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VOL. xxxi!
BENNETTSVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1907.
NO- 2;
BLOOD SHED
In the Streets of Lodz, Russia, by
Cruel Cossacks.
ATTACK MAIL WAGON.
Which Causes tho Dody of Cossacks
to shoot Indiscriminately-*-Nour
Warsaw Terrorists Kill Four and
Wound Niuo in Sold Attack on
Railroad Office I nder Guard. In
nocent People Killed.
At Lodz, tn RussJniHCFVjl?nd, sixty
eight workmen, of Kuttner's Spin
ning Mills, were shot down Friday
morning hy a patrol of Cossacks be
cause a band of terrorists attacked a
mall wagon in tho neighborhood,
killed a Cossack guard and wounded
another Cossack and two postoillce
officials.
While tho wagon twas passing i
through Longkowa street tho terror
ists suddenly appeared from a side i
street, opened fire on the Cossack es
cort, seized $1,000 from the wagon
and escaped.
A moment later a patrol of Cos- ;
saeks arrived on the Bcene, and In
furiated hy the fate of their comrades
rushed into Hie Kut tiler factory,
which was near the spot where tile
robbery .occurred, and began bring
indiscriminately. killing 21 and
wounding over 44 persons.
The greatest indignation prevails
nt Lodz, as it is claimed that the
employees of the factorn had noth
ing to do with tho attack on the mall ;
wagon. i
Raid Railway Office.
At Warsaw, Russian Poland, a ;
band of terrorists held up the city 1
Office of the Vistula Railroad, on
Dulga street, at 10 o'clock Friday *
morning and got away with $6,000 1
after a severe tight In which four :
persons were killed and nine wound
ed. '
The office was full of peoplo at the '
time, and soldiers were guarding the 1
premises, but terrorists ?it tacked 1
them with revolvers, killed two and
wounded four of the guards before 1
they reached the place where the '
money was kept. (
Then snatching up a bag contain- '
lng $6,000 the men ran out of ?he of
fice The soldiers tired at th?' fleeing
terrorists, hut only succeeded lu hit- '
?lng some bystanders, two of whom (
wore killed and five wounded.
IMPRISON Fl) IN AUTO.
Three Women Have Narrow Escape '
From Possible Death.
Practically imprisoned in a runa
way automobile, three women had a
narrow escape from possible death
at Bryn Mawr, Pa., recently.
The machine, a big touring car,
occupied by Samuel W. Colton, Jr., i
Ml*?, Colton. Harold Colton, Mrs.
Harrison Allen ?md ber daughter,
drove up to the railroad station at
8:HO o'clock. Mr. Colton and his son,
who had occupied the front seat, '
loft thc machine ?md entered the sta- i
Hon.
They bad hardly dissapeared when
the machine started oft", lt headed
straight down tho road that loads to
the tunnel under the trades of the ?
railroad, gathering momentum ns it
aped on. The women, scated in tho ;
roar of the car. were unable to reach
the mechanism to shut off tho power,
and to jump means serious injury or
death. !
After going a distance of about '
100 yards th>' machine swerved from i
the roadway and crashed into the i
stone wall that abuts the sides of the
road ?it this point. The iron riiil
?ilong tho wall was broken down and
tho fore part of the car plunged over
the gap. Luckily the rear wheels
jamed into tho network of tho iron
railing and held fast.
Tho women, frightened to the
VOr?O Of hysterics, wen- thrown to
the lloor Of Ibo car, but sustained no
painful injuries.
SA V Fl) 'NI KIR COM ILA I > KS.
Thrilling Experience in (he Hold of
a Huming ' < >il Large.
At Ww York half :i score of fire
men risked their lives in saving six
of their comrades who liad been over
come by smoko in tho bold of a burn
ing oil bargo lying at a pier |n the
Hudson river.
Six had gout- Into tho hold when
they though! tho tiro had been over
come and wen- ending away a par
tition when o terrine burst of (tamos
and smoke swept through tho open
ing and enveloped t hem.
The mon dropped unconscious and
the fiamos were pouring over them
whn their comrades braving the lire
and choking smoke, rescued them
Tho rescued men were seriously
bullied but will recover.
IIA UV IN PAWN.
Tile Mother Must Pay Debt To (?et
Her ( hilo.
A little bnb.V boy, Johnny Knicks,
is liol?? ?ii Hork kl ey, Cal., for a debi
of $87.60, Which tho mother must
pay before she can gol ber little one
out of pawn. This ls tho ultimatum
of Mrs. Jesus Alcantara, who, while
earing for Hie boy while his mother
was away learned lo love bim as nor
own child,
Mrs. Knicks (?une to tho conclu
sion thal she wanted her boy with
^her again and tried to gel posossion
of tho childi H"' Mrs. Alcantara waa
firm. "No money, no child," she said,
and now tho COtirtS have been called
upon to decide as to the proper dis
posal of the boy.
SKOl KL Ol AN Ot TR U.K.
Miss Nevada Taylor Dies as ItCSllll
Of N'er\ ons Trouble.
Miss Nevada Taylor who was crim
inally assaulted near Chattanooga by
Kdward Johnson, a nti-.ro on January
lil, for which crime tho negro was
lynched, died al her childhood home
Findlay Ohio, Of nervous trouble
bl'OUghl nbOUl by tlio crime. The
caso has become a colohratod one.
Tho supremo court of tho United
States now has Sheriff Shlpp, several
(f his deputies and others under a
Oh arge of contempt ns a result of the
lynching.
