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" VOL. LIII. WINNSf&jS. S. 0.. WEDNESDAY-FEBRUARY 22, 1899. NO. 29. |j
j|p' WENTTOTHE BOTTOM
Two Coast Steamers Wrecked
on Our Shores Last Week.
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OWNED BY SAME COMPANY.
X Great Suffering Am:ng the Ship
wrecked Crews, Many of
Whom Were Terribly
Frost Bitten.
The steamship Win. Lawrence, of the
^ Merchants and Miners" Transportation!
_ company's !iue between Baltimore and
Savannah, is a total wreck on Hilton
Head Island, S. C., near the Port iloyal
bar. She went ashore there Saturday
wAKninrf in o linlnlocc itlAn
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from storm damages. The crew stood
by her for nearly twenty-four hours.
When the ship began to break up, Capt.
Willis gave oiders to take to the boats.
The sea was running very high, ?. gale
was blowing, and it was bitterly cold.
The captain was the last roan to leave
the ship, and it is said that he chose
the poorest of the boats. Boat Xo. 1.
in charge of Second AssistantEugineer
Morrissett, with seven men, made
Paris island, where the government
naval station is situated, on Sunday
morning. From that poi:it a telephone
message was sent to Port Royal and a
telegram to the Savannah agent, reporting
the loss of the ship.
Boat No. 2, in charge of Second Officer
R. A. Beale, contained beside
Beale, Chief Engineer Roach, Steward
Frank Dingle, First Cook Harry Kelly,
Quartesmaster Oscar Bowler and Seamen
Jack Montgomery and Charles L.
(ireen. I nese underwent a most terrible
experience. They found it impossible
to make land, and as darkness
fell on Sunday night the cold became
more and more intense. They were bcnumbed,
wet, hungry and exhausted.
The freezing spray was driven almost
through them by the piping wind. By
iueky accident they located the sea
' b'duj" uff the Fort Koyal bar, and by almost
superhuman effort managed to
catch on to it. They made fast to the
buoy where they spent the night, and
where they were fouad Monday morning
by pilot boat No. 2 of Port Royal
and taken aboard.
Boats No. 3, under First Mate Lee
Hooper, and No. 4, under Capt. Willis,
are still missing with fourteen men. In
Hooper's boat is First Engineer L. R
Harper, and in the captain's boat is
Quartermasters Assistant Andrew
Burgess. The names of the others cannot
be ascertained. Agent Carolan, at
Savannah, under orders from President
Jenkins, of the Merchants and Miners'
company at Baltimore sent the tugs
i Cynthia and McCauJey to the scene of'
tka tt7t*>aL- Th* flvnthia returned late
5 vug ni w?? j
Wednesday and reported that the Lawrence
is broken in two and that nothing
could be seen or heard from the two
* missing boats.
p> The passeu^-r steamer Clifton Wednesday
morning en route to Savannah
tfrom Beaufort, was hailed by pilot boat
' No. 2, having on board the rescued
crew of Beale's boat. They were transferred
to the Clifton and brought to
Savannah. The men were in a pitiable
condition. Chief Engineer Roach,
Steward Dingle and Second Officer
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JtSeaie iiatt tneir leet ana legs irozeo
stiff, and their hands were frostbitten.
The three were taken to a hcspitaJ in
. i carriages, and the report is that each
y may lose one or both feet. The other
jr men were frostbitten ou 'both hands
_ and feet, but not so badly as the throe
mentioned. No connected story could
be gotten from either of them on ac
. count of their suffering. It appears,
however, that Sailor Green was the
hero of the terrible night. Some of the
men, crazed with cold and i ain, wished
to commit suicide. But Green told so
mnnv fnnnv stories, sans so many
?* cheerful songs and could see so many J
lighthouses or approaching vessels
which did not exist, that the spirits of
the men were kept up and none of them
jumped overboard to end his misery.
Green and his sailor companions, including
the crew of Moirissett's boat,
are now being cared for in one of the
best hotels of the city.
Agent Carolan left Savannah early
Thursday morniug on the tug Cynthia
to renew the search for Capt. Willis and
k Mate Hooper and their boats. It is
possible that they may have escaped to
one of the sea islands. Telegraphic
and telephone wires have been down
>ince early Sunday morning, making
communication very slow or cutting it
off entirely. The whole coast, north
and south of the scene of the wreck,
will be explored. The wreck lies
within a few miles of the spot at which
the passenger steam ship City of Savannah
was wrecked in the West India
hurricane of 1893.
RESCUED AT LAST.
Every member of the crew of the
wrecked steamship Wa Lawrence was
saved, but only after the greater number
of them had suffered terrible hardships.
The tugs Cambria and Cynthia
arrived at Savannah Thur?day from the
sea islands of South Caro';na bringing
with them Capt. A. L. Willis and 13
men, constituting those who had been
missing since Sunday morning, when
the ship was abandoned in the breakers
off Port Royal bar. The tugs, with
Agent Carolan on board the Cambria,
left the city at daybreak this morning
and searched every island and inlet
northward until the castaways were
found. At 9 o'clock the party were
discovered on Hunting island and taken
on board the Cambria.
* Capt. Willis and his men suffered
but little less than the crew of Mate
Beale's boat, wh ch had tied up at the
iva buoy, as told in last night's dispatches.
They left the ship at 9 o'clock
on Sunday morning. After 12 hours at
sea in a blinding, freezing gale,
the two boats under the captain and
the first officer made land on Caper's
island, a desolate and bare little
sand pit. In beaching both of the boats
were smashed and the men were thrown
^ into the surf. Though almost exhausted
I and numb they managed to scramble
I beyond the reach of the waves. What
k little brackish drinking water they had
? was lost together with the biscuits, lc..c
since salt-soaked, which had been
brought off the wreck. There was no
fresh water and extremely little fuel on
the island, nor shelter in any shape.
