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SHOT IN PARK. v. An Actress Killed and Her Escort Seriously Wounded, BY UNKNOWN MAN. Brown, tin* Wounded Man, Says the i Man, Who Did the Nhnotlnff, Wits ^ Davenport, t{e Womanjl lltoaband Davenport Denies the (Jhargc and Hays That He Cuu ^ Prove An Alibi. The police of Drunswick, Ga., are trying to solve a murder mystery. Lillian Davenport, au actress, was shot und almost iustantly killed, and W. H. Drown, a bartender, who was with her, was also shot, and will j probably dio, in a secluded part of WlnH?nr inirlr In r,,,_ I .. -.. |'?> ?.i iiuu tu) , i nursday tnght... It. L. Davenport, manager of thoMajeetic theater, and husband of the dead actress, is under arrest suspected of the killing. Davenport denies that he killed the woman, Brown at first thought f that Davenport Uid. but later, at the Inquest, was doubtful. Davenport's friends say he can prove an alibi. Three shots in all were fired. Two pierced Brown's body, and the actress, trying to defend him, started toward the man who shot, and herself was shot. Before Brown could bring assistance to the dying woman, she succumed. Winsor Park is a resort near Brunswick, and it was there that Brown and the actress went. They sat 011 a bench in the moonlight, in a secluded spot and had been there only a short time when the man appeared. The man, according to the bartender, slipped up on them. Before | Brown knew that he was being watched, he says, lie heard two shots and simultaneously fel over. Both bullets had taken effect, one entering the abdomen, and the other following it closed?. The woman Hcrwined, and In response to Brown's appeal to shoot his assailant, rose to her feet and started toward th#? tmm nmi' in full view in the moonlght. She had none hut a few steps, however, when a third shot was fired. The bullet entered the actress' breast, and she fell, mortally wounded. Tbou, Brown says, the assailant disappeared under the trees, but he himself, although probably mortally wounded, went to the woman's assistance. "I am dying," she cried. "Ix>osen my dress. Let me breathe." Brown, followed her instructions, and placed her on a bench. Then staggering from loss of blood. Brown started toward the city for assistance. He first notified the police, and Assistant Chief of Police Owens, with his mounted officers, and a physician, hurried the park. They were too late, however, to render the Davenport woman any assistance. She was dead when they arrived, and near her, on the ground, were found her wrap, jacket, a book and a cluster of roses. Meanwhile, Brown, having notified the authorities, fainted from loss of blood and was borne to the city hospital. There the doctors said that his chances of recovery were small. The police, after a search, found Davenport at his quarters in New Castle street and placed him under arrest . Davenport stoutly denied thnt hn Vi iwl efwit tho .'if'frOHfl ?nH Drown. "I have boon right horo since suppor," ho declared. Brown, however, thought Davenport was the guilty man, and Davenport was arrested. Davenj>ort is the manager of the Majestic theater, which was recently oponed hero. He came to Brunswick last Junuaryfvith the Parker Amusement, coinp^fy. His wife the dead uctress, was "Supcrba," the loading attraction carried by the curnival company. Brown is a bartender at the Mecca saloon, and has lived in Brunswick only a short time. Gave Up in Despair. At Cleveland, Ohio, live workmen in the top story of the John Schaber picture moulding factory had a narrow escape from death when the building took tire. The firemen climbed to the third story and rescued the workmen. Schaber, owner of the factory, collapsed at the fire and after he hnd been taken home, shot himself with a revolver, lie said he was too old to begin life anew. He will probably die. The loss was $60,1'^. Confessed. In IVia nnnrt In Cnllimlilll lllVlt WPI'k *u ?