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y r % VMY SHOUT CHOP. The Most fign heart Phaso of the Cotton P itu ilion 1h lln ll'muai k&bi> Kir'y Opening of the Ht?|?lc. lc Will All bo i Picked in a Hhurt Time. The most significant phase of the cotton situation Is the remarkably early opening of the crop, savs the Progressive Farmer and Cotton Plant, of ltileigh, Is' C. Everybody knows that the yield is very mush smaller than last year, but the governmt nt rep >rt shows that. ginulug receipts an heavier than t hey were to this dau last HPfUnn An iinri RlIiUOi w?> nr tics that In s me places throe f urths of the crop is ready for plckirg At t)ie Ashevillc meeting we heard similar conditions reported from other States, and in Richmond last we-k President .J >rdan told the writer that the early opening is general througnout tho Cotton 11 It. Now this condition, it seems to us, cannot fall to have its < ir*ct upon the. market. Early opening meana early ginning?heavy receipts In all the gin neriea in the early part of the season; and the general public Is likely to have this Increase in ginning receipts as indicating a large crop of cotion. Last year's crop proved to he so much heavier than anybody suspected prior to the G >vernmerit's December report, that the cotton wor d will he ivady to jump at the cocc usl( n that this sea son's yield may also have been underestimated. With this unusual condition of the crop favoring the plans of the bears, therefore, it Is quite )ik<ly that they may be alls to keep down the price of cotton beiow hs true value until the actual size of the c op becomes known ?that is to s\y, until tho Inevitable d.V?Unr* in nlnnlnn roni inta nrnumi t.tiut I .... n.uu.up Jv?.f a|??v>v? tbe crop is really a small one For iti is reallv a small crop?no doubt of that. The Government cou ditlon tlgures with the Govern meat acres ge estlmai e, as we said l*st week, indicate a crop of only 9,97(1 333 bales; with the Cotton Association's acreage estimate 9 562.514 bales. If the Cotton Association had based its estimate solely on the condition of tbe crop re' ported to it?seventy three per cent of last year?it would have pred'oied only 8,500,000 bales instead of 9,600,000. To sum up; the crop Is small, but the heavy ginning receipts early in the season may keep prices b?low what they should be. If so, they will advance to higher levels after the real s 7.0 of the crop becomes known. And unless there Is a phenomenally favorable season from now on, it looks to us as if farmers have everything to gain and nothing to lose by holding for higher prices. The Progressive Farmers and Cotton Plant is right, its estimate tallies with our experience exactly. The crop is short, much shorter than many farmers therafelves suspect, but the prices may he kept down by the heavy receipts at tbe ginneries, but the farmers should not he fooled by this condition and rush their cotton on the market. This would be dis asw(U8 10 prices. it is cur tirm belief that if cotton 1* marketed slowly the prices will go to twelve cents. We expect a rapid rise in prices when the size of the crop is revealed by the government reports later on. A Quo**I Will. Miss Fannie Weeks, a treasury clerk who was kilkd by falling Into a geyser in Yellowstone Park, lift a peculiar will which was filed for probate to.lay. Directions for her funeral in the will foliow: "The casket shall not cost over $75. Interment shall be at lt)ck Creek Cemetery, on high grcuid, in full sunshiue. My grave shall be linefi, bottom and sides, with granite blccks, not less than one foot thick." "A granite monument shall be placed at my grave. It shall not oost more than $80, and shall bear the following inscription: " 'Miss Fannie A. Weeks, died such a date. He giventh his beloved sleep.' "My funeral shall be held from the New Yolk Avenue Presbyterian Church. Tho Order of the Eistern Star shall cdictate. Mr. Wright on O street, northwest, shall be the undertaker." PoiHoncd by Opium. At Salt Lake City, Utah, a Chinese woman called the police to a building at 53 Piurn alley, where, on the third floor, the otlicers found a dead Chinese, sitting both upright on a cot while in the same room another Chinese, wnu appeared u) ne insane, iiaa kindled a lire on the floor, apparently in an attempt to destroy the building. On the floor below, the police found "Eddie" Merode, a white