Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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[ A. friend handed me the following poetry, being written bv himself and being true as gospel and homemade. I naked permission to use it which lie granted. Now I do not wish the people to pass it by because I said it is hotnel. made for that cannot w eaken it.. It was "fired" from a "fort" on a Gibralter of Gibraltry, and I might sav is truly a part of the gospel, and provoked by the tact that our Slate is having murders for a pastime it Seems. Nothing could be M>oie timely and to the point I am thiuking. ] murdek! The red handed murderer isabroulin the land. Wilh a double barrel shot gun or pistol in baud. Shooting down his victims for the least provocation Whether in the highest or lowest station. . r?fte laws of his couulry he does not re? A - - y; gam, For he knows be will never receive bis reward, m Tbe rope around his neck will never grow |tight, *332t condemned at all, his penalty will be ??; light. Emboldened by the laxity of the laws of the State, Murder is increasing and crime is very great, To hang a white murderer the jury can't agree, Manslaughter is the verdict or lie goes "soat free." With a fickle-fondling jury to try a murder case, Is a failure, a fatce and a woeful dfsS? . grace, "ayum of c mrage who will dare do II tli'. . ihc04.lv ?0 whether black or white. The verdict of heaven rolls down through the sky, The cpld blooded,murderer must suiely die; And be who would.spwe him prompted v . W -hrpltv or gold, x Increases the murderer 6f fhurderers a thousand fold. % *3 * " . ? To protect the- ionooeut the laws must be applied, ' 4 Or the doer toward anarchy will fly open //> JflSnX Lynch law and terror will reign bupreme. And chtili/ation . will only.be;a delusive * dream. ? ' yA "The month February ends the winter. time, " : And we are glad to know it, ' lthn* limt VPt t.h??rA is nn ginn -TOi birds ami flowers to ahtTw it." Yes, but they will come. Some tried it bat a Blizzard caught them far from home and filled them with * chilis. We are March^in') now, and we may expect to hear, many March airs 'r pliyed, and if houses are made to . ^tremble time to the music of the H. fJd&rcb(winds) we need not be afraid. : V I bare studied what that order or ' T4 ladies society labled D. 0. K.-K. - was, and have just come to the conelusion that those letters must mean. Pi Do Our Kicking Kindly. Sotne spring oats were sown last week but only a few; the ground was heavy, then rain fell again. Seed . oats are scarce and some could not P? get them. Work is behind the seaV .son. ' A Sunday ScUotol here is getting aaliUna^glyserinish^?i(t" Is 'quick and "raifeaoded." The members meet at ?thepjiate., give the house a shake and rr dnyflMb ,the Sunday school "goes .oflr and everybody hurries home to ^ /dinner before one can get a grip on what is done, .r? 1 I notico the Board/of-Commission-"^ ers are going 6? inspect the roads this year and "itf" 'that way' keep in close touch with ',*11 the overseers." Good, and then they Will know "what f they are paying '6nt fnoney for; the u . neglect of which. I wrote about last Sp fall when I "set the-woods afire." g I thank W. .<? Bailey, our fur way brother of Colorado, for the favorable comment on mv artie'e absently concerning the late homioide OWkT-' X teel that wc inupt look ;it ?the useful side of a' man. whether he lis a church man or- not, he can be 'very useful ^and a wWrm, generous iHftrted tnan. but if a christian .how much more so. Hera let say I am always interested in those- far away letters. ^ '? A storm broke on us here Saturday morning about day and the-wind blew hard and we h,ad .68 inches of flunfall. All the damage done wax A few people got a little scared. Mr. W. T* Stokes, Jr., has just ; ' I loaded a car of scrap iron which ho ha* been buying, and when it comes | ?0 lookiug over a pile of- scrap iron ' you can find-every kind of a scrap, almost that you can think of, and a few others. It. 6. Thoma*, Sr.,'*was overtaken by night recently