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What Is th Disstst that is
Ciming Upon Os ?
Like a thief at night it steals
in upon us unawares. The pa
tients have pains about the chest
and sides, and soineties in the
back. They feel dull and sleepy,
the mouth has a bad taste, espe
cially in the morning. A sort
of sticky slime collects about the
teeth. The appetite is poor
There is a feeling like a heavy
load on the stomach; sometimes
a faint, all gone sensation at the
pit of the stomach which food
does not satisfy. The eyes are
sunken, the hands and feet be
come cold and clammy. After a
■while a cough sets in, at first
dry, but after a few months it is
attended with a greenish colored
expectoration. The patient
feels tired all the while,
and sleep does not seem
to afford any rest. After a
time he becomes nervous, irrita
ble and gloomy, and has evil
forebodings. There is jaddg
*ness, a sort of whirling sensa
tion in the head when rising up
suddenly. The bowels become
costive; the skin is dry and hot at
times; the blood becomes thick
and stagnant; the whites of the
eyes become tinged with yel
low, the urine is scanty and high
colored, depositing a sediment
after standing. There is fre
quently a spitting up of the
food, sometimes with a sour
?aste and sometimes with a
sweetish taste; this is frequently
attended with palpitation of the
heart; the vision becomes im
paired, with spots before the
eyes; there is a feeling of great
prostration and -weakness. Al
of these symptoms are in turn
present. It is thought that
nearly one-third of our popula
tion has this disease in some of
its varied forms.
It has been found that physi
clans have mistaken the cause
of this disease. Some have
treated it for a liver complaint,
others for kidney disease, etc.,
etc , but none of these kinds of
treatment have been attended
with success; for it is really
constipation and dyspepsia. It
is also found that Shaker Ex
tract of Roots, or Mother Sei
gel’s Curative Syrup, when
properly prepared will remove
this disease in all its stages.
Care should be taken, however,
to secure the genuine article.
IT WILL SELL BETTER THAN
COTTON.
Mr. John (J. Hemptinstall, of
Chulafirmee, Cleburn county,
Ala , writes: “My wife has been
so much benefited' by Shaker
Extract of Roots or Seigel’s
Syrup that >he says she would
rather be without part of her
food than without the medicine.
It has done her more good than
the doctors and all other medi
cine put together. I would ride
twenty miles to get it into the
hands of any sufferer if he can
get it no other way. I believe
it will soon sell in this State
better than cotton.”
TESTIMONY FROM TEXAS.
Mrs. S. E. Barron, of Vainer,
Ripley county, Mo., writes that
she had been long afflicted with
dyspepsia and di-ease of the
urinary organs and was cured
by Shale r Extiact of Roots.
Rev. J. J. McGuire, merchant,
of the same place, who sold
Mrs. Barton the medicine, says
he has sold it for tour years and
never kpew it to fail.
SHE WAS ALMOST DEAD.
I was so low with dyspepsia
that there was not a physician
to be found who could do any
thing with me. I had fluttering
of the heart and swimming of
the head. One day I read your
pamphlet called ’‘Life Among
the Shakers,” which described
my disease better than I could
myself. I tried the Shaker
Extract of Roots and kept on
with it until today I rejoice in
good health. Mrs. M. E. Tins
ley, Bevier r Muhlenburg coun
ty, Ky.
For sale by all Druggists, or
address the proprietor, A. J.
White, Limbed, 54 Warr -u
street, New York.
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DOINGS IN DIXIE.
Eventsofa We,3k in the Sunny
Southland.
DROWNED IN THE CHATTAHOOCHEE.
GEORGIA.
The Franklin News prints the following:
Mre. f’l'ilpolt. the mother-in-law of Dr. O. C.
Brittain. Late in tire aft moon, Mrs. Brittain,
who herself has been qn'.u* unwell f:r several
days, was called to give some instructions
about some newly killed meat. As she passed
out to obey her call she was met by her mother
with the statement:
“Lizzie, I believe I’ll go visiting this even
ing.”
She was gone when Mrs. Brittain returned
to her room. As she frequently visited the
neighbors near by nothing was thought of her
absence. As night approached, however, she
did not return. Members of the family went
in various directions to the houses of neighbors
she usually visited, but no one had seen her.
