Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I The Black J J By 7. P. C > ** >+?>+* + aR has its black as w? 4 -| Sergt. Weir, of tl ?> * troop, was exempt froi ^ J % erloo, in which he nei J lr y field wps searched for ? 4> * X of the same regiment, * -T his name written in bli iHHHW* head. This, explained order that the sergea fled, and that thereby all suspicion ot 1 - of his troop might be averted. ' _t, . After the battle of Sedan, when th blood led the searchers to a shady spot Tying dead, with his hand tightly clinche clinched hand was a scrap of paper, wl was a letter from his little girl of flv< had crawled here to read with the las thus: "Dear Father: I miss you so m evening, when I used to kiss you. I hind to mamma. Your loving little girl. As 1 should like to imbue*iuy reade of war, and of the hardening effect of t devil's work, I shall make no apology f ing the draconic discipline of Frederick the king ordered that after a certain h alight in the tents under pain of death. / obeyed. Frederick went round the rami 7^' in\i tent, which he entered! Withia he letter to his wife, whom he worshipped "What are you doing there? Do y< my wife, Your Majesty. I thought I m 6^ ter. I implore Your >Iajesty to paruoi the feet of the king. "Rise!" cried Fr add to it these words: Tomorrow I shal script was added, and next day Zietern A humorous spy. when he was caug plere, the marshal addressed him with t tencing a man to death. "Brother, you i ? spy replied: "Either you or I must be # It's of supreme importance to you or to I must, that's all." The marshal v.*as : he ordered his Immediate reltas, i ' (5v * Hearts Th | For / ^ By the Rev. . <?> > : * E want appreciation a J * course with friends ai + * done us a kindness. I ^ W + it. If a man does u: * Why should we not be ceived? Hearts hunge yy* H'H* and women in the w <?> ?? things would change, would blaze out into c them what wc feel. In her "Life and Letters of Browni "Cariyle had never rendered him 0 pears, which one man of letters most proclaiming the admiration which he p fact was incomprehensible to Browninghe commented on it with a touch?thout repeating to a friend some almost exti days had been uttered tete-a-tete. 'If < repeated in public, what good they mig Cariyle has multitudes of imitators, that we do not say what we feel. Ai preachers, friends?go through life disc and their work are unappreciated, wh< lng. If we only would tell them what is expression of it would change the worl in the cold today, and would make pei burg Christian Advocate. & K 4 j i xJ ^ j Comforters Z ; ' By Geo. U fiS| ? ? X the past decade the school of incomplete X + their methods and the T T ^ old-time theology. Thi ? ' X the methods which f: * j branch of this cult ha * ? ??<> posure." They show \ cheerful friends of Jol magazines and newspa ness of our politics; the hopeless apath\ , corruption of our great financiers and b islatures, swindling the public with fr; our food, speculating with trust funds, i press and destroy small competitors an and buying judges and juries. They sh the gangrene of personal dishonesty am ing increase in the number of bribe-tah riotous extravagance of the rich, and ' ures form the typical current literatur grows jaded and surfeited, the stories b< our attention. Titus Oates and his plot modern finance. The achievement of tf to give space to :' r?e spicy stories of g The Moder By W. G Fi ..j HE Whitehead torpedo porpoise-shaped weap< , I teen feet long, and eig They are made in hot for firing even a sma] They are deliverc wards of two thousan i ? cotton in the "war-he hole in its centre to i / rectlv connected with the detonating pr cury, and a percussion-cap. In front of ?a very sensitive nose?which opera strikes, and sets off the whole charge. Behind the war-head comes the ct that drives this singular projectile thn pumped air at a pressure of about fil'tet And this, escaping through a valve iea< motive power. Next comes the raechan depth of the torpedo during its run: tt a great secret, and sold in turn to the from the tail of the torpedo are placed controlling valve which can be arrange* weapon has run a certain distance, th event of the <!orpedo missing its targei ' X, /liming Shoes. S' ">es b .Jb been specialized for a hnr orte ptA-poscs, but shoe.especially manufactured for those in mourning form a variety of foot-gear that few manufacturers would think of producing. Such shoes arc marie i , In Lynn, Mass. The mourning shoe k consists of a dead luster black leather, I made n? on a stylish last, and orna A inserted with mournful looking blue! * ?1bfccrs and beads. Arab3: asseu that Eve's tomb is at Jiddah,' agrweyftrd surrounded by^ whit? w?lls. - - - - 1 1 .. I Vide ofWa\ )'Connor.' J '11 as its heroic side, le Scots Greys, as paymaster of his m active service at the battle of Watrertheless fought and fell. When the ' fhe d?ad and wounded. Corporal Scot. \ , found the body of Scrgt. Weir with , 1 r, honil iinon his fore UUU Willi IMS' UJ ! !