The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, December 19, 1895, Image 6
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THE WEEKLY LEDGER: GAFFKEY, S. O., DECEMBER 19, 1995.
“FOOL NOTIONS”
Squire Rufus Sanders Still Fresh
and Quaint.
Ih« Smartest and th« Best of Peopln
Have Fool Xotlona—A Few From Aunt
Xaocy Newton—Bier ScrorginH Starts
the Procession—Andy I.ncas and His
Mark—“An Under>Bit In the Left.’'
(Copyright, 1898.)
About the most strangest thing 1 in
this world to me is how many smart
people take up fool notions. It ain’t no
■ign for common that a man is a natural-
born fx>ol be
cause he takes
ijp fool notions.
Me and you, my
friends and fel
low citizens, and
most everybody,
have our own
fool notions.
tTbe fact is I
have took notico
that rale smart
people are more
probable to have weak spots on
that line than anybody else. The
onlyest man I over saw that didn't have
any fool notions never had a lick of
sense to start on.
Aunt Nancy's Fool Notions.
You mought saddle up right now and
pitch out and ride three hundred miles
before you could find another woman as
smart as my Aunt Nancy Newton. She
has never went off to college and she
don’t put any on frills and fancy figments
to speak of. She is what I call a plain,
old-fashion, fiint-and-steel woman. But
when it comes to bavin sense—plenty of
it and some to spare—my Aunt Nancy
is right there. And yet still at the
same time, that dear, delightful old
soul can take up more fool uotions, it
seems to me, than any one woman in
the whole discovered country.
If Aunt Nancy was to turn in tonight
and dream about crossin high and
muddy waters—freshets and floods and
the like of that—sho wouldn’t sleep no
more in a week. She says it is a dead
certain sign of death in the family for
anybody to dream about crossin muddy
waters. But if a death in the family
bad come to pass every time I have
dreamt about crossin floods and freshets
and muddy waters the Sanders genera
tion would of faded out years and years
ago. So that is jest simply one of Aunt
Nancy’s fool notions.
1 was buildin of a new bouse last
summer in one of the most loveliest
spots on the broad bosom of the earth
perhaps. There is a big oak grove all
around and a spring right down there
under the hill.
“You will have to take your ax,
Rufus, and cut them trees down,” said
Aunt Nancy tbo first time she driv by.
“It will never do to leave ’em standin
there. They will draw ligbtnin, Rufus,
they will draw ligbtnin as certain as
the Lord made little apples.”
Well, I never have cut them trees
down, and what is more I never will.
They have been standin right there for
a hundred years, I reckon, and thoy
never have drawed any lightnin yet.
And so far as I can see there ain’t no
particlar reason why they will start to
drawin of it now. But at any rates,
that is one more of Aunt Nancy’s fool
notions.
If Aunt Nancy was to run out of a job
on a Thursday night—as smart and
stirrin as she Is—she would set down
and smoke her pipe and hold her hands
and play with the children a whole en
tire day before she would start a piece
of work on Friday. “It’s bad luck.
Rufus, it’s bad luck,” says she, and that
is the onlyest reason she can give*. Tbo
Good Book tells us to work six days
and rest on Sunday, but it don’t say
nothin about taken Friday for luck.
Every day is workin day with me, ex-
cepin Sunday, and I have had more good
luck than any man in the settlement.
Whereas, accordln to my doxology, that
is another one of Aunt Nancy’s fool no
tions.
And then Aunt Nancy she runs every
thing by tbo moon. Sho regulates the
weather, and sows her garden seed, and
plants out her flowers, and sets her hens
and kills her hogs all accordin to the
size and shape and stage and general
appearments of the moon. As to me,
it takes my level blamdest to keep up
with the sun, and I don't know ono turn
of the moon from another. But the
weather changes with tho seasons, and
the garden seed come up, and the chick
ens hatch off, and the flowers grow at
our bouse the same as they do over at
the Newton plaoe. So there we are
with one more of Aunt Nancy’s fool no
tions.
Finally at last, accordin to my figura
tion, it would take a hamper basket and
a good big book to hold all tho sense
and all the fool notions that Aunt
Nancy has got in her head.
4 1 1
The Proce*lion Proceeded.
It ain’t so very often—maybe not more
than oncst a year—that my friend and
fellow servant Blev Scroggins breaks
out in a fresh place, but whensomever
he does turn loose he can take up some
of the blamdest biggest fool notions of
any rale smart man I have evfer saw.
