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.voL~~~~~7 xl.MNI(NS . VEINESDAY, MARChl 8, 189.NO,6 To STOP THE STElAL That Is the Object of Senator Tillman's Amendment to THE APPROPRIATION BiLL. He Is Willing to Complete Every Battleship Now on the Stecks, but Without Robbery. The coutioversy in the United States Senate Wednesday over the price of ar mor plate was then precipitated by Mr Tillman. who offered an amendment re ducing the price 6xn by the iil frow $445 per ton to $300. Speaking ofhat amendment, Mr. Tillman declare d millions of dollars were being squand ered by the government in featheria the nests of the armor trust and he fell that the senate and country ought t know "what kind of a steal was going on. He said in the course of hi, speech that he proposed an alternativt proposition to establi h a government armor plant so that the Unite States could say to the armor trust tha, if it did not supply armor at a proper price the government would manufac ture its own armor. He said it wa: perfectly evide:-.t that the two Pennsyl vania armor plants had a "pull, what ever that may mean,' in the othe house of conigress and were able to hole up the price of armor. Mr. Tilmai became involved in a sharp colloqu with Mr. Gallinger over the subject of doing government work in private or in government factories. The latter main tained the navy department and held that its work could be done cheaper by private concerns than by the govern ment and that accounted for the fact that private shipyards were busy and government shipyards idle. Mr. Till man favored the doing of the work b3 the government, even at an increased price, for then labor and not capital would receive the benefits. "Why," he demanded, "are we to yield to these armor thieves, these robbers? Are we to permit these people to order us to stand ad deliver? I have deemed it my duty to protest against these meth ods and therefore have offered m3 amendment reducing the price to $300 a ton." Mr. Chandler of New Hamp shire supported the amendment. Mr. Tillman's amendment was adopted-34 to 26, as follows: Yeas-Allen, Bacon, Bate, Ber.y, Butler, Caffery. Chandler, Chilto", Clay, Cockrell, Daniel, Hansbrough, Harris, Kenney, Kyle, Lindsay, Mal lory, Martin, Money, Pasco, Pettigrew. Pettus, Rawlins, Roach, Ross, Stewart, Sullivan. Thurston, Tillman, Turley, Turner, Vest, Wellington, White-34. Nays-Allison, Burrows, Carter, Clark, Deboe. Fairbanks, Faulkner, Foraker, Gray, Hale, Hanna. Hawley, Hoar. McBride, McEnery, McMillan, Mantle. Penrose. Perkins, Platt of Connecticut, Proctor, Serell, Shoup, Spooner, Teller. Warren-26. in the course of debate Senator Till man said he was willing to complete every battleship on the stocks and pay $400 a ton for the armor, but he wanted congress to proceed to the erection of an armor facLory and thus free the country from the clutches of the armor trust. Mr. Butler of North Carolina the~n offered an amendment providing that if the companies refused to accept $300 a ton the secretary of the navy should cost of $1,500.000 and appropriating $2,000,000 for operating the plant. Mr. Butler's amendment 'b'as adopted3 -39 to 27. as follows: Yeas-Allen, Bacon, Bate. Berry. .Btler, Caffery, Chandkr. Cockrell, Daniel, Faulkner, Foraker, Hans brough, Harris. Jones of Nevada. Lind say. McLaurin, Mallory, Mantle, Mar. tin, Money. Nelson. Pasco, Perkins, Pettigrew, Pettus, -Rawlins, Roach, Ross, Simon, Stewart. Teller, Thurston, Tillman, Turley. Turner. \Vest. \\ar ren, Wellington, White-39. *Nays-Allison, Burrows, Carter, Chlton, Clark, Cullom, Deboe, Fair banks, Frye. Gallinger, Gray, Hale, Hanna, Hawley, Hoar. Kenney, Kyle. McBride, McEnery. McMillan, Pen rose, Platt of Connecticut, Pritchard. Protor. Shoup, Spooner-27. *After the -bill had been reported to the senate from the committee of th. whole Mr. Pettigrew oojected to the amendment regarding the authoriza tion of the Gothnman gun and projectile. Mr. Bacon of Georgia also made an ~argment against the amendment, quoting from the report on the subject of tests of gun and projectile by Capt. O'Neill, chief of the naval bureau oi ordnance. Mr. Hanna replied to the statement made by Mr. Bacon declaring that boti gun and projectile had passed beyond the experimental stage and was a suc -cess beyond a doubt. The amendment was agreed to with the amendment that the secretary of the navy was authorizcd - in his dis cretion" to use the gun. The bill was passed without division. Give Bryan His Due. "Thanks to Senator Gorman and the -.-faithful few in the United States sen ate the country has been saved from the *useless burden and danger of a great -permanent standing army, organized on political lines for party benefit - Charleston News and Courier. Thanks also and in greater mecasure to William Jennings Bryan, who, when the Demo cratic party was all at sea as to its pdh e regarding the increase of the army deised and urged the solution which has has no'w happily prevailed. It is a good thing to have a brainy man like Bryan as leader of the Demo~cracy. and The News and Courier ought to give him his due.---The State. More Troops for Manila. The secretary of war has ordere~d the reinforcement of Gecn. Otis by six regi ments. These are the Sixth artillery scattered along the Atlantic coast States; the Sixth infantry at San An tnio: the Ninth infantry at Madison barracks: Thirteenth infantry i i New York State: TPwenty-first infarntry at Plattsburg, N. Y., and the sixteenti infantry at fort Crook and neighborin posts in the middle west. These regi ments have been ordered to make reaa~ to proceed to San Francisco and then t< Manila. THE UNITED STATES ARMY. The Democrats in Congress Made a Successful Fight The Democrats' gained every impor tant point fr which thxey contCled iii the framing of the army bill, and the ueaL-ure as ameneud by them is far more satisfactory than it was in iti vrig inal form. The best of all the anjand ments of the nieasure is that offered by Senator Gorman, which was adopted after a sharp debate. It I rovides for a reduction of the army on July 1. 