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VOL. XXVI. BARNWELL, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1908. NO. 40. A YAWNING CHA8M^_ Into ' Which an Excursion Train —!—^ ; Loaded Withtfegro Flanged. OCCURRED NEAR WEDGE FIELD w su m Five People Killed and Many Olh* ' ' ' . era Woanded. KfTVniM n> Warn the Engineer of . . V.. I.' Danger Failed. e *■ ' . / ; ■ i * , An excursion train from Nichols to Columbia on the Atlantic jCap^t Line Railroad was wrecked between Wedge- field and Cane Savannah,about eight miles from Sumter, Wednesday morn-, ing. The train wait taking a large crowd of colored people to Columbia. When eight miles from Sumter, going -at full speed, it plunged into a deep washout. The engine, the baggage- car and three coaches were thrown In a heap, and the crew and passengers crushed Jn the wreck. The water which had Ix-cn lying placidly beside the embankment bad become a torrent unlashed, and the pent up force tore a gaping hole in the path of the train. Into this fis sure the train plunged- and the At- ntic Coast Line service has lost one :t its best passenger conductors; four excursionists are reported dead, and others are suffering from severe in juries. There were 32 of the pas senger list of less than a hundred, who suffered injuries of more or less im portance. The illfated train was an excursion from Nichols, Marion county, and was running just ahead of the regular morning train from Sumter to Colum bia^ The- excursionists were negro preachers and their friends going to the commencement of one of the col ored colleges in Columbia. DEAD AND WOUNDED. f r , . J. J. Clements of Florence, conduc tor, killed instantly by blow, on head. througii the whistle, which had been ■the chronicler of the life and activity of the engine now useless but not a ruin, for it can be rehabilitated. Aud wlmt of ibe men who rode in the cab? The bottom of tbe crevasse was the width of the engine, without tire tender, and the latter was stand ing almost perpendicularly, its front end having entirely demolished the cab and Its rear end being held upright by a tangled confusion of trucks and running gear, upon which three coaches had been mounted. From tliis vortex of death-dealing iron' it Tha Situation in the Overflowed Sec tions Improving. f ‘.wife, colored. Joe Davis,colored, Marlon. Ned Weston, colored, Marion. Died on relief train while being taken to Sumter. I in addition thirty-tive passengers were hurt. The engineer, George Wilson, was also badlyhurl. Ail the % killed and-wounded were -efilorHl- ex cept Conductor., Clements aud Engi neer Wilson.. 4 - - , The worst cloudburst which has been known in that section of Sumter county in a iiuarter of century swept over Wedgetield comm unity Tuesday night and for hours tl»e water fell in sheets. The very clouds seemed lb have been drawn from-under a sus pended lake, Rut the' section fore men and track inspectors of the Coast Line went over the iine aud could tind nothing which forebode the terrible —-disaster which blotted a train out of existence. The morning passenger train had passed over the same stretetr of track on its wav from Columbia to Sumter, aud a freight traiu^had also passed ahmg tins very place And had uoted no weakening in the embank ment TRIED The ominous booming of the break ing of tbe bank was heard by a negro farm hand, Alexander Robinson, who lives 'near by, and terror stricken be rushed-from his cabin to warn the ap proaching train—for he knew- that the nuyning passenger to Columbia was due in less than half an hour. Desperate with anxiety to convey the startling news, he ran down the track toward Cane Savannah, a station two miles easi er the place where the wa ters made the breach, and six miles out of Sumter. Had he not reached would seem that the engine men would have been killed instantly, but the fate which lured them also saved, for with the impact of the application of the-imergency brake^the tireman was sliot out of the cabc window as out of a catapult. The engineer jumped to keep from being caught In his cab, and ran upon the tender. When the engine settled aud the fender careened upon Its end, Engineer Wilson was also ,thrown to the front ard to tire side landed in a bed of sand, but so near to thS engine that he was scald ed frightfully. He received several