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66?76 A OKILDViCTIM Of a Very Astonishing Cold Blood' ed Tragedy in Richmond. HOW A SICKLY BOY, Only Six Years of Age, Was Tortured ?od Finally Beaten to Death by His Mother, Who Herself Had Been Tenderly Reared In Luxury. At Blohmond, Va., for beating to death nor slokly little boy, a child barely six years old, a mother who had been tenderly reared in a luxuri ous home, and who comes of one of the beat families of Virginia and Now York, has boen condemned to spoud Uve years in tho penitentiary. When tho verdict was rendered the Public Prosecutor fainted and fell to the lloor; he bad striven for and expected the death penalty. Beside the accused woman during tho progress of tho trial sat a man who has more than a national reputa tion for wise, self denying aud affoo tlonato oare of unfortunate children -Dr. Wisner B. Townsend, of the OrthopediO Hospital lu New York City. He ls tho brothor of tho woman who beat her own unfortunate ohild to death, Mrs. E .telle Townsend Smith. She appeared In court a physical wreck and doubtless the groat surgeon whose whole professional earoer had marked a disposition so completely thc reverse of that manifested hy his sister, at tributed her cruel acts to a phi steal breakdown that had affected her mind. Not so the witnesses for the pro secution, however-those motherly neighbors who had heard the child's screams, who had seen him pushed into Icc cold water in February, seen his naked dead body lying on the iloor of his mother's house covered with bruises. The facts brought out in the trial made up a tale of a mother's cruelty to an ailing child that is almost in credible. This mother, always veiled except when obliged to bare her face for identi?oation, ll d cued for the most part with stoical immobility. The Coroner, an artist of no mean ability, illustrated the wounds and bruises upon thc dead child's body by means ol: startlingly lifelike, life-sized colored portraits, lt was a ghastly and pathetic exhibit that caused murmurs of horror all through the court room-but the mother never stirred nor even bowed her head. GHASTLY AND PATHETIC EXHIBITS, lier Ufo since thc birth of the boy had been in surroundings very differ ent from those of her girlhood. She had run away from her home in New York to marry a peor man, and he had steadily grown less prosperous. As indicated by the. defence, she had bc como morbid over an aliment of her little son, which he constantly aggra vated by his own aots, and on account of which the mothers of other chil dren would not allow them toassoolate .,~ - jas? acts of the child ??=s- i-in-.;.4-- to correct by pun DEATH OF H. D. brough the offices , delan-and im A Well Known Citizen1*11* 8,10 beafc boro Dies in Mi.ssissii.was dlscov Tlio sail news was received hei1* ir.um Friday night hy T, M. Webster KW'/it death ol' his brother, Mr. Henry nod In Wehster, who died at hi? hom?? - in mur; Brax on, Mias , on VrUi\j ? l)0sl of witnesses scene of the a motherly **0f| Wcbp-?2i' was t'le-agcd woman, a near neig't?J family.d of her visit to the Smith ?x?k>??e on the evening of the day of tho boy's death. "I was upslairs undressing ono of my grand children when I heard thal some ono was dying at the Smith house. "Mrs. Crostick and 1 went to the house and ko< eked at the door. Mrs. Smith opened it and we walked lu, She said nothing tous, hut turned and went to thc body of the ohild, which was lying near the sofa, covered with a quilt Up to its neck. She pick ed lt up und threw lt on thc sofa as if lt were a dog, She wanted to know if is was dead. Tho body was still warm. Mrs. Crostick told her it was dead, after we had felt the heart. There wero three bruises over tho little heart and bruises all over tho little bowels. The back was brown from beatings. There was a cir, over the oyo and tho back of the head was bleeding from another. One of Its little lingers looked as If lt l ad been cracked with something. Tho mother didn't show any sympathy. Poor little, fellow 1" Til KEW THE DEAD CHILD ON A SOFA. "Did Mrs. Smith say anything about, the chi 1 having been sick'.-' ' "She said lt had bei ;i sick for two or three days, and nothing would stay on its stomach." "Did she offer that information of own accord?" i "Mrs. Crostick lir.st asked her If lt had deon sick, and when she said that it had been, Mrs. Crostick replied that she knew nothing about it Or would bave tried to have done some thing for the chill." "Was there anything said about whipping tho child V" "Yes; Mrs. Crostick asked her what tho bruises were lolng on the body, and Mrs. .Smith replied that she had whipped lt that night, and had a right to whip her own child because it had boen disobodlent. She said that, she had undressed it for bed and had then whipped lt." "Did Mrs. Crostick ask Mrs. Smith if she knew that the child was sick when she whipped lt that night?" "Of course she know." "Was there anything said about tho child hoing whipped thc mornlrg of that day?" "Yes; Mrs. Crostick asked her If tho child had been whippod that morning and she said no, that she had whippod lt, that night. Mrs. Crostick then asked what was all the disturb ance about, in i/ne house that morning and Mrs. Smith replied that thore had been no disturbance." "Did she say what she whippod tho child