The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, March 23, 1894, Image 2
MHDElIJMIMEliU.
1 GLARCE AT TIE STATISTICS IS
TIE VSITED STATES.
Th« Average NaNerer b Rat Ulit-
rate—A Cartawly Large Rib*
ler af Fanaers Caaialt laal-
cMe.
[From the PhiUtlelpliia Times.]
Between the fact of one human
being killing another and the judi
cial act prononncing it murder there
is many a step and many a slip;
which explains, perhaps, why it is
that, although the number of per
sons convicted of murder is decreas
ing, the number of those accused
thereof is increasing. In the United
States, on an average, nearly 10 per
cent of all the prisoners confined in
our jails, at any one time, are charged
with homicide.
As to these criminals statistics
bring out many interesting and even
curious facts. It is generally sup
posed that the foreign riff-raff
dumped upon our shores day by day
is responsible, for most of the brutal
and reckless attempts to take life.
The facts are, however, that consid
erably over half of all homicides in
this country committed by white
men and women are chargeable to
the natiye-born Americans aiid only
a trifle over 4o per cent to the for
eign element; and of these foreign
murderers nearly lihlf are natural
ized, and less than 20 per cent of
them are unable to speak any Eng
lish. Fortunately, however, nearly
all of their killing is done upon
their fellow countrymen and most of
it is brought about by a desire for
personal or racial revenge or in fam
ily and clique quarrels and not for
private gain or love of human blood.
One of the most curious facts is
the large number of farmers guilty
of homicide. The farmer is usually
supposed to be tractable and peace-
loying. Yet out of all homicides in
any one year it will be found that
nearly one-third of them are com
mitted by farmers. It is even claimed
Jbj some that contact with the soil
arouses a love for blood. The pro
fessions furnish about one or two
out of a hundred; the office-holders
about one for every two hundred,
and the fishers about one for every
three hundred. Unskilled labor is
credited with most, agriculturists
come next, manufactures and me
chanical industries follow, and then
in their order of criminality come
personal and house servants, railroad
and steamship people, trade and
commerce, mining, professions], offi
cial, lumber and miscellaneous.
To tne eyerlasting honor of wom
anhood be it said that out of all
homicides men commit at least 05
per cent of them, and women not
over 5 or 6 per cent, and of those
the vast majority are lewd and aban
doned women. And of the men it
is found, naturally enough, that
nearly one-half of them are bachel
ors.
Hen are never too old to murder.
The average age is found to be about
35 years, except among the Chinese,
when verage is higher. Twen
ty pei cent are under 25, and a few
are over the Scriptural three score
and ten. The average age of women
is over 82.
The figures also dispel the popu
lar delusion that idleness is crime’s
gnat workshop, ae over threc-fourtha
of all persons charged with homi
cide were employed at the time of
the crime. Nor docs liquor play the
all-important part usually attributed
to it Less than one-fifth of all
homicides arc found to be inveterate
drinkers, while fully as large a
number are found to be total ab
stainers. Over HO per cent have
been found to be in good physical
health, and very few have shown
any striking marks of physical ata
vism or degeneration.
In spite of the fact that a majori
ty of the murderers have some sort
of education, it is nevertheless no
ticeable that the crime in a broad
generalization reaches its highest
percentage among the uneducatad
and illiterate. In the State of Texas,
for example, one murder occurs to
every 8,500 inhabitants. In Illinois
the percentage falls to one murder
for every 50,000, while in Massachu-
settf. it falls far below this.
' jmpared with other'hations the
Lilted States, in spite of its differ
ent elements and its want of uni-
fonn police protection, is not re
markable for the number of its mur
ders. Italy and Spain are much
more murderous nations. In 1875
Italy abolishethcapital punishment,
and it is claimed that murders in
creased 42 per cent In the United
States only three States hare abol
ished the death penalty—Bhode
lihuids Mkhkim Winrnunin—
with what consequences it is yet im
possible to tell.
Murder is often the result of a
sort of epidemic of crime that
strikes a community—one murder
frequently bringing on another—but
generally it is the product of a gen
eral lack of civilization. Whenever
a State or Government is in a state of
demoralization murder is bound to
increase, unless such tendency is
counteracted by strong religious in
fluences. Thus Turkey is notorious
ly unsettled in all its temporal
affairs, and yet, thanks to the strong
Islam faith of its people, it is noto
riously free from this one great
crime against God and man.
