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? BENNETTS VILLE, S. C., EBffegv;: AUGUST-28,. 1903. "D0 TI?OU LIlffiHTY GREAT. INSPIRE OUR S?ULS AND MAKE ??B| WES-IN Til Y POSSESSION HAPPY, OR OUB DEATHS GLOItlOUS IN THY CAUSE." ]f I p." ' VOL.??SZH&~-> ?Mri . . . ? ON THE RIGHT LINE. Strong, God-Fearing Men From tho North of Scotland. WHAT SOUTH CAROLINA NEEDS. Mr. MiUhci'Bon, a Wealthy Citizen ol' -Bennettsville, Gives lils Plan ?br llritiginK Them to This Country. -To the Editor of Thc News and Courier: Possibly there is nota citizen of this State engaged in agriculture certainly not a thinking one-who has not given tlic matter of labor con siderable thought. What with thc emigration to tlie lumber mills and turpentine farms of Georgia and Florida and thc inetllci epcy and Indisposition to work of the growing generation of negroes, thc problem of field labor is one of press ing moment-one that must be met and, if possible solved. I am not one -of those 'who regard the building of factories as an all-un mixedgood. Unquestionably the mills have.drawn and are drawing from the ?country^ a large proportion or thc yeomanry of the land-the hardy sons of toll-and arc leaving lt and its health-giving occupations to the ne gro. Instead of remaining upon and till ing our fair liclds, drinking thc pure air of heaven and following those oc cupations conducive to the highest moral as well as physicial develop ment,- they congregate in close fac tory villages and breathe only putrid air of crowded houses tilled with machinery. Who that has seen the inert, pale and dwarfed factory child .Sbut.. must wonder of what class will be Ute generation Linee ur four remov ed from the present? TIIE N1?OKO DHTHUIOKATINO. It must bc admitted, too, that tlie negro is fast deteriorating in point bf eniciency, to say nothing of his morals and irresponsibility. Thc "old-time darky" is dying out and thc younger generation (I speak in all Kindness, for I have nothing hut good will to wards thc negro,) shows no disposi tion to improve himself. With due deference to Booker Washington and his crusade Tor the "Yankee dollar," 1 venture the asser tion, and such is my-iuformabion, that not 10 per cent of the graduates in the several departments of manual labor of Tuskegee Industrial College follow their several trades after leav ing the College grounds. What, under these circumstances, ..-shall...we . do? Abandon our lands, ^.Ttthd?anf our fara lil..... to the towns ' and'forsake this, the first as Well as the highest, noblest and most import ant* of all occupations? Teach our children other pursuits and make of them poer preachers, shyster lawyers, quack doctors, or precarious mer chants? While not a great admirer of Mr. Bryan in some of Iiis ideas and fallacies, yet there was never a truer utterance than when he said, "Durn down your cities and leave our farms and your cities will spring up again as if by magic: hut destroy our farms and-tuc grass will grow in thc streets of'every city in the country." Being largely engaged and interest ed in farming, 1 have given this mat ter considerable thought and believe that by concert of action apd the ex penditure o! a few dollars, which will in a short while return tenfold en more, a scheme can be adopted which will procure many, if not as many as wc need, of tlie best agricultural laborers in thc world. Though not "native and to tlic manner born" of Scotland, I am but one generation removed, and 1 have visited the old country several times, besides keeping up communication with several persons there. Thc north of that "Land of the brown heather and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and thc Hood," is densely populated with a class tif people, the llncst specimens ol' man hood and womanhood 1 ever saw. Thc couutry is rugged and infertile, and hence thc people, as a class, arc very poor. Who has read Ian McLaren's inimitable stories but has in his mind's eye a picture of these people, poor but proud of their blood and descent: honest from principle, not from policy; intensely patriotic yet cosmopolitan in their ideas; religious, but not fanatic; industrious, frugal and as linc laborers as tho world can producer Many of these people wish to ctni 'grate and would ?did they have tile means; and at time's tlie bare neces saries of life arc. so ditllcuit to obtain that tlic public authorities encourage emigration. America is the land ol" promise and of plenty to these hard working people, hut heretofore the colonies of Great Url tain--especially Canada and Australia.have received a majority, owing to thc aid given them by those colonies and thc effort made to direct emigration in those directions. 1 am satis lied that we ean direct to our own State this most desirable population il wc make tlie proper effort. Ml?. MATHIESON'S I'l.A.V. Thc plan 1 suggest is as follows: Let thc citizens of each county hold a meeting on tlie first Monday in November next and form an associa tion to be known as "The-County Immigration Society," electing the usual olllccrs to act until superseded as hereinafter provided. IQach of these county organizations will elect three delegates to attend a State con vention to be held in Columbia on Tuesday, November lo next. This convention will organize itself into tlic "State Immigration Bureau of South Carolina," adopt a constitu tion and by-laws, both for tlie State and tho several county organizations, and elect an agent to be known and designated as "South Carolina immi grant agent." This convention will also prepare and adopt a bill to bc enacted into a law at the next meet ing of thc General Assembly of