The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, December 31, 1903, Image 7
? ??
. TWeTkTnc
,-honf
A NOVEL OF AMERICAN LIFi
CV MAURICE
CotwrlSkMSW an J 1N>?
A CHAPTER XXIX.
. AT
Burns, when he caught sight of
HB Pierre Raiaeau making his way through
woods into the swamp, rushed
^y after him with the energy of one who
y feels that the spurt of strength vouchsafed
to him is to be short and ilual.
The old man knew that to fail now
meant to fail forever. The terrible
excitement, exposure aud effort of the
- < * i * J J ?: J iU?
past ioriuigut nau uraiueu iuv tup vi
his vitality almost to tho bottom. The
firo of monomaniacal frenzy had
burned so fiercely in his breast of
late that his eyes showed the effect by
a wild, steadfast, strained stare, )iot!{
unlike that of a dead man. When he
!ahamblel past Pauline at the edge of
the swamp, he did not see her, so intently
was his gaze set upon the retreating
fignre of the victim he longed
for.
- "Kirk MacCollongh!" he called, and
the name rasped the woods like a file.
^"Kirk MacCollough, I am coming!"
At the sound of the voice the dark
x man halted and turned about.
| "You had better come no farther!"
he coolly said. "Stop right here!"
, Barns slackened his pace, bat came
steadily upon him, fumbling meantime
for the knife in bis bosom, his
drawn feature set aud rigid.
Rameau retreated, walking slowly
backward, fixing his tiger-like eyes
steadily on the old mail's face.
Pauline ran bacs to the house as
i soon as Ramean left her; so Bhe did
sot hear the voices of the two men,
although they rang with strange distinctness
through the moss-hnng aisles
of the forest.
"Max Barns," growled the outlaw,
with a certain harsh accentuation, "I
do not wish to injnre von. Keep
off!"
"Ha! Ha! Injure me! You cannot;
I am beyond that. Injury is already
hardened upon me like a mail.
Death itself caunot find a loose joint."
He was speaking with the preacher's
intonation and his words had a suggestion
of the pulpit. "Though you
be Satan himself, I will prevail ovor
you! Yoa, now is your time come to
Il uic:
H "You are crazy! I pity you! But
you'd better stop!" Rameau mattered,
I atill stepping backward and watching
V steadily every movement that Burns
E made.
[ Both men were just then recalling
| the scene in the Pearl-River woods.
"I will make sure work this time
if you force me to it!" Rameau added.
"This time you die!" said Burns,
have been told that many a time
before, Max Burns; but it was always
a lie; it is a lie now."
r Rameau stopped suddenly as he
spoke, and poised himself to kick
Burns as he had Yasseur.
The old man, with uplifted knife,
pressed right on. Now, for the first
time, he saw that Rameau's arms were
both useless and that his clothes were
saturated with blood. The discovery
caused him to falter involuntarily.
Rameau lifted his foot, and as he
did so he slipped and fell heavily
baokward on the ground, with one of
his broken arms doubled up under
him.
Barns stood glaring at him, while
he made feeble efforts to .rise. He
had fallen so that he conld not even
tarn himself over, and, although he
showed no sign of pain, his torture
must have been extreme.
"I am at your mercy. Kill me and
be done," he remarked, with the old
tone of indifference. "You had better
be quick if you value revenge, for
I am bleeding inwardly. This fall
has started the flow."
Burns stooped over him and gazed
into his eyes. The long knife in the
old man's hand trembled so that it
flickered like a cold ray of light amid
the shadows of the funereal wood.
"You are losing preoious time,"
urged Rameau. "Strike the coward's
blow and enjoy the assassin's triumph.
When neit you preach, take 'Thou
ahalt not kill,' for a text."
Burns stooped lower, his face grow-ing
livid, his whole frame shaking as
with an ague.
"Hypocrite of hypocrites," continued
Rameau, "and fool of fools!
End up your Christian career with
murdering a helpless and dying man!
What a lovely thing this Christianity
is! Stab away, why don't you?"
Rameau was very weakr and over'
his firm, strangely complacent face
was creeping an ashy pallor.
Barns knelt down astride of him
and grasped the collar of his coat with,
his left hand, while with his right he
slowly lifted the knife. He did not
strike, however, bat lowered the
/ weapon and gazed vaguely around him
-v^?-and up, as if he had heard something
that troubled him.
