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Tilli OLEMSOJN GkRM. --.-,- / Proceedings of our Agricultural Con veut ion Held in Columbia. SOME SIXTY-FOUR YT ARS AGO. William Gilm?ro Simms Wanted the Son? and Daughters of the Farm* 'mers to -Have Better Edaoa ? ?. . ... ?Hw? i Ional Advantages. To the Editorof The Sunday News. . An Agricultural Convention was held in thc hall of.the House of Rcpresenta tlvcs, in the oity of Columbia, Novem ber 26-28, 1839. The following Was the enrolment: Prom Marlboro-James. -Gillespie, W T Ellerbe, John McQueen. From Chesterfield-Thomas E Powe, J Wright. Marion-Tilomas Evans, William Evans, B Moody. Edgefleld- -W Brooks, James Terry, A P Butler, J O Nicholson, M Watson. Darlington-Thoma*. Mciver, W II Cannon, Sr, W Wingate, Thos. P Lide, J F Ewing, Alexander Sparks. Fairlicid-J J Myers, J B Dav s, W K Davis, J II Means, Edward Means, I) Elkln, W J Allston, John M Robert son, Burrel B Cook. Chester-T W Moore, J D Crawford. Richland-F II Elmore, Robert W Gibbes, James Gregg, Robert Henry, R H Goodwyn, D D Finley. Sumter-John P Richardson, James P Richardson, D St, CDuBose, Thomas J Wilder, Isaac Lenoir, J W English, J S Richaidson. ' Anderson and Pickens-J W Norris, J P Reed, J N Garvin, Jesse McKin ney, Thomas Pinckney, J B Recd, J E Calhoun. Spartanburg-H H Thompson, John Crawford. John W Hunt, Samuel N Evins, William K Poole. Orangcburg and St., Matthew's John M Felder, S Glover, S B Dwight, Jacob Stroman, Elisha Tyler, D F Jamison. Lancaster-Benjamin Massey, J C Crocket, M Clinton John M Baskin, William Reed. Abbeville-John A Calhoun. C F Moiaigne, A B Arnold, James Fiar, D L Wardlaw, George McDutlle. Newberry-Simeon Fair. Greenville-Bannister Stone. Barnwell-Charles R Carroll. I II Hammond, W S Beynolds, W Gilmore Simms, James D Erwin. Lexington-J A Addison, L rou, J C Geiger, M F Percival, L Boozer, II J Caughman, U Arthur. St. Philip's and St. Michael's-F D Quash, W Washington, J Rose. St John's, Berkeley-John H Daw son, P C Palmer. St Andrew's-W Lawton, B R Caroll, William J Bull. St John's, Colleton-W M Murray, J Jenkins Mlkell. Rt Helena Island-J A Scott. Prince William's-John E Framp ton. Prince George, Winyaw-R F "YY Allston, Thos. G Carr. All-Saints'-B F Dunkin, Edward Thos. Heriot. Union-Z P Herndon, E C Johnson. St James, Goose Creek-John Wil son. Col. F. Elmore was unanimously elected president. Robert W. Gibbe^ acted as secretary. A committee of fifteen arranged business for the Convention. SniUECTB KOU CONSIDERATION. This committee were of *he opinion that the following subjF cl J were "III and proper for the <v msi deration bf the Convention:" 1. The creation by the Legislature of an agricultural professorship io th( South Carolina College. 2. The appropriation by the Leg islature of a sum of money to defra\ the fxpenses of a geological and agricultural survey of the State. 3. The establishment of an agricul tural school in some central ant: healthy position of the State. 4. The establishment of a Statr board of agriculture, to meet at Co lumbla, or somewhere else in tin State. 5. The introduction into our frer schools of some elementary work jfa . . """^culture. lding Wim ; ly. (kim mm 1> nmrtp/j' Mw pt, ?,rr.-?~ R. U?rroil sup?i*ii?a thc -resolutions, which were opposed by James H. Hammond, J. A. Calhorn, and B. R. Carroll replied to Col. Ham mond. Resolution 1, concerning an agricul tural professorship in the State Col lege, was, on motion of Col. Ham mond, laid on the table, seemingly without a division. By a vote of fifty-seven to thirty four the Convention refused to tabb Resolution 2, as to a geological and agricultural survey of the State which resolution, after a separate vott on the "agricultural survey" -which carried, thirty-eight to thirty-two was agreed to as a recommendation to the General Assembly. The third, fourth and fifth proposi tions were put and rejected. J. M. Felder offered a resolution recommending to the Legislature "to take measures to secure a sound and stable currency in this State." This motion was tabled. AN AOIUCULTUKAh SOCIETY. Dr. James B. Davis offered aseries of resolutions providing for a State Agricultural Society; an annual Fair and stock show; premiums for best lots of cotton, best variety of corn, small grain, etc; premiums for best essays on culture of