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?SO TH, OB?AT MBMTT, JMPIB? OOH ?OWLS AJTD MAMOOS ?VE? lit THT ?0 VOL. XXX 1\ BBNNETTSVIIXE. S. O., FRIDA* . J AN tTAR Y ll. 1907. ?B?8I0N HAVPT OB OVB DflATHB GLOBIOU? IV THT CAUSB." Thc House of Representatives Has Repealed Ii. ^MO LONGBB NEEDED. Having Sctved Ks Purpose, But Now Said tc be Siandlrn? In the Way of thc ludencndencc of the Parin* ers and laborers of thc State. Tho House of Representatives in Columbia Thursday did not consider many hills, but thc members voted out a law.that has been on tho stat ute books for many years by a deda Ive majority. Arguments extouding over three hours on the propc sltiou to ropealthe Hen law took up the time of the mm.ib.un and attraoicd goncral attention from sonators and tiiose in tho galleries. Year after yea? an ef fort han been made to ropeal tito loin law. lt has beon defoatod lu clthor ono brandi er tho ctlior of tho gener al assembly but the friend? of the measure bolle ve that lt will pass this year. Tho volo in the houae to past* lt from a second to a third reading wsB 78 to 32, although an effort was made to substitute a bill by Mr. Do Vore which ls moro ipsolfic in Itu ap plication as to farm contracts. Tho bill whioh passed to ?bird read lrjf was introduced by Mr. Bichar?s ar-d monly oalla bra rope.* 1 of the lien lbw n. xs Januar} as it now stands. When rtached cn tl e calen dar Mr. Ruoker asked that lt be post punid, stating that be wished to ex press Lis views on it but was ? o', phy sically able to speak. Mr. R'chardfi insisted, however, that the bill bc brought up, Listing that ho I?, d pris ed the bill over day after day nt thc request ot meir hers and unless it wai disposed of now tho dispensary l?ghi next week might elf?otual)y side traci lt. Mr. Devore asked that his b;il bi lakcu op siso, which wasnKMed t< I y the h'OUbO. Mr. Richards pp ko ii ?afapse ol his hui. He said t o do maud for a ropeal of the law oarui from all classes audit was tin o fo tho State to act ff it over interided t ?.ot. Both tho farmer aixd hi>d)or< would bo beuetlted thereby ?id*n oom prom leo measure will be acoBptei by the people. Mr. Ruoker opposed tho b l1. H said lt simply meant that thc. poo man would be lunion ovci to ibu ?auO lord add with no lien law tho ten ant would havo no oholoe. He woul have to aooept what was offered hu at any price fixed by tho mcic' int r landlord. Mr. Ayer and Mr. nydrlok ft vore the repeal of the loin law ano il Mann said that oharaotor wr-s tl only br.tlB of orcolt a man shoul have. The law should be ropea'cd an the tenant and landlord put on a oas basis. Mr. Y emoh upoka&kng lt same linos. Mr. {deners, who had made tho m t?o i, to hlrike out thc enacting word opposed thr presage of the bill stron iv aa did Mr. Ovr'a, who said t'atl has yet to see any good rea: on a vanced SB to why the law should 1 repealer!. A bank In Denmark, 1 nain, wli,h sio.ou'J ci pltal, loaned c ..15,000 on liens and less than e:i.o of thia v.as loaned to negroes. T repeal of tue loin la v meant the < tabilBlimont of a landod arlsti ora with a hopeland tenant olaes. Mr. De Vore, who had a Hnbstlti hill, applying particularly to fa oonlraots, taid tito landlords vant the Hen law repealod because it woi keep tho laborers down. Ho explalr the legal points In tho two Li I UH a urgod that the Richards bill bo < foaled, Mr. Gary said he had heard tho i coming from the farmers for the peal of the law. It was a mlsuke say that its repeal would strike do the poor man, On tho contrary would gi va him independence i would froo alt olassos from thc sh) negro laborer. It ls on the latter i that tho farmer has to depend cause of this law but ou ils itpea ls a case of work or starve. Mr. Vorner said mention ba? t mado of tho prosperity of the lt lt was not beoause of tho lien law in spite of lt. He wanted it rt-pe at once. Mr. Carey favored tho DsVrrro There wcro legul matters lo be Hidered In a bill of ibis kind and wholesale rep al of the lav/ m Only troublo for the farmer. Ss* others spoke on tho same UM- an 2;16 o'clock an aye and nay volo taken on tho motion tu strike mt enacting word?. The vote was; ai lows: Yeas Iicattle, Carey, Olary, O uoaled, Derham, Do Vore, Dear, C lass, Ifrasor, O air ls, (loud win, (1 HarrUmi, Heitphlll, Harley, M thur, M aMaster, Marshall. M Nesbitt, N'cholo, Reavrn, It'ohjr Ruoker, Scruggs, t?ellorb, K. V Si Tilomas, VoiiKolnlt'/., Walker, laoe, Wlmborley -:12. Nays-Speakor Whale/, Ar Ayer, Halley, llnllcntlne, Ra1 i.B thuno, Bjyd, brantley, A, (J. I T. S. Rrlco, Bryan, Cannon, Ci Courtney, C>x, Garwlle, Croft, (J Olok, Dingle, Dixon, J. II | Kpps, lOptlng, Frost, Gary, OM? J, Gibson, Glaasoook, Gyles, ll mon, narrlB, Hughos, llydrlck, Btono, Jones, Kellehan, Kir ven, lawson, Lestor, Ldtner, L?gar ter, MoCall, MoKe. wn, Mani), Morrell, Nicholson, Niver, I Patterson, Richards, R iblnaou yer, Sayo, Scarborough, Sharp, Slaughter, I) lt Smith, I) R ! Stillwell, Stubbs, Tatura; rj'o>* Vanderhoist, W-mer, Wadi, Wiggins, Wood?, Wyobe, V Youmans--'i8. limy? Iwtnly, Jno. D. Rockefeller, the oil attended a negro ohurch in A on Sunday week, and dropped tba collection haskat. BTATE DISPENSARY. Tho Hi ?to rion mo Vote? to Abollan tho Institution. The State Senate after a brief de bate on Friday voted to adopt the Smith resolution to abolish the State Dispensary by the following vote: Aye-Senators Appelt, Bass, Brice, Brooks, Carlisle, Carpenter, Christen sen, Crouch, Hardin, Holllday, Maul