The captain had a few matchesjQin a
| metallic box in his pocket. They were
I found to b^ dry. Tearing the seats out
of the wrecked boats, after much coax- j
ing. a Ore was made under the lee of a j
sand dune. The boats were of iron or
would also lihve been burned. The J
limited fuel saved themeu from freez- i
ing to death.
The oien hovered over the little blaze
all during the i-leet arjd snowstorm of
Sunday night and Monday when the
mercury was marking 8 to HO degrees
above zero. On luesday morning one
of the boats was temporarily repaired
and both crews got into it to reach
Port Royal. They had been without
food since leaving the Lawrence early
Sounday morning and withaut water
since Sunday afternoon. After painful
efforts they reached Hunting island.
I Some soldiers are stationed there,
j These took them in and fed and warmed
them. This morning the castaway were
j about to set out for Port Royal in their
I patched boat when the Cambria touna |
them.
I ANOTHER WRECK.
Within the past three months the
Merchants and Miners' Transportation
company of Baltimore lost :?our of its
ships. The last one the State of Texas,
r< cently bought from the Mallory Line,
now lies iu eighteen feet of water with
huge holes in her bottom, n>2ar Windmill
Puint, in Chesapeake by, near the
mouth of the Rappahannock river,
about forty-five miles from Norfolk.
The State of Texas left Baltimore for
Savannah, Ga., last Friday with a
general cargo of merchandise, fourteen
passengers and a crew of sixteen. She
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naa arougn experience aown me my,
and Saturday evening sprung a leak,
having been cauglit in an unusually
heavy drift. Her commander. Capt.
Foster, soon realized that his vessel
would sink, so he beached her. This
was about 6 o'clock. Many hours afterwards
the tug E. J. Cobb, of Norfolk
came along and rescued the sufferers,
arriving there ATeduesday afternoon
at 5 p. m. I he passengers were
P J!
iorwarea to uieir uesuuanuuo u>c? mc
Southern railway.
No Sunday "Work.
The House last Thursday passed a
bill to further prevent Sunday work.
The bill provides that on and after the
approval of this act, in addition to the
penalties prescribed against tradesmen,
artificers, workmen and laborers who
shall do or exercise any worldly labor,
business or work of their ordinary callings
on the Lord's day (commonly called
the Sabbath) or Sunday or any part
thereof, any corporation, company, firm
or person who shall order, require or
direct any work to be done in any machine
shop or shops on Sunday, except
in case of emergency, shall, on conviction,
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and shall be fined in a sum not less
than $100 and not more than $500 for
each offense.
Beer Privileges Abolished.
In the house oil Thursday the bill to
do away with beer and hotel privileges
was taken up and after some discussion
pro and con was passed by a vote of 78
to 24. The bill provides that from and
after the approval of this act it shall
be unlawful for the state board of control
to grant to any person or corporation.
except to regularly appointed dispensers,
as now, or as may hereafter
be, provided by law. the privilege of
selling beer, or the privilege of selling
spirituous or alcoholic liquors, wine or
beer at any hotel or tavern, or any other
place. The bill also revokes all beer
privileges now in force.
Frozen to Death.
The Columbia. State says Jim Pagh,
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a colored Daroer, was iouau a iew iect
from his bed Sunday morning frozen to
death. Pagh was a well-known barber
who worked at M. T. Brown's shop,
and his brother. Walter Pagh, is also a
barber, having a shop on Main street,
near Taylor. Saturday night Jim Pugh
went to the house on Washington, near
Lincoln street, where he lived and it is
suppled that he went to bed under the
influence of whiskey, for he evidently
fell out ot Ded or got up aruns during
the night and fell to the floor where he
lay in the cold until he was frozen to
death. In that condition he was found
next morninr.
A Million Dollar Fire.
Over a million dollar's worth of Gov.
eminent property was destroyed by a
fire which started in the large machine
shop of the Brooklyn navy yard, known
as Machine shop No. 28. Wednesday
night, and the workings of the navy
yard have received a serious set-back.
Many fine models and patterus of battle
ships, their par.s and plans, have
been destroyed, and some of them cannot
be obtained again except by going
over the work mapped out in the beginning.
Wanted a Clearance.
The Columbia State says there was a
round of laughter in the Senate Wednesday
night by the presentation o: a
petition from Jno. Gr. Thomasson, a
white citizen of Summerville, asking
"for a clearance from his wife." The
petition sets forth that the petitioner
>;isnow asking for a final separation
from the woman who was once his wife
for 21 years, and for the last nine or
ten years has been living with another
man." The petition was referred to the
judiciary committee.
Stono River Frozen Oyer.
A dispatch from Charleston says the
tugboat H. H. C. Smith. Capt. Peck,
from Savannah, arrived there Tuesday
afternoon after an eventful voyage up
the coast. Cantain Peck saii he found
Stono river frozen from Church Flats
to Rantowle's creek, a distance of some
six miles. The ice was six inches
thick in places, and he had to break
through it <vith the Smith. It took
him two hours to do it. He says he
saw a number of smaller craft caught in
the ice. but these were not in distress.
The Dewey Lost.
The Boston Fiuit Company's new
steamer. Admiral Dewey, Capt. McGr?th,
bound from Port Antonio, Jamaica
to Boston, ran on the rocks at
Cuttyhunk Wednesday morring aDd is
a total wreck. The eighteen passengers
on board were safely transferred to
1 the steamer John J. Hill.
A Rapid Talker.
It is said that Congressman Johnson
of Indiana, has a rapidity of utterance
without parallel, being a third faster
than that of any other member. At
times it reaches the phenomenal number
of 400 words a minute. Xor is he
ever at a loss for a word.
THE PHILIPPINES.
What We Propose Doing With tkeIslands.
PASSED ON BY THE SENATE.
The Vice-President Kills the Bacon
Resolution, but the McEnery .'
Resolution Was
Passed.
The United States senate, have defined
our relation to the Philippine
Islands as far as that bodi' can do so.
