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"DO THOU LIBERTY GREAT, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN, THY POSSESSION HAPPY; O& OUR^ VOL. XXVIII. BENNETTSVIDLE, S. C., ?DAY, DEdffi??iii^ ANOTHER CALL. Counties Not Represented at Recent Inmigration. Convention raV?TED TO JOIN MOVEMENT. .Mr. MathcHOn, Originator pf the Present Movement for limul Krauts Hhs Another Word on tho Subject. To'the Editor of The State: Referring to Immigration again, perhaps for the last time along this line, I wanted to give my . views In full. - First, I want each county that was not represented at Columbia on the j 10th of November to let me know promptly whether or not they care to co-operate with us in this great and grand scheme, so that I may enrolL them on my list.. Theo I want two subscription lists circulated in each, county, one of the subscription lists asking for a small contribution for the State board to defray common expenses, such as literature, legal ad vice, and other State expenses, this list to bo circulated in each county by a member of our committee. ' This .is to .be called for in such sums as may be needed from time to time, as it may be required. The amount I would expect from each county 1 would-say $100, and perhaps Charles ton 3300, Columbia 9200 and other counties that haye large cities in them, in proportion. And the other sub scription list asking for contributions: tho expenses of getting the lmml- j grants to South Carolina, say at least $1,000 from each county and counties | that have cities in them to give in j proportion, say Charleston $3,000, Co- j lumbla, $2,000, and so on, to be called for when required for above purposes. Now, as to who we want, the Scotch peasantry, they are the tillers of the soil, honest and able to do good work, and they have good blood in their veins. They will make good citizens and help us to pay our taxes and help to support the schools and churches ; and st; n 1 in line with us when we have trouble between the races. Now, as to the Germans-I think they are a good people,-too, but they are a com mercial people, and not farmers as we want. AB to the Irish, the better class of them are politicians and poor er people are not ambitious-they don't like farm work. The English, as a rule are capitalists and manufae lurers. The Swiss and Italians are not tillers of the soil; they like to -, work in the cities. And, after all I think that the Scotch is the kind that ' we want for the interest of South ; Carolina. ?. Now, the way to get them is to get some good literature, suitable to strike ^:::...-t^atc;f^'n?,iri2?* '*.;sri?.nrt-,a:fi?:'. " ?"*' ", ": rdol?ar8_. h?viug Tt' distributed in tue] r- :prop?r?^??ner in Scotland by some. ?one that cap be recommended there,'! and'.in thef'meantime have the govern-! or to'endorse our action and-then get the president to also, and to have toe .,'? ' ?proper papers arranged and send them' to our agent in London and have htm | ?.: to present them to King Edward fori his approval. If ail of this works :ts we want lt to, send over two good men, at least let one of them be an cducated'man and have some knowl edge of law, that he might be able to draw legal documents with steamship companies and chango our ?. literature, If necessary after they get to Scotland. And charter a tramp ship, or buy a ship if necessary. Now, Marlboro county is ready to comply, so far as the $100 for tho State pur poses and $1,000 to be spent moving the immigrants is concerned, and will do more if-lt becomes necessary. I hope that all the counties that have not come in will let me know promptly their intentions. Below I submit a copy of a commu nication which I have addressed to the senator of each county that was not. represented at our convention, "which please publish for the public In formation. As therein stated, I wish to bave committees meet as soun as the vacancies can be tilled. The fol lowing is a list of the counties which failed to send delegates to the con vention, namely: Abbeville, Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berke ley, Cherokee., Chester, Chester?eld, Colleton, Dorchester, Greenville, Hampton, florry, Kershaw, Lancas ter, Ocoflee, Orangeburg, Pickens and Spartanburg. If in any of these coun ties there is a commercial organiza tion, such body is entitled to distinc tive membership, and I hope the otll cers thereof will suggest the name of a'cltlzen that I may appoint him. Yours respectfully, A. J. MATHESON, Chairman Executive Com. nnettsville, Nov. 30, 1903. Bennettsville, S. C., Nov. 30, 1003.1 Dear Slr: At the convention held1 in Columbia Nov. 10, last, for the purpose of devising ways and means of bringing to our State a desirable class of immigrants, provision was made for an executive committee to consist of one member from each coun ty of the State and one from each commercial body; the chairman of that committee tu appoint at his leis ure a member of the committee from each county and such commercial body as was not represented at the convention. I regret to say that your county was one of the few which had no delegates and my purpose in addressing this communication to you is to ask that you suggest the name of a suitable citizen whom I may appoint to that place. It is needless for me to say that there is no politics in this matter and we want a man who will take an interest in the objects and purposes ot our organization and who ls willing to give some of bis ability, time and attention to the duties of the position and who is willing to de fray his own expenses in attending meetings, etc. I would ask you to do me the