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\ SOUTH CAROLINA I J STATE NEWS ITEMS, j Caoers i* Slain by Dissllieu. Joe Capers was shot and killed by James Biesilleu in a quarrel over a pistol near Wtolterboro. Bissllieu es caped, but John Small and Walter Graham, charged with being accessories, have been committed to jail. * * * Clay Company Suffers Fire Loss. Tbe 22-room hotel and st^era! outbuildings at the kaolin mines of tho Pope Clay Product Company, two miles from Aiken, were burned at an early hour of the morning recently. The loss is $5,000, partially insured. * Courts Will Convene. The summer term of the court of common please at Laurens will convene Monday, July 11th, with Judge George W. Gage presiding. The jury vmiiros are now hoini* srvvwI Tlir> court of general sessions will meet two weeks later, July 25tli. '<*> < t * * Boll Worms Discovered. The pest which has been threatening the cotton crop of the section around Newberry has been characterized by J. ^V. Bauer, of Columbia, as the boll worm. It ia saiq. however, by those who profess to know that there is no great danger in this insect, certainly not enough to ty^casion any alarm among the farm' / V coj * / Commits Suicide. At / mrg William II. Lowe, 48 y<i>/ 'lit watchman at the Whitr./ 'tis, committed suicide^ "If through the ." pistol. No act. He nd gone pistol i'amily laid to no was os later id when s found a pistol Arson. .son and urred in nipt was uccceded . dostruc* throe initemed are jo on t lie place . Ai> ong at an early hour of the .. . .ig. It is charged that Corrie Green, a negress, went to tho dwelling on Mr. Long's plantation, and after saturating the doorstops and side of the house with kerosene and placing sacks of shavings uimwi tlu? stops, she set fire to the ruhhish. Within tho house, asleen. were a blind woman and her two children. These were awakened just in time 10 escapo tho flames. Corrle Green was arrested at her liome an l lodged in the Saluda county Jail. t * * Senator Tillman Favors Gray. Before the assembling of the democratic convention in Hi. Louis, the following news item was sent out to the press: "Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, declares in favor of Judge George Gray, whom he considers tlie strongest possible nominee. At the time of the South Carolina convention Senator Tillman declared that with the lights ;hen before him he favored the nomination fit' Judge Parker, but he was careful to qualify his support of the New Yorker hy that statement 'with tho lights then before liini.' Now lie says In: is confident that conditions point to the wisdom of nominating Cray, who, lie thinks, would be stronger eyen iii New York than Judge I'arSenator Tillman declares, howthat he speaks solely for himand not for the delegation from tate. Some of these are not here csont and the delegation will not mill win re ;t stands until to >w. P has been counted solidly lie Parker column." ? * * n from Guards and Lynched. Williams, tho nogro who killed l (). McOeO, white, at ScranVHliamsburg county, last Febas taken from the Atlantic I'mo train at Scrflnton a day o ago and lynched. Williams narescaped lynching immediately the killing, and was spirited to the penitentiary in Columbia >r safe keeping, and the mob was :reatly enraged thereat. I^ast. Monday Williams was cirried from Columbia to Kinsrstree, the county seat, for Trial. The result was a mistrial, an 1 the sheriff thought It safe lo send him back to Columbia for safe keeping. As tho train approached "Scranton a mob of lynchora with blackened faces W *' jm. k and wearing masks flagged it down with a red flag and searched the train for the negro, to the groat terror of tho passengers. Finally tney found Williams and ordered tho sheriff's deputies to deliver him up. This was refused, and a scuffle ensued in which the deputies wore much 'bruised. The mob then took the negro away, saying that he would bo dead in flve mluutes, and that was his fate. After being swung up his body wa? literally riddled with bullet. About 150 men participated in the lynch- j tng . , , Brutally Tortured. A case came to light that for persistent and unmerciful torture lias perhaps never been equaled. Joe CJolobick, of Colusa, Calif., writes; "For 15 years I endured insufferable pain from Rheumatism and nothing relieved me, though I tried everything known. I came across Electric Bitters and it's the greatest medicine on earth for that trouble. A few bottles of it completely relieved and cured me." Just as good for Liver and Kidney troubles and general <}efl>ility. Only 50c. Satisfaction guaranteed by Pickens Drug Company. ti THREE CHILDREN CREMATED. Home Burns Down and Little