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~\ - - . i> , " N THE SHEPHERDESS. The moon. a slim young shepherdess, Lets down the cloudy bars. And in the purple fields of night, Leads forth her flock of stars. p ?Minnie Irving, in Life. P? THE RICH HAN'S tys ANSWER. ^ "You see." said the blackmailer decidedly, "I have you in my power." The rich man shifted uneasily in his seat, so that his face was thrown into deeper shadow, but he made no 1 Cpjj* . "Yes," continued the blackmailer, "it just amounts to this. You come here, as if you had never seen the place before, figuring as Mr. Robert W. Harrison, the great American millionaire; you buy Irvingstone park, and think you're, a country gentle.s man, and your girl comes over from her Paris school and appears as Miss Harrison, of the park, the great American millionaire's daughter." ~\Yho says I am not a millionaire?" interposed the rich man. His face was still "in the shade. "Oh, no. Mr?or?Harrison! Xo one says you are not that. I took care to make sure of that before 1 ^ came here." "Then what do you want?" "Merely a, little share of your property, Mr. Bob Wilde." He who was known as Robert Harrison started violently: for a moment his face came into the bright glare of the reading lamp on his study table, and there was on it a look of unmitigated astonishment. "You know that!" he cried. Then in another voice: "Well, what of it? I took, Harrison for business purrnsps. and it is lesrallv my own now." "Well," pursued the blackmailer In smooth tones, helping himself from a box of cigars on the table as he spoke, "call it business purposes if you like. For the present we can drop Mr. Bob Wilde, but"?drawing his chair nearer and speaking in an impressive whisper?"what about that robbery in the bank at Carber,ton, on November 15, some thirty years ago?" "You know that, too? You know ?that?" , "I know you are the man who absconded with ?300 of the bank funds that night, and that it's not too late now 10 tell the whole story to the police, or for you to be arrested for it." "Don't?don't be hard on me," pleaded the rich man in a faltering voice. "Hard on you!"?with a confident laugh?"I like that. Now, I look upon you as my little bank, and I intend you to help me." "And if I refuse?" ' "Then good-by to Mr. Robert Harrison, qf the park, and enter Mr. Bob Wilde, the bank thief." "Have you no mercy?" pleaded Mr. Harrison pathetically. "Who are you? How did you find all this out? I have never seen you before." "You'd have seen me dozens of times before if you had kept your eyes open. You see, I work at Williams', the saddler's, in the Highstreet, Carberton. I've been there a good many years now, slaving away at a miserable ?2 a week; but, naturally, I've always been on the lookout for something better. Well, in the attic at the top of the house there's ? lr?t nf nlrt hnyes: been there aood ness knows how many years. I soon found keys to fit, and after going through a lot of mugty old clothes and books, I came dli a bundle of ancient letters from old Williams' , brother in America. Well, of course,' I sat down to read them.'' "Of course,'' murmured the millionaire faintly. "In the very first letter I opened I read, 'I do believe I saw Bob Wilde, who robbed the Carberton bank, in the streets here last week.' Further on, in another letter?but here, I needn't tell you how I ferreted it alt out; but in the end I made out that Bob Wildb and Robert Harrison are the same person, and you've owned it now." ^ "Well, if I give you ?500 " The man burst into a loud, rough laugh, which he instantly smothered. "Five hundred!" he said scornfully, "I want five thousand." "Impossible." "Oh, is it? Just think it over, Bob, my friend. What about your daugh? ter?" "Ah!" burst from behind Robert Harrison's hands, in a sudden groan. "Ah! I thought that would rouse you. Here's Miss Molly, you see, engaged to the son of Sir John Brandon. What about that engagement if I go and tell Sir John who Mr. Robert Harrison is?" "Enough!" cried the millionaire. "Enough! I give in. But I can't give you the money now. Come to morrow nignt, or, stay?i ve a dinner party to-morrow?say the night after." "No, I won't. I'll say to-morrow, it suits me better." II. People were always willing to come to one of Mr. Robert Harrison's dinners. This evening's party had been no exception to the rule. No one was anxious to shorten the evening, but at last one or two prepared to say good-by. "I want to beg you all to stay a little longer," said the host. "I have a little surprise, a?a?kind of entertainment. Will you all follow me?" They all trooped after htm to the millionaire's study. Folding