass, leavir weblike crevices. It is probable thj had it been fired from a long distant it would have completely shattert the glass. Even as it was. thoug particles of the glass lodged 011 tl trimmings of the young lady's ha She has bits of it as a souvenir ( the narrow and most unfortunate currence. MANY WOK KM UN KILLED. Fatal Explosion in I'tab (Vmei Works Near Option. Twenty-flve workmen were killc in an explosion Wednesday in a qua ry of the Union Portland Cemei Works at Devil's Slide, Utah, thir miles east of Ogden. The explosion blew down the te egraidt and telephone poles and con munication with the scene of tl accident was limited to a brief me sage sent out by a courier from Mo gan, Utah, soon after the disaster. Most of the killed are Japanei and Greeks, who made up the quari gang of 70 to 100 men. The injure are reported to number nearly score. The victims were blown to piece On the hillside overlooking U scene, portions of arms and liml were picked up. Some of the bodit were blown a hundred yards. A premature explosion in a tui nel in the hill above the cemei plant was the direct cause of the e: plosion below. More than tiiirt kegs of powder were stored net where the men were working. BURIAL OF JAMFS DAHWI.V. I tod y of Man Shot in Texas Laid 1 Best at Home. The body of James Darwin, wh formerly lived at Woodruff, was ca neu mere ior interment 1 ucsua Mr. Darwin was shot from ambus several days ago in Texas by a Me: ican. Mr. Darwin was the son < Mrs. H. A. Darwin and is the thlr &hild whom she has buried with! the last fifteen months. From whi can be learned it seems that Da win was shot as he was going 1 his work. He was an oil inspectt for a large oil manufacturing con pany in Texas. His mother an other relatives were present at tl burial. He was married last yei and his widow came on with U. body. Ragles Attack SoooHroy. Homeward bound from school, Ii Cottlngham was attacked by two hui gry eagles near Kansas City, Kai He will carry the mirks of the talons to his grave, though he mai aged to beat the birds off with club. olles and the church membership rej resented 67.8 per cent of the poj ulation, while in Memphis, whei 84.4 per chnt of the communleanl reported belonged to Protestar bodies, the church membershl was only 30 per cent, of the popuh tlon. " 0?EN IN JUNE R The Itinerary of the State Candidates Will Be :in Now Soon. * WILL LAST TWO MONTHS S8 in ^lN>n'nK Meeting Will He Hold at Sumter and Closing Meeting at th ay Newberry.?Ilroak in Schedule Account Ked Shirt Men and Reunion ae le of Veterans. 3d re The itinerary for state campaign er Ibis summer was made public Mon " uaj auciuwun oy lipn. wine Jones, y, of Columbia, chairman of the execjk utive committee and member of the is- special sub-commitfe?\ named by the id executive committee to prepare the to dates for the campaign speeches. The as campaign begins June 22, and will e- end August 27. The opening town b- Is Sumter and the campaigners end in Newberry, d. The Itinerary, iw Sumter. Wednesday, June 22. r, iRishopville, Thursday, June 23. ic Darlington, Friday, June 24. iy Bennettsville, Saturday, June 25. c- Chesterfield, Monday, June 27 it Camden. Tuesday, June 2 8. ie Lancaster, Wednesday, Jute 29. it, Chester. Thursday, June .30. re Yorkville. Friday, July 1. Winnsboro, Saturday, July 2. Dexington. Wednesday, July C. id Saluda, Thursday, July 7. ;r Edgefield, Friday, July 8. k. Aiken, Saturday, July 9. 11 Bamberg, Monday, July 11. w Barnwell, Tuesday, July 12. it Hampton, Wednesday, July 13. Beaufort, Thursday. July 14. it Walterboro, Friday. July 15. e, Charleston, Saturday. July 16. ie St. George, Tuesday. July 19. ie Orangeburg. Wednesday, July 20. ie St. Matthews, Thursday, July 21. It Manning. Friday, July 22. ie Monck's Corner. Tuesday, July 2 6. ie Georgetown. Wednesday, July 27. Klngstree. Friday, July 29. is Florence, Saturday, July 30. in Dillon. Tuesday, August 2. Lg Marion. Wednesday, August 3. it Conway. Thursday, August 4. Columbia. Saturday, August 6. >il Union, Monday, August 8. h. Spartanburg, Tuesday, August 9. ie GatTnev. Wednesday, August 10. t. Greenville. Thursday. August 11. r,f Pickens. Friday, August 12. c_ Walhalla, Saturday, August 13. Week off to attend reunion of Confederates and red shirts at Spartanburg if desired on August 17 and 18. Anderson, Monday, August 22. Abbeville. Wednesday, August 24. s? "t f ma ? T?- " U.v i.nuuu, limrsaay, August 25. Laurens, Friday, August 26. Newberry, Saturday, August 27. jd The Rod Shirts. r. It will be observed from the above |lt itinerary that the sub-committee has made a break from August 12 to August 2 2, at the request of Mr J. C. Stribling. commander-in-chief of >1- the Red Shirt Men of 1876, bi ora der that the candidates may attend le the reunion of the Red Shirt Men s- * t;d old Confederate soldiers at Sparr tannurg eg the 17th ?ud 18th of August. se After the meeting at Manning on y July 22, the candidates may attend d a great gathering of the surrounding a counties nt Olanta, Florence Countv. on July 22. T his break in th'' scheds. ule was made at the request i>f a ie member of the State executive cora)g mittee. Olanta may be reach? i by ?s t~ain most conveniently from .wanel ng. i- Ti.e last day for paying t:*teasit ments and filing pledg s will ho June 21, 12 M. The assessment for y candidates for Governor is $75: for ir other State offices $5 0; for Congress $125. NEW HALLINGEK CHARGE. ^ Secretary Accused of Illegally lotting Contract. The last days session of the Ballinger investigation, before the Congressional committee, at Washington, I). C.. resulted in 36 grievances being filed against the Forest service j and the Interior department, 34 of the 36 being against the former. One of the complaints against the Intert ior department alleges an unjust decision by the Land office in a bometo stead claim, while the other charges that the contract 'et by Secretary Hallinger for the survey of the IdahoMontana boundary was without competition and therefore illegal, le POLITICAL SINN Kit It K CENTS te Tom Watson Announces ftotiirn to Democratic Party. ft a- The Hon. Thomas R. Watson, onro a. a Democratic member of Congress, ir twice nominated by the Populist para ty for th<- Presidency of the United a States, and who has long been one ? of the chief controlling factors in politics, as a Populist, in Georgia, an[> Bounces in a card, issued Tuesday, a- his rettirn to the Democratic party. *e His language is strong, forceful and (s leaves no doubt thnt hp has re?t turned to stay. Tie calls upon hia p long-time political friends to defeat i- Thomas W. llardwick for re-election to Congress. I