Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Seas'of th Very wonderful are the sighti that ,an be seen through the bottom of a bucket if the bottom is of glass and the sightser is looking over the side of a boat into the waters of the Ba hamas. An observer writes: "To describe the coloring of the waters of the Bahamas would be to throw dis credit upon the writer. Nor could the indigoes. ultramarines, vivid emer aids, With intervals of amethyst hue, according to depth and floor, be done justice to save by an experience paint er. What, then, can be written of sights revealed through the bucket? Even in this little garden patch grow purple fans and yellow feathers in clusters, gently waving to the ground swell of crystal water, intermingled with lace coral, brain coral and finger coral; cvrals not as we usually see them, dried and bleached, but living specimens clcthed by nature in soft velvet, with other life of great variety creeping and swimming among them -long-spined sea urchins, sea cucum bers, huge gnarled star-fish and fishes than which no butterfly was ever iore gorgeously arrayed; fishes blue, green, yellow, red and rainbow tinted, with elongated fins wafted hither and thither in harmony with their sur roundings in the submarine kaleido ccone. 'Let us 'tip buckets' and set sail east w.rd among the islands of coral. For here all is coral, and not all nice coral Pussy and t "It happen one' day when you gone off for whole week. I work in 1.itch en at window. I see one white silk puss cat come creepy, creepy in the yard. I no see his collar, his neck so fhdf, but I hear one little bell go tin kle, tinkle, tinkle. Pret-soon a missy come round the corner all creepy, creepy, too, with chopbone in her hand, and she call so soft, 'Come, puss cat, puss-cat, puss-cat.' But puss-cat he no care for dead chop when he can catchy grasshoppers. "Then quick before I think, whoop! scat! the dogs go scooty 'cross the grass, and puss-cat he all stick out and spit, and then he shin up tree like hell. And Brindle-Boy, he rush at missy all mad, and grab her skirts and stockings, and pull-tug, pull-tug, and growl and bite like he eat her all up." "The beast!" exclaimed Barry. "What did you do?" The little Japanese man crew him self up with pride till he almost reach ed his master's shoulder. 'I grab big broom and rush to save." "What did she do?" Barry persisted, erjury in An interesting contribution to the proof of the prevalence of perjury in court proceedings is furnished by a recent story of the restitution of $550 to a street railway company of this city by the priest of a Polish church in Manhattan, acting on behalf of a woman who confessed to him tha.t she had obtained it as her share of a ver dict in her suit for damages against the company by false testimony. According to the story she testified falsely by the advice of her lawyer, who told her that if she presented nothing but the truth in court she could recover nothing. So she per jured herself. Of course the priest could not be bound to reveal her iden tity and he did not, holding that he had done his full duty to both the woman an.d the company .in securing the restitution of the money fraudu lently obtained. The story exemplifies the difficulties so often met wvith by the railroad com panics in answers to the frequent damage suits, and justifies, as far as Futu-re Sta Philosophic dalliance with the prob lem of a future state may be more congenial to Dives than to Laza.rus. If there is nothing beyond this life, what -spcctacie is the state of Lazarus in the slums of New York: What a spec tacle is the liie 'of the unfortunate generally: What a spectacle is his tory: Sc'hopenhauer said, not that thins was the worst of all conceivable, but that it was the worst of all possible world, and could not bear another grain of evil. There has been and is a terribly large proportion of the hu man race which might think that the pessimist told the truth. "Immortality" is inconceivable- We must discard the term. The question is whether our hopes and responsibil ities extend beyond this world and life. Conscience says that they do. Con science tells us that this world, its awards and its judgments are not all, )Lament f We'-ve bin a durnedz Irave nashua. Weve t aklt of wars. An' jes' because' we're lucky. Our old eagle h till s'ars And 'Il keep I.ngrandly Till somne nashun nt kinz shoot winl put t's ou t of bizneCSs quick, Ani swvipe a o of loot. W'at's the use' of our manu-r?in' w'at-s the 'use I guns ani drill7 V.'en the shooti' of the intshun Is so rank it makes you ill? W'en the hull doggon'd caboedle 'Ce-pt some fellers on the teamns C'udn't hit a great big Ibarn door Even in their wildest dreams-. 