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The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-08
AN UGLY FAILURE IN MARION.
W. w. George Arrested for Swindling His
Creditors-He Escapes from the
ConStaDles.
T Marion Index. l


For several months reports Of the in
solvency Of Warren w. George, who
has been doing large mercantile busi-
ness at Iatta, have been current
throughout the County, and the ap-
parently loose manner in which he con-
Quoted his business gave substance to
the rumor.
Two or three years ago he began mer-
chandising at GAINESVILLE on little or no
capital, most of his merchandise being
bought on credit. His credit seems to
have been unusually good, for he eX-
perienced apparently no difficulty in
filling his store with merchandise Of
every kind. Hesold goods cheap, often,
it is said, below cost, and in this way
built up tremendous trade.
AS an instance Of the ease with which
he managed to obtain credit, it may
be mentioned that last spring one of the
wealthiest and best known citizens of
Marion ordered a lot of cotton seed
meal from the Columbia Cotton Seed
Oil Company. The company refused
to send the meal except with the bill Of
lading attached. George, however,
had no difficulty in buying 200 tons Of
meal from the same company on his
individual credit. This meal be sold
at prices that would have bankrupted
stronger men than he was. He like
wise obtained heavy advances of every
kind of merchandise from Il large num-
Der Of other business houses.
This fall he again bought a very large
stock of goods, mostly from merchants
in Charleston.
\ few weeks ago he nortgaged his
stock of goods and such other property
as he possessed to his brother, Jasper
George, the consideration being money
that the latter had advanced To him.
Under thai mortgage Jasper George as
sun1ed control of the business last Fri
dav. AS soon as it was known that
w. w. George had failed his creditors
began to pour in upon him. Saturday
and Monday and yesterday crowds of
drummers were in Marion and at Latta
looking after the claims of their houses.
It is not known what the liabilities are,
but they aggregate many thousands OF
dollars, while the assets amount to
comparatively nothing. The stock Of
goods in the store now in the hand ds Of
Jasper George is estimated to be worth
not more than one thousand dollars.
What has become Of all the heavy
stocks of goods he bought no one knows.
His creditors have attached his prop
erty and an action will be brougn to set
aside his mortgage to Jasper George on
the ground of fraud. On Monday night
the representative of the Columbia Cot
ton Seed Oil Company swore out war
rant against him before Trial Justice
Evans for breach of trust with fraudu-
lentintent. Yesterday morning Messrs.
w. A. Wall and w. D. Coleman were
dispatched by the Sheriff to arrest him.
This they succeeded in doing, and Mr..
Coleman was bringing him to Marion
in a buggy. They had occasion to stop
at some place and get out of the buggy,
when George ran for swamp near by
and in it succeeded in avoiding recap
ture.
This case is one of unusual interest
and has created widespread comment
and criticism.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-08
To Spend Thanksgiving in Augusta.
Register, 1st.l
Secretary of State

The day at the Augusta Exposition
to be devoted especially to the old Pal
metto State, and known as "South
Carolina Day." has been changed from
the 30th to the 9th of November, the
latter being Thanksgiving Day. This
has been done to allow the Legislature
of South Carolina, which has been
invited to attend the Exposition On
South Carolina Day, no excuse for de-
clining, as it is the usual custom for
the body to adjourn over Thanksgiving
anyway, and the hospitable Augustans
only wish the South Carolina Solons to
spend their holiday across the Savan-
nah.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-08
4 National Farmers Congress.

The Governor has appointed the fol-
lowing delegates to the National Farm
ers' Congress, which commences at
Topeka, Kansas, November 14th: At
large-Harry Hammond, 3. +. Perry,
f. NJ. Royal, H. +. Bissell and f. r.
McIver. Congressional-S. S. Owens,
R. W. Shelor, G. c. Law, r. B. Wat
son, w. G.. Hinson, J. c. +. Sims,
Ralph Nesbitt, C. S. Land, W. d.
Johnson, Aaron Cannon, Iredell Jones,
J. w. Reid and R. s. Thomas. From
South Carolina University-J. N. Nc,
Bryde. From Department Of Agrlcul,
ture-A. P. Butler.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-08

not be read aloud in the home circle. |
should like to say word of that queer
little sheet, the Evening News, with
its big circulation and its entire lack of
anything to remind one of its name.
/ should like to say word of Mr..
Shephard's purchase, the Mail and Ex-
press, and of the Commercial Adverti-
ser, and the Journal of Commerce,
which l omitted to speak of before.
Hardly an out-of-town man knows that
it still exists, but | have already been
too long, and I must stop.
CHARLES FISKE.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-08
Gin Accident at Greenwood.