Ones Meet Horrible Death. Barly Tuesday morning the home of John T. Cole, at Raleigh, N. C., was destroyed by Are and three of his children burned to death. Colo and his wife awoke to And the building In llames. They managed to escape with tho baby and thoir 14year-old son jumped from a window. C Die was badly burned in frantic but unsuccessful efforts to rescue tho 'hreo remaining children upstairs. The little girls whose charred bodies tvero taken from the ashe*. are Minnie, aged 12; Myrtle, aged 10, and Flossie, ag^d 4. Night Was Her Terror. "I would cough nearly all night lone' writes Mrs. Charles Applegate, of Alexandria, Ind., "and could hardly get any sloop. I had consumption so . bad that if I walked a block, I would cough frightfully and spit, blood, but, when all other medicines failed, three $1.00 bottles of Dr. King's New Discovery wholly cured me and i gained 5S pounds." It's absolutely guaranteed to cure Coughs, Colds, La Grippe, Bronchitis and all Throat and Lung Troubles. Price 50c and $1.00. Trial bottles free at Piclcens Drug Company. tf TO RELEGATE BUCKET SHOPS. Important Measure Is introduced in the Georgia State Senate. A bill was introduced in the Georgia senate Wednesday to prevent the operation of "bucket shops" in the si ate. Tho measure is similar to the one which was Introduced at the last session in the house by Representative Brock, of Dado, and which is now pending before ono of the commit tees. Senator I.odford, its author, &ay? that lie moans to push the measure in the senate, and with a similar bill in tho houso it may be that some action will be taken on tho question at the present session. RUSSIANS MUTILATE WOUNDED J cap Scouting Party Slain and Their Bodies Almost Dismembered. The Japanese legation at Washing| ton, Sunday, reoeived tho following dispatch from Tokio; "On tho loth of Juno h potty officer and other soldlors, six In :il!. belong* ing to tho eighteenth infantry r?-Himent, encountered while scouting about fifteen Russian troops a! Cheng Tsu Sh in, and were killed after handto-hand fighting. On tho death 01 these men the Russians tlir.i t their bayonets into their mouths and owl open the'.r lungs and took away th1 contents of their pockets." Working Night and Day. Tiu> busiest and mightiest! Iljtio thing that ever was made is I>r. King's X? w Idfe Mills. Those pills chang? weakness into strength iistiessness into energy, brain fag into mentaJ power. They're wonderful in building up tho health. Only 2">c per box. S >ld by Plckcn.-} Drug Company. If I GEN. CRONJE TAKE8 BRIDE. Hero of Bo?r War Fame Married in Camp at St, l.ouia World's Fair. At St. Louis. Tuesday, General Piet Cronjo, of Boer ""ar fame, was married to Mrs. Stertzei, tho widow of a Boer soldier. The ceremony was performed in the Boer camp on the fair grounds, and wn? private. A public reception was held after tho ceremony. TORNADO WRECKS TRAIN. Faat Flyer Blown Bodily from Bridge a* Petersburg, Illinois. A Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis pas- 1 sengor train due in Springfield, III., Tuesday night was blown from tho bridge at Petersburg by a tornado | Maggagoman Thomas Wiley was killed i and fifteen or twenty persona wero in- i Jured. A relief train with dootors waa quickly sent to tho sceno. Jm y CIRST AMERICAN WAR VE8SEL. Robert Fulton Devisod Formidable Batthehlp in 1814. Tho first American war vessel was launched In 1814. Tho following article and illustration published in a Boston newspaper about two years ugo is interesting: Robert Fulton, whoso soul animated the enterprise, was appointed the onelnepr. and on tho ?flth dou nf inn? 1814, the keel was laid at the shipyard of Adam and Noah Brown, her able and active constructors, In the city of New York, and In litt.lo more than four months she was safely launcho.d. Tho following is Fulton's official roport on the vessel: "Longth on deck, 300 feet; breadth, 200 foot; thicknoss of her sldos, 13 The Dcmologs?First American Warshin. .'oet, of alternate oak plank and cork wood; carries -12 guns, four of which are 100 pounders; quarter-deck and forecastlo guns, 44-pounders and further to annoy an enemy attempting to board her can discharge 100 gallons of boiling water in a minute, and by mechanism brandish 300 cutlasses with the utmost regularity over her gunwales; works also on an equal number of heavy Iron pikes of great length, dashing them from her sides with prodigious force and withdrawing them every quarter of a minute." Such a description was certainly calculated to strike terror into the heart even of the stoutest British tar. WHLKtU nUMt I IN SOCKS Portland Man Falls Overboard and V Loses His Boots. Mr. Albert Wallace of Peaks