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The kinc :1 .^honi A NOVEL OF AMERICAN L1F E V MAURICE Copjrijht. i?52?nd iSTC / " 1 TmTIT> vwr l/'JtlAr A'JLil AA?1. ACROSS THB BATTLE-FIELD. After the great battle was over, Lieutenant Ballanche was sent by General Jackson to confer with the British officers regarding the burial of the dead lying so thickly tumbled together on that bloody plain. In the course of the interview he did not fail to make inquiries concerning the captive ladies, and when he was told that they were in a small country house not far from the battle-field, lie felt his heart leap. He had to emother impatience, however, and go on with his military duties just as though love were a matter 01 suoorainate impoitauee, aud if the burial of a few hundred invaders were of higher obligation than rescuing a beautiful and adorable sweetheart from a situation of suffering and danger. A young man must be under good discipline to be thus wedded to military duty; but it may be remembered that Andrew Jackson had a, way of making everyone about him rFgard orders as absolutely binding beyond even life itself. "What set the terrible sting of doubt in the lieutenant's heart and made him chafe through ever? moment of that seemingly interminable confer- J ence, was the. fact that none of the British officers could tell him whether or not the captives were still safe from harm. All that they could say was to the effect that the ladies had Kaah trin^ltr trua+Oil nml Rftfplv cnftrd. vvv>" tt4UWV ? J o?? ed up to the time of the battle. Since then no one had seen them nor heard of them. And what might have happened daring that wild rnsh of overthrow, when the whole British army was torn and scattered, and when the exasperated soldiers were left to shift for themselves without officers to re* strain them? The thonght was one to chill the young man's blood; but he went on with the conference, his agitation showing only in a certain austerity of manner which the British officers attributed to native churlishness. When at last he had finished the matter, he hastened to General Jackson with his report. Mr. Vernon was present when he arrived at headquarters and had already asked leave to go in search of his family. The old man's face lighted up wonderfully when Ballanche told what he knew. "And they are safe!" he exclaimed, j \ showing more passionate excitement j rthan any one bad ever witnessed in ! him before. "They told yon that j they were safe?" A singularly be- j aeaching note rang through his words, i The lieuteuaut could not have the ; heart to tell him that there was a dontt. General Jackson would not permit any precipitate action. He reminded j Mr. Vernon that a truce was pending : and that due formalities must be ob-1 served in tho matter of penetrating the British lines for any purpose, j The old inau bore the delay in the' spirit of a caged lion. It seemed to ' him that a year might have elapsed | since he parted from his wife and1 daughter; every moment now dragged i by like a snail. What added a peculiar dread to the I situation was the thought of Loring, Vasseur and old man Burns all going in the direction which might lead them to where Mrs. Vernon and Paul-! ine had been left by their captors, j Mr. Vernon's whole mind dwelt on ! the fear that his wife and daughter might be told the secret of his past life. His imagination, which was as i vigorous and lawless as his frame was j stalwart, built up all manner of dark prophecies and lilted him with fore- ' bodings too dreadful for any thought j to give them definite form. He ao- j cused himself with all the bitterness j of which self-accusation is possible. I Why had he not left Irs loved ones at home, where they would have been so safe now? What demon had possessed him to send them (of all places in the world) to that plantation-house right in the path of the British army? When at last, after hours of delay, all necessary formalities had been observed and everything was ready, General Jackson ordered six men detailed to accompany Mr. Vernon and Lieutenant Ballanche on their journey of love. Old Enos Peevy was one of the squad. A young British officer joined them to see them safe to their destin ation. They were an mounted; Dut three of the horses were to bear the ladies back to the American lines. A rough bridge had been hastily oast across the ditoh of death, and over this Mr. Vernon led the way, passing into the awful swaths of trar's reaping. Peevy rode beside him, sitting awkwardly but firmly on a little Creole pony, his long.bouy legs reaching down so far that his feet almost touched the blood-tinged ground. He was rery much interested in noting the condition of 1he dead. British as he passed along. "Thar's a feller 'at I plumpted a hole through," he exclaimed presently with great satisfaction, pointing toward a stalwart Highlander outstretched on his back. "I put it to 'im jes' ez 'e war " 'Hush, manl" said Mr. Vernon in -*n undertone, "remember that we have an English officer with us." "Oh, tarnation take the offioer!