. The wood was strangely silent, save
that, far aloft, the breeze sighed in
the tree-tops.
"Ah, your courage fails you, does
it?" Rameau sneered. "Your dyspeptic
soul shrinks and falters in its
hoar of triumph! Pluck up a little
spirit, Max Burns; don't let your last
grand opportunity slip away from
yon!"
> i Again the old man began to lift the
knffe, bat his hand seemed uncontrollable.
What was it overhead that i
made him look np with snch an expression
of his eyest His lips moved
damWy. __
'* * > . T
?
j OF.v
EY ISLAND
; DURING THE WAR OF 1312.
5W
THOMPSON.
-? rrp-rr'? Fcafc
I ?. .
itameau s narrow gaze grew miuui
intense.
"Toil arc to blame for my life and
yonrs!" he growled hoarsely. "You
ire to blame for everything! Yon set
your selfish, hypocritical, canting objections
between Margaret and me;
poisoned our lives with your driveling,
sanctimonious deceit and bigotry;
drove her from home; made a brute of
me, and now here we are dying
together! Stab, yon cowardly old assassin,
stab!"
If Burns had heard him, he gave no
sign; his face was still upturned and
over his emaciated features and into
his sunken eyes had come a look of
supplication. Was he praying?
"None of that here!" exclaimed
Rameau, noticing the rapt stare and
;he moving lips. "You shall not make
in altar of me for your infernal mummery!"
As he spoke, he feebly lifted one of
tiis half-paralyzed legs and tried to
strike Burns iu the back with his
! knee.
' T* ? - hflmnl unrl Mia at -
XI* WUd a 1UIUO awvui|/v| M~>< ? ?
Iwusted outlaw nettled down with grim
resignation to await the end, what*
ever it might be.
Burns drew his left hand, which had
been clutching Kameau's collar, across
his forehead and eyes, as if to clear
his vision, and looked all around, then
up into the tree-tops. One seeing him
wonld have been sure that the old
man had heard a familiar voioe calling
him. He was now sitting heavily
on Rameau's breast and his shoulders
were collapsed.
"Margaret! Margaret!" he presently
cried in a strange, far-reaching halfwhisper.
"Did you call me, Margaret?"
"Idiot!" snarled Ramean, in whose
throat the breath was rattlinggominonsly.
"Can't yon see that I am
dying? You are going to lose your
revenge if you don't strike soon 1 What
do you see? What are you staring at?"
"Margaret! Come nearer, Margaret!"
"Fool, make haste!"
"Speak, Margaret! Speak to me
again!"
? 5 3 T. IV. 1,1
darns leanea ana mo ooiu
sweat stood on his wrinkled forehead;
his eyes glowed with some inexpressible
ecstasy.
' Dolt! Dotard! Do the dead ever
speak? Your own selfish stubbornness
killed her, not my hand; and now you
ask her to speak! Take your knife
and strike your own heart with it as
you- struck hers with your "
Rameau was speaking rapidly,
huskily; his Toice seemed to flutter in
his throat, when Burns stopped him
with a throttling grasp.
"Hush!" oried the old man. "You
frighten her, and she will not speak."
Was it a smile or a swift spasm of
pain that lighted up the outlaw's face?
The breathing of the two men whispered
strangely in the silent wood.
"What is that on your breast, Margaret?
A wound? Oh, my' poor
child! Who did it?"
"I did it! I told you that long ago!
I did it!" gasped Bameau.
"You! You did it!" screamed
Burns, supporting his weight againon
his knees and uplifting the knife
with an arm as rigid now as steel.
Ktr:_w "
iUOVVA/iiVUgu ?
"Tes, I, Kirk MacCollough!"
Once more the old man faltered and
listened, his eyes taming in every direction.
Suddenly he looked up, and
a great cry escaped his lips:
"Heavenly Master?is it Thou?"
His face changed; it was like transfiguration;
it was illumination.
?
When Mr. Vernon and Lieutenant
Ballanehe came upon the scene of this
ast meeting between Max Burns and
Kirk MacCollough, they found both
men lying dead.
The outlaw's face was still strangely
laudsome, and wore, even in that aw'ul
repose, a trace of the old reckless
ndifference to consequences.
Bnrns's face was downward, and his
cnifo was driven to the hilt in the
lamp ground.
Mr. Vernon stood for a long while
ooking at the dead. What he thought
sa3 never been revealed.
CHAPTER XXX.