thc State, making this a State institution for purposes hereinafter stated. Euell county will proceed to collect ?a largo a fund as possible, and the immigrants will bc divided among thc Individual contributors, ?nd hence, between.the counties, in proportion to the amount raised. The agent above referred to should go to Scotland, carrying with him credentials from thc State and Na tional Governments, and through our minister at the Court of St. James be accredited to the Government of Great Britain. Armed with these evidences of his character and responsibility; I haven't the slightest doubt but that this agent can get as many of the very best of laborers as thc. fund he has. charge of will authorize him to em ploy, r lt is rather premature to make estimates, but, as muny, owing to past experiences, doubtless will ask "is tills scheme practicable?" I submit following ns entirely, within thc possibilities of such an organization. WHAT IT WILL COST. Immigrants can be landed in New York at about SS each and it docs seem to me that thc railroads in this State, In their own interest, will bring them to thc State free or foi ? nominal fare. Say that thc people of Marlboro, Marion, Florence and Darlington .wish two thousand of these laborers, SUI,OOO will land them in New York, and allowing 84,000 fur additional expenses, ihe total cost will bc $20,000. L'or an advance nf *I0 each, therefore, one cnn get a laborer, in comparison with whom the present laborer is as night to day. How often it is tlic case that a farmer has to make an outlay of that amount be fore a laborer moves upon his pre mises, or lias to make advances to that amount before a "lick ls struck?" . The foregoing estimate is based up on thc theory that tlie immigrant comes over on a regular line as steer age passenger, hilt if a "tramp" steamer were chartered, not only could a larger number, he brought over, hut the steamer could come directly to one bf our own ports, say Charleston, Georgetown or Beaufort, and thus save expense. But., says someone else how are you going to get ?rp?t?d the Allen Immi gration Act, which prohibits, under heavy penalties, the importation and migration or foreigners and aliens un der contract or agreement to perform labor? In thc lirst place this Act ap plies only to "any person; company, partnership or corporation;!.' and can not alTcct a State, hence my sugges tion that the State take charge of tlie scheme. I am no lawyear, and claim to have no technicle knowledge of the subject, but to my uncultured mind it seems that thc National Government could not interfere with a sovereign State in its' elforts to pro cure desirable inhabitants. In thc second place, it seems to me that Con gress would relieve so desirable an ob ject from the provisions of the Act. 1 sincerely hope that sume one else w.ill take up the subject and that we j may have a full and free discussion of thc matter. The accomplishment of thc purpose sought is ono way in which thc all-prevalent and never ending "negro question" may bc solved, for thc class of immigrants to which 1 refer will make first-class citi zens, untainted with socialism and un hound by unions; ii God-faring, liberty loving, law-abiding and faithful serv ing class of pople. That a worse class may not come, and that our liclds maybe male to "bloom and blossom as a rose," let us get together . J. A. Matheson. Bennettsville, August 17. PASSING OF A GREAT INDUSTRY. Shown by TIlO A liol it ion ol'tho OHlcC ol' Phosphat o Innpector. Thc abolition of the ollicc ol' phos phate inspector marks tlic decadence of an industry in this state, which at one time was thc largest in it and which brought into tlic treasury of tlic state several million of dollars after thc phosphate deposits began to lie.worked. "When Tihnan was elect ed governor he caused some lesislation to bc passed which thc Coo Saw com pany, which had a practical mononoly of the business, claimed was Inimical to the industry. Tlie legislation un doubtedly put that particular com pany practically out of business, but it is doubtful where thc course pursued had any cll'cct on phosphate min ing generally. However, the trouble of the industry began and increased about the time, for valueable deposits were found in Florida, Tenncssc? and other places, which could bc worked cheaper than our own phosphate de posits. The business in consequence grew less and less until now i tis com paratively nothing as compared with former years, or aa compared with the business do'ic in other states. Statistics show that from 1870 to 1000 tlie state received in royalties $.1,242,008.5.1, thc royalty in ono year 1808; amounting to $$177150. li'dr the past three years Isthas amounted to only *".f?,oi)0 ppnrualy. Th hi money is placed in thc sinking fund and is pledged to bc used tor the education ot Hie debt. That a groat industry bas been practically destroyed is to be regret ted not only because it takes away from ns a prc eminence we once had, but became so many have had to seek employment elsewhere, and because thc state loses a great source or reve nue. Still wc have some consolation in tiio (.bongil that it is no fault or ours that this industry has passed al most, for nature made it so that wc can no longer complete with sections which have boen more favored in this particular. Columbia Record. Ordered Hin. oil'. The Macon Telegraph says thal tlie Boston Herald's indignant denial of thc prevalence of intermarriage be tween negroes and whites in Mass achusetts recalls to mind tlic story Tom Dixon tells in his great book, "The Leopard's Spots," ol' the Boston Republican politician "who advocated