The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, October 01, 1891, Image 2
E&LBERIT I AULL, E~DITOR.
ELBERT IL AULL, Prop
W3LP. HOUS- At
NEWBERRY. S. C.
TM.URSDAY, OCTOBEI" 1, 191.
LET THE ISSUE BE r,AIRLY JOINED.
There seems to be in this State now
three factions in the Democratic party.
Those in the Alliance who want the
Ocala platform and its demands, other
who oppose these demands and still be
long to the Alliance, and may be
termed the Tillman men. Still another
sect, who oppose the demands of the
Ocala platform and still oppose Till
taan, and may be called the anti-Till
man men.
All oflhese Mlong to the Democratic
arty, or claim to be Derocrats.
Now the question is how to get all
these factions together. It is true this
is an off year in poli:ics, but in as
much as so much politics has already
been ta'ked, and we see this division
among our people, we had as well start
in time to get them together.
It seems to us that every boiv who
goes into the Demoeratie priinaries
ought to be bound by the results ol
those frimaries. Every man in these
primaries ought to be free to expresS
his individual preference without re
gard to any outside influence. Let us
have a fair, square issue and let the
minority submit to the will of the ma
jority. To illustrate, we do not think
the majority in the Alliance ought to
bind the hinority in that body to be obe
dient to and follow what the majority
of that faction may say or think
is not meeting the issue . in the
Democrati * And the sa'ue
to apply to the other fac
tions. Let the issue be fairly joined
and let evcr- :.::: g i the DemoeratiC
primaries uniamineled by any out
side organization or affiliation, and if
majority decide that they want tc
make the Ocala platform the platform
of the Democracy, why let us submit.
If a majority decide against it, as WE
think they will, why let the minority
likewise submit, but in any event let u
have a fair, square fight like men.
The white people in South Carolin
must stiek togetiier. There is no use
fighting each other. We all want tc
see our State prosper and we all have a
common interest. Then let us fight
this thing out like men without slander
and abuse.
OUT OF WHOLE CLOTU.
Under the beadline "Is it true?" The
Newberrv Herald and News prints an
anonymous correspondence, no-date,
no-where, in which occurs the follow
ing:
"'I was in~ Walhalla a few days ago,
and had a conversation with one of the
directors of the Oconee News. The
rdirector told me that J. Win. Stokes,
of the Cotton Plant. refused to ex
change with the Oconee News, because
the Oconee News was an Alliance paper
sad had taken some subscribers fromn
the Cotton Plant."
As a matter of fact, if we have ever
refused to exchange with the Oconee
News, we do not know it. We do
know that we ordered it upon our list
of exchanges. We get the News occa
sionly, and supposed the Cotton Plant
was going to the News office. We do
not know that the News has taken any
of our subscribers; but if it has, we
cheerfully say that we don't know any
paner we would rather benefit by our
los~s. Whenever any of our subscribers
in Pickens conclude to leave us, we
will regret to part with them, of course;
but trust they will always take some
____ oth.er true Alliance paper.
But suppose wve had rated the News
as a rival (which we certainly did not)
what commion sense relation would our
refusal to exchange with a rival bear to
fairmindedness. We are not suprnsed
the originator of so verdant an idea
should write from no-where, no date,
and be ashamed to sign his name.
We trust The Herald and News will
illustrate the fairness it preaches so
well to us and answer the question it
asked in that headline.-Cotton Plant.
Certainly, with pleasure, headline
and all. Remember now that the
headline to this article is that of the
Cotton Plant and not of The Herald
and News. We will do more, too, and
say to the Cotton Plant, tha: the writer
of the squib in qutestion lives some
where, and is not ashamed to sign his
name and that he is ready to substanti
ate what he said, to wit: that a director
of the Oconee News Co. gave him the
information. His name is Warren G.
Peterson. His post office addres is
Belmont, S. C., Newberry County. He
lives some ten or twelve miles west of
Newberry, and is a farmer. Further,
he is an honest, upright and truthful
citizen, means what he says and says
what he means, and is not ashamed to
sign his name to any statement he nmay
make. We do not know whether he
belongs to the Alliance or not.
* But the truth of the statement in
question is between the director of the
Oconee News andi the Cotton Plant.
Mr. Peterson got his information as he
said from a director of the News Pub
lishing Co. That director is M1r. John
S. Floyd, ef Oconee County, a member
of the Alliance, a strong adlvocate of
the Alliance demands. The Herald
News does not know his post oflice ad
dress, but supposes the Cotton Plaut
does, as he is a subscriber to that p)ubll
cation, and in order to get clippings
fro:u it for the News he has to cut them
from his paper. and he gave 3Mr. Peter
son the information that the Cotton
Plant would not exchange. This was
about the lBth of Auaust.
