Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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v ' S \ %1 > i nil iutumm mmtr l BILL ARP. I 1 '& K3iSit$iin^$iK^KS^.$E5.itSa;iiW<ih A little scrap from The New York World put me to thinking. A certain Englishman named Hcbson lectured Sunday night in Philadelphia os cith'is and asked if it was right to accept charity from ill-gotten gain? or from such men as Carnegie, Rockfoller and Rhodes, who made th*Ir fortunes by monopolies and trusts and < rushed out the small dealers. The editor of The World answered, "If charity money is to be scanned and disinfected where shall the process stop? Shall we boycott Fanull hall, the cradle of liberty, because it was built from the-profits. the blood money of Peter Faneuil'ss slaves? 'The Jolly Bachelor and from his slave trade and Belling beads and watered rum to the Indians? These were the bases of many New England fortunes vow being used for generous purposes. We are inclined to say let charity have what it can get. The more sinful the channel through which fortunes have come the better it is that it should now be diverted to good usts. Luther sf.id it was folly to let the oevil have ' all the good tunes. That is good doctrine." "God sent it. but the devil brought it." has gco.l foundation. Cut I dident know that the cradle of American liberty v as built wi-.li mone y made in the cradle of American .davery. Appleton says that prior ao 177'? >'ew England had brought from Africa over 300,000 slaves and sold them further south, and for awhile they were ill such demand that the negro traders in Massachusetts seized and sol i the young Indians who had strayed too far from their wigwams and they actually stole and carried away and sold the son of King Philip, an Indian chief, who was at peace with the whites. But what would not a people do who would burn or drown women an witches . s they at Salem? My friend from Oregon seems anxious to handle my book and sell it. but inista tbat I shall make more proof that General Grant was a slave owner and hired them out until the surren- j d$r. I referred him to Grant's biography. written by General James Gra''* i Wilson, who wa3 chosen by Grant to write it If his people will not believe j ' him, neither would they believe if cue j rose from the dead. The trouble is j that most of his people are eitner for- j eigners or of foreign birth and don't j know anything of American histoi /. | The truth is our own people are pro- j fouad!y Ignorant of the history of their fathers and forefathers. Not one in a hundred know that Georgia was the first state that prohibited the African slave trade. Pennsylvania sold negro slaves at sheriff's sales as late as 1842. New England abolishes slavery long . before but continued the importation from Africa on the sly until 1861. Our people bought them because they were profitable hi the cotton fields and in the culture of rice and sugar cane. For twenty years before the war our besk people wished to abolish slavery. no- as an act of humanity, but because they were Increasing so fast and were in the way of poor white men and were demoralizing to the sons of the rich and their amalgamation with the whites was a visible curse in many families. And so Joseph Henry Lumpkin. our chief justice, began a correspondence with Henry Clay about his scheme of gradual emancipation. My father and many others coopera;cd with the plan, but the malignant threats of the abilitionists smothered It in its birth. The other day 1 had a social call from some northern gentlemen and as the subject c? the war incidentally came up a solid veteran ^ +'i otL I n O" O I ?