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THE COUNTY RECORD. f^blished Every Tlmredey ?AT? UNOSTBEE. SOUTH CAROLINA. ?KT? C. W. WOLFE . Editor and Proprietor. Thousands of Italian women, skilled In embroidery work, have emigrated to Switzerland for the ivurpose of securing higher wages. In their own country they receive twenty to thirty cents a day. In Switzerland they get from tliirty-siv 1o fortv cents oer da v. ' Spain has on the average over bOOO; fliours of sunshine (luring each yearj and yet, perhaps, possesses more poverty and suffering in proportion to popillation than any other nation. This reverses the old saying of "the sun behind the clouds," and leaves the clouds behind the sun. Nebraska has no bonded debt. The tast bonds outstanding were redeemed, and canceled on the 2d of June last, which leaves the State clear of indebtedness with the exception of about $1,750,000 in warrants issued against the general fund, with a balance of $819,281.90 in the treasury at the close of the last fiscal year. Direct gifts to educational institutions from the living exceeded largely the bequests of decedents last year. The latter only numbered sixty-seven, while the former came from 140 persons. Thi practice of making these gifts before death is a gjod one to encourage. The donor has. at least, the pleasure of noting the appreciation with which his gift is received, and possibly seeing some of the good it The constitutionality of the Michigan statute forbidding the playing of baseball on Sunday has been upheld by the Supreme Court of that State. A Sheriff is declared to have been negligent in the performance of his official duties who failed to arrest the participants In a Sunday game after he had endeavored by milder means to dissuade tuem from playing. He went so far as to sue a clergyman for libel in publishing a letter criticising him for his conduct in allowing the game to go on, and a jury actually mulcted the minister in damages to the extent of $1000, out the Supreme 0>urt held that the alleged libel was justified, and that the facts showed that it was the Sheriff, ami not the clergyman, who was in the wrong. The first step taken by the English authorities in the Soudan after the capture of Khartoum and the end of the Mabdi's interference was to seud an expedition UP tfle ^"e to cut away the vegetation that was blocking the waters of the river, and not only hindering navigation, but preventing also the summer irrigation of Egypt The success of the expedition in cutting through the seven blocks of sudd that stopped up the Bahr of Gebel has already l?eeu rep< rted. The cost of J he undertaking was about ?.",75.000. and Mr. W. Willeocks, late Director General of Reservoirs in Egypt, asserts in the Westminster Gazette that it has already this year prevented the loss of one-half the cotton crop, a loss that would have amounted Jo more than fgo.ooo.ooo for Egypt. THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. The South. Judge Cantrill, of Georgetown. Ky., denied a reopening of the murder case against Powers, but suspended execution of the life sentence for sixty days, in order that the defendant might appeal. The city council of Atlanta ha- begun impeachment proceedings against Mayor Woodward. Jerome B. Kerpy, aecuneu uie rup ilist nomination for Governor of Texas. and E. W. Nugent, for the nominee for Lieutenant Governor, will be substituted. Southern Pines will at once put in a water works system. It will include a cypress tank that will hold 60,000 gallons. The pump and engine will be large enough to supply 9,000 gallons per hour. John W. Yerkes, Republican nominee for Governor, opened his campaign in Kentucky at Bowling Green, Tuesday, and Governor Beckham at the same time opened his campaign at Henderson. False reports that he has been active in the Lillian Clayton Jewett antilvnehing movement having gone to his home, I. H. Thomas, colored, Is afraid to return from Boston, Mass., to Galveston, Texas. Sick and discouraged. Otto A. Burton, formerly a writer on the Atlanta, (Ga.) Constitution, committed suicide at Dallas, Texas. The North. Connecticut Republicans have nominated George P. McLean for governor. ~ * A ? nnfan wneraj junu a. mi^iciuau, a. uv^u civil war veteran, is dying at Springfield, 111. An effort is being made to have the headquarters of the Brotherhood of the Locomotive Firemen removed from Illinois to Rochester, N. Y. Gov. Roosevelt has extended 15 days te time in which Mayor Van Wyck, of New York City, may