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COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE. jntWSY LETTERS FROM OUR SPE? CIAL CORRESPONDENTS. of Interest From ell Parts of and Adjoining Co on tire. WOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mail your letters so that they will lh this office not later than Tue* morning. When the letters are gejeelVMl Wednesday It Is almost an Impossibility to have them appear in Mae paper Issued that day. Max. Feb. 18.?The death of Mrs. A. K. Chandler last Wednesday at her lu olanta. cast a glocm over little town and surrounding coun Bethel church Is giving potatoes to sufferers and exchanging corn Wtth I hem. Oats are recovering from the back set given by recent cold. Mine L. B. Truluck attsndsd the sectors and box party at Shi loh last Jrrtday night and reported a pleasant Man* Mies Annie Chandler has given up teaching at the Bayroad school and fbturned home to help care for her another's mothsrlses babe. While Sanne can object, all regret It very -Mneh. Mrs. Wlllism Whltehead of Lake Oty. Is spending some time with her slaughter, Mm. W. K. Moore, whose Why continues sick. Mrs. J. A. M. Carraway. also Mrs. m% C. Truluck are recovering from asiceat sickness. Bob OreenY (colored) wife died tasH Monday. Mrs. B. C. and Miss Pearl Truluck Wlslted Mrs. Ellen Waraham last Mr. Severance ryt Darlington, has STJoved to the Hoyt Tom Mr,son pises. STTATBBURG. v" Stateburg. Peb. 17.?Mrs. P. H. Mc sVeod sad Miss Janle Nelson were the Of Mrs. Charlss Plncknsy on Mr. R. C. Richardson. Jr., spent Bcsday wtth rslattvss In Sumter, Maw Virginia ?andere Is visiting at Ha good. Emms Baarnwell and Julia epent Monday In Sumter. Masters Sereven and Charlie Moore were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. snmrlss Ptnckney for a few days dur? ing the pest wssk. Mrs. Jamas Caldwell hss moved from Mullens back to her old home Mm our midst, where her friends Heartily welcome bar. Quite a number went to Clarendon here today to attend the Nsl ? Richardson wedding, whhh took at high noon. Mrs, Si B. Nelson has issuod invl amtloae to a reception on Thursday ?seeing, Feb. 11th. from 8 to 10. given in honor of Mr. aad Mrs. V. SX Nelson. Dr. F. M. Dwlght is spending sever? ed daye in Charleston this week. Mr. W. D. Prterson Is on a visit to E. N. Friereon. at Cherry Vale. Rev. W. H. Bamwell spent Wed ly la Clarendon. Mrs. F. M. McLeod Is visiting hsr another. Mrs. S. E. Nelson. aTTATEHOOD BILL DEFERRED. Mot Likely to Act This See? on Arisona and New Mexico Waahlngton. Peb. 18.?The Mexl m aad Arisona Statehood bill, which the houss yesterday, today referred by the senate to the imlttee on Territories. This action taken after considerable mano? euvring on the floor, and the discus soon Informally of a number of sug asset Ions looking to the passage of the sail at the present session. The prop aettlon holding the bill on the table, esjbject to call, was first advanced, but the counting of noses demonstrated that there was insufficient support for the bill In ths ssnsts to prevent ref race to the committee, which la ?ught to be hostile to action by the ?at congress. It was suggested that the bill might be referred to committee with Instructions to within one week, but this iltlon also lacked support, and My ths bill was referred without debate and without condt'on. The itttee on Territories will meet on Friday to consider ths bill, but It Is met believed thst it will be reported favorably or adversely In the time thst retr.slns of the pros? tat sseslon. LKCTTRE IN PINRWOOD. J. W. Daniel Will Tslk About Ttie Southern Mole. Rev J. W Dsnlel. D. D.. of Colum? bia will deliver his well known and ewer populsr and entertaining lecture ?The Southern Mule." at Plnewood Thursdsy night. February 25th. The people of Plnewood and vicinity have a reel treat In store for them. There Is no grscs In a benefit that stroke to the fingers?Seneca. TORNADO DEVASTATES TOWN. Cedar Muff, Mies., Practically De etroyed by Heavy Windstorm?One Killed, Four Injured. Greenville, Miss., Feb. 15.?Reports received here today fram Cedar Bluff, Miss., state that that town was prac? tically destroyed by a tornado late yesterday afternoon. Five houses were completely blown away and tim? ber fell in all directions. The storm came from the Northeast, was accom? panied by very heavy hall and mowed a path about 200 yards wide. Wires are down and tracks blocked with de? bris. \ Miss Mary Ellis was killed out? right; Alfred and Frank Ellis were injured, and Miss Jane Stevens w?? Inured internally. Will Aaron *iad a leg broken. CALHOUN TRIAL. RESUMED. Heney Calls Down Witness Who Made Threats. San Francisco, Cel., Feb. 16.?At the trial of Patrick Calhoun, on an indictment charging bribery, assistant District Attorney Francis J. Heney to? day resented the demeanor of a wit? ness on the witneee stand, and declar? ed that he had "drawn a line over which no living man may step" in vllllfylng him. Samuel Leake. who was summoned to the stand during the examination of venlremen because of an allegation that he had endeavored to purchase an Intereet in the haberdashy busi? ness, conducted by a brother of one of the Jurors, warned Mr. Heney that he could make certain revelations concerning the prosecutor's past. Mr. Leake, who had been questioned as to his visits to a saloon said: "I think it very Improper for you to refer to these things, Mr. Heney, I could tell of pieces I saw you?." "I want you to atop that right now," Interrupted Mr. Heney. "I don't propose that you shall make any more threats. Tou arc here to an? swer qseetlons." "There is one conversation you don't dare to refer to," retorted the witness. There was one when you went up the back way Into the Call office and tried to go back on Phelan and Spreckels?" "That's all there will be of that,' said Mr. Heney. "I took this sort of thing from Henry Ach, (attorney for Abraham Ruef.) for monthe, until it led to an attempt at assassination, and after this I want it understood that I won't take it from any man living. If I am going to be shot again, I'll be shot In front, not from behind, nor from the side." Lewis F. Bylngton, of the defence here took exception, saying: "We believe that the district attor? ney should recognise the limits of his duty in examining a witness." Mr. Heney, rising, pitched his voice so that it penetrated beyond the room, and aald: "This district attorney is doing his duty as auch, but before I am a dis? trict attorney I am an American citi? zen, and In that capacity I want to say right here and now that I draw the line over which no living man may step. For months I took all the vllltficatlon that could be heaped on me merely because I dared to do my duty, which some one had to do, but I am through with It. and I want this thoroughly understood." The panel of twelve tentative jurors waa broken by the discharge of one peremptory challenge: and two alleg? ed cases of Jury tampering were made public. SUBJECT OF CZAR COMING. |M. Friede, of St. Petersburg, to Study South Carolina Agriculture. Boeton, Mass., Feb. 9.?Commis? sioned by the Csar to learn all the modern methods in agriculture as practiced In this country, Miss M. Friede, of St. Petersburg, a daughter of the Russian nobility, has an? nounced here that she will tour South Carolina, and particularly plans to visit the agricultural college at Clem eon and a similar institution in North Carolina. In her own country Miss Friede has attained considerable dis? tinction through her observations along agricultural lines. BAI IN WELL BARBER KILLED. White Man Shoots Negro Wlio Had Cursed Him. Barn well. Feb. 11.?Julius Green, a colored barber, was shot and killed here at 2:10 p. m., today by Mr. C. F. Baker, a painter. The killing oc? curred In Green's barber shop. It seems that there was some trifling trouble between the parties and that Green cursed Mr. Baker, who left the shop and returned In a few minutes, when the killing occurred. Baker admits having shot Green, and the verdict of the coroner's Jury was in accordance with this admis? sion. Baker la now lodged in the county Jail. Motion for ball will be made by his attorney in a few days. CARMACK MURDER TRIAL FIIIST DAY AVAS FULL OF SUR? PRISES. Mrs. Eastman Who Was Talking to Senator Carmack When Me Was Shot Down Tells The Story of the Tragedy?Lawyers for Defense Fail To Shake Her Testimony. Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 16.?Filled with dramatic incidents and marked by scenes that bordered on the sensa? tional, the first day of the actual trial of the Cooper-Sharp case closed to? night with both sides claiming to be well satisfied with the progress made. Whether Col. Duncan B. Cooper, Robin J. Cooper and John D. Sharp killed Former Senator E. W. Car? mack in self-defense or as a result of conspiracy is the sreat issue. The taking of the testimony began with every seat in the big new court room occupied. Scarcely had the at? torneys been rapped into order than sensation No. 1 was produced. Mrs. E. W. Carmack, the slain senator's widow, was half carried, half assisted into the room. She was gowned in deepest mourning. She is petite and slender. Her black veil fell nearly to her feet. Her knees gave way as she neared her seat and she was moaning as she was placed in her chair. Her little son. Ned, aged 10, stood by his mother, patting her shoulder and try? ing to keep back his tears. Surprise No. 2 came when the State called Mrs. Carmack as its first wit? ness. A few questions were asked her, but she became hysterical and was excused. She was not in Nash? ville at the time the tragedy happen? ed. Sensation No. 3 followed Mrs. Car mack's leaving the stand. As Mr. Lander and her sister half carried the fainting, sobbing little woman to her chair, Ned Carmack turned squarely towards where the defend? ants sat and fixed upon them a look as full of hatred as It is possible to Im? agine. Then came the testimony of Mrs. Eastman, the star witness for the State. Mrs. Eastman Is nearly 60 year* old. Her hair is snow white but her features are those of a girl and she is graceful and active. When called upon to do so she seized the revolver said to have been found near the dec* editor's body and reenacted the tragedy. When she had finished, her breathless spellbound audience seemed to feel that it had witnessed the tragedy and at least one spectator broke into appaluse. Her cross-examination was severe, but she held her own, smiling and calm. When the attorney general read the Indictment and' as he reached the words "did willfully, maliciously and with malice aforethought, slay and murder the body of E. W. Carmack" the widow collapsed and the eyes of the two daughters of Col. Cooper, who sat near the defendants, filled with tears. The State called Its wtlnesses and swore them. The defense waived this privilege with a statement that at the proper time their witnesses would be called and sworn. Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 17.?Marked ?y bitter quarrels between attorneys and by new and startling testimony, the second day of the Cooper-Sharp trial for the murder of Former Sena? tor Carmack closed tonight with the State highly elated and the dcnfense'l visibly perturbed. The tension be? tween the factions has tightened visi? bly, too. This Is Indicated In the court rooom by bitter passages be? tween opporing counsel and outside by more bitter talk by partlzans. While It was clearly a field day for the prosecution, It must be remember? ed that the testimony was given by the State's witnesses only and that the defense is yet to be heard from. There were three star wtlnesses, all of them women. Miss Mary Skef fington, the State librarian and a young woman of excellent position socially, was the first. She told how, on the day of the murder, she left the State library and walked down Sev? enth avenue. When within 200 feet of the scene of the shooting she met John Sharp, one of the defendants, whom she had known for 10 or 12 years. Just as she greeted him, she heard three shots and asked Sharp what it meant. Without turning around to learn, she says, Sharp re? plied: "That's Dune Cooper shooting Senator Carmack." By the eecond witness, Miss Daisy Lee, the State laid the foundation up? on which It will baae its contention that the slaying of Carmack was the result of a conspiracy. Miss Lee is a stenographer In the office of James B. Bradford, one of the attorneys for the defense. Robin Cooper had his office with Bradford's law firm. Mts:< Lee, trembling with fright and almost sick with worry, told how, on the morning of November 9, the day of the tragedy, when she arrived at the office she found Col. Cooper already there In conference with his son. She heard the Colonel denounce Carmack for using his (Cooper's) name and declare he'd a right to protect him self. Then she heard Col. Cooper ap? ply to him (Carmack) epithets sovile that she cried when ordered to repeat them. The court permitted her to write them, and when they were read she covered her face with her hands. Miss Lee then told how at 3 p. m., there began a conference in Brad? ford's office between the two Coopers and Bradford and Adjutant General Tully Brown. This conference lasted until 4 p. m., when it broke up and the Coopers left together. She said