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The Bamberg Herald. jj ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG, s! C? THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1,1900. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR Jig ROBERTS IS T 1 * ?s Utah flan Denied Seai Yote of 2 ADOPT MAJORITY REPORT Fifty Members Were Willing to Admit and Then Expel?Seat Is Now Vacant. Th9 ease of Brigham H. Roberts, tbe Mormon representative-elect from Utah, which had occupied so much of the attention of the house since the assembling of congress, was decided Thursday by the adoptionof a resolution to exclude him by a vote of 268 to 50. The euct language of the. resolution was as follows: "That under the facts and cir- 1 cumstances of the case Brigham ** ^ * ' ? A! Artf H. liODCrtS, repreecuu?ii*o-^icv? from the state of Utah, ought not to have or hold a seat iu the house of representatives, and that the seat to which he was elected is hereby declared vacant." The amendment to expel Mr. Roberts without seating him offered by Mr. Laoey was ruled out on a point of order, and the house only voted upon the resolution of the majority and minority of the committee. The latter, - to seat and then expel Mr. Roberts, was defeated 81 to 244. An analysis of this vote shows that 170 Republicans, 72 Democrats and 2 Populists voted against it and 71 Democrats, 6 Republicans, 2 Populists and 2 silver Republicans voted for it. The majority resolution?to exclude Mr. Roberts and declare the seat vacant?were adopted, 268 to 50. The affirmative vote was divided as follows: Republicaup, 168; Democrats, 96; Populists, 4, while the negative vote was: Democrats, 47; silver Republicans, 2; Populists, 1. There were a score of speakers during the * day. Mr. Roberts was present throughout the session, and only left after the result of the last vote had been announced. As he did so he gave out a statement justifying his retention of his plural wives on the ground that his moral obligation was more binding upon his conscience than the technical obedience to statutory law, and saying that there was little excuse for the extraordinary efforts to crush a system already abandoned and practically dead. He says he was a martyr to a spasm of prejudice. He wouid not, he said, attempt to run for congress again, ah though he would go back home with a light heart confident of the future. Mr. Talbert-, of South Carolina, said that in a case of such abnor&al and defiant immorality technicalities should not weigh. Representing the constituency he did, he said, he should vote against Roberts, first, last and all the time. Mr. Adams, of Georgia, said violation of the strive against unlawful cohabitation entitled the offender to membership in the penitentiary rather than the house of representative. Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, supported the views of the majority in favor of exclusion. Mr. Morris, of Minnesota, a member of the special committve which investigated the Roberts case, and who signed the majority report, advocated its adoption in an hour's speech. If the constitutional qualifications oould not be added to, s?ia he, the house would be compelled to admit a driveling idiot, a base traitor or a redhanded murderer. The supreme court had held that polygamy was not a religious tenet. Mr. DeArmond, of Missouri, closed the debate on behalf of the minority J committee with a forty-minute speech. The argument of the majority that the method of turning Mr. Roberts out mattered not was the argument of Judge Lynch, he said. When he decided that a man should be hung, he also said it was immaterial how he hung. Mr. LeArmond scored those who had unnecessarily abused Mr. Roberts. He would scorn as beneath him and beneath contempt an effort to evoke applause by denunciation. "But let it be not understood by some carping critic that I favor polygamy. I oppose it; I scorn it," BOER POSITION TAKEN, General Warren's Loss Is Tho'ocht to Be Heavy at Spionkop. The war office at London has issued the following dispatch from Spearman's camp, dated January 25th: "General Warren's troops last night occupied Spionkop, surprising the small garrison, who fled. It has been held by us all day, though we were heavily attacked, especially by a very annoying shell fire. 14fear our casualties are considerable and' I have to inform you with regret that General Woodgate was dangerously wounded. General Warren is of the opinion that he has rendered the enemy's position i untenable. The men are splendid." j Resolution Condemning Congress. In the house of the Texas legislature Friday a resolution was introduced condemning congress for its course in the Brigbam H. Robert's ease. It was referred to a committee to be reported on as soon as possible. Plague Spreads In Honolulu. The steamer Miowera, which arrived at Victoria, B. C., Friday from Australia, reports that thii ty-nine deaths have thus far occurred at Honolulu from bubonic plague. War Veteran Dead. CoIodoI W, L. Doss, a veteran of the Mexican and civil wars, died at West Point, Miss., Thursday, after an ill of many weeks, from complicated stomach troubles. He was widely known throughout the south. Separate Car Bill Passed. The bill providing for separate cars for whites and negroes on