Au amendment offered by Mr. Bacon,
of U-ecrgia, several aays ago was defeated.
The vote ou the amendment
was a tie?29 to 29?and Vicc-President
Ilobart cast the deciding vote
against the proportion. The voting
was preceded by three hours and:a half
of debate, the senate haviDg convened
at 11. a. m., ia order to admit of discti?sion
on the resolution.
MV declared that the resolu
tion was a vicious and unfortuuate declaration.
lie maintained that the resolution
meant nothing favorable to the
Filipinos! He regarded it as simply a
declaration that while the Filipinos
were subjects of this country they could
never become citizens of the United
States.
Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, was opposed
to the McEoery resolution because,
he maintained, it gave no hope
of freedom or liberty or&eif-jrovcrDiuent
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to tDe lunaDitants 01 me rniuppiuws
and because it provided that they should
never take a part in their own g)verament
or become a part of the United
States. To the Filipinos the McEnery
resolution would be a message of tyrann}*,
of hate, of oppression and of
slaughter. Mr. Hoar adverted to the
references in speeches to Aguinaldo as
?n ''nnririnmnled adventurer." and
then entered upon a defense of the Filipino
leader. He spoke of Aguinaldo's
appeal to the people of the United
States as so remarkable as capable of
being drafted by "not ten men on this
planet."
''I do not see,!' said Mr. Hoar, with
feeling, "how any American heart, not
of stone, could fail to recognize the
force of that appeal." Hr. Hoai said
he was perfectly satisfied with his entire
course in the whole question of the
Philippines, beluving conscientiously
that he was right. "I am satisfied,"
said he, ;'io stand with the fathers
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WHO IOUDUUU UlU liUCitJ' uuu utmicu
our constitution."
Mr. Hale, of Maine, said he had not
much hope that the senate would take
any course that would stop the desolating
programme now being carried out in
the Philippines. Hardly had the treaty^
been ratified, however, before a foreign
war was precipitated. "I am not disappointed,"
said he. :;I am not inclined
to say 'I told you so,' but I told
senators when the treaty was ratified it
would be impossible to take any steps
to alleviate the condition of the Filipinos.
Congress will adjourn and the
war will go on, and there is not a man
who will not realize in three months
that it is a war of conquest and subjugation.
He said that Admiral Dewey
and Gen. Merritt had said in three
months not 5,000 troops wculd be needed
in the Philipines, yet we had 20,000
men there and 7.000 more and the battleship
Oregon on the way.
"And yet," declared Mr. Hale, ;:we
are told that we are traitors and held
up and blacklisted in the.newspapers
because we want to give these people a
chance, at least to show that they are
friendly and can set up a government
of their own. Instead we kill them,
not by scores, not by hundreds, but by
thousands. .More Filipinos have been
killed by the guns of our army and
navy than were patriots killed in any
six battles in the revolutionary war. It
has become a cieantic event. The
slaughtei of people, in no way e.qual' to
us, meeting us with bows and art^s
and crawling into the jungles by hundreds,
there to die, has stupified the
American mind. No one has said that
our mission of commerce and of the
gospel was to be precede by the slaugh
ter of thousands of persons.
"I am not enarmored of the McEnerj
resolution. It contains little that is
good and a great deal that is bad." He
regarded the Bacon resolution as much
better. ;'But," he said in conclusion,
"the car of juggernaut will go on. The
grinding will continue until the people
finally make themselves heard upon it."
Mr. Mason attacked the policy pursued
in the Philippine?. He said, however,
that he was an optimist and "believed
the people of the United States
would declare tor human liberty as well
in the Philippines as in this country.
As Mr. Mason concluded, the hour for
the vote having arrived, Mr. HawJey
inquired if it was .Mason's purpose to
insist upon his unanimous consent.
Mason replied that it was as he had
done only that which was entirely honorable
and fair in the matter.
Bacon's amendment to the resolution
was then laid before the senate. It
follows:
i:That the United States hereby disclaim
any disposition or intention to
exercise permanent sovereignty, jurisdiction
or control over said islands,
and assert their determination, when a
stable government shall have been erected
therein, entitled in the judgment of
the government of the United States to
recognize as such, to transfer to said
government, upon terms which shall be
reasonable and just, all rights secured
the cession by Spain, and to thereupon
leave the government and control of'
the islands to their people.
A yea and Day vote was demanded,
resuhing?29 to 29. In announcing
the vote the vice-presid >nt said: '"The
vote is a tie. The cuair votes in the
negative. The amendment is lost."
The detailed vote follows:
Yeas?Bacon, Bate, Berry, Caffery,
Chilton, Clay, Cockerell, Faulkner,
Gorman, Gray, Hale, Harris, Heitfeld,
Hoar, Jones(Ark-), JonesfXev.), Lindsay.
McLaurin, Martin, Money, Murphy,
Perkins, Pettigrew, Pettus. Quay,
Rawlins, Smith, Tillman, Turner?21E.
Nays?Allison, Burrows, Carter.
Chandler, Deboe, Fairbanks, Friey,
Gear, Hanna, Hawley, Kyle, Lodge,
MeBride, McEnerv, McMillan, Mantle,
Morgan, Nelson. Penrose, Piatt
(Conn.), Piatt (N. Y.), Pritchard. Pioss.
Shoup, Simon, Stewart, Teller. Warren,
W olcott?29.
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? " 'Tlie vice.prcsidei't voted in the nogai
tivo.
The vote was tlieri taken on the Mci
Euery resolution which follows:
[ "That by the ratification of the treaty
i cf peace with Spain it is not intended
! to incorporate the inhabitants of the
| Philippine islands into citizenship cf
i the United States, nor is it intended to
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j permanently annex saia isiaua* as an
: integral part of the United States; but
; it;js the intention of the United States
1 tdlfestablish on said islands a govern!
inent suitable to the wants and condij
tions of the inhabitats of said islands
I to prepare them for local self-govern[
ment. and in due time to make such
diposition of said islands as will best
premote the interests of the citizens of
I the United States and the inhabitants
of said islands."