tlie obliteration of tlic color line, who took up an ambitious young negro, lnviteii him into his borne, allowed him to sit and chat with Iiis daughter by the hour, but when tlic honestly deluded young man proposed marriage lie became enraged and ordered him on" thc premises." FATAL ACCIDENT. Tho Son of Col. D. P. Duncan Instant ly Killed Thursday. THE BODYHORRIBLY MANGLED Tho Young Mun Pell in Front: ol nn Hughie >Vhlln at Work <>n tho Koolbour<l near Gcilnmbta. J ? ? ? ' a- 5:i .i; c v 's "*? fe - While out onhis engine footboard oiling some valves, as he was about to complete a trip from Asheville, .lohn Peter Richardson Duncan, a Southern railway li reman, lost his foothold Thursday afternoon in some unknown way and foil in front of his engine, be ing killed before he could even cry out. The engine and thc entire train of lil coaches passed over his body leav ing it dangling from the centre of Booktcr's trestle eight miles west of tlie city. The train, which had been "slowed down" to pass over the trestle still undergoing repairs for tlie dam ages received in thc Hood of thc car,ly part of the summer, was running only about six miles an hour at the time of the accident. None of thc train crew saw the unfortunate boy fall. ?ODY 1 IOU lt HIL. Y MANOL.ICD. Engineer.I. lt. Hunter, missing his fireman, whom he had told to oil up tlic valves, stopped thc train, pas senger No. 14. due there from Ashe ville ?it 2 o'clock, just as it pulled over the trestle, and thc body, was found about- a train length behind lying dangling between the hills. The skull was crushed into shapelessness from the cars and eye brows up; both feet were crushed Into formless masses of broken bone and bruised llesh, and there was a slight llesh wound over the heart. The body was laid out in thc bag gage car, where on reaching the city lt was carefully dressed and prepared for shipment to his nonie near Sumter, where it will -go Friday morning at 7.10 for the funeral and thc inter ment. HAD A nUlOHT KUT?KK. Young Duncan would have reached his majority next month, ile was a bright young rafi road mau with a tine future before bim. Ile was fearless, probably too much so, being almost reckless about his own safety, often assuming risks where they were not necessary. Early in the day hewent out on tiie footboard passing around the cylinder for the saine purpose while thc train was running 40 miles an hour. This very clement in his disposition, it is thought, was responsi ble for the horrible''accident that sent T??u^'iiilo- eternity > in _ a twinkling Thursday. But all who come In con tact with his bright, . sunny disposi tion and buoyant nature were grieved at the'news of bis death, for every body likes and admires a brave, good natured, healthy-minded, vigorous looking hoy. Sucli a youth was Dun can, remarkably free from vicious habits for a lad in his business, and kindly hi his manners. LOVED THE SEKVlck. Young Duncan had been in thc rail road service a little over two years. Fascinated with thc work, he left WotTord college in bis sophomore year, where he bael made excellent records, and went out as ti li reman on the old South Carolina and Georgia Extension road. Then after spending six months in tlic shops there lie was placed on tlie extra list. A few weeks ago he sulTored a contusion of thc spine in the wreck near Hcndersonville. He had been working on the Asheville run only a week, but was advancing rapidly in ctliclcncy and would likely have been promoted In a short time. Ile was finishing a "locomotive run ning" course in a correspondence school and had made unusually high records in Uicse examinations. Tlic dead boy was the son of Col. D. P. Duncan, secretary of thc rail road commission, who telegraphed Mrs. Dunttan to come to Columbia at once and she was expected to arrive Thursday night. Tlie death bears the more heavily upon her because she had just finished an anxious and exhausting seigc in nursing her little daughter through an illness from shake-bite that had all but proved fatal. TIIK ACCIDENT J ust before reaching tlic trestle, En gineer Hunter asked Fireman Duncan to oil thc engine valves. This could ila vc been dime from, tbc cab, but Duncan chose the quicker method of going out on thc footboard. Engineer Green, who was returning from a trip to Spartanburg, was sitting out on tlic footboard on tlic opposite side of thc boiler. Mr. Hunter losing sight of the boy oh the side he bad gone out on and hearing from Green that he had not appeared on the other side, stopped the train to investigate. They learned from Mr. lt. L. Rope, the trestle foreman at work in front of thc train, that tlie boy bad fallen in front of thc eugine. Much sympathy is expressed for Cob and Mrs. Duncan and for Mr. \V. Gist Duncan, the (?ead boy's brotber. -Tlie State. . KH!