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SIX Markets Middling last year, 13%. augustTcotton CLOSING QUOTATIONS Clou#. Good ordinary f» 1-8 Strict ifood ordinary ... 6 7-8 1/Ow middling 6 5-8 Ptrirt low middling 7 1-16 Middling 7 1-4 strict middling ~..7 7-16 Good middling 7 11-16 Previous Day's Figures Cloaa, f' »d ordinary 5 1-8 Ftrlct good ordinary 5 7-8 Low middling ... 6 6-8 strict low tnldllng 7 1-16 Middling .. ... 7 1-4 •■Uriel middling 7 7-16 Good middling 7 9-ifi Receipts For Week dalea. Bpln. Shlp’t Saturday .... €94 B*l 1865 Monday —— Tuaaday —- "VVedneaday . . «— — —— Friday • -—• Totals .. .. .. .. Oomparatlv# Receipts ISIS 1914 St. I Urdu y 1919 3006 Monday —— Tuesday Wednesday Thmsday • Friday —- Total. —— Stocks and Receipts Ptork In Augusta, 1 913 56 577 Flock In Augusta, 1914 146,370 llnce Sept. 1. 1913 216,380 since 1, 1914 ..222,574 Augusta Daily Receipts 1911 1914 Georgia Railroad SO:’ 062 Hon thorn Ry. Co. 50 203 Augusta Southern SOO 102 Augusta-Alkrn Ry. Co. ... 5 17 Con of Oh R H 219 Georgia and Florida 'l4 046 C It W. C. Ry 230 343 A. C, L. R R r>« ISO ’Wagon 252 96 Canal Rlvar ■— Net receipts 1769 2290 Through 100 716 To4al 1919 3006 Port Receipts Today. Lnf Tr Galveston - 17053 New Orleans ... 7828 8299 Mobile - 2350 Pavnnnah 88821 7426 Charleston 2773 —— Norfolk ----- 4857 Total ports (eat.) 5500 Interior Receipts Today UK T r Houston 19194 28418 Memphis 7482 Weekly Crop Movement, End ing Friday, Nov. 20, 1914. 1912 |1903 | 1916 B. 381,011) 376,703) 373.717 Shipments 283,2401 310,1*51 54<0.744 Block 1.024.4951 699.8601 628,376 Came In St. ... 347.779| *76.1801 696.725 Crop In St 3.970,00416,453.81816 868,144 Vis. .upply ... 4.2*6,29414.886,59515,065.538 DAILY COTTON TABLE New Orleans Middling, 7 3-8; r. - cetpts, 7.8-3. exports, >,6:7; ales, 0,136, ■lock 199.690. Galveston Middling, 7 3-1; receipts, 34,114; export*. 14,866, axles, 190, stock. 4)4,860. Moblip- Middling, 7 3-8, receipts, 446, awle#, 160; slock, 34.183. Savannah-Middling, 7 1-8, receipts, M. 334, export*, 7,000, stiles, 3,665; Hook, 1*4,147 Charleston Middling, 7 1-4; receipts, 8,700 export*. 100; stock, 82,766. Wilmington Middling, 7 1-8, receipts, 1,142. slock, *7,726. Texes City Receipts, 1.864 Norfolk Middling. 7 3-i6. receipts, 3.K6L seine. 1.286, etock. 48.314. Ilttlllmoro Middling, 7 1-2; etock, 4,- 443 Hoelon Mlddllnc, 7.40; receipts, 160; •took. 3,100. Philadelphia- Mlddllnc, 8.00, receipts, 10, exports 480, stork, 6,837. New York—Mlddllnc, 7.76; stock, 76,- 168. Minor ports Receipts, 1.6*2; **j>ons, '17,646; stock, 46 868. Total todsy- Receipts, 62,421; exports, 188.348; stock, 1,114.374 Total for week Receipts, 62,421, ex ports. 38.848. Totsl for season Receipts, 2,444,841; receipts, 1,060,806. Interior Movement. Houston—Middling. 7 11-14, receipts. 18144; shipments, 18,041; sales, 3,768. Stock, 140.744. Memphis- Mlddllnc, 7 1-4; receipts, 7,- 061; shipments, 8.83> sales. 3,100, stock, *29.117. Auguste—Middime, 7 1-4; receipts, 3,- 004, shipments, 1 846, sales, 184, slock, 146.370 (41, 1-oul#- Middling. 7 S-6; receipts, I - OCJ; shipments 2.0v6, stock, 28.434. Cincinnati —Receipts. 614. shipments, 921, stock. 4,003. Little Rock—Middling 6 8-4; recslpts, 1.150; shipment*. 1,240. etock. 40 620 Dsllsa-Middling. 7 1-8. sales. I,l*l. Totsl today—Hectpts. 32,007, ship wonts 29,601; stock. 690.418 tcTdoremus &~co. New York.—Spot intereeie principal buyer* of December and most of ih* xradtng mss In thst option McFndden was s conspicuous bidder for Deceinberi also other spot bouse* Wall strset bouses also buying, selling scatter*.! Outaide business continues very light sue until there It more interest manifested It ■ Is likely to rule very narrow. Sentiment ■ continue# favorable te further upturn. Ol titling figure# were without effect. Spot people buying Dei ember, shorts oovgrtn* Decors tier March and May. Little offering Looks higher.—Anderson. BARELY STEADY CLOSE IT N. T. Cotton Market Advanced Sharply in First Trading. Later Eased Off Under Real ising. New York.