The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, July 20, 1906, Image 5
GOES FOR LYON
Sector Tillman Demands Him
ia te Columbia Speech.
SOME nw HOT TALK.
The Senator.Spcok* lo Thousands from
thc Capital Steps. Vast Crowds
Hear Him Discuss the Dispen
sary and State Politics.
Skins Lyon Alive.
Senator Tillman spoko at Columbia
on Monday night, and The State says
he was very muoh pleased at his re
ception. The hali of the house of rep
resentatives being in ado ii unto to hold
tho orowd, the meeting was adjourn
ed to the por bl co of tho capitol. On
the landing midway of the stairs, Sen
ator Tillman took his stand and for
more than an hour and a quarter ho
spoko of State politics, at inc occlu
sion saying that lie would go to Wash
ington and ropresont tho people as
faithfully as ho had dono for 12 years.
When he had Ilrst walkod in the
door of the hall some cf his friends
announced his arrival with hand olap
ping and this was taken up all over
tho hall. 'Che gallarlos were Ulled
with ladles. When ho had got ruom
enough on the stops to speak a little
Senator Tillman began to address the
people by saying that his lirstlnaugu
ral address had been delivered from
near this very spot, but tho people of
Columbia had not turned out to hear
him then. He had never been a fav
orite lu Columbia. They bad been
beaten and were angry and took no
part h? thc inauguration.
Voice. It's obanged now."
Tillman: "Well, lt's not because 1
have ohanged."
And then he went on Into a state
men that ho had never cherished any
111 feeling toward the people of Co
lumbla.
For four years he had been govern
or, he continued, and then for one
term senator and ho had been re-ele?t
ed without opposition-except suchas
he had la this race. (Laughter). Six
years ago his opponent had made one
speech and had quit, lu this cam
paign he had not thc pleasure of even
meeting his distinguished opponent,
Col. Lumpkin. Ho believes that he
will go back with tho undivided vote
of the people.
At least, ho hopes to do so. Hut he
has mapped out a programme which
oalls for 20 speeches in tho next few
weeks and if any feel aggrieved be
cause he will exercise tho right ol a
free oitizen aud discuss issues, "they
are at liberty to soratch my name oil
the tioket again as 1?,000 of you dui
six yoars ago."
"Some people say I am trying Lo be
your boss, to uictaie to you," ho con
tinued, ' They know they are not
telling the truth. 1 have been your
leader. 1 have had the courage to
come out on the line and leao the
lighting whenever I saw my duty.
"Why should .1 surrender my rights as
a oitlzeur4 Why should 1 not give ex
pression to these views?" (Applause)
TUB maeno LAW,
With these prefatory remarks,
Senator Tillman declared that in the
counties which had voted ont thc dis
pensary there aie ??.uuo Democratic
voters, hut the dispensary had been
voted out In the general elections In
which less than 20,000 voters pr.rtici
pated. A great many had beet,
denied the right to vote as they did
not have their legistratlon ceri.Ii
oates. Others had been too much
befuddled hy the corruption and the
talk of corruption,
Then to thc audience, as a Rich
land audience, he said: "if you
don't want tho dispensary, vote In
the primary where all tree Democrats
oan participate and seno men to tho
legislature who wilt take it out."
Voice: "Take it away."
Tillman: "If yen don't want lt,
voto it out. Tue real meauing of
TUlmanlsm ls to let one vote go as
far as another. "
He then went on to say that there
is no need for factionalism. As an
instance he cited that 'the once de
spised Hen Tillman" could speak to so
large an audience as this in Columbia,
thus proving that factionalism h.
dead.
"I have not come here to 'meddle'
with tho view of throwing my Influ
ence lnany man's iavor or against any
man. Au between most of the candi
dates, 1 have no advice to ofter In
your choice. But 1 have a grit vance
that ls In a manner personal, 1 have
something that must be said, ano
this ls the only oppoitunity 1 shall
have of saying it in tho gentleman's
-1 mean thc man's presence, for be
goes with the campaigners, and 1 have
no intention of following that mena
gerie on its oucus circuit. 1 have a
little circuit ol my own.
"Last spriog -jn Aprh lt was In
pursuance of wnat 1 thought my duty,
1 wrote an address to the people, lt
was sent down here and pm,ten In tin
papers. I couldn't see Why this huh
righteous ditpensarj Investigating
committee couldn't get down tu v,oit.
investigating wi ut. they were pleased
to bty;o 'that rotten c< s? pool down on
tho Conrane ' A aa. Lg other thing
I took ILO lil cr t y in that a'J dress ti
warn the committee about thosi
$800,000 or more of et bis for liquor
which they bau held up.
"I contended then, and contend
now, that not one dollar's worth ol
all that liquor was ever legally bought,
because the law requires competitive
bidding, and I defy any oiti7.cn to
show me any chai co of competition
In thc advertlsemtnts er bios. I
warned the oommltteo against hold
lng up these billa, and get ting into
contaot with liquor drummers and
liquor lawyeri ; else thc drat tiling
they knew there would lr: scandal af
fecting their own characters.
"1 won't discuss tho work of thai
committee very fully. They seemed
at Ilrst very aggressive; but as soon at.
they began roally to get near to some
thing, they began to peter backward.
They brought a lot of witnesses down
from Newberry. Threats wore made.