din, McGowan, OMs, Hinkler, Smith, Sullivan, Toole, Williams, Bates-19. Nay-Senators nivens, Blaok. Blesse, Clifton, Earle, Etlrd, Graydon, Grltlin, Kelly, Laney, Rogers, Staok house, Talbert, Townsend, Walker, Wrston- 10. Tho palra were Wells with MoKeith an, Raysor with Haynes. Messrs. Wells and Raysor were present and would have voted against the ?esolu tion. Messrs. Hough and Johnson, who were also absent, are State Dis pensary mon. Tho Columbia Record says the dis pensary people do not appear to be discouraged, Senators Smith and Talbert have expressed themselves as opposed to the OareyOothran bill, and lt is said Senator Carpenter will vote against it. This would make & tlo, with the deo?dicg vote to be OftBt by the president, who bas always been a lirm supporter of tho State dispen sary nyul cm. Tho original Smith resolution ci rooted the joint senate and house Ju diciary committees to report by a bill a measuro to take the place of the State dispensary system. Now what that joint committee will reporb and what either or both houses will do ls as uncertain as what a woman will do the next minuto. Tte senate judi ciary ls certainly pro-dispensary. Tho Smith resolution as amended and packed called upon these joint commit tres to draft > nd report a bill to oarry out local option as between county dispensary and oounty prohb bltion. Nearly All Killed, The steamar O tern bas arrived al Santiago from Kingston landon wit) refuges. Mr. Turner, of the Raj? Yoga sohool, who wentt) Ktngstor ) witn supplies, returned on tho Otorl i lie sayi. that the whole olty is ruin?e : Not a single hcuse ls sorvioeable, ant everyone will have to be pulled down lt ls not believed that any attemp' will ba mado to rebuild, a?, tho olty li thought lo be slowly sinking. Furth or moro, nearly all the business mei wero killed, and there ls no moue; r available for rebuilding a olty fo 0 about fifty thousand people. Many o 1 tho white residents have no stj,olto o beyond ruined houses. Luoklly cher a has been no rain. Tho Bupply of prc visions on hand ls suifloleut for Jlv e i days and only small supplies are ooo: 11 ing from the country People are J li Inti on wUjti.'w?r tbev oin obtain.* , i-"7: -:-? 1 Death (JoinriACt. At Biltlmore a deata oompaot bi tween two women was brought t light at the Hotel Hewitt OOO Har fort avenue, where a few mlnut< after 3 o'olook Mary Crane, 38 yea old, and Evelyn Kline, 28 years ol were found in a room together in i unconscious condition, with the g turned on full. The Orana worm ll ?cl shortly after tho dlsoovery w mide, but the other rooovered, i though she ls still rory ill from tl efl sots of tho gas. To Coroner Car libers Friday morning the Kline vt man a?rnlttcd that she and her coi 'I pinion had entered into a oompaot end their lives together. She sa that each had dcolded that Ufo w no longor worth living, and lt w with that thought that they turn on the gas. TskoH H'M Own lil fe. Mr. lCarnest M. Tisdale, agod twi ty-coven y os rs, depot and oxpn agent at Summerton, dlod Thu rid of laudanum poisoning taken the d hoforo with suioldal ini.cni. His o< ditton was dlftCGVtfed about two hoi after tho poison was taken all tl medical Hkill could do availed nothl and ho dlod about 3 o'olook Frid morning. In a note addressed tc member of the family Mr. Tisdale signed ilnanolal troubles as the ca for the rash aot. Universally popu of a genial and jovial disposition, nev?s of his death oame as a sei shook to his friends whom benuml ed by his acquaintances, no loavi mother and fathor, a wlfo and ohlldren to mouin their IOBS. bc ho ut 00 he ?8 oy tte rm ,ed lld lod nd cie ury ro to wn lt ind [fty 10W bc l it cen ate. but alcd bill, con the cant reral d at v. as the i fol link ?oug rccr, IcAr tiler, dflon, nltli, Wal nold, , Be trice, trson, inlier, Dodd, ie. W. , Har John Lane rt, Lit Wiley 'arker , Saw Sblpp Smitt ipkhiH White 'aidoll I king ugusta 120 in '.:o<ion Ulnnotl. Tho oensua roport shows 12,107 bales of cotton, oonntlng round half bales, ginned from tho grov/t 1901, to January 10, 1007. Thc n bor of aotlve ginneries this yes 25. by states, the amount of con ginned of tho growth of 100 the following in bales: Alabama If> iii:i; Florida, 00 128; Geo: 1,002.713; Louisiana. 837.837; N (Jamima, 6KK.315; South Oaro 87,192; Tennessee, 252,501 ; Vlrg 13,031, Sea Island cotton glum fanuary 10, 1007, distribute states: Floild?,23 000 bales; Gee 24,775; South Carolina, 7,701. lioapa t<'rom Htoaiunr. Tho Clyde steamship Gommai whioh had tho misfortune to he down by a sailing vessel on her trip north, lost a passenger by BI on her following trip South. } still In sight ( ft Sandy Hook light ust about dusk Tuesday, a ste passengor named Patrick Burnt soon to leap from the for wart into tho sea. A buoy and lint thrown at once, but tho man pa hood to lt. Thc ship was stoppt a boat with tho seoond oilloer In ( was quickly put down but aft hour tho searoh was given up ai Oomrnancho proceeded to Jharl burns was alone and booked for Bonville. Prion Inoreaao, Au InoroABo of prices In all ot lino wrlttlug paper, amount! proximately to 10 per oont, wll bo made, according to the anr innot of one of the largest writ pur manufacturing oompauleB oountry. Halley Klrotod, Balley was rc-elcotod Hem Texts legislature on Wedneid large majority, THE IMMORTAL LEE SHE SOUTH'S PMHIliiESS IJKADHK HONOHB? KVE11YWHEHK. Vorth and Routh His Memory is Ho vered Becauso Ho Was a Great Man, AU over the South and in some parts of the North the oentenial