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.m m , '*■; v| BARNW] fAY, AUGUST 27, • >. } th* 5^ WHAT SOUTH CAHOLDIA NEEDS. ^-jfwC Ht> Matheraon, • Wealthy CtUten BenBettaVtne, Qlres HU PUn of Ibr Them to *• OooBtry. To the Editor of iW Hews and Qourier: Poesibiy there is not a citizen this State engaged in anricultu o^UMy not a thinking one-Htho l.'jk 8 nWgiven the majtter of labor con- slderable thought. * j What with the^emigration to lumber mills and turpentine farms of Georgia ahd Florida and the inefflei- eney and indispositiou to work of the -growing generation of negroes, the problem of field labor is one of press ing moment—one that must be met and, if possible solvea» I am not one of those who regard the building of factories as an all-un mixed good. Unquestionably the mills as hereinafter providsd. Each of these county organizations gill elect three delegates to attend a State con vention to be held In Columbia on Tassday, November ia next. This convention will organize itself Into the “State ImnJgration Bureau of South Carolina.^ adopt a oonstitu- tkm and by4a#s, bath for the State several counlk organizations, The known and as "Sooth Carolina iramt- r nglBt H This convention will abo prepare and adopt a bUl to be enacted Into a law at the next meet ing of the General Assembly of the State, making this a State institution for purposes hereinafter stated. Each county will proceed to collect as large a fund as possible, and the Immigrants will be divided among the individual contributor, and hence, between the counties, In proportion to the amount raised/ / The agent above referred to should go to Scotland, carrying with him credentials from the State and Na- FATAL A0CIDB1 The Son of Ool. D. f. Duncan Iqlgffi lyJUlled iXr-T. ip to V*$«4. (ton fiaye drawn and are drawing from the ihtry a large proportion of the yeomanry of the hmd- the hardy sons A»f toil—«ft:itfe leaVhigUt and its • ■ health-givlug occupations 1b U ie ne gro. Instead of remaining upon And till ing our falf fields, drinking pure air of ^ cupatloos. moral aA and villages crowded, Wt ng those qc highest dtvekm- doss 7aC- putrid filled with seen the tory child class will THE BODY HOEEIBLY MANGLED ■ The Young Man Fell In Front of an Engine While at Work machinery : loort. nale must WoiMU|nrwhat be the'generation three of Tour remov ed from the present! TUB NBORO OrrBUlOKATIXO. It must be admitted, too, that the negro is fast deteriorating in point of t efficiency, to say nothing of Ills morals and Irresponsibility. The “old-time darky” is dying out and the younger generation (1 speak in all Ahxtacss, ,_fqy I have nothing but good will to wards the negro,) shows no disposi tion to improve himself. ~ With dne deference to- Booker - Washington and his crysade for the “Yadkee dollar,” I venture the asser- tloo. andtuch is my tafon&ation, that wCft Id per aeaVof-the graduates in the several departments of manual lAbpr of Tusk eg ee Industrial College follow their several trades after leav ing tiie College grounds. > What, under these circumstances, ill we do? Abandon our lands, Ithdraw our faqailies to the towns forsake Ah Is, the first as well as IvJiOhlest and most import ant of all occupations. Teach our children other pursuits and make of them poor preachers, shyster lawyers, quack doctors, or—precarious mer- | chants? • \ I While not a great admirer of Mr. Bryan in some of his ideas and fallacies, yet there was never a truer utteranse than when he said, “Burn down your cities and leave our farms And your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and tbe grass will grow Ip the streets of every city in the country.^ Being largely engaged and interest ed In farming, 1 have given this mat ter considerable thought and believe that by concert of action and tiie ex penditure of a few dollars, which *jll in a short while return tenfold more, a scheme can be adopted which will procure many, if not as many as we need, of the best agricultural laboreisln the world. Though not “native aqd to the manner born” of Scotland, 1 am bat one generation removed, and I have visited tbe old country several times, besides keeping up communication with several persons there. Tbe north of that * ‘ ■/" « *r. • W* ! “Land of the brown heather and Land o?the mountain and the flood,” .