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COUNTY GOBBESPONDENGE. SEWSY LETTERS FROM OUR SPE? CIAL CORRESPONDENTS. tes of Interest From all Parts of Sumter and Adjoining Counties. NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mail your letters so that they will reach this office not later than Tues? day morning. When the* letters are received Wednesday it is almost an Impossibility to have them appear in the papsr issued that day. WEDGEFIELD. Wedgefield, June ll.-Wedgefield jnayed'Hagood yesterday afternoon ?aid what seemed to be a sure victory "up to the ninth inning, when the score stood 4 to 2 in Wedgefield's favor. 37he boys were too sure of -v'ctory, got 'careless and let Hagood make four Tims, thereby losing the game. But they met their Waterloo this after? noon when they playea Mayesville. 3?Layes for MayesviKe su^+ained his reputation by causing the home boys -to fan 13 times and allowing only live hits. Moore for Wedgefield had ire strike outs to his credit and al? lowed 13 hits. In the seventh M. Moore for the locals lined out a three hase hit just to show the visitors what they can do sometimes. Score 19 to 3 in favor of Mayesville. Only a few went over to town today to hear the numerous candidates anake known their views as tb the G. Sf. L, etc. Miss. Bessie "Aycock is visiting rel? atives in Marion. Misses Rosa Cain and Mi?dre-j Mel Iclt who aie employed in tho rewing eepartmen. cf Schwartz Bros., are at home f >r the summer. BROGDON. Brogden, July Hr-Mrs. J. C. Stukes find daughter, Miss Sudie, returned this morning from a pleasant visit to the family of Dr. Lionel Stukes at Summerton. Misses Sudie and Mattie Venning of St Stephens have been visiting rela? tives here. Misses Susie and Kate Brogdon -**^bave recently returned from a delight -Tul visit to the family of Mr. T. C. ^Proctor at Charleston. Miss Mamie Freeland is spending ?orne time with Mrs. J. A. Blackwell. Miss Minnie Chandler of Mayesville 3s spending this week with her aunt, airs. W. T. Brogdon. Miss Iva Belle Hughson is at Mr. J. I. Brogdon's. Mrs. D. BE. Smith and children re? turned several days ago from a pleas ;ant visit to relatives and .friends at 'Foreston. Mr. Warren Durant and Dr. Edgar Durant spent last Saturday in the neighborhood. Rev. J. M: Holladay of Manning and Rev. Marion of Sumter visited at ?fir. W. T. Brogdon's on Monday last This is our fourth day of sunshine ?and farmers are taking advantage of 'tte fine weather to have their crops 3aid by. Cotton and corn have been .materially injured by the vast quanti? ty of rainfall. The protracted meeting with the Graham church begins on Friday next continuing through the following "week. Rev. M. Toler will be assisted "by ?orne other minister. Our telephone line which has ai? rways been so strong and furnished us so much pleasure and convenience is now perfectly silent, having been de? molished by the electric storms of several days ago. It is now ten days since we have heard a 'phone bell, or received a call. Indeed we feel quite ?exit off and it is hoped the linemen ?.-III soon reach us and place our phones once more in position. DARK CORNER. Dark Corner, July 9.-It keeps on raining. We had a good rain here yesterday. Some of our land is too vet to plow yet, and it is too late to plow old corn, to do it any good, and what plowing we have been doing, planting peas, &c, we just stirred the grass and it is stiil kvmg-peas, grass and all together. Cotton is still small and red. I have not seen any fine cotton anywhere so ?ar. The finest corn I have seen is at "Sir. Dave Osteen's. Miss Lucy Ardis continues critically UL It is feared that the fever is about to run into typhoid. J. N. Geddings, of Levi, Northwest Manchester, lost his wife cn the night of the 25th of June. Mrs. Geddings was the oldest daughter of Mr. John yf. Ardis of Pinewood. I attended the picn?" at Bethel on the Fourth. It sure was a pleasant aff|pr, though it caused the ceath of three porkers which were barbecued alright by Henry Smooth, colored, and others. The dinner was sure a success. But those Bethel folks are too easily pleased. They said that they intended to make me pay for mr dinner. But I am sure they got cheated. I am in hopes some other pen than mine will give ycu a fuller report of the whole picnic than I can. Mr. Duke