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IOI Ert e8bt41 e)WER S tTU. E 4TXABLISHED 186.5. NEWBERRY, S. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 19O2. TWICE A WEEK. 81.50 A YEAHR it be the last time we shall clasp I hands with our comrades. I II. The rate of travel will be 1 I cent per mile. As this will be a long ( ' trip, arrangements have been made v by which Tourists Cars, with all the c substantial comforts of the Pullman e Car, but only lacking their elegance, will be run by the Southern Railway from South Carolina to Dallas, and such Tourists Cars as may be char tered by Camps will be parked while e there for use as homes for the Veter -s ans. The special rate for the same will be announced by the railroads. III. Thinking always of the con venience and comfort of his comrades, S the Division Commander has care- b fully weighed the advantages pre sented by the various routes to Dal- a las, considering not only the advan- t tages of the official train going, but P the regular schedules of trains re turning, to bring the Veterans easily a to their homes, outside of and includ ing the official t! .v.d has decided Is that the route by tLa Southern Rail way is by far the best, and the offi cial train will go by this route. This train will carry the tourist sleepers li from South Carolina. The official train will leave Columbia, S. C., h about mid-day, Sunday, April 20th, N 1902, after the hour of the arrival of n trains from Fort Mill, Rock Hill, etc., from Charleston; and trains by the i A. C. L. from eastern parts of the d State. It will go via Newberry, Greenwood, etc., to Greenville, where the trains from Charlotte, Spartan- r burg, etc., will join it, and thence on a to Dallas. The comrades from points d in the western part of the State will T join the official train at Atlanta. It a is scheduled to arrive at Dallas, 6 A. M., April 22nd. This movement w covers more nearly the whole State A than is possible by any other route. IV. The Division Commander re- 1 cognizes that he has no right, and ai certainly has no inclination, to re quire the comrades of the South Car- 0 olina Division to go by any one route, bi and particularly if at any personal bi inconvenience to the comrades, but he appeals to thenm to support him N in his decision of a route, and to pa tronize the "Southern," the official route. He urges this, because: 1st. The trip is a long one, and all South Carolinians going together places them in pleasant communion it during the 36 hours of the trip. 2d. Parking the chartered Tour ist Cars from South Carolina together, b places the many South Carolinians occupying such cars when there, at da home together. It gives our State a ai local habitation at the Dallas Reun-. it ion. 3d. If the Veterans of the State desire that their influence as a body fr be Met in the State, they must act together as a unit. They can show their common bond of comradeship E by endorsing their official head and n moving in a mass. The Division Commander feeling si all this, most earnestly urges the d comrades of this Division, for their U own comfort, their own pleasure, and the interests of the Division, to stand together, and all make the trip to Dallas by the official route on the Southern R ailway. By order'. C. Irvine Walker, k S. C. Div. Commander. James G. Holmes, o Adjutant General, Chief f of Staff. Charleston, S. C. c ELABOR ATE P(ANK FOR BEUNION. 0 Dallas Pr. paring for Big Confederate a Gathering. -q Dallas, Tex., March 20.-This city ti is making the most elaborate prepar ations for entertaining the Confed- C erate veterans an I other visitors to the national Confederate reunion to d be held April 22, 23, 24 and 25. : Arrangements for housing many thousands haye been made. Bu d- t: ings at the State fair grounds are in C a state of forward preparation, guar anteeing accommodations on a larger e Sscale than was ever before known at is I a reunion of the veterans. - Representativ-es are beginning tol Sarrive to make advance arrange. - ments for camps and State organiza I tion. i Maor Milton, of Van Buren. Ark., kas made rooming arrangeuents fo .50 members of the camps at that >lace. A representative from North jarolina made arrangements for 300 eterans from that State. Militia ompanies from various states are oming to participate in the parade. Jalapa Notes. On account of the recent rain farm rork will be