Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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" Sunday Re Sunday, from being a day of rest for man and beast. has become the busiest day of the week. So many so ciety people live in the suburb. that the English week-end parties have be come an established custom in this country, and the guests must be amused. Dinners, at homes and musi cales, not only in town but out of 'town, have become the regulation mode of entertainment for that day. Sunday, too, is the day now select ed for repairing streets and altering car tracks in the business sections, which it is impossible to do during the rush and crowding of the week. The old-fashioned Sunday has dis appeared-that slow, easy-going day of rest and family reunion, when church and a good, solid dinner were the only distractions, and Sunday papers were of small import.- Simple pleasures, and yet how restful! The city's growth and the opening of new and convenient routes by the trolleys are in a great measure re sponsible for the change, and the truthful excuse is given that Sunday is the only day that one is free to visit- But have the majority this ex cuse, or is it the feverish rush after excitement and novelty What would the Pilgrim Fathers have to say if they saw the very vani ties they had turned from in the Old World becoming daily more estab lished in the New? Think of the aus terity of the Puritan Sunday-the Filipino All All Saints' eve is celebrated in the Philippines in a strange fashion, says a writer in Lippincotts. It is gleefully ha:ed by all the gay young blades of the village as the calinanan or chick en stealing festa, as on that night it is considered perfectly legal to steal every feathered thing you can lay hands-on. Young men and boys as semble at midnight, often to the num ber of 100 or more, and, dividing into bands of eight or ten, each band hav lag a duly appointed captain in com mand, proceed to take toll of every hen roost in the neighborhood. The expeditions are attended with plenty of excitement and even danger, as the fowls roost either in the branches of trees or under the elevated floors of the houses, which are usually high enough from the ground to per mit a man to pass to and fro under them in a stooping position. To gather the chickens frbm the trees is an easy task, tbuugh one or two youths are often treed by an irate householder with blood in his eye and a bolo in his hand, but the onslaught en the -roosts under the houses is the supreme test of coolness and -urage. 1 The Old . C< I'd know .it by the sight of .it, I'd know J.t .y the smnel; i'd know It by the sonnd of it, and know~ it mighty well. I'd know It if you set nie doawn at mid night. 'mid the scent Of coffee bags and sugar bins and coun V tr-y butter -blerst. With eyes shut, I can smell agais the prints upon the shelf Amid .the hickory shirting-you .cocrd do the same yourself If eyou had lived among them in the days when tre was bleak And ;all you -saw was. In the town-say every ,ether week. On 'tha-t -side is the candy-I can see it now, and oh. How good those striped sticks used to look in days of long ago! -Org this side i's the muslin. with blue trade marts pronted on. Th~e bleached and unbleached side, by side: and here's some slazy lawn And dimnity that wouldn't sell (they'd bought at by mistake): :Some 'olacing. fans, and c-urrycombs, with hoe and garden rake. We used 'to carry in the eggs and better, and we'd buy -Our sugar. tea. and blueing and the con centrated lye. 'We used to 'wander bae-k into the e-mal room w-here they kept Kick Spoile There are people who maintain t.hat Mr. Dash,, the nrchitect, is grossly 'tn truthful, .but I do not hold with them. 'The gentleman is merely enthusiastic and imaginative, and his geese, not content with being swans, insist on being roes. He wegt out to supper one -night not lo.ng ago with his friend -George, and .a capitalist whom he hoped to haxe .for .a friend. It was George's party, and George begged Mr. Dash sto confin.e his talk to .yea, yca, and nay, nay. and so.not prej'idice the desirable capitalist. "Now, when you begin to exagger ate," said George, "I'm going to kick you, and when you feel the weight of my feot for heavns sake whittle your story down." Mr. Dash promised. All went well till, -in the mellow -time after the sup LearningH I belierve practice with the rifle the 'true way to learn 'to :shoot best With the shotgun. The old idea was that shooting a rifle made you :too slow ~with -the shotgui.;and dt'at :the shotgum spoiled .your rifie shooding. 