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The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
millionaire Shaw's Will.

PITTsBURG, September 2.-The will
of William Shaw, the dead millionaire
railroad king, has just been probated.
It occupies thirty-six pages Of foolscap,
typewriter, and was made on July 5
of the present year. His estate, except
his coal lands, is divided into sixteen
parts. The coal land are to be held
until all his minor children become OF
age, when they are expected to be worth
s1s,OOO,OOO. His wife gets three-six-
teenths of the estate, his ten children
one-sixteenth each, and from the re-
naming three-sixteenths are to be paid
a large number of private and public
bequests.
Among the larger public legacies are
the following:
Western University, Pennsylvania,
100000. 49,.
Presbyterian Board of Home Mis-
sions, $4,000.
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mis-
Presbyterian College Board, $50, GOD.
Other Presbyterian boards, $4,000:
American Board Of Missions, $1,000.
Pittsburg hospitals an aggregate OF
$780, 1000, both Protestant and Catholic
institutions being remembered.
All debts of dependent friends are
caAesiled.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
Lawful Abatement of a Nuisance.

A man was recently brought before
police justice of Chicago for thrashing
fellow passenger on street car. The
man who got battered was smoking.
He was requested to stop. He did not,
and was thrashed. The verdict of the
justice Was:-"The public has rights.
The prisoner did perfectly right, and is
discharged" The editorial comment
Of one of the dailies was as follows:-
"It is therefore settled, so far as
police court decision can settle any
thing, that man who persists in
smoking on car where there is
woman may be thrashed by her escort,
if he is strong enough, and can expect
no redress. This kind of law may
shock the Supreme Court, but there is
considerable horse sense in it. No man
has right to make nuisance of him
self in public conveyance, and COM
pany should not tolerate it,"
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
Buried Alive.

I have always had more or less aver
sion to being buried alive, and when
ever I meet with an undertaken under.
favorable circumstances, I never fail to
question him concerning the pro-
liability that may breathe my last in
my coffin six feet under the sod, says a
correspondent of the Chicago Journal
I had an earnest conversation with one
of that guild yesterday, and this is the
sum of what he said: s"This howl
about the danger of being buried alive.
is the merest bosh in the world. i
don't believe there ever was anybody
buried alive unless it was done on pnr-5
pose. DR.. Tanner is keeping an ae-5
count Of all the premature burials re-
ported isthe newspape zzzsess
+ is that all OF those reports are lies.
They are doing more sensible thing
in France. In that country a learned
man who took great interest in this
subject not only clipped these reports
from the newspapers, but ran every
one of them down to their sources. He
Investigated hundreds ofthem, and the
conclusion be reached vas that nobody
was ever buried alive by mistake.S-S.--.
is exactly what I believe about it,
though I reach my conclusion in a
different way. Every dead body has a
peculiar and unmistakable odor long
before decomposition sets in. Let me
bury you. I will guarantee that you
will not be buried alive, and if you
should be you needn't pay me cent?
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
HOLD THE COTTON.
Farmers Urged to Make No Sales in Sep
telnber.

ATLANTA, GA, Aug. 26.-The ma
tional cotton committee, consisting OF
one delegate from each of the cotton
growing States, held meeting in the
| Kimball house to-day. The routine
proceedings were secret, but enough
information was given to the public to
show that business of vital Importance
was transacted.
The personnel of the committee is
made up of the National Wheel, Ma
tional Union and National Alliance.
| The object of the meeting was to devise
ways and means fol increasing the
price of cotton. The committee was
in session all day. Mr.. R. J. Sledge, OF
Kyle, Texas, presided, and Mr.. B. NJ.
Hard, of Nashville, Tenn, acted as
secretary.
| The following resolutions were
adopted.
Resolved, first, That the national cot
ton committee recommend that the
farmers of the South sell no cotton
during the month of September, except
what may be absolutely necessary to
meet obligations which are past due.
Resolved, second, That the national
cotton committee instruct the president
of each sub-Aliance, Wheel or Union,
or some person appointed by him, to
meet the president and secretary of his
county Alliance on Saturday, the 2Sth
day of September, at the county seat,
for the purpose of receiving instruc-
tions from the national cotton commit
tee.
"Resolued, third, That each State
Secretary of every cotton State be
charged with the duty of placing these
resolutions Immediately before their
respective county presidentsand charge
all expense of printing and postage to
the National Alliance.
"ResoIved, fourth, That farmers be
urged to take special care in sheltering
their cotton from damaging weather.
"Resolced, fifth, That every news
paper in the South in sympathy with
the farmers is requested to publish
these resolutions"
R. J. SLEDGE, Chm'n, Kyle, Texas.
A. T. HATCHER, Grand Cane, La.
S. B. ALEXANDER, Charlotte, n. C.
LIP. FEATHERsToN, Forest City, Ark.
NJ. L. DONALDSON, Greenville, S. G.
w. J. NoTHERN, Sparta, Ga.
R. F. KOBE, Montgomery, Ala.
B. N. HoRD, Sec., Nashville, Tenn.
1t is whispered that the farmers will
be able to carry out their plans, and
force the result desired. They will be
able to hold their cotton for any length
of time they may choose. The move
ment is organized, with not only a solid
phalanx Of cooperating membership,
but ample capital. The measures Of
the Alliance, however, are conserva-
tive and fair. While enforcing de.
mand for better price for their cotton
they will not be at the expense Of their
honest obligations. The cotton com.
mittee will meet again in September.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
Restrain the Appetite.

