The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, August 02, 1906, Image 1
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ftut Ii Wfaat CommiMtoner Tt
tom Sayi About the
STATE DISPENSARY,
Aup®® *•••••••«• •, ••
Oonbraband (Intaatory
Feb 29, 1904)
Btftl eaUte
Merobaadlae In hinds
of dlspenMis Feb 29;
1904
IferohandiseCla vsntorj
of stock it State dis
pensary, Fab 29.1904
^ospsoded aoooants..
Personal aeo ants doe
state for ^jgapty bir-
rsls, alcohol, ate....
• moe tWENlY TWO-KILLED
1,472 47
62 800 66
400.568 85
490.036 69
2,896.24
V
OOLLIBION ON THB B£ 4-
BOARD A1RL1MB.
Which U Vonchcd for by Om. Wille
■ i + J
Joaes. Accordlnc to the Fiforea
the Dlapfnsary Assets Arc
Nearly Dooble that of
Its Liabilities.
. „ Mr. W. O. Tatum, sUte dlspensarj
oommlasiooor has glron out the fol
lowing statement:
\ “Emeutly a nuxber of papers, anc’
J. Fraser Lyon, candidate for at*
general, aaserted that the die
was Insol Tent: that if It
put tn liquidation it oould not
pay its debts. At the time this state
ment was made I came out in a eaif
Mfr^rg a suspension of Judgment anc
asserting that the dispensary was per
—teeHj solteas. I said I could pro
dnes the figures to prats that the dis
pensary was amply able to pay eten
daiiar it owed. I hate the figures t<
more than sustain my contention and
will submit them in this statement
It took mueh time and lots of'work tc
go through the groat massof account*
at the state dispensary and prepare *
statement showing exactly
condition of the institution. 1
not expect the newspapers t*
publish all. tbe figures jo their col
umns, but 1 invite any oit'sen, par
ticularly Mr. Lyon and the editors of
tbs papers which q lestioned the solv
of the dispensary, to call at the
state dispensary and exantre for
themselves the books and accounts
and so verify the statement X hake
6 830 781
Total aasets 81,012 537.98
LIABILITIES
taboo! fund.. . .1 I 619 664.12
Personal accounts doe
by stats for supplies,
whiskies, wines, beer
alcohol, eto
i Member Are Two Colored
I
People From the Towa of
SeanettsTille.
l dispatch from Balslgh, K. a,
s the head-on collision
I Buckingham and Hamlet on the Sea-
Mi in the d
492 873 86
Total liabilities...
"It will be notieid
▼as on
imount
band at
of stock
..81,012 637 98
how llttlb cash
tbat time. The
was 8890,000 {In
board Air Line resulted
of 22 persons and the injury of 23
The regular local passenger train
was an hour lata and instructions were
wired from the train dispatchers of
fice hire to hold it there tor an extra
freight going west, but for some rea
son the order was not delivered. The
operator at Booking bam is W. M. Lu
ther. The distance between Hamlet
and Bocklngham is six miles, and Bn-
glreer Bandy of the freight,
wLUt/iAUtl vA mvAMJw- WmB wOv\J } VW mmj I ^^^saV>4ifr ■ ■■ n ■ i nmr unybtANt ts^miw w* ilUv tm aivJU axu
•ound figures or 8225,000 more than vS poftuned to send forth a naval expod
July 21,1906. Of that stoek I?50,
000 wss represented by an aooumula-
-ion of bard stock which had not been
worked eff since tbe institution began
Trainees. This has been worked off
luring my administration, and the
present stock contains hardly 620,
000 worth of anything exoept
fresh salable goods, This alom
resents s tremendous improve!
eonditlon in the lest two years.
"Besides, in the liabilities si
Tented in the statement of Feb
1904. there was over 8300 000
oounta past due, some of
much hi six months overdue.
sondltlon compared to tbe statement
'or the present day ought to be con
vincing to any reasonable mind of the
improvement of the financial condi
tion of the dispensary.
"The school fund is not a debt of
the dispensary, bat lie profit and lorn
\ooount. It is lees understood than
my other feature of tbe dispensary.
This article is too long to permit me
to stretch it farther by adding fin ex-
planattonqlLthaschool frmdrT #iIl
WHERE IS IT?
