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STATE DISPE NSAR Y, ATLAST THE ANNUAL REPORT 'HAS BEEN ISSUED. Record of a Year-! terestsOg Fignre. Presented by the State Board of Con trol-The Practical Resuuls. The annualreport of the State board of control was rccentiy mae3e pub lie. This document has been awaite.i for some time. Here is what tre board has to say: Office of State Board of Control, South Carolina Dispensary. Columbia, S. C., Jan 1, :.7. To his Excehency. the Governor of the State of South Carolma: Piusu ant to an Act of the General Assembly providing for a State board of control for the management of :me disnensary, the undersigned assumned charge of its management on the arst day of last April, and found its financial status to be as is set forth in the followio. statement of assets and liabilities tak en from the books of the disprnsary: * ASSETS. Merchandise in hand; of' county dispensers, State's profitsadded............ 145,0SS 20 Iss State's unearned profits added at time of ship ment................... 41,453 77 Value of above merchan dise (cost price).....$103,634 43 Amount due by ex-dispens ers and in process of settle ment.......... 4.526 43 Personal accounts due State................... 4.408 0 6 Cash-balance in State treasury.............. q2 22 Teams and wagons-inven tory. ...... L257 25 Machinery and oilice fix tures.................. 2.656 47 Merchandise at State dis pensary................ 73,0t7 17 Supplies at State dispen sary.................... 47,741 54 Total.........241,212 57 _AEZUTIES. Persna-Ifc-bunts due by ,,,,.wv~ate .4,065 36 Due from general fund of the State from former earnings.............. 192857 89 Net accrued profit for pres ent quarter passed to cred it State School fund..... 44,299 32 Total..................$241,212 57 Before assum-- the duties of our office an inventory of all liquors and and supplies on hand was carefully taken by a committee composed of the Legislative examining committeeind representatives of this board. We found liquors on hand at the State dispensary tothe amount of $373,067.17; liquors in hands of county dispensers $145,088.20; supplies $47,74L54, and cash in the State treasury $3,921.22 as set forth in the above schedule of as sets. We found an accrued profit due the general or current fund of $92.847 .89, and an accrued profit of $44,299.32 to the credit of the school fund. GENERAL FUND AND SCHOOL FUND. As frequent inquiries into the sub ject shows the fact that many citizens of the State do notglearly comprehend the legal status oftne general fund, and the school fund in respect of their association with dispensary profits, we deem it wise to briefly comment on the authority creating ~a school fund from the net earnings of the dispensa rand trust that we may sufficiently *at it as to make it readily un those who may make fu ture inquiry into the matter. There are many who seem unable to under stand why the general fund hadta pri ority of claim over the school fund on the first of January last to the amount ~of $192,847.89. It is simply a ques Stion of law, and is the direct out gro wth of that specific requirement of te late Constitutional Convention, which ordained that the net income of the dispensary from the first of last January shall be put aside for school purposes. Before this ordinance be came operative (the Constitution itself not being of force until the first of last January,) there was a balance of net accrued profit due the State to ,he amount of $192,847.89 This ordinance not being retroactive did not, therefore, make any provision for the disposition of -the $192.847-.89, which had accrued as anet profit prior + th~.e firs of ast January. And in the '5 of ay~ legislative enact mentt placing the net profits of tho dispensary accruing prior to January last to the credit of any specific fund, these accrued profits were placed to1 the credit of the general fund of the State, and being thesodest claimn must, therefore, be liquidated from the accu mulated cash surplus be fore the school fund (the younger claim) can hope for any payment from the cash accu mulations of the dispensary. We have paid into the State treasury in the last four months $100,000 to the creditof the general fund, and will li qiaethe $92,000 balance that is to the credit of the same fund by the first of June. TO THE-CREDIT OF THE SCHOOL FUND. There is now to the credit of the school fund $222 937.31, which repre sents the net accrued profit from the business of the dispensary for the past year. A conservative estimate of the possibiitics of the business guarantees safety in the prediction that we will make a first payment of $15,000 to the school fund by the first of next July and a like amount by the first of Au gust. And for the months of Septem ber, October, November and Decem ber $25,000 each. Should these expec tations be realized, we will have paid at the close of the present year $130,000 to the credit of the school fund and the balance of $92,000, in round numbers, due the general fund; making a total of $222,000, which we will have paid at the close of the present year, from the cash accumulations of the State ~ere are incorporated in this re port and to be found under their pro per heads statements of the purchases, sales, profits to towns and counties and State, and the total profits from all sources from the beginning of the dispensary to the close of the past fis cal year. LNTVIT THE CLOSEST SCRCTISY. We invite the closest scrutiny of every detail of our official acts, and are content for the results of our la bors to speak for themselves. In the management of the affairs of the dis pensary we have endeavored to hus band every resource and such energy and ability as we may possess have been given unstintingly to it. It is a business of great mnagnitupe arnd of a complex nature, and we are impressed with the gravity of our duties and the great responsibilities which they carry. And in our efforts to master every d.3 tail of the business we have been moved with a desire to protect the in terest of the State and to so act as to best conserve the welfare of the whole people. REBATES. Our purchases, we corsider, have been made judiciously, and in price and quality will compare most favor ably with purchases made by our pre