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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-09-10

OF any cause on review. saving, howev
the right OF trial by jury.
2 The jurisdiction heretofore possess
by the Supreme Court and the Justid
thereof not hereby conferred on the -
peals Division, and the jurisdiction hep
tofore possessed by the Circuit Couts|
and the judges thereof. and such furtbri
original Jurisdiction not OF an equitals
nature, and such further appellate jur7-
diction from inferior courts as may .
conferred by statute, shall be exercisd
by the Law Division of the Suprefk
Court and by the several justices thsf
of, in accordance with rules of pract1
and procedure prescribed by statute. or
the absence of statute by the Suprel
Court.
3. The Jurisdiction heretofore possess
by the Prerogative Court and the Or
nary. not hereby conferred on the AZ
peals Division, and the Jurisdiction her
tofore possessed by the Court of Cham
Gerry and the Chancellor, and such fur
Their original equity jurisdiction as may
be conferred by statute, and such fur
Their original jurisdiction as Is now con-
ferable on the P~rerogative Court shall bf
exercised by the Chancery Division and
by the Chancellor and the several justices
of said division in accordance with rules
of practice and procedure prescribed ~
statute, or, In the absence of statute,
tHe supreme Court, out INC Justices
that division shall be under such contfU
and supervision by the Chancellor
shall be provided by the Supreme Court. :
4. Terms of the Supreme Court presided
over by a single Justice of the Law Di-
vision for the trial of issues Joined in OF
brought to the Law Division of the SUI
preme Court shall be held In the several
counties at times fixed by the Supreme
Court. Until so fixed, such trial term
shall he held at fha nla Ooa and tfnnaa naxA
fixed by law for the holding of the
Courts of Common Pleas in the several
counties.
s. The Supreme Court may provide
rule for the transfer of any cause on
sue from the Law Division to the q
Gerry Division, or from the Char
Division to the Law Division of tn
preme Court, and from the County
to the Law Division or the CHI
Division of the Supreme Court, q
the giving of complete legal and
BILE relief in any cause in the
division where 1t may be pendin
9. Nothing herein contained 81
vent the alteration, by law, of
utory power or jurisdicti %upt
upon any court or judge 81 IA.
ton of the Constitution in.
thousand eight hundred s4lZea
and nothing herein contain,
vent the Legislature fro
upon any inferior court wftbo
after be established such
diotion as was exercised BIS
now be conferred upoR tbRo,
mentioned In section l
the Constitution of 1874.
SECTION b.
The County Courts sha
~srcise, in all cases withinU
original common Law jul,
rent with the Supreme
other jurisdiction heretofo
courts inferior to the Sup
the P~rerogative Court as
&C by law. The final ]
County Courts nd
view before the s
peals Division.
the Jurisdiction
the Courts of
Courts, Court4
Courts of Qu
judges thereof
County Cou1
scribed by Il
tices OF tire
Court shall
CouI
authority no
or f3agistral
tQ 1cou,
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-09-10

Prompt and careful attention to Real
Estate and Law business on Five Mile Beach.
Fire Insurance placed in reliable COM
panies.
Office In Ocean villa WILDWOOD, NJ. ).
Or 727 Drexel Building, Philadelphia.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-09-10
SECOND AMENDMENT.
FOR -u,e .uruomrNr

Change paragraph ten Of Article v to
read as follows:
10. The Governor or person administer
ing the government. and four citizens OF
the State appointed by the Governor. by
n with the advice and consent Of the
Senate. shall constitute h Board Of
Pardons. The MEMBERS of said Board, or
any three of them, of whom the Gov
ernor or person administering the gov
rnmen shall be one, may remit fines
and fo~rfeiturss, and grant reprisves, COM
mutations. pardons and paroles, after
conviction In all cases except impeach-
ment. The four members specially APP
pointed shall hold office for Ave years.
and receive for their services a compen-
sation which shall not be diminished dur
ing the term OF their appointment.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-09-10

and Members Of the General Assembly
shall receive annually the sum of ten
hundred dollars during the time for which
they shall have been elected and while
they shall hold their office. and no other
allowance or emolument, directly or indi-
rectly. for any purpose whatever. The
President OF the Senate and the Speaker
>pf the General Assembly shall, in virtue
OF their offices. receive IN additional COM
equal to one-third Of their al
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-09-10
FORM OF BALLOT.
FIRST AMENDMENT.
FOR ,.
ANAINQr bo

/. Strike out paragraph ten of Section
VII of Article w, and chang the num-
bers OF the following paragraphs to cor
rasnnnd
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-09-10
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS
TO THE
CONSTITUTION
STATE OF NEW JERSEY,
Department of State.
NOTICE OF A SPECIAL
ELECTION.