1t is not necessary to make ourselves
slaves to any manner of living, nor is
it desirable to devote too much thought
to the subject; but the general maxim
to live moderately and to restrain the
appetite rather than crafty it would
be found conducive to health and
happiness in the majority of instances,
the harm likely to be done by under
feeding being as nothing compared
with the mischief those work in their
constitution who feed too often and eat
too much.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
Died Under Faith Treatment.

FINDLAY, Ohio, Sept. LIN the lit
tie town Of Blufton, just west of this.
city, is band of faith cure people,
who, it is said, have permitted four or
five persons to die lately while await
ing cure from prayer. Their latest sup
posed victim was Bert Williams, a
young man seventeen years old, who
ran against a stake in the yard Of a
neighbor while playing ball and
bruised his leg just below. the knee,
but not in what was considered at the
time serious way. In few days,
however, the limb gave him consider
able pain, and DR.. Clarke was called.
He examined the limb, and finding the
bone slightly bruised scraped the in.
jured part, sewed up the leg and left
the boy in good shape, expecting to
call daily and give the wound the
necessary treatment to make it heal.
That day, unfortunately for the boy,
the faith cure people got hold OF hlm,
and made him believe that if he had
faith the Lord would perform mira
Gle by healing him at once by prayer.
The stitches were removed from the
leg and the prayers begun, but no one
ever made better time on the way to
the grave than did young Williams af-
ter putting himself under the influence
Of these people.
He was taken to the sanctuary of the
"Faith Cure" in Blufton, where no
attention whatever was given him be-
yond prayer, and he was soon IN
horrible condition. Gangrene set in
and the limb nearly rotted off, the
smell from the decomposing member
becoming so offensive to the neighbor-
hood that on Friday he was again re-
moved to his home, where he died
yesterday.
There is much feeling in the COM
munity over the matter, as only few
days before a consumptive, from
Findlay, over whom the 'sfaith healers'
had been praying for two months, died
on his way home.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
CRAZED BY CIGARETTES.
A Theological Student Smokes Eighty in
One Evening.

WATKINS, n. Y, Aug. 30.-People
driving into this village on the county
line road Saturday observed a young
man wandering along about three
miles west of here. At o'clock the
same evening he was found lying in
sensible near the residence of Martin
Y. Bait. He was taken into Mr.. Balt's
house, DR.. Irvine was summoned, and
succeeded in partially rousing him,
when he again dropped into stupor.
Sunday he again recovered conscious
ness and gave the following account of
himself:
His name is George Kennedy Newell
and his home is in New York city. He
is "a years old, and has been a student
in the Union theological college there.
He wished his uncle and brother at
Morristown, n. J., telegraphed to,
which was done, The last he remem-
bered he had plenty of money and
bicycle and was in New York. When
found he was dressed in tennis suit
and his shoes were nearly worn out.
Sunday afternoon John w. Love and
wife, of this village, recognized him as
young man who was at Clifton
Springs under treatment at the sanitar-
ium.
Miss Lamore, whose card was found
in his pocket, is young lady residing
in New York, to whom Newell was
very attentive. He is much distressed
at the mention of her name and has
plaintively requested that nothing be-
said about her. 1t appears that he is a
sufferer from cigarette poisoning. He
was sent to the sanitarium to break
him;of the habit. Saturday he got away
and came to this village. He laid in q
stock. ofcigarettes and in one evening
smoked eighty of them.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
ALLIANCE COTTON.
Big Sale Thursday at BarnweH on
Alliance Day.
Especial to Augusta Chronicle.]