answer charges of his improper connection with the American Ice Company. Governor Heber M. Wells has been nominated for re-election by the Republicans of Utah. Rev. Clifford W. Barnes, professor of social science at Chicago University, was elected president of Illinois College. Governor Wiliahm A. Stone, of Pennsylvania, with a party of personal and political friends, arrivid at Colorado Spring, Col. Farmer Angus McDonald, his wife and two children were killed in a tornado which lifted their houee at Wapella, Manitoba, high in the air. A trolley car at Silver Lake. 0.. caught fire from a fuse burning out, and in the panic one passenger was killed and tbree were badly crushed. Twenty-eight men. women and children were poisoned and made s-rlously ill by eating a solid at the reunion of the Biggerstaff family at Prospect, 0. Judge Lacombe. of the United States Circuit Court, in New York, denied the application of Contractor Michael J. Dady for an injunction restraining Governor General Wo^l. of Cuba, from promulgating a new carter for Havana which will nullify Dady's franr-hisps Sampson Wellman, a veteran of East Su Ixiuis, 111., was run over by a cab at Chicago, 111., and killed. Charges growing out of the recrct investigation of immigration affairs at New York have been preferred against 310 employes of the Barge office. . The Grand Army of the Republic in session at Chicago, elected Major Leo Rassieur, of St. Louis, commander-in-chief. Foreign. Russia has proposed to the pow?rs that the troops be withdrawn from Pekin. Japan's action in seizing Afo.v, China. is said to have been unnecessary and in tended for territorial aggrandizement only. The Boers who have been oppo;ir.g the British at Mac-hadodorp. in the Transvaal, have retreated safely. Oaetauo Bresci. the assassin of King Humbert, was sentenced at Milan to life imprisonment. The coal famine in Germany is causing gr<?it distress. Turkey has again made a proposition to settle the missionary claims against her by including the $100,000 in a contract of a cruiser, but the President uill likplv decline to accent it. The United States. Great Britain. Russia, France and Japan have expressed a willingness to withdraw their troops from Pekin. What sppeors to be the bubonic plague has caused two deaths in Glasgow. Scotland, and 11 other suspected cases are reported. Gen. Maximo Gomez has been nominated cs a delegate of the \atior#.i party to the Cuban Constitutional Convention. A Ponce, P. R., newspaper in an ex tended article, declares the natives are more oppressed by the American than they were by the Spanish rule. President Krugcr has moved his headquarters to Neispruit, on the Delagoa Bay Railroad. It is believed that Russia will take a hand in the Balkan cris'* and avert war. The telephone is pot a mere oon?enlenee: it is working 11 social revolution, observes the Xew York Independent. It is grouping the people after a maimer without precedent. Telephone circuits do not correspond with town lines. < r with village boundaries. Gradually they are displacing such boundaries as measurements of social relations. A group of telephone circuits may be formed for literary, musical or religious ends, quite as easily as for business purposes. '1 hese may in turn be connected, if desirable, by long<'iO:iiicc connection, with the cilv Is this cliiti:?*ri4-:ilV Not in the least. Telephone toueoru arc not uncommon. These can Ik* hoard with clearness through circuits covering many miles. And yet we arc only at the beginning of the revolution. What shall ho the <ntl cf it v. l.o can fcroeast? -- ARP'S RUMINATION. Death of Friends Makes the Philos*, opher Sad. niDCC niFH THF SAMF DAY I i 1IV L. 1 1/iuir UI1 lux Colonels Moore and Jlynatt and Dr. (Joetchlus?They Were All Good Friends of His. How like a butterfly our thoughts flit from flower to flower feeding upon the ever-changing mental fcods. Sometimes they soar to heaven ur nestle ix.ong ;he stars, but their home is here among our people, our friends and kindred and the concerns of our daily life./ Who has not wondered how he came to be thinking of th s thing or that and traced it back to something wholly irrelevant, but leading on by shadowy lines. But a little while ago 1 was sadly thinking about the sudden death of three more of my good friends, ?friends whom I loved and everybody irv.,n,i c-noTi/ thom Mr. Moore, of ?v/? cu nuv nuv ? Auburn; Colonel Mynatt, of Atlanta, and Dr. Goetchius, of Rome, left us on the same day. They were good men and the world was made