The resolution was adopted, yeas 26,
nays 22, several Democrats who were
present and rot paired withholding
their votes. The detailed vote follows:
Yeas?Allison. Burrows, Chandler,
Deboe, Fairbanks, Faulkner, Frye,
Gear, Gray, Hale, Harris. Kyle, Lodge,
MeEnery, McLaurin, McMillan, Mantle*
Mason. Nelson.. Perkins, Pettus
Piatt of New York. Quay, Sullivan,
Teller?2(5.
i Nays?Bacon. Bute, Caffery, Carter,
j Clay, Cockrell. liavvley, Hoar, Lindsay,
j Mol?ride, Martin, Money, Morgan,
! Mur]?hy, Pettigrew, Piatt of Connecti!
cut. Kaolins, Rosu, Simon, Smith,
j Stewart. Warren?22.
REORGANIZING THE MILITIA.
j Gen. Floyd will Decrease Companies
and Pat All on Firmer Basis.
Adjt. <xen. Floyd intends to start
next week upon the work of reorganizing
the State militia and for' that purpose
he and his assistant, Col. Johu D.
Frost, will visit all the companies in
the State to ascertain which of them
shall be retained and to find out the
status of affairs in regard to the arms
and uuiforms of the companies.
There are now 70 companies, or alleged
companies, on the roll, but many
of these are known to be in a thoroughly
disorganized state aiid not to be
relied upon in case of need. It is proposed
to cut down the number to 30
companies and require every company
to have not less than 45 or 50 bona fide
members, which would give the miliiia
a total strength of 1,500 men. With
the organization on that basis, and the
appropriation beiDg $8,000, the compa
Die's would draw about ?6 tor eacnmember,
which is double the amount they
now receive. The plans in view for the
militia will call for a more compact and
easily handled body of troops, and the
companies to be retained will be those
which have preserved the best organizations
and those in places where the
..militia is most needed. Gen. Floyd
thinks the force of cavalry can very
well be decreased considerably, if not
abolished altogether, as the need for
cavalry in the militia is not very evi
dent. It is possible that an artillery
company may be organized in the central
part of the State and one in the
upper part, as there are now none outside
of Charleston.
Gen. Floyd and Col. Frost will visit
all the companies within the next four
weeks in order that the plans for reorganization
may be perfected before
the regular inspections are begun. It
is probable that the inspection of the
Charleston companies, which are always
the first 10 be inspected, will be
held during the veterans' reunion in the
early part of May.?The State.
Burned to Death.
There seems to be no doubt but that
three persons were burned to death in
the fire "Wednesday night, which destroyed
the Arlington fiats at the corner
-of Forty-first and Grand Boulevard,
Chicago. Those supposed to
have perished are: Fred A. Marte. a
mail carrier. Mrs. Fred A. Marte, his
wife, and their infant son. Marte,who,was
a mall carrier, did cot report for
duty Thursday at the postffice, and as
every source o: information in regard
to the possible whererbouts of the family
i i
uy nave UUCU lUUHOU IUW nuuvuv CUV/cess,
ali hope for his escape has been
given up.
All Should Help.
The News and Courier estimates that
there- will be 40,00(J visitors to Charleston
on the occasion of the Confederate
D \Tov The
JLltJUIJiUli 1 LI V,nai 1CSWU uc-vu .'i?j .
people of Charleston are making arrangements
to entertain that many if
necessary, but the people of the State
must cot allow the Charlestonians to
bear the whole expense alone. As we
have remarked before, it is all South
Carolina?not just Charleston?that is
to be the host of the Confederate Veterans.
Prices for Dispensary Bottles.
From the proceedings of the State
board of control :>ublished in the Columbia
State the following is taken:
"A letter was read from John A. Willoughby,
a 7-year-old boy at Florence,
asking to be allowed to sell a lot of bottles
he had collected and- stating that
the dispenser there gave oniy 5 cents a
dozen for all sizes of bottles. It was
ordered that the prices fixed be sent
him as follows: Eignt cents a dozen
f >r half-pints, 12 cents for pints and
quarts."
The New Maine.
The anniversary of the blowing up of
the batr''jship Maine in Havana harbor
was murL'--"l at Philadelphia with the
beginning of work on the powerful
man-of-war which will bear the name
of the historic battleship, the destruction
of which did so much to precipitate
the war with Spain. The battleship
will be built by the Cramp Ship
Building Company, and at the company's
yards, at 11 o'clock Wednesday,
the first piece of the keel of the vessel
trie i-iid
Stands at the Eead.
Dr. McCracken, chancellor of the
New York University, in speaking at
the recent military convention in Tampa
of the value of a military education,
ranked South Carolina and Massachusetts
highest among the states in giving
military instruction to their sons. The
Citadel Academy is the West Point of
the South, and the military feature of
the C lemson college course is especially
good. In addition, various private
academies pay much attention to mili
tary instruction.
I" DID NOT PASS.
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The House Votes Down Prohibition
ar\d Local Option,
! HOW EACH". MEMBER VOTED
The
Dispensary Seems to Have
a Large ; Majority of the
Representatives in its
*;.y..
.'Favor.
The House ;X>? Representatives devoted
a good portion of last week to the
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cuuMucrauuii UL-IHU wiuaikcj
On Tuesday Mr. 'McCullough's prohibition
bill wa? taker, up Prince thee
ofiercd his> absolute prohibition bill, as
a substitute. McCullough accepted
the substitute."- Prince said be wanted
the bill passed. Simkins said that
this was a bad'tinie to consider prohibition
bills. Sturkie moved to adjourn
the debate on .the bill and print it.