decessors. In the one item of rebates there have been saved to the State in the past year more than forty-one thousand dollars. By the last of this month every debt which w ow ml hae msturd and been laid. and we wim nave o:re tmn $;C00,00 of quick assets. independent iv o, all fun-s in St -ate tr-asury, which will be dbslu tely freed of,al iabilIt;. There are on the baks of the dis pensary several hou"a,.1 dollars of shv, -iae by -s ispensers, most of which cc,:td prior to the begin ni of out ttras of ofice These sho'~a-s a in zh hands of the At tornev General and sone are now in I prece' of settlement sU Ns0 F 0 UNT Y D is iE,\ .Y eav hae a most sMisfac:ory svstem of checking the accounts of couinty dispensers 0 the ninety dispensers in the State we keep an itemized ac count of their da lv purchases, salrs and cash transactions and from their weekly and monthly reports, certided by the c:untv boards of cutral, we make un thei' accounts monthly at the central ' 'ie I is a work of great magnitude, as it is practically keelpirm books for ninety dispensers. aside from the books of the central of fice. On assuming charge we found that our bookkeeper had this heavy task to rerform alone and as a result was over worked. It was expecting too much of human endeavor to expect one man to properly perform so great an amount of work that extende tirough so many ramidcations. Con suquently we have employed addition al clerical force and every county di3 penser is promptly chccked at the end of each week. We beg to report that the charges of wrong doing in the past manage ment of the dispensary were prompt ly in-estigated by this board. con jointly with the Legislative examin ing board. A committee, consisting of a mem ber of this board and a member of the Legislative examining committee, was sent to Cincinnati for the purpose of a further investigation 0! these char ges, and, after exhausting all efforts. found no convicting proof. I The same member of this board and the Attorney General subsequently went to Baltimore in a further prose cution of this investigation and expe rienced a similar result. All tho pa pers bearipg.jgnhi a&vestigation are in our possession, and we will be glad to turn them over to any committee which your honorable body in its wisdom may see fit to appoint for a further investigation of these charges. AM1E ND3IENTS RECO3DIENDED. In the nature of amendments to the present dispensary Act we would re spectfully recommend the following: 1, That the compensation of the State board of control shall be fixed by the General Assembly, and that all other officers and employees of the State dispensary, including the com missioner and chemist. shall be ap pointed by the State board of control and their duties defined and compen sation fixed by said board. 2. That the State board of control shall fix the bonds of all employees, and shall have the bonds made paya ble to said State board of control and shall have the custody of said bonds, and st all be the final arbiters of the validity of said bonds. 3. That all special privileges to tou rist hotels requre that they shall sell only to bcna dde registered guests of the hotel, and that they sell only dur ing the constitutional hours, from sun-up to sundown, and that they be not allowed to sell on Sundays. -4. That stocktaking and examina tion of the books of the State dispen sarf be required semi-annually,. in stead of quarterly, as is now required by law. All of which is respectfully sub mitted, Wilie Jones, Chairman, L. J. Williams, J. B. Douthit, J. 0. A. Moore State Board of Control. S. W.- Scruggs, Clerk. Conmparative statement of assets and liabilities for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1896: ASSETS. Er dispensers shortages... .$ 7,5S3 36 Personal accounts due State for tax-pays on bonded spirits and empty barrels. 10.459 27 Teams.and wagons........ 1,294 10 Machinery - and office fixt ures .................2857 47 Cash in State treasury..7,265 41 Merchandise at State dispen sary, in bulk and in cases (inventory)...........10,86S 34 Supplies at State dispensary (inventory) ............ 15,394 15 Merchandise in hands of county dispensers....... 217.791 27 Total assets..........$435.513 46 LIAB3ILITIES. Personal accounts due by State..............$ 63,393 05' General fund........... 91,532 47 School fund............. 127,864 51 Net accrued profit for pres ent quarter passed to the credit of the school fund. 94,972 80 Unearned profit........ 57.650 63 Total liabilities.........435,513 46 Statement of profit and i5s account for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1896: PROFITS. Merchandise..........$43.221 95 Contraband seizures... 10,803 85 Beer dispensaries........22,265 30 Rebates on whiskey pur chases............... 41,087 14 Permit fees................ 2S 50 City Columbia's dispensary profits withheld........ 1,565 12 $538371 86 Unearned protit accruing for past twelve months.. 226,005 54 Total gross profits...$764,977 40 LOSSES. Supplies...............$11,998 58 Breakage and leakage..... 1.111 04 nsurance~..,............ 1.44305 Constabulary ..........- 53,434 89 Freight..............- 79 004 SO Expense............... 19,144 01 Labor................. 4,5w2 25 License.................. 125 00 Loss from Florence fire... 188iS 58 Loss from Bamberg fire. 812 56 Insurance.... ............ 900 00 Total expenses.........29,6S4 76 Unearned profit entered for twselve months.........252355 33 Net accrued profit for 12 months................ 222937 31 Total.................464. 977 40 It will be noted that the board of control make four recommendations, perhaps the most important and gen eral being with reference to tourists' hotels. A Horror in a Coal Mine. UNioYTowN, Pa., Jan. 27.