The witnesses left. The oommlttei
would not let them testify. Parker,
o' Greenville, was asked to tell some
thing that ho didn't know himself,
but that a man In Baltlmoro had told
hlml Very naturally he refused. At
tho solicitation of the committee, the
supremo court mado him talk. Ho
bold of how he hao been assured in
Baltimore by La?aban, that a high
political ofilcla) lu South Carolina had
been tho agent of thc Lauahaus, tak
ing their money for his work, in con
unction with whiskey orders. Then
Mr. Parker balked again. He wouldn't
toll i bo c ni dal's name. And this holy
and righteous committee, that had '
uot soruplod to make him start tho
relation of a privato conversation be
yond Hid St&& al ov. s ^ matter of
wbloh he personally know nothing,
imtantly voting not to make him tell
who this man was. Why not? Is
there any fairness or honesty of In
vestlgation there? Oh, thia great
graft-killing I This humbug!
"Witnesses from Newberry told
about bats full of money, and how the
man who bad tho money, and another
man who was interested in or em
ploy od by, or who was controlled by
or who oontrolled, the Richland Dis
tilling oompany, stood on a ohalr and
peeked over a transom to watoh some
whiskey drummers glvo money to
i somebody else I
"All this trlvaland lnoons(qumtlal
talki This burrah about rottenness!
And oorruptioul This marching un
der banners blazoned, 'I am opposed
to gratti' Who ls not opposed to
graft? Some of you might ?teal; but
you wouldn't voto to put In o 111 oe a
man you thought would steal. 'Op
posed to g raft P I tell you, this 'in
vestlgation' ls as big a humbug as was
eyer put before a decent people.
"You beard our noble old Itoman,
Goneral Youmans, say today why he
bad not prosecuted tbeso alleged graft
ors. Governor Hayward wrote an or
der to the attorney goneral to begin
prosecutions at once. General You
mans told you why nobody had boon
arrested-because he had no ullldavita
on which to begin prosecution. 1 toll
you there ls nob the veriest tyro at any
bar-there is no school hoy-who docs
uot know that a prosecuting oitlclal
must have, before bo may begin tc
prosecute, an ailldavlt in whioh some
body swears that the accused bas
brok in a ?li? lu le.
"Tuen last April, after 1 had writ
ten thlB address of warning, Lyon, ic
his peaceful tilico lu Abbeville, wrote
to an Lttomcy representing cerlalt
whiskey claimants, and who had boer
after him asking 'Why don't you paj
our bills?' and explained that TlUmar
was seeking to discredit ibo board uni
ho ought to remember that ho wai
himself under Investigation. He said
too, that Tillman in his testimony
before tho committee had claimed hi
paid Hubbell rebates for crediting tin
dispensary, and '1 went to Ginolnnat
lo BCD if he has told tho truth and i
Hubbell g.>t the money. I havi
heard, too, that Tillman while gover
nor received a piano as a gift from <
whiskey house. '
"Woll, I have been charged oftci
with stealing rebates, 1 was ohargei
with that before 1 left the governor'
mansion. But this piano bualnc
was new to mo. 1 don't know wu
started lt. When Lyon, if he ha
boen enough of a gcntlemau to hav
represented old Abbeville oredltaolj
could easily have found out. wbei
where, how, and fro n whom 1 go
that plano-and what I paid for ll
He instead went ab..ut to show thu
your twice elected governor-yoi;
senator, virtually thrice elected, ha
sunk so low that-Oh, gentlemen,
know no word for it but a cuss wor
so Rtrong I can't say it hero, ai:d
will have to ?topi
"I had bought the plano when
came hero; two years before the di
pouhary was even thought of. No, tl
easy way to lin I cub about that plat
wouldn't suit the our dog pr open j
ties of that man who so misrepresen
Abbeville. Mlireprosonts? Why c
1 say it? Because with pride ar;
pleasure 1 can 'ay that lu the th rt
heated oampalgns beginning wit
181)0, Abbeville was the only eounl
in whlon 1 wau never treated wit
tho slightivit discourtesy. Always I
the Others there were some di ri
blackguards to hurl be utln al ruo c
the sued. 1 found only tho cou'tot
of the old South Oaroltmilri Abbevill
And this man, oomiog from arno?
BUOll a people, voled for by then
dares to tell ever his dirty signal uri
that Tillman took a measly plano fro;
a liquor house 1
"1 have waited patiently for thc r
port of that sub-committee, that wi
goirg to Ch.oinnabl to lind out fro
Hubbell whether ho gob bho rebates
said 1 allowed him. I have re?
Leon's report to thc governor, 1
which be state ? what he tried bo c
and what he fall-.d to accomplish,
knew the young mau ha'l lis!?ned I
his code:Heg newspaper.-, and had gi
r.he sv.oiled hoad. But 1 thougl
lhat when be came to himself-wh<j
.ie. had had time to cool elf and sett
down, he would make sumo amend
But. no. ll-; made tho mattel as d
roctly porsoua! as he could. 1 had c
pectod that after he had recovert
somewhat ne would have the decent
and manliness to say In his form.il r
port, 'There is nothing in lt,' or I
write me a private letier saying 1
had erred and was sorry,
"Did he do lt? No'l He stood I
it. And 1 here deny it as a moat 1
famous lie-1 I hope you uudorstat
ihat BO far a-i the ri.e.; for attorm
general ls concerned, . would ba'
neon ul?(l to have kept my hands ( i
but 1 felt that my solf-respeot d
maud ed, and that 1 owed it as a dui
0 you, to denounce hbo hore ns
slanderer. 1 have already cadud hi
a liar.