'Ven v;e fit fur independince. Evry muan e-ud sho'ot a guni An' the pitckin' off the redcoats Was a mocst ::maazin' fun. An' w'en we Etin 1% W'e"rn rifles was th -.mmen. And some went hiomel real t me Sharps and Flats. Within a few days there will ho wireless communication between 'the Farallon Islands, which are 30 miles off the entrance of San Francisco Bay, and the navy yard at MIare Island. The town of Castlerea, County Ros common, Ireland, is to be sold to the tenants as the result of negotiations between the landlord, the estates com mnissioners and the Town Tenants' League, under the land act of last sear. e Bahamas either; coral which you cannot even sit down on, and upon which a fall would be harrowing to contemplate; coral which tears the shoes off your feet in two days and rasps your boat to splinters in trying to land; treach erous, cruel 'and unbeautiful coral is what appears above the surface, raised in peaks and islands, intersected by caves of great dimensions, supported upon stalactite pillars and carpeted with the old red cave dust. High palms and fir trees adorn many islands, others are bare; but all tl& great beauty lies beneath the sea. There are no tarpon here. Most of the fishes of the west coast of Florida are either absent or beautified out of recognition. "Suddenly a flock of flying fish will take.the air and, contrary U all we are told by o.ur naturalists, will change direction, right, left or upward, with a true flight, like a pack of sandpipers. The great blue bee will test the fish erman's tackle to the extreme, while .good sport is ever at hand with the evil-jawe! baracouta. The terror of the sea appears to be a great :aerpen-t like eel, called the moray. To quote local authority. woe betide the man who even permits the moray to right him. No use to run; equally futile to climb the nast; nothing will daunt the moray whose ire has once been roused. He just drops that man into I the sea and tears him to shreds." he Bulldogs kicking angrily at the eair. "Did she scream bloody murder' The little man's pompous bravery seemed to suddenly wither away. "What she do? She just put baci. her head and laugh all teeth and cry out. 'isn't he just too sweet for anything? all silly like that, and as I lift up broom to club that dog's head she throw him -lamb chop quick, and ne stop bitey her feet, and she sit right down on grass and cry, cry, all whitey. And Brindle Boy, when he finish thet enop he come lick her hands so nice, and missy she kind of tugk up her cry and run home. But white silk puss cat he no come down out of that tree for two days. and bulldogs they go round so sad and cough up white fluff fur all time." "Did they eat her cat?" Barry in quired as a matter of natural polite ness. He hated cats. The Japanese man resumed his fatuous smile. "They try hard," he acknowledged. "They bitey deep and often, but they no hurt white silk .puss-cat, he live so far inside."-Elea nor A. Hallowell in Lippincott's. the 'Courts it goes, their complaints of the way in which many of them are worked up: a complaint that is often made by many lawyers, who say that perjuri our testimony is increasingly encoun tered in the trial of cases and particu larly those in which the foreign ele ment is concerned. This state of things is encouraged by the success which, as In the case cited, is secured by perjured testi mony in the suits brought. but not by that alone. It receives its chief en couragement from the immunity from prosecution and punishment given to perjurers and suborners of perjury through the neglect of the authorities to follow up the evidenc'e and the cews that would often lead to the con viction of the guilty. This prevaience of perjury is. indeed, a matter of such consequence to the community-even more harmful, perhaps, than murder that it deserves the most vigorous and rigorous attention of those who have the power to effect a general reformat tion in it.-Brooklyn Citizen. .te of Man but that as we do well or ill in tlns life, it will be well or ill for us in the sum of things. What question can be more practical Even taking it on the lowest ground, what would our so cial state be if vice and wickedness had only to bilk human law? Would not self-sacrifice be folly and martyr dom insanity? That physical science has nothing to say to this matter is true. But is phys ical science our only sure source of knowledge? Are our mortal instincts less trustworthy than our physical sense? As I have already said, I a! firm nothing, but I call attention to the apparint fact that there is in man something of which the materialist still owes us an account. All may be, and in a sense no doubt is, the out come of physical evolution. That Idoes not seem to me to close the in quiry-New York Sun. Uncle Hiram rhn ini the war with 31exicy 31ost all of us e'ud shoot The man who' c'udn't hit the mark Wa ealled a davrned galoot. Bat w'en we had our fambly :ight An' It:- of~ blood5. was '-hed' ro kin a manm it tuk abou.t Three hundred pound of lead. Since then we're growin' w~usse An' iti that war with Spain. Wn elimbin' up that