better by their presence. I was thinking especially about Dr. Goetchius, the preacher, whose journey and destination was so suddenly chang- : ed, for he had bought his ticket for Tallulah Falls, there to spend his vacation, and was to take the train at 3 o'clock. He rose from his bed at 2 and at 3 he was dead and his spirit soaring heavenward. Then I thought about Mrs. Barbauld's lines that fit so well: "Life! we have been long together In pleasant and in cloudy weather, 'Tis hard to part when fricnd3 are dear, Perhaos 'twill cost a sigh or tear. Then steal away?give little warning; Choose thine own time. Say not goodnight, but in some brighter clime Bid me good morning." Then I ruminated about that wonderful woman.How she was the first to write story book3 for the children and hymns for the chruch and how her life was spent in the schoolroom among the children that she loved. And then I recalled that beautiful hymn that she wrote: "How bleast the righteous when he dies. When sinks the weary soul to rest. How mildly beam the closing eyes. How gently hraves the epiring breast." And then 1 thought of the words ol Balaam, upqo which that hymn was founded. "Oh! may I die the death ol the righteous and may my list end be like His." And this reminded me ol those other words of Balaam: "What hath God wrought?" That was th1 first message sent over a te'egraph wire. It was sent from Washington te Baltimore by Miss Anna Ellsworth, the daughter of the commissioner of patents. She had been very kind to Professor Morse and he had promised that she should send the first message. This was sent on the 24th day of May. 1844. and two days later the second message was sent from Baltimore tc Washington, announcing that James K. Polk had been nominated rcr prcsi dent. I remember all this, for 1 wa3 in college then. But still the people were incredulous and waited for the mail train to bring the news. Then I ruminated on the hard lot of great inventors. .and how .Morse spent all ol his small estate and received but little encouragement, being so utterly poor that he had to go without food at timp? for twenty-four hours, and how he pleaded with congress for three years in vain for an appropriation to help him perfect and build a line to Baltimore?and how at the very last, when he was in despair and had given up al ..nntrfoce <iirl at midnie'.it. on the "?t"t "'"tl"-'. ? lest day of the session. pas3 the bill foi $:',0.000. and Anna Ellsworth came running to him in delighted haste and told him the good news. What an agonizing life he had led during all these years, for he had been refused help at home and had been to England a'id to France in search of it and found it Hot. Now just think of it. After he had built his first lines and his success was established he offered his patient to the United States for $100,000 and it was refused and he was constrained to sell to private parties, an invention that soon came to be worth one hundrel millions. But he died full of year? and full of honors, and even Franc? made him a donation cf 400.000 franc. What a wonderful man?perhaps the greatest all around man that ever lived ?for he was a painter of disunctior and renown, the pupil and the pe?r (I AUston and West and the city ot Charleston was his best friend and pa tron and lias now his portraits cr .Monroe and Lafayette. He was a r ulptor, an architect, a philosopher and a po i. and would have reached the top in a'l had he not become so absorbed in harnessing toe lightning. As a matter of cour.-e he was kept in litigati in aevoral years and other parties tried tc steal his invention, but the siipr# me c urt of the United States did finally affirm everything that he claimed. H? died in 1X7L' in his eighty-first ye nr. Here my thought reted lor a while and then returned to Dr. Goe'chiu- and the many other friends who hive gone betore and have left me alrm-t alone. How fondly our minds cling to the friends of our youth?our s hotdntiti s and college mates?and every no 2nd then we. hear of another who has dropped out of line, and like the barber In a barber shop, old Father Time whispers "next." My dear old friend Jim Warren still lives to greet me when I come and so does Chets Howard and Dr. Alexander and his brother and Evan Howell. Then I recalled the grand and beautiful words of Installs spoken in his eulogy, on Senator Beck. "ThA rieht to live is. in human esti mation, the most sacred, the most inviolable, t'Ke moat inalienable. The joy of living in such a splendid and luminous day