rice, corn, small grain, cotton and the grasses; management of negroes and improving lauds; and the formatlonof agricultural societies in each district. These resolutions were seconded by Col. J. H. Hammond "ina speech ot some length." Mr. W. Brooks proposed, and to this proposition the Convention agreed, to aid In the establishment of a cheap weekly agricultural paper. An amendment was adopted ''recom mending to public patronage, as a means of diffusing agricultural infor mation, sucli papers as may bc pub lished in the State having for their object the diffusion of all matters per taining to agilculturf." Mr. J. E. Ctlhoun moved to lay on the table the res duttons relating to agricultural papers. His motion was rejected. I'KESUIBNCE OF W. OILMOItE SIMMS. W. Gilmore Simms introduced the following preamble and resolutions which now, after sixty-four years, are well worth reading and preserving not only for the eminent author's sake, but on account of the present interest in tho subjects treated: "Whereas, in consequence of the scattered condition of our settlements t iroughout thc country the present plan of poor school education ls found Inoperative in most Instances and par tial and unsatisfactory in all, those towns and cities alone excepted whore tbe number bf puplte,;lB sufficiently great to justify tile; empl?ym?mVof competent teachers. Bo lt recommended io the General Assembly of the State,'now lu session, that a tract of laud not to contain less than lirteeu" hundred nor more than five thousand, acres, centrally chosen, or as nearly so' as practicable, be procured - in each of the districts, with which the poor establishment of such district shall thenceforward be endowed; that on tho said tract of land suitable buildings shall be erected for the reception and accommodation of such a number of poor boys as, ac cording to trie eensuB of the district, lt shall be likely to contain; that provision- be made qf all the usual and necessary utensils for farm culture, as practiced in said district; that it bc moderately stocked with horses, cat tle, sheep and all such other animals as are found useful in such an estab lishment; that, when this Js done, a teacher of known intelligence and in tegrity be procured, who shall receive an adequate salary for the tuition of all pupils who may be placed under his caro by, the commissioners of the said district; and. that for certain periods of the day and in certain classes and divisions, to be hereafter determined by the coin missioners, he shall have entire control of their studies und their time; that, at all other periods, the said pupils shall be placed under the con trol of a compe tent superintendent; or overseer, who shall direct their laburs and industry while preparing them, as farmers and planters, for thc proper performance of such duties in after life as may seem best to correspond with their condition and necessities; and that the commissioners of each district be empowered to receive as Indented ap prentices to the poor school of said district,'on behalf of the State, all such boy s tbe parents of whom may be foUnd desirous of securing for them tho advantages of such tuition and all such orphans av, governed by a praise worthy ambition, may be willing to avail themselves of the same; thc term of apprenticeship in no case to oe less than three nor more than seven /ears, unless in the case of such youth as may be already greatly ad vanced towards the years and purposes .>f manhood and who, at the discretion of the commissioners, may be received for a still shorter period." AND 'in h piKLS, TOO. Be lt recommended yet farther, that on the same plantation or tract of land, but remov?d from close prox imity to the dwellings and the school uouse of the boys, there be erected -Hittable houses for thc reception and accommodation of poor girls, who .ihall be placed under the tuition ot me or more female superintendents, from whom they shall learn the or linary elements of a plain English education-and in addition, such du des of a farm and household as com monly devolve upon females In our country; that they shall spin, weave ind sew; attend to poultry and the dairy, the culture of the silkworm, ir it be deemed advisable, and be taught also how to.fashion and make their own and the habits of the boys; the latter, in