the railways in Virginia passed the Virginia senate Thursday afternoou without a dissentiog vote and as it came from the house. The governor will approve it URNED DOWN t In the House By a ;68 to 50. said ho, "but I do not feel it necessary in order to show how good I am, how I love mbtherhood aud chastity to lend myself to cheap abuse which requires neither ability nor courage." This utterance drew forth a round of applause. Mr. Lanham, of Texas, closed the ? ' 1 i? ' ii - :i_ aeoaie in Deuau 01 me majurnj icw lations. Ho said we aro not here to impose moral or religious tests. We are cheerful to accord to the people of Utah all the privileges and immunities of citizens of sovereign states. They may elect whomsoever they will. Mormon or Gentile, but he must not be a polygamist. The final vote was then taken and the announcement of the result was greeted with cheers. ' QUAKER DEMOCRATS Agree On Bryan In Advance For Presidential Candidate In Coming Campaign. The Pennsylvania state Democratic committee, at a>meetiug at Harrisburg Thursday, agreed to makeW. J. Bryan its choiee for the presidency in 1900. This action was taken by the committee while Colonel Bryan was on his way to Harrisburg from New York to attend the meeting and confer with the party leaders. This is probably the first time in the party's history that the Democrats of Pennsylvania have indicated their choice for president in advance of the state convention. There was a large attendance of Democrats from all over the state to meet Bryan and hear him /liannaa +Via iacnaa r?r? whir?h the pnm ing campaign will be waged. The etate convention will be held in Harrisburg on April 5th, and will adopt a platform along the lines laid down by the Nebraskan in his speech Thursday night before 5,000 people at Kelker street hall. The platform will indorse the Chicago declaration of principles, denounce the trusts and imperialism, advocate ballot reform and pure elections and condemn machine politicians. The convention will also nominate candidates for auditor general, congressman at large, the presidential electors and elect eight delegates to the national convention. BEITZ AS A POET. He Geti Off a Parody on Kipling's "Recessional." F. W. Eeitz, the Transvaal state secretary, has written a parody upon Mr. Kipling's "Recessional." It is entitled "Progressional," and is dedicated to "Madyard Pipling." The first stanza follows: "Gods of the jingo, Brass and Gold, Lords of the world, by right divine, Under whose baneful sway they hold Dominion over mine and thine? Such Lords as these have made them rotten. They have forgotten. They have forgotten." TO MEET IN LINCOLN. Populist Committee Will Hold Conference In Bryan's State. Senator Butler, chairman of the national executive committee of the People's party, has issued a call for a meeting of that committee to be held in Lincoln, Neb., Monday, the 17th of February. The meeting will be held for the pnrpose of naming a time and place for holding the national convention of that party. The executive committee consists of three members from each state. SCHWAN ROUTS FILIPINOS. Fly? Hundred Are Driven From Entrenchments at San Diego. Advices frcm Manila state that a part of General Schawn's column, consisting of six companies with some artillery, drove a force of 500 insurgents from their entrenchments at San Diego, near San Pablo, on Sunday. The enemy officially reported that they lost 67 killed and many wounded. Oar casualties were one killed and fourteen wounded, the injuries in most instances being slight. NEW COTTON MILL To Be Erected Near Atlanta, Ga , By Scott Investment Company. Atlanta men and Atlanta capital are behind a new cotton mill shortly to bo erected near the Georgia capital. Final arrangements have been made whereby the erection of the factory is assured, and the work of construction will begin almost at once. It is expected that it will be in ope^tion by October 1st. The factory will be erected by the George W. Scott Investment Company at Ingleside near Decatur, Ga. The place will be known as the Scottdale mills and will be owned entirely by the Scott company. CHINA HAS NEW EMPEROR. New Ruler Is Only Fouiteen?Dowager Will Continue In Power. An imperial edict issued at Peking, China, announces that Pu Chun, fourteen years old, son of Prince Tnan, is appointed heir to the present emperor, Kwang Su, whose ill health makes his abdication necessary. The new emperor, it is said, will ascend the throne January 31st. The dowager will continue her strong power and no change in Chinese policy is in view. Conger Advises Washington. Secretary Hay was advised Friday by United States Minister Conger, at Peking, of the result of the convocation of Chinese notables there, his statement being that Pu Chun, fourteen years of age, had been appointee heir apparent. Struck For More Pay. Six hundred operatives of the Amer ican Hide and Leather Company's tani neries at Lowell, Mass., struck Thurs day and the place was closed. Th< men are holding out for a general ad vance. MR. MASON ANGERED British Consul at New Orleans Criticised American Officers, THE FACT IS AIRED IN THE SENATE Foreign Relations Committee Roasted. Tillman Makes Speech On Philippine Policy. After some routine business in the RAnatA. Mnnrlav "\fr Mason. of