further favor of Informing me whether or not there Is a commercial or civic organization in your county, and if so, the name of the secretary. Please kindly give this matter your attention as I.,wish to call the com mittee together at the earliest practi .cable day. Yours truly, , A. J. MATHESON, Chairman Executive Com. - . OSTS THIRTY YEARS la tho Penitentiary for Kill inf? His Tnt co lilt tl o Children. Dr. Jay, thetriple''.'murder.er, who waa recently tried at'Asheville; N". C., was found .guilty of murder,in the second degree aud was sentenced to.30 years in the State's prison at hard labor. Dr. Jay's crime, was one of the most horrible in.the history. of the State.; On the morning of Octo ber 15 last, while apparently in ? rage, he killed his three young children with a claw-hammer, at their home at Bar nardsvllle, Buncombe county. Tho mother of the obildren, becom ing frightened at the action of her husband, rushed to a neighbor's for aid. While she was away Jay killed the children, one by one, taking the youngest, a babe hardly able to talk, in his arms and crushing its' skull with hammer. As soon as neighbors could be summoned Jay was taken in custody and harried to jail at Ashe ville. The community was very much wrought up over the crime, and there have been threats of lynching should the murderer escape the death penal ty. The plea of the prisoner was In sanity, and a number of witnesses were introduced during the trial to to establish : this contention. The time of the court yesterday was taken up with argument, the case going to the jury late Wednesday afternoon At 10 o'clock Wednesday night the jury retired, having failed to reach a verdict. The verdict was not a sur prise, as It was predicted Wednesday that the Jury would reach Buch an agreement. Dr. Jay ls about 50 years of age. Fie has been married seven yearn and his wife is but little over 20. The ages of the murdered child ren ranged from one to six years. Babe In the Woods.' Near Greensboro, H. G., Emily I Schoffner, a three-year-old girl, who) was lost In a forest for three days, was found nair frozen and "naif Btarved. After being revived she pluckily told of ber adventure.. Last Friday morn ing week Phillip Shoffner, a farmer, Btarted to market, and the child fol lowed the wagon. Her parents did not know this, and the child got lost in the forest. That night a search ing party scoured the country and the girl was found in a thicket ? cuddled up under a tree. The baby told an intelligent story of h?r adven-. ture, saying she had been walking In a pine thicket calling for mama and papa, and when she could not find thern'orthe "big road" she went to sleeps She had been ? walking,' fltie said, when she was sefli, sleeping, lt is remarkable that the- child did not freeze to death, os the weather bas been,bitterly cold, and she was bare ^fVifti'iVanoV.^ore only summeb clothes;. Tho Boll Weov?iPcBt ? dispatch from New Orleans says | I a special session of the Louisiana leg islature will be held in December to I pass legislation which it ls hoped will [ keep the boll weevil out of Louisiana. Gov. Heard.made.the announcement I of his intention to the boll weevil con- j vention. He said he was fully alive to the dangers of the threatened Invasion | of the weevil and that he bad been as I sured that the State would have the ! hearty cooperation of the agricultural | department ' at Washington in the effort to keep the pest out of tbe j State. ' The boll weevil convention was addressed by a number or plant ers, merchants and oil men, and also j heard Vice President Miller of the I Audubou association on the relation of birds to the boll weevil. The con vention decided to ask for the enforce ment of laws for the preservation of j thc birds of thc State, as an aid in the destruct inn Of thc weevil. An Afflicted Kiimtly. A dispatch from Plclcens to The State says Miss Pauline McDaniel, a daughter of Sheriff J. H. G. McDan iel, died Thursday night. She had been 111 for some time of typhoid fever. She has gradually grown woree since the death of ber mother, which occurred about three weeks ago. This 1 caused a shock from which Miss Mc Daniel never recovered. Thc remains will be interred this afternoon at Se coua Baptist church, of which she was a devoted member. She was also a valued member of the local chapter j of the Daughters of the Confederacy. Three deaths have occurred in this I family In about a month's time. The | sympathy of the entire community goes out to the sorely bereaved family. A Hunter Killed. A dispatch from Spartanburg to The State says John Godfrey, a young white man, was accidently shot while out hunting by a white mao named Greer Thursday, and as a result the wouuded man died at 10 o'clock that night. Godfrey and Greer were two of a party of- four who went hunting in the woods of Capt. Dean's farm, three miles from the city. By some | j accidental means the breech-loading ! gun of Greer was discharged, tne en tire load, an ounce of No. snot, tak ing effect in the left knee of Godfrey. The wounded man bled to death from the wound before medical aid could alleviate his suffering. He was a resi dent of this city and unmarried. Foully Murdered. A dispatch from Greenville to The j State says a negro named Ansel Arn old, 45 years old, living between Brandon mill and the Southern rail way, was found in the woods Thurs day with a hole shot through his head. He left home Tuesday night to visit ! a neighbor, and search being made, he was discovered nearly a mlle from homo with his body robbed of money j obtained the day before a for bale of ?cotton. He was a reliable, thrifty, in