—The census bureau report Saturday broke all records, both In the amount of cotton ginned for the first two weeks In November and In the total for the season up to November 14th. Ji has been quite generally anticipated In local trfide circles that the ginning would be slightly In excess of 11,000,000 bales but few hud looked for such n large showing at 11,624,708 bales against 10.444,529 last year and 11,313,236 in the big crop year of 191/1. There has now been another week of ginning operations added to tills total, while up to the close of business last night 4,088,714 bales bad been brought Into sight, but neither this evidence of an unprecedentedly big supply already In the Kouth nor the strengthening of maximum crop estl mates appeared to bring any material selling pressure against the local mar ket. The opening was steady at an advance of 1 point to a decline of 1 point and the market advanced sharply during the early trading on renewed covering by lie-ember shorts, who found very few sellers around the ring until the price had worked up to 7.40, or 24 points net higher, and 55 points above the low level of Wednesday. Later deliveries, mean while. were evidently Influenced by the strength of the near position with Jan~ nary selling 21 points and the spring and summer months some 11 to 13 points above FYidav’s closing. Offerings be came more liberal around this level, howevar. and prices eased off later un der realizing. There also appeared to Tie a little southern selling and the mar ket closed barely steady, net unchanged to 10 points higher. High. laow. Close. Dec. fold) 7.40 7.17 7.26 Jan. (old) ~..7.43 7.43 7.37 Jan. (new) .....7.60 7.45 7.45 Mar. (old) .... 7.37 Mar. (new) 7.69 7.54 7.57 May (old) 7.51 May (new) ......7.88 7.74 7.76 July (new) 8.05 7.94 7.94 NEW YORK SPOTS New York. Hpot cotton quiet; mid dling upland* 7.76; do gulf 8.00; no sales. WEEK IN COTTON New York. The first week of renew ed trading on the New York Cotton Ex change has been comparatively unevent ful. The re-openlng of the market on Monday wag followed by considerable Honlhern hedge selling of new style con tracts for March, May and July deliv ery and there was also llipildutlon of old December contracts attributed to some of the smaller local houeea who had been allotted cotton by the corporation under the syndicate agreements. Prices weakened some 60 to 60 points from the Initial figures under this pressure but offerings tapered off on the decline and the market has elnce recovered several points of the loss on covering and trade and Investment buying. Large trade Intereete here aro credit ed with having purchased most of the December contracts liquidated during the earlier part of the week and near month has led the rally on covering by the Liverpool short Interest which finds few sellers around the local ring below a parltv wllh Southern spot prices. The talk Is that the Interest Mill ouletandlng In December Is greatly In excess of the local etock and that the contracts may be held for an advance or actual delive ries. General bus! as is believed to have been restricted conalderally by un famtltarlty with the merits of the new contract* which are being traded In tile delivery In January and later month* and local brokers are predicting a much more active market once some Interest has accumulated, and It la generally un derstood that the contract Is In conform ity with the cotton futures law Aside from this, the light business reflects a divided sentiment with buyer* held In . heck by the existence of large avail able auppUe* In the South and the Indi cations of a crop largely In excess of re quirement* while seller* are evidently cautious at prices below the ■ estimated cost of production and In view of the improving ex|HWt trade. WEEK IN TRADeT New York. —Hradetreet’a today nay»: Favorable features predominate this week and in many direction* perform ance hAN followed the promise of earlier weeks A further loosening up of mon ey, with easier tntos. la attributed to the going into effect of the new federal bank system. The re-openlng of the lending cotton exchanges and the re ports of the successful forming of tlie cotton pool have made for a more fav orable Southern aentlment. though freer cotton marketing has hern accompanied by easing of quotations from the open ing prices. War <rtrdora have continued to come out in : «>od volume and hAve given emplyment to larger numbers of employes In various lines to meet rush order requirements. Hotter feeling and some resumptions of steel mills have given employment, lacking for some time past. Failure* this week in the United States were 864 compared with 840 last a ear; In Canada §O, comparer with 42 last year. Hank clearings aggregate $2,835,318,000, a decrease of 15.7 from last year. Wheat exports from the limited States ntul Canada were 7,888,213 bushels, against (.148,073 n year ago. SEC 7 HESTER'S WEEKLY COTTON STATEMENT In thousands ba'es In sight for werk 598.000 Do same 7 day* lasi year.,, 680,000 Do same 7 days >enr hefts - *.. 