OLD SWINDLER DEAD.
Body at Asheville is That of
"Lord Beresford."
Ho Loft a Trail of Wives-Clover
Australian, Lascelles, Hoodwinked
American Ambassador,
Tho body of Henry Asquith, of
Norfolk, which has been lying nt tho
undertaking establishment of Noland.
Brown & Co., of Asheville, N. c.,
walting for lt to bo claimed by rela
tives, has been Identified as tho no
torious bogus "Lord Beresford,"
alias Asquith, Hobson, Williams,
Morris, otc. This identification was
made by W. T. Cheney and Linton
Hean, lawyers, of Homo, Ga., who
arrived In Asheville a few days ago.
Asquith's real name was Sidney Las
celles. He came to Asheville with
physicians and nurses, whom he led
to believe would be paid handsome
ly. Mr. Chaney says:
"Sidney Lascelles was born In Aus
tralia of parents comparltively woll
10 do. Ile was given an excellent
education, and when he reached his
majority was sent to longland. There
he made a hit, learned the Ins and
outs of society. Ho lived a fast lifo
?ind his funds soon ran out. While
thus financially embarrassed, be con
ceived a plan similar to that follow
ed by the notorious bogus 'Lord
Douglass' for recuperating his for
tune.
"Lascelles secured an introduction
to tho American ambassador at Lon
don under the name of Beresford,
posing as a cousin of the English
lord of that name. Ile cultivated the
acquaintance of the American ambas
sador and Boon gained his confidence.
Beresford then represented In Hie
Ambassador that he was about totako
a trip to America and around tho
world. The ambassador Immediately
) ff er od him letters of Introduction to
runny well known society people of
\mericn, Including members of New
Vork's '100.' Lascelles secured moll?
ay and credit enough ns a member
if the Beresford family to buy a Lou
Ion wardrobe which was the wonder
>f New York. His clothes were cop
ied and he became lionized by Goth
am society. Ile was able, with com
parative lillie expense, to hold his
4wn, he was so constantly entertain
ed in the American metr?polis.
"After ho had obtained entry Into
Mew York society and had obtained
.'redit of hundreds of thousands ho
iocided to come South on a trip,
inned with letters from well-known
society people and business men. Ho
went to Home, Ga., where ho repre
sented himself as Lord Beresford,
Mimo to America as a representative
if un English syndicate in search of
Investment. The firm of Hamilton
fe Co., then the wealthiest in Hom??,
was nt the time selling agent for
10.000 acres of land. They tried to
interest the bogus lord In a trade.
"Lord Beresford became very
much Interested, In the meantime
doing the society stunt, and paying
much attention lo a young society
hello of that pince. Beresford luid
the genuine Beresford coat-of-arhta
DU everything lt could be placed.
I'hls coat-of-arms was on his private
check hook on the Hank of longland.
One day he WUK explaining to Hamil
ton & Co., the difference between
A mer len n ?ind Engl lah systems of
banking, lie showed his imposing
uh eek book and told how the checks
wore numbered In England. Then
in ?1 careless sort of way, he said to
Hamilton :
" 'By the way, I have been In
America for some limo, and have run
mort of ready cash. I would Uko to
have a change, don't yon know.
Could you led nie have ?i few hun
dreds or so?'
"Hamilton AX Co., mindful of the
[Cngltsh syndicate and prospective
trude, together with Beresford's let
ters, opened the company safe, giv
ing bim the money in large denomi
nations. With ;i cureless thanks,
Beresford thrust tho money Into tho
pocket of his trowers. and wrote oui
11 check on the Hank of lingi und for
$2,2 r> o.
The society stunt was kept up for
about a week afterward, when the
Lord Beresford (lissa lien red, having
neglected lo pay his hotel mid other
hills, ll was then learned that Heres
ford had forgotten to return dia
mond lilias and other tokens loaned
Ililli by society damsels.
"Beresford went from place to
place, currying out his nefarious
;chenies, with sleuths close behind
him. He married whenever :i wife
would be of any use to litf In curry
lng out his schemes. It is known
that ho hud ?il least sx or eight wives,
mid probably many ivoro times thal
number."
St>M10 GOOD ADVICE.
;iveii the Negro Preachers by a Ne
gro Preacher.
In ?in address to the Vlt'glnlft Ne
wo Baptist association, Kev. H. Il
Bowling, In speaking of thc progres;
Of t lie race, anld :
"lt is. indeed, wonderful io sec the
amount of our people have niven out
of their means for their education
?md they continue dally lo do this.
I el US through tho ministry lill Up
i lie moral standard of our race I .ol
f.ach man bo tho husband of one
wife, mid n niau with two living
wives is unlit to preach tho gospel.
I do not Hesitate to timko this asser
tion, ?Ot it CUl whom it may. And
wo must ((et rid of any mun who
would go around destroying homes
instead of building them up, and do
Hlroying the young utils of om- race.
Tho UOgrO must pay attention to ills
moral standing In Ibis country, as
Immoral people will never bo rocog
nixed. Lei us protect our women,
for lite hand thal rocks the cradle
rules the world "
rt mo NVOHSK TUAN DISEASE.
So-called IOvangelist Whips His Little
Son Nearly to Death.
Because he whipped his 12-year
old son for playing baseball on Sun
day, .1. ll. Arnold, a travel 11 ng re
vivalist was sentenced to six months
on the rock pile by Mayor Dorsey,
of Macon, Ga.
The physicians test Hied that the
boy was lashed nulli the flesh was a
pulp and thal he might not recover.
