The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 11, 1913, Image 6
ATTACK ON WILSON
HAS HURT GOVtRNOR BLEASE
WITH THE FARMERS
FARMERS LIKE WILSON
?
Governor Illease's Mud Assault on the
President and His Wholesale Pardoning
of White and Negro Convicts
Has Hurt His Chances in the
ltace for the Senate.
Tho Columbia correspondent of
Tio Augusta Chronicle says apropos
to Governor Ulease's speech at Anderson
Saturday, in which ho denounced
President Wilson and vehemently
asserted that ho would defeat E. 1).
Smith for the United States senate
next year, political observers of tho
conditions in the Piedmont do not by
any means agree with tho governor's
prophesy of success?In fact, they so
far disagree with him that they are
sanguine that lie will lose the Piedmont
by a largo majority. And they
bring forward certain conditions to
bolster their arguments.
It is said that Blouse's wholesale
denunciation of the Wilson administration
has done much to injure him
among his friends in the agricultural
class; that he has lost votes he can
never regain, regardless of what spectacular
political move ho takes, or
the more sinuous course of his astuto
lieutenants.
It is claimed that Blouse's utterances
have done much to injure the
chances of election of his first political
captain in the Piedmont, Sain J.
Nichols, one of the "pardon lawyers"
dictagraphed hy Burns' detectives in
the employ of Thomas B. Folder, an
attorney of Atlanta, Ga. Nichols is
in the race against Joseph T. Johnson,
who represents the Fourth Congressional
District.
The farmers?who nro shrewd voters
when the prosperity of the country
is concerned?are putting up this
argument why B.lease should not he
sent to the senate in the place of
Smith: Woodrow Wilson, they say,
has made a successful president, one
who has demonstrated that he is the
friend of the farmer of the South and
West; that lie is the real force cans
inu, mi? uiMvii wdi u revision oi llio
tariff, with its probable reduction in
tlnweost of living.
They recite the fact that one of
Wilson's cabinet, through the assent
of the president, relieved the financial
stringency by advancing money
out of the treasury to harvest and
move the crops. They think that
Wilson has the agricultural interests
at heart when he advocates rural
credits as the next great administrative
measure.
The farmers know that E. D.
Smith is a progressive and not a destructive
Democrat; that he is aligned
with the policies of the administration;
that he enjoys the personal
friendship of the president, and, consequently,
can be of much influence
in promoting the general welfare of
tho state.
From the tenor of Dleaso's caustic
criticism of tho Wilson administration
at Anderson, the farmers know
that, if elected, he will oppose Wilson
and will be a political nonentity
ho far as exerting any influence in
behalf of South Carolina is concerned.
Tho farmers, not only of the Piedmont,
but of tho other sections ol
the State are using tho foregoin.u
conditions as arguments and are saying;
"Why should we cut our own
throats by sending Governor Please
to the senate, whore he would try tc
nullify the acts of the president, our
friend, and defeat Wilson's friend,
Senator Smith, who can do much for
South Carolina through his influence?"
The farmers aro using the same
arguments against the candidacy of
Sam J. Nichols in the Fourth Congressional
district, against Victor
Cheshire, a colonel on the governor's
stoff, and Fred IT. Dominick, assistant
attorney general and Rlease's
campaign manager in the last campaign.
who are opposing Wyatt Aiken
for congress in the Fifth Congressional
district.
And political wiseacres, with premises
of facts to substantiate their
logic, prophesy that Ttloase and his
three lieutenants will he submerged
in a tide of ballots. Tt is stated
that the "blind tiger" element, which
supported Illease to a man for the
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Didn't Need His Pardon.
A dispatch from Creenville says
Vaster Hrvant, turned loose by Governor
Tllease along with ninety-nine
other convicted as .a Thanksgiving
gift, was at the time of his pardon
ft fugitive, having escaped from the
Oreonville gang some time In September.
Bryant was convicted In
Oreonville at the September term of
court 1011, of manslaughter, and
v"? fontenced to five years imprisonment
Three Dead, Seven Hurt.
Nine ca-s of a logging train near
Aycock. F .a., broke from the train on
an Incline and dashed down Into a
work trair.. killing three men and Injuring
seven others on Tuesday.