Compared with Turkey, Greece,
the cradle of civilization, is a very
hot-bed of murders—rolling up a
grand total of 316 murders and 473
attempts in one year out of a popu
lation of less than 2,000,000. Even
Ireland in its worst years of agrari
anism and arson did not reach such
proportions. The decay of govern
mental stability in llussia also seems
to be marked by a striking increase
in political murders, inspired, of
course, by Nihilistic and Socialistic
influences. The same tendencies are
producing a marked increase of this
crime in all the European nations,
especially in Germany and France,
and it is getting to be a common ex
pectation of .the daily news reader to
find his morning paper tilled with
accounts of murders by the whole
sale. Peace, instead of allaying the
desire to take human life, seems to
increase it more than war.
Criminologists on the Continent
have made a careful study of mur
der and are convinced that the mur
derer is hardly a responsible being.
Either he is the result of a stunted
and immature physical growth, as
Lombroso and his followers would
have it, or he is the abnormal pro
duct of abnormal social conditions,
as is claimed by the French School
of Criminal Anthropology. What
ever the causes and whatever the
statistics it is the almost unanimous
opinion of men who have studied
the question that murder is a crime
growing less and less, so that while
this crime of Cain is likely to exist
for all time to come the next few
centuries are bound to work such
changes that our present criminal
annals and statistics will read like
fables to the people of that happy
day.
BAILET WAS IIS RAWE.
Ell FerkiM •• the Daibiry Sews
Mai.
Bailey—James Montgomery Bailey
was his full name. He was bom in
Albany in 1841, fought through the
war in a Connecticut regiment, and
afterward made himself famous
writing for the Danbury News.
Mr. Bailey’s wit has a delicious
mental flavor. In fact, it is always
the shrewd, thoughtful man that en
joys it. It is not in long, inane dia
logues, but a flash of thought The
humorist says a poor man came to
him with tears in his eyes one day,
asking for help for his destitute and
starving children.
“What do you need most ?” asked
Mr. Bailey.
“Well, we need bread, but if I
can’t have that I’ll ' ,ice tobacco.”
One day a sole- n and religious
D&nbury man hailed a charcoal ped
dler with the query:
“Have you got charcoal in your
wagon ?”
“Yes, sir,” said the expectant dri
ver, stopping bis horses.
“That’s right,” observed the reli
gious man, with an approving noil,
“always tell the truth and people will
respect you.”
And then he closed the door just
in time to escape a brick hurled by
the wicked peddler.
One day I asked Mr.. Bailey if
they bad lazy men in Connecticut.
“Lazy men J” he exclaimed. “Why,
we have a man in Danbury so lazy
that instead of shoveling a path to
the front gate he pinches the baby’s
ear with the nippers till the neigh
bors come rushing in to tread down
the snow.”
Mr. McMasters was buying a
home of Mr. Bailey, and asked him
if the house was cold in the winter.
"Cold!” said bailey cautiously.
“I can’t say as to that. It stands
outdoors.”
Speaking of the Indian raids, says
Bailey: “The Modocs have made
another raid on our people and mur
dered them. If ever our government
gets bold of these savages, gets them
right where they cannot escape, gets
them wholly into its clutches, some
contractor will make money.”—
“Twenty Years of Wit and Humor.”
A man never looks to see if there
if a wobw natter the bed,
TO THE COTTOX GROWERS.
A Saithrrner on ’Change Appeals
t* the ftoith to Thiik aid
Reasii.
[.John T. Roddey, of Hoddey it
in The State, March 0.]
The cotton situation should at
present cause more thought and agi-
tatson than anything else with the
thinking people of the South, and it
does seem that with so many shrewd
and progressive Southerners that
they could control the price of cot
ton, which can only be raised in ten
Southern States of the-Union.
The Southern States should be
able to dictate, instead of having the
price dictated to them. Why will
the South not organize, and study
more closely the law of supply and
demand ? They should command the
situation and control their most
profitable staple, which affects their
welfare more than all political ques
tions, to the discussion of which so
much time is given.
Which is more profitable, to raise
6,000,000 bales at 12 cents, or 9,000,•
000 at 5 cents? Some argue that
the price of cotton must equal the
cost of production. This is a mis
leading argument, because even some
of the Southern States possess
special advantages, so that while at a
certain price some communities
would get a fair or small profit, the
same price would mean ruin to
others. Some farmers will say:
“Well, I make enough of everything
to do me and can afford to plant the
balance of my land in cotton.” This
extra planting is the cause of 'the
low price.
