Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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It will be several days before the number of dead in New Richmond is accurately known, and it is doubtful if the entire number Of fatalities will ever be chronicled. Indescribably sad are the scenes of desolation wrought by last night’s tor nado, tnat has practically swept out of existence the prosperous little city of New Richmond. Out of 500 houses and store buildings comprising the town, fully 300 were wrecked by the storm, or destroyed by fire. Almost every famLy has one or more members among the dead, injured or missing, and little groups are seen everywhere, searching by the light of lantern or torch, for loved ones who may be burled in the piles of debris on every hand. With frantic energy the search has been conducted all day and up to 0 o'clock 64 bodies had been found, al though the numbor of dead certainly will reach 100 or more. These have, for the most part, been taken to the Catholic and Congregational churches, which, although in the very storm’s path, miraculously escaped Us fury. in these temporary morgues, the sights are such as to touch the hardest heart ns the grief stricken living re cognise the bodies, horribly mangled and often dismembered remains of missing dear ones. The wounded find temporary asy lums in the uninjured dwellings on either side of the path, where doctors and nurses from nearby cities and towes are doing heroic wot k without sleep or rest. As many as possible of the injured whose chances for recov ery are considered good, are being sent to the hospitals at St. Paul an! Minne apolis, where they will have better care. Toe business portion of the city cov ered a space of four squares each way and was built solidly of brick and stone. This entire space was swept clear, foundation walls and In some places masses of debris aloae marking wnere the business places formerly stood. The trees on the streets of the neighboring residence district were broken dear off or twisted and up rooted. Tbe tornado came up the river from Hudson, where tbe damage was oomparatively light. Following the general course of the river and the branch of the Omahn road, the storm . gained in intensity ns It progressed and was at its worst when It struck the business centre of New Richmond. Outlying residences In the p+th of the storm were stripped of shingles and boards or sides were blown off, or, as more frequently happened, were torn asunder and the fragments were scat tered to the four winds of heaven. Trees were uprooted and roadways blocked, washed away or so overflowed as to be made entirely unrecognisable. The desolate view of the New Rich mond of to-day is not one soon to ce forgotten. Along the broken frag ments of thelx homes the people wan der helpleealy, striving somewhat aim lessly and hopelessly to gsther to gether what had been left to thorn. On the east and west limits of the olty many houses were still standing with little or no damage and to these homes the occupants welcomed their loss fortunate neighbors and friends, giv ing them such aid as was possible, and the sympathy that is so much to stricken souls. The property loss can not ba estimated at tbla time and may never be accurately known. It was almost total, for the insurance agents report that no tornado insurance was carried in the town and in only a small number of places, where fire joined in the destruction of property, will the business men be at all reimbursed for ’ their losses. It is the average resident of New Richmond who estimates the loss of life most seriously. They claim that hundreds are missing who were burled in the ruins and were there incinerated. One enoh is C. A. Nelson, who owned the Columbian restaurant, located on Main street. His estimate of the loss is four hundred dead. He says that when the rain storm which preceded the cyclone broke, not less than twenty persons rushed into this place for shel ter. He is positive that not more than four beside himself escaped. When he heard the roar, he rushed for tbe rear door, but could not open it. In an instant the crash came. The ruins tumbled about his head and left him just space enough to crawl out. In the shop was Mrs. Broad bank, who was killed. Nelson found hniy four alive. He could hear screams and groans. Since then he has seen none of the survivors. Rev. Dr. Degan of the chnrch of the Immaculate Conception thus describes the approaching storm and the imme diate results: “ I was standing on the porch of my house, which is some three blocks west of the Omaha station, with my little nephew. Pointing to the threatening clouds, 1 said to him: ‘ Those .clouds are cyclonic.’ That was about 8:30. Then I heard a fearful aound. It fas like the pealing of fifty locomotives on an upgrade. I said to the boy: ’There is the eyclone.’ In the southweet wee a great, whisking, black cloud, ocue- 1 shaped, the apex In the earth, the fun nel la the sky. Already far ahead of the centre, the alt was full of flying spUatSks, boards, feathers, bedding and everything. I told tbe boy to run and warn the (people in the houeee la the truck. JPi^m all sides people were running, crying for assistance, I took sod some people from the parish l boose and hurried them Into the cellar of my house. They bagged for absolution and I knelt down and gave it to them. Evea as I prayed tbe great black cloud of dee traction was upon the villager Out of the general and terrific war I could hear the crashing and hissing sound as house after house " I ran oat and was struck twice by pieces of flylag glaak. — »- “Then the etorm wao gone. It •track and destroyed all the residences lying between it and the Omaha tracks. The depot was right In Its path. As It crossed the track there it went right up the main street of tfie town destroying every building in the business centre. I immediately began the work of reeoue. It was awful. God keep me from seeing the like again. Every where moans, shrieks aadoails for help were heard. The wounded cried out for prayers. I gave them abeolution while assisting in the work of rescue. Catholics and Pro testants prayed for them.” A NEBRASKA TOWN STRUCK. No Houses Were heft and the Loss ot Idle Was Jfearflsi. A tornado struck the town ot Her- Nebraska, on the evening of the ISthslnst. and nearly wiped the place out of existence. Herman la a town of about three hundred inhabitants, in the extreme northern part of Wash ington county. It is on the41ne of the Onloago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha railway. A conductor on the evening train from Sioux City passed through the place not long after the storm, 'and he says not a building was left standing in town. He counted twelve dead bodies lying in the streets. The fatalities will undoubtedly ruo up to a hundred, if not higher. Advioee received up to 11 o’clock at aight stated that every dwelling in the town was destroyed except the public school and a small dwelling, both of which are on the outskirts. The force of the tornado was terrific, as scarcely one piece of many structures destroyed was left lataot. The scene In the streets of the once thriving and beautiful little town was one of destruction. Wrecked build ings and broken furniture were strewn all around, while dead bodlea lay in many places, the corpses badly disfig ured and some of them hardly recog nisable. Tbe meant of the injured mingled with the calls of the rescuers as they pursued tbelr humanitarian task in the darkness and by tbe flickering gleams of lanterns. A relief train arrived about one hour after the storm and the work of pick ing up tbe wounded was begun. Wlll- Ingj bands did what'they could to help the Injured, and In tbe course of an hour the ‘train pulled out for Blair ith ninety-five Injured on board. Tbey were takes away as there was absolutely no place at Herman at bleb treatment could be administer ed. All the oltlsens of Blair threw open tbelr houses to the wounded, and the unfortunates were cared for by competent surgeons. Many of tbe injured will die, but some of them received but slight In juries. Twelve are xnown to have been killed, and tbe list will run up very much blgner. For some two hours before the storm took a disastrous form the clouds were of a threatening color, and the air was hot and sultry. At 6 o’clock the storm seemed more threatening and the peo were on their guard. At 8:15 It was observed that the wind was blowing from the northwest and from the southwest and with Increas ing violence. At 6:30 It took the fun nel-shaped sppearanoe and bore down upon the town. The first damage done was about four miles west of Herman, at the Hawkins farm. Mr. Hawkins Is dead, and his barns and outbuildings are In a mass of ruins. In the village of Herman few building are left stand ing. The business portion and the re sidences are plied up In a heap. The bank owned and operated by Rep resentative J. H. Chambers, Is in a of ruins. It was a substantial brick structure. His home an elegant frame building escaped. Near the depot it a pile of rubbish containing everything from a pair of boots to dead and wounded hoi ogs, cattle, etc., etc. J. A. Kelly, a “ Ing man said : W!*h a number of other guests, I was dining in the hotel, when sud denly the wind began to rise and grew very violent. I hastened to the win dow and looked to the north. I could see two immense clouds, separated by quite s bit of sky, swirling and churn ing wrathfully. 