Till nois, rising to a question of personal privilege, hal read an interview purporting to have been held with the British consul at New Orleans, in which the Illinois senator was criticised for his speech in sympathy with the Boers. Mr. Mason severely criticised the British government, not the people, saying that not one-tenth of the English people favored the present war in South Africa and that 95 per cont of the people of this country sympathized with the Boers, He said that it was not the first time British diplomats had. interfered in Americau politics, and he desired to have attention called to this matter now before it conld iujure the present administration as it had injured Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Lodgo said he did not think the diplomatic or consular officer of any government had the right to criticise a senator or a representative or any officer of the government. Mr. Xodge said the gallant fight the Boers were making stirred the heart of every man. Mr. Mason criticised the foreign relations committee for taking no action upon the resolution of sympathy. Mr. Mason then resumed his criticism of England. He said England had made the war for the purpose of getting the rich mines of South Africa. Mr. Piatt, of Connecticut, said at -? * "*? >_ _U ik.l me ciose 01 iur. iuutuu a tsueecu tuai he wished to enter his protest against "the abuse of free speech on the floor of the senate." Mr. Pottigrew, speaking on a resolution relating to contraband of war, said that the doctrine that a beligerent might seize foodstuffs even if it paid for them, would mean that in case of war between our two best customers, our trade with both would be destroyed. At 1:45 p. ra. Mr. Tillman, of South Caroliua, took the floor and made a speech on the Philippine question. It was a . vigorous denunciation of the administration's Philippine policy. He denied that the blood of the soldiers in the Philippines was upon those who favored imperialism. The president of the United States, by negotiating the treaty of peace and "buying the Filipinos." and those senators who assisted in ratification of the trea'y were responsible for the present war. Mr. Tillman said that the United States cannot govern any territory that does not belong to the United States, and where our flag floats the constitution and the principles of the declaration of independence must be in force. "BLUE LAWS" REVIVED. Policemen In Baltimore Make Cones Against Violator* of Ancient Edict. Nine hundred Baltimore policemen were busy from midnight Saturday until 12 o'clock Sunday night securing the. names of violators of the ancient "blue laws," together with their aiders and abettors. The edict sent out by the police department last week, in cooperation with the grand jury, proscribed traffic in every article except milk and ice, druggists being permitted io compound and sell prescriptions only. The evidence thus collected will be referred to the grand jurors, who will investigate each case and present violators of the law for indictment and prosecution. Vrt orrcefu TV AT A mfl.de. hut the names of all workers, koown to be such, were takes~and will be referred to the grand jurorsT" ^ke^e included editors, reporters, compositcxrt^TfrBSa^ men and carriers of the Sunday papers, messenger boys, barbers, bootblacks, laundrymen and ownerR of sweat shops and their employes. Quite a number of storekeepers were also caught "red-handed" and will have-to answer to the charge of selling cigars, cigarettes, stationery, newspapers, confectioneries, proprietary articles or groceries. BRIDGES WILL RETURN. Convicted Ex-County School Commissioner Will Serve a Term. W. M. Bridges, who was convicted of appropriating $5,475.15 of the school funds of Floyd county, Ga., when he was school commissioner, and Sentenced to five years' imprisonment in the penitentiary by the superior court of that county, which decision was affirmed by the supreme court, will surrender himself to the officers and serve the sentence imposed by the courts. Bridges is under a $4,000 bond, signed by the brothers of his wifeK and has been in business in a small town in Texas for the past year. GIFT FROM MISS GOULD. Kentucky College Receives a Donation From the Heiress. At the twenty-seventh private meeting of the Alumni Club of Union The 1 ?? ?A \TAW? VA?V \fnn_ ologicai seminary at xu? xma., day, the Rev. William Goodell Frost, president of Berea college, Kentucky, , announced that Miss Helen M. Gould has contributed $5,000 toward the fund of $500,000 which he is raising for the college, and that half the fund has already been subscribed. WHEELER SAILS FOR HOME. t Alnbnmtan Sailed From Manila On the j Transport Warren. The war department received a caI blegram from General Otis Mondaj stating that General Wheeler would sail from Manila Wednesday on the transport Warren for the United Statee - by way Guam and Honolulu. Cost of Collecting Customs. 