turn, performing ali those severer labors ol the plantation as will yield sufficient food and provision for both establishments. Be lt further recommended, that, in iddltion to the studies of the ordinary English grammar school, the mastei .if the male department shall bo re quired to instruct his pupils in a com p' Je nt knowledge of simple land sur veying. It is recommended, also, that thc dress of the boys be made uniform and that the elder boys, ranging from thc years of loto 18, . be provided with light muskets and be subjected to thc drill and instruction, once a month, of the neighborhood captain of mi litia. Resolved, That these recommenda tions be respectfully submitted to thc General Assembly, with the prayer ol this Convention that they be subject ed to examination and experiment in three of the districts of the State, in order that their operation may be witnessed^ previous to their general idop ti fright out or ?yr. ajiche dis tr'I was wjLt.B.u order that tt?iT-e? LteivmfeutT should be fairly made the li stricts so chosen should he one in each of the grand divisions of thc .State, the upper, the middle and thc lower country; and that the present commissioners of the districts chosen be requested to take charge of the en tire subject." It -?seems from the records that these resolutions were not even dis cussed; were immediately laid on thc table, on motion of J. E. Calhoun, ol Anderson-near whose home Clemson College stands to day-its site having been selected by Mrs Clemson, a neai kinswoman of this Calhoun, to whoo uer husband, Thos G. Clemson, pro mised that he would found un agri cultural college upon Etirt Hill." Ol r.his good woman, the favorite child ol her distinguished father, John C. Cal houn, Col ll. \V. Simpson, of Pendle ton, the executor of Mr Clemson't will, the only president of the Clem son College trustees, has written ''Her love for her home and countrj was superb, and to this noble, goner ous, and yet gentle, woman, son tl Carolina is as much indebted foi Clemson College as to the distinguish ed husband." On motion of J. A. Calhoun thc Convention unanimously adopted a rc solution requesting the trustees of tin South Carolina College to have thei professor of chemistry deliver a cours? of lectures on agricultural chemistry and thc principals of geology, "pro vided that they clo not Interfere will his regular duties." HKKT BUOAll AND NATIVE SILK. A Mr Russel, proprietor of the "bo anic garden" in Columbia, though th president, presented to the society ; loaf of beet sugar from France am several beautiful specimens of nativ silk. Mr. Russel was duly thanked an thc sugar and the silk were presente to thc secretary of the Convention. A constitution was adopted for th State Agricultural Society and th followerlng officers chosen: His Excellency, Patrick Noble, pref ident W. B. Seabrook, Col W. Brook.? Col W. K. Clowney, Col James Gregg Chane B. F. Dunkin, vice president B. R.Carroll, corresponding secretary Dr lt. W. Gibbes, recording secretar, and treasurer. Gen George McDufile was unanlrr ously appointed anniversary oratorio 1840. Wm Gilmore Simms offered a serle of resolutions affirming that "direc taxation, while lt caves tho cltize from the constant Impositions of th cunning, is thc only honest, cheat safe medium for raising supplies In country like ours." These resolutions at the request of their author, wei laid upon the table. W. Brooks Introduced resolution relating to bank and currency, whio were tabled at his own request. "WV J. Allston offered resolutsot calling attention" to "tho notorlou ly bad condition of many of the most )m* portent roads," "the utterinadaquacy of existing laws on the sub'Jeob," their "unequal and unjust operation;" and asking tho Legislature "to remedy the defects of the present-system, or to substitute another and better in its stead." The Allston resolution ' was adopted after, "free discussion." ; THEN AND NOW. The Farmers' 'institute, season of 1903 has ended.. Thiity. county in stitutes have been beld lu different sections of the State, from Plckens to Conway. The attendance aggregated eight thousand. _The "round-up"-the State Instf tute at Clemson College-with its two thousand people, was a record breaker in the State and in the Union. It is hoped and believed the ap proaching State Fair