771,000 Do for the month 1.472,000 Do name date last year J.0J1.000 Do same date year before .. 1,027,000 IV for season 4.391,000 IV same date last year 7.062,006 Do asm. date year before ~, 6 846 004 Port receipts for season 3,392.000 IV same dat. last year 6,139.000 Do same date year before lorn 6,078.004 Overland to mills and Canada for season 340.000 IV sain, date la.t year ~... SS9 004 IV sam* date year before .. 309,004 Ron them mill takings for sea son 839,004 IV same data last year 1,061.000 IV aame dat. year before .. 926.004 Interior stock* In excess of Aug. Ist 9*1.000 Do laat year 634.000 Do year before 683.000 Foreign exports for week 174,000 Do asm. 7 days last year ... 318.000 IV for season 1.612,000 Do name date last year ..... 3.660,000 Northern Spinners’ takings and Csnda for week 93.000 Do me seven day* laat year 117,000 Do for season 694,000 Do to same dat. laat year... l.oiiiooo ELGIN ■UTTER. EH gin, ll*—Butter >3. ; ,J, NET GAIN I TO 7 POINTS AT N. 0. First Real Show of Strength Made Saturday Since the Futures Market Reopened New Orleans,— Cotton today made its first real show of strength since the future market was reopened. With the census returns on ginning unexpectedly high and pointing to a record crop, the market opened at an advance and kept rising until the active months were 10 to 12 points up. Shoi .s were confused and covered in volume. The real reason for the advance ap peared to be the operations of large In terests which control the king end of contracts. According to the gossip of the floor these Interests, during ttie last day or so have been exerting pres sure on the short side with the result that Liverpool holders'of American short contractu have commenced to get un easy. lYlvate cable messages from the English market Saturday morning stated that these shorts were covering. At the highest of the morning prices were within IB points of the levels at which the market reopened Monday. The close was at a net gain of 1 to 7 points, offerings Increasing during the last few rnlnutcH of trading with the result that the advance was paved down. High. Low. Close. Dec. (old) ....: 7.2 2 Dec. (new) 7.25 Jan. fold) 7.37 7.31 7.31 Jan. (new) 7.42 7.32 7.36 Mar. (old) 7.36 Mar. (new) ... 7.55 7.47 7.46 May (old) .... 7.57 May (new) 7.74 7.67 7.66 July (new) 7.93 7.93 7.86 NEW ORLEANS SPOTS New Orleans, —Spot cotton firm; silts on the spot 325 bales; to arrive 800. Mid dling 794. LIVERPOOL COTTON Liverpool. —Cotton spot dull; prices steady, American middling fair 5.47; good middling 4.79; middling; 4.47; low middling 3.86; good ordinary 3.17; ordi nary 2.67. Sales 4,000 bales Including 2,700 Am erican and 500 for speculation and ex port. Receipts 17,244 Including 11,246 American. Futures closed quiet. Month. Open. Close. May-June 4.18 4.16% July-August 4.2414 4.23% Oct.-Nov 4.34 4.32*4 Jan.-Feb 4.4014 4.39 LIVESTOCK MARKET CHICAGO CATTLE, HOGS, SHEEP. Chicago, Ills.—Hogs: Receipts 9,000; steady. Bulk 3 7.25#$ 7.50 Light 6.90# 7.50 Mixed ... 7.15# 7.60 Heavy 7.00# 7.60 Hough 7.00# 7.15 Plgn 4.50# 6.75 Cattle: Receipts 2,000; steady. Beeves 3 5.76# $10.50 Steers 6.40# 9.00 Cows and heifers 3.60# 9.20 Calves 8.50 11.50 Sheep: Receipts 1,000; steady. Sheep 5.50# 6.25 Yearlings 6.40# 7.45 Laml>a ... 6.75# 9.40 AUGUSTA LIVESTOCK QUOTATIONS Corrected weekly by Augusta Stock Yds. Tho following ar# the quotations on the Augusta livestock cattle on the hoof • HOGS—Hogs, 75 to 126 lb*., corn fed 7 «7%0 CALVES—Common 4%@50 Ordinary 6%©60 Good 6%@70 Fancy 7%tf80 COWS Common 2%@30 Ordinary 3%<(Hc Good 4%4?50 Fancy 6%<UP6o The Produce Market (Corrected by Audley Hill & Co.) Grape Fruit, Fla.’s. any size, per box $2.50 Grapes, fancy Malaga's, per keg.. 4.25 Grapes. pony baskets. Lake Keuka, Concords and Catawbas, per luisket 15 Apples, York Imperials, Cure Gold brand, per barrel, doth head... 300 Apples, Haldwlns, per barrel 2.75 Apples, fancy Northern Kings, rer bbl 8.76 Icemons, extra fancy, 360's, Vi bxs 1.50 1 semen*, extra fancy, whole bxs. 2.75 Hananas, fancy packed, per lb. ... .03 Cocoanuts. fresh 100'a, r sack.. 2.75 Cranberries. Cape Cod, crates.... 1.80 Celery, per standard crates 4.25 Celery, fancy Jumbo, per dor. 75 Turnip*. Canadian. 140-lb. sacks.. 1.50 New potatoes. Northern stock. No. 1 2.00 Cabbage. Northern, per lb 01 Vi Onions, yellow, per bushel 1.00 Onions, Red CHobes, per bushel ... 