Joo-an hill, We ist a mess of pain Fr if the dago&s c iud he' "hot Wed bin p)ut 41n the hum An 3r. Shafter by himself W'ud~ had to t-ail fur home. W.'t's the use of amnisihun?' W'ats th- use of wind-ggest? Wat's the use of long-range al? W'at's the u.s of 'em-fu r tits? We' mrigh: just .' well use pick fo' ks :ra let of goo d hhmjar Lik: the '2:th t-hktR the Bores. Ai: t I rite? - --Unele Hiram. Odds and Enids. The new California gem. kunritc. is on show in a Bond street jewelry store, London, and is attracting much attention, particularly on account of its quality of fluorescence. The Princess Therese, of Bavaria, daughter of the Pr-ince Regent. a.s the name of Theodore von Bayer as a pseuonym. She is a Ph. D.. honoris causa, and has written sever-al boak-s. the best known of which are three volmes of travels, containing the re suits of her nriginal investigations. NEWS TROUGIOUT lIIE COUNTRY 4 Paragraphs of M,lnor Importance Gathered From Many Sources. Through the South. At Newport News a lake submarine boat was tested. It is believed at Charlottesville that MeCue will make a confession of hav- C ing murdered his wife. Miss Helen Turner, of Lexington, while horseback riding in Botetourt county, was shot through the body by a highwayman. whom she fired at. A memorial fund to W. H. Baldwin f was started. to be given to Booker t Washington's Tuskegee Institute, and t $72,500 has already been subscribed. C Mrs. Mary M. Daily, wife of John W. t; Daily, died Monday at her home, I r Bloomery, near Charleston, W. Va., after a lingering illness, aged 62 years. - f] Washington Happenings. , Sixteen bills, providing for feight rate legislation, have been introduced in the House of Representatives. r More than half of the $7.000,000 ap- f: propriated for the payment of the Friar o lands in the Philippines has been paid d out to the Catholic orders, and the title o to the land has passed to the Philip- ' pine Government. F The Beef Trust, according to a tl Washington dispatch, is sending let- o ters to Congressmen asserting that it t1 is not a monopoly or unlawful combi- I nation. d The United States Supreme Court re- c versed the decision of the district court a i:. St. Louis and granted Senator Bur- g ton, of Kansas, a new trial. tl Debate was resumed in the House of ? Representatives on the 3wayne im- p peachment case. I A resolution was agreed to in the House providing for the collection of additional cotton statistics. The Senate discussed for several hours the Statehood bill, sreeches t being male by Senators Simmons and t Heyburn for the elimination of Arizona p from the bill. It ti In the North. h The deadlock in the Delaware Senate ti was continued at Dover, the naming of the Secretary of State having no ap- d parent effect. T A committee of the Missouri State b Senate reported that Thomas K. Nied- a ringhaus did not, as required by law file a complete statement of receipts of ti the Republican State Compqittee, of d which he is chairman. b Thomas H. Carter, Rep., was elected w United States Senator by the Montana a Legislature. al IA caucus of Republicans of the Ne-a vada Legislature chose George S. Nix- S on for Senator. Civic organizations in New York al have formed a central council so that all may work in harmony for the city's ni welfare. e: Some of the most notorIous gamb- n ling houses in New York were closed ni and the apparatus confiscated by Dis- ti trict Attorney Jerome. sq S1 The defense at the trial of Charles L. Tucker for the murder of Mabel Page E outlined its case at East Cambridge, T Mass., and Tucker's mother testified. ci The Philadelphia police decided to te send Gessler Rosseau to New York for w trial in the Umbria infernal machine a< case, and Chicago police said the man in lived in that city under the name of Ct Russell. Mrs. Brodie T. Duke suddenly disap- H peared from her hotel in New York a and is believed to have left the city. be of Foreign Affairs. w General Kuropatkin reports that the Cossacks lost 18 killed and 59 wounded ~ in their raid in rear of Marshal Oya man's army. ~ Correspondents at Port Arthur say h Fthe city was not in desperate straits it when It surrendered. th IDelegates representing Spanish labor crganizations met at Barcelona and ,c. vted in favor of calling a world-wide !cet strike as a protest against the Russo Japanese war. German coal miners declared a gen- - eral strike. R It is feared that M. Rouvier's ill 8 health will be a drawback to his ac ceptance of the French Premiership. tI< G< de IMiscellaneous flatters. President John Mitchell read an in- er teresting annual report before the Na- St tional Convention of United Mine re Workers, which opened in Indianapolis. pe A survey of certain portions of the as Southern Appalachian Mountains has 01 been made by representatives of the as Geological Survey and of the State of ti, North Carolina. t Northern Security stock made a new