One day last week Blev come by my
house drivin four mules to a big wagon,
and hit empty. Him and his wagon and
mules was raisin more dust and noise i
and confusionment along the big road '
than a drove of wild steers on a stam- |
pede. I wondered in ray soul what in i
creation was comin to pass, but Ulev
bo driv up and stopped to tell mo tbo
nows.
“I am goin over here in the hill
country to movo Jule Nabors this
raornin," says Blev. “1 reclcon no doubts
you wonder how it comes to pass that
an all-wool, iron-bound, moss-covered
Democrat like me can hook up his mules
and go and move a rantankerous Third
party idiot like Jule Nabors. But you
will see tho pint when I give you the
mainest facts in tho case. Little Bunk
Weatherford has sold h s place to
Handy Stribblin* and bought tho old
Turner place where Jule Nabors is now
livin. In the main time Handy Srib-
blin sold out to the VVidder Brantly,
and the widder she rented her place out
to Tunce Stringer, and so forth and so
on. Now Tanee Stringer is crowdin the
widder, and tbo widd r she is crowdin
Handy Stribblin, and Handy bo is
crowdin Little Bunk W’eatborford, and
little Bunk is crowdin Jule Nabors.
You see Jule Nabors is at the head of
tbo procession and holdin down the
whole shootin mat h. Ho is the onlyest
Third party man in tho line, and to a
man on the fence or up a tree it looks
like he won’t movo his pegs more for
pure cussedness than anything else.
“Naturally of course it ain’t my
funeral, Rufe, but by gatlins th“ pro
cession must proceed. It ain’t fair and
it aim right for one sorry man like Jule
Nabors to block up tbo business of a
settlement in that way. Little Bunk
and Handy and the wilder and Tance
Stringer are all ready to movo and
dead crazy to start, and whilst
I ain’t got nothin particlar to do with
the case I am sick and tired .of so many
people fussin and foolin and liddlln
around on account of Jule Nabors. From
last reports it seems as if Jule has
rented land from old man Moso Tram
mel, and tbo onlyest reason ho can give
in now for scotch in tbo procession is
that he can’t get no wagon and t am to
movo with
to mo last night and I am now on my
way to the bill country. When I get
there Jule Nabors he will move and the
procession will proceed.” And Blov ho
driv on.
It was after supper that night when
Blev como thunder in by on his rctunn
back from the bill country, but I belt
him up and got the latest nows.
“By gatlins, Rufe, I moved him and
the procession can now proceed in rog-
lar order,” says Biov. “Julo made out
like ho want ready and tried his blamd
est to turn me back. Ho took tho studs
and bucked and kicked and snorted and
cavorted. But I told him it want no
use. 1 bad como over to move him, and
he bad to move. I couldn’t mako that
long trip with a four-mulo team for
nothin, and dadburn him, I moved him.
I know it want my funeral, and you
mought maybe say I took up a blame
fool notion, but it bad to h-> did, Rufe—
it just simply bad to i>o did.”
I will leave it for you to say as to
whether Blov was right or wrong in
takin the job to move Jule Nabors. And
I will say that ho was dead right about
one thing. It was my private opinion
that bo had wont and took up a blame
fool notion.
AN IMMODEST AGE.
Pictured Advertisements, Thea
ters, Etc., Doing Their Work.
‘am Jones Answers Bis Critics, Who
Charge Him with Vulgarity, and Otters
a Timely Warning Against n
Orowing Bril.
OOPTMQHT IWY
I mm styled a vulgar preacher. The
word vulgar comes from the Latin vul-
gus—the common people. If my critics
mean 1 am a prtacher of the common
people, 1 accept the friendly criticism— 1
I bank on the common people. Human
society is like pie; there’s an upper
crust, and an under crust, and there is
the between material that names and
constitutes the pie. The upper crust of
society is brittle and unreliable; the un
der crust is soft and spongy, but the
middle class is where you find the gen
uine folks.
1 am always as modest in my preach
ing and writing as the work in hand
will allow. If a uiun with broadcloth
clothes, white kid gloves, button-hole
bouquet and stove-pipe hat should
come up to a street contractor and
offer an a hand to clean out t- sew
ers. the contractor and all the bands
employed by him would laugh. He
might appropriately perform a mar
riage ceremony, but ns to work on the
street, he is not dressed for that occa
sion. There is such a thing as adapta-
’ ion of muu and clothes and implements
That is tho news that come lo the job in hand.
