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Prqceedirigs of o?r Agricultural Con; ventibn Held in Colombia. BOBEE SIXTY-FOUR YT ABS AGO. .William Gilmores Simms Wanted the Sons and i>augbtersof the Farm mora to l?avo Better Edaos ?Ional Advantages. To the Editor.ot The Sunday Hews. . An Agricultural Convention was held In thc hall of. thc House of Representa tives, in'the blty bf Columbia, .Novem ber 25-28, 1839. The following was the enrolment: From Marlboro-James.-Gillespie, W T Ellerbe. John McQueen. From Ohester?eld-Thomas E Powe, J Wright. Marion-Thomas Evans, William Evans, B Moody. Edgcfleld -W Brooks, James Terry, A P Butler, J O Nicholson, M Watson. Darlington-Thomai, Mciver, W H Cannon, Sr, W Wingate, Thos.P Lide, J F Ewing, Alexander Sparks. Fairfield-J J Myers, J B Dav s, W K Davis, J H Means, Edward Means, D F.lkin, W J Allston, John M Robert sol.. Burrel B Cook. Chester-T W Moore, J D Crawford. Richland-F H Elmore, Robert W Gibbes, James Gregg, Robert Henry, R H Goodwyn, D 1) Finley. Sumter-John F Richardson, James P Richardson, DSt, C Du Bose, Thomas J Wilder, Isaac Lenoir, J W English, J S Rlchaidson. Anderson and FIckens-J W Norris, J P Reed, J N Garvin, Jesse McKin ney, Thomas Pinekney, J B Reed, J E Calhoun. Spartanburg-II H Thompson, John Crawford, John W Hunt, Samuel N Jivins, William K Poole. Orangeburg and St., Matthew's John M Felder, S Glover, S B Dwight, Jacob Stroman, Elisha Tyler, D F Jamison. Lancaster-Benjamin Massev, J C Crocket, M Clinton John M Baskin, William Reed. Abbeville-John A Calhoun, C F Moialgue, A B Arnold, James Fiar, D L Wardlaw, George McDullle. Newberry-Simeon Fair. Greenville-Bannister Stone. Barnwell-Charles R Carroll. T H Hammond, W S Reynolds, W Gilmore Simms, James D i?rwin. Lexington-J A Addison, L Pou, J C Geiger, M F Percival, L Boozer, II J Caughman, H 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 B Caroll, William J Bull. St John's, Collcton-WM Murray, J Jenkins Mlkell. Rt Helena Island-J A Scott. Prince William's-John E Framp ton. Prince George, Wlnyaw-R F W Allston, Thos. G Carr. All-Saints'-B F Dunkin, Edward Thos. Heriot. Union-Z P Hcrndon, E C Johnson. St James, Goose Creek-John Wil son. Col. F. Elmore was unanimously elected president. Robert W. Gibbet acted as secretary. A committee of fifteen arranged business for the Convention. BOHJECTS KOU CONSIDERATION. . This committee were of the opinion thut the following subjects were "flt and proper for the consideration bf the Convention:" 1. The creation by the Legislature of an agricultural professorship in tfcu South Carolina College. 2. The appropriation by the Leg islature of a sum of money to defray the expenses 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 Statt board of agriculture, to meet at Co lumbla, or somewhere else in tut State. 5. The introduction Into our frer schools of some elementary work ?jn . "."..Vulture. pv g"r--?- *R. Carroll ?upgftHfifl the -. 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 tifty-soven to thirty four the Convention refused to tabh Resolution 2, as to a geological and agricultural survey of the State which resolution, after a separate voti on th-; "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." Thit. motion was tabled. AN AOIUCULTUltAL oOCIHTY. Dr. Jil mes B. Davis offered a scries 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 lands; and the formatlonof agricultural societies in each district. These resolutions were seconded by Col. J. H. Hammond "loa speech ot some length." Mr. W. Brooks proposed, and ti) 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, such papers as may be pub lished in the State having for their object the diffusion of all matters per taining to agriculture." Mr. J. E. C ilhoun moved to lay on the table the refutations relating to agricultural papers. His motion was rejected. IMIESOIENCU OK Vf. Ult, MOUE 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 tlio subjects treated: "Whereas, in consequence of thc scattered condition of our settlements t iroughout the country thc present plan of poor school education is found Inoperative in most instances and par tial and unsatisfactory in all, those towns und cities alone excepted whore '?xU?.;ri?o)?r":ot pupils la sufficiently great: to justify tile erBploym?nt of competent teachers.', Bo lt recommended to the General Assembly of the State,'oby? In session, that a tract of land not to contain less than fifteen hundred nor moro than five thousand, acres, centrally chosen, or as nearly sq-as practicable, t>? procured in each of tho districts, with which the poor establishment of such district shali thenceforward be endowed; that