(MI IlitUHCir Alter All. Herman T. Coast.es, who murdered Louis Hui! itt Spring Valley N.' V., on May IU, 1002, committed suicide, in thc Rockland county jail Tuesday by cutting Iiis throat with a rusty razor willoh iie obtained In sonic unaccount able way. Coates was brought from Richmond, Va., where he was arrest ed for vagrancy. While there he con fessed to the murder of Hull. On Sunday he jumped from an Old Do minion steamer off Sea Girt, hut was rescued. Horn On a Train. Austin and tireen Murray, twins, were born on the iron Mountain train near Piedmont, Mo., willie their I mother was en route to the city hospi tal at St Louis. Tlie conductor and breakman secured thc services of a physician, and both tlie babies arc do ? lng well. The mother named the boys j in honor of tlic trainmen. THE TILLMAN TRIAL. i mr no Crowds Expected to Attend. Tho Prisoner Comfortably Fixed. A special dispatch from Lexington to the Spartanburg Journal under dale of August IS says: About a month hence ls expected that this llttle-towri' will be entertaining thc largest num ber of visitors ever known in its. hlsr tory: Thc trial of Jos.' ll- Tillman for tho murder ot- N. G. Gonzales in Columbia is set for that time, and. it is generally believed, will be delayed ho longer. Almost 500 witnesses have been summoned to appear in this case by the opposing sides. All available space in the hotels lias been engaged weeks since hy interested parties, and how the immense number of spectators sure to be on hand, will be accommodated, is an Interesting problem. The last census gave tlic town something over DOO inhabitants. It is thought that at least 5,000 will bc herc during thc trial. Meantime tlic prisoner occupies his' cell In the Lexington County jail.' Sheri IT Caughman has made him as comfortable as possible, putting him on thc shady side of the building on tlie Hist lloor near thc sheriff's own . quarters and occassionally permitting him to exercise himseir by walking up and down the corridor. As a rule the sheriff docs not lock the cell from thc outside but leaves the lock for Tillman to turn if lie so desires. Three times a day Mr. Marks,' who keeps a restrurant just behind the jail can lie seen bringing the prisoner his meals. Tillman states that he linds Iiis quarters herc pleasanter than those in tlic Richland jail, where he was im prisoned during some warm days of May and .lune. Many visitors attracted by curiosity or other motives go to.sec the noted prisoner. Some time since his wife and little daughter spent several days in Lexington with relatives and made frequent visits to thc jail. Others of ids k?ii.sfork Si?vc been here from time to time. Tillman's little nephew, a handsome, boy ol' seven or eight sum mers, is staying in the jail to wait up on Iiis uncle and is said to bc a general favorite with the prisoners. Speculation as to tile verdict in the case is almost useless. As stated above, Mrs. .las. IL. THU man lias re latives in the town and also in the county and people feel much real sym pathy for bea. It ki doubtful If the ' same feeling exists in her husband's case. The belief of almost all those who have read tlie newspapers and care to express themselves ls that the act was genuine murder and should be punished. At the same time it should be remembered that Senator Tillman luis always had a large following in tlie county, whatever -his nephew's following wau, and that UhlS^Tacur.vi almost sure to 1 ntluenccjtpnae.jury.ro^n.i j So far sentiment does, not seem to have crystallized, but it will be a sur prise ifTilllman is either acquitted or sentenced to he hanged as a result of this trial. Not a few look for a mis trial and thou another application for bail. Assaulted the Preacher. Thc State's Spartanburg corres pondent says, .Iones' tabernacle, near Rich Hill, is a place of worship for the the colored people of the Methodist faith in that vicinity. A recent oc currence at that place of worship will be ventilated in thc courts. It ap pears that on Sunday, Aug. 9, among the many attendants on meeting there, was one Preston Williams, a negro strong in the Baptist belief. The pastor, Rev. A. IX Duncan, in his discourse, said something tlvit did not please this auditor, who took it as re flecting on thc Baptists. His be havior occasioned his being reproved in open meeting, and after service Williams waited near the church en trance for the Rev. Duncan. In one hand he carried a stick and in thc other an open knife. As Duncan ap proached Williams struck iiim with stick and advanced to ?arve bira with the knife when bystanders interfered and disarmed the belligerent. Duncan swore out a warrant against Williams, charging him withassaui tand battery witli intent to kill. A Boston DiMiinl. Tlic Boston Herald protests most strenuously against the veracity of a statement credited to Selia tor Money; to thc effect that last year in Massa chusetts 2,000 white women were mar ried to negroes. Thc Herald exclaims that Litis asscrsiou is "besmirching Massachusetts,1' that it is an "arrant falsehood;'? and a "sheer invention" for political purposes. This vehe ment Boston paper declares that in stead ol' 2,000 there were only 50 such marriages last year in that State, and "not one among people of any social standing or inlluence," the white participants being usually of foreign birth. This is a showing for Massachusetts that wo. aro glad to see, since lt demonstrates that tlie spirit of race integrity is pretty strong even there, but is it not evidence that "the door of hope" is shut in tlic negro's face in that abolitionist common wealth? ls it possible that Massa chusetts not only does not encourage but does not even condone social equality, ol' which the only and logical end is intermarriage':' The. Slate. I>eu?l Itoily hi a Can. Thc blood stained corpse of a liyo year-old boy was discovered Wednes day oven mg by baggage A. B. McDonald on a Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston railroad train en route to Davcrsburg, Pa. The little body was packed tightly in a largo eoffee can two feet high and IS inches Wide and was wrapped in thc. blood-soaded folds of a woman's dress. Tho only marks on tim body was a bullet hole in the breast, probably the cause of death. When Davcrsburg was reached a man and woman who had deposited tlie can in the baggage car at Waltersburg were arrested , and taken to jail in MeKeospor.t. They said their names were Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Juiblcr, of