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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-01-24

sAS NSeOuhNNN anu WlalAiul NIBlLUIb
heard this reply:
"You need not call / shall try to run
the city in the best manner possible for all
the citizens. If anything may do benefits
your organizations 80 much the better for
them"
The labor union and the trust, bene-
hcent within their proper limits, are on
the same evil level when they interfere
or seek TO NEEDLE with or prevent the
natural order of things. Good ard
honest labor union men, or citizens of
any other association or utilization,
probably have a higher respect for
Mayor Hart for declining to resign any
of his official functions into the hands
of persons or organizations who have
no legal or moral right to interfere in
the performance of his duties, and bear
no responsibility for his official acts.
The Mayor recognizes no privileged
characters in labor or any other de-
partment of affairs, and that is right.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-02-14
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
State Executive Committees Meeting
in Columbia Thursday.

The Republican State convention for
the purpose Of electing delegates to the
national Republican convention has
been called to be held on March goth,
next. The convention has been called
by the State Republican executive COM
mittee which met in Columbia Thurs
day in response to the call sent out by
Senator Mark Hauna, the national
Republican chairman to the various
States. The national convention is to
be held in Philadelphis on June 18th,
next, for the purpose Of adopting a
national platform and nominating can
didates for president and vice presi-
dent OF the United States. South Car
olina is to be represented by sixteen
delegates in that convention, and the
State convention is to name these dele
gates, and attend to such other matters
as may be presented.
All but twelve members Of the regu-
lar committee attended the meeting
Thursday and those twelve were rep
resented by proxies. Since the last
meeting Of the committee W. D, Hoop
er of the fifth district has died, and
| Thursday G. J. Pride of Rock Hill was
elected to succeed him. The personnel
of the regular committee is as follows:
R. R. Tolbert, Jr., chairman, Green
wood.
Robt. Small, vice chairman, Beaufort
J. II. johnson, secretary, Charles
ton.
f. A. Webster, Orangeburg.
r. H. Deas, DARLINGTON.
First District-W. D. Crum, Charles
| ton; j. A. Baxter, Georgetown; +. Q.
Brown, Charleston.
Second District-E. J. Dickerson,
Aiken; Paris Simkins, Edgefeld; W..
S. Dixson, Barnwell.
Third District-A. NJ. Folger, Pick
ems; L. F. Cochran, Anderson; Il. e..
Williams, Newberry.
Fourth District-B. +. Means, Spar
tanburg; L. F. Goldsmith, Reedy RlY-
er; j. H. Moore, High Point.
Fifth District-E. B. Burroughs,
Cherav; C. j. Pnde, Rock Hill; W.
Z. Boykins, Camden.
Sixth District-R. A. Stewart, Man
ming; W. H. Collier, Marion; James
Tharpe, Kingstree.
Seventh District-D. T. Middleton,
Mount Holly; ". W. Ramsey, Wedge
field; Abial Lathrop, Orangeburg.
The rroxies were as follows-E. A.
Webster for Brown, Burroughs and
Middleton; j. W. Bolts for Baxter, E.
". Sereven for Simpkins; ]. H. Ford
ham for DixsoD; H. G. Arthur for Will
Iiams; H. B. Thomas for Means; Joe
". Tolbert for Goldsmith; P. S. Suber
for Moore; Jno. +. Jones for Pride;
and E. H. Deas for Collier.-The
bnta
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-02-14
Eniarging Winthrop College.

The house Of representatives Thurs
day passed McDow's bill to appropriate
5000 for new dormitory for Win
throp college. The bill had commended
itself to many, but to McDow's persis-
tent efforts is due a great measure Of
the big majority which his bill rolled
up. The vote on the bill was as follows:
Yeas-Bacot, Bailey, Bell, Blease,
Blythe, Brantley, Browning, Csugh-
man, Cosgrove, Cross, Crum, Dargan,
Davis, Dean, Dendy, Bowling, Dukes,
Epps, Essridge, N. G. Evans, Floyd,
Cause, Henderson, Hofmeyer, Hollis,
Jackson, jenkins, q. E. johnson, Jones
Leverett, Lockwood, Lotion, Lyles,
Magill, Manning, Marion, Mccoy, Nc
Craw, Mccullough, McDll, McDow,
McLsurin, Means, Mehrtens, Mitchell,
Montgomery, Moses, Moss, Nettles,
Patton, Peurifoy, Prince, Pyatt, E. B.
Rsgsdale, j. W. Rsgsdale, George W.
Richardson, Henry B. Richardson,
R. B. A. Robinson, Rogers, E. L. San
ders, Sawyer, Seabrook, Simkins,
Sinkler, Stackhouse, Strom, Suber,
Theus. W. q. Thomas, Threstt, Yer
dier, West, Weston, Wharton, Wilson
ant. Wilson, Wingo, Winkler, II. B.
Woodward, Wyche and Young.-Sl.
Nays-Ashley, Bates, Black, De-
Bruhl, Gamble, CAN'T, Graham, Hill,
Hydrick, W. J. johnson, Mann,
Laban Mauldin, Miley, Mobley, Pat
terson, G. E. Robinson, 9. P. Sanders,
G.. P. Smith, E D. Smith, j. Z. Smith,
Zimmerman, Warn, Werner, Williams,
Wimberly and Woods.-26.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-02-14
DELEGATES Selected.