as this is inconceivable. To exist is exultation. To live forever is our sublimest hope. To know, to love, to achieve, to triumph is rapture; and yet we are all under sentence of death. Without a trial or opportunity of defense, with no knolwedge of the accuser or the nature and cause of the accusation: without beins confronted with the witne-ses against ps we have been summoned to the bar (Of life and condemned to death. There lis neither exculpation nor appeal. The jtender mother cries passionately for imercy for her first born, but there is mo clemency. The craven fellon sullenly prays for a moment in which to be aneled, but there is no reprieve. Tin soul helplessly beat* its wings npon th? bars, shudders and disappears. "But the death of a good man is not an inconsolable lamentation. It is a strain of triumph and he may exclaim with the Ttoman poet, 'Non omnis Moriar,' and turning to the silent and unknown future can rely with Just and *-1 - nnon that mfmt reasouati? wuuucuv^ u^u u<?. ?. impressive assurance ever delivered to the human race. 'He that belleveth in me. though he were dead, yet shall he live and whosoever liveth and believcth in me shall never die.'" Mr. Ingalls might have added one more shadow to his dark picture ef death by saying that he not only condemned us without trial or witnesses or an accuser, but the pitiless old rascal would not even give the date of our execution nor the manner of it. We are to die. that is certain, but when or how or where we know not. Think of Dr. Goetchius. dressed at 2 o'clock with pleasant anticipations of a rest at Tallulah. amid the sound of falling waters that soothe the soul, but within corpse. Senator Ingalls was a gifted manin hour he was a helpless, lifeless jot a word painter, but a thought en traver. For years he was our enemy ;nd harbored prejudices against our ?eople. but after he had visited Texas md studied the negro and his race .'raits, he returned home and declared that he was unfit ?nd unowrth^ of freedom or any political franchise.' But euough of this. Now let me add that up to ?)iis date I have received one hundred and seventeen copies of the poem that-1 asked for and the number increases with every mail. They have come from every scuthern State. I began to write pleasant words and thanks to thrse who have troubled themselves to please me, but I hive >io,i ?? tnn for mv nld pvps are weak and my hand gets tired. I can only thank them all at once and say hew grateful 1 am that so many know what I did not know. It humbles my pride and takes away some of my vanity. Some of my scattered friends give the authority to Miss Flora Hastings. Queen Victoria's maid of honor, and soiae to George D. Prentice, and one to S. S. Prentis. but the large majority are correct in naming Charles Mackiy. He was born in Perth. Scotland. In 1S12. and during our civil war was the American correspondent of The Londcn Times. He easily stood first among the modern English poets, and Wis the author of many prose works.?Bill Ar? in Atlanta Constitution. BKJ EXPOSITION. The city of Danville will hold" a Street Fair and Carnival October 1st to 6th. 1900, under the auspices of Danville Lodge of Elks. It Is proposed to have a tobacco exhibit in connection with the street fair, and to that end the following premiums on tobacco a'e offered. The premiums are offered ex. elusively to tobacco growers of sections enumerated. All farmers are requested to send their samples and compete for the different premiums, and come and bring their families. A good time is promised them all. SOUTH CAROLINA TOBACCO. 1st Premium. Bright Wrappers, 25 lt>s. ?50.00 :M " Mahogany " 25 lb?. 35 00 3d ' Fine Cutters, 50 lb?. 25 00 PASTE KN NORTH CAROLINA. 1st Premium. Bright Wrappers. 25 lbs. 50.00 2d " Fine Cutters, 50 lbs. 25.00 3d " Export Leaf. 50 lbs. 25.00 OLD BELT NORTH CAROLINA. 1st Premium. Fine Bright Muaogauv, 25 lbs. 50.00 2d Premium. Dark Mahogany. 25 lbs. 35.00 3d " Mahogany tillers, 25 lbs. 25 00 FOR VIRGINIA. 1st Premium. Flue bright Mahogany, 25 lbs. #50 00 2d Premium. Dark Mahogany. 25 It's 35.00 31 " Mahogany Fillers, 25 lbs. 25.00 FOR ALL SECTIONS. Best Bright Fillers. 50 lbs 20.00 Finest Wrappers. 50 lbs 50.00 Special reduced rates on all railroads. 