The editor of The H erald and News
has not seen Mr. Peterson in some time
and obtained the above information at
the time he handed us the quib, as we
thought possibly thiere was somec mi
take.
* Is the Cottou Plant satisfied with
this illustration of fairnes'? It's all
wool and a vard wi:de.
We would like to sugge.: that the
Cotton Plant keep cool. There is no
use getting excitedl. The correspon
dents of The Herald and Nev.s are real,
live, living beings, who live somewhere,
and write at sonme time andi are not
ashamed of what they write. The
Herald and Newvs not only p)reaches
fairness, but it practices it.
Congressman J1. J1. Henoill has
just returned from a European trip.
He says it broadens one's views and
increases one's patriotismi to visit ai
foreign country.
-~ -~-~K
LET US HAVE IT.
The Herald- and News desires to sa,
in reply to the strictures of the Cottoi
Plant, that it has always been an e3
ceedingly modest newspaper; that i
never promised to discuss the subtrea
ury plan with the Cotton Plant; ths
it does not assume to know a great des
about the great financial questions, bu
that it believes it knows as much a
some people who are discussing thes
questions. The extent of our promi
to discuss this subtreasury plan *was i:
asking the Cotton Plant to give us
plain statement as to how this greo
scheme, if enacted into law, woul
benefit the farmer in its practical oper
ations. If that statement has eve
been given we have failed to see i!
We do remember that the'Cotton Plar
on one occasion submitted some que,
tions. That was not what we aske
for and it was not what we expecte
of the Cotton Plant. If an explana
tion of Dr. Stokes' Greenwood speec
has ever been made we have neve
seen it.
Further, if that statement is givei
we will publish it of course, and with
out headlines at all, if the Cotton Plan
prefers. It is a rule of this offic4
that when an article is criticized i
the editorial columns to givethe artie'
in full, so that the reader may decid
for himself. That is fair is it not? Doe
the Cotton Plant do the same? Tb
Cotton Plant has frequently criticize
The Herald and News, but if it ha
ever given more than an extract c
what The Herald and News hn sai
we have failed to see it. But then tb
Cotton Plaut does not "claim to b
fair."
We would not have asked fo
the plain statement ijwe had nc
intended .to Th&i'it. We will als
u our opinion of the statemen1
We have been wanting informatio:
and asked for the statement in goQ
.ith. Let it come and we promis
you to publish it without prejudicih
headlines.
HE CERTAINLY SAID IT.
We see from the Cheraw ReportE
that the Sumter Freeman's candi
opinion is that Dr. Eokes never uttere
the words attributed to him about ther
being no loss to the government eve
if the man who put cotton in the wart
house did not redeem it and the goN
er-ment only received $40 for the Se
advanced, because the other $40 woul
be in circulation. The Freeman ma
not believe it, because the utterauc
was reported by what the Freeman i
pleased to term a "hostile press," bu
all the same, Dr. Stokes said it in hi
speech at Greenwood. The editor c
The Herald and News was present an
heard it and so reported it in our nex
issue, and remarked upon the argumen
that in our opinion Dr. Stokes did nc
believe it himself. Dr. Stokes, in th
Cotton Plant, afterwards said, that ou
report of that meeting was fair, excep
that we charged him with sayin;
things that he did not believe himsell
Then we asked him if he really be
lieved that the government would los
nothing because the money was in ci]
culation, and we have asked him agair
and as yet have received no reply. Di
Stokes certainly made the statemen
and we do not believe that he will den;
Dr. Stokes on that occasion, as w'
understood it, discussed the plan a
outlined in the bill that they say nov
is dead, and answered the objection
that had been urged against it.
We would like to ask Mir. Wolfe, thi
associate editor of the Cotton Plant
what he calls.his recent article in th<
State. Is it an argument on the finan
cial question, sub-treasury, land loai
schemne,or the Ocala platform orall comn
bined. Or yet further, is it merely:a
tirade of personal abuse with a long lis
of ugly epithets and inelegant diction
and are these by "deduction by logica
process" to take the place of solid ar
gumen t. We have nothing to do witi
Mr. Wolfe's quarrel with Mr. Duncar
and the News and Courier, only wi
have been frequedtly told by the Cot
ton Plant and the leaders of the Alli
ance that all the abuse, personal and
otherwise, came from what some o:
them please to term the oppositior
press and those who oppose the de
mands, and we are told this has beer
offered in place of argument. This if
the reason we inquire what Mr. Wolf4
calls his production in the State. W4
only want information.