CONCLUSION.
General Jackson, with the caution 1
which the occasion demanded, held
his little army well together and did
lot relax his vigikace until he was
mre that the British had abandoned
.11 thought of further efforts to take
Sew Orleans. He permitted Mr. Verlon
to conduct Mrs. Vernon, Pauline
ind Mademoiselle de Sezannes to the
;ity, but Lieutenant Ballanche was
>rdered, much to hit chagrin, to re
nain with the army.
Kirk MacColloagk, old man Barns
tad Yasseur has been buried tem- '
porarily ia shallow graves near where
;hey had fallen. Later, Mr. Yernou
jad all three brought to New Orleans
?nd interred in a cemetery where to
this day a heavy brick tomb stands
ander a spreading oak. 9
A few years ago the walls of this
tomb were crumbling to ruin; but in
18S9 some kind hand restored them
ind covered the whole io?h durable
stuooo.
There was a tumult of rejoicing which
lasted for many days and nights in
Orleans. Never, perhaps, in the history
of wars was there a battle of such
k _ m
<* ! 19
consequenoa that caused so llttli
mourning to the victor*. The killei
and wounded were so few that the faoi
of sorrow scarcely showed itself ami<
the general flare of glorification.
The de Sezannes's mausiou wai
thrown open late in January for ?
grand reception to General Jacksoi
and his officers. All the world wai
there, as the Creoles expressed it, and
next to the gritn commander himself
Fairfax, who was able to attend as th<
only wounded soldier present, was th<
1? tUa Aooaainn ACnAAiflllv ill ill*
eyes of the ladies.
"Ah, if I conld have been touched
with a shot!" exclaimed Lienteuani
Ballanche, as ho joined the group thai
had gathered around the pale yet radi
antly happy young man.
"But then we should not have hat
the pleasure of being rescued by you,'
said Pauline.
"Oh, that was a tamo affair on mj
part."
"Tame, indeed!" remarked Mademoiselle
de Sezanues. "You do nol
appreciate romance."
"But I do, madomoiselle; only tht
romance did not make me a *man ol
note. I am horribly jealous of Fair
fax."
"And here I must sit, like a cat or
a rag, while you dance with all these
charming ones," said Fairfax. "It is
I who lose most if accounts are prop
erly squared."
Mr. Vernon was present, passing
among the thronging guests, his stab
a %- ;? i J J:.
wart rorm ana nis massive uu&u uistinguishing
him as one cast in no common
moid. He appeared to have
grown older, and the expression of hie
face suggested some inward reserve ol
gloom, albeit he smiled and conversed
with mnch of his accustomed stately
vivacity. To him General Jaoksoo
showed more marked respect than to
any other person in the house.
"You will not thin* me aegleotful
of your gallant husband's inestimable
services to me and the oountry, madame,"
said the general to Mrs. Livingston,
"if I say frankly that I owe
more to Mr. Vernon than to any man
in my army."
"Ton may trust me not to misunderstand
you, general," replied
that lady, with frank earnestness.
"Mr. Vernon has always
been a man of remarkable
influence and executive power. My
husband has often relied upon him,
and never without avail, in mattsre
apparently beyond hope. But dc
you know," and she lowered hei
vtfice, "that he is wholly mysterious?'
"Yes; I confess tbat he is the only
man that I ever met whose motives
and whose character I could not even
guess at."
"It is comforting to hear you say
so; it confirms me in my romance."
She smiled reminiscently and then
added: "I have always imagined that
some great secret was locked in his
breast."
"It is the secret of greatness hampered
by some controlling fate," said
Jackson, half in seriousness, perhaps,
but guided by his chivalrous impulse
to assist Mrs. Livingston in her romantic
notion.
"Do you know that his word is law
with the forbans and outlaws?" she
suddenly inquired. "My husband
says that he controls them perfectly."
General Jackson looked at her,
and then, without replying, masked
his face in an expression of impenetrable
reserve. He knew that Livingston
himself had been accused of
standing close in with the Lafittes
and other noted law-breakers, and
doubtless he feared that the wife of
his friend might go too far with her
disclosures. Long afterward, in his
old age, he remarked to a friend in
VAfthrilU that, at the time he was
commanding at New Orleans, aocietj
there knew no line of division between
gentlemen and robbers. "Bat,"
he added, "the gentlemen were gentlemen;
the robbers, patriots; and
the women were oharming; thej were
angels, sir?angels!"