Patton said there was no trouble about
understanding.* the Prince bill: there
j xhclj uu avuic iivuuic uijijul ? wiug>
Stevenson said it was time to stop adjourning
debate on these lulls. DeBrulil
moved-to indefinitely postpone
the Prince substitute. The vote resulted:
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Yeas?Speaker G-ary, Baect. Bailey,
J. B. Black, W. D. Black, Blease,
Blythc, Browning, Caughman, Colcock,
Cosgrove, Dean, DeBruhl.
Dowling, Dukes, Efird Epps, II. H.
Evans, X. G. Evans, Fairey, Floyd,
Gautt, Graham, Hill, Hotftnever, Hoi
lis, Hydrick, Jenkins, H. E. Johnson,
W. J. Johnson, Jones. Lyles, Magi!I.
Manning. Marion, Laban Mauldin,
William L. Mauldiu, McCraw, MoDill,
McDow, McLanchlin, McLaurin,
Mehrtens, Miley, Mobley, Moss, Moses,
Xettles. Patton, Pyatt, E. B. Ragsdale,
J. W. Ragsdale, Richards, George W.
Richardson, Henry B. Richardson. C.
E. Robinson, Rogers, E. L. Sanders,
Sawyer, Simkins. Sinkler, G-. P. Smith,
Stevenson, Strom, Sturkie. Suber,
Theus, W. H. Thomas. W. J. Thomas,
Threatt. Timmerman, Varn, Verdier,
West, Weston, Wharton, Winkler, II.
H. Woodward, M. B. Woodward,
Wyehe?83.
Xavs?Ashley, Davis. Henderson,
Jackson, Lockwood. Lofton, Mann,
McCoy, McCullough, Prince, George
W. Richardson, R. B. A. Robinson, (J.
P. Sanders, Seabrook, Jeremiah Smith.
Stackhouse, Whisonant, Williams,
Wimberly, Wingo, Young?20.
The Prince prohibition bill was
snowed under. Then the dual local
option bill, between dispensary and
prohibition, was called up.
Mr. Robinson said his bill covered
the whole liquor question. He said he
wanted prohibition, and was satisfied
it could be enforced. Greenwood
county had no dispensary and did not
have prohibition, yet there seems to be
plenty of 7: xuor there. His bill, he
said submits the entire question to the
people. His bill allowed two options
?prohibition and dispensary. Ilis
bill only provided for the option between
dispensary and prohibition. He
%-?/> /\T-\f i /\r% o a f A ll^nco TT A TTOTlf.
ed the people to decide on what they
wanted, and if the bill were not passed
now the time would come when the
people would be heard from. He was
not going to discuss the matter at
IcDgth. He came here as a Prohibitionist
and voted for it in good faitk.
He was opposed to cramming anything
down the throats of the people. He
wanted to know if members were afraid
of the people. He said he did not object
to a license option. He was not a
high license man himself.
After this statement by Liobinson.
who introduced a long, rambling discussion
took placc, participated in by a
great many members. Finally I)eBruhl
-moved to indefinitely postpone
the liobinson bill?option between dispensary
and prohibition and county
control. On this the yea and nay vote
resulted:
Yeas?Speaker Gary, Bailey. Bell, J
t-?i i tir T\ r>i _-_i- r> 1
13 15iaCK, >> u x>iacK, Dicase. uijcuc,
Browning, Caughman, Cross, Crum,
DeBruhl, Dowling, Dukes, Efird, Epps
HII Evans, X G Evans, Fairey, Gamble,
Gantt, Graham, Hill, Hoffmeyer,
Hollis, H E Johnson, W J Johnson,
Jones, Lyles, Magiil, Manning, Marion
Laban. Mauldio, McCoy, McCraw, McDill,
McDow, McLauchlin, McLaurin.
Means, Miley, Mobley, Xettles, Pat
terson, E B Ragsdale. J W Ragsdale,
Piickards, Henry B Richardson, C E
Robinson. Rogers, E L Sanders, Sawyer,
Siiarpe. G P Smith, E D Smith,
Stackhousc. Strom, Sturkie. Theus, \V
J Thomas. Threatt, Timmermaa, Yarn,
Yerdier. West, Weston, Whisonant,
Williams, Wilson, Winkler, M B Woodward,
Wyche, Young?71.
Nays?Ashley, Bacot, Bolts, Colcock.
Cosgrove, Dargan, Davis, Dean,
Dendy. Estridge. Floyd, Henderson.
Hydrick, Jackson, Jenkins, Leverett.
Lockwood, Lofton, Mann, William L.
Mauldin. Mehrtens, Moses, Patton.
Prince, Pyatt, George W. Richardson,
R B A Robinson. C P Sanders, Se.ibrook,
Sinkler. Jeremiah Smith, J L
Smith Stevenson. Suber, W H Thomas.
Wimberly, Wingo, II H Woodward
?38
Pairs: McCullough and Moss: Wharton
and Montgomery.
So the bill was killed.
Mauldin then called for his local option
bill, which provides for a vote Dy
counties on dispensary. proniDiurn ana
license and does away with State dispensary.
The motion to indefinitely
postpone was carried by SO to 31. as
follows:
Yeas?Speaker Gary, Bailey. Bell. J.
B. Black. W. P. Black, Blease, Blythe,
Browning Caughman, Cross.
Crumm. BeBruhl. Dowling. Dukes.
Efird, Kpps, Estridge, H. Jbl. Evans.
Fairey. Gamble, Gantt. Graham, Hill,
Hoffmeyer, Hollis, Hydrick, II. E.
Johnson, W. J. Johnson, Jones. Ly*?
mi >f
les, lriaglii, -UaniUllg, jiiUHUU, ijauau
Mauldin, McCoy, McCraw, McCullough,
McDill, McDow, McLauchlin,
McLaurin, Means. Miley, Mobley,
Nettles. Patterson, Prince, J. W. Ragsdale,
Richards, George W. Richardson,
u "R T7i/>ViarrUrtn (V Tv Robinson.
ilCLil %> XJ w ?