As a minister I’m sure 1 have never
Iressed immodestly, have nevercarried
on an immodest conversation with
ladies and gentlemen, have never at
tended the schools of immodesty, such
as the theater, dunces, eireuses. variety
shows and bawdy houses. And 1 have
only been accused of vulgarity wben 1
have been trying to clean up some
flirty gang or institution; und.it is true,
that the most immodest folks, the grad
uates of some of the above-named insti
tutions. have been my severest critics.
The ballroom and theater-going wom
an cannot tolerate my immodesty. The
blasphemer detests my irreverence,
and the libertine abominates my vul
garity. A sore-back horse despises the
curry comb, and a sick man can’t en
joy his medicine.
In many respects this country is
growing better. We are reforming
along almost nil lines but immodesty
and gambling are on the iucrea.se.
We’re constantly furnishing more food
lor vulgar appetites, and men are gam
bling on everything.
riiere's scarcely a business house in
any city upon whose walls and about
whose writing desks may not be found
mmodest pictures —nude women used
as advertisements. These pictures are
daily feeding l he lust of young men and
destroying the modesty of young wom
en. in these business houses every
thing from a cigarette to a national
bank is now advertised by half nude
woman’s form, and these advertise
ments are hung up to the gaze and put
in the hands of little boys and girls,
voting men and you;:g women. And
just as sure as that the constant use of
dumb bells strengthen and develop the
muscles, just so sure these immodest
pictures quietly and constantly feed
and develop the worst things in us.
Our advertisements are great kinder
garten schools of passion and lust. 1
know of only a few business men who
go through their stores and tear down
these pictures and refuse to advertise
iheir business with immodest pictures.
A few years ago 1 he nude actress and
nigh kicker rind impure woman was
found only in the low variety shows;
but of recent years » woman, the mot her
ot illegitimate children, has come to the
tront with a “divine voice,” and is u
star in the nest theatres. The kick-
higher is given at the leading theaters,
where would-be mode a men and women
go. *uul where some men are fools
enough to lake sweet wives and inno
cent daughters. I don't go to the thea
ters. but, if the pictures on tho bill-
boards of the citVs I visit are fair rep
resentations of what is on the stage,
then 1 say no modest woman can at
tend, ami in, sensible man ought to ex
pose his wile tuul daughter to such
sights.
I he Rain's Horn, that wonderful
|>enodicnl published in Chicago, last
week on its trout page gave us the pic
ture ot a modcstly-dn smuI lady stand
ing on the Highway v. ,ih the word
“modesty' wntlen across bet bosom.
Down ttr.it same strict -umes a modern
woman on a bicycle, clad in shirt waist,
cap and bloomers, anti w aving her hand
and saying to modesty, "get out of my
way,' That's a fair picture of thisuge,
'1 he circuses have said to modesty, get
out ot my way, 1 he houses of ill-fame
nave said, get out ul my way; the thea
ter mis said, get out of my way; the
] variety show has said, get out of my
NEWS NOTES FROM EUROPE. : wu .v: the ball room has said,get out of
my way; the high tea has said, get out
of my way: the modem woman has
said, get out of my way; the skating
riuk has said, get out of my way; the
4U0 of every city and tfle doz.pq of every
town has said, get out of my way. And
poor, sweet modesty, wit If fief form
neatly clad, her face covered with
blushes, and her eyes shocked at tbu
sights she sees, is sadly ami quietly re
tiring from the public gaze, and is
welcomed now only a ton ml the ii reside
of the pure i hristtan home and in the
country oitut ehee, I here is no more
immodest, vulgar sight to me than to
see the boys and young men grouping
tu trout ol the church doors on Sunday
morning or theater doors during the
week, and gu/mg on the faces ami
forms of every woman passing through.
There ought to ueuii ordinance passed
in every city forbidding Mich assem
blages in I roof Ot Houses of wot ship and
around the iioms ol everything where
lieople congregate, f tom .’0 to a()() of
these gsi/.mg puppies, w ril» iigiile<| rig
urrettes nnd ving.tr eyes. <n front of
cbiircnes Muu'nv morning*, nr in front
rt| hails and 1 healers t he crowd goes
out, is am uisuU tamv*9y virsouus wots-
“An Unilorhit in the Left.'*
Years and .years and years ago—when
wo was only chunks of boys—Andy Lu
cas had a ralo nasty tight ono day at
school with a youngster by the name of
Bunch Marlowe. It was a fair fight
witli nothin hut tho weapons which
mother nature had give them, and the
way they fit and scratched and chawed
and bit was a plum sight to see. The
performance wont on fast and furious
till finally at last Bunch hit a plug out
of Andy’s arm, and Andy ho bit a three-
cornered slico out of the other boy’s left
ear.