/ ill f uajij^cufu iu uiiuuuu auuiiunu6 Fremont and said he knew him very well, for he was the first man he ever voted for and that he served under him during the war. Well, said I. do you know where he was born? No, he dirt not?up north somewhere. "No." said I, "He was a Georgian?born in Savaunah, educated in Charleston. His father war a Frenchman, his mother a Virginia lady. The boy was a fine scholar, but unruly and disobedient. Became a tutor in mathematics, was appointed lieutenant of engineers and with Nicolas Nicolet made a topographical sur- i *ey of Cherokee. Georgia, in 1838. the first that ever was made. My northern friend was amazed. No, j we dont know very much until we get. too old to make our knowledge useful. | Fremont was a very remarkable *:ian. As an explorer he never had an equal cn this continent, not even Lewis and Clark, nor Kearney compassed half the territory nor endured hal* the perils that he did. When his men died or deserted him he got more. When his Indian guides refused to go farther be went on without them. He was called the Pathfinder because he round new paths. He was too restless lo wait for orders, but, like Andrew Jackson, just went ahead. He ascended the highest peak of the Rocky mountains. It is named Fremont's peak and is IS.jOo feet high. He quarreled with Phil Kearney and Kearney had him arrested and sent to Washington, where he was tried and found guilty, but President V-' Polk pardoned him. Soon after this in> merous friends began to groom him as a candidate for president. He accepted yn the abolition platform and *was beaten. When our civil was came on ho was mrde a brigadier general and put in charge of the Missouri territory One of his first acts was o abolish aldvarv in fhat statp ThI.i IliadO (it'll eral Grant mad and everybody else who lived there and owned slaves, so he was reported to Mr. Lincoln, who annulled his proclamation and ordered him to Washington. Ke was .>ffcred other commands, but refused them and retired from active service, \fter the war he concluded to build -? railroad from Texarkana to El Paso and sot the state of Texas !:o give him :i liberal grant of land alcng *he entire route cf 800 miles. He went to Paris with < this grant and agreed to come brick and issue bonds on it and get the l7nited States government to indorse ihe bonds. He got the money and built the( road, but failed to get the United States government to indorse the bonds. The French bondholders never found this out until thejj money was \ mmm ? ! all spent. Then they had Mm arroste and bound over to court to ho tried fthe fraud. When the court came on h did not appear, but forfeit d bis ncn How it was Anally settled in** r ;>' does not tell. He was a wonderful nia and never got tired of the cxcitemei: that nourished him. and his rife situall the closer to him during his ;:ial She was a wonderful woman, and wa beloved and admired by all v.ho kn< her. Chauncey Depew said he knew c one school where twen?v-.-ewen girl were named for her. On the whole I am obliged tj admit Fremont's character and lie was Georgian.?Bill Arp in Atlanta Cons* tution. MARK TWAIN IN THE LONG AG< A Thin, Scrawny Fellow When Y Was a Wheelsman in California. Capt. Selwyn Ramsey of San Jo quin City. Cal., claims the unique di tlnction of once having employe Mark Twain as second wheelsman : a salary of ?18 a week. Capt. Ran sey is one of the eld pioneers in Cal fornia river navigation. He commani ed the first steam packet that ever ra up the Sacramento river, and althoug he is over 80 years old and hasn been on the bridge for more than 1 years, yet he still loves to talk of tb good old river days. "Yes. I used to know Sam Clen ens." said Capt. Ramsey to au inte viewor. "and he was one of the be: wheelsmen 1 ever had. It was alor. in 1868. 1 was on the old John Wallac at thrt time, on the Sacrament river. "About the time 1 met Clemens was pretty hard up for help. Wage were good and lots ot men deserte for the mines. All the wheelsnie had to be broken in. as there were u experienced river men in the countr in those days. And I was pretty gla when I heard of a young fellow wh had been In a pilot house on the Mi: sissippi. The minute I tied up in Sa j Francisco I went light over to th I United States mint, where I got hi j address. As soon as 1 saw him a i the wheel I engaged liim 011 the spa "Mark Twain was a thin, scrawn looking fellow then, but he was great hand making friends, and all <1 11s liked him. 1 think he was on th Wallace about five months?it's s long ago that 1 forget the exact tiin< j He was a straight out and out wheel: | man. and he learned the river like book. The country was pretty wild i those days and a man had to wate out for himself, but Clemens got alon with the best of them." CANDLES IN NEW ORLEANS. More