Ninety-Six Sailors On a Myster*
.
tons Island That ~
NO ONE CAN LOCATE.
Os This istead May he Uvieg Command
er tlmrt aid the Crew of the
Ueited States Mae-of-War
- That Disappeared Loeg
Hardly a year pestee tbat the Pretl
dent Of the United States is not 1m
This
here era tbe -figures v give suob an explanation later in
eondensed to the point where any
mind can grasp them and any memo
rv retain them:
"On June 1,1906, the state dispen
sary owed for wntskey, beer, eto., e
total of 1735 886 94. Since June 1.
and np to and indudlngJuly 21,1906
there has been paid on the above ao
counts a total of 9451,006.61, leaving
abalanoiof 1284 881.33. Butofthk
balance 8197 388 67 Is not yet due,
whlob leaves the amount duo on old
aMOuhti 887 492 71, and the stats
dispensary had on band at tbe close
of business July 21, a cadi balance of
896,618.76, or 89,026 06 more than
enough to pay all accounts then due.
However, when the now board of
dlrootois were restrained by order of
the dispensary investigating commit
tee from paying old sooounts of the
dkpenmry instead of letting tbe die
pensary funds lie idle, they discount
ed a number of new accounts by this
course making an extra prefit for the
state of 83.908 32. Of the accounts
so discounted, an aggregate of 879,
119 76 would not have been due on or
before July 21, and so bad not thorn
accounts been discounted the east
balance on that day- would hays been
8176,637 52, or 887 146 81 more than
aaough toNavapaid ad aoocunta due
at that time.
"Oft July 21 the State dispensary
owed for whiskey, beer, supplies, etc.,
8443,226.34, though only 87 492 71 Of
chia amount, as stated above, was
" ■ tllat date. * Any aeMrtlon that
spemary is not solvent and Oould
;pay out every dollar it owes if it
-'owes If It owes If it went into 1’qi
tion seems ridiculous, when the
sets of the institution are compared
wiik that total of its debts.
THB ACTAL VIQUBBB.
“On July 81. the total of Its
another article."
W1LIX JONB8' STATEMENT.
General Wills Jonea also gave oat
tbe following statement:
"After reading Commissioner Ta
turn’s statement, and after having ex
amined tba balance sheet qf the books
of the institution I say without hasi-
lation that I regard tba present con
dltlon of tbe fioanoee of the tasUtn
tion se In better shape than at any
time during tbe last ten years. I
wss chairman of tbe board from April
1st, 1896 to April 1st, 1897, and also a
member of the board by appointment
of Governor Heyward about six
mouths in 1903, and I feel that I am
thoroughly familiar with the affairs
of tbe dlspensary. ,,
(Signed) Wiub Johns.
10 PBXVJthT LT1
CHINO.
A Negro to Bo Hanged on Board An
\
—' .. Greater Boat.
A dispatch from Baltimore, Ml.,
says with the grsasst possible secrecy
easily assets of 9900 000 in round fig-
made up Of 896,618 76 oath 00
about 8866,000 of stoek in the
state and county dispensaries, real ee
tale whlob oost 956 360 56, eupplice
of bottles, seals, corks, etc., machin
ery and offloe supplies. If all of He
ameta were sold at fifty oents on tbe
doUar they would be ssore than sufll
eteut to pay its Indebtedness. In the
abort I have given the value of the
real estate at Its oost price, hot it
must be remembered tbat it was
bought before the tremendous boom
of reseat years In the price of Colum
bia real estate, The opinion of real
estate men, architects and tbe oountj
auditor of Blohland county is tbat a
very conservative estimate of tbe pres
eat value of the dispensary real estate
would be 8160,000. AcoepUng tbat
figure would ssake the dispensary's
aieetoa millioa dollars with which k
meet debts of less than 8450,000
Far from being insolvent, if tbe die
pessary wen closed out it oould pay
avtry cent it owes and hundreds of
thousands of dollars into the aohool
fund, to which it bsa contributed in
Ihs test tan yean 11,361,697.65, be
tides paying $3,991,326 49 to the
towns and counties in tbat same pe
riod, a total of 15,343,023 12.