(, IIKIIU I the corporal, was obviously * done in nt's boay might be found and identi- 1 lis having absconded with the money i I c dead were being buried, a trace of , , where they found a French sergeant 'd in death pressed to his lips. In his lich they forced from it and n ad. It : ? which, when mortally wounded, he , t light of his dying eyes, and tx. ran ( uch. I miss you most .norning and try to be good, as'you tald me, and Marguerite." 1 rs with my own horror of the horrors i hese horrors upon all engaged in this j or returning to the subject by recall- , the Great. In his first Silesian war ! our neither fire nor candle should be To make sure that his orders were p. and at last caught sight of a light found Cant. Zietern writing a loving in not know the orders?" "It was to ' ~L * ~ * "itrht ho m V last let Iglll W I nr. II iuiSu> vv "... i me." stammered Zietern, falling ' ederick. "ft will be your last lette. , 1 perish on the scaffold.' " The postwas hanged. :ht and taken before Marshal Bassom:he formula he always used when senor I must certainly be hanged!" The hanged. Did you really mean that? me; because if you won't be hanged. ;o t'.ckjcd y.'ith tfc? man's humor that at Hunger f; neciation $ J. D. Jones. nd the expression Of it in our intertd acquaintances. When a ruan ha-i et us not be ashamed of speaking of s a wrong, we talk of it fast enough, equally ready to speak of benelits rer for appreciatibn. and there are men orld for whom the whole aspect of wbcte skv, from being dull and gray, ximson and gold, if we would but tell ng." Mrs. Sutherland Orr writes: Browning) that service, easy as it apjustly values from another?that of rivately expresses for his work. The ?it was so foreign to his nature, and ;h merely a touch?of bitterness when ravagant eulogium which in earlier 3nly,' he said, 'these words had been ht have done me!" " It is uot that we do not feel: it is id so theusands of people?writers, ouraged and depressed, thinking they thfv niteht eo on their way sing- | In our hearts. Appreciation and the d'8 estimate for many who are living petual summer in their souls.?PittsIS ? ?Magazines } ). Alger. { re has grown up iu this country a idealists, social reformers, who, iu ories, seem to have gone back to the ey seek to apply to society as a whole tiled with the individual. Krom one is come the modern literature of "exts our social sore spots, like the three if They expose in countless pages of ,pers the sordid*and depressing rotten- j of our good citizens; the remorseless usiness men. who are bribing our legaudulent stock schemes, adulterating combining in great monopolies to supd raise prices, who are breaking laws ow us the growth of business "graft," iong an honorable people, the depressors and bribe-givers. They tell us of the growth of poverty. These expose of our daily life. As our appetite ?come more sensational so as to retain live again in the amazing historian of te constructive elements has neglected raft and greed.?The Atlantic. ?> & ~n Torpedo tr.ClornlH V*Cf of today is a steel cigar, or automatic )n or projectile, from twelve to seventeen inches in diameter at its widest, h sizes for our navy; and when ready II one will weigh over half a ton. ;d in five sections, which contain upd pieces of machinery. The wet gunad" is inserted in slabs, each with a receive the core of dry gun cotton dtimer, which contains fulminate of merthe primer is screwed the war "nose" tes automatically when the weapon lamber containing the compressed air augh the water. Into this chamber is ?n hundred pounds to the square inch. Jills to the little engines; provides the ,isni which automatically regulates the lis ingenious apparatus has been kept various nations of the world. Not far the driving engines. There is also a 1 so as to close automatically after the us cbviating a futile explosion in the L?Harper's Weekly. HER GENTLE KNOCK. The Young Man?Don't you think Kitty Sweetun has a graceful walk? The Young Woman?Yes; I've noticed it. The poor girl is dreadfully troubled with corns on both her feet, and she has to walk with the greatest care imaginable.?Chicago Tribune A vessel recently called at Easter Island, the first to visit that out of the way spot in twelve months. The inhabitants seem content, however, for no one takes the infrequent opportunity to imlgrate. ?: v i _Jk * ' ' .