dootscovered on the study side by thick curtains, separated the room from '&k i "Mi 6 BHWwnnD another, and opposite them chairs had been placed. Smiling rather oddly, the host disappeared into the study, and carefully drew the curtains together behind him. Then the door into the study from the outside was heard to open, and a ! man's voice said jauntily, "Well, Bob! Here I am, you see. Now then, where's the tin?" Was that Robert Harrison's voice that answered in a cringing, wheedling manner. "Certainly. Mr. Gregson? of course?only, won't you reconsider it? Do?do let me off." whined the rich man's voice, and the other took up the strain mockingly, "Let you off? Oh, yes, I'll let you off? when I'm done with you. Pay up or take the consequen-es." "Is your mind quite made up?" Mr. Harrison seemed to be walking j about the room as he said this. ! "Quite, you thief, you miserable I ??i rr.nnn tmi toll lUUUfl. f a? 111c: ~./vv/v Vf* jl m a the whole neighborhood that you are the man who robbed the Carberton bank thirty years ago."' j "Then tell them now!" rang out j in the millionaire's deepest tones as j he dashed the curtains back, revealj ing "all the neighborhood" in various j attitudes of astonishment. ! The blackmailer stood holding to ! the back of his chair, the picture of ! bewildered rage. j "It's just this!" panted the blackj mailer. "He's a thief! He left CarI berton thirty years ago! " I "Quite true," said Mr. Harrison smoothly, taking up the tale. "I left Carberton thirty years ago?ran away, in fact. At the same ?300 of the bank money disappeared. I did not know it at the time. I heard of it more than a year afterward. The fellow clerk who was t.h? thief knew himself to be dying of consumption, and he wrote to nie and confessed what he had done and how he had always allowed me to be blamed for the theft. The money had been gambled away almost at Once. He told me to show the letter, if I must, after he was dead, but bagged me, if I could, to be generous for the sake of the young wife he was leaving. I destroyed the letter and simply adopted the name of Harrison. I had run away simply because I was tired of my life in the bank and longed for wider fields. This is my story. I j can only ask you to believe it; I canj not prove it." "But I can!" said a voice from the background. All turned in astonishment. It was Mrs. Cartwright. Deadly pale, and trembling very much, she stood fac ! ing them all. "The thief," she said j slowly, "was my first husband, James j Trevor!" "Mrs. Trevor! Is it possible? And I did not recognize you!" ? ? "I did not recognize you, Robert, I you have changed so much, or I should npt have kept the secret as I f have done. It has weighed on my j mind all these years; but you had (disappeared, and I. thought it could j not matter. Beford^James died he wrote out a full confession and signed it before witnesses. 'If ever Robert is in trouble for want of it you can produce it then,' he told me. I have kept it ever since. Forgive me? I " Every one began shaking hands at this point, except, to the general surprise, Sir John Brandon. He stood immovable all this time, with his eyes fixed on the features of Robert Harrison, and an unreadable, somewhat puzzled expression on his own face. Albert Gregson, still holding to the back of a chair, had been almost forgotten, but he had one more card left. t "Sir John!" he cried in a high, sharp voice. "Sir John Brandon! You don't know who this man is whose daughter your son is going to marry. You don't know, I say! Why, you knew him well as a boy.*? he's just Bob Wilde, the son of your father's keeper!" The rich man turned and faced "the proudest man in the country" with a smile that lit up his plain, strong face. "Master John?" he said softiy. "Old Bob! " shouted Sir John, dash ing at mm ana uvei uinuiig iwu chairs. "It is! It is! My dear, dear old Bob!"?he was shaking both hands at once now?"to think I never knew you all this time! Oh, Bob! How often I've wondered about you! The times we had when we were boys!?and you never told your oldest friend! Here, where's that blackmailing scoundrel Gregson? I'm a magistrate. I'll deal with him! " "Why, he's gone!" said a chorus of voices. And he had, never to be heard of again!?London Answers. His Identifying Mark. | Viscount Tumour, the Ear! of Winterton's son, was being interviewed in New York about clothes. On this subjecst, however, the young man refused to talk. "You," he said, "are the sixth reporter to talk clothes to me to-day. ! 