The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-04-05

stone Female College, Greenyllle t'e-
male College, Erskine College, South
Carolina Military Academy, Columbia
Female College and these colored col
leges: Claflin College. the State Col
ored College az Orangeburg. Benedict
Institute, Avery Normal college and
Allen University The good sense OF
the opinion is manifest when it is re-
membered tht any school may be
chartered as a college if it it willing to
pay few dollars for the charter fee.
Columbia. March 3O.@Contrary to
all expectations r. A. Adams, the Col
Teton murderer who was to have been
sentenced at Walterboror yesterday
for killing his kinsman Henry Jacques,
has been granted a new trial by Judge
Townsend on after-discovered evi-
dence, although the motion was resist
ed by half dozen lawyers employed
to assist Solicitor Davis in the prosecu-
ton. The motion for a new trial was
based upon an affidavit from Mrs.
Ruth Adams, daughter Of Jacques and
wife of the defendants brother, who
said she was Influenced by Marian
Jacques and Hogan Dodd to testify
falsely at the first trial. There were
other affidavits as to threats Jacques
is said to have made against Adams.
On the recommendation Of Solicitor
Wilson Governor Hayward has grant
ed a thirty days respite to Ned Mack,
the Manning murderer who was to
hang tomorrow, but who is said to be
insane. Judge Klugh telegraphed that
he had no recommendation to make.
Solicitor Wilson explained that though
the murder was brutal and entirely
unpyovoked and the jury convicted
in spite Of testimony adduced at the
trial as to this insanity plea, still there
were many good people at Manning
who believed that the negro was in
sane at the time Of the killing. The
governor has appointed Superintend-
ent Babcock Of the Hospital for the
Insane as one of the commissioners to
pass upon Mack's sanity and has ask
ed Solicitor Wilson to name the other
two members of the commission.
Comptroller General Jones has dis
bursed the dispensary school money
amounting to $4,000 among the sew
eral counties of the state occording to
enrolment, after making up the de-
dciency amounting to s9,552.53, which
represents the amounts the poorer
schools fell short of SIS. Anderson
withan enrolment Of 1890 (the
fourth largest in the state and only 81
behind Charleston) get $4,620.76;
Greenville with the next largest en-
roIlment, 1888, got the next largest
amount s4,279.79, Sumter with 1928
got S2,472.54. There was no deficiency
in any of these counties except Green
vile, which gets $91.S4 Of the deic-
iency fund, due to the fact that there
are number Of poor mountain
schools in this county There has been
a remarkable increase in sales at the
dispensary for the quarter ending the
1st of March, some 100000 and if
this increase, which is said to be due
to a diminution Of the tiger trade, con-
tinues, the increase for the year will
be million dollars over the business
of last year, which was the highest of
all. In 1903 the gross sales amounted
to s2,S17, 200, just a little more than
double those Of the first quarter Of the
present fiscal year, $4,000.
The position of clerk to the histor-
ical commission, which feature Of the
new act reorganizing the commission
created such spirited debate in the
last legislature because the friends of
Col. T. j. Austen Of Greenville, who
thus lost out, charged that it was load
ed with politics, was filed yesterday
by the appointment of Mr.. A S. Sal
ley, Jr., Of Charleston, after COM
petitive examination in which there
were seven other applicants.
D. G. Jackson, superintendent of
the recently established McNally Brick
works at Union, has been arrested
there charged with, forging checks at
Hendersonville, n. c.. A Henderson
vile man recognizing him in Union
two weeks ago.
The competition which the South
ern railway already has in the electric
line between Augusta and Aiken and
the several intervening mill towns,
and that it is to get between Summer
vile and Charleston by the new inter-
burban line which is now being built
there is to be met by modern motor