-u\; wui v 1u v/viuiww.u. Daniel Zimmerman confessed to stealing State bonds and soiling them, but claimed that he was led to do it by T. J. Gibson, a bond broker, of Columbia. Gibson was tried and convicted on Zimmerman's testimony, and both of them have been sont to the penitentiary. Zimmerman is 00 and Gibson 7G years of age. A sad sjjght. Killed by Ammonia. In New York on Thursday two men were killed and eleven rendered unconscious by ammonia fumes at a fire in the market ou Kight avenue. One of the unconscious may die. Jealous Husband. Because his wife refused to live with him Will \Vagn{ of Covington, Oa., emptied the contents of a revolver into her body. Tho woman will likely die. The sheriff, with dogs, is In pursuit of the negro. Ct,ST OF CRIME. Figures ?at Will Surprise a Great MMany People. Over a JlUllion IKtllurs a Year Is Spent in the I'ulU'd States On Criminals. The- cost of crime to the governn- ' inent reaches the enormous sum of $140,000,000. Of this sura $80,000,000 is expei) led in a certain precen- ' tage of tne maintenance of the supreme and federal courts. United States district attorneys. United States -<qfe^shals, and the secret ser[ vice rf*<?us; part of it is the cost of c^pe^f the treasury department to prevem smuggling, the cost of crime to the army and the navy and to the postolllce nnd to allied de- ] pnrtnients. The government losses by smuggling and postal frauds, etc., add : the $60,000,000 to make the afore- ' said total. In the last statement, < which is only an estimate of what the national government pays for crime, it should be remembered that 1 [there are no reliable figures on the 1 1 subject. 1 In estimating the government ( losses tit $60,000,000 a year for smuggling, fraud, etc., the writer ' has endeavored to keep strictly un- ' 'tier the mark. It is estimated that i | the government loses from $73,000,- | 000 to $100,000,000 a year by smug! gling alone, while the postolllce frauds are believed to have cost the government something like $10,000,- i a year. , The detailed cost of crime in the United States represents some as- ( founding figures. In 1897 the cost < of crime in Greater New York was i 1 $25.552,13:1.24. The state, county , ! and city authorities outside of Greater New York spent for it $42,605,- 1 4 72.75. In forty-live states (New I York excluded' the expenditure was j $697,080,000. Criminal losses by ( tires totaled $ 1 00.00u.000. Itv customs frauds the national i.orntiw.nl I* A AAA AAA ? \ ? h*"* unique iuoi fuv,v;vu,vvv. iiur* ing this one year the loss in wages io 100,000 state prisoners was $28,*- I 080,000, while the loss in wages of : 150,000 prisoners in the city find county jails was $28,000,000, The grand total, therefore, of the cost of crime in the United States reaches the stupendous llgures of $1,076,327,605.99. The cost of religious work in the United States is enormous. The cost of foreign missions, comprising all denominations, is $7,000,000; home [ missions expended the same sum. Wo spend for education $200,000,000; for church expenses and ministers' salaries, $150,000,000. Hos- ( pitals and dispensaries for the sick , poor cost us $100,000,000; for Ran- ( itarlums of all kinds we spend $60,000,000. City missions and rescue work of all kinds demand and receive $3,000,000; humanitarian work of every kind, $12,000,000. Our Young Men's and Young Women's Christain associations cost $5,000,000, while all other moral and social ( work in the United Slates requires fin expenditure of $5,000,000. The total expenditure for humanitarian find religious work is, then, $54 9,000,000. As against, this, the total cost of crime in the United Stfites for the year reached the incredible total of $1,076,605.99. This is to sav, we spend more than $500, ooo.ooo u year more on crime than wo do on ;ill spiritual, ecclesiastical, physical, hunmniinrian, educational ;iii<l healing agencies put together. Must Publish Iteports. One of the important 5\cts passed by (lie last general assembly required all county treasurers to report etich month, on or before the 16th the amount of collections received and the banks in which the collecticnc sire deposited. The report is to be published in a county newspaper and is also to b<> sent in to the County Commissioners. Just what the publishing of this report will accomplish we do not exactly see. There is no question but thiit an intelligent, plain report by thoTreasurer or the County Supervisor would be