1 think you reporters are too perI sistent. You give me no rest. You j remind me of a friend of mine- at j Oxford who used to like to drink a I mus: of ale at the Mitre. He was al j ways very particular about having ! liis own mug. 4*At the Mitre, one evening, he said I to the barmaid: i " 'A mug of Bass, Nellie: and be ; careful to draw it in my own pewter, j Make no mistake.' " 'No fear of malting a mistake i about your pewter, sir/ the barmaid j answered, 'I can tell it with ease.' j " 'How so?' my friend asked. " 'By the handle,' said the bar* | maid. 'It's always warm.' "?Wash* I ington Star. ) : . I ' . ' '<. % - v *; .-ilk ' ^ jPalmetto State News[ i 4 k Ttvvvvvvv V V W W m Requisition Turned Down. Governor Ansel has refused lo honor Governor Terrell's requisition for William P. Lovette, who is being held at Bamberg upon charges made by the daughter of Superintendent J. P. Dillard of the Greensboro Cotton Mills. * * Newberry College Commencement. The commencement exercises of Newberry college will begin with the baccaluareate sermon by Rev. Dr. G. Armand Miller of New York city Sunday, June 9, and extend through the 12th. An excellent program has been arranged for the exercises, a large number of distinguished speakers having accepted the invitation to deliver addresses 011 that occasion. * * $ Eoard Upholds Faculty. The board of visitors of the South Carolina Military Academy, in star chamber session at Charleston, upheld the faculty in the matter of expulsion of .several cadets from the citadel some wekes ago. An attempt to have the action of the faculty rescinded was made by parents of the discharged cadets, who were all of prominent families. An attempt was also made to have the board discipline Professors Bond and Moore for publishing articles commending the discharge of the men in the alumijJ journal. This petition was not considered. ? * # Big Dock Ready for Inspection. The big granite dry dock of the Charleston navy* yard will be officially inspected in a few,days and probably accepted by the navy department.* The dock was built at a cost of about $1,240,000. The last stone was laid on March 16, 1907. The dock measures 60S feet long, 154 wide and 42 feet in depth. It will float a ship larger than any battleship now in the navy. The dock will not be ready to receive a vessel until the quay wall and caisson are built and fitted which will be within a year. * * * Mayor Wins Rate Fight. Mayor Rhett of Charleston won his fight against the Atlantic CoasJ Line for a reduction of the passenger fare to and return from Richmond for the confederate reunion. Recently when the rates were announced, Mayor Rhett, who had been giving close attention to the discriminations practiced by the roads against Charleston, discovered that the quoted rate for Charleston showed an excess of $1.4u over the mileage and he took the matter up with the officials. After a few days the mayor was informed by President Emerson thai a mistake had occurred in the Charleston rate and it should be $9.35, which still was 45 cents in excess, according to the mayor's figures, and upon further protest the railroads reduced the fare further, quoting a rate of $8.20. Charleston sent a good delegation to Richmond. *' * St Former Bank Teller Arrested. Herbert Ruff, Jr., former teller of the Bank of Ridgeway, was arrested in Columbia a few days ago by a local detective. May i, 1906, young Ruff resigned his position in the Bank of Ridgeway, of which his father was president, and left for parts unknown. Subsequent to his departure it was discovered that his accounts were short to the extent of from $20,000 to $25,000. It was stated at the time that his father would make good the larger portion of the defalcation and the directors of the bank the remainder. The young man had beeif'engaged in the brokerage business outside of his regular position in the bank, and it was stated that his losses had arisen in bucket shop transactions. After some months young Ruff wa.\ seen in Columbia, dnd at other places in the state, but as it was understood that his alleged defalcation had been made good, there was no attempt to I prosecute him. However, one man who claims he lost money by the alleged defalcation had the warrant for Ruff's arrest sworn out, and his arrest followed. * * $ Magistrate Acquitted of Murder. At Beaufort William T. Wiggin, a magistrate, was declared not guilty of the murder of William Bennett, a negro, on the night after the conflagration in the city last January. Wiggin had been supplied with a rifle and ammunition by the captain in command of the troops called out for the protection of property after the fire. He made the statement that the negro had advanced upon him, despite challenges and seized the muzzle of the rifle. Wiggin wrested it free and as the negro stooped as if to seize some stone or stick with j which to continue the attack-, fired, j killing Bennett instantly. The prosecution undertook to -show that the neZ ' .. > - s . , - > - V . - -* '? - V- V ? - , - ?