The worst trouble iu some sections,
it seems, (in my opinion,) is the
merchant, because if a laborer can
borrow, buy, beg or rent a mule, he
can easily rent the land, and the
merchant permits his lieu to be in
proportion to the amount of land he
has in cotton. Many farmers prom
ise to pay big prices for corn, pro
visions and other necessities, expect
ing an enormous crop of cotton to
pay for everything. The big crop
comes and prices must necessarily be
low. Then the debts cannot be paid,
and, of course, general demoraliza
tion is the result
Why cannot farmers organize some
plan which wonld permit only so
many acres to be planted in cotton
for each horse and then adhere to
the rule. Diversify the crop. Let
every family raise everything at home
except what it wears. 'There is no
sense in the South buying everything
it uses, when it can be raised in that
section, which naturally should be
the most prosperous part of the
Union; but it seems to send North
or West for everything, because, in
my opinion, it simply desires to
plant cotton. Many farmers seem
to know nothing else, and care to
learn nothing else.
If an organization coaid be form
ed emong Southern faimers to con
trol the planting of cotton, instead
of disenssing the silver bill and
other political questions, 12 to 15
cedts per pound could easily be ob
tained for cotton.
Cotton is very different from wheats
in that the latter can l« grown all
over the world. Supply and demand
must control prices. When it is
kuown how many acres the South
has planted in cotton, spinners im
mediately begin to figure how low
they can buy your cotton next year.
No doubi, Manchester ^pinners have
representatives in the South now,
figuring on how many acres you will
plant, and for how little they can
buy your cotton.
There is one point I wish especi
ally to emphasize, and that is the
tendency of the South to send out
false reports in regard to the prob
able amount of cotton they will
raise This works great injury to
prices. Why? Experts go South,
look up the crop, estimate the
acreage md the amount you will
make. These farmers will say five
bales to the horse. The experts,
haying taken in the situation, know
positively that seven bales of cotton
will ire made to the horse, or at least
a difference of easily 20 per cent.
The reports of the farmers, who
estimate the crop at only five bales to
the horse, are given to the govern
ment and many large houses, who
send them out Then, the South,
with this false idea, wiil imagine
that the crop is exceedingly small,
and will buy cottou. The experts
give their opiuiou, which is usually
correct, to many influeutial people,
who then sell you the cottou at high
prices, based on the estimate of five
bales to the horse. When the time
comes around lor you to sell your
cotton, it is apparent that the crop
wilt be seven bales to the horse, and
you will get the low price on this
basis. So you cau readily see that
hundreds of speculators, cottou
traders and mei chants live—and
comfortably too—on your false esti
mates of tne crop.
The loud talker is seldom a strong
tbtatai
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The HartsvUle Railroad.
Dated Dec. 3,1893.
DAILY MIXED TRAIN.
Leave HartsvUle G 00 am
Jovann 020 am
Floyd’s 0 33 am
Arrive Darlington 7 20nm
Leave 1 larlingtou 0 30 pm
Floyd’s 8 (10 pm
Jovann 8*20 piu
Arrive llartaville 8 40 pm
J. F. DIVINE* Oen. Snn’l
C. & D. and C. & S. Railroads.
In Effect 3. Dec. 18!»4.
GOING NOKTH.
P. M.
00150 SOUTH.
A. M.
715 Le.
Florence
Ar. 7 25
728
Palmetto
711
788
Darlington
700
750
Floyd’s
049
7 55
Dove’s
044
818
Society Hill
Cash’*
020
8 27
012
850
Cheraw
000
JUS
McFarland
517
939
Morven
504
9 54 p m
Bennett’s
4 51
1015 p m Ar.
Wades boro
Le. 180
LOCAL VREIGHT TRAIN.
NORTH BOUND. MUTH BOUND.
1 STATIONS. %
A. M. P. M.
8 10 Lv. Pregnalls Ar. 8 50
810 Harleyvllle 6 40
8 84 Peeks r 8 25
8 87 Holly Hill 8 21
813 Conners r 815
8 50 Eutawville 8 07
0 02 Vances 7 55
9 17 Merriam’s r 7 40
9 29 St-PeuI 7 27
9 85 Summcrton 7 20
9 44 Silver 710
9 52 PacksviUe . * 7 00
10 05 Tindal 0 47
10 20 Ar. Sumter Lv. 0 30
10 25 Lv. Slimier Ar. 6 10
10 88 Oswego 5 58
10 51 81. Charles ,*’ 3 45
1101 Elliot) s 5 85
1110 Lamar '*• 5 20
1130 Syracuse #05
11 45 Lv. Darlington Ar. 4 50
12 00 Mont Clare 4 33
1211 Robbins Neck r 4 20
12 20 Mandeville 4 05
12 40 Ar. Bennettsyillc Lv. 3 50
18 48 Breedens r 8 42
12 53 Alice 3 37
105 Gibson 3 25
120 Glio 310
185 Ar. Hamlet ;LvC2 55
P.M. P/M.