retarded. The grain rop looks very promising so far con idering the heavy freezes. Some gardening has been done dur ag the past week. Mrs. Texie Cannon who has been pending some time with the family of r. W. C. Sligh has returned to her ome at Newberry. We hear some of the young people round here will take in the Exposi [on the 2nd prox. We wish them a leasant time. Miss Bessie Sligh, of Newberry, spent st Saturday and Sunday with her ster, Mrs. G. C. Glasgow. Miss Ethel Duncan, who is attending 'ewberry College, has been on a visit ) her parents. Mrs. W. C. Sligh is now recovering 'om a case of the grippe. Mr. Tom Johnson, of "Shack," spent Lst Saturday at Mr. S. M. Duncan's. Misses Sarah and Florence Waters ave been on a visit to relatives in ewberry. ' Mr. S. B. Aull is preparing to erect a ew store near his old one. While Newberry is doing her part i other branches of enterprise and in stry, why not Jalapa? We need a inning factory and an Ice house. Let yme one make a move towards this. The most popular and "up-to-date" ading is the McLaurin and Tillman ad Prince Henry cases. Although the sgraceful fight between Senators illman and McLaurin, of South Caro na, on the floor of the Senate, is now closed incident. Emperor William's yacht, "Meteor," as suecessfully launched at Shooter's iland a few weeks ago, Miss Alice oosevelt christening the boat in he resence of the President, Prince Henry, Prussia, the German embassador id a brilliant assemblage. Spring is fast approaching. The -chards are beginning to show their ,ight colors and the forest is casting s beautiful green foliage up'on the arren earth. Much success to The Herald and ews. J- C. March 17, 1902. Gleanings from Timothy Creek. We have a cold snap this morning. Most of our people have worked some their gardens. Mr. Lee Hayes has moved into his sw house. Miss Lilla Boozer visited her sister ere Sund ay. Miss Willie C2romer spent several sys with her sister, Mrs. Ila Cousins, d returned home yesterday. Mr. W. Berley Cromer and wife vis ed Mr. Frederick Boozer's family [on day. Mrs. Lula Hunter has returned home ow her visit to Lexington. Farmers are on the stand still. Mr. Arthur Melton and family spent e night last week with Mr. Frederick oozer and family and other kindred sar Riverside. Mr. Lambert Sligh and wife and her ster, Miss Minnie Riley spent Satur y night and Sunday here with their nle Mr. Berle~y Cromer, a few weeks Easter is approaching rapidly. March 18, 1902. Verona. -Long Lane Items. Sowing oats has been all the go on 1e Lane. All the early oats were Some wheat looks very well, several ithe neighbors lost wheat by the Mr. J. W. Cald well is ready to grind rn on his new mill. He also has a 1 mill attached and has sawed a lot f pine and oak lumber. Mr. Supervisor, come out and look t the road across Cane's creek, near .W. Cald well's. We need a bridge, r something done so that we can cross 2e creek. Mr. T. D. Ramage has a fine Jersey my for sale. Mr. Strong preached a very interest ig sermon at King's creek last Sun ay. He is a young minister fronm |rskine College. Farers, watch your corn fields is year andl work them good, for we not make cotton at 7 or 7b cents ,d pay one dollar per bushel for corn. Long Lane is goiog to do her best on orn and peas, for we see that there a no money in all cotton and no corn. Mr. Editor, please exp)lain the road aw. Does one dollar pay a man off the oad for 12 months? Long Lane boys wish they could take u the South Carolina day at the Expo. ition. We know that will be a grand lay. NOTY HEAD. BOTTOM KNOCKED IU OF RAILROAD RATS CHIAPER TO RIDE TO CHARLKSTO, THAN TO STAY AT HOME. Unprecedented Indacem4ntA- Ind Grea Crowds Going from Now to the Close 15,000 People There Thursday Soldiers in Camp Exposition Bureau of The State Charleston, S. C., March 21.