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VOLUME XV. CAMDEN, S. ()., FRIDAY. Al'Ulftt. mot. NO. VI. TUMOR IS ST11I C1BR Another Attempt On Port Arthur Tailed Signally JAPANESE MADE BOLD ATTACK Hie Russian Gun* Repelled (he War Vessels I ron) the FocU and Die Harbor Remain* Open. ^Ll:^hVy Cable? An official dispatch from port Arthur to tho Bm nior?iiJMlJX U!at ut 1 ?'cloc'k Monday r oil, i 1 tholUu88U* searchlights dis iilauTn ? rirn gt) merchant steamers mimmH ?r? 0 eut,ance to the harbor. H5 n y hlx torl>cdo boats. A e was ?l)fined on tflem by the batteries and some warships. v.v i'!' l?' ',ua^ Stllnl, commanded IiiopVi, lt.enaut Krinizkl, turned* the merchant vessels from their course by ihonUi i"f th? prow of the and en boldly attacked the enemy's tor pedo boat* in tbo fierco fight which fhl hmi ? Engineer Swyereff, of on i A ' an(1 slx marines were killed and the commander and twelve men were wounded. The Japanese plan to block the en- 1 tance to Port Arthur was frustrated, oowover and tho channel is still clear ViC;e Adinira' Makaroff, command-' * i Russian naval forces at Fort Arthur, has Bent the following tele gram to the Kmperor: o mos^ 'nimbly to report that at i o clock this morning the enemy made a necond attempt to block the entrance to the inner roadstead. For tnis purpose they dispatched four laige merchant steamers, convoyed by six torpedo boats to the entrance. Tne enemy's ships wefe promptly discov-l ered^jby the searchlights and were bombarded by the batteries and by the guardshlps. Fearing the enemy's P8. mi?ht break through Lieut. Krinlzlcl, commanding the guard tor pedo boat Stilni, attacked the enemy nnd destroyed the bow of the foremost Japanese steamer with a torpedo. Tills steamer turned to the right and was followed by two others, with tho result that the tllVCo Wele stranded iu the"" right of the entrance. A fourth steam er w-ent to the right of tho enemy's Hhips and likewise sank to the side of the fairway. The Stilni then bat tled with the enemy's six torpedo boats. Engineer Artificer SweyerefT and six seamen were killed and tho commander and twelve seamen were wounded. At daybreak the enemy's battcship and cruiser ^squad^ons ap peared ,und 1 proceeded with the fleet under my charge to meet the enemy. Tho second attempt of the Japanese to block the entrance to Fort Arthur has failed, thanks to the energetic de fence by the sea and land forces, who acted as they did during tho first at tempt. Tlie hnrttbr remains perfectly clear," < Tbo following official dispatch has been received from Gen. Smirnoff: 1 "Port Arthur, March 27. ? Last night, after moon-rise, the Japanese attempted to block the entrance to the harbor. Four fire ships were sent to ward theport convoyed by a torpedo flotilla. Toward 2: 15 ft. m. the ap proach of the enemy's ships were per ceived b/ thd,guardshli>s and batteries which simultaneously opened upon them heavily, The fire Bhips were preceded by torpedo boats, followed at a considerable distance by larger whips, which opened on tho forts sup porting the action of the fire ships and the torpedo boats. Owing to the heaviness of our artillery lire and the boldness of* our torpedo boats, the fir? ships did not reach tbo entrance to tho harbor. Two of them grounded on a reef under Golden Hill, another sank behind the first turn of land, struck by a torpedo from one of our l?oats,. and tho fourth sank, its bows touching a Japanese steamer sunk In the previous attempt off Majatchnaja Gorda. The entrance to the harbor r(^| mains fclear, "A HotchKlea one-inch calibre quick firer was found aboard one of tho sunken steamers from which a fire had been kept on our torpedo boats. A boat left each of- the sunken ships, carrying their crews. One of these Is believed to have been picked up. To ward 4 oc'lock a. m. the enemy's tor pedo boats retired and the bombard- 1 Preached on Mars Hill. Athens, By Cable.? Rev. John Potts, ?i Toronto, Ontario, preached on tbo Hill of Mars Suftlay to the delegates to TJi?-Worta*s~STrn day srhdoFcon ven Mon. The ministers and delegates repeated Bt. Paul's, address -to the Athenians. All the members of the party from the United States are well and will proceed to Jerusalem, where the meet ing of the convention will be held. May I-*** Two Year*. Paris, Special.