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WEALTH MISUSED; 440 Trust Control One fifth of Countr>'s Wealth. WE AJtii THE .RICHEST Our AMIIionaireg arc KirjjR Indeed, In 1855 There Were Only Twenty-eight M llionaires in New York While To-day It Boast Ovi.r Two Hundred. The crilcle below is a collection cf paragraphs frona .'in n th la by Cleveland Mofft ti entitled "The Shaaufu? M Ikfiun r.t \A/ in it in II ^ 1 - mjm. mvuju u i T ? jfMt i\*i| 0<IIU Ji 13? XU 11^ feucc.-ss Magaxne. lo win , rovo Interesting to many as a oonaparibon < 1 figures ia the growth of the country'* wealth. It 18 admitted that wc are the richest people in luo woila touay,?me rlohest people the worm has ever ueeu. Tae vaunted wealth of Grocaus in e?timacec at oUiy eight m.hion donais but there ale seventy Aouorioan or? tales that average ihirty live Qjllltous each. Nuw York is ueyoua oompuriBon the richest city in uclBtonoo; thu !New Yi rk llera.d ostlcuau* its wealth at thirteen tnousM.il minion dollars. And to the country at largo the last annual report uf the controller of the currency snows that the stock of gold in the United States, i.$l .320,400,000), Is greater than lhatui any other lauu, wullo our banking power aggregates nearly fourteen bullous as against leas than twenty billions for all foreign counlriv^i. We proauo* one third of the world's coal, one-tmrct of ita grain, one-fifth of its wheat and throefourth of its cotton. Wo product mores.eel anu Iron than England and GormanV l.nurflt.h?r rvi.r ? J ?%-n vvt?wk w.iiVl UUi Ulf?lJUl AU" tures Are nearly uuuble those of Great Britain sua Ireland coa.bii.trt. Our railroads carry twice as much mor ohahdise c\eiy year as it carrion oy all the ral)roaus of all the other catiOLS. James Bryce la "The American Commonwealth," observes that up to 1830 or 1840 there wore no great fortunes la a a erica, few large fortunes and no poverty. But, writing of Mie later eighties, he says: "Mow there is Borne poverty, muuy large fortunes, ana a greatei number of gigantic fortunes thau In any other country la the world." That was twenty years ago! What would Mr. Bryce say toduy if he could read statistics showing that there are three million olUci&lly recognized paupers in the United States? That a million and a naif 4 children between the ages of ten and fifteen are employed in our mines and factories? Tnat one person in every twelve who ales In Mew York city is burled in the potter's lield? As showing the rapid growth of individual fortunes In thlsoouritry there is inteiest iu a list of rich men printed by the Mevr York Sun In 1855 according te which Mew York city at that time boasted only twenty eight millionaires. And a pamphlet publlshi d some years earlier says that In 1845 Philadelphia could show only ten estates valued at a million or moro. the richest bete# that of Stephen Girard which reached be von millions, lu control to which in 1892, according to the JSew York Tribune, there were then over two hundred million aires iu Philadelphia. As to Wer; York city the number of 11 j millionaire*, accord log t.o the best iniorai&tion, Is ovtr two ttioua an;, while tbe number of millionaires in the United Stales is at i ,v?t live thousand or half too total nui/juer in tbe world. We fci.atl prescA.t/> tv,e what a huge pari, o! Urn national wealth is p< sseobtt. and controls.u by these live thouuar. d individual. Tnere is one lamily kioj m, at the beau of which stauds the uchest and most pv v/erfui n aii Ht the world, Jonn 1). Kockt feller, and the wt.aith of tuisfsu.lly io estimated at a thousand million dollars, a >um so huge that the numao mind quite frills t:> gra^p it, a Hum bo hugu tnat if at uuu