The people thronging the de Sezannes
mansion were, indeed, drawn
together without regard for fitness as
we now view it, and little did certain
of them dream that the great battle
ever which they were rejoicing had
rang the note of change and reform;
that the flash of those guns had
kindled the fire of destruction under
the very foundations of outlawry.
It is true that Muirell organized
his band of robbers and thieves in
Mississippi una neia mem logeiuer
for some years; but in New Orleans,
as if by a wave of a hand, when Mr.
Vernon withdrew his influence, the
Chats-Hnants disappeared, and the
power of the Laflttes was broken forever.
The <le Sezannes reception was the
last notable social event under the old
regime. After that, there followed
disclosures which led to Governmental
investigation and legal procedure.
Steps were taken to administer
the criminal laws with great
vigor in the State, and the United
States Government enforced its authority
along the coast. These
changes speedily brought about a new
social order, especially in New Or
leans, and the city at once took a high
place as a center of refinement, luxury
and culture, in which the lines of
division between the fit and the unfit
were drawn with extreme exclusiveness.
Wilfred Parker made his last appearance
in New Orleans society on
the occasion of Mademoiselle de Sezannes's
marriage. M. de Sez&unes
had insisted on inviting
him, although Marie offered as an
objection that she had never been
able to rid herself of the belief thai
Parker had stolen her ruby on the
evening of the party at Chateau d'Or.
Lieutenant Ballauche heartily disliked
the suave little adventurer,
without knowing just why; but he
pooh-poohed Marie's suspicion of
felonious behavior. *
The very next day Parker was identified
as John A. Murrell, and
t
W
* great'difficulty made bis escape In!
* Mississippi. The crime of which h
9 was accused was horse-stealing, an
* when he left New Orleans, it wa
astride of Ballanche's favorite mar
s that he rode into the swampy wood
1 and evaded the officers.
1 When Pauline aud Fairfax wer
5 marridfl tlio rrnoufu ah iliair wprl/lin
? were chosoa with a care that sui
> prised not a few who had expected t
3 be invited. It was Mr. Vernon him
3 self who had most iusistcd on this ex
3 fllnsiveness.
Fairfax had bis drop of bitter t
' swallow with all his nuptial sweet?
t On the day of his marriage, he learuei
^ that Madame Souvestre had mad
" over her fortnrne to the church am
had retired to a convent. He conli
\ in no wise blame himself for this
and yet he knew that into that swee
young woman's life his house had cas
r ineradicable sorrow.
Mr. Vernon insisted upon bavin)
his ohildren, as he now called Paul
' ine and Fairfax, live at Chateau d'Or
where they watched him go gentl;
3 down the decline of life. Ho oat
' lived Mrs. Vernon many years, an<
" died at the age of ninety-one. Fo
years before bis death, he spent mncl
1 time at the old mahogany desk, writing
1 what afterward was found to be botl
1 a will and history. In the testament
try part of the hnge document he lef
all his property to his daughter, anc
' she was surprised to find that a large
' part of the bequest consisted of land
' ed estates in Scotland. The will wai
.signed '^Thomas MaoCollough," anc
1 among the annexed papers were al
J the directions, facts and documentary
proofs necessary to establish the truti
1 of a strange and startling autobiog
raphy.
1 Oce thing was left without an wore
1 of explanation: In the package o
papers was inclosed tha amothysi
cross, still shut in the old, won
leather case.
Pauline refused to make public
claim to the estates in Scotland; bul
after her death, which was in 1849,
her children offered the proofs and
possessed the property, which was
valnod at nearly a million dollars.
Fairfax never reached eminence at
an artist. Indeed, after his marriage,
he made no more than occasional
efforts with his brush. One of hi*
pictures, however, has been recently
attracting much attention, By some
means, it passed from the hands of a
friend in New Orleans to whom Fair'
fax gave it, and is now in the collec'
tion of "Masterpieces of Obsoure Artists"
made by the late Marqnis de
Montluzin.
The picture is scarcely more than
a study of the face of Kirk MacCollough,
sketched by Fairfax long be
lore ms marriage ana oetore no naa
proof that Pierre Rameau and Colonel
Loring were bat ono man. It is,
nevertheless, a powerful piece ol
work, in which is caught with perfeot
canning the indescribable fascination
of the strange outlaw's countenance.