man, apparently dying of opium poisoning. Merode Is an acrobat, who recently has been giving exhibitions In Virginia vaudeville houses. He died later. His true name was E. J, Raer. An acquaintance said that he was the son of a wealthy cotton manufacturer, now deceased, of Wilmington, N. O. Several years ago, said the friend, Raer received $30,000 from his father's estate which he spent b of ore going into the show business. N > Nefcroe8 Wanted. In the great council of the Improved Order of Rod Men in session at Nashville, Tenn., a resolution was offered on Tuesday by the West Virginia delegation against the organization of negro tribes of Red Men, and requesting that the ritual be 1 copyriguted. A THE LAND OF MURDER. Ten Thousand Murders (Joiiimlttei) Much Yoar In America. The Nashville American nays statls tics show that tile average number of murders commltt (1 aiiLUtllv in this country is about 10.000. A lar^o per <.ent of murderejs are inadequately punished or escape punishment entirely. The crime cf murder is more common in the Unltfd S'ates than in any other oountrv. T.iat is btexust It is comparatively easy to escape punishment. The need cf reform of our criminal court system Is apparent. Too touch latitude to tftvon criminal lawyeia. In r?o other country is there such unrestrained license to insult w)uus>es on the stand; to attack * i - - - uurar uuttrauber* oc.rore cue jnrv; to appeal to the passions and pr* judlc.es of ignorant jurors, to pick jurors; to secure continuances with the view to wearing tho case out, etc. These praotloes arc tolerated through custom, but custom docs not make them right. Discussing the appaling number of murders, the number of murderers who esoape punishment, and remedies for correcting the evil, theCirclnattl Enquirer savs: "There should be no attempt to inlluence juries, nor should they permit them-telves to be sway; d by at.y consideration except the facts The trial shcud be a pi Tf< ctly calm and dignified procedure to hong out and establish facts, ar d counsel on both sides should he restraintd from such unworthy exhibitions :\s are frequently made in trials. Would it not bo fair to the accused, and would it not contribute to the dignity, lrupar tlality and even-headed justice of tr als, to provide for government defense as well as government pro-r outloL? Existing coudltlons, as is well ktiOA'n, produce at ncarl" **"* " bar i> cl ass of criminal law. foster crime, and practically go . $ vit.h the criminals, in ruder to get their fees. Should tho government tcke eutire charge of ttie administration of crirc Jnal Justice, they would, to everybody's advantage, be driven cut of business." All persons charged with the c^mmisslou i f crime are pniltlerl to a fair and Impartial tri tl. Z alous prosecutlon attorne>s sLculd not mako an effjrt to cjnvicu when there Is ru proof of guilt. It Is a crime to convict an innocent man. It is also a crime to allow the v.ulty to go un punished through methods designed ,'.nd intended to defeat justice. No honorable Jaw} er would si ek to do either, and no court should permit such prac.ic s. REFUND TO GIVE AID To a lie At in IViutrcMH and Ijr.Bt His liiOCHHO. A dispatch from Washington says the failure, of Capt. W. II. Ilotvillc, as master of the United Fruit company's ship Oueri, to give assistance to the United States steamship Sylph, which was disabled otT the coast of North Carolina on the night of April I y? hnu pnut him Vila n.Milt I ->r. J A AO pjtn 1U11 ILMUll^U the revocation of his licence by tlie United States steamboat iiv;p cticn service. This action wastskenby inspection (ilioers at Norfolk, Vi., on September 12, and 1 he correspondence made public Tuesday by the depart mcnt of commerce and labor. Tbe distress of tho Sylph occurred while Lieut. Evans was bringing the vessel up tbe c iast from Florid i, where it had been used by Mrs. Iloosevelt and lier children for a cruise. It appears from the evidence gathered by tbe steamboat Inspection service thatOapt. Hotvllle made little effort to aid tbe Sylph. The accusation of Lieut. Evans and the reply of Capt. Hotvllle do not materially dilfar rxcept that Hotvllle o lie red an excuse for his action. In the Inspection service It is said this excuse was the most damaging evidence obtained. Lieut. Evans says in his report that he was entirely helpless and the Oteri knew it. He then tells of the rosoue