At this juncture uneasiness became alarm, and
aid having been summoned a "general
search was instituted, but with
out success. On being told of the fruitless
search, Mrs. Linch. an intimate neighbor of
the family, remembered that she hail seen
Mrs. Philpott in the late afternoon going to
ward the river, but as she had frequently seen
her walking in the field fronting the house
and being quite busy had clearly forgotten
having seen her. This only intensified the
alarm. Lights were procured, and the tracks
of the aged mother were easily followed to the
river and into the water. She could not have
fallen into the river. The bank is very low at
the place of her entrance to the stream, but
comparatively eddy. It is hardly possibly
that her body can be far away, notwithstand
ing after two days careful search it has not
been fouud. A large number were engaged in
dragging the river. No one can account for
Mrs. Philpott’s strange course. Sue was sur
rounded by every comfort her old age could
wish, and had attained the ripe age of eighty
one years. She had frequently expressed a
desire to die, however, and si®, is the death of
her husband about a year ago her aversion to
living has gradually strengthened. No one,
though, ever dreamed that she would pursue
such a course to end her existence. Sire
locked and retained the keys to all her chests
and trunks prior to leaving, and none of them
have been opened.
The indefatigable attorneys of R. T. Jones,
the murderer of the three Pressleys, in Edge
field, 8. C., have at last succeeded in securing
his release on a satisfactory bond for SIO,OOO.
At the August, 1886, term of court Judg
Wallace signed an order granting bail to
Jones in the sum of SIO,OOO, requiring, how
ever, that the bondsmen qualify in a sum dou
ble that subscribed, virtually obtaining a bond
good for $20,000.
Four ineffectual efforts were made by Jones's
brother-in-law, T. M. Dearmond, and others,
to file a bond in accordance with that order,
but they were not able to give such bond as
the clerk of the court would accept. Major
W. T. Gary went over from Augusta and ap
peared before Clerk Durieso, and after a very
thorough examination into the financial
standing of Jones’s friends, who were anxious
to be considered the agency of Jones’s libera
tion from confinement, a bond, which is good
beyond all peradventure, was made up, and
Jones at 5 o’clock breathed once more the free
air of heaven.
The fecundity o the LeConte pear trees
near Albany is remarkable. Many of the trees
have borne two crops this year. Ono man has
a tree which has not only borne two crops of
pears, but has flowered for a third crop.
Mr. A. F. Tift, of this city, has upon his
place, in Key West, Fla., a wonderful grape
vino covering a great trellis. This viue bears
four crops every year. The first matures about
the latter part of May, the fourth crop about
this season. The grapes grow in exceedingly
compact clusters, many ol them weighing as
much as eight pounds, and the vine is literally
loaded with bunches. It is a native o£ the
West India islands, probably of Jamaica. As
an illustration of the dense nature of the
bunches, the grapes grow so thick upon them
that the center grapes frequently cannot reach
the sunlight to mature. The outside grapes
can bo picked off as needed, and the mass of
grapes beneath the outside layer left to ripen.
The resolutions sent up by the Ma
con depositors in the Freedman's bank
will receive attention. Jeff Long, the
committee of one who is selected by
the Macon depositors to deliver the resolution
to Congressman Blount, says that Congress
man Blount is iu receipt of "the following let
ter:
Executive Mansion, Washington, No
vember, 19, 1887.—Hon. James 11. Blount,
Macon, Ga.: Dear Sir—The president directs
me to acknowledge tiie receipt of your letter
of the 15th inst., enclosing a petition from
certain stockholders of the Freedman’s bank,
and to say that consideration will be given to
their request. Very respectfully,
D. 8. Lamont, Private Secretary.
The Macon depositors are highly elated at
the interest manifested iu their behalf by
Congressman Blount, and are very much en
couraged by President Cleveland’s assurance
to give their request consideration. There is
about $52,000 owed by the bank to the Macon
depositors.
Tuesday, about 10:30 p.m., a pistol startled
the residents near the reservoir, just at the
edge of the city limits of Macon.
A few minuets later Bam Grant dashed into
Eli Wilson’s yard and called for admittance,
saying, as he struck the door, “Please, sir, let
me in, for I’m shot.”
Eli, who had retired, sprung to the door,
and. opening it, Sam staggered inside and fell,
the blood streaming from a wound in his left
arm, just below the shoulder. Eli tells the
following story: He says he heard distinctly
seven other shots, and claims that a crowd of
nine young men, armed with guns and pistols,
came crowding about his gate, threatening to
fire on the house.