"That Is tbe condition of the dis
pensary today. The facts given
above sustain say ooetanttoa that the
dispensary is in batter condition to
day than ever before. When I took
_ i of the dispensary in March,
1804; tbe dispensary’s condition was
by tip* foliowing statement
sbruary 29,1904:
of ptate dis
for quarter ending February
William Lse, the negro who has been
held in the city Jail under s?atenoe of
death for aeeaultlng two women in
Somerset county, aome weeks sgo, was
on Wednesday placed aboard tbe
steamer Governor B M. McLsne of
{be Maryland Oyster bavy and started
for Somerset county to be executed
for hie crime. ~ :—7*~
Lee’s CMS has been .one of great
diffl ulty .td the authorities owing to
the indignation the crime aroused on
eastern shore of Maryland. It
been repeatedly declared that the
oltisens of that locality will
allow tbe negro to be legally executed
and threats of burning at the stake
have been freely made. After the
crime Lee fled to tbe eastern shore of
Virginia, sod to protect him from
Maryland pursuers he was taken to
Nerfoik under guard of Virginia Stats
troops, thence bt wee brought back to
the city, triad sad oonvlntad prompt-
ly. The law gives a convicted mur
derer 20 days between the day of con
viction and bite execution,
period expired Wednesday.
On board the Governor MeLane the
offioera having Lee in charge took a
gallows, ooffln and all other necessary
things, and, It Is said that the execu
tion will take place on board the
steameun soon sa possible after the
waters of Somerset county are reach
ed. This probably will not be until
early Friday morning. It is hoped
thus to circumvent those who swore
to lynob Lee.
three mites from Hamlet, stopped bis
train and lumped before the oolllaioo,
Toe dead:
White. Frank B. Lewis, engineer,
Hamlet; H. 8. Byrd, baggage master,
Rockingham.
Colored: Thomas Hill, fireman;
Watt Bogan, porter. Adesboro; Bev.
Thomas Jones, Booking bam; Gilbert
He Fed den, Hamlet; Handy U»plas end
wife, Laurlnburg; G*rt. Harrington’s
baby; Niter DuPres, Bennettevllle, 8
O.; Mary Land, Beonettsvtlle, S. O.;
Mary Bell and child, Rockingham;
Hannibal McNair and child, Laurln
burg; George MoLaurln, Hoffman, N.
0; Jane Ramil, Hoffman, M. 0.;
Brlnker Bussell, Hoffman; two un
known men.
Two other unknown men died en
route to Charlotte on special train.
The white injured are: J.D Bowden
of Wilmington, N. 0 , conductor pas
senger train; G. S. Birmingham,
Booking bam, N. 0 ; S. A. Carter,
Rockingham; E. 8. Sandefoie of
R-.Ak1iigha.nn, - , .. ;
• Tbi colored injured are: George
Morgan, Bocklngham, N. 0;
Thomas, Laurlnburg, N. 0.. Oscar
Lee, Hamlet, N. 0; Gert Hen ton,
Hamlet, N. 0.; 0,oar Flowers, Llles-
ville, N. O.; Bleb Douglass, Bsnnetts-
vlUe, 8. 0.; May Douglass, Bennetts-
vlUe, 8. 0.; Ivie Oxlndine, Lumberton,
N. 0 ; Frank Soott, ; Jim OJom,
Gibson, N. G.; L is!e Bowman, Ham
let, M. 0.; Perry Clark, Laurlnburg,
N. 0., MannleLee, Hamlet, N. 0 ;
Cota via Jackson, Hamlet, M. 0.; Jane
Stewart, Laurlnburg; James Stewart,
Book!ogham; Carry McNair, Laurln
burg; E. A. Radley; Bocklngham;
June Radley, Bocklngham.
The freight train was an extra and
wss southbound from Raleigh to Mon
roe. Conductor Hunter is not report
ed hurt and Engineer Bundy is vary
slightly injured.
The mall train was No. 44, running
from Charlotte, N. C., to Wilming
ton. This train was in charge of Con
doctor John D. Bftwcn, formerly of
^alctgb, and a brother of Gapt. J. J.
