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\ THE COUNTY RECORD.; Pablished Every Thursday ?AT? 5QNQBTREE. SOUTH CAROLINA. tlT 0. W. WOLFE . Editor and Proprietor. , The deadly mock marriage nas again * claimed two victims. This time In Jacksonville, 111. So much litter and dust are left behind on London Bridge by the tramp over it of 200,000 pedestrians and the rattle over it of 20.000 vehicles daily, that three or four carts are required to tarry off the fine debris from leather solos and iron tires. By the incessant traffic, it is said, twenty-five cubic yards of granite are each year reduced to powder. This affords a striking illustration of the wear and tear, the attrition and grind, incident to human .life In general. Science corroborates common sense in declaring that the short skirts are more healthful than the long. Experience has taught all women that they are more comfortable and cleaner. Most women realfze that they are more becoming. Yet the Texas and Connecticut authorities are foolish to waste time trying to induce women to wear them. No woman worthy of the name will do that unless they are fashionable, and then nothing could prevent her from doing it. The Spanish chart of the Cuban coast has been found to be utterly unreliable, and a complete geodetical survey of the waters surrounding the island will soon be undertaken by the United States Navy Department. On the chart now in use the Isle of Tines is represented as being seven miles from Its true location, and other errors equally surprising make the navigation of tlg> Cubau coast without a competent pilot exceedingly precarious. It .will take about three years to complete the proiwsed resurvey. Although the Western red man Is 4till in leading strings as an agriculturist, his stock raising abilities render him a factor of no little consequence in the development of the nation's possibilities of food supply. Some of the best beef supplied to the Government for army use has come from Indian cattle breeders, who have discovered that cows pay better than corn. The tremendous problem of the country's future meat supply may involve in its solution the installation of the American Indian as the chief cattle raising agency on the Western prairies. The question is being asked why the taste of American fruit has become insipid. A common observation is that as the fruit stands grow large and fine, and the fruit offered for sale more beautiful to the eye, its edible quality iwMmps noorer and Doorer. The rea son of this, doubtless, is American enterprise. The same genius which enables us to get out Christmas papers by Thanksgiving Day, to spread winter fabrics on our couutc-s for sale in August, accomplishes the freak of nature which puts strawberries in our mouths when peaches are in season, feasts us on watermelons in Jauuary. grapes in May and snow-apples in July. In our fierce determination to keep up with the times we have over ?|VUl lilt* Uitlirw, iiliu mt un\ mu of the seasons, observes Harper's Bazar. Germany is gradually lightening the hours of labor for its people and especially for the small tradesman, who has been expecied to be in his shop at all hours, one might say, of day and night. Several years ago Berlin tradespeople were compelled to shut their shops on Sundays, caterers for household wants being allowed to keep open for live hours on that day. There was a great outcry against this, but in time the hausfrau adapted herself to the new arrangement, and everything we* smoottiy. Now. since October 1, the tradespeople have been compelled by law to close their shops at b o'clock in the .evening on every day in the week. AVith this "early" closing on week days and a half holiday on Sundays the Berlin clerk thinks himself particular'y happy and fortunate. CONGRESS AT WORK. Daily Proceedings of the Na ionaf Lawmakers. SENATE. Pirst Dav?In the Senate Mcmiay the fvork of the short session of the FiftysixthCongress was successfully launched. The original purpose of the Seaats to announce the death ofSenators Gear, of Iowa, and Davis, of Mlnne.