Tucker and that thc boy was their son, who had accidentally shot himself with Iiis father's revol ver. When tlicy round him he was dead. Theo decided to keep thc mat ter quiet and hurry him quietly to Davcrsburg. .S(?MS. GAMBLERS. Secr?t??y,JWilBon Points Out Injury! VrBrom Corner in Cotton. FOI?MN NATIONS ARE ACTIVE I ThoJ^bjrJnjro. ortho Crop ?Ins Noth hi'^to ?lo With the Prohibi ;. .te:; ^fiyo Price. C?rner M ti Hf ho Broken. dngton on Thursday Seero .? of,the agricultural depart id -o.an interview declared that in ?uit?,\mlschicf ls being done td the cottohj'itiannfaeturing industry and to'thfe cotton: g rowing industry by thc speoTilativc movement iii cotton. There speculators have concered thc'inarket," said thc secretary, "and put irp'thp price so high that manu facturers cannot usc raw cotton. At oxistth'g prices there is no prollt to the?,? The price of manufactured goousjcannot bc manipulated as cnn ba tn? "price of raw Cotton. "The manufacturer found it more profitable: to sell his cotton to thc ganiftlers. Mills were closed down be cause- of there being no raw material lefthand in some instances cotton which was sold to European manufac turers bas been brought back to this country and used in the gambling op erations." Secretary Wilson; continuing, said tbaffinost European nations which manufacture cotton and also own land's In outlying provinces where cot-1 ton might be grown are anxious to bc coriib" independent bf our speculators, ?md So are organizing and holding out j inducements for thc development of thc^cotton*' raising industry. Thc liri tish, the "French, tile Germans, the Belgians and others own lands in Africa, .and they have been for some | time organizing to produce cotton. "T'hey know," said Secretary Wil-1 souj\.'"that we are training scientists here..to study the cotton plant andi tlioy; have'been anxious to get our) high class men over there to organize fyr iiliem. .Thc United States sent1 $8.000,000 to Egypt last year to pay furlong; staple Egyptian cotton. The department ot' agriculture is trying to grow as good a staple at home, by hybridizing and creating new varie ties:, j Thc secretary of agriculture for Egypt paid mc a visit not long ago and|'"dd that with the irrigation of enla' ed areas along the Nile valley grO'.* np out of thc completion of the greji dam', the production of Egypt would 'be' greatly Increased. They P?y i?p! cents a day for labor there. ....'ires-is a.breed of cattle" which does njl.;,t(ie work and- stands thc heat bet fe*"~c^?Tth': .milles.-"^--, Those -European na* brisownlug 'territory in Af rica have bct,.4-coming to our southern States anil engaging expert negro labor to go over there and organize the natives. ''Twelve-cent cotton in the United States ls a great' encouragement bo all | those people to increase their output. The nations, in Asia are doing every thing to increase thc cotton produc tion -to become independent of us. There has been a feeling Cor some timo^ that it would be wiser for us to grow more cotton, but gambling opera tions this summer had thc immediate el?cct of stimulating efforts for in creased production." The secretary said that every cITort is being made by the department of agriculture to help thc cotton grow ers of the southern States to hotter saystem bl agriculture through which a larger yield of cotton can bc had, but that thc increased output neces sarily . would come slowly. Thc United States had not been increas ing its output for several years, thc crop having sulFcrnd considerably last year on account of thc ravages of the boll weevil. Mr. Wilson said the ef fect of the present crop had nothing whatever to do with thc operations of thc speculators. The shortage of raw cotton to thc manufacturer, he de clared, is not due to shortage in thc crop, but to the fact that tho corner in cotton has put thc price pf raw material to a point where thc manu facturer cannot profitably use it. Thc producer bas not profited by these high prices, as thc cotton practically is all out of his hands. In conclusion Secretary Wilson said he saw no pros pect ol' relief for the working men who are thrown out of employment by the mills closing down, because of the scarcity of raw cotton until thc corner in cotton bursts and thc prico of the raw material is reduced. The new crop of cotton will soon begin to come in. "Of course," bc said, "Ure corner can continue of ir the gamblers have enough money to buy in thc new crop." No Ni'tfroes Wmttoil. The State says 101 wood, Indiana, ls another northern town which will not allow a negro iii its limits. An In dianapolis dispatch says that several horsemen who had animals to exhibit at thc 101 wood fair this week and em ploy negroes to care for thc horses were waited on by these employes and told that they "dare not enter thc town, as they had been warned not to approach the place." "Thc horse men," says the dispatch, "consulted thc local authorities and wore, inform ed that thc people of Kl wood and es pecially the. employ?s ol' the factories, are greatly prejudiced against negroes and that no negro had over been allowed toc?me into the town." And this is in Gov. Du rbi n's common wealth! Home llniiKinuH Needed. There seems to bc a band of incen diaries abroad in thc laud. Many hams and dwellings In the sparsely settled districts of this state are being burned and requests bo the governor to olfcr rewards for the apprehension of thc guilty parties arc being received daily. Wednesday a reward of $100 was olfercd for the parties who burned thc barn of Francis Manual, in Laur ens county. This makes thc eleventh reward