Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ffGR ? wSj I Suits, 0 I This is the have si y: r? V n 4 | Phone . / ; RIG MONEY FOR SCHOOLS. . ' Wind-up Commission Has Given Them |' $275,000. Columbia. Jan. 6.?After three > years hard work, the dispensary ^winding-up commission has presented the State with the sum of $275,000, C J v Dr. W. J. Murray, chairman of the commission, yesterday turning thai amount over to the State Treasurer. This money belongs to the schools of the State and will be distributed as prescribed by law. Over $100,000 is held by the commission as reserve fund to pay any of the claims that / should be lost in the courts and for fnture expenses. The $275,000 is money that at one time seemed lost to the State and >3. was only saved after a strong-stand together fight of the members of the commission and the hard work of the attorneys. With the deciding of the cases in the courts the old State P dispensary will have passed away :i and its life will be on the pages of the history of the State. ' ;. - Of the $100,000 held as a reserve by the commission, only $64,000 has been contested, the largest amount being the claim of the Carolina Glass company. 1 ??tlin l?o+ ofof Q.TV1 Ci n t hv AWU1U1U5 lu IUC 1CUJ V ?. the dispensary auditor, Mr. West, he has approved claims against 14 of the counties voting out the dispensaries to the amount of $191,446.56. As has been stated, it is probable that the commission will attach the claims held up against the county dispensaries until the matter can be thrashed out in the courts. A large sum will be secured by the commission by overjudgments. Ends Her Life. Greenville, Jan. 7.?Despondent over her continual ill health, Mrs. C. P. Culclasure, wife of the proprietoi of the Greenville Jewelry Co., com mitted suicide to-night at her home on the corner of Main and College streets by drinking an ounce and 8 half of carbolic acid. No reason is given for her rash act other than thai she has been brooding over sickness While her husband and Mr Blaum, the north Main street jeweler were seated in the parlor of theii home Mrs. Culclasure drank the poison and then sent her little 5-year-old girl down stairs to tell her husband to come to her room. Mrs. Culclasure was Miss Ellen B Peurifoy, of Saluda county, before her marriage. She had but one child the little 5-year-old girl that is nov surviving. FA1 .Li il 1 r On Saturday irercoats an AT ? plain truth, plai old lots of dothi .~rT No. 35 \ BIRD CONSERVATION.. ' Plans for National Audubon University With One Million Dollars. With the design of saving to the people of this country at least $10,000,000 each year, plans at National ' Audubon University to be endowed with $1,000,000, have been announc' ed in Washington, D. C. Based on the known annual crop loss $10,000,1 000, due to the spreading pests that the insect-eating birds destroy, the calculations of the National Association of Audubon Societies, which is ' back of this project show that the teachings of bird value from such an institution must result in wiping out at least 1 per cent, of the huge national penalty for popular lack of knowledge on this subject. When | $1,000,000 can be raised for the ; new university it is purposed at once to start its work, which promises eventually to contribute millions to American prosperity. Every man, woman and child throughout the United States may be 1 incuded as a student in the proposed ; Audubon University. Through hun' dreds of lecturers and teachers, who ' are to be educated in the science of nature's checks to the destruction of the country's crops and woods, the ; economic principles of bird preserva tion will be taught in every community. By means of university extension and correspondence courses the sav1 ing effect of the wild birds upon 1 agriculture in every section will be presented to the workers on the 6,1 000,000 farms of the country. Each ' phase of the science of economic ornithology will be studied and presented to the people. Squabble Over Dispensary Funds. Columbia, Jan. 7.?War to knife and knife to the hilt, is about to be precipitated over how the two hunj dred and seventy-five thousand dol> lar fund turned into the State treasi urer by the dispensary commission > will be spent. Comptroller General ; j Jones is proceeding to-day to distrin. ute to the schools, first making up the . deficiency to weak schools and after , that to the counties on their basis of their enrollment. Members of the legislature and 1 others are contending that the money I should go to the new supreme court building, the public debt or the new . asylum plant. i It is expected they will have Mr. , Jones enjoined, which will probably r tie up funds till after the legislature adjourns. > ' -i: ---c .i- . '. " ^ )F CL( , January 8th,1 id Trousers. 