PELLAGRA IS SPREADING11
IlK POUT SHOWS BIG INCREASE
OM-IH THE STATE. ]
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State Hoard of Health Issues Report
by Counties Showing Number of
Cases for the Last Two Years. J
Marked increase in the number of
cases of pellagra this year Is shown
by a report Issued by counties by the
state board of health. In Spartanburg
county for instance the number
increase from 165 in 1912 to 115 for
this year. The following table prepared
by the state board of health
shows tin* number of cases in each
county, as compared with last year:
County. 1912 1913
Abbeville 38 64
Aiken 20 2 7
Anderson 43 4 5
lkunberg 5
Ham well 10 8
Beaufort 7 7
Berkeley 2 27
Calhoun 1 f>
Charleston 16 35
Cherokee 11 10
Chester 21 4 5
Chesterfield 7 6
Clarendon 5 2
Colleton 3 9
Darlington 8 35
i ii iion 13 2 2
Dorchester 0 2
Minefield 5 11
Fairfield 58 2 0
Florence 10 2 8
Georgetown 86 2 1
Greenville 4 L 4 5
Greenwood 4 0 3 8
Hampton 3 6
Horry 3 3
Jasper
Kershaw 11 2 8
Lancaster 10 (J
Lee
Lexington 13 22
Laurens 54
Marion 6 8
Marlboro 13 13
Newberry 3 8 7
Oconee 21 3 6
Orangeburg 3 3 2 6
Pickens 8 3 1
Richland 86 85
Saluda 6 7
Spartanburg 105 4 15
Sumter 3 6 21
Union 18 4 8
Williamsburg 8 24
York 50 95
CAPTl'KKS CONY It'T.
Greenville Sheriff Breaks Speed Limit
to Arrest Negro.
By breaking all the speed laws of
the city and State in a dash in his
automobile from tho Greenville
county jail to the Monaghan mill
railroad crossing, Sheriff Rector, of
that place Tuesday night captured
Rob Pool, a negro convict, who es
caped from the county chain gang in
August of this year. Pool got on the
(J. K. train as it left Greenville
Tuesday night and was recognized by
the conductor as being the escaped
i eonvict. Not being able to delay his
' train in order to inform the sheriff.
the conductor wrote a message on a
: slip of paper and threw it to a man
standing near the stop at Montague.
Sheriff Recto/ was immediately no
tifiod over the telephone of *ho con'
tents of tho message, and without dei
lay started in his automobile in a
race against time, having less than
live minutes to reach the Monaghan
crossing, which was the train's next
' stop. Arriving there just as the train
; was leaving, he arrested Pool before
he was able to attempt a flight. Hob
i Pool was serving a five-year sentence
s on the chain gang for shooting Jesse
i Pool several years ago. At the time
of his escape last August he had
, served about three years of his allot
ted time.
governorship will bo lethargic, if not
1 downright inimical to him in his race
for the senate. When they supported
him last year it was because of the
supposition that they would have a
1 "friend" in the governor's chair, and
' Please will be of no use to them in
1 the senate.
Please's wholesale pardoning of
every description of criminal is said
to do doing mm irreparable injury
all over the State, especially In the
Piedmont. Ills pardon of Emerson
and Ellison, of Anderson, caused a
1 tide of Indignation to sweep over
that country which lost him fully 1 ,HOrt
votes he can never hope to regain.
Politicians of that county say
some of his former staunch friends
have turned against him.
Tho main element that enters Into
the opposition to Please because of
his wholesalo pardoning proclivity Is
v,.w tuiuiug iuuto uii mtj oiiiiH or nundreds
of negro criminals. Tho mill
man of South Carolina has a natural
antipathy for the negro, and it Is
said that they are dissatisfied with
Blease's action In turning the black
criminals out of tho State penitentiary
to further prey on the white
people of the State, and politicians
who claim to guage correctly the
weather vane of events say they will
voice their dissatisfaction at the polls
by helping to pile up the majority for
Smith.
The Democrats should rush the
currency bill through so as the country
will get down to business.
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WILSON'S MESSAGE
PRESIDENT READS HIS ADDRESS
TD REGULAR SESSION
BETS WARM RECEPTION
enthusiastic Demonstration at Its
Conclusion?Party IiCaders Howard
it as Utterance of a Statesman and
Democrats Are Delighted With llis
lteeommendations.