• Is densely populated with & class of people, tbe finest specimens of man hood and womanhood I ever saw. The country is rugged and infertile, and , the people, as a class, are very Who has read Ian McLaren’s I inimitable stories but has in bis mind’s eyfi a picture of these people, [>r but proud of their blood and ?nt; honest from principle, not __j policy/intensely patriotic yet smopolitan in their ideas; religious, not fanatic; industrious, frugal 1 as fine laborers as the world can luce? emi ite and would, did they have tbe and at times the bare neees- arles of life are so difficult to obtain haTthe public authorities encourage migration. America is the land of romise and of plenty Ui these hard- rorklng people, but heretofore the olonies of Great Britain—-especially Loads and Australia—have received Imajuritv, owing to the aid given pern by these colonies and the effi lade to direct emigration in 1 ructions. I am satisfied AH _ tsrour own State this most populalioh S¥mt make tbe Wonal Governments, and through our minister at the Court of St. Jamps be accredited to the Governmeut of Great Britain. Armed with these evidences of his character add responsibility, I haven’t the slightest douhtbut that this agent can get as many of the very beat of laborers as tbe fund he has charge of will authorize him to em ploy. It is rather premature to make estimates, but, as many, owing to past experiences, doubtless will ask “is this scheme practicable?” I submit following as entirely within the possibilities of such an organization. WHAT IT WILL COST. Immigrants can be landed in New York at about each and it does seem to me that the railroads in this State, ifi their 'own interest, will bring them to the State free or foi a nominal fare. Sav that the people of Marlboro; 'v»n, Florence and Darlington wish two thousand of these laborers, 116,000 will land them New York, and allowing $4,000 for additional expenses, the toBil et-p wlH be T20.000. For an advance of $10 each, therefore, one can get a laborer, in comparison with whom the present aborer is as night to day. How often it is the case that a farmer has to make an outlay of that amount be fore a laborer moves upon his pre mises, or has to make ad vances to that amount before a “lick is struck?” Tbe foregoing estimate is based up on the theory that tbe Immigrant comes over on a regular line as steer age passenger, but if a “tramp” steamer were chartered, not only could a larger number be brought over, but tbe steamer could come directly.to one of dur, own ports, say Charleston, Georgetown or Beaufort, and thin save expense. But, says someone else bow are you going to get around the Allen Immi- on tbe Footboard near Columbia. While out on bis engine footboard oiling some valves, as be was about to complete a trip from Asheville, John Peter Richardson Duncan, a Southern railway fireman, lost his foothold Thursday afternoon In some unknown way and fell in front of his engine, be ing tilled 'before he could even cry out. \ r gration Apt, which prohibits, under heavy penalties, the importation and migration of Cureigoers and aliens un der contract or agreement to perform abor? In the first place this Act ap plies only to “any person, company^ partnership or corporation,” and can not, affect a State, hence my sugges tion that the State take charge of the schemer I am no lawyear, and claim to have no tecbnicle knowledge of tbe subject, but to my uncultured mind it seems that the National Government could not IntefTere with a sovereign State in its' efforts to pro cure desirable inhabitants. -In the second place, it seems to me that Con gress would relieve so desirable an ob ject from the provisions of the Act, ___ 1 si ncerely.hnpe.that some-one-else will take up the subject and that we may have a full and free discussion of the matter. Tbe accomplishment of the . purpose sought is one way in which—the all-prevalent and never- ending “negro question” may be solved, for the class of immigrants to Which I refer will make firSt-ciass citl- , untainted with socialism and un bound by unions; a God-faring, Ulverty loving, law-abiding and faithful serv ing class of pople. That a worse class may not come, and that bur fields maybe male to “bloom and blossom as a rose,” Lt us get together r—— 1 if A Matlimn. The engine and the entire train of 16 coaches passed over his body leav ing It dangling from the centre of .Bookter’s trestle eight miles west of the city. The train, which had beea.. “slowed down” to paAs over