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A . ' BYXUM GETS TEX YEARS. Qnick Work in Trial of SheriiTs Negro Assailant. Lexington, June 18.?Between breakfast and noon Ed. Bynum, the negro who shot Sheriff Corley 30 days ago, was taken from the State jV - . penitentiary at Columbia, brought to Lexington, arraigned, tried and sentenced, and taken back to Columbia hep-in servinz his sentence of ten v~ ? ? ? years. This is about the quickest court work on record in South Carolina. It was on the 19th of May, just a month ago, that Sheriff Corley was shot by Bynum while atempting to serve a warrant on the negro. The sheriff was severely wounded in several places, particularly the hand, and the negro escaped, finally surrendering to a farmer several days later, having been in hiding all the time. He was brought to Columbia and put in the penitentiary for safekeeping. That is was the intention -v . to take Bynum back for trial at the ? Y . present term of court was carefully kept secret and in fact it was given out that he would not be tried now. . The purpose of the officers of the law was evidently to allay any excitement that might have otherwise arisen. Sheriff Corley himself, went to CoSgL. lumbia, with Mr. S. P. Roof, C. E. Leaphart and D. R. Haltiwanger, AV:- MI.1V tho fcmT* mon AUU tills UUUliima can; wua |j&; v wit^ ^e ne?r0 prisoner started from the State prison in Mr. Roof's Buick. f The trip to Lexington, 12 miles, was made in 50 minutes. Bynum was at once arraigned and pleaded guilty to the charge of assault and battery with^intent to kill. The court sen' tenced him to ten years in the penig|vv tentiary. P&'iji" Immediately the return trip to Columbia was taken up by <the same < !." . gentlemen in the automobile of Mr. Roof and by 12 o'clock the prisoner was again in the State penitentiary at Columbia. The court proceedings did not consume over 30 minutes and the whole thing was done in four -v hours. Sheriff Corley is recovering from his wounds and his devotion to duty tji-i , is finely demonstrated by his determination to guard the prisoner himself to-day, though it is not likely -v; that there would have been any violence done the negro in the circumstances. The party with Bynum reached the 1 penitentiary a few minutes before 12 :> o'clock. North Visited by Cyclone. North, June 19.?Thursday evenK, ing a small cyclone hit the south^ootDrn eortirm nf the town, touch" ing the residences, of Messrs. G. W. 4pV-- Pou, Tom Robinson and W. A. DuBose?. The wind came to the ground ?*4' at Mr. Pou's lot and took away some gfSg of the fence and raised a cloud of dust in a cotton field about 200 # yards wide between Mr. Pou's lot t?k?v'.'' and the residences of Mr. DuBose p-. and Mr. Robinson on Railroad avej?44< ,lrie- ** seemed at first to be only > a stiff wind preceding a dark cloud *4" * coming up in the west, but when it -. reached Mr. DuBose's and Mr. RobEp'y inson's houses, tearing shingles from Ipjh' the roofs, taking up yard fencing and. carrying it many feet and almost literally scattering a large Btack of lumber in Mr. DuBose's backyard, it was then known to be an unusual wind. In a minute or so it passed off, 4;if. and although no report of any other damage is had some green peaches and leaves of swamp trees picked up show that it must have touched the g&T ground at the river about two miles off and at some place beyond there. ' ? ? - x, KV-. ' Just arter tne wina one 01 tne heaviest rains of the season fell, acpfe?. companied by lightning and thunder. mfy In the past four days several hard rains have fallen and the farms and roads of this section are much washed. Dog that Rings Fog Bell. No animal in the world equals a dog as a faithful sentinel when it comes to "keeping watch and ward" in the interests of its master. Some dogs may be taught to perform dup*/ . ties of an unusual nature. Off the shores of Alaska, on a small, rocky Wir island, is a little light station, connected with which is a fog bell. During the continuance of dense fogs, which frequently prevail, the bell is used to warn vessels of the danger of approaching too near the island and coast. The light keeper has a large and very intelligent shepherd dog that answers to the ? name of Don Carlos. This dog has been trained bo toll the fog bell ^ -v, when the weather is very heavy. So well trained is Don Carlos that when the fog comes rolling in, he rushes, unbidden by the keeper, to the bell and begins to tug at the rope and to sound the alarm. This the faithful fellow continues to do until relieved by his master. Don Carlos often takes his turn at the bell during the night when the keep er is busy looking after the light. "I do not see how I could get along without Don Carlos," the keeper declares. "I am all alone, ana nave no otner assistance; out i can always rely implicitly on my dog. He knows his duty and faithfully performs it, whether told to do so or not.V?J. Mayne Baltimore, in . . Nashville Visitor. gc;>; _ How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, . Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.