“F” Flag Station Trains stop only on
signal or to take on and let off passengers.
J. II. AVERILL, General Manager.
Leave Florence 7 30 a m
Darlington 8 40 a m
Arrive Cheraw 11 20 a m
Leave Cheraw 1 00 p m
Darlington 4 00 p m
Arrive Florence 5 00 p m
C, 8. OADSDEX, President.
Northeastern Railroad.
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.
Dated .Tan. I
11th, ld94. No. 15
No. No. nil No. 23 No.53.
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4 52
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sun
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Lc.Lanes
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9 00
7 05
ArCbarleet'n 1
650
9 42
30
11(10
8 45
A. M.
A.M.lA. M.|P. M.
P. M.
TRAINS GOING NOKTH.
I
No. TsIno. OO'No. It
No.
No. 52
1
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P. M.
P. M.
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500
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700
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5 so
7 05
5 39
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7 25
5 45
Ar.Floronce.
7 10
8 50
6 45
11 as
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A. N.
P. M.
P. M.
P.M.
A. M.
* Daily, t Dally except Sunday.
Trains Nos. 501 and 500, New York
and Florida Special, carrying only first-
class passengers holding Pullman ac
commodations—Daily except Sunday
No- 52 runs through to Colombia' via
Central R. R. of S. C.
Trains Nos. 500, 78 and 14 run via
Wilson and Fayetteville—Short Line—
and make close connection for all points
North.
4NO. F. DIVINE, Gen’l Supt.
J. R. KENLY, Gen'l Manager.
T. M. EMERSON. Traffic Manager.
Wilmington & Weldon R. R.
GOING SOUTH.
DATED
Oct. Stb, 1802
**
12
m
-■bis
Ip
Leave Weldon —
Arrive Bocky Mount...
p. m.
uao
140
p.
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000
700
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Arrive Tubem.—......
Leave Tsrboro.
p. m.
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Arrive Wilson
P. III.
118
p. m.
JIM
p. m.
740
-|40
9*&
m. m.
7.40
Leave Goldsboro.........
Leave Warsaw —...
Leave Majrnolia
Arrive Wfimlnzton....
p. m.
31*
414
417
• 00
a. m.
*30
930
044
112*
Going south. No. 28 daily.
Leave Wilson *2 80 p m
Arrive Selma 8 25
Arrive Fayettsvtlle 5 20
GOING KOKOH.
Dated may 31, MR.
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Leave Wilmington
Leave Maenolla...
Leave Warsaw ...
Arrive Goldsboro
a. m*
1235
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a. m.
• It
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120*
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Leave Fayette vUle
Leave Mima..
Arrive WUson —
a. m.
••30
113*
p. m.
123*
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Leave Wilson
a. m.
385
p. m.
1258
p. m.
804
Arrive Kooky Mount..
408
130
880
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Arlve Tarboro
a. m.
•6 30
p. m.
♦218
Leave Tarboro. —
12 58
Arrive Weldon -
a. m.
605
p. m.
255
p. m.
1000
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♦Daily except Sunday.
Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley R. R.
Condensed Schedule, Dec. 3d, 1893.
NORTH BOUND.
No. 2, Daily except Sunday.
Leave Wilmington,
7 00 a m
Arrive Fayettrille,
1010
Leave Fayetteville, *
10 27
Leave Fayetteville Junction
1080
Sanford,
11 48
Leave Climax,
1 43 p m
Arrive Greensboro,
315
Leave Greensboro,
2 5-)
Leave Stokesdale,
348
Arrive Walnut Cove,
420
Leave Walnut Cove
433
Leave Rural Hall,
610
Arrive Mt. Airy,
025
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 1. Daily except Sunday.
Leave Mt. Airy.
9 45 am
Leave Rural Hall
1100 a m
Arrive Walnut Cove
11 35 pm
Leave Walnut Cove,
11 42
Stokesdale
12 00 p m
Arrive Greensboro
12 52
Leave Greensboro,
12 59
Climax
127
Sanford,
312
Arrive Fayetteville Junctien
425
Arrive Fayetteville
430
Leave Fayetteville,
4 45
Arrive Wilmington,
7 55
NOKTH BOUND.