dustrious neuro, owned a farm and comfortable home and was worth sov-1 oral thousand dollars. Somo^ncgroes In the neighborhood are under sus picion, but no arrests have been made. Stato Banks. The secretary of tho state has com pleted tho statistics of tho capitalize i Hon of new state banking corporations organized during the year, most ot which are In operation or will bo soon. The total capitalization amoun $1,100,000, which exceeds that of pre vious years. THE POST?L F?lAUDS. Bri?tow's Report Condemns Tyner, 4 Beavers and Matched. ? i WHO BOBBED THE GOVERNMENT The Report Shows that tIi? Ac cused Mon Had Been Dishon est from the Moment They Took omeo. The brief of J. L. Bristow, Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General, who conducted tho Investigation of - thc United States Post Office Department was made, public last week, lt details the glaring frauds, conspiracies, black mailing and r looting of the public treasury'that-formten years bad gone on In this department bf the public service. It ls shown that in most cases thc accused men bad'been dis honest from the moment they took office. In the case of August W. Machen, Superintendent of the Free Delivery Division, Mr. Bristow, openly charges that he was a forger when he entered the service. As the arch-conspirators of the department he mentions for mer Assistant Attorney-General Tyner, Chief George W. Beavers, of the Salaries and Allowances Division, and August VV. Machen, in charge of the Free Delivery Division. . Barrett, Ty ner's nephew is mentioned as a close second to his uncle in plots to rob the treasury. ... The brief discloses the .finding of forty-four indictments,'though more than this humber bave been recorded. Of these, fourteen were against Machen on Various specific charges, and eight were against George W. Bea vera, in charge of the Division of Salaries and Allowances. There is no attempt on Mr. Brlstow's part to smooth over a single detail. He fells in a most open, matter-of-fact way the methods by whom Post Olllce Officials used their offices to put money into their own pockets. TYNER AND HIS NEPHEW. The charges against Assistant At torney-General Tyner for the Post Office Department indicate, In a very practical way, .that he was In partner ship with his nephew, Barrett, who bad- been hts assistant, in order to profit by the non-prosecution of bond investment companies, or "get-rich quick" concerns that were using the malls to perpertuate their frauds. "Stop orders" bad been Issued against these companies,.Bristow recites, by Assistant Attorney-General Tbomas, who declared they were "a greater menance to society than the avowed lotteries." Barrett wrote an opinion declaring all bond investment concerns fraudu lent and-'.'inlmical to the postal laws," bot still suggesting that they be gi ven "an opportunity." In order that the "get-rich-quick" concerns might not tack the opportunity. Barrett resign ed from his office and formed a part nership with J. Henning Neims, an agent for one of these concerns. Then they became .attorneys for nearly all of them and thereafter the approval of Assistant Attorney-General Tyner to any plan of the investment com panies was sure, if the application was through bis nephew, Barrett. Mr. Bristow says that the fees of Nelms and Barrett for the first fifty five days of their copartnership were $6,000. The opinion of Barrett, prior to his resignation from the depart ment, bad scared the investment com panies, who all fled to Barrett for protection. He obtained it through his uncle. Mr. Bristow takes up the case of each bond investment company and shows what was done. Fraud orders were issued against the Southern Mutual Company for using the mails. Tyner arranged with the law firm to allow the'concern to do business. Other concerns operated to gull the public are mentioned, includ ing the Physicians' Institute, of Chica go; E. J. Arnold & Co., the turf firm, of St. Louis; J. Ryan & Co,, and others. It is pointed out that the fraudulent concerns were able to use the malls for six years under Tyner's rulings. A BANKRUPT AND FORGER. Mr. Bristow finds against August W. Machen as follows: That he cen tered the service in 1887, a bankrupt and forger; that he bad then secured loans from friends on false representa tions; that, as Superintendent of the Free Delivery System, he introduced straps Instead of twine for the use of carriers In tying up mall and collect ed $30,000 from George D. Lamb, a mau with whom he had only a verbal contract for suppling the straps; that the straps cost the Government $14, 00C a year. That he made a contract with John Boyle & Co., for the furnishing of carriers' shoulder straps and collected a rebate from the firm fur each strap used; that be mado a similar contract with William G Crawford, of Wash ington, when the Boyle contract for four years expired, and that by its terms be entered into a conspiracy with Crawford and George II Lorenz, of Toledo, Ohio, to furnish straps and divided the money received from the Government. By Its terms Machen and Lorenz each received 37i per cent. That Machen conspired with the Grof?'s and Lorenz to defraud the Government in the supply of the Groff fastener for attaching letter boxes to posts, and that Machen actually re ceived more than $25,000 from the Bcbeme. That Machen conspired with John T. Cupper, of Lockhaven, Pa., to paint letter boxes at exorbltary rates and collected a rebate fer himself for awardtug tho contract. _. That he corisplrcd*~wll.h Maurice Runkle, of New York, and Charles E. Smith, of Baltimore,' for tho supply of leather caseB for