| "W'at air I er keerin' fer 'im?" grutn-, hied the aoonW "I wash 'at I'd er . _Y .. & . .... } 0F^_ BY ISLAND E DURING THE WAR OF 1812. THOMPSON. ky r.obfrt Bonaer * Son*. got a bead onter him. Ef I bed it'd er ben good-bye 'at Mary Auu'd said to 'im." If the English officer heard what was said he discreetly kept silent. As they rode along, picking their way between the heaps of slain, their horses stumbling over the ruts made by connou balls, Lieutenant Ballanche looked back toward the low breastworks behind which he had fought, aud it required but a glance to comprehend the fatal mistake made by the British. The deadly ditch looked harmless enough from this side?a man would thiuk he could jump across it. Mr. Vernon could not bear a moderate pace. As soon as they were well beyond the first windrow of the J battle he urged his horse to a canter, then into a gallop. Ballanche spurred forward and joined him. A mighty impatience was burning the blood of the two men. "How far is it yet!'* Mr. Vernon huskily demanded, after they had i gone beyond the battle-field proper and passed through a stretch of wet, plashy woods. i "Just yonder, around the point of magnolias," was the almost breathless < answer. "The house is behind those trees." The old man leaned forward in his saddle and put his horse to the best. < "I fear that we shall run into trou- i ble at this rate," said the English officer who had chanced to couie side bj i side with Enos Peevy. i "Ef we do," said the scout, with a i grim leer, "I'll pop you the fust one. i Mary Ann yer, w'at I hev in my han', i kinder wants ter mak yer 'quaiutance < anyhow." | The conversation ended at once. j The Englishman bit his lip and drew in his horse so as to fall behind. Soon j enough he was out of sight, and the ( Americans saw him no more. He was tired of the ride. I Mr. Yernon and Lieutenant Bal- ( lanche were too much absorbed in j the thought of reaching the magnolia , point and coming within Tiew of the ( house to note the absence of the of- ( fioer until Peevy called to them: 'That air feller hev snoke olf," he j cried, in his shrill treble. "That , etarnal orficer air gone!" I They slackened their pace to let , him come up with them. "Let him go," said 3Ir. Vernon, ( when he understood the matter, "wo don't need him." And again they spurred on. Lieutenaut Ballanche had a fresher, : stronger horse than the one that bore : Mr. Vernon, and by the time they had swung around the pcint with the little plantatiou-honse full in view he was considerably in the lead. It was with au indescribable stifling sensation that he leaned over his sad- 1 die-horn and gazed between straggling j orange trees toward the low doorway beyond -a broken gale. The place looked lonely and desolate. It was a picture of silence set against a gray background of wilderness. Mr. Vernon and Ballancha had ridden into the enclosure and were approaching the house. The walk or pathway was narrow and Mr. Vernon was now in advance. Suddenly he drew his horse back with such force that it almost stood upright on its haunches; at the same time he uttered a deep ejaculation of surprise and horror. A man lay dead, doubled up across the path near the front-door of the house. Mr. Vernon recognized the face iustautly, although it was pinched and distorted. Peevy saw that something startling had been discovered aud hurried through the gate. "Wat air the matter now, fellers?" he inquired. Then, seeing the dead body, be added: "W'y, ii air thet thar feller who went cavortiu' " ' He was interrupted by a sharp cry * from the;house, and the door was ! flung wide open. 1 "Etarual Jerusalem!" he exclaimed. "Jes' look, will ye!" Mr. Vernon and Ballanche were al- ( ready looking. They had seen many dead men that day, had ridden past them and over them, but this one demanded more than a glauoe, at least s from Mr. Vernon, who did not look ( at onoe, even when the voice rang out 1 from the open door of the house. s CHAPTER XXVII. \ WOUNDED LION. 1 Meantime Mrs. Vernon, Pauline t aud Mademoiselle de Sezannes had } not been ill-treated beyond what the exigencies of life in the immediate vicinity of the British camp made in- ] evitable. The commanding officer ^ ordered them to be kept in the small , house already described and furnished them food and a guard. Under the circumstances, this was the best that j he could