No. 4, Dally except Sunday.
Leave Bennettsville, 0 25 a m
Maxton. 7 37
Red Springs, 817
Leave Hope Mills, 9 12
Arrive Fayetteville 9 35
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 8, Daily except
Leave Faycttevilfc,
Hope Mills,
Red Springs,
Maxton,
Arrive Bennettsville.
Sunday.
4 50pm
5 13
006
0 47
800
NOBTH BOUND.
No. 10, daily except Sunday. Mixed.
Leave Ramseur, 0 60 a m
Leave Climax, 840
Arrive Greensboro, 925
Leave Greensboro 9 40
Stokesdale 11 oo
Arrive Madison H 50
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 15, dally except Sunday. Mixed.
Leave Madison 12 80 p m.
Leave Stokesdale 1 05
Arrive Greensboro 985
Leave Greensboto, 8 00'
Leave Climax 8 55
Arrive Ramseur 685
Trains No. 2 and 4 make close con
nection at Favetteville Junction with
the Atlantic Coast Line for all points
North and at Walnut Cove with N. ft
W. System for Wnston-Salem.
Train No. 10 connects at Madison
with N. ft W. for Roanoke and points
West.
Train No 1 makes close connection at
Fayetteville Junction with Atlantic
Coast Line for Charleston, Savannah,
Jacksonville, and all points South.
Junction points at Maxton with S. A.
L., at Bennettsville with C., 8. ft N. R.
R., at Sanford with 8. A. L., at Greens-
lioro with the Richmond and Danville
System.
J. W. FRY,
Gen. Manager.
W. E. KYLE,
Gen. Paas. Agent
EXPRESS IT TO
W., C. & A. Railroad.
GOING SOUTH.
Dated Dec 8, 1803.
No. 55.
Leaves 'Wilmington
* 3:20 p. m
Marion
6 11
Arrives at Florence
0:50
No. 56.
Leaves Florence
Arrives at Sumter
*7:10 p. m.
8:28
Arrive Columbia
10:00
No. 58.
Leaves Florence
t 7:45
Arrive at Sumter
0:20
No. 52.
Leaves Sumter
*0:53 a. m.
Arrives at Columbia
10:05
No. 52. runs through from Charleston
via Central Railroad, leaving Laces 8.40
a m., Manning 9.1$ a. m.
Jaw Allan & Co.,' ' ,
285 King St., Charleston, S. C.,
Aud have it put in thorough order.
Flue Watch Work a Specialty aid
Warrauted One Year.
Chief Inspectors of Watches for
GOING NORTH
No. 51 Leaves Columble * 4.80 a. m.
Sumter 5:57 a. m.
Arrives at Florence 7:15 a. m
No. 56. Leaves Florence 7:40 a. in
Marion 8:23
Arrive at Wilmington 11:10
No. 53. Leaves Columbia *4:20 p. m
Arrives at Sumter 5:35
No. 59. Lv. Sumter
Sumter 5.45 p. m.
Ar. Florcace 0:35 p. m.
•Daily. tDaily, except Sunday.
No. 53 runs through to Charleston, via
Central R. R., arriving at Manning 6:15
p. m., Lanes 7:00 p. m., Charleston 8:45
p. m.
Trains on Manchester ft Augusta R. H.
leave Sumter daily, except Sunday, at
10.50 a. m., arrives at Itimini 11.50 a. m.
Returning leaves Itimini 1.00 p. m., ar
rives at Sumer 2.10 p. m.
Trains on Wilmington Chadbourn ft
Conwav railroad leave Chailliourn 10.10
a. m., arrive Conway 12.30 p.m.,returning
leave Conway at 2.00 p. m. arrive Chad-
bourn 4.50 p. in. Leave Chadbourn 7.00
a. m. and 5.13 p. m., arrive Hub at 7.45 a.
m. and 0.00 p. m. Returning leave Hub
8.15 a. m. and 0.30 p. m.. arrive Chadbourn
0.00 a. m. and 7.15 p. m. Daily except
Sunday.
J. it. KENLEY, General Manager.
T. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager.
j, Ft DiVUlSi Uoacrtl taponiMndllt
Atlantic Coast Line, South Carolina
Railway, I’laut System Railways.
Headquarters for
WEDDME PBESEITS,
: JEWELS.
WITCHES, FIIE IMPS,
STEBLUG SIHE.
Orfers fr*m the ('•■■try receive
preapt xllriti«a.
R ' Sable Goods. Reosot able Prices,
A Urge itock always OA bifid,.