--About 5 o'clock last evening a gas explosion occurred in a mine owned by the Shields. Laird & Hurst Coal Conm any, at Smeek Station, on tfne Red stone branen of the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston Railroad. Two men were blowna to atoms and seven per ,haps fatally in jred, and two less seri ously. One~ of the miners drilled into a pocket of gas and, as naked lights were used, an explosion follow~ed. IThe seven men most seriously hurt were terribly -rangled, severa-l aaring were so~ badly burned that great p'eces of flh dronned frmm their bemes. TWO YOUNG 3E N. SKETCHES OF THE GOVERNOR AND LIEUT. GOVERNOR. Somethlug Abmt WM. H. EllerhE And Mtlts l M e-ney -TheP 1.atter aSef Mlad X1:mv. B3lor we: gie brief sketches of tie new goveraor and liCutenant gover ner: u o \. IM ELLEItIE. . W . H '::rbe, wLo was in augu-ated governor of Sutlh Caroli na a hort time ago, is oU of the youngrebt mnn wbo has ever held that position in this State being just 31 Lers of -age. His ho-e is in Marion COLnLy and he his lived there always exeut whilst attendian' college and servirng s cosroller-eneral. GoveAncr Elierbe is a practical farmer andl i: his early youth his hands were hardened b' coastantcon tact with plow and hoe handles. He always applied himselF steadily to his bisiness and has been very suc efssful in his Chosen pursuits and whilst it is not necessary now that he should engage in the manual labor of the farm he is fully qualified for work of any kind that should be found nec essary. Governor Ellerbe went from a con mon school in his oxin county to Wofford college at Spartanburg, but before graduating tbere he entered Vanderbilt University. On account of ill health he was prevented from finishing his course at the latter insti tution, and, returning to his home, took up the pursuit of farming as his life work. In the memorable campaign of 1S90 the same convention that nominated Capt. B. I. Tillman for governor, and in which the Reformers of course were largely in the majority, there wer- two men nominated for comp troller general, viz: Messrs. Stokes and Eller be, the latter being a sm )oth faced young man, very boyish in ap pearau* i entirely unknown in politics. He was regarded by his friends as a moderate Reformer. His opponent was a much more extreme partisian. The vote showed Ellerbe's opponent to be in the lead, but at the solici ation of a Columbia newspaper man four of the Richland delegation changed their votes before the result was announced and Mr. Ellerbe was nominated by a small majority. He did not make a speech in that cam paign. In 1892 Mr. Ellerbe was renominat ed and elected comptroller and this important office. for the four years he was at its head, was acknowledged on all sides to have been ably, honest ly and impartially conducted. In 1894 they had'what was called a Reform primary-a scheme to let Re formers choose their candidate and shutting out Conservatives. Mr. Elerbe entered this as a candidate for governer against Evans, Tindal and Pope. He was opposed to the plan which shut him off from the support .f all the people, but in the conditions then existing he was helpless. The result of the contest was the nomina tion of John Gary E vans. A free-for all primary would have undoubtedly resulted in the choice of Ellerbe. Last Summer Mr. Ellerbe once again announced himself a candidate for governor and received seventy odd thousand votes as against 17,000 as the combined strength of Messrs. Har rison and Whittman, although Sena tor Harrison was a man of considera ble political strength in the State. Goveraor Ellerbe assumes the gubernatorial duties with a large fol lowing of all classes, more than any governor has had siuce Governor R~ichardson's retirement and every one predicts for him a safe and pros perous administration. THE'NEW LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. The Hon. M. B. McSweeney, to whom was administered recently the oath of office as lieutenant gover nor of South Carolina, is a good ex ample cf what pluck and persever ance will do for any one against the most adverse conditions. Young McSweeney was left fatherless in Charleston at the age of four years. His tenth year saw him struggling for a livelihood. He sold news papers and clerked in a bookstore, and while engaged in the latter occu patioi attended a night school, where he~developed a foundness for reading. McSweeney, afterwards "worked for Burke & Lord, j:>b printers, and from there he went to Edward Perry's, where he completed his apprentice ship as a job printer. While em plyed at the latter place a scholar ship at the Washington and Lee University of Lexington, Va., was offered to the Charleston Typograph ical union, which was to be awarded to the most deserving young man employed in Charleston printing of fees. By a majority of the votes of the union, young McSweeney was chosen and the scholarship given .to him. After staying at the university for a part of a session he was forced to leave for the lack of mears to pay for his board and clothes. This end ed his hopes for a college education and he once more applied himself to his trade. He was a union printer and served the Columbia Typographical union as corresponding secretary and. after wards as president. While living in Columbia he was also secre tary of the Pnoenix Hook and Lad er company. Mr. McSweeney has an enviable record as a Democrat. In 1876 he did excellent service, which is not yet torgotten by men who stood shoul der to shoulder witb him in those try ing days. It was about that time that the Richlan~d Rifle club was organized, of which Mr. McSweeney was a char tr member. Mr. McSweeney's first venture as a journalist was when he moved to Ninety- Six and began the publication of the~Ninety-Six Guardian. His capi tal was just $t65, but he bought a see ond-hand outtit for $500, paying 655 in cash. He was energetic, economi cal and gave the people a newsy pa per, thus enabling him at the end of the year to pay the last cent of his in debtness. Mr. McS weeney's paper, the Hamp ton Guardian, made its first appear ance August 12, 1679. From the first it has been well managed and well edited and today ranks formost among the county papers of the State. In all enterprises for the good of Hampton county, Mr. McSweeney has shown himself indefatigable- For he terms he served as intendent of the town and then declined re election For eight years he was president of the South Carolina Press association: has been a member of the legislature and was a mem ber of the hist Gonstitu tional convention. T wice he has been honored as a delegate to the nation al Democratic c-onvention. In 18S8 he voted for Cleveland and Thurman, in 18%t he voted for Bryan and Sewall. Fcr 1u years Mr. McSweeney was county chairman of Hlampton. He has taken great inter est in the militry atfairs of the State. During the last two sessions of the legislature he was chairman of the committee on military and is now a member of the governor's statf with the rank of col Mr. McSweeney's interest in edu cational matters exceeds even his in terest inmotary a~lajrs. lie is a trustee of sie Suth Carolina college. Mr. Mc- xeeney was married on the 1th day of July, j3-3- to Miss Mat tie Miles Porzher. Roamed n her Sleep 13!svri: Col , Jan. 2.