'There is something in .the .latter, but not much: :in the former idea. If one were shoot ing continuously with either and .should suddenily change ;to the ether, be might no.t .at once~ do as good sliodt jng as if he bad.tried botb: it might :take a few days' practice to get used to the new conditions. But .rfle shoot ing can injutre shotgur. shooting only by makdng one too slow: and my el: perience Is th'at one cannot -be so b -jured except temporaril By beginning with the rifle you eli mninate at once most of the trouble from excitment, because you know Odds and Ends. Dr. J. W. Wolling, a missionary to Brazil, who is visitingg South Carolina. presented to Wofford College. his alma mater, a number of pictures of the na tural scenery and natives of Braz'i. snys th& Sparzanburg Journal. The do-~ nation is highly app:rcia:ed by the trustees and faculty of Woftard. Dr. - Woliard lett Spartan3urg last night -for Cplumbia. He and Mrs. Wolling .' will return to Brazil within the next ew weelts Is Gone long journey to church, the long, tedious service-and it cannot be won dered at that a reac,tion should ensue. Then came the Sundays of the last century-the Sundays when the break fast was deferred to an hour lat, r than on week days. Oh, the luxury of that extra hour's sleep! The regula tion Sunday breakfast of hot bread or griddle cakes, and the haste to be ready in time for church, for to church or meeting one must go. un less able to give some plausible ex cuse. The children all went to church, too, in those days, and if the sermon seamed endless and far beyond the comprehension of such youthful lis teners there was always the compen sa:ion of dropping the bright penny on the collection plate, or watching roor old Mr. Blank nodding gently an:i waking with a start at regular in tervals. Sacrilegious amusements wihout doubt, but compensating in a measure for the penance of sitting still, which is so irksome to the voung! How much the children en joyed being allowed to keep on their best clothes in honor of the day! Light literature was taboced. only to make it more enjoyable during the week, and there was the solace of knowing that if story books were for bidden, lessons, too, were laid aside. Childish and simple this sounds now, yet how restful that Sunday routine in modern ears!-Philadelphia Led ger. Saints' Eve Dark figures steal quietly to the at tack, and the crucial moment comes when hands are laid on the feathered victims. One or more is sure to give the alarm, and the awakened family comes flying pell-mell to the rescue armed with knives, clubs, stones, ever guns if it is lucky enough to possess them, and the next few minutes are filled with enough excitement to satis fy even the most adventurous spirit Squawks, cries, curses, kicks, squeals the sound of rapid blows and running feet fill the night air, while the feath ers literally fly. The glory of the raid consists it getting away with the chickens, anc usually two or three agile young fel lows engage the angry owners whilE the rest of the party get away witt the loot. A party of six young met at Binangonan on All Saints' eve 1902, returned from their midnight ex cursion with forty-five chickens ani turkeys, several geese "and man3 bruises," to quote the leader of the band, who proudly exhibited a blacl eye, a sprained wrist, and a facE seamed and scarred with man3 scratches, all received in the "battlE of the hen roosts." muntry Storc The "coal oil" and the axle grease-'twa: hardly ever swept; But there it was we found the scales an< weighed ourselves and said It wasn't like the steelyards out in ou: old wagon shed. 'T'ws there that in the spring time pa would buy ns a~ll straw hats, The 1(-cent kind made out of'straw the: use for making mats. In fall we got our footgear that mus last the winter through. For pa said: "Them's yer winter boot; -ye've get Z' make 'em do." I've been in houses mercantile that cot -ered blocks and blocks: I'e seen the clerks that swarmed arount in bc-:ies and in flocks; I've seen the elevators; but I canno make it se'm Like any thing substantial, for 'tis noth ing but a dream. To me the real "store" will be, as Ioni as Tife shall last. That smelly country village place I knei there in the past. With just one elerk to sell you things some fellow that you knew. Though sometimes on a circus da: there'd be as high as- two.. o fun to "do th' tradin' " like I use& to -any more Hoa' clear is memory's picture of tha -"gen'ral" country store! -Stric~kland W. GillIlan in Leslie' Weekly. d the Stor3 per, the capitalist began to talk of hi: stock farm. This reminded Mr. Das! of his second cousin's farm in Penn sylvania. 'Joe has one of the finest barns i Ithe county," he said, ,warming to hi: tale. "Indeed, it's one of the finest i the state, or in any state. It's 400 fee long"-here George delivered a well aimed kick-"and-and 6 feet wide." N"aturally. next d-ay there were mti -tual recriminations -and back talking. "You've killed yourself with tha man now for keeps," sneered George "Four hundred feet long anid six fee wide!" "ft was your pig-headed tomnfoolish ness in-kicking me at the wrong time. insisted Mr. Dash. "You spoiled it all If you'd kept your feet to yourse!f I' have made a well proportioned barn o it, anyway."