Consumed In That City Than i Any Other Place. "The candle never goes out in Net urieans, saiu a man wno is connecie with a big candle manufacturing cor cern. "and 1 suppose the consumptio of candles in New Orleans is greatc than at any other place in the work proportionately, and where gas, ele< tricitv and oil are also used for ligh ing purposes. It will only require few moments' reflection to explai why this is. Take All Saints' day, fn instance. Did you ever think abou the large number of candles that ar used on this day in the pretty obsen auces which mark this day of flower and sentiment? The use of r andies i by no means confined to any one n ligious denomination on All Saints day. but. of course, in the Catholi cemeteries they are used more exiei sively than elsewhere. And. of courst I the extensive u?e of candles in othe observances ol a religious r.ature ha a great deal to do with swelling th enormous number 01 candles use here. They are of all kinds, too, an all si/.es. Candles of the finest pos sible make are sold in the New Oi leans market, and play a part in th pretty ceremonials which mark th life in this quaint old place. And car dies of the cheaper grades are usee too. In price they range from ihre for five cents up to almost any pric you want to pay."?New Orlean Times-Democrat. . NEWS TELEPHONE THE LATESI Electricity Supplants the Daily Pape in Hungary. Notwithstanding the many uses t which electricity lias been put in lat years, many people will lie surprise to leant that there is actually in ope! Iliimrarv u livcl UIIU21 III uuuaj/voi, iiuj , ? . ? town of some TOO.noo inhabitants, telephone newspaper. The ropy i spoKen into transmitters in the editor' office, and each subscriber has an ii struinent in his house. "Out? of the most praiseworthy fei tares of the Telephone Newspaper* i its extraordinary cheapness," report a writer for Pearson's. Each subscril rr pays but two rents a day for it many advantages, and there are n fees for having a receiver fitted to house. No one need continue sul scribing to the speaking newspaper fo longer than four montfis. On tbes favorable terms earn station is prt vided with the receiving enplianct having two ear tubes, so that two pet pie can listen at the same time. Th apparatus can be fixed wherever th subscriber pleases?at a bed or sof at a writing desk or in a special roon "At present the telephone newspt per is confined to Budapest, but ft some time past preparations hav been going on for extending it to tb whole country. The manager of great French daily paper intends to it troduce the invention into Paris, hai ing been struck by its possibility when the apparatus was exhibited s the Paris exhibition. In Vienna th 'introduction of this unique inventio will soot be effected, all the plans b< ing in readiness." To be born without humor ou loses two-thirds of life's enjoymen / * / i i THE CLOSING SCENE f sr ie 'j j Final Act in the Columbia Tragedy? 11 Editor Gonzales BurUd. Columbia, S. C.. Special.?About 2,^ 0Q0 people attended the funeral of Mr. i3 N. G. Gonzales, ;?t Trinity Episcopal ii* i fhnrrh .it 4 nVlnek Tncsdav aftprnnnn >' packing the galleries, aisles, vestibule ' "* and every part of the building. About _ 300 unable to find standing room withc a in. remained outside, braving a cold, misty rain which froze .as it fell. With the singb exception of the funeral of General Wade Hamption?by the way, n devoted friend of Mr. Gonzales?had ? in the same church last April, the assemblage was the largest and most It representative Keen in South Carolina in the last quarter of a century. The a- exceedingly severe weather considered, g. it was remarkable. Governor Mcl(j Sweeney, ex-Governor, and President . pro tern. Sheppard. of the State Senate. now presiding in the absence of a' the Lieutenant Governor, most of the members of the General Assembly and tl- Slate officers, and scores of leading n men of every part of the Stale were ;h present. Newspaper men from Charlet-t ton. Greenville, Sumter. Newberry, 2 and other of the larger towns attended. ~ All business plates in Columbia were closed during, the funeral hours. Bishop Ellison Capers, of the diocese of South Carolina, assisted by r' Rev. Churchill