^? The Matin's Harbin correspondent1 says a rumor Is being circulated there the effect that the war will last two ycnis and that It will not really Lcjfin before September, the rains making July and August unfavor able for military operations. Despite -fib Inn 'a neutrality, the correspondent contlniii*. *~GeneraT Ma is advancing to M&ichurla. If thfa movement is combined vith the Japa nr's^' oft rations the Russians will be obliged to act against General Ma. who continues to move northward, although the Pekin government, it Is under stood. has orderodfhim to retire." Rumor Unfounded. Tien Tsin, By Cable.? It is learned updn reliable official authority that , tho rumors of disaffection and mutiny nmongut the Chinese Imperial troops on the border, which have been cur -luut (for aav?ral dayl, are absolutely wnXou nrfed. Col. Mueatha, of Viceroy Yuan Chi Kal's staff. who waa sect to Port ArHnrr tea dajra ago to remove Che Cblneee from that city, returned to T**rW? , Saturday, having aatia X terminated bis refuga ?ta~ rncnt ceased. Vice Admiral Makaroff at onto proceeded in a steam launch U> inspect the enemy's sunken steam ofh. The enemy's torpedo lioats re appeared at 5 o'clock this morning. They were lighted south of Port Ar thur, and the batteries re-opened on them. Toward G o'clock the enemy's squadron appeared on the horizon, and ours steamed out to meet It. At fi:30 the batteries opened lire. The ship's batteries soon ceased, the Japanese drawing off to the southeast, evidently declining* f\n engagement. At 10 o'clock they disappeared below the horizon." . r ? A further telegram to the Emperor from Vice Admiral Makaroff says: "I respectfully report that the eno my having withdrawn I returned to the harbor with the fleet, "The torpedo boat destroyer 8tilnl, which stranded on the reef in conse quence of damage caused to her en gines by one of the enemy's shells, was floated during the course of the night and entered tho harbor, thanks to the energies of her crew. Her com mander, Lieut. Krlnizki. who was slightly wounded lu the arm, did not quit his post. "On tho flreships were infernal ma chines, the wires connecting with which were cut by Lieut. Kedroff and Ensign Pllsoudsky of the Irregulars whom I dispatched on the tack. They boarded one of the steamers as soon as It stopped, cut tho electric wire and extinguished the fire which would have lit up the entrance of the harbor to tho enemy in the roadstead. "In the morning a floating mine was found bearing an infernal machine, but the latter was successfully remov ed. "The inspection made showed that the steamers utilized as fire ships were not old. They were each of about 2.000 tons and they were armed with light calibre guns." Tho Japanese practically repeated the tactics of February 24, by sending in four fire ships, preceded by a tor pedo boat flotilla, with the exception that the lire ships this time were arm ed with Ilotchkiss guns for the pur pose of keeping off the Russian tor pedo boat destroyers.? The enemy's attempt was discover ed by means of tho shorn searchlights and a heavy flre was opened from tho batteries and f/o m two gunboata# which were guarding the entran?? to the habor. The Russian torpedo beat destroyer Stiini was outside on scout ing duty, and to the dash and nerve oi' hor commander, Liput. Krinlzkl, is chiefly due the complete defeat of the plans of the Japanese. Ho at onco made straight for tho oncoming ships under a hail of flre from tho Ilotchkiss guns, and torpedoed tho leading sh'p, which sheered off, fol lowed by the others, threo of them being piled up on tho shore under uoiden Hill and one under tho light* house, Stllni then engagod the entiro fcjx torpddoa boats of the enemy, com ing out from a terrific fight, with sev en killed and her commander and twelve of her complement wounded, but on the Japanese side only one boat's crew were saved. In addition, according to unofficial reports, It- la believed that tho Japanese lost two torpedo boats. ?^ThoXjapanese cruisers which sup ported tlfjr attack exchanged shots with the batterioo and then drew off, after which Vice Admiral Makaroff took a steam launch and examined the firo ships. An hour later the Jap anese torpedo flotilla, followed by Vico Admiral Togo's iloet, sailed out to engago tho enemy, but after tho shi^a and batteries had fired a few long-distance shots, Vice Admiral To go dechied to declino the issue, and disappeared to the southward. Tho conviction continues to grow here that the Japanese may have con cluded that it would be inadvisablo to make a direct frontal attack on Manchuria from Korea against the whole Russian army, and that it will bo neoesary to land a flanking column in the Gulf of Llao Tung to divide the attention of the Russians, and if possible to seize the railroad and cut off Port Arthur. The groupd above New Chwang Is perfectly familiar to tho Japanese, who occupied it for a yoar during the Chino-Japanese war rirx. Davis III. Atlantic City, N. J., Special. ? Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of tho Presi dent of the Southern Confederacy, who came hero from New York after an Ill ness, was last night stricken at her hotel with an> attack of acute indiges tion. Through her remarkable vitality she rallied and no apprehension is now 'texpreesed for her rapid recovery. r Somebody Yelled Fire, New Haven, Conn., Special. ? A pan to occurred at the morning service In St. Michael's Italian church Sunday, in which almost a score of persons wore Injured. Four of tho most seriously ln jiued, two women and two children, .were taken to the Haven Hospital. Somo one in tho congregation shouted "Fire," during a prsyer, and lmmedl ately the worshipers arose and rushed for the door at the Tfar of the church, the only exit. The poilde and members of the church have made an investiga tion, but so reason far anyone giving an alarm of ftra has been discovered. B, ?' 1 1 -? ? 1 1 ? ' Cut tils Throat. Buchanan, Ga., Special. ? Immediate ly after telling hli twelve-year-old daughter to leave the room, S. 3. Bry ant killed himself at the house of 8. J? l*nd here Sunday by cutting bte throat from ear to ear with a razor he had just sharpened for the purpose, depression over bad health la the cause Assigned for the deed. His daughter is "the only child and his wife to 4tmL. ' ' . ' - ? " . i; u'?he $hvce 2W;mjs at ?hfist'a ?omb." (After the painting by o, Spangonborg.) LEGEND of the 1 EASTER LILY O flower lias beeu more hon ored in Hong ami story than the imperial lily. Itn purity and stately bearing have caiiml It to ltd. chasuu a.s the symbol of divinity and the bad go of kings. g 1 Although In this country > , we understand by the word *lily tliu lily of the valley, the stately eulla, or the wonderful barrixii, ol easter - lily, these are only tliree varieties of a very great family, members of whieli are found in all quarter* of.Jife earth. Kverywhere the lily lias been honored and held a sacred flower, whe"her bjVthe banks of the storied Nile "or (Tonnes, where, us the lotus, it received honors little short of those accorded to defty, or in heathen (Jreece, where It was conse crated to Juno, the f.potless yet Imper ious Queen of Olympus; or later hi Christian countries, where the flower was dedicated to the Virgin Mary. No great urtlst, when he painted the Holy Mother, over forgot to place near her the flower that was the symbol of her heavenly rank^ It Ik also In art the symbol of saints, martyrs and an gels. Tl?e Easter Illy U a native of the east. Those now cultivated lw. Bermu da, and popularly known as the Ber muda lily, were originally Imparted there from Japan for commercial pur poses. The Illy played an Important part la Chinese history J000 years ago. It happened that the Flowery King dom wan ruled by the Emperor Chow, a monarch universally feared and hat ed. No one could depend on his favor, and at last his best, friend, the Prime Minister, Li Chung, befcan to tremble for his life. ? * Knowing well the bloodthirsty na ture of tho Emperor, I>1 Chung devised a clever scheme to escape from his power. One day when he fancied that the Emperor was in a favorable mood, he beached the plan. It was tli(\t 100 of the strongest young men and 100 of the most beautiful maidens should be sent with him on board ship to an Isl and in the sea, which he said had been revealed to him in a dream by tho gods. There, for the welfare of China (and its condition could not have been much worse) these people were to be sacrificed to the delUeS for the benefit of their native country^ There was a sanguinary touch About the plan that particularly recommended it to the bloodthirsty mind of wicked old Chow, And he immediately gave Cheer ful assent to the project, even showed his interest by throwing in a royal prince and princess or two as special tidbits for the gory banquet of the god a. The ship in which Li Chung and his hundred young men and maidens sailed was the very finest that China afforded. The larder was filled, wit It dainties .and every provision was 'made that the victims sitoufira* Kept in nrsx class condition until the time for the sacrifice. The first torn torn mtftlcians in the kingdom were loaned for the voyage to charm tha ears .of the- pa*, seogers with sweet sounds. But in vain the artists tried their most pleas ing compositions; nobody wotold sing or dauce, whllectbe prevalence of red eyes indicated that a good deal of weeping was going on. When they were far from China, however, Li Chung took the passen gers