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8W1AI&? SHE MED ?NMGR TESTIMONY IN THIS HAM. BUB? POISONING CASH. Xhe Banoh Woman Claim? 2 hat Kr. G. B. Kit rell Fri hnened Her Into Perjury. W. Olare Dlokinson, tho man charged with tho poisoning of B. F. Raed in Bamberg about the middle ot the month Just ended, was released Wednesday on bail by Ohlef Justice Pope of the supreme court. The pro ceedings were brought by Dickinson's attorneys and were based on s (tl davits from Alida Bur oh, who says that she swore falsely at the cor mers Inquest in pl aol n g the erl mo un tho def en daub. 8he swore at that time that Dick hu:on had given Reed whiskey and that she was led to believe that there was poison in it. lu the f ill la vit submitted Wodnesday she swears that sbe made this testimony because after Reed's death, Mr. G. B. Kit troll, bib brother In law came to her and told that if sho did not implicate some one she might be banged. Mr. Klttrell after Raeds death bad the body exhumed and had the stomach examined to show evidences of arse nie poisoning. Analbl is also claimed on the affidavits used Wednesday. It ls said that Dlokinson and his friends will not drop the case but will take it to the courts. B. F. R cd di.id on January 14. Tue day before he olalmed tba^ ho ieli very unwell about 3 o,clook lu the afternoon and died at 6 o'olcok the next morning the cause being assigned as paralysis cf the brain. His brother In law, Mr G. B. Ktttroll ?van not at all satls.il with tnls, on account of tho poison theory and the body, by dlrec lon of Coroner J. H Z dgler, was disinterred Two physicians, Drs. Hoover and Oleokley, performed an autopsy, re moved the stomach ai.d thc brain and stated that they found evidences of poison having been administered. Tue stomach was taken to Augusta and examined by Dr. John Sohroider, who also discovered traeos of arsenic. Two women, one white named Alicia Burea, and one oolored. lola Wesley, were arrested. An lr quest was held and Alicia Hut eh testilled that on the morrnlug of January 13 Reed and Dlokinson had been at her house atd that tho latter had civm the former a drink of whiskey, but he bad not given any ono elso any nor bad he taken any himself. Seeh g some people coming, ho lumped out of the window, but Reed remaim several hours. Diokiuson returned l the af ternoon and said to her "1 guess that will fix thc-." She further testllied that Dionlns,on had told hor ten days before that he would kill Reed lr ho did not keep away from her, and tbat slnoo ber ar rest he had visited her at the jail and told her to say nothing abc t what he had said about Reed. The inquest last Friday week and Dlokinson, on whom suspicious seems to have, as his relatives had already employed a lawyer H. M. Graham, was arrested. He was taken to Jail but a dispatch to Tue State of Monday predicted some changes in the case. OJ Tuesday a Bamberg dis patch said that the Bunoh woman had . declared her testimony at the coron er's inquest was false and that she bad put the crime on Dickinson t the suggestion of some one, who told ber that her neck might be cracked. This dispatch further stated that a com plete alibi was established for Dickin son. / The affidavits preset tad in the su preme court by Mr. E T. LaFltte, at torney for Dickinson, aro interesting. The Bunch woman testltlts that Raed came to her house on the morning In question and had been drinking, that he took several drinks of wblskey while there and remained for a tim ;. After his death she swears, G. B. Kit trell oamo to her house and said: "If you do put the erl mo on some one they will break ycu neok. Wnen he told mo that, I was so frightened 1 did not know what to do, so to save myself I made up my mind to put lt on W. O. Dickinson. I voluntarily called Mr. Ed Dickerson, brother of W. C. Dickerson, and made the state mont that all the testimony I ga?e before tho coroner In reference to W. O. Dickerson's connection with the death of Ben if. R .ed| was absolutely fake, that W. C. Dickerson was not at my house when Reed was there." At tho li quest the woman bad tes titled that ttie men came to her hon.-o about ll o'clock tn the forenoon but Dickinson submits an affidavit tnat he did not leave his house that afternoon until 4 o'clock, and that in tho morn lug he woe moro than a mlle distant from the Bunch woman's ht use. The elerk in the county dispensary makes, affidavit that Dickinson and U. ? Rowell esme into the dlspmsary be tween 10 and ll O'OlCOk in the morn lng. Tula was a milo distant from the bouse. L. B. Fowler saw Dlckin son, so ho bwears, all day between 0 a. m. and 2 p. m. except between noon and 1 p. m. Josephine Alexan der testifies that Reed came to Mr. 8am Felder's noose (where it seems that the Bunch woman was) about 11 O'olock and remained until 2 p. ra. Dickinson oame there ab ut i p. m. but Ried was not tnerc then. C. 0 Rowell was with Dlokinson from 10 a. m. until 2 p. m. except ab,,ut lf> or 20 minutes. Tho order for ball was signed by Chief Justic! Y. J. Pope and llxed In the sum of 91,000. A Bamberg telegram to The State says; "A telegram waa received here this afternoon announcing the faot that tho supreme court bad granted ball In the sum of 91,000 to W. Clare. Dickinson, charged with the murder of B. F. Reed. A few moments after the telegram wa? received bail was signed and Mr. Dickinson released from Jail. He has been on the streets, receiving congratulations nf bis friends In view of the f ict that affairs In the case have turned so completely In his favor there bas been some tf.lk that the case might now bo dropped, but Mr. Dickinson and hts friends and rel atives will not agrco to this. They will Insist that the oaso go to trial." Fatal Collidion. A collision on the Great Northern railway Tuesday night resulted lu thc death of at least four persons, and probably more. The Great Northern limited, weBt hound, orashed Into au AMt hound passerg?