Satterlee, rector of Trinity, and Rev. I)r. Samuel M. Smith, g pastor of the First Presbyterian church e of Columbia, officiated. !, The line of vehicles in the funeral procession stretched for six blocks. It I was headed by a carriage containing four of the active pall-bearers, close '* associates of Mr. Gonzales in his news'' uap?r work. The hearse followed af n ter it. and afterwards tame the re- J 'J maining paii-bearers, family aud I y friends in carriages. The honorary d pall-bearers were: Ex-Associate Juso tice A. C. Haskell, Dr. J. W. Bcbcock, superintendent of the State Hospital n for Insane: Prof. R. Mean Davis, of t> the South Carolina College: State Sen' ator and ex-Secretary of Stat? J. Q. s Marshall, Dr. B. W. Taylor. John P. lt Thomas. Jr.. W. H. Lyles. Charles t Ellis, Julius H. Walker and John A. y Crawford, ai! residents of Columbia, a Floral tributes were sent from indlif viduals. diiee, newspapers and organizations all over the State, and from 0 other St:.tes. No greater number or more elaborate has ever been known in ' the State. The funeral service was '* most impressively said and the great a concourse was deeply and manifestly n afTected. The lesson from the loth h chapter of II Corinthians was read by g Dr. Smitb, and tbe prayers were said by Mr. Satterlee. Entering the church and preceding the cortag? the bishop pronounced part of the committal, later concluding it at the grave. This variation from n the Hnvsual order was made on account of severe weather. The hymna g sung during the service by the choir d and congiegation were: "Lead, Kindly Light," "Nearer, My God. to Thee," and "Abide With Me." At the conclu n sion of the latter the casket was again r placed in the hearse and taken to 1, Elmwood Cemetery, one mile and a half distant, a large part of the assemt blage attending. There the services a were concluded and the interment n made, the bishop pronouncing the benediction. "Asleep in Jeaus," "Jesus, Lover of My Soul" and "Peace. Perfect lt Peace" were sung at. the grave by the e choir and a quartette from the Mu? cugia. a local musical society, rendered e "God lie With You Till We Meet s Again" and finally "Good-Night." The j. site of thp grave is the summit of a j- iofty hill at the base of which sweeps c a half circle and in full view is the Congaree river. "x To Operate Vessels. g Mobile. Ala.. Spec ial.?The ComCtmimehSn Pnmnnnv hoc 0 uici i iai mraiiioui|. umo (1 organized here with a capitalization of d $200,000. The compauy is organized j. for owning steamships for charter * purposes especially to fruit importers 0 of Mobile. Most of the capital is sube scribed by Mobile men. the remainder i- being subscribed at Bergen. Norway. 1 from which place the movements of J the steamers will be directed. The company has purchased the Norwegian steamer Pruiaton. and all the * steamers will fly the Norwegian flag. The officers of the company are: Rolf Zeherg. president; John B. Ce. fallu. vice president; Ingo Seiden, secretary and treasurer. Smoot Nominated For Senator. Salt T.ake. Utah. Special.?At a caue cus of Republican numbers of the Leg,1 islature Reed Smoot. of Provo, an r- apsotle in the Mormon Church, was y chosen as the Republican to succeed a Senator Joseph L. Rawlins. whose s term of office will expire March 3, s next. This nomination is equivalent i- to an election. Tonight's caucus was attended by all but seven of the Repubi lican members of the Legislature. The s first and only ballot: Resulted Smoot s 35; Congressman George Southerkind 5; George M. Cannon 2; Governor Heb er M. Wells 2. After the result was s announced the three candidates with? drew and the nomination of Smoot a was made unanimous. ) r e Valuable Paintings Burned. > New York, Special.?There was a fire In the residence of George J. Gould, > No. 857 Fifth avenue, early Tuesday in e which several valuable paintings were destroyed. The loss was estimated at e first at $10,000 but after an inspection H had been made by Mr. Gould, his secre* tary said the 'oss was about $125,000. i- Among the nointlngs burned was "'The >r Cavalier,' by Stuart, e e Davis Inaugurated. a Little Rook, Ark.. Special.?Governor Jefferson Davis was inaugurated for 3 his second