1.00 Onions, Red Globes. per 100-lb. sack 1 65 Onions. Spanish, orlgtnal crates... 1.15 Idma Beans, per lb 07 Augusta Market for Country Produce GYleae raid the farmer ! Drying alxe chickens, each .... 80c to 40c Fresh country cage, dosen 28c Sweet potatoes, hushel 700 Turnip greens, S hunches 25c Cabbages, 8 for 26c Collard*. S for 26c Radishes, 8 for ... ... ... 260 Reels. 4 for 26e Lettuce, doxen 40c COTTONSEED OIL Nrw York,—The cotton seed oil mar ket was active and firm with more con fident buying owing to evidences of im provement In the consuming demand both for domestic use and for export, but the forwavd months reacted sharp ly ne.xr the close under aggressive sell ing by refiners. Final prices were 16 points higher to 4 net lower. Sales. SI,• SCO barrels cotton" goods New York.—Trading In colored cotton good* at twice concessions is growing broader Shooting* and print cloths were quiet today l.lnens were steady. Kur- Isp* war easy, Underwear and hosier)' were In lietter demand. moneTmarket New York. Closing Mercantile rarer A«S 1-2 sterling exchange steady: SiWdsy hill* 4 86:6, for cables 4.8586, for deraaul 4.1*26. THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA. WHEAT PRICES TAKE A TUMBLE Argentine Reports Give Bearish Turn to Market. Corn Down, Oats Up. Chicago.—Chances that the wheat har vest In Argentina might turn out more bearish than had heen expected, served as a ground Saturday to pull down quo tations. The market, although steady at the close, was 1-2 cent under Friday night. Corn lost l-4al-2a5-8 net. Oats finished 1-8 to l-Bal-4 up and provisions unchanged to 12 1-2 to 15 cents down. Open. High. How. Close WHEAT— Dec .... 115*4 115% 115 115 May .... 121'/» 121% 121% 121% CORN— Dec .... *6% 66% 66*4 *B% May . . . 70% 71 70% 70% OATS— Dec . . . 50*4 50% 50% 50% May .... 53% 54 53% 53% rORK- Jan 1867 1860 1860 May . . . .1920 1920 1907 3910 I.ARD Jan . . . .1015 1015 1015 1015 May . . . .1030 1030 1030 1030 RIBS— Jan . . . .1005 3005 1000 1000 May . . . .1035 1035 1027 1027 AUGUSTA QUOTATIONS GROCERIES, PROVISIONS D. S. rcg. plates, 8-lb. av 11% D. S. clear plates 10% I). S. reg. ribs, 45-lb 12% Pearl Grits, 96-lb., all sizes 2.05 Juliette Meal. 48-lb 98 Coulterville, fancy patent flour.. 6.10 Daisy cheese 17 Medium head rice 05% Luzianne Coofee (100-lb.) $20.50 Arbuckle's coffee, pr. cs., 100-lb.. 17.10 Cuba molasses, bbls 28 Reboiled Ga. syrup, % bbls 32 Pure leaf lard. 50-lb. tins 6.60 N. Y. Gr. sugar, bbls. or bulk bags 5.60 N. Y. Gr. sugar, 4-25 bag.... 5.. 5.65 N. Y. Of. sugar, (24 5-lb. ertns). per lb 5.85 N. Y. Gr. sugar, 32 3% ertns, per lb 5.85 Pacific matches, six gross, per gross 33 G r ound pepper. 10-lb. palls, per pound 20 Salt, cotton bags 52 Irish potatoes, per bag 2.25 2-lh. tdmitOM 70 evaporated milk 2.95 Gloss starch, 50-lb. box 03% Quaker oats, 18 2-lb. pkgs 150 Evap. apples, 50 pkgs. per case.. 3.25 New Evap. peaches. 50-lb. boxes .07% New No. 3 pie peaches 95 N. Y. BANK STATEMENT New York. —The statement of the av erage condition of clearing house banks and trust companies for the week shows that they hold $176,830,540 reserve in ex cess of legal requirements. This is due to the new federal reserve banking law. The statement follows: Average Condition. Loans, etc $2,146,0 89,000 Reserve In vaults 350,462,000 Reserve in federal reserve hank 96,060,000 Reserve in other depositories 64,424,000 Net demand deposits 91,932,000 Circulation 92,652,000 Aggregate reserve 510.946,000 Excess reserve 176,830,540 Summary of state banks and trust companies in Greater New York not In cluded in clearing house statement: Loans, etc., increased $ 732,600 Specie increased 249,800 Legal tenders decreased 977,500 Total deposits decrease 1,199,900 Reserve. Banks cash in vault $12,231,300 Trust companies cash in vault 41,906,900 SUGAR AND COFFEE New York. —Raw sugar, steady; molas ses. 3.36; centrifugal. 4.01; refined, steady. IHE PDISOII PEN or WORK 10 AIKEN Anonymous Letters Received By a Number of Women At tack Character and Spread Scandal and Venomous In sults---The Writer’s Identity Known and Prosecution May Follow. Aikan, S. C.