The Batesburg Advocate, 1901-05-22

31, 1824. Ho was only llirce years old when his father died and his mother was left a widow, with three helpleia children in a r mall room where she abode and taught a small school. Much k* cf her time was spent with her father in Weed County, where her brother alro accompanied her. In 183(1 she was married to Captain Blake Woodeon, a lawyer ef good education, of so cial, popular mat ncrs, much her senior, and without fortune. When only six years of ago The mas left bis mother's side to liva with his utclc. The imprest ion of he r death urcn the ye uthful mind was deep ard Irst'ng. After this he lived with vsiious fiie nds until he was admitted to WcbI Point. HIS SOLDIERLY CAREER. This began at West Point during the fi ur years in which he erjoyed i?s instruction and discipline. It was indeed a providential opening for h m, tod he entered it with energy and delight. 8o arxicus, indeed, was he that, with his ordinary earnestness and vigor ho mounted a horse at tut down and, accompanied oy a servant who was to bring the horse heme, hurried iff to meet the stagece ach. Arrived there, ho was too late; however, he galloped on, and overtook it at tho next station. When ho en tcred on his course of Btudy ho soon discovored his de fioiency of preparation, and he had a rough time, so that be Whs obligbcd to study at night. But all lights were to bo put out at "taps," and what was he to do? llis own ingenuity availed him here. Just before the signal ho would pile up his grate with aDthdaoitc coal and, lying prone before it on tho floor, pursue his studies. This ho did until his fellow students, who had looked at him side ways when he entered, used to say afterward, ' If we had had to Btay thero another year, Old Jack' would have been at the head of the class." At the olose of this term of severe study be graduated, and cmcred the (r- - -wriay in J^Iexino*--la the -kaltta qJ Cherubusoo Captain McGruderlost bi9 first lieuteuant, and as Jackson had to , take his plaoe, he was a vanocd next in oommand to the captain, and on ao count of his bravery and skill was made a captain. At the olose of thiB war he , remained in tho City of Mexico for several months, where ho and other officers had their quarters in the national ' palace. Thus he oamo very near to the realization of the hope of lodging in the "talis cf tho Montezemas," which many had oherishod. Returning from Mcxic , ho spent two years in the service, ar.d was then

iiiau uuuug vuu | lUYlU'ja Wf'Jft, UUl averaged sligli'l/ above tho Loruial. The maximum for tho week was H2 do greos at Allondalo and Bltckvillo on the t?:h and 7th, respeotivoly, and tha minimum was 50 degree* at Greenville on tho 11th. Bi ginning on the (>lh and continuing to tho cloao of tho week, thoro wtro i nunit reus light tdiowers over tho entiro State, inngiog from a mere iraoo to over an iuoii i f rainfall, but noi where was tl ere enough rain for tho , neeos of crops that in pUcos are suf faring f? r waut of moisture Too ground is haul and cloddy in places, , and in sections there is not enough mi i4utc to gcuuinale recently p anted set da The drought is esjcoialiy severe tn Charleston eouoty, where truck yields have becu mateiiaily diminished II til fell at rnaoy points, but only iu poittois <f Bamberg and Barnwell coupWes loan iiju* jus <x tent, and thcro in places ootton aud melons were totally destroyed and will have to bo replanted. Cot.on planting and roj lantiDg ie finished, and most of the replanting is coming up to good stands. Tho first plantings, where not replanted, has i poor stands, but some of it continues i to come up. Cut worms injured elands in Marlboio county. Chopping out and cultivation h?s begun over tho eastern l counties. A general improvement in tho condition of cotton is noted Corn has improved in color, althcugh stands are still unsa i factory. Tnc ; plants are unseasonably sm*ll, but reocntly have beguu to grow. Cultivai lion is now general, and about all has been planted, except on bottoms whore i the work is under way. Ujplanting continues in plaoes. Tobacco transplanting is practically finished, and tho young plants are growing nicely, ltice has ciiuo up to good standB, and lands, wLero dry i enough, are being prepared fcr June plantings. McIols havo poor stands, in scotions where the orop is raised on a largo oommcreial scale, but late plantings arc coining up hotter. Cano is also in an unsatisraoUry condition. Wheat continues to look well and is fully headed, but oats have deteiioi rated, havo short straw, and arc suffering for rain. Colorado bcotles arc nuourous in white potatoes; in the southeastern counties potatoes are be -