Eli parleyed with them, and for a while
they—Continued to sxvear vengeance on him
and his home, but finally, ho says, he prevailed
on them to leave, by threats of the law, and
they scattered, disappearing in different direc
tions.
Dr. Rush Brown was called and dressed
Sam’s wounds, and then the negro, who is
about nineteen years old, told his story.
He said that he was returning from Friend
ship church, from which he came away before
preaching was over so as to be up early.and get
to his work at Mr. Findley's. Just as he
passed the upper end of the reservoir he en
countered a young white man. who said:
“Say, was that you whistling at me?”
“No,” answered the negro, “It was some
other boys ahead of me xvlio whistled. I know
nothing about who they were whistling at, you
must go and ask them. ”
He says that the young man became enraged,
and with an oath remarked, “I’ll settle with
you.” and “bang,” went a pistol striking Sam’s
arm as he threw it up. Hu then ran down the
street, and in a lew minutes the crowd gath
ered.
Among the other shots, one struck George
Lamar, a negro boy who works for Dr. James
A. Darnour, the ball or buckshot passing
through his coat sleeve.
Another boy, whose name could not be
learned, was badly injured by
a blow from a rock thrown by some one.
For a while it is said that the riot was fearful,
but being outside the city, there was no police
to interfere, and no arrests have been made
nor warrants sworn out up to this writing.
A young white man, John Tracy, whom the
reporter could not see, was claimed to have
done the shooting. A rumor, the
the authenticity of which has not been veri
fied, gives this young man credit for claiming
that tlio negro met him just after he had left
the home of a young lady whom ho had es
corted from church, and that Sam shoved him
rudely, ami when ho called him to time the
negro answered by cursing him and using very
offensive language, when the young man
pulled doxx non him with his pistol. At.‘.tip r
story is told by one who was aroused by a
messenger sent from the set no of the riot. Tie
says that when he get there the negro was
lying iu tire ya.d near Eli Wilson’s door, ano
that there was a big crowd of negroes gather <1
around the di or. Ir on what lie could gather
the cause of the trouble originated inside the
citv, where Sam Grant and five of bis c.mi
rades got into a rook battle with a
number of young white boy.;. Hu think*-:ho
negroes were drinking and when g to
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and this man says three of them wore evidently
fired by the negri s.
As there have been no arrests made today,
it can not lie posit ix'oly determined how the
row came al cut. This i:i-u informant says that
lie onlysaw three white boys when he went to
Wilson's place, and that they did not appear
belligerent at that time, but the negroes were
raising eain.
It will be remembered that Mr. John Parker,
a young white man, was attacked on a Satur
day night about 11 o'clock, two years ago. out
on Fourth stree:, by a crowd of negroes, simi
lar to the assault on Mr. Tracy lust night, and
Mr. Parker was badly cut. anil was confined to
his bed some time. Mr. Parker also hurt one
of the negroes severely by striking him oxer
tlio head with a stick. Grant, the nogio shot
last night, xvas also in the crowd that assaulted
Parker.
Thursday Judge Speer sent an order to Jailer
Birdsong, that he release all United States
prisoners confined in tlio Bibb county jail.
Judge Speer’s action was caused by the
fact that the jailer complained there were
not blankets fumi-hed sufficient to make tho
men comfortable. Mr. Birdsong says that lie
applied to the United States court authorities
for the necessary supplies, and that only six
pairs of blankets were sent, and that ho could
not afford to use the county blankets for
United States prisoners, and that they were
suffering.
The men were very jubilant over their re
lease. and departed for their homes this after
noon, rejoicing over tlio lucky coincidence
that resulted in their liberation.
When brought before Judge Speer, accord
ing to his order, this morning his honor took
occasion to give them a talk. He. said :
You have been brouirhtbul of jail to be informed
that 1 puipasc to suspend your sentences during
your geo I behavior for reasons that are satisfactory
to the court, and among them is the hardship,
which, 1 learn, you are eon.palli dto end 1 , re in jail
because of the lack of warm:.. an. I suitable i elding.