will be the most successful ever heid. . To-day seems, Mr Editor, a fib time to read the pago of thc State's history tuat tells of the great Agricultural Convention of-two generations ago.. Wm's. Morrison. Clemson College, August 27. THE COLAR LINE NOETH. A Negro Preacher Unable to Rent a House in Watertown. A dispatch from Watertown, N. Y., says the Rev. J. Douglass Jackson, a negro preacher, who went there on July 1 from Richfield Springs to assume charge of the African Metho dist Episcopal Zion Church, has been unable to find a home for himself and family. Ile Says that he has made efforts to secure a home, and on sever al occasions places have almost been secured through white directors of the church, but as soon as those about to lease a house learn of the color of the prospective tenant he is turned down. Now and then a place is offer ed him in a block of questionable re putation, but this he refuses to accept, as he says it is such places as these that ho proposes to break up. Jack son has a wife with him, and an eighteen-year-old daughter he ls anxious to take to Watertown as soon as he can rent a house. He is about 40 years of age and is having large congregations of colored people in his church, which ls In -the tenderloin district, and which will be moved as soon as the directors can raise the necessary funds. A brigadier general who served In the civil war ma'de the announcement on learning of theclor ed man's plight, that while he possessed only limited' means, he would start a subscription to purchase a house for this or any colored preach er who might succeed him. He ls willing to subscribe $50, and within a few days a home for Jackson may be purchased. ' It Is thought probable that the deal will have to be made quietly, and by white people, so great is the prejudice against tlie negro race. A Chicago Mystery. Early Wednesday morning the dead bodies of Harriet Elizabeth Weber and Imccntl Talaminl, a marble cut ter, were found on Lexington evenue just south of 54th street Chicago, 111. Doth had been shot twice, and while there are indications that thc man shot the woman and then killed himself, there are other features to the case that make it somewhat mysterious. Arthur M. Laurie, with whom the dead woman had made her home, will be held by the police until after the inquest. There is no evidence connect ing him with the sh joting, bufhe is detained as a witness. The body of the woman was iudentlfled aS that of "Mrs Laurie," but when Laurie was brought to thc police station he said she was not his wife and that he did not know whose body ww found with hers. In going through the effects of Miss Weber an envelop was found addressed evidently In the handwriting of the man Inocenti Talaminl. .In ..peeking Tulamini to lind what he might know LO thc woman or shooting, the olllcers identitied the dead mun us Tulumi hi himself. No cause is known why Tal aminl should have shot the woman, bhtrshe-liarPtold several or her friends the day before of a Jew who had been following her and of whom she was afraid. Talaminl has a Hebraic coun tenance and it is a general theory that lie shot her because she refused to marry him. In the man's hand was a revolver with four chambers discharged, ac counting for the four shots tired. The people' living in tlie neighborhood where the tragedy occured declare that more than four shots were fired and one bullet crushed through a win dow. These facts have led the police to believe that there may have been a third party to tlie shooting. The Weber woman is a native of Detroit, Mich. In tho Meadows. A low wind in the pines, And a dull pain in the breast And old for a sight of her eyes and lips, One touch of the hand I pressed. The slow, sad lowland wind. lt sights through the lifelong day, While the eager mountain breezes sweep, And the summer is burning away. Here Hie pines sigh ever above. And the broomstraw sighs below, And ever the dreamy silence stirs. With Uie caw of the drowsy crow. There the oaks are scarlet and gold, Like the tints of a fairy dawn. And a si hider shape in the ance ot woods. Hy the slow stream wanders on, O day t hat weighs on the heart, O wind in tbs dreary pines, Does she dream of me in thc golden hours, Past the mountain's long blue lines, Tbs old hall, landy and still. Hy Hie silent, sad Edisto