>r ri"ar Columbia Falls, Wash. The llrcman on eaoh train was Instantly kllleo. A tium ber of passengers on both trains woro Injured. Many coaches wt ro pllod up On the wreckage. A wrecking outil'. -J? .. t. ..... "I., "CT W???a I . ... MA*if ....... IUU i'i ' y > ' > ' " 1 .1 II .?. ...... . ?.un. Great Fslls. Both loe motives were turned completely over and piled up together many feet from tho road. THBY OAK* B?CK, Sought Hornea In Oklahoma Bat , Tbry All Returned Tho Augusta Herald says thor o ls jomothing very significant In the an? aouGQiaierit tba*of the one hwndr^f' Svu^h Carolinians who went cut to Oklahoma with a view to remaining there permanently there were only thtee who did not return to their homes in South Carolina. The south ls oertalnly good enough for most people, and there are more reasons for this than the moro faot that we have *io marked extremes of heat and cold, and that the sky ls generally blue. Or course climate ls the south's greatest and rarest gift. The free dom if outdoor lifo is pleasantly poa Bible tho wholo year rouud, which la not only a most agreeable state of .flairs In Itself, but which maaus a great dial to the agriculturist. Nat urally, the praotical septet of the case ls that which appeals most irre sistibly to Buoi home seekers as those out homers who have no;; al y como h o k home again after visiting thc west, and it is to tho praot'oil as well as to the sentimental and romantic standpoint that the south makes its most sure appeal. To begin with, land is cheaper here than in the wen?. This is, of course, a great consideration to those who have only a limited amount of money to be expended in acres, and to whom lt means muoh to havo enough money left over, after tho purobase of the requisite amount of land, to build a house and the out l u.ldlngs. Those interested In the settlement of the west have had much to say about tho greater richness of tho land there, bub it is a well known fact that when tho land ls richer in tbe west than in this section of the south it ls where it lou; been more Indefati gably worked and fertillz d than in other places' lt has been demonstra ted moro than once that one farmer can raise over two hundred bushels of potatoes on a single ace, while auoth r oan barely raise one hundred on the acre adjoining, evon though both pieces of land havo equal value*. From willoh lt is readily seen that lt is the man as well as tho land that counts. Unquestionably, the people of tho west are moro energetic and industri ous than those of the south, and this ls largely duo to tho fact that the west bas to tight harder for what lt gets than does tho st nth. All who know this section at all know that thore hundreds of growths here whlo . Naturo gives almost for tho mere asking, Ueoauso of this tho southern farmer is able to support himself and family entirely t ff of what ho raise*., having in cle tr cash all that ho re ceives for cotton, corn and o ?ber pro duce carried to the markets. Not over a huudred miles from Au gusta there ia a cortain prt speroun farmer who sells q tantltses of cotton and corn and wno buys absolutely none of his supplies exoept salt. He raises his own beef and pork and has plenty of corn to fetd his sf>ok. He owns rico ll dds and raises his tea, tho front avenue leading to his house b ing bordered by tea plant3. Sugar and syrup he makes from tho sugar cane he raises. Fruit and vegetables of all kinds be has in greatest abun dance, and be baa recently begun to eau on a tremendous scale for the market tomatoes, peaches, pears, ap ples and berries. RURAL MalL CARRIERS. A Bill I nt roil need in UongrcBa to Rat?t Tl?oir Salarie s . The rural mall carriers in South Carolina and throughout the oountry will rocelve ?DOO p r annum hereafter Instead of the amount they are now receiving, should the bill which has bren Introduced in the house for this pur poso by Mr. Aiken pass. A dis patch fruin Washington to the Col umbia Record says Mr. Aiken is thoroughly convinced that the mail carriers of the state are too poorly paid and that they should be better taken care of than they aro a; present. Woa^re with Mr. Aiken. When the character of thc work performed hythe carriers is oaken Into consideration, and thc expense they have in keeping horses and vehicles-, nine hundred ls not to much to pay them. lt ls said there is danger that the S'.ate may lose many of its free dellv cry routes at an early dale, according to what Representative E:lerbe and Johnson say ooncorning tue matter. Mr. Johnson recently called attention to t he fact that the postmaster gen oral would soon cut cit many of the routes now in operation unless the people patronizing thom sent out and received moro mail. "They must pat ronize the routes netter," he said, ii the present facilities are to rsmaln aa they aro. It will be a question for the people In the cliff ?ront sections to determine for thimsclvdF ; if they want them they must write moro let tera and recoivo mort ; thc posit ill c.? department is In earnest about out ting them ( ff and we cannot do any thing to stop it unless tho people >how the proper appreciation of what the government ls doing for them. "1 wrote the postmaster gonoral a letter ab nit three weeks ago ankh g him to let the carriers on tho routes weigh tho mall they bandied to deter mine whether there had been a fall ing off. 1 havo never received a re ply lo my communication, and I sup poso a government agent will be sent out soon to weigh the quantity of matter handled. I hope the routes San be saved to tho people in the jountry." Tim