of the birth of Gen. Robert E. Leo was observed on Saturday. At Wash ington, I). G., a letter was road from Preiident Roosevelt regretlng that be oould not be present, and oxtail lng tba virtues and grandor of the life of Hobart E. Ls3. At Charlotte vlllo, Va-, an eloquent address was de livered by Charles Franois Adams, one of the foremost men of Masseohuotts, and who was an ollloer in the Guion army during the war. During his speeoh he said had the been in Gen. Lee's place at the oommenooment of the war he %ould have done exactly what Gen. Lee did, although be may be callod a traitor for saying so. As the Columbia State says last Sunday In a most admirable editorial: "Although only a little more than (our decades He botwedh us and the great war that stirred all the dopths of scotional prejudice and hatred, and although there still survlvo thousands of those that fought on ono or tho other side of that terrible fratricidal strifo, who would naturally oherlsh ?till Bomothiug of tho gall and worm wood of Buoh a bitter con fl lot, yet the wholo country, reunited In sentiment, Joined S iturday In paying honor to the man who waa tho commanding gonius of that war. To North, little less than to South, Robert E. Lee stands today as the greatest of our military ohioftiaus, the peer of tho noblest of our o t?z ns and patriots. So mu oh and so kindly has the hand of timo and the robirth of a national sentiment smoothed away the asperi ties of war. Saturday tho people of this coun try presouted a noble speotaolo to the world for all tl mo. They taught the world one of the highest lessons that oan be taught. They wero seen pay ing due homage to the lofty virtues and the radiant genius of a man whe for four years endeavored to sundoi the union of States, whloh ls now hole in reverence by the people of all seo tiona. The era of hate and rampant prejudice has passed; and wo are abb to reoognlz.3 tho sincerity the patriot Ism, tho virtue of those that fough so furiously and bitterly against us This ls true as to all sections; tr m with respeoi to the South's appreoia tlon of euch oharaoters as Grant am Lluooln; true with reBpeot to th North's appreciation of snob mon a Lea and Jaokson. It 1B to our oredl as a people that we have thia nob: leeson to teaoh, and that, before fceaor mg lt to tho world, we must hav taught lt td ourselvea. So unlvoraal ls now the rcspeot fe Robert E. Leo that hardly a newBp; per published in the country failed t loin In tho ex pression of appreoiatlo and honor. Darr iy a public mun, wt had oooasion, failed to voioo bia ac miration, and thousanda of men, wt were lately denounoing the South ( tho secession era and its leadoia, vo untarily sought occasion to exprosBS ii oero respect for tim great leader. VI quote the following from Goillor Weekly, &u it aeoma to us to expre In this oasc the heat sentiment of tl North and East. "A hundred yoara ago, on the 10 of this month, Roborb E. Lee w born. America bau bad no nobler ol Izon. All that ls best In fho Sout or in the country, scorned to centre this grave, strong, devoted man. I fore the war he was looked upon tim most brilliant otuoor in the ant Ho regretted the approaching coull: Sadly ho took his place In lt. no ste !&y I tboroughout as a tower of stre gth Ay centre of Inspiration, and be lived ! ,n' lifo afterward as a model of peaoe a*J and self respecting manhood. " So i authorities think him the great nt{ gonoral tho war brought forth; so l*y do not. Nobody can fall to see In li I & la man lu whom evory part of our co ** try must rejoioe, of whom North i use South should alike bo proud. WI lrr* a leader ia so virtuous and BO great "18 becomes a heritage for evory Am tfe oan In succeeding timo, whether t 36r American dwell on ono side of tho ?8 a tomao or the other." two This ls, wo think, typical of best and most respected judgmem I Northern and Elstern writers ,873 thinkers. It ls practically what Tl [ M doro Roosevelt Bald of Lee some t ago, though Mr. Rooaovolt'a Judgu II 01 is expressed, as usual, in a moro p um- tive manner and with less roaorvo ,r bj "Robert. E. Lee," aaid Mr. Rc cot volt, "wiil undoubtedly rank aa w ti ll out any exception, the very groe i, 1,- of all the oaptalna that tho Eng rgla, speaking people havo brought f or th -and this, although tho laat and < lina, ot bia antagonists may himself o lula, to stand SB tho full equal of Ylar od to boro and Wellington." d by Thia had already boon tho expri irgla, Judgment of authoritative mil critics, and it will romain unrevi until some future war produoi greater military leader who may DOhe, with tho first captains of the wo run Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, I iast leon. Next to thou, with Fred holde and ono 0r two others, but above iVhlle redoubtably commanders as Crone tship, Marlboro, Wollington.Turenne, C *raKc stands tho titanio though Uli i waa out) and noble and altogether v 1 rall figure of Lee. ) waa The State points elsewhere ld no less than tltho of tho outpourli id and praise of Rohort E Lee on the nhargo 8ion of the oentenary of hla birtl or *n enough for the reader to form id tho just estimate of tito roapeot, in leaton. Leo is held throughout tho oh Jaok- world-tho reverence in which j the South hold and will forays him. Ono of the moat roma ??.?aa expressions ls, doubtless, that i an by ?harl08 Jenola Adams at tl Fa i/ varsity oyer which tho great ii soon um prCB|dod aftor the war. C munee- ag ft general- speaking of him . wlth hla lovlnolble