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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-01-08
.RECE!YER ASKED FOR.
Creditors of the Seaboard Aif
Line Take Action i
TAKEN BEFORE FEDERAL JUDGE
Counsel for seaboard Railway Com.
pany and Creditors of Company Ap;
ply to Judge Waddill For sAppoint-
ment of Receivers and Subsequently
Agree to Make Application to Judge
Pritchard.

Richmond, Va, Special.-Counsel
for the Seaboard Air Line Railway
Company and creditors of the com.
pany applied Wednesday afternoon to
United States District Judge Waddill
For the appointment Of receivers and
subsequently agreed to make applica-
tion to Judge Pritchard, of the Unit
ed States Circuit Court, and thereby
obviate the necessity of securing an
cilliary DEGREES in each of the court
districts through which the lines Of
The company operate. With this end
in view Judge Leigh R. Watts, gen
eral counsel Of the Seaboard, with
other attorneys, left for Danville at
Clio o'clock on a special train to
meet Judge Pritchard at that point,
it having been learned that:he was on
bis way to Richmond to consider the
matter. Judge Waddill announced
that. he would appoint the receivers
on certain conditions, but it was
thought best to go to court with lar
ger jurisdiction.
The Times-Dispatch has just learn
ed over the long distance telephone
that Judge. Pritchard and the counsel
for the Seaboard are in conference at
the Southern Railway station in Dan
vile. They decline to give out any
thing for publication until the entire
matter is settled.
Lyncbburg, Va, Special.-A repre-
sentative of The News talked over
long distance 'phone with reporter
{ The Danville Register, and learned
that. Samuel Untermeyer, attorney
for the Seaboarl Air Line, had made
The following statement:
Clearing that Judge Pritchard
was in Danville we came down here
on the bare chance that he might be
able to give us hearing on asmat-
ter of business we have Maore him
that is al there is to it."
Pritchard Joins Party at Danville.
Danville, Va, Specialize private
car containing the Seaboard Air Line
sounsel, headed by Samuel Unter-
meyer, Of New York, Judge Leigh r.
Watts, of Portsmouth, general coun-
sci for the Seaboard Air Line Rail-
road, and Epha Hunton, Jr., Of Rich
mond, reached here at 11:30 O'Clock.
There were aboard the car about Is
Or 20 men, mostly lawyers, but among
the number lerk Of theE United States
Court Brady and Court Stenographer
Raymond Brown.
The names of the other gentlemen
could not be learned, as they refused
to give them and would not talk.
Mr.. Untermeyer was questioned by
an Associated Press correspondent,
and stated that no application had
been made for a receivership. He
would not say whether an application
would be made. He would say moth
ing further, but said that full state
mept would probably be given out on
The arrival Of the party in Richmond.
Judge Pritchard reached the city
about 1918. CLOCK and was at onca
taken to the Seaboard private car,
He would say nothing regarding the
object Of his trip to Richmond,
He left at 2 O'Clock with the Sea-
board counsel and with Clerk Brady
and Stenographer Brown and will
probably hold hearing en- route to
Richmond.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-01-08
Accidentally Shoots Wife.

Augusta, Ca, Special.-A Chroni-
Gle special from Honea Path, S. c.,
says: Sheppard L. Graham, one of
the most prominent merchants of
this place, shot his wife to death in
their bedroom Wednesday morning.
In preparing to leave for his planta-
ton, he reached up over the bed to
get his rife, when it was discharged
accidentally, the bullet striking his
wife in the temple.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-01-08
Official Report of Alabama Mine Dis.
aster Filed.

Birmingham, Ala, Special.-State
Mine Inspectors j. M. Gray, James
Hillhouse and Edward Flynn has
filed with Governor Conner a full re-
port of the explosion which took
place in the Yolande mines last
month, in which Sc men we're killed.
Chief Inspector Gray's opinion is
that a miner allowed some dynamite
to 60 off and that this ignited dust.
The assistant inspectors express the
opinion that there was a gas explosion
followed by a dust explosion.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-01-08
Large Amount From Fees.