Thursday night the executive COM
mittee of the South Carolina State Press
association held meeting in this city
for the purpose Of completing some
work overlooked at the recent annual
meeting. The committee selected Pres
ident Z. Il. Aull. Editor N. G.. Con
z .les Of The State and Editor j. c.
Hemphill Of The News and Courier del
egates to the annual meeting Of the Ma
tlonal Press association to be neld IN
New Orleans. The president is to NIL
any vacancies in the lis OF delegates.
The National associations menbefs ex-
pect to rendezvous Ill St. Louis on
Washington s birthday, where they will
participate in the festivities of tho oc-
casion. All the members expect to be
in New Orleans in time for the Mardi
Gras festivities. The business ses-
sions of the association will begin about
March l.
Col. James A. Hoyt, the national ex-
ecutive committeeman from this State,
expects to attend in that capacity.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-02-14
BIENNIAL SESSION.
The Bill That Passed the House Vo-
ted on in the Senate,

The joint resolution passed by the
house proposing constitutional amend.
ment to make sessions Of the general
assembly biennial came up in the SEN
ate Wednesday. Senator Graydon
moved to strike out the enacting words.
On this the ayes and noes were taken
without debate, except short speech
by Senator Barnwell, who thought the
people ought to be given the right to
vote on the amendment. The motion
to kill the bill vas lost by vote Of 27
to 10 as follows:
Yeas-Alexander, Glenn, Graydon,
Hay, Henderson, Hough, Livingston,
Marshall, Mower, Talbird.-1O.
Nays-Aldrich, Applet, Archer,
Barnwell, Blakeney, Bowen, Connor,
Crosson, Dean, Dennis, Douglass, Cru
Der, llderton, Love, Manning, Mauldin,
McDerm,tt, Rsgsdale, Sarratt, Shep-
pard, Stanland, Suddath, Sullivan,
Walker, Wallace, Waller, Williams. "a
The bill was then up for its second
reading.
A CONSTITUTIONAL POINT.
Senator Ragsdale raised the point
whether two-thirds Of the senators vot-
ing or Of the whole number Of senators
was required to pass the resolution.
The constitution was consulted and it
requires t;go-thirds of the whole num-
ber. On the motion to pass it to the
third reading, the ayes and noes were
taken and the resolution received 20
votes out Of possible 40, lacking the
two thirds vote, but the chair ruled
that atwo-thirds vote is necessary only
for the iual passage and not for the Sc
cond reading. The vote was as fol-
lows:
Yeas-Aldrich, Archer, Barnwell,
Blakeney, Bowen, Connor, Crosson.
Dean, Dennis, Douglass, Gruber, llder-
ton, Love, Manning, Mauldin, McDcr-
mott, Ragsdale, Sarratt, Sheppard,
Standard, Suddath, Sullivan, Walker,
Applet, Waller, Williams s-26.
Nays-Alexander, Glenn, Graydon,
Mower, Talbird, Hay, Henderson,
Hough, Livingston, Marshall, Wal
lace.-11.
Senator Ragsdale said the speaker Of
the house had ruled that such reso-
luton must have two-thirds on every
readiRg. Senator Graydon took the
same view and argued this point at
some length. Senators Ragsdale and
BarnWell spoke on the same line. The
senate seemed in doubt on this point
and it was uncertain whether two
thirds vote was necessary to pass the
bill to the third reading.
Senator Archer moved to reconsider
the vote and this was adopted in order
to ob7iate the difficulty and secure a
vote when all the senators are present.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-02-14
MURDER WILL OUT.
Strange Story Of the Skeleton Of
a Missing Man.
MURDERED FOR HIS MONEY.
The Body Found in the Hollow
Of a Huge Sycamore Tree
When Cut Down by
Worknen.