on th8 morning of the 13th by the Morgan liner El Cid, which put about from her course to New Orleans. The Sy.'ph was taken in tow but its condition was so bad that the Morgan liner was compelled to slow down from ten to live knots and later to three knots an hour. Toe report of Lieut. Evans closed with the statement: "1 am tirmly convinced that had the Ei Cid not taken us into no *t. t.h? s.ln>-> and all hor people would have been lost." The report of the inspector ssys the Sylph had broken down and asked to be taken In tow, and that Oapt. Ilotvllle failed to slow down for the alleged reason that at the time the Sylph was spoken to the telegram system on the Oterl became impaired and there was no direct manner of sending word to the engine room for a reversal *of the engines. The inspectors held that this excuse showed the master to te a man without resources and on that ground and negligence revoked his license. Will Push lr. Gov. ITeyward will push the investigation as to the lynching of the negro at Ilonea Path, aud every effort will be made to have the guilty par ties held accountable. Strange to say, there were several members of tho mob that were recognized by men on the ooroner's Jury, yet a verdict was rendered that the negro come to his death by "parties unknown to tho jury. THEY LYNCHED HIM. Full Account of Fow a Murder Was A ve ged by a Mob, Seven Men Clutrjjotl With the liming <)!'.Allen Pendleton. V*rr?ntH Kwoi ii out lor Them. Sunday night, Sept. 17, about. 8 o'clock, about two miles below Konea Path, In Aobevllie c uut.v, Allen Pendleton, colored, scabbed .Lis. Moore, a young while man 10 death. Jim Mjore at (1 b!s cou3ln, McDonald, a mere toy, wore driving and locked wheels with Pendleton. This oaued words and Pendleton sprung Di m I is buggy and stabbed M .ore. who bad already alighted fr m tits buggy, four times with a large knife. One thrust pissed through the jugular vein and came out back oi tue neck, Moore dying Instantly. The negro then fltd In the direction of Houea Path, but. was hotly pursued and was caught ab<?ut half way. Pendleton w&scairled back bv the captors to the home of bob Moore, the murdered boys father, which was only a short distance from the scene of the killing. A crowd soon collected and a lynching seemed lovltable. C. E, Harper and other cool heads advised against lawlessness. The party who had him in charge agreed to wait the arrival of some citizens of D maid's and be governed by their coui c 1. T ie Donalds men weri wired fur and went in haste to the scene, but were too late. The spirit of revenge had prevailed and Allan Pendleton had met his fate. With a tra.ee rrhain arviiinrl hlu he had been chained to a small tree on the side of the public road, while his slayers faced him from the middle of the road. A volley of fifteen shots with a few directly following, ended the career cf Moore's murderer. About a dozen gunshot wounds were on the person cf Pendrlton. About half of them were made by halls from Winchesters of large calibre4 * Dr. Payne testified at the ii quest that Pendleton's skull was crushed and his shoulder and neck broken. When last seen alive Pendleton was being led away by John Martin Ashley, the father and three brothers of young Moore, Srm Bigby and others. Many negroes were at the Inquest, bu were quiet. His relatives refus ed to c me near or have anything to do with it, as did the other negroes ThfV M-hnril 11 u rofn-nrl ??? J vv/ .?/? u 1V1.I IU VllllO iUI or bury t.ho remains at any prica. So a grave was dug in the thick woods near whore the body lay. Even a wagon to convey the body could not be obtained. A few young white men improvised a sled, put the body of Pendleton on it and dragged it to the grave in the woods, where a few planks were placed over the negro's bo ly and it was covered up. The sentiment of the people of Honea P :th was aga'nst the lynching and it was severely condonantd. The coroners jury rendered a verdict that Pcudieiou came to his death at the ha> (Is of parties unknown to the jury. A dispatch from Honea Pain to tho S ate says Solicitor Cooper is there, acting under orders from Gov. Hoywaid. lie is investigating tho case against the murderers of Allen Pendleton. He has sworn out warrants against John Marion Ashley, J. K. Moore, Josh Moore, John Moore, Will Moore, Sam Bgbyand Hugh Bowen. Sheiitf Lyon made the arrests Wednesday