facial abrasions and was hurt inter nally. - The. ti reman escaped with slight bruises and ran all the way from .the sconce of disaster to Wedge- tie.ld to get help for those v who were injured. ’ , THE CONDUCTOR'S DEATH. The train consisted of a refresh ment ear and live coaches. It was In the former that Conductor Clements met death. He had been sitting in the middle passenger coach talking to the only white passenger aboard. Mr. F. W. K. Keliam of North Carolina, a traveling salesman. While they were talking two negro preachers, Dcnby from Marion and Moseley from Xiuhols r came up aud asked the con ductor to assist them in some matter. They had just had time to 'walk through the two coaches in front and to get to the refreshment car when eafne the awful cfash. As soon as Mr. Keliam could extricate himself from the tangle of passengers thrown Many Rescues Effected, but Forty- Eiglit are Known to be Dead at Topeka. Great lioss of Property. upon him. he made his way out of the car, which was only partially derailed, and went in search of the conductor, whom he found lying at the bottom of the ravine of the door of what had been rhe Tefn shment car; now roof less and shapeless and with>lts >run- nlog gear 50 feet away. Mr. Keliam, seeing a terrible gasli across the left side of the face of the insensible cou- a^jrduetor, felt ot Mr. Clements’ pulse and Immediately realized that the ac commodating and popular conductor had taken his last train order. May Be-Warnin<c»i— The Anderson Mail says the most callous and indifferent of Yuen must be ijppvesscd by the great destruction A)i r life and property bj* wind and light- ning and high waters, and involun- the station his signal of warning and tarily the question will come. Why * of distress might have been heeded, or had the regular passenger train Awearunning ahead of the excursion it ygould have stopped. But if Engineer Oeorge Wilson saw the improvised flag which Alexander Robinson Haunt ed in the face of the invisible InHu- ence which was luring the locoipotlve to its doom,-no notice was taken, for excursion trains are not expected to atop at such stations as Cane Savan nah unless they have had orders, and the regular passenger train was rnn- ning but ten minutes behind. -Fran- tioally tbe negro waved in the face of the engine a long strip of led paper which be had taken from his hat, and eagerly he pointed down the track to the hole of horror beyond. But his well meant efforts wece.. misunder stood and tbe train dashed by at the rate of 35 to 40 miles an hour. There was nothing for this humble messen ger to do but to wait for the Inevit able, and his heart sank with fear as be saw the train dashing on to its de struction. DEATH STARED HIM IN THE FACE. The train 'Was within 50 feet of the abyss when the engineer saw fate beckoning .to him out of the terrible chasm. With great presence of mind he applied the emergency brakes and threw the reverse lever back to Its furthest notch. Had he not done so tbe weight and impetus of the engine wduld have carried it across, .the coaches would have been piled in even ■greater confusion than they were and L into Ml hi tiie sand of tbe side toward which driving wheels sank to thelr.top rims lh the bed of sand the fires were in ly extinguished. The escap- WOKK OK RESCUE. ' Ktliam, making his way hack to those couches which Imd not h6eu de molished secured the axes and saws and got the uninjured to work remov ing and earing forthe suffering. The flagman-had gone hack to warn the regular passengee train which was ap preaching hard, upon the heels of the ill-starred excursion. > The porter was hurt and helpless. Ins collar bohe hav ing been broken, and there was no one of the tr^in crew left to look after those who were hurt. The most miraculous part of such dreadful tragedies as this is the fact that when it seems that no one could escape alive there are roally so few casualties, lu tliis particular wreck there were many people wlm. recei ved injuries, serious and slight, but there were but live fatalities, .JP^careln which the injured aud the dead had been riding were literally torn into kindling wood, the destruction being so complete that even upon close ex anaination it would be almost impossi ble to tel) whether two qr three ooaches had their parts so mixed in the mad confusion. ’ rack our brains for ap answer, and there can be but one answer:. They are sent by the Almighty fof'Hls own purpose. It may be that they are sent to warn us as individuals and as nation that GGd feigns and his pres ence and his wrath are alwaysat hand. It may seem to human minds to be a terrible and costlyllnethod of warning but most of us wHl all too soon forget it within a short time after it has passed. We arc all hushed aud silent while the warning is upon us. How few there are who, in the time Q' storm atbd disaster, can look up to God and say: “1 am not afraid.” How sweet and restful It will be when the the storms have passed and we can again sec the sunshine and the how of "promise. % a he Like a Bird. A dispatch from Gainesville, says Forman W, E. Bannister ot Gainesville Cotton Mills who was caught in the cyclone and was last seen about three hundred yards in the air more than a mile from the mil has been found.Bannister was on the fifth floor of the Gainesville Mill whei tbe cyclone struck tbe mill through the roof. He was seen and recognized by inany as he was carried through the air at a great height. He passed directly over the Southern Railway depot and many identified the body. He appeared to be a hundred yards be hind tbe funnel shaped cloud, ridiug in the suction of tbe wind fiend. THE GREAT FLOODS. great mektal suffering. A dispatch from Kansas City says Blue sky was visible above Kansas City Tuesday afternoon. The rains hive disappeared arid the sun was visible for the first time this week. The waters of the Kaw river bave fallen eight inches are steadily declin ing at the rate of about one-half an nch an hodr. “In^the Missouri the high stage of 35 feet is still main- ain^H, hut this is due to the rise which has been coming down the Missouri proper and lias been able to offset the fail in the Kaw. It is the water of the latter stream, however, that has caused all the damage in this city and in Kansas City, Kas., and »ith it at a normal stage, business in Kansas-City soon will resume usual conditions. This city, by a narrow margin lias escaped a serious short age In food, has fAced the peril of fire, utterly helpless to avert Its conse quences, has suffered millions of dollars of damage to property and sustained a loss in life that in all probability never will be Accurately measured, aud now It is commencing to believe promises of better things. The situation shows improvement on almost every side: the waters are railing; the gas has been turned into the mains once more and there is no Immediate danger of a serious short age of food.The city has cared for Is own and is abundantly able to do so still, but there is not sufficient food on hand to permit the relief committee and the municipal officers to feel easy over the outlook.' The transportation facilities at the present time are so imited that not much freight cari be brought in at a time and there is danger that the demand may outrun the supply. . , _ , ~ Two men lost their lives Tuesday in the attempt to i>ave others. Just Keenan was drowned while endeavor- ng to rescue some people from the Adams house in Union avenue and Ed ward Brooks lost his life in Liberty street, where his skiff was' overturn ed by an eddy while he was endeavor ing to get another man out of a build ing. A numbeFof bodies were seen lloaling down the stream, but are believed to be those of people drown ed further up-the Kaw, probably at North TjVpeka.—> ^ Fully-fifty people^ were brought to the Twelfth street viaduct during the day by boatmen. None of them had been in great danger: Many people are still in the warehouses and office buildings and will remain there until the flood subsides. They are entirely Safe and fairly comfortable. There is very little probability of tnuph greater financial damage than has kl- Rjjeady been done. There have been ' some reports of large buildings in the wholesale dis trict but they appear to have settled in a remarkably even manner and expert examination will be required run after a fashion Tuesday with power fumished by the dynamos at Leavenworth. The lack - of gas Is severely felt and oil is scarce. Flags of distress from parlly inun dated buildings in Armourdale cotiui- be seen from Kansas City, Kas., dur ing the day and many rescues were affected. Possibly 10 bodies have been seen