Especial to Augusta Chronicle.]
BLAcKvILLE, S. c., Sept. 5.-This
was Alliance day at Barnwell, Court
House.
1t was decided at previous meeting
to make this saleday for alliance cot
ton, and by - o'clock the streets Of the
town were crowded with wagons loaded
with bales covered with cotton bagging.
Eight of the sub-alliances had a joint
meeting, and at o'clock a crier an
nounced from the court house steps
that all alliance cotton would be taken
to the depot, weighed and offered for
sale. Immediately thirty-four wagons
with fifty-nine bales formed into line
and were taken to the place designated.
As the sale had not been announced
out of the county only two buyers were
present. The entire lot was bought by
Col. Mike Brown. consequently the
sales were increased to sixty-fve or
seventy bales and only about five or
six bales were covered with jute. In
future all alliance cotton will be sold at
Barnwell on Thursday of each week.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
Anderson's Oldest Inhabitant Dead.
Henderson Intellipencer.7

Anderson Intelligencer.
1t is our duty this week to chronicle
the death of perhaps the oldest person
in Anderson County, namely, Miss
Rebecca Dalrymple, who died at her
home near Midway Church, last Thurs
day morning. She was ninety-nine
years of age, and was born, reared and
had always resided on the plantation
where she died. About fifteen years
ago she received a fall which crippled
her for the balance of her life, and with
that exception she had been a remark
ably healthy, strong woman through
out her life. She was never known to
have any disease, and died simply
from old age. Miss Dalrymple was a
member of Midway Presbyterian
Church.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
The Eclectic.

The September ECLECTRIC recon-
mends itself as usual to the readers and
lovers of good literature. The distin-
guished artist and writer, w. w. Story,
under the title of Recent Converse
tions in a Studio,,n gives US racy and
suggestive discussion of various topics
in art, politics, and social life. Karl
Blind, the veteran socialist and 1efor-
mer, has word of importance to say
on the New Italy as in some measure
the outgrowth of seeds planted by such
men as Giordano Bruno, the philoso-
pher, who died for freedom ofopinion in
the year 1900. There is a most readable
paper of a scientific turn, but amusing
and racy, on THE Potatoes Place in
History" which is a model for articles
of popular science. A clever anecdotical
paper on Goethe and Carlyle makes the
reader wish it were longer. Professor
Sayce's discussion of '"The, Primitive
Home of the Aryans" is of superior
scholarly interest. A much wider
clientele, however, will be found for
Goldwin Smiths striking article on
"Progress and War;" one Of the best of
recent papers by this able writer. "Dr.
Johnson on Modern Poetry' is an inter-
view in the Elysian Fields with that
bluff old intellectual giant, and is
cleverly done by Mr.. Watson. Father
Barry contributes a. seasonable word
entitled WANTED, A Gospel for the
Century" indicating those needs which
demand reyivication and even revolu-
ton in religious methods. Mr.. John
Rae tells US about the Russian peas
antry in his article "An Empire Of
Crofters.n Sir Morell Mackenzie con-
tributes the second part of his article
on "Speech and Song" For most of
our readers, however, the remarkable
contribution entitled 1.-THE Papaey: A
Revelation and a Prophecy" will be
the most interesting paper in the num-
Der. The minor articles are well chosen.
Published by E. r. PELToN, 25 Bond
Street, New York. Terms, SIS per year.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
A CITY THAT HAS No CoUNrE
10000 Happy and Luxurious People with
Neither Shop, Artisan, Nor Trade.
TLonion Times. I