GREENWOOD, October 3l.-Mr. B. O.
Narelle, who runs gin at this place,
met with a serious accident this morn
ing. While soaping the betting to keep
it from slipping his sleeve caught in the
belt, carrying his arm over the pulley
and breaking both bones just above the
wrist.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-08
4 Drunken Mana Mad Act.

SAVANNAH, Ga, October 31.-A spe-
cial to the News says at Hinesville,
Liberty County, Monday night, Will
liam Harrison, in an inexplicable fit Of
jealousy, shot his little niece dead with
out warning, while sitting by the fire.
side. He then fired at his sister wound
ing her.in the hip. She will probably
recover. Harrison fled, but returned,
admitted his crime, and said he had
attempted suicide by jumpingin in well.
Later he denied all knowledge of the
crime. Harrison said he had been
drinking heavily lately.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-08
Mr.. Randall Himself Again.

WASHINGTON, October 3i.-Chair-
man Randall has issued call for a
meeting of the House Committee on
Appropriations on Wednesday, No
vember 81, to begin the preparation OF
the appropriation bills to be submitted
TO Congress at the next session. 1t is
expected that the District of Columbia
appropriation bill will be first con-
sidered.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-08
Scooped by the Cotton Oil Trust.

New YORK, October 31.-The famous
house of w. J. Wilcox & Co., lard re-
iners, has been bought out by the
American Cotton Seed Oil Company,
and will be known as the w. J. Wilcox
Lard and Refining Company.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-08
Disease Among Swine.
[Register, lst. J

Professor B. NJ. Bolton, Bacteriolog-
ist of the University, and DR.. w. B.
Niles, the Veterinarian both go to
Marion to-day to investigate a disease
which has broken out among the
swine in that section, and is feared to
be hoy cholera.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-08
THE BEAUTIES OF THE SOUTH.
A Most Gallant Defence of the Peerless
Southern Bellies.
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald
Col. Pat Donan lives these days with
Rufus Hatch and gaZes at the sad sea
from the eighth story of the Washing
ton building. Ifanything could awake
him it would be an alta K on his native
Southern bevy of beauties. Such an
attack brought him to his feet yester-
day. He was fuming when found by
Herald reporter. This is what he said
in his fervid and oratorical style:
"Knowing, as do, the gallant and
courtly consideration which the Phila-
delphia Times has always accorded TO
its fair countrywomen, regardless of
sect or section, I am surprised to find
in the letter its brilliant and enter
tanning New York correspondent, in
its Sunday issue, rather savage and,
7 think, uncalled for attack on the
taste, or want of taste, in dress Of our
Southern girls and women. Speaking
of the Virginia prose-poet of passion
and osculatory gymnastics, Amelie
Rives Chandler, rs she appeared at
John McCaulps yellow fever fund
matinee at Wallack:s Theatre: this
gifted, but I fear somewhat strabiSmic,
Gotham gossipper says:
"'But what was the matter with
Amelie: Well, I'll try to tell you; but
of course it will have to be in man
fashion. I never saw a Southern wo-
man we'll dressed. AS the dialect of the
negro fingers upon the lips of the men
of the South, SO does the tawdry, glar-
ing dress of the negress betray itself in
unexpected places in the attire of the
princesses Of the land of cotton. They
always have about them an indescriba-
ble air Of having jumped into their
gowns. They are blind to the compile
mentary relations Of colors. No matter
how richly dressed they are never we'll
dressed. The young authoress betrayed
these faults most distressingly.'
HE then proceeds to eXcoriate the
youthful cyclone of romance and au-
thor of "The Quick or the Dead?' for
having Il peaked nose, dyeing her hair
and topping it off with Il monstrous
lilac hat and plumes, wearing an i'll
fitting dress, mincing along on Grecian
bend heels of half generation ago, and
divers and sundry other grievous crimes
and transgressions against his aesthetic
creed and code Of toggery, physiognomy
and dOp"reureH1 nnr famous or fame
Scent females. ----
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-08
LOOK OUT YOUNG NAN !