Bowen of the Southern Express oomp
here. He wss slightly injured
loser Frank Lewis of Hamlet,
man Thomas Hill of Hamlet, bag-
H. 8. Byrd of Wilming
ton and Porter Bogan of Wad ee bora
the are w of this ill-fated train were
ear and eight
oars of the freight were derailed and
of them piled upon other oars
pieces.
Why tbe order waanot given to the
passenger tralnal Rocking hem is not
known, and will be In vet ligated by the
superintendent of the road. It is said
tbat the operator at Buckingham is an
experienced man and baa been a faith
fulandoarei
l and careful employe of tbe company
for several years. When
disaster retched Bsleigh
Superintendent Jenks went
tely to the soeoe. A, train
up and the injured taken to
as soon as they oould be gotten
tbe wreck. Oasf eta were sent
Balslgh and other points to Hamle
sad Rooklngton to receive the bodies
Of the dead.
Itlon to stive tbe most fascinating sea
mystery that ever existed—and this
one has baffled all Inquiry for nearly
half a century.
If "Boblnson Orusoe’’ is the most
absorbing piece of sea fiction ever
written, how mueh more interesting
would be the authentic record of ad
ventures of no lew than- ninety six
Boblnson Cruaoes all oast away on tbe
same uncharted Island In the North
Pacific forty six years ago.
Whenever sea-faring veterans eon-
grefiate to exchange experiences and
remlnlsornoes the probable fate of
this whole ship’s crew of Oiunas is a
favorite subject.for speculation.
"Aye, aye, Captain," says a gris-
xled old second offloer of a tramp
steamer, "I remember the Levant as
well as If I'd seen her cornin’ np the
Bay only yesterday. In those days she
was a man o’ war to be proud of. The
United States had few stauncher. The
whole orew lost, you say. Bill? Not a
bit of it. Pitcairn's not the oqIj un
charted Island toshow np just In time
) save a shipwrecked orew."
"Bight you are, Mate," says the
Captain, "and there’s still a patch out
In the Pacific south of 20 north lati
tude and east of longitude 14C as big
ss tbe State of Maine that nobody
knows any more about titan they do
of the North Pole. Tou all know
that’s about where the Levant got
osught by the typhoon book In *60.”
"That's the Idea, Gsptatn«lf there’s
no Island in that pateb, says I, why
has*nobody ever run soroes the wooden
boll of the old Levant, or any of her
floatin’ Jnnk?"
thx Tell-tale mainmast.
Except her mainmast that strand
ed on Kaalualn in tbe Hawaiian*, ”
says Bill, making a historical oorreo
tion. \
"Tbit stranded spar goes to prove
what I’m telTin’ ye," says the old
tramp second effloer. Why was noth-
bat the mainmast of tin Levant
- seen afterwards? Well, I’ll tell
ye. The mainmast went overboard
when the typoon fast struck her, an’
laid a elear course for Hawaii. But
tbe offloers mangged to keep the Le
vant’s noee p’lnted sou’ sou'east for
Panama till this here undiscovered is
land bobbed up, caught her fast on a
coral reef an 1 made Holdnion Cruaoes
of everybody aboard."
Suob, in a nutshell, are the pqpsl
billtles—perhaps, even, the poalUlI-
—regarding the fate of the offloers
orew of the Levant.
Commander William E. Hunt, with
ninety five offloers and men, started
with tbe sloop of-war Levant from
Hila, Hawaiian Islands, on Septem
ber 18, 1860, bound for PanafflA via
tbe California coast. These were the
offloers under Commander Hunt:
Lieutenants—McB. S. Porter, E 0
Stoat, Colville Jerrett and B ^ Bo-
wen. Surgeon*—J. 8. Gilliam and
clroomftrenee at the slings wss found
near the mast Consul Miller aod W
a Parks, Marshall at Hilo,
this opinion Baker was tbs pilot who
piloted the Levant In and out of HUo
harbor, and he had tbe dimensions of
her masts and spars.”
ACT or OONQRBSS JULY 24. 1861.
"Jons 3), 1861, shall be deemed and
taken to be the day on which the
sloop of war Levant foundered at sea.”