island had a rather disagreeable experience Monday night on his way home from the city. Mr. Wallace wont down on the steamer at (5:15 o'clock and tied his dory at the stern of th*s steamer. On reaching Forest City landing, and in attempting to step from the steamer into the dory, Mr. Wallace stepped on to a slippery place on the steamer's guard rail and was thrown into the water. Captain Green and the crew of tho steamer rendered assistance instantly and succeeded in gettlne Mr. Wallace on bnnr;! When Mr. Wallace foil overboard ho had on rubber boot a but he kicked those of. The crow of tho steamer wanted to take him to a nearby house so that ho could have a chance to dry his clothing and got warm, but Mr. Wallace Insisted on going home, which l:o did, walking about half a mllo In his wet stocking toot.?Portland Press. Annual Coffee Consumption. It is estimated that tho people of the United States drink 1.500,000,000 gallons of coffee in the course of a year, at a cost of about ton cents a gallon. The Importing cost of tho requisite quantity of coffee berries for this supply, at seven cents a pound, is about $75,000,000. Preparation, package, distribution and dealers' profits make tho price to tho consumer about double tho Importing cost. :oso he thv gU'ls." - KxodltS xxxll., 4. The heathen isiii. !ii- bows him down \S' t!i a l? 1 (.1 fruits and rice linfiii'1 i ;;oii with n brazen frown And hi* makes 11saerlh II'- i>?:im In lire -it the altar hnso Al l! ! burns )iIt:i(..:s there', Hut t!i<' j;.i ! !?>..!: > on witli a Milien face And a stern and .stony stare. And we- we bulM us H'?d-< to-day And \v in iko for ench i shrine, I'.ut lack of heathenish pride to say Of Ui"' Iiiiiii;!': "It is mine " Wo mold our >:od.s > t h- irt'H desires, Yet wo four to speak tbo name, Though we watch and tend at the altar fires In tliO shrines of fJold and Fame, Wo bow us flown with sacrifice Of the bent our hands may Kive; Wrt pay full well with the heaviest price 'ffcat a man inny liay, and live. Tli? Rrlnninpr god or Gold looms high I'.v the llRure frail of Fame And we sully our hoiiIs with a loose tongucd lie I.est our gods may Rivo us shame. 'i'he heathen man Hut be Is blind! And ho cannot see his nod with the hungering hand of tho prioit uonm'i I<> n shnijolrss, scnsoiosa oloil. Wo laugli !n knowing glor* at him. At IiIh i<lol crude nnil olil; \nil I he cfns'T wo liojip t<t itn brazen brim At the shrines of Fnmo nnd Gold. ? \V. D. N.. In Chicago Tribune. Rough on the Grocery Man. A North Beverly, Mass., youth name near proclpltatlng a storm of trouble In a grocery store a day or iwo aRO, when he stuck his head In nt. the door and asked in perfect Innocence, "Say, mister, have you got uny nior.t fit for r iy dog!" Why Women Blacken Teeth. Tho Japanese woman does not blacken her teeth under nny mistaken idea that It. mnkes her attractive. She loes It to make herself unattractlvo. '.ler husband Is supposed to know her ialu?. | ODDITY OF ANIMAL LIFE. Remarkable Blue Gnu on Exhibition t New York. An exceedingly interesting animal now on exhibition at the zoological park In Now York Is the new blue guu. It would be hard to Imagine a more fantastic-looking animal. It suggests to one coming unexpectedly upon it, \and seeing it for the first time, a sort Impossible dream creature, a cross pfcVhaps between a buffalo and a nlg\tmare. l,nir?l/. 1. H 1- 1 i v iiiiu UUIU115 iiiu uwiv anu the horns, but the tall nnd the hindquarters are those of a horno. Tho legs are a deer's legs, but tho head resembles that of no othor living animal. Tho specimen at tho park came from rang( VlCto Th tho \ ance turo W1 rema serle traor hanc and and entlfi F Trail Th Is tc Frer. beln part T1 I'igK cost prlc him: O witl of i kopi fros by i be t mos llttl of r tion a t; I)la tli a out con anrl Ion; thr< rini spe I I III cb tic lie ?h Pica ha Mi cir y<? f()l It ov vo \vc f ch, th. "Coiiiu, ? . , ?viiat Is | it that has made your father a great merchant?" "Advertisin' in the newspapers," re plied Freddie. Ingenious Attempt at Fraud. A physical examination of candii dates for the police force at New' Haven showed that two candidates had stuck cardboards on their heelf, and then pulled on their stockings td reach the requisite height. '/ < v 1 i* /,* ? x$t sS^W;v^>Tt/-i?pr& ' ARIZONA O8TRICH8 DO WELL They Are Acclimated and Arc Taller Than the South African Birds. A letter received In this city last week says that tho ostrich industry Ih the Salt River Valley, Arizona, Is fast becoming one of tho large commercial Importance. When tho ostrich wt^? Introduced from South Africa, 11 years ago. It was feared tliat tho experiment would be a failure. The change of food