waves, Is it touched to-day by the happy light. As thc summer flowers bloom on graves? O sunshine, titting and sud, O wind, that forever sighs, The ball is bright, but my life is dark. For Hie sunshine of lier eyes. licit Them Alone. We agree with tlie Columbia State that "the experience of that un fortunate Russian girl in New York should discuorago the husband purchasing business which secma to have thrived In that city. After three disappointments the girl com mitted suicide, but her fate might have been worse if married to one of thc men secured by a "matrimonial broke" for a fee of 8200." Tlie Deadly OrosHliitf. A wagon containing Mrs, Lozen, two sons and a daughter was struck by a train at a crossing near Rich mond, Va., on Tuesday. Mrs. Lozen and a llvc-year-old sold were instantly killed and the daughters was seriously injured. THE. LONG EEUDB - : . .' vi -. Of BreatiUtt County, Kent, cky, and Their. Numerous Fatalities. A DAEK AND BLOODY STORY. The Uar?Ju, CooltroU, Bonnette, null Other Blood Thlraty Families Number Their Dead by the Seores. Brea th itt county, Kentucky, is in the eastern end of the State, about midway between the Obie river and the southern boundary and to tho southwestward of a spur of the Cum berland mountains that reaches' up from the southeast and, having per formed the useful purpose of dividing Bre'athitt county from Wolfe and Magoffin counties on the north, con tinues through Lee and Estill coun ties on the west. It Is the real thing in mountain country, and its population, "some where about 12,000, is well scattered. Jackson, its. capital or court bouse town, was, until the railroad pierced the country, as isolated as any of the remote hill towns, like Manchester, Clay county, not far away. The people are very like all the hill people of Kentucky, hospitable to the stranger, if he is not a revenue ofllcer; contented to live without schools, if they must be depended upon to pro vide them; not worried because the women wear one-piece frocks and sun bonnets and rub snug into their gums, like their mothers before them; will ing to be interested In the' outside world, but not anxious to get into it; with a native standard of morality that is not just that of the blue grass lands below the foothills, and so strong in their likes and dislikes that the men will light to the death for a friend or pursue a foe with a relent lessness that will not wear out. The casual visitor who should drop into Jackson or any of the other small er settlements of the county would live there for months before he would lose the Impression that it was only a peaceful village, with a railway connection direct to Frankfort or Louisville bringing' the two places within a day's ride of the mountain town. If the visitor wants to know about Jackson's reputation as the capital of the Hargis Sewall Cockrell feud, he will be surprised to find that the peo ple are not only not'averse to discuss ing it, but actually willing,' if not anxious, to go into all details of the contention that ls described as having begun when William Sewall of Jack son married Virginia Britton of Virginia in 1852. Of this marriage there were two sons, Thomas J. and William, and two daughters, one of whom' was married to Hiram Jett. Curtis Jett was a child of this marriage. When William Sewall died, his widow was wedded to John S, Hargis. There was a big family of Hargises: Henry A., James, John Gj, 'Benjamin and Elbert; and if tberelwero any daugh ters they are. not'talked is-bout. The mother of these BO?? the grand mother of the Curtis who is now In Statc-pr!50Q>^^v. - ; Tho interests of tl^^Mi brothers and the Hargis brothel sons of the same mother, becam^'dehtical for the bitter purposes that pr^ ^tly arrayed the family against a 1er family. According to the local* counts, -the troubles between the H .