going home from Union, arid near his home his horse took a side path which he was in the habit of riding to keep out of the mud. It.being too dark for him to sec well but finding he was too far out reigogjl in his horse which went down a steep road bank, turned over the buggy and threw him out, badly stunning him but erasing no bruises, but, tie got home after some trouble in trying to get straight again as to self and-yob lele. T Lun k/<?n i,i 1- - X UUTU iXiVIl IU UlCHtl U young mule tlio past week. 1 do not object seriously to breaking a sensible animal, even if "wild," and in fact I rather like it, for I like to have some honor of training one to be (juictand gentle that it may have a future. satisfaction of standing at the head*of his class, and be a sort of "practical" animal. I can somewhat, as the negro said, "congratulate" myself in having patience when training young stock. I think that is pardonable. A brother . of the writer had a bad fever blister on his mouth, and tried to blow a dinner horn, but it hurt so he put it down and tried another, put it to the middle of his lips but with no better results, lie put it down and said this was one time that a man could not "blow his own horn'' and someone else would have to blow it for him. Mr. L. B. Jeter, the principal'cotton buyer here, informed me that at this place there were near seventeen hundred bales of cotton sold the past -season. n<f|tluitvtlie price compared favorably \jifh other markets. A large j>art of the (josheyu .Hill township^rojTuse i to come hcie but now thtffc 4uro?^" shfpplug points nearer, nam fly, Delta and Whitmire on the (jr.. C. &--N. ^railroad.' This has always been'a good ship^ng point and there i? a good farming conntry surtoundin)* it. The last three or four rains being hard, -beating ones, the road has been packed d iwu surprisingly and tlie washing has smoothed over places, but has caused some gullies to wash in places. Awhile they were so muddy and sloppy that we thought we would'have to do like old ' African Sam," ail old negro who used to belong tn my great uncle, Dr. John Jeter. When asked how he erossed a swollen'stream'he said, "By.blood I tim," (swim.) so we thought we would havo to *'tim." By the way, that was a good piece of poetry "B. K. D." wrote about the mud. [ I think I have, invented arplan to keep the "-pesky" chickens from flying, in the, gardens, and if it works they mpy.,' think " yo'tt arc playing a "Yankee trick" on hem, hut never i^ind that/. It is to fix a bracket on each postediting it project outside about live or six inches, and two or I three above t-he imiliners and stretch I a, small wife- along, which can be I braced at eavb clrnot. / NoSv whan the chicken aims to lly .on*the pailings it will mot notice tie insignificant wire, sticking which, it will bo knocked back. If the ol.l hen is not a very gdod-shot she will not be able to "shoot" the space lot ween wire and p-iilin^s and will w be able to account for what ails h >r, or she would not calculate on going ever without tipping the top. I cannot agree with Mi)s E. A. (5. exactly on what she'says about that sopial equality etc., for as the editor says, the White llouse is not Roosevelt's, and -besides, ho ,js not our boss, or ought not to be, arid if he is representing us, as a uation, he is representing us to ti.o >. world as a nation dn fecial equality -with an inferior rrfpe, who sit down and dine with thCin, while as to uf a? a nation practicing-it, it is a lie. True, she has in tht re things that jolts us if we look at it right, for if you, look around you will see things tjiat wo mre ashamed of, and jd one section should poinUa linger at us anil say, don't that- look like- "pocial. equality?" WKtt ~ -1 ' .. VJ no IUOH, UIWUUU US liVHlg with negroo*. and negroes living with some. No doubt they eat with thorn,' and stay w/th nogrooa and in fact make them their equals, but *happil^-tiHit is individuality and not officially, or as a State. Wo have ' good people who treat the negr? humanely and squarely and of such people i-i our