do. He felt that to sead j them through the liues would be a dangerous proceeding, as he was re- j lying upon surprising the Americans, j Colonel Loring found no difficulty in securing the favor of General Keane, , anc, later, General Pakenham himself recognized him as one who had done him a great and dangerous service years before. Moreover, Loring brought with him perfect maps aud I drawings of all the American defenses i and full descriptions and reports of all i the troops under Jackson and the i L: ? * ; vvr.v I probable order of tbeir distribution, nor did be neglect to exhibit, as ij half by accident, the newspapers con* taiuiugthe sensational accouuts of his daring assault upou General Jackson's nose. He volunteered to lead a reconnoitering party in the direction of the American lines, and the result was a full confirmation of his previous! statements regarding the probable1 plans of Jackson for the defense of Xew Orleans. All this aided him, but his personal magnetism went much farther. There was something in him that drew men of daring and reckless courage to him ami held them there. His voice, Lis manner, his steady, fearless eyes and the look of absolute selfassurance which seemed to be the natural expression of his face made way for him even in councils of the generals. Men of iron found him a man of adamant, nor did they look through to the darker side of his being; men rarely trouble themselves with what is not most available in their fellows. Loring fonml time to be kind to the captive women, and especially to Pauline he showed almost tender solicitndo ia seeking her eouifort. lie did not often enter into conversation with her, nor were his visits more than merely formal. Pauline, however, in her great desire to know what was going on and what was likely to be the outcome of the impending battle watched lor his coming each day, with the hope that he would have something to say which would lesson the strain of suspense. Day after day went by, meahtime, with nothing to break the dread monotony or to soften the horror of seeing the English troops 3well in numbers and of bearing the preparation of an overwhelming column of attack which ? ' it.. I.'ial - A t was Qieaa; 10 sweep me nine Auicrr can band before it like dry leaves before a baeeze. Idademoisei.e de Gezauaes hated Loring nore and more as the time dragged od. She treated him with the sold courtesy of a scornful politeness when she was forced to accept a favor it his hands; but he appeared not to notice her mood. His whole mind seemed occupied with the thought of contributing all that he could to insuring the best disposition and direction of the British forces. The little and yet in some way strangely significant marks of attention shown by him to Panline were the only signs of any turning, even ror a moment, from his concentrated singleness of interest. The house on which our attention for the present centers stood at the edge of i dark wood bordering a swamp. Its front looked toward the plain npon which were being made the preparations for battle. Westward and not Far away the muddy current of the Mississippi tumbled along darkly behind a low levee. It was a rongh wooden building plainly furnished and hut recently abandoned in great haste by its owner. Two elderly serving women were appointed to serve tbo captive?. After the night-fight already hastily sketched, Loring came to the house iud reported that the Americans had shown their strength and mode of warfare and that now it would be an easy -"--1- *1 C UJlUg lO ailUL'H lUCiU 1U iuac Ikuu ugBtroj them. He appeared somewhat more animated than Pauline had ever before seen him; but she could not bo sure what his excitement indicated; it may have been, sho thought after lie was gone, no more than the afterglow of the battle-spirit. It was evident, even to her inexperienced mind, ;hat the British had not been successful in the engagement; but when, ater on, the reinforcement landed and poured across the plain, when the jreat cannon went lumbering by, vhen the flags streamed out and the ;housands of red uniforms shone in thick array, seen in the distance ihrough the straggling orange grove, ihe felt that all hope was indeed gone. Mrs. Vernon and Mademoiselle de Sezannes had been despondent and ;iven over to moaning and tears from the first. Pauline, even when despair :ame, preserved her composure. Lorug noted this steadfastness of will if he girl, and it seemed to appeal to iim as through a strain of likeness to lis own character, straDge as such a jompavison might be; ana once, when Mademoiselle de Sezannes looked at :li3 two stauding near each other, she saw, as by a fash of sudden reveloion, a striking resemblance betweeu :heir faces, especially in the way of cagthening and narrowing the eyes n moments of deep feeling. "I hate you, almost," she said to Pauline, when Lonng was gone, "be- ! muse yon like that mau." "Look like him!" exclaimed Mrs. ireinon. "What a horrid jest!" "It is horrible, but it is no jest," laid Mademoiselle de Sezannes, with nnphasis. "Just now their eyes were irecisely alike." Pauline was offended, and drew herself up to turn away. The quick rush >f resentment, well repressed thongh t was, exemplified the theory of Madenoiselle de Sezannes. Madame Ver ion saw ttk"' flattening ana leveling 01 .be beautiful eyelids and c&ught the nomentary gleam from the lengthenng eyes. She started hysterically, and would lave spoken had not Loring returned ather hastily to say that the battle vould opeu on the following morning ?this had just been determined upon ?and that it was absolutely necessary or them to remain close shut in the jouso until all should be over. And so when, in the small hours of ho following night, the low, wide stir jegan, the women knew that the British columns were forming for the jreat assault. (to be continued.) An appendicitis club has been ormcd in Cleveland, Ohio. To bo* some a member of this unique crganU cation, one mast have boon operated upon for appendicitis. i / EDUCATIONAL REPORT. State Superintendent Martin Gives Out Interesting Figures. The report of State Superintendent of Education 0. B. Martin is now in the hands of the State printer and will be issued at an early date. The report this year is unusually lengthy but i3 full of useful information and statistics. Mr. Martin, in his introductory remarks alone the line of school develop nient in South Carolina, says that "in I some districts the schools run only a | short while, the houses are ill adapted I and inadequate, the furniture and equipment rude and incomplete, some of th? children are not in school at all, and yet these districts have a surplus in the treasury. Manifestly these people need to be aroused. They need more and better sentiment. In other districts," says Mr. Martin, "the conditions are almost as bad but the people realize the need and are trying to improve. They need money. To equalize the desired results the conferences in the spring planned a systematic agitation through public speeches and the press." Mr. Martin calls attention to the work of the Southern Educational beard and to the model school that they have established at Heath Springs, and adds, "the Southern States have r.ot received their proper share of the great gifts for education. Twenty-five per cent, of the population of our country should receive a larger proportion than 3 per cent, of the general contributions to education." The death of the late Dr. J. L. M. Curry, general agent of the Peabody fund, is touched upon, and the fact that with the discontinuation of the scholarships at the Peabody college in Nashville South Carolina will lose great benefits. The summer schools for teachers showed enrollment as follows: State schools, enrollment 312, average 237; county schools, enrollment 1,214. average 919; district schools, enrollment 5,4*4, tWCrage o-t-. me Uiauiti atuuuia were for negro teachers and were 12 in number, while the schools for white teachers numbered 41. The income for summer schools was reduced $500, as the Peabody fund amounted to $1,400 instead of $1,900 as heretofore. "Much credit," says Mr. Martin, "for the success of the summer school work is due xy distinguished predecessor, for the present plan and organization are largely due to his zeal and ability." The superintendent of education believes that the general assembly should pass a general act as to the issuance of bonds for school purposes, and thus avoid the trouble of special acts when such need arises in a district. Mr. Martin also remarked on the fact that when a district, wishes to levy a special tax it must be done practically between January 1 and June 1, and suggests that the limit be extended to September 1. "Numerous requests," says Mr. Martin, "have come to this department from Citadel beneficaries asking to be released from their bonds on the grounds that they are unable to secure positions to teach for two years, as is required by law. The act seems to leave some discretion with this department, but I have construed it to mean that tbe beneficiary is really expected to perform the service indicated or otherwise redeem his bond. The State has the right to expect some return for her investment along this line." One of the most interesting subjects with hv Mr Martin is the disnen sary law as applicable to the school revenue. He says: Section 1235 of the code provides: All net income derived by