H. B. A. Robinson. Bogers, C. P. Sander?.
E. L. Sanders, Sawyer. Sharpe,
G. P. Smith. E."L). Smith. Stackh;mse,
Stevenson. Strom. Sturkie. Suber,
Theus, W. J. Thomas, Threatt, Timmerman,
Vcrdier, West. Whisonant,
i Williams. Wilson. Wingo. Winkler,
j M. B. Woodward. Wvche. Young. X
G Evans?80.
j Nays?Ashley. Bacot, Bults: Col
i cock. Coserove. D.irgan. Davis. Dtan,
uenay, rwyu. lienaerson, .jacwson,
i Jenkins. Leverett. Lockwood. Loftou.
; Mann. William L. Mauldin, Meurtens,
| Moses. Patton. Pyatt, Seabrook, Sitak.
j ler. Jereinla'i Smith. J. L. Smith. W.
I H. Thomas. Yarn. Weston. Wimberly.
j H. H. Woodward?31.
i | Pairs: Same as on other vote.
j Then the effort was made to iret up
i the Archer bill, which had just come
j over from the Senate, but the House
| took a recess before anything could be
; done.
| ABOUT HoTdING~TWO_OFFICES. j
' !
> I Postmaster Cannot be Magistrate Under
the State Constitution.
Senator Robert B. Scarborough, of
! Horry, leferred to Attorney G-eneral
^ Bellioger some days ago the question
| whether one holding the office of post.
master under the United States govern'
ment can at the same time hold the office
of magistrate under appointment
by the governor. and to this inquiry
. Mr. Bellinger replied that prior to the
AP 1 vJO A AArrArtf onoTrnr
, ! ^ISLlStiLUlKJU, Ul iUi?U vug Wlicvo ttUOHgi
would have depended upon the mixed
question of law and fact whether the
two offices were incompatible, foratthe
time there was neither statutory nor
constitutional provisions to guide
in forming an opinion. Ihis question
is discussed very fully in State vs Butts
IX S. C., 156, and McCrary Am. Law
of Elections, section 239.
In article II, section 2, of the constitution
of 1895 are these words; "Xo
person shall hold two offices of honor
or profit at the same time, provided
that any person holding another office
can at the same time be an officer in
the militia or nutary public.''
Attorney General Bellinger concludes
as iouovvs:
'"The question naturally suggests itself
does this section of the constitution
contemplate national offices as well
as those within the gift of the people
of this State, either directly or indirectly?
And the answer we find in the
dissenting opinion of Chief Justice
McLver in ex-parte Furniture company,
49, S. C-, page 40. holding that a postmaster
is an officer within the contemplation
of our constitution.
"Therefore we conclude that under
the constitution above referred to the
same person cannot at the same time
hold the office of postmaster and the
office of magistrate within this State."
Down With Him.
Reprcfentative Fairchild, of the
Kansas legislature, has introduced a
bill to abolish the "grafter," which,
according to a definition embodied in
the bili, is "any person who loafs
around legislative halls seeking employment
by persons or corporations inter
ested in measures pending before the
legislature, and any member of the
legislature who introduces bills of a
prohibitory character for the purpose
of extorting money and who assists
outside 'gratters' in securing employment
for intended victims." Any person
convicted of being a ;grater shall
be fined $10 to ?500 and be disqualified
from holding any office.
Up, Up, Up it Goes.
The monthly statement of the Treasury
Department shows that in January
the public debt increased $23,448,463.
The cash in the Treasury decreased
during the same time $20,180,019. It
wsuld appear, therefore that the Government
'"ran behind" over$43.000.000
in January. The official statement
further shows that for the seven months
of the fiscal year ending January 31st
the expenditures were $3$0.604,802.
being $92,S67.9S2 more than the receipts.
At this rate the increase of the
public debt for the year will be nearly
SI 60.000.000. ^
A Confession- Hen.
0. 0. Howard who was in position
to know the facts, confesses at this
late day that his side missed being
thrashed at Gettysburg by a very narrow
squeak. Writing of Gen. G. S.
Greene, lately deceased, at Morristown,
N. J., he says: ,:But for him. or some
such intelligent and gallant officer in
lv's nlane. we should have lost that
fan-inns field." And Meade:s suDerior
force, it will be remembered, fought on
the defensive and behind breastworks.
?Xews and Courier.
Spread Out Six Miles.
The Record says the river nine miles
below Columbia is spread over the
country for sis miles. Many head of
cattle have been drowned and frozen to
death. Many Negroes were suffering
from the lack of wood; but tbey are
now obtaining it from drift wood floating
down the river. Reports Friday
say that the river will rise twelve feet
higher still in the next few days.
A Good Bill.
The house has doue well to give the
State board of health power to enforce
vaccination. Without such power it
will not be possible for the board to
check the spread of smallpox in the
country. All exj erience shows tint the
class of people most subject to this
loathsome disease is the class most
blindly and ignorautly prejudiced
against the only known defense against
its contagion.
Their Last Sleep.
A Times-Star special from Bellfon|
taine. Ohio, says Judge Mittenberger
was found dead m bed Thursday morning
and his .wife in an unconscious condition
from which she can not recovcr.
Escaping gas from a broken fixture was
the cause.
Earthquake ShocksDuring
the past week earthquake
shocks have been felt in Virginia,
Xorth Carolina. Tennessee, Alabama
and iu several places in this State. It
is to be hoped that this will be the last
of them.
To Be CourtmartialedA
dispatch from Madrid says all the
*-- to
surviving captams ui opiiuj.au nauuipi
destroyed in the naval battles off Santiago
de Cuba and ia Manila Bay by
the American fleet will be court mari
tialed.
Cfen. Butler Free.
The war department has honorably
discharged Mai. Gens. Butler, Sumner
and Brig. Gens. Kline, McKee, Wiley,
Lincoln and Comba, all of the volunteer
army.