on the said tract of land suitable bu i ld hi graball be erected for the reception and. accommodation of such a number of poor boys as, ac cording to trie census of the district, it shall be likely to contain; that provision-be made qt all the usual and necessary utensils for farm culture, as practiced in said district; that it be moderately stocked with horses, cat tle, sheep and al) such other animals as are found useful in such an estab lishment; that, when this .ls done, % teacher of known intelligence and In tegrity be procured, who shall receive an adequate salary for the tuition of all pupils who muy be placed under his care 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 commissioners, he shall have entire control of their studies and their time; that, at all other periods, thc said pupils shall be placed under the control of a compe tent superintendent,' or overseer, who shall direct their labors and industry while preparing them, as farmers and planters, for the proper performance of such duties lu after lifo 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 thc State, all such boys the parents' of whom may be foUnd desirous of securing for them the advantages of such tuition and all such orphans as, governed by a praise worthy ambition, inay be willing to ivail themselves of thc same; thc j term of apprenticeship in no case to .ic less than three nor more than seven years, unless in the case of such youth as may be already greatly ad vanced towards the years and purposes of manhood and who, at the discretion of the commissioners, may be received for a still shorter period." AND TUB GIRLS, TOO. Be lt recommended yet farther, that on the same plantation or tract -jf land, but removed from close prox imity to the dwellings and the school aouse of the boys, there be erected -ai i table bouses for thc reception and accommodation of poor girls, who .?hall be placed under the tuition ol me or more female superintendents, from whom they shall learn the or llnary elements of a plain English education-and In addition, such du Gies ol' 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 thc habits of the boys; the latter, in turn, performing all those severer labors ot the plantation as will yield sufficient food and provision for both establishments. Be lt further recommended, that, lu iddltion to the studies of the ordinary English grammar school, thc mastei . if the male department shall be re quired to Instruct his pupils in a com P' Jent knowledge of simple land sur veying. It is recommended, also, that tin dress of the boys be mac|e uniform and that the elder boys, ranging from thc years ot 15 to 18,; be provided with light muskets and be subjected to Mu 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, hi order that their operation may be witnessed, previous to their gcueral idoptiirighfcout ot ?vfcaiijtho dis tr1! was xvjShn order that uie-ttr 'pATObutf should be fairly made thc listricts 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 oe 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 un tlu table, on motion of J. E. Calhoun, ol Anderson-near whose home Clemson College stands to day-its site haying been selected by Mrs Clemson, a neal kinswoman of this Calhoun, to whoa uer husband, Thos G. Clemson, pro mised that he would found an agrl cultural college upon Port Hill." Ol rbis good woman, the favorite child ot her distinguished father, John G. Cal houn, Col lt. W. Simpson, of Pendle ton, the executor of Mr Clemson') will, the only president of the Clem son College trustees, has written *'Her love for her home and country was superb, and to this noble, gencr ous, and yet gentle, woman, soutl Carolina ls as much indebted fo 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 tht South Carolina College to have the! professor of chemistry deliver a cou rsi of lectures on agricultural chemlstr; and the pMnclpals of geology, "pru vlded that they ?o not interiore will his regular duties." IIKKT BUG A It AND NATIVK SILK. A Mr Russel, proprietor of the "bc anlc garden" in Columbia, though th president, presented to thc society loaf of beet sugar from France an several beautiful specimens of nativ silk. Mr. Russel was duly thanked an the sugar and the silk were presente to the secretary of the Convention. A constitution was adopted for th State Agricultural Society and th followerlng otficors chosen: His Excellency, Patrick Noble, pref ident W. B. Seabrook, Col W. Brook* Col Wi K. Clowney, Col James G reg? Chane B. F. Dunkin, vice presiden! B. R.Carroll, corresponding secretary Dr R. W. Gibbes, recording secretar and treasurer. Gen George McDuflle was ?nanla