1?.._ AO quantity less unn mai uiiriiiiuuevl will be Accepted for the content. No charge mad? for entries. Farmeis can send their simpie; direct to any member of the committer who will take great pleasure in lo k ng after them and seeing that they are properly exhibited, and to look after selling of same and turn the proceeds over to the owners of the different sample*. Address D. J. HOLCOMBE, Chairman, Danville, Vu. In Spain the Infant's face Is swept with a pine bough to bring it good luck. MR. SEWALL DEAD. Former Candidate For Vice-President Passes Away. ANOTHER TICKET IN THE FIELD. National Party Holds Convention In New York and Names Its Candidates "* for President and Vice-President. Bath, Me., Special.?Arthur SewaJI, vice pTesTQent candidate on the Democratic ticket with Mr. Bryan four years ago, died at his summer home, Samali Point, about 12 miles from this city, at 8:15 Wednesday morning of apoplexy, the stroke having been sustained last Sunday. He was 61 years of age. Mr. Sewall had not been in good health for some time, although he was not considered to be seriously ill. He hud been ad-vised by his physician to rest, as early as last June, and he attended the Democratic national convention in July against the advice of hi3 doctor. He appeared to have suffered no ill effects from the Journey, however, and was passing the summer chiefly at Small Point when the fatal stroke seized him. The unconsciousness which followed the attack continued until death came. Arthur Sewall was born in Bath, in 1835. His father for years was prominent as a ship-builder and the son fitted himself for the same trade. The firm of Arthur Sewall and Companywas formed and the corporation now controls one of the largest of American sailing fleets. Mr. Sewall also was one of the prominent railroad men of New England. For nine years he was president of the Maine Central, and he was president of the Eastern Railroad until it was absorbed by the Boston and Maine. For many years he was the Maine representative on the Democratic committee. Mr. Sewall is &ur vlved by two soils, Harold m. Sewall, who was stationed by the government, at Hawaii, and Wm. D. Sewall, who is in h'Lsiness in Bath. ___ .. Another Ticket Namea. New York, Special.?The National party, the ofiklal name of the Thirl ra;tv, met in convention n Carnegie Hall, and nominated cani.dates for President and Vice PriM uent of tlio United States. \ platf um was adopted and a title and an emblem were sen. These are the OKnJiit-.es: J'or y/ President, Donaid Ca.tfer/, of l>mit?iana; for Vice President. Archibald Murray Hcowe, of Cambridge Mass, The platform adopted pledges the par ly: "First, To procure iha renunciation of aJl imperial or colonial pretensions with regard to foreign countries claimed to have been acquired throouph or in coonsequence of military nor naval opoerations of the hst two years. Second, We further pledge our efforts to secure a single gjii standard and a sound banking system. "Third, To secure a public service based on merit. "Fourth, To secure ihe abolition of all corrupting special privileges whether under the guise oof subsidies, boun ties, unaeserveti pens?i/u?? -ji u uo?breeding tariffs." The convention was called to order by Thomas M. Osborne, of Auburn, N". t Y., who presided at the Indianapolis preliminary meeting a month agoo. Everett V. Abbott was secretary. Ail the delegates were volunteers, who had replied by their presence to the invitation issurd to all persons In sympathy with the objects of the party. It was derided that the party be Known as Ult? ixauvutti |j<ul.v ana >nai its emblem cf the statue of Mbe-ry on the capitol dome at Washington. iA resolution was passed instrtcting the campaign committee when it ha 11 be appointed .o provide pasters for \ot? ers. Birmingham's Population. Wishing on. D. C.. Special.?The population of the city of Birmingham, Ala., as officially announced is 38.415. as again-t 26.178 in 1S90. These figur< s show for the city, as a whole, an increase in population of 12,237. or 4C.75 per cent, from 1890 to 1900. The populaticn in 1SS0 W3S 30.08G. showing an increase r.f 23,092. or 248.28 per cent, from 18S0 to 1890. Negro Company Disbanded Columbia. S. C., Special.?Governor Alcsweeuey nas ctisurfiaeti tr.e capital City Guards, a local colored militia company, which engaged in riotous conduct on the State capito! grounds on Labor Day. M. R. Cooper, Sec re- f' tary of State, has forbidden colored militia to use the capitol grounds hereafter. In the police court the rioting members were fined $40. and some double that amount, for contempt. This is the best drilled company in the State, white or black, and has been largely supported by white people. But stringent methods were deemed necessary to avoid another clash L &i ' - %