-V-V " A MOVING EXHIBIT ___ Exhibit to Be Transported to All Parts of the State Free of Charge By the Railroads. A coach has been loaned to Cleni>011 college by the Southern railway otnpnny and will be trancported free if cost to all parts of the State reaeh'd by the tracts of that company, rite Atlantic ("oast Line Railway L'ompanv has also agreed to run this i-oach over their tracks free of cost to the college. This will enable the luthorities of Clemson college to reach the |>eople in all }>ortions of South Carolina with valuable instm rtions on practical questions relaxing to agriculture, mechanical, civil and plectrical engineering, textile and rhemical industry, geology and general industrial education. Experts not only from the college, but from other portions of the country, will be sent with the car to furnish information on the many industrial subjects demanding the attention of the people. There will be in this car the needed apparatus, appliances, tools and impiiraents to make the course of instructnion highly entertaining and valuable. S]>ecimens of plants, insects, minerals, etc.. will be found in this car. A tifrst class lantern, with many lantern ' slides on many subjects, will be placed in the car for the free and liberal use of the jn'ople. Valuable Records May Be Had. Oapt. \V. A. Courtenay has written to (Jov. Hey ward urging that this State cooj>eiate with others of the 13 original States to get from records in European capitals a lot of valuable information relating to these colonies when they were not independent States, (apt. Courtenay writes that these manuscripts' have been examined i?i the archives of London public record office and in confiteutial repose tories and have been pronounced indispcnsable by such men as Mr. Wm. M. Evarts. Joseph Choate and other ambassadors. Charters Asked For. The secretary of state has been asked to issue a commission for a company to he eapatilized at $1.")0,000 which will construct a system of waterworks for Georgetown, the spplv to be obtained from the Black river. TheTlishopville Mul* company and the Hartsville Mule company applied for commissions. The corporators are 5- L-il. !,/? tne same in uuwi cuuccm?, aim n.v . capital stock of each will be $10,000. | John W. Conder. of Columbia, W. T. Gregory and J. M. Hood are the parties interested. The Baptist State Convention. Columbia, Special.? Preparations are being made for the meeting of the State Baptist convention in this city the first week of December. The local committee on hospitality, of which the Rev; Walter E. Wilkins is the chairman is making ready for 500 delegates, among whom will be many of the strongest ministers and laymen in South Carolina. The meeting of the convention will begin on the night of Friday, December 1st, and will probably continue until the next Tuesday or Wednesday. New Bailroad in Horry County. r The Eddy Lake and Northern railroad company has applied for letters of incorporation. The incorjiorators are W. M. Bugan and Norman Jones of Baltimore, George Officer md J. W. Little of Eddy Lake and R. B. Scar of Conway. Capitalization to bo $100,000 with privilege of increasing to $200,000. The road will be of standard guage, V> miles in length, with Marion and Kddy Lake as the terminal points. Trying to Save His Dog He lost his Own Life. Sharon, Special.?Mr. Jule Jacksou, a section har.d on the Southern railway, was. hit and instantly killed by the westbound passenger train Friday afternoon about four miles from town. Mr. Jackson was trying to rescue his dog from the track when the train struck him. The A. R. P. Synod. Due West. Special.?The 102nd general synod of Associate Reformed Presbyterian church of oo4Vi met last week here in reg. sion. More than 100 1 ministers were present