"H" furnishes us another articlh
this week. It is y>etry this time.
That is we presume it is. It has thal
appearance. This one is still more
mysterious. We confess to our ina
bility to understand it. You may read
it for yourself.
This week "H" talks about the 'ty
COOnl of the bailivick."
We presume that is more poetic
Last week it was the "bailiwick o:
inutilitarian repose."
There is too much "bailiwick" aboul
all this thing for the comprehensior
of The Herald and News. It may hav4
soime reference to the sub'-treasury plan
or the Ocala platform. Or still it maj
have some reference to The Heralh
and News, but we are unable to sa'
just what is meant. We presume il
wil! be best to say that it is a soliloqua
in blank verse on headlines.
It is getting pretty thick and slightl3
complicated. The Alliance leader:
want subtreasury, land loans and flood,
of money.' The prohibition issue if
eprung on us iu this State. Kansa!
conmes to the front with a newv allianct
formed for thbe purpose of securing fo.
women the right to vote and the wives
of all the leaders-of the other alliance
there are in it. The Peoples party i:
already on deck wvith its demands foi
an eight hour day and an increasec
Dension list. Now let the Second Ad
v-entists, Trheosophists, Spiri tualists
Nihiilists and bloomers have a showin1
and we can get up by inext year agranc
flexible plattormi and sweep the coun
trv.-Greenville News.
This would make a very broad, and
not only flexible, but elastic platform
and might sweep the country, but Thb
Herald and News would like to knov
where it would sweep it to.
We p)ublish elsewhere this week ai
article explaining the question of "frei
coinage" of silver. He hope this wil
be interesting to our readers. It give
the facts and figures in connectiom
"THE WHANG DOODLE MOURNS."
i Such is the headline used by The
i New berry Herald and News to an ae
count of some Alliance meetings, that
were addressed by Dr. Pope, Col. Keitt
t and Lecturer Jefferies.
- As Col. Watson said, "Now how 'lo
t you like that, sonny?" that is to sav,
you Alliance people of Newberry.
Cotton Plant.
t The headline was simply a quotation
s from what was said in the account of
e the meeting, and quotation marks were
e placed around it to show that it was a
2 quotation. The headline was intended
' to convey an idea of what the article
t contained. The article was written
by a farmer and a member of the Alli
ance. The Herald and News was not
r present at the speaking. We have no
excuse or apology for using the head
t line in the sense in which it was used
by us. We only refer to it here and
quote the Cotton Plant to show the
baseness and the littleness of the Cotton
Plant in making the insinuations con
2 tained in the quotation above. It is
r an effort to injure The Herald and
News in the estimation of the good
people of Newb(rry County. Honor
able journalism ought to be pitched
t upon a higher plane.
ABOUT HEADLINES.
e A great deal has been said lately
e about headlines. The Herald and
News desires to state here that it does
e not write its editorial opinions in head
lines. In writing headlines our idea
has always been to try to indicate by
them what is contained in the article
and not to express an opinirn.. Th
e opinions of this paper may always be
e foumtn-thiieditorial columns. Some
times we have used an expression con
r tained in the article and whenever
that has been done quotation marks
have always been used. If headlines
are not for the purpose of letting you
know what the article contains we
would like to know what use they
subserve.
Mr. Talbert says to the News and
Courier, that he intends to remain
with the Democratic party and fight
r within the ranks for the Ocala plat
form, and if he is beaten to still reniain
and submit. We think that is fair, if
e M%r. Talbert will agree to give us a
2 square deal and a fair fight.
The News and Courier says if the
Democratic party adopts the Ocala
platform, it will not support it. This
to The Herald and News sounds like
bolting the party unless it carries its
e point. The Herald and News may be
s mistaken, but our idea is that if we go
into the fight we must be bound by the
result or be considered a bolter. Any
man or newspaper has a right if he or
it prefers to maintain an independent
t attitude, but if we go into the fight
t good faith requires us to submit even if
we are beaten.
r The question is constantly being
t asked, and it is pertinent, if the Alli
;ance does not control the party what
will it do.
- We would like to ask another ques
e tion, and it is equally pertinent, if the
Alliance does control the party what
, will the other fellows do? Let us have
.this thing fairly settled and meet thd
t issue squarely.
The Georgia Legislature did right in
not taking up its time with the Ocala
Splatform and subtreasury. The place
to discuss that measure is in Congress.
All thbe legislation it demands is of a
National character and if any of the
measures or demands are adopted at
all, they must come through Congress.