ously appointed anniversary orator ft 1840. Wm Gilmore Simms offered a serle of resolotlons affirming that "direc taxation, while it saves thc citi/e from the constant impositions of tl: cunning, ls the only honest, cheal safe medium for raising supplies in country like ours." These resolution at thc request of their author, wei laid upon the table. W. Brooks Introduced rcsolutloi relating to bank and currency, whlo were tabled at his own request. "WV J. Allston offered rcsolutsoi calling-attention tb "tbo riotoilou ly bad condltlqo or .many of the most im portant roads," "theutt?r/lnadaquiioy of existing laws on the subjeot," their "unequal and unjust operation;"- and asking the Legislature "to remedy the defects of the preseut system/ or to substitute another.and better in its stead." The Allston resolution was adopted after "free discussion." THEN AND NOW. 1 The Farmers' 'Institute- season of 1903 has. ended. ' Thlity. county in stitutes have been held in different sections of the State, from PlckenB to Conway. Tho attendance aggregated eight thousand. .The "round-up"-the. State Ins.tf tdte at Clemson College-with its two thousand people, was a record breaker In tlie State and in the Union. 'It is hoped and believed the ap proaching State Fair will be the most successful ever held. To-day seems, Mr Editor, a fib time to read the page ot the State'H history that tells of the great Agricultural Convention of two generations ago. Wm's. Morrison. Clemson College, AugUBb 27. THE COLAR LINE NORTH. A Negro Preacher Unable to Rent a Houoe in Wa ter to Ayn. A dispatch from Watertown, N. Y., says the Rev. J. Douglass Jackson, a negro preacher, who went there on July 1 from Richfield Springs bo assume charge of the African Metho dist Episcopal Zion Church, has been unable to find a borne 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 ls 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 nays it is such places as these that ho proposes to break up. Jack son bas a wife with him, and an eighteen-year-old daughter he is 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 is in .the tenderloin district, and which will be moved as soon as the direebors can raise bhe necessary funds. A brigadier general who served in the civil war mu'de the announcement on learning of theclor ed man's plighb, bbat while he possessed only limlbed* means, he would starb a subscription to purchase a house for bhls or any colored preach er who mighb succeed him. He is 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 bo be made quiebly, and by white people, so great ls bbe prejudice agaiusb bhe negro race. A Chicago Mystery. Early Wednesday morning bhe dead bodies of Harrieb Elizabeth Weber and Inocenbl Talaminl, a marble cut ter, were found on Lexington evenue just south of 54th street Chicago, 111. iioth had been shot twice, and while there are indications that the man shot the woman and tuen killed himself, there are other tea tu res bo bhe case bhab make ii.- 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 jobing, hut ho ls detained os a witness. The body of the woman was iudentified as that of "Mrs Laurie," but when Laurie was brought to the police station he said she was nob his wife and bhab he did nob know whose body was found with hers. In going through the effects of Miss Weber an envelop was found addressed evidently in the handwriting of the man lnocenti Talaminl. ,ln. jfeeking Tulamini to find what he might know to thc woman or shooting, the pincers identified the dead man as Tulum hu himself. No cause is known why Tal aminl should have shot the woman, bhtrshcr-haid'told.several of 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 he shot her because she refused bo marry him. In the man's hand was a revolver with four chambers discharged, ac counting for the four shuts fired. The people living In thc 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 u third party to the shooting. The Weber woman is a native of Detroit, Mich. _ In tho Meadows. A low wind in tlie pines, And a dull pain in tho breast And oh! for a sight of her eyes and lips, One touch of the hand I pressed. The slow, sad lowland wind. Itsighls through the lifelong day, While the eager mountain breezes sweep, And the summer is burning away. Here the pines sigli ever above. And the broothsbraw sighs below, And ever the dreamy silence stirs. With the caw of the drowsy crow. There thc oaks are scarlet and gold, Like the tints of a fairy dawn. And u si Inder shape in the aneen L woods. By the slow stream wanders on, O day that weighs on the heart, O wind in tbs dreary pines, Does she dream of me in the golden hours, Past the