term of two years Wednestt day afternoon in the presence' of the e General Assembly and a large gathern lng of citizens. The oath of office was ? administered by Chief Justice Buun, after which the Governor delivered his message. In his message the Governor e urged the passage of a rigid anti-trust L law. ;H_ L 1_.L mrrnmii ? ^ - FOR FSTHMWcaN AL Ten Million Cellars is Necessary For Beginning the Work THE TREATY IN EXECUTIVE SESSION Injunction of Secrecy Not Yet Re D..t C?._. ?U. T.rmc mUYVU, bill OUIIIC u uil vi iiu Made Public. Washington. Special.?The treaty between the United States and the government ol Colombia, which was signed Friday by Secretary Uay and I)r. Herran. as the representative of the two countries.'was transmitted to 1 the committee on foreign relations. The treaty was read in executive session, but the injunction of secrecy was not removed. By the terms of the treaty the United States agrees to make a cash payment of $10,000,000 in gold to the Colombian government, and after the expiration of nine years to pay a rental of $250,000 per year for the stiip of land to be used for the canal and for canal purposes, the provision on this point being that the fir?t leases, shall lie for 190 years, and renewable thereafter in terms of 100 years at the pleasure of the United < States. The atrip is to be six kilometers or about six miles in width, and over < this territory the United States is i giveu police and sanitary jurisdiction, although it is explicitly specified that i Colombia does not surrender sovereignty over It The United States is to have the privilege ot tree importation of vessels an.t materials to be used in the eanal. It was given the right to improve, use and protect harbors at both the Atlantic and Pacific ends of the canal. The grant is made exclusive to the Cnited States and no taxes or rentals are to be charged in addition to the gross sums of-$10,000.000 cash and a fee of $250,000 annually. The foreign relations committee will nvoet tomorrow to consider , thp treaty. ( Friday's meeting of the cabinet .was one of the most important held in several weeks. All of the members of ( the cabinet were present. Secretary Hay leaving his home for the first time in several days to attend the meeting. He presented a draft of the . canal treaty signed last evening. The treaty is identical with that drawq by j this government several months ago, and at that time submitted to the J Colombian government, with the sin- ( gle exception of the amount of annuity to bo paid Colombia for the , right of way of the cauai. This government proposed an annuity of $i00.- j POO. while Colombia demanded $650.000. The Colombian gpvernment's demand was based, it 1h stated, upon the ascertained returns from the Panama Company in port dues which the Co- 1 lomblan government (lid not desire to 1 U M Fl nfixry eovnro 1 ( Iiuvr IfUUlCU. J/UIIIIf, 1UC OCIVIUI mouths of negotiations, Colombia agreed to all points in the treaty proposed by the United States with the exception of the. annuity. That has been the point of difference for many weeks and at one time it threatened to break off negotiations entirely. Secretary Hay communicated directly with the Colombian -government, intimating that some agreement must be reached soon, as the United States desired to enter upon the construction of the canal, if it were to be constructed by the Panama route, and for several days active effort.-! have been making to secure an agreement. but not until yesterday were ihey successful. The Colombian government then, through Mh. Herran. the charge tie affaires litre, agreed to accept an annuity of $2">0,000. Alt. other points thaa this one of money compensation remained as they stood in the original draft of the treaty and are completely satisfactory to the United States government. The United States will have control of the canal as required by the Spooner act. this having been attained by the adop- | tion of a plan for a lease of 100 years, renewable at the pleasure of the United States, and Colombia having nothing to say about the extension. : The matters of police and judicial J control are settled by a scheme of ' joint action, although it especially is ' assured that no citizen