—For several months past anonymous letters have been flooding Aiken. With the poison pen some person, for sinister reasons of her own—for It la apparent that the person who la circulating the filth, the scandal and the scum la a woman has resorted to this contemptible meth od to besmirch the character and en compass the social ruin of another. Until within the last two or three days the writer of these cowardly epistles, all directed toward one woman, has eluded detection— sending her poisoned darts through the 'mails to different Aiken women anil concealing herself like the assassin who strikes In the back and sneaks away from the victim undeh cover of darkness But lately, becoming bolder and less clever, add ing the viper sting of Insult to vulgar insinuations In her letters, the elusive j writer of these anonymous epistles has unwittingly revealed herself. Her Identity Is now known. During the past three days a de teettve has been digging Into the mys tery, and although the several letters have been written In a disguised hand, with the assistance of a handwriting expert suspicions which have been en tertained have been devedoped Into In criminating evidence. Just what use win be made of this evidence or what course will be pursued remains to be determined. The women who have re ceived the anonymous letters are Justly Indignant and several of them* with their huahanda' counsel are considering turning the collected evidence over to the postal authorities. There la a se vere penalty for circulating anony mous communications which attack character and spread venomous Insin uations and Insult*. The case will likely b# vigorously prosecuted. Cause and Effect of she Hamburg Riot of 1876 A monument is to be erected to Mr. McKie Meriwether, the young man who lost his life in the Hamburg riot of 1876. The people of North Augusta are raising funds for this purpose. At a recent meeting of the North Augusta Civic League Mrs. A. M. Parker read a paper on “The Cause and Effects of the Hamburg R4ot.” It is A very interesting paper and is as follows: It would be impossible for you or I who live peaceably here in our homes to partially understand, or even con ceive of the deplorable state of affairs that existed in South Carolina after the civil war. There was a section said to be a law that gave to every ignorant negro the right to vote and hold any office in South Carolina, taking such rights from white men connected with the Confederacy. At the head of state affairs were Robert Scott and Frank Moses, and with the legislative halls filled with negroes, who could neither read or write, imagine what a regular "log rolling,’’ corn-shucking” time of it. they had. It is told of an old negro in the leg islature who, napping away while a very important bill was being read, aroused In the midst of it and said — “Gee dar, lize! What for you don’t get straight in dat row. you know mules and niggers gwinter soon be freed! ” Yes, we had negro clerks of courts, negro magistrates, negro legislators, negro everything, except a few white rascals who acted as advisors. My grandmother had to go before her stable boy to get school claims signed. The republicans sent down Chamber lin, apparently a gracious gentleman, who was elected governor, to straight en out things. Mr. Chamberlin said he could do nothing with voting citi zens who were too ignorant to under stand a law. Condition of Affairs Locally. Negro military companies were formed all over the state, and drums could be heard all night. Smoke houses were robbed. Produce taken from wagons along the public roads, and any resistance meant that you would be knocked on the head. Houses were burned, children’s faces slapped. And, on all sides, ignorant negro of ficials. In July, 1876, young Mr. Thomas Butler (a brother of Mrs. Dr. Meal ing) was going into the city on a very important business deal, when he was turned back and told that he could not pass through Hamburg. Re turning home he was joined by his brother-in-law, Mr. Henry Getzen, who advised going around the town to avoid further trouble. While re turning, a military line formed ahead of them and they were ordered to stop. Mr. Getzen, who was a very deter mined man, gave his horse a decided cut with the whip and went through the line. On arriving at home they were met by an officer, who arrested them for defying military rule. Mr. Robert Butler learned from Prince Rivers, the magistrate, that the military company was not mustered in service and had no right to inter fere. Then Mr. Butler had the negroes arrested for obstructing the public highway. At the trial, July 18th, Mr. Getzen was placed on the stand and asked if he did not know that a mili tary company had the right of way over civilians. “Such is my understanding,” replied Mr. Getzen, “but I do not consider yours a military