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XBX SCSETBB WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850? *3e Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Airas t at be thy Connery's thy God's and Truth's. THE TRUS 80UTHJB0N, K?tafcllB?ed Jnzue, IS? Aag. 2,1881. SUMTER. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 8, 1905'. New Series-Yoi. XXIY. '<<>. 29 ?:^Wi?^^ at? ?oi??|nm 8STEEH PUBLISHING COMPANY, SUMTER, S. C. TSRMS : f*? per annum-i a advance. iSTtsiistiicr: One Square first iaa*rtion.TT.."...$i CO ayerjaubsequ^tinaert?on^^.^ 50 v Contracte for three months, or longer will ba made at reduced rates. All co?uiaanications which subserve private interests will be charged for as &d ver'tiements. Obituaries and tributes af respects.will be jfearged for. W8M 6F TSE LE?jSLATL'RE. THERE WELL NOW BE TEX JU? DICIAL COURTS. House Basses Judiciary Committee Bfil Creating; Two New Circuits to Heve Congestion of Courts. _ By W.H. McCaw. ; Columbia, Feb. 2.-The. house, af? ter a spirited debate, refused hy a vote of $7 to 41 to kill the bill creating two additional judicial circuts and it was passed with an amendment forbidding special terms, but allowing the ap - pointment of special judges to hold regular terms in place of sick judges. . In the .opinion, of. Representative Pollock the amendment makes the bill unconstitutional inasmuch as the con? stitution allows special terms, and to? morrow he w?l ask unanimous consent - to take oh! the amendment The text of the bill as introduced is as follows: That the state be, and is hereby, di? vided into ten judicial. circuits; com? posed as foliovrs: First Circuit-Charleston, Colleton and Beaufort. Second Circuit-Berkeley, George? town, Dorchester and Orangeburg^ Third Circuit-Hampton, Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell and Edgefield. Fourth Circuit-Clarendon, Flor? ence, Xiee, Sumter and Williamsburg. Fifth Cjreuit-Chesterfield, Darling ion, Horry, Marion and Marlboro. Sixth Circuit-Kershaw, Lexington, Richland and Saluda. Seventh Circcuit-Chester, Fairfield, lancaster and Yorkl > Siffhth- Circuit-Cherokee, Spartan burg and Union. Ninth Circuit-Abbeville, Green? wood, Laurens and Newb%rry. Tenth Circuit-Anderson, Greenville Pickens and Oconee. Columbia, Feb. 2.-There is scarce? ly any room for doubt now but that chis session will not see the enactment ?jf anything in the nature of a compul? sory education law and that there will foe io radical changes in the dispensary system. The old lines have been drawn in the senate after Senator Brice's vigorous speech against the whole system on his local option measure giving communities the right ito vote out dispensaries and the de? cided majority against his bill show? ed the tendency of that boy. Though no vote has been taken in the house on any dispensary bill, those matters now due as a special order not having been reached, yet can always be de pended ripon to be more favorably disposed toward the dispensary. The senate has already voted down com pulsory education measure, and yes? terday" the house by a vote of 62 to 47 killed the D. ' O. Herbert compulsory education biB, after a short bu tan entertaining debate. \ The house refused by a vote of 67 to 41 to kill the bill creating the new judicial districts on account of the congested condition of 'che dockets throughout tl ie State and passed it amended so as to do away with special terms of court but providing for the appointment by the governor of special judges to preside at regular terms where regular judges cannot meet their appointments by reason of illness. In the opinion of Representa? tive Pollock the . amendment renders the b?l unconstitutional and tomor? row he will ask for unanimous con? sent to strike ont the amendment be? cause the constitution provides for the holding of special terms. Something of a stir was created in the beginning of the morning session of the house by the introduction by Bapresentative Etheridge of a resolu? tion to exclude visitors from the floor of the house on account of an epidemic of small pox in Columbia. But it promptly failed, as it was regarded as bavin* b3en inspired more by a desire to secure better order about the halls than by any fear of smallpox. It brought cut a communication from the executive committee of the Co? lumbia board of health to the effect that the smallpox situation was pro? bably less acute here than in many other portions of the State, that the situation was well in hand and that here was every prospect of the disease being stamped out of Columbia in a short time. The senate took a fall ont of'the lawyers today by killing a bill tc make litigants liable for fees in cases: compromised, .on the ground that ii; would discourage compromises. If. reconsidered and passed the bill to ex? empt Immigration Commissioner Wat? son from the free pass law, the rider as to sheriffs being taken off. Bot ii; refused to so amend the law at the instance of Senator Blesse of Saluda as to ;jracticaliy freopen the doors to passes.' Senator Blease of Newberry said that it was a notorious fact that officers of the State nsed passes as soon i as they touched the North Carolina or Georgia line. Representative Harley had a bill to prohibit tabing the " brasses, Bearings or packing'' from the "journal box of any locomotive engine, tender, coach, caboose, truck, carriage or car operated upon any railroad." Mr. Cloy of Aiken had a bill to provide for local boards of health in unincor? porated towns, and Mr. Toole to fix he Aiken coroners salary. Mr. Brace had one to provide for supplying pen? sioners with a copy of the confederate roll. The agricultural committee of the house introduced a bill to repeal sections 360 and 263 of the Criminal Code with reference to the sale of fer; ti lizers and enact other sections in their place. Columbia, Feb. 4.