--A pretty girl ;s now being treated at the Ara phce Count- lcspital, in tis city, who has broken the record in som nzb-hs. Her name is A'2na Ross iman, and during he'- excursions while aslee? she has been rescued from in jury or deatll by the police more than 150 times. blis bars, handcuffs and chains all fal ed to ke--p her within her room. and, clad in a night robe, .he has roamtd the streets of Denver night after night. Ezerything possi ble was done t cure the young wo man of he r stran' afliiction, but to no purpose uzitil she was placed in the hospita, where she has been carefully watched bv an attendant, and water thrown in her face every time she sought to leave her bed or escape. This plan seems to be proving ellica cious, and for the present at least her sleepwalking career has b2en brought to a close. The story of her experi ences is marvelous, and there is no record of any man or woman somnab ulist who has undergone the perils that have fallen to her lot and escap ed a fatality. It is almost marvelous to consider the methods that have been unsuccessfully adopted to re strain her from her nocturnal excur sions. The windows of her room have been locked and the key to the door hidaen, but to no purpose. So far as the hiding place is concerned, she has always seemed possessed of almost supernatural powers, for if the key was hidden in her own room, she has invariably found it. When the door was locked from Ihe outside she managed to cleverly pick the lock and make her way to the street. At other times she has been tied in her bed so secureay that it seemed as if no way would she be able to release her self. In this regard she has exhibited the skill of the con jurer, no k not could be tied that she was unable to loosen, and no matter how the ropes were ar ranged she always found a way to release herself. Senator Timman's Bill. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27.-Sen ator Tillman. of South Carolina, has introduced in the senate a bill to meet the defect in the South Carolina dis pensary law nointed out by the recent decision in the United States supreme court. The bill provides: "That all fermented, distilled or other intoxica ting liquors or liquids transported in to any State or territory or remaining therein for use, consumption, sale or storage therein, shall, upon arrival within the limits of said State or ter ritory, be subject to the operation and efftct of the laws of such State or ter ritory enacted for the control and po licing of the liquor traffic, absolutely to the same extent and in the same. manner as though such liquors or li quids had been produced in such State or territory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being intro duced therein in original packages for private use or otherwise, and such States shall have absolute control of such liquors or liquids within their borders, by whomever produced and for whatever use imported; provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed as affecting the internal revenue laws. Forty Flerce Fires. CureAGa. Jan. 27.-During a de structive fire tonight in the 6 story structure at 196, 19S, 200 and 202 Mon roe street. occupied exclusively by whlesale firms, 10 persons were seri ously injuired, seven of whom were firemen. Three of them will proba bly die. The fire originated on the first floor of the building which is occupied by the Wurzburger Bros. A fire wall divided the building in the centre, but it only afforded of temporary barrier for the flames. The upper t wo stories of the west wall fell upon the adjoin ing building, which is but 4 stories high. From the roof of this struc tura t wo fire companies were directing streams of water into the building and several of the firemen were buried un der the deb:-is when the wall fell. They were corried from the roof in an un conscious condition and removed to hospitals. Some of the spectators were slightly in jured by falling particles, but only three were hurt seriously enough to require the service of am bulances to remove them to their homes. There were about 40 fires in Chicago today, but many of them were extinguished with small losses. Burled in an Old rMine. SHA~IOKts, PA., Jan. 29.-Miss Maude Ione Gothie and her fiance, Frederick Graeber, together with a carriage and team, were buried .in a cave-in just above Bunker Bill last evening. Miss Gothie and the horses were killed, while Graeber was so badly irnj'red that he may not recov er- Miners on their way home from work at 4 o'clock this morning heard some one moaning pitifully, and go ing in the direction whence the sound came discovered the open hole in the road. Going to its edge tney called out: "Who is there?" and received the reply in a faint voice: -'Frederick Graeber." A rescuing party was sum moned, and in a fe w minutes Graeber was taken out. Both his legs were broken and both feet frozen. He was brought to this city, but is not expect ed to recover. Miss Gothie's body was not found until several hours later. She had been smothered to death. Burnt to Death. SPARTANBURG, Jan. 29.-What is without doubt the most shocking and horrifyinig accident in the annals of South Carolina, oe::urred a few miles below this city, near Pacolet, yester day morning before daylight. A negro woman and t wo children were burned to death at their home about 3 o'clock in the morning before assistance could reac' them. The particulars of the harrowing occurrence are about as follows: Mandy Hunt and her t wo children went to bed about 9 o'clock Tuesday might, little dreamiag that before morning their souls would be launched into eternity. Some time after mid night the house in which they were sleeping caught on fire, but not until the inmates themselves were enveloped in flames, did they discover what had taken place.-Hearld. A Double MIurder. AUGUSTA. Ga., Jan. 2t.