Here arc standing before me eight men of di '.er
ent ages and conditions, whom 1 purpose to send to
their homes. It is a thing eldom done by a .judge,
and I take a great responsibility in d ;ii:q it,' but I
lake it cheerfully, with the hope and belief that you
will appreciate tho clemency that is shown you.
and that whim you gel to your homes yon will' not
arain vijlate the laws of the government. which
has. through its court, shown yon this m; ivy.
I say to you all now, you arc marked men. You
are os'well known to the officials of the government
as you could will be. If yon viol.te the laws again
and come before this court yon will get the extreme
penalty of the law. You are nil intelligent men.
some of you much more so t.’.an the othe:s. ; n t let
me give you a word of well-meant advice*. Honesty
and obedience to the laws i r? ever the l est policy-.
You may get a little teinp* uv r iidw.nta e bv break
ing the laws. You may gel a few paltry dollars, hut
they xvill soon go and xvill do yon no b >d; they are
like the apples of Sodom that are biltir to the taste,
though pleasant to the ri Jit. The xvay of the tin c.s
gressor is hard. We have 1:11. h* authority forthat
statement, ami whether you believe in the itible or
not, I d>, and I have lived long enough to see tiib
wisdom of its truths.
You may now go to your homes, and I trust you
will greet your wives and children with an honest
purpose to respect and obey the laws of your coun
try and become u.-efol, respectable and happy mem
bers of society.
Gainesville Eagle: In conversation with
some revenue officers, the other day, one of
them remarked: “Yes,moonshining is greatly
on the decrease in this section.” “Why ?” we
asked. “The in formers, among the women es
pecially, have made it too hot for them. A
still can scarcely get under way before we are
fully posted as to its whereabouts, the parties
concerned in it, and all about it; the conse
quence is, we almost invariably capture it and
arrest the parties running it.”" “Then we are
to infer that most of these men are quitting
the business?” “By no means. Many of
them only change their base: they go over in o
Alabama.” “Why to Alabama?” “When
wo get hold of them and they are brought be
fore Judge Newman, if they are. old offenders,
or what are known as “hard cases,” they
catch it and no mistake. He generally gives
them the extent of the law, and they have
already found out that it is no child’s
play with him. The thing is different in Al
abama. however, from what I can learn. Over
there the judges seldom impose imprisonment,
merely a tine, and by taking a pauper’s oath,
the offender soon gets rid of that and loses
but little.
Rev. Groves H. Cartlcge, in the Carnesville
Register writes: “Your correspondent,
Shrimps, in the Register of November Ist,
asks for tho number of tho Crockett family
murdered by the Indians, and also the date of
the tragedy. If your correspondent had* read
the Register during the last summer ho would
have learned all that is known of the Crockett
family. Twice within the last ten years the
tale of tho massacre has been published in
the Register, the last publication having been
made last summer. The date of tlio tragedy
is not known. It was probably about 1790, the
county of Franklin having been laid off in
1784. The family consisted of nine persons—
tho widow and eight children, the oldest son,
William, being 25 years old, and expecting to
be married a week later. Most of the children,
tradition says, were daughters. When tho
late James 11. Little, then a very young man,
rode up to warn the family of the danger from
tho Indian raid, William Crocket was
sitting in the door, making a pair of
shoes to wear at his own wedding
the next week. And being pressed
for time, be resolved to risk the danger from
the Indians. Doubtless your correspondent is
misinformed when he says that Mr. W. 15.
Detter is now using in building a new house,
tho same sills, joists and rafters which were in
the house in which the Crocketts were mur
dered. The Crockett house was a mere log
cabin, and stood near the creek, and I suppose
the very last relic of it has long ago disap
peared. I suppose the sills, joists and rafters
which Mr. Detter is using, belonged to the old
Mangum house. After the Crocketts, a Mr.
Mangum, the father of the late Howell Man
gum, obtained possession of the Crockett tract
of Jan.l, mid built a new house, which formerly
stood near Mrs. Coker’s, anil has been moved
a time or two. Tradition, t.he truth of which
I cannot vouch for, says that when old man
Mangum about tho beginning of this century,
built his new house he removed the monument
of rocks from the one grave in which all the
Crocketts had been buried by neighbors and
built them into Ids chimney. The grave was
on a bluff near the creek. All the statements
I have given were heard thirty-live years ago
from the lips of old people, who have long
since gone to their eternal home.