1901, to the number allowed by law on March 31, 1S9F. This removes the apprehen sion that the country would be commit ted to a larae standing army. The bill as it passed the senate pro vides for a regular army of :S.000 offi cers and men, wihieh may be increased in the discretion of the president to not exceeding 65,000 enlisted men, and an additional volunteer force of 35,000 "to meet the present exigencies of the rail itary service." The three-battalion ind squadron organization is provided for in the infantry and cavalry regi .nents. and the artillery regiments are to consist of fourteen batteries each two of which may be organized as field artillery. The maximum strength in enlisted men of a company of infantry sill be sixty-five; of a troop of cavalry. sixty-five, of a battery of artillery. eighty. The number of regimental or 4anizations will remain as at present twenty-five regiments of infantry, ten >if cavalry and seven of artilery. With this organization the theoretical maxi mum of eulisted men would be 35,140, with nearly 3.000 officers in the line and staff departments. There is now serving under the Fed eral flag a regular army nearly equal in numerical strength to the force of (;5, 009 men which the president may re cruit under the terms of this army re organization bill, and in addition there are about 50,000 volunteer troops-the tatter being 16,500 strong in the Philip pines. In Cuba there are at the pres ent time 33,000 volunteers; the regu lar army on that island being represent ed by about 12,500 troops. There are 12,700 regulars in the Philippines, and 8,000 more are now on the way to Ma nila in five transport ships. It is believed that 5,000 troops will be sufficient for Porto Rico and Hawaii as there are no signs of trouble in either of these new possessions. The army bill makes no material alteration in the fighting strength or territorial disposi tion of the forces already in the field. [he Democrats in congress are to be congratulated upon the successful fight they have made against the imperialist principle which was embodied in the original army bill. They improved the measure immensely.-Atlanta Journal. Soldirse at the Grave. A New York regiment ercamped at Greenville, S. C., or rather a detach ment from the regiment, did an act a few days ago that is~ go:ng the rounds of the newspapers and securing for them complimentary mention. lhefu neral of Captain John MeFall, a Confed erate veteran, took place at Greenville. and during the services at the grave in the cemetery a detachment of the Two Hundred and Second New York regiment, now in camp at Greenville, marched into the grounds under the charg' of a sergeant. and, taking posi tions by the grave, bared their heads in respect to the memory of him who had worn the gray. The Greenville News says the ideident attracted much attention and was favorably comment ed upon throughout the city. We see it referred to editorially in the Balti more Sun as "a touching incident." and no doubt it will go the rounds. There has never been any lack of followship between real soldiers. Pestiferous po0 liticians are the ones who have en couraged bitterness, but even their power to do harm in this regard is over, and it was as natural for the New York soldiers to do this as it would have been for Georgia or Carolina soldiers. McKinley's Vacillation. Bef'ore the beginning of the trouble with the Filipinos Admiral Dewey and Gerr. Merritt said that "not 5,000 troops would be needed in the Philippines," vet we now have 20,000 men there, and 7,000 more and the battleship Oregon on the way. Does any inte ligent man, not blinded by the light that streams~ roml the source of federal patronage. doubt but that the statement of these two well ioformed commanders woull have been veritied except for the weak and vacillating policy of M~r. 31eKin lev?~ His satellites claim that there would have been no difficulty in the way of satisfactory adjustment of the problem if the insurgents had not been encourag'ed by the position of the anti impeialists in this country. That is a"urd. The fears of Aguinaldo and his followers would n yver have been aroused if the executive had promptly disclaimed any intentien of treating the population otherwise than as a sub' jugated people who had no rights the victor felt bound to respect.-Columibia Rcord. IThe Rita Prize Money In the United States District Court in Charleston Thursday Clerk C. J. C. Hutson made out and Judge Brawley signed 295 checks to the officers and men of the cruiser Yale for their share of the money accruing from the sale of the Spanish Rita prize. After the Rita had been captured by the Yale and had been sent here the government bought her fot $125,000. The prize money to be divided was $59.000. Capt. Wise of the Yale was sent a check for $S.991, and the smallest amount received by a seaman was $6 May Succeed Simonton. 3tieh interest is manifested in the news that Senator 31eLaurin, of South Carolina, may succeed Judge Simonton. when the latter retires. Several mem bers of the South Carolina delegation have been seen, but no one could be found who would confirm the publish ed reports. The senator is known to be very friendly to the administration, and the president is said to regard Sen Iator 31eLaurin very highly.