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|^g|BwsgWffWisr I7* Be*' \ - . ffiE CODKTY RECORD ^8?1T? - J KJHQSTREE, S. C. frPWS J. MUSTOW, Ed. & Prop^ The suggestion is made that cattlemen should cease the use of the branding-iron to distinguish their cattle, as such cruelty to animals reduces the value of hides for leather, the 'annual loss being estimated as high as $3,000,000 a year. ^ A scientific farmer fed his herd of wows one wmier on a scieuwuu rauua with satisfactory results. To give his ^ unscientific neighbors an object V- lesson, relates the Home and Farm, Lrhe fed them the next winter on an nn- [ scientific ration. The cows, possibly '/ to spite him, prodnced just as much batter as they had given in the year before. The scientific farmer was j V mad about it, but he isn't discourse * K^4- ? - | A press dispatch says that an extensive economical revolution is in . night, if the claims of Dr. Prinzea Bj Geerlings tarn out to be what the doctor asserts they are. Dr. Geerk Knsrs. a arovemmeat official of Java Pj/ and formerly professor of chemistry |s at the University of Amsterdam, anL;, aouneea the discovery of a simple method of converting potato sta-ch into an gar. He has lodged his de? aeription of the method with the ?f French academy of sciences, so as to secure priority for his invention, a> J| though he is not quite ready to make I I the details public. Another of the European nations is Prt taking the next great step in socia'' " ism, that of the purchase of its raiiroacs. By a vote of more than three V- t) one the Swiss national council has Sfc, voted to purchase the principal rail roads of Switzerland at a cost of about ? A 3200,000,003. The United States now behind the civilized nations of tli* in the national or mnnicina! i coatrol of monopolies, for the governK?: Ment does not eveu have postal savt lugs banks or run the telegraphs: and reason given for oar backwnrd} neas is, that in this country the corfe( rnption of the public service makes it 8?^ unsafe. We believe it is a slander p v fepoa the morality of the people. |. \ 1%e Dominion of Canada is evi^ dentlv determined that the Yukon ' gold fiulds hall yield up to it all the revenue which can possibly be 'gathered from them, and is now lay; sag a royalty of twenty-five cents a ?otd on the oordwood with which the Eg*% miners*thaw oat the gold from its icy ' B matrix and cook their rations of side v pork and ooffee. The logs for their '' cabins are similarly taxed, and s substantial fraction of the gold they dig ''gs.' A also levied upon by minions of her 5 / revenue stationed there. These orI . Br dinanoes look rather mean, but we hmA Mk Af.mwIainieM ?# #knm anil em I I 49**9 HUI WHI|npuUiig V* uivuu} ?uu (M v *ot likely to institute any of the same ort in reprisal when the gold digging eoawa around within our own lines. Beet-mgar making in New Tork atate premises well at the start. There s? a plentiful supply of beets for the dbat factory in Borne, forty-seven carloads and several boatloads being at the factory on a recent day. The hosts shew a profitable percentage of sagar, some of the red ones running ? high as 15.4 and the white ones 1C.6 per cent. This season's supply pomes from about 1000acres, and contracts are being made' for three times fihCk area next year. 8pnrred. by the ?noses of the factory in Borne, capitalists are prospecting at Batavia with ? view of erecting a half-million dollar plant there, if five-year contracts for 8000 acres of beets can be made with the farmers in the vicinity. The land about Batavia, like that about Home, is well adapted to beet culture. All Important. Aristocracies In different places and ages harp prided themselves on many liferent things. One of the queerest, perhaps, is the aristocracy according to Kj);* cheeses, which which prevails among J the patricians of Zenuatr. The aristocracy of faml|ies Is valued by the number and age of the cheeses they pes?