" Physical endurance has a limit,
am almost done. I have worked hat
er In tl io leadership of this rai i wu
rate bill during the past Session than
ever old In any six montllB of my Hf
1 came homo on a Saturday and sta
lid ono night, Then ah obligation
had mace tu spi-i, k In Illinois cadi
mc away, nine hundred milo. 0 ii;
h;g back, I spoke at Sandy Spring
md got 1 ?roal 11 o'clock m the nigh
to t: ave at 0 o'olbck In in-; morn lt
for ni) h IU)C 1 ; Tri Mon. 1 spout Ol
titbit at home. Now I am nero,
diad make live more speeches tb
week, six bexb week, and six cac
luring the two following weeks, Tin
I shall leave you io seule tho que
don. And settle lt for yourftolvtbl
"Weigh all inls hullabaloo abm
Yoiican'ttl an lt,' and 'It's hop
os.ily corrupt,' and vote. Vote f
rourit Ive.-; but for G id's sake pi
hese fenof>8braddlorn out of bini nea
<i:i those howdedoolng, baby klssln
miling politicians for all Maul
''I didn't expect this audience,
lld nob know that there were son
unbars Btlll smouldering. 1 was* n
iure bul that you would feel, some
,oii, that lt was beneath yi u to con
mt to hear your senator, as you felt
leneath you to o imo to hour me win
1 w,s your governor, bub 1 mc
icariliy appreciate your presence t
tight. When I go imo; to imo semi
L shall try to servo you, ns I ha
;erved you in the past six years; a
promise you that, whatever m
lomo, you shall never have cause
ic ashamed of your senator."
There are no orphanages In Ai
raiia. Every child not supported
?urents becomes a ward of tba stai
s plaoed In a private family and pi
idod with board and olothea un
ho fourteenth birthday.
LYON'd ?EPLY
CO 'HIM DION ll N CI ATION OP SKNA
TOR B. It. TUBMAN.
Se Admits that the Committee Found
Nothing Against the
Senator,
To the Editor of The State:
Noe having been present at the
inseting at tho State house Monday
night it was impossible for me to
know Just what remarks had been
made by Senator Tillman in regard to
myself, but assuming the reports in
tile morning papers to bo correot, I
will Bay that ib is quito nattering to
know that the senator has approved of
every position I as ono of the minor
ity members of the oommitteo have
taken. I am glad to fool that al
though denounolng me, Senator Till
man praotioally approvod of all my
work and i?Horts on the investigating
committee-if not directly, thon in
directly.
He wanted to know why we did not
examine witnosses brought herc from
Newberry in February. The answer
he should know. Had my vote been
sutil aient, the committee would have
insisted on the evidence from those
witnesses being mado a part of our re
cords.
Ile wanted to know why tho com
mittee did not ask Mr. L. W. Parkor
who Lanahan'a polltloal agent was
last year. Sonator Tillman should
nave known by tho published voto of
lille, commtttoo that I was not rcspon
Hlble for bVils falluro. 1 did ask those
questions. Tho majority of the com
mittee voted that Mr. Parker should
not answer.
Senator Tillman sustains mo in my
position in those contentions as well
as in tho matter of the suspended pay
ment of the $700,000 worth of claims.
He asked why was not the managor
of tho Rijhlaud distillery tub on the
stand to oorrob ?rate the evidence of
O.O, Divis that H. H. Evans had
told of Wilson and himself climbing
on a table to watch through a tran
som to see rebutes paid to othors.
Thc reason is that briggs Wilson, at
tbat time mauager of tho distillery,
has mov6d to Georgia and we have
not bien able to get information from
him. That, Senator Tillman 1B ono
of tho reasons why be was novor put
on the stand.
About the plano incident. The
committee employed a doteotlve to
report on what he could hud relative
to all dispensary allilrs. This doteo
tlve formally and lu writing reported
to the sub-oommil.tee that ho had
heen told by Mr. Hayes, who was at
boat time omneotcd i lllolally with the
Mill Creek Distilling company bad
given to Gav. Tillman a piano. Il
was the duty of the committee, as 1
saw lt, to h.quire Into auch a report.
Mr. Hayes was seen and failed tb
cou li rm the report submitted to tho
committee. After li q airy by the
commltteo had failed io secure any
creditable evidence, the plano Incident
was dropped ai d forgotten, especially
as Mr. M. A. Malone had previously
fully explained the purchaso of the
piano in 1801.
It was never charged or stated by
me that Gov. Tillman had received a
piano from a whiskey bouse, bub there
was a rumor to that eli jct, and that
there was a rumor to that enY.ob the
ofllolal records of tho suboommlttee
will show. That was all that wah
evor said about the piano. 10ven
Senator Tillman Insisted upon full in
voBtigation of bis every aot connected
with the dispensary and yet fall to
:*ee the harm of this h q dry, out Sen
alor Tillman should rejoice at the
f tllure to lind corroboration of the ru
mor that a piano had been sent him
by the Mill Greek Distilling company.
lt would be humiliating to me to
know that at a publie meeting I had
been rightfully accused of stabing a
falsehood; out knowing that I have
always stated the truth and that the
trabe Sonator cannot substantiate bib
charlo in thlsrespocb-he nob even ab
templing to do so-tho shafb which
he had Intended to be deadly to me
will fall harmlessly at my side.
I cannot believe that tho j ?stlce
loving people of South Caldina would
?lld Senator Tillman in thc accomp
lishment-of his purpose to defeat me.