M. Lackey had a family reunion on the 4th at his home near k ? m Mr. and Mrs. Louis Scott of Cane Savannah visited Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Scott here yesterday. Rev. T. P. Lide 'w as at the Green? land Savannah Sunday school yester? day and grive us a talk on the Lesson. Come again Brother Lide, we are al? ways glad to see you. Miss Mary Lee Ardis was at Mrs. W. J. Ardis' last Saturday. Mrs. Ben Geddings of Pinewood is spending the day with her aunt, Mrs. W. J. Ardis today. Douglas Weeks killed a 7-foot alli? gator in his father's mill pond today. Well, I suppose Col Lumpkin has thrown up the sponge and cried out enough before the battle has hardly begun. But I suppose a hint to the wise is sufficient. Well, we have not warmed up on politics in this Corner yet though Wells, Ingram and Osteen are look around for fuel to make the magis? trate pot boil, which is the hottest pot generally in those coasts. But let it boil I am going to try and keep calm and serene. STATESBURG. Stateburg, July 12.-Misses Bettie and Julianne Frierson are visiting rel? atives in Summerton. Mrs. M. S. Burgess and Miss Daisy I Burgess are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pinckney. at "Sans Souci." j Mrs. S. N. Cain, who has been visit- j ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs S. H. Ramsey, has returned home, after a peasant stay of two weeks. Mrs. W. B. Nelson and children, of Charleston, are visiting Dr. and Mrs. ,W. W. Anderson. Miss Mary Pinckney,, of Summer? ville, is the guest of Miss Annie Rees. Messrs. Warren and Sydney Bur? gess are visiting Mr. F. P. Burgess at "Waverly." We ?re looking forward with much pleasure to the return of the young people who are attending the State summer school, the latter part of the week. The rains continue with unabated zeal, it being a rare thing for a day to pass without the usual copious show? ers. REMBERTS. Rembert, July 16.-Last week's meeting of Rafting Creek farmers' club was poorly attended, owing to the busy season of the year with the farmers, but at our next meeting, which will be held on the first Satur? day in August, we hope to have a full attendance, as business of importance will be transacted, and I trust our newly elected president will show himself. The crops have improved very much during the past ten days. Most of our planters have recently applied soda and other high grade fertilizers and the improvement is very noticeable. Very little grass is to be seen and with the fine rains on last Saturday and again on yesterday, I hope to see still greater improvements. Still we can? not make a full crop of cotton. Some corn up here is fine. . Mr. E. E. Rembert has about 100 acres plant? ed on the Williamson plan, and good judges of corn here say he will make from 75 to 80 bushels per acre. Your corresponder t has travelled all over Texas and 1 have seen finer corn in Northern Texas in the Red riv? er bottoms, but this is the finest up? land corn I have ever looked at in South Carolina. Mr. H. C. McLeod has a fine field of 50 acres planted on what we would style the old plan, 5 by 3 feet, and he will make 30 bushels per acre, and others in this section have fine corn also. So the farmers around Rem? bert cannot complain if the cotton crop is short. Most every one will make a plenty of corn. Mr. and Mrs. Willie Yates of Sum? ter, spent most of last week with W. J. Young and family. Misses Mat and Nannie Team also Margaret Hoyt of Sumter are now vis? iting Mrs. M. E. McLeod. Mr. E. E. Rembert is spending a few days on the Isle of Palms. PISGAH. Pisgah, July 16.-It still rains. Grass is growing and a day or two of plowing now and then. The farmers are catching it this year all around. It will be August before cotton can be finished, if then, and next fall every man will be calling for his mon? ey whether it is made or not. Mr. A. H. Boykin of Swift Creek has fine corn. lt bids fair to make fifty or sixty bushels per acre if any corn can make it. Mr. H. H. Evans made sixty-seven bushels per acre about twenty years ago. If agricul? ture is in its infancy, no telling what we will make when it gets grown. I have long heard of Florida as a place to get rich quick, but when people tell me they made this year ?600 worth of tomatoes to the acre clear of expenses with very little trouble, I