The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-04-26

tians in all love and sincerity + am
of worldwide reputation and my
character is above reproach. It is
unchristian like to attack in sucl, a
manner one, who though a stranger.
wishes only to do good and one who
never harmed a living being
Being confronted with his other
statement that his wife divorced him
he said that she learned that he vas
going to get q divorce and stepped in
ahead Of hioi,
Now the women in Miss Kenyon's
family have put the fixirgs' on him
by going through his private letters
while he was in custody st his board
ing house, and they are said to have
discovered some shocking letters in
which a Western wife takes him to
task for having married her % years
ago and takes him to task for having
a previously and still undivorced wife.
Then Miss Kenyon's sister and moth
er who made this discovery caused the
bride to be led back to st. George
The letter of President George A.
Wagner, of the Charleston Royal
Bag Manufacturing Company, in
which he directs attention to the fact
for the year 1904 nearly billion yards
of burlaps were brought into the
United States from India for making
fertilizer sacks and the like, and on
which duty was $4,000, like that if
cotton we're used in the manufacture
Of these sacks there would be an addi-
tional consumption Of 20,000,eO0
pounds annually and that if the use of
cotton sacks were extended still furth-
er to the grocery and kindred trades
the consumption Of cotton in this
country alone would be Increased by
no less than 100000 bales a year,
has been taken up by the South Caro-
lima Cotton Association, which will
give it wide circulation through the
general associations publicity bureau
ct Atlanta and promote a big mem
orial to congress asking that the duty
on burlap be increased so as to en-
courage this change to cotton.
A circular letter was today issued
to the county presidents Of the South
Carolina association in which copy
of the letter was enclosed and asking
advice as to the suggestions outlined
above. The letter incidentally calls
attention to the fact that Charleston
county, the home of nearly all the big
fertilizer concerns, is prominent
among the only seven counties in the
state not yet thoroughly organized.
A delegation Of association officers
and others interested will go to
Charleston early next week for the
purpose Of comforting with the fertil-
izer people to see what can be done to
induce the change to cotton.
An out of the ordinary pardon petit
ton involving a phase Of the social
side of the negro problem came to the
governors office today in behalf Of
Isadore Thompson, of Greenville, a
well known negro politician, which is
sigEed by hundreds Of the most inf1u-
entail white people Of that section in
cluding many women, asking for a full
pardon for Thompson, who was given
a life sentence in July, 1903, for the
murder Of another negro named Arch
Sullivan, one the ground that Sullivan
after boasting Of having wronged
Thompson's daughter, went about
taunting Thompson, who finally killed
him in an outburst Of righteous indig-
nation. Acting Solicitor A. D. Dean
and Judge Aldrich endorsed the petit
ton that Thompson deserved not
more than manslaughter sentence
but that they could not conscientious
ly recommend a full pardon. The
minimum penalty in this state for
manslaughter is two years. Thomp-
son will therefore not likely get his
liberty until the middle of the sum-
mer anyway.
At the meeting Of the State Board
of Education which will be held here
next Friday SO as to give members an
opportunity to attend the Conference
for Education in the South, appoint
ment Of the new county board will be
made and the summer schools will be
arranged for. Available for all sum-
mer schools State, county and district,
the State superintendent has $1,000
200 from the Peabody fund, $4,000
from escheated estates. $4,000 from
the dispensary fund and $1,000 spe-