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BE COUilTY RECORD. ' Published Every Thursday AT ?NG8TEEE. SOUTH CAROLINA. BY C. W. WOLFE . Editor and Proprietor. ~ Our soldiers in llio Philippines are , Baid to be getting bad teeth. This would seem to bo a line tip for enterprising dentist.-. luvestigatiou lias convinced the commissioner of labor statistics in Connecticut that electric lighting is furnished by private companies to municipalities so cio anlv now that municipal ownership would bring no saving worth considering. There is an almost complete failure of ilie olive crop ia southern Italy ami in Si.iiy this season, owing to tiie ravages of t io oil Hv, which appeared in umjsmi! numbers 0:1 account <<f the prolonged drouth of last summer ami fall. The loss t > the previa es ? : Bari ami L-cp alone is estimate I at GO, 000,000 lire, or ?1:1,00 '1 here will be a corresponding scarcity of 01'. of course, 'lhp countrv people a e having their eyes opened to tie- consequence; of their wholesale destruction of insect-devouring songbirds. Kcceiit developments in the South African war are to the effect that the Boers have been for some time acquiring a large armament of modern can lion, ami tiiat the iJritisii guns are 1101. nearly so elective. It was because of tliis weakness tha' the British artillery was obliged to move up within the inuge of th> ride-pits, and so was wiped oat at Tagela river the mei being driven from their guns by rif'ctiring. Tliis development is as important aud fateful as was the German needle-gun against the French rhassepots. The preponderance of girls in the higher school classes moved a speaker j at a recent convention of pedagogues j to sound n note of alarm. Me made a text of the fact, that the women stay at tlieir books through all the grades of the grammar schools and thence to the last of the academic school ciaxso, . while their brothers, partly from tie- ' oessitv and party because of thfur uu- ; rest, leave the schoolrooms at early | ages. The cud would be, he declared, j that all the higher callings would be 1 tilled by tlio educated women, whilo ; their untutored brothers wonM become tlie drudges of their generation. rnv . i> _ _ z a- i:an ^ .....l a :11 i?2?. I i lit? ?>uor iiuu1, jiuu mi ui> juilitary needs became urgent had little use for the inventions of others, lint he has learned how to buy up-to-date , instruments of war, and among his ; defensive expedients inclndes barbed j wire, which he stretches along the beds of streams exposed to the enemy, thus expanding the market for that commodity to our advantage, a* \Ycyler in Cnlnt did a year or two ago. \s it is going out of use to some extent for fences, being replaced by material of lik^ sort without the prongs, it may come in time to be chiefly used for , transient purposes of obstruction and defence, such as the Boers are now ; applying it to. As the instrument of j any purpose of peace it was always much too cruel to be acceptable. Ill til? opinion of tlic warden of tiie Pennsylvania penitentiary at llivcrside, mamml training-schools in prisons are useless except for discipline, ' and to occupy the otherwise idle time of the comicts. He liad contciuplated the establishment of a school of that character, but was dissuaded by tiie 1 result of his investigations of such schools in some hali-a dozen penal institutions. There is little incentive. , he said, for men to learn to do good i work in faahionimr miniature rente- i Mentations of articles, which are made only to bo destroyed. In prisons I whore goods are manufactured for 9alo ; and the workman is paid for extra la* j bor, the result- is different. Jn insti- j tutions condnctod on this plan tlie j convicts learn their trade and are able : after they at# discharged to earn an 1 honest livelihood. Otherwise, when! they leave the prison they are compelled ! ? to serve a full apprenticeship before ! they become proficient in any trade. I Eb , K?. v Hr - ' 1 f THROUGHOUT THE CCliMTRY, f ' ! V T he .South. T. L. IiOns:. a Merman supporter. ha* 5 been nominated /or Representative in Walker county, (la. It is reportc I that John .1. Vertrecs, m .\usii vine. i run., na- aw~i icjiuereu b place on t.rn* new Philippine Commis- >i siou. ' ' ill Colonel W. C. 1'. Ilreckini idge. of Kentucky, will re.