-Washington Post. iw to Shool you can rarely hit a flying bird. Jf i makes you slow you wHll find littli trouble in becoming quick enough The man who begins with quick shoot ing anid becomes a good shot after th< expendture of barrelk of ammunitics does not1 become so by virtue of mah ing a maschine of himself. 1t is bE cause In -making a machine of himsel he unconsciously acquires the habi of seeing .the gun and game in th same quick glance which he woul< nt do at fi-st. A quick shot thus be comes accurate with time; and a shoi sht will become quick with time an witi. far less practice. The re is n< reason why o.ne should not learn it one season to get sufficient enjoymen: out of the gun If one will but remem ber that the pleasure is not in thi size of the bag or in the cleanness oj the score, and never was.-Outing. News of the Day. Major John W. Daniel, United State! Senator of Virginia, has accepted ti1 editorship of the "Confedcrate col umn" of the Richmond Times-Dispatc) in making the announcement, sags "In writing his narrative he will dea in facts, and not in fiction. He wil write history, and he will tell the sim pie truth, nothing extenuating nor set FEMININE FANCIES. The Barcurss Bur ctt-Cfu,ts. now nver ninety years old, is still in excel lent health. It ;s said that MIrs. Astor wore nearly S:;; worth of diamonds at a ball recently given by her. Miss Etta M. Nelson is a driver on Poute : of the rural frc delivery from the Pittsfield, Me., office. Miss Clara Medlin. of Pilot Oak, Mo., bears the distinction ,f being the only fcnale blacksmith on record. Anna Werner. eighty-one years old, has served four generations of the Sebraub family, living near Cologne, as cook. Miss Al;ce M. Robertson has just been appointed ;ostinistress at Musko gee. the most important town in the Indian Territory. The Queen of Portugal is an expert physician. and has raised her amuse me;nt to the dignity of :a profession. She is said to be the busiest woman in Europe. More than S000 women are employed in the various Government offices in Washington, 2044 of whom have en tered the srrviec art competitive ex a mination. No woman not a professional musi clan has ever played so important a part in musical history as Frau Cosima \Wa gner, the daughter of Liszt and the wife of Wagner. Just across lots from Senator Knox's estant. out at Valley Forge, there lives a yo-aig woman. Miss Ella W. Freder icks, who manages a lifty acre farn in a way that has won for her the envy and ad(miration c - ai; her neigh bors. Miss Carre Davison, daughter of the late Darius J. Davison, of Detroit, who has just been appointed Cierk of the United States District Court, at De troit, Mich., is the only i oman in the United States honored with such an office. COLLEGE NOTES. A new book-plate has .nst been en graved'for the iibrary of the University of Michigan. Sir William Macdonaid has given an additional S1O,000 for the new McGill Students' Union. The announeeir't of Tr c!trs' Coi lege for the academic year 2!05-06 is now in preparation. Adolph Lewisohn. of New Toik City. has given S.~000 for the reeonstrne-tion of the chemical iaboratores at Dart lmouth College. President Harper. in his guarterlr statement. anouneed gifts to the li versity of Chicago in ensh and in schol arship investments of $470.290. The annual dinnnr of the Acneliate , Alumni of fiht Colleze of the City of New York will he held on February 22 i (Washington's Birthday) at the Hotel Astor. New eonrses wll Unb cftered next c semester at Amherst College in Greek literature. botany. Aonrican literatnr.e. modern literature, Ital;an art and Ger man art. The anniol meeinz and dinner of the AssncAtion of Class Secretaries will be held at the Union of Harvard. Swhich was announced to take place on February 9. It is officially aninounceed that Pres! tent Roosevelt has accepted the Invita tion of the trustees ef Williams Col legesto be present at '.'e next com mene'nent. The Baltimore .\sviio-1 for the xromotion of the T'niversity Edgecation of Women will make it.4 costonalry an iiia-l offer of a fellowship worth $300 for the year 1905-1000. IMrs Anna Woerishoffer has given 1000 m'arks per year Dr the next three -rs to keep up the curr'nt neriodicals and colieetive works in the Oltendorfer G (ermvanic Lib,rary, of New Yk Uni LABOR WORLD. SIn Norway there are 232 locals affIl . iated with the National Federation of Labor. 'The Fuliding Trades Council, of Bos , on, will establish a nospital for con tsumptives. There are more tihan 140 nat ionafl and 5international affiliated tinions in the American Federation. IDuring~ the past year 123 unions have aliited with the California State Federation of Labor. La 'bor journals of Europe are predict tng dlisaIstrous outbreaks among the laboring classes. The w omen danc?rs of Paris, F rance, have now joined the ranks of the tra'de unionists. 