West Point Press: Mr. Tom Johnson lost a
fine horse yesterday—it is believed from the
effects of hydrophobia. Just a month ago a
mad dog bit this same horse and several
calves. Air. Johnson’s horse showed no signs
of being sick until last Wednesday afternoon,
after being turned into the lot from tho plow.
Ho gradually became worse and acted strangely
Thursday night. Friday morning Mr. John
son brought his horse to tlio city to see if any
of our many veterinary surgeons could tell him
what to do for the suffering animal. Soon
after reaching the city the horse began to have
convulsions and died in great agony in about
an hour. While in convulsions the horse
would chew his tongue and beat his head
against the ground until his eyes were almost
knocked out. There was no one present who
ever saw a horse with hydrophobia, but wo are
satisfied that the bite of the mad dog, men
tioned above, was the cause of the horse’s vio
lent death.
The health officers of the city of Savannah
were stirred up Thursday, and they have been
trying to keep it quiet. A leper, with a highly
developed stage of the dreadful disease, report
ed at the police barracks, anil requested to bo
furnished with a permit to the city hospital
But the nature of his sickness was not sus
pected by the chief of police. Dr. Duncan,
superintendent of the hospital, was sent for,
and at once pronounced him a leper, and noti
fied the mayor. Dr. Owens, city physician,
and Dr. T. J. Charlton, also visited the bar
racks and examined the man, and agreed with
Dr. Duncan that the man was suffering from
a genuine case of leprosy.
Dr. Duncan is of tho opinion that it would
be prudent to get the man out of the city,and it
would be also better to return him to his own
home, where his relatives might care for him.
The victim of tho awful malady gave hisnatno
as Ellas Cohen. His homo was Lawtonville,
tlio chief city of the black swamp r gion < t
South Carolina. For sometime past ho has
been working as a wood chopper at No. 1,
C< ntral railroad. Ho is now blotted all oxer
. a imv.. of running -'-r* s. JI tii t
to notice tho nodules making their appearance
' ’ Os 'us body about three
vc Its ago. 'J'ho irruption grow in
viol, nee until a week ago, when bo waa pros-
II *■' ' ar.-’ 1 h: ■to quit work He continued to
. ■ v e daily. I inally, by advice of an oc-
■ . intan.■> jie < to Savannah for treat*
»■ ur. lie hid no in' :.iy and expected to lie
■ f'-r'y th. * arity of tin- p Al.rii. pftals.
■ < i sv morning, Ai aml.i Howland went t<>
11 •i-.'iern J. IL I’erguson, near Tay-
.'iisx iUe, and started to do her week’s waau-
ing. using water front Mr, Ferguson’s well.
Mr. I'. denied her this privilege as tho well
was nearly dry amt no water could l.e spared.
Amanda bccam ■ in lilting, hurling epithets at
Mr. l eiguson, Bho left, swearing vengeance*,
saving that she would soon walk over Fergu
son ■* grave. Nothing was thought of her
threats until her eldest daugh
ter, and Mr. M arren Gaston, who happened to
le visiting there suddenly became
very ill. A phy-ician was called in
who instantly stated that they had been
poisoned with strychnine. The bucket of
water on tho rear portico looked peculiar and
as the three sick ones were the only persons
that had partaken of it. Upon investigation
tracks corresponding to a woman’s shoo were
f >and near the bucket and Amanda was at
once suspieioned as doing tho hellish deed.
Site vyas carried before J ustico Colbert where
sufficient evidence was adduced as to warrant
her removal to the comity jail to await a hear
ing before Judge Fain. Tho woman is only
twenty-one years of age, married and lias
three children.
Mr. Tom Brice, of Hall county, camo out of
tho war with no eartlily possessions, to speak
of, but a wife and four children. He went to
work on rented land, struggled and saved, and
he said hist Tuesday: “1 have never bought
a gram of corn, nor a pound of meat. 1 have
always managed to have ready money topay
iny taxes and moot other liabilities. 1 have
bought me a homo ami have paid for it. I
have raised andeducati'd my children in a re
spectable manner. 1 have a plenty to eat at
home, and now my cotton is all clear
profit, and I can hold it nr sell it, just as I
please. ’ If such as this does not prove, “that
there is more iu the man than the *4.,,”
what does it prove ?
From tho Ellijay, Ga,, Courier.