* * WILL WEAR STRIPES? State Dispensary Commission Has Plenty of Evidence. Columbia, June 18.?To-morrow ends the dispensary investigation so far as the taking of testimony before the winding-up commission is concerned, with the possible exception j of a little testimony here and there of an unfinished business naiure, ; which will be of no particular interj est to the general public, but it does not end the work of the commission I by long odds, as the committee has ^ one of its most difficult tasks to work out, that of finally adjusting the various claims pending, whicn will require several sessions. A number of I side issues of importance also have I to be attended to, such as coming to agreement with the various banks which have the funds on deposit as to the interest to be paid them and the allowances to be made to them on account of this money being tied up by the Federal court proceeedings, etc. The expert who is to demonstrate that the chemical test Col. Felder introduced a few days ago, and which he said the expert would prove to the entire satisfaction of everybody, would infallibly tell the true constit-iipnt narta of anv whiskey, will be put up this week. And this may have an important bearing on the conduct of the present whiskey business of the State, if any of the business remains after the August elections, for if this test proves out what it is represented to be it will likely be adopted by the county boards throughout the State. The committee has not for good reasons exposed to view the excellent stoc? of ammunition it has on hand, but there have been indications right recently which not only warrant the statement that the prosecution has got into all the details of the outrageous conspiracy to plunder the State, but will have facts sufficient to produce at the criminal trials next fall to secure convictions of about a round dozen of more or less prominent men and send them to the peniThan, ic nnnj crnArl ranonn I k^uixai J* 1UVXV AO uwn Dwvv* * to believe "Lyon will put stripes on the grafters," though it is only recently that the prosecution has been able to get hold of the connecting links. It was a sad day for the grafters when the Federal Supreme Court decided in favor of the State. The claim of $20,000 of the Carolina Glass Company, of Columbia, is being probed to-day, but so far nothing of a sensational nature has developed. Messrs. Norton and Brewer, of the company, were on the stand yesterday afternoon, but the testimony of neither was interesting to the average reader. It concerned the details of making glass, the cost of production, etc. A side flash of humor was injected when Attorney W. H. Lyles, for the company, spoke of the social prominence and business standing in' the community of the gentlemen who owned the company. Attorney General Lyon said he would be willing to go fully into this if the claimants would stand for details showing the social uplift a certain dispensary di rector was given by some of those having stock in the glass company. But this was an aside and was not treated seriously. That the Carolina Glass Company had overcharged the S^ate $98,000 to $240,000, varying according to the basis of commutation chosen and therefore actually owed the State a large amount was the charges made by Gen. Anderson, of the Attorney General's special staff in arguing against the payment of the company's claim for $23,000. It had been expected that to-day's session would end the hearing upon this claim, but Commissioner Patton gave notice that he had struck fresh trails in the books and might introduce further evidence from them. Col. Felder promises to make the afternoon session "exceedingly interesting." Campaign for Education. Columbia, June 20.?The schedule of mass meetings to be conducted this summer by the education campaign committee has been tentatively arranged as given below. The selection of the place In each county has been left to the county superintendent. In a large number of bounties, rural communities have been selected, and this, it is hoped, will serve to interest the country folk in Vio ntirnftcac anH nlsnc r?f tVio ram. paign. Many of the most distinguished educators, jurists, divines, editors and lawyers of South Carolina have been invited to join in the discussion and have gladly consented to assist in bringing better educational facilities to every county. The campaign opens simultaneously in Spartanburg and Darlington. It is in no sense political, but represents the needs and interests of the children. Any locality desiring better schools might find it advantageous to call on the county superintendent and ask him to communicate with the secretary as to the place of holding the meeting in any county. The schedule of educational mass meetings for August is: Monday, 2d, Spartanburg, Darlington; Tuesday, 3d, Laurens, Chesterfield; Wednesday, 4th, Greenville, Marlboro; Thursday, 5th, Pickens, Marion; Friday, 6th, Oconee, Clarendon; Saturday, 7th, Anderson, Horry; Monday, 9th, Chester, Edgefield; Tuesday, 10th, Lancaster, Saluda; Wednesday, 11th, York, Greenwood; Thursday, 12th, Cherokee, Newberry, Union; Monday, 23d, Abbeville, Florence; Tuesday, 24th, Aiken, Lee; Wednesday, 25 th, Barnwell, Sumter; Thursday, 26th, Hampton, Kershaw; Friday, 27th, Beaufort, Richland; Saturday, 28th, Colleton, Fairfield; Monday, 30th, Lexington, Williamsburg; Tuesday, 31st, Orangeburg, Georgetown; Wednesday, September 1st, Bamberg, Berkeley; Thursday, 2d, Dorchester, Charleston, Calhoun. $400 AN ACRE FROM ONIONS. Hov; Mrs. E. C. Dodd, of Laredo, Tex., is Growing Rich. What do you think of a net profit of $400 an acie from Bermuda onions? This is the record of Mrs. Edward C. Dodd, of Laredo, Tex., whom the people of that section call the "Onion