the trestle still iffidergolng repairs for the dam ages received in the Jlood of tbe early part of the summer, was running only about six miles an hour at the time of the accident. None 'of \be train •rew saw tbe unfortunate boy fall. BODY HORRIBLY MANOLRD. Engineer J. R. Ilunter, missing his fireman, whom he had told to oil up the valves, stopped the train, pa^r senger No. 14. due there from Ashe ville at 2 o’clock, just^as it pulled over the trestle, and the body, was found about a train length behind lying dangling between tbe rails. The skull was crushed into shapelessness from the ears and eye brows up; both feekJH^ crushed hUe^fomlctemssses of broken bone and bruised flesh, and there was a slight flesh wound over the heart. r”"* . ^ The body was laid out in the bag gage car, where on reaching the city it was carefully dressed and prepared for shipment to his home near Summer, where It will go Friday morning at 7.10 for the funeral and the Inter ment. ,—f-k—~ • i—- •, < .- HAD A BRIGHT FUTURE. Young Duncan would have reached its majority next month. He was a bright young rariroad man with a fine future before him 1 .- He was fearless, probably too tnuch so, being almost reckless about bis own safety, often assuming risks where they were not necessary. Early In the day he went out on the footboard passing around tbe cylinder for. tbe same purpose wb)le the train was running 40 miles an hour. This very element la his disposition, it is thought, was responsi ble for tbe horrible accident that sent lira into ..eternity in a twinkling Thursday. But all who come in oon- tact with bisrbright, sunny disposi tion and bouyant nature were grieved at the news •ef-hls death, for every body likes and admires a brave, good- natured, healtby-minded, vigorous- ooking boy. Such a youth was Dun can, -reraarkaMy free from vicious habits for a lad in his business, and kindly In his manners. LOVED TH® SERVICE. J' * Young Duncan had been in th^ rail road service a little over two to the' _ of August 18 $»J^ Aboulj hence is expected uiat this flpR town will be entertaining the largest num ber of visitors ever Shown in its hla- tbryf The trial of Jas., H. Tillman for the murder of N.. G. Gonzales in Ooiumbls Is sat forytbat time, and it is generally believed;, will be delayed no longer. Almost 600 witnesses have been summoned to appear in this case by the opposing sides. All available space In tbe hotels has been engaged weeks since by interested parties,-and how the immense number of spectators sure to be on hand, will be acoOmmddated, is an Interesting problem. ' The last census gave tbe town something over 000 inhabitants. It is thought that at least 5,000 will be here during tiie trial. Meantime tbe prisoner occupies bis cell in the Lexington Oodntr. jail. Sheriff Caughman has made him $s Secretary Wilson Points Out Injury Prom Comer in Cotton. POEUGN NATIONS ASX ACTINX The Shortage of tbe Crop Has Noth- •' •' * ' ; y.1r- v In* to do With the Probtbt- At Washington on Thursday Secre tary Wilson of the agricultural depart ment in An Interview declared that In finite mischief is being done to the cotton manufacturing industry and to the cotton growing industryby the ^en speculative movement In cotton. There speculators have conoered tbe market,” -Id Urn-rcmUr,, ‘W * >ut up the price so high that manu facturers cannot use raw cotton. At ,comf<trtaWe^ poes4bter"|mtfctng"1lfiw4«*kA* , *g."^)rleeB tftere iX Tio'' ljjrofit to Benocttsvllle, August 17. Baek to Their Tenu. An Augusta Chronicle special from Charleston says when the German Artillery went into camp, pitching their tents directly in front 6f what was known as the womans building during "the, exposltjoo, Uiey decided they would not sle^p under their tents, the grass being wet, and slept In the house. When Capt. L. F Foster, U. S. A., arrived in camp Wednesday and found that the artil lerymen had their baggage in the “Big House” be gave orders for them to move into their tents, which they did in short order. Tbe soldle rs slept under their tents Wednesday night for the first time. It rained hard all night long but They had to face r^In some of the tents water rose very high and floated off some of tbe baggage of tbe soldiers. Robberv at White Stone. A dispatch from Spartanburg to Tbe State saya robberies amounting In all to a total valuation of $600 have the White Stone ^Sprtrrgs hotel since Tuesday night and