-Tho senate has taken a fall out of the p?sent dispen? sary arrangements with reference' to the directorate and the purchasing power by passing to a third reading the Raysor bill with an amendment from the Manning bill requiring the quarterly purchases to be made com? pletely each quarter so as to do away with the evil of "filling in." The bill gives the appointment of the three members of the board of direc? tors to the governor and requires the purchases to be made by secret, num? bered bids, tiie bids to be submit? ted to the State treasurer along with samples in a bottle of uniform size and pattern and with no distinguish? ing marks. The contracts are to go to the number whose corresponding sample shows up best according to quality and price. Only standard case goods are to-be used and what remains over at the end of the year is to be returned to the sellers. Senator Cole L. Blease, leading the ultra dispen? sary forces, made a vigorous fight against that portion of the bill giv? ing the appointment of the directorate to the govenor on the ground that a governor hostile to the dispensary would be given the authority through his board to close every dispensary in thR State, but his motion to con? tinue the bill till next session receiv? ed only five other votes beside his 3wn. The Moragn automobile bill, whose provisions as the bili pac red the hocse save been snrmmariezd in this corres? pondence, has passed the senate unended so as - to eliminate the feature making judgments in cases of l?males a prior claim against the nachine. The senate also put on a nider including traction engines. Senator Mauldin's bill to merge >be present two classes of widow pensioners was killed by a large ma? jority. A^ similar measure is now pending in the house, where it nar? rowly escaped death yesterday. Senator Hood's bill to amend the jury law so a to have' the commission make up a tales box in December to iouble as many names as will be need? ed in the ensuing year from men of ?ood moral character, ano to be drawn from the box only in the presnce of all m ree members of the commission, was n?led. It was frenzied legislation in the boufe. yesterday over the cock fighting bill and a number of other bills. The ?ouse refused to kill the bill forbid? ding cock fightings or attendance on such sport. Mr. LaFitte wanted to amend it so as to exempt fights with? out gaffs, as he contended that under the bill in its original shape anyone who hesitated by the roadside to 'look at two old dunghills trying1 their manhood "would be liable to criminal prosecution, " but he failed, as did Mr. Ashley, who wanted to in? clude football, horse racing and base ball, and* Mr. Doar, who wanted to include prize fights. The house also passed Mr. Edwards bill to prohibit shooting matches for prizes of value. The house seemed to feel real high-toned and moral but it killed Mr. LaFitte's bill to amend the law with regard to drunkenness and disorderly conduct on highway and at other pub? lic places. It was objected to on the ground that inasmuch as the wording would make three separate offenses grow out of the same act, which is forbidden by the constitution-wonld as Mr. Foster expressed it, get a man in about seven different kinds of mprisonment for the same one old drank. The bill had passed to third reading when Mr. Harley remember? ing that Mr. LaFitte bad failed to ap? ply the clincher, had it reconsidered, and it was soon killed. Mr. LaFittee has lost all of his bills so far, and the house killed his measure to further regulate the traffic in corn, peas and cotton seed more ont of force of bRbit than from any particular objection to the bill, it seemed. The objection was that the bill /requiring pur? chasers to keep a record of puchases with the names of sellers and forbid? ding the tallie between sunset and sunrise so as to do away with thieving on the part of negroes, would work a hardship against a great number of poor farmers. The hammers were out in vicious attitudes when Mr. Ford's bill to ex? tend the jurisdiction of magistrates came up, but the house granted him permission, reluctantly, to withdraw it in order to allow him to perfect it, if possible. There was an interesting debate over a bill to give the Parr Shoals Power Company authority to dam the Broad river near Newoerry and power to condemn lands. It seems that the concern bas made preparations to develop about a two million dollar enterprise, but after securing nearly all the options one man is holding them up for an exorbitant price for his land. The