company.” “What do you consider it?" was asked Mr. Getzen. “I consider it,7 replied Mr. Getzen, “an organized gang of robbers.” This made Attaway, the negro com madant, very mad. He rushed out of the door saying. "1 know what dem white folks wants. Dey wants us to call ’em marster, but us'll wade in the white men’s blood up ter our knees before us’ll call ’em marster any more.” He then went into the armory with his company. General Butler, who was attorney for Mr. Robert Butler, arose in all his dignity and said. "This is a farce.” Calling to one of the negro lieuten ants he said, "Cartledge, go up yonder In that armory and tell those negroes that they have no right to those guns. If they will turn them over to me I will see that they are safely landed in Columbia. And if they are not so delivered by sundown, the white peo ple are going there and take them. Preparing for teh Riot. It was a warm afternoon In July, and Hamburg’s streets, now overrun by pickaninnies an 1 washer-women, were at that time very prosperous looking, being filled vtth cotton ware houses and wholesa e grocery stores. Squads of men begau riding Into town. The negroes aooui town hied away to the swamps, among them Rivers, the magistrate, leaving there only this military company, occupying the arm ory. Just about sundown Colonel Butler (Mrs. John Kansey’s father) rode Into town with a cavalry company of 50 min. The negroes barricaded the wln do vs with guns. General Butler called for volunteers with rifles. Mr. Will Butlor, Mr. Henry Getzen, Mr. Mills, Mr. v'inley and Mr. Joe Meriwether stepped forward. There was a boy ish tussle between father and son, and finally McKie Meriwether got the rifle from his father, saying: “Give me the gun, father." “Henry," said Colonel Butler to Mr. Getzen, “take charge of this detail. Go down to the abutment of the bridge with your rifles and fire Into the win dows. The rest of the men have shot guns and I want to get in shot gun range of the building and unless you boys with rifles run the negroes away from the windows we cannot get them." The detail went down and ran the negroes from the windows to the para pet on top of the building. Just about •hi* time, the Auguita people, think ing It purely a negro affair, fired a volley from the other side of the river and the detail was compelled to pro tect themselves by a railroad bank. After the firing ceased a bit, Messrs. Mills and Finley left, saying their am munition was out and Mr. Meriwether stepped behind the pier to roll up hla trousers. In a few seconds Mr. But ler turned to Mr. Getzen saying: "There lies one of our men." Mr. Getxen tells It with much feeling. “It was Just about dark and bullets were fl.vlng around me. I went over, felt young Meriwether, who was trem bling In the convulsion of death, and found a hole aeros* the top of his head. My young companion. Will But ler. said. ’I cannot help you, Henry, because warm blood has a strange ef fect over me.’ So a young man. St. Julian De Arman, came by and as sisted me In delivering the body to Dr. H. H. Shaw, Colonel Butler, and Mr. Meriwether." Augusta Sends Help. That fine old gentleman, Mr. John Conway, of Augusta, at that time a very popular stable man, hitching some of his very best horses to a cannon, came over, with other Augustans, among them a Mr. Blount, who drove the horses and was later killed, fall ing from the cannon. After the first cannon shot the ne groes seemed to vanish in mid-air; others, figuratively speaking, went through a hole in the ground, but sev eral sought hiding places in the build ing. Attaway, the commandant, was pulled out from under the steps by Mr. Tom Hammond and one negro was found in a coffin with the lid on. It is sometimes thought that negroes were shot at random, but this was not true, for only those who had commit ted some crime were shot, except in an instance or two. After the Riot. Every man in a radius of 20. miles of Hamburg was "sent word" to ap pear at court in Aiken. So eager were they to meet the requirements of law that they spent a whole day encamp ing near Aiken and consulting with lawyers: Colonel Butler of Edgefield, Major Gary of Augusta, Henderson, Croft and Aldridge of Aiken, all re fusing pay for services. At the trial the men were dismissed on the most ridiculous bond. Mr. Matheney, a mail clerk, stood a hundred thousand dollar bond and owned nothing but his hat. This was the last of the trial. The First Red Shirts. While the boys were being tried