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JHE COUNTY RECORD, j | Published Every Thursday -AT- , tINGSTKEE, SOUTH CAROLINA, ' ^ T V. W. WOLFE, Editor and Proprietor. J / If we can't civilize the Philippine j S Islanders we can kill them off in short order. San Frauciscohas just shipped to Manila six car loads of cigarettes. The Bulgarians have erected oOb monuments in commemoration of j events in the liusso-Turkish war, and are now sending to the Czar an album i containing illustrations of all of them. 8 ? J r The Navy Department has directed * that all flags and other trophies in the i possession of persons in the service r are to be sent to Washington. This is j a proper order. It is very objection- e able to see such things on sale. This e will make such a disposition of relics R impossible. i . c c We are glad to note that London is t finally realizing that she is big enough t to know better. The British metrop- t olis is about to adopt our tire depart- a ment methods, abandoning the old- j fashioned equipment in iavor 01 water c towers, chemical engines and hook- d and-ladder companies. The so-called ? Anglo-American alliance could not, in time of peace, receive better demon- t stration at the hands of the English ? than in the adoption of Yankee de- t vices for the saving of life and prop- ^ erty. _ " i '' The introduction of water meters at \ Covington, Ky., has had remarkable * results. Some eight years ago, when the fixture assessment system was in \ use, between 4,000,000 and 5.000,000 * gallons of water were used daily. At t present, when most of the water is t metered, and about 12,000 more peo- * oro Hwincr in tlio m t v rmlv 9. r,00 - 1 j y -7 , 000 gallons are needed, and every one t has all the water he wants. 'These ?gures are given on the authority of Mr. W. H. Glore, Superintendent of the works. At noon on October 18 Spanish sovereignty in Porto Rico became a memory and American sovereignty a blessed reality, muse? the Xew York Mail and Express. The fourth island of the Antilles makes the transition without regret for what is gone and with" confidence in the benefits of what is to come. In the popular demonstrations of joy at the termination of Spanish rale is found an eloquent ar- ? raignment of Spain, as well as a pleas- * ing tribute to the reputation of the 1 United States among the downtrodden I of the earth. The victims of Castilian barbarism in this tight little e island, which is destined to become j; the gem of the southern sea under its s new ownership, have passed from r darkness into light. The Puerto- ^ riqueno of the morning has become E the American of the afternoon, by the J furling of the red and yellow emblem jj of oppression and the flinging of the J Stars and Stripes to the breeze. ? Hitherto the Government has offered F only a partial guarantee fo* the se- * curitv of articles sent through the man (. as registered matter. If the respou- 6 sibility for tho loss could be fixed and ? an indemnity be collected, the loser a was i-eimbnrsed to that amount, but the PostofBce Department had no t funds of its own to draw upon for this c purpose. By an act of Congress $0000 * is now avalable to pay losses, but the r indemnity to be paid on any one piece f of registered mail must not exceed 1 ,$10. Considering the business done, \ the appropriation of $0000 for a year's * losses seems a small sum. But as the j percentage of loss is low, and as the 1 yearly appropriation is evidently in- * tended to meet only the losses which j might otherwise fall on comparatively ? nnnr nennlp. nart of the $0000 mav be C x c ? v / covered iuto the Ti-easury at tua end of the fiscal year. The total number of registered pieces of mail last year was 14,j59,0S3. Of these only 149 were lost on account of carelessness on the part of postal employes; 197 failed of prompt delivery because of depredations by men employed in the postoffice; 227 losses were due to dcpredatious by outside parties, and S23 pieces were destroyed by tire in postoffices, wrecks of railroad trains, post offices and. steamboats. As many of the postal employes held responsible * tor registered mail are under bond, it 1 is an easy matter for the Government t to recover from them for losses charged ^ against them, and those who do not t uish bonds will as a rule pay foi 1 the losses vatker than be discharged t from the scivice, which is their onlyal- e ternative. Of the losses last vear rc- e F coverieswere made amounting to more <; than seventy-sir per cent. MUM ML Ill nteresting Documents Which Tell of Old Colonial Days. ^ ID IRE WORTHY OF COMPILATION ^ hi tL toidiers of the Resolution were Paid in Negroes?Pay Rolls anJ Roster of Snm- j> ter's Brigade. v< _ g' Visitors to the State capitol often ?