oi?c'rcd in thc past two days for this crime and it is a noticeable fact that few rewards of.this kind arc ever claimed. i SUPPRESSION OF GAMBLING. , . Bucket Shops Ult Hurd By n North Carolina Judge. At Charlotte, N. C., in a charge to the grand jury Judge Walter IL Neal, O.I tile superior court, laid special em phasis on tli? suppression oPgarnbling, having direct reference to "bucket shops." .Ile palled the attention of the grand jury to tim fact that there is a law on thc statute books of North Carolina, enacted by thc legislature of. 188?, which makes a contract in futures void and also provides that any per son who buys or sells future contracts may bc indicted. "As long as that law stands un thc statute buoks," said Judge Neal, "it is the duty of. thc courts to enforce lt, and 1 feel it my duty to bring the matter to' the' at tention of this grand jury. You have no more right, in thc discharge of your duties, to discriminate between' gamblers, for dealing in futures'ls a species of gambling, than to discrimin ate between other violators of the law. All gambling is indictable, whether it be playlDg oards for gain, shooting craps or . any other form that some people might consider innocent." Judge Neal moralised on the evil in fluence of gambling, especially gamb ling in futures. He.called attention to the belief of many that they .had an inherent right to spend their own ranney in such ways as they thought proper, and, while this might be true as au abstract proposition, it was also true that they were subject to this quantisation: Nu man lias tuc right Lo dispose of his money or property in a manner detriment ul to good inor?is. Continuing Ids remarks aloiig.the same, linc, Judge Neal spoke of tlie trouble and disgrace caused by sd many good men failing by the way side by gambling. '"For instance,',' lie said, "there is the man engaged Tn handling funds belonging, to ,other people. Ile linst stakes his own money and loses it. In trying to recoup his losses, with no intent to steal,, he takes the money that belongs t? an other. Again fortune goes against i him, and he becomes a defaulter and jan embezzler, and his family is. dis graced." Thc temptation is so great along this linc, continued Judge Neal, "that the state it the exercise of its sovereignty, has placed a ban on all forms of gambling and declares that contracts in futures are void." No charge delivered by any judge in Charlotte in recent years has beeu talked ol' more than the remarks of Judge Neal to the grand jury. Char lotte people have, become accustomed to seeing onslaughts;made on poker, craps and other-forms of gambling, where the stakes may be a few cents or a few dollars, but no one has seemed to think bf inveighing against gam bling when the stakes amounted to", hundreds sud thousands of dollars.' Oh'- every -hand people' havc.:asked: "What action' will the 'graiitT T?ry take? Will any one be indicted for dealing in futures?'' lt may be remarked in passing that no one would be surprised to see well known men of this city summoned be fore tim grand jury and put under their oaths to tell of their connection with transactions in the cotton I futures. Virginia-Carolina Chemical Sar others.-Atlanta Journal. DEATH TO CHRISTIANS. That lu ttie Cry ol'thc Turks, Who Are Hendy to Rill. A tierce battle is reported to have occurred in the neigborhood of Mon astir, Macedonia. Three Turkish bat talions attacked a thousand insurgents and after thc tight had raged for six lion rs the Turks were repulsed, with the loss of 210 men killed or wounded. The insurgent loss is not given. lteports received herc from Constan tinople, and believed to be authentic, con li rm the picvious statements to the etlcct that when the Turks recaptured Krushevo they slaughtered the entire Christian population without excep tion, and it is pointed out that among those killed were the employes of the government tobacco establishments which were under European control, as thc proc cds from these establish ments were assigned to tho service of tlic Turkish debt. A reign of terror is reported to prevail at Uskub, where thc Christian inhabitants arc afraid to leave their houses. Tlie vail has issued the strictest orders to thc Mussulman population to remain on the quiet and not molest their Christian neighbors, hut thc Mussulmans in meeting in the mosque have resolved at a given sig nal to massacre thc whole Christian population, immediately after thc Hrst insurgent band appeared near Uskub, or on any pretext. The Christians are terrorized. Thc Turkish troops, who are their only protection, do not shpw the slightest disposition to aid them. The attitude of thc Turkish troops re cently was plainly manifested when a trainload of soldiers, shortly after leaving Uskub, tired on thc Bulgarian workmen who were repairing the track. Three of thc workmen were, killed and their bodies were left lying on the linc. Knocked Down. Rd ward Mikell, a colored barber, setting himself up as good as any white man and pressing tho proposi tion in tin offensive way upon J. A. Storer, alderman from Ward 12 in Char??fitnn, wa;: gi ven a hard punch in thc face by Mr. Storer Monday morning willie thc two wore riding on a trolley car. Later in the day Mikell sought Mr. Storerat his store on King street and attemped to re new thc discussion, drawing a razor. Ile was knocked down, remaining un conscious for some. time. Seven Hundred Killed. Dispatches from '/unguium dated Aug. 17, gave details of thc distinc tion of the town of Uli rmi, in north ern Nigeria, by a British force of MO whites and f>00 natives rank and lile The enemy's loss was 70U killed, in cluding tlie former sultan of Sokota and a majority of the dhlcfs. Thc British loss was ll men killed, includ ing one officer, and 62 men wounded. Tho enemy made a desperate house to house resistance. GEORGIA'8 MEW VAGRANT LAW'. ! ...!?;) vii. ;? i ? J*4pityl*lV&*fcffity ... , ..