/, gro was a fireman and the shooting j unnecessary. ? * -i Negro Car Porter an Assassin. After being arrested at the baseball 1 park at Carlisle by Constable Clarence C. Cist, brother of President Wm H. Gist of the Bank of Carlisle, foi disorderly conduct, Arthur Davis, col- i ored, a Pullman porter, waylaid and I shot and instantly killed the former near the Seaboard Air Line depot. At a preliminary trial Davis wat released on bail. He got his pistol waited for Gist to pass on his way home in company with a friend. Davis shot Gist dead, the ball passing through his body. Gist and his friend both shot five times at Davis, but j missed. Gist died in thirty minutes. Excitement ran high for a time and ' iaee trouble was threatened, but the ' counsel of cooler head prevailed. i Scandinavians Are Coming. Commissioner of Immigration Watson has been noi/fed that a party of 1 Scandinavians will arrive about June 1 7 and be colonized in Edgefield and Aiken counties. The families are com- * ing from the northwest, where they 1 settled after coming over from the ( ( Scandinavian peninsular, but were dis- * satisfied with their location. These 1 are the first families of a general movement to that section. About two weeks ago a prominent 1 Swedish colonizer secured options on about 8,U00 acres of land in the two 1 counties. He proposes to cut this ( property up into 20-acre farms. He ( will leave for Europe about the last ( of June and expects to bring enough ( people back with him to take up the * entire tract. The class of families he ( is bringing all buy their own homes. * < * CRUSHERS' ASSOCIATION J j ___ Of Georgia to Meet at Atlantic Beach, j Fla., in Annual Convention. Hon. J. A. Aycock, president of ( the Georgia urusners Association, j will, from his home in Carrollton, Ga., ( in a few days, issue a call for this j association to meet in annual convention at Atlantic Beach, Fla., on,June . 24 and 25. It has been the custom of this association to meet each year at Lithia Springs, Ga., but this year the delegates listened to the call of the waves and voted for the Atlantic ocean re- 1 sort. During the year which is drawing to a close, great progress has been ( made in the association, and this will 1 be shown in the annual reports of J the officers at this meeting. 1 An especially strong feature which 1 is proposed for the meeting will be 1 an address by Dr. George Brown of Atlanta, president of the Anti-Tuberculosis League of America, in which * he will go into details concerning his 1 recent investigations whereby he has ( prpved the efficacy of cotton seed oil over cod liver oil as an emulsion to be used in the treatment of consumption. 1 Another will be an article by Hon. J. L. Benton of Monticello, Ga., formerly secretary of this association, 1 but who is now in Europe as a Unit- < ed States government expert on cotton 1 seed oil and its by-products, who will j write an interesting article on his invesigations in that country for this < southern product. < It is expected that he will deal es- ; - - - ? - ^ pecially with tne iact tnat me r reneii < chamber of deputing has decided to suspend the bill, which puts a prohibitive tariff on this commodity, because it competes with olive oil, a French product. This year the association will have, as its guest, the president of the Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers' Association, who is L. A. Ransom of Atlajjta, who was elected to . this honor at the annual meeting of the association at Jamestown. 1 The convention will be in session for two days, during which the Georgia rules will be made to conform to those being adopted by the Interstate Association. Large delegations of cotton seed oil manufacturers from Atlanta, Columbus, Macon, Augusta, Savannah, Athens, Albany, Rome, Way- 1 cross and LaGrange will be in attendance upon this meeting. There are105 oil mills in Georgia and each of these is to be represented at this . meeting. / tramps favor foraker. t "National Convention" of HoboesJ In- } dorse Him for the Presidency. t Speeches laudatory of President t Roosevelt and Senator LaFolleLe, and j an endorsement of Senator Foraker, J nr/asidencv. were ' as a canaiua.it' .. feature of the "National Convention ( of Tramps," held in Chippewa Falls, < Wis., Thursday. At the close of the convention, the police ordered tne "delegates" from the city. Ex-Senator Patton Dead. Former United State? Senator John Patton