floating since Sunday, but estimates made from this are value less, as some of the bodies may have floated down the Kaw from Topeka, the same bodies drifting in the ever changing eddies of tbe flood may have been counted several times. The flood situation is very much Im proved Tuesday night. The gas sup ply is ample;, two electric street car lines have resumed service and others will follow Thursday; the electric tight plant is ready to begin service but it does n.ot do so because of tbe possibility of fires from crossed wires; the waterworks will" begin -to pump Kansas river iii the reservoir tomor- roWand the nett day the wateer will be turned into the pipes; the food sup ply is ample on both sides of the river, the vast quantities of meat in the packing houses having been reached by the ( ackers; the predicted increase of sicktfe.'s lias not appeared; the Kansas river is falling half an inch an tiour and the Misspuri rjyer [s expected to begin to beFoire^ay* 1 light. Eight persons arc positively known to have been drowned in the two Kansas cities fctnee last Friday. They are: Policeman Edward Keenan, Kohle, Phljip Ware, a negro twiy; Wm. Helster, titick driver; Wm. Herbet, expressman; James Dcerman; John Ray, negro Edward Brooks. WORSE THAN THE RUSSIANS WAR STATISTICS. Further SUtomegt of Foreos and Lotei on Each Side lagton, give the following:• ""'V" Killed in battle.. . 52,854 Died from wounds . ^21,570 Died from disease 50,29’’ A HOT TIME. IN THE GREAT Civil VAR. The Nouthern Soldiers Had to Fight AaiRlnm Great Odds and Take More Itisks Than (he Northern. Some days ago the New Orleans Picayune printed statistics showing that in the Civil, war the losses of the Confederates in kUled wece'l/i propor tion greater than were those of the federals. ' • This statement was questioned qn the ground that the federal armies were made up in the aggregate of nearly live times the number Of men possessed by the Confederates, and that, therefore, the- largest army should naturally have suffered the greatest loss in Ijattle. It was con tended, on the other hand, that the smaller army, in order to stand against the greater, was compelled to tight with more desperation and daring, and that, therefore, its men subject to greater Ions. .-Moreover, any force fighting at large odds would have to eudurajjife fire of a greater numbgr of missels, and this would expose it to greater loss. Unfortunately, manyoftheConfed- fhett>imp«a1(*l)TeTurkan(t Hi«t>aet|erato war record* were Just nr .de- Deeds in Itouniania. Hprrible details are arriving liarc of the slaughter of the inhabitants of the village of SCfierdash, south of Lake Presba on May 21, by Rashi-Raxouks. It appears that on the arrival uf the Bashi-Bazouks, Chakalaroff’s band of insurgents withdrew to the mountains without sustaining any loss. As no rebels were left in the village the in habitants 'eijJeTtenced no anxiety? until sunddenly, at sunset, the Turks, who had completely surrounded the place, commenced a regular bombard ment, whereupon all the villagers as sembled in the streets. Though the *artjllery ceased firidg during part of the night, ths Turkish infantry fired all-night lorig.- The artillery bombard- merit recommenced at daybreak, but as it was ineffective the Tutksset fire to the village on all sides and commenced a general massacre, slaughtering women,* children, arid the aged. About tllT^e hundred houses were burned and upwards of two hundred persons, mostly w;omen and ctiridtew;" were killed. The women and girls were murdered while resist ing^ outrage. Whole household were slain. One family of seven were slain and their bodiStieaped on tiie hearth. Not a living soul was left Jn the village. The survivors, many of them half-burned or otherwise injured, tied. Some of the fleeing villagers were cap tured and bad their ears and noses cut off before they were butchered. The report adds that 1,590 villagers were in the mouptains without clothing or Total Died i» northern .... 