- >f n , i "3 ii , Just Sacha Ono IB i?ad?y Needed-In Booth ?aVolinal '." . .. i v ? -. In all the large towns or the South} and especially where great industrial enterprises aro in progress, there <ifl much inconvenience and to some ex tent a great deal'of suffering, because of thc scarcity of labor on which tho people rely. Farmers, as thc Augusta Chronicle says, look in val nf or labor ers, though about street corners in towns, cheap rum ish?ps and railway stations negro loafers are congregated in largo numbers. "They have too easy a time In town, living by their wits or on the charity ot negro . cooks "and house servants," largely we may add, obtained from thc larders ot the households lb "which these are im-' ployed, and no persuasion can induce them to go to work on the farms where they are needed: . The prevalence ot this-form of vagrancy, an incentive to idleness'and .leading directly to various forms of crime, has caused the Georgia legisla ture, to consider a new method of treating tho..question of negro labor, and . it is meeting with much favor In other parts of the South than Georgia. The bill gives a clear aud easily understood definition bf vag rancy, and- empowers police and other likdfc ollieials to give to any officer authority to issue a criminal warrant for the arrest of all vagrants or per sons suspected of being vagrants, with a view of their trial. Thc bill detipes vagrancy, against which its provisions arc directed, as follows: ; ".Persons wandering or strolling about in idleness, who ?are. abie to .work and have no property to sup port them. "Persons leading an idle, immoral life, who have no proerty to support them, and who arc able to work and do not work. "All persons able to work, having ho'property to support them, and who have no visible or known means of a fair, honest and reputable livelihood. Tlic terms 'visable and known means of a fair, honest, and reputable liveli hood,' as used in this section, shall be construed . reasonably continuous employment at some lawful occupa tion for reasonable compensation, or a tixed and regular income from proper ty or other investimcht,' the iucome from which is sufficient for the sup port and maintenance of such vag rant. "Persons having a fixed abode, who have no visible property to support them, and who live by stealing or by trading or bartering stolen property. ' "Professional gamblers living in Idleness. "All able-bodied persons who are found begging fora living or who quit their houses and leave their wives and children without means ef subsist :fcrjce, '.. j?? . ' "All persOns able td w?rk^aiid whc? do not work, but hire out their minor children and live on their wages." This is the most interesting leg islation of the kind"that has ever been attempted. Of course It is directed against negoes as a class. Even the Georgia "crackers" work after their way, but tile negroes are largely given up tb vagrancy as set forth in this bill. As a remedy it is urged that European immigration be diverted to southern ports and fields, but this would be very difficult to accomplish. Only a trilling, percentage ol European immigrants go to thc south in the hope of employment, lt is a fact, whether as regards northern or Euro pean labor, that lt keeps dear of com petition with negro labor. The south wants thc negroes, but ib wants them to work. The negroes of the south, as the Atlanta Constitution contends, must "be made to understand that shiftlessness and unreliability in labor employment," no longer to be toler ated, will bring sure suffering to them; and it recognizes that Booker Wash ington is helping laudably to that end by Inculcating "a reform of negro philosophy," or the philosophy of win ning white respect by. working to de serve it. STRUNG HIM UP. A Negro Hoy Ooinniitts Horrible Crimo mid ia L/ynchcd. At Halifax, N. C., Thurday eve rrfug between 7 aud 8 o'clock thc dead body of Mary Jenkins, 13 years old, was found in the stable of Capt. Grif fin, her grandfather. Her throat was cut from ear to ear; and thc body was tied up in a bag. Thc girl's grand mother had been looking for her, and going to thc stable, found lt locked. She put Mary's little sister through an opening in thc door, and thc girl stum bled over thc body in thc bag. . A negro who is employed at the ho tel and also by Capt. Griffin ls sus pected of thc crime. "When searched, lie was found to have Wie keys of the stuhle in his pocket, a bloody knife and blood on his hands and his clothes. He is now under guard of a large num ber of citizens, as well as deputies and constables, awaiting thc arrival of bloodhounds from Weldon, to bc used to track him from the stable. The whole town ls throughly aroused, and crowds of men have come in from Wel don armed with rides. It is not thought the negro whose name is Man na Ponton, will u\;c to sae day ii gilt. Later news says a crowd gathered and securing thc negro, hanged' him to a tree and riddled his body with bullets. Thc negro after the noose had hoon placed around his neck con fessed to the murder of bbc littlechild and having criminally assaulted her. After disposing of thc negro the crowd which had made no attempt at con cealment, dispersed without any furth er disorder. Wanted for Murder. James 'Dennis Edwards, wanted in .Greenville for a murdor which bc is charged with having committed in 