In pursuance with the provisions OF
Chapter 23o of the Session Laws OF 1909.
entitled AN Act to provide for submit
ting the proposed amendments to the
constitution of this State to the people
thereof" approved April q, 1903. notice
Is hereby given that on Tuesday, the
fourteenth day OF September, 1909. a
SPECIAL ELECTION.
will be held In the several election dis
tricts or precincts of this State at such
places as the clerks of the several town
ships, cities, and municipalities of the
State shall provide, to enable the electors
qualified to vote for members of the leg
islature to vote for or against certain
proposed amendments to the constitution,
said proposed amendments having been
agreed to by the sessions of the Legisla-
ture of New Jersey of 1908 and of 1903, in
pursuance with the provisions of article
nine of the constitution of said State.
The said proposed amendments are con-
tanned in the form of ballot hereto an
nexsd, which ballot has been provided
for use at said special election, In pur-
suance with the provisions of said Chap
ter 259 of the Laws of 1909; and said law
requires that to vote for any particular
amendment, the voter shall strike out the
word against; to vote against any par
ticular amendment, he shall strike out
the word for" No ballot will be count
ed for or against any amendment unless
the vote Is indicated by striking out
either the word for" or the word
against"
s. B. DICKINSON,
Secretary of State.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-27
soon. Senator Laney did not think
II was right to tie the hands OF the
senators in this manner.

Columbia, Feb. 25.-There is a
deadlock over the prohibition bill In
the senate. which spent the entire day
In talkfest. There Is no change
from last night. when the prohibition
lists declined the local option PROPOSE
tion for a compromise.
Unexpected opposition very strong
ly developed to Dixon's resolutions
warmly commencing Taft on his At
lanta speech about Southern appoint
ments. Aver, on account Of the Flor
enee negro postmaster. Sawyer on ac-
count OF Georgetown's negro postmas-
ter. and others on account OF Crum,
spoke against the extravagant lang
uage OF the resolution. They wanted
to see what the Taft administration
would finally do before stopping
over' about Taft. Finally on Mr..
Dixon's motion the resolution was
continued.
The house today gave final passage
to the law making 1t a misdemeanor
to issue a worthless check and not
make 1t good in thirty days.
The house continued the Carlisle
bill relating to liens for labor and
material.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-27
FhoHIBITION IN DARLINGTON
solicitor Spears Says He Has Evidence
of reports of Violation of Laws INV
Prominent Business Men.

Darlington, Feb. PA sensation
was sprung in court this morning
when Solicitor Spears arose 70 male
a statement to the grand jury that
had just filed in the room 70 mol,
some presentments. Mr.. Spears CALL
ed attention to some articles which
nad been published in his paper, the
Darlington Press, in the months of
october and November last. signed
''Vox Populia." These articles said
that there were being circulated in
this county rumors to the effect that
IN some towns Of the county lionor
was being dispensed by some leading
merchants and business men. Mr..
spears went on to state that he did
not stand for the truth or fal.ebood
o. these rumors, but only held that
tney should be broIgl,t to thA atten-
ton of the grand jury. and if true.
such Investigations made as would he
necessary to bring the guilty parties
70 justice. Mr.. Spears then stated
that in every sense of the word he
stood personally responsible for those
articles and that he Vas not only pre-
pared to give the grand jury the
names Of witnesses who had been cir
culating such reports, out that he pro-
posed to do 50 today
To these articles of "Vox Ponuli"
the Messrs. Coker Of Hartsville took
exception and wrote asking the editor
OF the Darlington Press to state what
towns were referred to and what mer-
chants in those towns by "vox Pop
uli." This the editor refused to do.
and in an editorial made public a let
ter received from Maj. Coker and
gave his reasons for refusing his re-
quest.
Judge Gage charged the grand Jury
that there were two issues. They were
not to consider the personal element.
that is any feeling that might exist
between the author of "Vox Populi"
and the Messrs. Coker. If they found.
however, that the reports said to have
been circulated did refer to Hartsville
and to the Messrs. Coker, and if there
was any truth in such rumors. then
the Messrs. Coker were indictable. If
however, they found that the reports
had not been circulated and the ar
ticles by "Vox Popuii" did refer
specifically to Hartsville and the
Messrs. Coker and were maliciously
published, the author Of "Vox Populi''
was liable for libel.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-27