/'* sees. When a child Is born, a cheese is manufactured, which is then called by V the name of the child, it :s partly /*v> eaten when Its namesake gets married. |v aach wedding guest tasting a portion. Site cheese)s then put away again, and *-r - lnt/v onil tirviisliAxrl a f tho f 11. jg$r Wl^ VIA iuiv uuu uutuuvm m? imv -?. aeral of the person whose name it baara. When a young man woos a maiden, he begs to be allowed to dine with her family on a Sunday. His offei being accepted, the lovers wait anxiaosly to see whether the girl's father mill cause the chbese to be set on the i fable. At the end of the long meal. T if all goes well, the master of the house Miemaly fetches the cheese bearing the wguld-be bride's name, sets it on ? the table, cuts It and gives a piece to J V the young couple. When they have | aaten It, they are a betrothed pair. J 1 ' w. . E I n . . . v.; v -T- - . ESS! t Rioters in Vienna Fight in the Streets and Threaten Badeni. POLICE FOR THE REICHSRATH. Ten Thousand Perwns Assemble and 1 Threaten the Premier With the Gnlllo- j tine? Kiotinz in Neighboring Towns? Soldiera Quell Disturbances With Their Sabres?The President Was Injured. ' i Visssa, Austria (By Cable).?Friday was | one of great excitement in Vienna, owing to the riotous scenes id the lleichsrath, ! and at night a crowd of 10,000 person, including many students, threatened the i Government with revolution aiid Premier ! Baden: with the guillotine. The disorder in the lower house of the | Reichsrath was so accentuated that a strong detachment of police had to be called in to j preserve order. When the President of the j House, Dr. Abrahamovies, entered, he was greeted with vociferous shouts of ?'Get Out!" The Leftists rose to their feet in a eorrr eadzxi, ArsrciA's rnzxizE. body, many of the Deputies shrieked wildly, and an indescribable tumult followed. * During the tumult a Social Democrat, Herr Beraer. :aade a rush for the President j and a lively fist fight followed between Burner and the house attendants who attempted to protect the Chair. Thereupon another Social Democrat, Herr Rcsel, jumped upon the Ministerial bench and, hurrying to the Presidential chair, seized the papers which were lying on tne President's desk and tore them to pieces, while other Social Democrats hastened to Herr Berner's assistance, occupied the tribune, and demanded satisfaction fcr the attendant's pummelingof HerrBeraer, and President Abrahamovics was compelled to Ilee. subsequently me boviiu i;r;uuiiak.'> and other Deputies indulged in a free fight, and Herr Bcrner was ejected from tho House. In the meantime a detachment of seventy police arrived in the House, and the officer in command called upon the Social Democrats to withdraw from the Presidential platform. The Social Democrats, however, refused to withdraw and resisted the attempts of the police to eject them. But they were eventually removed forcibly and singly. The police then made a cordon around the tribune. These scenes were enacted prior to the formal opening of the House. Mark Twain, who has been a dally spectator In the public galleries, became infected with the excitement and waved his handkerchief, crying "Hoch die Deutechen" with the others, whose expulsion he shared. After a long pause President vdn Abrahamovies reappeared and declared the sitting open. The reception given to him was similar to the one he received at the opening of the House. Wolff, the German leader, was too exhausted ts lead the hostility, and conld only blow his whistle, ftberfefore Herr Schoenerer took np the leadership. He hammered upon his desk with his umbrella until the inkstand and sandbox jumped ont of their places and the desk was splintered. Presently Wolff recovered and renewed his favorite tactics. The President twice warned him and then suspended him. Wolff refused to budge, and finally seven wiHwimti alternately milling and drag gins, got him out. When Wolff crossed the Ringstr&sse on the way to his home, hundreds of students accompanied him, cheering and singing "Die waeht am Rhein." x. About 7 o'clock in tne evening there eras a long procession of workmen in the Ringstrasse. They marched toward the Chamber, but the mounted police drew their swords and rode into the thick of the procession, driving the crowd in all directions. Some of the marchers w ure injured. A second procession from a western suburb reached the Town Hail, bnt they were dispersed by the police. The workmen later started'with a mob for the house of^rime Minister Badeni, bnt nil the approaches were strongly guarded by the . police. There was an anti-Government demonstration by thousands of students umi others outside the Parliament buildings, but this crowd was also dispersed. Tko excitement