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VOL XX. »» BARNWELL SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. APRIL 8. 1807. BILL ARP SAKS COTION IS STILL KING. HOW IT SPUN. FIRST HU Mother Used to Pick Seed from the Lint—The Advent of the Cotton ■ y. Gin, the Spinning Jenny and tho Power Loom—A Revolution in Commerce and Manufactures. “ Cotton is king ! TT I don’t know who Drat said that, Out it is a Tact. It is the most useful and most important product in tne world and has the most influence on its commerce. 1 was ru minating about this because of some letters of inquiry that from time to time I have received concerning cot ton. The last one from an old friend, Colonel Saxon, says he cannot learn from the department at Wasbington when cotton cloth was first imported to this country. And so I will venture a few remarks on this subject IS general, for it is full of remarSaMa facts and illustrates the kindness of providence to HU crea tures. Providence U always kind aad wbeaever we eued aevtbiag He ea- tooks another dour of Hie trueeary aad says hues It U. Tnerr ts ao doubt at all that thu oottua piaat was created-lathe brglalac. and D| mtm9 ^ ^ alia adasige lor the see aad hen*fitgt ^ ■ •aaklad waua itehoeM he aeawed As 1 _ lf ^ oaato aad a r* mm 22 ft aad fVas pread *“ rear hand red ■ thu Chrwtiaa aW«t tt us a p Bamuel and John Slater, who had worked for Arkwright in England for seven years, saw large money on this side the water. They came and brought with them a full knowledge of all three of the inventions and how to use them and how to fthild a factory. Of course they met with a warm re ception, and in 1800 they erected a mill and planted a town and named it Slaterville. They soon made a fortune. When John died he left his millions to his son and when John, Jr., got ready to die he bequeathed a million to pur Dr. Haygood in trust for the education of the negroes of the Souths It was a gift fit to be made, for the fathers and mothers of these negroes grew the cotton that made the Slaters rich. The Slaters not only spun their yarns, but wove them, and the cloth was ca'led homespun, because it was woven at home and not brought from Eng land. - « Bnt, although cotton was nofr king commercially, it was ranked socially by other fabrics. It was not so beau tiful as silk nor so strong as flax nor to warm as wool, and hence for years it was woven only Into the com mon fabric for the common people The callous that were imported (rum Calicut In Turkey were spun with a distaff aad woven la the oid-tashloeed hand loom Tbs aaakeen cloth that earn* from Naekla la China was made by a simitar process . I remember that j my father, vrhe erne a merchant. I mght si-m* of that eaekeea ohea I 1 ads ms a s round jer set out of - yut-ow, It) ~~~ um e<* jsI »!»•*•• thu teur *** | fahrlea aaah se masflas and lava*, euru made ef settee lu l*l« a me 1 * ’ * * see iu««uSsU uf e d# s *, ae*aru taa* a staple peead as s-. ~ i -i ug§ m 1 v% h«a W dmes km the # <■• * 9 ^ fadkj GREAT F1000 IN THE IBSKIPPI RIVER. THRRATKNRD OVERFLOW OF TOWNS AND CITIES. Previous are Broken— Destruction, Suffering and Death in the Flooded Districts—Historic Spots in Danger of Being Swept Away. New Orleans, La., March 30.—In next few days the greater part of the Yazoo Delta, the fertile lands along the Mississippi, and containing a population of 150,000 persons, will be under water after the most desperate fight ever made against the ^mighty river. Th^ Yazoo Delta levees were supposed to be the strongest and best in the river, having resisted numerous floods. For the past few weeks 10,000 men have been at work on them. The Bute of Mississippi lent the people all U>b assistance in ita'power, and tent the penitentiary convicts to the Isvees to help hold them, and the Illinois Cen tral and other railroads gave their aid ay It Id be 1 l/ reported higher than ever before known from Memphis to Vicksburg. Jackson, Miss., April 1.