For exactly twenty-eight minutes
on Tuesday President Wilson stood
before the assembled Senate and
House, in the chamber of the latter,
and read his first annual message.
Applause punctuated Important utterances,
and when ho had finished
there was an enthusiastic demonstration,
with handclanidng and cheers.
With close, almost eager attention,
members of the two houses listened
and time and again tho legislators
gave vent to their enthusiasm along
with tho crowded galleries. Republicans
and Democrats alike pronounced
the message as the utterance of a
statesman.
"I like the idea of the President
coming before Congress," said Representative
Mann, Republican House
leader, "and reading a short message
pithy and to the point. In the main
I liked the messaera fodnv r thlnl*
everybody will recognize it. as the utterance
of a statesman, regardless of
whether he agrees with its deails."
Of particular signficnnco was one
outburst regarded in the National
Capitol tho unmistakable approval
that greeted the president's remark
"There can be no certain prospect of
peace in America until (Jen. Iluerta
lias surrendered his usurped authority
in Mexico."
Tho scene of Tuesday's function
was much the same as on the three
previous occasions, when President
Wilson lias addressed Congress galleries
crowded with men and women
of importance in public affairs, members
of the Cabinet, the diplomatic
corps and the White House family.
The message was one of the briefest
and most novel of American State
papers, being less than 3,000 words
long?a marked contrast, as presented
by Its author, to the hitherto
lengthy documents averaging 20,000
words or more, droned through a
reading clerk to an inattentive Congress.
There was another contrast conspicuously
apparent, President. Wilson
had read three message before
on the tariff, the currency and Mexican
affairs. The first, time he addressed
a joint session in person, early
in this term, there was an atmosphere
of stiff formality, applause was liberoral
but perfunctory, and there was
an indefinite air of precedent being
broken?or a century old custom being
revived. Also there was an expectant
curiosity as to how the President.
would be received. Tuesday the
president's reception was warm, almost
uproarious, as lie concluded his
reading.
Democratic leaders were enthusiastic.
in their comments on the message
and its recommendations. They liked
tho emphasis placed by the President
on the need for early action on
the currency, for dealing with monopoly
through anti-trust legislation, the
Importance of rural credit legislation
to benefit the farmers, the recommendations
for (Government construction
of railorads in Alaska, the development
of the nation's resources by a
conservation policy aliko acceptable
to the State and the Federal authorities,
the enactment of employers' liability
legislation and the selection of
Presidential candidates by tho primary
system.
The suggestion of tho President
that party conventions as at present
constituted be abolished won much
applause. As Mr. Wilson declared that
the party convention should he held
only to ratify the verdict of preferential
primaries, that the personnel of
the conventions should he, for the
most part, chosen from those members
of Congress and Congressional
nominees upon whom would devolve
the duty of carrying out platform
pledges, there was a wave of handclapping,
in which Secretary Prvan
and members of the Cabinet joined.
Makes Ttig Yield of Potatoes.
W. P. Harris, one of the largest
and most progressive farmers of Laurens
County, reports the champion
yield of Irish potatoes for that county.
On ten acres he produced 1,54 7
bushels, the crop having been gathered
last week. On one aero alone of
tho field 24 2 2-4 bushels were made.
To Winter on Border.
Owing to the unsettled condition
of affairs on the Mexican border,
nearly one-third of the Infantry
forces of the United States army,
comprising the second division under
Major Gen. William IT. Carter, is preparing
to winter In open field camp
near Texas City, Texas.
Killed After Acquittal,
Immediately after a Jury had acquitted
S. C. Curberth, of Carnegia,
C.a., on a charge of criminal assault,
on Tuesday, the brother of the alleged
victim shot and killed him.
FINISH CURRENCY BILL
DIvVCC;: YY* II.W ii liILL HKAIIV
i-0:1 M:\\
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If l i-puted Points of Importance
A?ise, Will ho Cimsiilorwl and
l><eide?l in Con form ce.
1 h torminod to havo tho ndministration
currency bill ready for con-,
sidct ltion by the Senate as a Demo
cratie party measure when the new
session of congress met tho Senate
conference of Democrats worked far
into thi> night Saturday night, settling
disputed details. As Finally
agreed upon tho measure was but little
different from the draft presented
to the Senate by Chairman Owen and
tho live other administration Democrats
of tho banking and currency
committee.