To the p9'jplo ol South Carolina 1 will
say that lt ls my purpose to continue
m the course I have heretofore pur
sued and will not be moved by person
il utiaeks, nor will 1 handy abusive
?plthots with any one. 1 regret that
Senator Tillman foels personally ag
grieved on account of his being Inven
iigMed but that has not been an un*
JO m mon happening to us in our work.
However, Senator Tillman ls thc only
me known to me seeking revenge on
iccount of lt.
Senator Tillman might have in
?uired what the committee had found
u tracking down this one of many ru
mors and 1 gladly would have told
dm the result of our Inquiry, bub be
nay have proferred to fondle the im
tginary grievance to have a hoak on
vhlch to hang abuse instead of argu
ment. Or ls be really mad because lt
vas my duty to present to the people
if tho State convincing evidence of
.ne Inherent corruption of t'.io dlspen
ary system which be ls working so
?ard to save. 1 wonder, had I agreed
o whitewash tho dispensary system,
vould such a tirade have been dlreec
galnst me._J Kit A s nu LYON,
(niven DAIUA^CB.
Thc Columbia Record says for In
mles causen by a pulllcy set screw,
/hieb caught In ble sleeve and eausod
he maiming of his hand, Melvin
Villiams, colored, was given In com
non ph.as Wednesday a verdict against
be Southern Cotton O 1 company for
amagas In tho sum of 851)0. ITor a
ma while the jury was unablo to
grce, desiring to be shown the bien
nial pulley which was alleged to have
auseI the damage. All the evidence
ad closed and tho arguments had
?en made, however, and lt did not
?em c insistent with usual practice
r exactly expedient to grant the
lilli of the jury. They wore soon
ack bo their room and kopi there foi
?veral hours. Thoy were permitted
< bring tn a sealed verdict; which
as opened and road in court Wd'b
osclay morning._ r
llttiiK<"i Companion.
"Lat's play hangman?" said a
ming^ter to Lewis Jordey, at Bark
's, N Y. "All right," replied
ordoy and fievoral other boys who
ero playing with the latter volun
iorcd to assist. Jordey was then
lioscn to be banged. A rope was
laoed around bis nook whllo ho stood
pon a box. lt was thou tied to the
mb of a trco, and tho box waa klok
1 out from under him. His strug
les frightened his playmates, and
icy ran away In alarm. A oltl/.cn
apponed upon tho scono, who qulok
' out tho ropo. Young Jordey fell
ico downward on tho ground. He
as unoonBOfous, and before medloal
id oould be summoned he was dead,
INSANE MAN KILLS/
__ i
HIS WIFE ?Nl> OllUiDUISK wui413
Til IO V BLEIS I*.
Informs Sis Noig?i???s oi Ute Sfoft
Seed and Desoribos the Hor- \
rible Murder.
A dlspatoh from Waltorboro to The
Stato says Wednesday morning Just
boforo daybroak J. W. Irnegan, h
well-to-do farmer of Rutilus, Uolloto .1
county, took an axo and slow bis wlfa
and three children, whtlo tboy were
asleep.
The dead aro Mrs. Olivia 1 megan,
age 34; bis ohildron, Oarrio, ave B}
Thomas, age 4, and Lillie May, age
AB soon as bo had slain hil family,
Irnegan wont to his nearost neighbor,
Mr. Isaac Salsbury, and reported it *o
him, Mr. Salsbury and uovoralof the
neighbors took Irnegan into custody
and carried him to Magistrate Ulraoi,
who sont him to Jail here. Whoa
soon by a representativo of Tho Stat?.,
said he had killed his wife and chil
dren, but did not know why ho had
done so, that ho loved thom dearly
and that they had always gotten along
well together. Ho said he did not
know when lie killed thom, but that
lt waa almost daylight, when ho had
gotten through. He said he used an
axe.
Irnegan is a well-to-do farmer, and
lives about one milo from Hulling. Ho
ia Industrious and has a nice farm.
He seems to be a man of about 45
year's age. He came to this country
from Swecden, and kept books for J.
M. Dannelly, a great mauy years. He
marriod Miss Olivia Andrews of Wil
liams, this county. There is no doubt
about the man's being insano. Ho
tried to bake lils own life about two
years ago by cutting his throat with a
razor. The neighbors say ho lias beeu
aotlng strangely ot late. Ho was a
Juror at tlio sessions court held hore
last week.
Later-George Irnegan, oldeBt son
of J. W. Irnegan, who was thought
to have been slain by his father, has
Just been brought to Waltorboro on
tihe train frond Rutilus. His head aud
face aro both crushed lu but ho is -till
alive. He was carried to the infirm
ary, where he ls now being operated
on by DIB. Ejdorn and Ackerman,
and his condition ls said to be critical..
RBLI?I0U6 FANATIC.
Ullin lier Brother In a Railroad .Sta
tion at Soattlo.
At Seattle, Wash., George Mitchell,
a youth who rccontly shot and killed
Franz Edmund Ure Nield, a ''Holy
Roller" prophet, and was acquitted
of thc charge of murder on a plea of
insanity, Tnursday was shot and
killed by his sister, Esther, in the
union station.
Esther Mitchell Joined the "Holy
Rollers" sect at Corvallis, Oregon,
and was one of tho most ardent of
Urethceld's followers. When .her
brother pursued the leader of the
"Holy Rollern" to Seattle and shot
him lu thc street, he ploadcd in jiisti
ficatlen that GrcMeld had deluded
and wronged his bister.
George Mitchell was acquitted of
tho charge of murder on Tuesday, and
nearly all of tho following day 'yj
spent in soarohing for 7/1 tpar. ' -
attie lodging houses. Sho ref ut
he comforted af uer the death of G
hold.