3 Secretary Gage has sent to congress an estin^te of $7,872,000 as the cosl of collecting the customs during th( , next fiscal year. BOERS AGAIN j Fifteen Hundred Dead About Sp WARREN IS FORCED BACK Intrepid Burghers Could Not Be C4nnna/1 Cfir ftta QtftriTl flf U luppvu LfJ HIV mmm British Builets. A London dispatch under date of Sunday says: General Duller reports that Warren's troops have retreated south of tho Tugela river. The Boers say that the British loss is 1,500 killed. It is believed that this includes the wounded. The Boers also claim that 150 of the English troops surrendered at Spion kop. General Buller further states that Spion Kop was abandoned on account of lack of water, inability to bring artillery there and the heavy Boer fire. General Buller gives no list of casualties. His whole force withdrew south of the Tugela river with the evident intention of reaching Ladysmith by another route. Following is the text of General Bnlk s dispatch,dated Spearman's camp, Saturday, January 27th, 6:10 p. m. "On January 20th Warren drove back the euemy and obtained possession of the southern crests of the high * i* ? * it. i: ..e tableland extending irom me nu? uj Acton Homes and Hongers poort to the western Ladysmith hills. From then to Jannary 25th he remained in close contact with the enemy. "The enemy held a strong position on a range of small kopjes stretching from northwest to southeast across the plateau from Aeon Homes, through Spion kop to the left bank of the Tugela. "The actual position held was perperfectly tenable, but did not lend itself to an advance, as tho southern slopes were so eteep that Warren could not get effective artillery posisition, and water supply was a difficulty. "On January 23d I assented to his attacking Spion kop, a large hill, indeed a mountain, which was evidently the key to the position, but was far more accessible from the north than from the south. "On the night of January 23d he attacked Spion kop, but found it very difficult to hold, as its perimeter was too large and water, which he had been led to believe existed in this extraordinary dry season, was found very deficient. "The crests were he]d all that day against the severe attacks and a heavy shell fire. Our men fought with great gallantry. I would especially mention the conduct of the Second Cameronians and the Third KiDg's Rifles, who supported tho attack on the mountains from the steepest side and, in each case, fought their way to the top, and the Second Lancashire Fusilliers and Second Middlesex, who magnificently maintained the best traditions of the British army throughout the trying day of January 24th, and Thorncroft's mounted infantry who fought through the day equally well along side of them. Cxeneral \Yoocigate, wnowas id command at the snmmit, having keen wounded, the officer who succeeded him decided on the night of January 24ih to abandon the position and did so before dawn January 25th. FROH BOER HEADQUARTERS. The following was sent out from Boer headquarters, Modder Spruit, under date of Thursday, Jan. 25: Some Vryheid burghers from the outposts from the highest hills of the Spion kop group rushed into the laager saying that the kop was lost and n it. Re-enforcements'noth ing could be done' ilQv*/lhe time, the- hill being enveloped in thick mist. At dawn the Heidelberg and Carolina contingents, supplemented from other commandoes, began the assent of the hill. Three spurs, precipitions projections, faced the Boer positions. Up these the advance was made. The NAME IS PORTO RICO. Senate Commit te Decide* That Island Shall Be So Knowo. The senate committee on Porto Rico has decided so far as it can decide, that the island shall be known as Porto Rico and not as Puerto Rico, as fixed by a recent executive order. At a meeting of the committee Saturday in connection with the Foraker bill, providing a form of government for the island, the spelling of the name was unanimously decided upon. The committee went over the bill in detail, deciding upon many changes in phraseology and some alterations in the general provision of the measure. WARSHIPS FOR CHLNA. ? ?-> ? vr.uu.KUa ?A Auitria win senu ?iui? .? Protect Her Interests. A serious view is taken in diplomatic circles in Vienna of the situation in China. The Neue Freie Presse thinks that other powers will follow the example of France and send warships to protect their subjects. The Austro-Hungarian cruiser Zonta will arrive at Hong Koug in a few days and will be at the disposal of the AustroHuDgarian minister. SENDING! THE DONSHOME. I tori* Furnishes Transportation For Over a Thousand Spaniards. The progress of the movement in> augurated about three months ago in | regard to the return to Spain of the ? prisoners released by the Filipinos is i reported by General Otis in the following telegram received at the war department: 'Manila, January 26.?Released , Spanish prisoners, 71 officers, 1,000 I enlisted men, 22 civilian officials, 21 j wives and 35 children, were furnished transportion to Spain yesterday." J i i {OUT BRITONS; 0? I Left On Battle Field ion Kop, horses were left under the first terraces of rocks. Scaling the steep hill the Boers found that the British had improved the opportunity and intrenched heavily. Between the lines of trenches was an open veldt, which had to be rushed under a heavy fire not only from rifles, but from lyddite and shrapnel from field gun8. Three forces ascended the three spurs, co-ordinately under cover of fire from the Free State Xrupps, a Creusot and a big Maxim. The English tried to rush the Boers with the bayonet, but their infantry went down