This sot of Congress, Implying that
the Levant having "foundered," wee
irreparably loss with all her orew, fail
ed to draw sny curtain of oblivion over
the incident Tbe mystery took too
deep a hold on the Imagination for it
to be allowed to sleep, forgotten. Every
nation whose flog floated over the
highways of the North Pacific saw Its
•hips menaced by the unknown. Here
was a vast area of ocean into whlob
their ships were liable to be blown by
storms which was absolutely unknown,
lying well off the beaten track of nat-
igation, aod possibly mads hssardons
by tbs presence of oharaeterlstle ooral
reefs and Island which in tbs Peetfic
are generally so low ae not to be vial
hie until a ship is almost upon them.
The gfeater part of this unknown
area still exists. Ills to the south
and east of tbe rente from San Fran
cisco to Australia, and to the sooth of
all the routes from the Hawaiian la
lands to Panama and to Callao. Wha
len bad explored It only tentatively,
noting certain islands, some of which
remain mythical to expeditions which
mads systematic search for them.
The al most absolute eilet os end mya
tery about the disappearance of the
Levant, especially, se the years rolled
on, tbs fact that no trace of tbe
wreck appeared, beyond the stranded
mammset and yard, inspired every
sailing master traversing those waters
with a firm belief thaf*tbe Levant had
oast her orew upon some land, herself
dinging fast upon the rooks whlob
caught her,
Between 1827 and 1839 this un
known region had hew somewhat nar-
rowed by enrtau of three British and
one American expeditions. All of these
expeditions reported indications of
shoal water and urged the need of fur
ther Investigations. During sixty
years, however, no further program
was made. In 1899 the Fish Commie-
slou steamship Albatross traversed
part of tbe doubtful region iad re
ported seeing several lowlying telanrts,
evidently the same that exist la wha
ling
Oxe year before the kiss of the Le
vant Captain John de Greaves, sailing
from Honolulu to Qallao, reported the
discovery of an island at longitude
13.6 and nortii latitude 17, whlob wee
about fifty feet high and two miles
long. This Island was so near the
route of the Levant that ir she had
reached that neighborhood in the
night she might easily have been
wrecked udoq It. —
Tbe latest effort of the United
States Government to dispel the mys
tery of the Levant was made in 1903,
when President Roosevelt dispatched
the Tacoma out on an expedition of
discovery. All that the Tacoma did
was to narrow tbs unknown region
down to an area of about the extent
of the State of Maine. It discovered
no island where there were viti
DENATURE ALCOHOL
BURPLUB FRUIM. AND VBGB-|
TABLBB AND WASTE BTOVT
POWDER TRUST
signtof A wnfitiL- Or which were
ited. The Taooma negatively diapos-
ed of several island theories, bnt not
of the possibility of tbs existence of
one upon which the aged Robinson
Cruaoes of ths Lsvant may now be
living.
O teof the great characters of fic
tion is popularly supposed to be among
these castaways—Pailtp Nolan, the
pathetic hero of Edward Everett I the 'eubJatiTof fa
(ten Be Made late Material far Meat-
lay, Lif hting and Knanlaf
MagfeML i.L
“The passage of the denature aloo-
hti bill by Congress at Its recent ses
sion is one of the best aod most help
ful measures ever gotten through that
body. Many persons do not fully un
derstand tbe real help that is to come
from this bill, but when they team
that denatured alcohol can he used
for the same purpose that gasoline is,
they will understand in a measure the
great benefits that we pay reasonably
•xpeet to derive from tt,” says Mr.
Sigo Meyers, of Savannah, Ga, who
has given the matter a great deal of
thought and his views on the subject
are of more than ordinary interest.
"I am reliably Informed that dena
lured aloo hoi eanbe produced at a
oost of from 6 to 10 oents per gallon,
end I know that the processes of mak
Ing It are not very difficult, and In
fact are in reach of any faraeer of or
dinary means. - Tnough every farmer
has not sufficient quantities of raw
material for making sooh an enter
prise profitable yet in eaob neighbor
hood there is s plenty of materiel
that is wasted every year to make
these plants paying from the very
start. Denatured ateohol oan be made
from any traits, corn and all grain,
sugar cane, potatoes, besta and a dot-
so other vegetables.