Arnold said it was a deadly sin to
piny haseball on Sunday and he had
ordered lils son not to play but tho
latter disobeyed and was even the
captain of tho team.
WILL SAVE LIFE.
The Government Planning to Pre
vent Sacrifice of Life in
COAL MINE HORRORS
That So Frequently Occur in This
And Other Countries. A Test lng
Station is Assured. The Effect
of Explosives on (Jases Will Uo
Noted. Demonstration of Appara
tus Vscd in Europe Will Bo Made.
Tho fuel division of the Geological
survey ls planning to make a deter
mined effort to stop tho terrible sac
rifice of life In the coal mines in the
United States. In 1006, 500 lives
were lost In Pennsylvania mines
alone. European countries are far
ahead of tbs country In mattors re
lating to the prevent at ion of disasters
In mines and In caring for miners
who are entombed, by entering the
mine before tho mon havo been
smothered by dust or gases.
An experiment station will he es
tablished in tho mining region In the
vlcnlty Of Pittsburg, where tests of
the various explosives used In blast
ing coal, will be made. The explo
sives will be projected by a mortar
into a vast boiler-plate cylinder Ulled
with gas, and the effects will be care
fully noted. If Ignition falls after
severe tests explosives will be known
as "permissible explosives," and their
use will be urged.
There will also bo experiments in
rescue work. One part of a station
will bo titted as a miniature mine,
and millers and operators will be
taught how to save llvos. It ls de
clared that hundreds of lives could
be saved were it possible for the res
cue party to enter the mine imme
diately. As ll ls now lire damp often
holds the men back Tor hours while
their comrades are being suffocated
or burned to death; Government ex
perts have found an apparatus in
Eurolie which, worn by resourers,
enables them to enter where there is
nus. The use of the apparatus will
be demonstrated.
Some of the recent mine explosions
in one state, West Virginia, are as
follows;
lied Ash. March 1!. 1 St0d', 24 killed.
Hush Hun, March 18, 190(5, Ul
killed.
RlUofleid Coal Dale mine, January
.t, 1900, 22 killed.
Paint Creek, Detriot mine, Janu
ary 18, 1906, 18 killed.
Fayette County, Paral mine, Feb
ruary 8, 1906, 22 killed.
Philippi Century mine. Mareil 25,
1906, 26 killed.
Fayette County, Stuart mine, Jan
uary 29, 1 ii(>7. 82 killed.
Fayette county. Whipple mine.
May 1. I !?07. 2 1 killed.
If tile experimental station is
erected within the Pittsburg coal dis
trict natural gas will be used for
testing purpose's. Safety valves will
lie placed all along the top ol' the
cylinder used in such a manner that
whenever lhere is au explosion they
will liv open. A series of port holes
covered willi one-half Inch glass
will enable those conducting the ex
periments lo witness the explosions
from tii.> observation house co feet
away.
N lNI ; Ul I,l.EI) IN FX Pl.OSION
Premature Firing of Dynamite Near
Alta Pass, Ni C.
Saturday afternoon while a force
of men were at work blasting on
i be South and Western railway on
the works of McCall y Pros, near Al
ta Pass, X. C.. an explosion occurred
in which nine men were almost in
stantly killed and four others were
seriously il not fatally injured. The
men were all employers of the rail
way company and were natives of the
Alla Pass section.
The force had drilled for a loan
blast, abd after placing the explo
sives in tho blast bole, and as the
force started to retreat, tho dyna
mite ll red promut uroly and the men
were hurled in every direction. Those
who were killed were terribly muti
lated .while the surviving workmen
are badly bruised and lacerated.
KILLED THEM.
Six Persons Fatally Poisoned by
Drinking Fresh Milk.
Six peoplo arc dead 111 Macon conn
ly, Tennessee, as tho result of drink
ing milk from a cow which is suppos
ed (o have been poisoned by OUllllg
milk weed.
.bdiii Love, aged 70, and Harry
doi ngod if>, died Thursday. John
vb.ss. tallier ol' Harry, and Noel.
Vnnie and Addie Love, children Ol
lohn Love died hist week. No others
are ill OS all who drank I he milk are
now dead.
V EH V ST I IAN GE (ASE.
Blade of Grass (iocs Through The
Lungs of Child.
Al Warri hlon, Ga., W. W. Pilcher
has taken from tho bael; Of the little
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. De
Heaugt'lno, a blade Of grass that had
Ween swallowed several days ago.
The grass entered tho wind pipe
and Worked its way from Hiere
through tho right lung, coming out
just below tho shoulder blade. The
little girl had some hemorrhages,
but al present is doing well.
I '.VIDE lie I Nt 'I DENT.
Pride and (?room Killed in (be Same
Accident.
One of the most pathetic ol' scenes
was caused by the wrecking of the
hain Willi the Shrlnors on it 111
California loni week. ll was tho
death ?d' a bride and groom, at al
most tho same Instant, each bellov
in,; tho oilier id ill living. They were
thrown from the coach on opposite
sides of tho train. "Tell my wife that
I am alright," niurniered Ellenton to
the physician, "give her my love and
let me know how she ia." Ml'S, El
lenton in return sent a message of
love to ber husband. Before lt could
bo carried the husband was dead.
HORSE ATE GOLD
That Was Stored Away in a Sack
of Wheat
Their $110 Ls Gone, Father Won't
Have Horse Killed-Two Stable
men Ari! Arrested.