mountain's long blue lines, Tbs old hall, lithely and still. By the silent, sad Edisto waves, ls it touched to-day by thc happy light. As the summer Howers bloom on graves'/ O sunshine, titting and sad, O wind, that forever sighs, Tlie hall is bright, but my life is dark. For the sunshine of her eyes. I jet Them Alone. We agree with the Columbia State that "the experience of that un fortunate Russian girl In New York should discuorugo thc husband purchasing business which seems to have thrived in that olby. After three disappointments tho girl com mitted suicide, but ber fate might have been worse if married to one of the men secured by a "matrimonial broke" for a fee of 8200." Tho Deadly Crossing. A wagon containing Mrs, Lozen, two sons and a daughter was struok by a bruin ab a crossing near Rich mond, Va., on Tuesday. Mrs. Lozen and a five-year-old sold were insbanbly killed and the daughters was seriously injured, THE. LONG FEUDS Of Bre&thittiCouaty, Kentucky, and Their! Numerous Fatalities. > A DABK AND BLOODY 8TORY. Tho Unrslu, Cockroll, Bounotte, mid Other Blood Tbl'raty Families Numbct* Their Dead hy tho Seores. Breatbltt county, Kentucky, ls in the eastern end of the State, about midway between the Oblo\ river and the southern boundary and to the southwestward of a spur of the Cum berland mountains that reaches* up from the southeast and, having per formed the useful purpose of dividing Breathltt county from Wolfe and Magoffin counties on the north, con tinues through Lee and Est!ll coun ties on the west. , It ls the real thing in mountain country, and its population, some where about 12,000, is well scattered. ?Jackson, its. capital or court house 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 ls not a revenue officer; 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 snuff 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 gruss lands below the'foothills, and so strong in their likes and dislikes that the men will fight 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 ouly 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 reputatlo'n 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 discLss itig it, but actually willing,' if not anxious, to go into all details of thc 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 Sj Hargis. There was a big family of Harglses: Henry A., James, John Gi, Benjamin and Elbert; and If therefore any daugh ters they are not talked ?. about. Tbc mother of these sons the grand mother of the Curtis who.is now. In.StatcpriRQQ.\.^r.. -. The interests of ti^b^All brothers and the Hargls brothers., sons of the same motber,jDecamWi?entlQal for the bitter purposes that pr l-*tly arrayed the family against-o 1er family. According to the local1 ?ounts, -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 dlo 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 bc atoned by the blood of thc Harglses. That was many years ago, and in the course of the intervening years the effort to make thc menace k'ood, 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 Harglses, but the Cockrell shooting bas been thc more accurate and fatal. It was not a constant, open tight. On the surface Breathltt 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, showed the account to stand as follows:' TI?K BEWALL-HARGIS BCOItK. 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 Hargls. Sally Hayes, killed by John G. Hargls. Chrales Everett, wounded by Hen Hargis. Samuel Lentzford, wounded by Ben Hargls. Tom Cockrell, wounded by Ben Hargls. Henry Smith, shot by County Judge Hargls. 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 na rnctt, Jr. Hiram Miller, killed by Beuben Landrum. George Smith, killed by Charles Byrd. THE COCKHELL SCORE. John G. Ha8gis, 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 11 anon. . Bud Allen, killed by Joe Haddlx. ; SuRan Barnett, killed by Bobert Sales. Beuben Landrum, killed by Hiram Miller. \: J. W. Noble killed by Jacob Noble. Irvine Newgate, killed by Jerry Noble. Daniel Hays, killed by Wesley Cox. i --?