* ,sk to see the great seal of the State, 'raucis Marion's sword, the mace sont w iver by Ueorge ill, the original grant u >ook (showing the grant of territory to s* ettlers in the 17th century. Andrew ^ ackson's wiil, and other historical j, reasures in the secretary of State's ' ffice. I>ut there are many valuable old m tooks and papers hidden away in dark ^ ecesses which are really more valuable ,r rem an historical standpoint. While coking for some records of laud deeds, ] to., i'rof. K. Means i'avis found some ^ xtremelv interesting documents which eil of old colonial days and of the tragglo for independence from j Intaiu's rule, 'ihese papers are priu- je ipally the pay rolls aud clothing ac- ^ ounts of Sumter's meu the Kevolu- ' ionary war. The official returns are pi here signed by Coles, Henry Hamp- C( on, Middleton. Hill and their cap- ^ ains. The utter absence of red tape, ^ s compared with the methods of the ^ iresent United States army, is the first ^ hiug which attracts attention. Tne A lencal work aud chirography is in je aany instances beautiful, and will ^ omDare with the work of expert pen- c ,XOTX of fl.io .lov Another very remarkable thing is w hat the soldiers were paid off. or were ja iromised pay in negroes. It will be cj lews to South Carolinians even that gl he negro was overused as legal tender. jc t negro is said in those days to have c] >een valued at a hundred pounds, w iearv $500. As a "grown negro" was pr?vate soldier's pay for ten mouths, lis wages must have been about $50 a al nouth, or the promise of that much. *! [he sergeants received one and one- 11 luarter negroes for the ten months ser- P 'ice. The interesting question arises, m low did they manage about the quarter if a negro? One of the old papers enitled, "Pav list of Capt Barnett's a : _ r : " i l lt *?D roup 111 juieui. i/Ui. xieurjr uauipiuu a egiment of Light Dragoons, com- 8< nanded by Brig. Gen. Sumter, ltith 0 darch, 1782," will give some idea of Cl he pay of the soldier in those days. f' From'this paper it seems that for ten ^ uonths the pay of Jacob Barnett, capain, was two grown negroes. Andrew " Baxter, first lieutenant, was due one frown and one small negro; James tl r'lannagan, second lieutenant, received nj he same pay, one grown and one small tc legro. Samuel Barnett, first sergeant, n ind the six other sergeants, received tl learly as much pay as the lieutenants, c< itch sergeant receiving one and one- si piarter of a grown negro. The pri- h ates each received one grown negro, a L'he total number of negroes due tbo ? :ompany for the ten months' service b vas 08^. Of this number 20 had al- k' eady been given the company when the P -II 1 - Tl,. ..o ...... ,l,. o my JLUli ?tt3 UiQUO UUl. X I.U | a|'ti uvea lot state whether or not the remainder w ?f the "legal tender" was turned over c, o the company, nor does it show how $ *ach sergeant was to receive his quar- b or of of a grown negro. Another inter- v< istingdocument is the "regimental pay hi ist of State troops, commanded by fc liieut. Col. Wade Hampton, April 12, )S 783." T Lieut Col. Hampton's pay for ten rj nonths was three grown and one small fc legro. Joseph Rutherford, major, ^ idled, received three grown negroes, tc indrew Anoddy, adjutant for three tl nonths, was to have received half of a tt ;rown negro and half of a small negro. j? 2. Whorthers, adjutant for seven nonths, was due the same amount, p ohn Harriss, quartermaster, received w fifth of a grown negro and a fifth of s small negro for two months' pay. ^ ohn