of the United States will bo tried by any other than ' his own courts. Control of the wa- ' tors of the ports of Colon and Panama is \ested in the United States just ts far as may be necessary for the complete operation of the canal, and it is Jit-ured that our extra territorial [ jurisdiction will he unquestioned as to the vaurs and streams pertaining I to the canal. All port dues on ves- { gels passing the canal are to ro to the j United States by way of an offset for tin- annuity payments. The President 1 and cabinet are coufldent that the J t!eaty will he ratified. . All For Teller. < Denver. Co!.. Special.?At 10:30 J o'clock a ballot for United States Sen- J uior was laKon in me joini session or the Deinoc ratio Senators and Repre- j sentatives. It was necessary to send for Senators Bailey and Hill, who are sick, and they were brought to the State horse in carriages. Fifty votes were cart, ail for Henry M. Teller. Representative .Madden was absent still, anr there was no choice. The joint session then took a recess until ii o'clock Saturday morning. Bishop Watson Paralyzed. Wilmington. N. C.. Special.?Rt. Rev. A. A. Watson, bishop of the East Carolina diocese, suffered a slight stroke of paralysis at his home in this . ciiy between 5 and 6 o'clock Friday afternoon, physicians quickly coming to attend him and tonight he is resting easily. The bishop's left side is j slightly affected, but he remains con- { scious and his condition is not re- j garded critical at present- I SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL Industrial fliscellany. ( Citizens of Bradford county. Florida, are agitating for the erection of a mill for the manufacture of spool cotton from the Sea Island fiber. This movement has led to the suggestion that Valdosta. Ga., already the largest inland long staple cotton market in the , world, might enter upon a like under- j taking. Commenting upon this, the) New York Commercial says: "The Starke region is a rich one ag- I riculturally. but its resources are largely undeveloped. Tiiere has been com- ( paratively little immigration from the 1 North and West into that section, but the people are entering, practically i and ambitious. And it would not, therefore, be such a very strange 1 thing if the cotton-growers of Starke should be the first in the Sea Island ' belt to manufacture their product in j factories contiguous to the plantations^ < They may yet demonstrate to the , spinners of New England and the I'nited Kingdom that the Cracker can do all that the Yankee and the Scot ( can?and perhaps do it a little bit bet- j ter." Arrangements have been completed '< for the establishment of the cotton fac- < tory proposed at Orange, Texas. The j Orange Cotton Mills Co. has bees or- , gantyed, with capital stock of $400,- , 1)00, to build the plant. Its equipment will be 10.000 spindles and 240 looms, ^ with space remaining for installation ? of 5.000 spindles and 120 looms addi- j tional. H. C. Cooke of Houston. Texas, is engineer in charge of construction, and will at once begin work. Contracts 1 tor the machinery have been placed, t Adolph Suck of Boston. Mass.. is the j architect. O. R. Scholars has been { elected president; R. E. McFarland, first vice-president; E. E. McFarland, treasurer, and A. M. Hatcher (of Hous- ( ton), secretary. (This Is also the plant i recently announced as to be located { through the efforts of Messrs. A. M. | ( Hat?her & Co. of Houston.) Work is progressing steadily on the ( extensive water-power improvements of the Dan River Power & Manufac turing Co. at Danville. Va. Construction of the $300,000 dam and power-house is being pushed forward steadily/and excavation for the mill buildings begun during the past week. This company expects to begin in the early spring the erection of the first mill, which will be followed by the second plant. There have been no material changes in the original plans as announced in the Manufacturers' Record of September 25, 1902. That is. there will be two mills of 40,000 spindles and 1,200 looms each, costing about $11700,000. J. W. Bishop Company. Providence and Boston. is the construction contractor. Messrs. Lockwood, Greene & Co., of Boston are architects-engineers in :harg?. A meeting of the directors of the Highland Park Manufacturing Co.. of Charlotte, N. C., was held during the week. A dispatch states that it was ' iec-ided by the board to erect an additonal mill to have 1,000 looms and cost M50.000. This will be the company's g u : ?1 '1i * 11 'AA cn'in. V Liliru Ililll, il?