-Columbia Record. Valuable Trees. Fifty walnut trees in Cass county, ihigan. were recently sold for $10 000. These trees have now been fell ed and will be shipped to English buy ers. The largest tree was seven feet in diameter, at its base, and will yield ANOTHER TRkGEJ)y. A Dispensary Constable Shot and Killed in Columbia. HAD SERVED BUT ONE DAY. The Fatal Shot Was Fired by W. B. Meetz Jr., Who Surrenders to the Sheriff. Another tragedy was enacted in the streets of Columbia on Tuesday night of last week. Alex Cartledge had had his commission as State constable but 24 hours when he was shot by W. B1. Meetze. Jr. The youth of the parties concerned makes the affair a very sad one. Cartledge cannot be more than.24 years old and Meetze is even younger. Both have becn raised in Columbia and are quite well known here. The affair occurred on Gervais street. near, Gates. in that quarter where there are a num. ber of tumble down wooden stores in which restaurants are conducted. It was just in front of the store of Tom .Lane, colored, tbout four doors from the southeast corner of Gates and Gervais streets, that young Cartledge fell. The State says from all that can be gathered, Cartledge was iroing down Gervis street toward the union - depot. In front of the Negro re-taurant kept by Tom Lane he met Willie Meetzt. Charlie Stone and another whose name cannot be learned. Meetze twitted Cartledge with being a dispensary spy. Cartledge replied that he was not a spy. The lie was passed and they clinched. When they first grappled, so it is stated by one of the witnesses, they were on the side nearest the store. Several shots were then fired in rapid succession. Cart ledge fell back and told Meetz that he had shot him. In the scufflie they had crossed the sidewalk. Stone pulled Meetze away and started with him through the Negro's store. They went out into the back yard. Meetze then disappeared and Stone walked on back through the store. Officers Dowie and Strickland were on adjoining beats. They hastened to the scene of the shooting. They found Cartledge sitting down on the steps of the store just above Lane's toward Gates street. The officers called for a carri age, and when it came endeavored to assist Cartlege into it. But the boy was so weak that he fell on the bridge which crosses the drain. Seeing that he was desperately hurt and that life might be extinct in a few moments, officer Strickland had Cartledge to dic tate an antemort m statement to Mr. Joe Daly, who came up at this time. Cartledge was very weak and his voice scarcely audible, but he managed to gasp, Bill Meetze, Charlie Stone and Joe came up and cursed me and then fired on me. Bill Meetze did all the shooting. His voice was so weak that the name of the third party could not be learned. It was fully ten minutes befcore Drs. Knowlton and Gibbes could be gotten to the scene of the shooting, and it was several minutes later befcre the patrol wagon arrived. The wounded man was placed in the wagon and was taken to the Columbia hospital. He called fee bly for his father, who came up before they left, and asked his son who shot him. It is said that his father endea vored to comfort young Cartledge by saying that he would be avenged. This, however, was stated by but one witness. When young Cartledge was placed in the patrol wagon, a pair of knocks fell out of his pocket. and in another pocket wasa flask of whiskey, according to the statement of Officer Dowie. Not a sin gle witness has been found who saw a pistol on Cartledge's person, and several sytahehad none during the whole affair. Chief Daly and Sergt. JIones. accom panied by Officers Dowie and Strick land, instituted a search for MIeetze, but he could not be found. At 10.20 o'clock young Meetze's father walked into the police station to inform the chief to discontinue the search as his son had surrendered to Sheriff Cath cart. He says that young Meetze wtnt home after the shooting to allay the fears of his mother. He th -a started to the county jail to deliver himiselt, and met hi., father, who accompanied him. Mr. Meetze cautioned his son not to open his mnoutn on the subject to anyone. He says thit there ar'e four eye witnesses who are not known to the poli,:e authorities ahnd who can give valuable testimony in behalf of vong Meetze. Win. Parker and Tom Lane, both colored, are the only witnesses frotm whom anything could be obtained last night. Another Negro, Sitm Lorick. is said to have been an eye witness, but he could not be found. La.ne was not an eye witness. He was in his store when the shooting occurred. Parker saw part of the affair, and his story is. substantially that told above. There is consideralde difference of opinion as to the number of shots fired.. Some say three, others four, and offieer Dowie counted five shots. four in rapid *. suc cession, and one a few seconds later. Meetze. Stone arnd Cartledge were all members of company K, First South Carolina regiment. Both are said to be impetuous and dangerous. Mcetze has the reputation of being true to his friends but easily excited and danger ous to those whom he dislikes. There is not known to have been any hard feeling between thenm at the time. Meetze is a son of Mr. W. B. Meetze who conducted an original packege store in Columbia before the supreme ourt decided against these agencies. Cartledge is a son of ex-ispenser J. C Cartledge, and was himnself a clerk in Sott's dispensary at the time when it w~as involved in trouble In the darkness of the street the phy icans were unable to make but a cur or examination of young Caitledge's wounds. When he was taken to the hoptal he was too weak to stand an operation. At 12.30 o'clock last night Dr R. W\. Gibbes stated that lie was very low' and his condition extremely critical. There are three wounds. One in the chest about midway of his body: a second five inches below in a straight line, and in the abdomen, and the third in his right wrist. Either of the first txo wiol be !:ingerou. bmt th1e wound t abd'-,.'n-n will in :ll probability At If iniutcs ti o'clock Wednes :. norining the State recive intelli 1n*. frn he opia that young) Cirled"e was dead. WA - 'NOT .