n i ne i^ass 01 iiiia ana a Largo fas a n0 gerltesmfr The first authentic information oonooming the wreok of tho strainer City of L'aducih of tho St. Louit and TenucBseo lliver Packet company, which oooured at Bruuhort Landing, 111., lato Sunday night was ebtaincd upon tho y arrival of thostoatmr City of Clifton r at this port early Wedneiday. o Fifteen persons lost their lives, six r whites and nino blacks, o The dead: l)r. S. W. Bell, cf Cubi Landing. , Teoo. s Miss Mable Gardiner, of St. Louis. Charles Johnson, aged 81, deck , watchman. Frank Gardner, Texas tinder of 1'adueah, Ky. e Two while firemen, names unknown s Grant Woods, colored, bjat baker. >1 Kight cilord roustabouts, names y unknown. t Tho S earner City of Paduca'i stopy ped at Brut knorst's landing at 8 JO o'o.'ook Sunday night and took on a :i load of oorn. When in the aot if h backing away fiom the whaif the boat o swung around and struck ire bank heavily with tho stern. A snag im beded in the bank tore an enormous h holo in the hull through which the *? ter rushed with frightful rapidity. She e at onoo began to seltlo and at tho end of three minutes nothing hut her > roof, Texas deck and pilot house rot maincd about the surface. Tho effi oers aotcd with great coolness and as f tho boat settled, helped tho startled t passengers to tho cabin roof from > whioh the boats were lowered and cara ried ashoro. Miss Mabel Gardiner of St. Louis e was asloop in her stateroom and when . tho shock oarno sho probably remained J to dross. Her body was found in tho D forward part of tho cabin. Tho body of Dr. Bill has not yet been recovered t) and it is supposed he was drowned 0 in his statiroom. Tne crow and their 0 roustabout helpers being on the lower 0 deck in tho midst of the oargo when 0 the vessel struck, were plaoed in a poll sition o/ most awful peril. A* ..lie 0 steamer oareencd in setting the big h cargo, consisting chiefly of saoks of a corn, shifted and before the men oculd d escape half of them were pinned down n and either crushed to death or held d until the water rose about them. - The passengers lost all of tbc'r belongings, and had to be supplied with

nerc. Coroner li.?u?ch visited Stanley in his coll and thero, after inuoh persuasion the prisoner told the following remarkable story to the oornonot: "It is tiuo I knew the priest and this is the way 1 became acquainted with him. 1 left my homo about midnight May 8 and walked over to tho coroner of Ninth avenuo and Fiftieth street. There 1 saw standing on the corm r tho priest, talking with two gir s. He was somewhat intoxicated and so was I, for I had been drinkiog io my rooms. Tno pri> st was in good humor nnU so were the giris They all accepted tho invitation, and in a few mi utts we were seated tu my sitting room dring whi k:y. "The girls rtuitiucd with us about tvoorih c; hours and then left, say >ng that tl cy I ad to go home After thi j' left both the priest and I wore taken i 1. 1 don't know whether the gtgls had put an^tliirg in our drinks or not, but wc were uameated. The priest took a until botiio of medicine from lisv<8t j ocket and swallowed a little and then told me to do the same. I did so, and in a little while we both felt better. "It was then tho priest told mo ho , was a Homan Catholic clergyman from Pennsjlvania and offered to financially ; back mo in my cure, lie did not tell | clc his name. t "As dawn was breaking I told the ( pric:t I thought I would tako a littlo walk, as tho air would do me good, and 1 asked him to acoompany me, lut he said he would rather rest where ho ( was. I went out and returned, 1 should , say, two hours later. I "When 1 got back tho priost was gone. That was tho last time I ever saw him. The dead man in the room which Capt. Donohuo showed me was i not the priest I knew. The dead man looked like a Negro." Stanley could not describe the two girls, nor would ho admit having had a woman there whom ho called his wife. Dr. A. S. Douglcrty of Ashley, l'a , nephew of tho priest, said: "It may bo that Father Phillips was lured to Stanley's place for tho purpose of robbery and that bo died thorc that night. 1 don't bolicvc that the murder theory is tenable. 1 havo