133,821 prisons 20,43(11 A Colored Ficnic from Charleston Broken Up by to prove that they nre in a dangerous condition. ... ‘ -——-MENTAL ANGUISH. Without water, save for urgent needs, without beds, the upper part of the town being unable to house in any comfort the horde of refugees Tuesday night bids fair to be a repeti tion of others since the coming of the flood. - _ w The wretchedness, however, is more are these things-permitted ^ We may than' physicial, through: the discomforts due to herding large bodies of people in buildings not built for the purpose and trying to Iced an army without a commissary depart ment. Leavenworth, to the north, the only way by which the suburb can be entered with supplies, is. the place to which all turn with hope. Rations sufficient to last several days if care fully economized, were brought in during the day and additional bedding, clothing, medicine and other supplies are expected within the next 24 hours. Much qmntal discomfort exists be cause of the separation hf members of families who had little time to escape from the flood. Since Sunday fathers, mothers, wives, husbands, brothers and listers have visited every part of town, particularly the places of re fuge, looking for’missing members of their families. Something like order w^s brought out of the confusion Tuesday in the the distribution of such food as was at hand. With the supply ruemiog short it became apparent that the distribu tion must be made systematic and a central station for that purpose was - opened. ■*. DI8TUIHUTING FOOD. From there tbe food is sent in pro per proportions to tbe various schools, churches and other camps of refugees. A temporary hospital with medical at tendants has been established. Farm ers sold garden truck in the streets during the day and 900 sides of beef the loss of life wodld hare been far About Amite from the mill* be was were carried from Swift’s packing greater. But with its feet tied by the Makes, the locomotive settled serene ly into the chasm, its nose buried far the house. seen by4fian£*f the employes of Pacolet mill. They all say they Hi* ’beeves saved at that plant.^i*, stantly recognized him. He was then in an attitude much as though swim bad been approaching. 'The 'great ‘m}og,HGfi , aKns ancf legs extended and suppl his face was downward. He waa traveling at a high rate of speed much a bird flies. Mrs. bannister is requiem ported 14 an almost Insane condition. This is the entire riumber of ived at that plant. Merchants of Kansu City, Kas have e brought up large quantities of plies wMch Wm be stfliiped into' the suburbs as fast as possible over the only line of road open—the' elec- tric road from Leavenworth, Kas. Street can in the suburbs began to caught by soldiers in a ravine anS were killed after horrible treatment. Freed at Last. The Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier says tbe happiest man in South Carolina today, perhaps, is Cato Gadsden, formerly a .colored citizen of Beaufort County, but who since 1880 has been a convict In,the Penitentiary. He was sentenced for life for stealing 835 or 840 worth of cotton seed. He stole them at a time when the law waadifferent from what it now is, and as the crime came un der the class of burglary, and the house where~~the AQttoq °' ag stroyed in trie evacuation of anti re treat from Richmond, and therefore the Confederate returns are not com plete gnd 00 accurate account is avail- aide. The war department at Wash ington,which lias charge of all the Confederate war records, has recently begun the work of completing,, as far as possible, the Confederate records as to numbers and losses of men, and a call has been made which should be promptly responded to, askingConfed- erate survivors ariff Stirtfe authorities possessing muster rolls and other data of tbe sort,:to send them, either as a loan or gift, to the war department at Washington, so that they may be copied and-used to supply the ‘ lost records. So for as the figures are available today. The 'Picayune re peats wiih additions the figures print ed by it last^ Wednesday. - ' The figures in regard to the union army are taken from the “Statistical Record” by Capt. Frederick Phistdrer, then of the army, published by Charles Scribner’s Sods, New York, 1883, and declared to be compiled from army”or- ders, registers of regulars aud volun teers, reports of the adjutant general of thfearmy, and from those of the pro- vuat marshal general of the army^the ‘‘Medical History of the Rebellion,” and other sources. As to the union force* In the field, the summAiy of the men -furnished by and credited to the various States by the adjutant general's office is given by Slates, aud it shows, including Indians and negroes, a total of 2,772,- 408 men and money commutation al lowed by the draft law, to represent .to be 2»859, Of Indian troops there were 3,530, and of negroes there were 180,097, all of whom are Included in tbe figures of 2,722.408. There were 2,047 regl menu* of all arms.