The Georgia Legislature composed of
a majority of Alliancemen has refused'
to pass a resolution endorsing the
Ocala Platform. Everything will come
out right in the end.
Bill Arp discusses tbe sub-treasury
plan and some other interesting sub
jects wvith much "joke." It is an in
teresting article. Read it.
Mrs. B. F. Perry, wife of the late ex
Governor Persy, died at her home in
Greenville last Thursday, in the 73ld
-year of her age.
Mr. Jas. G. Blaine says hie cannot
take part in the Ohio canmpaigu, but
hopes that McKinley will win.
SHOT DOWN BY A NEGRO.
Mayor Henner,nan, of Spartanburg, Meets
Death at a Black Brute's Handls.
SPARTANBURG, S. C., Sept. 28-T'i
little city was the scene of a fearful
tragedy at 6 o'clock Sunday evening.
J. A. Hen neman, mayor, was shot
down without a moment's warning,
and the brutal murderer is now in jail
in momentary expectancy of being
lynched.
A burly negro by the name of John
Williams was making a disturbance at
home with his wife. Cries of all sorts
were heard coming from that direction
when Mayor H-enneman we'nt to the
house to find out the cause. He arrested
Willams, and was trying to prevent his
escape until the pdice camne to his assist
ance. Williams succeeded in pushing
Hen neman out the door, and while he
was falling, shot him in the back, kill
ing him instantly.
To say the town is excited does not
begin to express it. Groups of excited
men gathered all over the city, talking
of this fearful outrage. Last night the
jail was surrounded by a howling mob
that needs only a leader to procure the
The jail to-night is so well guarded
that the mob could not get at the nie
gro, but threats of lynching ale still
being made.
Mayor Hennemian is the same man
who sometime ago prevented a mob
from lynching Murderer Turner, an in
fluential farmer, who killed his brother
in-law.
Mayor Henneman, on this occasion,
mounted a cannon which the mob had
placed near the jail, and with a pistol
in his hand, shouted tbat he would kill
the first person who approached the
jail. By his coolness lhe saved the
murderer.
ITHE CHARLESTON MAYORALTY.
Maj. John F. Ficken the Candidate or the
Reformers.
[Special to the State.1
CHi ARLESTON, September 29.-Satur
day night a number of Reformers from
vaious wards waited on Maj. John F.
-Fiken and asked him to allow them
to put his name before the Reform
nominating conference for the office of
mayor of Charleston. He asked for
time to consider the matter, and was
again waited upon to-day by a sub
committee of his former visitors. Maj.
I Ficken consented to accept the support
3 of his visitors and of those they repre
sented. Maj. Ficken is at present, and
has been for a number of years, a mem
ber- of the Honse of Represen tatives.
What is 3eant by Free Coinage of Siver.
To the Editor of The Herald and
News: You ask me to define just what
isjmeant by the "free coinage of silver."
I will endeavor to do so as clearly and
briefly as I can.
It means that the owners of silver
bullion shall he allowed to take it in
any quantity they may possess to the
mints and have it coined into money
at the rate of 371 grains of silver to the
dollar. The advocates of free coinage
say this is what was done from 1792,
when the coinage act was passed, to
187:3, when the coinage of the silver
dollar was suspended-not silver de
monetized as is so often asserted. Why
should this not continue? They also
say this is what. is still done as to gold.
Why not as to silver also? I would re
ply to these questions briefly as fol
lows:
A very important change has taken
place as to silver since 1873 ; but none
as to gold. A full 100 cents worth of
gold is still put into the gold dollar, as
prior to 1S73, so that the minting it
ands nothing whatever to its value.
The coinage of gold is therefore only a
certificate so to speak of the intrinsic
value of gold in the coin, and that is as
it should be. Prior to 1873 it was the
same w&ith silver. Up to that time
3711 grains of silver was worth fully
160 cent.;; sometimes slightly more.
But. no)w the case is qu-ite different.
The present bullion value of the 371j
kgrains of silver contained in a silver
dollar is only about 78 cents. Why
this change in silver? Here are a few
of the chief reasons :
1. The annual product of silver has
more than doubled since 1873--S8,S00,
0(0 in 1873 and $168,000,000 in 1890.
2. As a consequence silver has de
preciated in value over 25 per cent.
3. European nations have discon
tinued its coinage as a ful! legal-tender
money.
4. The exchanges of the world are
settled everywhere in gold, or, if ex
changes with silver using countries, in
silver at its gold value. - -
The fact then that silver has so de
preciated in value, and has conseQuent
ly been abandoned as thestandard and
of value by the leading cominercial na
tious, would seen to be an all suffi
cient reason against its free and un
limited coinage in the United States.