-Thi estimate of the crowd on the exposi tion grounds yesterday as pnblishec in The State today is hardly a faii one, although .it was the numbei generally accepted yesterday. Ther were -considerably more than 10,00( people here, and 15,000 would b( nearer the correct number. Th( visitors enjoyed themselves until quite late at night, and the midwa3 was the scene of one long merry romp from eary morning until mid night. That the day was a success for other reasons as well as attend ance will be proved when the peo. ple who were here go back to theii homes. The correspondent of The State has heard quite a number of visitors say that they had come dowi to see for themselves, and they are so well pleased with what they saw that they are going home to get their families and come again. Everything indicates that the peo ple will now begin to come to the exposition. Many have been putting off their visit until April, for it is well known that April is the month of the year when all nature is near est perfection. It having been proved that the exposition is a success in every way except in attendance, the people will have nothing to restrain them unless it should be the cry of "hard times." THE -RAILROADS IN EARNEST. In order to encourage the people, -the railroads have knocked the bot tom out of the rates. At a recent meeting held yesterday it was prac tinally decided to~ make the rates lower than at present, and the exist* mg scheme of rates is lower than ever before issued for Charleston. No very definite statement may be made in regard to the new rates, but the whole matter will be made pub lie~in a few -days. This much is known here-the rate from Norfolk will be $6; from Atlanta $3.50 (which is cheaper than the ordinary tate from Columbia;) from Savan nah $1; from Coluinbia and Augusta $2.00 (which is cheaper than walk ing if one had to buy meals along the~route). This is in keeping witn the rates from other points, so it will be seen that fhe raijroads are determined to bring the people here. The mid way people were very much delighted * when they. heard of the rates beinrg reduced so conspienously. .They say that they have never heard of such rates being offered to any other exposition. Mr. McGarvie, of the bureau of publicity, leaves today for Florida where he will work the winter resorts a ad will talk exposition to all the tourists who are homeward bound. It is thought that they will come by Charleston in April and May. Maj. Hemphill today tried to get some definite informati-n in regard tc President's day. He will be able tc givagut something in a day or two. The crowd toda~y is not as large as it was yesterday, but it is a very good attendance. Many of the visi~ tors in the city are taking in the sights around Charleston, but thE buildings on the exposition grounds are filled with sightseers. The grounds are so extensive that ii would take 50,000 people to make a really great day, so far as appear ances are concerned. Headqnarters sont% Carolina Divisionl Unit.ed Confederat,e Veterans. Greenwood, S. C , March 14, 1902 General Order No. 57. I. The twelfth Annual Reuniol of the United Confederate Veterani will be held at Dallas, Texas, A pri 22 25, 1902. The Divisiion Corn mander urges upon all the Camps o the South Carolina Division the send ing of large delegations to this grant RaBnnion. To how many of us, wil each house until we got enough. We paid for all we took except at one house. Here the man said. it was stealing and he would not take any pay. We took dinner with a lady who had two or three sons in the Federal army. We paid her for our dinner and then went on to camp. We had plenty to do for several days. The next morning we were ordered to move and turned bhck towards Knoxville. At Bean Station we had a sharp fight. Our brigade lost no men but were fortunate enough to capture the Federal commissary house and the 3rd ,regiment got three days' rations of crackers and bacon, besides soap, candles, etc. The balance of our brigade only got one days' rations. I went into this fight with my canteen full of mo lasses instead of water, but that was the last time I did such a thing. Here Gen. McLaws was suspended from his command and Gen. Ker shaw took charge of the division. As we were moving into the fight Gen. Longstreet spoke to Maj. Gog gans, Gen. MeLaws' chief of staff, and asked for Gen. McLaws, when told he was a mile or two in the rear, Gen. Longstreet told Maj. Goggans to go and tell Gen. McLaws he was leading Gen. Kershaw's brigade in the fight. From Bean Station we crossed the Holstine river and went into winter quarters at Russellville. We were nearly all barefooted and had scant clothing. At the ferry across the Holstine river, Tom Grimes and myself beat the generals out of a mess of fish. A citizen had a fish trap and had invited the general officers to eat a fish dinner with him, but we got to the trap first and got the fish. "E. Con. Fed." LEVER'S POPULARITY. Congressman Is Greatly Liked by His Associates. [Special to Charleston Post.] Washington, March 21.