-:-rr1 ' - 1 1 . v. - "' - - ?? This record of ll yiotims td thc re-' seo.tment ottbe Cockrells and 10 Blain by tb? Bewail ?H ?rgis fraction to the feud; all since about 1870, In addition to pontons, wounded-.: In notable en;; counters, does not take account of tho manifold conflicts that resulted In wounds not mortal or serious. ?When Thomas Sowall,Intent upon discharging a duty that hill etiquette transferred to bluVshot Judge Card well lo tho baok, 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 his 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 S?wall, from l?ngtbenlng the family record of crime. Jerry South and LUlinore Brown had,been witness es of the murder of Dunbar, William Sewell shot, but did not kill, both or these men. Ile was not even tried for the crimes. There were days and months at the tln.e when no hostile BhotB were ll red. Breath Its wore an outward air of peace, but at the same time the feud was becoming more Intense and was enlisting on one side or tbe other a widening circle of persons connected by birth, marriage or sympathy with the Cockrells and Hrrgises.. The Hargls family enjoyed an ad vantage over that of the Cockrells In being the more numerous, and If it was more active thc record shows that thc Cockrells pointed their guns more accurately and shot more fatally. The feud spirit grew so strong as to assert Itself superior to the tradition that in a feud light 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 Ilargis violated this unwritten law. Elbert Hargls shot and killed Henry Barnett,.whose offense seems to have bien that he bad become known as an adherent, for sympatheic reasons, to the Cockrell family and Its resentments. Sally Hayes was an eye witness to the shooting. Not long after she was shot and killed by John G. Ilargis. The response was speedy and fatal. Jerry Cardwell, the brother of Judge Cardwell, who had been wounded by a shot In the back from Tom Se wall, revenged thc murder of Sally Hayes by killing John G. Hargls. The shoot ing or Charles Everett, another Cock rell sympathizer, by Ben Ilargis fol lowed, and not long afterward the same Ilargis shut and wounded, but did not kill, Tom CockrelPs brother in-law, Sam Lem/.ford. At this time the feud occupied all the time and thoughts of the parties to lt. They sought In many ways to secure advantages over each other, often by trick and device. Tom Cockrell was especially offen sive to the Ilargis party as the leader of the opposing faction, and lt was de sirable to get rid of him. Ben Hargls 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 wns killed and Tom Cockrell was only wounded. James Ilargis was county " judge. His otlice was to maintain the peace, but the feud spirit inspired and in rurated him, and he shot and killed a mau named Smith Who had become a member of the Cockrell family by marriage. .Business and general affairs were j 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, aud they did not enjoy being outvoted by thc Harglses. Judge James Hargls' electlou, as well as that of Sheriff Callahan, was protested by James B. Marcum of Jackson, Callahan was li arg i s's brother-in-law. '< Dr. Cox openly expressed his participation In the protest and for this offense was shot and killed. x But other victims were soon to be sacrificed to gratify the resentment of thc Ilargis faction. Curtis Jett shot and killed .John Cockrell. Not long afterward James B. Marcum was shot and killed in the court house at Jack son. Curtis Jett and Thomas White arc now serving life sentences for committing this crime, which has brought thc Cockrell-Hargis feud prominently into notice. It has taken 50 years of this sort ol strife to deaden the moral sense ol Breath!tt county to the lawlessness that the Cockrell and Hargls differ ences have brought about. Those on either side who have become attach?e to thc (?ue or the other have learner to regard the feud as a matter quit? outside of tue law, a matter to be set tied, as their own private affair, be tween the two families. It does nol appear that at any time ah arbitra tor has arisen, moved by a spirit o: peace and loathing for murder to brilia about an agreement to settle the ven detta that can only be terminated, I: pacllic settlement is not reached, bj thc death of the last male survivor o: one of the. families. Yet these people move with appar ent unconcern about the streets ant along the roads, the children some times attend the dame school, ant Cockrells and Harglses have beei known to gather in the sam< churches. But thc poison is movim in tile blood all the time. lt sometimes, as has been men tinned, kills the spirit of souther! gallantry that is supposed to regari with scorn thc idea of lighting wo men. Sally Hayes was not theonl; woman victim of the feud. She was a Cockrell sympathizer am eyewitness to the murder of Heur Barnett. Another Barnett of tb Ilargis side was charged with the mur der of Granville Prater, but was ac quitter!; During the month of Jun of this year the body of Susan Bar nett, his wife, was found Moating li the river, with wounds that showei the cause of her death to have beei other than drowing. Robert Sales, a Cockrell sympathizer who was suspected of tho murder, wa Indicted. A fair trial in his case wll boas difficult to procure as when Cur tis Jctt and White wore tried for th killing of James B. Marcum. The conditions are extremely dil llcult to contend with. A cure ma seem easy and not difficult to tlios who cannot realizo that these murdei and woundings have scarcely affecte the currents of society or thc buslnei affairs of the county. : Schools and churches goon asusua thcro ls the exchange of tho usu? courtesies between ^rallies, with a I occasional meeting distantly-rela ed members of both families to tl: feud. But the feud Isylways In tl minds of the people. * ? ?.??..