appreciated by the public. They want one that they can understand One thsit will tell for what the money was spent and who earned it. The nature and kind of service rendered sind in whJit part of the county it was rendered. Serious Charge. At Denver, Colo., Dr. Benjamin C. Wright, solicitor for the intcrnational correspondence school of Scran ton, Pa., is in Jail on the charge of murder, having confessed to the chief of police that lie poisoned his wife and daughter, who were found dead in their home. Infatuation for Stella Good, is the supposed motive for the crime. Constables Needed. Relieving the proper enforcement of the state anti-liquor law is impossible in Oreeniville county without the aid of specially appointed constables, more than two hundred prominent citizens have signed a petition asking Governor Ansel to reappoint certain constables recently relieved from duty there under the Carey-Cothran act. Murdered aiul Itobla-d. At Pawtucket, R. I., Mrs. Alexander Henderson was murdered in her little candy store Triduy by a robber, who after emptying: the money drawer and stealing a quantity of cigars made his escape through a well settled section of the city, leaving behind him a trail of blood. This seems to be a year of disasi ters. Now comes tho news from Mn nilla that the Philippine Islands , have been devastated by a storm, i and thht several hundred had been i killed and thousands rendered homeless. AN OLD BEAU Sued on Valentine He Sent Th6rty-Five Years Ago. ASKS BIG DAMAGES. rhe Widow After Long Interval of Marriage Flounts Hh^inc, and Sh)*n He Kenewed Troth, Hut a Trolley Ninn?ih, it Seems, Jolted All the Ijove Out Of the Old Gentleman. , A queer case Is being tried at [lartford, Conn., which is attracting considerable interest. Thirty-live i'ears ago Thomas K. Fltts, of Ashwood, who is now seventy-live years old and wealthy, promised to be the present Mrs. Bridget Theresa Gorman's valentine. Although she afterward married, and is now fiftythree and a widow with three children, she is seeking through the courts $10,000 damages because her whilom admirer declines to live up to his ancient assurances af undying love. The breach of promise suit of the widow against the aged and prominent citizen promises to become in court annuls as celebrated as the case of Mr. Pickwick. Kvery action of Mr. Fitts from the time that he sent the valentine through the protracted married life of Mrs. Gorman and after death had freed her, is recorded and its interpretation by and effect upon the feelings of Mrs. uornian airectlngly roc I tod. There wore tears in the eyes of Mrs. Gorman's lover and his voice broke from pathos when he road the fateful valentine, and the widow sobbed through the recital. "Maiden fair, to you I send Thin token of affection true, Showing where my feelings tend, Like the magnet unto you. "Worlds may pass away and perish Every feeling die away, Hut the constant love I cherish Never, never shall decay." When the lawyer had calmed himself after lingering on the words "Never, never shall decay," and the comely widow hajl dried, her eyes, Bhe took the witness stand to tell of her romance and its sad ending. Mrs. Gorman said that she had known Mr. Fitts before her marriage and that he had showed her attention, but had not reached the l>oint of a declaration when Mr. Gorman appeared. This was in 1K7U, and after the first announcement of the banns in church Mr. Fitts called on her. , "He said that he would have been in Mr. Gorman's place if he had only been more forward," said Mrs. Gorman, "and then he cried, and 1 cried and said to Mr. Fitts: # " 'Now, Thomas, you never told me anything like that before.' " "Did he show VOII anv mark* of affection on tho occasion of your marriage?" Mrs. (.orman whh asked. "Yes," she replied. with downcast eyes; "on tho very day of the wedding lie sent me three or four baskets of peaches, and I understood." Mrs. Gorman declared that, with her husband's knowledge and consent, her acquaintanceship with Mr. Pitts was continued and that lie remained a batcholor. They often met, and went driving together, and he always seemed sad and often sighed, and site sighed, too. She said that her