am under the impression that all poor folks should go there, work a year or so and retire on their capital. Some people have bit at the tempting bait and will go, but we will find (?ut in the future whether the bait is a real fish or imitation. J. D.. the little son of Mr. J. D. Evans, is so much better that he can go in the yard. He has been sick j a long time and the frineds of the family are glad to know of his con? tinued improvement. Miss Furgason, who nursed him, has gone to her home in Sumter. She was faithful to her trust and Dr. Parker feels re? joiced at the successful outcome of his long hard fight with a bad case of typhoid fever. A little step child of Mr. Joe Ben? ton, died recently and was buried at j Pisgah church. j Candidates of Lee county keep the roads hot up here. Each fellow says he is the l>est man. None of Sumter's crowd have been through here. Aman who is afraid to show where he stands on any public question is unworthy cf being supported. Fence straddling is contemptible and shows a weak candidate, but so many like to "run wi th the hare and bark with the hounds." Rev. J. W. Kenney has a pair of mill rocks that were once owned by General Sumter. They might be use? ful when his monument is built. Captain and Mrs. A. P. Vinson, of Charleston, are here visiting their son, MT. L. S. Vinson. Their many friends are glad to see them. Mrs. Ellis Croft is quite low. She has been .sick a long time with some throat trouble, and the end seems near. A select party was at Mr. T. M. Bradley's last Friday evening, which was a very enjoyable affair. The writer acknowledges with thanks an invitation to be present. Lyon and Ragsdale have done them? selves no credit by opposing General Youmans for Attorney General. His long and eminent*services to his State should give him the office unopposed. I hope the old General will sweep the State from the mountains to the Sea? board. MAX. Max, S. C., July 16.-The childrens' day at Shi loh last Saturday was a suc? cess and several attended from here. Rev. Mr. Beadenbough will conduct a revival meeting at Nazareth for sev? eral days, beginning on Sunday. The Knights of Pythias picnic at ? Beulah last Friday was an enjoyable i affair. Farmers are nearly done plowing for this seasor. Those that planted tobacco are curing and some have been selling. A DESPERATE CRIMINAL. Knoxville! Youth Killed One Man and Fatally Wounded Another. Knoxville, Tenn., July 16.-John McPherson, aged 24, is a fugitive from justice with two posses pursuing him, ! charged with the murder of Grant Smith, a former merchant of this city, and the fatal wounding of Deputy Sheriff William Walker, who attempt? ed to arrest him. McPherson shot and killed Smith in the house of Nettie ? Hall, aparently without provocation. McPherson was accompanied by his father, Dr. Buck McPherson, at the time and the two left the city in a buggy going toward the mountains. Three miles out their buggy collidejd with on<? driven by Dr. Joseph Wad? dell, breaking a shaft which so en? raged young McPherson that he pull? ed the physician from the buggy and beat him seriously. Waddell went to Sheriff Walker's home and the two pursued the Mcphersons. One mile further out they met. Walker de? manded surrender of young McPher? son and was shot through the right lung as a result. Walker will die. Young McPherson continued into the mountains, while his father returned here and surrendered and is now in jail. Rewards have been offered for young McPherson's arrest and posses are pursuing him. Dr. McPherson shot ar.d killed a fellow physician some eight years ago and served five y- ars of a seven years' sentence before he was pardoned. LEAVE FOR R. F. D. MEN. Having had inquiries from R. F. D. carriers in different parts of the State as to leave of absence with pay I will state for the Information of those interested that carriers will be al? lowed 15 days' leave with pay after they have served 12 months, effective July 1st inst. Wyatt Aiken. Abbeville, S. C., July 12, 1906. THE BANNER YEAR. Washington, D. C., July 17.-Ac? cording to the preliminary report of the inter-state commerce commission, the gr<>.