- After citing in de- talFthe figures In the' reports of tbe adjutant general, of the provost mar shal general, Capt. Phisterer gives the following as the most complete and re liable statement: Killed in battle.... » 44,23b Died of wounds r .. .... 49,205 Suicide, homicide and execu tion. . .. .. 526 Aggega'te 160,257 It is plain, however, that the mus ter rolls of the Confederates are ex tremely incomplete, because they give North Carolina 14,552 killed, while they give Alabama only a total of 552, id Virginia 5.328. and Georgia, 6.- 538, and Mississippi 5,807, when It is well known t hat any of these States furnished as many troops as did North Carolina, and did as hard fighting. In the “Medical History of the Civil War,” prepared under the direction pf the then Surgeon General Barnes, it was estimated that one man out of every 65 was killed In action, on* out of every TO waa wounded in action, and one out of every 56 died of wounds. At this rate the kisses of thej Confederates should have been 9,230 instead of 52,954, and tbe wounded should have been 60,000, while those who died of wounds should have been something over 16,000, but, on the contrary;' they were many times greater. The late distinguished Confederate surgeon general. Joseph Jones, esti mated the grandfota! of deaths jn the Confederate army from bat Ur,'wounds and disease, at 200,000. The federal official reports show that oCprisoners and deaths in prison the following Hgure^parc the round numbers: . . ./I Federals in southern prisons. .270,000 Confederates in northern prl- ' w ny~-rrr^^^— Excess of federals 50,000 Deaths of Confederate prison- " era. ..... . 26,438 Deaths of federal prisoners.. <-,22,570 Excess of Confederate . deaths .7....... < .'.A... r . 7.. .x,886 Commenting on these figures, the present efficient an<Ustudious Confed erate Surgeon General Tebault says: “According to thege figures tbe per- oentage of federals deaths in southern prisons was under 9, while the per centage of Confederate deaths In northern prisons was over 21. These mortuary statistics show how faith fully and devotedly the Confederate medical corps cared for tbe prisoners of the Confederacy in spite of the scant supply of medicines and instru ments and work8~on medicine and surgery, and tbe most absolute essen tials for satisfactory treatment, these having been made contraband of war.” . That the Confederates, by reason of tbelr smaller numbers were forced to fight with greater energy and to expose themselves more prodigally to the enemy’s fire Is shown by the re turns of losses in killed and wounded n battles, thus, — . ,. ^ . Confederate Federal Battles. _ Jess. hws. Chickamauga ... T ‘. l. 15,801 Gettysburg An, 11,1(15 22,644 17,684 Atlanta T’ 7,500 2,522 Franklin 6,250 1,222 Tbe above were battles in which the Confederates attacked their ad versaries in strongly Intrenched posb 1 Jons,' but in every case the tosses of the southern troops were out of pro-* portion to their 1 numbers but they never received a blow without inflict- BAD TEN KILE HILL HlGGZRfl Who Attacked tbe City Folks Guua and CTobn. Bis Car ried Back to the City ~ Wounded The Charleston P<«t says a fierce battle with guns, pistol and knives was fought at Ladson, a station on the Southern railway, seventeen miles from Charleston, on Monday, June L between Charleston negroes, who bad gone to Ladson to take part in a pic nic given by tbe Jenkins Orphanage, and several hundred Country negroes, Shooting irons were used freely and about t,wenly-flve negroes were wound ed, though not seriotuly. A man, woman aud child, wtiose identity are unknown, are said to have been killed, though tbe report is discredited. ,The excursionists returned to the city with 1 he wounded Charleston negroes. Six were sent to tbe city hospital, and others went to their homes. The country negroes who were shot did not come into the city. v The negroes sent to the hospital were filled up on the streets by tbe police. im GTktVtv MiOfcjtft■ side and