A dispatch from Cox's Landing in
West Virginia says four years ago con-
spicuous figure in this section Of the
Ohio valley was Frederick Davis, .
German, about 38 years Of age, who
peddled jeWelry. He purchased all his
geodsin Chicago, and had quite an ex-
tonsive trade among the farmers in the
valley between Huntington, W. Va,
and Gallipolis, Ohio. he had no
relatives living in this country, but for
ten years, SO he said, his home had
been in and about Chicago.
One Of his best customers was Mrs.
Howard, wealthy widow, who resides
in Union district, Cabell county, few
miles of the river. Davis was rather
neat looking fellow, a good conyersa-
tionalist, and always had plenty of
money. After repeated visits to the
home Of Mrs. Howard, it became
noised about that more than a friend
ship existed between the widow and the
peddler. Dame rumor was true for
once, aud in the early part Of
November, 1896, a wedding took place.
After the marriage Davis travelled
but little, but instead devoted all his
attention to looking after the interest
of his wife's property. About six
months after the wedding, he left home
very early one morning for Huntington,
to do some shopping. he was to have
returned home the same day. BE had
considerable money with him. BE was
seen here, and late in the afternoon
started for home. That was the last
seen Of him. Many were the theories
advanced to account for his disappear
ance as the months rolled by, but the
one most believed was that Davis had
simply become tired Of living in this
locality and had left Tor other parts.
His wife spent hundreds Of dollars
endeavoring to locate or find some trace
Of him, but in vain.
A few days ago a firm Of timber
dealers put force Of men at work cut
ting timber on Trace creek, on . strip
Of land recently purchased from
Mrs. Davis. On chopping down
huge sycamore tree, to make room for
haul way, the workmen found in the
hollow trunk the skeleton of q man.
About seven feet from the ground was
huge hole, and through this the body
of the man had been thrust, to conceal
murder. A few fragments Of clothing
still clung about the skeleton, and when
a portion Of the same were shown to
Mrs. Davis, she really identified them
as pieces Of the garments worn by her
Husband on the day of his disappear
ance. tits the prevailing opinion that
Davis was murdered for his money, and
his body concealed in the trunk of the
old sycamore.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-02-14
TIE STATE PENITENTIARY.
Our Prison System Needs Reforming
Badly.

In the Senate Wednesday Senator
Sarratt moved to indefinitely postpone
the bill to provide for the establishment
Of reformatory in connection with the
State penitentiary. He said he did not
see that there are funds to establish
this rtformatory. The boys in the
penito ntiary are outlaws and if they
are put on farm they will have better
accommodations than they would at
home. 1t will not be punishment for
them.
Senator Grsydon wishes to add to
Senator Sarratt's remarks that there is
no way to heat the penitentiary and it
vas a wonder the mortality is not
greater than it has been. Humanity
should first dictate making the peni-
tentiary comfortable for old and young.
The peniientiary should fix it Up 50
that it would be fit for human beings to
live in. There are many necessary
improvements that should be made be-
fore establishing reformatory without
any plans or ideas before the senate.
He suggested appointing committee
to investigate the matter.
Senator Archer said he thought it was
high time for making change in South
Carolina. We had. been taught that
idea of punishment was retributlon-
retribution! He knew the treasury is
empty but would not vote for this bill
from that standpoint. The superintend-
ent had told him there are buildings on
the Reid farm where the young Grim
inals could be placed and he only want
ed money to pay certain expenses. The
bill should require the directors to
make this separtion. 1t is possible un-
der this bill to work part of the Reid
farm by young conVicts. He agreed
with Senator Graydon about the santa
ton of the penitentiary. Half of the
convicts cannot Ealk straight because
their feet have been frozen. 1t is not
right to keep the young convicts in
these quarters. Senator Archer plead
ed eloquently for reformatory system,
which would help youthful convicts to
begin life anew after the expiration OF
their sentences.
Senator G.. W. Brown asked for his
authority that the oonvicts' feet are
frozen.
Senator Archer gave the superintend-
ent Of the penitentiary as his authority
and Senator Hay, chairman of the pen
itentiary committee, confirmed this,
Senator Archer continued that the con-
victs are put in cold cells for l3 hours
and they could not stay in bed all this
time and their feet on the stone floors
we've frozen. Senator Archer then
took up the system of corporal punish.
ment and referred to the practice OF
whipping. He said the superintendent
said the white conyicts would not work
as we'll separated from the colored and
had offered cent dozen to them for
better work. Those who Jagged were
"taken out, which meant they are
fogged.
Senator Ragsdale moved to table the
motion to Indefinitely postpone. This
was agreed to and the bill passed the
third reading and was ordered sent TO
| the house.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-02-14