up-country members of the house vigorously spoke for the bill. Mr. Prince of Anderson go? ing so far as advocate givng the secre? tary of State authority to grant char? ters with condemnatory power to all such concerns. There is enough power in the Piedmont section of this State alone, he declared to ran all of the machinery of the south, and with those corporations given such power that section would immediately take wonderful strides forward in -com? mercial ascendency. A Eumber of important enterprises are ?being beld up in varions parts of the up-country by just sucb little fellows. The bill passed by a large majority, although there were a number of speeches against it. Debate was adjourned on the judi? ciary committee's new county bill pro? viding for a commission to make the survey for future new counties, after a spirited fight to get in an amend? ment, which failed, to require the petition for the new county to be ac? companied by a certified check for $500 to pay the expense of the survey. This was Mr. Prince's amendment, who had Mr. Patterson's amendment requiring the new county to meet the expense provided it was finally formed, tabled. There was an amendment to make the amount $1,000 instead of $500 and then on Mr. Otis' motion the Prince amendment was tabled. At the night session of the house the debate on the committee's new county bill was resumed. The bill provides a commission composed of the supervisors of the old counties and an equal number of new county men appointed by the governor, to ascer? tain the area, wealth and population. The commission selects two surveyors not resident of any of the interested territory, who aje to select a third. Mr. D. O. Herbert's amendment to nave the commission composed of three men hostile to the new county and three in favor of it prevailed. The_bil? then went to a third read? ing. Mr. Lofton's concurrent resolution for a special committee to consider the fish, tarrap in and oyster bills was passed. The committee was about ready to ask for a similar commission to report at the next session. Mr. Lofton said legislation had been sought without avail for 13 years and the house passed his resolution to get a report at this session. Dr. Gyles' bill to regulate the fees of physicians testifying . as experts passed. Mr. Yeldell explained that the pur? pose of his bill to require superin tendentsjand: guards of chain gangs to give bond waa to throw these men on their responsibility and prevent such occurrences as recently happened in Edgefield when a negro convict was brutally treated, being found buried with his shackles on. The bill was killed-40 to 29. The senate bill to amend the act protecting primary elections from fraud, so as to include the constitu? tion as well as the rules, passed. Mr. Irby's bill to declare certain contracts void, which was directed at cotton mills, to prevent them from re? quiring notice to quit. The bill was killed-46 to 83. The house then adjourned. The senate committee favorably reported the anti-coca-cola bill. Otherwise only routine business was transacted. Many members, including Senator Manning, went home early today. The senate wiil adjourn over Monday as bas the house, on account of salesday. By a resolution adopted last night, the house considered only uncontested matters today. In the county salaries bili passed by the senate tonight the Sumter changes are: County Commissioners pay rais? ed from $2 to $3 ; Clerk to the Board froip 8300 to $400 ; Coroner from $250 to $360 ; Magistrate at Sumter from $3?0 to $400, Other Magistrates $25 each. Columbia, Feb. 4.-The senate adopted a resolution by Senator Maul din today inviting Gen. Fitzhugh Lee to address the legislature on the Jamestown exposition on February 9. Senator Mauldin introduced a bill to provide for the celebration of "South Carolina Day" in the in the public schools. The bill makes the birthday of Calhoun a holiday and suggests that the events be properly celebrated in the public schools, the celebration being, compulsory. On that day the school officers and teachers shall conduct such exercises as will conduce a more general knowledge and appreciation of the history, re? sources and possibilities of this state." The state school superintendent is to arrange the programme. After making the tenth circuit bill and the house bill giving part of the tag tax to Winthrop special orders for Tuesday the senate adjourned to that day. Columbia, S. C., Feb. 6.