If we must have free coinage, at least
let enough silver be put ia a dollar to
make a full dollar as is the ease with
gold. Then there would at least be no
fraud or dishonesty in the transaction.
I may mention that under free coin
age from 1792 to 1873, a period of over
80 years, only a little over 8,000,00)
silver dollars were coined. This cer
tainly did not look as if our "daddies"
were so eager for the "buzzrad" dollar.
But under the s'-called "Bland-act"
of IS78, requiring the coinage of not
less than 2,000,000 silver dollars per
month, the government purchased sil
ver at its market value for the
enormous sum of 138,19,2(j1, and
coined it into 277,246,880 silver
dollars; thus realizing a net profit
of about $67,000,000. Here then
we discover the secret of all this
outcry for free coinage. It is on ac
count of this net profit of $67,000,000 in
twelve years. Under free coinage all
this profit -- uld have gone, not to the
govern. .-that is to the people-but
into the pockets of the comparatively
few "silver barons" of the Rocky
Mountains; the Senators Stewart and
Jones, of that Mining Camp, Nevada,
Teller and Wolcott, of Colorado, etc.
No wonder they cry loud and long
for "free coinage." They are already
millionaires from the enormous profits
in their business. Butstill not content,
they would have the Government
that is the people-pay them 2.5 per
cent. over the market value for their
silver. Let Congress grant "free coin
age," but require a full dollar's worth
of silver shall be put in a dollar, as was
done prior to 1873, and we will see how
quickly these sanme men will lose all
interest in it. It is not "free coinage"
they want, but the 25 per cent. pre
mium on the market value of their
merchan dise. In July, 1890, the "Bland
Act" w,as substituted by another, which
provides that the Government shall
purchase 4,500,000 ounces silver per
month, or .54,000,000 ounces in a year,
on which it wvill issue about $60,000,000
Treasury Notes. Thus is providled for
the consumption of more than the en
tire products of the American Silver
mines. But still the "silver barons"
are not content because the profit from
the difference between the market
value and the coining value of the sil
ver goes to the Government and not to
them.
I hope with the above to have made
:lear not only what "free coinage''
mens, but also a few of the objectious
to it. Cinvis.
LOOKING 1 THE MIt LENNIUIM.
[Colonel Keitt's Hope ror the Emuanchj.tin
of' Mankind froma P'overty.
[From the G;reenville News.]
ENolo:E PI,ANTATION, S. C., Sept.
?1.-The problem of our age for solut
in is the easy creation of wealth and
its just d istri buti on if mian kind is to be
ift ed to a higher plane of existentce.
Man is a diflerent kind of being when
)inced by wantt fromn what lhe is whten
he is surround(edl with an abiundanice of
the comtforts of life.
TIhose whio live on the incoime from
ggregted caipital created' by formier
enerations5 of ancestors can have ito
onIcptioni of the p)rivaItionrs and sufli-r
rigs of the mtainy who can barely make
enough on which to sutbsist, bornec
down by the burdens piled uipon tem
y the relentless power of money
wieldedi with consummxate skill by the
crafty. This is ttore anid inure clearly
seen each (lay as the world mnoves ont
,ith u nerring p)recision to ihe conisi
nation of all ini all.
While someC !i comu nities have gone
ack more of thema have advanced in
the aggregate. T1hte world is bietter to
day titan at arty former pe.riodl of its
history.
We have heard all of ouri lives that
the end of the world is near at h aind.
Sonie are even niow predlictinig it. "'Let
not yotur hearts be troutbled."' ft does
not meanm the myaterial world will
ollapse, it means the old way of doing
thines will disappear anid a new andi
better way will be adopted. 'Te old
house will bte ton downVI anid a new and(
tore beautiful onie will be er~cte-d; that
n akid will see and( act as they niever~
acted before.
'Homto devisa est, 'en t raispartes,
rtiruns, artimroqueC~ cirpus."' Alan is
(livied into thiree parts, a soul, minid
nd body.
To have a p,erfect tian lie muist be
develped to thte futll in all his paurts.
Itt the first, the sava':ge state, the cor
us is developed. In the secondl antd
higher state the minrd-thne ittteliect nal
>oesare dleveloiped.
In the third, last arid htightist state,
the soul, the God-like prinicip)les, are
(leveloped whetn a halo of glory suir
rounds his brow attd lights up every
thing around him, infusinig love, p)eae
md( contentmenit inito all. This is the
rowning glotrv of mian's creation. It
'ain not be achieved under presetnt con
ditions which force the vast majority
of makind to dlevote all 'heir time to
making a bare subsistence for them
selves atnd families, leaving them nto
eisure for tIhe cultivation of the moral
nd mental powers.