11)01, has been arrested in thc oil fields of Beaumont} Texas, Luther Taylor, Edwards' companion in the crtane, ls now serving a sentence in thc Peni tentiary. BRUTAL BUTCHERY Of a Four Years Old Bey ali Detroit, Michigan. MANIAC OF1 UNUSUAL CUNNING, Ho Commits a ltovojtlng Crime and Loaves No Trnco of His Iden tity. The Police. Puzzled. The mutilated bbdyjpf four-year-old ; ;\ . Alphonse.Wilmes, whose father HveB on Staubln . avenue, Detroit, Mich., .was found Tuesday in a lot at the rear . bf the Michigan Stove WOrks at Adair and Wight streets. Tho body was dis covered by a workman about 10 o'clock wedged in between twp moidlng'boxes. The hands wore tied behind with wire 1 and a red handkerchief had been stuff- ' I cd down thc little fellow's throat for a- * gag. ... Tho' body was partly stripped of clothing. Tho abdomen was slashed ' open and the left wrist was nearly li severed. Both things also had long deep cuts In them. All the wounds . had apparently been made with a very ? sharp instrument. Alphonse had been missing from his home since Sunday [a noon. Nothing was thought of his ab sence at first, but when be did not re turn for supper a .-search was begun that.ended-with the. identification of tho body by his father at the morgue Tuesday afternoon. ? it.s evident that the murder was not committed near where the' body was found, for although scarcely a drop pf blood was left in the little fel low's body, there was practically no blood on thc boards where he was found. .A search for blood stains to and from thc scene was inaugurated without result. Perhaps the strang est phase of the mystery is that there were only a few smalil stains on the body and clothing of the lad, despite the horrible character of his wounds. It looks as though the murderer, after committing the deed, washed thc blood from the body, and then carried it to thc lot where it was found. Thc police are satisfied that the boy was murdered by ? 'maniac and arc working along these limes alone. The ofilcers are inclined to believe that the child was . killed in some house and that afterward the murderer carried his body, in a sack or a wagon,, to the lonely spot where lt was found Tues day. There have been several other crimes against children In the city re cently and many persons believe that a maniac of unusual cunning is respon sible. . A SIMILAR CASIS. . A dispatch from Rockford, 111., sayB the murder of the Detroit boy is iden tical-in circumstances, with the mur der of Dick Tibbltts, a seven-year-old he'.Vsboy, there last month. The de /cftij?v. correspond ?so . closely that the Fi authorities nellie, tho.; murderer F' " was tih'e same man,'an?'h"?^ "Jack the Ripper" type, and are now communicating with, the Detriotpollce department on the subject. Dont Want Him. Thc aristocratic circles^of Madden the sedate residential suburb of J3os t?n are stirred up by the advent of - Joe Walcott, thc negro light weight pugilist. Walcott, through an agent, recently purchased a house adjacent to the home of Col. Harry Converse, one of thc wealthiest and most pro minent citizens and in close proximity to the palatlel residence of E. S. Con verse, the multi millionaire rubber manufacturer and philanthropist. Walcott paid 55,000 for the house, stable and land and through an agent expended $1,000 in improvements. The neighbors looked for a swell fam ily to move in and after the furniture ' had been unloaded they were started i! to see thc new tenants. The outfit consisted of the champion negro pugi list, bis mulatto wife, four pickanin nies, his white mother-in-law and a yellow dog. A Now Industry. According to The State's correspon dent several Anderson dealers are en gagaged in buying mules in the coun ty which will bc shipped to Tennessee tb be fattened durihg . the fall and winter. Next spring the.animals will be shipped sodth again aht) sold for,. - good prices. It is said tbaA a vp^y large corn crop is being madei-.V -Ten nessee this year and that a good profit can be made in buying mules in this section and shipping them there to bc fed on thc corn. A great many of the mules that are now going to Tennes see came from that State last spring. Asa rule the mules are of second grade quality and many of them arc being taken by the dealers from people who bought' them on cijcdit and will not be able to pay for LH ie m. Chinese Crusier Hunk. The Canadian Pacific railroad's steamer Empress of India, from Van couver, ll. C., July 27, and Yokohama, Aug. 10, for Hong Kong, collided near Hang with the Chinese cruiser Huang Tai. Thc war ship sank an hour af ter thc collison. The Empress of In dia saved 170 of thc crew of tho cru iser. Tim captaiu of the Huang Tai, who refused to leave lils ship, and 1.3 of lier crew were drowned. Thc Em press of India was badly damaged a mids! ii p. Sent Back to China Forty-four Chinese prisoners were balfron through Spartan burg Wednes day afternoon on thc late Southern train; on tholr way from Norfalk to China, via San Francisco. They slip- I ped Into thc country by way of Cana da, and were gathered together from different parts of the East. They were carefully guarded on thc train. They attracted much attention at the depot while tho train was waiting. Stole nit Kngino. At. Charleston Edward Robinson, colored, was arrested by the police on the charge*of stealing a stationary engine, thc property of G. G Pardue. It ls alleged that Robinson, with the assistance of another negro, carted tho engine from Mri Pardue's premises on Sheppard street during the night to thc outskirts of thc city, where he broke lt up Into bits of iron willoh ho attomptcd to sell to Junk dealers.