the State from the sale of liquors in this State, under the dispensary law, shall be apportioned among the various counties of this State, for the benefit of the common schools, in proportion to the deficiencies existing in the various countries of this State, after the application of the 3 mills tax and the poll tax, to run the public schools for the item fixed in section 1233 (three months); and if there shall be a surplus of such net income after such deficiencies have been equalized, it shall be devoted to public school purposes and be apportioned among the counties in proportion to the enrollment in the public schools. "While the intent and purpose of 1 *1 * - x-.x - ~ ?? dnnKf trnnH V^t in mis suuuie aie uu uuuui its effect I really believe it is injurious. It encourages small schools and puts i a premium on poverty. This fund is actually the only real State school fund we have except the small income from the permanent school fund, as the ( 3-mills tax and the poll tax are really , district funds, and therefore it seems to me that the State ought to use part of this fund for the purpose of stimu- : lating effort and encouraging forward movements. I learn rrom reports-sent 1 to the comptroller general that 13 counties scattered throughout the State < do not get any funds whatever on account of deficiencies. 6 get less than J $500, 12 more' than $100 but less than $500, 5 get more than $5000 and less ; than $1,000, 4 get more than $1,000 and i less than $1,600 and 1 gets more than i $3,000. "This is evidently not equitable, and ! my observation convinces me that it ' is not best for many of the districts 1 which receive the help, because it leads to formation of more schools chiefly i to get the additional funds. i As to rural school libraries Mr. Mar- .< tin says that an appropriation of $5, ' J "> I.K????y, UUU WOU1Q SlclI L l<rf 11CW uuiai icg iu ca?.u county. He believes that it would be < wise to allow trustees to spend 5 per \ cent, of their funds in the purchase of libraries. The rural school library has ] been introduced into 29 States, the North Carolina plan being suggested by Supt. Martin as an excellent one. Mr. Martin urges that the salaries of 1 county superintendents of education \ be raised commensurately with their duties. The total enrollment for 1903 in the public schools was 288,713, an increase of 18,342 over(1902> but only 3.507 more than 1901. The total expenditures for the public schools was $1,046,143.49. The total expenditure for the same < purpose in the United States for the < same length of time according to the I United States commissioner's report i was $235,208,465. It will thus be seen 1 that we are far below the average of 1 other States in our support of the i general education of our people. Dividing the total expenditures by the average attendance (which is 1903 was 209,385) we find that we spend $5.06 per pupil. This is not simply salaries but It Includes amounts spent for balldlngs, repairs, furrlture and all -,- ^ ; - yji: , ... . ^ T"7 y other purposes. Some States expend as much as $28 per pupil and the average in the United States is 21.38." With a population of 1,382,000 South Carolina spends 75 cents per capita for the public schools. The average salary paid to white teachers is $203.04. and to colored teachers $93.04. Every county had a surplus at the close of the school year, the smallest amountins; to $004.54. the largest to $30,572.71. It is estimated that $40,000 to $50.000 a year is naid out for interest in order to get the cash for school purposes before the taxes are paid in. Mr. Martin thinks that the State should get on a cash basis especially as to the payment of teachers and other school expenses. "It is reported that the business of the dispensary amounts U> $3,00,000 per annum. Ten per cent, of this amount would relieve the sifdation and this amount could be obtained either by an advance of 10 per cent, on the price of the commodity or the former appropriations from this source could be restored." Mr. Martin in conclusion remarks that the illiteracy of South Carolina is decreasing, being now 35.9 per cent. "It is appalling to think that one white inhabitant out of every seven is totally illiterate, while three of the remaining six have not the education to enable them to properly discharge their duties or to really grasp the purposes and possibilities of life. When we take the whole population, at least one in three is illiterate. It is a matter of statistics that the wealth-producing power of a State is in direct proportion to the money expended for education. A State with the same population as ours but which spends three times as much for schools will get a direct return in