Ihigh record of 144 7-8. The United States refused to recog. tt Fnize a sentence imposed by a Haitien cE court on Jaeger Hube~r. an Americant Icitizen, and threatens energetic inter vention. V Russian cavalry is raiding in the rear of Field Marshal Oyama's army in Manchuria. German losses in the conflict with natives in Southwest Africa have been ai 806 killed and 185 wounded. ch The French Chamber of Deputies fe began a debate in which the fate of 01 of the Combes ministry is at stake. be A 2' w Cabinet was completed in 01 Denark. p Gessler Resseau was arested in Phil- os adephia for having an infernal mach- us ne in his possession. d The will of William H. Gaylord, of South Hadley, Mass., who died a few hours befcre his wife, disposed of an estate valucd at $300.000, and Li among the public bequests is $25.000C Ifor the South Hadley Public Library. 01 with 50 shares of stock in the HomE s( Natonal and City National BSanks of1 Holyoke, as a fund for the mainten ece of the library. c The Stonewall Band. West Augusta at Guards. Staunrtonf Riflvs. the Staunton s Military Acatiemy and the Camo of h Confederate Veterans attentiedi special h Iservices at the Second Presbyterian h. Church in Staunton on Sunday. at 11OT AT THE CZAI Bold Attempt to Assassinate Th Russian Monarch ALUTING GUN RAINS GRAPE S80 nly High Aim and Weak, Scatterin Charge Prevented a Disasterous Cor clusion to the Ceremony of Blessin the Waters of the Neva. St. Petersburg, By Cable.-The fe: val of the Epiphany, the blessing o tie waters, had just concluded at 'clock Thursday afternoon, when sin itaneously with the salute fired fror tie St. Peter and St. Paul fortress ain of bullets swept over the littl, hapel built over the frozen Neva ii cont pf the winter palace, where Em eror Nicholas and every member o he Romanoff family were participat g in the service. The missles won igh, entering windows of the splendii w of salons along the water front rom which the Empress, the ladie f the court and the members of th iplomatic corps and high dignitarie f the State, army and navy were wit essing the glittering spectacle below 'ortunately the bullets passed ove ie heads of all present, striking th4 pposite wall and clattering down o1 ie parquetted floor of the white sa >n. Everybody had been laboring un er a more or less nervous strain be ause of the strike situation, and th< 'indows were hastily va-cated, and thi reatest excitement reigned withii ie palace. Lieutenant Fulton, chie t police of St. Petersburg, himsel icked up a missle in the white salon was the size of a bird's egg. The olice chief was immediately sur >unded by officers of the guards, wh< ramined the bullet and expressed the pinion that it lad come from a shrap el which might have been fired fron ie battery located on the bourse es lanade and which replied to the sa ite of the St. Peter and St. Paul for 'ess, explaining that a gun ;nighi ave been charged with a loaded car -idge by mistake. In the meantime there was no evi ence outside of what had occurred he crowds of people who formec lack lines along the quays, the pal ce bridge, the steps of the bourse ad every other point of vantage ii ie white Arctic landscape did not be -ay the slightest excitement. Neithei ld the imperial party in the chape elow. Although the actual ceremon as ended, the Emperor remainec ad accompanied the Metropolitar id clergy as they circled the pavillior round the chapel to bless the gor sous standards of the famous guard ~giments stationed there. Then thc rocession moved back to the palace ud the original program was carriec it. The Emperor displayed splendid erve. He did not show a trace o; cctement. He received the diplo ats in his usual cordial, gentle man r, reviewed the guard regiments or L square behind the palace, and sub !quently had luncheon served in the tate dining room. Additional particulars show that the mperor had a miraculous escape here is no doubt that the missle.i tme from a gun of the bourse bat. ry which was loaded with grape. noi ith shrapnel. Some of the bullets tually struck the little open chapel .which the Emperor was standing, it the staff off one of the standardr id fairly riddidd the basement win >w of the plalace, killing a police an outrlghL a!nd wounding an officei ud three muarinues. H-ad the gun en aimed a little lower the charge grape might have wiped out the hole Romanoff -jynasty. Two investigations are proeeding dependently, and both are guarded ith the utmost secrcy:. Military cxpcrts say indicationr int to a charge consisting of grape ving been inserted surreptitiously .a saluting cartridge. If this was e case, probably only one man was volved. Certai::ly if there was an :ttnsive, deep-laid plot, or if an offi r was involved, it was badly exe ited. Fall River Strike Over. Boston, Mass., Specal.