IulQS CC IIaYel over Cle state. lie
should be permitted to go around and
try to find future statesmen who can
not get an education and bring them to
attention as was done with the great
George McDuffe. At this point he ex-
planned that the Aristotle of America,
the greatest logician this country ever
produced, was South Carolinian, John
Caldwell Calhoun. (Cheers.) The
greatest American who has ever en-
tered pulpit was South Carolinian,
James Henry Thornwell. CHEERS
The education Of children is the par
amount object ia South Carolina. Yet
there are schools which run but two
and three months. Teaching doesn't
come naturally. A doctor must be
trained. Not everybody can teach
school. AND teaching has SO much to
do with the child. Every teacher
ought to go through an examination
just like doctor. No business can be
conducted without supervision. 1t is
parsimony to do away with supervision
in the school business.
Education has become part Of the
government, the Democratic govern
ment. He stated in this connection
the general ignorance in regard to our
government and challenged anyone to
show him where the constitution says
"All men are born free and equal. )"
The consent of the governed is not
sound doctrine. The idea Of asking the
Filipinos what kind Of governmen they
want! Or some of these Cubansl
Their condition he pictured as anala
gous to that Of the savages in Africa.
To be lawmaker is to be clothed with
the attributes Of sovereign. To make
a law to which State is subject, an
emanation from intinitude, the essence
Of devine sovereignty, is an awful re-
sponsibility. He appealed to the leg
islsture to exercise its sovereign power
in the right direction.
Rhode Island and Massachusetts
have more wealth per capita than any
other State. Because they give mil
lions to education-the best investment
State can make because it increases
the productive ability of the mind.
South Carolina may say she is too poor
to do this, bat to the contrary she is
too poor not to. Where the public
school term is the longest, the produc-
tive capacity of the citizen is greatest.
If you want 60 make a good invest
ment put it into brain. He recited
touching incident showing that at
Newport News navy yard southern
men, and sometimes Confederate vet
Grams, were getting but so cents day
because they had never had the proper
manual training, while men from other
sections who had enjoyed those ad-
yantages were getting from 5 to 7 dol
lars day. Putmoney into the schools
and it will come back.
South Carolina pays 100000 to her
schools, not including income by the
dispensary evasion, and she gets her
money back at about so to 100 per cent.
The education of the past was too
scholarly, was not fer the masses. 1t
took man away from the productive
industries and made poor lawyer or
poor politician of him, after he had
read more Latin than had Cicero.
But today things have changed.
Youth is being trained to do as well as
to know. Poverty is the fruit of i'll ad-
vised parsimony, and the State should
not stint the schools.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-02-14
4 Strange Case.

a dispatch from Brussels says a
physician at Ghent is Investigating
the strange case of a young woman Of
Il who has eaten no food Ice the
beginning of November. tor eighty
days. although not apparently sick, she
has been confined to bed and unable to
even partake ofliquids of any descrip-
ton. Many people regard her as a
saint, and already pilgrinages are made
to her house by superstitious persons.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-02-14
Gov, Goebel's S Funeral.

Rain came down il sheets Thursday
while the funeral services were being
held over the body Of Kentucky S
dead Democratic leader, at Frankfort.
The morning dawned dark and threat
eniDg, and when the parade was on the
march rain fell IN torrents. Services
were held in the parlor of the Capitol
hotel. They consisted merely OF a
reading Of the scriptures by DR.. Talia-
ferro of the Methodist church and q
solo by Mrs. Jessie B. Caldwell, OF
Covington, and prayer by Dr.. schmit'.
The march to the cemetery from tn! the
hotel began at l o'clock. Many DIS
1inguished men were in attendance.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-02-14
Paana to His Ashes.

Mai. H. Clay Richardson, formerly
= widely known newspaper man OF TO-
lumbia. died in Greensboro, Ala, on
Tuesday. He was local reporter for the
Columbia Register in its best days, and
his Registered Dots" in the campaign
of 1876 were famus. He was afterns-d
Columbia correspondent Of The News
and Courier.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-02-14
a Philipino Ambush.

