The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 28, 1905, Image 4
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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.
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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.