% (O NST A 13 1E. As to the cotnstabulary part of it, Car:!edge was not one. thoughli he for somie rea.ou claimed to be. le told several people so. getliemen whose ye racity is unquestioned. What induced him to make such statements arc un-1 known. for Mr. W. V. Harris. clerk of' t lie governor for the constabulary de partment, says that he has never been commissi.Iwd and was in no way con ne('ted with the for.-e. Ile says that only yesterday (iri ledge met him and showed him a petitin for apio:ntinent and he wanted to take it up to the man sion. Mr. Harris to'd hini not to, that there was little chance of hii receiving the appointment any wav and that the governor was too ill to see him. Mr. Harris says that is the only convorsa tion ever passed between him and Cait ledge on the subject. Bat there is no doubt that young Cartledge led people to believe he was a cnstible. Yester d!ay he h.id somuc words with a citizen about searhing premises and the citi zen welt to have him put under a peace bond but notiiing came of it. While the fact of Cartledgesz being a consta ble or not has no legal bearing on the homicide. still it appears th.t the fact that 1-e said he was uhimately led to his death. RESULTS OF THE BLIZZARD. What Damage has been Done to Crops in Various States. The Chicago Tribune last Friday published dispatches from States in which the crops have been injured by the severe weather of February. The statistics show the following condi tions: Illinois -Wheat not damaged in cen tral section, but injured in southern section. Iowa-Peach crop destroyed; pears and apples damaged. Wisconsin-Winter wheat injured; potatoes in pits frozen. Michigan-Potatoes in pits 40 pei cent. crop; peaches 60 per cent. crop. Nebraska-Peaches, pears and apples damaged badly. Missouri-Meagre fruit prospects. Kansas-Small apple crop; strawber ries killed. Georgia-Peaches, prunes and pears all killed; early vegetables ruined. Florida-Citron fruit and trees dam aged 15 per cent.; general fruit crop 30 per cent. better than last year; 00 per cent. of vegetable crop destroyed. Vi.ginia-Full yield in apples; early vegetables and berries damaged. . Louiiana-Loss to oraue crop $8M0 000 to $1,000,000; truck farmers' loss $500,000; sugar cane damaged. West Virginia-Wheat crop all right; potatoes 60 per cent. crop; apples 10 per cent. crop; live -stock suffered se verely. Alabama-Market gardens complete loss; wheat prospects fine. North Carolina-Growing vegetables safe; peach buds injured; snow saves wheat crop. South Carolina-Wheat, oats and fruit trees safe; damage to vegetables and fruit blossoms in State $100,000. - Kentucky--Peach crop killed; wheat 5 per cent. crop: apples all right. California-Lemon and orange crop short; apricots damaged: rain needed Delaware-Peach crop) almost a tot al loss; pear crop short;,plums, raspberries and blackberries killed. Maryland Honors Schley. Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Sehley received Tuesday from the people of Marland, his native State, a superb testimonial of the esteem in which he is held by the people of Maryland and of their appreciation of his services to. the country during the late 'war with Spain. Incidentally, he was cheered by thousands as he rode through the streets of Baltimore. a.nd at night 400 of the representuve men of the c'ty and State gathered to witness the pre sentation of the testimonial and join in banquet given in his honor. The testimonial proper took the form of a uaificent medal of gold and dia mond-. the gift of Mars land, presented in the name of the State. by Gov. Lloyd Loxa 'es. The medal, in the shape of the Mar' land coat-of-.arms, is made' of gola in base relief and enamel, sur rounded by a circle of dianouds..arond .dhich is anu oak wr.-ath *ent siued with diamouds, held by a ribbon .of blue enamel. thte edge of which is set with iiamonds an~d on which is the inscrip tion: -'M.ryland honors 'htr. son Winlield Seatt Schley.' Beware tihe Celluloid Comb. At Chillicothe, C) . Miss Sallie Yan meter, daughter of Jyudge J. M. Van meter. and :v of the leaders of society there.' was leaning over an open fire when a celluloid comb in her hair ex plodcd, and an instant later her hair was in a blaze. Persons near by smoth ered the flames before they had inflict Ied serious injury, but not before a great dal of her hair had been burned off. At Wheeling, W. Va.. while Miss Mary Connor was raking the coals ini a grte a celluloid comb which the young lady wore in her hair exploded from the heat. burning her seriously about the head and face. This was tihe second accident of the same kind o~curring there within a week. At Zanesville, ., Miss Lulu Moorehead, while try inz to deep warm. got too near a grate fire. c.1d a celluloid comb in her hair inited. A splendid head of hair is gone and her scalp is badly burned. Hanna and His Man. Senator Hlanna has invited Presi dent Mc Kiniley to go with him this wek to is place at Thonuasville, Ga.. Ifor a rest, and the president has prom ied to dto so if the piublie business is in suenl conaiin as to permit his absene. If the trip is made it will be solly or hepurpose of securing rec retowich~ the president is in need of after hisi long strain in connection with the Spanish war. Hobson's Reward. The p'resident Thursday niominiated Assistant Naval Constructor Richmond P. Hlobson to be advanced 10 numbers, from No. 1 of the iist of assistant naval constructors to he No. S on the list of navals constructors for extraordinary FORGING AHEAD. South Carolina the Second Cot ton Manufacturing State. MASSACHUSETTS IS FIRST. Some Interesting Statistics About' the Spinning of Yarns and Making Cloth in the United States. The C.lhunbia State, after thorough ly investigating the figures, announces the fact that South Carolina will rank second among the States of the Union in the production of cotton cloth. The State says "this statement may startle those who have iot kept in touch with the manufacturing progress of the State, but if the number of looms be an index to the turnout of cloth-as, on the aver age, it must be-we have high New England authority for the claim. C. A. Dockham & Co., of Boston, publish annually a textile directory of the United States which is recognized as an authority. Advance sheets of their di rectory for 1896 show the number of spindles and looms employed in the manufacture of cotton, wool and silk in 1896 and 1898 in each of the States of the Union. From them we make up the following ta'bles showing the changes in the number of cotton looms which have occurred in two years I in the ten leading textile manufactur ing States: 1896. Looms. Rank. Massachusetts. 1S5.S06 I Rhode Island. .. 41406 Njew Hampshire... 35,09 3 South Carolina......31,092 4 Maine ............24,189 5 Pennsylvania... 21,802 6 Connecticut ...... 20,752 7 North Carolina.. .. 20,720 8 Georgia.. ..17,789 9 New York..........15,420 10 189S. Looms. Rank. Massachusetts ..... 1S2193 1 Rhode Island.. .. .40,065 2 South Carolina...... 38,293 3 N.w Hampshire . . 35230 4 Maine. . ...24,139 5 North Carolina. . . 23,704 6 Connecticut".... 21 , 926 7 Pennsylvania. .. . .. 1,990 8 Georgia.....*. .... 18,504 9 New York.......... 15,474 10 "It will b.seen that in two years South Carolina has risen from fourth to third place and North Carolina from eighth to sixth place; while New Hamp shire has fallen from third to fourth and Pennsylvania from sixth t,) eighth. Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine and Pennsylvania have suffered an actual falling off in the number of their looms. The net loss of the seven north ern States in two years was 6.434 looms: South Carolina's gain was 7.201 looms; the combined gains of North Carolina. and Georgia were 3,699 looms, or half of South Carolina's gain. Sa much for the changes up to last year. "As for 1899, a ccnsideration of the figures and known facts will pro.e that South Carolina must take second place before the year is out. The fi.aures show that in 1898 this State lacked only 1792 looms of equalling Rhode Island's total. But in Rhode Island the num ker is decreasing or stationary. while in South Carolina many more than the number required to make up the differ 'ence are now being installed or' have been ordered. By the close of the year this State will be in second place, never to lose it except to take first place. Ap plying the same facts and figures, we can forsee that befr-e next January North Carolina will have dislodged Maine from fifth place andl Georgia taken Pcnnsylvania's place, now eighth. "In spindles South Carolina is mnak ing as great an increase as in looms, al though, because of the number of sepa rate yarn mills in New England, she does not rank as high. The following figures for the same years show the changes in the spinning business: 1896. Spindles. Rank. Masahusetts. .....79,642 1 Rhods sland...2.104.060 2 New Ham pshire .... 1.308 802 3 Connee icut...- ..:. -..1.045 937 4 Souih Carolina. . 997.185 . 5 Maine ..... .... .. .. 96 304 6 North Carolina.... 910.474 7' Gergia-..-.-..-.-.... 731.238 S New York..........-717 423.9 Pennsylvania ... .. .. 464.17 10 1898. Spindles. Rank. Masachusetts.- ....90 7.388 1 Rhode Island....2,132 350 2. New idampshire..1,323.378 3 South Carolina..1...l.0. 536 4. Cn'necticut........1,059.244 5 North Carolina.....1.029.924 6 Mairie.............908. 208 7 Georgia............79,977 S New York.:.. .... ...735.971 9 Pennsylvania... .. . .43.435 10 "It will be seen that South Carolina has taken fourth place. Connecticut dropping to fifth, and that North Caro lina has advanced to sixth place, dislodging Maine. The prediction may be made with confidence that by the end of this year South Carolina will have passed New Ihampshire. tak ing third place. North Carolina will have displaced Connecticut at fifth and Georgia will have risen to seventh place, sending Maine to eighth. The* differences arc all small and easily over come at the present rate of southern progress, the industry in the east re maining, as at present, nearly stat ion ary. Thle following table shows the gans in spindles made in the two years, 16-98 and will illustrate the pro grss of the Southern States, especially South (Carolina: 1896. 1898. Gains. S.~ C..... 997.000 1,260.000) 263.000 NC. .. 910.000 1,029.000 119,00 Aa.....231.000 314,0"'0 83.000 Georc'ia ..731.1000 7990P 68.000IP I hode Island gained only 25.200 spiidles, New Ilaumpshire 14,576 and Conncticut 13.307. while. Maine lost. 8,09 anG d Peunsylvania 25. 