and climate did not agree with the birds, and vory litle progress was made during f,he first years. Tho business also is one that requires experience, and until those engaged in it had learned everything worth knowing about ostrich culture they made little headway] out Ave years ago the birds had me acclimated, their care was more mghly understood, and they began irlve. It is hollered that they doing better in the Salt River >y than in Souih Africa. any rate tho American ostriches ;everal inches taller than those of h Africa and their feathers are mewhat finer quality. Full grown, stand eight feet high and weigh lounds. e rich, black, glossy feathers of male are far superior in quality 10 drab plumage of the female, the feathers plucked ovcry eiuht ;hs are Bold as high as $125 a id In the eastern markets. The ago yield is a pound of feathers le bird. rer 1000 ostriches are now on the fa pastures in the valley, feeding entedly on* the rich herbage. :h makes them as fat as any ich should bo. The climate of vallfjy seems to be particularly 1 )ted to ostrich raising. lese farms are not far from the of Phoenix, and visitors often 0 oat to them to see the birds 1 he hundreds on their pastures, ut bo of them are also kept on a 11 display farm near the city 11mt'or the u?ncflt of tourists, who re1 tho birds as among tho sights ho place. This little farm pays Itself by the sales of plumage to tors.?New York Sun. Flowers In the Desert. - J one going to California crosses desert, and if tney go when the 7 season is past, it is truly a rt. But in the spring of the year, r the wild flowers have responded the gentle rains, the desert looks a great flower garden, and one not put. one's foot down without thing beautiful, delicate flowers, wild flowers of the desert are in a 3 by themselves, springing to life \ single day after the rain has lied the loose, sandy soil. When ( rains cease the flowers wither and v away, and all that remains is ? 0 expanse of unlovely sand studwith huge native cacti anJ Spanish ' ;ger. The lauer is the Yuca and rs enormous spikes of waxen hells, leaves nre veritable daggers, sure ugh, and woe betide any one who s into them unwittingly. i ome of the Opuntias among the ti, especially ihe Tuna, are called Uly pears, anft Indian llgs, from , shape of the fruit. They have yel, pink and red blossoms and they w to immense size. The old mis1 fathers planted them along the ndaries of their missions to keep savage Indians. These hedges have wn for the last century until now ' are great walls twenty feet, high as many wide, and perfectly iro- ' enable. Tho fathers have long e mouldered to dust, the Indians n faded from tho country, and tho si<>ii8 are crumbling to decay, but prickly pears are growing and irishlng and gaining strength as the rs pas's. Tne Turk's Head cactus is oddest one. It is round, with a k body and yellow spines, which in tho shapo of curved thorns, ^re is nothing fascinating about the ti of tho desert. They possess nelthbeauty nor grace, and the brilliancy i lie flowers does not* atone for their oousness. The prickly pears supply ions reptiles as well as travelers Ii drink, as the fleshy leaves give th water when crushed. The Indians 1 Mexicans use (ho fruit as a flu, I dry stalks to burn, so that tho ii nave nn'ir usus 11 uvuiiiy. o rattlesnakes abound on tlio des, and the slow-going tortoise will found hundreds of miles from watInspirat.ions of Authors. According to the "Book Monthly," r Lewis Morris wrote most of "The >ie of Hades" on the Underground ilway. To the profane and snperflil it will doubtless appear that the le was more naturally suggested by < h a sulphurous environment than y other portion of the poem; but story only confirms the truth that roads lead to Parnasus If the right in sets out on them. I.ord Macau' compos?d the "Ballads of Aneient mo" while walking about, as if for Aager, through the crowded streets London. W. E. Henley composed an Edinburgh .hospital, and James lompson in a barraek room at the trragh, and Matthew Arnold on the nth side of the Qemml, where ho List have been In Imminent danger off falling over precipices while casting about for rhymes. Mr. Kipling, again, is said sometimes to be Inspired in telegraph ofllces, and to dash off Immortal verso upon tho forms provided by tho department. The source of Sir Lewis Morris' inspiration Is not, therefore, so astonishing after all, though-ho might have had more time to polish his verses If he had travelled on the suburban lines of some of the southern companies.? , London Oranhic. :? -v.