lieutenant, in tao wrU jaofcaon-he Bald that the brilliant soldiers completely o< ed tholr adversaries "aomotln itor by flhly, sometimes ludlorously, ay by a hopelessly. This li tba matui 1 meut of a New Englander, of 3 ?0 b 18 rs a, m p. H in at> a Ho u o n to ,id as rsa od rn ?S? oil "brod-lnthebone Yankee," as be calls himself. It serves to mark the long maroh that humanity has made In forty years. But, when all tho praise ls said, when the paeans have all been sung, when the greatness and the majesty and the splendid powor of the warrior have been adequately weighed or measured or apprehended, how do we think of Lee? In what aspeot does he most doeply and tenderly and lov ingly appeal to our hearts? Notohtet ly as the mighty victor, nor as- the towering genius whoso groat soul, dif fused into bis soldiers, was able to counter balanco and overwhelm the superior numbers of his enemies; but as tho man, the simple minded, great hearted man, father and brother and son, patrlaroh and prophet and ex? emplar, Wo think of bim as the gen ius of the South, its lofty and lire* pure spirit. He is ours-ours; though we gave him to tho nation and to man kind. Said Mr. AdanoS, in tho speeoh we have alrealy quoted: "Speaking ad visedly and on full reflection, I say that of all the great characters of the Civil war, and lt was productive of many whose ?amo? and deeds poaterj ty will long bear in recollection, there was not ono who passed away in the I serene atmosphere and with the gra oloin bearing ot Lee " No other roan in our history had that sorenlty of oharaoter, that graci ous bearing of Robert IO. Lee. In those qualities he waa superior to Wash ington, as he was far suporlor to him in military gonlus and In must quali ties, lt is a orown of glory to a coun try to havo two suob mon-both Southerners, both Virginians-to thc brotherhood of mau. When the wai ended and tho shadow of disaster was darkest, Lee was still the leader of hie people. He represented at Its best and highest tho now spirit of the land, Ht turned to tho no less rouownod and fai nobler victories of peace, and in pri vate life, as oitizm and as teaober ol you Ch and age in all the lessons ci the leoture-room or the the cares ol life, triumphed even more splondtdh than on any of bia magnifloont lioldi or war. It is for this, more than fo: his martial victories, that tho Soutl honors and loves bim. Lot lils groat example stand 11 Colossal, seens of every land, And keep thc soldier ti rm, thc states man puje; Till in all lalids and through all hu man story *|Tbc path of duty bc tho way to glori WANTED TO FIGHT About tho Marrl?Ko ot tho Vioe-Prei hloiit'e Bon. J At Steuhenvllle, Ohio, on Wednei H day, men high In the town goveri t ment and in legal oiroles of the stat o so far forget themselves in court as 1 ' indulge ,'n...v?f ?"?nnalttleij,. p?.n.q IKQ; I 3 and then to oap it ail, try to land t oaoh other with olonobed fists on outside the court room. The encounter was brought abo by some reference made slighting regarding the recent indictment ITred 0. Fairbanks, son of the vic president, who ls under indlotmei charged with perjury in taklug o his marriage llcenso some time a in th's olty. There was some lit1 formality to go through wltn the i pars in the case lu court, and Prosee ting Attorney W. N. Allan and < Probate Judge H. Korr mot wi Mayor Scott and Borne othors court. Allan ls pushing tho Fairbanks o and be has taken several flings at Judge Kerr. In open oourt he soo ed Kerr of unfair dealing in exarnl tlon, and thon before he could he st ped, accused tho ex -judgo of term oltloo as judgo by thc Illegal tratlh marriage llcouses. Von aro & llp.il" thundered .1 migo Kerr, as he st&rtod aotoss al tho prosecuting attorney of J?, if ai county. "1 repeat that you ar Uar! If there bas been anything fair hero, it seems strauge thal wot I 1 tako you four years to Hut ?out?. You aro only making a gn I stand play on this Fairbanks c because he is tho son of tho vloa i Idont. By this time friends were botv the angry ex Judge aud tho prose lng attorney. However, whon o adjourned they met outside and i trlod to got at eaoh other, strl several blows a pleoe, either In air or landing on tho shoulder Mayor Scott or somo of lils fri? who threw themselves into the in order to save the town from thor disgrace. The Daayor threi ed to lock up both tho ex-judgo tho proscoutlng attorney If the: not quit trying to <vhtp each otb V o tort lt Down. Tho attempt to form a now oe out of Greenville, Laurens and ! tanburg, with Fountain Inn a oounty seat, was dofeated in ' day's diction by a considerable jorlty. At Fountain Inn there 180 votes for the new oounty none agabistit._ Many Btarvod, A cablegram reoetvod at Now by the American Bible sooloty Kev. Jno. Ri Hykos, tho agont < society In China, says that there boon millions of deaths amoui Ohincso from starvation. Caught Him. Philander H. Fitzgerald, a wi lawyer of Indianapolis, Ind.. pl guilty on Tuesday in the f oourt to the charge of using the to defraud and was lined 850 posts._ Sonera! Killed. Twenty three persons were ci or burned to death in a rallroi liston between a passengor freight train at Fowlor, In Saturday and ten others wer ously hurt. Four Mon Killed. Four mon were killed aud 12 ed near Albany, N. Y.,on rl by a collislou betwoen a loot and a caboose tilled with labor Knocked In tho Hoad. Will Kennedy, aged 20, wat on the head with a plow hai Elmer Malian, aged 13, at nor on Saturday and killed. mm