that there was a look of worry and trouble on the boy's face that she had never seen there before. Miss Lee's duty, among other things was to answer the telephone. There are desk extensions into the private offices of the members of the firm. It was her custom tft answer the telephone and call by an electric button such member of the firm as was wanted. A half an hour after the Coopers left the office the tele? phone rang, and as usual, Miss Lee answered it. She heard a voice say: *is that you, Jim?" and heard Attor? ney Bradford say, "Yes." She hung up her receiver, but not before she recognized the voice as that of Col. Cooper. A moment later she heard Bradford say over the ?phone. "And did Robin kill him? Well, I'll be right up there." She in? sisted that Bradford was not in, the habit of answering the telephone un? less called by her. It appeared to be the intent of the State to have the jury believe that a conference to slay Carmack was held and that the kill? ing resulted from this conference. The third star witness was Miss Dora Braxter, a maid in the service of Mrs. Lucius Burch, a daughter of Col. Cooper, with whom he made his home. The witness heard Col. Coop? er come into the Burch home about noon the day of the tragedy and heard him tell Mrs. Burch something that did not exactly reach the young woman. She heard Mrs. Burch say: "He will kill you, papa," and the father's reply, "He is as liable to be killed as I am," which caused Mrs. Burch to become hysterical. The defense made little effort to cross-examine these witnesses except in a most perfunctory manner, and court adjourned with the testimony of the State's witnesses practically un assailed. LAXD DEAL AT MANNING. Greensboro, N. C, Concern Purchases The A. L. Lesesne Tract. Manning. Feb. 16.?J. McSwain Woods, Esq., acting for the American Realty Company of Greensboro, N. C, purchased the A. L. Lesesne tract of land lying in the corporate limits of Manning and embracing 66 acres. It is understood that the amount in? volved is $40.000. The purchasers announce that a sale at public outcry will tcke place of a part, say about 100 lots. This means a great deal for the material advance? ment of Manning, as it is deplorably short on small houses for people in moderate circumstances. ORANGEBURG CLUB RAIDED. One Barrel of Liquor Was Taken by Chief of Police. A barrel of whiskey was seized by the police this morning from the Edi sto Social Club, located in Broughton street. The raid was made about 11 o'clock, and the whiskey is now at police headquarters. Chief Fischer received Information this morning that a barrel of liquor was at the depot for club, and he Im? mediately made ready to seize it. It was hauled down to town, and as it was delivered at the door of the club Chief Fischer took charge of it, and notified W. H. Brown, one of the of? ficers of the club. The authorities have been on the lookout for a shipment of this liquor and when the barrel arrived this morning it was addressed to the Edl sto Social Club, and labeled "Explo? sive Liquor," Chief Fischer prepared to take charge of It The liquor is In glass bottles pack? ed In a barrel.?Orangeburg News. Making National Reputation. Representative Lever is making a national reputation for himself and the 7th South Carolina district A few days ago he made a telling speech on the subject of the referee board in connection with the operation of the pure food law. Demands for copies of his speech have reached him from almost every part of the United States and all the big Western newspapers played up the speech in their most vivid colors, carrying broad headlines and making note of It in their edito? rial columns. It Is probable that Mr. Lever may have something further to say on the subject In the near future. He touch? ed, however, a magazine when he got to the food manufacturers, and If present rumors count for anything, more interesting events are to happen soon.?News and Courier. Deputy Collector Scruggs and spe? cial constables of Greenville destroy? ed three illicit stills In Greenville county. GENERAL ASSEMBLY CERTAIN TO ADJOURN NEXT SATUR? DAY. Talks of Prolonged Session is Merely Bluff?State-Wide Bill Unlikely to to Come to a Vote?Appropriations Bill Provoked More Discussion than Usual. Columbia, Feb. 14.?In a week the members of the General Assembly will be at their homes, telling their friends and loved ones how they help? ed make the laws of the State