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The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-19
BLOOD AT A DINNER PARTY.
A Shocking Homicide at Family Gath
ering in 9reenville County.

Especial to the News, and Courier.l
GREESv1LLE, S. C., July 14.-.An-
other killing was recorded to-day in
Greenville County, abouty, about two
and a half miles beyond Chick Springs
the victim, James Cox ; the man who
did the the killing, w. T. Toney, all
well-to-do farmers, neighbors, until
to-day friends. ......-.
Toney's son Henry was 81 years old
to-day and Cox gave dinner in honor
OF the event. Of course there was
whiskey on hand and the young men
had been drinking. Henry Toney and
James Cox were in the yard and got
into playful struggle, which resulted
in one or both getting angry and a
regular fight followed. John and Mrs
Cox took hand in the fight and the
three, it is claimed, attacked young
Toney with 6sts, a hoe and broom
handle.
Mr.. W. T. Toney was sitting in the
house pleasantly talking with his eld-
erly friends, when seeing the attack on
his son, he rushed into the yard with
his open pocket knife and drove the
blade into theright side of James Cox's
neck. Cox walked to the piazza, lay
down, and in half an hour was dead,
bleeding to death. The cutting took
place about II o'clock. Toney and his
son surrendered to the sheriff and were
lodged in Jail tonight.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-19
Something to Remember,

il you're weak or aiiing woman =
that there's only one medicine 80 sure
TO help you that 1t can be guaranteed.
Jt's DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription.
In building up over-worked, feeble, deli
cate women, or any "female COM
plant" or weakness, if it ever fails to
benefit or cure, you have your money
back. It's an invigoratlng, restorative
tonic, a soothing and Strengthening
nervine, and safe and certain remedy
for woman's ills and ailments. It regu-
lates and promotes all the proper func-
tions, improves digestion, enrich es the
blood, dispels aches and pains, brings
refreshing sleep, and restores health
and strength.
Nothing else can be as cheap. With
this, you only for the good you get.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-19
DOWNFALL OF DAVENPORT.
The Laurens County Official Resigns Els
Office and Leaves the County.
Especial to The State. |


LAURENs, July 13.-S,hool Comnis-
sioner L. P. Davenport, on account Of
his escapade, sent his resignation to
the Governor aud took the train for
the West. The county legislative dele
CATION met promptly to-day, and have
recommended for the coming vacancy
Mr.. Thomas J. Duckett.
1t is stated that Oakville Alliance
sent committee to J. D. NJ. Shaw and
Senator J. L. NJ. Irby to inquire why
they shielded Davenport.
Irby's name issupposed to have been
connected with the affair in this way:
When Davenport made the improper
advances, or attempted the assault
on Mrs. Fuller, she struggled and
screamed. Davenport became alarmed,
jumped on his horse and galloped to
Irby's house. He has long been on in
innate terms with 1rby. He ex-
cused to Irby and Shaw bis ad-
advances to the woman on the ground
that she had been a former pupil of
his, and did not admit having intended
violence.
When Irby, with Shaw, who is Da-
venport's nephew, went to Fuller's
house in the hope of getting the matter
suppressed, Irby is said to have advised
the Fullers, if they settled at all, not to
accept any money, that it would put
them in bad light; but the Fullers
decided otherwise. Then Irby and
Shaw paid down part of Fuller's de-
mands in cash and endorsed note for
the remainder. Afterwards the story
was whispered about, Fuller's neigh
bors became incensed and the exposure
followed. This is about the substance
of the rumors current.
A New School Commissioner.
columbia Evening Journal.l
Governor Tillman to-day appointed
Mr.. T. J. Duckett school commissioner
of Laurens county, vice l.. P. Daven-
port, the man who made insulting pro-
posals to Mrs. Fuller, resigned, and
skipped the country, going West.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-19
THE INCOME TAX.
II 10 Said to be One Means Of Lifting the
Burdens Of the Poor Man.
Atlanta Constitution.