morning. S Jtotor Cooper says that he is going to investigate the casr to the bottom and prosecute to the full extent of his ability. He did not understand the message sent him Monday morning and sent a reply which was not received he reConstable Shannon had the negro, Allen Pendleton, burled yesterday, or rather he had the negro dragged on a slide to a hole, about 2D0 yards away, and dumped into it. There was no collln nor box, dirt was thrown in, the hole was partly tilled and this wan the burial he received. AllH-Woll that K.hIh Well. A dispatch from Augusta to the Columbia Record says registered at tire Planters hotel in Augusta as "F E. Mauley and wife, Columbia, y. 0.," a couple, little more than children. were called upon Monday of last week to give an account of themselves A telegram had been received from P. J. Hutto, of Livingston, S. C., by the Augusta polle r department asking the police to look out for his di>lighter, Lizzie, w> o had lop^d wixh a man by the nam r of l)av:s and was thought to have gone to Augusta. Toe couple in q lestiou had been ass'gned to room 54 and sp?.nb the uight at the ho el. Early Monday morning, a little aft r 5 o'clock, '"Mar ley" left the hotel, hearing of the wire, and acknowledged to the nnlipA i Vi a f La Hifto rnu? 41- ? r?>uv uiiu in wo3 xut; liAintsr i arrived later an i the differences being patched up, the party returned to Carolina. The girl ia ?aiy thirteen years old. For Siuko iiiio. As Farmer Arthur L. Mitchell, of North Woodbury, Conn., was cutting fodder corn in a lowland lot a hig red adder bit his left wrist. Mr. Mitchell tore the reptile off, ran for the house 1 and drank a quart of whiskey, which 1 neighbors brought him. He suffered terribly all night, but the liquor Is having the desired effect, physicians ( say, and he may recover. The legislature appointed the court of general sessions for Cherokee and 1 Spartanburg counties on the same 1 day?the last Monday in October? 1 apparently forgetting that Judge, so- 1 llottor and stenographer cannot be in * two places at the same time. 1 &LWaR1>8 FOR MAIL THR1VJE8. Tho Postal Authoritirn Have Arrangod a Graduated Hcalo. The Charleston Evening P.,st fays the Posh tiioe Dapartraent in now dl reeling Us energies to the suppression of a \ mail robberies, whether these di predallor s b; tho work of yeomen in blowing iafcs in a pnstcflloc^ or the act of purloining a loiter or' small package from a box The depart lias drafted a formal order, setting forth a ?vstem of rewards t > ire paid for the detection and conviction of parties wno rob the mail, which appears in The Postal Guide for this moil Hi, an J b/ advertisement of the fact, Postmaster General Cortr lycu hopes to s ir up sufficient interest wiiich will result In the arrest and conviction of the guilty parties. Tnere have been a number of post ?.tlice rnaU car robberies in South Carolina during the past few years, al though a cneckhas been plac d on the industry by the at rest and conviction of tbirtc< n v egg men in the p.ist ttiree years, and the sendii g of other rob hers of the mills to the penitentiary a Atlanta. The new system of lewarcjs will stimulate detectives ai d others in working up oases and thi s add to the security and etlioiency of the mall ser vice. The postmasters and mail contractors will bo disbarred fiom the rewards which are to be paid by the of tice of the chief postillios inspector at Washington, after a satisfactory In vesication of the claims. The highest reward to ire paid In that of $1,000, which is t If.red for the arrest and conviction of any p r son who robs a mallear, in accordance with section 5,472 of the revised acts: "Any person who shall rob any car rler, agent or other person intrusted with the mall, or any part thereof, shall be punishable by imprisonment at hard labor for not less than live years, and not more than ten years; and if convicted a Hccond time for a like offence, or If, in elfectlcg such robbery the lirst time, the robber shall wound the person havitg cus tody of the mail, or put his nfe In Jeopardv by the use of dangerous weapens, such olTender shall be punishable bv imprisonment at hard tabor for the term of hi* natural life." A reward of $500 is oil:rod for the ouviotlou of the person who robs the malls over a post route; $250 for an attempt to r->b a post route; $200 for breaking into a postctll:e, whether