call. The meeting largely attended in church. Due Wesf\^ /dt(?figa central point of the Wrtr-'synod is the centre of interest of the whole "Seceder" denomination. Their theological seminary and both rnak 1 female colleges are located her 4 White Waitresses. I Charleston, Special.?The St. John hotel is making the experiment of employing white girls as waitresses instead of colored waiters. Eight girls arrived hei*e and immediately went to work. This is the first time thaf white help has been employed in sneh capacity in Charleston and the result of the innovation will be awaited with interest. The St. John hotel, as the Charleston hotel and Argyle hotel are now preparing for tourists Reason. ' Late News Notes. Scwu-al hundred bales of cotton were IJunied on the cotton plaform aj; St. Mathews. The fire was accidental, and threatened to do much greater damage Marshal Law at Cronstadt. St. Petersburg, By Cahle.?Martial law has been declared at Consiadt. Vice-Admiral Birileff, minister of marina, left tonight for Cronstadt 1 * './ .. V ^ > * Occurrences of Interest ffpm All Over South Carolina t MANY ITEMS OF STATE NEWS A Batch of Live Paragraphs Covering a Wide Range?What is Going On in Our State. | Charters and Commissions. The secretary of *tate issued a large number of charters i.nd commissions last week. The Cheraw Naval Stores Co. received a commission and will be capitalized at $15,000, the corporators being W. F. Stevenson, E. I. Prescott, M. W. Duvall, I). T. Matthews and T. (?. Matthews. The Shannon-Stevens-Boykin company of Cheraw will be mercantile in character and will be capitalized at $25,000. The corporators are: C. J. S. Shannon, Jr., John T. Stevens and W. A. Boykin. The Standard Warehouse company of Columbia secured its charter. The otliecrs are: D. C. Hevward, president; E. C. Cathcart, treasurer; E. T. Liyscorab, secretary. The board of di ectors consists of D. C. Hevward. bdwin W. Robertson and August lvohn of Columbia, J. A. Brock and R. E. Ligon of Anderson, Ellison A. Smyth, Lewis- W. Parker and W. E. Beattie of tlreenVille and J. K. Durst of Greenwood. The capital stock of the company is $500,000. The Chester Ice Co., capitalized at $20,000, Mas chartered with T. L. Eberhardt as president and treasurer and C. L. Ridgely as vice president and secretary. The Haile Shoe Co. will be looted in Union and the capital will be $.">,000. The corporators are: Wm. I. Haile, John A. Fant and Francis M. Fa it. The Farmers' Bank of Williamston will have a capital of $15,000 and the corpo ators are: W. A. Simpson. Geo. D. S illivan, E. H. Welbourne, J. E. Wakelield, Jr., and J. C. Duckworth. The corporators of the Georgetown club whose purposes are rated as athletic and social are: Lewis t> Bryan and W. S. Moore. The capital is $500. . A charter was given the Aiken Cotton and Stock exchange, capitalized at $2,000. The officers are: 0. H. Mobley, president; Nelson Johnson, vice president; W. J. Moseley, secretary, and R. L. Courtney treasurer. The Seaboard Product Co. of Georgetown will manufacture turpentine products. The capital is $10,000 and the corporatorsr are: A. G. Jordan, J. B. Steele and E. W. Kaminski. The Oregon Lumber Company of Greenville has increased its capital from $5,000 to $10,000. Briefs of State News. Chief of Police Norris of Augusta has written Governor Hevward that D. C. Murphy, a life sentence convict who escaped from the State prison, is now in jail in Swainsboro. Murphy was sentenced to be hanged for the murder of County Treasurer Copes of Orangeburg, but has his sentence commuted to life imprisonment and was sent up March 26, 1697. He escaDed soon afterwards. Mr. Oscar van der Meensch lias opened a bureau in Ghent, Belgium, to represent South Carolina in the immigration and colonization line. He is a delegate to Belgium, Holland and France. Mr. Powell Evans of Philadelphia, a son of Dr. .lames Evans of Florence has been appointed special commissioner to France. Gov. Samuel \V. Pennvpaekcr of Pennsylvania, has written to Gov. Heyward -suggesting a monument at Valley Forge from each of the thirteen original States. The troops from this State were camped there and the general assembly may appropriate a sum for a small memorial. The governor has received a petition for a pardon for Allen Milan, who is serving a 12-year sentence from Pickens county for conviction of manslaughter. Milan