? V?vm V Ml/ MliUUjUV / V U DU|'|'VDV l?'? V J V'U I serenity would bo unoloudcd?" Ilo paused a moment, as if to weigh fully every word he uttcrod, and thon said: "1 am sure of it; cvon such a misfortune could not rnako mo doubt tho love of Gcd." Ho was further as ked: "If in addition to biitdness you had so r ooivo t rudgicg oharity from those on whom you had to claim, what then? ' Thoro was a strango rcveronoo in his uplifted lyes as ho replied: "If it were God's W'll, I think 1 would lio there oontent for a hundred ycarp."?Dr. Lewis 11. Dunn, in New York Advocate. South Hound Least'. An important suit has been entered against tho Staboaid wh'ch has never been "d( mes'ioaU d'' in thostato. The suit arites out of tho Watts case. Ho was irjurcd by falling into a cut in Columbia and got a verdict for damagi s, but tho money has never bocn collected. Tho suit is brought to an nul the lease t f the South ILutii or Florida, Central and PentDsular to the S< aboard, because bo h companies arc foreign corporations. The suit was briught by Walls's attorneys, P. II. Nelson aDd .Jihn P Thomas, .Jr , and al?o by Attorney General Bellinger. The preliminary rule to show cause has been issued by .Judge Gage and is returnable WidntBday. Tho rc.-ult of these prcccedicgs will be of very serious import to iho Seaboard It has filed a mortgage of $75,000,000 in tho secretary of slate's eilioe ou its properties in this state, but should a receiver be appointed for tho South B? uod all of this end the consolidation will bo knooked up Tho Seaboard's attornoys informed tho secretary of state some months ago that a regular charter would bo taken out as soon as the various lines wero consolidated. This has not yet been done, though a meeting has been called for in Columbia to effect a consolidation two days beforo the proceedings arc to bo had beforo Judge Gago in Chester. Tho Seaboard has Icon doing business in Columbia under a

0 Of oourac, mills controlled from a di 3 tanco ma/ insist upon their manage and employees saying "mo too," hi 3 that in a different atlair altogether. c Not only do present conditions wai s us, but the future is full of scrioi n forebodings?to koep us from politic 1 suicide. Sharply defined issues are full view now and will assume larg proportions in tho near future. Tl wealth that has accumulated in a fc ,, ambitious hands is at work oreatii colossal combinations; already tho iti and steel interests have been merge " the chief railroads from the Atlantic D tho Pacific are in pioccss of coDMilid '8 tion, manno transportation on both tl D Atlantic and Pacific oceans will folio a and as has beeu announced, "thr men in New York" or houio other ce " tral point will control prices of iron ai '* steel products and everything clso ai ? the cost of carriage over inland ai 0 ocoan routes. In these vast oapitaliz ' tions thtro is 30 to 50 per cent of wh ,9 in finanoial parlanco is called, in i 8 primitive stato, "water." This is i to be mado into solid paying invei lt incuts by a dual pressuro, squeezing o every possible cmployoo and tquc< into tho trust treasuries, through hea costs and tolls of carriage, every doll id that tho general public oan le made e pay. Tno control of trans continent ic railway transportation and tho unifi< ig lion of steam freights and passago id tho Atlantio and Pacific ocoans, moved in unison by a single bell to New York, creates a suspicion that r, canal at tho isthmus will hardly thought then nceoBsary. Tho Soul d' which must largely depend upon t 11 opening of a cannal thero for its futi ip growth, is, 1 suppose, to remain in past condition of "howcrs of wood a t, drawers of water" for this oombinati to of new wealth creators, or To decoy or distract tho whito p plo of South Carolina, whoso oi is uture safety is in union -to endea to divido or mislead tho party, whi