'I at once felt that a cyclone was at hand. Our suspicions were confirmed when we saw that the two divisions of clouds were rapidly converging into the traditional funnel shape. But while we looked It seemed to us that the clouds would sweep to the west and avoid the town. Wnen It reached a point to the northwest we were terrified to see it suddenly change its course and make directly for the town. We ail hurried into the cellar and saw no more of the cyclone, but we knew by the frightful din that it wae working havoc in the town. “ When it had passed we emerged from the cellar and found that the hotel had been wrecked, and that every building in town had been blown down with the exception of an isolated few on theouteklrta. The cyclone had swept right down the main street, r,", torses, Council Bluffs travel- bank. After the storm I do not recall seeing it. I presume that It, too, wae destroyed. The town was a pile of de bris, soaking with water. “ In front of us we could seo horses, pigs and frame buildings all heaped together. Some of the animals were dead and some were still alive and crying out. I could not say how many ware killed or how many were Injured. I eaw several dead and many wounded. Of oourse, there were many still alive eftor the storm, and they old all they could to aMlst in tbe work of rescue. When the first train left I came to Blair.” The work of taking the dead and wounded ont of tbe debris is prog res •Ing slowly, and is likely to prove a long and difficult task. —An artesian well in Missouii has been sank to a depth of i,ioo feet. FAMILY 8RCRST FOR YEARS. HUS- The Woman Says He Oonfossed Mur der end She Charges Him With Robbing a New York Rank. The Philadelphia correspondent of the New York World says that after many years of apparently happy mar ried life, respected by neighbors and friends, Mrs. Rosa McKlpney has re- vbaled a most remarkable story, in which she charges that her husband admitted to her that, while robblag a house ih Irvlngton-on-the-Hudaon, N. Y., he committed murder. Fear of her own life, she says, moved her to laform the polios. Since his arrest stolen bonds and other property have been found in their house, and some of the articles have been identified as ber longing to John Wendell, of No. 44g Fifth avenue, New York. Mrs. McKinney told her remarkable story to The World correspondent to day. She said: “ I have been married twenty years, and during that time I have had no happiness. My husband always kept me in deadly fear of him. and it was in fright that! ran from this house last Monday night and went to the police and told the story of my hnsband’s crime. If he should get out of prison I would not stay here another minute, for I know he would carry out the threat he often made to kill me. About the killing of e man at Irvington In 1874 I know nothing except wbat my husbend told me. This was not told me until some time after our marriage. After that I did not know of him doing any wrong until in November, 1896, while we were living at Mr. Wen dell’s house as caretakers. Before that time my husband had worked for numerous families in New York, in cluding Lawyer Parsons, as coachman. Leaving this place, we went to Ireland, and my husband’s folks urged him to buy a little farm. He did so with bor rowed money, and to this I lay all the trouble. “ After that my husband’s great de sire wss for money, and when ne saw his opportunity In the Wendell house he said It was the chance of his life. 1 tried to coax him not to commit the crime and I was on the point of going to Mr. Wendell and telling blm about my husband’s intention, but my bus- band threatened to kill me if I opened my mouth, and as be had once shot at me I feared him. One day he entered a room where bonds and coupons were ^ept in a tin box and be took them out. Then be stole some other things and we hurried out of the house. He had had trouble with tbe Wlendelis and had threatened to leave. For a few days we stayed In town, and when my husband failed to see anything in tbe papers about the rjb^ery he made plans for a trip to Ireland. There we remained until last November, when, having sold the farm, we returned to this country and came to Philadelphia. “ Up to our arrival here not one of the bonds or coupons was turned into cash, and my nusband and I planned to go Into a little business, such as milk, butter and eggs, at the house. 1 coaxed him to return the bonds aad other stolen property. He had no idea then as to how to dispose of the cou pons and bonds, but In March last he fonnd out and realized fil,500 on a •1,000 bond. Then he disposed of another through an auction firm for •1,400, but he had not collected that amount when he was arrested. “ With so much money in-his posses sion 1 feared him more tnan ever, and he treated me more cruelly than ever. On the night I exposed him h» had made me sit in a corner, and threaten ing to kill me if I moved he demanded to know how much money I would take and leave him and never open my mouth about bis doings. When I did not answer he walked Into another room, and as I thought he had goaa after a big rifle he always kept in the house, I became fearful that he In tended to kill me and rushed out of the house. He had simply drlyen me to deperation. and I could not stand It any longer. The rifle Mrs. McKinney referred to and a box of cartridges that weighed about twenty-five pounds