marriage to Mr. Gorman was a disappointment, because of the conduct of her husband. He left her and was gone four years, and during this period Mr. Pitts called upon her and they discussed the possibility of Mrs. Gorman obtaining a divorce! Mr. Pitts told her at this time, Mrs. Gorman testified, that he v/as worth $??fi,000, and that if she got a divorce he would marry her at once and make her life happy. In April, 1903, Mr. Gorman died, and in June Mr. Pitts called upon the widow. " 'Well, you are single at last,' said Mr. Pitts to me, and I said, 'Yes,' " Mrs. Gorman testified. He continued to call on the widowen an average of twice a month, and made presents to her and to members of her family. In ?- -- - -1 1 i iit-n in i^uyninuri , 11 t unili'U 111?* to harry him," the witness testified, "and I told hini that I would," and her voice softened to a whisper "And he said that he would come at Thanksgiving and we would talk the arrangements over. It was understood that we were to he married the next May and would go to the St. Louis fair for a wedding trip. "And because he had proposed and I had accepted hini, and knew that he was wealthy, I told all my boarders nhout it nnd let them go ana i naa iweniy-iwo. JuHt at this time a trolley cm butted into the romance. It struck Mr. Fitts and Injured him so pain fully that he had to go to bed. "I went to ace him just as soor an I heard of the accident." Mrs Gorman coutinued, "and stooped down and kissed him as he lay 01 the bed." "Did he kiss you?" she was ask ed." "Certainly he did," she indignant At Pittsburg, Pa., Prof. T. M Taylor of the chomistry departmen of the Carnegie Technical school wa found dead Thursday in his room a the residence of Mrs. W. H. Hartzo There was a bullet wound behin his left ear, and a now revolver wa lying on the floor. DID HE POISON HER? Atlanta Has a New Sensation to Talk About. Mttll <iuvo Two Nullity Mild Arl.il Otherwise Supiciousljr Before Woman Died. Atlanta has a now sensation to talk at>out. While his wife, who Is said to have died under mysterious circumstances, laid at the undertaking room of Barclay ft Brandon, awultlng a coroner's inquest, the police and detectives of that city are searching for Edwin P. Wiutleld or E. W. Pettus, both names, it is alleged, having been given to the undertaker and the attending physician. An inquest will be held Friday. It is said the man had another w i f e. According to the doctors, the woman, whose maiden name Ih Lucia Carter Brewer, of Marietta, (la., died, as her husband told them of morphine poisoning. Winflold or Pettus, gave his occupation to the undertakers as that of a telegraph operator, and said he was employed by the Southern Kailway in one of its block signal oltlces near Howell's station. IB' is a man something over f?0 years old. of slender build, and with gray moustache. Wiutleld, or Pettus, told conflicting stories about his name, it is said, and was much preturbod when Mr. Brandon, of Barclay ft Brandon, told him that the coroner would arrive shortly t<> investigate. (Mr. Brewer, father of tho dead woman, said he knew little of WinHeld or PettUB?he knew him as Wintleld. lie said that the man had a daughter at Agnes Scott, and a son in New York. The dead woman was 36 years old, and was of prepossessing appearance. The woman died early Wednesday morning at her residence, 3 1 Pareluy street. Dr. Andrew Slribllng, of No. 113 North Boulevard, told Mr. ltrandon that he had been summoned by her husband the night before. Pottus, as he gave his name to the doctor, declared that his wife had taken morphine, and said that previously she had been attended by Dr. C. E. Stone. Dr. Btribling answered the call, as it seemed to he an einergncy one, and finding that the woman, as he said, seemed to have recovered, ho left. ller death followed the next morning. ller husband called on Barclay & Brandon and gave an order for the funeral arrangements. To Mr. Brandon he said that his name was Edwin P. Win field. When Mr Itrim. don called on I)r. Htribling for the death certificate. In* wjih informed that the man had given the name of Pettus. Neither doctor would issue u death certificate. TKKKI11LK TltAOKDY. A