—A dispatch from Greenville says : Reports come hourly from all points In the flooded districts show the situa tion is rapidly growing worse. There are now some 25 towns and villages more or less overflowed. Greenville will get considerable wa ter, perhaps not as much as in 1890, perhaps more. It is ail a matter of conjecture. The bottom lands are full of water from rains before the breaks occurred. ' —^— The city is now an island, sitqsted in a wilderness of water, whiob surrutuula it on every side. As yet the water Is not in sight of the town, but is at the Blanton gin, half a mile north, and at the Montgomery place two miles south. Black baybu, .Williams' bayou, Deer creek and Fish lake are all out of their banks. A meeting of the city council is being held at this writing at the mayor's office to take the necessary steps to ward the safety of the people, and for •uch relief as can be afforded tot the flood sufferers. CONSTABLES TO BE TKIKD. Thu Mull* waft* m I mm ilM C I** & m ~ bullsved that evues could be held, hut 00 Sunday ibs first break occurred at Dsurfl-ld piaatut ou, seven mtlne below Gruen- vtlln YmV-rdny fottownd n sneond break at Porttouiru. La*t night aad U>day two more nr* aaar-y opposite Amaasae City at Mound aad su-p • Loading Thee* rrsvasnun am aow earn I ’ from I uu) to LOUti fewt wtdw, aud pour | *** eg a slrrnm near 1 ns iargn ns the | ** 4 *** Medaea lain ester from the throe rrovueeee have Mi mm me mm* $ m " wswiteg kas— »‘«er» t he lahaMtaans sro __ haew Ce Me *** eg aad a nr* a Them Sir V»*i»- <| ■ t M<S M 1U-1) Agnlaet la Sul ring | Will N<ro oe Tried. Judge Sir >atoa bn* filnd a decision la lbs Unto <1 State* Ctrmtt Court, la ublck be he* refused the motion made Aseietaa' Altwney Guaural Toun to eel ee.de the ardor 0/ arvsnt •Ha* * amntaMlus charged «d that Jadgu Mmeaiev ter ter the err vet of Cav- r an Isi v i ******* h*'w** aad Harliag hm awtstag JOHN WILKES BOOIH A COIIOH ASSASSIN NO HEROISM IN HIS DEED Henry Watlernon Talks with In terest Abont the Hlayer of Lincoln —HeHau No Donbt that Booth Was Killed. Smith Clayton in Atlanta Journal Talking with Mr. Henry Wntter- son the othgr day, I put this question to him : ''Do you think thaVTn tbe doming generation the descendants of the men who now execrate the memory of Abraham Lincoln will look upon John Wilkes Booth as a Brutus?” “ Never," said he, “ there was noth ing of the Brutus about Booth. He was a strolling player, who became worked up the Lord only knows why, and brooded over matter* until in a moment of desperation he killed Lin coln.” “ Booth," continued he. “ was noth- ing but n common assassin. He be longs to tbn class of assassins, to which Hntnil.ac, ■ha.klllnd Ucorw the IX of Francs, tbn man who klllnd tbn Duke 4r Burr! la Parte, and Gullnau, wbo kill'd Garfield, belonged.' “You Uou v*think, than, that Booth s motive was patriotism, ns bn under stwvd it k” “Ob, no, I 4a not I think that bn bin of rising tn that bwigbt. I Hn was mm , that tbu ail mg uf Line*-m uuu *4 4sI that stroagiy tadagaavd him An a| matte# uf (uct tbn bihlbff uf Libuatb I twavdtad aamsAy. be# nby anndhsb III the United Htales govnromnnt srretud klm out in short order aad hn was brought bark to Washington. '* Now, John Surratt was an obscure Individual. He was an unknown. Booth was a well known man: There was nothing about Uurratl to attract a second glance. Booth wan not only n handsome man, he was a wery striking looking man. He would