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VOL. XXII, NO. 9. DABLINGTON, S. C., THUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1895. WHOLE NUMBER 1,047. IN SOUTH CAROLINA Currant Naurs for tha Week Throughout the State. IMPROVED DISPENSARY BOOK-KEEPING Clttnn* at AllMdal* Xxeltcd Over ■Urdar of Mm Lawranca Olbar Btata Kawi Oondrnjed •a Shari Paracraph*. Oolcwha, 8. C , February a».—Yes terday Dlspenaary Inspector Scrugus returned to the city to remain here un til next week for the purpose of putting the new system^ of bookkeeping de vised by him Into practice in all the dispensaries of the state. Mr. Scruggs says all the books for the new dispen sary system of bookkeeping, which are being printed and prepared in Charles ton will - be ready and delivered by Monday. They will at once be sent to all the county dispensaries, and the dispensers will be Instructed to begin the use of the system. Inspector Scruggs has not yet completed the In spection of the Charleston dispensaries. The appointments of the new Orange burg board of control have been held up until the difficulties about the mat ter of the St Matthews dispensary shortage are adjusted. MURDER EXCITES THE NATIVES. If tke Slayer of Miss Lawnnoe, In Sonth Carolina, Is Caught Lynching Is Certain. Allukdal*, 8. C., February 28.—In tense excitement prevails in this neighborhood and arround Old Allen dale on account of the murder of Miss I>awreoce. Hundreds of people have visited the seene and if the right one can be caught, indications are that courts will not be needed. Robbery was evidently the object, as the victim had money In Allendale on Monday, and only 38 cents can now be found on her premises. Detectives are at work on the case. Several arrests have been made but nothing positive has yet been proven. HOMICIDE IN ANDERSON. gee Arnold Fatally Shot by Hie Brother- In-Law Jno. Jones. Anderson, 8. C. t February 24—Jno. Jones, a negro, living on Wm. Watson's plantation one mile from this city, shot his brother-in-law, Jno. Arnold, this morning about 7 o’clock. The lead en tered the deltoids muscles of the right shoulder, with a few scaltering shot in the right hand, right side of the neck, ! md one in the right eye, which is like- y to prqve f*t*l. From Arnold’s own Statement the shooting seems to have been done Is self defense. The difficul ty was caused, as nsual, by a woman. No arrests have been made yet The Tourist's Whiskey l onflscated. Aikbx, 8. C., February 28.—R. M. Ap pleton, of Massachusetts, who is so journing here for the winter, sent over to Angnsta yesterday for several gal Ions of Schneider’s best liquors. When the package arrived it was seized by a state constable from Blaekville and con fiseated to the state. SOUTH CAROLINA IN BRIEf. ANOTHER RAILROAD SOUTH. A Survey Heins Made From Wlnstoa. N. d, to Colombia. & C. Wisstor, N. G, February 25.—The Republican tells of another railroad survey south, which Winston-Salem is greatly interested In. Major Lee, of Greenwood, 8. C., has been making a preliminary survey for a road from Winston-Salem to Columbia, 8. C., via Salisbury. Charlotte is not in it The survey was made for the Florida Cen tral and Peninsular railroad, which is a connecting line at Columbia with the Southern. Winston wants a South ern outlet and thinks this is the chance for her get it TWO KILLED IN THE FIGHT. Serious Affray In North Carolina, Basalt of an Old Fend. Mabshall, N. C., February 2#.—A fight occurred on Shelton Laurel last night in which Everett Shelton was shot and supposed to be mortally wounded by James Stanton, who made his escape. At the same time and place Boss Stanton was shot and killed by Baxter Shelton. At the time he was shot he was making a brutal assault on Shelton with a pistol. Shelton first begged for peace but Stanton was de termined to fight The affray is the re sult of an old feud. RIOTBUTFORTROOPS Excitement In Savannah as Ex- Priest Slattery Spoke. EIGHT COMPANIES OF MILITARY OUT. The Lecturer Subjected to Curse*, Blows, Buts and Like Treatment—He end Wife Escorted From tbo Hell ky e Guard of Policemen. THE FATE HE DESERVED. One South Carolina Negro Kewarded for HU Meanness by Others. Pbospkritt, 8. C., February 27.