with?" "Yes; a razor strop.1' "Was there any razor i trop near the body?" "No." "Did you seo any strop that night V" "No; but she got lt for tho ofllcor when She went Into the back room. I did not see it all " "Tho officer asked for lt." Brax on, M?HS, on l<V?'ay after a protraote|PNne8S?e > fever, aged nb?"T!. l?yrneS) a "Yes." "Wore there any other neighbors thore that nightV" "Yes, but she shut tho door In tteir faces. She didn't want thom in the house and I guess sho didu't want us eather." "Did Mrs. Smith say anything about not wanting the neighbors to ace tho body?" "She didn't want them to see it, and kept saying, 'Oovor it up.' " "When was thatV "Aftor the coroner had geno to get his Jury." "What was the reason she gave for beating the ohlld?" "Beoauso it was disobsdient." "Did sho say why tho child was naked?" "She said it had boon undressed for bed and bad been whipped." "You say sho showed no sympa thy?? "She did not, she didn't seom at all sory to me." Mrs. Turner, who readily admitted ber friendship for Mrs. Smith and tho Intimacy which existed between the two families, gave very damaging testimony. "Did vou ever see Mrs. Smith hit little Ralph with a mallet?" "Yes, wbon she was teaching him and he could not remember. " "How hard did she lilt him?" "With all her strength." INTO A TU!? OK KUKK/.ING WATJSR. "Did you over know her to tlo the child?" "Yes, she tied him and throw him on a sofa and went to Klohmond for two or three hours." "Did you ever see any burns [on him?" "Ye", on his hand." "Did you see Mrs. Smith treat him badly during thc winter?" "Yes, I saw ber throw him into a tub of water In l^obruary. "I was on my back porch and I saw her come out and push him head tlrst Into a tub of water. Tt was very cold and he was in his little night shirt. Ile was all trembling. Ile rubbed out of his back door as though somo one was behind him. Ho waa 'snifnag' as though he wanted to cry and was afraid." "Weat kind of a tub was it?" "A large y.ino tub--under a spout 1 to cat eh rabi wator." "Were you called on the night of Ralph's deaU ? ' 'Yeo? she called mc twice. She } asked mc to coiue. 1 asked nor what was the matter. She said Ralph was dead. 1 said I was too nervous, but 1 would get word to Hie neighbors and sond some ono to her. My husband was ill and 1 could not le?>.v? him." "Have you seen ber whip ??i./J moro than ouce with a razjr strop in your life?" "Yes; a lot of tlme3." "How many times have you seen her whip him with a stick?" "Lots of times " "nave you ever seen her use this stick?" (A long, round stick ) "No, slr." "Did you ever see her strlko him with the square stick?'1 "Yen; oiton." Coroner Broadnax testified that the child.had died of traumatic shoe, thc result of the last severe bealing lt had received while weakened by illness As the witnesses gave their testimony Dr. Broadnax's colorod portraits of the child's naked body, showing every cut and bruise, v/oro bofore their eyes and those of tho jury. What made this exhibit all the moro ghastly was that the doctor artistli&d Riven a life like representatlonrrfjf the dead face ind the curjspf*n.ixen hair. V?T.. ,11-K? (, I'll.TY. sit in tho presence of thrss exhi bits tclli; g of her daughter's inhuman cruelty waa a fearful ordeal for Mrs. Townsend, the prisoner's aged moth er, who, with her son, Dr. Townsend, sut near and gave what comfort they could to tho unfortunate woman. Once mother and daughter fell to weeping In each others arms, but the uidleiica gained the Impression that thc daughter's grief was moro on her mother's account than on that of her load child. When, linally, thc case was given ,o thc jury, both the public prosecutor md tho chief attorney for tho defence vere hysterical from nervous strain. The prisoner looked as though in dan jer of ge ing to pieces sudienly. She '.ad not boen called upon to testify. IMie defence relied upon the testimony if witness who declared that Mrs. Smith had been rendored fmiltie by 1er failures to correct her child's dis b 'thence, and that she was, moreover, tllited with an ailment which ron ers women irresponsible for their ac ions. The jury was out only a short time. Phis is the verdict they returned: "We, the jury, Hod the prisoner ulltv of voluntary manslaughter and Ix her term of Imprisonment at live ears in tho penitentiary." At these words the prisoner collap od and fell to the ll Dor. The public rosccutor fainted at the samo mo lent. Tho court room was in groat iaordor, but a strange and affecting peotaole restored silence. Dr. Town ?tid. having applied restoratives to ls sister, Immediately gave his at mil m to tho stricken publlo proso isor-tho man who had done his ut tost to send a member of his family ) the gallows. Dr. Townsend's manly attitude iroughout the trial exalted him in ie minds of every one in attendance. There ls yet to follow the trial of ie dead child's father, but in the linds of those familiar with the ovl nico the solo responsibility for the uol slaughter of this sickly boy of x years rests upon the mother, who jrsolf enjoyed thc happiest of child jods. Kxoureion Hoat itiot, A dispatch from Norfolk. Va . Ravi te man ls dead and four are seriously jured as thc result of a riot on the oamer Endeavorer whllo tho boat ns carrying a negro excursion down io Nanscmond river Tuesday