-News of a double murder has been received from Tugaloo Valley, near the sine between Georgia and South Carolina in Habersham County. Woile re turning from church with their families. John Bohannon and C. Bobinson were way laid by George and Burgess Lee, two brothers, and mur dered. one of the men being shot to death and the other cut almost to pieces. The murderers, who are no torious char-acters, escaped. CuLt Hiu Oo Throat. ST. Locis, Jan. 27.--This afternoon a man giving the name of James Kl ly called at the oilice of chief of Detec tives Desmond and stated that he wished to surrender himself to the Iauthorities. Detective Badger asked the man to be seated and he had scrcely taken a chair when he thrust the bladle of a pocket knife into the lef t side and bled to death before any REPORT AS TO TWO CLASSES OF THE STATE'S WARDS. Supt. Walkiers Annual Re-poit Showhig What he Instirntion at Cedar Spriun Is The anrual report of the S.outh Carolina institution for the education of the deaf ond blind was made pub lic yesterday. The following extracts from Snerintendent Walker's report will be oil general interest. This re port covers a period of 14 months, from 'November 1 18.95, to December 31. 1S96: ,toDcme "One hundred and seventy pupils, representing 35 counties, have been enrolled during the Tear, as follows: Deal 117, blind 63. One hundred and fcrty-two of this number are present at this daite. The average attendance has been 136. "The following items of repairs have been made during the year: The entire building reguttered; steam pipes; radiators, et c , rebronzed: all tin roofs renainted: new steps on ter races around buildins ; two surface water closets; gymnasium building supplied with steam heat: oflice, dic ing rooms and all halls on first story of building papered; the large front room on second story of building is divided by partitions into two rooms, thus giving us an additional recitation room and thereby enabling us to add a room in west end of third stor-, heretofore used as a school room, to space occupied for girl's dormitories: an electric time and program system, consisting of a master program clock, fire secondary dials, fifteen signal bells and all necessary batteries, wires etc. I have, heretofore, called the at tantion of the legislature, through your board, to the condition of the building used for colored pupils and of the danger of life in case of fire. UnkEss the next legislature provide for a suitable building for this depart ment, I would urge the distinuation of that department until such time as it can be properly provided for. I have had during the year an addition al fire escape added to that building. Said building is of wood and was built more than three quarters of a century ago. "gThe attention of the legislature has also been called, repeatedly, to our great need of an electric light plant and of proper laundry machinery. This is now the only State institution which is not provided with a proper and modern method of lights, and we feel sure is the one which stands most in need of same. We are using kero sine oil and candles. . Our laundry work is done in the most primitive style. We have seen no reason to change tne figures heretofore made on the cost of these i% ce-ssary improve ments. "In this conivi Isubmit that it would be well. ai is time, for the policy of the State to be outlined in the matter of the separation of the two classes, the blind and the deaf, here provided for. rhere are three plans for the solution of this question. First to establish an entirely separate school for either the deaf or the blind at sorne other point in the State; second to erect a building in connection with and near the present plant for either the blind or the deaf, and thereby have each class occ apy its ow~n sepa rate quarters, but under the same general mangement; or third, to en large the present buildings and con tinue the work under the present plan. I favor the first or the second plan. The only objection that can be urged against them is the greater cost to the State for the erection of suttable build; ings and their equipments and the in creased expense that would be in cident to the running of two in stitutions instead of one. The s-cond plan, that of of having both schocls under one manage ment but in separate buildings, would cost the State less in the outset, and the auunal current expense would be much less than under the first named plan. The third plan, to increase the present plant and continue the two classes together, would be a saving to the State of many thousand dollars in matter of first cost and annual ex pense of the three plants, respectively. Under the first, a separate plan would cost in the neighborhood of $50,000. That is less thangthe cost of the plant here, and it'would not be in the line of econromy to erect a similar plant. North Carolina has recently divided her school, the new plant for the deaf at Morganton, N. C., cost about $150, 000. The annual current expense would be 30 to 40 per cent, greater than under the present plan, provid ed the new school be located in a city. Under the second plan, the first cost would be considerably less, probably 70 and 80 per cent.- of the amount men! tioned under the first plan, and the annual running expense would be 15 to 20 per cent. greater thian under the resent plan. The erection of an ad itional building here, at a cost of something like $20,000, would enable us to accommodate 100 more pupils than we now have. At the present rate of increase it will be only a few years until we will have as many pu pis as we can accommodate in our present quarters. If it bo the policy of the State to adopt eithe" the second or the third plan above mentioned, then it would be in the line of econo my to provide, at once, a suilicient engine and dynamo for a light plant to supply the additional buildings as well as the present ones. As I said in the outset, I favor the establishment of a separate school for either the blind or the deaf, here or at some other point, provided those charged with the management of the finances of the State can afford the additional expense incident thereto. "The increased numnber of pupils will make it necessary to increase our appropriation for "support" to $19, 0u0. This will give us a per capita of $131, with the number of pupils now in attendance. "Only one-half of the outside oi our building has been cemented, viz: the front and west end. The east end and the rear should be finished off in the same manner, thereb'y preserving the walls and giving th. entire building a uniform appearance. With an ad dition of $400J to our usual appropria tion for repairs, etc., we can do this cementing and effect other necessary repairs. "The following appropriations will e necessary for the proper mainten ance of the school for the ensuing year: "For support, etc., St9,000; for re pairs, etc., 8900; for building for col ored pupils, $S,u00: for electric light plant'and laundry machinery, $4,620 -total, $:32,520." A Fatal Dru?nk. Sr. JosEI-, Mo., Jan. 26.