> It aico iu,uvv oytu ^ ilea and 1,260 looms in a plant at Char- i otte and 7,500 ring spindles and 786 iOoids in a plant at Rock Hill, S. C. 1 jinghams is the product of both mills. c it has not been decided whether the j iew mill will be located at Charlotte i jr Rock Hill. Further detaild will prob- c ably be announced next week. ] Cluck Mills, reported last week as v ncorporate!I at Anderson, S. C., has i 1 fleeted temporary organization. ' VIessrs. R. S. Hill (promoter of the en- j lerpritei, Joseph N. Brown. N. B. Sul- 8 iven. R. E. Ligon and J. R. Vandiver * r/ere elected directors. Four more directors will be chosen later on. Over ^ >265,000 has been subscribed at Ander- d son to the authorized capital of $500.- i >00. The company contemplates using 11 team-power and manufacturing flne ^ ;oods. Possibly a steam plant large ^ ?nough to operate 25,000 spindles and ^ 150 looms will be needed. In his renori for January o Col. ^ ilcnry G. Hester, secretary of the New ,] >!eans Cotton Exchange, shows that amount of cotton brought into >ight during 131 days of the present cjjson was 7,160,002 bales, an increase >ver the same period last year of 38.- I! >74 bales; the exports were 3.773.0S7 1 jaleg. a decrease of 77,045; takings by . s'ortnern >pinners, 1.131,60S bales, a |; lecrcase of 31.5S4; by Southern spinters 8S6,.">]5, au increase of 94.1P0. j * Textie Notes. ^ f Madison Spinning C<>. of Huntsville. n Ma., has changed its title to Mud Hon r VJauuafcturiug Co. and increased cap!al stock from $100,000 to $300,000. It v s rumored that this action will be lol- a owed by the erection of an additional h nill and a cloth printing plant. Con:- a may's present plant has 5.000 mule 8 pindles, manufacturing hosiery yarn3. v Cotton Mills, Catcs'nrd rdl dium 0 1). K. Norris, president of Notris L'otton Mills. Cateechee, S. C., and associates will organize company to juild $200,000 cotton mill at Pendleton, * 5. c. f; Wm. C. Miller of Charleston, S. C., P las bought the plant of Goldvllle Manufacturing Co. of Goldvllle. S. C. The v sale was made at public outcry. There o ire 500 spindles in the mill for manu- s 'aeturing yarns. Gainesville (Ga.) Cotton Mills, re- II sorted recently ar to increase capita! > rom $500,000 to $850,000. has taken i..?s t! iction by vote of the stockholders on Fanuary 10. The new capital will he is- ]( ;ucd in the form of preferred stock, b enlargements are to be undertaken fc it crrsent. w Anniston (Ala.) Cordage Co. has dedared an annual dividend of 8 per ent. and increased its capital. This ompany operates 1,500 ring spindles j, ind fifty braiding machines, producing lotheslines. backhands, etc., and on Fanuary 2 put on a night force of op rators in order to keep up with de- n' nands. le J. Turner of Geneva. Ga., contem- tc dates building a mill for the manu- e< acture of cotton yarns. He is now se- ri :urlng information from the makers of ri nill machinery, &ad reqtasts corres- ci >ondence froo the&. ' w WILCOX IS GUILTY. r n j So Pronounced By a Jury of Fellow Citizens, THIRTY YEARS l>N PENHENTIARY.x The Prisoner PiCsives His .Sentence YV;?h Stoical Indifference ? Report In Detail. Special to Charlotte Observer. Hertford, Special.?"Murder in the . second dogive" is the verdict of the |ury in the Wilcox-Crop:;ej rase and '30 years in the penitentiary at hard ^ . labor" the sentence of the court. The Jury tamo in at 2 o'clock. They were jut 22 hours. W. G. Held was the ipokesman of the jury. Judge Council made a brief but touching little speech on sentencing the defendant. The iurlge suid in part: "I never take pleasure ia sentencing my one convicted of crime, and do so jnly from a pmfund sense of duty resting upon me as a trial judge in vindication of the latys of our State, rhe jury have seeft fit to return a verdict in this case of mnrder in the ?econd dtgree., They have found that :he defendant took the life of Miss