and, better si ill, how they joined hands and kept useless statutes from get? ting on the books. There has been talk about not adjourning before next Sunday?Saturday is the for? tieth day. It is all twaddle or "bluff." The General Assembly will adjourn some time next Saturday. It may be soon after midnight Friday, or it may be late in the day, but the purpose is to adjourn on the fortieth day of the session, and there is no reason why such should not be done. The sug? gestion that such will 'not be done comes from those who favor State? wide prohibition, and are holding a prolonged session over the heads of those opposing them as a sort of sword of Damocles. They ought to know that they cannot hold the ma? jority of the members here after next Saturday, and the only thing that can interfere, with the purpose to ad? journ is some mishap. The general appropriation bill has already been reported by the Senate committee on finance, and can be given its final reading on Wednesday, and this jan be followed up with the general supply bill, and any effort to j hold the bill up, as has been threat? ened by the "State-widers" will not succeed. There was an effort made yesterday among certain of the advocates of State wlce prohibition to reach an agreement as to when a vote should be taken on the pending bill. The conference lasted for some time, and failed because it was stated that, while the advocates of the measure offered to allow two hours for further debate aid agree to fix a time on Monday for a vote, they would not agree to a day*1 for final adjournment. The opponents of the State-wide bill suggested that they might agree to an hour for a vote if those who ad? vocated l.he State-wide law would agree to name Saturday for final ad? journment. Nothing was done, and there is no telling what will be done. The indications, however, are that further ?ffort will be made for a while to get the State-wide bill to a vote, and that after a while there will be n > further use to worry about the matter. The impression is get? ting abroad that neither the Bouse nor the Senate is going to worry about the bill. The Interesting phase of the situa? tion is the sensitiveness of the lead? ers in charge of the State-wide bill? Messrs M. L. Smith and John G. Richards?that they have political aspirations back of their efforts. Both of these distinguished law? makers insist that they are not try? ing to build campaign benches with this bill, and that they are really and sincerely In earnest in their efforts to get State-wide prohibition, and that they do not expect to run for State or other offices on the "quartette" bill. Yet they do not appear to like this Intimation. The fact of the mat? ter is that John Richards and M. L. Smith are two mighty strong and able men, and the State is fortunate in having such strong men in its service, but they do not know what to do with their bill, and to pass it would be to have no issue for a forth? coming campaign. The general appropriation bill has passed the House. It provoked more discussion than heretofore, but it is well that there is full and free dis? cussion on this, of all bills, because it is Important that the members know where and how the State's money is spent. The bill this year carries an expenditure of $1,692,686. 30 and the bill gives an Itemized statement of where every dollar of this money goes. There were two remarkable things done in connec? tion with the appropriation bill this year. First, the abandonment of the Confederate Home, which has just been completed, and is now ready for Its first Confederate soldier, and sec? ond, the appropriation of $50,000 at one fell swoop swoop for the pur? chase of school books for use in the public schools of the State. The appropriation bill brought into prominence and showed the marked ability of two young members?Wal? ter Doar, of Georgetown, and E. W. Duvnll, of Chesterfield. These two young men have had little to say, but when the appropriation bill came up. young Mr. Duvall. a new member, shot right into prominence by his en? tire familiarity with what he was talking about, and again showing the importance of knowing at least one thing better than others. Mr. Duvall is one of the promising young men of the new members. Walter Doar has been here before, but neither he nor any other member has, as the lawyers express it, fastened a de novo proposition involving $50,000 on the all-sacred appropriation