-There is probably no member of the delega tion from South Ca. olina moie popu lar among the Democratic members of the house than is Representative Lever, whose congressional career began at the beginning of the present session. It is generally the opinion of the members who have watched is contest that he will retain his seat and that the committee will re port in his favor. A friend of Mr. Lever, who was in Washington the other day, was seen at the National hotel and said that Mr. Lever would doubtless be given a renomination by the people of his congressional district. Al though one of the youngest members of the house, he said Mr. Lever had made a record during the present congress of which an older member might feel proud. The speech of Representative Lever delivered when the bill to establish rural free delivery was un der discussion in the house, was published in full in the Congres sional Record. The speech was in opposition (to the bill, Mr. Lever be ing an ladvocate of the present sys of rural free delivery, and opposed to the contract system, which the bill proposes to establish. Representative Latimer from the committee on invalid pensions, has reported to the house bills to restore the name of Carl Jordan to the pen. sion rolls, and granting an increase of pension to John Hoffman. Both of the beneficiaries are residents of South Carolina. sENATOR TIILLMAN BOXES FOR Mc G IVERN. Little Ex-ChamIpionl PuglisMt Observe4 with D)eitght the Blow McLauril Gjot and -and is Much Imp'essed. 3 Worcester, Mass., March 18.-Ter -ry McGovern, ex-featherweight cham .pion boxer, was a guest of Senator t Benjamin Ri. Tillman, of South Caro 3 lina, for a half hour tonight. The senator, who came here to lecture, y an:i t e prizefighter registered at the same hotel. r McGovern, at the advice of his manager, Joe Humphries, sent his s card to Senator Tillman's room. The - senator gave him a cordial welcome, Sa an enspnt a full half hour in MILES MiGHT RETIRE, THAT WOULD SETTLE STRAINFD Rt, LATIONS WITH HIS SUPERIORS. His Friends Believe an Effort Is Being Made to Force Him (jut of the Army -He Has Long Been at Odds With the War Department. Washington, March 21.-Th< friends of General Miles are indig nant at President Roosevelt and See retary of War Root, for they believi the president is planing for a de mand that he be put out of the army There is no doubt of General Miles intention to resign from the army i the bill for the reorganization of thi army be adopted. It has been n< secret that his opinion generally col lided with that of the president oi the subject of the great importanci of the administration of the army, ai he did with President McKinley The relations between General Milei and Secretary Root became strainet owing to the secretary's determina tion to modernize the army, so as t< bring its more important administra tive features in harmony with that o European armies. General Miles is entitled to retire ment upon application under the ago limit of law, and it is only a yea before retirement will be compul. sory. SKETCHES OF ARMY LIFE. Interesting Incidents of the Civil War Re lated by "X. Con. Fed," A Member of Third S. C. Regiment. We began a regular seige of Knox. ville, but Gen. Grant had defeated Gen. Bragg at Missionary Ridg( and then Grant hurried his troop, after us. An assault was made or Fort London and we were repulsed Kershaw's brigade took no part ir this fight, but the Mississippi troopE had 96 men killed in a few minutes Grant's troops were coming up ir our rear and Burnside was in oui front. A great many of the boys were barefooted and had to makE mockasins out of the cow hides froi: the butcher pens. The weather was very cold. One night we left omi lines and moved around Knoxville we carried all our cannons and wagons but had to leave our wound ed. We waded the creeks and branches and it was so cold that ouw clothing would freeze. We set thE fences along the roads on fire and had fires for miles that night. WE made our way slowly to Bean sta,tion and then on to Rogersville, here we camped for several days. We de. pended on some mills below us for bread. They were taken by thE enemy. Then bread gave oi't. Lieut, J. N. Martin, who was acting as com missary, managed to get several hun dred bushels of Irish potatoes for ou regiment. We