The beautiful rings of fire lately seen so viv
idly oa Hi moumnius have been admired by all
who liiivese. ii them, but fence-; and corn latches
have been swept before them. The mountiiin tires
tms year have destroyed considcnibh;ir>>;.eHv, but
Uiicavcrel n page quantity of chcetmits. The
eroun I is so thickly covered that a bushel a day can
be yii-io-.l up by any I -inly. The chestnuts are
sligoliy scoichci’, vvhieh a Ids a pleasant tlav’or to
their taste, lio -dsof |.ei>; la are said to be follow
ing the wakeot ti'.c t ames gathering the mountain
fruit.
From the Clarkesville, Ga., Advertiser.
M e saw a repetition on our streets one day
last week of the famous horse swap sogriphieallv
di'cnl... I by Ju.l;;e Ixmgstrect, in Ins celebrated
Georgia Hccnes. The parties were two countrymen,
and alter a good dial of palavering oil both sides,
one agreed 10 swap the other tils magnificent young
Texas p ny and tzo fora mule he hull. The ex
change was made and both parties seemed happy.
The Texas pony was one of the wildest, most
vicious and utterly no account of that famous breed
of worthless nnfnials, xvhilc the mule was so old it
couldn’t hear it thunder.
From Mr. J. M. Champion, of Worth county,
it is learned that hog cholera has inado its
dread appearance in liis section. Mr. Cham
pion says that he lias raised tho finest lot of
hogs he has raised in years, and fears that
they will be attacked. It surely seems that
with nil the progress in knowledge of diseases
and remedies that some euro and preventive
of hog cholera could be found.
Captain J. M. McAfee, of Cherokee, has re
cently lost some 25 or JO In ad of his lino st ill
fed fattenin'.', hogs of cholera. Ho had, a few
weeks ago, 125 head of as fine promising pork
ers ns ustiallx seen, but his recent losses are
very materially lessening the number.
The wife of Mr. 11. I. Sharman, of Terrell
county, is one of live sisters each of whom has
eight children, all being boys with the excep
tion of one. In time of war that family could
send a solid company to tho front.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
In the senate today, the bill to provide for tho
relief of certain soldiers, sailors, and widows
of soldiers or sailors of the late war between
tho .state;;, was passed by a vote of 32 to 2, tho
negative votes being cast by the two colored
republican senators from Georgetown anil
Beaufort. The bill provides that all disabled
soldiers and sailors of the confederacy now re
siding in South Carolina, or their widows
while they remain unmarried, shall bo entitled
to receive from the state a monthly pension of
$5, upon the following conditions, viz: “In or
der to obtain the benefit of this act, such sol
dier or sailor must show, first, that he was a
bona fide soldier or sailor in the service of the
state of South Carolina, or of tho confederate
states, in the war between the states; second,
that while in such service he lost a leg or arm,
or received any wounds causing permanent
disability to incapacitate him from earning a
livelihood; third, that neither himself nor his
wife is the owner of property exceeding SSOO,
as assessed for taxation ; fourth, that ho is not
receiving an income exceeding the amount of
$250 per annum.”
In the house, a bill to establish a new county
from portions of I >arlington, Williamsburg and
Marion counties, to be known as Florence
comity, gave rise to a spirited debate. Tho
discussion mailc it apparent that the move
ment was popular with tho great body of tho
citizens of Um portions of the three counties
included inlho proposed now county, while
there, seemed to bo no very serious objection to
the change on the part of tho other people
concerned. The bill was finally passed by a
fair majority, and its friends are confident
that it will also pass the senate.
In the house, tho bill to establish a homo for
disabled confederate soldiers and sailors now
residing in the state, passed its third reading,
and was sdnt to tin-senate. It provides that
each county shall bo entitled to as many in
mates in the homo as it has representatives in
the lower branch of the general assembly, and
in case a county fails to furnish the number to
which it is entitled, the vacancies may be
filled from other counties. The buildings and
grounds are to cost not less than fifteen thou
sand dollars, and are to be donated by the
county in which the home is tube located.
The location of the homo is left to tho discre
tion of the bor.rd of directors; an annual ap
propriation of SIB,OOO is made to defray the
expenses of the home. Those who shall accept
the benefit of the home will be precluded from
tho I nceiits of any pension bill which may be
passed by legislature.