bill. Mr. Marion Rucker, the chairman of the ways and means committee, has a strong committee this year and he and his associates managed to take fine care of the bill In the House. John Richards has been toting the affairs of Winthrop College, and if the young ladies up there believe in the making of saints, they should fir up a panel for Saint John Richards, and if he continues his good work there will have to be another panel to Saint John Porter Hollis. Something was said last week about the pernicious habit of not reading bills at least on the second reading. Speaker Whaley yesterday undertook to stop what was growing to be a bad custom, and what will sooner or later lead to serious trouble, because, Just as sure as it is kept up, something that was never intended, will by accident slip through in such a fashion. The rules, the law and everything else require that every bill should be read line for line on the second reading. Yesterday Speak? er Whaley insisted on the enforcement of the rule when, lo! and behold, that most careful, that most exact and precise law-maker, Mr. T. B. Fraser, asked for unanimous con? sent for a bill to pass its second reading without reading it as re? quired by the rules. The unanimous consent was granted and the bad precedent again started. It is like shooting an unloaded gun. It is go? ing to be loaded and someone is sure to be hurt when least expected, Absolutely nothing has yet been done looking towards a revision or change in the matter of assessments or of taxation. There is something' wrong, and it ought to be changed. Columbia, for instance, is paying city, county and State taxes upon a high? er basis than almost any other city in the State. Richland County has a scrupulously exact and orthodox au? ditor, who is not constantly thinking about vote making, and a board of assessors that is not afraid of get? ting, values, but In many other coun? ties \he Idea seems to be to see how low the values can be fixed and raise sufficient for necessary purposes. Something ought to be done, in av> business-like way to reraedj this ej/fl, and not let the State bo-rU of assess? ors come here from year to year and go through the quadrennial farce of saying: "Oh, well, let's adopt the county figures, as they ought to know what best." This means nothing, except drawing pay war? rants and going home. There has never been a systematic effort made to get at actua values and make the values comparative in the State?the lands In one ccunty value as they do In another. Mr. Jones has been try? ing to do this for years, but be has gotten raps for It, and his sole pur? pose has been to equalize and not raise assessments of taxes. There is a substitute compulsory education bill on the House Calendar. It is supported by Messrs. Fultz, Mc Mahan and Garris. Whether it will be adopted at this session and be able to run the gamut is doubtful. During the week two Important measures to the common school in? terests have been adopted on the House side. One is the bill of Mr. Garris, looking to direct subsidy to common schools in the poorer sec? tions of the State. The Idea is to sup? plement the local funds to the extent of not more than $80, If the local folks will do something themselves towards extending the term of the school. The second of the series of bills looking to helping the common schools is that of Mr. Hydrick, who wants the real rural districts helped by the high school law, and whose bill, which passed the House, looks to that end.?August Kohn in News and Courier. CRAFT SENTENCED FOR LIFE. Judge Dantzler Refuses to Grant the Young Man a New Trial?Appeal to Supreme Court. Lexington, Feb. 9.?Judge Dantxler today refused to grant a new trial in the case of Thomas Craft, the young white man who was yesterday con? victed of the murder of Garfleld Hut to, with recommendation to mercy. Craft was sentenced by Judge Dant? zler to serve the remainder of hie natural life at hard labor in the State penitentiary. Craft la only 26 years of age. Just In the prime of early manhood, and while the verdict of the Jury meets with almost universal approval, there ire those who greatly sympathise with the young man. Craft will remain in the Lexington jail pending the appeal to the su? preme court. A five-year-cId son of Rev. Oliver Johnson of Chester swallowed a horse-shoe nail several days ago but has not suffered any bad effects. A fool uttei eth all his mind.?Bl ble.