night, arenco Wright threw a toy snake oti mio'i II. Kitchen and the latter, ho ming incensed, shot Wright. Wm. right, the dead man's brother, took hand with a knife and severely cut Itching, being shot In return. Other ?groes received knlfo and bullet )UUds, Capt. Mc Homey arrested lt chen and was having a difficult nc preventing the excursionists from nchlng the prisoner until the negro ow lined up on bis aldo. Cott?KO <JOIIHI?HCM1. Three, boys wore killod and a num r of others wore sevorely In lured by o collapse of a two story cottage at llrty-second and Fox street, Chica , 111. Tho building was being torn wn and the boys were gathering lod for use at their homes when tho ish came. James White, a pi eman, was badly bruised whllo ros ing boys, pinioned under tho dobrls. CAUSES CREAT LOSS. Worm?, Bogt and Flies Destroy Seven Hundred Million Bollars Worth o? l'roiluotw ol' Dureront kinds on tho Furnia ol tho United ataies KR o h Von*. According to a careful estimate made In the year book Just publlshod by the department of agriculture, a loss of $700,000,000 ls cooaslonod to Amorloan farmers every year by in Beets. Tho losses on all tho plant pro ducts of tho soil, both )u their grow ing and in their stored states, exceed the entire expenditure of the national government, inoluding the pension roll and the maintenance of the army and navy. Enormous as is the total valuo of tho farm products in this country, it would bo very muoh greater were lt not for tho devastating work of the in jurions iuseots. Tho lessening or pre vention of this loss ls tho problem tho entomologists of tho agricultural de partment aro attempting to solve. A considerable Item of loss properly chargeable to insects is tho annual ex dendltuio devoted to their control. This amounts to a considerable per centage of thc value of tho orop in tho case of orohard fruits, truck orop, and such Held crops as cotton and to bacco. In tho oatie of cereals, protec tion ls obie l'y secured by farm prac tices, such as rotation of orops, vari ations in tue timo of planting, eto. It Is shown that $8,000,000 ls expended for spraying r.pplo trees, allowing a j cost of only live cents por tree. Tbo estimate then goes on to speak of tho aotual damage to the orops cvory year. T?e annual farm valuo of thc corn crop has exceeded $1,000,000,- j 000, but tho amount would be consid erably greater wore it not for insoot pe its. Thc work of sever? of those is obscure and many farmers are entire ly ignorant o? the oxisterce even of some of thc worst enemies of this crop. Arnot g the latter is the corn root worm, which foods on tho roots of young corn and causes an annual damage of $20.000,000. Tho next most Important insect pest of this cereal ls the boll or ear worm, willoh attacks from 90 to 100 per cent, of the ears of sweet corn throughout tho country, and in thn. South practically an equal percentage of the oars of Ueld corn, as Shown by actual counts in the ile ld. Thc coru orop of 1004 was damaged by it at least $20,000 000. Tho de predations of the chinch hug are also Important, though its iojury is moro marked where corn is grown In the neighborhood of wheat for In suoh cases the migration of the btu from wheat to corn may result in the total destruction of considerable areas of oom. Tho loss from the chlnoh bug will in a year foot up to $20,000,000 moro. With minor insects tho total loss to the corn crop every year is $80, 000,000. Wheat Buffers most from insect de predations. The Hessian Hy, thc ohlnoh bug, and the gra'n plant louse work an annual havoc amounting to 5 per cent, of the crop. The Hessian Hy isdlstinotly a wheat pest, indicting a damage in Indiana and Illinois alone last year of $21.000,000. Twenty per cent, of the planted area of Mlohigau was abandoned on account of it, and tho lo>s lu the United States during a si i nz h; season has been estimated at $100,000.000. Last year the loss was 8-10,000.000. From all pests, the wheat crop suitors au annual damage of 1100,000,000. The principal insect depredations an cotton ave the cotton boil weevil, bbc boll worm and the Joaf worm. To gether they cost the planters of thc South $10,000,000 every year. The or shard and small fruits suffer heavily ti om insect pests, there being sever il hundred which food on the apple, for instance. The Important pests are tho woolly aphis, injuring tho roots, thc truck and limb borers, the leae worms, canker worms and tent cater pillars and the various pesta, including ?he San Jose scale. Injuring the fruit vre thc codling moth, the curoullo and jhe apple maggot. Hy all of them the productiveness of the fruit crop ls less med 1 " per cent, a year. The total oss to apples alone reaches an aver ige of ;15 per cont, every year. Tho loss to thu farm forests ls arge. The leaf dofiliators, the black ocusts and other Insects, Inflict a lamage of $10,000,000. Another $100, 100,000 ia lost through Insects histor d produots. Domesbio or household nseot pests do much damage, such as nos quit?os, liles, moths, roaches and ,nts. The wnlto ant in Washington .lone causes losses of thousands of lollars yearly, and ls muoh more do truotlve In southern districts. The otal loss from these household peats very yoar amounts to $f>0,OCO,000. md then there ls thc loss to ooinmu dtles by diseases Inflicted by Insects, uch aa