Jap* Nuiid Help. A movement has boen started to ippeal to tho American publie for contributions of foodstuff t and monoy 10 relieve the distress in the famtno itricken northern provinces of Japan. According to information rooelved at ibo J ipanose ombassy at Washington ibo northern provinces of Japan arc lu (Ter In g from a severe famlno willoh inly the quick, st relief will bo able to ?heok. Accruing to the Information ibtalned to rice orop t his year bas been mly about ilfteen per cent, of tho ivorago crop and that the famine ls lauslng particular suffering in the <hree northern provinces of Fuku ihlna, Miyagi and I vato, willoh have ogothcr a population of about two nllllon, seven hundred thousand, dany of the people are engaged in the ll'. I n .wi ll... fnlli... nt *??" ?Uti v..j .?....? ....i. .i?..?..o WA uuy aim lUtput han augmented tho goneral 11 ff ?ring. The postmaster geneml has kind y granti d permission for rural oar lern io deliver in automobiles? Now f ho will go a step further and pro ide the auton obi let tho carriers will e supremely happy. \it tv i?mf,wi"n A HARD FIO HT. ?i ow Mattie? Fonar Honra WHtb Bl* 1 Snakes on Dook. A nervo tingling story ot a four hom hattie with two pythons twenty* fi YO feet long was brought into port ? of New York recently by the steam ship Iodrasamba, together with a tale, in lighter vein, of how an es caped orangoutang nearly drove bini Koif crazy by pulling the cord ot the steamer's whistle and falling to oou . neot bis aotions with tho maddening 1 shrieks of the signal. Tho vessel < took two months for the trip from the i Orient. Five pythons, eight orang , outangs, ono hundred monkeys, ene i " leopard, two Indian deer and .the regular oargo of Oriental goods were ? carried. Seven orangoutangs died on 1 the voyage. i The tight with tho .pythons took j placa ht tho Indian Ocean. They , were taken to the deok in oages to be washed. After the bath they lay in the warm sun and went to sleop. The warmth probably made thera feel at homo aud they uncoiled, lt. wai? about the time they usually wore | fed. Two of tho hugo snakes writhed from between tho bars cf the cages and crept along tho deck. Chief Oilloor Thirkell was napping when the startling sight of tr e two reptiles winding slowly toward him almost unbalanced hts mind, lin broke re cords getting to the stern, and yelled to the orew. Captain Craven ordered i every mab to arm himself heavily. For au hour tho men muncon vorod to pinion tho heads and tails of tho {snakes. Every time a man got near one of the escaped prisonors its tail swung around like a carriage whip, and a blow from lt would have laid any man low. The Chtneso and Ja panese membors of the crow wero ?driven frantic They took to the I tigging The captain, however, instilled courage imo them by darting sudden ly at tho head of ono snake and grip ping its neck. A starlwart latear imbued with tuc same spirit, shot in like a panther and gripped the tail. With nota and blankets tho monstor was enmeshed and returnod to tho cage. This was after three hours of footwork that would have kept a I tr, i.i neo boxer guessing. Tho other snake orawled to tho top of the engino house and held its post for an hour, Its head swinging from side to side, pendulum like, always ready to Btr ke. The ventilator, how ever, proved the snake's undoing. Tho python fell throbgh tho ventl later into an alleyway from whici lt could not escape Half a dozen nets, I a dv zen blankets, and ropes wero lot I down and tbe snake unablo to ex ri eat) itself was oaplured. A few days later an orangoutang esoaped and swung himself to the top of tho engine house by the whistle rope. A blast frightened it, and chattering in terror, it pulled the rope more vlgorou ly. Toe terrlllo shrieks of tho whistle attracted tho crew. The big monkey lied to the rigging and remained there all night, but exhaustion made its oapture easy the next day, MAY BS M 1DJB PUBLIC. A. Strong Stateni snt on lt cont Con dun Bureau Report. President Harvle Jordan, of the Southern Cotton .association, last week gave out a statemont in which ho takr? 8everly to tank tho census bureau at Washington for alleged shortcomings- Ile says in part: "The aotlon of Director North, ot the cen us bureau, in falling to make LUbllc all tho imform.itlon he secured Mom the glnners January 10 and his per8l8tent refusal io do KO, in face of repea ed demands, is ox diing oonshl erable indignation throughout tiv? South. Mr. North asked, January 10 all gurner.-, for tho following inform <. - Hon: '"How many bales ginned for tho season of 1005? "'What ls the average weight of bales ginned to date? '"What ls your estimate of tho per centage of ootton remaining to be gin ne- ? "The public recolved the remit of thc answer to the first question on January 23 in tho statement that 0,0 08,111 bales had been ginned. There suit of the other two inquiries have, been withheld so far. I wired Mr. North Tuesday as follows. " For what purpose was thc average weight of bales and estimated amount of cotton to bo ginned after January 16 cbtained In ymir re emt glnners re port? As this ls public olthlal Infor matlon, kindly wiro me today tho re suit of the ostimates as shown. "In reply to tho above, Mr. North sent, the following: "'Average bale weights will be made public as noon as oan bo com pi 1 - od. Estimated amounts to be ginnod were obtained, and only opprcxInnate ly to enable census othco to deti rmlnn what counties must again be oativas* od for final report and not for public uso. Will be published if Congresi directs it. Resolution to that effect lntr< doced house to day. (Signed) "NGUTU Dlreotor." President Jordan hays that 70,000 halos of tho crop-were ginned prior to September 1, and were counted in thc