[Atlanta constitutional
The income tax continues to grow
more popular.
AS the tax is constitutional and equi-
table, and as it is plain that there will
be deficit in our revenues when we
reduce the customs duties, it is natural
that public attention should center
upon this mode of raising money for
the expenses Of the government. The
masses are not able to stand direct
tax levied on everybody, and the bur-
den will have to fall upon the wealthy
classes who are able to bear it.
The opposition to the measure comes
mainly from the capitalists of the east
who have grown rich under the favor
itism of the government. They declare
that it would be very expensive to COL
lect such tax and that it would tempt
men to commit perjury. On the other
hand experts in the revenue service
say that the system would not make it
necessary to employ many extra OFF,
cials, and the matter of perjury is only
fanciful objection. Rich men in En-
gland do not perjure themselves to es-
cape the income tax and there is no
good reason for supposing that they
would do it here and risk the peniten-
tiary.
When we consider the tremendous
drain upon the people for generation
in the shape of 60 per cent. tariff, fed
eral pensions and other expenses, it
will be seen that the iacome tax would
afford greater degree of relief than
any other one thing could give. The
tax should be graded one, as Thomas
Jefferson suggested. 1t should begin
with $4,000 incomes and the per cent
age of the tax should increase with
each additional $4,000 of income.
This is the way to lift the burden from
the masses who are unable to bear it,
and cause the expenses of the govern
ment to be paid by the men who enjoy
most of its benefits, and who are able
to pay a tax without feeling it.
1t is oppressive and unjust to tax the
poor mans little 81, 900 cottage and ex-
empt the $4,000 income of mis- mil
lionaire neighbor.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-19
TO BE BURIED ALIVE.
Mind Reader Seymour to Spend Over Three
Months Under Ground.

TOLEDO, Ohio, July 5.-Seymour,
the mind reader, accompanied by his
son, is on his way to Chicago, where he
is to attempt a test that will, if sue
cessful, make him famous the world
over. .... --.-.
He performed some wonderful feats
in the streets of Toledo few months
ago. For example, he found a medal
hidden in the library building by
local newspaper committee, driving to
the building blindfolded. .
At Chicago he is to be buried alive,
after the alleged manner Of the East
Indians, who say they can suspend
animation for any period by swallow
ing their tongues and controlling the
heart and mind.
"My coffin has gone on ahead" !"
said Mr.. Seymour to-day. "It was
made in Syracuse and is a fac-simile Of
the one in which Gen. Grants re-
mains now lie. 1t cost 5000. It is
made in three sections, one fitting in.
side the other.
II will be buried six feet deep in the
coffin. Signals will be arranged, so
that if things don't 60 right I can COM
municate with the soldiers on the out
side who will guard the grave.
directly afer I am buried a crop of
barley will be sowed over the grave. I
will remain buried until the germs
sprout, grow, ripen, and are harvested.
Then the disinterment will take place.
II will not come back to earth until
September "a. I am positive that I
can do it, and the scientific men who
are assisting me to conduct the e1pe-
riment are beginning to think so too"
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-19
Gould's Posthumous Piety.
from the New York World. |


The family of the late Jay Gould is
about to erect at Roxbury, in this
state, Memorial church, to cost
quarter of a million dollars. On its
cornerstone will be this inscription:
ITO the Glory of God and in Memory
of Jay Gould" This posthumousjux-
Imposition of two names that were not
conspicuously associated during the
life of the late Jay Gould must be ac-
cepted by the public chronicler as a
private arrangement of the family in
which the public has no hand and no
special interest. It would be very
unjust even to hint that the late Jay
Gould did not in divers ways, that we
know nothing about, attempt to glo-
rify both God and Gould, but it can
not be said that be succeeded in con-
vincing a very large circle outside Of
bis own heirs of the fact.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-19
How Manners Deteriorate.

"In the absence of my wife," says a
friend of mine, "my manners deterior-
ate rapidly. I eat at chop houses, and
the mau who habitually eats at chop
houses unconsciously becomes a sort
of human pig. He can't help it. He
becomes selfish. He grows slovenly
in dress and rude of manners. I can
tell chop house man as soon as I see
him at the table. I tell you, man is
naturally a brute, and shorn of the
conventional restraints of society his
veneer of civilization quickly rubs off,"
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-19
Sunday Fairs at an End.