-oia. immediately after assembling and then to adjourn and to receive the message of the President tomorrow was put aside in order to gain one day in a session when that much time may be of immense importance. Aside from the reading of the message and the administration of the oath to \Vm. P. Dillingham, the new Senator from Vermont, who succeeds the late Justin S. Morrill, no important business was transacted. The other new member of the body, former Representative Jonathan P. Dolliver. who succeeds the late Senator Gear, of Iowa, was present. The Senator then, at 3:4.") o'clock, upon motion of Mr. Allison as an additional mark of respect for the memo.y of Senator Gear and Senator Davis, au journed. Second Day.?The programme of the Senate leaders for a business session was taken up in earnest and materia! progress was made. The ship subsidy bill was made the unfinished bus mess of the Senate instead of the Spooner Philippine measure au1 .he discussion of it was opened by Mr. Five. cf Maine, chairman of the comm ttce on commerce, from which the measure was reported. Mr. Allison presented the credentials of Jonathan Prentiss the credentials of Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver, who was appointed to succeed the late Senator John Henry Gear, of Iowa. The oath of office was administered to Mr. Dolliver by President Pro Tem. Frye. A bill was passed to encourage the holding of an Inter-State and West Indian Exposition in Charleston. S. C.. in 19CL It appropriates S25h 000 and admits exhibits free of duty. The Senate, at 3:55, neia a oriei executive session, after which it adjourned. Third Day?Senator Frye closed his speech upon the ship subsidy bill. He devoted his attention principally to a technical explanation o; the various provisions of the measure, Vi^.-ining with especial care that provision which would admit to American reg'stry foreign-built ships, upon which much of the forthcoming debate will rest. Mr. Berry, of Arkansas, presented the credentials of Samuel D. McEnery. elected a Senator f-om Louisiana for a term of six years from March 4, 1503. Mr. McEnery then himself presented the credentials of Murphy J. Foster, elected a Senator from IxduIsiana for six years beginning March 4, 1901. Both sets Ol creaemims ?cic filed. Fourth Day.?The Senate transacted no business of importance in open session. Throughout almost the entire afternoon it was in executive session. The Ship Subsidy Bill therefore received no consideration. Mr. Hoar presented a resolution or the Massachusetts Legislature in favor of the purchase by the United State? government of Temple Farm and Moore House at Yorktown, Va. Mr. Martin (Va.) expressed gratification that the project had met with favor in Massachusetts, and said a bill would be presented at an early day intended to carry out the purpose u! the resolution. Mr. Clay (Ga.) presented the credentials nf Hon. A. 0. Bacon, his colleague re-elected to the Senate for a term of six years beginning March 4th. 1901. They were filed. Mr. Carter (Mont.) gave nptice that on Tuesday next he would call up the pending resolution relating to the con tested Montana seat in the Senat-", claimed by W. A. Clark and Martin Maginnis. The Senate then, at 12:40 p. m., on motion of Mr. Lodge (Mass.), went into executive session and at 4:30 p. m. adjourned. Fifth Day.?The Senate committee on military affairs continued its hearing upon the anti-canteen provision <;f ?ill*.,?. Kill K OO H11 <r in oHriitinn tn nit; umituij urn, iau>iue .M a number of short speeches in advocacy cf the provision, a protest against it from Rev. Mr. Miller, who served 14 months as an army chaplain in the Philippines. Mrs. Thatcher, of New Jersey, appealed for the abolition of the canteen on iinancial grounds, saying that it caused soldiers to squander not only their health and their time, but cheir money as well. Mrs. Keiis, or Mississippi. spoke for the mothers of the soldiers. saying that all of them favored the suppression of the liquor traflic. ' HOUSE. First Day?Girded by overflowing galleries, bathed in light from the stained glass windows overhead, the nan of leyresecxarives presence a a brilliant spectacle when Speaker David Bremraer Henderson called the second session of the Fifty-sixth Congress to order at noon. The desks of half of the members were freighted with flowers. The wealth and beauty of the capital, gowned in smart winter frocks, were in the galleries. The floral pieces were of infinite variety. The great proportion were on the Republican side. As the hands of the clock opposite the Speaker's desk poimed to noon, the Speaker ascended the rostrum and called the House to order.