before the Boer rifle fire as before a scythe. The Boer investing party advanced step by step until 2 o'clock in the afternoon when a white flag went up and 150 men in the front trenches surrendered, being sent as prisoners to the head laager. The Boer advance continued on the two kopjes east of Spion kop. Many Boers were shot, but so numerous were the burghers that the Raps filled automatically. Toward twilight they reached the snmmit of the second kopje, but did not get further. Ihe British Maxims belched flame, but a wall of fire from the Mausers held the English back. Their center uuder this pressure gradually gave way and broke, abandoning the posi- j tion. Firing continued for some time and the Fusiliers and the Light Horse serving as infantry, tbrew up th.'er arms and rushed ont of the trenches. The British dead left on the battlefield number 1,500. The effect of the abandonement of Spion kop by the English can hardly be gauged as yet, but it must prove to be immense. GOVERNMENT CRITICISED. All nilifnvialo in T.nn/1nn nnnorQ ASA luc CUAlViiaio AU uvuvkVM > , of Sunday morning breathed the calm of determination. No one will allow that one reverse could deter the couu- j try from the object it has set itself to attain, whatever the sacrifices which may be involved. Very frank criticisms of the government, however, is beginning to be heard even in quarters that have bith- j erto refrained. The Daily Mail bodily throws all the blame upon Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Lord Lansdowne and Lord Wolseley. DADY~TURfe~DOWN. Judge Speer Refuses Injunction Sought Against Georgia and Alabama Road. At Macon, Ga., Saturday, Judge Speer, in the case of Dady against the Georgia and Alabama railway, refused the injunction sought to prevent the consolidation of the Seaboard Air-Line j system. He referred to the fact that causes substantially similar were pending in the federal jurisdiction of Virginia and North Garolina, holding that the court which first took cognizance the case should carry it to its termination. He farther held that only a majority vote of stockholders was necessary for such consolidation in Georgia and that it was not properly maintainable, that because the defendants, John Skeltou Williams, occupied the position of a member of the voting trust, president of the Georgia and Alabama and of the Florida Central and Peninsular, that the merger or consolidation brought about through his instrumentality should be enjoined. An interesting part of the decision is that which bears upon the competi tive character of the two roaas. 1 racing their general trend and calling attention to the fact that after leaving Savannah they are in nowisee connected save through the intermediary of one or two shallow rivers on small steamboats occasionally ply and intervening the two lines are powertm competitive systems, he says: "It is not difficult -hvp^p^ve that the contemplated system of tEe^ Seaboard Air-Line, instead of tending to defeat competition, must invariably tend to preserve it." WILL LAST LONG TIME. Transvaal Agent Declares the End of Hot* tllitles Is Not In Sight. The Deutsche Teges Zeitung (Berlin) publishes an interview with Dr. Leyds which represents him as hav ng mid: "The war will certainly last a ^ery long time. The Transvaal will decidedly not be the first to seek peace, and will refuse any proposals cu the basis of the status quo." Roland Reed Recovering. Roland Reed, the actor, who has b*en ill in St. Luke's hospital in New Y}rk for several weeks, is reported to bi resting easily. His physicians say ht is on the road to recovery. NEW ALABAMA ROADS. Something Like Five Hundred lilies Are In Coarse of Construction. A Montgomery dispatch says: Alabuna is enjoying an nprecedentod degee of prosperity in the way of railrtad development. Something like 500 miles of new road are now in course o; construction, some of it being alnost completed and some of it just bjing commenced on. This means ao nf ahnnt 15 oer cent in the I ailroad mileage of the state. GOMPERS TISITS M'KIXLEY. febor Leader* Confer With President On Eight-Hoar Law. Samuel Gompers, president of the imerican Federation of Labor, and Cher representatives of labor interests lad a conference with the president laturday to urge upon him the advoacy of an eight-hour law for *11 govrnment work; a law to prohibit the products of convict labor from being ransferred from one state to another, ind a law to restrict the authority of 'ederal conrts in the issuauce of injunctions in labor troubles. I : I 2 SOUTH CAROLINA \ \ STATE NEWS ITEMS, j Child Labor Hill Defeated. Almost every South Carolina sena tor in the legislature had his say ou the proposition to strike the enacting words of a bill prohibiting the em ployment in factories of children under twelve years of age. The arguments in favor of killing the bill wer< that mothers were the best judges that if young children were excluded, many families, where the mother wat a widow, would suffer and tnat wnere there were no city graded schools convenient to the mills, most mills provided free schools ten months in the year. Those in favor of the bill contended that the working of infants in mills was making the girls physical and moral wrecks. Some of the man* ufacturers opposed