lying between Assam and Burmah
is the remote little Hill State of Mani
pur, lately visited by Indian officers,
one of whom, writing on the forces of
the State in Indian Forests, gives an
extraordinary account of Imp HAL, the
Capital. It is situated in what appears
a dense forest. Neither spires nor CHM
neys cut the blue sky, nor is smoke OBJ
served to ascend from the sylvan scene
of the capital. Nothing, in fact, be-
speaks the busy home of 10000 to 4o,-
600 people, andyet hidden away among
these trees is the palace of the Rajah
and hard by are the houses of the
favorites, each family having large
enclosure around the homestead I'M
phail may thus be described as city of
villages, or rather suburban residences,
around the palace. Straight, wide roads
lined with trees, frequently intersecting
each other at right angles, afford the
means Of communication, but neither
shop, artisan, nor wheeled conveyance
exists in the city. Industry and skill
occur only III the distant rural homes"
The people of the capital are the pro-
noted favorites of the ruler, who have
had assigned to them plots of ground
near the palace and live by pressing
upon the prosecuted agriculturalist of
the State.
The capital of Manipur is a royal
residence dedicated to luxury and
amusement. All are happy. The streets
are crowded with smiling, healthy
faces, of which few bear the marks of
toll or labor. There are no schools in
the State, and court favor and promo
ton are secured by success in polo.
Coinage is unknown, and the men are
not allowed to trade. Imports and ex-
ports, except in certain articles that
yield royal revenue, are practically
prohibited.
The women from the distant villages
repair on certain day to the capital or
to other recognized centres. Each
carries on her head a neatly-made
square basket, in which has been placed
the surplus stock of the homestead, the
labors Of her industrial skill or of her
husbands agricultural knowledge. On
reaching the market place the contents
,S9Sos,sss asaskets are exposed and bar
Of pHes each returns again to her
tered, whea@g off the proceeds.
fan1ly, ON market erke S7t dassthelo the long, straight
road from Bishenpur to Imphali is
crowded by groups of women nurrylng
TO and fro, Each wears an elegantly
striped dress in bright colors. made of
silk and cotton. The stripes run along
the length, and the top and bottom are
neatly embroidered. A long piece of
cloth is cleverly carried across the breast
and just under the armpits, instead of
round the waist, and is firmly tucked
up, so that the top embroidered edge
falls forward, adding an additional fold
to the garment, while the bottom edge
reaches little below the knees. The
legs land arms are left exposed. The
women are the only traders IN the
whole State.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
MONSTER RATTLESNAKES.
Wilmington Review.l

We saw this morning two rattle
snakes OF Mr.. J. II. Strauss store in
Brooklyn, that were killed by his son,
Mr.. James Strauss, at White Oak. One
was 64} inches long, 81 inches across
the head and 10 inches around the
body. The other was rs inches long, 2
inches around the body and q inches
across the head. They were killed by
Ms. Strauss on Thursday with stick.
Two large rattlesnake skins, tanned
and dressed, were brought up to the
city this morning for the purpose OF
having slippers made for seven mem
bers of the engineer corps of the W., O.
& f. G. Railroad. The snakes were
killed by members of the corps. One of
them was of the diamond back variety,
which is somewhat rare.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
DYNAMITE's AWFUL WORK.
Two Men Blown 20 Atoms--Only Fragments
ofthe Victims Found

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Sept. 5.-A
terrible explosion occurred at the
mouth of the st. Johns river, by which
two men were killed and several more
injured.
Captain R. G. Ross, in charge Of the
Government ..Jetty work at st. Johns
bar, has been engaged for several days
in blowing up the submerged wreck of
the old Dutch brig "Neva," which has
for years obstructed the channel off
Mayport. He had in command
Captain A. G. Moore, with a crew Of
twelve men.
Two Of the men, r. T. Moore, son
Of the captain, and grandson of
Powell, colored, were soldering twen-
ty-five pound can of dynamite, when
it exploded with terrific report and blew
both men to atoms, only one toe of
Moore being found after the explosion.
Engineer Dunn, Of the lighter, was
badly wounded in the side and arm.
Capt. Moore was blackened by the ex-
plosion and badly shaken up, but is
not seriously injured. He is, however,
in state of mind almost bordering
upon insanity by reason Of the terrible
fate Of his son.
The explosian was heard for miles
around, and caused an upheaval of
water and Sremor of the earth which
created considerable alarm.
The steam tug Robert Turner went
hurriedly to the scene of the disaster
and then blew whistles of distress,
which brought the government steam
er and others to the rescue and carried
Dunn to Mayport, where he could re-
ceive medical treatment.
The lighter was boarded Immediately
after the explosion to ascertain what
other damage was done, and every
thing was found one mass of wreck
and ruin.
The machinery of the jetty lighter
and engine was completely demolished.
A big hold was found on the deck of
the lighter, and the crew badly demor-
allied.
A search was at once instituted for
the remains of the men, but without
further success. Moore's vest and pants
were subsequently found among the
floating wreckage, torn completely in
shreds.
The accident attracted great crowds
of people to the shore, and the greatest
excitement prevailed.
Captain Ross, the contractor, had
gone to st. Augustine to spend the day,
where Capt. w. M. Black, United
States engineer in charge of the jetties,
had his headquarters. He was at once
communicated with and will do every
thing possible under the circumstances
for the relief of the wounded. He is
expected in Mayport tonight.
Moore, the white man killed, was
twenty-five years old and unmarried.
This is the first serious accident to oc-
cur at these jetties since the work be-
gan several years ago.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
PRICE S1.5O A YEAR.
Two Edeefield Youths.
Edgefeld Advertiser