-Tlun the blind chaplain lifted up his voice in prayer. He referred feelingly to the deaths of the late Representatives Daly, of New Jersey, and Koeflecker. of Delaware, which occurred tiring the recess. After the prayer t I the clerk called the roll. Second Day.?The session of the House was of brief duration. Three bills were passed under the call of committees, the most important being one to provide for the detail Fourth Day.?The House of Representatives today at the end of a long sitting passed the Army Reorganization Bill by a vote of 166 to 133 Pennsylvania, and Underhill and Clayton, of New York?voted with the Re publicans for the bill, and Mr. McCa.l, of Massachusetts, with the Democrat against it. Otherwise it was a s:rict party vote. The passage of this bill wr.s the only matter of importance disposed of by the House before adjournment Sixth Day.?Under a special order, adopted at the last session, the house devoted to-day after 1 o'clock to paying tribute to the memory of the late Representative Alfred Charmer, of Pennsylvania. When the house met a bill was passed to include cherries m the list of fruits from which brandy ran be distilled under section 3^.5 ot Ibe revised statutes. At the conclusion of the eulogies the house, as an Mwitional mark of respect, adjourned. Paris Exposition Expenses. Washington, D. C., Special.?Commissioner Peck's report of the expeditures of the Paris Exposition commission for the year ending November 15, 1900, was sent to the Senate. The total amount expended was $939,465. The principal items were: Experts' salaries. $147,604; building, $191,427; jury, $53,778: clerks' salaries, $63,145; general employes' salaries, $49,965; gusxds, $34,951; traveling expenses, $52,530. Cotton Acreage Not Increased.* Atlanta. Ga., Special.?Commissioner of Agriculture Stevens, who returned from a trip over the State, said the cotton acreage next year would no<t be any larger than that planted this year. "Diversified crops are beginning to tell," said Mr. Stevens. "I find the farmers are planting large quantities of wheat, more than ever before. This I regard as a good sign. The cotton in Georgia has been nearly all picked and now there are but a few hundred bales left in the fields." T . To Prohibit Sale of t-lrearms. ? - ' ^ <" 1-1 TTV? wasnington, u. u, dpwwi.? xuc human's Christian Temperance Union convention, in session here, adopted resolutions against the army canteen and prepared a petition to the President, another to Congress and identical petitions to all the great powers against the rale of firearms and the importation of liquor and opium into the Philippine Islands or the island possessions of the other powers ad' dressed. Double Killing in Alabama. Selma, Ala., Special.?News has been received in this city of a double killing in Wheeler's Store, a small settlement ? TTKAalMi in Lxrwnaes cuuui>. vicvig^ ??ucciw shot and Instantly killed A. Waldrop and Calvin Harris, both white men. Waldrop had been farming on shares for Wheeler and went to his store to have a settlement. Some dispute arose over money matters at the time and Wheeler says Harris tried to reach a Winchester rifle which was laying on a counter when he shot him dead. W. C. T. U. Adjourns. Washington, D. C., Special.?The national Woman's Christian Temperance Union convention came to a close Friday night. Most of the closing day was devoted to superintendents, reports. A resolution was adopted declaring that the U: ion should work for the adoption of a constitutional amendment prohibiting polygamy. Columbus, 0.; Fort worth .Texas, and Portland. Me., each ask the honor of entertaining the convention of 1901. A Ghastly Find. Milledgeville, Ga., Special.?The woman's building at the State convict farm, near here, was destroyed by dre laite Friday afternoon. The flames were first discovered in the hospital and are supposed to have been of incendiary origin. All the inmates of the building were gotten out in safetj and with the help of volunteers from this city, the flames were prevented from spreading. In the excitement some of the convicts made a dash fo; liberty and several of them escaped. Weekly Bank Statement. New York. Special.?The wecl_? statement of averages of tLe aasoci. ated banks for five days shows: Loans $804,498,100; increase $11,778,000; d*)X)6its $864,410,900,Increase $13,019,600; circulation $30,670,000, do. crease $18,200; legal tenders $60,073,40C, decrease $310,200. Specie $166,895,000, increase $2,15$. , cOO; total reserve $226,968,400, iaoruaf | $1,842,300; reserve required $216,10$, , 725, increase $3,254 900; surplus ro Srve $10,865,675, d( crease $1,412,600. ^ The city of Hamburg Is about to i negotiate a loan of $10,000,000 ou its ( own account, without waiting for imperial assistance, for the purpose of deepening the River Elbe and retain- j I ing the Immense foreign trade which the port possesses. I. FELL FIVE