Into his confidence. He had not Intended to kill them at all; instead they were going to the most beautiful. Ma lid In the world, wbefe thejr would sett lo and where they would live hap pily cvor after, far from the power of the wicked Chow. % This island win Japan, and here they did settle. But they bad brought wl{b them great quantltlet^of lily- bnlbs as food. Nobody bad been able to eat much on shipboard, and quantities of these bulbs were left over. Thar were planted, and to the balmy climate of . t Uio Flowery Kingdom they attained ? bounty unknown in China. Years later some Kuropenus. discov ering the beauty of this (lower, iin ported it into their own countries and called it the I. Ilium louuilloruiu. Hut as an American named Harris was practically the first to discover the flower and make It popular in two con tinents it is nyw called the Llllum liar .risil.? Kthel Knox. What's In an ogg? Every thing at this season, especially chickens. Itab bits, (lucks, bears, deer, pigs, elephants and other birds and beasts share the privilege, not to mention whole regi ments of tin soldiers. A little chick silting on a chair conies as low as ten cents. Another baby chicken sits on a nest of egps. Xo doubt it assists its mamma. Still another is blithely enjoying Itself In a swlrig. , A rabbit In a Mother Hubbard 1? very quaint. Other rabbits draw carfi and one climbs a pole. Another dwell* In a lettuce head. Coops and pens ih-e among "the lat est." and range from twenty-five cents to $1. They are fenced, with &?> gate*, and in some Instances with, A house, ?nd eontafn-ehlekens, sheep or bunnies. Eight cockatoos on a branch are new. Their Easter message Is obscure. A little quail made of real feathers Is to be had for a dime. Uncle Saw on a rabbit ft new. A lovely white eiderdown bunny At $1.50 has his ears lined with pink silk. 0?e of the new candy boxes shows a couple of stuffed kittens on the cover. .Every sort of animal figures In some v?of or other, and most of thero bavs a weakness for motoring. Cotton birds are very attractive. They are made from whlto cotton, with a'ltttle color laid on where necessary. Tho chicks, ducks and storks are very well done. You simply raise their wlflg to get* at the candy Inside. It's not a bad Idea to put a, Uuy bisque baby .under the stork's wing Instead of edible sweets. THE PENSION BOARD Acted Upon Atnny Appl'citioni cud kcjfcted a Number, Tho State Pension Hoard, nfter a four days' session, has adjourned, having disposed finally of nil pension matters before It. Tho HourJ issued the following statement last Satur day: "A great number of applications were disapproved on account, of the careless manner In which tho papers wore prepared by the pension com mlsptoneru and county hoards in cer ium counties, and t li ??I r being im properly filled out. hats resulted In tho dUupprovql of thosn who may huve boon meritorious and otherwise would have been approved by tho board Thin is particularly the cuse in the wounded classes, t he pity hU lam *\)f many of the hoards falling t<t give definite descriptions cf tho wounds and diseases of tho applicants. I'n less the applications are entirely and properly filled out, the State board c^nuot pass them, although they are In full sympathy with the needy Con-{ federate veteran and widow, who in many instances are the victims of this careless and Irregular work. "The clerk of tho State pension hoard bun boon Instructed to return al applications that may coma in from the various counties, a* they goner ally do up to the day of payment, as neither tho clerk nor the comptroller general, who is ex-ofllclo member of the board, nor any single member of the board, has any right to add these applications lo tho approved list. It Is earnestly hoped therefore that the pension department will not lip the recipient of the usual belated tjw'Pli CHtions and appeal:; for correct tons of errors on which' tho applicants were disapproved, for as btated above, (he work of the State pension board of 1904, with the exception of approv-( lug the payrolls for the clerks or the' court, is entirely /lushed." Si Is impossible to say when tho pension fund will be disbursed, or there is a largo amount of clerical work to be done before sending out tho money. Every energy will he used to pay It cut a little earlier than last year, which was tho 2Sth of April. , Owing to the Illness of Dr. P. B, (Jrifttn, physician rrf the board, l>r. William Weston, of tho Richland county board, acted as his substitute. The Summer School, A special front Columbia says: "On his return Saturday from a conference with