Toodles, an aged roan gelding, who
used to draw u wagon for the food
store business of Isreal Wishnosskie,
to 1893 First avenue, Now York
city, might under ordinary circum
stances bring $17 at auction, but at
the present time he ls very valuable
pleco of horseflesh. It ls highly prob
able that ff some one were to offer
$140 for him it would be peremp
torily declined.
Paulino, Rose and Yetta, tho young
daughters oT the owner of tho horse,
take tho greatest interest in the aged
beast for tho reason that the suspect
he ls carrying in his Interior $H0 in
gold coin that they have been saving
for years. Yelta, the eldest, who is
seventeen, and works at cigarmnklng,
had saved $105 of the total, nnd
Rose, aged thirteen, had put by the
remaining $!{[>.
They wore in doubt about the best
pince in which to keep their board,
and, after a consultation, decided
that a bag of oats lu (he feed store
would make ?in Id?al hiding place for
Ibo gold. They weal lo the hag at
Intervals lo count tho coins, and were
horrified Tuesday morning to find
thal the bag had dlssapearod. Tho
girls went to the stuhle hands, two
polish young men. who Informed the
girls t li ii t they had taken that partic
ular bag of oats to feed Toodles, and
Huit a largo part of lt had gone to
ward his Supper Sunday night and
his breakfast Monday morning.
Then a veterinary surgeon was
called, und tho girls suggested that
ho cut Toodles open in order to get
their gold. The fut Inn- declared that
ho would not sacrifice the horse for
the money, and a less heroic method
was tried hut without success.
Then the young women sought the
aid of tho police ami went to the
104 street station, where they wept
opiottsly while telling tho story to
Ciipt. Corcoran. They wanted the
two Poles arrested, ?ind this was
done. Thoy gave their names as Alex
ander Yesahitz ?md Resclo Zenkav
tch, and when they were arralnwd In
.he Harlem police court they were
add in $500 each for trial in special
sessions. They denied seeing any
?io ld coins in the oats hag, which they
said they poured Into the feed box
for Toodles.
KILLED HUH SON-IN-LAW.
The Tragedy Occurred While Man
Lay in Drunken Stupor.
At Huntsville. Ala,, angered be
cause her son-in-law, Crank Albright,
bad come home drunk and nut tho
family away from home, by his vio
lent actions, Mrs. Mattie Connally
killed tho man by shooting him with
a shotgun, as he lay hi a drunken
stupor on his bbd.
Tho tragedy occurred In Maysvllle
Saturday night, and on the evidence
secured by the coroner's jury. Mrs.
Connally hus been lodged in jail, and
('bailie Chadwick, a l?-yonr-old hoy,
has been pul in jail as au accessory.
Albright was a merchant, about 30
years old. Ile was drunk In Hunts
ville Sal unlay and w hen he went
home thal night he was violent.
His wile and children lied, bul Hie
mother-in-law rom a I nod and sent
Chadwick lo ;i neighbor's house for
ammunition, with which she killed
tho drunken man.
Mrs. Connally is 45 years of age,
is divorced from her husband and is
tho mother of eleven children.
OLD .MAN DI KS.
Said to He One Hundred and Twenty
Seven Voa I'M Old.
A dispatch from Spartanburg to
The Slate says Adam Frost, colored,
said to bo about 127 years old, died
onriy Thursday morning between
Cedar Springs and Rich Hill. I'ntil
within the last few days Adam Frost
was in I he best of health.
According to his own story, given
a newspaper man a few weeks ago.
Adam Frost was born oil Sullivan's
Island III 1780; His first owner was
a mau named Hunter, who sold him
to Col. Drayton. Dofot'0 the Civil
War he was bought Dj Dr. Frost and
tho old negro lived willi the Frost
family until after the.war.
During Ibo Civil war the family of
Dr. Fros! refit good lo this county and
localed til Cedar Springs. The old
building that was formerly used ?is
tito colored institute for the deaf,
dumb and blind at Cedar Springs
was built by Dr. Frost. When the
Frost family returned to Charles
ton Adam remained in this county.
NFC, |{(HOS HOLD Fl? NlUOilOIOS
Highwaymen Arrested and Locked
l p in the Jail.
Last Saturday night at Custon
Shoals, where the Drave company ls
work tig OU lliO big dam across Broad
river a negro named Will Hyars
"held up" another negri) named Da
vis Petty, nnd relieved him of $20,
Hyars used a .38 calibre revolver
,r a persuader. Bynrs was carried
lo Un ff'A Cy and lodged In jail. He also
was bound over to court on the
charge of soiling whiskey. Byars
bas a brother who is also in jail for
selling whiskey al the dani.
A negro named John Henderson
was also held lip at the point of ft
pistol by another negro ai the South
ern power plant at the Ni net y-Nine
islands and compelled to disgorge
three "sltuolaons." This negro was
committed to Jail by Magistrate Li
g?n of Blacksburg.
HOMICIDIO IN MACON.
Tom Rattle, Well Known Citizen,
Kills I). M. Reny.
Tom Hattie, a well known citizen
ami foreman on th?? new United
Slates building al Macon, (?n.. struck
I). M. Berry on Hu? head Thursday
with an iron bolt, knocking Berry
to tin? floor breaking his neck ned
killing him almost instantly. The
homicide occurred on territory of tho
United Slate government and war
rant was Issued from tho Hulled
States court for Hallie. Berry was
2 0 years old and leaves a young wife
having been married but six weeks.