were let go out and forage on the country, but had to gc armed. A great part of the peoplE were for the union and would bush. whack us on every cl:ance. I went on one of these foraging expeditions. Lieut. N. B. Whites was in chargE with Sergt. Ad Hipp and myself land several privates made up the party. We crossed two ranges of mountains and came in a narrow valley. WeV passed down the valley to a mill. We found no one in the mill, bul two young ladies came out of thE miller's house and started to get or their horses. I got one horse ani led it up to the block and one of th< other boys led up the other horse I helped the lady on i:he horse. Shi thanked me and said I ought t< have been there sooner, that thern were some rebels there this morning I told her Iwould have been glad t< have met them. She looked me ii the eyes and said I was a rebel too I said I belonged to Mars Jeff Davis She left. A small boy was standing near and heard what was said. He asked if we did belong to the Con federate army. We told him yes He told us to go in the mill and ge all the meal we wanted, that th miller was a union man, but that hi father was in the Confederate arm; and that the miller had come an< took the corn that he and his mothe raised. We took what meal we coul< carry and as we counted the house as we came down we levied a con tributin in the way of chickens fror conversation. The senator rehearsi the fighting t pisode in the Senat in which he was a principal, and w pleased at McGovern's approval his action. He complained that his arm w still sore from the effects of one I handed his colleague, McLaurin, at at his request McGovern gave him iniment.-Special Dispatch to ti New York Journal. SENATOR TILLMAN ENTERTAINS TER] M' GOVERN. Worcester, Mass., March 18.-Te ry McGovern was the guest of Un ted States Senator B. R. Tillman i dinner here tonight. Both m( talked in a jocular manner of recei fights, and Terry showed Tillms how to deliver a knockout bloi McGovern's show attracted a packE house, but the Tillman lecture wi slimly attended, owing to oppositic from the Ministerial league.-Froi the New York Sun of March 19. Maybinton Items. I notice through some of the pape: that Col. G. S. Mower is being spoke of as a candidate for Congress froi this district. He would make an ab representative, being a man of abilil that is unquestionable and furthi more what I term a high toned Chri tian gentleman. There is no doul that, but that he could carry this coui ty solid. Mr. Carnwell lately of Mississipp but of this county now, died ou the 15t] His remains were carried to Chest( county for burial. He leaves a wi: two sons and two daugbters, all growi This community is carried awa with the idea of being put in a ne county to be formed at Whitmire, con prising parts of Union county, Lauret and Newberry counties. It will be E much more convenient in every r spect. I suggest as the name for ti county, Coleman. This and the surrounding countr around Whitmire are under obligi tions, world without end, to Mr. Wi liam Coleman and Dr. R. R. Jeter f< the advantages that they are shapin at Whitmire. In fact they are the r( redemptio;n of this country. Social amusements have about haule in for this spring as we country boa have to plow. But you will hear froi our pleasures again when the ne: season for social functions begins. No preaching at Ebenezer on th rd Sunday on account of such heal rains. Maj. D. L. Copeland of your cit spent a few days the past week wit is friend B. S. Hardy. W. A. Henry, of Spartanburg, ha been on a visit in the community f< the past few days. Mr. Lyles 'Bhomas has moved 1 Carlisle, S. C., where he is employe in the general merchandise establisi ment of J S. Welch. Mr. J. D. Epps, of Union, has bee on a weeks visit to the Douglass homn Mr J. B. Richards has been entertai: ing some New Yorkers that were dow in this county seeking pleasure at: hunting birds. They have the dogs says Dr. Rutf. Dr. J. H. M. Ruff had quite a gao leg for the past week, as usual he ju let old Charley do him any way at pull him out of a piazza and drag hi around. By the way Doctor you mu teach Charley better. Our old friend J. G. Haile was the community quite recently. He h been over to Atlanta on a visit. As usual we farmers are behin Where we will be 20 years from nc unless we quit working for the negr B.S. H. March 16, 1902. Stony Hill Items. We have had more