-pond to tho toast "1 ho 1 nion Jack ami tlio Stars and Stripes." at a banquet of the AngloSaxon I nion of Toronto, on February 21. The North. fr Itookr.r T. Washington was refused hotel accommodations the other^ day 0! at Anderson. Ind.. and a barher at the ti Vnion station at Indianapolis refused s to shave him. al Iowa, has raised the pay of 1h r gov- ;1I ernor from $3,000 to $o.U00, with an ad- p ditional 51.000 for house rent. The lowest salary paid anywhere is in Or- tc cgon and Vermont, each cf which di States pays $l.r>oO a year. ti Ocorge Dewey Jr.. has gone to Chi- b< eago to live. He will he the Western ,.( agent of the dry goods house with .j. which he has been connected since left college. According to the Chicago al papers, society is making much of him 11 and he 5> being entertained iontinu- tr ally. b. 3>r. I). K. j-Varsons. 01 vniras.i, ?.n. ^ Las already given away two and a half millions of dollars of Lis fortune to colleges and charitable institutions, is 1J preparing to dispose of the remaining H million and r. half in the same way. o< with the provision that lie receive an L income of $ it0,000 a year himself and q wife during the remainder of their lives. 1>:\ Pearsons will he 80 years old in a few weeks. i ;' There is a committee engage in the 01 apportioning the clerkships and other h offices under the Senate among the va- in riotis Senators, with an average of four js employes to each Senator. The salary list of the Senate amounts about $500,000 a year, and as most of the cm- a ployes are engaged less than six ^ months on an annual salary, the post- t B ? ? t.i_ rri.? ....nwoo cjl;irv r>i aons are uesiruui*;. j m- a?%.?......... V1 is about $1,000 a year, the lowest being j1; $450. which is paid to firemen and la- ; ' borers, and the highest $0,000. which is received by the sergeant at arms. ln At Blor.mfield. Ta.. Leslie Eastburn ^ shot aged Jasper Sutton, who had re- s fused to allow liini to take hi", daugn- h ter to church. i ft In attempting to save a woman from ^ being run ('own on the street. Thomas ? Renrdon. a New York policeman, fell j and hurt his arm and injured his spine. r< Suit for $5,000 damages, for alleged ** alienation of her husband's affections h has been brought by Mrs. E. H. Beers, w of Bethel. Conn., against MPs. Elmira g( White, of Stamford. i Foreign. J English coal is being shipped to Bohemia via Germany. An Autrian export agency will bo j established at Hamburg. o Saxon coal strike affected the sale _ of shares on the Bourse. Berlin hankers united to keep rate D of discount low for political reasons. c The Kobotake tunnel has just been v completed by the Japanese Central I di railway. f< Russian oils will be brought into ac- , a tive competition with the American n product in the German market A Belgian syndicate has petitioned |> the Chinese bureau of railways for a , . railroad from Tungchon to Kalgan. ! Imperial and Russian 3 per cents, declined all la--t week upon the rum :r 0 of renewed loans. y* Tin- South German railway compnay t has decided to introduce electricity on 01 braiicli lines. I ti Heavy defalcations have been diseov- e eml in the accounts of .Japan's Gencr- ?j al Army Staff. i ti British troops arc pursuing General Cronje's Boer army in the Orange Free State. Fighting has occurred at Dordrecht, and Molteno, Cape Colony. , D General Andrade. the exiled Presi- j a dent of Venezuela, said in an interview : p that he left his country in order that a he revolution might terminate, and he is at a loss to I;now whv it contin- " i 01 The effect of General Wood's order transferring public works in the province of Santiago to tiie civil authori- A ties is said to be feared by business men in the province and by American , employes. : ^ Gen. Wrn. H. Shatter says that he jj Imliovic ?rnrrlcnr>? will alwavs lie need- 1 t ed in the Philippines. cj General Puller has begun a new tl movement aimed at the relief of Lady- d smith, Natal. kj Miscellaneous. I Total amount of bounty for Manila I Pay to be determined by the court of ! m claims can now be only estimated, but ^ it will range from $000,000 to $1,000,- ; ^ 000, depending upon the question j whether, in the two most mipuruuu < engagements, the force of the enemy I 01 was equal or inferior to our own. The ; a total number of individual claims is < ]? about 5,000, of which 3,150 have al- p ready been filed. Mr. Mudd forced au aye and no vote tm his civil service amendment to the appropriation bill, with the result that a it was defeated. The bill was passed with the usual guaranty for the con- : 5( tinuance of the civil service comml-- ' ai sion. j iENERAL RETREAT. oers Moving Out of British Terrij tory. IASSING ON THEIR OWN fiROUND ir Redvers Bullci Sends News That Th:y are About to Raise the Sttige of Ladysmith. London, by Cabin. The Boers are saving all the positions held by them a British territory and are eoneer ating for tho defense