biuii of Cliiisl Mx. Ituck f jv.r bud b guu making * ciuiiar a minute uuc hau it>; ail these cobais accumui*it> cuy and night i'or all ihfcha cc-iKUtita be would not yet, in 190(3, i Ave amused a thouyauoi m.liiou ooxiarb. Alu it Mr. Rockefeller annum today tucu Luis lDlo gold o iij at a lako 11 cm of tue couLtiy, any into Cauauit, would cuiry acrOfS the bolder throe timid tt) much gold aa woum Umn remaiu iu the UulUci States. JNjr would he carry it himaelf ior tue weight of .1 would be one ti.u. ba*iU I sev;n hundred and lifty tona. Ana 11 tie loadea it on tLu u.ekb of t.?,roei8, each man hauling Lih owu wight h> solid gold, (tay 1 Ou pounds,) it would T9n:itirA t.aanl D.fhvua ?* ? ?i-uuv/ Uim.t VKUUIVttUU LUUU bu EQt'Vd It. And If they walked ten feet apart the line of them v?uuld re&on forty-four miles and would occupy tiftccu hours in pasoin# a given point. None of which takes any account of the daily Interest on this fortune which interest if paid in void would require the strength of seven men to carry it. Continuing our list of multi-millionaires and taking the nine riohest Americans after Mr. Rockefeller, it is easy to see that these nine must have a billion between them, since Andrew Carnegie alone has more than a third of a billion, and the other eight in- , elude Marshall Field, W. K. Vander- , bllt, John Jaoob Aator, J. P. Morgan, j Russell Sage, J. J. Hi)], & mtor W jq i A. Cork ano William Rookefiuer. TfclBglVto US two UiCU >*~(l Illliiloti do bar* for tor. m?i ! Aud, wltliout meni lotting further nnmM, I i ff :r toe following osvlmate of the tlve thousand leading fortui as tn *hp United Stato' ; It is only an ap proxlmation but it has been *pp>ov*d mi r?*uonable by the statistical ox port >f R O. Dunn & (Jo., and by Byron W. lloit. editor of "Moody's Magaz no," a moot lily review for inv so^rs, bankers and men of aflalis. Abobv aovuial financial authorities In Nav* Vo'k City t<? wh >m 1 have submitted It. 1 have se^n higher 18tlm?-te?, but, iftei earofui consideration, 1 b'dievi r.vut? this ( ne may be accepted as wd within t,Ne irutl : NO OK KOHTUNK8 AMOUNT lo aggregating 4 2 000 OOu.OOO 00 4oo aggregating 3 ooo 000,000 00 4500 aggregating "lo 000 000 000 00 5000 'Aggregating 15 000,000,000 On So that 11 va thousand men In ti.i; country actually own ( ith? ut count tng wlut they control,) nearly oue s?x ?h of our entire national wealth. It is interesting tj consider how much richer the rich will get, and 1 may remark here that there is no need to li quire how much pi orer the poor will got. If they arc to live ai ail they can gst much poorer. Wha. greater burden of poverty can we pu' oti the four million American fami lies who today with their best lull can gather less than four hundred dollars a >cas? What mere can we take from them than we have already laker ? The M-ifcsachuset s Bureau of L -.bOi hai collected statistics showing how the pcor families upend their pitiful incomes. It appears that 43 88 eac -*eok go< a for food. Shall wo ouo thai do^n? Or shall we cut town the 42. li I a month they spend for clo thing V or the 47 5J a year they spend t. ? ? f 1 * * - .w? MiiuKuru an-i uuusenoid rurnlHhin^? Or tho $7 a month they pay for foul, dark rooms in a tainted ten emcnt? And these are not the poorest of the poor, those are self respect!n# la borers, producers of the national wealth; there are millions of others whose lot is worse than theirs,?ten million, Robert Hunter estimates, in helpless poverty, out of work, out of health, out. of heart with the world, broken driftwood, vagrants, tramps? what shall wo take from them? Sixteen years aKO Thomas G. Shearman, a distinguished corporavion lawyer and