public funds are secured or not, the same embm'pniftnt. nr maila nvnr n post route, and for various acts of larc nry, the schedule has beenarran ged, tho rewards running from the larger sums stated to as low a reward as $25, according to tho official an nounixnunt for convictions against the postal laws not directly spt.cltied In the order, so that employees and others who attempt to take advan tageof tho service, will run a great chance of being caught up with and punished. Fatuity Burned to l>- atfi. Early Friday morning the charred remains of Lula Wise, a colored woman, and her four children were fouud in the smoking ruins of her home near Jacksonville, Fli., which was burned Friday morning before day. The skulls of the woman and all her children were crushed in, Indicating that they had been murdered and the house had oeen burned to conceal the crime. Toe woman had not lived with her husband for two years. T .vo years ago It is stated that he boat her and threaten ed to kill Iter. She had him arrested and he was sentenced to jill for a short term. After the ox pi ration of his sentence he disappeared and It aould not be ascertained that anyone had heard from him. The woman sup po ed he w?s dead. Kivd Iraimnoii Killed. Five trainmen were killed and eight others seriously injured in a collision between a pay train and a comhlna t.ion passenger and milk train on the Philadelphia and Reading railroad at Roush's curve, at Mount Holly Springs, Pa., Thursday afternoon. None of the passengers was injured. The pay car contained about $50,000 in checks, which Wbs scattered about the tracks. The checks were picked up by the trainmen. Officials of the company 1 .AVi\ ?? ilw* - ~: ??* ?* * uuic 9'vy uun DcuiQCQt proDaoiy was duo to a misunderstanding of orders. Front at tlio North. Reports from New England state that that section was visited by frost Wednesday night. Much damage was done to C'^ps. In New York state frost was roDorted in several sections. At Lane, Pa , and in northern Vermont snow fell. Tne freezing point was reached at Concord, N. II., and Augusta. Maine. A high wind sav.d the cranberry crop In the Cape Cod distrlot. A 1'oMUiy Sli'<?k>v Four men wore killed, six were seriously burned and a dozen more were stunned by lightning which wrecked a crowded poultry exhibition tent at the county fair at Indiapola, Iowa on ThurrfUy, The lightning struck the tent pole, splitting in two and tearing the sides of the tent into shreds. Hundreds of the chickens on exhibition were killed. Heavily Finflrt. At Chicago in the United States district court Thursday morning, four members of the tirm of Schwarz^hild & Sulzberger pleaded guilty to accepting rebates from railroads in beof trust cases. The cases are not identified with the Sherman anti-trust law. One was fined $10,000 and the others 16,000 each. The cost will be distributed proportionately. POOLE'S FAMOUS FEAT. In ftpllttlnir I'njicr He Went One Itetter Than nn ICiiicIImIi Expert. Lucius Poole, a brother of William Poole, the librarian whose name 1h perpetuated in "Poole's index," was known throughout the country for ids rare skill in restoring and repairing old documents and reprints, iie lived for thirty years in a house at the south end, Ronton, with three congenial spirits, one a collector of Dickensana, the second of Napoleouana and the third a collector of first editions, Po.ole was a collector, too, of books, letters and programmes relating to the stage. Ho had a remarkable faculty for matching old paper and could put a corner or a patch 011 a letter or a playbill so neatly that it '*?ld be noticed only under a magnifying glass. Mr. Poole's famous feat of splitting a magazine page into four leaves or layers was brought about by an English iuluyor, who showed Mr. Poole a page split in three leaves with the printing on it unmarred. The American said that lie could do all that the Englishman liml done, and more, and after some experiments produced a page of the Century Magazine split in four leaves. This was taken to London by a book collector, who had gone abroad to add to his library, and after the page had been the rounds of the clubs there It was sent to Paris and caused the Frenchmen to wonder.?Portland Advertiser. t THE SUN AND MOON. Qnntnt Folklore Stories Coiieernlngr Tlie.se Luminaries. The most touching of all folklore stories may be found in Charles F. Lammis' "Pueblo