AWAIN. XIII,? (HtMATHH? Y?Kfjl) OF COHN IN TU IO World Per Aore last Year Wai Gath ered From a Clarendon County Farm. Soutfi Carolina again wins the oha?i'..ilonshlp in tho matter of raising tho t roatost yield of oorn per aore. The pitas yield was 182 bushels to the aero s? .'id Mr, A. J. Tinda!, of Claren don, is tho successful competitor. A fow years ago in a similar comest, South Carolina won the first prize, Mr. Drak't, of Marlboro, having produced 2rj7 bushels to the aore. Th,? Stat? says this is a great adver ting -mt for South Carolina and a gr&y, feather in the oap of the bureau o? h f urniture and Immigration whioh advo;tisod the oontest and worked up into->:;t therein. Tho bureau has aol!lt-.ved several notable successes in tho ? v it 12 months, this and the ar ri vt,', of the Wittekhid being the most conspicuous. Notwithstanding he ls pardonably prou? j bf the aooompllsbment of his den v.-tment during this year ir, estab lishing tho trans-Atlantic service to Char reston and securing the far-reach ing ^.piston of Secretary Straus in the matter of immigration, both of whioh matt us have brought South Carolina 33 prominently to tbe front in pioneer woik and have accomplished so much In thh way of widespread advertising of tho 8tato, when the nows oamc ove i thc wires tbat South Caroline Lad won the national record of tbc prod rotion of oom per aore In the na lion, i contest of The American Agrt fiulti'visb. Commissioner Watson felt that this happy result of tho efforts mad" by tho department to hav< Sohi. .? Carolina farmers in this contest wouUhaveas far-reaohlng an elteot in t> g matter of advertising the re sounds of this State as either of th< oth?>! achievements. ll' said that such a vlotory cornice iii an opportune moment wonk be t ie moans of substantiating thi clair ?u of this State as a desirable seo felon for agricultural settlers, ant who,s lt is considered that aside fron \ny other publlolty glvon it the ful details of the vlotory will be seen b; 2:10, oo readers of the farming olas of pj(o sot of publications alone, oover lng Uits entire country, the value 0 the .inuring this record by a Soutl Caji dnVfarmer oannot be estimate too Uglily. Tho following ls a cop of t>ie telegram reoeived by Commit sion11- Watson yesterday morning: ii;.rlngtleld, M. zs., Jan. 23, 1907. To ijl. J Watson, Commissioner, Ot I-,-..obla, S. C. : ?. ?gast corri jtjpld 182 bushe Wu .?o?veetf ?.'?-wed in your oca* Sweepstakes divided equally amor one orop each South Carolina, Ohl Iowa, Connecticut. Graduated repo: your contestant follows, Congratul tlons. MYMOK, President hoard of Managers Gra Oontest. Commissioner Watson at once win to Mr. Myrlok: Yours reoeived. Information mc gratifying and welcome. Kindly wi me at onoo name of man who rall 182 bushels. WATSON." In the afternoon tho answer can "A. J. Tindall, Clarendon count 182.?' Mr. Tindall was given the news tho following telegram, To him Manning in Clarendon county: "You bolo best reoord In nat?o contest corn growing. Congratu tlons. WATSON 1 Among the counties represented the contest were Orangeburg, F once, Hampton, Kershaw, Collet CT- Marlboro. Clarendon, Anderson, I ftcr llngton, Bamberg, lt'ohland, Bi eon well, Sumter, Marlon, Wllllambui c a Chesterfield aud Saluda. " un- In speaking of th9 insult of the ( ? lt test aud the vlotory of Mr. TlnrJ I lt Commissioner Watson said: md- "I have realized over slnoo I be aso, this work the immense value of ires- faot that in the last national oon 15 yoars ago the largest yield of < per tore in tho United States or < where was by Capt. Drake, of li boro county, in this State. Wbt became known that there woulc another oontost for this world's re this year I hastened to recomnrerj the general assembly an ap pre pr hi of 1600 for the purpose ot a State test In oorn raising, thereby ena! contestants in tho State oontea participate in the national oon feeling sure that wo could win, knowing full well that If we ooul would reap a splendid harvest lr way of valuable advertising, st vlotory reoalllng the previous vb In tho minds of the masses lu thli other countries, and aooentuatlni power of that vlotory. It was gratifying when the laturo unhesitatingly made the a pr tatton and created tho cora co commission, and lt was more gri lng when contestants ropresentln majority of the counties of this Hied tholr entries and began c tiens in a marmor that bespoke termination to win. It ls even of an advertisement to win this test for tho raison that the cc 15 years ago was based solely yield per aoro. while in this the of points oonsiderol there has muoh moro involved, This sea been: 1, purity and soleotlon of 10 points; 2, methods of otiltu points; 3, reoords of manual ino! olearness, completeness, ace otc, 15 points; 4, yield, 25 poh quality, inoluding market gr stability, feeding value, 10 poh profits resulting from entire a< points, making a total of 100 ) Notwithstanding the orops e tored stormi in the late summ ibo early fall, we have been a once more surpass all compet? yield per aero. 'In this ooreal oontest: Tho loan Agriculturist offered $5.01 gethor in onsb prizes. Exaotl muoh Mr. Tindal will root the national side of the mi cannot say without oarefull leg to the reoords. Thor been about 85 contestant South Carolina partlolpatin Mr. Tindal'i report at first Ir *? V ? bo ?