llnlf Witter Midi Shoots and Kills His Neighbor. Anderson County was the scene of a horrible tragedy on Tuesday of last week, when Asbury Woo ten, a white man of forty years, shot and instantly killled Mr Duke Owens, a man of seventy-two yours. it is said that some boys playfully rocked Mr. Woolen's home Sunday evening, and that Mr. Woolen, being half witted, became very much wrought up over the action of the boys. Tuesday morning, Mr. Owens, ac o.npar.ied by another gentleman vent to the home of Mr. Woolen t< tell him that the boys meant no harm in rocking his home. Mr. Woo ten ordered these gentlemen off his place, and told Mr. Owens that If he repeated what he had said about the action of the boys, lie would kill hint. Mr. Owens remained to pacify Mr. Wooten, who became quite angry. It was then that Mr. Owens was shot throuidi the heart, which caused Mr instant (loath. Feud Caused Killing, Telephone messages from Clark's Fork, Knott county, Ky., give details of another feud battle between the Stone and Clark factions. Michoal Stone was fatally wounded and his son, Richard was killed. John Clark, the alleged leader of the Clark faction, was desperately wounded. ly replied. "He always kissed me when he came to see me." The result of the trolley accident seemed to cause a coolness on the part of Mr. Fitts. He did not. call to see the widow from December to March, and then told her that on account of getting hurt he did not want to make a change in life just then. Later he almost stunned her with the statement that he thought sne was 100 old 10 g?u married. " 'Hut. Thomas,' I told him, 'Yon are no oldor than you were when you asked me.' " Mrs. Gorman testified Then Mrs. Gorman wrote him the > following letter, and quoted the lines of the valentine Riven above: "Dear Thomas -1 have waited patlenly for a cull, but the Summer has passed and Winter Is at hand, and I am yet waiting. 1 hope poor 1 health has not caused your non-appearance. It is almost thirty-three 1 years since you sent me the lines." 1 The poetry failedto bring a reply from Mr. h'itts, and after waiting for a year Mrs. Gorman has tired and began suit for $10,000 for breach - of of promise. [, The endless chain business hai t broken afresh. We heard of on< young lady who had received nim H requests to copy a certain prayei t nine times and send them to nim I. different people. If she compile* d with these nine requests she wouh 8 have to write eighty-one letters an* expend $1.62 In postage stamps. WHAT COTTON MEANS I t The Importance of the Staple to the United States I And to the World May lie Sr-cn From the Article Which Wo Publish llclow. . Some idea of what the cotton In dustry means may be Kathered from a report by the National Dureau of Manufactures recently Issued. It telle us that cotton and Its products brought practically five hundred millions of dollars Into the United States from foreign countries last year. The value of cotton, raw and manufactured, and its products In various forms exported during the year aggregated 485 million dollars and thus formed more than one-fourth of the total exports of the country in the year of Its greatest export record. Figures Just compiled by the bu- C reau of statistics of the department r| of commerce and labor show that the total value of raw cotton export- . ed in the calendar year 1906 was _ $413,000,000, this being the llrst cal- a. endar year in which the export ftgures of raw cotton touched or crossed the $4Q0,000,000 line. ^ Manufactures of cotton aggregat- ' ed practically $411,000,000, or more than In any earlier year except 1005, " when they amounted to about $06,- '' 500,000. Cotton seed oil exported ? added another $14,000,000 to the total, and cotton seed oil cake and ' meal still another $14,000,000. Added to this is a quarter of a ' million dollars worth of cotton seed, while presumably a largo proportion a of the nearly five million dollars' worth of lard compounds and sub- '' stlfutes exported under the name of 1 cottolene, lardine, etc., was composed largely of cotton seed oil, thus bringing the aggregate expor- " tation of the cotton fields of the United States up to about $1110,000,- '* <M?0, or US per cent of $1.7611.000. 