np to dipaer hour Wednesdayr Mrs. J; B. organ of Augusta had a watch which cost $135 stolen. Mrs. Hough of Co lumbia bad $30 worth of jewelry stolen and other robberies were effect ed. Tbe operations were confined to five rooms of the bolsl oa the south on the shady side of the building on the first floor near the sheriff’s own quarters and occassionally permitting him to exercise himself by walking up and down tbe corridor. As a rale the sheriff does not lock the cell from the outside but leaves tbe lock for Tillman to turn If he so desires. ;., t - Three times a day Mr. Marks, who keeps a restrurant just behind tbe jail can be seen bringing tbe prisoner bis meals. Tillman states that he finds his quarters here pleasanterthan those in the Richland jail, where he was Im prisoned during some warm days pf May and June. Many vlsito* attracted by curjosity or other motives go to see tbe noted prisoner. Sometime since bis wife and little daughter spent several days in Lexington with relatives and made frequent visits ta tbe jail. Others of his kinsfork have been here from time to timer Tillman’s little nephew, a handsome boy of seven or eight sum mers, Is staying In tbe jail to wait up^ on his uncle and is said to be a general favorite with tbe prisoners. Speculation as to tbe v«|dlot in the case is almost useless. AX stated aho\e, Mrs. Jas. H. Tilllman has re latives in the town and also In the county and people feel much real sy pathy for bea. It Is doubtful lr tbe same feeling exists in her husband's case. The belief of almost/ all those who have read the newspapers and care to express themselves is that the act was genuine murder and should be punished. At the same time It should be remembered that Senator' Tillman has always had a large following la the; county, whatever hia nephew’s following was, sod that this fact is almost sure to influence some jurymen. So fatjenilment does not seem to have Crystallised, but it will be a sur prise if Tilllman is either acquitted or sentenced to be hanged as a result of this trial. Not a few look for a mis trial aadThen another application for bail. Jk- FascTnated wlth -the work,- he Wofford college in his sophomore year, where he had made excellent records, and went out as a fireman on the old South Carolina and Georgia Extension road. Then after spending six months n the shops there he was placed on the extra list. A few weeks ago he suffered a contusion of the, spine in the wreck near Hendersonville. He bad been working on the Asheville ruh only a week, rapidly In efficiency and would . likely have been promoted in a short time. He was finishing -a “loooiaotlvo run ning” course la a. correspondence Thief Gaptmred Ifle Captor. Albert Eoklund^Mlap George John- sou, who was captured at Rawlins and was being taken back to Chicago to answer to tbe charge of grand larceny year^- ejected a remarkable escape from De- ,e,tr [Tective William Marsden. Marsden left Rawlins Wednesday night with Ecklund, and to make sure of his man shackled him to a seat in tbe smok ing compartment of a chair oar. Marsdei While- was sleeping beside bis prisoner J£oklund went through the detect!*® pockets, secured the keys to the shackles, released himself- and then shackled the officer to the . steam pipes. Having received the but was advancing officer’s weapons and other property, * ~ ” Ecklund left the train at Laramc. Mareden was not awakened by the conductor until Cheyenne was reached when he called for assistance. AA Marsden had absolutely nothing on high school and had made unusually records In these examinations. Tbe dead boy was tbe son of Col. D. P. Duncan, secretary of the rail road commission, who telegraphed Mft. Duncan to come to Columbia at once and she was expected to arrive Thursday night. The death bzzrz. the more heavily upon her because she had just finished an anxiohs and exhausting seige in nursing her little daughter through an Illness from snake-bite that had all out proved fatal. his person to prove that he was not a prisoner, the trainmen would not re lease him. The railroad authorities telepr&phed to Chicago for Instruc tions, and when the train reached Syndcy Maisdon' was finally released 1 trORr SCORES GAMBLERS. tire .. v . Price. Corner Meet V- & He Cowimita Lenrgel ttty. be Broken. Bnckct 8bone MM Hard By * At Qtustottor N. 0., 4a A charge to , /# / * J tbe grand Jury Judge Walter H. Neal, of tbe superior