The South Carolina conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church, South, convened at Spartanburg
Wednesday, in Its hundred and second annual ses
sion, Bishop McTy.'ire presiding. This is the largest
deliberative religf ius body in the state, representing
a membership of t:5,000 souls, or one-elglith of the
entire populiillon of the state. The first ses-fon of
this coi.lcn nee vi; Ih.ll in Cliiirleston,Miiri b, 1787
'J here were then 2,07.7 white men and boys and 111
colored. The present conference will continue In
session until Monday next.
A shocking domestic tragedy wait enacted
Thursday in I tarlingtoncounty. Fred Edwards,
a farmer, was punishing one of his children for
atrival olleiise when his wife remonstrated in
the child’s behalf. A quarrel ensued and Ed
wards knocked his wife down anil beat and
choked her unmercifully. While doing so his
son John, aged about eighteen years, inter
fered and begged his father to desist. Ed
wards threw an ax at his son, barely missing
him, and proceeded with the brutal jmnisli
inent of Ills wife. The son ran into the house
and grabbed a gun loaded with slugs
and pieces of iron for the purpose
of shooting hawks and commanded
his father to desist from choking his mother.
A daughter was at the time also interfering in
behalf of her mother. Edwards paid no heed,
and bis son fired. Father, mother and daugh
ter fell, each having received a part of the
contents of the gun. The mother died in lialf
an hour afterwards. Tho daughter is so dan
gerously wounded that trtoro Is little hope of
her recovery. Unfortunately, the father, who
deserved to receive the vx hole load, was slight
ly wounded. Before she died, the mother ex
hunorated her son from all blame. Ho is now
in jail.
A distressing unintentional killing occurred
at Uaptain A. F. Woolley’s residence, two
and a naif miles from Kingston, last Thursday
Tho circumstances arc as follows:
Mr. Haynes is a young man apparently about
twenty years of age, and has been in tho em
ploy of Captain Woolley for sonic time, and
the care of the horses and stable were among
his duties. Captain A. F. Woolley has
been in Atlanta for some time on business and
during his absence Feaster Wooley, Jr., has
been staying with his mother. He is a bright
young man of 19 or 20 years, and upto a month
ago has been with a surveying corps 011 the
Columbus road.
Mr. Haynes and Feaster were good friends
and roomed together. Last night tlmy went to
their room and Fc..«ler retired. Mr. Haynes
had not and asked Feaster if the stables were
lo ll' d. II replied and said ho did not re
member. Mr. Haynes wont out and
lok. <1 ctbo stables and coming back
took Feast* r’s pistol out from under the pil
i' W. lles.ial: "Feaster, why do you keep
tins pistol tinder your pillow ?" He replied :
“ When f.ither is away from homo mother is
afraid, anil Idoso to oblige her.” "It U not
I.'. ■■■'■•t: I can t cock it.” Feaster said:
“Yea it ja - it’s a g'sxj one. Hand it hero and
I’ll sl.ow you." Mr. 11. handed It to Feaster
and he was telling hint how to cock it when
some hoxv or other, as is always the way in
such cases, the pistol tired, shooting Mr.
Haynes through tho head, the ball catering at
the temple, lie never spoke and died almost
instantly.
Feaster Woolly and tho whole family are in
an agony of distress. An inquest will be held
today.
A local option bill for tho counties of Abbe
ville, Greenville and Oconee elicited a lengthy
and heated debate, and was passed by a vote
of 73 to 38, by tho legislature.
Tho only other matter of im
portance disposed of was an effort to
repeal the usury law by fixing the legal rate of
interest at seven nor cent, and making it a
penal olTenso to charge a higher rate, but tho
bill was defeated by an overwhelming major
ity. As the law now stands, seven per cent is
tho legal rate, except where there is a special
agreement, in which caso as high as ten per
cent may be charged.
VIRGINIA.
Professor W. J. Wov, of the band of the Vir
ginia military institute, was found Tuesday
afternoon iu a sink holo near Lexington
in a dying condition, ami before medical
assistance could bo had, ho was dead. His
skull had been crushed in with a rock and his
face so badly mutilated that he was only idi n
titied by his military uniform. Two colored
women have been arrested on suspicion and
there is strong evidence against one of them,
as a breastpin found near the murdered man
has been identities as belonging to her, and
she was seen with him tho night before. Wov
had been drinking for some time past.
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Saturday before.
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