of their own. ir Redvers Duller thinks they are bout to raise the siege of Ladysmith. ad this is the large news of the day. enci'iil Clements reports that the tree confronting him has been greatly ntinished. Ten thousand men are esmated to liave gone from the Coles?rg district alone. The Boers arc also ^tracing their steps from Zululand. htis they are relaxing their hold on 1 sides not assembled to oppose Lord oberts. lie is pressing on steadily >wards Blocmfontein. This is shown y his inconsequential telegram from aardeberg, ."0 or f>0 miles away, oubtless he is miles behind the colmn that is pursuing the Beers and a* ur a u ; in jiwi Ltiu c ui;Tto i/v eunation of Bloemfontein. Nothing as been heard from the chase of renje for two days. There is a rong disposition to believe that faarable information has been receiv1 by the War Oflice but is being witbeld until the operations culminate i something more conclusive. There an equally strong disposition to link that General Cronje has got way. Owing to the lack cf transport te British are not likely to invade oer territory except where Lord Robrts is operating. General Ruller will ive to stop at the Drakensberg mounlins. Probably a part of his 40,000 ien will ultimately join the legions of ord Roberts. If, as General Roller vers, the Boors are retreating from im, then the news on every side is ivorable to the British. Nevertheless oops continue to go up. The War Ofce thinks that the rail to veterans to >ioin the colors. foaethfr with the ounty, will bring 43,000 men to the ome defense. The urgency with hich home defense is pressed excites ime wonder. With the casualties just sported the British losses in killed, ounded and raptured now aggregate 1,102. | Corner Cn Lumber, New York, Special. An, association f Wanking houses in New Yoik and ondon is said to 'be interested in a em- combination designated to control ae entire lumber business of North arolina. It is proposed to unite seven liferent companies, who own about >ur billion feet of lumber anil control bout fiOO miles of railroad. Their saw ! lill capacity as 1,.">00,090 feet. a day, nd they have large planing mills ana ox factories. Together they .sell lxmt SO per cent, ol all the North arolina pine distributed, the. total u'tpui being about 000,000,000 feet a ear. Tangible assets of these seven irge companies arc estimated at $25, i 30,000, and it is proposed to capitalize iftm at fci$,000,000. upon -which it is xpc.-.trd tii it dividends can be earned irough the economies of con.-olida- . nn ~ I Injunction Refused. Judge Seaman, in the United States istrict Court, at Chicago, has issued n order denying the injunction rayed for by 't he Chicago Tribune gainst the Associated Press. This rew out of an alleged infringement f copyright. I Doctors in Charleston. Charleston, S. <\. Special?The sec id annual convention of the Tri-Statt [edical Association convened in this ty Tuesday. A large number of delsates are present from North Ca.ror.a, South Carolina, and Virginia, he physicians were welcomed to the ty by Mayor J. Adger Smythe, and to te State by Dr. It. H. Rhett, of this tv_ Dr. Unshur. of Virginia, re- | wnded on behalf of the association. i On Dangerous (iround. Manila, By 'treble. A military com- ; lission met a:. TaJamba Wodnesdav ' > try a Filipino member of the guerilla banil which attacked a squad of .merhcans, on February 2, killing a arporal. The charges are murder and I ssault with intent to lei 11. The case j ; important, as foreshadowing the I oliey of treating guerillas as bandias. i ; is suippcsed that one reason which j as hitherto deterred the American i uthorities from adopting this policy, | , that the insurgents have more than j ) American prisoners and may retail- | te, although a few of them were cap- j ired while fighting. TILLMAtVS PITCHFORK. I S.nalor Morgan Ci.ts a CompJimon- : tary J.b From It. Washington. I). C.. S? eclal.?When1 the Senate cnii.euod Saturday. eons.d erntion of th? Hawaiian governmen. bill was resumed, the pending question ' being on the amendment of Mr. Plat', j of Connoeuoutt, providing that the President should appoint the chief justice^ of the Supreme fount an i ' judges of the Circuit Courts, and that | . the governor uf that territory should : appoint tlic cHicrrs, the arnendmenr. j limiting the tenure of (dace of appoit:- | ices id i-our years. ! la :i vehement speech Mr. Tillman i of south Carowna aiiackt-u the Inn treported to the Senate, anil in pass: n; lniide a personal arraignment of Sniator Morgan for alleged lack of courtesy. "The oliarehy which exi.