2 In two or thiree vears South Urolina will take from Rhode Island second place in spinning. as she takes from her this. year second place in weaving. After that Massachusetts only will be ahead of her. The Bay State has a very long 1l1ad, ut-lnho ad doen't count for much with a mauufacturing sprinter lik e South Carilina. At her present rate of progress shc will catch up be fore ten years are over. Anyway, that 8,.00.000 spindle total makes a shining and oleasant mark to aim at." DON'T LIKE THE CUBANS. Chaplain Murray Writes to Governor Ellerbe About Cuban Officers. Goi vcrnor Ellerbe reventiy received the following letter from the Rev. P. A. Murray. chaplain of the Second South Carolina regimen:. now at Camp Columbhia, near Habana: Dear Sir and Brother: I see from papers you are 3ouuined to your room. Let me assure you that I deeply regret to hear of your illne-s, and sincerely hope you will soon. be yourself again. Our regiment is away now on a marea. They were to be gone 10 days, but for some reason they have begun the re turn march and will reach camp here tomorrow night or Sunday morning. I did not go, but remained to look after the sick men in the hospital. We have quite a ru'.b:r in ti.e hospital, three or four of whom are ,riou1ly sick. We lost two men this week. both typhoid cases. We have about 10 other cases of typhoid fever. Most of the talk now is of getting home. The boys, and most of the officers as well, are suffici ently amused with camp life. It is the same thing every day, nothing to break the monotony. I think most of regiu-e it would really prefer a little fighting to the present inactivity. A large part of the Cuban army consists of black Negroes and I'm sure they will not be prepared for anything like a civilized (I mean self-government) gov ernment for at least 100 years. The editor of The State gives a very differ ent idea I know, but with his views, seeing for myself, I'm not prepared to agree. There are some nice people here, but they are decidedly in the minority. The majority will object to any kind of law and any form of gov ernment. A large number of men now composing the Cuban army will in fu ture constitute a lawless element and to the extent we give them good laws, ju'st to that extent will they hate us. They are a lazy, ignorant crowd and will al ways give trouble. To ride a Cuban pony, carry a machete and play soldier is the height of ,heir ambition. They are not fitted for times of peace. I'm. Lere getting along pleasantly in some respects with my work. Army life is demoralizing on the boys, and in some instances, I fear, on the officers, I hope I have done some good. r think at least I have helped to cheer sone of sick. I sincerely hope you will be able to keep up a spirit of cheerfulness and of hope, and that the good Lord will restore you to health. I could tell you 'much about the customs and peculiari ties of these peopole. They are very amusing at times. Asking for the blessing of our Heav enly Father, I remanin yours sincerely, P. A. "Murray, Chaplain Second S. C. V. I. Blue and Jenkins. The attention of the ladies who are securing funds for the Victor Blue tes timonial is invited to the letter of Theo dore Roosevelt on John 31ieah Jenkins of South Carolina. 'who at Las Guasi inns so-distinguished himself that "a the request ot all the other captains" he was promoted from junior captain to acting major. and beeause of his gal lantry at San Juan promoted to major; who, in the Kettle hill charge followed the Spaniards into their lines "practi cally by hinmseli" -and "had to bere called,' "his hat shot from his head and his coat almost in tatters." South Caroi.:a women are going to honor a brave representative of this State in the navy: let thorm also honor a hero it con tributed to tihe army. M1ake it a Blue and Jenkins testimonial !-The State. A Fatal Fight The Rev. John Rexroad, a Baptist ministar of Lewis county, WV. Va., and a wealthy landowner, will lose his life, and his neirhbors, Clark, Simmons auid Jas. Bonnett, also farmers, will be tried for murder as the result of a quarrel over rails from a line fence. The wind blew the rails on the Rexroad land. Simmons and Bo.nhett went to recover themi . Rexcoad met them and a fist fight ensued in whijh Simmons was vorsted. All parties ar ned themselves arid returned1 to the rails, when they all fired simuh anieously. Re.groad was mortally wounded. The ot hers escaped ijury. but were arrosted. Simmons is expresident of'the contr court. WVant Eggs Badly. A dealkr ia Savannah, Gzi., has just shipped l.000 dozen ecns to Tibana. for which lhe will receive- 1. 60 per dozen. The order came before the bliz ard and the egg famine. At the time esirs in Iiabana were worth five cents ~ea-h. The freeze cut off the 'supply and the dealer cabled that he could not fill the order lower than $1.00 a dozen. Tfhe reply came back to ship them any way, It is said he paid around 30 and 40 cents per dozen. A Fast Train. The great rcord of the Burlington route, between Chicago and Burlington, made on ed of January. was eclipsed on the 18th. when the actual running time was 502 miles in 48 . minutes. Including stops, it was 554 minutes, at several places. for many miles, the speed was over a hundred miles an hour, and this, too, with a very heavy train. It is hardly possible to 'conceive of such speed, but the offieial records admit of no mistake. A Hard World. A homeless wanderer found the front door of the Seond Presbyterian church in Charlotte. open a f'ew days ago. It was w:.rm within and entering lhe ate his frugal w eal. le was detected, re rorted to the police, and when taken iefore the mayor was fined 57.50. hut failing to pay up lie was sent to the chaingaag. What a hard world this They All Dodged. A Joplin ~.'