CHICAGO. July l4.-The Worlds
Fair is to be closed on Sunday and
after July 10th it will not be open to
the public On the first day Of the week.
The admissions Of next Sunday have
already been donated for the relief Of
the families Of the firemen who lost
their lives in the recent fire on the
grounds snd but for this fact the fair
would probably have bee n closed next
Sunday. The vote Of the local direc-
tory resembling it's former action was
overwhelmingly in favor Of closing, it
standing q to 4.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-19
OFFICE y. S. ATTORNEY,


SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA,
MACON, GA, July 10, 1898.
Sir: Your letter dated July s, 1898, IN
which you enclose card published by
the Hon. H. L. Farley, is received.
You request me to furnish you for pub
lication statement Of facts which
came within my knowledge in refer
ence to the article published in the
Augusta Chronicle over the signature
"Craddock."
I have no intention to espouse the
cause Of any of the parties interested
in this controversy, with all of whom
my relations srs friendly. I yield to
what I conceive to be my duty and do
an act Of simple justice to you in max
ing the following statement:
The article signed "Craddoek" was
not dictated by you to your private
secretary, nor was it sent to the Chron-
icle for publication either by you or
your private secretary. During my
stay in Washington I was present in
your rooms at the National Hotel when
8 conversation was had in reference to
it, and the article was read over to you
in my presence by the author before it
was sent to the Chronicle for publica-
ton. Very respectfully,
w. T. GARY.
. Hon. J. L. NJ. Irby, United States
Senator, Laurens, s. q.
jim TILLMAN WILL HAVE SOMETHING
TO SAY.
columbia Journal, 18TH
The Journal representative called on
Capt. James II. Tillman this morning
and asked if he had anything to say in
reply to Senator Irby's statement pub
l;shed in varions State papers yester-
day. He replied:
II have been drawn into this affair
very much to my regret, but do not
propose that Senator Irby or any one
else shall me as an instrument to per-
petrate a political assassination"
"Then you will reply?
"Yes."
''Of what character will your answer
be?" was asked.
"Wait and see you may say, how
ever, that it will prove that Senator
Irby has acted the deliberate scoundrel
in mixing a certaiu amount of truth
with error in order to give his defence
an air of p!ausibility and throw the
whole blame on me. 1t will divulge
some racy and yet unwritten history
that will be mighty interesting reading
for devout Reformers."
"When will your article appear"
"Just as soon as possible. Please do
not ask ME any other questions.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-19

Mr.. Crews: "No, sir. I got my in
formation from some one Of the daily
papers. am not sure, but think it
was the Greenville News, and the edi-
torial was based on the information
contained in dispatch sent from Spar
tanburg."
MI. Farley: II think you are mis-
taken about getting your information
from the Greenville News, as I have
never seen anything of that kind in the
News"
Mr.. Crews: POSSIBLY I may be mis-
taken about getting my information
from the News, but am positive that
I got it from some one Of the daily pa
pers. No individual gave it to me verb
ally or otherwise.''
Mr.. Farley questioning me in regard
to the source Of my information in re-
gard to the editorial in question i'm
pressed me at the time that he was en-
deayoring to extort from me 8 virtual
admission that some one in Laurens
had given me the said information, and
when he afterwards alluded to the fact
that he had a personal enemy here who
was trying to injure him, and other
such expressions, without directly
naming any one, could plainly see
that his references were Senator 1rby.
Ithen told Mr.. Farley distinctly and
positively that neither Senator 1rby nor
any one else had ever mentioned the
subject to me, and that 1 was respon-
sible for the editorial and the reference
to "Brutus daggers, etc.
The above is the conversation which
took place between Mr.. Farley and
myself, as we'll as I can remember, and
the substance OF what I have written
and what was said by US on the occa-
sion referred to can be substantiated by
three other employees in. the Herald
Office, who heard the conversation.
w. T. CREWS.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-19
Only a TrifiinS Difference.