Folklore." It is one of the many myths of the moon and beau tifully conceived. The sun is the Allfather, the moon tlie Allmother, and both shine with equal light in the heavens. Put the Trues, the superior divinities, find that man, the animals, the flowers, weary of a constant day. They agree to put out the Allfather's, or sun's, eyes. The Allmother, the moon, offers herself as a sacrillco. "Pllud me," she says, "and leave my husband's eyes." The Trues say, "It is good, woman." They accept the sacrifice and take away one of the Allmother's eyes; hence the moon is less brilliant than the sun. The man finds rest at night, and the flowers sleep. In Mrs. Leibor Cohen's translation of Saehor Masoch's "Jewish Tales" there Is a variant of the sun and moon story derived from the Talmud. Pricfly told, the sun and moon are equally luminous. It is the moon who wants to be more brilliant than the sun. Deity Is angered at her demands. Her light is loeeikiwul n.invm il, l ill* noun Hll'? |KIH', i lll'll Goil pitied her and gnve her the stars for companions." THE OCEAN DERELICT. It I* llic Mnsl Patent nf All Dnnncr* That Threaten Seafarers. Of all the spectacles of the seas none la so tragic as the derelict, the errant of the trackless deep. Weird beyond description is the picture presented by some broken and battered hulk as she swings into view against the sky line, with the turgid green seas sweeping over her moss grown decks and a splintered fragment of mast pointing upward, as if in protest against her undoing. It is a sight also to arouse fear. For the derelict Is the most potent of all the dangers that threaten the seafarer. Silent, stealthy, invisible, it is the terror of the mariner. It is the arch hypocrite of the deep. Against it skill of seamanship, vigilance in watching. avail not. Lights and whistles, beams and buoys proclaim the proximity of land; the throbbing of engines, mi- iiuix-m ul Hiupuouru lire ten or an approaching vessel; icebergs and lines betray themselves by their ghostly radiance and surrounding frigidity of air, but tlie derelict gives no warning, makes no signal. The llrst sign of its existence is the crash, the sickening tremble and quaver of the ship suddenly wounded to death.?1*. T. McQrath in McClure's. It oho CiittlnKH. Country T.ife advises taking cuttings of roses in the fall and says: They should be about eight Inches long and covered with sand about a foot deep through the winter. In the spring set in rows in good garden soil, upright. Trim to six inches in setting out. They will take root and can then be transplanted into nursery beds. This is for outdoor culture. The cuttings should bo taken just before frost arrives and from nearly matured wood. Idleness. It is an undoubted truth thnt the loss one has to do the loss one finds tlino to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, 0110 can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all, whereas those who have a great deal of business must buckle to It, and then they always find time enough to do It in. A Jndlclul Reproof. A Justice once reproved a would ho suicide thus: "Young man, you have been found guilty of attempting to drown j'ourself In the river. Only consider what your feelings would have been had you succeeded."?Green Bag. A Bad Sornpc, "Yop seemed pretty familiar with thnt last chap," remarked the soap. "Not at all," replied the Turkish towel. "I was merely trying to scrape an acquaintance."?Chicago News. Defer not charities till death. lie that does so Is rather liberal of another man's substance than of his own. ?Stretch. Le?? Than La*t Your. Secretary If?8ter, of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, tn his weekly c ?tton statement, which was issued Friday, shows a decrease In round figures In the movement of cotton Into sight for the seven d iys of .'18,000 under the seveu days ending September 22 last, year, and an Increase of 90,000 over the same time year before last. The amount brought into sight for ( the week ?,ndlrg"JSjri-'lay afternoon Is 4 stated at 308,355 ?g\lost 346,057 fot* the seven days eiiUijjg this date last year; 212.065 year b< fore lact. This brings the total crop movement into fl'ght for 22 days of the new season to 84:5,918 against 760 294 last year and 357 204 year before last. The movement sbows receipts at all United States Dorts since September 1st to be 029 449 