wealth-producing power." WORLD'S FAIR POINTERS. Polo will bo a feature of World's Fair games. Illinois will make a complete fish ex hibit at the World's Fair. Chattanooga. Tenn., will erect a ?23,000 huil-.ling at the World's Fair. Germany and America will have con. petiiive exhibits of forestry, each five acres in extent at the St. Louis World's Fair. A rose garden six acres in area and containing 50.000 rose trees, will be one of the attractions at the St. Louis World's Fair. A model farm, representing a section of land 100 acres in extent will be one of the interesting and valuable exhibits at the World's Fair. The leading painters and sculptors of St. Petersburg, Russia, have premised to co-onerate in organizing a Russian art exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition. The State of Maine Building at the St. Louis World's Fair will be unique in character, its motif being the log cabin, the walls constructed entirely of logs. New Mexico will make an exhibit ot turquoise mining at the World's Fair. A lapidary showing how the stones are cut and polished and prepared for the market will be a feature. The British National ravlllon at the World's Fair. St. Louis, will be a reproduction of the orangery or banquet hall of the Kensington Palace, in Kensington Gardens, London. The chief feature of the Cornell University exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition* will be a plaster model, eight by six feet, of the Campus. This will show the streets, buildings, gorges and waterfaiis, all in color. According to W. Ivohlsaat, Commissioner of the Exposition to Norway, Sweden and Denmark, the Crown Frince of Sweden will attend the Fair, and his intimate friend. Crown Prince Frederick, may also come. ? PROMINENT PEOPLE. A marble statue of Genernl von Molt he is to be erected in Berlin, Germany. Archbishop Ireland will be one of the speakers at the Lincoln Day banquet in Chicago, III. II. F. Intra lis, believed to be the oldpst living showman, resides in the little town of Iluntsville, Ohio. F.eoker T. Washington has purchased eighty-eight head of cattle in Iiockland, N. Y., for shipment to Tuskegee. Louis Primeau, the most noted interpreter among the Sioux Indians, iliod recently at Standiug Rock Agency. In Norway's new Cabinet Sigurd Ibsen. son of Ilenrfk, and son-in-law of Bjornson, holds the office of Minister of State, at Stockholm. William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet and dramatist, and President of the National Irish Theatre Society, is visiting the United States. Theodore C. Hinckley, of St. Louis, Mo., lias lioen appointed District Attorney of Manila. Mr. Hinckley is o?*ly twenty-three years old. Vice-Admiral Togo. who has just succeeded Admiral Tsuboi in command if the standing Japanese squadron, is ine of the popular heroes of Japan. Itudolph Scliwarz, the Indianapolis sculptor, has just completed the bronze statue of the late Governor Pinsrree. if Michigan, which will be erected in Detroit. A statue of Colonel Josias It. King, of St. Taul. Minn., who was, it is believed. the first volunteer in the Civil War, is to surmount the monument to be erected in Snramit Park, St. Paul. After a service of sixty-one years. Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higglnson, the well-known historian, has resigned as Chairman of the committee which inspects the course of instruction in English literature at Harvard Uiiiversity. A Dmgt r Signal. At a wedding in a church, noticing :he dim religious red iight that burns jver the chancel, Teddy asked his aachelor uncle. "Is that a danger sigial, Undo Tom?" and Uncle Tom. ivho is suspected of hovering on the brink of a proposal, was heard to reply, "Ye3."?December IJpninoott's. Another suit will be brought against the promoters of the United States Shipbuilding Company and Mr. J. P. Morgan's part in the deal will be explained. ft V I ' r I. -$388 jpmuio wis. ninor Events of the Week hi il % Brief Form. \ ?xx$5Eiiii?seexiaiKxiaiEmesJ Died of His Injuries. Anderson, Special.?Sylvester Brown, colored, who was shot by Ben Lockhart, also colored, at a hot supper, near Starr, several weeks ago. died Saturday night. The verdict of Um coroner's Jury was that the deceased came to his death as the result of % pistol shot wound at the hands of Lockhart. Lockhart fled the night of the shooting, but was captured sooa after in Elbert county, Georgia. Ha was brought back here and lodged in. jail, where he has been since awaiting the result of Brown's injuries. He will now be held for trial on a charge of murder. _ . I ' I New Enterprises. The secretary of state last week granted a charter to the Roger company of Fork in Marion county c&pi* talized at $5,000, and