brilliant writer on economic questions, prophesied thut 4,withln liiurty years toe Uoited States will b? substantially owned by less than one in live hundred of tho rna'e population 1" In the United States today there are 440 laiva industrial, franchise and transportation trusts with a Cipitalization of over twenty thousand mil lion doharo. Which, says the "Wall j Street Journal," is "one-fifth of the wealth in tile country and the most powerful part of It for it is wealth under such concentrated control that It practically sways the whclo." It mav htt nhipot.nrl Mioi n>? '' , _ J vwj WVWVV4 W11UU VUC Ullll' dren of millionaire lines have a perfect right to dispose as they pleane of their fortunes and their lives, if they ohcoso to follow the unprotitable ways of steam yachts and motor cars, why after all, this is a free country. To which we might reply that no mr.n has a moral right to squander millions on show and seltish pleasures while thousands of his fellow men are perishing of want, while lens of thousands by their utmost labor anti pain can barely secure the necessities of life. Remember tho vist tolling army enslaved In our factories and nilueu, men, women and children, millions of them, giving the strength | of their bodies and tho hope of their souls that a f w thousand rich men may diaw handsome dividends on investments, dividends which t hey hav? done nothing to earn and which it, bcros them to spend. Extraordinary ha openings are alway i unexpected yet once in a en* | lury nr so, like the uuycntof a mighty conqueror or reformer, they do come to v iw. And if there should arise in this J&nd a uu-iti of thirty or f rt} who, e larting with two or three billions ('-.vned or controlled by him,) should tie great enough to brush as rit. the tramcls of indolence and timola bion, great enough to see that never in modern times has there been c tT -rod to a man, not eveu to Napoleon, so stupendous achrnce as this to wield abs V.u'.edcsp tic power, threat enough tliihlly to use his two or three billions >,0 its full potentiality tricn,? wrii there would surely he interesting history n ado in that man's lifetime ! We hf.va had our iron kings, railroad fcihv 8, copper kings, sugar kings and otnors, bub there is one kind (f king v/o have not had yet. A real sing? Ytv-, for how long, pray, would this n public stand against liie aggressions of such a man, a gieai minded despot without conscience or bounds to ids noablUon, on* iu oom Ar. /in (A mil'. . ' , voiit v'i w ?vii? ut uui LVH^I' ncrs Pno Oirnvyhs would s't-Du like blundering beginners? Already our millionaire have b{?un to buy our oouns and ipgisia mcs, to corrupt, our cities, to debauch tne public conscience; he would finish the work and do It thoroughly, he would make the laws, own the newspapers, subsidize churches and colleges, mould publio opiuion, direct the machinery of justice, oontrol the industries, the banks, the insurance companies, the conditions of labor, regulate supply and demand, fix prloes, absorb pro: fits, centralize everything, be everything. .. " Trust magnate fcchwab has just lost so much money gambling at ' Monte Carlo that he will have to reconsider his determination to run for Senator in Nevada. \ tuokm hiivs tj&nt OF I?AWNI;K RILiL'H OKK \T WIM> R KHT SHOW. And Cauies Panic Aiqoqk the 2000 ?p;c atoTs Pawnee Pill Preserves frder. One of the most violent Rtom1' of the season swep4 over Bayone, N J , on Wednesday an the cilnrax of x period of heat and humidity iHat bad Ottusvrt a r.urxber of Heaths ai d rot ny ^.uatratloi-a, and driven several pelhook insane The wind blow a* fifty miles an hour and lightning sfuek in many oboes while the vain for