Washington. Feb. 24.-In the course
of lively debate in the house Of rep
resentatives today on the conference
report, on the legislative, executive
and judicial appropriation bills,
Messrs. Underwood, of Alabama, and
Clark, Of Missouri. criticised the SEN
ate increases. especially in reference to
salaries. \Mr. Clark in particular was
emphatic In his objections to what
he said were the continual imposi-
tions Of the senate in the matter Of
appropriation bills"
Messrs. Bingham, Of PENNSYLVANIA,
Gillett, Of Massachusetts. and Living
ston. Of Georgia, the house conferees.
strenuously defended their report,
which insofar as there was no dis
agreement, was adopted.
When the discussion turned on the
increase In the salaries of the presi-
dent, vice president, speaker of the
house and judges about which the
conferees could not agree, Mr.. Clark
declared there was much misinform-
alton about the amount the president
receives. and said that instead of its
being $4,000, it actually is s291,OOO
per annum.
BY a vote of 81 to 1O2 the house
refused to accept the senate amend
ment increasing the salary OF the
speaker.
The increase proposed in the presi-
dents salary from $4,000 to $780,
600 year was rejected. the vote be-
Ing yeas 141, nays 16S. Before the
announcement was made Speaker
Cannon directed that his name be re-
corded in the affirmative.
An unusual scene followed. Mem
bers were on their feet in q general
scramble for recognition for motions
or one sort or another. The speaker.
unruffled by his beseigers, held that
motion by Mr.. Watson, of Indiana.
to rccede from the amendment and
amend 1T 80 as to make the salary
$4,000 was preferential.
The previous question was ordered,
and on the vote being taken on the
adoption of the amendment IL was
carried, 1913 to 149 amid Republican
applause.
The effect Of the amendment will be
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-27
QUAKES TERRIFY SPANIARDs.
whole District OF ElIOhe Experiences
Ocks-COngregatiOn of Church
Panic Stricken by TremOrs.

Alicante, Spain. Feb. 21.-Severe
earth shocks were experienced
throughout the whole district of FL
lone this morning. The shocks be-
gan early the first occurring at about
a. m. The most serious disturb
ance, which came while the people
were assembled at mass in the village
church. caused a panic among the
congregation. Furniture in houses
was overturned and crockery and
window panes broken.
At Crevillente theer were two Sc
we're shocks between 8 and $40 q. m
Houses rocked and swayed at an
alarming angle. The people are now
camping in the open fields.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-27

Nashville. Tenn, Feb. 23.-The
sixth day of actual testimony in the
case of Col. Duncan b. Cooper and
Robin j. Cooper and John d. Sharp.
charged with the murder of former
Senator E. w. Carmack, closed with
the aged defendant, Col. Cooper. on
the witness stand. His own counsel
were questioning him, and when
court adjourned they intimated that
they were about half through. They
had taken him over the trouble. COM
mencing four years ago, and brought
MIN down to the start from his sons
Office to the governors mansion. 1t
was during this walk that the senator
was killed.
Col. Cooper made an excellent wit
ness. He appeared very cool, collect
ed and almost disinterested. The only
time he showed emotion was when
counsel were reading the editorials
which led up to the killing Then his
| already 1orid face flushed more deep
ly and the scarlet stole up over his
bald head, accentuating the white
ness of what little hair is left him.
That the State will grill Col. Coop
er on cross-examination to the limit
of counsels ability goes without say
ing. Possibly. too. this is why the
defense did not conclude direct ex-
animation of the colonel today.
Following the announcement of
Gen. Garner that the State did not
| care to further cross-examine Sheriff
Sharp, the defendant was briefly
questioned by counsel for the defense.
Gen. McCarn of counsel for the State
followed with a few questions. Sharp
said he made no statement about the
shooting until called to the witness
stand yesterday. He said he had no
| engagement at the governors man.
sion when asked to go there by the
Coopers on the day of the shooting,
having merely agreed to accompany
them.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-27

FRANKLIN MacVcash, of Chicago, Tc
BE Secretary Of Treasury.