* in De ut ly of 12 it, Ut 80 ble >a 3U ?x Ith In ase ex us* na op of i in reen out ourt ?jaoh king thc s of inds, fray fur iten and / did or. itinty Spar s the Tuob ma vt oro ' and York from if the i have ir the ?althy loaded ederal i malls 0 and rmhod ,d ool and a d., on 0 seri : Injur tuesday imotlvo ors. i struok adie by no, Ga,, 101 bushels. Contestants la Marlboro, Florence, and Hamborg oountloi bav? | followed Mr. Tindall very oloaoly and In th? order named In the matter of number of bushels. The State commis sion, ot which Dr. Mell, Prof. Harptr) and myself are the members, hts not yet considered the reports flied, hav ing waited the grading records as I oom plied by the experts in obarge of tba national oontest. The commission will doubtless meet very soon now and distribute the prizes in the State oon test aa arranged and announced last March. It ii practically certain, how ever, that Mr. Tindal will reoeive t200 from the State oontest. It le probable that the commission will make some changas in the amounti apportioned for prizes to sohool ohil dren, as this feature of the oontest oould not bo satisfactorily developed during the year. . "Before the gratifying news of Mr. Tlndal's victory had been received I had already recommend in my annual report the continuance ot this appro priation for entering the contest dur ing 1007 and had oalled particular at tention to tba stimulation ot Interest in corn growing by reason of the sue oessful demonstration of tho resulta of the Williamson plan. In this connec tion lt la noteworthy also that the oom orop in South Carolina bas in creased from 13,120,000 bushels In 1000 to 23 011,000 bushels last year.1 HAD A ROUGH TIMK. A. Honman AUr j ff in an loy So? Foi Hour?. Seaman William Lorenzen, of th? baikentlno Franoea, which was rut into by the Olyda steamer Oom anohe last Friday night week off Hat toras, arrived in Charleston Thurs day, having been ploked up at sea ant brought to Charleston by Capt. Jobi Harrison, of the sohooner Grade D, Huohanai. Upon arriving Captain Harrington reported to his oonsignee, tho plokinj up of the seaman of the disabled bar kentlne, who had probably beor thought to be lost. Lorrenzsn wai taken from some wreokage flfteei miles southwest by west of Dlamont Shoals lightship, after he had been li the water for nearly throe hours. Lorenzen wai in bad shape when hi waa ploked up. Wet to the skin an< In water whioh was loy oold, with i bleak wind striking bim and makin the oold all tbs m' 3 penetrating, i :s to be seen that. exposure waa c a kind whioh might have proven tatt to a less hardy seaman. Gader Cai tain Harrington's attention Lorenz1) was soon gotten into good oonditlc and today he bears no ovldomn of tt shook and strain of the exposure I tue cold water.* Lorrenzeh was on thb deok of ti barkentlne when the collision o and was knocked ov?rbbsfd the broaXin'g of tho auperatraciiiid tho barkentlne. The oolllsion uoour ed in a fog, both v?asela coming on bows foremost. The Comanche w bound from Charleston for Now Yo and the Franoea for Fernandina. Ti sailing vessel was of course the wox damaged of the two boats, but t Oomanobe was alao badly used up, already stated, having had a h< atove in her bow above the water Hi deok rails smashed and one of 1 Ufo boats damaged. The barkontl was hunted for by the revonue out M omin?le and towboats and lina found by one of the latter and to? to Norfolk. D> lg 0, rt a in ad lilt .ro ad ia: ?y. In at md Homerton Ends in Court. The termination of a romantio nc rlage oame in Greonyllle when ?*-I wife of Dr. P. H. Newton sued aeparatlon and aupport. Dr. and h 'ln Newton have been married a y< lor Dr. Ndwtonis a Virginian and 1 '0?. Newton la from Portage, Wis. T )ar* booawo acquainted through the iXn diam of a matrimonial paper. rKs> M ra. Newton, who waa a Mrs. Hi?c Pugh, c i?ored, acoordlng to tho )on- tor's statement, to give him $3 oaoh on the day the knot was t Dr. Newton was a struggling yo Kan optician and was anxious te se tno au fil oient oapUal to develop sa^ teat patients, BO the young woman's pi 3orn sition was accepted. Dr. Nei ^l88 went to Portage, the marriage tari" performed and the bride retu ?n *M with the groom to Greenville. ] 1 "* they began housekeeping, and ] "ord ently along oama an allcgod slat ld t0 Mrs. Newton, then a horao, a ne] ttlon and llnally a fi lend of the all?g?e oon ter< byfc no money came the doc ding v,ay( BO ho alleges In his rebutti b to hig wife's oomplalnt. fcirs. Nev teBb- complainant, alleges desertion, ( *n" ty, non-support and infidelity. d we ault is for t?,000 alimony and so i tho permanent lnjunotlon against mb a payment by a lcoal bank of a si ?tory money whioh is on deposit the s and fche oredlt of Dr. Newton, v tho-? KllloU tn Wreck. logia Four men were killed and at ppro 12 injured Thursday afternoon o uteat New York Central, Mohavh div *tify- about half a mlle west vi Alban ig the Y., by the collision of a light e State with a oabooso lilied with rallroi ?pera- borers. The workman, about 26 a de- had been at work at Garners, hoi more here and Weat Albany, and we: oon their way baok to this city. A mtoat mon killed and Injured were res! upon of thia city or Rennaelaar. ' been Committed Sutolde. le baa Harry Fa.kenau, forty-three said old? well known in Ghioago as a rb 25 ?