an hour fairly do luged the oily. Llgbtnlug struck two of the New York Yacht Club's thirty footers, t.he fVT;nx .vud Dovtrcia. ctug'd. In toe storm during the race otT Qkri Gave, L I , and their escape from destruction was remarkable. A bolt also ?truck the d ?me of the Brooklyn Fire Headquarters and played Wavoc in many place-1 In Statin Island, killing one man. Portions of Williamsburg u/aro ll r\ l-x^l j "viv. ii :kj 'UUi More than 2;000 'wo, w and children In *be. rr am tout, of Pawnee Hill's WOd W?nt ami F&r Kvst Show at Hayonne, N J., were thrown Into va^lc when 1 ho storm p iuuc*kI down Cbo spectators stnmpenert, while the J wind lore down ?'l of the auxiliary ?o ?ts, liberating 400 performing horses and uprooting trees and sending vhe water In sheets driving through the streets. The borne tent collapsed upon the herd and the animals A'cfclng their */*.y to llnerty, while Majjr Llillo VP vwnoe Hll') and his aids wore doing ??nelr best to restrain the audience in the main tent. To tie1 co lness is due fad that no one was seriously hurt, though women had their hats and go.vr.s torn in the nuad rush for the exists. In the ring of the main tent a troupe of Arabian acrobats were beginning their performance when the storm broke. Suddenly two of the guy ropes, shrunk by the rain, snapped at either end of the great oval tent. The ridge poles bent and the main supporting poles swayed and trembled. From the spectators went up a ory that the tent war about to f all. One end did rail. Pawnee Hill caught at the supporting pole which threatened to drop on the heads of a group of women. The pole struck his snouluer. dislocating it, hot he had diverted Its fall: Pawnee Hill stood with a megaphono, and in spite of the pain In his injured shoulder called In stentorian tones: "All spectators o >mo Into the arena. The tent will not fall, but jou will keep dry here." Many obeyed him, but hundreds of others fought their way to the exits and rushed into the drenching rain despite the assurances of the attendants and of the police on duty. Tire res irves from the stations reached the tent when the stampede was fairly Ilir ta> o ?? * ? /J - ' -J 3 1 ? ^ 1 unuoi rmjr (Vim ciiuou m extricating J ttie women and children. Many reported the loss of purses and jewels, Rings and bracelols were pick ed up by employes and sent to the police station. The horses from their collapsed ! tent raced through the streets, hut Pawnee Hill's cowboys raced after them and lassoed the animals one after another. No effort was made to hold an exhibition Thursday night. Pawnee Bill said his loss would reach $5,000. Kiesod Wrong Woiutn. Testimony In tlie divorce case o' Mrs. M ?.ry E Izabeth Jones aghast J udi/n OrvlliM o' I _ ,.-n - U WilVO j Ul ill 'lUiS, M >.. Pcpuiist. candidate for Governor n 189(5, rea .h like a chapter fiom the Decameron. Too ease was'called hi lore J udge O'Neill R/an, of the Ciroult Uourt, fc??ci M's. Jones tsstitied hat she changed places with her aert kOu and rec lveu a kiss from her h inland intended fjr toe lips of the maid. Judge Jones, who la fighting ?f e case, looked turprhed when bib wife recited the details of the scheme into wldob. she ha i eat .red with the icrvant to entrap her husband. S le said the took her Br at In tha dining room one dark, moonless night. Th< shades were olosely drawn and t.he room was black as a dungeon Per husbana'ii room, she testified, was ,,, w, | | L. -I:-' - yiij uu uiu uiinuK roiim. A 00lit 11 o'ciock her husband opeued the door, tihe sulci, and called 10 tlio servant asking if he could c. me la. ''1 aia not answer,'1 she said. "1 sat perecfcly stlli. My husoand cvepo silently Into the room, threw