the carriers In rural free delivery routes and thereby made a liberal profit for himself, while the two men mentioned were allowed to defraud the Government. Maohen and tho twain were indicted for this. "GRAFT" IN LEFTER R?XES. That Machen conspired with May bury & Ellis, of Detroit, to make aud distribute a vast number of rural let ter boxes, at extortionate prices, with intent to defraud the Government. Mr. Bristow gives tho prices charged and tho profits/'that accrued each year,-$70,000 bolng paid out uselessly by the department In four'years. * That Machen, with Issac McGienan; conspired to defraud; the; Government in the manufacturo bf package letter boxes, charging from $4 to $8 a box when they could have been made fur 83.60. . \ That Machen, with George W. Beavers, then In charge of tbe Divi sion of Salaries and Allowances, con spired to defraud tbe. .Government through.the Introduction of tti?'Mon tague iddlcator, a device to show tbe bou rs of collection at street letter boxes. Machen and Beavers each re ceived stock of tbe company promoted by W. W. Montague postmaster at San Francisco Mr. BrlBtow introduces letters td prove all be says about this allege fraud. . That Machen received 10 per cent rebato from Charles J. Heller of Phila delphia, who. bad been allowed a con tract to furnish baages to rural car ricrs at fifty cents each, j Mr. Bristow says in conclusion: "... "Machen does not seem to have con sidered a day of reckoning passible; over ni ne years of continued prosperity bad given bim confidence. He had passed through three Congressional investigations. He had deceived his superiors through four different Post masters-General and a like number of First Assistants." BEAVERS WORSE THAN MACHEN.. The Undings.of Mr. Bristow against Geoige W. Beavers are: That as chief of the Salaries and Allowances DlvMon he conspired to defraud the Government through a series of schemes for- the promotion of clerks, the appointment of others who did no work and drew salaries; that he collected vast sums for the alleged advancement of clerks and hy chang ing the official titles of clerks to ad vance their salaries and take part of them himself. That be leased premises at exorbi tant, figures in order to reap a .profit himself. That be purchased a vast number. of useless Brandt-Dent automatic cashel rs for post offices, compelling the Government to pay a fraudulent, price for them In order to reap a per sonal galu. The maohines proved useless. That he compelled postmasters to buy the Elliott & Hatch typewriter, an inaccurate and poor machine, for $200, when other and botter machines could be bad cheaper, so that he could, profit by thus mulcting the depart: ment., Mr. BrlBtow. gives many in stances'of this kind. That Beavers purchased thousands of unnecessary time clocks, used In tho , service to record the time of arrival i and this departure of carriers through a conspiracy with the Bundy Clocj|| Company in conjunction with ..George-1 E. Green, its president. ? That . he.,, conspired wltb.T^. . JV Truesdale and George E. Green, or Binghamton, N. Y., and W. D'. Dore mus, for the purchase of useless stamp cancelling maohines, 070 of whioh cost the Government $143,475, while only thirty-nine were used. Mrv Bristow goes Into great detail as to the scheme regarding the cancelling machines which were invented by Doremus and named after him. Beavers, Green and Doremus were all indicted in this con nection. Mr. Bristow ends his arralg mcnt of Beavers with tho remark that: "The administration of Beavers was, if possible, more demoralizing upon the Integrity of the service thau that of Machen: Mr. Bristow also goes luU) the olfences of minor olllcials, giving the history of each one and the action taken against him. THB.EE MEN LYNCHED. Whites and Blacks Unite in a Triple Lawless Execution. In the presence of a crowd of about 1,21)0 persons, composed of whites and negroes. Phil Davis, "Walters Carter and Clint Thomas, all negroes, were lynched Tuesday afternoon about 1 o'clock within a short distance of Belcher, which is twenty miles from Shreveport, La. Thc men were executed for partici pating In the fatal shooting of Robert Adner, one of the most popular busi ness men In NoTth Louisiana. The negroes confessed their crime. They stated that they were trying new guns and when Adger appeared on the street thought it quite natural to turn the guns on him. No shots were fired at the lynching, the negroes all being hanged to a single limb of a tree. Two of the neg roes under arrest, Sam Lee and .Peter Thomas, were released. Lee proved that he attempted to prevent the neg roes from shooting and established the fact that he was too frightened to shoot. Phil DaviB and Walter were captured Tuesday afternoon several miles from the scene of their crime. Clint Thomas was caught later about a mile and a half from Belcher. The negroes were taken before Adger and confessed their crime They were held In concealment until shortly before 1 o'clock today, when they were taken out and hanged. Davis ls said to be an ex-convlct and Walter Carter was forced to flee from Mansfield, La., about a year ago, for insulting a white woman. The negroes of Belcher Joined in the search for the men and were appear cntly as eager to have them lynached as the whites. One negro was pre sented by the whites with a purse of $100 for the part he tqok In the pur suit. The negroes who were lynched were given an opportunity to pray. ' A OroatProblem Hot ved. A North Missouri editor asked: "Who ls kbe happier, the man who possesses $T,000,000 or the man who bas seven daughters?" Another Mis souri editor promptly solved tho prob lem lu this way: 'The man with thc surplus girls, of course. Tho man with thc money ls not satisfied and wants more, the man with the seven daughters 1B satisfied-he has enough."