BRYAN THE MAN.
i
Senator Tillman Says He ls the
Logical Candidate
Ho Think? that tho Vice-Presidential
Cnndiduto Should Como From the
South^&^t
"It timk s tjb fte," Haid Senator Hen
Tillman, of So'ii th Carolina, who pass
ed thron' Augusta on Thursday, "as
if tho Domocrats will have to nomi
nate Bryan for tho presdency next
year. Ho seems to he tho only logi
on! man. Ho will have as a running
mato soino substantial Southorn man,
probat.ly Culborson of Texas, Hoke
Smith of Georgia, or Daniel of Vir
ginia.
"If a Southerner is not placed on
tho ticket the field will be spilt, lt
is a pity that we cannot have a
Southorn man flirt on the ticket, but
the conservative Democracy of the
South understands that sectional pre
judice has not sufficiently died out
yet to remove a dangerous element
of chance*
"It ls Hine for the Homoerotic par
ty to stop offering obsolete million
aires for tho vice preddency, espec
ially when they have nothing but
niOMey to recommend them. I refer
to Sowell who ran with Hryan the
first time and Henry Onssaway Davis
who ran with Parker. Mr. Hryan is a
clean and able man, and has the con
fidence of the people, although I do
not sympathise with his theory of
government ownership.
"I cnn seo no other man in the
ranks of northern democrats looming
up as a presidential possibility. The
trouble with most Northern Demo
crats ls that they have become ward
heelers.
"Joe Halley has been spoken of in
connection with presidency but
he is down and out so far as politics
ls concerned. I do not believe that
thu charges against him n connection
with the Standard Oil company are
true, but they have had a certain ef
fect with the public Hailey got Into
laid company and was found out.
"Mr. RoosovoH ls very anxious to
>e pdesldent again and will be a can
didate If he cnn KO manipulate the
lit nation as to make the proposition
'.onie in accordance with his Ideas
is to how it should be brought about
lut ho won't got the nomination If
ho Itopublclan politicians cnn Pro
zent ll.
The Taft lil seems lo have
iprung jointly between the white
louse and Ohio. So far as I am
\ble to observe, ll has not gone much
'Hither, either. 1 might say that the
[.\>raker boom has not made very
much pi ogres. Vice President Fair
>anks should not be overlooked as a
iresldontlal possibility on the presl
lenPil platform. He is a strong
mon. ! do not think much of the
[Iuglies boom."
PilllllNU PASTOK
IV ho Mel His Alllnily Succeeded by
His Wife.
Mrs. 1). M. Carpenter has been
elected temporary pastor of her hus
miid's Holiness church, in Harring
oii, twonty miles south of Dover,
Ooh, while tho Hov. Mr. Carpenter's
thereabouts ls unknown, supposed
y, to the official board.
He dlssapeared from Harrington
ifter tho existence of lils "soul af
llnlty" bad become known through
:he publishing of a letter which the
?astor ls said to have admitted send
ing to tho recorder of deeds by mls
ake. lt was Intended, it was said,
for Miss Della Hood rich, a young wo
man of his church.
Thc "soul affinity" whom the min
ister addressed in the missent letter
is "Oh, precious, prend?os, precious,
.birling, little Della wife," ls not
blamed by Mrs. Carpenter, who ls a
mature woman o? exceptional men
ial attainments, mother of the minis
ter's seventeen-year-old sou.
The girl ls young and pretty, and
Mrs. Carpenter said she believed lici
to be Innocent of wrong Intent and a
victim Of hypnotic influence exerted
by Carpenter, who, hts wife said, had
talked so much of late of "soul in
finity" that she believed his mind had
become unbalanced.
THF FAT HOVT
Small Fee Charged hy Mother to See
the Haby.
Mrs. Herbert Hrockwell. pf CliOS
torilold county, Va., twenty-seven
years of agc, ls the mother ot what
she bol leveS to be tho champion
heavy-weight haby of the world.
Tho hoy. Andrew Thomas Hrock
well. eleven months old, weight fi fi
pounds, and ls physically In tho pink
?if condition. The child weighed 1 f>
pounds and 7 ounces at his birth. He
was born with a full suit of raven
black bair.
The thrifty young mother, on ac
count of the large number of people
coming daily lo see ber baby has
suspondod n sign from her front
porch announcing au admission lee
of 10 cents.
PHOVFD SFHIHI'S.
Several School Hoys Humed by a
Pract leal 1 lemons! rat ion.
A teacher in the graded school at
Darlington Thursday morning was
planning lo give her class a practi
cal demonstration of volcanic erup
tion. A pile of dirt was boa ped up
over some gunpowder. By some
means (tere was a premature ex
plosion and three or four of tho boys
were blackened and painfully bumed
about the face and hands. Medical
aid was summoned, however, and
there were no serious results.
TIMID: OF CANNIBALS.
llave Been Discovered Who Sell and
Fat Human Flesh.
A correspondent of the Cologne
ClazOtte writing from the South Cam
eroons says thal tho Maka, the negro
tribe inhabitating the territory be
tween the second and sixth degrees
north latitude are cannibals and not
only eat captives but criminals w..o
have boen cordemned to death.
The correspondent observed human
flesh exposed for sale In the markets.
The smallest offenses, be says, aro
punished with death In order to se
cure a constant supply for consum?)
Hon.
OWNED SLAVES
Some Charleston History Not
Very Generally Known.
RICH COLORED FOLKS
Who Owned mid Controlled Negro
Slaves, tho Haine ns White People,
Vp to tho Close of the Confederate
War. They Were Very Intelligent
And Stood Well Among thc White
People.