—Dur ing the first of the snow, Randall Wil son, colored, stripped one of his chil dren, whipped it unmercifully, forced It to jump into a tnb of ice water and then fastened it np in an outhouse leaving it there to freeze. A knowl edge of the facts caused a party of ne groes to visit Wilson’s house at night, take him out, strip him. roll him about in the snow until he knew what it was to be cold and then to make him very warm with plum switches. He prom ised to do better. FATAL BREAK FOR LIBERTY. Alabama Thief Killed by the Sheriff While Attempting to Escape. Grecnsbobo, Als., February 27.— Curby lugs, wanted in an adjoining county for grand larceny was killed in an attempt to re-arrest him near this place yesterday. Ings had been ar rested by the sheriff’s deputy, T. L. C. Douglass, and while enroute to jail made a break for liberty. A posse started after him and when he saw cap ture was imminent turned on his pur suers with a scantling threatening them. Mark Jones, one of the pursu ers, fired on him. killing him instantly. Jonea was arrested for murder. Dr. F. Sumpter Earle has sold out his drugstore in Columbia, to Dr. Frank Green. The Wofford baseball team of Spar tanburg la getting In readiness for the coming season. The talk about an opera house for Abbeville is taking shape at last, and will be a sure thing. The governor has appointed John M. Laney and J. Picket Laney on the board of control for Chesterfield county. Mr. A. F. Spellman, one of Ander son V cotton buyers, bought 1,200 bales of cotton from J. 8. Fowler last week. Mr. J. W. King, of Ebenezer, Flor ence county, Is trying to make up a carload of corn for the Nebraska suf ferers. . Miss Eliza Whitner, of Anderson, has gone to New York where she will enter a hospital and study to be a trained nurse. Miss Susan B. Anthony, the great fe male suffragist, is talking about stump ing South Carolina in behalf of woman juffrage. Sheriff Dean, of Spartanburg county,; has procured two fine bloodhounds. 1 They are well trained and very fine looking animals. The Governor has appointed Messrs. W. J, Gooding and A. A. Browning as members of the board of control for Hampton county. A little colored girl three years old, living on Mr. R. M. Jenkins’ place was fatally burned on Thursday and died Friday, near Sumter. New England manufacturers are buy- jng cotton from Spartanburg mills and bleaching and printing same, and pass ing It off as home made gooda Senator Butler and Representative Izlar are interesting themselves in se curing the appropriation of $40,000 for the completion of the poetoffice build ing for Charleston. The state will establish ten aew dU penaariea at once, making 78 in all. One of the new ones will be at Pickens. Others wUl soon be established at Sena- ea and Walballa. Saturday afternoon about 5 o clock, Ere was discovered pn pnp of thp qottpu platforms on ihe Seaboard Air Lins road and eighteen bales of cotton were burned at Clinton Ada Robbins, a colored girl, aged H, who Uvea on East Marion street, in burned about TENNESSEE GOVERNORSHIP. Brery Effort Being Made to Keep Eyaa* Oat of the Chair. Nashville, February 25.—The com mittee left last night in three sections to begin the work of the election Inves tigation. A sensation in the guberna torial matter was developed Saturday when the committee completed its list of counties to be investigated and omitted from the list a number in which Mr. Evans alleged fraud in the election. His protest against this omission was to be heard by the com mittee, but when the hour for the com mittee meeting came only two of the democratic members were present SENATOR RANSOM’S LUCK. Appointed Minister to Mezleo nt n Salary of Bit.500 a Year. Washington, February 25. — The president Saturday nominated United States senator Matt Ransom, of North Carolina, for minister to Mexico, to succeed the late Hon. Isaac P. Gray. Senator Ransom said after his confir mation that he would not qualify until after the 4th of March, and therefore would serve out his term in the senate. After that time he would be prepared to proceed to Mexico as soon as the sec retary of state desired him to go. PORT ROYAL TO KNOXVILLE. Gradlnx Is Now Belnx Done and It WUl Be Finished March 15. Clayton, Oa., February 26—It is said that Rabun county is now to have a railroad on new crossties. Grading is progressing in this county on the pro posed road from Port Royal to Knox ville. It is said that five miles of the work will be completed by the 15th of March. Savannah. Oa., February 27.