-'.?/. . T? expect to. secure jprlea of tho vicinage that will condemn the killin?, of a HarglpMs:U> expect that a jury all made - up of members of that family , shall- try the case.- TAll f??d killings; must be -tried away from..the : county,, as tho Marcum case had to be, to get a verdict. If ls qut of the question.to hope to get i be' Cockrella to lcaye the county and take their hates and "their. vows of vengeance^ wi th ;, them. And the Hargis family . is too large and Influ ential to listen tb such a proposition. They have been the more aotive br thc two factions to the feud, and they are both numerically and mateiialy more strongly established In the cou muulty. To remove the feud spirit, however, would be to depopulate the county, for In 60 years Its roots have taken hold In other families. There aie people who say they are Indifferent to the quarrel, and who preserve a wise 6llonco when opinions are sought! But the Impartiality of these persons ought not to be depend ed upon tn determining the guilt or innocence of a man tried for .murder as the result of the feud. Immigration -might effect an Im provement in the state of public feel ing. Newcomers, ignoraut of the ori gin of the feud or indifferent to it, and also indifferent to thc causes given as justifying its continuance, mi^ht stif fen up the courts, and by imposing severe penal Ci es for feud crimes under the practice of open or convert mur der. But there ls little to invite such a throng of immigrants as would be necessary to leaven the lump of dead public spirit. Breatbltt will not reform Itself. Its reformation is 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 rifle and pis tol as thc settlers of family disputes. This ls the c> imtry and these are the people the Salvation Army expect to conquer by gospel lessons.-New York Sun;_ A Dutiful Son. The Columbia State says: "A young physician In Georgia has asked Guv. Terrell's permission to take the olace pf his father who is serving a life sentence for murder. The father is 04 years old and has been In prison eight years. He killed a man named Lilly with Whom ho hud a business disagreemi nt, going to the cnurch where Lilly was superintendent of a Sunday school, tiring at him until the superintendent foll in the door as hr 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 day? In freedom. Under our hu man laws this is impossible, of course, and wisely so, for no truer words are found in Holy Writ than the daclara tion that the sips of the father shall be visited upon the children even to the third and fourth generation. It is unnecessary for man-made statutes to add to that decree. A Good I/aw. 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 see the inside of a prison have done bitter sentences In Sing Sing and other-New York penal Institutions for forgetting it-If, indeed, some of them ever knew-that the law of New York State wlll uot tolerate any Hst abuse of the chap who has'to wear eyeglasses or spectacles. It is a peculiarly but a perfectly just and admirable law,' considering the disad vantage under which a man with in ferior eyesight must necessarily labor in a fight with a man whose eyes are all right, and New York is said to be the only State in the Union that has suoh a law. YOM KIPPER.-Yom Kipper, the anuuul fast day of Mic jewish people, occurs today and l .murrow. Yom Kipper is ttie great dav of atonement with the Jews, and lias been observed from time immemorial. The people of this race gatticrin their synagogues all over tile world, recount their sins, offer s t?nernen t and pray for forgive ness. The is observed by both the orthdox and reformed Jewish church. The day begins this afternoon at 6 o'clock, and last until the same hour tomorrow evening. This is the day according to the Hebrew method of reckoning a day. It is a fast day with the people and strictly observed i in every household. A Queer ('UKO, Drs. Moore, Sheppard and Warren are being sued at Salisbury, N. C., by the administrator of Julia Stanfield, a negro woman, for $5,000 damages for pronouncing her dead and per mitting