Eather Mitchell, when found, fini'
agreed to seo her throe brothers ot
their homo In Oregon. Tno Mitch I
brothers, George, Perry and Fi od,
were sitting with Wither on a boi ch
in thc station waiting room talking,
apparently on tho bost of terms.
When the Oregon train was aunouor
ed George Mltoholl roso and started
for thc door. His sister stepped to
his sido and pointing a revolver at bis
head fired a fatal shot before any one
else in tlio room rcaliz;d what was
happening.
Miss Mitchell was arrestad shortly
after lier brother fell dead by her
hands. She had refused until Wed
nesday to h.uv. anything to do with
uer brother ainoo bo shot Urellield to
avenge Groiilold's treatment of Miss
Mitchell.
Wednesday night Charles Mitchell,
the father, and his daughter Either
reached a reconciliation, the girl for
several days having refused to ace
oven her father. After the shooting
Terry and Fred Mltoholl wcro arrested
as witnesses. They were found to
gether on a hench In the station, sob
hing on each 'thor's shoulders.
Murder and Itobbery.
Hibbory was tho motive for the
murder of Millie Willson, who was
found dying amid the Hames of blaz
ing alcohol at the National hotel at
Minneapolis, Minn., Wednesday, Miss
Ellison had lately sold out her mill
nery business at Ellsworth, Wis., and
had gone to thc Twin Cities with
about $f>.f>00. No such sum was found
In her room at thc hotel, investiga
tion at Ellsworth show.? that Miss
Ellison h Ad always horne a good repu
tatton. Nathan Higgs was urresud
at Elroy, Wis. Riggs ls a conductor
of tho St. l'aul anfl Omaha road. He
ls accused hy Miss Unison's family of
trilling her and wiil bc brought back
lo Minneapolis for examination. Riggs
ls said to havo beon Miss Ellison's
limitless adviser and there ls evidence
tending to show that he accompanied
her to the National Hank of Oom
moree, when she had a draft for ?2,
711 cashjerh_
No Straddlers Wanted.
The Newberry Otisorvor agr?as with
Sonator Tillman that this Is no time
for ftnco-sfcraddiers, and says: "We
don't yjjuit men who are really in fav
jr of the dispensary and pretend to be
Against lt; nor do wc want mon who
lay they are against lt and yet are do
ing and saying every mean thing they
san to depreciate thc mon who have
lone most to uncover tho rottonoss
jf tho Institution, fri a contest of
Lhis sort tho water mau ls on tho
right side; but ho ought not to try to
carry water on both shoulders.' Ho
s liable to spill somo of it."
Fatal Motor little,
( ) ,vlng to the brnkes falling to aot,
i motor omnibus running fiom Lun
ion to ilrlghton, dashed down a stoop
lill noar Oarwloy Friday morning,
md v/as overturned. lC.ght pasnon
jors woro klllod and a scoro badly
?urt, somo probably fatally. Lator
letalis show that olght persons were
tilled. Tuero wcro 34 passengers on
,ho omnibus, mainly merchants, all
voro o:ther killed or injured.
JitHtloo At l/ant.
Tho Su promo Court of Franoe has
iiinullod tho condemnation of Dreyfus
vlthout a ro-trlal. The olfcot of tho
ieolBlon is thc complete vlndioatlon
f Dreyfus, entitling him to rostora
lon to his rank In tho Fronoh army
a though ho had never boon aeons
d,
TBS DRAKE CORN.
How tho Corn Wa? Fertilized and
Cultivated,
Dr. W. L. Davenport, Washington
County, Va., made tho following re
quest of the Southern Cultivator;
' Please give the largest authentlo
yield of oom for one aore of ground,
tho kind of tull, its properties, fortillz
lng, variety of oom planted, dlitanoe
betweon rows, and plants in the rows,
cu Ul vallon, etc., in faot all tho essen
tial details of production." Tho fol
lowing is tho answer of tho Cultiva
tor:
Tho largest corn yet rooorded was
grown by Capt. Z. J. Drako of Marl
boro county South Carolina. Not only
is this tho largest grown In America,
but in the world. In one season s nd
on a single aero he prcduoed 255 bush
els and thus secured the American
Agriculturist's prize of f500, besides
sevoral other awards olfcrod locally by
fertilizer and other manufacturing
campantes. The details as to how this
remarkable crop was produoed were
published lu Amcroan Agriculturalist
in Maroh, 1880. The following faots
rei/ar:itng lt will bo of Interest to
others:
The land on which tho crop war,
grown was originally a sandy soil on
which formerly grow oak, hiokory and
long-leaf p.no. Titree years previous
this particular aero was especially fer
tilized and prepared by Capt. Drake
and planted with Peterklu cotton,
from which ho harvested 917 pouuds
of lint cotton. The land wau especial
ly prepare3 for tho corn contest. In
February ho hauled upon it GO one
horse wagon loads of stablo manuro,
at the same time broadcasting 500
pounds each of guano, cotton seed
meal and kalnit, all of which wore
ploughed under.
Following the plcugh 000 bushels of
whole cotton seed were distributed In
tho furrow after the plough. Immed
iately following this a subioll plough
turned this 12 inches doep. Tho Held
was laid i If alternately six feet bo
tween two rows, then three feet, then
?Ix roet, etc. Oae bushel of tho com
mon gourd variety of tho southern
white dent corn, of a strain improved
by 20 yearb' selection, was planted
March 2. Five or six kornels wore
dropped In the row to each foot.