"It has ooourad to me that tbe beet
thing to do with tbe large surplus
fruit and vegetable crops of the state
would be to convert them into
at hand the fuel for running our
tomobllee, oar email power plants,
d Instead of burning ooalor wood
at high prloe we oan use our cheap
and Inexpensive alcohol for cooking
and lightning, heating purposes and
for many other am. I should not go
farther with this interview before
■tattng the fast tiMt denatured alco
hol is potoon and oumot be used as a
beverage any more ao than gasoline or
kerosene—in faet, a very small qusn
tity taken lutaroally produoss death;
hence it is +■**** no one, no "Batter
how religious, oould object to Its man
ufaotuxe as it positively cannot be
need aea bevenMA
"The pernsge of this bill was a di
rect throst at the Standard 01, whlob
fought tte enactment Into law
allot the powerful tanas at its
maud. The fbns«sof tbe country
were behind the MB and when these
homo handed eons of toll gave the
word It wanton the statute hooka
Denatured jqq n tastta
ed to rob the Standard Oil of a good
deal of tbe profits it is now making
on gasoline. Denatured alcohol will
be used in a thousand different .linos
of ail^jwfth which chemista and skill
ed artisane an favaiiiEr mil with
which the general public have' little
Idea. Sven I know of only a few uses
tt sen be put to, even than tew de
monstrate the ifact that lie use will
become general la the United
in a short time.
"I sm of the opinion that It will bt
nearly a year before the government
will be able ta permit the opening of
these plants. In the msentime tbe
reel benefits that may be expected
from the pamage of this MU win be-
Will Be Hit
TO MAKE GHEPOWDl
Per Its Owa Use,
Csegrsss Has Already Mads Appro*
prlsdea. May Save Sn fta
, New* from WeefalBcton taps that
‘^Trust basting” te beeoming a habit
with the government. Tba
trust, tbs meat trust, tba all
ihaooal trust, tba paper tm
grain trust, tbs
others have had their
livened by the Boorovtit
tion; and now it Is
time on the powder trust.
Taft has salted for
the ooastnietion of a plant with Ml
initial capacity of 308,080 ]
powder annually and 18 la
that the mill will bs ta'
within a year.
At the recent s—ion,
thorlxed the building of
powder plant as a sort of
it hoe been known tor year*
powder manofaeturow of tba country
were forcing tbe governmnst If pap
mors for its powder than it fairly was
worth. Intact, tba powtar trait has
the i
compels it to pay anjr
When tba BIHj
nlant la in ooezatlon. tbs
of powdar will be ~
leflnitansMi Thai
that tb# trust will
der to retain 11
reduee its prices,
dine to meet the
uras the
■and to
be etilged, in or-
rernma
If It
(of the use of both tin
oavy.
Already the Mfvp departatanl tan a
cooetderable powder ptent al ladtaa
Head, Ml, near the tig (un proving
grounds. The plant has eeapotetp at
About 3,000 pounds a dap- Toe ex
pense of ssaonlaetaxing the powitec
el the Indian Head mill ii tar tees
than was formerly paid tba powtar
trust ter Jta product and the taapi
has bens toned to redoes Its pries ta
76 cants a pound. Bp taa aarol ex
perts, this pries tt eotafderod tpo
nigh, although not seriously exoerolve, .
ration it te niarded seUhaljr r
price of powder to the
sup berodnoedtoevinMitr seals a
Ooogi
It will
ii8<
oativti
or i
drive Ihs
of hnssiiMM. but simply toi
to ""-I*—c-ytA that they:
led with a profit ~
itoaqa
8108.
i of either thenta
William Bradley; Purser, Andrew J.
Watson; Master, James G. Musely;
First LleutedAut of Hirlnes, P. L.
Brownlog; Acting Boatswain, Harri
son Edmonstoo; Gunner, Robert 8.
Carpenter, John Jarvis; Sail-
Charles S. Frost..
official early records of tbs Le-
! vant’s disappearance are brief, but in
te resting and significant. Command-
! er J. B. Mongomery, United Statga
Ijovb Orssed.