her to be put into a coffin and suffocated. The doctors say they can prove the woman was dead when they ??aid she was. Mullet! Mullet! Mullet! and all kinds of Fresh and Salt Water tisli and oysters. If you arc dealing in Fresh Fish or intend to deal in them write for prices and send your ord rs to TERBY FISH CO., Charleston, S. C. or COLUMBIA FISH SB ICE CO Columbia S. C. We ship only fresh caught tisii and our prices arc as low as they can be sold at. Write us. Try us, and be convinced Great Distress Throughout the South Could lie eliminated hy the use of Dr. Biggers Huckleberry Cordial. It cures Dysentery, Diarrhoea, Children Teeth ing. At Di?ggists 25c and 50c per bottle. A fellow who claims to know says it takes a fellow with a bank account to draw a check; a pretty woman to draw attention; a horse to draw a cart; a porns plaster to draw the skin; a toper to draw a cork; a free lunch to draw a crowd, and an advertise ment to draw traoe. THIS man In the moon has just about as much chance of getting the Demo cratic nomination for president as Grover Cleveland has. BOTANIC Thc Great Toiled Hemed y for the speedy I and permanent cure of Scrofula, Kheuma I tism, Catarrh, Ulcers, Eczema, Sores. Erup tions, Weakness, Nervousness, ana all BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASES. 11 is by fir the best building up Tonic and Illood Purifier ever ofTered to the world. It rn.il.es new, rich blood, imparts renewed vi tality, and possesses almost miraculous healin? properties. Wtllo for Book ot Won derful Cures, sent tree or. application. 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Oo You Ever Think or Columbia as being the most convenient place where YOU can trade: situated!: as lt is In the exact centre of the State, with Railroad lines radiating like spokes In awheel? We are in a position to reach all points quickly.. We have a tine large Jewelry Store, tilled with choice goods and we want your trade. We are getting out a tine illustrated catalogue to be ready latter part of this month. Send in your name for our mailing Hst. Watch this space for a new Ldvertisement each week. P. H. LACHICOTTB & CO., Jowelers, 1424 Main St COI .UM HI A, 8 O IRP?PIT BU,ILDTVG? RE PRESSED AND Di Ils JV FANCY SHAPES. LARGE STOCK. PROMPT SHIPMENTS GEoRGHA-C A KO Ll WARBRICK CO., ? noward H. Stafford, President. WRITE FOR PRICES. . AUGUSTA, GA. We Do Not Deceive Tbe Sick If you are sick and want toget.well, do not experiment . but be sure that your ar placing your case In . expert hands ? We do not believe in any form of deception. We have no FKEE MEDICINE scheme to deceive sick, but every 'case put under our treatment is positively guaranteed by Not a Dol lar Need be paid Until Cured/ and we are the only Special tists who have established a reputation for curing the albo t ' . ?Gi* and collecting the fee afterwards. rf* ^^rr^^^S^t Ii you want HONEST and also SKILLFUL treatment for any ' form of Chronic Diseases, write us TODAY, for method of Home Treatment ' his never been excelled. DR. BEYN0LB8 & COMPANY, _BOX Z. _ ATLANTA, GA. _ _ _ _ _ _ _._ Z Founded in 1850. - : Graduates 4,453 - MEDICAL STUDENTS. Write for Free Catalogue of the 'i ; ;, v MEDICAL DEPARTMENT .UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE. Curriculum Included twenty-three-lecture courses, each followed-by^.a . thorough revle-w quiz; seven laboratory courses, .and three hours of elinicaF' work dally.( New building elaborately eqlpped with modern apparatus and appliances. Tuition ?65.00. Address, J. DILLARD JACOBS, M. D.,Sec.V/1 ' . 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Confidential correspond ence solicited. Two Brutes. Doc Maxwell and Jesse nail, white men, were convicted at Elberton, Ga., on Monday of criminally assaulting a colored girl and were sentenced to ten years In the penitentiary, the jury hading recommended them to mercy Ml. HATHAWAY. who are in need of th? bent medical treat ment should not (?ll to .-mi HU it Dr', mah* way at once, aa he ls r IM' II i; H i p. i-11 as the leading and mostsuo cc?tlul 8 p e c 1 a 11 et. You are sa fe in placing your case In lils hands,ns he la the 'longest established and has the heat rep* malton. Ho eures where others fall; there ls no patchwork Sor experimenting In yhla treatment. Per sonal attention hy Dr. "Hathaway, also epe Clat counsel from nts associate physicians when necessary, which no other ofllce has. It von cutt nut call, write for free booktcta and que,linn hlatiks. Mention your trouble. Ev erything strictly confidential. J. Newton Hathaway. M. P. 83 Inman Building 221 S. Broad S Atlanta. 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