Mr.. R. M. McCown, secretary Of
State closed his books for 1907 and
sent the last of his report to the Stats
printer. His Office has received as
fees for charters and commissions
during the past year $20,476. This is
an excess of $4,000 over the salaries
of the office. The fees came within
a few dollars of the. estimates made
for the year and show that the forma-
ton Of new companies and corpora
tions in South Carolina is going
ahead, despite the recent money
stringency.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-01-08
SOUTH'S PROGRESS
Remarkable Showing Made of
Industrial Activity
VALUE OF ITS LEADING CROPS
The Rice Crop Five Times Greater
the Past Year and tho Corn Crop
Has Increased Nearly Fifty Per
Cent.-The Wonderful Growth Of
the Cotton Crop the Subject of Ex'
tended Comment.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Specialize
Tradesman Annual contains among
its important features an elaborate
review Of Southern progress during
1907, in which the following interest
ing facts are given:
The principal crops were as fol
lows:
Hay of all kinds, tons 100000.
Wheat, bushels 91,433,0OO.
Corn, bushels 959, 9,743,0O0.
Oats, bushels, 67,33S,OOO.
Tobacco, pounds 437,139,OOO.
Rice, bushels 81, ,412,0O0.
Two notable increases over the pre-
vio1s year are shown by these figures
the Southern hay crop being 25 pei
cent. greater than in 1906, and tho
rice crop increased nearly the same
percentage.
Progress of Agriculture.
During the last five years, however
agriculture has made such progres:
in the Southern States, that the corr
crop has increased nearly 50 per cent
The rice crop is FIVE times greater
while as already stated, the fodder
crop has enlarged 25 per cent. in {
single year. In 1900 the value of pro
duets of vegetable gardens of tho
South was $13,OOO,OOO; at present tho
annual yield Of orchards and vine
yards in this section is over $4,000,
600, making the sum total Of the an
nual fruit and truck product of the
South fully $150,OOO,OOO.
During the last cotton year we SEN
out Of the country about S,500,0O(
bales of raw cotton, fully two-third:
of the crop; but such is the growth o!
the cotton industry in the Unitef
States that the South now contain:
700 mills, operating nearly 1O,OOO,OO(
spindles and 1908 will add fully q
more plants. The States Of Nortl
and South Carolina have no less thar
400 plants with 100000 spindlcs.
Tho Metal Industry.
The metal industry, including thu
mining of ore, shows a notable in
crease compared with previous years
The total tonnage Of iron produced
by the Alabama furnaces during 19O'
will aggregate about 1,750,0OO tons
with a value Of $32,OOO,00O. This i.
100000 tors more than the record fol
1906 and about 100000 tons more
than the record for 1905, while thu
value assjacreased within the las
two two e years ar nc nearly 50 per cent. : =
In Kentucky the total tonnage o.
pig iron produced aggregate ove1
5000 tons, a gain of fully 100 pc
cent. in two years, while the value
of the output OF the smelters has ac
tually more than doubled in two
years.
Tennessee also shows remarkable
progress, for the tonnage of pig irol
made in this State in 1905 was bu
372, ,G92, while for the present year
will be about 100000 tons, represent
ing a value of about $7,5OO,OOo.
The total investment Of capital IL
miscellaneous industries in the South
crn States increased no less than 5
per cent. in the brief period of fiv'
years, while the value Of the manu-
factures has increased 25 per cent
and In 1905 exceeded the total in
restment III Southern industria
plants by the sum Of nearly 100000,
900.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-01-08
Company at Winnsboro.

Columbia, Special.-An effort will
be made to organize a military COM
pany at Winnsboro. Mr.. W. W. Dix
on of that city was here on legal busi-
ness and afterwards called upon Adjt.
Gen. BOYD for number of enlistment
blanks. When the requirements have
been gone through with the company
will be placed on the waiting list un-
less there is vacancy in one Of the
regiments.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-01-08
Attorney General Bonaparte M1r-.

Washington, Special. = Attorney
General Bonaparte, when questioned
as to the truth Of the statement thai
suit would soon be begun to dissolve
the relationship between the Union
and Southern Pacific Railroads,
known as the Hartman system,
would only say that The matter was
under consideration but he was moi!
prepared to either affirm or deny tho
report,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-01-08
North carolina "Makes Good"

Rockland, Me-, Specialize ar
mored cruiser North Carolina, bull
by the Newport News ShipbuildinE
and Dry Dock Company, arrived
here Monday. While running for {
short time under forced draught th'
cruiser averaged nearly the required
speed of % knots. The standards
cation trial will be held later on thu
Rockland course.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-01-08
Natural Death Unusual.