01 the 385,770 wage earners report 2 i to the New York Euret.u of Labor Sttistics, 2.4 per cent. were idle throughout the third quarter of 1) '4. Reports from the secretaries of 1iT interuntional organizations furnish the information that there have beenx is sued during the past year 4010 char .ters. SContracts have been made with P.cl gian foremuen to teach Chinese work men the management of the mnacbinery nn ixd the most improved methods of glassmiaking. ]A straw vote among the trainmen of he Pennsylvania system on the ques tion of whether they shall be called gardis or brakemen is said to have re slted in favor of the English term. Rtepresentatives el the Dominion Coal Compaxny, of Sydney, N. S., and the Provincial Workmen's Association have signed a three-years' agreement govening wages and working rules. . Among measures to be presented to . the State Legislature this year by the Masscehusett-s Federation of Labor is an overtime bill, which sieals with the eight-hour lau for street r-ailway em ployeL. CUSTOMS OF THE LASCARS. Have Many Peculiarities, but Make Good Sailors. Some of the peculiar customs of the East Indian coolies, called Lascars, are very amtising to~ us. For instance they always eat their food in the open *air .v.ith their faces toward the west; and the greatest insult a white man or "Giaour" can offer them is to walk between them and the sun while they are eating, causing his shadow to fall on their food, which immediately be comes unclean. ITheir appearance is rendecred pecu liar by their habit of shaving their heds. 1caving but one tuft. at the M:ie for "the p)rophect" to drag them into paradise by. When married they v-ear a ring on their big toe. They stand the cold -remarably well, and ruake good sail ors. being as active as monkeys. In running aloft they ignore the ratlins, and use the backstays, a p2rpendicu .lar wire rope, which they literally wll up. BROKE ALL RECORDS Automobile Runs a Mile in But Little, Over Ralf a Minute RACERS RUN FASTER THAN WIND In His Twir, 60-horse Power Machine He Establishes a New World's Rec ord-The Ten-Mile Record Was Also Smashed Again, Young MacDonald Going It In 6.15. Ormond, Fla., Special.-The greatest automobile meeting ever held in this country or any other country so far as smashing records is concerned, clos ed here Tuesday afternoon. The last performance was the running of a mile in 32 4-5 seconds by H. L. Bowden, in his twin 60-horse-power car. It was after the day's events had been finish ad. He asked permission of the offi cials to try for the kilometer and mile record, and the course was cleared for him. He took a good flying start, and, is he tripped the wire of the automatie time machine, the crowd expected a new world's record, for the car was going faster than the speed of a hur :icane. Unfortunately, the kilometer :ime was not caught on the automatic, but several watches gave it as 20 3-4 seconds, the world's record being 21:55. Ihe previos mile record was clipped tonsiderably until the opening of this meeting. It was 39 flat, made last year by W. K. Vanderbilt. Last week A.rthur E. MacDonald trimmed it down to 34 2-5, and soon after Mr. Bowden knocked off another fifth. Since then ne expressed the opinion that he could go 33 seconds or under. He did it. Yo"ng MacDonald was also to have irled for a world's kilometer and better :nile record, but certain parts of his engine became strained. He made the attempt, however, making the kilome :er in 25 2-5. The automatic failed on the mile, which was not taken. It would not have been a record. The 10-mile record was again smash ed. It was in the final of the Ormand lerby for the Major Miller trophy. Young MacDonald, who won the tro phy, covered the 10 miles in 6:15. The record before this meet was 6:50, made by W. K. Vanderbilt here last year. Last week Mr. Thomas trimmed this sown to 6:31 4-5. He was second in the tO-mile Ormond derby this morning anishing in 6:18 1-5, beating his own fine record of a few days ago. It was after this race that MacDonald's ma :hine bent a bar, which interfered with :he proper handling of his machine. The fifth mile race was devoid of .ny special interest, although some world's records were made. It seems the rde ofthings now for world's rec rds to be established each year on the Ormond beach. These records are tried for at other meets at home and abroad, but it remains for new machines to come here and lower the records. All are agreed that there is not such ,a speedway on earth afthe stretch along this coast from here to Mosquito Inlet. Two Women Cremated. Burlington, N. C., Special.-News has reached here from Tony, CasweR county, 20 miles north of Burlington, of the burning of the home of Mrs. Sarah A. Florence, mother of Mr. A. G. Florence, of the mercantile firm of Florence &,. Walker, of this place, in which Mrs. Florence and her daughter, Miss Bettle Florence, were burned to death. The fire was discovered about 1 o'clock in the afternoon and an alarm given. Upon the arrival of neighbors MIss Florence, who was in the yard at that time, ran into the house, when the walls gave way, entombing the two women. The charred body of Miss Florence was taken from the ruins, but that of Mrs. Florence was burned to ashes. Two hundred and seventeen dollars in gold coin was taken from the ruins. Cotton Pool Headquarters. New Orleans. Special.