A dispatch from Manila says the in
surgents on Monday captured supply
train of nine bull carts between Orsai
and FIVE privates Of Company &c,
Thirty-second infantry. The insur-
gents weakened the supports of 8
bridge over creek. The first cart
went into the stream. While the
Americans were trying to haul the cart
out, the insurgents fred Volley from
the bushes and killed six soldiers and
two native drivers.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-04

distance from Fort Albany, in the vi
cinity of Mason's hill, we were surprised
and captured by a detachment of guer-
rillas and were thrown into an inpro-
vised prison where five other Union sol
diers were captives. Of course was not
inclined to remain in prison any longer
than had to, and at once set about to
devise some plan for escape, not only for
myself but my comrades also.
1--WE hurriedly conferred, some of them
expressing the fear they would be killed
if they tried to get out. But we did
not give the doubling ones time enough
to consider the danger more fully All
of the guards except two deserted their
posts temporarily soon after we had
been thrown in, and 1 at once looked up
on that as our opportunity. Of course
we were unarmed, but by main strength
We charged upon the guards and bat
tied with them for possession of their
weapons. 1t was desperate hand to-
hand struggle The guerillas tried to
shoot, but we kept their fingers from
the trigger. At last we won the fight
The weapons were ours, but TO get out
of the prison it was necessary to Kill
the two guards. One Of them was John
Lee, a nephew of Gen. Robert II. Lee.
and the other was BiIl Sterritt, as daring
led as ever wore the gray. Lee fen
with a bullet In his neck. I shot him
with the pistol which I had wrenched
from his hands q, few minutes before.
Sterritt was shot through the heart.
I'VE were now No. longer prisoners.
but the question was how to get back
to Fort Albany. We decided that everv
man should look out for himself and
travel a different route to the fort
Luckily the guerf11as had several horses
hltched to g. fence a short distance from
the prison. No time was to be lost,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-04

for the reinforcement of guards might
return at any time. Mounting one of
the best horses 1 galloped away. Dash
ing through scrubby underbrush-for I
avoided the main road-I lacerated my
face, which, with a deep wound over
my left eye received in the fight, made
me look much disfgured. | was dead
thirsty, and, sighting in the distance
an old Southern homestead, I decided
TO take my chances. 1t proved to be
the mansion Of family named Shreves
at Aspen Hollow, country place near
the fort. While stationed at Fort AL
bany l had made the acquaintance of
the daughter of that household, Matte
Shreves, whose father and mother were
old-tIme Southerners, and their child
was naturally IN sympathy with the
Confederate cause. Her father, however,
had taken the oath of allegiance, which
in a measure treasured me.
With my horse foaming, I arrived
at the Shreyes place. I was quickly
recognized by the young woman. who
stood at the front gate looking down
the roadway.
What's the matter?' excitedly ex-
claimed Miss Matte.
Nothing, I replied, except that 7
want a drink of water
Miss Matte brought me a glass of
milk instead of water, and anxiousiy in
quired ii she could do anything more.
Her father emerged from the house and
Joined his daughter with equal curiosity.
They could see by my injured eye and
lacerated face that had been in some
kind of an encounter. But before I
could give an explanation I spied a party
of guerilla pursuers who had struck NV
trail. They evidently saw me- for they
We're making directly for the Shreyes
place.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-04

VINO are familiar with the circuns+o,,-
winch led up to the award Of FL "a rr iile.s
i1Ul mccall, Among these are 8 :
0t aaI Wen known attorney of Jn1ia+a
49, 80 j. W. Smith, of Owosso Miab
g Po9e,tl. cross, q. T. Well and Rradla,,,
oili'ett, al OF Ovid, Mich; w To-.
WI. u Elsie, Mich, and Col TT III
w. ,a-9, u washington City. all of urbo1,
Te- nielnpers OF Traynor's cononan,l
-io~eVer much Miss Matte So
may nave loved the brave cornornI ~ res IS
sc 0ptlIit OF his individual worth az a. s oi
81 hef Southern blood could no+ '.le Iiie
eer TO entirely forsake tba g. s+ permit
- is PCS Among Traynor's war re III.
pretty i'U ~, winch he received from fba
10y 10y young Virginia lass in Inn f tne
c,,n, the guerrilla killing VIII VII io.-
..t "a IN March. The note fol li1Tn oc-
~ 4l rye ls While it is true tho
em9 OF Gods noblenen less t I, are
wave. God bless them.
nj tuattle shreves became the Vie VII &c
eslanart "lio IS an official in the postofs7,o
S,eL,s ttIIlent at Washington d n
-" 1Ars. Matte Donaldson tba r,t ne Is
- " nome IN Georgetown. D q T- esS
tr,r n "sts IN Washington on a busineS,,
ttaro apout seven years ago. and WIS
son ne ne called on Mr.. and Mrs. DonaIJ
VIII, mere was happy rennio,, =,
T .I,e,. me tragedy of Mason's Hin Ne
roe,'.,' ~ amid the peaceful en1,,ros,
N iIeHtS that characterize tha ,sl - oh-
North and South. reunited