oummerclal orop of 1004-05, bub have bern made a part of tho cerjsus bur eau report of 0.098,111. Ddduottng tho 470,000 bales from the published total of 0,1)08,111 leavos 9 528,111 to bo counted In the oropof|10u5 00 Add bo this 150,000 bales and there still rc mains a crop under ten million bales. Ho sayB wide investigation shows that spot holders aro not soiling their oot tm and that practically thoro ls no ootton for sale in the faoo of the pres ent depression. People Burned, At Lowell, Mass., at least six per sons lost their lives in a fire which partly dostroyed tho Richardson Ho tel, early F blay morning. The fire started a fow minutes before 2 o'olook sud the Hames rapidly communicated to various p.irts of tho structure. A largo number of gueBts were lu thc hotel, and those who were in tho up per part of tho building had litt lo bianco to esoape by the stairways. The firemen at 2.30 o'olook found the tead bodies of six women In tho top (1 ocr of the hotel._ MlMtftkmi tV?r lliirrrlar. At HattlcBburg, Miss., James Hunter a well known man, was shot ind Instantly killed during tho carly norning hours by Ran Cooper, who nh gos that the mau was trying to ireak into his house. OoO'V?* nava ho ipeued tue door and fired tbreo shots, :ao^ of whioh took effaob. Cooper im? uedlatoly gavo himself up. I SOLD AS SLAVJSS. HAN Y MISSION GIRLS if UK THUS TRHAVSfi? lix THUIR I'AHniST 3 In Airioau xoaottor Say? Uk) Old , Custom Cou doran s Many Wo men to Bondage. Marriage customs in Africa have lttle con ?Ul oration for tho native /Iris, who are in effeot as muo'i the ibjoots of barter and sale as ever they were In the days when tho slave trad ?rs were prevalent on the West Coast. A letter just recelvad from the Pres byterian mission station at Lolodorf ?hows bow the marriage "palaver" Interferes with the eduoation of the ?Irls in the sohools established for them by the Presbyterian B jard of Foreign Missions. Miss Jane K. Maokeczle writes the letter and, after telling of the forma tion of the girls boarding tohooi and Home details of the day's work of the scholars whom she describers as intel ligent, olean little girls willing and eager to learn, she writes: "Very?happy were the little girls and free for several weeks. Then wo fell ur d r tho curse of the marriage palaver. O io girl, a house servant, was sold to a man owning several wives. When it oame to delivery of the goods the goods became animated in dissent-not indeed, that consent had been asked of the goods. Tho station backed tho girl. News of this (1.! ll au oi of good N^u-nba oustom penetrated to tho ends of the oarbh and woke a thousand anxlottes. The social fabrlo was imperilled. Two of thc little girls wore led away weop irg by oanny male relatives: this was sad to see. My own little servant, Makako, was ordered to hor town by her uncle, her fathor being eff in Bul, where ho is hunting goods with which to buy a new wife upon whoso pur chase he ni cans to give Makako as part payment. There you see thc exit of three little Inj uns.',The school ls depletod and lllrepute. "Putting up over night lu Iposo whore ono of tho ohildren Ulives. I heard from her that the townspeople say of the sohool, No little girl may marry who enters there. You are reminded, doubtless, of the legent ovr er the gate to Danto's hell. My sin gio state is a matter of common mar vel-it does not help us in our pre sent difficulty and may bi taken as evlderce of a cult from which young Ngumuy maidenhood must bo protect ed. "Mfun, tho little girl in question bad her slate as a token of her hav ing drunk at the wells of learning. I hung in her hut as a diploma hangs ih a doctors cfllce-witnessing to her poor little aohlevoments. Sho slept lu my hut and did mo some service. I paid my debt with a needle and soma thread. When next I go I shall take her some pat c?es. Patcbos are dear to little Afr cm girls. Poor Amana, when she was taken away went down tho path wiping her eyes on her blto of patchwork, "We were sad when these ohildren were taken away. Any work tor girls in a polygam "uti *v$( Other girls will come. Some>who8p' parents are Christian or other vise enlighten ed we shall bo able to keep: and somo will go. Yet not wltbout b3neflt Something they will have learned of reading and writing, of sewing and washing, of truth and the love of God. "Tho night boforo Mfun left when I asked the ohlldron for what they wish me to pray, she said: Tell ITlm I am afraid of getting married. It is aomfort to *:now that our high priest was touched by tho fooling of that piteous llttlo infirmity. ?X TRA T*RMU OF COURT. IutorosttiiR Discussion on tho Sub!not In tho Honato. Tho bill to repeal tho statutory pro vision for the holding of extra terms of o urt by spec'al Judges was opposed by Senator Raysor. Notwithstanding two extra olroults, yet members of o unties are still calling for such uourts. Generally they are unsatis factory and costly, but lt ls' manda tory in the constitution to provide for them, ho said. S ma tor McGowan road tho consti tutional provision making it plain that such oourts cannot be abollshod Besides there ls ueoesslty for them. Lynching ia sametlmes justified be cause of tho inf requeue; of oourts and with more of them mcb v olonce could bo more expediently bandied. Senator Bleaso of Nowborry favor ed tho bill. There is too muoh expense sonneoted wltti extra eiurts and if regular Judges oannot do the work Dtners ought to have their plaoes. Much of the fault Hes in Judges not forcing cases to trial. As to extra spurts for lynohlng, ho said he didn't think tho necessity would evor arlso In Newberry. In suoh oases tho great |u ry of the people would act. They would bo right to aot, and "I would nelp them." Senator Blake saw no necessity for