-ts i.i Hawaii." dcclareil Mr. Tillman. "an?l which this liili perpetuates. is powerI'ul and unscrupulous. It is an auto- | rracy greater than ever existed om- i side of Russia. '1 sympathize with the Senator from Connecticut in his efforts to secure ?i properly appointed judiciary for .h<islands a judiciary no: controlled by the oligarchy which now has its grip on the islands." Referring to an incident which occurred the other day. in which .Mr. [ Morgan, of Alabama, declined to yield to Mr. Tillman to reply to a sLntcme; ' made by Mr. Wclcott of Colorado concerning the suppressed vote of Saute. Carolina. Mr. Tillman -aid: | "I have.felt indignation at the treainirnt ! received from the Senator (Mr. Morgan). Never in ray experience ia the Senate have I been treated so hi courteously by any number of tn? Senate." i Mr. Morgan endeavored to intetrup Mr. Tillman, but the latter waved hint aside, saying: "I decline to yield ro the Senator. He has put himself outside the pale of courtesy aud consideration so far as I am concerned." H th?n explained the circumstances o. .Mr. ??Iorgan's refusal to permit liim reply to Mr. Wolcott. "When I aro^e to explain the situation in South Carolina as it was presented by the Senator from Colorado." said Mr. Tillman, "the Serntor from Alabama said: 'No. I cannot permit you to speak now. I'll leave you fight it out some other time!" "it was the first time in my experience that I had been denied < hearing in like circumstances. No Republican would have denied nic the ; privilege, because there is no man on < that side of the chamber so lacking in courtesy and decency." A Thf-ivlng Section. , In no section of the South is ther> greater evidence of general pros peril;, and advancement in every line of industry than in that stretch of territory | extending from Moiroe. N. C., to Ports[ month, Va., along the Seaboard Air Line railway. Starting from Monroe, ! one traverses first a region devoted to the cultivation of coUon, and directly adjacent to the cotton fields sees immense and numerous cotton mills, that ! take almost, or altogether the entire product of the fields, and reduce .R to a finished state. Then the great lumber section is passed. In the mildst cf this lumber, or long leaf pine belt is situated the unique town of Southern < Pines, where all the resources of wealth ' and architectural ingenuity have bcu: exhausted to make a modern city in the most favorable surroundings foil health report The city of Raleign is next passed, the capital of Nort.i Carolina. This city presents all tin ' progressive features of the great State that contributes to its greatness. It is ; an educational and manufacturing an.l industrial center, reflecting the pro- 1 gressiveness of the whole State. Henderson, Wake Forest and Weldon are I live towns on the main line of the < Seaboard. From Henderson branches a road to Durham, noted for 'its tobacco industry the world over. '!'! * twin cities, Portsmouth "lid Norfolk. : Va., are at the present terminus of the i n'duuuru .vir liiiir. racdc viuca *?i/ au amount of .-hipping th;it Is enliivlv l>ryond comprehension of the average person. The prosperity and material advancement of fhris belt of territory must be attributed largely to the liberal management of the Seaboard Air Line railway system, which is always Quick to see and take advantage of anything calculated to upbuild the sections through which its lines pas-. Killeu L>y t l?S I IUI SC. t ] Greenville, N. Special.?Mr. Hud: Cox, of Contentnea township. Greene county, went In a cart to Grimesland Friday afternoon for a barrel of flour. After starting back home his horse ran away and lie was Killed, people living ' near the road saw the horse with ti.< broken cart running by. They went : back to investigate and found Mr. Cox dead in the road. His neck was bro- 1 ken and his head terribly mangled. ' ' 1 Weathered The (iale. ' , For: Monroe. Special. The trail*- ( port 'McPherson, towed by the steamer \ Admiral Sampson, passed in the cape-. ] at daybreak Saturday and anchored off 1 Fort Monroe quarantine station. Sh? brines troops from Cuba. The tran.^- | port had a thrilling experience. Da- j ring the heavy storm of Monday, while ' 140 miles at sea, she broke her propell- 1 er shaft and drifted helplessly for 1 many hours almost to the coast of Her- ^ muda. Assistance was asked of a lit- n tie Italian steamer, but her captain < was afraid the hig transport won id fwamp him. 1 -- f / WILL MEET JULY \\M Democratic National Convention wMH Assemble on That Day 8BB1 AT KANSAS CITY, MiSSOl^H Milwaukee was Also a Cnr.diiiatT^HH^R rioa'f Jrinr DlarA Rht L' *ir?c?c C\f v \\ Our Easily. Washington, Special. The next National Democratic Convention will be held at Kansas City, Mo., July +:h, This was the decision of the Democratic National committee which met ;u the Hotel Raleigh to fix the time and place of holding the convention.