nal revenue as to the rib&to on war taxoB on chewing and smoking tobaec?, snuff and cigars and is of interest to all dealers and manufacturers: The act of March 2, provides for a rebate of taxes as follows: On smoking aud chewing tobacco and snuff, two and four-tenth cents per pound. On cigars weighing e vcr three pounds to tho thousand, sixty (?'>< ) cents per thousand. On cigars weighing less than three pounds to the thousand, forty six cents per thousand. This rebate will bo due and payab'e to all dealers and mat ufacturers vthote claim, in the aggregate, will amount to at least ton dollars, and no c'aim for 'ess than ten dollars will bo considered. It is necessary in order to make a valid claim that the following inf> rma tion bo observed: At the beginning of business on the morning of July 1, 1901, tho dealer or maDufaoturcr timet, in the presence of two disinterested witnesses well kno*n in tho community as persons of good repute, and who are not in his en ploy, make together an inventory of all to bacco, snuff and cigars which he may have in unbroken original factory ptek ages. If a box, bag or caddy, or other pack ago bears evidence of having been opened and repacked, tho contents thereof shall not bo inv~toried unless tho witnesses aro satisfied that no tobacco, snuff or cigars originally packed therein had been removed therefrom and other goods substituted therefor. '1 lie actual weight of the contents of anv box, bag or oaddy, or other stamped package, should ocrrespond with the stamp. No addition to tho stock shall be mado and no adjournment of the witnesses and claimant shall intcivene between tho oooimcnoomont and com plotion of inventory. The serial numbers of stamps affixed to packages will not bo required to be given in tho inventory. Packages of tobaeco. stuff and cigars will bo inventoried according to their several statutory classification* The WltneStOS at tho limn nf l*ltino

Maynard Bcatty, of Mannirglon. .loo Nichols of LoDaooning, Md. J H. Kverson of Kverson, W. Va., l)aa Alfcrrcl of Farmington .loo Ojuiinick, Italian. Tony Philippi, Italian. Tho icjurid: Charliston Carpenter, fatally. Carth Uucter, fatally. Ilarrel Kvtrson, fatally. Joa Blaccy, fatally. ItaliaD, fatally. Jtfhraon Fast- badly burned. Thomas Baiabridgo, burned and bruised. Italian, burned and bruised. The George's Crc^k company has headquarter, in the K i unable building, Baltimore, and extensive mining interear> ia Maryland. This is tho first mio" the ootnp%ny has opened in this State an i tull> $1,000,000 has been invented and the uiiuu is one tho boat equipp d in trie Faiimout ooal region. Col li. 1 i S .uiim rviilo, an exprienotd and oa.itole inino nupcintendent, has cnargeif tho works Tho ni ne was only recently put into operation and abcut 125 uio were employed, only 40 of this numUir under ground. Owing to a (shortage in the oar Bupply the men have only boon making about half timo for several days, but yesterday quite a Lumber of ears were left at the mine and the management deoided to break all reoords with Thursday's output. So, blight and early this morning tho miners who rosido in oosy oottagea on Lho hilltop above tho mine mado their way to the main opening and tho oar carried them 253 foct into the earth. Fifteen of them wero assigned to a portion of tho mines that has been worked for some time and the remainder wero put to work on headings quito a dittanoo away. Ono of the men in tho rooms, it is alleged, has smuggled a torch into tho mines aa it gives eo muoh better light than the safety lamps prescribed by the company. ^^ 1 There is an immc use fan which rends 5,000 feet of freuOTm luto the mines at s every revolution and as the shaft was V considered ono of the safest in the region tho miner did not hoed the frequent warnings of a fellow employe whft wirnAi) him nf tKn riaV Ka