Bartlesville announces with some
pride that the death of Robert MCGEE,
a pce:o at that place, last week, was
something of an event, as it was the
first instance in which negro had
died a natural death at that place.
There have been good many negroes
who died there, but it was other than
a natural process. 1t was only a
short time ago that negroes were not
allowed to either live or die in Bart
lesyille.-New State Tribunal tokla.1
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-01-08
Earthquake in Jamaica.

Kingston, Jamaica, Special.--An
earthquake Of moderate intensity oc
Cured in Jamaica the morning Of
January End. It was one of many
slight shocks that have been expert
enced during the past few months,
and was felt here and generally
throughout the island. Tho govern
ment seismologist declared that no
damage had been done at Browns
town, Stewarttown OF elsewhere and
that there had been no loss of life.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-01-08
Schedule of No. 29 May Bo Very Ma.
terially Changed.

washington, Special.-Tho South
era Is contemplating changing the
schedule Of train No. 90 so that it
will leave here ct 4:15 o'clock in the
afternoon instead Of II in tho morn
Ing. This is to mako connection with
G fast train from New York for Jack.
sonyillc, Fla, to take the place Of The
Florida limited Of former years. Tho
sahedae Of No. 80 would remain the
saaie as now. 20 would reach Char.
lottb at 5,2b y. ID,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-01-08
Receiver For Furnace Company.

sV0001~t vt
Gadsden, Ala, special.-Capt. ",
P, Lay was appointed receiver for
the Quinn Furnace Company, the ap.
pointment being made at the instsga,
lion Of local creditors, whose claim
amounts to between 10000 and G7,.
300. II Is stated that New York
bondholdefs Will be consulted before
II is decided to Ale . petition IN bank.
ynptgy,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-01-08
Protest Against New County.

orangeburg, Specialize advo-
Gates of Calhoun county had their
inning in the hearing of the protest
before the board of canvassers against
the formation of the proposed county.
They introduced their testimony and
their counsel made four arguments
The arguments were completed at S
o'clock Thursday night, when the
board adjourned without rendering a
decision.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-01-08
Alabama Closing Law to Be Tested in
the Courts.

Mobile, Ala, Special.-The Ala
bama 8 o'clock closing law for cities
Of over $4,000 will be given a test
hearing in the courts and carried to
the State Supreme Court. The law
went into effect Wednesday night at
midnight, but only one-third Of the
saloon-keepers observed it. The first
arrest was made Thursday afternoon.
Every other city in the State where
liquor is sold is observing the law.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-01-08
Jealous Negro Kills Wife and Two
Men

Abbeville, Miss, Special.-Ernest
Montgomery, a negro, in a fit Of
jealousy Tuesday killed his wife and
two negro men. Montgomery kill
ed the woman first with a shotgun
and then stampeded nearly all ne
groes on the plantation, killing two
as he chased them. He was arrest
ed.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-01-08
Postofico Receipts Very Large.

Charlotte, n. c, spccial-The posi-
office receipts for the month of De
ce.nbcr amounted to $10,4S4.44 a
against s9,613.l7 for the correspond
irg month in 1906. The total sale
Of The local Office during the yea
1907, were $1CG.933.24, as agains
s99Os7.59 for the year 1906. TIL
increase of $1O,745,G5 is a very graft
flying Ole.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-01-08
British Minister Will Visit Honduras

Mexico City, Mex, special.-Reg-
inald Tower, British minister to Mex
leo, will sail from Vera Cruz ON JAN
uary 10th on board the warship Bril-
liant for Belize to pay a visit to Col
onel Swayne, the Governor of British,
Honduras. The Brilliant will visit
several Mexican ports en- route. Mr.
Tower will be absent about -four
weeks.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-01-08
Two RECEIVERS NAMED.
Judge Pritchard Grants Prayer For
q Receiyership For the seaboard Air
8 Line System and Appoints S. Da-
a vies Warfeld and R.Lancaster Will
Il hsms to Take Immediate Posses
3 sion Of the Railroad.