with L. M. Roger as president and F. C. Roger as treasurer. The concern will manufacture lumber. A charter was also given the CalenA AAmnanif /-?f rvo r? 11 r\ erf r\n nrltV UCU UIUL(V lUUIl?mj Ul LfBI I1UQWU man a capital of $20,000. The officers are J. B. Hudnall president and treasurer and C. 0. Coles secretary. Palmetto Briefs. Application was made Saturday to Gov. Hey ward for the pardon of Jacob Singleton, Joe Sheppard, Jr., Wm. Holmes, July and Willie Cuyler, all colored boys, convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to two years on the county chaingang. The crime of which the boys were convicted occurred about a year ago. At a small station on the Plant System in Colleton county they were part of a crowd which engaged in a scuffle, in which a boy named Beach was struck in the head with an iron bolt, receiving injuries from which he died a few days later. Owing to the darkness at the time of the crime, and other facts, the application states that the jury convicted all of the defendants not knowing which had done the deed. Mr. Frank Stewart, a young man who was raised a few miles south of York, ville, and who has been at Huntsville, Ala., for some time past was killed in a barroom in that town Saturday night. From such information as can be gathered, Mr. Stewart was the innocent victim of a crazy drunkard. The drunkard came into the bar and began firing his pistol at everybody in sight. A bullet struck Mr. Stewart in the heart and killed him instantly. The crazy man was shot by the barkeeper and was taken to the hospital seriously wounded. The body of Mr. Stewart was brought home and entered in the Yorkville cemetery on Wednesday. An Investigation into the books of J. B. Long, deceased, late treasurer of Horry county, reveals the fact that there is a shortage of $4,143.73. This is divided as follows: State tax $789.56^ county, $1,510.22; special, $453.68, and school $1,390.25. The bond of the treasurer is good for the amount and action will be instituted on it to recover. No explanation is given as to hov th^ I shortage occurred, though Mr. Long is claimed to have believed at his death that the office had been robbed, and this may account for it. + As the result of an inquest held Friday by Coroner Black over the dead body of Ansel Arnold, who was found dead in the woods near his home in Granville, Thursday night, I the jury returned the following verdict: "The deceased, Ansel Arnold, came to his death as the result of a gun shot wound inflicted by Perry Tnhn Pnrtpr Jesse Har DUliCI ) n leu u v?* ? rison and others as accessories thereto." In the Supreme Court In Columbia the appeal of Adams , a white man of Colleton county, was argued. ^ Adams killed another white man and was sentenced to be hanged but the sentence was stayed by an appeal. The case possessed unusual interest from the fact that a white man has been sentenced to death in this State, something that has not happened in South Carolina for many a year. On Thursday almost the entire real estate of the late Col. John L. Toung was sold at auction, in order that a proper division might be made between the children, this being considered by the administrators as the best and most convenient way to settle the estate. Indeed it proved a most excellent way for they realized something like <35,000 out of the sale. This is probably the biggest estate ever put upon the block there and on account of its location it broueht a good price. The boiler and shaving room at theplant of the Carolina Lumber and Manufacturing Company in Chesterfield county was destroyed Friday afternoon. By heroic effort on the part of the employes the fire was confined to that part of the plaint alone. The loss will be about <1,000, and is coverered by insurance. This will cause a shut down for a week or ten days. The case of M. M. Turner, who was in Yorkvllle some- % cuu1ujiih.-u vj j?.. time ago because of an attempt to wreck a southbound train at Catawba river, has at last been settled so far as that county is concerned. After the commitment of Turner it developed that he was of unsound mind and also that he was from another State. The authorities could do nothing yrith him but send him back to North Carolina. In the Court of Common Pleas In Laurens the jury rendered a verdict of $2,000 in favor of S. G. McDaniel against the C. & W.C. Railroad Company. The suit was for $10,000 damage alleged to have been sustained in the wrecking of a crank car at Fountain Inn while McDaniel was in the employ of the company. By the will of the late Charles Logan the city of Columbia receives legacies, aggregating no less than $60,000. Th? Columbia hospital and 8t Peter's Catholic church each receive $M06. ' ? >&