New York, Feb. 24.-President-
eject WIN. III. Taft today completed his
cabinet by the offer of the treasury
portfolio and its acceptance. That
the offer was made to and accepted
by FRANKLIN MacVeagh Of Chicago, is
as near positive statement of what
is believed to be the fact as may be
made In the face of an absolute re-
fusal by Mr.. Taft to throw any light
on the situation.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-27
THE FLORENCE POSTMASTER
representative Ellerbe Announces
That Taft Will Not Reappoint Ne.
gro.

washington, Feb. 24.-Representa-
tive Eilerbe announces today that he
mas now been definitely assured that
joshua Wilson, the negro postmaster
at Florence, will not be reappointed
py Mr.. Taft and that white man will
De appointed in his place.
Who this white man will be. Mr..
Ellerbe will not state, il he knows.
There have been several prominent
candidates for the position.-The
State.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-27
RECORD CHANGES HANDS.
Mr.. James A. Hoyt Secures COlumbia
Afternoon Newspaper.

Afternoon Newspaper.
Columbia. Feb. 24.-The Record
this afternoon has this announcement:
Negotiations. which have been 60
Ing on for sorne time. looking to the
purchase of the controlling interest in
the stock of the Record Publishing
Company. which had been held by
Geo. II. Koester. the founder of the
Daily Record. and associates, were
completed today, and said control will
on the 1st OF March pass into the
hands OF Mr.. James A. Hoyt and asso-
ciates. AS to his plans. Mr.. Hoyt will
make his own announcement. Mr..
koester's valedictory. so to speak,
will appear In the Record of the 9th
Of this month, which will be the last
Issued under his management. The
transfer was an entirely amicable ar
rangement and the new management
VIII start with the heartiest wishes Of
the present management OF the Rec
ord. 1t will be recalled that Mr.. Jas.
"A. Hoyt was the promoter Of the COM
pany which was to publish the after
noon~Sun I'm competition with the
Record. The city of Columbia will
be spared war In the afternoon
newspaper feld."
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-27

Nashville, Tenn, Feb. 24.-After a
day replete with exciting incidents the
session of the Cooper-Sharp trial for
the murder of former Senator Car
mack closed with the aged defendant,
CoE ID. b. Cooper still upon the stand.
The direct examination of the colonel.
which began early yesterday morning,
lasted until nearly noon today. Almost
the first thing the State did on cross
examination was to announce that il
would try to prove that Col. Cooper
was a defaulter to the extent of over
100000 while clerk and master of
chancery in Maury County. This pre-
cipitated bitter fight between coun-
sci, during which harsh words were
used and much anger displayed. de-
spite the efforts of Judge Hart to hold
the reins tightly.
The State won a partial victory and
straightway sprang another surprise.
1t resurrected some old legislative rec.
ords concerning an investigation into
| alleged defalcation of State Treasurer
M. T. Polk in the early SOS. They
| offered to prove that thousands of
dollars of the States money was in
vested by Polk with Col. Duncan B.
Cooper and others in a Mexican silver
mine scheme, a walnut log scheme in
North Carolina and a scheme to buy
the Nashville American.
Col. Cooper admitted that there
were Irregularities in his Office of
clerk and master in chancery, but
said they were due to bad manage
ment and poor bookkeeping and that
every dollar was made good. He ad-
mitted that Polk was his partner in
the ventures named, but declared that
he (Cooper) never handled a dollar
of the money and had no knowledge
that it was taken from the States
strongbox
Col. Cooper made an excellent wit
ness, but one hard TO handle even by
his own counsel. Repeatedly he urged
Judge Anderson TO let the state ask
"any question on any subject" and at
times answered over his own attor-
ney's objections. Now and then he
displayed great heat, but he did not
contradict himself upon any point.
When court adjourned the cross-ex-
animation had reached only the COM
mencement of the trouble, the early
editorials. Tomorrow the state should
reach the actual killing.
1t is likely from the length to which
the State is going on the coloners
cross-examnation that the witness
VIII be on the stand all day tomorrow.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-27

to leave where it now is the presi-
dents salary, added to which will be
the $4,000 heretofore appropriated
for travelling expenses, but which the
Dill strikes out as a specific item of
transportation, etc.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-27
SALARY BILL REDUCED.
SENATE AMENDMENTS RIDDLED
AND REJECTED.