leg, found on America street; . William Pryor, George Kenzle, Henry Langston, James Allen and William Perrin, found on Line street, suffering from gun ahotjwounds. .. Monday ?tUe annual picnic of the ■ Jenkins Orpahage waa given at tho , grounds of the Jenkins Reformatory - r kt Litdson. The, Rev. D. J Jenkint, who is at the head of'both the orphan- Tr-J, age and the reformatory carried about 1,700 negaoes on a special train. . * When the reformatory grounds were reached, tbe Charleston negroes were met by a large number of negroes / from Ten MUe and (be country adjacent to Ladson. The latter were armed with gum , rifles, pistols and knives. They told the city negroes that they bad come to have a good time and that they must not inter fere. ^ . Tbe morning hour passed off with out trouble, but along about 2 o’clock in the afternoon tbe Ten Mile Hill ^ wanted to danoe in the re formatory building, and the Bev, Jenkins put a stop to it, declaring that lie would not allow his picnic to be turned into a dance. His action incensed tbe country negroes, and serious trouble commenced. One of ”7 , the Ten Mile Hill crowd drew a pistol ^ on tbe Rev. Jenkins, and the city negroes rushed up to taken his part. There was much wranglng, blows were passed and fire arms were dis played^- The trouble was settled fori' time. - , ' T v Tbe country negroes organled them selves into a regiment, and sent word to the town negroes that they wanted satisfaction, and Invited them down to the road near a creek. The invlta- tion was accepted. Tbe ring leader of tbe country forces, armed with a. T - -J 7 stored adjoined a dwelling, Cato got the extreme penalty. It turns out that generally he had been a quiet, law-abidipg negro, but somehow yield ed to temptation. His conduct in the Penitentiary has been good. Thurs day a delegation came to see the Governor in his behalf. They gave him good character as a rule, and as he had served four or five times the term he would have served had the crime been committed later, the Governor decided to pardon him. " School Children Iteecued. The rescuing party sent from St Joseph, Mo., to Topeka composed Of 75 men with steam launches andr row* boats have returned and their places will be taken by other volunteers.. The. St. Joseph men rescued 200 school children from the Grant school, im prisoned there since last Friday. The childred were in a half starved condi tion. Tbe rescuers shot and killed a negro caught in the act of looting deserted houses. ■ ^ . Jacked Him Up. John Dennis, a negro was'lynched at Greenville, Mitis., Thurday after noon by a mob pf two hundred The negro had attempted a criminal assault upon a well known young lady who was returning home from tbe telephone exchange, where she work ed, on Tuesday night week. He was immediately arrested and placed in the local jail. A Warning. R. W. McDaniel, a young white man of Lexington County, TwiU serve the balance of his natunnife in tbe state tprigagjteHmT*^ fellow man. The supreme court de- 24,184 . ...... v 7.. 304,36ft ^ 4)f the negro troops included in the above. 1,514 were kilted in battle, LI,60 died from wounds, 29,2l2 diet from disease, 837 died in prison, and 5Y from other causes. The enlistments of foreigners In the federal army are thus given: Germans .176,800 Irish.... : .....144,200 British Americans ] 53,500 Rpglish^..... ■ ■.. W. . .. 48.300 All others............. .7777 74,900 Aggregate v . r.. . .... 494,900 The deficiency in the Confederate returns precludes any accuracy o 1 ' statement, has been put at 600,000 It shuuKF be remembered that tbe northern States had a white popula tion of 20,000,000, while tbe south had a white population of 6,000,000, be sides 4,000,000 negroes. The south ern negroes were slaves and were recrutted for the northern army from the districts In the southern-States that were overran by tbe invaders, to the number of 186,097. As to foreign ere, they were kept out of the south by the blockade of the southern rts by the federal fleets, but they wefe attracted to the northern army by tbe large bounty offered, and they joined in great numbers. If the six million Of white people'In tbe south sent one-tenth of their number, or 600,000, into tbe Held, the 20,000,000 the fafcthern whites shorild *t the same rate have sent 2,000,060 soldiers These, with the 