President Johnson, at W'nthrop College, Hon. O. D. Mar tin, State superintendent of educa tion. announced that the date for tho opening of the summer school had been definitely finally and firmly fi*o?l for the 29th of June. This 1b the date which was fixed upon, but It was thought last week that this would have to be changed, as It wub deBired to paint tho buildings this summer, Inside and out. "As a result of Mr. Martin's confer* ence with Mr. Jolrnson, the latter has written Presldont Ogden, of the Con ference for Rducatio^ln the South-?? who Is to bring a party of 80 members of the Conference to Wlnthrop on the 22d of April on their way to the Birmingham convention ? urging him to have his special car stop over in Columbia. Mr. Ogdon had not ? ad vised what route the special would take, to Birmingham, and Mr. John son does not know whether the Inten tion is that the special will run down to Wlnthrop over the Southern from Charlotte and resume the main llue at Charlotte or Blacksburg, or wheth-* er It Is Jntendod to pass through Col umbia anyway. ' U Is possible- also that the train might come over the Seaboard, running up to Rock Hut via the Southern to Chester. In any event it U thought the jjarty t? m not be able to spare more>>than a co&plo of hours to Columbia, ft It Is to reach Birmingham In time. The Columbia Chamber of Commerce, which has extended the conference an Invitation to hold Its 1905 convention In Col umbia, will be represented at the Wlnthrop gathering. Ha* riany Candidate*. Walhalla, Special. ? In tho matte.* of early anouncement of candidates. Oconee seems to bo in the very front. Already tfoero aro.tw.Q out for the State Senate; two for nhorlfT, throe for county treasurer, and one for cor oner. There are many others to fol low. and the interest will not bo al lowed to wane till after th? second primary. Suelng For Back Taxes. The attorney general has been no tified that eight Charleston building and loan associations have entered suit against the Slate for back taxes paid In. Tho complaint has not yet been received .^bift It is thought rtiat the companies make the ground that their capital stock should not be lia ble to taxation. A bill to exempt this atock wan Introduced In the leg islature during the last fission, but. failed of passage, being klled in the Senate after some debate. The pom panlea entering suit are the 'Oak. Mercantile, Globe. Atlas, Wood Burn. Hibernian, Rqval ami Shamrock. They are represented by Mordecal and Gladsen. 5t?fe News. The Governor last week, upon rec ommendation, pardoned Zip Gist, of Spartanburg, convicted of larceny of live stock and sentenced to ono year. The negro ia 76 years old, and the sol icitor thought he had been punished enough. The sentence of Arthur Laodholt. convicted la Bambery county of man slaughter ^Ja 1900 and sentenced to four year*, wa a commuted to three years and three months, on the roc ommeedatloo of tho judge and solici tor. . --r,..--- . THE WFAltlElt CONDITIONS Report Olvcn Out l<y the Section ' D'rcctor. Section Director liauor's February report dealing with the progress of farin work ovor th<? Slain and giving tho climatology for tho month camo In lust week. Tho jo reports, which are made o-.it some two week* after I ho expiration of tho month, are pi luted in Italotgh and always get to Columbia Into, However, tho reports j always contain Borne facts of general ; Interest to those whoso business is affected |>y weather conditions. Tho February report sayj,: 1 ho month vva? colder ^tlian usual, with night temperatures below fret-K ing over tho western parts of tho State, most of the time, but It was wann enough Clearly every day to thaw the ground, ?This altornato thawing and froozing was detrimental .to winter/ grains on wet lands. In ?^k?o?tral and eastern counties thore w<iri??yw- ground freezes, and grains tWCr0^8L Injured by 'heaving.' Tho temper ffTTIro was generally too low for grain crops to make any growth, except along tho immediate coast! where a slight growth njudo an lit)' provement in the appearance of win ter oats and In truck, both of which are In good condition. Tho precipitation Was Hlightly be low normal, but. it wfin vcrv evenly distributed oyer the Stale, and the ground was kept moist/ by frequent rains, especially from tho sixth to th\ eleventh, and from the nine ti'OnUk to ?ho I went y-seeond. Kess g< merar >(niiH occurred on the first, tho f)ftft?nnb and tho twenty-seventh. A portion of the precipitation was in the form - of sleet, on the tenth and olevenih and ou the twonty-tlrst. and Home snow fell on these days, but not enough