the bill, bnt the chief opposition seemed to be from the the factory people. It was killed by the decisive vote of twenty-nine to eight. Want Charter Repealed. A hill has been introduced in the legislature having for its object the repeal of the charter of the South Carolina and Georgia Railroad. The bill will be pushed by Representative N. G. Evans. Mr. Evans claims the acquiring of the South Carolina and Georgia road was illegal as from Columbia to Augusta, and from Edgefield to Angusta they are competing lines, and since the South Carolina and Georgia has been leased or purchased rates from the competing points have advanced. The South Carolina and Georgia has abont 265 miles of main track. Diapeggary Profit*. The total net profits of the state dispensary since it opened for business July 1, 1893, have been $1,705,704. For the first time the state board has compiled the figures for the public. It shows that during the nineteen months of the Tillman-Traxler administration, when Tillman was chairman and Trailer commissioner, the profits were $125,323. Duriog the fourteen months oi Evans-Mixon administration the nel profits were $313,974. For the thirty-three months of administration of the state board of control up to December 31, 1893, the profits amounted to $853,219. The past year, under the managemet of the state board, the profits were $414,203. It is calculated that the stock on hand and paid for is'worth $514,379. *% Our Cotton Mill Baoin. There has been some speculation recently jis to the cause of the rapid strides made by South Carolina in the manufacture of cotton. While there were some mills established in Spartanbnrg and Greenville counties in the seventies and early eighties, the real mill building that has given the Palmetto state the lead over her southern sisters has been in the last tec years, and chiefly in the last five years North Carolina was far in the van in in both the number of mills and quantity of produce before the manufacture in this state became an industry of importance.. So, also, waa Georgia. Now, in capital invested, number of looms and spindles and consumption of cotton, soutl} Carolina has the decided advantage. North Carolina is building more mills, but 1 on;ni11aa ai>A KflJnff niii LLIUTC lUUIliO OUU o^iuuivw H4 v W-?Q into those constructed in this state, and it is calculated that in anothei twelve months, when the mills now under construction and projected are in operation, the Palmetto State will take place alongside the Bay State, the second in cotton manufacturing of the union. Those interested in the subject maj not have knowledge of the extent oi the mill building now in progresi here, so not to be burdensome witi figures I will only give a few of them: Last year, for charters for new mills a*hd extensions to old ones, $5,900,00C capital came into sight, while commissions for other mills with capital aggregating $2,200,900 were granted. Several of these have, been chartered already this month, while in twentyeight days of the new year commissions, Is with capita* aggregat Sq# $1,500,00 -1 been Building of these ^comarflsioiied" mills, or most of them, will be begun inside of ninety days. In Columbia the capital invested was $2,010,000. Last year South Carolina mills spue 437,000 bales of South Carolina cotton. This year they will probably use 525,000 bales. The argument has been advanced, and reasonably, by some in other states, that South Carolina is due hex pre-eminence in cotton manufacture tc special laws granting those engaged in this industry special privileges, sucl as immunity from taxation for a certain number of years. While this maj have some effect indirectly, it oertainlj has not been the chief cause. As will be shown later, the great majority ol the big mills have been constructed without the enjoyment of those special privileges. A. snmmary, then, shows that while South Carolina really went beyond the bounds of her constitution, as ia now generally held, to aid and enconrnge factories, the direct results, if any, were insignificent. Last year when ' Cl- nv aalrad mnw no Deneuta hcic uucuou v> capital was invested than in the thirteen years when state county and city taxes were refunded. Unquestionably, results depend chiefly on local confidence and enterprise. There is probably no courthouse town in Sonth Carolina where from $50,000 to 8100,000 has not or cannot be raised for a cotton factory. In cities like Columbia, Spartanburg and Greenville the same meu may be found interested in from two to half a dozen mills. They have tasted of the fruit.?Columbia Correspondence in Atlanta Constitution. m * * Convict Labor on Boadt. The following editorial, taken from the New York Evening Post, shows what systematic use of convict labor can do in bettering pablic highways: Effective use of convict labor in road-making is reported from Columbia, S. C., where an average of eighty J prisoners has been employed in this ' work for the past two years. Last year | tLirty-one miles of road, radiating ' from the city, were remade, graded, | ditched, laid with sand or clay, or clay ' on sand, and converted into smooth J and satisfactory highways, capable, with timely and systematic care, of indefinite maintenance in good condi' tion. During the preceding year fully 1 ten miles had been remade, so that ' now there are over forty miles of these permanent roads leading oat or <Uo* lnmbia. "With the levy asked for, the mile' age can be doubled this year, the work > on each road being taken up at its * present terminus from five to seven 1 miles from the city, and carried an ? equal distance beyond. By following ' this plan every main road in the coun' try can be remade in from three to four > years more. 