ixtra oourts, and soured the lawyers freely for neglecting to preparo their lasos and bring them to trial. Senator Ilndson opposed tho bill. In tho courso of lils remarks ho de dared that Judges wore entirely too onlent with lawyers, too acoommo luting and too often socking tho good viii of tho bar r&ther thau looking liter the real business of courts. The lllatory methods now a custom are a tharne to tho state and tho profession, io long as Judges indulgo lawyers in ong-winded spscchos and dilatory action BO long will buslnoss bo dolay id, Reformation is sadly needed, but .his hill will not accomplish tho pur )080. Senator Hudson said lawyers need id disciplina und the OOttltti needed migo i who would tako hold of the chis. He has tho greatest rospeot or thc bondi and bar, but thero lu a irylrg need for reformation. By a vote of 20 to 12 tho senate In lellnltcly postponed tuc bill. Fatal Duol. A dlspatoh from Flor?la, Ala., says Jrady Miller, tho 10 year-old son of )t, R L. Miller wai Wodnosday night hot an I killed by the negro porter of ho Lako View hotel. Thero wore no yo wltnoKses to the'shootlog, bub ho pistol ?boin were hoard. A search fas made and nearby was found the egro in a dying condition. Ho lived lng onough to say that ho and MU it had engaged In a pistol duel, 'hero ls no way to afosrtaln tho ?tuso of tho tragedy. Young MlUor ras ab homo for a row aays irom Vcfford college, S. C., where he had oen attending sohool. A FIENDISH. ATTACK. A Lady Attacked In Her Home By A a Brnte. Th? Atlanta Journal say? Mrs. Mannie May Dupree, nineteen years old, was knocked down and reudered unoinsolous and her throat slightly out Tuesday afternoon ot last week by a uegro in the kitchen of H. T. Grogan, on the Jonesboro road, near Cornell. Toe negro esoip?d and a posse of blood hounds belonging to tho federal prison, and the olty and county police are on his trail. Dr. C. O. S ?Ith, who was oalled in to attend the young woman found her unoonsol us and bleeding from a slight wound In the throat, Mrs. Du pree ls not seriously hurt and will re oo ver. To Dr. Smith Mrs. Dupree said she did not remember the appearance of the negro. She did not ?tate to the doctor whether she was criminally as saulted or whether an attempt of that kind had been made. It is believed however, that this was tho attempt of the negro. Mrs. Dupree's lunhand ls not the olty just now, and she had been living at the homo of H. T Grogan. Accounts of tho timo when the at tack occurred differ, but it IN thought that lt happened about 3.30 w'clock Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Dupree had started to the kitchen on an errand. Turning then to go back into the homo she was confronted suddenly by a negro who dealt her a blow in the forchad. She was knocked flat on tho fljor and Ibero lay unconsolous until other wo men In tho house who had doubtless heard her scream when she fell ran to her asslstanoo, They found Mr??. D 'pree In a state of stupor aud bleeding f rom a wound In her throat, evidently Inflicted from a knife, or some sharp instrument. Mrs. Dupree waa plokcd up and borno Into a room, later Dr, Smith was summoned. Ile tried to o Im the young wc min who had b c me hyster leal and examlnod tho wound on lier threat found that lt was not ser.ous. ABOUT TBS WEATHER This Your to Bo Ono of lvMnn ?nd Freshets. Speaking of the weather, says the Newberry O'oscrvor, this is no'j going to bo a good year for low ground corn, for thorn are going to be heavy rains and freshets and o vor ii )ws of the bot tom lands. This ls not Tie O ?serv er's original prognostication, but Mr. D. E Seaso cf Newberry county says so. Ho bases his opinion on the weather of the 25th of January. Ho says he has observed for the last forty years that If January 26th is a bright oloar day tho bottoms do not ovoj il ?W and of oourso there are good orops tf bottom con.; but if the 25th ls cloudy or raining look out for over II )ws. The 25th thl3 year was decid edly cloudy aud rainy. Another oltl zan's observation for the past throe years omllrms Mr. Sease's forty years observation. So If anybody goes ahev.d now, In the face of prophecy, and plants his bottoms in corn and loses his orop he will havo himself to blame. Speaking further of the weather lt ls well enough to remembor that ground hog day ls near at hand, and we shall therefore know soon whether, wc aro to have an early or late spring. Ground hog day ls February 2a1, and it ls a well established fact, though some skeptical people ques' i n lt, that if tho ground hog o junes uut -of his bolo that day and sees bis th .d >w he will hasten baok to continue I ls hibernation for many week i to cnn iv but If he does not see his shadow he will romain out, and spring may be expected early. Of course this all depends upou whether tho second day of February ls a cloar day or cloudy. Evorybody except tho highly skoptloal will watch with interest for ground hog day to seo whether lt ls to bs clear or cloudy and whether, there fore, we aro to have a late or early spring. Victim ot ASHMSSIII. A dispatch from Till!a says the murder of General GrlarzaciT, ohlef of the stair of the Viceroy of tho Cauca sus, was most dramatic aud audaoious. The assassin evidently had studied tho habits of his vlottm and lay In wait behind a wall of tho Alexander Garden opposite the entrance to the palace, whoro a oarrlago was drawn up to tako the general for his dally drive. Tho assassin Impersonated a painter, carrying tho bomb with whloh he committed the orime concealed In a paint cm. Ho was thu i able to reaob his place of ambus without suspicion, Goneral Grlaiznoflf, dad in a orimsjii uniform, made a shining target. As the goneral stopped Into tho oarralge, the man sprang on tho wull, swung the can