The crop was still further fertilized
during thc growing season as follews:
April 20th 200 pounds eaoh of guano,
cotton seed meal, k*lult, aoid phos
phate and animal bono sown in the
furrows; May 16th, 300 pounds nitrato
soda in rows and worked in with the
harrow; May 25th, 200 pounds guano
were applied in the tbroo furrows run
in the wldo rows; June 8th 500
pounds of an equ.l mixture of guano,
cotton seed meal and kalnit was
strewn in the wide rowp; and dually,
on Juno lOiih, 100 pounds nitrate soda
was broadcasted lu tho narrow rows
and hoed In.
Tho acre was surveyed June 20th
by William H Alford. The harvest
lng was done November 26*?h in tho
presence of representative farmers,
Including J. C. Campbell, and ciliolal
representative of tho American Agrl
culturlst. There was takou from the
lield 17,107 pounds of corn in the ear.
of whloh only 140 pounds ?vero soft
and considered poor. By making
sevoral selections tho avorago tost
showed that 82 per oont of tho total
orop was kernels, and equivalent of
14.273 pounds shelled oom, or 254
bushels and 40 pounds, estimated at
J6 pJ unds por bushel.
Th^s was an elah .?rato er peri meut
to prove how much corn oould bo ac
tuilly grown on an aore, the oost of
production having been a scooudary
mattor In this oase.
Tho second prize In this contest
was won by Alfred Rase, of Yates
county, New York, wiio produoed
213 bushels of IO trly Mastodon corn
He plautcd one kernel every foot In
rows three feet apart and f?rtil'/, id
with 800 pounds Mapos corn manure
The soil was a sandy loam.
Third prlM awarded to George
Gartner o\ Pawnee comity, Nebraska,
who raise d 171 bushels of E*rly
Mastodon ?n a black, rloh loam, ferti
lized with 00 loads of barnyard
manure, p'auled In hills throe by
three feet.
The av irage waight of tin ontlre
46 crops raised aud entered In this
contest was 104 bushels shelled orn
per acre. In every oase tho crops
wero well fertilized._
Altooiptod ti, KIMS.?.pu.
Black Diamond Rigsby, a negro
under sentence to bo hanged, made a
desporate break for liberty Wednesday
while hoing conveyed from New Or
leans to Plaquomlne, La., to bo exe
outed. Rigsby and Goorgo Poindex
ter, another negro, both under tho
death sentence for one of tho most
sensational murdors in tho history of
the States, woroon their way to Pla
quemino under the guard of Sheri IT
Petit of lbervlllo parish. Pctlt's
prisoners had bean brought to Now
Orleans from Plaqu?enme, tho scene
Of the murder, to escapo threatonod
lynching. About 70 milos from Now
Orleans Rigsby suddenly produced a
revolver and ?bot tho sheriff In the
thigh. Tho Officer struggled with his
prisoner until an armed passenger sent
a bullet through R'gsby's head, kill
lng him Instantly.
Urtvxllllan Hov ult?
The London Loaders' correspondent
at Lisbon says according to intelli
gence received there the Insurrection
lu Mallo Grosso, Brazil, Is swelling to
huge proportions. Tbc Insurgents, lt
ls reported, have organized a large
army and are marohing on R'o Janei
ro and alroady have captured sovoral
cities, dsn Blborfoe, with -lo.uoo
federal troops, has been sent against
the revolutionists. Fearful carnage
hi reported and the thc killed aro said
to be alroady moro than 4,000.
Nearly Oui Hp Hl? Child.
John Coulter, <? yoar-old son of Wil
liam Coulter, of Brownsville, Md.,
made a very narrow esoapo Thursday
from being out to pieces by a mo winy
machine driven by his father. As lt
was tho lad was seriously Injurod II
playfully hld lu thc grass ahead of the
mower and waa not soon by lils fa
thor until tho slcklebar struck him.
Ho was shockingly laceratod on both
arms and legs and sevoral of his toes
were split by tho rapidly moving
knives. Dr. J. T. Yourteo attended
him.
Dooldml at i,
The Nowborry Ooserversxys: "Tho
uipremo court Indcoldiug dually that
men cannot sell cigars and ohowhig
{um on Sundays hy means of slot-ma
shines whllo the rost of tho world is
torblddon to sell by moans of dorks
?viii strlko tho averago citizen nf av
?rago Intelligence as tho only possible
?onoluslon to oomo to. Tho only won
1er to him ls that a court would havo
io ponder over thc quostlon longer
dian two minutes."
ANOTHER KILLING.
OltANQKBUna SHOCKED BY A
FATA Ii PI?TOLi DUKli
In Whioh J. I). Palmer is Killed by
J. M.' Way in the Latters
8tore.
Oraugoburg was sboeked on Mon
day afternoon by another fatal pistol
duel between Mr. J. M. Way and Mr.
J. D. Palmer, in whioh the latter was
Bhot through tho head and almost in
stantly killed by tho former. The ball
onterod tho oyo and passed into tho
brain, oausing death in about ten
minutes.
Tho shooting ocourrod in the store
of Mr. Way, Just aoross Market stroot
from the postollleo. The report is
that Palmor went to Way's store and
had a talk. Later Palmer returned to
?he storo and the roport ls that he
ipenod Ure on Way. The latter ran
)Ohlnd his counter and grabbed his
pistol, whioh he ls said to have always
kept hung up thoro, and then ho
opened Ure. Palmer's pistol ls said to
have boen emptied when it was found
lying beside his body on the store
Hour. Way ls said to have shot four
tlmoB. Way's hand was burt from
splinters from one of Palmer's balls
striking the store oounter.