were seen by The World representative in the be d- room of McKinney and his wife, where thej had been kept ever since the fam ily returned from Ireland. The bed room contains an expensive set of furniture, with dainty cushions and other furnishings. An especially pretty apartment is the parlor, with extravagant plush furniture and oostly carpet and a collection of pictures in heavy gold frames. The dining-room is furnished in oak. The McKinney home Is only two stories high, but it is the most attractlve house in the street, with pretty white and blue striped awnings at all the windows.. After Mrs. McKinney bad told her story to Special Officers William O. Pastre and McFarland at the police station, the officers went to the Mc Kinney residence and were admitted by the husband. He was told that his wife was at the police station complain ing that he had threatened her life and that he had better go there and fix it up with her. The officers had no right to arrest him in his house, and were desirous of getting him out. Mc Kinney said he would not go to his wife and that he was aware that the officers could not arrest him. Then he said that if the officers had nothing else to say they could leave. Officer Pastre did not want to make a move that would lose them the much-aocused man, so they left the house. McFarland went back to the station to tell Mrs. McKinney to return home, and Pastre remained near the hoaed to watch the husband. In a few mlnates the latter appeared at his doer and looked up and down the street. Returning to the house he soon reappeared, this time ooming out of the ally. By proceeding through back alleys and walking across lots he J ot several squares away from the ouse, going la aa opposite direction from the station-house, when Officer PMtre placed him under arrest and said he “ guessed” McKinney would go along “ tbit time.” At ths station the charge of cruelty to his wife was pre ferred against McKinney, aad he did aot know anything of the other charges until the next morning, when he was started out on the trip to Captain of Detectives Miller’s office at the centra) station. Whan told of his wife’s charges he became deathly pale and almost no)lapsed It was evidently the Intention of Mc Kinney to go away, for whan he was searched after his arrest by Officer Pastre there was fonnd on him 84,500 worth of salable bonds, 11.150 la cash and a watch that Miss Rebeooa Wen dell Identified as her property when •he appeared against McKinney at the hearing on Thursday. The search of the house revealed 81.400 worth of Government and railroad coupons and a box containing twenty-three unset diamonds. McKinney probably never knew the value of these stones, but they were taken from the Wendell house and are worth several thousand dollars. * ‘~ That McKinney preposes to fight ex tradition to New York in the robbery charge is certain. Besides Howe and Hnmmel, of New York, he haa em ployed a lawyer here to defend him. When he engaged the latter ia the courtroom at the hearing he plunged his hand down into one of his trousers pockets, pulled out a roll of bills, from which he counted 8300, and handed It over fpr a retainer. Of McKinney’s life here very little is known. His wife says that he would J 'et np In the morning and, after oare- ully dressing, wonld attend to house hold wants, then go out and remain away all day. Sometimes it would be late the next morning when he would return. The police are trying to trace his movements. McKinney made all the purchases for the home, including the eatables and his wife’s clothes. ASBAUUTRD BY A NEGRO. An Old Woman in Connecticut Is the Victim This Time—Tbe VUlain Ar rested and Lodged In JalL Norwalk (Conn.) Oasette, June 12. A dastardly outrage was committed Saturday morning by a negro upon Mrs. Margaret Roberts, an aged wo man living on the Ferry road In Strat ford. Mrs. Roberts lives alone in a tiny house peculiarly isolated by a turn In the road but only a stone’s throw from several residences on Blast Broad way, of which tbe Ferry road Is an extension. Sbe la tbe widow of Thomas Roberts, an old man-of-war’s man, who went down Stratford river In a small boat one day a dozen years ago and never came back. Tbe empty boat was found drifting In the barW, tell ing of the unfortunate man’s fate. Saturday morning, just before nine o’clock, Mrs. Roberts neerd a noise at her front door and upon looking out ot the window saw a negro attempting to force an entrance. Mrs. Roberts was frightened, but there wss no way for her to escape. The negro, a yonng mao, falling to force, tbe door with bis shoulder, picked up a shovel that lay In the yard and succeeded In prying open UuLdoor with it. Mrs. Roberts screamed for help, but the brute throttled her, threw her to the floor, bound tbe helpless old wo man with strips of doth that lay at hand and gagged her with a handker chief whlcb he forced down her throat with a dosed rasor. The brute’s de sign was carried* out