<s earnings of the railroads of the United States, covering approx? imately 219,000 miles, will probably show :.?or the fiscal year ending June 30th, sn increase of ten per cent, over S2,073r000,000 earned in 1905. This will prove the banner year for the j American railroads. v The mayor of Mountville wired the sheriff of Laurens county Sunday that a negro row was in progress there, une negro had been kille l. Mr. W. P. Pollock of Cheraw, who is a candidate for congress against Hon. D. E. Finley, was operated on for appendicitis in Columbia Sunday. He is in a serious condition. LABOR UNION AFFILIATION. The Switchmen's Union With Twelve Thousand Members Join American Federation. Washington, July 16.-President Gompers announced this morning tha the Switchmen's Union of North America, with headquarters at Bufia! had become affiliated with the Amer ican Federation of Labor. The union numbers 12,000. COTTON MARKETS. Special Agents Appointed to Make World Wide Investigations. Washington, D. C., July 16.-Secre tary Metcalf of the Department of Commerce and Labor, has appointed as special agents to investigate the markets for cotton products W. A. Graham, clerk, editor and chief of the American Cotton Manufacturer and William Whitaker, son of the chief justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. FOUR OF FAMILY BUTCHERED. Crime of Revolting Horror in North Carolina. $ Barber Junction, N. C., July 14. One of the most horrible tragedies in the history of this county was com? mitted near this station this morning between the hours of 1 and 2 o'clock An unknown person or persons en? tered the house of Mr. Ike Lyerly, a well known farmer, while its occu? pants were asleep, killing Mr. Lyerly his wife and little son, Johfinine, and wounding their infant baby, Alice. The two parents and two children were sleeping in the front room on the first floor, there being three elder daughters sleeping up stairs, who were unmolested, and who were awakened by the smoke of the flames from below, the criminal having set fire to the house. The three elder girls descended the stairs to awake their father and moth \ er. On reaching the lower room a most horrible and appalling scene, their father, mother and the children, sMll in their beds, all save the youn est, in cold death, their heads being crushed and faces badly disfigured. Through courageous and heroic ef? forts the elder daughters, Mary and Addie, ages 18 and 16, respectively, managed to carry ? the dead bodies from the house and extinguished the flames, whereupon they ran to their nearest neighbor, Mr. W. P. Barber, and told the awful story of the trag? edy. There being no officers at law at this place, Mr. R. R. Mulliken, train dispatcher, on duty at that hour, was notified, who promptly dispatche ed the news to the sheriff at Salis? bury. The sheriff started at once to the scene of the killing with blood? hounds and a posse of armed men. Bloodhounds were also sent from Winston-Salem to assist in apprehend? ing the criminal. - I The Crime is Confessed. Barber Junction, N. C., July 14. At 8 p. m., the latest development in the Lyerly family assassination up to this hour, is the finding of the coron? er's jury as follows: "That Isaac Lyerly, his wife, Au? gusta, and little son, Johnnie, came to their deaths by blows from an axe or axes in the hands of Nelse Graham, or Gillespie, his son, John Gillespie, Jack Dillingham and wife, George Er? win and Henry Lee." All the above mentioned are negroes and have been lodged in the county jail at Salisbury. Since the arrest of these negroes Gillespie's son has made ? tull con? fession that Gillespie, the father, and son, John Gillespie, killed Mr. Lyerly, his wife and the little boy, Johnnie, and injured the little girl, who died this evening, and that the other named negroes were implicated in the com? mission of the tragedy. COL. FULLER LEAVES. Popular Military Man Will Go tg Staff j College, Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Columbia, July 16.-Col. Ezra B. Fuller has asked the governor to re? lieve him as the representative of the government in the State militia in or? der to accept a place on the faculty of the Staff College at Fort Leav? enworth, Kans. The resignation takes effect after the Chickamaugua encampment. As Col. Fuller's work for this year is practically over, Gov. Heyward will not ask for his successor to be appoint? ed, but will leave this to the choice of the next governor and adjutant gener? al. Col. Fuller's leaving will be re? gretted throughout the State. Washington, D. C., July 17.