—Sa vannah escaped a riot last night through the intervention of the mili tary. The trouble was precipitated by ex-Priest Joseph Slattery's lecture on the Roman Catholic priesthood. For several days efforts have been made by members of the Ancient Order of Hi bernians to revoke the ex-prlest's per mit to deliver the lecture, but the mayor, upon legal advice, replied that It could not be done. Threats were openly made against the lecturer and the chief of police and a detail of officers were ordered on duty at the hall where the lecture was to be delivered. The lecture contained no offensive language until the crowd which had gathered on the outside began to hurl stones through the window and among the audience. The police ordered the crowd to disperse. It refused to do so and kept shouting and jeering. The mayor was notified and after a consultation with the chief of police, decided to order out the military. The riot alarm was sent in and in half an hour eight companies of infantry and a a troop of cavalry dismounted were on the scene. The lecture was over by the time the military arrived and most of the audience had left the hall. A de tail of mounted police stood guard at the entrance. The crowd numbered two thousand by this time, largely spectators. A portion of it kept yell ing and hurling bricks at the windows of the hall where the ex-priest was. A few shots were fired in the air by the rioters but no one was hurt. The electric lights around the hall were broken by missiles and for a time the neighborhood was in darkness. After the military arrived on the scene there was comparative quiet. The streets were cleared for a block in every direetion and the troops re mained on guard until the disturbance had subsided, when the lecturer was brought out of the hall and escorted by a squad of police, surrounded by two battalions of soldiers, walked to his hotel. The crowd followed and jeered along the streets but there was no at tempt at an open attack. Half an hour later the ex-priest's wife was escorted from the hall to the hotel by a squad of police. ENGLAND’S CURRENCY MATTER The Cabinet Adheres to the Financial Pol icy of the United States. London, February 27. — The Dally News today says that it greatly regrets the decision of the government to ac cept Mr. Everett's proposal in regard to the monetary question. Believing that bi-mettalltsm would be injurious if not fatal to British commercial supremacy it pannot help fearing that the aoqui- escence of the ministers means a re newal of negotiations from which no useful result can be expected and which may stimulate and encourage a fallacious and pernieious movement. Nevertheless, the News rejoices that Sir William Harcourt made it plain that the cabinet adheres to the settled finan cial policy of the United Kingdom. FIRED AT THE ENGINEER. Fear dhoti From Ambush Turned Upon n Train Philips Thomaivllle, Georgia. Savannah, Ga , February 27.—At Thomfisville last night about 10 o'clock an attempt was made to kill Mr. Rad ford, engineer of the eastbound passen ger train. When the train was cross ing Madison street four shots were fired at him from an ambush. Only the first one hit him. It struck him under the ribs on the right side. The fireman reversed the engine and re turned to the depot. The wound may not prove fatal. There is no clue to the pepetrator of the deed. THE WEEK’S WORKIN CONGRESS WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED. A Synopsis of the Troceedlng* of Both Home and Senate. The following Is a synopsis of tbs proceedings of both brasches of con gress for the past week: 48u DAT —Consideration la the house began oa the (tendency bill—the last of the general appropriation measures of ths session. Six teen pages of the bill tras disposed of. Eulogies were then pronounced upon the life and ser vices of the late Francis E Stockbridge. a senator from Michigan. The Indian appropriation bill hsld the day la the senate. Thirteen pages wage disposed of. The credentials of Senators Tillman, of South Carolina, and Marlon Butler, of North Caro lina. were presented. 44th Dat.—Senate proceeded with the con sideration of tha Indian appropriation bill and when the body adjourned at 6: SB o'clock the bill was far from finished and a proposition that a final vote should be taken before ad journment next day was killed. Washington's birthday was observed in both branches In the preliminary exercises In the house the con sideration of the general deficiency appropria tion bill was resumed but again went over un finished. 42th DAT.