“Dadblatne him. I put a clean, smooth
underbit in bis left ear,” said Andy, as
wo went on homo that evenin, “and
honceforwards from now on that is my
mark, if I over come up to bo a man
and have any stock around mo l will
mark every blasted ono of ’em with an
underbit in bis left.”
Time went on and Andy waxed big
and strong and devilish accordin. BJr-
and-by he married off and settled down,
and presently ho got some stock around
him. It was now time for him to pick a
mark and put his stock in it, and he
marked everything with “an underbit
in the left.” Tho last time I was over
to bis house mo and Andy wont out to
the lot and down in the pastor to see bis
Stock.
“1 have now got thirteen bogs and
nine sheep and twenty-three goats and
four cows and three calves and ono man
in ray mark, Rufe,” says Andy, “and
every blame ono of ’em wears an
underbit in the left.”
Curious like, ain’^ it? I know you
think so. Me too. But that is only one
of Andy’s fool notions.
Remember now, and don’t mako no
mistakes in regards to fool notions and
fool people. They don't come together
by a whole tremondius big lot. Bat in
this present day and generation mighty
nigh all the people—particlar tho
smart ‘St and the best—most in gen
erally always have some few fool no
tions. Rufus Sandkks.
Vodka, which being interpreted is
Russian brandy, is now to be found on
all Parisian hills of fare.
Mr. Asquith, late English home sec
retary, has broken with all precedents
by appearing as counsel in a law case.
France has solved the problem of ap
plying the rule for compulsory military
service to priests by assigning them to
ambulance work.
From Turin 89 brothers of the order
of St. Francis de Sules and 20 sisters
were sent out in October as missionaries
lo South America.
Grand Duke Alexander Mikhnilovitch,
who married Czar Nicbolas' sister Xenia
a year ami a half ago, has consumption,
and has been ordered to the Caucasus.
A concession to build a carriage road
from Teheran to Bagdad and also to
build electric railroads in the suburbs of
Teheran has just been grunted to a Ger
man contractor.
At Berlin the academy of arts is pre
paring iiij exhibition of the paintings
of Adolf Menzel, Andreas Achenbach
nnd Julius Schrader, who are all now 80
years old and still Ttuo ^09*
an. and ought to arouse the resentment
of every decent man.
Is an era of immodesty going to be a
craze in the close of t his century ? The
question is largely in the bands of
mothers and wives and daughters.
Everything immodest should tie re
buked. No young men who stand in
front of a public place and gaze at wom
en ought to be tolerated in decent so
ciety, but they ought to be tatiooed oy
every woman who loves virtue and cher
ishes modesty.
The champions of marriage without
license or ceremony; the lax divorce
laws of our country; the want of com-
mandership and watchfulness of par
ents over their children: the turning
of the kids loose from the sight to roam
like wild ass colts; the pictures aud
presence of high kickers, etc., must be
downed, or they will down the modesty
of the age. Sam P. Jones.
THE LARGEST BISLE.
News Notes From All
South Carolina.
INTERESTING, IMPORTINT
A Deputy Kills a Man at Walhj
Was Resisting Arrest—A Mor«
Foot to Build a Railroad From
burg to Henrietta, N. C. Tha|
•f the Lynchers.
^rts of Review of the Situation In the
South For a Wedc.
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ITEMS. COTTONIS ' d.:: ;G FORWARD.
Sacred Rooks of the ISuddblsts Are Ap
pallingly Long.
The sacred book of the Buddhists are
perfectly appalling in their hulk. They
are culled the Tripitaka. the Three
baskets, and were originally written
in Pali, a vernacular form of Sanskirt.