-That hundreds of Japanese have secured admission to this country by intrigue during the last year, has been proven to the satisfact ion of the bureau cf im? migration and naturalization after a careful investigation into the subject. Incidentally the agents assisting the immigrants have made large sums of money by charging commissions for their part in outwitting Uncle Pam's law makers and executive officials. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Items of Interest Condensed and Para? graphed for Quick Reading. J. W. Irnegan, a well-to-do farmer of Ruffins, Co?leton county, killed his wife and taree children and fatally wounded a fourth with an axe Wed? nesday. H? is insane and has been acting queenly for some time. ' The Union hose wagon team was ruled out of the Asheville firemen's tournament at the last moment be? cause the team had a negro driver. Reuben Ford, a negro boy of about 18 years o:: age, was killed by the shifting engine at Union Saturday. The Atlantic Coast Line Railway has begun work on the improvement of their large freight yards at Florence. It will double the present capacity of the yard by duplicating the present yard out of the transfer station. This will give them storage room for at least one thousand more cars and an additional transfer station the size of the two they now have. North? bound trains will be made up from one, and south-bound trains from the other. The additional tracks, thirty in number, which will be almost a mile in length, are to be laid to the north and east of the present yard Charley Kennedy, a negro 50 years old, was 'taken to Columbia Saturday by Sheriff Duckett of Laurens county to save him from a mob of lynchers. He was accused of outraging a de? mented white girl. The publishing house of the South? ern Lutheran church will be estab? lished in Columbia. Isaac Knight, who last week as? saulted Mrs. Chapin in Aiken county, has been arrested in Bartow, Ga., and Sheriff Roborn and a citizen of Aiken left Sunday morning for Bar tow to identify the negro. The town marshal of Bartow wires that the ne? gro in his custody admits being Knight and admits the crime. ESTIMATE ON COTTON CROP. South Carolina Division of Southern Cotton Association After Interesting Figures. Columbia, July 16.-The South Car? olina division of the Southern associa? tion is now sending out to every cot? ton planter and to all requesting them, blanks to be filled out in order that an estimate can be made on the cotton crop of South Carolina at the meeting of the association at Hot Springs, Ark., September 5. The same work is being done in all the Southern States a.nd the officers here expect the estimate to be very close to the actual mark. The blank to be filled contains the amount of cotton harvested the previous year and the amount ex? pected for this year. In the address issued the association says: "The last of September, 1906, will find the world absolutely bare of cot? ton. The visible supply will be the smallest on record. The 25,000,000 bales cf cotton with which the South has supplied civilization during the past two years are all consumed. The United States department of agricul? ture estimates that it will require 42, 000,000 bales of cotton to adequately clothe the world's population and the progress of civilization is rapidly ad? vancing the world's population to the point at which it will require to be adequately clothed. "Whatever the size of the coming crop, there is no reason why it should be sold at anything less than the aver? age price obtained for the last crop, through the efforts of the Southern ; Cottom association, namely: ll 3-4 cents and 12 cents a pound. Interest- i ed and self-constituted authorities ; have of late been endeavoring to stam- , pede Southern holders and producers ; of cotton into the belief that the com? ing crop was likely to be an abnorm? ally large one, produced from an acreage very much in excess of any previously planted. This disposition ; seems to have penetrated even into the crop estimating .board of the United States government, who apparently have not as yet fully emancipated ( themselves from the maladroit in- , fluences which resulted in the scandal < which the efforts of the Southern Cot- , ton association last year disclosed. i "That the cotton crop for thc season of 1906-7 is likely to be superabun? dant, or even a larger one, the South? ern Cotton association does not be- ? Heve. Its reports from its thousands ?. nf members and correspondents < ?hroughout the entire cotton belt in- j dicatrs that the increase in acreage ? over last year is only 2.52 per cent., ? and the scarcity of labor, the lateness r of development; the excessive rains ^ in many sections and drought in the j region west of the Mississippi valley foreshadow anything but a. full yield [or the season e.