The American constitution make
few distinctions on the ground Of sex
in conferring privileges upon citizens.
For instance, to men it guarantees the
right to bear arms, and to women
bare shoulders.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-19

About twenty more cases have been
prepared, and the work of arresting
will be resumed on Monday. Lawyers
Bryan and Bissell have been retained
to represent the defendants. Some
lively developments are awaited.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-19

Dandruff is an exudation from the
pores of the scalk that spreads and
dries, forming scurf and causing the
hair to fall out. Halls Hair ReneWeE
cures it,
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-19

II was prostrated with severe bill
ious complaint" writes Erastus South
worth, of Bath, Maine. After vainly
trying a number of remedies, I was
finally induced to take Ayers Pills. I
had scarcely taken two boxes when I
was completely cured.'
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-19

When by reason of cold or from
other cause. the stomach, liver, and
kidneys become disordered, no time
should be lost in stimulating them to
action. Ayers Pills act quickly, safely,
and surely. Sold by druggists and
dealers in medicines.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-19
Hoke Smith, LID.

LAKE CITY, FLA, July 13.-The
Florida Agricultural College has con-
fbrred the degree of LID. on Hoke
Smith, Secretary of tie Interior.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-19
OF Course You Read

The testimonials frequently published
in this paper relating to Hoods Sarsa-
parilla. They are from reliable people,
state simple facts, and show beyond a
doubt that HOODS CURES. Why don't
you try this medicine? Be sure to get
Hoods.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-19

The highest praise has been won by
HOODS PILLS. Unequalled as din
ner pill.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-19

On last Friday, June 80, Gen. Farley
came into the Herald Office, and after
being seated the following conversation
took place between myself and Mr..
Farley:
Mr.. Farley: "Mr. Crews, didn't you
publish an article in the Herald the
other week in which you stated that [
attended an Alliance caucus in Spar
tanburg, and wasn't something said
about sharpening Brutus daggers for
Tillman, etc? Was the article an edi-
torisl or communication" ?"
Mr.. Crews: "There was an article Of
that nature published in the Herald a
week or two ago, but the Farley men
toned was not intended to apply to
you-it was Lid Farley. There was
something said about 'Brutus daggers.'
and was an editorial written by my
SELF"
Mr.. Farley: "Where did you get
you information from? Didn't some
one here give you the information ?"
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-19

This is to certify that Senator Irby
did not dictate to me any article signed
"Craddock," published in the Augusta
Chronicle or elsewhere, and that I
knew nothing whatever Of its compost
ton. Mr.. Jas. H. Tillman, to my
knowledge, never disavowed the au-
thorship of the Craddock letter. 1t has
been stated that Mr.. Tillmsn denied
responsibility for part of the letter re-
fiecting upon Mr.. F. c. Caughman, but
Mr.. Tillman, to disprove that he had
repudiated any part of it, showed me,
and others presume, q note in the ma
ture of q certificate, in which Mr..
Csughman stated that Mr.. Tillman
declared himself the author Of the ar
ticle signed "Craddock."
NJ, F. TIGHE.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-03-11
Clnlm. He d. Charlox Ro...

Charleston, in Coles County, Ind.
has q Charley Ross claimant. His
name is Charles Thomas Ross and he
claims that when 0 years old he was
brought to st. LOUIS in. mover
wagon by horse trader named Tay-
lor, low. heavy-set fellow with sandy
mustache. TO escape abuse the boy
ran away and went to Clinton, Ind.
He was later befriended by John
Brick, . farmer Of Edgar County, H.,
and for several years worked on farms
In that State. He was married last
summer and estimates his age at 2s or
90 years. The Whittier Block, in which
he stopped when he first went to st.
Louis, is one of the most notorious
tenements in that city. Ross thinks
he is the long missing Charlie and has
written to Philadelphia
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-03-11