Under it, on the darkened margin
of the canvas, is written in heavy red
letters:
: Th* King of Honey Island. 1
TUB ?MJ.
LABOR WORLD. .
An effort is being made to organize
cooks and waiters at Albany, N. Y.
A new Allied Printing Trades Council
has been formed at Minneapolis,
Minn.
There are more than 2,000,000 members
In the Trades Union Congress of
England.
Every province in the Dominion i9
represented in the Trades and Labor
Congress of Canada.
The Cigarmakers' International
Union has $750,000 in the treasuries of
its subordinate unions.
San Francisco, Cal.. Allied Provision
Trade Council is considering the establishment
of a defense fund.
The recent ten per cent, reduction in
wages of New England's cotton textile
operatives affected 88,000 men.
Union bakers at Milwaukee. Wis.,
will induce State authorities to investigate
the conditions of hake-shops in
that city.
Locomotive Engineers' Society, of
England, has decided to federate with
the Amalgamated Society of Railway
Servants.
Recently the Photographers' Union
was formed in San Francisco, Cal., the
lirst of this craft to be organized in the
United States.
Six per cent, of the membership of
the United Machine workers of the
United Kingdom arc in receipt of outof-work
donations.
The report of the Labor Commission
which has just been signed at Johannesburg,
South Africa, approves the
employment of Asiatics in the mines.
Mine owners in South Wales have
given notice of a claim for a reduction
of five per cent, in wages. It will be
passed upon by the Conciliation Board,
Coal miners in Scotland have begun
a crusade against non-union workers,
with the object either of compelling
them to join the union or driving them
from the mines.
Began Preaching at Four.
James L. Washington, th? colored
boy preacher, and his blind father,
who is a Jubilee songster, made their
first appearance in Boston last night
at the Ebenezer Baptist church, says
the Boston Globe. It is claimed that
this bright and original boy has never
been to school. Last night he impressed
his audience wonderfully with
his address on "Unbelief."
He was born at Big Rock, Ark., in
1888. It is further claimed that he began
his religious work at the age of
4 years and has constantly been following
the same ever since then. He
is a natural-born penman. He can
name and read any passage of the
Scriptures and can recite 531 chapter#
In the Bible by heart
* I- ' *
W yp w
' '?
?] MEWSV CLEANINGS ; ~"
f I Jacob Riis pronounces Washington's
slums worse than those of New York.
18
I Steps have been taken for the organ1
ization of a national war on the raos'
quito.
Heavy fighting lasting two days beiwcen
Dominican forces was reported
2 roin Santiago.
Joseph Kepplcr was chosen now
0 Chief of the Six Nations at the bier of
l" tne late Mrs. Converse.
* ' Woman have carried off the larger
proportion of honors in the London
0 University examinations.
' The French Government has made
^ arrangements for new Embassies at
c Washington, Rome and Vienna.
Russia continued the movement of
1 troops eastward, and a strong squadi,
ron left the Mediterranean for Chinese
t waters.
t Arrangements are being perfected for
j a traffic alliance between the 'Frisco
a? railroad and the Southern for an en.
trance into New Orleans, La.
, Edward J. Frost, inventor of the
y Frost or Pintseh li'gbt, used exclusive*
. ly for lighting railroad coaches, died at
j Detroit. Mich., aged sixty-live years.
r The New York Court of Appeals dej
cided that a county tax lieu does not
take precedence of a city tax lien, and
* that in any case the latter holds good.
Experts recommending Nhe purchase
" of watersheds in the vicinity of Fish5
kill to increase New York City's water
* supply. The plan contemplates the ex'
penditure of $100,000,000.
Secretary Root sent a letter in d^
1 fense of General Leonard Wood to the
I Senate Committee on Military Affairs,
1 i" which he says that the press reports
f of testimony are largely false,
t Articles of incorporation were filed
. at Louisville, Ky.. by the tight Itev.
Bishop Thomas U. Dudley, who. as
I Episcopal Bishop of Kentucky, cousti.
tutes a corporation, with all the powt
era of a corporation.
1 PROMINENT PEOPLE'
5 The Ctar has given $5000 to sufferers
k from the Neva floods.
, King Lewanica, ruler of Basuloland,
I la educating several t>f bis many sons
, in England and Australia.
King Alfonso of Spain is about to
; start on a tour of Europe, visiting all
the principal courts on the Continent.
' Great White Bear, great-grandson
, of Tall Tree, once chief of the Crows,
. is a bugler in the United States Navy.