-The strike the cotton mill operatives at Fall iver, which effected about 25,000 per. s and has been in progress for six onths to tihe great hardship and sirf ring of Il River's peopie, was set. ud through the mediation of vernor William L. Dauglass. Un r the terms of the agreement ac pted by both manufacturers and op. atives.at the conference held at the ate Hon:re today, the strikers will turn to work at once under the 12%A r cent reduction, against which they uck last July, and with no discrimi tion because of the strike. No rate wager was established, but it was ~reed that the Governor shall inves ~ate the riatter of margins between e cost of cotton to the mill owners Ld the .elling price of the cloth, and bmit his conclusions as to an aver e marr'in, upon which the manufac res are to pay a divident of five per nt on v:ages earned from the present ne to April 1st. Both sides regard e outcome of the deliberations as a ctory. Gen. Lee's' Birthday. Rich mond. Special.-Elaborate prep. 'atior have been made by the local apt- of the Daughters of the Con 1er : to celebrate the anniversary th' lirthday of General Robert E. se. he guests will include a num r rominent ex-Confederates and hers who will make addresses. Re >rts received from chapters from all -er the South give plans of an urn ually elaborate celebration -of the Ly by Daughters of the Confederacy. Farmers Pass Resolutions. Macon, Ga., Special.-A special from inconton, Ga., says that the farmerL Lincoln county have pledged them. Ives to sell no cctton and buy nc rtilizrs till after the New Orleanr >nvention. They will also reduct :renge. A special from Decatur, Ga. .ys that the farmers of DeKalb county we agreed to hold the cotton they v rsnt and to reduce acre3gt L ffriies WITl OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS The Senate and House Regularly at e Work-What They are Doing. Would Tax Indian Lands. The consideration of the statehood r bill was continued in the Senate and I Mr. Stone spoke for two hours in op position to it. The proposed remuner ation to American fur sealers who suf fered losses because of their suppres sion also was debated at some length, but no action was taken on it. Mr. Stone proposed an amendment to the Statehood bill providing that all allotted lands shall be subject to taxa f tion. He said the bill as it stands 1 confers upon the Indians of Indian Ter ritory the rights of citizens, while re lieving them of the duties of citizen ship. Mr. Bailey took a similar view. The Senate adjourned. Swayne Case May Be Postponed. In view of the prospect of an rarly f presentation to the Senate of the House's articles of impeachment of t Judge Swayne, many Senators have t been engaged today in considering that question, and Senator Platt, of Connec ticut, chairman of the special commit- 1 tee acting for the Senate, has taken a leading part in the work. Some of the Senators, especially . Messrs. Frye and Hale, of Maine. ad vanced the opinion that the case might be postponed until the next session, but, after an exhaustive examination cf precedents and consideration of the case, Mr. Platt announced his inabil ity to agree with them. He said he did not believe that, out of justice to - Judge Swayne, the inquiry should be pdstponed for any length of time after it is brought to the attention of the 1 Senate, and he doubted whether, if this a point was eliminated. the Senate i could make the postponment. It might f be competent, he thought, to defer trial after organizing the senatorial court, but if that course should be . decided upon, the present Congress would terminate, new men would-come in, and it would be necessary to reor ganize the court at the beginning of the next session. For these and other reasons, he concluded that there is no other way open than to proce^d imme diately with the consideration of the l case. Senator Spooner and other sen atorial lawyers concurred in this opin - ion. Those who advocated postponement take the ground that, as the Senate is a continuing body, it is competent for it to defer action until next session, if 1 It so de.;res. They also say that, with 1 - only six weeks of the session left, it will be extremely difficult for the Sen I ate to enter upon the Swayne trial, - and also continue its consideration of legislative business. Speaker Cannon did not name the committee to present the articles of - the House, having received information from Senators that they desired to have the matter delayed. There is a prece dent for delay in presenting articles in impeachment cases until the day before the expiration of the terms, which throws the trial Into the next Congress. It rests with the House, however, to decide what course shall be pursued. Debate on the Swayne impeachmnent case occupied the House until after 5 o'clock Monday. The arguments were exhaustive, dealing with many of the4 legal phases of the charges against Judge Swayne. .The Senate resolution fixing Wednesday, February 8th, as the time for counting the.,electorial vote for President and Vice I-resident, the 1 proceedings to take place in the hall of the House, was adopted. The Bur leson resolution diirecting the Director of the Census to collect and publish additional statistics relating to cotton, was reported by Mr. Crumpacker, of Indiana; amended so as to provide that the statistics of the consumption of cotton, the surplus of cotton held by the manufacturers and the quality of cotton exported shall be sunimarized as of September 1st each year so as to show the cotton production and con sumption of the preceding year. Mr. Livingston, of Georgia. charged that If cotton reports were made at the time stated, that a break in cotton prices would result upon each occa sion that such reports were published. In most emphatic terms Mr. Maddox, of Georgia, declared that cotton farm ers should protect thcmselves by form ing a trust and withholding reports from the government. EveryTbody, he said, was in some sort of -a trust agis he farmer and that he must fgttedevil with fire. After some further discussion, in which the reso lution was favored by Mr. Williams, of Mississippi, the resolution was agreed to. The executive, legislative and judicial appropriation bill was sent to conference with 3fessrs Bingham, of Pennsylvania; Littaue, of New -York, and Livingston. of Georgia, as con ferees on the part of ,the House. Army Appropriations. m ThFouse of Representatives com ricted consi.derationL of the airmy ap propriation bill and will vote on the measure at the aeginning of the ses sion comocrow. In the debate Resi Cent CommzisioneCr Degetau, of Po:to Rico, made his thst speech in the House. HeI too,k 3ccasion to praise ~ the United States for its attitude to- e vard his island home. Incidentally, f he saw no geel for the maintenance of the provisional regimcnt of troops iin the island. A svigorous attack was made, but to no avail. en the army s transport service, by Mr. Hiumph:'ey, r of Washington. Mr. Clark, of Missouri. quoted re marks of Mr. Slayden. of Texasi. stat ing that if it wcre not for the personal r eterest of some legislators in some 5 or Ne officers of the Porto Rico regi- 1 ment, it would have been dinbanded three years previously. "That condi tion of affairs is a disgrace to theO American Congress," asserted Mr. Clark. t Mr. Degetau, in arguing that the a nccessity for mair.taing the regi- E ment did not exist, reviewed the his tory of his country to show that it. I had accomplished many reforms, such, d for instance, as the abolition of slav- e ery, without disturbance. The people b did not need the examnpic of military discipline, nor did they need the im pression calculated to be created by , the military uniform. "We need no - American regiment, or any other regi ment. We are all Amiericans who have won out American citizenship." c Hearty applause followed Mr. Dege tau's conclusion. The ame-'idment striking out the ap propriation for the regimenlt was dle feated. Mrr. Humphrey declared ~in trnsport service was lotiCGl and a rational disgrace. He declared it cost i $1,500,000 more than~ if the servwe vere performed by private shipping. The. H-ouse adjourned.. The House Committee on Interstate Commerce will give a hearing to the private car companies which are af-C oeted by the Stevens bill. COUNTY FINANCES )efects in Their Management Pointed Out by Comptroller General. Columbia, S. C.-"The need of an ex iminer for the books of the various 'ounties is clearly set forth in the re >ort of the Comptroller General, which vas published in the Greenville case," aid a member of the House. An ex unination of the reports made by that )ice showed that the statement was orrect. The report made by the Comptrolled leneral 'shows that at least seven ounties are very much out of balance, nd that with the small appropriation f $500 on hand the Comptroller can iot begin to check up the books of the l counties in the State. The total ;hortage will amount to abbut $43, 00, and while there is no intention of 'efection on the county officers, it ;eems from this report that there is ieed for a yearly examination of every )fMce in the State. The last annual re )ort of the Comptroller General made he following recommendation: "The investigations made thus far-re eal the grossest carlessness in the nanagement .of the people's money ihile no actual dishonesty has been )rought to light, a general looseness of nethods obtains which amounts prac ically to the same thing, so far as he taxpayers' interests are concerned. "It becomes absolutely necessary to srescribe a uniform system of keeping Lccounts for county treasurers, county upervistor and f"',ty superintend 'uts of education, together with a sys em of reports whereby the misappro ;riation of the public funds will- be lard to accomplish. "Experience of many years demon :trates that it is impracticable for the ,omptroller General, who is charged rith the supervision of the assessing ind collecting of the State's revenue, :o leave his office and visit the coun ies in person and examine into the letails of the work of the county offi -ials, who are charged with the re ,eipts and disbursements of public unds. When an error is discovered in he annual settlement, it - often be :omes necessary to check up the ac ounts for several years back; this re luires a great deal of time which can lot be given by the Comptroller Gen -ral, nor can he spare one of his clerks or this purpose. "To introduce a uniform system of ookkeeping would require an ppro )riation sufficient for the books and lanks necessary to be used by the !ounty officials collecting and disburs ng the public revenue. The Comp roller General should be allowe& to ap oint an expert accountant. To pay he expenses of an accountant, to visit he counties at all seasons of the year, vbuld be trifling compared with the ralue of his services to the State; the orrection of the present loose methods vould alone save thousands of dollars .o the State and counties every year. f the fiscal affairs of the State are to e conducted on a business basis, busi ess methods must be adopted. These natters I call to your earnest atten ion and consideratioin; it now rests vith your honorable body to take such teps as in your wisdom you may deem iecessary." Commissiooner Watson Endorsed. Greenville, Special.-At the quarterly neeting of the board of trade here a esolution offered by Lewis W. Parker vas unanimously adopted endorsing he work of Commissioner Watson and he bureau of commerce, agriculture nd immigration. A memorial to that fect will be handed the Greenville ounty delegation to be presented to he legislature. Addresses were.dellver cby Commissioner Watson and Capt. ~llison A. Smyth, president of the elzer cotton mills, and Th.os. F. Par er president of the Monaghan cotton nills of this city, 'A Hot Supper Homicide. ~Saluda. Special.-George Smith shot nd killed Wll Bostic at a negro frolic ear Cuibreath's gold mine In this ounty Saturday night. It appears rom the testimony at the coroner's quest held Tuesday that Smith and sostic had a little dispute over "cap iing a quarter" and Bostic went off, irmed himself and was on the hunt for dood. After searching for Smith, he inally came upon him and without any eremony fired upon him with a shot un. sprinkling him considerably. !mith turned and emptied his gun into sostic's body, killing him instantly. oth are negroes. Ten -Sailors Drowned. Jacksonville, Fla., Specia.-A spec. al from Miami, says the Spanish bark 1 Victoria with a crew of 16 men from 'ampico, Mexico, to Fernandina, Fla., rent ashore near Palm Beach Wednes tay afternoon. It states that the cap ai and ten men of the crew were rowned while attempting to reach the hore. J. K. Breazile Hangs Himself. Belton, Special.-Mr. J. K. Brezeale, prominent citizen here committed uicide by hanging himself Monday vening. Mr. Breazeale had been in ailing health for a month or more and ad become very despondent and the upposition is that his sickness was uch a mental strain upon him that ather than endure it he decided to put n end to his life. He left his home liis morning and 'when his family issed him search was made for him hich resulted in finding his bofly in is barn. News of the Day. Governor Heyv:ard has announced lat he will retire from active politics t the expiration of his term as Gov rtor. An alleged bigamist by the name of ielk was shot near Fort Mill on Tues ay while trying to escape from offi r:rs who were attempting to arrest Details of the new Seaboard Air ,ine financial plan were announced in ew York. The board of inquiry at Reading, 1a., decided that they had no canoni al authority to put Bishop Ethelbert Talbot on trial. Brodie L. Duke fought his guards s he was carr9 d back to an asylum fter an examination as to his sanity 2 a New York'court. A. G. Loomis resigned the vice-pres lency of the National City Bank,.NXew 'ork. Dr. A. G. Carr, a prominent physi ian of Durham, N. C., committed WAS SENSAIIONAL FINDS Box Containing Two Headless Bodies Found Near Spartanburg. Spartanburg, Special.-Quite a sen sation was created Saturday afternoon by the finding of two human bodies, headless, in a wooden box, in a dense woodland about four miles from- the city beyond Drayton mills and a mile from the public road. The sheriff and coroner were summoned and these officials, with about 50 or 100 residents of the city, went to the spot. There was a large gathering of the countrY people, and in the forest by the light of lanterns the strange, uncanny spec tacle of two dissected bodies securely placed in a box, wrapped in oil cloth, was' brought to view. These objects were cadavers used for dissecting at the annual meeting of the State Under. takers' Association in Spartanburg about three years ago. Physicians In the crowd surrounding the box at once saw with the eyes of experts that the bodies had been under the knives of professionals and that there was no foul play, murder or anything tragic about the affair. The incident was gro tesque in the extreme, smacking of the Pickwickian order of affairs. The sheriff, coroner, newspaper man and others left the spot somewhat cha grined at the denouement. To Develop Coast Country. - Georgetown, Special.