have attract ed attention in any crowd. “If Surratt, an unknown, was caught by the government so quickly and so fled ton foreign easily, although he had I country and sunk his Identity comp letely. there is no corner of the globe in which Booth, a well known and Terjmtrttrfnirinaft,-_e®»id have suooess- fully hidden for any length of time.” “ Remember, though, that Booth was an actor, understood the art of ‘ make-up ’ and that it was part of hi* profession to change his-identity ?” “I remember all that. And still say that 1 care not how artistically he may have changed bia appearance nor how many times. 1-care not how often be may have destroyed his identity, 'por in bow many places. “Change of name, change of appear ance. constant changing of plnce, I do not believe would bmve saved him. , “So alert, so determined wts this government," said he, “so active, so numerous aad no skilled Ite detectives, and so thoroughly la sympathy wsrv other govern meals in tbu search that Booth would have been naught “Thu w arid wen hunting for Booth There was an corner of It la watch bn WMa hide. * « —Be cautious ia speech, hat In aotioa. -—A gallon of milk makes a pound of cheese. —Washington was six feet two inches In height. —When the judgment is weak the prejudice is strong. — ~ . —Why are hogs like trees? Because they root for e living. —Nearly a quarter of aU eee* of insanity are hereditary. —Asparagus is the oldest known plant that ban been used for food. —A physician says the gum-chewing habit produces wrinkles aad deforms the face. —Washington knew no fear. Be fought Indians and Englishmen, aad married a widow. —From the salt wells at Hutchineoa, Kaa., 1,000,000 barrels of salt were ob* tallied last year. —The largest state of Mexloo Is Chihuahua, with aa area of nearly w<j ttmrQ Sit tot. —— — —A negro doctor ia aa tows hns nt the top of bin | card : “ No pay, ae 0000.” —Tbn consumption of soap la ladkl eety reaebss lb# modvnt; smeeet of nee nelly. 1 crown tl anew* m sMt mm a * < mm NHMhtoBI » • .se* * ■ estM .*»» ♦ .»» «*«■■■! U groan I pi any •* **ewr>gu* twmur tm m Op turn »> vtarvsw tea wnwtd i*ma aad saw as tm* tb asa esa eaa maa 0 tteas uu* progaast Oa Oan uf ef kbnsa lateg nf etavary an ea kb* awataure aasisa Mg l *s»g * •• «ba b -u* MteA Aew LcacamJa a atwetas a t%a rasa ef Vvuvte *• AAsaroasa SramM**^ 0 * as S*roa*r Maas** tons Tbalsrtami to# ftftftftftaift ftf Ueeme to awaatad In 1 to*m Basaro Ifartsr la kte< u-* Bat el lor th« * foes tbi to #tM hn'«WT*i or nwcassregu * ua from tbu Marta*** oaaint. It tuue savnvn* a invsatkms to bw { introduoad My moth to lulu to laid *b* usutl f tba alalur wunlngv pics iffg lb* *urU from tbs out ton by nni<d- uitb bmf a dunes nr more uf the family servant* sitting In n clrcis around tbn firs. Sbn vied with Firm In trying to excul in tbn quantity seed ed. This * a* la LibeilJ County of this Sute, and the cotton was probably- tbt- long staple variety. Wliitoey became involved In inter minable law suits nod hi* gin, which was for only the short staple cotton, was not in general use for many years after It was invented. My father put up the first gin in Gwiimett County in 1828, and seed cotton wds hauled to it from all the adjacent country. Pre vious to the use of the gin it was con sidered a fair day's work to seed enough tp make a pound of lint. But the gin with two attendants picked 400 pounds in a day. At that time the old-fashioned spinning wheel wan in general use and a days’s work for the spinner was six cuts—a cut being 140 rounds on the reel, but the first spin ning jenny with one attendant did eighty times as much and did it better. Later on it did 2,000 times as much. The saving in weaving by the power loim was in similar proportion and henc* It suddenly came about that ten men qould do the work of ten thousand. No wonder that Hargrave* and Ark wright Were driven from their hsmes by the spinnerc end spinster*. Jixcu*e me for tnlliog Uie gir»n just here that a spinster Is tb* feminine for spinner and used to mean a marringnabis girl who had made herself digit*** nod ftikra to b* married by sptsaiag aad ewoogh etsHb far .