"For his onslaught upon Amelie OF
Albermarle leave him to settle with
her or her with him. She is amply
able to WELD her own lurid battle-aXe.
If she should conclude to wreak bar
baric vengeance on his needless anato-
my the barbecue will be worth attend
ing. The very. heavens, arrayed i'll
ghastly green and yellow furbelows of
cloud ard holy terror, will rain fiery,
sizzling pitchforks and scalping knives,
with the scalps attached; huge chunks
of zigzag lightning, paroxysmal cast
iron kisses big as horse collars and
seething with molten lava, blazing bass
drums, and phosphorescent, Kissing,
bowling toads and scorpions, all forked-
tongued and forked-tailed. Amelie can
look out for herself and her own ward
robe. I couch no lance in her defence.
"But in behalf of other Southern
girls and women who cannot sling red
hot thunderbolts thick and fast as peas
from Gatling gun, l desire to enter
my emphatic protest against this cor
respondents unwarrantable raid upon
their unprotected clothes-lines. In
such case one may we'll risk Clover
Club broadside of chestnuts to deny the
allegations and defy the alligator.
Who made this correspondent judge
of women's attire? Whose royal wand
thumped him into such knighthood
of the garter and other articles of fe
minnie apparelling too numerous to
mention? He is bachelor, like my
self. How does he know that jumping
into gowns is not the proper mode Of
getting into them? Whence comes his
authoritative standard of taste and pet
ticoats? Is he graduate of Worth's or
Redfern's academy of man millinery,
or did he acquire his dazzling start to-
ward mantuamaking omniscience and
fashion plate infallibility at the satin
slippered feet of some such high
priestess of style as Demorest or Godey::'
How long has he dieted on Harper's
Bazars and Butterick's Pattern? Does
he know hustle from box plait, when
the wind is south by southeast from
the Hoffman House art gallery: If not,
why does he rush headlong in where
enlightened masculine angels fear to
tread?
WHERE EVERY WOMAN Is 4 QUEEN.
"When he declares he never saw a
Southern woman well dressed | all
disposed to inquire how many real
Southern women he has ever seen.
When he talks of the 'tawdry, glarine
dress of the. negress' as typical of 'the
attire of the princesses Of the land o1
cotton,' ] am forced to believe that his
acquaintance among Southern women
has been limited and-peculiar. II
certainly mas not been among the
princesses' of whom he glibly speaks
though that term, in my estimation, is
lowering of rank. In land where
every man is "a sovereign every wo
man is queen at least.
''Tkere are no manifold millionaire
fortunes in the South. The gigantic
land-grabbers and railroad wreckers
with their fifty or hundred million:
each, do not belong down there. The
monstrous devilish monopolies, trus
and tariff piracles, swindling army con
tracts, wheat corner robberies and pc
troleum gushers are not products o
Southern soil. Southern women can
not, and never could, indulge in tn
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-08
THE BELLIES OF YESTERDAY.

Fifteen years ago Matte Ould, of
Richmond, was the undisputed belle of
every assemblage, great or small,
Northern or Southern, where she
CHANGED to be. Her brilliant With
cisms were published around the Globe,
and her career is a memorable part of
the social history, not only Of the
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-08-30
RuTLAND MEANINGS

The Prohibitionists held a campaign
rally at the town hall Monday evening.
DIR. Charles WOOdhouse presiding. Some
500 people were present. Speeches were
made by II. Clay Bascom of Troy and
Rev DR. Bustwick Hawley of Saratoga
Springs, N. Y. Before the close of the
meeting the electric light gave out and
left the crowd. in darkness. The Prohi-
bition vote IN Rutland will be small, but
it is reported to be Of considerable pro-
portions in the county at large.
Hon. Henry Ballard made a stirring
and convincing address before the First
Voters Club Tuesday evening.
Some 800 people visited the fair
ground Sunday o look over the horses
and witness the trials of speed of the
animals here on exhibition at the horse
show.
The Marble City MINISTRIES gave a
pleasing entertainment at the opera
house Friday and Saturday evenings
before large audiences. This is new
organization and from the expense of
their own outfit 1t is supposed that
they intend to Civ. entertainments in
other towns.
Mr.. Charles Clark has declined as the
Democratic candidate for representative
for business reasons
The town ia full Of people In attend
ance upon the horse show. The hotels
are crowded and many are compelled to
seek lodgings at private houses. and
some go by train to near by towns
Rutland never was called upon before
to entertain 80 many people for several
days.
Ex-Governor Proctor and wife and
daughter spent Sunday with DIR. Gates
B. Billiard at st. Johnsbury, and from
thence proceed to Caledonia Springs in
Canada for rest and recuperation. The
Governor needs the rest after the bust
ness and political labors Of the summer
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-08-30