_ A Sad Accident. At Blackstone, Mass., tho three sons of Mrs. Neille. J?'Road, John, seventeen; William, 'fourteen, and George, eight years of agc, were drowned in tho Blackstone Tuesday, while attempting to cross the river on ce. .' i.i % /. .' THE I)E??) ALIVE. A\ Mon .Returns Homo After an Absence of Fifty Years. Hil HAD BEEN MOURNED AS BEAD -~ Y - m. Af?or Ho Deserted' HI? ? Homo Ho .:: Never W?J>to a Lino to His .'II Wife or His Helpless ;i* CIi i Ul ron. After an absence.of fifty-four, years frQm his family Jacob Wesley Cloy wandered in to lils son home, Judge John R.;Cloy, at GranltevBle, last Monday night week ago. Tbe story reads like the plot in some romance! of the. mid dle ages, but surpasses the ancient fic tion in the fact that It ls a true tale. A reporter for the AugusGa Chronicle heard of this marvellous story a day brVtw? ago and meeting Judge Cloy on tho-streets, who -confirmed it. and a'dded more, wonders to thc way lt bad been told by-?nother. - - . . The story recounted by Judge Cloy began wlWn he^'was only twenty-seven days old and bis father disappeared, leaving bis mother with two .helpless young children, and. never returned until last week. > vDuring the absence of {tbe father the two children, had advanced past middle age and the good mother, who toiled for their support ard education, had died io Ignorance ol what had become her husband. Mrs. Cloy departed this life in 1889. :|Baok in the year 1849 Jacob Cloy wu's thc overseer on the plantations of Er?nk Posey? a prominent" planter of tlie eastern section of South Carolina. The'great farmer had a son, Martin "??3ey, who married a young wlfo, and ??- a while lived happily on ?U? of tue"places owned by his father.. One day tlie young wife disappeared and. a search was Instituted to lind her. Tn a-few days .after the disappearance (her;' mutilated body was found In -a swamp nearby, and the evidence was plain that mufder 'had been com mitted. The strong finger of circum stances pointed to her husband. He wai? arrested and tried. . , y MAIN WITNESS DIS AIM'EA KS. ^ acob Cloy was one of tho witnesses | summoned by.the state at the trial. He.'was one of thc party that found I tho-body of Mrs. Posey and it was thodght that testimony given by him '\?<!>j?l?l throw considerable light on the case. In fact,- many thought that eloy's evidence would convict . Martin Posey of the murder^Mils wife. AU Were an^^fflyr> awaking the tl die] vyben Ck^J^ui?^^ta^ei-lme^standLa? U y?the y^rd8* tt?at wouldclear up the I'h'YStery 'that bad shocked the whole "itry side by its , horrors. The e'for the trial drew near and inter ;}ncreascd. Finally the day sot for eraring arri veil 'and the court; i M/iu w?s crowded tdibb^^oor^.t^i?fe?ir: Jacob Cloy was called to go on the stand lt was found that he bad dis appeared. Application being made at his home it was learned from his wife that he bad not been at the house fo1* several days. Many people immediately were convinced that an otber,murdor had been committed to j keep the truth about the first one from coming to the light of day. Again the country was shocked and all sorts of methods were adopted to iry and locate the whereabout of Cloy, but without avail. After thorough search not a few people came to the opinion* that Cloy bad gone away to keep from convict ing bis former friend, Martin Posey. Mrs. Cloy was left with a son twenty seven days old and a daughter not quite two years. She immediately set about supporting them. She un dertook SUCH work as a woman could do and succeeded in raising ber de serted children in a creditable man ner and giving them an education. She often harbored the Idea-that she! would hear from ber husband, but as the years speed un and not a line came she became convinced that he was dead. SON MEETS FATHER. During the latter part of the war Judge Cloy, then a buy of 14 years of age, was a student at the Arsenal In Columbia. The Confederacy was In desperate straits. It was almost a case of robbing the cradle and the grave to keep thc armies supplied with soldiers. The boys or" the Arse nel and the Citadel at Chaileston were mustered into one company and sent to camp at Spartanburg. prepartory to being ordered to the front. ' In the company with Judize Cloy at the time was Mr. Z. W. Carwyle and others who are now well know In Augusta. Thc command of boys never reached the firing line for Lee surrendered while they were still in Spartanburg and they were mustered out of the service and sent home. While travelling to his home in Aiken county tbe youthful soldier, I Jobu R. Cloy, meta man lu ena ge Of [ a drove of stock that was being driven through the country. The man and the boy soldier struck up a conversa tion and when the young man told his name the man began to question bim very closely. They were together for nearly an hour and as the man was about to depart he told the youth ful Confederate that he was his father. Thc youth was incredulous and the man rode on without giving any further information. When Youug Cloy reached home he reolted the occurrence to his mother. From the description given of the man and the subjects on which he asked ques tions Mrs. Cloy was positive that tho I drover who encountered her son, was her husband. This occurcnce was just after Lee's surrender. From that day up to one year ago Judge Cloy never heard of his father. During the last festive week in this city Judge Cloy