STORIES.' Baltimore Fireman Has a Narrow Es* cape from L eatti. RESCUED WITH SLIGHT INJURIES. The Baltimore Bargain House and Other Property Destroyed--Heavy Losses Sustained. Baltimore, Special.?The extensive stores and stock of the Baltimore Bargain House at 212 to 220 West Baltimore street, were totally destroyed by fire Saturday morning and the stock and building of Grctjan, Lobe and Company which adjoins it, were considerably damaged. The fire was discovered shortly after three o'clock a. ? J AawaaI ir oil Vio "holanpp III. J LIU UU111CU iiCl v.ci; ?? ?i? of the night and far into the morning, completely obstructing traffic In taa busiest part of the city during the early morning hours. Several firemen made narrow escapes from death, but none was seriously injured. The Baltimore Bargain House, of which Mr. David Epstein is the head, is one of the largest concerns of the kind in the South and had a large holiday stock on hand. Mr. Epstein is as yet unable to give an accurate estimate of the loss on stock, but believes it will be $50,000. Grotjan, Lobe and Company estimate their loss at $5,000, while'the loss on the building will probably swell the total to be $300,000, all being covered by insurance. Fireman John Flynn had a miraculous escape from being killed. He fell five stories rrom tne rear 01 me v? eaiem section of the series of buildings included in the Baltimore Bargain House. Flynn was on the roof of the building. When overcome by smoke he lost his balance. His companions who saw him topple backward and fall felt sure that every bone in his body would be broken. In his fall the fireman struck three different times on a zig-zag arrangement of rain spouts. Each section -that he struck gave way, but each broke the momentum of this fall. As he struck the piece of rainspout nearest the ground, his fireman's helmet of aluminum fell off and he struck upon the helmet, mashing it as flat as a piece of pasteboard. When his companions picked him up he was unconscious, but revived shortly, when it was discovered that the only injuries he had received were a number of bruises on his shoulders and a broken ankle. To Revise the Creed. Washington, D. C., Special.?After two hoars' deliberation the Presbyterian Committee concluded its diecussion of the revision of the Westminster Confession of Faith and adjourned. The committee find on examination of the returns from the Presbyteries the following facts: 1. That the returns plainly indicate that the church desires some changes in its credal statement. 2. The returns indicate plainly that no change is desired which would in ImnoU tKo tntoorlfv r\t fhA Ckixj nu; iiupan v?v w*. system of doctrine contained in the confession of faith. These returns also indicate, that a large plurality desire that changes should be made by some new statement of present doctrines. 4. The returns also indicate a desire upon the part of many Presbyteries for seme revision of the present confession. 5. It was therefore unanimously agreed by the committee to recommend to the General Assembly that some revision or change be made in our confessional statements. The committee will convene in this city on February 12th next to finally prepare the statement to the General Assembly in Mar. Superintended the Looting. Berlin, By Cable?The Pekin correspondent of The Deutsche Zeitung writes that several German marine officers discovered Sir Claude MacDonald, former British minister, at Pekin, and Lady Mac Donald, personally superintending coolies who were carrying off treasures from the Chinese imperial palace to the British legation buildings. Telegraphers Strike. Chicago, Special.?Six hundred telegraph operators on the lines of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad 3truck in sympathy with the operators on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe railroad, a branch of the Atchison system. who went out last Thursday. The Foregoing statement is according to the best information obtainable from the company's officials to-night. The entire number of operators on the system is 1,200, of whom 900 are said to be union men. Of the 900 members of the union, 300, it is stated, refused to strike, leaving the system with about vnc-i-alf ifji men at wiwk- < * > wmm?mammmmm?mmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmi INDUSTRIAL CONVENTION. Meeting in New Orleans?Address by Qen. Gordon. New Orleans, La., Special.?The Southern Industrial Convention opened here Tuesday, with a fine attendance. President H. H. Hargrove call ed the convention