rain. The farn ers had begun to plow and turn the se in a hurrah, but now it is too wet agai The Misses Dennis visited Mr. A.] Whitman's family recently. Mr. A. B. Mills has been quite sic but we are glad to state that he is bE te. Mr. Andrew Nichols visited his s< in this community last Sunday. The writer had the pleasure recent of visiting the Newberry Knitting mi and was very much delighted with k visit to see those pretty girls all work making for themselves an ho est living: and the best of all is, it such a nice, clean, healthy place. think that it beats working in t field for a living. Mrs. Hannah Lester has moved Prosperity from our community. We had the pleasure of listening an able sermon at St. Lukes last Su day delivered by our pastor, Rev. H. Mathias, who is an able minister. I subject was, "Christ feeding the mu] tude." Rex Marcoh 17, 1902. )d FIRST MOVE ON THE 1.9 POLITICAL BOARD, of THE CALL ISSUED FOR MEETING OF iS STATE COMMITTEE. Will Call State Convention-Initial Step in d the Reorganization of the Democratic Party for the Campaign of 1902. le - [The State, 22d.] tY From April 3 on through Septem ber there will be much politics in r. South Carolina. State and coun i. ty officers, a United States sena it tor and a full set of congressmen are n to be chosen by the people. Thus t far this campaign year has been a ,n very quiet one though many have been V. informaly announcing their candidacy d for different offices. Ls It wal.not until yesterday, how a ever, that the first official move was n made on the political checkuerboard looking to the campaign of 1902. It came in the shape of a call issued by Chairman Wilie Jones of the State Democratic executive committee for a meeting of that committee to be n held here in the office of the Secre le tary of State on the evening of April Y 3. This meeting is simply for the r purpose of issuing the formal call for the State conuention to be held . on May 21 and the call for the vari ous precinct meetings and county i, conventions to be held earlier. The L- committee will have nothing else to r do so far as known. It will have nothing whatever to do with the mat ter of arranging the State campaign w this year, that duty falling upon the - new committee to be elected by the S State convention. 0 It is not unlikely however, that the precinct clubs and the county ie conventions will expr 3ss themselves on the matter of reducing the num s- ber of campaign gatherings so that I- the State convention can consider the >r matter in the light of what the peo 9 ple wish. In several counties articles have been published advocating the d reduction of the number of meetings. s Secretary Gunter of the Stiate comn n mittee expects to get up a circular t letter to be sent to the county chair men shortly giving the dates of the e different meetings preliminary to the State convention and full informa tion as to the number of delegates h allowed, etc. But the call yesterday is the is first official political move of >r the campaign year and now that the ball has been opened 0 the formal announcement of many d candidates for various positions may be expected. Already in all ~parts of the State a great deal of po e. litical talk is being indulged in.' d GOOD TOR GREENWOOD. The People Exclude the State Rum Mills From Their Mi'st. ad Greenwood, S. C., March 20.-In m the electon held here today for the st establishment of a dispensary at this iplace 311 votes were cast out of a possible 500. 153 for, and 158 sagainst. There is some talk of a con Stest, but this will hardly materialize. Advertised Letters. Remaining in postoffice for week end ing February 26, 1902. Persons calling for the Jetters will a- A-Lela Adams. iB-Miss Fallies Brosley, Mrs. Emma - Backdale, Sam Beam, Franklin Boozer, .*Mrs. Bale Boozer. C-E. Crumley. D-J. Guy Dominick. E-J. C. Edward (2), Eagle Art Co. F-W. V. Faulkner, Sarah Freeman, G-W. L. Ginables (3). H-Mr. Tanty Haultes, H. G. Heath, 1Miss Kate Hentz, Mrs. L. A. Hendrix, Mattie Hamniter, Carrie Hunter, W. H. at Hughes. J-Mrs. Mattie Jones. is-K-A. S. Keon, Mc. Koon. I L-A. L. Livingstone. bie M-Lillie Moore, John d. Martin, W. E. Means. to P--Thomas Paysingle. 0-Miss Elmira Oxiner. to S-Mrs. Julia A. Speak, Mrs. Beu nlah Setzler, J. J. Spearman, Frank g. Strauder. lis T-Oston Tolden. ti- Y-Rev. F.'Young. please say they were advertised, FRANK L BYNU"M, Acting P. M.