met a relative of his father, who told htm that he took no stock in tho report and did not even brother himself to write to the address given. He had long since begun to believe that his father had passed away. RETURN OK rilODIOAL FATHER, Last Monday night week an old man, bowed down with tho weight of eighty odd years, boarded tho South I ern train that left Augusta at 11:15 p. m., and told Conductor Wooten that ho was the father of Judge John R. Olby, of GranitevUlo, and wanted to KO tbere. He bad only rooney enough to pay7 bls fare to ,tbat "plaw .andi asked aux?uuHjy. io'be directed .'jo th? borne of blB son when the train' 'would reach Granttevllle after midnight. Tho conductor told the old man' that Judgedoy'a father had been dead for over forty- years and thought ! he was endeavoring to de?elye him, ,Tbe ( ancient passenger was-so luBl9tent, however, that when the train reached' Granlteville, Conductor Wooten called the night man at, the depot and asked bim to show the old'man to the home of Judge Cloy and that If the judge was not home to take him to a board ing house and he would see that the night's lodging was paid. The watch man escorted the traveler to the home of Judge Cloy and the owner himself answered the loud knocking at the door. When he asked what was wanted tho old man In a broken voice made, himself S known. Ile told his son that he was now pen niless and wi thout a home and that he was seeking bis roof as shelter In the end of bis life. There was not the time or'opportunity there in the chilly midnight air to establish the Identity bf tho man who carno to his door for shelter and Judge Cloy Invited the visitor inside and made him comfort able for-the night, tn the morning' the old man proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was 'the. father, who deserted bis two children and their mother fifty-four years ago last March. - ' - **. HAB'HEEN WKIA-TO-TJO. Jacob Cloy admits now that he left, home sooner than become a witness' against Martin Posey, but he has not uttered one.word-that would Indicate what his knowledge of the killing of Mrs. Posey was. j During the fifty-four years that he has been away from South Carolina'Mr. Cloy tells a tale of ups and downs In life. Once or twice he has been well-to-do and bas lived in Mississippi, Indian. Territory, Texas and Canada. He gives no rea son why he never wrote to bis wife or children. It is with difficulty that he can be questioned as he ls now quite deaf, speaks with difficulty and hts mind ls not clear as a result of his great age. What a change of fortune .is this? Here comes an old, world worn man to the home of bis son asking for. shel ter in his declining years when In an f ull strength and vigor pf young man1 hood he left that son a helpless Infant ot twenty-seven days old in the arms of a young and Inexperienced mother. Tba mother reared the son in such a manner, that now after having passed the^jmjgc?e mark of life he ls in the en^oymSStt of plenty of this world g^pods'-and the respect and esteem of Bis fellow man. -.V^ ' - A White Man Hanged: At New Berne, N. C., a murder case embeaciog many interesting and un usual features carno to a tragio end Frtdajtfwl^;.^ Dixon Friday. Godfrey Weber,?* a* substantial farmer was 'shot from ambush near bis home, Nov. 22,1901. He lived only a few hours, and. .while dying expressed the: belief that; Dixon was the assassin. Dixon was tried and convicted of the orlme, the strongest evidence against him being that two pages of a magazine was used as a gun wad and a copy of the same magazine found in Dixon's house had these two pages missing. After being sentenc ed Dixon broke jail and escaped. He was rearrested last October near Obestertlleld, S. C., after enjoying two years' freedom. The widow of the man be murdered had become bis wife and was Hying with him. Dixon's crime according to the testimony at the trial was prompted by jealousy. Dix.m aod the girl who afterwards married Weber were sweethearts be fore Weber appeared as a suitor. The latter being a man of some means she discarded Dixon and married Weber. No Toy Pistols This Year. Few people realize that it IH against the law for shopkeepers or other per-" .sons to give away or sell toy cap pistols or caps for the juvenile wea pons. The general assembly passed an act at Its last session prohibiting the sale of toy pistols because of the faot that BO many deaths had occurred from their use but they are now being offered in many of the stores of the ci ty. The act states that "lt shall be un lawful for any person, firm or corpora tion in this Stato to sell, put up for sale or offer for sale or give away any toy pistol In which caps or cartridges are used or any caps or cartridges for such toy pistols." The maximum pen alty ls $100 for each conviction. A Fugitive From Justice. Gov. Heyward Wednesday Issued a rewarded of $60 for the aprehensi?n and conviction of Henry Byrd of Dar lington county, who has been a fugi tive from justice for some time. He bas been committing depredations In that county, frightening woman and children. Tho residents of the county, being thoroughly enraged, have offer ed a reward of $40 for his capture. The sum which the governor has otter ed increases the amount to $100. Byrd was convicted of stealing a bale of cotton and sentenced to serve two years on the county obaingang, from which he escaped. Caught at Imst, A young man who declared that he ls Frederick Strobe, wanted at Havana, Ills., on the charge of having killed Alice Hennlnger, was arrested at Macon, Mo., on Wednesday. Strube said he struck Miss Hennlnger with a monkey wrench because she laughed at him when he pressed her to marry him. They wore In a buggy and, he said, fell out of the vehicle during the struggle and on the ground he struck bi -1 -*' biiounty. ALL LOSSES TOW, AGT foettsville, S. Q. aowers 1 Flowers ! ^no S. Moore has a fine t-Gr?ramnms, Begonias /alms and other plants, tied, that she desires to ttings 25o per dozen, 1 ?".warns Oei] rr Ye or <j and IST i im fcHOK? coiao?? OBO? OnuscB Grqnt Esolti-uiontand Al arra J Anions thc Knf?ltsh Mill?. .Dlspatchea ?rom?LI^ rJ?? In cotton cauBed I ot?ase excitement' iii Mapcbaster and Liverpool Friday. American cotton advanced. 