'Columbia is now far more * accessible by highway than it has ever i been,' oomments the State of that eity, i 'a fact daily evidenced by the number ' of wagons and carts coming and going ' from the city, the traffic on certain > roads at certain hours assuming pro' oessional proportions'" Legislative Notes. This is the first session of the legislature of this state where the duration 1 of the sitting is limited. Under the 1 constitution adopted in 1895, the legislature was given nnlimited time until this year, when from now on the session8 cannot extend over forty days ? that is, the members can 1 only draw forty days' pay. Half of ! the allotted time has been consumed, 1 but really very little baa been accom. plished. *" In the house the bill providing for 1 an extension of their limits by cities 1 was killed. Columbia was chiefly in^ terested in this measure. The town 1 is only two miles square and there are 6,090 people in the immediate vicinity of her boundaries that she wanted to take iD, but the legislature was not williug. There was considerable lob ' bying done against it The anti-cigarette bill, tbe bill reducing the rate of passenger fare to 2$ and 3 cents and the measure providing that state officials now entitled to mileage shall have free transportation from railroads were killed. 1 A very important bill, in which . Charleston, Columbia, Bock Hill, ' Greenville and a number of other towns are interested in?or rather ' deeply concerned in, is pending in 1 the house. It is to permit a vote at the next election on a constitutional amendment allowing cities that'have f already reached the limit of their ' bonded indebtedness to incnr more * indebtedness in order to make pnblic ' improvements. Columbia is anxious 1 to spend $500,000 for waterworks, sewerage and pavements aud Charleston about $800,000 for waterworks, but nnder the present laws they are I helpless. Among tbe other important bills introduced in the house and pending is 1 the trust bill; providing for the sale ol the two big state farms; providing fox ( establishing a fertiliser factory at the penitentiary; providing for leasing convicts to counties for use on state roads and prohibiting oonvicts being leased to private parties. ?* 1 Oeorfetawn Itmllroad Sold. It is reported in Florence from a re' liable source that the Georgetown and 1 Western Bailroad, running from 1 Lane's, on the Atlantic Coast Line system, to Georgetown, S. C., a distance of forty miles, has been sold to 1 the Atlantic Coast Lumber Company, 1 of Georgetown, S. C., a company which has already purchased and built ' up large band saw mills at George( town. The employes of the Georgetown and Western Bailroad Company were notified by oircular letter of the ' change of ownership. The price paid 1 for the road could not be ascertained. r A New Fnrnitiye Factory. t The Gaston ^filling and Mannfacurt ing Company, of Colombia,' has been organized by election of M. R. Coop1 am nrAdidAnt: F. 8. Earle. vice nresi \ dent, and John T. Gaston, superintendent and general manager. The | company is to manufacture furniture, GEORGIANS ENTHUSIASTIC. Oyer Proposition to Establish MUItarj | Park at Atlanta. ' A Washington dispatch says: The Georgia members of congress are enthusiast over the propffgiffc'rtoestabf lish a national military park in Atlanta i and the delegation will assist Messrs. Clay and Livingston before the house and senate committees. Is Without Foundation. 1 The Franklin oonnty, Ky., grand ' jury filed a report declaring that the ' report of further attempts at bribery of Kentucky legislators is without i foundation. NUNEZ IX FULL CONTROL. > i Wood's Order Gives Civil Governor of Havana Tall Power. The leading Havana newspapers , says the order of Governor General . Wood instructing military comman1 ders not to interfere in the functions t of civil authorities except in extreme [ eases, virtually gives General Emillo I Nunez, the civil governor of Havana, and not General Ludlow, the military , governor, power on the matter of , budaret , BRYAN IN RHODE ISLAND. Making Tour of the State In ths Interest of Democracy. Monday meriting W. J. Bryan be* | gan a week's tour of New England for tbe purpose of discussing the ques> tions of the day, speaking three times, Pawtucket and Woonsocket, R. L, in the Afternoon and Providence in the evening. The state is just now | on the eve of a gubernatorial canvpalgu, which will close with an elec, tioo in April. TWESTT-KISE DEATHS. I J Babonlo PltfQE Finds Many Victims In HnwBllnn Islands. . New? from Honolulu, per steamer Miowera, sajs: The total number of deaths up to the time the Miowera sailed for this port, was 29 out of 39 cases. Two were whites and another was a half-caste. The other deaths were about equally divided between Hawaiian natives and the Orientals. Six other whites who caught