There were a Rood many negroes
who owned negro slaves in the South
before the war, says the News and
Courier. In the "List of tho Tax
payers "of the City of Charleston,
18(10, published by Evans & Cogs
well In 1861, the names of one hun
dred nnd thirty-two colored people
who owned and paid taxes on threo
hundred and ninety slaves in Char
leston. The tax on slaves was $3
por capita, and the amount paid on
the negroes owned hy negroes In
this town at the beginning of the war
aggregated $1.170. Doubtless there
wore other slaveholders among the
negroes in other parts of the State,
but of these wo have no record.
There wore negro slaveholders also
In other parts of the South. Mr. J.
J. Wood, of Columbus, Ca., recently
told the Enquirer-Sun, of that city,
an interesting story about the free
negro persons who owned slaves In
their own right in that community,
?lie of these slaveholders was Dob
Parker, who ran a line of drays lu
Columbus, owning his hands and
J rays. Ile also owned negro women
md children. Dilsoy Pope owned
ier husband and hired him out, and
alien he offended her in some way
die got rid of him by selling him to
Colonel Seaborn .Iones. .Joe Clark,
mother negro in Columbus, a barber
>y trade, owned and worked negroes
vhom he bought. If the DUsey Pope
dan could only be adopted nowadays
imong tho white people lt might be
iractlcable to rid the community of
?onie very trilling husbands: hut that
s another matter.
There were more negro slavehold
ers in Charleston than in any other
(immunity In this State; certainly
hore was a larger number of "free
lersons of color" here than in any
?thor city In the South, with the ex
option probably of New Orleans. In
his class were Included SOVOIl Indian
amilles who had consorted with the
legr?os. Some of the family names
?f the free persons of color who
lourished lien? and owned slaves are
till be to found In the City Directory
nd there are many of their decen
ants still living, but most of tho obi
lave-holding negroes have left no
ign that they ever existed. The Wes
on family wns tho largest and most
mportant of tho free negro families
Iving bore, and they were all very
;ood people. The free negroes gen
ially held themselves In high esteem
nd were respected by their white
lelghboto.
There were 361 taxpayers among
hem and lil I SGI thoy paid taxes on
eal estate that was valued at $759,
170. The rate of taxation on real
state was $1.40 per cent, so that
hese people paid into the City Treas
iry on account of their real estate
Klidings, slave property and other
ixntlons of tho munlclpinl govern
nent. $1-2.208.1 4.
The largest owners of slaves
iinong (he colored people here were
t. E. Hereof (Indian) and Maria
Veston, each of whom had fourteen
laves. Amos Baxter owned iii,
elizabeth Duprat and George Shrows
iery each owned 12, Phoebe Lowis
?wned ll, .lames Johnston owned Kl,
Jamuel Weston (Trustee) owned S.
"?eter H. Malthews and Jacob Wes
0n each owned 7. J. A. Sasportas
ind Loulas Decostor each owned 5,
md others whose names are not so
amlllar oWHOd from 1 to 0. The
ingest taxpayer among the "free
lersons of color" was Marla Weston
vbo owned $40,075 worth of real es
ate and paid $0 13.05 taxes. Other
arge taxpayers among these people
vere as follows:
Hoheit Howard, real estate $3 3,
100, slaves 5, tuxes $4 il 1.
ll. E. Dereef. real estate $23,000.
daves 1 4, taxes $384.
William McKinlay, real estate
125,000, slaves . , taxes $354.48.
Joseph Dereef. (Indian.' real es
ate $ ll!,000, slaves 0, taxes $2 4 2.
Ellas Cardia, (Indian,) real es
ate, $14.000. slaves 3. taxes $227.
John H. Francis, real estate, $11,
B00, slaves 7, taxes $182.40.
Jacob Weston, real estate $11,00(1,
daves 2. taxes $178.4 0.
Francis St. Marks, real estate $11,
">50, slaves 3, taxes $ 1 70.70.
George Shrewsbory, real estate
$5,500, slaves 12. taxes $153.
Sam md Weston, real estate $9,
300, slaves 12, taxes $133.20.
H. Holloway, realestate $9,2 00,
daves 1 2, taxes $1 3 1.80.
.1. A. Sasportas. real estate $0.700,
?daves 5, tuxes $1 1 8,80.
Thomas lt. Small, real estate, $7,
;{00. slaves 3. taxes $ 1 1 1,2 0.
Janies? Johnson, real estate $7,300
slaves I 0, taxes $ 1 02.20.
Some of the "free persons of color"
became prominent in the politics <>l
Hie city and State after the close of
the war. and lill of them who went
into polities were allied with the He
publican party. Artson was a con
spicuous name in the Reconstruction
days of the State, and Sasportas,
Deas, De Large, Elle, Grant, McKin
lay. Shrewsbory nnd Muahlngton
wore also prominent at that tino?.
The colored people returned 32
horses for taxation, and several of
them ownod carriages. They had no
political privileges but they were
amply protected In all their civil
rights and were free to buy and sell
and lo engage in whatever legitimate
commercial enterprise or Industrial i
undertaking they pleased. How]
thoy became into possession of the
slaves they owned, whether by gift
or hy purchase, we do not know, al
though we were Informed, thal those
colored people bought their slaves
Just as slaves were purchased by the
white people, and that they managed
them very much in the same way.