malaria and yellow fever, ausod by mosquitoes typhoid fever, auscd by house flies, according to )r. Howard, and Texas fever. It ls onsldored that thc total of $700,000, 00 lOSS ls a low e- Hm-'.t. CHINtbi? DOCTOR STKANOLED V lt li IIIK Own QuottO While Making ?Callina Lodging liomin. Strangled to death by his own queue, ie body of Lin Moon Chuck, a Chi ese doctor, who has been living at J l Du pon street for tho past year, as found lying In the entrance to io kitchen of a Chinese lodging house b No. 814 Washington street, San ranclsco. It ls supposed that he was decoyed ) that q-tarter on a iictitious call to ttend an ill person, and then robbed, e was known to oarry money as well ? two gold hraoelets, a gold watch id a diamond ring. All of his Jew ry was missing; only a fan, a bunch ' keys and iivo cants were found up l his person. No clew has yet been und that will lead to tho discovery his murderers. Two weeks ago noiics were posted tho home at 1)04 Dupont street here the doctor lived, notifying the isbands and wives to look out for IO doctor, as he was known to bc a ady killer," which ls considered a ost serious crime among thc Chinese, >d that a yoar ago ho was run out of irtland, ();e., by tho Chinese there. Ho was found lying face downward id with his feet In tho entrence with 0 foot propped against tho casing, dloatlng that his body had been rrlcd or dragged to thc entrance and en thrown Into thc llttlo room cire iiiiy. Wound tightly around his ck was his queue and tied In a hard lot. lt had sunk deep Into the ck, and death Is supposed to have en caused only by strangling, as his dy gave evidence of no other means. io queue had not been severod from e head._ ^ Ton ftlAtomoroo. Advices received at St. Petersburg / that antisemitic riots have occur 1 in tho Bessarabia district. Night wu'and two Christians arc reported bd. DISPENSARY AND CHURCH. Senator Lmtltnor Protest? Against the Two Being Mixed. Tho Andorra Mall says tho dispen sary issue caused quited a lively opl* sode lu tho Greenville District Con ference of the Methodist Church at Helton on Thursday afternoon. Wi din tho preachers were making their report a member of the com mittee on temperance would ask each preacher how his church stood on tho dispensary question. The dispensary I was rapped good and hard, until Hov. Mr. Henry of Pendleton stated that his members were divided on the ques tion. Ono of tho members of tho coun ty board of control ls a member of Mr. Florry's ohuroh, Mr. Ilenry was asked to what extent tho division of senti ment prevailed, and he out tho thing oil short as ho could and sat down. Next carno Rev. Mr. Blaokraan of Piedmont. Ho knocked the dispensary vigorously. Ho said that but two mem bers of his ohuroh woro In favor of the dispensary, but that they woro going to move away. Ile was asked If he was nob glad of lt and did not say no. Senator Lat 1 mer, who was present, althought not a member of tho confer once, roso and asked tho privil?ge of tho door. Ho said he oould not sit still and seo himself: and others ruled out of tho Methodist church simply b9 oauso of a political Issue. He said he had preaohed and practiced tempor ?neo all his Ufo, but he thought tho discussion then going on was entirely out of place In a chu roh conferezco. He said ho would wipe the whole whis key business out of tho Stato If he had tho power, and be was nor. taking the stump for tho dispensary, hut he thought lt the placo of ministers of tho gospel to preach the gospel and not drag political matters Into the ohurch. Ho said he had never voted for the sale of liquor, but he did not proposo to sec, without protesting, people ruled out of the church because thoy were exorcising their own judg ment In a p dittoal matter, and that tho whole dispensary question was oat of place In the district conference. Rev. Mr. Harmon of Greer then got a turu at lt and lambasted the dispen sary some and attacked Senator Lati mers position. Mr. Latiner ro^c to defend himself, and Mr. Harmon Haid ho must have been hit or ho would not protest so quickly. Mr. Harmon j went on to say that ho would prefer a I blind tiger to a two-eyed tiger in the I shape of tho dispensary. Mr. Lat? mer retorted that If Mr. Hormon preferred lawlessness to obed ience to law he could not argue the question with him. ThlS'Olosed the In cident of the day, but it was theoblef toplo of conversation outside after the conference adjourned, Friday morning, itev. Mr. Creech, in his report, antlo!pated the question that he thought would ho asked and stated that thc member of his church es were divided on the subjeot. Homo one eh>e remarked on tho sui j ?ot, and thou some ene else remarked on the question; whereupon Bishop Duncan asked: "Who dragged this dispensary question into the conference, anyhow?' Tho preachers took oho hint and the dispensary was not mentor d again during tho conferer.. ina*'. * Senator Lat! mer said auerward that he wanted ills positions understood in the matter. The question, he said, ls before tho people for them to voto up on as they conscientiously believe best. There ls more or less politics lu the preseut movement, aud many good so ber men are suspicious of it, and a church conference was not tho place for lt to ba discussed, he said, lie stated that he was taking uo part In tho matter, except so far as his duty as a private cit!