-The bodies of Park Sterling and George Boone, residing nesr Hamilton, Mo., were found beside the road yesterday. It is thonght that they became numb ed by the cold and lay down to sleep while intoxicated. eTet Cut~ OWr by a Train. 'Jaesa sV., Jan. 28.-Mr. JmsWilliamson, an employe of the Atlantic Coast Line anda well-known citizen of Petersburg, was run over oy a train tonight and ooth feet cut off. It is feared that hisinjuries will prove Ive Reportf rs Drown d. NEW Om~m~. JTan. 29--At o'clkck this mornire a co i D-0 o L c euired on the river about twelve mils abovethe quararie sa between the steam y-acht Argo :wd the fruit steamship Aibert Dumois, in which the vcht had ber how save in and sank within a very fe' minutes after the accident. The Argo was bour d dowu ihe river on her way to quarantine station to meet the steam. ship Wbitney with the Conaressional committee on board. Oa board the Argo were three reporters of the Pica 'une, Messrs. H. P. Hester and F Bisssini of the staff and an extra man. A. C_ Lindauer, and Mr. H. L. Frautz of New Orleaas was a guest. A crew of four men, commanded by Capt. James Brown. was in charge of the craft. A' in the cabin had retired and nothing unusual occurred until at half past 12 this morning, when the Dumois was encountered coming up the river. The Argo signalled for the right and the Dumois answered Dy two whistles or a signal that that ves sel would take the left hand side. The Argo crashed into the starboard bow of the ship, which had one of the plates bent, but the Argo had her bow stove in and in a few minutes sank. The captain and crew of the Argo lowered away a small boat into which they sprang; while of the passengers, only two, Frantz and Lindauer, suc ceeded in reaching the little boat. Easy Cure for Headache. "An excellent and never-failing cure f-or nervous headache," said an apostle of physical culture, "is the simple act of walking backward. Just try it some time if you have any douot about it. I have yet to meet the person who didn't acknowledge its efflicacy after a trial. No one has as yet discovered or formulated a rea son why such a process should bring such certain results. Physicians say that it is probably because the reflex action of the body brings about a re flex action of- the brain, and thus drives away the pain that when in duced by nervousness is the result of too much going forward. D)nt you know how at such tim you have the feeling that every thing in your head is being pushed forward? As soon as yIou begin to walk backward, however, there comes a feeling of everything being reversed, and this followed by relief. The relief is always certain, and generally speedy. Ten minutes is the longest I have ever found neces sary. An entry or a long, narrow room makes the best plaie for such a promenade. You should walk very slowly, letting the ball of the foot touch the floor first, and then the heel-just the way, in fact, that one should in theory walk forward, but which in practice is so rarely done." The Worst in Thirty Years. WAssiENGTO, Jan. 27.-The general forecast issued by the Weather Bureau tonight says that the temperature has fallen in the South Atlantic and E .st Gulf States and Tennessee and has risen slowly in all other districts. It continues below freezing in the South ern States, excent Florida, and is be low zero in the Northwest as far South as Iowa and Northern Illinois. Snow prevails tonight on the Atlantic coast North of South Carolina and in the Lake regions and upper Ohio Valley. The cold wave that has gone over the United States during the past several days is one - f the severest, considering both the low temperatures that pre vailed in many places and the vast ex tent of the area covered, that has been recorded by the Weather Bureau in its thirty years of existence. The South today had an unusal experience. Throughout Texas, Louisiana, Missis sippi, Alabama and a large portion of Georgia, a fall of snow from one to three inches in depth is reported to the Weather Bureau. Brother and Sister Married. The t wo old gossipers who disclosed the fact that a couple in Kansas who have been mar-ried thity years and have nine children are brother and sister, would have done better to keep their knowledge to themselves. The parents of the boy and giri both died and they were adopted by t wo families who subsequently removed to two widely separated states, and the chil dren grew up with the names of their adoptea parents and ignorant of their past. When grown they met in a third state where the young man was studying medicine, and the girl was on a visit to a friend- They fell in lo ce, were married and thirty years later two old men who came from the town where they were born chanced to meet in their house and started giv ing reminiscences which led to the dis covery. Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. Nitro-Glycerinle Explosion. Lnra Ohio, Jan. 27.-A terrific nitrogly cerine explosion occurred at Cygnet, Ohio, this afternoon, in which two persons were instantly killed and two others injured. A man named Henning who was four hundred feet away from the explosion, was badly cut on the head byffiying debris. A little girl a thousand feet away from the scene of the disaster was cut by broken glass that fell from the win dows in her home. Her injuries are not serious. It is supposed the two men now dead, were transferring the deadly glycerine from the magazine when~ in some manner it explopded. Both were blown to atoms. The shock was so severe that every pane of glass in the town was broken and doors were blown off their hinges. The explosion was heard several miles away. Three Million Dollar Fire. Pmt~ErAui January 26.