The free colored people of Charleston
were generally a very Intelligent folk,
and have always composed tho O0?01"
ed aristocracy of the town. H .?
true, ns the Washington Herald says,
that "the negro was not wholly
I've, se. when possessed of hj moariS
llIui ,be opportunity, to de ??K J?
his own fiosh and blood It is not
remarkable that ho should have felt
MUSIC AGENTS GAME
lt is Said He Caught Many Suck
ers In Suffolk, Va.
Ho Operated In Columbia and Ia
OI von n Good Send Off by Tho Ile
cord of that City.
Thursday evening a very plausible
white man called on Hov. J. H. John
son, of Columbia, representing him
self ns tho agent of a Philadelphia
music publishing house. Ho had
music bnrguns galore, which he per
suasively offered, promising to throw
in a subscription to a musical journal
ns a bonus for purchase of some
shoot music. The Reverend, says
tho Record, invested $3 and tho
agent promptly loft.
Then the ministor picked up The
Record, hud began reading it. He
had not gone very far before his eye
Was caught hy tho following dis
patch:
"Suffolk, Va., May 13.-An agent,
claiming to represent a Philadelphia
musical magazine and other publi
cations, has, within tho past few days
swindled numbers of Suffolk poople,
principally music teachers and pupils
He took orders at cut rates, collect
ing in advance and neglecting to turn
in the cash.
"A lettter from a publishing house
disclaims his authority, and offers to
pay any reasonable sum to effect his
arrest, saying he has operated in
other cities using a different alias in
each new Held."
Not being given to the use of slang
he dd not exclaim "Stung!" but he
thought lt. Suspicious circumstances
hogan to flash upon his mind. The
receipt given him for $3 was made
;>n an ordinary receipt form that can
he bought in any hook store, lt did
riot hind any music paper or publish
ing house, only "R. L. Halley," the
signer, to supply the ordored sheet
iusle and ?end the monthly musical
journal. Mr. "Hailey" had told Rev.
lohnston he was staying at the Col
li in bia hotel, so tho preacher went
Lhere, but there was no such name on
be register and no guest by that
mme stopping there.
More than ever convinced that he ?
.vas flimflammed, Parson Johnson <
vent home. Mr. "Halley" had told |
ihn he was going to Chester on the ]
.arly morning train, so be went to j
he depot in the hope of catching
lim, but, of course, the music agent |
vas not In sight. (
Rev. Mr. Johnson thought it but ,
iroper lo make bis experience public, ]
or the benefit of others. t
Mr. "Halley" may be all right and f
ils "bargain lots" may be sent to tho ?
mrchaser, but it is a safe rule never ,
o buy from any peripatetic agent j
vho insists on cash with order.
A favorite game with swindlers is ?
o represent themselves as agents, j
nit the gafe ls profitless unless they t
an collect In advance. .
SPECIAL DELIVERY LETTERS
liter July They WU! Not Require <
Special Stumps. I
No special delivery postage stamps }
viii be needed after July, to insure (
inmediate delivery of a letter. Post- I
naster General Meyer has issued an :
irder that, on and after July 1 next, I
f there ls attached to any letter or i
lackage of mall matter 10 cents' 1
vorth of stamps, of any denomina- ?
lon, with tho words "special dellv- i
?ry" written or printed on the enve- 1
opo or covering, lu addition to the
tostage required for ordinary dellv- i
jry, the article will bo handled ns If t
t bore a r?gul?tionspecial delivery I
damp. This change ls made possl- s
de by an act of the last Congress. t
The Postmaster General has de- I
dded also to recommend to Congress 1
in amendment to tho present law. i
vbereby such letters may bo left at |
heir destinations without procuring (
receipts in all cases. The amend- ?
neut would enable tho department 1
o deposit such letters in receptacles 1
?ontrolled by the adress?e, and got a :
receipt later. Until Congress can act,
However, a broader construction of
Lhe present law will be given, so that
receipt will bo accepted from any ono
occupying tho premises to whom or
dinary mall might he given.
10AGLK KlOI/iHS CHILD.
Pother Pulls Down Hird and Its Prey
With a Rake.
A little child belonging to 1). M.
Rigee, a merchant of Hraxton coun
ty, W. Va., was nearly carried away
by a large bald eagle. The child
was playing in the doorway of Its
home, when the immense bird swoop
ed down, catching the child about
tho shoulder and waist with Its
(daws.
The screams of the little ono at
tracted Its father who caine out of
lils store just as the bird was rising
with tho child. Mr. Higee Imme
diately seized one of the rakes which
he had on display in front of his
store, and with it literally raked the
hird and child down.
The child v.as injured but little,
while tho parent managed to deal
tho bird several telling blows with
the rake. Despite this it managed
to fly to some tall trees nearby,
where, while nursing its injuries, it
was killed by a rifle ball. The eagle
ls one of tho largest ever seen there.
('OHEY-GILMAN WEDDING.
ls Roughly Criticised hy the Georgian
of A.tinta.
Tho Atlanta Georgian thinks some
pretty hard things about the Corey
Gilman wedding, and lt says them In
print. For instance: "The man should
have carried his bedlzzoned siren to
a wilderness. and there lu the forest
at midnight, without witnesses eave
the priest, yoked up with the act
ress he never ought to have known."
Hut how then asks the Charleston
Post would The Georgian have beeil
able to publish a three-column pic
ture of the "bedlzzened siren" and a
flaring account of tho wedding on its
first page?
no scruples upon this score in vlow
of the fact that in his Fatherland
the slavo trndo found Its largest de
velopment. '/?