is intense among the workmeu nud students, but it seems to be limited to them. Four afternoon papers were confiscated by the authorities owing to the jee ousts they printed of the sitting. Forty arrest! were made on the streets. The Parliamentary Voccurronees led to a riot at Grals, tho capital of Stvria. The mob of German Nationalists and workmen, wrecked the office of the Clerical newspaper, the Yolksblatr. A squadron of cavaby was summoned and rode the rieters down, using their sabres. Many persons were Injured. According "to som> accounts President von Abraharaovics, when the tribune was stormed, was kicked and beaten until he fainted. The Czechs and the house attendants rescued him and assisted him Irom tho Chamber. _ A HnUf Th?nL'?Hg]nff. Thanksgiving was celebrated gen?rally but quietly. There were services in the churches, and bountiful dinners were given in till the public and prfvato charitable institutions. and in the prisons. Outdoor sports were enjoyed on many llelds. Floods In Washington. The recent floods in the State of Washington destroyed mining and railroad property owned by J. D. Rockefeller valued at t3.000.000. Five hundred residents of the town of Monte Cristo are fleeing to other settlements to escape starvation. Mining operations have been su<t>oaded. No More American* iu Cuban l'rison*. The State Department. Washington, received a dispatch from Consul-General Lcc, at Havana, announcing that I.uis Someill&n. the last American citizen in prison in Cuba, had been released by order of General bianco. t ' - ,A ,-o - riMOTflfrii ' v? ;.v THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Washlnsrton Item*. Thanksgiving Day wa? spent much after the fashion of Sunday at the White House. The President attended church and listened to a sermon by the Rev. Dr. Johnson. Robert H. Martin, for many years treasurer of the Columbian University in Washington. has pleaded guilty of embezzlement of $13,000 of the funds of that institution during 1894. 1S95 and 1896. Sentence will be imposed immediately. The Hawaiian Minister in Washington said he expected aa amicable settlement or the trouble between his country and Japan at an early day. The Irish National Alliance has issued an appeal to United States Senators to oppose the treaty of arbitration with England. Serious charges npainst the United States Commissioner at Dyea, Alaska, have been made to the President and Secretary Biiss. Designs for a Government armor plant with a capacity of six thousand tons a year, have been completed by the Naval Armor Hoard. Under the proposed agreement between tho United States. Great Britain and Canada, the United States will suspend sealing on the Pribilof Islands in return for the suspension of pelagic sealing by the Canadians. rostmaster-Generai Gary expressed gratification at the comments on his recommendation for the establishment of postal savings depositories. l>oine#tie. Michael beat Starbuek in a bicycle race, at Madison Square Garden. New York City, bythree Jans. Time, fifty minutes 29 1-5 seconds. * Dis.ancs, tweuty-flve miles. Henry Mahoney, thirty-eight years old. was killed in a barn in Bennington, Vt.. by a 700-pound doo'r falling on him. When the door was remove 1, it was found that Mahoncy. in his frantic efforts to free himself. had torn his clothes in shreds. The dormitory of the Tougaloo Negro University, in Tougaloo, Miss., was destroyed by fire. Forty-three students and teachers lost their personal effects. The University of Pennsylvania football team aeieatea uorneii on rranKiin rieui, Philadelphia, by the score of 1 to 0. Cornell manifested surprising strength. Donald A. McClelland. the young clerk who disappeared with $2600 belonging to the Bronx Borough Bank, returned to New York City from Chicago to surrender and was arrested as he stepped from t'ao train. In New York City Charles L. McNally, seventeen years old, wasshot and seriously wounded bv Policeman Hannigan. who was chasing him for playing football in the street. The o.Hcer says the shooting was accidental, but witnesses assert that it was done deliberately. Marquis Muzio Anzl dl Marehesi Yitellischi. formerly a Licuteuant in the Italian Navy, who overstald his leave during tho Columbian celebration, and, fearing to return to his ship, deserted and became n printer, committed suicide in his