It is said that the ditilculty grew
out of Way's objections to attentions
that Palmer was paying to a grown
daughter of the former. Palmer is
Haid to bave boen drinking. Way lu
a man over 50 years of age, while
l v.lmer was about 30 years old.
Sheriff Dukes arrestod Way a short
time after tho shooting and ho ls now
in custody.
On Christmas of 1801 Way shot and
killed Elliott W. Whetstone at Nor
way, lu this county, both wero well
to da men at this time. During the
following spring torm of Court in this
county Way wbs convicted of murder
and sentenced to bo banged. An ap
peal was taken to the Supreme Court
MK! the judgment of the Circuit Court
WHS allb med.
Liter the Supreme Court granted
leave for a motion for a new trial to
oe heard on thc ground of after dis
covered evidence, and the motion was
granted by thc Circuit Ju lge. At the
second trial, about two er three yearB
after the first trial, Way was acquit
tad. Ho spent nearly two years lu the
Jail of this county under sentenoe ol
death during the pendency of the le
gal efforts that were being made In
his behalf.
Some time back Palmer and Way
bad a disagreement, but they were
brought together. Palmer had been
working at Von Ohsen'8 buggy and
repair shop. It is said that Mrs Way
and a little negro boy were in the
store during the shooting and we. o
the only eye witnesses.
HE LOVJSJ) WADIS HAMITJN.
He nu toi Tillman Tolls Why tho Old
Horo W?H Defeated.
At the Bamberg meeting on Friday
Seuator Tillman read an editorial
from Tho News and Courier under
the caption "Senator Tillman at
Aiken." This editorial is oanoerning
the dofeat of Hampton by Tillman.
Tao senator commented on this by
saying: ''Very flue writing. Why
did I make allusion to this at Aiken?
Because durlug the last 10 or 12 years
these papers have said that I objected
to Hampton taking the stump in
SouthiiCarolina. I told at Allum
what occurred; I told lt for the
purpnso of stamping out the record
of lying newspapers."
He then proceeded to givo a narra
tive of the events preceding the meot
lng held in Aiken when Hampton re
fused he said, to ride In a carriage
highly decorated with emblemB of
agriculture, on one sido of which was
a placard beading "ltbform," and the
t>ther side "Hampton " Ho Bald that
this was done to show that the peo
ple looked upon Hampton as the
leader of '70, and upon himself as tho
loader of "Beform." But lltmpton
rode with Biri, he added, and when
thcupcaking began Hampton gradual
ly began to discuss "lndependontlsm"
among widto people, and the danger
of dividing the State as Mahone hid
done lu Virginia. "Two thirds of
tho people were backing me, and they
were insulted by what Hampton said
and they began to bowl, like they
used to d ; you people don't know
how to howl these dayB. They
wouldn't let Hampton tlnlsh the
speech.
"So far as I'm oonosrned, we all
loved Qen. Hampton, but he had no
business there trying to stand up for
one man against another. This ls
what these mon havo seized upon.
What I objaotcd to was Hampton's
throwing bis L.tluenco for E?rl, Ile
went away; lie ought nevor to have
jomo."
Senator Tillman said that bo and
Jol. Haskell are personal friends now,
ant be (Haskel!) ran In 1890 because
lio had lost his head. There wore a
lot of them Hut lost their beads. It
was bitter mcdlolne; tho physic was
aad. All you have to do ls to keep
your eyes open, and th.re never will
uo need for another 'DO reform
Hampton In a letter to somebody In
:lorsed Haskell as a gool Djmjorat
ind worthy of honor. Hampton did
not vote at the election because, as be
?aid, he had loft bis registration tic
ket In Washington; but who would
rave challenge 1 bia voto? The State
jays that 1 ordered Hampton's dofeat,
jut never says anything about the
}lrcumstancos loading up to it. Let
jhese swcet-Hoentod papers In Colum
bia and Charleston stick to thc truth,
md think as much of Hampton as I
lo, and his fame will be scouro-hls
arno lSBcouro without them. I want
/hem to tell the truth, and thon I'll
eav? Hampton dead, and we'll honor
ind revere him. 1 will not be Hod
ipon Uko these papers are doing with
?ut telling you the truth. No one
an refuto or dispute my statoment."
Unod for tho OrphniiB.
A dispatch from Anderson to The
itate sayB thc wi li of Mr. Isaao Calla
iain, who died Thursday at his homo
n the county, was probatod Friday
norning bi tho Judgo of probate's
ourt. He loft bis estate, aftor mak
ng a number of small legacies, to the
Jonnio Maxwell orphanago of ?Jroen
voo?. The estato onslsts of several
mildred aores of good farming lands
nd under tho will thu exeoutors are
uthorl/.cd to noll tho lands and glvo
ho proceeds to the orphanage, lt ls
stlmatcd that tho brq lost will
mount to $10,000 or $15,300. Mr.
'allabam was an old man at the time
f hisdoath. Ho bad novor married,
lo was Bomowhat eccentric and lived
qulot Bcoludcd lifo.
Somo brands of ooitco aro now adul
ated with sawdust. Lot us hope
ie sawdust ls oloan.
-ULI. -A-^ ? 1 'Itt 'IUiAP' =5
WILL BBBVK IF NEEDED.