At New York alove tortt Italian,
Salavtor Dove, ran amuck in West
100th street Wednesday morning and, — \ —— ■ — — — i
in trying to shoot his sweetheart sent Lancaster at Panama. The ago and were wrecked on that island,
bullets into the bodies of three pedes following arc from Montgomery’s re-1 there to exist for eighteen yean Im
ports to Washington from his flag
Hale’s "Man Wlthont a Country,
whom the author disposed
the Levant. Captain Lawless,
writing of his orates, ssentloned re
ceiving a letter
of that miilerpleoe
"If yon have found dear Phil No
lan, bring him at once to this
I will adopt him as my grandfi
The groat historioal analogy fok the
theory that members of the orew of
the Levant are still alive on some
unknown Island te tbe sitetanee uf
the colony on Pitcairn Island, in- the
South Paoifie, these people being de
soandants of the ore# of the Bounty,
wiiloh mutinied more than a century
men! in every section of the country,
and when the government to randy
opening of throe plants tbero willl
of them ready to begin!
hnslnsm OomsaiMkmer John W.
Terkss of the Intanml Revenne De
partitant, hec_
study the methods of handling
e plants by other governments.
Most, If not all of ths important for
eign governments do not tax deoatur-
led alcohol, and it totaifi that in Ger
many, for
powderi
lOtthei
for both the
36,000,000
govern meat basin
pandlture on the part of
i, if trust prloai
der, of nearly
i in imauat
I rasp a profit of ta
tnaaavy §8
On
~81M88,-
faeturer, and that it has dona a gnat
deal towards making Germany one of
tbe Isadlng manufacturing countries
of the world. I look tor It to have I wor * now In propyatioa of
of the
will be under the
inr Beverly W. Dunn of
■ft of N
trlans, two of whom were seriously in
jured. Dove, who was badly In love
with Tharesa Lodtte, beoauw she ac
cepted attentions from another man,
Wednesday morning he waylaid her
and fired shots resulting ss stated
above.
Alr«ui ot Tuxaway D*m»
N. A. Patterson, a brother of Con-
gressman jss. A. Patterson, ot Barn
well, writes to Governor Heyward
from Arden, N. 0., calling attention
to what ha considers tbe danger to
Anderson end other South Carolina
counties from tbe big dam at Lake
Poxaway. He says the lake it a con
stant menace and that residents below
it will some day have a Johnstown
flood to go through with. Mr. Pat
terson also wishes a commissioner of
deeds for Sooth Carolina appotned in
Asheville. He says notarial fees then
are Just double their amount in this
ship waiting in the Bay of Panama:
"Nov. 20, 1860—1 have recently re-
| oelved letters from William E. Hunt
| that the Levant Is now ready and on
j Its way to this port."
"January 81, 1861—The Saranac
and Wyoming will proceed In searob
I ot the Levant, to Hilo and Honolulu
The unusual length of time stnoe sali-
to
he
V Ranked ^gltaT —
President Roosevelt announoes that
he te pleased with the campaign plane
of the republican congressional ojm-
mlttee which met tbe president aad It
was decided that a "stand pat” pro
gram was the proper one. Messrs.
Taft, Shaw, Cannon and Beveridge
agreed upon the big guns for
the stump. Tbs oommtttas will op
en headquarters in N. T. By agree
ing ta stand pat on the tariff
tion the Prealdent flanka
Alliance Dtabanda.
Pursuant to a call toroed by State
Scoretarr J. B, Neebttt of the South I ing produce* serious apprehension fox
Carolina Farmers AUianoe, a meeting her safety." '
"February 13, 1861—No word yet.
Hurricane last September dismasted
an American dipper, and H. B. M
line of battleship Ganges had her sails
blown from tbe jar da
“A letter from Commander Hunt,
dated September 3. I860, stated he
would start from Hilo in tan or twelve
days. It te now known that he sailed
from Hilo September 18, without
of purpose to return to this
port’’
"February 14, 1881—Commander
J. K. Mitohell, of the Wyoming, at
Hilo, reports his cruise from Panama
No word, except that Hunt intended
to take the usual Northern route to
via the coast to California,
to get the record of his work before
DOgtl
"June 8, 1861—Thomas Miller,
8. Consol at Hilo, reports a
l ashore seventy-five miles from
ItiMro, supposed ta be the main matt
ot the Levant. Charles Spencer, Iwae
Niehote and Ohrtelopher Baksr ex-
thit maal of ysQow pine and
18 to ha th9|M-tb* I*
vast. Pvt of a tower ytnFftlNtoto in
of that organisation was held In Co
lombia Wednesday night, there being
about 16 present. The alllanes ex
change fund having been distributed
according to am order of tbe supreme
court, the members decided to formal
ly disband, thus ending an organisa
tion that was at one time one of ths
most powerful in the South.