killed J. Cannon in 198. Both were negroes. The annual meeting o ftlid Sons of t^e Revolution in this State will be held in Charleston on December 14. Governor Heyward has been asked to deliver the annual address at the banquet. / The Spartanburg city council has ' decided to maintain its own chaingang and will shortly build a stockade. For a number of years the city l - _ 1 ? r\i*iOAnoi*g lias ueen turning v?ci tut piouuvin from mayor's court to the county authorities to work the road and an arrangement was made by which this 'work would be returned at stated periods. _____ \ Arthur Adams and Robert Sawyer, two of the three mutinous sailors from the schooner Harry A. Berwind, were convicted at Wilmington, X. C. Coughed Up Two Frogs. After suffering for weeks with an Illness which baffled her -physicians, Mrs. Bridget Mangau of Minooka, Pa., coughed up a frog four inches long. Dr. William Haggerty has placed it in alcohol, and will send it to a medical school. Mrs. Mangan has suffered with severe pains in the stomach for several weeks. Six days ago she suffered a constant thirst and that time she coughed up a small frog. The same symptoms were apparent last night when the .'our inch frog came to light. Dr. Haggerty says the woman must have swallowed the larger frog in drinking water when it was young, and that, itfdeveloped in her stomach, ?Nashville American. ' ' r." v.- * ' ' " t . . ' + i w?am m'jmnsii 1 Largest Attendance in History of the q Church?Baseball at Erskine Excites Debate. Due West, Special.?The 102nd synod of the A. R. P. Church of the ^ South held its final session in the local ... ? church Tuesday night, adjourned at j. 11.30 after transaetin ail the business . ... a that had come up for consideration. ? n Excepting the resolution adopted re- tj lativp to the enlargement of the for- n eign mission policy of the church by | <1 establishing a station in India, there a were no matters of unusual signifi- j cance discussed and yet the meeting a of the synod of 190."> will be memor- c able from the fact that it was proba- ^ bly the most largely attended meeting |J in its history. 0 At Monday night's session it was p decided that Rev. A. J. Ranson ot s, the Spartanburg church be allowed to S| canvass the Second Presbytery for t. sufficient funds to erect a suitable j. house of worship ot that place and # that Rev. G. W. Hanna of the Little li Rock, Ark., field.be instructed to can- e, vass the remaining presbyteries of the a church for the same purpose at his f station. 11 The synod approved the action of it the board of trustees of Erskine Col- T ccge providing for a ten per cent, in- l< crease in the salaries of the profes- tl sors, and that the salary of the prin- a cipal of the titting school be raised to si $1)00. The faculty were also given d permission to select tutors for the b Jonnrtmcnts in which thev were so M I -dly needed, that of English, ehem- ^ isfry, languages and mathematics. tl Wight of way over campus of 40 h feet to be used for a street leading b to the proposed depot was granted ' the promoters of Due West-Donalds railroad. This action was strongly opposed by some members of the s synod. f' The matter that elicited the most ^ attention and consideration, espec- s ially on the part of the students of * Erskine, was the action of the synod on the report of the board of trustees k of the college Vecommending that Er- '' skine be withdrawn from the S. CM. !" A. A. and be allowed to play 110 base- l! ball off the home grounds with aijv , college. The main argument of those 1 in favor of such action was the pre- j sumed fact that gambling had largely entered into the sport and like ille> galities were practiced by the students when on a baseball trip. After some lively discussion, led by Col. T. L. Kirkpatrick and representatives of the faculty on behalf of the synod toted down the resolution, and the boys clapped wildly, ignorant of ^ the sound of the moderator's gravel. Rev. T. G. Boyee, D. D., who was until lately the junior editor of The Associate Reformed Presbyterian, the church paper*, asked the synod to co 1- ?:?i. noil'!,- editor, h operate wiui uir ucmj , _ Prof. G. G. Parkinson, in making the fi paper a success and for the quench- f ing of any sectional feeling against e that organ. p A resolution was offered and adopt- d ed to petition the president in his v coming message to congress to give I) some attention to the great neeif of t abolishing the liquor traffic. e After several other unimportant matters had been disposed of, the p synod was led in prayer by Dr.'Neill v E. Pressley of Mexico and after a f song was adjounied with benediction " by the moderator, to meet at Camden, l! Ala., Thursday after the second Sab- r bath of November. 