/.>n went and he was taking no activo part either for or against the dispensary hi the present discussion before tho people. He was merely protesting against its being brought into tho church conference. .Hard on John IMokort. Several years ago John Pickett, a messenger boy of the Western Union Telegraph Comyany, was run over hy a passenger train at St. Matthew's and lost his arm. Tue suit that followed attracted a great deal of looal Inter est. In tho tlrst suit John Pickett obtained a vordlct for $8,800 against tho Southern Hallway. An appeal was taken and tho Supreme Court, sent the case back for a new trial, the chief ground for the reversal of the verdict being that tho verdict lndloated that punitive damages had been Included. A second trial was held. Messrs. Mel lon and Heiser and Nelson & Nelson represented young Piokott, and for mer Judge Hen et was chief counsel for the Southern Railway. A verdict for $10,000 was thc result of tho sec ond trial, and young Pickett and his iounsel woro happy. Jndgo Rennt then made a motion for a new trial, md gave eight reasons to Judge Bro? >st Cary why a new trail should be ?ranted. Saturday morning Judge i(iry set aside the verdict and gave ,he following In writing as his rea ions: ' This ?s a motion for a now .rial upon the minutes of tho Court md the grounds upon willoh lt wa'* leard aro hereto appended. I have ?Ivon the subject no little thought, nd my conclusion ls that samo should >o granted on the sooond ground, viz: ieoau&e the preponderance of the estlmony shows that tho plaintiff's wu negligence contributed to his In? ury as a proximate cans'! thereof. A icw trial ls therefore ordered." Tho Unloaded (Jun. A special to the Augusta Chronicle rom Logans ville, (la., says taking an ld and long unused gun and playful y pointing li at his baby brothor, furner Sword blew the littlo fellow's ead otT Tuesday morning. Sword '.aced HO^O shells In tho trun and ?rgot to take them out. In a spirit f mischief thc older boy, who was mt ten years of ai;e, took aim at his x months old brother and pulled tho rigger. Both parents wore out of ie house and on their return found io little fellow literally shot to locos and his brother, who had cans 1 the dood, frantic with ?rief. doming HiiRroa Most men like women In quite plain m plc clothes. 1 suppose, on the bolo, says a writer in tho London orld, more coi q tests bavo boon lade by girls In simple white frocks ian have even been mado by those i olaboraate confections; and a ir don hat well managed, however old may bc, or better still,thesunbonnot hleh ls said to bo coming back to ivor, can bc mado a mast dangerous nea. _ liynoncd "ny <* Mob. Will Harris, a negro, was takon om a train near Hlaok bayou, Miss., id lynched for killing a wultc man lout two weeks ago. ? I' TCSATBSS, ?X?D euora. Ootton Hi ti Mudo llaptd Growth Gonor*l Iuiprovomont lu Corn. Foliowiog in the weather-orop re port for the past week as compiled by Section Director Dauer: The week ending Monday, July 24th, had a mean temperature about 2 degrees per day abovo normal. Tho extremes were a maximum of 100 de grees afc lllrokvllle and Florence on the 20th, and a minimum of 07 de grees at Obarleston on the 10th and at Greenville on the 20th. lt waa somowhat cooler afc the olose of tho CIOBO of the week. Tho sunshine wat? was normal, or slightly above, and was highly beneficial. There were a few looal high winds, but no serious damago was ?lone. Thero was practically no rain ovor the eastern half of the state; in thc central counties there wore numerous lcoal showers, some of which were heavy, there were also scattered, light showers over the western coun ties. What rain foll was highly bene tidal, as it occurred in localities that needed it. Over the greater portion of the central and southern counties the ground has bec imo vory dry and rain is needed. Where the rainfall was heavy last week, srops did exoop tionally well, but where it was light fast week and none foll this week, crops Buffered and generally doterl orated, cotton by wilting under thc high temperature, and ruiting, turn ing yellow and shedding; com by fir lng and wilting. Cultivation made fair progress and over a large portion of the state crops have been laid by although this work will not be com pleted for several wcoks. Cotton continued to mike rapid growth generally aud has too largo a weed and too little fruit over the greater portion, while a number of re ports indicate that growth has stop ped, and that tho plants aro blooming to the top. Thero are fower repon s of damage from lusects, and moro of rust and nheddlng and of plants turn ing yellow. Cotton ls beginning to open In lower Barnwell county. There Is a general improvement in both old and late corn, although tho formor Is too nearly ripe to be greatly benefited by the recent rains. Fod der pullirg has begun. Some old corn 'fired" to tho ears. Bottom lands that were flooded are recovering slow ly. Tho heat and infects have Injured growing tobtcic; selectlug and curing arcaotive. Peas for forage are prom ising. Rico ls beginning to head in the Colleton district; June rico being cultivated in Mic Goorgetown district. PASturos out lent. Peaches are fair ly plentiful, out mauy are rotting or? the trees. LeConfce pears arc ripen