, Edwin Wnrfleld, Governor-elect of
t the State of Maryland, has been everything
from a farmer's hired man to a
banker.
Captain Alfred Johnson, who was the
first man to cross the ocean in a small
) boat in 187G, is still living at Gloucester,
Mass.
1 Pope Pius X. is suffering from a
rheumatic affection of the foot in consequence
of a cold contracted at Venice
before his election to the papal
i chair.
, | President Lonbet will resume shortly
his study of astronomy. An observa;
tory is being built on the grounds of
! the chateau which the President recently
purchased.
l King Christian of Denmark was
I handed his appointment as General in
the German Army by the Kaiser's
Aidende-Camp, Major-General von
Moltke, a nephew of the great strategist
T A 1*. iUoi 4UA A# ikA
XI is bxiu ujul tut; tuuuw ui uie
late Mai O'Rell will return to the
j*tage. She was once well known in
comic opera as Beatrice Eresham.
Major E. H. Ellis, of the British
War Office, has been commissioned
to examine the military surveys in
Canada for the purpose of bringing
them up to date.
Dr. Lorenz is said to have received
an ofTer of 540,000 to reduce the congenital
hip dislocation of the small son
of a brewer in the United States, the
name not being given.
Newspaper Proprietor Killed.
Philadelphia, Special.?Hugh A.
Mullen, one of the proprietors of tho
Sunday Philadelphia World, and well
known in local politics, was instantly
killed by being struck by a train at
the North Philadelphia station of the
Pennsylvania Railroad. How the accident
occurred nobody seems to
2LUUW, UIIL 11 IO UCUCTUU UC OlLUUl^lCU
to cross the tracks. Among the papers
found in his pocket was an accident
insurance policy for $5,000.
Mr. Mullen was 56 years old and a
native of Philadelphia.
Southern Railway Finances.
New York. Special?Reports that the
Southern Railway was about* to make
a bond issue were denied, but it is a
fact that a readjustment of the company's
finances has been considered
from time to time. The ownerships and
leases of many small lines by the
Southern have, to an extent, complicated
the general finances of the system.
and it is said at a more favorable
time the directors will recommend the
issuance of a general refunding bond,
which will cover practically oil existing
issues.
Miners Quit Work.
Indianapolis Special. ? Word has
been received at the headquarters of
the United Mine Workers that 1,000
? *- " ~ Tir^of VU
miners in rnrswu vuuuuj, umi, ??.ginla,
had quit work on account of a
reduction of 10 cents a ton in their
scale. Several of the operators in the
i Preston coalfields were also interested
in the n\ii^Ht Meyersdale, Pa. where
1 5,000 out on acccount of a
similar 10 cents a ton. The men
in PrestOTi county were recently organized,
but are determined to hold
out against the proposed reduction.
Cost of Balloons.
Balloons are "in the air" at present,
and consequently the cost of those
\ aerial machines is interesting. The
size generally favored by "sportsmen"
ranges from 27,000 to 45,000 cubic
feet, the former costing in "coton
caoutchoutee" ?120, in Chinese silk
?192, and in French silk ?252; and
the latter ?220, ?315 and ?384, according
to the material used. These
prices includ# the balloon complete'
and readjr to be filled with gas.?$<ondoo
Answers. * .
V " f ;
, t *
jl
IPIKIIOJUK |
S Jllnor Event# of the Week tail i
Pardons Issued. jJjJ
Gov.-Heyward last week p?rdon4^M
three convicts?Kelley Goode,
Greenville; Wm. Sullivan, of ?aiireijbjMk
and Pinetta Foley, of Horry. Goode %
was convicted in 1902 of assault and .
battery with intent to kill and sei?
tenced to serve two years In the ffenl- :
tentiary. In endorsing his applies- '
tion for pardon the judge said th^
be had been convicted largely by clrcumstantial
evidence and that tlier*
was doubt of bis guilt. The solicitor
concurred in this opinion. Salllvaa'<
was convicted of manslaughter and'
sentenced to two year? in the Stat*
prison, bis sentence beginning ?c- H
tober, 1902. At the time of bis conviction
the solicitor promised that af- .
tor he had served one year he wonld
endorse an application for' paj^oiz!.
Pinetta Foley Is a negro woman wno
was convicted and was sent to th? * 4
chain-gang for six months. Both the .
Judge and the solicitor recommended (
her pardon.