They have been translated into many
languages, such as Chinese. Thibetan
and Mundshu. They have also been
written and published in various alpha
bets, not only in Devanagari. but in
Singhalese, Burmese and Siamese let
ters. The copy in l!i volumes lately
presented to the University of Oxford
by the king of Siam contains the Pali
text written in Siamese letters, but the
language is always the nine: it is the
Pali or the vulgar tongue, sis it was
supposed to have i.ecti spoken by
Buddha himself about ;>0() B. (J. After
having been preservesl for centuries by
oral tradition, it wsis reduced for the
first time to uritin' 1 under King Vat-
tagamani in 8S-7U B. ( .. the time when
the truly literary | .vl of India may
be said to begin. Ard besides this Pali
canon there is another in Sanskirt aud
there are books in the Sanskirt canon
which are not to be found in the Pali
canon, and vice versa.
According to a tradition current
among the southern as well ns the
northern Buddhists, t !.e original canon
consisted of S4.0U0 ixml.s. sM.OOO being
ascribed to Buddha himself and 2.000
to his disciples. Book, however, seems
to have meant no more t han treatise or
topic.
But, as a mutter of fact, the Pali
canon consists, according to Rev. R.
Spence Hardy, of 275.2.70 stanzas, and
its commentary ot .'{01.550 stanzas, each
stanza reckoned at 22 syllables. This
would give us 8.808.000.syllables for the
text and 11,509.000 syllables for the
commentary. This is. of course, an
enormous amount, the question is only
whether Rev. Spence Hardy and his
assistants, who are responsible for
these statements, counted rightly.
Prof. Rhys Davis, by taking the aver
age of words in ten leaves, arrives at
much smaller sums, namely, at 1.752.-
800 words for the Pali canon, which, in
an English translation, as he says,
would amount to about twice that
number, or 2.505.000 words. E’en this
would be ample for a Bible; <t would
make the Buddhist Bible nearly five
times as large as our own; but is seems
to me that Spence Hardy's account is
more likely to be correct. Prof. Rhys
Davis, by adopting the same plan of
reckoning, brings the number of words
in the Bible to about 900.000. We found
it given as 77J.692. But who shall de
cide ?
What the bulk of such a work would
be we may gather from what we know
of the bulk of the translations. There
is a complete copy of the Chinese
translation at the India oliiee in Lon
don, also in the Bodleian, and a cata
logue of it, made by a Japanese pupil
of mine. Rev. Btinyitt Nanjio. brings
the number of separate works in it to
i,6G2. The Thibetan translation, which
dates from the eighth century,consists
of two “o I lectio as, commonly called the
Kanjur and Tatijur.
The Kanjur consists of 100 volumes
in folio, the Tanjur of 225 volumes,
each volume weighing between four
and live pounds. This collection, pub
lished by command ol the emperor of
China, sells for i>20 pounds. A copy ol
it is found at the India office. The
Buriates. a Mongolian tribe converted
to Buddhism, bartered 7.000 oxen for
one copy of the Kanjur. and thesume
tribe paid 12.000 silver rubles for a com
plete copy of hot!) Kanjur and lunjur.
What must it be to believe in 125 vol
umes, each weighing live pounds—nay.
even to read through such a Bible! —
Nineteenth l entury,
Wllut llelmholtx Did.
To appreciate his many-sidedness, we
hove but to follow the development ot
his life. While his first work was main
ly mathematical, his second was in
quite a different field. It consisted
in the measurement ot ftie velocity of
propagation of sensation by the nerves.
To accomplish this he must needs have
been an anatomist, too. His moors in
the line of physiological optics show
that he was also a muster of psychol
ogy. But ,>erhupH it is by his achieve
ments in the realms ol music that tie is
best known and most celebrated, |n
his hook. "The Scnsut ions ot I one," he
solved completely the riddle ot nut life
which tuul puzzled the world stiice t|)e
time of Bytluigonts. Thus, to give u
rational iiumeneal explanation n| tfie
intricacies of linriuoiiy nnd their effect
on the ear. there was need not out v of a
mathematician, an mui'miust.tt physic
ist ,ind 11 psychologist, 1 ut iilsoof mu
sicinn. alt uuiled in 01. man. Helm
boil/ was 1111 this, an t even more.—
ten titter’s Magazine.
rtw i.ime I'hlnt;.