lng. Sweet putatoos aud onie are doing well. HOMANCfl IN WOMAN'S LIFE. Ki fasing WcaKli, A OountOBB Vial with * Peasant Gardener. In the funeral of Anotonia Allano, an Italian woman who died In Denver recently, was enactect tho last ohapter of a romance as remarkable as it was startling. Thc woman, it came out itt the funeral, was a countess of the old Borgia Une, which has given Italy popes and princes. She deserted her palace, married her gardener, who had fallen in love with her, and Hod to America to live in peace and pover ty with thc peasant for love's t?ako. Her elopement came as tho remit of an ci?ort of her family to mirry lici to a rich merchant Anotonia Borgia was born in Nap les and educated iu a Neapolitan con vent. Her family had long lost the wealth for which lt was famous in mediaeval Hires. Poverty had forced them to abandon their anosstral nome In Naples and move to a bmall town on tho outskirts, but they never forgot their noble blood and refused to associate with tho peasants about them. When Anotonia was sixteen i well-to-do merohant in Naples made in offor for her hand and was at once tccoptod by her family. Anotonia liad uo voice in thc matter. She, however, had already plighted tier troth to Pietro Albina, a po.i gardener, who lived near them. Pietro was an industrious yt ung man md bad saved some money, and when ihe day of lils pretty sweetheart's wedding with thc merchant was lin ninont tho two skipped away to Nap es one evening and took passage for \ meriel. From New York they :amo to Denver, where Allano had nany friends. Ile has amassed tomethlnjr of & fortune from a hirge nnrket garden on Clear creek, tie esldes at No. 3638 Bell street. His ?vifo. was llfty years old. WILL 1NTJ?RBST MAW ?. rho AffAlrH of tho Independent Cot ton OH Mill Company. In tl.. United States district Court Lt Oharieston on Tuesday of last week vas Hied the sohedule of assets and labilities of the Independent Cotton )11 Company, of Darlington. The .Jews and Courier says the schedule ls , very voluminous document, consist ng of more than a hundred closely vpewrltten pages. At the olO?O of the schodule is a ummary of tho assets and liabilities, s follows: LlAltlLITIKS. Vages, etc.$ l,77r> 08 ecu red claims. 1)7 500 00 luseoured claims.094 633 25 Total.8703,808 33 A ss icm Loal estate.8621,186 10 ash on hand. 337 tit nils and nates. 787 03 tock in trade. 10 270 06 urnlture and lixtures... 1,711 35 ,lvcstick. 1,025 00 ?blele?. 206 oo ui?outil jiiup??ty. 17,553 80 ?ObtS duo on opon acct.. 00,003 Ul tock in other corprations 4,050 00 noarned lire insurance romiums. 5,330 ti!) epositsin banks. 27 100 98 Total.8700.718 01 Tho (Jaroll na Savings Bank, under io head of scoured claims, holds notos > the amount of about $50,000. hero ls also a note with thc People's atlonal Bank, of Charleston, for >,00d| ono with tho Bank of Charlen m for $150,000, A number of notes, rgregfttlng about $07,000, are ontor I, the holders of which are unknown. Th ecreditors of the company will oct at Darlington and elcot a trus e In bankruptcy, and lt ls probable lat moro transactions of tho compa r will he brought to light. I'Mnl lOxplOSlOn, Former State Senator William 10. Ink and his wife were fatally burri? I Thursday by a natural gas c/.plos rt In their homo at Sommorsot, hio. FIVE SKULLS In a Cave Boveala Crimes of the lona; i go. Tho mysterious disappearance of John Buring toa, a Oinolnnatt aruiy boef contractor, reported mlsslDg for forty-flvo years, recently oamo to light lu tearing down a two-story log hotel, a resting piuco for travolers betweon Cldcago and Lafayette, whloh was built by John Steole in 1854, on the bank of tho Kankakee Uiver, at Grape Island Ford, Indiana. John Harington departed from No menee, 111., on the morning of Ojtc ber 10, 1801, rldirg horseback over laud Into Indiana, carrying $10,000 In gold to purchase beeves for the Federal army. Ho arrived that night at the homo of John Steele. From thal night ho was never again s;en. Teu dava lat* r his horse was found wander lng on the prairies, with saddle, bridle aud empty taddle bags. Tho general opinion was that Harington had been followed by Cincinnati thLves, who murd red him and scoreted his body In tao swamps. Steele's wife and daughter dlsap pcarcd In May, 1802, and he circulated a report that they were dlssatls.il vd with their homo at Grape Island and had returned to Yorkshire, England. In January of the Rame vear a traveler who stayed at Steele's homo was neve' airain seen, and settlers In thatseotlo became suspicious of Steele's ac Mons fro a tho remark of Harley Jo' n on. a hunter and trapper, who staten that on thc night John Harington arrive1" at Stele's home he was pavslng by ai midnight and saw two men coming down tho out odo stairway carry loy bi tween them p. heavy bundle. Ho a s.i heard moans, hut supposer; they ci'me from a deer probably killer by these men. A vigilance, commit tee went to Steele's home and demand ed admission. They wcro refused Thoy battered down the door, pl?c;r? a rope around Stcole's neok aud threatened to hiing him if he did not reveal what he knew of tho disappear a vee ? f Harington and of his wife and daugh ti r. Undaunted, Steele told the commiM* c to proceed with their hangi i ?r A vigorous search was In stitutad by tho mob around thc prem 1 