•> 1 •a«et* aad eeoeriile lar taa bed aad lavBBT*^ . m~_ gtan far tagt*au Tam ea* tbe ffwry •aa nrssgbl her isiaaad tee* tevemasev wean a* M **aew aam aaf ge gtiD «n tnsS Mtiea Ha*f 1 <«tto a- am** -a* OkMS < pw*g ffb^* *• •" ■gg 9 aw# wt m - —— -- — e- »a * n eg • it* uro*i - ■*sJwAff I I* lb* fro*l al a • t amna-r* aw • 1 na» Ap* tag Leas I Nasal: la tba cm roe ef Ike co#*< that ew*lag b* spak* of tb* U mast Id arm* aad ammssiutoa lb* new puwd«r prnparod for real Inn 1 prove aad of tbn lb- lack gun*. H* said be bad aaver sewn tb* letter article, but be uederntoml It differed very much from aay other powder that had ever been used. 1 told him that 1 hvpoeoed to have ia my lent n specimen which bed been seat to headquarters ns n curioeitv, and that 1 would bring It to him. When I returned with a grain of the powder about the six of a walnut, he took it, turned It over in bis hand, and after examining It carefully, vaid : “ Well, it’s rather larger than the powder we used to buy in my shooting days. It reminds me of what occurred once in Sangamon 1 County. You see, there were very few newspapers then, and the country storekeepers had to resort to some other means of advertising their wares. If, for instance, the preaebdr happened to be late in com ing ton prayer meeting of an evening, the shopkeepers would often put in tbt time wbile the people were waiting by notifying them of any new arrival of an attractive line of goods. “ One evening a man rose up and said : ‘ Brethren, let me take occasion to say, while wa’re a-waiting, that I have just received a nenf inv’ice of Ppbrtln' powd-.T.. The grains are so small you kin soa’cely see 'em with the naked eye, aod polished up so fine you kind stand up and comb your ha'r in front of one o' them grains j*«*t like it was a lookin’glam. Hope you’ll come down to my vtorn at tbs trosaruads examine that gowdnr for yonr- vro’ Yfc» I*** M i mm mi ’I # • • f ♦*#.' • % * * A me It* Ymm f ft 9me tike (NNtot^' ft ftft Mtoiftft#. W ftftfli to •Vaftft Mftfti 1M YMit Urn fft/ 9 • Ml l 9 I • Iftlft ftftftf’ AftMMMl 4 I* 1ft# ftlftl# It ft* MMM#4 ftlfftft fftftfttftMftftft ftfMft v ft toft ftllft fetor fuuti, ftM**ftufti#4 oufttictft ftft# 9m pCftpftfiftft lu toftlift ftfttftfttr cruft M ihj| I uft ftftij cues. Ibft Iftllrf b# I ftft ift tne coed >tiow. The groat rot concern >s fur lb* city uf Grrosvlii*, which. •Hunted n* It te, la tb* hollow of a crescent formed by Hie bend of thr rlvsr aod surrounded by It on two •ides would be wiped out ol existence should n break occur in the Immediate vicinity. The streets of the citv are 12 feet below the summit of the levee, ■o that a break once formed, there would be no way of stopping the Nia gara, and every-bouse in the place would be $ wept from Its.foundations and the remaing inhabitants hurled into eternity. Fearing such a catastrophe, loose who could have migrated to the hills, but thousands still remain. The breaks that occurred today are both above and,below Greenville, 15 and 25 miles above, so that the water will pass to the rear of the city. The streams on the delta all flow^from the river and down the opposite side of the valley. The tonographyjof the country is level but sloping oast, away from the river for 40 miles in some places to the Yazoo, and