Lofton, quartermaster for the re- ^ aaimng eiwui rnonms, receiveu me w ewaining four-fifths of a grown and jc f a small negro. Thomas Allston, iostmaster, received one grown negro ^ nd one-half of a small ono for eight nouths' service. The pay of Colonel ^ 'harles Middleton for ten months, as ^ hown by these documents, was three ^ ;rown and one small nsgro. The pay f? oil of Col. Win. Hill's regiment is ,lso among these papers, iroui an listorical stanapoint one of the most aluabie of these documents is the ros- "" er of General Sumter's brigade. It ? ontains the name of every soldier in p hat command, and is arranged by p ompauies and alphabetically. This oil is evidently a copy of the original, ? or the handwriting is more modern in ts stvle. 1 here are some other papers which 01 rere presented to the legislature in 81 71)7 by the committee on publicclaims. a! ilanv of these claims are for pensions 10 ind for money due for services in the 8 devolution. It is noteworthy that vhile these soldiers were engaged fa 'per negro," still they applied for tl icnsions and for war pay in the coin e: jf the realm, dollars and cents. The w :oroner of Laureus county was paid d ;S.o7 for holdiug an inquest. Post w nortems were about as cheap in those ' p lays as they are now. Another ap- : ai iropriation suggested by the commit- | d ee was "To the Corporation of the Is ,'ity board of Charleston for money ri r.peuded by them for the relief of the b inhappy sufferers from Saint Domingo o u i:y;i-y4, :5SHiG.(5U." The bill states hat while there was no law to fores 1 ("5 he payment of this claim, still the 1 ^ 'onimiliee lUUiinui u wise iureuuuurse I c, be city ? f Charleston. j w there are many, many papers here jj vhich would be valuubie to a biblio- j, nauiac or curio buuter, and tbere are w nany wbicb are valuable as history. Lhere is a vast amount of unwritten listory and love and legend stored *' iway id the musty vaults at the State 'e louse. In discussing the revelation of tl hese historical treasures, Prof. Davis m<l Col. Tompkins both agreed that 8' here was work enough to keep a man 1)( )usy compiling historical statistic-aud c< nformation, and that the work was of mough value to the State to warrant , he legislature in making an appropri- C( ition for that purpose. It may be that |a ? t:!1 will be introduced at the coming h< ession providing ,a' such work to be lone by the State historian. 11 nisi Ml The annual report of tho South Cnro- ' na anil Georgia railroad shows the jj usiness of "The Old Reliable" to have j( icreased very much for the year 1897- t] 8. The net earnings during that time \ no been $484,887, agaiust $448,554 for ^ le fiscal year 189G-'97. The following ^ itracts from the report of President p arsons will be of interest: "General a esults The increased facilities at t our wharves in Charleston for leading 0 rain and for the storing and handliug jj i their commodities, and the efficient 0 lanagement of the Charleston Trans- t ortation line, which runs in connection a ith your road, account for much of a le increase in earnings. This steam- ^ lip lino dispatched during tue nscai e ear 34 steamships to European ports, ^ ud since the cioso of the tiscal year. une 30, 10 steamships have been J" laced to take grain and other com- v lodities. "improvements -- During ^ ie past summer wharf Xo. 3, 453 feet j, t length, and width of 34 j feet, has t een built in a substantia! manner 1 piling covered with zinc. Substau- , al betterments, costing s?33, (145, have ^ eeu made daring the year and charged v > operating expenses, by tho purchase .. I new machiuery and tools and the lugtheniug of siding, made necessary " y the increase in the number of cars j er train hauled by your new com- ' ound locomotives. Five compound, 11 msolidated locomotives and 1 I) new " at cars, 00,OOP pounds capacity , have ^ eeu added to your equipment. Seven 0 undred tons of 70-pound steil rails 11 ave taken the place of lighter rails. ? n old abandoned roadbed, 15 J-ilos in rngth, between ".Vateree sta .on, on ? ie Camden branch, and the city of umter. has beeu bought, and your road ^ ill be extended during the coming ? inter to the centrally located terminal ,nds purchased in the heart of that : ty. Prospects The prospect is fairly t ood for freight aud passenger traffic >r the fiscal year 18l?8-'9y. Industries ^ u the line of your bed are do doing ' ell, and new ones are projected. St. Matthews.