Palmetto Items. * 1
Constables Bell and' Whitmlre,
Greenville, on Tuesday seised and do- stroyed
a large illicit distillery plant*
located near Highland postofflce in
the Dark Corner section of that g
county. The plant consisted of a still ,
of 75 gallon capacity, a cap and worm,
eleven fermenters and 1,000 gallons of
beer and mash. The plant was in full
operation when the officers arrived on 1
the premises and liquor waft flowing
freely. Wade McKinney, colored, and
a white man were found engaged in
operating the still. Wade McKinney
was arrested but the white man succeeded
in making Lis escape.
Kinney was taken to Greenville ar^^^
after a preliminary hearing w?^H
bound over to court for trial..
Kelly Good, of Greenville, was cop-V
victed and sentenced to twi> years tor n
assault and battery. He has served' ^
one-half the term. The evident?
against him was circumstantial and - ^
on the recommendation of the soaiicfi
tor and the judge a pardon hal been %
a ?j wmi.? a?m??n T aw. 1m
granieu. niuisu ouiuiu, u? ww
rens, was convicted for the same. of- *
(ense and received the same sentence. \'
He has berved one year and op th%;
recommendation of the solicitor and
the judge a pardon was also granted ^
J. D. Batchman, flagman for tiitf*,
Seaboard Air Line railload at
Gervais street crossing in Columbia, y
was run over by a shifting engine \
Saturday night and Instantly killed. |
His head was completely severed ftont
the body and both legs crushed. It
appears that he left his poet- a few ...
minutes before the accident and ,
walked down the track as if to crops <
the street A negro who was
on the rear of the engine 6&w Batdb-'O
mans' danger and cried out in an effort
to warn him, but was too late. \
The committee having in ciukk
the collection of funds for the Hasp- ,
ton manument has completed Its report
and in it will state that $5,000 is "
the total contributions. The committees
endeavored to raise tie $10.000,
which was the amount condition- ,
ed In the appropriation passed at the
last meeting of the general assembly
in order to receive a similar must *
from the State.
It was learned in Columbf^^^^^B
day morning that there is cB H
ity of a contest arising
cent election for Hammom H
which the proposition
Those who are in favor
ments are dissatisfied wlU^^^^BBH
though it is not known
grounds the reported conte^Hfl^H^H
BH
Governor Heyward has
vited to attend the meeting
national arbitration convention ^^HH|
held in Washington, January lBKjBfl
Is not likely that he can attend
has also received urgent lnritaq^^^H
to attend the banquet of the PataM^^B
club at Georgetown on the 31st instJ^^H
Charters have been issued by iq^B
Secretary of State to the Columb^^H
Cocoa Cola Bottling company, a
concern, for the bottling and sqUinf^H
of cocoa cola. Capital stock, $S,0fi?^H
H. D. Cross well, J. K. Crosswelf afBfl
the corporators; and the LaboroB^U
Mutual Insurance Co., at Batesb^^H|
to do a general insurance huslnesd^^^H
a capital stock of $1,000. The qprpon|^|
tors are J. W. Quattlebaum and J.
The governor Thursday offered two^fl
rewards of S100 each for the arren^H
and conviction of the persons wbcH|
set fire to the barn of D. W. BarndjflH
Newberry, and for the persons
burned a school house in Bethel tcw^^^
snip, in York county.
The Secretary of Sj}tate Monday is
sued a commission to Mutual Supply 4
Company, of Carlisle; capital stock}w$5,000.
C. A. Jeter and W. A. Ratch- <
ford, of Carlisle, are corporathra. The
{ new concern proposes to transact a *
general merchandise business. '
An application for & charter hap W
been made by the Pryor Training <
School for Nurses, at Chester. It Jp
an eleemosynary institution. Drs.Ta
W. Pryor and A. N. Wylie are the
corporators.
Contractor W. A. Harrison, dt J
Charleston, while superintending the |
construction of a building near the J
Charleston navy yard, waa shot Saturday
afternoon by a negro named.
Francis Middleton alias "Meatskin."
and perhaps mortally wounded.' The
negro made his escape.
Lee Gilllkin shot and killed Jolm
Miller Saturday night at ten o'clock
at the home of the latter In "West >
Greenville. Both pasties are colored.
Witnesses say the shooting was the
result of Gilliken's intimacy with i
Miller's wife. GilHken is now ia Jail. A