and4he old wo man was left lying unconscious on the floor. Half an hour later Mrs. Oharles H. Bradley, who lives nearby, in passing Mrs. Roberts' home, noticed that something was amiss with the door and entered. She found Mrs. Roberts still unconscious and gagged. She lifted the unfortunate woman from the floor, released her from her predica ment and gave her restoratives. Tbe old woman was somewhat scratched about the face, but had not received serious physical injuries. Shssuffered greatly from the shock but her condi tion has Improved rapidly, despite her great age. Mrs. Roberts was able to give a co herent account of the assault and a close description of the black ravlsher, who left the house immediately upon the accomplishment of his purpose. Sunday morning, Sheriff Stagg, ac companied by Constables Beardsley aad Freyer, took the 8.30 train to Nor walk, taking their bicycles with them. At Norwalk they reported the affair to the police, learning that no such negro as the one wanted had been seen pass ing through that town. The Stratford officers thereupon took the beck track along the road and between Westport and Greene’s Farms came upon the object of their search fast asleep under a tree. The negro was captured and handcuffed before he was fairly aware of what was happening to him.; He was taken to Stratford by looked np in the little brio! The prisoner is a typical tough aegro tramp, black and apparently about 23 years of age. He took his arrest coolly, aad was given but little chance to talk. In fact he was not Informed of the cause of his arrest When seen at the lockup he said his name was William Morrison and that his home was in Newport. mm t ^hi It has been held that consumption is hereditary, aud the fact that one per son of n family had died with consump tion was considered >a sure sign teat others of that family oould not escape it This is partly true and partly un true. A man with weak lungs is likely to transmit that weakness to his chil dren. But there is no reason in the world why the weakness should be allowed to develop. Keep the lungs full of rich, red, wholesome blood, and the weakness will disappear. Decay ing tissues will be thrown off, and new material will be added until the lungs are veil nod perfectly strong again. This Is the thing tent Dr. Pie roe’s Golden Medical Discovery does. This is what makes it cure 98 per cent, of ail cases of consumption where It is taken according to directions. It searches out disease germs wherever they may be in the body and forces them oat of the syete'n. It supplies the blood with rich, life-giving pro perties. It makes the appetite good, digestion p-irfeot. Send 21 oeate In one-oent stamps to World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y., and receive Dr. Pierce’s 1006 page “ Common Sense Mad teal Adviser,” profusely Illustrated. —Corsets made of aluminum are now used by medical men for tea ueatment of eertela spinal disorders. by train and iok oalnbooee. .v-.W SXUr ARF’t PEACE PICTURE. LOOKS AT FLOWERS AND BIRDS. He Aktms With Bishop Hater That “ Only Baa Is YOe”-Aa rbt teat Last bird wss to eomfort his mate who ~was brooding Ing bn ft ■ mocking tanking sweat music upon her neat. This morning singing again, and seems supremely happy asha makes his little flights upward and returns to his perch with out a break la his song. Thera ft a tiny wren not faraway whose song ft vary short, but just as sweet, and hs, too, ft comforting his mate. Down in tee pasture that fronts oar grove I see the mlloh oows grazing peacefully. In oar front yard there ft a hydrant and the crystal water ft allowed to leak just enough to keep a basin fall and It overflows ton little grase-hldden pool where the pigeons drink and bathe, and where the jay birds and thrashes nod English •par- rows oome and sip acd go and never contend. Sometimes the peaooek wants n drink and tee birds retire from hie magnificent presence and await his lordship’s pleasure. A neighbor’s par rot has left his cage and ft cawing ia one of our tree tops. A neighbor’s chickens are scratching in tee leaves nearby. Fleecy clouds are passing over head and give us alternate sun and •hade. I hear the distant whistle of a locomotive and the trembling, rumb ling sound of the train as it crosses tee river bridge. I see children dressed in their Sunday clotees going happily to the city hail to take their part la com mencement exercises. Along our gar den fence the variegated cannas lift their proud heads in peaceful beauty, and not far away ft a row of flowering peas arrayed in rainbow colors and ex haling sweet odors to tee air. Apple, geranium and lemon verbenas sweeten the breeses at our window. Looking northward from the verandah where 1 sit, the distant hills are piled upon each other in regular irregular ity, while more distant mountains give a back ground of cerulean blue to tee beautiful picture. Here I am ruminat ing—calmly and serenely happy In a big arm