--Capt S. S. Berger ad Mr. John McSween, of Timmons- ^ die, were here, where they met a large v umber of farmers who contemplate ? lanting tobacco another year. The 0 leeting was a large and representative 1 ne, and it is a foregone conolusiou ? lat cotton will bo a back number here- ? bouts next year. Many acres of the a est lands have been and are now being * ;eded in wheat and oats. Many of lur largest planters affirm that they ^ innot and will not attempt to raise 0 atton at the present ruinous prices, * ut will leave the erstwhile king for ^ ie neirro renter and lien merchant >r his vassals. I v South Carolinians don't seem to have | ^ 10 proper reverence for the master ^ linds who have made our State's his>ry so glorious iu the past. A commu- r ication has been received from a geneman in Pennsylvania asking for a >P3* of hobert Y. Hayne's memorable t leech, to which Daniel Webster made t is famous reply. Webster's speech is v classic and Hayne's should be. It is k olonger found iu the school text j( ooks as formerly. Northern enterprise | V eeps northern genius ever before the a ublic, while southerners are different. t Colx'Mbia.?The War Department \ e ill not allow the claim of the Agri- " lltural and Mechanical society for 150, which is for damage done to the J uiliiings at the fair grounds by the ? sluuteer soldiers. The department ~ as also suspended the payment of 8-50 ^ >r the use of the grounds and build- *' igfl. This latter, however, will be paid. . he War Department has conceded the * ght of claims to the amount of ?7.70 r ?r supplies furnished the First Regi- ^ ient before it was uiusteered in. The v ital amount of claims was ten times P lat amount, and Gov. Eilerbe is deirmined that these claims shall be ft aid. f( Anderson'. -Chief Constable J. R. c ant and Deputy Sheriff E. G. Rose, il itli several assistants, made a raid on e avauuah river, near Croft's F.erry, cap- a iriug a white man giviug the name of T cott Russell, and about 40 gallons of a hiskev, besides several hundred gal- 1< ns of beer. J t seems that Russell has s een carrying on extensive operations tl i that section, he being a resident of eorgia, and using certain old distil- c irv buildings as a blind as well as J eadquarters. Russell waived prelim- y lary and gave bail in the sum of SHOO fc ?r his appearance at the sessions court 0 ext February. b Gov. Ellorbe lias received a letter q om Mrs. Laure E. Howey, librariau ? [ the "Historical .Society of the State d i Montana," asking if this State has a c istoricat llibrary apart from the law brary, and if there is a State museum a f curios, relics, minerals, etc. The e lontaua library wants a copy of the a ?C f lovalina ' 'ao n? rihon l JPIUI V U1 UUUIU V/at UUUU HO mt%vwu jj IScially." That State has already is- c led three volumes of State history. n ad Moutana is iu its infancy, histor- 0 ally speaking, in compariaua with u rand dame Carolina. tt lieports receivod from the truck- t irmiug region above Charleston show mt the business was damaged to the n steut of Si00,1)00 by the frost and Mid ? eather which prevailed during Satur- tl ay and Sunday. All the tender crop n as lost. Thv vegetables were badly \ at behind by the cold snap in October, 8 ud since then the season has been so s amp aud cold that vegetation was de- jj ived. All of the crop tor miles up the c ver was cut down and ruined. Cabage, turnips and strawberries are the g uly things left. ' Gkeenvili.f. General Davis has left b reeuville. He goes to corps head- 8 uarters at Augusta and will then take o iiomaad of the Third Division, which ti ill accompany him to Cuba, Genera! b luvis being governor of Pinar del Rio ti i JVIUCO. live UJCLUUCin VI liio DIUi1 ill go with Genera! Davis. 