-The South Carolina legislature has been in session long enough to thoroughly demon strate even to the casual observer that it is conservative to a marked degree and that there is no danger of spectacular or freak legislation. Its greatest errors will likely be those of omission. Although up to date armsful of new bills have been intro? duc? daily, and some of them are of a more or less freakish nature and oth? ers seek radical change along various important lines. Yet there has been mercy shown with the hammers on the floor of the house itself and the commitee reports have had the same tendency. These bills at all radical in their nature that have sc far gotten into the maw cf the house or senate have been either killed outright or so pruned with amendments as to tone them almost out to recognition by the authors. Compulsory education measures have failed in both branches of the assembly, without reaching the amendment stage in the house, though not by as large majorities as last year, and friends of this legisla? tion confidently predict victory next time, contending that sentiment is slowly but surely crystalizing in favor of it, and are satisfied to make a num? ber of attempts before succeeding, remembering the fate of the early propositions for child labor legisla? tion. A study of the debates will show that selfishness and little politics prompted much of the opposition. The cotton mill operatives, who have a great voting strength in tnis State now,* have been very tenderly regard? ed ia a great variety of subjects that have been discussed :n tho assembly f?o far. Such legislation will affect this class principally, but even? tually uplifts it and benefit and strengthen it and help it to stand surefooted in the satnggie for physical and mental and spitual advancement, and the mill operativea's rei! friend, he who has the courage to stand against the present current ol the shift? less and loafing class among them who live and even dissipate on the eanings of their women and ch i iden, will be heeded in the near fute re. The great difference bete wen the influence of the educated and that of the uneducated members of . this assembly itself is a most eloquent argument in favor of compulsory education, althcugh be it said to their everlasting cedit that some of the best, most reliable and clearsighted and othewise best equip? ped members are those who had scant opportunity, and those were found lined up on the side of this sort of legi gelation, as they are always found favoring higher education and better common schools. Although a number of good men voted gainst the measure, some whose motives are always re? acted and whose judgment is valued. The senate being a smaller body moves more rapid than the hon se, which works more bonita, and the upper branch of the assembly is generally the first to go on record in important matters. It is not unlikely that the senate's action on compulsory educa? tion largely influenced tho house, which took the matter up a day or so after the senate had killed the Ray sor bill?- although it was never more thanj a question of the size of the majority. The senate has taken action on the dispensary, having passed the Baysor bill with amendments from tbe Manning bill. After the decided ictory of the opponents to the Brice bill providing for local option as to dispensaries, it was thought hardly probable that the senate wc old go so far as to give the appointmer t of the board to the governor, though few doubted that there would be decided changes regarding the manner of mak? ing purchases, which the se oates bill requires must be made quarterly and in accordance with a secret num? bered bid scheme, and with advertise? ment both before and after the awards ire made. All bills relating to the dispensary ire now due, in fact have been over? due since last Tuesday, as a special Dr der ia the house, and will doubt? less be waded into early this week. The most importants, of course, is the :ommittee's substitute bill, which has De en fully outlined in this correspond mea. vit is practically the saine as the Ka^sor bill passed by the senate, ex? cept that the directors are elected by ihe general aassembly. Among the Dther bills the first on the list is Mr. Brantley's, the text of which is lare'e y used in the substitute. Then there s one by Mr. Toole of Aiken repeal? ing the proviso of section seven of the ict of 1896 regarding the tax levy ind school fund forfeitures on the part )f counties voting out the d ispee say. Then comes one by Mr. LaFitte pro riding for popular election of dispen? sers, which is doomed to defeat Then there is one by Mr. Foid giving ;he governor a half mill levy in those scanties he finds is not enforcing the aw to be used for making; special efforts to carry out the law. This seems to have been directed againts Charleston. It has been unfavorably reported and will fail. Perhaps the nost radical bill on the subject is :hat of Mr. J. E. Beamguard of York, me of the most ardent advocates of ;he system in the house. If it were enacted into law and enforced-don't forget the "and enofrced"-it would break up the' jug trade, against which it is aimed. The bill elimi? nates fines altogether and provides shat any violation of the law "is hereby prohibited under a penalty of aot less than three nor moro than 12 months at hard labor in the peniten? tiary, in the discretion of the court, for each offense. All alcoholic liquors in this State, whether manufactured within the State or elsewhere, not having been tested by tho chemist of che Sooth Carolina college and found 'o he pure and free from hnrtfnl, poisonous and deleterious matters, are hereby declared to be cf a detrimental character and their use anjl consump? tion are against the morals, good health and safety of the State, and all men liquors may be seized wherever found, without a warrant, and dis? posed of as hereafter provided." The bill further provides that anyone