queen." She grows more Bermuda onions than any woman i the world?135 acres?and is getting rich at it. Mrs. Dodd's crop this year was not extraordinary. Most of the other U LI 1U11 glUWCIO 1U iixc xjui vuv/ Ijvvuvii did as well, but none of them had in as much acreage as she had. This fact brought her profits up to a figure that is astonishing to the ordinary farmer who is content with a profit of $15 or $20 an acre upon his land. The average net yield Which Mrs. Dodd obtained upon her 135 acres was about $400 an acre. The gross revenue from the farm was about $625 an acre. Growing onions is expensive. It costs an average of about $225 an acre to plant cultivate, harvest and market the crop. Made $32,000 One Year. Mrs. Dodd is not a "book farmer." She directs the multitudinous affairs r?f hpr nu-n nla.ce in Derson. She has capable men who look after the details and every part of the business receives her closest supervision. Her farm embraces 600 acres, but only 200 acres are under irrigation. In beginning onion growing she knew exactly what to do, because the possibilities of the business had been proved by others. Being a widow with only the land to depend upon, she determined to make it profitable, and she did. A small part of the land was under irrigation, the water being taken from the Rio Grande by means of a steam pump. First Mrs. Dodd enlarged the ir rigable tract to seventy acres, all or which she planted in Bermuda onions. That was three years ago. Conditions were favorable, and despite the many difficulties that had to be overcome she marketed the onion crop upon the seventy acres at a net profit of $32,000. Then she built an electric pumping station and put in a pump with a capacity of 3,500 gallons a minute. Besides the 135 acres of onions, Mrs. Dodd this season had about sixty-five acres in grain, feed and a variety of products. Besides furnishing water for 200 acres of her own, her- electric pumping plant and system of irigation provided water for fifty additional acres which are owned by others, a good revenue being received for this extra sertice. To be Her Own Salesman. Mrs. Dodd has been doing the. marketing of her crops through an association of growers, but she is not altogether satisfied with this plan. It is her opinion, after a thorough investigation of the subject, that she could do her own marketing to better advantage than through the salesmen of the association. She says that the commission and other association charges during the past season amounted to 10 cents a crate of fifty pounds. Her expenses ??./-.nna item alnnA ran lin to liUiii lUlO VUV iWAU MAVMV *vrM ? r WW more than $6,000. "It is my present intention tto market my crop myself next year," she said. "I will go to New York and establish headquarters. I will employ a woman or two to act as my selling agents in Boston, Philadelphia and perhaps other Eastern cities. I will have my crop shipped direct to me in New York, and these shipments will be made according to existing market conditions. I will do my own selling and by being on the ground in person I believe I will be better able to obtain the top prices." Time for Society, Too. The fact that she makes an annual profit off her farm much larger than the salary of most bank presidents has not caused Mrs. Dodd to adopt extravagant living. She has a pretty home in town. It is comfortably, but not luxuriously, furnished. She finds time outside of her farm work to get much enjoyment out of social pleasures. She has been a social favorite in Laredo, San Antonio and other Texas cities for many years. The onion growing season is during the winter and cooler periods of fall and spring. This leaves the warmest months of summer for rest and recuperation. -? - ? * 1 . "?? tfeiore ner marriage iulb. uuuu was a school teacher. She has found that her training in the schoolroom is of much value to her in directing the work upon the farm. She makes it a point to investigate. thoroughly every phase of the business and to adopt the most improved methods of cultivating and handling the crop. She knows the analysjg of the soil on different parts of the farm; she has experimented with many other kinds of products besides onions and knows just what can be grown successfully upon the farm, and she. knows approximately the cost by the acre of cultivating all the kinds of crops to which the farm is adapted. ?Laredo, Texas, special to Kansas City Star. Could Not be Better. No one has ever made a salve, ointment, lotion or balm to compare with Bucklen's Arnica Salve. Its the one perfect healer of cuts, corns, burns, bruises, sores, scalds, boils, ulcers, eczema, salt rheum. For sore eyes, cold sores, chapped hands its supreme. Infallible for piles. Only 25c. at Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. Spartanburg Man in Trouble. Anniston, Ala., June 20.?A sensation was created here this afternoon when A. W. Falls, a prominent cotton factor, fired four shots from a revolver at R. Ripley, of Spartanburg, S. C., when he found the latter at his home in the company of Mrs. Falls. Although the shots were fired at close range, none took effect. Both Ripley and Falls were arrested and placed in jail, Falls later furnishing bond. Stephens' View of Lincoln. In an article entitled "How Alexander Stephens Received the News of Lincoln's Assassination, ^ contributed to Uncle Remus, the home magazine, we discern quite some