*1 orltlo and Hlblophilo, corni uding suloldo Thuraday at his home, Ci uraoy Mich., a town on the sh^re of its- 6' P*" Lake. He swallowed ci adlng *old aud dled *,hxein minutes a ita- o' pbyaloian arrived. Mr. Fald?n ?re? 16 troubles with insomnia for Joints. I can't Haro lt. nooun-1 rpne supreme court of the ' fi tl States handed down a decis hio to i rttUOB3ay tustalnlng the state si 1018 ln I oourt in denying to ex-JudgeBm tho addition , of 1500 a year w?u ?alary he reoeivad while I io alto-1 jadK?i ne oontendad that the tion from 13,500 to 13,000 1 affeot him. lj how liva of Itter I y look e have a from ?sr. and idloated Kth*d ma Man. r wa John Foster was shot and I tho home of Mrs. Swink in I oounty, Va, on Friday n 1 Arthur Stanley. MUT VJLU1.JC? J. JJ MA k aa. ho Homaikablo Keoordof Two In tlutnto fc'amllleu. Tho Columbia Rscord says Rufus D. John non, the Atlantio Coast Lino engineer who was killed In the colli sion at Yomassce Monday night, was j well known in Columbia, having run into and out of this ol ty for a number of years. A strange fatality seems to follow his family and that into whioh ho married.. There were three of the Johnson] brothers, all engineers on tho Atlant'o Coast Lino. His oldest brother. Willis P. Johnson was killed six years ago by his engine leaving the track and turning over down the high embank ment at Hampton's pond, a few mlleB south ot this city. Hoof Johnson mar* ried the daughter of Engineer James Williamson, who was killed in a colli sion between a Wrecking train and a work train lust outside the Florenoe yards. Arthur Williamson, a brother who ran on the Southern for years, was thrown out of a buggy hear Elm wood cemetery and killed some years baok. Roland- Williamson, still an other brother, was killed In a collision between the pay train and a passen* ger train twenty years ago, six miles uorth of Columbia on the Southern, near Dent's. There was another brother who met his death by aool dont while a guard at the Stato peni tentiary. His gun wont off and killed him. Another brother went West years ago and has never sinoe been heard of. The third Johnson brother ls running on the Atlantio Coast Line. VOTED AGAINST TILLMAN. Wanted Some One Klee for United States Senator. ny red A dispatoh from Columbia says Rep resentative Coke D'. Maha lnjeoted some life into the session of tho Houst of Repreeentatlve? Tuesday whor. things were dragging a blt by refus lng to vote for tbe confirmation 01 Senator Tillman's re election, send lng up these "reasons" written ont sheet of paper to the speaker's desk which the reading olerk called out lr perfunctory tones: I wish to state my reasons for noi voting for the Hon. neh). It. Ttllmai to succeed hlmsolf In the Unltei States senate. "First, ile made a wanton and ma llolous attaok upon tho ministry c South Carolina, charging thom wit being in league with the ex barkeer, ors of the State, With Col. Jamel A Hoyt, as the standard bearer ot tl: prohibitionists, to defeat and destrc the dispensary.law in South. Carolin) This bo knew was false arid an ou ?*f rege n? ^Mmon decen?v. ' r. "Seo Before I could vote * i him I should have to know how mut a?j money he roturned to Mr. Hubboll i rit rebates allowed the State of Soul ue Carolina. I contend that as govern ?ge he was handling tho money of Sou no Carolina and ho bad no right to r m turn the money to the liquor hot >le any more than the present board 10 direotors has the right to approprli XOv to their own uso, or to such ott >ne purposes as they might seo flt, ter bates belonging to the State." Several of Senator Tillman's f rlei were on their feot before the read! clerk had finished. ?Finally Representativo Rloba as recognized. He said he wanted reasons" strioken from the rooo beoause the people of South' Carol on't stand for anv suoh sentlmer Speaker Whaley induced bim alt till the vote was tabul?t blob showed all voting. 114, voted for Mr. Tillman." Mr. Rlobards' motton was then nd the house adopted it by a li re j ority, perbi ps- half t; dozen ' clots among them. A rt or Bucket Shop?. By a two to one vote Thursday tate Senate passed Senator Caril 111 outlawing bucket shops in itato. The bill makes lt a. ml ooanor f r "The keeping of any i r place where contracts are mad? he future delivery of any st tonds, ootton. grain, meat or any ir animal, mineral or vegetable luot of any kind, without the fi )0ing the owner and without ah icntlon on the part Of either the sr to deliver or the buyer reoel ?b?same." ? - oiiok Tutor. The many friends of Mr. W Leopold, grand keeper of reoords seal of the Knights of Pythli Gteorgla, will regret to learn th weak thief entered bis home in Minah on Monday night and stoli hundred dollars worth of J swelry. thief was a young man. He i young lady as he left the house remarked nonchalantly that friends wore walting for her ups He then disappeared. -;-, , Trial liogun. Tho trial of Harry Kendal ? tho young Pittsburg mllllionalro killed Stanford White, about bis an ex chorus girl, began in Now on Wednesday. Two hundred paper men-some of them from ign oountriet-applied for adm to report the trial, which is ext bo be a moot notable ono. Thou of persons were turned away fro courthouse for lack ot room. ' . < Ho Was a Shooter, In a single handed combat * i Montezuma, Mexioo, Bert Seer? Arizona cowboy, shot and kilt Mexioaus. Ho killed three eaoh s?porate fights, and then escape fter a au has years. United lon on Death ol an O Ul o or. Midshipman Isaao W. Hayi lot Mr. P. T. Hayno ot Gree ipromejdied on board thc United State Charleston at Magdalena Baj on Sunday. He graduated,! naval academy at Annapolis i and was a young man ot iii mise. I ? - ? A Made a Hani. PlOkpcokeU robbed Oh u. li ley, a retail grocer of Little Ark., ot $6,000 while ho wa? s trow ? train at New Alban on Sunday. cha?an