to order and Bishop David Sessums opened the proceedings with prayer. Governor W. W. J Heard delivered the address of wel- * come in behalf of the State. The rollcall of State was called and among the others who responded were General John B. Gordan, of Georgia. His address was pronounced the most elo-? quent ever heard here. He said in regard ?.o politics, advertising to the subject through indirect reference to the motto of the convention, "No politics, no sectionalism, but business;" that he wanted to say that whatever the people of the South had been in favor in the past they were no longer in favor of a narrow or contracted national policy. At the conclusion of General Gordon's. address President Alderman, of Tulane University, then read his paper, entitled "The Southern Industrial Convention. Three Constitutions Presented. Havana, By Cable.?The Cuban constitutional convention resumed its session Tuesday. Three complete constitutions were submitted by Gen. era! Rivera, Senor De Queaada ana .the colored general, Morua, respectively. General Rivera's proposed constitution provides for a President, a Sen ate, a House of Representatives, a governor for each of the six provinces, a legislative body for each province and one member of the House of Representatives for every 30,000 inhabitants, w. j election by popular vote. His scheme called also for the election of three electors in each municipal district, whose dutyp it shall be to elect a legislative body of eleven for the province in which they reside. This legislative body shall elect the governor and four members of the Senate. Finally, the six legislatures will meet and choose the President, who must be a native Cuban. Candidates for senatorial honors must nave incomes of at least >1,500 a yJks. General Rivera's plan is to have the power vested in the central government and the convention virtually pledged itself to one State goernmenit at yesterday's secret session. Senor De Quesada's proposal would centralize the government in a President, Senate and House of Representatives elected by the people, suffrage being restricted to educational qualifications General Morua offered for approval constitution of the United States,1 with the exception that any one wh^ fought in the war might be choejflb President. His proposal leaves t*5 question of an army and navy to be decided by Congress. Senor Zayas ofTered a clause providing that a judicial body higher than the Supreme Court should be, elected by popular vote and providing that any officials removed from office should have the right of appeal to this body. Senor Ferrara submitted a general educational scheme. A Fatal Wreck. Sacramento, Cal., Special.?A work train, carrying its crew of between 25 " (nrfl a ana ?ju tratn. i ^auuD, ?wv?v. ?? _ freight train a few miles east of Sulzun, on the Southern Pacific and in the wreck which followed nine men were killed and twenty more injured, many of them seriously.. From the meagre reports received it appears that the freight train had the right of way and was running at full speed in order to meet and pass another freight at Suizun. The work train should hare been o na siding and was making for it at a goo a rate 6f speed when it collided with the freight. A heavy fog was prevailing and it was impossible to discern objects for any distance and the shock of the colliding trains was terrific. All the casualties are reported to be among the men of the working crew, as the engineers and firemen jumped and saved themselves Over 200 feet of track was torn up and the cars were smashed and piled upon each other in every conceivable shapa Soldiers Return. Norfolk, Special?The United States transport Rawlins arrived at Pinner's Point Tuesday from Porto Rioo. There are aboard ten officers and 287 enlisted men of the Eleventh Infantry, en route for Fort McPherson, and will leave in the morning for Atlanta on a special train over the Southern Railway. Telegraphic Briefs. Herr Debring has been appointed Commissioner of Chinese Customs at Tientsin, succeeding E. B. Drew. . <T?V? nival tiler Hflrcillpfl Will JKr 1UC --e --- up a sunken derelict at Five FaTHbm Bank Light, off the Virginia coadt. The promoters of the Innocents* Club, whose fleecings of members of the German aristocracy have been a year-long scandal, were sentenced at Berlin to short terms in prison. While trying to s.op a fight, Robert Leach, colored, wa^ shot and killed by Oscar Cassell. Colonel W. J. Sam ford, who is very ill, was sworn in as Governor of Ala* bama at Cpelika, Fla. ^ /