1906. " t Greenville Goes Dry. Greenville, Special.?At the elec- r tipn held in Greenville county on k Tuesday to determine the question of a dispensary or prohibition, the dry v ticket won by a majority estimated v closely at 4 to 1. * t Killed By a Negro Boy. 1 _ s IllUiUgCU II ?u Gaffney, Special.?Deputy United States Marshal A. L. Hallman re- | turued from Blaeksburg where he arrested John Martin, Thomas Martin and Ellen Martin, charged with peon- ( age. The parties are all white. They i are residents of the northeastern j part of Cherokee county and are I charged with holding a boy, Fitzhugh I White in peonage. They we?j? car- I ricd before United States Commis-. < sioner E. A. Trescott, at Blacksburg, 1 wh. re they gave a $060 bond each < ; % " * j Vv ir* ' '* * Ihange of Venue Denied 'by Judge Memminger. Saluda, Special?When court conened Thursday morning the ease of lie State against E. S. Blease. chargd with murder, was called. The socitor and Mr. T. S. Sease. who is ssisting in the prosecution, formally loved for a change of venue, the mo-, ion being based upon the affidavits f 299 citizens of the county that they id not believe the State could obtain fair and impartial trial. Defendnt's counsel in reply read the affidavits of 32.") citizens who swear that faip and impartial trial in this case an be had in Saluda county. In adifion to these affidavits were submit d by 20 citizens who. stated that tiey had signed affidavits for a change f venue under a misapprehension, iesides these, defendant's counsel ubmitted affidavits of the county upervisor of Sallida county, tlie suprintendent of education, several maturates in the county, those of an exupervisor and an ex-sheriff. The socitor, in presenting his side of the use stated that this was a rare case nd should not be tried by the strong riends of either side for it matters ot how the case should terminate, nproper .motives would be suspected, 'lie athdavits show that a State senate from this'county is charged with be killing of another man almost finally as popular, an<l that under ucli circumstances it would indeed be ifficult to procure a jury free from ias and prejudice. The affidavits as :ell as the records shojv that the tate could not get representation at lie local bar, but that on .the other and, even' member of the legal fraernity at this place represents the ofondsnt. The purpose of all judicial invest iations^ is to get a trial even above 4 nspieion. In spite of the fact that lie sympathy is always with the de? ense in cases of this kind the State hows by the affidavits of 299 men hat there is no probability of a fair rial in Saluda county. All that the itate asks is that it be transferred o some county where there is on lea-r on to believe bias or prejudice exits. When the affidavits on behalf of the efendant had been read the solicitor sked for time to procure other afliavits for the State. This Judge Mim^" linger promptly refused. At the conclusion of Mr. Sease's rgument Judg? Memminger held that he showing made by the State was inefficient and declined the motion. TO EXTEND C. & L. 7ork on Extension of Chesterfield k Lancaster Railroad From Ruby tc Gum Springs Now in Progress Cheraw, Special.?Mr. A. G. Pkge, eneral superintendent and one of the irgest stockholders of the Chestereld Lancaster Railroad is authority or the statement that the road is to xtend immediately from' Ruby, the resent teriminus, to Gum Springs, a istanee of about eight miles, the fork of cutting out the right of way eing,no*v in progress. Maj. Charles 1. Scott, a prominent and experiencd civil engineer of'Elkins, West iVrinia, lias charge the survey of the xtension and will personally superise the construction of the work. Y>r a number of years he was conleoted with the engineering department of the Cheaspeake & Ohio raiload and recently has been employed iy the Hon. Henry Gassaway Ilavis in lie construction of railway work in Vest Virginia. The extension of the C. & L. Raiload from Ruby will follow