in? tending to have liquors snipped to him from outside the State siball pro? cure a certificate of parity from the State chemist, who is required under a penalty of a fine of $100 to examine all samples sent him, the expense of the examination to be born?; by the State board of directora. This certifi? cate is to accompany the shipment, and a certificate is to be used for but one importation. Any improper use of it, or false statement mace to se? cure it, is to be punished by a fine of not less than $100 or imprisonment for not less than 30 days. Anyone convicted of selling stuff imported un? der the provisions of the bill is tc suffer double the penalty for other violations of the chapter. The Morgan high license measure is not among the list. Its position is toward the end of the calendar. Take Muray's Horehound, Mullein and Tar and stop coughing. 25c. for large bottle. Your druggist or Murray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C. x Washington, D. C.. Feb. 4.-When the senate met today a memorial was presented from the tobacco growers of Georgia protesting againsi: the ad? mission of Philippine tobacco into the t'nited States free of duty. For Coughs-at your druggists or direct from Murray Drug Co., Colum? bia, S. C.-"Murray's Horehound, Mullein and Tar. 25c. for large size bottle, x WASHINGTON LETTER. Roosevelt Will Succeed in Forcing Railroad Rafe Law. The Republicans are Afraid to Bow to Orders of Lobby and Democrats Will Support Bill to Regulate Railroads. " Washington Feb. 6.-Despite the opposition of the entire Pennsylvania delegation, excepting of course, the Democratic members, and of some twenty other Representatives, the Re? publicans of the House have deter? mined to pass the Townsend-Esch rail? way rate bill at the present session of Congress and it is probable that the measure will be set to the Senate the latter part of next week; but it is almost certain that no action will fol? low in the upper chamber. Demo? cratic members of the House will vote for the minority substitute, which is a modificaion of the Davey bill, but as that will be defeated they may vote for the Townsend-Esch bill as the best railway legislation that can be obtained. The determination of the Republicans to vote for a railway rate bill at all this session is recogniz? ed as a triumph for the Preisdent and also for Representative Williams whose sarcasm the Republicans fear and who, it was known, would have delivered a broadside which would have, made interesting reading in the respective districts of the Republican members had they listened to the railroad lobby and determined to do nothing toward carrying into effect the President's recommendations at this session of Congress. * * * It is probable that there would be some railway rate legislation in the Senate at this sesssion were it nos for the Swayne impeachment case, which renders the' conisderation of a compli? cated measure almost a physical im? possibility, although it is equllay likely that before the bill passed the Senate it would haye been so altered as to make it entirely ^inadequate to correct existing evils, even those at which it is aimed. The fact that the Townsend-Esch bill fails even to at? tempt the connection of some of the gravest evils is a source of disappoint? ment to the President and to the Democrats in both houses of Congress and there are many who believe that a more comprehensive measure can be enacted at the special session which the President proposes to call. The President has decided not t attempt to force the Senate to act at this ses? sion and his present plan is to cali a special session to revise the tariff and enact proper railway legislation about October. Some earnest members of Congress are, however, urging him to take the tide of sentiment in favor of extending federal control of the, railways at its flood and call a special session to meet this Spring and while they have not yet covinced him of the coarse he has taken the matter under consideration. If the Senate were, like the House, elected by? di? rect vote of the people, there is little doubt that "senators would feel the necessity of a. special session in the spring to meet the demand for this character of enactment, but under the existing circumstances senators are decidedly independent; and they insist that if the president compels them to meet this spring they will adjourn without action. * * * It is a constant occasion of regret to sincere Democrats to see some of their number stultifying themselves by voting for absolutely un-Democratic bills, as they did this week when the proposition to pay a special subsidy to the Southern Railway of $142,728 was under consideration. It is claimed that it, is necessity to pay this sum to the Southern Railway in order to ob? tain quick mail service to the south, bot the claim is a specious ont> and those in a position to know the inside facts declare that the Southern Rail? way would never take off its fast train, even were it to receive no sub? sidy from the government. It is not, howeve, entirely the fault of members of Congress that they vote for such measures, but it is due, rather, to their home newspapers which too often insist