—The Indian appropriation bill was passed after having been in the senate five days. A beginning was made on the sun dry civil bill. The pooling bill suffered a sig nal reverse If not a final defeat. The nomina tion of Senator M. W. Hansom, of N. C., to be minister to Mexico was presented by the pres ident. Without delay the doors were closed, the senate went into executive session and the nomination was confirmed unanimously. The feature in the house was the fight on the bill to pay au extra months salary to all the em ployes of the house and senate, with an amend ment to Include the Individual clerks to mem bers. Both carried. Tributes were paid to the memory ef the late Senator Vance. 45th DAT.—In the house the senate amend ments to the Indian appropriation bill wore non-concurred In, and the bill was sent to the conference. The general deficiency bill was taken up In committee of the whole and pasted with all the amendmenta. except the payment of the Behring sea award. Great ap plause followed the adoption of the amendment to pay an extra month's salary to clerks and members. In the senate thirty-two pages of the sundry civil bill were passed, Night ses sions were agreed upon for the consideration of appropriation measures. 47th Dat.—Labor had Its Innings In the house yesterday with the result that an arbi tration bill, recommended by the leaders of all of the railway labor organizations In the coun try, by Carroll D. Wright, the commissioner of labor. The progress made by the senate yes terday la connection with the sundry civil ap propriation bill was not very appreciable, as only two of the amendments reported from the committee on appropriations were disposed of. One of these was the bill appropriating 560.00) for the protection of public lands from timber depredations: the other was the proposition to pay to the sugar producers the full duty up to August, 1604. TRAGEDY IN THE NORTH STATE. Balllvaik. Toe. Is Psnnlloss. Jacksonvill*. Fla., February 28.— John L. Sullivan returned here from St. Antfustine yesterday not so drunk as he has been. “Brewer'' Wrlffht or Pittsburg will not take Sullivan f Cuba, it is said, The story is that Wright has become disgusted and has told Sullivan that their ways must part Secretary of Treasury Carlisle 111. Washington, February 27.—Sine* Carlisle returned from New York last week he has been unwell, and for the last two days has been confined to his home. Yesterday the doetor pronoun ced him ill with the grip, and ordered him to remain in bed. Clemaon College «>p*ns Well. Calhoun, S. C., February 23.-Clem aon college opened yesterday with 231 students present seventy-six of them being new. About one hundred more are expected. Murderers ef Bliss Lawrence captured. Allendale, S. C., February 23. -De- Colnmbla, wae seriously burned ebont | ' hBVe tlie mn r.lerers of Miss the arms and body Saturday morning “ ^ 1<awrenee RfK) tte.l without a while eooking breakfast. doubt an a hope to have them captured Dr. L. C. Stephens, of Blacksville, 8. C., has accepted the invitation of the association of the Alumni of the Medi cal College to address them at their an nual gathering on March 14, 1886, in today. Notorious UaadH KIliad- Havana, Febuary 27,-Manuel cia, the notorious killed. Gar- bandit has been THE NATIONAL QHAUTAUQUA. First Meeting la ths Interest of ths Aufua- ta Enterprise Held In That City. Augusta, Os., February 2*.—The first meeting in this city in the interest of beginning the National winter Chau tauqua assembly was held last night A mass meeting was addressed by trus tees. A large sum of money was ar ranged to be raised in this city to aid the enterprise. One of the largest suburbs of the city has been in large part given to the enterprise by the cit izen* of Augusta. The Carnival at Mobile. Mobile, Ala., February '27.—The car- uival in Mobile was a decided success this year and the crowd of visitors larger than ever. The parades were on a grander scale than ever before at tended and nearly every one of the forty floats in the vast parades were mechanical and as they passed through the streets they moved like things of life, making the display the most real- iftic ever seen here. How the Gold Beaerve Stands Washington, February -27. — The treasury gold reserve has reached $76, 177,818 by reason of the gold received from the recent bond sale, being taken up in the treasury each accounts. The reserve is thus $85,000,000 greater now than it was on February 1‘2, on which date it reached the lowest point since specie payments were resumed in 1878. The Delaware Senatorehlp. Dover, Del., February 26.