There ls ample material in Char
leston for tho making of ono of thc
most Interesting hooks covorlng the
slave period in this country.
WAS FOUND OUT
By a Love Letter That Fell Into
the Wrong Hands.
AFTER BEING FREED
Tho Old Rascal Defends Ills Illicit
IJOVO A hair. Pretends That His
Legal Wifo Wa? Never Ills Af.
fiiiity, and Tlint Ho Met A Young
Woman ?nd Loved Her on First
Sight.
"Whatever tho world may think
of my actions. I know I havo dono no
wrong in the sight of Heaven. I
novor loved my wife; and God in
tended Dolla to bo my enmity."
With this romarkablo statemont,
tho Rev. Do Witt Maynarn Carpen
tor, whose infatuation for a vouug
woman who was his former assistant
pastor n the Aspostollc Holiness Un
ion church, nt Harrington, Dol.,ex
plnined the disclosures that carno to
tho oars of his congregation through
the strange delivery or a love lotter
to the wrong person.
Ry mistake Carpenter mailed to
the recorder of deeds of Kent county
a forvont letter to tho woman, and
tho recorder taking n wide interpre
tation of his official tltlo, recorded
the matter and notified tho trusteos
of the churrh.
Moanwhile tho pastor has loft
town, presumably for parts unknown
His heart-broken wife and his two
sons, ono of whom Roliiis, sevonteon
years old, lived with his parents,
have no knowledge of his destination!
Refore bis departure, Carpouter
spoke froely of his love for Miss Dolla
Goodrich, who is now in a tow? In
the western part of Pennsylvania.
"Whom God hath united let no
man put asunder," he said, speaking
of Miss Goodrich. "I married Mrs.
Carpenter thirty years ago. Sho was
Miss Vola Pilling, and lived not far
from Johnston. I thought I loved
her before I wedded, but immediately
ly after thc ceremony I realized I
had made a mistake. I know that she
was not my affinity. I have alwaya
tried to trent ker kindly, but sho has
known ns well as I that there was
not a porfect oneness between us.
"When I met Della six years ago,
[ knew at once that God had intond
id us for each other. Sho was in
)erfect accord with me, but ns I was
harried T did not permit hor to on
er my life at that timo. Dater whop
dio came down hero, the conviction
locarno stronger that she was really
ny wife and that Mrs. Carpontor was
mt.
"It ls hard to explain such things
0 persons who do not understand
ho wnys of heaven, and therefore wo
lld not. mention lt to our congrega
ron. I cannot understand how I
nade the mistake of the letters. I
vas In a hurry to got thom malled
ind placed Delia's letter in tho wrong
>n velo pe. That is all there ls to it.
Phe recorder of deeds, bow-ever, had
io right to keep the letter.
"He should have sent It back to
ne without making it public and
:ausing all this trouble and mlsap
irehonsion. I have decided to go
iway from here, and that lt ls the
test that I aeperate from my wife.
She agrees with me and I have ad
vised her to try to get a divorce soon.
5he will probably continue here for
1 time, as the congregation has a
ligh regard for her."
Carpouter declined to say where he
.vas going or whether he Intends to
ieo Miss Good rick. He also rofused
o say where she ls located at pro
mut. Mrs. Carpenter, whose grief is
empered somewhat by the fact that
he blow has not been unexpected hy
:ier, said that she thought her hus
band's mind hod been unbalanced
Tor some time, or ever slnco Miss
[Joodrich had como to Harrington.
She has known of tho almost daily
letters that he has sent to the young
woman since she went away. Sho
said the pastor would arise in tho
morning as early as flvo o'clock to
svrite them and would hurry to the
postofllce to get them off on tho 6:3 0
train.
Members of the congregation aro
amazed at tho revelations. "He was
one of the most magnetic, men I ever
met," declared one of them. "Tho
congregation Idolized him."
At the regular weekly prayer meet
ing while tho pastor and his wife sat
with bowed heads lu the library of
their home, across the street from
the church, Cyrus N. Grant, presi
dent of the board of trustees, led tho
meeting.
A remarkable demonstratio" or
grief characterized tho gathc .ng
(.very person in tho church was In
tears until lt adjourned, and an out
sider would have thought that Homo
calamity such as a plague had afflict
ed every household represented.
Following the meeting, men, women
and children flocked to the pastor's
house and offered their sympathies to
Mrs. Carpenter.
Thc pastor, unable to meet bis fol
lowers, went to thc rear yard and
paced up and down under the shad o
trees. Two men were detailed to
watch him lest he should try to do
himself injury. Date lu the night,
after the callers had gone, he packed
two valises and left town by the
first morning train.
HIS MOTH MK SHOT H?M\
The Sad Fate That Retell a Practical
Jocker.
A shoo?lng took place near Taylor,
Texas, on Thursday night as tho re
sult of a practical joke. Returning
home, Dee MeFalls, a young man,
appeared at the window to frighten
the children of the house. His moth
er believing it to e a burglar, tired
through tho wondow, inflicting sev
eral wounds, from tho effects of
which lt is believed tho young man
cannot recover.
SENSATIONAL AFFRAY.
Man Shot Five Times nt Jonesville,
Disarmed His Assailant.
As a result of a very sensational
shooting at Jonesville Thursday
night, S. M. Gilmore who was shot
Ave limes by James W. Gnllman, died
at noon Friday.
After discharging his revolver,
Hallinan was disarmed by Gilmore,
who boat him sovoroly on the hoad
with tho woapon Roth mon aro
j prominently connected: