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'-f * * / L.ULMMMILI?tf JIIMI ?UHM ?ii"> m I *? ? rTHE COUNTY RECOUP. Published Every Thursday ? AT? TING8TBEE. SOCTII CAROLINA. 4 -srC. W. WOLFE . Bdltor and Proprietor. Of the C"."kJ Finns who came to the TTnifo/l fitnfoe illirin'T 1 hl? TK*CViOUM Veht only seventeen were sent back; only sixty-two were unable to rend and write, and only fourteen were said to De likely to become public charges. A paraffin lamp has been invented by aii expert of Dublin for the purpose of lighting buoys. The lamp has been tested aud found to afford a brilliant light for three months without attention. Those who go dowu to the sea in ships will have additional cause for thanking the inventing ge? r\inc at rrnn Enforced military duty, even In France, does not seem to be relished. During the recent military maneuvers in that country numbers deserted and crossed the border into Italy. On one day eight men from the same regimeut deserted, preferring exile for several years to the prospect of completing their military service. The famous stallion Axtell, which has now been sold for $14.ltd. fetched the record price of *100,000 eleven years ago when he was a three-yearold. However, he has earned $240,000 for his owners meanwhile, not to mention the price which he now brings as a fourteen-year-old Oh. yes, there's bic monev in good horseflesh. It will not l*o many years until Zuluiand will l*e fully iu the civilized belt. Immense coal tields liave recently boon discovered, many of them forty-five feet in depth. The coal is said to be of prime quality. In addition to the coal it is generally supposed that minerals in great variety abound throughout the country. It is said that 'JO.OUO people will winter in >'ome and contiguous camps. How many of them will never see an, I other Summer is a matter of rather serious conjecture. Si ill the preparations go on in the States for immigration to that section next summer, and * ' * It lo mnen tKon nt*nltn)tlu lliflt tllo 4V *C UiV* V VUUU VUWir?v IUUI i uv UV unt rate will be overbalanced by the newcomers. The most difficult features to imitate lp Uncle Sams bank notes, wBether national or of the greenback .variety, Is the water mark. The oouu* terfeiter effects this by placing the note onder a heavy die. The siuiplest. and possibly the only way to as- j certain if the mark is genuine, is by j dampening the same with a sponge. ; If genuine the water-murk will stand : out stronger; If counterfeit it will a I* . most, If not entirely, disappear. New Zealand's latest legislative novelty is ft "fair-rent" bill which has Just been circulated by tbe Government. The Intention of the bill is to set up boards with power to tlx the ,rent payable for any land or buildings. If a tenaut Is dissatisfied with the rent fixed by his landlord, he may apply to the "fair-rent" board of the district, and under the bill the board will hare the power to fix the rent i which the proprietor could legally demand. The boards are to consist of three members, with a magistrate as president. Fair rent is defined by the bill as follows: In the case of agricultural or pastoral land, such a rent as a tenant using or cultivating in a husbandmanlike manner can fairly be expected to produce from the land over and above the necessary cost of cultivation and production, and also reasonable Interest on capital invested in stock and working plant, aud also above the reasonable maintenance of hiuisclf ami his family or of such 1 of them as arc living and being maintained on the land. In the ease cf town, suburban or village lands, such a rent as a tenant can fairly be expected to pay Laving regard to its site, buildings and business advantage. congrlssional doings. Daily Proceedings of the National Lawmakers SENATE. Twenty-eighth Day.?In the Senate after several hundred pension bills were passed or referred. Mr. Morgan asked unanimous consent to take vote February 11 on the Nicaraguan canal bill and amendments, i The resolution was referred to the Committee on foreign relations. Twenty-ninth Day.?Consideration of the army reorganization bill was resumed. Mr. Teller moved to strike out that paragraph of the bill which empowered the President to place on the retired list any officer who has been suspended from duty by sentence of court martial or by executive order in mitigation of such sentence. The amendment was agreed to. Mr. Teller said that the paragraph might apply to Major Joseph W. Wham, whose record he dwelt upoft as a splendid one. filled with acts of gallantry at Nashville, Franklin and other battlefields. After almost an hour's executive sesBiou the Senate, at 5.50. adjourned. Thirtieth Day.?In the Senate a bill to provide for sub-ports of entry and delivery in the Hawaiian l9lanus was I reported by Mr. Hanna from the Comi mittee on Commerce, and passed. A bill fixing the compensation of district superintendents of the lifesaving service at $2,500 per annum, except in the case of the superintenI dent of the Eighth district, whose salary is fixed at $1,500. was passed. ! Much time was spent in discussion of the army bill. At 5 o'ekx-k the Senate proceeded to 1 executive business and at 5:05 adjourned until to-morrow. I Thirty-first Day.?Just before 6 o'clock the Senate finally disposed, of the army reorganization bill. The measure having originated in the Seu; ate. the final question was not upon its S 4.1 passage. Put upon agreeing 10 me ornate amendment?. They were agreed to by a vote of 43 to 23. While party Unas were drawn on the measure four ' Democrats voted for it. Senators Lind; say. of Kentucky: Mcl^aurin. of South I Carolina: Morgan, of Alabama and Sullivan, of Mississippi. Senator Hoar, i of Massachusetts, who was detained at , his home by illness, was paired against I the Mil with Senator Spooner. of Wis- ! con?in. The bill has occupied practi- j 1 cally the entire attention of the Senate since the 3rd day of January when [ ft wae made the unfiflnished business. . Thirty-second Day.?The Senate ! committee on finance granted a hearI ityg to a delegation from the tobacco rrowing States of Virginia. Xorth | Carolina, South Carolina. Kentucky. West Virginia and Georgia in support ; of the proposition to reduce the tax on tobacco in conneotion with the legislation on the war revenue. ' The delegation was composed entirely of members of congress and was accompanied i by Senators Pritchard. Tillman aild I Martin. They represented the tax had been doubled in the war revenue act and that over S35.000.000 of the revenue of the country is raised upon to bacco. and they asseu ior a reaucuon . from tho present tax of 12 cents per j pound to 8 cent*. There was nothing of important done by the Senate. After a brief ex- j ecutive session, the Senate at 5:15 p. m. ad-journed. HOUSE. Twenty-eighth Day.?The first half j hour of the session of the House was taken up in a discussion of the joint , resolutions providing for inaugural j programme at the Capitol on the fourth of March. i The river and harbor b.11 was then taken up for completion. -- ?... TV. ..."..or or,A ' 'I wenry-ninin lmy.? i uc mu nu-a harbor appropriation bill was passed by* the House. It went through practl ally as it came from the commattee. It carries slightly less than $60.000.0(K>, of which $23,000,000 is in direct appropriations. ' Thirtieth Day.?There were hardly fifty members in their places when the House of Representatives met. A majority of the members had gone over to the Senate to witness the adminis. tratlon of the oath to Senator Quay of Pennsylvania. The House, without preliminary business, went into <-ommittee of the wfiole (Mr. Lawrence of Massachusetts in the chair), and took up the consideration of the bill to Revise and Oodify the Postal Laws of the United States. The order for its consideration mad? last week was modified so as to CMtke it % continuing order, not to interfere with appropriation bills, conference reports and private bill day. Mr. Ix>ud of California, in charge of the bill, made a brief explanation of the provisions of the measure and explained in answer to many inquiries that the bill rnsde no modification of existing statutes mail pay. the salaries <rt railway mail clerks or any of the mooted quo* ions regarding the postal service. Thirty-firt Day.?The House spent the entire day. on the bill to refer to the Court of Claims the claims of the Willem Crampp and Son Ship Building Company, of Philadelphia, for alleged damages due to the delay cf the government in furnishing the armor plate and material for the battleships Massachusetts and Indiana and the cruisers New York and Columbia. The claims aggregate $1,376,244. The bill has been conspicuous at every scstion of Congress for several years. Thirty-second Day.?The session of 1 , the house was devoted chiefly to the { j-oMal codification bill, which way m ? - i i ip mum ,ym about hah' completed. The discii 2ion j turned mainly en lb" p-oposition \o j compel star route contracts to be let to persons living contiguous to the route, but the proposition was defeated after extended delta e. Among the bills passed was 'he granting or 2S days' annual leave to employes of navy yards, arsenals, et,. During November 137.738 working people of England obtained advances in salaries averaging (pfjd. weekly per capita, while 11 had their wages rcdiui'd. Then- is a great ileruand for bauds bv tiie plauters in Hawaii. No less than 30.000 men are needed there in the cultivation of sugar, and efforts are being made to secure them in this country. . I'll ion carpenters iu San Francisco, t'al.. have fully demonstrated what ran he done by organized labor as a unit. They have a union planing mill iu full operation, giving employment to 2000 uuion men. The report of the State Mine Inspector for 1'JOO shows that thirty-five men lost their lives in the mines of Alabama during the year, which is live j less than during the previous year, j though the , oal production last year j was much greater. NEWSY CLEANINGS. The German coinage for 1000 wai about &J5.G00.000. Germany's Meat Inspection law will be put into effect as soon as possible. fihe Japanese Government has decided to construct five torpedo destroyers. A British punitive erpedition has routed a force of rebels of Gambia, .West Africa. The town of Glen Flora. Wis., has just been sold for the sunt of $2800 under the foreclosure of a mortgage. A society to furnish legal aid gratuitously to needy persons worthy of such assistance has just been organized in Boston. Nearly $4,000,000 has been expended on the British royal yacht Victoria and Albert, whose defects render her practically worthless. The city of Toronto. Ont.. has voted overwhelmingly in favor of the city's buying out the plant of the Consumers' Gas Company. The British Colonial Office has agreed to pay the passage of Canadians desiring to 20 to South Africa to join Gen eral Baden-Powell's police. *Tbe King of Italy has granted permission to Captain Brescl, brother of King Humbert's murderer, to assume his, mother's maiden name. The Humane Society of Illinois con (templates a series of lectures throughout the State in the interest of the horse especially, but looking to the belter treatment of all domestic animals. When Governor M. B. McSweeney was inaugurated Governor of South Carolina for the second time, at Columbia. he called attention to tbe fact that there was not a lynching in the State during 1900. It is estimated that debts amounting iu round numbers to $25,000,000 were wiped out in Massachusetts between August 1. 1898. and January 1. 1901,-' timo in xchieh the nresent National Bankruptcy act has been in operation. CONTENTS OF A WOMAN'S PURSE. He i^neli upon the. pavement flat A woman saw his upturned face# Emptied her purse into his hat And left with charitable (trace. He found of buttons one or two, A recipe for rabbit hash: A bill to her dressmaker due. Rut not a cent of ready cash. ? Chicago Times llereld The nava' appropriation 01:1 was rcI pomd to the 1 reuse to-day with an elaboratt t arhent of its piovisicns, by Chairman Fcss c. the naval committee. The hill carries 577.016.635, the largest ever rt ..ortcrl to ibe house from the cotumlrtre 0:1 naval affairs. I Th'.s is S11.SC5.71S abo.e the oil! of last year and $10.229.295 below the estimates submitted by tr.e navy department. The bill provides tha., 11c. more than one battleship or cruiser shall be built in one yard or by one party and the usual prevL-ion i- made that at least one and not more than two of the battleships and armored cruisers shall be built on the Paeitt; feast. The following places received appropriations for naval work: Norfolk. $594,260; Key West. $144,000; Peusaeola. $41,500;* Algiers. $230,000; Dry Tortugas. $100,000. LABOR WORLD. The printers of tilassboro. NT. j., Uu<? organized a union. Kansas City, .Mo., claims to have established fifty new factories iu 1000. Chicago plumbers have decided to ox-filo fmin ih.? Hnildinir Trades' I'uioii. The si l iking machinists of the Erie Kaiiroad Company. ;it Horuellsville, X. V.. have returned to work. in Illinois waires not yet earned cannot lie assigned. Coups hold that such assignment would he illegal and void. A eourse or lectures for journeymen electrical workers has been arranged to lie git en at the New York Trade School. A threatened strike was averted by the rnion Coal Company. Shainokiu. I'enn.. agreeing to pay its miners semimonthly. A bill introduced in the South Caro- : liua Senate, makes it a misdemeanor I for a cotton mill to employ children uvi.li .i vnnr< ,.f !i?e FAVOR .4 DELAY,! Republican Caucus Opposes Early Consideration, CANAL BILL WILL BE KEPT BACK. I Caucus Decides Not to Set a Day For Its Consideration-Great Britain's Attitude. Washington. I). C.. Special.?The Republican Seratois. in caucus, have unanimously decided not to .set a day. at leost for the present, for taking up the Xioaraguan Canal bill. After a general exchange of views, the Senators concluded that so long, as Great Britain's attitude toward the amendments to j the Hay-Pauncefote treaty is unde- ; fir.::!, it would not be wise or expedi- J ent to agitate the question of the con- j pi ruction of the pioposed canal. This ' dec is-'on was embodied in a resolution presented by Senator i.odge. who stated that the conclusion as there set forth was the result of the best deli brat ions of the < cmmittce's order of business. Several Senators, however, gave notice that in case there should < be a motion to take up the canal bill, j they would not be bound by the resolut'on of independence. Senator Piatt, ! of New York, was the leader. He said [ he considered the proposed canal of j prime importance and would not re- , train from voting to take-it up whenever a motion to that effect is made. Senators Simon, Foster and Bard f<tlLrtiviwl 3-imlls.r fioolnrations TheV I did not, however, express determination to themselves initiate a movement in behalf'of the canal bill. and. it v.as suggested that Senator Morgan could be prevailed upon to allow the present status to remain. ' No decision was reached upon other questions because no formal action i was considereu necessary. There was. however, considerable discussion of other questions. Among these were the ship subsidy bill, the war revenue re- j dixstion bill, the confirmation of Mr. ; Harlan, as Attorney General of Porto Hico, the ratification of the treaty with | Spain for the acquisition of some of the Philippine islands not included in the original Paris treaty, and the appropriation balls. Senator Hanna expressed his desire i ta have the ship subsidy bill paa?ed j upon during the present session and : said that with the army bill out of the j way. be should ask that the decision ! arrived at early in the st??ion to press ; Kill ahauil hj? curried out. ! lilt? ouusruj Ulli wuvtvvi, -T^ - ? It vis Dot intended that the subsidy bill should receive attention wnen the appropriation bill* were not up for consideration. Senator AJdrieh explained the necessity of getting the war revenue reduction bill through this session and he stated that he hoped to be able to report it from tue committee on finance during the early part of next week. He hoped to secure an unanimous agreement from the committee and urged that to secure promptness there should be no effort to amend it by putting on tariff amendments. That would, he said, cpen up the entire tariff question. There was general assent to this propoation and assurance was given that the caucus would sustain him in tnat position. Senator Foraker state that he would again seek to get up the Harlan nomination at the first opportunity an<f he asked tbapt Republican Senators remain in sufflciest .numbers to guarantee a quorum beoauee of Senator Pettigrew's notice that he should require a roll call on the vote to confirm. ' The importance of gelling the Span 14ft treaty inrvmru * ?> ... Senator Ixidge. who said that the ratification of tne treaty was necessary to dean up our daalla?8 with Spain. Senator Proctor alao asked hi me for consideration of thp olemau-gariive bill. The committee probably would be prepared ta report nert weak. Confederate Veterans Dine. New York. Special.?The Confederals fetarans' camp held lu*edayenth annual dthner wfc the' Waldorf-Astoria Friday night. About 260 diners present, of whom.about hatt ware ladles. MaJor Edward Owen, the comander of the camp, preaided. with Bishop Thomas N. Dudley, of Kentucky, on hie right. Mrs. Jogferson Davie. Colopel and Mrs. John C. Calhoun. Augustus Van Wyck. president of the North Oarolina Society: Dr. William Polk, president of the Southern Society; William McAdoo Thompson. Colonel T. P. Ochiltree and General Joseph Wheeler were preseot. Signed and Delivered. Washington, D. 0.. Special.?A message was received Friday from Minister Conger, art Pekln. dateJ Thursday evening ...faiina: that the Chinese plenipo "O ? w tentiartee had signed and delivered the protocol. This removes the last doubt that had arisen as to the sealing of tne agreemnt. for it would not have beeu aeeepted by the Spanish minister unleet; k bore aJl the s<bai-. and signatures neceaary ix> give It full force. QUEEN VICTORIA DYING. Her Death is Hourly Expected ?Her Life. Cowes. Jsie of Wight, By Cable.? The official bulletin issued at midnight Sunday sasy? that the Queen's oonditlcn be.-ame more serious, with increasing weakness and diminished power o; taking nourishment. A collapse. or what physicians feared was a collapse, occurred unexpectedly about 10 o'clock Sunday evening. Arrangements were hurriedly made to provide special telephonic and telegraphic facilities. Details are not obtainable but it is asserted that Her Majesty's condition is chiefly due to a severe ^ sinking spell and an increase of the \ paralytic symptoms. It is understood - 1 that the physicians have resorted to artificial means to prolong life such as are used only in case of persons in extremis. The Associated Press learns that the paralysis is chiefly evident in the face, one side of which appear? to have lost all nerve and muscular power. At 6 o'clock the malady had not reached the vital organs, although it Lmd naturally caused -an almost total loss of the power of speech. What was so much fearetf was that the brain might be attacked. Keenly sensitive to her affliction and appearance, the Queen had absolutely refused to see any one but her nurses amd paydteians, and it is understood that the PPrince of Wales is the only exception to this rule and that his interview with the Queen lasted but a rew moments. Hence the exact nature of the malady is known only to a very few. and it is the royal wish thai the public should not Be informed of the existence of paralysis. Arrangements have been made with a local undertaker to have all the preliminaries to burial ready in case of an emergency.' Victoria's Life and Family. Queen Victoria was born May 24, 1819. On June 20th. 1837, she became queen of England, succeeding her uncle. King William IV. On Feb. 10th, 1840. she married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Ootha, who died Dec. 14, 1 01 c Victoria has been the mother of nine children, as follows: 1. Victoria Adelaide. Princess Royal, who married Emperor Frederick Wilc'am of Germany. She is the motner o? the present emperor of Germany. 2. Albert Edward. Prince of Wales, and heir to the throne. 3. Alice Main* Mary. Grand Ducheea of Hesse. Deceased 1878 4. Alfred. Duke of Saxe-CoburgGotha. Duke of Edinburgh. Married Grand Duchess Marie, daughter of Alexander II.. Emperor of Russia. 5. Helena. Princess Christian. Married Prince Frederick Christian of S: hlesburg-Holsten. 6. Louise. Marchoness of Lome. 7. Arthur. Duke of Ccnnaught. 8. Leopold. Duke of Albany. 9. Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore. Married Prince Henry of Battenburg, ~ to whom the queen was greatly attached. The Prince of Wale* was born in 1841. and is therefore 60 years old. In 1863 he married Princess Alexandra of Denmark. Their eldest child. Alhprt Victor. Duke of Clarence, born 1864. (lied in 1892. At the time o? his dtath he was engaged to Princess Mary Victoria of Teek. who afterwards married his brother. (Jeorge Frederick. Duke of York, the ?erond oldest living child of the Prince and Princess of Wales. The Duke of York is next to . his father in succession to the throne of the most powerful kingdom of modern times. He was born in 1865 and has two sons and one daughter. The other children of the Prince and Prince*; of Wales are: Louise Victoria. 1867: married the Duke of Fife: Victoria Alexandra, iso?, ana Maude Charlotte. 109. who are unmarried, and Alexander, born 1871 and died in infancy. The Czarina of Russia is the granddaughter of Queen Victoria, being Victoria Alice, daughter of the Grand Duchess of Hesse. By other marriagete the queen of Great Br.uiin is connected with all the powerful reigning ftuniliee of Europe. Through these relatives she has often exerted her influence in international affairs, especially for peace. Telegraphic Briefs. 1 Thinking the visitor a burglar. Barney Pitts shot and tilled John Trotter, under his window, at Guthrie. O. T., and then found that Trotter was trying to elope with his daughter. In a head-on collision between freight trains on the Grand Trunk Railroad, at I>ockes Mill, Me., Are men were killed and four locomotives I and 12 cars demolished. J WUliam H. Crocker, of San Francisco, Cal., has offered to pay tne expenses of a solar eclipse expeumon to be sent , from Lick Observatory to Sumatra to observe the total eclipse of May 15. The wrecking tug North America is stripping the schooner Wm. J. Lippsett, for Savannah, which is ashore and full of water on Winter Quarter Shoals near l.ewes. Del. A Buenos Ayres dispatch say.? that the Argentine wheat crop is estimated at 2.600,000 tons. The congresional committee will probably finish the investigation at the West Point Military Academy soon. The Congressmen have obtained a mass of evidence additional to that announced at the military court of inquiry. il 6~ i -*