0 Mayor Smythe wrote to President IcKiulev inviting him to visit Char- ti istou on his trip to Atlanta to attend s je peace jubilee. The president's (j rivate secretary writes in reply that o lould the arraugeinents for his trip c< ermit he will be glad to give careful p xlsideration to the request. tl Barnwell. Messrs. Abercrombie <fe Williams, of Montgomery, Ala., chief >u tract ore for the building of the At- C utic Coast Line extension, arelocated p ere and will make this the distribut- T ig point for the entire line. K ifPflRIS OF lllf.ll Coli'Mbia. A 675 plate glass ruined A n order that a few dollars worth of jwelry might be obtained. Such was tie strange freak of a burglar here. S'hen Mr. C. Goldstein, the pawnbro- "J er, opened bis shop opposite the city all he found that a largo semi-circular iece of glass about eight inches in dimeter had been neatly removed from he show window and that some articles f jewelry and some "shin-plasters" ' > A K.-?on of nlon TKo intnncin value* f the poods stolen is very small, but he glass, which was uot insured, was u expensive one. The job was indeed neat one, and the glass must have c >een cut by a diamond. There were b vidences of an attempt to cut away 0 he woodwork aroun.l the corner of the , lass, but the burglar evidently thought hat method too slow. The burglary v .as committed under tho very noses of a he police, and the robber evidently t ad compatriots who were watching ^ he police. r Coh'MHIa. ?The U. S. grand jury d ias returned a true bill against the b line citizens of Mccormick charged ii nth conspiracy aguinst Jumes Tolbert. o he parties named in the indictment v re: M. L. B. Sturkie, John* )unlap, h Vado Cathrane, Hemy Martin, ,T. P. v enniugs, J. Q. Stillwell, J. L. Bev- n lolds, L. Tucker and Thomas Bentley, s 11 of McC'oriuick, and some of them 1< veil known citizens. The crime a f which th )se men at McCoraick are charged is a serious one, 1 nd the penalty is very heavy. The n ndictment is composed of six counts, a onsniracv to intimidate James W. Tol- h >ert as a citizen, and as an attache of a roverninent office from performing the tl [uties of that office. Also fromexercis- p ng his right to vote, and his right to b dvise others how to vote. The mini- f< num penalty for the violation of sec- j< ion 5,508, revised United States stat- h ites, is $500, and the minimum penalty or violation of section 5,518 is $500 and e nd six months in jail. e A freight train on the Colnmbia, New>erry and Laurens road was badly , rrecked at Leapheart, about seven ^ utles of Columbia. Nine box car9 were lerailed and piled upon each other, heir contents being badly broken and cattered. The accident occurred on a n [own grade and the train had consider- r ble momentum. Among the cars wrecked was one loaded with horses. ^ Strange to say but one of the animals * ras hurt, its leg was broken. The s others were driven through the coun- g rv to Columbia, their destination. g l car loaded with empty bottles for the t itate dispensary was also badly j rrecked, but the damage to the glass- ' rare was remarkably slight. The other j ars were loaded with an assortment of Iry goods, shoe9, crackers, cotton seed, j ta, and the contents were mixed up n great confusion. c Columbia. The State board of elec- a ion canvassers met here and declared h he result of the recent election. There a fere present secretary of state iomp- t ;ins, Treasurer Timmerman, Attorney e Jenerul Barber, Adjutant General g Vatts, Comptroller General Derham a nd Hon. D. H. Magill, chairman of o he house committee on privileges and b lections. Lieut. Gov. McSweeny was a lso present. The vote polled at the November election was very light, arely one-fourth of the voting strength f the State. There wero slightly over \ 8,UUO votes cast. In each congressional ^ istrict there was a Republican nom- ^ aee for congress, but none was elected, p he largest vote received by any one j( Republican candidate was that of .Wur- p ay of the First district, who received j( ,521), a little over half of Col. Elliott's t] ote. The aggregate vote for the Re- 0 ublican nominees was 2,804. M Darlington'.