-nimt-ncing Septem- c Der 1st next. r -The published opinion of 150 ? members of the Nev-' York, Liverpool t md Southern cotton exchanges is that j i crop of about 11,000,000 bales will De worth during the coming season L3.37 cents per pound, and those pro- ? lucers who part with their produi-t ? 7or less than this figure are needlessly ( curtailing the hard-earned profits ot* v ;heir toil and depreciating the value of f :h?ir fellow-producers' crop." j c SOUTH CAROLINA LEAGUE. At Sumter July 10 Manning.OOO 013 OOO-4 Sumter.OOO 133 00*-7 At Orangeburg July 10 Orongeburg, 3; Darlington, 0. At Camden July 10 Camden. 9; Georgetown, 4. At Sumter July ll Sumter.^.011 020 00*-4 Manning.000 000 000-0 At Orangeburg July ll Orangeburg, 4; Darlington, 3. At Darlington, Julq 12. Darlington, 5; Camden, 3. At Manning, Juljr 12. Manning, 2; Orangeburg, 0. At Georgetown July 13 Georgetown.. ".000 010 000-? Sumter.100 020 000-3 At Manning July 13 Orangeburg, 4; Manning, 0. A? Darlington July 13 Camden, 7; Darlington, 2. At Sumter July 16 Orangeburg.020 010 000-S Sumter.000 100 000-1 At Camden July 16 Camden, 1; Manning, 0. At Georgetown July 16 Georgetown, 2; Darlington, 1. SOUTH ATLANTIC. Won. Lost P.C. Augusta. ..45 30 600 Savannah.44 30 595 Columbia.39 36 520 Charleston.34 37 "479 Macon.. .. .. _35 3? 47? Jacksonville.22 48 313 SOUTH CAROLINA LEAGUE. Won. Lost P.C. Camden.....22 15 815 Orangeburg.17 8 680 Sumter.15 9 625 Darlington.13 12 520 Georgetown. 9 17 346? Manning. 2 27 060? THE STATE LEAGUE. Team. Fielding and Team Batting: Av<?rages. The playing of the South Carolina teams still continue to attract the at? tentions of many citizens of . the state,, and the reports of each day's games are awaited with interest The league has had a very successful season and will continue to furnish good ball games for the patrons in the different cities until the end of the season. Sumter still continues/to lead the league in fielding, while Camden has risen from fourth to third place and Georgetown has dropped from third to fifth place. Sumter also leads in batting, while the other teams have changed their relative positions during the past week, with the exception cf Manning. Following the the batting ?nd field? ing averages: Name A.B. B.H. Per Ct. Camden.. ..919 243 264 Orangeburg .887 204 .230 Darlington.* 765 176 .230 Sumter.747 150 .201 Georgetown .801 153 191 Manning..- ..799 128 .161 Team fielding averages: Name P.O A. E. Per Ct. Sumter.?11 259 53 .943 Orangeburg ..678 287 64 .931 Camden.672 285 82 .921 Darlington. ..?23 242 77 .918 Georgetown ..?32 258 86 .912 Manning.. ..649 324 10^8 .900 -News and Courier. STEEL PASSENGER CAR. Southern Railway Puts the First of Kind Into General Use. Washington, July 12.-The South? ern Railway has just put info service cvhat is said to be the first steel pas? senger car for generad use on any road.' It is said the car could not be elescoped and is non-combustible. Do You Want to Vote? All citizens who have resided in the >tate for one year and in the county ;ixty days, or who will attain the age ^ >f 21 previous to the general election n November are entitled to be en 'olled in a Democratic club and vote n the primary election. See that your mmes are on the rolls five days pre? cious to the first primary election? Lugust 28, 1906. Carping critics are complaining be? muse Mr. Bryan had a suit of clothes nade in Vienna. As he has been rone nearly a year it would seem that iie critics expect him to come home n a barrel.-Bryan's Commoner. Several days ago upon application or bail in behalf of Mr. Robert H. 'ovar before Judge Dantzler in )rangeburg an order to this effect vas granted. The amount of bail was ixed at $3,000. The bond was prc ured without trouble.