Let its be patient, but one and all
vork with diligence for the commniun
good. The E ternal Fathier, who is all
love, passionless and ebangeless, will
in the fullness of time give us the new
dispensation, and alt will see and act as
they never saw and actedl before.
Respectfully,
E LLiSON S. K EIrIT.
BROWN'S IRON BITTERS
Cures Dyspepsia, In
TEN MEN TO HANG.
Literally a Ilack Frday in South Caro.
lina Criminal Annals.-Ten Negroes
Are Convicted oC Conspiracy
and Murder.
CHARLESTON, S. C., Sept. 25.-Th(
most death-dealing sentence in th(
legal annals of this state except in case.
of insurrection, was passed at Lauren!
to-day, ten negro men being sentenced
to be hanged for th murder of anothei
negro.
CONSPIRACY AND YURDER.
The charge was conspiracy and mur.
der. Some months ago Jim Young
Monroe Young, Henderson Young
Allen Young, John Atkinson, Lig(
Akinson, John Adams, Perry Adams
and Jack Williams, all colored, havin
some cause of quarrel against Thorntol
Nance, also colored, arranged a plan t<
take his life and carried it out success
fully. At this term of Laurens cour1
they were all convicted.
NEW TRIAL REFUSED.
A motion was made for a new trial
but it was refused, and Judge Hudsor
sentenced the whole ten to be hange(
Oct. 23, next.
At thesame term of court IkeKinard
colored, was convicted of the murder o:
Lemuel G. Oxner, a white man, and
was sentenced to be hanged on Oct. P;
thus making eleven negroes sentence(
to death at these bloody assizes.
PARALLEL CASE AT ABBEVILLE IN 1873
LSpecial to State.]
GREENVILLE, Sept. :6.-The state
ment that never in the criminal bis
tory of the State was there ever suet
a wholesale conviction for murder as ii
Laurens on Friday, when ten negroet
were convicted and sentenced to bt
hanged, is erroneous. A parallel cas(
was broulit to the attention of Th(
State correspondent to-day by ex-Judg(
T. H. Cooke, who was for five years or
the bench in this State. In 1873, whil(
Judge Cooke was holding court in
Abbeville, twelve negroes were con
victed for the murder of a young whit(
man named Allen, whose home was
near Lowndesville. Mr. Blythe, of this
city, was the solici or and the negroes
were defended by Samuel McGowan,
now associate justice or the SupremE
Court. Two of the negroes were used
as State's witnesses, and on Suaday
morning the jury returned a verdict
convicting the ten men of murder.
They were sentenced to be hanged,
along with several others who had been
convicted at the same court. Three of
the ten negroes were afterward hung
and the others were sent to the peniten
tiary.
Railroad Changes.
[Spe.ial to News and Courier.]
COLMIA, September 29.-There i6
something going on now in Richmond
and Danville circles here which is of
great interest to Columbians. Super
intendent J. A. Dodson will leave the
city to-morrow morning for Atlanta,
where he will confer with the authori
ties there, but the result, of course,
cannot be anticipated. One of the
three matters to be considered is the
tutting on an early train from Colum
)ia for points North, the train to leave
biere say about 8 A. M.
The people of Anderson, it is under
stood, are moving specially in the mat
ter. It is urged that such a train will
be needed during Fair week at least,
and perhaps it may be arranged to
have an early train south to Columbia
for that period. It is also in the wind
that an early train from Charleston to
meet the outgoing early train from Co
lumubia (if it be made permanent) will
be a necessity. Superintendent Dod
son was asked if he could give the de
tails of the arrangements desired by
the people north of Columbia, but he
said that nothing worth publishing
could be obtained until after the con
ference. The movement as stated,
however, is correct.
Ivers & Pond Pianos.
These pianos are of the highest grade.
They contain that most desirable im
provement, the patent Soft-stop, and
they can be bought at fair prices and on
easy payments regardless of distance
from manufactory.
A catalogue describing and picturing
thu . pianos will be mxailed free if you
send a request and your address on a
postal card to Ivers & Poud Piano Co.,
Mason ic Temple, 183 Tremnont St., Bos
toni.
TIHE FASTEST YET.
The Teutonic Heata the IRecord Acro,e The
Atlantic.