Kite—Dearest, pupa lias spoken to me
about your i.eing so niueti at the house,
.uni ne wanted *0 know when it was
going to Mid.
r|e *Ii;I you tell him we were en-
ra.vcd V
She- I told him this whs >nly the be-
I ginning.—Ruck.
ore
Columbia, Dec. 11.—For thel;
of the three negroes in Colleton
last week the friend* of the four
men who did the work make the fi
ing defense in a card for publicatio:
Several month* ngo th* negro I_
Kearse attempted to assault criminu
married lady of good family in the
ty of Jeuuy’s postoifioe. Ha further
was charged with buruiug Folk
store iu upper Coll-toa. He was lo<
upon geuerally a* au outlaw, and
men or lower Barnwell and upper
ton, aided h, tho u ifiroe* o' that dist
have been exercising all diligeaci to
ture him. Their combined efforts, h
ever, proved futile until last Mon
night. Recently some potty theft
committed from St. Nichol-re church,
in following up the clews conuected 1
the same the loag sought lor Ish
Kearse who jiroved to he the thief, wk-i,
located and captured. "
Isam Kears •'* mother proved to be _
necomplic", whereuooa she was taken o
and whipped. She was by no means
verely beaten as reprexenteu hut died fro
freezing as testified to by Dr. Hires, w _
held the post monem examination. Her
exposure 10 the cold was her own fault as
on the following morning her tracks show
ed that she left the scene of her chits 'se-
ment iu the dir-ctiou 01 home, and after
pursuing her course ccross the field, she
turned aud went into the swamp and fell
iuto the water where she was found.
Isam Kearse was severely U* iten, but not
enough to cause death. He took from his
pocket a bottle of whisky and drank every
drop of it. It cau now he proven that he
had stolon said ho tie of whisky from a
ueyro iu tho ueighiiorhood, aud that the
same was doctored for Id* especial benefit
by the darky, Irom who u he hud stolen
wh s •. y before.
The parties who waited on these negroes
had 110 idea of killing anybody, and none
of them believe t at lb/ did but that
death in each car:- nns ;'r;m a combina
tion of ciicumMn ve- .os stated above.
There are ctj: r mil:-caling circum
stances wuien wi.l he proven that will put
quit- a new face on 1 hi* transection, but
at pr s-iit the defend ;:its do not see fit to
divulge them.
T 1 . ;'-. is i ': ir iie>d “OBirons in ami around
Folks’ HI.ire.”
THE LAURADA RELEASED.
She auU Uer Cap tain Hud Ue<-u Held For
Vioiuiiou of Neutrality Laws.
Cuah,, : :sion. Dee. lo.—la response to
onion; is- u-d by Judge* Brawioy of the
United States district court, Captain
Hugh ok • the Amori-an steamship
Laurarln, > “'Moved his b ind of $8,000 to
appear 1, " to the J inaiy term of tire
district c n- t n* . ) —e.-{ violation of
the I 'm;' . •
the Am v i v-
patty < 1 li t t.
la Who Large l’laiif-r, Ir- In n I'ositiou to Hold
ent on Tlicir Crop M.u-L l' ,:- M.gtier I'riocs and
partan- They Are Doing -o K'l.tling Mills Being
leoso i’ut In Opreatioa -New Textile Mill*.
Lumber Steady, Die.
Chattanooga, Dec*. 17.—The Trades
man's reports as to southern industrial
and business conditions for the week
ending Dec. 16, shows that no unusual
activity exists, while there is little or
no falling off in the amount.
Cotton is not coming forward. Large
planters are in condition to held their
cotton for tip- higher prices which they
believe will be realized before the new
seas a. Lale returos as to the amount
of cott >n on band show that it has boon
underestimated. Str mg efforts will be
made to inllu -re th • planting of a lim
ited area, f;' rn cotton mills are!
busy, atidipcri 1 in number from weekj
to week. A good many knitting milUj
are being put in operation, and there is
an increase in the number of woollen'
mills.
x The list of new textile mills for the
includes <• tton mills at Mountain
VId, X. C., and Chesterfield, S. C.;
Knox\"g mills at Atlanta, (fa., and Mar-
dnotion V', Ya., and woolen mills at
has g' tie Tenn. The agreed upon re-
thc supnly \vt£ho output of pine lumber
dema; p, and a fi’“ct. itnd by its terms
will result. Ci lp‘r\i he in excess of the
Steady, but ml iaAam .unt of business
ami prior'.-, , ;v well vinos of lumber are
pr t : n < ait inn
ord-rs nr > h -• :l ifn
omare n ei ve . . r
orders yet nehlb'd
nar os in active
to come. Coal i
prices, and the c
fi' ld is n.if aeci;
Maoufacturi;
coni ;■ m
demami.