- The twelfth session of ^ >outh Carolina Baptist Pastors' Consience met in the Darlington Baptist w hurch. After the introductory sermon c' 1 TV AO f A Ulininnuii Ln )1\A D ? "oa ui|,auacu iui uuniucaa uv iuo lection of Rev. J. M. Croxton modertor and Rev. J. S. Brown secretary. * "bis conference is a meeting of pastors w nd laymen for free discussion of theo- J' apical, sociological and ecclesiological t( nbjects. *It meets at the same place of s' be convention, one day earlier. "*> Greenville. William Biassingame, olored, has been acquitted of murder, le was charged with killing Foster Itokes, the fourteen year-okl colored >ov found dead near Mulberry street " n August l'Jth. Blissiugauie, a big, uriv negro, had been with the boy fre- P ueutly and was the last person seen 11 rith him the night before The evi- " ence waR circumstantial and insufii- c ient to convict 0 Camden. Since Simon Lawson was rrested as one of the parties implicat- ^ d in the riot in which Emanuel Kelly, y n old negro man, was taken out of his ' oine aDd severely whipped for picking otton for 85 ceuts on the hundred, the * egroes have been telling on each ther. and now there are seven or eight egroes in jail charged with having iken part in the riot It is probable hat there will be more arrests. c.< Governor Ellorbehas received a comlunication from Mr. Henry Bjorna, ol trooklyn, N. Y., in which he suggests Liat an "International exhibition ol lining and agriculture" be held in New 'ork city in the near future. Should uch an exposition be undertaken and ^ hould South Caroliua take the proper iterest in it, tberoare few States which ould make a better showing. ^ Woodruff. The store of the Pear- a| on Drug company and S. M. Pearson y( nd the postoffice was entered, the rober breaking through the glass in the tore doors and the window of tbepostffice. It is not knowu how much was iken, but several little things have g( een missed. A strange negro was captired loatine around town* but there i no evidence as to his being the guilty g( Lie. South Dakota, it seems, has prncically decided to adopt the dispen-ary jrstem, and Commissioner Vance aud iov. Ellerbe are constantly iu receipt " f letters from that State asking for a di opy of the dispensary law, and for lir amphlets concerning the operations of 0D tie dispensary, m A commission has been issued to the w' luteal Investment Company, of Cl1 lharleston. The object of the comany iB to deal in personalty and realty. he capital stock is $.">,000, divided into 1 * M shares of $.31) each. oti to iiHirspii.s sti i Sumter Wan Meets With a Hor- ^ t an ribie Accident. ? * 7 ] RIED TO LYNCH A NEGRO. tei licmpted Murder of an Aiken County Man Dl ?Sumter Cotton Mills?From the Jaws mj of Death?Orangeburg Farmers Meet. ? I Mr. E. Mims Pitts, of Sumter, met rith a horrible and perhaps fatal ac- Ti ideut in that town. He was standing etween two pulleys lacing a belt, the ne on his right side wa9 running. P* lis coat was caught by the belt and lie ril as jerked down instautiy, his right j rm being wound around the 1 ulley t0 he iustaut he was caught aud his ^ ody whirled around by the rapidly evolving wheel. Fortunately his head T id not come iu contact with anything, is int his left foot would come with an ? rresistible aud cruei force against one " f the joist with evrjr turn of the rheel. The engineer hearing the eavy thuds and knowing something ras wrong, started to see what was the *i: latter* as soon as ne reaazeu xnai " ouieone had been caught by the pal- ai sy, he threw himself against the belt r< ud knocked it off. sa Willing hands wenttowork as quick- jjj y as possible to extricate the unfortu- Ql ate man, which took them some time, s his clothing had to be cut from his ody, so tightly had he been held. Ie When he was taken out it was found (1' hat his right arm was broken in two cc laces below the elbow and his left foot vv eaten to shreds. So great was the ri orce with which his foot struck the Cl list the timber was splintered as if it st ad been done with an axe. . ni lJrs. China and Mood were summon . . i ., TV d and nis arm was amputated near me lbow and his leg below the knee. w Mr. Pitts stood the amputation fairly P rell, but his condition is extremely b< ritical and his life hangs by a slender w