-A fire started at 6:45 o'clock this morning from an over heated oven in the~ base ment of the six-story iron building. 1309 to 1317 Market street, burned over the blcck bounded by Thirteenth and Juniper streets and Market and Filbert streets, destroyed or gutted sixty buildings, and consumed proper ty valued at $3,000,000. Many smalh storekeepers lost their all and several thousand working people were thrown out of employment. The damaged buildings were generally fully insured Tne tire was the worst that has been experienced in l'ailadelphia in a generation. Liberty or Death. NEW YoRK, Jan. 29.-Referring to the relprt that Spain is about to con cede a home rule measure to the Cab an insurgents, Thomas Estrada Pal ma of the Cuan Juntasaid today: - Tn conditional and absolute indeoendence is all that Cuba will ever accept from the government of spain. If she can not have it she prefers extermination. It is scarcely worth while to discuss a home rule proposition. It h-as not been made, and if it should be it will re ceive no consideration at our hands.' suicidide of a Ctshier. LEios. Neb., Jan. 27.-Last n ight Frank J. Lespa, cashier of the Clark, Ison State Bank, at Clarason. Neb comittedsuicide. He had receuti'y sold an interest which he held in the bank. and no reason for nis act c-an be assigned. ________ Girl Ktml another. LAURENS, Jan. 27.-H attie letcher and Addle Foster, colored scaool girls, fought yesterday tive miles from this city. Addie received a kuie wound in the neck, from which she I:-N THE 11 1 SE. cr)uTINUo h Feen IPt'.: 'A:d- _N H re:11 a:: por (on 1s : 1,cl t oleac P r ea ure 1-1 7 1.. w, I- co I Ie herelaltive :unou-nt 0it~nx piidlby his coi ty 1nV a eh loan shaill n-t exceed1 7>7 , ceent. of the ordinary; emmity lev; -,: s i. Mr. deLoache's bill relating to amendments to the act to authorize special elections in incorporared citie-s and towns for the purpos- of issumn bonds for corporate purposes. etc was ordered to a third radin- vithout debate. In -:he House Friday but veryitl was accomplished The only .two bills disposed of were those proviaing that county oflicials keep their cilices open at certain hours, and providing that no other I abor than convict labor shall be employed on State farms. Eoth. after tedious debates, were or dered to a final reading. During the day Mr. L . D. Ch~ilds cd SRichland introduced the measuro- pro posed by the prohibitionists cf the Rpcaleecin in nofporhed citie tate for the solutio of iesuor problem. It continues the ispensary system as at present arranged, but does away with the pro t land bevds rage features thereof. It also has provisions relating to the importation of liquors from other States for oersonal use to con form to the recent decision of the United States Supreme court. Among other new bills was one by Mr. Mcnltlough to regulate build ing and loan associations. The House then took a resness until noon on Tuesday next on account of the fact that Monday is an important salesday. Today the members willgo to Riack Hill on a special train to v it and inspect the Winthrop Normal College. "ACruel Eurprise." What the News and Courier calls "a cruel surprise" has recently oc curre at Chicago in the closing down of the Chicago Works of the Illinois Steel Company, by which twelve hundred men were thrown out of work. Such ccurrerces as this may surprise the News and Courier and other gold bug organs; because they Iare wrapped up in their dense igno rance and prejudice, and can't see be yoThe ie then o ahe moneyed men who own and control tbem. It is no surprise, however, to those of us who have iavestiated the financial condition that now oppresses every legitimate enterprise of the rountry. It was just such cruel surprises, as the one the News and Courier speaks of, that Bryan and other Democratic speakers in the late campaign predict ed would come if McKinley was eleet ed and the gold bug doctrine of the supiteNews and Courier fatnendh arte wrpeu i theidensofte igne ranver fanateice, andlied tcallse e usond the interess of the ineyed wod-buggistigaed he bforencial clegtottrrse of the coun87 uretry.e Itr wa"ut hcruel surprises, wish t one otherNwsbis anor useak ofu thturyant wather aseplainatay speaker tinn epe. aefonredit-i dcould caeome rospneros elend edand the repud~ bugctinle ofache astNews and Courier and onstore counry to htoe plae iour curmp aThe sse of t Bodfto tde re us, and the sumeof our Mcstnley can goadebugismconceo fa theforemte olosses n ife and 1imb orcsioned gdbu aguitnparhostill haeans. mrm Aprul surpris6s. unti wisy 20, light ther wtikn epe8 efera ts coury ille boureh ospteru anedo ths culsrnss battewih4,6wowed, iotawll havned and rudied soon faseteache lsss thewn Coder andmiestwere 5987silve itspoe late, in71 mortally woundd. Teewr lo1.0 t the Lsdead owiBth 16,18 Con Oflyerates who weeeve heareo ageatn the tientf or last wand ca there there w,1 ererls6 Fieda sol diers killedeourite makn the tildoa battilent daths6 reaho wee morallyu loes ofeecedb the Cofdeaeaths wfre wone. eTpoere were pialson 180. 3 Federals prtd missing tonfedede tothis ofro theewt 1ase.14 on-o 318,840,te whoggreatevlosri huaro gion Byt acident oeng land0 andse here wrped 8,11 Federls unible and engage Conferthesocaing the otal ofvint dEthsueant Trbthe.aflu ofThe ageo Ps tesesiure are :midral andcl 138n1 Cneera esi dyingefrosttand caoues ot "He8tok4nt the eatrlss battleman eston t siness bein 5the2midday smust e hadded at000 Apmentto swer ascrile ad rthu'sdTereunbe to ngag spipn haionof memorce. he WasndhimnoPs coses aiieness, irable artil resnenral. Lof ui, noth eaist and elet wob roudo bee oo iotherie irut batl a-ni cutentainles was thae, middal un. ashe whaited Apnulox -ao wordhtsorright as Ahuwas.indere is bleo spr oet up .i n L emcornbne letiehn himl ever quity that ppeas, orreoe, th reetent. ami of usa orthasti or wetmand beadfastly, oaty thoroug hay, he didhe-s duts ca teas he .wat brave, m'ai Tuhe as truei, fromhpe of n he feery alityt op~ At h louvenheien al-on Aniraeburg makn. otefs tith lyalle tofugricato for odig hisd ascle swel ithut takig man o The ale Itribst insrod tin e