State composed. We are not of-thosc who comes down to that stato of "social equality." IIey Denver. LETIEITFROM TEXAS. A Dr, Dabney Writing a History Wants alt Information Obtainable. THE TOWN OF TRENTON. Bonham, Tex., Fob. 27, 1003. Editor Union Times: llere is an item of news coming; by tho way ot Bonliam from Virginia. Prof. It. H. Dabney, of the University of Virginia, is collecting data from which to write a history .of the South during the Reconstruction period, that is to say from 1865 to 1876. lie wishes to communicate with people in possession of books, pamphlets, files of newspapers, letters, or printed matter containing facts relating to that period. Information throwing light upon the following subjects will be appreciated by Prof. Dabney: The economic condition of the South in 1865; the attitude of different social classes toward each other; the extent to which ante-bellum partisan political feelings revived; the feeling of Southerners toward tho North and the Union and towards Northern settlers in the South; the conduct of the negroes and the feelings of the whites toward them in 1876 and afterwards; Lincoln's Reconstruction Policy in certain State*} the Freedman's Bureau aud its workings; Northern teachers of negro schools and their treatment by the whites; the influence of Presi/innl a nrlpato takno/vn*? ?v/vk^in uvuv iMi'tiun uvuuouu O pviu/j l?puu Southern Political action; the motives of State legislatures in placing the laws limiting the freedom of negroes; the working of these law#; the jrihlive for Wcyng tbo 14th am.mlanal in i860; the exact pitftfeod* of controlling negroes, whether by deception, intimidation,' violence or proper personal influence; the personal characteristics of the military commanders and the civil officials of Stntrs, counties or cities; tho actual management of financial, judicial and other affairs by the reconstruction government; (upon these subjects the Carolinians can furnish information which may ''stagger humanity;") the fraud or force employed, cither for or against these governments; the effect of Johnson's impeachment upon Southern opinion; the Loyal League; the Ku K'ux Ivlan; the Knights of the White Camilla and similar organizations and so forth. Prof. Dabney is qualified in every way to handle the matter he has taken in hand. lie has an uncle in the person of Dr. Benj. Dabney, of Bonham, Texas, through whom the above information reaches the correspondent and I am satibfird that the readers of The Times will gladly co-operate with I'rof. Dabney in an undertaking, the object of which is to do iusticc to Southern nennlo f - - ? i r Allow me to add in this connection that Prof. Dabney has an aunt (Mrs. Susan Dabney Smedcs) who is an authoress, having written a delightful story, "The Memoirs of a Southern Planter," the ecene of tho story is laid in Mississippi. Mrs. Smedes home is at Scwanee, Tenn. Prof Dabney*8 father, Vjrginius Dabney, is a'so a writer, 4*I)on Miff" being one of his books, lie was, at one time, a teacher in the Preparatory School in Princeton College. The family came from the coast plantations of Gloucester county, Virginia. Did you ever hear of Trenton, Texas? ell Trenton is a small town 17 or 18 miles southwest of lionhatn, in Fannin county. Trenton or near Trenton was the home, for a long time, of, Mr. Julius Kiser, a Unionite, known to many of the oiuer rentiers ot mo UNION TIMES. And Joseph rridmorc, another Union boy, lived and taught school at Trenton for some time. Joseph married at Trenton, a Miss Lomons, about ten years ago. Trenton was. until recently, the home of a lady who will be quite prominent, from the fact that sho assumes a pleasant task to be performed at the Confederate Reunion at New Orleans in Mnv next. The lady is a daughter of an ex Confederate soldier of whom it is said he has not yet surrendered, of bean wholly reconstructed, but be ithat as it may; you have been intro* -VC ilueed ?o ton. now let uao mtro duce yog t?lm daughter of T-ronton The lady * group 4?f 8 or 4 excellent and charming daughters of