4 ACTU nly put Get I ng this fall, but BnS X . DON'T WANT DIXIE. Named as the Most Popular Patriotic Ballad. "Is 'Dixie' more popular than 'Yankee Doodle?'" That is the question which has apparently divided the country into two camps and brought about a controversy which promises to become second only to the recent great question, "Who discovered the North Pole." , The innocent assertion of Otto G. T. Sonneck, chief of the division oi music of the Library Congress, in his publication on American national songs, that "Dixie" was more prominent in patriotic populartity than "Yankee Doodle" has stirred up a hornet"s nest and even resulted in threats of death to Mr. Sonneck. His office in the Congressional Library is swamped with letters in which the writers take exception to the statement about "Dixie." Some of these letters threaten Mr. Sonneck with dire punishment. Lacked Wedding Funds. Anniston, Ala., Jan. 7.?The lack of sufficient funds for his approaching marriage with a Georgia girl led C. O. Beal, of this place, to attempt suicide yesterday, his self destruction only being frustrated by the local police. As soon as the reason of his attempted suicide was learned a liberal purse was made up by his friends, and he wtyl be married in a few days. When the date for his wedding arrived Beal found that he did not have sufficient money. The marriage was postponed, and the prospect of securing any money in the future was so trinnrnv that Beal finallv decided to end his life. Child Kicked by Mule. Carlisle, Jan. 7.?The 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Funches died last night at the home of Mrs. V. Smith on Glover street in this city. The little fellow was kicked by a mule about eight weeks ago and in consequence of which his skull was crushed. The fight against death waged by the little fellow was most remarkable, showing a great vitality. The child was at the Columbia hospital for about four weeks and was brought to this city about three weeks ago. The funeral services were held this afternoon at White House Methodist church about nine miles from this city. The body was intererred in the church graveyard. i 3THIN we will commen , for Men, Mi M >^M AL CC here soon if yoi still have some ham' | LEOPARD ATTACKS WOMAN. : Assistant Ties Beast's Tail to Bar and Saves Trainer. i New York, January 9.?The shar s teeth and claws of Clayton, a' trainee leopard, nearly cost the life of Mr? 1 Pauline Russelle, his trained, to-daj l but the length and strength of his tai ? saved her life. Clayton was ugly and would no peform. Mrs. Russelle prodded hit r with an iron bar and called to he ' assistant for aid. In the instant o i turning her head to call the leopari I leaped. He bore his mistress to th ground and stood over her growlini and lashing his tail. It was then th< . quick-witted assistant, reaching int . the cage, grabbed Clayton's tail, too) a double hitch around the bars o the cage with it. and rescued Mrs Russelle in safety. ? The woman was badly torn, and a ! the hospital it was said to-night tha her recovery is problematical. Th attack occurred in private traininj quarters. Mississippi Cancus Deadlocked. Jackson, Miss., Jan. 8.?That i deadlock prevails the Democrati caucus for the election of a successo to the late United States Senator A "jj. McLaurin, is apparent here to night. Many are of the opinion tha the deadlock will continue well inti next week, when a "dark horse" can didate will be placed before th< caucus. On the other hand, however, th< campaign managers of the 11 candi dates now in the field, declare tha they are well satisfied with the situ ation to date and express utmost con fldence. The greatest jubilation i prevailing at the headquarters of Ex Gov. James K. Vardaman. Littl real change was revealed to-day b; the three ballots taken with the ex ception of the slight gain of Percy Vardaman's vote to-day ranged fron 63 to 70, eighty-five being necessar; to elect. The caucus adjourned after th< ballot tn-Hsiv nnrt will not. mee ! again until Monday night. Major Hemphill to Leave. Richmond, Va., January 9.?An : nouncement was made to-night tha | Major J. C. Hemphill, for the pas twenty years editor of the Charleston S. C., News and Courier, has accepte< i the editorship of the Times-Dispatch ! his