en, but uothlng incriminating was foui d N xt day Steele disappeared. Later on bis 1 ?diana property was sold un do- mortgage foieslosure. Thlrti years r.t r Steele lt ft Indiana he ched In Carson City, NJV. His Indiana bouse remained untenanted. He lated fa-m ?rs s ! Irl it was haunted One week ago the house was torn down, and In r< moving the stone ceilai wall a subterranean cave was found containing live crumbling skulls rf human beings. Two of the skulls were those of tho formale sex. lu a decayed coat w;is found an unde cipherable envelope with the word writte n and blur:od, "Hrlngto," whlol may nave belonged to John Harington. Steele murdered his wlfo and el nigh ter to conceal his crimes, and wiu the two other men were remains a mystery. B0M? VERY ?TDB?J?KS. Shortages lt ported In Many of thr ConntteH o? tho Stato, Saluda county ls the next to order an investigation of Ita county fluances lt ls not believed that there) is any thing partlcuarly wrong in thc admin istration but that there has been some poor bookkeeping that resulted In a tangled condition of alfalrs. lr, Ciar- ndon county the saun condition (X's and the grund jury has ordered tho most earoful Investigation of the nuances of that county. Toe condf tion of affairs throughout the state milich his called for so many Investi gations In tho finances of the various counties has resulted in many of the members of thc legislature studying tho situation for a remedy. As was ta'.ed the only thing that can be done under the present law is to stir up the various grand juries and mak them lnvo ti g ato the vailous offices In order that tho officials may be more cart ful. In his last report thc comtroller general called attention to thc mr?ny counties that needed investigation, either on ; cet not of bad bookkeeping or shortages. There were nine alto gether as follows: In Abbeville cc uaty it was necessary to employ an expert at a cost of $000 to straighten out thc books. In Barnwell county there was a shoitago which Unaly resulted In a settlement with thc bonding company for over $11,000. In Greenwood cpunty an expert ti x J : i m atters at a cost of fcti'JO to the county, In Greenville oounty the recent de vel poment of graft justified the last report cf tho cOmtroller general. A shorings of over $4,000 lu Horry [county is now in the cr uris, A balance of over $:i,200 dm by tho treasurer of Laurens county has never beon paid and the grand jury bas taken no action. l i ti oolam! county there is an In vestigation now going on. lu Williamsburg county a shortage f sev ?ral th usand luis been settled, ill io og i this was due to bael book ?cocplog. In addition to tl ls there aro two or Ihn o other counties now under Inves tigation. Died Por 1KB Mottler. At Brooklyn, N. Y., In a heroic .IT rt to K.ivo lils mother and sister', vho with a scoro of others were for a il mo In great peril from Ure Nathan Sfewman, 20 year? of age, Tuesday osl his life In a burning tenement louse. Nowman got out in safety mt was unable to lind his mother and later, ll i went bftok into tho burn ..rt .ii.-ii.,., fan rt rt tt,r> mn m on ??H i,^, OUMUiUK, ?UUUU ?.??,-/ iTUiUVU AUU . slated them through an opening to he oof. Whoo he tried to follow hem however, the ladder was stir minded hy Hames. Ho made a rush brough tile lire bu5 was overcome list as ho readied tho top and foll >ack into the burnin? building. Hnm Horn BlantB. Men who Intend to be good to morrow always die today. Tho fragrance of a Ufo depends on ho fullness of Its love. Life ls all song when one llvis In >.mnnn ...Itt. 1U? I.. .?.?.i,ju jr n i un uno limul uo> Tho heart gains no rest thro lgh he gold cross carried on tro breast. The Sunday faeo that looks ):ko lyo 111 not wash out thc sins of tho eek. Scientists arc still soarohlng tho hole field of geological and paleon logical discoveries to lind tho coll ecting mani and boast. Up to tho resent ttmo there ls only ono autho tativo declaration concorntng man's rigln, and that ls in Genesis. Free Medica! Advice from m Ex pert Specialist. Dr. Hathaway Otters to Counsol and Adviso Evory Person i'reo of Char On any D?ROOSO. Twenty-five Years of Remarkable Success in His Record WRITE HIM AND SAVE YOUR DOCTOR'S BILL. "No extra oharge for medicines." .?No mlwioadin? statement or decop live proposition* Al? lowed In my advise* mont?." DR. J. NMWTON HATHAWAY, Whoso Knowledge ls freo to tho ?lok. If yon aro fooling ill, und di not know just what in tho muller with you, do not make tho mistake of calling Oh your local doctor for consultation but just simply writo lo Dr. J. Nowton lliilliuwuy, 88 I munn Itldg, Allanta, On,, inst how you buff or, aitd ho will couu sol una advise you for no thillg, wliilo your homo doctor will charge you unywhoro from SI to ?10, for tho Hinno Horvico, lind nguiu, Dr. Hathaway's ndvico is worth ton timos moro to you, for li'iH wldo oxporionco in tho trent mont of thoso diseases (25 yours), onnbles him to ut onco understand Iho oxnet nuluro of your trouble Ho will wino sond you u Solf-Exmut ilation Blank mid a valur.blo honk on your disease, of which ho is Mo author, froo of ehurgo. Dr. Hathaway s spootally is disensos pf n chronic or lingering untilro, Sud thoso ho han successfully trostod for over twenty-five yours. Tho BUCC088 li? lins mot with is sumo thing remarkable. Ho