the abo?4 mentioned ex-confederate soldier. J.aJ. Hancock, Esq, of Trenton. She is quite young yet, being possibly 22 years of age. She : was f^r a time a teacher (in the public schools I think) at Qxeenviftj, Texas, but tat year some time, the dato is not l^etaembfEtd. "he was married to . Travis ST. Dumas, of Grayson county. They desided upon a romantic scheme in getting married. The ilea conceived ami car 1. A! - mi 1 iicu uui w?b iin-: " -Liiey" came to within about one mile of Bonham and stopped on the public road leading to Bailey, wjien Judge \V. A. E vans was #ent f for, ?jfjo went ont and performed the ceremony for them. They afterward moved to Caddo, I, T., where they now live. The task she is to assume and perform is to formally present to General Gordon, at New Orkans, in May, a fine horse, which is to be given to him on that occasion, possibly by the TeXan Confederates, but that it may be better understood I copy the paragraph as it comes to my view from Caddo: J'Mrs. Tra\is M. Dumas, of this city, a daughter of the Confederacy, has been selected to rido the horse that is to be presented to General Gordon at the New Orle&ps Confederate reunion in May. She will also mako the presentation sneech in New Orleans." - , J . The* horse is at Cftddo now, in chage of Mr. and Mr& Pumas. Mrs, Dumas is very popular at iter hew home in the Indian territory, and ft is said that the old Confederates are tc be congratulated Upon their good judgment in selecting one-rwho can perform the honor with such grace. The Galveston people have comtnenoed jvorlron a aea wall, to protect the city In case of another disaaten^jki i^fKQhe of-the 8th oF8ept?, lOOdT^the proposed wall, will coat between three and four millions of dollars, and still the wall only extends three or four miles along the gulf shore. It can hardly be supposed that a break water can be built there which would give Galveston anything llko absolute security, but It is the beginning of a good work which may be continued later on. J. S. C. WORTH ONE MILLION DOLLARS PER POUND. Railinm, the New Mineral Which IIus Created a Sensation in the Scientific Wotld. Radium, the new mineral recently 1 a discovered, cau now be bought for $900,000 a pound, the price haying been reduced from one million. lladium is a scientific sensation. It is said to be the most important discovery in the last generation and epochal in the history of science. Briefly described, it is a powder, a combination of metals, which gives off a light almost as strong as the light of the sun. It is as far ahead of Roentgen rays, the scientific sensation of six years ago, as theso rays are ahead of twilight. When the so-called X rays scientists actually photographed the bones of living persons, laymen were awed. This accomplishment would be the merest child's play for radium. With it photographs can be taken throjgh three feet of iron or a foot of lead. Its value to surgery, to medical science, and physical science cannot even be approximated. To modern scientific research it is what the discovery of the telescope was to astron otny. Une wee bit of the metal is in New York. It was brought there by a leading electrical engineer and scientist, lie obtained his portion from the discoverer in Paris, and, being only as much as one cm hold between the thumb and fore finger, is worth SCO. lie, in conjuntion with leading surgeons, is making experiments which promise to be ol inestimable benefit to medicine. Experimgiits' aro also being made in j Paris, Berlin and I^ome. With its rays, which escaped through marty thick wrappers, the New York man took a photograph in a closed and almost hermetically soiled trunk. |n a dark room it glows like phosphorous. Carried in one's pocket, it causes a blister on I the body, exactly like sunburn. The strength of the pure metal is * (If Wy.'