Services of baptism were held at the
Methodist Church Sunday. The house
was crowded and the ceremony by
sprinkling, pouring or immersion wac
administered by Rev. 2. Goettel to thir
ty or forty candidates. Eucharist ser
vices will be celebrated next Sunday.
D. T. Bates adds fine bow window to
his house.
Miss lila Jepson and Mrs, Carrie Hyler
are with us.
DR.. Barber and wife took an excur-
sion to relatives in Canada last week.
Doctor says he never fully understood
/ the origin of the bandana until he saw
the crimson banner of st. George on
those English shores. BE also observes
that the conservative or Democratic par
ty of that country is making boom,
owing to the fact they have adopted
protection" as a political plank.
A son has come to see Mr.. aud Mrs.A,
Ii. Potter.
Maj Merritt Barber, A. A. G., U. S.
A.. is visiting his parents He left Los
Angeles, Cal, but will return to Van.
couver, o,
Chas. MYERS has been nominated for
representative by the Democratic party.
Next is the Labor Reform" who are
expected to have candidate in the
field
The State Superintendent of Eluca-
ton is expected to hold an educational
meeting among us the latter part of Sep
TENDER.
The Ladies' Aid Society at Mrs. c, Ii,
Barber's was fine gathering,
Gaines & McCumber's mill was de-
strOyed by fire Sunday. Loss $4,000. In
surance $500.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-08-30

The members OF the North Puwna
COrnet band paid their respects to f. p
Gaines and family at their residence
Saturday evening OF last week, in very
pleasing manner, and for their extreme
kindness in rendering such fine selec-
ton Of music the family wish to extend
their hearty thanks.
The burning of Gaiues & McCumber's
mill at this place was a great loss &c
them. as the property was valued for
$500. and only insured for $500. The
origin Of this fire yet remains mystery
Mrs. S. l.. Smith left Tuesday evening
for an extended trip through Iowa and
the vicinity.
Miss Julia G. Perkins has just returned
from "A visit with her many friends at
Hoosick Falls.
Luran Perkins, eldest son of George
Perkins of New York city, is spending
his vacation with friends in tins town
as the guest Of Joseph Perkins and fam
lily.
Much improvement is being made
on the school grounds under the dircc-
ton of our prudential committee, Messrs.
Pettibone, SuIlman and Miner,
The new coat Of paint being applied to
the buildings at the factory village by
+. d. JOY of North Adams, is one Of the
most marked improvements IN town for
a long time, This shows enterprise.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-08-30

Miss Martha Thurber Is visiting a
Thomas Lyons.
A niece of Henry Fauuham is spend
ing few weeks at his home,
Fletcher Hawley and family of Dlnby
recently visited at Charles NOung's.
David Buck and Mike Coniin recently
traded horses,
No service at the church next Sab
bath.
Fred. Maynard and mother of Cam
bridge, n. Y, spent Sunday at r G
McKee's.
Mrs. C. Wells and son are in town fol
few days.
Thomas Lyons has purchased horse
Miss KITE Mckee of Cambridge, N, Y
is spending week at C. A. D.rrick's.
Miss Anna Hanaman has been spend
ing a'week in Cambridge,
Miss Alice Stoddard returned to Troy
on Saturday.
Williams & Tefft have had an addi-
ton built on their mill A blacksmith
shop is being put up on the opposite
side Of the road.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-08-30
RetalIatIon,s Results I'm vermont

An official of the Central VERNE nj
railroad said to representative of the
Boston Advertiser that TO mau the
managers OF this road were in favor OF
the rejection Of the fisheries treaty.
The same gentleman said that in case
retaliation were enforced either by the
passage o. the Wilson bill or bv the
adoption of the message, the Central
Vermont road would have to shut up
shop. 1t would be shut ou,, and it,
business taken from it, The Central
Vermont depended. he said. except for
a comparatively trifl'ng amount of local
business, almost entirely upon its tarllic
consigned to Clnada. The shut-otf of
all communication with Canada would
ruin the road; and this was equally true
of the other roads which connect with
Canada through Vermont, New Hamp
shire and New York.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-08-30
VAN HORNE ON THE MESSAGE.
He Thinks Retaliation would Hurt Us
Twenty Times as much as Canada.