what is mown as the upper route, with sever,1 slight alterations in the line of surer. From Ruby to Gum Springs it till go a little south of the old norhern survey, leaving Mt. Croghan to he right a short distance, several housand dallars being saved by this light alteration. From Gum Springs he road will be built to Fox Place, tnd from there to the river; it is hard o say which route it will take, but ikely the upper one, via Dudley, ouching the river near the ildcot tream opposite the little town of Pradesville, in Lancaster county. To Pledge S. C. Fanners. Columbia, S. C., Special.?Seerearv F. H. Weston, of the South Cardina division of the.Southern Cotton Association in an interview said: ''Today I am in receipt of instrucions from headquarters in Atlanta to nstitute a movement toward securing dedges from the farmers for the colon which they now have on hand for .5 cents. "We know that there is a most acivc demand for dry goods and that he mills have not the cotton neeesary to run theni to till these conracts. The association considered 11 ents a fair but not unreasonable jriee for cotton, but'in view of the cry aggressive campaign that lias >een instituted against cotton in the ast few da}*s it would be absurd for he Southern Cotton Association to itand by and see the producers of otton throughout the South despoil:d of millions of dollars. "We must convince the pinners of he world that the price of cotton s to be fixed by the producer and not >y the speculator. "We have the money on hand and iropose to pay these canvassers for heir work." Barn Burned Near Gaffney. Gaffney, Special.?The crib and jam of Mr. J. F: C. Scruggs, who ives in the western part of Cherokee ounty, was burned Wednesday evenng, entailing a loss of three cows and ill the corn and forage of Mr. Scruggs. The insurance on the desroyed property amounts to $110. The ire is thoughf to have been the work >f an incendiary. This is the third ire which has occurred in that vicinity within the last twelve months. - > l J it Mi Greenville, Special.?Doyle Jack t son, a 16-vear-old ragro boy, shot and $ instantly killed a white man named t Ward Sunday morning at 10 o'clock. 1 on the plantation of Maj. Bellew in t Glassy Mountain township. Jackson s surrendered himself immediately after 1 the tredgv, and was brought to the Greenville jail by Maj. Ball6w, arriving at midnight. , To Colonize in the Sonth. I c Columbia, Special.?Commisionerof Immigration Watson is at work on a scheme to have the Salvation Army 1 people establish a large colony in this 1 section. Representatives of the army 1 are now in this locality preparing the t for colonization in the South from the 1 West and Southern Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Western New ( York, and .it is thought that colonies t will be established in several of the s Southern States. These representa- t -1? Urtliilo Plmttfl- r tives win aiso usu .iiuunv, - ?? nooga and other Southern Cities I News in Brief. The silver jubilee of the Federation : of Labor beguan at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Rev. Stephen M. Merrill, Methodist ( Episcopal Bishop, of Chicago, died at ( Keyport, N. J., aged SO years. President MeCall, of the New York t Life Insurance Company, was order- > ed to demand > "Judge" Andrew ' Hamilton's return to tell the investigating committee about the disburse- 1 merit of the "yellow-dog fund." ' TXTi'fVi Pponairp. | P^PWjPlL _ Notes of Southern Cotton Mfils and Other Mannfactoring Enterprises* % Watkinsville, Ga.?Watkinsville is to have a $100,000 cotton mill at an . - \ early date. A company has be^KOr- r gar.ized to place the nelr mill irt" operation. At the head'of the company as president, secretary and treaahrer ' ''jt is Hon. E. ii. Thompson, 01 uoonee .. county, one of the best fanners in ? this State and also a well known btwi- ijk 1 ness man. A. J. Baxter, of High . ,;q Shoals, is to be the superintendent of , the new mill. Mr. Baxter is a man, N of wide experience in?the mill busi- . ness. The directors are A. Ash- ford, A. C. Jackson, Da borne, Henry Thomas and E. ?. Crowley, In addition to the'establishment of the . new cotton mill plant the company will also establish a water works and '* electric light plant that will serve the purpose of the cotton mill and at c . same time give the town of Watkins-*-r' ville a good supply of. water .for