.. paper says a wi:uan preacher at that place recntly Stoppe~d in the mniddle of a disecurse, and, ic:k' ing up a Bible, said she was going to thrw it at a man wvho was aunaitlhful to his wife. As she swung her arm for ward cevery man in the church but one ducked under the seat. Hie was a deaf mte. HE WAS A SWINDLER. A Negro Buncoes a Great Many of His Own Color. A special dispatch from Washington, Ga., to the Augusta Chronicle says: The disappearance of a tall black Ne gro with about $300 belonging to the Negiocs of this town and county has caused much indignation and excite ment among them. About two months ago a tall, black Negro came to this place representing himself to be a minister of the gospel, a doctor of medicine and a lawyer. By his pleasing manners he soon won the confidence of a great many of his color, and was dined and pampered to a con siderable extent. He brought with him a catalogue of Sears, Roebue & Co., the great de partment store of Chicago, Ill. He said he had the interest of the oppress ed Negroes at heart, and the above mentioned firm had sent him here to sell them all classes of goods at whole sale prices. He agreed to take in pay ment their notes payable next fall with out interest, provided /they would pay the freight charges in advance. He collected 50c. from one as freight on a buggy, 75c. from another for freight on 10r pounds of meat, $1 from a poor country Negro as freight on ten sacks ofguaao. He was also representative of abuild ing and loan association, and collected $10 fr.om an intelligent Negro preacher as lawyer's fees for drawing up papers ani application for a loan of $1,000, with whichthe preacher was going to build a church. In addition to the loan he was to furnish him with a car riage to go to the church in. He sold every conceivable article of merchandise, and was special agent for everything and everybody. He was to have a solid train load of provisions, guano, buggies, wagons, dry goods, etc., to arrive here March 1, and just before the tinie he skipped for parts unknown. The Negroes are trying to raise $50 to offer as a reward for the erstwhile Dr. Murray. AN AWFUL TRAGEDY. A Woman With Her Two Children numps Overboard. An appalling tragedy occurred the other day on the steamer Orion, as the vessel was making her way from Santos in Brazil to-.Geroa. Among the pas Eengers was a family named Fdrrarini, the members of which were natives of Modena. The family comprised the father, mother and four children, who were returning to Italy with a snug lit tle fortune which the father had accu mulated in Brazil. During the voyage Mr. and Mrs. Forrarinifrequently quar reled, the husband aceusing the wife of improper conduct, and she retorting that he was insane through unfounded jealousy. Finally in presence of all the passengers the husband made an awful charge in regard to the two youngest children, winding up his in vective by saying that he would not ac knowledge them. At thisthe wife be came beside herself with indignation, and, catching the two little ones in her arms, she sprang to the side of the ves sel and flung herself overboard. The witneseses of this horrible act were for the moment petrified with amazement. Then the captain was notified. the ves sel was stopped and boats were hastily launched in the hope of saving the three unfortunates. This hope, how ever, was soon seen tobe baseless. The sturdy seamen did their best, but the sea had engulfed its prey, and the bod ies could not be recovered. When Forrarini saw that the search'was use less, he abandoned himself to despair, and it soon became evident that he was losing entire, command of himself. Consequently a close watch was kept over his movements, but he eluded his watchers, and on the third day after bis wife had drowned herself and the two youngest children, lie too. flung himself overboard and met with the same death. There were now only twe children left. and when the vessel ar rived at -Genoa they were handcd over to the care of the anthorities. A ilrilung sry. The race of the courier of United States Judge Clayton's court for the ife of Walla Tonka, the condemned C.octaw Indian was won by a hairs breadth by -the courier, who inade the wild ride .from South McAlester to Alikehi. Waila .Tonda was to have been shot Monday morning for the murder of his un le and had, come to the execution grounds, as he had p:L'm ised to do, having been at liberty pend ing final action by the court. Last week a reprieve for a rehearing of the case was ordered by Judge Clayton, the courier dispatched on tha eighty mile journey. Rain was falling in tor rents and there was every cause for fear that he could not make Alikchi, as he had but one broncho to carry him the distance. It was after midnight 'Sun day moroing when the rider reached the flooded Kianuchi river. Here he stopped till daylight and then with his hand on the pommel of his saddle swam the-stream with his pony. The pony was almost exhausted when Big creek was reached and a long detour was necessaary, which caused hours of de lay. Night came and more rain when the Seven Devil's hill was reached the broncho fell to the ground with the rider, and both slept, though but ten miles from Alikehi. Before dawn they were up again and finally the bron cho bearing the courie1, staggered to the execution grounds where the wit ness, executioners and stolid Walla Tonka were waiting the tnc fatal mom ent. The Indian heard his reprieve without comment and will appear be fore Judge Clayton forthwith. ' Took Them In. A trio of smart young men took in the unsophistieated in Pennsylvania by sending out circulars stating that they would, to introduce their goods, give ten yards of silk for one dollar. The unsopisticated that bit got in return fr the~ one dollar ten yards of silk the. As a rule, people don't give s mrethig f.