-gis and Cock rell families between boys, Thomas J. Sewall and Buck Coombs played to gether. They quarreled. Sewall shot Combs. He was not killed, but his shooting diu the business. A latent spirit of dislike, possibly tinged with jealousy and rivalry for leadership in mountain society, burst, into flame. Coombs was the nephew of Tom Cockrell. Cockrell loudly pro claimed that the injury to his family must be atoned by the blood of the Hargises. That was many years ago, and in the course of the intervening years tho effort to make the menace good, and the'determination of thc other side to be even with the Cock rells, have led to some slaughter. The score shows greater activity by the Hargises, but the Cockrell shooting has been the more accurate and fatal. It was not a constant, open fight. On the surface Breathitt county was not always a turbulent region. From time to time, sometimes by accident and again by design, not infrequently from the security of ambush, a Cock rell would slay a Harris or a Hargis a Cockrell. The record, as made up at Jackson recently, Bhowed the account to stand as follows:' THK HKW A Ll. -HA ito 19 SCORE. Buck Coombs, wounded by T. J. Sewall. Judge Cardwell, wounded by T. J. Sewall. Thomas Dunbar, killed by T. J. Sewall. Jerry South, wounded by William Sewall. Filmore Brown, wounded by Wil liam Sewall. Henry Barnett, killed by Elbert Hargis. Sally Hayes, killed by John G. Hargis. Chrales Everett, wounded by Ben Hargis. Samuel Lentzford, wounded by Ben Hargis. Tom Cockrell, wounded by Ben Hargis. Henry Smith, shot by County Judge Hargis. Dr. Cox, killed. John Cockrell, killed by Curtis Jett. James B. Marcum, killed by Curtis Jett and Thomas White. Willis Gabbard, killed by Jeff Stapleton. Granville Prater, killed by George Barnett, Jr. Hiram Miller, killed by Reuben Landrum. George Smith, killed by Charles Byrd. TVE COCKRBLL SCORE. John G. Hasgis, killed by Jerry Cardwell. Ben Hargis, killed by Tom Cockrell. A. F. Bullock, killed by A. Cock rell. B. Davis, killed by Tom Cockrell. Elkanah Smith, killed by Bud Bo hanon. Bud Allen, killed by Joe Hadrtix. Susan Barnett, killed by Robert Sales. Reuben Landrum, killed by Hiram Miller. ; J. W. Noble killed by Jacoh Noble. Irvine Nowguto, killed by Jerry Noble. Daniel Hays, killed by Wesley Cox. - ? This record of ll yiotlhaa to tho re sentment of the Cockrells ?od 10 slain by the Sewall-naTgis fraction to the feud, all since aboutjl870, In addition td persons wounded:, in notable en counters, does not take account ot the manifold conflicts:-;that resulted in wounds not mortal br serious. When Thomas Bewail, intent upon discharging a duty that bill etiquette transferred to him, shot Judge Card well in the back, something like public spirit asserted Itself, and he fled to Madison county, further west; but not far away. On Muddy creek he en countered Thomas Dunbar, a kins man of the Cockrells, and killed him. For this attempt to maintain the vendetta he was arrested, and bis trial resulted in a sentence to im prisonment for life. He served for 12 years,. when he was released-by the governor; His conviction and im prisonment did not deter his brother, William Se wall,' from lengthening the family record of crime. Jerry South and Lillmore Brown had been witness es of the murder of Dunbar, William Sewall shot, but did not kill, both or these men. He was not even tried for the crimes. There were days and months at the time when no hostile shots were tired. Breathlts wore an outward air of peace, but at the same time the feud was becomiug more intense and was enlisting on one side or the other a widening circle of persons connected by birth, marriage or sympathy with tlie Cockrells aud Hrrgises. . The Hargis family enjoyed an ad vantage over that of the Cockrells In being the more numerous, and if it was more active the record shows that the Cockrells pointed their guns mqre accurately and shot more fatally. The feud spirit grew so strong as to assert itself superior to the tradition that in a feud fight women and chil dren were always immune from the assassin's violence. Such controversies were to be carried on by men only, and women need never be at all anx ious about their own safety. A Hargis violated this unwritten law. Elbert Hargis shot and killed Henry iiaruett, whose offense seems to have bien that he had become known as an adherent, for sympathcic reasons, to the Cockrell family and its resentments. Sally Hayes was an eye witness to the shouting. Not ' long after she was shot and killed by John G. Hargis. The response was speedy and fatal. Jerry Cardwell, thc brother of Judge Cardwell, who had been wounded by a shot In the back Trom Tom Sewall, revenged the murder of Sally Hayes by killing John G. Hargis. The shoot ing of Charles Everett, another Cock rell sympathizer, by