of Michigan died at his home in Grand Rapids Friday of typhoid fever. Tobacco Barred to Youths. The Wisconsin legislature Monday passed a bill prohibiting the use of tobacco by boys under ]G years of age. * I -' / * v' ':*' ' : V """ FOR TARIFF F.EFORM j Association of Manufacturers Goes on Record. | WANT IMMEDIATE ACTION Only Twenty Per Cent of Members in Favor of "Standing Pat." Batch of Strong Resolutions Passed at Closing. The National Association of Manufacturers of the United States went sn record at their closing session in \Tew York Wednesday as in favor of i revision of the tariff at the earliest opportunity, and the negotiation of nore reciprocal treaties. I A lively debate preceded the vote, svhich was upon the acceptance of the report of the committee on tariff and reciprocity. The committee based its recommendations on a poll of the 3,>00 members of the association. Of j .he total number replying 55 per cent j ieclared for immediate revision, while j >0 per cent expressed a "hands off" J sentiment. An effort to table the report was j lefeated, and it was adopted as reported. The mass of resolutions adopted by j ;he associatioi at the wind-up included indorsement of the open shop, inlustrial education, the improvement :f the consular service, commendation )f the national river and harbor congress, urging the president to withlraw approval of the new German ;realy until testimony can De obtainid regarding the effects upon domesic labor and industry likely to follow iie customs administrative changes, md opposition to all illegal combinar :ions, either of capital or labor. This last resolution was given, add?d force by the convention's declared mention to raise $1,500,000 to carry >ut a campaign of education, concernng dictatorial combinations.^ Of this campaign of education, Presdent VanCleave, following the closing session, said: "We shall endeavor to assist in educating the public in industrial ighteousness. We shall be just as *eady to oppose unlawful acts by combinations of labor. We believe in injinations of. law. We believe in inlustrial liberty and we are opposed ;o all forms of individual oppression. \nd, if anybody undertakes to compel any one to submit to such oppression, we shall endeavor to assist the party so assailed." The association re-elected James W. fanCleave of St. Louis, president, and ?. H. Stillman of New York treas* irer. The convention closed Wednesiay night with a banquet. WORK OF TRAIN WRECKERS. ^ails Were Drawn and Flyer Tumbled 'from High Trestle, Train No. 20, one of the Southern Pacific coast line train, was wrecked it West Glendale, ten miles north of Los Angeles, at 12:30 Wednesday morning. The wreck was the deliberate work 3f train wreckers. One man was killed and twenty-two injured, three probibly fatally. In acomplishing the wreck of the train, a devilish ingenul:y had been exercised. At a point on i trestle over the Arroyo Seco, the ish plates and bolts of two connectng rails had been removed, and in ;he apertures, where the bolts were ;akeh, strands of heavy wire were fas:ened at the end of each raiY. It whs evident that some person had lidden on a hillside close to the tres:le, had pulled the wire as the train ipproached and spread the rails outward toward the edge of the trestle.'. Yellow Jack Appears in Cuba. A report from Havana is to the effect that one yellow fever patient )f the province of Matanzas, was received in the Havana hospital Tuesiay. the first case reported. from that :ity for several months. ROADS FAIL TO AGREE. Trackage Deal Between Southern and Seaboard Called Off. It is reported authoritatively t?at I he negoiiations which have been on Detween the Seaboard Air Line and he Southern railway, in reference to .he granting of trackage rights over ;ke Southern's line from Macon to Atlanta to the Seaboard have been j :erminated, without an agreement. It is understood that the inability )f the Seaboard to accept the terms >ffered by the Southern was the :ause. ROAD'S FREIGHT RATES REDUCED I The A., B. & A. Transferred to Class | C by Commission. The Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic railroad is ordered by the Georgia railroad commission transferred from mass D, vvhiph is the lowest im-1 der the commission's classification tc class C, which involves a reduction 01 approximately 10 per cent in the maximum rates of freight which it is al lowed to charge. . * V MRsT M'KiNLEY NO MORE. Grim Reaper Claims Wife of Martyr President at Canton Home?Apoplexy Cause of Death. At Canton, Ohio, Sunday afternoon, Mrs. McKinley, wife cf ihfc martyred president, passed from earth, as the result of a stroke of apoplexy. The transition from life to death was so ? peaceful and gradual that ft was with difficulty that the vigilant- physicians and attendants noted when dissolution came. There was no struggle, no pain, Mrs. McKinley never knew of the efforts made for days to prolong her life, nor of the solicitous hope against hope of her sister and other relatives and friends for her recovery. Mrs. McKinley's last words were for death. An attendant said: "Mrs. McKinley would say, 'Why should I lin* ger?' 