Anion;
ted< r es
The i \
Buena
the (h
New C
the S.
I'i( kn
The
In *0
! an
xc< .-ive demand,
I'.tained. Iron
changed. Large
but many small
hy to day, aud
ill keep the fur-
ti m for some time
fi* m at unchanged
imf in the southern
dating iu first hands,
md mercantile business
baf there is no excessive
-10
c MW:
the United States,
g and Trust com-
r*' 1 ••• raing his surety.
The s'-ii't?- MV', w! i -h has been in t’
marshal's ' u*t -e.y v; ■,> ij,.). arrival lie:
iu re; n n- e t > a li-m iiie.i by Kerr
Co. ot m 1. was aim releu
10 J
0 new inonvirios ittcorpora-
ished dun ;.. the week are:
rd Oak Leather company of
ista, Ya., capital $1,000,000;
nCocper: e .11'.cany Ltd. of
Tea-.'.;. Tat... esnifal $100,000, and
f. Vv -i.o Chc h al company of
with ..">0.000 capital,
ml Ceal company has
it ekda’c, Tex., with
' barrel factory
T mu., the Reid
Wheeling. W.
x.. capital A.-O. >), and the Southern
tatii • . y company, capital $25,000,
lias 1.'•<*.• chmtc : at New Orleans. La.
The • Y;up ('111.' ■ company, capital
Y::.. with
W'AV:>
1 /inmoiid C
r e!’.. * 0
Cd ;:! R Cl
foot) eapil
..
L*portea a
Me «i h -
and ' -as
eoni’i 1 >’ 1
on a h 1 1;:
j.fO
Bad *.V r**oU «tii tli,. Kontlicrn.
Gaffst.y. S. C . 14-A freight
true, on the - > t ai 1 way was be
ing run in three oo
ing uorth.
The first two w -ti iiis rweivod orders at
Spartanburg to meet a Buiu at Thick-
etty, a sidetrack seven mi'es below this
place, hut the train dis’iatehor either
failed to give » sinailir < rdor tot
third section, rr t ** .gr was mini
dorst od by th* * 1 -i and conducts
A terrible wre k * •-■.; 1* 1, in which Et
gineer David Car en w is aim 11 1 instar
ly killed K* ui'vi within an hot
without gaining eousei •isuoks.
fireman was i nk,- slightly injured,j
he jimno !. A negro bvakeman
also soveioly slink*' *. nr*.
Will Balid a tLiilroul.
SPUD'aNBUIW. B. C., D". 17.
the P <rt R oral ami W<M* *r;i
railr a I is t > pass iut > the ha nil
Southern railway and : part,iob|
have n*. eoimceti m wit!: tho I
world cv*ept over the ii;es ->f tli]
a decided movement h.-s b *-.-un
a mad fioru Imi’* t > H^nriott-i.
conmct there with (no SealmJ
$12, r,..n
f. 11, M i s.. the
ilanufaetUUM" e-.n
capital, at C 1 1.
The T1v .io. c1: ■
ning facti t y at J
oil mi!) at if 1
plants - i- Lain .
villo. N. C.. aud :*. •.
mi - vo. . 1
•re to
c al mines a:o ’ > 1 0
vilh*, Kv., ami L
LVa.. a :V-
[Aram s Pa: , V
i. o' - are 1
in 1 lakt ■ •*.' t !
C.. and Mem' , 'i
Tli'* new bn: 1 :
dam* a >' 12,0:).) eh
iiie.im 11 at od at Jack-
> .'■>*•1! Mining and
v. with $10,000
Ark.
1 lerr.-r's a can-
■>0. !, 1 ; ucotton
‘ : electrical
■a., .md Groen-
! mill at Bir-
;.*,,; v ire works
it . Ten|
1 . t P iinqi
... .J Troutvillt
i 1 t • b • bnrt sil
■ ! new w ■ dw >rk-
, ■ 11 a large scale
. ; 1 fi m-aster. S.
week in-
a
at!
! eh
mi
A l.i
000 oltioh a:
a $85,00 ) ie
of til
a; V .Id st:t. (fn.;
<ia . a A100,-
> •• .ea'is. i > > . and
j.iWrem 1 vh.'*, Ya
NAVAL MILITIA LAWS
Tin-
Line.
iitsiati''* is omv 21
and il is est »nat<xl that the c.’itil
could be ; shed for $50,000, w!
people of .-p irtaubur r ar * exjv]
raise. The Scahoi-.