interesting statements. Perhaps it would be quite a revelation to some devout Confederates. The writer says in breaking the news to Mr. Stephens of Lincoln's assassination, that Mr. Stephens replied after some silence and contemplation: "Sir, that is sadder news than the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee." The writer supposedly authentically relates this incident, he claiming to have been personally acquainted with Mr. Stephens, and tells witn what emotion it affected the latter upon his information of the death of; Mr. Lincoln. There is no doubt that the vice i president of the Confederacy greatly admired Mr. Lincoln and manifested great devotion for him personally (I mean personally in the sense of brotherhood whereof we are taught by precept in the Holy Scriptures to obey) claiming to have known him many years before the great struggle between the , States, and through personal contact that a great friendship was-welded between the two great men. But now we have before us to decide what Mr. Douglas meant by saying the above quotation? The writer says: "His reply appeared to divine his thoughts." Perhaps it astounded him. Mr. Stephens then went on to explain. "I very much fear that our good Southern people have never understood Mr. Lincoln. I knew him well and intimately and the fallen Confederacy could have gone into no safer and more humane hands than Mr. Lincoln's." At this juncture let us come to the issue. I myself say that it is the saddest page of American history wherein is recorded the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. It was deplorable. No doubt as Mr. Douglas is reported to have said to this man, the Confederacy could have gone into no safer and more humane hands than Mr. Lincoln's. We must take into consideration the poignancy of the issue arising from a sectional standpoint. Did Mr. Douglass mean literally what he said, or did he not? Did he mean a resignation of all that noble quality endowed to man called patriotism, a sacrifice of so much blood to the cause of the Confederacy for no purpose; a sacrifice of that "extend ed. self love" so characteristic 01 Southern progeny? No, no! He did not mean it in this light. He was too patriotic a man, patriotic a Southerner, patriotic a statesman. "Sir, this is sadder news than the surrender of Robert E. Lee." Perhaps at this juncture with him his spirit had taken its flight unto the heavenly shores, and for the moment he laid aside earthly "issues" like the poet in "Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty:" "Upon these heights the air is calm j and pure; How softly fused earth's clangor to mine ear; , All changed to music in this upper sphere! [Live near to heaven, most near if you would peace 'secure." Perhaps, too, Mr. Stephens had taken his flight to the ethereal sphere, so did the poet, but neither were dead, you see, but now maybe their noble aspirations are fully realized, for to that upper home they all have gone, and now together can join in a universal brotherhood. Mr. Douglas was in favor of African slavery, and thought it both morally and politically right. Mr. T-innnin a-fla a t.etnta 1 abolitionist to the core. In my opinion a fanatic and I don't believe that I would venture too far to say that he would have advocated social equality between the races had he lived. The writer further says that "should he have lived and as congress passed the 15th amendment to the constitution of the United States granting to the ex-slaves the right of citizenship, he would have promptly vetoed it, as did Mr. Johnson, his successor. Such hold, however, Mr. Lincoln had upon the congress that if he had vetoed it, congress would not have sustained it over his head as it did over Mr. Johnson's." Lincoln was elected by the Republican party and held the office of chief executive of the United States, consequently he was the instrument that swayed the sceptre, and so fervently urged congress towards a recognition of the freedom of the slaves. Through the medium of the press public sentiment was carried high against slavery in the South?to the height of public indignation in the North. The South, always loyal to justice and equity, wanted her rights respected, regardless of consequences, and this she maintained through her representatives in the congress. Let us not forget the motto of our immortal Calhoun: "Truth, justice and then the constitution." We don't get justice, and the constitution is unaltered, but the brave Confederates have left recorded in the pages of American history wherein posterity can look and read of a heroic sacrifice for a cause they knew just. I don't say that I would advocate slavery, but do say that the war between the States was too hastily urged by the fanatics up North, and there should have been an amicable adjustment instead of such human sacrifice as was_caused by the strife. Wl-LLJiii Ml, J-tt.. Govan, S. C. A Thrilling Rescue. How Bert R. Lean, of Cheny, Wash., was saved from a frightful death is a story to thrill the world. | "A hard cold," he writes, "brought on a desperate lung trouble that baffled an expert doctor here. Then I paid $10 to $15 a visit to a lung [specialist in Spokane, who did not . help me. Then I went to California, !but without benefit. At last I used j Dr. King'fc New Discovery, which [completely cured me and now I am as well as ever." 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