'Please God, if it is Thy will. why defer it?' She would say also,. 'He is gone now, and life is dark to- . ' me.' Other kindred expressions would aiso fall from her lips.'' At the McKinley home wnen death.' came, there were present Secretary ? Cortelvou, Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Barberf Mrs. Sarah Duncan, Mrs. Luther Day, Justice and Mrs. William R. Day? Drs. Portmann and Rixey and the . nurses., "Mrs. McKinley lasted hours longer than we expected," said the secretary. "Her vitality was wonderful," said Dr. Portmann. . -. >It was by Secretary Cortelvou that the announcement of the demise- was given to the public. While little hope was entertained in Washington -for t| her recovery, the news of the death of Mrs. McKinley caused, profound sorrow in the national capitol, where she so long made her home while her " husband was a member of congress, .{$. and later president. President Roose- " > velt learned of her death shortly af- ^ ter 2 o'clock, when he received a telegram from Secretary Cortelyou, who ,^|j has been in Canton since Mrs. McKinley was yflrst stricken. He immedl- i ately announced that he would attend the funeral. There were expressions of regret - -?|f from many officials whose, duties brought them in contact with the ^ whitn house, and from all attaches of jf* the executive mansion, many o'f whom. jgjf served there during the McKiniey administration. All paid the highest tribv V;^| ute to the memory to the late president's widow. The body of Mrs- McKiniey''will bet placed in the cault in West Lawn ' ceme'tery which holds the remains of her husband until the completion of t the new mausoleum on Monument " % Hill, when both caskets will be trans- ''JH ferred to receptacles in tnat tomb. ) Mrs. McKiniey's life of almost sixty years has been more familiar, to the nation by the fact that more tham half of. it was a period of invalidism. '?$0, Through all this, however, she showed a firm and unwavering belief in. the career of her husband, and her cheering words, in spite of personal afflictions, encouraged him when J there was darkness at hand. She Relieved that, his star of de&slffi tiny would never set until he . had be- : . ^ come president, and for more than a.3tb| quarter of a century cherished thai belief until her 'hopes were realized; After President McKinleyV she expressed ^'desire to join him and ||jj| prayed daily that she might join him.. Lately, however, she frequently told friends,-she desired to live until the completion of the McKiniey leum, which is the gift of the nation,and which is to be dedicated on.Mom ument Hill, September 30, next. MILLIONAIRES 'GIVE BONO. Six Money Kings Indicted on Bribery. *y; Charges at San F>ancisco. The grand jury at San Francisco Saturday afternoon indicted six mi^ lionalres on charges of bribery and.attempted bribery and returned additional indictments against Ruef and Mayor Schmitz. v_ Judge Coffey fixed bail at $1,000 on each of 126 counts contained in the j twenty-eight indictments. Ail the accused furnished bail. . \ v The grand jury adjourned until June- .J#10, when investigation of alleged brib- : { ery by officials of the Home Tele-* phone company and by other peFsons ' -V ' will be resumed.' . 1 ; ' * 0. BED SLATS VIGOROUSLY APPLIEDA^ Would Do More Good Than Sunday Closing, Says Chicago Mayor? J "Bed slats applied to unruly boys .;i;U will do more than Sunday closing X^'^sbC) form in Chicago," says Mayor BusSet; W;! of Chicago, "and most of the peopdff^^f do not want Sunday closing." This was the mayor's answer to the^7>f aoiosrfltinn of the Sunday Closing?./;..,:/^ UV*V0^? League. Tfie mayor said he wouhT y order the saloons closed on Sunday *8? if he was commanded by the supreme court to do so, but not otherwise. OFFICERS OF SEED CRUSHERS. j Ransom Elected President and' Pai^-py' ish Secretary-Treasurer. L. A. Ransom of Atlanta was elected president of the Cctton Seed Crush-hy , era' Association at the closing session ? j at Jamestown Thursday. ric-nrv J, - % J Parish of Memphis was elected se^'u 1 retary-treasurer. Jlemoership was oe- : I stowed upon Joe N\ Carpenter of '/j Natchez; Dr. W. H. Wiiey and Major J