000 worth of (lonioBtic products ox- " ported iu (ho your. In addition to this tho valuo of '' cotton manufactures sout to I'orto tl Rico, Hawaii, and Alaska, and not includod in tho figures of exports to foreign countries, was over $4,500,- c 000. a Europe sent the bulk of. this a $100,000,000 received as the pur- w chase price of the year's ex porta- Cl tion of cotton and its products. Of the $413,000,000 worth of raw cotton exported. $173,000,000 worth ^ wont to the United Kingdom, $H>9 - ft 000,000 to Germany, $45,000,000 to w France, $3 1...uo.uoO to Italy, nearly a $7,000,000 to Belgium, $5,000,000 t< direct to Russia and $1,000,000 to H the Netherlands; while to Japan the d exports for the year were valued at h over $1 1,000,000, and to Canada seven and one-third millions. P Even this large ilguro of $103,- c 000.000 worth of cotton sent to the h United Kingdom fulls slightly below f that of 1905, when the total value tl of raw cotton exported to that coun- r try amounted to $177,000,000; but ? the increased movements to Germany more than offsot the reduction in those to the United Kingdom, the exports of cotton to Germany in 1906 being $19,000,44 1 in excess to these of 1906, and $16,000,000 in excess to those ol' 1904. The actual quantity of cotton < from the United States reaching Russia during the year was doubtless nuch greater than that indicated by the ilgures of direct exports to that country, since much of the cotton from the United States which enters Russia is sold originally to the markets of the United Kingdom and Germany and thence resold unci transhipped to Russia, These figures are startling. Their magnitude is so vast that wo scarcely grasp their meaning. But they prove the value of cotton and demonstrate the importance of the South. A half billion dollars wrung from the rest of the world simply because nature has made the South the only place where cotton can be successfully and largely grown. The lesson to be learned is plain. The South should get more out of tills total than It does. Most of the manufacturing should he done here and instead of exporting the raw cotton we should be sending out almost all we grow in finished goods. This will lie done some day and that day Is not as far distant as some imagine Yearly the disparity between the cotton grown and manufactured within the confines of the cotton states is less. With the development of our. wonderful reources taking place every day the growth ofcottnn manufacturing Interests keeps pace. Some day we will grow almost all ( the cotton the world needs and we will manufacture all except a small portion. It seems to us that the farmers of | the South, who creates all ths wealth j are entitled to more of it than they i get out of it as it passes through . our hands. Cotton enriches nearly , everybody who has anything to do with it except the man who produces ( it. This is somewhat queer, but it j is true. Now why is this? Are not. ] the farmers to blame themselves? While they have practically a monopoly in the production of cotton, they arc compelled to take what they are offered for it, and have no hand in fixing the price at which it is sold. . Our farmers could easily correct tliiu if f hov VL'onl/l of ii*l/ t/wntlutp but sonic how or other they will not do so. Why? A Good lloanl. VV. A. Courteimy, Kdward Khrlich and A. K. Gonzales have been appointed members of the commission l to improve the capital grounds at i Columbia. The legislature appropriated $ lb,000 for this purpose. 3 | The dispensary law has become so ^ popular in Charleston that a member r of the Legislature has resigned so Fj as he can accept a place on the I County Hoard of Control. Verily.l i as Brother Jasper use to say, "thel sun do move." ' HARRIS TO HANG. I dan Who Murdered Mrs. Morgan, Near Gaffney, Tells of IIS HORRIBLE CRIME. he Jury Returns ft Wrdiet nf Guilty ami the Judge Rr?ntrraro? Ibe Prisoner to bo tlnngwi- on IVklay, Marrh 20?Harris Asks Hveryone To Meet Him lit Iteuwu, After Ileiug Convicted. At OnfTnoy on Thursday In tbo ourt of (Jeneral Ross ions Torn Haria, alias Tom Childers, was convio?d of the murder of Mr? ia>ria? lii Morgan on