28. to 41 pointe over Tbursday'BiclosIng prices. It. Is said locallylithat??f ' tbej official crop .estimate of tbeLUnitcd States department of agriculture made pub Ito Thursday,is correct it means a terribl? calamity for Lancashire. <.. The cotton trade ls divided In opin ion, one section contending/that tbe demand for cotton goods, because of the falling off of orders -from India and China, is not likely to be excep tionally gre?t durlng'tbe coming year and that 10,000;000' bales, as estimat ed by- the. American ? agricultural de partment, will be sufficient to meet all'requirements'. ' One" of the largest flrtfiB of cotton I spih'ners at Bradford . announce that | they are preparing to erect mills In the United States, to which they will transfer.hbndreds.of looms, with their | complement of combing, drawing and bpinnig macbinery the dismounting of I ?which baa al reidy ^ commenced. In making the announcement the. flrm| says: ' ? '. 1 .... "Tho American manufacture' and dyeing of the finest classes of goods, similar to those we produce, on which ] we are paying 1O0 per cent, and up wards in duty, is the reason that we are confident our present American department will not be able to pay ita way more than three or four years more at the most." AU, the . English morning pa pers print editorials concerning the I serious effect-which1 the cotton Bhort- [ age In the United States will have on 1 the Lancashire .trade and the dangers arising from the fact that one market is able to control tho price bf raw cot- j ton. The belief Is generally held that tbe United States department of agri culture underestimated the crop, but the ; editors avail themselves of the crisis to point cut tho necessity of using tbe utmost exertions to foster the cultivation of cotton lb the Brit ish colonies so as tb?brOaden]the area ] of supply. ' Iri i lancbester less excitement was I manifested than in Liverpool, mainly because it ls believed j that the crop I will ultimately prove to yield 11,000, 000 bales. Manufacturers and spin-1 ners, therefore, are prepared to hold out for. later reports of the crop.. Lead ers in the trade also point out tbatl the present crop is likely to be a good bne, ! wbile: last year's-crop waa not seriously, bad, and as a result there | will be lesa_waste. BOTH HANDS'CUT OFF. le*Serious Accident -"Which Belte?I a Cotton. Mill Operative.- ; - r ? v- i ? . The Spartan,burg Herald says on day last week while: engaged at hi work In the'cardlng room of the Glen dale mills, Mr. James Francis an operative' received Injuries which cost him both of his hands'. The unfortunate young man was attending to his duties and was using a yard stick In directing the cotton material to its proper place to go through the carding machinery. The stick dropped and Mr. Francis reach ed for lt. Instantly bis hand was I caught in the machinery and fearfully lacerated. In his agony and fright he reached his other hand down to extricate himself , and thia member be came entangled in-the machinery. Before help reached him and he was taken- from his perilous position, Mr. Francis's two hands were literally stripped of all flesh by the merciless, rapid grinding of the machinery. Medical aid was summoned." Drs. G. R. Dean and G. W. Heinlsh visited the wounded man, and at once decid [ ed that bis lum "'s must be amputated. I The operation was skillfully perform ed by these physicsans, assisted by Dr. T. D. Halrston. The accident is a terrible blow to this young man, who bad just farlly begun the struggle of life, ? young wife is dependent on bim and his de privation of" the natural means for making living renders the prospects for j-tlie future anytbing but bright or encouraging. The sympathy of many goes out to Mr. Francis. Perry Arrested Again. A dispatch from Spartanburg to I The State says Ben F. Perry, son of I ex-Gov. B. F. Perry, waB arrested here Wednesday evening ..by State Constables Eubanks and Drake on the promises of C. O. Davis on "Lee street. Several gallons of whiskey were also I seized. There was a disturbance be tween Perry and the contables during which a pistol was discharged by one of tho officers, but no one was hit. After being arrested and carried to the station house Perry gave bond in the sum of $500. 'He stated that he carried with him to his boarding house on Lee street Thursday night four and a half gallons of whiskey, the limit the law allows, and that he offered none for sale since then. The constables on the other hand state that there was found six and a half gallons of whiskey belonging to bim at the boarding house where. he Btoppcd. There is not tho slightest ? suspicion as to Mr. Davis selling or having anytbing to do with the illicit traffic of whiskey. He Shot Back. On Wednesday week ago as Mr. George Walker was returning to Walterboro from a collecting tour for Terry & Shaffer, he was ordered to h&ult by three men, who began/firing b him. Mr. Walker drew his pistol .Sad returned the fire. Fortunately '*e was not hit. Seeing that he was rmed the highwaymen made off. 'here is no olue as to the identity of ie parties. Buoidal Mania. A young woman in Charlotte at L.mpted suicide because she was sali ited and bad the toothache. That re. a rather disagreeable combination, . ) bc sure, but hardly calls for self obstruction. A wave of suicidal mania enis to sweep across ( tho country e a pestilence every now and then, d this young woman, Uko many hers, yielded weakly. ) THE BOAM) DID IT. Governor- Bayward, Bid Hot -E-o^nert' the Holding Up of Thia Statement Is Made In- Reply lo" Unfriendly Criticism. Tho .. Formol Resolution of N tho Boord. The Columbia State Baya it has been regarded as a fact thai Gov.; Hey ward ; asked the directors of the State dispensary to withhold from the clty;of .Charleston the profite, whloh;, that city would receive from the dis- ; pensary law. . . This impression .seems to have-been gained from-the State-, ment which was issued at .the tlme. In view of some criticisms which have appeared, which the governor made: known his unwillingness to n?t!c?jv?iir< L. J. Williams;; chairman of thetjoard of directors, made the following' ment Tnursdaj: . >. v' '1 .'While the.f^overn?r bar" co-operated with1 the board7 has been dono,-, ant the prospect bf a [ this matter. bet^ the city autborith?1 Injustice to hil with the mattel with having !' While at saw by the stabulary ic ton was in i from the Sf Inp; that tbs could get funds iurnls? State board r 505 of the di . V Ingtoco-opeL _ . . '. . : .. > felt lt my duthe ' Far and did so. w^rv nn?? f found that tbe gF? one ot ; ! on bis plantation ????rfea?e. ' : and waited over to ' ?'il;^ . his arrival he did not 8t?Lv ^J' informed as." to the status ?i^&^J.. - and, af ter. several consultations" Vbev,^' tweeb us It ;was determined S that it wasi necessary that I, as chairman, call the State board of directors In' ex- . traordlnary session, since the board . was the only authority, ia the State .with power to furnish the gbvernorf . necessary funds vo protect the constar?a, bles j; . / "At-.this meeting of the boara iii was deemed an injustice to the/bal ance bf -the State to/take this money, to. protect ,the,?Cons.tables, ? fr?m. the , ; Sfot?'funds, and it was, therefore, de termined to take an amount Necessary to reimburse the school fun/?rom tho .' city of Charleston, since tm failure of publl^.senitiment in. Chailaston; and tli?Tackof co-operatlpn c/the-clty uf^ flclals were at last thee .age of^ii v.^v ?i??bi?'-.--rt? r?:r .^v???madc i?' 'M the governor, as .;1> published, was fbf-fln?ncla? aid after '^h'ese'ebn ferences, In behalf ot: 'the cons tables.. I^ritivlted thego^moj?p to be p^ ent at the hearing^yesterday in ref: spouse to a letter fromi Mayor Smytti>i|fef to that effect. . These are tho bald \ facts with ' reference to th? ; matter, and I don't suppose tho governor or the State ;: board baye any reason ta - feel that wo could have done other wise." Following Js the text of the r?solu- { tlon which the board has passed after bearing the return of the offiviiahvof : ' the city'of Charleston: Resolved, That tho pro?ts accruing to the city of Charleston are hereby withheld until Jan. 1, 1904, "to pay State constables" for the better en forcement ot the dispensary law in the ; city of Charleston. Second, That thereafter the profits accruing to the city shall be restored,-; ?provided, that in addition to tho three detectives now employed for . making cases against illicit liquor., dealers, four other officers be employ- -, j ed by the city subject to the dlreotlon ot the division cblel c instable for the main purpose of detecting and captur ing contraband liquors. ? ' JUHttCU JIOIIU. At Tuskegee, Ala.,. Ralph Arm strong was convicted Friday of the murder of his cousin, Miss Allie Arra ! strong, and sentenced to be hanged j Jan. 8. The case will be appealed. Armstrong shot his cousin, with whom he was lu love, Oot. 23, in Natasulga, Ala. The defense attempted to show that Armstrong was Irresponsible by reason of excessive drinking. The ? State proved that Armstrong, ' the I day before tba murder, wrote a note to his mother announcing his Inten tion of killing his counsln and hlm I self. Armstrong is a son of the late H. Clay Armstrong, once United States consul to Rio Jauerlo, and twice speaker of the Alabama house I of representatives. Long Staple Upland Cotton. Secretary Wilson says satisfactory results are recorded with the by bl rd or long staple upland cottons and ex tensive field tests are now under way, and If the result of the present sea sob's work is satisfactory seed will be grown for distributions. Indications at the present stage of experiments also favor the belief that we shall soon have varieties of Egyptain cotton adapted to cultivation In this coun try. At present we pay Egyptian growers $7,500,000 annually for their cottons. There Were Others. The Anderson Mall says this story ls being told In that city: A young man bad been vainly ringing the tele phone for some time. Finally when central" answered his ring, he asked: "What In the world ls tho matter? : I have been trying to catch you for an hour." "Ob, that's nothing," replied a soft voice In the 'phone. "Another young man in town bas been trying to catch me for nearly two years and he hasn't succeeded yet." Killed on tho Italia, A young, mau by the name of Lawry\ In attempting to beat a ride from Catawba tb his homo at Meares, N. C., fall from the trato and a part ot his head and skull was . found on the traok and his body nearby the next momlog. This happened near Ose?la in Lancaster County, about ll o'clock at night. -