chair. Half a hundred magni ficent oaks stand like God’s sentinels in the grove before me, lifting their isafy branches towards the sky in ad oration ot their creator. The twining madelre vines and Virginia creepers interlace tee trellis at my hand and shelter me from the sun, while two dear little grandchildren are merrily •winging in the hammock not far away. There ft nothing in sight this morning but peace and beauty. Innocence ft la tee air, the sky, the fields, the trees, the birds and flowers and children—as the good Bishop Heber wrote : “ Here every prospect plssass And only man Is vils. Only mao ; not women or children, or beast or birds or flowers—only ■»•«» is vile. Wbat a contrast to the view before me ft found in the columns of the morning paper, which has just hern handed to me. How shocking are the big head lines teat toll of a single day’s misery and disaster! When, oh, when, will all taste horrible things cease to be ? Only man ft vile.. If he was made iq the image of God, why shonld be be doing tee deeds of the devil ? The cost of crime In moony ft a fearful sum. The cost of courts aad prisons aad guards and police ; the cost In loss of time and labor; but this ft nothing compared with tee cost in grief and misery. Here ft a letter that ft but a •ample of what comes to me in my dalljr mail, for the poor creatures thlnx Uat I cam do something: “ “ -My Dear Sir: “Lebanon, Fla.—My Dear Sir: Will J ou please give me the name and ad- ress of some orphan asylum la Geor gia that would probably taka three poor little orphan girls into their home. pictured! been revl tlon on the tali Bom had hundreds of ti Into printed tlw8~ detective sterv. aad nU over tee Norte, a oent If It does anas Aad this thing h«s got aU over Keg- land. A friend of aloe who lives mot London, sent me a late copy of The London Chronicle, a paper as iafluaa- tial as The Timas, and tea editor copies a batch of ties teksw trass tee last United States Howard report which says tent slavery has been virtually ra-estebiished la tee Southern Slates, especially in Georgia Florida, aad teptaU tea horrors red in “ Unole Tern’s Cabin” have revived. That the UlegltlaMte children born la tee convict camps are kept ia per petual slavery, and that tee toaale convicts are outraged by tea samp offbsrs at pleasure, aad that a girl‘Of seventeen who, ran away to avoid it, was caught by bloodhounds and strip ped and flogged amid jeers. The report •ays team were 288 lynohlngs of ne groes last year, aad forte-seven np to April of this year, of whose aU were negroes but eight. Of all tease, thirty- two wer*.accused (?) of murder sixteen of assaults oa white woiaaa, fourteen for defending themselves, two for im pudence aad thirty-seven for no crime, aad twenty-thiwe tor being trouble- The editor then says teat the future of tee colored race is tea gravest prob lem that America has to faea, cer tainly as grave as tea exteastoo of bar ampin over Cuba aad tea Philippines, ana that the United States ft paying a heavy debt for tea sins of bar fathers. Tbe Howard association appeals to ha- inanity to avert the solution by aatiooal disaster, aad says tea negro trouble has become so great that Ills feared tea difficulty cannot ba settled bat with blood. Well, now let’s pease awhile— I must go out Into my garden aad let choler down—I will pick tl pick the for dinner; I will throw rocks at my neighbors’ chickens: I will hire a cassia man. Of ail the fools oa earth aa English fool ft the biggest. Whose fathers is that tool editor talktag about ? England never tread bar own •laves until 1846, but that editor doeeeat know they ever had any. Oar South ern fathers never Imported any ; they fht team from tea Yaaheas. Trad- England and Massachusetts, who kept np tee slave trade la part nership until 1867. The last slaver bought was an American vessel with a mixed craw oa tea ooast of Mada gascar. . A man told ms ha heard a Chicago drummer say, not loan ago. that another drummer told him he heard of a Boston banker who wrote to a Chi cago brokav,aBd asked him If he didn’t wait to put soma more money la Mew England rum to ship to Africa. I expect they era at It yet. Why it was a very respectable basiaess both la England aad Massachusetts just as long as they could find a market Isr tee slavea. Joha Newton, the poet, the sweetcetof all composers of hysum, the man who wrote : ft stSl New wbieh Its '•wren bow. . ■ « a* blotted oat! “ Their mother ft dead (died of a broken heart) and tee father ft in jail and has bean sentenced to be banged. “He ft much distressed about his helpless children, and begs teat yon K t them Into some orphan home. e family are of no kin to me, bat I sympathise with tee poor little or phan girls in their very sad condition. Please answer me very i let me know if they will ne shat out because they live out of vour State. “C. C. Gainxs, " Postmaster Lebanon.” Now, Mr. Hemphill and Mr. Crumley, can’t you make room for these chil dren ? May tee good Lord have mercy upon them I - What is tee world ooming to ? The old Meeato law was: “I will visit the sins of tee fathers upon the children.” hut tee new law ft: “Suffer little children to oome unto me, for of such ft the kingdom of heaven.” Some times I sigh like the poet, Cowper, and ly, “ Oh for a home la some vast wilderness,” where rumor of oppression and deceit might never reach me. When I read of murder aad suicides and burglaries and arson and horrible outrages It makes me sad aad then there ft always something in the same r to make me mad—some Has or some Northern devil ment. Governor Northen mad 3 a great speech in Boston, and I am glad Ft has been printed in pamphlet form, aad If I was the State I would order enough of them to give a copy to every child in the State that could read, and 1 wonld make every negro school teacher In tee State read a page aloud every day to his pupils until he had read ft all, and If be didn’t read It to them, and read it well and tell them that it was the truth, I wonld tarn teem out —dogon him, occ found him—I am tired peying tax money to educate negroes to hate people. 1 don't believe there Is a negro loacher ia the State who tries to train the negro children la these things. Nor do I believe tee negro preachers arc any better. A most excellent Christian lady of our town asked her colored maid tea other day if her preacher ever preached about these horrible crimes teat are now shocking the good people of tee State, aad she said, “ Mb, meant; ha never sajs anything about It.” The unwilling loot Is that the aegfbee do aot think It very much of a crime. Aad they beileve tee other side jest as tee Yankees do. Ida Walls made big moahy bat of bar lies years age, aad now aba aad gttap was a slave trader, out of Ik Oae t England ram ft fsom Cuba molaa aad I would Ilka to •hip it to aad what lor. ft still buying slaves I Bat, pshaw, wa era all aad sectional llaes at Just so—lot as kava pan aad pleasant it ft for brethraa to dwell her la unity—Tm loving every- . now—except some I’m going to love that fellow Pammars aad Ft sank aad old mother Jnlla Ward Rowe by JoJVheLta?wUltaketEeZS. IUfb * jSejjS BILL AT. i0 W ■W THE EXAMPLE OF HORRY. jJJ IfttAB f|g OitlMMId Jbc eault two youag wo- tea Phil! i, Horry County, two Psaasylv sentenced to life im- come aa ■urea unmeai- udgs Aldrich, congratulated t she had sate Daniel young negroes, have attempting to assault two tiRgi rI ftanutfin months ago aad i rftoameat at hard labor. They broke ito the boose of Jamas R. Smite aad entered tee room of tee girls ot the family at aight. The aegrom were pursued by whites and captured ia a swamp. Taey confessed thahr guilt, but instead of being lynched were tuned over to the sheriff. The girls, who are members of a highly respected family, entered tea court-room whan they ware called to tee witness stand aad retired Immsfll ately after testifying. Judge before passiagseatenoe, cob| the oounty ofHorry that aha youag men as teem who oaptwrad tea nagroes and turaod team over la tea sheriff. He spoke as follows: " Aad just here I wish to say to tea good people of Horry County that la this instance yon are deserving of tea highest praise aad commendation of the people of South Oarollaa aad of all this broad laodof ours. Yea are noted for being a brave people physically. There era no people oa earth braver than the people of Horry Oounty. That ft tee reputation yon have made tor yourselves la war and la peace; and therefore teat tee law la this-oounty was resorted to In the doe administra tion of justice means much. Yon (to the prisoners) violated tee law la dasb- oratlng a pare home among a b people, aad yet the bravery A the peo- of Horry Oounty was adorned by higher virtue, alove of law, a de sire to see the law enforced ia Its due and orderly ooane of adodafttrattoa, bravery over aad above tea instlacts of race, of eager, aad an lyncher's A was called upon to protect the rights of the citineas of Ibis county. These young men who arrested you, youag mea U the flash ol manhood, la te* £gnlty of imarlraa ntffiem. with araveraaos for law white team lam all put mea, brought you, aad incarcerated you la jau. 1 white you were brought ol trial ia a court of justice, before a jury draws •GWI ^||j beads of M A! Sftte'ff WM P •*v5? rjr - wbola The mob story white that a rural town . I likely tobni gSt fteMaf* ml ieagths i_ Hose; ft did artl bat contented itrolf i feathering Hs victim i on a rail. Batten ttoa often Hi State had la theft spirit vor teat tea driven i The lag ai golaf or of si m that tea agate. Thai "Amasincgraos, how sweat tbs sound jnteftenmv That mvsd a wratoh Uks ms," ft that of the £Sk£t la £fi l John J. Pittsburg fcrty-daar secured a Hawkins’ n line. Thai at Groans! hbhatto'i SSu&f* and Matofos ft: during tea day. made agatast < hats, bat we n msds tha w —- m KRt AES ' ettagtee conditions mors than T •oidfontpi wm tea reeruftad — 88* pot filled i of law.