SOME MOEE FIGHTIffG
: Between the American Troops and the j
i
Filipino Archers.
r |
j Late dispatches from Manila says i
j on Sunday afternoon (J-cn. Miller or- i
! dered a reconnoisance in force to ascer- j
| tain the enemy's position. Major |
i Chaatham's battalion of the Tennessee [
I rnlnnt/i^r Tvurin>/?rif marfihod KftVf) nd :
j Molo. without finding the enemy, and. i
{ returned to Uoilo. Keller's battalliou |
of the 18th United States infantry, with !
two Hotchkiss guns and one G-atiing j
gun, marched toward Jaro. 31idway
between Uoilo aDd Jaro this battallion j
encountered a large body of the enemy I
occupying both sides of the road, who
[ met the advance of the American troops
! with a severe and well directed fire.
The Americans deployed and returned
the iire with a number of volleys.
The troops advanced steadily, supported
by the Hotchkiss and Gatling guns
and drove the enemy through Jaro to
the open country beyond.
The town of Jaro was found to be deserted
and all portable property had
been removed. When the Americans
entered the place there were only a few
Chinese there. At 4:10 p. m. Capt.
Griffiths raised the American flag over
the presidencia. During the fighting
outside the town Lieut. Frank Bowles, of
the 18th infantry, while working the
light battery, was shot in the leg. In
addition one private was seriously
wounded and two were slightly injured.
The rebel loss was heavy. All was
quiet on Monday when Col. Potter left
lloilo.
Four companies or volunteers, which
had been clearing the country in the
vicinity of Peteros, ten miles southeast
of Manila, and which had been recalled,
were followed by the enemy as
they retired. On reaching San Pedro
Macati i)gg Americans made a stand
near the' churchyard and the rebels
were driven back. The Califernians
again advanced, and are now occupying
the same ridge, commanding the
valley of the river, which they held
Tuesday. A gunboat near Pasig is
clearing the jungle.
Wednesday afternoon several rebels
in houses bearing white flags, having
fired on the American outposts, Col.
Smith, wich Companies L. D and M, of
the California volumteers, proceeded to
clean out the enemy along his front.
The rebels opposed him from the brush
and several skirmishes occurred, durinff
TtrVii/>Vi niria nf flio nalifivmiana i
were slightly wounded before the rebels
were driven out. The work proceeded
in a systematic manner, a gunboat
shelling the villages and working her
rapid-fire guns very effectively on the
iunele.
PHOSPHATE INSPECTOB
An Effort Made in. the Senate to Abol
ish the Office.
Oil ThurscLy when the bill to abolish
the office of Phosphate Inspector,
Tu j j._
cam? up. jLiueri/Uii uioveu. lu sume uui
the enacting words. Graydon said the
bill had for its object the abolition of
one of these useless officers. The
phosphate companies were under heavy
bond for a faithful accounting with the
State, and the office was simply to provide
a place. The phosphate commission
could look after the affairs of this
industry. He did not see the use of
paying iU per cent. 01 the royalty to a
man to collect it when the commission
could collect the royalty just as well.
Ilderton thought it a bad plan to turn
over to the phosphate companies the
management of the Staters business.
His duties were to check up the accounts
of these companies an^see that
they pay the State s royalty. Dean
thought the office of phosphate inspector
was as near a sinecure as anything
he knew of. Ue then proceeded to :
show that the inspector's duties are en
^ r? + Vi o f Via C^l^nm
uiiUJj ^/WiUUWivi; auu tuaw Ji^ cviuvui,
if ever, visited the mines. Stanland
believed the real grievance was against ;
the incumbent and not against the office.
If he did not have enough to do 1
it was the fault of the general assembly. .
His duties ought to be extended so he
should inspect the manufactured fer- :
tilizers and prevent the shipping out of
"three, three, plus two, X one, and a
bag of dirt" Talbird said that only in :
the last two months the inspector had
saved to the State $2,800 in royalties.
Archer thought if the State was going
to continue to attend to this busi less .
she ouehtto have some one to look after ,
it. Barnwell did not believe the office
should be abolished, but suggested that :
the salary be reduced to ?800 By the
following aye and nay vote the senate ;
refused to kill the biii:
Yeas?Aidrich, Connor. Dennis Grubei,
Hay, Hough, Ilderton. Love, May- 1
field, Ragsdale, Stanland. Talbird, ;
Wallace, Williams?14.
Nays?Appelt, Archer, Barnwell,
Blakeney, Bowen, G W Brown, W A.
Brown. Dean, Douglass, Glenn, Gray- :
don, Henderson, Livingston, Manning,
Marshall, Mauldin, Mower, Sarratt,
Scarborough, Sheppard, Suddath, Sullivan,
Walker, Waller?24.
Barnwell then offered an amendment
to reduce the salary ol ptiospnate inspector
from $1,500 to $S00. By a vote
of 28 to 9 this was agreed to. The bill
then passed to a third reading.
A New Fuel.
A newly discovered mineral, which
is of a lustrous black color, and which
as a fuel surpasses coal and all other '
substances heretofore known, is found
on the island of Barbados, in the Lesser
Antilles, where the natives call it
"raanjak." It is thought that rnanjak
is petrified petroleum, great quantities
of petroleum being found on the
same island. It contains only two per
cent of water an<? fully twenty-seven
per cent of solid organic matter, thus
surpassing in utility the best asphalt of
Trinidad, in which thirty per cent of
water is contained, and which has been
classed so far as th* very finest fuel.
Mixed with turf, it giv.os heat far superior
to any known.
A Good Law.
Norway recently enacted a law forbidding
the sale of tobacco to youths
uuder 1G without signed orders from
adults. Tourists who offer cigarettes
to youths render themselves liable to
prosecution, while the police are empowered
to confiscate the pipes, cigars
and cigarettes of youths who smoke in
M*. ^ ?*??/%. ?r\y fV?n rtffnriCO
puoiic btreei3, a uuc iui i.u?, uuvu^v vv
ing likkwise imposed, which may be
anywhere from 50 cents to $25.