He Thinks Retaliation would Hurt u
Twenty Times as much as Canada.
w. c. Van Horne, President of the
Canadian Pacific, has been interviewed
at St. Paul, Mimi, on the proposals con-
tanned in the Presidents message.
The policy of non-intercourse between
the United States and Canada" he says,
would damage American railroad
interests between So and 50 where il
would injure Canadian interests 81.
All the Michigan roads would be heavily
damaged and New England lines would
be hurt, particularly those depending
upon Canadian lines for an outlet, The
same ia true Of the lines centering nj
Niapara."
On the question of the general com
mercial damage 10 each country, MIR.
Van Horne thought American interests
would stuff r twenty times more than
Canadian. Il N. Y. Sun.
Mr.. Van Horne is an American and
only few years since was the general
superintendent of the Chicago, Mil
waukee q st. Paul railroad one OF the
great systems of the Northwest. Presi-
dent Cleveland seems to have made as
much of n mistake in his proposed at
tack on the railroad interests OF the
country as he has on the manufacturing
interests in his free trade message.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-08-30

The leaders Of the Free Trade faction
have for long time protested to fee
alarmed at the possible danger to the
country from the surplus left in the
Treasury by the last Republican Admin
istration. Up to very few days ago
the Democratic campaign orators point
ed to the existence of the surplus as an
argument in favor of their Free Trade
theories and insisted that it could be re-
duced by abolishing or greatly reducing
the Tariff imposed on the products Of
foreign Pauper labor for the protection
of American industry. But now they
will have to change their tune. Their
leaders have taken care that so long as
they remain in power the surplus shall
be reduced to very small proportions.
The appropriations passed or pending,
but practically agreed to by Congress
during the present session, amount to
Sl2S, 269, 520-an increase Of S73, 0iS, 100
over the appropriations of last year
while the prospective revenue is csti-
mated at $40, 5G3, 734, thus leaving a
possible surplus of only $l2, 1894, 2l3.
The passage of the Mills bill would have
converted this into deficiency of over
$50, 100000
From the facts just given the Ameri-
can people will be enabled to form n cor
rect opinion Of the wisdom and patriot
ism of the Democratic party managers.
BY eXtravagant and in many cases III
terly unnecessary and useless appropria-
tions, they increase the expenditures
enormously and even seek by the Mi Is
bill to add S60,000,0 200 to our debt in
order to rpciprOcate in the most accent
able manner at the expense of the
American workingmcn the kindly inter
est so ellusively exhibited in Mr.. Cleve-
lands fortunes by the English press and
public Irish World.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-08-30

The largest political demonstration
ever seen in Manchester took place
Tuesday night under the auspices of the
Republican Club of Manchester. Pre-.
ceding the meeting there was an impos.
ing torchlight procession ofuniformed
clubs, the procession consisting of some
800 torch bearers representing the Re.
publican clubs of Manchester, Dorset
Arlington, Sunderland, Bennington and
the Young Mems Club of Bennington
A Especial tram from Bennington brought
GOO members of the Republican League
clubs and three bands of music. The
visiting clubs were met at the station
by the local club with the Manchester
Center Band and Manchester Drum
Corps and escorted through the bril-.
liantly Illuminated streets to the Batten.
kill fair ground where the speaking
took place.
The fair ground was Illuminated by
monster bonfires and the grand stand
was made brilliant by hundreds of Chi.
nese lanterns. Two thousand people
were crowded on to the grand stand and
hundreds were unable to gain admission
The meeting was presided over by
Col. NJ. S. Colburn. The principal
speech of the evening was made by Hon
William p. Dillingham; who spoke fol
an hour on the tariff issue. His telling
points were warmly applauded and his
speech'produced a most favorable effect.
Mr.. Dillingham; was followed by Capt
s. j. Forhan of Chicago whe discussed
the issues of Protection or Free Trade
from the standpoint of an Irish-Ameri-
can. Mr.. a. j. Markham sang severa
campaign songs. Hon. Loveland Nun.
son of Manchester spoke briefly on the
issue of the hour and said that the mos
effective way to oppose Cleveland and
free trade was to vote for Dillingham;
and Woodbury. in September. The
meeting was very enthusiastic one
and lasted until nearly midnight.