>r nothina. Gen.. Toral Arrested. A dispatch from Madrid says Gener :l Toral. who commanded the Spanislh trops at Santiago de Cuba, has been arreted and imprisorted, previous to being tried by courtmartial on the charge of capitulation to General Shaf ter at tht n1.cem TnJly 14, last SOME PLAIN TALK Indulged In by Senator Tillman to the Outlook Club. SYNOPSIS OF HIS REMARKS. He Tells the New Jersey People That the Negro Will Never Have Equal Rights in the South. United States Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, of South Carolina, and the Rev. Dr. A. H. Bradford, of the First Congregational church of Montclair, N. J., talked before the Outlook club there recently on "The Race Question in the South." Senator Tillman, after drawing a picture of the ruin and deso lation caused in !,is land by the civil conflict, said "The white man is superior to the colored man, and, God helping us, we will maintain that superiority. Your great soldier, Grant, sent to my coun try in 1876 a regiment of ten companies to maintain carpet bag government. Those troops had orders to compel a free vote and a fair count. They did their duty as they saw it. They main tained law and order, although there were 5.200 blacks - to 3,500 whites. What do you reckon our majority was? Three thousand nine hundred. Can Tammany beat that? Can Philadelphia beat it? We beat these people by out voting ands outeounting them, and we admit it. We can't repeal the- four..: teenth and fifteenth amendments ex-. cept by force and fraud. 'I told the senators this in Washingtonuand then I. said: 'What are you going to do about it? In the North it is a question of white rascals against white rascals. In the South it is a contest between An glo-Saxon superiority and civilization and degraded, corrupt and corruptible people. "We called a constitutional conven tion and created a constitution under which every man must be able to read or write or pay taxes on $300. Under that constitution 90 per cent. of the whites and 10 per cent. of the blacks vote. The colored people are a happy go-lucky, immoral, untruthful, unrelia ble race. There are exceptions 'and bright ones, but I speak of the great mass. They were unfit for the ba6ot' and are now, because they are lacking in that moral fibre which gives them sound judgment, and~they can be led away by any shrewd and sharp rascal. I simply recognize my superiority to the blaek man and. -am.,willingsto- con sent to his life, liberty and happinesw so long as he does not step on my feet. (Laughter.) Take a pilgrimmage to the South. Settle in any part you may please, and if you don't come North convinced that my view is the right one-why, then, I'll stand treat. I have a Negro. on my plantation 27 years old. I would trust him with my wife and child and he would die 'protecting them, but he ain't fit to vote. You can't alter what God has made and though this or that Negro may be a de cent man or an honest man, yet the tiger is loosened in a white man's bosom without regard to consequences when the two races come in contact." Speaking of the Negro from the in dustrial standpoint, Senator Tillman said: "He is by nature and by every instinct of his soul a loafer. His one purose i-n life is to get somethihg to eat for today, with no thought for the future. In consequehce, the Southern States lag behind the North because of the lack of thrift in its laboring class. But don't think that the Negro does all the work. The South produces 11,000, 000 bales of cotton last year and one half of it was raised by white men. If any- commonwealth will give us one good industrious white man for three niggers, we'll swap as long they'll keep up the exchange. We've got the wiw man's burdeh down there." "In closing, the speak-er said: "We. are edacating them, but even if they ec-n learn, we don't propose to have them govern us. We'll use the shot gun if-neessary." Dr. Brdod in reply, Aenied that wve "can't alter what God has made." He said: "1rhat s what we are doing all the time.' He read statistics and letters from various institutions of leirning in the Norta, showing that the Negro was capable of taking a high in tellectual stand. A Terrible Crime. A dispatch from Clay Centre, Kan., says a murder was discovered this even ing in Theistone township, this coun ty. A neighbor, going to the home of John Gilb-erts, found Mrs. Gilberts and her four children murdered. The boy was nine years old and the three girls three, five and seven years .respective ly. The family had not been seen since Tuesday night. The door was found locked and the husband missing. Came In Troops. Misfortunes follow some men in rap id succession. The Maryland papers tell of a farmcr in that state who three weeks ago lost three children from dip theria. the next week his barns and sta bles were burned, and with them his stock, farming implements and grain, and the third week his house burned in the night and he and his wife and re miaining child were almost frozen be fore they reached a ncighbors house. A Remarkable Case. Since May, 1897, a native of Wau kesha, Wis., has lived and even at times performed light work with two bullets in his brain. By the aid of X-rays one was located at the base of the 'rain, right over the spinal column, and the other in the roof of the orbit. The case has baffled the skill of physicians who say that according to all rules of IinedicalI science he should be dead. For the Veterans Senator Tilbran secured the adop tion by the United States Senate on Wednesday of a resointion~ authorizing the secretary of war to loan the execu tive committee of the United Confeder ate veterans for their reunion to be Iheld in Charleston. S. C., on May 10, 1899, 10.000 cots. 10,00~0 mattresses and 2.000 tents.