by a oord and tho bomb, as if thrown from a sling with marvelous precision, sped straight to tho mark and struck the goneral on the neck. A flash of fire and a terri flo explosion follov. I, and Grlaznoff wai literally blown out of tho carriage, with his ooao .man and Cassaok orderly, and the latter's horse was instantly kill ed. A lady who was passing at tho time of the explosion was mortally wounded. The assasin was oaught, beaten into insensibility by the in furiated soldiers and carried off to tho undent fortress above the city, whore, as Titlls is under martial law, ho will probably bo exeoubod at dawn. His identity is unknown. Ono HonoHt M?ll, The Newberry Observer says: "A rare and very old Incident has hap pened to a oortain lawyer in that town. In plaoo of this attornoy forc ing anothor to pay a debt, he himself was almost forcad to receive a certain amount ot money, the faots being about these: A man, whose name it ls not necessary to mention, oamo to tho attorney p.nd demanded that he bake thia miall amount of money nnd andeavor to deliver it to tho heirs of a oertaln black man, a oarpontor who had years ago done some work for the unnamed payer-this amount Inolud id the interest. This is a payment Dy a whito man of limited moans of a lebt long out of dato, and with inter iorcst on an open account, to or for a olack man who may have been dead ong slnoo. So there is certainly one lonest man in Newberry oounty." Can't Wear Thom. Chinabas recently issued and edlot >rohibitlng, oxoopt in the treaty ports, .bo salo of metal-rimmed spectacles. Can shoos aro also tabooed, and any mo doallng in thom renders hlmsolf labio to deoapltation. The latter Irastlo regulati >n ls duo to the faot nat yoiiuw is tuo?? tho imperial color, o bo worn by none save members of ho royal family, A WEIRD XXPSBIBNOB. ?uH? HOW HO Waa Hanged as a Hny Oace, u.v. J. T. Mann, of Jackson. Miss, aa ex Confederate erjoys the distinc tion ?? bi-; o ?i *?l? osly SOlfS'O? o? tho Southern ur my who was banged for a spy and still lives to tell ttio story. Mr Mann was a member of Oom pa ny O, Third Louisiana Battalion, and his thrilling story of how he was hang ed as a O mfoderato Spy f >nm one Of the most interesting inotdonts of the Civil War. In April, 1804, Mr. Mann who was then with bis company tv ll .irranean, Fla., volunteered to set Ure to a powder magt z ne of the Fed oral troopB In order ttiat the Confed erate bsselglng forces could make a surprise attaok during the confusion The perilous task was undertaken after midnight. Under cover of darkness, Mr. Mann orept OIOBO enough to throw a bale of burning twine, steeped In turpentine into the building where the explo .ives were kept, and the burning ball ell short of the raaik and missed Its deadly mission. Minn was chased by the Federal sentinels and oap', wed. When car ried to camp the lifurnlated troop?, who had bien awaro of their narrow escape from being bio MI to ulmus made haste to bani; bien. A nt ose was placed ab ut bis neck, one end of -the rope tbrov n over the pr< J joting joist of a billduig au J the prisoaer Hoisted Into the air. When life was apparently < x Inct, a Vermont officer ordered his body cut down. A ooutroversy Iben arose among th? troops, some claiming tbat the wron? mau had bien banged, and an tflort was made to resuscitate Minn. After working diligently tor two boure, the prisoner was brought biok to lifo and kept in custody u ..til the dose of tbe war. Mann still bears scars on his n'ck slowing where tho ll eoh was tomb tbe rope, and in describing the av f u ordeal he says that his tlrst sent a tion felt when J Tko! from tho ground was that akin to standing near a steam buller explnshn. Afterward, the sedsation of friuh f il pain passed away and before laspiug Into uncouu solousncss he began to hear sou d i of the most entrancing music. He was tried by o >urt martial as a spy, after the capture, but the tribu nal could not establish his ld on i ty. A WAR TIME REMINDER. Tho Blookado Runner il abd at Ijtst WAMI uni A i Ul ovo. A dispatch froT Washington, N C., says the east shore of Wrigntavllle beach presented an Interesting sight Tuesday aftermou la the viomlty o Lumina. This .'portion of the beach was strewn with wreckige of tho old tunk that has boon ashore i ii Lu nina i.lnoe the civil war. This buk repre Bents all that remains e-liat plied be tweeu Wilmington and the Wtst Ja dies. Tho storm of Thursday night tore into the wreck and fco sed a great amount of debris up JU the shot e. So powerful was the raging sea that thc old iron safe aboard tho ship wa> washed up on the bcaoli aad formed the most Interesting cbj ot fir the slghtsaors Wednesday. A quantity of old Iron pipe and partef the ves sol's shaft wero also washed ashore, as well as odd bits of hard ware, In eluding lu me-raade nails. One of the most iuteresting ourlcut picked up was an edd atd vary rusty oirvlug knife. Too safe ls a very heavy one anr" has corroded vory badly. 