. *? Jyi . -y- rf? almost bbyj&nd bdiof. i&of. Curie. ofVaris, the discoverer, Birtftbc would riot dare to trust himveltik a room jrich ik kilo -of pure nflmnn* n? it would, without doubt, l is eyes, bur^all the s^in off his body, and perhaps cau?o ^iqjftarnt.. death. From catling a small tbetalic esse, containing a small bit (>F (he inetni undei^his arm, he sustained a bum which was fifty days ir^'healing. It requires no exposure to light to become incandescent, and will glow for years, and will cause other tub stances to become radio active. It is a white crystalline powder, which* in the light looksr .inoffensive and harmless, but when in the dark glows li\ce steel melted to its highest pitch. And whether it be in day- i light or dark, it i^ constantly seud- ; ing out the r^ys, which can pierce J three feet of iron, take photographs < in closed trunks, and metalic cases, i It will retain its full strength perpet- I ually. Its rattt.travel almost as fa>-t 9 as sunlight.' a The metal ^ctraM, of cour&o. be 1 used for heating, generating power. 1 or fori'dozen things, but until the t cost is'reduced somewhat from the present price, it is not likely that it will be used extensively for anything, s Its ultimate uses will be as an aid to 1 Burgeons, physicians and medical practioneers, and to each of them, it 1 is said, it will bean invaluable assist- t ant. Doctors predict that it may i prove efficacious for the treatment of j many diseases which now -run their j course practically undisturbed by the i best treatment. Leading scientists^ i are looking with the singular metal, i New York physician's hope to be able'to make thejfirst announcement.,J They are hard aVVork.?Greenville Ilcrald. >' SOCIAL EQUALITY. ,, _ . N ' - ' Miss Garner Has Another Say Regarding Roosevelt's Social Equality Nightmare?Nominates tHavelutnl rFbr i -Torw. .A . , , , , ? Mr. Editor:?I esteem yOur kindness in publishing my late item with reference to social equality; especially as the 1 sentiments c miained in it don't seem t congenial with your views on t^e subject. ? Yes indeed, Ex-President Cleveland J did exhibit such an extraordinary amount ] of tact and policy that it was very hard ^ to tell whether he was a Democrat or a . ItemihlicATi. That. nwm?? ?< ? h? iih ?... t est accomplishment. Would you desire I to have a Democrat or a Republican i either that was not competent to till the j Presidential capacity for all the people? . Ex-President Cleveland has the extrair Unary experieuoe and knowledge t gained by eight years in ollice as Presi- I dent. According to my weak judgment j if he is willing to serve ilia people lor a . third term he should have l'j out of *JU : of the votes in the next election. I c.iu- ? not think that President It wsevelt by < enterlainiug booker Washington at diu- ( ner ever intended it as any disrespect to Southerners; if it hid any other intent than a personal favor, as a just return ( for a similar favor that had been shown t him, I would sooner think the incident j was intended as a compliment to Southerners as corresponding with the custom that has produced so many mulattoes. The just and liberal acts of these people should not he too hastily judged, espeeially in a narrow and suspicious way. We ail need to heed tlr; command: 1 "Judge not that ye be not judged, for 1 with what judgment ye judge ye shall ba j judged." It very often proves true. The OKI Testament Scriptures show that the Israelites were strictly command- 1 ed not to have social intercourse with < the surrounding nations; and that when- j ever they vioated the cuimuand they , were punished bath individually and as ' amnion by some plague orcuisj. Tlia lesson stands today for all. George Combe- in liis work on the constitution of man, siys tint it his been proved than initiations never increase after the fifth and seventh generation, andjlilt miscegenation 'is a sure way to exterminate both races Rev. G. S. Weaver, in Ins fifteen leetuies to young people, warning mothers of their great responsibility in thee ire of l heir children, siys tli -y had fir 'natter consign tlieir child to the cold grave tliau to the caro of an iurtn ?ral nnrsi. If what some p*ople ca 1 the brutal ele n>ent, can be trusted witli the care of the lnlpleas, impressi- ntb'e'liLtle