—The fifty- seventh ballot for United States sena tor, taken yesterday resulted: Higgins, republican. 8; Addicks, republican, 5; Massey, republican, 4; WolcoH, demo crat, 7: Tunnell, democrat, 8; Bayard, democrat, L Absent 2. Dr. R. L. Payne, a Prominent Physician of I.exlnffton, Shot Dead. Lexington, N. C., February 26.—Dr. R. L. Panye. one of the oldest and best known physicians of Lexington, was shot and killed at 1:80 o'clock yester day by Baxter Sheemwell, a young bus iness man of this place. The killing was the result of bad feeling existing between the two parties named. Sheemwell is now in jail, and his wife, who is present with him, is almost crazed with grief. Dr. Payne was very prominent physician and much loved here. The whole town and coun ty are much shocked by the sad affair. Feeling runs high, and there is some talk ot summary punishment, and were it not for Sheemwell’s family and prom inent kinsfolk, Lexington might have been the scene of another lynching. Dr. Payne was about 05 years of age And favorably known all over the state. He was a large man, six feet tall, and weighed about 250 pounds, good, kind hearted and a perfect gentleman Sheemwell is about 85 years old, of me dium height, and has been in several shooting scrapes. THE BONDS ARE NOW READY. The Last Froeaaa, the Numbering, le About Finished. Washington. February 27.—The last process in the printing of the new bonds, that of numbering them, was begun yesterday at the bureau of en graving and printing, and the first batch will be ready for delivery to the treasurer tomorrow. Under the terms of the contract the treasury bears the expense of their delivery to all points within the United States, but not be yond the limits of the United States. So far the syndicate has not indicated when they desire the bonds delivered or where, and they will be retained in the treasury until such Instructions are received. NO DECISION REACHED. Gen. Louie Jules Trochu, of the French Army (retired), Is seriously 111. The woman suffrage bill in the South Dakota legislature was killed. Holy Terror Mine et Keystone, 8 D„ produced $20,000 In a recent run of five days. Two women have been elected school directors on a prohibition ticket at Grove City, Pa. The lower house of the Indiana legis lature has passed a bill making prize fighting a crime. The republican city convention Sat urday nominated Orlanda Lewis for mayor of Auburn. N. Y. • Signor Giolitti will return to Rome for examination on Criepl's charge of slander, to be held on Saturday. A bill has been introduced in the Ne braska legislature to remove the state capital from Lincoln to Hastings. Eli Marks, probably the best known gambler in the south died in Louisville Tuesday. The woman's suffrage bill passed the assemblage of the California legisla ture by a vote of 45 to 28. Michigan republicans Saturday non'.- inated Judged. B. Moore, of La Peer, for associate justice of the supreme court. It is asserted that Baron von Scheie, governor of German East Africa, will resign if Dr. Kayser is continued at the head of the colonial ofiics. Captain Dreyfus has been removed to the Isle de Re, in the Bay of Gascony, until he is finally taken to French Guiana. The Pope is suffering from influenza and was unable to-day to receive the Cardinals and others on the anniversa ry of his election. Tuesday morning Mrs. McKinney, wife of Kim McKinney, the famous blind fiddler, was found dead in bed at her home in Augusta. The Prince of Wales formally opened tbo United Service Institute yes terday in London. He was very hoarse and coughed frequently. Projectiles from a ten inch rifle fsilod to penetrate a seventeen inch Carnegie plate forged down to fourteen inches at the government trials Saturday. J. E- Lutz A Co., retail shoe and hat merchants, doing probably the largest business of this kind in Knoxville, filed a deed of trust Wednesday to James 0. White. The Michigan house Wednesday by a vote of 66 to 21, passed the bill legis lating out of office the present board of health of Detroit and empowering the governor to elect a new board. The funeral of Father Garin,the cele brated member of the Oblate order, occurred Wednesday In Lowell, Mast. The day was generally observed in hit memory by the merchants and nitlaens. Samuel Cowles, an old man from Illi nois, was recently found dead nearly a mile from home