it is down this stream the overflow water must go to again reach the Mississippi, 75 or 100 miles south of where It had.left it. Thousands of people, white and blAck, still lio^ the levees and are making a desperate effort to hold what remains. It is a life end death struggle aod for this rea Min there Is no rest night or day., Tb« question has been asked today, *lo»* it pay to malai*ia tkn (real vjrvtem aad old farmers declare I ibat Ilf* aad basin*** w*sw a ftfti Uto mmmmrn ••• me eeeeme tfeto fttfti# ftftftftftft* tl ftftftftftft ft# ctftifttoft Iftft! ntftto ftBftfttofttoft ftfft ftft ftfti ft* tftftto arrroS far rglm*. nr aay art lb* * may I mtomlt wbila tkry am oum*iabi-c. b* i‘>* disp»a*ary act raaaut no I an* | -mt»V “ or baa ba bad gwt akowt tkte far a I rival awwaar mnrrbaatia taa m*»t-ag. j t® y»aro ago ntm au wba Wl ksaa hall lag arrr witb ta-* paasad aaytb-ag «*nt aa orard > • aad digaattaa a* tb* ammaat at aAnerussaf »r*anr*d far it Tnvroga tb* F*4*r«l • to ga«a»«g. 1 gwrorasarwt baa kaaa saast l atrm -• nasgatew# aad artsd was * tb**»»ro* i aggroaa-as **« ta ''m ■ r * ■ tba a a* toi. a .«*»■* > *-•*■« n.sa vr taa Aata *»« **»■•« sa*»H >**■ ootoq lently, a b*a a aalsuro uf property la traaslt, la tbn haads of a i moo carrier, bas bees declared by the highest authority, the Supreme Court clearly unlawful, It caanot bn excused by the dLpensary law. Every citizen Is protected in hls property; no man can violate bis rights witn im punity. The defense stands upon the absolute immunity from judicial inquiry of every one, who asserts authority from the executive branch of the government, however clear it is that the executive possessed no such power. The attor ney general contended that the mode of arrest was only provisional, and for special cases ; that the Legislature can direct to what cases such arrests shall apply. Admitted, but tbe Legislature, says the decision, cannot say to what persons it shall not apply. All persons are entitled to the same protection. How else can principlesof individual liberty and right be main-' tained, if when violated tb® judicial tribunals art forbidden to visit penal ties upon Individual offenders. Such ddctrina is not to be tolerated; the wbolu frame and scheme of the political institutions of this country, State and Federal, protest against 4T. It Is tb doctrine of absolutism, pure, simple aqd nak<'d. and of communism .wbleh U Ite twta, tbe double progeny •»f tb* same of U birt^ Tb* m<Hlo* to vocal* tb* order of a^e* *1 te refe**d. Talk ieofalaa maMm ffa far Ammar** w go sm * »ia alt na>t •* rorwnar .f b* c** I i* las * « *k>«i* *iT*mny»" from bln faabar, J natav Mrntan Mwuta II* • •* ana ••**)* as atmnmf * It m sate i a as a* imagiaad as uma* tbaS ba aa* II»bard Iba Taied- bai I ban* an nor board tbas a* **■ a nrasy Us %ft * ** Nu aot exactly a laaalfa—bat ua •oaad la a certain dlrnctlaa—bte mind ■a* nai-j lo abarratioa, a hick aa- balaacvMi tl for tba time. I tblak that JoDs WilBr* Boolb Inherited th.v mental peculiarity from bte father— aod that hi* mlad was out altogether sound a hen bn klllnd Lincoln." * If that be true, Booth was not re sponsible fur hls act ?'’ “ Perhaps not—but nothing could have saved mm, 1 Imagine, so wrought up was tbe public mind against him. Though if he had been captured, in stead of killed, we don't know what would-have been done with him.” *' The chances are that, like Guiteau, he wutrid have been hanged ?” “ I suppose so.” - “ Many people think Booth is still living—do you ?” 0 , •• Why, no, I have never had the slightest doubt that he was killed. Doctor May, who knew Booth from his ooyhood up—knew him' intimately— examiobd tbe body most minutely attur .it was brought to Washington. His -eonclukion was, ‘This is John Wilkes Booth.’ “ rna., in itself, was enough to con vince .me and everybody else that Booth was killed. But let me give you another strong and interesting reason for thinking him dead ** l.tkiSt Vaiimrmtft ktaa r»*tntil "*w i * . . . ^ , ^Isrom v we fttoft et eemmm mm&ee ~ ' ftftft to* ' fthMil... ftftftfttoMBft fMto'ft toftf toftft# ftto <toft tftftft to# a «*•> Mra Mm fee at** "*» ta* t Ss M «av* •gs ta* *aSf ml t**S paa* la «m bar. ro^aanssag • mm a um» t* «s* Is* <m* *•■■• ftftft ® Ladl t« tt* Lead * Tats mssii far ta* («■« ta*t s*a a faw eeaa 4 *.ro** as INIs loedr taro so * ** i far fatted ta roaatro roffttaa ta tbatr oes i batro | poeeltf Evrry ae* aa* eederstekd* tbet **m aad . Mr* Mr Kietey te lar tau greet ee le- U »*I d to attempt to me farm to tb* I Iron I ardune* suciel 4sites of tb* Wbit* j Hues#. Tbsrofors. wb*a Mrs- Me * Kiatey te aot foatlag sufifataatiy well w» reoetvt oumpeay, cv*a though the I may bars made appointment with ear- lain of tb* o(Bcl*l aod unofficial n*l to do no, nb* goes out for a drive instead of remaining indoors. To tba door keeper .Is so trusted the duty of in Joba Burratt,^ be continued, “a country boy, ana sluing inn restau• rant ia—aot Kocbwlrr—wbatn Ibat otber ptec* up that way F* “ Byrncvta r* Aarrnll wan tettlag la tbaro rouag at* ii i snfar II* ptebaA ap a papa* Odd tbaro * a* aa aaaaean af Iba _» - “a. forming the disappointed onrs that Mrs. McKinley’s health rendered It imperativd for her to go for a drive and thu* cancel the social engagements for the afternoon. Mrs. Olneyl Mrs. John G. Carlisle and Mrs. Harmon, who have, of course, been duly drilled in the strict roles of official etiquette required of Obser vance by his Cabinet from the ex- President, recently wjrote that Mrs. McKinley set a time at which they might call, upon her. Through some chance the replies to these notes failed to reach the three Cbbinet ladies men tioned. Xhis, however, did not deter them from calling at the White House. . Mrs. Robert McKee, daughter of ex- President Harrison, was among the callers by special appointment last Friday, with several members of tbe ultra-society set, and was disappoint -d fat not seeing Mrs. McKinley. Tbd President’s wife had felt unequal to remaining Indoors for kbcial duties, aod so went for a drive with tbe Pr< •- ideot and a party of friends to witness Port My r. Coafsdsrals soIAfars’ P SssrnlB. PterlAa, mi Iftm f * r-to * IxaLm m Us*te Proad—s af AS puabtag Us way Into tb* tb* Old World, tba latest < for 1.UU0 ton* for shlpmaate to ladim -Thirtoan letters wrltloa by Gaorff* Washlagtoa over 140 years ago ware **ld la Lstedoa reoeatly for 42JfiO. This is aa average of about 1190 aptee*. —Systematic exarctea te an amaxiag cure for nervousoem, languidoesa, la* •omnia, and indigestion, aad Incldeo* tally for awkward figures, doll eyes, and muddy skin. —The man who is mean enough to write an anonymous letter fa enough to do all the things he chargee another man with doing in It. ^ —The largest annual pension fa $95,000 paid by Great Britain to tba Duke of Richmond. It fa a perpetuity from the time of Charless II. —Eagles do not have different matee , every season, as do birds generally ;* they pair for life, add sometimes oo* cupy the same neat for many yearn. —Sponges, slates and slate penails are ho longer allowed in the publle schools of Cambridge, Mom. Paper, pen! and pencils hero been substi tuted. ^ —If you would think a little, i of the service that you owe to tb* peo ple, aod a little less of that which otber people owe to you, it would be well. —Qoaeo Anna, of Hollaad. has !a- •nroa bar Ufa la im rqalvaiaet In two a»l a ball mil.tea af i