The conference decided, however,
that if disputed points of importance
became apparent in the course of debate
on the lloor each difference
among Democrats as it arose would
bo taken into tho conference, the
party disagreements straightened out
and tho majority united to act on the
lloor.
Tho administration members of
the banking and currency committee
reported to the conference Saturday
night on practically all the disputed
j?i wpursiiiuitH ill 111(3 1)111. 1 HO COIlforonco
adopted tho recommendations
for a plan to guarantee deposits of
hanks which enter t he new system.
This would provide that after the
new regional hanks have earned a 0
per cent, dividend on their stock and
established a 4 0 per cent, surplus,
the. excess earnings shall he divided
l^alf and half. One part shall ho dovoted
to a guarantee fund and the
other shall he paid to the government
as a "franchise tax".
Tho conference also adopted the
suggestion of the committee that the
federal reserve hoard, which will control
tho new system, should consist
of the secretary of tho treasury and
six members to ho appointed by the
president. An attempt may he made
to place tho comptroller of the currency
on tho hoard. Tho conference
with tho exception of writing in the
provision for a guarantee of bank deposits
has made practically no material
change in the draft of the bill
presented by Senator Owen and the
conference measure it is practically
certain will he acceptable to President
Wilson.
com i: to mo i>ivipi:i>.
Methodists Will lla\e Two Sections
in This State.
Monday morning's session of the
Houm i'uroll 11 a Conference at. Rock
Hill was occupied with tho consideration
of the question of dividing South
Carolina into two sections, with a
northern and southern conference.
Tho resolution was presented by the
ltev. 1). M. McLeod, who made an
able argument to support his contention.
lie argued that the work of Methodism
may bo more generally and
specifically advanced if there are two
united conferences behind tho work
than if there is a single conference,
the two having far more influence
than one. Also, ho said, it takes so
much timo to transact business
where the body is so large and unwieldy.
Then, too, the conference
has grov/n to a point where comparatively
few cities can entertain the
members without straining a point.
Dr. John O. Wilson opposed a division,
thinking better work could be
done by one large body. After considerable
discussion tho vote was
taken, being 123 for and 80 against
division. Messrs. If. N. Snyder, J.
W. Daniel and W. M McLeod were
appointed a committee to present to
tho general conference a memorial
asking for a division ' the State. In
caso of division, the institutions in
the State will become the property of
both conferences.
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KILLED OVER CIGARETTE.
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Clinton Negroes Have Serious Difficulty
Over Triviality.
Ed Williams of Clinton, colored,
was killed Saturday night about 8:30
o'clock. Ho was cut to death with a
knife. Watts Little, also colored, is
accused of the crime. They wore in a
restaurant on Main street in the business
section of Clinton. The negroes,
with several others, were in the restaurant
when they got into a dispute
over a cigarete. A policeman was
called for and both negroes ran out
/x# t
ui iut; nouso. Williams ran about
one,hundred yards when ho fell down
an embankment on the Seaboard
track. Ills body was found thore
Sunday morning about 7 o'clock by a
cook at tho Clinton Hotel. Little
was also severely cut and his condition
is critical.
Much Cotton Ilestroywl.
A flro which broke out at Woodruff
Monday morning about one o'clock
destroyed 388 bales of cotton, entailing
an estimated loss of $35,000.
Rank Is Robbed.
According to a dispatch, robbers
blew the Rank of Ellenboro, C.,
at 1 o'clock Saturday morning, Recuring
$2,900, and escaped.
WILL 3UKKLNDER
SEVEN FIDERAL GENERALS AKE
LEAVING MEXICO .
HEAVY ULUW TU HUERTA
(icnrrals Send <'otnniission to <i??neral
Villa at tin* Same Tim? Tak*
inn a I'lying S(ar( for I lilted States
Koundary?Ki'dci'iils Abandon tin*
Nort h.