-The legal name of the cotton pool formed by the executive committce of the South crn Cotton Growers Association, has been fixed as "the Southern Planters' Commission and Holding Company." The headquarters will be in New Or leans. The executive committee of the South Cotton Growers' Association is expected to endorse the completed de tails of the pool at its meeting in At anta on the 7th of February. T;,e Statehood Bill. Washington, Special.-The Senate Tuesdiay continued the consideration of the joint statehood bill *ith Mr. Nelson as the principal speaker. A number of bills were passed, including one largely increasing the fe~es for in corporation of stock companies in the District of Columbia. While this bill was under consideration. Mr. Bacon made inquiry as to whether it intended to curtail the evils relating to corpo :ations v:hich had been pointed out by the President, and Mr. Gallinger replied that it would have a beneficial effect on regulating corporations organized in the future, but would not in any way regulate existine co~rporations. Death of Judge Hobson. Salisbury, Special.-Mr. A. H. Price, has received a message telling him that his uncle,'Judge James Hobson, of Grecnsboro, Alabama, died Monday nght :t 11:30 o'clock, pneumonia be ing t1l' cause. Judge Hobson was a natve of North Carolina, being in es cr: life a resident of Davie comty. 14 miles from Salisbury. The old Hobson homestcad still stands, bcng now the home of Mr. W. H. -Hobson, the surviving brother of Judge Hobson. News of the Day. George Wager, after killing his brother John and dangerously wound ing a policeman, baricaded himself in a house in Cleveland, but later surren dered. Mr. Charlcs L. Fre'er. of Detroit. has offered to give to the Smithsonlianl In stitution in Washigtonl an art collec tion now worth $".rg,~ tospn $400.fl00 additional in pereceting th.e colletion. and give 4500.0r.O to imild a structure in Washin3tonl to house the Colletion. MORE STRiKES IN PULA D Street Parades and Forcible Inter ruption of Railway Traffic Taki Place at a Center of the Iron an; Cotton Industries. There is no improvement discern able in the labor situation in Poland At Sosnovice, a center of the iron an cotton industries, 40,000 men are 0 strike with the accompaniment o street parades and intimidation o those workmen who have not strucb A disturbance at Lodz, where a volle: from the soldiers killed two an< wounded two has not been renewed. J railway station near Sosnovice wa: destroyed and traffic interrupted b; strikes. In Warsaw the workmen in 4 sugar manufacturories have struck. Maxim Gorky will be put on trial 01 political charges, but whether befor a civil or a military court, has no been determined. The assembl: of the nobility of the province of Mo. cow has voted to memoralize ih throne for an elective legislative bod3 Governor General Trepoff regards th situation in St. Petersburg as very sal isfactory. Ill health is assigned as th reason of the retirement of Lieutenan Gneral Gripenberg from the comman of the Second army of Manuchuria his successor is Lieutenant Genera Myloff, a veteran of .ne Turkish can paign. A Respite Granted. Windsor, Vt., Special.-A few hour after receiving the last rites of- th Catholic Church and hearing her faith er confessor read the prayers for th dying, Mrs. Mary Mabel Rogers, wh was sentenced to die upon the gallow Friday for the murder of her husband listened with amazement to the an nouncement of High Sheriff Henry I Peck, that Governor Bell had grante her a reprieve of four months. Preparations for the execution ha been perfected. The gallows had bee: erected in the west wing of the prisor a heavy black curtain hanging fror the guard room windows shutting th gruesome machinery of death fror public view. Sheriff Peck carried th news of the reprieve to the prisonei Mrs. Rogers was seated at a tabl writing a letter to her mother. Al parently supposing that the sheriff ha come to read the death warrant, sh arose and moved toward the door. Sheriff Peck had never seen Mr Rogers before that moment. Walkin up to the door, he said: "Mrs. Rogers I am the sheriff. I have brought yo good news." "I am glad to meet you, Mr. Sheriff, said Mrs. Rogers as she extended he hand through the grating. "What i the good news?" "Governor Bell has granted you a re prieve until June 2," replied th sheriff. Mrs. Rogers remained like a statu< as though unable to comprehend th meaning of . the words. Without sign of emotiron, she gazed at the she: 1ff a moment, and then said: "I ha given up all hope, but I am glad the the Governor has granted me mor time. He is a good man." Mrs. Rogers then thanked the she: 1ff and his companions for the Info; mation they brought her. She seeme unaffected by the tidings, and as th party moved away from the