Ben Hargis fol lowed, and not long afterward the same Hargis shot and wounded, but did not kill, Tom Cockrell's brother in-law, Sam Lieut zfjrd, At this time the feud occupied all tbe time and thoughts of the parties to lt. They sought lu many ways to secure advantages over each other, often by trick and device. Tom Cockrell was especially offen sive to the Hargis party as the leader of the opposing faction, and it was de sirable to get rid of him. Ben Hargis laid a plan to get Cockrell into a sa loon and kill him. Cockrell fell Into the trap, but in the attempt at assas sination Ben Hargis was killed and Tom Cockrell was only wounded. James Hargis was county " judge. His office was to maintain the peace, but thc feud spirit inspired and in furated him, and he shot and killed a man named Smith Who had become a member of the Cockrell family by marriage. . Business and general affairs were not generally disturbed in the county by these occasional encounters of the two factions. Elections went on, the nominations for local offices being more or less affected by the feud. The Cockrells were not numerous enough to control in the elections, uur] they did not enjoy being outvoted by the Ilargises. Judge James Hargis election, as well as that of Sheri fl Callahan; was protested by James B. Marcum of Jackson, Callahan was llargls's brother-in-law. ' Dr. Cox openly expressed his participation ir the protest and for this offenso wai shot and killed. But other victims were soon tobe sacriliced to gratify the resentment ol the Hargis faction. Curtis Jett shot and killed John Cockrell. Not loni! afterward James B. Marcum was shol and killed in thc court house at Jack son. Curtis .lett and Thomas Whit? are now serving life sentences foi committing this crime, which lia^ brought the Cockrell Hargis feuc prominently into notice. lt has taken SO years of this sort o strife to deaden the moral sense o Hrcalhitt county to the luwlessnes that the Cockrell and Hargis diger enees have brought about. Those 01 either side who have become attache! to thc oue or the other have learnci to regard the feud as a matter quit outside of the law,' a matter to be set tied, as their own private affair, be tween the two families, lt does no appear that at any time ah arbitra tor has arisen, moved by a spirit o peace and loathing for murder to bri ni about an agreement to settle the ven dctta that can only be terminated, I pacific settlement is not reached, b; I tlie death of tlie last male survivor o one of the families. Yet these people move with appar ent unconcern about tlie streets am along the roads, the children some times attend the rfame school, am Cockrells and Ilargises have bcci known to gather in the sam Churches. Hut the poison is movin lu the blood all the time. lt sometimes, as has been men tiuned, kills the spirit of souther gallantry that is supposed to regar with scorn the idea of lighting wc meu. Sally Hayes was not the onl woman victim of the feud. She was a Cockrell sympathizer an eyewitness to the murder of Henr Harnett. Another Barnett of til Hargis side was charged with the mm der bf Granville Prater, but was ai quitted. During the month of Jun of this year the body of Susan Bal nett, his wife, was found floating i tlie river, with wounds that showe thc cause of her death to have bee other than drowing. Robert Sales, a Cockrell sympathize who was suspected of the murder, wt indicted. A fair trial in his case wi boas difficult to procure as when Cu tis Jett and White wore tried for th killing of James B. Marcum. The conditions aro extremely di flcult to contend with. A cure mn seem easy and not difficult to tho: who cannot realize that these raurde and woundings have scarcely affectt the currents 6f soeiety or thc buslne affairs of tho county.. , . Schools and churohes goon asusun thero ls the cxch.