Doable sulolde.
At Marion, Ohio, 0. G. Johnston,
aged 24, was found deed Wednesday.
Tan days before Johnston quarreled
with his sweetheart, Cora White,
the result of which she committed
suicide by taking carbolic sold. John
ston ateo took carbolic add, and to
make the end sure turned on the gas.
fora their fate was discovered and
made known to tbe world.
These Bounty mutlneea for nearly a
score of years were genuine Robinson
Cruaoes, subsisting wholly upon fish
and the other sea food, the birds and
animal* aud the fruits whlob the is
land afforded. __ —.s —
The Levanters were, perhaps, able
to save part of the wreck of their ship
from which to build huts, and some
of the stone, Intending clothing.
If these old men are now teothed at
all must bs with tbs skins and tea then
of birds, or even woven grasses, or per
haps the woven fibre of tbe outer husk
of the occoanut. It la possible that
there were seeds aboard tbe Levant
and that thta colony of Orusoes has
been able to cultivate the soil u a
means of varying their supply ot fish,
birds, eggs, turtles and so on. Pjs-
the salvage of the ship's ohrono-
stiU give than the time
meter may
EtopeU with White Girl.
Henry dayter, the negro
In Ohiosgo when he
marry a white girl with
had eloped from Irvington, Ky., w_
planed la the county JaU at Launvllte
for safe keeping. Weed
poiirto nut a mob was <»»g
Irvington to lynob Otayter.
ot dav. As at teaat a soon of them
most have bsea men of education,
doubtless they have kept diaries whlob
contain records of their strange ex
perlenoss from dap today.
But the mystery of the lost Levant
and hli crow, and alto of the gnat un-
explored region, ta too tastenittng ter
attempts to aelve tt to osan until
every square mite of those latitades
has been serutinlxad. Evan ten yean
from now, if the fatal island la found
mueh tbe sasweffeet in the United
States, and 1 am certain that no *w
tion of country will be benefited ao
mueh from the eheap power thus
made poatebl* as will the South.
"It sup be genecallp underatood
but at this time the regular ateohol
now in nae te taxed at the rata of
tbont 12 a gallon. Under the hjgLjoat
pasaed this tax Is entirely removed.
4s I have stated It will admit of the
farmer utilising every spare ounce of
the fruit shd vegetable produem of
his term which under the old law was
not permissible, as so tew oould afford
to pay the tax to manufacture. In
addition the demand lor denatured
alcohol at the pries it had to be sold
was so iategfloant that ns one oared
to maauteoturo It. It is now worth
In the open market about 12 60 per
galioo. Whan the present bill beeom-
es of foroe, say a year booce, it will be
•old at retail around 20 oents par gal
lon and by the barrel at a mueh small
er prlOA I look for a
era of industrial activity
all through the country, and the man
who is going to be the reteptent of
eS Diyere*
A mstill dispatch to the
Herald from Savannah sapA
rtsge that will a
over ths state, if i
•oath was that of Judge
Twiggs to M<s Luete 9,
They aieaowboth
vannah. It
toted _,
part
•gala his wife about
•go in August*
ysan ago
meat. Js _
kata and saoured a i
mouths'
lady,
to Georgia i
who bad bi
a divorce from
his love for .hfs
ateiaut of Mi to
bar. Nos 1
Ths result was the psrrtegs
Gave mu*
Jerry Milter a a
toi, Tana., upon
hard headed farmer,
of the country <”
in i
half savage old men my
fi to tall tevlllsatioa the i
stow ofths loroof Ihs Levant i
of their bog i
Fell Overbear*.
Walter Ormond; a prorotipsafi law-1
ysr of Atlanta, Ga., fell overborn
from the MtnsasOUp off thptitoSt of
his return frtoi Mew Tort thfia-
He «i
I to hie i
he
int
'•'Ste*'*. *
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