hread. si Attempted Murder. A desperate attempt was made to larder Mr. Butler Hall, of Merritt'i {ridge, Aiken County. He tells the tory thus: "I left the home of Mr. lorgan Fox about 11 o'clock on my ray home. About 300 yards away c( ome one concealed in a fence corner u prang out and grabbed me, at the ame time commencing to cut my ? hroat. He made many desperate ef- v orts to accomplish this, but I being a trong man, kept him pushed off until could get mv pistol. I placed the istol against my assaulter and fired al le turned me loose and sprang for the p ence. As he got over the fence he U ame to a halt. I continued shooting 0< * ^ T /%* / .?> tba fanoa nf fat t Li I 111 a IIU X UTQi IUW 1VUW Hfttv* Qi lm and be then ran otf for a few yards . nd baited again. By this time I hought perhaps be might be trying to et me in the woods to some of bis s< ang, so I at once returned to the first T pot and called for help. He cut my a vercoat in five places, going to my n: kin only oue time. My overcoat is ]t 11 that saved my life." p y An Attempted Lynching. Sam Riggs, colored, who lives near Talterboro, says two men broke into . is bouse, cursed him #nd theu would ave shot him, but another negro being e! resent and knocking up the gun, the ^ )ad took effect in the side of the'bppse. A le said that several of his friends were 11 i the house with him at the time, and a; iat before the man could shoot again f( ne of them had seized the nun and u 'reached it from him; that the men . eing thus disarmed, gave up the atjmpt and tied. Their horse and buggy as tied nearby, but they were so & losely pursued by the euraged h ogroes that tk?y didu't stop, but con- w nued their flight through the woods. ir be negroes, failing to overtake their fl ould-be lynchers, untied the horse, a; imped into the buggy, drove to Wal jrboro and turned tbecn over to tne beriff. Kiggs says there were other P( rhite men near, but does not know 111 rho they were or how mauv. m From the Jaws of Death. While three negroes were drilling at I le Hotfuian quarry, near Columbia, & se drill of one struck au old unexloded dynamite cartridge. There was n immediate explosion and a mass of i ,T] ebris was thrown up into the air. The & tber hands at work expected to 6ee | [} ) nly small remains of their fellow j orkmeu, but to their surprise the men ; la merged from the cloud of smoke and ust practically unhurt Two were seerely shocked, and were sent home, here Dr. 1'hilpot attended them, othing serious resulted from the exlosion. Sumter Cotton Mill. The business done by the Sumter )tton mill this year has been beyond til le expectations of the directors and , le stockholders. A new and . larger agine has been purchased and put up , ud the directors have -determined to Ut I Li UO ? ma^UlUUi J 1U QT64 J UU|'U4 V i leat m order that the mill may be run > its fall capacity. The mill has made ! loney steadily lor several years past, j '' ad the outlook for another prosperous ear is so (rood that the purchase yf its new machinery was deemed advis- 1 iiie in or ter that the demands for the f? jrns could be met promptly. Planting More Wheat. If appearances count for anything ' le "hog-aud-harmtny" farmers of outh Carolina are going to vary their j] ill of fare in one important particular ii sit year by adding to i* bnma raised " sur. a< Macon Greatly Excited. Macon*, Ga. (Special).?Rumor has 4 :eh rife iD the city that the negro sol- 2 ers of the Third North Carolina Reg- a lent,stationed here, intended to break C it of camp and destroy the city, aud ach uneasiness has been felt both by aite citizens aud soldiers. The extemant among the negro soldiers was used (jv the shooting of Private Will f empin, of Company F, Third North 00 irolina, by W. F. Simmons, proprinr of a saloon. Iveuipin is thonght ? be fatally wounded. ' ||j I Beauty la Rlocd Deep. Clean Hood means a clean skin. No autv without it. Cascarets, Candy Ca&ar- > : clean your blood and keep it clean, by irring up the lazy liver and driving all imirities from the body. 1 login to-day to wish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, id that sickly bilious complexion by taking