-'V wtw iflJUfl.il j f iiT rj~TT ~; j DO YOU GET UP % WITH A LAME BACK? Kidney Trouble Makes tou Miserable. . Almost everybody who reads the newspapers Is sure to know of the wonderful I 11 . cures made by Dr. '?I Kilmer's Swamp-Root, t I the great kidney, liver I li and bladder remedy. " IT f P\N Is* "'s Kreat medlv L*v ?" cal triumph of the nlnevy"! \ I |j] teentli century; dls''g?-1/ \ covered after years of .< F J U(J scientific research by lr" I {^*^8 ^r" Kilmer, *be eml|| * - " nent kidney and blad? ^er speciaUat, and la it/An^A?*/t?llM ? ' n..?n??n; ilu^OiUlUI III pruiiipuy curing lame back, kidney, bladder, uric acid troubles and Brlght's Disease, which Is the worst form of kidney trouble. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root Is not recommended for everything but If you have kidney, liver or bladder trouble It will be found Just the remedy you need. 11 has been tested in so many ways. In hospital work, In private practice, among the helpless too poor to purchase relief and has proved so successful in every case that a special arrangement has been made by which all readers of this paper who have not already tried it, may have a sample bottle sent free by mall, also a book telling more about Swamp-Root and how to find out.If you have kidney or bladder trouble. When writing mention reading this generous offer In this paper and f^TTii send your address to ?g Dr. Kilmer & Co. regular fifty cent and nom? of Bwunp-itoot. dollar sizes are sold by all good druggists. Don't make any mistake, but remember the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swarnp-Root, and the address, Binghamton, N. Y., on every bottle. SULLY'S NEW PROPOSITION. Deposed Cotton King Offers Creditor! Forty Cents on the Dollar. A Now York dispatch sa/s: Creditors of Daniel J. Sully & Co. mot Tuesday te consider a now settlement proposal. It was reportod after the mooting that tho offer involvod tlio payment of 40 cents on tho dollar and the suggestion that the legal proceedings for further recovery be continued on a friendly basis. It was stated alao that the assets of tho Sully firm are sufficient to pay about 32 cents on tho dollar and that tho rest of a forty-cent cash settle' ment will come from Interests friendly to Sully & Co. If tho offer is favorably entertained, Sully & Co. also agree to defray all legal expenses thus far incurred. Tho lawyers representing the various creditors will meet to consider tho proposal, which la sahl to meet with favor frem tho majo-ity of tho creditors. Cured of Chronic Diarrhoea After Ten Years of Suffering. ... "I wish to say a few words in praise of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera ami Diarrhoea Remedy," sayi Mrs. Mattie Burge, of Martinsville,yVa. "I suffered from chronic diarrhoea io1 ten years and during that time tried various medicines without obtaining any permanent relief. Last summer one of my children was taken with cholera morbus, and I procured a bottle of Ibis remedy. Only two doses were required to give her entire relief. I then decided to try the medicine myself, and did not use all of one hot iiu ueiore i was won and I have never since been troubled with that complain! . One cannot say too much i'i Favor of that wonderful medicine." This remedy is for salo by Pickens Drug Store, ICarle's Drug Store, T. N. Hunter, Liberty. tf IS "PARAMOUNT ISSUE." Acting Alabama Governor So Dub3 Negro Plank in Republican Platform. A Montgomery", Ala., dispatch saya: Whon asked his opinion of the negro plank in the platform of the republb <.-\ns adopted at Chicago last week, lieutenant nnd Acting Governor Cunning ham replied: t "To my mind this is the paramount issue, and tho democrats should pro vide a means of meeting it. We ought to put out the man who is most likely to win, be it Cleveland or some other. The great question now is to defeat tho republicans and forever set thfl Honl of our disfavor upon all such ufc terances." One Lady's Recommendation Sold Fifty Boxes of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. I have, I believe, sold fifty boxes of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets on the recommendation of one iady here, who first bought a box of them about, a year ago. Hhe never tires of telling her neighbors and fi'lmwlu nllAiil IK/v ? 11? I ~ i iv uuo iiuv/iii niu ^imii ijiinnutja ui these Tablets.?1'. M. Shore, Drugglar, Rochester, Ind, The pleasant purgative offict of these Tablets make3 them ?i favorite with ladies everywhere. For sale by Pickens Drug v Store, ICarle's Drug Store, T. N. Huntor, Liberty. tf j support! ? SCOTT'S EMULSION lervei oi a $ bridge to carry the weakened and pj ctr.rved systtin along until It can (ind firm support in ordinary food. Stnd for free sample. K SCOTT ft IlOWNE, ClumlsU, fx 409-4! 5 Street, Now Yor?