^ige of the usu courtesies between ^rallies, with t occasional meeting o.,dlstantly-rela .cd members of both t.imlliea to tl feud. 13 ir the feud ls always in tl minds of tho people. " ' . . v. ; .'O'. ... Y:'J:-':??' '/'M ': -' -,' To expecc;to. secure J?rjea of the vicinage that will conderoo the killing' of a Hargls'ts'to expect that a Jury all made-up of rn?rab?M of that family, shall try. th? ?ase." "All feud ' killings must be tried away fro'm.the; county?. as the Marcum cuse hud to bq to get a verdict: It'ls QUt of the question to hope to get i h? Coukr?ils to leave the county and take their li?tes ?md their vows of vengeance withythcm. And -.tho Hargis family ,is too large and influ ential to listen to such a proposition.' They have been the more act! ve "of the two factions to tho feud, and they are both numerically arid Tuateiiu ly more strongly established in tho cbu mun'lty. To remove the feud Bplr'lt, however, would be to depopulate the county, for in 60 years its roots have taken hold in other families. There are people who say, they are indifferent to tho quarrel^ and who preserve a wise silence when opinions are sought. But the impartiality of these persons ought not to be depend ed upon in determining the guilt or innocence of a man tried for murder as the result of the rend. Immigration -might effect an im provement in the state of public feel ing. Newcomers, ignorant of the ori gin of the feud or indifferent to it, and also indifferent to the causes given as justifying its continuance, might stif fen up the courts, and by imposing severe penalties for feud crimes under the practice of open or convert mur der. But there is little to invite such a throug of immigrants as would be necessary to leaven the lump of dead public spirit. Breath!tt will not reform itself. Its reformation ls a duty which the State government should assume and under take. Only such a cure, or the preva lence of a discriminating epidemic, will banish the use of the rille and pis tol as thc settlers of family disputes. This is the c. un try and these are thc people thc Salvation Army expect to conquer by gospel lessons.-New York Sum_ A Dm Hui Son. , The Columbia State says: "A young physician in Georgia has asked Guv. Terrell's permission to take the place of his father who is serving a life sentence for murder. The father is 04 years old and has been iq prison eight years. He killed a man named Lilly with whom he had a business disagreemi nt, going to the church where Lilly was superintendent of a Sunday school, tiring at him until the superintendent foll in the door as he ran out and in the piesence of the vic tim's children cut his throat from ear to ear. The son say he cannot hope for a pardon for this crime but is wil ling to make atonement in his father's stead and let the old man spend his last days in freedom. Under our hu man laws this ls impossible, of course, and wisely so, for no truer words are found in Holy Writ than the daclara tlon that the sips of the father shall bc visited upon the children even to the third and fourth generation. It is unnecessary for man-made statutes tc add to that decree. A Good Iiuw. There is a law on the New York statute books providing for heavy punishment for the man who, under any circumstances whatsoever, strikes a man whose eyesight compels him to wear eyeglasses. This law was passed a good many years ago, and lt has always been rigorously enforced. Scrappy men who never thought to I see the inside of a prison have done j bitter sentences In Sing Sing and otber-Nesv York penal institutions for forgetting it-if, indeed, some of j them ever knew-that the law of [ New York State will not tolerate any list abuse of thc chap who bas'to wear I eyeglasses or spectacles. It is a | peculiarly but a perfectly Just- and idmirabie law,' considering the disad aotage under which a man with in ferior eyesight must necessarily labor j In a light with a man whose eyes are all right, and New York is said to bc thc only State in the Union that has| suoh a law. Yost KIPPER.-Yom Kipper, the anmi.il fasl day of Hie Jewish people, occurs today and tomorrow. Yom Kipper is tlie great dav of atonement with tlie Jews, and has been observed from time immemorial. The people of this race guttier in their synagogues all over the world, recount their sins, oller stoneraent and pray for forgive ness. The is observed by both the orthdox and reformed Jewish church. The clay begins this afternoon at 6 o'clock, and last until the same hour tomorrow evening. This ls the day according to the Hebrew method of reckoning a day. lt is a fast day with the people and strictly observed in every household. A Queer ('ano. Drs. Moore, Sheppard and Warren arc being sued at Salisbury, N. 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