iscarets, beauty for ten cents. All drug5ts, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c. England imports 325,000.000 pounds of but: annually. So. 40. To Cure A Cold In One Day. rake Laxative Bromo Oninine Tablets. AD ruggists refund money If it fails to care. 25c. Vt Cherryville, N. C., a new cotton yaya II is being built. lake !t a Point^ o Cet the Best Everv Time,When You Buy Medicine. Health is too valuable to be trifled with. > not experiment. Get Hood's Sarsapala and you will have the best medicine oney can buy ? the medicine that cures len all others fail. Yotr have every reason expect it will do for you what it has me for others. Remember > ' food's Sarsaparilla America's Greatest Medicine. I'rice SI. ood's Pills arc the favorite cathartic. Pasture Grass in Porio Rica. Several \v >ll known varieties of pasire grass grow well in Porto Itieor uinea grass. Para grass and grama among others. The first does not quire a rich soil, nut flourishes in indy soil, high on the slopes of the lis. without much regard whether not it is a well-watered region. lit anil chopped, it makes an excelnt preen fodder. Para grass reiiires better land and lower, and !? mseqtiently selected for those* places here there is an alluvial soil to give chness. Such a pasture usually oc- ^ lpies meadow land along the M reams. Gramma requires less rich- ^ ?ss than does the Para grass, and ill do well In similar soil to that here the Guinea grass flourishes, ara grass makes fat rapidly, but the ?ef cattle fattened on It do not eigh as much., for the same apparent . ze. as do those fattened on the other, isture. . i NERVOUS DEPRESSION [a talk w1tii mrs. PINKJIAVf.] A woman with the blues is a very unDmfortable person. She is illogical* nhappv and frequently hysterical. The condition of the mind known as the blues," nearly always, with wo? :en; results from diseased organs of eneration. It is a source of wonder that in this ge of Advanced medical science, any erson should still believe that mere >rce of will and determination will rereome depressed spirits and nervasncss in wqmcn. These troubles are a tdications of disease. ' aM Every woman who doesn't Land her condition Should ~wric^J^^^B ynn. Mass., to Mrs. Pinkhara for dviee. llc-r advice is tnorough. comlon sense, and is the counsel of a :arned woman of great experience. :ead the story of Mrs. F. S. iiexxett, i'estphalia. Kansas, as told in the foljwing letter: "Dear Mrs. Pixkham: Ihavesuf-^ ?red for over two years with falling, ^ alargement and ulceration of the omb. and this spring, being in such weakened condition, caused me to o\v for nearly six months. Some time ro, urged by friends, I wrote to yon >r advice. After using the reatment ^ hich you advised, for a short time, lat terrible'flow stopped. I " I am now gaining strength and ; esh, and have better health than 1 " ave had for the past ten years. I ish to say to all distressed, sufferig women, do not suffer longer, when lore is one so kind and willing to id you." Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com3und is a woman's remedy for wo< ian's ills. More than a million wo* en have been benefited by ih ^VERY SUCCESSFUL farmer who raises fruit^T , ^ vegetables, berries* or ain, knows by experience ie importance of having a rge percentage of Potash his fertilizers. If the feriizer is too low in Potash the irvest is sure to be small, aa4-^J f inferior quality. .5 Our books tell abcfut the proper fertilizers r all crops, and we will gladly send them re to any farmer. , ! CCn.lAN KALI WORKS, ' Se . New Vffc. t I * - > risri. i " I I1HVC U?cu J VUI *aiu?viv ?ETS and And them perfect. Couldn't do f.hout them. I have used ihein for some time indigestion and biliousn< ss und am now com tely cured. Recommvnd rhein. to every one. ce tried, you will never be without them In ; family." Edw. A.' Marx. Albany, N. yCANDY .;(L J TRADE MARK "RZJI-TTRCD 'leasant. Palatable. Potent. Tnste Good. Do od. Never Sicken. Weaken, or Gri|ie. 10c.2&c,i0c. ... CURB CON8TIPATION. rlln? R*a*4y Ceapur, Chteae*. ImIihL lltw Tffc. PC 9 th BIO Sold and guaranteed by all druf- * 'lU'BAv gliuui fJBE Tobacco UaUt. ;-3| 1 > 1