Lil
promised l > put down the rails'
pe. )pl<*
road.
of Spartanburg will
Stirrlff Can't Find tho Lynch--i
Walterb iso, S. C., Doc. 17.—!
Black of Colleton county has re:
to Solicitor Bellinger that ho
fiud the four white men who
the two negroes recently by
them to death. The sbertff says t
believes that the white men are
out iu the swumuK.
-Since
Carolina
of the
irg will
outside
bit road,
to buihl
C., to
lird Air
miles
ie road
|ich the
•tod to
Jio has
the
to the
1 i au-H 11<- stilt*
. r -.1 iiniH
If 1 i: * navy do-
: 1 1 <• 01 pact form
ccd 1 iiotial. re-
lil ia.
ll
Killed by a Deputy.
Walhalla, S. C., Do^. 17.—El
Cane, who ^vit* shot by I"*paty
Domhitt in resisting airogt on a di
sary warrant, Ls (MKd. Douthitt'
been arrested. Donthitt is tho sou
Sheriff D.mthitt and is a boy about
years old.
TO BE TESTED, t
TU* Coni«t!tt|ttonality of th« tVn P«.r Con^
* «* «u “tati* Buii!<*.
Atlanta, Dtx.*. 18.—I’Im* Go irgia lejj
islutnrehas opened the way for a 1
of the const it uti'malt ty of the ton
cent tax on state hank notes.
The Cuiviti hanking net, passed
former se*.Kim, ha« been amended
that within a short time some pnblJ
spirited citizen of this utiitc will estate
ItKi) 11 bonk sad issue Uoi™ fur the ex
press purpose of tiding tho state bank
tax (juestiou in the courts.
Many able lawyers who have given
tho subject close study are convinced
th«t thir tax is Uirc^iustltuli*>uul and
some of them will volunteer to defend
in the courts an issue of state hank
notes. This ease will attract the atten
tion of thn whole country.
Sheriff
jorted
kannot
iich»Ml
gating
lat he
iidiug
Nii.v 11 -ga: 1 1 • it ■
an.I -Nati nai
\V\smN<<;o:>. Dec.
pat t me:> 1 Iu. pul
all of t: c laws, -ml'*
lilting t > Hie m.; mi
Th'*r * have been main inquiries from
diffeie 1 t (jU 1 tets as to the s ! ops neces
sary |: 11: t-,.. n to rga m/. 1 * naval mili-
tin bait .U • -. r. 11 11! 1 • department hav-
iugitive’W the e.li t ■ be derived
from practically unitW-n state laws on
the snl j* ct. b s jjrepare.! tliis pablica-
tioti f 1 r th'* . nidatic< !''’;•* iuqutrei-s.
Then* is a < iiieem i liistory of the
naval militia from it inception in 18S7
to this v ar. whe" it teaclmd a «trength
of 2,65)5 men, isi the 18 states which,
have provided bv law for a naval milig
tia.
No AVorli at N’orfotl; Navy Yard.
Norfolk, Doe. 17.— Nearly 500
were uischar *d at the navy yard.
p:pis to tho ftaleigh and Monty
have been completed and very lii
mains 1 > be done mi the BnicnJ
Dol]»hin About all the m mey'
printed tor the li cal year has lieJ
pended, and only .*ix months of
year has passed. Three thousand
lars m-oived, with what other tnonel
on hand, is only sutliciont to keep,
men leit ic the eoustructtoit depary
employed t».ii tin* end of the mont
A N’«*w M«'tlio<l of llaii'tliiic Fij
Ni’.w Ouldans, Dee. 17 Tlt|
of handling cotton and otln
witli compross'*d air 1 coraotij
terminal of tin* N-w Oileans
tern railr ad at B rt Chnl
been tested end proved nn i*/
cess. This system was dev|
Bwanitz, chief cm
Oonstructiou cou^iaiiy Md
In great saving of eos*a
freight and *.11 eotnpj(
dgaiitht fire in tin* P . miJ
PrcH« l-'ccitoi
’’LEVF.LAN'l*. Di*
, large j h pri,
press fe<M|L ‘ J
r*'lo,t at * l TC Ull'J
Louse, havitiK'ierK striK
feeders demttll'MB- Bt
about $1.75 iier'
prieturs so far 1
in