the girls of Aiken were making shirts: white cambric spotted with Venetian red, and these were the first red shirts worn. But later, when Gen. Wade Hampton came to South Carolina, companies of red shirt boys were formed all over the state. One of the original shirts is now owned by Mr. J. M. McKie. This ended the radical rule in South Carolina. One of the golden keys that un locked the gate that led down the rug ged path to reconstruction was found on the evening of July 18, 1876, on the spot where Thomas McKie Meri wether was killed. Prince Rivera. My story would not be complete without giving you a description of Hamburg’s magistrate, “Prince Riv ers.” He was magistrate, inspector general of South Carolina and a mem ber of the legislature—a most unusual negro, tall, stout, and very erect. As black as a crow and as slick as a peeled onion and as shiny as a new mirror. He always greased his face on state occasions. He wore brass epaulettes and horsehair helmets and rode a most beautiful horse. He had a large, flat nose and could boast of as many kinks as any cereal corpora tion. Prince had a very elaborate li | brary, shelves and shelves of books, ranging from blue-back spellers down j to stacks and stacks of discarded rec . ords. He could neither read nor write I and signed hts name in a kind of scroll. He used a typical low-country 1 dialect and as magistrate he was ab surd in the extreme. "When mad with the negro men in court he called them heifers, quite an elaborate term these days of “high living.” As a slave he was a coachman for Mr. Hutson, who owned a big rice plantation near Charleston, and F t/e, as the “man on the box,” he ie ,r ed the art of riding erect. Later, after the riot, he was arrest ed for some misdeed and bonded by Mr. Langley, founder of Langley’s Manufacturing Company, for whom he continued to drive until the last days. INTERSECTIONfIL FOOTBALL GAMES GROW IN NUMBER Were Eleven Contests This Season But There Will Be 20 and Probably More Next Season. New York.—There were 11 intersec tlonal football games this season, but In 1916 there will be 20 and probably more. The intersectional football games played this fall were on something of an experimental order. The expe riment proved highly successful. Every game in which East met West was a big financial success. Yale and Harvard staged games with Notre Dame and Michigan this year. Princeton had no game with a big western eleven but it Is almost certain that Princeton's 1916 schedule will call for a meeting between the Tigers and one or possibly two west ern elevens. Negotiations now are under way for a game between Dartmouth and Mich igan In October. 1915, to be played on the Polo Grounds, New York. Such a game would draw a capacity crowd to the New Y’ork Giants’ Field. Dart mouth long has been a big favorite in New York and the New York foot ball enthusiast has been anxious to see a Michigan eleven ever since Yost assembled his great eleven of 1902- 03-04. Lowbrow! Michigan and Notro Dame figured In aeven of the eleven lntersectlonal games this season. These colleges do not belong to the western confer ence. The conference, up to this sea son, frowned upon such a low brow thing as meeting Easterners. But the conference awoke to the fact this season that the business of battling with eastern elevens helped the finan cial end of football quite considerably. Home college authorities try to kid the public Into believing that they per mit their students to play football, not for the gold it produces, oh, no! They I permit football Just to give the boys ] exercise. But the sordid fact remains i that the colleges do stage football ; games for the sake of financial profit 1 as well as gridiron glory. And so the fact that Michigan and Notre Dame grabbed off a nice little profit through playing lntersectlonal games has influenced acme of the Western Conference teams to look eastward for games next fall, and be fore the schedules are completed it Is I certain that at least a half dozen big I western elevens will be dated up for ■ games in the East in 1915. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22. DR. BROWNING IS REV. W. M. STUCKEY Tampa, Fla —Rev. Wallace M. Stuck ey, of Ottawa, Kas., who has for sev eral months been operating a phar macy in this city under the assumed name of Dr. Marion Browning, was arrested here today on the charge of being a fugitive from justice and will be returned to Kansas to serve a pris on term of from one to five years. Stuckey, who was convicted in a case involving the character of a girl, escaped to Cuba while an appeal was pending three years ago. He will re turn without requisition papers, leav ing his wife, whom he married while in Cuba, In charge of his business. He admits both identity and conviction. WITHIN HIS RIGHTS. Employe—Mr. Brown, I should like to ask for a rise in my wages. I’ve just been married. Employer—Very sorry, my dear man, but for accidents to our em ployes outside of the factory we are not responsible.-—London Opinion. Atlantic Coast Line NOTE—These arrivals and departure* are given as information. Arrival* and connestions are not guaranteed. 38 | 33 | | 35 | 87 ~ 2-40 a 2:4op|Lv Augusta Ar 8:65a 1:40* 4:26a 4:l7a!Ar BaFwell Lv 7:13a 13:01a 4-56 a 4:43p!Ar Dernn’k Lv 6:44a 11:34p 6.35 a s:2sp)Ar OFburg Lv 6:57a 10:53p 7:20a 6:551Ar Sumter Lv 4:30a 9:30p 1:00a 8:15p Ar Florence Lv 3:15a 8:00p l:16p 12:45a Ar Wtl’gton Lv S:4sp *:00p 5:26a Ar Richm'd Lv 6:S5p 3:15* 11-60 p 9:ooa]Ar ‘Wash’t’n Lv 5:05p 4:30* 1 :SBaflo:27a|Ar Bsltim’e Lv 1:46p 2:50* 4*s4a]l2:4Sp Ar W Phil Lv 11:36a 12:19n 7:13al 2:87p Ar N. York Lv| 9:lsa| 9:30p Through S«eel oilman Sleepers on trainu 32 and 35, between Augusta and New York. Obeervation Broiler Car. be tween Augusta and Florence. Standard Dicing Car north of Florene*. Through Sleeper between Atlanta and Wl’r dngton. via Augusta on trains ST end 33. connecting at Florence with N«w York sleepers and main line point*. T. B. WALKER. District Passenger Agent. Augusta. Os- Ption# tTA- Charlestons Western Carolina Railway Co. tEffectlve Oot-ober 11th, 1914). The following arrivals anu departure* of train#. Union Station, Ausmsta, Ga.. aa well as connections with other com panies. are simply given as information tad are not guaranteed. DEPARTURES. 10:35 A.M., No. 1 Dally for Greenwood. Spartanburg, Greenville. Asheville conects at McCormick (Dally ex cept Sunday) for Anderson. 4-40 P. M., No. 3 Daily for Greenwood. 3:00 P.M., No. 42, D. ily for Beaufort, Port Royal, Charleston and Sa vannah. ARRIVALS. 12:15 P.M., No. 2 Dally from Spartan burg. Greenville, Anderson (Dally except Sunday), etc. 8:15 P. M., No. 4 Dally from Spartan burg. Greenville. Asheville etc. 12:25 I’.M., No. 41 Daily from Beaufort. Port Royal. Charleston and Sa vannah. ERNEST WILLIAMS. General I aenger Agent, 829 Broadway, Augusta. G*. Southern Railway. /Schedule eff»efive Oetobe' 19th, 1914.) N. B. —Schedule figure. publt.Ued only as Information and are not guaranteed. Union Station. All train* dally. Train depart to— No. Time. 18 Charleston, S. C. 4:20 am. 8 Columbia, S. C (:4C a.m. 32 Washington, New York .... 2:30 p.m. 22 Charleston 1:40 p.m. 24 Charleston 11:40 p.m. Train arrlva from— No. Time. 25 Charleston 8:90 am. 131 Washington, New Y0rk....12:50 p.m. 35 Charleston 1:30 p.m. 7 Columbia 8:58 p.m. 17 Charleston 10:80 p. m. Pullman Drawing-Room Sleeping Cwm, Coaches, Dining Car Servlca. Phone (61 or 947 for information, and Pullman Reservation*. MAGRUDER DENT. DlaL Paaa. Agent. 729 Broad St.. Augusta, G*. OG&Ry “The Right Way” Current Schedules, (75th Meridian Tima) DEPARTURES: For Dublin, Savannah, Macon and Florida points 7:30 a.m. For Dublin and Savannah 3:30 p.m. For Savannah, Macon, Colum bus and Birmingham 9:30 p.m. ARRIVALS: From Savannah, Macon, Co lumbus and Birmingham .... 8:30 a-m. From Dublin, Savannah and Florida points 12:30 p.m. From Dublin. Savannah, Ma con and Florida points 7:50 p.m. All above trains daily. Through train leaving Augusta 7:30 a. m.. arriving at 7:50 p. m., between Augusta and Savannah; connecting at Mlllen with through tratn for Macon. Columbu*. Birmingham. Memphis, Mont gomery, Mobile and New Orleans. Vestibuled electric-lighted Sleeping Cars carried on night trains between Augusta and Savannah. G«.: connecting at Mil’.en with through Sleeping Cara to and from Macon. Columbus, Birming ham and Atlanta. For information as to fares. schedule*, etc., write dr communlate with W. W. HACKETT, Traveling Passenger Agent. City Ticket Office, 215 Jackson Street. J»hone 62. Augusts. Os. GEORGIA RAILROAD (Effective August 23rd. 1914.) Eastern (City) Tima From To , 2:29 p.m. Atlanta, Macon, Athene. Washington 7:40 a.m. 2:20 am. Atlanta ...... 2:00 an, 4:15 p.m. Atlanta 12:10 p.m. 10:20 p.m. Atlanta. Macon. .. Athena. Washington 9:20 p.m. 9:45 a.m. Camak. Macon (ex cept Sunday) 4:97 pm. 11:00 a.m. Union Point. Macon, Athens Washington 4:41 IXla Phone 247, 881. 2244. i. P. BILLUPS, G.P.A,