November JO, 190G. nd sentenced to be hanged ou Friay, March 29. Mrs. Morgan, an aged widow, 11 vi! alone on the crest of a hill aU>ut wo and a half miles from Uuffuey. ho was brutally murdered about lid way, hot* throat being cut from ar to oar, and hor person robbed f a largo sum of money. flroaf Interest has boon manifest d In tho case and fho t'ourt IIoiiho /an packed vory soon after the eots wore opened. A great imuiy idles were present- Harris appoarnce had greatly changed.. Several witnesses testified to seeiig Harris at and near the oldlady'H iouko on the day of tho murder, 'ho testimony was strong against he man and there was not a shadw of a doubt of his guilt. Before he murder ho had very little mony, and when arrested $i2tj was ound on his person, which he said e won gambling. While confined in jail Harris conessed to three people that he comiltted the murder ami described Is terrible crime. Harris said that e and his wife and two children ume from Grover, N. f?. His wife ml children stopped at Blurksburg ml he went to Gaff any. He then rent out to Mr.H Morgan's and uoordlng to his own confession hen* i what transpired. When he got to her house, he )un<l her sitting on her front porch, ppronehed her and pretended U> /ant to rent a farm. Khe told him 11 her land was rented. She got ap > go In the house, asking him to tay for dinner. Ho replied that h?* id not care for any dinner, following her Into her room. Khe stopped to the bed to get n aj>er and he walked up behind herr. aught her by the throat, choked er down on tho bed, took his knife Mini ii in ami UIKF Cut ner hroat, after which waited in her oon ton or twenty minutes until he died. After thin he searched a cupboard r safe for her money. Not finding I. he Hcarched hor person. Finding ler money tied around her waiitt n a pouch or Hack, he cut the string roin her person, took the monev rom the sack and threw the Back own at the door. llo then walked back to the road nd walked buck to Haffney, going rj a store and buying a new nult of lothcH, overcoat, grip and u pair of hoes, and expecting to got on train to. 1 1 of the Southern Koad and ;o to Atlanta, (?a., and from there 0 Memphis, Tenn, never to return. He nays no one else than himself tud anything to do with this murder lither directly or indirectly. He furher states at the time he coramlted the murder he hud lift of hi? >wn money, and, thinking it wouldl lot he sufficient for his needs de:ided to rob Mrs. Morgan. The jury after being out a very ihort time returned a verdict of ;ullty. During the entiro time tho he Judge was making Mr prelfmnary remarks Harris wtood chewing 1 wad of tobacco. Aft^r Judge AlIrich senteced him to be hanged on Friday, March 2'J, Harris exclaim}d, "Everybody meet me la Heaven." DispeiiNiiry Auditor. Ciov. Ansel Thursday announced ho appointment of Mr. W. ii. West, iuperintendant of the graded schools if Oaffney, uh dispensary, auditor, under the provisions of the Carey[Jothran law. This position carrier with It a salary of $2,000 per year ind actual expenses. The incumbent will ho the most powerful single* official of the system. To Help Mrs. Jackson. Mrs. Myra A. Jackson, widow of the late General Stonewall Jackson, has been granted a pension of $2 0 a month by an act of congress. The pension was granted to her as a wid:>w of a Mexican war officer. Senator Overman and Representative Webb were instrumental in having the act passed. Mrs. Jackson lives in Charlotte, N. C. Great Power Plant. The Catawba po*er plant, not far from Chester, has been completed by the Southern Power Company. This company owns the greatest water power in this countrv. exocnt Niagara. Their plants extend from Hickory, N. C., to Camden, S. C. and aggregate 200,000 horse power Selling its Stock. The dlspeiiHary commission hat? agreed to Roll the stock of liquor?) in the Charleston dispensaries to the county authorities at 20 per cent discount. ThlH will probably bo the basin for dealing with other counties. 3 Preparing a Statement. Senator Tillman is preparing a statement for the press of his view* of the Caroy-Cothran bill. Ho thinka the law will he found undoslrahie ' and that an early change la likely.