his arms around me and planted a klas on my hps. Ail or e tluQj he thought he was ; hieing the servant. Tne next day 1 hid In tee pantry and heard Jud^e Jones telling Kvte how heenjoyedthe xlss. Want NiomhcI Shot. Tho oocumission appointed to in. ve:itlkRte the surrender of Port Arthur has llnlsln d its labors and re oommetidii that Lieut. Gen. Stoessel, the former commander of the Rus o&n forces at Port Arthur, be dismissed from tho army and shot, that Lieut. Gen. Fook, who col mended the 4th Eatt Siberian division at Port Arthur, be dismissed from the army and undergo a year's hard labor; that Gon. Reiss, chief of staff of Gen. Stoessel, be dismissed ard banished, and that Admiral AlerJeflf, former viceroy In the Far East; Lieut. Gen. Smirnoff, commander of the Port Arthur fortress, and Gen. Vernander be reprimanded. The formal trial of theeo officials will take plaoe ihortly. >tODY OP POCAKONTA8 W?b Hurit <1 nr (jravt'Hnnd, Kdk , ?n<1 liator Iturnnd. Wm. E OurUn, writing ?'rom L >oi don to V.? Washington S ar Hays: Speak<rg of c?is in^ui hed Ameri Oiu s. r v tors me that there has been active lrq ??ry hero of late c^noirnlng t.he whiT.ab ?ut>tof the remains of the tirso A merican princess. Pocahontas wa? her m*tdon name, and she aftervarrtR b?CKme Mrs John RMfo. She was the mother of a considerable portion of t he present population of Virginia and ? so has several prGmlonut descendants on th>s side of the water. Including L' ut. Gen. Badnn. Powell, lusoeotor o:htr1 of cavtlry In the British arrv The present inquiry 8 encs V? have b;en lu^plr^d by tile approaching ceeoratiou of the JOOrh anniversary of the sett'otoent of Jamestown, V.v, and th*> J imf-stown ? xpo iMon. An association of wom^n has aopar^ntly undertaken to recover theru-tof "'Li Belle Sauvage," as she was ca'lefi oy admiring E iropeaus upon her tir.it appearance In Londou, and rebury It in her native country, aff r the man?jer In which John Pau Jones has recently v^en honored It will be very d fll *.ult arid, indeed ImnrhSlblo to gratify their ambitious and comn enrfable inteutiens, for the dust of p. CAhootas was dfsrroyrd by fir* nearly 200 years ago. Mr. ITorr S. Wollcome, one o* the leading Amor loan c i z ns of Londou, who has UfiV.t (litn I.-. 4- I- - ... KJVS.v n.'.'-.ioTt. ii n;vrryv/>ii.T?(^ that relays to Picahootas prReite'l her p > trait to the flcu%?e of the Uii ed Nta.es several years a^o, and Scnat< r D iolel, who is -.ceuded from Pocahontas, accepted tbo *ift lu beha'f of c .iu/rea:*. Mr W, Dooo h s I .venUtfatioos shv* r.d that Mrs J ?hu Rdfa died In 1017, of NrnaPp x ar G'hvcso d at ?he mouto of the Thames, where srie wan waiting for a v^siiel to return to V.rtflnia. She was buried Id St. G .or^s s church, a/?d the register contains an entry of that. ftot. Theohurcn, howp.vor, was entirely deRtroyed by Jire In 1720 and rebuilt In 1831. During the r- bulldinv thorema.na of several half burned cctlins were removed from the vaults. They had no marks by which they could be identified It is believed that the reuaah.s of P ;cahoutas were acQonK this nameless dust TIIIbK:? TlLLMaH. cUIS Fair Vmltor in Sorinre (Gallery Than F.xprcvsoH lier Opinion. An observant porsou in the seuato KalU.ry yesterday noted an occurrence which, while without bearing upon the matters of state which were un der consideration in that august body, is hiLoreot'iutf for several reasons, one of which is the ftct that Senator Tillman unconsciously figured in the episode. Three beautiful young ladles entered thcigallery and sealed themselves near the above mentioned person. Two of them; Judged by their conversation were rrequent visitors to the galleries while the third was