I
I LIQUOR QUESTION.
I t
Is Fully Debated and Decided by
the State Senate.
THE ARCHER BILL PASSED.
y ' ; _
Tko nrf^Arant In
I 11^ k/Ill^i^HV VVUIIUUd lit Wiv
State May Decide by Vote as
to Dispensary or No
Dispesary.
"When the senate met Wednesday
night and took up the liquor question
for consideration these three general
propositions were before it.
The Archer bill, under whose terms
a county now having a dispensary may.
oh presenting a petition signed by onefourth
of the elcotor? of that county,
haye an election ordered to determine
whether or not the dispensary shall be
removed and thus secure prohibition.
To -the Archer bill Mayfield had offered
an amendment by which the people
of a county should vote for high license,
dispensary or prohibition. The .
ordering of the election was to be in
same manner as proposed by the Archer
bill.
The Henderson substitute bill, intended
to take the Dlaee of the two
above propositions, simply provided fofr
a reference, of the whole matter to the
people of the State at large to be voted
upon in a general election to be held
next July on the three questions of license,
dispensaiy or prohibition.
The Mayfield amendment was rejected
by a vote of 9 to 26, the Henderson
substitute by a vote of 8 to 27, while
the Archer bill passed its second reading
by a vote of 20 to 14.
After a long debate - participated in
by a number of senators the matter was
decided by the votes as recorded below.
The first Dronosition was to strike
out the enacting words of the Archer
bill. By the following aye and nay
vote senate refused to do so:
Yeas?Aldrich," Alexander, Appelfc,
Dennis, Graydon, G ruber, Hay, Henderson,
Ilderton, Mauldin, Mower,
Ragsdale, Wallace, Williams?14.
Nays?Archer. Barnwell, Blakeney,
Bowen, G. W. Brown, W. A Brown,
Dean, Douglass, Glenn, Hough, Love,
Manning, Marshall, Mayfield, Sarratt,
Scarborough, Sheppard, Stanland, Suddath,
Sullivan, Waller?21.
Senator Livingston announced that
he was paired with Mr. Griffith. He
would vote "no" and Mr. Griffith would
vote "aye'' were he here.
The next vote was on the adoption
of Mr. Henderson's substitute bill The
senate rejected the bill'by the following
vote.
Xeas?JBlakeney, U-raydon. (jruber.
Henderson. Mauldin, Scarborough,
Wallace, Waller.?8.
Nays?Aldrich, Alexander, Appelt,
Archer, Barnwell, Bowen, G. W.
Brown, W. A. Brown, Dean, Dennis,
Douglass, Grlenn, Hay, Hough, Ilderton.
Love, Manning, Marshall Mayfield
Mower, Itagsdale, Sarratt, Sheppard,
Stanland. Suddath,-Sullivan, "Williams
The next vote was on the adoption of
Senator Mayfield's amendment, which
resulted as follows:
Yeas?Appelt, Barnwell, Brown Gr.
W., Dean, Marshall, Mayfield, Sheppard.
Stanland, Sullivan?9.
Voire?AlAvandor. Arfiher.
Blakeney,-Bowen, Brown W. A,, Dennis,
Douglass, Gleen, Graydon, Graber
Hay. Henderson. Hough, Ilderton, / "
Love, Manning, Mauldin, Mower,
Ragsdale, Sarratt, Scarbgrough, Suddatb,
Wallace, Waller, Williams?26.
The Archer bill was then ordered to
a third reading by the following vote;
Yeas?Archer, Blakeney, Bowen, Brown
G. W., Brown W. A., Dean,
Douglass. Glenn, Hough, Love, Manning,
Marshall, Mayfield, Sarratt, Scarborough,
Shcppard, Stanland, Saddath,
Sullivan, Waller?20.
Xays?Aldrich, Alexander, Appelt.
Barnwell, Dennis, Graydon, Gruber,
Hay, Henderson, Ilderton, Mauldin,
Mower, Wallace, Williams?14.
Senator Appelt's bill similar to Senator
Mayfield's amendment was also
killed.
Presented to the Commodore,
Wednesday afternoon at Galveston a
beautiful sword and Bible, purchased
by the Sunday School children of Texas,
were presented to Commodore John
W. Philip, who commanded the battleship
Texas during the war with Spain.
The sword was made by the same firm ^ ?^4.
who designed the Dewey sword and
cost $3,500. The presentation was in
approval of Commodore Philip's pablic
utterances after the Santiago fight, acknowledging
the sovereignty of Almighty
God. The battleship Texas is
at Galveston commanded by Capt. Sigs
bee; and all officers and men attended,
the ceremony.
Going to Mexico. a
President Diaz of Mexico has per- M
mitted some Indians of Indian Territo- ^
ry to buy about 200,000 acres ot land in
his country, on which they will settle
to the number of about 10,000, and be
allowed to govern themselves. The
movement is due to a desira on the part
of the Indians to cscape the interference
of the white man. The number
of civilized Indians in the Indian Territory
will be reduced about one-fifth by
the exodus, those going out being the
most intelligent and progressive.
A Scrap of History. ~
In reference to the Eagan-Mile%^ffair
it is recalled that ninety years .ago
General Winfield Scott, then a captain
in the army, was courtmartialed for
having said at a public table that lie
' . - r* .
never saw out two iranors?vxeaerais
Wilkinson and Burr?and that General
Wilkinson was a liar and a scoundrel.
He was found guilty and was
suspended for a year.
A Bicli State
West Virginia is an ideal state. On
the first of February she did not. owe a >
dollar and had in her treasury $1,284.- -?
138. However, she c*id not assume
statehood until late years and had no
reconstruction period to pass through.'
Happy peopltf; blessed are they, indeed
There arc now two women in the *
Legislature of Utah, two in Colorado <
and two in Idaho. j