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WilllUgt?* fi?ii,?i iiO<> formMlRI . ?)O?irK
for o? l'zrty.
Forme? United Stales S??f.tor
Jamel K Jone?, of Arkansas, former
ly chairman of the National Demo
oratio Committee when W. J Dryao
osado the rac? for tbs Presidtinoy lu
1800 and 1900, received a letter from
Biyan, in vrhloh the latter announce*
that be will accept the nomir a.ior
for President lor a third time if ten
dered to bim. T e letter is date.'
Stockholm, Juno 18, and ls as fo.low?,:
"1 bave been watching the political
developments and noted with urai.ll
eatiOQ the vindication of D.niooratio
prinolplei. I shall do nothing to se
oure another nomination and do not
wane one unless conditions seem to
demand it. I may add* lo j y tho
freedom of private life, and feel 1 can
do somo good without holding any of
fice.
' There are, howover, cort ai n re
forms which I would like very much
to see accota pished and to assist in the
accomplishment of these reforms I ano
willing to become the party's oandl
date again, If, when the time for thc I
nomination arrives and adveoatos oft
reform aie in oontrol of the partjr
tbluk my oandldaoy would givo thc
brat assuranoo of victory. If pom'
one cUe seems moro available .1 will
be even better pleased. I need not
assure you that I am more interested
in seeing our prlnolples triumphant
than in the personnel of the tiok*t
Tho country needs to have Jeffersonian
Damooracy applied to every depart
mont of KO vern ment, Btate and na
tional, and I am content to help make
this appropriation. Ymrslrul?, "
W. J. PUYAN.
Tho Frying l'?v?
A caustio observer says that the
devil of indigestion hold? full sway lc
some localities b cause the frying par
has a firm grip on the ah* ?tions1 o'
tho psiple. HA complains of seeing
balli gxuut men, sallow faco-i like a
corpse, having psrfeot satisfaction
with the country, but a lack of high,
strong ambition ; women, gaunt, hag
gard, and hopeless looking, all traoes
of womanly beauty long since gone,
evory lino of their faoos speaking
want, privation, neglect of all sani
tary laws, and unvaried monotony of
unwholesome foo''; little children,
tlabby, yellow, pallid, with old facen;
and you will be told that this is ma
laria. But it is tho frying pan Givo
them wholesome boilbd and roasbod
foods, abolish grease and bolling in
lard, and let them make their moals
on fruits, clean vegetables and ooreals,
and within a year's time you would
not reoogn'z i themas the ?arne be
ings. _
liryaui M ont? Morgun.
Under date or London, July 5, the
New York World prints the following
oablegram: "Tho Daily Express gives
tlie following description of tho meet
ing of J. Pierpont Morgun and W. J.
Bryan at Ambassador Raid's Fourth,
of July reception, lt is bald they had
never met oafore: 'Mr. Morgan was
standing near tho doorway when a
n utual friend advanocd with Mr. Bry
an in tow, and, with a smile said:
"Mr. Morgan, this is Mr. Bryan." Thc
great maker of combines looked at the
great advocate of no monopolies and,
with a faint smile, said dryly: "Bry
an? Bryan? The name sounds famil
iar, but I have not had the pleasure
of meeting you before." While theil
frlonds all around laughed at the J ike,
tho two men shook hands. They look
cd at each oilier very narrowly at
their hands met, and as soon as they
had shaken they drifted apart and no
conversation took place between
them.' "
Kl UH 111? Neighbor.
A special from Rural Retreat, Va.,
says: "J. II. Smythe was fatally shot
and J. S. Gormany badly wounded ar,
the result of au altercation near there
Thursday. There has been a grudge
between the men for years. The im
mediate provocation of Thursday's
trouble was oaused by Gormany sett
lng his dogs on Smythc's hogs. In e
quarrel Smythe shot Gormany with a
revolver. Germany's son, who was a
witness, went to his homo, procuren
a shotgun, returned to tho soene ot
tho ditlloulby and emptied tho entire
load into Smythe's body. Smythe
lived a few hours. Smythe and Gor
many were neighbors and substantial
farmers. No arrests have been mado."
Negro Muto Killed.
Tom Baxter, colored, was killed by
Southern freight train No, 71, two
mites from Newborry at (J o'clook
Wednesday afternoon. Baxter who
was deaf and dumb, was walking in
the middle of the track with an um
brella up when he was killed. The
engineer, as his train oamo around
tho curve down grade, blew the whis
tle and rang tho boll, but did nob
slaokon speed, thinking tho negro
would get off. Bailor had a big hole
knooked in his head and his right
log out off abovo the anklo. He died
in 1? minute? after being struok.
'"'hey Hwuiig Him.
A Swainsboro speolal to the Augus
ta Chronicle says: About 100 heavily
armod mon took U.l Pearson, a negro,
fron Deputy Sheriff Fields, about three
miles from tills placo shortly after 2
o'clook Wodnosday morning, oarrled
him to thc (Jonnaaohen swamp and i
lynohod him. The night before
Pearson was found by Misses Maud
and Ida Durdan, hiding under their
bed. Soreams attracted their father,
an agod man, who onturod tho
rvom with a gun, but was knocked
sonsoloss by the negro, who esoaped.
He was lator captured by tho deputy
and identified.
Klllod tho Hhorlfr.
Sheriff Charles Wilson of Clay
county, Fia., was shot and killed on a
train near Green Cove Springs on
Tuesday by a negro prisoner. Tho
sheriff's deputy then shot and killed
tho negro. Wilson was very popular
and had rooently married.
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