door the death cell, she retired to the tabl and resumed writing. The Governor said he granted the rf prieve in order that opportunity migl be given for a new trial, and only c the ground that Mrs. Rogers claim through her attorney that she has n< had a fair trial and that the evident presented against her was false. Five hundred dollars was offered t Harold Harpin, a guard in the Stat prison, If he would carry a package poison to Mrs. Rogers. The offer we made in an anonymous letter from Bo: ton containing $250 in bills, which Hai pin received recently. The writer offel ed to send the other $250 as soon the poison was delivered to Mr Rogers. The guard turned the lette over to Supt. Oakes, who showed it t Governor Bell. Postal authorities hias been asked to investigate the letter. ,Russian Defeat Severe. Washington, Special.-The Japanes legation has received a report mad by Field Marshal Oyama, giving ti details of the fierce fighting from tt 25th to the 29th of January, when ti Russians were driven to the right < the Hun river. The marshal says the the enemy consisted1 of at least seve divisions, one of which was a cavair division. The Japanese casualtiE were about 7.000. Prisoners stat that four regiments of Russian inra try were nearly annihilated. Many the companies of these regiment were reduced to from 20 to 30 me each. The field 'marshal expresse the opinion that the Russian casualtie must have totalled at least 10,000. No Verdict Yet. Roanoke, Va., Special.-The arg ment in the trial of Charles Fishburi charged with the murder of Dr. FrE Lefew, was concluded Friday evenir and the case was given to the jux at 8 o'clock. Two hours later th foreman informed Judge Aiken th: a verdict could not Le rendered Frida; night, and the judge ordered the ju locd up until morning. Russians Again Active. Tokio, By Cable.-Manchurian Heat quters, telegraphing February 2, say that on that day the Russians ri sumed their activity in front of th Japanese left, and that there has bee ccnstant skirmishing along the front of both the opposiing forces, exchange of heavy artillery takcing place. Tk Japaneso again charge the Russian with the mutilation of their wounde< Russians Lose 13,000 Men. Mukden, By Cable.-After the Ru sian bombardment of Sandiapu yeste: day the Japanese triedt to drive ther off, but failed. The indications ar that tho Japanese v. ii abaidoen Sia: The us.ual "artilery du'el is proccet in"g at the cetre. Ten Jap)anese ha talica.:s whic atacked the Russia Ieft were.~. repulsed vith heavy lcsses. The latest returns of the Russia losses durng the recent fighting sno that 13.000t men were killd or w;oun< edi, General Kontravstch being amon thelatr.r NINE WOMEN KILLED Party of Sleigh Riders Meet With a Terrible Accident HI1T BY AN ENGINE AT A CROSSING Ladies' Aid Society of the Universalist Church of Hornellsville, .N. Y., Has a Disastrous Return From an Outing in Three Sleighs-Driver of the Sec ond Sleigh Could Not Stop in Time, and the Occupants Were Hurled in all Directions. Hornellsville, N. Y., Special.-A pas senger train on the Pittsburg, Shaw a mut & Northern Railroad Wednesday t night crashed into a sleigh containing thirteen women and killed seven oat right and so seriously injured the re maining six' that two of them died after being removed to the hospital. Of e the other four, two are in a serious con dition. T'ie accident occurred near e Arkport. The sleigh was one of three t carrying a party from the Universalist I church, of this city. The dead: Mrs. Mary Gillette. Mrs. Charles Thomas. Mrs. Eugene Shaw. Mrs. Jos. Hallett. Mrs. C. C. Graves. Mrs. Bert Moors. Mrs. Coates. Mrs. Fred Green. 3 Mrs. Ruth Patchen. e The injured: _ Mrs. J. Houghton. Mrs. F. R. Rowley. Mrs. Bond. a Mrs. Wallace Clark. S Members of the Ladies' Aid Society 1, of the Universalist church went to a - farm house near Arkport to spend the [. afternoon. It was nearly dark when they started on the return trip to the city. The -occupants of the leading d sleigh saw the train approaching as a they neared the Shawmut crossing. i, The driver urged his horses ahead, a and the sleigh passed over the track, In safety. The women in the first sleigh e then attempted to' warn those in the one following of the danger, and they did succeed in directing their atten tion to the rapidly approaching train. e The driver pulled up his horses, but he could not check the heavy bob sleigh uickly enough, and when it came to a standstill the box of the sleigh was di rectly across the railroad track. The pi lot of the engine struck the sleigh with great force, reducing it to splinters and hurling the women in all directions. Every woman in the sleigh was killed or injured. The other members of.the party hur ried back to the assistance of their un fortunate companions, and the train was stopped and backed up to the crossing. eThe bodies of the dead were placed upon the train and the injured were laid upon Improvised cots In the bag gage car. The train then proceeded- to Hornelsville. The news of the accident had been telephoned to the ejty and hundreds of friends and relatives of the unfortunte women were waiting at the station. The -dead were at once taken to the morgue and the injured were placed in ambulances and taken to the M hercy Hospital. eElisha Quick, driver of the second sleigh, was badly hurt. He, said he tried to stop th1e sleigh, but could not control the horse. SEmperor Contributes $25,000. a Favorable results are expected to fol *~low the audience given by Emperor t Nichoas at Tsarskoe Selo to 32 work emen, representing the leading Indus trial establishments of St. Petersburg. 