for tho protection of winter grains, as the snow generally molte:! an it fell. "Tho soil was kept in fairly good condition for ploughing In the east ei n parts of the State, where good progress was made In tho preparation of lands for spring planting, but it was generally too wet ovor the wob tern parts, whem Vf?ry lit to plough lug was accomplished, although about I he usual area, of uplanda was pre pared for early planting. Rome gard ening was done, but. tho temperature uniformly too low for the favora ble germination of sepd*. f "A large ucrmgo offspring oats was sown during the month, and somo fields of oatu that wore winter-killed were re-sown. Tobajjco boAf wero burnt over and se&ied, but leas at tention was given -to this work than during the last few years. Pcaoh and plum trees began to bloom in tho extreme southeastern counties by tho end of tho month. &ome pooch buds wore killed by the sleet and Ice of the elovonth, but tVo ex tent of the damage was apparently "light and limited to early blooming vrieties. Fruit trees were backward, and buds showed no perceptible swelling in tho central and woatern counties. "Temporatur??The mean tempera ture for February, 1904, was 45.2 de grees, whlah lfl g.g dvgrnes hflltW nnr. mal. The highest local mean was r.0.8 dogroos at Beaufort, the lowest 37.6 degrees at Oroenvlllo. The high est maximum was 86, degrees at Flor ence on the 7th, the lowest minimum was 15 degrees at Clemson College on the 2d, making the State range 71 degree*. The greatest local monthly range was 66 degrees at Clemson Col lege, tho |east was 48 degree* .'at Charleston and Wlnnsboro. Tho mean of the daity^axiinunj toiupem tures was 54.7 degrees, of the dally minimum temperatures 8B.6 degrees, making tho average daily-range 19.1 degrees. "Precipitation, in Inches? The av erage precipitation was 3.59 inches, which is 0,91 below normal. The greatest local x amount was 6.36 at Walterboro, thfc least was 1.95 aP'Al lendale. The greatest 24 hour f&U was 2.11 Inches at Beaufort on the 9th. The average number of days with 0.01, or moro, precipitation, was 9, ranging from 3 at Allendale and Florence to 18 at Camden, Cheraw, (2) and Newberry. IOxcessive precip- i itation, none. * J Famous Cane Moved Again. The new famous case of the State vs, R. W. McThtniel has been remanded to the circuit court of Lexington county for u new trial. The case has now be come very wglFltiiown In "South Card Una and the opinion of tho Supremo Court 1* quite Interesting in this eon ncctlon. McDfnlel killed Lee Neece, th? town mnrqfcal of Swansea, Christ mas eve, 1002, and was tried for his life in January, 1909, before Judge Klugh. The ji)ry found McDaniel guil ty cf murder, "with, however, a recom mendation to mercy. The sentence Im posed was life imprisonment. The defendant appealed to the Supreme Cou?t and pending the apepat applied to the Supreme Court for leave to move in the Circuit Court for a new trial on tho ground of after-discovered nvl? dence. This application failed by rea son of -an eqnal division of opinion among the four juftices of the 8upreme Court? though no formal opinion was delivered so as to show how the Jus tices stood on th* question. The appeal was then heard in the Supreme Court and the sentence was affirmed? Mr. Justice Jones delivering the opinion and all the] other justices concurring. Judge Rraest Gary S at In Place of Justice Eugene Gary, who was 111 gt the time. Thereupon the prisoner through hH counsel moved for a re-hearlng In the Supreme Court, on the ground that the court had overlooked an Important i principle of the lav. to the defendant's disadvantage. After d?a deliberation the court granted tjie re-heartng. - The case cam* up again at the last November term of the Supreme Court, aad ws? then folly argued? with the granted. ' w c <?! I II PALMETTO POINTS GIVEN IN BRIEF Strongly 5u?pectc<f. Greenwood, BpecUl-?- 8h?riff Mc* Caslan returned to the city recently with ?. negro, M, Mathis, who 1b strong ly suspected of murdering another no Kro, FVaser Qoode, on Sunday night. The murder was 'commtKed on Tom Chatham's place njid by /ireatia of a blunt instrument used aH a bludgeon, tho assailant striking the negro without warning as he waa going along a lonely path from tho home of a girl he was "court lu* " (O hia own home. Tho negro who .waa killed had carried for years in hia pockethook an old Confederate ftvo dollar bill and a one cent yleee for luck. A hill of thla kind and a ono cent pleco wan found on tho person of the supposed murderer. Until tho shbriff went dowHy there had been no clue on which to work, tho