1 j ls a com bination safe, though lt was supposed that the SB f) ab ?ard w.is of the oil. fashioned Lok and k-^y type. The safe was broken into bu>i contained noth lug Bave a very small portion < f a gold olin tn. Tlie safe had evidently been opened by the olivers when it was seen that the ship could not be savod Only a part of the old hulk was torn apart and washed ashore as the great est portion still rexaiaii and looms up plainly in sight of those who peer sea ward from the vicinity of Lumina. It ls supposed that tho hulk is that of the blaokado ruuner Hebe, which was driven ashore under lire of the Federal blockaders during the war. The Hebe and thc blockade runner Doe aro known to have gone down about ctr Lumina, but the wreck in eiuestion is though to bo that of the former. Tho General Beauregard went aground farther down towards Caro lina beach. Another ship lost in block ade running was tho Emma. The Hebe aud the Die ure said to have been exceedingly handsomo boats and daring dlookade runners. Tney made their last stand gallantly, bub tho Federal boats forced them aground and thon poured shot and shell Into them for BOITIO timo after wards. Many of thc crew escaped by making tho heaoli safely, while others were captured ai d some arc supposed to have neon killed. Drain Lenten. Length of years ls not lifo. A right start is half tho task. Worries wear out more men than work. It ls not necessary to be grouohy In order to bo grave. When a man asks you for advloo you are always safo in inquiring what kind ho wants and then giving it to him. Tito man who searches his own heart is not apt to find Haws In the hearts of othors. Pooplo who borrow trouble aro al ways In debt. Peoplo who listen have no right to complain of gossips. Thorn ls a vast difference botween liberality and prodigality, A well worn suit paid for ls botbor titan a line suit worried about. Many prayers that are started up ward lind lodgo in tho basement. A balance in tho bank today is hot ter than a good timo ono day last year. It is a good thing for a lot of hm bands that their wives do not go on strike for wages. A great many mon havi ao'ilevod reputations for wisdom by making two or tinco good guesses. Tho omptlor a mans head tho loud or ho boast of how muoh lle.uor his stomach will hold. Ooo of the sweetest things In lifo ls having so lived it youoan look baok on most of it with pleasure. Only the ni?in who has no boys o' his own is oapablo of giving expert ad vice on how ti ramo sons. W. L. Wloker, a prominent livery man of Monte zuma, (Li., committed suiolde on Saturday by shooting him ?ni? ...I H. m ir? I.......... .. ...If, ..VA* VI 1 VIA Vv fr* * O UV I. * . V ?.-?.?V.? I* .T.IU and two daughters. It ls thought that bad health was tho cause. Stricture Cure? At Yuif Owe Home. If You Have Either of These Dis* eases, Write Or* Hathaway of At lanta, tia., About His Met'aqtjs m Treatment. No Harsh Method Used. No Experiment. Cured. Books Tree. Other Diseases to Thousand of men's UVOH hovo boon wreokod loss of manly power, and therefore, tho best ? ? .. ,, . j * trout inna obUdnnblo I? not too good, on account of them? dlsoasos. Vory few doctors If you have either of tbosodlseasea. altdown know how to euro thom. They should never and writo to Ur. Hathaway. Ho will send joli bo entrusted to tho i.vorage doctor but only some very IntoioHtug-liteioturo on their ortiue. an oxpert should bo allowed to treat thom treatment and cure, and will givo you bia ex Urethttl Stricture, If neglected or improperly pert opinion of your case, without one cont of treated, will oomplotoly dorango tho ontlre cha-go. Dr Hathaway is a rollablo physician, gen i to- urinary system, causing HOV? re kVnoy recognized aa the moat export tpeolallat lu tho und bladder diseases, intonso pain and suffer- South and jou can consult bin with perfect lng. Vnricocoto will bring about a completo con?deuco. Othev Diseases Cured. Dr. Hathaway's 8|>ocinlty Includes all chronic' chorge. Thoao aflllotod with stubborn and and privato diseases of mon and Women, such deep eeatod casos aro espoclully invited to a?, Kidney and Hladder Diseasos, Nervous Do- writo, Ho has had special success In curing blnty (lost vitality) Bpoclflo Blood Poison '?noll cases whore othors failod to ovoi benoflt. (Syphilis) Catarrh, bkin Diseases, Disoosos of Every person writing him will bo soot a ?aroa tho II art, l.lvor and Stomach, It^oumutism bio booklet on their diso .so also Iroo. ?ave disensos peculiar to women, oto., and ot ors ' n0 hosltnnoy in writing. l$vory bing strictly Every person aflllotod with olthor of ihoso confldontlal. Address Dr. Hathawuy a Co., d?seat08 is invited to consult him without 88 loman Hldg., Atlanta. Oa. IR BUY THIS GO J DEN EAGfc' FOR $49.00 AND SAVE $lG.W DEALER'S PROFIT. Wo build tho OoMcn Knrjle Ihiggy t" stand compailson with any butrgy sold by denlors for $?5. Every piece of wood, steel iron slid leather that goos Into it is examined and tested, con sentiently wo guarantee hi every particular. GM Q pays for Dugay completo, H> **/ thoro ure no '"extras" to hoy. Every llurey is btiilt in our factor? at Atlanta and ship ped complete. With every Golden Kaglo Buggy we foll a sot of $1'?50 Nickle Mounted Collaroy. /-?/*. and Hamo Harness for uVl.yU Bond your nntue and address on this coupon and wo will mail post-paid our handsome illus'ra* ed catalogue. 1 aend my bailie ?nd address for catalogue and cpo i ul harness. Dopt. 20. Nanto. NO. GOLDEN KABLE BUQQY CO., Atlanta, Qa. 8 Early Cabbage Plants Guaranteed to Satisfy Purchaser | EARLY JERSEY CHARLESTON SUCCESSION AUGUSTA SHORT STEMME! WAKEFIELD LARGE TYPE TRUCKER FLAT DUTCH Tho Earliest WAKEFIELD Tho Earliest Flat A little lator Largest and Latoat Cabbage Grown Second Karllost Jioad Variety * than Succession Oabbago PRICE: I ii lots of 1 to 4 m. at $1.00 perm., S to 9 m. at $1.25 par m., 10 m. and over, at $1.00 per m. p. o. t>. YOUNG'S ISLAND, ?. c. My Special JJxpresa Rato on Planta ia Very Low. C 1 guarantee Plants to irlvo purchaser satisfaction, pr will refund tho purchase VaUaraniCS price to any oufrtoiner who ls als(AtlsAod at end of souson. Those DI ania aro grown in tho open Hold, on Scaooust of South Carellan. In n climate that is Just suited to KrowliiK tho trurdlcst plants that oan bo grown In the united States. Thone plants can bo rosot in tho Interior of tho Southern Btates during tho months of Jnnuary. February, and Mardi. They will otand ?overo cold without helar; injured, oud will mature a hoad ot Oah biiKo Two to Three weeks sooner than ir