LOxNON, Sept. 29.- By passing Fast
net Light at 11 o'clock this morning
the Teutonic beats the record from New
York to Queenstown. The voyage was
made in five days, 21 hours and 32
minutes beating the records of the Clty
of Paris and the City of New York byl1
hotur and 28 minutes. The Teutonic is
queen for both ways.
.ADVERTISED LETTERtS.
I OST OFFIeE, NEwOERIRY, S. (7.
I,st, of letters uinclairned antd advertise-d
nird. Jerle Ilenderson,. A. Ii.
Cutreton. liev. A. I.. .lel lico, Joh, n
I'rawvfi. .\lose Trinsley, w. .\I.
Fvaus, itev. .M. WV. wVatson, J. II.
Etridge, P'inkc
j'ersons callinug for the above letters will
plase say tha;t i hey were advertised.
It. MlooRM' A N. P. M1.
Tax Notice,
r*THE TAN bOOKS FOR NEW
1.berry County will be opened for
collection of Taxes for the fiscal year,
commliceing Novemiber 1st., 18901, on
the 15th dauy of October, 1891I, and will
remiaini openi until 15thi of De)tcember
nex t, inclusive.
TheiI followintg is the levy.
For St ate pur posest~.........I..4 Mills
lor ( oun ty purposes.........}"
For schlool purposes...........
Total.........................lit Mills
Except ini the following localities
where an additional railroad and spe
ial school tax hias been. levie-d as fol
lows:
Township No. I for railroad.... Mills
Township No. 9 for railroad..2"
Gradedl School D)istrict. ini towni
of Newh'erry..................
Rutt hierford School D)istri-t....2
A special tax of one11 dollar ha:,s been
levied on male cit izenis between the ages
of 21 andit 5(0 years except th(eek exempilt
by law.
I will be at the following named
places on the day rnentioned fr-om 10i
o'clock a. mn. to I' p.m
D)ead F"al!, Th'lursday,, October 1.
WVilliams, Friday, October 11.
Lonigshore, Saturday, (Octobher 17.
.Jalapa, Monday, (Octobier 19.
Whituiires, Tluesdlay, Oc)tober 2n.
MIay binitoni, Wedlnesdlay, O ctobier 21.
Walton, Thursday, October 22.
(Gibsons. Friday, October 23.
.1-oily Street, aLonday, Octobe-r 21;.
Pomaria, Tru-sday, October 27.
Prosperity , WVednesday and Thlur.s
day. October 28 and 29.
All other (days I will be at the Treas
urer's oflice at New berry, S. C.
C. F. BOYD, Treasurer.
COTTON WEIGHING.
I CAN BE FOUND AT THE C. N.
and L. D)epot, prepared to give
prompt attention to weighing cotton
ive nie a call.
CH AS. A. BOWMAN.
New berry, S. C., Oct. 1, 1891.
EAMESS & READ NOISES CUUMbI
DEA F ects ISV sBIE T%3ULAIR
sm~g ~3Dgt.v.c0wsmh.Wrs. wwOr o heans.( comN.
LOOK OUTI
WE AR 1 TIESE
AGAIN F IGl7RE4
ON THE WILL PLAY
WAR PATH. TH E
NOTHING D - L
CAN IN THE
WITHSTAND MARKET.
THE THEY
FORCE . 1WILL
OF THE TERRORIZE
ALMIGHTY AND
DOLLAR PULVERIZE
COMPETITORS.
SAVE YOUR DIMES
AND
GROW INTO
DO LLA RS.
ADVANCE PRICE,
OF COTTON
AND PROVE TO BE
THE BLESSING OF YOUR
FAMILY.
YOU KNOW THAT
IN EVERY INSTANCE
OUR BARGAINS
SURPASS
OUR ADVERTISEMENTS.
WE SOLICIT YOUR
MOST CAREFUL
ATTENTION
TO OUR NEXT
ADVERTISEMENT,
WHEN THE ABOVE
F IG U R E S
WILL RECEIVE
EXPLICIT
EXPLANATION.
Thanking the Public for
theirliberal patronage, solicit
ing your kind continuance of
the same-informing the La
dies that there isn't any Bar
room connected with my
Dry Goods Department-and
assuring one and all polite
and courteous attention.
Respectfully,
0TT0 KLETTNER
SPECIAL
TO TIlE LfD]ES
OF KEWBERRY
AND SURROUNDING COUNTY.
CALL. AND SEE
THE NICEST LINE
-OF
DRESS GOODS
YOU EVER SAW.
--ALSO
A SIID SEWJTON
-OF
Ladies' Shoes,
Silks,
Hosiery,
Ladies' Underwear,
Flannels,
Domestics
AND OTHER THINGS
"TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION."