8 sion of the Railroad.
z: Richmond, Va, Special.-Judge
sPritchard, judge of the United States
Circuit Court, entered decree man,
ing S. Davies Warfeld, or Baltimore,
and R. Lancaster Williams, Of Rich
nond, as receivers to take immediate
possession Of the property Of the Sea-
board Air Line Railroad. The bond
Of each was fixed at $4,000.
- By the decree the receivers are
empowered to borrow money if need
fal to pay such rental as may become
due, purchase cars, etc., and pay for
labor and supplies but not for any
s9her purpose without an order Of
sthe court having primary jurisdiction.
They are ordered to pay forthwith
5M installments and interest that was
due and payable January l, 1908,
notcs or trust equipment certificates
and all coupons and interest matur-
ing January 1, 1908, on the first mort
gage bonds Of the Seaboard Air Line
aid embraced roads such as the Raj
-ssiign and CASTOR, Raleigh and Angus
stS Air Line, the Georgia Carolina and
the consolidated mortgage bonds Of
tae Carolina Central.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-01-08
Ansal vii, Go to Conferences.

Columbia, special.-Gov. Ansei
some time ago announced his inten-
tion Of attending the conference Of
the governors of the United States
called to meet in Washington some
time in May. This meeting was call
ed by President Roosevelt to discuss
the conservation Of the natural re-
sources Of the country" and since re-
ceiving the invitation to attend Gov.
Ansel has kept in touch with those
questions that might arise at the con-
ference. A few days ago he wrote
. President Roosevelt an acceptance OF
theinvitation and he has received the
following reply:
Hon. Martin F. Ansel, Governor of
South Carolina, Columbia, S. c.
Dear Sir: I am pleased to note the
interest you express in the conference
Of governors to which have invited
you to discuss the question of the
conservation Of our natural resources,
and / am glad to know that you are
going to be present at the meeting.
Sincerely,
Theodore Roosevelt,
Gov. Anscl said that he regarded
the conference an important one and
believed that out Of the discussion
tnat would follow some wise laws
might be enacted to the States indi-
vidually and to the country as a
whole. He thought that it would not
interfere In any way with the indi-
yidual State rights but thought thar
a conference held occasionally be-
tween the various governors would
bring about needed reforms. Accord
ing to dispatches Sent out from Wash
ington a few days ago every Southern
State will be represented.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-06
1.-THE Blister Makers.

The blister beetles comprise a well
known group that greatly damages
beets and other crops. They belong TO
the Heteromera, or beetles with mixed
tarsi. The first and second pairs OF
legs have five-jointed, and the tnlrn
pair four-jointed tarsi--a structural
difference that separates the group
from all others. Of this group the COM
monest are the blister beetles, so
named because the juices of their
bodies will quickly raise blister II
applied to the skin of the arm or race
1t is a large tropical beetle of Mexico
and elsewhere. that furnishes the CAN
tharides. or Spanish fly, OF COM
merce, for making hot lotions ana rais-
ing blisters. Their wings slope over
and cover their bodies. which are most
~ narrow. They are voracious feeoers
on vegetation Of many kinds, though
their original abode was perhaps the
aster and other composite MOWERS
which they still favor. They go n
swarms and often migrate; but since
the larvae of some species, developing
from eggs laid in the ground. feed on
the eggs of grasshoppers. they thereby
do so much good that it is hard TO say
whether this particular blister group
is injurious or beneficial But Wnen
any of the species appear IN sWarn's
they should be destroyed BEFORE Ine
advent of the Colorado beetle IN ieoo'
the striped blister beetle was cohsio-
cred the most destructive potato PEST
OF the east. The three-lined ana the
spotted blister beetle are other pests
important in the west Paris green. ap-
piled dry or as a spray, is the remedy
On most of our salt bushes small
beetle may be found feeding The IN
PRODUCTION of the sugar beet has IN
duced it to desert the salt bushes In
favor of the beet leaves. ours resem-
bles the eastern eim-leaf beetle. Dut Is
larger; it is oblong. narrow In 'front.'.
and dUll brown in color. with striped
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-06