to tbe ie was i reduo lld not tilled at franklin Ighfc by A TIUAL WAVT H Drowned Fifteen Hundred People on Island of Simahi. FEARFUL DISASTER. Hundreds] Drowned on Other Near-by Islands. Slnialu Island Hos Almost Disappeared. Oreateat Diste? ter That Has Visited Tb?t Section of tbeWortd. . ; The tidal wave whioh devastated some of tho Dutoh East Indian is land a, south of Atoh'u, as announced Jan. ll, practically engulfed tho Is land of Slnialu. Accorllng to the latest information Slmalu hat almost disappeared. It is said that about 1,500 persons lost their, live?. Violent earthquake shooks continue to bo felt daily. Tho olvll govornor of Atchln bas gone to tho scene of the catas? trophe. According to the brief offloial die^ patoh which first announced the de vastation nought by the tidal wave In soino of tho Dutoh Mast Indian islands, 800 persons perished on tho island of Tana and 40 on the island of Slnialu. PudaBadi or Slmalu ls sit? uatod off the northwest coast of the island of Sumatra and south of the provlnoo of Atohln. Tho tidal wave was' oaused by a great earthquake shook out at toa near this group of islands. Fortu nately for Kingston tho ear tb quake shook was on land and not on sea. Ofcuorwiso tha whole olty aa weil aa the island upon whioh lt ls located might have been destroyed. Thora has been a considerable number ot severe earthquake shooks in different paita of the world already this year, and the year is not a month old yet. Let us hope that the United States will be spared any tuoh calamity. StoTo ? Wholo ?tore. The Columbia State atys John Green, a young negro man, was ar b I rested by Pollocman Broom Monday \ for larcony committed In Branchville ? I Saturday night and Wednesday af ter noon Deputy Byrd of Orangeburg car ried the aiogro to Oraugeburg, where .f I bc was placed in jail. The police de h I partaient received information from >. I Sheriff Dukoa, of Oiangoburg, that tho atete of, Mrs. Byrd had been ie broken into Saturday night at Branoh* ty ville and ss large amount of rnerohan a. dise taken. They advised the local t- authorities to look out for a negro. Accordingly, pftloev Broom went to or work on' tho case an ... ,xm man. m Af ter the negro saw was no uso " as denying the theft bo admitted break bh log into.the store at Branchville and or oarrying off a big vimohnt of stuff, bb atd at the same time implicated an e- other negro. The polioo have siiooeed iae ed in looatlng some of tho property ot said to be stolen, consisting of several bte palra of shoes, a coat and vest, bar? of ?er s jap, lead pencils, pocketknives, bot re- ties of cologne and other articles of merchandise of tha kind oarrled by a ids I oountry store. Green evidently meant lng I buainoss when he entered the store and from the property so far recover ed made a gcod haul. rds the rd. ina it." to bed, had put urge 'po" tho alo'a this sde oom a for ook, oth pro oller y in sell Ivlng Tillman'* Bpeeoh. In writing about Tillman's great apoeoh to the Kaw York American, Julian Hawthorne atys: "To day will be remembered long by those who. have followed the course of the Senate' in Washington, and many years from to day students ot our national Con (tress, and men who wish to read for theiMBolvca how much of the ancient energy and eloquence whioh made it renowned in the era of Clay and Weh ner, Calhoun and Benton, will find in thc latest utterance ot Tillman, of South Carolina, words and thoughts ? which will make them know that there is still at least one statesman^ left who has force, sincerity and that natural and spontaneous eloquence whioh is seldom heard at any time, but whioh, when lt la heard, stamps Itself upon the mind and toolings in a way whioh time oannot efface." . H. i and &s of at a Sav etwo The et a and her balra. 'haw, who wife, York news tart iaslon looted sands m tho >y. an ed six In two d< liOKlslaturo ii loot lon. In the Joint assembly Wednesday! SolloltOr John S. Wilson waa eleofcodj Judge bf the third olrouit over Repre sentative J. B. Fraser, by a vote ot 84 to 76. Capt. D. J. Griffith wi re-elected superintendent ot tha pent J tentlary without opposition. Fot" throe penitentiary dlreotors Mettrai Uobly, Kirby and Sanders wara nomi nated for re-election and IC. H. Cain, of Richmond, and Jasper W. Smith, of Galleton, In opposition. The first ballot resulted: Sanders 106, Mobley 142, Smith 107, K?rby 72, Gain 66, Messrs. Sanders, Mobley and Smith were eleoted on tho first ballot. nobber* Captured; Sheriff Weeks' posae oapturad tann bank robbers In tho woods eight mlle out of Green Cove Springs, Fla Tuesday afternoon, and reoovorc tl, 600 and papers stolen from thi Oreen Cove bank. A pistol dual wt fought by the posse i nd the robbers^ Ona of the latter was founded in thev head and shoulder, and the others tur- ) endered. The wounded men will re cover, The robbers feared a lynoblng when takon to town, seeing the crowds gathered on tho streets. Two gave their nama of Riley and the oth ors rofuae to tell who they are, One says he ls from Texas. ie, son invllle, is ship Cal., at the n 1?06 e pro . Hart i Rock topping yt Ina Will Como Again. The Whltteklnd sailed from Bre men for Charleston on Wednesday Ith about four hundred carefully aeleoted immigrants for South Caro lina. The trip will take from four teen to eighteen dayl. h hot by Th tove?. Itohbtrs tried to blow open the tafe at Midvale, Ga., on Friday with dynamite. Cashier C. W. Power* waa abot three times hy tnt robber*, and will probably dit,