on such care of the rail? roads and which would defeat the representative who dared" to vote against "the best home mail service." A large majoriy of Republicans and Democrats voted this handsome pres? ent to the Southern Railay and there is little likelihood of its being cut off in the Senate. * * * The fallacy of the protective argu? ment was never more strikingly illus? trated than it bas been this winter in connection with the tariff on wheat. For years the farmers have been told that they were protected by the duty of 25 cens a bushel on wheat, although -the price lias been fixed by the Liver? pool market and the duty has never afforded the farmer a cent of increas? ed profit. This year, however, a shortage of hard wheat in the North? west put up the price until the Amer? ican farmers were receiving 20 cents more a bushel than their brothers just over the Canadian border. Of course the millers did not want to pay the extra price so they appealed to the secretary of'the treasury to allow them to import the Canadian wheat, pay the duty, grind it into flour, ex? port it and secure, in the for.n of a drawback the duty they bad paid to the government. The secretary of the treasury appealed to the attorney general for an opinion and the law officer of the government has decided in favor of the millers. Senator Hansbrough has, however, introduced a bill in the Senate which wili pre? vent the drawback provision of the Dingley Act from being applied to wheat. The fate of this bill, which is in the form of an amendment to^the Sundry Civil "appropriation bill, will determino how willing the Republican protectionists are actually to pass leg POWDER Absolutely Pare m$m$msTiwm islatioii which wil] protect the farmers; while it somewhat curtails the profits of the Minneapolis millers. . LOOMS FOB "P?er Indications Point to Conelusion ot Peace Agreement Between Ja? pan and Russia. London, Feb. 7.-Reports from a? continental capitals support the belief held in Kew York that peace in ther far east is an early possibility. It is understood that the Russian govern? ment control of the Siberian tele? graph wires IB partly dne to unrest: among railroad workers but is also* more especially due to the pressure of urgent messages to Gen. Enropatkhs. What these messages are is not ? known, but it is thought they have an important bearing tm the ques? tion of pursuance or sen-pur sn ance: of the war. Make your djuggistfeive yon Mur? ray's Horehound, Mullein and Tar. Cures your cough. 25c a bottle. s> PLOT MUHST THE CM Twelve Sien Swear to KHI Hm > in Revenge. Berlin, *Fet>. 7.-The Tagblatte re? ports that a p. ot against the Czar's life has been discovered by Emperor" Nicholas himself. Bis majesty walt? ing through the corridors tibe-, palace of Tsarskoe S???'^Jesterday' when he noticed a letter addressed td him lying on the "floor. He picked it up and found it contained tie announcement that twelve men had sworn to kill him in revenge fortbe v St. Petersburg massacre on January 23. ?The Czar bas not -eft the palace and a heavy cordon of Cossacks sur? round the palace grounds, while de? tectives swarm through the palace and environs. The same paper announces the re? sumption of fighting in Warsaw be-*, tween troops and strikers in which -sveral ?were killed and many wound? ed. . ? ? . .? YOUTHFUL TBA1H WRECKERS'. Two Illinois Boys Indicted for Murder-They Wrecked Freight Train Last August. Danville, Ills , Feb. 7.-John Ky for? aged fifteen and Porter Baird aged sixteen, of Hoopston, Ills., have been indicted by the Grand Jury on the < charge of murder. Baird and Kyle, with two other boys, it, is alleged broke the switch loek and derailed th* Chicago and Eastern Illinois. ' reign t train last Angusr, killing the brakemen, and injuring other mem? bers of the train crew. A SH00TIK6 SE?B OAi?JGTO Negro Shot by Whits Man ft'ame? Small-A Horse Shst by the Same -Party. Special to The State. Darlington, Feb. 6.-Late this afternoon on the road leading to Oats and about four miles from town.a ne? gro, was shot in the thigh and ser? iously wounded by a ivhite man nam? ed Small, the weapon used being a shotgun. Small and a comrade were returning from town to a saw mill about seven miles where they worfc. The cause of the shooting^ ; is sot known. The negro was driving a wagon loaded with cotton seed and when shot was on the ground picking up seed. Mr. Fuller Howie, treas? urer-elect, was on his way borne and seeing the trouble he spoke to the men telling them "the act ?was cru? el,-' whereupon one of the men fired at Mr. Howie, hitting his horse fin tbe head with small shot. The ani? mal it appears is not seriously wound? ed. Sheriff Blackwell having received the news, left promptly to investigate the matter. For Coughs-Murray's Horehound, Mullein and Tar. 25c. for large bot? tle, x > _ CONGRESSMAN MANLY DEAD. Found Dead in Bed at His Home m Augusta. Maine. Augusta, Maine, Feb. 7.- Hbo. Joseph Manley, the leading r?pnhfr can, of this state and well known throughout the country was found dead in bed at his home in this city this morning. ?He was sixty-five years old. - mm, ilM tm Murry's Horehound, Mullein and Tar will cure your cough.. Large bot? tle for 52c x