Increase OF Pay for President, Vice
President, Speaker and Federal
Judges Denied, and the Legislative,
Executive and judicial Appropria-
tion Bill is Sent Back to Conference.
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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-27

Cheating the Government out of
tariff money by false scales is one
form of trust economy that has not
been featured by the promoters.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-02-27
The COOPER TRIAL.
COL. COOPER WAS ON THE STAND
ALL DAY.

state Erin2s Up Details Dealing With
"iS fast-Attorneys for Defense
Fight i'm Vain Against Evidence Re-
garding COOper's Irregularities i'm
Office.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1909-01-22
WeIaht vaaarIes.

After having put on rather too much
weight probably through excess and
other mistakes of food and drink, I
played a severe tennis match and lost
seven pounds in weight. Then l took a
glass of wine, and at once, by this, put
on two pounds. Then l took a meal
slightly larger than usual, and put on an
other two and a half pounds, though the
meal itself weighed only one pound. On
another occasion, when / had tasted for
a day or two, and had naturally lost two
sor three pounds a day l ate a meal
weighing about one pound, and went up
in weight not one pound, but three
pounds. How can only one pound in
food add three pounds in weight? How,
in the case of other people, can three
pounds-a days food and drink-add
nothing at all? In my own case one
principle appears, and that is that my
nature is at any rate rapid in getting
toward the normal, but comparatively
slow in getting far below or far above the
normal. A not uncommon, but very
striking. phenomenon is that of the
shampooer in a Turkish bath in London;
he finds that after his days work, which
involves copious sweating and hard
physical exercise and scarcely anything
to eat or drink, he goes up in weight
some two or three pounds merely by
resting. [Eustace Miles, ex-English court
tennis champion, in Metropolitan.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1909-01-22
The Point of View.

Rev. j. X. Fuller of Lyndonville, re-
Gently chaplain of the state prison at
Windsor. told a good story at the North
church Sunday illustrating the attitude
of the average visitor to the prison to-
wards all the inmates. The warden was
showing a couple of ladies' over the prison
and happened to take them through his
own rooms where three ladies were busily
occupied.
How vicious those women look" ex-
claimed one of the visitors. And the
other lady turned quickly to the warden
and said, How did they ever get here?"
And the warden blandly remarked,
"They are here because they are my
wife and two daughters. list. Johnsbury
Calednnian.
One of the Evening Banner reporters
during the last murder trial in Benning-
ton county court had a somewhat similar
experience. In order to more readily
hear the evidence the reporter occupied a
chair just to the left of the jury box.
One day when the court room was packed
to the doors with a crowd that had as
sembled to hear the details of one of the
most horrible crimes in the history of the
state, the butchery Of little child, a
man pushed his way to the front and
approaching Deputy Sheriff Jim Nash,
whispered:
'Is that the murderer sitting next to
the jury?"
Yes" iokingly replied the officer,
that's him."
Tough lookin cuss. amt he?"-[Ben-
nington Banner.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1909-01-22

Mrs. Eleanor Cochrane Knight, who
passed her 101st birthday anniversary last
week Monday, died at her home in New
bury Saturday afternoon She had been
confiped to her bed since the first of the
month and steadily falling. Mrs. Knight
came of long-lved lineage, many of her
ancestors living past four score years,
while her mother-in law, Mrs. Jonathan
Knight, died at Westmoreland, N H., in
her 1881 year Mrs Knight was the
daughter of John and Agnes Cochrane
and was born in Bradford, VT, jan IL,
1908 In 1912 her parents moved to the
adjoining town of Newbury. On Feb. "a,
1896 she married Simeon Avery. He died
in 1853 and a year later she married
Josiah Knight From that time until
his death in 1881 she lived at Charles City,
Ia, returning to Newbury in 1882, where
she had since resided. For 80 years she
had been a member of the Congregational
church, first at Wells River and
since 1850 at Newbury. Mrs Knight
possessed an excellent memory and vivid
ly recalled the great storm of the winter
of 1884, when three feet of snow fell in
one day Her "reminiscences of early
days were always listened to with in
terest.