new duties here to begin abou I February 15. . . . > *~nT| G B???? ce selling all Boys and )ST! u want First C mighty nice go / ) n S DO Bambei CALLS PROHIBITION A FAILUR] s New York Preacher Says it Hj Helped Negroes, but not Whites. p New York, January 9.?Preachii i to-night on'"The Failure of Prohit tion," the Rev. Oscar Haywood gai r his impression of prohibition in tl 1 South. "I saw no signs on a recent tour t said Dr. Haywood, "that drunke: Q ness is diminishing, except amoi r the negroes. I did not see a drunk* f negro and but little evidence i 1 drinking among them. I should s* e that, under Southern prohibitio g drink is the white man's vice, e "The law is doing what it was i: o tended to do?protecting the negr t but it is administered by those wt f claim the right to violate it." i. Dr. Haywood paid tribute to tl motives behind the prohibition mov t ment in the South. - It looked 1 t social reformation, he said, and wj e marked by many instances of nob g voluntary renunciation. Tied Man on Track. Macon, Ga., Jan. 9.?Because Dai iel J. Matthews, a young fireman < the Central of Georgia railway, r fused to give four armed negroes switch key, he was tied face dowi ward on the main line of the Centr; railroad at the corner of Hazel ar Second streets at an early hour th morning and now lies in a critic condition at a local hospital, beir knocked from his perilous position few minutes after he was attacks e by an eastbound passenger train. " Matthews after regaining coi Isciousness to-day stated that he wi i tied about the neck so securely thi he could make no outcry. After t was tied he states that he heard tt g negroes plotting to wreck a passeng* train. y " BANISHED PROM SPARTANBUR( 1 Two Y'oung White Men Ordered t y Judge Shipp to Leave City. e Spartanburg, January 8.?Ca t Adams and Baxter Thomas, your white men, arrested several weel ago on the charge of robbery, wei ordered to leave the city by Judg - Sam Shipp. Thomas and Adan t were rrequeniera ui puui iwma au t barber shops. Several weeks ago , well known citizen lost a purse coi 1 taining $80 and Adams and Thorns , were arrested. When the case w? t called Judge Shipp ordered them t leave the city and never return. leH ? A Children 1 L . iwA I noice. We I j y ods yet. i ns 1 liv | rg, s. J -? . . ... E. DUE WEST POSTOFFICE ROBBED. 18 Yeggmen Blow Safe Open and Se- ' cure f 1,100 in Cash and Stamps. - . ljS Due West, January 8.?The Due v " West .postofflce was entered this re morning by safe crackers, and the 16 safe blown open. The first report was ? ? heard by some persons living in the , : ' immediate vicinity at 1.15 a. m. The robbers were not satisfied with their r) ls first effort, and the second report ^ came about fifteen minutes later. ing it presentedwreckA-atbarri caded iy When the office was opened this ' morning it presented a scene of wreckage. The entire front door of a" the safe was blown off its hinges, and ?' parts of it went through the building and landed some fifteen to twenty * yavds on the outside, tearing off sevie eral planks. About nine hundred v ?r dollars in stamps and two hundred dollars in cash was stolen, j No trace of the robbers can be found. Due West doesn't afford & night watchman, and the safe crackers had the advantage of several * a_ Hours when tne omce was opened at 7 o'clock. g_ No other towns 'or stores In this a section were visited. tt. It is believed the robbers escaped y in a buggy, in their flight they dropld ped several dollars in smaty change js on the floor of the office. aj This is the second time the Due lg West postofflce has been robbed witha in the past few years. v" t fl, Wanted to be Christian. *' l When the late O. O. Howard was a IS brigadier general in the civil war, So earnest was he in his religions efforts that he had converted every man in ir the brigade, all but one hardened old teamster, says an exchange. Going to his commander one day this man , - said earnestly: "General Howard, I'm lonesome. Every man in the camp has been converted except me. I'd like mighty well to be a Christian, just to be in with rl the other boys. I suppose it is the ig right thing to do, but I don't see how ts I can manage it." -e The man shook his head mournful ;e ly. is "Why, my good man," said the d general, "I see no difficulty in the a way of it, if you will just surrender l- your own will and ask for guidance." is "That's just it, general," reponded is the would-be convert, "if I'm con.0 verted, who in blazes is goin* to drive them mules?" } . ' - ~. . _ ; . I * .TV i