apparently a visitor to Washington. She asked lirst of all thr.t Senator Tillman bo pointed out to her, and au expression of disappointment came iato tn.r face when sue was told that he was not in the chax.bjr. Severe*! minutes were spent then in caoUil references to the "next best" Senator Tillman being absent, and tue next be t was Senator La F,n oi.Le. Sundauly o .e of the two were more or less familiar wit ) faces of tne Senators' exo.aimed, "There Is Tillm<n right beyond Bailey?see?" Immediately the other two looked and?aw the South Carolinian in a ohacaofceriBtic pose, with h s thumb In his vtst, nalr magnlllcently tous led, and his one eye looking keefcty at the presiding officer. * There v/^s a moment of silsatcon- i frompiauon on the p.*ri of tlio young lady wno hid Loot before seen the senator; then, in a tone wiiioh evi riei ced a desire to oontrvho, what h..d becoms a tix^d impression .vlth a bit i t emphasis on r.ho "1" which is < beyond the printer's art, s ie said: "Way, 1 think ad'sc'i.e," 1 Tttu II )r?i5*? t ool, | If the horse cannot readily use his i foot in a natural wav, it. is a great i hurt to his valua Trie Ilorseshoors' i Journal fia/s taa& a lavg> per cent, of i %il the hor ,0s are continually more or ! less lame. Of thlo number it is esti- | mated eighty per cout. are lame in i the foot- How inaoy horses retain 1 the srmpa of the foot in oolthuod? \ Very few and for a very short tim ; , not losing this shape solely on account of shoe, but b; ciuso the shoe is an Improper one, usually, in fact, nearly always, tc.i heavy, the use of t ic frog entirely destroyed; this consequently wasting, the sole pared and drying up In oonstqu ncc; the wall* losing its strength {carry the weight through > exoebhivo rasping of the whole fabric; of the horn biomiug a dry, brittle ? atrophied mass, instead of being sup* P'?, lirm at the heels, with perfect birs and an clastic frog, gjftng a ( springy motion to the ieg in therlding 1 dories of so much value. These evils ? could always he remedied if we could only get all tarrlers so HI MenMv iutelll* gent and humane to leave eff the old J practice. Man and Wtfu found l)o*<1. Edward F. Kloss and wife who con- > duoced a small mllllinery store at 231 North Avenue, Chicago, were found dead in their rooms above the store. The throats of both had been out, and blood was spattered on the floor and furniture. In addition to the wounds in the throats, both bad been shot through the bead. revolver was found on the bed by the body of Kloss i and It Is believed by the police that he committed the orimrf. THttUlIWH. THK SI'aXE NHOltr NK*S 1 fKMS FHOH ALL O V K It HO U V fi C i lio tj 1 N A. A Patch of IlI >rm ition in Condensed Poiin for Bu?y Readers.. The Lutheran Synod will establish a large publishing house In Columbia. Southern train N ). 29 ran over and killed an unknown negro at WInnsboro, S. C , Sunday n'ght. The bank o.' M Ayosvllle. a sma'l Inatitutioo, h?s bea clo^d by order of State Bank Etamioer II Ue.r.an. Da poslrors *111 get ohclr money In full. The town of Beb m lv to hsvi ?x. opera house W K Stringer, bank president, has a!r *j> let iheooutraci for building It. J II Sloan presl ientof the American National IDak, of Spartanburg, and a'so of tbn Southern Trust Co., ci that city, died last Thursday Sixty-live por&onsona attended the state campaign meeting In Jouigetuwn on Situ/day. l)'ck Watson w^s killed with n raz r t.y Willie Bull?both colored? lu IXiriingtou on Saturday It ubn E rrd, a negro section hand, run ov^r and ktiltd by a train at Union on Saturday. The total stealings bv Treasure? Hughes <t the Union Bulking >>n< no jrirtiot.lnn ? . /M?V ? v-. anA UAO rwtr A'l'U'lU 'J kit UU 10 v!n Crane, Eyed 18 of Pn.