ch h'reu and other sacred hotue duties, the people ' need not bo alarmed ab >ut the s iciety around the National Capitol. Mt. Joy, S. C. E. A. G. KEITQN KRONICLES. Mr. Editor: The weather is fine now ami the farmers will sum* have their plows moving. The wind on tlio 10th of hYbrunry was pretty heavy on the Ridge, but littlo (1 image was done. A great many trees were blown down, half a dogen or inoro were blown down on Mt. Joy church ground, a chitur.s?V. - ;i . < n "< Vjl S. Porter's duelling 5h wagon shelter. Mr. ire cooijc house was blown >? ') ;v , < h Little, of Kolton, hM V I \ just returned from a hunt down u? / " - * ? V '"C: lleesiville. S. fJ. Rnm? v? msM-y a^ranaiO ^ from Spartanburg was with bhn. Jib reporta^ihat thej had a ffnetime .* eatinirWh, birds, "etc. He shys hey I'at Mr. George Sprouted ^ y night Mr. Henry Gault, v '.V Johti Smith Gnult, and ?ter, son of Mr* John T. in a fight and friend < " cd tbemv and Henry .and k sfeeiy brothers, of Lem a few 'words when Charles v ^ ^ , iry on the head with a ng knocking him sense- ; v ile and cutting a c<jnsid- ? on the side of Jiis head iis left ear. Dr. Wood r. 1 and carfle^iext morning and sewed up the wound, to be in a critical ooudif and Monday,- and his for Dr. Lawson. of Union*, ind he came and examined his wound. I.U^aya that he donl think that a*' jpSrmojbwill have to be performed* ? dchocghf hid skull is mashed in a rirtie" Tfhtfb Dr. Lawson was in Kelt n Mr. Dan Ganlt bent a negro joy that ho had hired to Dr. Wood :o f-eo if he had smallpox and &**, Dr. Law:;on said he certainly had ?-*\ 1 case (f smajfpox and that caused a '* *\ ;reat deal of/ uneasiness in our community. The boy said that he oane jgh^ Spnrtanburg and said that the TOsllpox was up there Mr. Starke Earner's little boy. Willie, got hig.knef cut one day last "reek. ; . _ Mrs. EiPLittlejohn,* of Jonesrilie, 8 visiting friends on the Ridge. pKKDU. STATE IeWSSOIES. i-' 9& ** *'7*' W y"r< C?*vy * ^ V "* ' - r * A sad tragedy .occurred at Inman atft week. Reuben Pitts, a jeung eacber of the tnman graded school, hot and killed one of his scholars, 3d Foster. Pitts began to chastise Foster, who resisted and while they vere ecuflling over tho switch a pis* ol shot was heard by three other >oys in tho next room who were leeping through the door. The pis* ol was in Pitt's hand. Foster in lis posst mortem charges Pitta with browing his pistol in his face, when LL .1 * ~ 1 ie grauueu ai it ana as it came down t exploded, that Pitts again raised it it his face, when ho sank on the loor from weakness. The tragedy >ccurred February 24 th. Foster lied on the 27th. Pitts at once sur endered. The verdict of the corner's jury is "that deceased came ;o his death by a pistol shot wound nilicted by Reuben P. Pitts on Feb uiry 2ith, 1903." * # * Joe Keenan, the negro who shot ind killed Samuel Wilinoat a short etui a back and escaped, being captured in Union ounty while triveln?g in woman's clothing, was hanged in Greenville. S. C., on last Friday it noon, lie said he had not intendsd to kill Wilmont, but shot him to ~ _ get away. He made a speech on the gallows in which he warned all to let the deadly pistol alone. He said he was ready to die. VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUT. Ifotva of General Interest Gathered. \ Ft oin Our Exchanges, . I Edwin L. Burdick, president of E". L. Burdick & Co., and of the Buffalo} Envelope Company, wan murdered at his home on Ashland Avenue, in Buffalo, N. Y., last Fri? (Uy. The murder, is onveloped in iqjstery. The murder was commit- e ? til after 10:30 o'clock'at night. The jails of his room was bespattered ill. u;.. v. i ? 1 -1 L-.- 1 * null uiaiuo auu UlUWU HI1U 1119 UOflJ w .is four.d or* a lounge the next tiorning. The. head had been pushed with some blunt instrument. \t ? * * . ".England tried for another pngilUti<i championship Friday night ..aY Detroit, and scored another defeat. Her champion bantam weight, Andy Tokell, was' beaten decisively by Harry fcorbes, the chatnptou bantam weight of the world. " Ug**" - ' It