domestic uses and fire protection and light the streets of the town with incandescent lights. Graham, N. C. The Leota Cotton Mill Co. takes over and will operate the plant of the Voorhees Manufacturing Co., at Graham, N. C. The mill V".... has 1248 spindles, 136 looms, dyeing* equipment, steam powe'rplant, etc, for manufacturing cloth. Its machinery is iiuuacu 111 a main uufiuiu^ stories high, 75x121 feet; there is | a lopper-house, dye-house and bolier-\_,; house. The Leota corporatidp ^ reported several weeks ago as incorporated with capital stock of $125.0#0 by Messrs. Jas. Y. Pomeroy, VfmS E. White and J. H. White. Mr. Pomeroy has been elected secretary, \iL Lineville, Ala. Henderson, Lewi*. m Bros. & Co., have purchased the large farm of J. T. Smith and wiH put V a cotton mill soon. They have *alao z'/jM closed a deal for shoals on the Tallapoosa river above the mouth of^ v4 Crooked creek, where they will instpM ' an electric plant to operate the ?mon % mill and furnish power' for other machinery at this place. / P.'.J Athens, Ga. The Star Thread Mills ^^gjjj C&pk, James -White. pmpneto^^^^B^H planning to effect "WflelJsivl^filH'g*. flHj ments next year, and The capacity will be nearly doubled. Some *$,000 J spindles will be added and electyi- m city will be used for motive power' vi m The star mill now has 7,000 spindle* (ring) in place, and makes yarns* ?c- ^ Besides this enlargement, Captain v White will develop the power of the . Barnett Shoals on, the Oconee" river, O ' and utilize it in his mills, transmit- ok ting the energy by electricity. ? - 'wilB Atlanta, Ga. W. H. Carter, ha* ' fl about completed arrangements to^^aH build a cotton bag factory and latej^"' ^ a 11,000,000 cotton mill at Tenn. He has interested I. ^Tl^eters, /.; ..JmJ B. W. Hirsch and B. J. Campbell, et "* j Memphis, in his proposition, and a 1 $30,000 company will be formed to /til build the bag factory first. , Charlotte, N. C. The Orient Mills are to be sold on the 25th this ; month at public sale, by F.G. John- ^ J ston, plaintiff, for debt. It iS valuable property, consisting of two brick fae- . ; tories with 13,200 spindles and 520 looms. The lot contains 13 1-2 acres ' 30 and there are 13 tenement houses.vj-^-a It has been ascertained that DavflS?'- J Clark is the promoter of the new cot- . I ton factory company regarding which -B there have been rnmors at Charlotte, B N. ('. A capital stock of 50,000 is contemplated. If the plan ma term- . I lizes. the product will he coarse ept- I tou yarns. Opelousas, La. Steps are being , w taken for the erection of a cotton fa?- 1 tory here. Messrs. Little and Lawler, $ -j of this place, being reported as the- j interested parties. j New Orleans, La. It is most probable that the Lane and Maginnis mills will consolidate. Meetings of the --A A stockholders were called for the 14th, *1 presumably to consider the deal. <^^3 Memphis, Tenn. A cotton bag fact- . .A ory. with a capitalization of $300,000, 1 all subscribed, and giving employment to 300 persons is now assured " i for this city. , ''t ~.yF' Huntsyilie, Ala. .The Madison Spinning Mill and all the franchises^ v and real and personal property of the ?; Madison Manufacturing Company, J ' J ? * \Tam n.W*1 '' a were sum uk uukiiuu iuuuuati iu ?ww4dance with a recent decree of the Un- J ited States Supreme Court, gained by ' j the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company, \l of New York. The mill has about If),000 spindles and until suspension employed 250 people. The Charlotte Tubing Company i* /j the latest industrial enterprise to be i launched in Charlotte. Drs. C. A. and . M. A. Bland and J. S. Loughead are . jjp the incorporators and an application t for a charter was made recently. The company will be capitalized at| $20,000. *The company will at once begin the . u erection of a plant near tue city ior the manufacture of cotton mill tubes along modern and improved lines. i ' v-fj Whitney, N. C. .It is reported that < yj, contracts have been closed wiffc the > Whitney Reduction Company $0 furnish 6,000 horse-power of electrical jJj energy at the four Cannon mills?one at Concord and three at Albemarle. The aggregate amount of the contract will be between $125,000 and $135,000 Spray, N. C. Mule-spun yarns on the wooleh system will be maufactured by the American Thread Companv, recently organized by B. Frank^^^ ) a