Twenty-Five years ago, an Edgefeld
youth left our town to make his for
tune in the West, poor in purse, but
rich in everything else. He went to
Louisville, KY, became a civil en-.
gineer and prospered. Last week this
self same youth came back to Edgefeid
on visit to his relations whom he had
left behind. But how did he come, as
he went off, with a grip sack in his
hand? No. He came back in his own
palace car as the general superintendent
Of one of Georgia's magnificent rail-
roads, and MS name is William Henry
McClintock. About five years after
Mr.. McClintcck's departure. another
Edgefeld youth, filled with the same
ambition, went to the Rensselaer,
Polytechnic Institute of Troy, N. ",
where he graduated in civil engineer
ing. and soon thereafter took service
with the Westinghouse company of
that State, a company whose name is
known wherever practical, mechanical
science is known. He soon became
trusted employe of the firm, then a
partner, and to-day his name is known
all over the Southland everywhere as
the most practical level-headed, best
informed and gifted engineer Of the
period. This name is Daniel Augustus
Thompkins. Had did these two young
men achieve such remarkable success?
Why, just in this way. When they
left Edgefeld each one carried in bis
left hand grip sack, but in his right
hand
He bore banner, with this strange
device-Excelsiori
That little banner did the work.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
Inventions of the 10th Century.

The steamboat, the reaper, the sewing
machine,
Cars running by night and by day,
Houses lighted by gas and heated by
steam,
And bright electricity's ray.
The telegraph's click speeds like light
ming released,
Then the telephone comes to excel it,;
Ana to put Oh the finish, the last but
not least,
IS the famed little Purgative Pellet.
p,aas a-ast but not least is DR.. pierce's
ra';sSaL tTsSani hPurgative Pellet, because it
snI,, u'Ts 81 human human suffering, adds to the
% rai;ava5 ", hunan o comfort, and enables the
ings aHd 81 SSuilerer Srer to enjoy all the bless
'"sS ana luSuries of the age we live in
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
How's This {.

We offer One Hundred Dollars re-
ward for any case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by taking Halls Catarrh
Cure.
FL CHENEY & CO., Props,
Toledo, Ohio.
We, the undersigned, have known
F. J. Cheney for the last fifteen years,
and believe him perfectable honorable
in all business transactions, and finan-
cially able to carry out any obligations
made by their firm.
WEST & TRgAx,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
WA1DISG, KINNAN &, MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
E. H. VAN HoEsEN,
Cashier, Toledo National Bank,
Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucus surfaces of the system.
Testimonials sent free. Price 75c. per
bottle. Sold by ali druggists.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
Snake Stories.
[Orangeburg Times and Democrat.

. [Orangeburg Times and Democrat.
. Mr.. G. J. Seymour related a most
wonderful snake story to US one day
last week. Some time ago, while work
ing the old Columbia rood near Beaver
Creek in Cav Cav Township, he, with:
Mr.. A. B. Zeigler, saw large moeca-
sin run under a log at the side of the
road. The log was turned over and the
snake was killed by Mr.. Seymour, who
cut off its head. Directly afterwards a
little snake crawled out of the large
one, which operation continued until
twenty-seven little ones had crawled
ont
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-12
Greenyille's First New Bale.

The first bale of new cotton for this
section was brought into the city yester-
day by Z. P. Griffin, who lives near
Simpsonville. It was wrapped in old
iute bagging and was weighed by c. L:
Yates, pulling the scales to 450 pounds.
The grade was low middling and the
bale was bought by John Slatterly for
l0I, good price considering fhe quality
of the cotton.