the dis, ease were belieted to be convalescent . BRITISH ADMIT BAD DEFEAT They Now Staid Before World m Disgraced aid Beaten. TflE GOVERNMENT IS CRITiaZED l It Is Reported That Lord Roberts Advises the Surrender of Ladysmith. ? A special cablegram from London \;:,C to The New York Evening World, "It is learned from a reliable source that Field Marshal Lord Roberts has advised the abandon- ;^^ ment of Ladysmith. At the war office, the dispatch adds, no confirmation could be obtained of the -y&m advices said to have been given by . There is muoh comment in London ^ ' on the discrepancy between the Boer^g account of the recapture of Spion Kop . and that sent by General Buller; Yhflfjl :: latter says not a word about the Boefu|| " scaling the hill and attacking the Brit" % ish trenches and captturing 150 men ~ who had hoisted the white flag, as at ; Majuba hill. Instead, he spoke of the ? J maintenance of "the best traditions of ; the British army." There is not much | 3 doubt that the Boer account is ooneofffljjaB It is by no means boastful. * || r ? It is believed that the war office v. has further dispatohes which , withholding. Great anxiety has beea^| removed by the announcement Lord Dnndonald's cavalry which it was feared were isolated^ among the hills in the neighborhood# ;1 of Acton Homes, are safe on the south bank of the Tugela river. For dajfk;| JS nothing had been beard 'from LoBd'J Dnnolald and his mounted brigade* ^ The London military critics ba*0|l'm given up hope of saving Ladysmith^ . ^ which is undoubtedly short of and ammunition. The garrison west ^ on short rations Deoember 2d. ;|| The Morning Leader askst 'v'wJBll i " Will Ladysmith fall in consequence of Bnller's retirement or in conse^J \ H i quence of another night attack by^99 victorious Boers? ' || "The city ha9 already held out ftg|| #8 full time. Its last communication*^ m r_ .tt -:* across me mgeia omwwisq uum ujw , A electric or sun flashing wasonHo*Mft?? 'M ber 2d, last. It was then believed ta^ have enough provisions and ammniu^f |? tion for three months. The three ? : J| months are up. IP >4,There has been no chance during^ r | these months to throw into the eitymi $ pound of food or a pound of cofdite.*^ ':M It is frankly acknowledged that tfce|l jib most serious effort of the present ^ has dismally failed. ' ~ There is no sign of a "wish part of the leaders of public ojnro|H^|| to disguise the ugly facts, but, on thap? ^ contrary, there is every dispoeitioa^Sj ^ face the fnll difficulties and disoovin the best way cut. In short, the pofiqj^* ^ voiced everywhere is the gatheringflM .-t-f of forces for more effective^ blo^H ^ Ail hopes of the speedy religl^H ^:;^ Ladysmith have been abandoned sijM :JM the concensus of expert opinion the immediate shifting of the tbai&Y of war from the rocky kopjes of V;| to the open veldt of the Free Stat*|p f One thing certain?another MvP '|| pause is inevitable unless the BoscsdS^^ same the offensive, because, in ShB ^ event of General Buller farther tempting to reach Ladysmith; t&?|| planning of a new move will sarily occupy time. j The afternoon newspapers aredraaj^y ing attention to the closeness of parallel between the federal attack General Lee at Fredericksburg sad " 3| i the operations on the upper Togebu Curiously enough there is visible, especially in military circles, aa;^^s| ; dercurrent of relief at the news ttka^vj . the British are safely south of the f- ^ Togela, for the rumors of SfttitnMfa ./'J . d no visions of an immense ^ General Bailer's operation has oos%>\^ 912 men so far officially reported ; within ten days. ' M Applying to the 205 Spion Kop can-'":4 j nalties jnst reported the role of pr?-;j portion, the losses of officers indicate -M 500 casualties yet to oome, The tofa^ casualties of the war, compiled front?| official reports are 9,523, nearly a V/fS division. Of these 2,486 are killed, 4,811 wounded and the rest are prisonThe aggregate British home UuupaB . in South Africa number 116,000 thrift f Natalians 7,158 and Cape Colonials Jjl Y) ruing the trial in London Monday , | ' of a news vender for crying false news ?he had shouted, "Horrible British Slaughter"?an impertinent bystander, on hearing the prisoner sentenced g? to seven days in jail said: "Why not i bring the war office into oonrt." Establish Free Fight Schools. | The Cigar Makers' union it Key ' j ^ West, Fla., has established free night <" I schools, where both English and: Spanish are taught. Apprenticea nn?#^ : attend, and in fntnre no boy wOTho^ permitted to learn cigar making unleash he can read and write. ja Depew's Opera Hons* Burned. || The Depew opera house in Peeks- i kill, N. Y.f owned by United States a.?TVf T)atmv. was dailr^is j stroyed by fire Monday. N SAFE BLOWERS KILLED. 1|S t ???? 7-.'r* JsSm Pollee Officers Hare Bviuilnf Fight With $ Desperate Crooks. ,; s Quincy, Illinois, polioe officers Safe- _ y arday killed two dkpert safe blowers, supposed to be from Chicago, and wounded another badly. The tragedy included a running fight through a hotel, in wbioh the armed burglars V t were pursued by the officers. The men are believed to be those who recently || operated in Galesburg. Kreeport and >j| other Illinois cities, making a specialty : of cracking safes in building and lotn |?^ffl