0In addition to paternal admonitions be estowed upon the workmen, $25,000 has been given by the Emperor, Emipress and Dowager Empress, for the relief of the families of those who were killed or badly wounded in the affair of Jana - ary 22. The manufacturers of St. Pe Stersburg have made concessionls to the -strikers and contributed to the relief rfund. The situation in Poland and other >~ of the provinces continues strained, eand strikes are reported from Irkutsk and several other Siberian towns. Nominations Sent to Senate. e Washington,'Special-The President e today sent to the Senato the follow 3 n nominations: eConsuls-James C. Kellog, of Louis 19loo, at Barraaquilla, Colombia; Ban iel S. Kidder, of Florida, at Nanking, tChina. "Rcgister of Land Office-Walter L. Cohen, at New Orleans. 'Postmasters-James F. Deever, Rokmart, Ga.; James A. Davison, 'Blackville, S. C.; John P. Little, Cim Ston, S. C.: Bernhard Levy, Walterboro. Coton Ginned to January 16. SWashington, Special.-The census report of cotton ginned to January 16 in 695 counties shows 9,717,693 bales, Icounting half bales as round bales, compared with 7,168,381 bales in the ~.same cotunties last year. The quanti ty ginned in these counties between December 13 and January 16 is 494, d954 running bales. To December 13, g1904, the remaining number of unre yported counties had ginned 2,748,738 counting round bales as half bales. . Four hundred and seventy-seven gin Lt neries refused to report. The quantity previously returned by these has been. brought forward in this report without yaddition. The total amount brought forward is 134.111 running bales. Will Co-operate With Growers. Little Rock, Ark., Special-A mem . er of the executive committee of the Southern Cotton Growers' Association, sent the following message to Presi -' dent Harvie Jordan: "After conference ewith H. B. Sherman, national organ aizer of the American Society of Equity, and the deputy State organizer in that *~city in convention he:'e, the hearty and Sfull co-operation of the A. S. of E., of eArkansas, with the Southern Cotton Growers' Association has been se cured."~ Fatal Fight Over Land Line. - Abbevillc, Ga., Special.-OneO person -- was killed and fivo wounded as the esult of a dispute over'a land line 2near Rh ire, seven miles west of this place Tucsday evcning. The dead -tin is W. P. Livingston, bailiff. Wounded: M. A. Burham, W. B. aBryml. W. T. Bryant, Tom Coffee and M: s. Geor;;ia Ra;'. Livingston aud o,e of the Bryants. it i reported, had seriously beaten a I. on of M. A. Burh-'.m last Friday. Bur gham met Bryant the next day and thrhed1 him. OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS The Senate and House Regularly at Work-What They are Doing. The agricultural appropriation bill was considered in the House, but the debate turned principally on the topic of restricting the railroads in the mat ter of freight rates. As if impatient to deal with the subject, the Hepburn bill, although not before the House, and which probably will not be for several days, formed the basis of the discus sion. A feature of the debate was the statement by Mr. Williams, of Miscis sippi, who said that on the subject of revision of rates the Democratic party was committed without addition or sub traction to the recommendations of President Roosevelt. in his recent mes sage. The Democrats, he said, were glad to 'iave the President's views, "be cause. it was- Democratic doctrine." It aught, he said, to be American doc irine, and he said he was only too glad that the President was more of an American than a Republican or Demo erat. "We -will, toemark his tracks on this subject," declared Mr. Williams, amid great applause, "and," he con tinued, facing the Republican side, "we will call on you as American citizens to help us toemark them." Mr. Williams later asserte: it as his belief that railroad influences were felt in the Senate at the same time the so-called Cullom bill, establishing the inter-State commerce commission, was substituted by the Senate conferees for the so-called Reagan bill. The latter bill, he declared, would have fulfilled the requirements. Mr. Bell, of California, asserted that the Hepburn bill was so worded as to bi- indefinite as to what constituted a easonable rate. Consideration of the agricultural bill had not