-It is now prac tically assured that within a short time a weekly newspaper will be in operation here, the purpose of which, will be to advertise , to the outside world the great natural advantages of lower South Carolina, embracing the' whole coast country and the adjacent Pee Dee section. A stock company As. now in process of formation. The cap ital is to be fixed at $10,000 divided into 400 shares of $25 per share, Hon. Walter Hazard has been elected tem tporry chairman and Messrs E. L. Lloyd of the Atlantic. Coast Lumber corporation, Jos Schenk of the K&-, minski Hardware Company and.H. B. Springs a committeee to solicit sub scriptions to the capital stock. As soon as $5,000 is subscribed locally, permanent organization will take p and steps taken to begin publica at the earliest possible time. ' town's individual citizens through the territery to be covered are e ed to contribute as liberally as ble toward the support of the eite prise, which it is thought will in untold good for this section be the means of bringh?g in a 4 able class of settlers to fill up waste places, making thia section blessed so abundantly by nature, a garden spot of agriculture. and mercial prosperity. The services of James Henry Rice, Jr., formerly brilliant and versatile editor of Field, will be secured for the cooda't: of the editorial department Mr. Rice., realizing fully the Immense possibIlI ties to be wrought out, is deeply cos> cerned in the movement and sanguln to enthusiasm as to ultimate a The time has' come when the coast country of South Carolina in seek and command recognition for tM priceless wealth that lies here covered to the hand 'of him who It with wisdom and ildustry. New Berry School Bllt Newberry, SpeciaL-A meeting of the citizens of Newberry was hel afternoon to consider'y *sch bill offered by the'erepresentatives of. this county. The bill, which Is In sub stanee to change -the number - of trusteees of the graded school of New berry from Ilto 5 and to have them elected in the general election, has passed the house and is now being held up in. the senate by Senator Bless pending a hearing from'the people of this town. A resolution was passed to. request Newberrry's representatives to make no change in the present arrange ment which provides ofr 11 trustees, seven for life and four elected bj the. people. An amendment provided that in case there was a change to have the trustees elected at the annual school meeeting and not at the general elec.-~ tion and that each 'ward elect one of the five trustees provided by the bill. "Oh, ,Just For Fun." Charlot:e, N. C., Special-Max~ Mowry, a well-to-do farmer of Coddle Creek, Cabarrus county, cut his throat with a pocket knife near: his home Sat, urday afternoon and died a few hours later. He had on hand two -crops of cotton, and the decline in price is sad: to have caused his act., When:foud Mowry was -conscious and in reply to a question as to the cause, said: "Oh. just for- fun." Scotchmen In Anderson. Andeson, Specal.-Foui- young im~ migrants from Scotland arrived in the c~ity Friday to accept employment here. One of them will be engaged in the city and the other three will go t'o work on the large plantation of Mr. W. Q. Hammond near the city. Some time ago two Scotchmen came here to acept employment under the direction of the State bureau of emmigratin, and they are well pleased with their new homes. The young men that reached here yesterday are Samuel Thomas, Edward King, George Hastle and. Andrew Sinclair. All come from the vicinity of Glasgow. South Carolina Items. Within ten days two workmen have lost their lives in the construction of the Southern railway's new bridge on the Catawba river, near Fort Mill. On the 8th instant Frank Ayers, a white man of Columbia, was killed. On Friday Alexander Campbell, col ored, was drowned by the capsizing of a boat in which he and another negro man were removing temporay beams from the bridge. As a result of a pistol wound, the source as yet undetermined, Scott Clegg, son of Policeman John ~Clegg, of Greenwood,' is dead. The young man was about 16 years old. He was buried Tuesday. There are many rumors in regard to the cause of the young man's death. The facts as brought out are that John Olegg, the boy's fathe.r, the dead boy, and a younger brother, Pierce, aged about eight years, went from Greenwood to the house of a relative ten miles In the Callison section. They returned to Greenwood early Sunday night with the boy, Scott, nearly dead.