-^^ Milwaukee was the or.:y other eitj^^Hj eompeting for the honor of entertair.-^^M| ing the convention, and the poor s'now-^MM ing she made when the vote was takenHBH tthe result being Kansas City 40, M waukee 9),caused general surpi The claims of the rival cities as to ho-^HB te! accommodations, railroad ar.d graph facilities were presented in session by representatives of each < itv^^H nmi subsequently in executive sessionj^^Mj rx-Gcvernor c.tor.e, on behalf of Kani-:is City, and National Committeeman, J|H| E. C. Wail, cn behalf of Milwaukee,. explained the financial inducements vhi.di the city he represented was Willi r.z to make. Each offered the com mittee $50,000, but in addition Kansas City was willing to furnish hotel accommodations for the members of the committee an:! the hall with deceptions ami music free of expense to tiie committee. One of Milwaukee's strongest arguments was the political effect which the holding of the convention in that city would have upon the GermanAmerican voters, who were represent ed to the con>mittee y.s wavering in their allegiance -to the Republican ^arty. It ?eem?d to be taken for granted by a: least two speakers that Bryan would 'be re-nominated and that the Chicago platform in substance would be reaffirmed. Opposition to trusts expansion and imperialism together with every mention of Bryan and the Chicago plafonn aroused enthusiasm, but during the open session, of the committee there "was no allusion to free silver. Three dates for holding the convention were proposed, May 9:h, by Mr. Town send, of Oregon; June 14, by Senator Tillman, of South Carolina and July 4th, by Mr. MoGraw, of W* -^Vlrerinia. A speech by ex-Senator Gofl man, in favor of "holding to preceded" and naming a dale later than that fof, the convention of the party in power, had considerable influence in causing Independence Day to be chosen. After the committee had selected the "Gate City" of Che West, the Km sas City boomers held a jollification meeting in their rooms at the Raleigh. Ex-Governor Stone addressed the gathering predicting that those who attended the convention would depart with praises upon the<ir lips for the hospitality they had received and that the nominee of Che convention would be the victor at the polls in November. The committee was called to order by Senator Jones, chairman. Every State and Territory was represented. Bit'.ier by the committeeman or proxy. There were, strong indications when the committee met Chat Kansas City would be chosen. Each city was allowed thirty minutes to present its claims and the two rival cities argued in rotation. James A. Reid, prosecuting attorney >f Kansas City, nude the opening jncariiLiUo c*ic: ?,iauu.7 ??. ^ metropolis of the Southwest. The incitation lie presented, he said, came H not only from the citizens of Kansas fl t'ity. but from the ontaKeriag trinm- fl [>hant Democracy of 'Missouri. V Kansas City has thirty nine lines or" I railroad, and her telegraphic facilities 1 ire excellent. Her hotels are more- " than ample. Outside of the great ho tels of New York, there were in Kansas City seven hotels that will rank as iiigh as any in rhe lTnited intakes. The committee, he said, should have the irst choice of rooms at these hotel the delegates the second choice. Heel rates, he promised, would no: he raised. Mr. Reid was especially ful>otr.e in his eulogy of the convention. Intl. whiJh, he said, would seat 2">.K)U people. The tallowing call was issued in the afternoon: "The National Do moo ratio committee having met in the city of Wa?hinz:on. on the 22d day of February, 19fM>. las appointed Wednesday,'the Fourth if .July, as the time, and chosen the ?ity of Kansas City, Mo.. as the pi .ire if nolding the National Democviti.: Convention. Each State is entitled to i representation therein equal to double the number of its senators and i representatives in the Congress of the Xv United States; and each Tend t or > Alaska, Indian Territory, and the District of Columbia, shall have six deligates. All Democratic conservative reform citizens of the United State-, rrespective of pas. political associations and differences, vyho can iini:with us in the effort for pure. economical anci contsitu;inaI government, nn.l * ho favor t'ne republic ar.d oppoae h.jn&plre are cordially invited to Join us n sending delegates to the convention."