WE INVITE
SPEC/AL ATTENTION
TO OUR
25c. and 50c. Henriettas.
J. D. Davenport & Co.
NOTICE.
T HE REGULAR SEMI-ANNUAL
ex amination of applicants for
rIeachers' Certinicates of qualification
will be held at Newberry on Friday,
2nd October.
A pplicants must furnish pens, ink,
p)aper, etc.
Examaination will begin at 9 o'clock.
ARtTH UR KIBLER,
Chairman Board of Examiners.
Contracts to Let.
()FFICE OF (COUNTY CorM3IssrONERS,
September 8, 1891.
OC(TOBERt 1ST, AT 11 O'CLOCK,
a member of the Board of County
(rommnissioners will let the contract for
building a bridge across Enoree River
near Whitmire's.
October 3d, at 3 o'clock, a member of
the Board will let the contat for
building a bridge at the Trinity Creek
ford.
P'lanis and specifications will be made
knowni at the times and places named.
Thle right is reserved to reject all bids.
By order of the Board of County
Commissioners.
GEO. B. CROMER, Clerk.
HAIR BALSAM
C7..... .ad b...un.f. te h.tr.
- Ier la1. to Hestor GrU
Waot.DEbiORty . .ra. Pago, T. n..ow
[E GOODS
for the Fall and Winter Season 1
GO TO T H E
OLD RELIABLE
OF
SMITH & WEA
where you will get better value for)1
money than any where else.
RLem~em~ber- e "E3azicile
RELIABLE AND FIRS
Or CLASS GOODS.
Our goods are arriving daily, and we certainly can gi
some bargains.
Call and see us. Yours as ever,
SMITH ~& WEARN_.
The "NewberrY Clothiers,
Main Street, Newterry, S. C.
The Shoe House of Newbe
We have the largest and best selected stock of Shoes
ever brought to this market. $10,000 stock to select
from. When you want style, stock and finish at uni
formly low prices, Minter & Jamieson's is the place to
get them. Gentlemen! do you want a durable, stylish
and comfortable shoe? Then buy the celebrated Lill,
Brackett & Co. Hand-&wed Shoes... ..For the romping
school boy, buy the Douglas $1.75 and $2.00 School
SShoes....For Misses' and Children's School Shoes, buy
our Stonewall Tips in spring heels and common-sense
heel and toes... For the ladies we have the E. P.
S Reed's; they are beauties.... In medium and low-priced
shoes, we can give you the Hayes-Partridge Shoes, all
of which ar e guaranteed ... .Buy The Minter & Jamie
son $2.00 Shoes in Button and Laced;-they are hum
mers; they sell so fast and give such universal satisfac- I
tion that it is hard to keep them in stock;-equal to aty
$2.50 shoe in the city.
Don't forget that we have the largest stock of Dry Goods, 01
ing, Hats and Gents' Furnishing Goods that we have ever carr
Give us a call and be convinced that we mean what we say.
MINTER & JAMIESON
LEADERS OF LOW PRICES1
Will the People Think !
STRAWS
show which way the wind blows.
Watch them When you see all sorts
... of Clothing patterned after Blalock's;
m when you see it imitated in appear
Sance and make-up--in everything
v except price and merit; when you
find TH REE persons buying Cloth
ing of him where ONE bought a year
ago; then you may know the wind
is blowing you towards Blalock's.
And why not go ? You are losing
Smoney by trying to'head the other
.way; money and labor, time and
patience. Go with the wise, and you
stop losing, and begin to gain. Hun
dreds now realize that there ist
everything to gain and nothing to
lose---with BLALOOK.
Are You Thinking ?
<< 10 CENT STORiE
THE "FAMOUS" 10 CENT ~
HAVE AT LAST C
TO THE AID OF T nard c.c
VIfPlYmre decease
BECA USE T HEY ARE 0 in T teand ad
HIG H of thesaid John AburamJ
IT ILLMAme, in the Court of ?ane
tQ?vomDon he r* at89ocI
<< lasswar8, why t u s aidAmna
AND EVER YT HIN be,A X 1891
ELLERs y- P. N.
From 2 Cen
ButterI Dshs Pikle Dishes, '1 unblr,G KUU
Glass Pitchers, and Hundreds o'f things to please
Coffee Prot u a Btuaktto ande H
wear anl eto sut the purebaser. Lace froi ~ r
JUST A LITTLE LOWNER THA Arm
ng COME TO SEE US. v.
We are yours just for FUN and the CASE
W ..SHERARD
The "Famous"
Foot's Old Stad, Lower Part of PubiL
LoU YLE,KY