It is lined with heavy pines which are
being cut down. We passed "a raft of
5000 in tow to Edentoa, breaking
apart and stopping navigation for a
mile and delaying our arrival at Wind.
sor until after midnight 1t was at
the latter place that Sir Walter
Raleigh made his first home in
America.
There are other equally inaccessible
offices reached by ferry across the
Neuse at New Berne, and riding some
twenty miles across a sand beach to
Pamlico or Bayboro. There are few
people there and little activity is seen
save the hoeing OF peanuts.
Beyond the difficulties attending the
reaching of remote post offices there
is at times unusual danger in the work
of the'mail carrier. In winter many
of the routes in the Rockies are very
dangerous and almost superhuman
efforts are required to avoid fines for
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-03-11
electricity

electricity in winter and cooling
t in summer by the same
magical agency? 1t is done. You
iced not have a grain of fuel in
rour cellar nor an ice-chest inside the
block. just press the button and
rou know the rest
OF course, II you are housekeeper,
rou have range or gas-stove. over
which you or your Hannah patiently
bake yourselves in your efforts to cook
IN ordinary meal. Under the cleo
rical regime there will not be stove
n the house. Instead there will be a
Inc marble slab or an iron shelf, neatly
placed at one side of your roomy kitch-
N. When the hour arrives to begin the
preparation Of a meal you whisk out a
lumber of sheet-iron ovens and flying
pans, around each of which is an
electric coil. Above the slab is a
switchboard such as you see in q tele-
phone office, and there is any number
If those nice green cords hanging from
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-03-11

It. Stick these into the coils under
your meat and vegetables, and behold!
they will simmer and bake with per-
feet evenness.
Or, if you are a girl bachelor and
haven't any kitchen at all, you GIN
have the daintiest of repasts cooked in
trice by cord from your electric
light Just move the hooks to one
side of your table, set out the chatting
dish or a plain electrical stewpan,
stick the plug in the coil aud read your
morning paper while your eggs or your
chops are being cooked
If electricity does not solve the serv-
ant question, then nothing can. CO.
operation doesn't make homework any
less wearing and unpleasant, but cleo
tricity doea Wash day and ironing
day won't know themselves very soon.
when the boiler gets big coil under
it and is hitched to the switch board by
one of those green cords the clothes
will boil all day without so much as
single poke of encouragement. Then
rs to ironing day. You will probably
iron your best handkerchiefs yourself,
just for the fun of it Select your
favorite iron-you will need but one
attach the indispensable green cord
and you may iron miles of linen or
cambria without pause-at any rate
SO far as the iron is concerned.
This.is oil true. Heating, lighting,
.coking, washing, ironing-all these
things can be done by electricity, and
In such pleasant, easy way that
housework ought to lose all its terrors
But electricity is very audacious. 1t
sNys the world is too slow and 1t pro-
poses to hurry us. 1t began with get
ting our messages back and forth by
telegraph and SO on. Then it took us
in hand on electric cars. Now, it has
approached our food. 1t has been
found that II you pass an electric cur
rent through the ground where vege-
tables are growing they will mature
much more rapidly; SO we will prob
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-03-11
FAIR.
Height, us feet


Height, lis feet
monster wonolith was cut away and
by the middle of November nothing
remained to be done except t. loosen
the bottom of the stone from its bed.
For this work wedges had been en-.
tered, and all that remained to be done
was to drive them upon a given signal
until the rock was wholly separated.
Fifty men were carefully selected for
this work, and with mauls raised, on
Nov. Is they waited for the signal.
The word was given at II o clock by
President Prentice of the Prentice
Brown-stone Company, who donate,
the stone to the State OF Wisconsin.
At the sound of his voice the mauls de-
scended. At each man struck wedge
he stepped forward, from the base
to the apex, striking wedge
at each step The men kept
step like soldiers, and the fifty
mauls descended as though welded BY
one man. The first crack appeared al
the base. 1t gradually widened and
spread as the blows continued to de
scend until at last the entire shaft
separated from the ledge. There wa,
a slight tremble at the moment Of
complete parting, and there lay the
great monolith.
The measurement was completed
and the stone was found to be lis feet
loag, 1ox10 at the base, and AKA at the
top. This length exceeds by ten feet
the tallest obelisk produced by the
Egyptians. The great shaft will bs
trimmed and placed on a barge which
will be towed By q tag to- Chicago
Four more monoliths. each 25 feet tall,
IL be excavated and sent to Chicago
to be placed in proper positions about
the monster monolith. New Yorl
World.