court, Mid special em phasis on the suppression of gambling, having direct reference to “bucket shops.” He called the attention of the grand jdry to tbe f%ct that there i» a laW on the statute books of North Carolina, enacted by tbe legislature of 1889, which makes a contract in futures void and also provides that any per son who buys or sells future contracts may be Indicted. “Aslpng as that law stands on the statute bookrf,” said Judge Neal, “it is the duty of tlw courte to enforce it, and V wel ft py duty to bring the matter to the at- n of this grand jury. You have, no more rfobt, in the discharge of species olgambUngi than to dlaorfmln- ate between other violators of tbe them. The price of manufactured i foods cannot be manipulated as can be the price of raw cotton. “Tbe manufacturer found it more profitable to sell his cotton to the gamblers. Mills were elosed down be cause of there being no raw material eft, and in some Instances cotton which was sold to European manufac turers has been brought back ter this country and used In the gambling op erations.” • Secretary Wilson; continuing, said that most European nations which manufacture cotton and also own ands in outlying provinoea where cot ton might be grown are anxious to be come independent of our speculators, and so are organizing and holding out indua meota for the development of the cotton raising industry, The British, the French l the Germans, tbA Belgians apd others own land* in Africa, and they have been lor some time organizing to preducerootton. They know,” aald/Secretary Wil son, “that we are training scientists lere to study the eotton plant and they have been anxious to get our high data men over there to organize for Them, The United States sent 000,000 to Egypt last year to pay for long staple Egyptian cotton. The department of agriculture Is trying to grow as good a staple at home, "by hybridizing Egypt paid me a vlsit Mid that with the Irrigation of ed Areas along the Nile valley growing ouj/oT the completion of the great dam, the production of would be greatly increased^ pay 15 cents a day for labor There Is a breed of cattle which all the work and stands the beat bet ter Ilian mules. Those European nations owning territory inAfriea have been coming to our southern. States and engaging expert negro labor to go over tbere and organ!z£The natives. “Twelve-cent cotton In tbe United States is a great encouragement to all those people to increase their output. Tie nations in Asia are doing every thing t9. iucreste tbe cotton produc tion to become Independent ^^ ns. Tbere has been a feeling for some time that it would be wiser for us to grow more cotton, but gambling opera tions this summer bad tbe Immediate effect of stimulating efforts lor in creased production.” Tbe secretary said that every effort is being made by tbe department of agriculture to help the cotton grow southern States to ure ortBe southern States to better say stem at agriculture through which a larger yield of cotton can be had but that the increased output neces sarily would come slowly. The United States had not beea Increas ing its output for several years, the death, crop having suffered considerably last year on account of tbe lavages of the boll weevil. Mr. Wilson said the feet of the present crop had whatever to do with the the speculators^ T***-*™ cotton to the m-j dared, Is •— crop. your duties, to dlsdnminate between **^ 0 * 11 the little All gambling is indictable, whether It. be playing carfis for gain, shooting craps or any other form that some people might ooneider Innocent.” J udge NeaBmorallied on the evil in fluence of gambling, especially gambr ling in futures. He called attention to the belief of many th^t they bad an inherent right to spend their own roon®y in such ways as they thought proper, and, while this might be true as an abstraet proposition, it was also true that they were subject to this quaHfiaatioo: No man has the right to dispose of bis money or property in ^ was found, for although a manner detrtmental to good "morals, ^ Continuing hia remark* akviitr the 1b*^Body, there Continuing bit remarks along the same line, Judge Neal spoke of the trouble aqdjiagrtce caused many food men falling by lbs way side bv gatabHng. ‘“For Instance,” he said,-there M tbe sun engaged in funds belonging to other i The m Alphonse on Stouhto .avenue,! Mia ' msamsk of tbe and Wight rwif iwimsi We* uuvtjrca Dj wedged in between The bands were and* ■M teiir»»$i clothing, and partly open . NhtaWMntataii severed deep' Dad a •he left wrist Both things ai In theta. All the , apparently been'made with i •harp instrument. Alpfc missing from Ms home noon. Nothing was thought' senoe at first, but when he did i lorn tot supper a that ended with *•*** the body by his father at tbs xuesoay afternoon. 