in Martin county, Ar kansas. It is alleged that his wife had chased him from the house with a bor row tooth, with which, it is claimed,she inflicted several wounds which caused his death. The board of administration of Cin cinnati has issued an order which, If carried out literally, will wipe oat of existence about $600,000 worth of prop erty. It is an order directing the Cin cinnati Inclined Plane Railway com pany to remove from the streets its tracks within one month. Secretary Carlise, accompanied by Mrs. Carlisle and his son, W. K. Car lisle, and wife, left Washington Tues day at 10 o’clock for New York. The secretary's trip at this time was taken for the purpose of bidding Mr- W. K. Carlisle farewell previous to his sailing to Europe. We Never Let Up r> For the MONEY Down. We are Giving away^ - Our Winter Goods for What They Will Bring Not For What They Are Worth. |L00K0UTF0R“NllMBER0NE.” c 50 cents on the Dollar is our manner of Buy- Sing this Spring, let that be yours too. OUR BARGAINS REACH EVERYWHERE.] They benefit everybody. They multiply in number and increase in value. See our NEW SPRING BARGAINS.: McCALL & BURCH.! is WE ARE NOW OPENING UP OUR NEW "[spring Which We Intend Selling CHEAP! TOBACCO GROM, pn met pt PLANT-RED ns; a oei lot tf recoil COVERING Brunson EARTH REELED IN MISSOURI. Pre«ld*nt Baldwin Kay. Thvre Is Nothing Naw in tha Wane Controversy. Washington, February 27. — Third Vice President Baldwin of the South ern rail way says there was nothing iv in the controversy between the roads and the southern railway em ployes The objection mades by the employes, to the new schedule recently mad* by the company are still under consideration. They were further dis cussed yesterday, but no decision was reached. CARNIVAL PAGEANTS CLOSE. Closing Kranaa la tha Msrdl lira, and tha Uiharing In of tha Kockoloth saaaon. Nkw Orlkans, February 27.--“The Mystick Krewe of Comtis - ’ pageant last night was equal if not superior to any which has been displayed heretofore. The parade brings the carnival pageant? to an end and the exclusive comaM ball at the French Opera last night Was a brilliant closing function of the fete dn vs an 1 a proper ushering in of the season of Sackcloth and ashes. Distinct shock of Earthquako Felt In 1’art. of the West. St. Louis, Mo., February 26.—A dis tinct shock of earthquake was felt in the suburban town of Kirkwood, fifteen miles west of here, at five o'clock yes terday morning. A number of families were awakened by the vibration which was of sufficient force to shake win dows and rattle crockery. Tacoma, Wash., February 26.—Two slight shocks of earthquake were felt here and at Sumner, 12 miles distant at five o'clock yesterday morning. P Lunn & Co. Tha "Georgia Snake" Captured. Atlanta, Februrry 26.—A negro des perado known as the Georgia Snake, Was captured yesterday in Sumpter county. He swam out in a pond and from a log fought a battle with the posse until he was wounded twice. Rewards amounting to $1,160 were out standing for him. The General Uprising of Patriots. Jacksonville, Fla., February 27.— The latest advices from Cuba confirm the reports of a general nprising of the patriots there. The movement is simul taneous at seven different points on the island and the insurgents have at tacked eight or ten interior towns. musoN & iDDisors STAR Q BRAND. ANCHOR BRAND EARLY START, EARLY MATURITY, LARGE YIELD. FINE MET PUTT. All yulefc at Uluafietds. Philadelphia, Pa., February 27— Among the passengers on board the steamer Nicaraugs, which arrived yes terday from Blueflelds, was Albert Ze- lava, first cousin to the President of | Nicaragua. Mr. Zelaya’s visit to the | United States is not connected with j any political mission. He said that j every thing was very quiet at Blue- fields, and whatever claims the govern ment at Washington might have against the authorities there would be amicably adjusted. Marina Hospital nt Savannah* Washington, February 28. — The house committee on public buildings and grounds yesterday ordered a favor able report on the bill appropriating $150,000 for a marine hospital at Savan nah, Ga, Baealptaof tba Morgan-llaimont Syndicate Washington, February 27.—So far the treasury has received from the Bel- mout-Murgan syndicate $86,808,124 in gold and issued to it certificates to the amount of $86,328,181. The Kind That Brings the HIGHEST PRICES. ALLISON & ADDISION Maiacfe, RICHMOND, VA. For Sale By EDWMDU N. DARLINGTON, S. C.