yon grew your own plants In bot Dod? and oold My*largest Oustomora aro tho Market Gardeners near the Interior towns and oltlea of tho final h. Their profit, depends upon thom having Karly Cabbage; for that reason they pur chane my plants for tholr crops. I also grow a full Uno of olhoriPlants anil Fruit Trees, nuoh an fUrawborry, Sweet Potato, Tomato, KKK Plant and Pepper Plants; Apple, Peach, Pear, Plum, Oborry and Apricot Trees, Fig nuahos. and Grape Vluoa, Special terra? to persons who make up club YY/IWI C PPR ATV BOX ?u* order?. Write lot Mutilated catalogue. . ? V? VI-'rv/"? * * ? YOUNG'5 ISLAND, %. C Babbit Drills Hack Saws Killings COTTON GINNI.RS AND MACHINERY OWNERS. Write for Prices on ihe Following Couplings Ouages Guar?e Cocks Lubricators Belt, Rubber Ejectors Files Belt. Gaudy Drill Press Oil Cups Oil Cans Heit, leather Injectors Pipe Lace Leather, Packing all kinds, Shafting, Collars for Shafting and anything else in machinery supplies. Columbia Supply Co., - - . - Columb'a. S. C. Hammers Pulleys I THE GUINARD BRICK WORKS, 9 Manufacturers Brick, Fire Proof Terra Cotta B illili; Bl >J'< v S Flue linings and Draiu Tile. Prepared to lill orders for thou ands ? or millions. THIS fjllowlng ligures show the comparative values of farm products In the United States: Corn, 14 210, 000.000; milk and butter, $005,000.000; cotton, $575,000,000; wheat, $525, 000,000; eggs, ?52O.0CO.0O0; oats, $282 000,000; hay, $605,000,000, po tatoes, $138.000.000; tobacco, $52, 000,000. lt will be noticed that cot ton, our great staple crop, is worth only a i;w more million dollars than the egg erop. PKKSIDICNT Snyder has Just received a letter announcing that the general education bos rd of New York had appropriated $25.000 to tho endow ment of Wi IT ml College. Tbe only Kidney and Bladder Ailments. Mrrray's Buohu, Gin and Junlpor has a direct curative action on tl aft kidneys and bladder, relieving at oncer thc distressing symptoms, pain in the headache, daile colored, scanty, burn ing urine, dlzzleness, bloating, etc, and promptly restoring these Impor tant organs to a normal, 1 filthy con dition. MURRAY'S BUOHU, cJN, AND JUNIPER ls not a "quack nostrum," hut a coi blnatlon of drugs endorsed, rcco condition attaching to the gift is that mended by a multitude of leading phy thc friends of Woffoid should completo by Jnne 15, 1007, the $100,000 which Dr. Child is now raising. Tola ojn dition is of the naturoof an appeal to all friends of WtlYjrd to make abso lutely cor tain Dr. Child's SUCCJSS. Tins grand Jury of Greenville coun ty laht week recommended that all persons who appeared, by the investi gation lately had, to bavo engagod in defrauding tho county be indicted by tho solicitor and prosecuted. Among the number are two sons of the late 8upervihOr, J. E. Speegle, now dead, Magistrate F. B. McBrto and his on stable, Jail Physician B-amlott, Poor g physicians, lt (lushes Kidneys of all polson tltude of lead In and cleans the Kidneys otis clogging impurities, and by rcn dering the urine bland, soothing and antiseptic, ls a specific in painful blad der ailments. Of unquestionable vir ture in all Klr'ncy md Bladder dis orders, Dropsy, Gravel, Jaundice and Scanty or Painful Urination. Pr'ce $1.00. Guaranteed satisfactory to every purchaser. AT DRUG STORES. Prepared by tho Murray Drug Co., Columbia. S C. JV I'iiiuo or Organ Ker You. n"^Xni*' rr A?*.r.^J"V?o,'T."*Vn?'ii??*r, an^'iMitir? I* To tho head of every family who Is umbi ouse Keeper lUv. Talley, and mauy ^,oua for tho futur0 education of hil ohib othors. A KS THOTH, Persona!., F.xpoi'loiioo of Aged ?nd Woll Roloven Preacher. No other man In the community la so well-beloved or whoso words have such weight as the minister, who has devoted Ins life to the service of man ic ind. in Maryland ono of tho most noted Methodist ministers in tho S lalo suircred severely with rheuma-1 tism. He found no relief until a friend recommended RllftUM AOlDB. Ile ! was so delighted with the results that, for tho benellt of other suffers, aa a duty to mankind, he tells his cxper-. lenee in tho following letter: "Relsterstown. Md., Feb. 27th. I "I was taken with Inflammatory Rheumatism in my left hand and foot In tho beginning of this winter and suffered greatly. A gentleman in Bal limore who had tried RH EU M A CI DR for Rheumatism recommended lt to i\e. 1 secured three bottles and took t In smaller doses than prescribed, md air now entirely cured. Can uso loth hand and foot without tho least nconvcnloncu. "Yours respectfully, "J. R. VVHKICLBU. Pastor. Roisterstown M. IO. Ohuroh. Your druggist sells and recommends itUK UM ACIDE. dren, we have a Special Proposition to make. I No article in tho homo shows tho evidonco i of culturo that tiot*s a rialto or Organ. No ne j coniplishmont ?Ivos as much pleasure or ia of os groat voluo lu after lifo as tho kuovvledgo of musi? and tho Ability to play woU. Our Small Payment Plan makes tho owner I ship of a high gra-'o Piano or Organ onay. Just n fow dollars down and a sm di payment loaoh month or qiuirlorly or Homt-nimuilly and tho instrument is yoifs, ' Wrlto UH today for Catalogues and our Spoc fal Proponitton of Knsy Payments. < Address Malone's Musio Houso, Columbia, S. O $5,000 ? BANK DEP0SI? R.R. Faro Paid. Notai Talcet ?00 PU KR COURSES Board at Cosl. Wrllo Oulck GEORGIA-ALABAMA BUSINESSCOLLEOB.Macoa Ct? Blow Opon S?f?. At Forsyth, Gi., the safe Of the Trio Minufftofcnrlng company WAA blown opon at 1.30 o'olook Wodnesday morning. Tbe town's night watohman was o /orpowored, gaggo l and tied by three maskod mon and was found early Thurs lay morning in a prcoarl* ons condition. The burglars got abouti 6100 in money, but lt is Impossible to estimate at this timo the value ot pa? pors taken and destroyed.