skins; the leather beetle, that d",'
much damage in tanneries; the muse1-I
beetle, that eats the skin, hair an
feathers of museum specimens bisG
fid of carbon is the remedy for "
last; cleanliness and closed boxes I'-
the other kinds.
The carpet beetle often gets unug
the edges of carpets and eats them lr.
of holes; the best remedy is to go o''.
the edge of the carpet, protected Ds
wet cloth. several times each seds
with a hot fiatirOn. The drug So
beetle eats out the adulterants used l.'
many powders. 1t feeds on almost any
thing. A recent importation from . p-
key includes the hard metals IN us -
of fare. Just how it does this IS u'.
known: but il is omnivOroUs anu a
able to attack articles made Of gold al'
silver.
iV-Myth of the Death Watch
The beetle that has given rise TO lIs
superstition of the death watch Is o-'
of several from the groups just me-
toned. Several of these creatures ma
ticking sounds during their eating a.
If one of them happens TO be WoIhl.5
at night in the wall paper of Ne9 On
cham il may be heard if the 80.
ness is deep enough and the ears o- ~.
listener are sufficiently acute. or cou
this ticking" portends no death'
ticking, like life and death themSeI, .-
is always going on. But when heaIu -
the bed chamber of a sick person, SUI
stition has ascribed to it signlIlCdL...,-,.
that ii does not have, but that ~
possibly have served to shorten -
hours of some people when near -
deaths door. simply By frightening ~
nurses. Belief in this strange Ia
might well hasten the death of one ~
preaching dissolution. Book ice ~,
been credited with producing siiiii'-
sounds.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-06

her eggs in q sac in the ground, is al
ways extremely careful to place wa
terproof coat above the opening of the
pouch containing the eggs and then to
lay q cover of dirt above il all so as TO
make the place look just like the sur
rounding earth, yet the beetle larva
finds it out, tears open the sac, crawls
into II and devours the eggs. Soon
after it has eaten this animal food, 1t
turns into a new form with short legs.
resembling the white grubs" of the
June beetles. the larvae that are veg
etable feeders. After eating still more
of the grasshopper eggs, it changes
again, this time to a legless form. In
this stage il does not feed at all; prob
ably because the grasshopper, unlike
the ground bee, does not lay up store
of food for the young hoppers that will
hatch from the eggs she lays, since the
nymphs are able to shift for them
selves from the time they come out OF
the egg. After remaining a few days
in this non-feeding stage in the grass
hopper egg-sac, the beetle larva passes
into another tage-a hardened pupa-
for the winter. In the spring it comes
out of this covering and then changes
into the adult beetle. which proceeds
at once to eat the leaves of vegetables.
The most striking feature OF these
four life-stages of the blister beetles
is the fact that in the stage in which
the larva feeds on eggs it resembles
the larvae of beetles that feed on AMI
NAL food, while during the stage in
which il feeds on vegetable matter It
resembles, as we have seen, the white
larva of the vegetable feeders. This
series of mysterious transformations
recalls the familiar lines OF Coleridge:
Farewell. farewell, but this 1 tell
To thee, thou wedding guest:
He prayeth well who ioveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best who loveth best .
All things. both great and small;
For the dear God. who loveth US,
He made and loYeth ALL
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-06

not purposely bury the animal. They
viii simply creep under any dead ami
NAL, say, bird, to lay their eggs in it,
and may partially bury the carcass in
so doing. But others purposely cover
up with soil the bodies of small dead
animals which they find lying on the
ground Dead mice, gophers, prairie
dogs, and even rabbits are speedily dis
posed of; and as these beetles are found
almost everywhere, they constitute a
most valuable group. They excavate
beneath small dead animals, gradually
sinking them below the surface level.
In both types the larvae are black and
fiattened- Rove beetles are mostly
small, long and narrow-shaped scaven-
gers, with short wing covers. which
leave half the abdomen exposed. They
often occur i'm decaying fungi.
The carrion group perform a service
especially important in temperate re-
slons, but not so great in arid tropical
countries, where dead animals quickly
dry up and are less of a menace to
health than in cooler climates. and here
these beetles most plentifuIly abound.
This useful group which does r,ucb
for human health in high attitudes. is
folstinguished ~ clavate or dubbed
feelers. The anSnnae terminate in liz
tie knobs. We find them on any decav-
ing animal matter, which they pron1nt
" proceed to eat or to bury. They do
| this for their own purpose: they Law
their eggs in the carrion, so that the
| larvae may live on it. In all their life
stages they feed on decaying animal
matter, and are therefore afwavs 'use-
full. They have the sense of smell
strongly developed. and are largely noe
turnal in habits. Their activity in h,,rv-
ing the food for their future larvae -
truly wonderful