ouf neweeralw soldte. oes Anet oi Orneor wnhraw. a l tote fhchont t with a ri . a u inth tileuchxlel as is inerted on hu . Upnben teleasf the sprk es. s ouwant to agrain. you whe a ver fu ave tondo isve devo nd isa u beic use drly sWith .t esr I ur. aos auc eil caneed upa - w 'ere aoing h read th es tha on mnte.o The ntn iotisalbe ineons is cleved by the Nonal eusrdctenormally of\ :anebrg os. a Mr.cl an bi n'tEdio and=?i 'rouretor of te rangeburg Timoe n'emca isl the manaer Ntonalh odpany, whi:c:. :s aguarantee that it is li igt. necompainy wants an a'ent in~ this couty to sell the Lubi i ctors. See advertisem'ent in another omn K P~OWDf6ER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder lighest of all in leavening strength. -La test UniZtd Stutes Gcernmed Foo R' poCrt. RonAL B~ c POWDER Co.. New York. 6.tarvatiou Abroad. We hear considerable complaint about hard times from our own peo ple, and we have no doubt there is good cause for the complaint, but we are a great deal better off than the I people of the North and West. Up tuere thousands of them are on the verge of starvation. In all the large cities of those sections thousands and tens of thousands are being fed by the public and charitable institutions. A dispatch from Chicago on Tuesday morning said the thermometer was sixteen degrees below zero, and that the suffering among the poor was in tense and that the mayor of the city had issued a proclamation calling for bread for the starving. This same condition of want and starvation ex ists in all the larger cities of the North I and East. It is appaling to contem i plate. According to reports made to the Imayor of Chicago by the bureau of charities and other committees, that have applied to him the number of I destitute families is increasing each aay, until the-conditions in some parts of the city are appalling. Immediate relief is necessary, or it is said many will die of starvation and cold. The police stations all over the city are illed with lodgers. Hundreds of homes are without fuel or food and skilled workmen are begging on thb streets. Committees from charitable institutions and many individual phi lanthropists have called upon Mayor Swift to urge him to make au appeal to the public for immediate help for the sufferers. Distribution of fuel and food have been carried on by the bureau of charities, but they say they are-unable to take care of one fifth of the people who beg assistance. County Commissioner Healy re ported to Mayor Swifr. Tuesday that the lists of ineedy are growng at the rite of from three hondred to five hun dred families a day. These are not the families of paupers, but of skilled workmen who are unable to get work. Tarough the suggestions of Mayor S xift, Chief of Police Badenoch issued an order tonight which widl facilitate the furnishing of relief to such as are in danger fr m the want of food or fuel. The patrolmen throughout the city were ordered to make all reports on cases of extreme destitution and exnlain the character of relief desired. T~all such cases immediate assistanlce will be rendered. This is a terrible con dition of affairs in a land such as we have. Many of these starving men no doubt voted for McKinley and old bugism, but they won't do so any more.- Their eyes have been opened.___ ___ Changes in the senate. The United States Senate after the 4th of next March will have a neumber of new Senators in it. In the place of David B. Hill, of New York, will be the great Republican boss, Thomas C. Platt. Succeeding the silent Don Cameron, of Pennsylvania, will be Boies Penrose, a young college gradua ate and Philbdelphia "Society man"-. a pet of Matt Quay's nevertheless. In the place of Dan Voorhees, of Indiana -the eloquent and picturesque- ?Jill be foun a Charles W. Fairbanks, tall lank and bearded-the first million aire senator from Indiana, and whose first oratorical eifort of a national sort. made as temporary chairman of the Republican national convention, was a failure. In the seat of John M. Palmer, of Ilhinois, late A ssistant Re publican candidate for President, will be found that master of political roust about language, Win. E. Mason, knol wn as "Billy." The smooth faced, gry naired Higgins, _of Delaware, has a Demccratic free silver successor in R. R. Kenny. In the place of the loebearded, long-winded Senator Pefer, of Kansas. will be William A. Harris. another Populist, but a better one. He was a Confederate soldier. John B. Gordon, of Georgia, will be succeeded by A. S. Clay and J. L. M. Irby, of South Carolina, by Judge J. HI. Earle. The chances seem against the return of Fred Dubois, of Idaho, and a new senator from Utah is likely.' Jones, of Arkansas; Teller, of Colo rado; Gallinger: of New Hampshire; Pritchard, of North Carolina; Vest, of Misouri; Hansborough, of North Dakota, and Piatt, of Connecticut, have been returned. Jones, of Neva da, will probably be re-elected, but Blackburn, of Kentucky, is as good as beaten. Farmera' wives. I belle ve that farmers's wives should re c ve regular wages fromn their hus omds. Call it a .veekly allowance, bt let each busy woman feel sure of 3 or $4 or $5 every S tturday night and an c:astonal s tare in tue prott. W'aro no'' Ah, how well it would -'." Tnat is what some farmers tO'ik of nirst even before the welfare of teir wives. Let each daughter ad each son~ have a regular business 0f his or her owvn frotn which to gain a litt t sounding money-a few hens, aitof ground for vegetables, a tool chs-n nay for good jobs done, soe animas) to keep or to raise and ei.I ths nian could be generally ao ted vie exodus from New Eag ja~d would not be so alarming as it no ais To boys go west for a chance to 'e their own iives, to see a little o oe world, to earn money of tbheir lon to get out of grooves and ruts ad fro-n under a rigid, close fisted u'te wh om they call father. No inuements are held out for them to reui-Kate Sanborn in "Abandon in an d2-\opted F'am. 3Iurder and suicide IIARTO3RD Cvrr lad-, Jan. 2S Last night Joseuh Boxel, a merchant. shot Bra Bro erton, daughte.I of the oldest merah a n inte village, in the temle, thIe me.passing out at Ine back o beM d Bxel then shot hie- in tne sai dying instantly. as> :: y arsold andt his vic het .o h-ad been lovers, but 3r crod:Con hamd discarded Boxell