coroner'# Jury having failed to find anything. The circumstantial evidence againat Mathis Is very strong. ^ A h^avy Docket. ' The buaines sof the Houth Carolina supreme .court Is steadily increasing Clork Brooks estimates that in the' ten years of his employment / with tho court the business has increased by a third. When he took charge In 1894 there were 71 cases heard at the first terra. Tho Indications are that 13& to 140 cases will ho docketed for tho. spring term beginning the 19th of next month. Already 'J ft cases havo been docketed for the coming term. Of the 100 otsvfl docketed for tho No? veinber tei'ni about 90 were heard. The South Carolina supreme court has tho reputation of being th& most prompt in the United States in hear ing and disposing of cases. The Ne braska court Is llvo years behind and the Florida court" ia 'three years b$? hind. f All Acts Signed. Gov. ITeyward has completed the - work of signing tho acts passed at thu. recent seKalon of the legislature. The ,.work UkMt some time as the hill* must he, of course, carefully read. The only I njy tfjuo Ifl which the chief exe* <!utivo exercised his veto was that oT tho "exclusive Jurisdiction" act. He slao put nls veto *>U..the hill , to pro hibit expatriation, in otiior words to provent a- ?onvict?"from being pardnn cd upon his promise to leave the State. - The bill was killed by the Senate, but became engrossed as ?n a?*t ^nd would have become a law, but 'th^i^klenate requeBted tho governor to *vto the act. Palmetto Brief#. Trouble is brewing aboul'tho school at Campobello. There la friction or diKagrecment b'ulTre?m th? malcprln- ~ cipal and the trustbes. It appears that \ Ja?t Saturday^* trustees, having re ceived Ip/orma&on that tho principal had been ewearfog and drinking, told htm that they would no longer u&ftl him in connection with the . school. He was at hli post Monday* and aftev again told him to discontinue teach* log there; and the school la without * principal. The teacher denies the charges and u petition for hia rein ^statement-is being circulated, ? ; "" ?' " P. D. Havird, of Saluda, the young white man who appealed to Governor Hoyward ft few weeks eince for pro tection, ftnd who mailed the Governor some notices of a threatening .nature found ported on hia premises, was . shot twice Saturday morning, by John Yarhrough. a white man living on his piace. It is said that the shooting". ; had nothing io do with the threatening 1 noiko. .The. trouble la the oulmluaUdn ! of a personal difference between Hvirri ; and Yorb rough growing out of some dispute relating tonhelr contract for this year. . ' " - ? - ? ? ? ? ? ' ? The town of Union was shocked Monday morning t/o hear of the , death of States Ri Crawford; presi* - dent of the People's Supply Co,, of that place, who died the night before as the result of blood poisoning caused by a carbuncle. Mr, Crawford went to - Atlanta last Mondfcy in hi* visual health; on Wsdnssday he felt a car buncle coming and returned on Thurs* day night, when hs went, to bed. Blood poisoning at otice set in and afffer suf fering intensely Mr. Crawford passed away at 10:30 ofelock. The police of Charleston were un usually busy Saturday nlgnt and Sun day and tbe harsh clang of the patrol wagon gong could lie heard" irf? the otreets at all hours of the night and day. Only one fatality resulted from the revels -of ? the merry-makers, and ? (his slaying took place outside the city limits. Frank Jenkins, colored, war1 shot and killed by' Sclplo Jenkins, col ored, in Lawton's lane, near the naval station. Sclplo escaped and had ftctf been captured at a late hour Sunday night. Ed Lucas, colored, who na# been conducting a small reatenrant in Datl llngton, waa drowned Monday night hi Pee Dee river, at the "Barn planta tion,"* near 8oclety HllL. Robert Wileon, colored, ? was shot and' fatally wounded at Lumber by Robert Register, also-coloredv - Regis ? ter was arrested by Deputy R. 6. Par noil and lodged in Jail at Darlington, further than this no particulars have been learned. Th? vain* ofyat broad property in? the fltate is how thirty million dollars. Valuable tin deposits have been dis covered near Gaffney. In Cherokee coqnty. ? The Secretary of State Tuesday ehar terfa th? Sulntliervme Rftfdwnod com pany of Sumraerrllle. having- ar.ci of $5,000/ R. Jfc cuthbert an* W. N, Richard son treasurer. - .. w v Three. conflajcraUooain- the buslnese the record thattSat town has esUJ^' llshed. The third and moat occurred 6atwrd*y Morning, j stores were tmrned. The tr*< In (fie store of It; SMMBMsA 1 gained -sochT any of the hell Sk for m