Dropsey, through malice, but without premeditation and deliberation. By ^ what process of reasoning they hay*/ irrived at this verdict is not for me to ay. I regard their action, howevtr, in he light that they Ipave been as haritable to the defendant as possible n the light of the evidence in the case, is they viewed it, and resolved all loubt upon the question of premeditaion onH rlollhoratlnn in fflvrvr nf th<Y lefendant." "In pronouncing judgment upon the iefendant I have nothing to say as to ny opinion which I may entertain as :o his guilt or innocence. I simply ake the verdict of the jury as render;d and treat the defendant a3 a guilty nan. If guilty, and the jury have said 10, then I think he deserves the full" imit of the law. The Judgment of the :ourt. therefore, is that the defendant )e sentenced to the State'* prison at lard labor for the term of 30 years." The court house was not fall at. the ime the verdict was rendered. The oafers from the streets and the mer hants close by had rushed In at the inging of the bell. The defendant leard the verdict and the sentence vithout a show of emotion. His attorteys, ^presented by Mr. W. J. Leary. tave notice of an appeal. The prisotjir was returned to jail and the crofrtK^ ^ epaired to the sidewalks to discuss be action of the Jury. All is quiet here, rhere has been no talk of violence rom any source. Judge Council leaves onight for Raleigh and the attorneys to to their several homes. Wilcox will >e sent back to Elizabeth City, where te will wait the orders of the court. The case went to the jury at 4:30 Tuesday evening. All was quiet uu u 'clock when an officer wa3 sent for fudge Council, who was out at tea. The jury desired him to read his harge to them again. But it .was so ate that the judge did not deem it ^ vise to bring the prisoner out, so the equest of the jury was continued till : 30 today, when it was granted. All kinds of rumors, theories and peculations went out froqi the court louse as soon as the jury retired. "It is to be murder in the Becond legree," was one theory, while others leclared: "It is a hung jury." One uryman had asked the?heriff to send lis brother word to kill his hogs and iring him in some clean clothes about 'aturday. This man was supposed to ie favorable to acquittal. Such were he subjects of debate on the streets..^ lut the jury kept its own counsel, anT' leliberated till 2 o'clock, when'fKe verlict was brought in. Poisoned By Handling Corpse. Davidson, N. C.. Special.?Two of the' nediral students J. if. Boyce. of llacksburg, S. C.. and 0. R. McLeod. of tobeson county., tbts state, are lying esperately ill at the hospital with eptisaemia or blood-poisoning. Last 'hursday Mr. Boyee was accidentally tuck in the hand by a tenaculum. .hile in the dissecting room of the ledical College. Tho wound was a lore scratch, but knowing the terrible esults that are apt to follow such an ecident he took every precaution. Mr. lcLeod was working at the same time rith the same subject, and had a slight brasion of the skin on one of his ands. Friday each had a slight chill nd on Saturday both men ahowed ymptoms of the disease in a very lrulent form. Both students are in a ritical condition. Telegraphic Briefs. A skirmish in Morocco between the hltan's troops and tnose of the Prtondcr was reported an outpost afair, but a serious engagement is cxi octed. Six men were kHled and three rounded by the explosion of a powdc-r harge on the United States battlehip Massachusetts off Culebra Island. Witness testified at the court-maria! of Major Edwin F. Glenn, at fnnlla. that natives of Samar showed tie greatest treachery of Americans. -A John Redmond, M. P? the Irish * ?ftler. excressed the belief at Edinurgh that Ireland would soon get a i\v passed mat wouiu -neeu me ounds of ecntui ies." Preacher Guilty of Bigamy. Port Gibson. Miss., Special.?The try in the case of Itev. Marion I,ane, lias Jean Skyles, charged with bigtny. returned a verdict of guilty Wedesday. Skyles was one of the most arned theologians and eloquent ora>rs in the State. The evidence tend1 to show that Skyles had been mared seven times. After his last mar- * age Skyles fled to Texas and was lught at San Antonio. The defense as insanity. . i