been concluded when the House adjourned. Agricultural Bill Passes House. The House Friday pased the agricul. tural appropriation bill without mater ial amendment. During its considers' tion the usual discussion of the provi 3ion for free seed <Astribution was in dulged in, Mr. Lilly, of Connecticut, characterizing it as petty larceny. Mr. Pou, of North Carolina, wanted, the appropriation increased to $400,000 and offered an amepdment to that effect at the same time remarking that i, would cost more than that to in augurate President Roosevelt. The amendment was rejected. The present system of the Agricul tural Department in publishing cotton reports was denounced by Mr. Living ton, of Georgia, as damnable and shameful, and he pleaded for some one to submit an amendment: requiring that the reports shall be published every two weeks, in order to stop gambling in yotton. He would, he said; have offered such an amendment himself had he*not been "thrown down and turned out of doors" when he brought in a resolution of the same character some time ago. Eulogies upon the character of- the late Senator George F. Hoar, of Mas achusetta, practically engrossed the time of the Senate. There were 16 speeches by as many Senators, includ Ig Senator Hoar's colleague, Mr. Lodge, and his successor, Mr. Crane. Ater the conclusion of the mem&rial services, the Senate adjourned-oust of respect to the dead Senator's. sneuory. Among the speakers wer-e Messrs. 1)an lel. Bacon and Ceekrell. Mr. Pettus took accasion to: sileak especially of Senator Har's fairness to the South in the*period sueeeeding the war, saying: "He was throughout It all a man .of infinite coinpassion, of comprehensive sympathles, .of noble and unselfish impulses. He was apar tisan without rancor, an- ant1gonist without bitterness, a friend irithout reservations and . conditions, as con wuerer without vengeance, a loser with out resentment." Charge Against Catholics. Sensational disclosures In relation to the alleged use of Indian trust funds for the support of sectarian schools. were made by Senator Bard, in a state nent to the Senate committee on 'In dian affais. 'Senator Bard addressed the committee after the statements had been made by S. M. Brosius, agent for the Indian Rights' Association, ad Francis E. Lupp, commissioner of In dian affairs. Senator Bard addressed'he had been visited by Dr. E. L. Scharf, an agent-'for a Roman Catholic Mission Society, and asked to use his Influence with Republican members of Congress looking to forwarding the Interest of Catholics In setting a diversion of Indian trust funds for the support of Catholic schools on the reservationls He quoted Dr. Scharf as saying that if the Republicans wo'uld agree ato bring about the desired legislation, the Cath olics would see that twenty congress onal districts in which the .Republi cans were weak were carried for the party. Dr. Schart was said to have given the names of the districts, to gether with the number. of- Catholic voters in each, a.nd names of the priests who would look after the agreement and deliver the necessary v6,tes to car ry the districts. Senator Teller said that ifi It .was proven that the statement of Dr. Scharf was made in earnest, then' there was more cause to complain of the inter ference of the Catholic Church than the Mormon Church in political affairs of the country. Gen. Miles and Presiderit Davis. The treatment by General Nelson A. Miles of Jefferson Davis, President of. the Confederacy, during the' time he was a prisoner at Fortress Monroe, Va., was recalled in the House when Mr. Williams, of Mississippi, the minority leader, tried to secure the ad of the Senate amendment to th~~~s provision regarding retired officers serving with the State militf. Messrs. Hull, of Iowa, and Hay, of~ Virginia, both members of the military affar committee, endorsed the 2.ouse pro vision, making it retroactivei The latter declared it was Democratic doctrine to save money and for that reason called upon the Democrats to stand by th,e committee. Mr. Williams' maotion to agree to the Senate amendment, which does not make the law concerning re- p tired officers retroactive, was lost-71 to 171. The bill then was sent to con ference. The postoffice appropriation bill was debated for an hour, but its considera tion had not been concluded when the House adjuorned. Favor Corporation Reports. Washington, Special.-The House committee on the judiciary authorized a favorable report on a bill requiring al corporations engaged in inter-State omerce to make annual reports to the Commissioner of Corporations of the Department of Commerce and La-. Ibor. The information is to contain the amount and value of stocks, bonds and proprty constituti?ig capitalization, elements upon which the market value is fied and earning capacity. The re turn is to be made- under oath, and failure to do so lays the corporation . liable to a restaining'iorder from en gaging i~n business until the return is