Seven generals of the Mexican regular
army are ready to surrender,
says a dispatch received Tuesday
night from Juarez, and tho backbone
of the lluerta dictatorship in tne
north has been broken. A peace
commission Tuesday night arrived in
Juarez bearing terms of the surron
dor. The peace commission was
headed by Odilon Hernandez and
came from Chihuahua hearing a
proclamation signed by Oen. Salvador
Mercado, Huerta's military governor
and commander of the Federal forces
in all the north.
The proclamation stated that the
Huerta government was bankrupt
and was unable to pay its soldiers.
The simultaneous exaeuation of. other
Federal strongholds In the north is
believed by the rebels to bo the result
of a concerted decision to abandon
the whole of Northern Mexico.
The peace proposals were sent by
(ion. Mercado to (Jen. Francisco Villa,
rebel leader, through Federlco
Move, civil governor of Chihuahua
state, appointed ad Interim. Alone
with it came an appeal signed by all
the foreign consuls in Chihuahua,
calling upon Villa to give police protection
to the citizens of Chihuahua
city. Con. Mercado's proclamation
read:
"tinder the circumstances which
have existed in Chihuahua it. has been
deemed necessary for the Federal
troops to evacute. 1 leave in charge
Fedcrico Move, a person who is not
identified with politics and who is,
therefore, qualified to give full protection
to foreigners. It. is impossible
to remain here longer, as there
Is no money with which to pay the
troops."
The generals who have signified,
through (leu Mercado, their willingness
to surrender, but who, nevertheless,
aro fleeing to the United States
border, are: Con. Salvador Mercado.
Con. Pascual Orozco, Gen. Jose Mazll
la, Con. 13 la/. Orplnal, Con. Landa.
Tho peace commission proposed to
Con. Villa that all non-combatants
who sought safety by fleeing to the
border be permltod to go without being
fired upon, and all the Federals,
including 200 soldiers, loft on police
duty in Chihuahua city, be pardoned.
It also asked clemency for Fedoral
officials, but it is thought the Federal
generals will seek safety by crossing
the border into the United States,
possibly near Ojinaga.
The peace commission stated th'at
before leaving Chihuahua the Federals
destroyed all the postage and
government revenuo stamps; that
there existed practically no money in
the city and that 2,000 citizens had
left with the troops, most of them
being those who were rich and who
feared harsh treatment by the rebels.
Tho commission started back immediately
after seeing Oen. Villa, for
Chihuahua with his assurances that
people of all classes in the city and
including tho Federal pollco would
be protected, and that ho would dispatch
troops to garrison tho place as
soon as possible. Notwithstanding
the action of the Federals, fJen. Villa
himself was preparing for departure
southward. IIo said Chihuahua would
be only a stopping place on his southward
march, as he was determined to
continue on to Mexico city.
KILLING AT FLOHFXCR.
Following Quarrel Travelling Salesman
Kills His Foreman.
M. Cook, a foreman on the plantation
of T. Burch, near Florence, was
shot and killed by his employer In
front of a hotel thcro Saturday afternoon.
There are many conflicting
stories in regard to the killing, but
from what can bo gathered Cook had
been following Mr. Burch all day
with some complaint and the controversy
became an altercation and later
grew hotter. It is stated that Cook
cursed and threatened Burch and
the latter drew his pistol and shot
him. He had previously led Cook into
the vestibule of tbo hotel and the two
were seated in chairs discussing the
question on which they differed. The
slayer made no attempt to escape.
Through his attorney ho mado the
statement that he does not wish to
discuss the shooting, saying it grew
out of an altercation and cursing and
threats. Cook was about 35 years of
age. Ho had been foreman for Burch
for nearly a year. He leaves a wife
and two young children.
O?A C3 a
wi*-v? nrr nnvni,
The four-masted schooner Monday
wrecked near the harbor entrance of
Aberdan, Wash., Tuesday was Identified
as the Nalboa, from Chile, to
C.ravs Harbor, in ballast. The nine
men of her crew were rescued by lifesavers.
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MARCHING ON CAPITOL
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I OK ADVANCK MOVK.
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Goncral Villa Filters City at Head of
Victorious Army From Which He
|-'le<l Nineteen Years A^<>.