'flta evident that the not committed near people. He first slakes hisown money and loses it. Jn trying to recoup hta with no intent to steal, be takes tbe money that belongs tot an other. Again fortune him, and he becomes a an embezzler, and his family 1$ dip' graced.” Tbe temptation la so grant along this line, continued Judge Neul. “that the state it tbe exercise of its sovereignty, has placed a ban on all rfnmswi forms of gambllbg and declares that ^t* 1 .**” >■» contracts in futures ” PMaebarge delivered by any and creating new varle- tn Charlotte to recent yean has been ties. The secretary of agriculture for ujked long a*o j udl{e blood on the and from tbe without astphaa. were only < body and clothing of the tad, the horrible character It looks as though the commuting the deed, blood from the body, it to the kit where It The pollee are was murdered by n child Bis! killed lu ini udge Neel to the grand jury. Char lotte people havebtaome aamwtniawi to seeing onslaughts made on poker, crape and other forms of where tbe stakes maybe a . . or a few ddHam, but there, to think of inveighing against : h does bllhg when the stakes amounted to hundreds and thousands of dollara. On every hand peopto have asked: “What action will the grand jury take? Will Any one toe indictad^ fqr dealing in futures?” H may be remarked in passing that no one would, be surprised to see well known men of this rtty summoned be fore the grand jury and put under their oaths to tell of thel# connection with trenssetioas in -Che futures. Virgloia-CsroUna or others.—Atlanta Journal. Mi slble. ~*,r A disnatch frem 1 the murder of r kllnciroumstan Dead Body la a Can. * The blood stained corpse of a five- year-old boy w»s .discovered Wednes day evening by baggage man A. B. McDonald on a Pittsburg, "Virginia neasee this year and I and Charleston railroad train en route pan. ha ‘ ‘ to Daveraburg, Pa- The little body was packed tightly in a can two feet high and 18 and was wrapped In folds of, a marks in the locals wse the i Ml lest mail, a :with! tr- in ita to toe fattened winter. Nest i be shif good] v a^t - / • ’ THE tjCCIRnifT. Just before reaching The trestle, En gineer Hunter asked Fireman Duncan to oil the % engine valves. This could have beiyi done from the cab, but Duncan chose tbe quicker method of Spartanburg, was sitting out on tbe footboard on the opposite side of' tbe boiler. Mr. Hunter losing sight of tbe boy on the side he had gone out on and bearing from Green that he had not appeared on tbe other side, stopped the train to Investigate. They learned from Mr. R. h. Popej^ trestle foreman at work in front of the train, .that tbe boy had fallen io front of the engine. Much sympathy is expressed for Col. and Mrs. Duncan and for Mr. W Gist Duncan, tbe dead boy’s brother. —The State.* Born On * ‘ * Brutally Murdered* Thursday a negro farm band on a place a few miles from Spartanburg went to that city aad reported tbe finding of tbe body of a negro lying out in and old field. Hundreds of negroes and mahy white men viewed the corpse, but none ideattfied it. Tbe negro met with an awful death. He was struck in tbe back of the .head with a large rock or some heavy mls- (S to a rial turar < ucer h prices, as that 1$ all out of his f ' Secretary Wilson pect of relief for who are thrown out] by the mills < the scal^ltyDff corner in of the raw new crop was in. . “Of J Austin twins, 111$. pockets were turned wrong side can outward and there was every evidence of a cowardly murder and robbeigf Tbe bead of the victim rested on hia old felt bat and tbe blood and braths bad trickled through the cavity li Hug a pool otflbe groqnd* body bad lain in tbe field a day or two, for tbere were signs of decom potHton.^^ / -""V,., :* Killed Himself After AIL W' ^ Herman T. Ooastes, wbo murdered Louis Hull at Spring Valley N. Y., on May 19,1902, committed suicide Id the Rockland county jail Tuesday by cuttidg bis throat with a rusty razhr crop: anotheri allow dlanftpqjM horsemen' at the toMl town, an i:»i a