* Mountain, Ga , '"1:1 run over by t \ n Lu in W*lni.i'..i aad died f/om hb Injuries on Fciday R v. J S M flatt of Chester !< prominently mentioned as Uv prnha ?.ble successor of Dr. F. Y. Pressle) hh president of E-Kirlne cohere, A n^ro was run over and killer* near W'innsboro by the Sonthorn'? 'a t mall on Sunday uifitot. ID ha( fal'an asleep on the track. The tfrand jury of Spartan bury have presented lue c uduotor <*na en vfineer of a freight tral 1 on the. S u' h rn for running the train on Sunday, and they *i.l be prosecuted. C mnjiss'onr r Tatum hrs appoint od Luciu1' L bull man of Columbia? until recently u beer dlf?p?ui8er?t.o succeed the late Jan. T. Parks as 1 cleik at the state dispensary. Aaron P Prlolcau, colored, lat." contestant for a Real In congress, war* onmmltteed to Jail in Charleston on Friday to serve a sentence of (Jim months for tampering with the maid whim running as a postal clerk on the Atlantic Coast L ue. According to a story in The State of Tuesday, a nepro woman rain .c Nettie brooks, said to be from Green wood, Wivii tfUiltV of the mnnk inhn man of crimes, infanticide, having scalded a new born babe bo death i< her caoiu in Columbia Sunday night M\ 3. A. Preanley, of Due West, has only recently acoopted a professor nblp in an Egyption college, the Col lege of Assut, at Assut, Evjypt and If now en his way to begin work In that, institution. The town of A?ftut ha;about 40 0C0 inhabitants. The C"i:#ge has an enrollment of auout 850 students ar.d has a high SoaucUiru oJ lUStiUOtiOU. Oh?rK<iid With riieft. A diRpatoh from Charleston eayithree Southern railway baggage masters, Mallet, Browning and P?ac ck. of the Charleston Columbia ru? have been dismissed from service on account of tin fo. Search tf tbeir homes in C) arltvUm hue netted the constables c nslderable quantity oi the stob n goods sn'i upon the confessions of t ie men. t railroad au bhoritl** have deo'.dsd not, to prosecute then . O io o! tho men hai been in the s vice f the company for 15 years, 'x ie man have been Huipsotec for some Mmc, but it not until a twdv s a/o M at the n.-kUnca we.' leemed sutllciently o inclusive by the VPS fit i nr. ? / > ?A 1 _.? ?. ??* .r/o i>/ir men with the gullti. The matter w<t. brooyht to a fveua by the repeated jla'ms for 1 >sven en he ru t hctw en Jharleston ;ir.d C lumbia, whioh eav( increased rv nsldeivbly r< contily. Tru railroad cttlu&ia refos" to discuss the matter, except to admit that loss?) nave occurred and to roe men have jeen dlsm'ssed. The reason glveu "or not prosecuting fcliem Ik the recen'. 'allure of the Juries to convict'men vho were charged with oroach of uusfc. ^^^NKDEPOsh . \ uyM*\w\B\W h. K. Fare Paid. Note* Tata I ^ ^ wgflm BoSdFtCo5 Writ""quS T ' ?RI? AI UMyaRIISINESSCOU. F:*T *V We have I )ne 25 horse power Talbott, second h<i y boen overhauled. 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Bail Road into the yard. In a desirable part of the city of Orangeburg, S. C. This property wi:l be sold in part or in whole. It can he utilized for most any kind of ent erprise* For full particulars,apply to .Jas L. Sims, Orangeburg, S. O. An Oxgall that will last a life time is what you want. Our Organs have a pure tone and have lovely cases We can supply you with an Organ that will please in every particular for only $05 and $70, delivered. Write us for our special terms of payment, and for illustrations of the beautiful Organs referred to. 11 you prefer a Piano we have beau, j nnii ciiui rooci new Uprights from $185 up on easy terms. Adore, s Malone'f TKusio Go., Oo u^>?fv.. 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