495,900 foreigoers and the 186,097 negroes an aggregate of 82,680,997, or about ttHTsfcrengfch-repertok abowo elded that he should not have a new trial. The court was divided, two and two, and the motion failed. Burprleed Him. One of the biggest hauls of whiskey ever made Id a single raid was cap tured by some of the local constables Wednesday afternoon about two miles from tbe city. A constable approach- ed a well known gentleman on tbe street and asked imnlf he would ob ject to a search of a barn on a farm in the county. “Why, no,” Dr. Heise laughingly replied, “you are welcome to all tbe whiskey xou can find there.” The constable was insistent and Late In 'the afternoon when Dr. Heife was driving along the road to his, farm he met a wagon heavily laden with kegs. The constable was driving and Dr. Heise accosted him. “How much whiskey did you get?” be asked. The answer appalled him, for the man of the law answered: ‘Four hundred gallons!” This whiskey had been kept for some time in a barn without any one ever being aware of it except tbe em ployes of the farm. The constable said It was intended tor a local and well known blind tiger. Dr., Heise was for a time greatly dls- turbed lest he should be arrested for running a tiger himself.—Columbia State. An They (Pome High. i 7 • ■ entomologist estimates that bugs cost this country about 8250,000,- 000 a year. The grasshopper eats up 890,000,000 worth of vegetation if he I ^ lt £ ^4 thatthe is feeling well, the Hession fly 150,- 000,000, tbe chinch bug 810,0)0.000 and tbe potato bug 88,000,000 worth. Tobacco worms, moths, squash bugs, beetles, etc., make up tbe rest. _ En tomologists have been studying tbe problem of bug destruction for many yean, but progress toward tbe desired end is not rapid. the picnic crowd. He was overpower- | ed, his gun was taken from him, and he was shot with his own rifle. He was also badly cut, but none of his wounds are thought to. be serious. | After being shot he retired from tbe game. The battle waa kept up for several hours, and shot after shot wgs fired. The Rev. Jenkins gathered his or phans together and the female mem bers of his crowd and remained under cover until about 7 O’Cbxdr in the afternoon the hour for tbe excursion train to pull out of Ladson* Hundreds negroes made for the station as soon as the shooting commenced, where they remained, all tbe after noon, fearing to venture forth. Some were so badly frightened that they walked five miles to Summerville, returning to the,city this morning. When tbe excursion train, consisting of seventeen coaches, was made up to bring the picniekera back to the city, everybody thought that the trouble was over, but; Just as the train pulled out from tbe station, a a country negro fired into it, which was the signal for other shots and a constant firing was kept up antil the train was out of range. When fire was opened on the train by the angry mob of country negroes, tbe wildest excitement prevailed in the coaches. Men, women and chil dren crouched under the seats. Some locked themselves up in the toilet rooms, and small negro boys climbed up into the bundle racks in the top of tbe cars, hvery pane was powdered train came In c> —■—. A Sea Disaster. A dispatch from Valparaiso, Chile, says the Pacific Steam Navigation company’s steamer Arequlpa, which during a lull in Wednesday’s great wOCld“make storm at Valparaiso left tbe port in an endeavor to ride out tbe gale at Charleston Monday night with not a single bead out of a car v^indow. Tbe shots fired into tbe coaches broke win dow panes and several passengers were peppered. One woman was shot in the arm, and a small colored boy wounded in the back. None was kill ed. . Tbe Southern railway authorities have taken tbe matter up, and will make every effbrt to apprehend the negroes who fired into the train. A reward of 850 will be paid for the arrest of the parties that did the shooting. The Bey. Jenkins says tnat the wildest kind of eidt total federal force. The Confederate losses, as compiled from tbe tbe muster rolls extant and on tile in the war department in Wasb- _______ cabled that the steamer, board, was lost. Capt. Todd, Us wife, fifty of the crew and many of the pas sengers of the Arequlpa were drowned. ed, and the for blood. country They •* load ing up passed Ten Mile HIU, b hot into a