printing odea in Newark, X. J. James A. Clemmer. accused of complicity in the murder of ?rrs. Kmma P. Kaiser.eommittcd at NOrristown. Pepn.. on Octol?er2S, wa? nrresteJ in Newark. N. J., where he was living under the name of Harry E. Young. In the Congressional election in the Sixth Illinois District, to choose n successor to Edward D. Cooke, deceased, Henry S. Bou telle, Ker.ablienn, wa" electea i?y a pturtuity of 819 over Vincent H. Perkins, Democrat. , The Court of Appeal", on tlio ground of errors, granted n new trial to William J. Koeruer, tho newspaper artist who shot nnd killed Rose Alice Red pate in New York City on September 23, 1896. At tl\e hearing in the case of Colonel G. B. Gerald, who shot and killed the Harris brothers at Waco, Texas, in a eontroversy arising out of the Brann-Tayior trouble, It was shqwn that Colonel Gerald was justified. and he was exonerated by the court. It wa9 shown that Colonel Gerald did not draw his weapon until he himself was under cross fire from the Harris brothers, and that the shooting was in self-defense. James F. Brandt, a painter, fell 150 feet from the south dome of the General Postofflee Building, New York City, and was killed. Richard Croker announced that he recognized United States Senator Murphy, and not ex-Senator Hill, as tbe leader of the Democratic party in New York ?tate. Boyal Standard, the grand champion coach stallion of the Chicago Horse Show, has been declared a "ringer." and his owners, Graham Brothers, of Claremont, Ontario, hare been ordered to return tbe trophies awarded to him. James Charnley, Jr., of Chicago, whose Father, Charles M. Charnley. stole $60,000 of Presbyterian Church funds, committed suicide in Milwaukee, Wis. Mrs. Margaret Devlin, ninety-six years old, whose home was at Yardley, N. J., lied at the home \>f her brother-in-law. Her death was supposed to be from old age. Some unknown person notified ino Coroner that the aged woman's death was lot due to natural causes. Acting upon :his information the body was disinterred, in examination showedAa wound on the right breast extending through the long to ;he back. ?n investigation will be made. Constantine Steiger, alias Fritz Meyer, who killed Policeman Smith in a New York City church, was sentenced to be executed n the week beginning January 10. It is reported that J. P. Morgan A Co., of Yew York City, are arranging a combination of forty-five manufacturers of sewer' pipe into a trust with $37,500,000 capital. DoLald McClelland, son of n Westohester [N. Y.) dentist, and a clerk in the Bronx Borough Bank, disappeared after getting a jank's check for $2500 cashed. An organization of Chinese has been formed in Chicago for the purpose of de-nanding the right of suffrage and the repeal of the anti-Chinese law. In the United States Circuit Court at TOpeka, Kan., Judge Foster refused to issuo an injunction restraining State Insurance Commissioner Webb McNail from examining the books of the Travelers' Insurance Company. The suits of the New York Life Insurance Company against Commissioner SIcNail were dismissed oa motion of the company's attorney. ? A woman's college building was received ind dedicated by Brown University, and the cornerstone of a chapel was laid at Welieslev. A boiler in tbo engine room of tho Graves Elevator Works In Rochester, N. Y.t exploded, totally wrecking a one-stbrv' brick building in which it was located and burying the fireman and Patrick Shields, a boiler inspector, beneath its ruins. Foreign. It was announced in Berlin that the Manhelm Pure Oil Company, a competitor of. the Standard Oil Company, has purchased" an island in tbo Rhine, on which it is proposed to bnild gigantic tanks. Documents bare been fonnd in Georgetown, British Guiana, which are said to strengthen Great Britain's claim in the Venezuelan boundary dispute. A day of wild disorder was spent in the lower house of the Austrian Reichsrath in Vienna. Premier and Dr. Abraham or ios, the President, sought safety in flight. Fences were boilt about the tribune before the session began. The Austrian steamer Jokai was sunk off Dungcness in collision with the British steamer Baron Ardrossan., Four of her crew were drowned and nineteen saved. Augustin Cossio, father of Miss Evangeline Coesio Cisneros. has been released from Cabanas fortress. Havana. " * * *' ; c t' w rTTTTTTTT