against 581,34(3 last year; overlaud across the Mississippi, Oaio and Potomac rivers to northern mills and Canada 13,233 against 10,240 last year. Interior st< cks In excess of Septemoer 1st, 71,236 against 00 993 last year; southern to I i. ..kings 130,000 against 101,715 ivs'' year. Foreign exports since September 1st have been 324 385 against 301,510 last year. The total takings of Araerican mills, north, south and Canada thus far for the seasyrti have been 211,914 against 174,915 last year. Since the close of the commercial v* ar stocks .at American ports and the 29 leading southern Interior o^ntres have increased 307 019 bales agaln&fc an Increase for the same period last season of 223 833. Including amounts left over in storks at ports and Interior towns from the last crop and the number of j bales brought in sight thus far for the now crop t.no supply to date is 1,268, 14b against 922,261 for the same period last year. Soiling Whinkoy. "I cannot till the orders that come in for whiskey from Union and Newberry unless 1 am given a shipping clerk," said one of the Columbia dispensers recently. ,4/Arou would be surprised at the number of salts made by me to Union and Newberry people and I am constantly receiving requests for supplies to be shipped. Of course, 1 cannot ship the stulf as I have cot the time nor inclination to turn my dispensary into a shipping department, but the requests are coming in just the same. 1 think L can safely state that my sales last week and the week before were double that of any previous yoar at the present time and a large part of this is due to the demand for whiskey in Newberry and Qnitn." The Columbia Ileeord says the statement will cot cause much surprise here except as to the quantity demanded by the above namad Counties. It was made h - - J V? MII^IVUCICI In whom the county board has perfect u coi 11 lence and his report filed at the | end of the month on salts, as com- I pared with a slmiltr report of the last year, v. ill bear out the statement. Arrested la Clue ago. The Chicago News prints a highly colored slorv of the arrest hi that city of Mollle Hutchinson, formerly the wife of Seymour IIu chin-ion, once a wealthy and well-known South Carolinian, hut whose estate she long ago chskipated, and M. T. Boggs, who left a wife and ten children in Abbeville In almost destitute circumstances to elope whh her. The pair were living together under the name of Mr. and Mrs. M. T. ThomaR, each woiklng In a factory. Mrs. Hutchinson, once a woman of wealth and ease, is now reduced to rags and Imprisonment at the age of 28, aft<-r being the means of bringing scandal to several respectable homes. Another Ijynchhiy^ A special from Conway, /irk , says that Frank Bowen, a negro, was tiken from jiil there late F.'idvy night to the outskirts of the town and hanged by a mob. The lynching was so quietly done that few of the townspeople knew of its occurrence. The negro was held for assaulting a Mrs. Lawrence, killing her 0 year-old son, and stabbing iicr baby daughter. He was hanged in front of the luu ?j uocupied by Mrs. Lawrence. Fire at Itlackvilm. The ginnery of G A. Still burned at Blackvllle Friday afL moon, completely destroying the plant, ten uaies or cotton and 800 bushels of seed. Several small reside*})#* In the vicinity of the gin were als*. f-urned. Not One Halt Voted. The Marlon Star in commenting on the voting out of the dispensary in that county sayR: "The vole?. of the people may be the voice of O d. But the votes of only 1,430 voters do^s not express the sentiment of the 3,200 voters who will be heard from in the Democratic primary next summer. That election will be something like the voice of the people, as every white Demoorat can vote whether be has lost his tax receipt and registration certificate or not." Mmailt OloHort. Associate Justice Gary, to whom Lawvnr UnvS v " # v. u<?un nppuca in tho hope of keeping the Union dlspensarice open pending his appeal to the supreme court, has sustained Judge Townserd. The case can still^go before the full supreme court; but mean- \ while the dispenraries must remain i closed. 1 A tiokkss in Burma that had a rec- 1 ord of having killed more than 800 1 persons, was killed lately by two 1 I English engineers. 1 Theuk is but one editor in the Ohio penitentiary, and he was sent up under mitigating circumstances. He shot I a delinquent subscriber.