has reached tho hoad of his profession arid his tillo of "tho rocog ui/.od nutliorlty on Ohronlo Disensos" justly belongs to him. Not only has ho cured thous and of Bufferers who cull athis olllco for Iront mont, hut nearly ovory Stftto in tho Union is represented on Iiis list, of ourod patients whom ho WAS nhlo to cure hy his method of homo trOAtmont. Ho hos had special SUCCOSS in cur ing cases of longstanding and of n complicat ed nature, nf tor several doctors had given thom up as Incurable, hui whether vour cuso is of long stnudiug or not, you should ut onco seek tho ndvico of this grout specialist. It will ho of great honeflt to you, ovou if you do not take treatment. Ho lins n positivo nod ponnnnont cure for disonsos of mon and women such ns LOST MANHOOD, BTtUOTUftH, VARICOPKI.B, N KU VOUS DEBI I * l'f Y, ENLARGED PROS TATE, RHEUMATISM, SPECIF?' BLOOD POISON, KIDNEY AND BLADDER TROU BLB, H KA RT DISEASE, STOMACH AND BOWELL TROUBLE, D.IABBT KS, BRIGHTS DISEASE, URINARY THOU PM?, KNLAROED PROSTATE, FEMALE TROUBLE, WOMB TROUBLE, OVARIAN TROUBLE/ LKUCORRHKA, ETC., and il yon nro nlllictod with uny of thoso diseases, you should loso no timo in consulting this famous specialist. His trentmont for theso disonsos is based on ovor a quarter century of oloso stotly, und whoo ho once discharges you us cured, you need huvo rio four that you will ovor be trou hl?d with your di sonso again-his euros nro por manont. Dr. Hathaway is tho nuthor of eight valuable medical hooks which should be ia tho hands of every ono nlllicted, or ovory hoad of a family, and ho will send uny ono of thea* I'ooks to yon on rocoipt of your nnmo and nd dross. 1, dis uses of tho thront and lungs: 2, kidneys mid urinary tract; 3, disoosoH ol women; 4, skin, reclu?, rhoumntisrn; 5, blood poison; (?, nervous dehility nud vital weakness; 7, stricturo; 8, vnricocolo. His book for men entitled "Manliness, Vigor und Henltb," should ho in the hands of every mun. Write for it, it is freo. If yon do not suffer yourself send him tho nnmo of sonic one that does. Do not forgot tho uddri?i, J. Nowton Hiilhuwny, M. D., 88 Inman Bldg., I Atlanta. On. AUGUSTA, OA Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typo-writing, English branches, Full guaranteed course 20 weeks. Single course of either Business or Short hand, 8 mos. 12 calls for graduates in about 20 days. Can't supplv de mand. Writo. . " Machinery Supply House for the State. WE SELL EVERYBODY. Headquarters for EVERYTHING in MACHINERY SUPPLIES. All kinds of Injectors, Lubricators, Pipe, Valves, Eittings. Supplies for Saw Mills, Oil Mills and any one in Machinery business. Large stook of Well Pumps and Cylinders. Get our price. , COLUMBIA SUPPLY 00.V D >l ii mt>l<*., B. O. The machinery Supply hon.no of the 8tr.fs g THE GUINARD BRICK WORKS, I ? COI^UMHIA O. Manufacturers Brick, Fire Proof Terra Cotta Building Block ,for J Elue linings and Drain Tile. Prepared to lill orders for thou ands ? or millions. ? "iii m Yhlske Morphine I Olgaret I All Drug and Tobaooo 'a'oit, I Habit Habit Habits. .Curod by Keeley Jliif$t:ii:iit.e, of Cl 1320 Lady St. (or P. O. nox 7ft) OolumhU. 8. G. ChcffriontiAl corr" UP Ott,'' pono STATE INSTITUTE Will Ho Hold ut cir marni Collette Sec ond Week In (ViiKiiHt. The State institute for farmers will be held at Ulemson college next month. The exercise will begin on Tue* d ly, the 8th, and will condini ?. on Erlday, the 11th. The programme will be: Tuesday, August 8th--8 p. m., ad dress of welcome and preliminary ex orcises, address by Senator B. R. Till man on "Raising Hogs." Wednesday, August Otb-10 a. m., iddresS by Prof. W. J. Spiilman, United States department of agricul ture, subject, "Diversltlcatlon Karru ng In thc South;" 2 p. m , experience nceting; 8 p. m., address by J. A. Everett. Indianapolis, lcd , subj ct, 'How to Solve all KAI mers' Prob lems." Thursday, August 10th-10 a. m , tdd ress by Dr. S. J. Summer.-*, sub i act, "Farming In South Carolina as m Opening for Young Men who will J se Brains and arc Not Afraid or Work;" 2 p. m., experience meeting", lp. m., address by John A. Hamll ?on, farmers' instituto specialist, TnPed .States department of Agricul uro, subjeot, "Thc New Agrloul ure." Friday, August 11th- 10 a. m., ad ??.Agu hy \i> v_ Richards, industrial gent Soutl orn railway, subject, 'Farmers' Interest in Immigration." Miss Catherine Mulligan of Win hrop college will give a course In do? nestlo science during the Institute. Note-Ampio provision will be iadc by tho authorities of the college o assist the visitors in examining tho ollego, station end all tho inter?s! s ellinging to the Clemson Agrlo.iltu ?vi college. Lodging will be furnish d freo to the capacity of the listltu lon. Those who attend will apply ar tickets at tho ontrance to tho bar icka. where names will ba registered, nd a bod furnished if posslhlo. Meal Ickots can bo scoured for 25 cents adi. A Proposition of Interest To all readers of this paper, who call or write for treatment within the next 30 days ? will cure them of the following diseases for ONE-HALF my usual charge: LOST MANHOOD, SY I'll I LIS (blood poison), GONO RIIE. GLEET, STRICTURE, VA RI COCELE. RUPTURE, CATARRH and all CHRONIC DISEASES, of both sexes. Diseases of women cured without operation. 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