A A A A At AAA. A\ 4 ^ " For five y< in our city pro mouth ar.d t! 4 eaten away, th rthe outside of ^ Ssronarills ? - to strallow. j ^ health, and he L affected by th F f ?For seven * . shoulder and; a good physipi Ayer's Sarsap; ^ . ' bottles of this 5 LI WUJ ^ "I was a gre ^ twelve months ^ t medicines I to live. One of i ^ using eight bol \ the v i ^ ? For many ; dies used in ih ^ j . in eliminating 1 ^ especially scrol 4 t Dr. Ayer's I ^ Sarsaparilla. \ bowels, and st< DEPAJtTIENT i fftt t > Facts and Recommendations From Secretary Alger's Annual Report. ^ * T\ ARMY'S CONDITION AND NEEDS. I ^ Keeeulty of Men to Flfht the Onnj?Work of the Ordnnnco Board-.West Point Can Accommodate More Students?Seacoast Defenses?Hirer and Harbor Estimates Are Mnch Too Large. Washisqto*, D. C. (Special).?Many snggestlons and recommendations ot importance are contained in the first annual report of General Russell A. Alger, Secretary, of War, just submitted to the President. The Secretary quotes with approval a terse official statement of the condition and needs of the army prepared by Major-General Nelson A. Miles It Is urgei that the recommendation concerning two additional regiments of artillery be considered favorably by Congress. ncirruT luniu a. ai<wu. Secretary Alger In bis report has departed from the usual custom by reproducing In full the reports of the commanding Generals and heads of bureaus and oontentlng himself with brief comment thereon. The Secretary does not Indorse General . Mllee'a plan for a general Increase in the number of troops. The only recommendation of General If lice's In this line which reoelves the expliolt sanction of the Secretary Is that for two more artillery j-*.. W&VGf?' - .y*'' "* ?? y - \ ,. ? r *> ' ' : v k i rER cars my husband suffered from scrofula. The nounced the case incurable. Sores appeared, iroat. The jugular vein xvrA exposed, the ie palate and tonsils eaten out, and there was the throat. After everything else had failed, He had to take it through a tube, as his thro Now, after years of terrible sntjering, he b fu : is able to work every day, although hb spi a loss cf tongue and palate." Mrs. E. L. FOSTER, Wi I years I^sufTcred with that terrible scourge : irm. Every neftns of cure was tried without! ian who tried in every way to help me. I wa irilla. I immediately began its use, and aftt remedy the scrofula was entirely cured." Mrs. J, A. GENTLE, For f at sufferer from scrofula, being unable to do . Not one of the doctors who attended me, r ok, did me any good. My friends supposed t my physicians induced me to try Ayer's Sarsa ttlcs I am now perfectly well." GEORGE TOWNSEXD, Frcnt yorst fori years Ayer's Sarsaparilla has been one of the e Home for Little Wanderers, and we have fo humors from the blood which seem to have t fula and other skin diseases." (Rev). I>. Supt. N. E. Home for Little Wanderers, 5tI1s are specially adapted for u They promote digestion and 1 imach in good working order. regiments. although' the desirability "of further military divisions in Alaska is admitted. Secretary Alger recommends the revival of the grade of Lieutenant-Colonel, and urges that, while serving, military attaches be given rank and pav of Colonel, ana that such attaches at legations be given Lleatenant-Colonei emoluments. The Secretary says that the Military Academy at West Point can accommodate more students, and, if provision is made for two more artillery regiments, the army can absorb more - of the graduates. He does not indorse the recommendation of the superintendent that two cadets-atlarge be appointed from each State, which would give ninety more cadets than there are now, but recommends that the President be authorised to appoint ten cadetsat-large each year, which would increase the present number thirty. The Surgeon-General recommended a m tn fh* fnpinftr nf nmvirHnir publio quarters for a stated number of married men in each organization. The Secretary does not indorse the recommend* ation. The amount expended for the improvement of rivers and harbors during the fiscal year ending June 30,1897, Was 913,461,333. The estimate submitted for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889, for continuous work authorized bv Congress and by the Secretary of War is 918,093,007.56. "The estimates for river and harbor improvements submitted