Fifty-flv? hundred Mexican rebels,
forming the nucleus of the army
which the rebel leader, (leu. Francisco
Villa says he will lead to Mexico
city to overthrow the Huerta dictatorship.
were ready to enter Chihuahua,
the State capitol, Thursday
night. It is in this town that Villa,
now in supremo command of the mllit;\r>
forces of the revolution, said ho
would gather about him 10,000 men
to start sontii by way of Torreon and
Zacatoens to Mexico City. The report
that Zacatocas, with 30,000
population, the capital of a rich mining
district, already was being attncked,
indicated that the rebels to
he south wore In great, numbers.
Scattered bands of rebels, ranging
each from a few hundred to several
thousand, are *o he impressed into
the main army, according to Villa's <
plan to liavo nt least 20,000 mon
when ho reaches the high plateau
loading to the capital of the republic.
Already equipped with machine
guns, artillery and millions of rounds
of ammunition. Villa said he no
longer was hampered by inability to
cot arms from foreign sources, but
could readily obtain them from the
federals, who are reported in the few
remaining northern strongholds to
he ready to evacuate. The defeat of -?
the federals in their retreat from
Juarez is known to have placed great
quantities of arms in the hands of
the rebels.
The rebel advices wero that Krederico
Move, civil governor of Chihuahua,
had made elaborate preparations
for the reception of Villa, having
put in gala state the palace where
Villa will now command, and that
Villa probably would occupy a home
vacated by one of the millionaire
Terra/as family. 4
it was from Chihuanua that Villa,
10 years ago, adopted tho career of
a bandit, because lie was ordered arrested
on a charge of having killed
an army olllcer. When ho arrives
there not only Villa himself, but also
tlio men who rallied around him, will
occupy the quarters of federal officials
who Bought him as an outlaw.
Before leaving Chihuahua tho federal
den. Meroado, at tho request of
he United States consul, Marlon
Botcher, and other consuls, left 200
soldiers for police duty, the promise
!? ing that the rebels on entering the
city would not molest the men. The
federal police took fright at the rebel
approach and fled. The consuls then
prevailed upon citizens to do the
policing.
ESCAPE FKOM JAIL.
Five I,aureus Prisoners Saw Their
Way Through Iron liars.
Six negro prisoners at the Laurens
county jail cut their way to liberty
somo time Monday night after midnight,
and made good their escape.
Tuesday night they are still at largo,
but efforts aro being made to recapturo
them by the oflleers, and it is fl
probable that tho entire bunch will I
soon bo back behind the bars. Ono fl
of the prisoners escaped is Sam Price, I
coi vi ted at a summer term of court H
of murder, and given a life sentence, I
the jury having recommended mercy. H
The Other five were in jail on minor H
charges. They aro John French, H
John Hill, John Jacks, Leumas Elli- H
son and Ben Wardlaw. They effect-H
ed their escape by sawing out a cou^ H
pie of bars in the steel cages in which H
they were confined. They let them- H
solves down to tho ground from an H
upper story window by the use of H
blankets. The exit through the win-H
(low was made by removing the sash H
and prying apart the heavy outside H
iron bars. Evidently a hack saw was H
used in cutting out tho bars in the^|
stool cages, but it is a mystery how^f
they secured the saw or file. H
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mJLli ATTACKS DOCTOR. I
Veterinarian Severely Huri by Msul^l
Bovine at Clinton.
Dr. It. E. Lewis, votorlniary turl^
geon of Qreenville, was severely hurt^H
at Clinton Wednesday afternoon.^?
when a Jersey bull belonging to the^H
Thornwell Orphanage to examine^H
some cattle, several of them having^H
died recently. Dr. Lewis, with l)r^H
W. A. Shands, of Clinton, one of thc^H
trustees of the institution, was in th^^J
lot. when, without any warning, tlu^J
i
;miii advanced upon Dr. Lewis antS
tossed him fully twelve feet into th<^H
air. H? was thrown in this manne^^^
three times. The bull thinking th&^^J
he had killed Dr. Lewis, left off ut^^J
tacking him. l>r Shands, alihou^l^^B
hut a few feet away, was unable
render any assistance.
Money for South Carolina.
The secretary of the treasury,
his annual book of estimates sent
congress Monday includes the fol^^f
lowing for river and harbor work
South Carolina, this being for
fiscal year ending June 30,
Improving Charleston harbor,
00 0; Great Pee Dee river. $10.000^^|
ftantee, Wateree, Congaree, $S0t00^U