by the Chief of Engineers," said the Secretary, "greatly exceeded former estimates. With the exception of waterways and harbors where there is a large traffic or where immediate improvement is imperatively needed I am convinced the estimates ara largely in excess of what they shonld be at a time when the demands upon the Treasury are as great as now. It is therefore recommended that the amount to be appropriated be largely reduced below the estimates." The estimate for armament of fortifications of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899, is 97,468,651, or #2,605,243 in excess of the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898. Secretary Alger urges that the estimates of the Chief of Ordnance be appropriated. % The Secretary recommends an appropriation of ild MO for nrnArlmnntii with mill tary balloons and 620,COO for cable systems for the harbors of New York, Boston and San Francisco Army Department expenditures for the fiscal year ending Jane 30,1897, were $40,300,136. The appropriations for the present fiscal year are given as $63,839,417, while the estimate for the next fiscal year Is $96,338.445. John Magee Is the youngest railroad president in America. Ho is twenty-nine J ears old, and besides holding the presiency of the Fall Brook Railroad, he is also the President of the Fail Brook Coal Company of Antrim, Pens. He employs thousands of men and manipulatet capital amounting to $5,000,000. _ _ TTTTTTTT^ M ^LjL^4 i A A A A A ' >*c I k aTJ h ? 4 best physicians . , eating into the tongue entirely a large sore o:? , he tried Aver's 4 at was too sere . Ily restored to 4 ecch Li greatly ^ ~ i'.r.ington, Del. ^ 1 ' <r 11 , . W ' ' * scrofula in my 4 success. I had . s told to take rr taking seven ^ | ':4' t FairScId, Me. ^ any vrork for lor any of the 4 . \ Vgj hat I could not ' ^ iparilla. After ^ ^ :h Camp, Miss. ^ TLS of f constant rcme- ^ iund it valuable ^ $ >een inherited, -^3 A. COOPER, * "" / Ufa Boston, Mass. ^ Jla : < I * hi se with Ayer's < :cep the liver, ! 1 / N * rTTVTTTV't-1 . m ^ ^ A iAi A ^ / i .A ; r- SiB Chamber of Commerce Dinner. i At New York City, 450 members ot tbor Chamber of Commerce attended the 120th ) a*> annual banquet. Among the speakers were Alexander E.Orr, Secretary Gage, Governor Black, General Merritt, Commodore Bunce? . A Mayor Strong ahd President Glim an, ot Johns Hopkins. A Notorious Swindler Convicted. ' ' ^ William C. Woodward was found guilty of attempting to blackmail Samuel .W. Bridgham in the Supreme Court, New York City. He said that he had been arrested thirty-seven times and had made over '&$ 11,000,000 in London by gambling. Eaclaad Fears American competition. The Right Hon. Charles F. Ritchie, Pre?i- > J8| dent ot the Board of Trade in England, says that country's position in the commercial world is in danger by reason of American competition. SHrer Service For the Nashville. The presentation of a handsome silver service on bch.>lf and in the name of the citizens of Nashville, Tenn., wxs made to the United Stages gunboat Nashville at tho Xorfolit (Vs.) navy Jhutl. -jCT Paris High-Hat Order. M. Blanc, the new Perfect of Tolice of Paris, has issued an order forbidding women to wear high hats in the theatres. v * EUROPE'S LEAGUE FIXED. .! Combination Against the United States Has Been Agreed I'pon. Connt OoluchowshL the Austro-Hungar. fan Minister of Foreign Affairs, when making an appeal to all Europe, in his annual address before the Austrian and Hungarian delegations, to join closely for the vigorous defence of Europe against the United States .against the "crushing competition of transatlantic nations." said: "A turning point has been reached In European development which calls for th? unremitting attention of government. The great problems of material welfare, which become more pressing every year, require to be taken In hand instantly. Tha destructive competition which transoceanic countries are carrying on require* prompt and thorough counteracting measures if the vital interests of the peopia of Europe are not to be gravely compromised." The Maltene of Boms. Italy, discusse* the speech of the Austrian Chancellor. Itj says that the project of a European commercial league against the United State* was discussed and agreed upon during re* cent conferences at Homborg and Monzsj 4 ' M lr ? '-V- |